VOLUME XIX. NUMBER 165.
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY JULY 15, 1924.
L&L* PRICE TEN CENTS
FOREST FIRES CAUSE HUGE LOSS
IN WESTERN STATES; MANY
LIVES ENDANGERED BY FLAMES
FOREST FIRES IN WEST HAVE TAKEN SERIOUS TURN
SEVERAL FAMILIES LOST IN FLAMES—PARTY OF
TIIIRTY-FIVE TRAPPED IN IDAHO.
SPOKANE, July 15—Forest fire conditions in Eastern Washing
ton have taken a serious turn with the probable loss by fire of \V. C.
Dillon and family of six and six loggers caught in the flames on Trap
per’s Creek, Idaho. A party of thirty-five, including some children
* are trapped by raging forest tires at Wheeler Mill Pond, in Oiielle
County. Five are reported to have perished on Pine Creek, near
Kellogg, Idaho.
This is the driest summer Washington has ever known and the
forest fires have caused immense damages. Boats have been wreck
ed by running too close to the shore line in dense clouds of smoke.
California forest reserves have been closed to all picnicers, and per
tnits to build fires refused by the federal,government.
Two hundred men were conscripted from the streets this morning
to fight fire in the Santa Brabara National Loiests.
ARMY FLIERS COMPLIMENTED
ON SUCCESSFLY FLIGHT TO PARIS
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 15—With the arrival in Paris of the
American World Flyers, they have traveled 18,935 miles in 108 days,
with 239 hours flying time. -
Secretary Wilbur cabled Commander Smith on the arrival of the
flyers, complimenting him and his companions on their quick jour
ney, and predicted that they soon would negotiate the distance over
the Atlantic ocean.
MacLaren, the British aviator, landed at \ itoyofu, island yester
day, one of the Kuriles islands.
Brief Telegraphic Flashes
WALLA WALLA, July 15—Edward Meuth, of Tacoma, chief
clerk of the Penitentiary and former state treasurer, was shot and
killed by guard A. Lechner as he was walking through the grounds
LecTner believed he was an escaped prisoner.
NEW YORK. July 15—The ceremony officially notifying Davis
his nomination will‘take place at Clarksburg, West Virginia.
LONDON. July 15—Delegates to the allied conference, who will
study ways and means for making the Dawes Reparations Report ef
fective. arrived today from ten countries.
SEATTLE, July 15—Ronald C. Crawford, 97, and a resident of
the state since 1847 is dead here.
MONTEVIDEO, July 15—The Brazilian revolution which has
centered around Sao Paulo and Santos a seaport town, is spreading
today and threatens to became a national uprising. Three addition
al states, Matto Grosso, Para Rio, and Grande Dosul, with a popula
tion of three and one half millions have threatened to join the revolt.
BEER BY THE GLASS
PLAN IS BEATEN
IN B. C. ELECTIONS
PROVINCE DECIDES AGAINST
* FURTHER LOWERING OF
BOOZE BARS
VANCOUVER, B. C., July 15—Dur-j
V,the recent elections over the wet j
and dry question in the province of j
British Columbia, after three years of |
« government sale of liquor, the people
will not allow further relaxation of
the beer question, by allowing it to
be sold by the glass, it was conceded
here today. The minimum quantity of
beer sold is three bottles holding one
pint each.
The vote on beer by the glass was
under the local option principle, but
the provincial government had reserv
ed discretion to refuse sale anywhere
if the general majority should be de
cisively against it. Only scattered dis
tricts voted in favor of reducing the
minimum of beer to be purchaseable
at one time.
After the regular meeting of Sew
Chapter No. 10, Order of Eastern Star,
the officers and members surprised
Mr .and Mrs. W. O. Perry with a fare
well party. A word contest was held
in which Mr. and Mrs. Richard Mc
Nally carried away the prizes; after
which a lovely luncheon was served.
■^•phe Admiral Watson arrived in
port today and will sail south tonight.
PANAMA CANAL TRAFFIC
ESTABLISHES NEW MARK
PANAMA, July 15—Traffic thru the
Panama canal for the fiscal year just
ended set a new record. Vessels pass
ing through numbered 5,230 and hte
tolls were $24,290,963, a 38 per cent
gain above the total for the last fiscal
year.
The month of June was the lowest
figures for the fiscal year, with 377
transits and $1,792921 tolls.
