VOLUME xvm NUMBER 306
SEWARD, ALASKA,MONDAY, DECEMBER 17,1923
PRICE TEN CENTS
GREAT BRITAIN WILL LEVY TOLL
GREAT BRITAIN WILL ATTEMPT TO COLLECT
TAXES FROM SEAL HUNTERS, WHALERS AmJUi
OTHERS IN ANTARCTIC—COUNTRY CLAIMED
BY RIGHT OF DISCOVERY
PARIS, Dec. 17.—Le Matin says that England has!
raised the British flag over the whole Antarctic territory,!
including the South Pole, and will collect customs and
taxes from seal hunters, whalers and all other sources.;
England claims the territory by right o1 discovery.
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navy has been deprived of
OIL BY ACTION SECRETARY
FALL SAYS WALSH
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 17.—
The government has lost 385,000,UOd
barrels of oil valued at $200,000,000
through the leasing of naval oil re
serve lands to private interests. Sena
tor Walsh of Montana charged in a
preliminary statement on the result of
the investigation of the leasing of Tea
pot Dome to the Sinclair interests.
Had the leases not been made by
ex-Secretary Albert Fall, the govern
ment would have received the money
and the navy would have had oil for
reserve purposes in times of emer
gency, Senator Walsh declared.
The season’s clean-up .'rom the ldit
arod district amounting to several
hundred thousand dollar reached
t Seward Saturday night and will be
taken to the States on the Northwest
ern tonight. The gold train composed
of 15 persons, left ldit arod November
20, in cuarge of Ira F. Wood and W.
S Wood, oi the firm of Wool’:. ITans
.*er Company. They came over the
trail to Nenana from McG at l, and
experienced no trouble until after they
passed Tacotna, from which point the
trail was very rough.
The Woods Brothers operate gas
boats on the river.
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BUNS FIGHTING
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MEXICO CITY, Dec. 17.—It is esti
mated that a total of thirty thousand
troops are engaged on the various
fronts.
Occupancy of Rhineland and Ruhr to
Be Discussed
PARIS, Dec. 17.—The French gov
ernment has accepted with limitations
German proposals concerning conver
sations Germany desires to enter Into
with France as well as Belgium on the
Ruhr and Rhineland question.
EL PASO, Dec. 17.—Revolts against
the Obregon administration are in pro
gress throughout eight states and are
spreading rapidly.
LOUIS HERTLE FOUND GUILTY
Louis Hertle of Anchorage was
found guilty of having intoxicating
liquor in his possession last week. On
the second count of running a place
of public nuisance the jury hung.
J. J. Chisholm, representing the
West Coat Grocery company and C. W.
Chamberlain & Co., Seattle, who ar
rived on the Northwestern, left on to
day’s train for Anchorage.
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MARSHFIELD, Ore., Dec. 17 —
Seven men who clung all last night to
the wreck of the steam schooner, C.i
A. Smith, Capt. T. Blimburg, which1
piled up on the north jetty at Coos!
Bay, yesterday, put off in one of the
ship’s boats early today and weie
picked up by the tug Oregon.
Seven others of the crew were res
cued by the government coast guard
crew, while seven others were drown_
eo when one of the lifeboats swamped.
An additional casualty of the wreck
was the drowning of C. N. Prescott,
of the tug Oregon, one of the males, j
Henry P. Daley, r former "Valdez;
mining mine, who left for the states!
about two years ago, suffering from I
bad health, died at Boise City, Idaho,j
November 24.. Mr. Daley was 631
years of age and was born in Marys-j
ville, California, and was one of the]
pioneers of the Boise Basin having
gone there with his parents in 1867.'
With the discovery of gold in Alaska
Mr. Daley joined the stampede and
spent about twenty years mining and
prospecting. He is survived by a son,
Dewey, of Idaho City, and three sis
ters, Mrs. Jos. Penrod and Mrs. Reid
of Boise, and Anna Daley of Tacoma.
Deceased Was a Recent Visitor to
Seward in Company with Manager
KETCHIKAN, Dec. IT.—Rufus J
Davis, engineer and marine superin
tendent for the New England Fisher
ies Company died here yesterday of
pneumonia.
Mr. Davis only recently returned |
from a trip to Seward and Kodiak in
the interests of his company.
WASHINGTON Dec. 17. —Hoke
Donithen, of Marion, Ohio, a close
friend of former president Warren G.
Harding, has been selected to lead
the Coolidge campaign in Ohio.
