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VOLUME XX. NUMBER 79.
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 2,1925.
PRICE TEN CENTS.
NEW METHOD FOR
I MINING OF LOW
’ GRADE ORES TER,
(By Associated Tress)
SEATTLE. April 2.—Falcon Joslin,
at a luncheon of the Mining Men's
Club yesterday, told them of new
methods and processes making possi
ble the mining and milling of ores at
a fraction of the former cost.
These new methods promise to rev
olutionize mining in the Pacific North
west and Alaska by the profitable
* working of low grade ores, found on
all sides in the Territory and in un
limited Quantities.
He cited as one instance the com
pany near Juneau which is now mining
and milling ore at a cost of forty-nine
cents a ton and which expects to reach
forty cents within the next year.
Progress Visits Melilla
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MEL1LLA, Morocco, Apr. 2.—This
city, which has been in the hands
of the Spaniards over 400 years, is
about to be provided for the first
time in its history with a public
water supply. Gangs of workers are
now engaged in laying cement pipes
to bring the water from Yasinen and
it is hoped that within a short time
the municipal authorities will be able
to furnish the inhabitants with suffi
cient water for drinking and hy
gienic purposes.
Seward Freight Must
Come to Seward and
Not Woodrow—Order
Seward shippers who have freight
consigned thru from Seattle to Wood
row, at Mile 7, from which point it
is reshipped back to Seward, thus
eliminating wharfage charges, and
getting the cheaper freight rate, will
now be forced to discontinue the
practice, as under the new tariff
charges will be added for the haul
back. Freight now must come to
Seward direct, Woodrow differen-;
tials have been eliminated.
I
p Nominations clased last night for
the offices of Mayor and Councilmen,
and when City Clerk Whittlesey sue
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ceeded in clearing away the litter, the
following citizens were found to have
placed their names before the electo
rate of Seward:
For Mayor—L. V. Ray, to succeed
himself.
For Councilmen—John Helm, C. C.
Hinde, P. C. McMullen, C. E. Orlander,
H. B. Selby, H. A. Thoday. Messrs.
Orlander and McMullin were retiring
\ councilmen and are again up for elec
tion.
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L. V. Ray, the present mayor, has a
most excellent record as a city offi
cial. He is well versed in the laws of
municipalities, a good speaker and of
fine presence.
C. E. Orlander, local jeweler, is well
known in Seward, has had a wide ex
perience in municipal affairs, and has
been acting mayor during the absence
of Mayor Ray. Mr. Orlader has made
a good councilman.
P. C. McMullen, proprietor of Mc
Mullen’s grocery, is also familiar with
city work, and has made a good coun
cilman the past two years. He is an
energetic official working at all times
for the common good.
C. C. Hinde, cashier of the Bank of
Seward and President of the Chamber
of Commerce, is a young man of great
ability, and with his business train
ing and banking experience, will make
a good balance wheel in financial af
WRANGELL ISLAND ESKIMOS
BE TAKEN NORTH IN MAY
ON THE CUTTER BEAR
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 2.—The
Eskimos at Seattle who returned to
the States from Wrangell Island, have
been ordered taken home to Nome in
May on the Cutter Bear.
MIKE BALLERINO CHAMPION
PHILADELPHIA, April 2.—Mike
Ballerino, of New Jersey, was crown
ed world’s welterweight champion by
defeating Steve Sullivan of Brooklyn
in a ten round bout.
FRANCE KEEP WITHIN LIMITS
PARIS, April 2.—The government
has announced that they will not re
sort to inflation of the circulation for
needs of the state but will keep with
in limits, after an interview with the
Bank of France.
UTE MEDICINE MAN
KILLS CELLMATE
FOR CHIDING
(By Associated Press)
CORTEZ, Colo., April 2.—“Mormon
Joe,” Ute medicine man, slew a Mex
ican cellmate today, who had been
chiding him for burying an infant In
dian alive last week, in accordance
with tribal rites.
Americans Donated Freely
To Catholic Organization
(By Associated Press)
ROME, Apr. 2.—The United States
heads the list of nations which con
tributed considerable sums during
1923 to the famous Roman Catholic
organization, The Society for the
Propagation of the Faith, according
to statistics recently made public
here.
Americans contributed 13,842,801
lire, while in France, where the so
ciety was founded, 6,676,921 lire were
given. Other contributing nations
were Holland, 2.183,822; Italy, 1,726,
121; Canada, 1,191,739; Spain 1,049,
318; Belgium, 880.000, and Ireland,
846,557.
fairs.
Joh »Helm, local carpenter and a !
long time resident of Seward, is a
progressive, solid businessman, and
will make an excellent councilman. He
can be depended upon to work for
the city in the future as in the past.
