VOLUME XIX. NUMBER 174.
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 2.3, I9_4
PRICE TEX CENTS
WRANGELL CANNERY
BURNS; LOSS IS
PLACED AT $200,000
WRANGELL, Alaska, July 25—
The cannery of the Alaska Sanitary
Packing Company at Wrangell burn
ed this morning with a loss estimated
at two hundred thousand dollars. The
less was partially covered by insur
ance.
The steamship Admiral Rogers of
the Pacific Steamship Company which
was in the bay at the time of the fire,
rendered valuable assistance in pre
venting the fire from spreading.
DAVIS SAYS HE IS
• JEFFERSON DEMOCRAT
ISLEBORO, Maine, July 25—Davis
said in an interview last evening, that
he pleaded guilty to the charge of be
ing a Jefferson Democrat adding:
“I personally think that Jefferson
was the greatest political thinker this
^country has produced, and I expect
to die in that faith.”
BANDITS HOLD UP
CANADIAN BANK COM.
VANCOUVER, B. C., July 25
Three bandit? held up the Canadian
Bank of Commerce and forced G. E.
Bonnalie, cashier of the bank to open
the vault, which they robbed, escaping
with $19,000.
Bonnalie attempted to grapple with
one of the robbers and was struck on
the head with a revolver.
LOCAL NEWS
Mrs. F. A. Hansen, wife of the |
.superintendent of the Cordova railroad
is expected to arrive on the steam
er Yukon tomorrow, en route to An
chorage, where she will visit with
friends for a time.
Mr. and Mrs. McManus, employees
of the Alaska Railroad, will be south
b^und passengers on the Yukon for
.Seattle.
Mr. Anton Eide has a force of men
working on the Road Commission
w icehouse, replacing the old roofing
paper with a new galvanized roof.
Mrs. 1 Hoyles and daughters will
arrive on the train tomorrow to take
passage on the Yukon Sunday for the
States. Mrs. Bayles is the wife of
the well-known Anchorage clothing
man who will join them later in the
staves .
The fire hydrants are being paint
ed, white and red so as to make them
more noticeable.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Abercrombie
and children, Miss Queenie Russell,
Mr. W. Durham, Miss Katherine Mc
Mahon and Mr. W. L. Mackie, all
holding positions with the Alaska Rail
road in Anchorage, were week-end
visitors at Tunnel last week, with Mr.
and Mrs. George Colwell. Mr. and Mrs.
Colwell and children will be outgoing
passenger on the Yukon STftiday.
‘ #jg Mike” Sullivan, tie inspector
for the Alaska Railroad, is a vis
itor in town for a few days.
Mrs. H. L. Hugg and daughter Mon
ica, were week-end visitors with Mr.
and Jrs. Taylor at Tunnel.
Mrs. Claude Shea and children of
Anchorage, are visiting with Mr.
Shea’s parents in Seward.
Harry Hoben had a crew of men
and horses working the past two days
moving the two cabins situated in
the rear of the Arcade building, to
one of his lots located on Washington
ton and Second.
Mrs. Drager, wife of the superin
tendent of the fish hatchery-, at Mile
8 is spending a few days in town vis
iting with friends.
Charles Ivrefting, foreman of the
Carpenter shops of the Alaska Rail
road here, and who was sent to Fair
banks some time ago to do some spec
ial work in the Interior Metropolis,
will not be able to return to Seward
for about two months, according to
word received here.
Mrs. R. D. Chase, wife of the dis
bursing offiect, ace impanied by her
daughter Nancy, ail’ sail on t.he Yu
kon o^aa extended visit to the States.
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SMUGGLERS RAIDED
BY B. C. OFFICIALS
VICTORIA, July 25—Liquor stocks
valued at $3,500 were taken by officers
of the provincial police and customs
services Thursday in a raid on Smug
gler's Cove, Chatham island group.
