Heward Bale Gnteumy
VOLUME XVIII NUMBER 268
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1923
PRICE TEN CENTS
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SAYS DEVELOPMENTS AT SEW
ARD HAVE MORE THAN LOCAL
SIGNIFICANCE
The Standard Oil Company has is-;
sued a handsomely printed and illus-(
trated prospectus, entitled “\\ hen the
U. S. S. Henderson lay at Seward.” It
gives the town a good boost as fol
lows :
“When the LT S. S. Henderson lay
at Seward, Alaska, a few weeks ago,
the Presidential Party aboard the na-|
val transport heard the sharp rat-a
tat of a rivetting machine.
"f - The Secretary of Commerce asked
what was building i nthat far-off
place, which lies in the shadow oi the
Arctic Circle.
“He was told that it was the Stan
dard Oil Company erecting a distrib
uting plant. And so it was—our men
adding a new outpost to the great mar:
keting system which supplies the pe-i
troleum requirements of people of the
Pacific Coast, of Hawaii, and of Alas-j
ka. No place too remote, no spot too
far.
“Until lately, petroleum products
have been taken to Seward in barrels
bv freight, from San Francisco and
Seattle—a costly procedure, for it is!
a long haul and it costs money to han
dle barrels. We have now put in
large bulk storage tanks. A new tank
ship—a most modern, electric-driven
* tanker, built for the Alaska trade,:
carries products in large quantity to
these tanks.
The cost of distribution has been
greatly reduced, and in consequence
the price of gasoline in Seward has
fallen approximately twenty-five cents
a gallon, and other products show a
proportionate decrease.
“Members of the Presidential party
were amazed to find gasoline cheaper
at Seward, Alaska, than in Washing
ton, D. C.
“Lower prices will inevitably be of
vast benefit to the region which we
^serve from Seward, as it has been to
areas supplied from the seven other
stations we have heretofore establish
ed in Alaska.
“Developments at Seward have
more than local significance. They
furnish an example of what the exten
sion of modern, efficient, and econom
ical distribution will do—an example
of what has been happening all these
years, on the Pacific Coast since 1878,
when this Company started in busi
ness with headquarters in San Fran
cisco.
“‘The Far West has grown rapidly,
stupendously—and to each new cen
ter of population and consumption we
have forever taken our wares—eco
nomically, efficiently. It might be
said that we have had had something
to do with the development of the
Pacific Coast.”
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NEW YORK, Oct. 31.—The anti
climax in the federal government’s
double-barreled volley fired into the
vet forces of New Jersey and New
York came with the seizure of three
truck loads of beer entering from the
Jersey shore, in charge of two prohi
bition agents, who were bribed. Six
men were arrested.
This cargo was the first of several
hundred the New Jersey men thought
they were going to get into New York
under the protection of the agents.
Earlier in the day federal agents
bagged 11 alleged conspirators who
vff e alleged to have used $80,000 in
bribing agents not to stop brewing
in New Jersey and to let up the bars
for entry into New cork.
DAWSON PIONEERS DEAD
DAWSON, Nov. 2.—Two pioneers of
the Klondike region died this week.
Peter Laurent, 74, died here, and Jos.
Beaupre, died at Mayo. Baupre min
ed at Butte and Helena before he
came to the Yukon. He was secre
cy of the Dawson lodge of the Yu
kon Order of Pioneers and was also
a member of the Dawson Aerie of Ea
gles. In recent years he was manager
of the. Blaet Trading Company at
Mayo.
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OVERWHELMING DESIRE TO PRO
MOTE INTERNATIONAL SPIRIT
O’ERSHADOWS AMERICANISM
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.—At the lay
ing of the cornerstone of the National
Memorial to George Washington at
Alexandria, Virginia, yesterday after
noon, at which President Coolidge was
(lie only person not a Mason partici
pating in the ceremonies, Bishop Jas.
Freeman, of the Episcopal church of
Washington, said, “There are among
us those, who in their overwhelming
desire to see us promote what they
call an international spirit, would
have us forget the rock from whence
we are hewn.”
