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VOLUME XVII. NUMBER 101
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 1923
PRICE TEN CENTS
PAYDAY BILLUNCON STITUTION AL
Attorney General Advises Measure Is Class Legislation
ALASKA Cl MINI
DEVELOPMENT IS
SATISFACTORY
FUEL FROM MATANUSKA AND
SUNTRANA FIELDS GIVING
SATISFACTION LOCALLY
WASHINGTON, Apr. 16.—Coal de
velopment in (the Matnuska and Ne
nana fields are progressing satisfac
torily it was announced today by the
Bureau of Mines. Two new proper
ties have reached the producing stage
in the Moose creek section of the
Matanuska fields, and coal from Sun
trana in the Nenana field is giving
satisfaction as domestic fuel.
DEMPSEY PRESIDENT COAL CO.
SALT LAKE, Apr. 17— Jack Demp
sey, world’s champion heavyweight
was yesterday elected president oi
the Great Western Coal Mines Co.,
wherein he holds a controlling inter
est. He said that he intends to make
coal his business for life.
DAYLIGHT SAVING ADOPTED
BRUSSELS, Apr. 17.—The Belgian
cabinet decided to adopt the Daylight
Saving plan simultaneously with En
gland, all clocks being advanced one
hour on April 22.
LENINE IMPROVING
MOSCOW, Apr. 17.—Lenine is re
ported to be in improving so rapidly
that bulletins are being issued only
occasionally.
WILSON MUST SERVE SENTENCE
LOS ANGELES, Apr. 17.—The Ap
pellate Court today made a decision
that Herbert Wilson, ex-evangelist
and alleged mail bandit and murderer
must serve a life sentence.
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EARTH TREMORS REPORTED
WASHINGTON, Apr. 17.—George
town University seismograph record
ed earth tremors of moderate inten
sity 5100 miles from here.
FRENCH PATROLS AT HAMM
BERLINN, Apr. 17.—It is reported
that French cavalry patrols crossed
the borders of the territory hitherto
unoccupied near Hamm.
THOIISUNDS OF CHILDREN
BROUGHT UP ATHEISTS
PARIS, Apr. 17.—Grand Duke Alex
ander of Russia, on the eve of the
opening of the trial of Archbishop
Tikhon at Moscow issued a signed
statement, “To the people of the Uni
ted States of America” appealing to
them to give moral support <‘to my
countrymen who are still true to God
and who prefer death to the betrayal
of their Father and Saviour.”
He added that hundreds of thou
sands of children were being brought
up in pure atheism and hate and were
being encouraged to live in evil ugli
ness and immorality and he said:
’“Think of the whole generations be
ing prepared to poison humanity.”
NORTHERN FLEET 0F~
CUTTERS SAIL TOBIt
PORT TOWNSEND, Apr. 17.—Fol
lowing the departure Sunday of the
coast guard cutter Algonquin, the
cutter Haida, Lieut. Com. J. F. Hot
tie sailed today for Alaska patro
duty. The Haida is t ie flagship of the
Northern fleet. The Una'ga, Bea?
and Mojave will join the fleet.
STEAMER POSITIONS
The steamer Watson was reportee
out of Juneau this morning, north
bound at nine o’clock.
GRAIN FUTURES TRUDiNG
ACT DECLARED 1LIC
WASHINGTON, Apr. 17—The grain
futures tracing act was declared val
id and constitutional today by the su
preme court.
ARMY AVIATORS ATTEMPT
DAYTON, O., April 17—Lieuts. Me
Cready and Kelly took the air in a
monoplane, T-2 at 9:40 o’clock yester
day morning with Kelly at the wheel,
and will attempt to make a new re
cord for sustained flight.
PLAGUE RAGING III INDIA
SIMLA, India, Apr. 17.—A plague is
raging in nearly all the provinces o’
India, and statistics for the week end
ing March 24 give nine thousand nev
cases, eight thousand proving fatal
( The death rate is very heavy in the
[ central provinces, United^ provinces
| and Bombay.
^PHOTOS SENT BY RIO
tract of n miles
LONDON, Apr. 17.—Photos have
been sucessfully sent by radio a dis
tance of 23 miles and it is expected
that within a few months greater dis
tances will be applied. Photos of well
known persons were easily recognized
and nearly as perfect as the organized
The Scotland Yard fingerprint bureau
is also experimenting on transmitting
fingerprints by radio so as to facili
tate the capture of criminals.
