Hemard Dale Gatemay
VOLUME XVIII NUMBER 225
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1923
PRICE TEN CENTS
1,356,749 Dead and Injured in Japan
OSAKA: Sept. 12- Official Figures Give Earthquake Casualties, Dead and Injured at
1,356,749 According to a Dispatch Received from Tokio Today. The Government Admits
that its Figures may be Inaccurate Owing to Many Bodies Lying in Remote Districts
SIXTY THOUSAND
MANY UNREGOVERED
WASHINGTON, Sept. 12—The bod
ies of sixty thousand dead have been
cremated by the authorities in Tokio
up to midnight, September S, the
Japanese minister of foreign affairs,
said in a telegram received here last
night by the Japanese embassy.
The telegram stated that the num
4 ber of bodies yet unrecovered is very
great, probably reaching a total of
120,000.
TOKYO HAD POPULATION
OF OVER TWO MILLIONS
The city of Tokyo had a population
in the 1912 census of 2,16S,151, and |
Yokohama, IS miles distant, had a ,
population of 326,035. Late figures ,
are not available but Tokyo is be-1
A * iieved to have a population of three j
million and Yokohama of over one
million, as the latter was the deep j
water port for shipments from Tokyo
and other parts of the kingdom. A
very large foreign population had
built handsome homes around the bav
in Yokohama, representatives of ev- j
ery large importing firm in America
being establish there.
The recent catastrophe has wiped
out one of the most beautitul cities in
the world, as well as one of the larg-.
est seaports on the Pacific coast.
SHANHAI, Sept. 12—The liner Em
press of Australia which remained in (
the zone of the earthQuake distiiot
district nine days before she took 200
f t foreign refugees to Kobe, was a party
* to the scene in Yokohama harbor, de
scribed by the officers and crew as
resembling an illustrated canto from
Dante’s “Inferno.” _
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RIVER SERVICE CLOSE
AT NENANA WEDNESDAY
SEATTLE, Sept. 12.—The last boat
of the season to leave Nenana for
Holy Cross will sail Wednesday of j
next week. While it is porbable that
a number of trips could yet be made,
the commission will play safe and lay
the boats up in good season, so as to
avoid the dangers of being frozen in.
Next season will probably see two
new and more commodious boats on
the run, as business has increased so
rapidly since the Alaska railroad took
over the transports and placed them
on the run from Nenana to Holy
Cross that it is recognized something
must be done to take care of the
trade.
GIRL CLERKS IN BRITAIN
ARE HER! POORLY PI
LONDON, Sept. 12.—Girl clerks in
American offices who bemoan tne sal
aries of $15 and *20 a week are con
sidered lucky b> tl eh poo. v rijvti
sisters in Eng.an 3. *
There are 3000 women clerks in
government offices, some ot them
with eight years’ experience, who re
ceive less than $10 a week. They are
glad to get this as there are over one
million other women ready to step
into their jobs. Most of these govern
ment clerks are in the late twenties,
some have passed thirty and a few
are widows with children to support.
The clerks have asked an increase
of $2 to $2.50 a week. Some of the
newspapers are supporting their re
quests. The government has not said
anything yet, one way or the other.
Meanwhile, it is said girls who can't
make their salaries support them are
making up the difference after hours,
sewing, doing laundry work and giv
ing dancing lessons.
1IHD FIFTY REFUSES
ON WHY TO TIE SMS
SEATTLE, Sept. 12.—One hundred
and fifty refugees from Tokio will
arrive here Saturday on the liner
President Jefferson.
Mrs. A. Davis Dies
at Anchorage Hospital
CORRALS BEING CONSTRUCTED
AT GOLDSTEIN FOX RANCH
f JUNEAU: Fit teen men today be
gan construction of corrals and breed
ing pens for the Goldstein Glacier Fur
Farm, Inc., on its ranch at Menden
hall valley. Wire and other material
arrived here early this week and con
struction work will be rushed to com
pletion as rapidly as possible, accord
ing to Charles Goldstein, president
and manager of the company.
