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VOLUME XV. NUMBER 26.
SEWARD, ALASKA. SATO RAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1930.
°RICE TEN CENTS
Tracking Giant
Kodiak Bear to
Uttermost Haunt
WESTWARD GROUP MAKING WAY FOR BIG
GAME HUNTERS, PROSPECTORS AND STOCK
RAISERS—A DECISIVE BATTLE TO BE WAG
ED FOR THE DOMINION OF INTERIOR KO
DIAK ISLAND THIS YEAR UNDER THE LEAD
ERSHIP OF INDEPENDENT GUIDES—LONG
RULE AND TERRORISM MAY BE ENDED.
Early Russian history in Alaska is somewhat hazy
hut from some of the best accounts obtainable it ap
pears that in 1763 about the time England and France
were negotiating treaties at the close of the colonial
wars, Stepan Glotoff, a Russian freebooter, dropped
his hook ‘‘off a mountainous island” where he sojourned
six months, after building a house near the beach and
making various efforts to subjugate the natives whom
he described as more manly, more intelligent, more hos
tile and in every way more formidable than the Aleuts
further to the Westward. So far as known, that is the
first mention of Kodiak in history, and Glotoff’s inva
sion of beautiful St. Paul’s Harbor at Kodiak was one
of the very first instances of a white man appearing
in any part of Alaska.
BELIEVE SHOOTING /IS GANG
LAND’S REVENGE; FAD OF
FERED INFORMATION
CHICAGO,. Feb., 1, (A5)—Julius
Rosenheim. 45, formerly investiga
tor of Chicago crime commission,
was shot to de^th by two men who
stepped f'urn an automobile to the
sidewalk and fired six shots into
his body, then escaped in an auto
mobile driven by a third man.
The police said the shooting ap- j
parently was a gangland’s revenge }
upon “Hi-jacker” Rosenheim, who i
offered to give the State attorney’s j
office information six weeks ago on i
vice. He walked out of the office
but failed to return.
JUNEAU DRY SPELL
IS FILL? BROKEN {
JUNEAU, Feb., 1, (/P)—Eight in
ches of snow here ended the long
drv spell of the cold seven weeks
during which the frost went into
The ground to a denth of from 18 j
inches to five feet, freezing private
water mains ’and causing a short
age of water.
Many sections were without wat
er for three weeks. The local water
company was forced to turn off the
water in the greater portion of the
city at night in order to allow the
icscrvoirs to partially fill up.
It wa^ the sea otter that brought
the first explorers here and for 2C
years after Glotoff’s appearance
there was much desultory huntine
with far away Siberia as a base
This was changed bv the formatter
of the Shellikof f-G olikof f Co.
which was organized for the pur
pose of colonizing and establishing
fur trading centers in the new
world.
To this end Grigor Ivonivich
Shelikoff, known as “The Fathei
ai*d Founder of Russian Colonics iu
America”, accompanied by his wife
Natalia, with three ships and 92
men ,set sail from the port of Ok
totsk and after a cruise of nearly a
year, entered a harbor on the south
eastern coast of Kodiak Island
which he named for his ship “Three
Saints”, now a thriving cannerj
center. Here he established the
first Russian colony in America.
(Continued on Page Two)
SEATTLE, ALASKA,
SIBERIAN
SEATTLE, Feb., 1, <£>)—The sale
to the Siberian Fish Cold Storage
Corp., of Seattle of the Eastern
Pilot, a 5,000 ton wartime freighter
now at Norfolk, was announced.
As soon as the vessel is brought
here it will be put into service be
tween Seattle, Alaska and Siberian
ports, officials of the company
stated. .
W. A. IIESSE FILE
JUNEAU, Feb., 1, (/P)—William A
Hesse, Ketchikan mining engineer,
filed his declaration of candidacj
for Territorial highway engineer,
subject to the Democratic ticket at
the April primaries. He was form
erly a resident of Fairbanks, Nome
md Cordova.
CROWD OVERPOWERS SHERIFF;
TAKEN WHERE GIRL’S BODY
FOUND; CONFESS CRIME
! OCILLA, Ga., Feb., 1, (/P)—Jimmy
Irvine, negro, accused of attacking
and killing a 14-year-old white girl,
was beaten to death and his body
burned about 10 miles from here
by a crowd of several hundred per
sons who had taken him by force
from Sheriff Tyler.