SEATTLE, Oct. 2.—Advices from
Nome state that the party of men,
women and children, numbering 105,
led by A. H. Moore, a promoter of Los
Angeles, which went north to estab
lish a Utopian colony in the Nome dis
trict, are returning on the Buford,
which is due in Seattle, November 7.
The schooner Fred B. Wood, on which
the party left San Francisco July 6,
and arrived at Teller Aug. 27, was
wrecked at Port Clarence Sept. 29.
OBJECTS TO CHAMPION’S WAR
RECORD, HE SAYS
LONG BEACH, Calif., Nov. 2.—
When William Kollender, adjutant of
the American Legion Post, was select
ed to lead the Armistice Day parade,
and learned that Jack Dempsey was
io participate, he declined, saying, “I
won’t ride in the same parade with
Dempsey.”
It was the champion’s war record
he objected to, he explained.
1 HUNTERS KILLED
IN THE 0U HILLS
PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 2.—The
open season for killing hunters closed
in this state October 31, with six dead
and seven wounded.
LLOYD GEORGE DELIVERS
PARTING SPEECH TONIGHT
NEW YORK, .Nov. 2.—Lloyd George
tonight delivers his parting message
J to the American people at the Metro
I politan opera house.
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DIVORCE GRANTED SEATTLE
| COUPLE MUTUAL CUSSEDNESS
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! SEATTLE, Nov. 2.—ju'ge Dyke
man this afteronon granted Laura
Kizer a divorce from Judson Kizer, a
' salmon broker, on the grounds ol
“mutually organized cussedness.”
MANIFESTO ISSUED TO
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WARSAW, Nov. 2.—M. Trotzkv
Russian war minister, has issued a
manifesto to the Red army and navy
declaring that the achievement of thf
Russian revolution have been endan
gered by the present European situa
tion, according to a dispatch from
Moscow.
TODAYS FWH\ PRICES
Ketchikan—Fresh halibut, 14% cts
and 10.20 cents.
Juneau—Fresh halibut 13 and l
cents.
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fj. I. NAVY OFFICIAL FHOTO,
NOT A NEW AQUATIC SPORT
But how torpedoes for the Naval torpedo planes are
floated down until they are under the planes where they
are raised into position and secured under the wings
UP DRY MEET! ,
CAUSES FREE FIGHT
CALGARY, Nov. 2.—Five men paid:
to break up a prohibition meeting in |
Victoria pavilion, last night, were|
summarily ejected from the hall after j
a fight in which ministers, Salvation;
Army bandsmen, policemen and citi
zens engaged.
MARKETING MOST SERIOUS
PROBLFM FACING 0.5.
SPOKANE, Oct. 31.—That market-i
| ing is the “most serious problem fac
ing the era of prosperity now on in
the United States,” was the declara
tion here today of Dr. A. C. Miller,
director of the federal reserve board
who conferred with bankers, wheat!
growers and others on economic con-!
ditions of this locality.
“Wages are going to stay up, producj
tion is at capacity, and indications;
are that it will remain so,” Dr. Miller
declared in an interview. “Marketing:
is the problem that remains to be
■ solved.”
There is a general shortage of laboi
at present in the United States, he
said.
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ML OIL LEASES
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.— Former
Secretary of the Interior Fall demand
ed the transfer from Washington of
naval officers who objected to leases
1 he proposed to make on naval oil re
| serves, Command H. A. Stuart, of the
navy testified today before the Sen
ate Public Lands committee, investi
gating the subject. Stuart said Fall
insisted that Secretary Denby should
detach him and Commander Shaffroth
| and send them out of Washington for
their opposition to the leases.
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MANILA, Nov. 2.—Another earth
quake shock, the fourth in the last
three days, was felt here yesterday
afternoon at 2:43 o’clock.
The shock, which was more than
ordinarily severity lasted 10 seconds.
GOODRICH RUBBER COMPANY
BUYS RIGHTS TO ZEPPELINS
AKRON, 0.* Nov. 2.—All patents
and rights to manufacture Zeppelin
dirigibles have been purchased by the
Goodyear Rubber Company it was
announced last night.
