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VOLUME 19, NUMBER 245
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1924.
PRICE TEN CENTS
NATIONS WRANGLE
OVER OWNERSHIP
WRANGELL ISLAND
NOME, Alaska. Oct. 18.—A
colony intended to establish the
title of Great Britain to Wran
gell Island, off the coast of Sibe
ria, in tli eArctic Ocean was car
ried off by a Russian armed trans
port. which raised the Russian
flan there August 20, it was stat
ed here today by Arctic explor
ers.
w -
Steffansson Says Not.
NEW YORK. Oct. 18—Vilhjalmer
Steft-ansson, the Arctic explorer, who
founded the colony of Wrangell Isl
and, which it is reported from Nome
to have been carried off by a Rus
sian warship, said today that the
colony comprised 13 Eskimos and
Charles Wells, of Uniontown, Pa. The
explorer declares that the colony was
not founded in behalf of Great Bri
tain, but for the United States thru
an American colony in Nome. Stef
fansson declared today that the sit
uation was now up to the United
States, which could legally claim the
island if it so desired.
Wrangell Island is situated in lati
tude 71 north and 178 west. It was
first discovered in 1867 by Captain
Long, and named after F. P. Wran
gell. It is a barren, desolate place
'^fith no value save for its caches of
ivory and furs.
GRAFT HEARINGS TAKE
UP TIME OF OFFICIALS
IN CITY OF SEATTLE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. IS.—
The Chinese legation here today step
ped heavily on the participants of
the Tong war that has terrorized
Chinese along the Atlantic seaboard j
for the past week. In an effort to
bring about peace representatives of
the fighting Hip Sing and On Leong
ags were brought together at the
legation by Dr. Size, the Chinese min
ister, and forced to sin a truce on
threat of deportation.
TROTSKY WARNS SOVIETS
MUST MAINTAIN ARMY
TO DEFEND REPUBLIC
MOSCOW, Oct. 18.—Leon Trotzky
commissioner of war, speaking to a
Cossack assembly at Kabardino Bal
karsk today, urged his hearers to be
f-ady to mount their horses at a mo
ment’s notice to fight for Russia, as
sooner or later the enemy may compel
us to shoulder arms for our country’s
defense. “That is why we cannot dis
band our army and navy. Our ene
mies ,the vultures and imperialists,
those who now disrupt China, will not
permit us to do so. We do not want to
be torn and crushed.”
NEW REGULATIONS BY
BUREAU OF FISHERIES
The Washington office of the Bu
reau of Fisheries advises that on Oct.
13, the Acting Secretary of Commerce
promulgated additional regulations
authorizing commercial fishing for
herring, in the Prince William Sound
Area, with gill nets only, the mesh of
said gill nets to be not smaller than
three inches, stretched measure, from
November 1 to November 30, 1924,
lianas Area and Coho Salmon Fisher
both dates inclusive.
In the Aleutian Island Area the cap
ture of coho salmon is permitted after
October 13.
VALDEZ PIONEER IS HURT
A report was brought to Valdez this
week that C. L. Hoyt, the well known
fox farmer of Glacier Island recently
met with a serious accident. While
cutting wood the axe slipped, cutting
i^Ieep gash in one of his feet and sev
ering an artery. Considerable diffi
culty was experienced in staunching
the flow of blood from the wound and
the loss left him in a weakened condi
tion so that it was not believed advis
able to bring him to town.
KETCHIKAN GIRL PLAYS
FOR RADIO BROADCAST
filiss Florence Tobin, a Ketchikan
girl, is playing selections on the vio
lin for KPO broadcasting station, Hale
Bros., San Francisco. Miss Tobin
has been heard by Sewai'd stations in
her recitals.
WOMAN APPEALS TO “RULER
OF ALASKA” TO STOP THE
BERING STRAIT BRIDGE
Addressed to him as “uler of Al
aska,” Gov. Scott C. Bone today re
ceived an appeal by mail from a New
Orleans, La. woman for him to allow
no bridge to be built across the Ber
ing Strait. The letter was addressed
to “The Ruler of Alaska, Sitka, Al
aska.” and bore a five-cent stamp, the
writer apparently being under the
impression that the Territory was a
foreign land.
The appeal was short and direct.
It said: “Please, Sir. do not permit
a bridge to be built over Bering
Strait.”
