« Hemnrd Dale
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS.
VOLUME 20. NUMBER 204 SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1,9 1925
PRICE TEN CENTS
TWO WAR VETS
FIND RICH LEAD
- AT NUKA BAY
YOUNG OLD TIMERS OF ALASKA
AMONG FEW AT NUKA BAY
DEVELOPING CLAIMS
TUNNEL WORK BEGUN
Expect to Have Property Opened Up
in Another Month—to Work all
Winter on Tunnel
It will be recalled if one will pause
for a moment, that all of the larger
quartz mining propositions in the Ter
ritory have been located on tidewa
ter. Operating mines on tidewater
* is the most economical method in the
world. This is just one reason why
Nuka Bay will come into prominence
much sooner than other quartz fields.
Another reason is because Nuka Bay
prospects uncovered today reveal that
there is unlimited tonnage. Through
development work has not progressed
so far that it is a certainty the leads
will not pinch out, yet from the fact
that so many large veins are scattered
all over the region is a fair barome
ter for one to gauge the extent of the
wonderfully rich field.
4 Clam Group Owned by Three Men
One of the outstanding quartz mines
In the district is the Clam group, own
ed "by three young men, yet old timers
in the Alaskan mining game: George
Pappatos, John Smith and Alex Kase
nek. Two months ago The Gateway
published a*, article de&lktg with the
strike made at Nuka Bay, while two
men were digging for clams. Kasenek
and Smith w'ere the men, who while
out on the beach bright and early
one morning, while the tide was way
out, were digging for the luscious
butter clams, their attention was at
tracted by a piece of float which had
fallen down from the near-by cliff.
> Upon examination and analysis they
discovered a rich lead had been found.
They immediately came into Seward
and with George Pappatos, night chef
at the Seward Grill, filed on the
ground. In casting about for a name
they arrived at the conclusion that
the Clam Group would be appropri
ate, especially with the above men
tioned significance attached to it.
Tunneling in Cliff
Smith and Kasenek have been on
the ground since the 10th of July,
tunneling thru the hard rock to date
for a distance of about 20 feet. Their
* lead is estimated at five feet, 150 feet
of which has been exposed. One-half
of the ore is gold-bearing, wThile the
remainder is heavy in galena. The
lead lays in a grayw^ack and slate for
mation with the face assaying at $18.
They are confident that assays from
the vein proper will run from $40 to
$50 a ton. The soil pans well with
splendid colors indicated.
The partners believe that after they
are in 50 feet on the tunnel and start
>a raise, blocking it out, they will have
over 100 feet of ore, as they figure
they will gain a foot for every foot
tunneled in. The lead has been traced
back on the surface for a distance of
approximately 3000 feet. The lead is
free from both walls and in place. It
is not broken nor has it been frozen.
Four claims in all comprise the hold- j
ings of this outfit.
, ' A Real Mine by Spring
By spring the owners of the ground
expect to have a couple of new cab
ins erected and the vein opened up
sufficiently for one to make a thor
ough examination, in fact, they say
it will be looking like a real gold
mine. Providing funds are available
they anticipate putting a mill on ihe
ground as soon as possible next year,
in between breathing spells this win
ter Smith and Kasenek w ill construct
one large cabin for living qaarteis.
Up to date they have been getting
V "* :Iong with a tent and a blacksmith
(Continued on Page Five)
FORD COMPANY INFRINGING
ON TRANSMISSION BANDS
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 19 (JP)—'The Ford
Motor Company is infringing on pat
ents for automobile transmission
bands, Parke & Bohn, Inc., of St.
Louis, declared in their bill of com
plaint filed in the United States court
today.
UNIDENTIFIED BODY FOUND
NEAR FRESNO, CALIFORNIA
FRESNO, Cal., Aug. 19 (/P)—An un
identified body fully clad has been
found on Hall Island, several hundred
yards up stream from Herndon Bridge
over the San Joaquin river, north of
here under circumstances leading the
authorities to believe that the man
had committed suicide by hanging 8
months ago.
BREWERIES FLOOD MARKET
WITH THE GENUINE STUFF
NEW YORK, Aug. 19 (£>)—'The sup
posedly defunct breweries in Pennsyl
vania, New Jersey, Massachusetts,
and the Middle West are flooding the
East with thousands of berrels of real
beer to supply the market cut off by
the rum blockade.
FORTY FIVE DIE
WHEN STEAMER
BOILER EXPLODES
NEWPORT, R. I., Aug. 19 (JP)—
Physicians forecast 45 deaths, with
32 already dead, from an explosion
which occurred yesterday on the ex
cursion steamer Mackinac, when a
patch blew off her boiler. Fifty out
of 677 passengers were seriously hurt
many breathing live steam, from which
death is unusually slow.
Death List Twenty-Three
NEWPORT, R. I., Aug. 19 (JP)—'The
death list from the boiler explosion
on the ship Mackinac, was 23 out of
the 100 injured. The vessel was near
the Newport naval station at the time
of the accident. All the injured in
haled live steam.
