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VOLUME XXI, NUMBER 50
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3,1926.
PRIC^TEN CENTS
SEVEN CASES IIP
CORDOVA TERM
DISTRICT COURT
manslaughter charge will
BE HEARD; REQUEST MADE
FOR LEGAL HELP
Seven important cases will come
up before the grand jury when the
court session opened at Cordova, ac
cording to District Attorney F. H.
Foster. The petit jury session is to
commence on March 5.
A request has been sent to Wash
ington that provision be made for an
assistant prosecutor 'to help handle
the session or that the permanent
appointments of federal officials be
acted upon at an early date, in order
to facilitate court business before
the trial term commences.
One manslaughter charge is to be
heard. This is against James Shay,
of Kodiak, alleyed to have beaten a
friend to death. The victim was
found dead in bed. Another Kodiak
case is that of Walter Spurvaloff.
alleged to have robbed a registered
mail sack. A. E. Webb, who was
sentenced on a Cordova charge sev
en years ago for forgery, is now to
be examined on a charge of violating
the territorial narcotic law. After
leaving the prison at McNeil Island
last fall, he is said to have taken the
equipment of Dr. A. E. McKibben of
Seattle and gone to Kodiak where
represented himself as the doctor and
& practiced medicine. At the time he
was arrested on a forgery warrant,
from Seattle, a narcotic charge was
filed against him in Valdez.
The only case from the Cordova
region t be investigated, is a prohi
bition law violaton aganst William
Henry, of McCarthy. There three
defendants held to answer from An
chorage on complaints for larceny,
obtaining goods under false pretenses
and sale of liquor to an Indian.
ASSEMBLING PLANE
IN FAIRBANKS
FAIRBANKS, Mar. 3. (#»)—'The as
semblage of one of the engines here
of the Wilkins Fokker planes has
been completed. WTork starts on the
big two-engine monoplane tomorrow.
It will take ten days to complete the
assemblage of this latter plane, as it
was never assembled before. No en
gine will be turned over until all is
ready, as they must be kept warm
once they are started.
Hubbard, mechanician, is off the
job as a result of being hit with a
hammer on the hand. The cold caus
ed his hand to swell a tnival, but is
reported not to be serious.
INCOME TAX MAN
BE HERE SOON
EVERETT, Wn., Mar. 3. (/P)—Ar
thur Denny leaves Seattle Saturday
tor Alaska to travel through the inte
rior of Alaska to collect revenue for
the government. He will be gone sev
en months.
WATSON SOUTH TONIGHT
The Admiral Watson is scheduled
to depart for 'the south this evening
about an hour following the arrival of
the regular passenger train from the
interior. A number of people from the
Interior have secured resevations on
on the vessel as well as a few local
ones.
JURIST DIES
SEATTLE, Wn, Mar. 3. (JP)—Judge
Cornelius Holgate Hanford, who died
at Honolulu, yesterday, where he has
been visiting with his son was the last
chief justice of Washington while a
Territory, and became the first Fed
eral judge when it became a state of
the Union.
MUCH FUR ON WATSON
Fox furs valued at approximately
$5,000 are aboard the Admiral Wat
son on their way to the eastern
(fur markets. The fur came mostly
frm the Kodiak and Seldovia regions.
Immediate Action
Will Be Taken To
Procure Hospital
The possibility of securing a hos
pital for Seward immediately, was
the main topic of conversation at
yesterday’s meeting of the local
chamben of Commerce. Capt. O. A.
Johansen spke energetically on the
subject and apparently stirred sev
eral of the members to such an ex
tent that some local action may be
taken at once. The hospital ques
tion has long been under discussion
and numerous letters written and
without doubt, in time, a hospital
will be established here. Time is
the essence of life, it was pointed
out yesterday, and for that reason
alone, action was proposed to be tak
en today among the local business
men.
Through recent correspondence re
ceived by the secretary, it is learned
Dr. Rex F. Swartz, physician and
surgeon, who is quite well known to
many Alaskans, having practiced in
several towns in the Territory, and
who carries a splendid reputation,
would like to practice in Seward
providing this field would justify
permanency. Dr. Swartz is now lo
catde at Nome, in charge of the
United States Public Health Service.
TURN DOWN BILLS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 3. (/P)—
The House Military Committee, by a
vote of ten to eleven, refused the re
port of the bill to create a department
of national defense. It also refused
in a close vote the report of a meas
ure to create an unified air service,
arid a bill to create a separate air
corps.
The Army rejected by a ten to elev
en vote a bill of the War department
to carry out 'the recommendations of
the Coolidge air board.
Kadiak Fisheries Co.
