VOLUME 19 NUMBER 287
SEWARD, ALASKA, MOJS
WAY,
JECEMBER 8, 1924
PRICE TEN CENTS
BONE’S MESSAGE
CAUSE NATION
TURN ALASKA
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TERRITORY IS BETTER UNDER
^ STOOD AS GROWTH PAST
DECADE REVEALED
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8—With the
eyes of the nation’s capital again cen
tered on the Northland, with its en
terprises of magnitude approaching
realization; with industry expanding
on a more stable basis and with the
Territory as a whole better under
stood. Alaska as a whole is destined
to show a great substantial growth
and prosperity in the coming decade,
Governor Scott C. Bone declared to
day, in his annual message to Secre
tary of the Interior Work.
For the immediate requirements of
the Territory Governor Bone urges
that Congress enact a law granting
to each Alaskan who served in the
world war, 160 acres of land in Alas
ka, and that no requirement of set
tlement, cultivation or labor, or im
(provements be imposed on the gran
tee; that the Federal highway act be
extended to Alaska, and that contin
ued provision be made for the upkeep
and operation of the Alaska railroad.
FIRE RAGING IN FAMOUS
GALLERIES AT NAPLES
NAPLES, Dec. 8.—Fire is raging in
the famous Umberto galleries in the
center of the city, and the famous
monument of architecture which took
from 18S7 to 1890 to build, and is
said to have cost 22,000,000 francs, is
threatened with destruction.
HjAPS DROP PORT ARTHUR
AS MAIN NAVAL BASE
TOKIO, Dec. 8.—The dropping of
Port Arthur as a naval base and the
strengthening of secondary bases at
Ominato at the northern end of the
main island of Japan, are features
of the navy’s program of defense re
adjustment.
WIFE FORMER PRESIDENT
ROOSEVELT SAILS CUBA
NEW YORK, Dec. 8—Mrs. Roose
y--eit, wife of the famous Spanish
American war veteran, sailed for
Cuba this afternoon to attend the un
veiling of a monument to Roosevelt
at Santiago.
MEMORIAL TO HARDING BE
ERECTED AT VANCOUVER
CHICAGO, Dec. 8.—The design of
Charles Marega, of Vancouver, B. C.,
Vas selected by the Kiwanas Inter
national Council for a memorial to
the late president Harding to be
erected at Vancouver.
JAPAN PROTESTS
NAVAL DISPLAY
OFF HONOLULU
JAPANESE PAPER STATES IM
PERIAL HONOR IS AT STAKE
AS RESULT OF CRUISE
OSAKA, Dec. 8.—Plans for the ma
neuvers of the United States navy in
the Pacific, based on Hawaii next
year, can only be taken as a frank
admission that Japan, and Japan only
is the potential enemy in the minds
tthe American naval authorities,
lared the Osaka Mainichi, one of
Japan’s most influential papers in an
outspoken editorial.
Fortunately however, the paper
continues, the cruise to the South of
Hawaii is not yet substantiated by
any official announcement, and it is
not too much to expect that this
part will ultimately be dropped.
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COPYRIGHT UNDERWOOD A UNDERWOOD. N. V.
BUILDING RAILROAD ACROSS
EVERGLADES
Barron G. Collier, capitalist, Spec
ial Deputy Police ommissioner of N.
Y. state, Deputy Sheriff of Westches
ter County, Vice-President of the
Boy Scout Foundation, a governor of
the Sulgrave Institute, and member
of a dozen boards of directors of
huge corporations and an active of
ficer in many, has found time for
another little job. He is president
and active head of a corporation now
engaged in building a railroad across
the trackless Everglades of Florida,
opening up hundreds of thousands of
fertile acres to agrciulture and hor
ticulture.
ONE SAILOR DEAD;
17 INJURED AS
LAUNCH BURNS
CAUGHT FIRE IN MIDCHANNEL
WITH THIRTY-FIVE EN
ROUTE TO SHORE
SAN PEDRO, Dec. 8.—One sailor is
dead and 17 sailors and two civilians
were seriously hurtled as a result of
the burning and sinking of a private
water taxi, the Lamoyne, in the har
bor today. There were 35 naval men
and two civilian operators on board
; the craft when it caught fire in mid
channel.
It is believed that several of those
injured will die of their burns.
SEATTLE OIL SWINDLERS GET
TERM IN PENITENTIARY
SEATTLE, uet. 8.—Leroy T. Bige
low, C. J. Rasmussen, and Leslie W.
