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VOLUME 20. NUMBER 315
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1925
PRICE TEN CENTS
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TWENTY-ONE PERSONS HOMELESS AND
MANY BUILDINGS DESTROYED; ZERO
WEATHER HAMPERS WORK FIREMEN
FIRE ATTRIBUTED TO EXPLOSION OF OIL STOVE
* IN APARTMENT OVER FORMER SALOON
NEARLY WIPES OUT FRONT STREET
NOME, Nov. 23—Fire Saturday night, attributed to
the explosion of an oil stove in apartments oyer the Board
of Trade saloon, for a time threatened to wipe out Front
Street. The flames spread rapidly, despite six lines of hose
playing on the blaze, and completely destroyed Polet’s
grocery store with its storage of winter stock, and the
rooming house in which the blaze started. Both were
three story buildings.
Firemen and volunteer citizens were drenched with
freezing water and zero temperatures made conditions
for fire fighting extremely difficult. Several firemen were
frostbitten and hot coffee was served the ice-encased fire
fighters.
The places destroyed include Dr. Holcher s dental oi
fice, Tarnutzer’s barber shop, the Keener tailoring shop.
James Hewitt, proprietor of the Board of Trade, was se
verely burned, and Dr. Kemp, Jens Jensen and Earle Ham
ilton were slightly burned. All are in the hospital. Salvag
ing merchandise from the basement of the burned build
ings began Sunday. It is estimated the loss will reach
$100,000.00. Twenty-one persons are homeless.
The flames spread so rapidly that only a few razors
were saved from the barbershop ground floor. Two highly
prized canary birds in the barbershop window burned.
FOOTBALL GAMES
FOR SATURDAY
SHOW SURPRISES
STANFORD BEATS UNIVERSITY
OF CALIFORNIA—ARMY DE
FEATS U RSI NI US COLLEGE
Stanford 26, University of Califor
nit 14, final.
Chicago 7, Wisconsin 20, final.
University of Southern California
18, Iowa 0, final.
Columbus—Illinois 15, Ohio State
State 9, crowd 85,000.
Grange scored no touchdown. It gain
ed 87 yards in 23 plays. He threw five
forward passes totaling 52 yards. After
the game he told a reporter he would
lead his own professional team into
the South soon.
Ann Arbor—Michigan 35, Minneso
ta 0.
West Point—Army 44, Ursinus 0.
South Bend—Notre Dame 13, North
western 10.
Boise—Idaho 7, Oregon Aggies 16.
Horsemen” are to play with the
Washington 79, College of Puget
Sound 0.
Stanford 16, California 14.
W. S. C. 0, Gonzaga 0.
U. S. C. 18, Iowa 0.
Missouri 7, Kansas 0.
Wisconsin 20, Chicago 7.
MOTHER OF MRS.
WILSON DEAD
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WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 23 (/P)—
Mrs. William Golling, 82, the mother
of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, died after
several months illness and was buried
Sunday.
LADDER AND HAMMER TAKEN
Chief of Police Martin Lanning
wishes the party who appropriated
the ladder and claw hammer from
the Fire hall to please return said
articles at once.
CHURCHES WILL PAY TRIBUTE
TO ALASKAN MISSIONARY
SEATTLE, Nov. 23 (/P)—Seattle
churches will pay tribute next Sunday
to the memory of Rev. Nels Hoijer,
70, a missionary, who died Friday as
a result of exposure when the gas
schooner Ariel was wrecked o: Teller
September 25. Hoijer spent almost
half a century in missionary work in
Russia and Siberia, and spent 30
years among the half civilized tribes
in Russia but after the revolution he
operated out of Seattle. He is sur
vived by a widow and child in Sweden.
ROAD PETITION IS
BEING SIGNED BY
MAJORITY CITIZENS
FIFTEEN MILES OF PROPOSED
ROAD WOULD CONNECT SE
WARD WITH MOOSE PASS
The petitions being circulated lo
cally in an effort to bring pressure
to bear for the construction of a wa
gon road from the end of the Sew
ard-Kenai Lake road, connecting with
the Moose Pass highway at Mile 29,
has practically the signatures of ev
ery business man in Seward attach
ed, as well as many other citizens.
