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VOLUME XX, NUMBER XII
SEWARD,' ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1926.
PRICE TEN CENTS
CUFF MINE WILL
OPEN SOON, NEW
COMPANYCHARGE
Louis A. Levensaler Backed
by San Diego Capital
in Charge
PRODUCED A MILLION
Cliff and Granite Mines Con
solidated to Form Big
Company
CORDOVA, Jan. 15 (JP)—Consolida
1ion of the Cliff and Granite gold
properties near Valdez under the di
rection of Louis A. Levensaler, backed
by San Diego capital is announced, j
J. W. Lenahan is en route to Valdez
to commence operations immediately.
The mines will employ 75 men.
It is planned to operate the Cliff
with water and electrical power which
will cut the cost of production in half.
The Cliff has been idle the past 12
years. It produced over a million
dollars while in operation before the
war.
“Red” Ellis, owner of the mine, was
forced to close down in 1916, and
the mine later filled with water. A
new ore body was struck, vastly rich
er than the old body, but lack of fin
ancial support caused Mr. Ellis to re
main closed down.
The Granite mine is in the Port
Wells district and was formerly owned
and operated by B. F. Millard, who
in 1917 closed down operations, the
wharf and machinery being removed.
Later Ray Milliard reopened the mine
and it has been operated off and on
with indifferent results.
The opening of the Cliff mine will
place Valdez again on the map, as the
property is a rich one, and a large
number of men will be employed.
WILKINS LEAVE IN
FEBRUARY FOR
INTERIOR DIST
SEATTLE, Jan. 15 (/P)—Captain
George Wilkins will leave here Feb
ruary 13, on the Admiral Watson, for
Seward with three monoplanes. Ben
Eielson is the only one of the three
pilots who it is announced will leave
a week earlier. Two of the planes
are capable of carrying 15 passen
gers each.
Gunnar Kaason and Alexander
Malcolm Smith, second in command
of the Wilkins expedition, met yes
terday in the elevator of the Frye Ho
tel and exchanged enthusiastic greet
ings. They first met in Nome in 1914
and have been trail mates together.
Kaason is going to sail for Alaska
on the Northwestern tomorrow.
AGRICULTURAL SCHOOLS FORM
PART MEXICAN FARM PLAN
MEXICO CITY, Jan. 14. (JP)—The
program of the Calles government
for the agricultural improvement and
development of Mexico is gradually
being effected.
Already five Central Agricultural
Schools have been established, one
in each of the States of Oaxaca, Hi
dalgo, Michoacan, Durango and Guan
ajuato. It is palnned to eventually
start such schools in every State.
The agricultural promotion projects
also contemplate the creation of State
or Regional banks expressly intended
to xetend credits and loans to worthy
farmers.
More than twenty Mexican students
in United States Agricultural schools
are preparing themselves for profes
sorships in the new Mexican insti
tutions.
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COBB SET NEW RECORD EACH
TIME HE ENTERED 1925 GAME
'CHICAGO, Jan. 14. (£>)— Every time
Ty Cobb participated in a ball game
during the 1923 season he establish
ed a new record.
He began by besting his own rec
ord of the greatest number of games
played in by a major leaguer and, as
he went along, added others for
times at bat, runs scored, and high
est lifetime batting average.
When the season started, Cobb
held the record for highest lifetime
batting average in the American
league, with his percentage of .361
for nineteen years. At the end of his
twentieth year he had gained a tri
fle by hitting .378.
HARTLEY VETOES
EIGHT BILLS AT
OLYMPIA TODAY
Thirty-Seven Bills Signed
by Washington Execir
tive—Gives Reasons
VETOES WOMENS BILL
Best Way to Prevent Crime
is to Reduce Taxes, He
. Claims
i
I
OLYMPIA, Jan. 15 (/P)—Governor i
Hartley today vetoed eight bills and j
signed 37, including the Women’s In-|
dustrial Home Clinic appropriation of
§150,000, which the Governor said was !
an attempt to legislate morality into
people. He said the best wray to pre
vent crime was to reduce taxes.
“There isn’t any escape from the
saying, ‘Protect a fool against his
folly and you will populate the world
with fools.”
Gov. Hartley also vetoed the two
hundred and fifty thousand dollar ap
propriation for a State building at the
sesquicentennial exposition at Phila
delphia because he said it would not
be of any material benefit to the peo
ple of the state.
ROSES BLOOM IN
WRANGELLTODAY
I WRANGELL, Jan. 15 (JP)—Steamer
passengers are visiting the yard of
; Eddie Kalkins to view the white roses
blooming in his garden. One woman
sent a rose to relatives in Canada.
