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MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS.
VOLUME XXI, NUMBER 18.
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1926
PRICE TEN CENTS
NEGRO WAS BEST
MAN IN PEARY
TRIP TO POLE
COULD TALK ESKIMO LIKE A NA
TIVE AND WAS LIKED BY
THE ESIKIMO TRIBES
MOST EFFICIENT MAN ON TRIP
Five White Companions Sent Back
and Matt Hanson Taken on Mad
Dash for the Pole
CHICAGO. Jan. 22 (£>)—Peary sent
back his five white companions and
took Matt Hanson, a negro, with him
on the last leg of his North Pole trip,
because “the rest of us were tender
feet compared to the negro,” Explo
rer McMillan said last night in a talk
on his explorations over the radio.
“Hanson is probably the best dog
musher in the world. He talks the Es
kimo language like a native and got
along better with the Eskimos than
did the rest of the expedition. The
Eskimos were fond of him and he
was a constant source of amusement
to his white companions. He was the
only man in the expedition who could
build a snow house as good as a na
tive, and he converted every sledge
into a cook stove. Altogether he was
the most efficient man on the trip..”
Replying to the skeptics MacMillan
said that “by Marin and Bartlett’s ob
servations we were only 150 miles
from the Pole when we left Peary.
He was well stocked with food and
could have gone 50 miles beyond the
Pole if necessary. He said that Peary,
Hanson and four Etekimos traveled
five long marches after we left them,
which was sufficient to go ten miles
past the Pole.”
WOMANS CLUB
HOLDS MEETING
The Seward Woman’s Club met yes
terday afternoon at the apartments of
Mrs. O. A. Johansen for its brief
business meeting, followed by the
Club’s regular monthly social meet
ing.
The Club decided to change the
date of the card party from January
26 to January 29, and the same will
be held in Odd Fellows hall.
Tickets may be obtained from any
member. Admission fifty cents. Both
bridge and whist will be played with
suitable prizes for each.
There being no new business to
come before the Clufr the meeting ad
journed for the social hour.
Following the refreshments a vocal
arid piano solo was rendered by Miss
Hoffman, wrhich wras very much en
joyed by all present.
PROGRAM AT LIBERTY
TONIGHT IS A GOOD ONE
Of especial interest to Alaskans is
the intensely absorbing screen story,
“Idle Tongues,’’ which, is being exhib
ited for the last time this evening at
the Liberty Theatre. Of exceptional
appeal owing to the rugged coast line
of New England, similar to that of
portions of this district; of the fish
ing activities about Cape Cod and the
true detail depicted of everyday life
in that region of the United States
seldom visited or little known of by
Alaskans.
The program is one of the best to
have been presented to a local audi
ence by Manager Brownell, for along
with this feature story a Thomas H.
Ince production, in which Percy Mar
mont, Doris Kenyon, Claude Gilling
water and David Torrence are co
starred is presented a fast two reel
comedy, a sparkling Mack Sennett
show with a swarm of bathing beau
ties.
The steamship Northwestern is due
to arrive in port at 10 o’clock tonight.
S. S. Northwesern Due to
Arrive In Seward At
10 o’OIock Tonight
The SjS. Northwestern, which ar
rived in Cordova last night at 7:30
o’clock from the south, is scheduled
ot steam into port this evening about
ten o’clock, according to a wire
less message received from the ves
sel at noon today. It is estimated
! about 150 tons of general cargo will
ibe discharged at this pont. The ves
! sel is scheduled to depart for the
j south at midnight, tomorrow night,
j it is expected a fair size passenger
list will go ouit on the vessel, from
present indications.
COAL STRIKE SETTLED
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 22 (JP)—
Senator Peeper announced to the Sen
ate today that the anthracite coal
strike had been settled and that the
miners would return to work imme
diately.
PROSPECTING IN OLD DAYS
WAS SPORT, NOT BUSINESS
--
SEATTLE, . Jan. 22 (JP)— Fred W.
Valleau, a pioneer and gold commis
sioner of Peace river, told the mining
club yesterday that prospecting in the
early days was sport, not business.
EDWARD J. SHAW
FORMER CITIZEN
SKAGWAY DEAD
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PALO ALTO, Cal., Jan. 22 (JP)—
; Edward Jarvis Shaw, 58, former may
or of Skagway, who came here a year
ago in search of health, died today at
| his home here. He was formerly
! Skagway agent for the Alaska Steam
ship Company, and was chairman of
jSkagway’s three-minute men during
the- World War. He Jeft two daugh
ters, one in Paris and one in San
Francisco.
ROAD COMMISSION
PLANS BIG WORK
NEAR FAIRBANKS
I
'INCREASED ACTIVITIES SLATED
FOR INTERIOR DISTRICT,
SAYS KINNEY.
Road construction activities in the
Fairbanks district will probably be
larger this coming season than for
some years past, was the belief of
Ross Kinney, supt. of the Nome area,
| during his brief visit in Seward the
first of the week. Particularly with
: regards to the Fairbanks-Circle road,
! on which construction has been going
i forward for some time past.
