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VOLUME XIX, NO. 46
SEWARD, ALASKA,
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S/MJRDAY, FEBRUARY^3, 1924
PRICE TEN CENTS
GLEAN CAPITAL FIRST
SAYS SEil. SEED,
IA PEORIA TALK
DELAS BLUNTLY WITH THOSE
WHO BEHIND MASK LEGAL
SERVICE SELL INFLUENCE
PEORIA, 111. Feb. 23—‘‘We had bet
ter clean up the National Capital be
fore we undertake to wash the dirty
^ linen of all creation,” Reed said in a
speech here last night.
"We have serious business at home
and enough to do to attend to our own
household without trying to run the
world.”
Senator Reed delt bluntly with those
who, behind a mask of legal service,
left government pensions and went in
to the open market to sell information
and influence to those who were con
tending against the government.
Investigate Daugherty Monday
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 23—
The resolution by Wheeler calling for
inquiry into the administration of j
Daugherty will be cleared up in the ,
Senate Monday.
Slemp Be Questioned
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 23—
Bascom Slemp, Secretary to Presi
dent Coolidge will be questioned by
the Senate Committee investigating
the oil lease scandal. He has cancel
led his visit to Palm Beach while Fall
and Edward B. McLean are at the re'
sort.
Says Harding Hoodwinked
CHICAGO Feb. 23—Reed, returning
to his Missouri home, said Former j
President Harding had been hood- |
winked by Fall and Denby, both of!
whom he charged were in conspiracy
to nullify acts of congress.
Committee Subpoenaes Sinclair
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 23—
The Senate oil committee will subpoe
nae Sinclair today.
Sinclair Loses Italian Oil Leases
ROME, Feb. 28—Harry F. Sinclair
loses for a time being at least, the
Italian oil leases sought in the Near
East, because of the Teapot Dome I
scandal.
CARSTENS PACKING COMPANY
TO REOPEN BUSINESS HERE
The Carstens Packing Company of
^ Seattle, in a telegram to the Gateway
yesterday, announces its intention of
opening up its business in Seward,
March 1. For the past four years this
company has had its cold storage and
butcher shop here closed on account
of a depression in business, but be
lieve that at the present time the out
look is so good that they can again
enter the field. Mr. E. E. Kurtz will
arrive on one of the next boats with
a full and complete stock of meats
And provisions, and will reopen as
stated, on March 1.
During the past few years, Frye
Bruhn has handled the meat business
of Seward very acceptably, and have
kept a large stock on hand. The an
nouncement that the Carstens people
are returning indicates that they have
some inside dope on conditions here
that warrants them to again enter the
field.
m PROMINENT CHINESE EXPORTER
ARRIVES ON STEAMSHIP ALASKA
Harry Gong, a member ol the pio
minent Chinese firm of importers and
and exporters, arrived on the steam
ship Alaska, and will visit in Seward
the next month or so. Mr. Gong is
financing Frank Reed in his hydro
electric project at Anchorage, and
this is his first trip north. He is
? looking over the plant of the Resur
rection Bay Lumber company, today,
with a view of placing several large
contracts.
CHARGES PHIPPS WITH VOTING
■ p;tt money in own pockets
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 23
In separate reclamation legislation
Ashurst charged Phipps with voting
against the two hundred thousand dol
lar item for the purpose of putting the
money into his own pocket.
CHARLES B. WARREN
MEXICAN AMBASSADOR
—
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22— President
Coolidge sent the name of Charles B.
Warren of Detroit to the senate for
confirmation as ambassador to Mex
ico.
ANOTHER INVESTIGATION
IS PROPOSED BY SENATE
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.—Senator
Couzens, the millionaire senator from
Michigan, introduced a resolution in
the Senate today proposing an inves
tigation of the Bureau of Internal
Revenue.
GOVERNMENT ILL
Pif EXPENSES IN
CANCEL OIL LEASE
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23—The Sen
ate today passed a bill authorizing
the government to pay all expenses
connected with the suits to be
brought to cancel the Doheny and Sin
clair oil leases.
CONFESSES KILLING OF
AGED SEATTLE WOMAN
SEATTLE, Feb. 23—Carl Ryeberg
confessed today, to the killing of Mrs.
Laura Mummey, aged 75, and to the
attack upon her husband Joshua, 77,
with an axe, because Mrs. Ryeberg
secured a divorce at the instance of
the Mummeys.
SEWARD HOTEL INSTALLS
NEW MODERN FURNACE
Oscar Dahl, proprietor of the Hotel
Seward, has installed a modern furn
ace and thoroughly renovated his
rooms for the summer travel. The Se
ward is becoming one of the most
popular hostelries in the North.