“I suppose,” remarked the Gover
nor. “we will have to heed the plea
and stop that bridge from being
erected:”
SHENANDOAH DELAYED
BY HEAVY GALES SAN
FRANCISCO COAST LINE
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 18.—The
big navy dirigible Shenandoah, which
has been delayed by the seventy
mile-an-hour gale encountered last
night on her trip from San Diego
along the California coast, today sent
a message to Mayor Roiph saying
the aircraft would not visit San
Francisco until her return from Se
attle. The ship passed the storm
area this morning, but still faced
headwinds. The air cruiser is en
route to Camp Lewis, and passed five
miles from Golden Gate entrance last
night. She plans to hug the coast
line in the way north, and will pro
bably reach Seattle by way of the
Columbia river and Portland.
STUPID CONSERVATION
POLICY OBSERVED IN
ALASKA SAYS JOSLYN
SEATTLE, Wn., Oct. 18—The pro
per aid for Alaska is to abolish the
stupid policy of conservation, Falcon
Joslin declared in an address before
the Young Men’s Business Club. Gov
ernor Bone in a letter to the Club
thanked it for its efforts in behalf
of Alaska.
SPECIAL TRAIN TOMORROW
A special train will leave for An
chorage at nine o’clock.
The train will go only as far as An
chorage and will ha,ve no diner attach
ed. Passengers therefore should take
their own lunch.
SEATTLE COMMISSION
HOLDS SECRET SESSION
SEATTLE, Oct. 18.—The Civil Ser
vice commission held a secret session
here this afternon, barring the public
and the press while investigating the
charge that a deposed police detective
i had been given to understand that five
S hundred dollars would secure reinstate
ment. Two newspaper reporters sought
! to force their way into the room but
were ejected and told that if they per
sisted in their efforts -police would be
called.
DEEPEST POINT IN
OCEAN IS DISCOVERED
OFF JAPANESE COAST
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TOKIO, Oct. 17.—The lowest known
; point on the earth’s crust, lies about
| 145 miles southeast of Tokio. This
i discovery, made by the Japanese naval
i survey ship Manshu, has been announc
i ed by the navy authorities.
The new deep measures 32,636 feet,
or more than six miles. It exceeds
by 548 feet the hitherto greatest
known ocean depth the famous Mari
anne trench in which the U. S. naval
ship Nero in 1899 found 32,088 feet
off the east coast of the island of Mi
danao in the Philippines.
The Manshu’s “deep” apparently
lies at the bottom of a precipitous de
clivity descending sharply about 10C
miles from the southeastern coast ol
the main island of Japan. To the
Japanese the first interest in the dis
covery lies in the seismic possibilities
of this trench so near their coast line
The sharpness with which the ocear
bed plunges a few miles from Japan
is held by scientists to be a contribut
ing factor to the severe earthquakes
which visit this part of the country.
John Fitzgerald of Anchorage, whc
hasbeen attending court at Cordova
as a juror, returned on the Yukon.
NEW YORK EDITOR
DIES SUDDENLY AT
HOME OF HOOVER
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 18.—
Herman Kohlstadt, of New York, in
ternationally know as an editor, died
suddenly at the home of Secretary H.
Hoover last night.
Herman H. Kohlaat was well-known
as a journalist through his many
years’ connection with Chicago news
papers.
He owned and edited at different
times the Chicago Inter-Ocean, Chica
go Times-Herald, Chicago Record
Herald and Chicago Evening Post.
He was active in the public affairs
of Chicago as an editor and private
citizen for thirty years. He was a
Republican and a close personal friend
of the late President McKinley.
Mr. Kohlsaat played a prominent
part in the investigations that result
ed in the United States Senate declar
ing vacant the seat of Senator Wil
liam Lorimer. He furnished the infor
mation that resulted in bringing the
Lorimer case before the Senate the
second time after Lorimer had been
vindicated in the first hearing.
Mr. Kchlsaat was born at Albion,
Edwards County, O., March 22, 1853,
and was brought to Galena, 111., by his
parents when a child. He was edu
cated in Galena. After he came to
Chicago he began as newspaper car
rier and later was a salesman for a
wholesale bakery.
A few years later he started in the
catering business on his own account.
He was successful and in a few
years owned a string of lunch counters
and bakeries. Through his business
and sagacious real estate investments
he accumulated a large fortune.
In 1893 he disposed of his enter
1 prises and purchased from William B.
j Nixon a half interest in the Chicago
i Inter-Ocean of which he became busi
ness manager. In 1895 he sold his
| interest in the .paper and made an un
| successful attempt to purchase the N.
