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Seward Daily Gateway
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XV. NUMBER 109.
SEWARD. ALASKA,
TUESDAY, MAY 13, 1930.
Vl-tlCI:! TEN CENTS
ENFDUTIi TO FAIRBANKS WITH
LAST LOAD VALUED AT
$200,000
NOME, May 13. (/P)—Pilots Rob
bins and Crosson arrived with
another fur cargo yesterday from
the S. S. Nanuk at North Cape,
Siberia.
Crosson said no further trips
will be made due to the immense
fog banks at this time of the
year. The north wind has opened
up a lead in the ice which ex
tends practically from the Ber
ing Sea to North Cape to within
a few miles of the shore which in
turn caused immense fog banks.
On the last trip Crosson and
Robbins made the journey in one
Fairchild plane in order that Rob
bins might bring back to Alaska
the Waco plane which had been
been left in Siberia by Crosson last
December. The plan is now at
Teller and will be taken to Fair
banks.
The aviators plan to remove
the fur cargo 70 miles east of
Nome, then transfer to wheels,
and continue on to Fairbanks.
The fur cargo is valued at ap
proximately $200,000.
FLYING TO ALASKA
S. S. NANUK, North Cape, Si
beria, May 13, (IP)—Pilot Crosson
in the Fairchild plane loaded
with fur and Pilot Robbins in the
Waco plane, left for Teller at
12:20 p. m. Sunday.
ST. JOSEPH. Mo.. May 13. </P'—
About 15 persons. some of them
women, wevc* believed to hove been
killed in a" explosion that demol
ished the smoke house of the Arm
our & Co., packing plant in south
St, Joseph.
Seven were known to be dead
and nine injured; three were
known to be missing in the wreck
age and it was believed seven to
aine others were trapped and kill
ed.
The entire six-story building was
wrecked. It appeared as if the
structure had been lifted and then
settled down.
The S. S. Tanana, of the A. S.
S. Co., completed discharging at
the Seward dock at an early hour
this morning then moved down to
the San Juan dock prior to de
parting from port.
W. E. Lee, the well known Kan- l
atak resident and freighter, was 1
among those returning last night <
trom Anchorage. Mr. Lee is going
home on the steamer Starr.
Carl Rodin, partner of “Pack” :
Olsen, one of the best known of £
Alaskan Sourdoughites, departed a
last night (incognito) for Cordova.
Carl returns Saturday.
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Mrs. W. A. Vinal, wife of the U. <
S. Commissioner at Seldovia, ar- £
rived in the city yesterday on her i
way to Healy where she has busi- 1
ness interests. Mrs. Vinal is a1
guest at the Van Gilder hotel. i
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Dan M. Miller of Kanatak, ar- c
rived in Seward last evening from a
Anchorage. v
JUNEAU, May 13, UP)—Luke
Brown, Indian boxer, died a few
hours after being stabbed in what
officers said was a drunken brawl
Dave Thomas, Indian, is charg
ed with his murder. Officers said
he confessed to slaying Brown,
claiming self defense.
SURGEON BROT BACK NOME,
PLANE, WITH FROZEN
LUNGS
NOME, May 13, (JP)—Three thou
sand reindeer, the first to enter
Canada, were halted in their te
dious months of a long march
across the top of the world at
Hunt River, Coville River section,
as the fawning season began. The
herd will wait there untli the new
born are strong enough to join
the drive w?hich follows the route
north of the Arctic Circle, across
northern Alaska, to the Macken
zie River basin, in the Canadian
Arctic.
Dr. Benson, who was accompa
nying the herders, is in the hos
pital believed to have frozen
lungs after being brought back to
Nome in a plane piloted by Vic
tor Ross. Ross was only able to
fly four out of 14 days from the
time he left the herd, until he ar
rived be-cause of fog conditions.
The deer were sold and were
delivered to the Canadian govern
ment by the Lomen company. The
herd was taken from the Kotze
bue Sound deer.
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SILLS FIIE
LIVERPOOL, May 12. (/P)—An
explosion, attributed to spontane
ous combustion, caused the death
of five men, the serious injury of
four and injuries of various degree
to about 80 others in a Baby’s Oil
Cakes Works.
The loud blast occurred on the
11th floor of a 12-story silo. It
blew the roof across a street and
;he roof of another building was
ripped open. About 300 men were
in the silo at the time of the explo
:ion.
THOUSANDS HOMELESS
COLOMBO, Ceylon, May 13, (/P)—
rhree thousand persons have been
nade homeless by unprecedented
loods which have inundated a
arge area in the northern part of j
Colombo. i
Miss Georgia Willis, who was ex- j
pected to arrive later in the weok i
’rom Anchorage, and one of the '
ieward high school 1930 grades, I
rrived last evening.
The first big red salmon of the
reason was seen this morning, |
>n Railroad Avenue, being carried
dong by a fisherman; and boy, j
t was a pip!
For goodness sake don’t over
3ok taking in the local talent
how tonight—two for the price of
ne—and get a good laugh. There
re no reserved seats. Choose your
weapons.
SFTEfi KW MUK
' MEARS ANNOUNCES PLANS FOR
FLIGHT; HOPES TO SHAT
TER GRAF RECORD
I ROOSEVELT FIELD, N. Y„ May
113, (/P)—John Mears arrived in his
plane which he hopes to wrest the
world girdling speed record from
.the Graf.
! He announced his pilot as Fred
Melchoir, Swedish flier;' he plans
to fly the entire route starting
early in June from Harbor Grace,
New Foundlandfi ti Valencia, Ire
land thence to Southampton, to
Berlin and Moscow and across Si
beria to Kamchatka then over the
Aleutians to Seward; then to Seat
tle and Roosevelt Field.