It was announced that animals will
be placed on the farm within the next
30 days. This will mark the begin
^ ning of actual operations by the com
pany which has an elaborate program
worked out for its first year.
Marion Goldstein left here early this
week for the Pribilof islands, where
he will get thirty pairs of blue foxes,
the finest stock the government has
on its farms there. These were pur
chased recently by the company and
will be brought here and placed on
the ranch. These animals will be in
the pens by the end of September.
Two other species, mink and mar
ten, will be placed on the farm by the
middle of October. Delivery of a
number of these animals fror breed
ers has already been arranged for it
was said.
Mrs. A. F. Davis, wife of A. F. Davis
of the firm of Hoben & Davis, ot Sew
ard passed away this morning at 10:30
o’clock at the hospital in Anchorage,
following a short illness of brain
fever. Up to the hour of her death,
Mrs. Davis’ condition was very en
couraging, and her recovery was look
ed for.
Mrs. Davis was taken to Anchorage
hospital for treatment about a week
ago, and her many friends here were
unaware of the serious nature of her
complaint until news of her death
stunned them today.
Until Mr. Davis arrives on tonight’s
train no announcement will be made
as to the disposition of the remains
and the time of the funeral.
YUKON PIONEER DEAD
Benjamin Vancolkenburgh, a noted
Klondike pioneer, died in Seattle last
week and was buried in the cemetery
there. He left Dawson this summer
for Seattle to spend the remainder of
his days with a daughter. Deceased
was nearly 90 years of age and In his
time was one of the wealthiest men
on the coast He was a large cattle
owner, controlling thousands of head
in British Columbia, carrying on a
wholesale meat business.
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Igloo No. 15, Pioneers of Alaska, at
Anchorage, have in charge the rais
ing of a fund for the erection of a
monument at Ketchikan to the mem
ory of' our late President. The fol
lowing resolution was adopted at a
recent meeting of the Pioneers:
Whereas, Our beloved President,
by the interest he has taken in the
great Territory has enshrined himself
in the hearts of all Alaskans, and has
now been called to a higher and more
enduring reward; and
Whereas, The members of Igloo No.
15, Pioneers of Alaska, that as an
expression of the high regard and es
teem in which we hold Warren G.
Harding as a man, and as an honor
ary member of this igloo, that we im
ate, foster and promote a movement
in the Territory of Alaska whose ob
ject shall be the erection of a suita
ble monument to our departed
’President at the town of Ketchikan,
the gateway to Alaska, where the
President first received a welcome
from the citizenry ot the Territory,
and breathed the inspiration of the
spirit of the North; Therefore, Be It i
Resolved, That all Alaskans be in
vited through the local igloos to con- j
tribute the sum of one dollar ($1.0u) j
no more and no less, which money j
shall be known as the Alaska Harding |
Memorial Fund, to be deposited in
the local banks where raised until it
has reached an amount deemed suffi
cient for the purpose, when such mon
ument shall be erected to greet the
coming thousands who shall follow to
complete the work so nobly begun by j
the Pioneers of Alaska, a beacon shin
ing down the annals of time in memo
ry of the first President to visit |
Alaska. Be It Further
Resol\ ed, I hat the Grand President,
Grand Secretary and the Grand
Treasurer of the Pioneers of Alaska,
together with the Governor of Alaska,
and the President of the Alaska Ag
ticultural College and School of
Mines shall constitute a committee
which shall have charge of such fund
and the erection of such monument.
That a copy of these resolutions be
sent to the bereaved widow ot the
late President and to all other Igloos.
NEW YORK, Sept. 12.—A1 Pettin
gill, who forsook New Orleans for
New York, the big money and a shot
at the flyweight title, is1 the pet pro
duct of a broken-down, ex-champion,
Pete Herman, who once ruled the
bantams of the world, but later had
the misfortune to go almost totally
blind.
