Hemard Bale Gnteumy
VOLUME XVIII NUMBER 261
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1923
PRICE TEN CENTS
LEE H. LAKDtS. MM6EB OF RAILROAD. TO
SUL FDR SEWARD ON STEAMSHIP AUSKA
SEATTLE, Oct. 28.—Lee H. Landis arrived here to
day, en route to Alaska to take over the management of
the Alaska railroad. He will sail Saturday on the steamer
Alaska.
4 In an interview here today Air. Landis said: “There is no question abcu%
the scenic attractions of the Alaska Railway. Our passenger rates are al
ready the lowest in Alaska, and this gives us a basis on which to go out
for the tourist business, and that is one thing I am going to take up itb
out delay. Every tourist who goes to Alaska is a prospective homeseekei j
or an investor.” Mr. Landio ■will sail north batuida\.
u.
CURSES THE LOT OF
AMERICAN VETS
AMERICAN LEGION IN CHARGES
AGAINST BUREAU TELL OF
MANY BARBARITIES
CRIPPLED SOLDIERS GET DOPE
Investigation Shows a Deplorable
State of Rottenness and Graft
in Hospital Management
WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.—America’s
disabled veterans have been subjected
to brutality and curses in many of the
hospitals in charge of the \ eterans
Bureau, according to a charge made
today by American Legion officials in
special report to the Investigating
Committee, who is grilling Charles
Forbes, director of the Bureau, over
alleged charges of graft and irregular
ities in conducting these institutions.
The Legion representatives said at
the Camp Kearney, California, hospi
tal, there were evidences that ped
dlers of both liquors and drugs, hov
ered about the hospital, selling to
patients, who smuggled them into the
institution where others were made
addicts.
(Anchorage Times)
The violent storm which visited this
district recently caused considerable
damage in the vicinity of Kenai and
Kusilof according to Dr. John A.
Flanders, who arrived here on the
mail boat Salmo Sunday.
Dr. Flanders, a physician from the
e.tf- , and a disabled world war vet
eran, expects to spend the winter on
Kusilof lake, recovering his health.
The storm, he said, changed the
courses of Indian river and bear creek
and a landslide occurred at Glacier,
near the lake.
A number of small boats were
swamped the night of the storm he
said.
Charles Wagner’s cabin at the
mouth of Bear creek was formerly
about 500 yards from the water; it
is now but a few feet distant from
the stream. Lake Kusilof rose three
Ijee i in one night.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.—Army air
service pilots are authorized to make
a flight from France field, in the ca
rnal zone to Guatemala City and other
(M itral American capitals for the
purpose of establishing closer rela
tions between the United States and
the Central American republics.
KLANS WARNED TO KEEP
AWAY FROM CITY OF BUTTE
BUTTE, Oct. 29.—Sheriff Larry
Dughan said that he had ordered his
deputies to “shoot to kill any Ku
Klux who appeared in Butte. He said
mis men had climbed the heights of
continental Divide Saturday probingj
the mysterious light which observers
said was the fiery cross, the emblem
of the klans.
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IMPORTANT
One of the most important projects'
of the Bureau of Public Roads in the
Third division the past season was
the completion of the Seward-Kenai
lake road. Its length is 18 miles, 4%
1 of which was graded this season and
will be surfaced early next year. The
' cost of the work was estimated a'.,
. $58,400. • ■ - ‘
I Another important piece of work on
i ihe Kenai peninsula was the building
of the Hope-Sunrise road from Moose
Pass to Sunrise, at a cost of about
$38,900. This road was built, bv the
Road commission in i505, anu owing
to resuming of mimng operations, was
rehabilitated this year by the B. P. R
Another mining road tapping a dis
trict tributary to the railroad was the
completion of the Hope-Palmer cref.t
route. This road is 12% miles long
and cost $65,000 to build.
Work on the Girdwood-Crow creek
road was started this season, 4 and
a half miles of the total of seven
miles being constructed this season.
The total cost of this road is about
$25,000.
Surveys of projects with an aggre
gate of 81 miles were completed this
year.
Maintenance work was kept well up,
on all roads this year said the re
port of Mr. C. W. Cheatham, assist-,
ant district engineer In charge of the
(Bureau’s road work in the 1 erritorj.
j WASHINGTON, Oct. 29— Progres
' sive leaders declared today that the
| reddest flag official Washington could
i wave across the wheat fields of the.
! Northwest is the proposal to place
knee breeches on Frank Kellogg and
present him to the King at Bucking
ham Palace in the place of Ambassa-j
dor Harvey.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.—At least
3.6S acres must be allowed for each
well drilled on government oil lands, j
under a new ruling promulgated today!
by the Interior department.
ALAMEDA HAS MADE LAST TRIP
CF SEASON TO ANCHORAGE
Returning to Seward last night, of
ficials of the boat said that they had
made the last trip of the season to
Anchorage. The Northwestern and
the steamship Alaska will go to An
chorage on account of having perish-J
ables on board for interior points, and:
will ply the remainder of the winter
as far as Seward only. The Victoria;
will take the place of the Alaska thru
the winter season.
