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VOLUME XVIII NUMBER 265
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1023
PRICE TEN CENTS
BIG COMMERCIAL PROJECT HAS
BEEN CLOSED, SAY ADVICES
FROM NEW YORK
CREDIT DUE FRANK L. BALLAlNE
Wiill Mean the Expenditure of Mil
lions of Dollars and Make Sew
ard a Large City
Seattle papers claim that it is an
assured fact that Seward will have the
long-looked for pulp mill, as negotia
tions that have been in progress the
past four years have been completed,
according to word from Frank L. Bal
laine during the past week. Mr. Bal
laine is said to be putting the finish
ing touches on the project, and it is
safe to assume that the Seward in
dustry will be producing paper pulp
during the year 1924.
The mill site that has been decided
on is located at the head of the bay,
half way between Seward and the ra
dio station. It is on the line of the
Alaska railroad and will have the ad
vantage of rail and water transporta
tion for pulp logs.
The power site that has been de
cided upon is located on Kenai river,
at the canyon, where Russian river
joins the Kenai, or about half way be
tween Kenai and Skilak lakes. At this
paint it will be possible to get an un
interrupted flow of water for power
the year around and never any inter
ruption of supply through cold weath
er and ice.
It is the intention of the pulp manu
facturing company to install a heavy
duty power line to Seward. The course
of the power line will be up Russian
River, over the divide, and down Re
surrection river, a distance of about
33 miles.
Mr. Ballaine has devoted his entire
time during the past five years to this
enterprise, and in his work has been
financed and supported by Sewardites
who will now be in a position to reap
the rewards of their efforts.
MILLION LEFT BY WILL
TO EIGHT EPIDEMICS
KANSAS CITY, Oct. 2d.— A fund
of one million dollars has been left
for charity by Jacob L. Loose, chair
man of the board of directors of the
Loose-Wiles Biscuit company through
his will which was filed for probate
today. The money is to be used in
relieving personal distress and sick-^
ness among the needy in Kansas City.!
‘ SIDE BY SIDE IN RIO
RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct. 30.—The i
million and a quarter citizens of Rio,
are fighting a gallant but losing fight:
against the constantly increasing cost
of living. The army of middlemen,:
speculators, profiteers and corner
manipulators are pushing the attack
with relentless vigor, while th° des
perate populace is making feeble but
bitter resistance.
It is estimated that the coSl of liv
. ing here has increased 100 per cent
> the past twelve months. At iliac pe
riod it was double what it was five
years ago. Many commodities which
were considered necessities a few
short months ago have been given up
on account of being now classed as
luxuries.
Not only have prices doubled and
tripled on food, clothing and housing,
but the quality has deteriorated just
as rapidly. Owing to the cost of ma
terial all building has ceased and no
^ repairs are being made.
EARTHQUAKE ROCKS LUZON
MANILA, Oct. 30.—A severe earth
quake rocked northern Luzon this
morning,
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TESTIMONY INTRODUCED SHOW
ING THAT FORBES WANTED
TO SELL NARCOTICS
i WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.—James N
Williams, a Philadelphia dairymar,
testified that Charles Forbes, formei
director of the Veterans* Bureau ap
proached him some time ago with a
proposition to supply milk to the gov
ernment hospital at Perryville, Mary
land, and suggested that he (Forbes')
could make it interesting for Wil
liams if he would permit his milk wa
gons to carry drugs and narcotics
away from the hospital.
Williams said that Forbes came to
his home with Mortimer. He further
testified that Forbes planned to es
trange Mr. and Mrs. Mortimer, so that
the latter would secure a divorce.
DECLARE FOR INDEPENDENCE
AND REJECT FOREIGN
DOMINATION
WEISBADEN, Germany, Oct. 0.—
The provisional government of the
Rhineland republic has sent a mes
sage to all nations, saying that the
Rhenish people have taken in hand
the direction of its destinies by pro
claiming its full independence and
has definitely rejected foreign domi
nation.
