TWO WHALERS IN
PORT ON WAY TO
AKUTAN CAMP
SHORTAGE OF WHALES PACIFIC
COAST, VESSELS COME
TO ALASKA.
FROM GRAY’S HARBOR
New Skipper On Way to Station
Taking Place of Captain Who
Was Recently Injured.
Owing to the shortage of whales
on the Pacific Coast two whaling
vessels of the North Pacific Sea
Food Products Company, have been
dispatched to the company’s station
at Akutan. The whalers, Aberdeen,
Captain Nelson, and the Moran, Cap
tain Johnson, arrived in Seward this
morning at 6:30 and 7:30, respective
ly, ten days out of Grays Harbor. A
good run was made to this port, neith
er vessels encountering any trouble
of any kind. They depart today, fol
ing taking on a cargo of oil at the
local Standard Oil station, and a car
go stores, direct for Akutan whence
they will ply there for the remainder
of the season, or until October. The
season started May 10.
(At Rose Harbor, B. C., Captain
Nelson picked up a skipper and a
spare gunner for the whaler Patter
son, now at Akutan. The new skip
per will take the place of Captain
Fred Peterson, who was recently in
jured when a whaling harpoon bomb
went thru a whale and exploded out
side its body.
It is stated that the whaler Aber
deen, while stationed in the Grays
Harbor district, caught seven whales
and four sperms, thus far this sea
son, which is an extremely small
number, while the whaler Moran
killed four whales. The whaler West
port, the third whaler employed by
the company in its business, has been
sent to Seattle where it will be over
hauled and layed up for this season.
It is the hope of the crew of the
whalers which arrived in Seward
this morning, to catch a ‘barter,’
known in the old days as a bow-head
whale. These whales are very val
uable running in price about $15,
000 each. A peculiar growth, inside
these whales’ mouths, resembling os
inch plumes, averages from one to
ten feet in length. Upon being cur
ed and treated, this growth is sold
on the market as imitation ostrich j
plumes. Owing to their great value, j
as soon as one of these whales are
killed, a watchman is placed over
it, safeguarding it until the whale
boat comes up. During the many
years the Akutan whaling station
has been in operation, but five of
these whales have been killed.
It is stated the latter part of last
month, a Norwegian outfit of whal
ers, consisting of a mother ship of
11,000 tons and four whalers, passed
off the Alaska coast bound for Mad
dalena Bay, Mexico, for Siberia,
where operations are now under way
for the first time.
REDONDO BRINGS
CARGO OF HERRING
FROM WESTWARD
The steamer Redondo, of the Alas
ka Steamship company, Captain New
land in command, arrived in Sew
ard Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o’
clock from the Westward. The Re
dondo brought 14 passengers from
the San Juan cannery at Sawmill
Bay, who were transferred to the
steamer Yukon, for Tutka Bay. The
Redondo brought 128 tons of barrel
ed herring from the Westward, which
was transferred to the Yukon for
shipment to Seattle. The vessel took
aboard 280 tons of general cargo
from the steamer Yukon, also a car
go of sack coal, departing for her
regular run to the Westward at 9
o’clock last night.
ADMIRAL WATSON
DUE WEDNESDAY
The Admiral Watson of the Pacific
Steamship Company is due to arrive
in Seward from Seattle on Wednes
day. A large number of tourists are
aboard the vessel, including a Frank
Reedy party. The Watson will make'
the regular Westward ports of call
out of Seward, sailing south about
a week later.
ARCTIC LAND, IF ANY
MAY BE BETWEEN
POLE AND ALASKA
CHICAGO, July 18. (/P)—If any
new possessions are added to the
United States by the MacMillan-Navy
expedition, which involves no special
effort to reach the North Pole, it is
believed the land must be found
somewhere between the Pole and Al
aska. But in previous explorations
mirages, soundings and tidal condi
tions have been the only encourage
ment that something other than ice
exists in that region.
Admiral Peary on his polar trip
stood at one far northern poini and
saw what he believed to be land some
50 miles away. He called it “Crock
er Land.” Com. MacMillan on his
special Crocker Land expedition,
wiped this spot off his maps, because
after traveling 150 miles across a
field of solid ice to a point well be
yond where “Crocker Land” was sup
posed to exist, it was as far away
as when he started.
MacMillan returned to the point
from where Peary had sighted this
supposed land and he too beheld this
imaginary country—rugged hills and
wooded stretches. It appeared to be
a permanent mirage. MacMillan took
a number of soundings in the terri
tory, however, and the current in
dicated there might be land. Tidal
observations taken at Etah and Cape
Hubbard, checked with those taken
at Point Barrow, Alaska, showed also
that the tide at Point Barrow arriv
ed four or five hours late. Some ob
struction causes it, according to Mac
Millan.
The ice formation also favored the
presence of some huge block. Up to
150 miles the ice was as smooth as
a billiard table but after that it was
almost impossible to travel over it
because of its roughness. MacMil
lan described it at that distance as
resembling a group of city buildings
which had been squeezed by huge
hands and jammed together.
The steamship Admiral Watson will
reach Cordova some time tonight, it
is reported.
