Seward, the Alaska City of Opportunity
Seward Daily
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 13.
SEWARD, ALASKA FRIDAY, JANUARY 1G, 1331.
PRICE TEN CENTS
SUITE'S WITNESS
1 BOWLES CASE
STABBED, BEATEN
HAD BEEN THREATENED NOT
TO TESTIFY IN BOWLES
MURDER TRIAL
PORTLAND. Ore., Jan., 16, VP)
—Mrs. H. W. Howard, 56, was
.stabbed twice above the heart,
slashed about the face as well
as beaten last night.
She was one of the state’s wit
nesses against Nelson ’Bowles and
Irma Louacks who are charged
with the murder of Mrs. Bowles.
Mrs. Howard’s condition is
such that police would not per
mit questioning the man who
leaped on Mrs. Howard when she
went to her back-porch.
It was the second assault upon
her as she had been previously
beaten and threatened if she
testified.
Mrs. Howard appeared before
the grand jury and it is thought
■she gave important evidence.
FREIGHTER REFLOATED
SEATTLE, Jan., 16. The
freighter Navasota which was
driven ashore near Port Town
&end, has been refloated.
imITsIet
cm in Russia
MOSCOW, Jan.. 16. (/P)—Rus- |
sian street cars have women
"motormen" and conductors—
and tramway officials say they
-io the job as well if not better
man men.
“Why shouldn’t a women run
-• street car?” queried one “mo
rorwoman when it was suggest
'd her job might be a hard one.
“I find it not nearly so hard
sewing and housekeeping. If
you will look up the records you
will find that women tram op
erators have fewer accidents
»han the men.”
INCflEfflElis
F0REC5ST FOR 1331
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NEW YORK, Jan., 16, (/Pj-Here j
sthe opinion of statisticians on !
business prospects for 1931.
“Profits for leading American j
business concerns,” says Lau-1
irence H. Sloane, vice president of
Standard Statistics, Inc., “should
be larger in 1931 than in 1930.”
“On the same physical volume
of business that was transacted
m *930, these earnings should
show an increase of somewhere
around 5 and 8 per cent in 1931.
On a somewhat larger volume
of business, and assuming an up
ward trend during the latter part
of the year, an increase should;
amount to 10 to 15 percent and ■
might readily excel that figure.” \\
NO DANGER
Some apprehension has been ’
felt here concerning the safety of'
the sloop Picaroon, Captain Bobh
Hall, which has been at Seldovia i
'or the past two or three weeks )
and which arrived in this port s
Thursday night. There was no 1
particular hurry, Captain -Hail <
said as he took his time coming (
over, stopping at several harbors *
on the way. He brought W. E. 1
Austin from Seldovia who has :
been called Outside by the death t
of his father. j >
SEARCH FRUITLESS
KETCHIKAN, Jan., 16, (A3)—
Pilot Eckmann returned after a
fruitless flight around Annette
Island searching for further
traces of the Renehan party and
plane. Mrs. Pat Renehan goes
to Vancouver from here and Mrs.
Jerry Goss, to Prince Rupert.
NMD LIST OF
PASSENGERS WILE GO
ABOARD FARRAGUT
SEATTLE, Jan., 16. (&)—'The
Northland Transportation Com
pany learned that their Steam
ship Northland had been refloat
ed from the Salmon River flats
in British Columbia by the tug
Salvage King.
The damaged bow has been re
paired and the vessel is proceed
ing under its own power.
The 30 passengers now at Alert
Bay will be picked up Saturday
by the Admiral Farragut.
COULD HAVE SOUGHT
KENNECDH AT ONE
TIME FI A HUNDRED;
There have been a number of
accounts of the sale of the Mother
Lode copper mine at Kennecott
from which the Guggenheims have'.
taken millions after building a
rialroad costing $20,000,000 to
bring the ore to tidewater at
Cordova, says the Ketchikan
Chronicle.
One of the unpublished stories
is an offer that was made to M.
D. Ickis of Ketchikan to sell the
mine for $100 by Chief Nickoli in
the year of 1898.
Mr. Ickis. who has mining in
terests in and around Ketchikan
and near I-Iyder. was sent with
a party of 23 men who went to.
Valdez that year, thinking that
would prove the shortest land
route to reach the Klondike gold
fields.
They freighted in their supplies
during the winter over the Val
dez glacier, as Thompson pass was
not used until later, and got as 1
far as the Nebesna river before
the spring breakup caught them. J*
It was not until the following win- 1
ter that they reached Dawson.
