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VOLUME XVIII.
NUMBER 128 &
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SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 1923
PRICE TEN CENTS
FIVE GUMS KILLED
FOB VIOLATION OF
CURFEW LAW
FRENCH TROOPS FORBID CIVILI
ANS TO APPEAR ON STREETS
AFTER NIGHTFALL
DORTMUND, June 11.—Five Ger
mans were shot and killed by French
troops during the night for violating
the order forbidding citizens on the
streets after dark. The killing follows
the shooting of three German civilians
here Saturday.
French Officers Slain.
COLOGNE, June 11.—The ambush
ing and slaying of two French officers
near Dortmund last night has brought
about a critical situation in the occu
pational areas.
NEW FEATHERWEIGHT CHAMP
CALLED ON TO DEFEND TITLE
NEW YORK, uJne 11—Eugene Cri
qui, of France newly crowned world’s
featherweight champion, will defend
his title on July 13th at the Polo
grounds, against Johnny Dundee, of
New York, the challenger.
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BRISTOLBIYPORTS:
The steamship Starr Capt. (j A.
Johansen, will sail tonight about ten
o’clock for Bristol Bay ports and the
far west, with about 100 tons of freight
anil the following passengers: Roy
Rogers, to Uyak; E. M. Polley, to
Nushagak; A. H. Dunham, to Unalas-1
ka; Rev. and Mrs. J. C. Dorwin to j
Unalaska; Frank Slater, to Nushagak;
Alex Weir, Mr. Tutsworth, E. Mc
Ph$e to Kanatak; Z. J. Halferty, Mr.
Hopp and E. J. Lanahan, Kodiak:
Jane O’Brien, Violet Mason and Bell ,
Gray to Kanatak.
Knule Ryfhe, Dan Peterson and Dan
Crazik to Uganik, for the San Juan !
Packing Co
For Uganik - Mrs. Johnson, Mrs;
Carrie Suits and Mrs. Marie Sebell
Deputy Clerk W. H. Whittlesey to j
Unalaska.
CONAN DOYLE IN SEATTLE
SEATTLE, June 11.—Conan Doyle,:
the writer and spiritualist, arrived in
this city today.
WILL NOT BE CANDIDATE
CHICAGO, June 11.—Gov. Smith of j
New York, arriving today declared he j
will not be a candidate for nominationj
for president on the Democratic tick
et in 1924.
Z. J. Halferty, postmaster and old
timer of Kodiak, will leave tonight on !
the Siarr for his island home.
Frank Slater, a representative of
the cannery board, of San Francisco,
arrived on the last boa. and win
leave on the Starr tonight for Nusha
gak.
Deputy Clerk of the Court Win, II. j
Whittlesey will leave tonight on the
Starr for westward points on business j
connected with court matters. He:
will go as far as Unalaska.
Mrs. S. M. Graff, wife of the genial ;
manager of the Seward Light and j
Power Co., who has been in the States j
for several months past, returned on
the Northwestern.
J. H. Graff and wife arrived on the
steamship Northwestern and will visit j
his parents in Seward for a few7 weeks ;
STARR WILL MAKE SPECIAL TRiP
The steamer Starr will make a spe- j
cial trip to Kanatak, carrying passen- j
gers and freight, about July first. She i
is expected to return from her present j
trip to Bristol Bay about June 28.
Rev. and Mrs. J. C. Dorwin arrived
on the Northwestern and will leave
tonight on the Starr for Unalaska,
where Rev. Dorwin will have charge
of the Jessie Lee home.
SHIPPING BOARD TO SELL
ARMY BASE AT NORFOLK
WASHINGTON, June H—Officials
of Norfolk, Virginia, were invited to
confer today in Washington with the
shipping board and army authorities,
regarding the sale of the army base
at Norfolk, for which the city recent
ly offered a bid of $5,000,000.
JESS WILLARD TO MEET FIRPO
LOS ANGELES, June 11—Jesse
\\ illard, the heavyweight pugilist has
left for Wichita, Kansas on his way
to New York, to begin training for nis
bout with Luis Firpo, the Argentine
boxer.