; Y. Tribune and the Times.
Later he failed in an attempt to pur
chase the Chicago Tribune. On the
death of James W. Scott, Mr. Kohl
saat bought the Chicago Times-Her
ald and the Chicago Evening Post,
! and became editor of both papers.
| Mr. Kohlsaat continued as editor
j and owner of both papers until 1901
! when he took over the Chicago Rec
; ord, owned by Victor F. Lawson and
consolidated it with the Times-Her
j aid. He called the merged papers the
Chicago Record-Herald. At the same
j time he sold the Chicago Evening Post
to John C. Shaffer.
Mr. Kohlsaat remained at the helm
of the Chicago Record-Herald until
i 1902, when he turned the property
over *o Frank B. Noyes, publisher and
! me of the owners of the Washington
Star. He devoted himself to his real
estate interests until 1910 when Mr.
Noyes returned to Washington, D. C.,
• and Mr. Kohlsaat again took charge
of the Record-Herald.
If '013 he purchased the Chicago
Inter-Ocear. from George W. Himan
and became its editor, a position he
held for a year when the paper again
changed hands and Mr. Kohlsaat re
tired from active journalism.
| In 1880 Mr. Kolsaat married Mabel
E. Blake, of Chicago, and two daugh
ters were the resub of the union. He
presented a stated e of General U. S.
rant to the city of Galena and gave
liberally to charity.
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PRISON CELLS TO HAVE
RADIO LOUD SPEAKERS
L MOUNDSVILLE, Va., Oct. IS.—In
; mates of the State prison here have
become avowed radio fans.
> Prison officials recently installed a
> radio set in the recreation yard for the
: entertainment of the inmates after
• they had completed their day’s work.
I But the Winter months are ap
: proaching, and the (prisoners soon will
■ not be able to gather around the ra
dio set in the recreation yard to listen
r to air concerts, speeches and news re
■ ports.
I So prison officials are planning to
' install a loud speaker in each cell of
• the prison.
The prison radio set is one of the
3 most up-to-date available, a five-tube
• neutrodyne.
STEWART, B. C., HAS FIRE
The water works, power house, tow
3 er, a residence and valuable machin
ery were burned at Stewart, B. C.,
last week. St. Mark’s church and vi
) carage were in danger for a time, but
i were saved. The loss was about ten
thousand dollars.
FISHERMEN WOULD TAKE
STOCK COLD STORAGE
LOCATED AT SEWARD
Seward has a wonderful opportunity
to get another cold storage, according j
to a number of fishermen on different
halibut boats plying from Seward to
the banks.
“Two thousand men would make
I their headquarters in Seward in case
another cold storage was built here,”
said our informant. “Or, if the lo
cal cold storage would raise the price
of fish three cents per pound, it would
mean that boats now taking their
fares to Ketchikan and Sitka would
come in here. Seward apparently
does not realize the number of men
and boats engaged in the fishing busi
ness, out of Ketchikan, or she would
go after the business. The banks are
in front of the bay, and the town is
centrally located, being nearer to the
Portlock banks and the Cape Spencer
banks than any other place. While
Kodiak is making a bid for the fish
ing business, the port is off at the
end of the banks, and would mean a
longer haul for fishermen. With the
facilities for oil, supplies and gear,
Seward would benefit tremendously
from the fishing fleet. And practi
cally every fisherman would take a
block of stock in the proposition, know
ing that it would pay from the start.
A few years ago a co-operative com
pany was started at Port Chatham
but it failed, not from the lack of fish
but through mismanagement. Sew
ard should go after the fishing busi
ness right now, as it would mean at
least 2|800 more population. The
fishinwrbanks are playing out to the
southward, and some of the plants will
be compelled to move north. No bet
ter pl^be could be found for a cold
storage than at Seward.”
There is no question but that a good
promoter could go outside and organ
ize a company within six months time,
especially with the fishermen backing
the concern. Steps should be taken
fWget such company started if the
New England does not give definite
assurance that it will start work soon.
"HENANDOAH REACHES
CAMP LEWIS TODAY;
FOG DELAYES LANDING
CAMP LEWIS, Oct. 18.—The diri
i gible Shenandoah arrived here 'at 7
i o’clock this morning in a heavy fog
and an hour later was still circling
above the prairie waiting for the fog
: to lift so that she could be moored to
the steel mast made ready for her.
