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VOLUME 20 NUMBER 36.
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY Vi, 1925.
PRICE TEN CENTS
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• NEW ENTRANCE TO
CAVE DISCOVERED
RV SEARCH PARTY
4.ATER REPORTS SAY THAT IT
WILL TAKE SEVERAL DAYS
TO PENETRATE CAVE
BELIEVED TO BE DEAD
Considerable Friction Exists Between
Military and Civil Authorities
Over Manner of Rescue
CAVE CITY, Feb. 13.—A tunnel,
which rescuers hope may lead to the
cavern behind which Floyd Collins
lies entombed, was discovered today
oy Major Carmichael, in charge of
the rescue party. He explored the
mouth of the cavern and said he hoped
to have Collins out by noon, as he be
lieved the tunnel leads to the huge
pit, entering which the rescuers could
roll the rock off Collins’ legs. Drilling
stopped until the plan could be inves
tigated. The draft in the tunnel just
found is so strong it blew out the
explorers’ lights.
Ho^s Are Blasted
CAVE CITY, Feb. 13.—After inves
tigation Major Carmichael announced
that the rescue of Floyd Collins thru
the tunnel found last night, has been
abandoned, exploration failing to dis
close any passageway.
Digging in the shaft has been re
sumed and it will probably take two
¥ or three days yet to reach the 75-foot
level where a lateral tunnel will be
started.
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Friction Said to Exist
CAVE CITY, Feb. 13.—Considerable
friction exists between Major Car
michael and local authorities over the
manner of rescuing Floyd Collins, the
entombed explorer, wedged in an 18
inch tunnel 135 feet hack from a cave.
The local people claim that Carmichael
is wasting too much time in experi
menting, and that Collins could have
been reached within a day or so by
following up the tunnel in which he
was a prisoner.
May Not Be Alive
CAVE CITY, Ky., Feb. 13.—Collins
lias now been imprisoned in his sand
stone tomb exactly two weeks today,
and if he is alive, no indications are
shown by repeated tests. The last
word from him was when Miller, a
newspaper man crawled back to him
and held a short conversation with
him. At this time Collins was very
weak, and told Miller that his foot
was free from the sandstone block
which had wedged him in the narrow
tunnel.
Collins Said to Be Alive
CAVE CITY, Ky., Feb. 13.—Andy
Bisig, of Louisville, said he heard
Collins’ cough twice, when he, Basig,
entered the main passageway today.
He said he called to Collins but re
ceived no answer.
Senate Committee Approves
Bill to Dredge Narrows
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.—The Sen
ate Commerce Committee approved
the bill providing for the dredging of
Wrangell Narrows, in Southeastern
Alaska. The narrows are twenty
miles long and at points many danger
ous rocks protrude from the surface
cf the waters. These will be blasted
out and the remainder of the chan
nel dredged wherever needed.
AMERICAN COALING STATION
WILL BE RETURNED MEXICO
MEXICO CITY, Feb. 13.—The Am
erican coaling station on Pichilique
island in the Gulf of California, will
be closed and the island returned to
Mexico according ot advices from
Washington. The island has been
by the United States since 1861
u jT special permit granted by the
Mexican executive.
Serum Relay Reaches Isaac Point
Canadian Police Seize American Vessel!
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UNIDENTIFIED JAPANESE
FOUND DEAD ON STEPS
OF TACOMA HOSTELRY
—
SHOT TWICE THROUGH HEAD
FOURTH MURDER WITHIN
A WEEK
TACOMA, Feb. 13.—An unidentified
Japanese was found dead in a pool
of blood with two shots through his
head, on the steps of a Japanese ho
tel here last night.
K. Torinaka, who was sleeping in
the hotel, heard three shots fired and
rushed out, to find the dead Japanese.
From all indications, the shots were
fired from the top of the stairs in
side of the hotel. This is the fourth
murder Tacoma has had within a
week.
i SWEDE SWIMMER BREAKS
WORLD’S 500-YARD RECORD
ST. AUGUSTINE, Florida, Feb. 13.
—Arne Borg, Swedish swimming
champion, broke the world’s five-hun
dred-vard record, formerly held by
Johnny Weismuller, by one and one
fifth seconds. His time was five
minutes' and forty-nine and one-fifth
seconds.
ESKIMOS LEFT ON
WRANGELL ISLAND
REACH VICTORIA
—
TWO CHILDREN IN PARTY DIED
DURING TRIP, ONE IN VLADIVOS
TOK, ONE MANCHURIA—WELLS
SUCCEEDED BY ESKIMO LEADER
VICTORIA, B. C.. Feb. 13— Eleven
Eskimos, ten who comprised the col
ony of 13 persons sent by Lomen Bros,
to trap on Wrangell Island, arrived in
port today on the Iyo Maru, a Japa
nese steamer. The eleventh was a baby
born on Wrangell Island. Two chil
dren in the ill-fated party left on the
Island by Harold Noice, died, one in
Vladivostok, the other in Manchuria.
