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VOLUME XX, NUMBER 325
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1925.
PRICE TEN CENTS
GRAND JURY IS
AFTER REMOVAL
MAYOR RROWN
COUNTY AUDITOR FERGUSON IS
INDICTED FOR MISCONDUCT
WHILE IN OFFICE
SEATTLE, Dec. 4 (/P)—'The grand
jury in session here today reported
"“sufficient evidence had been present
ed to justify the romoval of Mayor
Brown from office, either by impeach
ment proceedings or by recall.”
The jury indicted County Auditor
D. E. Ferguson for “misconduct in of
fice,” indicted W. A. Johnson, Seattle
attorney for the Alaska Steamship Co.
on charges of embezzling funds of the
company, and also indicted Mrs. Mary
Oriffin Bagley, of Detroit, on a grand
larceny charge. She is accused of
frauds totalling $30,000. The governor
of Michigan has refused to honor ex
tradition papers for Mrs. Bagley.
Ferguson was arrested and released
on $1,000 bond.
Administration Most Lawless
SEATTLE, Dec. 4 (£>)—Referring to
Mayor Brown’s administration the jury
said: “Apparently the only time in the
last three years there has been a sem
blance of law enforcement in the po
lice department with respect to vice,
gambling and the sale of liquor, was
when Brown went East and Mrs. Lan
des removed Severyns as chief of po
lice and appointed Capt. Bannick to
that position.”
It said the police department had
not lodged a single felony case in
prevailing vice, liqnoT or gambling
with the prosecuting attorney in the
entire year of 1925.
The grand jury flayed Sheriff Matt
Starwich for laxity of lax enforcement
in the county; condemned the road
commissioners for carelessness in
keeping trucks and materials; deplor
ed dance hall and road house condi
tions in the county; flayed Fergu
son’s alleged system of tribute to em
ployes and his refusal to accept inter
est for county money from the banks,
which gave him a low rate of interest
and made many other charges against ,
county officials.
Brown Makes Statement
When interviewed by the press
Mayor Brown declared, “There is not
one indictment of law violation which
could be charged against my admin
istration, so everyone must concede
that this is a clean city. I will de
mand that the report of the grand jury
be expunged on the ground that that
? body lacked jurisdiction and that it is
a political grand jury.”
Janitor Boy Protests
He Isn’t In Love with
Brooklyn Girl Poetess
NEW YORK, Dec. 4 (/p)-Red
haired, freckle-faced Roger Jackson,
the janitor boy of 12-year-old Natha
lia Crane’s internationally famous
poem protests that he isn’t in love
with Brooklyn’s child poetess, but the
fellows have been kidding him about
it.
After doubts have been raised as
to the true authorship of the poem
a reunion was arranged between the
two children who have not lived in
the same apartment house for two
years.
“You were the father of my dolls,
my husband, I suppose,” the poem
™ sang oft Roger when he was 9 and she
was half past 8.
“Said I was in love with her, didn’t
it?” said Roger, when asked about
the poem. “Everybody was kiddin’
me about it. Gosh, it used to get my
goat.”
Ptarmigan troop No. 1, .American
Boy Scouts, will meet this evening
at 8 o’clock at the S. A. C. hall.
MEANS OF BETTERING SOCIETY
OF MAN SOUGHT BY STUDENTS
CHICAGO, Dec. 4. (/p)—If the
church is an inadequate means of
'contributing toward a better society
for man, other agencies will be
sought at a conference of 1,000 stu
dents from colleges and universities
to be held in Evanston during the
Christmas holidays.
Denominations to be represented in
clude the Protestant Episcopal, Bap
tist, Presbyterian, Christian Congre
gational, Universal, Evangelical,
Quaker Methodist Episcopal and Me
thodist Episcopal, South. Others are
expected to participate.
Matters pertaining to the studen
and the church, reports from students
who have been conducting investiga
tions as to what church is doing in
various fields, and ways and means
of the students acting through the
church will be discussed.
MODERN WOMAN
CANCER SUBJECT
IS ASSERTION
DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH CHILDREN
NOR HAVE THEM EARLY
ENOUGH SAYS DOCTOR
LONDON, Dec. 4 (JP)—Cancer as a
disease of civilization was the sub
ject of an address Wednesday night by
Dr. Hastings Gilford before the Roy
al Institute of Public Health which al
ready is causing considerable com
ment. Dr. Guilford shocked both the
lay and medical sections of the audi
ence with the flat assertion that can
cer in women is more often the pen
alty of modernity which has been
causing physical deterioration of their
bodies. He suggested that the pres
ent notable increase of cancer among
women was at least partly due to the
fact that they do not have enough
children and that they do not have
them early enough.
Dr. Gilford granted that the pres
ent type of boyish woman with short
skirts, narrow hips and bobbed hair
was highly admirable in many ways,
but he warned his audience that it
is dangerous to think that such a
change can be accomplished without
a devastating effect.
Meanwhile London medicos are ex
cited by the news from Toronto that
Prof. Blair Bell of Liverpool univer
sity had successfully treated cancer
by an injection of lead salts. Comment
here agrees that Dr. Bell like Dr. Gil
ford is a scientist of the highest rank
and it is believed that if his Toronto
speech was correctly quoted the can
cer problem may have taken a long
step toward its future solution.