NEW YORK, Oct. 29.—The recent
spectacular achievement of Alan J.
Gerbault, a young French aviator who
crossed the Atlantic in a thirty foot
racing cutter, “Firecrest,” has brought
forth a surprising number of claims to
having accomplished the same under
taking.
Among the first to challenge Ger
bault’s deed were friends of Captain
William A. Andrews, who made the
trip in a 14 foot boat, the Sapolio,
built by himself. Andrews made the
trip in 63 days, while Gerbault took
142 days for the trip.
Capt. Johnson of Gloucester in 1876
made a trip in a dory measuring Ip
feet on the keel, 5V& feet beam, and
drawing 2% feet of water. The dory
was decked over but space was allow
ed for the lone navigator to sit in a
small self-bailing cockpit and steer.
The craft had two water-tight com
partments, had a single mast and was
slooped rigged, the sails being lowered
from aft.
Capt. Johnson started from Glou
cester June 16. 1876, and arrived in
Liverpool on August 21, 1876. He
made the trip alone.
Capt. Andrews trip was really the
outgrowth of his idea to prove beyond
question the seaworthiness of a col
lapsible boat which he had invented
and which he had tried to place on the
market as a lifeboat for ocean travel.
He exhibited the boat for some time,
and finally decided to demonstrate it
was impossible to sink it. The little
craft capsized three times on the trip
to Palos, Spain, but was righted each
time and the voyage continued.
NATIVE SCHOOL AND CHURCH
WILL BE BUILT AT CORDOVA
The Tatitlek natives will have a
school and church constructed at Cor
dova, according to Rev. Kashevaroff,
who represents the Russian Church in
Alaska. At the present time there
are about fifty natives of school age in
and about Cordova.
The natives recently removed theii
village from Tatitlek to the vicinity of
Cordova where conditions were better.
'JCKYSTONE VIEW CO. NEW .YORK
ONLY WOMAN ON PEACE PLAN
JURY
Dr. Ellen Fitz Pendleton, president
of Wellesley College, is the only wo
man member of the jury of seven'
j members who will be in charge of the
American Peace Award whicii has in
1 charge the $100,000 contest establish
ed by Edward W. Bok, of Philadel-j
phia, for the most practicable plan by!
which the United States may co oper I
ate with other nations toward bring
ing about permanent peace. Dr. Pen
i dleton is known internationally as an
i educator.
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FOUR FIREMEN AND TWO CITi
ZENS SERIOUSLY INJURED IN
CRASH AT EVERETT
EVERETT, Oct. 30.—Dennis Boyle,
and Dan Michael, a bricklayer, were
killed and Fire Chief W. A. Taro fa
1 tally injured; four firemen were hurt
and two Everett citizens injured when
the city fire truck collided head on
with the fire chief’s automobile dur
ing a run for a fire here today.
! RESIST HEIVr TREMORS
HONOLULU, Oct. 30.—The devising
of earthquake proof structures, is the
aim of Dr. Thomas A. Jaggar, govern
ment volcano expert, at the observa
tory on the slopes of Mauua Kea, isl
and of Hawaii, who has left for Japan
to study the effects of the disastrous
| earthquakes that visited the island
; empire recently.
He suggested that designers mighl
develop an all-steel slype which could
withstand shock and obviate catastro
! phes similar to t'mse ol Tokie and
Yokohama.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Oct. 30.—Air
egg on which is moulded a perfect out-1
line of a sunflower, laid on the day of
the recent eclipse of the sun by a
Rhode Island hen, has created consid-)
erable speculation in this section. The
hen is owned by Mrs. Kate Richards,)
of this city] Those who have seen the^
egg are undecided as to whether sun-)
flower seed was fed the hen or the
sun’s eclipse on the day it was laid
caused the freak.
TODAY’S FISH MARKET
Seattle—Price at noon today, Octo
ber 30, fresh halibut 19% cents.
Ketchikan—Fresh halibut 15% cts.
