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VOLUME XX. NUMBER 152.
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 26,1925
PRICE TEN CENTS.
SACRAMENTO IS
SWELTERING IN
111 DEGREE HEAT
SACRAMENTO. Calif.. June 26 (/P).
Records of the weather bureau cov
ering 47 years previous were broken
•yesterday and today by a heat wave
of unusual temperatures. The mer
cury registered 111.2 degrees above
:ero. The previous high temperature
ras 110 in July, 1905.
RETURNS TO WIFE
PARIS—John A. Haartford, presi
dent of the Atlantic & Pacific Tea
Company was married here today to
Pauline A. Hartford, his former wife,
tvho divorced him five years ago. Mr.
Hartford and a second wife were di
vorced some time ago.
ONEK PROPERTY WORKED
It is reported that Wm. Hargraves,
engineer for the Treadwell Yukon
Company may resiggn and operate the
Onek property with Billy Williamson
on a lease. It is also reported that
the Onek people will not send an en
gineer to Keno this year.
CAMPBELL CASE
DISMISSED BY
TACOMA Jr H
TACOMA, Wu„ June 26 (JF)—
C&minal prosecution of Fremont
Campbell, senior former judge, and
secretary-treasurer for the Pinta Bay
Mining Company on a charge of em
bezzling $6,752 from the company,
came to an abrupt end today by the
dismissal of the charge on motion of
the state following the refusal of the
trial judge to admit the auditor’s re
port on which the prosecution based
its charges.
SENATOR DILL
ARRIVE TONIGHT
Senator C. C. Dill, Democrat, of
Spokane, Washington, who is making
a tour of the Territory, will arrive in
Seward tonight, leaving on the United
States coast guard cutter Haida for
the Pribilof islands and the westward.
Senator Dill will return within about
two weeks going over the Alaska rail
road to Fairbanks, thence out over
the Richardson road to Cordova.
Senator Dill is a former member
of the press, having worked as a cub
reporter on the Cleveland Press and
later on the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
He taught school for a time before
graduating from the Ohio Wesleyan
University in 1907. He also taught
school in Dubuque, Iowa, and two
years in the Spokane High School.
He was admitted to the bar in the
State of Washington, in 1910, and was
prosecuting attorney for Spokane
county in 1911 to 1913, and later act
ed as private secretary to Governor
Ernest Lister.
He was elected to the House of
Representatives in 1914, reelected in
9116, and was defeated in 1918. He
practiced law in Spokane and was a
delegate to the Democratic national
convention at San Francisco in 1920.
Mr. Dill was elected to the United
States Senate in 1922, receiving the
highest vote of any man elected from
his district.
Senator Dill is a warm friend of
Alaska and while here will be given
every opportunity possible to see what
is needed to develop the Territory.
He is a young man of great energy
and ability and can do Alaska more
good than any senator yet visiting the
Territory.
EDITOR OF CANADIAN
I PUBLICATION IS LIBERATED
TORONTO. June 26 (£>)—David R.
Campbell, former editor of “Jack Ca
nuck,” in jail here on a deportation
charge, was liberated today. The Ot
tawa authorities granted him a stay
of six months unless he again be
comes a public charge.
CANADIAN CONSTABLE TEARS
U. S. FLAG FROM AUTOMOBILE
TORONTO, June 26 (JP)—An over
zealous constable last week tore a
United States flag from the auto of
H. Rider, of Cleveland, thereby pre
cipitating a riot. The constable said
he asked the auto party why they did
not fly the Canadian flag alongside
the American flag, and their reply
so incensed him that he tore the flag
down. Headquarters smoothed the
incident over by a promise of investi
gating the incident.
BELIEVE JAPAN
PREPARING TO
FIGHT CHINA
LONDON, June 26 (£>)—A Bombay
dispatch says that the belief prevails
there that Japan is preparing for war
on China. The Japanese government
has been buying cotton heavily and is
reported to be making large pur
chases of manganese from the United
States, which is used in the manufac
ture of munitions.
ANCHORAGE WOMAN DIES
Mrs. Lettie Bryan Spicer, mother
of Mrs. J. N. McCain and Mrs. Walter
Brewington, passed away at Anchor
age this week. Funeral services were
conducted by the Christian Science
society. She had been living in An
! chorage about a year.
PASSENGERS GO OVER TRAIL
Bob Sheldon of Fairbanks reports
j 30 passengers are bound for Fair
i banks starting from Valdez over the
' Richardson road.
I MANY REGISTER AT MUSEUM
Four hundred and thirty-nine visi
! tors have registered at the Territo
rial museum at Juneau from June 1
to date.