ALASKAN MUST PAY $10,000
AS GRUBSTAKE FURNISHED
OLYMPIA, Wn„ Dec. 17.—A recent
decision of the Supreme Court sus
tained the King County court in al_
lowing Henry Embola $10,000 for a
loan of $320 to John Tuppella. Tuppe
la, who was committed to the insane
asylum at Portland after he had dis
covered valuable mining claims ii:
Alaska was willing to pay the money
but his guardian refused. Tuppella
borrowed the money to fight for the
mining property and the court held
that it wras a grubstake and not a
loan.
ARRESTED FOR LARCENY
In the U. S. Commissioner’s Court
at McCarthy last week Chas. G. Lan
ell alias Chas. Gilbert, alias Charles
Olsen was charged with being an ac
cessory to a felony by concealing and
aiding in the theft of $60 from Arvic
Anderson. Defendant was bound ovei
to await the action of the grand jury
CO*VRIOHT KEY8T0NE VIEW CO, NEW VOKK
ICE SNOW AQUAPLANE AERIAL LIMOUSINE TO FLY TO POLE SOON
Tvo views—interior and exterior—oof one of the three all-metal Dornier
monoplanes which are being complete d now for the flight to the North Pole
which will be attempted next summer by Capt. Roald Amundsen—the famous
discoverer of the South Pole and the first man to negotiate the almost fab_
ulous Northwest Passage—aided by Haakon H. Hammer of Seattle. Note
the unique bottom of this plane to permit take-off or landing on either ice
or snow or water and the appointments of the cabin as snug as any yacht’s
cabin. The engines are especially de signed to withstand the lowest temper
atures. With these planes the expeui tion will hop off from Northern Spitz
bergen, bisect the Arctic Circle, cross the North Pole and land at Nome.
Edward Robinson, an aged resident
of Seward, was found dead in his cab
in on Fourth avenue, by the glacier
stream, yesterday afternoon.
Robinson’s was found lying on the
flo'or on his back, with his hands
clutching his breast, while in one cor
ner of his cabin a small blaze was
eating into the woodwork. It is sup
posed that some friend had been vis
iting Mr. Robinson, and that he nad
tossed a match or cigarette into the
place where the blaze started. When
found rigor mortis had set in, indi_
eating that death had occurred sev
eral hours previously, presumably
from heart failure or other organic
trouble.
For the past severa, years Mr. Rob
inson had subsisted by doing odd
jobs, living in a small shack at the
bridge head. He came to Seward from
North Bend, Wash., where it is said|
he has relatives living. He had beem
married several times, being divorced
from his last wife. It is stated that
a daughter lives in Fall City. Wn.
The body is being held at the under
taking parlors until relatives can be
communicated with.
DISTRICT MM
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MOBILE, Ala., Dec. 17.—The charge
that representatives of the liquor traf
fic and slot machines in the city of
Mobile had offered him a $150,000
bribe to slow up the work of his office
was made in a public statement is
sued by Federal District Attorney
Boyles today.
STARR WILL SAIL WEST JAN. 10
The steamship Starr will sail west
January 10th, connecting in Seward
with the steamship Northwestern.
RAIDIO HOUND PICKS UP
BROADCAST WITH DISHPAN
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MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 14.—A radio
receiver which with a dishpan for an
antennae catching broadcasts from a
500-watt station 1400 miles away has
been developed by a Washington ra
dio engineer.
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ASTORIA, Dec. 17—Burned and oth
erwise injured, having lain twelve
hours pinned under an overturned
auto alongside the Columbia river
highway, Mrs. George B. Meyers, wife
of a Seattle merchant, is in a critical
condition in a hospital here.
James L. Galen, of Cordova, who is
visiting in Seward at the present
time, is the owner of a 5,000 ton ves-j
sel, fully found, and with sufficient
coal aboard to steam to San Francisco
if desired. Mr. Galen bought the
Shinkoku Maru from the underwriters
and was given possession. The vessel
is at present ashore on Montague
island, but Mr. Galen has hopes of
floating her. If not she will be dis
membered by a wrecking crew and the
metal and furnishings sold. I
Mr. Galen has already taken out
some 1400 tons of Chinese coal from
the wreck. While the captain was ab
sent in Cordova a fishing boat called
at the wreck and removed numerous
articles, chopping into several cabins
and otherwise damaging the vessel.
As the boat was not abandoned and
the owners of the gasboat are known
action may follow.
Mr. Galen stands to realize hand
somely by his purchase.
He will leave tonight on the Nortn
western for his home in Cordova.
MAN CONFESSES COMMITTED
CRIME FOR WHICH ANOTHER
IS SERVING SENTENCE
CHICAGO, Dec. 17.—Joseph Sayelos
of the Fillmore Hotel, San Francisco,
confessed here today he committed
the crime for which George D. Pteri
otis, a Greek banker, has served 33
months in a Federal penitentiary.
