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SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 9 1925.
PRICE TEN CENTS
CAPT. PETERSON;
AKUTAN WHALER
MAY LOSE ARM
; _
DUTCH HARBOR. July 9 (£>)—
Captain Fred Peterson of Seattle, op
erating a vessel for the North Pacific
Sea Products Company, at Akutan, is
being rushed here with a lacerated
arm. which was injured when a whal
ing harpoon bomb went through a1
whale and exploded outside its body.
The coast guard cutter Algonquin
„s on the way to Dutch Harbor with
i physician to try to save the arm,
which may have to be amputated. The
explosion tore Peterson's upper cloth
ing to shreds.
SHIPPlNGBOARD
WILL SELL BOATS
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 9 (£>)—
The Shipping Board, which yesterday
rejected the recommendations of Pres
ident Palmer of the fleet corporation
to accept a bid of §1,370,000 from the
Boston Iron & Metal Company for
200 vessels to be scrapped, ordered
further negotiations to be opened.
* NUKA BAY MILL
RUN COMPLETED !
OWNERS IN TOWN
.
LOTS OF ORE BLOCKED OUT; j
MILL TO OPERATE STEADILY;;
FINE WEATHER IN REGION;
Following the completion of a mill I
run of 24 days, four of the owners of!
the Alaska Hills Mines Corporation, j
E. W. Barnett, president; F. P. Skeen, j
Dennis Hurley, Otis Harrington, D. J. j
Aughnev and Knute Knutesen, arriv-!
ed in Seward this morning on Captain j
Pete Sather’s boat. The mill run was j
very satisfactory, it is stated. Mr. j
Skeen and Mr. Hurley will remain in j
Seward for two weeks, on business
matters, and Mr. Harrington and Mr. j
Barnett plan leaving this evening or;
tomorrow on the return trip to the i
property. They will take back with I
them a quantity of supplies for the
camp.
An average of 12 men is being em
ployed on the property it is stated,
^ which will be approximately the num
ber of men who will be engaged dur
ing the season. Development work is
progressing in good order and lots of
ore is blocked out, sufficient for the
summer’s run. Work on the low^er
tunnel has been prosecuted to a dis
tance of 30 feet. Two stopes have
been started, having a longer raise
than before. These will average about
two and one-half feet all the way up
on the raise and vein.
The ten ton mill is running through
ten tons of ore a day, its capacity.
Early in the year there was consider
able dead work to be accomplished,
w'hich hindered, to a great extent, op
erations which otherwise would have
started five w^eeks earlier. From this
period on the mill will be operating
steadily.
The men are guests of the Hotel
Sexton.
ALASKA JUNEAU
HAS DIVIDEND
NEW YORK, July 9 (£>)—'The Alas
ka Juneau Gold Mining Company in
its report ending June 30, earned
$20,100 in June against a deficit of
$8,500 the previous June.
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Poor Concrete Wrecked
Santa Barbara Buildings
LOS ANGELES, July 9 (/P)—Sixteen
engineers and geologists at a meeting
here last night decided that rotten
concrete and the weak anchorage of
floors and walls, with poor mortar be
tween good brick was the cause of
the wrecked business section in Santa
Barbara June 30.
TORNADOES HIT
EASTERN STATES
ST. PAUL, Minn., July 9 (/P)—Tor
nadoes, rain, hail, Wind and electrical
storms in five scattered Minnesota
counties yesterday and last night
killed four and injured 25, besides do
ing $350,000 damages. All the dead
are in Minneapolis, where the streets
are flooded and uprooted trees block
ed traffic several hours.
Heat Kills Mill Worker.
PITTSBURGH, July 9 (/P)—Heat
killed one mill worker here yester
day.
Five Hurt in Des Moines.
DES MOINES, la.. July 9 (£>)—Five
persons were hurt in a storm wliich
swept Northwestern Iowa last night,
desstoying crops and wrecking many
buildings.
BANDITS KILL GIRL
WOUND ESCORT
LOS ANGELES, July 9 OP)—While
Thedore Stanford and Miss Edna Roll
ing were sitting in a parked outomo
bile outside of the city last night,
two men drove alongside and point
ing pistols at the young couple com
manded, “hands up.” Stanford diso
beyed and the intruders began shoot
ing without another word, killing Miss
Rolling and wounding Stanford in the
arm. They then drove away rapidly.
ADMIRAL WATSON WILL SAIL
FROM SEATTLE JULY 15
The steamship Admiral Watson
will sail from Seattle at 10 p. m. July
15, arriving in Seward July 21. The
Watson was billed yesterday to sail
the 16th but vHas revised her sailing
date.