No Poison Found in
Guemes Island Murder
MOUNT VERNON, July 15—Henry
Dunham, county coroner, stated yes
terday that after making a complete
investigation as was possible in the
case of Mrs. Irene Isberto, Guemes Is
land woman whose dead obdy was dis
covered in a rowboat near Thatcher
Pass last week, that he was convinced
that the woman had been smothered.
The state chemist, C. W. Johnson re
ported to Mr. Dunham yesterday that
his experiments showed that no poison
had been found in the dead woman's
stomach. Search is still being made for
Mrs. Isberto’s husband and her com
panion, with whom she was last seen
alive.
FORMER MASTER SCHOONER
ENDS LIFE BY SUICIDE
SEATTLE, July 14—Capt. W. C.
Reinhardt, former master of the ill
fated South Seas trading schooner the
S. N. Castle, committed suicide in "a
local hotel.
SKI ITER SHOWS HOW TO STEER SHIP WITH FINGER
Commander A. B. Randall, U. S. N. R. skipper of the S. S. Republic,
shows how one finger suffices to steer the vessel by setting “Metal Mike,”
the new Sperry gyro-compass.
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REPORT ON CORDOVA
POST OFFICE ROBBERY
IS MADE PUBLIC
INSPECTOR PINKHAM SWORE
OUT WARRANT FOR ARREST
OF SCHEFFLER
In the ease of the United States vs.
C. H. Scheffler,former postmaster at
Cordova, the following evidence was
produced which caused his armrest:
% The Cordova postoffice was robbed
of $6,144.66 on the night of June 16th,
and S. T. Pinkham and J. E. Fitzger
ald were ordered to Cordova to work
out the case.
The evidence introduced at the hear
ing showed that after banking hours
on the evening of the 16th of June,
Charles Scheffler drew out $2,977.77
and put it in the safe; this was Postal
Savings funds. There was also more
than $3,600.00 of postal money in the
safe at the time.
That night the money was taken.
Three of the doors of the Post Office
were found unlocked the next morn
ing but there was no marks or indi
cation of breakage. The safe, which
is a large burglar-proof one, was open
ed in the regular way by working the
combinations of which there are two,
one on the outer doors and one on the
inner steel burglar-proof strong box.
The evidence showed that Scheffler
was the only one who had the combi
nation to the inner steel chest where
the money was kept. This was testi
fied to at the hearing and was not
contradicted. Of course there were
many more details .these things being
some of the most significant brought
out at the hearing. The evidence also
showed that several hundred dollars
in various sized bills, including a sack
containing gold and silver coin, was
scattered around the postoffice floor.
The bolt was taken out of the rear
door and laid on a table thirty feet
away. The spring lock to another
door was caught back and the door
held by a small prop. The peg that
held one of the window slides shut was
removed and laid to one side. All this
was shown by the transcript of the
hearing.
NEWSPAPER MAN TO
SELL REINDEER MEAT
MOUNT VERNON, July 15—Fred
| erick Ornes, pioneer newspaper man
of this city, has joined his brother of
Minneapolis, in opening an office in
Seattle where they will represent the
Lomen Reindeer & Trading company
of Nome, Alaska.
The firm will distribute reindeer
meat to various points of the United
States with head offices in the Bell St.
terminal dock, Seattle.
Tanker Goes Ashore
Near Port Townsend
SAN FRANCISCO, July 15—The
tanker Stockton, owned by the United
States Shipping Board, is aground off
Point Wilson, on the Washington
coast, the marine depatment of the
Merchant’s Exchange was advised to
day. The vessel is apparently undam
aged. She was bound from San Fran
cisco for Seattle. *
«*oui fc.e Chamber of Commerce.
ELMER SMITH, RED
ATTORNEY HURLS
CHALLENGE TO GOVT.
WHEELS OF INDUSTRY BE TIED
UP UNLESS I. W. W.’S ARE
FREED, IS THREAT
SPOKANE, July 15—Indicating a
purpose to enter the coming state poli
tical campaign in an effort to secure
the release of seven men serving sen
tences in the Washington state prison
| for their parts in the Centralia Armis
tice day shooting five years ago, El
mer Smith, I. W. W. Attorney, speak
ing here at a meeting of the Industrial
Workers of the World, said: “I defy
I the man to be governor who will not
release these men from the peniten
| tiary. We will take every lawful means
! to get them pardoned and then, if nec
essary we will tie up the wheels of
industry in the Northwest until they
are set free.”