SHERMAN DUGGAN ILL
It is reported that Sherman Duggan,
U. S. District Attorney, suffered a
nervous breakdown at Cordova re
cently and was compelled to return to
his home in Valdez.
Saturday Gateway, 13 per year.
COPYRIGHT KEYSTONE VIEW CO., NEW YORK
FAMOUS HUNGARIAN STATESMAN AND HIS DAUGHTER
Count Albert Apponyl, Known as
the greatest living Hungarian, and a
leading statesman of Europe, who, ac
companied by his daughter, Countess
Marika, recently arrived in the United
States. The Count was invited by the
au-American committee ana tne in
stitute of International Education to
deliver thirty lectures on the Euro
pean situation and he plans to tour,
the country during his two months!
stay in America.
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CAMPIGNY, France, Oct. 29.—Al
though professing to welcome Ameri
can representation on a reparations
commission, Premier Poincare in a
speech here yesterday declared thal
France would refuse to allow the re>
parations commission to be divested
of its functions or replaced by some
other body. He said France would
never agree to any reduction in the
German debt.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J„ Oct. 29.—
A resolution authorizing the expul
sion of two members of the Ku Klux
Klan from the membership was pass
ed by the Atlantic City Lodge of Elks
at its meeting last week.
In making public the resolution the
Exalted Ruler said the action was the
forerunner of a national campaign by
the Elks to Americanize their order
by ruling against the Ku Klux Kians.
Klans.
He said the principles of the Klan
were in direct variance to precepts
on which the order of Elks is found
ed and religious hatreds would not be
tolerated.
SEATTLE, Oct. 29.—Bert Clark ot
Tacoma was killed, and Owen H. Wat
son, lighthouse keeper at Guard island
Alaska, was badly injured wThen a big
touring car in which they were joy
riding with two women, plunged off an
embankment on the Seattle and Taco
ma highway last night.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.—Five en
listed men met death when the sub
marine 0-5 was sunk in a collision
with the steamer Abangareg in Limon
Bay, Panama Canal zone, today.
LOCAL MAN RECEIVES PICTURES
OF FLIGHT OF SHENADOAH
OVER CITY OF CHICAGO
Chicago relatives of Mr. and Mrs.
Otto Schallerer of the Alaska Shop,
have sent them a newspaper clipping
and illustrated sheets showing the
flight of the big dirigible Shenandoah
over Chicago. These pictures are on
display in the windows of the Alaska
Shop and are quite interesting. The
Shenandoah may make a trip to the
North next reason.
SEC. ROOSEVELT
OIL LINOS STOCK
WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.—Assistant
Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt, ad
mitted today that he or members of
his family have been financially inter
ested in the Sinclair Oil Company’s
lease of the Teapot Dome naval oil
reserve since 1916. The admission
was brought out by an investigation
of the lease and the interests of the
Sinclair Oil Company during Secretary
Fall’s administration.
CROSSFS TIE ITIITIC
IN 14-FOOT SOIL BOUT
Capt. Wm. A. Andrews, the Massa
chusetts piano maker, who in 1S92
crossed the Atlantic ocean from Atlan
tic City, N. J., to Palos, Spain, in The
Sapolio, making the trip in 63 days
alone, is to have a rival. A New York
skipper now declares he will cross
the Atlantic in 50 days with a 13 foot
boat.
The measurements of the sloop Sa
polio, in which Capt. Andrews made
his famous trip are: length, 14 feet, 6
inches: beam 5 feet, 5 inches; depth
3 feet; mast 8 feet high, bowsprit
with jib. Total sail area less than
15 square yards.
LIU GEORGE’S VISIT (
PIECE OF IOD FORTUNE
WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.—The visit
of Lloyd George to America has been
a piece of good fortune for the cause
of international accord, President
Coolidge declared in a letter to the
Overseas writers’ clubs.
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TO BUT OIL STOCKS
FORT WORTH, Texas, Oct. 29.—
Mary A. Phillips, widow of a' civil
war veteran related to a trial jury to
day that she had sold the rugs off the
floors of her little home to buy oil
stocks in one of Dr. Cook’s companies.
The woman said the promoter had
taken thousands of dollars from her
self and her neighbors.
WARNS OF HYDROPHOBIA
DURING WINTER MONTHS
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Oct. 29.—Pet
snakes, dogs, monkeys, cats and other
breeds of domesticated animals are in
more danger of hydrophobia in winter
than in summer, according to Dr. Wm.
Litterer, state pasteurologist, who has
issued a general warning to house
holders to watch their pets. "He ad
vises all persons to take heed if an
animal acts strangely as this is a sure
symptom of madness.
SKINNER 10 EDDY. SEATTLE CORPORATION
SEATTLE, Oct. 29.—The government announced it
will bring suit in the Federal Court here against Skinner
& Eddy for recovery of five to ten million dollars for the
return of excess profits. The concern is credited with hav
ing made $30,000,000 in constructing ships for war pur
poses.
