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VOLUME XXI, NUMBER 46.
SEWARD,
ALASKA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25,1926.
PRICF.TEN CENTS
SANDY SMITH
INNENANATO
CONFER WILKINS
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SNOW MOTORS OF SUPPLY PARTY
HAVE REACHED ONE-TENTH
OF LONG JOURNEY
MUSHER IN FROM KOYUKUK
REPORTS TRAIL CONDITIONS
Road Commission Inspector Says
Trail Will Not Stand Up Under
Heavy Freighting.
NENANA, Alaska Feb. 25. (fP)—The
Smith supply party gained one-tenth
of their long arduous journey to date,
with each motor making double trips,
as it is impossible to pull the number
of sleds which have been alloted.
Sandy Smith returned to Nenana
yesterday with a dog team and confer
red with Capt. Wilkins who arrived
on his way to Fairbanks.
The weather is stormy, with the
thermometer registering 20 below.
Howard Haslam, Alaska Road Com
mission engineer, arrived from the
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nual inspection of road projects. He j
said the Koyukuk trail is in excellent
condition for dogs, but feared it was
impossible for use ini heavy freighting.
WIND STORMS IN
SOUTH TAKE 3
LIVES YESTERDAY
GREENVILLE, Miss., Feb. 25. (ff)
—Two persons were killed in a violent
wind storm at Jennie, Arkansas yes
terday.
VICKSBURG, Miss. ,Feb. 25. (vP)—
One person was killed and heavy prop
erty damage occured at Lake Village,
during the Arkansas wind storm, which
swept over this district.
Owner of Reindeer Herd
Comes for Operation; Says
Be little Salmon Fishing
Ben Hansen, a cannery watchman
for the Alaska Packers Assn., at Uga
shik, arrived on the Starr and left on
Monday for Anchorage for an opera
tion. Mr. Hansen mushed over the
trail from Ugashik to Kanatak with
his dog team and caught the Starr. He
has a herd of reindeer at his home in
Ugashik and the government also has
a large herd. The latter is looked af
ter by Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Ford, who
are also in charsre of the native school
for the Bureau of Education.
Mr. Hansen looks after the Diamond
U cannery operated by the Alaska
Packers in Ugashik in the southern
part of Bristol Bay. The Red Salmon
Canning Co., owned by Frank B. Pe
terson, operate at this place and the
International Packing Co., operated a
floating cannery last season. It is
doubtful whether there will be much
salmon fishing next season owing to
the new restrictions on fish traps. No
fishing will be allowed inside the
mouth of the Ugashik river and due
to the difficulties of navigation in the
bay due to high winds and shallow
water it is considered too dangerous
to attempt fishing in a small dory.
Mr. Hansen reports the death of Wil
liam Sullivan on August 25, which was
probably due to ptomaine poisoning.
Sullivan wasi a trapper in this dis
trict.
Inlet City Team Win
from Speedy Soldiers
The Anchorage city basketball
team defeated the Soldiers Monday af
ternoon by the score of 15 to 13, ac
cording ot a report reaching Seward
yesterday. It has been announced
the local champs expect to take on
in Seward the winner of the Anchor
age local championship series the
forepart of the month. The Inlet
city team line-up is comprised of
Louis Peyser and Vic Nelson, for
wards; Vic Gill, center; William
Gill and Sam Moyer, guards. While
in Fairbanks recently the Inlet team
hung it on the Interiorites when
they took two games out of a three
game series.
Twenty-five Trucks
for Alaska Road Work
Shipped North Soon
Twenty-five G. M. C. trucks, of three
quarter ton each, surplus equipment
from the Army department, will be
shipped to lAaska soon, according to
Frank McCafferty, master mechanic of
the Alaska Road Commission, who
passed thru Seward the first of the
week, on his way to Valdez and S.E.
Alaska points. Fifteen of the trucks
will be sent into the Fairbanks dis
trict, five to Valdez and five to Chiti
na.
A crew of twelve is now at work
at Chatanika, Munson’s roadhouse,
which is forty miles south of Fair
banks, driving in piling for a dyke on
the bridge. Mr. McCafferty thought
the freighting of supplies to various
1926 projects would start about March
first.
BILL INTRODUCED TO SELL
ABANDONED PROPERTIES
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 25. (JP)
—The Public Buildings and Grounds
Committee introduced a bill in the
; House which favoring selling the aban
cloned lands, including a number of
lots at Sitka, which were taken from
Russia, and also the old customs
house at Wrangel.
MRS. COOLIDGE IMPROVING ,
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 25. (JP)
—Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, who has been
confined to her bed with a heavy cold
is looking forward to resuming her
normal schedule within the next day
or two.
