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VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 105.
SEWARD, ALASKA. MONDAY, MAY 6, 1929.
PRICE TEN CENTS
STEAMER ALASKA
NORTHBOUND WITH
LARGE LISTING
TWENTY STEERAGE ON SHIP
FOR SEWARD AMONG THE
LISTING
SEATTLE, May 6, (/P)—'The S.
S. Alaska, of the Alaska Steamship
company, sailed at 9 o’clock Sat
urday morning for Alaska with
192 first class passengers and 119
third class. The Seward list of 1st
class reservations follows:
A. Krinoy, Emil Hanka, Mrs. B.
Rodikiet, Dr. and Mrs. J. Sendu,
Mr. and Mrs. H. Bloom, Mrs. Carl
Berge, Mr. and Mrs. E. Foster, Har
vey Lazelle, George Hicks, H. W.
Steward, Mrs. M. Collins, Mr. and
Mrs. P. A. Carsons and baby;
John Christianson, Chas. Daniels.
C. L. McDermott, B. J. Bowers,
Guy Highberg, R. A. Highberg,
Ruth Edwards, Mrs. Annie Koger,
J. L. McAllen, Dave Dunbar, Mr.
and Mrs. Bert Liebeck, I. Jacob
sen, J. C. Duff, Jack Hesse, Mrs.
A. M. Hesse, J. R. Russel, Mrs. J.
B. . Weirn, James Weirn, Mrs. B.
Weirn, N. D. Sheppard, Cora Les
lie.
Mrs. Beckett, A1 Shaw, Ivar Pet
erson, T. B. Serimminger, Ruth
Larson, Mr. and Mrs. O. Larson,
Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Lane, J. D.
Burchard, Ralph A. Courtney, W.
D. Elliott, R. Anderson, Iver W.
Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. A. Garcia,
M. and Mrs. J. Leik and son; Jack
Caidey, Jas. H. Crowley, Bertha
Hedlund.
F. McNulty, J. M. Lick, Mrs. J.
Lick, Minnie Antaskie, John W.
Lee, Mrs. J. Darcy, C. E. Olson,
Miss M. Lick, G. Holmgren, F. J.
Mezzer, Mrs. W. W. Conners, Mrs.
D. Xenos (Oriental), S. E. Black,
M. Gorman; and 20 steerage.
HR HUET IS
SIFT 8? FLOOD
m DOSE n FEET
COLEBROOK, N. H., May 6,(^)
4 l he Mohawk river valley, stretch
me from the, Connecticut river
eastward, presented a terrible scene
from the flood which wrought hav
oc to houses, swept away bridges
an a highways and burst Balsam
ham when pressure from heavy
rains became too strong.
The loss is estimated at $100,000.
Warnings reached the residents in
time to prevent loss of life. The
river rose 20 feet in a few minutes.
VESSELS DISABLED
CLEVELAND, May 6, (£>)—’Three
Lake Erie steamers were disabled
on the Ohio shore. The City of
Buffalo, with a crippled engine
room and 50 passengers and crew
of 85 and the ore carriers D. N.
^Philbin and the S. S. Upson are
aground on Conneaut harbor.
MELLON STAYS PUT
WASHINGTON, May 6, </P)—'The
senate judiciary committee voted 8
to 5 in their report to the senate
hat Secretary Mellon be not dis
qualified to hold the office of
treasury because he was a stock
holder in various corporations. k
THREE RESIDENTS IN
THE MONET; NUNS ICE
For the first time in the history
of Seward local residents partici
pated in the famous Nenana ice
event. Harold Painter, Andy No
vak and Charles Harris were the
lucky ones each, with six others,
located elsewhere, guessing the
right time when the ice moved;
at 3:41 p. m., May 5, 1929.
Painter and Novak had their
ticket listed as Novak & Co., there
fore will split one-ninth of the
purse, but Harris, known to local
friends as “Gimpy,” will split with
no one but will draw' down a full
one-ninth or about $5,500, at a
rough estimate.
The winners were E. M. Rey
nolds, H. Painter and A. Novak of
Seward; A. Chiolerio, Jack Keat
ing, Mrs. P. Sheley, Thos. M. Cribb,
J. F. Kelly, G. L. Sheppard, Chas.
Harris, Seward.
