VOLUME XVIII
NUMBER 180
SEWARD. ALASKA,
FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1923
PRICK TEN CENTS
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CONSTRUED AS A CHALLENGE TO
OPPONENTS OF HIS WORLD
COURT PLAN
VALDEZ, July 20.—President War
ren G. Harding arrived here yesterday
at 3 o’clock, the party being taken to
Keystone Canyon, and afterward en
tertained at the Tillicum Club. In a
^ short address delivered to the people
of Valdez the President announced he
would discuss our foreign relations in
his San Francisco speech, July 31,
which is construed as a challenge to
Senator Johnson, a bitter opponent oi
the world court in his own state.
The Henderson sailed for Cordova
about midnight.
President Arrives at Cordova
CORDOVA, July 20—Having depart
ed from Valdez at 10 o’lcok last niglu
the Henderson, bearing President
Harding and party arrived here early
this morning.
The consensus of officials in the
President’s party is that Alaska will
gradually develop, but that nothing in
the nature of a sensational boom can
be expected as a result of the visit of
the chief executive to Alaska.
Secretary Work favors an amplifi
cation of the homestead laws so that
patents to land in Alaska may be is
sued more quickly.
Secretary Hoover is expected to
make his Alaska policy clear in a
statement issued soon.
NAVAL VESSELS ORDERED
SCRAPPED WILL BE SOLD
WASHINGTON, July 19.—Assistant
Secretary Roosevelt announced today
that all naval vessels ordered to be
scrapped under the arms conference
wilil be offered for sale by sealed bid.
WILL CALL AT SEWARD ON WAY
TO SIBERIA AND ICE PACK
OF FAR NORTH
SAN FRANCISCO, July 20.—Re
sources and trade conditions in Alas
ka will be studied by a delegation
from the San Francisco Chamber of
Commerce which sailed today on the
8800 ton steamship Buford for Alaska,
and Siberia via Seattle. Among the
crowd is ten Boston capitalists and
the trip will be in charge of B. S.
• Hubbard.
Leaving Seattle the travelers will
stop at Prince Rupert, Ketchikan,
Juneau, Skagway, Sitka, Cordova,
Seward, Kodiak, Cold Bay, Dutch
Harbor, the Pribilofs, Cape Chaplin,
and Anadyr, Siberia, before reaching
Nome. The party will then go far
into the icepack in search of the wal
rus herds, returning to East Cape and
Nome.
About 170 members of the Califor
nia Chamber will make the trip with
an equal number of Seattle business
men.
NEWSPAPER MAN HUNTING
BIG GAME NEAR JUNEAU
Adam Breede, editor and publisher
of the Hastings, Neb., Daily Tribune,
war correspondent and big game hunt
er, arrived in Juneau on the North
western and will hunt for bear. Mr.
Breede recently returned from a big
game hunt in Brazil.
During the war Mr. Breede was
with the Rainbow division, repre
senting his own and other Western
papers and the New York Herald.
ABUTMENTS WASHED AWAY
Four abutments of the Nizina riv
er bridge were washed away recently
by high water.
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SENATOR BROOKHART URGES
RECOGNITION OF RUSSIA
WASHINGTON, July 20.—Senator
Smith W. Brookhart, of Iowa, on
reaching Washington today went im
mediately to the State department
and urged Secretary Hughes to recog
nize Soviet Russia.
TODAY’S FISH MARKET
JUNEAU—Halibut ll1^ cents and
T1^ cents; king salmon, reds, 12;
small reds S cents; white 3 cents.
CHICAGO GIRL MARRIES EARL
CHICAGO, July 20.—The Earl of
Northesk and Miss Jessie Ruth Brown
were married here last night.
WILL SUBMIT ALL DISPUTES BE
TWEEN COUNTRIES TO A
COURT ARBITRATION
WASHINGTON, July 20— Secretary
of State Hughes and Minister Jues
| serand this evening signed a five-year
renewal of a treaty of arbitration be
tween the United States and France,
which provides for submission of all
disputes between the two countries
not involving national honor, to an in
ternational court of arbitration.
COPPER PRODUCTION IN
ALASKA IS INCREASING
—
The copper production of Alaska in
1922 was 77,967,S19 pounds, valued at
$10,525,655, compared with 57,011,597 j
pounds, valued at $7,354,496 in 1921,
according to the department of the j
Interior. The production in 1922 was ;
from one mine in the Ketchikan dis-!
trict, three in the Chitina district,!
and one in the Prince William Sound
district. These figures are taken from
the annual report of the Geological
Survey on Alaska minerals resources
now in preparation.
Seward was fortunate in that it
rained for four days before the arri
val of the President and the morning
of his arrival it cleared up, and the j
sun came out warm and bright. Since
then the weather has been perfect,
each day a little netter than the one!
before. No other one thing so de
lighted the party as the perfect wea
ther.
