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VOLUME XXI, NUMBER 52
SEWARD,
ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1926.
PRIC^.TEN CENTS
Kodiak Physician Pleads Guilty; 4 Counts
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Still Found
On Vessel
Deceased
Fisherman
CORDOVA, Mar. 5. (AP)
_The body of Conrad Sil
vertson, which was found in
a boat at Montague Island
and brought here yesterday
was badly decomposed.
Silvertson was an old cod
fisherman, and usually made
his headquarters at Unga,;
and for many years was a:
sailor of no mean reputation
on the old mail boat Dora,
which, in its time had the
same run as the S.S. Starr,
with Capt. 0. A. Johansen as,
skipper.
Up to the time of his sud
den and mysterious demise
he was a caretaker of a fox
island.
A small still, which was
found on his boat at the time
by two native boys, led au
thorities to believe that
an over-indulgence of Home
Brew proved fatal, as no
signs of violence were found.
He was apparently ill when
he died.
Silvertson’s gas boat had
been taken in tow by a gas
boat owned by Steve Gail, a
trapper, bound for Esha
mym Bay, who also has been
missing since December.
Gail came to Alaska in
1911 and it is believed that
he has been lost in storms
that have been raging in this
vicinity since the time he
left with Silvertson.
COUNTESS CATHCART STAYS
NEW YORK, March 5 (^.--Count
ess Cathcart won the right to remain
in this country on a writ of habeas
corpus which was sustained on the
showing that adultery was not a crime
in the Union of South Africa.
JAPANESE LUMBER
SCHOONER TURNS
TURTLE ENTRANCE
OF GRAYS HARBOR
CUDAHY PACKING COMPANY’S
TUG PICKS UP THIRTY
FIVE OF CREW
WRECK WILL MENACE HARBOR
Believed To Have Struck On Sand
Bar, Becoming Unmanageable
HOQUIAM, Wn., Mar. 5. (JP)—The
Japanese steamer Horaisan Maru, out
ward bound with lumber for Japan,
turned turtle and sank off Grays Har
bor bar last night, according to a
wireless message from the tug John
Cudahy, which accompanied the Ho
raisan as pilot. The Cudahy also
wired: guess all of the crew got off
O. K.”
The Horaisan Maro was believed
damaged when she grounded and be
came unmanageable. The Cudahy
picked up forty-eight of the men and
reported the vessel sank across from
Grays Harbor bar in about thirty-five
feet of water.
It was pointed out that this will
cause a serious menace to naviga
tion, in both entering and leaving this
port.
These Terms of Court.
It seems to the average layman that some way
could be found to arrange the calendar of the U. S.
District Court in this Division with some regard to
the residents and the geography of (he division.
Again we witness the spectacle of a term of court
in the East end of the division with most of the cases
from the Central and Western part. This involves
not only a great and unnecessary expense to the Gov
ernment but litigants, witnesses, grand and petit ju
rors have to be absent from their homes, work and
business an unnecessary length of time, frequently
involving great financial sacrifice.
At the present term at Cordova there were three
important cases from Kodiak alone involving a great
many witnesses. These are taken past two cities
in which the Department of Justice maintains build
ings for court purposes; they wil1 be absent from their
homes about two months.
Now we can not see why a term of the district
court called for Cordova could not finish there the
business arising from the Copper River country and
Prince William Sound, then by dismissing all but one
member of the jury, adjourn to Seward and then hear
the cases arising from the Railroad Belt and South
western Alaska. The schedule should be arranged
with due regard to the arrival and departure of the
S.S. Starr so that the majority of the litigants, wit
nesses, etc., would be no more than two or three weeks
from their homes.
We understand that to the Westward there are
many who would 'ike to get their citizenship papers,
but on account of the uncertainty of the court terms
it is impossible for these people to get their papers
without great loss. Some of these applicants are
oldtimers and real pioneers of the Northland, they
are mostly independent fishermen and without figur
ing the loss of time involved it costs some of these
people $500.00 or more to get their citizenship un
der present conditions.