To Erect Another
Plant Near Kodiak
Arrivals in Seward from Kodiak
report that the Kadiak Fisheries
Company will erect a permanent
cannery between Three Saints Bay
and Kodiak prior to the opening of
the salmon fishing season. The Ad
miral Peary, of the Pacific Steam
ship Company, will make a special
trip next month bringing up the en
tire outfit, cannery supplies and em
ployes. This company owns one
cannery now at Kodiak.
JUDGE THROWS
BOOK AT HOXIE
JUNEAU, Mar. 3. (/P)—Chas. Hoxie
was sentenced to serve two years in
the penitentiary and was fined $4,000
on the charge of conspiracy to violate
the Volstead Act. Execution was stay
ed 75 days pending appeal to higher
courts.
His bail was set at $8,000.
TOURIST CIRCULAR OUT
The Admiral Line, the Pacific
Steamship Company, has issued a
new 1926 circular which has just
been received at the office of The
Gateway. The circular is quite at
tractive and has numerous new photo
graphs of Alaskan scenes of which
some are from this vicinity. Itin
eraries for summer tourists, and
what they ‘will see on the Alaska
trip, is given much prominence and
in an interesting manner.
G. Lionel Whitworth, general man
ager of the Tanana Valley Gold Dredg
ing company, who returned to Man
chester, England leaving Seward ear
ly in January after having spent a*
month in the Interior district, has
written friends seating that he has tak
en over the E. R. Peoples and Hans
aMttson ground on Engineer creek.
These holdings adjoin the Owl and
Wild Goose associations and are prac
tically girgin, as thawed gravel and
water have hindered mining by the
drifting method.
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SNOW MOTORS ARE
ABANDONED
NENANA, Mar. 3. (/P)—The Wil
kins expedition will carry gas and oil
by planes from Fairbanks to Point
Barrow it was announced here today.
The one remaining snow motor,
which was attempting to haul a sled
loaded with supplies from Tolovana to
Hot Springs was seriously disabled at
Dugan Creek. No attempt will be
made to proceed any farther.
The snow motors will return to Ne
nana as soon as repairs are made. The
weather is clear with a temperature
of ten below zero this morning.
MAJOR LANPHIER
SAID REAL TEST
BE AT BARROW
ALASKA CONDITIONS SIMILAR TO
TEST FLIGHTS MADE IN
MICHIGAN
The critical test of the Wilkins Arc
tic Expedition will come in the flight
of the two planes from Fairbanks to
Point Barrow, Alaska, in the opinion
of Major Thomas G. Lanphier, who
will accompany the expedition as un
official observer.
The success or failure of the whole
flight across Arctic seas will hinge up
on the semi-experimental flight from
Fairbanks, where the planes are now
being assembled.
If the test flight gives good results,
Major Lanphier believes a successful
transoceanic trip will be presaged
thereby.
“Any undertaking similar to this is
more or less of a gamble,” he declar
ed while in Seward, “but I believe we
will have good fortune.”
Four months leave of absence from
Selfridge field, where he is in command
of the First Pursuit Squadron, and
permission to accompany Capt. Geo.
H. Wilkins, were granted Major Lan
phier by the war department.
Though lacking official credentials,
deputizing him to act specifically, Ma
jor Lanphier believes his position as
an officer in the United States will
automatically empower him to lay
claim on behalf of his country to any
land the expedition might discover.
Oceangraphers and students of Arctic
phenomena believe there is land in the
vicinage of the North Pole, and tho’
it is not a primary purpose to search
for land, it is intended that any lo
cated shall be claimed for the United
States.
In the event that land is discovered,
the first plane will continue its flight
to Spitzbergen, as planned, while the
second one will embark from Point
Barrow to explore the find.
The winter maneuvers of the First
Pursuit Squadron, of which Major
Lanphier had charge and which were
recently completed, were prolific of
data and experience in the operation
of planes in winter conditions. The
effect of frigid weather on ignition and
carburation was studied closely, and
Major Lanphier thinks there is great
likelihood Alaskan conditions will
closely approach those under which his
squadron operated in Michigan.
Temperatures of ten and fifteen de
grees below zero were reached fre
quently, especially at elevations of 5,
000 feet and above. The taking-off
and landing of planes on snow-covered
fields and on 'the ice of rivers and
lakes also were studied. This, Lan
phier believes, will also be of value
in accompanying the Arctic flyers.
Capt. Vincent Dixon, second in com
mand, will be in charge at Selfridge
during Lanphier’s absence.
DECISION WILL
NOT AFFECT
OTHER MERGERS
NEW YORK, Mar. 3. (/P)—Sponsors
said the decision of the Interstate
Commerce Commission yesterday in
disapproving of the “Nickel Plate”
consolidation will not deter other pend
ing railroad mergers.
FISH PRICES
KETCHIKAN—Halibut, 11 and 6
cents. Salmon 20 and 10 cents.
