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VOLUME XXI, NUMBER 71
SEWARD, ALASKA. MONDAY, MARCH 29, 1926
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SEATTLE, Mar. 2S. (JP)—Norman C.
Stines, connected with the Fairbanks
Exploration Company, arrived from
the North and said Alaska will wit
ness big mining developments this
coming season, and declared his com
pany alone would employ one thous
and workman this year, to develop
their mining properties. A large
amount of supplies will be shipped
North.
WM. BUTLER RESIGNS
IS SPEC! AGENT
EOS THE I. RAILROAD
WILL BE DEPUTY AT NULATO—
BILL GETS MARRIED ON
WEDNESDAY.
William Butler, who for a number
of years past has been acting as a
special agent for the Alaska Railroad,
is reported to have handed in his res
ignation recently, according to local
arrivals last Saturday. It is under
stood that Mr. Butler has accepted the
position as deputy United States mar
shal at Nulato, on the lower Yukon,
from Marshal Lynn Smith, and will
be leaving for his new office shortly,
but not ALONE.
For while in Anchorage last week,
Mr. Butler confirmed the report, cur
rent for some days, that on March 31,
Wednesday, Miss Marjorie Downes,
school teacher of Fairbanks, has con
sented to become his bride. Miss
Downes is a recent arrival from the
States. Announcement of the coming
marriage comes as quite a surprise to
Mr. Butler’s local friends who extend
he and his bride-to-be ■congratulations.
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GENERAu motors goes down
WITH HUDSON TO NEW
LOW RECORD
NEW YORK, Mar. 29. (£>)—Another
wave of selling orders has swept over
the New York stock market which
carried scores of issues including Gen
eral Motor and Hudsons down from
two to ten points. The announcement
that the banks have called in an ad
ditional ten million dollars in loans
was followed by a heavy bear attack
on the United States Steel Corpora
tion common stock, which broke thru
from 120 to 118 1-2 points.
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SAN DIEGO, Cal., Mar. 29.
Carlaris, the wonder colt owned by
the Chula Vista stable, returned to
its owners $70,700 at Tia Jilana today,
in running the seventh renewal Cof
froth Handicap of the Western Rac
ing Classic over a mile and one-quar
ter when the colt beat out a field of
nine stellar runners by eight lengths
and had to be pulled up.
Roycrofter was second and Cherry
Tree third.
Time, 202 3-5.
PORTLAND, Ore., Mar. 29. (^—Jen
sen and von Herberg, who owned a
chain of Pacific Coast Northwest mov
ing picture theaters sold out to the
North American Theaters Corporation
at a price reported to be six million
dollars.
The theater chain was started in
Seattle fifteen years ago.
ON IS PARACHUTER IS
HURLED TO HIS DEATH
STOCKTON, Calif., Mar. 29.(fl*)—
Jacques Fisheur, forty-three years of
age, and Hollywood parachute jump
er was hurled to his death when he
jumped from a plane at an elevation
of 1500 feet.
The parachute failed to open.
Three thousand people witnessed the (
fatal crash of the man.
CO-DEFENDANTS IN OLMSTED
TRAIL FIGURE IN NEW
SHAKE UP
SEATTLE, Mar. 29. (/P)—Gordon C.
Jensen and H. Arnold were identified
as the policemen who visited John
Keto at his home Saturday before the
Federals arrested Keto and seized a
quantity of moonshine and beer. Keto
told the Federals he had just paid
two officers to go away and leave him
alone. The report of the policemen’s
visit ot Keto was missing, but follow
ing the time of his arrest it reappear
ed twenty-four hours later on the per
manent file at the police booking of
fice. 1
Mason announced he will interro
gate the policemen today and con
front them with Keto. °
Jensen and his brother, Raymond,
were dismissed as Olmsted co-defen
dants.
LOS ANGELES, Cal., Mar. 29. (JP)
—A special officer shot Elizah Rob
ertson^ a negro, yesterday, who was'
attempting to break into a theater.
Robertson on the operating table said:
“Me shot! Why Doc, ahs ain’t even
got a headache!”
The attending surgeon found the
bullet struck Robertson squarely on
the back of the head and bounced off
to the left, leaving a slight bruise.
Robertson said he had tried to en
ter the theater to see his girl.
PEIRCE GOES TO FAIRBANKS
"* V. If. Peirce, employed in the Sew
ard wharf office by the Alaska Rail
roadi left town yesterday morning on
the freight train bound for the Interior
'on a visit over the line. Recently or
ders were received locally for the va
rious members of the office staff to
make a trip over the line in order to
become more familiar with the many
shipping points.
