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Volume XV. Number 563. SEWARD, ALASKA Monday December 1, 1930. PRICE TEN CENTS
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BE WALK!
AROUND AGAIN
REMARKABLE OPERATION PRO
MISES TO RESTORE RAIL
ROAD MAN TO HEALTH
A telegram of remarkable good
cheer comes to Mrs. Hazel John
ston, wife of Fred Johnston, local
railroader, from her brother J. T.
Bradshaw in Seattle. Hope is held
forth that Fred will be walking
around in a few months, a well
man.
Fred Johnston was injured a
couple of months ago when he felli
?rom a tree which he had climb- j
ed to sight game. He dropped<
c bout 15 feet, his back sti iking 5
across a log. His back was broken -
hut it appears that the spinal 1
cord was not severed and was in- j
tact.
After several weeks at the Sew- j
r rd General Hospital during
which time the lower part of his
body seemed to be devoid of sen- |
sation. it was decided, upon the
insistence of Bradshaw that Fred
he sent to Seattle despite the
anger of die ocean voyage..—He „
vent out on the SS Yukon en
ased in a steel cast. Dr. Suther
; nd of Fairbanks and Father
Savage of Nome looked after him
on the trip down which he en
• ired with the cheerful smile
- nat he had maintained since his
.jury and in spite of his suffer
h 'g
Doctor Buckner operated Sat
urday. telegrams indicate. The
c roken vertebra ,,Tas replaced by
bone grafted from the shin. Dr.
Buckner says Johnston will be
walking around again in a few
months as sound as ever. Fred is
feeling great, says the telegram
which will be placed on the bul
letin board at railroad headquar
ters at Anchorage so that his
many friends over there may be
notified of the good news.
“Let’s smile. Sis,” wired Brad
shaw.
Wl ROBBER IN
TRIP IS KILLED
DT LRIIOFFICIIL
Oakland, Dec., 1, (/P)—Prank
Smith, with a long string of
aliases and said to be the leader
of the gang which robbed the
Southern Pacific train of $56,000
on November 9, was trapped by
officers in an Oakland home and
shot to death.
He is said to have been asso
ciated with robberies at Vancou
ver, B. C., all the way to Fresno,
since 1928 in stolen loot which
totalled more tha $250,000.
Other members of the gang
escaped from the house which
was manned with heavy guns
from all points of vantage.
P1LSUDSKI RESIGNS
WARSAW, Poland, Dec. 1. (£>)—
Premier Pilsudski resigned his
post as premier of Poland, re
suming his former position as the
directing head of the country be
hind the scenes.
TO NORTH POLE
BERLIN, Dec., 1, </P)— Com- •
mander Samoilwitch of the Sov
iet ice-breaker Krassin, which
rescued the Nobile expedition,
announced he is preparing to
reach the North Pole next year
and will take three airplanes.
MED IN
ENGINEER'S BILL
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NO MENTION OF ALASKA IN
TODAYS DISPATCH FROM
WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1., (/Pi
Army engineers want Congress
to appropriate $36,000,000 for
flood control work for the fiscal
year beginning in July.
Major General Brown sub
mitted this estimate in his an
nual report to Congress which
also called for $60,000,000 to be
spent in improvement and main
tenace of harbors and water
ways
Congressional approval has
been glygn - for _Ji2Mlfl,G£LQ—oL
which $35,000,000 is for the Mis
sissippi and its tributaries; $1,
000,000 for the Sacramento Riv
er in California, 313000.000 for
the California debris commis
sio. and $206,000 to operate the
dam on the Tennessee River.
NEW YORK, Dec. 1, </P>—A
message from the North German
Lloyd agent at Colon said a fire
which had broken out on the
freighter Ludwigshave off Cape
Maia, Peru, endangering the lives
of the crew and cargo, was now
early under control.
The ship expected reach Bal
boa, Canal Zone, during the day.
CONGRESS OBSTINATE
WASHINGTON, Dec 1. (JP) —
President Hoover invited legisla
tive chaos in an extra session of
the new congress by announcing
that he would call the session for
settlement of World Court prob
lems. The members Of Ccongress
balked to a man.