GRUESOME FIND
IN APARTMENTS
NEW YORR, July 9 (JP)—'The bodies
of Margaret Dianco and her daughter,
Jennie, aged 6, were found in their
apartment in an East 34th street tene
ment today, with their heads crushed
and almost severad from their bodies
by a saw-like instrument. The body
of the child was found near the door
as though she had attempted to es
cape.
French Counter Attack
Frees Many Captives
FEZ, Morocco, July 9 (^P)—French
dispatches report that by a quick
counter movement through the villages
along the Overgha river they freed
several hundred native women and
children whom the Riffians held cap
tives in order to compel the hus
bands and fathers to join the Rrim
forces.
Women outnumber men on the con
tinent of Europe by 25,000,000.
Various missionary organizations
distributed 9,500,000 bibles in China
during the past year.
MOTHER LODE
DISCOVERED ON
LIGHTNING CREEK
QUESNEL, B. C.. July 9 (^—Dis
covery of the mother lode at Caribou,
18 miles from Stanley, on Lightning
Creek, British Columbia, which in the
early sixties produced millions in gold
was announced today by J. F. Wil
liams, a Stanley hotel proprietor and
prospector. High grade ore was
found along a ledge ten to fifteen feet
wide and easily traced on the surface
for more than a mile.
PROMINENT MAN
DIES CALIFORNIA
LOS ANGELES, July 9 (/P)—Thom
as Lee Woolwine, district attorney for
Los Angeles county, twice the Demo
cratic nominee for governor of Cali
fornia, died yesterday at the age of 51
years after being ill the past two
years.
Mr. Woolwine had prosecuted many
important criminal cases in the Los
Angeles courts, which had given him
an almost national reputation.
TENNESSEE JUDGE
KILLED WHEN
AUTO UPSETS
JACKSON, Tenn., July 9 (£>)—
Judge J. W. Ross, of the western Ten
nessee Federal court was killed last
night when his automobile ran off a
bridge five miles out of town. He had
been indicted by a grand jury yester
day on charges of forgery, breach of
trust, and accessory to embezzlement
in the failure of the People’s Savings
Bank, with a deficit of $300,000.
Thomas B. Carroll, former cashier;
and John M. Carroll, his son, and As
sistant Cashier W. L. Hawthorn, a
timberman, was also indicted.
Ross had furnished $25,000 bail and
was on his way home when killed. His
car tracks showed it had turned sud
denly at a right angle and went up
side down in a creek with Ross under
it. He was appointed to the bench
four years ago by former President
Harding.
Mining Engineer Killed
by Nicaraguan Miner
MANAGUE, Nicaragua, July 9 (JP)—
An employe of the Verde mine near
Matagalpa, Monday, shot and killed
Robert Willy, a San Francisco mining
engineer. J. A. Willy, a brother then
killed the slayer.
Prize Numbers Not
Yet Been Called for
Ticket No. 9581 calling for the first
prize of $25, and ticket No. 7066 call
ing for the $15 prize have not yet
been presented at Browm & Hawkins
store. If these tickets are not pre
sented before August 1, the money -will
be turned over to some charitable or
ganization in town.
SKAGWAY MAN ARRESTED.
Joe Kosloski, a Skagway resident was
arrested last wreek at Juneau by tele
graphic information from his home
town on the charge of having a still
in his possession. He was released
on $200 bail.
By means of a new grinding ma
chine it is possible to turn out 1,000
hard rubber barrels for fountain pens
an hour.
Ministers Resolve Man
Made In Image of God
SEATTLE, July 9 (TP)—A conference
of Swedish Baptist ministers of the
United States and Canada resolved
last night that “man was created in
the image of God and not by evolu
tion.” The action followed the decla
ration by Rev. Alfred J. Erickson, of
Portland, Oregon, that a controversy
between the Fundamentalists and the
Modernists should be welcomed as
evidence that the church was spiritu
ally alive.
WOMEN BATTLE
IN RESTAURANT
PRIEST RIVER. Idaho, July 9 (TP)—
Mrs. Pete Morrow is in a hospital to
day with her nose nearly cut off, and
her sister. Miss Bessie Alford is in
jail. The women fought in a local
restaurant where Bessie worked and
butcher knives were the weapons.
Mrs. Morrow went to the restaurant
and attacked her sister when she
heard Pete and Bessie were about
to elope.
ADMIRAL EVANS WILL CALL
MANY PORTS TO WESTWARD
The Admiral Evans will return to
Seward on her way south Tuesday,
July 14. She will call at Port Gra
ham, Seldovia, Kodiak, Uzinkie, Ugan
ik Bay and Alitak before returning.
