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VOLUME XVIII NUMBER 226
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1923
PRICE TEN CENTS
Fish Hatchery be Built Immediately
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WORK ON BUILDING BE
COMPLETED THIS FALL
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BUILDING BE FORTY FEET BY SIXTY-FOUR FEET
AND WILL HOLD FORTY-EIGHT SIXTEEN FT.
TROUGHS—COMMISSIONER ELLSWORTH TO
RUSH WORK THROUGH. £■ ? f
Fish Commissioner Ellsworth today received a cable
gram from Supt. of Hatcheries Wentworth of Ketchikan
authorizing the immediate construction of the new' king
salmon hatcheries to be constructed at Grouse Lake, about
seven miles from Seward.
The telegram calls for the construction of a building
sixt> four feet long, forty feet wide with a twelve foot
ceiling, which will be constructed as soon as lumber and
carpenters are available.
The ne w building completed, is to cost $17,500, and
will have forty-eight troughs for the hatching of salmon.
Following is the cable received from Superintendent
Wentworth:
“H. E. Ellsworth, Seward, Alaska.
‘ Build hatchery forty by sixtv-four feet w ith twelve
foot ceiling, and half pitch roof, water to be delivered five
and one half feet above the hatchery floor; supply trough
to run across hatchery and trough lengthwise. Building
this size will accommodate forty-eight sixteen ft. troughs.
Windows at supply end of hatchery to be five foot above
floor. Space posts seventeen feet in center and ten and
one half feci on sides to allow for proper spacing of hatch
ing troughs. Letter and our draft on first boat.
WENTWORTH, Supt. of Hatcheries.”
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AFTER BRIEF W
DICK RAELSON, MEMBER LEGIS
LATURE PASSES AWAY LAST
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SATURDAY
NOME, Alaska, September 10—Eric
“Dick” Raelson, an Alaskan pioneer,
and member of the last Alaska legis
lature, as Representative from the 2nd
Division, died in a hospital here at
noon Saturday, after a brief illness.
He was fifty-five years old, having
been born in Stockholm, Sweden, May
16, 1868. He leaves a wife and two
children who reside in Chicago.
After receiving his education in the
Stockholm public schools and finish
ing with a one-year course in the Uni
versity of Stockholm, Mr. Raelson
came to the United States when a
young man locating in Chicago, where
he was in the retail grocery business
for many years.
Mr. Raelson came to Alaska in 1S9S
landing at Wrangell aijd came to
Nome in 1900. For several years he
was foreman for the Pioneer Mining
company, but of late years has been
employed as manager of the Polet
store here.
He was a member of Igloo No. 1, Al
aska Pioneers, and the funeral will be
conducted by that body. At one time
he served on the Nome city council.
Mr. Raelson had planned to leave
Alaska on the last boat this year, to
locate in Los Angeles, where he had
acquired property interests.
Jos. Scott was admitted to the Pio
neer Home the first of the’ month. He
was a resident of Juneau.
PRINCE OF WALES IN QUEBEC
QUEBEC, Sept. 13—The Prince ol
Wales traveling as Baron Renfrew ar
rived this afternon, enroute to his
ranch in Western Canada.
Leon Urbach, Mel Holben, and Ray
Lewis left yesterday on a hunting trip
in the Lost Lake district.
GULF OIL WILL PROSPECT
IN COLD BAY OIL FIELDS
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. 12—It
is the opinion expressed by William
P. DeLaat, oil expert in Seattle recent
ly, that the Gulf Oil company of Penn
sylvania will enter the Cold Bay dis
trict for development purposes early
next year.
During the past summer Mr. De
Laat, representing the Gulf Oil inter
ests spent considerable time in this
vicinity. Since his departure from the
north with his report, and according
to a letter which has just been receiv
ed a considerable amount of business
of a personal nature has already been
transacted, preparatory to the com
pany entering the Alaska oil fields.
FEDERAL ...AUTHORITIES ARREST
OTTO SPENCER AND CHAS.
E. REED.
(Anchorage Times)
Otto Spencer, 24, and Charles E.
Reed, 26, are in the federal jail, charg
ed w%h assaulting with intent to rob
Charles Volker, an aged resident of
Ninth and A. streets earfc- last Sunday
morning. The youths also are suspect
ed of having held up and robbed Mrs.
Harry Children an Indian woman of
Houstan, Sunday.
This is the sequel to what authori
ties say was an attempt on the part of
the arrested men to obtain “getaway j
money,” for leading Anchorage.
Volker identifiied both Spencer and !
Reed as the pair who sluged him, and
declared that had he not fought back |
he would have been robbed.
Eagles are becoming so nurq,gyous I
at many places that they constitute a
r^a menace to ^x farmers. They car
ry off the young of the foxes besides
killing hundreds of young sheep and
goats.
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Funeral services 6ver the body of
the late Mrs. A. F. Davis, beloved wife
of Mr. Albert F. Davis of the Alaska
j Transfer, will be conducted Sunday
by Rev. R. V. B. Dunlap, at 2 p. m..