'TIE PALEFACE«, l
ALASKAN IF FAIL!
DATS, DIES AT SEATTLE i
SEATTLE, May 13, (/P)—The orig
inal “Paleface Kid” in Rex Beach’s
“Silver Horde” is said by his Alaska
intimates to have died and will be
buried here Friday. Harry F. Le
land, 51, had made his home at the
Seattle Hotel for nine years and
died after a short illness Thursday.
Friends said Leland was also
characterized in “The Iron Trail”
written by Wilson Mizner who, like
Beach, met Leland at Dawson.
WROTE PRIZE ESSAY
In a letter received from Fair
banks, in regard to the essay con
test recently sponsored for all Ter- ]
ritorial schools by the D. A. R.. at ]
Fairbanks, it was announced that
the essay written by Donald Shell
horn. junior in the local high
school, won first prize for Seward.
A student in Douglas is said to
have won the Territorial prize.
Bob Manthey is busily engaged
m his spare time clearing off his 1
land on the McConnell homestead. :
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YESTERDAY’S GAMES
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Philadelphia 6; Cincinniti 7.
Brooklyn 2; Pittsburgh 6.
t New York 14; Chicago 12.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
| Chicago 2; Washington 13
j Cleveland 7; Philadelphia 13.
Detroit ; New York 7.
I St. Louis 3; Boston 2, 10 innings
! SCULPTOR SUGGESTS
NEW YORK, May 13, (/P)—Gut
zon Borglum, sculptor, revealed the
changes he had made in the 500
word history of the United States,
written by Calvin Coolidge to be
inscribed in granite on Mount
Rushmore, South Dakota.
He eliminated the words de
claration of independence at the
start and substituted in the year
of our Lord 1776 to mark the Chris
tian era and convert the text into
the style of a historical narrative.
He said he had written to Coolidge
regarding the changes.
WATONGA, Okla., May 12, (/P>—
Two persons were known to have
been killed and several others in
jured in a storm that struck a
farming community about 12 m;;es
south of here. Mrs. C T. Bush and
*n unidentified negro man were
;hose killed.
In addition to the two known
deaths, a small boy was reported
nissing. Details of the storm could
iot be learned immediately.
C. E. Whitney, well known Gird
wood resident, came into Seward
!->st night on a brief business
:rip.
Oscar Erickson, mayor of Moose
Pass and one of Alaska’s best
mown mink breeders, was an
i rival last evening.
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:s stunt fly
:c )t away from
utine stuff at
the opening of the
new Sacramento
fal., airport when
he nulled this one.
Ship made ba.i
landing and dug
its nose in the
earth. Nomis is
seen climbing
from cockpit
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BIG DELTA COUNTRY MAY BE
NEXT BIG GOLD STRIKE,
C. A. MILLER THINKS
j “Last Chance Creek,” near Slate
! Creek, in the Chelchina country,
j may be the scene of a new placr
strike, providing Charles A. Miller,
| oldtimer of the Fairbanks country
i has any kind of luck this season
j Mr. Miller, and "Barney” Gabriel
ian. passed thru Seward yesterday
| on their way to Cordova from
: which point they will take in a
| big outfit.
The district thru that part of
'the country is highly mineralized,
! as sourdoughs know, the entire
I zone being faulted thru from the
! Slate Creek diggings. Miller ob
' tained 15c pans there last fall and
i stated the further in he went the
better it showed up. Of interest to
| mining men is the report that
Miller said there was at least 12
feet of vermillion gravel there. All
t pans from the surface down
brought colors which in some in
i' stances numbered 200. This find
i is near the well known Casey’s
Cache and has all indications of
being an exceotmnally rrond pros
pect. Through his friend Joe Eam
on, of the Panhandle. M[ller said
he would write later on in the
summer as to progress and how
the ground show up.
For the last 10 years Miller Las
been dr-veloning his 26 claims on
Ober and Mineral Creeks, which
are tributaries of the Big Delta
near the Tanana River and has
received much encouragment thus
far as he has been able to take
out wages. This spring mining en
gineers from the States are com
ing North to inspect his holdings
which Miller is confident are as
good hydraulicking and dredge
ground as can be found in Alaska.
Up to the present time he has
not got down to bedrock as he
has confined his efforts to working
the benches and side-streams
leaving the channel alone. The
stream, he said, is - over 20 miles
long and there are several other
large tributaries as well.
This region also is highly min
eralized and the formation is all
that a mining man could desire.
He has sunk prospect holes down
to a depth of 20 feet and believes
bedrock to be about 40 feet. It is
not a glacial country, with large
boulders, but is composed of small
gravel; the conditions for mining
are ideal. The gold brings him $17.
But it is the "Last Chance
Creek”—so named by Miller—
which he believes has great poten
tialities for he said that during
his 24 years of prospecting he
las never seen anything better.
In the modern outfit Miller is
taking in is the new process for
saving fine gold known as "Mat
i-gold.
Lieutenant Oxreider, West Point
graduate, now attached to the
\laska Road Commission, is ac
:ompanying Major Malcolm El
iott, president of the A. R. C., on
lis present tour of inspection.
DRYING UP FAST
The Seward-Kenai Lake high
way is drying up fast beyond
Yoodrow and it won’t be long
iow, if this magnificent weather
ontinues, before motor cars will
»e buzzing over the hill to the
ake. The highway is like a boule
rard to Woodrow.
A Case of Suspension ” and “In 1999” Tonight 8 o’clock-Adm. 50, 25c