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g g ____SEWARD, ALASKA. THURSDAY^ NOVEMBER 1919._____ __
ALASKA PAPER
CHANGES HANDS
KETCHIKAN, Nov., Edward
C,. Morrissey this morning purchased
the interest of llernard M. Stone in
the Ketchikan Chronicle. Mr. Mor
rissey is a .wide-awake ncwspap r
man ami will conti I le the excelh nt
nowspapT also adding many new f* :t
tu res.
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SEATTLE BOY
EXPLORING IN
ARCTIC REGION
SEATTLE. Nov., b— By A. P.— An
Vmerican explorer. Harold Noice, for
merly a member ot \ ilhajalmur Stet
ausson’s party, is working his way
eastward on foot along the route i f
the northwest passage on the northern
rim of the continent, according to
word received here. He expects to
reach the Hudson Pay country ami
civilization some time next summer.
Storker Storkerson. formerly sec
ond in command of the Steffansson
party, who arrived here tecently from |
the far north, said that Noice, accom
pained only by Eskimos, is proceeding j
slowly and mapping portions of the
coast lines as he goes. A stretch of the j
coast line of Victoria Land, heretofore j
unmapped, is being charted by Noice.
Noice may visit the interior of Vic- j
toria Land, which, according to all re
ports, has never been explored by
white men. All explorers, traders and
trappers who have touched V ictoria
Land have only journeyed along its
shores. Stefnnsson fop ml the tribe of
“blond Eskimos’* in the Victoria Land
country.
Noice has po ship and but few sup
plies. He depends almost entirely upo?
his gun for hi< living. Stefansson, his
former chief, who is noted among ex
plorer-: as being able to live off the
barren white lands of the north, pro
bably taught Voice how to get about
without carrying many supplies.
Noice's parents live in Seattle. The
explorer is young in years, having
graduated from a high school here
about eight years ago. He went north
in 1912 with Captain Louis Lane on
the schooner Polar Bear. When St«*t
ansson purchased the Polar Bear from
Lane, Noice shipped as a member of
the crew. Later . when Stefansson de
cided to return to the outside world.
Voice left the party and remained in
the North. His parents expect him to
return to Seattle next year.
MINISTER (UTSPOKEN AND
DEFENDS PRIZE FIGHTING
LONDON, Nov., 6— Cries of ap
proval greeted a defense of prize
fighting made by the Rev. R. .1. An
derson at the annual meeting the oth
er day of the Cheshire Free Churcn
Councils.
“Some people,” he said “have b *en
worrying lately over boxing and have
been holding prayer meetings to try
to put a »p to it The Church must
learn to understand the need of men
their physical and mental as well as
spiritual needs. We must encourage
fellowship and recreation. We must
realize that we should treat men and
women as human and alive and as be
ings who live in the open and not in
the convent.”
SIRSCRIBF FOR THF GATEWAY
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WASHINGTON, Nov.. ft— Vrcsi
,le»»i Wilson is to tell Senator Hitch
cock his views on the treaty reserva
tions and Hitchcock is to tell the
l»r**s ident what reservations are like
ly to receive the Senate’s support.
Piesident Wilson is against all reser
vations that will send the treaty hack
to Paris.
VN ALASKAN IS
SAVED FROM DEATH
BY HENTERS' WORD
Stranger than fiction is the story
of Fred Wagner’s life since he leit
the north a number of years ago
Twice in a British prison, sentenced
to death by the Germans, and de
prived of his property by the Ameri
cans. are so ne of the happenings,
bat the saving of his life in Ger
many by a man whom he had met
j in the noith is the strangest of the
Tinny unusual experiences .
Wagner is an oldtimer of the Ho*
Springs district, where he owns some
mining ground, and at the time he
J left Alaska he had a considerable
sum «:f money on deposit in the
First National Bank at Fairbanks.