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SEWARD, ALASKA
REVIVAL OF ANCIENT
COURT PROPOSED TO
HEAR OXFORD CASES
OXFORD, Eng., July 18. (JP)—An
Oxford undergraduate is to be tried
in the ordinary courts of Assize on
a charge of manslaughter arising out
of a motor accident. The frequency
of motor smashes in which under
graduates are concerned and the
gravity of their attendant conse
quences has led a famous law don
Lord High Steward should try and
to suggest that the Court of the
punish the offenders.
This University Court has been in
existence since 1404, and although it
has nottried a case since a century
before the days of Blackstone, belief
prevails that it still has jurisdiction
to try members of the university on
charges of treason, felony or may
hem. Its powers are not original, as
a true bill must first be found against
the accused by the ordinary grand
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Barbers and Reasonable Prces
Keep Us Busy.
HARRY BOWERS, Manager
Get This
Point, It’s M W
Important
—the point of a Parker & Duofold
is made of genuine Jn native
Tasmanian Iridium nS which costa
over three times as / / much as the
iridium used in / / ordinary
fountain pen // points. That's
why the Parker 1/ Duofold is
called the 25- year point.
That’swbyit ft/ is the cheapest
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usefulness is everlasting.
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included free.
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on your vacation
Ask To See It At
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i
Cameron’s Cafe
WHEN YOU ARE IN
ANCHORAGE
Good Coffee, Good Food ^
Good Service
CHAS. CAMERON
PROPRIETOR
PIONEER CLUB
John Nash, propr.
SOFT DRINKS, CANDY
CIGARS AND FRUITS
CAFE
JOSIE EMSWILER, Prop.
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SEWARD, ALASKA
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Phone Adams 128
jury. When this court is sitting, its
jury must be composed at least one
halt' by members of the university.
Apparently the chancellor has power
to make townsmen members for this
purpose, as is done in the case of
the so-called “Holy Pokers” who are
matriculated to serve on the jury
of the University Coroner.
I he university possesses two other
courts as well. The Court of the
Chancellor, founded in 2331, is fam
iliar to all thriftless under-graduates
as the strong ar mprotecting Oxford
tradesmen. When a bad dept is re
ported to this court a notice is sent
out to the debtor ordering him to
pay at once or lose both his degree
and his bedroom furniture.
The Vice-Chancellor’s Court is
lormed by the vice-chancellor of the
university assuming the privileges
of his position a3 a justice of Ox
ford and Berkshire. As the powers
of a justice sitting alone are very
limited it is the custom to make sev
eral heads of colleges justices in or
der that they may sit with the vice
chancellor and increase his powers.
Capt. Chas. Emswiler .returned to
Seward yesterday from Nuka Bay.
Gateway want-ads bring results.
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STEAMSHIP STARR
NEXT SAILING WEST FROM SEWARD AUG. 10
San Juan Fishing and Packing Co.
G. C. HENDERSON, Agent
PHONE MAD180N 13*. 8EWARD, ALASKA
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S. S. ADMIRAL WATSON
July 15 July 21 July 28, 9 p. m.
S. S. ADMIRAL EVANS
Sails from Arrives South from
Seattle Seward Seward
July 28 August 4 August 11, 9 p. m.
*
Calling at all regular Southeastern and South
western Alaska ports including Seldovia and
Kodiak.
WAYNE BLUE, Agent
Telephone Main 81 Res.. Madison 40
Pacific Coastwise Service
ADMIRAL LINE
iH.F. ALEXANDER mi IP FI IT nil i g
I ALASKA STEAMSHIP!
COMPANY
Vessel—
Northwestern
Alaska
Yukon
Northwestern
Alacka
Yukon
Southwestern Alaska Route Schedule
Scheduled Scheduled Scheduled Sail
Ar. Seward from Seward
July 25. July 26.
Aug. 1. Aug. 2.
Aug. 8. Aug. 9*.
Aug. 15 Aug. 16.
August 22 August 23
Aug. 29 Aug. 30.
Lv. Seattle
July 18.
July 25.
Aug. 1.
Aug. 8
August 15
Aug. 22,
E steamers in the above schedule will make all regular ports of call
E cf* Southeastern and Southwestern Alaska.
5 *"eamers in aljove schedule will not leave Seward earlier than FOUR
E O’CLOCK Sunday afternoon, sailing date.
2 Redondo- carrying freight and passengers, connects with
E lanri nn,;iefamerv-at Seward' weekly, for Cook Inlet and Kodiak Is
ss a ld p0xIlts' subject to change without notice.
J. H.
PHONE MAIN 125
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E fsts m the Territory may be thoroughly enjoyed and understand, and E
5 t0 e?able them to acquire first hand and accurate information con- 5
5j cerning all Alaskan activities and development; travelers to the S
S Northland are urged to visit
§j ALASKA’S “GOLDEN HEART”
E Interior Alaska and places en route—including Kenai Lake the 2
E D00? District,” Spencer and Bartlett Glaciers, Turnagain Arm An- 5
E chorage, the Matanuska Valley, Curry, Nenana River Canyon, Mt. Me- S
g Kmley National Park, Nenana, the Tanana Valley ad Fairbanks hold S '
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E and a tQur through these regions creates a true conception of the 2
S Sood things that Alaska has to offer.
5 F?.r train and automobile schedules, passenger rates and other in- §
S loimation, confer with any steamship agent, or
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
| The Alaska Railroad I
(McKinley Park Route)
Seward Anchorage Curry Nenana Fairbanks