WIEU SUSTAINED
IT DEPUTIES TOTE
PARIS, Prance, Dec. 1. (JP) —
The ministry of Premier Andre
Tardieu twice escaped (defeat in
the Chamber of Deputies in votes
of confidence resulting from the
investigation of the Oustric Ban
que failure and the probe of al
leged parliamentary corruption.
In the first vote, M. Tardieu
was returned victorious by a maj
ority of 14, with the votes being
cast 293 in his favor and 279 op
posed to him.
NOME corn IS
I
OPTIMISTIC , NOTE OBTAINS
IN THE FAR KORTH, SAYS
LEGISLATOR
More roads arq needed on Sew
ard Peninsula to get out the min
eral, says Andy Nylen, Inpendent' 1
candidate who lqads the field for
the House from the 2nd Division.
Heavy cost of transportation is
one of the chief drawbacks. Mon
ey spent on roacj£ will multiply j
many fold if equipment and food t
can be landed on the creeks. The *
gold is there. It is only a question ; ]
of getting it out. i<
The Nome district will produce j
over a million ih gold this year, 1 <
but production ijias been some- <
what cut down bj reason of move
ment of dredges jto new locations, i
Individual hydraulikers and sluice i
box operations are working on
many creeks and with very few i
exceptions they are making mon- <
ey. A few are on poor ground, but 1
the majority are taking out much <
Nylen is manager for the Shov- i
el Creek Mining Company. The
company moved its dredge to
Spruce Creek bu the hydraulic
operations are bring carried on
along the benches of Shovel Creek,
he said The Hammond Company
is moving a arec :e from me n
mous Third Bear-’' line to Center
Creek. The Ham nond Corrrwny
has three dredges all of which
have been making a good gold re
turn.
Nylen flew from Nome to Fair
banks. Stopping at Ruby he had a
chance to talk to a few of the
miners. They are finding gold
there, but the ground is spotted
and will probably have to be work
ed with machinery or monitors.
In the Dry Creek section, out
from Nome, the Vella view broth
ers are operating successfully. The
Osborn Company dredge on Os
born Creek is having a difficult
time with difficult ground. The
Goldsmith Company on Solomon
have had a successful season
The dredge on Pasa de Poga
Creek has been moved to Ruby
Creek and will be operating next
spring. Manager Connors thinks
he will have things in shape for
the spring thaw. The Quigley hy
draulic operation on Salmon Riv
er is going ahead successfully.
A. C. Stewart on Sunset Creek
has a good hydraulic plant run
ning as well as a separate outfit !
on Mnument Creek. They have
a scraper on tailings on the lat
ter creek that Is making good.
There are many individual
leasers on Anvil and they are!
getting out. gold. In the Kougarok I
others are taking out good money
but the cost of getting supplies is
a serious drawback. Two dredges*
have been operating in the Coun
cil district as well as several hy
draulic outfits. The Imachuck
Mining Company is getting the
gold from their hydraulic opera
tions.
In the Candle district the Ke
walik Mining Company is making
good as well as a number of small
operators- Candle has been pro
ducing for many years and is
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..‘MOTHER’ JONES DIES ..
WASHINGTON, Dec., 1, (/P)—
Aary “Mother” Jones, 100 year
tld militant crusader for the
ights of laboring men, died last
light in her Maryland home.
PROOF SUBMITTED
^ORESTS ONCE CONTINUOUS
BETWEEN ALASKA AND
ASIA
WASHINGTON, Dec., 1, (/P>—
Scientists of the Carnegie Insti
ute said that the slabs of heavy
;rey shale brought from St.
jawrence Island this year by the
Gutter Northland, proved beyond
i doubt that a bridge of land
>nce existed across Bering Strait
:onnecting Alaska with Asia.
The shale was thickly covered
vith impressions of leafy twigs of
sequoia or redwood.