During their trip they met Chief ;
Nickoli. He described the moun- J
tain of copper now known as the i
Kennecott mine and offered his [
Indian titles to the place for $100 u
with which to buy “white man’s
food.”
The same year Colonel Millard!
and George Hazelet and other old!
timers were busy making trails !
and prospecting and it was a lit-!
tie later that the diggings on ’
Slate creek were discovered.
Speaking of the hardships of *
;hose early days and the unknown J
dangers ahead, Mr. Ickis said ont j
"Quid hardly realize the great t
changes which have taken place r
iince then. 1
SNOW STOPS WORK
Pete Roberts, well-known old
dmer, who has been running a
Je camp at Mile 13Mt, was an ar
'ival in Seward Thursday. On
iccount of the heavy snows fur
her work by the crew has been
ibandoned as it is impossible to
:ut more ties or to move those
ilready cut. The rest of the crew
ire expected in tonight, but Pete
tnd his partner will stay with
he camp in an effort to contin
le operations on a small scale.
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LOIS INTO
Again the Gateway ts indebted
to Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Eddins ol
St. Louis, Mo., who have v Led
Alaska, are subscribers to th«
Seward Gateway, and who are ap
parently intensely interested in
the Territory. They send us holi
day greetings an enclose- an ed
itorial from the St. Louis Globe
Democrat, entitled
“OUR HAPPY ALASKA”
This is the time of the year
when we always expect to hear a
good deal about Alaska, through
officials channels, of course. The
production of its fisheries fell 7
per cent for the year, but it is
more than 25 per cent larger
than five years ago, and the to
tal, $50,795,819, would be consid
ered a mfghty addition to wealth
anywhere, whatever its origin. In
this industry more than $ ),000,
000 is invested and 25,000 persons
are employed during some part
of the year.
Out of the country was shipped
$36,914,722 more than was ship
ped in, according to reports, re
presenting its balance of trade.
Its $60,000,000 railroad, which we
all own, is a bill of expense to
us but its 570 miles are a great
convenience. Its population in
crease is placed at only about
4500. Nevertheless, considering
how its waters and forest teem
with every sort of life and how
its reindeer, its Pribilof seals, of
which 100,14 more were counted
this year than last, and its blue
foxes and mink sffcd marten on
360 or more fur farms multiply
amazingly, we must conclude that
its latitudes are highly healthful
and stimulating and invigorating
for human mammals also. Future
censuses will have a different
story to tell; the herd of musk
oxen just introduced during the
past fall will be worth watching.
Beauty abounds on this con
tinent, and tremendous effects are
to be viewed in our own Western
mountains, in the Canadian Rock
ies and other places to which
nature has been partial, bur Al
aska is all scenery. Nowhere else
an this continent do mountains
tise so high, or valleys yawn so
ieep or glaciers glitter so bril
iantly or waters sweep so maj
estically. In some former years 25
)00 or more have recognized that
Alaska Is the wonderland for tour
sts, but many more should know
ts attractions.
INOTHER YUKON STRIKE
REPOflTEO Ilf SPOKANE
SPOKANE, Wash., Jan., 16, (/P) I
-Reports from the Yukon re
gion are to the effect that anoth- j
t old-time Coeur d’ Alener has i
truck a bonanza and is ready I
0 take out a fortune in gold!
luggets. Tom Kerruish, at one
ime superintendent at the Page I
nine near Kellogg, is the lucky j
irospector who is said to have i
incovered one of the biggest
inds made in the Yukon terri
ory in years.
Kerruish was working in an \
Id creek channel last month j
'hen he struck against a gold-1
earing bar, said to be the rich- ;
st uncovered since the Klon
ike days. The first cleanup is
aid to have turned in 150 oun
es of the yellow metal.
Mrs. Kerruish, who accompa
ies her husband on his pros
ecting ventures, washed out
1 ounces of gold.
1302 COAT OF ARMS
f AUGUSTA, Ga., Jan., 1G, (/P)—
;E. W. Dodge, 79, of Augusta pos
js's~es a coat of arms presented
'in 1302 by the then reigning king
of England to Peter Dodge, a
major in the British army. The
coat of arms was given for val
iant service.
PACE OF LOS ANGELES
TOO FAST EDO HIM
LOS ANGELES, Jan., 16, </P)—
I Col. Charles J. Ross, 53, of New
!York, vice president of the RCA
Photophone Co., a subsidiary of
the Radio Corporation, died after
what police described as a drink
ing party in an apartment with
two women and his chaffeur.
| The autopsy revealed death
was due from heart disease brot
on by acute alcoholism.
