Senator Jones, of Washington, Plans Trip to Alaska Early in July
VOLUME XVIII NUMBER 136
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 28, 1923
PRICK TEN CENTS
PRINCIPAL REASONS FOR TRIP
TO INVESTIGATE CHARGES
DELEGATE SUTHERLAND
' SEATTLE, May 2$.—Senator Jones
is now home planning an Alaska trip
which will be made in July, in his ca
pacity as Chairman of the Senate
Commerce Committee. He will be
accompanied by Representative W.
H. White, jr., main member of the
merchants’ marine committee of the
House, whose duties correspond with
the Senate committee.
The third member of the party will
be Commissioner of Fisheries O’Mal
ley, who comes north to investigate
conditions controlled by his depart
ment.
Dan A. Sutherland, delegate to con
gress from Alaska, has been invited
to make the voyage.
Senator Jones said he and his com
panions would go north on the coast
guard guard vessel, visiting the Pribi
lof Islands and all the important fish
eries centers.
The two principal reasons for the
Alaskan inspection tour, Senator Jones
said, are to investigate the contro
versy over the protection of seals and
the charges of Delegate Sutherland
that favoritism is being shown the big,
fisheries interests in Alaska.
Seward Post, American Legion, met
, yesterday at nine o’clock and went in
a body to the cemetery, where the day
was spent in cleaning up the Silent
City and making it more presentable.
Several citizens assisted the members
of the post, and ethers contributed au
tos for the crowd. The ladies auxiliary
- furnished a fine lunch. Mr. B. Story
gave the ladies the use of his resi
dence to prepare the lunch, and at the
noon hour the hungry veterans did full
justice to a substantial repast.
The dance Saturday night was well
attended a large crowd taking advan
tage of the good floor and special mus
ic of the evening.
C. \V. Alcott, representing the Pa
cific Steel Company, arrived on the
steamship Victoria and left on today’s
train for Anchorage. This is Mr. Al
cott’s first trip to the Territory.
OFF FOR OILFIELDS
Ragtime Kelly and party left An
chorage Saturday for the Susitna
flats where they will stake some oil
claims.
The halibut schooner B. F. M., cap
tain Art Husbick in command, left this
•> morning for the banks.
John Emel, owner and manager of
the Valdez Packing Company, and
Mrs. Emel were passengers as far as
Valdez on the Victoria.
ORDER EASTERN STAR
A regular meeting of Seward Chap
ter No. 10, Order Eastern Star, will
be held tonight at 8 o’clock. Initiation.
ESTHER DOUGHERTY, Sec.
. Miss Jane McNally, a former popu
lar young Seward girl, returned on
the Victoria, enroute to Anchorage,
where she will accept a position with
the Bank of Anchorage. Miss McNally
is a sister'to Mrs. Elmer Friend, wife
of the former editor of the Gateway.
H. Luth, mining man, left for Rain
bow this morning.
John Hirshey was among the arriv
als on Saturday’s train from Hope,
„ where he owns the Palmer Creek
mine.
E. G. Kunkel, pioneer Alaskan, who
lias been located at Pasadena, Calif.,
for the past few years, was a return
ing passenger on the Victoria enroute
to Fairbanks.
tO'VHPOMT WMOtKWOOO * UNOtHWOOO, N. V.
NEW HEAD D. A. R.
Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook of
Pennsylvania, who was recently elect
ed President General of the Daugh
ters of the American Revolution.
COLOGNE. May 28.—The success
ful uprising at Gelsenkirschen is en
couraging the communists through
out the Ruhr to try to enforce com
munist rule in Germany.
The French occupational forces may
intervene to restrain the communists
in the Ruhr district if conditions are
not impaired immediately.
REPRESENTATIVE KEYS
RETURNS FROM SMS
Representative E. M. Keys return
ed on the steamship Victoria from
Juneau where following his attendance
of the territorial legislature he visit
ed the states for ten days, going as
far south as Tacoma, where he visited
a brother whom he lias not senn for
46 years, and one he has not seen for
34 years. Mr. Keys was forced to re
turn home sooner that he intended by
a press of business. He states that he
enjoyed the trip very much, the weath
er being unusually fine. While in Ta
coma he and his brother’s families
drove to Bellingham and attended the
annual tulip festival, which he pro
nounced a wonderful sight.
