LARGE NUMBER
BILLS PRESENTED
Anticipating a shortage of funds in
the Town treasury prior to the arrival
of the Territorial money for taxes, a
motion was regularly moved and sec
onded last night that the Finance
Committee of the Seward Common
UOll Ill'll ue 1I1SII Ul'lttll IU IiegUliaLt: a
loan from the Seward bank for the
sum of 84,000.
A large number of bills were pre
sented for payment, representing
practically the expenditures to date
on the road work to the Jesse Lee
Home site which the town has under
taken. This work, now under way,
and on which approximately 40 men
have been employed, has cost the city
about $2,000, the remainder of the
$3,203 being spent on sidewalks, the
monthly payroll, street clearing and
incidentals.
A resolution for order or sale of
certain properties, wherein 1924 taxes
lias elapsed, was introduced by City
Attorney Rucker. This sale will be
held at the office of the City Clerk,
July 6. between the hours of 10 a. m.
and 4 p. m.
It was moved by Councilman Mc
Mullen and seconded by Councilman
Hofman that Councilman Ellsworth
be elected to the chair as acting may
or during the absence in Anchorage
of Mayor Ray.
.Referring to the matter of purchas
ing a Fordson tractor with graders,
authorized by the City “Dads,” the
Street Committee recommended a re
consideration of the matter as the
city can get along without the equip
ment at this time. Motion was made
by Councilman Helm and seconded
by Councilman Badger that the pre
vious action of the City Council be
reconsidered. Motion followed riscind
ing and canceling the former order.
The Street Committee reported the
road, between Third and Fourth av
enues on Madison street, had been
cut through. No grading will be ac
complished at this time owing to the
necessary expenditure.
City Clerk Hannon was instructed
to communicate with the Sewrnrd
Water company for the purchase of
a hydrant at the Jesse Lee Home
site, for fire protection. The clerk
was also authorized to begin receiv
ing of 1925-1926 automobile licenses.
With the exception of Mayor Ray,
a full attendance marked the Coun
cil meeting.
Neal Cornell, a guest of the Over
land for severay days past, checked
out yesterday for the Kuskokwim dis
trict where he will spend the summer
prospecting.
[ADMIRAL EVANS
SAILED TODAY
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SEATTLE, June 2 (/P)—’The steam
ship Admiral Evans sailed at 10 this
morning, carrying a total of 40 pas
sengers. Seward passengers are
Mrs. Mattie Johnson, Miss Joyce M.
Johnson, R. N. Campbell, Miss N.
Babcock, Fred Hughes, George Wolfe,
R. M. Veitch, Alois P. Gardner, Mrs.
D. M. Gardner, C. H. Wade and wife
and two steerage.
Sam Asp, superintendent of the
Drier Bay cannery, who has been a
visitor in Seward for a couple of
days expected to depart for the plant
today. He has been a guest of the
hotel Van Gilder.
_
TIDAL WAVE ON LAKES
ROCHESTER, N. Y. A tidal wave
along 26 miles of the United States
shore line was seen on Lake Ontario
recently causing heavy damage to
summer resorts. In places it rolled
150 feet in shore carrying everything
before it.
WANT POISON GAS DELETED
GENEVA: The United States pro
posal that traffic in poison gas be
prohibited struct a stumbling block
in the legal committee of the confer
ence for the control of arms. The
committee was unable to agree.
KETCHIKAN GROWING.
Ketchikan is experiencing a steady
and continuous growth as evidenced
by the large increase in enrollment in
the public schools. The total enroll
ment to date is 565, an increase of
144 over that of last year.
RIFFS FAIL TO GET FOOTHOLD
PARIS: Adbelkrem and his Riffian
soldiers failed to gain a firm foothold
in the fertilfe region of the Ouergha
Valley, according to French reports.
It is believed that he has not given
up hopes of capturing this territory
and further attacks are expected.
WILL INSPECT IMMIGRANTS
WASHINGTON: Officials of the
State, Treasury and Labor depart
ments sailed yesterday on the Levia
than to lay plans for the inspection
and examination of intending immi
grants ebfore they embark for this
country. This system was first plac
ed in operation by the American con
sulates in Ireland and was very suc
cessful. It will allow the aboolition
of Ellis Island and other immigra
tion stations if the plan is success
ful.
PARIS: Mae Murray, famous mo
vie actress, obtained a divorce today
from Robert Leonard.