Koyukuk is Quiet
Says Interior Man
Peter Dow, an old timer of the Koy
ukuk, arrived in Fairbanks last Satur
day after a slow trip ‘from the old
camp situated above the Arctic Circle.
Mr. Dow left the Koyukuk country
on the 19th of June and is on his way
to the States for a visit.
He reports that conditions are very
quiet north of the Circle although a
few strikes of minor importance oc
curred during the winter. Water is
scarce and the tack of snow for the
past two winters ha.? hampered mining
cperations to quite an extent. Last
winter no wood could be hauled until
February because of poor sledding.
Mr. Dow says that Mrs. Allen, who
vs as Miss Vanda Coffey, has turned
miner in earnest. Mr.-:. Allen now owns
several claims near Wiseman and is
actively engaged in the working of
them.
CHARLIE PADDOCK WOULD BE
FASTER BUT FOR NERVES
LOS ANGELES, July 14—“If Char
ley Paddock could learn to relax he
would beat the marks he already has
hung up to startle the athletic world.”
Such is the opinion of Dr. C. F.
Wright formerly of Davenport, Iowa,
now a resident of Los Angeles, who
looked over the world’s sprint cham
pion' and helped put him in shape to
go back to Boston for the final Olym
pic tryouts.
Dr. Wright has a national reputa
tion as a conditioner and coach of ath
letes He has seen all the great sprint
ers of the last generation or two, and
in his prime he measured strides with
the best of them.
JAP GARDENER CHARGED
WITH SPRAYING CELERY
WITH POISON SOLUTION
LO SANGELES, July 15—Charged
with spraying a stronger solution of
arsenic on celery than allowed legally,
H. Utsuki, a Japanese was placed un
der arrest at Culver City, fined $300
and his crop of 300 crates of celery
valued at $6 a crate, confiscated. The
Japanese said the strengthened solu
tion was used to bleach the celery anu
increase its value.
POLICE STORM BUILDING
ALLEGED BANDIT CAUGHT
SAN FRANCISCO, July 15—Late
yesterday afternoon the police stormed
a building' to arrest William O’Connor
wanted in connection with robberies of
Oakland banks, three banks in Los An
geles and a jewelry store here. O’Con
nor resisted arrest until the attacking
force broke through the door of his |
room and shot him through his revol- j
ver arm.
FISHERMAN WHO
SHELTERED MARTIN
BELIEVED DROWNED
OWNER OF MOLLER BAY CABIN
IS MISSING—BOAT FOUND
ADRIFT
A mystery that has an indirect con
nection with the harrowing experienc
es of Major Frederick Martin, United
States army world flyer, on the Alas
ka Peninsula is reported by Captain
W. B. Knight of the steamship Cath
erine D., cannery vessel for the Pacif
ic American Fisheries, Captain Knight
states that “Gum Boots” Johnson, $he
owner of the cabin on the southern
shores of Moller Bay, where the maj
or and his staff of mechanics, Alvah
L. Harvey, remained for two days, is
missing and it is believed he was
drowned. His fishing boat was found
adrift in the bay and it is conjectured
tha% he was lost while fishing. Johnson
had been away from his cabin about a
day when the aviators staggered into
| it and feasted on pancakes and salmon
bellies between naps.
Captain Knight says that thd West
ward will not have a big salmon year
for reds, but that there will be plenty
of pinks. The run is now on.
Shakespeare’s Stream
Is River of Death Now
LONDON, July 15—The River Avon
beloved of Shakespeare and immortal
ized in his writings, has become a riv
er of death. It still flows gently be
tween wooded banks and through the
peaceful meadows, but it has become
a martyr to the industrial development
of England.
Pollution of the river by sewage is
responsible for what was once one of
the most delightful streams in Eng
land becoming an evil-smelling river.
At one time the Avon was a favorite
resort for anglers and teemed with
fish. For more than two years no fish
have been caught. Where water lillies
used to bloom in profusion there are
no flowers now. Bought of trees that
have leaned down to touch the waters
are dead.
Efforts are being made to induce the
city of Coventry to make other ar
rangements for its sewage disposal.
FOREST FIRES BRING
CLOSING OF FORESTS
SAN FRANCISCO, July 15—Cer
tain “high hazard” areas in national
forests in California were ordered
closed to all public travel today while
four forest fires raged, it was an
nounced at headquarters of the United
States forest service here. They will
be closed for the remainder of the fire
season.
The situation was said by the forest
service executives to be so critical that
the closing order was necessary both
“for the protection of the forests and
the public.”