Mr. Keys while serving in Juneau,
was appointed to the board of regents
by Gov. Bone, and will spend much of
his time overseeing the Agricultural
college and school of mines. He will
also put in considerable time this com
ing summer investigating fisheries
conditions, so as to become acquaint
ed with the debated points before the
next session of the legislature. it is
highly probable that he will run again
as he was considered one of the most
conscientious and able representatives
at the 1923 session. Among the bills
introduced by him were the soldier
bonus bill, giving 160 acres to each
veteran in Alaska; a bill requiring the
removal of screens from soft drink
parlors; and several other bills of
more or less prominence. His vote
was generally found on the side of
right and equity, and Fourth division
residents should be proud of his rec
ord. He left for Fairbanks this morn
ing.
D. It. Adams and W. Van Vorhees,
connected with the Commission, who
are checking up rolling stock and ma
terials at the various commission
camps, returned this morning for the
north after completing their work on
the southern end.
The steamship Starr is reported to
have left Unalaska Sunday morning,
enroute to Seward.
Mrs. L. Smith of Anchorage, left
for the states on the Victoria yester
day.
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GREAT FALLS, Mont., May 29—
When Jack Dempsey, the world’s
heavyweight champion, defends his
title against Tom Gibbons on July 4,
; at Shelby, Mont., 100 miles north of
1 this place, he will not only fight for
i the first time in an amphitheatre cre
ated by nature,, but he will be engaged
in battle on the very spot where, in
April, 18S6, the braves of the Black
feet and the Sioux tribes met in one
of the last tribal wars of Montana,
facing grim death in a hand-to-hand
struggle with tomahawks and knives.
Montana promoters of the Dempsey
Gibbons bout have chosen this historic
spot, not only for the gory scene it
recalls but because its contour fits
admirably into the architect’s plan for
an arena that can be cheaply built.
The plans of the building have been
so drawn as to accommodate 100,000
spectators in the bowl that will be er
ected, but the topography of the nat
ural ampitheatre is such that addition
al thousands will be cared for on the
sloping grounds that surround the are
aa and which rises even higher.
Oil Booms Burg
Not since Jack Johnson took the
heavyweight title from Jim Jeffries at
Reno, Nevada, in July, 1910, has a
championship bout been held in the
lar west, in a town as small as Shelby,
which has a population of 2,200 peo
ple, including the people no\v there
because of the oil boom. A year ago
its population was 300.
Shelby was designated as a possible
townsite back in 1891 when the Great
Northern railway extended its trans
continental line from Havre, Mont.,
on through the Rockies to the West
Coast. It was named by James J. Hill,
president of the railroad, for P. H.
Shelby, manager of the Great Nort
hern lines in Montana. Something of
the blessings which nature conferred
on the townsite may be gathered by
the statement made to Mr. Shelby af
ter he became a Cleveland financier,
by friends who had visited the place,
that he should not feel complimented
by such a namesake, “for it is a lone
somehurst—a windswept, sun-blister
edfi and winter-pestered crossroads.”
Was Poor County
From 1917 until MaAh, 1922, when
oil was discovered thirty miles from
Shelby, hundreds of thousands of dol
lars in delinquent taxes are written
on Toole county’s books because of
exodus of would-be farmers. In the
last year more than $200,000 of these
delinquencies have been paid, so that
clear titles might be had to the land
for leasing purposes.
The proven oil field adjacent to
Shelby is twenty miles long and 12
miles wide, one of the largest in the
United States. Though its present pro
duction from the 33 wells already drill
ed is only about 2,200 barrels daily,
there are six wells in the field capable
of producing 20,000,000 feet of gas in
a day.
Boom Last Fall
The boom at Shelby started last fall,
when it was made headquarters for
drillers and field men employed by the
Standard Oil company and its subsid
iaries as well as several independent
companies. All through the winter
the building of homes, business blocks
warehouses and hotels has been push-;
ed vigorously.
Ninety city blocks of sidewalk are
now under way. Everything about
1
the town Is typical of a boom town
Shelby business men admit that the
bid for the DempSey-Gibbons battle
originally was made more for the pur
pose of getting the town a lot of free
advertising than because they believ
ed they could get Dempsey to come
there. But Great Falls business men
took the proposition seriously, partic
ularly alter St. Paul sportsmen said
they believed the scheme feasible and
offered co-operation.
