VOLUME XXI, NUMBER 189
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1926.
PRICE TEN GENTS
. YUKON NORTHBOUND
FEW FOR SEWARD
NUMEROUS ALASKANS RETURN
ING; TEACHERS ON BOARD
VESSEL
SEATTLE, Aug. 21 (&)—'The S. S.
Yukon of the A. S. S. Co. sailed at
9 o’clock this morning for Alaska. The
vessel carried 158 passengers among
■whom the following are booked for
Seward:
Mrs. Eckman, Rev. P. J. O’Reilly,
Mr. and Mrs. O. M. Love, Mrs. J. E.
Creamer, F. O. Burket, Mrs. E. Mel
ville, and daughter, Geo. M. Goodman,
Mr. and Mrs. D. D. Dickerson, Mr. and
Mrs. Scales, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. El
well, Miss Mary O’Day, Mrs. A. J.
Wendler, Mrs. J. E. Waller, Mrs. J.
P. King, Mrs. G. S. Wayne, Miss E.
Libart, J. Kosloskv, Pauline Miller,
M. McCoombe, Mrs. A. M. Reese, Mrs.
B. Ravmond. J: M. McNutt, Mr. and
Mrs. F. A. Burtt, Mrs. Irene Laurence/
Mrs. T. Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. Carl
Erickson, Mrs. M. H. Parker, Francis
Martin, Mrs. C. Combret and Sister
Mary Ralph. M. Wells, Mr. and Mrs.
W. H. Overshield. Mr. and Mrs. J. P.
Burton, Mr., and Mrs. Geo. Shultz, and
daughter, Miss B. Yasuba, L. Schultz,
and one steerage.
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COLVIN TD SUPPORT
CAUDATE W, GAINES
“BILL” GAINES IS ‘HE-MAN’ AS
SERTS PROSECUTING
ATTORNEY
^ SEATTLE, Aug. 21. (/P)—Prosecut
ing Attorney Colvin said ‘‘I’m going
to use every bit of influence I have
to return Bill Gaines to office as coun
ty commissioner this fall solely be
cause of his record in the office. He
sought not once to block justice and
voted the very funds that brought his
brother to justice. He is a he-man.”
• WESTWARD ITINERARY
S. S. ADMIRAL EVANS
The Westward itinerary of the S. S.
Admiral Evans of the P. S. S. Co.,
now en route to Seward from the
^ south, includes calls at Port Graham,
Seldovia, Shyak Straits, Iron Creek,
Uganik Bay, Zacher Bay, Uzinkie, Ko
diak, Shearwater Bay, Alitak, and
Wood Island. The Evans is due to ar
rive in Seward Monday night or Tues
day morning.
SEEKING CANDIDATE
NEW YORK, Aug. 21 (^—Wads
worth declared republicans are seek
ing a gubernatorial candidate, who
will be satisfactory to the wetk and
drys since Butler withdrew.
MINERS, PROSPECTORS ASKED TO
NOTIFY SMITHSONIAN INSTI
TUTE OR OTHER GOVERNMENT
AGENCIES OF SPECIMENS THEY
MAY HAVE OR FIND—HRDLICKA
BELIEVES IN YUKON MIGRA
TION-WILL GO TO UNALASKA
NOME, Aug. 21 (/P)—Prof. Hrdlicka
has found valuable data tending to
determine the racial origin of eski
mos. He said because of the essential
facts whi<^h will be divulged only
from the Smithsonian institution, this
summary is strictly unofficial. Hrd
licka collected specimens along the
Yukon river to the seacoast, along the
Alaska peninsula and arctic coast to
Kotzebue, thence to Point Barrow, Kot
zebue, thence to Point Barrow where
he sought traces of ancient dwellings
and implements of peace and war. He
found that storms had obliterated
much of the evidence, but he believes
in the Yukon migration route. Prof
Hrdlicka is leaving here today, but
will stop at Diamonde, Nunivak and
St. Laurence island also for several
days. He goes then to Unalaska en
route to San Francisco. He made a
minute examination of two ^iles of
two miles of the coast here, but was
unable -to find any trace of ancient
graves which were known to exist be
fore the terrific storm of 1913. He
believes all of them were washed into
the sea. He requests miners and ex
cavators to notify the Smithsonian In
stitute and other government agencies
of any anthropological discoveries, or
those who are retaining specimens, for
examination.
