MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS.
VOLUME 20.
NUMBER 313
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1925
PRICE TEN CENTS
QUEEN ALEXANDRA
WIDOW LATE KING
EDWARD VII DEAD
BORN IN COPENHAGEN IN 1844, ,
WAS GIRL OF RARE CHARM ,
AND SIMPLE TASTES
SANDRINGHAM, Eng., Nov. 20 (/P).
Queen Alexandra died here yesterday
following a heart attack.
Alexandra, widow of the late King
Edward YII of England, upon the
death of her husband in 1910, be
came the Queen Mother, a title which
had been in disuse since the days
of Henrietta Marla, the consort of
Charles I.
The eldest daughter of King Chris
tian IX of Denmark, Alexandra was
married to Albert Edward, then
Prince of Wales, on March 10, 1863,
and for 38 years, during the reign of
Queen Victoria, although somewhat
in the background was greatly belov
ed by her adopted people. Born in
Copenhagen, December 1, 1S84, she
went to England as the bride of
the future king the same year her
father was crowned the ruler of Den
mark. She was then iy, a gin or
rare charm and beauty and, by rea
son of the frugality of her own fam
ily, of simple and underextraragar.t
tastes. Upon the death of Queen
Victoria, in 1901, when her husband
ascended the throne, Alexandra be
came Queen and reigned with him
for nine years.
Alexandra adopted the title of the
Queen Mother in 1910 when George
V. her son, and the Princess Mary
were crowned upon the passing of
Kd-vvard VII. For years, as Princess
of Wales, her name had been asso
ciated with most of the great pub
lic benevolences and charities of
England. On June 25, “Alexandra
Day,” each year thousands of pounds
•were contributed by Britons the
■world over for hospitals and other
similar institutions in honor of their
loyal patroness.
Although more than 75 years old at
the time of her death, the Queen
Mother never lost interest in her
many philanthopies. During the Worl4
War she served as head of the Brit
ish Red Cross, the Queen Alexandra
Imperial Military Nursing Service, the
Royal Indian Nursling Service, the
Territorial Force Nursing Service and
the Royal Naval Nursing Service. The
AltJAauuici ritriu ruiuc uuu, ui n uii/u
she was the head, kept British sol
diers supplied with comforts and
delicacies thruout the four years’
struggle. From 1914 to 1918 she
had visited every hospital in London
including the famous home fox blind
ed soldiers at St. Dunstan’s. She
also was interested in infant welfare
work. When a new nurses’ home was
named in her honor in London she
requested that it be not called the
“Alexandra” home but the “Edith
Cavell” home in memory of the
martyred British nurse.
Queen Alexandra was related by
blood or marriage to many European
royal families. She was a sister of
King George of Greece, who was
assassinated in 1913, of King Fred
erick VIII of Denmark and of the
former Dowager Empress Marie Dag
mar of Russia. The Emperor Nicho
las II, of Russia, who with his family
was killed by the Bolsheviki, was
her nephew, as was also the former
Emperor William of Germany and
King Haakon VII of Norway. An
other nephew, by marriage, is King
Alfonso XIII of Spain, husband of
the former British Princess Ena of
Battenberg, the daughter of King
Edward’s sister Beatrice. Queen Al
exandra’s younger sister, Dagmar,
was married to Alexander III of Rus
sia three years after her own be
trothal to the then Prince of Wales.
The Queen Mother, after the defrth
of King Edward, made her home at
STANDARD OIL COMPANY TO
MAKE ANOTHER DIVIDEND
NEW YORK, Nov. 20 (£>)—'The
Standard Oil Company oi New Jersey
is planning to cut another melon, a
meeting having been called for the
purpose of increasing the capital
stock from 235,000,000 to 375,000,000
dollars and part of the stock will be
given to shareholders as a dividend
amounting to about 40 per cent.
STATE OFFICER
UNDER PROBE
DIRECTOR OF CONSERVATION DE
VELOPMENT HAS CHARGES
FILED AGAINST HIM
OLYMPIA, Nov. 19 (£>)—Director of
Conservation Development Erie R.
Barnes defended the policies of his
department in an open hearing of
the house. A letter written by Evan
Goodner, a dismissed reclamation en
gineer to a pipe manufacturer, charg
ing the former head of the depart
ment with mismanagement, was read
into the record.
WESTWARD RIJN,
BACK IN 2 WEEKS
MUCH CARGO AND MAIL FOR
WESTWARD—Wim MAKE
CONNECTION, ALASKA
A small listing of passengers but
a large cago of geneal feight, some
210 tons and 25 tons of mail matter,
left on the steamer Starr today for
Westward points.
Captain O. A. Johansen announc
ed the vessel would return to Sew
ard in about two weeks or fifteen
days and will make connections with
the steamer Alaska at this port,
which vessel sails from Seattle No
vember 28.
Before leaving port today the
Starr took the barge Lawrence over
to the San Juan plant, where it will
remain until the Starr returns from
the Westward. Oil was taken on at
the Standard Oil plant.
