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VOLUME 20. NUMBER 83
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1925
PRICE TEN CENTS
JERRY C. MURPHY
FOUND DEAD IN
* BED ANCHORAGE
Former Attorney General
4 and Deputy Marshal in
Fourth Division
(Special to The Gateway)
ANCHORAGE. Alaska. Mar. 25
Jerry C. Murphy, former attorney gen
eral of Alaska, well known in all the
mining camps of the interior in the
early days, died this morning. He was
found dead at 9 o’clock in his room
at the Anchorage Hotel, death being
caused by heart failure. Mr. Murphy
had been complaining of ill health
for the past month.
Mr. Murphy was born in North Da
kota. and was unmarried. He was
formerly deputy United States mar
shal in the Fourth division. He had
been handling the Anchorage end of
the law business of Ray & David, fol
lowing the death of Leopold David a
few months ago. Mr. Murphy was a
member of the Knights of Columbus,
and the B. P. O. E. in Anchorage, and
had been a leader in Territorial poli
tics for the Democratic party for sev
eral years. His brother, P. A. Murphy
is now a resident of Anchorage, a- pa
tient at the government hospital, con
fined by injuries received in the yards
* of the Alaska railroad.
Mr. Murphy was a very likable man
with a fund of anecdote of early days.
He visited in Seward about a week
or two ago. The Elks will probably
have charge of the funeral services.
KASSON TAKING
ALASKA PICTURES
TACOMA, Mar. 25.—Kasson and his
9r dogs, including Balto, have gone to
Mt. Rainier, waiting for a blizzard to
re-enact the antitoxin run, under the
direction of Colin Campbell of the
Principal Pictures Corporation. This
picture is intended as an educational
movie.
Canada’s Exports Exceeds
Her Imports Last Year
OTTAWA, Mar. 25.—Canada sold
^ $203,414,520 more produce last year
than she bought. Minister of Finance
Robb announced in his annual report.
TRAIN WRECK IN ’
‘ FRANCE KILLS 7
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PARIS. Mar. 25.—Seven persons are
dead, including one senator from the
Pyranees, and 50 hurt, when sever
coaches on the Bordeaux express were
derailed near Paris. Three coaches
fell in the river, and were half sub
merged, the passengers climbing oul
of the windows.
Moroccan soldiers, whose unit is
called “The Joyous,” because all have
police records, displayed great brav
ery in effective rescue work.
One boy was drowned in his moth
er’s arms as the rescuers reachec
them.
PANSIES BLOOM IN SEWARD
John Gilpatrick brought into the
The Gateway office a full blown pan
sy, picked outdoors at his home. The
warm sun causes the flowers to spring
up within a few' days after the snov
melts.
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DEER FOUND NEAR TENAKEE
v The carcasses of tw'elve deer whicl
died from starvation wrere found ii
.the vicinity of Tenakee this w’eek
Admiral Bernard and Major Fei
guson in recent speeches in Londoi
warned of the Japanese menace ii
* the Pacific.
judge Imposes Penalty
of Spanking on Truants
KANSAS CITY, Mar. 25.—An old-j
fashioned spanking was the penalty;
imposed in the Juvenile court here to
day on two 14-year old boys who play
ed “hookey.” Judge Mead used a rod
made of a wrapped congressional re
cord, and said, “That’s the first real
use I ever found for the congressional
record.”
INVESTIGATION
AMERICAN FARMS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 25.— j
Sixteen senators requested the Fed
eral Trade Commission to supply in
formation “in regard to the nature of
combinations being formed abroad by
American business, commercial and
financial firms, in violation of the anti
trust law.” The investigators are ask
ed to especially ascertain if American
goods are sold cheaper to foreigners
as a means of maintaining prices in
the United States. The signers are
Ladd, Fletcher, Frazier, Howell, Her
reld, Kendrick, King, LaFollette, May
field, McMaster, McKellar, McNary,
Shepherd, Shipstead and Wheeler,
nearly all democrats or La Follette
supporters.
ALLEGED INSANE OFFICER
GIVEN LEAVE TO GO HOME
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 25 —
(AP).—Lieutenant Frank E. Kenne
dy who was brought here alter he
was found insane in California was
granted leave for a month from the
naval hospital to visit relatives in
Cleveland, Ohio, his home.
Navy Does Its Stuff
Off San Pedro, Calif.
ABOARD THE U. S. S. CON
CORD, San Pedro. Cal., Mar. 25.—
(AP).—Eleven of the mightiest of
American sea fortresses in their
annual force practice belched flame
and steel for six continuous min
utes and was said to be the most
terrible demonstration in the his
tory of the Pacific ocean simulating
in battle.
