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VOLUME XX. NUMBER 152. \/ ^
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 1925.
PRICE TEN CENTS.
SENATOR C.C. DILL
OF WASHINGTON
VISITS SEWARD
The permananey of the Alaska fur
and fish industry is the outstanding
impression gained thus far, by Sena
tor C. C. Dill, of Spokane, who arriv
ed in Seward this morning from Se
attle. Senator Dill was greeted upon
his arrival by several prominent lo
cal citizens and officers from the
U. S. S. Cutter Haida, on which ves
sel he departs for the Prililofs this
afternoon, primarily on a pleasure
trip.
* Senator Dill stated to the Seward
Gateway representative, that the trip
to the islands has its serious aspect
as well for next year the seal treaty
expires, and it is expected quite a
lengthy session over the matter will
occupy the attention of the con
gressmen. Senator Dill expects to
fortify himself with a personal con
tact on existing conditions at the
world-famous sealing grounds, gain
ing such information as will be pos
sible during his brief visit to the
islands, in order that he will under
stand the situation more clearly
when the treaty comes up to be acted
upon at Washington, D. C. next year.
The seal industry has always inter
ested the Senator, and he remarked,
when a boy he was fascinated in
reading of the discovery of the seal
ing grounds by Pribilof. He has nev
er forgotten the story.
Regarding Alaskan problems, Sena
tor Dill stated it was the desire of
the majority of the members of
jfc. Congress to take away as many ob
structions as possible, which might
hinder development of the Territory.
He wants to know if Alaska citizens
advocate an Alaska Bureau at Wash
ington; he wants to learn more
about Alaska, and believes the only
■way to get in direct touch with af
fairs, is to make a personal trip,
in order to arrive at a clear under
standing of the entire situation.
The Senator appeared greatly in
terested in the road and trail prob
lem of Alaska, making numerous
queries of The Gateway representa
tive with regards to conditions. Sen
ator Dill will return to Seward not
later than July 12, departing at
about this time over The Alaska
Railroad, accompanied by Noel W.
Smith, general manager of the rail
road, and other officials. While in
Fairbanks the Senator will decide
whether the return trip to the coast
^ will be made over the Richardson
Highway or back to Seward via the
Aalska Railroad.
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TRADE COUNCIL
HAS ADJOURNED
SEATTLE, Wn„ June 27. (£>)—'The
Foreign Trade Council adjourned yes
terday it sessions with talk only, all
action being left to a committee of
sixty, which E. P. Thomas, president
of the United States Steel Products
Corporation headed.
The committee, in accordance with
long standing custom, continued with
James A. Farrell, president of the Uni
ted States Steel Corporation as pres
ident of the council. He declared that
the development and maintenance of
the American merchant marine, un
der the American flag, private owned
and operated is essential to both our
commerce and our national defense.
The chief agency for the accomplish
ment of this purpose is to support
American ships by American import
ers and exporters.”
He also aserted that the “unecono
mic competition with government
owned fleets” makes it “impossible
for private capital to purchase steam
ers to compete with the government
owned tonnage in foreign trade.”
JAMES FISH, OLD TIME
ALASKAN, VISITS SEWARD
James Fish, identified with Valdez
for many years as business man, mail
contractor and insurance solicitor,
arrived in Seward on the steamship
Yukon, and will visit the interior be
fore returning. Mr. Fish is located at
the present time in Oakland. Cal., and
is well satisfied with the climate and
business conditions. He knows many
Alaskans and will interview them in
regard to insurance conditions, rep
resenting the New York Life. With
him is John Barrett, another old tim
er, at present representing the New
York Life in Seattle.
FRANCE PASSES
FINANCIAL BILL
BY LARGE VOTE
PARIS, France, June 27 (/P)—The
Senate passed the Caillaux financial
bill by a vote of 226 to 29 yesterday,
after the deputies had passed the bill
advocating the measure which in
creased the note circulation by six
billion francs.
In discussing the measure M. Cail
laux said: “It may be an audacious
policy but sometimes audacity brings
confidence. I do not dissimulate the
gravity of these measures but at the
present time they are the only rem
edy. France will climb again to the
top of the financial hill down which
she has been slipping. The first step
of the upward climb is that not one
centime of expenditure shall hench
forth be contracted unless such ex
penditure is fully covered by corres
ponding receipts. There must be no
moratorium holders of French bonds
which must be paid at maturity.”
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YESTRDAY’S GAMES
COAST—
Sacramento 3, Los Angeles 4.
Oakland 1, Seattle 2.
Salt Lake 6. Frisco 5.
Vernon 2, Portland 6.
NATIONAL—
New York 9, Brooklyn 6.
Pittsburgh 5, Cincinnati 3.
St. Louis 3, Chicago 2.
Boston 8, 3, Pihla. 6. 4.