Thayer, convicted officers of the Six
ty-six Oil Syndicate, have been found
guilty of intent to defraud and were
today sentenced by Judge Jere Ne
terer of the Federal court to two
years and 18 months and one year in
the penitentiary at McNeill island.
MAINE MAN AWARDED
WORLD PEACE PLAN PRIZE
AUGUSTA: David Starr Jordan,
has been awarded the prize of $25,000
offered by Raphel Herman of Wash
ington, D. C., for the best education
al plan calculated to manitain world
peace.
BANDITS CAPTURE PRIESTS
DES MOINES, Dec. 8.—Father W.
Creegan, head of the Passionist or
der of monks, announced the receipt
of the following cablegram from
Chen Fu Chow, China:
“Father Mathias, Dominic Edmund
and other priests have been captur
ed by bandits.”
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MEXICO CITY, Dec. 8.—Eleven civ
ilians were killed and seven wound
ed when military bandits sacked the
town of Tapalpa, state of Jalisco,
Saturday.
GOVERNMENT .
MAY TARE AWAY
INDIAN RIGHTS
CLAIM MADE THAT NATIVES DO
NOT NEED SPECIAL PRIVI
LEGES IN SEALING
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8—In the an
nual report of the Coast Guard serv
ice the opinion is expressed that seal
ing privileges extended by treaty
rights to Alaskan Indians may be
properly withdrawn. The report was
made to Rear Admiral Billard from
officers of the cutters, who state that
the natives no longer use the seals
for food and clothing but have begun
trafficking commercially in them.
It was learned from the Deputy
Collector of Customs at Sitka, the re
port says, that native Indians there
tooK 23 fur seals which were sold to
traders.
The Indians are also described as
having developed into a state of indo
lence, notwithstanding that there is
ample employment available at the
canneries and other places.
SEVENTEEN OFFICERS PUT
TO DEATH AT HERMOSA
MEXICO CITY, Dec. 8.—Seventeen
officers including three generals of
rebel forces, formerly headed by De
La Huerat in Tabasco state, who
were granted amnesty but later re
sumed activities against the govern
ment, were executed today at Villa
Hermosa, the capital of Tabasco.
PROSECUTOR ASKS
NAME BRIBE GIVER
SEATTLE, Dec. 8.—Edwin D. Col
vin, who will take office as prosecut
ing attorney January first, announc
ed today he would attempt to learn
from County Commissioner Dobson
the name of the man who Dobson said
last week offered him and Commis
sioner Gaines $10,000 to vote against
ihe appointment of Colvin as prose
cutor.
TOWNS SHAKEN BY TEMBLOR
LONDON, Dec. 8.—Many towns in
Anatolia were shaken by an earth
quake Saturday night, says a dis
patch to the Daily Telegraph from
Constantinople. Much damage was
done to buildings.
TORONTO, Dec. 8.—Henry S. Os
ier, king’s counsel of Toronto, will
face contempt proceedings because
he refused to answer the questions
put to him by E. C. McMillan, repre
sentative counsel for the United
States government, and to provide
evidence which the Washington gov
ernment regards as necessary in its
action to set aside the oil leases by
former secretary Albert B. Fall to
Harry F. Sinclair.
SMUGGLE PAMPHLETS
ACROSS SPANISH BORDER
PARIS, Dec. 8.—An army of vol
unteer smugglers is engaged in at
tempting to smuggle copies of the
pamphlet written by Vincente Blasco
Ibanez, in denunciation of King Al
fonso and Premier Rivera, across the
Spanish frontier, the author said to
day.
EIGHT KILLED IN COLLISIONS
CHICAGO, Dec. 7.—Eight persons
were killed in two collisions between
trains and automobiles in Illinois yes
terday. Three women died from in.
juries at Lombard and three men and
two women at Aurora.
Advertising has caused thousands
of gallons of Castoria to be poured
down the throats of the people.
COPYRIGHT KEYSTONE VIEW CO., NEW YORK.
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FUTURE QUEEN OF BELGIUM
Princess Mafalda, daughter of the
King and Queen of Italy, is re
ported engaged to Crown Prince Leo
pold of Belgium.
RARE TREASURES
OWNED BY NEW
YORK MAGNATE
ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS, DOCU
MENTS AND LETTERS EX
HIBITED BY MORGAN
NEW YORK, Dec. 8—The choicest
of Pierpont Morgan’s library of origi
nal manuscripts and drawings by
British authors, is offered to public
view in the New York library today.
It consists of the original manu
scripts, documents and letters of 150
British authors in prose and poetry.