TRANSPORT WILL
CARRY SUPPLIES
ALASKA STATIONS
BREMERTON, Wn., Feb. 25. (£>)—
The Naval transport Vega will be sent
to Alaska this summer to carry the
supplies of radio stations. The Vega
expects to go as far westward as the
j Pribilofs.
Six Westward Children
Are Walking Skeletons
Says Unga Petition
Six children, ranging in age from
four to twelve years, who lost theix
mother last year at Unga, are walk
ing skeletons, according to a letter
received by R. V. B. Dunlap, super
intendent of the Jesse Lee Home and
citizens of Unga have petitioned him
to admit them into the local Home
Owing to the fact the Home is now
overcrowded, It will be impossible to
do this, Mr. Dunlap said Tuesday,
at the Chamber of Commerce met
ing. And the crowded condition is
due solely to the reason that part of
the Home quarters have been turned
into school quarters which condition
it is hoped will be remedied this
spring.
The father of the children has
great difficulty in providing for his
children, the petition, which is
signed by seventeen prominent res
idents of Unga, states, but of course,
the neighbors are, in the meantime,
doing what they can for the children.
The heavy snowfall now covering
the Unalaska region is an unusual oc
currence and old residents of the dis
trict fail to recall such a visitation
for the past quarter of a century.
Charles Hartman, Kodiak citizen,
who left for Cordova Monday on
the Victoria, is a government witness
in the Jas. Shea case. Shea is al
leged to have beaten a friend to
death.
Jack Hunt, hotel man of Kodiak,
who arrived in Seward on the Starr,
is a witness in the McKibben case.
Mr. Burns, Kanatak resident, was
among the sick persons arriving on
the Starr. He suffered a stroke some
years ago and has been in ill health
ever since.
'Red northern lights greeted local
citizens Tuesday evening over Mt.
Marathon. The lights were quite
pretty and greatlyresembled a forest
fire sweeping across the heavens.
TWO BILLS SENT
IN WOULD HELP
THE TERRITORY
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 25. (/P)
—The Senate Insular Territories Com
mittee voted and reported on two Al
aska Bills which Congressman Willis,
of Ohio, in one of the Bills introduced
to make the governor, secretary and
national committeeman a minority
member of party election and can
vassing board.
The other Bill provides the deposit
in the United States Treasury all mon
ies from the dead, insane or missing,
where heirs fail to claim same in five
years, the secretary at the end of the
5-year period would be empower to
adjudge the claims.
MELLON SATISFIED
TAX REDUCTION
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 25. (/P)
!—Secretary of the Treasury Andrew
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which was ratified yesterday by the
Senate and House conferees and sent
to President Coolidge for his signature
e:ceeds the reduction of revenue which
will go into the treasury, he thought
sure It was generally satisfactory to
the administration.
WATSON ARRIVES
FROM THE SOUTH
In Southeastern Alaska waters fine
weather was encountered but after
getting out into the open, the Admir
al Watson, Captain Graham, which ves
sel arrived in port last night at nine
o’clock from the south and departed
this morning at 6:30 o’clock for the
westward, ran into cold weather but
calm seas. A fair size list of passen
gers disembarked at this port but
others booked direct out of Seattle,
continued on to Westward points.
The Watson left Seattle with 800
tons of general cargo on board; 126
tons of case oil was discharged last
night for the local Standard Oil plant,
besides 60 tons for rail and town;
about 200 tons will be discharged on
the westward trip. The Watson will
return to port next Tuesday, south
bound, and will load here 150 tons of
Healy river coal for southeastern Al
aska.
Passengers arriving in Seward last
night and those westward bound were
as follows:
Seward-Marjory Downes, Olaf
Nord, Roy Merngerling, P. W. Mc
Carthy. G. W. Pearson. C. E. Robin
son, F. J. Hart, Robert Donaldson, H.
M. Conrad, B. Presley and J. R. Van
Winkle.
Kodiak—George Seaman, E. W. Grif
fin, H. H. Whitford, Gertrude Selig,
Seldovia—W. W. Batchelor, H. H.
Malcolm, A. K. Thompson, Ben Del
zel.
Halibut Cove—A. Ursin.
Uzinkie—Mr. and 'Mrs. Ted Rosen
berg, Gus Freeberg.
Local reservations for the westward
were:
Seldovia—Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Short
ley, Emar Nelson.
Kodiak-L. M. Carriga^n, G. E.
Burrell, Sam Shucklin.
Game Commission Will
Release Report Soon
Numerous recommendations for
changes in the Territorial Game Laws
will be presented to the Secretary of
Agriculture, also to Congress, accord
ing to Dr. Preston S. Whitney, of
Fairbanks, a member of the commis
sion, who recently passed thru Sew
ard on his way home. Dr. Preston
was accompanied on the trip by Mrs.