EXPLOSI
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NO LIVES LOST WHEN LIGHT
NING IGNITES PIG POINT
DEPOT
NORFOLK, Va., Aug. 21. (JP) —
Lightning is believed to have been
the cause of an explosion last night
at the Pig Point army ammunition de
pot, which is situated 15 moles from
Portsmouth, which rocked the coun
tryside. ;
Unlike the similar explosion at the
Lake Denmark, New Jersey Navy am
munition depot, however, there were
no lives lost at Pig Point, and the dam
age is said to have been confined to
one magazine containing a billion
rounds of small ammunition.
SCHOOL OPENS SHORTLY
Vacation days are just about over,
for according to announcement made
yesterday, providing members of this
year’s faculty do not stop at the teach
ers institute in southeastern Alaska,
school will open in Seward on Sep*
tember 7, the day following Labor
Day.
Rev. Wm. A. Thomas, Episcopal
church of Seward and Anchorage, is
in the city' for over Sunday. Rev.
Thomas returns to Anchorage Mon
day.
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U. S. PLANS NEW FLIGHT
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21. (JP)—'The
State War departments plan a flight
of five army planes around South
America.
SENATOR FERNARLD VERY ILL
WEST POLAND, Maine, Aug. 21.
(/P)—Senator Fernald is seriously ill
at his home here and has suffered a
turn for the worse which is affect
ing the heart.
PROSEDUIOR COLVIN
FEELS JUSTICE BEEN
SERVED BV VERDICT;
GAINES DECLARES FEELS WELL;
IS CONFIDENT BE FREED THRU
APPEAL OR NEW TRIAL;
SMOKES CIGARETTES INCES
SANTLY; IS QUIETEST PRISON
| ER EVER HAD, OBSERVES JAIL
ER ALLEN STARK.
FINAL'ACTION IS IN 18 MONTHS
I Cannot Gloat Over Sending Gaines
To Death, Yet That is Where He
Belongs,” Colvin States, “And I Feel
No Remorse or Regret. State Has
Avenged Death of Sylvia.”
SEATTLE, Aug. 21 (;P)—Gaines de
clared he felt well and normal and
expressed the opinion he would be
i freed through an appeal or a new tri
i
al. He has been removed to a cell
which murderers generally occupy, all
j reading material has been taken away
| from him. Throughout the day he al
most incessantly smokes cigarettes.
| “He’s the quietest prisoner I’ve ever
; had,” observed Allen Stark, “jail su
perintendent, “and I’m glad of it be
cause I expect I will have him with
me for quite a while; eighteen months
I would say for that’s about the time
it will take for supreme court action
on. the appeal.
Prosecuting attorney Colvin de
clared, “I cannot gloat over send
ing him to death, yet thats where
he belongs, I feel that justice has
been done and feel the state has
avenged the death of Sylvia, stranger
ini our midst, a newcomer who expect
ed yet did not receive the hospitality
of our region. I feel no regret, and no
remorse of the will of the people, who
have been served and my conscience
is clear.”
COAST GUARD SEEKS
MISSING LIFE BOAT
STEAMER SINKS IN LAKE ERIE;
FOUR SAILORS IN LOST
LIFEBOAT
ERIE, Pa., Aug. 21 (JP)—The coast
guard crew and a harbor tug joined in
the search for the mising Ufe boat
containing four sailors from the
steamer Howard S. Gerkins, which
sunk in a fierce storm last night eight
miles out, another steamer picked Tip
two lifeboats rescuing 16 including
Master Gerkins. The ship sprung 'a
leak under the terrific pounding of the
heavy sea and sank in a few minutes.
