Zemard Daily Gnteumy
VOLUME 20. NUMBER 107 !/ ^
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SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1925
PRICE TEN CENTS -
DANGER LOSING
SEAL HERD NOW
BELIEVED PAST
3EN. C. C. DILL RETURNS SEW
ARD FROM JOURNEY TO
PRIBILOF ISLANDS.
SEALS COME IN RAPID PACE
Most Striking Thing the Senator Ever
Witnessed from the Animal
World.
Senator C. C. Dill, Democrat, of
Spokane, Wash., returned to Seward
.ast evening; on board the coast guard
cutter Haida, from a trip to the Prib
,lof islands and other points to the
■?ar Westward. The trip was .primar
•ly made for the purpose of becoming
more familiar with the seal situation,
which treaty comes to an end in the
all of 1926, providing one of the coun
-ries involved, enters a protest. Pro
riding this is done a new treaty will
undoubtedly be drawn, but Senator
Dill emphatically stated he did not be
ieve the herds would ever be releas
ed from some form of regulation in
order to protect the herd which sup- i
plies to the world three-fourths of the i
seal fur. In the earlier days before j
'he present treaty went into effect,:
^phe herd was almost depleted by the:
'ndiscrimnating and wholesale slaugh
ter of the animals.
“The danger of losing the herd is
now believed past,” Senator Dill stat
ed to the Gateway representative last j
night, "providing the present arrange- j
* meats in joying fqr tly> herd, is con-j
'inued. The herd should be back to !
the million mark within a very few
■•ears, according to the present rate!
of increase and indications. It is be
.ieved the herd will near the SOO.OOO j
mark by the end of the season.
“The impression gained by me was |
:liat the herd is being properly cared
or and is rapidly building up. There
is no complaint to be made in this re
spect whatever. I visited practically
ill of the larger rookeries and many
of the small ones, stopping for two
lays on the islands. The seals are!
now pouring onto the islands. The
bulls were already coming when wej
arrived there, and as we were depart
ing the cows were coming in by the j
housands.
“I can now understand what any
one may write br talk about, with re
spect to the seal question, for I have
seen what no picture or language can
ieseribe. It was the most striking
^thing I have ever witnessed in the
animal world. The ten-day trip wras
certainly enjoyable as well as highly
instructive.
"All night thru, as well as the days,
the bulls, rearing up and roaring tre
mendously, surrounded by their har
ems, made a bedlam of the night,
shattering the quietness of the other
wise tranquility, by their battles and
barks of victory or, in whining defeat.
It was the most extraordinary sight
one could imagine. The seals are cer
tainly a peculiar animal. They bleat
like a lamb, bawl like a calf, bark like
a dog, roar like lion and smell like
a boar.”
The coast guard service and the
Pacific Patrol, came in for the highest
kind of compliment and praise from
Senator Dill. He said he did not real
ize just what the service was up
against, especially to the Westward,
* where not a bouy or light of any kind,
served to safeguard the sturdy cut
ters, officers and crews. "I cannot
praise the Alaska coast guard serv
ice too much,” the Senator declared.
The entire personnel of the all the
cutters were lauded, including the of
ficer and their able crews. As a tes
timonial of what the crews thought of
Senator Dill, a rousing three cheers
sounded from off the deck of the cut
fter Haida, as the Senator stepped
% ashore in -Seward last evening. The
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Senator responded to the compliment
by thanking the men and bidding them
good-bye.
Senator Dill is weary of traveling,
and for that reason believes lie will
change his itinerary. He departed
this morning for Anchorage where, he
is under the impression, he will make
his headquarters for the next few
days. The suggestion wa made to
the Senator, that owing to his travel
worn condition, he will eliminate liis
interior trip to Fairbanks at this time,
and make another journey to Alaska
at a later period. He said he believed
he would do so, entering the Territory
on his next trip, via Skagway and the
White Pass, down the Yukon and out
over the Richardson Highway.
