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VOLUME XX. NUMBER 111. SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 11, 1925.
PRICE TEN CENTS.
HENRY KARSTENS
70-MILE KID IS
NOW IN SEATTLE
3UIDED ONLY PARTY TO SUMMIT
OF MOUNT M’KINLEY IN
NINETEEN-FOURTEEN
SEATTLE, May 11. (/P)—Henry P.
Karstens, supervisor of Mount McKin
ley Park was here yesterday confer
ring with Arno R. Cammerer, acting
director of the National Park Service.
He reminded Cammerer he has a
-netal summit register which regula
tions require to be fixed on the high
est point of the park, which in this
ease happens to be the summit of Mt.
McKinley. Karstens guided the only
party reaching the top of the mountain
in 1914.
Cammerer said, “You will have to
wait another year or two, there is too
much work now preparing for summer
visitors.
Karstens has the next largest park
service, being next to the Yellowstone
National Park in size, one hundred
miles long and twenty-six miles wide.
• Karstens said yesterday in his talk
with Cammerer, “I have been chained
down to my desk with paper work
and have aged ten years in doing it.
Now they are going to give me a clerk
so I can get out in the air again.”
Karstens was called the “Seventy
Mile Kid.” He was in the Klondike
gold rush when he was seventeen, and
was stationed at the seventy mile post
on the trail.
WEATHER IN NOME WARMING UP
NOME, May 10. (£>)—'The Military
here point toward the ice breaking up
soon. The weather is perfect with the
snow going fast.
28 SENTENCED TO DEATH
SOFIA, May 11. (/P)—'The Military
Courts of the country have sentenced
tw'enty-eight persons to death, for ac
tivities in the recent outbreak. The
king is expected to commute the sen
tences to life imprisonment.
cordovaYiggers
OUT ON STRIKE
CORDOVA, May 11. (JP)—More than
two hundred clam diggers represent
ing practically all those employed in
the three large clam canneries in the
Cordova district, walked out Friday
when the company refused half a cent
a pound raise.
Three smaller concerns granted the
increase to four cents, complicating
the situation. The strikers left the
beach camps in boats, arriving in Cor
dova practically penniless.
..BIRMINGHAM MAN
WINS CONTEST
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 11. (fi>)
—Robert Session, of Birmingham, Ala
bama, won the National Oratorical
Contest over six competitors chosen
from a field of over one million four
hundred thousand regional contes
tants.
DAWSON, May 11. (£>)—'The ice
commenced to move Saturday here,
but jammed below the town. A por
tion of the dock was crushed by the
ice, of which there is still much above
the town.
C. A. Berg, who operates a sawmill
at Mile 201 on the Alaska Railroad, is
a Seward visitor. He states there is
a great demand for lumber north of
his place. Mr. Berg is greatly inter
ested in Seward, this being his first
trip here. He will return home on
Thursday’s train.
UNION HEAD ARRESTED
GIRARD, May 11. (/P)—Alexander
Howatt, former president of the Kan
sas Miners’ Union, was arrested Sat
urday on a charge made by a sixteen
year old girl, who lived at his home.
MAIL PLANE FALLS; TWO DEAD
SALT LAKE, May 11. (/P)—A. Clar
on Nelson, former superintendent of
the western division of the air mail
service, piloting a mail plane and two
passengers, Grant Christensen and
Russel Deloge, both fifteen, were in
stantly killed when the plane took a
tail spin and fell a hundred feet, burst
ing into flames when it hit the ground.
The bodies were badly charred before
they could be recovered.
JOIE RAY BEATEN
SEATTLE, May 11. (£>)—Ray Dodge
former Oregon Aggie star, won the
mile race over Joie Ray, American pre
mier distance runner. Joie, apparent
ly out of training, sprained his leg on
the take-off.
NOEL WEIN SAFE
NENANA AFTER
THREE DAY WALK
FAIRBANKS. May 11. (#>)— Noel
Wein phoned from Nenana last night
that he was forced to land on the
shores of Lake Minto, from where he
walked three days and three nights to
Nenana. Efforts have been pushed
day and night to send a plane hence.
RECOMMEND WARSHIPS BE
DROPPED FROM CONFERENCE
GENEVA, May 11. (£>)—'The mili
tary committee has recommended that
regulation of armaments on warships
be dropped from the conference, as
Britain has suggested.
VAST SEAL HERDS
MOVE NORTHWARD
PORT ANGELES, May 11. (£>)—'The
seal herd movement north this year is
the greatest of any year past, say the
officers from the Cutter Snohomish,
which is here coaling in preparation
to resume their patrol of the seal
herds Monday. The main seal herd
passed into northern waters over six
weeks ago, far ahead of the schedule.
The seals are in greater numbers than
ever before.
RESUME CONVERSATION
OVER FRENCH WAR DEBT
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 11. (JP)
—Informal conversation relative to the
French war debt settlement has been
resumed, announced the State depart
ment.