AMERICAN—
Phila. 3, Washington 5.
Chicago 3, Cleveland 1.
• Detroit 4, St. Louis 3.
No other games.
MISSIONSHIPTO
SAIL NEXT WEEK
SEATTLE, June 27. @—The Aerial
a mission ship, which will sail from
this port next week for Siberian wa
ters, under the command of the Rev.
N. F. Hoejer, is being rapidly finish
ed. There will be seven men aboard,
namely, Ernest Bowman and Carl von
Lanhburg, missionaries, Karl Hen
drickson, Paul Sarw, Alfred Eklund
and Carl Carlson, making up the crew.
The Aeriel is being rebuilt from a
former government ship. Rev. Hoi
jer has been thru three ship wrecks
on the East Cape and the Diomedes,
and said that “twice we saved the Si
berian natives near the mission from
starving to death.”
CREW DROWN ON
OCEAN TUG KING
QUEBEC, June 27. @—The entire
crew, .comprising nine men on the
ocean tug, King, Nvere drowned today
when the tug was rammed by a Can
adian Pacific liner, the Marlock,
which had gone to the pier. The tug
was struck amidships and was almost
cut in two.
WM. SHEPHERD
ACQUITTED FOR
MURDER OF SON
I
—
j CHICAGO. 111.. June 27. (/P)-Wm.
| Shepherd was acquitted yesterday for
! the murder of his foster son, William
I McClintock by a jury which deliberat
j ed five hours and forty minutes. As
I a result of the verdict, Shepherd was
freed, after being in custody since
March 15.
Shepherd still faces another mur
i der charge, but the judge agreed to
j permit him to sign his own bond, he
j being still charged with the murder
j of Mrs. Emma Nelson McClintock,
j mother of William, but his attorneys
; don’t think that he will ever be ar
raigned on this latter charge.
CHICAGO. June 27 (/P)—Isabelle
I Pope, who waited at his bedside with
; a license to wed Win. McClintock if
he recovered consciousness said today
regarding Shepherd’s acquittal: “I do
not see how the jury could convict
Shepherd on the evidence presented.
There was so much left out, so much
detail that was important to the
whole story. They did not ask me
half of the things I knew.”
THE VAN MICHELENS MULTIPLY.
WUEST-HUERCK, Belgium, June
28 (JP)—Large families are the rule in
this province of Belgium but local re
cords were broken at the recent fu
neral of Hendrik van Michelen. He
was followed to his last resting place
by 14 children, 108 grandchildren and
150 great grandchildren, a total of
272 descendants.
WM. STUDDERT
I NOW MANAGER
! N, A, F. COMPANY
FORMER BUREAU OF FISHERIES
HEAD RETURNS TO TERRITORY
IN NEW ROLL—MANAGER OF
FLOATING CANNERY.
Returning to Alaska in a new role,
W. P. (Bill) Studdert, formerly in
charge of the Cook Inlet district for
the Bureau of Fisheries passed thru
Seward a few days ago representing
the North American Fisheries Com
pany as manager of the floating sal
tery vessel, the ‘Rosamond.” Cap
tain C. P. Larson, formerly skipper
of the “Biaraca,” commands t,he
Rosamand, a four-masted schooner of
1.000 tons displacement. John Mc
Nabb, a Scotland and Alaskan fish
erman of many years experience has
been selected as foreman of the sal
tery.
Mr. Studdert stated about 50 peo
ple would be employed in the salt
ery during the present season, but
as to the fishing grounds, wherever
fish were, that is where we wall be.
On board the Admiral Watson, which
.went to the Westward the fore part
of this week wer eten Scotch lassies,
all expert in packing. Mr. Studdert
said they were practically all from
Scotland, the largest herring pack
ing field in the world. The “Rosa
mond has been at Seldovia, await
ing the arrival of Mr. Studdert from
Seattle, his home town.
Including shore stations and float
ing salteries, many new plants are
in the Southwestern Alaska field
this season, Mr. Studdert stated.
Among the new ones he recalled is
the Kaw Packing Company, a shore
plant at Uzinki; Sklaroff & Co., with
two shore plants, one at Latouche
|and the other at Homer Spit;: N. A.
Fisheries Co., floating saltery; The
Latouche Packing Co., shore cannery;
Nashuam Fish and Packing Co., a
floating saltery. The latter is a
new vessel just off the ways, the
“ZR-3”
TENNIS COURT NOW
OPEN, SAYS RUCKER;
NEW MEMBERS SOUGHT
The tennis court is completed and
in splendid condition for games now,
A. E. Rucker, one of the officers of
the popular local organization an
nounced yesterday. The new nets
and equipment arrived on the last
steamer from the States and every
thing is in readines-s for play. It is
hoped a tournament can be played
on the 4th and 5th of July. New
members are needed, Mr. Rucker
stated yesterday, and anyone desiring
to join the club is asked to comrnu
nicate or call on him for an appli
cation blank.
