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VOLUME XIX. NUMBER 141
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 16, 1924.
PRICE TEX CENTS
BUTLER TO OPEN
HEADQUARTERS FOR
COMING CAMPAIGN
CLEVELAND, June 16.—Chairman
Butler of the Republian campaign
committee will leave for Chicago to
day to establish the general head
quarters of the committee for the
coming campaign.
The eastern headquarters will be
established in New York and offices
also wil be maintained at Washing
ton for general publicity purposes.
Butler expects to confer with
General Dawes at Chicago relative
^ to the type of campaign to be wag
ed, and from Chicago he will go to
Washington for a conference with
President Coolidge.
It is understood to be the plan
of the committee to have Dawes
do most of the wark in the field.
YOUTH CONFESSES STARTED
FIRE TO SEE ENGINES
SEATTLE, June 16.—Hector Er
wing, aged 13 years, has confessed
to the police that he started the
olaze which resulted in the destruc
tion of property here this week val
led at $30,000. He explained that
he desire for thrill of seeing the
tre trucks rushing through the
treets a^d getting into action was
?sponsible for his action. It was
oparent from his explanation that
\ did not realize the possible re
fits that might result from such
ition.
MERICAN AVIATORS
ARE STILL TRAVELING
HONGKONG, June 16.—The three
nerican army aviators who are
iking the flight around the world
ided at Saigon, the capital of
pnch Indo China this afternoon,
gy expect to hop off this morn
from Tourane, Annam.
DIES ASK FOR HELP
IN FIXING UP COURT
Wednesday, June 8, has been set
the ladies of the Women’s club
he day on which a beginning will
nade in preparing the tennis court
as numerous offers of assistance
e been made by the men of the
n the ladies request '/iat eveij
who can turn out and help clean
the grounds.
most delicious lunch will be
fed at five o’clock by the ladies
he ciub to those helping, and the
ision will be made on of helpful
►yment. Give the ladies a help
hand on this worthy project.
kTTLE IS TRYING
TO CHECK BANDITRY
EATTLE, June 16.—Twenty ad
onal policemen have been added
•the Seattle police force, their
action having been made with
ticular regard for their qualifica
ts as bandit hunters.
'his increase was authorized at
1 request of the chief of police,
,o declared that additional men
,ere needed to cope with banditry
which has increased alarmingly of
ate.
MISSIONARY MAKES
ESCAPE IN CHINA
[EKING ,June 16.—The Reverend
9c Ray, American missionary who
vs captured recently by river pi
tes in Kuangsi province, he es
cped from the mountain stronghold
o the bandits where he was held
psoner.
WATSON DUE TUESDAY
The steamship Admiral Watson,
vhich is due Tuesday from westward
ioints, will wait the arrival of Tues
day's train before sailing for Seattle.
BUFORD TO SAIL IN JULY
The steamship Buford will sail for
>ome and the Siberian coast from
Seattle July 27, calling at Seward
rn the way. She will have a large
i umbel of excursionists.
TAKES AIRPLANE FLIGHT
While in Fairbanks last week at
* tending the comm arcement exercises,
Mavor L. V .Ray and s-m, Lee. took
an airplane flight uround the city in
the Rodebaugh plane. They were in
the air for over half an hour. This
Mrs. Ray’s first visit to Fair
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banks.
HERRIOT INVITED BY NEW
PRESIDENT FORM CABINET
PARIS, June 16.—Edouard Her
riot, leader of the radical party
which was victorious in the recent
parlimentary elections has been in
vited by President Doumerque to
form a new cabinet and has an
nounced that he will accept the in
vitation.
Herriot will go to London today
to confer with Premier Ramsey
Macdonald and will not begin the
selection of his ministry until his
return from England. It is under
stood, however, that Herriot has
indicated the names of several who
probably will be offered places in
the new ministry.
NORTHWESTERN IS
ON WAY NORTH ON
REGULAR VOYAGE
SEATTLE, June 16.—The steam
ship Northwestern of the Alaska
Steamship company’s fleet, sailed for
Alaska yesterday morning with a
full load of passengers, of whom |
the following are for Seward, Anch
orage and other points along the
Alaska Railroad:
Mrs. S. Ryan, J. G. Ryan and
wife, Mrs. Eva Funk, Mrs. J .1. Os
strander, Miss Casey, Mrs. Casey,
V. McDonald, Father O’Brien, M .S.
Banbury, Mrs. T. A. Anderson, F.
