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Let's Make a Recognized Territorial Classic of Seward’s Marathon Mountain!
Heward Bailg Gateumy
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXI, NUMBER 83
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, APRIL 13,1926.
PRICE TEN CENTS
STECK BY SMALL VOTE
BROOKHART TO RUN AGAINST
CUMMINS IN COMING
PRIMARIES.
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 13. (JP)
—The Senate unseated Senator Brook
Iiart in favor of Senator Steck by a
vote of 45 to 41, 16 republicans voting
for Steck. After the result was an
nounced, Senator Cummins of Iowa,
a colleague to Brookhart, escorted
Steck to the rostrum room where
Vice-President Dawes swore him in.
The unseating of Brookhart injects a
new issue into the state of Iowa pol
itics as he expects to run against Sen
ator Cummins in the approaching pri
mary. He will announce his candi
dacy tomorrow. For this reason, Sen
ator Cummins declined to vote in the
contest. Brookhart, who supported
LaFollette in 1924, had been serving
as Senator at the present session.
WESTWARD BOUND LIST
PASSENGERS VICTORIA
MANY STEERAGE ON THE VIC—
HOBRON AND KENAI HAS
LARGEST LISTING
Passengers on the S.S. Victoria,
which departed Sundhy afternoon from
Seward for the westward included the
following:
For Seldovia—David Buchan, Hohn
Beckman, G. M. Stephen, David Cowe,
Mrs. J. Beckman, Florence Hayes, A.
Main, Oscar Eliason, John Mitchell,
Ivan Batica, Mrs. O. Eliason and Mrs.
A. Main.
For False Pass—E. M. Brennan, Al.
Wick, Henry 0”Brien, R. H. Corbett,
Wm. Laing, Allen Haughian, Benjamin
Jack, L. F. Mund, S. Miwa, S. R. Swert
son, R. G. Corbett, C. B. Ward, Nels
Stenvaag, S. Tanaka, Pete Anderson,
John Green, W. R. Gilbert, M. Mani
zuka and 62 steerage.
For Kenai—Peter Jensen, Joe. De
Guzman, Jack Anderson, Dan McEach
ern, I. Goldstein, Peter Peterson, Ed.
Williams, George Beckett, Frank Ford
ney, Olaf Skones, O. H. Wilman, Carl
Johnson, Olaf Evertson, S. Sughihara,
Tosvald Jensen, Ralph Harbottle, T.
Johansen, Robert Fox, Victor Nilsen,
Andrew Skog, R. J. Tsvold, Wm. Kam
merman, Robert Dahl, Alf. Anderson,
E. Beck, L. Tanida, B. Dybfest, Fred
Meadowcroft, Haakon Christiansen, G.
Decker, Earling Beck, John Wester
dahl, J. J. Tsvold, E. Henderson, Geo
Jensen, Wing Hing, R. E. Frenden
stein, Hans Hansen, Ivar Olafson, G
Peterson, John DePryce, Elmer Sut
ten, Frank Swanson, Gust Johnson, E
Malmquist, Halver Haughen and 36
steerage.
For Hobron—Henry Schuppe, J
Sheppard, G. B. May, D. C. Robertson
J. Kohler, J. Saari, E. Erhlo, T. Fleet
S. Guest, J. Garrette, J. Nygard, Mrs
H. Schuppe, V. Lawrence, E. Stasen
en, J. Kennedy, C. K. Barker, T. Samp
son, C. Copeland, D. Tait, J. Scott, S
Jensen, L. Svean, J. M. Spearns, C. K
Hopp, J. Mann, C. W. Cunningham, J
Gronholm, W. Finholt, V. M. Iverson
A. T. Healthy, R. McGlacy, J. A. John
son, J. O’Brien, Mrs. J. M. Spearns
A. Stemmons, C. Askerman, A. Mahaf
fy, A. Stenberg, F. Gurley, C. Morse
A. Farquhar, V. Campbell and J. Camp
bell.
Tillman Completing Contracts
R. F. Tillman, plumber and heater
specialist, who has the contract for in
stalling the plumbing of the new Sew
ard Grill location, announces he is jus(
a step ahead of Ed. Seller’s carpentry
crew which is putting on the finishing
touches to the establishment. Mr. Till
man also has the contract for the in
stallation of plumbing in the new
beauty parlor location, in the Admiral
building. It is stated the beauty par
lor will move within -the next few
days.
