LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
NOTICE OF APPLICATION
Non-Mineral Survey No. 1450
Serial No. 05508.
United States Land Office, Anchorage,
Alaska,
In the Matter of the Application of
WILBUR J. ERSKINE, for leave to
enter as a Soldier’s Additional Home
stead a tract of land situate on the
northwest shore of Portage Bay, Al
aska Peninsula, Territory of Alaska,
and containing 25.33 acres.
Notice is hereby given, that Wilbur
J. Erskine, a citizen of the United
States, whose Post Office address is:
Kodiak, Alaska, as assignee of Emma
Hi-nkley, widow of Arteman Hinkley,'
, deceased, a beneficiary under Section
v 230(3 or 2307, United States Revised
Statutes, has filed application to en
ter the lands embraced in U. S. Non
Mineral Survey No. 1450, which are
situated on the N. W. shore of Port
age Bay, 1-8 mile west of the Na
tive Village of Kanatak, on the Alas
ka Peninsula in the Territory of Al
aska, Long. 155° 58' W., Lat. 57° 34
N., containing 25.33 acres ,and more
pe^pjularly described as follows, to
W1(Mag. Var. 22° 30' E.)
Commencing at Cor. 1, whence
U. S. L. M., R. G. M. K. T. A.
bears N. 61° 22' 18 E. 12.79 chs.
and whence Cor. 2, R. G. M. Sur.
No. 452, bears N. 54° V E. S.94
chains, and whence Wit. Cor. to
Cor. 1 M. C. Sur. No. 1419, bears
N. 68° 54' 41" E. 39.27 chains,
thence S. 6.09 chains to Cor. 2,
thence meandering mean high tide
line S. 56° 39' W. 5.34 chains, S.
52° 58' W. 7.26 chains, S. 50 34'
W. 4.21 chains, S. 40° 8' W. 3.60
chains, S. 29° 06' W. 3.64 chains,
S. 17° 2ty W. 4.14 chains to Cor.
3; thence N. 00° 1' W. 25.9 <
chains to Cor. 4, thence E. 18.83
chains to Cor. 1, the place of be
ginning, in T. 30 S. R. 42 W.,
Seward Meridian. .
\ny and all persons claimrng any
portion of the above described tract
are required to file in the United
States Land Office, at Anchorage, Al
aska, their adverse claim or claims
luring the period of publication or
within thirty (30) day9 thereafter.
Dated this 2nd day of May, 1924.
J. LINDLEY GREEN,
Register. U. S. Land Office.
•First publication July 15, 1924.
Last publication October 4, 1924.
Notice of Application for Patent
Serial No. 05416
In the U. S. land Office for the Ju
neau Land District.
Anchorage, Alaska, May lt>, 1924.
In the Matter of the Application of
the ALASKA PACKERS ASSOCI
ATION, a Corporation, for a Sol
diers Additional Homestead.
Notice is hereby given that the
Alaska Packers Association, a corpo
I'ation organized under the laws of
the State of California, has filed, un
Aer the provisions of Sec. 2306, Revis
ed Statutes of the United States, in
the U. S. Land Office at Anchorage,
Alaska, aRolication, Serial No. 05416,
for a patent for lands on the E. Shore
of Anchorage Bay, an arm of Chignik
Bay. Alaska Peninsula, Third Judicial
Division, Alaska, Latitude 56° 17' NT
Longitude 158° 23' W., Variation 20
30' East, embraced in U. S. Official
survey No. 1422, containing an aiea
of 22.24 acres more particularly de
scribed as follows: , _
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, M. C.
on the E. Shore of Anchorage
Bav, from whence U. S. L. M. No.
306 bears S. 30° 05' 50" W. 4o.59
chains distant; thence by mean
ders along the line of mean high
tide on the E. shore of Anchoiage
3av as follows: (1) N. 14° 38' E.
2.58 chs., (2) N. 63 44' E. 5.96
chs., (3) N. 10° 51' E. 3.62 chs.,
14) N. 43° 32' E. 1.58 chs., (5)
N. 20° 38' W. 2.44 chs., (6) N.
£/ 063 W. 5.92 chains to corner
No. 2, M. C.; thence E. 8.76 chs.
to Cor. No. 3; thence S. 27.92 chs.
to Cor. No. 4; thence N. 57 25
W. 12.32 chains to Cor No. 1, the
place of beginning. . .
