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VOLUME XX, NUMBER 251 ' SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1925.
PRICE TEN CENTS
LIST OF JURORS
FOR SEWARD TERM
COURT OCTOBER 5
FIFTY-EIGHT CITIZENS WILL BE
SUMMONED FOR LOCAL TERM
OF DISTRICT COURT.
Holdover Fish Cases
Vi
Seward Court Term Shows Few
Cases Appearing On
Calendar.
The list of jurors summoned for
fhe Seward term of the District Court
of the Third Division, which will
convene in the Federal court room,
at 10 o’clock, a. m., October 5, 1925,
Judge E. E. Ritchie, presiding, was
received yesterday from the Clerk of
the District Court at Valdez. Thir
teen citizens of Anchorage have
been summoned; nine from Seward;
six from Cordova; three from Ko
diak; three from Kennecott; three
from Girdwood, and three from La
touche. The full list follows:
From Seward—T. W. Haw'kins, Al.
Chamberlin, J. D. Prosser, F. E. Les
Y lie, A. F. Rasmussen, M. J. S. Ras
mussen, Patrick Meeihan, T. P. Mur
phy and W. W. Jones.
From Anchorage—Albert Parmen
ter, Wm. F. Mulcahy, Mrs. B. M.
Stone, David Strandberg, Mrs. W.
Bowker, Mrs. Fred J. Spach, Chas.
Carlson, Esther Balhiser, Eric Bur
man, Ora A. Shaw, F. T^rtholamew
and J. A. Magill.
From Cordova—Durolph Larson,
Anna Stern, R. H. Koch, Mrs. C. H.
Phillips, Chas. Iverseth and H. Hos
ick.
From Kodiak—A. F. Memidorff,
Mrs. N. Gray, and J. P. Anderson.
From Girdwood—J. H. Forman,
Axel Carlson and P. T. Lee.
From Kennecott—Louis Widing,
Wm. Godfrey and John Vavalis.
From Latouche—James O’Brien,
John Erickson and Mrs. Beven Press
ley, George Love and Wm. I. Lee.
From Talkeetna—George P. Per
* kins and Hany Madson.
From Eyak—Mrs. H. E. McDan
iels, Vera A. Downing and John Day.
From Valdez—Mrs. Bruce Haines
\ and Frank Nelson.
From Matanuska—R. Weiss and
P. H. Allen.
Thos. Riley, Mile 3%; Ed. Fries,
Wasilla; James H. Welch, Eska; A.
D. S. Myers, Ellamar; John Durand,
Tunnel; Sam Slay ter, Curry; Saba
Stickone, Chickaloon and Lee Camp
bell of Palmer, Alaska.
JAMES SELDEN
WEDS WITNESS
TACOMA, Sept. 21 (/P)—Prosecutor
James Selden of Tacoma and Miss
lone Holt, a volunteer amateur detec
tive who persuaded Richard Conner
to confess to the killing of his wife,
Pearl, May 19th of last year, were
married today in Olympia. The ro
r' mance was attributed from the time
the woman was the star witness in
the trial of Richard. She obtained a
final decree of divorce last Wednes
day from her husband, Armand Holt.
TRAIN DUE TOMORROW
Station Agent Sweek announces a
train will leave Anchorage tomorrow
morning at 9 o’clock arriving here at
2:15 with passengers for the boat,
This will be the first train through
owing to the washout on the govern
ment railroad. t
TWO SHOWS TONIGHT
A mistake was made in printing the
* ' bills for the Liberty theatre today, the
program stating there would be but
one show at 8 o’clock, when the bills
should have given two shows.
Pacific Coast Holds
Record for Electricity
SEATTLE, Sept. 19 (/P)—The Pa
cific coast, with its own resources
barely touched, is using the greatest
amount of electricity in the United
States, R. E. Cunningham of Los An
geles, told the assemblage at the
Electrical Engineers convention here
today. i
Herd of Reindeer Be
Taken to the States
SEATTLE, Sept. 19 (JP)—'The local
Chamber of Coommerce announced
that the herd of reindeer which will
arrive here in October from Alaska,
for distribution throughout the coun
try would remain here a few months
on exhibition.
BOYCOTT AGAINST
BREWERY FOR
ILLEGAL SALES
_
VANCOUVER, B. C., Sept. 19 (Jp)—
It was announced yesterday that the
Provincial liquor control board would
refuse to buy beer of a Westminster
brewery becauuse the brewery sup
plied Joseph Alvaro, a local agent,
with beer for Fred Johnson of Seattle,
which was recently seized in the Pu
get Sound city by dry officers.
READY TO STAND
TRIAL MURDER
OVER DIRIGIBLE
PORT ORCHARD, Wn„ Sept. 19 (£>)
T. Douglas Robinson, assistant secre
tary of the navy, is ready to stand
trial for murder as the one responsi
ble, if it is proven the Shenandoah
was defective when it started on its
| last voyage, he told an audience at the
'Kitsay County Fair today. He advised
;his hearers that they should take with
ia grant of salt all reports regarding
| the Shenandoah being defective as a
| cause of its being wrecked, as such re
i ports were in the main untrue.