SURELY SOME EFFORT SHOULD BE MADE
TO CORRECT THIS!
jBALMY WEATHER IN FAIRBANKS AIDS
IN THE ASSEMBLAGE OF MONOPLANES;
ANCHORAGE SEEKING HEADQUARTERS
FOR NEWLY ORGANIZED CORPORATION
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Mar. 5. (AP).—With balmy spring weather pre
vailing here, the mechanics attached to the Wilkins party are making rapid
progress in the assembling of the big Fokker 3-engine monoplane, which is
already taking shape. They have completed the assembling the smaller
of the two planes and have moved it out of the hangar and onto the field,
but will not start the engine for another week.
Howard Mason, radio operator who was called by Wilkins from the
“Sandy” Smith advance supply party arrived here today and has joined the
flight squad. The planes are being assembled behind closed doors.
Fairbanks is preparing additional field space, which when completed,
will allow three-quarters of a mile of smooth surface for a take-off.
ADVANCE PARTY AT TANANA
TANANA, Mar. 5. (AP).—Malcolm “Sandy” Smith, Earl Rossman, An
derson and Waskey, arrived here and are buying supplies for their trip
to Betties, where they will outfit for the rest of the journey to Point Bar
row. The party will leave here with five dog teams, comprising a total of
45 dogs, and two Indian drivers. Smith said in a statement that his party
expected to reach Barrow 38 days from the time they leave Tanana, and
the route planned will be via Alatna, then following the mail trail to the
Koyukuk, thence to John River and over the summit of the Brooks range
which will virtually take them into the Arctic Region, their destination.
ANCHORAGE BUSY PREPARING FIELD
ANCHORAGE, Mar. 5. (AP).—The City Council has appropriated $3,
000 for the immediate construction of a hangar on the local aviation field,
comprising approximately thirty acres, with the view of creating a central
aviation base. It is believed here the new Eileson aerial company will
make Anchorage its headquarters following the termination of the Wil
kins’ expedition.
Mayor Chris Eckman has invited Capt. Wilkins and Major Lanphier to
visit Anchorage with their planes before starting for Point Barrow.
STOCKS
NEW YORK, March 5 (£>).—'The
rally of stock prices which yesterday
bolstered the market abruptly, was
checked today. A series of bear at
tacks on leading industrial shares
permitted resumption of short selling
on a large scale. The attack came
after prices were martted up from
one to nearly nine points in the first
half hour on the execution of a
large volume of overnight burning
orders. General Electric was driven
frmo 330to 323; American Can went
from 317 3-4 to 311; Hudson Mo
tors dropped from 114 3-4 to 110 1-2.
I
James Shea Sentenced To
Serve Eighteen Months On
Kodiak Manslaughter Onset
“BODY NEED NOT DIE” SAYS
LEADER CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
CHURCH
(C) HENRY MILLER. WA»H. D.C/
Mrs. Annie C. Bill, who has set
herself as successor to Mrs. Mary Bak
er Eddy as head of the Christian Sci
ence Church. She is a little middle
aged English woman, and predicts a
time when there will be no death.
She says when the majority of the hu
man race come to a right belief in the
power of mind over body death will
end. “Yes, I mean physical death—
actual individual death. The body
need not die. Instead of deterioration,
it can proceed to a higher self de
velopment.” Mrs. Bill's leadership is
denied by the mother church in Bos
ton. Her organization calling itself
the parent church has set up joint
headquarters at Washington and Lon
don.
CHAMBERLAIN WILL HAVE
FREE HAND AT LEAGUE
MEETING NEXT MONDAY
LONDON, March 5 (/P).—Austen
Chamberlain, British exchequer, will
have a free hand at the meeting of
the League of Nations which will
be held at Geneva, commencing next
Monday. This meeting will decide
the new permanent seats of the
league council. Chamberlain an
nounced he would do nothing to
militate against Germany from be
coming a member. Germany had
filed an application after her prom
ises were made when the Locarno
pact wras formulated, that she would
oppose the admission of new mem
bers except herself.
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First Batch Photographs
for 1926 Special Edition
Received from M. LaVoy
There never was a more interesting
group of photographs ever received
by any Alaskan newspaper than those
which arrived in the office of The
Gateway the other day from Merl La
Voy, Fox film photographer, Who re
cently left Nenana on the long over
land trip to Point Barrow and other
points along the Arctic Ocean.