Any and all persons claiming ad
versely anv of the land above des
cribed should file their adverse claims
4^th the U. S. Land. Office, at An
chorage, Alaska, within the period ox
publication or thirty days thereaf
ter or they will be barred by the pro
visions of the statute.
J. LINDLEY GREEN,
Register.
First Publication July 15, 1924.
Last Publication, Sept. 20, 1924.
ORDINANCE NO. 85
An ordinance making it a misdemean
or to break the seal on electric me
ters and i or shunt or bridge around
electric meters for the purpose of
stealing electricity, fixing the penal
ty for such crime and for other pur
poses.
Be it ordained by the Common Coun
cil of the Town of Seward, Alaska:
1. That any person breaking a seal
or seals upon an electric meter and
| or shunting or bridging of an elec
tric meter with the intent of stealing
electric current shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor and upon conviction
shall be ounished by a fine not to
exceed One Hundred ($100.00) Dollars
or by imprisonment in the municipal
jail not to exceed thirty days or by
both such fine and imprisonment, in
the discretion of the court.
4 2. That evidence that a seal has
been broken upon a meter or that the
meter has been shunted or bridged
shall be prima facie evidence of the
intent to steal electric current by the
consumer receiving electricity through
such meter.
Passed and adopted under the sus
pension of the rules this 15th day of
September, 1924.
(Seal) WM. H. WHITTLESEY
Municipal Clerk.
AUbroved:
lb. V. RAY, Acting Mayor.
Publish, Sept. 27, Oct. 4, 11, 18, 1924.
■*out tj.e Chamber of Commerce.
SENATOR BROOKHART IS SUBJECT OF
SEVERE CRITICISM IN HOME STATE;
CONTROL COMMITTEE RULES HIM OUT
•IN PITTSBURG SPEECH SENATOR BROOKHART
DEPENDS HIMSELF, SAYING CONVEN
TION WAS RUN UNDER STRICTLY
CHOSEN COOLIDGE MACHINE
DES MOINES, Iowa, Oct. 6.—Charging that Senator Smith
W. Brookhart of Iowa, candidate to succeed himself as senator with
a “conspiracy to defeat the right of the people to elect the presi
dent at the polls, and to force such an election by the congress six
years ago’’ the Iowa State Control committee late Saturday after
noon virtually read the senator out of the party in Iowa stae.
While all this was going on in the central metropolis Senator
Brookhart in a speech at Pittsburg, said, “the Republican State
convention, which did all their nominating under a strictly chosen
Coolidge machine, snubbed and insulted me. which has caused this
situation to grow out’’; and. following the matters in congress, he
continued :
“I was against Newberryism but the President was for*it; the
.President favored the Mellon Tax Plan which reduced taxes on big
incomes by a big percentage and on little incomes by a small per
centage and I helped to recommend the bill to reverse those reduc
tions'in favor of the common people; I favored the Soldier Bonus
and voted in earnest to pass it over the President’s veto. I favor
ed the Postal Employes bill, and will vote to pass it over the ex
SILENCE, WATCHWORD,
SAYS DAVIS IN HIS
NEW YORK SPEECH
NEW YORK, Oct. 4.—John W. Da
vis and Governor Al. Smith appeared
on the same platform in Madison
Square Garden last night. The pres
idential noinee said that silence is
the watchward of the hour, and if
corruption places its hands on those
in high office, the answer is silence
and which has been going on dowrn
the line of public scandals which have
occurred in the past two years. He
went orr speaking sarcastically of each
and in answer to them all, Al. declar
ed, it was “silence.”
TRENTON, N. J., Oct. 4.—John W.
Davis, in a speech here this afternoon
said, “in this election, the American
people must vote their confidence or
lack of confidence in the present ad
ministration. The people must either
prove or disapprove of the oil scandal
which caused a blot upon the present
administration; they just take into
careful scrutiny ,the department of
justice, and also the recent findings
of the veterans’ bureau. There seems
no excuse for the issue at large.”
FALCON JOSLYN JOINS
IN CRITICISING GOV’T
ALASKA COAL SITUATION
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Oct. 4.—
What was declared as an encroach
ment of the United States govern
ment in business was criticised by
speakers at the night session of the
American Mining Congress, in con
vention here.
Among those who spoke against the
government, with an attitude wholly
in regard to the control of utilities,
and in particular the investigation of
the coal problem in the withdrawal oP
private ownership rights in Alaska,
were Pemberton Hutchinson, presi
dent of the National Coal association;
J. F. Calbraith, secretary of the Am
erican Mining Congress, and, Falcon
Joslyn, of Seattle.
