VOLUME XX. NUMBER 287.
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS._w
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1925.
PRICE TEN CENTS
SEVEN MEN LOST
IN TIDAL RIPS
NEAR VICTORIA
VICTORIA, Oct. 20. (/P)—Fourteen
power vessels are searching the wat
ers off the west coast of Bentinch is
land. ten miles west of Victoria, for
seven men who were hurled into the
sea with twenty-seven others, when
the tug Hope collided with the “Sal
vage Queen, and sank in the vicious
tide rips off Race Rocks.
Twenty-seven were rescued, the mis
sing men all being Victorians.
The Hope was carrying the men to
work on the night shift, lightering the
cargo off the steamer Eemdyk, which
stranded Wednesday in the fog. The
Salvage Queen was standing-by the
Eemdyk, fighting the fourteen knot
tide which was running off Race Rock.
The Hope headed for the Queen but
was caught in the tide and pivoted
around striking the Queen head on,
the impact throwing the vessel back
eight feet. The Hope was then tos
sed under the stern of the stranded
vessel, which extended into the tide
rips, and listed to starboard, filling
with water, and sinking within two
minutes after the collission.
Some of the men aboard the Hope
grabbed the anehor cable of the Eem
«lyk; others were rescued by lifeboats
which were sent out to pick up th
survivors.
Fred Sterling, a survivor, said, “I
remember seeing tvro men swept away
from us in the rips. I am afraid
they are gone.” One man wras in the
water an hour before he was carried
to the island by the rips.
TWO KILLED BY FALL
CONCRETE, Wash., Oct. 20. (£>)—
Irvin H. Jones of Hartford and Earl
Gilker, of Fort Fairfield, Maine, were
killed and two others possibly fatally
injured Sunday at the Stone & Web
ster hydroelectric project, when the
cable across the canyon, carrying the
bucket in which, they were riding,
broke, plunging them over one hundre
feet to the ground below.
NEGRO CREW ON LINER
STAMPEDE DURING FIRE
NEW YORK. Oct. 20. (£>)—'The New
York World today said that last Wed
nesday, the negro crew of the liner
Comache, which burned, stampeded
wildly before the flames pulling pas
sengers out of lifeboats and precipi
tating men and women into the sea,
acording to stories of the thirty sur
vivors.
DEATH OF LOS ANGELES
WOMAN BEING INVESTIGATED
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 20. (£>)—Mrs.
Craig Biddle, wife of the millionaire
philanthropist and sportsman, is dead,
and the coroner and police have a
mystery on their hands.
Her body was found in a fashionable
apartment where she had been living
for some time past. Her husband,
who has been living apart from her,
ordered the body sent to an undertak
er and the embalming commenced.
Police received an anonymous mes
sage stating that Mrs. Biddle had com
mitted suicide, so they have stopped
the embalming. An autopsy was
started to determine the cause of hei
death, the first results of the autopsj
indicating that her death may have
been due to alcoholism, but doctors
are now awaiting the full report before
issuing the death certificate.
Mr. Biddle and his wife’s doctoi
are of the opinion heart trouble was
the cause of her death, but the police
still continue their inquiry.
PLEADS NOT GUILTY
NANIMO, Oct. 20. (#>)—'William M
Bagley pleaded not guilty to the banl
robbery charges today, and will stanc
trial October 27.
ALASKA WEEK CELEBRATED
SEATTLE, Oct. 20. (;P)—The closing
of Alaska Week was celebrated by ex
ercises commemorating the 58th anni
versary of the purchase of Alaska Ter
ritory from the Russians, conducted
at the foot of William Henry Seward
statue in Volunteer Park, under the
joint auspices of the Young Men’s
Business Club and the Alaska Bureau
of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce.
Prof. Edmond S. Meany of the Uni
versity of Washington and Charles D.
Garfield, spoke.
GALE IN CORDOVA
MOVES BUILDING
OVER SIX FEET
CORDOVA, Oct. 20. (JP)—A terrif
ic gale Saturday night moved the na
tive school building six feet, destroy
ed the baseball grandstand, removed
the scaffolding from around the new
high school! building, broke mVny win
dows in town, and falling trees tore
down the telephone wires.
