VOLUM.E 19, NUMBER 259.
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, NO v EMBER 4, 1924.
PRICE TEX CENTS
ALASKAN OIL TO AID SEATTLE;
KERRY SEES FUTURE IN NORTH
Former Chairman of Alaska Chamber Committee De
clares Black-Gold Discovery in Alaska
Would Surpass Klondike Benefits.
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SEATTLE, Nov. 4.—Success of the
Standard Oil Company and the Gen.
Petroleum Company in oil drilling op
erations they are now conducting at
Cold Bay would mean more to Seat
tle than did discovery of gold in the
Klonri^. said A. S. Kerry, former
chairman of the Alaska committee of
the Chamber of Commerce, who was
the principal speakers at the mem
bers’ council luncheon of the Cham
ber in the Masonic Club rooms yes
terday, when an Alaska Week pro
gram was put on by the Young Men’s
Business Club.
The big oil companies, Mr. Kerry
said, are quite confident that their
Alaska operations will bring in oil
wells.
"They already have spent $750,000,”
said Mr. Kerry, "but the year by no
means discouraged and they are still
drilling. They believe they will
strike oil at about 3,500 feet and they
are now down more than 2,700.”
Mr. Kerry talked on Alaska’s nat
ural resources and the present and
future prospects for their develop
ment. The point he emphasized is
t*nt while Alaska has great natural
wealth, both capitai and good busi
ness judgment are needed by those
who undertake to develop her re
sources,
One of the principal tasks of the j
Alaska committee of the Chamber of
Commerce, he said, had been and was
to advise and guide prospective in-;
vestors to prevent them from making
costly mistakes that would give a
setback to the territory’s develop
ment.
Some oi the territory’s resources,
he pointed out, could not profitably
be developed on a large scale at the
present time and must wait upon the
future. The resources, capable of
%resent development, he said, are
those whose prdoucts can be shipped
out and marketed. He placed bo*h
the agriejiltuial and the coal lands
of the territory in the deferred de
\ > iopiiK nt class.
“It v.ould be folly to encourgae a
larg'- 1 jc vemeat i t .arm. rs to Alaska
at the present time, though Alaska
has much good agricultural land,” he
said. “The market for farm products
must be found at home and agricul
tural development in Alaska must
only keep pace with the increase in
population.
f “The coal situation is similar.
’ Alaska has extensive coal deposits, as
everybody knows, but for the pres
ent the coal can be profitably mined
only for use in the territory and the
development is limited by the home
consumption. The Alaska coal can
not be exported to the States because
they cannot meet the competition of
the mines of this state and British
Columbia, and so long as that compe
tition exists their market must be
found at home.
' Another Alaska resource that must
wait is the territory’s great supply
of timber suitable for making paper
pulp. It has been a great mistake
to urge the federal govrenment to
reduce the sale prices of this timber
to encourage the establishment of
pulp and paper mills in Alaska for
pulp wood is a byproduct of the great
logging operations now being con
ducted in this state and Oregon.
“The pulp and paper industry is
now being developed to furnish a
^ marked for the hemlock that is
logged with other more valuable tim
ber and that heretofore has been per
mitted to go to waste. The Alaska
spruce cannot meet the competition
of this byproduct because the logging
costs in Alaska are higher than they
are on Puget Sound or the Columbia
River and other operating expenses
are greater.
“Why not consider this situation
carefully and think about reserving
jfj these Alaska pulp wood resources for
the future, when they can be used
profitably?”
Mr. Kerry cited several instances
where the Alaska committee had been
compelled to intervene to protect
Alaska against ill-advised develop
ment schemes, and said that the wis
dom of its policy had come to be rec
ognized by Alaskans, with the result
‘p that business relations between Se
attle and Alaska were now closer and
more friendly than ever before.
Turning to resources that were ca
pable of immediate development, Mr.
Kerry said they were numerous, and
he cited minerals, including petto*
leum, as an example.
“But remember,” he. remarked,
“that prospects are found and that
mines are made. It takes both intel
ligence and money to make a mine.
