VOLUME XIX. NUMBER 143.
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1924.
PRICE TEX CENTS
PROGRAM FOR “MIDNIGHT
SON FESTIVAL” ARRANGED
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FAIRBANKS, June 17.—Prepara
tions for the chamber of commerce
excursion from the coast arriving in
Fairbanks eight o’clock Friday even
ing. When the coastwise tourists
register at the Curry they will also
register there at Fairbanks. The
registers of the hotels here will be
on the Curry hotel desk with all
available rooms at all hotels here
^ and those who do not register there
for here stand a chance of going
roomless ,as the Yukon river first
excursion crowd will also be here
as well as visitors from the creeks
and Nenana. Private cars will meet
the coasters at the train and take
them to the various hotels and after
wards for rides. At ten o’clock Na
tive Sons dance at the auditorium.
Hardboiled cars will also meet train
side and a dozen invited guests of
Seward and Anchorage will be taken
to the eighteen mile roadhouse for
dinner at nine to midnight. The
roadhouse will be closed from nine
to midnight fc/ all but the hard
boiled party. Saturday will be Car
nival Day, starting in the morning
and will last until eleven at night.
The Native Sons trap shooting; in
the afternoon baseball, between An
chorage and Fairbanks . Midnight
Native Sons dance and entertainment
at the auditorium and the procession
thereto. Seven to eleven, on Sun
day, basket picnic. Everything worth
while out of town given by Fairbanks
to visitors all day Saturday and
% Sunday. Townspeople will take the
visitors riding over the country. The
coast visitors pile into any car hav
ing the welcome sign on windshield,
and ride free. Home parties. Home
parties says everything will be the
biggest informal real funmaking cele
bration ever held here within the
past ten years. All wearing Car
nival costumes and carrying noise
makers.
THOMPSON.
ADDITIONAL LOCAL
REGULAR MEETING
COMMON COUNCIL
TOWN OF SEWARD
The meeting was called to order at
eight o’clock by Mayor L. V. Ray, the
councilmen present being Badger, Ells
woith, Flickinger, Hofman, McMullen
and Orlander.
Minutes of previous meetings were
read and approved.
The resignation of Harold Painter
as chairman of the Seward School
Board was read and referred to new
business. The application of J. H. Wal
ker, Fire Chief ,for leave of absence,
was read and referred to new business.
The City Attorney presented Ordi
nance No. 84, entitled an “Ordinance
Relating to the Use of Public High
ways and Regulation of Vehicle Traf
fic in the Town of Seward, Providing
Penalties for the Violation Thereof,
and Repealing all Ordinance and parts
of ordinance in conflict therewith and
other purposes.”
The Ordinance wras then read and
after regular routine, duly moved and
passed. The Committee on {printing
was then ordered to have same printed
to the extent of 300 copies, and also
to have the ordinance published.
The Clerk submitted a petition from
property owners on the North Side of
Church Street, asking for a four-foot
wooden sidewalk, on said north side of
Church Street, from 3rd to 4th ave
nues. and a resolution granting same
which were referred to New Business.
Several bills were presented and
warrants were allowed for same.
Under the heading of New Business,
the resignation of Harold Painter was
accepted and he was complimented on
his efficient service. Fire Chief Wal
ker was allowed a vacation of ten days
beginning June 18th. and the Fire
Committee will appoint some suitable
man for his place during his absence.
City Attorney Rucker was instruct
ed to secure from the District Court
of the Third Division an order for the
Sale of Delinquent Taxes for 1923.
Several new sidewalks will be placed
by the city in the near future, that of
Church Street ordered replaced, one
on the west side of 5th Avenue be
tween Washington and Adams, r/ d on
the north side of Washington Street
between 5th and 6th Avenues.
ODDFELLOWS TO HOLD
BASKET PICNIC SUNDAY
The Odd Fellows will hold their
basket picnic at Mile Seven Sunday,
June 22, all Odd Fellows and their
families ebing invited to attend. The
weather being ideal and the fishing
good at Seven, this should prove one
of the best times of the year.
There will be the regular freight
train north tomorrow morning.
Mrs. Charles Lechner and sister re
turned from Anchorage last night.
PRESIDENTIAL POSSIBILITY
Nels Hagen purchased the Ford car
formerly owned by Mr. McMullen. :
L. V. Ray left for Anchorage this
morning to attend court.
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George Fisher arrived on the Yukon
Sunday and left from here for Anchor
age where he will take the Redondo to
the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, j
Mr. Fisher will then join the Norman
Dawn party. He has just recently
V finished a lead with Edith Roberts of
the Universal Company, and has play
ed leads opposite Norma Talmadge,!
Bessie Love, and several other stars.