SLIYEB OF GNTHOIIG
PRIEST SENTENCED LIFE
KALAMAZOO, Apr. 17.—Rev. Dil
Ion, slayer of Rev. O’Neill, of St. Au
gustine’s Catholic church was sen
tenced to life imprisonment at hare
labor today.
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JfiPRNESE LOBBYISTS
GIVE SENITOBS BIINQUE1
SAN FRANCISCO, Apr. 17.—Prohi
bition Director Rutter has ordered ai
investigation of the banquet given a
Sacramento last week by Japanese
lobbyists, to California senators, a
which time it is alleged liquor flowe<
freely. It was understood the ban
quet followed the defeat of the anti
alien fishing bill.
PLANS FOR IMPROVING
DEFENSES PANAMA CAN Ai
WASHINGTON, Apr. 17.—Plans fo
improving the defenses of t*ne Panam
; Canal, which army and navy author:
. ties say were shown to be iuadequat
. by joint maneuvers just conclude?
■ | were made at a conference today b
.! Secretary Weeks with Wadswortt
I' chairman of the Senate military com
> mittee.
NEW WELFARE WORKER
WASHINGTON, Apr. 17.—By execv
tive order Alice Robertson, formerly
1 member of congress from Oklahom
. today became a welfare \»rker in th
Veteran’s Bureau.
NEW COUNCIL HOLDS ITS
FIRST SESSION; SNAPPY
j Last evening in the council cham
bers of the city hall was held the first
meeting of the new city council for
the year 1923, with Mayor L. V. Ray
presiding. Present were Councilmen
Adelman, Cooper, Ellsworth, Krefting,
McMullen and Orlander. The minutes
of the special meeting held April 10
were read and approved.
Following the reading of the min
utes Mayor Ray announced the follow
ing committee assignments:
Assessment and Taxes—Councilmen
' Krefting and Adelman.
Fire Protection and Water Supply—
Councilmen Ellsworth and Cooper.
Public Schools—Councilmen Cooper
and McMullen.
Light, Sewers and Wharfage—Coun
! cilmen Adelman and Orlander.
Public Health and Public Protection
! —Councilmen McMullen and Cooper.
Finance and Claims— Councilmen
Orlander and Krefting.
Streets—Councilmen Ellsworth and
Orlander.
Printing—Councilmen Adelman and
McMullen.
Glacier Stream—Councilmen Kreft
ing and Adelman.
Civic Affairs—Councilmen McMul
len and Orlander.
In the submission of bids for audit
ing the city’s books that of H. L.
Laid over under head of new busi
ness.
Applications for chief of the fire de
partment with special police duties
were read with the following names
coming up for consideration: Robert
Guest, W. R. Holben, John H. Walker,
Eric Nelson, Harry A. Dedoyard. This
was also carried over under the head
of new business.
Ordinance No. 76, which declared
for an emergency in fixing salary
considerations for city officials, was
given the first, second and third read
ings and passed unanimously, after
which it was duly signed by the may
or and all councilmen.
Financial report of the City Clerk,
I covering from April 10, 1922, to April
j 10, 1923, was read, showing a total
l expenditure of $26,017.23, (At this
juncture Mayor Ray requested that
the council body in administering the
city’s affairs endeavor to hold down
expenses as much as possible.
The claim of Harry Dedoyard for
services rendered between April 10
and April 16 presented, approved and
ordered paid.
Bill of the Gateway Publishing Co.
for advertising and other legal publi
cations, presented. Ordered laid on
the table until the first regular meet
ing in May.
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SEATTLE, Apr. 17.—Eyewitnesses
to the recent liquor raids by prohibi
tion agents of a private house near
Denny Way and Nineteenth Avenue
North, state tha* the agents not only
destroyed and drank the liquor, but
tried to do all the damage they could
to the property, the owner of which it
was shown had no knowledge of (the
liquor being in the house. When leav
ing the place after the raid one of the
agents was so drunk he fell over a
broken barrel in the alley.