SECRETARY DEPJBV ST
GHDUimn OF
TELLS THEM NOT TO REPORT
MEN FOR MEAGRE OFFENSES
BUT HAVE PATIENCE
ANNAPOLIS, June 11—Exhorting
them to a clo'se application of study
of international law and to the gener
al lines of their profession as well, so
that they may be equipped to handle
the different problems that confront
them in the navy, Secretary of the
Navy, Denby, declared in the com
mencement address to the graduating
class of midshipmen here last Friday.;
The secretary told the graduates
that they were launching on a service
where the greatest of fraternity feel
ing should prevail at all times. He told
them to guard against too great a hur
ry, just because they are nowr in a
position to command, and not .o be
prone to report their men for some
meagre offense, but to endeavtr to get
at the bottom of the trouble and cor
rect it.
LION MUSI SERVE
SUPREME COURT RULES ON CASE
OF PRESIDENT OF DEFUNCT
SCANDINAVIAN BANK
OL'i MPIA, June 11.—The Supreme
court ruled today that former Presi
dent Larson, of the defunct Scandina
vian American Bank must serve his J
penitentiary sentence of three years
for violation of the state banking
laws.
WALSKA SAILS FOR EUROPE
WITHOUT HUSBAND
Mme. Ganna Walska, famous prima
donna, who sailed from New York re
cently on fie S. S. Paris. Her hus
band^Harold McCormick, of the Har
vester Trust Company, did not accom
pany her.
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«»V8T0NE VIEW CO.. NEW YMK
WHO SAID THE DUTCH ARE BEHIND TIME
In Amsterdam a practical innovn tion is a letter box attached to street
cars. Letters dropped into this box a re taken to the postoffice and emptied
thus saving hours over the o!d methods of collection by carrier.
WOMEN PROTEST TO
PRESIDENT OH
FEOE1TIFF
WANT PRESIDENT TO CALL PUS-‘
L!C HEARING —RECOMMEND
REMOVAL DUTY SUGAR
NEW YORK, June 11—A meeting
of the executives of women’s organi
zations, representing hundreds of
thousands of women, passed a resolu
tion urging President Harding to call
a public hearing at which the house
wives of America would be given an
opportunity to protest against the fed
eral tariff. A commission was also ap
pointed to recommend the removal ot
the present duty on sugar, and a dele
gation of women are going to Wash
ington to present their protests.
EARTHQUAKE HITS UTAH
LOGAN, Utah, June 11—An earth
quake accompanied by rumbling noise
was felt here last night. Dishes were
broken and a number of pictures dis-1
located, in a number of houses in the
city.
STOLEN BONDS FOUND
SEATTLE, June 11.—Suit in the
supreme court today revealed that
$44,000 in bonds alleged to be now in
possession of Joseph Stein, a Chicago
banker, were stolen from the safe of
Skinner & Eddy last July.
1 HEM OLD MESSENGER
WRESTED FOI THEFT
NEW YORK, June 11—James Foley,
an eighteen year old messenger, was
arrested today, charged with stealing
$141,000 in bonds, which he reported
i Tuesday that he had lost, but which
■ the police said he had admitted giving
| to two men.
Frank Murphy left this morning for
: Anchorage where he will give the In
: terior city a little Buick service and
look after several repair jobs. He will
; return in about a week.
Boy Rogers, a round tripped on the
Northwestern, is making a side trip to
Uyak.
Chas. W. Brown, member of the
firm of Brown & Hawkins of Seward
and Anchorage, arrived on Saturday
night’s train and left this morning for
his interior home.
Representative E. M. Polley, of Sit
ka, Territorial tax collector, arrived
on the Northwestern and will leave
tonight for Bristol Bay where he will
collect the school tax for the terri
tory.
John E. Ballaine, who was one of
the locators of the Seward townsite;
the Alaska Northern and the man who
started the Gateway back in 1904, ar
rived in Seward on the Northwestern
and is greeting old friends.
HUMAN SAFR1FICE TO
W GODDESS IS
MADE IN AFRICA
SIX MEMBERS OF AFRICAN TRIBE
SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR
BURNING YOUNG MAN
SALISBURY, Southern Rhodessia—
Human sacrifice is still practiced in
some parts of the old world, it was
shown today, when six members of a
local tribe were sentenced to dealh
for burning alive a young man named
Manduza, in order to appease the rain
goddess.
