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VOLUME XIX
NUMBER 33
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7,1924
PRICE TEN CENTS
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SEATTLE, Feb. 7.—A resolution ad
opted by a Seattle mass memorial to
Woodrow Wilson, and forwarded i0.
his widow, in part reads:
“Woodrow Wilson, the outstanding1
character of bis generation, a man of
indomnitable spirit, and mental and
physical courage, whose mind was iul-j
lv stored of organized intellect inspir
» ed with divine impulses and of unus
ual talents given without stint, in
public service; a rare combination ot
ripe scholarship, Christian gentleman,
prominent statesman and leader; fear
less fighter, an idealist of lofty soul
and intense lover of humanity; who
was ever ready in the face of death
to emmolate self in a consecrated ser
vice devoted to establishing peace on
earth and good will among men, has
fallen.”
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TAFT BECOMES ILL
WASHINGTON, Feb. I-Wm_ H.
Taft suffered an acute attack ot indi
gestion as he started for the funeral
of Woodrow Wilson and was ordered
to bed by bis phy sicinns.
Edward Be.at.io, well-known ,'iiw
cian and te > iei of the Anchorage
band is ia Seward on a bu incos 'tip.
and may decide to loca’e in re Mrs.
Beiutto reia&o'v l i11 Aftelicinge.
ALAMEDA OVERHAULED
V The steamship Alameda, which sail
ed Saturday for Seward is just olf
the ways where she received a com
plete overhauling. Several new' state
rooms with bath have been added, and
better accommodations tor touiists
provided. It is anticipated the Alaska
trade will be heavy his year.
ALASKA PIONEER PENSIONS
MONEY SOON EXHAUSTED
JUNEAU, Feb. 7.—No more pension
allowances can be granted under the
Territorial Old Age Pension law, ac
cording to Lockie MacKinnon, treas
urer of the Pioneers’ Home board oi
trustees, owing to insufficiency of ap
propriation.
Even if no more pensions are grant
ed at the present rate of payment
under the law there will be a deficien
cy before the end of the biennium.
One hundred and ninety-one old age
pensions are being paid, oi which 25
are to women. Under the law men get
$25 and women $45 monthly. fl he to
tal appropriation was $60,000, ol which
only $38,000 remains unexpended.
BOM OF MSI
LAID TO REST 1
WASHINGTON TOMB
• WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—The nation
paid its last silent tribute to former
President Wilson today . Congress
stood silent in honor of the dead.
Eight non-commissioned officers and
petty officers from the Army, Navy
and Marine Corps, each participated^
bearing the flag draped coffin alone
to the chapel in the Episcopal cath
redral in the northwestern section of
the city in which city will be the per
manent resting place. Bishop Free
man and Rev. S. Taylor for the Pres- j
( byterians conducted services assisted
by Rev. Sylvester, Bishop of Prince-!
ton.
The actual entombment was res
erved for the eyes of his loved ones
alone, and the president and his cab
inet, the admirals and diplomats, had
no part in the interment, their ser
vices ending with the tributes paid
and their benedictions.
SEATTLE, Wn„ Feb. 6.—Public ser
vices were held for Woodrow Wilson
in the Orpheum theatre here today.
The Mayor leading divines and all
denominations are participating.
IS THEN ITS SEAT
ATHENS, Feb 7.—The Kafandaris
cabinet was sworn in yesterday to suc
g ceed the Venizelos ministry.
JOFFEY WITHDRAWS IN j
FAVOR OF DR. COUNCIL I
Word was received in a letter to
he Gateway from Anchorage that
John F. Coffey. Anchorage atttorney,
who had announced for the democra
;ic senatorship has withdrawn from
the race in favor of Dr. W. W. Coun
cil of Cordova. Mr. Coffey states
that he withdrew in order to have no
competition on the Democratic ticket ^
in the primary, and opposing candi- (
dates will be from different ends of ]
the division Senator A. J. Dimond. ^
the hold-over senator, is a resident of
Cordova.
