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VOLUME XIX. NUMBER 140.
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY. JUNE 14, 1924.
PRICE TEX CENTS
PERSONNEL ALASKA
ROAD COMMISSION
GIVEN OUT BY STEESE
STEESE TO DIRECT ENGINEERING
WORK—FIELD ORGANIZATION
IS COMPLETE
The organization of the Alaska Road
commission's engineering and field
forces to handle the increased activi
ties of the current season, during
which approximately one million dol
lars will be expended, has been per
fected and was made public recently
by Col. James G. Steese, president.
It is composed mainly of men who
have been connected with the Alaska
road construction for many years and
who are familiar with the conditions
which they will encounter.
Steese Heads Work
For the current season Col. Steese
will seive as President and Chief En
gineer and be in responsible charge
of all activities of the Commission.
Major Oliver will serve as Special In
spector; upon his return fiom visit
ing all districts about the middle of
the season, he will take over the du
ties of Chief Engineer. Later in the
Fall he will relieve Col. Steese of re
sponsible activities in Alaska while
the latter goes to Washington for
more money.
Captain Agney will conttuue as Sec
retary and Disbursing Officer and al
so as Superintendent of the South
eastern District. The Bethel Sub dis
trict and the Eagle Sub-district are al
so handled from the Juneau office. In
Southeastern Alaska, R. J. Shepard
is Assistant Superintendent of the
Haines system, with Joe McKenzie as
General Foreman. Pete Trierschield,
’.ustodian, Sitka National Monument
* D general foreman a: Sitka. Fred
Price is General Foreman at Eagle,
which includes Eagle-Seventy-Mile and
Eagle-Forty-Mile system as far as the
Taliana Crossing. Earle M. Forrest,
Superintendent, Bureau of Education
serves as Inspector of the Lower Kus
kokwim, which includes all of the win
ter trails south of Iditarod and as far
Erst as Nushagak.
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Ike P. Taylor, Assistant Engineer,
will have field supervision over the
Alaska Railroad-Richardson Highway
Loop, including the Anchorage, Nena
na, Fairbanks, Chitina, and Valdez dis
tricts, and the Chatanika sub district.
Hawley W .Sterling is superinten
dent of the Anchorage District, with
Anton Eide as Asst. Superintendent
at Seward, and G. J. Truitt, Junior
Engineer at McKinley Park. This dis
trict includes all projects tributary to
the Alaska railroad from Mile 348
south, alsoKodiak, Iliamna, Kanatak,
and other points on the Alaska pen
insula. Mr. Eide is also Chairman and
Secretary of the Territorial Road
Buommission for the Third Division.
H. G. Haslam is Superintendent of
the Nenana District, which includes all
projects tributary to the Alaska Rail
road from Mile 348, McKinley Park
Station, to Dunbar, Mile 432, also all
projects tributary to the Tanana and
Yu^on rivers between Nenana and
Holy Cross.
M. C. Edmunds is Superintendent of
the Fairbanks District, which includes
^he Chatanika Sub District. Mr. Ed
munds is also chairman and Secretary
of the Territorial Road Commission
of the Territorial Road Commission of
the Fourth Division. This district in
cludes the Richardson highway and its :
tributaries north of Rapids, all pro
jects tributary to Fairbanks and the
Chatanika branch of the Alaska Rail-:
road, and all projects tributary to the!
Yukon River between Eagle and Fort
Gibbon. Donald MacDonald is Assis-1
tant Superintendant; Abe McKinnon
is General Foreman of the Chatanika
Circle project.
Frank Shipp is Superintendent ofj
the Chitna District, which includes the
Richardson Highway and its tributar
ies between Ptarmigan Drop ,Mile 32,
and Rapids, Mile 233, and also the
Chitina-Willow Creek Cut-off to the
Copper River & Northwestern Rail
road.
T. Huddleson, is superintendent of
the Valdez District, with Antone An
derson, Jr. Engineer in local charge
of the Nizina River Road and Bridge
project. This District includes the Val
dez-Ptarmigan Drop section of the
Richardson highway and its tributar
ies and also roads and trails tributary
to the Copper River and Northwestern
Railroad north of Chitina.
