HAS SERVED IN MANY CAPACITIES FROM STA
TION AC ENT TO GENERAL MANAGER—HAL
RECOMMENDATIONS FROM MANY PROMI
NENT TRANSPORTATION HEADS IN U. S.
WASHINGTON, D. C,, Oct. 2.—Lee H. Landis, re
cently appointed general manager of the Alaska railroad,
secured the appointment largely through recommenda
tions of the Transportation Club of San Francisco; Presi
dent Gorman of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific rail
road, H. F. Alexander of Seattle; Vice President Green of
the St. Louis and Southwestern railway; President Elliott
of the United States Railway board; and many other
prominent railway men of the United States.
Landis has served in many capacities as a railway man.
from station agent to general manager, and is believed by
Secretary Work to begone of the best fitted men for the
place in the country. __
SAYS THAT UNLESS ALL ELE
MENTS UNITE NEXT PRESI
DENT BE DEMOCRAT.
WASHINGTON, D. Oct. 4—
Jermaine, in a special despatch to the
Seattle Times says Mr. Coolidge is
carrying on the policy of conciliation
much further than ever was carried
by Mr. Harding, and lie is doing it
with the view of uniting i'ae elements
of the Republican party for the sup
port of next year’s presidential ticket, j
If such a union can be brought
about the Republican chances will be!
materially increased. If it cannot the
next President is fairly certain to be
a democrat.
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 5.—A speed of 500
miles an hour can be built but the
craft would fly so fast that it would
burn itself up in friction with the air,
Glen Curtiss, designer ot' racing air
craft declared today.
ARMED INTRUDERS TAKE
POSSESSION WRECKED SHIP
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 4—Lloyd’s
Agency here has requested the United j
States District Attorney of Los An
geles to proceed against a band of
armed intruders who are alleged to
have taken possession of the wrecked j
steamer Cuba on the rocks near Point
Arguello.
MAYOR OF KETCHIKAN
BREAKS LEG BY FALL
Mayor Thomas Torry, of Ketchikan
sustained a broken leg recently when
he slipped and fell while walking a
plank on the superstructure for a
road. He will be laid up for several
weeks, doctors say.
H. E. Ashelby, owner of the Chan
delar Gold company and J. H. Shock
ley a mining engineer for the coiL
• >cny, arrived in Seward on Saturday
,:’s train and sailed on the Alaska
i New York city on business cou
nt .wed with their company. They will
urn next spring to resume work on
■ property.
While on their way to the coast
Mr. Ashelby stated they stopped off
at Anchorage to see Col. Steese about
a road from Caro on the railroad to
their property, a distance of 36 miles,
which Mr. Ashelby declared is neces
sary for development, of the property.
At present the'company is compell
ed to take in freight by way of Bea
ver, a trip of over 100 miles, and lv
makes freighting very expensive. The
commission is asked to hook up the
Chandelar property with the trail at
Chatanika.
The property has a three stamp
mill, a new 30-ton mill being taken in
uext spring. Eight men are employed
by the company. A wireless station
will be established at Beaver next
spring.
FORD PLAN TO BUY MUSCLE
SHOALS KNOCKED IN HEAD
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29—The sale
of the Gorgas steam power plant at
Muscle Shhoals, Ala., to the Alabama
Power corporation for approximately
three and a half millions of dollars
has been announced by Secretary J
W. Weeks.
Recently Henry Ford had advised
the secretary that his bid to buy the
Muscle Shoals government property
wrould not hold unless the Gorgas
plant were included.
SEVENTY BLUE FOKES
JUNEAU: Seventy blue foxes, con- *
stituting the first batch of animals to 1
be placed on the Goldstein Glacier
Fur Farm were landed here this 1
week from the Admiral Evans and t
taken at once to the ranch and turn- 1
ed loose in the pens. They were '
brought in from the westward by Ma
rion Goldstein who left here about six ^
weeks ago to pick them up. 1
Five animals were lost during the <
trip dying from seasickness resulting 1
from a stormy voyage ol the steamer I
Starr en route to Seward from the
west. All of the other animals were
ill. Mr. Goldstein said it was the
stormiest trip he had every experi
enced. Seas ran mountain high when
it was at its worst and the Siarr took
several clear over the smokestack,
extinguishing the fires twice.
