»Hast GEIIPUIEIY
VOLUME XVIII.
NUMBER 163
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1923
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E10R DKL1
DECLARES STATE
INSURRECTION AGAINST CIVIL
LAW CAUSES GOVERNOR TO
ORDER OUT TROOPS
OKMULGEE, Okla., June 28.—Ok
mulgee county today was declared by
Governor Walton to be in a state ot
lawlessness amounting to insurrec
tion against civil law, and the gov
ernor has declared military law and
called out state troops.
AGED WOMAN FALLS TO
DEATH IN SANITARIUM
SEATTLE, June 28.—Her eyes hea
vily bandaged, because of an opera
tion for cataract, Mrs. Francis Neals.,
66, fell through the upper story win
dow of the Columbus Sanitarium to
her death.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 2S.—Judg
ment was obtained against Jafet Lin
deberg, former Alaska plunger, for
$233,615 in connection with the failure
of the Scandinavian American Bank,
at Tacoma. Lindeberg. who has turn
ed his entire fortune over to his cred
itors, stated that the judgment woulc
be settled soon.
WOODS IN SEATTLE
SEATTLE, June 28.—Olruse Woods
the newly appointed ambassador to
Japan arrived here en route to Tokio.
ASK TURKEY SIGN
LAUSANNE, June 28.—The allies
have invited Russia to sign the Turk
ish straits convention when the Lau
sanne treaty is ready.
SEATTLE, June 28.—Charles Fre
mont Boylan, a prominent real estate
man of this city, perished when the
Ford sedan in which he was riding,
backed off a Mercer Island pier into
Lake Washington.
HORNSBY HAS TO GIVE
LUMP 125,000 ALIMONY
ST. LOUIS, June 28—Roger Horns
by second baseman for the St. Louis
Cardinals, has agreed to give his wife,
Mrs. Sarah E. Hornsby, the lump ali
mony of $25,000 in anticipation of the
decree of divorce to be granted hen
in the circuit court, she announced
last night. Mrs. Hornsby said her hus
band had securities and has made pro
visions for the support and education
of the son, Rodger, Jr., 2V2 years old.
MARRIED
Anna Fritsch of New York, was
united in marriage yesterday to Lon
Snepp, of Tanana, Alaska, Judge Cur
tis R. Morford performing the cere
mony. Miss Inez Waugh and John G.
Abrams were the only witnesses. Mr.
Snepp is civilian carpenter at Fort
Gibbon, while the bride has been em- j
ployed in Seward. Tee newly wedded
couple will leave on tomorrow’s train
for the mouth o: ‘he Tatiana.
George G. Cotter, game warden for
the Kenai peninsula received word
today to take over the district for
merly served by Henry Dorman of
Anchorage. Mr. Cotter’s supervision
now extends from Seward to Anchor
age, Suisltna and the Matanuska val
ley as far as Broad Pass. In addi
tion he supervises game conditions to
the far westward, considerable of a
job, when one considers the district is
larger than all the New England
and Southern States combined.
BUNKER CREEK WOMAN
LOSE LIFE IN FIRE
DAWSON, June 28—Mrs. M. B.
Simpson aged 53 years, a pioneer of
the Yukon, was burned to death
when her home caught afire and she
tried to carry out a trunk of valuables
from her room. She was found be
side a pool of water, seven hours later
dead.
YAKIMA, June 28.—Regulations is
sued by former Secretary Fall bar
ring aliens from leasing or working
Indian farm lands have been com
pletely revoked by . Secretary Work,
upon the lease of mineral rights from
an Indian owned tract, according to
American Legion officials here.
ENGLISH LABOR PARTY VOTE
TO REJECT JNO. W. NEWBOLD
LONDON, June 28.—A labor party
conference today voted by a majority
of $2,000,000 to reject the application
of John W. Newbold, the communist
member of parliament, for member
ship in the labor part.v. All commu
nists are barred.
ARMY AVIATORS AGAIN
ASCEND TO BREAK RECORD
SAN DIEGO, June 28.—Army avia
tors Smith and Richter ascended this
morning at a quarter to five, in a sec
ond attempt to break the endurance
record. The men were forced to de
scend \esterday by engine trouble.
MOSCOW, June 28.—Forty people
ate dinner with a cow at the dairy
barn of the University of Idaho col
lege yesterday noon. The cow was Ida
ho Violet Posch Ormsby, the holder
of the highest record for butter-fat
production of any cow in the state.
