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VOLUME XVIII NUMBER 111
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1923
PRICE TEN CENTS
New Cannery Plant Be Built
By Local Concern At Uganik
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To participate iu the production of
Alaska’s sea foods for the world mar
ket and to extend their activities as a
Northland concern, the Kodiak Island
Fishing and Packing Company, a local
concern, will this year erect another
plant as an auxiliary to the one now
erected in Seward. For the purpose
of carrying that project to a conclu
sion W. J. Downie arirved in this city
on the last trip of the Northwestern
and on the departure of the Victoria
or Starr to the westward will journey
to Uganik, on Kodiak island, for tile
purpose of superintending the erec
tion of the buildings which will house
the plant.
Mr. Downie is no stranger to Seward
having actively engaged in the erec
tion of the plant alongside the Seward
dock approach, and to a Gateway rep
resentative he gave the following in
formation:
The plant at Uganik will be a mod
ern one run by water power similar
to the Seward plant, both the canning
and saltery departments^being electric
lighted. Winches, electrically driven,
will be used in hoisting the catch to
the cannery floor from the fishing
boats. The canning plant will be what
is known as a “one line*’ outfit anu
will be housed in a building 100 feet
by 30 feet iu dimensions and of two
story construction. The lumber for
this and other required buildings was
taken to the cannery site on the las*
trip of the freighter V’aldez. The ma
chinery and other mechanical aeces
sories will arrive in Seward on the
Victoria and it is expected that active
work in putting up salmon will be
commenced about June 1.
The company has been granted a
permit to put up 30,000 cases of sal
mon of all kinds, which will require a
crew of about forty persons. The salt
ery department will employ about
thirty, giving an additional payroll to
the westward of about seventy-five
persons, all of whom will be residents
of Alaska. The concern will receive
its supply of fish through the use of
its own nets and seines and by pur
chase of the individuals who engage in
fishing for the market. The production
in the main will be confined to the
size known as one-pound tails.
Mr. Downie will accompany the
machinery shipment to the westward
and at once engage his crewr in erect
ing the plant.
VIENNA COMMUNISTS STAGE
SMALL SIZED DEMONSTRATION
VIENNA, Apr. 28.—Five thousand
communist unemployed staged a dem
onstration outside of the parliament
building, firing pistol shots, throwing
stones, and attempting to enter the
building. Police finally cleared the
streets after being forced to use their
bayonets.
SAN FRANCISCO, Apr. 28.—Charles
Stetson Wheeler, an attorney and a
leader in California politics, who in
1920 placed Hiram Johnson in nomi
nation at the National convention died
suddenly this afternoon at his home
in this city.
FLOODS REPORTED FROM
MANY CANADIAN DISTRICTS
VANCOUVER, Apr. 27.—The most
severe floods for many years are re
ported from Manitoba and Saskatche
wan, owing to the swollen rivers be
ing choken with ice. Many farmers
are being driven from their homes
and hundreds of residents of the city
of Brandon are flooded out and are
living in tents on the high ground.
Railway traffic is demoralized and
bridges, culverts and roadbeds are be
ing washed out.
WASHINGTON, Apr. 28.—Fred M.
Ryder, American consul at Vancouver,
by instructed today by Secretary of
State Hughes to investigate the firing
on the American schooner Siloam, by
the Canadian fisheries patrol boa>t
which resulted in the death of J. M.
Yorke, a member of the crew.
The members of the crew who es
caped to the woods in Vancouver isl
and have not yet been caught. They
scuttled the Siloam before leaving
the vessel.
Capt. John Courage, master of the
American fishing schooner Siloam.
which was fired upon by the Canadian
fisheries patrol boat Malaspina, said
that the shelling of the boat by the
cruiser was uncalled for, and that he
was not fishing in Ca 9 -ian waters.
“I halted three different times, and
was not trying to get away,” he said.
“The crew of the Malaspina lined the
rail with rifles as they came toward
us and I threw up my coat and told
them to kill me and not my men.”
Capt. Courage asserted that Yorke
was killed while seeking shelter in the.
pilot house.
