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SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1926.
VOLUME XXI, NUMBER 174. (T%
PRICE TEN CENTS
- REJUVENATED ERA
ALASKA PROSPERITY
SEEN BY GARFIELD
DEVELOPMENT NOW SEEMS ON
SOLID FOUNDATION; TERRI
TORY ON THRESHOLD OF AD
VANCEMENT AND PROSPERITY
HIGH MARKS ARE PLACER MIN
ING, BIG SALMON PACK AND
OIL PROSPECTS
Secretary of Alaska Chamber in Se
attle Predicts Salmon Pack Will To
tal Six Million Cases This Season
SEATTLE, Aug. 4. (£>)—Chas. D.
Garfield, secretary of the Alaska de
partment, Seattle Chamber of Com
merce, arrived yesterday. He said
“Alaska citizens are spurred by the
slow steady development of Alaska
which stands today on the threshold
of a rejuvenated era of Territorial
prosperity. The development now
seems to be on a solid foundation. The
placer mining projects around Fair
banks the big salmon pack and the
oil prospects are the high lights.”
SEATTLE, Aug. 4. (£>)—Charles D.
Garfield predicted the Alaska salmon
pack would total six million cases this
year. He said more than 1,000 men
were employed by the Fairbanks Ex
ploration company's $12,000,000 placer
project which has been estimated to
yield $120,000,000 in gold in 30 years. :
He further stated that actual mining
operations would be started in 1928.
Mr. Garfield reported excellent indica
tions have been found in the oil dril- J
ling work carried on in the Chicka- ;
loon and Yagataga areas.
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OFFICIAL COUNT OF SEAL TAKE
ON PRIBILOF ISLANDS; EX
CEEDS 1925
(Special to The Gateway)
JUNEAU, Aug. 4. —The total
number of seals killed in the Pribilof
islands this season amounted to 21,
303. The department reserved the
three year olds foir breeding purposes
by branding 9,565. There will be addi
tional killings in the fall. The killings
last season up to date were 19,087.
Signed HENRY O’MALLEY
U. S. Commissioner Fisheries
SWIMMIN9 COP OF OSLO
FAILS TO CROSS CHANNEL
CAPE GRIZ NEZ, Aug. 4. (jP)—Olav
Farstad, the swimming cop of Oslo,
lost in his attempt to swim the Eng
lish channel only after he had been
battered by high seas for hours. He
had to give up at three o’clock this
morning after being in the water
slightly more than 16 hours.
Mrs. E. C. Simmonds, was among
the arrivals on the S. S. Admiral
Evans yesterday from Kodiak.
SlOil HUFFMAN AND
CIRPENTIER TO MIA
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 4. (/p)—Re
I. West who volunteered to submit
presumably by Hollywood and Los An
geles fight promoters considhering the
Sailor Huffman and Carpentier fight,
to be staged in Tia Juana September
5, say that Huffman is in fine shape
and will commence training in a week.
POPULAR CAPTAIN MAKES FAST
ROUND TRIP—EXCEPTION
ALLY FINE VOYAGE
The good ship S. S. Admiral Evans, |
Captain Glass, returned to port yes
terday from an exceptional ideal
Westward voyage, with a large pas
senger listing and a capacity cargo
of fish products. A large party of
tourists, who left the vessel at this
port upon it’s arrival las week, in
order to make the round-trip to Fair
banks over the railroad, will rejoin
the ship this evening upon the arrival
3f the train from the Interior. The
Evans departs for the south at about
) o’clock tonight.
The incoming and southbound pas
senger list:
For Seward—Mrs. Chas. Svendsen,
3ill Torsen, H. G. Higgins, B. R. Hart,
i^rea J. Spach, W. E. Moultray, Lil
ian Ford, Anna Manns and four steer
ige.
For Valdez—Mrs. E. C. Simmons,
)scar Hart.
r or Cordova — Walter Warren,
Frank Warren, Ed Jorgenson, George
Yyttle, L. E. Mayhall, Mrs. L. E. May
hall and James Mayhall.
Juneau—John J. Hendricks.
Ketchikan—Andrew J. Brown.