H. Allen and wife ,W. C. Ross, Fary
J. Chute ,Eva Sweagle, J .W. Miller,
and wife, Mrs. N. Pesey, Mrs. V.
D. Howard, J. A. Nordstrom and
wife, Lloyd Nordstrom, Elmer Nord
strom, C .Johnson and wife, Miss G.
Swisher, Miss L. Goza, Waneta;
Howard, Noll Winn, Hugh M. Smith,'
E. T. S. Page, W. H. Ward, W. R.
Cantrell, J. A. Shade and wife, Mrs.!
L. Landis, Miss J. Abbot, Miss H. ■
Neill, R. E. Robinson and wife, An- '
na Hunt, W. R. Russell and wife, j
Miss R. Russel, Ruby DeGraff, Mrs.!
F. C. Sharp, T. T. Pitman, M. Iv.
Roach ,Mrs. G. B. Smith, Miss M. j
McCullough, Miss Post, Miss Keene, j
Miss Hanson, Dr. Nellie Noble, M.\
D. Likers, L. C. Sharpe, Helen Seg- j
lka, Ida Seglka, M. Ray Schoman,'
Hazel Beecher, Mrs. H. L. Dout, V.
M. Harold, R. T. Kouner, Miss H.
Jager, Mis sFrazier ,Miss J. S.
Carpenthwaite ,Miss E. Woodward,
Mrs. C. E. Higgins, Mrs. W. H.
Sawyer, James Girdwood, E. U. Wal
ker, J. E. Hena, H. E. Brown, G. N.
Henderson, Miss R. Jenstad, Miss E.
Ellison, Miss Elizabeth Rhoades,
Mary Potter, Mrs. J. Akroyd Jean
nette Preston, Robert King, W. W.
j Meyers, Sam Rotch, Mrs. M. R. Felts,
Mrs. H. Jameson, Doris Jansen, Mrs.
! M. Guthridge, D. Shull and wife,
j H .W. Wherry and wife, A. Frye,
! Mathew Winslow, N. Boone and wife,
! Mrs. F. C. Young ,W. C. Dickerson,
! Edward T. Allen, A. E. Noble, Mary
| E. Moaks, Mrs. Hacon, Glow Wil
! liams, Ruth Williams and two steer
| age.
'anchorage man will
RETIRE FROM BUSINESS
The Jones Grocery store of An
chorage, has been conducting a clos
ing out sale for the last two weeks
1 prior to retiring from business.
A1 Jones, the proprietor of the
| store contemplates purchasing the
former Hammontree plane, which has
been stored at Anchorage for two
years, and will take up the aviation
! business in a commercial way.
Mr. Jones is alsj interested in a
tourist resort in the Kenai peninsula
J district and at the present time has
a number of men at the site erecting
| a hunting lodge.
NEW SCHOOL DISTRICT
A school district b iving been re
cently established at Woodrow by or
der of the Clerk of the District Court,
an election is today- being held for
the purpose of electing a School
Board for said district. Votes are be
ing cast for a clerk ,a treasurer and
a director, to hold office for one year,
; and until their successors are elected
! and qualified. Interest is tense and
voting going strong.
REDONDO SAILS
The steamship Redondo sailed yes
terday afternoon for westward points
with several passengers aboard. Fol
lowing is a list of those who made
reservations:
N. Larsen, Mrs. A. Larsen, for Ko
diak; Thos E. West ,A .G. Thompson,
for Seldovia.
The Redondo carried a large cargo
of freight west with her this trip.
CLOUDBURST WIPES
OUT TWO CITIES
JOHNSON CITY, June 16.—
Twenty-two are dead and many in
jurcd as the result of a terrific
cloudburst which wiped out the cit
ies of Cartel’s Bluff and Hunter near
this city yesterday.
The two towns were viriually
the inhabitants were caught by the
downpour with scarcely a moment’s
warning.
The property damage is estimat
ed at many thousands of dollars.
LOCAL ITEMS
E. F. Jes-en, the popular represen-!
tative of the Wilson-jessen advertis- j
ing agency, arrived in Seward yes
terday from a business trip to Fair
banks. Mr. Jesson states that he j
was amazed at the efficiency of the!
Alaska College, and believes that
when its worth becomes fully known
it will be one of the popular north
western institutions . He returns to
Anchorage Wednesday. *
E. G. Wetzler, postoffice inspector
from the Interior who has been in
the city on a short trip left Sew
ard yesterday for Nenana .
