MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS.
VOLUME XXI, NUMER 4
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1926.
PRICE TEN CENTS
U. S. NON COM.
NOW CAPTAIN
LIBERIAN ARMY
COLORED SOLDIER HONORABLY
DISCHARGED FROM ARMY
AS SIGNAL FAVOR
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 6. (#)—
The War Department today granted
the request of the Liberian Govern
ment to discharge Sergeant Hansen
OuGey, veteran non-commissioned of
ficer of the Ninth U. S. Cavalry reg
iment, colored, to enable him to ac
cept a Captain’s commission in the
Liberian Frontier Force.
The Liberian Republic, it was learn- j
ed, maintains a uniformed force of
one thousand trained troops that po-!
lice its frontier on the west coast of
Africa, where Sergeant Outley will be '
detailed for duty.
War Department orders have been j
issued directing him to proceed from |
Fort Riley, Kansas, to Washington.
Before departing for his new post he j
will spend an instructional period of
ten days in the State Department. i
As captain in the Liberian Frontier
Force he will receive a salary of six- 1
teen hundred dollars yearly and al
lowances amounting to nine hundred
dollars. The War Department an- j
nouncement also says he was desig- j
nated for the appointment because of j
liis outstanding soldierly qualities and j
after consideration of the merits of i
other soldiers of high type in the col-!
ored regiments of the Regular Army. ;
A native of Houston, Texas, Ser-1
geant Outley has' been discharged
as a sergeant with character Excel
lent from every enlistment. During
the World War he saw service with
the 349th Field Artillery.
WATSON BRINGS
FAIR SIZE LIST
OF PASSENGERS
_
THIRTEEN FOR SEWARD; VESSEL
SPEND 76 HOURS TIED UP
TO KODIAK WHARF
1900 BARRELS OF FISH ABOARD
Ship’s Orchestra Gives Two Dances at
Kodiak and One at Seldovia ’
With the arrival of the Admiral
Watson, Capt. Graham, in port this
morning at 9 o’clock from the west
ward, one half of voyage No. 129 is
completed. The vessel came into port
this morning to the harmony of tune
ful melodies amanating from the
ship’s orchestra in the social hall and
with evergreen trees lashed to the
mastheads in compliment to the hol
iday season.
A good list of passengers are on
boaid, and also about 1900 barrels of
bloaters and herring, an approximate
cargo of 400 tons. The vessel will
await in port the arrival of this even
ing s train from the Interior departing
about 9 o’clock this evening for south
eastern Alaskan ports and Seattle. |
Due to awaiting today’s train upon
the vessel’s early arrival at Kodiak, a
stop of 76 hours was enjoyed. During
the stqjr at the thriving little island
town two dances were given, at
which the ship’s orchestra was feat
ured. While at Seldovia another dance
was given, the three affairs being
largely attended by the population,
and a fine time enjoyed by all. !
Yesterday a northeast gale was run :
into making for extremely rough go- '
ing for some hours. All of the bloaters 1
and herring aboard the vessel was '
loaded at Halibut Cove and with the
exception of about 15 tons, practically
cleans up the entire season’s catch.
All cannery or saltery activities have '
ceased.
Passengers for Seward on the Ad- '
miral Watson were Archie Holstrom, i
Gus Backstrom, Olga Berstoff, Kathe
rine Barnes, Agnes Barnes, E. Mc
Phee, Thomas E. West, G. White and j
five steerage.
For Valdez—James O’Brien.
For Cordova—One steerage.
For Seattle—J. Eide, H. L. Lippin
cott, Ole Brudseth, Ole Shuros, Ed
Jensen, G. E. Meredith, A. Ursin, Ju
lius Alstad, Mrs. J. Alstad, Charles
Pickart, Mrs. J. Jensen, Mr. and Mrs.
Otto Kraft and son, Conrad Johnson,
K. Armstrong, Bert Carlson, L. Karl
sen, E. Birgseth and three steerage.
RUSSIA WILL TRY
TO COLONIZE
WRANGELL ISL.
_
TEN FAMILIES OF ESKIMOS BE
SENT TO ISLAND WITH
FOOD FOR 3 YEARS
!
VLADIVOSTOK, Jan. 6 (IF)—The
government announced that ^Russia
would soon colonize Wrangell Island, j
and said that the Far Eastern revolu-'
tionary Committee in co-operation
with an Okhotsk and Kamchatka joint
stock company would send ten families
of Eskimos to the island to give -set
tlers food for three years, with rifles,
ammunition and clothing for four
years. They will take dogs and hunt-.
ing equipment and erect a wireless
Station on the island capable of com- i
munication with the United States or
Russia.