Ross J- Kinney is Assistant Super
intendent in charge of the Kuskokwim
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FORMER GERMAN NAVAL
OFFICERS ARE FARMERS
KIEL, Germany, June 14—Former
German naval officers to the number
of 145 have become farmers. The
land apparently has had a stronger
call than might have been expected
in the case of seafaring men. Eight of
these officers became farmers in for
eign lands, and the remainder are in
the German Republic. They are said
to be happy.
There were 2,800 commissioned of
ficers in the German navy when the
war began. Of these 647 were killed
and 462 were retained in the navy
which consists now of only a slight j
coast defense. Consequently 1,691 of-!
ficers had to seek new vocations. One j
officer only got a foreign naval job; j
he became a commander in the Para
guayan navy.
U. S. VICE CONSUL
ADMITS TOOK BRIBE
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 14—
David C. Kerr, American vice-consul
at Vancouver, B. C., admitted he had
accepted money to influence his decis
ion in granting passports to barred
Chinese seeking admission into this
country, it was brought about in a
preliminary hearing before a United
States commission here Saturday.
A written confession by Kerr to the
Consul General, that he was hard-up
for funds and had accepted bribes in
some cases, was introduced in evi
dence.
J. Fred Ganders, who said he was
a notary public, but who, evidence ;
showed, was acting in the capacity of
a labor agent, testified that he gave
Kerr $50 at a secret meeting in a
V ancouver Chinese Cafe to get Kerr
to issue passports to Chinn Jan Yuen,
who was inadmissable.
Kerr was released on $5,000 bond
pending a grand jury investigation of
his case. He was arrested Thursday on
charges of bribery and malfeasance
in office, preferred by Consul General
Norton.
FOREST SERVICE ROAD
FUND IS INCREASED
The annual supply bill covering all
Federal Highway construction for the
fiscal year 1925, has been approved by
the President and carries $4,000,000 in
appropriations and an additional au
thoriation for $6,000,000, according to
Forester C. H. Flory of Juneau. This
is somewhat larger than had been ex
pected and will add a few thousands
to both appropriations and authoriza
tions for the Forest Road Funds in
Alaska, it was said.
The allotment, it is estimated, to Al
aska, out of the new appropriation
will be $128,753. Under the additional
amount for authorizations, Alaska will
probably be allowed approximately
$231,756.
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WILL BE AT KODIAK
From all information received, the
New England Fish company not only
plans the installation of a cold storage
plant at Kodiak, for the halibut indus
try, but will likewise install a herring
saitery, a mild cure plant and a smok
ery for curing fish, as well as an up
to-date salmon cannery, say a recent
issue of the Alaskan.
The company has already secured
from tilt U. S. Bureau of fisneiies,
permits for the various phases of the
fishing industry, with the exception
of the salmon cannery.
G. Benner ; ,u prominent engineer,
connected with the New England Fish
Company, who spent considerable time
in Ko.i.ak recently, has made his re- j
port 4o the general manager of the big
concern, A. L. Hager, and has drawn
up pieliminary sketches of what he
thinks should serve the company’s pur
pose.
The probable site for the cold stor
age plant has already been sur/eyea,
and is )00 feet by <?00 feet. It is to
ported that it will be the largest P'-i-t
on this coa.^t, costing around one and
one-half m.llion utdlers.
These various o'-mts, modern it;
every way, will make Kodiak one of
the big fishing centers of Alaska.
The Road Commission shipped a
large quantity of lumber to Kanatak
on one of the last boats.
Mrs. Short, teacher of the business
course in the Seward schools will leave
on the Yukon for Seattle, to spend her
vacation;
SISLER IS BACK
lev, first baseman-manager of the St Louis Browns, on the latter’s return
to baseball after a layoff due to bad eyes. Sisler celebrated by leading his
men in a victory over the Yankees at the Stadium to the tune of 11-1. In
cidentally it was Babe Ruth day, the Bambino being presented with a dip
loma telling him he was the most va1 uable ballplayer to his team for 1923
SPECIAL EDITION OF
GATEWAY FEATURE
WESTWARD CAMPS
The special edition for the westward
district planned by the Gateway for
Seldovia, Kodiak, Kanatak, Unga, and
Unalaska, to be printed following the
Chamber excursion to the westward ,is
meeting with considerable success Al
ready we have secured promise of sev
eral pages of advertising from west
ward towns, and have arranged for
copious illustrations. The camps have
never been written (up in a fitting
manner and the publicity accruing will
undoubtedly be beneficial to the dis-1
trict. Fur farming, sheep raising, min
ing and fishing will be treated by spec
ial correspondents, and the issue of
fiev thousand copied has already been
sold.
