Hewnrd Daily Gntemny
VOLUME 19, NUMBER 263.
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1924.
PRICE TEX CENTS
PUBLICITY AGENT SAYS
REPUBLICANS WON BY
CLEVERNESS CAMPAIGN
SEATTLE, Nov. 8— George Creel,
director of government publicity dur
in the war in Seattle, at a lecture last
night stated he regarded the election
of Coolidge was due to the cleverness
of the Republican campaign in effac
ing Davis from the “picture” by build
ing up LaFollette and then driving
conservatives in both parties to sup
port Coolidge by making a bogey of
LaFollette and contending that the is
sue was “Coolidge or Chaos.’’
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RET URNS FROM NOME
DISTRICT NAME WINNERS
SEATTLE, Nov. 8.—Alaska Sena
tor Fred M. Ayer received a cable yes
terday afternoon stating that Charles
Brown, a Lafollette follower seeking
election in the senate is leading Mrs.
Lulu J. Welch, republican, and that
the winners in the race for represen
tatives from the Nome District are
Nylen and Wright, Independent party
candidates and Jensen and Sundquist,
republicans.
Former Wheat Magnate
Applies Reinstatement
To Board of Trade
CHICAGO, Nov. 8.—Joseph Leiter,
former wheat magnate who was oust
ed from the board of trade eighteen
years ago applied for reinsattement.
Joseph Leiter will be remembered
as the Chicago stock exchange capi- ,
talist who in 1897 attempted to cor
ner the No. 2 red wheat market on the
board of trade, and at the time was
the largest individual holder of wheat
in the history of the world. A com
bination of interests backed by Ar
mours broke him, and for the past
18 years he has been in obscurity na
tionally, but locally was President of
the Zeigler Coal Company, and of the
Chicago, Zeigler & GuGlf Railway, as
well as director in a number of se
curity and banking companies.
STATE SENATOR SENTENCED
JACKSON, Tenn., Nov. 8.—State
senator R. B. Swink was sentenced to
serve six months in prison for violat
ing the prohibition law’s.
CANADIAN RUM RUNNER
LIBELED FOR $90,000
VICTORIA, B. C., Nov. 8.—The
steamship Priuce Albert, said to be
the largest carrier in the British Co
lumbia-Mexican liquor trade, was li
beled yesterday on her arrival from
the South for $90,000 by the Com
mercial Cable company of New York.
The cable company claimed the
Prince Albert was responsible for
cutting off the Pacific cable outside
San Francisco last spring.
The company declared two rum
runners anchoring near the Prince
Albert, used the cable as a catch
for their anchors.
Captain John Nichols, of the
Prince Albert, denied his vessel had
caused the cable dailiage.
INTERNATIONAL BEAUTY
DOESN’T LIKE SENATOR
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 8.—
Society in this city was stirred to
day by news that Mrs. Peter Goe
let Gerry, international beauty has
instituted divorce proceedings in a
Paris tribunal against her husband.
Senator Gerry of Rhode Island.
ADJUSTED COMPENSATION
APPLICATIONS POURING IN
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 6.—
Approved applications for world war
veterans adjusted compensation are
reaching the veteran’s bureau from
the army, navy and marine corps at
a rate of 10,000 a day, and the num
ber now on hand exceeds a million and
one-half.
To date nearly 500,000 claims have
been adjucated of which nearly ten
thousand call for cash payments. The
remainder, for veterans entitled to
more than $50 cash payment, require
issuance of insurance certificates rep
resenting an obligation against the
government of $540,554,853.
Director Hines estimated today that
about 1,000,000 insurance certificates
will be in the mails by January first
and that all cash payments will have
been disposed of on March 1.
Officials charged with administra
tion of the bonus law have urged vet
erans to submit their applications,
only about 2,000,000 out of a possible
4,500,000 having been received.
LIST OF SENATORS
HOLDING OVER AND
RE-ELECTED NOV. 4.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 8.—The fol
lowing list shows the Senators who
hold over and those who wrere elected
Tuesday, together with contests not
yet decided.
Alabama—Underwood and Heflin,
re-elected.
Arizona—Ashurst, Cameron.
Arkansas—Caroway, democrat, and
Robinson, reelected.
California—Johnson, Shortridge.
* Colorado—Phipps, republican, re
elected. Rice W. Means, republican,
reelected for term now held by Adams,
democrat.
Connecticut—George P. McLean, re
publican, John Q. Tilson, republican,
appointed to fill vacancy caused by
death of Frank B. Brandegee.
Delaware—Bayard T. Coleman, re
publican, suceeding L. Heisler Ball,
republican.