The M3*32, a speedy gasoline craft
registered at Seattle was seized with
two of her crew and about sixty cases
of whiskey. Captain Salley and Wil- ’
Ham McKee, found on the confiscated
craft, were turned over to the immi
gration authorities here.
One Craft Escaped
One craft, thought to be the Colum
bianfan American cabin cruiser of
Seattle register, made out to sea and
avoided the searching party. The M
332 stayed at anchor alongside a Ca
nadian craft, a small cabin cruiser.
On board the American vessel the po
lice found between fifty and sixty cas
es of whiskey. The Canadian launch i
had a beer cargo but as her papers
were in perfect order and the cargo !
unbroached, she was allowed to go
free.
Now in Harbor at Victoria
The spe^d boat ,engined with an 8 j
cylindered marine engine giving her
a rare turn of speed in the water,
was placed under detention with Cap
tain Salley and McKee. The liquor
was transhipped at Cadboro bay and
turned over to the customs authorities
along with the craft which was later
later brought around to the inner har
bor. The men were given in charge
of immigration officials.
Rated at $50 a case the M332 carried
a cargo valued at approximately three
thousand five hundred dollars. The
capture was effected with the pas
sage of a shot and without resistance
on the part of the vessels remaining
to wait for the police launch.
The last seen of the boat that es
caped was on the horizon headed to
ward the American side. Police offi
cials think they made out the name
“Columbia” on her decking but are
not positive that was the name of the
craft.
Night Watchmen Object
When Robbers Disturb
Their Sleep at Night
DANZIG, July 25—Night watchmen
have complained that because of the
progressive methods of thieves they
cannot sleep properly at night.
Recently robbers endeavoring to
gain entrance to a food store manag
ed to get into the basement and be
gan boring through the floor for the
purpose of cutting a panel that
would.admit their bodies. It hap
pened that the night watchman was
asleep on the floor at that particular
spot and when his body was pricked
by the sharp instrument he set up a
cry that aroused all the nightwatch
men and policemen in the neighbor
hood. The building was quickly sur
rounded and the robbers were cap
tured.
Three new discoveries of high grade
free milling ore have been made in
the Hirst-Chichagof mine near Juneau
during the past two weeks, which will
put that property in the front ranks
of gold producers in Alaska. The dis
coveries were made in the middle of
July, and some of the ledges uncover
ed run over $95 a ton.
WINNER—OLYMPIC FINALS
COPYRIGHT UNDERWOOD 4 UNOEPWOOO. N. V.
Chester "Bowman ,of Syracuse, who
won the finals in the Harvard Stadium
at Cambridge, Mass., making the 100
meter dash in the time of ten and 6
10 seconds, which equalled the Amer
ican record made in 1921 by Paddock
TWO SCREEN FAVORITES
The picture that called for these ardent gazes is called “Tiger Love.”
In it Antonio Moreno and Estelle Taylor are said to have given one of the
best portrayals of their careers.
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MEMORIAL TO BISHOP
STUCK ERECTED IN
FAIRBANKS TODAY
“MYSTERY MAN” OF THE NORTH
HONORED BY PEOPLE
OF TEXAS
This morning at nine o’clock more
than five hundred people of Fairbanks
and the Frank Reedy party gathered
to pay homage to Bishop Stuck, Arch
deacon of the Yukon.
The ceremonies and erection of a
bronze tablet to his memory, originat
ed in Dallas, Texas, where Bishop
Stuck was once Dean of St. Matthew’s
cathedral.
