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VOLUME 20. NUMBER 17
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1925
PRICE TEN CENTS
SUTHERLAND ASKS
FOR EXPRESSION OF
OPINION PERMITS
IN KANATAK FIELD
ALL THOSE INTERESTED ARE
* REQUESTED TO REPORT WITH
OUT DELAY TO LEON URBACH,
SO THAT CHAMBER MAY ACT
The Seward Chamber of Commerce
this morning received the following
telegram from Delegate Dan A. Suth
erland, which is self-explanatory:
“Washington, D. C., Jan. 19, 1925.
Seward Chamber of Commerce:
♦ Please get expression of opinion
of men interested in oil permits
as to whether they prefer to have
cancelled permits put up to draw
ing by lots as provided for in
general regulations or to leave
them open to relacation in a man
ner similar to that in relocation
of mining claims. Answer.”
“DAN SUTHERLAND,
“Delegate from Alaska.”
All persons interested in the above
proposition are requested to express
their sentiments to Leon Urbach, as j
soon as possible, in order that an an-!
swer may be sent to Mr. Sutherland I
tomorrow. Mr. Urbach was' appointed
by President Hinde of the Sewrard
Chamber as a committe of one to re-1
ceive such expressions.
s Indictments Are Dismissed
Against Jafet Lindberg
TACOMA, Wn., Jan. 20—Jude Teats
yesterday dismissed all 13 indictments
against Jafet Lindeberg, of San Fran- j
cisco, the principal stockholder in the
*, Scandinavian American Bank which
failed a year or so ago.
Dismissal was recommended after
Lindeberg had turned over to the bank
all his personal property, valued at
$200,000, while he only received back,
$70,000 in dividends from the bank.
All efforts to extradite Lindeberg from
California had failed.
ITALIAN GOVERNMENT
CUTS RAILROAD RATES
TO HELP HOLY YEAR
ROME, Jan. 20.—The Italian gov
ernment is doing its part to make
the Holy Year celebration a success.
Besides arranging for the accommo
dation of the thousands of pilgrims
who are expected, the government
now announces reduction in all rail
road fares to all foreigners traveling
to Rome during the celebrations,
ranging from 30 per cent for individu
al fares to 50 per cent for parties of
more than 400.
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New Prohi Measure
Reads Like Bunk To
Mich. Representative
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C.f Jan. 20.—
Representative Michener of Michigan
said before the House Judiciary com
mittee that the report of the Stalker
bill measure doesn’t provide a man
datory fine and imprisonment sen
tence to all violators of the prohibi
tion law. He said that only a money
fine was imposed for the first of
fense; possession or transportation
would be liable to a fine or imprison
ment in a second offense, and impri
sonment for the third offense.
Heart Move Aside
Allow Bullet to Pass
(By Associated Press)
LOS ANGELES, Cal., Jan. 20.—
Physicians here declared today the
fact that his heart was contracted at
the instant, saved the life of Walter
Lemon, who shot himself accidental
ly while cleaning his pistol, because,
the bullet would otherwise have pass
ed through his heart.
CITY OF COLOGNE
A view of the city of Cologne which has been much in the limelight lately on account of doubt as to the evacu
ation of the city on January 10th, as called for by the Versailles Treaty.
APPROPRIATION IS
INCREASED BUREAU
EDUCATION HEAD
ANNOUNCES TODAY
CONGRESS GIVES S437.075 FOR USE
OF BUREAU COMPARED TO
$355,840 LAST YEAR—DENTIST
WILL TREAT ALASKA NATIVES
(By Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Jan. 20.—Jonathan Wag
near, chief of the Alaska division of
the Bureau of Education, announced
today that appropriations for health
and education work among the Alaska
natives had been increased. He said
that Congress had approved an appro
priation of §437,075, in comparison to
$355,840 of the previous year, provid
ing $122,324 for medical relief, com
pared to $110,000 in 1923; and for
reindeer appropriation $12,500.
The employment of M. R. Douglass,
a Seattle dentist, to serve 14 com
munities of Alaskan natives, was also
announced.