WAYNE BLUE ON ALAMEDA
Wayne Blue, local agent for the
Admiral Line, is a returning passen
ger on the steamship Alameda, leav
ing Seattle today. Mr. Blue has been
as far east as Kansas City, where he
has a brother living.
WALLACE REFUSES CONFIRM
REPORTS OF RESIGNATION
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 23
Secretary Wallace today refused to
confirm or deny the reports that he
was about to resign as the result of
differences with President Coolidge
over administrative firm belief pro
gram.
BRITISH AUTHOR DEAD
LONDON. Feb. 23—Sir Henry Lucy
noted British journalist and author is
dead.
TEACHER RAISING FOXES
Pasengers on the Watson state that
Miss Gene Findall, school teacher at
Homer, has gone into the fox rais
ing business.
LACK OF LEGISLATION
CAUSE DISCOURAGEMENT
MANY LEGION MEMBERS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23—Half mil
lion exservice men disgruntled by fail
ure to get bonus legislation enacted
have deserted the American Legion
National Commander Quinn revealed
today, following a conference with
President Coolidge.
TO
it i
ITEM OF HALF MILLION FOR NE
GRO SCHOOL MEETS WITH
disapproval
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.—The Sen
ate this afternoon sent back to the
appropriations committee the Interior
department appropriations bill be
cause it carried an item of a half mil
lion for the Howard university, a
school for negroes.
MEMBER CONGRESS
FROM LOUISI1A
DIES FROM STROKE
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.—»?i^y
Garland Dupre, members of congress
from Louisiana, died here today trom
a stroke of apoplexy.
Henry Dupre, democrat of New Or
leans, was born at Opelousas, St.
Landry Parish, La., on July 28, 1873:
is the eldest child of the late Lauren
Dupre and of Marie Celeste (Garland;
Dupre; was educated in the public
schools of Opelousas, and was gradu
ated in 1892 from the Tulane Univer
sity of Louisiana, at New Orleans,
with a degree of bachelor of arts. He
subsequently received the degree of
bachelor of laws from the same insti
tution; began the practice of his pro
fession in the city of New Orleans in
1895; served as assistant city attor
ney of New Orleans from 1900 to
1910; was elected to the House of
Representatives of the State of Lou
isiana from thelourteenth ward of
the parish of New Orleans in 1900;
was re-elected in 1904 and in 1908;
was speaker of the House of Repre
sentatives of the State of Louisiana
for the sessions of 1908 and 1910; was
chairman Democratic State Conven
tion in 1908 to select delegates to the
Democratic national convention at
Denver; was elected to the Sixty-first
Congress on November 8, 1910, to fill
the unexpired term occasioned by the
death o! the Hon. Samuel L. Gilmore,
and at the same election was elected
to the Sixty-second Congress. He
was re-elected to the Sixty-third, Six
ty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth
Congresses, and was elected without
opposition as a Member of the Sixty
seventh Congress.
tomb OF TUTANKHAMEN
FORCIBLY OPENED TODAY j
LUXOR, Feb .23—The tomb of King
Tutankhamen was forcibly opened by !
the Egyptian government today and a j
guard of soldiers drawn up.
The Marathon is repainting and re
novating the interior of its restaur
ant getting ready for the spring rush.
GERMANY MOST PAY
WASHINGTON, D . C., Feb. 23—
Under award by the German-Ameri
can mixed claims commission involv
ing part of the claims arising from
the sinking of the Lusitania, the Ger
man goverment must pay reparations
amounting to billions of dollars for
losses sustained by Americans, thru
death and injury of property in that
disaster. The decision was handed
down today by Warren Parker, Um
pire of the Commission in fifty seven
cases representing only the first group
of claims.
ALAMEDA SAILS TODAY
SEATTLE, Feb. 23—The steamship
Alameda left Seattle at nine o’clock
this morning' with 207 passengers on
board including the following for Sew
ard:
E. E. Kurtz, Mrs. J. Brady, Mrs. N.
Beattie, Mrs. J. Everett, Thomas
Brooks, Hazel Watson, Dr. J. B. Bee
son, W. C. Grandjean, C. E. Robert
son, Mrs. Edith Coorey, Florence and
Edith Coorey, Mrs. F. B. Simpson, Mrs
M. A. Mead, James Adams, G. W.
Huey, L. W. Walbridge, P. T. Hirsh,
Frank Reed, Charles Denton ,Robert
Howes F. W. Jenkins, Mrs. A. B.
Gaywan, E. H. Stroeker, Wayne Blue,
E. J. Gore, Guy Woodworth, Mrs. Carl
Erickson, W. E. Eagabag, J. Pasto
vich, W. Gibbs, Alfred Bysfrom, G. F.
Easter, Robert Guest, Mrs. M. Mal
colm, L. E. Schell 0. J. Murie and
eight steerage.
A SPECIAL SUNDAY
A special will leave at nine o’clock
in the morning for Anchorage and
way points. Passengers are request
ed to carry their own lunch.