“See, there is Milton’s manuscript
for book one of Paradise Lost, just as
the printer received it,” explained Mr.
Morgan to a press representative.
TROOPERS RETURN WITHOUT
PRISONERS—BELIEVED DEAD
DOUGLAS, Ariz., Dec. 8—Mexican
federal troops who left Agua Prieta,
Mexico, across the border from this
city, with thirteen civilians charged
with plotting a rebellion against the
Calles government, for Naco, Mexico,
returned today refusing to say what
had become of their prisoners.
EM3EZZLER KILLS SELF
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 8.—Having
embezzled fifteen hundred dollars of
the ship’s funds, Willard Earle Coop
er, of the Battleship Colorado, killed
himself this afternoon.
VICE CONSUL DAYTON .
ASSASSINATED BELGRADE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 8—The
death of vice-consul Henry A. Dayton,
who was shot several days ago in
Belgrade, was reported today to the
State Department.
RADICAL GETS PLACE
IN WARSAW CABINET
WARSAW, Dec. 8.—The Grabski
cabinet has been reconstructed with
the radical leader Stanislaus Trugutt,
minister without portfolio, acting as
vice-president. M. Trugutt will de
vote himself to political matters,
principally the improvement of con
ditions in the eastern provinces,
where there have been bolshevik
raids, leaving Premier Grabski free
to handle financial and economic
questions.
The other new ministers are M.
Ratajski, minister of Posen, who has
taken the portfolio of interior; M.
Zychlinski who becomes minister of
justice, and M. Sokal, who takes the
labor portfolio. M. Sokal has been
the Polish delegate to the interna
tional labor bureau at Geneva.
Advertising has made the Vlctrola
dog famous.
COOLIDGE SIGNS
DEFICIENCY BILL
VETOES OTHERS
PROVIDES FOR INITIAL PAY
MENTS UNDER SOLDIER
BONUS ACT
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 8.—
Coolidge this afternoon signed the
deficiency bill providing $126,000,000
for the administration and initial
payments under the soldier bonus act
and carrying out recommendations of
the reclamation fact-finding commit
tee.
Payment of the soldier bonus will
start immediately after the first of
the year when it is expected over
one million policies will be mailed.
Reclamation Bill Adopted
WASHINGTON, Dec. S— A section
of the Interior Department bill car
rying $8,943,000 for reclamation work
for the fiscal year, was adopted with
out amendment in the house this af
ternoon.
Postal Bill Increase Vetoed
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.—Supporters
of the Postal Employees pay increase
bill, vetoed by President Coolidge, ex
pressed confidence today that the
bill would be passed over the presi
dent’s veto this week.
PROMINENT FAIRBANKS
OPERATOR ON WAY EAST
Norman C. Stinnes, superintendent
of the Fairbanks Exploration Com1
pany, which recently took up its op
tmns on seventy mining claims in
that district, arrived in the city Sat
urday night, sailing today for Bos
ton, where he goes for a conference
with his officials. Mr. Stinnes will
return here some time the first of
the year.
Mr. Stinnes would not give the
Gateway any information as to his
company’s plans the coming year,
other than to state that this section
of Alaska would be greatly benefited
by its operations. He stated that
Seward would get much benefit from
the operations of the big company,
and that extensive developments are
planned for 1925.
Many employes of the company
were laid off the first of the month,
for the winter season, but a large
force will resume work in the spring.
FOUR SHOTS TAKEN AT DEPUTY
ROME, Dec. S.—Unidentified men
fired four shots at Deputy Farinneci,
one of Premier Mussolini’s principal
lieutenants in Cremona today.
FAMOUS RUSSIAN
ARTIST AND WIFE
IN TOILS OF LAW
ACCUSED OF FORGING ENGLISH
POUND NOTES—SENTENCED
BEFORE ON SAME OFFENSE
BERLIN, Dec. 8.—Ivan Miassojed
off, the famous Russian painter, a
member of the former Imperial Rus
sian academy of art, whose works
hang in the Hermitage Palace at Le
ningrad, beside those of his equally
famous father, stood again today be.
fore a German court accused of us
ing his art to forge English pound
notes.
With him was his wife, the dancer,
Vernice Miassojedoff, known through
out European underworlds as “The
Queen of the Forgers.” They are
said to have passed false English
notes to the value of approximately
$150,000.
Miassojedoff was sentenced once
before for the same offense, receiv
ing three years behind the bars; and
this time it is stated both he and his
wife will be given no less than ten
years.