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Extra! — Four New Imdustries For Seward In 1924
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VOLUME SW NUMBER 12
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 1924
PRICE TEN CENTS
HUSKA MOOSE ARE
ALASKAN TELLS OF SLAUGHTER
ING MOUSE IN KENAI—450
MOOSE KILLED YEARLY
From Literary Digest
Ruthless and law breaking hunters
and hordes of rabbits bid fair to ex
terminate the great moose herds of
the Kenai peninsula of Alaska, the
largest animals of their kind in the
world. They are being killed off by
“moose butchers" and starved out by
rabbits, which live on the same food
as the larger and clumsier animals,
ar.d can get at it quicker. A contrib
utor to American Forestry, Washing
ton, signing himself “An Alaskan,”
tells us that a real emergency exists.
The crime of exterminating our buffa
lo when the West was young was com
mitted openly, he says, without de
fiance of law; for there was no law.
The crime of murdering our moose in
Alaska is to-day being committed in
defiance of laws enacted thru our
Congress and made sport of by the
Moose butchers of Kenai. We read:
“The moose of the Kenai Peninsula
are world-famous as the largest in
existence. The spread of their ant
lers is enormous, the record pair
measuring a little more than seven
ty-eight inches. Altho found thruout
other wooded sections of Alaska, the
moose range in greatest numbers and j
reach their highest development in
the Kenai Peninsula. I do not pretend
to speak for what is happening to
moose in other parts of Alaska^ but
here in the Kenai country the area
occupied by these noble animals oi
the wild has decreased very material
ly in the last few years, due to over
Killing md to starvation.
“I wili speak of the overkilling1
first. Our game laws are supposed J
tc be enforced by the territorial gov- i
ernment. They permit each hunter to
kill two moose a season. The hunt
ing season opens August 20, but the
moose butchers kill when and as j
many as they please. Up until last
spring there has not been a game j
warden in the moose country since i
the warden at Kenai was rernov ed |
and not replaced, eighteen months be- j
fore Our restaurants are serving
/ moose and other wild game meat, j
both in and out of season. One can ,
find moose meat at almost all times j
of the year at the road-houses, tie j
camps, and restaurants in and around j
Anchorage, Seward and Seldovia. It |
is the hindquarters of moose which ,
have been brought in by the market j
hunters, by natives and whites and j
sold for whatever they will bring, j
In most instances the forequarters of!
the animal have been left in the |
* woods.
“Kenai has a population of some)
three hundred people, whites and na
tives and that many more dogs. They
all live on moose meat. The govern
ment teacher at Kenai told me that
the people there kill about 450 moose
every year, of which 90 per cent are
cows. I myself, have seen whole quar
ters of moose meat lying around the
village, where the dogs had eaten
their fill.
“The arch-enemy of the Kenai
moose is the market hunter—the
moose butcher. He works on a large
scale, in summer and fall, throughout
the Cook Inlet section. The sale of
his meat taken from the wild animals
in or out of season, is so common that
no one excepting a few individuals,
honestly seeking to promote game
preservation, pays any attention to it.
On March 10 last a meeting of natives
and whites was held in Kenai for the
purpose of stimulating interest in
9' wild-life preservation. At this meet
ing a man who had lived among us
for sixteen years arose and said:
“ ‘The game laws of Alaska are be
ing violated every day. The moose
are decreasing rapidly in the Kenai J
^ Peninsula and in all the Cook Inlet
Country. Hundreds of moose are be
ing killed here each year without
more than half of them being taken
out of the woods. Moose meat is right
MRS. RODOLPH VALENTINO
COPVHItMT HvvlTQNt VIEW CO, NEW V5NK
Mrs. Rodolph Valentino has become
a dancer of note. She recently sail
ed from New York to rejoin her hus
band at Nice where they plan to
spend the winter.
SUMMERS PREDICTS WARMER
WEATHER IN NORTH THAN
ATLANTIC SEABOARD
LAKEHURST. Jan. 14—The air !
ship Shenandoah was taken from her j
hanger today and secured to the!
mooring mast starting a seven-day j
mooring test in preparation for her j
North-pole flight.
Summers, Seattle’s weather man.
who established the Point Barrow
weather station, believes from obser- j
'-ations there, the crew of the dirigi
ble Shenandoah will encounter war-;
mer weather in the Arctic than the |
Atlantic seaboard in winter.
Wm. Mantliy returned to his home
at Mile 7 this morning.
C1S1HLW
ID FMTICS
EIGHTY MEMBERS RELIGIOUS SO-i
CIETY KILLED—SECRAMENTO |
I
ORDERED TO SCENE
MANILA, Jan. 14.—Eighty members
of the Colorum, a fanatical religious
society and nine of the Filipino con
stabulary were killed in a clash on the
island of Mindanano.
The gunboat Sacramento has been
ordered to the province of Surigno as
a result of the uprising of the fana
tics.
here today being fed to dogs and fox-1
es. In the winter dogs around here'
are fed almost nothing else but moose
meat If the Government doesnt soon
take a hand, the moose will be a i
thing of the past, as the caribou in j
this section now are.’