Messages received in Seward today
state that Dr. W. T. Lopp, head of the
bureau of education in Alaska, will
arrive in Seward on the next trip of
the Victoria. Mr. Lopp’s headquar
ters have been assigned to Anchor
age in order that he may be nearer
the Indian schools.
MEXICO CITY Feb. 7.—Federal
troops occupied Vera Cruz today with-1
out firing a shot. The Rebel forces,
including de la Huerta and General
Sanchez, his commander-in-chief, ig
nominously fled the city when news
of the Federal advance was received, j
TWO STEAMERS CHARTERED
TO BRING CROWDS NORTH
Roth of the July sailings of the
Admiral Watson and the Admiral
Evans have been chartered, it is an
nounced at the local office of the Paci
fic Stemship Company. The Admir- i
al Watson has been chartered by the
Standard Touring Company, and will
leave Seattle for Alaska July 29. The
Admiral Evans will leave Seattle July
17 with the Frank Reedy party of Tex-,
as tourists aboard.
MARGULES DOING WELL
Leo Margules, former Cordova and
Seward business man, concerned with
E. L. Whittemore, and who still re
tains substantial property interests in
Seward, is now located in Santa Bar
bara Cal. Margules & Heide have
the Chevrolet agency in this city. The
first month the firm was in business
it sold 27 cars
WIFE DREADS HUBBY GOT
MAR°I ED; IS ARRESTED
CHICAGO, Feb. 7.—Ordinarily Mrs.
William H. Cook places no faith in
dreams, but wThen she saw in her
dream her husband standing at the al-!
tar with another woman, and the two
were receiving the congratulations j
due newlyweds, she became worried, j
Today her worries turned to anger j
when the dream she learned, had real- j
ly been true. Her husband was re-,
turned here, charged with bigamy.
The night Cook disappeared from'
his home five weeks ago. Mrs. Cook j
said today, she had had her dream, j
She was so impressed that she search
ed the records of marriage licenses j
and found that a man bearing the
name of Cook had been granted a li
cense to wred Alice Kingsley a caba
ret performer. She sent a wedding
present in the form of a warrant,
charging bigamy. Miss Kingsley de
clared that she will “stick by her hus
band.
CRIT TOLMAN HAVING
MANY ADVENTURES
Crit Tolman. who as a youth pass
ed much of his time in Nome and in
young manhood lived here for several
years, is now on a mining venture in
South America. He has been in So.
Africa with a motion picture outfit,;
and when that job was finished, he
set out for South America, in Brazil, i
His father, J. C. Tolman, well known
oldtimer of Nome was in Ashland,
Ore., at last acocunts.
J. LINDLEY GREEN
WOULD SUCCEED BOYLE
J. Lindley Green of Anchorage has
made application for the office of reg
ister of the general land office to suc
ceed F. A. Boyle, who has resigned to
make the race for Delegate to Cong
ress. Mr. Boyle will start an aggres
sive campaign at once The appoint
ment of register will be made some
time in March.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—No eulogy p
vas delivered by the minister in ^
:harge at Wilson’s bier yesterday, for ^
le had not wished it. Rather it was
lis wish that the respects paid him on
his day be spoken softly in the
learts of his countrymen. ^
Within view of his final resting t
fiace on the heights of the Mt. St. Al
3an site are the monument to Wash- j
ngton, the memorial to Lincoln and ^
the spot that marks the sleeping place; j
af the “Unknown Soldier.”
LAFOLLETTE MAY BE CHOICE |
FOR THIRD PARTY CANDIDATE: j
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—While the
republicans and democrats have made
plans for their national conventions
at Cleveland and New \ ork, respec
tively. next June, another group of
men, known as the farmer-labor par
ty, is working just as feverishing in
preparation for a national convention j
at St. Paul or Minneapolis, on May 30 ;
which may have an important bearing
on the outcome of the whole 192 4^ cam
paign. * * 1 , J
In close fight, the farmer-labor party j
would hold the balance of power in;
the electoral college. Already this
party has virtually wiped the demo
cratic party out ot Minnesota sending
two men to the United States senate
in a vocitorv over the regular repub-;
lican nominees. The insurgency which j
today is upsetting the customs and
practices of the house of representa
tives and shows signs of doing the
same thing in the senate emanates
from the same region of the country
where the farmer-labor party has de
veloped its greatest strength.
