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VOLUME XVIII.
NUMBER 114
SEWARD, ALASKA: WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1923
PRICE TEN CENTS
Appropriation Bill Has Passed House
CHEER LABOR AGITATOR
DUBLIN, May 2.—James Larkin, a
labor agitator deported from the Uni
ted States as an undesirable alien,
arrived at Kingston today and was
loudly cheered by the crowds on the
pier.
PARIS, May 2.—The new German
proposals for reparations settlement
are so far from being acceptable to
France that a flat rejection of them
is regarded as certain by persons
close to Poincaire. This rejection, it
is stated, will probably be followed by
an extension of occupation on the
right bank of the Rhine.
The offer proposes that the sum to
tal of Germany’s obligations under the
Versailles treaty be fixed at thirty
billion gold marks. Twenty billion ot
the total is to be raised before Jully 1,
1927, by a bond issue at normal
of interest on the international mon
ey market; five billions would be rais
ed before July 1, 1929, in the same
manner, and the remainder before
July 1, 1931.
FOR MILLIONS
SEATTLE, May 2—The Skinner &
Eddy Corporation, generally credited
with having cleaned up $30,000,000 in
war-time shipbuilding contracts this
afternoon began a damage suit tor
$9,129,401, plus interest, against the
United States Shipping Board Emer
gency Fleet corporation, alleging a
breach of contract in the cancellation
by the government of contracts tor
the construction of war-time ships.
H. S. Balderston and Chas. Brown
will arrive on Saturday’s train from
Anchorage, spending Sunday in rew
ard.
HEIRS MBS. J, J. 11
ST. PAUL, May 1.—After much liti
gation and bitterness of feeling the
heirs have finally reached an agree
ment as to the division of the eleven
million dollar estate ot Mrs. James J.
Hill. __
FREIGHT SHIPMENTS COMING
Consigned for the port of Seward
on the Victoria, due here May 5, will
be 23 tons for local merchants and
325 tons for rail distribution. Includ
ed in the above shipment will be 29
tons of cold storage.
On the Oduna, due on May 9, will
be 73 tons for local consignment and
36 tons for rail distribution. Two
autos are included in Liis freight man
ifest.
notice to consumers
The water on Third avenue, south ot
Adams street, will be turned off at
8:00 o’clock tonight.
JOHN NELSON, Supt.
WEBSTER IS APPOINTED.
WASHINGTON, May 2.—Represen
tative E. Bartlett Webster, of Spokane
was appointed Federal judge for the
Eastern Washington division.
The section crew in Sewarl have
commenced laying new t’.es on the
main line in the depot yard.
Million and Half Includes All Measures
ESSEN, May 2.—Gustav Krupp von
Bolen Halbaeh, president of the Krupp
Works was arrested today by French
military authorities in connection
with the shooting at the Krupp plant
on March 31st, when 14 Germans were
killed and 30 wounded in a clash with
French troops.
BRITISH WILL FlfiHT
DRY RULING OF
U. S. COURTS
LONDON, May 2.—British trans
Atlantic steamship lines, backed by
all the companies on the continent
will fight the dry ruling of the United
States supreme court.
This was determined today upon
receipt of information that foreign
vessels could not carry .liquor into
United States territory.
WASHINGTON, May 2 —For the
benefit of the special expedition which
is being sent to Alaska to make a
survey of coastal waters, the Naval
observatory was ordered today to send
out a special time signal at 4 a. m.
daily until the middle of October.
MOSCOW, May 2.—Severe earth
quakes with large loss of life were
reported in Caucasus.
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SEATTLE, May 1.—Capt. E. P.
Bartlett, commander of the liner H.
F. Alexander was married last night
to Miss Elva King, of Bellingham, at
the Plymouth Congregational church.
SIXTY-EIGHT PER GENT
WASHINGTON, May 2—The cost
of living has increased sixty-eight per
cent in the United States in the last
ten years, and wages has increased
nearly 100 per cent in certain trades.
INTERVENTION OF NATIONS
URGED TO PREVENT WAR
PEKING, May 1.—Intervention by
4'oreign representatives t<T prevent im
pending Civil War about to break out
is urged today by B. Lennox Simp
son, adviser to President Yuan Hung'
BAND MEETING TONIGHT
This evening in the fire hall the
members of the recently organized
band will assemble (to hold their first
practice. The hour will be 8 o’clock.
SEATTLE, Apr. 30.—The trading
schooner Iskum, Capt. W. W. Putta,
soon to sail for the Arctic, will en
deavor to take off six members of the
Steffanson expedition, marooned on
Wrangell Island since 1920.
AURORA, May 1.—Warren A. Lin
coln, attorney, and distant relative of
Abraham Lincoln, has disappeared un.
der circumstances indicating murder
Daily Gateway, by mail, $10 yearly.
Special Appropriation Given
Alaska College Is $90,000
(By Special Correspondent)
JUNEAU, May 2.—With the Alaska
College items stricken and the fish
commission item boosted to $86,500.
the general appropriations measure
passed the House yesterday afternoon.
