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VOLUME XVIII NUMBER 281
SEWARD. ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1923
PRICE TEN CENTS
I
The General Land Office recently
sent out instructions relative to the
identification of lands in Alaska, and
amending circulars Nos. 672 and 845
as follows:
Owing to the difficulties encounter
ed in the adjustment of conflicting
claims for oil prospecting permits un
der the leasing act of February 25,:
1920, for unsurveyed land in Alaska.
Sec. 4d of the regulations of March 11
1920, (47 L. D. 437), Circular No. 672
and Sec. 2c of Circular No. 845, ap
proved August 12. 1922. (49 L. l> . 247) j
are modified to make the following re
quirements.
Where Permits Have Not Issued
1. All applicants must hereafter de
scribe lands with reference to true
cardinal directions and in cases wrhere
applications have heretofore been
made and can conform to such direc-l
tioDs without prejudice to valid inter
vening claims said applications must;
be amended to conform to true cardi
nal directions
2. In order to permit adjustment!
of conflicts the claims of all conflict
ing applicants must be identified with
reference to a common monument
which can be definitely ascertained
and located upon the records and
plats in this office.
These conflicting claims fall into
1 ‘wo general classes: (a) Those in
volving lands located in the vicinity of
the public land surveys; (b) those
involving lands which are removed
from such surveys.
The following regulations are pre
scribed for the designation oi these
lands in applications for prospecting
permits;
(a) In all cases where circum
stances permit, applicants ior pros
pecting permits for unsurveyed lands
must describe the lands applied for by
metes and bounds connecting such de
scription by courses and distances to
m some monument of an approved pub-!
w
lie land survey.
The point of reference utilized may
be the initial monument erected by
another applicant who has described
said monument by courses and dis
tances with reference to a public sur
vev monument, provided the location
of said monument has been definitely'
established with reference o the pub-j
lie land survey.
In such case, however, the location
of the adopted monument, with re
spect to such public land survey mon
ument must be stated or the field
n<*;es or calculations by which the lo
cation ol the applicant’s initial monu
ment with reference to the public sur-j
vey monument was obtained, must be
furnished.
th) In cases where there are no;
available public land survey monu-j
ment, must be stated or the field notes i
or calculations by which the location
of the applicant’s initial monument
with reference to the public survey
monument was obtained, must be fur-;
nished.
(b) In cases where there are no
available public land survey monu
t ment was obtained, must be furnished.!
(b) In cases where there are no
available publite land survey monu
ments the applicant for permit must
describe the land by metes and bounds
designating the location of his initial
monument by courses and distances,
with reference to sues permanent
monuments as will enable this office
to identify its location from its re
cords and maps. A plat or chart il
lustrating the location of said monu-i
ment will aid in a determination of its
location.
3. An applicant for permit must
state, under oath, whether his appli
cation is for any lands described in
aViy prior application, or in any no
tice posted on the ground within six
months prior to the date of the filing
of his application.
In the event that there are any
prior conflicting claims for permits|
the applicant initiating the subse-|
quent claim must describe the land
desired with reference to the initial
monuments of each prior claimant.
Where Permits Have issued
4. Numerous permits have been
issued for unsurveyed land in cases
*where the Department could not de
termine whether conflicting claims
existed, or the extent of apparent
conflicts, upon the following condi
tions :
^ (See Page Three, Column Pour.)
IN! *511 ilMIED
TO Bn riBLIUT
LONDON, Nov. 21.—“There is fight
in the old girl yet,” Lady Astor ex
claimed today when renominated lor
Parliament by the Conservatives or
the Sutton Division of Plymouth. She
said if America and England would
work together a league of nations was
unnecessary, as the rest of the world
would be governed by their actions
SIOUX FALLS. S. Dak.. Nov. 21.—
William G. McAdoo won the South
Dakota delegates to the next conven
tion, defeating Henry Fold about two
to one. The Republican delegation is
uninstructed but is about equallv di
vided between Coolidge and Hi'am
Johnson.
OHIO FARMER ELECTED
MASTER NAT’L GRANGE
PITTSBURGH. Nov 21— Louis .T.
Taber of Barnesville, Ohio, was elect
ed master of the National Grange at
the National convention being held
here.
SPECIMENS OF MINERALS
FIFTY MILLION YEARS OLD
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 21—Speci
mens of minerals which it is claimed
were extracted from a strata of earth
:n Greenland antedating fifty million
years are on exhibition at the Acade
my of Natural Science. The speci
mens were brought here by their dis -
coverer. Dr. Samuel G. Gordon of the
Academy.