WATSON WARNS 0. S.
TO AVOID EUROPE'S
QUARRELS
PITTSBURGH, Apr. 28.—Expressing j
the hope that President Harding’s j
stand for a World Court would not l
split the Republican party Senator |
Watson in a speech today declared
that everything occurring in Europe
since the Senate refused to ratify the
League of Nations treaty has been a
fresh wrarning for the United States
to Keep out of European quarrels. The
Senator said that under the terms of!
the treaty America today would be
spending millions to maintain armed
forces in Europe.
VICTORIA HUS RECORD !
LIST OF THE SEASON
SEATTLE, Apr. 28.—The steamship
Victoria sailed this morning with 337
passengers including the crews of the
Uyak and Cordova canneries and a
large number of miners for Kennecott
and Latouche. The following were for
Sewrard: D. Mutchler, Dave Dunbar,
Ed Belmont, Leland Collins and wife,
G. B. Stevens, J. M. Fisher, M. Carr
and wife, J. A. Minich, Luke Carr,
Jos. Brown, F. F. Welch, W. T. Gill,
H. Price, G. C. Henderson and wife,
Mrs. T. M. Adams, R. M. Dillon and
wife, Mrs. F. H. Martin, Emma Gilles
pie, Miss F. Glass, Frank Murphy,
Peter Vachon, Miss M. Patton, Marga
ret McFadden, A. G. Hoffman and
wife, J. Passaic, Mrs. C. Dahl, P. S.
Peterson, M. V. Berresford, Gus Re
delback, Martin Graham, L. Johnson,
H. A. Browrn, Frank Wanter, Mat Me
kiva, 22 steerage.
LORD CECIL WANTS LEAGUE
TO INTERFERE IN RUHR
NEW YORK, Apr. 28.—Ending his
tour in America, Lord Cecil express
ed before an audience here the wish
that some great power would ask the
League of Nations to intervene in the
Ruhr.
fiSClSIl MFM3EDS FIGHT
ROME, Apr. 2S.—Deputy Giunta,
secretary general of the grand Fas
cisti council and Captain Forni, one
of the military leaders of the Fascisti
fought a duel with cavalry sabers,
both being wounded seriously. Their
seconds stopped the duel.
HARBIN, Manchuria, Apr. 2S.—
American Consul Tuck, at Vladivos
tok, announced that he is leaving the
Soviet Far Eastern capital with his
staff May 1, and advised all Ameri
cans in the country to do likewise.
SACRAMENTO, Apr. 28.—N. D.
| Coates, a negro, told the police to
day that John Golden, a Mexican em
ployed on the Southern Pacific set fire
to the Buddhist mission school April
15, in which ten Japanese children
perished.
HIGHLANDS, N. J., Apr. 28.—
1 Coast guardsmen today seized the mo
tor lighter Napeague with a cargo of
! 16,000 cases of whiskey as the boat
was en route from the rum fleet to
the New Jersey shore.
Medical Clinic Under Red Cross
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Established Southwestern Alaska
The Seward Chapter of Red Cross
having under its jurisdiction the ter
ritory west from Seward to Unalaska
has undertaken the task to provide
medical and dental services to the
people along the Alaskan peninsula
and islands. The matter has been
taken up with the Coast Guard Serv
ice and with Delegate Sutherland with
a fair measure of success.
There is attached to the Seward
Chapter a Jane Delano Nurse who has
visited the towns and settlements
west of Seward. This nurse, Miss
Stella Fuller, has found a very de
plorable health condition existing by
reason of the absence of doctors and
dentists to administer to the needs oi
the people. Not only the native pop
ulation but many whites as well in
these isolated communities requires
the services of surgeons, physicians
and dentists and they have not the
funds to secure aid if they could get
to where it could be had. Miss Ful
ler found a large percentage of the
children in need of operations for ton
sile and adenoids, and many suffering
from poor eyesight and tubercular af
fections.
