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VOLUME XIX, NO. 47
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1924
PRICE TEN CENTS
MANAGER LFF LANDIS
h ARRIVES IN SEATTLE
FROM TRIP IN EAST
SEATTLE. Feb. 25.—General Man
ager Lee H. Landis of the Alaska rail
road arrived here Saturday from
Washington, where he went for a con
ference with officials of the Interior
department. He states that an auto
mobile road will be built from the
railway to Mt. McKinley, and that a
large tourist hotel will be constructed
this year near the Park entrance.
The railroad has purchased five
large Mogul locomotives to take care
of the increased traffic, and Mr. Lan
dis declares that tourist travel to Al
aska will be three times greater this
year than ever before.
He expects to leave for California
in a few days and will go to Wash
ington again before returning to Al
aska.
DAMAGES PLANE III
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FAIRBANKS, Feb. 25.—Mail Pilot1
Ben Eileson, in returning from his i
initial trip from McGrath got lost ini
i' the Kantishna valley owing to faulty
compasses, and was forced down near
Tolovana. He arose safely but crip
pled his landing gear on his arrival
at Fairbanks. The plane was equip
ped with skis tor starting on the
sno-w.
Eileson states that his trip was a
great treat to the Sourdoughs living j
along the route who had never seen j
a plane before. The flight was made
at an elevation of 2000 feet, and was j
without incident, save on the return
trip, which was made up the Yukon,
on account of darkness. The distance
made by Eileson in a little over six
hours requires 11 days by dog team
each, hence the plane reduced the
time between the two campps from 22
days to six hours and 26 minutes.
The landing skis are being repair
ed and another trip will be made ear-,
ly in March.
BANK EMPLOYE IN
TOILS AT VANCOUVER
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VANCOUVER, B. C., Feb. 25.—Wal
ter Bramwell ,an employe of the in
stitution, was arrested here today
charged with having been implicated
in holding up and robbing the Imperi
al Bank of this city.
FORMER EDITOR ORGONIAN
DIES AT ADVANCED AGE
OAKLAND, Cal., Feb. 25.—Willian
Lair Hill, 85, a pioneer of the Pacific
coast and former editor of the Port
land Orgonian, died here today of
pneumonia.
MRS. THEO. ROOSEVELT
IS VISITING GERMANY
BERLIN, Feb. 25.—Mrs. Theodore
Roosevelt, widow of the famous pres
« ident, arrived here today. She will
visit the grave of Kermit, in France,
before returning.
U.UEEEM
DROPPED DEAD
* LOS ANGELES, Feb. 25.—General
*C. E. Adams, past national command
, er of the G. A. R. dropped dead here
today from heart disease.
DAUGHERTY NAMED A
COOLIDGE DELEGATE
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25— Presided
Coolidge today approved Attornej
General Daugherty as one of his dele
gates to the Republican National con
vention, a full statement of which wi|
Y? be submitted to the convention.
M100 WOULD IE
MADE MILLION OFF
DOB INTffiTS
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 25—William
G. McAdoo, democratic candidate for
the presidency, said that his firm
would have made a million dollars ofi
the Doheny oil interests if they had
succeeded in securing wanted oil con
cessions in Mexico.
Want McAdoo Recalled.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.—‘The
statement by McAdoo that his law
firm of Los Angeles would have made
a million dollars off Doheny ha d it
secured Mexican oil concessions is a
most amazing one,” said Chairman
Lenroot of the senate investigating
committee, intimating that McAdoo
would be recalled before the commit
tee to testify as to how this could be
done.
MAN HAS NO SOUL
SAYS THOS. EDISON
NEW YORK, Feb. 25.—Thomas A.
Edison, the electrical wizard, declared
in an address here today, that there
is no such thing as a soul or immor
tality. He said, ‘‘I believe that the
force or energy we call life came from
some other planet, just as electricity
comes to the earth from the sun. Our
bodies are made up of millions of at
omic energies which I call the ‘little
people,’ and these like human being
have their likes and dislikes. They
work in harmony when the body is
healthy and in opposition when cellu
lar tissue becomes destroyed.”
