SEWARD,
ALASKA
Seward
COAST TERMINAL OF THE
ALASKA RAILROAD
DAILY AND WEEKLY
“CENTER Of
EVERYTHING”
Gateway
TERMINAL FOR THREE OCEAN
GOING STEAMSHIP LINES
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 145.
SEWARD, ALASKA. TUESDAY. NOV. 12, 1929.
PRICE TEN CENTS
Historic Alaska
Vessel To Ply
Tropical Seas
STEAMER SANTA ANA CARRIED FIRST CREW
ANI) FIRST CARGO OF CONSTRUCTION MAT
TERIAL AND SUPPLIES FROM SEATTLE TO
RESURRECTION BAY—THERE WAS NO SEW
ARD AT THAT TIME—PRESENT SITE WAS A j
VIRGIN FOREST CONTAINING LONE LOG CAB
IN, THE HOME OF MRS. MARY LOWELL.
MEMOiUSLE SOfflt FM SSLOEZ TO SE!»
Quarter ot a century brings about permanent and im
portant port—First locomotive thought to have been
built of wood—a promotion scheme—many tried to
whittle engine with pocket knives—Santa Ana has
a big place in history of Seward .and Alaska.
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■
A historic little wooden steamer, the Santa Ana* of ;
tons, intimately associated with the early beginning
of Seward and known to every other port on the south
ern coast of Alaska, is to leave the waters of the north
Pacific, which she has plied from Seattle for more than
a quarter of a century, and transfer to the tropical seas
of the Carribean and the Gulf of Mexico as a fruit car
rier. She has been sold by her late owners, the Santa Ana
Steamship Company, to the Orange Belt Steamship Co.,
of Tampa, Florida, and that city will be her new home
port.
It was this same staunch lit
tle Santa Ana, commanded by
Capt. J. L. Schage, that carried
the first crew and the first car
go of construction material and
supplies from Seattle to Res
urrection bay. in August, 1903.
when John E. Ballaine, promoter
and builder of the Alaska Cen
tral Railway, took them north
on that vessel to start prelimin
ary construction of the new
railroad in preparation for the
launching of permanent con
struction the following spring.
There was no Seward at that
time. The site of the future cen
ter of railroad and industrial
activities in Alaska was then a
virgin forest, containing one lone
log cabin near the beach, at the
foot of the present Second Ave
nue. The lone log cabin was oc
cupied by Mrs. Mary Lowell, a
native woman of mixed Russian
and Alieut blood, and her fam
ily of three unmarried children.
Resurrection bay had been se
lected by Mr. Ballaine as the
ocean terminus of the Alaska
Central Railway, which he had
organized to build from the
coast to a connection with the
Tanana and the Yukon rivers
in the interior. The present
Alaska Railroad, owned and op
erated by the government of
the United States, and extend
ing with main line and branches
from Seward for 567 miles to
connection with all navigable
rivers of Interior Alaska, is a
continuation and an outgrowth
of the plans then laid down by
Mr. Ballaine and the work of
years that he carried on for
their fulfillment.
The Santa Ana brought
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JUSTICE 1!
PRESIDENT DELIVERED AD
DRESS UNDER AUSPICES
AMERICAN LEGION
WASHINGTON, Nov., 12, (A3)—
With pride in America’s achieve
ments toward the cause of world
peace and paying an impressive
tribute to the World War dead,
the government’s officialdom,
headed by President Hoover, join
ed with the rest of the nation
in observing the 11th anniver
sary of the signing of the Armis
tice.
Opening with a commemoration
recital of burial services over the
plain marble slab in Arlington
Cemetery under which lies Amer
ica’s Unknown Soldier, were held.
Then, in the afternoon service
was also held at the tomb of
Woodrow Wilson, in the National
Cathedral.
President Hoover delivered an
address last night under the
auspices of the American Legion
before a distinquished audience
of government officials, diplo
mats and World War veterans.
Although scarcely known for
its art, Alaska sold paintings
valued at $2,962 to patrons in
the states in a recent month.
DYNAMITE TOSSED FROM A
PASSING BOAT SINKS FED
ERAL VESSELS
MEMPHIS, Nov., 12, (/P)—Two
Motorboats operated by federal
prohibition enforcement officers
against rum runners were bomb
ed and sunk in Wolf River Har
bor and privately owned boats j
moored near by were damaged!
by the two charges of dynamite j
tossed from a passing motorboat j
which escaped under cover of |
the fog.
Government agents regard the
bombing as a gesture of the re
newal of warfare against prohibi
tion law enforcement.
Finis I. Wilson, prohibition ad
ministrator for the Memphis dis
trict, immediately began prepar
ations for intensive enforcement
activities.
No one was aboard the boats
sunk. One of the other boats, a
houseboat, occupied by Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Busky, but other
than suffering from shock neith
er were hurt. One of the boats
bombed was a 30-foot cruiser;
the other was a smaller boat.
Both had been seized from rum
runners.
PRINCE GEORGE ILL
LONDON, Nov., 12. (/P)—Prince
George, the youngest son of
King George and Queen Mary,
is confined to his room with a
chill and has cancelled all en
gagements. The Prince is the
fifth child of the Monarch.