Florida—Duncan Fletcher and H.
Trammell, democrat.
Georgia—Harris, democrat, re
X elected.
Illinois—McKinley, rep., and Chas.
S. Deneen, rep., succeeding to the seat
now held by Medill McCormick, rep.
Indiana— Watson, rep., Ralston,
democrat.
Iowa—Cummins, rep., race between
Smith W. Brookhart and Daniel P.
Steck, dem. undecided.
Kansas—Curtis Clapper, reelected.
Kentucky—Richard P. Ernest, rep.,
Fred M. Sackett, rep., succeeding to
^ seat now held by Stanley, dem.
Louisiana—Broussard and Ransdell,
reelected.
Maine—Hale and Femald.
Maryland—0. E. Weller, rep., Wm.
Bell Bruce, dem.
Massachusetts—Lodge and Fred E.
Gillett, rep., latter succeeding to seat
now held by Walsh, dem.
Michigan—Ferris, dem., Couzens,
^rep., reelected.
Minnesota—Hendrik and Shipsted,
Farmer Labor; Thos. B. Schall, rep.,
elected, defeating Magnus Johnson,
Farme^ Labor.
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Mississippi—Stephens, dem., Harri
son, reelected.
Missouri—Reed, dem., Spencer, rep.
Montana—Wheeler and Walsh, re
elected.
Nebraska—Howell and Norris, rep.,
reelected.
Nevada—Pitman and Oddie, rep.
New Hampshire—Moses and Keyes,
i reelected.
New Jersey—Edwards, dem., Edge,
rep , reelected.
New Mexico—Andrieus A. Jones,
dem., contest on between Bursum and
Sam G. Bratton, undecided.
New York—Wadsworth, rep., Cope
land, dem.
New York—Wadsworth, rep., Cope
land, dem.
North Carolina—Overman, dem.,
Simmons, reelected.
North Dakota—Land and Frazier.
Ohio—Willis and Fess.
Oklahoma—John W. Herreld, rep.,
W. B. Pine, rep., succeeding to seat
now7 held by Owen, dem.
Oregon—Stanfield and McNary, re
elected.
Pennsylvania—Peroper and Reed.
Rhode Island—Peter G. Gerry, dem.
Jesse H. Metcalf, rep.
South Carolina—Ellison B. Smith,
dem., Coleman L. Blease, dem., suc
ceeding to seat now held by N. B.
Dial, dem.
South Dakota—Peter Norbeck, rep.,
W. H. McMaster, rep., succeeding to
the seat now held by Thos. Sterling,
rep.
Tennessee—Kenneth McKellar, dem.
ar.d L. L. Tyson, dem., succeeding to
seat now held by John K. Shields,
dem.
Tennessee—Kenneth and McKellarj
dem., L. L. Tyson, dem., succeeding
to seat now7 held by John K. Shields,
dem.
Texas—Mayfield and Sheppard,
dem., reelected.
Utah—Smoot and King.
Vermont—Green, rep., Dale.
Virginia—Swanson and Glass, re
elected.
Washington—Jones and Dill.
West Virginia—M. M. Neely, dem.,
Guy D. Goff, rep., succeeding to the
seat now held by David Elkins.
Wisconsin—La Follette and Len
root.
Wyoming—Undecided.
REPUTY RELATES FACTS IN
KILLING OF JAMES HILL AS
RELATED BY WITNESSES
Special Officer Claude Shea arriv
ed in Seward yesterday from Seldo
via, where with Deputy Reed and
District Attorney Waller he went to
investigate the murder of Deputy
Marshal James Hill, who was killed
last week by Wm, Brooks, a home
steader. Mr. Shea, in an interview
with a Gateway representative gave
the following facts in connection
with the' murder and suicide:
Arriving at Seldovia, he went to
the scene of the shooting and went
over the ground thoroughly, but found
nothing that the local officers had
not already discovered with the ex
ception of a copper collar, a part of
a still, which wras found in Brooks’
barn. In conversation with witness
es, Mr. Shea found that Hill had met
his death as he was running.from a
tent which he had been searching for
evidence connecting the men with
the still. Testimony showed that
Deputy Marshal Hill found a hydro
mete^ used for testing mash, three
empty barrels, or partially empty, a
gallon jug, and a pint bottle with
some liquor in it, a siphon hose with
the odor of liquor clinging to it and
several funnels. Hill and Jailer Hurl
burt had arrested the occupants of
the tent, namely Walter and Lewis
Revire, and Jos. Gangnon, and the
men had been taken to Seldovia to
be placed in jail leaving Hill and a
young man named Jacobson iu the
tent. The tent being on Brooks’
land and in close proximity to the
house, Mr. Hill naturally questioned
Mr, Brooks about his connection with
the affair. Brooks, became very an
gry and tried to start a quarrel with
Hill, who left him and went back to
the tent, after warning Brooks that
he had better not be found working
with the three men arrested.