Irvine was captured at Mystic,
Ga., after an all-night man-hunt
by Tyler and his denudes to bring
the negro to jail. The sheriff was
acccsed by a crowd in Ocilla. The
crowd overpowered him. he said,
in a struggle in which he was in
jured slightly.
The negro was taken to the place
where the body of the girl, the
daughter of a prominent farmer,
was found. Tvleer raid the negro
confessed to the crime when he was
captured.
li DOSSLLD i
(ACER LEI FIELD
TAHOE, Calif., Feb., 1, (/P)— Roy
Stover of Ashton, Idaho, led the
field for the first 30-mile lap of the
annual Tahoe-Sierra 90-mile dog
derby, covering the course in two
house, 31 minutes and four seconds.
Fay Delezene of Nome finished
seventh in two hours, 45 minutes 1
and six seconds.
BOWL,ING GREEN, Ky., Feb., 1, j
(/P)—Carl Spillman, 19, confessed,
police said, that he participated in j
the robbery of the bank at Rocky- !
hill, of which his father was cash- :
ier and sole employe.
He was charged with the bank,
robbery and lodged in jail. Offi- J
dais of the bank said that about
$3,000 had been taken.
Three men participated in the
holdup the youth said. He sat in |
the car with the other man while j
the third robbed the bank.
PROHIBITION’S TENTH ANNIVERSARY
FINDS ENFORCEMENT CHIEF ISSUE
r
Henrv
H. Curran ^
[ F SCOTT MC bride"
tCKERb>HAMj
Henry H. Curran, opposed to the prohibition amend
ment, and Dr. F. Scott McBride of the Anti-Saloon Leag
ue are marshalling their forces anew as prohibition
ends its first decade and hearings on repeal of the 18th
amendment due to beginn February 12. Senator Wm.
E. Borah is a pivotal figure in the controversy over en-1
| forcement as the Hoover commission, headed by George
| VV. Wickersham, chairman, begins handing in the com
mission’s findings.
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FAMES OF LOST
IViim EIEL8QN
BOMB, MEET
HAS ABANDONED HOPE THAT
HIS SON AND BORLAND
ARE ALIVE
SEATTLE, Feb., 1, (A*)—Bearing
his loss with spartan fortitude,
Ole Eielson, 66, father of Ben,
arrived last night from Hatton, N.
D., enroute to Seward and Fair
banks, to claim the body of
the famous aviator in case it is
recovered.
He was met by W. E. Borland,
father of Earl: “It is too bad,”
Borland said as he grasped Eiel
son's hand, “Earl had such faith
in your boy.”
“There are times when faith
doesn’t count for much. It is
over now and we must bear up,”
Eielson replied calmly.
Adeline Eielson, a daughter and
school teacher at Wenatchee, ac
companied her father. They both
vetoed the idea of a military
funeral.
Eielson has abandoned hope
that his son is alive. He leaves
on Wednesday, on the steamer
Alaska,' for Seward continuing on
to Fairbanks to gather his son’s
effects and if the opportunity
is granted plans to fly to the
scene of the crash.
Mr. Eielson is a banker at Hat
ton.
MEXICO CITY, Feb., 1, (^—Al
exander Makar, Russian minister,
received orders from Moscow tell
ing him to close the legation.
This officially completes sever
ance of relations between the two
countries, the break starting when
Mexico recalled its representatives
from Moscow as a protest against
communi”tic demonstrations made
before the Mexican embassies of
several countries.
im SIGNAL CORPS
SETS SPECIAL SIM
WASHINGTON, Feb., 1, (^Pi
President Hoover submitted to con
gress the supplemental appropria
tion estimate of $125,000 for the
Washington-Alaska Military Cable
& Telegraph System.
This sum would enable the re
placement of the radio station near
Nome which was destroyed by fire .
last December.
GOAL, ITER POWER
IN CLOSE UTILITY RACE
NEW YORK, Jan., 31, (JP)—Steam
nr-'v'er will not be supplanted by
hydro-electric power, says a report
of William F. Tefft of Jackson,
Mich., to the American Society of
Mechanical Engineers.
Instead, he says a power system
containing both steam and hydro
electric plants can generate power
more cheaply than either kind
alone.