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Mel Holben. proprietor of the Sew
ard Grill left on this morning’s train
for Mile 29.
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H. V. Hoben left on the train for
Anchorage today, where he will catch
the excursion train to Fairbanks to
morrow.
Hank Frost was an outgoing pas
senger this morning for Mile 29.
Andy Simons and A1 Peel left for
Mile 20 this morning.
Felix Brown, prominent merchant of
Anchorage, left that town Saturday
afternoon for Moose Pass, where he is
interested in ten quartz claims with
John Gilpatrick of this city and Gus
Brown of Seattle. Mr .Brown took five j
men along with him to help do the an
nual assessment work on the property. |
Dr. Edmunds, optician, left on the
train this morning for Moose pass to
visit with Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Heaston.,
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Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Brown were!
Seward passengers on last evening’s:
train from Anchorage.
Albert Johnson, aged 53, died at the
government hospital in Anchorage on
Sunday morning.
This week in the district court at
Anchorage a case was brought to trial
4 charging Arthur Lereau, with illegal
voting. In this case the district attor
ney said the territorial laws were in
bad shape and Judge Ritchie in sus
taining the demurrer, brought up, said
■ft there was no law today in Alaska for
t' punishing a man who voted illegally
at municipal elections.
(copyright underwood a UNDERWOOD, n. Y.j
John W. Davis, of New York and
Clarksburg, W. Va., former U. S.
Ambassador to England and before
that U. S. Solicitor General, who is
prominently mentioned for the Dem
ocratic presidential ticket
HUGUENOT-WALLOON TERCENTENARY CEL EBRATED
UNOCIWOOO A UNOCRWCQO. M. V
Photograph of “The Huguenot Fugitives; or After St. Bartholomew’s Eve,” the famous painting by George
H. Boughton, R. A., now in the posses sion of Grovsner B. Clarkson, former director of the U. S. Council of Nat
ional Defense. Descendants of Hug uenot and Walloon families in Penn sylvania celebrated on May 14 the ter
centenary of the landing of their an cestors in New York with exercises in Washington Memorial Church.
LINES ARE DRAWN
FOR BATTLE MILLIONS
INITIAL DEFENSE FUND OF ONE
MILLION CREATED TO DE
FEND CHICAGO YOUTHS
CHICAGO, June 18—Prosecution
and defense were preparing today for
the “battle of millions”, expected to
follow grand jury indictments against
Nathan Leopold, Jr., and Richard Loeb
millionaires’ sons, admitted kidnap
ers and slayers of Robert Franks, son
of Jacob Franks, millionaire.
Creation of a $1,000,000 initial de
fense fund with which to retain the
foremost legal experts in America was
reported, as state’s attorneys announc
ed demand would be made that trial
be set for July 15, the earliest date
consonant with Illinois procedure.
Two indictments against each youth
charging kidnapping for ransom and
murder, both capital offenses, have
been prepared.
Clarence Darrow, chief counsel for
the defense, was said to be consider
ing retention of a corps of experts, in
cluding authorities on evidence, insan
ity, legal tactics and alienists. Pitted
against them State’s Attorney Crowe,
in personal charge of the case said he
would have three assistants.
Former Deputy Marshal
Found Dead on Beach
The body of Chas. McCallum, for
mer deputy marshal at Unga, was
found on the ebach at Turner’s Island
in the Shumagin group, near Unga,
recently, according to a wire received
by the U. S. Marshal’s Office in An
chorage recently, from F. C. Driffield,
U. S .Commissioner at Unga.
Mr. McCallum owned a fox ranch on
Turner Island. Last year while travel
ing to his ranch ,he was exposed to
severe weather, which not only im
paired his physical condition but also
his mind. He received his appointment
as deputy marshal of Unga in 1917,
from Marshal F. R. Brenneman, suc
ceeding S. O. Casler, who was trans
ferred to Valdez. W. C. Snook, the
present marshal at Unga, succeeded
Charlie McCallum.
Mr.' McCallum was an oldtimer of
Alaska asd Dawson. A number of
years ago he acted as secretary of the
Miner's union at Valdez. He was about
47 years of age.
COMMITTEES TO CONDUCT
REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN
WASHINGTON, June 17.-Con
duct of the National Republican cam
paign is expected by President Cool
idge to be lodged in the National
chairman, members of the National
committee, and State local leaders
with the National advisory commit
tee.
The Midnight Sun Excursion will
leave Seward for Fairbanks at 8:00 A.
M. Thursday morning.
Miss Grayce Clark, cousin of Mr.
A. H. McDonald of Anchorage, was an
outgoisg passenger on the Yukon.
