Hemard Betle Gelieng
VOLUME XVIII. NUMBER 149
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JUNE 12, 1923
PRICE TEN CENTS
Chamber Commerce
Discusses New Tariff
INTERIOR RESIDENTS GIVEN A
CHEAPER RATE VIA ANCHOR
AGE THAN BY SEWARD
The Seward Chamber of Commerce
held its weekly luncheon today, and
many important matters were brought
up for discussion. \Y. H. W hittlesey,
president of the chamber, was in the
chair, and C. C. Hinde and John A.
Clark were guests.
A number of communications were
received and acted upon. One of the
most important matters to come be
fore the chamber was the new treight
tariff of the Alaskan Engineering
Commission, effective in April, 1923, in
which it was alleged that Seward was
discriminated against. The new rates
on first class freight from Seattle to
Fairbanks was reported as follows:
Via Seward, $3.94 per 100 lbs.
Via Anchorage, $3.82 per 100 lbs.
The steamships receive the follow
ing proportion:
Via Seward, $1.20 per 100 lbs.
Via Anchorage, $1.35 per 100 lbs.
This makes a discrimination against
Seward of 27 cents per 100 lbs. or
$5.40 per ton, which was declared un
just in that it was a further haul to
Anchorage, and freight rates paid to
the steamship companies were taken
from the southern division of the Alas
ka railroad. By paying a shipper 12c
per 100 lbs, provided he billed his
freight via Anchorage, it caused con
siderable tonnage to be diverted, with
a longer haul from Seattle by boat,
and the loss of the freight to the rail
road.
It was alleged that this discrimina
tion against freight shipments via
Seward was made by Col. Mears in di
rect violation of his word to Seward
business men.
Mayor L. V. Ray made a very inter
esting report of his trip over the gov
ernment railroad to Fairbanks and re
turn with the Congressional party? and
gave some concise statements as to
what Alaskans might expect from con
gress in the future. He also outlined
a plan for the upbuilding of Alaska,
which was presented to the congres
sional "barty, and which will be given
t§ our readers in the near future.
J. A. Clark, of Fairbanks, gave an
interesting talk of conditions in the
Interior, and told of how the cham
bers along the railroad might work
for civic betterment.
H. E. Wilson, cashier of the Bank
of Seward, received the regrets of the
members present over his leaving on
one of the next boats, to reside in the
states, and in reply assured the mem
bers he would work for Seward in his
new home, whenever the occasion
arose. Mr. Wilson has been in the
Northland 17 years, and his departure
is a distinct loss to the chamber. C.
C. Hinde was elected to fill his place
as treasurer of the club.
NEW ALASKA LINER WILL
BE OPEN FOR INSPECTION
The new Alaska Steamship Com
pany's crack liner^ Alaska, Capt. Nord,
will arrive in port some time Friday,
on her initial trip. The public is in
vited to meet this vessel and inspect
her palatial fittings and luxurious ap
pointments. The vessel goes no far
ther than Seward this trip.
FLOODS IN RUSSIA
MOSCOW, June 12.—Many were
drowned in floods that inundated the
province of Perm in Russia.
SEATTLE POLITIGIMl
DIES 1 AUTO TSIP
SEATTLE, June 11.—L. B. Young
chairman of the board of public works
and thirty years a director of the wa
ter departments, died in his automo
bile while driving between Shelton
and Olympia.
CHICAGO HEIRESS TO DO OWN
COOKING
KlY»TONC VICW CO-. N£W YORK
Mrs. Lester Norris formerly Miss
Delora Angell, heiress to the John W.
Gates $38,000,000 fortune who is mak
ing her home in a $50 flat in St. Char
les, 111., and gives as her reason that
she wishes to do her own cooking. ,
LONG STANDING COAL MINERS
STRIKE DECLARED AT END
MAY LOSE JOBS
TACOMA, June 12—After a strike
of more than two years’ standing, un
i ion coal miners who had been in the
| employ of the Pacific Coast Coal Com
pany, and in six mines at Carbonado
and Wilkeson, in Pierce county, voted
yesterday to call off the strike and ac
cept the operator’s terms.