MUCH ADO ABOUT
ITINERANTS
SEATTLE, Wn, Mar. 3. (^—Will
iam A. Holzheimer, of Ketchikan, for
merly United States attorney and
judge of Nome, said yesterday that
“Alaska has suffered incalcuable harm
from get-rich-quick promotion schemes
for years,” and added, “we have been
a fertile field for men who sell stock
at home in high-flown enterprises.
These men are not of Alaska, but are
outsiders and merely use Alaska with
its romantic fabulous history as the
peg oh which to hang their schemes.
Down here, we will see what can be
done to send these fellows to jail.”
High School Team Gives
Banquet To City Team
Last Night, Fishers’ Cafe
The high school basketball team
was host last evening, between the
hours of 5:30 to 7:30 o’clock, to
the City team at a banquet which
was served at Fisher’s Cafe. Prior
to the recent series between these
teams it had been agreed that the
team losing two games out of three
should put on a treat for the winners.
As the City team emerged victor
ious, it was up to the school team
to do the honors and they certainly
did last night.
The long table presented a very
attractive sight, decorated with bou
quets of flowers and ribbons of col
ored crepe paper. Place cards were
at each chair. First on the menu
was a delicious shrimp cocktail, then
in order, shrimp salad, prime roast
beef and brown gravy, buttered mash
ed potatoes and French peas. For
desert, fruit jello "with whipped
cream, fancy cookies, coffee and
dates. Caterer Fisher and his corps
of assistants were personally thanked
by the hostesses for the exceptional
ly fine repast. During the course
of the banquet, several dinner
speeches were made and at its con
clusion dancing prevailed for a short
period, in the spacious banqueting
hall.
Guests attending were Elsie Leslie,
Edith McIntosh, Mary McConnell,
Elsie Hoffman, Mrs. Yalade, Mrs.
Hannon, Mrs. Shellhorn, Mrs. Jessen,
and, Irvin Dyer coach.
Hostesses, Cecil Leslie, Elsa Lar
sson, Kathryn Neville, Clara Man
they, Roberta McIntosh, Sigrid Ros
ness and Helen Bevier, coach.
JOHNSON REPEATS
HIS GAME
PRrNCE ALBERT, Mar. 3. (jP)—
Vernon Johnson repeated his perfor
mance and won the second forty-mile
lap of the 160-mile Northern Sascat
chewan dog derby in four hours and
twelve minutes and twenty-five sec
onds, giving him a net lead of eleven
seconds in the race. Harry Olensky
of The Pass was second.
Personal Paragraphs
Not being able to live on climate
and scenery, young man, who for
get to enclose his address, writes
the Seward Chamber of Commerce
for information regarding this dis
trict of the Territory.
Mr. Northrup, Alaska representa
tive of the Hood River Rubber Co.,
left for Valdez on the Alameda, but
is returning to Seward again on the
Northwestern Saturday.
Mr. Chadwick, salesman for the
U. S. Rubber Company, is at La
touche and will arrive in Seward
Saturday on the Northwestern.
Another large shipment of Alaska
coal is being shipped to southeastern
Alaskan ports on the Admirla Wat
son. Loading began yesterday. About
150 tons comprise this shipment.
WOMAN’S CLUB MEETING
The Seward Woman’s club will meet
with Mrs. Lein .tomorrow, (Thursday)
at 2:30 p. m.
Deep Sea Men, Guests
At Yesterday’s Chamber
of Commerce Meeting
Deep water men were out in
force at yesterday’s weekly business
meeting and luncheon of the Seward
Chamber of Commerce which was
held at the Grill. All that was lack
ing to make the luncheon a larger
success than it was, would have been
the presence of Capt. Chas. C. Gra
ham, of the Admiral Watson. He
had a business engagement for that
hour so was forced to decline the
invitation to attend.
However, there w'ere five steam
ship men sitting in a row. Count ’em.
Capt. O. A. Johansen, master of the
steamer Starr; Wayne Blue, local
agent for the Pacific Steamship Com
pany; J. H. Flickenger, local agent
for the Alaska Steamship Cmpany;
Mr. Nelson, chief steward of the
Admiral Watson, and last, but far
from being the least of importance,
the genial Mr. Baker, purser on the
popular Admiral liner.
It was a happy occasion and the
large number of local members of
the organization present at the meet
ing,, were delighted to have been
able to entertain them together.
Three of those named are members
of the local chamber.
Another guest at the luncheon was
W. W. Bachellor, well known Alaska
representative of Outside whole
sale houses.
A MASTERPIECE
The feature last night at the Lib
erty was a masterpiece of humor, and
yet from start to finish it was logical
and that is extremely unusual in a
comedy-drama. It sure is the best
thing of its kind seen here for a long
time, and to miss seeing it tonight
will be your loss if you appreciate
something good.