A. H. Thoday, local contractor and
builder, has also been a resident of
Seward for many years. He is a fine
mechanic, heavy taxpayer, and can be
depended upon to use his experience
as a builder to help Seward grow.
- H. B. Selby, editor of the Gateway,
is a heavy taxpayer in Seward, and
has at all times been deeply inter
ested in the city’s welfare and devel
opment.
Wayne Blue, local steamship agent
and pioneer of Seward, is the only
candidate for school director. He is
a heavy property owner, a fine busi
ness man, and his experience will be
of great help to the school board.
The candidates enter upon the 1925
election with no issues involved and
with no animosities and petty bicker
ings, such as have characterized pre
vious elections. The voters should
weigh carefully the qualifications of
the candidates and elect men who will
insist that the city gets a quid pro
quo for its expenditures. A dollar
in service for a dollar in pay should
be thd slogan. Seward needs lower
taxes and a better opportunity for the
working man to make a living. See
that they get it.
ATTORNEYS TRY
. PROVEDOROTHY
WAS INSANE
CLAIMS MOTHER OF MURDERESS
TRIED TO KILL FATHER, ABOUT
TIME OF DOROTH’S BIRTH—SON
THOT SHE ACTED QUEER.
(By Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, April 2.—At the
opening of the Ellingson sanity hear
ing, her counsel, Alexander Moosley
said prenatal influence will be shown
in the testimony regarding the abnor
mality of her mother shortly before
her birth.
“We will prove,” said Moosley, “that
one night her father awakened with
his wife’s hands clutched at his throat
in an attempt to kill him. She then fell
in an hysterical fit to the floor.”
Her brother, Earl, testified he be-!
lieved her insane and stated that she
had fainted twice.
Father Testifies
SAN FRANCISCO, Dorothy’s attor-1
neys introduced at the sanity hearing
evidence tending to show she killed
her mother in a fit. Her Father. Jos.
Ellingson testified that Dorothy, at
the age of twelve and another girl,
were picked up by a soldier and sail
or. and remained away over night. ,He
said he and his wife never went to
church after they were married, and
Dorothy attended Sunday School only
when she was little, and rarely then.;
Her mother never whipped her, he j
said, and never could control her, but
she, the mother, would get angry and !
yell at her.
CONTINUES CAMPAIGN IN
SEATTLE AGAINST GAMBLING
—
SEATTLE, April 2.—Prosecutor Col
vin is continuing his campaign to er
adicate dice and slot machines. He
raided gambling clubs in the business
section of town last night, arresting
four and grabbing the paraphenalia.
STANDARD OIL COMPANY
INTERESTED IN OIL DEAL
NEW YORK April 2.—The Standard ;
Oil Company is heavily interested in j
the syndicate which for forty millions i
bought from E. L. Doheny and asso-'
ciates the majority of the voting stock
of the Pan American Petroleum and ■
Transport Company.
Yukon River Steamers
Ready for 1925 Season
Mr. H. G. Ilderton, general pas
senger and freight agent for the Al
aska Railroad, is in town, and in an
interview with a Gateway represen
tative said that the recently install
ed charcoal burners placed in the
freight cars to prevent perishable
articles from • freezing have proved
a great success.
Mr. Ilderton stated that prepara
tion were under way by the railroad
for the tourist season on the Yukon.
The engines of the steamer Matanus
ka have been overhauled at the
shops in Anchorage, and the vessel
is on the marine ways at Nenana.
New cabins have been built to accom
modate twelve passengers. The Mat
anuska can now tow a sixty-ton
barge with ten ton deck capacity,
and is one of the best boats on the
river.
Todd Cunningham, who has been
in Seattle on business connected
with the Transportation department
of the Alaska Railroad, will leave
Saturday for the north. He has been
working on a new tariff sheet for
the railroad, which, it is believed,
will equalize rates on freight be
tween Seward and interior points.
ORIGINAL OF SERVICE’S
“SOURDOUGH” CHARACTER
PLANS “MUSH” TO YUKON
VANCOUVER, April 2—When Rob
ert W. Service, in one of his famofts
Northern “sourdough” songs, left Jim
Hubbard beside the gold rush trail of
the Yukon to pass to the land where
the sun sets no more, little did he
think that as late as this day would
the original of this character be here
waiting for the snows to soften in the
great northland that he may again try
for the great stake.
James Wooler, known to Service as
Jim Hubard and also known to
the great world of expectant prospec
tors as “Salvation Jim” is here ready
to take the next boat North.
White haired, stooped, and just a
little shabby, “Salvation Jim” has the
eagerness of his youth of the nine
ties, when he mushed the trails and
spent the yellow metal as fast as he
got it.
CANNERY BURNS
NEAR WRANGELL
WRANGELL, April 2.—The two-line
cannery belonging to the F. C. Barnes
Company, of Portland, situated at
Lake Bay, burned at a loss of $150,
000.