100 COMMUNISTS ARRESTED
TOKIO, June 11—More than 100
prominent communists and socialists
were arrested today, the police charg
ing that they were engaged in a plot,
to organize a communist state.
City Attorney H. L. Smith returned
on the Northwestern from a business
trip to Valdez.
RUSSIAN REPLY FORWARDED
MOSCOW^ June 11—Russia’s reply
to Curzon’s latest memorandum on
the Anglo-Russian relations has been
forwarded to London and will probab
ly be delivered to Kressliu today. The
document is said to be generally con
cilliatory, but it is not believed that
the British demands are accepted.
Washouts at Cantwell and at the
Nenana river bridge, Mile 371, occur
red Saturday, and an embargo has
been placed on all freight and passen
gers as well as baggage to points
north of Broad Pass. The commis
sion expetcs to make arrangements to
handle passengers and baggage con
necting with Thursday’s train, and will
advise the traveling public through
the columns of the Gateway as soon
as this can be done.
John Nash, the veteran old timer
from across the bay is in town receiv
ing medical treatment. While here
he is a guest of the Hotel Sexton. He
was brough to town by Pete Ander
son.
Mrs. C. L. Cook, wife of the well
known sheet metal worker of the Ta
nana district, arrived on the North
western.
Mrs. Guy B. Bergman, wife of the
well known pilot on the government
Yukon steamer Jacobs, and Mrs. W.
H. Bergman, wife of the captain of
the same boat, arrived on the North
western on their way to Tanana.
Mrs. E. A. Eggersgluess and chil
dren, arrived from the states on the
Northwestern and left for their home
in Anchorage, where her husband is
a commission employe.
GOVERNMENT ASKED TO
KEEP HANDS OFF BY CLUB
ATLANTl CCITY, June 10.—A plea
that the government keep hands o*"
was made before the Associated Ad
vertising clubs of the world at their
convention today by A. C. Bedford of
the board of directors of the Standard
Oil company.
TERRORISM IN SILESIA
BERLIN, June 11.—Terrorism pre
vails in the upper Silesian territory
northwest and southwest of Lignitz,
where a number of outlaw strikes
have broken out among the farm la
borers and other workmen, according
to a newspaper dispatch.
OF QFFlClfiL UFF
AT WASHINGTON
THREATS OF SAILORS TO STRIKE
UNLESS RECEIVE LIQUOR
RAISE ISSUE
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PARIS June 11—The threats of the
stokers and firemen on the French
steamers to strike, unless asured they
will receive their usual daily allow
ance of wine, when in New York har
j bor, has raised an issue that piobably
: will be made the subject of a diplo
matic correspondence with Washing
ton, meanwhile, steamship officials in
timate that the “Lafayette,” sailing
from Havre Sunday, and other French
ships will be supplied with the usual
stocks of beverage liquors tor the men
which is provided by the French maii
time laws.
TODAY’S FISH PRICES
SEATTLE—Fresh halibut 16 and 9
cents.
JUNEAU—Halibut 11 and 7 cents:
salmon, reds 13; small reds, 10 cents;
white 3, sable fish 3^ and 4.
WIFE KEEPER 10RTH
LIGHT SUICIDE BK
LE1PIM SEA
PET DOG GIVES .. AR.TiNG TC HS
MASTER BY FRANTIC AC
TIONS OVER MISTHFsSS
ILWACO, June 11.—Mrs. A. K. Pe-1
sonen, wife of the keeper of the North
head light, committed suicide Sunday
by jumping into the ocean. Her pet
dog returned and gave the alarm by
its frantic actions, and led the hus
band to the scene. The body was not
recovered.
SINGER’S DAUGHTER ELOPES
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COPYRIGHT KEYSTONE VIEW CO.. NEW YORK
Miss Abigail Marcia Gluck, daugh
ter of the noted singer, Alma Gluck,
who evidently got tired of waiting
and eloped with Frank Delmas Clari
of New Orleans to whom she Jiad been
engaged.