FAMOUS GOLD
PROPERTY TO
BE REOPENED
JOHNSVILLE, Calif., June 27 (£>)—
The Plumas Eureka Gold Mining Co
w ill resume operations here it was an
nounced today with San Franciscc
capital behind the company. The
property includes 2500 acres of rich
quartz, placer and timber claims, on
w'hich different interests have been
operating since the middle of the last
century. An English syndicate in
1898, bought the interests of the Plu
mas Eureka Mining Company which
was formed in 1872 and took out over
18 million dollars in 16 years years
when former employes of the com
pany acquired the property.
The ownership has changed twice
since that date, two shafts going 18C
feet down into the pay streak. It is
planned to drain the lowTer tunnel tc
permit prospecting for a body of deep
ore. which is believed to exist.
634,249,000 LBS.
COPPER MINED
IN YEAR 1925
| WASHINGTON, D. C.. June 27 (/p)—
| The Geological Survey reports that
> 1,634.249.092 pounds of copper were
; produced from the domestic ores of
I Alaska and the States last year, com
pared to 1.434,990,969 for the year
1923. The smelter output of new re
fined copper in 1924 was 2,260,000,000
pounds valued at §214,870.000.
The total world’s production in 1924
; was 2,998,000,000 pounds at an aver
age price of 13.1 cents per pound.
ZEPPELIN PLANT
! WILL SPONSOR
POLE EXPEDITION
BERLIN, June 27. (JP)—The big
Zeppelin plant at Friedrichshafen.
which built the Shenandoah and Los
Angeles, the giant dirigibles for the
United States, are going to build an
airship in which Fridjof Nansen will
make two polar explorations trip.
The Zeppelin company will bear the
entire cost of construction, with inter
national subscription to pay the inci
dental expenses of the proposed expe
ditions.
SHANGHAISTOKE
NOT YET ENDED
SHANGHAI, June 27 (JP)—'The gen
eral strike in this city has been end
ed with all the larger stores reopen
ing. Shipping continues demoralized
and Japanese and British cotton mills
remain closed. The strike has been
adjusted for the stores only.
PROMINENT MEN
TO TESTIFY IN
SCOPE TRIAL
DAYTON, Tenn., June 27 (JP)—The
Rhea County School Board elected 70
teachers yesterday, but the posi
tion of Professor Scope was left open
until after his trial for teaching evo
lution in violation of the statutes of
the state of Tennessee.
Dudley Field Malone, one of the
volunteer counsels for the defense,
announced today that he expected the
list of witnesses to include Henry
Fairfield, professor of zoology in
Columbia university; Edwin Grant
Conklin, professor of biology, of the
Princeton university, and a member of
the Congregational church; Michael
Pupin, professor of electro mechanics,
of Columbia university; Kirkley F.
Mather, chief of the department of
geology of Harvard university, Edward
L. Rice, professor of biology of the
Wesleyan university, author of “Dar
win and Bryan.” and many others of
prominence.
Malone said these witnesses all be
longed to Christian denominations.
Wm. Jennings Bryan has offered to
appear and help prosecute Scope for
his teachings.
The little Tennessee town is mak
ing an effort to accommodate the vast
crowds attending the trial but it
is believed that thousands of eminent
persons throughout the states will be
on hand.
HAD TONSILS CUT
WITH A .45; WAS
CONSIDERED NEAT
LOS ANGELES. June 27. (/P)—
When detectives went to arest David
L. Snyder, last night, on suspicion of
robbery, the suspect moved to draw a
gun, but the alert dicks beat him to
it with a bullet entering his right
cheek, clipping off his tonsils as neat
ly as any surgeon could do with a
knife. It emerged from his left
cheek. It is said that lie is not crit
ically wounded.
GRAND JURY TO
MEET IN SPOKANE
GREAT FALLS. Mont., June 27 (/P).
The witnesses testifying in the recent
trial of Senator Wheeler and Gordon
Campbell, in connection with the oil
leases in this state, have been sub
poenaed to appear before a grand
jury convening at Spokane Monday.
The reasons for the Spokane inquiry
have not been obtained.
WILL DISPOSE OF
MUSCLE SHOALS
ELECTRIC POWER
WASHINGTON, D. C.. June 27 (£>)—
The War Department is taking steps
to dispose of power generated at
Muscle Shoals, and will test the gen
erator units beginning in August and
continuing several months.
STARR MAKES SPECIAL
TRIP KANATAK MONDAY
The steamship Starr will sail Mon
day on a, special trip to Kanatak with
freight, mail and passengers. Capt.
Johansen states that this will be an
opportunity for Seward citizens to
make the trip. The vessel will be back
in time to allow the crew to help
celebrate the Fourth.