MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXIII. NUMBER 191.
SEWARD, ALASKA THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1928.
PRICE TEN GENTS
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MONSTER PETITION TO SECRETARY OF AG
RICULTURE FOR YEAR ROUND OPEN SEA
SON: WILL ASK FOR BOUNTY. LOSSES RUN
TO HUNDREDS OF HEAD OF SHEEP AND CAT
TLE AND MAN Y THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS.
After stock losses aggregating many thousands of
dollars, in the past two or three years, including over 500
head of sheep and over 75 head of cattle, the entire Ko
diak-Afognak district is up in arms against the depreda
tions of the brown bear and will seek the extermination
of the animal from that section. Following the recent
organization of the Kodiak Livestock Association, a mon
ster petition directed to Secretary Jardine of the U. _S.
Department of Agriculture has already received 500 sig
natures and is expected to reach 1500 when all of the in
habitants of the island group can be reached. The peti
r tion will ask for the absolute removal of any protection
for the brown bear and will then go before the Territor
ial legislature and ask for a bounty on the stock killer..
MAINTAINS THAT BY TAKING
LEAD POSITION U. S. PROVES
ITS INCLINATION
WAUSUA, Aug. 16. (/P)—Within a
fortnight tin3 International Treaty for
outlawing war will be signed. Presi
dent C'ooolidge declared before the
Wisconsin Stale Legion Convention
saying that tbs Kellogg pact “holds
greater hope for peaceful relations
than ever befona given to this world.”
In giving liis sentiments regarding
the forthcoming treaty fullest expi'ss.
■sions since inception of the pact the
President maintained that by taking
a leading position tin securing the
agreement the United States proved
:ts peaceful inclinations toward all
nations.
ROCKFORD, ILL. Aug. 16. (ff)—
Dart Hassel, accompanied by Parker
Cramer, copilot and navigator, took
off at 6:40 this moorning for Coch
rane, Ontario, on the first leg of a
flight to Stockholm. It is expected
it will take eight hours to make th»3
800 mile hop. They will make the
■second hop to Greenland tomorrow.
NOTICE
Owing to further changes in our
power lines it is necessary that the
power be shut off tomorrow morning
(Fr day) from nine o'clock until
t we’ve.
Such is the information brought in
from Kodiak by arrivals on the S. S.
Admiral Evans, among them being
Seward Old, promninet stockman at
English Bay on Kodiak, and W. T.
White, oof .the Alaska Agriculture
Experimental stations, in charge of
livestock raising. The movement will
undoubtedly receive the unqualified
support of the fishing interests, Who
have long recognised the destructive
effect of bear activities upon the sal.
moil industry.
The Kodiak livestock association
was recently organized with six mem.
hers and has already grown to 15.
including ranchers and stockmen.Jack
McCord oof Seward, who has stock
interests on Sitkalidak and to the
Westward is president; W. A. Gaudie
superintendent 'of the Baptish Or.
phanage at Kodiak, is vice-president
and H. S. Abbert, ohe of the most
£■ 4A11 (cent (farmers isk/bekraisers on
Kodiak, is secretary.treasurer. The
movement is gaining rapidly and will
soon number all the stockmen of that
section, it is said .
“The Outside world and even our
own Territoroy have no conception
of what we have been up against in
attempting to establish a livestock
industry in the Kodiak region in the
face of a government.protected peril
in the shape of the brown bear,” said
Mr. Old. “In spite of the fact that
we have lost so heavily there are ap
proximately 1,000 head of cattle and
400 head of sheep on the Kodiak.
Afognak group, and the fact has been
demonstrated beyond doubt that it is
an ideal stock-raising country capa
ble of almost indefinite expansion of
the industry if predetory animals can
be removed. We have a good cli
mate, plenty of water and feed. The
bear is our real problem.
“It is an astounding fact, but never,
the less true that Abbert lost nearly
$12,000 worth of stock last year thru
the depredations of the bear. In one
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RENEWS DEMAND THEY MEET IN
CHURCH WHERE MINISTER
TRADUCED GOVERNOR
ALBANY, Aug. 16. (.-P)—Governor
Smith, in a terse letter to Dr. John
Roach Straton, renewed liis demand
they mart in Calvary Baptist Church
where Straton recently declared the
Governor was the deadliest, foe to tho
forces of moral progress in America.
Smith insisted yes ©r> no in the an.
.over and clearly indicated he will not
consider the suggestion they mteet
elsewhere.
“Your reply shows you misund'ar.
stand the situation. I have no inten
tion of coonducting a political debate
with you. I wrote you not in the
capacity of a candidate or personally
but as Governor of New York whom
you traduced.”
GODFATHER OF ALASKA REIN
DEER INDUSTRY, NEW YORK
BANKER RETURNS
SEATTLE Aug. 1C. (/?)—Gold rush
days were recalled when the Alaska
Steamship liner Victoria arrived with
two bullion consignment of more than
$200,000, one from Kotzebue, tran
shipped to Bristol Bay from the S. S.
Tanana; the other from Nome.
Thei'3 was also 40,000 case? of can.
ned salmon and shipments of whale
products.
Leonard D. Baldwin, millionaire
i New York lawyer and Godfather of
the Alaska reindeer industry, arrived
after many adventures aboard the 50
foot tug C>enevieve which carried him
and Carl Lomen to Kotzebue Sound
and back. They towed a cold storage
barge around Cape Prince of Wales
successfully but in returning the craft
threatened to swamp several times.
Baldwin said Alaska is a wonderful
country and “Our reindeer bards are
multiplying. We now have 150,000
of the 900,000 in Alaska.”