Car Topples Over Into
Road Drainage Canal;
Aw Women Dvo\vr>
(By Associated Press)
ALBANY, Ore., Jan. 20.—Mrs. P.
T. Long and Mrs. L. F. Evans were
drowned when their automobile
plunged from a road along the drain
age canal, three miles out from this
city. The husbands of both, sitting
in the front seat of the auto escaped.
All members of the party ranged in
the neighborhood of sixty years of
age.
Olmsted and Wife Are
Indicted by Grand Jury;
On Prohibition Charge
(By Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Wn,, Jan. 20.—Roy Olm
stead and wife, three Seattle po
licemen, and eighty-five others were
indicted by a true bill from the fed
eral grand jury, charging conspiracy
to violate the prohibition laws of
the United States.
Thirteen open indictment were re
turned against accused narcotic and
postal law violators at today’s sit
ting.
PLANS TO BROADCAST
INAUGURAL CEREMONIES
NEW YORK, Jan. 20.—Plans are
completed here to broadcast the in
augural ceremonies of President Cool
idge.
TREADWELL QUARTZ MILL
CONCENTRATES 100-TON DAILY
(By Associated Press)
DAWSON, Y. T., Jan. 20.—The
Treadwell Yukon company’s quartz
mill in Keno City, which was install
ed recently is operating at a capa
city of one hundred tons daily.
Reports from the district today
say that twenty thousand tons of
Silver-lead ore is on the dump along
side the mill ready for concentration.
YUKON TRAPPING GOOD
(By Associated Pres3)
DAWSON, Y. T„ Jan. 20.—Reports
coming here today state that the Old
Crow Mission Indians are trapping
a great number of foxes this season.
Five hundred caribou passed thru
the Mission vicinity yesterday and
meat is reported plentiful, despite
the heavy snowfall.
Wrangell Isle Eskimos
Start Journey Home,
Under Care Red Cross
(By Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Wn., Jan. 20.—The ten
Eskimos, captured on Wrangell Isl
and by the Russians and taken to
Vladivostok will arrive in Seattle
from Japan in about 3 weeks, under
the care of the American Red Cross,
Chief Wagner, head of the bureau of
education informed.
The destitute band will leave this
city for their homes in Nome immed
iately after their arrival.
HARBIN, Jan. 20.—The ten Eski
mos, including two women and five
children, taken from Wrangell Island
by Russians aboard the bolshevik
ship Red October, sailed from this
port for Dairen, enroute to Seattle
on the Iyo Maru.
One Eskimo child died during their
stay in Vladivostok, and another pass
ed away on the Siberian-Manchurian
border. The American consulate and
missionaries of the Y. M. C. A. pre
pared the bodies for burial, and cared
for the stranded party while here.
Gales Sweeping Entire
Pacific Causes Anxiety
Coast Shipping Circles
(By Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 20.—Owing
to present storms raging over the
Pacific, anxiety is felt for four ves
sels which are overdue. The steam
er Golden Gate is ten days overdue;
Yokohama from San Pedro; the
schooner Commodore, thirty-five days
out of Puget Sound for Hawaii;the
schooner Zampa, forty-three days out
of Grays Harbor en route to Hawaii;
the French bark, Normandie, sixty
one days out from Raratonga, in Cook
Islands, for San Francisco.
NUMBER ARRESTED
CONNECTION WITH
INVESTIGATION OF
LIQUOR SMUGGLING
OLMSTED’S ATTORNEY AND TWO
SEATTLE POLICEMEN CAUGHT
IN NET OF EVIDENCE SUBMIT
TED TO FEDERAL GRAND JURY
SEATTLE, Jan. 20. — Jerrokl L.
Finch, who is Roy Olmsted's attorney,
George F. Reynolds, a member of the
Seattle dry squad, and R. F. Baerman,
a motorcycle policeman, were arrested
here today on indictments returned
by the Federal gr\nd jury, which yes
terday concluded a week’s study of
| evidence gathered in several months’
investigation concerning liquor opera
tion during the two years in which
Olmsted, called “King of the Rum
Trade,” on the Pacific coast,” was en
gaged in his nefarious operations,
and culminating in the raid on the
Olmsted home, November 17.
