ESKIMO KILLED
NAKNEK JAILER
SAYS DISPATCH
Further details of the death ot
F. J. Fleckenstein, son of Deputy
Marshal Fleckenstein, whose death at
Naknek was reported in the Gate
way on Tuesday, is contained in the
following article appearing in the
Valdez Miner of May 23 issue:
A brief wireless message received
at the marshal’s office here this week
stated that F. J. Fleckenstein, son
of Deputy marshal Fleckenstein had
been killed on May 19, at Naknek,
by Mike N. Eqwana, an Eskimo pri
soner, who made his escape. No de
tails of the crime were given.
Eqwana was a reindeer herder at
Port Heidon, and was in jail at Nak
nek charged with the killing of Carl
Nolkhbak at Port Heidon several
weeks ago following a sourdough
beer party. Young Fleckenstein was
a guard in the jail. So far as learn
ed Eqwana has not been recaptured.
Presbyterians Get Report
Pension System to Needy
COLUMBUS, May 29.—(£>)—Dr.
Henry B. Master, of Philadelphia,
Pa., general secretary of the Pres
byterian Board of Ministerial Relief
and Sustentation, which administers
the official pension system of the
denomination, this morning made his
annual report to the Presbyterian As
sembly in session at Franklin County
Memorial Hall. His report was in
part as follows:
“Once again, with profound grat
itude, the board is able to report
that the past year has been the best
in its history. Never before has it
been our privilege to disburse much
money in the form of pensions paid
the aged and disabled servants of the
Cross, their widows and minor orph
an children. Almost three quarters
of a million dollars, to be exact,
$726,000, were distributed during the
fiscal year, 1924-25. This "was a no
table advance over anything ever be
fore achieved. The increase in money
represents a little less penury and
want in some homes and the satis
faction of certain pressing needs in
others. Nevertheless, we are com
pelled to record that more than 1,000
widows on our rolls received on the
average only $245.85, and more than
400 ministers who were entitled to a
pension of $500 had to struggle along
with an average of only $373.06.”
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Alaska Sourdough
Publishes Booklet
“Alaska, that’s all,” is the title of
a neat 19-page booklet just off an
eastern press and compiled by Wm.
Sulzer, one time governor of New
York and Alaskan sourdough, now re
siding in New York city. A copy of
the booklet has been received by the
Gateway and a perusal of it grips the
interest of the reader from first to
last. Statistical information is com
piled accurately and neatly, each new
leaf unfolding a storehouse of facts
regarding the Territory.
MORE LIQUOR VIOLATORS
ARRESTED AT ANCHORAGE
Anchorage arrivals in Seward last
evening brought over word of the
recent arrest of “Eagle River” John,
a well known character of the Inlet
town, on the charge of violating the
liquor law. George Vallear, propri
etor of the Turkish Bath House, fell
into the toils of the law again, when
raiding officers seized a quantity of
beer.
Dr. Fach and Dr. Fredericksen, Se
attle Eye Specialists at the Overland
Hotel May 28-29-30. Eyes examined,
glasses fitted.
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Fifty-three Trapped
in Burning Coal Mine
COAL GLEN, S. C., May 28 (TP)—A
timekeeper’s check shows that 53 in
cluring 27 whites anti 26 negroes, are
trapped in the burning mine where
an explosion occurred yesterday.
COAL GLEN, May 28—(TP)—With
eight bodies removed at noon from
the Carolina mine, aprpoximately
three-score remained unaccounted.
They were trapped at the thousand
foot level and are given up as dead,
after the dampness of the mine con
tinued to frustrate all efforts of res
cue.
SPLENDID PROSPECT
FOUND AT SKAGWAY
Late word from Skagway, the lit
tle town on Lynn Canal, is to the
effect that a mineral prospect in the
vicinity of Smugglers’ Cove, which
is just across the Skagway river at
its confluence with Lynn Canal, is
showing up in excess of all previous
expectations in that numerous assays
taken from it show an average of $8
per ton in gold and is increasing as
depth is attained.
The prospect is the property of
E. M. LaRue and his partner, W. J.
Bledsoe, the latter an oldtimer who
has spent all the profits of a mer
cantile business in Skagway in pros
pecting for mineral for nearly a quar
ter of a century and whose faith has
not been dimmed by successive fail
ures. LaRue is immigration agent at
Skagway and all his time outside of
office hours has been spent for sev
eral years as has been that of his
partner.
Shipping Employe Wins
$190,000 In Sweepstakes
LONDON, May 28 (TP)—James Ca
rew, an employe of a Liverpool ship
ping firm, sold part of his ticket in the
pool called Calcutta Sweepstakes for
$10,000, but still won $190,000 on the
Derby, which Manna I, owned by. S.