Although the college item was taken
from the list that institution was pro
tected by a special coliege appropria
tion measure which called for
Both 'he college and fish measures
have been bones of coutei im be
tween the two legislative bodies si* ce
Monday morning and it was no: uriUl
near the noon hour yesterday that a
compromise was effected. The only
other material change in the general
appropriations was the provision cov
ering schools outside of incorporated
towns. This amount was increased
$20,000, passing in the measure ai
$220,000.
The Senate passed the Grant reso
lution and the fisheries bill which
carries provisions aimed a< traps lo
cated in small bays and estuaries and
provides for the creation of an Alaska
fish commission control and regulation
of fisheries. This measure will be
sent to congress for enactment.
The Senate also passed House Bill
No. 36, revising the general business
laws of the territory; and House Bill
No. 58, appropriating $8,000 for the
purchase of the Tolovana tram road,
connecting the head of navigation on
the Tolovana river with the town of
Livingood, the mining center of that
district.
With but two days remaining for
legislative business there yet remain
36 measures to be acted upon, which
includes the Ayer’s workmen’s com
pensation act, which is scheduled to
follow the House’s disposition of the
taxation bill. Ten House and twenty
Senate bills are yet to be acted upon
by- the lower body, while the Senate
has only four bills unacted. Owing
to these conditions it will require a
continuous session of both houses if
all measures are to be considered be
fore adjournment.
The appropriations measure, passed
yesterday, carried a total of $1,452,
360, included in which were the fol
lowing items:
Maintenance of schools, $674,000.
Roads and trails, $240,000.
Pioneers Home at Sitka, $98,450.
Fish Commission, $86,500.
Pensions, $60,000.
Some slashing is predicted when
these allocations reach the Senate.
The House passed the taxation bill
which includes the following: On net
incomes between $5,000 to $1,000,000,
one per cent of the profits. Above a
million dollars, one and a half per
cent.
The new fish taxation schedule is
as follows: With a base rate of 12
cents on reds, kings and sockeyes, on
packs under 10,000 cases. Three
cents a case additional will be levied
on all increases up to 25,000 cases.
Other increases will be as follows; j
25.000 to 40,000 cases, 8 cents. j
40.000 to 50,000 caes, 13 cents.
50.000 to 60,000 cases, 18 cents.
Above 60,000 cases, 23 cents.
The above schedule covers medium j
reds, cohoes and pinks.
On a base pack of 25,000 cases a j
surtax of 4*4 cents per case will be
collected with the following surtax on
increases:
25.000 to 40,000 cases, 2 cents.
40.000 to 50,000 cases, 4 cents.
50.000 cases to 60,000 cases, 6 cts.
All over 60,000 cases, 8Vfe cents.
The rate on chums is unchanged
from the previous listing, which was
three cents. It is estimated that
schedule is about 135 per cent higher
than last year.
The Senate adopted the substitute
for the Price fish bill creating tw'o
fisheries districts in Southeastern
Alaska. The first district lies between
the 57th and 60th parallels, north lat
itude. The closed season is desig
nated between August 10 and Sep'
1, and will be annu.rily. The second
district •'lies south of the 57th parallel,
wit lithe closed season covering be
tween August 20 to September 9.
Both of these districts lie east of the
139th meridian and affetcs territory
outside of the First division.
The legislature will close Saturday,
May 5th.
MAY HE Wm
MASON CITY, la., May 2.—‘‘I have
nothing to say,” Colonel Hanford Mac
Nider, head of the American Legion,
commented this afternoon concerning
a report from Washington that he had
been suggested as the running mate
for President Harding next election.
SALMON FISHING SEASON
OPENS ON COLUMBIA RIVER
SEATTLE, May 1—With the open
ing of the annual salmon fishing sea
son on Puget Sound, the Columbia
river and tributary streams, Ernest
Seaborg, state supervisor of fisheries,
is preparing to police a larger num
ber of operators than for several
years he announced.
RADIO POLES BEING ERECTED
Thhe pole to carry the antennae for
the Seward broadcasting plant are be
ing placed in position on the lot near
Dr. Baughman’s residence. The poles
are nearly 100 feet high, and will give
the waves a good chance to clear
the light wires. It is expected to have
the set in operation in a few days.
In excavating the pit for the gas
tank at the Lechner machine shop sev
eral bones of a human skeleton were
unearthed. Ribs, skull and a thigh
bone were dug up.
KETCHIKAN, May 1.—Fish prices
for April 30: Fresh halibut 13 and 7
cents.
CONSTANTINOPLE, May 2.—The
French charge d’affaii^s here handed
a note to the Turkish government to
day, declaring that unless concentra
tion of Turkish troops on the Syrian
border was immediately stopped thait
France would withdraw from the Lau
sanne conference and prepare for war.
GERMANY OFFERS TO KEEP
PEACE THREE GENERATIONS
BERLIN, May 1.—Germany is hold
ing out the olive branch to France in
the form of a mutual peace fact to
endure three generations in the new
German reparations plan which goes
to the Allies tonight.