Westward bound reservations on
the Starr were as follows:
Seldovia—Dr. C. A. Pollard, John
Dudust, D. R. Price.
ivoaiaK—L/ioi c/pneim, xv. r.. ivxcjviu
ben.
Unalaska-—Frederick T. Hooney, R.
J. Scott and William Moran.
Uyak—I. T. Harstad.
Sanak—Alex Pritchard, Marie Kus
uv, Andy Kuso.
Unga—E. Torgensen, P. Harrison.
Sand Point—G. Carlson.
New U. S. Commissioner
En Route To Kodiak
Dr. R. E. McKibben, who arrived
in port yesterday from Seattle on
the steamer Starr, who has been un
til recently located at Juneau. It is
stated he will be appointed U. S. com
missioner at Kodiak. Dr. McKibben
left for Kodiak on the Starr today.
Subscribe for the Seward Gateway.
Marlborough House, where she pass
ed more than 30 years of her mar
ried life. She also had a country
residence at Sandringham and a vil
la on Klampenborg Bay, seven miles
from Copenhagen where, annually in
August before the war, she held hap
py reunions with her Danish kin
folk. Despite her age, she retained
traces of her early beauty and on
one occasion late in life when in
the presence of Adelina Pattli, friends
declared they, were “the. youngest
looking old women in England.”
NEW YORK MEN
WILL DEVELOP
ATUN PROPERTY
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PROVIDED FOR GROUP
OWNED BY KIRKLAND
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VICTORIA, B. C., Nov. 20 (£>)— i
Tommy Kirkland, an Alaskan pioneer
who owned the Kirkland gold mine
for 25 years, has signed an agree
ment with Major A. R. Ross of New
York for a group of New York bank
ers to put from a million to a million
and a half into the property. Ross
said the transaction made Kirkland
practically a millionaire.
SAYS HUSBAND KNEW THAT
SHE WAS OF NEGRO BLOOD
NEW YORK, Nov. 18 (/P)—Alice |
Jones Rhinelander, who took the
stand in the White Plains courthouse
to combat the annulment suit of her
aristocratic husband, she will furnish
proof of her contention that Leonard
Kip Rhinelander must have known
before he married her that she has
negro blood in her veins. She bared !
her shoulders and back to the jury
to show the dark tinge of her skin, i
and to demonstrate that Rhinelander
must have known that she was not
of pure Caucasian origin.
HAYTIEN STEAMER
LOST WITH 200
MEN ON BOARD
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NAVAL PLANES AND DESTROYER
SEARCHING FOR SURVIVORS
WHO ARE ADRIFT
HAVANA, Nov. 19 (£>)—1The Hay
tien steamer Villes des Cayes sank
Monday en route to Santiago de Cuba,
with 200 laborers aboard. An engi-1
neer and two seamen were picked up
by a British steamer. Ten naval j
planes from the American base at |
Guantanamo and several torpedo boat
destroyers are searching for the sur
vivors, who are adrift in open boats.
A dangerously high seas is running
in the Carribean today.
Condition Alvah Eames
Same—May Come Here
The condition of Alvah Eames, pos
tal inspector and Seward resident,
who was taken seriously ill last Fri-1
day while making an official trip to
Latouche, remains about the same,
according to a message received by
The Gateway today. It is quite pos
sible, it was stated, that Mr. Eames
would be brought to Seward on the
steamer Yukon, which vessel is due
to arrive here in the early morning.
LIBERTY BELL BE
RUNG FOR FIRST
TIME FOR RADIO
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 20 (£>)—
Mayor Kendrick announced today that
plans have been perfected to have
the Liberty Bell ring for the first time
over radio from Independence Hall,
to usher in the New Year of 1926.
He will ring the bell with a rubber
hammer, selected after a series of
tests.
The freighter Latouche is expect
ed to arrive in /port from the south
the first of next week, according
to the local report
WOULD BUY CLUB FOR JOHNSON)
MUSKOGEE, Nov. 20 (^>)—Walter I
Johnson of the Washington Senators
last night sent a telegram to the ini
tiators of the campaign to buy him a
baseball club saying, “I have given
more than half of my life to1 the game
and I love baseball. Nothing would
make me happier than to be the own
er of a club.”
SAYS DAWES LET
CAT OUT THE BAG|
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FILIBUSTER SAID TO HAVE DE
FEATED LEASE OF MUSCLE
SHOALS TO FORD
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 20 (£>)— !
The American Federation of Labor ;
Weekly News Service said today, ‘‘in j
favoring gag senate debate, General;
| Dawes ‘let the cat out of the bag.’ i
At New York last week he said that
a filibuster defeated the Muscle Shoals
bill, and in diplomatic terms assured
a select audience that if the bill i
could be jammed through the Senate
as in the House, one of the country’s
| greatest waterpower projects would |
be in control of private exploiters.”