Mrs. Robert S. Temme, wife of a
former business man of Anchorage,
arrived in Seward on yesterday’s
train and departed for Ihe south a
passenger on the S. S. Yukon. Mrs.
Temme will join her husband in
Cleveland, Ohio, where he has located
in business.
Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Goodskey were
Seattle-bound passengers on the Yu
kon last evening.
Gus Gelles, representative for the
National Grocery Company arrived in
Seward yesterday and left on the S.
S. Yukon for Cordova on a business
trip.
E. G. Wetzler, postal inspector of
Nenana was a Seward arrival yester
day and will spend a few days here
on official business.
Once an Alaskan always an Alas
kan. Sam Taggert, who is former
years was a prominent member of
the citizenry of Nome and who in
more recent years has been in bus
iness in the Sates, is now head of
the Red Top Taxi company' of Se
attle, according to recent arrivals
in Seward from the North.
At the Van Gilder hotel ,Joe Bad
ger is in receipt of a splendid desk
ornament, on which is enscribed the
name of Taggert’s firm, showin gtime
the former Alaskan is marking time
with progress in all that is new and
good in the publicity line. Taggert
| in his letter to his old friend, stat
ed he would appreciate Alaskan’s
j arriving in Seattle to give him a
l call, not for business, but just to
renew old acquaintances.
Miss Darling Berry, a resident of
Fairbanks ,who arrived in Seward
last Saturday to bid one of her lo
cal friends bon voyage, left for the
Interior on yesterday’s train.
Jack and Willis Corson, left for Se
attle last night where they will spend
the summer with their father.
Miss Elaine Cameron, of Valdez,
passed thru Seward yesterday on her
way to Anchorage, where she will
join her father.
Jack McCord, the well known Al
askan businessman and promoter, re
turned to Seward on Sunday after
a months business trip to California.
J. W. Edmunds, Oph. D., of Se
attle was an incoming passenger on
the steamer Yukon Sunday. He
leaves tomorrow for the Heston
mine in the Moose Pass district.
While in the city he is a guest at
the Van Gilder hotel.
Mrs. Anton Eide and daughter Miss
Marit, were Seattle-bound passengers
on the Steamer Yukon this morning.
Mrs. Eide, wife of the local Road
Commission superintendent, will visit
with her mother while there, return
ing to Seward in about a month.
Mrs. M. Short, Seward teacher, was
an outgoing passenger on the Yukon.
Gus Borgen, Sward business man,
left for his home in California on the
Yukon.
STEAMSHIP YUKON
SAILS FOR SEATTLE
The steamship Yukon, Capt. Glass
cock arrived in port at an early hour
yesterday and bailed this morning for
Seattle, after unloading about SOU
tons of freight here. Her passen
gers for
R. J.
W. R. T
Blackwe
George
d were:
M. Woldson, D. Barns,
Jerry Callahan, William
e Kirch, Jack McCord,
.her. Miss Roberts, A.
Alien, Mrs. 7. P. Studdei f, Miss C.
Davis, two children, Miss E. Horton,
Miss E. Benson, S. Selegman. Wilby
Shellhorn, Mrs. W. R. Shellnorn, D.
W. Branch, Mrs. H. W, Brandt, Don
ald Brandt, Herbert Brandt, Edith
McGregor, Mrs. A. R. Agater, E. M.
Nightengale, Mrs. Nightengale, Mrs.
G. Seifert, Miss Grace Clark, F. C.
Dillon, Julius Anderson, A. Wentzel,
H. S. Eumer, Clark Vestal, H. E.
Crouse, W. Serrik, Martin Hunt, Isa
bel Roundstein, Mrs. R. B. Huntley,
Margaret Collins, Susanne Eamon, G.
W. James, May Hunter, Mrs. James,
Miss D. Bellson, R. F. Robinson, Mrs.
M, Hadley, F. Haselmau, Miss H. O.
Arakoff, Child Arakoff, Baby Arakoff,
J. B. Christman, Mrs. Christman.
Round trip passengers to the num
ber of forty-eight were aboard. The
outgoing list will be published tomor
row owing to lack of space.
Primaries Being Held
In Minnesota Capital
ST. PAUL, June 16.—Minnesota
is holding primary election today for
the contest of Republican senatorial
nomination of the Farmer-Labor par
ty and the Republican gubernatorial
nominations. «*
BOURBONS POL\T TO TAX
O MMISSION CLEVE. MEET
NEW YORK, June 16.—The Re
publican national convention has in
dorsed the Democratic tax revision
plan, according to Cordell Hall,
chairman of the Democratic na
tional committee. He bases this
claim on the fact that the Republi
cans failed, while in convention, to
indorse the Mellon plan, which met
with defeat during the recent ses
sion of Congress.