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. SPECIAL MEETING CHAMBER
5 COMMERCE THURSDAY NIGHT
•> \\vt;
y The Seward of Chamber of Com
1( merce will meet at the Town Hall at
7:30 o’clock Thursday night. A full
attendance is desired as business mat
ters of great importance will come be
fore the meeting.
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a PORT TOWNSEND, Apr. 17.—Capt.
a Francis Tuttle, retired, for many years
e commander of the famous cutter Bear
in Alaskan waters is dead in this city.
Ia the mi, fter of bonds that of th
Bank of Seward, as depositary for ithe
city funds, was reported on and prov
ed to be satisfactory. That of the
poll tax collector was ordered referred
to the Territorial treasurer.
In the selection of city officers W.
H. Whittlesey was elected city mag
istrate by a unanimous ballot; Dr. J.
A. Baughman unanimously elected as
city health officer. In selecting a fire
chief it was necessary to take ten bal
lots before J. H. Walker was given the
necessary number of votes.
There was no standing committee
reports, no committees having been
previously appointed.
Under the head of new business tnt
procure whatever printing the city re
printing committee was authorized to
quired in the way of stationery. The
tax and assessment committee was in
structed to secure a new tax book.
The committee on civic affairs was in
structed to extend an invitation, on
behalf of the city, to the congressional
! party which will arrive here in the
I near future. The printing committee
was authorized to have a supply of
warrants printed. Moved'and carried
that all elective officers make an in
ventory of all property of their de
partments now in their possession an<
report same at the next council meet
mg.
In reference to a general cleanui
movement throughout the towi
Mayor Ray referred this matter to the
street committee, which would pub
licly designate a certain day for tha
purpose, the matter, which on vot<
was approved of.
A special committee consisting o
Councilmen Krefiting and McMullen
was appointed to confer with Hoben
& Davis relative to laying out two
strips of ground adjacent to the dock
approach for use as parks.
The matter of publishing the 1922
delinquent i,ax roll for the year 1922
was referred to the proper commit
tee.
Co-operative action of the Alask;
Engineering Commission with the city
regarding fire protection was referred
to the Fire Committee.
In the matter of city lights the clerk
was instructed to notify the light
company that the city was desirous o:
entering into a new contract to cove,
the summer schedule.
The book audit matter was then
brought up with the council accepting
the bid of H. L. Smith, which was for
$100.
Following a general discussion o!
other matters which were not acted
upon at the present time an adjourn
ment was taken until May 7, 1923.
WASHINGTON, Apr. 17.—Samuel
Gompers declared today that five U.
S. supreme court justices by a bare
majority of one have taken from wo
men and girl wage earners the pro
tection that guaranteed them some
thing approximating a fair wage and
fair hours of work. The decision by
the supreme court yesterday in inval
idating the District of Columbia min
imum wage law has raised a great hue
and cry throughout the workers ranks
in the^ whole of the United States.
IRISH IRREGULARS KILLED
AND CAPTURED IN SKIRMISH
DUBLIN, Apr. 17.—Two irregulars
were killed and three captured when
a rebel skirmish party, which en
gaged the Free State forces north oi
Clonmel were defeated. Seven Free
State troops were wounded. Bombs
and rifles were used in the fight.
John H. Walker, who was last night
elected chief of the fire department
this morning assumed his duties.
NEW YORK, Apr. 16.—Thomas F
Smith, former congressman, and toi !
25 years secretary to Tammany Hali
was struck by a taxicab and killed.
ATHLETIC COMMISSION
SAYS BOXERS MUST REST
NEW YARK, Apr. 17.—The Athletic
Commission has ordered all boxers
who are matched to fight for the milk
fund benefit at the Yankee Stadium
May 12 to refrain from taking part in
any more bouts before that date.
CUBAN SUGAR CANE CROP
HAVANNA, Apr. 17.— Dispatcher
from Camaguey state that the destruc
uuu vi ou^ai vuuv vj ui v ouu vvu
tinues and losses are now estimated
to be more than three million arrobas
of cane and sugar production will be
greatly reduced. The fires are of in
ceijdiary origin.
CURIOUS COINCIDENCE
IN DEATH RELIEF WORKER
CONSTANTINOPLE, Apr. 17.—A
curious co-incidence occurred today
when Mrs. Olive Crawford of Hart
ford, Conn., died at Trebizond, Tur
key, of typhus. She was a member o!
the relief workers from the United
States and her husband, strange to
say died in the same cky and of the
same disease while on the same work
during the Russian occupation of this
city years ago. !