W. F. Thompson of Fairbanks, gives
a short account of Bishop’s Stuck’s
life in his Town Topics, of the Fair
banks News Miner. He says:
Men and women, we among others,
who knew Hudson Stuck at times
viewed or regarded him as “The Mys
tery Man,” as did the people of Tex
as, who are now paying tribute to
him. At the foot of Mt. McKinley, on
January 25th last, Frank Reedy, who
is bringing the trainload of Texans to
Our Town next Thursday night, asked
the writer if he could solve the mys
tery of a quarter of a century ago—
why Hudson Stuck quit Dallas for
Fairbanks—and we are unable to do
so, or start to do so. At that time
Hudson Stuck was the most noted
preacher in Texas or high education
and attainments, with an immense
following, pastor of a fashionable
church, with all the world before him
and his heart's desire apparently eas
ily within his grasp. As he walked
the streets of Dallas, people stopped
and turned to watch him, if they did
not know him, asking who he was,
for Re was the height of fashion, of
imposing mien, a man who would then
attract attention anywhere. Frank
Reedy, the head of the Reedy Tours
Corporation, and who will be here
next week, was one of the vestrymen
in Hudson Stuck’s Church, and Hunter
Temple one of the Churche’s acolytes.
Suddenly one Sunday morning with
out warning, Hudson Stuck stood in
his Dallas pulpit and told the mem
bers of his congregation that he was
bidding them farewell. They had thot
that he was with them forever, and
without warning were told that they
would not see him again. Between
Sundays he was gone from his home
town, and soon he was in the unfre
quented regions of Alaska, where he
spent his last years, most of the time
in trying, apparently, to get away
from civilization, and into the far
places, or away from himself.
Yet, for that, in our town, Texas in
Alaska, perpetuates in imperishable
bronze, the name of Hudson Stuck.
For that all Fairbanks should be there
on that occasion. Texas, nor Fairbanks
know the solution of the “mystery”
or why a man of exceptional class left
home to spend his remaining days in
the roughest of rough spots, but both
the Far South and the Far North
know that if there was any ‘‘mystery”
the man in the case has solved it for
himself.
A continuation of precedence of!
the Stuck story, is taken f/om the
Outside papers, as follows:
In “Little St. Matthews,” the log
church in the snow at Fairbanks, Al
aska, two Dallas names will be me*
morialized on a bronze tablet, to be
placed next August by Frank Jleedy,
promotion director of the Alaska Rail
road, and leader of a party which are
going to tour it.
It will bear the names of Archdea
con Hudson Stuck, once dean of St.
Matthews Cathedral, Dallas, and build
er of the Alaskan church; and Hunter
Temple, once an acolyte under Dea
con Stuck and who lost his life in an
airplane crash in Dallas ,a few weeks
ago. The tablet is the gift of young
Temple’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Syd
ney Temple of Dallas.
The Rt. Rev. Harry T. Moore, Epis
copal bishop of the diocese of Dallas,
is composing* the inscription, and the
tablet wifi be dedicated with appropri
ate ceremony here, before it is sent
to the Far North, says the Dallas
News.
Dean Stuck officiated in Dallas for
ten years, between 1893 and 1903. He
signed to dedicate his life to mission
ary work in Alaska, where he subse
quently achieved the rank of Arch
deacon. He died of exposure'a few
„£ears ago. His grave is on the banks
of the Yukon river about 80 miles
from the church he built.
“Although he now lies many miles
from civilization, the Indians have
kept open the trail to his last rest
ing place,” Mr. Reedy said. “No man
ever exerted more influence on the
miscellaneous population of that Ter
ritory. Hrs name is still on the lips of
nearly every Indian ,Jap, white man
and what not you meet. Dean Stuck
lived and worked with all people and
really died of exposure. His name
is one thht will ever be remembered
and whose immortalization will be ap
preciated.”
Mr. Reedy said several years ago
Hunter Temple made the trip to Al
aska, and was especially impressed
with the reverence in which Dean
Stuck, his former teacher, was held.
Fairbanks is the largest norther
most community on United States soil.
The St. Matthews Church was named
not only for the patron saint, but for
the cathedral in Dallas as well.
Bishop Rowe of Alaska will officiate
i at the ceremonies in Fairbanks.
