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VOLUME XX. NUMBER 70.
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MARCH 14. 1925. •
PRICE TEN CENTS
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N. J. NICHOLSON,
NOME AND YUKON
BUILDER HERE
ON WAY TO FORT YUKON TO RE
BUILD MISSION DESTROYED
LAST YEAR BY FIRE
N. .1. Nicholson, contractor and
builder in Alaska for the past twenty
live years, arrived on the steamship
Alameda, en route to Fort Yukon,
where he will rebuild the Yukon mis
sion. destroyed by fire last September.
Mr. Nicholson will also install a saw
mill at Nenana for the Rev. Bishop
Rowe, where lumber will be sawed
to be used in the Fort Yukon con
struction work. The mill will be a
portable one, which can be removed
as occasion demands.
The Yukon Mission, was valued at
$25,000 and was one of the many
buildings maintained by the Episcopal
church throughout the Territory. The
most serious loss was the burning of
the Hudson Stuck library, containing
several hundred volumes on Alaska,
and a very fine and complete set of
1 Alaska pictures.
Fort Yukon has about 60 whites
and 350 natives and is an important
fur center.
Mr. Nicholson in the early days of
Nome was a member of the firm of
Boynton & Nicholson, contractors and
^ builders. In 1904 Mr. Nicholson went
to Fairbanks, engaging in the same
business. In 1909 he went to Seattle,
engaging in business there for several
years.
ADMIRAL WATSON
ARRIVES SEWARD
FROM WESTWARD
The steamship Admiral Watson of
the Pacific Steamship company arriv
ed in Seward at an early hour this
morning and after discharging a bit
of freight and allowing her passen
gers to the shore she immediately de
parted for the South.
Those arriving from Kodiak and
Way ports for Seward include the fol
lowing:
Joe Meherin, A. A. (Max) Humph
rey. .Albert Brown. D. H. Williams, J.
Chovin, H. II. McCutcheon, William
T. Murry, Sam Shucklin. Karl Albret
son, J. J. Chisholm. Oscar Hart, E.
Melhorn and wife, Alvah Eames, Mrs.
J. A. McIntosh, Peter Anderson. Ghas.
Anderson, Ludvig Johnson, Eugene A.
Lamb. Mrs. C. Peterson and 2 steer
age.
For Juneau—Chas. Jones.
For Petersburg—Warren Mast.
For Seattle—Jack Finnegan. Isam
F. Burgin and wife, Pauline Burgin,
Billy Burgin and Chas. Gunderson and
wife.
For Cordova—J. A. Clarey.
HALBIUT PRICES
KETCHIKAN—Fresh halibut, 11.40
and 5; no salmon.
Woman Robbed Employers To Give
Gambling Husband Lots of Money
DETROIT, Mich., Mar. 13.—That she became a thief so that her hus
band would have money with which to gamble was the statement of Mrs.
Helen Colbert of this city, arrested for stealing $30,000 in four years from
a company where she was employed. The woman admitted the thefts
and was jailed. Now the police are seeking hoi husband because he is
more to blame than she.
The woman said that she began taking the money soon after she n.et
the man who later became her husband. She obtained the money by
drawing checks in the name of men who had left the employ of the com
pany, she explained.
Mrs. Colbert discovered after her marriage that her husband was a pro
fessional gambler, she said, so she kept on stealing from her employers.
Her husband thought she was wealthy, she declared, and knew nothing of
the thefts.
“It’s no use for the detectives to look for the money now,’’ she sob
bed. “It’s gone. Both Jim and I are broke. Yes T took the money so
my husband could gamble.”
COOLI DGE’S ARBITRATION
AWARD ON TACNA-ARICA
CAUSES DISSENTION SOUTH
BUENOS, AIRES, Mar. 14.—Dis
patches from Lanacion and Lima in
dicated that a general strike was
started at midnight last night in the
Peruvian Capital, as a protest against
President Coolidge’s arbitrarial
award of Tuesday in the Tacna-Arica
controversy. Vehicular traffic ceas
ed, many factories closed and news
papers failed to appear. The peo
ple are “discontented with the decis
ion and calmly but feelingly reject
it.”
