VOLUME XXI, NUMBER 235.
SEWARD ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1926.
PRICE TEN CENTS
. Princeton Graduates Are
Back from Big Game Hunt
in Lake Clarke Country
FOUR CARIBOU AND TWO MOOSE SPECIMENS
PROCURED IN LITTLE KNOWN NORTHERN
WILDS—BUT EIGHT PEOPLE RESIDING IN
VAST REGION HUNDREDS OF MILES IN AREA
—MANY BEAR SIGNS SEEN
ASIDE FROM 10 SEE-IBIS" DISTRICT IS II PARADISE
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Monroe Gets His Moose without Moving Step from Camp
—Natural Beauties of Country Compared with That
of Lake Louise and the Rockies—Poling Up Rivers Ar
duous for “Chechakos”
Early yesterday morning two bearded and shaggy
looking individuals were thrust upon our unsuspecting
city from the Admiral Watson. Their attire and trap
pings might have led one to believe them oldtimers, but
upon close inspection they turned out to be D. A. Finlay
son and D. T. Monroe of Princeton, who left here early
( last August for* a trip into the Lake Clark country. J. W.
Easton, the third member of the party remained in Seldo
via for another hunt on the West side of the peninsula.
Jack Bailey, who worked in the Grill in July, guided the
party, and has now returned into the interior, having
left the boys#t Seldovia. _m
In the lafet two months the boys have had'many inter
esting experiences in a hard and little known country,
and needless to say, they have had their share of work.
THREE DISTINCT SHOCKS ARE
RECORDED; BUT NOBODY
HURT
SEATTLE, Oct. 15. (/P)—G. E. Good
speed, University of Washington pro
fessor of geology, said the earth
quakes yesterday occurred in what is
known as the outer edge of the great
Pacific basin under the Pacific ocean
between the Western end of the Aleu
tian islands and Northern Japan. No
effect was felt on the island of Saint
Paul, Dutch Harbor, Kodiak, Cordova
or Sitka-.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 15. (£>)—1Three
earthquakes, two of which were se
vere, estimated at 4,800 miles distant;
were recorded at the Georgetown uni
versity. Director Torndorf said all
were in the Aleutians. The first be
gan at 1:13 in the morning and the
second at 9:28 which lasted for three
hours but the third was the most
severe. It began at 2:16 in the after
noon and continued four hours.
G0MIU1 WASHBOARD
ENTERS AIMEE QUIZ!
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 15. (£>)—Wise
man testified yesterday that Aimee
McPherson asked “Do you not remem
ber when Mrs. Benedict asked yon
( about a washboard and she said she
did not do much washing but she
would get you one if you wanted.”
After a few days in Inniskin bay,
during which plenty of bear sign
were seen, but no bears, the trip in
side got under way. It was netes
sary to double' trip supplies across the
ten mile trail to Iliamna village. The
Alaska Road Commission has done a
fine piece of work in making a pass
able wagon road out of the old trail,
, especially since Mr. McDonald, who
i was in charge, had a very limited
number of men to work with.
: A gas boat took the hunters across
1 Iliamna lake, a distance of 45 miles
(to an old trading post where supplies
were purchased and carried by na
tives to the Newralen river. Two days
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FOR ALASKA. STATES
OLDTIMER. SEATTLE
EARLY DAYS WERE THE HAPP\
DAYS; EVERYTHING NOW IS
NAILED DOWN
SEATTLE, Oct. 15. (£>) — Petei
Dowd, in leaving Seattle for his min
ing camp at the head of the Koyukuls
river and who has lived in the Arctic
for 25 years said “What’s it done foi
us up North, this rotten civilization'
In the old days we had justice in oui
camps and everything was settled al
miner’s meetings. Gold was left un
locked in miners cabins and never £
grain stolen. Food was always handj
in cabins along the trail for any trav
eler. Then the United States came
in with marshals and deputies and
they brought the civilized class in
and, now we have to lock our doors al
night.”
WAR DEPARTMENT IS
ASKED NOT REMOVE
ANCHORAGE SOLDIERS
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS INVEST
MENT IN RAILROAD BELT
LEFT UNPROTECTED
ANCHORAGE, Oct. 15. (/P)—1The
Chamber of Commerce has “appealed
to the War department that with a
sixty million government investment
and many millions of dollars of pri
vate investments close by in the Fair
banks district the removal of the An
chorage troops would be a calamity
and that additional troops should be
stationed here rather than any re
! moved.”
ARMED WITH SAWED OFF SHOT
GUNS THUGS HOLD UP
MAIL TRUCK
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ELIZABETH, New Jersey, Oct. 15.
(ff)—Bandits armed vrtth sawed off
shotguns, Tobbed a mail truck escort
| ed by police in the heart of the busi
'ness district of $160,000. They kill
| ed a postoffice employee when they
| charged the truck. A wounded em
ploye and an motorcycle patrolman
were knocked from a machine when
! they colided with bandit car and shot
|as they lay on the ground. The money
j was consigned to the Elizabeth Port
! Banking company and was the Singer
Sewing Machine payroll.