Preston and their son.
The Juneau session lasted for two
weeks, he said, but the report of the
entire meeting has not been given out
for publication, as yet, on account of
the resultant confusion which might
take place. A tentative text of the
meeting is being prepared and will
be released shortly.
The steamer Starr is scheduled to
depart for the westward Monday,
March &.
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Wounded Bear Kills
Trapper At Ugashik
FIRST DETAILS OF NOVEMBER
TRAGEDY BROUGHT HERE
ON THE STARR
On the 10th of November, James
Orr, a trapper in the Ugaship district,
went hunting with one of his neigh
bors and came to a group of alders
where Orr discovered a huge brown
bear. He shot four times at close range
with his 30-30 rifle and the bear ran
into the bushes and laid down appar
ently dead. Orr went after the animal
while his companion remained quite
a distance away. The bear got up and
Orr shot the fifth time when the brute
raised up on his haunches and charg
ed. Orr was unprepared for this and
was struck in the face by a huge paw
breaking his jaw and tearing his face.
The animal then circled his fore legs
around the man’s body in an effort to
squeeze and finish him but Orr kept
on fighting. At last the bear loosed
his grip on the trapper and with one
mighty blow knocked him for many
feet causing internal injuries from
which he died an hour and a half la
ter. The bear was mortally wounded
and died immediately. It weighed
1400 pounds.
BUSINESS MAN OF
SELDOVIA BACK
WITH A BRIDE
PROMINENT CITIZEN OF COOK
INLET IS GUEST OF LOCAL
CHAMBER COMMERCE
,M. E. Shortley, business man of
Seldovia, who arrived in Seward the
other day from Seattle, and who
will depart for the Inlet town on the
Admiral Watson, was a guest at the
Chamber of Commerce business
meeting and luncheon Tuesday
President McMullen called upon Mr.
Shortley for a few remarks. In part
he said:
“Four months ago I went outside
a single man but am returning a
benedict. My wife is quite well
known to Alaskans on account of her
previous work as travelling represen
tative of Outside firms. I am quite
certain I got the better of the deal.
However, hearing you gentlemen
speak in an optimistic vein regarding
the future welfare of this and the
westward districts, the words of an
orator whom I had thepleasure of
listening to, while in San Francisco,
comes back to mind. In a burst of
oratory the speaker emphatically ex
pounded the fact that (for years San
Francisco had been knocking Los
Aneeles and. also for years, Los An
geles had the hammer and tongs out
against San Francisco. But in con
clusion he pleaded with his audience
to join hands with Los Angeles
people, forget their civic troubles
and PULL FOR CALIFORNIA.
“T,hat’s what I would like to see the
various Alaskan communities do,”
Mr. Shortley said.
Conditions in the states appear
very prosperous, and there is no
question about it but what Alaska
will receive her proportion of the
substantial increase of the prosper
ity wave, Mr. Shortley added. (The
The fishing industry for Cook Inlet
this coming season looks better than
ever before according to present in
dications, and with reference to the
proposed beet industry in the Homer
and Kenai districts, Mr. Shortley
said he would take particular pains
to se that the local chamber would
get seed and all the statistics, which
can be secured, on the growing of
sugar beets in that locality.
An initial fund of $5,000 has been
donated for research into the cause
of baldness, which it is hoped will
result in a scientific means of pre
venting the same. In the meantime
we shall keep on buying hair re
storer from bald-headed barbers.
In 1852, in discussing the possibil
ities of the telegraph, a Congress
man said in a speech: “The time
will come when all the proceedings
in Congress will be transmitted, in
extenso, to all parts of the United
States daily.” Unfortunately this
dire prediction came true.
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Mississippi Senate
Resents Teachings
Evolution In School
JACKSON, Miss., Feb. 25. (AP).—The State Senate
passed and sent to the governor a bill against the teach
ings of Evolution in public schools.
A three-hour debate preceded the vote. W. D. Rob
erts, speaking against the Bill, said: “I feel I am mak
ing a monkey of myself when I speak on this bill, which I
feel as I do on this.” He declared that Evolution does not
conflict with the teaching of Christianity, and that ‘'all
things have a beginning, and that beginning was God.
There is no other way to account for the world.”
The Bill provided that penalties for its violation, in
cluding a fine from $100 to $500 and the cancellation of
the contract of the offending teacher.
Senator Taylor denied the Bill would interfere with
the freedom of one’s conscience, stating, “the teacher
who still thinks and believes in Christianity will do as he
or she sees fit.”