The body of Eli Dehon, of Ancho
• rage, who was found dead in bed Iasi
weeft, apparently a victim of hearl
trouble, was brought over to Seward
. Saturday and shipped to Seattle where
burial services will take place in the
Mt. Pleasant cemetery.
HARRY WATSON MUST REFUND
WASHINGTON, D. C.( April 13. (/P)
—The Comptroller General, McCarl,
ruled that Harry Watson, secretary
to Gov. Parks, must refund to the Al
aska Railroad $191.76, salary paid hnh
while he was absent during the time
he attended the last Territorial Leg
islature at Juneau.
ADMIRAL WATSON SAILED AT
NOON TODAY
SEATTLE, Wn., April 13. (JP)—'The
Admiral Watson of the Pacific Steam
ship Company left here at noon today
for Seward and the Westward district.
No passenger list was available.
NEW VESSEL ENTERS
COOK INLET WATER
REGULAR MAIL RUN
CAPT. TOM PERRY ARRIVES IN
PORT FROM SEATTLE WITH
TRIM LOOKING SHIP
The finest vessel of its type ever to
have been put on the Cook Inlet pas
senger and mail run between Seldo
via, Iliamna and Anchorage, is the
Princess Pat, Capt. Tom Perry, which
arrived in port yesterday morning
from Seattle. The Princess Pat made
the run to Seward in twelve days, not
including various stops made at south
eastern Alaska ports, and left last
evening at 5 o’clock for its home port,
Seldovia.
To Seward, the vessel is no stranger
for three years ago Dr. Chase made a
brief stop here while en route to Ko
diak and westward Alaska. Sixty-five
feet long with a full beam of 13 feet
and u draft of six feet and four inches,
with its superstructure and rakish
lines, the Princess Pat presented a
splendid appearance. At first, as she
pulled into the local wharf, it was thot
it was a government vessel.
Capt. Perry states the engine is a
! 65 h.p. Standard capable of making an
! average speed of nine knots per hour,
though in the trial spin over the gov
ernment course in Lake Washington,
Seattle, it made 12 knots. The ves
sel is 27 tons net weight and 38 tons
gross. The oil tanks have a capacity
of 635 gallons and the fresh water
tanks, 200 gallons. In its two holds
26 tons of cargo can be stowed.
The Princess Pat was constructed
at Wrangell in 1919 and is built of
I ypress planks and of white oak frame,
i The original cost of the vessel is plac
: ed at $21,800 but Capt. Perry purchas
; ed it for the remarkably low sum of
1 $8,200. As far as sea-worthiness is
concerned, the captain stated he nev
er was master of a better one. Though
lots of spray was cast off not a green
sea boarded him on his way north.
The boat is modern in every respect
having passenger accommodations for
21; wash rooms, dining room, state
rooms, galley, engine room, all re
plete with conveniences, including
steam heat. The vessel will carry a
! crew of three men regularly, the cap
tain, an engineer and a deck hand.
The former owners of the craft were
four men, two of whom reside on the
Pacific Coast and two in the East.
Capt. Perry completed his purchase
with J. P. Fawcett of Los Angeles, one
of the owners and who represented his
partners, After six weeks of chasing
about Seattle and Portland, Capt. Per
ry finally concluded business with Mr.
Fawcett, fifteen minutes after Mr.
Fawcett’s arival in Seattle. Some
years ago the boat was in service in
Southeastern Alaska. Later it was
sold to the recent owners who used it
as a pleasure craft.
Announcement is made that the
boat will leave Seldovia for Anchor
age and way ports, on the fifth and
twentieth of each month. Around the
15th of each month Capt. Perry will
make a run over to Iliamna Bay. He
has obtained a contract for carrying
mail beginning on the 20th of this
month. Last fall, Capt. Perry lost
his mail boat, Salmo, which was des
troyed by fire. Next fall, Capt. Perry
will bring the vessel to Seward to
take on a cargo of oil drums from the
local Standard Oil plant. The regu
lar time schedule of the Princess Pat
will be found daily in the advertising
columns of The Gateway.
Don’t overlook the Liberty The
ater for tonight.
STEESE TO ADDRESS CLUB
SEATTLE, Wn„ April 13. (jP)-Uol.
James G. Steese, who is arriving here
today speaks before the Mining Club
tomorrow on the Alaska Road prog
ram and the widening of Wrangell
Narrows.