While looking about the tent, Hill
took a cup off a table and started
j to take up a cup of water, when a
| dog belonging to Brooks bit him in
; the hand. Hill is said to have shot
j at the dog several times, and the
animal ran yelping down the trail to
the house. Brooks, who is said to
have been of a very excitable nature,
grabbed his gun and started up to
the tent remarking that Hill had got
his dog and he was going to kill him
for it. Brooks remarked to his wife
before leaving that if “he (Hill) kill
ed that dog he would kill him.” Mrs.
Brooks tried to prevent his leaving
the house, warning him he would get
into trouble if he did. Brooks broke
away from his wife and when he ar
rived within a short distance from
the tent must have fired a shot up
in the air, as no bullet hole was
found in the tent, and testimony of
Jacobson showed that a shot was
fired -while he and Hill were in the
tent, and an automatic shell was
found in the trail about a hundred
feet below the tent.
At this point we will give the af
fidavit of Robert Jacobson, the only
witness of the shooting:
“When we arrived at Brooks’ place
we found Brooks and another man
unloading wood. We then went up
and crossed the bridge at Milo Hurl
burt's place and took a trail leading
there to Brooks’ place. When we
came to the creek Jim (Hill) ran and
jumped the creek, with Milo and
myself right behind. He went in to
the tent and started to search it.
There were two men outside of the
tent and one man in the tent. Jim
brought out a bottle containing li
quor and a jug with a canvas cover
on it, corks in a bag and a tester,
and a few pieces of hose used for
siphoning. Brooks came up to the
tent and said ‘hello’ to me, and some
one called him in the tent. Jim went
in ahead of him. They all came out
side but Brooks was fixing the stove,
dumping water out of the pots, etct
Jim said to Milo to take the prison
ers to jail and send John back to
get Bob and I. So they all started to'
walk away. Milo and prisoners took
the trail leading to Milo’s ranch and
Brooks the trail to his house and
went off. Jim then told me we would
take a walk and see if we could find
the still and mash. He said, ‘You
follow the creek up on both sides,’
and he -went down the creek. I was
gone about half an hour and return
ed to the tent and Jim was in there.
He says to me, ‘did you find any
thing,’ and I said, no, there was
heavy brush and no trail. He said,
‘we found a barrel,’ then showed It
to me. Then Jim reached for a drink
of water with a cup in his hand, and
a little black dog bit him on the
hand. Jim chased the dog outside
and pulled out a gun, emptying It
at the dog as it ran down the trail
toward Brooks’ house. He then said,
I think Brooks is in with the boot
legging gang.'
“We were talking of which way to
go t olocate the still and heard a shot
and it sounded like the bullet went
over or thru the tent, it was singing.
Jim pulled his gun out and began
loading it. I did not see how many
shells he put in it (at the inquest
but two loaded shells and no empties
were found.) Jim then stuck his
head out of the door of the tent and
said, ‘Bob. that crazy fool is shoot
ing at us.’
“I said, I am going to take a chance
and get away. So I lifted the back
Of the tent and ran straight for the \
brush pile. Just as soon as I enter- j
ed the brush pile I looked around
and saw Jim running around the
tent on the same side I was on. He
started to run down the clearing.
Brooks came around the corner of
the tent right after him, and says,
‘You-a-, get off my
land,’ and fired another shot at him,
and then fired another right after
that, and then a third one. Three or
foui, 1 couldn’t tell. I was running
thru the woods when I heard the last
shot, and I heard Jim say, ‘Oh, Bob,’
but I didn’t stop running. I went
over the hill and come to a clear
spot and met John Kavasnakoff.”
The testimony of Mrs. Brooks was
to the effect that “the first I knew
| of any trouble was when I heard
j some one talking outside to Mr.
Brooks. I went to the door and there
was a man there. I did not know who
j he was. I heard him ask Mi\ Brooks
where his lines were, and that was
all I heard for a little bit. Then I
heard this man say that he -would
contest Mr. Brooks’ claim on the
homestead. Mr. Brooks told him he
or any one else wanting to start
anything like that to hop to it. Then
Brooks came into the house and re
peated the conversation to me, and
I asked him who this man was. He
said it wrns Jim Hill. We then heard
shots coming from the direction of
the tent and heard the dog yelp.