The oldtimer was born in Lorain*,
and when the war started he wanted
to get home. He did considerable
, moving about until the Germans tin
ally took him into custody, and he
was still a prisoner at the great
German fortress at Metz when the
American forces entered the city and
I released him. Twice during his ab
1 sence from America he was appro
I headed by the British authorities, on
i one occasion having been sent to
! Scotland. #om which place his
1 friends in Alaska were apprised of
, his confinement.
After securing his release in Kng
I land, Wagner went into German ter
ritory again ami was interned by the
German military authorities. He es
caped from the internment camp, was
recaptured* and later made a second
attempt to escape, niter which he
was sentenced to death.
Count von Mauer, who visited in
terior Alaska a number of years ago
on a hunting expedition, and who
was in command of a German force
I near Metz at the time Wagner was
1 sentenced to death, came to the res
! cue of the condemned man. proving
1 to the satisfaction of the German au
thorities that what Wagner had said
| about being from Alaska was true,
whereupon a reprieve was granted
Wagner was not released, however.
until after the armistice was signeu.
While Wagner was having hi<
troubles on the other side ol the
A'ia'^ic, the alien property custodian
heat'd that the Alaskan hud entered
tb<* service of the German govern*
merit a< an eng'nef'r on a U-boat, and
steps were taken to seize the belong
ing; of the wanderer in this country.
Wagner returned to the States
soon after his release, and is now
at Fairbanks, trying to get his money
released from the bank. He was
passenger on the steamer Tanana.
arriving at Chena, a day or two ago.
The German officer who came
th' rescue of Wagner attracted con
siderable notice to himself in Alaska,
as the result of shooting an Indinr
which, he convinced the authorities,
he did in self-defense. He was in the
Hot Springs country and hunted on
several tributaries of the 1 unan
river during his stay in the interior.
After the shooting, he spent some tim
in Fairbanks. (Nenana News)
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REDFIELD HAS RETIRED
WASHINGTON, Nov., Score
tary Redfield has retired from tlv
President’s cabinet and assistant sec
re tary Edwin F. Sweet has been ap
pointed acting: secretary in his place,
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FIREMEN STICK
TO THE UNiCN
—
MOUTH YAKIMA, Wash., The City
Firemen have refused the com miss
; oners demand the sever affiliation
■vith the American Federation of L.i
J hor. Mayor Sweet says he will cut the i
| firemen from the eity payroll. It s
l expected all fire stations will he de
I sorted tonight. Memheis of the Ameri
can Legion refuse to take the places
jf the firemen.
RED CROSS IS
NOW BUSY IN
HUNGARY
PARIS, Nov.. 6— By A. P.- Ifw»-:
. gary is the first of the late Central
Powers to receive an official commis- ;
sion of the American Red Cross for
civilian work. To meet the urgent need
rfr medical and surgical supplies in j
the hospitals of Budapest, a train of
no cars in charge of a unit of twelve
American officers has been sent from
Paris. The supplies carried are vain
ed at $360,000.
The unit is in charge of Major >. I
A. Moffatt, of Brooklyn and Major B.
R. Metheany, of Seattle, both of whom
have had long experience in relief •
work in France . The transportation
, is under Captain H. H. Kidder, o
Maryhill, Wash., and the personnel is
under Captain Howard Armstrong of
Ruff alow. Other members of the unit
are: Lieutenant John A . Langsion, of ,
Celeburne, Texas; Lieutenant Fred
erick H. Mead, of Troy, N. Y.; Lieut
enant William Hoisc; of Troy. N. Y.;
Lieutenant L. E. Walsh, of Amhorst.
Mass ; Lieutenant V. J. Oldshue, of
Pittsburgh; and Sergeant R. D. Heim
bach of San Francisco.
The commission was sc*t to Roda
post at the request of the In'or-Allied
Commission in Pains. Hospitals, m
Budapest wen* reported as crowilecl *•*
overflowing but without the barest
necessities.