YAKIMA VALLEY SUFFERS
FROM HEAT AND DROUTH
PROSSER July 15—The hottest day
since 1890 was experienced in Prosser
last week. The temperature was 104
degrees, also according to the official
records the driest month the Yakima
valley has ever known.
At Yakima, with a maximum tem
perature of 92 degrees, the hot spell
still continues. It was 100 degrees dur
ing the first part of last week.
COUSIN OF HENRY FORD
KILLED BY AUTO STAGE
SEATTLE, July 14—Mrs. Rachel E.
Nolan, eighty-second cousin of Henry
Ford, was run down and killed this
morning by an auto stage.
Eugene M. Levy, deputy county
clerk and ex-officio deputy clerk of the
Superior Court of San Francisco, is a
south-bound passenger on the Admiral
Watson today. He has been making a
trip to Kodiak.
CLOSED SEASONS
ON HERRING ARE
NOW ANNOUNCED
BUREAU OF FISHERIES ISSUES
REGULATIONS FOR PROTEC
TION OF HERRING
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Regulations for the protection of
herring, including limitations 6n the
size of meshes in nets used, restricting
the use of certain gear ,in specified
waters and closed seasons in two of
three of the principal herring fishery
districts, have been issued by the Bu
reau of Fisheries. They were issued
simultaneously with the new salmon
regulations and are effective now.
Protection for herring is provided
-from Kodiak to and including Prince
William Sound, in which areas the
principal portion of the Alaska herring
industry is located. Closed season are
established in the Prince William
Sound and Cook Inlet areas only.
Kodiak Area Rules
The Kodiak area is defined to in
clude the waters of the mainland shore
extending from Cape Douglas south
westward to Cape Kumnik and the ter
ritorial coastal and tributary waters of
| Alaska surrounding Kodiak and adpac
I ent islands, but excluding the waters
j embraced within the Afognak forest
j and Fish Culture Reserve. Two regu
lations apply to this area in common
| with the other districts: These are:
1. Gill nets used in catching her
ring shall not be of smaller mesh than
: three inches stretched measure.
2. No one shall place or cause to
be placed, across the entrance of any
lagoon or bay or other device which
will prevent the free passage at all
times of herring in and out of said la
goon or bay.
Cook Inlet Area
j The Cook Inlet area includes Cook
Inlet, its tributary waters, and all ad
| joining waters north of Cape Douglas
and west of Point Corey. The Barren
Islands are also in this district.
In addition to the general regula
tions quoted above for the Kodiak
area, the following regulations were
announced for Cook Inlet:
1. Fishing for herring is prohibit
| ed during the period from January 1,
to May 31, each calendar year, except
j for bait or local food purposes.
| 2. The use of purse seines in the
oapture of herring is prohibited at all
\ times in Halibut Cove and Lagoon, in
; eluding the waters within a line drawn
; from the light on Ismailof Island to
i the outermost point on Glacier Spit.
I 3. The maintaining of a herring
pound or dumping of offal and dead
J herring in the waters of Halibut Cove
! is prohibited.
Prince William Sound
The Prince William Sound area in
cludes all territorial coastal and tribu
tary waters of Alaska extending from
Point Whitshed on the east to and in
cluding Resurrection Bay' on the WesL
Herring fishing in this area is great
ly restricted by the new regulations.
A closed'season is established from
January 1, to June 24, and from Nov
ember 1, to December 31, all dates in
clusive, each calendar year. During
the closed periods herring may not be
taken except for bait and local food
purposes.
JULIEN A. HURLEY
NEW U. S. ATTY.
FOR 4TH DIVISION
—
According to Associated Press dis
patches today, Julien A. Hurley, now
assistant district attorney at Anchor
age, for the Third division, has been
appointed District Attorney for the
Fourth Division at Fairbanks, replac
Guy Erwin, removed.
Mr. Hurley is one of the most bril
liant lawyers of this division and his
friends gather in wishing him as much
success and popularity in his new ap
pointment.
CALIFORNIA FORESTS
CLOSED TO TOURISTS
SAN FRANCISCO, July 15—An or
der closing the extensive areas in sev
en national forests in California to all
camping and other recreation because
of the critical fire hazard, was issued
here today by the headquarters of the
United States forest service.
The order, which is effective today,
was issued after a personal survey of
the forest fire situation by William B.
Greeley, chief forester of the United
States, and Paul G. Redington, district
forester.