In the Methodist Episcopal church.
Mr. Davis will accompany the body to
Olympia, Washington, where burial
will be made.
Helen Eckert Davis
Helen Eckert Davis was born in the
State of Illinois, July 13th, 18S5. While
still in her early childhood she was
orphaned, losing both father and moth
er. She was adopted by Mr. and Mrs.
J. E. Walters who raised her to young
womanhood, her adopted father bring
ing her to Skagway, Alaska, while she
was still in her teens.
She came to Seward in November,
1909, making her residence here al
I most continuously, except for about
| two years spent in Seattle, Washing
ton, during which time she became
the wife of A. F. Davis, on February
fifth, 1914, returning to Seward to
make her home shortly afterward. Mr.
Davis has lived in this section for
nearly twenty-five years and a large
circle of friends sorrow with him and
I his two children, Hedley and Jean
Elizabeth.
Beside the husband, foster father,1
j and two children who mourn the loss
; ol wife, daughter and mother, there is
an adopted daughter, Mrs. Nellie
! Shea Adams, of Coronado, California,
j to whom Mrs. Davis gave years of un
sef ish devotion and affection, and a
' true mother’s watchful care. Mrs. Ad
I ams is well known in Seward having !
' lived here from 1909 to August 191S, j
I when she became the wife of O. R.
! Adams, leaving soon afterward for
California.
The many friends of Mrs. Davis and
i the family feel her death as a person
! al loss and grieve with them,
i Pallbearers at the funeral Sunday i
| afternoon will be: A. Eide, S. M. Graff,"
| Martin Banbury, E. A. Crawford, Cur
I tis Morford and Wayne Blue.
URUGUAY SCRAPPER WHO WAS
ONLY MAN TO K. O. FIRPO,
SAYS FIRPO SURE WIN
SARATOGA SPRINGS, Sept. 12—
When Champion Jack Dempsey comes
out of his corner to defend his title
Friday night at the Polo grounds he
will have no fixed plan of battle ex
cept to be careful and not run danger
ous risks with Luis Angel Firpo.
Dempsey said he would look for the
first opening and when he finds it he
will “crash over the hardest sock to
any point I can land it.” Dempsey still
has a trace of the cold he contracted
ten days ago, but is not bothering very
much about it. He winds up his train
ing tomorrow with a couple of rounds
of light boxing.
Firpo in Fine Shape Today
ATLANTIC CITY. Sept. 12—Luis
Firpo, South American giant, who is
seeking Dempsey’s crown, cut down
his sparring and road work today and
his trainers said he was “in perfect
condition.” Firpo said he needed but
little work today and tomorrow to
“put him on edge.” “I’m goifag to win,”
he declared.
Predicts Firpo Will Win Fight
BUENOS AIRES, Sept. 12—Eng-eld
Rodriguez of Uruguay, the only fight
er who has ever knocked out Firpo,
predicted today that Firpo will defeat
Dempsey. Rodriguez said he knocked
out Firpo in 1918 when Luis was com
pletely green at tlfe fight game. “Fir
po didn’t know how to box ttyen, but
he’s learned rapidly and he can whip
Dempsey,” he said.
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8 NEW YORK, September 13— 8
8 Employees whose work has been U
it reduced from twelve to ten hours tt
it daily will be paid at tl£ rate of a 8
8 eleven hour day, according to the 8
8 old schedule, Judge Elbert H. 8
8 Gary, chairman of the Board of 8
8 directors of the United States 8
8 Steel Corporation announced to- 8
8 day. 8
8 Simultaneously the Bethlehem 8
8 Corporation announced that all 8
8 men affected by the elimination 8
8 -of the twelve hour day in that 8
8 company’s plants will be paid for 8
8 ten hours, if they work eight 8
8 hours per day now and they will 8
8 be paid for all hours if they work 8
8 ten hours. 8
8 Independent steel plants are 8
8 expected to follow suit. 8
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LATEST REPORT
GROUPS OF HUNDREDS OF BOD
IES FOUND AMONG RUINS—
STRICT CENSORSHIP
TOKIO, Sept. 13—Deaths from the j
earthquake, fires and tidal waves in |
ard around Tokio alone are now es-1
timated at 150,000 people. Groups of!
hundreds of bodies have bben found in
various spots by searchers.
Strict Censorship Maintained
SHANGHAI, Sept. 13—Strict cen
sorship is in force in the devastated
areas in Japan, and very little is al
lowed to go through the press.
People Eating Dead Animals
TOKIO, Sept. 13— A heavy rain is
falling, adding to the miseries of the
people camped in the parks and city
streets. The poor and destitute are
eating the bodies of animals found by
combing amoung the ruins.
BERLIN, Ger., September 13— Chan
cellor Stressmann, in an address de
clared, “we are ready to give real
guarantees in order to secure the free
dom of the Ruhr.” He admitted that
the solution of the problem could not
be obtained by passive resistance.
