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VOLUME XX. NUMBER 285.
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1925.
PRICE TEN CENTS
NOME SEARCHERS
FAIL TO LOCATE
MISSING SAILOR
FOUND FOOTSTEPS LEADING TO
RIVER—THOUGHT MAN WAS
DROWNED TRYING CROSS
TEMPERATURE 28-ABOVE ZERO
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Motorship Silver Wave Reports Fine
Weather With no Ice in Arctic—
Alameda Will Arrive Today
NOME, Alaska, Oct. 16. (£>)—'The
search party sent out to find Ernest
Bowman, a member of the wrecked
Mission ship Ariel, returned at ten
o’clock 'today after a futile search.
The reported finding traces of his
footsteps leading to the edge of Tisuk
Creek, but a search along its banks
revealed further marks. It is be
lieved Bowman wr.s drowned while at
tempting to cross the stream, and his
"body swept to sea.
The steamship Alameda is due to ar
rive in Nome tonight or tomorrow' on
her last trip of the season.
The motorship Silver Wave, enroute
from Deering, reported fine w'eather
all the wfa.y, with no ice encountered.
The temperature is hovering around
.28-aoove zero.
7 ie Bureau of Education vessel
Boxer, arrived yesterday and is leav
ing tonight for Seattle. The sailing
of the Swenson company’s vessel Blue
Sea, for Seattle, has been delayed on
acount of the low water in Snake
Jliver horbor. .
ARCTIC MAY BE
‘ EXPLORED BY
AIRPLANES SOON
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 16. (£>)—
Defending the navy planes used on
The MacMillan expedition before the
Coolidge Board, Lieutenant Commdr.
Byrd said that with more time and a
better season, the center of the unex
plored region of the Arctic can be
^ reached. Amphibian planes are the
T best in that region.
“We flew six thousand miles up
there or far enough to have gone to
the pole and back two times. Aviation
conditions were worse than anticipat
ed.”
BOYS THINK TOM SAWYER
BAD FOR ONE OF AGE
ROCKFORD, Oct. 16. (/P)—A speak
er yesterday told the Illinois Library
/ Association that a thirteen year-old
Omaha boy said he liked Tom Saw
yer, but “I think it one of the worst
books for boys in their mature age.”
He was one of thirty-seven thous
and school children who answered the
question put to them by the Associa
tion on what small children should
read. One boy of Quincy, Mass, 13
years old, remarked on Evangeline,
“It doesn’t seem possible that a girl
Kvould walk many miles for a beau,
when now they wouldn't walk a mile
to see him.
GERMANS ADOPT PACT
LOCARNO, Oct. 16. (/P)—The * Ger
man Allied Conference at its eighth
plenary session, adopted the security
pact after German had announced her
adhesion, with the purpose to end war
in Europe. Germany, France and
Belgium are to sign the pact as prin
cipals, while Britain and Italy sign as
guarantors.
The pact provides for Polish German
arbitration. The treaties will be the
./*ume as those between Germany and
France, and between Germany and
Belgium, so even boundary disputes
will be arbitrated.
WALTER JOHNSON, UNDAUNTED
BY FRISCO DEAL LAST YEAR, OUT
AGAIN IN QUEST OF OWNERSHIP
MUSKOGEE, Okla., Oct. 17. (/P)—
Walter Johnson, last night sent a
telegram here to initiators of a cam
paign to buy him a baseball club.
Johnson said: “I have given more
than half my life to the game; I
love baseball, and nothing can make
me more happier than to be owner
of a ball club.”
(It will be remembered that last
year Johnson dickered for a time in
San Francisco in the hopes of pro
moting such a wish, but failed abo*ut
the time the deal was brought to a
close.—Ed.)
12 KILLED IN WRECK
BKHSSANA, Oct. 17. (£>)—’Twelve
persons were killed and twenty in
jured, some fatally, when a fi eight
train smashed into a passenger train
between Milan and Genoa.
PLEAD GUILTY
NANIMO BANK
ROBBERY
NANIMO, Oct. 1G. (&)—After plead
ing guilty to the $42,000 bank robbery
on December 12th, Edward Gorman, h.
H. Castro and T. H. Johnson were sen
tenced to eight years and twenty lash
es. The trial of William Bagley will
start tomorrow. Harry Stone, another
one of the bandits has already been
sentenced.
BUREAU OF LABOR REPORTS
INCREASE OF EMPLOYMENT
DURING MONTH SEPTEMBER
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 17. (/P)
—The Bureau of Labor reported a
continued increase in employment
during the month of September. The
twelve big groups of industry have
improved 7.7 per cent over Septem
ber last year.
RECEIPTS SERIES
OVER A MILLION
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 16. (JP)—'The
receipts for the world’s series totalled
$1,182,854.00 setting a record for base
ball. Last year’s receipts were $1,
093,104. The attendance was two
hundred eighty-two thousand, eight
hundred thirty-eight, which was eigh
teen thousand six hundred under the
record of two years ago.