The foxes came from the govern
ment farm on the Pribilof islands,
where 20 pairs were secured: from
Seldovia and from Cross Sound.
Another shipment of blue foxes will
arrive for the ranch on the next j
southbound trip of the Admiral Wat- ,
son. On the same ship will also be ,
the first shipment of martens. The (
company plans to make a specialty oi <
breeding and raising the latter spe- ,
cies. Fifteen men are at present at
work making pens on the ranch. They r
will be filled as rapidly as stock can
be secured.
HARVEY AND CHILD
WASHINGTON, Octfl 5— Ambassa- 1
dor Harvey and Ambassador Child i
have resigned their offices in Britain i
and Italy respectively, effective Janu- i
ary 1. Both resignations were ten- (
dered President Harding just before <
his Alaskan trip.
SEATTLE, Oct. 5.—The passenger
steamship Buford, of the Alaska Sibe
rian Navigation Company collided
last night in a heavy fog with the
French freighter Montana, off the
Washington coast. The Buford was
slightly damaged, and will arrive here
this evening. The Montana proceeded
on her voyage.
BILLION STAMPS BE PRINTED
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 4—One
billion additional Harding memorial
stamps were ordered printed today by
Postmaster General New. Two lots ot
three hundred thousand have already
been printed.
LEGISUIT1E GOES
INTO COURTS TEST
OKLAHOMA QITY, Oct. 4.—Mem
bers of the legislature went into the
District court here today to test their
authority to convene as an inquisito
rial body, without a call from the gov
ernor.
Meanwhile In a separate court the
Governor is marshalling his forces to
prevent vitalization of a constitutional
amendment passed in Tuesday’s elec
tion which would delegate this power
to the legislature.
“We are defeated before we start,
if we depend on justice in a court
called by the klans, ruled by the
klans and its dictates carried out by
klan officials,” said the governor last
night. “In case the klans/ put over
their program I would prefer to re
sign as governor and turn over the
control of the state to the invisible
empire.”
SEATTLE, Oct. 4.—Mrs. Frederick
Otto Burckhardt this afternoon testi
fied in court in rebuttal of her
husband’s evidence, denying categor
ically every instance of drunkenness
on her part, and countered with the
charge that there was always liquor
in their house supplied by Burckhardt
who with his brother purchased ten
thousand dollars worth of whiskies
and wines when the piohibition law
went into effect.
She emphatically denied misconduct
with O’Keefe or Galpin, * and stated
the charge was inspired by her hus
band, who was paying her maids for
their testimony.
Taunted and grilled mercilessly by
Raymond Ogden, counsel for her hus
band, she shouted the words “liar”
and “lie” back at him until she was
admonished by Judge Hall to refrain
from the use of such language.
SEATTLE, Oct. 8.—One hundred
thousand dollars is the redress claim
ed by Robert Knight, a Los Angeles
automobile man, in a suit Drought to
day against Fred Anderson, a wealthy
Seattle lumberman, for the alleged
alienation of his wife’s affections.
Mrs. Knight was formerly Muriel
Taylor, a Seattle girl.
SCHOONER DUXBURY TO
MAKE A LONG VOYAGE
NOME: The scnooner Duxbury, at
present at Safety, has been placed in
condition for a long cruis<* to last a
year or more. Leaving Nome the ship
will head northeast to Coronation
Gulf, and Banks Land, other points
being visited.
The cruise will be devoted to trad
ing, trapping and the taking of mo
vies, a crew of natives being shipped
as trappers and to assist in handling
the boat. Charles W. Scarborough,
the well known photographer, will be
on board taking pictures and writing
special articles.
PIONEER DEAD AT SITKA
John P. Dixon, a resident of the Pi
oneer’s Home at Sitka, died last
week. He came to Alaska in 1897 and
was engaged of late years in freight
ing in Willow Creek.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 4—
Following his arrival yesterday in the
nation’s capital, Governor Bone held
a conference with Secretary Weeks on
Alaska Territorial matters.
The Governor expects to remain
several days on Administration ques
tions between his office and depart
ments in Washington.
THY THE DRUG STORE FIRST, tf
PARIS, Oci. 3.—“The literature of
today smells to heaven. The compe
tition of publishers and editors has
damned the flood of genius and extin
guished the divine fire of genius.”