A new line, Hamburg.American
ships with great refrigerators, will
open a European market where the
mat is prizted but it has been too ex.
pensive. “Baldwin reports aviation
and radio changing residental condi
tions in the north and planes can now
alight on the snow safely. The Lomen
Reindeer Corporation payroll is $150,_
000 a year.
AMUNDSEN ALIVE?
LONDON, Aug. 16. (/P)—The com.
mander of the Ru'ssian ice breaker
Krassin who has arrived at St. A/i
ner, Norway, announced his belief
that Captain Ronald Amundsen is
still alive and is determined to con
tinue the search for him said an Os
lo dispatch to the London Daily,
Lady Luck was not playing around
with Robert Daly Tuesday night when
he was flirting with the well-known
and Justly celebrated while mute.
In fact Daley was out of luck seven
Ways from the deuce.
In the first place he made the fatal
error of setting his jug down right be.
side U. S. Marshall Ralph Reed, as
the marshal was standing on. the dock
overlooking the preparations for the
sailing of the S. S. Admiral Evans.
It was about 2 o’clock in the morning
and Daley was feeling the oats of the
said white mule. H'e had some busi_
ness to attend to and left the jug
while lie carried his suit caste but be
had considerable list to leward.
Naturally the marshal investigated
hte jug and pinched Daley for pos
session of liquor. As they nvene
coming up the dock Daley opened
parley. “Now ain’t there some way
wre can fix this up?” he asked plain
tively. As he talked he 'edged toward
th dock railing and y^denly heaved
the suitcas'e into the tide.
Here again Daley was out of luck.
The suitcase landed smack on the
water right side up, and although the
lid opened the suit case floated mer
rily with its cargo of joy.
“Guess I’d better put the nippers on
this man,” said the marshall to him
self “before he pulls any more stunts,
: and go and investigate that suit case.”
He turned his prisoner over to the
! night watchman and rescued the suit
j caoe with its several quarts of booze,
j Then the third instance of Daley’s
hard luck became evident when a con
considerable hole was found in the
i side of the :>uit case but the surface
i
of the bay was so absolutely still that
tlte little wavelets did not lap into it
j and sink it.
On his appearance yesterday before
Judge Curtis Morford, Daley said he
had been building a barn at Fairbanks
and was on his way back to his liome
in Portland. Judge Morford gave him
a 30_day stopover.
LOCHER WET, STILL IN THE
LEAD BY HANDFUL VOTES
OVER HUNT
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CLEVELAND, Aug. 16, (£>)—A mis
take of 10,000 votes in favor of Sen
ator Looker in the count of Cuyaho
ga County was discovered when the
official count of the votes was made.
The unofficial vote, as tabulated
by commissioners, gave Graham Hunt,
a wet, 26,224 and Locher 12,989.
Discoverery cut Hunt’s margin to
not more than a handful of votes ard
changed the vote totals to, Hunt 85,
510 and Locher 88,172.
jCAPT. BERGER OF DISCOVERER
EXPECTS RUSH OF HUNTERS
TUSTUMENA
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{ Extraordinary moose, bear and
fsheep hunting: on Tustumena Lake
jand vicinity up the Xusilof river for
i the next month or so may make a
decided -change in the regular sailing
schedule of the Motorship Discover
er, according to Capt. Heinie Berger,
who brought his ship into the Port
of Seward last night at 10 o’clock
from Anchorage and way points. He
reports a fast trip down this time,
although leaving a number of pas
sengers and some freight at the
ports between here and Anchorage.
Mrs. Axe, wife of the Alaska Rail
road conductor, stopped at Kusilof
to visit the Harper family. He leaves
again Sunday with a full cargo and
passengers.
“There are said to be great possi
bilities for game, particularly moose
at Tustumena lake this season,” said
Captain Berger, “and local sportsmen
are polishing up their rifles for the
big event. A number are already pla'h
ning to go from Anchorage, and I ex
pect to get a number of local hun
ters from Seward. 1 would like +o
know' how' many contemplate the
I trip from here so that I can make
! arrangements accordingly. They can
[leave v*oid with you here at the Sew
[ ard Gateway.”
j This is the way the matter lines
up, according to the Captain. Follow
ing this trip he will be back here on
[the 29th. of August to leave again
[Aug: 30, on a special trip for Anchor
'age, to accomodate those wishing to
attend the Anchorage fair opening
i Sept. 3 and to take such hunters as
wish to go. He will take hunting
parties to Kusilof where a river boa'
will be provided to take them up the
j Kusilof river to Tustumena lake at a
| certain figure for the round tiip, tne
| huntsmen to stay as long as they
jwish, and to be called for a* arranged
dates. After his departure from Sew
ard on August 30 he will not be back
here until September 20th, unless
sufficient huntsmen of Seward form
parties to justify special trips, since
his prospective business front An
chorage to Kusilof will necessitate
a number of trips betwreen the two
points. “I now have the best means
of reaching these splendid hunting
grounds in the shortest possible
time and the best means of assisting
the hunters to get the meat out ”
said Captain Berger.
WARNING TO MOTORISTS
It was expected that the northern
dirt fill on the new bridge at Mile 5
would have been completed at m
early hour this afternoon but in case
it is not the Gateway wishes to warn
all motorists to keep off the detour
running along the side of the fill for
on the upper end, from the bridge,
low brush absolutely conceals a
sheer drop-off of quite a number of
feet. Any car going over will be
wrecked badly and its occupants
would stand every chance of being
seriously injuted.