VACCINATION ON
ARMS CAUSE OF
MUCH PROTEST
CHICAGO, Sept. 19 (/P)—'The girls
in the Health department of this citj
rebelled today because they wanted tc
be vaaccinated on their legs, instead
of their arms, where they declared the
scars would show. Dr. Hrman Spauld
1 ing replied that “the present scantj
draperies about the legs invited the
street dust laden with bacteria.”
The girls were inoculated on th(
arm despite their protests.
BASEBALL
American
Washington 10, Chicago 5.
Boston 5, Cleveland 6.
Philadelphia 4-7, Detroit 2-3.
New York 4, St. Louis 2.
Nationals
Pittsburgh 8, Boston 7.
Cincinnati 1, Philadelphia 5.
St. Louis 9, Brooklyn 5.
Chicago 3, New York 8.
Coast
Salt Lake and Oakland, rain.
Los Angeles 4-1, Seattle 7-3.
San Francisco 3, Portland 2.
Sacramento 9, Vernon 0.
BOND REPUDIATED
BY SURETY CO.
IN 18 RUM CASES
SEATTLE, Sept. 19 (JP)— Rearrest
ing 18 former rum runners, whose
bonds the National Surety Company
had repudiated, the company declared
that bonds totalling $9,000 were ir
regular, after George Allan, the com
pany’s Pacific Coast manager, came
here supplanting C. B. White, mana
ger for Seattle by C. G. Hammond,
and announcing that the company was
through assisting professional law
breakers as professional bondsmen,
indicating that the principal benefi
ciaries in the discarded business was
the bootlegging industry.
Fire Loss In Tokio
Is Over T*ro Million
TOKYO, Sept. 19 (£>)—'The fire loss
in Tokio during the earthquake last
year reached over $2,500,000, and the
cost of temporary structeures to re
place such buildings was a million
and a half dollars.
BIG AUTO DEAL
CONSUMMATED
BY LOCAL MEN
One of the largest deals pulled off
in Seward for some time was con
summated today w'hen A1 Davis and
Peter Ogle purchased the stock and
automobiles of the Ellsworth Garage,
including the agencies for the Buick,
Oldsmobile and Chevrolet cars. Mr.
Ogle took over the tools and parts,
which will be added to the already
large stock of fixtures in the Ogle ga
rage, while Mr. Davis will use the
j cars in his increasing taxi business.
Mr. Ellsworth retained his large tour
ing car which he will take to the
States with him.
I Consideration involved many thou
| sand dollars.
j The purchase of the Ellsworth equip
ment gives both Mr. Ogle and Mr. Da
vis the largest garage and taxi busi
ness in the Territory, and with the
J large number of new cars added to
I their equipment they will be fixed to
j handle any business offered them.
SEA FOODS TO
BE PACKED IN
SMALL PLANT
Construction of a building 30 feet
square on an extension at the end
of the Cordova city dock, says the
Times, was commenced for the
newly organized Cordova Shellfish
company, headed by F. H. Foster
This is the first of several struc
tures which will probably be erected
along the new dock as soon as pile
drivers are available for placing sup
ports, where other sites are desired
The shellfish company will be op
erating within the next 30 days and
will probably put in a small cold
storage plant. Equipment used bj
the old Copper Gate Packing Com
pany has been purchased and wih
be installed for use in canning crabs
In addition to canned crabs, sea
foods of several kinds will probablj
be packed and shipped fresh.
Among the other enterprises con
sidering locations on the dock is the
coal company of Bartley Howard anc
Ed Jesson of Anchorage to handle
Moose creek coal. Bunkers will be
erected if the local agency is estab
lished.
Capt. Olson Denies That
Noice Story Was True
SEATTLE, Sept. 19 (/P)—Charges by
Harold Noice that Ada Blackjack’s
carelessness caused the death of
Lome Knight, the Wrangell island
survivor, two years ago, were vehe
mently denied here today by Capt.
Hans Olson, then master of the relief
schooner Donaldson, who arrived in
Seattle yesterday from Victoria Land
with the schooner Maid of Orleans.
Ada Blackjack and here son are in
Nome.
(The Gateway last year published
the first authentic story of the rescue
of Ada Blackjack from Wrangell isl
and, as told to our representative by
Capt. Olson, who was in Seward at
the time.
Pirates Raid Village
and Murder Chinese
MANILA, Sept. 19 (/P)—Moro pi
rates raided the town of Dumaran, on
the Island of Dumaran, murdering a
Chinese storekeeper, his wife and
three sons and three Filipinos.
CHRONOMETER
IS DISCOVERED
IN RUGWORMS
QUEER FISH-LIKE ANIMAL IN BER
MUDAS APPEARS WITH SUR
PRISING REGULARITY
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 19.