CANNERY INSPECTOR HERE
D. W. Branch, western manager for
Libby, McNeill & Libby, is inspecting
j the canneries of the company in Cook
Inlet.
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NEW PRESIDENT OF THE INTER
NATIONAL SUFFRAGE
ALLIANCE
Mrs. Corbett Ashby of England,
who was elected president of the In
| lernational Woman Suffrage Alliance
| at the congress in Rome, succeeding
1 Carrie Chapman Catt, who founded
j the Alliance and was president until
I this year when she refused the office
and was elected first honorary presi
dent.
1YST0H* VIEW CO, NEW VORK
PREMIER LENINE AND HIS FAITHFUL WIFE
An unsual snapshot showing Premier Lenine of Soviet Russia rest
ing in a sanitarium, while beside him sits his wife, Mme. Lenine. The
Russian leader is taking things easy until a complete cure is effected, his
sole companion in his voluntary exile being his wife.
DELUGE SPREADS OVER RADIUS
OF FIVE BLOCKS DOING
$100,000 DAMAGE
SEATTLE, July 20—Scores of down
downtown basements were flooded,
automobiles were washed away, and
a halt' block of street paving and side
walks destroyed when a thirty inch
water main burst in Sixth avenue,
just south of Union street early this
morning, the deluge spreading over a
radius of five blocks and doing over
$100,000 damages.
NEW STRIKE IN LABRADOR
IS ENTICING MANY NOMEITES
News has reached Nome that a gold
strike has been made in Labrador,
says the Nome Nugget. Effort has
been made to obtain details regard
ing what has been found and the gen
eral conditions of the country. So
far no particulars have been received.
Feeling the urge to seek new fields
of activity a number of old time
Nome miners and prospectors have
decided to take a chance and investi
gate the new prospect. To date four
well known miners have signified an
intention to take the first boat and
leave for Labrador.
Fish Commissioner Ellsworth in an
interview today stated that within the
past two weeks 150 salmon have been
snagged by fishermen and either
thrown aside into the brush or back
into the streams, while on their way
to the spawning grounds, destroying
many thousands of fish( for each fish
produces from 1500 to 2000 young.
If this wanton destruction continues
the government will carry out its
threat of placing this locality in a fish
reserve and then all trout fishing will
be a thing of the past and Seward will
have lost one of its chief attractions.
Furthermore, Mr. Ellsworth warns the
public that that any one caught ma
liciously destroying salmon now run
ning up the streams to their spawn
ing grounds will be liable to prosecu
tion and he intends to prosecute to
the full extent of the law. Mr. Ells
worth states that one of our chief
sources of revenue is fish and that
we should protect them.
DEPOSED PRESIDENT OF UNITED
MINE WORKERS TAKES BIG
JOB ON SHOULDERS
SYDNEY, N. S., July 20.—The dec
laration that he intended to do all in
his power to overthrow the present
government was made tonight by Dan
iel Livington, deposed president of
District 26, United Mine Workers of
America.
PRENTICE MAY LIVE
Billy Prentice, a well known Juneau
citizen, who was shot recently by
Billy Lott, a barber, now has a good
chance to live. Two bullets remain
in his body, one in the right lung and
the other in a kidney. These will be
removed when his strength allows it.
For some time it was believed he
could not live, as he was shot four
times, once in the abdomen, once in
the left lung, once in the right lung,
and once in the kidney.
According to a statement given out
by the Department of the Interior,
Alaska has produced in all $335,626,
460 worth of gold and $8,835,922 in
silver. Of this gold $230,506,992 was
taken from placer mines, $103,227,
434 from gold lode mines and $1,
792,034 from copper mines.
In 1922 $4,395,000 was recovered
from Alaska placer mines and $3,015,
669 from lode ••>jr.es. In the summer
507 placer mines, employing 2,150
men were .operated and of these 120
mines, employing 402 men, had also
been operated the pievious winter.
The total number ot large and small
gold lode mines operated in 1922 was
twenty eight.
These figures are taken from the
report of Alfred H. Brooks of the
Geologic Survey, now in preparation.
In this report he states that there is
geologic evidence of the occurrence of
extensive auriferous lode deposits in
Alaska and that a rough estimate,
based on the best data available, in
dicates that the Territory still con
tains some $350,000,000 worth of
placer gold, or more than has been
taken out. , r , *
MRS. HARDING GIVEN GOLD
CARD AND PICTURE JUNEAU
A photograph of Juneau with an
engraved gold card was presented to
Mrs. Harding by the citizens of Ju
neau. The card measured two by
eight inches and was of Alaska Ju
neau gold. It was embellished with a
border and small totems. The legend
wrought in artistic engraving, was:
“Presented to Mrs. Warren G. Hard
inig by the people of Juneau as a
souvenir of her trip to their city, July
9, 1923.”