DEPARTMENT REFUSES GIVE
JUNEAU A LAND OFFIVE
The Department of the Interior has
again refused to give Juneau a land
office. Secretary Work states that
the matter is a closed incident, and
that our neighbor to the southward
must look to Anchorage for relief in
land filings. A letter was received
by the buueau Chamber which was
tantamount to a flat refusal to con
sider the matter any longer.
RABBIT INDUSTRY SUFFERS
FROM PLAGUE OF FOXES,
A dispatch from Dawson says that
Bud Simpson, the Hunker creek rab
bit king, has suffered serious injury
to his rabbit crop by reason of foxes
eating his stock up. Simpson furn
ishes labbits for the Dawson market.
He sets barrel traps around thru the
trails and the tops being swiveled, the
rabbits drop into them. He has been
hauling rabbits to Dawson bv the
thousands, and has found a ready sale
for them.
TOLOHN1 nm
BN lim TO SMS
A. J. Pauli, sr., an oldtimer of the
Tolivana district .arrived from the
Interior, Saturday, and left on the Al
aska lor the States, where he expects
to lead a bucolic life near Los An
geles. He was accompanied by his
wiie. Mr. Pauli, who has been con
ducting a store at Brooks, sold his
business to his son, Fred.
He states that the reported strike
in the Beaver district, which caused
a stampede from Fairbanks, and Ne
nana, proved to be a false alarm, and
most of the claims staked have been
abandoned. Several promising prop
erties are in the district, however, and
Mr. Pauli looks for considerable gold
to be taken out this year.
ALASKA HAS A HARD
TIME SAVING WINDOWS
The steamship Alaska, which is
termed the glass ship, on account of
her foredeck being glassed in to pro
vide a recreation deck for passengers,
had a hard time in port this trip try
ing to prevent breakage of her plate
glass. Owing to low tide Saturday
night, and the ends of the wharf
beams projecting a trifle, the boat an
chored in mid-stream until the tide
rose.
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TWO WINTER VIEWS OF NIAGARA, AMERICA’S SCENIC WONDER.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.—The will'
of President Wilson was filed in pro-!
bate today. It leaves the widow the
entire estate, with the exception of
an annual income of $2,500 which
will be paid to his daughter. Margar-i
et, as long as she remains unmarried, j
YOUTHFUL AUTO DRIVER
FACES KILLING CHARGE
YAKIMA, Wn„ Feb. 25—William j
Gregson ,the Toppenish youth who
was driving his big eight-cylinder tour
ing car that skidded on an icy road
at fifty miles an hour, January 22,
near that city, killing Lambert Hoop
er, a passenger, and injuring Greg
son and Harding Sullivan, yesterday
was charged by the county prosecu
tor with manslaughter. Prosecutor
Sydney Livery promised to prosecute
the charge vigorously.
Investigation by the prosecutor’s
office is said to have shown that
Gregson had been drinking the night
of the accident that he disregarded
warnings of his companions, and
that the throttle of the car was found
wide open. Gregson had been in sim-i
ilar trouble before, officers declare,
and Toppenish citizens have insisted
upon drastic action.
BANK OF ANCHORAGE MOVES
The Bank of Anchorage has taken
a lease on the lower floor of the new
Odd Fellows building at Anchorage,
and is moving in this week. Two mod
ern fire and burglar proof vaults have
been installed.
ICE PACK HEAVY THIS YEAR
The Bering sea ice pack this sea
son is one of the heaviest on record,
St. Paul island being completely sur
rounded by immense fields, and the
floes extending into the North Paci
fic as far south as Sanak island. The
Pribilof islands are several degrees
south of Seward.
NEGRO STEWARDS GIVEN
LIFE SENTENCE IN PEN.