GERMANY WILL REPUDIATE
TREATY OF VERSAILLES
LONDON. Nov. 21.—The Daily Mail
quotes a dispatch from Berlin saying
that Germany had decided to repudi
ate the treaty of Versailles and will
not comply with either the reparations
or other clauses as long the the Bel
gians and French occupy Germany.
THE GLORY TUT IS
HOME’S ON HE SED
ROME, Nov. 21.—An attempt is to
be made to recover from Lake Nemi,
near Rome, the floating palace of Em
peror Tiberius, consisting of two gal
leys which have been buried in the
mud for nineteen hundred years, and
which are believed to contain marvels
of ancient art equal to those found in
the tomb of Tutankhamen.
BARON KRUPP RELEASED
DUSSELDORF, Nov. 21.—Baron von
Krupp was released, together with 2P
othe Krupp directors, who have been
serving prison sentences. Twenty-five
others were pardoned.
SSMlSESEflOMllffi
TOT! 1 BILLION TEN
TOKYO, Nov. 21.—Home Minister
Goto estimates that the cost to the
government and the various municipal
ities at two billion yen, to repair the
damages resulting from the earth
quake and fire.
FORMER PRESIDENT BAPTIST
WORLD ALLIANCE IS DEAD
LONDON, Nov. 21.—Dr. John Clif
ford, former president of the Baptist
World Alliance died here today.
AIN'T IT THE TRUTH
LONDON, Nov. 21.—W. L. George,
a noted British novelist, sailing for
the United States today, said: “So
long as America pays the piper Eu
rope will play the Star Spangled Ban
ner."
iron or rones
KILLED BY ISSISSIN
YONKERS, N. Y., Nov. 21.—Mayor
Walter M. Taussig died today from a
bullet wound, the shot being fired by
an unknown assailant. The mayor was
found this morning lying near his gar
age back of his home.
He died without revealing the cir
eumstances under which he received
his wound, but it is believed that he
heard a noise near his garage and in
vestigating ran up against auto ban
dits who shot him and fled.
DUSSELDORF, Nov. 21.—Separa
tists in their fight with loyalists near
Sonn, lost 130 men kiMed and several
! hundred wounded. The Lo> ^»sts lit
i erally annihilated the body of Sepa
ratists who invaded their territory in
an attempt to detach it from Reich
and set up a Rhineland republic.
The battle, which was very bitterly
J contested, lasted for over an hour, re
sulting in the capture of killing of the
invaders to the last man.
NOlHWISi MOVE
SITS IN CONGRESS
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21—A non
partisan co-operative movement was
started in congress today to put thru
tax reduction legislation along the
general lines of a program recom
mended by Secretary Mellon.
DUBLIN, Nov. 21.—The first death
from the hunger strike under the Free
State regime took place in Newbridge
internment camp today when Denis
Barry, a native of Cork, succumbed to
his self-inflicted fast.
$150 per month for the next six
months, $75 to be paid by the Cham
ber of Commerce, and that the City
be petitioned to appropriate for the
community’s good and public welfare
an amount sufficient to take care of
the balance for this period. Motion
After a discussion of the Chamber’s
publicity efforts and its desire to ad
vertise the community and the oppor
tunities to the westward, Mr. Dough
carried.
Mayor Ray stated that there was a
room available for the Chamber as an
office in the Harriman Bank building.
It was decided to accept this as Cham
ber headquarters.
1 Miss Short stated that the girls of
the High Schools in the typewriting
class would be glad to handle the
Chamber’s form letters, having in
their possession a mimeograph sten
oiling machine.
C. B. Brosius referred to the figures
compiled by the glacier stream and
after discussion, in order to arrive at
a concrete plan, satisfactory to every
business man and citizen in the com
munity, a motion was made and car
ried that Friday evening, at 8 o’clock
in the “Bill’s Club-’ rooms under the
Bank of Seward. A special meeting
of the Chamber be held. To this
meeting everyone in the community is
to be invited and some satisfactory
solution evolved.
It was stated that many of the bus
I iness men of the community not at
j present time in attendance at the
| Chamber’s noon luncheons, would be
! glad to take an active part in commu
nity work, provided they could get
away from their business during the
noon hour. In order to arrive at an
hour when it would be possible for
every business man in the community
to be present at these luncheons, a
motion was made by Mr. McMullen,
seconded by Mr. Moultry that for
three consecutive Tuesdays, beginning
next Tuesday, the hour bet set at 6:30
p. m. when it was thought the attend
ance would be greater. Motion parried.
