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VOLUME XIX. NUMBER 21.
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 1924.
PRICE TEN CENTS
COL. LEE LUilS
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RETRENCHMENT
RAIL. ROAD WILL BE RUN SAM E
AS IF IT WAS PRIVATE
CONCERN
General Manager Lee H. Landis,
of the Alaska Railroad, who left on
4 ) the Victoria for Washington, where
he will appear before the committee
on appropriations, before he sailed
explained his policies of retrench
ment and reduction of force. Mr.
Landis stated that it was his inten
tion to run the railroad in the same
manner he would as if it belonged to
a private company, and would spend
no money except for the upbuilding of
traffic and betterement of the road.
When asked as to his policy in re
gard to providing steamer trallic to <
Anchorage this year, Mr. Landis de
clared this practice had ceased with
his inauguration as manager. “Every
t, Doat which goes to Anchorage with
passengers and freight has cost tut
railroad $650 per hundred passen
gers, not counting loss of freight haul
and the steamship companies must in
the future look out for themselves.”
“I would wish nothing better than
that some big company would enter
Alaska and develop a large area and
establish an export market. This is
a big money enterprise and at pres-1
ert the capital is not to be had.
‘ First there must be sufficient coal
developed to supply the Alaskan mar
ket. Then reach out lor the markets
* in the States. This may entail the
establishment of steamers by coal
operators to carry their product.
Referring again to the steamship
situation, Col. Landis declared that
he would place on trains enough to
handle all traffic between Seward
and interior points, and that no one
would be required to take a boat, or
lay over here for lack of rail trans
portation.
Col. Landis will confer with Secre
tary Work while gone on matters in
| volving the railroad. At Cleveland,
Ohio, he will be met by Mrs. Landis
and they will visit New York, Wash
ington and other cities, before return
ing to Alaska, some time in March.
FEDERAL Bill
Delegate Dan Sutherland has in
troduced a bill in the House of Rep
resentatives which would appropriate
a sum of not to exceed $250,000 for
the construction of a new Federal
building in Fairbanks. The site is
already provided for with the pur
chase of the Washington Alaska BanK
properety adjoining the present Fed
eral building and jail. The measure
H. R. 3292, introduced on December
13, 1923, has been referred to the
com mittee on public buildings and
grounds.
SEATTLE, Jan. 24.—Shot through
the thigh by a nervous highwayman
who held him up at an early houi
t this morning L. B. Bowers, an insur
ance agent, drove in his auto to s
hospital for treatment, and later no
tified the police.
Joe Bush, traveling engineer for tin
Alaska railroad arrived in Sewan
last night and left on today’s trail
on an inspection trip to Fairbanks.
LIEUT, BJSSETT
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INSPECTION TRIP
SEATTLE, Jan. 24.—Lieut. Bassett
of the War department, who has been
here arranging lor a start around the
world by army fliers, left last night
for Prince Rupert, to arrange for a
landing field. He will return to Se
attle January 31, and then depart for
Sitka Seward and other towns to
arran'ge for landing places. From
Seward he will go west to Attu.
ANDY PEDERSEN RETURNS
FROM TRIP TO SAND POINT
Andy Pedersen, well known in this
^section, returned on the Latouche
from a trip to Sand Point. Mr. Peder
sen states that nothing has been
heard of the gasboat Viking which
went adrift during a storm at Kanatak
last December, with the cook aboard,
and that Andy Grosvold, the owner
has given the vessel up as lost.
The winter has been a good one in
and around Sand Point, trapping be
ing good and many furs taken. Andy
Grosvold is shipping out a large num
ber of blue fox skins from his islands
and as the market is high, expects to
make good money on them.
The climate has been good this win
ter, no snow being on the ground at
the time Mr. Pedersen left.
KETCHIKAN FISH PRICES
I KETCHIKAN, Jan. 24.—Fish prices
today: Fresh halibut 15 and S cents.
MARIAN, Jan. 24.—Mrs. Harding
is to become associate editor of the
Marion Star, and will write under her
own name. '
RUM TREATY SIGNED
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.—The rum
treaty with Great Britain was signed
today.
I COMPROMISE ON TAX PLAN
| WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.—Republi
i can members of the House Ways and
Means today offered to compromise
with the democrats on the Mellon tax
bill and frame a non partisan meas
ure.
FOB HIGH SClOl
KETCHIKAN, Jan. 23—The spec
ial election yesterday on the questior
i of asking congress to authorize tin
issuance of $150 000 worth of bonds
on the City of Ketchikan for the er
ection of a new school house carriec
by a vote of almost four to one in fa
vor of the bonds; It is expected the
new school building will be unde
way during the early summer.