BRITISH QUELL INCIPIENT RE
BELLION IN CAIRO, EGYPT,
WITH IRON HAND
CAIRO, Egypt, July 20—Of thirteen
men found guilty of a conspiracy to
murder British officials and overthrow
the British government, the court to
day sentenced five to be hanged and
eight to terms of from three years in
prison to life.
ATTU BASKET GIVEN MRS.
HARDING A RARE SOUVENIR
The women of Seward presented a
handsome Attu basket to Mrs. War
ren G. Harding on the occasion of her
visit to Seward. These baskets are
becoming very rare, as the art of
weaving them is rapidly dying out
only a few of the older natives pos
sessing the knack and the patience to
make them. One of the baskets re
quires many months labor and pig
mentation is put on by natural dyes.
ADVOCATES GERMANY MADE
MEMBER OF LEAGUE NATIONS
BERLIN, July 19.—Messages advo
cating Germany’s entrance into the
League of Nations have been received
I from Dr. Frithof Nansen, Prof. Al
bert Einstein and Paul Loebe, presi
dent of the Reichstag were read at a
meeting of the German League for
human rights.
WILL RECONSTRUCT BUILDINGS
11 ALLACE, Ida., July 19.—Direc
, tors of the company meeting here to
| day ordered reconstruction of the
| burned workings of the Hecla copper
mine at a cost of a million.
UNDERWOOD 4 UNDERWOOD. N. V.
WILL WED EGYPTIAN PRINCE
Pearl Shepard, known in private
life as Pearl Ginsberg of New York, a
movie actress, has sailed from New
York with her mother for Egypt. On
the same boat is Prince Mohammed
Ali Ibrahim of Egypt, who says he
will marry the girl whether his royal
parent consents or not. Mohammed
Ali Ibrahim is the Prince who visit
ed the United States last year and
spent six weeks and $60,000, seeing
America from Astoria to Hollywood
and back again; and who said then
he would rather be shot than married.
Then he met Pearl—and bing, she
got him, just as easy as that.
DAWN TO DUSK FLIGHT ACROSS
CONTINENT AGAINS FAILS
THROUGH ACCIDENT
ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo., July 20.—
Forced down by a leak in his oil
line system the plane of Lieutenant
Maughan was forced to abandon the
attempt to cross the continent between
the hours of dawn and dusk. He
landed here at 5:07 p. m., and as it
was impossible to repair the leak in
time for him to reach the west coast
before dark he called off the flight.
This is the second time an acci
dent has prevented the flight.
Will Make Another Attempt
WASHINGTON, July 20.—Lieuten
ant Maughan, the speed king, will not
make another attempt at a dawn to
dusk transcontinental flight until next
summer, the Army Air Service an
nounced this morning.
NEW TRIAL DENIED
LAKE CITY, Fla., July 20.—Judge
M. A. McMullen denied a motion for a
new trial for T. W. Higginbotham, the
whipping boss accused of the murder
of Martin Tobert, a North Dakota
youth who was whipped to death be
cause of the camp’s rules.
ROBERTSON BESTS JOHNSON
CHICAGO, July 20—Charley Rob
ertson whose suspension was raised
Sunday bested Walter Johnson.
ONLY FOUR MILLS GRINDING
HAVANA, Cuba, July 20—Only four
sugar mills in Cuba are grinding and
they will close by July 25. The lat
est estimate of the crop is appproxi
mately 3,600,000 tons.
ENGRAVED GOLD CARD WAS
PRESENTED TO PRESIDENT
A beautifully engraved gold card in
a handsome plush case, trimmed with
red and white, was given to Presi
dent Harding by the citizens of Ju
( neau.
TEN THOUSAND MEMBERS ON
TWENTY-NINE RAILROADS
ASK MORE WAGES
CHICAGO, July 20.—A wage in
crease of three and a half million dol
lars per year is demanded by the
Brotherhood of Railway Signalmen of
America for its ten thousand mem
bers on twenty-nine railroads through
out the country at a hearing being
condurted by the United States Rail
road Board.
Town Marshal Jack Walker has al
leviated the heat somewhat by sluic
ing down the streets, but the weather
is still unusually warm and sultry.
WEATHER FORECAST
Cloudy tonight and Saturday; prob
ably showers in Tanana valley; and
cooler at Anchorage.
GOLD DREDGING IN ALASKA
IS PAYING OPERATORS WELL
WASHINGTON, July 2U.—Twenty
three gold dredges were operated in
Alaska during 1922, and produced
$1,767,750 worth of gold, according to
a statement given out by the Depart
ment of the Interior through the ge
ological survey. Of these dredges 15
were on Seward peninsula and the
others in the interior of the Territory
including 3 in the region served by
the Alaska railroad. They excavated
8,186,340 yards of gravel, hence the
value of the gold recovered was 55
cents to the cubic yard. Dredge min
ing is on the Increase in Alaska
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