MILITARY GUARD THROWN
ABOUT MENDOZE; OUT
BREAKS FEARED
MENDOZE, Argentine, Nov., 12,
OP)—Dr. Carlos Washington Len
cinas, political “boss” of this
city and a bitter foe of Presi
dent Irigoyen, was assassinated
during a political meeting.
I
Twenty-one persons were sent
j to the hospital having been
wounded during the flurry of
firing which accompanied his
shooting and it is believed there
were many more unreported cas
| ualties.
Among the gravely wounded
was Lencinas cousin, Raul Len
: cinas.
! Dr. Lencinas was shot from
behind. A military guard has
been thrown about the city and
the city’s principal streets are
being patrolled. It is feared new
outbreaks will follow.
More than 200 persons have
been arrested but, with the ex
ception of 15, released.
Alaska shipped $17,985,950 worth
of salmon to the states in Aug
ust of this year.
FOUR KILLED, FIFTY
OAKDALE, Term., Nov., 12, (JP)
—Four persons are known to have
been killed and more than 50
passengers were injured in a
wreck of the Ponce de Leon fast
northbound passenger train of
the Southern Railway.
Three of the dead were train
men and the fourth, a passenger.
The majority injured were pass
engers from Ohio and Mich
igan who ha dbeen on a week
end excursion to Chattanooga
and Lookout Mountain.
Three coaches which were car
rying them home, were among
the four day-coaches which left
the tracks. Four Pullmans were
derailed, also.
Ml JAILED
FOS DEITII3 OF
SIX CHEN
CONFESSED USED CHILDREN
BLACKMAILING SCHE1
NEW JERSEY
CAMDEN, N. J„ Nov., 12, (TP)—
Gladys May Parks is in jail
here charged with murder in
connection with the deaths of
two Woodbury, New Jersey chil
dren.
She confessed to the police
as having used the children in
a blackmailing scheme; she is
also suspected with the slaying
of four other children but is
specifically charged with the
murder of Dorothy Rogers, foui
years old, and her two-year old
brother, Timothy.
She confessed to authorities
having buried Dorothy’s body in
quick lime and to have hidden
Timothy’s body in a cellar.
She said the girl died after
a whipping she gave her and the
boy, after a fall downstairs.
Four Philadelphia children
whom she admitted using in a
blackmail scheme, have disap
peared, authorities said- They be
came aware of her scheme thru
information furnished by hei
intended victims who said tha1
the children with whom they hac
been confronted did not cor
i respond with the descriptions
I of the Rogers children.
i .. . •—
THIS MI'S PH
REACH TOTAL OF 1,001
FALLS CITY, Neb., Nov., 12, (IP,
—The ghost has walked 1,080 con
secutive times for Thomas M(
Manus, 65-year old Missouri Paci
; fic roadmaster. Every two weeks
for the past 45 years, McManus
; has recieved a pay check.
“I’ll draw another 100 paj
' checks, too,” says McManus.
J. B. Kuhler, teacher of the 7tl
and 8th grades, returned Iasi
night from a few days visit tc
Anchorage his first since coming
to Alaska.
IIH DERAILED
1 ENGINEER KILLED
BY TWO ROBBERS
—
LOCOMOTIVE AND CARS PILE
UP IN DITCH; ROBBERS
GOT ABOUT $500
LOS ANGELES, Nov., 12, {&)—
I Two robbers, who pried loose 10
lengths of rails on the Southern
Pacific tracks, six miles west of
Saugus, Calif., Sunday night,
wrecked the West Coast Limited
passenger train killing the engin
eer, then held up 20 persons.
The speeding locomotive turn
ed over as it hit the damaged
, track carrying the baggage and
mail cars and two coaches into
! the ditch. The seven other cars
| remained on the rails.
Engineer R. C. Ball was scalded
I fatally as the engine boiler ex
ploded but no others were hurt.
The wreck was staged at a
curve where the outside rails
were weakened by removal of
bolts and tie spikes. The rob
bery occurred about 8 p. m.; the
train was bound from Los An
geles to Sacramento. As the
train jarred to a stop two mask
ed men leaped aboard the sleep
ing car, four lengths from the
end of the train, and herded the
occupants of the last four cars
into the end of the coach where
they robbed them.
It has not been determined
how much valuables they ob
| tained but it is estimated the
loot amounted to $500.
A. R. C. AND SEATTLE CHAM
BER COMMERCE OFFI
CIALS BE THERE
VICTORIA, B. C. Nov., 12, (£V
The first definite steps to get
Canada and the United States
together in a cooperative move
ment to build an Alaska highway
■ will be taken here Wednesday
, when Premier S. F. Tolmie of
British Columbia sponsors the
conference between Premier Mac
i Kenzie King of Canada and rep
resentatives of the Alaska Road
Commission and Seattle Chamber
of Commerce officials.
The latter has taken a deep
interest in the projected high
way from Hazelton through
northern British Columbia and
the Yukon to the seacoast of
Alaska.
At this stage only investiga
tion into the feasibility of the
1 route is proposed.
ii MAJOR SHOT TO DEATH
WASHINGTON, Nov., 12, (A5)—
The Navy Department has been
advised from Managua, Nicara
gua, that Major Charles S. Me
Reynolds, of the U. S. Marine
Corps, died of bullet wounds in
■ flicted by natives. The report
gave no details pending inquest.