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VOLUME XX.
NUMBER 56.
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26,1925.
PRICE TEN CENTS
NEW GOLD STRIKE MADE IN SOUTHEASTERN SIBERIA
BODY OF SORTLAND
FOUND WHEN SUN
MELTS ICE
(Py Associated Press)
DENVER SPRINGS, Feb. 26.—The
body of Herbert Sortland was released
today when spring winds and the sun
thawed the ice where it had been held
for some time.
Sortland was killed in a vain effort
to rescue Miss Agnes Yailli on Longs
Peak, January 12th, where she was
caught in a blizzard. Sortland lay
but three hundred yards from the inn
where he worked.
COOLIDGE SIGNS BILL TO
AWARD FLYERS MEDAL
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(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 16
President Coolidge signed a bill to
day awarding the World Flyers a dis
tinguished service medal and advanc
ing them on the promotion list.
Rail Steel Mills Report
Good Business In Sight
(By Associated Press)
CHICAGO, 111., Feb. 26.—Production
of rail steel for reinforcing bars is
expected to shatter all previous rec
ords during the present year. A
survey just completed by the Rail
Steel Products association shows that
most mills are running at capacity
to meet the demand.
During the last 12 months produc
tion has totaled more than 225,000
tons, the survey shows. Advance or
ders from all sections of the coun
try have absorbed the output of most
mills for the first quarters of the
year, or up to April 1.
Great activity in the construction
of apartments, hotels, office build
ings and duplicate institutions, which
made 1924 a $5,000,000,000 building
year for America, is continuing thru
the winter period, the association
says.
Argentine Highway Would
Link All State Capitals
(By Associated Press)
BUENOS AIRES, Feb. 25.—The
building of a great national highway
to link up Buenos Aires with all the
state capitals of Argentina and from
which branches would be constructed
to important cities of each state is
proposed by the public works de
partment. It is understood that the
department will soon begin work
upon preliminary plans connected
with the project.
Foimer Minister of Public Works
Loza, who is the author of the idea
and who directed preparation of the
plans shortly before retiring from
the cabinet, says that the construc
tion could be financed by private
interests, in return for concessions
over more or less prolonged periods,
or by a system similar to that pur
sued in allowing railway conces
sions.
Mob Lynches Negro
Who Killed Police
Officer Sheveport
SHEVEPORT, Feb. 26.—A
mob today lynched Joe Airy, a
negro accused of slaying State
Highway Officer of this dis
trict. Airy was taken after he
had been wounded by a deputy
sheriff in a pitched battle be
tween the negro and deputy
sheriffs of Sheveport.
SEVEN DROWN IN
EFFORT TO SAVE
CREW OF VESSEL
EIGHTEEN SPANIARDS BELIEVED
TO HAVE PERISHED WHEN
CRYSTINA-RUEBA SINKS
(By Associated Press)
LA ROCHELLE, Feb. 26—Seven
men of the life saving station here
drowned when a lifeboat put out to
sea yesterday in an effort to rescue the
sailors of the stranded Spanish steam
er Crystina-Rueba, which capsized in j
the breakers. Eighteen Spaniards are
believed to have been lost, several
bodies being seen in the rigging where
they lashed themselves, and others of j
the crew are believed to have been
washed overboard, y ~
BANDITS STOLE
| MAN’S MONEY,
CAR AND WIFE
(By Associated Press)
YOUNGSTOWN, O., Feb. 26.—A fly
ing squad of Youngstown police was
sent out along the road to Newcastle,
Pa., following reports from Howard
Preble that he had been robbed of his
money, his automobile, his wife and
four children.
The robber who held up Preble was
said to be headed towards Youngstown
in Pennsylvania. Preble lives near
New Castle and, according to his re
port, the robber took his money, or
dered him out of the car, and then,
leaping into the driver’s seat, drove
off with Mrs. Preble and the four
children, one of whom is an infant of
one year.
MUSIC WRITERS HELPED
BY INVENTIVE PRIEST
RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb. 16.—Father
Lucas, a Catholic priest, is the inven
tor of a machine for writing music. He
claims to have spent thirteen years in
perfecting the apparatus, which is
now exhibited locally. It is built on
the pattern of a typewriter, with a
similar keyboard, and an arrangement
near the roller for drawing lines on
the staff.
LIFER AT LEAVENWORTH GAVE
NAME TO FAIRBANKS SLOUGH
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Feb. 26.—(AP)—Vuca Perovich, a lifer
at Leavenworth penitentiary killed a man named Jacobs in the year
190o at the mouth of Dead Man s Slouch, a few miles from Fair
banks and which had obtained its name from the killing.
Perovich was tried here by Federal Judge James J. Wicker
sham and was convicted and sentenced to be hanged from a scaf
fold which was built at the time.
LeRoy Tozier, well known attorney who died about three months
ago defended him with money advanced by Peter Vidovich a fel
low countryman, who later died in New York en route to his native
land i a fortune sewed in his clothes. Just before his death he
was ... Washington, D. C., with Tozier, seeking to aid P<-o-ich to
get a release.
EBERT SERIOUSLY
! ILL FOLLOWING
HIS OPERATION
(By Associated Press)
BERLIN, Feb. 26.—President Ebert
who was operated on Tuesday for ap
pendicitis, has developed peritonitis
and his condition is serious today. Lit
tle hope has been held for his recov
ery.
