" Heumrd B uily Gatemscy
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•'VOLUME 20. NUMBER 200
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1925
PRICE TEN CENTS
FOREST FIRES KILL
ELK AND DEER
IN OLYMPICS
THREE MEN ARE FOUR DAYS
WITHOUT FOOD OR WATER,
TRAPPED BY FLAMES
PORT TOWtfSEND, Aug. 14 (;P)—
It is reported that three men lost all
their clothing and were four days
without food or water when they were
trapped by a forest fire in the United
States forest reserve on the Olympic
peninsula. The first meal they had
consisted of a deer killed after it had
been crippled by a falling tree. The
trio were badly burned when found.
They report hundreds of deer killed
by the flames. In one creek the car
* casses of thirty deer and several elk
were found.
Forest fires have been raging the
past three weeks on the peninsula and
owing to the vast territory, it has been
impossible up to the present time for
the rangers to cope with the flames.
Numerous ranches and farms have
been burned over by the fire.
Seattle Instrument
Records light Shock
r _
SEATTLE, Aug. 14 (IP)—1The seis
mograph at the University of Wash
ington recorded an earthquake shock
I'at 4:08 yesterday afternoon, with a
maximilm intensity of 30 seconds. The
center of the 3hock wa* less than 200
miles from Seattle.
Republicans Nominate
To Succeed LaFollette
OSHKOSH. Wis., Aug. 14 (^)—Roy
P. Wilcox, of Eau Claire, was nomi
nated by the Republicans for the un
J expired term of Robert LaFollette, on
the fourth ballot, at the State con
vention today. It was made unani
mous by W. L. Pieplow, of Milwau
kee. who threw 183 votes to Wilcox.
“Smile With Nile” Saturday night.
Two Men Convicted of
Plot Kidnap Our Mary
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 14 (£>)—C. Z.
Stephens and Claude Holcomb were
f convicted in the Superior Court today
of conspiring to kidnap Mary Pick
ford and hold her for $200,000 ran
som. Adrian Wood was acquitted.
Richard Wakelin, commercial trav
eller, is a guest at the Van Gilder.
Preparations for the Shriners Ball
to be given at Odd Fellows hall Sat
urday night are well under way. Sev
eral fine electrical effects have been
^ made, and decorations will be the best
obtainable.
The seaplane is doing a good busi
ness many citizens taking advantage
of the low price to take a 15 minute
flight above the mountains and the
bay.
Nathan Robert Ballentine, boy
sculptor of Chicago, has received a
letter from President and Mrs. Cool
idge congratulating him on his work.
Dr. Thorek of the American hos
pital in Chicago has a new remedy
for bone infections which it is said
will greatly reduce the number of
.amputations.
Sensitivity of photographic plates
has been increased many fold by a
new substance found in small quan
tities in gelatin.
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‘“Smile With Nile” Saturday night.
FORMER ALASKAN CAUGHT
BY PROHIBITION OFFICERS
NEW YORK, Aug. 14 (£>)—Judge A.
Fink, a prominent Chicago attorney,
and his bride, formerly Miss Lucille
Roades, were placed under arrest this
week by coast guards, charged with
having liquor on their yacht, “Strol
ler.” The newly weds had been out
but two days when apprehended.
Judge Fink was in Nome in the ear
ly days where he practiced his pro
fession.
Four Killed When Train
On S. P. Road Hits Auto
EUGENE, Ore., Aug. 14 (£>)—Four
persons were killed by a Southern
Pacific passenger train which hit an
automobile near Harrisburg. Two
! children were also injured.
Prince of Wales
Reaches Montevideo
MONTEVIDEO, Aug. 14 (#>)—'The
Prince of Wales arrived in the har
bor last night aboard the warship
Repulse.
Gateway want-ads bring results.
NUKA BAY CLAIM
OWNER IN TOWN
FOR A FEW DAYS
John Gillespie, staker of the Chee
chako mine at Nuka Bay, arrived in
Seward at noon today on board the
power boat Rolph II, captain John
Smith. Mr. Gillespie will remain in
town for a few days purchasing sup
plies. It has been five months since
the well kno’svn oldtimer has been
in town, he stales. Work on the
property is progressing in a satis
factory manner, in fact, according
to recent visile"* to the ground, tun
neling has stared on the hillside at
about a 500 loor elevation. Assays
taken from the pays freak on thi3
ground reveal it to bi- on.* of the
richest quarts propositions in the
entire Nuka Bay region. Mr. Gil
lespie returns to the bay on the
same boat.
The cannery tender, Lady Jane of
Seattle, of the San Juan Fishing
and Packing company, arrived in
port this morning from Sawmill Bay.
It is reported the Shriners, who
are chuck full of initiativeness on
this trip will board Sunday’s train
for Anchorage, where they will hold
initiation before journeying on to
Fairbanks.