HAL G. EVARTS NOW IN STATES
SEATTLE, Oct. 20. (£>)—Hal G. Ev
arts, famous writer on outdoor sub
jects is here en route to his home at
Hutchinson, Kansas, after six months
trip in Alaska, searching for writing
material.
Evarts said Alaska’s main drawback
as a tourist mecca is the lack of trans
portation facilities. He said “Both
going and coming the boats are crowd
ed to the limit, with many people left
behind of account of lack of space. I
waited three weeks to secure sailing
j accommodations.”
RESERVE FOR INDUSTRIAL
SCHOOL NEAR NOME
SEATTLE, Oct. 20. (/P)—Headquar
ters of the United States Bureau of
Education received orders from Pres
ident Coolidge creating a reserve of
twelve hundred acres at White Moun
tain, eight miles from Nome in connec
tion with the development of a mod
j ern system industrial school for the
education of native Eskimos and in
dians from the' far outposts of Alaska.
Two like schools are already estab
lished at Eklutna and Kanakanak.
BASEBALL
Oct. 17.
San Francisco 18, Oakland 1.
Sacramento 1, Salt Lake 5.
Los Angeles 1, Vernon 7.
Seattle, Portland, fog.
Oct. 18.
Seattle, 2-2, Portland 0-8.
Los Angeles 2-2, Vernon 1-4.
San Francisco 8-13, Oakland 7-2.
Sacramento 4-12, Salt Lake 18-9.
Team Standings
W . L Pc
San Francisco _128 71 .643
Salt Lake _116 84 .531
Los Angeles .105 93 .53C
Portland _ 92 100 .46S
Oakland _ 88 112 .44C
Sacramento _ 82 119 .405
Vernon _ 80 120 .40(
STOKES GETS DIVORCE
NEW YORK, Oct. 20. (/P)—'The dis
trict court granted James Grahan
Stokes a divorce from Rose Piastei
Stokes, who rose from a poverty-strick
en immigrant girl to a leader of the
socialist party. Rose is accused o1
misconduct with a hotel manager bj
name of Grossman.
TAKE PAYROLL
CHICAGO, Oct. 20. (fP)—Six heav
ily armed men robbed the West Pull
man works of the International Har
. vester Company, obtaining forty-five
: thousand dollars cash and escaping
1 Two former employes have been ar
rected.
PROSPECTORS OF
CASSIARONWAY
OUT FOR WINTER
WRANGELL, Oct. 20. (#)—1The last
boat of the season came down the Sti
kina from the Cassiar, arriving with a
full list of passengers including min
ers, engineers and prospectors who
are going south for the winter. The
miners exhibited coarse gold nuggets
valued at seven thousand five hundred
and ninety dollars.
William Grady, the discoverer of the
new placer camp, brought out two
hundred and forty-two ounces of gold
after 53 days working on his claim.
He stated he did much dead work this
season and did not undertake to make
a real showing this season. The area
of his claim is forty-seven bygone hun
dred and five feet, worked with a pick
and shovel. He made no effort to fol
low the pay streak, as it was not his
intention to gut the claim.
Fifty of the prospectors left on the
Prince Charles for Vancouver and Se
attle, Grady going to Vancouver.
Many stated they would be back in
the spring, Grady and a number of
others planning to go in over the ice
before the opening of navigation.
STOCK MARKET
SHOWS GAINS SAT.
NEW YORK, Oct. 19. (£>)—'The stock
market was flooded with buying Sat
urday overcoming the collapse of final
hour trading the day before, setting
a furious pace. General Motors is
reassuming leadership among the in
dustrials, which have gained one to
five points. New York Central went
to 126 3-8, the highest since 1910. Gen
eral Motors, after climbing back to one
hundred and thirty and a half, broke
to 127 3-4.
