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VOLUME XVIII NUMBER 2 >1
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1923
PRICE TEN CENTS
PEKING, Oct. 25.—Tao Kun, the
new president of China, briefly ad
dressed parliament at his inaugura
tion today stating that he fully real
ized the seriousness and responsibili
ties confronting him but hoped for
success in promoting the welfare of
the Republic. Touching upon foreign
relations he said “That in the past
years foreign powers had given much
assistance to China, but no nation can
expect help if it does not first en
deavor to help itself.”
“We intend to adjust foreign debts
* and fulfill all our treaty obligations,
and promote friendly relations and
harmony among the many provincial
authorities and not only are we go
ing to put down banditry but also
cut down military expenses.”
The celebration of the anniversary
of the Chinese Republic was termed
“Humiliation Day,” as a protest to
the election of Tao Kun. Flags were
flown at half mast and mass meet
ings took place as a protest.
JUNEAU OFFICERS FIND A
LARGE STILL ON ISLAND
Part of the equipment of the larg
est still ever discovered in the Juneau
district was found Saturday night in a
raid on Shelter island, by A. G. Means,
Federal prohibition agent; W. Feero,
deputy L". S. marshal and Game
Warden Goddard. The still was locat
ed on the north side of the island,
and the equipment w’as found in a
small cabin built especially for the
purpose and well hidden. Most of the
equipment had been moved away, but
a quantity of mash made of cracked
corn and chicken feed and a number
of barrels having a capacity for 500
gallons of mash were found. One bot
tle of whiskey testing over 100 per
cent was discovered under a log. A
warrant was issued for the suspected
party.
HERRING RUN DROPPING OFF
While the herring run has been good
in the vicinity of Sawmill bay and
Latouche, the pack has not been as
large as expected, and for the past two
weeks the run has slackened. The
herring have been fine this season and
the pack is an excellent one. The
present herring market is high owing
to lightness of the pack.
SUIT OVER SALVAGE
In the district court at Ketchikan
the admiralty case of G. H. Tozier and
others represented by Attorneys A. H.
Ziegler, against Grover Cleary et al.,
has been on trial. The plaintiff is
seeking to recover salvage money to
be determined by the court for having
“saved the gasboat Islander.” Cleary’s
attorney tendered $50 in court as set
tlement but this was refused.
USE BOTTOM OCEAN
LONDON, Oct. 25.—Discovery by a
cable repair ship that the bed of the
ocean in the vicinity of St. Helens has
risen two miles during the last twenty
years has led to a belief among sci
entists that the whole southern Atlan
tic ocean bed is undergoing a vast
submarine convulsion.
The discovery of this strange phe
nomena was made recently when it
was reported by the Eastern Cable
Company that their cable between St.
Helena and Capetown was broken at
a spot some 800 miles north of the
Cape. The cable had been laid in
1892 and had been in constant use.
On its arrival at the designated
spot the repair ship reported to Lon
don that instead of the water being
2700 fathoms, or over three statute
miles in depth, as stated on the chart,
it was only a little over three-quar
ters of a mile deep.
CARIBOU ARE MIGRATING
Herds of migrating caribou are said
to be crossing the Richardson Road as
far south as Poplar Grove, 87 miles
from Chitina. From all indications
the main herd wilj-- swing farther to
the south than usual owing to devas
tation caused by the fires the past
summer.
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OKLAHOMA CITY, Oct. 25.—News
papers and the public generally were
dumbfounded at the outspokenness of
Governor Walton in denouncing the
Ku Klux Klan before the special ses
sion of the legislature, composed
largely of adherents and friends of the
Klan. He said: “I seek enactment of
an anti-KIan law to save our state
from disaster through the existence of
this secret organization, this all pow
erful and most demoralizing super
government which is undermining the
very cornerstone of the foundation of
our government and which is sapping
the lifeblood of our citizens by its
illegal acts of terrorism. Assassins,
arsonists and hooded miscreants have
no place in this commonwealth ol
ours.”
RAFT OF WOOD GETS AWAY
A raft comprising 75 cords of wood
broke away from its moorings on the
Dawson water front recently and went
down the river. The owner so far has
not located the raft, which was valued
at $750.
NINETEEN POUND RUTABAGA
Paul Meyers of Eklutna, where he
has a farm, is exhibiting a 19 pound
rutabaga.