Governor Bone Due in
Seward on S, S. Yukon
Governor Scott C. Bone will arrive
in Seward on the steamship Yukon
on her arrival here tomorrow, and
will accompany Noel W .Smith, assis
tant to Secretary Work to Anchorage
where he will spend about a week.
It is planned to hold a meeting of
the Territorial Policy Board while the
Governor is in Seward, at which time
Mr. Smith will be made a member.
Noel W. Smith will be in Alaska for
a period of approximately ninety days
during which time he will look into
matters connected with the Alaska
Railroad.
DR. BRAAFLADT DISPOSES
INTERESTS TO NEW DENTIST
Dr. O. A. Braafladt,, who has been
practicing dentistry in Seward and
the adjacent sections disposed of his
business this week to Dr. A. R. Rob
erts who arrived here recently from
the states. Dr. Braafladt states he
has not decided whether he will re
main in Alaska or go back to the
states.
The Doctor and his wife have made
many friends during their stay in
Seward who will be sorry to see
them leave.
NEW DOUBLE BARREL
SHOTGUN DESIGNED
4 -:
OGDEN, July 25—John M. Brown
ing, noted firearms inventor* of this
city and inventor of the Browning
machine gun, announced today that
he has designed a new double barrel
shotgun, with one barrel resting on
top of the other.
MTAN MAY RECOGNIZE .
SOVIET GOVERNMENT;
TOKIO, July 25—A new policy to
ward the Russian government, on
which it is believed the government
will be willing to grant recognition
to the Soviet government, was adopt- j
ed by the cabinet at an extraordinary ;
session today.
TWO NEGRO BANDITS
MURDER DAUGHTER
ILLINOIS GROCERYMAN
CAIRO, July 25—A mob of more
than three hundred angry citizens
formed in Pulaski county Tuesday ap-!
patently bent on lynching two negroes j
suspected of slaying Daisy Wilson,;
the 18-year old girl who was killed
in the attempted hold-up of her fath
er’s stoie near Villa Ridge. The mur
der and attempted hold-up occurred
early Tuesday morning and the girl
was killed when she went to her fath
er's assistance.
The girl grappled with one of the
negroes who struck her on the head
with a black-jack Jailing her instant
ly
A posse with bloodhounds took up
the trail of the negroes who were lat
er apprehended by a railroad man who
summoned Sheriff Seymour to make
the arrests.
H. M. Welch, a neighbor of Wilson’s
died during the excitement. The sher
iff has sworn in a number of extra
deputies to assist in quelling the mob
members who are vowing vengeance.
Further trouble is anticipated.
Governor Small has ordered the Cai
ro guards to mobolize and proceed to
Mound City immediately to prevent
the lynching of the two negroes who
are in jail there on the charge of mur
dering the girl.
Royalists Will Regain
Liberty According To
Announcements Made
BUDAPEST, July 25—All persons
who were involved in the sensational
attempt tor estore the former Emper
j or Charles to the throne of Austria,
I three years ago, will be granted am
' nesty, according to announcement
made here yesterday, following long
deliberations over the question by the
1 cabinet.
The cabinet decided to take this ac
; tion after having been appeared to
by Admiral ‘Horthy, the regent.
The grant includes Count Andrassya
! and Count Sigray. The latter is the
j husband of the former Miss Harriet
! Daly, of Butte, Montana.
SAYS LEPROSY CAN BE
CURED BY NEW TREATMENJ
SEATTLE, July 25—Dr. Victor 0.
Heiser, director of the Rockefeller
Foundation and originator of the treat
ment of lepers in the Philippines, on
his arrival here late yesterday on the
steamer Jackson, stated that after five
years’ observations, one fourth of the
patients can be permanently cured if
they underwent treatment within foxy:
or five years after developing the di
sease and are not too far advanced in
age.
It is said the Standard Oil Com
pany will erect oil tanks at Port
Ashton, near Latouche this summer.
SNAPSHOT G Q. P. CANDIDATE
A study of Brig. General Charles G.