When completed the petitions will
be mailed to Col. James G. Steese,
president of the Alaska Road Com
mission.
The proposed road will be approxi
mately fifteen miles in length. Cross
ing this end of Lake Kenai, the pro
posed route outlined, would traverse
The Alaska Railroad, passing Lawing,
and continuing on to Moose Pass.
Such a connecting road, it is pointed
out, would afford direct communica
tion between Seward and the Moose
Pass mining district and the towns
of Sunrise and Hope, assisting great
ly in the development of the natural
resources of Kenai Peninsula. Prom
a tourist standpoint, there would be
75 miles of scenic highway and in
this respect would prove to be a val
uable asset to these various com
munities.
NEW LEGION COMMANDER
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First portrait sliidy of John R. Mc
Quigg, of East Cleveland, Ohio, 59
year-old white-haired lawyer, banker
and wounded overseas engineer offi
cer, who is the new National Com
mander of the American Legion. Elec
tion was held at the Seventh Annual
Convention of the Legion at Omaha.
Mr. McQuigg has seen service in three
wars under the American flag. The
1926 convention will be held in Phila
delphia, and that of 1927 in Paris,
France.
BRAIN EXPOSED,
MAN STILL LIVING
SPOKANE, Nov. 23 (£>)—A section
of the brain of Paul Clark, which has
been protruding from a hole in his
skull for two months, was removed,
and the hole covered with a silver
plate. “I feel fine,” Clark said, after
recovering consciousness.
QUEEN BURIED WITH
SIMPLE CEREMONIES
SANDINGHAM, Eng., Nov. 23 (/P)—
With ceremonies almost as simple as
would have been accorded the humb
lest villager, Queen Mother Alexan
dria’s body was placed in a coffin
made from the oaks on the royal es
tate, and taken on a wheeled bier to
Sandrigan Church. King George,
Qeen Mary and the Prince of Wales
attended the service. No further ser
vices will be held until the funeral,
when the body will be removed to
London church to be opened for vis
itors to view the body.
RACE HORSES BURN;
VALUED AT $10,000
BAINBRIDGE, Ga., Nov. 23 (£>)—
Ten race horses valued at between
$3,000 and , $20,000 were killed yester
day when an Atlantic Coast passenger
train was derailed near here.
AMUNDSEN WILL LECTURE
IN SEATTLE IN FEBRUARY
SEATTLE, Nov. 23 (£>)— Raold
Amundsen, the explorer, will lecture
in Seattle February 21, Gunnar Lund,
the newspaper publisher announced.
Amundsen is making a tour of the
country to raise funds for his polar
flight work, already begun at Spitz
bergen, where a mooring mast and an
airdrome have been erected.
Oscar Hart, representing the New
stadter Bros., clothing line, left Se
ward Saturday night on the Yukon,
bound for Cordova.
SEATTLE CHAMBER
WILL HELP IN
ALASKAN FIGHT
EFFORTS BE MADE TO HAVE
CONGRESS CONSOLIDATE
ALL DEPARTMENTS
SEATTLE, Nov. 23 (JP)—The Cham
ber of Commerce Alaskan Committee
will concentrate its efforts on road
construction and maintenance, the op
eration of the Alaska railroad and the
retention of the mail service during
the next three months, Josiah Collins,
its chairman announced.
A dispatch from its Washington
representative, Jack Underwood, said
that efforts would certainly be made
to have congress consolidate Federal
operations in Alaska into one bureau,
with a view of reducing the present
personnel at least 80 per cent in
Washington.
Despite the reduction of rates, treas
ury receipts from taxation and per
sonal incomes in 1924 increased over
$25,000,000, personal tax payments be
ing $689,000,000, which was a gain of
3.7 per cent over 1923. The number
of returns dropped 4,000.
STOLEN GOODS FOUND
IN HOME OF HALL
SEATTLE, Nov. 23 (JP)—George
Hall was arrested here for,the second
time charged with participating in
jewel robberies in California totaling
$250,000. He was arrested in his
apartment where the police found
jewels and furs valued at $1500.