WARRANT FOR ARREST OF
EIGHTEEN SENATORS IS
RAPIDLY BEING SERVED
(By Associated Press)
DAYTON, Feb. 26.—A blanket war
rant for the arrest of eighteen demo
cratic senators who fled to Indianapo
lis yesterday in a contest over the
Gerry Mandering bill, was served on
sixteen of them today. Jerome Brown
who -was mandated to bring the law
makers home, reported they had de
fied his authority and refused to ack
nowledge the warrant. He announced
he would follow them wherever they j
i went.
FIRST STEEL SPAN
FOR BRIDGE IS
ON THE YUKON
The first steel span approximately
110 feet in length, for the new railroad
bridge at Ferry, is being shipped north
from the South on the Yukon. Two j
spans will be placed in position be
fore the ice goes out of the Nenana
river, the second span being sent to i
Alaska probably within the next thirty
days. It is estimated that about 40 j
i cars will be necessary to move the
steel from Seward to the bridge site
at Ferry, Mile 371.
Work on the piers during the win
ter has progressed very satisfactorily,
it is stated, under the supervision of
C. H. Holmes, bridge engineer, and
foreman James McGill. About forty j
men are in the crew. The members j
i of this crew have received much glory j
throughout the winter for the splen-;
did progress maintained even during !
the bitter weather and extreme cold ;
which have been prevalent more or |
less for the last two months. Ferry is i
one of the coldest points on the Alas- j
ka Railroad.
Crane No. 6 will be sent north to the
bridge site to assist in swinging the
large span into position.
MEN WHO TRIED
KILL AGED PAIR
ARECAPTURED
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 26—
A man called “Lou,” arrested
today here, and Ralph P. King,
previously arrested at Sacra
mento, are alleged to have con
ramento,, are alleged to have
conspired with a wealthy San
Franciscoian to kill Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Hotaling, rich resi
dents of San Francisco.
The plot came to light when
Fred Hotaling found a bottle
of poisoned milk at his door.
Police say the wealthy man
who is being sought, hired
King and Lou to shoot the
Htitalings, but the hirelings
changed to poison to avoid the
shooting. King was a former
Honolulu policeman.
GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS
KEEPING CLOSE WATCH
OVER MINING ACTIVITIES
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Twenty Thousand Miners are Rushing Into New
Gold Discoveries In Siberia—Allowed
Only Four Months in Country
—
SOVIET OFFICALS GOVERN ALL CLAIMS
!
POSSESSIONS DEAD LEADER WRANGELL PARTY
IN HANDS OF SOVIETS AWAITING PROOF
OF OWNERSHIP
SEATTLE, Feb. 26.—Twenty thousand min
ers have rushed to the gold discovery in South
eastern Siberia, two hundred and fifty miles to
the Northeast of Blagovyeschensk, on the head
waters of the Aldon river, tributary of the Lena
river, Olaf Swenson, president of the wholesale
fur company of Seattle, declared on his return
from Vladivostok.
“Owing to the great excitement throughout
Russia, on account of the strike, the Soviet gov
ernment has closed the camp. No additional
prospectors are permitted to enter the district
and no person is allowed to take out over nine
thousand rubles in gold, and no one can remain in
the district over four months. Food and instru
ments are packed in on the back and most of the
prospectors are ready to go out at the end of the
four months’ period, nine thousand rubles being
considered a fortune in the country. A number
of Russians are taking advantage of the stam
pede ; all the miners using the old fashioned rock
er to wash out their gold. No cleanups on the
claims are allowed unless under government su
pervision, and exact records are kept by govern
ment officials.”
Swenson said that he reached Vladivostok a
few days after the death of Wells, leader of the
Wrangell party, and said Wells died in a hospital
there while awaiting a permit to leave Russia.
Swenson also declared that the furs and other po
sessions of Wells were stored in Vladivotok wait
ing proof of ownership.
TRAVEL OVER POLISH CORRIDOR TO
DANZIG CAUSES MANY DIFFICULTIES
MARIENBURG, ‘East Prussia, Feb.
26.—The Polish Corridor has proba
bly been the promoter of more pro
fanity than any other creation of the
Versailles Treaty. It separates East
Prussia entirely from the rest of Ger
many, being a narrow strip of terri
tory which connects Poland with the
Baltic Sea. Therefore all railway trav
el to Russia and the new Baltic states
as well as East Prussia, must pass
over this corridor, and nobody can
enter Danzig from the west by land
without touching Polish soil.
While Polish visas are required for
all persons who wish to enter Danzig
by rail from the west, few travelers
going from Berlin or other cities in
the west know the regulation. Dan
zig is a free city. No Danzig visa is
necessary to enter that city. Conse
quently tourists assume that a trip
from Hamburg or Berlin to Danzig
does not involve any border difficul
f ties. But there is great disillusion
j ment when they reach the Polish Cor
ridor. All passengers destined for
Danzig, who have no Polish visa, are
locked into cars which are sealed
while the trains stop in Danzig and
are not unlocked until the train
reaches German soil again in this
city.
Consequently, Marienburg has be
come a popular refuge for travelers
who have no Polish chop on their pass
ports. This city has become the
chief station on an underground rail
way leading into Danzig and on an av
erage 60 motorcars daily leave Marien
burg for Danzig, taking a highway
which does not touch Polish territory
between Marienburg and Danzig.
This traffic in amazed passengers
who are scarcely able to understand
what the mystery is all about is in
no sense illegal. It is merely a clev
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