Juneau—Fresh halibut 13% and 8%
cents.
BE OF IfO AVAIL
FRANCE MUST ALLOW SUM TO
BE REDUCED IF GERMANY IS
TO BE ABLE TO PAY
RICHMOND, Va., Oct. 30.—Presi
dent Coolidge’s efforts to settle tlie
reparations problem would be com-(
full payment of the sum assessed
against Germany, Lloyd George de
clared here this afternoon. There
would have to be a reduction from
the 132,000,000,000 gold marks, the fig
ure originally set, Lloyd George said,
or Germany will become as inert as a
tadpole, not even wiggling its tail.
MICKEY M ADDISON, CHAMPION
DIVER BRINGS UP OVER
$2,000,000 WORTH
LONDON, Oct. 30.—With the recov
ery of practically all of the treasure
from the sunken liner Laurentic, the
salvage championship between the sal
vage ship Racer’s eight divers is set
tled. The championship goes to Sea
man Mickie Maddison, who recovered
200 bars of gold, a total value of over
$2,000,000. His nearest rival, Petty
Light, brought up 170 bars.
The Laurentic, which was sunk by
mines in 1917 was carrying $25,000,
000 worth of gold to America and the
Racer has been engaged in salvage
operations since 191S.
Salvage operations on the sunken
liner will cease at the end of the
present month, when the wreckage
will be dragged over, whether the few
remaining bars of gold are lifted or
not. The vessel lies in 20 fathoms
of water.
PORT ARTHUR, Texas, Oct. 29.—
Henry Ford, in an effort to get con
trol of Mussel Shoals is scheming to
fool the American public on a whole
sale basis, said Col. Goethals, builder
of the Panama Canal, in a speech last
night.
TWO GIRLS WILL TOUR
RUSSIA ON BICYCLES
BOSTON, Oct. 30.—A tour of Bol-;
shevist Russia on bicycles is the goal
of Miss Helen Rich, newspaper wri-J
ter and Miss Helen Hoyt, an art stu-j
dent, who left here for New York,’
from whence they will sail for Europe.
LONDON, Oct. 30.—The American
Constitution is all wrong, according to ]
Dr. Cyril Burt, president of the psv- <
chology section of the British Asso- t
ciation.
“All men are created equal,” says
the American Constitution.
“All men are created unequal,” says
Dr. Burt. |
“In the psychological sense, as dis- !
tinguished from the political, not only
ire men created unequal, but the ex
tent of the inequality surpasses any
:hing heretofore conjectured. In a ‘
survey of 30,000 cases in a London <
aorough it was found that tsfre mental <
*atio of children might vary from 50 t
E>er cent below normal to 150 per cent <
ibove. The brightest child level of an
iverage child of fifteen. A dullard I
aad the mental level of a child of five |
>r less,”
SECRETARY OF TREASURY DOES
NOT TAKE KINDLY TO SUG
GESTION OF GOVERNOR
WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.—Governor
Gifford Pinchot was advised in a let
ter sent him today by Secretary Mel
lon that the Treasury Department
was invoking every available means
for prohibition enforcement, and that
statements to the contrary by the gov
ernor in a letter addressed to Mellon
are gratuitous, and not found in fact.
Secretary Mellon was one of a com
mute of republicans who met recently
to devise plans to prevent Governor
Pinchot from receiving the support of
the Pennsylvania Republican delega
tion, on account of Pinchot’s pro
nounced dry views.
BROTHER TO NOTORIOUS DRAFT
EVADER WILL NOT BE
FURTHER MOLESTED
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 30—Conspir
acy and draft evasion charges against
Edwin R., brother to Grover C. Berg
doll, the notorious army deserter,
have been dropped by the government
it was announced today.
Bergdoll has already served a term
in the Leavenworth penitentiary for
evasion of the draft.