Seattle—Seid G. Beck, Jack Shep
pard, Victor Lawrence, D. C. Robert
son, J. Scott, D. Ttait, T. Fleet, T.
! Healey, A. Smith, R. McLeave, C. P.
Schell, John Tigseth, E. D. Hopper,
Melvin Hemphill, Max Kreilsheimer,
L. Thornton, Oliver Olsen, Mrs. C. !
C. Olsen and 13 steerage.
flDMIISSDlGll
COTTAGE WITH NURSE
ORMISTON MAKES AFFIDAVIT,
THEN DISAPPEARS; MISS X
NOT AIMEE
CHICAGO, Aug. 4. (JP)—In an affi
davit Ormiston told of staying at a
Carmel cottage with “a Miss X” a
nurse. He was taking her on a trip
and was introducing her as his wife.
He inferred if Miss X had been Aimee
she would have been recognized' many
times for the $25,000 reward. After 1
making the affidavit Ormiston disap- ,
peared. ,
SAN FRANCISCO.—George McMan
us, the creator and author of Maggie
and Jiggs of comic sheet fame, arriv- s
ed in San Francisco yesterday to join (
with the Bohemian club in their an- i
nual high-jiijks. * . £
BLIND, HANDLESS SOLDIER LAUD
ED BY-WOMAN MEMBER OF
THE HOUSE—WASHINGTON
Mrs. Edith Nourse Rogers, Repub
lican Representative from Massachu
setts, delivered a brief and stirring
eulogy on the war services of
Charles Bronner, now blind and
handless, who with his mother were
seated in the private gallery, as
guests of Speaker Longworth. Since
his discharge from service he has
continued his education from the
eighth grade, and will graduate from
the University of Maryland, as a
lawyer in June. This is a picture
of Congresswoman Rogers—one of
the “Samaritans” of the Veterans'
Hospital, with Charles Bronner and
his mother, at White House Garden;
Party.
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CINCINNATI, Aug. 4. (^P)—The Cru
sader won the Cincinnati derby by
four lengths, over Display” for the
I $25,000 purse, with “Boot to Boot”
'running third and “Calaris” fourth.
LONDON. — Carl Laemmle, film
j magnate who recently underwent an
operation is on the road to recovery.
COLORADO SPRINGS.—Jack Demp-j
|sey, world’s heavyweight champ, de-j
|lliecl he would fight for B. C. Cle-1
ments, Chicago boxing promoter,
even if offered §25,000,000.
MEXICO CITY.—Ambassador Shef-;
field will start on his vacation August'
15, with indications he may not re
turn but may be given Kellogg’s post
as U. S. Secretary of State.
DETROIT.—Two Canadian beer and
rum trusts have started a war for the
American business with the Brewery
Trust of Ontario freezing out the
small exporters.
PRAGUE.—General Gaida, deposed
chief of staff of the Czechoslovakian
army was found to have been the vic
tim of a bolshevik plot.
PEKIN.—United States representa
tives went on record as saying that
China lacks a Government with j
which the powers can deal. ]
CANTON, Ohio.—The chief of po- s
lice was suspended here yesterday in (
connection with the revenge murder (
)f Editor Mellett, the journalistic
nee crusader.
TOKIO.—The U. S. Shipping Board *'
steamer "West Faralon which ground- i
id on a reef near Oshima island July t
!5 and which was refloated yesterday r
irrived at Yokahama today.
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HVSHHEI BOUT
BE HELD SEPT. 1STH
NEW YORK, Aug. 4. (£>)—'The
Dempsey-Tunney heavyweight cham
pionship battle will be held In New
York on Sept. 16. This was made
possible by the fact that Brower
switched over and gave Rickard a
majority, in the state commission.
The fight will be staged in tha
Yankee stadium.
HALL-MILLS MURDER
CASE THREE TEARS
AGO MAY BE SOLVED
HUSBAND AND CHOIR TEACHER
SLAIN UNDER APPLE TREE ON
NEW BRUNSWICK FARM
NEW YORK, Aug. 4. (#>)—After
four years of mystery the Hall-Mills
murder case, of New Jersey may be
near a solution.