SETTLEMENT 15
REACHED WITH
GERMANY. By H. S.
DELEGATES GATHERING TO
DAY FOR CONTINUA
TION CONFERENCE
PARIS, May 6, (JP)—The Ger
man and American reparations
delegations reached a full agree
ment and a complete settlement
and all that now remains is for
the Americans to win the French
and Belgian delegations to their
view.
Owen Young is conferring with
other creditor nations to effect
this.
The British and Japanese ap
proved of the agreement pre
viously. If the conferences are
successful plenty of sessions is
seen for today when the delega
tions gather in Paris.
The proposed settlement splits
the difference of the original
German offer of annuities of 1,
650,000,000 and the Allied demand
of 2,200,060,000 marks. The Ger
man offer is calculated at five
per cent interest plus nine-tenths
for amortization at the present
value of 26,000,000,000 gold marks.
Roughly, the $6,000,241,000, the
Alliad demand, amounted to 41,
000,000,000 marks or $10,000,000
payable over a number of years.
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FIREMEN OVERCOME
B» SMOKE, BIB FIRE
SAN FRANCISCO, May 6, (A5)—
Damage estimated at $200,000 was
caused by a fire which broke out
in the basement of a large shoe
store in the heart of the downtown
business district here.
Twelve firemen were overcome by
smoke while fighting the blaze
which for a time threatened the
whole downtown district.
BOUND FOR NAKNEK
SAN FRANCISCO,'May 6, (£>)—
Forced back to port by engine trou
ble Friday night the motorship
Chilka* sailed today for Naknek to
(call at the fishing stations in Alas
a.
MAJOR ELLIOTT
ADDRESSES CITY
OFFICIALS. FLUME
SUGGESTS VOLUNTEER ORGAN
IZATION BE MADE AS PRE
CAUTIONARY MEASURE
At the special meeting Satur
day with the Seward City Council
and Major Malcolm Elliott, pres
ident of the Alaska Road Com
mission, relative to the Lowell
creek flume, constructed last
year for the protection of city
and government property from
the flood waters of the creek,
Major Ellioott stated:
“The flood protection works at
Seward consisting of a diversion
dam at the mouth of Lowell
creek canyon and a flume for
conducting flood water to the bay
has been completed. The work
was substantially done and the
city has every right to be satis
fied with this workmanlike struct
ure.
‘The flume crosses two streets
and the main line of railroad. All
of these routes are carried over
the flume on substantial bridges.
To have carried the flume over
the railroad and streets would
have necessitated the construct
ion of lofty trestle work which
would have #ecn expensive, un
'
(Continued on Pag© Seven)
CROOKED OFFICERS
DETROIT, May 6, (£>)—Six for
mer customs and border patrol offi
cers pleaded guilty to acceptme
bribes from rum runners and were
fined $1,000 eacn and given jai]
sentences. Two others were placec
on prohibition and given suspended
sentences.
ALASKA CHAMBER
COMMERCE ELECT
OFFICERS, YEAR
FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR
TWO YEARS EXPENSES OF
ORGANIZATION
JUNEAU, May 6, </P)—The board
of managers of the Alaska cham
ber of commerce elected E. R.
Tarwater of Anchorage, pres
ident; Alfred J. Lomen of Nome
Luther C. Hess of Fairbanks and
Charles Benjamin of Wrangell,
vice presidents; Allen Shattuck
of Juneau, treasurer; and M. S.
Whittier of Juneau, executive sec
retary.
Juneau was designated as the
headquarters for the next two
years.
The expenditure of the $5,000
made by the legislature will be
spent under the direction of Gov
ernor. The organization now be
gins to function.
The Black Hills of South Dakota is
having a renaissance of its primal in
dustry—gold mining. Since the great
gold rush of 1876 when placer miners
panned out thousands of dollars a
day in coarse gold and nuggets, gold
mining has been the one supreme in
terest of the mountain towns. When
the Chicago de North Western Rail
way ran the first through train into
Dead wood in December. 1890. the one
thought of the welcoming people of
the Hills was that the refractory ores
could be shipped more easily, that
mining machinery could be brought
in at less cost, and eastern capital
could be more readily interested.
