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VOLUME XXI, NUMBER 187.
SEWARD, ALASKA. THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1926.
PRICE TEN GENTS
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FUR AUCTION IN SEATTLE AND
WINNIPEG BRINGS FAIR RETURNS
-TOP PRICE FOR MINK, BLUE FOX
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RED FOX OFFERINGS POOR SOLD FOR $24—BEST
LOTS OF WHITE FOX SOLD AT $38—BEST CROSS
FOX $55 AND ALASKAN PALE $20 TO $22—DARKS
WENT FOR $25 TO $28. ~ ^ >
NEXT SEATTLE SALE OF FURS BE HELD ON SEPTEMBER 15
Silver Sold Rapidly at Coast Sale—Blue Fox Moved Poor
ly—At Winnipeg White Fox Brought $35 to $38 With
Top Price at $45—Silver Fox Averaged From $90 to
$160.
SEATTLE, Aug. 19 (/P)—Mink moved rapidly at the
fur exchange auction with the top price of $24 being paid
Red fox was poor, the best Alaskans selling for $24; mus
krats sold well, the high price commanding $1.84; white
fox went up to $54.50 with the best lots selling for $38.
The best cross fox brought $55; Alaskan pale $20 to $22;
darks, §25 to §28; silvers went rapidlyl
Half of the lynx were sold. Alberta
martin went up to S20; coast skins
brought $12 to §15. Ermine were all
sold, the best bringing §2.75; otter
went rapidly; beaver S23 to $25; blue
fox moved poorly. Several specimens
of skins went as high as $102.00. The
next sale will be held September 15.
PROVIDING NATURAL RESOU RC- j
ES OF ISLANDS SUFFICIENT
LY DEVELOPED
CEBU ISLAND. Cebu. Aug. 19 (£>)
—Senator Sergio Osmena, head of the
delegation who spent last winter in
Washington, declared he had the
promise of President Coolidge that
the United States would withdraw*
from the Phillippines just as soon as
the natural resources of the Islands
wTere sufficiently developed for their
self support. Osmenia in introducing
Carmi A. Thompson, quoted Coolidge
as saying, “We are sending an emis
sary with Thompson to see how ad
ministration is helping you. We are
going to withdraw from the Phillip
pines, but don’t intend to leave you
with, limited resources.”
m ISSUANCE LICENSE
DEMPSEY-TUNNEY FIGHT
NEW YORK, Aug. 19 (fi>) — Tex
Rickard trained batteries of legal
guns on the state license" commis
sion yesterday, seeking court action
to compel issuance of a license to 1
Jack Dempsey to fight Gene Tunneyi
at the Yankee stadium.
Twenty men were sent north this
morning to join railroad crews on the
Curry-Healy division.
WATSON SOLD OUT ON
SOUTHBOUND HOE
TOURISTS JOIN SHIP
PACIFIC STEAMSHIP COMPANY
VESSEL HAS BANNER LIST
ING OF SEASON
Sixty reservations were made local
ly for the southbound trip of the S.
S. Admiral Watson, P. S. S. Co., which
left port last evening. This number, j
! auugmented by the large number of
j round trippers, filled every reserva
tion available. Seventeen of the reser
vations were from tourists who ar
rived in the city last evening from the
Interior following completion of the
Circle Tour, Skagway, Dawson Ne
nana, Seward.
The southbound listing out of Sew
ard, irrespective of the list published
yesterday and the round trippers, in
cluded:
Cordova—Mrs. G. W. Edgecomb,
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Couden, Geo. j
Wagner, W. W. Batchelor, R. J. Som
i
mers, A. E. Lathrop, B. B. Mozee, j
Chas. Crosare. t
Juneau—Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Cannon,
Sam Ashe, L. Vien, R. McDonald.
' Latouche—Miss E. Hamilton, Ben
Devert.
Ketchikan—E. W. Anderson, M. S.
Carlson, C. Johnson.
Seattle—Ronald Bertuck, Miss M.
Shallo, Miss W. Gaw, Mrs. Anna Gaw,!
Arvid Anderson, Mrs. R. D. Pinneo, j
Jeanette Pinneo, J. V. Nash, Mr. and;
Mrs. R. H. Humphries, Mr. and Mrs. j
Fred Krause, J. L. Bestwick, Mrs. F. J
L. Bestwick, J. R. Louden, Miss L.,
Jacobs, Miss Sam Callahan, Mrs. Felix
Brown, Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Butler, H.
J. Bailey, R. O. Jones, Oscar Oleson,
Fred TJreger, Paul Menecke, B. K.
King, Nels Forlang, A. Ranken.
Numerous tourists arrived in the
city last evening from Interior points.
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Henry Coulyard, of Moose Pass, was
among those arriving in town last,
evening.
JAMES FALLEN LANDS ON SARICH
EFF; CAME IN SMALL DORY
EXHAUSTED CONDITION
(Special to The Gateway)
! DUTCH HARBOR, Aug. 19 —James
[ Allen, a cod fisherman from the
schooner Gallilee, landed on Saricheff
Island this morning in a small dory,
after having been adrift ten days. The
schooner is anchored 40 miles from
Sanak. Allen is suffering from sun
burn and exposure, but will probably
recover. He was compelled to eat raw
codfish in order to subsist. He walked
into the light house at Sarichef and
yelled, “is anybody home. Give me
assistance.” He then fell over uncon
scious and remained s1^ for seven
hours. Kashevroff and the machinist
of the lighthouse were decidely
scared, by the appearance of Allen,
and each thought the other had gone
crazy.