Local merchants desiring to take ad
vantage of this offer should see J. P,.
Hannon, local advertising manager for
space and rates. It will be one of the
biggest things ever pulled off in Sew
ard.
Thru the courtesy of Mr. J. W. Ers
kine of Kodiak, the Gateway ha* < se
cured his splendid half page cut of the
town, and this with other cuts will
make a fine showing for the camp.
Kodiak is destined, with Seldovia, to
be a big camp in the near future, ow
ing to location and environment.
Get in and help our friends to the
westward put their advertising cam
paign across.
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ANlHUKAbt MAN WILL
MAKE FLIGHTS WITH
HAMMONTREE PLANE
A1 Jones, Anchorage grocer and
summer resorter, has purchased the
Hammontree seaplane, which was
brought to Anchorage a couple of
years ago, and will use the machine
for commercial flying, according to
the Alaskan which features the news.
The new owner of the plane expects
to be ready for a hop-off by June 25.
Jones will be assisted in his flight
preparations by Charles Wannacatt, a
Canadian ex-service man, who flew
with the Canadian forces in France.
Jones has also had a lot of experience
in the air, having been engaged in
commercial flying before coming to
Alaska.
ALASKA ROAD COMMISSION
HORSES LOST AT NENANA
Joe Ulmer, grand pioneer and all
around good scout, is playing in very
hard luck. Joe, who is foreman of the
Alaska Railroad, made a trip to Sew
ard recently to get a team of horses
for the Commission to be delivered at
Tacotna for road work in that district.
While at Nenana about ten days ago
the horses broke away and still are
among the missing. Joe, it is said, has
S' oured the scenery for miles around
without avail and is now painting the
atmosphere blue.
SEWARD LADIES START
ON HIKE TO ANCHORAGE
Mrs. Chas. Lechner, Mrs. W. Meyer,
and Miss Patsy Ray, left yesterday on
a hundred mile hike to Anchorage.
The ladies will take their time and ex
pect to complete the century in about
a week.
L. V. Ray is building an addition to
his ranch house at Mile Four.
COMMITTEE SAYS GEO.
SEXTON BE SEATED;
LEAVE FOR WASHINGTON
CLEVELAND, June 14—Alaska’s
contest for national committeeman
was heard today before the committee
of a whole. Sutherland appeared and
fought ti seat John Frame. Sexton de
fended his appointment as he submit
td a volumnious report witll copies of
letters and telegrams.
The matter was referred to the ex
ecutive committee with power to act
upon his request. Consensus of opinion
of the Committeemen is that Sexton
will be seated. Sexton will le'ive for
Washington Monday morning.
BIG RUN KING SALMON ..
.. NOW ON TO WESTWARD
((Anchorage Alaskan)
J. A. ^lagill, who arrived in Anchor
age Monday on the gas boat Magna,
returned last night on the Sea Lion
to south of Beluga river, where he has
a mild curing king salmon plant. He
says there is a big run of king salmon
on at present, and it looks like a good
season. He has twenty-one men work
ing at the plant.
He said the Northwestern Fisheries
and Libby companies, who are operat
ing canneries at Kenai, are getting
their traps all set and are nearing
completion. They expect to get their
pack limit of 30,000 cases each this
summer.
The Fidalgo Island Packing com- j
pany, operating at Port Graham, are '
busy getting in their traps. The can
nery crews are preparing for the red
salmon run in July.
The All-Year-Round Cannery at
Seldovia already has one of its traps
fishing at Humpy point and has start
ed on its pack.
The Arctic Packing Company, oper
ating at Ninilchick, under the man-:
agement of Knute Armstrong, has al
ready packed 500 cases of kings, which
were shipped on the last Redondo.