HORRIBLK — AIVFt’l,
A horrible accident was narrowly
averted on the government railroad
near Tanana recently. The train
which was rushing: madly toward th'
Interior metropolis at the rate of
nearly a mile an hour, ran off th*'
rails at Rather Junction, dropping: an
inch or two to the grround. The ma >
who walks ahead of the train to shoo
the cattle off the track was behind
to keep the people from running: ovo>
the government utility. When he saw
that the train was g:oing: slower than
usual, the Fairbanks News-Miner
says, he walked around in front of the
engine, seized it by the slack of the
tender behind and placed it back on
the track ag:ain. Had he not retained
h«s presence of mind the passengers
mipht of died n’everything:.
A
miner decor vi ed
Edwin Ernest Potter, formerly :»•
mine operator and all around influ
ential citizen of the Klondike, wa •
decorated recently at Ottawa hy the
Prince of Wales with the Militarv
Medal and Bar and the Distinguished
Conduct Medal for services in the
war. Mr. Potter participated in many
hard-fought battles, became his com
pany sergeant- Major, and was wound
ed. His wounds are still troubling him.
ESSEN. Nov., 6— Berlin newspap
;rs claim a plot has been discovered
by which the Communists plan the ov
erthrow of the government and estab
lish a Soviet government to become
Russia’s all>*. The Russian Bolsheviki
is said to be fomenting the plot.
CHINKS JOIN IIOLS
COPENHAGEN, Nov., G— It is re
ported the Bolsheviki has recruited
>0,000 from Petrograd to defend the
city. Many Chinese are recruiting.
EXTENSIVE AIR
POLICY URGED
WASHINGTON, Nov., G— The
special army board recommends that
the government air service be consoli
dated under a seperate department or
commission and recommends Congress
enact an aviation policy based on a ton
year program with large annual ap
propriations guaranteed to stimulate
commercial aeronautics.
SKRVICK FOR ACASK \
SAN’ FRANCISCO. \nv.. «*- The
Western Army Department Air Ser
vice has announced plans are being,
'
prepared for a seaplane mail service j
to southeastern and southwestern I
Alaska. These plans are ready to sub- j
mit to the War Department. Aircraft j
employed in carrying the mail will
make stops at Ketchikan, Juneau, Sit
ka and Cordova, according to the first
proposals.
The plans at presort do not call tor
wire to Fairbanks or Nome.
Negotiations have already begun
with Chambers of Commerce in Alas
ka towns for landing sites.
The Seward Chamber of Commer
or should lose no time in advising tho
Western Army Department Air Ser
vice that landing places are available
in Seward and that the proposed route
chould be extended to Resurrection
Ray.
AMERICAN FINDS IT
CHEAPER TO LIVE AT
HOME THAN ABROAD
LONDON, Nov., f>— Adam N. Sing
er of Berkshire, son of the American
inventor of the sowing machine, has
complained to the royal commission on
income tax that his income derived
from property in the United States is
so depreciated by double taxes, once in
America and once in Great Britian,
that he can not continue to reside in
this country.
Describing his situation and that of
his brother, Washington M. Singer, he
said that their incomes were reduced
to about 20 to 22 per cent of what
they would have been if untaxed. Am
erica, he said, takes 24 to 20 per cent,
and the British inland revenue takes
about one-half of what is left after
tho American tax is deducted.
“By going to lhre in America \\\
should double the incomes we actually
receive,” said Adam N. Singer, “One*
of our brothers already has done this.’
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FOOD SITUATION IS
SERIOUS IN PORTO RICO
SAN JUAN, porto Rico, Nov, 6
The longshoremen’s strike in Nev
York has caused a serious food situa
tion to develop in Porto Rico. Gover
nor Yager has wired to Washington
asking that a transport he del ailed
to bring supplies hero.
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INDIANAPOLIS, Nov., 6- United
Mine Worker’s attorneys are to file
.1 motion for the dissolution of the re
straining order which prevents union (
officials issuing instructions to the
coal strikers.
C. B. Ames, assistant attorney gen
i oral, had arrived to fight the move
I and he will on Saturday ask loi i
| temporary injunction to replace the
restraining order and to ask tin* court
to declare the* strike off.
labor leaders quibble
SPRINGFIELD, 111., Nov., <>
President Farrington, of the state
federation of Labor, does not heliev-*
| President Lewis of the United Mine I
Workers has the authority to end the
strike even if the court so instructs.