MEX GENERAL SUICIDES
MEXICO CITY. April 2.—General
Attosta suicided in Espana Park.
SOVIET FLAG RAISED OVER
TOWN SAGAHALIEN ISLAND
MOSCOW. April 2.-—The Rost agen
cy announced the Soviet flag had been
raised with solemnity at Alexandrovsk
the chief town of northern Saghalien
island.
Fox Farming Spreads
To Western Alaska
NOME, Apr. 2.—Fox farming is
last being adopted by prospectors
and trappers of the Seward Penin
sula as an additional means of mak
ing a livelihood, and promises good
profits.
A large number of permits have
been granted by the secretary of
agriculture to cepture litters of fox
pups, with the mothers, to establish
fox farms, and many litters of from
eight to 16 pups have been found.
The other way of starting a farm
is to buy breeding stock. This me
thod is followed by those -who wish
to raise blue or silver foxes, as only
white foxes are found here. It is
necessary to ship the blue and silver
foxes from southeastern Alaska to
Seattle and thence here. One farm
at Shismaref, on the Arctic Ocean
side of the Seward Peninsula, has
51 pairs of blue foxes which were
shipped from southeastern Alaska to
Nome through Seattle, and transship
ped from here on an Arctic oceanr
vessel. The animals weathered the
trip well and are said to be thriving.
Attempts were made to raise foxes
on small islands to avoid the expense
of fencing, but this was found im
practicable in the Bering Sea and
north of it because the animals es
caped when the sea froze.
Berlin Flocks to See
Product of Its Tailors
BERLIN, Apr. 2.—Ready-made
clothes had their inning at the Ger
man capital recently when the first
Berlin clothing fair was held on the
new exhibition grounds on which, in
rapid succession, there have recent
ly been held the radio, the automo
bile, and now the clothing fairs.
Over 1,000 firms applied for space
[r ’•'e three large halls set aside
fo: .he pu-oose. It was the largest
fair tha "lin has yet seen.
HOUSE DEFEATS
PAUL’S BILL FOR
HOLDING UP PAY
(Special to Gateway)
JUNEAU, Alaska. April 2.—By a
vote of 13 to 3 the House defeated
Representative Paul’s bill, prohibiting
payment of territorial funds to mem
bers of the Legislature, only Paul,
and Grant of the First division anu
Nylen of the Second voted for its pas
sage.
Nylen’s bill repealing the eagle
bounty law was defeated after Repre
sentative Murray of the Third divi
sion took the floor against it. The
vote on its final passage was a tie,
causing the bill’s defeat. Every mem
ber of the Second division, with Paul,
Ferguson and Grant of the First, and
Moody of the Fourth voted for its re
peal.
The House passed Ross’ bill. Num
ber 33, authorizing the governor to
appoint school tax collectors for all
districts except in incorporated towns,
Ross introduced a measure extend
ing the co-operative program for mine
inspection with the Federal govern
ment two more years, carrying an ap
propriation of 820,000.
Nylen introduced House Bill Num
ber 41, idential with the bill intro
duged yesterday by Aldrich in the
Senate, entitled “An act to protect
labor.”
Charles E. Bunnell, president of the
Alaska college, arrived for presenta
tion of the estimate for the college to
the Legislature. He will probably
speak before a joint session Monday.
175 MILLION PAID
FOR DODGE PLANT
(By Associated Press)
NEW YORK, April 2.—The Dillon,
Read Company announced the pur
chase price of Dodge Bros, plant was
slightly less than 8175.000,000.
Careless Official Creates
Alarm Among Brides
(By Associated Press)
NAPLES, Apr, 2.—All of the mar
riage licenses and marriage, birth
and death certificates issued during
a recent period of several weeks by
one of the district mayoralities of
this municipality were rendered il
legal by the disappearance of vice
mayor Troise, who had neglected
to sign the papers which would have
legalized the document.
The fact that 500,000 lire disap
peared with Troise makes it seem un
likely that he will return, and now
the authorities are searching for a
method of making legal all of the
irregular demises, illegitimate births
and automatic divorces the careless
official left behind him.
Changes Announced In
Management of Times
Starting April 1, Mr. Roy South
worth, formerly editor of the Nenana
News and the Anchorage Daily Al
askan, has assumed the editorial
management of the Anchorage Daily
Times. Mr. Southworth’s selection
by the stockholders is a happy one,
as he is well known throughout Alas*
ka, having come to the Territory in
the stampede days, and lived here
ever since. He is a versatile writ
er and may be depended upon to in
crease the value of the paper’s news
columns.
Mr. Bernie Stone, also well known
Alaskan writer and formerly editor
of The Gateway, will cover Anchor
age in the capacity of city editor,
assuming the duties of Arthur
House.