The dance tomorrow night at Odd
Fellows promises to be the hit of
the summer season, The Shriners
are putting it over, with the admis
sion, '“A Smile.”
TRAIN HITS AUTO;
DRIVER IS INJURED
YAKIMA, Aug. 14. (^—Though in
agony with a broken hip and other
injuries, received in a grade cross
ing smashup, Reuben V. Porter,
22, requested officials yesterday to
say in notifying his mother that
his injuries were not serious. “She
isn’t well,” he said. “Better tell
my sister first, and let her tell
mother.”
Porter and Lester Lundberg wrere
in an automobile on their way to
work, when his car was demolish
ed by an O.-VV R. & N. passenger
train at Mead aventlg. They were
carried nearly 400 feet by the train.
They said ’they did not know the
train was near until it struck them.
A. W. Godfrey was conductor and
C. W. Hill, engineer of the train.
“Smile With Nile” Saturday night.
RUSSIA WORKS FOR
UPBUILDING OF
COMMERCE
JEALOUSY OF GREAT POWERS
ENABLES SOVIET GOVERN
MENT TO SELL GOODS
BERLIN, Aug. 14 (/P)—Russia is
taking advantage of the jealousy and
rivalry among Great Britain, Prance
and Italy to make great headway
through commercial intercource with
Turkey, and now wields a powerful
influence with the Turkish govern
ment, Senator King, an irreconcilia
ble opponent of the Turkish-American
treaty for the re-establishment of dip
lomatic relations between the United
States and Turkey declared. He has
just completed a tour of the Balkan
States, Turkey, Syria, and Palentine,
and reports Kemal looking to Moslem
officials and Russia for its ideals.
COAST GUARD BEAR
ARRIVES NOME
UNDAMAGED
MANY VESSELS ANCHORED IN
ROADSTEAD AT NOME— MAUD
AT EAST CAPE, SIBERIA
NOME, Aug. 13 (£>)—'The U. S.
coast guard Bear is anchored off Nome
today, apparently undamaged. No one
has been allowed ashore as yet.
The Amundsen exploration ship,
Maud, is lying at East Cape, Siberia,
awaiting fuel from a Russian trans
port, which passed her during the
night and failed to pick up her wire
less. The coast guard Bear while
lying at Point Barrow and Cape Prince
of Wales communicated with the ves
sel, which will come to Nome* after
refueling.
The Hudson Bay ship, Baychimo,
and, Liebes Company boat, Brown, are
at Herschel Island, and expect to leave
there within the next day or so.
The schooner Holmes completed
discharging her cargo of lumber for
the Bureau of Education at Point
Barrow.
The Norwegian whale Vega is an
choraged in the Nome roadstead, from
Siberian ports.
Bells are being introduced to re
place horns on automobiles in Jerus
alem, as officials of the Holy Land
object to harsh sounds.
Experiments have proved that hay
may be cured by artificial heat as
well as by sunlight, also much more
rapidly.
Northwestern To Arrive
Here 6 Tomorrow Night
The steamer Northwestern of the
Alaska Steamship company, arrived
at Cordova this morning at an early
hour, according to the latest re.ports
received from the vessel. Just be
fore going to press today the Gate
way was informed that .the ship
would tie up to the dock at six o’
clock tomorrow evening.
The latest time on the Northwest
ern, given as 6 p. m. tomorrow should
be gladdening news for Sewardites,
and especially the Shriners who are
sparing no pains in their plans to
show their visiting Brothers the hos
pitality of Seward lodge.
A new siren that can be heard
above all city noises for several miles
has been installed at a Philadelphia
prison to give warning when convicts
escape.
“Smile with Nile” Saturday night.
President Coolidge and
Wife Return Plymouth
FITCHBURG, Mass., Aug. 14 (£>)—
Enroute to Plymouth, with the auto
traveling from Swampscott through
a heavy rainstorm, Mr. and Mrs.
Coolidge stopped at Ayer to exchange
greetings with their son, Corporal
John, who is attending a training
cari$ at Ayer. Both left the limou
sine, and kissed and talked to the
lad for several minutes, afterwards
proceeding at a 30-mile-an-hour rate
to Fitchburg, where they arrived at
noon in a heavy storm.
CHICAGO POLICEMAN LIKES
ALASKA VERY MUCH
Charles M. Gregg, chief of staff of
the Chicago police force, who has
been in Alaska for some time, will ar
rive in Seward tomorrow night on his
way to the States, after making the
trip over the Golden Belt. Mr. Gregg
is stopping at Lawing where he has
spent several days Ashing on Kenai
Lake and the creeks. He is much en
thused over Alaska.
“Smtfe With Nile” Saturday night.