TWO ML ENSIGNS
PLUNGE DEATH; PLANE
DIVE INTO LAKE MICHIGAN
WHEN ENGINES DIE; GEO.
HAMMER, E. F. STONE
CHICAGO, Aug. 19 (/P)—Two naval
ensigns plunged to their deaths today
when the sea planes they were flying
over Lake Michigan, near the great
lakes Naval training station, dived
into the water. Dead engines was giv
en as the cause. They are George
Hammer of Texas, and Edgar F. Stone
of Howard S. D.
A. E. Lathrop, business man of this
and the Interior regions, arrived from
his Anchorage office last evening and
departed on the Admiral Watson for
Cordova.
OLDTH OF GOLD
CAMPS KILLS TWO
IN GON BUTTLE
CALIFORNIAN VETERAN RETAINS
EAGLE EYE WHEN SHOOTS
IT OUT WITH THREE
j LA MERCED Calif., Aug. 19 (TP)—
| Paul Baran a veteran of the gold
I camps of the old west matched marks
manship with three other men yester
day during a quarrel over a mining
claim and today, he leaves in the cus
tody -of deputy .sheriff of Mariposa
j county to face two charges of murder
and possibly three. He killed two of
| the men outright, while the third man
is given a slight chance to recover.
THREE ARE KILLED WHEN
AUTO CRIISKES INTO TRAIN
MODESTA, Calif. Aug. 19 (TP)—Two
women and a girl were killed and an
other injured when the machine in
which they were riding was struck
by a northbound Santa Fe freight
train.
OUEENMARY TO VISIT
UNITED STATES, MONTH
BUCHAREST, Aug. 19 (TP)—Queen
Maries often postponed a visit to the
United States will be made this aut
umn. She will be accompanied by her
only unmarried daughter, Princess
Illena. They will depart about Septem
ber 8, for New York.
DEMPSEY-TUNIEl TO FIGHT ON EVE OF
SEPTEMBER THE 23, IT PHILADELPHIA
WORLD’S CHAMPIONSHIP BATTLE WILL BE FOUGHT IN SES
QUINCENTENNIAL STADIUM—TICKETS WILL RANGE IN
PRICE FROM $5 TO S30—RICKARD ABANDONS COURT ACTION
TAKEN AGAINST N. Y. BOXING COMMISSION.
NEW YORK, Aug. 19 (/P)— Jack
Dempsey and Gene Tunney will
fight for the world’s championship
in a ten round decision fight, which
will be held in the gigantic Ses
quincentennial stadium , at Phila
delphia on the night of September
23. Tex Rickard made this an
nouncement after abandoning the
court action against the New York
Boxing Commission. Governor Fin
chot, and Mayor Kendrick of the
Pennsylvania boxing commission
and directors of the exposition are
supporting Rickard. Additions are
planned to the stadium to make it
hold 150,000. Tickets will sell for
55 and ranging to $30.
MRS. GJIINES MIGHT
HIVE KILLED GIRL
ASSERTS CURIUM
GAINES HEARS SELF DESCRIBED
DRUNKEN WASTREL; RE
MAINED COMPOSED
SEATTLE, Aug. 19 (£>)—Gaines
heard himself described as a drunken
wastrel who wronged his daughter
I Sylvia then, fearing exposure, brutal
ly murdered her. The defendant re
i mained composed under the Mtter
; denunciation which Allen Peyser,
! youthful deputy prosecutor, delivered
in starting the state’s arguments. Pey
!ser Pointed out, “That Sylvia’s body
;was found at 7:20 o’clock the morn
I in& after she was murdered, but it
l was not until 11 o’clock that it was
| identified. Yet at 7:50 a. m., we find
1
Gaines standing in the home of Mrs.
Memmer telling her, ‘I think I know
; who did it.’ Let me ask the defendant
■what he meant if he was telling the
! truth that all he knew was that the
t
girl had left home and had not re
turned. Are all girls who leave home
murdered?” Carmody answered, “Let
me say something that will fall hard
upon some of the ears in this court
room, but it has got to be said. If
Gaines had the horrible thought that
| something had befallen his daughter
it was because he knew she was not
safe under his own roof. He thought
possibly it was his own wife who did
it.” Mrs. Gaines burst into tears when
court adjourned.
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Newlyweds from Fairbanks, Mr. and
'Mrs. John J. Buckley, were overnight
; visitors in Seward. They left again
I this morning en route home. Mr.
Buckley is a deputy marshal in the
: Fourth division.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 19 (£>)—
Miss Australia, bathing beauty showed
j that unlike some* of the* bathing beaut
ies, she really could swim. She dem
onstrated it at two places yesterday
during a round of festivities given in
her honor by San Francisco this week,
she is enroute to the Atlantic City
Annual Beauty Pageant, in which she
will .take part.
KELLOGG DENIES ADMINISTRA
TION TO WITHDRAW FROM
GENEVA CONFERENCE
PLATTSBURG, Aug. 19 (^—Sec
retary Kellog said the government
“wants results,” in progressive inter
national agreements with regard to
limit of armaments, particularly the
naval. He denied the administration
contemplates withdrawal fl|pm the
Geneva conference, instead of work
ing to cut down the military burden.