“Under the present laws the natives
may kill moose at any time of year,!
provided their need of food justifies j
it. The natives are too lazy to cure j
salmon for home consumption and for!
dog food, altho our streams abound j
with fish. It is so much easier to getj
(Continued on Page Three)
By FED. TROOPS
SHIPMENT TEAR GAS BOMBS BE
STOPPED BY REVENUE
OFFICIALS
MEXICO CITY, Jan. 14.—Three
hundred rebel troops are said 10 have
been killed in the battle in which
Federal troops recaptured the city Oi
Paehura. Hundreds oi wounded men
are being rushed to the hospitals ol
this city.
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 14.—A local
paper of this city publishes a dis
patch stating 4,000 tear gas bombs
consigned to Mexican rebel forces,
were stopped in transit under the
American embargo.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.—Revolu
tionary advices from Vera Cruz says
the Rebels have forbidden oil pro
duction in the regions under their
control, by all companies, foreign or
othewise, refusing to pay taxes to
them
VER A CRUZ, Jan. 14.—Rebel
troops have permitted the docking of
Spanish steamers at Vera Cruz, to re
move foreigners stranded there, who
arrived after the revolution started.
DEMO. LEADERS ILL
plage mmim
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.—Democratic
leaders are arriving today for a meet
ing of the National Committee Tues
day, to fix the time and place of the
National Convention.
FRANCE AND BRITAIN
UNABLE TO AGREE ON
BAVARIAN QUESTIONS
PARIS, Jan. 14.—France and Great
Britain are unable to agree on the ba
sis of the proposed inquiry into the
situation in Bavarian palatinate, fol
lowing the assassination of president
Heinz of the Separatist government,
and other acts of violence.
NINE PASSENGERS INJURED
WHEN HURRICANE STRIKES
NEW YORK. Jan. 14.—Nine first
class passengers w’ere injured when a
hurricane struck the Hamburg-Amer
ican liner Thuringia Sunday, in mid
ocean.
Private Altdorf, week-end visitor in
Seward, returned to Anchorage this
morning.
RED. GEORGE LEARN
DIES IN PORTLAND
belated word was received in Sew
ard on the last beat of the death of
Rev. OcorRe A. Learn, who for the j
past several yeais has been in charge I
of the Eapiist Orphanage Mission at
Wood Island, near Kodiak. Rev.
Learn lob tor tne states about s x
weeks nee. su'ciing from ill h •••LI.
but his condition was not believed lo
be serious, until t bout January i t,
word was received of his illness and
death. Mrs. Learn left on one of the
last boats for Portland but it is un
derstood that she was too late to get
to his bedside before he passed away.
Rev. Learn was one of the best
known and best loved of the many
Baptist missionaries to the west
ward, his work at Wood Island being
typical of the gentleness and nobility
of character of the man. His death
will be mourned by his many friends
in this vicinity.
START BY WAY OF ALASKAN
PENINSULA AND RETURN VIA
ENGLAND
WASHINGTON, Jan 14.—The Ar
my Air Service board this morning
announced the details of the round
: the-world flight, to begin about the
first of April.
From Seattle the flight will be
made by way of the Aleutian Islands,
| to Nagasaki, the American naval
! coaling station on the southern end
of the Island of Kiushu, Japan. From
! Nagasaki, the planes will fly to Cal
| cutta, Constantinople, and over to
! France ,and the Netherlands, and on
to London.
PROPOSE TO SPEND SIX
MILLIONS PEARL HARBOR
| WASHINGTON, Jan. 14— Repre
j sentative Britton of the House Naval
| Committee introduced a bill propos
I ing the expenditure of six millions at
I Pearl Harbor Naval base.
Attorney Wm. Coppernoll was an
Anchorage-bound passenger on this
morning’s train. He will return on
! Saturday’s train.
STITE SEIM MID
SON SERVING! TIME
CHEHALIS, Wn„ Jan. 14.—State
Senator Percy L. Sinclaire, convicted
of making a false statement as to the
condition of the defunct Southwest
ern Washington Bank, and his son,
cashier of the same are now serving
time.
EX-MAYOR OF ASTORIA
SUES DRY LEADER AND
CONGRESSMAN FOR LIBEL
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 —Francis
C. Harley, former mayor of Astoria,
Ore., who the other day sued W’ayne
B. \\ heeler and other dry leaders for
libel, extended his offensive today to
include Representative Cramston, re
publican, of Michigan, one of the pro
hibition spokesmen in the house.
Suit for $50,000 was entered against
Mr. Cramton on the charge that he
made a libelous attack on Mr. Harley
from the floor of the house. The suits
are an outgrowth of a poll conducted
by the National Liberal alliance un
der Mr. Harley’s direction on the pro
hibition question.
HOPPE RETAINS
BllliB TITLE
BOSTON, Jan. 144.—Willie Hoppe
successfully defended his title against
Welker Cochrane by scoring 1,500
points to Cochrane’s 1198. This gives
Hoppe the championship.
