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VOLUME XV. NUMBER 537.
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•SEWARD, ALASKA SATURDAY, OCTOBER
25,
1920.
PRICE TEN CENT:
, MAMMOTH, HORSE. BISON
ROAMED INTERIOR ALASKA
MINERS FINDINGS SHOW
BONES OF GREAT ANIMALS LAY AMID THE
GOLD OF THE PLACERS WHERE GLACIERS
GROUND THEIR RUTHLESS WAY ACROSS
THE LODES.
(Editor’s Note: The following interesting account
of his travels over Alaska and his findings is written
by Dr. J. J. Cannon, who is remembered by Gateway
readers for his excellent description of the Bristol Bay,
Kuskokwim and Good News Bay countries. His detail
of the Goodnews platinum workings is the best that
has come out of that section and was widely copied.
In the present articles, Dr. Cannon who is now to the
Westward, tells of his scientific researches dealing
with pre-historic Alaska. The second installment of his
paper will be printed in an early issue.
EMPLOYMENT IS
' 1 THE INCREASE
SAYS REPORT
t
GAINS SAID TO HAVE BEEN
MADE INDUSTRIAL ACT
IVITIES
WASHINGTON, Oct., 25, OP)—
News of better industrial and
constructional activities in Sep
k mber came from the F; deral
Rerserve and added a measure
of optimism to the difficulties of
unemployment.
Meantime General Woods ron
: nued to build up his organiza
tion to work out relief over the
0 winter months.
From every ride came news
:hat steps are being taken with
out waiting for a central or
ganization.
The Post Office department
and Shipping Board announced
they are stopping overtime for
regular employes and taking on
extras. The Shipping Board will
r not cut down as had been pro
posed.
Chief gains in employment
were made in fruit canning, in
clothing manufacturers, coal
mines and retail establishments.
Employment dropped in iron,
steel, automobiles and lumber as
did production gains in copper
and textiles.
YUKON SMUG WITH
FEW FROM SMS
SEATTLE, Oct., 25, (/P)—The S.
£. Yukon, of the A. S. S. Co.,
■sailed for Alaska today at 9 a.
m. with 70 passengers, 18 for
Seward, as follows:
D. M. Wingfield, Valdemar An
derson and sister. Mrs. W. L.!
* Kinsell, Mr. and Mrs. O. H. Por- j
ter, Miss O. Beedle, Mrs. Gils
f Knapp, Robert McWharter, Co
bart LofT, Chas. Rouse, L. J. Pal- I
raer, J. Hennigar, Mr. and Mrs.)
Fred Schiller, Mrs. R. F. Bashan,
Miss Grace Turk, Mrs. Edith
Thoday.
Charles Sey, for many years,
U. S. Commissioner on Douglas i
Island, has been appointed U. i
S. Commissioner for the Juneau
Recording district to take the
place of Judge A. W. Fox, re-1
signed. 1
■ It was not my intention at the
beginning to go any further than
j writing a few brief and concise re
| ports on those “out of way places’
i s e 1 d o m traveled or seek
any publicity; for the reason that,
I’m a busy professional man
so it was only upon telegraphic
' urging that I’ve consented to de
! scribe a few of the many diverse
j specimens obtained in 1930; if I
! were to scientifically describe all
| those anthropology specimens, for
] example, it would involve too
! extensive and ambitious an un
1 der taking.
The search for the remains of
the early aborgines was somewhat
limited, owing to the fact that I
was alone and wasn’t so particul
arly interested and only those spe
cimens or objects that were easy
of access were collected; most
else being unmolested: besides most
of those specimens were frozen and
in the limited time at my disposal,
I had plenty of work cm hand, and
only covered the high spots.
