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VOLUME 21, NUMBER 135
SEWArRD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 1926
PRICE TEX CENTS
INTERIOR IN 1923
ENDS IN ARRESTS
WILLIAM C SCHERMIER AND NEL
LIE BEATTIE (BLACK BEAR),
ARE BOUND OVER
SCHERMIER BOASTED OF DEED
' Mysterious Disappearance of $33,173
From Mail Sled, Iditarod, Clear
ed Up Thru Confession.
FAIRBANKS, June 15. (/P)— Advices
received here today said William C.
Schermier and Nellie Beattie, known
thruout the Interior country as “the
Black Bear,” have been arrested at
Flat, in the Iditarod district, for the
robbery of $33,173 from a mail team,
near Flat, November 19, 1923. They
have been bound over to the grand
jury. Flat officials said Schermier
confessed and implicated the woman.
The money included $27,500 sent
from the Dexter Horton Bank of Se
attle to Thomas P. Aitken, at Mc
Grath; $2,250 from Decker Brothers
of New York, fur buyers, to Ed Gjolme.
Nellie was a passenger on the mail
sled which left the Alaska Railroad
for the Iditarod district at the time.
The mail team stopped at the road
house which Schermier ran and after
leaving there the money was found
missing. Postal Inspectors said they
found Schermier in Los Angeles where
it was reported he boasted of the rob
bery to friends which led to his arrest
and final confession.
* TREASURY IN NO NEED
TO BORROW FOODS, JUNE
WASHINGTON, June 15, •.—Secre
tary Mellon announced that tax re
ceipts for June will probably exceed
i $5(»0,000,000. The Treasury for the
first time since the War has decided
not to borrow any money to meet
June maturities. Announcement
came while Smoot and Simmons, Rep
ublican and Democratic leaders of the
Senate Finance committee violently
disagreed as to the possibility of new
lax reductions and on the reports that
huge surplus of $250,000,000 will be
shown on June 30th. The Democrats
charged Administration will hold off
tax cuts until just before the 1928 Pre
i
sidential election.
Mrs. J. V. Lydick, wife of the well
known Copper River railroad official,
accompanied by her son, Philip, left
for Cordova Sunday on the S.S. Alas
ka.
Donald Shellhorn, during the school
vacation, plans to acquire the art of
salesmanship and to that end is now
at work in the hardware department
of the Brown & Hawkins Corp.
Oscar Anderson, operator of the
Knights Island tie and lumber camp,
came in from his Anchorage head
quarters Sunday and boarded the S.S.
Alaska for Latouche.
Mrs. Jerry Perry, nurse, is ill at the
Overland hotel. Mrs. Perry arrived in
V Seward a few days ago from Ancho
rage.
mists IRE OF JOINTS
NEW YORK, June 15, •.—Backed
by Mayor Walker and Commissioner
MMcLaughlin the police in the White
Light belt entered night clubs and
cabarets and ordered 2 a. m. curfew.
Places like Texas Guinan’s which op
erates under State charter defied the
edict and remained open. Represen
tatives of the night clubs protested
to the Mayor and asked that the order
be modified to halting of entertain
ment at 3 a. m.
TOURISTS BEGIN TO
SHOOT THRU SEWARD
i PARTY FROM INTERIOR WILL
PASS SWIFTLY BY LATTER
PART OF THE WEEK
_
A party of 30 tourists are due to
arrive at Nenana the latter part of
this week from Dawson, according to
local advices. The party is due to
arrive at Nenana June 19 or the 20th,
and spend a day in Fairbanks, then to
the National park for a day. Leaving
Curry on the morning of the 26th they
will rrive in Seward next Sunday,
June 27, permitting them at least 2
hours to view the city of Seward and
its vast and beautiful setting. It is
assumed the party will arrive in An
chorage early Saturday afternoon, re
maining there overnight and taking
the Sunday morning special for here.
A Criswell party of the same num
ber, 30, is due to arrive in Fairbanks
from the coast, over the Richardson
Highway, on June 29. July 1, the par
ty will be taken down to the park
July 3rd, the party will arrive in An
ehorage and the following day. Sun
day, July 4th, brought over to Sew
ard and leave the same day for Seat
tie.
MISSING EHKEUST IS
THOUGHT BE IN CNNADN.
BIG BEWNRD STILL II!
LOS ANGELES, June 35. •.—Re
ports from Canadian authorities tha
Mrs. Amie Semple McPherson ha<
been found in Edmonton is being rig
idly investigated. A telegram fron
Middleton, of the Royal Northwes
Mounted Police states that Mrs. Me
Pherson arrived in Edmonton in ar
auto with J. H. Gould, a landscap<
artist of Los Angeles, and Mrs
Blanche Potter. Mrs. Gould sai(
here today that her husband left Loi
Angeles April 13 for Edmonton wher<
ho had a commission to do somi
painting. She said that the only ref
erence to the missing evangelist ii
any of her husband’s letters was j
comment on the news of the myster
ious disappearance. He merely sai<
“She was a good woman.” Mrs. Ken
nedy, mother of the missing womai
is firm in the belief that her daughte
is dead, but said that tihe reward o
$25,000 would stand for another week
i J. H. Brogaw, Anchorage busines
man, left on the S.S. Alaska Sunda:
for Juneau.
GATEWAY RESULT OF
N. 1. SALMON STUDY
INTERESTING DATA COLLECTED
AS RESULT OF RECENT JOUR
NEY TO NEW ZEALAND
TRANSPLANTS U. S. A. EGGS
—
First Record of Catching Adult Quin
nat Salmon Made In 1925.