Before Herman lost his sight, how
ever, the seized upon Pettingill as a
ever, he seized upon Pettingill as a
promising youngster and spent hours
of h5^ knowledge and experience. The
result, is that the Southern flyweight
stands today as one of the mo3t
prominent contenders for Pancho Vil
la’s title.
The youngster has slowly been
steered toward a title bout. He has
made good in his preliminary tests
and has done it in so convincing a
manner that those sapient in ring
matters are of the opinion that he is
close after the title of Villa and Ge
naro.
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Co. 384-tf
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SEATTLE, Sept. 12.—“Man, I have
never seen a more wonderful country
nor passed through grander scenery,”
Dr. Kate Waller Barrett, president of
the American Legion Auxiliary said
in describing her trip to Alaska.
SUBSCRIPTION TO RELIEF
FID TOTHS 5 MILLIONS
WASHINGTON, Sept. 12.—Sub
scriptions to the Red Cross for the
Japanese earthquake sufferers aggre
gate $5,10S,000.
LEGIMES
APPALLING NUMBER OF POOR
LAWS PLACED ON STATUTE
BOOKS OF COUNTRY
MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 12.—The Bar
Associations of America should give
attention to the “appalling number oi
bills which become laws during legis
lative sessions, the committee on note
worthy changes in statute law report
ed to the American Bar Association
at its recent session here.
“Many of these acts should never
be brought before the legislatures,
but should be settled by the adminis
trative departments interested, or
submitted ,to some form of court of
claims and finally passed there. The
act passed at the last session of Con
gress permitting the adjustment of
certain classes of claims against the
United States founded on tort is a
step in the direction of reducing the
number of private bills introduced in
congress.
An extension of the principle of
home rule would avoid much special
and local legislation, but it will have
to be accompanied by a willingness of
the local authorities to accept respon
sibility. More courage on the part of
the legislature in refusing to assume
the duty which properly rests on the
local authority, and more courage on
the part of local authority in taking
responsibility for new laws passed,
would greatly help.
MOHOS WANT HE
BUT 1 AMERICAN
FOR HR
MANILA, Sept. 12.—A new out
break among the Moros in the Lake
Lanao region is reported today to
Governor General Woods. The Phil
ippine constabulary has been dis
patched to the place with a large sup
ply of shrapnel.
The Moros declare they will recog
nize none but an American govern
ment and do not want the Philippine
governor which they now have.
SETTING UP MONUMENTS
The Coast & Geodetic Survey in
serted a brass cornerstone in the
steps of the Arcade building, and to
day are erecting a monument near
the station, from which their levels
will be started.
>25,000 PRESENTED TO PASTOR
AT DEDICATION OF CHURCH
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 12.—At the
:lose of the recent dedication here
af the new $1,500,000 First Methodist
Episcopal church of Los Angeles, Dr.
Elmer Ellsworth Helms, pastor was
presented with a purse of $25,000 in
appreciation for his services to the
church. The new church housed in1
a four-story building, has a capacity j
of 8000 persons, and a $65,000 pipe
organ, said to be the largest and fin
est on the Pacific coast. ’
TO
SEATTLE, Sept. 12.—Congressman
John F. Miller in a speech here this
afternoon recommended the estab
lishment of a naval base and coaling
station somewhere in the Aleutian
Islands, as an outpost to intercept an
attack from the Orient.
GREAT POSSIBILITIES OF INTE
RIOR DISCUSSED—ALASKA
NEEDS PEOPLE
JUNEAU—The interior of Alaska
will be a wonderful country of pro
duce and plenty in the course of time
when an increased population has de
veloped its present resources is the
opinion of B. M. Behrends, who with
Mrs. Behrends returned to Juneau last
night on the Alameda from a trip
along the westward coast and in to
Fairbanks by way of the Alaska rail
road.
“The future of the interior depends
on its population and that will come
only when people are offered possi
bilities in the country and are filled
with the desire to explore a new
land,” said Mr. Behrends. “But the
time will come when the young peo
ple in Alaska of today are grown to
men they will see the interior a coun
try of teeming industry.”
