MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXIII. NUMBER 204. SEWARD, ALASKA
FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1928.
PRICE TEN GENTS
TWENTY-FIVE LBS.
' OF GOLD BROUGHT
IN FROM NUKA BAY
BA3C0CK AND DOWNEY SHOW.
ING CREATES SENSATION AS
PICTURE ROCK SHOWN HERE
With twenty.five pounds of raw
gold which has been placed in the
bank here, Tom Babcock, partner of
D. W. Downey of the Nuka Bay dis
v' trict, who arrived in Seward Thursday
oa the Motorsliip Discoverer has re.
called the .stampede days of 1898 when
he first took out gold in the Klondike.
With his cleanup he brought speci
mens of jewelery rock that are among
the richest ever found In Alaska. Some
of these pieces taken from a vein 30
inches wide are literally plastered
with gold.
This vein has been stripped along
the surface for a distance of more
than 100 feet. Mr. Babcock reports and
in one of the 3.veins developed on
the property. One vein eight feet wide
is showing free gold values.
The partners figure they have S7.
0 on the dump but their small Ellis
ball mill is not adequate to handle the
;< r.nage which they expect- Hr be tak.
ir. out next spring. They now plan
th • installation of a stamp mill and a
. q.’cnirating table. During he winter
th y will drive a 100.foot tunnel which
. will give them a depth of 125 feet on
what seems to be their richest ledge.
Other prospectors are opening up
some good showings in the Nuka Bay
district, according to Babcock who
looks for iippdrtant developments
there next season. Famous engineers
believe that the number of veins now
uncovered bid fair to place the camp
on a basis with the Treadwell district
in the point of ultimate production.
Babcock is planning to send some of
his specimen rock to the mining ex.
changes of Seattle and Vancouver
where it is certain to cause a sen.
sation.
BODIES WASHED
ASHORE REVEAL
POUT TOWNSEND, Aug., 31, (/P)—
The bodies of two passengers washed
ashore in Discovery Bay revealed
the fate of seven persons aboard the
British Columbia Airways monoplane.
The bodies were wrapped in wreck,
age front the plahe and were iclenti.
tied as Mrs. Alexander Scott of Lon
don. iwhoe husband was a former
member of Parliament, and Floyd
Several, of East Orange, who board,
ed the plane at the last minute pre.
vious to is departure.
Vious to its departure,
find the plane and front indications
of the drift of three wicker chairs
and other bits of material- from the
plan.e it is believed the craft lies in
!.• -m seven to 17 fathoms of water
jut t off Gardiner Point.
WANTS INTERPRETATION
GENEVA, Aug. 31. (/P)—Costa
Rica’s request 1'or an interpretation
of the Monroe Doctrine will be con
sidered privately by the League of
Nations Council. It is probable that
a reply stating how the Doctrine
came to be mentioned in the coven
ant will be sent to Costa Rica.
NOTIFIED OF HIS
V. P. NOMINATION
NOTIFICATION GIVES FRIENDS
OPPORTUNITY TO SHOW
THEIR ESTEEM
HOT SPRINGS, Mo., Aug., 31, (/P)—
From the four corners of the Nation
Democrats are trooping into this
valley in the Ozarks for the formal
notification of Senator Robinson.
They found the city decorated for
the occassion Sid nearly everyone
expressed surprise at the natural
beauty of the little amphijheatre in
which the ceremonies will be held.
The Senator was up early yester.
day morning to greet a,s- many visit,
ors possible; lie also disposed of all
business so as have the. entire
day tree to devote himself to wel.
coming friends.
Chairman Rascob and a host of
others arrived yesterday morning
including Bowers, the Party’s key
note speaker at the National Conven.
tion, who will formally notify Robin,
•son.
The day is one of great importance
to the thousands of friends who for'
more than a quarter of a century!
-have suppored the Senator in liis
campaigns for public office. The
present notification affords them an
opportunity to -show their esteem.
AMUNDSEN PLANE
THOT TO HAVE BEEN
FOUND IN THE SEA
NEW YORK, Aug., 31, 'UP)—The
i
The finding of a wrecked plane in
the sea near Vesteraalen, in North
Norway, was reported in a cablegram
from Oslo to Bernon Prentice who
was the American chairman for two
of Amundsen’s expeditions.
He said he believed the plane was
the French craft in which Amundsen
and six others were lost in their
search for the Italia disaster sur
vivor.