—Fire-worms, queer fishlike animals
frequenting the Atlantic ocean neai
the Bermudas, are veritable chrono
meters, according to Dr. P. S. Gaits
off, of the United States bureau oi
fisheries, who had just returned froir
a survey of fisheries in those waters
Discussing the habits of the fire
worms, Galtsoff said:
“The most interesting phenomenoi:
which we have observed is the appear
ance on the surface of the water ol
the annelid odontosylis, or fire-worm
Appear Regularly
“The animals appear with the sur
prising regularity and accuracy of i
good chronometer. Exactly at 51
minutes after sunset one may see tin
bright, moving spots on the surface o
the sea.
“They are about one inch long, am
the females and the males are dis
tinguishable. They swim in circles
first turning twice to the right am
then twice to the left.
“The females excrete a substanc*
that remains phosphorescent for om
or two minutes. The males are ver:
brightly phosphorescent, but they d<
not excrete any luminescent matter
they are positively phototropic an<
easily* attracted by flashlights.
“The^dancing lasts only for 20 min
utes and always occurs the first da;
after the full moon and continues oi
for ten days or a fortnight.
“It is interesting to note that the af
pearance of the fireworms has no re
lation to the tide stage; they appea
at flood tide as well as ebb tide, bu
always 57 minutes after sunset. Th<
phenomenon has no relation of th'
fisheries problem, but it is of grea
interest to every biologist.”
It appears that the female fireworr
is a dangerous vampire. The male
having a penchant for the bright ligh
is attracted by the luminous excret;
of the female and is, apparently, with
out power to resist it.
Experts observed that the period o
sunset has a startling effect on radii
waves, a most pronounced fading be
ing noticeable at that time of day, a
, well as an increased strength of th
waves.
Why twilight should put the fire
, worms to playing and the radio-wave
. to fading, government experts are a
a loss to know.
FLAGSHIP YUKON
ARRIVES IN PORT
FROM THE SOUTH
LINER WILL. PROBABLY DEPART
TOMORROW FOR THE SOUTH
—WILL AWAIT TRAIN.
The flagship of the Alaska Steam
ship company, the steamer Yukon,
Captain A. Glasscock, arrived in
port yesterday afternoon at 12:30
from Seattle, carrying few passen
gers to this port and the smallest
amount of local tonnage brought
North on the big ship this season.
Thirty-eight passengers arrived on
the vessel, and about 250 tons of
cargo.
At least 1000 tons of fish cargo will
be transferred to the big steamer
from the big freighter Redondo
which is scheduled to arrive in port
from the Westward this evening. A
considerable amount of tonnage will
be taken on board the Redondo from
the Yukon, for distribution at West
ward points. The vessel is expect
ed to depart for the South tomor
row afternoon.
The incoming passenger list from
Seattle was as follows:
Henry E. Adams, M. E. Coolidge,
Miss Evelyn Jordan, H. C. Loveland,
Mrs. E. C. Loveland, Miss Gertrude
Mylet, E. E. Price, Mrs. H. E. San
eff, C. C. Snead, Mrs. M. A. Wilson,
H. Woodhouse.
Roundtrippers—Mr. and Mrs. Geo.
F. Henrioud.
Those arriving from points in Al
aska south of Seward were:
J. Lyons, Miss Carrie Suits, Miss
S. Jacobson, Sam Torres, K. Schus
sler, Sam Sakotich, Joe Baker, F.
Leonard, Mrs. A. Eames, Mrs. W. B.
Harris, S. O. Casler, F. Courtney,
A. F. Erickson, Miss Helen Bevier,
F. Parrish, Mrs. C. Price, J. J. Cor
ey, J. F. Dennis, G. R. Skinner, W.
R. Vreeland and H. D. McDonald.
There were five steerage.
Passengers arriving in Valdez from
Seattle were: H. E. Brewer, Chas.
’ J. Milnor and S. L. Oliver.
Passengers arriving in Latouche
from Seattle were: Miss Maude Far
rell, K. G. Leahy, Mrs. K. G. Leahy,
Capt. C. M. Mathison, S. Sallis and
; W. M. Spangler.
NORTHWESTERN
SAILS WITH 65
SEATTLE, Sept. 19 (/P)—The Str.
Northwestern sailed at 9 o’clock this
, morning for Seward and way ports
r with 65 passengers. The following
, were for Seward: Roy Trout, Dr.
Richard Derby, H. H. Bercowsky, F.
I E. Ingrin, Miss Isabel Gordon, Miss
M. Thornton, Miss A. Gould.
: PRES. HINDENBURG
DELIVERS TALK TO
RHINISH SUBJECTS
t DUISBURG, Germany, Sept. 19 (£>).
President Hindenburg, yesterday after
l hearing an opera sung in his honor,
, stood on the banks of the river
t Rhine, the first time since the war,
i and delivered an address to his sub
- jects, in part as follows: “Each of
you understand the emotions with
f w*hich I view this dark stream of des
) tiny. The futuure was ours as long
- as we stood united. We lost when dis
s cord divided our people. The Rhine
j must forever admonish us to stand as
a united people.
3 George F. Hughes of Latouche, ar
t rived in Seward yesterday to receive
dental attention from Dr. Roberts.