MEMOIRS BE PUBLISHED
j MIAMI, August 19. (JP)—'The per
| sonal memoirs of Bryan, whereon the
commoner was working at the time of
his death, will be released to the news
papers for publication, his widow an
nounced.
HEAVY RAINFALL
VISITS CORDOVA
CORDOVA, Alaska, Aug. 19 (JP)—
Four and a half inches of rainfall fell
in a twelve hour storm which struck
here Monday at 10 p. m. A high
wind accompanied the rainfall. Two
washouts are reported on the Copper
River railway. A baseball excursion
carrying 100, bound for McCarthy,
was forced to turn back.
Several wrashouts and slides occur
red along the Eyak road. No damage
was done here.
BASEBALL
National
Brooklyn 4, Pittsburg 11.
New York 7, Chicago 1.
Boston 6-5, St. Louis 2-2.
Philadelphia 5-10, Cincinnati 7-11.
American
Chicago 4, Boston 2.
Detroit 2, New York 5.
St. Louis 7, Philadelphia 6.
Cleveland 4, Washington 7.
Coast
Los Angeles and Vernon traveling.
Sacramento 8, Seattle 3.
Salt Lake 4, Portland 2.
Oakland 10, San Francisco 6.
BELGIAN AND U. S.
HAVE AGREED ON
PAYMENT DEBT
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 19 (£>)—
American and Belgian commissioners
yesterday reached an agreement which
was approved by President Coolidge
when Secretary Mellon and Senator
Smooth visited him in Plymouth Mon
day. American agreed to forfeit the
interest on money lent Belgium dur
ing the world war, Belgium to pay the
sum lent during the war, which
totals $175,000,000, payment extend
ing over 62 years without interest.
A total of $246,000,000 loaned after
the armistice will be paid over a pe
riod of 62 years writh some remission
of interest.
The commissioners agreed that this
part of the debt should draw 3.5 per
cent after ten years.
ROW DEVELOPS
IN DEPARTMENTS
OF GOVERNMENT
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 19 (JP).
Comptroller General McCarl said
yesterday that the Attorney General
I may make as many decisions as he
likes in regard to the conduct of the
comptroller’s office, but that the effect
would be persuasive 'only. McCarl re
jected a Naval protest, backed by the
government legal department for the
claim of $424 as payment for Rear
Admiral W. G. Bullard in transport
ing his wife from Hankow, China,
where her husband retired, to West
Virginia. McCarl said neither the At
torney General or any other head of
a department has ever had or now has
any jurisdiction to review a settle
ment with an accounting officer.
WILL NOt PERMIT PARADE
MEXICO CITY, August, 19. (/P)~Up
on protest by a group of representa
tives of organized labor, the Mexican
government yesterday announced that
the conference of American agitators
and radicals, scheduled for next week,
in this city, will not be permitted.
PRINCE WALES IN SO. AMERICA
BUENOS AIRES, August 19. (£>)—
A noisy welcome greeted the Prince
of Wales as guns from Argentine war
ships boomed a salute to the Prince.
GREB WINS FROM TOMMY BURNS
DETROIT, August 19. (;P)—Greb
won from Tommy Burns of Detroit in
a ten round battle. Greb outclassed
his opponent.
MACMILLAN MAY
TURN BACK ON
ACCOUNT COLD
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 19 (£>)—
Confronted with exceptionally cold
weather, snow and fog, the Donald
MacMillan expedition faces the possi
bility of abandoning for this year its
primary object of discovering land in
the unknown Polar regions.
The Navy department is awaiting a
reply to a message sent to Comman
der Byrd, when a decision will be
reached.
RAINS SWEEP JAPAN
TOKIO, August 19. (/P)—Central Ja
pan has been swept by torrential rains
and 2500 homes inundated in Tokio
alone, with thousands elsewhere. Rail
ways, telegraphs and telephones are
seriously hampered, but no lives have
been lost, so far.
Gateway want-ads bring results.
CLOCK NEARLY CRUSHES
MAYOR HYLAN OF NEW YORK
NEW YORK, August 19. (/P)—New
York’s mayorality campaign nearly
lost one of their star attractions last
night, when a heavy clock in Mayor
Hylan’s office crashed to the floor,
narrowly missing the mayor, and dent
ing the floor where it landed.
MORE KLAN RIOTS
MILLIS, Mass., August 19. (/P)—800
klansmen and anti-klansmen engaged
in a pitched battle here yesterday, the
latest of a similar series of disturb
ances in Massachusetts this week.
VICTIM OF OWN FOLLY
LOS ANGELES, Joseph Ward, for
merly assistant cashier of the bank
of Berwood, West Virginia, who is
charged with embezzling three hun
dred thousand dollars of fhat institu
tion’s money, is in jail here, a victim,
so he says, to bis own and others fol
ly.
PETAIN TO DIRECT FIGHT
AGAINST TRIBESMEN
PARIS, August 19. (/P)—Marshal
Petain will leave for Morocco before
August 20th to direct, w^hat is planned
to be the final phase of the operation
to crush Abd El Krim’s rebellious
tribesmen.