MARQUIS CURZON OPERATED ON
LONDON, Mar. 14.—Marquis Cur
zon of Kedleston, land President of
the Council, was operated upon yes
eiday and is declared to be as well
as could be expected. His condition
caused great anxiety for several
days, doctors declared.
ACTION STARTED
AGAINST HEIR
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SEATTLE, Mar. 14.—J. J. Sullivan ]
announced today that he would start
action in the probate court to have j
Graphie Crace Saftig. daughter of :
Carmack’s Indian wife declared the j
sole heir of the Carmack fortunes. ;
which totals $150,000.
Sullivan’s contention is that Mrs.
Saftig’s mother was living when Car- .
mack married the present widow in !
| Olympia, 25 years ago. and that Mrs. j
Saftig was living in California.
FAIL TO ORGANIZE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 14.— I
The Republican majority failed to |
organize the new Senate because of
objections of two of their own num
ber, Senators Borah and Norris, to
relegate the LaFollette ip^irgents to
minor places on the standing com
mittees.
MARX ON DECK AGAIN
BERLIN, Mar. 14.—Dr. William
Marx, former German Chancellor and ;
last month chosen Premier of Prus-;
sia, has been re-elected to the Pre-;
miership. Dr. Marx resigned last i
month.
MOFFETT RE-NOMINATED
WASHINGTON, Mar. 14.—The ap
pointment of Rear Admiral Moffett
as chief of the Navy Bureau of Aero
nautics for the second four-year
term, has been recommended to Pre
sident Coolidge by Secretary Wil
bur.
GEORGE A. PARKS
REFUSES TO T ALK
SEATTLE, Mar. 14.—George A.
Parks, recently appointed governor of
Alaska, sailed for Juneau this morn
ing on the steamship Northwestern,
He said, “I have not yet assumed the
duties of governor of Alaska, and do
not believe it would be proper for me
to discuss politics of the north.”
Several Alaskans went to the wharf
and talked with Mr. Parks.
SHEPHERD TAKEN
INTO CUSTODY
CHICAGO TODAY
ACCUSED OF MURDER OF NELSON
M'CLINTOCK, YOUNG MIL
L10NAIRE ORPHAN
(By Associated Presi)
CHICAGO, Mar. 14.—William I).
Shepherd, foster father and heir of
William Nelson McClintock, the young
rich orphan who died last year, fol
lowing an attack of typhoid fever, was
taken from his hotel into custody at
4:00 o’clock this morning, after ques
tioning by the prosecuting attorney
since midnight. His attorneys started
habeas corpus proceedings as soon as
he was arrested. Mrs. Shepherd was
permitted to return home after ques- j
tioning by the attorneys.
Shepherd repeatedly denied the as-;
sertions of Dr. Charles Faiman, head
of the School of Science, who declared
that Shepherd hhd taken a tube of
typhoid germs from his laboratory,
after having been informed as to the
uses of the germs. Faiman has been
held for further questioning. After
30 hours under fire he declared that i
Shepherd posed as a lawyer, seeking
information on germs so he could de
fend a client accused of administer
ing them. Faiman said that Shep
herd paid him S50 to return a letter
he had written to Faiman’s school in
quiring about bacteriology coures.
Faiman said that he was “ashamed !
that he got only S50 for the letter,
when he might have got more.”
Faiman declared that Shepherd re
ceived the letter back soon after Mc
Clintock died. He said Shepherd said
when he came for the* letter, “I will
take care of you later on.’,’
Confronted with Faiman at the pros
ecutor’s office. Shepherd said, “I nev
er saw the gentleman until two weeks
ago,” whereupon Faiman exclaimed,
“He’s the fellow, all right.”
“You’re a liar,” Shepherd retorted.
Faiman said, “Shepherd said he
would take care of me. He gave me
S50 to search the files of the school
for letters.”