Br6oks said ‘If he has killed that
dog, I will kill him.’ He went in an
j other room and got his rifle and I
told him he had better not go up
there. He went out of the house and
did not answer me. After he got out
of the gate he ran up the road and I
heard five or six shots, I could not
count them. In a few minutes Brooks
came back and said ‘I have got him
1 or crippled him for I saw him fall/
J He then went into the front room
i and came back out and went around
j the house and I heard another shot
| and thought someone was shooting
at Brooks. I went out thru the wood
shed and called his name once or
twice and when I came to the corner
of the house and there he lay.”
Mr. Shea stated that Books was
evidently of a surly and quarrelsome
disposition as he had attempted to
kill a man with an axe while in
the woods last summer. He evi
dently was in collusion with Louis
and Walter Revire and Joe Gangnon,
as a search of the dugout where
the still was found showed a mat
tack, shovel, hoe and and saw, as
well as an axe, all belonging to
Brooks, and identified as his proper
ty. The fact that Brooks’ dog hung
around the tent also indicated, ac
cording to Mr. Shea, that if Mr.
Brooks was not directly connected
with the still that he knew of its
existence, by Revire’s own confes
sion. The fact that Brooks flew into
so violent a rage over the shooting at
his dog< was also evidence that he
knew Hill would hang some mani
festation of connection with the lay
out.
Hill was found about 275 feet from
the tent, laying on his face. He had
been shot through the right should
er, severing the arteries near the
heart, the shot going in behind and
emerging in the center of the chest.
He had evidently fallen about 75
feet from where he was found, and
then got up and staggered to where
he died. The first drop of blood
was about 125 feet from the tent.
Hill’s reasons for running was a de
sire to avoid killing Brooks, know
ing the disposition of the man. Cov
er was near and he had tried to reach
it. His courage had been proven
many times, and he was believed by
his friends to be without fear. The
dog over which the shooting occur
red was not injured when Mr. Shea
and other officers visited the scene
of the shooting but was running
about as lively as ever. He had a
reputation for viciousness and had
bitten several persons according to
rumor.
“The fact that Brooks had loan
ed his tools and his utensils to the
bootleggers showed to my mind,”
concluded Mr. Shea, “that Brooks
knew of the existence of the still if
not actually implicated in the man
ufacture of illicit goods.”
LIQUOR SEIZED IS
MOSTLY SPURIOUS
WASHINGTON, D.. C., Nov. 7.—
Over 99 per cent, of the liquor seiz
ed by prohibition officers is spur
ious and a large part of it poison
ous, Commissioner Haynes declared
yesterday, on the basis of analysis
made by chemists of the internal
revenue bureau.
SELD0V1A MEN FOUND
GUILTY RUNNING STILL
Joe Conseil was arrested in Kenai
Nov. 2, and was taken to Seldovia
for trial before Commissioner An
derson, and upon conviction was fin
ed $800 and given six months in jail.
Louis Revire, Walter Revire and
Joe Gagnon, who were arrested at
the time of the shooting of Deputy
Jas. Hill, were tried before Com
missioner Ralph Anderson, and plead
ed not guilty. Later Louis Revire
broke down and stated that he was
responsible alone for the still and
that his two companions were not
implicated, A jury, however, found
Revire and Gagnon guilty and they
were later sentenced by Commission
er Anderson.
Among the evidence found in Dep
uty Hill’s pocket when his body was
brought to Seldovia was a blood
stained tablet with the names of the
Revirs and Gagnon at the head, and
an itemized statement of articles
used in the manufacture of white
mule. Th earticles were divided in
two, and the jury figured that Gag
non was thereby implicated in the
manufacture of the booze. He also
stated that all the articles found
in the dugout near the still belong
ed to Brooks. The still or dugout
was cunningly concealed, being im
possible to see when directly over
it, the face being covered with brush
and also the top.
“MA” FERGUSON LEAD
REPUBLICAN OPPONENT
DALLAS, Texas, Nov. 8.—With
about half the state yet to be re
ported, Mrs. Ferguson, democrat, is
leading George C. Butte, republican
for governor of the state of Texas
by about 5,000.
NOTED AUTOMOBILE
DRIVER IS KILLED
CHARLOTTE, N. C., Nov. 8.—Er
nie Ansterberg, world famous auto
mobile racer, was killed yesterday
while trying the new track, struck
the upper rail and went over it. He
died on the way to the hospital.
Ansterberg arrived here last week
from Los Angeles with a number of
other racers for the inaugural races
at the speedway. He held the world’s
record for the fastest lap on a mile
and a quarter board track, having
made this record at Altoona last sum
mer. His wife is in Los Angeles.
