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*' VOLUME 20. NUMBER 181
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY’ JULY 24, 1925
PRICE TEN CENTS
EXEMPTION OF
MINING FROM LAW
NOT BENEFICIAL
SEATTLE, July 24 (/P)—The ex
emption of mining companies from
the provisions of the blue sky law is
harmful to the industry, J. Grant
Hinkle, secretary of the State of
Washington told the Mining Club at
a banquet last night, urging a revi
sion of the law. Hinkle said the ex
clusion of the mining companies from
operation of the law is hurtful be
cause his office is compelled to tell
outside investors that it knows noth
ing of the state’s mining companies.
STAMP COLLECTORS EAGER
FOR HUNGARIAN ISSUE
LONDON, July 24. (/P)— Arrival of
the first new sports postage stamps
of Hungary created a stir in London
philatelist circles, where very high
prices were paid for several speci
mens. The set of eight denomina
tions were sold at about 100 per
cent above the postal value in Buda
pest when they first came out, the
premium going toward a fund to
help the Hungarian sports associa
tions.
The designs include fencing, skat
ing, ski-ing, a hurdle race, an athlet
ic parade, a scouts’ camp and a foot
ball match, while a particularly
striking stamp is that illustrating
diving, rowing and swimming.
OKLAHOMA CITIZENS
DECIDE SEWARD IS
GOOD PUCE LOCATE
Following a visit to other portions
of this district, Mr. and Mrs. J. R.
Ratliffe of Oklahoma, recent arrivals
* in Sew’ard from the States, have
decided to locate permanently in this
city. Mr. Ratliffe’s father has been
sheriff in an Oklahoma county for
many years. The young couple who
arrived in Seward on the steamer Yu
kon returned to the city Wednesday
evening and have taken apartments
in the Skagway building.
ENGLISH TEACHERS TO STUDY
AMERICAN SCHOOL SYSTEM
LONDON, July 24. (£>)— Miss Jean
^ ette Hayes, winner of the Walter
Hines Page Traveling Scholarship
for Teachers, will sail for the Uni
ted States early in July and will
spend her summer vacation as the
guest of the 'English Speaking Union
of the United States in NewT York,
Boston, Philadelphia, Washington,
Chicago and other cities. Miss Hayes
is .headmistress of St. Ann’s Girls’
Senior School at Hanwell. Middle
sex.
Two scholarships at the Chautau
qua Summer School, offered to Brit
ish women teachers by Dr. Arthur
E. Bestor, president of the Chautau
qua Institution of the United States,
have been awarded by the education
committee of the English Speaking
Union to Miss Catherine Robertson,
head of the English department at
the Edisbuigh Ladies’ College and to
Miss Hilda Stuart, headmistress of
the Arthur Pease School ,ai. Darling
ton, Durham.
Fire Dectroys Large
Part Port Essington
PRINCE RUPERT, B. C., July 24
—Fire starting yesterday at the
home of a Japanese resident of this
city destroyed about a third of Port
- Essington, a fishing town near the
it mouth of the Skeena river, a few miles
south of Prince Rupert.
Scient Disputes Theory
That Hawaii Is Rising
HONOLULU, H. T., July 24 (/P)—
The theory of Prof. Edward Fairfax
Naulty that the Hawaiian Islands will
equal Japan in the extent of its terri
tory, through earth movements, with
in a generation or so, is discounted
by Dr. Gregory E. Bishop, director of
the Bishop museum and professor of
geology at Yale, who said that there
was no indication that the islands
were slowly rising from the sea. He
said the last rise was probably a mil
lion or so years ago.
GERMAN EMIGRATION
IS ON THE DECREASE
BERLIN, July 23. (/P)—'Though
German emigration during 1924 de
creased from the 1923 figure the to
tal is still much larger than the pre
war period. Last year 58,087 Ger
mans emigrated; 115,000 in 1923,
while the yearly prewar average was
25,000, according to the German sta
tistical bureau.
Famous Race Horse
Retired from Track
| NEW YORK, July 24 (^>)—Zev. the
famous racehorse has been retired
from the track because he has be
j come so unruly it is no longer safe
to handle him.
Forest Fires Took
Heavy Toll In 1924
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 24 (£>)—
Forest fires swept clean 29,000,000
acres of public and private lands last
year entailing a loss to the nation of
$38,000,000. The number of fires to
taled 92,000, which were 24,000 more
than in 1923,
JAPAN HAS TROUBLE
PROVIDING ENOUGH FOOD
TOKIO, July 24. (£>)—'The food
and population problem still contin
ues the most serious one confront
ing Japanese. At a recent meeting
of high officials of the Department
of Agriculture and Forestry it was
decided that the government should
revise the regulations for opening up
and bring land under cultivation.
The officials were of the opinion
that there are considerable areas in
Hokkaido and Korea which might
be opened up and tilled if proper en
couragement were offered settlers.