EXCURSION YACHT SINKS
MI AMT, Oct. 20. (/P)—The fate of
between sixty and seventy persons
who were on board the small excur
sion yacht Clara, when it sprang a
leak and sank near Melbourne, Fla.,
this afternoon is in grave doubt. Late
tonight fourteen bodies are reported
to have already been recovered and if
is feared many others lost their lives
The Clara is said to have turned ovei
in Sebastian Inlet during a severe
storm and to have gone down in a
few seconds carrying down with hei
many helpless pasengers. Among the
dead were several women and child
ren.
THE POWER OF THE PRESS
WAS HALTED.
One minute following the switch
ing on of the electric lights this af
ternoon, the machinery in the Gate
way plant was set in motion, turn
ing out the first paper to have beei
published since Saturday, due to th<
power* plant line being put out o
commission by the Sunday nigh
storm. Give us four hours running
time and you will read this tonight
perhaps.
WASHINGTON—Secretary Andrew:
approved the appointment of T. Berg
■ feld as deputy administrator of Alas
• ka it is reported.
WASHINGTON—A supreme cour
decision granting new trials in nar
cotic cases makes it impossible fo
prohibition or other federal agents t
make search or seizure in a hom
without a warrant unless arrest i
made on the premises.
DETROIT—A1 Walters, Chicago at
tomobile drivdr was seriously injure
when his auto went through a fenc
in a race at the fair grounds.
INDIANS END BALL SEASON
SEATLE. Oct. 20. (/P)—1The Seattle
Indians ended the 1925 season after
fog caused four games to be called off
this week. Fred Lucas, pitcher, who
is called Seattle’s handy man, has play
ed every position on the team, since
the first game this season, without
making an error. He started out in
the outfield and ended in the pitcher’s
box. After he received a watch from
a jeweler, as a token for his good sup
port to the Indians this year, he bat
ted out a home-run.
MITCHELL WILL
FACE COURT
MARTIAL, 28TH
_
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 20. (£>)
—A general court martial has been or
dered to convene nere October 2$, to
try Colonel William Mitchell, charged
with violation of the 96th Article of
War. President Coolidge directed the
issuance of the order. Major Gener
al Charles P. Summerall, commanding
the Second Army Corps, has been ap
pointed president.
BIG TIMBER DEAL
PORTLAND. Oct. 20. —The trans
fer of the mills and timber of the Pope
Talbot interests, pioneer operators of
Washington, to the McCormick Inter
ests of San Francisco has been com
pleted. Robert Smith, President of
the Lumbermen’s Trust Company of
Portland, announced the deal was the
biggest in many years, and said it in
volved twenty million dollars.
MAIL ROBBERS CAPTURED
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 20 ($>)—JVith
the arrest yesterday of a third alleged
member of the robber gang that last
Thursday held up and looted a United
States mail truck here, police and pos
tal inspectors are confident that a few’
more days will see the entire band
behind the bars.
FOOTBALL
LINCOLN, Neb., Oct. 17, (/P)—After
George Wilson, halfback had tied the
score with a touchdown during the last
quarter, which George Guttormsen, the
quarterback failed to convert, the
game ended, Nebraska 6, Washington
6. The cornhuskers scored after re
covering a fumble. Rhodes faking a
plunge, passed to Mandery who ran
around the husky right for a touch
down for Washington. The score
followed an exchange of punts giving
the Huskies the ball on their forty
yard line. Patton ran seventeen;
Guttormsen, egiht, and Wilson made
thirty-five in four runs, the last cross
ing the line.
New Haven—Pennsylvania 16, Yale
13.
New oYrk—Army 27, Notre Dame 0.
Los Angeles—First period Stanford
• nothing, California nothing, Stanford
1 touchdown second period,
i Pullman—Washington State 0, Idaho
E nothing.
t Montana 14, Gonzaga 14.
J Oregon 13, Pacific 0.
Washington State 6, University of
Idaho 7.
Oregon Agri. College 62, Whitman 0.
i Stanford 13, University Southern
- California 9.
Saint Marys 0, California 6.