Oxford Claims Invention
of Telescope As Its Own
OXFORD, Eng., Aug. 14. (/p)—Not
satisfied that credit for the invention
of the telescope had been properly
placed, the subject has been gone
into recently at Oxford with the
result that a claim is made that the
instrument was invented at Oxford
by an Englishman, and that the
only question to be decided is wheth
er that Englishman wa3 Roger Ba
con, or the Elizabethan philosopher,
Leonard Digges.
Supporters of the Oxford claim
credit Galileo with being the “great
est advertiser” of the telescope but
insist that he did not invent it, nor
did the Dutch spectacle makers, who
are accorded credit as the first who
made the telescope an article of
commerce.
In favor of the Oxford claim it is
pointed out that id the thirteenth
century Roger Bacon wrote: “Glass
es or diaphanous bodies may be so
formed that the most remote objects
may appear just at hand, and the
contrary, so that we may read the
smallest letters at an incredible dis
tance, and may number things, tho
ever so small, and may make the
stars also appear as near as we
please.”
However, it is admitted that at
: this time it is impossible to know
whether Bacon actually invented a
telescope or merely worked out the
theory upon which all magnifying
glasses are based.
As to the possibility of Digges, an
Oxford man, being the inventor, it
is said that in the middle of the 16th
century he found Bacon’s ideas in
a Bacon manuscript, now lost, and
went to work to produce glasses in
accordance with them. Digges died
young with his work unfinished and
it remained for his son, Thomas, to
assert the father’s claim as an in
ventor. The son is quoted as saying
his father often demonstrated his
glasses by reading from a distance
the numbers and letters on coins
thrown by friends on open fields.
“Smile With Nile” Saturday night.
An improved working model show
ing the relative size and movements
of the sun, earth and moon has been
made by a British inventor, for use
in schools and colleges.
Successful tests of the new 500,
000,000 candle-power light for air
mail landing fields were conducted
recently at Quantico, Va.
“Smile With Nile” Saturday night.
SHOOT TO KILL, ARE
ORDERS GIVEN TO
OREGON POSSES
NO TRACE FOUND OF ESCAPED
CONVICTS WHO FACE DEATH
WHEN CAUGHT
SALEM, Ore., Aug. 14 (/P)—Posses
searching for the three convicts who
escaped yesterday after killing three
guards and mortally wounding the
fourth. Any of the men caught will
face first degree murder charges with
out recommendation, which automati
cally means the gallows.
Rewards aggregating $3,000 will be
recommended to the 1927 legislature,
for the capture dead or alive of the
three convicts.
B. Jones, a brother to the dead
conviet, announced that his body will
be sent to Grants Pass for interment.
Thousands viewed the body today.
The funeral for the three guards
killed will be held Saturday.
Searching for C. V. Ivitts
Police announced today that they
are searching for C. V. Ivitts, former
attendant at the State hospital in con
nection with, the escape of the prison
ers. Ivitts told prison officials Wed
nesday night, shortly after the con
victs fled, that they kidnapped him
when they commandeered the taxi at
the hospital. He said they used him
as protection against the rain of bul
lets, and that Murray took $450 from
him, returning $40 to him later.
Police said Ivitts had ordered the
taxi, the driver of which was a for
mer convict. Ivitts failed to report
to the district attorney when ordered
to yesterday.
Rolph No. 2, Arrives
In From Nuka Bay
Captain John Smith, skipper of
the good ship Rolph II, pulled into
| port at noon today from Nuka Bay,
: crarying parts of mine machinery to
| be overhauled, and three passengers
I for this port. Captain Smith states
I this is the best time of the season
i to make the trip to the big quartz
I camp as the water trip is ideal. He
j plans returning to the bay tomorrow
or on Sunday.
SHENANDOAH TO TOW
BATTLESHIP TARGETS
LAKEHURST, N. J., Aug. 14. (JP)—
The dirigible Shenandoah left the
naval air station today for Newport,
R. I., where she will tow aerial tar
gets for the battleship Texas in anti
aircraft practice.
During her stay at Newport the
dirigible will operate in conjunction
with the cruiser Potoka.
Naval officers said the use of the
dirigible in towing anti-aircraft tar
gets was an innovation. By means
of cables the ‘targets will be suspend
ed 1,000 to 2,000 feet below the air
ship.
The ship was in charge of Com
mander Zachery Lansdowne and 38
men and officers were aboard.
FOUR MORE FURNITURE
MAKERS PLEAD GUILTY
CHICAGO, Aug. 14. (£>)— Four ad
ditional defendants among a group
of more than 250 furniture manu
facturers indicted recently for viola
tion of the Sherman anti-trust law
entered pleas of guilty and were fin
ed a total of $9,000. Pines ranged
from $1,000 to $5,000.
All were members of the National
Association of Chair Manufacturers,
fifty-five of whose officers and
members were indicted. Forty-nine
defendants in the chair group plead
ed on June 18 and accepted fines to
taling $166,000.