JAPANESE STAND
BLOCKS ENTRY OF
U. S. INTO LEAGUE
CHICAGO, Nov, 6—“The Japanese
position in the league of nations rel
ative to questions affecting immigra
tion,” has placed a serious bar to the
United States ever joining any inter
national league, Representative Theo
dore Burton, of Ohio, said today in
an address.
“The United States must always
be in a position to dictate upon her
own immigration problems,” the
added. “We cannot admit immi
grants who are uncongenial to our
industrial relations.”
The search was made before the
Chicago council on foreign relations.
“The league is a duet made up of
England and France singing in dis
cordant notes,” he said.
Speaking of peace he said:
“We must first reach an inter
national agreement to suspend all
hostilities until an international
commission can decide all facts of
law. We must then agree to abide
by international law. We must es
tablish a world court and we must
teach the people the necessity of
cooperation."
Civilization, he added, would not
survive another war.
SECY HUGHES PLANS
LEAVE PORTFOLIO ON
INAUGURATION DAY
WASHINGTON, D. G\, Nov. 8.—
Charles Evans Hughes is planning
'O retire from the cabinet, March 4,
according to his close friends here.
In that event, it is understood in
political circles here that Charles
Becher Warren, who recently resign
ed as ambassador to Mexico would
be given the portfolio, and through
the same sources, Senator Frank W.
Mondell, of Wyoming, one of the di
rector, of the War Finance corpora
tion, is slated to be secretary of the
Interior, in the new Coolidge cabinet.
NORTHWESTERN SAILS
SEATTLE, Nov. 8.—The steamship
Northwestern sailed today for Sew
ard with the following passengers:
Mrs. I. F. Kenyon and 14 soldiers for
Fairbanks and Seward, Mrs. E. G.
Brown, Winifred Wilder, Agnes
Smith, Mrs. W. E. Lee, H. S. Nobbs,
L. J. Smith, P. J. Norton, Mrs. M.
Schoonmaker, Leonard Hopkms, J. E.
Parry. .
STARR WILL SAIL MONDAY
SEATTLE, Nov. 8.—With several
passengers, mail and freight for the
Aleutian peninsula, the staunch little
steamer Starr, Capt. 0. A. Johanson,
will sail for Seward and westward
points Monday night, after a complete
overhauling.
AMUNDSEN AIRPLANE
WRECKED AT SEATTLE
SEATTLE, Nov. 8.—The airplane
in which Amundsen planned to fly
across the North Pole was wrecked
here on the tide flats this afternoon,
and in the crash, Wesley Gray, the pi
lot, was seriously injured. The plane
was being used in commercial flying
and for advertising the flight in or
der to secure subscriptions.
SPAIN’S FIRST WOMAN
MAYOR TAKES OFFICE
ALICANTE, Spain, Nov. 8.—Spain’?
first woman mayor took office today
at Gutra Tondeta, district of Con
centaina. She is Marai Perez y'Moya
and 40 years old. She is a widow
and a school teacher. Her appoint
ment is regarded as significant as
Spain has no law giving suffrage to
women.
DIRECTED VERDICT OF
ACQUITTAL IS SOUGHT
PORTLAND, Ore. Nov. S.—A di
rected verdict of acquittal for Chas.
S. Rudeen, ex-county commissioner
on trial charged with receiving bribe
money in exchange for an engineer
ing appointment, was asked yester
day by defense attorneys in Circuit
Judge Morrow’s court, where the
case is being tried.
LEGION STRIVING TO
ESTABLISH PEACE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 8.—
The fundamental principles for which
the American Legion is striving in its
effort to establish a lasting world
peace, were outlined today in a letter
from Drain, National commander of
the Legion. The letter was in reply
to a recent communicteion from the
the President, suggesting that the Le
gion emphasize the need of peace
above everything else in its observ
ance of Armistice Day. The enactment
by congress of a universal draft law.
the establishment of a “competent
world court,” and a further disarma
ment conference, constitute in the
opirfion of the Legion, essential steps
in the direction of a lasting peace.
MISSOURI STATE HAS
REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR
ST# LOt IS, Mo., Nov. 8.—Samuel
Baker, republican, was elected gov
?rnor of the state of Missouri, de
bating Doctor Arthur W. Nelson,
iemocrat, by about ten thousand^ ac
cording to the practically complete re
turns this morning.
HULBURT DEPUTY SELDOVIA
Milo Hulburt has been appointed
deputy marshal at Seldovia, succeed
ing Deputy Marshal James Hill. Mr.
Hurlburt is an oldtimer at Seldovia,
and has a record of being a faithful,
conscientious officer.