Thus far the road has been built
for a distance of about thirty miles.
This includes the stretch from Fair
banks out and from the other end,
Circle towards Fairbanks with the
center vyet to be connected.
The road will be in direct line with
the workings of the Fairbanks Ex
ploration company, it is stated, but
the principal item is the fact the
big horseshoe trip on the Tanana and
Yukon rivers will be eliminated, in
order to reach the districts along
the upper Yukon, adjacent ot Yu
:kon Territory. Tourists will not only
i be able to travel direct from the
j coast, over the Richardson highway
I to the mighty Yukon, but in making
1 connections for up river points, Daw
son, Whitehorse, and so on, a big
saving of time will be made.
For the fur farmers, mining men
and prospectors, located in that dis
trict, the road will be an added stim
i ulent for an increase in business and
SPANISH FLYERS
START FIRST LEG
OF LONG FLIGHT
LEAVE PALOS FOR ATTEMPT TO
CROSS ATLANTIC OCEAN IN
HUGE SEA PLANE
WARSHIPS BE POSTED ON ROUTE
Hop Off From Exact Spot Where
Christopher Columbus Started
on Trip Discover America
PALOS, Spain, Jan. 22 (£>)—'Three
daring Spanish aviators, Commander
Ramon Franco, Captain Ruiz de Alva,
and Ensign Duran departed from here
today in the seaplane Ne Plus Ultra,
on the first leg of a flight across the
Atlantic ocean to Buenos Aires, Ar
gentina, and possibly to New York.
The first stop will be at Las Pplrnas,
in the Canary Islands.
The machine ascended from the ex
act spot in the Domingo Rubio canal
whence the caravels of Columbus
sailed to discover America in 1492.
The length of the first hop is 876
miles. Buenos Aires from Palos is
3332 miles.
The flight will be over the Atlantic
from the Cape Verde Islands. The
Spanish cruiser, Don Blaz de Lezo
will be stationed at St. Paul rocks,
two-thirds of the way across, and the
torpedo destroyer Alcedo at Fernando
de Noronha. The plane carried food
enough to last ten days and an appa
ratus to distill water from the ocean.
The plane’s cruising speed is from
35 to 40 miles an hour on the sur
face of the ocean. It fs expected to
reach Buenos Aires in 56 hours fly
ing time. A two days’ rest will be
taken at the Cape Verde islands
Arrive at Canary Islands
LAS PALMAS, Jan. 22 (^—Com
mander Franco arrived here this
morning on the first leg of his trans
Atlantic trip.
WOMEN’S CLUBS ASSEMBLE
LIBRARY OF NATIVE WORKS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 22 (£>)—
One of the most unique libraries in the
country, a collection of books by and
about native Americans, is being as
sembled at headquarters here of the
General Federation of Woman’s
Clubs.
Sought primarily as an information
source for club women, the completed
collection will represent a cross sec
tion of American literature in the non
fiction field. Each state federation
books by and about persons of its own
has been asked to supply at least 12
state and to date the library numbers
more than 300 volumes.
It is the purpose of the Federation
to make the library available to indi
vidual clubs and members either thru
mailing requested volumes or copied
extracts, or by advising where speci
fied books may be found.
All that a wave of prosperity means
to most of us is the privilege of see
ing others buy better cars.—Medford
Mail Tribune.
The United States may win in this
rum war but it won’t collect repara
tions.—Columbia Record.
the general development of the re
gion.
Donald McDonald, former Seward
and Anchorage resident, accompanied
(by Frank Nash, both of whom are
now employed by the Alaska Road
Commission, are leaving Fairbanks
soon on an extended reconnaissance
trip which will take them to Circle,
Eagle, Tanana Crossing and McCar
thy, returning to Fairbanks by way
of the Richardson Highway. They
will be equipped to secure detailed
data as to topography and probable
routes for road and trail construc
tion.
Starr Due Tomorrow Nile;
Number Oil Men Aboard;
Oil Operation Close Down
The steamer Starr, Captain O. A.
Johansen, will arrive in port tomor
row evening from the westward, ac
cording to a wireless message re
ceived this morning. The staunch
little vessel left Kanatak last even
ing, it is reported, with a number of
oil men on board, most of wihom are
from the Associated Oil Company’s
property. Though the report could
not be verified this morning, it was
stated work has been closed down
for the remainder of the winter, ow
ing to weather conditions bmt that
they will be resumed early in the
spring.
COAL OPERATORS
SHOULD SUPPLY
ALASKA DEPTS
PRACTICALLY ALL BUREAUS IN
TERRITORY PURCHASE COAL
IN THE STATES
Alaska Railroad Wails for More Ton
nage Yet Cry Goes Unheeded
By Bureau Heads
Alaskan coal dealers are overlook
ing a mighty fine bet for a source of
distribution of their product in not
soliciting business from the Bureau
of Education department according to
information .given The Gateway a few
days ago. An approximate 3000 tons
of coal are consumed annually by the
many ifiissions and schools scattered
throughout the Territory, it is re
ported.
