Let’s Make a Recognized Territorial Classic of Seward’s Marathon Mountain!
Hemmsd stEiily Cateumy
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXI, NUMBER 85.
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL iSf-1926
FRICE TEN CENTS
WOULD OUST !0K
FOR DISCLOSING FACT
CHAIRMAN, WOMAN’S NATIONAL
COMMITTEE CRIT1SES HIS
REMARKS OF YESTERDAY
BOSTON, Mass., April 15. (IP)—Mrs.
Henry W. Peabody of Beaverlv. chair
man of the Woman’s National Com
mittee on law enforcement, declared
here that Dry Czar Andrews should
resign if he is not in agreement with
the prohibition law. She said Andrews’
opinion before the Senate Committee
yesterday that “the sale of non-intoxi
cating beer would improvement con
ditions,” is explained for the “criticism
of his department.”
Billy Sunday once said that there
must be something rotten as hell when
a man shows another fellow up, which
is congruous to the statement of An
drews in yesterday’s dispatches and
criticised today by Mrs. Peabody, who
is connected with an anti-prohibition
society. Wouldn’t it be fine if we had
all our executives in Washington give
their clear idea of their offices, and
what they have to cope with and
whether they can? The Teapot Dome
and other alleged miscarriages in gov
ernment at the present day satisfies
the majority. It hasn’t cost the gov
ernment a cent to find out that prohi
bition is taking the sap out of the
United States, out of her people—
by the injustice wrought thru an un
popular law. More men like Andrews
at the helm of our government their
will be less “final decisions” of our
courts. Too many people look with
one eye closed at the doings of others
and are ready to condemn them for
giving their candid opinion when they
are in a position to give it.
Yes, indeed, there must be some
thing rotten about prohibition.
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Cutting from 1,000 to 1,500 ties a
month is the record of two men near
Seward with the assistance of one
horse who have just about completed a
3,000 tie contract for the Alaska Rail
road and are ready to tackle their sec
ond, this time for 2,000 narrow gauge
ties for the Chatanika track out of
Fairbanks. The partners, Ed Vogl
and Henry Larsen have their camp
at Mile 6 and are the sole owners,
chief cook and bottle washer of the
outfit.
“No overhead for us”, Mr. Vogl ex
claimed to The Gateway Tuesday.
"Four years ago I took up a contract
thinking I was going to make a clean
up. I learned my lesson, for, at the
end of the contract I was §700 in the
hole. Too much overhead was the
answer. Now, when we cut a tie we
can look it in the face and say: “Every
dime from that is ours.”
Delivery of their recent ties will be
gin at once to the railroad. Their
new contract will be cut in the same
location which is ideal, sufficient tim
ber being on either hand for them to
cut for some years to come.
Mr. Vogl purchased the Ford car of
Nils Hagen recently and unfortunate
ly smashed it up last Sunday when a
large boulder struck the car, jack
knifing it over the bank for a goal.
"It’s all in a life time”, Mr. Vogl end
ed.
bridge club meeting
The Seward Bridge Club meets with
Mrs. Banbury tomorrow afternoon at
1:45 o’clock.
Fourth Annual May Day Dance of
the A. L. Auxiliary, May 1.
J. L. Waller, U. S. assistant district
attorney, departed for his Anchorage
office this morning.
Mr. Allen, Territorial officer in
charge of this district of suppression
of liquor among the Indians, left for
the Inlet this morning.
KLONDIKERS WORKING CLAIMS
AT CALIFORNIA GOLD STRIKE
LOS ANGELES, Cal., April 15. (/P)
—P. J. McLaughlin, prospector, who
reported a new strike a mile north ol
the Gerklerratli shaft, where gold was
first found in the Kramer Hills, east
of Mojave, declared there were 20 for
mer Klondikers working claims.
—The Navy and War Departments
have agreed that the Army take over
and operate the radio station at Sew
ard so as to reduce the cost.
Note—The Gateway will have a
complete outline in tomorrow’s
issue explaining why such move has
been made.
EVANS PASSENGER LIST
Local reservations on the Admiral
Evans southbound were as follows:
Seattle—Mrs. H. A. Sanford, David
Jordon Sanford, Wendel Scherer
Miss Marie Cox, Mrs. J. Eckman, Mrs
F. Gitchell, Mrs. Fay Kruger, Torr
Conneley, L. Veit.
Cordova—John Berg, Gus Back
strom, Knute Strand, John Yairsen
A. Schultz.
Juneau—G. L. Rich.
Latouehe—M. Hill.