AMUNDSEN’S TRIP POSTPONED
OSLO, May 11 (/P)—A message from
Amundsen states his polar flight has
been postponed for three weeks on ac
count of ice and bad weather. Fifteen
tons of lubricating oil, a gift of a Nor
wegian company, has been sent to Al
aska via Vladivostok for forwarding
to the Maude. The Maude will be
sold if she escapes the ice floes.
MAYO RAVAGED
BY FIRE DEMON
EDMONTON, May 11. (/p)—A radio
dispatch received here Saturday re
ported fire practically destroyed Mayo
Saturday night. The flames contin
ued to burn brightly until yesterday.
There has been no loss of life but
smoke overcame several persons.
The government wireless station re
mains untouched.
I
MANY ON WAY TO
CASSIAR STRIKE
VIA WRANGELL
HUNDREDS OF SOURDOUGHS IN
WRANGELL WAIT FOR THE
BREAKUP
WRANGELL. May 11. (TP)—With the
breaking of the ice in the Stikine river
three boatloads of prospectors started
for Telegraph Creek, from where they
will travel by automobile to Dease
Lake, within a few miles of the new
Cassiar Gold territory.
One hundred and fifty tons of sup
plies, including caterpillar tractors,
auto trucks, horses and oxen were
taken along by the sourdoughs.
Canadian and U. S. Customs offi
cials have made arrangements to ex
pedite the passage of the stampeders
over the International Boundary. An
eastern news company photographer
filmed the preparations.
Thousand Men in District
SEATTLE, May 11. (JP)— Rumors of
the rich gold strike in the Cassiar,
British Columbia, up the Stikine river
from Wrangell, apparently have been
confirmed. Hundreds of sourdoughs
were camped in Wrangell April 29,
awaiting the breakup, so as to make
a dash by boat into the district. Os
car Sither, Petersburg lumberman,
said here a thousand men have mush
ed into the district since Christmas.
No reports have come back as to the
richness of the district, but last fall
there was a rumor of a twenty-five
mile strip of rich placer ground being
found on Cassiar creek.
CustomsXJfficers in Wrangell
WRANGELL, May 11. (JP)—Seven
customs officers are here representing
the United States and Canada clearing
the stampeders for the Stikine trip.
Those representing America are S. F.
E. Bronson, W. J. Read, M. S. W. Whit
tier, and F. J. Vandewal.
Two More Parties for Cassiar
WRANGELL, Saturday, May 11. (TP)
—Two parties were scheduled to go to
the Cassiar in addition to the stam
peders to study the possibility of
dredge operations.
George Platzer, leader of the expedi
tion to the tropical valley, is here with
his three sons, awaiting a plane from
Three Rivers, Quebec. J. A. Stephen,
Canadian road engineers, arrived to
day from Anyox, and is leaving with a
I crew to maintain the road from Tele
> graph Creek to Dease Lake.
The proportion of greenhorns amomg
the stampeders, is noticably small,
the majority of the crowd being sour
doughs. There has been no disorder
so far. After this week there will be
a boat up the river every eighty
hours.
DONALDSON ON
WAY TO NOME
SEATTLE, May 11. (/P)—■'The gas
driven schooner Donaldson, owned and
navigated by Captain Alexander Al
len, departed from Seattle last Satur
day for Nome with two passengers
for Ketchikan. The Donaldson has
a cargo of green stuffs for Captain
Allen’s fox ranch near Ketchikan, al
so carrying some green stuffs for
Nome. Captain Allen expects to be
the first boat into Nome this spring.
The Donaldson will carry mail be
tween St. Michael and Nome and
mail and supplies for the Bureau of
Education at points north of Nome.
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 11. (/P)
—The winter wheat crop was almost a
quarter smaller than last year, a fore
cast of t^e) Department of Agriculture
placing the total at 444,000,000 bush
els. •
PICTURE OF DOG GUARDING
FATHER RUPPERT WAS
PUBLISHED BY THE P. I.
SEATTLE, May 11. (/P)—'The Post
Intelligencer published a picture of a
log guarding the body of Father Fred
erick Ruppert, who perished on the
trail in a blizzard, while taking Christ
mas presents to a nearby orphanage. (
One of those who found the body
kodaked and sent the picture to Rome
to a painter who reproduced the paint
ing. The finished picture was sent
to Loyola College, Los Angeles which |
Ruppert founded and of which he was
president. $250,000 are being raised
in a campaign in Los Angeles to build
an addition to the college as a memor
ial to Ruppert.
BABE RUTH OUTDOORS
NEW YORK, May 11.—Babe Ruth i
was outdoors yesterday for the first,
time since he entered the hospital.
POLICE SERGEANT
ARRESTED WITH
CARGO LIQUOR
- "I
SEATTLE, May 11. (/P)—A man ar-1
rested near Marysville yesterday driv- j
ing to Seattle from Vancouver, with a j
load of liquor, calling himself F. L.
Ludlow, proved to be former police
sergeant E. W. Pielow', w'ho didn’t
have his nose glasses with which he !
fooled the prohibition officers several j
months ago at the Pielow mansion, J
where he was arrested with Charles
Given and Miss Given.