In these words Maurice Maeter
linck, the famous Belgian poet, an
nounced today his retirement as an
author.
“My last book has been written. I
have laid down my pen. There is no
longer any money for those who re
fuse to prostitute their genius. >
“Let a man write one good book
nowadays and he is besieged by edi
tors from all over the world to write
another. Dazzled by the golden pro
mises to repeat his success he finds
| that genius is not automatic and that
inspiration does not respond to the
; call of the dollar.
“Never was the world’s book pro
duction as big as now, or so rotten as
it is today. The best paid authors
are those who write the biggest trash
and whose output keeps up with the
appetite of the sensation seeking pub
lic. Pornography rules literature to
day just as it rules the drama.”
Maeterlinck announced that he and
his wife intend to pass the rest of
their lives in hermit-like seclusion in
his villa at Nice, and there “no mod
ern book nor newspaper will ever get
across the threshold.”
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3.—President
Coolidge favors creation by congress
of a Federal department of public
welfare with a member of the cabi
net at its head.
TACOMA, Oct. 3.—John Carl, the
Tacoma man who killed his landlady
last week because she allowed too
much noise in her house, it develops
was formerly sent to McNeil’s island
for committing murder in Alaska. He
was transferred to McNeil’s from the
Federal penitentiary at Leavenworth,
later being pardoned.
Carl killed his victim with a large
butcher knife, and later struck her
young son in the head with a bottle,
severely injuring him. He refuses to
make any comment on his deed.
KU KLUX MEMBERS STORES
PAINTED A BRIGHT YELLOW
INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 3.—Broken
glass and paint smeared show win
dows were all left in the trail of
raiders here today who made a round
of business districts of the city, at
tacking stores of merchants who were
members or believed to be in sympa
thy with the K. K. K.
0IEBIV1CET0
SEVEN MIKS
I1ITED STATES
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 4 —One
divorce to every seven and six-tenths
marriages in the United States last
year is the record disclosed today by
the census bureau’s marriage and di
vorce survey.
LIEBES MOTORSHIP ARCTIC IS
ANCHORED TO ICE FLOES
The Leibes motor ship Arctic has
been anchored to ice floes off Foint
Lay the past week, according to dis
patches received from Nome this
week. Heavy ice lias prevented the
vessel from making its way north this
year.
STERLING LEAVES ON STARR
TO INSPECT KANATAK ROAD
Hawley Sterling, who is connected
with the Alaska Road commission,
left on the Starr to inspect the Kana
tak road from the town to the oil
fields. He will return on the Starr.
Saturday Gateway, $3 per year.
AMERICAN FEDERATION LABOR CONVENTK
HAS LITTLE PATIENCE WITH RED SYMF
THIZERS AND I. W. W. ADHERENTS—MUST ]
GOOD OR GO OUT OF RANK OF LOYAL LAB<
PORTL AND, Ore., Oct. 2.—The Seattle Labor Coi
cil was given thirty days to reaffirm its allegiance to 1
American Federation of Labor, with the alternative
forfeiting1 its affiliation with that body. The terms of 1
decision were reached by the executive committee of 1
Federation, according to an announcement made 1;
night by President Gompers.
Lovalty to the government and a determination
improve it through every effort of organized labor v
voiced by President Gompers in his address at the oprA
yesterday of the forty-third annual convention of i
American Federation of Labor.
| JOE MITCHELL CHAPPELL
WILL WRITE ON ALASKA
Joe Mitchell Chappell, who accom
panied the Presidential party, will
start his articles on Alaska in the j
October McClure’s, and a biography of 1
; the late President Harding will appear |
in serial form starting in the Novem
ber Metropolitan. Mr. Chappell is j
one of the foremost writers of the age I
and will undoubtedly give Alaska a j
squarer deal and more fair presenta
tion of facts than have other writers. \
CRIMINAL CASES AT CORDOVA
United States vs. Ernest Oerchen. I
United States vs. Dan Greenig and
George Dooley.
United States vs. O. XV. Henderson.
United States vs. Harry Neitleton
and George Stewart.
United States vs. Tony Bruno.
United States vs. Fred Haef.
United States vs. Bertha Albi.
United States vs. Mrs. Kate Ken-;
nedy.