M’GRATH, Alaska., Feb. 21.—'The
entire pouulation of McGrath, Tokot
na knd the Kuskokwim district turned
outiThursday to wilcome the first air
plale used by the government in car
rying mail in Alaska. The big de Hav
iland four, which left Nenana with
",o;, pounds mail, made the trip from
fftjppnd of the railway terminal to
Mcgfrath in three hours and nine mi
nutes, a trip requiring twelve stren
uous days by dog team. Aviator Ben
Eileson who piloted the machine
around Fairbanks last summer, wasi
pilot.
The plane left Nenana at 9 o’clock
and arrived in McGrath at 12:09, the
trip being without incident of any
kind. The success of the initial trip,
which is in the nature of an experi
ment by the government, leaves no
doubl that Alaskan mails of the fu
ture will be carried by airplane. Ar
rangements are already under way to
carry the mails from McGrath to
Nome by plane next winter, the same
model of machine being used.
Every native on the Kuskokwim ri
ver has been camped here the past
two weeks waiting the arrival of the
“devil bird.”
KING CONFINED TO BED
ROME, P’eb. 23—The king is con
fined to his bed today with influenza
and his projected trip to Fiume in con
nection with the annexation of that
city to Italy has been postponed.
WIFE WESTERN UNION
WIRE CHIEF SUICIDES
SEATTLE, Feb. 23—Mrs. Flora B.
Wright, wife of L. L. Wright, wire
chief of the Western Union committed
suicide by asphyxiation this morning.
MANAGER CANADIAN BANK
HELD UP ON STREET; ROBBED
VANCOUVER, B. C., Feb. 23
Manager Anderson, of the Imperial
Bank was held up on the street today
and robbed of thirty two thousand dol
lars.
ASKS THAT CAR BE STOPPED
AND STEPPING IN FRONT
SHOOTS HERSELF
SEATTLE, Feb. 23—Mrs. Grace
Slade, 27 years of age, and saleswo
man in one of the big department
stores here, when discovered motoring
with her fiance, W. A. Batin, aged 55
years, well-known Seattle business
man, requested him to stop the mach
ine anti when he complied, she stepped
out in front of the automobile and
shot herself dead.
RELATIVE AND PARTNER AR
ARRESTED ON CHARGE OF
PERJURY
SEATTLE, Feb. 23—Ole Knutsen,
the Alaska fisherman who has been
on trial charged with running down
with his automobile, the little crippled
girl Ailleen Bradshaw, was acquitted
this fliorning, and his relative and bus
enss partner Barney Hansen was ar
restel with the announcement of the
verdit on the charge of perjury as the
result of his testimony in Knutsen’s
behaf.
hoUe rejects amended
TAX BILL ON PROFITS
WkSHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 23.—
The House rejected the amendment
to te tax bill to tax the undivided
profs of corporations.
X-RAY SUCCEEDS TAR METHOD
FOR DISEASED SCALP SAYS DR.
ATHENS, Feb. 21—Favus sufferers
breathed a sigh of relief on learning
the disease can now be treated by
X-ray.
Hitherto, favus—a widely prevalent
scalp disease caused by undernourish-1
ment and filth—was treated by coat
ing the scalp with tar. This was al
lowed to remain until it dried and
hardened, it was then pulled off, tak
ing a liberal quantity of hair with it.
The process was excruciatingly pain
ful.
The X-ray treatment was discovered
by Near East Relief physicians.
It has been successfully applied in
a large number of cases.
DAUGHERTY WILL
DEFEND HIMSELF
AGAINST ENEMIES
LYNCH LAW BEING APPLIED TO
ATTORNEY GENERAL BY
CONGRESSMEN
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.—Attorney
General Daugherty in a letter to Sen
ator George Wharton Pepper of Penn
sylvania, said he would go before the
country and defend himself in a ser
ies of speeches if forced out. In re
ply to the letter, Senator Caraway,
democrat of Kansas, said, “I am not
sure that the Attorney General knows
it, but every one else does, that he is
going out immediately”
He added jocularly that Senators
Lodge and Pepper were applying
lynch law to the Attorney General, to
which, being a Southerner, he ob
jected.
ADMIRAL WATSON IN
PORT SOUTH BOUND
The steamship Admiral Watson ar
rived in port about 11 o’clock yester
day morning, southbound. Her pas
sengers were:
Two steerage for Latouche, C. J.
Cornwall, of Juneau; Chas. Johnson
for Cordova: Ed. Jenson for Ketchi
kan. and C. L. Vickers and Mrs. H.
Larson and two children for Seattle.
Capt. Anderson of the Watson re
ported that at the time the Watson
left Kodiak nothing had been heard
of George Johansen, who is castaway
on Sitkinak island, one of the Trini
ty group. Karl Armstrong was to
leave for the scene of the wreck as
soon as the gales prevailing moderat
ed.