CHEW OF TOBACCO CHOKES
FOOTBALL PLAYER TO DEATH
CLEVELAND, Oct. 25.— Chester
Mares, aged 23, semi-professional play j
er, died here this week, a chew of to
bacco lodging in his throat, while he
was running, choking nim to death.
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CIIIPPEW A FALLS, Wis. Plunging
from a railroad bridge to the Chip
pewa river, 25 feet below, Marylin
Jean Anderson, 8V2 months old, kept
herself afloat by employing bathtub
kicking tactics and gurgled with de
light when she was rescued uninjured.
Her mother fainted while crossing
the bridge, dropping the baby. The
little one floated on her back and
kicked vigorously, by chance heading
shoreward where she was rescued by
Leonard Gifford, 15, wTio waded in and
carried her to safety.
STORM SEVERE AT CORDOVA
The recent storm struck Cordova
quite hard, according to reports, tear
ing up sidewalks and causing other
damage. At Teikhel the loop was re
ported washed out. Chitina had a bad
rain storm.
NO CABLE TODAY
The cable is down, the radio has
ceased operation and the land lines
are haywire. Getting out a daily pa
per under such conditions is like sit
ting on Marathon and looking for lo
cals. The land line is down between
Valdez and Fairbanks, the cable is
broken in front of the town, and the
radio suspended operations because it
had no money to pay for help. Other
towns have both radio arid cable, but
Seward gets the jinks.
BRIDGE CLUB
The Seward Bridge Club will meet
on Friday afternoon at 1:45 at the
home of Mrs. George Sexton.
KENNECOTT HAS SMOKER
The lightweight championship now
rests on the brow of the well known
songbird who goes by the name of
Bough House McCarthy, where It was
placed Saturday at the smoker, in
which the new champ, severely pun
ished Slinkey the Siwash pug, who
previously won from a Filipino.
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NEW AMATEUR GOLF CHAMPION
Max Marston, the new amateur & olf champion of the United States.
He won his title on the Flossmoor L inks, Chicago, from such super-goll'ers
at Bobby Jones, Chick Evans and F rancis Ouirnet.
CHITINA MARSHAL AND BAD
MAN GO TO MAP TOGETHER
CHITINA: Gus Wilson and Deputy
U. S. Marshal Boyer went to the mat
last week In an attempt to settle who
was boss of the camp, and when the
dust settled Wilson was handcuffed
and taken to a doctor, where his head
was sewed together.
Wilson, who has the reputation of
“eating ’em raw,” got soused and
began looking for the marshal. Upon
running his quarry to earth Wilson at
tempted to crack Boyer’s skull with a
wrench he was carrying. Boyer side
stepped and worked on Wilson so vig
orously that it will be a week before
he realizes how it happened.
LOGGER LOST FIVE DAYS;
IS RECUED LAST FRIDAY
JUNEAU; After being lost for five
and a half days, Peter Meikelson, a
logger, was found this week by a par
! ty under charge of Commissioner V. A.
Paine. Meikelson aside from hunger
and his hands severely scratched by
devil’s club, was little the worse for
his experience. Meikelson was found
on a long spit extending out into Sey
mour canal about seven miles from
where he went into the woods deer
hunting. He crossed the divide with
out being aware of it, and after re
gaining the canal side worked his way
back to the shore and followed it to
ward Oliver Inlet. When he found
himself on the spit he became doubt
ful of his bearings and remained there
until rescued. He subsisted entirely
on clams during his stay there, being
without food. He was well supplied
with matches and had a fire at his
camp each night. Miekelson has re
covered with the exception of his fes
tered hands.
PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE
INSPECTS SCHOOL CHILDREN
Inspection of the children in the
public school of the First division has
been started by Marie E. Falldine, a
public health nurse. She finds a
wonderful improvement in the health
of the children since theV we* in
spected last year.
NOTICE TO OUR READERS
The Gateway has not received a line
of live telegraphic matter today, ow
ing to all communication being cut off
and our telegraphic matter is the slop
accumulated in the past few days, and
crowded out. The wires will proba
bly be working manana, or some day
in the near future.
FOREST FIRES RACING
DULUTH, Oct. 18.—-Huge forest
fires are raging ovet- the northern part
of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Miqhi*
gan.