The officers on the Admiral Evans
are: C. C. Graham, commander; C. M.
Blain, purser; C. A. Christiansen, first
officer; H. Bergenclint, chief engineer;
I. J. Cox, chief steward; S. K. Gilje,
pilot; J. E. Kolseth, pilot; F. Nystrom
Jr., freight clerk.
The Evans and the Watson both
carry fine orchestras for dancing and
amusement of the passengers.
SOVIET COMMITTEE
WILL EXPLORE 1927
MOSCOW, July 9 (£>)—'The Soviet
Committee indorsed the plan which
Captain Bruns of Germany presented
to the council of commissars through
Fritjof Nansen, to establish a dirigible
route from Leningrad via Murmansk
on the Whitesea, to a bay in the Lena
River, and from Bering strait to Ja
pan. The trip would take seven days.
An exploration trip to Point Bar
row for exploration of the Arctic is
planned in the year 1927, involving
the construction of an airship with
100,000 cubic meters capacity.
ENGINEER MINE
STOCK ADVANCES
TO ONE HUNDRED
NEW YORK, July 9 (,/P)—A feature
of the curb market yesterday was a
25-point advance in the stock of the
Engineer Mine, from 70 to 100. Buy
ing shares, which frequently jumped
several points between sales were
based on reports of a rich strike on
July 6. The stock closed at 96.
Ada Blackjack and Her
Children On Way Nome
SEATTLE, July 9 (£>)— Ada Black
jack, and two children, are Jpaving
on the Boxer about Monday, to join
Ada’s mother and two children at
Nome. The woman has been in Spo
kane the past winter.
An ingenious new tool has been In
vented recently by which square holes
may be drilled.
NEW INTEREST IN
MINING SINCE
CLUB IS FORMED
SEATTLE, July 9 (/P)—Increased
interest in mining is reported by T. B.
Hill, of the State Development De
partment of the Chamber of Com
merce as a result of the formation of
the Seattle Mining Club. Mr. Hill
said authentic mining data was badly
needed and at a club luncheon said:
“People are willing to invest if we
give them good stock to buy. Eighty
five per cent of commercial enter
prises fail, and 65 per cent of manu
facturing enterprises fail, but proba
bly not more than 25 per cent of well
investigated mining ventures fail.”
ADVOCATES MORE
STRINGENT RULES
ALASKA PACKERS
SALTERY PRESIDENT URGES THE
NEED OF MAINTAINING EVER
LASTING FISH INDUSTRY
Ways and means for an everlasting
fish packing industry should be work
ed out, says E. Caraco, president of
the Caw Packing Company, at Uzinki,
during his recent visit to Seward and
at which time he was a guest at a
Chamber of commerce luncheon. In
certain districts the fi3h is being “lit
erally murdered,” he stated at the
meeting, and it is the duty of this
community especially to investigate
these conditions with the view of
checking the terrible waste. Small
fish are being harvested, which should
be thrown back into the sea, he said,
for, in another month they would be
inches longer in size, sufficient for
commercial handling.
“More damage can occur to the Ter
ritory in the indiscriminating fishing
of a small area in a few hours, than
were a large area of timber swept
away by fire,” he said. His company
seeks permanency in the industry.
Life insurance is good, Mr. Caraco
stated, and for that reason these com
panies do a huge business. The rea
son for this is that it is an everlast
ing business, for one enters into it
with the view of providing for their
immedate family after they have de
parted. The fish question should be
looked at in the same light, to take
the proper care of the fish now so that
in the years to come, the industry will
continue.
The Caw Packing company operat
ed a saltery at Red Fox Bay last sea
son, moving over to Uzinki this sea
son. According to a telegram which
Mr. Caraco received during his sta>
in Seward, his company has packed
approximately 1,000 barrels of fish
thus far this year. This is gratifying,
he said, and indicates a fairly success
ful season will be enjoyed this year.
He predicts a good year in general,
in the fishing industry, for this re
gion.
His company is prepared to pack
10,000 barrels this year. There are
about 35 men employed at the Uzinkie
plant. Mr. Caraco read to the mem
bers of the chamber several testimo
nials from Eastern people lauding his
company for the splendid pack of last
year and beseeching the company not
to dispose of this season’s pack to one
concern. Mr. Caraco departed for
Uzinki Tuesday, on the Ad. Evans.
He expects to make another trip to
Seward shortly.
SALMON RUN REPORTED
GOOD NEARBY SECTIONS
Reports are that salmon are coming
into the canneries in the Prince Wil
liam Sound section in large numbers.
The run is about over in Resurrec
tion Bay.