A third interesting cancer item de
veloped overnight as the result of the
famous Bernard Gye experiments that
shook the medical world a few months
ago. The Morning Post quotes an
anonymous British researcher of the
highest rank who has just returned
from Paris as saying that two French
bacteriologists have produced a serum
which will kill the toxic agents in
the Bernard Gye virus under certain
conditions. If true this announce
ment may be of extreme importance,
but all reputable observers while
a waiting the formula to be announc
ed with the keenest interest remain
deeply skeptical.
PETAIN ADDS ANOTHER TITLE
PARIS, Dec. 3. (JP)—The new cura
tor of the Conde Museum of Chan
tilly, an office carrying an income of
4,000 francs, is Henri Philippe Beno
ni Omer Joseph Petain, Marshal of
Prance, vice-president of the Superior
War Council (and so Commander-in
Chief of French forces in time of
war), the Savior of Verdun and pro
bable conquerer of Abd-el-Krim.
The town council meets Monday
night at the Fire hall at a regular
business meeting.
MEN IMPRBONED
IN BURNING MINE
BOULDER, Colorado, Dec. 4 (JP)—
Forty to forty-five men ar eimprison
ed in a burning mine of the Fairview
Mining Company, twenty miles west
of here. Heavy smokes and flames
are shooting out of the pit mouth.
The Fairview Company announced
this afternoon that the fire had been
extinguished, but the men are still im
prisoned in the burning mine. Huge
piles of timbering block the entrance.
U. S. On Verge Great Era
Prosperity, Says Gary
NEW YORK, Dec. 4 (/P)—1The Uni
ted States is on the verge of a great
area of prosperity, E. H. Gary, chair
man of the United States Steel corpo
ration, asserted today in an address
opening the general meeting of the
American iron and steel institute.
“I tell you,” he said, “before an
other meeting of this institute you
gentlemen will not have to go into
another room for orders. You will
be turning business away.”
Princess Burned To Death
Cleaning Gloves; Benzine
‘ GROSSWARDEIN, Hungary, Dec.
4 (/P)—Princess Ghika, wife of an ad
jutant of former King Ferdinand of
Bulgaria was burned to death today
while cleaning a pair of gloves.
Using benzine, she stood close to
a fire and the gloves ignited. With
her hands and face and beautiful long
hair aflame, she ran, a living torch
to her husband’s room, where a blan
ket was thrown over her. Aid was
too late, however, and she died in a
few minutes after intense suffering.
She was formerly the Russian prin
cess, Rowona, and was 23 years old.
Gov’t Cannot Seize
Mortgaged Rum Cars
NEW YORK, Dec. 4 (£>)—'The United
States court of appeals yesterday
handed down a decision denying the
government the right to seize auto
mobiles which are alleged to be car
riers of intoxicating liquors upon
which there are chattel mortgages.
All Rule Common Sense
Rejected Asserts Jurist
CHICAGO, Dec. 4 (/P)—All rules of
common sense are rejected in love
says Judge William N. Gemmill, noted
member of Chicago’s court of domes
tic relations in a book he is writing
for publication soon.
When to resist and when to pur
sue that’s the question, he declares.
And he thinks that if one could be in
noculated against puppy love some of
the divorce courts would go out of
business.
“Life would not be worth living if
every fellow married an Evangeline
or Maud Muller. Still we must con
tinue to play the old game in the same
old way. It is still ‘blind man’s buff.’ ”
“Falling in love is the most natural
yet the most extraordinary thing in
life. The extraordinary things about
it is that all ordinary rules of com
mon sense are rejected. Some people
fall in and fall out a dozen times and
are not the worse for wear. If one
can resist the first attack it is easier
to resist the second. The real per
plexing thing is to know when you
out to succumb.
“It takes a wise man to know when
it is the real thing and when it is
only “puppy love.”
“The man who sits down and calmly
decides what kind of a wife he wants
will never have any. Somehow we
.are not made that way.”
RHEIMS ONE CITY WITH HOMES j
BEGGING; REAL ESTATE SLUMPS5
RHEIMS, Dec. 4. (JP)—Rheims is
among the few cities in France with
empty apartments and a slumping in
dustrial real estate market. The re
turn of the population has not kept
pace with rebuilding and restora
tion, as there are only 75,000 inhabi
tants as compared with 117,000 before
the war.
To the world, Rheims generally is
associated first with cathedrals, and
then Champagne. Before the war,
however, it was an important indus
trial city, where wool weaving, spin
ning and bleaching employed 10,000
persons, now reduced to about one
third of that number.
Land w'hich at armistice time sold
for 10 to 30 francs the square meter,
when it was thought that the city
would be itself again in a short time,
is now offered at from 5 to 10 francs.
“The League for the Industrial
Commercial and Labor Development
of Rheims,” has been formed to come
to the rescue.
SCIENTIFIC WHALING
FISHERIES FLOURISH
IN THE PACIFIC
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 4 (^—Mi
nus most of the dangers of the old
days and plus the benefits of modern
science the business of catching
whales still flourishes in the seas off
this port.