WAYNE BLUE, Agent
Telephone Main 81 Res.. Madison 40
Pacific Coastwise Jervioe
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S. S. ADMIRAL EVANS
Sails from Arrives South from
Seattle Seward Seward
June 2 June 9 June 16, 9 p. m,
S. S. ADMIRAL WATSON
June 16 June 23 June 30 9 p. m.
Calling at all regular Southeastern and South
western Alaska ports including Seldovia and
Kodiak.
STEAMSHIP STARR
STARR SAILS FOR BRISTOL BAY JUNE ?
San Juan Fishing and Packing Co.
G. C. HENDERSON, Agent
PHONE MADISON K 8EWARD, ALA8KA
PROPOSED TREATIES
WOULD SETTLE ALL
BOUNDARY DISPUTES
ARBITRATION WOULD FALL IN
CATEGORY OF TACNA-ARICA
DECISION BY COOLIDGE.
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 2.—U?)
—In view of the many boundary dis
putes among various Latin American
states still awaiting solution, two pro
posed treaties have been drawn up
by the Institute of International Law
which, if agreed to and ratified by
all the 21 republics of this hemis
phere, would assure the solution of
all such problems on a peaceful ba
sis and with a minimum of friction.
Any question like the Tacna-Arica
dispute between Chile and Peru, re
cently arbitrated by President Cool
idge, would fall in the category cov
ered by these two draft conventions,
and the machinery provided by them
would be automatically set in mo
tion to reach some solution.
The convention are two of 30
worked out by the Institute under a
resolution passed at the fifth Pan
American Congress held at Santiago
in 1923, and form part of the general
program of the codifica-tion of pub
lic international law as applied to
the American republics. These par
ticular treaties, together with the
other 28, will come up for discussion
at the International Jurists’ Confer
ence to be held in Rio de Janeiro
some time this year.
One of the treaties fixes rules of
behavior for the countries among
which a territorial dispute exists,
while the matter is as yet unsolved.
The other specifies the steps which
shall be taken to reach a settlement.
Under the first treaty the disput
ants shall reach, either by direct ne
gotiation or by the good offices of
some friendly authority, a “modus
vivendi” in the disputed zone which
“shall premit the interested parties
to exercise police powers, care for
the hygiene, and insure public tran
quility in the said zone.” Should
the interested parties be unable to
agree on a “modus vivendi,” then it
is stipulated that neither shall exer
cise, while settlement of the quarrel
is still pending, any acts of sover
eignty which might be prejudicial to
the interests of the other, but that
both shall respect any sovereign acts
performed before the dispute arose.
Among other minor provisions, it is
also stipulated that if a disputed
zone should change hands as a result
of the settlement, the country losing
sovereignty shall be indemnified by
the other for any public works al
ready constructed.
The second treaty is based upon
The Hague convention for the pacific
settlement of international disputes.
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| as a dispute shall arise the good of
fices of friendly powers shall be in
voked to try and arrange some set
tlement. Should this action bear no
good results, then a commission of
inquiry shall be set up, on the un
derstanding, however, that “the find
ings of the commission will be con
sidered as reports upon the disputes
which were the subject of the inves
tigation, but will not have the value
or force of judicial decisions or ar
bitral awards.”
The commission itself will consist
of five members, “all nationals of
American states, appointed in the
following manner: Each government
shall appoint two at the time of
convocation, only one of whom shall
be a national of its country. The
fifth shall be chosen by common ac
cord by those already appointed and
shall perform the duties of presi
dent.
A period of six months after the
publication of the commission’s re
port is allowed for the disputants to
agree to a settlement, after which
“the parties in dispute shall recover
entire liberty of action to proceed as
their interests may dictate.” While
the commission is investigating, how
ever, “none of the parties shall begin
mobilization or concentration ol
troops on the frontier of the other
nor engage in any hostile act oi
preparations of hostilities.”
Should friendly arrangement fail
to be reached even after the publica
tion of the commission's report, the
dispute may be submitted to the
chief executive of one of the Amer
ican republics who shall act as
“friendly ''ompositor” and render an
award.
Finally, should this last attempt at
conciliation also fail, the matter may
be referred to the permanent court
ol international justice at The Hague
“or to any other court of justice
which may be constituted for this
purpose by the American repub
lics.”
UNUSUAL DEMAND FOR 200
ANIMALS EXISTS IN EUROPE
LONDON, June 2.—(ff>)—The de
mand lor wild animals of various
parts of the world has been greater
this spring than in 15 or 20 years
owing to the desire ,of numerous con
tinental cities to replace the stocks
in their zoological gardens which
were depleted during the war.