This is as true of oil as it is of gold
or silver. I was personally respon
sible for inducing the Standard Oil
Company and the General Petroleum
Company to enter the Cold Bay field.
If they find oil there is it probable
that you will hear regret expressed
that this oil was permitted to g^t
out of the hands of local interests.
"But the truth is that if such inter
ests had attempted the development
they would have failed and the devel
opment would have been set back
twenty years.”
If oil wells are brought in at Cold
Bay, Mr. Kerry said, Seattle will be a
big beneficiary, for all the oil will be
refined either on Puget Sound or on
the Columbia river. None of it, he
said, will go to California.
Fred Peterson, president of the
Young Men’s Business Club, presided
at the meeting. The club put on a
number of novel entertainment
stunts, including a visit by Andy
Gump, that won rounds of applause
from a big audience.
SEWARD VOTE WILL
APPARENTLY BE LIGHT
Despite the fine weather and the
importance of polling a full vote, Sew
ard’s population apparently is indif
ferent over the election. We should
poll something over three hundred
votes if every citizen voted and with
free jitneys there is no reason why
they should not. When our vote is
sized up by party leaders we will be
overlooked for anything important,
whereas, a full vote would place us
up with the leaders in the matter of
appointments. There is nothing so
important for a town as representa
tion in the legislature, irrespective of
party, and having a large vote. If
you have not voted, get out and do so.
GOVERNMENT CONTROL
WATERFRONTS IS*FAV0RED
LOS ANELES, Nov. 4.—Govern
ment control of the nation’s water
fronts in preference to government
ownership was advocated here yester
day in an address by J. Spencer
Smith, president of the board of com
merce and navigation of the state of
New Jersey. Among the speakers
was James H. Paulhamus of Puyal
lup.
BRITISH LABOR PARTY
THROWS UP SPONGE
LONDON, N6v. 4.—Ramsay Macdon
ald, Britain’s first labor leader, re
signed today and King George accept
ed his resignation. Stanley Baldwin,
Conservative leader and former Prime
Minister, will 1t>e summoned by the
king to form a ministry.
LEADER OF PERSIAN
ASSASSINS EXECUTED
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 4.—
Execution by the Persian government
of Seyid Hussein, ringleader of the
mob that murdered Major Imbrie, the
American consul in Teheran, was of
ficially reported executed today by
the Persian government, in a tele
gram to the State Department.
NEW COMPLICATIONS
IN MRS. HARDING’S CASE
MARION, Ohio, Nov. 4.—New com
plications have appeared in the case
of Mrs. Florence Kling Harding,
which causes considerable apprehen
sion among the physicians attending
hre. There is little hope-for her re
covery, it was announced here today.
THE AMERICAN RED CROSS
DRIVE NOW ON
JOIN
DAILY NEWSPAPER IS
A GREAT HELP TO
, HUMANE MOVEMENT
TORONTO, Nov. 4.—Leopold Wil
der of Albany, N. Y., managing edi
tor of the National Humane review,
said today before the forty-eighth an
nual convention of the American Hu
mane association that the daily news
paper is one of the strongest allies
of the humane movement.
“Not long ago,” said Wilder, “the
president of the Humane society in a
western city, asked the public thru
the cclums of a newspaper to give a
home to several dogs that would have
to be destroyed otherwise there was
nothing the matter with them. With
in a few hours of publication of the
story, not only had every last dog
been disposed of, but the society had
a waiting list of persons asked to be
notified when there were more dogs
in need of a home.”
CITIZENS SHOULD
RESPOND TO DUTY
AT BALLOT BOX
WASHINGTON, D. C.( Nov. 4.—I:
broadcasting his last appeal to the
public before the election, President
Coolidge last night said in part: “If
the time comes when our citizens
fail to respond to their right and du
ty individually and collectively, in
telligently and effectively at the bal
lot box, election day, I do not know
what form of government will be
substituted for that which we at
present have the opportunity to en
joy; but I do know it will no longer
be a rule of the people; it will no
longer be a sovereignty other forces
will arise and seize it, and if they
fail to govern themselves some power
will arise to govern them. Every
citizen would use his right to vote.”