SELBY IT SOtP LAKE
SUKING UP SUNSHIN
H. B. Selby, former publisher o1
The Seward Gateway, was in the
Beach Hotel & Sanitarium at Soai
Lake, Wash., according to recent let
ters received, where he was undergo
ing special treatment. Mr. Selby said
he was so infernally ill that he could
not raise his head from the time he
arrived at Seattle from Seward. How
ever, at the time of writing the Iasi
letters, March 28, he felt much bettei
and looked for complete recover}
early this month.
Following his arrival at Seattle he
was taken down with the ’flu and was
laid up for three weeks and only foi
the fact he had a good doctor, he
said he might now be planted undei
the sod.
Of the Soap Lake resort, Mr. Selbj
speaks a kind word of the beneficial
results to be obtained and the com
fortable accommodations. The lake
is in a bowl out in the bare sage
brush hills and is about eight miles
around. It was 8G in the shade wher
Mr. Selby wrote and it seldom rains
there. The orchards are all in bloorr
and to a “sourdough” it is a great
sight. He was then laying about tak
ing the baths and soaking in the sun
shine.
COURT MARTIAL DEFENSE RESTS
SAN DIEGO, April 15. (JP)—The de
fense in the court martial rested with
out calling General Williams.
LONG WAYS FROM HOME
CORDOVA, April 15. (JP)—'The S.S
Wheatland Montana reported 130(
miles west of Cape Flattery, bounc
for Seattle where she is expected tc
arrive April 23.
UNHAPPY REUNION
RACINE, Wis., April 15. (JP)—Jas
Greco is back home to stand trial foi
murder. He sits in the county jab
here a few cells removed from his
brother, Arthur, who also awaits trial
for murder. By a chance still strang
er, one of the guards at the jail is a
brother of the accused men, William
Greco, captain of the Racine Count}
motorcycle squad.
Vic Hickman, formerly employed in
the P. C. McMullen Grocery store
left this morning for Anchorage where
he will join one of the Alaska Road
Commission’s crews. Mr. Hickman
worked for the Commission last sea
son.
L. Welty, carpenter and homestead
er, may make a business trip to La
touche the latter part of the week.
TAKES TO BED FOR REST FOL
LOWING CANCELLING OF
ALL ENGAGEMENTS
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 15. (JP)
—President Coolidge cancelled all en
gagements today because of illness
and returned to his quarters in the
White House. His indisposition was
indicated as not being serious. The
President for years has been a suffer
er from throat trouble and the cold
and spring weather of the past week
has not been beneficial.
The indigestion attacks of President
I Coolidge yesterday kept the Presi
l dent in the mansion during the after
noon. He had a similar attack a year
ago which kept him away from the
executive offices for only a few hours,
but today he went to bed for a rest.
FROM MISSOURI
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 15. (JP)
—The American Mercury, the organ of
H. L. Mencken, was barred from the
mails as obscene on account of pro
tests of Missourians against an article
dealing with a supposed Farmington
! Missouri woman of the streets. This
is the climax of attacks that started
when Mencken was arrested in Bos
| ton for selling a copy of the maga
zine containing the article, and later
acquitted of the charge of selling ob
scene literature.
“YES, ALL ALONE’’
PARIS. April 15. (/P)—Irving Berlin
wants to be left “All Alone.” The
song writer had no comment to make
i on the statement issued on behalf of
,his father-in-law, Clarence Mackay,
denying a reconcilliation with the Ber
lins and striking at press agency as
being the source of rumors.
Having shipped the remainder of
his outfit and supplies including a
quartz mill, to Nuka Bay where oper
ations will begin this spring on the
Nuka Bay Mining Company’s property
owned by Seward people. Dennis
Hurley has left for the camp to pre
pare the ground for the coming sea
son’s activities activities.
The company, a closed corporation,
is composed of Dennis Hurley, mana
ger, Cal M. Brosius, prominent local
business man; his sister, Mrs. Emily
Weybrecht, John Rice, well known
mining man, and George Spangler, for
merly an engineer with the Alaska
Road Commission. The property,
which was the first quartz mine to
have been located on Nuka Bay, was
purchased from Frank Skeen and Otis
Harrington, original locators.
Mr. Hurley is also president and
general manager of the Alaska Hills
Mines Corporation which is situated
about one mile from the property pre
viously mentioned. The latter com
pany has been operating for the past
two years and this year its stockhold
ers are looking forward to a fine pro
duction season.
BITTEN BY SHARK
HONOLULU, T. H., April 15. (IP)—
—First knowm attack of shark on hu
man in Hawaiian waters oceured when
Mrs. Leonard Carlsmith of New York
was bitten from heel to thigh. Her
husband saved her life by swimming
out and applying tourniquet.