Notice of Application for Patent
Anchorage, Alaska, May 15, 1924.
Serial No. 05417
In the U. S. Land Office, for the Ju
neau Land District.
In the Matter of the Application of
the ALASKA PACKERS ASSOCI
ATION, a Corporation, for a Sol
dier’s Additional Homestead.
Notice is hereby given that the
Alaska Packers Association, a corpo
ration organized under the laws of
the State of California, has filed un
der the provisions of Sec. 2306, Re
vised Statutes of the United States,
in the U. S. Land Office at Anchor
age, Alaska, application, Serial No.
05417 for a patent for lands on the
East shore of Anchorage Bay, an aim
of Chignik Bay, Alaska Peninsula,
Third Judicial Division, Alaska, Lati
tude 56° 17' North, Longitude 158°
23' West, Variation 20° 00' East, em
braced in U. S. official survey, No.
1423, containing an area of 15.60
acres, more particularly described as
follows:
Beginning at corner No. 1, iden
tical with Cor. No. 4 of U. S. Sur-.
vev No. 307, whence U. S. L. M.
No. 306 bears S. 54° 13' 25" West
34.59 chs. distant; thence N. 32°
35' E. 13.40 chs. to cor. No. 2;
thence E. 33.3 chs. to cor. No. 3;
thence S. 18.64 chs. to cor. No. 4;
thence W. 10.54 chs. to cotf No. 5
thence N. 7.36 chs. to cor. No. 1,
the place of beginning.
Any and all persons claiming ad
versely any of the land above des
cribed* should file their adverse claims
with the U. S. Land Office, at Anch
orage, Alaska, within the period of
publication, or thirty days thereafter,
or they will be barred by the pro
visions of the statute.
J. LINDLEY GREEN,
Register.
First publication July 15, 1924.
Last Publication September 20,1924
pecma veto. 1 oppose giving Mus
cle Shoals to HenrV Ford or any one
Private interest. The President of
the United States it the time, favor
ed to sell the entire project without
ai y regard to price.”
Flavs The P.-er'ie* t
EMMETSBUKG. la., . o. .’.—The
charge of the Republican organization,
that the recent demand for the resig
nation of Dawes was traitorous to the
party, was answered in this city to
day by Senator Smith Brookhart.
In his speech, he openly charged
that the President was affiliated with
the Wall Street Bloc, and has desert
ed the basis set aside which make up
the principles of true Republicanism.
Lafollette Says
Will Get Seat
In White House
ROCHESTER, N. Y., Oct. 7.—Rob
ert LaFollette opened his transcon
tinental speaking campaign here to
day with the feat in his prediction
that he will be selected.
“I have entered the campaign for
just one purpose and that is to win
the election on November 4, he said,
“and on that date I believe the peo
ple of this country will take control
of the government back into their
own hands, where it rightfully be
longs.”
SCRANTON, Pa., Pledging that he
himself would purge the government
of control of predatory interests, La
Follette carried his campaign thusly
in the state of Pennsylvania, where
he again predicted a lead in his par
ty and would cut the victory of Cool
idge short.
The fight this year, LaFollette said,
was between himself and Coolidge,
the Democratic candidate being a
poor third. LaFollette repeated time
and again in the same breath the
charge that congress and the adminis
tration has violated the trust reposed
in it.
ENGINEER HARRY TOWNSEND
IS TRANSFERRED TO JUNEAU
Harry Townsend, M. E., assigned
by the Bureau of Mines to this dis
trict for the purpose of making a
survey of the lode mines, left An
chorage the other day on a speeder
I for here, where he will take a steam
er for Juneau. On his trip between
Anchorage and Seward, Mi. Townsend
will make examinations of quart/ pro
pci ties along the way. The remaind
er of the season af _»*• arriving al lu
i-; u v:ll be spent .n gohgical sur
voy w o' k.
in xolaim'ng his ti ri'e t an Al
hhsh - r j.r -entat” : . ir - his leav
ing Anchorage, Townsend said that
the encroachment of snow along the
hills in the Railroad Belt made it im
possible to further prosecute his work
this season. He was not certain if
he would be returned to this field
next summer, but intimated that it
was the plan of B. F. Stewart chief of
Alaska division of the Bureau of
Mines, to maintain a geologist and
engineer in this region next summer.