University Freshman 20, Ellensburg
Normal 6.
t
Stand Falls, 62 Injured
r WASHINGTON, Oct. 17. Sixty
> two spectators were injured, several
5 seriously, when the bleachers of the
3 college field collapsd during the Wash
ington and Jefferson Carnegie Tech
football game. Fifteen Hundred spec
.- tators were stamping their feet, the
I vibration being too much for the stand
3 precipitating the spectators into Cat
fish creek. Troopers quelled the panic
STARR ARRIVES
FROM WEST‘ARD
DEPARTS SOUTH
GOES TO SEATTLE FOR ANNUAL
OVERHAULING — RESUMES
RUN IN NOVEMBER.
Completing a round trip to the
Westward in fourteen days, the S.S.
Starr, Captain O. A. Johansen, of
the San Juan Fishing & Packing
Company, arrived in port Sunday af
ternoon at 4:45 w'ith a capacity list
of reservations. The vessel also
brought a few tons of freight to Sew
ard, but had on board a considerable
cargo of codfish, stockfish, salmon
and herring, -which is being taken to
Seattle direct. The Starr departed
for Seattle Monday at noon, with
a fair number of reservations.
Arriving from the Westward the
Starr had the following passengers
aboard from:
Pribilof Islands and Cnalaska—A.
M. Alexander, A. S. Jones, Wm. On
stad, B. A. Fantz, Wm. Syphert, Wm.
Hill, Carl Schreiber, Stan. Heiber
lein, Ed Mowre, Sigurd Halverscu
and family.
Sanak—Andrew Koso and Mary
Koso, Mrs. Harris, August Carlson.
King Cove—Dr. and Mrs. W. A.
Brands.
Kanatak—Phil. B. Reed, Jack Chea
tham, Jack Mason, Fred Mason, Chas.
Madsen, Frances Le Mar, Dr. H.
Johnson, Nel* Sorby, Kob’t
Hank Russel, Dick Tousley.
Kodiak—Mrs. J. F. Coffey.
SeldoviaE. D. Calvin, Axel Ander
son, Rob’t Anderson, Florence An
derson, Polly Renner, J. G. Turnbok
and Dr. J. J. Jensen.
Passengers from Westward points
for Seattle on the Starr were:
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Grosvold from
Sand Point, Theo. C. Vick and D. I.
Rennick from Pribilof Islands, An
drew Brandel from Kupreanof Har
bor, H. Highland and family from
Sand Point, Curtis M. Koster and
Charles M. Hawk from Kodiak, Roy
Grimes and Abe Permain from Sel
dovia, A. K. Thompson and Thorvold
Jensen from Seldovia, Louise Vanda
ma from Kanatak, Frank Dresbach,
from Seldovia, H. Martin from Ti
galda Island, Mrs. T. Hayes and
Florence Haves from Seldovia, Miss
Hilda Arvidson, Seldovia; Mrs. Eck
holm, and family, Mrs. Curtis and
Mrs. O. A. Johansen.
According to Captain Johansen, the
Starr will be off the Seattle ways,
where she will receive her annual
overhauling, prior to November 5,
this date being the approximate sail
ing time out of Seattle for Seward,
resuming her run to the Westward
about November 13. On the north
bound trip from Seattle all cargo
space is already sold, it is stated.
ALASKA SAILS FOR
NORTHSATURDAY
—
The steamship Alaska sailed from
Seattle Saturday morning en route to
Seward and way ports carrying one
hundred passengers. Those listed
for Seward are:
Mrs. Leo. W. Rogge, E. Pederson, A.
Breckendridge, Dave Dunbar, F. B.
Parker, Mrs. Clara Eby, Alice Bayer,
Carrol Bayer, W. L. Johnson and wife,
J. D. Brown, wife and daughter, Mrs.
Lydia Bowen, James F. Bryson, Mrs.
John H. Flowers, J. Stewart, and three
steerage.
NEW YORK, Oct. 20. (£>)—Paul Ber
lenbacher, world’s ligjht-heavyweight
champion battered King Solomon, the
Panama heavyweight, into helpless
ness and was given the decision in the
ninth round of a ten round bout, af
ter the referee had stopped the fight.