Hall says further that tRepub
lican convention will demonstrate
“whether a political party can live
or ought to live after having drag
ged the government through a bot
tomless cesspool of corruption.
NOME STEAMER UNABLE
TO BREAK THROUGH ICE
NOME.—The Victoria and Bear
are unable to penetrate the ice pack
which extends East and West, those
steamers both being 15 miles from
Nome and having been that dis
tance away for the past two days.
Nome is short of many staple pro
ducts. There is food at Donaldson
and St. Michaels, but no Yukon river
steamers have arrived there as yet.
CANADIANS TO ERECT
WIRELESS AT HERSCHEL
WINNIPEG, June 16.—The Cana
dian government is planning the er
ection of a wireless station at
Herschel Island, most northern out
post in Canada.
Margaret Collins, of Fairbanks ar
rived on the Steamship Yukon and
left for the interior. She has been
attending school at the Washington
U.
H. P. Tripp of Juneau and John
H. Cowles of Washington, D. C., ar
rived in Seward on the steamer Yu
kon and will put through a local
class of candidates for the Masonic
lodge. They are guests at the Van
Gilder hotel.
Jasper Holman took a position in
the local commission shops this morn
ing.
Miss Mossford, Seward school
teacher, left on the Yukon for her
home in the States.
Bruno Huslick, working on the
Pittman section, Wasilla, was re
cently badly injured by a tie he was
unloading from a flat car bouncing
and striking him in the face. The
train was moving rapidly and the
tie knocked him between the cars
where he was dragged for some dis
tance.
DAWES AT OFFICE; DEEP
IN WORK; AVOIDS CHEERS
CHICAGO, June 16.—A candidate
for public office for the first time
in his life, General Dawes return
ed to Chicago yesterday, slipping in
to the city an hour before the re
ception committee expected him,
and he was hard at work at his of
fice when his admirers finally dis
covered that he had arrived.
Thousands gather in front of his
offices and cheered lustily but the
general to was busy with his work
to go in for the planned i*eception.
He acknowledged the cordial greet
ing but that was all.
General Dawes and his two broth
ers, Henry M. and Rufus, are the
sole owners of all Seattle’s gas
works, known as the Seattle Light
and Power Company.
COMMENCEMENT
EXERCISES HELD AT
FAIRBANKS COLLEGE
The Second Annual Commencement
of the Alaska Agricultural College
and School of Mines was held in the
assembly room of the college, Friday
June 13 ,at ten o’clock A. M.; when
Miss Margaret Thomas, the second
student to graduate from the institu
tion, was granted a degree of Bachel
or of Science in Business Administra
tion. Miss Thomas who came to
Fairbanks when a young girl, had
previously had the first two years of
college work at Reed College, Port
land, Ore., and attended Simmons
College Tn Boston last year; In Aug
ust Miss Thomas will become the
bride of Mr. Olaus T. Murie, of the
j Biological Survey, who is now on the
! lower Yukon. Miss Thomas is going
j down the river to meet the prospec
1 tive husband. The speaker of the
i day was Hon. I.. V. Ray, of Seward,
I who told of the importance of the col
lege to the youth of Alaska, and
dwelt at length on home rule in Al
! aska.
I President Bunnell made the pre
j sentation speech, handing Miss Thom
I as her diploma, complimenting her
upon the fine quality of her work and
in appreciation of the fact that she
1 had remained to take her degree in
the Alaskan College.
The program was as follows:
March “The Iron Trail.”—Fleischn
man’s Stringed Trio with Piano ac
companiment.
Invocation—Rev. J. F. Vernon.
Selceitno, “Maid of the West.”
Fleischman’s Stringed Trio with piano
accompaniment.
Commencement Address—Hon. L.
V. Ray of Seward .
! Piano Duet, “The Sylph”—Misses
j Dorothy and Florence Roth.
Presentation of Diploma.
Selection, “The Herd Girl’s Dream.”
j —Fleischman’s stringed trio with pi
ano accompaniment.
The college has had a most re
markable year .showing an increase
of 33 per cent in enrollment over last
year, and increasing the faculty by
three, and the studies by one new
course. Next year it is expected that
the increase in enrollment will be as
great or greater than in past years.