Mr. A. J. H. Hopkins, executive
chairman of the famous committee of
forty-eight, which has been endeavor
ing for years to put a third party into,
the polotical race, has just concluded
a series of conferences here.
A new factor has been introduced
in the general political situation, he
said to the writer in a special inter
view. “by the calling of the farmer
labor-progressive convention in either
St. Paul or Minneapolis. This conven
tion is the result of conferences re-;
cently held in Chicago, St. Paul and
Omaha, at which representatives of
various organizations agreed to unite
politically for the 1924 campaign.
Lee Gordon, the Seattle detective. 1
who passed through Seward on his
way to Fairbanks, went north to tes
tify in the trial of Romeo Hoyt, ar
rested for alleged robbery of the Fair
banks postoffice. Gordon is the of
ficer who picked up Hoyt In Seattle,
and this is his first trip north.
FfflUBOYLE
Opposition has developed in the pri
maries to Dan A. Sutherland, present
delegate to congress from Alaska,
Frank A. Boyle, register of the Unit
ed States Land office at Anchorage
announcing for the position. Mr.
Boyle has resigned from the land of
fice and will start an active campaign
again.;l Mr Sutherland, Ills' declara
tion of candidacy having'be* n filed
Saturday, ?i Juneau.
Mr. S’l'.Iteiloads attitude on the
fisheries and the division of the Ter
ritory has cost him many votes ie the
Territo.y, *?i'e.iai y '.o Hit- Flr*t di
vision, whore dvt*t.r I-* unanimous 1
and his tying up with Kii.-!*hio and
*he Wic»:evdim ' «'-•* a las also hurt 1
him. Mr. Boyle and his friends have
hopes of defeating Sutherland but
will know they have been in the race,
as Dan is especially strong with the
old-timers of the Interior.
Henry Roden of Juneau, also a dem
ocrat has entered the race for attor
ney general, his candidacy having
been filed at the same time that Mr.
Boyle’s was. Rustgard, who is anti- ]
administration, anti-American and an- ,
ti-everything, has lost considerable ,
strength in Alaska in recent years, ]
and Roden believes that with the split (
caused by the entrance of Coppernoll ,
and Frame in the field that Rustgard ]
can be defeated. ]
ACTED ON INSTRUCTIONS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6—The Ger
an embassy here claims that in fail
ig t<x half mast its flag during the
ineral of Wilson it acted on explicit
istructions from Berltn.
LABOR MAN NAMED
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.—T. V. O’
onnor, of Buffalo, former president
f the Longshormen’s union and at
resent a member of the Shipping
;oard, was designated by President
oolidge to be president of the board.
COLD RECORD BROKEN
JUNEAU, Feb. 6.—The coldest
leather of the year was recorded in
his city on January 24, when a tern- i
ierature of 7 degrees above zero was i
ecorded at the local U S. Weather j
lureau Station, according to R. C.
dize meteorologist in charge.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 —Furthei'
efforts to question Albert B. Fall were
abandoned by the Senate Investigat
ing committee today, upon advice of
Attorneys Strawn and Pomerene, who
recommended that he not be permit
ted io testily unless he waived immu
nity. Prosecution of the former sec
retary will be started soon, it was an
nounced. **
COUSIN OF PRESIDENT DEAD
RENO, Nev. Feb 7—George Cool
idge Hunting, a bishop ol the Protes
tant Episcopal church, of Nevada, and
a cousin to President Coolidge, died
here today of pneumonia.
PRICE OF HALIBUT HIGH
Advices from Seattle today show
that fresh halibut has reached a peak
price owing to a shortage, the fish
being quoted today at 24% cents.
HEAVY INTERIOR MAILS
Interior mails have been unusually
heavy the past month, Billy Burke,
the Nenana-Iditarod carrier, finding
It necessary to hire a helper to han
dle the 1600 pounds, on three sleds.