The further suggestion was made to
the Senator that he make a trip to
the Matanuska Experimetal farm in
the Matanuska valley, and note the
agricultural possibilities of that dis
trict. Also to make a trip to the coal
mines and to the mining region, near
Anchorage. The Senator was delight
ed to hear that at Anchorage, a golf
club -would be found. According to
his plans upon departure from Sew
ard this morning, he expects to return
to Seward on Saturday or Sunday, de
parting for Seattle on the steamer Al
aska.
W. P. RICHARDSON
IN SEATTLE ON
WAY TO ALASKA
SEATTLE, July 8 (/P)—General W.
P. Richardson, former chairman of
the Alaska Road Commission is here
eft route to Alaska, where he will vis
it his old friends and recuperate from
a severe illness. He -will be joined
here by Brigadier General Harry Tay
lor, chief of the Army Engineers, on
his way to Alaska to make a survey
of roads, rivers and harbors projects.
Richardson and Taylor, who were
West Point classmates, will sail Sat
urday. Richardson spent 20 years in
Alaska, going to the Yukon as a lieu
tenant in 1897. He was on various
war department assignments, and aft
er resignfiing from the road commis
mission he retired from the army.
During the war he held the rank of
a brigadier general.
SELDOVIA BOAT
AND CREW FIVE
LONG OVERDUE
SEATTLE, July 8 (/P)—Dispatches
received by the Associated Press from
Seldovia via the naval stations at
Cordova and Bremerton report that
the launch Normand, 50 feet long, with
a crew of five men, which left Snug
Harbor June 29, for Kukak Bay, has
not been reported. It is believed the
vessel has had engine trouble and is
drifting along on the ocean.
Alaska Marble Be Used
In Washington Building
OLYMPIA, Wn., July 8 (JP)—The
Capitol commission announced yester
day that the cost of completion of
the capitol building would be $3,167,
000. It was decided to use Alaskan
marble despite the many offers of sub
stitutes, on the ground that it made
a better appearance to justify the add
ed cost. The marble will be used for
facing the rotunda above the spring
line acres, which w&s deferred on ac
account of the limited appropriation,
but is covered in the contract so it
can be ordered this year.
REDONDO SAILS TONIGHT
The steamer Redondo sails this eve
ning about 6 or 7 o’clock for west
ward ports.
EVOLUTION VS.
CHRISTIANITY
SAYS COMMONER
AT DINNER GIVEN IN HIS HONOR
BRYAN SAYS THAT DEATH
GRAPPLE IS ON
DAYTON, Tenn.. July 8 (£>)—'The
contest between evolution and Chris
tianity is “a duel to the death," Wil
liam Jennings Bryan declared in an
address at a dinner given in his honor
last night.
"The path has been a death grapple
in the dark. From this time on it will
be a death grapple in the light. If
evolution wins Christianity will not
go out suddenly but gradually, as the
two cannot stand together.”
Colby Not Attend Trial.
CHICAGO. July 8 (£>)—Clarence
Darrow, one of the lawyers defending
John T. Scopes in the evolution trial
at Dayton, Tennessee, received a tel
egram from Bainbridge Colby today
saying that he would not be able to
attend the Scopes trial because other
important business was engaging his
attention.
Bryan Jr. Be Associated
DAYTON, O., July S (/P)—William
J. Bryan announced that his son,
William Jennings, Jr., of Los Angeles,
is enroute to Dayton, Tennessee, to be
associated with the case.
Evolution Not the Issue
DAYTON, Tenn., July 8 (JP)—Doc
tor John R. Neal, one of Scope’s con
sel stated that the speech of William
J. Bryan last night indicated that
Bryan would seek an amendment to
the constitution abolishing "the exist
ing constitutional guarantees of reli
gious and educational liberties of the
people.” He declared that the de
fense did not object to this program,
but would insist “that the great issues
of this case is not whether evolution
is true, or even whether it conflicts
with religion, but whether the Ten
nessee legislature transcended the
limits set upon its powers by the Con
stitution of the United States and by
the Constitution of Tennessee, thus at
tempting to control the mind in its
struggle after truth.”
