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VOLUME XXI, NUMBER 286.
SEWARD ALASKA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1926.
PRICE TEN CENTS
10 COMPLETE TOE ALASKA RAILROAD
ID MODERNIZE SYSTEM'S EQUIPMENT
SECRETARY OF INTERIOR’S REPORT POINTS OUT
MARKED SAYING TO BE MADE BY CARRYING
OUT PROGRAM OF ESTIMATES—GENERAL AD
VANCEMENT OF ENTERPRISE SHOWS MOST
ENCOURAGING OUTLOOK—BUSINESS INCREAS
IN EVERY LINE WITH PROSPECTS FOR MORE
In the annual report of the Secretary of the Interior
it is pointed out that the general policies for the fiscal
* year 1926 were the same as those for the preceding year.
* They call for the completion of the railroad and the pur
chase of modern equipment, in pursuance of the estimate,
previously prepared and submitted, amounting to $11,
878,781. "Because appropriations so far made for the pur
poses indicated in the estimates have provided only $1,
865,000, including $500,000 available May 10, 1926, the
greater part of the work yet remains to be done.
The improvements which have pro
duced savings in maintenance and op
eration consist of steel bridges erect
ed in place of certain trestles that
were becoming so rotten that exten
sive renewals would have to be made
in order to avoid undue hazard, and a
general improvement of roadbed.
Reviewing the total expenditures
for maintenance and operation for this
fiscal year as compared with last year
it is shown that there was an increase
in revenue of 21 per cent as repre
sented in increased revenue to the
amount of §206,274.63, while operat
ing costs were reduced 31.2 per cent.
It is pointed out that no further re
duction in the personnel can be made
except as a result of completion and
modernization of the road equipment.
The payroll for 1925 amounted to
§2,051,027, and for 1926, $1,914,548, a
reduction of §136,480 or 6.7 per cent.
The increase in railroad earnings
shewn as increase in other activities
in Alaska of a greater amount than
the figures at first indicate, because
less goods were bought and sold to
the railroad employes, by reason of
the payroll decrease, than in the pre
vious year. The advantage number of
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FURTHER DAMAGE
REPORTED IT Ml
DORIES LOST, BOATS WRECKED,
i SHINGLES BLOWN FROM
HOUSES
CORDOVA, Dec. 13. (A*)—Commis
sioner Driffield of Unga reported a
■number of dorys lost and a codfish
seiner high and dry on the beach, and
shingles blown from roofs by the re
cent storm.
The Pacific-American Fisheries fish
trop in Squaw harbor was destroyed.
Residents said it was the strongest
gale in years.
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TEAR UP FLOORING IN SHIP AND
FIND PIPER HEIDSICK
STORED
NEW YORK, Dec. 13. (/P)—Customs
men boarded the steamer Vincent and
tore up the flooring and hatches and
seized a thousand bottles of Piper
Heidsiek champagne bottled. Four
teen of the ships crew and the quar
termaster were arrested.
DUSTIN lit CUSTODY
NEWSPAPER MEN, OFFICER
CHICAGO. Dec. 13. (IF)—The Herald
and Examiner announced last night
that representatives of their papers
and a police officer brought Kennith
Ormiston to Chicago.
OAKLAND, Dec. 13. (IP)—Mrs. Kim
ball announced she was going to see
Ormiston when he comes to Los An
geles and make him admit she was
not Miss “X.”
EASTERN STAR MEETING
The Eastern Star meets this even
ing for the election of officers for
the ensuing year.
On Wednesday evening the Masons
meet and hold their annual election
of officers.
FIFTEEN YEAR OLD YOUTH
HELD IN SAN QUENTIN
SAN RAFAEL, Calif., Dec. 14 —
Although the court has ruled that
James Tassey, a 15-year-old boy, is
being held in San Quentin prison il
legally, it has no jurisdiction to free
body of Joe Tanko, notorious gunman
The boy’s attorney will seek relief
in the higher court which would have
the power to set aside the verdict
and penalty.
BODY NOTORIOUS GUNMAN
EXHUMED SI FRANCISCO
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SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 14.—The
eral w£eks ago, ■will be exhumed to
and bandt, who was slain in a pistol
dued with Detective Roney here sev
eral weeks ago, will be exhumed to
day for identification. A Santa Rosa
man believes that the slain man was
not Tanko, the bandit, but his ne
phew.
YOUNG WOMAN UNIVERSITY
GRADUATE RUNS AWAY WITH
COLD CASH
AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 13. (/P)—Re
becca Badley, a stenographer for At-1
torney General Dan Moody, governor- j
elect, and a graduate of the Texas'
university, and working on a master’s
degree, was taken into custody for
robbery of the Farmers Exchange
bank at Buda today. Chief of Police
Littlepage said that robbery charges
would be filed. Buda officers said that
the bank was robbed of between twel
ve and twenty-four hundred dollars
and reported that the girl, posing as
a newspaper woman, borrowed a type
writer and when all but two of the
employes had left for lunch, she lock
ed them in a vault and escaped in
a light automobile.
FORMIDABLE BUDGET
BEFORE CONGRESS
MANY INTERNATIONAL PROB
LEMS AWAIT ATTENTION OF
SHORT SESSION
WASHINGTON, Dec. 14. (/P)—A
formidable budget of international
problems await the attention of the
short session of Congress now in pro
gress.
