VOLUME XXI, NUMBER 67.
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1926.
PRIC^TEN CENTS
MARCH STORM IN THE INTERIOR MARKS
FORLORN SPECTACLE AS MONOPLANES
LIE DISABLED ON SNOW-SWEPT FIELD
FAIRBANKS, Mar. 23. (AP).—Captain George H.
Wilkins indicated the monoplane Alaskan will be repaired
here. Mechanics are welding the landing gear parts in
the local shops successfully, and test flights of the Alas
kan will be resumed in a few days.
The rehabilitation of the Detroiter must await the re
ceipt of repair parts from the factory which is delaying
the flight plans for at least three weeks.
Flight pilots, including Major Lanphier, intimated
they considered the landing gear of the Detroiter was
faulty and much dissention exists between the Howard
factory representatives of the Fokker planes and the pi
lots as to the cause.
Uncertainty seems to exist as to whether the Point
Barrow attempt will be made in the face of adverse cir
cumstances, but this, however, is not authoritative.
A March storm yesterday descended upon the Inte
rior of Alaska and the planes, which are stripped of their
landing gear and laying upon the open landing held- pre
sented a forlorn spectacle as the wild and drifting snow
swept over them. The temperature today is zero, but the
sun is shining brightly.
Richard Suratt, International Newsreel photogra
pher evened the injunction score of the Pa the News Com
pany Friday night when he chartered a special train over
taking the regular train leaving here twelve hours previ
ous at Curry, dispatching films of the Detroiter accident
for connection with the S.S. Alaska out of Seward Satur
day. The Pathe representative, Will Hudson- offered $500
for another special to avoid a week’s scoop, but an addi
tional train crewT was unavailable.
The Detroit Aviation Society advised Captain Wilkins
they would back him to the limit and will rush repairs for
the disabled Detroiter.
TRAPPERESSLOSES
HEAD AND SO
DOES FOX
DILLINGHAM, Alaska, Feb. 27 (By
Special Correspondent)—Mrs. Polly, of
Anchorage, who is with her husband
in the wilds of the fourth Wood River
’ Lake, is having quite an experience
trapping this winter. When she caught
her first fox, she had a club in one
. hand to kill the fox, and was carrying
a shotgun in the other hand. The fox
showed fight and grabbed the muzzle
^ of the gun in his mouth. In her ex
citement, she pulled the trigger and
the fox was minus his head and so
was the pelt. Mrs. Polly says she does
not mind the loss of the fur, but
thinks her husband should not have
let such a good joke on her leak out.
Last Mail Over Winter
Route from Bristol Bay
Comes In On the Starr
The last mail to arrive from Bristol
Bay, via dog team, arrived at Kana
tak just as the steamer Starr whis
tled in, Seward bound, according to
Freeman L. Dorrence, U. S. mail clerk
on the vessel. The next mail to go
into or come out of that region wrill
be carried on the Starr on her May
voyage.
BOSKERCK WILL
HEAD BERING
SEA PATROL
SEATTLE, Mar. 23. (/P)—Capt. F. S.
Boskerck, Pacific Coast inspector of
the United States Coast Guard, leaves
April 15 on the Cutter Haida, as com
mander of the Bering Sea patrol, withi
the cutters Unalga, Algonquin and
Bear under his control.
SO THAT’S THAT]
The K. Armstrong, listed among the
Watson passengers is not the Karl
Armstrong, well known business man
of Kodiak, but another westward res
ident of the same nama
SENATOR FROM WEST VIRGINIA
A new photograph of Senator Guy
D. Goff, of West Virginia.
GIGANTIC ELECTRIC
POWER PLANT BE
BUILT LAKE MICH.
CHICAGO, Mar. 23. (/P)—Samuel In
sull, public utilities magnate, announc
ed the world’s greatest manufactory
of electric power will be built on Lake
Michigan shores near the Indians
side of the Illinois-Indiana state line.
The first unit will cost $25,000,000,
and will be completed in 1929.
BOXER DUE NEXT SUNDAY
The motorship Boxer, Bureau of
Education vessel, left Prince Rupert
last evening for Seward and is ex
pected to arrive in port next Sunday.
The Boxer has been on the ways at
Prince Rupert undergoing repairs to
her keel and stern.
Don’t overlook the Liberty The
.ater for tonight.
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Chronic Rheumatism Worst
Enemy of English Workers
LONDON, March 11*. (/P)—Chronic
rheumatism is the worst enemy of the
working men and women of the Unit
ed Kingdom.
It is responsible for one-sixth of
all industrial invalidity and causes
the loss among the insured working
population alone. Seventy per cent of
these cases are caused by bad teeth
and gums.
COPPERNOLL
APPOINTS MAN
CORDOVA JOB
VALDEZ, Mar. 23. (Special to the
Gateway).—United tSates Attorney
Wm. D. Coppernoll has oppointed Wal
ter H. Hodge of Seattle assistant Unit
ed States attorney at Cordova. Hodge
served four years as deputy prosecut
ing attorney in Seattle. He is a grad
uate of the University of Washington.