WOMEN POLICE TO GUARD
NEW YORK FROM MASHERS
NEW YORK, une 14—One of the
many problems New York’s police.
force will face during the democratic!
convention will be to rid the city of
•haracters known in police vernacular j
as “crashers,” and “mashers.” This !
task has been assigned to Captain M. j
Hamilton, director of the feminine blue
coats. A crasher is a person .male or
female, who craves excitement, com
pany and entertainment, and not hav
ing the funds or connections necessary
for a legitimate satisfaction of the
craving becames addicted to polite
“sponging.”
The chronic crasher or masher, ac
cording to Captain Hamilton, are al
ways seen at large public functions,
political demonstrations, banquets, and ;
art exhibits, etc. They dress well.
Their manners are irreproachable. The
crashers are to all appearances, the
acme of culture and refinment. In fact
they sometimes outshine the company j
they keep in those respects. Captain
Hamilton knows dozens of them.
Strangely enough, the crashers are
mostly women. But that other bane of
the metropolic, the masher, is usually
a male, as Captain Hamilton testifies
and as police court records bear ample
witness. “Sometimes we call them
crashers, she explained. “We also know
themhowever, as chow-chasers, or out
siders, or bean-pickers.”
SO. 10, DOWNING STREET
IN DANGER OF COLLAPSE
LONDON, June 14—Number Ten
downing Street, world-famous as the
listoric residence of British Prime
Ministers, since the days of Pitt, is in
langer of collapsing due to old age,
iccording to experts who recently ex
imined the building. For some time
last the famous dining room has had
o be shored up whenever a large din
ler party has been held. Now the
vhole of the lower portion of the build
ng is to be reconstructed and rein
forced as soon as possible.
SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA
AFFECTED BY NEW
GAME REGULATIONS
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WASHINGTON, D. C., June 14—
The Department of Agriculture pro
mulgated new fur and game regula
tions for Alaska effective July first,
which prohibits and land fur bearing
animal- except wolves being taken in
the drainage of the Taku 'river, be
tween the Canadian boundary and a
line running from Taku point to the
east end face of Taku glacier.
Kruzoff and part of Shikoff islands
are made reserves for two years. The
protection of deer west of longitude !
Ill degrees and of mountain goats on
Barancff and Chichagoff islands is con
tinued until July 1926.
GASTON DOUMERQUE IS
NEW PRESIDENT FRANCE
VERSAILLES, June 14—Gaston
Doumerque, presiding over the Sen
ate, was today elected president of
France by the national assembly here.
TAKE IN THE EXCURSION
TO FAIRBANKS JUNE 19
Seward has been allotted 25 tickets
for the Midnight Sun Festival excur
sion to Fairbanks, and so far but two
tickets have been sold. General Man
ager Landis of the railroad has work
ed hard to make the affair a success
and should meet with more encourage
ment than is apparent up to the pres
ent. It is true that every-one in Sew
ard is unusually busy at this time, ow
ing to the building boom; the run of
fish and other things, but 25 persons
who have never been to the interior
could have a mighty good time by join
ing this excursion. The fare is so
cheap it is a mere trifle, $28 for the
round trip, one fare in fact, and the
opportunity may never come again.
Anchorage has taken 75 tickets. Let’s
get in and take up our quota.
SPEEDER HITS DEER
ENGINEER IS KILLED
ABBOTSFORD, B. C., June 14—
Joseph L. Leaper, of Vancouver, was
killed Saturday, it was learned today,
when a gasoline speeder hit a deer as
it ran onto the Great Northern Rail
way track near here. Of five men on
the speeder with Leaper, Gordon Bell
rose was badly hurt. The animal was
killed.
ADDITIONAL LOCAL
P. O. Sundberg, Anchorage grocer,
is reported to have died last night.
The crew of the Hemrick Packing
Company arrived on the Redondo from
Kukak bay en route to Seattle. The
crew went on strike on account of a
cut in wages.
Wm. Kaiser, big-game hunter arriv
ed from the Westward on the Redon
do.
A seven passenger Buick will arrive
on the Yukon for H. E. Ellsworth.
George Cotter arrived in town last
night from a trip out the line, where
he has been collecting school taxes.
