MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXI, NUMBER 222.
SEWARD ALASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30,1926.
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Circuit Court Appeals
Reverses Dome Lease
to Sinclair,
REMANDS DECISION OF THE DISTRICT COURT OF
CHEYENNE, WYOMING, UPHOLDING THE TEA
POT DOME LEASE WHICH INTERESTS OB
TAINED FROM GOVERNMENT WHILE FALL
WAS SECRETARY OF INTERIOR
SINCE! ANNOUNCES WILL APPEAL TO SUPREME COURT
Consolidated Oil and Pan-American Petroleum Com
panies Lose a Point on the Bond Market, as Result of
Decision—Government Based Its Suit for Annulment,
Charging Fraud
IM ST. LOIUS, Sept. 30. (IP)—The Circuit Court of Ap
> peals has reversed and remanded the decision of the dis
trict court of Cheyenne, Wyoming, upholding the Teapot
Dome lease which Harry F. Sinclair and his associates
obtained from the government while A. B. Fall was Sec
retary of the Interior.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30. (/P)—Sinclair announced
he would appeal to the Supreme court from the decision
rendered at Saint Louis yesterday.
NEW YORK, Sept. 30. (/P)—The Sinclair Consoli
dated Oil and Pan American Petroleum lost a point on the
bond market.
SAN FRANCISCO/ Sept. 30. (/P)—Other major oil
companies refused to meet the reduction from 20 to 19
cents a gallon in the price of gasoline made by the Rich
field Oil company. n
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"THIS IS REPUBLICAN
TEAR" SEN. PHIPPS;
' DEMOCRAT REPLIES
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SENATOR BAYARD, DEMOCRAT,
CALLS PHIPPS UNCONSCIOUS
HUMORIST
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30. {IP)—Cen
ator Phipps said “This is a Republi
can year and the people have undim
inished confidence in President Cool
idge. I believe he should be support
ed by the majority of members of con
gress which will help him to maintain
the most abundant prosperity the
country has ever had.” Senator Bay
ard, democrat, said Western farmers
would take Phipp’s statement “with
their tongues in their cheeks," and
called Phipps an unconscious humor
ist.
NEWARK, Ohio, Sept. 30. (^—Sen
ator Willis, in opening the Republi
can State campaign, said the endorse
ment of repudiation of the adminis
tration of President Coolidge is the
dominant issue of former Senator
Pomerene who opposes him.
New members for the local cable
*V*nd radio staff were among the ar
rivals last evening from the Interior.
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ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 30. (JP)—
Government efforts to annul the fam
ous Teapot Dome oil lease to the Har
ry F. Sinclair interests carried the
case into the United States Qircuit
court of appeals.
Defeated in the federal district
court in Wyoming in June, 1925, the
government’s special counsel con
tinued their fight by taking an appeal
to the circuit court of appeals for the
Eighth judicial district.
Arguments on the appeal were
heard by the court in St. Paul on May
17, 1926 and the case taken under ad
visement late that day by Judges Wil
liam S. Kenyon, presiding and Arba
S. Valkenburgh and William A. Cant
But long before the case started,
its somewhat tempestuous journey
through the courts, it had gained the
attention of the nation, involving
grave charges against the then Sec
retary of the Interior, Albert B. Fall,
and others.
From that time back in April, 1922,
that reports became current in Wash
ington that Secretary Fall had leased
the large Wyoming naval oil reserve
^to Sinclair’s Oil company* chronolo
gically the case ran its course about
as follows:
Reports of the lease to Sinclair
were confirmed by Secretary Fall on
April 21, 1922.
The Senate oil committee then was
created with Senator Walsh of Mon
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CIVILIZATION IS
DOCTOR ANNA S. KEARSLEY, FOR
THIRTEEN YEARS PHYSICIAN
AMONG NATIVES OF ALASKA,
VO ICES "OPINION IN SEATTLE
NOT ONE IN 100 IS BENEFITED
Should Be Permitted to Remain in
Former Primitive State and Hunt
and Fish as They Did for Ages
SEATTLE, Sept. 30.(^) — Civiliza
tion is rapidly exterminating the In
dians and Eskimos of Alaska, Doctor
Anna S. Kearsley, for 13 years physi
cian among the natives of the Terri
tory. She declared “the white man’s
civilization is ruinous to the natives.
They want to be civilized and the
government wants to civilize them but
they seem to absorb all the bad
things of a white man's life and none
counteracting the good things. They
should be allowed to remain in their
former wild state and hunt fish as
they did for ages. Not one in a hund
red is benefited by education. Their
habits are uniformly filthy and unsani
tary and when they attempt to live as
a white man. As savages they throve
as wards of the government, but now
they are dying out.”
Dr. Kearsley recently resigned from
the government hospital at Wrangell.