Violet’s fellow-dinners were breeders
and representatives of the university
faculty. Violet was crowned “queen of
the dairy cows owned by educational
institutions of the world” She is de
clared the only college-owned cow in
the United States with three produc
tion records of more than 1,000 pounds
of butter a year.
Mrs. George Colwell, accompanied
by her son and daughter, will arrive
on tonight’s train from Mile 52_ and
remain until after the Fourth.
George Colwell, roadmaster, arrived
in town on his speeder last evening
from Mile 52. Mr. Colwell reports lots
of moose, sheep and bears along the
right-of-way.
INTERIOR DEPARTMENT
IRRIGATION PROGRAM
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WASHINTON, D. C., June 28—
The program of the interior depart
ment for irrigation investigation for
the year 1924 was announced today by
Secretary Work as comprising pro
jects in 11 western states.
They include the following:
Idaho—Completion of the Dubois
project and investigation of the Snake
river district.
Washington—Additional investiga
tion of the Yakima valley.
Oregon—Examination of the Warm
Springs and adjacent projects.
F. B. Camp, former editor of the
Gateway, who has been spending the
summer at Snug Harbor, is now in
Anchorage.
CELEBRATE MIDNIGHT SUN
DAWSON, June 28.—hundreds of
persons celebrated the longest day of
the year here the 23d inst. It Is esti
mated that from 15,000 to 20,000 tour
ists came to the Yukon this year to
see the midnight sun.
GOVERNMENT DEBATING OVER
CONFISCATION OF VESSELS
FOUND WITH LIQUOR
WASHINGTON, June 28.—Seizure
by the United States of foreign ves
sels bringing liquor into the country
in violation of Supreme Court deci
sions is being considered in a series
of conferences today between Treas
ury and Prohibition officials. Thus
far there has been no attempt to do
more than confiscate the liquor, the
vessels going free.
WASHINGTON, June 28.—New reg
ulations prohibiting the bringing of
liquor into American waters after a
certain date next month, under pen
alty of the seizure of the ship and the
arrest of its captain, were virtually
agreed upon as a result of a confer
ence among the prohibition officials
here.
SAN DIEGO, June 28.—Complete
success attended the refueling test
made today when fifty gallons of gas
oline were transferred from one plane
to another^ both in midair.
MANY ROUND TRIP PASSENGERS
ARE TOURING ALASKA
The steamship Admiral Evans, with
85 tons of freight and a number of
passengers, arrived in Seward at 6:00
o’clock this morning. An unusually
large number of round trippers were
aboard many of whom will tour inte
rior Alaska. Seward passengers
are: Miss Olive Baltimore, Miss Mary
Blunt, Mrs. Katherine Kohlstadt, J.
L. Finch, Frank Wallace, Marion
Mowrey, Miss W. Carlson, J. P. Mor
gan, T. P. Marett, 3 steerage.
For Seldovia—Mrs. M. Anderson,
Fred Anderson, Vega Anderson, two
steerage.
For Kodiak—Mr. Shand, Tom Hayn,
V. P. Morrison, W. A. Hemrieh John
B. Foster, Mrs. A. F. Foster, Howe
Foster, Mrs. Henry Howe, Mrs. P. D.
Blodgett, Miss Alexandria Morrison.
Mr. George V. LaFarge, traveling
auditor for the Pacific Steamship Co.,
was a passenger on the Admiral Ev
ans to Seward. He was accompanied
by his wife and daughter.
Alyce Anderson, formerly school
teacher at Ninilchik, but now of Nan
nek, has been appointed tax collector
of the district extending from Nak
nek to Koggiung.
TOKYO, June 28.—Jane Addams
today underwent a surgical operation
for tumor. Her recovery is expected.
C05IL1 FOR MITOIST
WENATCHEE, June 28—Had Bill
Hiney? taxi driver accepted his fate in
stead of hurling a bottle of alleged
liquor into the street when officer Mor
ris started to arrest him Saturday
night, he would have gotten off $100
cheaper. As it was the police not only
charged him with possession but laid
a complaint of breaking glass on the
street, a violation of the city ordi
nance.