COOLIDGE EXPECTS VOTE
OF 350 FROM COLLEGE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 4.—
President Colidge, alter carefully go
ing over reports from the various
states, expects a vote of 350 in the
electoral college and a Republican ma
jority of 20 in the House next ses
sion it was said at the White House
today.
PATIES RESISTING OFFICER
LIABLE TO IMPRISONMENT
Many persons believe that when a
prohibition officer arrests an offen
der if the guilty person can destroy
the evidence he gets off scot free.
Such is not the case as the Revised
Statutes, Criminal Code, Sec. 31/ pro
vides:
“Whoever shall dispossess or res
cue, or attempt to dispossess or res
cue any property taken or detained
by any officer or other person under
the authority of any revenue law of
the United States, or shall aid and
assist therein, shall be fined not more
than $300, or imprisoned not more
than one year.”
Another statute along the same
lines, only more severe where bodily
harm is offered to the officers pro
vides an extreme penalty of 10 years’
imprisonment.
LARGEST VOTE IN
HISTORY OF NATION
BE RECORDED TODAY
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 4.—
The largest electorate cast in the
history of any nation is trying to
day to solve the task of electing ihe
right man to the presidency, the most
puzzling task yet confronting 'he \ •>
ter.
DEPOSED CHINESE OFFICER
HAS FLED THE COUNTRY
TOKIO, Nov. 4.—Wu Pei Fu, the
deposed Peking commander in chief of
the Chinese army, has fled, boarding
a steamer at Tientsin for destinations
unknown, but presumably for Kiang
Su province.
PRINCETON SONGSTER
DISLOCATES HIS ARM
LEADING CHIN MUSIC
PRINCETON, N. J., Nov. 4.—A cas
ualty of Saturday’s football game was
revealed today. William W. Millard,
of New London, Conn., threw his arm
out of place in directing the singing
of the Princeton rooters.
VOTE FOR A. E. RUCKER.
CHAMBER Of COMMERCE
HAS SPLENDID MEETING
One of the beat meetings enjoyed
by the Seward Chamber of Commerce
in many months was had today when
President Hinde called the cahber to
order following the usual luncheon.
Several visitors were present and ad
dressed the meeting, including Mr.
Frank Cotter, manager of the Alaska
Weekly, the well-known Seattle ^pub
lication, and Dr. J. H. Romig, at pres
ent assigned to duty at the Fairbanks
hospital as chief surgeon.
Several communications were read,
one being from General Manager N.
W .Smith of the Alaska railroad,
stating that upon his return from
Washington he would be glad to meet
with the chamber, and also thanking
it for data compiled and offered to
the manager for use by the railroad.
Mr. Smith offered to lease any of the
railroad sites on the waterfront to
prospective industries, and stated that
he would be glad to be of any assis
tance he could.
A communication was received from
a colony of thirty persons desiring to
come to Seward. The letter stated
that the colony would prefer to en
ter into wood-working business, and
that it had its own boat with two
licensed mariners.
Other matters were disposed of and
President Hinde called upon the visi
tors for a few remarks. Mr. Cotter
stated that he was glad to get back
to Seward ,that he noticed more im
provements in Seward than in any
town he had visited in his trip thru
Alaska. The many new buildings
and clean streets were evidence of
prosperity and he assured his hear
ers of the co-operation of his news
paper in every way possible. Mr. Cot
ter explained that his paper planned
to get out an issue of ten thousand
copies for each town subscribing $500,
the price of the rotogravure section
alone, and that it would be good ad
vertising for the city as his company
would distribute 5000 copies of the
paper. There would also be a page
write-up in the paper donated with
the rotogravure section, and for every
merchant advertising in the paper,
credit would be given toward the sum
needed for the pictorial section. The
members of the chamber believed it
would be good publicity and the mat
ter will be taken up later .