The Eskimos were brought here by the
American Red Cross, from Harbin,
Manchuria, and are bound for Golovin
| Bay, their former home, where they
j embarked on the gasboat Donaldson
jOn the expedition to Wrangell Island.
Peter, one of the Eskimos said: “I
ido not wish to speak of the past. I
left my two little sons, Billy and Hope,
in Asia. They never come home. We
been bad since we taken from Island
but hope we will be happy when we
get home.”
Peter lauded the leadership of
Charles Wells, who built good homes
of driftwood, and obtained plenty of
food for the party, killing bears and
catching an abundance of fish.
The party included John Adams,
his wife, their three children; Peter,
his wife and their two daughters, Isit
and Aster, and Abraham and Roy,
bachelors. Abraham was leader after
Wells died.
Hearst Charges Hoover
Trying Dominate Farmers
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 13.—
Charles E. Hearst of Iowa, chairman
of the legislative committee of the
Farm Bureau Federation, charged
that ‘‘Hoover is seeking to dominate
agriculture in America,” before the
House agricultural committee.
He produced a magazine article in
which Hoover claimed the authorship
of the suggestions which are contain
ed in the pending Capper-Williams
Farm Relief legislation.
Are you a subscribr~ to the Daily
Gateway? If not ,wh. ?
MAID OF ORLEANS
TAKEN HERSCHEL
ISLAND, IN ARCTIC
ACCUSED OF VIOLATING CUS
TOMS LAWS WHILE TRADING IN
VICTORIA LAND—CAPTAIN COM
ING OUT ON WAY TO OTTAWA
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Feb. 13.—
Canadian customs authorities and Roy
al Canadian Mounted Police seized the
American owned and outfitted trading
schooner, Maid of Orleans, the only
vessel to reach Herschel Island this
year, for the non-payment of customs
duties, according to a report by Capt.
Christian Klingenburg, who is now at
Fort Yukon, mushing overland to
Fairbanks and Ottawa, to secure the
release of his vessel.
Capt. Klingenberg purchased the
vessel in Seattle, and sailed June 25,
1924, with Miss Alice Supplee, of Se
attle, engaged as a school teacher at
Herschel Island, and eight others for
Point Barrow. The Canadian customs
fficials demanded the payment of duty
on the cargo carried, but Capt. Klin
genburg refused, claiming under the
old law that an Arctic trader was ex
empt from such duties. He was later
permitted to sail for Victoria Land,
under convoy of a young mounted po
liceman, who disappeared en route.
When the vessel arrived at Herschel
Island it was ordered held, but no
blame was attached to Klingenburg
or the crew for the disappearance of
the officer,
Capt. Klingenburg is bring out a
supply of white fox skins.
SEEK GOVERNMENT AID
FOR STARVING DEER
IN SOEASTER NALASKA
DEER INVADE CITY OF PETERS
BURG IN SEARCH FOR
FOOD
PETERSBURG, Feb. 13.—Govern
ment aid for deer in southeastern Al
aska each year, and the establishment
of a permanent fund to take care of
the animals during the heavy winter
snowfalls, is being sought by the
chamber of commerce here, in a reso
lution adopted at a recent meeting.
Many deer were caught and brot to
Petersburg where they were fed so
plentifully, that they have invaded the
city in search of food.
Trinity Keeps Alive
Memories of America
OXFORD, Feb. 13.—Silas Norton’s
house, where William Penn preached,
one of his unpopular sermons in 1687
| has recently been demolished. Penn
was at that time in Oxford only as a
visitor. He entered as a student at
Christ Church College at the age of
16, but was very shortly expelled for
his religious opinions. Thomas Lowe,
who induced Penn to become a Quak
er, Vas for a good many years an Ox
ford resident.
I Penn’s old college, by way of
amends, has his portait hung con
spicuously in its hall. As a Pilgrim
divines were chiefly Cambridge men,
Oxford, not to be outdone, makes the
most of its American connections.
Lord Baltimore is still without a
memorial in his old college, Trinity,
but as Trinity has portaits of two of
its students well known in American
history, William Pitt who won the
continent, and Lord North, who lost
half of it, the college feels satisfied.
Rev. O. L. Avent, his son and daugh
ter, are all ^shmen at the Baylor
University, V. .*00, Texas.
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LIEUT. LOWELL SMITH
ASSIGNED INSPECTOR
OF ARMY AIRPLANES
DARING AVIATOR OF ROUND-THE
WORLD FLYERS IS GIVEN
AN EASY BERTH
SAN DIEGO. Feb. 13.—Captain Low
ell Smith, who was in active com
mand of the world flyers has been as
signed to duty at Rockwell field as
inspector of all military airplanes and
motors, which are to be distributed
from Rockwell to units in Western
United States, Hawaii, the Philippines
and Alaska.