: The action affects 2,000 men in the
territory which includes besides the
Wilkeson, Carbonado and Burnelt
! workings, mines of the Pacific Coast
Coal Company at Issaquah, Black Dia
mond and Newcastle in King County.
Doubt as to whether the men would
be taken back was expressed by an of
ficial of the coal company.
MANILA, June 12.—Thirteen lives
were lost and a large area laid waste
j by a typhoon on the island of Sam.
! Ninety-five per cent of the houses in
seven towns were blown down and
crops destroyed.
LAW BE ENFORCED
WASHINGTON June 12.—The trea
sury is again tonight instructing cus
toms officials to rigidly enforce the
Supreme Court decision barring liquor
from the Territorial waters of the
United States.
GOVERNMENT OVERTHROWN
SOFIA, June 11.—A military upris
ing has overturned the Bulgarian gov
ernment and Prof. Zakof has been ap
pointed premier.
WISCONSIN VOTES ENFORCE LAW
MADISON, Wis., June 11.— The Wis
consin assembly today voted to rein
state the Severson law, which is the
state prohibition enforcement agency.
PROTEST AGAINST EXTENSION
MANILA, June 12—Native leaders
are cabling a protest to President
Harding against the propose.d exten
sion of coastwise shipping laws to the
Philippines.
LOSES OFFICE
ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES OF AL
ASKA R. C. ARE TRANSFER
RED TO ANCHORAGE
JUNEAU, Alaska, June 6—Removal
of the executive and administrative of
fices of the Alaska Road Commission
from Juneau to Anchorage was an
nounced by Col. J. C. Gotwals, to be
made about the middle of June. The
move involves three of the six mem
bers of the clerical force in Juneau
commission offices, it was stated.
The fiscal offices of the Commis
sion, its headquarters for work in the
Southeastern section of Alaska and
headquarters for the Rivers and Har
bors district will remain in Juneau
permanently and the offices in which
the Commission is located will be
maintained^ said Colonel Gotwals. Re
moval of the executive and administra
tive files, he added, is made necessary
by the increased duties of the mem
bers of the Commission in connection
with the Alaska Railroad which de
mand a large part of their tin*! on
that enterprise.
Colonel Gotwals will make his head
quarters at Anchorage. His duties in
the field are so pressing that it has
been found impossible to continue
headquarters at Juneau. Colonel Jas
G. Steese, he said, will divide his time
between Anchorage and Juneau.
O. A. Hall, bridge engineer for the
Alaska Road commission, has already
been transferred to Anchorage. The
members of the clerical force to be
transferred will leave within three
weeks. Those to be moved were not
named.
TACOMA WOMAN, AGED 80,
FINED $100 FOR MAKING
LIQUOR IN TEA KETTLE
TACOMA, June 12—“Grandma” Jul
ia Gilem, aged 80, paid a fine of one
hundred dollars in justice court late
yesterday after pleading guilty to man
ufacturing liquor. The aged woman
told the court she was lonesome for
friends and that she rigged up a tea
kettle still in order to show visitors
to her home a good time. She was not
accused of selling the liquor she man
ufactured.
KANSAS, June 12.—Torrential rains
have caused nearly every river and
creek in the state to overflow its
banks. Up to noon today the property
loss was estimated at five million dol
lars, and the toll in human lives had
reached nine.
FIRST OF 1923 PACK GOES
OUT SEATTLE TO WICHITA
SEATTLE, June 12.—The first car
of the 1923 season’s pack of Alaskan
salmon to be shipped east was billed
out of Seattle today to Wichita, Kan.
NEW YORK, June 11—The United
States Immigration officers have re
cently rounded up 200 Chinese in Long
Island City, who are charged with hav- j
mg entered the United States unlaw
fully.