M’ALLISTER JOINS BURFORO
IN TYPEWRITER AGENCY
J. K. McAllister has joint'd the J. B.
Burford Typewriter and Bui roughs
Adding Machine Agency at Juneau and
will be in charge of the local office at
i that place. Mr. Burford will continue
his work in handling outside business.
Mr. McAllister has been cashier in
the local office of the Pacific Steam
ship Company for several months and
| before that time was purser on the Es
tebeth. Mr. Burford is an expert on
L. C. Smith typewriters and Bur
roughs Adding Machines.
The firm has the business formerly
established by E. S. Hewitt & Co.
I ADVERSE REPORT OVER
AMALGAMATION OF BOARDS
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W ASHING TON, Oct. 25.—An ad
i verse report will be submitted to the
President by the joint Army and
j Navy Board if its opinion is asked
upon the proposed amalgamation of
the War and Navy Departments into
, a Department of Defense. Such a
j pino.tt. ‘.tnBiu.io.ini kns saaqaiom ‘aAora
: materially sacrifice the mobility and
efficiency of our National Defense.
The proposal for the department con
solidation is expected to be laid be
fore Congress shortly.
DELLWOOD HITS HEAVY SEAS
The cableship Dellwood, now work
ing near Valdez, encountered very
| heavy seas, while repairing teh cable
I 200 miles south of Sitka. For five
days huge swells sent the heavy
buoys used in cable repair work many
feet under water.
SEPTEMBER RAINFALL A RECORD
The rainfall at Juneau for Septem
ber was the heaviest recorded at the
Weather Bureau there since 190S,
and has been exceeded only three
times in 32 years according to an of
cial summary of last month’s weather
conditions issued by R. L. Mize, mete
orologist in charge. More than 16
inches of rain fell during the thirty
day period and 3.01 inches in 24
hours on the 30th.
PORTER H. DALE WILL CARRY
BANNER VERMONT IN 1924
UON_PELIER, Oct. 25.—In a cam
paign dominated by a prohibition is
sue Porter H. Dale was nominated by
Republicans as their candidate to sue
ceed the late Senator Dillingham. He
will be opposed by Park H. Pollard,
Democratic nominee and a cousin of
President Coolidge.
HEAVY GALE AT UNGA
A heavy southeast gale is bidwing
at Unga todays The barometer Jg
29.10 and temperature 54.
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8 NOME, Alaska, Oct. 25-Sat- 8
8 urday, October 27th, is Navy Day, 8
8 and the Mayor ot' Seward is re- 8
8 quested to issue a proclamation 8
8 requesting the press and’ schools 8
8 to observe this anniversary with 8
8 public and radio talks telling 8
8 something of the glorious history 8
8 of our Navy. 8
8 CARL J. LOMEN, 8
8 Navy Day Chmn. for Alaska. 8
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NEW YORK, Oct. 25.—Senators
Ladd of North Dakota and King ot
Utah, with Representative Frear of
Wisconsin, who recently returned
from a tour of Russia where they are
alleged to have studied conditions
first hand, announced the yfavored
steps to be taken by the Un:;ed States
to establish a trade treaty with Rus
sia. They found conditions much bet
ter than reported.
Representative Britton, however,
who recently had advocated trade re
lations with that country, told Presi
dent Coolidge that he is now opposed
to any form of recognition of the So
viet government, which he said is “a
visionary government, whose very
foundation is based on murder, anar
chy and theft.”
DECLARATION OF WAR
SHANGHAI, Oct. 25.—Sun Yat Sen,
South Chinese constitutional leader,
has declared war against the new
1 president of China, Tsao Kun.
RADIUM DEPOSIT FOUND
Hans Thorsen, of Teller, reports
the discovery of a creposit of pitch
blende containing radium near Gold
Run.
LARGE SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
The Ketchikan public school has
the largest enrollment of pupils in
the territory. Three hundred and
forty-one pupils are attending school
with 56 enrolled in the high school.
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DETROIT, Oct., 25.—A locomotive
engineer must spend years as a wiper
and fireman before lie is’permitted to
drive an engine over a private right
of-way, but any person may drive an
1 auto down a public street used by
millions of people, with no experience
whatever.
William P. Rutledge, chief of the
Detroit police force, used this com
parison when he urged for a rigid ex
amination of motor car drivers, and
j a license system.