MAJORS OPEN TOMORROW
UNDATED, (JP).—A quarter of a mil- j
lion persons are expected to see the
opening of the major leagues tomor
row. Critics see a menace to positions
of the world champion Pittsburg Pir
ates and Washington American, the
titleholders.
POOR STATE OF AFFAIRS
TOWN SIZE OF SEWARD
WITHOUT A HOSPITAL
Speaking of the local situation with
respect to lack of hospital conditions
N. J. Nicholson, who has been in the
service of the Episcopal church erect
ing buildings in Alaska for the past
four years, stated prior to his depar
ture for the Interior yesterday morn
ing, that he feels quite certain if a
committee waits upon Bishop Rowe,
upon his arrival in June, some kind
of action would no doubt be forthcom
ing.
Mr. Nicholson recognized the impor
tance of the necessity of having a hos
pital at this seaport, more so, he be
lieved than in other localities which
he has visited. He thought it was
a dreadful state of affairs for a town
the size of Seward to be without a
hospital.
AVIATION BILL PASSED
WASHINGTON, D. C.( April 13. (JP)
—The Bingham-Parker bill to develop
commercial aviation passed the House
and was later approved by the Sen
ate but in slightly different form than
was sent to the conference.
PUSS DISTRICT GETS
UNDER WAY YESTERDAY
MAINTENANCE ON SECTION NO. 3
EXPECTED TO BEGIN WITH
IN A FEW WEEKS.
Little is yet known of the activities
of the Bureau of Public Roads de
partment in this district for the com
ing season but local officials are un
der the impression work on section
No. 4, Moose Pass, an 8.2 mile proj
ect will be launched shortly. Provid
ing this project is sanctioned about 50
men will find employment on it. Sec
tion No. 4 goes to Sunrise on Tuma
gain Arm.
There already is a survey of 9 1-2
miles between Sunrise and Hope, an
entirely separate project which comes
under a different head. However,
this road would connect up with the
Hope-Palmer creek road, 12 1-2 miles,
running up to near the Alaska Hills
Minerals Company’s quartz properties.
The total length from Mile 29, on the
Alaska Railroad would be approxi
mately 59 miles. Section No. 3, will
probably be resurfaced or at least a
part of it, this summer. This work
should begin within the next few
weeks and about 15 men will be em
ployed.
John Olson, contractor, with a crew
of about ten men, will be moving into
the field this week to start taking out
the larger timber. Two bridges are
yet to be completed, one at Donaldson
creek and the other at Frenchy creek.
The latter, located at Mile 6 1-2, at
Moose Pass, will have a 70-foot span.
The Donaldson creek bridge, at Mile
27 1-2, Moose Pass, is to have about
a 140-foot trestle erected.
MILAN STILL, KODIAK FARMER
EN ROUTE TO STATE
Milan Still, one of the most pro
gressive of Kodiak homesteaders, is
back in Seward en route to the
States once again, on one of his an
nual visits to his family in Washing
ton. This time, Mr. Still wil so to
Washington, D. C., on business per
taining to trap inventions. He looks
forward to his family returning to Al
aska with him in a fe*r months which
will make his happiness complete.
Weekly Gateway—3 per year.
P. S. S. CO. LINER COMPLETES ITS
FIRST VOYAGE WESTWARD
THIS SEASON
Completing its first voyage to the
westward this season the Admiral
Evans, Capt. S. Glass, of the Pacific
Steamship Company, arrived in port
this morning. A small listing of pas
sengers is on the vessel, the majority
of them disembarking here. The trip
west was quite pleasant and according
to the officers, weather conditions re
minded them of California which run
the vessel was recently transferred
from. The Evans will depart tomor
row evening for the south following
the arrival of the train from the In
terior.
i Passengers for Seward and other
ports included:
For Seattle^-Miss Bess and Miss
Grace M. Lloyd and one steerage.
For Ketchikan—Mrs. J. Herbert,
G. Mettelin. v
For Juneau—One steerage.
For Cordova—C. E. Bryan.
For Latouche—One steerage.
For Seward—J. J. Meherin, A. A.
Humphrey, J. L. Waller, Hugh P. Al
len, H. Olson, K. Strand and G. Strand.
LADIES AID MEETING
The Ladies Aid will meet tomorrow
afternoon at 2 o’clock in the basement
of the Methodist church.
OPEN FOR BID
Bids for the auditing of the City
books will be received at the City
Clerk’s office until 5 p. m., Monday,
April 19. Same to be opened at 8 p. m.
in the Council chambers.