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BULLETIN SERVICE WILL AGAIN
BE SUPPLIED SEWARD
. DRUG STORE
Inning by inning the World Series
will be sent special to The Gateway
due to advance arrangements made
with the Associated Press. The first
game between New York and St.
Louis will be played in New York on
Saturday beginning at 9:30 a.m. Sew
ard time and will be published in de
tail in each issue of The Gateway be
gining with the Saturday paper.
As was the case in the Dempsey
Tunney championship heavyweight
battle, the Seward Drug Store will
bulletin the games, inning by inning.
As soon as the results of the innings
are received in The Gateway office
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they will be sent to the Seward Drug
store.
BLONDE MARRIES NEGRO
BROCKTON, Mass., Sept. 30. (jp)—
Edythe Willen, 18-year-old pretty
blonde high school girl, will wed
Clarence Aiken, a negro, it was re
vealed at the marriage license bu
reau yesterday. The couple have the
consent and blessing of the girl's
parents.
Barricaded Their Shaft
When Cave-in Occurred;
Expected Early Rescue
FORTY-THREE MINERS TRAPPED FOR FOUR
t DAYS IN CAGE SHAFT ARE RESCUED—AMPLE
WATER OWING TO PIPING SYSTEM IN MINE
MINIATURE COOK STOVE MADE FROM TOBAC
CO CAN
LITTLE BIO EFFECTS AFTER BEING BURIED ALIVE BITS
All Sent to Hospital to Recuperate—Spirits of All Excel
lent While Underground—Faces Covered with Iron
Dust and Beards, When Emerged from Shaft
IRON WOOD, Mich., Sept. 29. (JP)—The 43 miners
who were trapped in the cage shaft, were found alive
when Oscar Olson, a miner, climbed up from the bottom
and talked to Thomas Trewartha, imprisoned shaft boss.
He said the men were well and on their feet and that
they have been living on birch bark tea. Preparations are
being made to take the men out of the shaft. The rescue
may take hours 3s, many feet of the. shaft is a dangerous
passage.
IRON WOOD, Mich, Sept. 30. (JP)—The miners were
lifted to the surface and sent to the hospital to recuperate.
The men’s faces were covered with red ore dust and heavy
beards. They came back into the world through a shaft
adjoining the opening which was closed Friday, leaving
their improvised camp on the eighth level. The miners
descended to the bottom of the wrecked shaft and at the
bottom, a half mile from the surface, the men entered an
adjoining shaft where they were hoisted to the top.
Samuel Sykelma was the first to come up. As he went to
the mine rescue car he told the nurse he wanted to get
washed up before he saw his wife, who was in the waiting
crowd. Sykelma said "I feel just like Friday, when we
heard the first rescuer's blast, everybody said we would be
all right but we figured we would be up by Saturday
night. We set off one stick of powder as a signal and
pounded on an iron pipe. We were careful in taking care
of our watches so we could tell the time.”
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IRONWOOD, Mich, Sept. 30. (£>)—
Mr. Olsen, chief engineer, spent four
hours with the miners and prepared
a gangway of egress. He told of their
experience saying "water was plenti
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ful due to a piping system in the
mine throughout all the hours of de
lay the men kept up their spirits.
Only one or two were a trifle discour
aged. The minute the first cave-in
was over they blocked the shaft tear
ing up rails and putting timber to
stop falls of dirt and converted an
old tobacco can into a miniature cook
stove, taking a piece of fuse and wrap
ping it and placing it in the can as
a wick. On this they cooked birch
tea. They heard us coming and they
told m they figured getting out on.
the same raise as I came up but found
it blocked. Trewartha, mine foreman,
knew the old raise was there. Ed
Ninnez, who was trapped a few
years ago, gave them many sugges
tions.
IRONWOOD, Mich., Sept. 30. (JP)—
Six workers reached the twentieth
level of the shaft which caved in Fri
day Imprisoning 48 miners on level
SKIES LIFE OF GIRL,
IS«BIO CHECK
COPENHAGEN, Sept. 30. {^—Sev
eral weeks ago Christian Olsen div
ed from the deck of a steamer and
rescued a young British woman from
drowning. He never learned her
name but he has just received a check
for five thousand dollars and a let
ter of thanks from the young woman’s
who still keeps her identity a secret.
QUEEN MARIE BOBS HAIR
BUCHAREST, Sept. 30. (/P)—Queen
Marie who has bobbed her hair and
announced an early visit to American
meets complications when the Ruman
ian foreign office said that she is not
to make the journey to the United
States.
113 and 118. The workers found the
shaft clear to the eighteenth level but
were unable to ascertain how far up
wards it was clear. They expressed,
the hope of reaching the tenth level
today. .„.#!!