WEEK SCHOOL VACATION
The local schools are closed this
week in observance of Easter and will
not resume until next Monday morn
ing, a week from today. Naturally,
most of the children wish there was
no vacation—like fun!
TEN DEXSONS WHY YOU SHOULD JOIN THE
SEWARD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
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FIRST—ITS PURPOSE
The Chamber of Commerce is organized to forward
public interests- civic and commercial, which are or
dinarily neglected.
SECOND—ITS MEMBERSHIP
Because membership in the Chamber of Commerce is
open to everybody without distinction of any sort—
a democratic institution in the fullest sense of the
word the town meeting is being restored.
THIRD—ITS METHOD
Free speech and open hand dealings are employed on
the public questions, large and small, which arise in
the community.
FOURTH—CO OPERATION
Membership in the Chamber of Commerce shows
your sympathy with an organized effort to better the
community’ and life within it. The things that are
worth doing are brought to successful issue only thru
united demand and interest.
FIFTH—YOUR DUTY
You can afford to join the Chamber of Commerce; it
is a public duty to make that investment for the de
velopment of the Community.
SIXTH—REACTS ON YOU
In business you are broader and more successful when
you have a more active interest in municipal affairs,
civic and commercial.
SEVENTH—A CHANCE TO WORK
As a member of the Chamber of Commerce you are
afforded an opportunity to work for the conditions
you have, as a good citizen, long hoped for; you can
help things to happen.
EIGHTH—YOU GET OUT WHAT YOU PUT IN
If you give your best efforts you are justified in look
ing for results favorable to yourself, material and eth
ical. Your profits are dollars and cents through in
creased prestige of your community; but best of all
personal satisfaction at having come out of your shell
of self-interest and broadened your horizon.
NINTH—FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS
He is a small man who cares only for his own success
and for the prosperity of his own generation alone.
Therefore, the broadened citizen seeks to ally him
self with those forces which are building the commu
nity of the future, for his children, and his children’s
children. .
TENTH—IN SHORT J
The Seward Chamber of Commerce movement ought
to prove a big impetus to the growth of the communi
ty in every phase of its life. You want to have a
part in this!
MARSHAL HAGEN OF NENANA
ESCORTING MOTELY QUIN
TET TO THE STATES
Five federal prisoners^ including
one insane, all from the Interior, were
sent south Saturday night on the S.S.
Northwestern, in the custody of Depu
ty Jim Hagen of Nenana. Guards
from Fairbanks to Seward were Mr.
and Mrs. C. D. Flannigan, Mrs. Will
iam E. Evans, H. I. Miller and J. H.
Russell.
Included in the party were Martha
Bergman, insane native woman, who
was brought to Fairbanks from Akiak
last fall on a charge of murder as the
result of the strangling of her new
born child; Thomas Butler, sentenced
to serve two years for receiving and
concealing stolen property; Louis Pap
pas, sentenced to serve 7 years and 6
months on a charge of burglary; Ben
jamin F. Dixon, given 4 years' on a
conviction of larceny in a store, and
Jim Elian, sentenced to one year on
each of two counts of an indictment
and to apay fines of $100 and $500^ the
imprisonment terms to run concur
rently. The prisoners, with the ex
ception of Martha Bergman, who is
sent to Morningside sanitarium, will
be delivered to McNeil’s Island peni
tentiary.
ROME, Mar. 29. (JP)—The Fascisms
seventh birthday was enthusiastically
celebrated throughout the nation yes
terday with imposing ceremonies. The
fifty thousand people who marched in
the parade in Nome and as many more
sympathizers, were cheered enthusi
astically.
Mussolini said: “It is necesary that
you become disciplined to the very
limit in your daily work, as the great
hour does not strike every moment,
nor on all clocks.”
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PALERMO, Sicily, Mar. 29. (/P)—
Louis Philippe, Duke of Orleans and
pretender to the-throne of France died
of pneumonia yesterday. His sister,
the former Queen Amelia of Portu
gal, was at the bedside.
He was a grandson of the last king
of France, Louis Philippe^ and the son
of the late Cotte de Paris. He was
born at Twickinham, England in 1869.
The story is related now of the dog
and sled team outfit which rescued
Pilot Howard Watt and his passenger,
J. Hill, when the airplane in which
they were traveling in to New Hud
son, Ontario, fell on its way to Red
Lake goldfield.
A miner sighted the plane acting
queering and wrhen it fell on the ice,
at Lost Lake? he hurried to the scene
with Indians and extricated the uncon
scious men from the wreck and car
ried them for 45 minutes on his dog
sled to a Red Cross station.