Prior to his departure from Seward
the management of The Gateway had
a long discussion with Mr. LaVoy,
relative to this year’s special edition,
or annual number of The Gateway. In
Mr. Lavoy s opinion a rotogravure sec
tion would be a great deal more ap
preciated by the public at large, than
the individual pictures, as were pub
lished in the 1925 number. He stat
ed during the conversation he would
be only too glad to cooperate with The
Gateway in securing special pictures
for the 1926 edition, and large num
ber which he just sent in, are won
No Doubt Dr. Webb’s Unswerving Efforts in Combatting
Diseases In the Little Town of Kodiak Serve
a Strong Point for Leniency.
SHEA UNAWARE THAT BLOWS WOULD PROVE FATAL
Fifteen-Year-Old Self-Confessed Mail Robber Needed Some
Cash to Put Over Moonshine Affair—But Gets
Put Over the “Road" Himself
CORDOVA, Alaska, Mar. 5. (AP)—Practically all of
the grand jury indictments turned over to the present
term of the District Court, which convened here March
1, brought pleas of guilty.
Arthur E. Webb, charged with violation of the Terri
torial narcotic law pleaded guilty on four counts. His
sentenced will be dished out to him Saturday. Webb is
also wanted in Seattle for forgery. He went to Kodiak
last Fall posing as a doctor and is alleged to have a long
criminal record behind him. He left McNeil Island peni
tentiary last August, and is alleged to have stolen office
furnishing and the check book of Doctor A. E. McKib
ben, whom he met in prison..
James Shea of Kodiak, pleaded guilty and was sen
tenced to serve eighteen months at McNeil's penitentiary
on the charge of manslaughter which grew out of the bru
tal killing of P. J. Galvin. Galvin refused to pay a debt,
so Shea claimed. Shea was unaware that his blows upon
the man would prove fatal, but Galvin, it was pointed out
suffered from heart disease, which was brought out by
a coroner’s jury after the deceased had been found in
his cabin later, dead.
Cecil Kirk and Oliver Neubert, Anchorage soldiers,
pleaded guilty to a larceny charge. The case against Wm.
Pitts, indicted with the pair was dismissed, due to insuf
ficient evidence. Among the loot the pair admitted steal
ing was a bible and a volume of “World’s Heroes.”
Walter Shuravloff, fifteen-year-old Russion lad,
pleaded guilty to stealing a registered mail sack at Ko
diak of $200. He will be sentenced late next week. The
boy said part of the loot was spent in giving a moonshine
party to friends, and added “I wanted to entertain like
the grownups do.”
j Ross Moxley Wins
i North Saskatchewan
| Dog Race Today
[ PRINCE ALBERT, Sask., Mar.
J 5. (AP).—Ross Moxley, of The
I Pas won the Northern Saskat
■ chewan 160-mile, four-lap dog der
J by today, which gave him the
■ Premier King cup. His time was
■ 4 hours, 12 minutes and 20 sec
i onds.
* Eight thousand people say the
■ finish.
i Verner Johnson, of Big River
i was 2nd; Harry Clensky, of The
| Pas, third.
» The total time of the four laps
■ made by Moxley was 16 hours, 44
J minutes and 30 seconds; John
J son’s time was 16 hours, 44 min
■ utes and 9 seconds; Olensky’s
i time for the 160 miles was 70
J hours, 3 minutes and 21 seconds.
ders. Most of them are from the
Westward; photographs taken during
his three-months’ stay with the Ber
ing Sea patrol last summer. They are
unusual in that he procured scenes
which have been seldom taken before.
With these as a nucleus, the 1926
edition holds every promise of far ex
ceeding the biggest special edition
PROMINENT ‘BILL’
WILL LECTURE
TONIGHT
ANCHORAGE, March 5 (/P).—The
local “Ice Worm.’’ broadcasting sta
tion KFQD announced that District
Deputy Grand Exalted Ruler, L. F.
Kubley, of Ketchikan, who is here
making his first official tour of the
Elks lodges under his jurisdiction
will discuss Elkdom Friday night at
8:30 o’clock. The wave length is
300.
This will be the first time any
lodge official has ever sent a mes
sage by radio in Alaska.
FISH PRICES
KETCHIKAN, March 5 (£>).—Hal
ibut quotations: 13 3-4 cents and
six cents; salmon, 18 cents and ten
cenuis.
hardcastle
even published on Alaskan soil, that
which The Gateway issued last Decem
ber.
Mr. LaVoy said he anticipated visit
ing Seward next fall while en route
to the New York office of the film
corporation.