Will Reconvene October 26 to Take
up Several New Cases
The grand jury which has been in
session at Valdez for the past two
weeks, was excused last week until
October 26, when it will again con
vene to take up several cases, one of
which is a case from King Cove, in
which the defendant will be tried for
murder.
The grand jury returned true bills
against Edward Husen, William Pe
dersen, Gust Hill, Chas. Sevenen, K
Pekula and Andrew Pernu on a charge
of illegal fishing at Bristol bay. Louis
Credito was indicted on the charge of
assault with a dangerous weapon.
Violation of the dry law is alleged
in indictments returned in the cases
of Kale Kennedy and Bertha Albi of
McCarthy; Fred Haef of Cordova; |
Mrs. M. N. Jensen of Seldovia and !
Conseil of Kenai.
First degree murder is charged in
the indictment returned against M. |
Aguillar, a Filipino, the charge grow-J
ing out of a shooting at a Bristol Bay ,
cannery.
J.J.
J. J. Corey, newly appointed coal
engineer for the bureau of mines,
Alaska division, arrived in Seward on
the Alaska and left for his station at
Anchorage. Mr. Corey was formerly
superintendent of the Beaver Hill
Coal Company’s mine near Marshfield.
Oregon. The property is owned by
the Southern Pacific company.
RAILROAD AT NOME BEING
REPAIRED BY COMMISSION
The work of repairing Ihe railroad
from Nome north is well under way,
the bridge across Dry creek having
been lined up and placed in shape. A
crew of men are working north from
Banner station, repairing the bridges
and track.
This is the stretch of rai'uoad pur
chased by the Territory recently.
NORTHERN COMMERCIAL
COMPANY BOUT SWAMPS
The large power boat Bibella and
barge Paddy, belonging to the North
ern Commercial Company, and operat
ed between Holy Cross and St. Mich
ael on the lower Yukon, were swamp
ed in a heavy sea on Baranog point
last week. The passengers and mall
were saved.
The Cordova court session is bt
held in the rooms ot the Northl
Club at Cordova this week.
George Dooley and Dai.* Gree
proprietors of the Cordova Hotel,
tered a plea of guilty to having
quor in their possession and w
fined $100 each, without costs.
Dorothy Beal secured a dive
from Ike Beal.
James Dineen and Hans Mai
tius were granted naturalization
pers.
Most of the cases before the Coi
va term are civil cases and will
require a very long time.
WILL LEAVE AS DELEGATES
Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Rucker '
leave on the Alameda Sunday for i
Francisco where they will repres
Seward Post American Legion and
Legion auxiliary respectively, at
Legion convention to be held *;h
from October 15th to October 2(
inclusive. Mr. Rucker will return
forepart of November, while IV
Rucker will visit relatives for a ti:
NELLIE NEAL BUYS BOAT TO
BE PLACED ON LAKE KEf1
Nellie Neal, proprietress of
roadhouse at Roosevelt, has purcha
a 60-foot speed boat from Nenana i
ties, which will be placed on the Is
at Kenai for use by tourists and c
ers. w
The boat will be brought fiver
flat cars, it is stated.
CASH COLE, LAST SPEAKER OF
HOUSE, RAPIDLY IMPROVII
Seward friends of Cash Cole, of
neau, speaker of the house at the 1
session of the legislature, will
pleased to hear that he has prai
cally repored his health at Seati
where he has been undergoing tre
ment for an affliction of the stoma
for several months. He eAr>»cts
be discharged cured in about a moi
or six weeks.
Mr. Cole, who has lived in Alas
for 30 years, is but 82 years of a
and is the youngest speaker of a
of the territorial assemblies. He 1
served for two years in the legislati
and has been importuned by his su
porters to run for the senate m
year.
WRIGHT BUTLER CHOSEN
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4.—Wright
Butler, third assistant secretary
state has been chosen to welcoi
Lloyd George in behalf of Preside
Coolidge, on his arrival Friday.
W. M. Staife, geodetic ourv*v en
neer and two packers, are lost in t
hills between Curry and Chulitna, <■
cording to information received
Anchorage Tuesday. Staif3 and co
panions have been missing' five da
and a search failed to locate the m<
The chief packer at Curry could r
get very far in the hills without sm
shoes. He located the missing part
cache but no trace of Staife and t
outfit could be found. The missi
men had 16 horses with theej^whi
will be lost unless they get out of t
hills before the snow gets too deep
travel.
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