SOURDOUGH STEAMER TOWED IN
SAN FRANCISCO, April 15. (£>)—
The steamer Humbolt, which ran in
dependently to Skagway in 1917, with
50 passengers aboard was towed to
port today after being picked up at
sea by the tug Sea Scout.
DISMISS CONTEST
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 15. (JP)
—The Senate Elections Committe vot
ed unanimously to dismiss the contest
between has been going on between
Magnus Johnson against Senator
Schall.
SEME WOULD BE
WORLD 1 MARKET
IF HAD A SMELTED
SCHOFIELD OF NOME ANNOUNCES
LORD ASQUITH INTERESTED
IN YORK TIN MINES
SEATTLE, April 15. (yp)—George D.
Schofield of Nome, said: “The out
1 standing opportunity for Seattle is to
’ establish a tin smelter and become
the tin market of the world. Raw
products can be brought from China
and Alaska, when we get our lode min
ing operations started in the York dis
trict, 100 miles north of Nome. I am
in touch with Lord Asquith of London
and he will probably send an expert
'to survey the York lodes this year.
We shall need a mill for crushing
i preperations and concentration. The
. only tin smelters now are located at
Singapore, Perthamboy, N. J., and one
I in Wales.
Activities for the coming season by
the Alaska Road Commission will open
in this Division April 17, Saturday,
according to local reports, which is
weeks earlier than in previous years.
Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Bogart, who last
fall constructed a home on their home
stead about a half mile the other side
of the Jesse Lee Home, are moving
into town for the summer. Mr. Bo
gart recently resumed his former po
sition as salesman with the Seward
Trading Co.
Brice Howard, Juneau agent for the
Pacific Steamship Company, returned
to Seward last evening from a week’s
business trip to Fairbanks and depart
ed for his southeastern Alaska office
on the Evans.
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 6. <£>)
—More than one hundred Florida real
estate promoters, many of whom dealt
directly or by mail in Washington, will
be prosecuted within a few weeks on
charges of misrepresentation in land
deals. Louis Rothchild, Better Bus
iness Bureau direction said today. He
: has just returned from a conference
with directors of other bureaus with
the Florida land investigation com
mittee of the National Association in
New York City.
NEW ORLEANS, La., April 6. (IP)—
i “Big Boy” Peterson was suspended for
six months and his end of the purse
| in the bout with Marullo held up by
the Louisiana Boxing Commission for
j his deliberate fouling of Marnello.
The Commission commented referee
Joe McClymon for taking the course
of action which he did in stopping the
affair.
LONDON, April 6. (^P)—The public
is keenly awaiting the outcome of a
meeting today between the executives
of the mine owners and the miners of
| Great Britain called to discuss their
j differences and decide whether they
will accept the report of the commis
sion which was made recently with
the purpose of settling the long stand
ing dispute, also to bolster up the coal
mining industry.
LT. ERICK NELSON IN SEATTLE
SEATTLE, April 15. (IP)—Lieutenant
Erick Nelson of World Flight fame,
is here and will fly the new model
army pursuit plane for the first time.
IT MUST BE SO!
CAIRO, Egypt, April 15. (IP)—Field
ing Jones, London journalist, declared
that French official claims of peace in
Syria are false and that conditions
there are worse than ever.
TOO MUCH WHUSKY
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., April 15.(IP)
—David Young, scion of wealthy and
prominent Sran Francisco people, sued
by his wife for divorce, was charged
with excessive drunkedness yester
day.
TRIED EXTORT *2500
PALO ALTO, April 15. (IP)—Donald
Mosher, 22, was arrested and confes
sed to a plot to extort $2500 from Al
bert C. Hooper, for whom -he was
chauffeur.
A DISPATCH COMES LATE THIS AFTERNOON TO
THE EFFECT THAT EILE80N AN CAPT.
WILKINS LEFT FOR BARROW.
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, April 15. )AP).—With Capt.
YVilkins’ hand swollen and painful as the result of an in
jury received when he caught it in the landing wheel gear
while turning the plane around the lagoon at Point Bar
row Saturday, the date of his next flight with the Alas
kan is problematical. Wilkins said he would not fly until
his hand was healed sufficiently to permit its use if he
was forced in any way, on the return flight, to navigate
with his left hand.
Four hundred gallons of gasoline are already depos
ited at Barrow. It is possible the Alaskan may be held
here awaiting the completion of repairs to the Detroiter,
which have been delayed pending the arrival of parts.