M’ADOO OPERATED ON
IS RESTING EASILY
BALTIMORE, Md., Oct. 8.—William
G. McAdoo is resting comfortably to
night at the John Hopkins hospital,
after an operation was performed to
remove gravel from his bladder.
VANCOUVER, B. C., Oct. 10.—Of
ficial recount in the recent election
gives the city beer by glass a majori
ty of 78.
WHEELER DISCLOSES
GIGANTIC EXPLOIT
SCHEME I ALASKA
‘HEELER HARPS THAT SECRET
PACT DOES EXIST WITH
R. R. FREIGHT RATES
DOCUMENTS CONCEALED
Holding Positive Proof of Document
In Hand, Wheeler Shows Audi
ence Work’s Name on Line
SEATTLE, Oct. 9.—A secret agree
: ment exists between the Alaska S. S.
| company, (Guggenheim interests) and
I the Government owned Alaska Rail
! road, Senator Burton K. Wheeler
charged in his speech at the Mason
ic; Temple here last night,
i This agreement, he alleged, Secre
tary of the Interior Work had for a
year and one-half and attempted to
I conceal it. Attorney General John A.
Itustgard of Alaska, similarly had
jhas been refused access to the doc
uments, he said, and the contract car
ried in its own text the provision, to
wit: “It is undei'stood that the Al
aska Engineering Commission and
Steamship company parties to the
thru rate will treat division arrange
ments as confidential and promulgate
jthe information to interested employes
only.”
Linking Secretary Work with Ex
Secretary of the Interior Fall and Ex
Attorney General Daugherty, Wheeler
charged that the ex-agreement is am
ple evidence of a secret with a most
gigantic exploit of the nation in an
attempt to deliver all limitless re
sources of Alaska into their hands.
Holding a copy of the contract, the
defiant Senator brandished in his au
dience and declared, “here is docu
mentary proof over the signature of
Secretary of the Interior Work, who
is in the Coolidge cabinet at the pres
ent time. He is secretary of the In
terior department of the United States
and he is in a secret league with J.
P. Morgan and company, and their
aims are to control and exploit the
vast wealth of Alaska for an exclu
sive advantage of the companies of
J. P. Morgan and Co.”
“It is a link in the chain of proof
that connects J. P. Morgan and com
pany with secret control over our
governmental agencies in every ave
nue that deals with our national re
sources which are in eve ry state of
the Union,” he said.
A special rate of six dollars a ton
was established in Alaska from Ne
nana to Seward, applying only to the
ore coming from the many mines own
ed by the Morgans and Guggenheims, I
| Wheeler charged, and everybody else
paid a base of $44.00 per ton for the
| same haul, which was for all classes
of freight. He said that this is one
benefit obtained by the secret agree
ment.
Senator Wheeler also charged Pres
ident Coolidge is controlled by banks
and that while he was governor of
the state of Massachusetts, he was
a party to the juggling of state funds
and also a party to help bolster up
an insolvent concern, whose president
it is alleged, contributed $6000 to
wards the personal help of Coolidge’s
campaign for presidency.
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Oct. 9.—The
charges made in Seattle by Senator
Burton K. Wheeler, that a secret con
tract for Alaska development had
been concluded by Morgan and Sec
retary of the Interior Work were de
nied by the latter today.
“Wheeler is talking about things
that happened a year before I came
into this department,” Work said, and
added that he didn't think such con
tract ever existed, but nevertheless,
he would give the matter his atten
tion and have all records looked over
so as to clear the charges one way
or ’another.
SEATTLE, Wn„ Oct. 10.—E. F.
Stannard, who is in this city having
returned from Alaska from an inspec
tion trip issued a denial thru his
New York office of the Wheeler
charges, respecting alleged secret
pacts between the Alaska Steamship
company and the Alaska Railroad.
Stannard said that there is noth
ing new in this general misstatement
of facts and it is presumed that Sen
ator Wheeler has been misled by
John E. Ballains into publicly making
these charges. Ballaine, who is the
LaFollette-Wheeler chairman in this
state did not deny that he had given
Senator Wheeler the informaiton upon
which the charges were based. Bal
laine also said that he had turned
over to Wheeler a copy of the alleged
secret contract itself, and had furn
ished him with proof that it was a
secret.
More Startling Facts.
SEATTLE, Wn., Oct. 10.—John E.
BROOKHART’S PAST STATEMENTS
UPHELD IN WHEELER'S CAMPAIGN
SPEECH DELIVERED TACOMA, WN.