Hall’s wife is under arrest at Los
Angeles on the same charge,
j Detectives said Hall, who was ar
rested last Sunday, expressed surprise
when they discovered him free today.
I Explaining this, Hall said, “Oh, they
'have nothing on me. They let me go.”
—
GEORGE McCALGAN,
SENT TO ANCHORAGE
FROM HERE, EXPIRES
WELL KNOWN SEWARD MAN,
WITH RAILROAD MANY YEARS
DIES FOLLOWING TRIP
Six minutes after his arrival at
Anchorage yesterday afternoon, Geo.
McCalgan, resident of Seward, pass
i ed away, following an illness of but
! three days. It is stated that efforts
j were made to send the sick man to
I the Anchorage hospital the day pre
vious but arrangements could not be
made. Local friends feared he -would
not survive the trip over the rail
road, so weakened was his condition
from a stomach ailment. Irish Col
lins of Anchorage, accompanied him
from Seward.
George McCalgan was about fifty
years of age and had worked for a
number of years on various sections
on the railway. As far as culd be as
certained in Sewiard today, no infor
ation regarding relatives could be
learned.
“Happy” Fairman and sister, Mae
Elliott, were week-end arrivals in Se
ward to meet their mother, Mrs. Vio
let Elliottt, who arrived in Seward
Saturday from Seattle. All left for
Anchorage yesterday morning.
Harry Seller, Anchorage resident,
who has been attending the Valdez
term of court, as a juror, passed
thru Seward Saturday en route home.
The gasiboat Chase, Capt. Bmswiler,
departed early this morning for Days
Harbor.
HEART CHICKEN
LIVES 12 YEARS,
REMOVED BODY
MODERN SCIENCE PERFORMS AP
PARENT MIRACLE IN KEEP
ING ORGAN ALIVE
NEW YORK, Nov. 23 (/P)—Live tis
sue taken from the heart of a chicken
by Dr. Alexis Carrell in 1913, is still
alive and growing under the care of
Rockefeller Institute experts. They
say if the tissue had not been pared
down each day it would be a colossal
monster, “overspreading the entire
city of New York.”
The tissue doubles in size every 24
hours and will continue to do so as
long as nurtured and irrigated.
COLONEL COOLIDGE
FAILS TO IMPROVE
PLYMOUTH, Mass., Nov. 23 (/P)—•
Colonel Coolidge, father of the Presi
dent, failed to show improvement to
day, Major James Coupal, and execu
tives of the physician said. Although
the patient is able to set up briefly,
he is not feeling as wrell as he did
Saturday.
DELEGATE SAYS
ALASKASHOULD
CONTROL FISH
SAYS DEPARTMENT GIVES CON
TROL OF INDUSTRY TO THE
LARGE COMPANIES
SEATTLE, Nov. 23 (TP)—Delegate
Dan Sutherland arrived from Juneau
today en route to Washington to at
tend the next session of Congress.
Mr. Sutherland stated that he intends
to introduce a bill the next session
proposing that control of the fisheries
of Alaska be taken out of the hands
of the Department of Commerce and
vested in the Territorial legislature.
Mr. Sutherland said: “The Depart
ment of Commerce is giving the big
packers too much consideration, while
the small fisherman or independent
packer are fighting for a foothold. The
rules require that such expensive gear
and machinery be used that only well
financed corporations can qualify.”
Under the bill the legislators wrould
appoint a fishing commission to regu
late the kind and quality of gear and
the areas in which operations could
be carried on, the length of season
and the amount of tax to be paid on
the finished product.
The bill includes a request that
Alaskan men handle the game situa
tion, now under the department of
agriculture.
Recent Storms At Sea
Damage Lights This
District—Cedar Back
The lighthouse tender Cedar, which
arrived in port from the South Sat
urday at noon, departed yesterday
for Kodiak, and the Westward to at
tend to a number of damaged lights.
At the time of the Cedar’s departure
from Seward last month, Captain
Leadbetter stated the Cedar would
go "south for the winter. Recent
storms to the Westward, including
this district, necessitated the ship re
turning and making the repairs to
the lights, some o>f which were extin
quished.