SEWARD CHAMBER
COMMERCE MEETS
IN BUSY SESSION
After luncheon yesterday the regu
I lar weekly meeting of the Seward
! Chamber of Commerce was called to
i order by Vice President McMullen.
I Mr. Cowles of Washington, D. C.,
! and Mr. Tripp of Juneau were present
as guests of the Chamber.
The minutes of the last meeting
were read and approved. A communi
cation from Lee H. Landis and the
Chamber on the freight for interior
Alaska, was read for the benefit of the
chamber.
A communication from the San
Francisco Chamber of Commerce, on
their interest in the coal situation in
Alaska, was explained by Mr. Mc
Cord, who stated he had called upon
them in the interest of marketing Al
aska coal, and they offered to secure
data on the comparative coal and oil
consumption of Pacific coast cities,
and forward this information to the
chamber for their benefit.
The committee on bylaws reported;
the report being held over until the
next meeting.
The committee on the dock sign re
ported progress ,and stated the same
would be ready shortly for painting.
Mayor L. V. Ray reported on the
trip to Anchorage and Fairbanks, re.,
Associated Alaskan Chamber of Com
merce; he was informed articles were
being prepared for presentation to the
various chambers on the methods of
operation and for the approval of
these bodies. He advised every person
who could possibly make the trip to
Fairbanks to do so, as it was an ex
ceptional opportunity of viewing the
real beauties of the interior, and at
the most opportune time of the year.
Under new business the Chamber
voted to request of Colonel Landis a
carload of clay for surfacing the city
tennis courts. J. P. Hannon was ap
pointed the representative of the Sew
ard Chamber of Commerce to make
the excursion to Fairbanks.
Mr. Ray, under new business, spoke
with great enthusiasm on the work be
ing performed for Alaska’s future by j
the Fairbanks Agricultural college; he
especially requested every visitor from
Seward to call there and see just what
had been accomplished, and to support
to the utmost the efforts of President
Bunnell and staff in making the school
successful.
Mr. Covies spoke to the Chamber of
his visit to Alaska o fthe class of
people he had met, and of Alaska’s fu
ture, and entertained them with a
story of the south.
Mr. Tripp spoke of his long resi
dence in Alaska, of the lower purchas
ing power of Gold, and that the devel
opment of Alaska would be greatly
accelerated by developing the hydro
electric possibilities of the territory,
gaining thereby industries that other- 1
wise would be impossible.
The hour being late, the meeting,
upon motion, was adjourned until next
Tuesday.
Labor Convention Opens
ST. PAUL, June 18—The National <
Parmer Labor Convention opened yes- j
terday. 11
7UK0N CARRIES BANNER
LIST TO SOUTHWARD
NUMBER SEWARD PEOPLE AND
SCHOOL PERSONNEL ON
WAY TO HOMES
The Yukon, sailing south early Mon
day morning, carried one of the larg
est lists of passengers for this time of
the year, teachers from the Fairbanks
College and the Seward school return
ing to their homes in the States. Those
listed for southern ports are reported
as follows:
For Latouche—Theodore Kyllonen,
Sam L. Kick, Mrs. W. Lee, Paul Schni
der, Mike Tomhanouch, Louis Zokovis.
Cordova—Chas. Cameron, Ida Allen,
Fay McDonald, S. W. Laurie, H. W.
Achison, C. S. Bratton, Gus Gelles.
Juneau—Edna Millei', Mary Dahl, C.
Rugg, B. Hanlon, F. F. Illsley.
Ketchikan— W. A. Griffith, A. J.
Kobler, John and Robert McCombe, H.
Helgren .
Seattle—Matt Bloomquist, G. Lai’
son, Hans Lee, W. Kipling, A. Brace,
F. Gardner, Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Mag
gard, Lucy and Grace Maggard, Mr.
and Mrs. Chas Manuel and two child
ren, Clifford McGuire, George McKay,
P. 0. Beaulieu, Mr. and Mrs. Alex J.
Goodskey, Mrs. L. H .Herbert, Allen
and Mildred Parker, Mrs. A. W. Rob
erts, Frances Mossford, Mabel R.
Short, Major Chas. E. Brayer, W. A.
Ransom, Gus Borgen, Charles Fischer,
Mrs. 0. A. Braafladt, Marjorie Braa
fladt, L. A. Marchand, H. D. Bruce, C.
E. Bretall, George Restovich, Mrs. H.
W. Teich, Mrs. Anton Eide, Marit
Eide, Frank Suhl, Hilda Johnson, Hel
ma Johnson, Elin Rosenquist, Anna
Anderson, W. H. Corson, Jr., Jack Cor
son, Mrs. J. D. Burton, George Ward,
A. E. Dahn, Miss Grayce Clarke, Mrs.
J. A. Lawtons, Herbert G. Esden, H.
and June Esden, Mrs. L. Lewison, R.