Tracks were laid with steep grades
and twisting curves, and smelters and
reduction plants were built.
When the tourist trade came to be
a tremendous factor owing to the
convenient and comfortable trans
portation, Deadwood considered that
only one phase of its life-long prac
tice of hospitality. The town in the
heart of the mountains always had
an out-flung latch-string and extra
places at the hearth and the table
The business of Deadwood gulch still
was dug out of the ground, not out
of the strangers’ pockets.
Now. after a quiet stretch of years
wlyle the price of gold stayed stead
fast and the price of everything else,
including labor, went up, the increas
ing music of picks against rock wall*
and roar ol mills is doubly welcome.
Dr C. C. O’Harra. president ol the
[ State School of Mines, reminds the
: people of the Hills that they have
made South Dakota with its small
1 gold area the second gold-producing
state in the Union, and that in their
half century of life, the Black Hills
have produced one-eightieth of all
the gold that has been mined in the
world since the days before men talk
ed of Havilah.
The last report of the Homestake
mine which has operated continuous
I ly for more than fifty years, insures a
long prosperous life to come. One
optimist is sure it will be at least one
hundred years Prom old camps and
districts whose names were familiar in
the eighties, nineties, and first decade
of the twentieth century, comes news
of the sinking of shafts, running of
tunnels, and starting of mills. Old
miners are coming into Deadwood
with samples of ore showing free gold.
From Boulder Creek, Bear Butte, and
Two Bit gulch, placer miners ara
bringing in coarse gold and nuggets.
And in March, comes the report re
calling the glad days of ’76. of a rich
strike of placer gold on one of the
high bars of Battle Creek.
TEXT OF CHINESE
I NOTE ABOLITION
i RIGHTS. PUBLISHED
CHINESE MINISTER MAKES PUB
LIC NOTE SENT TO UNITED
STATES
WASHINGTON, May 6, (/P)_'The
text nf the note from the Chinese
nationalist government looking to
ward abolition of American extra
territorial rights in China which
iwere presented to Secretary Stim
'son last week, was made public by
Dr. C. C. Wu, Chinese minister.
The note pointed out requests for
; removal of these foreign rights
| which had been made at the Paris
peac*4 conference and later at the
Washington arms conference.
At the latter conference it was
^ said t.o have been “placed on record
as a sympathetic disposition toward
furtheiing the aspiration of China
Icr removal of restrictions on her
political, judisdictional and admin
istrative freedom of action” and
jrdded; “The American government
rests assured that the legitimate
rights and interests of American
citizens in China will not be unfa
volablv affected in the least by the
relinquishment of extra territorial
privileges which they now possess.”
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FIRST BOAT SAILS
j WRANGELL, May 6,' (/P)—'The
first boat up the Stikine river
this season sailed at 8 o'clock
Saturday morning. Forty-three
passengers were on board and a
I large amount of mining mach
inery and other cargo.
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CHOSE SEI INSTEAD OF
OAKLAND, May 6, (/P)—Williard
! Martin, retired mariner, was given
tie choice between a wife and the
! ea. Two hours later in the hospi
tal he was fighting for his life and
his wife was in jail. She shot him.
in anger at a motion picture thea
ture. The woman was subdued
when an employe turned a fire hose
on her as she was holding the
smoking revolver.
THREE CHILDREN BURN
NEWCASTLE, Pa., May 6, (JP)—
Three children were burned to
death and the mother and another
child badly injured in a fire ex
plosion of gasoline in a stove. The
dead are Virginia, Dorothy and
William Stevens, the children of
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Stevens.
BIG TRUST FUND
DETROIT, May 6, (A5)—The
creation of a $10,000,000 trust fund
by Senator James Couzens to pro
mote health, welfare, happiness
and development of children thru
out the world, but in Michigan
state primarily, was announced.
FOREIGN COMPETITION
SEATTLE, May 6, (/P)—Few com
panies are preparing for herring
operations off the Alaskan coast
because of the heavy losses suffered
last year. Representatives of the
industrv are working for a higher
tariff on fish from Scotland and
Newfoundland which forced the Al
askan product off the market.