YUKON RIVER STILL OPEN
but Tributaries frozen
SEATTLE, Nov. 2.—A wire arriv
ed here today, a month later than
usual, reporting: that the Yukon is still
open, but filled with shifting' ice. The
tributaries including Porcupine* >Pelly,
and .Big. Salmon, are mostly frozen
over.
NEW YORK, 5v'ov. 2.—A radio sig
nal today made twenty round trips
from New York to Warsaw, Poland, at
a speed of 4,500,000 miles in 25 sec
onds without the assistance of opera
tors at either end.
LONDON, Nov. 1.—The government
has formally protested to France ano
Belgium it cannot view with equanim
ity creation of separate states in Ger
many or the dismemberment of that
country.
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STEESE COMING
DOTH SHORTLV
TO CONFERENCE'
Col. James G. Steese has cancelled,
the conference of Alaska Road Com-j
mission officials scheduled to be held
in Seattle, October 29, and will return*
to the Territory for the conference,;
according to advices received today at;
local commission headquarters. He
has been visiting Yellowstone Park,
and left Seattle on the Northwestern,
stopping off at Juneau, until the
arrival of Col. Landis, new manager
of the Alaska railroad.
It is thought probable that Colonel
Steese will proceed to Anchorage with
Lieut. Col. Lee H. Landis, and turn
the reins of management over to him.
Col. Landis sails from Seattle tomor
row.
As soon as the transfer has been
completed Col. Steese will return to
Washington to appear before the
Congressional committees in support
of the annual Alaska Road Commis
sion estimates for road appropria
tions next year. While in Juneau a
short time ago, he said that sentiment
for larger road appropriations was
growing among members of congress
and that it was probable that the 1924
appropriation would be the largest
ever made for that purpose in the
Territory.
unchorIpf proves
TO BE BUTE FUSE
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BELLAIRE, O., Oct. 31.—City Pa
trolman James Good is glad he didn’t
attach his new “anchor rope” to his|
skiff and go fishing on the Ohio river.!
Investigation disclosed that a hard-'
ware clerk had sold Good ten yards
of fuse by mistake.
RUSSIA SETS UNITED STATES
EXAMPLE IN STOPPING GRAFT
MOSCOW, Nov. 2.—Boris Izmilov,
his wife, and 17 contractors and offi
cials accused of army and navy graft,
were today sentenced to death.
W. T. Stuart, manager of the Valdez
Light Company, will arrive on the
Northwestern tonight, to confer with
.the city council in regard to city mat*
ters. 1
WEALTHY CLASSES PREYING ON
POORER CLASSES, WHO ARE
PLUNGED IN MISERY
NEVERS, France, Nov. 2.—Premier
Poincare, speaking at the inauguration
of a soldiers’ memorial here, stated
that Germany has been forced into a
systematically organized bankruptcy,
and that certain classes of the popula
lion have been reduced to misery for
the sole benefit of the wealthy, indus
trial commercial debtors.
For this reason he deems it neces
sary to hold Germany’s pledges until
France is paid in full. »
LARGE SMPIWTf
REINDEER FDR SEATTLE
SEATTLE, Nov. 2.—Fifteen nundred
frozen carcasses of Alaska reindeer
will reach here this week on the,
steamer Boxer, the first shipment of
any size from Eskimo herds. Smaller
shipments have been made by Carlj
Lomen and other independent herders,
in the past, and reindeer meat has!
appeared on the menus of hotels in
the East for some time.
TWENTY ILL!
WOMEN WILL VOTE
SEATTLE, Nov. 1.—Twenty million
women voters in the presidential
election is the goal of the National
League of Women Voters, according to
Mrs. W. H. Bray, of Reno, national
secretary of the organization for the
Seventh region, composed of several
western states, including Washington,
who is in Seattle.
WILL PARTICIPATE IN QUARRELS
IN WHICH WE HAVE NO
CONCERN
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 2.—Senator
Johnson, in a speech assailing propos
ed United States participation in the
German reparations settlement, said
if “anyone in our government imag
ines we will keep peace in Europe
witn our men, or that we would again
engage in quarrels in which we have
no concern, sadly misunderstands the
United States of America.”