CHINESE GENERAL
NOW ON THE MOVE
SHANGHAI, Oct. 16. (/P)—General
Sun Chaun%Fang Chekiang, comman
der of the ten thousand troops which
occupied Shanghai without gunfire,
is closely following General Chang
Tso Lin with his fifteen thousand men
who is withdrawing toward central
China. Over eighty Chinese who
were sentenced to death by a mixed
court have been turned over to the
foreign authorities because there was
no time to execute them.
BRITISH AND EUROPEAN
CORRESPONDENTS BOYCOT
MUSSOLINI’S PRESS MEET
LOCARNO, Oct. 16. OP)—British,
French, and German correspondents
boycotted the press meeting called by
Mussolini to discuss European securi
ties. Mussolini was pale, and hag
gard and seemed unable to make clear
the statements he had written.
VOTE CAPITAL LEVY _•
NICE, France, Oct. 17. (#>)—'The
Fiscal Commission in conference in
this city today said that the radical
party voted a levy on capital, con
trary to Caillaux’s wishes.
SEATTLE CHAMBER
ACTIVE IN ALASKA
DAY CELEBRATION
SEATTLE, Oct. 16. (#)— Six hun
dred members of the Chamber of Com
merce celebrated with a luncheon, the
anniversary of the purchase of Alas
ka.
Carl Colwell, a member of the Young
Men’s Business Club, impersonating
Congressman Free, of California, who
recently advocated the abandonment
of the \ iSka Railroad, said “The Alas
ka Re’1* >ad is no good to California.
Let’s it up.”
The . and Yukon Orders of
Pioneers 1 other Alaskans were hon
or guests, fundreds are expected to
attend the ceremony at the park to
day, at the foot of the statue of Sew
ard.
Prof. Edmond S. Meany of the Uni
versity of Washington and Charles D.
Garfield formerly collector of cus
toms at Juneau, and now secretary of
the Alaska Bureau of Seattle Cham
ber of Commerce, will speak.
UNITED STATES RANKS THIRD
AMONG AIR POWERS WORLD
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Oct. 16. (£>)—
Commander J. C. Hundaker, assistant
naval attache of London, told the air
board at its concluding session that
the United States ranked third among
tl,e air powers of the "world. Political
and diplomatic reasons wer6f respon
sible for the magnifying of .some of
the other nations’ estimates, Hundaker
said.
MURRAY CONVICTED OF
SLAYING PEN. GUARD
SALEM. Oct. 16. (/P)—Tom Murray
was convicted today of slaying John
Sw'eeney, guard at the Oregon peni
tentiary during a jailbreak. "The jury
deliberated five hours fixing the pen
alty of death.
SEATTLE, Oct. 16. (JP)—Prosecutor
Colvin in a letter yesterday threaten
ing panderers with the penitentiary,
thanked the Times for its donation of
fifteen hundred dollars, after the com
missioners refused ten thousand dol
lars for an investigation fund. An ef
fort will be made by Colvin to clean
up the city.
KAISER WANTS TO MOVE
BACK TO OLD RESIDENCE
CORFU, Oct.* 17. (/P)—Wilhelm
Doerfeld, archeologist, arrived here
today from Doom to prepare a re
port on the condition of the archil
leion castle, the favorite residence
in old days, and said that the ex
Kaiser wanted to go there if permit
ted, but is unable to purchase it un
til Germany has settled for his con
fiscated properties.
PIONEER, WHO DROVE CATTLE
OVER WHITE PASS TRAIL IN
'97 PASSES AWAY IN SEATTLE
PORT ANGELES, Oct. 17. (£>)—
William Waechter, aged 76, a pioneer
of Alaska, died here yesterday.
He drove some of the first cattle
across the White Pass Trail in 1897.
Three daughters in Fairbanks, and
two sons, Ollis and Henry, who are
mild curing salmon in Kamchatka,
survive him.
NO FUNDS TO PAY FOR
BURIALS OF AVIATORS
LAKEHURST, Oct. 16. (^—Wash
ington returned the bills for the fu
neral expenses of the navy fliers say
ing there was no fund, or funds for
such burials. The air station said it
allowed $150 for the burial of each
man, wrhich was expended at the
scene of the wreck of the Shenandoah
and preparing bodies for burial and
transportation to Lakehurst.
COOLIDGE INTERESTED IN
RUMOR ANENT RUSSIA
ACKNOWLEDGING DEBT
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 17. (TP)
—President Coolidge is interested in
the unofficial reports that Russia is
willing to acknowledge her debt set
tlement to the United States, which
is necessary for recognition.
One hundred and ninety-two mill
ion dollars is the principal, with six
ty-three million interest.
ALASKA SHOULD TUNE IN
ON KFOA TONIGHT; ALASKA
PROGRAM WILL BE CAST
SEATTLE, Oct. 17. (TP)—The Young
Mens Business club broadcasts an
Alaska prograrr^from KFOA tonight.
The program outlined includes Eric
Aldrich who has been stationed at
the Pribilofs for the last two year,
wrho will tallc on the fur seal indus
try. Charles Garfield will also speak.