SEATTLE, Feb. p5.—Louis H. Dor
son and Hiffel H. Brown, negro stew
ards on the Admiral Evans, were seff
tenced to life imprisonment for as
sault on an Indian girl en route from
Ketchikan to Chemewah. A motion
for a new trial was refused.
I
TALK WITH FILL
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.—Slemp
told the Senate committee today that
he had had but a casual conversation
with Albert B. Fall, former secretary,
at Palm Beach, Fla., but declined to
disclose what he reported to Presi
dent Coolidge, and what McLean, the
Philadelphia publisher, had said.
HELD FOR MURDER
Chas. Bergeran, an Iditarod resi
dent is held for the murder of Jas.
Powell .whose body was discovered in
his cabin, party burned and bearing
marks of Violence. Bergeran claims
he killed Powell in self defense.
SIX TIMES DIVORCED
MAN SUES FOR SEVENTH
SEATTLE, Feb. 25.—William A.
Anthony, 35 years of age, has been di
vorced six times and is now suing his
seventh wife for divorce.
WIFE GRANTED DIVORCE
from rich man who
CHECKED HER CARFARE
PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 25.—Divoi
from James C. Costello, a wealt
real estate operator, formerly of ;
attle and Cheyenne, Wyo., was gra
cd to Mrs. Costello today by Circ
Judge Evans, because she had be
required by her husband to accoi
tor carfare, postage stamps “and o
er multitudinous items expended in
the arrangement of a household.”
The court awarded the wife one
third of Costello’s fortune, estimated
to be worth between $250,000 and
$500,000. Cash alimony of $37,000 was
also allowed.
GROWING LEGION POST
BACKS COMPENSATION
PORT ANGELES, Feb. 25.—A 300
per cent increase in February mem
bership over 1923 was reported at
a meeting of Walter Akeley Post,
American Legion at which a unanim
ous vote in favor of adjusted compen
sation was taken.
COLUMBUS, O., Feb. 25.—President
Coolidge formally entered the Ohio
presidential preference primaries by
filing his declaration with the Secre
tary of. State. . .. i . i ;
PARIS, Feb. 25.—Dawes, the Am
erican economic expert, announced to
day that the Ruhr invasion made the
Germans realize that they must pay
up to their capacity, which they had
not intended doing.
WILL REVIVE NEW PAPER
J. D. Skinner, an experienced news
paperman, ot' Vancouver, B. C., has I
taken over the White Star and will
attempt to convert it into a modern
weekly.
MEXICALA GAMBLING DENS ROB
BING AMERICAN’S COIN
FAMILIES IN WANT
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 25.—Mexicala,
the Mexican town facing Calexico,
Cal., across the American-Mexican
border, 230 miles south of here, is a
“sink of iniquity,’ ’ whose evil influ
ence permeates the entire Imperial
valley, according to a statement made
here today by Lucien Wheeler of the
United States department of justice,
bureau of investigation, who has just
returned from a trip of investigation
at the border.
Wheeler said he was preparing a
report, for the department at Wash- i
ington, in which he would recommend
that the border be closed between
Calexico and Mexicali every evening
at 7 or 8 o’clock to prevent Americans
pouring into this “pot of vice.”
In the dens of Mexicali, Wheeler
said, there are 300 girls, of whom
250 have been recruited from the
ranks of the underworld on the Am
erican side of the border.
“In Mexicali,” he continued, “a
gambling syndicate has built a gam
bling palace that will accommodate |
1,500 persons. Unless something is I
done to stop the nightly exodus from i
Calexico and other points in the Im-!
perial valley, these vultures of i
chance will continue to fatten their
bankrolls at the expense of the farm
ing and laboring classes of the val-|
ley.
“Men who work hard for their
money in Southern California are now
throwing it away across the green
baize tables in Mexicali. Their fami
lies are going hungry and shoeless.”