STOKES AND NEGRO FREED
CHICAGO, Mar. 14.—Stokes and
Robert Lee were acquitted of charges
of conspiracy to defame Mrs. Stokes.
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SEATTLE, Mar. 14.—The steamship
Northwestern sailed this morning at
9:00 o’clock for Southwestern Alaska
with 175 passengers aboard. Those
booked for Seward are:
G. W. Hicks. M. Hyland, E. Bright
on and wife, J. E. Jolmgren, F. Dick
enson, W. H. Toms, Capt. A. D. Hav
erstock, E. S. Peterson, P. P. Hughes,
H. C. Welch, R. B. Lewis, M. Mer
vin, Tom Davis, W. F. Dubby, G.
M. Nelson, H. C. Dunlap, H. H. Koch,
T. A. Norland, A. N. Hudson and
wife, J. A. Elwell, E. E. Matcalf,
Mrs. N. Larson, E. R. Keogh, J.
Winbauer, F. W. Cox, R. Winbauer,
H. Higgins, Mrs. M. A. Fleckenstein,
Edna Fleckenstein, F. C. Bleeker, C.
Fisher, A. M. Smith, F. A. Ehleb,
Nellie Battie, Miss T. Dixon, Fran
kie Ward, Mrs. G. L. Colwell, Mrs.
R. Wilson, Agnes Raich and five
steerage.
RAILROADS ARE ADVERTISING
BEAUTIES PACIFIC SUMMERS
SEATTLE, Mar. 14.—Full page ad
vertisements by the Northern Pacific,
Great Nc iV>ern and Burlington rail
roads in Saturday Evening Post
and Literary Digest are found this
month, saying, “Come to the Pacific
Northwest where summer days are
wonder days.” The articles are pro
fusely illustrated with A’aska pic
tures.
DOHENY NEGOTIATING SELL
OUT MEXICAN INTERESTS TO
TO THE STANDARD OIL CO.
NEW YORK, Mar. 14.—Following
the rumor that E. L. Doheny, pres
ident of the Petroleum Company,
was negotiating with the Standard
Oil of Indiana and several other in
terests for the sale of his Mexican
Oil properties, he announced that
the segregation of the Californian
oil properties and the Pan-American
Petroleum Transportation Company
was being contemplated as well. Each
would be operated under a separate
corporation organization.
MINISTER NOMINATED
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 14.—
President Coolidge nominated Chas.
C. Eberhardt of Kapsas as the new
minister to Nicaragua, and Geo. T.
Summerlin of Louisiana as minister
to Honduras.
COOLIDGECONFERS
SENATOR CUMMINS
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C.. Mar. 14!—
Senator Cummins went to the capitol
today with a request from President
Coolidge to defer consideration on the
appointment of Charles B. Warren un
til Monday, and after a conference, op
position leaders announced that this
would be done. President Coolidge
inisted that a full statement of War
ren’s qualifications go on record in
reply to the charges against him.
THEY ARE AFTER THE DIVES
NEW YORK, Mar. 14.—Federal
District Attorney Buckner won the
first case of what he said may pan
out to be a thousand separate pro
ceedings to padlock all establish
ments where liquor is being sold.
The first victory was scored when
the Federal Judge handed down or
ders that the Lafayette Hotel in
New Rochelle be placed under pad
lock for a period of three months.
The decree provides for the closing
of 'he entire building and means
that one clothing store, one restau
rant on the ground floor will be
closed as well as fifteen other ten
ents being evicted.
ACTING PRESIDENT GERMANY
BERLIN, Mar. 14.—Dr. Walter
Simmons, former Prime Minister was
definitely designated as acting Pre
sident of the German republic by
the passage of a bill in the Reichs
tag appointing him to replace the
late President Ebert.
M’ADOO HOLDS AN IMPROMTU
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 14.—
William Gibbs McAdoo, whose can
didacy for president deadlocked the
Democratic convention in New York
for one hundred and two ballots, to
day held an impromptu reception in
the President’s room at the Capitol.