Mrs. J. E. Nelson, pulse and card
reader, who has been in the Interior,
was among those passing thru Sew
ard Saturday. Mrs. Nelson is on her
way to Juneau where she has resided
for a number of years.
Siguard Wallstedt, district deputy
1 supreme dictator of the Loyal Order
! of Moose, who had been making a sur
j vey of the various lodges along the
I railroad, left Saturday for Cordova on
the S.S. Alaska.
Mrs. E. Thatcher, wife of the rail
roader departed for Ketchikan Satur
day.
Miss Cuba Wheatley and Miss Ma
rie Adams, vaudeville artists who
completed a week’s engagement at the
Liberty theater Saturday night, were
southbound departures on the S.S. Al
aska.
Mrs. R. E. Dool and daughter, Doris,
wife of the manager of the Pioneer
Steam Laundry of Anchorage, were
among the passengers on the S.S. Al
aska out of Seward Saturday night.
N. Kitsmiller, former chief of po
! lice of Anchorage, departed for Seat
j tie Saturday on the steamer Alaska.
—
Jack Burford, Alaska representative
for L. C. Smith and Corona typewrit
ers and add machines, passed through
Seward Saturday en route to his Ju
jneau office.
Two work trains and a steam shovel
I will arrive in Seward soon to begin
shoveling out gravel from Lowell creek
for use in ballasting the long piece
of track which is being graded for the
| bridge approach. It is expected there
will be from 35 to 50 men employed
on the job.
Louis Niesson, fox rancher of Seldo
via, was on the mail boat Princess
Pat which arrived in port yesterday
from Seattle. Mr. Niesson contiiiued
on to Seldovia with the vessel.
Funeral services for Miss Amy Hos
ier, Fairbanks girl who passed away
in a Seattle hospital two weeks ago,
will be held in Anchorage tomorrow.
Mrs. D. J. Hosier arrived in Seward
Friday with the body on the S.S. Alas
ka leaving yesterday morning.
The halibut schooner Yukon arrived
in port last night from the fishing
banks.
PASSAGE OF BILL DUBIOUS
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 13. (£>)
—The Senate Commerce Commission
reported on the Cummins Railroad Bill
to enforce a railroad consolidation af
ter an experimental period. Passage
of the bill at this session is declared
as dubious.
SPANISH AIRPLANE LOCATED
CAIRO, Egypt, April 13. (J-P)—Brit
ish airmen found the Estevez airplane {
intact, 100 miles from Amman with a
note, saying that Estevez and his!
mechanician were proceeding to Am
man afoot.
BASEBALL
Hollywood 1, San Francisco 2.
(14 inning's)
Other teams on the road.
BISHOP ROWE EXPECTED
ARRIVE SEWARD JUNE
SAYS N. J. NICHOLSON
—
The construction of the St. Mark’s !
Episcopal mission and church at Ne
nana will begin immediately upon the
arrival of N. J. Nicholson, well known
Alaskan contractor, who left Seward
yesterday morning for the Interior.
During the interview with The Gate
way, Mr. Nicholson stated he has spent
28 years in Alaska, during which time
he built half of Nome, most of the
buildings at St. Michael, churches and
missions up and down the Interior riv
ers, also much work in Southeastern
Alaska, his latest in the Panhandle
area being the completion of the $50,-1
000 hospital at Wrangell, for the Town \
of Wrangell.
The Nenana mission and church will
call for an expenditure of at least $30,-;
000 he said, and will be fully com
pleted by the time the snow flies, next!
winter. He expects to have about 20
men on the job all summer. Like the
mission he constructed last summer,
at Fort Yukon, he will again set up j
his own sawmill, cut his own logs and!
lumber, the mission is to be of rustic
construction, and hop to it. The struc
ture will house 50 children. Four dor
mitories will be located on the upper j
floor, also a club room. Living quar-j
ters for the staff, and several other:
rooms, fourteen in all, will take up
the main floor. The building will be
modern in every respect.
Construction of the church will not
start until the mission building is com
pleted. One of the features of the
church will be the huge bell which
was shipped up from Juneau some time
ago. The bell alone cost approximate
ly $850, it is stated.
Mr. Nicholson was under the im
pression the Rt. Rev. Peter Trimble
Rowe, Bishop of Alaska, who at pres
ent is in Seattle, would arrive in Sew
ard or Nenana about the first part of
June.
C. E. Bryan, well known fur buyer
from Cordova who annually makes
trips to the far westward and interior
Alaska points, returned to Seward this
morning a passenger on the Admiral
Evans.