Capt. Lamont, of the steamer St
Joseph, operating between Holy Crosi
and Dikeman, arrived In Seward Sat
urday night as one of the guards witt
the gold train. He will go outside
with the party.
PRESSURE FOR RELEASE OF DiSLOYAL
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POLITICAL PRISONERS TURNED LOOS DESPITE
OPPOSITION OF AMERICAN LEGION AND OTH
ER PATRIOTIC ORGANIZATIONS—VIOLATORS
OF WAR LAWS FINALLY LIBERATED
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 17.—President Coolidge
today ordered the reieas eof all remaining imprisoned vio
lators of war laws. Under this ruling about thirty per
sons will gain their liberty. They were convicted in Chica
go, Kansas City and Sacramento.
SEATTLE, Dec. 17.—One hundred
rnd six were arrested last night and
today on grand jury warrants charging
them with conducting gambling houses
ar with being common gamblers. All
were released on bonds ranging from
$1000 to $10,000. The most prominent
of those arrested were Frank Fall,;
George Butler, both former Nome and
Klondike men; Eddie Shea, Jackj
Shears, Wm. Erb, C. J. O’Donnell, Jes-j
sie Talconer, Eddie Mundore , the i
Misses Grace Dailey and Clare Neil-;
son, charged with being jointests andj
released under $7,500 bail each.
Mayor Brown and Chief of Police
Severyn, under whose administration!
the conditions indicated in the indict-!
ments obtained, are greatly disturbed.1
Other warrants are being issued and
a general shaking up of vice condi-'
tions is expected.
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PARIS, Dec. 17.—M. Von Soesch.j
German charge d’ affaires, in an inter-!
view with Premier Poincare today i
asked it the French government were!
willing to engage in conversations!
with the German government regard
ing occupation of the Ruhr and the
Rhineland.
Relative of William Lloyd Garrison, a
Noted Abolitionist
SEATTLE, Dec. 17.—Julia Garrison,,
84, a Seattle Pioneer, and kinswomen
to William Lloyd Garrison, a noted
abolitionist in pre-war days, died here
yesterday.
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—President
Coolidge has written a letter to Sam
uel Elrod, former governor of South
Dakota, expressing his appreciation of
the recent action of the South Dakota
proposal convention in granting him
the preferential presidential endorse,
ment.
JUNEAU TRAP ROBBERS GET
THREE MONTHS IN PRISON
JUNEAU: Frank Harris, W. K.
Beach and Arthur Caret, indicted for
fish piracy, were found guilty of per
jury by Judge Reed and given three
months each in jail. The jury disa
greed and was discharged. The court
and District Attorney Shoup claim to
have seen the vessel at the trap the
day it was robbed, and the court took
judicial knowledge of the facts knowrn
to him.
CRISIS IMMINENT IN GREECE
ATHENS, Dec. 17.—A dynastic cri
sis is imminent in Greece and the de
parture of King George is regarded
among the possibilities.
CLEMANCEAU INJURED
PARIS, Dec. 17.—Former Premiei
Clemenceau was injured in an autc
accident yesterday on the Nantes ant
Paris road.
Sixty Million Dollars Interest and
Twenty-Three Million Dollars
On the Principal
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—Britain
made her first payment on the princi
pal of her $4,600,000,000 debt to the
United States today, paying twenty
three million on the principal and
$60,000,000 interest. The debt is to be
paid off in semi-annual payments.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—Nomina
tions were sent to the Senate today
including those of Col. Saltzman, to
be chief signal officer with the rank
of major general. The confirmation
of Walter L. Cohen, a negro, as comi>*
troller of customs of the Gulf states
is bitterly opposed by Senators Brus
sard and IJansdall of Louisiana.
DEDUCTION PLU
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—The Mel_
Ion tax reduction plan has been put in
the form of a proposed act of congress
and sent to the House Ways and
Means committee.
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TOTALS POUR BILLIONS
TOKYO, Dec. 17.—The damage done
by the Japanese earthquake disaster
last September amounted to four bil
lion dollars Finance Minister Inouye
advised the diet today.
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Idaho Senator Denies Any Intention
Running for Presidency
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—“I am not
a candidate tor the presidential nomi
nation by any party,” Senator Borah
declared tonight.
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BOGOTA. Colombia, Dec. 17.—Many
persons have been killed by earth_
quakes in Colombia and Ecuador. Al
ready 85 bodies have been recovered
from the ruins of Cumbal, which with
the town of Chile suffered most se
verely.
SELECTION OF REPARATIONS
COMMITTEE ANNOUNCED
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—Selection
of Owen D. Young, and Charles G.
Dawes to serve on a committee inves.
‘ tigating the German budget was re^
' ported officially to Washington today
l by James A. Logan, American observ
er with the reparations commission.