CONTRACT TO BUILD CUTTER
BEAR HAS BEEN AWARDED
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 3. (/P)—
The Coast Guard Service announced
the lowest bid to construct the new
cutter Bear amounted to $585,000 and
was awarded to ‘the Newport News
Shipbuilding and Drydock Co. The
contract will be turned over immedi
ately.
PERMIT GRANTED
DEVELOP POWER
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 3. (£>)—
The Federal Power commission grant
ed the Lake Virginia Mining company
preliminary permits to develop power
in the vicinity of Wrangell. The For
est Service report on the application
said that the power, which amounts
to 22000 h.p. will be used to develop
mining claims in that vicinity.
GAME PRESERVE IS
WANTED FOR ISLAND
At the request of Dr. W. H. Chase,
member of the Alaska Game Commis
sion, Mayor E. V. Boyle of Cordova,
has been endeavoring to ascertain the
opinion of Cordova sportsmen regard
ing making Hinchimbrook Island a
game preserve. The object would be
to protect all wild life on the island,
elk, deer and fur beavers placed there
for stocking purpose. No shooting
would be olio wed, but the preserve
would not affect commercial develop
ment.
The Anchorage Land Office has re
ceived oil permits for W. J. Chrisholm
of 920 White Bldg., Seattle, and ano
ther for H. B. Perine and B. R. Brier
ly, of 209 1st Street, So., Seattle, Wn.
Both these permits cover ground in
the Cold Bay district. They have al
so received a mineral patent for Otto
C. Baumbartner covering the Whist
ler and Big Horn lode mining claims in
the Chitina mining district.
Mrs. Martha Carey, born on the Yu
kon and a resident of the Fairbanks
section since the very early days of the
gold rush, passed away last week af
ter a lingering illness. A daughter,
Evelyn Frank, who had been with her
constantly during her illness, was at
her bedside when death occured.
NOEL SMITH LEAVES
TOMORROW FOR
SEWARD
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 3. UP)—
General Manager Noel Smith of the
Alaska Railroad will leave tomorrow,
and is expected to arrive in Seward
March 20. He said he wa3 satisfied
with the treatment of Congress and
the budget bureau, which was given
the railjpoad. He said appropriations
will be about the same as last year’s.
An increase of thirty per cent was re
ported in freight tonnage for the first
six months of the curren fiscal year,
and he predicted an operating defifit
of $200,000 less than last year’s.
Governor George A. Parks will leave
Washington in about a week.
MILD WINTER HARD
ON FURS
SEATTLE, Mar. .3 (^P)—Ernest P.
Walker, executive member of the Al
aska Game commission and member
of the Biological Survey in Alaska,
arrived here yesterday, en route to
Washington, D. C., where he will make
his annual report to the Department
of Agriculture.
While here he said: “The many fox
farmers are up against it, but they
are speculators who expected to make
a cleanup in a short time. The price
of fur is down and the market has
been uncertain for years. The produc
tion has kept the same while growers
devoted most of their time to stock
production. There are now about 300
islands off the Alaska coast devoted
to fox raising. Last year, the grow
ers killed off a great number of culls
and dumped the pelts on the market
making the supply inferior. The price
of fur has dropped, but will come up
when the quality of pelts improve. The
pelts this year from wild and tame
animals are inferior, because of the
extremely mild winter.”
He pointed out Alaska offers a real
opportunity for fox raising.
ANOTHER WRINKLE
ON SNOW MOTORS
NEW YORK, Mar. 3. (JP)—The mo
tor sleds which are being built in
France will be pulled by a wheel in.
front with rubber vacuum discs, and
will replace Huskies in the French.
Navy Arctic expedition.
Daniel G. Martens, Norwegian ex
plorer, is the inventor of the discs,
which are similar to suckers used to
hold objects on windows.
BASKETBALL GAME FRIDAY
The basketball game Friday night
between the Jess Lee Home team and
•the local Boy Scouts, is creating much,
interest amongst the fans. Indications
are that a good-size crowd will be in
attendance as these youngsters put up
a brand of the popular indoor pas
time winch is to be compared favor
ably with the older ‘fives.” The game
will start at 7:30.
STOCKS
NEW YORK, Mar. 3. (£>)—Stock
prices broke today from one to thir
ty-three points, according to Associat
ed Press tabulators. It was announc
ed the total trading reached 3,785,700
shares. The previous record was 3,
340,600 on November 10, last.
DOG FINDS A GOOD HOME
The dog was saved! The fine big
dog, which -was to have been [killed
last night, has found a good home.
Yesterday a local resident called at
police headquarters and stated he
would provide a good home for the
canine. The dog, which looked like
an English setter, will no doubt turn
out to be a real pal to his new
owner.
That the Tanana Valley Gold
Dredging Company is meeting with
some delay and difficulty in the trans
portation of coal from Gilmore sta
tion to its big dredge on Fish Creek,
is the report reaching Fairbanks.