The men are expected to live.
SOUTHBOUND LISTING
FAIRLY LARGE NUMBER RESER
VATIONS MADE LOCALLY
j FOR THE SOUTH.
The southbound reservation listing
of the S.S. Northwestern, out of Se
ward midnight, Saturday night, con
sisted of the following:
For Labouche—J. N. Nettleton, Wm.
Moore, Miss Aria de Long, E. W. Ma
jor, John Pagrom.
For Yaldez—Jim Paulson, J. J. Mc
Donald, W. Schmitts, Brenner Haines,
H. P. Sullivan, Sam G-uyot.
For Cordova—M. H. Molver.
For Juneau—J. L. Lucky, Mr. and
Mrs. Ed Connors, Charles Cook, A.
Krenwald, Wm. Matheson, W. G. Mc
Rae.
For Ketchikan—C. E. Chard.
For Seattle—Barbara Kramer, Mr.
and Mrs. P. H. Peterson, Mrs. J. E.
Kramer, Mrs. Frank I. Reed, Mrs. C.
Jacobsen, Nellie Hartman, Mrs. Sum
ner S. Smith, Sumner Smith, jr., D.
F. Hemen, Martha Bergman, Mr. and
Mrs. D. W. Flanigan, Mrs. W. E.
Evans, James Hagen, B. F. Dixon,
Louis Poppus, Jim Elian, Thomas But
ler, W. E. Lndy, F. B. Flynn, Henry
Cardgill, Andrew Winn, W. E. Root,
Mrs. A. H. McNear, D. Hong.
TOURISTS TO ALASKA
SEATTLE, Mar. 28. (/P)—Governor
George A. Parks, just before be em
barked for home said “Alaska was des
tined to become a winter resort for
Eastern tourists, who each year go
into the northern woods of Canada for
winter sports.”
Continuing he said: “When the East
learns they can go into Alaska in the
winter, as easily as in the summer,
there will be a tourist travel to A1
aska the year around.”
Good program at the Liberty.
HIP BOXER IN
PORT FOLLOWING TRIP
FRAUGHT WITH DANGER
BLINDING BLIZZARD AND ROCKS
HALTS STAUNCH VESSEL
BUT TEMPORARILY
The motorship Boxer, Ca^ain S. L.
T. Whitlam, in command, arrived in
port this morning ending an eventful
voyage from Seattle fraught with near
disaster. While en route to this port
the vessel struck the rocks^ March
6, during a heavy snowstorm, on White
Cliff Island, 25 miles south of Prince
Rupert.
The U. S. Coast Guard cutter Unal
ga left Juneau immediately to render
the vessel assistance and following
three attempts to pull her o$f the reef,
the ship finally slid into deep water.
The Boxer was then anchored in Chal
mers Anchorage, near the island, while
some repairs were made, particularly
to the electrical equipment which had
become wet No serious damage to
the vessel could be found in the short
preliminar survey made but Captain
Whitlam. The ship leaked somewhat
but these were easily handled by the
pumps.
A few days later the skipper pro
nounced everthing looked satisfactory
so headed for Prince Rupert to enter
the ways and be thoroughly inspected.
It was ascertained aside from some
damage to the keel and stern little re
pairs were necessary.
The vessel brought about 4 500 ties
to Seward for the Alaska Railroad and
will take another load of railroad
scrap material south. The Boxer car
ries a crew of fourteen men and this
trip makes her third one to Seward
this year.
TINKHAMNOTCH, N. H., Mar. 29.
(JF)—Arthur Walden of Wonalancet,
a veteran dog team race driver is en
route to the summit of Mount Wash
ington with his team in the first at
tempt which has ever been made to
scale the peak with a dog team and
sled.
The peak is 6,293 feet high.
MinflUOF
CORDOVA, Mar. 29. (JP)—Monty
Wain, aged 64, Alaska pioneer, died
while asleep Friday night. He came
to Dawson in 1898, then went to the
Nome district when that region was
struck. He has been in Cordova since
1907, and has been the inseparable
companion of his brother, Link, who
is manager of the Windsor Hotel of
this city.
STORM DRIVES REDONDO BACK
The S.S. Redondo which left port
Saturday afternoon for the westward,
owing to the heavy storm outside the
harbor, returned to Sunny Bay, Satur
day evening where it anchored thru
out the night.
STARR TO KNIGHT’S ISLAND
The steamer Starr; Capt. O. A. Jo
hansen, is scheduled to leave port for
Knights Island tomorrow where the
big barge Lawrence, loaded down with
ties, will be towed to this port and
discharged on the Seward wharf.
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