Dr. Ralph W. Chaney of the
nstitute said evidence of red
voods had been found in both
'Torthern Asia and in Alaska in-1
Heating that forests were once
continuous—between —eenfri-»
lents.
POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y. Dec. 1
f/P»—A family of four, living on a
farm near Stanfordville, was dis
covered stabbed'to death. Police
are without a clue as to the as
sailant and are unable to establish
a motive for the murders.
The bodies of James Germond,!
47, his wife, and his daughter and j
son, 18 and 10 years of age res- j
pectively, were • found by an em
ployee of a creamery who went to j
the farm to find why cream had
not been delivered a* the plant.
RELICS FROM NORTH
MIT GO MSKTON
A choice collection of old bones,
skulls and ivory came in on the
MS- Boxer for transshipment to
the Alaska College. These are a
part of the collection made by
Otto W. Geist who has been in the
North country for three years
making collections of historical re
cords that throw light on Alas
ka’s early history.
The present shipment is the re
mains of stuff that he could not
box when he left the Point Bar
row and St. Lawrence Island re
gion last year because of lack of
lumber for boxes. This was sent
back and the Eskimoes did the
work. Geist has been at the Col
lege tabulating specimens he col
lected some of which are destined
for the Smithsonian Institute in
Washington. Part of the present
shipment will ultimately go there
as well as to the Juneau muse
um, it was said.
RAGING GALES
BUREAU OF EDUCATION BOAT
IN CONTINUAL BATTLE
FROM POINT BARROW
In spite of heavy seas that swept
green water aboard for days
from Point Barrow to Seward, the
SS Boxer of the Bureau of Edu
Capt. S. T. Whitlam is carrying
reindeer cheer to Alaska ports and
Seattle. The ship arrived here on
Sunday afternoon out of Point
Barrow Sept. 7. It has been a con
stant battle with heavy seas from
the time they started. They picked
up 60 carcasses of reindeer at
Prince of Wales, Kotzebue and Ki
valina. They will leave here with
135 carcasses less Monday even
ing of which 100 go to Anchorage
and Fairbanks and 35 for Seward,
and will dispose of more carcas
ses at Cordova. Petersburg, Wran
gell, Juneau, and Ketchikan, with
possibly 350 left for Seattle. These
reindeer come from the native
and Lapp herds
*‘It has been the worst trip of
mv northern experience.” said
Captain Whitlam, heartily sec
onded by Ole Hansen, first mate,
and Chief Engineer Herman Sand
vig.
un mov. u. said the Captain
as he looked at the log, “we ran
into a terrific south wester 100
miles north of Dutch Harbor. It
was useless to buck "he gale so
we ran with it and made six miles
an hour with bare poles. We had
to spread oil on the waters to
prevent the heavy seas breaking
over us It blew us 90 miles out of
our course and we endured it for
seven hours. The Baldwin was in
the same g-He and very nearly met
disaster or* Nunivak Island with
one of her boilers out of com
mission.
“Then we bucked a heavy
northeast wind all the way to
Dutch Harbor. Previously we had
called at St. Lawrence Island
where we left school supplies for
two schools, and delivered two
teachers, Mr. and Mrs. Smith. The
island was covered with snow
and it turned very cold, freezing
our water pipes and tanks below
deck.
“All kinds of weather greeted us
on the way from Dutch Harbor
ot Seward. We called at Akutan,
King Cove and Kodiak but were
compelled to lay to for two days
to Seward. We called at Akutan,
gales A particularly strong wind
greeted us Saturday night on the
way to Resurrection Bay.”
ANOTHER RECORD HOP
MIAMI, Florida, Dec. 1. (ff) —
A record flight from Havana, Cu
ba, to Miami was established when
a Pan-American Transport plane
made the 261 miles in one hour
and 30 minutes.
POLICY UPHELD
WASHINGTON, Dec., 1, (£■)—
President Hoover’s oil conserva
tion policy was upheld by the
District of Columbia court of ap
peals. The court sustained the
order of Secretary Wilbur, last
March, rejecting pending oil
prospecting applications.