On the last trip of the Jacobs a na
tive woman, 106 years old, who is blind
and deaf, was taken from Kokrines
to Ruby, where she will be taken care
of by her granddaughter.
A freight train is due in late to
night from the north, and will meet
the Yukon.
YUKON DUE IN MORNING
The steamer Yukon is due in port
tomorrow morning at eight o’clock,
and will sail late Sunday night or
Monday morning.
tiETHOD BY WHICH
TAXPAYERS WILL
CALCULATE PAYMENT
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 14
Treasury officials toady explained the
method by which taxpayers would cal
culate their next payments on June 15,
which are due tomorrow.
Instead of permitting the taxpayer
to take a 2o per cent reduction on his
1923 taxes in a lump by omitting the
June installment ,the new plan pro
vides for a scheme which will not
make a hole in treasury receipts at
this time. The method is as follows.
The taxpayer has the option of pay
ing his taxes in full, and if he did on
March xh he will receive a credit of
one-fourth. If he pays his taxes in
quarterly installments, he will be al
lowed on his June 15 paymen t credit
of one-fourth for that payment and
one-fourth for the payment he has
made in March. In ether words, the
one-fourth reduction of 1923 taxes will
be allowed in four equal parts, but in
view o fthe fact that the March pay
ment is past, the taxpayer will get a
credit of two-fourths of his installment
in June .Thus a taxpayer who had a
tax bill of $1,000 to pay and who paid
$300 on March 15 last would ordinar
ily have to pay another $300 on June
15, but instead he will be permitted
to deduct $75 for the payment he made
in March and $75 for the credit which
he is allowed in June or $150 so that
he will actually pay only $150 in June.
When the September payment comes
he will deduct only $75 from his $300
bill, so that the net payment will be
$225. On December 15 he will deduct
the remaining $75. In this way the
government permits the taxpayer to
take the full one fourth reduction in
four equal parts and the revenues com
ing into the treasury are not serious
ly disturbed. The whole thing may be
reduced to a formula by taking one
half cf what was paid in March and
subtracting it from what would ordi
narily be pain in June.
FAIRBANKS EXTENDS
INVITATION SEWARD
TO VISIT THEIR CITY
The following wire was received by
Mayor L. V. Ray recently from the
mayor of Fairbanks inviting the Sew
ard people to attend their “Midnite
Sun Carnival:
L .V. Ray, Mayor of Seward.
“It would afford the people of Fair
banks great pleasure to have you with
us on June 21, 1924. I am therefore
in their behalf, extending to you and
the city council and through you to
the people of Seward, a most coi’dial
invitation to visit Fairbanks upon that
occasion, the celebration of the “Mid
night Sun.”
While located at opposite termini of
the Alaska Railroad, the interests of
the two communities are so identified
that a better acquaintance and a bet
ter recognition of these common in
terests would undoubtedly be of mu
1 tual benefit. V'o hope you will come.
T. A. MARQUAM, Mayor.”
Tickets are on sale now for this
excursion, and can be obtained from
the Bank of Seward. The offer made
Seward Citizens, of a lo wrate and a
special train service to Fairbanks for
this celebration is based upon a sale of
twenty-five or more tickets, Persons
desiring to make this trip ase re
quested to make their reservations im
mediately. This will enable the Rail
road to plan a car for Seward, and al
low the business men to decorate it for
the trip.
REDONDO IN WITH
NUMBER PASSENGERS
The Alaska Steamship Company’s
vessel plying from Seward to the
westward, arrived in port last night.
She brought in quite a number of pas
sengers and some freight:
Those arriving on the Redondo are
C. R. Cameron, for Ketchikan; W. E.
Wade for Ketchikan; C. B. Maggard,
Mrs. Maggard, Lucy Maggard, Grace
Maggard, Mr. and Mrs. C. Maggard,
Floyd and Clifford Maggard, Clifford
McGuire, P. Gregory, W. E. Coons, L.
Coons, Fay Wade, Geo. McKay, P. O.
Beaulien and Wm. Kaiser.
A. H. Young, Mr. Kelly and A1
Blair will return today from Day’s
Harbor on the launch May, Capt. Ems
wiler. While on their way to the har
bor some fine pictures of sea lions
were taken, the mammals coming up
all around the boat.