TOLOVANA MAN INSANE
Louis Dahl, of the Tolovana, is re
ported to have become insane, and
Deputy Marshal Hartwig left Nenana
this week to bring him in.
CHAS. SMITH BURIED
Funeral services over the remains
of Chas. Smith, a Hot Springs pioneer,
who lost his life in a cold snap while
on the trail a few weeks ago were
held in Nenana Sunday under the aus
pices of the Nenana Igloo Deceased
was one of the ninety-eighters.
MAIL PLANE NEARLY READY
Aviator Ben Eielson and Mechanic
Frank McAfferty are busily engaged
in assembling the DeHaviland Four,
mail plane, received at Fairbanks last
week, and the big machine is nearly
ready for a trial flight The machine
was shipped by parcel post and was
one of the largest packages ever pass
ing through the Seward office, weigh
ing several tons.
FAIRBANKS HAS DAILY
The Fairbanks News-Miner has re
sumed publication of the daily which
was thrown into a tri-weekly at the
beginning of the winter. The camp has
picked up to a point where a daily is
i necessity.
Attorney L. V. Kay was an Anchor
age passenger on today’s train to at
;end the short court term called by
Fudge E. E. Ritchie.
Judge E. E. Ritchie and Mrs. Selma
Scott, court stenographer, left today
or Anchorage, completing the court
erm here.
ENTER UM THE
Dispatches from Seattle and San
Francisco state that the Dollar Line,
>ne of the largest on the Pacific
mast, has purchased a number of
mats from the Shipping Board, three
>f which will be placed on the Alaska
•un this summer, going as far west as
Jnalaska. They will ply from San
?ranclsco.
BERLIN, Feb. 7.—The German press
declares that the action of Ambassa- ^
dor Wiedfeldt in refusing to lower the
German flag on the embassy at Wash- ,
ington on the occasion of the death
of Woodrow Wilson was a serious
blunder, and the German government
has transmitted to him what amounts ^
to a humble apology to America. It
is freely predicted here that Weid
feldt will be recalled.
Asks For Recall 1
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—Represen- 1
tation by the State department to Ber- 1
lin for the recall of Ambassador Weid 1
feldt and the scrapping of all relief i
measures for Germany are likely to be :
a sequel to the German blunder in or
dering its embassy not to lower its :
flag to half mast in honor of Wilson. I
VICTORIA WILL SAIL FOR
NOME ABOUT FIRST JUNE,
The Victoria, now on the Seward
run, will be the first boat to sail from
Seattle to Nome, leaving the Sound
City, Sunday, June 1. The Victoria
will make another trip to Alaska and
then go on the ways for overhauling
and repairs.
KANTISHNA MINER DEAD
John P. Nelson, a Kantishna min
er. died this week at the Fairbanks
hospital, tuberculosis of the throat
causing his death. Mr. Nelson was 40
years of age. He was a pioneer^
FROZEN NENANA MAN
HAS FOOT AMPUTATED
Eli Borich, who was brought into
Nenana recently, severely frozen
while on the trail in the Kantishna
has had one foot amputated in the
hospital at Fairbanks, as well as both
thumbs. He hay have other digits am-,
putated unless circulation can be res
tored. Borich ran into an overflow
near the 12-mile relief cabin, getting
both feet wet. He managed to make
j the relief cabin, only to find that some
j ctieechako had failed to replace kind
; ling and wood used, with the result
that unable to go out and gather fuel,
he was forced to crawl into a sleep
ing bag, where he remained for three
days, suffering intensely. He was res.
j cued by another traveler. Had the
I cabin been supplied with fuel, Borich
j ir. his benumbed condition would have
; been saved.
FLECTION SETTLED
NEW Oil BEANS La., Feb. 7.—-Mrs.
Roland Clark, woman candidate for
mayor of the town of Palmetto, Louis-j
iana, was shot and instantly killed,
and her son, Cieon, attf daughter, VVil-'
da, aged 18 were dangerously wound-!
ed by Louis Meyers, also a mayoral
ty candidate in opposition to Mrs.
Clark.
Meyers, who claims the woman shot
him first, is dangerously wounded, and
it Is believed he cannot recover.