WAS IN SEWARD RECENTLY EN
ROUTE TO SEATTLE; DIS
POSING OF STOCK
| SEATTLE, Oct. 15. (£>)—Robert S.
| Donaldson of Fairbanks, announced
dredging operations on placer claims
in the Hot Springs district, centering
Jon a four mile front from American,
| Colorado to New York creeks, will
. start early next year by Alaskans by
ia former concern knows as the Amer
i ican Creek Dredging company.
I
KI.LLS SON-IN-LAW, WHO WAS
FORMER PARTNER OF DE
FUNCT BANK OFFICIAL
BOONVILLE, Mo., Oct. 15. (£>)—K.
C. Cockrell, 53 shot and killed E. B.
Turner, 34* his son-in-law and former
business partner of Charles W. Nixon,
former head of the Defunct Nixon
Farm Mortgage company. Cockrell
has just arrived from California and
it is believed he had invested his life
savings in the company.
ALASKA DUE AT MIDNIGHT
The S. S. Alaska left Valdez at 7
o’clock this morning west bound and
should arrive in port before midnight.
The vessel is bringing a total of 591
tons for local discharge and trans
fer to the S. S. Redondo -which is due
to arrive tonight from the Westward.
LAST VESSEL OF SEASON UP RIV
ER GOES TO BOTTOM IN
RINK RAPIDS
DAWSON, Oct. 15. (/P)—1The SO pas
I sengers which left the steamer Daw
son when it sunk in the Rink Rapids
on the Yukon river, 25 miles north of
Carmack’s, on Wednesday, will be
1 taken to Whitehorse in automobiles,
.also mail and baggage. It is said the
latter includes $100,000 in gold -which
was shifted from the vessel which
sunk in shallow water. The gold will
be taken to Whitehorse on a launch.
The Dawrson was the last boat of the
year up the river and carried many
mining men and families en route to
the States for the winter. *
LEAD PRICES DROP
NEW YORK, Oct. 15. (/P)—'The
American Smelting and Refining com
pany reduced the price of lead from
$8.50 to $8.35.
WAGE ADJUSTMENT EFFECTIVE
TWO YEARS AGO NEVER PUT
IN FORCE; LEADERS AND EM
PLOYEES DECLARE HARSH
PENALTIES BEING INFLICTED
FOR INFRACTION RULES
ANCHORAGE, Oct. 15. UP)—The
Brotherhood of the Alaska railroad
have prepared and sent complaints to
Secretary of the Interior, Herbert
Work, to the effect the road has fail
ed to make the wage adjustments in
the department which were granted
two years ago. Leaders and employees
also declare unusually harsh penalties
are being inflicted for the infraction
of rules.
PATROL OF NICARAGUA
PANAMA, Oct. 15. (/?)—'The United
States cruiser Rochester arrived last
night from Nicaragua. Admiral Lat
timer reported an order for re-estab
lish of the Eastern coast of the Re
public commerce had been resumed.
The cruiser Galveston remained to pa
trol the neutral zone in Nicaraguan
waters.
RESOLUTION DEMANDING RECALL
OF GOVERNOR HARTLEY ADOPTED
BY THOUSANDS SEATTLE POLK
HUNDRED REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS OF
WASHINGTON STATE WILL BE APPOINTED AS
COMMITTEE—RESOLUTION SAID GOVERNOR
WILLFULLY DISREGARDED HIS OATH, OFFICE
PROFESSOR MILLER REJECTS THE PRESIDENCY
Reverand Mathews Announces Similar Chaos Marked
Texas University but U. of Wn. “Shall Not be Texized.”
—Hartley Unlawfully and Shamelessly Attempted
Obtain Personal Control Board of Regents
SEATTLE, Oct. 15. (TP)—Four thousand persons un
animously adopted a resolution demanding the recall of
i Governor Hartley and directed Chairman Worrall Wil
lson, Seattle banker to appoint a committee of not less
| than a hundred representative citizens of the state.
The resolution said the governor “willfully disre
garded his oath of office to respect and guar^ the rights
of legislature and judicial branches of the state when he
sought to compel the legislature to accept an arbitrary
plan to dismember and disorganize the entire education
al system. He betrayed the people of the state and will
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fully and maliciously sought to wrest
legislative power from the state’s
duly elected representatives of the
people in the legislature assembly.
He unlawfully and shamelessly at
tempted to obtain personal control of
our board of regents and the entire
state school system. He is justly
charged in his inordinate lust for!
political power with violating the
moral and legal intent of the Consti
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GOVERNOR ROSS ASSURES
W. C. T. 0. OF SUPPORT
CHEYENNE, Oct. 15. (^—Gover
nor Ross told the W. C. T. U. of his
support and rigid enforcement of pro
hibition if re-elected and declared he
would attempt to make the state
forces “efficient and an aid to local
Federal prohibition officers.”