J. J. Meherin and A. A. Humphrey,
salesmen, arrived in Seward this
morning from the westward. They
are guests at the Van Gilder.
J. L. Waller, U. S. district attorney,
who has been over at Kodiak on offi
cial business for the past week, re
turned this morning on the Admiral
Evans. Mr. Waller departs for his
Anchorage office Thursday.
Hugh P. Allen, territorial officer
was among the arrivals in town this
morning from Kodiak. He is prohibi
tion agent connected with suppression
of liquor among Indians.
PUBLIC CARD PARTY TONIGHT
Tonight at Odd Fellows hall, the
public is extended an invitation to
attend the Jefferson Day bridge and
whist pEfty which will be held under
the auspices of the Seward Woman’s
club. A musical prograjn has been
prepared and during the evening, Ma
yor L. V. Ray will make an address.
Mrs. J. Herbert, mother-in-law to
Gary Backs, agent for the P. S. Co.,
at Ketchikan, is on the Evans en route
on a visit to her daughter.
J
M MARTIAL CASE
L
3ENERAL BUTLER TESTIFIES
GEN. WILLIAMS HAD PECU
LIAR LOOK IN EYES
3ELIEVES HE WAS INTOXICATED
Might Have Been III But They All
Get That Way When Drunk,
Butler Answers.
SAN DIEGO, Cal., April 13. (£>)—
rhe William’s court martial prosecu
tion rested after calling General But
ler, who testified that General Will
iams was at the hotel and was “inco
tierent; he was loquacious; he gig
gled; his eyes were bloodshot, and in
ill, had a queer, vacant stare. In oth
er words, he was drunk,”
General Butler said cocktails were
effered him as soon as he entered the
Williams’ home. Butler said as the
linner progressed: “I got the impres
sion that Williams was becoming in
oxicated. He spoke to great length on
the civilizing effect of the radio in
American homes, and talked loqua
ciously about a curious antique pis
tol he had. All this time he gave me
the impression he was getting full.”
Butler also testified that when the
party left for the hotel, he saw Will
iams stagger out of the house and
across the lawn, and by a room, off
from the ballroom of the hotel, he was
standing in a poised position about
to fall over, and his face was slightly
flushed.”
The defense counsel asked if Will
iams might have not been ill.
Butler answered, “Yess, he might
have been ill, probably was for they
usualy get that way when they are
drunk.”
Too Much Hocpitaity,
(That all the comic and tragic pos
sibilities of prohibition are probably
not exhausted is illustrated by the in
cident recorded today in the above
story, which might form the nucelus
of a great movie scenario. Brigadier
General Smedley D. Butler of the Ma
rine Corpus, who tried for some months
to clean up Philadelphia, was reliev
ed from that unfinished business and
ordered to military duty at San Diego.
To welcome the general with due hos
pitality, Col. Alexander Williams, his
predecessor, gave him a big banquet
at the Coronado hotel, where it is
said real cocktails were served. Later
in the evening Col. Williams became
intoxicated, as has been pointed out
in the above dispatch, whereupon liis
superior officer and guest, General
Butler, had him arested and preferred
the charges for drunkenness against
him. The colonel will likely be court
martialed for his offense. While Gen
eral Butler probably did his duty, it
does seem a shabby w*ay to treat one’s
host.)
LIST FOB THE SOUTH
Southbound passenger reservation
on the S.S. Alaska were as follows:
For Latouche—A. Larson.
For Valdez—Frank A. Pallet.
For Cordova—Frank Kulley, Frank
McKenna, Jack Burford, S. Walstedt,
Pike Roberts.
For Juneau—Thos. Scott, Mrs. J. E.
Nelson, Mrs. H. F. Starr, Eli Rodish,
Joe Duchimier, Jack Duchimier, and
G. I. Van Nay.
For Ketchikan, Mrs. Earl Thatcher,
Earl Thatcher, Wm. Thatcher.
NOTICE
The “Jefferson” Card party, which
will attract the majority of the wom
en tonight, will cause a post-ponement
of the regular weekly indoor baseball
game scheduled between the Marathon
Maids and the Gateway Girls, but bat
ting and fielding practice will be held
at 7:30 for those that may appear at
the gym.
DOLLAR RECEIVES SHIPS
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 13. {£>)
—The Shipping Board accepted the
§4,500,000 bid of Stanley Dollar for the
five American-Oriental mail liners.