Ross came here from the East
with his wife; she wasn’t in the
party. His business was with the
movie interests.
BRITISH SOTALTT IS
L OFF TO SOUTH AMERICA
LEBOURGET, France, Jan., 16,
(JP)—Wales and his younger bro
ther eGorge, landed here today
from England on the first leg of
an 18,000 mile journey to South
America.
The Prince used his private
plane and from Paris will go to
Santander where he will take;
the Steamer Oropesa to the Brit- j
ish Empire trade exhibition at j
Buenos Aires, March 14. He will
be gone two months.
PORTUGESE LIVE LONG
LISBON, Jan., 16, </P)— The
Portugese apparently are long
lived people. In this nation there j
are 418 centarians, of whom 310
are women. There are 5,630 Tier
sons between the ages of 50 and
100; 45,725 between 80 and 90.
and 165,293 between 70 and 80. j
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CROSS ALPS ON SKIIS
ZERMATT, Switzerland, Jan. j
16, </P)—Because tourists com- j
ing to Zermatt on skiis, a cus- i
toms house has been established
here. The tourists come from It
aly across Theodule Pass. All I
Alpine roads now are buried in
snow.
SIGNS DROUGHT BILL
WASHINGTON, Jan., 16, VP)— ^
President Hoover signed, the $45,1,
000,000 drought relief bill.
Wm. Sherman, of the forest ,
service, was expected back to- j
day on the SS Alameda follow- <
ing a conference at the Cordova }
headquarters. *
William Bishop, Prince of hosts
on Russian River, was among t
Thursday’s arrivals from the I
lower Kenai Lake country. 5
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OLD TIMER HERE
W. E. Austin, well known old
timer who was for a number of
year a Cook Inlet boatman and
later carried the mail between
Anchorage and Susitna by dog
team, came in from Seldovia
Thursday night on the sloop,
Picaroon.’ He had received news
af the death of his father in the
States and takes the SS Alame
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The round silver dollar should
be given a square deal.
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CLAIMS ENOUGH
CAMPAIGN FRAUD
TO UNSEAT DAVIS
NYE INVESTIGATION COMMIT
TEE VOTED MORE FUNDS
TO GO AHEAD
WASHINGTON, Jan, 16, </P) —
The Senate approved the $50,000
fund for continuation of the
Nye investigating committee.
Nye said that unless they get
more money the committee will
disband and that the committee
has decided not to hear the
Pennsylvania witnesses until ad
ditional funds are available to
pay expenses.
Nye claims the committee has
sufficient evidence to un-seat
Davis. The present approval car
ries the provision Nye must give
an accounting and a report
of its activities. Some opposition
is expected.
CONTINUES VOYAGE
SEATTLE, Jan., 16, </?)—The
SS Northland has been ordered
to proceed to Southeastern Alas
ka ports and will load in Alaska
for the return trip to Seattle
where it will probably be dry
docked.
SB LUCS I
Si ISIS! SOLON
WASHINGTON, Jan., 16. (/P)—
The Senate confirmed Edgar B.
Brossard, Utah Republican, and
Lincoln Dixon, Indiana Democrat
as members of the Tariff com
mission. This action followed
several days after the other four
members had been approved.
Brossard survived the attack
of the Democrats that he was
“too close to the beet sugar in
dustry . The vote was 45 to 38.
Dixon was approved without a
record vote.
Ml PHSTHC
TEMPLES UED
WASHINGTON, Jan., 116, (£>)—
rwo large prehistoric American
emples in New Mexico have been
:ound by Dr. Frank H. H. Ro
berts, archaeologist of the Smith
sonian Institution.
The find is considered import
mt in efforts of Smithsonian to
>btain a complete picture of the
ife of ancient inhabitants of the
touthwest, who had built up the
nost elaborate aboriginal culture
o be found north of the Aztec
centers of Mexico.
Dr. Roberts, in several months’
excavating, uncovered almost com
iletely the two houses on the
iuni reservation near Gallup. One
tad 64 rooms and the other 20.
HOCKEY SCORES
PORTLAND, Ore., Jan., 16, (/P)
-Seattle and Portland hockey
earns played to a tie, 0-0.
Jack Lean, from Cooper’s
-anding, lower Kenai Lake, was
n arrival from Kenai Lake Thurs
ay. He brought Lew Bishop ac
dss in his boat. The Lake is wide
pen all the way, Lean reports,
?stifying to the mild winter. There
; hardly any snow at all at!
ooper’s Landing.