A number of students from Alaskan
coast towns have already signified
their intention of entering. There will
be two more members added to the
faculty, making a total of 12 includ
ing President Bunnell.
WANAMAKER PURCHASES
BOLTE HARDWARE CO.
According to recent telegiaphic
advices from Seattle ,it is stated that
the Bolte Hardware Company of An
chorage has been purchased by Hart
ley and Wanamaker, the well-known
hardware men of Anchorage.
Mr. Bolte and Mr. Wanamaker are
at present in Seattle, where the deal
was consumated. The report says that
Hartley and Wanamaker will move
from their present store into the
Bolte quarters immediately.
MANY ARE KILLED
MITCHEL ,S. D., June 16—Four
teen are killed and a million dollars
in property damage resulted by a
cyclone that swept South Dakota Sat
urday night.
NARCOTICS ARE SEIZED
NEW YORK, June 16—Narcotics,
valued at two million dollars were
seized on a motor truck coming off
Hoboken pier after having been
smuggled ashore from a European
steamer.
OFFICIALS TAKE UP
TRAINMEN ON
ROBBERY CHARGE
CHICAGO, June 16.—Everyone
of the seventy members of the train
crew aboard the Chicago, Milwau
kee & St .Paul express train at the
time of the robbery this week, was
taken into custody by the federal
authorities yesterday for examina
tion.
A. M. Germer, chief postoffice in
spector, who is devoting his entire
time to the case, declares that *
robbery was an “inside job” and he
is trying to connect some of the
trainmen with the holdup, which
was one of the biggest robberies of
the kind ever staged in this state.
MORMONS ABANDON
ORIENT CAMPAIGN
SALT LAKE, June 16.—The Mor
mon church has recalled its mission
aries from Japan and will make on
further effort to mormonize that
part of the world.
It is explained the church has
had workers in Japan for twenty
years and the results obtained do
not justify a continuance of effort
in that field.
OFFICER KILLED WHEN
SAVES TURRET CREW
SAN PEDRO, June 16—It was dis
closed yesterday at the inquiry into
the death of more than forty officers
nad men aboard the battleship Mis
sissippi, resulting from an explosion
this week, that the last act of Lieut.
T. E. Zellers, who was one of the vic
tims, was to turn on the water and
pull the doors of the powder maga
zine closed. But for this action on
the part of the lieutenant, it is said
the entire ship probably would have
blown up and the lives of thousands
of blue-jackets sacrificed. The explo
sion came before the lieutenant
could get out of the turret.
All danger of a third explosion on
the Mississippi, which is now anchor
ed outside the harbor, was relieved
yesterday when the third charge of
T. N. T. in Turret No. 2, was remov
ed, according to L. N. Morgan, flag
communicating officer.
A naval court of inquiry is now in
| session aboard the U. 3. S. Tennes
I see. Admiral H. A. Wiley, command
| ing battle division No. 4, has voiced
; his deep regrets over the disaster and
J is at a loss to understand the cause
i of it.
F. J. Ryan, turret captain, whose
; condition is critical, may be one of
the most important witnesses before
the inquiry. It is stated that he was
in a position to observe everything
' in the turret.
Fourteen of those who perished in
the disaster were star athletes of the
, Pacific fleet.
GUILTY SAYS JURY
IN SHEEHAN CASE
“Guilty as charged’' was the ver
dict rendered in the district court of
Anchorage in the case of the Unit
ed States government vs. Howard
Sheehan. C. R. Booth, foreman of
the jury, stated the jurors wished
to recommend to the court the ut
most leniency in the sentence on ac
count of the defendant’s youth.
Sheehan was charged with the
wrongful possession of fox skins
taken from the room of Hjalmer
Evans, at the Parson hotel the lat
ter part of March. The defendant
was represented by Attorneys John
Coffey and J. C. Murphy, while Dis
trict Attorney Sherman Duggan and
Assistants Julien Hurley and Harry
McCain handled the case for the gov
ernment.
ANCHORAGE FUNERALS HELD
YESTERDAY AFTERNOON
The funerals of P. 0. Sundberg,
the well-known Anchorage merchant,
who died Friday, and Wm. P. Kelly,
who was killed durin gthe week by
his auto overturning w’ere held yes
terday in Anchoraeg ,a large crowd
of the friends of the deceased taking
part in the services. Both were in*
terred in the local cemetery.
AMBASSADOR WOODS ARRIVES
SEATTLE, June 16.—Former Am
bassador Woods arrived today from
Japan.