NEW YORK, Apr. 17.—A former
maid of Geraldine Farrar, the noted
actress, has sued her for $5,000 charg
ing that her eyes have become infect
ed from using towels which Farrar
used in bathing her pet Pekinese.
NEW INDIAN HOOTCH
HAS WONDERFUL KICK
WASHINGTON, D. C., Apr. 16.—
Certain Indian tribes have evolved a
recipe for “hooch” which would be in
valuable to the urban bootlegger, ac
cording to reports filed in the Interior
department.
Manufactured from the dried flow
ers of a cactus plant which grows in
most western states the beverage
known as peyote is declared to have
the kick of triple distilled moonshine.
TWO PROHIBITION OFFICERS
KILLED IN LOUISIANA BATTLE
NEW ORLEANS, Apr. 17.—Deputy
Sheriff Estopinal and Federal Prohibi
tion officer August Esteval were killed
today in a battle with rum runners at
Violet Bayou, Louisiana.
COONTZ CHIEF OF NAVY
WASHINGTON, Apr. 17.—Secretary
Denby has assigned Admiral Robert
E. Coontz, now chief of na /al opera
tions, to become chief of the United
Sitates fleet, effective June 30th.
MONTHLY PAYDAY BILL
CUSS LEGISLATION
SAY SEIMS
CHAMBERLIN BILL INCREASING
SALARY COMMISSIONER OF
EDUCATION KILLED
(By Special Correspondent)
JUNEAU, ALASKA, Apr. 17.—Sen
ator Ayer introduced a second substi
tute for the Hunt resolution denounc
ing fish reserves and instructing the
Attorney General to take steps to test
the validity of the Presidential order
creating reserves, and withdrew the
first substitute introduced by him Sat
urday. The latest substitute contains
no preamble, in contrast to the origi
nal resolution, which harshly con
demned the action of the President in
creating reserves.
House Bill 23 which passed the
Senate providing the payment of men
in private employment in legal United
States money or checks redeemable at
the nearest Alaska bank, and amended
last week by the Senate to require
mnnthlv na.vda.vs tor oannerv and salt.
ery employes, was taken from the
Senate calendar and sent back to the
committee after the attorney general
had upheld Dimond’s contention that
it was strictly class legislation and
therefore unconstitutional.
The Senate passed the Snodgrass
bill prohibiting the importation of
diseased livestock into the territory
for any purpose, instead of merely for
dairy purposes, as under the present
law.
Chamberlin’s bill increasing the sal
ary of the commissioner of education
and requiring certain qualifications,
was killed in the Senate, Aldrich,
Brown, Hunt, Dunn and Snodgrass
voting for its indefinite postponement.
Snodgrass introduced a bill for ter
ritorial fairs to promote agriculture,
manufacturing, mining and other in
dustries, and appropriating $2500 an
nually for that purpose, these fairs
to be held in each division.
RUSSIA EXPORTING GRAIN
MOSCOW, Apr. 17.—Soviet dis
patches stated that one hundred mil
lion pounds of grain were exported
from the 1922 crop.
UNITED STATES SHOWS
GROWTH IN SHIPBUILDING
NEW YORK, Apr. 17.—Lloyds Reg
ister of Shipping reports that the
United States is the only maritime na
tion showing any gain in ship building
for the year ending April 1. Business
has slumped for all other cour*ries
except Britain, where there has been
a partial comeback going on. The
register, however, indicates that Bri
tain was on April 1 building 52.2 per
cent of the world°s tonnage and Ger
many was the nearest competitor;
then France, Italy, Holland, Japan,
and the British dominions.
TUFT RECEIVES S1Q,0QQ
FROM CARNEGIE FUND
NEW YORK, Apr. 17.—William H.
Taft, chief justice of the United States
Supreme Court is receivinig $10,000 a
year annuity from the Carnegie Foun
dation according to correspondence
between Congressman Thomas D.
Schall, of Minnesota, and R. A. Frank,
treasurer of the Carnegie Corporation
The income is from $200,000 in mort
gage bonds of the U. S. Steel Corpo
ration.
The halibut schooner Signal arrived
in port last night and will leave soon
for the westward banks.