ALUMINUM CO.
BE INVESTIGATED
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 5 (ff)—
A double barreled attack on the Alu
minum Company of America, of which
company Secretary Mellon is a large
stockholder, was launched in Congress
today. Representative Oldfield pro
posed a general investigation of the!
company as a trust, and Senator
Walsh introduced two resolutions pro
posing investigations.
SUN'S HEAT AS A STAR HAS
AFFECTED WEATHER, EARTH
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Jan. 6. (JP) ;
—By its researches in the last tiwen-1
ty-five years, the Cmithsonian Insti- j
tUite has established to its satisfac- \
tion that not only is the sun a vari-!
able star but the variation in the
heat it radiates has a direct influ- \
ence upon the weather of the earth, j
It is hoped to make possible by
the further development of the sci
ence a system for long range fore
casting, although that is a field the j
institution has not entered. Parti-'
collar interest is attached to the!
work at the present because for three j
years the amount of heat given off by
the sun has b^en below normal, a
condition believed by some scientists
to represent a periodic swing in so
lar conditions. •
CIVIL SERVICE
CLASSIFICATION
FOR ALASKA P.O.
SEATTLE, Jan. 6 (#>)—'The exten-!
iion of civil service classifications to
nclude postoffices of Alaska, was an
lounced yesterday with the departure
if Postoffice Inspector Pryor L. Neil
in a survey of the personnel of the
rerritory.
J. Eide and H. L. Lippincott, who
rave been employed at the Fidalgo
[sland Packing Company plant at Port
Jraham, are passengers on the Wat
son for Seattle. I
BILLS BE PASSED
OVER VETO OF
GOV. HARTLEY
REPRESENTATIVE TEMPLETON IS
TAKEN TO HOSPITAL WITH
ATTACK APPENDICITIS
OLYMPIA, Jan. 6 (£>)—-'The House
passed by a vote of 63 to 30 a resolu
tion amending the rules to permit
consideration df votes, which the
House sustained Hartley’s vetoes.
Majority leaders announced that
sufficient, votes had been pledged to
secure the passage of the educational
appropriation bills over Hartley’s
vetoes.
OLYMPIA, Jan. 6 (JP)—Representa
tive Templeton, who has been voting
with the minority was taken to the
hospital with appendicitis said that if
had been present he would have vot
ed against the resolution censuring
Gov. Hartley, which would have failed
to pass as lacking the necessary
votes. Majority leaders announced
that Representative Cross, who has
been absent two weeks is expected
back Wednesday and will vote with
the majority to pass the bills over the
Governor’s veto.
The House also passed a Senate bill
prohibiting legislators from accepting
State employment during the terms
of the legislature are serving as re
gents or trustees in State or higher
educational institutions. The bill as
passed would bar Representative Sims
Reed and Overmyer from future leg
islatures.
The Senate passed a resolution con
temning Governor Hartley for his
message yesterday.
House Overrules Veto
OLYMPIA, Jan. 6 (TP)—The House
by a vote of 64 to 31 overruled Speak
er Danskin when he announced a mo
tion to reconsider the Governor’s veto
as unconstitutional; and overrode by
a veto of 66 to 29 the veto of the ad
ditional millages for higher educa
tional millages for higher educational
institutions; over-rode by a vote of
66 to 29 the veto of the bill making
appropriations for these institutions.
The Senate adopted a report of the
educational committee denouncing
Hartley’s ideas to have one board
control all departments of education
and the state printing of books, and
ordered 10,000 copies mimeographed,
which will be mailed to lists of voters
which the committee will prepare.
CONSIDER TRAINING UNIFORM
OF BLUE FOR U. S. SOLDIERS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 6. (TP)—
A careful survey of American resour
ces for the manufcature of khaki
breeches has Convinced army offi
cials that if it became necessary to
put a force of two million men into
the field in less than eight months,
most of them would have to fight
in their shirt tails.
Faced by this appalling possibility
the industrial mobilization wing of
the national defense planning ma
chinery started a study of it own.
It found that it would be entirely
possible to completely uniform two
million men from head to foot in
fifteen days, provided blue cloth
instead of khaki was used.
SKELETONS PAINTED
RED ARE FOUND
SIMEROPOL, So. Russia., Jan. 6.
*—Human skeletons painted a rich
deep red have been found by Rus
sian archaeologists in the vicinity of
Sinferopel. They are believed to be
long to the Cambrian race which in
habited the coas;t of Kertch Bay 2,
000 years beforeC hrist. It was the
custom of £his ancient race to cover
the corpses of their dead with ochre,
which was believed to preserve the
bodies against dcomiposition.