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SOFIA, June 11.—Stambouloskv, tne
deposed Bulgarian premier, has organ
ized the peasants into a militia com
pany and is marching on the capital.
The city is under martial law and is
patrolled by war tanks.
NAVY MUSI BE KEPI
“WORLD FULL OF MENACE,” SEC
RETARY OF NAVY TELLS AN.
NAPOLIC CLASS
NEWPORT, R. I., June 12- -Warning
that the navy must be kept ready toi
defense “in a world full of menace,”
was given by Secretary Denby in his
recent address to the graduating class
of the naval war college.
“We know now beyond peradven
ture that war between great powers
or groups of powers will always in
volve many other nations and v e can
not say with certainty thai such a war
may not come at any time. There
need be no demand for excessive arma
ment. There will be none for a great
increase of our present estimate made
by the navy department at the com
mlng session of congress. We shall
ask for additional light draft gun
boats, the vital need of which is being
demonstrated every day; and we shall
ask forvcertain submarines and aero
planes.
“We hope to keep the proposed con
struction within the limits reached
last year.”
The secretary referred to such con
troversies between branches of the
service as that between advocates of
aviation and the capital ships as often
“unnecessary and misleading.”
TREASURY SEEKS LOAN
WASHINGTON, June 11.—The de
partment of the treasury announced
tonight that it would seek a four per
cent loan of one hundred and fifty
millions to round out its financing for
the current fiscal year.
ENGLAND'S IMMIGRATION
QUOTA NOW IS EXHAUSTED
ENGLISH BRIDE IS BARRED
NEW YORK, June 12—Because
Great Britain’s immigration quota was
exhausted, Mrs. E. Demitron, British
bride of an American citizen, who ar
rived here yesterday on the steamship
President Monroe, must be excluded
an immigration board decided today.
She has appealed the decision to Wash
ington.
KANSAS INDUSTRIAL
COURT DECLARED ILLEGAL
WASHINGTON, June 12.—The Su
preme Court today dealt a body blow
to the industrial relations court, hold
ing that it conflicts with the, four
teenth amendment and was unconsti
tutional. The opinion written by Taft
holds that the court is without power
to fix wages and that in the case be
fore the supreme court it deprived the
coal company of its property and lib
erty of contract. *" ' "
HARDING RETURNS TO CAPITAL
WASHINGTON, June 11.—President
Harding returned this morning to the
Mayflower, which he boarded at Fort
Lewis, after a week end motor trip to
Delaware.
HARDING NOW TALL CEDAR
MILFORD, Del., June 11.—President
Harding was initiated Saturday night
into the Tall Cedars of Lebanon a
Masonic social organization.
AMERICAN LEGION MEETS
Seward Post, American Legion, will
meet tonight at 8 o’clock at Legion
headquarters. All members are re
quested to be present.
BIDDING FOB VESSELS
WASHINGTON, June 12.—All Ship
ping Board vessels plying between the
Pacific coast of the United States and
foreign port§ await the probable out
come of negotaitions now in progress
for their sale. Robert Dollar is bid
ding for the entire Pacific fleet.
Remaining Captives
freed By Chinese
CHARGED WITH SELLING FALSE
STOCK
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9 '■•OrvRIttMT KEYSTONE VIEW CO.. NEW YOK*
Seymour E. J. Cox, called by many
"The Arch Pirate,” of Texas Oil pro
motion, who was one of the first to
be rounded up by the authorities. He
is said to have swindled the public
out of $100,000 daily.
FEDEML MS WILL
SEN. SMOOT
UTAH SENATOR SAYS WORLD
WAR PENSIONS WILL TOTAL
$1,500,000,000
LOS ANGELES, June 12—Reed
Smoot, United States senator from
Utah, told members of the Lincoln
Club at a luncheon they gave in his
honor that “never again will your fed
eral taxes be less than $3,000,000,000
a year, but probably more.”