For a clearer idea of our sub
ject the following outline repre
sents the ages covered. Apparently,
the Stone ace in Alaska is not pas
sed yet, in certain backward places
on the Western Bering Sea
Neolithic—Domestic Animals
Stone Age— Reindeer age—
Second Glacial
Paleolithic—Mammoth age
—Champlain
Bronze Age
Historic—Psychozic era—Man
Iron Age
FAR TRAVELS
Since November, 1929, I’ve tra
veled approximately 8,000 miles;
from Cook Inlet west to Umnak Is
land, Aleutian chain, back to Bris
tol Bay—eastern Bering Sea to
Kuskokwim and across the port
age to Russian mission, the Yu
kon; up the Yukon and Tanana
Rivers to Nenana, and back over
the railroad to Cook Inlet. During
my travels I’ve had the pleasure
of meeting a vast number of whites
and natives, and friends of 2 years
standing, many of whom have been
of assistance to me in obtaining
specimens of wide, diverse and of
unique interest to the Historical
Museum, Juneau, Alaska. I take
this occasion to thank them ,one
and all, for their kind assistance,
on behalf of the Museum.
From a numismatic viewpoint,
the collection of rare coins, world
wide in extent, secured from the
wreck of the Koshun Maru, a Jap
anese vessel wrecked February 10,
1930, at Scotch Gap, Unimak Pass,
Alaska, was undoubtedly the most
Interesting. As I recall it now, there
were about 36 coins in that collec
tion,—Europe, North and South
America, Asia, etc. Some thrifty son
of Nippon, not Scotch but just care
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NAVY DAY
Because of his efforts to build up a greater United
States Navy the men of the service and the Navy Lea
gue of the United States have taken the birthday of
Theodore Roosevelt as their own especial day, desig
nated thruout the service as “Navy Day.” On this an
niversary which occurs Monday October 27, the Navy
Department at Washington, D. C., the Navy stations
and Navy ships thruout the world, hold open house.
In anticipation of the day and as a message to the
people of Alaska showing what the Navy means to
them, Lieutenant Oliver H. Briggs, U. S. Navy, As
sistant District Communication Officer at the U. S.
Naval Radio Station, near Cordova, has sent the fol
lowing communication:
The prime mission of the Navy is to insure peace. The
many minor missions assigned all lead to this prime mission.
We of the Navy in Alaska have our mission, the establishing
and maintaining of an efficient communication service, part
of that far-flung service that keeps the Fleet mobile, fur
nishes navigational, hyydrographic and meteorological aids
to the mariner, succor to the shipwrecked and distressed, and
particularly in Alaska, furnishes between vessels at sea and
points ashore rapid intercourse.
Tiie Navy has established seven radio stations in Alas
ka: Sitka, Cordova, Kodiak, Dutch Harbor and St. Paul as
radio traffic stations and Soapstone Point and Cape Hinchin
brook as radio compass stations. In addition St. Paul, in the
Pribiloffs, also maintains a radio compass station. Each of
these stations covers a sector of the Alaska coast, and reach
es inr,o inaccessible points during the cannery season, gath
ering and forwarding communications.
These stations, forming the Alaskan Section, 13th Naval
District, are under immediate command of the Assistant Dis
trict Communication Officer, with Cordova as Section Head
quarters. Each station is under command of a Chief Radio
man. A total of G5 men man these stations, providing con
tinuous service throughout the day, year in and year out.
The Navy never sleeps. We are in the service of the public
every hour, watching and safeguarding the shipping to and
from Alaska, endeavoring to create a sense of safety, to!
furnish that safety.
With the work of our traffic stations most Alaskans are
aware. As they travel the coasts they from time to time
have message - they desire to forward to friends or business
representatives. The work of the radio compass stations is
not so well known except to “those who go down to the sea :
in ships.” You may have wondered at the unerring way the
ship nas found its way into Cordova from St. Elias around
Cape Ilinchinbrook or hit the hole at Cape Spencer in
stormy or foggy weather. Ask the Captain, the Pilot or the
ship’s radio operator, and he will tell you of the unerring j
work of the Navy’s compass stations giving the ship, by use j
of its extremely accurate direction finders, its exact posi- j
tion at any given moment.