She will cruise about in the mean
; time and will not tie up until late this
afternoon. The airship passed Trin
i idad Head on the northern coast of
' j California yesterday, and was over
■ | Portland at ten o’clock last night.
: M’ADOO’S BROTHER ON
STUMP FOR LAFOLLETTE
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11 SYRACUSE, N. Y., Oct. 17.—Mal
! | com McAdoo, brother of W. G. Mc
1 j Adoo, at three meetings here yester
' j day in the interest of the Lafollette
Wheeler ticket, attacked the Esch
Cummins bill as the “most radical
measure in the history of this coun
“It is impossible for Senator LaFol
lette or Senator Wheeler or any other
honest man to equal its radicalism.”
“Neither John W. Davis nor Presi
i dent Coolidge could be expected to re
i peal the act,” he said. “The act, in its
donations of public property to private
interests, ranks with Teapot Dome
naval reserve No. 1, and it put the
greedy hands of the manipulators of
our railroads in the treasury by which
they obtained log term loans at 6 per
cent of the public funds,” he said.
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FISHING SCHOONERS WILL
HAVE MOTORS AND RADIO
GALVESTON, Texas, Oct. 17.—
When the Gulf Fihseries three-masted
schooner Areas sails out of the chan
nel to the gulf here with the next 30
days the old era of the fishing schoon
er will have passed and for the first
time a fishing boat will enter the Gulf
of Mexico equipped with, radio appar
atus and power other than her sails.
The entire fleet of the Fisheries
Company here is being equipped with
radio sets and gasoline power engines
the first company to make such im
provements along the entire gulf.
It will be a different world for the
crews in the future, with the strains
of jazz from distant cities and the
throb of motors supplanting the “song
of the sails.”
PROHIBITION ENFORCEMENT
COSTS U. S. 8 MILLIONS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 18.—
Prohibition enforcement in the United
States in 1925 will cost the govern
ment about eight million dollars, ac
cording to present indications, the U.
S. Treasury estimated this afternoon.
FRENCH PARLIAMENT WILL
‘ MEET NOVEMBER FOURTH
PARIS, Oct. 18.—The cabinet today
convoked the French parliament for
November 4.
DES MOINES POLICEMEN
ACCUSED OF CONSPIRACY
DES MOINES, la., Oct. 18—Police
Captain De Vies and Patrolman Dicky
and Dunagan, who were recently sus
pended by the city council on a charge
of conspiracy, have been dismissed
from the force. The men are charg
ed with having taken a Catholic ban
ner from a church and having a pic
ture taken of it with the American
flagbeneath it for the purpose of in
citing sentiment against Catholics of
the city. The picture was published
lished in a Ku Klux Klan paper, the
men being members of the klan.
NORTHWESTERN SAILS
WITH 60 PASSENGERS
SEATTLE, Oct. 18.—The steamship
Northwestern sailed this morning for
Seward with sixty passengers for
Seward and Anchorage, as follows:
Blanche Dean, J. Petrie, Mrs. Sam Mc
Niece, May McNiece and R. Byerly.
BETTING THREE TO
ONE ON C00L1DGE
NEW YORK. Oct. 18.—Wall Street
reported today that there was more
betting on the presidential race this
year than ever before, with more mon
ey coming from the West than in any j
previous year. Wall Street is betting
three to one that Coolidge will win.
BENJAMIN F. DECKER WANTED
C. M. Brosius has a letter addressed
to Benjamin F. Decker, and would like |
to know his whereabouts.
TEN MILLION RAISED
BY REPUBLICANS TO
ELECT CAL COOLIDGE
CHICAGO, Oct. 18.—An estimate
was made today by Senator Shipstad
that ten million dollars had been rais
ed by the Republican National com
mittee and its subsidiary organiza
tions to win the election for Calvin G.
Coolidge and Chas. G. Dawes. This
was the most important testimony in
the second day’s session of the Borah
slush fund committee.
STEAMSHIP ALASKA IN
COLLISION WITH TANKER
SEATTLE, Wn., Oct. 18.—Bound for
Seattle with 160 passengers, the Alas
ka Steamship Company’s liner Alaska
was in collision in a heavy fog this
morning with the Union Oil company’s
tanker, Utacarbon, off Bush Point. The
two ships were moving at a low rate
of speed and hit each oth^r amidships.
It done only slight damage. The Alas
ka was completing a voyage from Al
aska, arriving here at 11 o’clock to
day, showing effects of her accident.
The Utacai-bon continued her voyage
to San Francisco.