1500 SEPARATISTS HU
AIN LA CHAPELLE, Nov. 2.—Fif-j
teen hundred separatists arrived here
today from Coblenz, Crefeld and Dus
senberg, and are besieging the town
hall.
WATCHMAN CHAINED UP BY
DEPARTMENT STORE THIEVES
WHEELING, W. Va., Nov. 2.—The
Stone & Thomas department store
was robbed here this week by several
thieves who chained up the night
watchman to a post on an upper
floor while they helped themselves
to goods valued at $6064.
FIRST SNOW FALLS AT JUftEAU
The first snow of the season fell on
the mountain's1 on Gastineau channel
this week. Last year the first snow
fall occurred on Mt. Roberts on Au
gust 31«t.
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PICULS ARE
10 AIR ALASKA
01 JONES RILL
RUSTGARD SAYS CABINET OFFI
CIALS AND SENATOR JONES
ADMIT INJUSTICE
JUNEAU: That Senator Wesley
L. Jones and all the members o! the
President’s cabinet who visited Alaska
this summer are in favor of eliminat
ing the Alaska clause in the Jones
Shipping Act, was stated by Attorney
General John Rustgard when at Van
couver on his way East. It is this
clause which requires that goods or
iginating in any part of the United
States and coming through Canada by
rail must be carried from the Cana
dian terminal port to Its destination
in Alaska in an American bottom.
Likewise it provides that freight orig
inating in Alaska destined for any
port in the United States over a Cana
dian railroad must be carried in an
American bottom to the initial point
in Canada.
-The Prince Rupert News, which
plays the story up strongly, gives in
a dispatch from Vancouver the follow
ing account of the Rustgard inter
view :
“Southeastern Alaska is going to
make a great fight before the Com
merce Committee of Congress when
that body next convenes to have
Prince Rupert made its principal port
by the deletion of the so-called Alaska
Clause from the Jones coastwise ship
ping bill.” This is the statement of
John Rustgard of Juneau, Attorney
General of Alaska, who is in Vancou
ver on his way to Washington, where
he will direct the fight on behalf of
the great American northern territory.
“At present we are practically shut
out of British Columbia ports by the
Alaska clause which was slipped into
the Jones bill without anyone realiz
ing quite what it meant,” said Mr.
Rustgard. “All the cabinet secreta
ries who accompanied the late Presi
dent Harding north this summer
agreed with us that the clause works
a hardship on southeastern xMaska,
and they, together with Senator Jones
who fathered the coastwise bill, have
promised to help us in our aim.
“If the Alaska clause is deleted
from the bill, it will mean that Prince
Rupert, our natural outlet will become
the great shipping port for the Ter
ritory.
NOME, Nov. 2.—The weather here
has been remarkable for this time of
year. It has been like summer except
for a heavy rain storm last night.
However the sun was shining and the
air was warm today, which enabled
those preparing for winter to make
great progress in their preparations.
A number of dredges worked right
up until the Buford left Sunday night.
The Hammond Company dredges are
still operating and are expected to do
so until January 1. This season has
been one of the most prosperous ex
perienced for years, $1,123,000 in gold
bullion being shipped to the States
this year.
LIQUOR FLOWS FREELY INTO
“DRY” YUKON TERRITORY
VICTORIA, Nov. 2.—It is reported
that liquor is flowing as freely as
ever into the Yukon. It is believed
that some way has been found to get
the stuff across the Alaska panhandle
and it is thought that the agitation for
United States co-operation in getting
liquor through the dry zone was pre
mature and unnecessary. It is said
that booze has been shipped across
the dry zone as canned goods.
SECRETARY WORK LEAVES
FOR HIS COLORADO HOME
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.—Secretary
Work left today for a rest of ten days
In his Colorado home.
EARTHQUAKE SHOCK IN SEWARD
A light earthquake shock was felt
in Seward in the small hours of this
morning. The shock was a succession
of tremors.