NO HOPE FOR FLIGHT
SHENANDOAH THIS YEAR
\\ ASHINGTON, Feb. 25.—Congres
sional leaders informed the Navy de
partment today that there was little
hope that congressional approval
would be given in time for the flight
of the Shenandoah this year.
VALDEZ HAS A DENTIST
After going without a dentist for
several months, Valdez again has a
dentist, a new D. D. S., arriving from
the states on a recent boat. Dr. H.
Cockerille, one of the pioneer dent
ists of the Territory, left there last
fall.
VALDEZ EDITOR WOULD RE
PEAL INSTEAD OF ENACT
Editor Chas. H. Wilcox, who is a
candidate for representative on the
Democratic ticket, tells the voters of
the division that he does not want
to go to the legislature to enact laws
but to repeal undesirable ones. While
the idea is not a novel one, few can
didates have the courage to express
their convictions. Every legislature
turns out many monuments of folly
to its members, who get laws passed
which are unnecessary. The legisla
ture who goes to Juneau with the ex
pressed determination of repealing all
undesirable laws should be the man
for the place.
PAUL BUM TELLS
OF ADVANTAGES OF '
Paul Buckley, formerly deputy U. S.
marshal at Unalaska, and a promoter
of many enterprnses to tlie westward,
including a saltery, fox farm and sul
phur mine, left Sunday morning on
the Starr for Cold Bay, Where he will
take up a water power site, and look
after his extensive oil interests.
Mr. Buckley, in talking over condi
tions to the westward, emphasized
the advantages of Seward as a distri
buting point for wholesalers, stating
that there was no doubt that such a
firm by sending out commercial trav
elers could take over an immense
trade now' going to the States. Mr.
Buckley said that much of the Un
alaska business was handled by can
nery boats and others, but that it
could be diverted to Sewrard.
“Such a business would require but
little working up to the westward,,r
said Mr. Buckley. “My idea would
be to wholesale exclusively, at a
small margin of profit, and by handl
ing case goods and unbroken pack
ages one would need only an office
and a warehouse. Practically every
business house to the westward wmuld
trade with Sew'ard if it was made to
their interest to do so, and an im
mense amount of merchandise is us
ed. The district is rapidly settling up,
and Sew'ard should by all means go
after some firm to handle only whole
sale supplies in broken packages.”
Deputy Marshal H. I. Staser, of An
chorage, who is making effective war
on the bootleggers in the Cook inlet
metropolis, is authority for the state
ment that federal prohibition agents
working under cover in Anchorage
will turn in the names of several pro
minent people to the grand jury on
the charge of alleged liquor viola
tions. Mr. Staser says that small jail
sentences aparentlv have no terrors
for dry law violators, and that “An
chorage knows prohibition only in
theory. To perfect this theory is im
possible without the cooperation of a
majority of citizens. Public senti
ment should be reflected in local
grand juries.”
RfPlLIMH ME
MINEOLA, N. Y., Feb. 25.—Theo
dore Roosevelt, asistant secretary of
thenavy, was chosen delegate from
Nassau county to the Republican na
tional convention at a meeting of the
Republican County Committee last
night.
TODAY’S MEN
Some business men live entirely in
the past—they are contented with
their stock their business and their
town. Others live entirely in the fu
ture. They plan so far ahead that
they never come near their goal. A
few lucky men are wise enough to
live in the present. They buck up to
their work with all the energy there
is in them and meet today’s business
facts today, with no remorse over
the mistakes of the past and no fear
of the future. They forget the past
except as it serves them and ignore
the future except as it inspires them
to greater effort.
The grass in our neighbor’s field
may be no greener than that in our
own pasture, but too many of us cast
covetous eyes on what does not be
long to us. We waste energy reach
ing through the fence to snatch a few
spears of grass, when a whole mead
ow is right behind us, out of our
sight.
O. E. S. Meeting
Regslar meeting of the Eastern
Star tonight at 8 o’clock. Special el
ection and initiation. All members
requested to be present