Miss Fuller recommended to the
Chapter that government aid be se
cured to finance a free clinic, consist
ing of a physician, a surgeon, a den
tist and a nurse. That such clinic
should spend several months of the
summer traveling from place to place
and administer to the needs of the
people. Miss Fuller recommended
that as a permanent means of relief
‘there should be a hospital and tuber
culosis sanitarium somewhere along
the peninsula or at Seward.
The matter was turned over to Mr.
A. E. Rucker, vice chairman of the
Chapter, to take such steps as would
be necessary to bring the matter to
the attention of the Government. Mr.
Rucker laid the whole matter before
Delegate Sutherland and the U. S.
Coast Guard with the following re
sult:
The Coast Guard has replied that
they are agreeable to such clinic go
ing aboard any of its vessels for trans
portation to points of destination oi
the vessels, provided accommodations
are available on the vessels and the
paramount duties of the vessels are
not interfered writh.
The following wire was received
yesterday from Delegate Sutherland:
"Aaron Rucker, Seward Alaska.
“Your letter of February 24th re
garding health conditions at Unga,
Seldovia. Dr. Draper of Public Health
will have a conference with Red
Cross representatives about May 5,
and will try to have the two organi
zations may possible summer clinic
for relief people at Unga and Seldo
via. Delay in reply due to absence
from city of Mr. Hunt of Red Cross,
who has matter in charge. As soon
as conference held and decision reach
ed will wire you.
“H. E. SUTHERLAND,
“Secretary to the Delegate.”
It would seem that the local Chap
ter of the Red Cross is about to ac
complish a very fine thing and much
good may result.
SHIPPING BOARD IIS
FOR BIDS OH FLEET
WASHINGTON, Apr. 28—The Ship
ping Board this afternoon invited pri
vate shipowners to bid on all its ves
sels in a final effort to convey the fleet
to private owners.
PLAN Of WQHID COURT
WASHINGTOTN, Apr. 28.—Secre
tary Hughes addressing the American
Society of International Law tonight,
said that membership in the World
Court did not mean entry into the
League of Nations, adding “Those
who desire that the United States
shall become a member of the League
are indulging in vain hopes and those
who are alarmed at such a possibility
are entertaining vain fears.”
Saturday Gateway, |3 per year.
NEGOTIATE PEACE
DUBLIN, Apr. 28.—De Valera and
his chief of staff, E. F. Aitken, last
night proclaimed that they were ready
to negotiate peace with the Irish Free
State troops under certain conditions.
KINGSLEY, Kan., Apr. 28.—Declar
ing that 25,000,000 homes are being
robbed daily by this colossal holdup in
sugar,” Senator Capper advocated the
use of a buyers’ strike as a means to
lower prices.
BARKENTINE ABANDONED
HALIFAX, N. S., Apr. 28.—The Bri
tish barkentine Crutha, has been aban
doned in a sinking condition on ac
count of fire about 1000 miles east of
New York.
First Division Cast Nearly
Solid Vote Against Passage
FiSffilE! A0JUS1
DIFFERENCES Will
SEATTLE, Apr. 27—With the dif
ferences relative to seasonal pay for
fishermen operating in the Bering Sea
and the Gulf of Alaska points adjust
ed to the apparent satisfaction of the
Alaska Fishermen’s Union and the
Alaska cannery operators, four units
of the fisheries fleet got away for the
North this afternoon and the balance
of the fleet is to sail ^Saturday and
Sunday.
Those departing yesterday were the
ship Abner Coburn, J. Herry captain;
the bark W. B. Flint, C. Edwards,
captain; the ship Benjamin F. Pack
ard, D. Didrich, captain; the bark
Guy C. Goss, H. Burns, captain; the
Star of Lapland was also towed to sea
last night from the port of Blaine,
where she was loading box shooks.
WORKMEN KILLED WHEN
SCAFFOLDING COLLAPSED
LONGVIEW, Wash. Five workmen
were killed today when the scaffold
ing on the Hotel Monticello, which
was being repainted, collapsed.
CHICAGO, Apr. 28.—For April Chi
cago had 250,000 gallons ot' wine for
sacramental purposes, William Moss
Federal prohibition director announc
ed, adding that he proposed to see
that May consumption is not so large.