Rutledge believes that each appli
cant should be required to demon
strate control of his car, that he can
drive in crowded streets and intelli
gently read all traffic signals and or
dinances. Examinations by the police
show' that less than a third of the
people driving an auto meet the re
quirements of a safe and sane driver.
Many of them know nothing at ail
about their car, and drive automati
cally, losing their head and control of
their car in a tight place. Others are
a menace to the public on account of
overweening egotism and selfishness
in hogging the road and speeding.
The chief advocates a license sys
tem, which should require every per
son driving a car to take at least one
week’s course in an auto night school.
“There are far too many accidents
from reckless driving. A man is just
as dead when hit by an auto as when
hit by a bullet, and in most cases it
is just a criminal an offense,” said the
chief.
MEX STATESMAN ARRESTED
ON SERIOUS CHARGE
BALTIMORE, Oct. 25.—Emeterlo de
la y Enrico Luis Lacarza, Mexican
statesman and a candidate for the
next Mexican presidential election ar
rived at Washington fnd was arrested
ind brought to Baltimore where he is
Wanted on a charge of obtaining mon
ey on false pretenses.
BERLIN, Oct. 2 4.—Working classes,
angry at the increase in the price of
four-pound loaves of bread from 34
million to 4S0 million marks, plun
dered many bakeshops yesterday.
Thousands attempted to storm the
city hall and the police was forced to
charge the mob with fixed bayonets
Communist agitators are said to have
led the demonstration. Traffic was
completely held up in one oi the city’s
thoroughfares. Shopkeepers pulled
down the blinds of their shops at tempt
ing to protect them from looters. Tin
bakeries were forced to give away
bread and oleomargarine.
WOOD WILL VETO BILLS
MANILA, Oct. 25.—The coming
legislature will pass bills that it ex
| pects Governor General Wood to veto
I in order to obtain a definite ruling
I from Congress as to the extent of his
| veto powers.
ROUMANIANS DISCOVER PLOT
BUCHAREST, Oct. 25.—The Rouma
nian government announced the dis
covery of a Fascisti plot to kill the
premier and five cabinet ministers.
Many arrests have been made during
the past two days.
| “I hated cooking because all I ate
turned sour and formed gas. I drank
hot water and olive oil by the gallon.
Nothing helped until I used Adlerika.”
Most medicines act only on lower
bowel but Adlerika acts on BOTH up
per and lower bowel and removes all
gas and poisons. Excellent for obsti
j nate constipation. Helps’ any case
i gas on the stomach in TEN minutes.”
Seward Drug Co.
WILL MEET AT EL PASO
PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 13.—The A.
F. of L. Convention will meet in El
Paso in 1924.
WILL TAKE NO ACTION
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24.—America
will take no official action on Lloyd
George’s plea that Britain and the
; United States will arrive at an un
written understanding to prevent war
; in the future.
SAXMAN ROAD COMPLETED
| The Saxman road, leading from the
Indian village of Saxman to Ketchi
kan has been completed. The road is
1M miles long.
HALLOWE’EN FESTIVAL
Don’t forget to go to A. B. Hall
Oct. 31, for an enjoyable evening. The
> auxiliary has a number of surprises
| for you. Dancing from 10 to 12. 2t
NEW YORK, Oct. 25.—Francis Or
mund French, a cousin of William
K. Vanderbilt, having failed in love
and in Wall Street, is now driving a
taxicab. The police ordered him to
move on during yesterday’s busy hour
after which he made a statement that
the first dollars he had ever earned
were in his pocket, and that he had
cleared $10.40 the first day. In a
speech to the members of the Broth
erhood of Taxicab Drivers, he said:
“Gentlemen, I greet you today. I
kissed the button of the first labor un
ion I ever belong to and am never
aware of having felt such keen pleas
ure and so complimented in my life
as when permitted to join this union.
I am so honored that I ask you boys
to call me ‘Frank.’ ”
SPRUCE SOLD TO JUNEAU MILL
Two million feet of spruce and
hemlock timber on Whitewater bay,
Admiralty Island, were sold recently
to Sawyer & Reynolds, loggers, ac
cording to announcement made by the
Forestry service. The greater part
of the timber will be cut for the Ju
neau Lumber Co.