GERMANS WILL MAKE NEW
OFFER ON REPARATIONS
LONDON, Apr. 28.—News reached
the London foreign office that the Ger
man government is (to make a new
reparations offer to France as the
price of the evacuation of the Ruhr.
Mrs. Frank Bayer, wife of a com
mission timekeeper at Anchorage, will
arrive on the Victoria from the state.
Junior Red Cross Entertainment at
Liberty Theatre Thursday night.
The halibut schooner Gladstone ar
rived in port yesterday from the
banks with 50,000 pounds oi fish.
WASHINGTON, May 2.—Definite!
indications were given by Albert
Lasker, after a conference with the |
President today, that government
owned ships will be kept “bone dry,” j
for some time at least, although un
der yesterday’s supreme court deci
sion they could legally carry and
serve liquor on the high seas.
K. K. K, CAUSES FIGHT
IN CHURCH WHEN
EULOGIZED
NEW BRUNSWICK j N. J.. May 2.—
Stones, sticks, chairs and coal were
hurled in a church at Boundbrook to
night, when members of the congre
gation took exceptions to the remarks
of a speaker who was lauding the Ku
Klux Klan. Three non-members of
the Klan were badly beaten by mem
bers.
SLACK SEA TO FLEET
MOSCOW, May 2.—“The obstinacy
with which the British delegation at
Lausanne is maintaining its position
is really the British foreign office
striving to open the Black Sea to the
British fleet,’’ declared Foreign Min
ister Georges Tchitcherin today.
BONAR LAW SAILS
LONDON, May 2.—Andrew Bonar
Law sailed today for Genoa in the
hope of regaining his health.
FIVE THND PRIESTS
RIGA, May 2.—Soviet prisons in
Russia contain 2,000 orthodox priests
and bishops, as well as 3,000 priests
of other confessions. All are in pris
on lor religious persons.
PLEADS GUILTY OF MURDER
DF TAXI CHAUFFEUR
TACOMA, May 2.—D. Emerson Cor
rigan, who pleaded guilty to the mur
der of George Marsh, a Seattle for-!
hire chauffeur, who was found dead in
a ditch near Auburn in April, with
his head beaten in, was senfenced to
life imprisonment at Walla Walla.
HARDING WILL EXPECT VOTE
OF WOMEN ON COURT PLAN
WASHINGTON, May 1.—President
Harding expects to make a strong bid
for support of the women through
their various organizations in his
plan to put the United States in the
League of Nations court.
NOTICE TO MASONS.
Stated communication of Seward
Lodge No. 218, P. & A. M., Wednes
day evening, May 2. Work in the
Third degree.
ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND
STOLEN FROM GOVERNMENT
WASHINGTON, May 2.—Secret
service men are investigating the dis
appearance of $100,000 in bonds from
the Bureau of Printing and Engraving.
PREFERENCE GIVE! TO
PARIS, May 2.—The United Staten
is accorded preferential treatment in
reimbursement of her Rhineland army
costs under an agreement reached by
the Allies in confeernce here this
afternoon.
WASHINGTON. May 2.—The an
nouncement trickled through under
ground political channels today from
Detroit, that Henry Ford would no*
a candidate for the presidency on an
independent ticket, but would try to
capture the nomination on the demo
cratic ticket.
Democratic leaders are uneasy over
the announcement, while republicans
including Harding, are corresponding
ly pleased.
WIFE OF PRESIDENT CZECHO
SLOVAKIA HAS STROKE
PRAGUE, Czecho-Slovakia, May 2—
Mme. Masaryk, wife of the president
of the Czecho-Slovakia republic, and
normally Charlotte Garrigue, of New
York, suffered an apoplectic stroke to
day and is in a serious condition.
LONDON, May 2.—The British high
commissioner today registered en
phatic protest against the granting by
the Turkish government of oil rights
within the kingdom of Irak, Mesopo
potamia, and to declare that Britain
cannot recognize the validity of such
a grant.
The concessions are reported to
have been granted to an American
corporation.
IN 1Y DAY CLASHES
ROME, May 2.—Two communists
were killed and several wounded iu
a conflict with National military
forces at Milan today, when commu
nists attempted to prevent railway
men from working.
TELEGRAPHERS ON VIC
To increase the force of telegraph
operators of the commission, Leo W.
Johnson and M. V, Beresford will ar
rive on the steamer Victoria and on
arrival will be assigned to stations
along the road.
The Admiral Evans is scheduled to
arrive in port at midnight.. On un
loading cargo the vessel will proceed
to Seldovia, Anchorage, Kodiak and
Alitak before returning to Seward.
Due to depart for the south on May
ninth.
A FINE ENTERTAINMENT
The Junior Red Cross League will
give a fine entertainment at the Lib
erty theatre tomorrow, Thursday
night. The school orchestra will play
and admission, including the show
will be but fifty cemts. The manage
ment gives the League fifty per cent
of the receipts, for their annual ser
vice fund.
PORT TOWNSEND, May 2.—The
postoffice here was blown by cracks- *
men early this morning.