BLANKET FOG OVER
NORTHWESTERN
STATES
SEATTLE, Oct. 16. (TP)—There is
little hope for relief for the North
west, from the blanket of fog which
is covering the district until tomor
row noon.
Shipping is tied up, the Canadian
Pacific cancelling sailings to Seattle,
Victoria, and Vancouver. Many ves
sels are fog-bound in the Straits and
the sound. Otto Jensen of Clear
Lake, was killed Wednesday, while
filling his gasoline tank beside the
road. A car hit him in the gloom,
before he could escape it.
WALKS FOUR MILES WITH
ARM OFF AT SHOULDER
RENO, Oct. 16. (/P)—With his left
arm severed at the shoulder, the acci
dent occuring when he fell from a
train, Merrill Graham, nineteen, died
in the hospital here from loss of blood.
Graham walked four miles with his
arm off.
MOTORSHIP ARRIVES AFTER
OVERDUE SIXTY DAYS
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 16. (£>)—'The
motorship Monterey arrived in port
today from Suva, after a trip of ninety
days, instead of the usual thirty day
trip. Engine trouble caused the de
lay.
SUB RAMS MINE SWEEPER
SAN DIEGO, Oct. 16. (JP)—'The sub
marine 25, maneuvering eight miles
out, came to the surface nose up and
rammed the mine sweeper Ortolan in
the stern. The boats returned to
port under their own property.
INDIAN CATCHER JAILED
FOR BEING INTOXICATED
SEATTLE, Oct. 17. (£>)—Baldwin,
catcher for the Seattle Indians, was
arrested laJst night on a charge of
driving an automobile while intoxi
cated.
BASEBALL
COAST LEAGUE—
Seattle, Portland, fog.
Los Angeles 5, Vernon 6, fifteen in
nings.
Sacramento 1, Salt Lake 6.
San Francisco 1, Oakland 2. ten in
nings.
SATURDAY'S BASEBALL
COAST LEAGUE—
Seattle, Portland, postponed, fog.
Los Angeles 1, Vernon 3.
Sacramento 7, Salt Lake 4.
San Francisco 9, Oakland 14.
SUTHERLAND HAS
BIG AUDIENCE AT
LIBERTY SPEECH
ACTION BY LAST CONGRESS RE
VIEWED BY DELEGATE TO
SEWARD CITIZENS.
PROHIBITION A FIXURE
Sutherland’s Discussion of Present
Crime Wave In United States
Interests Citizens Immensely.
At the Liberty Theater last night,
Delegate Dan A. Sutherland, dele
gate in Congress, addressed one of
the largest audiences that has been
seen in Seward for many a day. The
work of the last Congress wras review
ed and the measures passed for Al
aska explained in detail.
The appropriations for roads and
trails have been increased about four
fold, during Mr. Sutherland’s time of
service in Congress. The extension
of the Forest Highway Act to Alas
ka in 1921 whereby approximately a
half million dollars a year is expend
ed in the forest sections of the Al
aska coast permitted the release of
the Alaska Road Commission fund
from coastal projects. The fund of
the Commission has been increased
from $350,000 in J920 to $900,00 for
the present year, and as a conse
quence of ^increased appropriations,
the activity in road building in the
interior has, greatly aided the gener
al stimulation of business in the In
terior. Mr. Sutherland did not claim
all the credit for these congression
al increases of road funds but paid
tribute to the energy and ability of
Colonel James G. Steese of the road"
commission and to the splendid in
terest taken by former Governor
Sulzer of New York.
The Alaska Railroad situation was
discussed at length. Although there
is some opposition shown by a few
members of Congress to this proj
ect of government ownership, he be
lieves that there is no cause for
alarm over the threat of a distinguish
ed tourist from California to tear up
the rails and make a highway of
it. He pointed out that the rail
roads of California were subsidized
with land granta and guarantee of
bonds by the Federal government
w'hile in the case of the Alaska road
the lands adjacent to the right of
w'ay were reserved to the people and
the cost of construction financed by
the people themselves instead of by
private interests. Mr. Sutherland
read a telegram from Secretary of
the Interior Work expressing his in
terest in the railroad. The Secretary
said that he knew of no one who
desired to have the Alaska Railroad
abandoned.
sutneriana is always at ms nest in
discussion of the Alaska fishery que^
tion and no one has as yet come for
ward to dispute his knowledge of the
subject. Last night he clearly and
lucidly explained just what involv
ed in his controversy with Secretary
Hoover. His fight in Washington wa3
to write into the statutes the common
law of fishery and the report of the
Fisheries Committee of Congress in
dicate that this had been done by
reason of his insistence.
He held that the Indian question
is closely allied with the fishery ques
tion and that the Indians of the Al
aska coast are the most exploited
people in the wide world. Their an
cestral rights of fishery have been
taken from them, their hunting and
trapping grounds over-run by the
whites. The present fishing regula
tions discriminate against the Indian
and independent white fishermen and
the entire burden of conservation
placed upon these classes. The ef
fort on the part of the Department
of Commerce to reduce the efficiency
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