Another and important service furnished by Navy’s ra- !
dio in Alaska is the gathering and forwarding of the com- j
munications of other departments of the Government. This j
traffic is approximately 25 per cent of the total volume. This j
amounts to a considerable sum, saved to the Government, j
That the people of Alaska may become better acquainted j
with their Navy in their own yard, is our earnest desire. If
near us, come and visit us on Navy Day.
If not Navy day, any day.
CITY OFFERS FIVE HUNDRED
DOLLARS REWARD FOR
ARREST OF GUILTY
KETCHIKAN, October 25. (/P) —
Two Seattle officers are here to
testify before the grand jury
helping to run down clues for
federal officials who are holding
two suspects, and questioning
others, with regard to the brutal
murder Monday of G. P. Mar
shall, fish buyer, in his boat near
here.
The inquest disclosed a sk: l1
fracture and a small caliber bui
let wound on a foot. The vic
tim’s hands were tied and a safe,
probably containing a thousand
dollars, missing.
A stranger gave a local gro
cer a message Tuesday saying
Marshall had boat trouble. Later,
a man of the same general des
cription, but different clothing,
handed a note to a member of
the crew of the Cutter Cygan,
giving Marshall’s name and the
same information.
Signs of a furious struggle were
evident on Marshall’s boat.
The city council offered a re
ward of $500 for the arrest and
conviction of the murderer.
CHICAGO, Oct. 25. (JP)—Joe
Aiello, one of the “Big Four” of
Chicago gangland, was ambused
by four machine gunners who
killed him with a volley from
two guns, twenty slugs taking af
fect.
SAYS ALASKA BEING RESERVED,
CONSERVED AND
EMBALMED
JUNEAU, Oct., 25, —Before one
of the largest crowds ever at
j tending a political meeting here,
George Grigsby, candidate for
! Delegate to Congress on the
Democratic ticket, and in the
the home-stamping grounds of
his opponent, made one of the
finest speeches of his career,
notable for its wit, humor, sar
casm and reasonable argument.
His speech won him and his
Democratic colleagues many
votes.
His arraignment of bureau
cratic government and its con
trast, self government, was con
vincingly stated in dignified
terms. During the meeting of
two hours duration not one per
son left the auditorium.
Thomas Gaffney, candidate
for auditor, divided hnors with
Grigsby; both were forced to
suspend their arguments to
wait for the laughter and ap
pause to subside.
“Alaska,” Grigsby declared,
“for the past 20 years, has been
struggling under the handi
caps of bureaucracy; they have
been reserved to death, conserved
to death and embalmed. Our
forefathers fought to obtain for
themselves and their descendants
the rights of self government.
We have inhere:ted from them
the love of liberty, the sense of
responsibility for, and the right
of administering our own af
fairs.”
If elected Grigsby promised to
introduce and work for the pas
sage of a measure to give to
Alaskans the right to administer
the fisheries and game and
every ether legislative power
possessed by every American
territory in the history of the
country.
BIT IH TO
BO IT BBT SHELL
KILLED EIGHTEEN
BERLIN, Oct., 25, (/P)—The
Hamburg-American steamer Ba
den radioed the home office that
18 persons aboard were killed
and wounded yesterday when a
shell from Fort Choapachina hit
the ship as it was attempting to
leave Rio de Janerio Harbor for
Buenos Aires.
Most of the casualties were im
migrants bound for the Argen
tine.
The message said that Brazil
ian revolution authorties said
they did not intend to hit but
that the shot was merely a
warning.
The ship carried a large third
class list. Efforts are being made
to settle the incident amicably,
the message said.
The voluntary addition of Dell E.
Sheriff, Alaska’s tuner, who played
the violin, to last night’s three
piece dance orchestra gave those
present at the dance given by the
I. O. O. F. at their hall a real treat
to harmonius dance music served
to round out a very enjoyable even
ing