An interesting thing in connectioi
with the bond issue is the decision o
the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeal:
at San Francisco in the Petersbur;
case. In that case the court hel(
' that while the municipalities of Alas
j lea are prohibited from making a ta:
• ilevy of more than, two per cent oi
, the assessment of property, the Cit;
■ may make an additional tax levy ti
meet any bond issue. This mean
that if necessary to pay off bonds th
> city council, might at its discretion
I impose an additional tax. This wil
i aid in the matter of disposing of th
bonds.
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MOSCOW, Jan. 24—Tens of thou
sands of silent mourners marched by
he bier of former premier Nikolai;
Lenine, lying in state in the House oi '
Unions.
The Soviet government will con
tinue its fundamental policies of
looking to peaceful relations with the;
world and the internal reconstruction
of Russia Foreign Minister Tchitch
erin announced today.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.—Secretary
Denby, despite the storm raping over
the Teapot Dome oil lease, declared
today that the Navy made a good
trade in the Fall leases to Sinclair,
and that there was not a better one
in sight at the time the leases were t
made.
Senator Walsh of Montana declared
that special counsel should be em
ployed to recover the government’s
oil lease rights, and these proceed
ings should be conducted entirely in
dependent of the Department of Jus
tice as the Attorney General himself
is under suspicion of being involved.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23— Charging
it a brazen transfer of public prop
erty for a private consideration and
that the whole Teapot Dome lease is
tainted with corruption, Senator Car
away today moved for immediate ac
tion on his resolution to cancel the
lease.
Sinclair Will Not Return
HAVRE, France, Jan. 23.—Harry
Sinclair, oil magnate, respecting the
demand of the American senate for
him to return today said: “I am not
going back until my business which
includes my forming a partnership
with Hugo Stinnes in the oil exploit
ation business is completed.”
GIFFORD PHOT Will
HARRISBURG, Pa., Jan. 24.—It was
announced today that Gifford Pinchot
would not be a formal candidate for
the presidency.
WASHINGTON Jan. 24.— Presi
! dent Coolidge’s proposed measures of
: relief for Northwestern farmers are
f six months too late, said Senator
Brookhart, at the conclusion of read
/ ing the president’s message to con
I gress on agricultural disti’ess. The
’senator said that their farms had
I been foreclosed and their crops taken
away long ago. “I urged him to call
a special session to relieve the farm
depression,” said the Senator, “but
he refused. Such relief as is extend
ed now will be too late.”
Miss Janice Meredith, secretary to
Col. Lee H. Landis, will arrive io
Seward Saturday on her way to Se
■attle^ to visit relatives during the ab
sence of Col. Landis east.
SEATTLE, Jan. 24.—The cableship
3ellwood, Capt. Shears, with her
hree cable tanks filled with bulk
vheat, sailed today lor London to
ake aboard the new Alaska cable,
recently completed for the govern
ment by an English firm. Aboard are
Major Labee, Henry Winters, a cable
engineer. Col. Gibbs under whose
Jirection the cable will be laid will
join the Dellwood in London and the
vessel is expected to to leave London
March 25, arriving in Seattle about
May 1, at which time work will be
started laying the Seattle to Seward
militiary cable.
MAGAZINE WRITER DENIES
TRIED TO INDUCE WIFE OF HER
CHAUFFEUR TO SEEK DIIVORCE
NEW YORK. Jan. 24.—Mrs. Nina
Wilcox Putnam Sanderson, writer,
who arrived last night from Florida,
denied reports that she had tried lo
induce Mrs. Ellsworth Bassett, o; Ma
dison, Conn., to divorce her husband
so she could marry him after obtain
ing a divorce from Sanderson.
Bassett formerly Mrs. Sanderson’s
chauffeur, is now here busimss man
ager. Mrs. Sanderson said last eve
ning that she was too tiled to di
cuss in detail reports thia she had
fallen in love with Bas>» ;. who is
now at Del Ray, Fia., making after
her orange groves.
Bassett Denies It
WEST PALM BEACH. Fla . Jar. 2 1.
—Denial by Ellsworth Bassett, busi
ness manager for Nina Wilcox Put
nam Sanderson, of a report trom Mad
ison, Conn., quoting his wife as say
ing that Mrs. Sanderson had attempt
ed to induce his wife to divorce him
and the almost simultaneous denial by
Mrs. Sanderson that she had never
approached Mrs. Bassett regarding
the matter of a divorce, gave new in
terest today to the involved divorce
proceedings of Mrs. Sanderson.
“The story is absolutely false ” Mr.
Bassett said.
To See Attorney
MADISON, Conn., Jan. 24.—Mrs.
Nina Wilcox Putnam Sanderson, au
thor, is expected to arrive here short
ly from her winter home at Del Ray
Fla., to consult her attorney in t he
matter of a divorce decree granted
her last week at Providence, R. I., and
then vacated pending examination by
her as to her legal residence.
Mrs. Sanderson, it is understood,
is on her way from Florida, accom
panied by her business manager Ells
worth Bassett, of this town, who dur
ing the summer was in her employ
as chauffeur. He went South to look
after Mrs. Sanderson’s orange grove
several weeks ago. Mrs. Bassett and
young son live with her mother here.