PIONEER ALASKAN DEAD
Ed Terrill, a pioneer Alaskan died
recently at Fairbanks. He had been
inthe hospital for some time suffering
from a paralytic stroke. Gangerene
set in and one leg was removed to
■orevent the spread of the poison. He
bore the operation well, but later be
gan to sink until death came. The
deceased came to Alaska in 1898 and
never left the country. A graduate
of Columbia University, he drifted to
the North when the Dawson strike
was made. He resided in Dawson
for a number of years and then went
to Fairbanks. For the last few years
he had opei'ated the Home Restaur
ant.
Mrs. Anita Spaulding, popular pian
ist at the Liberty theater, returned
on the Yukon from Cordova where she
has been the past three weeks serving
as a juror.
CHINESE PLANES SINK
TWO WARSHIPS WITH
BOOMBS IN CHINA SEA
LONDON, Oct. 18.—Airplanes be
longing to the forces of Chang Tso
Lin, the Manchurian war lord, sank
two government warships at Ching
Wang Tao, on the China Sea, accord
ing to dispatches received from Muk
den. General Wu Pei Fu had his
headquarters aboard a battleship at
Ching Wang Tao, and thirty of the
planes were sent to attack the harbor
to ascertain which ship th§ general
I was on. The ships put to sea, but
two were hit with bombs and sank in
flames with all on board:
CHINESE SOLDIERS CAUGHT
LOOTING ARE BEHEADED
LONDON, Oct. 18.—Several Chinese
soldiers caught looting were beheaded
immediately in the hours of terror fol
lowing street battles between volun
teers of the Canton Merchants’ As
sociation and Sun Yat Sen troops in
which over one thousand were killed,
according to Canton dispatches.
SEWARD FIGHTING FOR
COURT HOUSE 17 YEARS
AGO SAYS OUR FILES
Seward was fighting for a court
house 17 years ago according to files
of the Gateway bearing the date of Oc
tober 15. Thomas Cale who was then
delegate, r<nd Judge Wickersham,
both were working to bring about
this result. Tfye town was also
working for a coal dock and railroad
to the interior.
Eri Thompson was robbed oi' $2,000
while on his way to Seattle on the
Santa Clara. The moiiej was not
recovered.
The bark Sylvia loader with h .000
cases o' salmon for the Alaska back
ers was )•::•: til Karluk. Thret tail
ors were drowned. Twenty men were
aboard at the time and all reached
shore safely. A heavy gale caused
the vessel which was anchored off
Karluk to break her anchor chains
and drift on a reef.
E. L. Whittemore ran the Seward
bowling alleys.
CANTON CHINA HAS
18 MILLION BLAZE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. IS.—
Canton, China, has had an eighteen
million dollar fire according to the
American Consul stationed there.
MINER DIES AT HYDER
While attempting to rescue compan
ions in a mine at Hyder, Thos. At
kins lost his life from gas. No other
particulars were received in regard to
the accident.
NORMAN DAWN LEAVES
Norman Dawn and moving picture
troupe who has been taking scenes in
the Territory the {past five months,
left Ketchikan Thursday, for his stu
dio at Hollywood. He stated that his
last picture, ”The Lure of the Yukon,”
had returned 25 per cent, to its inves
ters and was still going strong. His
new play will be called “Passions of
the Frost,” and consists of eight reels.
AUTO LICENSE REVOKED
Because he rammed a telephone pole
his fourth accident in three days, Ket
chikan authorities revoked the auto li
cense of Ernest Johnson for careless
driving. The city states that hereaf
ter permits for youthful drivers will
be harder to obtain.
PIONEERS VISIT ALASKA
Mrs. Crystal Mann and Mrs. Mar
tha Craig, of San Francisco, both
daughters of pioneers of early days
made a tour of southeastern Alaska
recently. Mrs. Mann is a daughter
of Jack McQuestion, who came to A1
aska before the gold rush. She was
born at 40-Mile and left the country
20 years ago.
Mrs. Craig is the daughter of Al
fred H. Mayo for whom the Mayo
district was named. She was born
at Fort Gibbon.
LOCKIE M’KINNON IMPROVING
Lockie McKinnon of Juneau, one of
the trustees of the Pioneers’ Home
at Sitka is recovering at the hospital
is recovering at the Sitka hospital
from a serius injury to his right
arm caused by the accidental dis
charge of a shotgun while hunting.
1 He is said to be out of danger.