WOMEN’S CLUB VOTE TO
STOP PURCHASE OF SUGAR
DETROIT, Apr. 28.—The Federation
of Women's Clubs today voted to re
fuse to use sugar until the price has
returned to normal.
EIBL WITHDRAWS SUIT
in Bit RIIIH
NEW YORK, Apr. 288.—Dolires Dix
on this afternoon withdrew her suit
for $50,000 damages against Babe Ruth
the baseball star. The girl accused
the ballplayer of being the father oi
her illegitimate child, but Ruth show
ed that he was not even acquainted
with the girl whom he claimed was at
tempting to blackmail him. Mrs.
Ruth expressed her convictions that
her husband was innocent of tht
offense charged, declaring that at the
time Ruth was said to have assaulted
her he was playing ball in anothei
state.
CATTLEMAN TAKES SHOT
AT ‘FRISCO shier
SAN FRANCISCO, Apr. 28.—C. D.
Hillman, who served time at McNeil
island recently for Seattle land
swindling operations, was shot at to
day while crossing on one of the Oak
land ferries, the bullet going wild.
His assailant was E. D. Baker, a
Mendocino cattleman, who recently
was arrested on a warrant sworn out
by Hillman on a charge of rustling.
LONDON, Apr. 28.—Bonar Law is
going on a sea voyage for the benefit
of his health.
JUNEAU, Apr. 28.—The Women’s
jury bill which escaped death on
two former occasions finally passed
both houses yesterday afternoon, the
only requirement covering the ex
emption clause being that women de
siring to claim sex exemption must
mail a notice to that effect within
two days after being served with
the summons. Even though the mea
sure is now an act it narrowly escap
ed being defeated in the House, com
ing through with only one vote to
avoid a tie. The first division mem
bers went nearly solid against the
measure, Cole, Pollev and Shepard
casting a negative ballot on roll call.
Decker and Raelson of the Second;
Murray and Staser of the Third vot
ed against the adoption of the confer
ence report.
The employes liability measure hog
ged the attention of the Senate yes
terday when the bill providing for a
state industrial insurance and cov
ering all classes of industry met with
defeat, five to three. Scarcely had
this measure been acted upon when
the Ayers bill, which included com
pensation for workmen in mining in
dustries and allowing thirty per cent
compensation, was taken up and was
amended to include every form of in
dustry except farming, dairying, do
mestic service and railroads operating
as common carriers. Aldrich, First
division; Brown, Second division and
Snodgrass, Fourth division, were the
members supporting the industrial
measure. Other senators declared
that much data was necessary before
an intelligent expression could be se
cured to cover the merits of the pro
posed act. Their explanation was that
such a subject lacked the required
explanations which would absolve the
risk of injuring industries and at the
same time grant to the employes pro
tection. It was predicted that the of
fered amendment to the mining com
pensation act of 1904, making it al
most a blanket employes liability act,
would pass the senate without opposi
tion.
The Price fish bill dividing the ter
ritory into three divisions; one ex
tending to the southern border o:
Yakutat; the second from Yakutat to
Seldovia, and the third from Seldovia
west, passed the Senate with an ap
pended resolution instructing the at
torney general to bring only one suit
to test the legality of the law'. The
fishing seasons were defined as fol
1 lows; First section, forty days; sec
ond section, thirty days and twenty
days for the third section. This mea
sure is non-effective until January 1,
1924.
The Hunt Bill, making party nomi
nees ex-officio national committeemen
was deleted in the House.
The Senate passed Dunn’s bill on a
referendum on making the office of
Commissioner of Education elective.
PUNTER MID FM1Y
SHOT Bf MASKED MEN
HAWORTH, Okla., Apr. 28—Thos.
Hamill, a planter, his wife and Mrs.
Tope and her ten year old son, were
shot to death last night when they
were called to the door by two mask
ed men.
Officials with bloodhounds are now
scouring the country for trace of the
assassins.
RIFLE TEAMS TO COMPETE
WASHINGTTON, Apr. 27.—Teams
representing at least eight countries
will compete in the rifle and pistol
matches to be held at Camp Perry in
September.
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