Dr. Romig then addressed the cham
ber, telliftg of his love for Seward,
stating that he had never forfeited
his residence here despite his contin
ued absence. He called attention to
; the lack of hospital facilities, and de
clared that prospects looked bright for
| the reopening of the hospital here by
the Sisters. He and his# associates
had offered to donate the lots neces
sary in case the present building is
moved away from the glacial stream,
and that he favored a hospital operat
ed by the Sisters, despite his being of
opposite sectarian views. He stated
that the Fairbanks hospital cost
about $24,000 per year to operate,
nearly all of which money was spent
in the town for fuel, lights, and nec
essities. A large sum was also spent
annually at the hotels and restaurants
by patients. He closed his address
by reminding his hearers that no mat
ter where he was assigned to duty,
his heart would be with Seward. The
remarks of both speakers were greet
ed with hearty applause.
Following Dr. Romig’s talk after a
few remarks by President Hinde on
the necessity of a hospital here, the
meeting adjourned until next week.
—
CANDIDATES WILL
RECEIVE RETURNS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 4.—
President Coolidge and family will re
ceive the election returns by private
wire tonight in the White House; J.
W. Davis at his Long Island home,
and LaFollette at Madison, Wis.
BANK CLOSES TODAY
The Bank of Seward closed at one
o'clock today. It will be open as us
ual tomorrow.
EFFORT BEING MADE
TO FIX BLAME FOR
NILES, OHIO, RIOTING
NILES, 0., Nov. 4.—Examination of
witnesses in an effort to fix the re
sponsibility for Saturday’s rioting be
tween the Ku Klux Klan and the anti
Klan organizations, was started to
day by Major General Benson Sough,
today.
YUKON INDIANS FIND
SOME COARSE GOLD
CARCROSS, Y. T., Nov. 4.—Practic
ally the entire population of this
place has gone to Little Lake Atlin,
where Indian prospectors, led by Big
Lake Jim, are reported to have made
a placer strike. The scene of the
strike is forty miles from here. The
Indians are said to have been in
former immediately by Big Lake Jim
and have staked all the best claims.
Many prospectors from Whitehorr
and Skagwav have left for the strike.
It is said to be ideally situated, with
two creeks running on either side.
AGED FORMER SENATOR
DIES IN CALIFORNIA;
102 YEARS OF AGE
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 4.—Cornel
ius Cole, former United States Sena- j
tor from San Francisco, died here to- j
day at the advanced age of 102, and
two months. He came to California in
the early days and was active in se
curing statehood.
QUITS WIFE WHO BEAT
HIM WITH WOODEN LEG
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 4.—For 28
years the married life of William and
Luella Stuart was a tranquil affair.
Then they began to quarrel, accord
ing to a divorce suit filed here by
Stuart, their troubles culminating
when, according to Stuart, his wife
ran off with his artificial leg.
Stuart, he asserted, gave chase,
but when he caught up with his wife,
she beat him upon the head with
the wooden limb and then tried to
garrot him with a cord.
After that, Stuart said, he left his
wife forever.
CREW BRAZILIAN SHIP
MUTINY, SEIZE VESSEL
BUENOS AIRES, Nov. 4.—The crew j
of the Brazilian battleship St. Paulo
is reported to have rebelled and to
have departed from the harbor of Rio
de Janeiro with the ship today for
an unknown destination.
WIFE OF SEATTLE MERCHANT
DEAD FROM ASPHYXIATION
SEATTLE, Wn„ Nov. 4.—Mrs. Eli- j
zabeth Miller, wife of John Miller,
an automobile dealer, was found dead
in her room here this morning, the
result of asphyxiation.
STATE BANK ROBBED
OF $3,500 IN CASH
TACOMA, Wn., Nov. 4.—Two mask
ed bandits robbed the State Bank
at Roy, yesterday, of $3,500 in cash,
after locking Mrs. May Crowley, the
cashier, in the vault. There is no
trace of the robbers.
KETCHIKAN FISH PRICES TODAY
Halibut, seventeen and ten cents.
Kings and Reds, nineteen and ten;
Whites, five cents.
SEATTLE HOTELS GIVE
EMPLOYES CHANCE VOTE
SEATTLE, Nov. 4.—All the larger
hotels opened an hour late this morn
ing in order to give their employes
a full opportunity to vote.