Mrs. Francis Stevens Hall, widow of j
the slain clergyman, was arrested at j
midnight, last night, and locked up at
Somerset, charged with the murder
of her husband and his choir leader,
Mrs. Eleanor Mills, under a crab apple
tree on the Phillips farm near New
Brunswick, the night of September
24, 1922.
The exact nature of the new evi
I dence was not disclosed, but Governor
| Moore, who ordered the reopening of
j the case said he understood the prose
cutors had turned up substantial facts.
It is believed that the principal cause
of the arrest was new stories told by
domestics in Mrs. Hall’s employ. They
are said to have disclosed that the
night of the murder Mrs. Hall re
ceived a telephone message that her
husband and Mrs. Mills were keep
ing tryst and that she and her brother
! Willie Stevens and the chauffeur left
j the house together about theH’time the
| murder was supposed to have been
; committed.
Mrs. Hall denounced her arrest as
; “ridiculous,” but hired four attorneys.
' She may have to remain in jail until
the grand jury acts on her casgf
TICEISHCfEO
BY PRESIDENT CALLES
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WILL
LIMIT SELF WITH ENERGY
ENFORCE LAWS
MEXICO CITY, Aug. 4. (^—Presi
dent Calles rejected the"truce propo
sal of the Mexican Episcopate in a
statement to the Associated Press in
which he said: “This executive has
already made known his opinion re
regard'ing religious situations. Reply
ing to the Episcopate statement I will
say that the Federal government will
3nly limit itself to act with the re
luired energy to enforce the laws.”
CHICAGO, Aug. 4. (£>)—One hun
Ired and fifty patrons of Ike Bloom’s
‘Midnight Frolics” cafe were thrown
nto a panic when a dynamite bomb, :
>elieved to have been thrown from a j
noving elevated train, exploded at the :
•ear entrance. . i
MAN OF MANY NAMES
ADMITS SERIES OF
* CRIMES, 11 YEARS
CONFESSES TO SEATTLE POLICE
OF MURDER COMMITTED IN
MANKATO, MINN.
SEATTLE, Aug. 4. (/P)—T. John
son, Alias Smith, alias Kelly, appear
ed at the police stations Saturday
night and related how he had been
confined among the criminally insane
in Missouri. He said he started a
career of misdeeds eleven years ago
at the place of his birth, at Salmon
Arm, British Columbia.
SEATTLE, Aug. 4. (JP) — When
Thomas Johnson was told the author
ities of Mankato, Minnesota denied
•any murder in that city during the
last 20 years he laughed and said:
Tell them ^to look behind the ice
house. They will find Scotty, which
is the only name I knew him by. I
wanted to hold up the bank at Re
mars, Iowa, but he didn’t so we decid
ed to shoot it out. I killed him and
sunk his body back of the ice house.”
He also admitted deserting from the
United States navy 20 years ago. He
said navy life was too tame. Despite
two day’s efforts to disprove his
statements that he had killed 14 per
sons he remained for the most part,
unshaken.
CHICAGO.—A funeral was held yes
terday for Mrs. Montgomery Ward,
j widow of the late head of the mail
! order house bearing his name.
SPENDS HOUR AT WRANGELL
LISTENING LEGENDS, VIEWING
TOTEM POLES, CURIOS
WRANGELL, Aug. 4. (JP)—Secre
tary of Navy Wilbur spent an hour
here during which time he visited the
barracks which were established in
1S68, and the First Protestant church
erected in Alaska in 1878. He saw
old Indian curios, totem poles, heard
legends and inspected the harbor
which will be the base for the air
mapping expedition _.when it moves
north from Ketchikan. Wrangell is
the most northerly point Secretary
Wilbur will visit.
IU1 BIKER SUICIDES;
LEAVES ALL TO WIFE
VALLEJO, Calif., Aug. 4. (^—Her
bert Snow, a wealthy bakery chain
owner, who was a suicide because of
an alleged infatuation of his wife with
a youthful navy officer, has left his
entire fortune to her, according to his
will, made public yesterday.
WASHINGTON. —Secretary Work,
returning from a tour of the West,
said the department of interior has
made all happy and contented in irri
gated areas.