At this juncture Loy J. Molumby.
state commander of the American Le
gion, and an aviator during the la’e
war, jumped into an airplane and flew
to Salt Lake where he convinced Jack
Kearns, Dempsey’s manager that his
proposition was a serious one. Great
Falls and Shelby business men put up
$110,000 cash guarantee and have tak
en options on ringside seat sat $50
apiece to equal the amount of their
subscriptions. Both Dempsey and
Gibbons are to train five weeks pre
vious to the fight at Great Falls.
Hospital for Veterans
L'nder Montana’s boxing law one
half of the net receipts of all boxing
bouts go to the state to be used in the
erection of a hospital for war veter
ans. It was for this reason Molumby
put up the fight to get the event.
Shelby in addition to being a boom
town is one of the last frontier vil
lages of the Northwest, being only a
few miles from the Blackfeet Indian
reservation and Glacier National Park.
There will be enough cowboys and In
dians at the fight to give every east
erner who attends a glimps of the old
cow country that was.
UP TRANSPORT
STRIKING SAILORS COMPEL U. S
TRANSPORT TO AWAIT AR
RIVAL FILIPINO CREW
MANILA, May 28.—The Russian
crew on the American transport Mer
ritt, en route from Manila to San
Francisco, with five hundred and for
ty refugees have gone on strike and
are holding up the ship 600 miles from
from Olongapo. The U. S. steamship
Harrison has started out from Corre
gidor with an emergency crew of Fil
ipinos.
The refugees were coming to the 1
United States under chaperonage ol
the Red Cross.
George Anderson, expert piano :un
er, and dealer in musical instruments
and sheet music, arrived in Seward
Saturday and will remain here until
Thursday looking after the interests
of his customers. Mr. Anderson is an
expert in his line and is well known
to Seward musicians having made the
town for a number of years.
The local chamber of commerce will
hold its weekly luncheon tomorrow at
the Grill. President Whittlesey asks
all members to turn out and discuss
matters of importance.
JOY BIOS KILLED BY
INTEBM AT
DETROIT
AUTO ENGINE HURLED INTO AN
OTHER CAR KILLING TWO
OF ITS OCCUPANTS
DETROIT, May 28.—A man and
four young women, three of whom
were identified, were killed last night
when an interurban struck the auto
in which they were riding.
Two other persons in another auto
met death at the same time, when the
engine from the first auto was torn
from its fastenings and hurled into
their car, killing two occupants of the
rear seat.
Rex Cox, an oldtimer of the Fair
banks district, who went to Hyder
about a year ago, returned on the Vic
toria enroute to his old stamping
grounds. Mr. Cox reports that both
Hyder and Mayo are rather quiet at
the present tipae.
Southbound Passengers on Victoria
For Seattle—W. M. Shagatovitch,
Albert Greer, J. F. Foran, Edward T.
Tyndall, C. L. Donald, G. D. DeStef
fany, Fred Majors and three children,
L. Simson, Carl Schmidt, and Roy Lee.
The tanker Standard Service is at
Drier bay and is expected to arrive in
Seward within the next day or so.
GIRL SCOUT FOUNDER
Miss Juliette Low, founder of tli£
American Girl Scout organization,
which recently held its annual con
vention in Washington, D. C.
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PEKING, May 28.—The Suchow
bandits, holding foreigners captive in
the Paotzuku hills are sending out
another release proposal to the Shan
tung authorities.
NOME, May 28.—The ice is'five
miles out from Nome today.
-UP IT FT.
WORST II ITS DISTORT
Miss Sylvia Sexton received a let
ter this week from Mrs. Grace Brook,
a former Seward resident now at Ft.
\ ukon, with her husband, describing
the recent break-up, which she de-l
dares was one of the worst in the
history of the camp. Mrs. Brooks
writes:
“The break-up this year was early
and one of the worst we have ever
had, and Fort Yukon experienced the
worst flood that has ever decolated a
camp. It came about 5 a. m., with
every-one asleep, but finally people
were awakened by the waters rushing
through the town, but (here was hard
ly any time to save anything, the loss
being quite heavy. Many small craft |
were swept down by the ice. Some
had time to get their belongings on
tables and chairs and out of the cel
lars, thus saving them from getting
wet. Rowboats and canoes were soon
afloat, and soon everyone was going
around in boats. In the stores it
raised three feet, just level with the
counters. In out home the waiters were
9 1-2 inches over the floors for eight
hours. Our home is further back than
the rest and on higher ground. We
managed to get the piano up on logs
and our trunks on tables, thus saving
them.