Neal declared that Bryan’s speech
forcast that Bryan would move rap
idly from the lower court to the Su
preme court of Tennessee, then from
the supreme court of Tennessee to
the supreme court of the United
States, and having lost the fight would
seek to amend the constitution.”
Gigantic Market Failure
To Be Squared In Full
CHICAGO, July 8. (^—Following
the failure, on Friday, of Dean Onata
via & Co., grain and cotton brokers
of New York for the sum of $35,000,
the Grain Market & Company assur
ed the divers banks to whom it was
indebted to that it would wind up
the affairs of the company in a satis
factory manner as they were a sub
sidiary partner to the defunct insti
tution. The company, thru a cooper
ative enterprise has been trying vain
ly to obtain $4,000,000, which is due
on July 28 to four concerns, whose
merger was formed the present com
pany a year ago.
Apply for Readmission
CHICAGO, July 8 (/P)—Although
Gray, Silver and other promoters in
the Grain Marketing Corporation de
nied that it was dissolving and assert
ed that farmers would continue tc
raise money to carry it on, the Armour
Grain Company, far the largest mer
ger in the Rosenbaum Bros.’ Grain
Company, applied for readmission tc
the market under their old names. Ar
rangements to refinance Dean, Onata
. ia & Company are proceeding with
a promise of success.
DIRIGIBLE WILL
SOON BE FLYING
SEWARD-SEATTLE
MANAGER HERE FOR PURPOSE
OF SELLING STOCK ALASKA
CORPORATION.
OFFICES IN HOLBEN BUILDING
Statistics Given Proving Sound Finan
cial Investment Air Transporta
tion Service.
From Seward to Seattle in an air
ship in 30 hours. “This is a certain
ty,” O. A. Campbell, assistant mana
ger of the Alaska and Northwest Dir
igible Company, who is now in Sew
ard, stated to the Seward Gateway
yesterday. Continuing Mr. Campbell
said: “It is only a matter of a short
time when the above statement will
be in effect and the residents of Al
aska will soon be making trips to
the states, via this air line, which af
ter five years of effort, will undoubt
edly come to a successful conclusion
this summer.”
Mr. Campbell, accompanied by Mrs.
Campbell and his son, Coyle, who is
secretary of the company, have taken
an apartment in the Tecklenberg
building this morning wiiere he will
be glad to show those interested
photographs of the first dirigible which
will be put into the Alaska service by
the company, and to give all or any
information regarding the plans of the
company, and of the ships themselves.
This is his second trip to the Terri
tory, having made a preliminary trip
thru last summer. The present trip
will carry him to every point in Al
aska including (far away Nome to
which the company will also operate
its air service.
“The company, Mr. Campbell said,
is an Alaskan Corporation, incorpor
ated in Alaska. Seventy^five per cent
of the stock is in the treasury, and
seventy-five per cent of the money
subscribed in Seward will be left in
the local bank. From past and pres
ent indications, I do not anticipate
having much trouble raising the Sew
ard quota of approximately $8,000
within the few' days I will be here.
“Perhaps the recent editorial by
Arthur Brisbane, will give the aver
age person a better idea of the finan
cial success of an enterprise of this
nature, than were I to talk for an
hour. Mr. Brisbane’s editorial which
appeared recently in the Seattle P.-I.:
‘The first capable man acting on the
thorough realization of the flying ma
chine future, will establish for his
stockholders and himself such a for
tune as would make the Vanderbilts,
Hills and Huntingtons look like small
financial crumbs.’