TACOMA, AVash., Oct. 7.—Senator Wheeler, Third
Party nominee for vice presidential honors in the coming
election, in an address here yesterday afternoon said that
“General Dawes is the head of a large bank in Chicago,
and that some years ago, William Lorimer, who had been
thrown out of the United States senate because of the
jrrupt manner in which he was elected, also organized a
bank in the same city. This was a National bank, and
was about to fail, and Lorimer developed a very clever
idea of changing it into a State Bank; and, to get a State
charter, he was required to show the state auditor $1,
250,000 in cash. He didn’t have the cash, so what he did
was to get Chas. Dawes, the man running for vice presi
dent on the Republican ticket, to exhibit to the auditor
$1,250,000 which was to be “taken” out of the Dawes bank
for the time and to lead the state auditor to believe it be
longed to Lorimer’s bank. I am not making these state
ments wildly, as they are based on records in the courts
of Illinois. On the very day that Chas. Dawes was chosen
as Coolidge’s running mate, the Supreme Court of Illi
nois handed down a final decree, requiring Dawes to pay
more than $100,000 for having misrepresented the condi
tion of Lorimer’s bank to the states auditor.”
Coolid&e and Work Have Secret Contract
SEATTLE, Oct. 7.—Vice Presidential Nominee W. A.
Wheeler charged that President Coolidge and Secretary
of the Interior Work entered into a secret contract with
the Morgan and Guggenheim interests to betray the tax
payers in turning the Alaska Railroad over into private
ownership. Senator Wheeler in his speech added that
he has asked for an immediate investigation into the en
tire affair. J
. - jvwi
Work Orders Immediate Search of Records
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 7.—Secretary Hubert
Work of the Interior department of the United States,
upon advice of Senator Wheeler’s charge made in Seat
tle, ordered an immediate search into the Interior de
partment’s records for the alleged contract.
Wheeler Says Party Deserted Him
PUYALLUP, Wash., Oct. 7.—Denying that he had
deserted the Democratic party ,but that his party had de
serted him and the common people, with and for "horn
lie had fought all his life, Senator Wheeler late this af
ternoon brought cheers from an audience at the Puyallup
Fair grounds, which estimated an aggregate congregation
of 20,000 people of all classes and walk in life.
After discussing the platforms and the candidates of
of both the Republican and the Democratic parties at
present, he said that they were identical in that
they misrepresented their interest in not allowing the
people to know of the corruption in wealth in conjunction
with corrupt politicians which have Lad the parties. The
speaker characterized them as Ik ‘Gold Dust Twins,”
and added that “the real issue in the forthcoming cam
paign is not ‘common sense’ expressed by Coolidge, nor
is it the ‘common honesty’ as claimed by Davis; it is
whether or not we are to establish in these United States
an economic and industrial freedom now, just as our fore
fathers established political freedom in the great contest
of 1776.
Republicans Fear Sen. Brookhart.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 7.—The Republican lead
ers have taken steps which they hope "ill placate Senator
Smith Brookhart to the extent that it will prevent him
from openly going over to the SaFollette ticket. They
take the position that if Brookhart is driven out of the
Republican party at this time he will carry enough votes
co insure Iowa casting its electoral votes for the LaFol
lette-Wheeler ticket.
Ballaine, chairman of the LaFollette
campaign, announced last night that
tie had wired LaFollette some starti
ng facts in connection with the so
called secret freight agreement be
tween the Alaska Railroad and the
Alaska Steamship company.
RODEN PASSES THRU
Henry Roden, independent eandi
3ate for the office of attorney gener
il arrived in Seward the other day
ind after making a tour of the town
sailed on the Redondo for Seldovia
ind Anchorage. From the latter city
Mr. Roden will go into the Fair
lanws district, doing campaign work
in the interests of his ticket.
WHITE SOX CHAMPS
CHICAGO, 111., Oct. 8.—The White
Sox are city champions, having de
feated the cubs, 5 to 2 yesterday af
ternoon, giving them their second
consecutive title.
HEW Sim GABLE.
SEATTLE-SEWABO.
IS II COMMISSION
FIRST MESSAGE SENT OVER
NEW LINE LATE YESTER
DAY AFTERNOON
SEATTLE, Oct. 9—The new Sitka
cable, Seattle to Seward, via Ketchi
kan, is now in commission, and works
beautifully, the first message being
sent over the new line late yesterday
afternoon. From all indications the
delays in handling messages will be
remedied shortly and all congested
business will be cleared up.
Join the Chamber of commerce.