CONG. TREADWAY TAKES VERBAL ■
SLAP AT ALASKA; THE RAILROAD
SHOULD NOT BE ABANDONED NOW
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 6- (Bv the Associated
Press).—Congressman Allen T. Treadway, Republican of
Stockridge, Mass., member of the Ways and Means com
mittee denounced the Government today in its policy to
ward Alaska in the House, declaring it is extravagant
and without a return. He said, “I can't see the great fu
ture in Alaska we are always being told about/' and de
clared that eleven million dollars are being spent annu
ally for the twenty thousand whites, and the population
is not increasing. ,
He called the construction of the Alaska Railroad
a “stupendous mistake," and averred the interior is
populated largely by mosquitoes, so bad, one must wear
headgear for protection.
Dan A. Sutherland, delegate from Alaska to Con
gress, present at the sudden outburst of Cong. Tread
way, asked if he (Treadway) had studied the fisheries
of Alaska, Treadway answering negatively.
The Congressman cited the bureaus, and declared
that Alaska is the greatest example of paternalism he
ever knew, and added, “when you go to those villages,
which are courteously called cities, nineteen out of twen
ty persons you meet are on the government payroll."
He said he wouldn’t advocate the abandonment of
the Alaska Railroad, but hoped there would be found a
less expensive way to maintain it.
He predicted that the population of Alaska will not
increase while men are able to make a living in the
States, and conceded that the possession of Alaska is
valuable “strategically." . _
Congressman Treadway visited Se
■vvard last June going to Fairbanks
from here and thence back to the
coast via the Richardson highway. Ac
companying him .were Mrs. Tread
way and Mrs. E. C. Benton, of Bos
ton.
Congressman Treadway -was an en
thusiastic advocate of Alaska scen
ery for American scenery-seekers
after his tour through the inside pas
sage and over the Alaska Railroad
from Seward to Fairbanks, with his
stop-over at McKinley Park. He be
lieves tourists should be impressed
with the beauties of the territory. An
other thing he spoke highly of was
the hospitality of people he met on
his trip.
The trip thru Alaska was made in
an unofficial capacity, tho’ seeking
information about the Territory, its
resources and conditions that would
be serviceable to him when matters
of legislation affecting Alaska came
up before Congress.
In a italk last summer, before the
Northland club, at Cordova, Con
grssman Treadway stated:
“Then there is the talk against
the grip which big corporations get
on a country like this. I should be
inclined to believe that Alaska’s only
chance of developing its natural re
sources is through the big corpora
tions. Take mining, for instance, the
prospector’s work is spasmodic and
cannot last. The individual does no
more than scratch the surface; he
hasn’t the capital to do better than
that.”
Congressman Treadway remarked
that outside of Washington he had
never met so many government offi
cials in one part of the country as in
Alaska.
“Whether there could be a concen
tration of all the various bureaus
governing the territory, I do not
know,” he said. “I do think they
are pretty well diversified for the
amount of country and population.
Mr. Treadway represents ithe First
Massachusetts district and makes
his home in Stockbridge. He was
first elected to the Sixty-Third Con
gress and has been re-elected to
ALIEN LAND LAW
PASSED MEXICO
CAUSES WORRY
AMERICAN OWNERS OF OIL PROP
ERTIES MUST WAIVE PRO
TECTION OF NATION
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 6 (/P)—
Despite official silence regarding ne
gotiations with the Mexican foreign
office over the retroacaive features
of the new Mexican petroleum land
legislation, which became known as
the alien land law the situation here
is causing grave anxiety. Four retro
active clauses of adverse interest to
American investors in properties are
involved in the clauses, one provid
ing that in order to retain ownership
of the resources in Mexico aliens must
waive all protection of such owner
ship or right by their own countries.
Two, foreigners interested in agri
culture must not exceed fifty per cent.
Three, alien owners must declare
ownership within one year.
Four, ignorance of this requirement
will not be an excuse.
The clauses are regarded as a viola
tion of the understandings between
the two governments, following a
conference in 1923.
Ole Brudseth and Ole Shuros, Hali
but Cove saltery men, are southbound
on the Admiral Watson for Seattle.
Among the Halibut Cope herring
packers on board the Admiral Watson
en route to Seattle are G. E. Meredith,
A. Ursin and Julius Alstad.
each succeeding session. He is a
Republican and on 'two occasions
received the Democratic endorse
ment for the position. Prior to
going to Congress he was in the
Massachusetts legislature, first in
the House and later in the Senate
and was president of the latter body
1909-1911.