The mean maximum temperature this
week was 51.
COPY OF ULRICH ZWINGLI BIBLE
FOUND IN LIBRARY OF SEMINARY
. LANCASTER, Pa., Jan. 14. (/P)—
; A copy of one of the rarest Bibles
i in the world—the Ulrich Zwingli Bi
; ble—the printing of which is said
i to have taken four years, has been
; discovered in the library of the Re
formed Theological Seminary here.
The Bible, according to its title
; page, was prnited by Christopher
Froschauer in 1529. Four years be
j fore that time the first section of
i the volume, which is in six sections,
was printed. The text was com
piled by Zwingli and several other
preachers of Zurich who were associ
j ated with him, and a greater part of
! the German text was transpated from
I the Latin by Martin Luther. The
Bible, according to historians, at the
I time of its publication corresponded
: to the popular priced editions of to
day.
What does it profit a country to
have fewer half-shot and more shot?
French engineers have sunk arte
sian wells in parts of the Sahara des
ert, whereby vegetation has been
made to grow.
ANCHORAGE MAN
WILL ASCEND MT.
MKINLEY SOON
Alex Liska, Noted Northern
Guide Will Explore Old
Crater on North Side
UP MOUNTAIN IN 1912
Will Take Route Used by
Hudson Stuck—May go
On Alone if Rest Quit
8 ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. 8
8 15.(^P)—Alex Liska, noted north- 8
8 ern guide and climber will de- 8
8 part from Anchorage in March 8
8 with a small party to ascend 8
8 to the old crater twelve thous- 8
8 and feet up the north side of 8
8 Mt. McKinley to try and solve 8
8 the phenomena of the recent 8
8 appearance of dense clouds of 8
8 steam rising from the pit. 8
8 Liska climbed twelve thous- 8
8 and feet up the mountain via 8
8 the northwest in 1912, finding 8
8 further progress blocked by 8
8 steep precipices and huge ice 8
8 and snow banks. He will go 8
8 to the Tokochitna and Muddy 8
8 rivers and make the ascent by 8
8 the same route used by Hud- 8
8 son Stuck. Liska will try to 8
8 make the summit alone if the 8
8 rest of the party turns back. 8
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ALASKA LAWYER
WILL HELP DRY
FORCES IN CASE
SEATTLE, Jan. 15 (/P)—John Mar
shall, Alaska attorney and chief legal
adviser for the Field Division of the
Federal Prohibition service arrived in
this city yesterday to join in the
prosecution of Ray Olmsted, king of
Puget Sound bootleggers.
Marshall was chief government
counsel in the St. Louis liquor con
spiracy case tried in Indianapolis last
month in which more than a score
were convicted.
GIRLS PLAY GAME
TOMORROW NIGHT
AT S. A. C. GYM
HIGH SCHOOL VS. CITY GIRLS;
MUCH CONFIDENCE ON
BOTH SIDES.
Much interest is aroused locally in
the coming basketball game tomor
row night at the S. A. C. gym where
the City and High School girl’s teams
will clash in their first game of the
season. Naturally, the High team,
which accepted a defi hurled at them
last week by the Anchorage quin
tet, figure they got it hands down
on the City five 'but on the oth
er hand the representatives of the
town team believe the high school
girls are going to get the surprise
of their young lives. A good, fast
and interesting game can be looked
forward to, anyway, and the fact the
game is being held for the purpose of
accumulating funds for the H. S.
team to journey over to Anchorage,
is grounds for the belief that a large
crowd will be in attendance. The
game starts at 8 o’clock. Be there!
NEW BUREAU FORMED FOR
DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 15 (JP)—
The House Agricultural Committee
has approved the Haugen bill to estab
lish a bureau of co-operative market
ing by the Department of Agriculture.
ATTRIBUTES SOLAR SYSTEM
TO TERRIFIC COLLISIONS
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Jan. 14. (/P)—
Colisions of appaling magnitude are
suggested as responsible for the so
lar system by John Millis of Cleve
land, a retired army engineer.
In a paper prepared for the con
vention of the American Association
for the Advincement of Scineee, which
meets here, the scientist unfolds a
story of cataclysms, ce'esi' <1 bom
bardments and the birth of the sun
and the planets, among them the
earth.
In explaining the “dualistic theory,”
Millis pictures two bodies, each some
thing like one half the mass of the
present sun coming together “with a
velocity not sufficient to cause their
mutual destruction and dissipation,
but such as to form their coalescence
into the sun and probably also pro
ducing sufficient rise in temperature
by the mechanical action, to account
for the sun’s present heat.”