Mrs. Bassett said today that alt ho
Mrs. Sanderson had discussed with
her the matter of a divorce, she does
not contemplate divorce action.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.—The reb
el forces under command of de la
Huerta today promised to remove all
mines and obstructions from harbors
and ports under their control, accord
ing to a report received by the U. S.
consul at Vera Cruz.
The United States had notified the
rebel government that unless such ob
structions were removed by the rebel
forces this governmect would remove
them.
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A FISH STORY
BUT IT'S TRUE
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COPYRIGHT KlYSTONI VIIW CO.. MCW YORK
For the first time in history, a Bottlenose whale has been photo
graphed. The rare fish, weighing about 5 tons, and 23 feet in length with j
a circumference of 12 feet 11 inches was caught at Ten Pond Island, off
Glouceseter, Mass., and towed in. T he Harvard museum curator prepar-:
ed for the disposition of the bones w hich the Museum will get, while the j
rest of the carcass goes to the try-kettles.
BUILDINGS ARE DESIRED ;
FOR USE 6! CHURCHES
Two of the frame buildings on the
abandoned military reservation at St.
l Michael Alaska, would be given over
to the Catholic church authorities
there tor use as a hospital, under the1
‘ terms of a bill introduced in the house
of representatives by Dan A. Suther
land, territorial delegate from Alaska.
: The buildings were erected and used
for military purposes during the war,
but have since been given up and are
' not used for any purpose at the pres
ent time. It is understood that the
; War department does not wish to re
i tain them any longer but has no au-'
thority to dispose of them without
} congressional authorization.
Delegate Sutherland does not an
ticipate any opposition to his bill. In
j the past, the government has dispos
i ed of property no longer desired, by
similar methods. During the last ses
( sion of Congress, for example, some
frame buildings on the abandoned Ft.
Davis Military Reservation near the
town of Nome were given to the Wo
men's Home Missionary Society of
the Methodist Episcopal Church for
use in the construction of a hospital.
If the present bill in favor of the Ca
tholic Missionary Society becomes a
law, the two buildings on the Saint
j Michael reservation will be utilized
! tor the construction of a home and
1 hospital for the sick, aged, and des
j titute Eskimos of the Yukon delta.
RELIEF FOR FARMERS
WASHINGTON Jan. 23.— Relief
j for farmers of the south and middle
| west was urged by President Cool
idge in a message to congress today, i
DRUNKEN DRIVER FINED
, SEATTLE, Jan. 23.—Andrew Mc
| Cullough was sentenced to sixty days
in jail for driving an auto while in
I toxicated.
I NEW YORK, Jan. 24.—Secretary
- Hughes in a speech here last night
( defended the administration’s attitude
i j in aiding the Obregon government in
i Mexico, declaring that the revolution
) there was merely a political outbreak
3 and not an uprising of the peopple.
„ Mr. Walter Teeland and family left
1 today for Anchorage to make their
3 home. Mr. Teeland will work for the
Alaska railroad.
SECRETSRV ULUCE j
OPPOSES BROWN PLAN
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WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 24.—Sec
retary of Agriculture Wallace on Sat
urday appeared before thepoint con
gressional committee considering the1
Brown plan of reorganization of the!
executive departments of the govern
ment. He opposed placing the entire'
federal activities in the Territory of‘
Alaska under one department. The
Brown plan recommended that Alas
ka be placed under thesole supervi
sion of the department of the interior.
Wallace insisted that the work of his
department was the same in Alaska
as in the states and that Alaska would
suffer if deprived of the benefits of <
the research and technical work
which the agricultural department
had at his command. He expressly re
ferred to the National forests in Al
aska. When asked as to his opinion
about the present division of author
ity in Alaska he admitted that some
reorganization could be effected with
benefit to the territory. He thought
that the administration of the public
domain, the national parks, the recla
mation service and the bureau of
fisheries should all come into the de
partmenet of agriculture. As it is now
the parks, the public domain, and the
reclamation service are controlled b>
the interior department, while the
bureau of fisheries is under the jur
isdiction of the department of com
merce. The other cabinet members af
fected will also appear and testify be
fore the committee before a report is
ready for submission to congress.
SENATOR JONES
INTRODUCES BILL
CREATING FUND
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.—For the
purpose of making available for the
protection and propagation Pribiloff
fur seals and foxes, by using the
revenues now collected by the gov
ernment from the sale of skins and
furs Senator Jones introduced a bill
| creating a Pribiloff island fund, the
! sums derived annually, amounting to
; about $400,000 to go into the United
I States treasury. If the revenue is
| more than is needed to maintain the
r industry on the islands, under the
/Jones bill the remainder shall revert
to the Alaska fund to be spent in de
velopment work.
R. Hale, master mechanic for the
Alaska railroad was In Seward ovei
night.