URGE POLAR FLIGHT
SEATTLE, Feb. 23.—Resolutions
protesting against the abandonment
of the Polar flight of the dirigible
Shenandoah and calling upon Wash
ington delegation in congress to urge
Coolidge to rescind his order cancel
ing filght preparations were adopt
ed by the Seattle chamber of com
merce.
DAUGHTER TERRITORIAL
TREASURER BE MARRIED
SEATTLE, Feb. 23—Miss Helen
Mercer, daughter of Territorial Treas
urer Smith of Alaska ,and John Tufts
Cash, of Pasadena, will be married
here next Thursday.
WILL TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE
SHENANDOAH’S POSTPONE
MENT OF FLIGHT
LONDON, Feb. 21.—Great Britain
will take advantage of the postpone
ment of the flight of the dirigible
Shenandoah to send a dirigible of her
own to explore the Polar seas, ft was
announced here today. An expedi
tion is being planned by tne Navy
for the purpose of annexing any ter
ritory that may be found.
PULP MILL PROJECT
Mel Holben, proprietor of the Se
ward Grill, who returned on last,
night’s boat from a visit to the states,
reports that the purchasing agent or
the proposed paper mill at Seward is
in Seattle, and that there is no ques
tion but that operations will start
here in the very near future. He
states that the delay is caused by the
non-arrival of two men, and that wires
state they will be ready to come north
soon.
Mr. Holben also interviewed the
New England people and said that
they would give out no information,
but assured him a cold storage plant
would locate here this spring. They
| refused to deny or affirm that it
i would be the New England.
! STEAMER ALASKA IN
PORT WITH BIG LIST
The steamship Alaska arrived in
port last night about 7:30 and will
sail tonight about 9:00, following the
arrival of the train. The Alaska
brought about 300 tons of freight and
the following passengers:
J. W. Wither, N. Butler. Mrs. B.
Prest, Ray Larson and wife, Helen
Larson, Anna Franklin, T. P. Wether
ell, Harry Gond, J. S. Gerow. J. A.
Stewart, D. W. Sohlenan. C. F. An
derson. J. R. Lee, Jos. Loughary, Vir
ginia Harper, James Harper, Mrs. L.
F. Harper, John Runkle, John M. Lar
son, H. S. Balderston, Mrs. C. H. Con
klin, Gust Vidin, A. T. Brooke, M. E.
Holben and wife, J. J. Chisholm. L
Thurgerson, Peter Mires, Bert Thor
“pn. P. Byrne, C. Stern, J. Dolan. H.
M. Abram. C. W. Spear, J. T. Kelly,
and wife, Madeline and Jay Kelly, P.
C. Gallagher, Mrs. M. A. Wylie. L. C.
Bates, George Hansen. N. Madevitt,
W. M. MeGittigan, Alex Lisca, Har
old Day, Chas. Rogas.
JUDGE W. H. WHITTLESEY
WILL RUN FOR CITY CLERK
Judge \\ . H. Whittlesey, city clerk
and deputy clerk of the court, who
has served so acceptably the past
year as clerk for the town of Seward,
announced yesterday that he would
be a candidate for re-election at the
hands of the voters in April. Mr.
Whittlesey is the first candidate to
offer his name to the public up to the
present time for clerk, or in fact any
city office in the coming election. Mr.
Whittlesey is a pioneer of Seward, in
tact was here before the town site
was surveyed or cleared, and has liv
ed here ever since. He is an attorney
or more than ordinary ability and
during the past year has filled the of
fice of town clerk in a very satisfac
tory manner.
Up to the present time no announce
ment has been made for mayor, coun
cilman or school treasurer, although
four councilmen. a mayor, city clerk,
treasurer and member of the school
board are to be elected. The election
takes place the first Tuesday in April
and the registration books are now
open. Judge Whittlesey will be found
in his office each afternoon.
PETER JOHNSON DEAD;
OLD SEWARD RESIDENT
Peter Johnson, a long time resident
of Seward, died Thursday afternoon
at his home in North Seward, after
a long illness from cancer of the
throat. Mr. Johnson will be buried
by the Moose, of w'hich order he was
a member, funeral services being un
der the auspices of that order, Sunday
afternoon at one o’clock in the un
dertaking parlors. Interment will be
made in the Seward cemetery.
Mr. Johnson has lived in Seward
since 1910 or 1911, and was a hard
rock miner. He held some important
positions in early days with large
mining corporations in Arizona, Mexi
co and California. Mr. Johnson was
raised by foster parents in Wiscon
sin, and consequently knew nothing
of his parents, other than that he
had a sister living somewhere. He
-was about 65 years of age at the time
of his death. ' •.*