The shooting started when the wo
man, accompanied by her daughter
and son, went to the office of Mey
ers and demanded a retraction of cer
tain utterances made by him in a
speech recently delivered. Upon his
refusal the woman drew a revolver
and commenced firing. Although per
haps fatally wounded the first shot
Meyers drew his gun and killed the
woman, and dangerously wounded the
son and daughter.
Henry Lucas and George B. Nelson
left on today’s train for their home on i
Skilak Lake. They took the train to
Lawing and from there will mush
down the lake over the ice. Mr. Lu
cas states that he has found the re
mains of about twelve moose killed i
by accident, drowning, etc., this win- ]
ter. Mr. Nelson has some fine pic- j
tures of sheep, moose and animals in ]
their traps. <
A ff. L. Meyer, treasurer of the j
Brown & Hawkins Corporation, left ]
today on a short business trip to An- 1
chorage.
Hugh Moore, of lower Kenai, re
turned this morning by way of Moose i
Pass.
EW SECT DOES NOT
BELIEVE IN DEATH
BENTON HARBOR, Mich., Feb 7.
-The members of the House of David
>lony are taught that there is no
;*alh. Those following this teaching
ent through their daily tasks yester
ay unmoved while the undertaker
lid out the body of Coy Pudnell’s, the
D-year-old son of Benjamin, fugitive
on of tiie “king” of the sect. Purnell
ied Sunday, last, from pneumonia
rhich was the climax of a lingering
isease. His death was not revealed
ntil yesterday.
'YONE INDIAN CHIEF
HAS FIRST CAR RIDE
Jim Second Chief who with his
vife was badly burned In a fire on
jake Susitna last fall, has returned to
lis home, completely cured, having
>een discharged from the Anchorage
lospital this week. It was the first
ime the couple had ever rode on a
•ailway train. Chief Tyone, a fat her
n-law of Jim, lost 400 blankets he w'as
saving for a big potlatch, and is brok
?n-hearted, as it was his purpose to
nave a gathering of the tribes and
make history for himself.
SEATTLE, Feb. 7.—Dr. J. B. Mer
tie, geologist, with three assistants
arrived here from Washington today,
en route to Nenana where they will
join Dr, P S. Smith and assistants,
who are now preparing to start on a
long trip to the Arctic.
The two parties will compose an ex
pedition which will survey the oil
lands in the Colville basin, from Pt.
Barrow\ east, belonging to the Navy.
The part/ will have with them four
specially constructed canoes, scien
tific instruments and a quantity of
supplies to be used in the work. The
parties will spend the summer in the
far north, leaving by way of Point
Barrow this fall. *
Will Gabe Santos, the popular res
taurant man of the new camp of Ka
natak returned to Seward his first
love, is the query of his many friends
here, who learn that Mr Santos will
hunt a new location in the spring. It
is only a rumor, but the way it has
been received shows that Gabe while
m UGH TRIP
The steamship Starr, which left Se
ward for westward points Jan
uary 27 has encountered rough wea
ther to the westward. It is reported
the vessel was hove to for over twro
days off Kanatak, waiting on Purser
Frank Horn, who went ashore and
could not get back, owing to the gale
blowing and the mountainous seas.
While discharging cargo at Kaantak,
a barge owned by the Kanatak Light
erage Company, sank alongside the
steamer, and considerable cargo was
lost. Owing to the severity of the
gale the Starr ran to shelter and re
mained there until the gale blew it
self out. The Starr left Kanatak for
Wide Bay.
SEATTLE ATTORNEY REPRESENT-1’
ING LARGE INTERESTS
URGES LEGISLATION
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—E. S. Mc
Cord, prominent Seattle attorney
epresenting the Pacific American
isheries, before the house merchant
narine fisheries committee today de
:lared that Delegate Sutherland had
vrongly accused the bureau of adopt
ng a policy which discriminated in
avor of the large packing corpora
tor.
McCord urged a bill providing for
he conservation and protection of
Alaska fishing grounds. McCord de
dared that all Pacific coast fishing in
terests would support such a measure