SENATE RATIFIES TAX BILL
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 25. (£>)
—The Senate today ratified the Tax
Bill, which was agreed on by the Sen
ate and House conferees, and was im
nediately sent to President Coolidge
lor his signature.
The Senate tax vote yesterday, 61
;o 10 will affect 7,000,000 Federal tax
payers. The new law will relieve ap
proximately 2,300,000 persons of all
:axation.
MELLON HOLDINGS
IN ALUMINUM CO.
NOT CONTROLLING
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 25. (JP)
—The stock holdings of Secretary of
the Treasury Andrew Mellon and his
brother, R. B. Mellon in the Aluminum
Company of America are “far from
sufficient to constitute control,” the
Department of Justice reported yester
day.
Local Ladies Aid
Is Organized
The first meeting of the Seward
Ladies Aid since September, 1925,
met yesterday afternoon at the
■Methodist parsonage, for the pur
pose of reorganizing. Thomas Phil
ip Graham, minister, called the meet
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pointed to act as secretary.
Members enrolled included the
Mesdames Reed, Schmitt, Lechner,
McMullen, Moehring, Nelson, Jessen,
Barnett, Starr, Gilpatrick, Fairman,
Jacobsen, Graham. Rev. Graham
was named as honorary member.
The membership fee was placed at
$1.00 per year, Next followed the
election of officers. Mrs. McMullen
was elected president, Mrs. Schmitt,
secretary, Mrs. Jessen, treasurer. It
was decided to hold meetings twice a
month, on the second and fourth
Wednesdays at 2 p. m. Mrs. Bar
nett extended an invitation to the
members to meet with her at the
next meeting.
Following the business session, re
freshments, consisting of three kinds
of delicious cake, and coffee, was
served by Mrs. Graham.
BANQUET AT FISHER’S CAFE
Following the Master Degree work
last night by Seward Lodge No. 219,
F. & A. M., the members of the
Order adjourned to Fisher’s Cafe
where a sumptuous banquet was
served. The affair was one of high
order, brilliant in its completeness.
TODAY’S WEATHER
Seward, six above.
Tunnel, four above.
Moose Pass, two below.
Anchorage, six below.
Curry, eight below.
Fairbanks, 40 below.
Wm. D. Coppernoll, attorney, de
parted for Anchorage this morning
on .matters of legal importance. At
torney Coppernoll expects to return
to his Seward office on Saturday.
FLYERS INSPECTING
TANANA RIVER AS
TAKEOFF FIELD
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Feb. 25. (£>)—
Major Lanphier and Lieut. Ben Eile
son inspected the facilities for assem
bling the two monoplanes at Fair
banks and investigated the feasibility
of using the Tanana river here for
the initial takeoff to Point Barrow.
Military Graduate On
His First Assignment
Chooses Alaska Field
Lieut. F. A. Pettit, whose Alaska as
signment is his first since graduating
from the military academy, and who
chose the Alaska post from four other
districts, passed thru Seward Monday
on his way to the Fairbanks office of
the Alaska Road Commission where
he expects to remain until next fall.
Since the latter part of September he
has been detailed at the Juneau head
quarters but is now exchanging places
with Lieutenant Bell, who also was a
recent visitor in Seward, southbound.
Lieut. Pettit, who hails from Illinois,
graduated last year and since coming
to Alaska likes the country, as he ex
pressed it, “wonderfully well,” and
would not change places with any
member of his class.
Firemen’s Banquet
Tuesday At Grill
Enjoyed by Members
An enticing table, covered with
snowy linen, bedecked with gay
flowers, glistening china and silver
ware, the whole, subdued by a car
mine glow radiating from electric
decorations, greeted the members of
the local volunteer fire department at
the Seward Grill Tuesday evening
upon the occasion of the banquet in
honor of the new fire chief, Henry
Frost.
Caterer Mel Holben supplied a re
past for the boys which was eaten
with much gusto, while dinner
speeches were made by every indi
vidual. Chops, all dolled up, French
fried potatoes, from Matanuska, Vir
ginia sweet corn with sprays of
green parsley, a splendid salad and
stuffed olives, winding up with ice
cream and cigars, comprised the
menu, not forgetting the cordial, fam
iliarly known as Irish Moss.
The thanks of the department are
extended to Schallerer’s Alaska Shop
for the box of Optimo (Banker) cig
ars, of mild blend, which they sent
over during the banquet; also to Mr.
Holben for the pains he took to
make the affair the success it was.
John Wilders, 80, famous old-time
fiddler and uncle of President Cool
idge has a vaudeville contract. He
said: "Don't know whether Cal will
like it or not.”
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