Body of Joe Daly
Reported Found In
Windbreak, On Beach
The body of Joe Daly was report
ed found Sunday thirty miles from
Latouche in a rough windbreak, or
shelter, apparently a suicide, and Joe
Shea, who with Daly, had left La
touche a month ago, is missing. The
gasboat, the 557-L was washed ashore
a complete wreck at about the same
place on the beach where the body
was discovered. Indications point
that Daly, tripped the trigger of his
shotgun with a long stick. Though
no definite information could be ob
tained last night, it is believed the
shot penetrated his breast.
J. E. Most, supt. of the Nellie Juan
cannery, who arrived at the plant
last week from Seattle, was notified
of the finding of the body by Indians.
Mr. Most then sent word to Latouche
to Marshal Conrad who left Latouche
Sunday for the scene.
ADRIAN COLLEGE
SORORITY GIRLS
OLD FASHIONED
ADRIAN, Mich., Mar. 23. (/P)—
Twenty-one members of the Kappa
Gamma sorority of Adrian College, de
clared they reported ten men students
for using liquor while guests at their
sorority dance because they “wrere
old-fashioned girls with old-fashioned
ideals.”
The ten boy students were suspend
ed until April 6, after they admitted
they took a nip from a quart bottle of
liquor.
Swimming Pool Is Feature
Hawaiian War Memorial
HONOLULU, March 23. (£»).—Ha
waii’s memorial for its soldier dead
of the world war will be featured by
a swimming pool which the ocean will
provide with water and the tides keep
clean. It will be constructed at Wai
kiki beach, cost §250,000 and be more
than 300 feet long by 120 feet wide.
Bleachers on one side will seat 2,000
persons.
BYRD PARTY WILL
SAIL ON APRIL
SECOND
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 23. (fl>)
—The airplane in wiiich Commander
Richard Byrd hopes to reach the North
Pole starting from New York will be
named the Josephine Ford, in honor
of the three-year-old daughter of Edsel
Ford, wrho is one of the flight’s spon
sors.
The steamship Chantier on which
the Byrd party will go to Kings Bay,
Spitzbergen to begin the flight will
be ready to sail April 2.
Pete Nielsen Reported
Drowned At Tenakee
Pete Nielsen, known to his many
friends as “Black Jack’’ Pete, was
drowned at Tenakee Hot Springs a
few days ago, according to word re
ceived by The Gateway in the last
mail from the south. Particulars as
to his death were lacking. Mr. Niel
sen left Seward about two months ago
and was not feeling in the best of
health at that time. Last summer he
was employed by the Bureau of Public
Roads department.
CAPTAIN STRENCH
PASSES AWAY IN
SPIRIT CITY
SEATTLE, Mar. 23. (/P)—Captain
R. H. Strenck, internationally known
mining and civil engineer, naturalist
ad author, died here yesterday. Cap
tain Strench was well known in Alas
ka where he had been engaged in the
construction of the White Pass and
Yukon Railroad and the Alaska Rail
road.
ODD FELLOWS, ATTENTION!
Next meeting night, March 25th,
matters of vital importance will be
brought up for discussion wherefore
a good attendance is suggested. There
will be an entertainment after the con
clusion of business.
Work in the Second Degree.
3t. LUDWIG LARSSON, N. G.
CORRESPONDENT SAYS LAW-ABIDING
PEOPLE FOUND BRISTOL BAY DISTRICT
DILLINGHAM, Alaska, Feb. 27. (By Special Corres
pondent).—The press both of Alaska and the States have
been making various comments on the attacks made
against some of the officials of the Department of Justice
in Alaska, but Bristol Bay can truthfully go any of these
one better. A native here was given a jail sentence of six
months for alleged making of brew and there was no evi
dence at the trial that he had been intoxicated at all, while
the guard who was in charge of this native went on sever
al drunks while the prisoner was in jail. The writer of
this does not agree with the statements made by certain
Alaskan representatives that the Third Judicial District
is the home of law violators, for he has lived here twenty
years and visited practically every town and village on the
coast of the Third Judicial District, and found the people
of Alaska just as law-abiding, just as good citizens and
just as peaceable and patriotic as can be found anywhere
on the face of the globe. The great trouble, especially
here in Bristol Bay* is the sending here of pinhead, cor
rupt Government; officials, who are the worst violators of
the laws and are counteracting the good effects which the
schools are doing. For in this connection, we might say,
the Territorial Schools of Bristol Bay are on a par with
the Schools in the States, and that more should be estab
lished in this region.
ADMIRAL VON TIRPITZ ADVOCATES THAT
GERMANY SHOULD FOLLOW EXAMPLE OF
UNITED STATES LEAGUE NATIONS ISSUE
BERLIN, Mar. 23. (AP).—Admiral van Tirpitz, in
stigator of the unrestricted submarine warfare during the
World War, made his maiden speech as a Nationalist dep
uty and demanded that Germany withdraw its application
for membership in the League of Nations. Germany’s
prestige throughout the world would thus be restored, he
said and advocated the same attitude toward the League
as the United States took.
Tirpitz’s statements drew hisses from the left side of
the House.