SHOW FULLS IN SMIL
CHICAGO, Sept. 13—Snow fell in
various points in Michigan, Minnesota
and Montana today.
ALASKAN IS THOUGHT TO
BE KILED IN TOKIO
At least one former Alaskan, Peter
Cowley, is believed to have been in
the Japanese earthquake zone during
the earthquake, acording to the An
chorage Times.
Cowley was at one time steward at
the Perseverance mine near Juneau,
and is known to hundreds of miners
who were employed at that time by
the Perseverance company. Less than
a month ago he was working as stew
ard for the Imperial hotel, one of To
kio’s fines* hosteflries. This building
collapsed, acording to the press dis
patches, with great loss of life, and
friends of Crowley are hoping that he
was not in the building at the time.
REFUGEES ON BOARD
SEATTLE BOUND BOAT
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PRESIDENT JEFFERSON ON WAY STATES WITH
FOUR HUNDRED JAPANESE REFUGEES—IS
RUNNING SHORT OF STORES AND ASKS THAT
VICTORIA MEET HER WITH PROVISIONS.
SEATTLE, September 12—Wireless messages today
reported the Admiral oriental liner President Jefferson
rushing eastward with the first earthquake refugees to
leave Japan for the United States.
The messages said among the four hundred passen
gers were many destitute and those who are injured will
require medical attention when the ship lands.
The President Jeferson discharged much of her ships
stores at Yokohama to aid earthquake victims, and is run
ning short. Her commander asked that the steamship Vic
toria, leaving Nome for Seattle, be instructed to meet her
south of Unimak pass and replenish her stock.
FISHERMEN HELD AT VALDEZ
FOR MURDER TO WESTWARD
SEATTLE, Sept. 13—Robert S. Ed
wards, student last year at the Uni
versity of Washington, and Ralph
Wolf, cod fisherman, from San Fran
cisco, are held by federal government
authorities at Valdez accused of the
murder of George Edwards of San
Francisco, as he lay sleeping in his
blankets August 17. The crime wa.3
committed sixty miles up the Kvichak
river trail from Libby, Bristol Bay,
according to George Smith, Libbyville
cannery superintendent and author of
the story.
MEXICALI, Sept. 13—A tidal wave re
sulting from the Japanese earthquake
destroyed San Jose De Cabo, a fishing
town on the west coast of Lower Cal
ifornia with some loss of life.
SUBSCRIPTION TO JAPANESE
REACHES $100,000 CASH
SEATTLE, Sept. 13—The subscrip
tion to the Japanese earthquake suf
ferers is now more than one hundred
thousand dollars cash.
SEATTLE LAWYER DEAD
SEATTLE, Sept. 13—Chas. D. Ful
len, well-known Seattle lawyer died
today.
THE “CYCLEPLANE,” FIRST
FOOTPOWER PLANE
W. F. Gerhardt, areonautica! engin
eer at McCook Field, Day*oh, with the
‘‘cycleplane,*’ which he imenfed and
recently took up for a successful test
flight. Mr. Gerhardt claims to be tire
first man to raise from the ground in
a machine using only the motive pow
er supplies by the pilof’s mtfscles.
Note seven wings on the machine.
GOVERNOR WALTON SAYS VULL
PARDON ANYONE SHOOTING
KLANSMAN
OKLAHOMA CITY, September 12
Governor Walton today ordered the
sheriff of Stephens county to swear in
extra deputies to prevent the parade
of Ku Kiux Klan members which will
be held tonight in Duncan, county seat
of Stephens county.
The governor declared he would use
the national guard troops ‘if county ot
licials fail to do their duty.
Coincident with the challenge he
said he received that he would never
“be able to break the power of the
klan in Oklahoma.” Walton advised
citizens to arm themselves and to
“sliooL to kill.” He also promised lull
pardon to any person convicted tor
shooting members or armed and mask
ed mobs.
The governor is expected to promul
gate martial law in Stephens county
if tonight’s demonstration at Duncan
is not prevented.
CABLE DOWN
According to the local cable office,
the Seattle Sitka cable is broken and
may be down for several days.
MILLION DOLLARS WORTH
TICKETS SOLO POO FIGHT
NEW YORK, Sept. 13—Firpo arriv
ed tonight from his training camp and
Dempsey breaks camp tomorrow. The
ticket receipts for the fight Friday
are more than a million dollars.
OLDTIMER BACK IN NOME
Arriving in Nome recently on the
Virginia from St. Michael was the
well known oldtmer Dick Negus, who
has been absent from Nome for many
years. Negus is in the fur business'at
St. Michael and came to Nome on a
business trip. Negus states that a
scarcity of news exists in his locality.
Frank Waskey a well known oldtimer
to the residents of Nome and vicinity
is located on the lower Kuskokwim,
where he is in the mining game. Was
key was reported dead some time ago,
but such was not the case, he had ex
perienced a severe illness) but his
sickness was not fatal, as was report
ed.