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DAILY PAPER AT MAYO
DAWSON, June 28—The Dawson
Daily News has established a daily
paper at Mayo, the new silver camp,
The news for the paper will be receiv
ed by radio,
U. S. SENATOR’S SUIT RESULTS
IN CLOSING OF COUNTRY’S
ONLY UNITARIAN CHURCH
SOFIA, June 28.—When former sen
ator H. F. Hollis of New Hamphsire,,
obtained a divorce in Doubnitsa, Bul
garia, several months ^go he brought
about a crisis that has recently re
sulted in the closing of the only Uni
tarian church in Bulgaria.
Senator Hollis, it will be recalled,
obtained a divorce in Bulgaria last
October. The divorce was granted un
der the Bulgarian laws by the pastor
of the Unitarian church at Doubnitsa.
Both the Bulgarian National Church
aud the Established Bulgarian Evan
gelical Church organizations are very
strict about divorce matters, and the
issuing of the divorce decree to Sena
tor Hollis caused indignation in the
church circles. The Rev. Toplisky, pas
tor of the Unitarian church was ar
rested.
The arrest of Pastor Toplisky re
vealed that his church had no charter
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from the government, but was an in
dependent church supported largely b>
funds obtained in America. It was
learned that the minister had compil
ed with the laws necessary before a
church in Bulgaria is empowered to
grant a divorce, by publishing in the
state journal a notice citing Mrs. Hol
lis to appear in Doubnitsa within a
fortnight of publication of the notice.
Obviously it would have been im
posible for Mrs. Hollis to have made
the journey from America in so short
a time. even if the notice ever had
come to her attention, which is doubt
ful. When she failed to appear the di
vorce decree was granted the former
senator, and he departed for Rome,
where he later re-married.
Although Senator Hollis obtained
his decree the Bulgarian authorities
were not satisfied with the procedure
that had been followed. An exhaustive
inquiry was undertaken and proceed
ings instituted before the Court of
Cassation, which deals with religious
affairs.
By a decree handed down by the
court, the Unitarian church at Doub
nitsa, which is the only one in Bul
garia, has been ordered permanently
closed. Pastor Toplisky through be
friending the former United States
senator has lost his job.
POLICE CHIEF TO MM
BUFFALO, June 28—Chief of Police
Claude Caswell, of Wilmington, N. C.
who is here attending the police chief
conference, will leave Friday for Los
Angeles to marry a girl he has never
seen.
His romance with Miss Lulu Moore
of Los Angeles, has extended over a
period of twenty years and has been
been conducted entirely by mail.
The local mill started sawing again
today after being held up for some
time on account of a lack of logs.
WRIGLEY DENIES HOLDS
INTEREST IN BALL CLOD
LOS ANGELES, June 28—William
Wrigley, Jr., owner of the Los Angeles
club of the Pacific Coast league, has
answered statements of William M.
McCarthy, president of the league that
Wrigley was financially interested in
the Seattle as well as the Los Angeles
club, in a telegram to his Los Angeles
attorney, James A. Gibson, Jr., in
which he stated he was not interest
ed in the Seattle club in any way and
that he was only a minority stock
holder in the Los Angeles club.
He denied there was syndicate
baseball in the Coast league and said
he was in baseball because of his love
for,the sport. It was the boys on the
field that dr’ew him to the game, he
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declared.
SEATTLE MAN'S ALIBI WAS |
TOO STRONG FOR JURY
SEATTLE, June 28.—Thomas Ca
niff, who was accused of first degree
murder is free today through an iron
clad alibi. Mrs. Jessie Wiley swore
he was the man who killed her hus
band when the Wiley's came home and
found a burglar in their house. Caniff
proved he was in his room at his ho
tel at the hour of the tragedy and a
jury acquitted him after deliberating
four hours. *
STOCKHOLDERS INVOLVED IN
LITIGATION TO RAISE MONEY
TO MEET OBLIGATIONS
SAN FRANCISCO, June 2S—Suits
involving the stockholders’ liability in
the insolvency of the Scandinavian
American Bank were filed in the Fed
eral court against Eric Lindblom, an
Alaskan millionaire, and W. H. Ma1
son, for $41,000 alleged to be due on
an assessment made by the Washing
ton State Bank supervisor to raise
funds to meet the bank’s obligations.
POPE BELIEVES RUHR MUST
BE EVACUATED TO HAVE PEACE
ROME, June 28.—The Pope issued
a communication today expressing the
view that only alter the evacuation of
the Ruhr can peace be reached.
1924 CONVENTION CITY
WALLA WALLA, June 28—Tacoma
was selected as the 1924 convention
city and Dr. F. A. Wilbur of that city
was chosen president by the Washing
ton State Dental association at its
short business session here today. Dr.