MUM WILL ARRIVE
111 SEWARD ABOUT
13TU OF JUNE
MAYOR RAY RECEIVES MESSAGE
TO THIS EFFECT FROM
GOVERNOR BONE
Mayor L. V’. Ray today received a
message from Governor Scott C. Done
stating that President Harding and
his party will arrive in Seward July
13th. The party will leave Seattle on
the morning of July 5th.
AUSSI WARSHIPS SEIZE
BRITISH STEM WAS
LONDON, June 11—Russian war
ships are reported to have seized four
British fishing trawlers in the White
Sea, according to a news agency re
port from Christiana, r
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PEASANTS TAKE UP ARMS
PARI^. June 11.—Bulgarian peas
[ ants have taken up arms against the
; new government.
MM5TE! IN POII 1
YESVES FOR 5E1TTLE
The steamship Northwestern arriv
ed in port Saturday evening about
7:00 o’clock with a large passensger
list and 261 tons of freight. Passen
gers for Seward were: J. K. Buckley,
Frank Slaker, Miss E. Morebeck, Mrs.
W. S. Bowen, Miss E. Corser, Miss B.
DeZang, J. N. Graff, Mrs. J. A. Clark,
Dan Madison, Joe Gunkle, Wm. Mey
ers, J. A. Buchanan, Mrs. Buchanan,
Mrs. H. A. Mills, A. L. Ekstrom, J. A.
Vale, Mrs. H. Johnson, Master John
son, Master Johnson, A. F. Davis Mrs.
Davis, Headley Davis, Jean Davis, L.
Biderman, J. E. Ballaine, Mrs. J. H.
Graff, Mrs. S. M. Graff, Mrs. R. Sum
mers, Mrs. W. H. Bergman, Mrs. F. J.
Spath and baby, Mrs. H. H. Bergman
and baby, Mrs. C. E. Cook. Frank Eg
gersgluess, A. Eggersgluess, Mrs. E.
A. Eggersgluess, Don Tassino, Mrs. E.
C. Connors, M. K. Mulvey, A. Gruhl,
Mrs. Gruhl, Jno Gruhl, Edward Gruhl,
Max Wagner, J. C. Dorwin, Mrs. Dor
win, E. McPhee, Wm. Becker, H. M
Burgen, Virginia Rivers, Munice Riv
ers, J. G. Herdman, 19 steerage.
Round Trippers—M. W. Kane, Ray
Rogers, Edna S. Davis, Katherine Je
rard, Edna Overby, Gretchen Stutzel
M. Summers, T. N. Bancroft, Mrs.
Bancroft, Elizabeth Knox, C. M. Lo- e
stag, T. H. Dunham, Mrs. Anna Ediy,
A. E. Longmore, Mrs. Longmore. Miss
Longmore.
Outgoing passengers on the North
western were—Mrs. Mabel R. Short,
Ed Fallon, J. V. Davis, Juneau;
For Valdez—Capt. Lloyd C. Parsons
Mrs. Parsons, Mrs. H. DuMarce, Ma
jor J. M. Walling.
For Cordova—H. Deidman, L M.
Cairigan, Richard Carrig&n, L. Beide
man.
For Ketchikan—Miss E. R. Man
ville, D. Kinneley.
For Seattle—Miss Orma Finley,
Miss Ruth Johnson, Mrs. Nellie Mil
ner, Edwrard C, Ran, Walter Collins,
Hannah Sponheim, Esther L. Smith,
Josephine Tupper, R. Conway, G. B.
Stevens, R. Brook, Mrs. Helen M.
Lynch, Mrs. B. Cascaden. G. Bennett,
P. Corrinoff, two insane, L. H. Car
vey, L. A. Levensaler.
Listed from Anchorage—Arnt Carl
son, Vic Hiding, Ben Wiggin, Carl G.
Olsen, G. P. Halfertv, Dr. L. Von M.
Zeisch. to Cordova; Miss Gladys Wag
ner, Howard Webster, John Stavos.
John G. Brady, of the forestry ser
vice, recently completed the survey of
a pack trail from Mile 6 to Paradise
Valley, the estimated cost of which
will be about $300 per mile. Mr.
Brady has recommended that the road
be built.
Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Carrie Suits
will leave on the Starr tonight for
Uganik.