“For twenty-five year to come the
dominent question will be how to
raise the money for our government,”
he declared. “I am sure the federal
taxes never again will be less than
$3,000,000,000 annually. Probably, in a
few years^ they will be more than that
sum.
“In less than a decade we shall be
paying $1,500,000,000 a year in pen
sions to world war veterans. It is
right and just that this should be done
but the tax payers must prepare for
the burden.”
Speaking of “lump sum appropria
tions” during the Wilson administra
tion, he said, “I’m glad the American
people don’t know how that money
was spent. I do not say that billions
were wasted, but if I did say that, it
would be within the truth.”
LONDON, June 12.—Premir Baldwin
announced today that the British gov
ernment would take retaliatory meas
ures to offset injuries to British ship
ping by the court ruling barring li
quor from all foreign ships in Ameri
can ports.
BERNHARDT’S JEWELS SOLD
PARIS, June 12.—Sarah Bernhardt’s
stage jewels were sold at public auc
tion today. They brought 97,000
francs. Their intrinsic value was less
than a tenth of the selling price.
WIDOW ENTERS SUIT
PARIS, June 12.—Edith K. Gould
entered suit this afternoon demand
ing half the property of Frank J., her
deceased husband. The property in
dispute is valued at ten million dol
lars.
EIGHT FOREIGN CAPTIVES RE
LEASED TODAY—AMERICANS
AMONG NUMBER
TSACHWANG, June 21—Eight cap
tives, the last of the foreigners kid
napped by the Chinese bandits who
held up the Shanghai-Peking Express
near Suchow on May 6th, and who
were held at Paotzuku mountain head
quarters of the outlaws since that
time, were released today. The list of
Americans released include Major R.
Winger, Leon Friedman, John Powell
and Lee Solomon.
TIENTSIN, June 12—Four more of
the captives held by the Suchow ban
dits, one American, two British sub
jects and one Mexican citizen, have
been released unconditionally and ar
rived yesterday at the relief camp at
Tsao Chwang. Acording to a telegram
from there, prospects were held for
the speedy release of the eight other
foreigners.
PEKING, June 12—The enrollment
of the Shantung bandits in the nation
al army is proceeding at Tsao Chwang
according to advices received at the
American legation early today. The le
gation feels that it is only a matter of
hours until the eight foreigners still
held in the Paotzuku mountains are
released.
TIENTSIN, June 12—Advices from
Tsao Chwang indicated that the ban
dits plans for the release of the for
eign captives are progressing satis
factorily and the dissension is dimin
ishing as the outlaws are enrolled in
the army. A letter was received say
ing the bandits were alarmed at the
indications of invasion by foreign sol
diers.
TWENTY-ONE STATES PASS LAWS
PROHIBITING USE FOREIGN
LANGUAGE IN SCHOOLS
WASHINGTON, June 12—The su
preme court held invalid the state
statutes prohibiting the use of foreign
j languages in public and private school
j houses below the eighth grade? as
| passed by twenty-one states. The de
j cision stated that the statutes were an
j encroachment on the rights conferred
i by the fourteenth amendment to the
j constitution, which provides, “The
J United States shall not deprive any
person life, liberty and property, with
out due process of law.” Justice Rey
nolds delivered the majority of the op
inion asserting that the fourteenth am
endment without doubt, “denotes free
dom from body restraint, and^also the
right of the individual to contract or
engage in any common occupation of
life, to acquire a useful knowledge and
bring up his family of children accord
ing to the dictates of his own con
science,” he added “this liberty can
not be interferred with under the guise
of protecting public interests.”
TO BE CREfiTED BT BOARD
WASHINGTON, June 11.—The cre
ation of 18 subsidiary corporations,
each to control one of the consolida
tions routes was presented to Harding
today, by Chairman Lasker of the U.
S. shipping board as a basis for oper
ation of the merchant marine in case
the efforts of the board to transfer
the ships to private corporations fail.