It was stated that, while the area of
land in Japan and the volume of I
foodstuffs have been materially in
creased, the rate of increase has be
gun to fall off lately and is not keep
ing pace with the increase of popu
lation.
Consequently, additional induce
ments are to be offered settlers in
the districts which are still open to
cultivation.
Steamer Starr Will Reach
Port At 7 o’Clock Tonight
The Steamer Starr, Capt. O. A. Jo
hansen, according to a wire received
today, will arrive in port tonight about
7 o’clock. The Starr has been as far
west as Bristol Bay.
Fifteen Killed When
Packed Veranda Falls
MELBOURNE, Australia, July 25
(£>)—Fifteen -persons were killed and
several hundred injured when the
packed verandas of a moving picture
theatre collapsed while the crowds
were watching a parade of sailors
from the Amr fleet in the harbor.
Subscribe to The Daily Gateway.
ALIMONY DODGER
LIKES HIS PRISON
NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., July 24
(#>)—Jonathan A. Meeker, 72 years old
who has been confined in jail here the
past three years because he refuses
to pay his wife $12 weekly alimony,
was released today by prison ol fa
cials who refuse to board his longer
at the county’s expense. Meeker says
he likes the jail so well that he is will
ing to remain there the rest of his
life if he can dodge paying alimony.
LOCOS BEAR NAME OF
WELL KNOWN PACERS
LONDON, July 24. (/P)—The Lon
don and North Eastern Railway has
revived a custom of the old stage
coach days, when every coach had its
name, and now gives every locomo
tive a title instead of a number.
The first of a series will be named
for well known race horses, some of
the new locomotives being labelled
“Flying Fox,” “Ormonde,” “Hermit,”
“Ladas,” “Persimmon,” “Robert le
Diable,’ “Donovan,” “Doncaster,” and
other notable runners of the turf.
The Southern Railway also has
adopted the idea, naming its engines
for wrell known men. “His Majesty,”
the largest locomotive on the line is
one, and “The Prince of Wales,” an
other.
Every locomotive in the passenger
service throughout the country soon
will have its name and in time none
but the little freight yard engines
will be known by numbers.
Lord lurzon lomments
Actions Lloyd George
LONDON, July 24 (JP)—The Even
ing Standard says that Lord Curzon’s
comment yesterday referred to Lloyd
George “adopting the functions of the
foreign secretary” during the fashion
ingof the Versailes treaty.
Recount of Bailots
Show Brookhart Gains
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 24 (JP)—
A substantial gain for Senator Brook
hart in a recount of the ballots in the
contest from last year’s Iowa election,
was registered today by the Senate
committee engaged in counting the
ballots on the basis of the unofficial
tabulations.
MOONSHINE RESPONSIBLE FOR
YOUNG MAN’S CONDITION
Wilbur Story, for more than a doz
en years employed on the White Pass
railroad, first as a brakeman and later
as a fireman, was adjudged insane in
U. S. Commissioner Paine’s court and
ordered taken to the sanitarium at
Morningside, says Stroller’s Weekly,
of Juneau. Story is said to have been
imbibing heavily of a very inferior
brand of moonshine for the past sev
eral months and until he conceived
the impression that enemies were
about to get him. He came to Juneau
a few days ago but his imaginary
pursuers were still trailing him and
even after he was taken into custody
they continued to make grimaces at
Story is from Syracuse, New York,
him through the bars,
where relatives reside. He made a
trip outside a few years ago and mar
ried an adopted cousin in Syracuse.
His wife did not accompany him north
and he did not return to her. A year
or so ago she got a divorce on the
grounds of non-support.
The Manufacturer is authority for
the statement that there are a total
approximately 2,000,000 laws, na
tional, state and local, in effect in
the United States today. Yet people
of Moses’s time got along with only
ten, none of which are very enthusi
astically observed at this writing.
French Vigorously Shell
Retreating Rebel Forces
PARIS, July 24 (/P)—Vigorously
shelled by the pursuing French artil
lery, the rebellious Riffian tribesmen
of Morocco were hastening in retreat
from the Ain Aicha and Ain regions
on the center of the line, taking the
civil populations of the villages and
their flocks. The French foreign of
fice says that the peace terms pro
posed by Abd el Krim will be ignored
unless made through official channels.
JAPANESE NONAGENARIANS
TOKIO, July 24. (/P)—In connec
tion with the imperial gifts distribut
ed to persons over 90 years of age,
on the occasion of the royal silver
wedding, the authorities found 19,500
persons in Japan who were eligible.
Sixty -per cent of these were women.
Two women, 111 years of age each,
held the longevity record.
Textile Industry Shut
Down By Walk-Out
BRADFORD, Eng., July 24 (Jp)— A
shut down is reported of the wool tex
tile industry over wage disputes af
fecting 135,000 workers. A free for all
fight occurred at Barkersend Hill,
where many girl workers whose wages
were not affected stuck to their posts.
Police prevented casualties.