Dawes, vice-presidential candidate of
the Republican party, taken at his
home at Evanston, 111.
HAiiiBtR OF COMMERCE
PARTY HITS STORMY
WEATHER WESTWARD
WEATHER BITTER COLD AND
SNOW LOW DOWN ON
RANGES
Mail was received on the Victoria
Wednesday tellin gof the Chamber of
Commerce excursion to the westward
as follows:
False Pass, Sunday, 8. a. m.
We arrived at False Pass last even
ning after a good trip this far. Had
a heavy blow across the straits and
Urbach disapproved of the fallacy of
a paper across his chest. Mrs. Ur
bach is a good sailor as is Miss Rit
chie.
While in Kodiak we found fifteen
workmen building four Standard Oil
tanks ,about twelve feet in diameter.
Kark Armstrong shipped a cow and
a calf ftom Kodiak to Kanatak, which
helped to relieve the stillness of our
trip. We stopped at Uganik on our
way west and there found “Pistol
Pete,” Mrs. Stanton, and Harry Horn
and wife. Mr. Horn, it will be remem
bered, was former wireless on the
steamer Starr. AH were well-fixed
and comfortable.
At Kanatak we saw Bob McIntosh,
Tom Dodd, Gabe Santos, Derrick Lane
Evans, Reed and others. All were very
optimistic over the outlook for oil.
It was raining heavily in Kanatak and
there was much mud about the town.
The party went ashore in small boats,
and “J. P.” got his feet wet. At Uyak
we found several old timers and had
a good visit.
After leaving Kanatak we sailed for
Sand Point, and struck a very heavy
gale off Wide Bay. The.blow lasted
throughout the day and well into the
night. The party was miserable and
seasick. At Sand Point And^ Gros
vold and wife entertained the party
with the best they had in stock, which
is real good stuff, if you know Andy.
Here we found Art. Mellick and wife,
and daughter. Mr. Mellick is a son
in-law of Andy and was former mate
on the old Dora. *
At Unga we saw Judge Driffield,
Deputy Snook and Miss Stella Fuller,
the “Storm Queen.” Unga was very
quiet. The old Apollo mine, from
which five millions were taken out, is
closed and there is nothing doing much
irr the fishing line.
We reached False Pass at .day
DieaK ,ancl shortly after landing the
Vie arrived giving us a chance to send
mail back. We are having a good trip
and enjoying it very much. We will
reach Unaiaska tomorrow.
The Westward is certainly a hard
country, and it takes Alaskans of the
Pioneer stock to flourish out here.
It has been very cold for the past two
days, and the further west we get,
the colder it gets. The snow is low
down on the mountains, and from ap
pearances, winter is not far away.
The letter goes on to say that Mr.
Orlander is in the best of health and
getting younger every day, and that
Hannon thinks he is back on a ship
again. We surely would like to have
seen John in the days when he wore
a blue middie and bell-bottom trous
ers. Concluding the party says, “We
will be back, when we get there.”
Senator Brookhart Says
Will Be a Free Lance
DES MOINES, July 25—Senator
Brookhart, who is a candidate for re
election this fall in response to an in
quiry, announced that he will not sup
port President Coolidge, nor neither
will he support Lafollette in the com
ing fall elections.
ESKIMO WOMAN VISITS
IN PETERSBURG ON HER
MAY TO ST. MICHAEL
Mrs. Ada “Blackjack, sole survivor
of the Arctic exploration party which
landed on Wrangell Island near the
Siberian coast, recently spent a week
in Petersburg on her way to St. Mich
ael. She came to Petersburg from Hol
lywood, where she was featured in
the movies. It is claimed her hus
band from Nome died last month of
a broken heart, because his spouse
had appeared in motion pictures.
Mrs. Howard Johnson, of Anchorage
has accepted a position temporarily
on the diner, of the Alaska Railroad,
and made her initial trip to Seward
Tuesday. Her husband is a member of
the train crew.