BODIES 8 MINERS
RECOVERED AT
FAIRMONT, VA,
FAIRMONT, W. V., Jan. 15 (£>)—
The bodies of eight miners including
those of a father and son, were found
in a coal mine near Farmington, which
was partly wrecked last night by an
explosion. Thirty are missing, but the
four rescue crews at work believe
they are still alive.
ALASKA RAILWAY
AND BUREAU ED.
ARE COMBINED
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 15 (/P)—
Secretary Work has announced the
consolidation of the Alaska Railroad
with the Bureau of Education at Se
attle, which promises to save $16,000
annually through an increase in effi
ciency.
The schooner Boxer will be used in
connection with the Alaska Railroad,
effecting a great saving in freight
rates.
PALACES OF CZAiRISTIC FAMILY
BECOME RUSSIAN MUSEUMS
LENINGRAD, Jan. 14. (JP)—Russia
has become a nation of museums.
All over the country former Imperial
Palaces, private residences, churches,
monasteries and summer homes have
been appropriated by the State and
converted into museums for the “pro
letariat.”
By commandeering private collec
tions of works of art the government
has added enormously to the present
exhibits at the museums. At the Her
mitage Fine Arts Gallery is one of
the greatest collections of Rem
brandts, VanDyks, Ruebens and oth
er Dutch and Flemish masters in the
world.
NOTRE DAME SIDETRACKS BIG
STADIUM FOR NEW DORMITORIES
SOUTH BEND, Ind., Jan. 14. (/P)—
Notre Dame University, which has
ranked consistently high in colle
giate football over the last decade,
is one of the few outstanding schools
that is still getting along with an ob
solete athletic stadium.
The reason is that university au
thorities have flatly refused to per
mit construction of an up-to-date
stadium until the institution has ad
ditional dormitories and college class
rooms.
In the English Channel is the mos1
powerful fog horn in the world, which
may be heard for a distance of 3C
miles.
TWO IDITAROD
MEN CHARGED
MAIL ROBBERY
Seventy-Five Thousand Dol
lar Mail Robbery Once
More Before Public
FACE • STARVATION
Forced to Exist in Wilder
ness—Shunned by For
mer Companions
ANCHORAGE, Jan. 15 (,/P)—Fearing
detection by sercret service operatives
two Iditarod men with a cache of
$75,000 stolen from the mails two
years ago are reduced to abject pov
erty, states Alex Gunderson, who ar
rived from Iditarod on a recent train.
It is claimed that officials know the
identity of the thieves but are unable
I to make a case.
Universal condemnation of the pair
j by citizens of the camp forces them
| to exist on the wild game of the wil
derness and they are in hard circum
! stances.
FIRST MAIL FROM
Bristol BAY TO
ARRIVE ON STARR
NO MAIL HAS BEEN RECEIVED
SINCE THE CLOSE OF THE
CANNERY SEASON
FIVE TRIPS EVERY WINTER
Route Leads Out from Kanatak; 300
Miles One Way to Remote
Westward Region.
The first mail from the Bristol Bay
i district since the cannery season,
closed down some months ago, will
1 arrive in Seward on the arrival of
' the steamer Starr from the west
ward, mail clerk Dorrence announc
ed prior to the recent departure of
I the vessel on its regular run.
In former years but three mails
during the winter five trips were
scheduled. The contract calls for 200
pounds of first-class mail to be car
ried each way on each trip but pro
viding there is not sufficient quan
tity of first-class mail matter, sec
ond-class mail is loaded on the
sledges until the required amount
makes up the load. The route goes
by way of Kanatak to Lake Bechar
of, thence to Igagik, bordering on
j Bristol Bay, and then direct north to
j Naknek and ,so on to the region. The
; approximate distance is estimated at
j 300 miles, one way.
The majority of the second-, third
and fourth-class mail piles up dur
ing the winter months and is taken
in on the first trip of the Starr, and
this runs into many tons. As an
example on the recent trip westward
of the Starr, which ends during the
winter at Unalaska, three tons of
mail was taken out. A large quan
tity of the mail is composed of mail
order catalogues, and the amount
of business carried on a large num
ber of residents to the westward is
a constant source of amazement to
those thru which hands his business
pases.
HOUSE OF COMMONS VOTES
CONFIDENCE IN GOVERNMENT
OTTAWA, Jjtn. 15 (JP)—The House
of Commons voted confidence in the
Premier and King by a majority of
three, defeating the Conservative
amendment of non-confidence. The
vote was 123 to 120.
After the vote the House adjourned
until Monday.