The Reichstag, by a vote of 259 to 141 rejected the Na
tionalist party motion of no confidence in the government
which refused to demand the withdrawal of the German
application of membership in the League of Nations, but
approved the Government’s course at Geneva by a rising
vote.
<C) HENRY MILLER, VtASH. 0 C
SECRETARY OF COMMERCE
A new picture of Herbert Hoover,
Secretary of Commerce.
ADMIRAL WATSON
ARRIVES IN PORT
LARGE LISTING
STEAMER HAS MANY CANNERY
WORKERS AND SUPPLIES
ABOARD.
RETURNS SEWARD ON TUESDAY
New Jazz Orchestra This Trip; Will
Give Dance Upon Their Return
The Admiral Watson, Capt. Gra
ham, which arrived in port last even
ing from Seattle, surprised the large
local crowd which met the incoming
vessel, by the deck load of passen
gers strung out from stem to stern,
The telegraphed reservations which
were sentt here from Seattle marked
but few passengers apparently for Se
ward or westward bound but with the
arrival of the Watson, this impression
was dispelled for there were almost 90
on board.
The vessel sounded off at 7:45 p. m.
and as she slowly weaved her way to
moorage alongside of the wharf the
new jazz orchestra exuded tumultu
ous, exhilarating melody. Over 200
tons of general cargo were discharged
locally, and at midnight, the steamer
departed for its regular westward run.
It is announced that the Watson will
return to Seward next Tuesday and
await in port until the arrival of the
pasenger train from the Interior, Wed
nesday evening, at which time she will
depart for the South. It was also an
nounced by the Watson orchestra that
they would give a public dance at Odd
Fellows hall Tuesday evening.
The incoming list of passengers and
westward reservations from Seattle
were as follows:
For Seward :M. Vuckich, F. J. En
gellorm, Warner Lange, Jas. McDon
ough, I). T. Nelson, E. J. Wurzbacher,
Mrs. E. Kerr, John Patkovich, J. N.
Nettleton, A. Brooks, H. P. Sullivan,
CIVIL SERVICE IN
SEATTLE CLEAR
ANY DICTATION
SEATATLE, Mar. 23. Thomas
S. Patterson, civil service commis
sioner, before the charter revision
commission last night declared the
commission never failed to support
the department as its head in dismiss
ing employes for inefficiency during
the first six months of employment,
and denied Mayor Brown tried to con
trol the civil service.
City Light Supt. Ross urged that if
the city manager plan is adopted the
light department should be placed
under a separate commission.
Saw Mill Bay and
Nellie Juan Crews
Arrive for the Season
Salmon packers are expecting a nor
mal pack in Alaska this year, accord
ing to Cal M. Brosius, local lumber
and building material dealer who re
turned home Saturday from a brief
business trip to the States. He reports
J. E. Most, manager of the Nellie Juan
Cannery came north on the Alaska
with a crew of about twenty to start
the preliminary work of preparing for
the coming season. G. C. Hender
son, supt. of the Saw Mill Bay plant,
of the San Juan Fishing & Packing
Co., accompanied by Mrs. Henderson,
also came north on the vessel. Mr.
Henderson brought a crew with him
to open the plant up.
Paul Mehan, Mrs. Lee King and seven
steerage.
For Port Graham—H.‘ A. Norman,
E. J. Norman and Anfcon Johnson.
For Seldovia—Mrs. Axel Anderson.
Florence Anderson, E. J. Friebrock,
Robert Anderson, Alice Anderson, Ax
el Anderson, W. Pippensott, Mrs. W.
Lippencott, A. Wik, Ethel Simmons,
Bertha Cleghorn, John Holden, Chas.
P. Nelson, Adolph Mattson, S. Uand,
J. Eide, W. A. Estus, Mrs. W. A. Es
tus, Chas. Hamley, Mrs. R. A. Bogue,
Margaret Estus, Alex Norstedt, Ed.
Jansen, K. Armstrong, John Busch,
G. L. Rich, J. H. Chisholm and one
steerage.
For Uzinkie—Tom Ohnson, Harry
Bell, Pete Enge, Charlie Thomas, C.
Norwell and one steerage.
For Kodiak—Otto Kraft, Mrs. Otto
Kraft, Emil Kraft, L. P. Bell, C. M.
Gott, R. L. Sparen, V. P. Morrison,
Mrsr V P. Morrison, E. J.Hopper, L.
Moen, H. Worrel, Tom Owa, K. Mu
jina, J. Peterson, T. Modenese, Edw.
Jones and Hugh P. Allen.
For Uganik—P. Dybeid, Anton A.
Strom, Louie Otness, Chris Nelson, S.
Thorstensen, John Stanki, T. A. Lar
son John Ackerman Julius Welding
and Hans Weiding.
Local reservations for the west
ward were:
For Seldovia—Mike Eloff, Agnes A.
Barker, Mr. and Mrs. George Kern,
O. Week, F. G. Frazier, Sam Garver,
S. Linblad, E. Olesen and G. Iverson.
For Kodiak—Mrs. J. E Nelson, R.
M. Chadwick, H. C Dunlop, Oscar A.
Hart.
For Uganik—Henry Kofford.