SCHOOL TEACHER LIKES
WORK IN TERRITORY
Miss Bertha E. Bartlett, teacher
from the Unalaska school, way out
in the far Aleutians, who arrived in
Seward two days ago on the steam
er Starr, will be a Southbound pas
senger on the steamer Yukon, en
route to her home in Ypslilante, Mich
Miss Bartlett has been teaching at
the Far Western school for the last
year and enjoyed her work very
much. She looks forward with much
anxiety to the time when she will
return to the Territory, and again
take up her educational work for the
Bureau of Education.
CUTTER HAIDA IN
PORT AWAITING
ARRIVAL SEN. DILL
The cutter Haida arrived in Seward
this morning from Cordova to await
the arrival of Senator C. C. Dill, a
passenger on the steamship Yukon,
which will arrive early tomorrow.
The Haida is stationed with the Pa
cific patrol with summer headquar
ters at Unalaska. The trip to Cor
dova was made for the purpose of
conveying Lieutenant Commander W.
J. Scammell, executive officer,, who
was seriously ill with hernia and ma
larial fever to the Cordova hospital
for medical attention. The cutter has
been placed at the disposal of the
Senator who will make a trip to the
far westward.
scon C BONE
TALKS ON ALASKA
TRADEBANQUET
SEATTLE. June 26 (/P)— Former
Governor Scott C. Bone at a dinner
last night given in honor of foreign
trade delegates said: “Alaska needs
more than anything else one govern
; ment headed by a man of the Hoover
| type rather than a government ad
| ministered by a multiplicity of de
1 partments. The next in importance
for Alaska is outside capital to de
velop its resources.”
Four Marathon Runners
File for Mountain Race
Marathon contestants tiling today
with the sports committee of the
Fourth of July celebration who will
; be a few of the anticipated athletes
' w'ho will race up the side of old
Marathon mountain were j. Eekman,
Ed Vogl, Sidney Henderson and Alex
Bolam. The physical examination was
taken by the runners and all were
pronounced physically fit by Pr. J. A.
Baughman.
HENDERSONS GO TO STATES
Mr. and Mrs. Lester D. Henderson
left recently for the States to spend
the next two months. Mr. Hender
son, who is commissioner of educa
tion for Alaska, will be in the East
during this period while Mrs. Hen
derson will visit at Hollywood.
BIG LANDSLIDE
JACKSON’S HOLE
DAMS UP RIVER
JACKSON, Wyo„ June 26 (JP)—A
gigantic landslide Tuesday perma
nently changed the geography of the
j region known as Jackson’s Hole, a
! former refuge for outlaws and rust
lers in the old days of free range.
Forest officials said that the Gros
j Ventre Valley above the dam formed
by the fall of the north end of Sheep
! mountain will remain a lake a mile
i wide and six miles long, with a depth
j of 200 feet. It is estimated it will
jtake the river a month to fill up the
| lake.
| Millions of yards of the mountain
! side slid into the valley.
FUNERAL FORMER
JUDGE RIVERS
SEATTLE, June 26 (/P)—Funeral
services for Claudius M. Rivers, who
died Monday at Bremerton, were held
here yesterday. Rivers, who was 74
years of age, was elected judge in the
Territorial days of Washington for
. the Seattle district, and retired in
1906 to accept a position as scientific
instrument maker for the navy de
partment.
He is survived by a son, Julien Guy
Rivers, of Fairbanks, Alaska.
YESTERDAY’S GAMES
COAST—
Vernon 2, Portland 3.
Sacramento 7, Los Angeles 5.
Oakland 4, Seattle 10.
Salt Lake 8, Frisco 7.
NATIONAL—
St. Louis 3, Pittsburgh 4.
New York - Brooklyn, rain.
Boston - Phila, rain.
No other games.
AMERICAN—
Phila. 3, Boston 2.
Detroit 3, St. Louis 2.
Chicago 7, Cleveland 2.
Washington 1, New York 0.
WOULD BRIGHTEN UP LONDON
WITH WOMEN'S CLOTHES
LONDON—London skirts, although
they have not shrunk as rapidly as in
Paris are much shorter this year and
shoes are being worn in all colors of
the rainbow, all this being part of a
campaign of modistes cafe proprietors
and shop owners for a “brighter Lon
don.” The rainbow effects for shoes
is not to be confined to the ballroom
but is designed for street wear and
especially for the afternoon teas and
other social events before nightfall
sets in.
PICTURES OF NUDE
WOMEN STORED AWAY
SAN FRANCISCO —Three repre
sentations of women in the nude have
been taken from the galleries of the
California Palace, Legion of Honor,
and Lincoln Park because they clash
ed with the public’s idea of art. The
pictures are by Arthur Dursten, Ed
ward Hagedorn and Ralph Stack
i pole.
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LORD DUNWATER
REACHES STATES
ALASKA TROPHIES
BELLINGHAM, Wn., June 26
i Several skins of the Kadiak bear were
| brought out by Lord Dunwater of
j Scotland, who returned here today
on the steamer Catherine D. from
False Pass, Alaska. So pleased was
Val .A. Flynn, of St. Louis, with the
hunting in Alaska, that he will take
his wife to Kenai peninsula this fall
to hunt moose, goats, sheep and cari
i bou near Seward.