H. Morris, was first. Manna in addi
tion to taking the Derby stakes is
credited with a share of $245,500 in
the London Stock Exchange Sweep
stakes. Drummer Graves, an insur
ance manager, and G. E. Bateson, a
clerk, sold Morris half their ticket
for $14,000.
Paavo Nurmi Escapes
Having Bad Accident
NEW YORK, May 28 (JP)—Paavo
Nurmi narrowly escaped falling 55
feet into the Hudson river, when he
tripped on a cable on the deck of the
liner Stockholm on which he sailed
for home today. He said he hoped
to return next year.
K .G. Robinson, town clerk, city
magistrate, Pacific Steamship Com
pany agent, notary public, et cetera,
left on the Admiral Evans for Seat
tle from Cordova on the last trip, for
a brief musiness trip. He will return
on the same steamer June 8. In his
absence, Hary Achison will handle
business connected with the town
clerk’s office and Mrs] Margaret
Schroeder and Prank Poster will care
of the steamship company’s inter
ests. So far as his other enterprises
are concerned, Mr. Robinson has de
clared a three weeks’ vacation.
Curator A. P. Kashevaroff of the
Alaska Historical Museum, reports
a number of pre-tourist season visi
tors have gone through the museum.
Practically all the passengers of ev
ery west bound steamer stop at the
museum and already quite a large
number have registered.
With its shrimp, clam and crab
plants, Petersburg is the center of the
shell fish industry in Alaska. Last
week an additional payroll was add
ed by the Star Shell Pish Co., start
ing to put up crab meat in the old
Ness Shrimp plant on the Union Trad
ing dock.
M. D. Williams, assistant district
engineer for the bureau of public
roads, has ben on the first official
trip out of Juneau since taking over
the Alaska district, returned there
from Sitka. Work in that vicinity
he said, was well under way and
fine progress is being made.
Moving Motor Cars
Sharpen Men’s Wits
URBANA, 111., May 29.—CAP)—If you
saw a person take a slanting dive off
of a wharf, would you dive to rescue
at the same place where he disappear
ed under the water?
If you would you are “static-mind
ed” and should buy a car and cul
tivate motion-mindedness” for, accord
ing to Prof. H. F. Moore, research
professor of engineering materials
of the University of Illinois, “motion
mindedness is a sign of progress
which is cultivated by the wide
spread use of the automobile.”
“The driver thinks not of the place
where the car is at the present time,
but where it will be in a few sec
onds later; he thinks forward or he
has a collision,” said Prof. Moore.
“If the auto can lead people to think
of men, events, philosophies and re
ligions in the same day, there is
hope that they will get into a hab
it of asking where this man or that
institution is leading and will avoid
a few dangerous collisions in the
future.
“It is surprising how static mind
ed most people are. They think of
things as they are, and not what
they are becoming. It is the static
minded person who started the pithy
but inacurate slogan ‘you can’t change
human nature,” and would doubtless
say “you can’t move a spinning gy
roscope.’ The difficulty in each case
is to get someone in the notion to
do some changing, rather than the
impossibility of change.
“If in future years the majority of
j people are progressive and motion
minded, it will be due in a great
measure to the influence of automo
biles.”
GREAT DANE MOTHERS
|. LION CUBS IN BERLIN
—
BERLIN, May 28.—The raising of
three cub lions, the offspring of Sen
ta, the prize lioness of the Berlin
zoo, has been entrusted to a Great
Dane. The cubs upon their birth im
mediately were taken from Senta,
who showed a disposition to kill
them.
The foster dog mother nurses them
carefully to the great delight of hun
dreds of children who are watching
the development of the playful young
lions.
Large Cold Storage
llant on W. S. Topper
Amoung the features which has
been added to the new steamer W. S.
Tupper recently added to the fleet of
the Santa Ana Transportation Com
pany, is a large cold storage plant for
the conveying of reindeer meat to
the States. It is anticipated this
business will show a marked increase
this season.
The steamer W. S. Tupper is a steel
hull vessel of 1852 gross tons and
was built in Jacksonville, Florida, in
1917, during the world wrar. It is said
the vessel is much superior in every
way to the sturdy Santa Ana which
sailed from Seward north early yes
terday morning.
Movies Planned to Relieve
Boredom of Train Travel
MANCHESTER, May 28.—(^—Eng
lish railway officials are watching
with interest the experiment of giv
ing moving picture shows on the ex
press trains of the Czechoslovakia
state owned railroads. The German
transportation authorities also are
considering the same idea.
According to reports from Prague
the cinema cars can seat SO persons
and the film program, shown usually
in the evenings or when the train
passes thru uninteresting territory,
consists of light, interesting pieces
with scenery displays, industrial
achievements and other features of
the country, which are flashed at in
tervals.
Charles Johnson was recently sen
tenced by U. S. Commissioner E.
P. Harwood of Cordova to six months
each on two counts in a complaint
charging disorderly conduct and boot
leging. One sentence was, however,
commutted,.
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