EDUCATIONAL MEASURE
AGAIN IS INTRODUCED
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.—T h e
Sterling-Towner education bill which
was before congress last session and
has been reintroduced in the senate
was denounced today by Representa
tive Tucker, democrat, Virginia, as a
drain on the federal treasury and a
step toward a "consolidated empire in
Washington.”
The bill proposes the creation of a
educational purposes upon the appro
priation by the government of $100,
000,000 for allotment to the states for
educational purposes upon the oppro
priation by them of equal amounts.
MAY BE NEW CHANCELLOR OF
THE EXCHEQUOR
COt-VRIOMT Kf/tTOWE VIEW CO, HEW \ ORK
Philip Snowden, M P. (above), one
of the important leaders of the Labor
Party, who is being mentioned as the
1 next Chancellor of the English Ex
chequer, should J. Ramsey MacDon
ald accept the Premiership.
ALASKA PACKERS CO.
BUYS PLANT AND
THIRTEEN VESSELS
!
—
NOW HAS SEVEN SALMON PACK
ING PLANTS IN TERRITORY
!
OF ALASKA
SEATTLE, Jan. 14.—The A. & P.1
Products company, the Seattle subsi
dary of the great Atlantic and Pacific
tea company of New York recently
purchased the Waterfall Salmon pack
ing plant and fleet of thirteen vessels
from the Alaska Fish company of Se
attle, giving the A & P. seven pack
ing plants in Alaska.
“The Pioneer,” a new monthly mag
azine, will be published in Seward,
starting some time next month, if ar
rangements now under way are eon-1
summated. Instead of being devoted
to one locality, which has swamped
other publications in the past, “The)
Pioneer” will be a typical All-Alaska
magazine, issued by men who are fa
miliar with the territory, and free I
politics and “piffle.” It is expected to
make the magazine 24 pages at the
start, and it will be freely illustrated,
on heavy plate paper, along the lines
of the Geographic magazine.
The projectors have reconceived
numerous offers of asistance from the
towns in southeastern Alaska and to
the westward and it will start with 8
pages of advertising matter, mostly
Outside business, which will place no
drain upon the merchants or profes
sional men of the Territory.
The front page will be emblematic
of the Pioneer, with pack and dog
sled. and is a beautiful piece of art
by one of the best known Seattle ar
tists. News of the mines, fisheries,
territorial news, and personal news
will be the chief reading matter, no
article being longer than a half page,
if possible to hold the text down to
this. It will also give the complete
news ol the Igloos and camps of the
of the territory of Alaska, a fine staff
of correspondents having promised to
furnish news matter for the publica
tion.
Several prominent photographers
have promised to let the Pioneer use
their pictures with proper credit, and
the magazine will start off with an
issue of 600. The fir^t issue will be
printed as soon as the new press and
PHILIPS SMITH WILL MAKE TRIP
INTO INTERIOR WITH
SURVEYORS
WASHINGTON, Jan. 144.—To make
reconnaissance survey of the naval
oil reserve bordering on the Arctic oc
ean, Philips Smith, of the U. S. Geo
logical survey, left today for Seattle
and will sail north on Jan. 19th.
He will be joined at Nenana in Feb
ruary by J. A. Mertie, geologist: Ger
ald Fitzgerald R. K. Lynt, topograph
ers and four other technical men, yet
to be selected, from there proceeding
overland to the oil fields. The party
expects to reach the Colville river ba
sin about the first of May.
CONFESSESKILLEDWIFE
AFTER SHE SHOT BROTHER
AURORA, 111., Jan. 14.—Warren J.
Lincoln, lawyer and horiculturist of
this district, and a relative of Abra
ham Lincoln, confessed to the killing
of his wife after she had shot and
killed her brother, Byron Shoup.
TODAY’S FISH MARKET
KETCHIKAN, Jan. 14.—Prices yes
terday place fresh halibut at seven
teen and tnree-quarters cents, and se
ven; sable three and one-half cents.
JUNEAU, Jan. 14.—Halibut thir
teen and eight. Sable fish, four cents.
CHICAGO Jan. 14 —Six bandits
shot the cashier, a boy and a drug
clerk, who was in the bank at the
time of the robbery, in an effort to
rob one of the smaller banks of this
city. Five hundred dollars was their
reward for the shootings.
BANDITS FIRE ON WORKER AND
KIDNAP ASSISTANT—WIFE
INJURED
PEKING, Jan. 14.—Chinese bandits
fired on the American missionary at
Supu. Assistance is being rushed by
government officials of this city.
PEKING, Jan. 14.—Professor Bern
ard Hoff, American Missionary, died
this morning from wounds inflicted
by bandits, dressed in the uniform of
the Chinese army, who also shot his
wife and kidnapped Mrs Julia Kilen
co-worker of Northfield,* Minnesota*,
when they raided the mission at Tsay
oang.
WASHINGTON Jan. 14.—The state
department today got the report on
the latest Chinese outrage. Minister
Schurman cabled the news that the at
tack was made by the regular Honan
troops on the American mission at
Supu, and said a vigorous protest
had been lodged with the Chinese
government.
linotype arrive, which will be the first
of February.
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