CHINESE ON STRIKE
CANTON, Mar. 14.—Business is
at almost a complete standstill as
the result of a strike of the river
boatmen. The Boatmens’ Guild turn
ed out in parade demonstrations, de
manding that the Governor cancel
all taxes. Adherents of Sun Yat Sen
are proceeding to Wuchow and are
concentrating forces in anticipation
of trouble.
“LAND OF WEALTH LETTERS”
GIVEN REGISTERED CLASS
UNDER AUSTRIAN RULING
BLOVIDIO, Bulgaria, Mar. 14.—Am
erican firstelass mail occupies an ex
clusive position of honor in Bulgaria
under a recently issued court order.
Every letter coming from America
is treated as registered, is taken to
its address by registered carriers,
and has to be receipted for on de
livery. America is regarded as a
“land of fabulous wealth,” therefore
every effort is made to obtain pos
session of letters from America on
the strength that they may contain
money.
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FOOTBALL COACH
DIES SUDDENLY
HEART FAILURE
WATER CAMP, INVENTOR OF
CAMP'S DAILY DOZEN, ALSO
SPORTS AUTHOR, DEAD
(By Associated I’rem)
NEW YORK, March 14.—Waltei
prominent football coach and sports
man died suddenly from heart dis
ease, in his room here at the Belmont
Hotel last night. When he did not ap
pear this morning, to attend a meet
ing of the Football Rules Committee,
Bill Roper went to seek his, and found
! his dead.
| Mr. Camp had written extensively
on football and other sports, as well
as on bridge whist, of which he was
an expert player. His two years of
medical study, together with his ath
letic experience enabled him to write
as an expert on training and health
exercises. He was the author of
“Camp’s Daily Dozen,” a series of set
ting up exercises which were set to
music on a phonograph, and through
which he is said to have started more
persons taking regular daily exercises
than any other individual.
During the training period of Amer
ican troops for service in the World
War, Mr. Camp acted as physical di
rector for the air service, and also
aided the navy as director of athletics
at naval training camps. For this
work he received the thanks of Brig
adier General T. C. Lvster of the
medical corps and Josephus Daniels,
then Secreatry of Navy.
In 1888 Mr. Camp married Alice
Graham Sumner. They had two chil
dren.
NEW BILL FRAMED ‘
BY SEN. DIMOND
(Special to The Gateway)
JUNEAU, Mar. 14.—The first bill
of the session to be introduced in the
Senate was offered yesterday by Sen
ator Dimond of Valdez. Coming at
the close of the twelfth day of the
session, it is believed this sets a na
tionwide record for legislative bodies,
and it is the first time it has ever
occurred in any Alaska assembly. The
bill provides for the taking of depo
sitions by written interrogatories in
Alaska, thus amending Section 1484,
Compiled Laws of Alaska.
Representaitve Sundquist introduc
ed a bill in the House asking the ex
tension for two more years of the
present mail subsidy grants on the
Nome-Kotzebue and Nome-St. Michael
routes, with an appropriation of
$17,000 for that purpose.
SIX KILLED; MANY HURT
MADRID, Spain, Mar. 14.—Six men
were killed and twenty seriously in
jured when a perfume factory build
ing here 'collapsed today, burying
thirty-two workers.
STING PROVES FATAL
HERNAL, Utah, Mar. 14.—Mrs. Jas.
Ellifriz, thirty-nine years old, was
stung on the thumb by a honey bee
and dropped dead five minutes la
ter. She is a mother of fourteen
children, all living.
BON SOIR, MOTHER CHAPLIN
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 14.—
Mrs. Hannah Chaplin, mother of
Charlie Chaplin, motion picture star,
must leave the United States by
March 26 under a ruling made by
the director of immigration. She
came to this country several years
ago to undergo medical treatment.
OXFORD PROF. DIES
SAN DO WING, Mar. 14.—Sir Al
exander Hosie, professor of Chinese
at Oxford University died yesterday.
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