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Shipwrecked Passengers
Suffer Hallucinations
Result Drifting At Sea
(By Associated Press)
MEXICO CITY, Jan. 20.—Several
! passengers from the steamer Isidora,
[ which recently sank in a tempest
bound from Frontera to Vera Cruz,
| have been picked up in the Caribbean
Sea physically exhausted and mental
ly unbalanced, it is said. Meager re
| ports that the passengers had pre
jviously been taken on bo'ats were
i refuted. It was said here that they
1 spent a number of days in the open
sea and had later been picked up
and taken to a hospital in Obispo.
Leon Trotzky Ousted
From War Council
(By Associated Press)
MOSCOW, Russia, Jan. 20.—Leon
Trotzky was relieved of his duties to
day as chairman of the Revolutionary
War Council, by order of the execu
tive committee of the Communist
party, which is considered the most
powerful body in Russia today.
Lifer Tries Escape;
Falls To His Death
BALTIMORE, Md., Jan. 20_John
Kelly, a lifer here, fell fifty feet out
of his cell window and was killed
while attempting to escape from the
penitentiary with four other con
victs.
FINE PROGRAM BE
BROADCASTED KJR
NIGHT JANUARY 21,
FOR ALL ALASKANS
RADIO OWNERS URGED TO LIS
TEN IN WEDNESDAY NIGHT—
MANY ALASKANS WILL TAKE
PART IN LENGTHY PROGRAM
SEATTLE, Jan. 19.—The Post-Intel
ligencer of Seattle will test out its
new 100 watt radiocasting station
with a special Alaska program on the
night of Wednesday, January 21.
It has urged all Alaskan people with
radio receiving sets, to “tune in,” that
night on KJR, 405 meters, between
the hours of 8:30 and 10:00 p. m.
The Seattle newspaper is anxious to
learn how many Alaskan people will
hear this concert and has asked the
Gateway to receive messages of ap
proval from this community and tele
graph a report to the radio editor of
the Post-Intelligencer.
The Alaskan program which will be
broadcasted is being arranged by the
Young Men’s Business Club of Seat
tle. This live wire organization, all
Alaskan folk will remember, piloted
an excursion of Seattle business men
to various Alaska points last May. It
also conducted an Alaska Fair last
! Fall and in many other ways has been
the outstanding organization in Seat
tle to stand behind Alaska problems
and fight Alaska’s battles.
Among the chief speakers on the
! program will be Lt. Gov. Win. J.
Coyle. The program will abound in
typical Alaskan songs, readings and
stunts.
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M’Millan Will Sail
On Exploration Trip
—
CHICAGO, Jan. 20.—Donald B. Mac
Millan, who recently returned from a
two-year cruise in Arctic waters with
the schooner Bowdoin, announced to
day that he would sail northward in
the near future in the role of histo
rian. He said he had reason to be
lieve that Norsemen were the first
white men on the American continent
and expects to visit the home of the
“lost colony in Greenland,” establish
ed by Eric the Red, a Viking chief,
in 980 A. D.
It was from this port that Lief the
Lucky s-ailed when he made his way
southward along the main and Mas
sachusetts coast.
’Frisco Police Break.
Up Big Gambling Ring
(By Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 20.—The
arrest of nine suspected dealers in
illicit racing tips revealed the oper
ation of a ring causing gamblers of
the nation to lose half a million dol
lars daily. The ring maintained a
sucker list and sold tips from one
to twenty-five dollars and arranged
that every third one of the victims
won daily.
Woman Butcher Knife
Robber Gets 20 Years
FLINT, Mich., Jan. 20.—Convicted
of a holdup last July in which she is
alleged to have used a butcher knife
as a weapon in the robbery of Walter
Wasileski, on the street, Miss Effie
Jeffries was sentenced to serve from
10 to 20 years in the house of cor
rection.
Urges Investigation
Into Baseball Bribe
(By Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Jan. 20.—District At
torney Banton has ordered an inves
tigation of the recent baseball scan
dal, which Dolan and O’Connell are
alleged in having offered a bribe of
$500 to Heinie Sands.