EXPLOSIONHURLS
400 LB. ANCHOR
OVER BUILDINGS
Oxygen Blast Ignites Oil in
200-Foot Barge, Eight
Deaths Resulting
HAMBURG. Germany, Mar. 25
Eight persons were killed and three
injured in an explosion today on the
oil lighter, Saturn, attributed to oil
left in the boat, when it was being
cleaned out for repairs, and ignited by
an oxygen blast.
The lighter, over 200 feet long, was
torn apart, and an anchor weighing
400 pounds was hurled over the roofs
of several adjoining buildings. One
body was thrown several hundred feet
falling on a roof.
JAPANESE EXPEL SINCLAIR
INTERESTS FROM SAGHALIEN
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 25.—
■ Japanese military authorities have ex
; pelled the Sinclair Oil Company rep
’ resentatives from Saghalien. The State
department has ignored the incident
stating that American nationals entei
Russian territory under their own risl
i and can look from no help from
i government if they get in trouble
Ernest Peerson, 7 year old boy o
- Jasper, Ore., flagged a passengei
i train when a slide of rock and eartl
l covered the track. The train was
stopped without accident.
POISON SET OUT
FOR DOGS KILLS
PETERSBURG GIRL
Crows and Gulls Eat Poison
ed Meat and Die—Used
to Protect Deer
PETERSBURG, Alaska, Mar. 25.—
An autopsy is being performed by Dr.
Rogers on the body of Annie Thomas,
aged 9, who died at the Indian village
of Kake, Kopreanof Island. The Na
tive Council at Kake said the girl
probably ate snow contaminated with
poison set by an agent of the bialogi
cal department to kill dogs which had
been chasing starving deer.
A number of dogs, crows and sea
gulls were killed by the poisoned
meat.
WOODLOCK NAMED COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 25.—,
President Coolidge gave Thomas F.
Woodlock of New York a recess ap
pointment on the commerce commis
sion.
NEW TERMINAL
ADMIRAL LINE
BE OPEN SOON
i SEATTLE: Alaska shippers will
be considerably benefited with the do
i ing away of transfer charges between
various docks in Seattle upon the corn
i pietion of the new Admiral Oriental
! Line Terminal, Pacific Steamship Co.,
| the latter part of March,
The new Terminal will accommodate
; the Admiral-Oriental Line, the Cali
| fornia and Alaska Lines and the Pan
j ama-Pacific Lines in the latter’s con
inection with east coast shippers to
| Alask and other west coast ports.
The Terminal is at the foot of Con
i necticut street. It will be five stories
i high and will house all offices of the
[ company except ticket offices which
will be continued up town. Most of
; the offices at the present time and
I for some time past have been main
tained in the L. C. Smith building, the
j entire fifth floor being used, while
various other offices have been main
I tained in different vicinities uptown
! and on the waterfront.
A 1500 foot pier is being extended
■ from the Terminal and will provide
i accommodations for the entire fleet
of the Admiral Line.
Recently the Pacific Steamship Co.
opened its new ticket office opposite
the Olympia hotel, having moved from
the first office floor in the L. C.
Smith building. The office is one of
the best equipped and most attractive
offices in Seattle, and its opening day
| to the public attracted much attention.
MAN GOES ON TRIAL
TAXICAB MURDER
SEATTLE, Mar. 25.—Elmer Man
hart, a carpenter, went on trial Mon
day for the murder of Lillian Helen
Motley, in a taxicab on Capitol Hill
February 1, was convicted last night
of second degree murder and given
life imprisonment. Manhart on the
stand admitted the genuineness of the
letter he wrote to Lillian from Los
! Angeles, urging her not to return tc
her husband, C. J. Morley, an auto
mobile man who lives at Victoria with
their two children. Manhart admitted
that he paid the woman $20 a week
. and testimony showed that she was
trying to break off her relations with
, Manhart, who testified vaguely as tc
his whereabouts and activities at the
time of the tragedy.
Special machine gun automobiles
i for riot duty have been added tc
; the equipment of the Berlin police
force.
Man Injured When Rock
Hurled Through Window
SEATTLE, Mar. 25.—Philip Peter
son, 50, was critically injured today
when a rock dislodged by an explo
sion was hurled through a trolley car
window as it was passed over the via
duct. Two veins in his neck w*ere
cut by broken glass and he nearly
bled to death before medical aid could
be secured.
FERGUSON TAKES
GOLD OUT KORUK
NOME: Fred Johnson, who arrived
last week from the vicinity of Shang
nak on the Kobuk river, had some in
teresting reports on the operations in
the vicinity of California creek and
Dahl Creek, both tributaries to the
Kobuk, which flows into Kotzebue
Sound.
The two creeks according to Mr.
I Johnson, are very rich and he says
that on California creek, Frank Fergu
son and his partners took out $40,000
in one month and behind them one
man rocked out $200 in four clays from
their tailings. This cleanup was made
on one piece of ground 100 feet long
after the men had worked all summer
making ready for the operations.