There are about 70 schools in Alas
ka under the control of the Bureau
of Education department and from
the figures presented the Gateway at
least 25 tons of coal is used each year
at the greater portion of this number.
However, there are a number of the
schools which will consume from 40
to 50 tons per annum while a few oth
ers will go as high as 300 tons for
the year. With very few exceptions
this coal business has heretofore been
placed Outside. Foreign coal has
been shipped ii*to Alaska when the
local operators are literally crying for
a market.
It was also pointed oui Dy ims pa
per last summer that another market
which should be supplied from Alas
kan coal mines was the naval radio
stations, of which there are at least
a half dozen stationed at different
points. The aggregate number of
tons used by these radio stations an
nually runs into the thousands. Tak
ing just these two government de
partments together, providing the lo
cal coal operators could supply this
market, not only would mean a step
forward in the general development
of the industry, but it would also
mean more employment, naturally, for
the many who are forced to remain
idle throughout the long winter sea
son, as well as increasing the tonnage
over the Alaska Railroad, something
officials at Washington, D. C., and
many others are always clamoring for.
Why should the government defeat
its own purposes? That of endeavor
ing to put the railroad dn a paying
basis. If the officials at the head of
the two government departments
mentioned purchased their coal sup
plies in Alaska, though the item may
appear small, an increased revenue of
approximately §10,000 would accrue
to the annual earning of the railroad.
More than £50,000 would be paid an
nually to the operaators from this
business. And these are but two gov
ernment departments mentioned of the
many in the Territory which should
be using Alaska coal instead of im
porting it from the States, which has
been done since the Territory was
purchased from Russia.
SEATTLE BOOZE
RING EFFICIENT
SAID WITNESSES
SELLER AND BUYER HAD PRO
TACTION PROMISED THEM
BY POLICE FORCE
AN AMAZING TALE OF GRAFT
Head of Organization Posed as Weal
thy Seattle Yachtsman When He
Visited British Columbia
SEATTLE, Jan. 22 (£>)—John A.
McLane, former office manager of the
Seattle booze importing and distribut
ing organization, including Roy Olm
sted and 11 others, said that Olm
sted put up $11,000 and the others a
thousand each.
He told the jury yesterday, “As
soon as we sold liquor to a man we
gave his name to a city official who
saw that the customer was unmolest
ed by the police.”
McLane and Raymond H. Jensen
turned state’s evidence against oUn
sted in the trial yesterday, throwing
a bombshell into the defense. Jensen
said he was Olmsted's garage mechan
ic and cared for the fleet of automo
biles. He said: “I know Olmsted’s
business as well as any man living.
He was a bootlegger, and a big one.”
McLane confessed that he wras office
manager and that Olmsted, wTho was
manager, received half the profits. The
rest was divided among 11 associates.
Olmsted Had an Alias
SEATTLE, Jan. 22 (IP)—William
Schertzer testified yesterday that he
had built the gas boat 846 for Olm
sted for a Mr. Clark, whom he as
sumed was a former policeman. C. J.
Clark, and two others, Prosper and
Craignac, who forfeited their bond in
the present trial, took title to the boat
from Schertzer, and Canadian offi
cers later seized the boat at Discovery
Island, June 4, 1923.
Otway Wilkie, a sergeant of the
British Columbia police, testified that
Olmsted went under the name of Cos
grove, and posed as a Seattle—Taco
ma lawyer-yachtsman. He had in
quired at Victoria wrhat boats visiting
the islands must do to satisfy the
Canadian officers. He was told he
must load and get away as fast as pos
sible.
Patrolman Found in Garage
Jensen’s brother, Patrolman G. C.
Jenson, was found in the Lenora gar
age when Wm. Whitney raided it
April 17, 1924.
The witness said the organization
had a Garford, Reo, Cadillac, Packard
and one other truck, also two Fords.
Dick Elbro, Eddie Gay and Herbert
Fletcher were the drivers of the cars.
McLane said the offices were re
moved to the Henry building from the
Coronado apartments. He said that
at a meeting June 14, 1924, he set
the prices on liquor as follows: For
a case of Scotch $60, Bourbon $70, gin
$75, with other liquors in proportion.
The trial is unravelling one of the
most sordid tales of graft and police
protection ever told in a court room.
FROHMAN URGES MORE TIME
AND MONEY ON LOCAL TALENT
NEW YORK, Jan. 22 (iP)—Daniel
Frohman has little sympathy with ex
peditions of American producers to
foreign countries for actors and plays.
The time, effort and money, he be
lieves, could be better used in this
country.
There are hundreds of actors and
writers in the United States who ^an
meet the demands of the stage he
says, and adds that the impression in
some quarters that foreign players and
plays have a greater attraction here,
is erroneous.
The communists are losing ground
in Bulgaria. They are seven assassi
nations behind.—Easton Express.