A call has been issued* by the city,
of Ketchikan to all municipalities in
the First division to hold a special
election, Tuesday, November 6th, on
the question of territorial division,
and to that end gather the best pro
curable evidence to present to Con
gress. A convention will be held in
Juneau, November 15th, following the
election, to decide on further steps to
bring about the division.
Each municipality will elect one
delegate for every 300 registered vo
ters or fraction thereof.
The question of eivtsion should also
be endorsed by the voters of the Third
division and other parts of the Terri
tory, as it is necessary that the mat
ter be unanimous. It is not believed
there will be any opposition to such
division, many residents of the rail
road section believing that it would be
better for us if Valdez and Cordova
were included in the territory assigned
to the First division.
The Seward Chamber of Commerce
will be asked to indorse the division
at its meeting tomorrow'.
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Weather Observer R. S. Eisner re
ports that Cordova had 30 inches of
rain during the first 20 days of this
month, which is 50 per cent heavier
than previous rainfalls in October.
Seward has had less than 11 inches
in the same time.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.—A confer
ence of Pennsylvania republicans of
prominence in their efforts to secure
modification of the Volstead Act, has
just been held here to devise plans to
prevent Governor Gifford Pinehot from
securing the Pennsylvania delegation
in the next Republican convention. It
is alleged that their opposition Is I
based on Pinchot’s demand that the!
government enforce the prohibition
laws.
Among those who sat in were An
drew W. Mellon, Senators, Reed and
Pepper, and Chairman Baker of the'
State committee.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.—November
26th has been agreed upon as the date
for the Ottawa conference between
Canada and the United States on the
prohibition question.
SURVEY PARTY LEFT NOME
FOR STATE LAST THURSDAY
On account of the storms which
have been raging in Bering Sea, the
members of the U. S. geological sur
vey party which made a trip into the
Point Barrow region the past summer
to survey oil lands, held in reserve
by the government, were unable to
cross from Nome to St. Michael in
time to make the trip up the Yukon,
so left Thursday on the Victoria for
the States.
TROOPS DISPERSE REDS
DRESDEN, Oct. 29.—The Red ter
ror in Saxony has been crushed under
the iron heels of 60,000 troops.
ENGINEER OF ALASKA RAILROAD
SAYS DAMAGE GREATER
THAN FIRST SUPPOSED
BRIDGE AT GLACIER OBSTACLE
Train Crews Have Accomplished Mir
acles in Way of Repair Work j
on Grades and Bridges
Major John C. Gotwals, who passed
through Seward last night on his way
to Juneau, states that in his opinion
normal traffic on the Alaska railroad
will be resumed by November 6. He
declared that the damage was much
greater than at first supposed and
that while the bridge crews and re
pairmen had worked miracles in fix
ing up the damage it would require
some little time yet to repair the big
bridge at Mile 54, near Spencer gla
cier, where the rails and trestle were
carried away.
Major Gotwals said that the line is
clear at all points today expect at
Mile 54, and that about 200 feet of
trestle had to be replaced at this
point, construction depending on the
piledriver crews.
Major Gotwals will return to Seward
on the Alaska, and it is said will go
over the road with Manager Landis
in a gas car.
311 THIS I
'i lie steamship Alameda arrived in
port at 12;30 this morning and sailed
an hour later for Seattle with the
following local passengers:
For Latouclie—S. Lind, Robert Dahl
S. E. Phillips, and John Halartz.
For Valdez—A. Henningsen, Carl
Almy, L. V. Ray.
For Cordova—Otto Martins.
For Juneau—E. M. Polley.
For Seattle—Mae Thompson, \Ym.
T. Hunt, John Wells, Peter Chatham,
Martin Rockwell, Warren Most, Bish
op Crimont, Victor Anderson, E. L.
Senft.
Anchorage Passengers on the Ala
meda were:
For Seattle—Sam Morris, Ruby De
Graff, George Risvold, S. Shelness, E.
T. Hann, Miss Marie Freeman, Mrs.
George Roll, W. C. Cornell, Conrad
Wallen, Orvan Cox, Ray Moore, John
B. Hoerler, H. G. Warner, Mrs. Sara
Martin, R. A. Beman, Eva B. Beman,
N. S. Needham, Mrs. Needham and
baby, Jack Needham, Mr. and Mrs.
Carl, Betty Carl, Mr. and T. J. Heron,
J. Glomer, Mr. and Mrs. O. E. Sauter.
For Juneau—M. S. Wilson, Major
John C. Gotwals.
For Latouche—Dolly Conrad.
CHICAGO, Oct. 29.—Mayor William
E. Dever’s name is on the list of own
ers of personal property in Chicago,
who failed to file returns and thereby
have been penalized by the imposition
of an additional tax of 50 cents on
their total assessment, it has been
learned.
“I am already overtaxed far beyond
what I should pay, but I am willing to
pay this,” said the Mayor.
DECATUR, Oct. 2S.—The biennial
conference of the National Council of
Women opened here today.