Discussing in a letter to The Gate
way the remarkable achievement of
acclimatizing Pacific and the Atlantic
salmon in New Zealand waters, John
i Pease Babcock, chairman of the In
ternational Fisheries Commission, with
| headquarters in Parliament Building.
Victoria, B. C., writes of his recent
visit to New Zealand and a partial
result of his investigation.
In part, Mr. Babcock writes:
“Both the Pacific and the Atlantic
salmon have been acclimatized in
New’ Zealand waters, an achievement
I
j that has not been accomplished in
any other waters, notwithstanding
;that repeated efforts have been made
; to establish Pacific salmon in Atlan
tic waters and the Atlantic salmon in
I Pacific waters. It is true that a few
specimens of Atlantic salmon have
|
: been taken from the Cowichan River
in British Columbia, and a few pink
salmon have been caught in Maine
waters, but too few in either case tc
warrant the statement that runs have
been established. A regular salmon
fishery is now being conducted in New
Zealand and quinnat sold in the mar
kets of Wellington and other cities.
“The success met with in New Zen
land in establishing runs of Pacific
• salmon in several of their rivers is
the more remarkable from the fac:
that in no other instance were the
difficulties nearly so great. To read1
New Zealand the eggs had u be *rans
ported 7,100 miles, and thru the hea
of the tropics. The establishment o'
Pacific salmon in New Zealand is dtn
to the systematic and persistent ef
forts of L. F. Ayson. the Chie: Tnspec
| tor of Fisheries of New Zealand. Pro
vious efforts had been made but sue
cess was not attained until after h<
. had made a close study of the problem
'‘Mr. Ayson’s first productive effor
i was made in 1900. In December o
.! that year a shipment of 900 000 eye<
l ' eggs of the quinnat, the one we it
British Columbia call the Spring sal
mon ,was taken from the Unitec
,'States Bureau of Fisheries hatcher
, j at Baird, on the McCloud Fiver, a tri
butarv of the Sacramento R?ver it
• |
i California, and transported to Ne^
. Zealand. The eggs reached New Zee
> land in prime condition in January
, 1901, and were successfully hatched
JSome 25.000 strong swimming tp
^were liberated in the Waitak: Hiver
, on the South Island, that year anc
. i then liberated. Similar shipment
i were made successfully in the Hfcrw
. following years.
j} "The record displays that in T90i
P 12.000 one-year-old.; £24.000 eigdr
f months-old. and T02.50T three-months
old quinnat salmon were liberated h
New Zealand waters—all of them
s progeny of eggs obtained trwn the Sac
7 ramento in California.
1 *The record of the catching of *d«!
I
AJtICA. June 15. (Jp)—'The plebisci
tary Commission yesterday adopted
the declaration vote of Arica-Tacna.
whetheh Peru or Shile shall have sov
ereignty. It is impossible, because
Chile hinders the honest expression.
General Lassiter, chairman, said, and
the “Peruvian electorate has been phy
sically reduced below its proper fig
ure by forcible deportations, depar
tures induced by violence, threats,
unexplained disappearances, discrimi
natory military conscription and even
assassinations.’*
TEACHING STAFF OP
SCHOOL 1WCED
FIFTH AND SIXTH GRADES POSI
TION YET TO BE SELECTED:
OTHERS RETURNING
Appointment of teachers in the Se
ward Public Schools for the 1926-27
school year was announced today tr
the School Board. Of the staff there
! will be one new teacher, for the 5th
! and 6th grades, which position has
not yet been filled.
T. R. McEwen. instructor in the hirrh
school during the term ius; c< mnle*
ed. has been chosen as the success#:
to Guy D. Barnett, as supt. Miss Min
nie A. Rousch will teach th< commer
cial class and high school: Mis- Els;*
Hoffmann the 7th and 8th
Miss Ruth Eccles. the 3rd and -ft
grades, and Miss Grace Motion *h>
1st and 2nd.
quinta: sal trior. in Nee Zeater t
erg begins In November. }«>(*?.. wfe^y
it is recorded that a «?«a mt f?«h vp*
caught a: the moufh of the TV-sV
River. The descri-briot frteea n: -his
si>eciTR“r. murh htv-e «ott
to its species were *:• rn: fn- -■
That it is noted that it bad shr-^r
• ray? ft it? ana’, fir The deTh •'•*•-:*
distinguishes it from any of tin -• -;
. large brewx. trow: that were objhbp ot
. ly ta fcet ft that river a- ->,y* -v—: v
. - Ir. i!»Of several adult oninne iwUrwr
. were tsfcet wdffc roc snd lb* at -bf
> month of tbe Waitalr wm. fr *ha:
. year severa.1 specimens were
while spa wo rac it trihotaTes .v the
: river. From the- rot K Mitel: eye tea®:
; salmon to that r>e~ ft. rjw <i^w* ?**
i eggs were ooli^eC amc hatched
. j successfully. T: * the fire o
[ ; the collection Of Iteotec salmon eers
sooth of the equator or. for tha* aw
- : ters. it any waters oorsid* the Tteri
i Ho Coast of North America It. the
■ follow inn year £ bte qutena: ege* has
• it ceased As «ar3y «« t<«:T -.- -we" * -
JfWHihW eggs vsr obtain*® aac ft
. l$2r weT over that otrmhe- were Tptec
• ed it hatcheries As ft *o** Pacihr
• : Cons: waters, the collect** #esoeiMb
I ohot water conditioas. dSfPkwly hehjc
- etcnerieoced it csTcV tjc the smrwrsiw
M
*'At tem fdaus «! row were'
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? tioos ter the ITwar** K Try it the*
- waters It ta. hrw-nw. fa he teaswl
! that the lances* me tauter the rtee-r
that were trsc erorteet.*'
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