Robert Shanks of Spokane, Dr. Chap
man of Colfax and Dr. Eschleman of
Blaine were elected to the board of
trustees.
Most of the day was spent by the
visitors in sightseeing and golf, the
larger clinics and more important ad
dresses of the program having been
completed.
Dr. C. Warwick and wife of Seat
tle, are round trippers on the boat. j
Frank Fahey^ of the McNiel & Libby
packing company arrived on the Ad
miral Evans en route to Bristol bay.
TODAY’S FISH MARKET
SEATTLE, June 28.—Fresh halibut
14 cents.
SEWARD—Fresh halibut 8 and 5
cents.
CHICAGO ROBBERS ARE
NOT TREATED POLITEIT
CHICAGO, June 28—A burglar who
was caught by the leg by August M.
Schmellnus and held dangling from a
second story window drew his revol
ver and shot lose his captor’s hands,
crashing to the sidewalk unheart. He
ran away. Mrs. Anna Norton, 73, and a
grandmother of nine children, boxed
the ears of a’burglar whom she found
in her home last night and said af
terward her only regret was that she
didn’t have an opportunity to spank
him.
Miss Alice Priest of Oregon, is a
tourist arriving in Seward on the
Admiral Evans. She will either go
down the Yukon and out by way cf
Whitehorse or take the Richardson
road to Valdez.
L. B. Carter and wife, of Friday
Harbor, Wash., and son, L. M. Carter,
arrived on the Admiral Evans and are
guests of the Van Gilder. Mr. Carter
is k prominent real estate dealer and
merchant of Friday Haibox’, and with
his family is making a tour of Alaska
by way of the government railroad.
WILL DELIVER SPEECHES AT PO
CATELLO AND IDAHO FALLS
THIS AFTERNOON
BOISE, Idaho, June 28.—Presided
Harding arrived in Idaho, the home
state of Senator Borah, early this
morning and will remain here today.
He will speak at Pocatello and Idaho
Falls on his way to Seattle.
Harding Visits Zion Park
SALT LAKE, June 28.—President
Harding traveled into southwest Utah
yesterday to visit Zion Park, the first
of three national playgrounds he
plans to see during his trip.
PACIFIC HALIBUT TREATY
OTTAWA, June 28.—Approval of
the North Pacific halibut fisheries
treaty between Canada and the Uni
ted States governments was voted by
parliament this afternoon.
SEATTLE, June 28.—William Hun
ter MacEwan, one of the most promi
nent figures in labor and financial cir
cles of the Pacific Northwest, died of
heart disease at his home here today'.
BONAR LAW IS IMPROVED
LONDON, June 28.—Donar Law* has
so far improved under the treatment
he has been taking that he was able
to leave today for a hoalii resort
R. O. Scott is in charge of the An
chorage Times during the absence of
E. L. Bedell. The Times employes the
largest number of people of any daily
in Alaska, and the Gateway probably
the least, the latter paper having a
mechanical force of two to issue its
daily, collect the news and attend to
its job department.
Ill OHS FORCED TO
DESCEND AFTER 0 USUIS
SAN DIEGO, June 28—Due to the
generators of their motors having
burned out, Aviators Smith and Rich
ter were forced down at the end of
six hours. They left the ground yes
terday morning in an effort to stay in
the air four days and nights.
Mr. W. A. Hemrich, brother of the
well known canneryman at Kodiak,
was a thru passenger for the west
ward on the Evans.
EVANS HAS ENTERTAINERS
AS MEMBERS OF CREW
The steamship Admiral Evans car
ries a couple of good entertainers, ac
cording to passengers arriving on the
boat today. Freght Clerk Raymond
Fraser is a fine sleight of hand per
former and Steward R. J. Cox showed
moving pictures aboard on the trip
up. Passengers were profuse in then
praise of the attention showered on
them by the crew of the Evans.
J. P. Morgan, of the the Libby, Mc
Neill & Libby Packing company, ar
rived in Seward on the Evans.
Mrs. M. F. Hann, of Waco, Texas,
and Mrs. R. F. Michael, of St. Louis,
arrived on the Admiral Evans and
will remain in Seward for about a
week. The ladies are eminent phy
chologists and will lecture in Seward
before leaving.
E. Wentworth, of the Bureau of
Fisheries, was an outgoing passenger
for Afognak.