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COPYRIGHT KEYSTONE VIEW CO. NEW YORK
GERMAN FINANCIER’S SON VISITS AMERICA
Hugo Stinnes, Jr., and his wife, who recently arrived in the i'nited
States. Young Stinnes, who is the second son of the famous German in
dustrialist, is here for the first time. Although he is a director in his fath
er’s company he refused to answer any question of a political or financial
nature. He states he has come here to meet business friends and get a per
sonal impression of the country and i ts vast resources.
SPY !S ILffl
FROM U. S. PRISON
LEAVENWORTH, Kan., Nov. 21.—
Leon Witzke, sentenced to death dur
ing the world war as a German spy,
was released from prison here today.
His sentence was commuted to life
imprisonment by President Wilson,
and he was pardoned by President
Coolidge.
Representatives of the German gov
ernment met him at the prison gates
and will accompany him to the sea
coast to see that he is immediately
deported as provided for in his par
don.
BELIEVES DAUGHTER INNOCENT
GRANT PASS, Nov. 21.—Mrs. Belle
Savely today declared that her daugh
ter was innocent. She was convicted
of manslaughter for stabbing H. W.
Johnson.
Asks $10,000 from Member of Flock
Who Almost Lost Him His
Presbytery
ONTARIO CENTER, N. V., Nov. 21
Statements alleged to have been made
by Peter Vandlne, a member of the
First Presbyterian church of this vil
lage, that the Rev. Grant was guilty
of misappropriating funds of the
church and that he was a crook, state
ments which, according to the com
plant filed by the Rev. McChesney,
caused the presbytery to request his
resignation, are the oasis today of a
j $10,000 suit for slander filed by Rev.
McChesney. The request that McChes
ney resign was later rescinded when
the pastor vindicated himself by prov
ing the charges untrue.
According to McChesney Verdine
was instigator of a plot to force his
resignation from the church. Through
a series of statements alleged to have
been made by Verdine to other mem
bers of the congregation, the Rev.
McChesney also charges that his
daughter wnfs discriminated against
when she ran for office in one of the
societies of the church.
At sessions of the church members
held in homes in Ontario. Center, and
Williamson, Verdine is alleged to have
uttered slanderous statements by
which the congregations of the church
was split into two factions.
ADMIRAL WATSON SAILS
CEATTLE, Nov. 21.—The s*eamship
Admiral Watson sailed today for
southwestern Alaska points. The fol
lowing passengers are for Seward: E.
H. Slade, Mrs. Mable Edwards, Mrs.
E. Wake, H. Wadell, John Radted.
The steamship Victoria is the next
vessel on the Alaska line to sail from
Seattle, her departure being Satur
day, Nov. 24. She takes the place of
the Alaska.
I
OKANOGAN, Wn„ Nov. 21.—John
Sterling, a bootlegger was killed b\
Federal prohibition officers today and
four auto loads of liquor captured at
Condon Ferry on the Columbia this
afternoon. Eight members of the rum
running brigade, two of whom were
severely wounded, were lodged in
the Okaongan county jail.
SPOKANE, Nov. 21.—John Sterling,
killed by Federal agents at Okanogan
last night has been identified as Ben
ton Werner of this city, a notorious
bootlegger.
—
VERY SUCCESSFUL 01
At the regular weekly luncheon of
the Seward Chamber of Commerce
held at the Seward Grill, the Chamber
had as its kuests the boys and girls
1 of the High School, Mrs. Short. Miss
Mossford and Rev. Dunlap.
After luncheon President Whittlesey
made a short explanatory talk of a
I Chambers of Commerce mission and
its benefit to a community.
Mavor Ray. being called upon, gave
j the Chamber and its guests an inter
esting talk on possibilities of the im
mediate future. Relative to the gla
j eier stream he suggested as the poli
cy of the Chamber a committee to
meet Governor Bone and Mr. Landis
upon their arrival and to l«v before
them a concrete plan for the control
of this stream. On the rumored re
moval of the cable headquarters from
Valdez, he stated that Anchorage,
Fairbanks and Nenana were all offer
ing inducements for headquarters to
be moved to their respective locali
ties, and that when headquarters
were moved it would necessitate the
provision of buildings for warehouses,
garages, offices, and accommodations
! for eight families and twenty-two men.