US SHE FISH 81
STOPPING HOLES I LIE
STEVENSON, Wn„ Oct. 30.—Goose
Lake, noted for the abundance of large
trout it contains and the beautiful
scenery surrounding it, in the Colum
bia national forest reserve, Skamania
county, almost became a dry lava bed
last week by the disappearance of the
water through cracks and holes in
the bottom that have appeared lately.
When the lake became a pond and
thousands of fish were about to die,
game wardens and forest rangers
packed sacks of dirt and stopped the
leaks. There are four mountain
streams flowing into the lake and the
rains of the last few days have great
ly increased the water supply. It is
thought that recent earth disturbances
have cracked the lava rock.
FOU SLEEPING SICKNESS
JOHANNEV s. A. Oct. 30.1
Successful evp riunmis in sleeping
sickness have been carried out here]
by Professois Klein and Fischer, two
German scientists, who spent twelve
months in the Northern Congo, in test
ed with the tsetse fly.
The cure is cTectei after three in
jections through the skin with the
Bayer treatment and eminent doctors
state there is no doubt regarding the
efficacy of the discovery.
Kl UiDWH ILEInTING
SEATTLE INSURANCE IN
SEATTLE, Oct. 30.—James E. Dyal,
Seattle district manager for the Pru
iential Insurance Company of Ameri
ca, was killed while on a hunting
:rip yesterday, by the accidental dis
3harge of his shotgun.
MCEl B. HILL, OCT. 31
FORMER BRITISH PREMIER AND
STATESMAN DIES AFTER
LINGERING ILLNESS
STRONG MAN OF THE EMPIRE
Leader of Opposition Forces Since
1911; Former Iron Merchant of
Glasgow, Scotland
LONDON, Oct. 30.—The Right Hon
orable Andrew Bonar Law, former pre
mier of England, died this morning in
his modest London Home. The for
mer premier’s daughter, his only near
relative left in England, was with him
during his last days. His two sons
were killed in the world war, a sor
row' from which Mr. Law never recov
ered.
His death was due to an affection
of the throat, from wrhich he had been
suffering the past year or more.
Andrew Bonar Law was born in
New Brunswick, September 16, 1858;
a son of Rev. James Law and Eliza
Law. He was married in 1909 to An
nie Pitcairn of Glasgow. Four sons
and two daughters were born to them.
Bonar Law was formerly an iron
merchant in Glasgow; was Mamber of
Parliament Bootle Division, Lancs, P.
C., 1911; leader of Opposition in the
House of Commons; premier of Eng
land.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.—The an
nouncement was made today by the
United States Geographic Board that
the name, “Harding Gateway” had
been officially adopted as the name of
the passage through which President
Harding’s ship last summer proceeded
into Resurrection Bay to Seward. The
action puts the name on all govern
ment maps.
HAD BUT LITTLE G009S
SCHENECTADY, Oct. 29.—The will
of C. P. Steinmetz, the electrical wiz
ard, probated here today shows that
he left no fortune save his library of
reference books, an auto 11 years old,
and $1500 insurance.
GAME WARDEN COTTER
MAKES Mill REPORT
Game Warden George Cot er, of
Seward, in nis report to the governor
recently declares that moose are thiiv
ing on the Keaii peninsula and are
on the increase H*> estimates that at
least 5000 of these animal*' are on the
Kenai peninsula. Hr estimates that
there are 2500 sheep on Kenai and
500 in Bristol Bay. The residents on
the Alaska railroad and in the Kenai
peninsula are apparently pleased with
the extension of the closed season on
sheep until 1925. Many brown bear
are reported in the same district. Mr.
Cotter estimates 2350 are on Kenai
and Alaska peninsulas.
He reports one Indian, while gath
ering driftwood, attacked and killed
by a brown bear, the victim’s body be
ing recovered horribly mmi'ated.
Continuing, the report said: There
is a fairly large increase in goals;
ptarmigan are present in large num
bers, flocks numbering from 50 to
several thousand birds being seen; no
decrease in grouse; migratory birds,
no decrease; eagles very numerous;
rabbits in numbers so numerous as
to be come a serious pest.