English Miners Call
Strike for July 31st
LONDON. Julv 24 f/Pt—A strike
called for July 31 by the coal miners
of the nation is expected to bring out
a million to a million and a quarter j
men. The London Times sees no hope
of settling the strike as the dispu
tants are irreconciliable.
JAPANESE DIVERS TRAVEL FAR
TO RECOVER SUNKEN RICHES
TOKIO, July 24. (^P)—A party of
Japanese, including expert divers, ex
pects to leave soon for Port Said, to,
engage in salvaging the government j
transport Yasaka Maru, which was
sent to the bottom of the Meditter
ranean by German submarines during
the World War. The transport had
on board gold bullion valued at $500,
000.
The Japanese will attempt also to
salvage the British liner Egypt,
which was sunk by submarines near
Marseilles with $1,000,000,000 aboard.
Will of Late Marquis
Curzon Is Suppressed
LONDON, July 24 (^)—The Morn
ing Post says a portion of the will of
the late Marquis Curzon has been sup
pressed temporarily because of the
sensational nature of some of the
comments therein anent certain of his
colleagues, especially the former prime
minister under whom Curzon served.
The will, which was probated yester
day, places the gross value of the es
tate at $1,775,000.
BASEBALL AND MOSQUITOES
A man who had visited Fairbanks
and was on his way back south told
Stroller’s Weekly that he had witness
ed a very interesting game of mid
night baseball wrhile at Fairbanks. He
said the score was a tie, being 0 to
said the score was a tie, being 0—0,
and he was the one.
Prof. Fritz Haber, noted German
chemist, declares that chemistry may
yet enable men to prolong their lives
indefinitely by supplying substances
to take the place of those that wrear
out.
New discoveries of remarkable cave
drawings by prehistoric men in the
south of France, have been made by
M. Mandement, a French savant.
MILLION DOLLARS
WORTH RAW FUR
SOLD IN SEATTLE
SEATTLE, July 24 (/P)—A half mil
lion dollars worth of raw furs were
sold in the two days sale at the Fur
Exchange this past week. The skins
were from Alaska, British Columbia,
the Yukon, Alberta and the North
western states, with sixty buyers
present, mostly from the East.
About sixty per cent of the offer-,
ings "were sold, beaver, the heaviest
of all being taken at extra large and
good colors, $33; mediums, $20; and
j smalls, $12. Lynx sold well at large,
;$30; mediums, $18; smalls, $12.
Muskrat, open market basis, brot
up to $1.14; Alaskans, 70 to 90 cents.
Mink, half unsold, balance brot fair
prices. Dark, interior Alaskans and
Yukons at $12; pale, springy Alas
kans, $5 to $7; coast, $4 to $8.
Red fox sold poorly. Interior num
| ber ones brot $23 to $25; twos, $16;
three, $5 to $8. *
Ermines all sold. Alaskans $1.40.
Blue fox was neglected, although
1 prices were better than last month.
! Marten slow; Alaskans $18 to $20.
i Sable and cross fox, no demand.
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Northwestern Due Seward
About 9 o’Clock Saturday
The steamship Northwestern of the
Alaska Steamship Company, was
•scheduled to depart from Sheppard’s
I Point, two miles from Cbrdova, about
noou today ana uccoruiug iu icicih
advices received at the local office will
arrive in Seward about 9 o’clock to
morrow evening.
ROMAN EDITORS FIND WAY
TO BEDEVIL THE CENSOR
ROME. July 24. (/P)—Italian news
papers devoted to espousing the
cause of political parties opposed to
Fascism have initiated a novel meth
od of serving their readers with
news and opinions criticising the gov
ernment.
Each time an edition of an opposi
tion newspaper is suppressed by the
censors, a subsequent edition prints
a modest item setting forth the title
of the article which caused the sup
pression. But each title is signifi
cant enough to explain the context
of the offending article.
For example, the Mondo says, “Our
second edition was suppressed be
cause of an article entitled ‘Respon
sibility,’ commenting on a similar
article in the Popolo d’ltalia. Our
third edition was suppressed because
of a comment on the reply of Min
ister Rocco on the interrogation of
the Facist Deputy De Marisco about
the transfer of certain Milanese mag
istrates.
WILBUR STOREY TAKEN
TO MORNINGSIDE, INSANE
Wilbur Storey, for many years
fireman on the White Pass at Skag
way and later took the right hand
side of the cab, was recently adjudg
ed insane in Commissioner’s Court,
Juneau, and was ordered committed
to Morningside. Storey was laboring
under th edelusion that someone was
seeking to kill him, and he said he
feared if he remained in Alaska he
would be killed. Wilbur, in addi
tion to being employed by the White
Pass for many years was a well
known navigator, both in Southeast
ern and Southwestern Alaska wa
ters. He was pilot on the Admiral
Rogers, formerly the old Spokane,
the Jefferson, and the last time he
piloted was on the lighthouse ten
der Cedar, about two years ago.
Airplane ambulances will soon be
put into service by a New York hos
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