Mr. Behrends believes that the
country not only has a future of min
ing but that there is no doubt agri
culture will take a big part among the
industries.
Fairbanks is the Los Angeles of
Alaska Mr. Behrends said. It is set
in a district of sunshine, flowers and
waving grains and is a spot of beauty.
The Agricultural College and School
of Mines is a splendid institution and
is run by a system of good and sensi
ble economy. Charles E. Bunnell,
president, is a good executive and the
man for the position, Mr. Behrends
said.
Mining has been retarded in the in
terior and along the coast on account
of the dry weather this summer. None
of the important properties have been
forced to cease operations entirely,
but a number of them have been able
to run only in small capacity.
The salmon season has been com
paratively good along the southwest
ern coast and the majority of packs
have experienced normal packs. The
Nellie Juan plant put up a pack of
57,000 cases this season.
TODAY’S FISH MARKET
JUNEAU—Halibut 10 and 6 cents;
king salmon, reds 12 and 8, and white
2 cents.
SEWARD—Fresh halibut 8 and 5
cents.
II BE REBUILT,
SITS GOVERNMENT
NEW YORK, Sept. 12—The destruc
tion of Yokohama was so complete
the government contemplates aban
doning the city and enlargening Tokio
enough to absorb the population of
Yokohama, according to a radiogram
to the Japanese Times.
MEMORIAL WILL !
BE DEDICATED IT
LEGION CONVENTION
SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 12.—The
California Palace of the Legion of
Honor now being constructed at a cost
of $1,000,000 on the crest of Lincoln
highway overlooking the Golden Gate
will be formally dedicated in memory
of the 3369 California boys killed in
France during the World War during
the National convention of the Amer
ican Legion held here October 15-19,
according to the announcement ot Mr.
Adolph Spreckles, donor of the me
morial.
Exhibition of the works of art do
nated by the French, Rumanian, Ser
bian and Polish governments and va
rious individuals which will form a
part of the permanent collection to
be housed in the memorial building
here, are being exhibited in the his
toric Legion of Honor building on the
banks of the Seine, Paris, before re
moval to San Francisco. The Califor
Palace of the Legion of Honor is a
duplicate of the Paris building, and of
ficial permission for its duplication
was given by the French government.
Henry Guillaume, French Government
architect, at the Panama exposition
at San Francisco in 1915 is the arch
itect.
me memorial donated under the
patronage of President Harding, Pres
ident Millerand ot France, and other
leading French and American citizens
is being given to the citizens of Cali
fornia, together with all its art treas
ures, by Mr. and Mrs. Spreckles.
Among other works of art the Cali
fornia Palace of the Legion of Honor
will house: Seventy-five sculptures
of Rodin, gift of Mrs. Alma de Brette
ville Spreckles; four Gobelin tapes
tries depicting the life of Joan of
Arc, by Jean Paul Laurens, gift of
the French government; Marshal Jot
fre’s sword and uniform worn during
the crucial days at the first battle of
the Marne, a gift of Madame Joffre;
200 sculptures of Arthur Putnam, a
gilt of Mrs. Spreckles; collection of
medals from Monnaie, gift of French
government; collection of Sevres, gift
ol French government; 50 sculptures
of Rivire, gift of Mrs. Spreckles; SO
war medals depicting the world war,
by Pierre Roche, gift of Mrs. Spreck
els; collections of the decorations of
Gen. Pierre Alexander de Bretteville,
grand officer of the Legion of Honor,
donated by the Marquise Pierre de
Bretteville, and donations from Marie,
Queen of Rumania; Marie’, Queen of
Serbia; Elizabeth, Queen of Greece;
and Cyril, formerly grand-duchess of
Russia.
In addition to being a memorial to
the spirit of international friendship
and good will, it is his aim, Mr.
Spreckles said, to create a center of
art, music, literature, politics and an
international forum for the dissemi
nation of knowledge and the spread
ing of information of exact conditions
among the nations bordering the Pa
cific.
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