With reference to the present Rail
road administration in Alaska, he
staled the policy at the present time
was the building up of the country
i along and adjacent to the Railroad
and catering to the wants of the peo
ple. Heretofore, it had been a policy
of railroad building without any con
cern being paid to the wants of the
people. Mayor Ray also stated tnat
j there was a possibility of a term of
j court being held in Seward the first
week in Deecember, also that proba
bly the next jury term of court would
be held in Seward in March or April.
Mayor Ray asked if the Seward
Chamber of Commerce was a member
of the Associated Chambers of Com
merce of the United States, and made
a motion, seconded by Urbach, that if
not, the Secretary be instructed to
| take steps to affiliate with that body.
! Motion carried.
erty stated that it was necessary to
have a man available at all times to
protect the community's interests, to
interview visitors and furnish them
available information, and to handle
correspondence and publicity litera
ture. He made a motion, seconded by
McMullen that the Secretary be paid
TACOMA, Nov. 21.—John A. Sorley,
deputy prosecuting attorney, announc
ed toda> his candidacy tor the State
Supreme Court on the issue of the re
cent pardoning of Gustat' Lindeberg.
convicted in the Scandinavian Ameri
can Bank case, and pardoned bv Lieut.
Governor Covle during the absence of
Governor Hart from the State.
Sorley stated that he intended to
direct his campaign against Chief
Justice Main, whose term ends next
year, on the ground that a “leak” in
the supreme court made it a current
rumor before Governor Hart left the
State that the Supreme Court would
hand down a decision in the Lindeberg
case and that Lieut. Gov. Covle would
be acting governor at the time, and
would pardon him.
Prosecutor Sorley declares the af
fair a travesty on justice, and would
brine Lindebere before the courts for
a new trial if possible.
PORTLAND MAN ARRESTED
BY MARSHAL AT JUNEAU
JLNEAT Harold Steen, said to be
Wali°r j. Hammon, alias W. Lewis,
was arrested here this week, charged
with alleged forgery at Portland, Or.
Steen came nortn about a week ago
accompanied by two women, one of
whom he claimed to be his wife, an l
the other his sister. Steen has cashed
a number of checks here on Port
land banks with local people as in
dorsers. They are thought to be for
geries.
EARTHQUAKES KILL CATTLE.
DESTROY SPANISH BUILDINGS
MADRID, Nov. 21.—An earthquake
this afteronon rocked the Prenueau
valley, buildings being shaken down
and cattle killed.
PROCESS SERVER TRIES TO
SERVE PAPERS ON GROOM
NEW \ ORK. Nov. 21.— A process
server waited all dav at “The Little
Church Around the Corner." to serve
papers on Leonard Wood, jr.. son o?
Gov. Gen Wood of the Ph Pi opines.
The voun^ man had planned to wed
Dolores Graves, a member of the the
atrical company he manages at Lan
caster, Pa., hot the eounle went to
W ashirgton where they were mar
ried. The papers concerned claims
for salary it is alleged Wood owed his
actors.
A L ASK A BOATS WILL CALL
AT PRINCE RUPERT. B C.
The A'aska Steamship Comnany an
nounces that commencing: with the
| sailing: of the steamship Alameda, it
\ has established a new service, all of
its boats hereafter to call at Prince
Rupert northbound. A tariff schedule
I containing: freight and passenger rates
1 from Prince Rupert to all of its regu
lar Alaska points of call, including
! Cordova, has been published and is
available at the offices of the com
pany in the Alaska towns. The new
rates go into effect December 4th and
| are applicable on interstate traffic in
! terchanged with rail lines at Prince
Rupert.
The rates cover domestic merchan
dise moving between points in the
United States and points in Alaska
via Prince Rupert and rail lines.
HE SAID HE WOULD T. N. T..
AND WIFE GRANTED DIVORCE
PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 21.—Mrs.
Nona Williams was granted a divorce
from Brady Williams by Judge Sum
merfield when she testified that her
husband had deserted her and failed
to pay temporary alimony. Her decree
is on file.
Williams told his wife that if an
alimony order was issued by the
court he would T. N. T., which his
wife explained meant, “Travel, nigger,
travel,’’ and she said he sure did.
OELS, Germany, Nov. 21.—Former
Crown Prince Frederich Wilhelm to
day said. “My intention is to devote
myself to my personal estate at Oels,
and to help in the task of building up
the Fatherland which I have reason to
believe will regain its former great
ness.”