LIBERAL CANDIDATE
ELECTED IN CUBA
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HAVANA, Cuba, Nov. 4.—General
Gerardo Machado, Liberal candidate
for the Cuban presidency, had a ma
jority of 50,000 over former Presi
dent Menocal in Saturdays election
for the presidency of Cuba, accord
ing to returns received from the out
lying provinces.
WELTER-WEIGHT DISLIKED
WASHING DISHES, COOKING
AND SWEEPING FOR WIFE
SEATTLE, Nov. 4.—Complaining
that his bride compelled him to do all
the housework, including washing and
cooking, while she disported herself in
his motor speedster ,spent his money
and enjoyed herself, Marcario Flores,
claimnant of the welterweight cham
pionship of the Philippine Islands, has
started action to divorce Mrs. Lenora
Flores. The couple were married in
Montesano, Wash., June 16 last.
VOTE FOR A. E. RUCKER.
SECRETARY WILBUR
DELIVERS BROADSIDE
AGAINST LAFOLLETTE
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Nov. 4.—Sec
retary Wilbur last night delivered a
broadside by radio at La Follette, “to
my fellow citizens of California.”
DRY AGENTS JAIL
FAIR BOOTLEGGERS
HUNTINGTON, W. Va., Nov. 4.—
Dazzled by the wealth and luxury in
which successful bootleggers revel,
women in large numbers are turning
to manufacturing and selling moon
shine whiskey in West Virginia.
This is the belief of officials of lo
cal branches of the State Prohibition
Department and Federal dry authori
ties. As proof of their contention they
point to the scores of arrests of the
fairer sex throughout the State in re
cent weeks on charges of dealing ex
tensively in the illicit business of mak
ing and disposing of liquor.
In two days recently reports from
prohibition agents all over the State
told of the arrest of sixteen women
on whiskey charges. The women vio
lators in the majority of cases .offi
cials said, when proven guilty of the
charges, were meted out punishment
commensurate with their misdeeds, re
gardless of sex.
U. S. SUPREME COURT
REFUSES TO CONSIDER
CASE AGAINST FORD
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 4.—
The supreme court today refused to
consider whether Henry Ford owes
Edward S. Huff, $11,000,000 as royal
ty upon magnetos used upon 4,500,000
automobiles.
Huff' claims he was paid $10,000 by
Ford for the invention, but that he
was also to receive $2.50 for each
magneto used. The lower federal
courts held that Huff had neglected
to press his claim within the time al
lowed by law.
DAVIS BROADCASTS
APPEAL TO VOTERS
NEW YORK, Nov 4.—From New
York city last night, J. W. Davis
broadcast this appeal to the voters:
“Is it right or wrong that ever"
housekeeper in the country should
be compelled as a result ot' prohibi
tion and the tariff to pay more for
everything she buys in order to in
crease the profits of industries that
are already prosperous? Is it right
or wrong that a tariff bill should
be written, not by the people’s rep
resentatives, but by those who are
to profit under its schedules, writ
ing them to suit themselves? Is it
right or wrong that America should
fail to do everything she can to pro
mote disarmament and produce a last
ing peace in the world? I ask you
to believe that I am far more con
cerned in arousing the moral sense
ot the American people to inlorm it
self on these questions than I am
in securing my own election to the
presidency of these United States.”
GEORGIA MAN NAMED
TO HEAD CONFEDERATES
DUBLIN, Ga., Nov. 4.—James A.
Thomas, of Dublin, Ga,, today issued
orders that he had assumed command
of the Confederate Veterans, follow
ing the death of Col. W. B. Haldeman,
former commander.
WORLD FLYERS LEAVE
ON TRIP TO EL PASO
SAN DIEGO, Cala., Nov. 4.—Head
ed by Lieutenant Smith, the army
round-the-world flyers today took off
for a non-stop flight to El Paso, Tex.
NEW PROTOCOL OF
ARBITRATION FIXED
BY LEAGUE NATIONS
GENEVA, Nov. 4.—Secretary Gen
eral Drummond of the League of Na
tions today communicated officially
with all governments, including the
United States, the League's new pro
tocol of arbitration and disarmament,
outlawing all wars unless ordered by
the League.
VOTE FOR BARTLEY HOWARD