AIRCRAFT GUNS
MAKE FEW HITS
NEW YORK, Aug. 18 (/P)—Only 19
hits have been made in 16,000 shots
with anti-aircraft guns at Port Tilden
where tests are being conducted as to
the ability of the coast defense to
protect the port from attack from
air craft.
4,000 CATTLE BE DESTROYED
IN HOOF AND MOUTH WAR
^HOUSTON, Texas, August 10. (/P)—
Four thousand cattle, valued as $120,
000 will be killed and burned, in erad
icating the dread hoof and mouth di
sease carried on by officials of the Bu
reau of Animal Industry and State of
ficials, in the hoof and mouth war.
NEW ORLEANS SORE SPOT IN
SIDE OF DIRECTOR PROHIB.
NEW ORLEANS, August 19. (IF)—
New Orleans is a sore spot on the
prohibition department’s already ten
der heart, as this city leads the list
where bootlegging and traffic in con
traband liquor form a problem, E. B.
Yellowley, National Chief of Prohibi
tion! Agents, announced yesterday.
NEW STYLE SHIPS BE BENEFIT
SAN FRANCISCO, August 19. (£>)—
The Moore Shipyards here are build
ing eight new types of ships, which
they claim will decrease the rolling
from the average type of vessel, will
have an increase of eight per cent
deadweight tonnage and reduced fuel
consumption.
FUR AUCTION AT
WINNIPEG OPENS
WINNIPEG, Aug. 19 (&)—'The fur
auction opened here yesterday and
will continue four days. Prices in
clude lynx, $15 to $24, about 10 per
cent below previous sale prices; fox
$40 to $95; wolf, good quality, $8.50
to $16.75;
RIOTS IN VIENNA
VIENNA, August 19. (IP)—An anti
semetic organization called the Ha
ken Kreutlers, rioted the police charg
ing them with sabers. Six thousand
officers have been held in reserve with
five hundred guarding the entrances
to Jewish quarters. One hundred
rioters have been arrested so far.
SCHOONER MAUD
FREE FROM ICE;
NOW AT SIBERIA
j NOME, Aug. 19 (vP)—When inform
ed that the schooner Maud had help to
free herself from the ice pack in
which she was caught, Arnoout Cas
tel, master of the gaas schooner Cub
which arrived here this week, said
the Maud passed him under her own
pow'er August 4, near Kekurmi moun
tain on the north coast of Siberia.
Castel added that the Stamerpol
was the only steamer reported there
which had wintered in Baranola bay,
and came out ahead of the Maud,
which was farther west. Castel said
there was no ice east of Kolyuchin
Bay, and he did not see how a steam
er could be in the ice near the Maud.
He said the Maud must have been
seeking the Stavermpol, which is now
at Vladivostok. The Maud’s operator
said that a Russian steamer, which
was stuck in the ice near the Maud,
was still there.
EVIDENCES OF CULTURE
TWELVE THOUSAND YEARS
AGO IN MONGOLIA
NEW YORK, August 19. (#»)—Evi
dences of human culture in Mongolia
over twelve thousand years ago w'ere
unearthed by the Andrew's expedition
according to a cable to an Asia maga
zine.
Among other results discovered
were forty dinosaur eggs, ten million
i years old, dinosaur skeletons and the
j skulls of tiro premongol skeletons. A
! large collection of stone weapons and
| utensils wrere found with the slcele
I tons.
OFFENSIVE UNDER WAY
FEZ, August 19. (/P)—A great offen
sive in the Taza region has been
j started by the Army Corps with a mix
; ed brigade participating.
WITCHCRAFT IS
CAUSE OF INDIAN
BOY’S DEATH
VANCOUVER, B. C., Aug. 19 (£>)-—
Five Indians are held in connection
with the witchcraft murder of Was
tenia Moccasin, an Indian youth, on
March 19, at 30-Mile bar on the Laird
river. The Indians wrere captured
after a 2500-mile chase by the Royal
Northwest Mounted Police. They are
charged with tying Moccasin to a tree
and letting him freeze to death after
the tribe had decided he had bewitch
ed them.
BOMBS SHAKE UP HOMES
CHICAGO, August 19. (£>)—'The two
bombs which were exploded within a
short time of each other, in the west*
ern suburbs, shook two separate dis*
tricts, broke windows and in one case
two persons were injured. Labor
troubles were blamed for the blast.
GERMANY TO GIVE REPLY
PARIS, August 19. (TP)—The reply to
Germany’s latest Security Pact com
munication, is to be transmitted to
Brussels, London and Prague, today.
Leaps 2600 Feet Over
Cliff in Yosemite Park
YOSEMITE, Cal., Aug. 19 (£>)—Evi
dence that a man had committed sui
cide by leaping; 2600 feet near Yosem
ite Falls were revealed when rangera
found fragments of human bones at
the base of the falls believed to bo
those of Theodore Jackowski, of Saa
Francisco. A will and a suicide note,
dated June 7, was found on top of the
falls.