Both ships will then take off from here preparatory to the
final dash. Wilkins reported the fogs along the Arctic
coast at Barrow on his last trip made landing difficult.
With the fog closing in over the icepack and young ice be
ginning to show marks of recession, the expedition may
consider an early dash imperative.
All three engines on the monoplane' Detroiter have
been tested and the ship is strengthened throughout. The
| metal propellers have been replaced with wooden ones,
and everything is ready with the exception of a few mi
nor adjustments to take the air.
The Alaska is fueled and reyad for flight. Road
graders were put on the runway, smoothing the rough
spots and filling soft places which would indicate the final
dash is near.
LATER—Eilseson and Wilkins left in Alaskan for
Barrow.
MARATHON MOUNTAIN
RAGE WINNER READY
TO ENTER EOR Im
“For the past three months I have
been running up the mountain near
our tie camp near Mile 7”, Ed Yogi,
j winner of the Marathon mountain
race last Fourth of July, stated to The
i Gateway”, and as far as going to the
top of Marathon this year, I ought to
i climb that like a squirrel. I am glad
to hear there is some talk in Seward
| to make the Marathon mountain race
I an annual classic. You can say for
me I am entering the race right now
! and not only do I expect to take home
! the prize money, but I fully expect to
shatter all existing records.”
MRS. PETE ANDERSON IS
ELECTED PRESIOENT OF
i LADIES AID FOR THE YEAR
Officers for the ensuing year were
elected at the Ladies Aid meeting
yesterday which was held in the base
ment of the Methodist church. Mrs. P.
Anderson was elected president, Mrs.
Mattschei, vice president, Mrs. Jessen,
secretary, Mrs. Fairman, treasurer.
Mrs. Horton was hostess of the
meeting and following the business
session served refreshments of cake
! and coffee.
The next meeting will be held on
the last Wednesday of this month.
Fourth Annual May Day Dance of
the A. L. Auxiliary, May 1.
FRANC ON NEW LOW LEVEL
PARIS, April 15. (£>)—The French
franc sank to a new low level for all
time. It was quoted at 29.61 to the
dollar and 143.80 to the English pound.
Mrs. Lloyd Swan left for Nuka Bay
a few days ago with her baby, where
she will be in charge of the cook
house for the Alaska Hills Mines Com
pany.
The regular weekly business meet
ing of the local Scout Troop takes
place tomorrow night at 7:30 o’clock
at the S. A. C. hall.
The halibut schooner Yukon depart
ed for the fishing bank3 yesterday.
Weekly Gateway—$3 per year.
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WEDNESDAY’S GAMES
National League
Brooklyn, 5; New York, 9.
Boston, 1; Phila., 10.
Chicago, 9; Cincinnati, 2.
Pittsburgh, 10; St. Louis, 3.
American League.
Phila., 1; Washington, 3.
New York, 7; Boston, 8.
Cleveland-Detroit, snow.
St. Louis-Chieago, too cold.
Pacific Coast League.
Portlsand, G; Seattle, 7.
Los Angeles. (»; Hollywood, 3.
San Francisco. 2; Missions, 7.
Sacramento, 0; Oakland, 2.
TODAY'S FISH PRICES
Ketchikan.—12 3-4 and 6 1-2 cents
are quoted here for halibut today;
Salmon at 1G and G.
HARDCASTLE.
STARR AT CHIGNIK THIS A. M.
The pride of Seward’s fleet, tha
steamer Starr was reported as arriv
ing at Chignik this morning at ten o’
clock. Her arrival in Seward will be
given tomorrow.
NORTHWESTERN WILL BE LATE.
According to the local radio station
the S.S. Northwestern is scheduled tn
arrive at Cordova sometime on Satur-*
day.
HULTH OF MRS. ROBERTS
MUCH IMPROVED, REPORT
Dr. A. R. Roberts expects to return
to his local dental office about July 1,
according to Dr. Tyler, who is carrying
on the practice during Dr. Roberts’
absence at Ontario, Oregon. Mrs.
Roberts is feeling much improved in
health, so much so that she is now
able to do her own housework. En
route to Seward, Mr. Roberts will
stop at Portland and attend the Dental
Convention there in June. Mrs. Rob
erts may accompany him at that time
or wait until September and come
north with Dr. Roberts’ sister who
contemplates locating here.
KILLS SEDUCER OF DAUGHTER
GLOBE, Ariz., April 15. (JP)—Mrs.
Maude Edmunds shot and killed Al
fred Goelstein for alleged assault upon
her daughter who is but eleven years
old. She immediately surrendered her
self to the police authorities and said
Goenstein had admitted his assault
upon the girl.