“SOURDOUGH BILL” SULZER
IS A DISTINGUISHED VISITOR
FORMER GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK IS AS EN
THUSIASTIC AS EVER ABOUT ALASKA-TALKS
OF THE GREAT NORTH COUNTRY AND ABOUT
HIS AIRPLANE TRIP INTO THE CHANDALAR
MINING DISTRICT
jNLIZES WONDERFUL FUTURE OF THE TERRITORY
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Has Bill Pending in Congress to Extend Alaska Railroad
Interior—Seward Growing Apace, And is Destined to
Become Great Alaskan City—Sec. Seward Deserves a
Fine Monument Here.
Former Governor Wm. Sulzer, of New York, arrived
last night in Seward from Anchorage, where he spent the
afternoon with Noel W. Smith, going over Alaska Rail
road matters, and about his bill now pending in Congress
to extend the Railroad and open up interior Alaska, north
east, and west.
Mr. Sulzer needs no introduction in Seward. He is an
old sourdough, and a familiar character in every part of
Alaska.
On lower Broadway, where Mr. Sul-i
zer has occupied a law office for more
than forty years, he is called the Gov
ernor. In Greenwich Village, where
he lives, and which section of New
York City he represented in the Legis
lature, and in Congress for thirty
years, he is called the Philosepher.
In Alaska, where his name is a house
hold word, he is affectionately called
“Sourdough Bill,” and he says he likes ,
that appelation more than any other
title ever bestowed on him in all his |
illustrious career.
“I am glad to be again in Seward,”
he- said last evening to “The Gate
way, “as I have many friends here,
and their adoption tried, over many
trails, I grapple their associations to
my soul with bands of enduring affec
tion.
Seward is growing apace, and is
destined to be, in the years to come,
one of the greatest cities in our coun
try.
“As a reunited Union is the greatest
est monument to Lincoln, so Alaska is
the greatest monument to Seward—
whose vision acquired this wonder
land of the world for the United
States—but I indulge the hope that
the day is not far distant when the
people of America will erect on Resur
rection Bay a suitable monument to
the memory of Lincoln’s great Secre
tary of State for all he did to bring
this great northland under the flag of
our country. He deserves a great mon
ument here, in the town that bears
his name.
“Our airplane trip to the Chand
alar mining district,” said Governor
Sulzer, “was eminently successful. In
our thousand mile flight—high and
low—w© saw much, and learned more.
The Chandalar is now on the map, and
will give a good account of itself in
the coming years. On account of its
being the most northern gold camp in
the world, we had, in the past, many
difficulties to overcome, but we knew
the gold was there—both placer and
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MILLIONS BE SPENT
SUM OF S12,000,000 WILL BE EX
PENDED FOR 282 NAVY
PLANES
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21. (£>)—Navy
Air Chief Moffett announced plans for
expending during the coming fiscal
year $12,000,000 for the purchase of
naval airplanes adding 2S2 planes to
the navy. One hundred will be fight
ing planes, 47 observation, 61 bomb
ing and torpedo scduting and 74 for
training purposes.
CAPTAIN LATHROP RETURNS
A. E. Lathrop, prominent Alaskan
business man, owner of the Empress
chain of theaters, Cordova, Anchorage
and Fairbanks, and president of the
Healy Coal Corporation, Suntrana, re
turned to the city last evening from
a short business trip to Cordova. Cap
tain Lathrop registered at the Van
Gilder hotel last evening.
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OVER MILLION DOLLARS EX
CHANGED HANDS AT WINNI
PEG AUCTION
WINNIPEG, Aug. 21 (JP)—General
advances from fifteen to twenty per
cent over last year*is( noted in the fur
auction here and more than a million
dollars exchanged hands. Beaver, fox,
marten, weasel and lynx substantial
ly advanced. Timber wolf sold to as
high as $21; fisher, $20 to $75; mink
$2.75 to $18.75. *