Twenty two hundred delegates or
dered the strike, according to Presi
dent Farrington.
deadlocked
CIIICAC.O, Nov., f>— The coal strike
situation is deadlocked between the
operators and the miners. The miners
say the governments refusal to vacal •
the injunction had blocked all hopes of
an immediate settlement.
More passenger trains have boon
cancelled.
A Topeka dispatch says over 100
families need coal. Iowa, California
and Nebraska towns are short of coal.
Farmers are planning to work th»*
Oklahoma mines.
NKW YORK. Nov., 6— Winifred forenoon by jumping in front of *
Vhaxter Denison, assistant United cubway train and being crushed to
States'attorney general, v«u?cx(Xed this death.
STEAMER NEWS
Steamer Alaska is due to leant
Cordova at 3 o'clock this afternoon.
The Alaska could reach Seward lai *
tomorrow night or early Saturday.
Steamer Admiral Watsor is adver
tised to sail from Seattle tomorrow
morning at 10 o’clock.
SATURN RETURNS TO PORT
The U. S. S. Saturn came into port
yesterday afternoon after a short stop
it Cordova. The Saturn will remain
here until after the arrival of the
Alaska, then go to Kodiak, thence
south to Vallejo.
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LA FOLLETTE AMENDMENT
IS DEFEATED IN SENATEj
.. WASHINGTON, Nov., <>— The Sen
ate has defeated the Lafollottc amend
ment to strike out labor provisions in
the treaty. The vote was 47 to 34.
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♦ GARFIELD IS TO
* REGULATE PRICES
• WASHINGTON, Nov., 6— Presi- *
* dent Wilson has given Fuel Ad*
♦ ininistralor Garfield authority to
* regulate prices, distribution, sale,
• shipment and storage of all coal
• during the present strike.
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PRINCE OF BAVARIA
TO BE TRIED FOR
COMMON LAW CRIMES
PARIS, Nov., 6— The name of
Prince Rupprecht of Bavanie is on the
list of six hundred German officers
whose surrender for trial for common
law crimes in France and Belgium will
be demanded, according to La Libcrta.
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MRS. RUSSELL SAGE
LEFT LARGE ESTATE
NEW YORK, Nov., G»— The late
Mrs. Russell Sage left an estate valu
ed at $40,000,000. Her brother, Joseph
Slocum, is the principal beneficiary,
{■eceb’jn? a bequest of $7,000,000.
COLUMBUS, Olvo. Nov., 6— A late
cojut shows that the wets have pro
bably carried the state. The Ohio vot
ers were against the %itification of the
i nhibition am ndment.
U.S. AS
ADVISOR
WASHINGTON, Nov., 0— Senator
Knok has introduced a resolution t>
release America from any obligation
to be bound to the League’s decisions
or recommendations. Senator Kno<
says he hopes to make America a con
sulting member of the league which
would give America the fullest com
%
plete liberty of action.
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WAR CAMP SERVICE
URGES OBSERVANCE
OF ARMISTICE D A V
NEW YORK, Nov., 6— The War
Camp Community Service has issued
a circular urging the celebration of
Armistice Day throughout the United
States on November 11.
Parades, pageants, concerts, dances
athletics and civic and neighborhood
dinners are among the community
celebration features suggested by
War Camp Community Service. it
gives a piominent part to returned
service men and to new citizens of the
United States, both becoming Ameri
cans by naturalization, and those of
native birth coining of age this year.
It is suggested that veterans of the
Spanish -American War participate in
the celebration.
FRANK FARMERS PUTS IT
ALL OVER GUNBOAT SMITH
SEATTLE, Nov., 6— Frank Farm
er, northwest heavyweight champion,
was given the decision last night in a
bout with Gunboat Smith. Farmer had
the better of the bout from the sound
of the gong.