Committee Here To Select
Site for Jesse Lee Home
Mrs. Goode, corresponding secre
tary of the Nation Organization of
the Woman’s Home Mission Society
of the Methodist Church and Mrs.
Taylor, Financial Secretary of the
same organization arrived on the
steamship Alaska to select a site for
the new Jesse home to be built in
Alaska. The Nome and Dutch Har
bor schools are to be combined in
this one. Mrs. Goode and Mrs. Tay
lor spent the last few days in look
ing over the different sites suitable
for the home in Seward. The ladies
left for Anchorage accompanied by
Mr. and Mrs. Dunlap to look over
the sites in that vicinity.
Last evening, at the Methodist
church, Mrs. Goode gave a very in
teresting talk on the work of the
mission in the different countries of
the world. She enumerated her talk
on the different schools in the Unit
ed States maintained by the Mis
sion. There were thirteen schools
for negroes in the south; five schools
in Tennessee and Kentucky for the
mountaineers; four schools in Cal
ifornia, New Mexico and Arizona
for Mexicans; four schools on the
different reservations in the west
for Indians; three schools in Califor
nia for the Japanese; and also two
schools for the Chinese. Their own
universities are turning out mission
aries.
She also stated that the assets of
the mission in schools were seven
teen million dollars.
The assets in hospitals being over
seven millions. The revenue from
the different societies in the form of
dues amounted to over two and one
half million dollars.
The Home that the Mission intends
building in Alaska is to be a mod
ern vocational school. Mrs. Goode
asks for the moral support rather
than for the financial support of
the citizens of the community. More
than anything else they want the
friendliness of the community.
BERLIN, May 11. (JP)—Eleven were
reported killed when the Frankfort
Basle express hit an automobile car
rying twenty-five passengers.
GIRL ARRESTED
FOR MURDER OF
ABERDEEN MAN
CHARGED WITH SLAYING OF HE.
VAMP OF ABERDEEN MILL;
MAY BE FREED
ABERDEEN, May 11. (/P)—Beatrice
[vail, eighteen-year-old wife and moth
er was arrested in connection with the
leat'n of Everett Browning, Factory
foreman, who was found with several
bullets in his body, May first.
May Be Released
ABERDEEN, May 11. (/P)—A writ
of habeas corpus was started today to
free Mrs. Beatrice Ival, eighteen who
has been charged with the slaying of
Everett Browning, foreman of a mill
where she worked, and whose body
was found May first near Hoquiam,
with bullets through his brain and
heart.
Mrs. Ivall was arrested Friday af
ter the elimination of fourteen others.
She has a baby daughter. Mrs. Ivall
declared Browning asked her to ac
company him to Portland and she re
fused. Investigators found many
girls of Hoquiam admired Browning.
Mrs. Ivall admitted she was with the
dead man on the nights of April 25th
and 27th. His death was first pro
nounced suicide.
FIRES FIVE SHOTS AT
MEMBERS OF BOX PARTY
VIENNA May 11. (/P)—One man was
killed and two wounded by a man wit
nessing Ibsen’s Peer Gynt, at the Nat
ional Theatre last night. He fired
five shots at members of his box party
all of whom were Macedonians. A
political feud is blamed for the shoot
ing.
TWENTY-TWO INFANTS DIE;
INVESTIGATION ORDERED
NEW YORK, May 11.—Police inves
tigators announced the records of the
city medical examiners office revealed
twenty-two infants had died at a baby
farm conducted by Mrs. Helen August
Geisene Volk, since January, 1924.
One died today after it was remov
ed to a hospital. Mrs. Volk has been
imprisoned charged with baby substi
tution, and an investigation has been
ordered to find out the circumstances
of their deaths.
Starr Sails West
About 12 Tonight
The steamship Starr sails west to
night at midnight with a large quan
tity of freight and a number of pas
sengers on her first trip of the sea
son to Nushagak. Aboard the Starr
will be Tommy Roberts and wife,
V. E. Huffman for Kodiak, Earl F.
Grouch, Hal G. Evarts, both of Uyak,,
A. Peel, Andy Simons and Frank
Revelle, guides of the Kenai Lake
district, who are going to King Cove;
Jack Lee, oil magnate, who is return
ing to Wide Bay; R. B. Patterson
and wife for Unalaska, where they
go to take charge of Queen’s res
taurant; H. D. Wandling, local fur
rier and a fur buyer by the name
of Jacobson, who are taking the first
boat into Nushagak; W. A. Tatter
sail, for Kodiak; L. L. Bales and
party of four en route to Stepovak
Bay. Mr. Bales is taking a large
quantity of freight with him. At
False Pass the Starr will pick up
J. C. Lowe and wife, who will con
tinue on to their home at Nushagak.
The Starr will make connections
with the following boats this sum
mer, sailing from Seward as follows:;
Yukon, June 7, Northwestern, Julf
5, Alaska, August 2, and the North
western, September 6.