An average of 14 of the sea mon
sters are caught each week in the Pa
cific only a few miles from land and
towed by whaling tugs to reduction
stations at Trinidad, north of here;
and Moss Landing, a few miles south
ward.
i There they are cut up, boiled and
made into fertilizer, oil and chicken
feed, worth approximately 31,000 a
whale. Whalebone for corset stays is
still produced but on a greatly les
sened scale.
The modern whaling vessels are
smaller and more powerful than the
old time ships. They are absent from
port usually only three days instead
of six months to three years.
No longer is the whale blubber peel
j ed off at sea and hoisted aboard to be
! tried out, the decks being odorous
| and redolent of the catch. Nowadays
! the wlialeing tug takes as many as
six whales in tow and hauls them into
port.
The modern harpoon is as deadly
in comparison to the old style as is
[the modern ordnance in comparison
with the flintlock musket. It is fired
from the gun, weighs 200 pounds, has
wicked barbs along its sides that open
after it has entered the whale, and
contains a bomb that will either kill
or fatally wound the monster of the
deep.
Science even has solved the prob
lem of saving the whale that sinks
in death after it has spouted. Now a
pointed, hollow and perforated rod is
sunk into the carcass with an air hose
attached. A valve is turned and com
pressed air is shot into the wrhale and
once again he floats. Also, the dis
tended sides resist the attack of the
occasional shark.
The average whale in this vicinity
weighs 50 tons. The whalers seldom
bother with any less than 40 tons in
weight. Some run as high as 90 tons.
Whaling is more profitable nowr be
cause of scientific aids and the men
engaged in the work no longer have
to depend on their particular vessel.
The crews, 11 men on each of the
four tugs running out of this port, get
wages and a bonus in addition. This
bonus is $10 a whale to the captain,
chief engineer and gunner. The as
sistant engineer gets $5 and each of
the crew $2. The catch of the whole
fleet is equalized for the boats hav
ing the poorest luck or engaged in
towing the catches of the other ves
sels.
Subscribe for the Seward Gateway.
AIR TRAVEL IN
INTERIOR ALASKA
COST, VIA TRAIL
SEWARD ARRIVALS CLAIM AIR
ROUTE FROM LOWER RIVER
IS LEAST EXPENSIVE
At the farthest point on the Ne
nana—McGrath trail, at the Summit,
meals cost $2.50 each and a bed $1,
recent arrivals in Seward from Mc
Grath and Tokotna announce. The
trail is 281 miles in length and an
average cost of $1 per mile is esti
mated as being a fair rate of travel
over the trail via dog team. This
average price includes meals and beds
along the route.
In comparison to rates charged by
the Fairbanks airplane company the
Gateway was informed, considering
the time lost and possible dangers en
countered on the trail, it was the gen
eral impression that the air mode of
travel was by far the least expensive
thought the prevailing air rate was
about $1.00 a mile.
It was pointed out that by coming
out of the lower river country via the
air route the operator could continue
his season’s operations until the
freeze-up thereby gaining extra weeks
of actual output, whereas, if the op
erator plans coming out over the fir it
fall of snow he must'cease operation^
before the freeze up. Apparently
there are arguments for and against
both routes of travel for last summer
an oldtimer of the lower river coun
try arrived in Seward and deplored
the high cost of air travel, but . ac
cording to the figures presenter'*/ fi
Gateway by one of the well known
operators in the McGrath district, who
departed for Seattle last week, he
conceded the argument was in favor
of the planes.
One week from today, next Friday,
the regular monthly meeting of the
Seward Volunteer Fire department
will be held.
METHODIST CHURCH
SUNDAY SERVICES
As the Rev. W. A. Thomas will con
duct services at the local Episcopal
church Sunday morning at 11:30
o’clock there will be no services at
the Methodist church at that hour. In
stead we will go over and worship
with our Episcopal friends.
At 7 o’clock Sunday evening there
will be preaching services at the
Methodist church. The subject of the
sermon will be “Stewardship.” This
will not be a “money” sermon nor will ,
, it be delivered for the purpose of lead
ing to a more liberal spirit in the mat
ter of “giving” toward the support of
the church. But will deal with other
things just as important, some of them
we think more so. Come and worship
with us and see more clearly wherein
| you are God’s steward. We are pro
mised some excellent music Sunday;
evening. Come and enjoy it.
Sunday School Sunday morning at
10:30 o’clock| The attendance last
Sunday was 55, but there are many yet
not in the Sunday School who should
be there. Send your children and
come yourself if you possibly can.
THOMAS PHILIP GRAHAM,
Minister.
EPISCOPAL CHURCH SERVICES
Rev. Wm, A. Thomas will arrive
from Anchorage on the train Sat
urday evening to hold services in
St. Peter’s Episcopal church Sunday
morning.
Services will consist of morning
prayer and sermon at 11:30 a .m.
Everybody invited.
Considering what posterity will
have to say, dying seems the better
part of discretion.
Truth crushed to earth will Ha®
again, but that signifies little. A lie
will do the same thing.