R. Cole, Mrs. B. Y. Collins, Mrs. R. R.
Cole, W. S. Woolever, Gilbert Beath,
George E. Hatcher, Mrs. Hatcher, M.
Riff, Mrs. R. Temme.
FRENCH PRESIDENT
GIVES OUT MESSAGE
PARIS, June 17.—Presdent Dou
tnerguein, in his first message to par
liament today declared that Germany
before the Dawes report can be put
into effect must prove her good faith.
Blocs Organized to
Break Demo. Machinery
NEW YORK, June 18—Three dis
tinct blocs are being organized here
today to break the machine like voting
>f the Democratic national convention
the leader of each bloc drawing upon
the council of Bryan.
Mr. John Cowles of Washington, D.
U., and Mr. H. T. Tripp of Juneau,
eft on this morning's train for An
thorage. They will join the Seward
lelegation to Fairbanks on the arrival
>f the excursion train at Anchorage,
md accompany them on the balance of
he trip.
DIVERSITY WASHINGTON
RETAINS ROWING TITLE
DESPITE ILLNESS OF CRACK
OARSMAN WASHINGTON
HOLDS LEAD
PODGHKEEPSIE, June 18—The U.
of W. yesterday retained its title to
the intercollegiate rowing champion
ship yesterday by defeating the cream
of the country’s oarsmen at the annual
regetta.
Despite the handier;? of the illness
and absence of Washington’s star No.
4 man, Maximum Luft, the Washing
tonians rowed more brilliantly than
they have ever done before and lead
the race almost from the start, win
ning by two lengths.
Wisconsin was second, Cornell third,
Pennsylvania fourth, Syracuse fifth,
and Columbia sixth.
ERNEST P.WALKER
ON WAY TO JUNEAU
Mr. anti Mrs. E. P. Walker arriv
ed in Seward on the Admiral Watson
yesterday, sailing south for Juneau
on the same boat about nine o’clock
last night. Lr. Walker is chief fur
warden and head of the Biological
! survey for the Territory with head
j quarters at Juneau .He has been to the
I westward attending a meeting of the
i Southwestern Alaska Fur Association,
| a newly formed organization of fox
farmers with headquarters at Kodiak.
While on his trip to the Westward
Mr. Walker went as far as Shuack and
nearly to the western end of the is
land, and was much impressed with
1 the possibilities of the region as a
game field.
‘ While my mission was principally
to attend the meeting of the fur farm
ers,” said Mr. Walker, “I also looked
into the advisibility of introducing’
valuable fur bearing and game ani
mals into the Kodiak group. The res
idents of the islands have nofur bear
ers in a wild state save the red fox,
land otter, ermine and large brown
bear. After covering practically all
of the island groups I have determin
ed that mink and marten would thrive
in many portions, while in other musk
rat and beavers would do well. This
portion of game propagation is being
worked on, and if the thing is practi
cal and advisable .before next session
of congress, I will submit a compre
hensive report on conditions, and the
Bureau will then try to get funds for
the purpose of stocking the islands.
Because of the scarcity of game and
fur bearing animals in this favorable
district, the Bureau will favor giving
them precedence over other sections
until such time as enough of those
animals have been stocked to insure a
steady supply. Deer, moose and elk
would probably thrive on these is
lands, and their presence would insure
both sport and a constant meat supply
in season.”
Continuing Mr. Walker stated that
he was agreeably surprised at the ac
tivity manifested in the vicinity of Ko
diak, and presaged a large volume of
business emanating from this section.
“Too much stress cannot be laid up
on the importance of wild life as a
revenue producer,” said Mr. Walker.
“It means the spending of hundreds of
thousands of dollars in the future and
will add greatly to the revenue of the
Territory.”
DEMOCRATS MEETING
TO DISCUSS LAWS
NEW YORK, June IS—The possibil
ity of abbrogating two thirds rule gov
erning the nomination of candidates
by the National Democratic Commit
tee continues today to be the most dis
cussed topic among the leaders and the
delegates already assembled here.
COMMUNIST PARTY IS OUT
ST. PAUL, June 17—The Commun
ist party ✓was virtually read out of
the Farmer Labor Convention here
today at the instance of LaFollette.
BURGLARS ROB EDSEL FORD
DETROIT, June 18—Burglars today
secured one hundred thousand dollars
worth of jewels from the home of Ed
s el Ford.
FOX ISLAND SOLD
Ugak island, south of Kodiak, was
sold last week by “Pop” Olson to Otto
Kraft of Kodiak, the leasing rights
and animals on the island bringing
pl500, it is said.