Eighteen bear skins and one live
cub were brought out by three par
ties on the Catherine D.
JUNEAU GIRL TO WED
The engagement has been an
nounced of Miss Emma Mary Perelle
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Pe
relle, formerly of Juneau, to Ray
mond A. Grefe, son of Mr. and Mrs.
A. Grefe of Des Moines. Ia. No date
has been set for the wedding.
PANGALOS PREMIER GREECE
ATHENS, Greece, June 27 (/P)—
I M. Pangalos became premier of
| Greece today.
BODY OF MURDERED
YOUTH IS SENT TO
ANCHORAGE, BURIAL
The remains of F. J. Fleckenstein,
son of Frank Fleckenstein, deputy
marshal at Naknek, was brought to
Seward on the steamer Starr and this
morning was sent to Anchorage where
interment will be made, in the Elks
plot at the Anchorage cemetery. The
funeral will be under the auspices
of the Anchorage B. P. O. Elks lodge,
of which order the well known young
man was a member.
F. J. Fleckenstein, who was a
guard at the Naknek jail, was mur
dered on May 19, by an Eskimo pri
soner by the name of Mike N. Eqwan.
The second day following the mur
der the Eskimo was found dead, a
short distance away from the vil
lage with a bullet thru his chest,
a suicide, it is reported.
The Admiral Sebvoe, of the Pacific
Steamship Company, arrived in port
today at 1:40 p. m.. The Sebree has
a cargo of oil aboard for the local
Standard Oil plant.
The comedy; “Galloping Fish,’’ at
the Liberty is one of the best laugh
provoking pictures ever shown in the
town of Seward. It drew a large
crowd last night and will Tie repeated
again tonight. It has a reputation
from coast to coast. See the trained
seal and the wonderful animal acting.
GERMAN PLOTTERS
CONFESS INTENDED
TO KILL TROTZRY
MOSCOW, Russia, June 26 (/Pj—
Max Vonditmer, one of the three Ger
man conspirators on trial here for
plotting against the lives of Trotzky,
Stalin and other Bolshevist leaders,
today admitted every count of the in
dictment against him. and related
minutely the work of the German
organization. A German witness nam
ed Baymann alias Hertz, testified he
was a member of the council partici
pated in a plot to annihilate the gen
eral staff of the French army of occu
pation at Essen two years ago.
MANY DRIVERS FAIRBANKS
City Clerk Jim Ryder of Fairbanks
reports the sale of 287 drivers li
censes when the books closed Thurs
day evening, the final day for the
purchase. A long list of names of per
sons who are known to be drivers but
who have not yet taken out licenses
has been handed in by city officials
and they are now watching out for
a chance to add to the city treasury.
Two Live Reindeer
Arrive In Seward
Two reindeer from the Bureau of
Education’s big herd at Cantwell, ar
rived in Seward last evening and will
be shipped to Portland. They are oc
cupying a stall at the Alaska Trans
fer Barns. The deer are being taken
to Portland by the Anchorage Elks,
which lodge is sending a delegation
to the big convention ne\t month
The deer were placed in the Arcade
park this afternoon where they can
be seen by local citizens ar.tl arrivals
on tomorrow’s boat.
BALL GAME AT 1
! PARK TONIGHT
NAVY-SEWARF)
The baseball team from the U. S.
coast guard Haida, and the Seward
nine will play a game this evening at
6 o’clock at the baseball park. The
Navy lads have one of the fastest
teams in the Pacific patrol, as was
evidenced in a recent game with the
semi-pro Cordova team, whlcn defeat
ed the Navy nine bv a close score of
7-6 in a ten inning game.
The line-up for tonight's game is as
follows:
Haida—
C. Robinson pitcher
Baker
Cornell
Hanson
Hill
Lizotte
Catcher
first base.
Second base
Shortstop
Third base
R. M. Robinson rf.
Webber center f.
Haugi left field
Child utility.
Umpire—Ellsworth.
-Seward
Dyer
Rood
Bailey
Lundberg
Stump
E. Stump
Hannon
Guage
Painter
Bogard
Oldtimer Celebrates His
First Coming To Seward
George Phelps, proprietor of the
Seward News Company, last Monday
celebrated his first coming to Sew
ard, June 22, 1903, over 22 years ago.
Mr. Phelps left Valdez May 1, 1903,
in a row boat with Ben Hunter, and
A. Finlaw, landing in Seward at 11
o’clock on the date aforesaid.
The trip of 300 miles took a month
and 22 days, the party taking their
time and prospecting along the many
beaches between here and the sound.
The entire trip was made by man
power a small sail being hoisted aft
er the party reached the bay.