“There was great danger of the
river cutting a new channel. If this
had happened the town would have
been doomed, as there were cakes of
ice five feet thick and 10 to 30 feet
square. As it was the largest pieces
came into town for quite a distance.
The town is a terrible looking place.
Everyone had their yards cleaned up
and was waiting for the break-up to
be over, when the high water came
and tore up everything. Haley’s road
house is close to the bank, and the
ice is piled high in front of it right
up to the front door. Everyone has
been busy cleaning the mud out, and
after Mr. Haley had the roadhouse
rid of water and the mud shoveled out
he started fires in the stoves to dry
things out and the place caught fire,
and had it not been for the cellar still
being full of water, the place would
have been destroyed. His loss in blank
ets, mattresses, etc., was quite heavy.
“The mail launch is coming today
and everyone is quite optimistic in
spite of the flood.”
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SO-CALLED FOREIGN POLICIES OF
HARDING WILL BE RESPON
SIBLE FOR REACTION
NEW ORLEANS, May 28.—William
Randolph Hearst in an interview here
today said: “I believe that the Re
publican party will go down to one of
the most decisive defeats in its histo
ry, and the so-called foreign policies
of the Republican party and President
Harding will be responsible for its
fall.”
Mr. Hearst declared that even Ford
could defeat Harding by popular vote
but that the better party would nomi
nate him, being controlled by reac
tionaries.
Hearst is en route to Fort Worth
to take over the Record, his nine
teenth daily publication, • -
NOTICE TO BALL PLAYERS
The Seward Baseball Association
will meet at 7 o’clock Tuesday even
ing for the purpose of electing new
officers. All members are requested
to attend. At Gateway office.
Sam Ankeney, a well known old
timer of the Valdez district, is lying
dangerously ill at the Latouehe hospi
tal, suffering with hemorrhages. Mr.
Ankeney recently had an attack of in
fluenza and it infected his lungs. He
started for the hospital at Anchorage,
but the hemorrhages so weakened him
he was compelled to stop off at La
touche.
SEATTLE BEH
SEATTLE, May 28.—The congres
sional party of twenty-four congress
men en route to Alaska, will arrive
here Wednesday on the transport
Cambrai. *
Christ Larsen, proprietor of the
Seward Club, left for Anchorage this
morning on a business trip.
Ing-wald Jacobsen this week pur
chased a valuable piece of property ou
hird Avenue and in the near future
will erect a residence there.
Chas. C. Lewis, of the Pioneer
Dredging Co., of San Francisco, arriv
ed on the steamer Victoria and left
this morning for the interior where he*
will prospect Gold Stream and Cleary
creeks with the view of taking options
on some valuable property there in
case terms and conditions are right.
P. B. Peterson, C. A. Schonacker,
Court Stenographer Lenahan and two
other commercial men will leave on a
halibut boat today for Latouche, from
which point they will w-ire to Cordova
for a boat to convey them to Cordo
va.
Carl Smith, former townsite manag
er of Nenana, lef$ Sunday for Tacoma
where he will visit with relatives for
a time.
Lipman Simson, of the Simson Bros,
clothing stores at Anchorage and Ne
nana, left yesterday for New York on
a purchasing trip.
Parties arriving from Fairbanks say
that all danger from high water has
abated and the flood waters are as
suming their normal level.
The Eastern Stars will entertain to
night with a fine luncheon after their
initiation is over.
NEW PROPRIETOR OF MARATHON
Peter Chatham, who recently pur
chased the Marathon Cafe of Gus
Morgan, has had considerable experi
ence in Alaska restaurants, noted fox
good eats. Mr. Chatham was head
cook in the D. & D. and Dick’s
Kitchen at Anchox-age, and before
coming to Alaska was chef of the
Hotel Butler, Seattle. He has been
in Alaska off and on for 11 years.