So far as the Senate is concerned,
the World Court, for the time being,
is out of the picture. But the French
debt agreement remains. China
presses into the horizon of the Sen
ate foreign relations committee,
whose chairman, Senator Borah, be
lieves a serious problem, is taking
shape in the far East. Mexico and
Central America present a situation
which may demand Senate action at
any time.
The Lausanne treaty with Turkey
is the special order of business on
the Senate calendar for January 5.
The Borah resoluton urging modifica
tion of the United States’ ’Russian
policy comes over from the last ses
sion. Events in Cuba since the ces
sion of the Isle of Pines are to be
subjected to American scrutiny un
der authority of a resolution by Sen
ator King, Democrat, Utah, directing
an inquiry by the foreign relations
committee of the upper chamber.
Disposal of alien property seized
during the World war is the aim
of a bill already in the hands of the
House ways and means committee.
Machinery for settlement of remain
ing claims against Germany for war
damages probably will be provided
by the same measure.
LEGION MEETING
There will be an important meet
ing of the Seward post tomorrow
night at 8 p. m. Banquet room of
■Seward Grill. Election of officers.
All members urged to attend. Vis
iting members cordially invited to at
tend meeting.
MAY RESUME SEAT, PARTY
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13. (JP)—'The
Republican committee on committees
agreed to invite Senator Frazier, the
North Dakota insurgent, to resume
his place in the Republican party
councils and committees as a regu
lar.
His second vacation in eight years,
B. B. Mozee, superintendent of the
Central Division of Alaska, Bureau of
Education, passed thru the city Sat
urday en route to Seattle where, fol
lowing a conference with Jonathan
Wagner, chief of the bureau, he will
continue on south where he will be
joined by Mrs. Mozee and family wrho
have been Outside for the last two
months. Mr. Mozee anticipates^ be
ing away for at least three months
providing the department; will permit;
if not he will return to Anchorage, his
headquarters, at the expiration of one
month. If he remains away for but
one month Mrs. Mozee and' children
will not return north until spring.
Mr. Mozee requests anyone wishing
to take up matters concerning native
problems, during his absence,, to com
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municate direct to the Seattle office.
VOTERS SIGN THE RECALL
ELLENSBURG, Dec. 13. {^—Eigh
ty per cent of Roslyn voters signed
the Hartley recall.
:last call sounded for
ADJUSTED COMPENSATION
Now is the last chance for the ex
service man to make application for
adjusted compensation announces the
’ocal post of the American Legion,
which recalls the fact that applica
tions will not be received in Wash
ington on or after January 1.
MORE CASES OF SCARLET FEVER
A telephone report from Anchorage
today was to the effect that a num
ber of new cases of scarlet fever
have broken out. The cases, as were
the former ones are sad to be very
mild.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13. (£>)—1The
Treasury announced a $2,000,000 of
fering of nine months on three and
one-quarter per cent Treasury certifi
cates has been oversubscribed five
times. The issue meets the Decem
ber quarterly financing it was an
nounced.
WATERBURY, Conn., Dec. 13. (JP)—
Jack Delaney, light-heavyweight cham
pion, knocked out the “Jamaica Kid,”
New York negro, in the third round
of a scheduled 15-roi:nd fracas. The
'‘Kid” was on the floe r five times be
fore he was counted out. It was De
laney’s first fight since he won the
title.
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EUROPE BE DRY
SOME TIME SSYS
THE 'PUSSYFOOT'
ADVOCATE OF TOTAL ABSTIN
ANCE RETURNS AFTER
TOUR ABROAD
NEW YORK, Dec. 13. (^P)—“Pussy
foot” Johnson returned after a five
months tour of Europe and said he
found prohibition progress in England,
France and Greece slow, but that
European prohibition has a bright fu
ture. “Those countries have no time
to think about prohibition as they are
confronted with great national issues.
They will soon be able to think about
it however, and will come around all
right.”
SEWARD Ml ALMOST
LOSES HIS BANKROLL
R. V. JEWETT AND $1,500 ALMOST
PARTED; NOW IN THE
HOSPITAL
SEATTLE, Dec. 13. (IP)—A man
awakened R. V. Jewett, 37 years of
age, a miner, during the night and de
manded the sum of $1,500 which Jew
ett drew from the Bank of Seward.
Jewett refused and shouted and the
man hit him on the head with a wrench
w'hich was found in the room. Rex
Allen and Jack Kinsey have been jail
ed in connection writh the affair and
Jewett wras sent to the hospital.
REPUBLICANS REFUSE TO
SHELVE PROPOSED LEGISLA
TION THIS SEASON
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13. (^—Re
publican House Ways Means commit
tee voted solidly against shelving all
tax legislation for this session. The
Democrats voted solidly' for the propo
sal while it would result in eliminat
ing everything, including the Demo
cratic $335,000,000 reduction proposal
and the Coolidge plan for a credit on
income tax payments next year.
TDANS-CONTINENTAL
PLANES AT SAN DIEGO
DALLAS, Tex., Dec. 13. (£>)—Six
United States marine corps observa
tion planes landed at Love field on
their transcontinental flight from
Quantico, Virginia, to San Diego, Cal.
Major Ross E. Rowell, with one of the
planes is in charge of the flight, but
for the first time in any branch of the
service, enlisted men have been as
signed to pilot other planes.
LAWYER BILL PASSES
SEATTLE, Dec. 13. (£>)—Local law
yers said the bill for the increase of
salaries of judges in Alaska had pas
sed in Washington but includes only
judges appointed for life.