Moscow, among other far away
points, has come into the market for
various specimens, the Soviet author
ities having announced intentions to
reopen the zoo in the Russian capi
tal which had been closed since the
revolution. The Russians desire par
ticularly jungle beasts and birds of
plumage not procurable in their own
country. Riga, Latvia, which had
an enormous zoo prior to the war,
has also begun buying animals in
foreign markets to replenish the
supply which had begun to disap
pear eight or nine years ago when
the food situation in the war strick
en areas was at its worst.
England has come to the front this
year ^.s a rival of Germany in th*
importation of zoo animals, this
country now being better prepared to
branch out in this particular business
since the Germans lost their colon
ies. While there has been a little
more than the usual demand for ele
phants and other standard zoo at
tractions there have been more or
ders for tigers, leopards, lions and
zebras than the dealers have been
able to supply.
In one steamship recently there
arrived 15 elephants, 12 Tasmanian
devils, 12 Tasmanian cats, 12 Tas
manian wombats, numerous wllabies,
hundreds of assorted parrots, as well
as bears, antelopes, zebras, tigers,
leopards, and a collection of cranes,
in crates, which is said to be the
largest shipment of its kind on rec
ord.
Remington Portable Typewriters at
Alaska Shop. tf
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ALASKA STEAMSHIP
COMPANY
Southwestern Alaska Route Schedule >
Vessel—
YUKON
Northwestern
ALASKA
YUKON
Northwestern
Alaska
Scheduled
Lv. Seattle
Scheduled
Ar. Seward
Scheduled Sail
from Seward
May 30th June 6th June 7th
June 6th June 13th June 14th
June 13th June 20th June 21st
June 20 June 27 June 28
June 27th July 4th July 5th
July 4th July 11th July 12tli
Steamers in the above schedule will make all regular ports of call
in Southeastern and Southwestern Alaska.
NOTE Beginning with the S. S. Yukon June 7th, steamers will not
leave Seward earlier than 4 o’clock p. m. Sunday, sailing date.
J. H, FLICKINGER, Agent
PHONE MAIN 125 SEWARD, ALASKA
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See the Interior
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“The Golden Belt
To the end that the countless places; of scenic and other interests S
E in the Territory may be thoroughly enjoyed and understood, and to 5
jz enable them to acquire first hand and accurate information concerning E
E all Alaskan activities and development; travelers to the Northland are E
E urged to visit
ALASKA’S "GOLDEN HEART’' E
E Interior Alaska and places en route—including Kenai Lake, the EE
E “Loop District,” Spencer and Bartlett Glaciers, Turnagain Arm, An- S
E chorage, the Matanuska Valley, Curry, Nenana River Canyon, Mt. Me- S
E Kinley National Park, Nenana, the Tanana Valley and Fairbanks, hold S
E much of interest to every on j, whether on business or pleasure bent; S
ss and a tour through these regions creates a true conception of the good E
E things that Alaska has to offer. 3
3 For train and automobile schedules, passenger rates and other in- S
= formation, confer with any steamship agent, or
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Preston Wood Camp
Near Home Site Is
Swept Away by Fire
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Returning from town yesterday af
ternoon to his camp near the site of
the Jesse Lee Home, John Preston
found his camp ravished by fire as a
result of a brush fire which got
away yesterday from the men in
charge of the site. Preston cut
wood at the camp all last winter and
recently has been employed in Sew
ard in excavating the Brown & Haw
kins basement. He left towm this
morning again to select a site for an
other camp. He expects to secure
work at the home site.
NEW YORK: The Dodgers are ex
pected to trade Bob Barrett and Andy
High with some cash for James
Barnes, Boston Braves pitcher. Bari
rett has just been turned over to the
Dodgers as a result of a trade thru
which the Chicago Cubs got Tom
Griffith. The St. Louis Cardinals
traded catcher Mike Gonzalez and in
fielder Howard Friegeau to the Cubs
for catcher Bob O’Farrell.
The Alaska Railroad
TRAINS LEAVE SEWARD
8 A. M.
Mondays and Thursdays
TRAINS ARRIVE SEWARD
8 P. M.
Wednesdays and Saturdays
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Gas Launch
KENAI
FISHING AND HUNTING
PARTIES CARRIED DOWN
LAKE KENAI FOR THE
DAY OR TRIP. TELE
PHONE ARRANGEMENTS
TO MILE TWENTY
Louis Bell, owner