Since the freezeup the proprietors
of the California Creek layout have
been freighting in lumber for con
struction and will continue operations
the whole eight miles, the length of
the creek which they control.
Mr. Johnson has a lay on Dahl
Creek and has spent the past season
in preparatory work for next season,
putting in ditches, etc. Mr. Johnson
took out pieces of gold from his prop
erty weighing up to 18 ounces and
worth $300, as have also the Califor
nia creek men taken out some nug
gets worth $250 each.
SHISMAREF CELEBRATES
HOLIDAYS IN GREAT STYLE
NOME: Peter Bloomberg, who ar
| rived here this week, says that he has
| made at late trip to Shismaref, arriv
j ing there the day after Christmas to
| find the natives busy celebrating the
i holidays, which lasted the whole week,
j On tha 26th a reindeer race was stag
; ed by the Natives, which occasioned
a great deal of interest. The follow
ing day the natives held dog races,
1 and on the following day the native
j women had dog races in which nine
. teams entered. The boys and girls
1 also had dog races. The nightly en
| tertainment at the school house con
I sisted of high kicking, high jumping
| and other athletics stunts with a tug
I of war as a conclusion.
i
Murderess Faints
In Court Corridor
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Mar. 25.
— (AP).—Dorothy Ellingson, the 16
year-old girl who killed her Mother
rather than forgo a jazz party, faint
ed in the stone corridor as the court
adjourned at noon today. Her mur
der trial was called for this after
noon.
Her father repeatedly kissed her
as he and court attendants worked
for several minutes before she show
ed signs of animation.
Superintendent Prisons
To Succeed Heber Votaw
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 25.—
Luther C. White, of Massachusettts,
was appointed superintendent of pris
ons today to succeed Heber Votawr, a
brotherinlaw of former President W.
1 G. Harding, who resigned.
A portrait of Crispus Attucks,
killed in the “Boston Massacre” in
i 1779, the first negro to die in the
» struggle for independence, was un
i veiled at the colored press club in
Washington.
BILL INTRODUCED
WOULD WIPE OUT •
ALL FISH TRAPS
Tax Levied on Various Spe
cies of Salmon Taken
in Fish Traps
(Special to The Gateway)
JUNEAU, Mar. 25—A bill said to
be designed to wipe out fish traps in
the Territory was introduced in the
House yesterday by Representative
Paul of Ketchikan. The bill provides
for levying a tax on all fish taken
in traps, as follows:
For each humpback, 1 cent; each
chum and dog salmon, 2 cents; coho,
2 1-2 cents; red salmon and sockeye,
5 cents; and kings, 10 cents.
A rap was taken by the legislature
at Governor Bone for the appointment
several months ago of R. J. Summers
as Territorial Highway Engineer, by
Senate Bill No. 9, introduced by Sen
ators Brown of the Second and Dunn
of the Fourth divisions. The appoint
ment was made under the provisions
| of Section 1, Chapter 92, laws of 1923.
The Senate bill declares that the ap~
i pointment was made prematurely, as
the law was intended to be operative
“until the provisions of the Federal
Highway Act were made applicable
to Alaska in some form.’’ The meas
ure further provides that no engineer
shall be appointed or paid until the
Federal Act is so extended.
Senator Aldrich introduced a bill
at the request of the Ketchikan Cham'
ber of Commerce authorizing incorpo
rated towns to levy special assess
ments for street and sewer improve
ments, levying against the property
benefited directly.
16 Thousand Trusted
to Bookkeeper Stolen
| SEATTLE, Mar. 25.—L. S. Brock*
| way, a bookkeeper, was arrested on
i a charge of embezzling $16,000 given
i to suburbanites to pay their taxes.
| The police said that Brockway con*
! fessed to taking S40.000 to buy oil
stocks.
OSLO, Narwav, Mar. 25.—The
storthing approved permitting Amund
sen the use of the naval transport,
Farm, for his Polar expendition, in*
volving an additional expenditure of
j previously scheduled to go to Spitz*
| only 25,000 kroner. The Farm was
j bergen on a scientific expedition.
—
A. C. Goss Reported Safe
Arrival At Unaslaka
UNALASKA, Alaska, Mar. 25—The
schooner Everett %Hays, for which
great anxiety has been felt, piloted by
A. C. Goss, called “the King of Atka
Island,” where he raises blue and sil
ver gray foxes, arrived here Monday.
ANTI-KLANSMEN
FINED RIOTING
WARREN, 0„ Mar. 25—Twenty-nine
residents of Niles, all anti-Klansmen,
pleaded guilty to rioting November 19,
at the time of the November Tri-state
Klan Klonkave and were fined $300
each with $250 of the amount suspend
ed for good behavior, if the $50 fine
were paid by Friday. The court said,
“Go back to Niles and live as Ameri
can citizens should. Let the Klan pa
rade whenever it wishes and it will
wear itself out in time.”
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