HARTLEY STAYS EXECUTION
OF CONDEMNED ITALIAN
SEATTLE, Feb. 13.—Governor Hart
ley temporarily stayed the execution
of Guido Grassi, sentenced to hang to
day. Physicians have declared that
Grassi is insane.
LEGISLATURE MAY
ADJOURN SINE DIE
BEFORE NIGHTFALL
HARTLEY WARNS LEGISLATORS
AGAINST ATTEMPTING REPRI
SALS OVER VETO OF SEED
WHEAT 1 BILL—NOT HIS ACT
OLYMPIA, Wash., Feb. 13.—Legis
lative leaders expressed a desire to
adjorn sine die before nightfall, and
launched a drive to consider pending
legislation, including the bonding elec
tion bill, the tax commission bill, and
the bill amending the law relative to
the meeting of county boards of equal
ization.
Governor Hartley told a committee
of Senators and Representatives that
he would not recede on his wheat bill
veto, and told the legislature that any
attempt at reprisals through defeat of
the tax commission and bonding elec
tion bills would fail of their purpose,
as while he recommended the meas
ures they were not his personal pro
posals.
The House passed the Tax commis
sion bill including 19 Senate amend
ments, and the bond election bill, both
measures suggested by Gov. Hartley.
In a free conference Eastern Wash
ington legislators are discussing the
organization of a private financing
corporation to advance seed wheat
loans to dryland farmers.
HURLS YOUNG GIRL
INTO DANUBE RIVER
Former Prisoner Who Served Twenty
Five Years Goes Temporarily
Insane During Quarrel
VIENNA, Feb. 13.—After an argu
ment over seven dollars, Karl Zeidler,
a pensioner, seventy-three years of
age, during a fit of temporary insan
ity, took his landlord’s 18-months’ old
daughter and hurled her to her death
in the Danube from a bridge over the
river. He then surrendered to the
authorities.
Zeidler’s record showed he had
served twenty-five years in prison, af
ter which his sentence had been com
muted.
Secretary Hoover estimates that
there are five million radio receiv
ing sets now in use in the United
States, while other experts declare
there are nearly twice that number.
Pioneers, We Meet Tonight!
Important, Come!
GOVERNOR BONE
WIRES EPIDEMIC
UNDER CONTROL
AMPLE SUPPLY OF ANTITOXIN
ON HAND OR ENROUTE TO
MEET ALL EMERGENCIES—RE
LAY TEAMS NEARING NOME
RUBY, Alaska, Feb. 13—The serum
which left Unaklik at 11:30 the 11th,
departed at midnight from Isaac’s
Point, arriving there this morning.
Seppala’s Dog Returns Home
NOME, Thursday, Feb. 12.—Togo,
Leonard Seppala’s famous racing
leader, which has covered thousands
of miles in sled journeys, returned
home to his kennel during the night,
after breaking away from the team
near Golovin, when he took after a
herd of reindeer. Seppala had planned
to go down the coast today to look
for him. The dog was in fine condi
tion.
Trophy for Kassan’s Dog
NEW YORK, Feb. 13—A trophy
named for “Balto,” the famous leader
of Gunnar Kassan, will be presented
yearly to, the winner of one of the
great dog races in the Canadian north
west, according to plans of Mrs. Frank
T. Cldrke, of Sheepshead Bay, who
|owns kennels here. The prize for the
I first year’s race will be an antique
I Sheffield silver plate, with the win
ner’s name on it.
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NEW REGULATIONS
GRANT MORE TIME
TO OIL LOCATORS
NEW RULING GIVES LOCATORS IN
FIELD TIME TO PRESENT
FILINGS ON CLAIMS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 13.—
New oil regulations affecting Alaska
and approved by the Secretary of the
Interior today, provide that notice of
[cancellation of permits will be pub
lished by the Anchorage Land office,
and that sixty-two days will be al
lowed for filing of applications. Draw
ings by lot will be held on the sixty
third day.
The provision is made however ’hat
any person who goes to the field to
locate m person may make such lo
cation within the sixty two day per
iiod. and then is allowed six months
I from the date of the location notice
in which to present his filings at the
Anchorage Land Office.
By this ruling the actual locator
then holds prior rights wnich take
precedence over all filings in the of
fice, except similar actual locations
in the field.
The ruling is made thus in order
to comply with the law which pro
vides for drawings, but the effect of
the ruling is that all locations made
in the field take precedence over ap
plications of those who do not lo
cate in person or by agent.
The oldest permits issued in Alas
ka would under this law, have a pos
sible two years in which extensions of
time may be granted. The policy of
the department of the interior in re
gard to extensions has been very lib
eral and it is believed the Department
will continue to be so. There has not
to my knowledge been a single rejec
tion of application for extension of
time. Am writing details.
DAN SUTHERLAND,
Delegate From Alaska.
SEVENTY-FIVE THOUSAND
ASKED FOR CONFERENCE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feh. 13.—
Seventy-five thousand dollars have
been asked for the International Ra
dio Conference here in September, to
which fifty governments will be in
vited.