OKLAHOMA STARTED
OIL HISTORY WITH
30 BARRELS YEARLY
TULSA, Okla., Nov. 20. (/P)—Where
years ago the North American In
dian roamed the hills of eastern Ok
lahoma and the broad prairies of
the western section, ail wells now i
appear, bringing to the surface the,
; “black gold” for which eastern Ok-j
j lahoma is famous.
The first well in Oklahoma was,
drilled in 18S4 by Michael Cudahy of!
Omaha, Neb. When the well was at,
a depth of 1,120 feet, an oil said was j
penetrated and there was a small j
! showing, but not in paying quantity, j
; The drillers wrere instructed to drill I
; deeper but at 1,800 feet, with no fur- j
| ther trace of oil, the well wras aban
j doned.
The showing of oil led many pros- j
peetos to Oklahoma altho as latej
as 1891 only 30 barrels of oil was;
produced. But there was consider-1
able drilling.
Production continued to slump the
next two years, only 10 barrels of oil
Uclil-g JJIUUUUtrU ill CLIL KJL vn-iauumu,
territory in 1893, but it increased j
to 6,474 barrels in 1900.
A well sunk just outside of the j
city of Red Fork in 1901, proved to J
be one of the largest produucers, and
caused many “wildcat” wells to be
put down. The big oil play start
ed in 1904, however, when the Glenn
pool w’as uncovered.
From a small Indian trading post,
Tulsa became a city of 7,000 in a
year. Oil offices were brought to the
city, hundreds of personss became
wealthy from oil and built fine homes,
stores, factories and all types of bus
iness establishments sprung up. Tul
sa today is a city of 125,000 people
in a state producing 460,000 bar
rels of oil daily with indications it
will go higher.
The year the Glenn pool was dis-*
covered, production was recorded at
1,300,000 barrels for the year, but the!
search for oil did not end there. It
was found in the northern, central j
and southern portions of the state, j
The northern miscellaneous fields j
have proved to be the heaviest pro-;
ducers. The southern and northern
fields come next. The Garber field,
in north central Oklahoma, is the
most promising, in the opinion of
oil men, as there are 15 sands, which
virtually assures the driller a pro
ducer at some depth.
Wells range from 1,000 feet to 4,
400 feet in depth. A few wells are
now drilling with a view to going
below 5,000 feet.
COOLIDGE URGES
WORLD COURT
UPON HEARERS
SAYS WE MUST MEET OUR PER
ILS AND ENTER OUR DAN
GERS UNAFRAID
NEW YORK, Nov. 19 (/P)—Citing
George Washington as a leader who
[lid not hesitate to meet peril, en
counter danger and make sacrifices,
President Coolidge appealed for sup
port of a world court. He said: “We
must meet our perils and must en
ter our danger and make our sacri
fices, or history will recount the works
of Washington as failures. ”
After a banquet Coolidge boarded a
train for Washington.
Major James Coupal, the WTiite
House physician, left for Plymouth
to urge Col. Coolidge to come to the
W7hite House as soon as possible to
spend the winter under his care.
FRAME WAS FIRED
AS COMMISSIONER
BY JUDGE REED
REASONS FOR OPPOSITION TO
FIRST DIVISION JUDGE ARE
TOLD BY MORRISEY
SEATTLE, Nov. 20 (/P)—Edward
Morrisey, publisher of the Ketchikan
Chronicle, who is now in Seattle on
a business trip, said today that John
W. Frame opposed the reappointment
of Judge Thomas B. Reed, because
Reed forced Frame to resign as U.
S. Commissioner at Hyder. Judge
Reed is a brother to Mark Reed, of
Shelton, legislator and former speak
er of the House.
FOLEY CLEARED
BY NAVY BOARD
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 20 (£>)
The Naval Court of Inquiry exoner
ated Lieut. Foley on the charge of at
tempting to influence Mrs. Lansdowne
in her testimony before the board
of inquiry.
SEWARD WOMAN'S
CLUB MEETING
The Seward Woman’s club met
at the home of Mrs. Elwyn Swet
mann yesterday afternoon at its
regular business meeting, which was
followed by a short Thanksgiving
program. This consisted of appropri
ate talks and readings on the orig
in and custom of Thanksgiving, and
terminated in an exchange of prac
tical hints on how to prepare some
of the cusitomery Thanksgiving dish
es.
It has been decided by the club,
wing to the many other affairs sche
duled during Thanksgiving week to
postpone the card party from No
vember 27 to December 8.
Cal M. Brosius Gets
Big Shipment Lumber
Six thousand railroad ties and
20,000 feet of lumber was brought
over yesterday on the big barge Law
rence from the Anderson camp on
Knight’s Island, in tow of the steam
er Starr. The lumber was consigned
to Cal M. Brosius, local building ma
terial and lumber dealer. The ties
are being unloaded directly onto flat
cars. The barge will be towed back
to the island following the return of
the Starr from the westward.