“This quotation is not made in a
spirit of braggodocia,” Mr. Campbell
stated, “but is an actual fact as sta
tistical reports, covering aviation for
the past number of years, will bear
me out. A brief record compiled by
(Aviation), the foremost air publica
tion in the United States, compiled the
following record of the advancement
and development of the freight and
passenger traffic of Europe.:
Freight Traffic.
Pounds
.~~.. 269,600
---—x..... 479,100
----. 876,000
... 2,348,500
.-.—.. 4,235,142
.-••••... 5,400,000
Passenger Traffic.
Year Psgrs.
1919 . 2,585
1920 —.-.8,797
1921 .. 24,224
1922 . 33,206
1923 -- 52,684
1924 - 62,000
“One cannot help but note,” Mr.
Campbell resumed, “the tremendous
advance made each year by aviation.
Year
1919 ..
1920 .
1921 .
1922 .........
1923 .-.
1924 .
For Aiaska, the service we propose,
will be welcomed by all who would
eliminate-the ocean voyage, and who
want to arrive at their destination
with all possible comfort and speed.
The Alaskans I have talked to, thus
far, are very enthusiastic over the ad
vert. of this company into the Terri
tory, and considerable financial sup
port has already been receive 1 from
towns and communities already visit
ed by myself.”
Much has been said about the storms
along the Alaskan coast, and what
chance a dirigible would have in such
a storm, Mr. Campbell said. He re
called the time the United States Na
val airship, Los Angeles landed and
was moored to her mast at Bermuda
in the face of a 40 mile an hour gale.
In a conversation with a skipper of
an Alaskan steamer, Mr. Campbell
was told few captains would take a
chance with their vessel, endevoring
to make a landing alongside of a dock,
in a wind of such velocity. Either or
both the vessel and dock would be
damaged if the attempt was made, it
was stated.
Residents of Seward, interested in
the proposed service to Alaska, are
requested by Mr. Campbell, to call at
his office, in order that he may be giv
en the opportunity to present to them,
authentic information on the subject.
Various articles regarding the com
pany, its aims and hopes, will be pub
lished occasionally by the Gateway.
KITTITAS PROJECT
BE COMPLETED
BY GOVERNMENT
SEATTLE, July 8 (TP)—Reclamatioi
Commission! Mead, traveling with Sec
retary Work, announced yesterday be
fore the Hartley-Work conference that
the government would construct the
Kittitas high line project regardless
of whether the State guarantees a
settlement or not. He said there is
several ways of doing it, and cited
the offer of Kittitas county and a set
tlement company formed at Ellens
burg to relieve the state of liability.
He said Senator Jones had pledged
any change necessary in the law to
be made at the next session.
Commissioner Mead added: “I would
like to see this plan worked out,
whereby the Kittitas people would
undertake this land settlement work
themselves with the aid of the Wash
ington State College and other agen
cies.”
He announced he was working on a
plan whereby the Kittitas- project
would be the laboratory in which
would be solved a larger problem of
development and settlement in the
Columbia basin project.
Trustees Named to Act.
SEATTLE, July 8 (/P)—Carroll
Graves, an attorney for the Kittitas
organization, announced that the
stockholders of Kittitas and of the
Settlement Company had elected J.
W. Swalwell and George T. Reid of
Seattle, R. L. Rutter of Spokane, W.
L. Steinweg of Yakima, and Phil Ad
ams of Kittitas Valley trustees, with
power to act.
Graves said the company would deal
directly with the Federal government
of Hartley maintains his stand against
permitting the State to guarantee the
lands which the Kittitas high line W'a
ter would add to the agricultural area
of the state. The company is capi
talized at $300,000, all subscribed with
$60,000 additional as al reserve in case
some of the stockholders fail in their
obligations.
Swalwell, Rutter and Steinweg are
bankers, Reid is vice president of the
Northern Pacific Railroad, and Adams
is a farmer politician.
The revenue cutter Haida which ar
rived in port last evening from the
Westward, with Senator C. C. Dill
aboard, will remain in port for a cou
ple of days, it was stated today.