The cablegram was sent by Froeis
from an island at the head of Oslo.
Froeis is head of 'a number of Oslo
newspapers which has sent out re.
lief expeditions for Amundsen. He
said in his report that lie had re.
ceived the news of finding the plane
from a fairly authentic source which
he is now engaged upon investigat
ing. The message also indicated
the plane had failed to operate over
the open sea.
i
SHIP CRASHES IN PENNSYLVA
NIA WILDERNESS AND
CATCHES FIRE
NEW YORK, Aug., 31, (£>)—The man
gled bodies of Merrill and Lonne
were found 80 feet from their wreck,
ed plane, the Curtis Falcon, owned
by Colonel Chas. A. Lindbergh, which
crashed and exploded in a wilderness
six miles from the Pennsylvanian
town of Milford.
The wreck was sighted by fellow
fliers after the greatest airplane
search ever known in the United
States. There was no place to make
a landing near the spot so some of
the searchers flew to Milford, a few
miles away; others went to Port
Jervis, New York, from where foot
parties were organized.
The plane was a total wreck and
had evidently crashed into trees at a
•terrific speed for it was dashed into
bits. The ground and trees for sever,
al feet around the wreck liad been
burned indicating the plane caught
fire after crashing.
FRENCH ACE FINED
STANFORD, Conn., Aug., Ml, (/Pi—
Rene Fonck, the ace of French aces
in the World War, paid a S5.00 fine
here for turning left on a red traffic
light.
HAD IT CACHED
LOGAN, Iowa, Aug. 31. (/P)—Ne'?d ;
ing money to pay her hospital bill,
Miss Nellie Hendricks ordered the
local sheriff to search her basement.
The search revealed $11,000 in cur
rency and securities. *
HOOSIER LIQUOR SENTENCES
INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 31. (/P)~
Fines of $90,978 and sentences total!
ing 52 1-2 yisars in federal and 4?
95(1 days in the state prisons were
imposed in a year against prohibition
law volations in Indana courts, G. I.
Winkler, deputy prohibition admin
istrator finds.
AL SMITH’S .RUNNING MATE
TELLS G. O. P. WHERE
GET OFF AT
HOT SPRINGS, Aug., 31, (/P)—A
native son of the Southland, Joe T.
Robinson, formally accepted the Dem.
ocratic Vice Presidential nomina
tion and at 'the same time issued a
challenge to political foes to fight
it out in the campaign issues of
farm relief, pr|ohJb(ioon, "merchant
marine and political corruption.
He did not mince words at any
time and charged Hoover with the
“failure of farm relief legilation,,
during the Harding ar.d Coolidge
administrations.
Speaking on prohibition lie declar.
ed “there always has been room for
the Democratic Party and for those
who differs a^< the- best means in pro.
moting temperance and suppressing
traffic in alcoholic beverages.”
ACTOR DIES
NEW YORK, Aug. 31. (/p)—George
W. Howard, noted American act.v',
age 55, died after amputation of his
right leg following an attack of sep
tic poisoning.
T’vrj.r
First Trip Across Continent by
Motor Car Was Made 25 Years Ago
30 UNO W/rST
CHICAGO—Just twenty-five years
ago on July 26 the first across-con
tlnent motor tour was completed.
Sixty-three days were consumed In
the trip and the adventurers were
Dr. H. N. Jackson and S. K. Crocker
who drove a two-cylinder 20-horse
power car.
“Today any number of stock cars
can make the trip comfortably and
surely In less than 100 hours," says a
bulletin of the American Research
Foundation. "And an aviator, if he
Is In a hurry, might make It In a
day. Hundreds of thousands of
motorists now, every year, many of
them traveling leisurely, make their
way from one ocean to the other In
little more than a fortnight.
“Twenty-five years ago a motorist,
once away from the cities, was none
too sure of his fuel. Gasoline was
sold by grocers and hardware men
who brought It out In a can and
strained It through a funnel using a
chamois skin for a filter. Compare
that with the picture today with
hundreds of thousands of Standard.
Sinclair, and other gasoline filling
stations dotting the countryside.
"Today the average landing field Is
better equipped to refuel airplanes
and supply the needs of the pilots
than towns were to supply the gaso
line needs of motorists twenty-five
years ago.”
FAMOUS WASHINGTON CASE
COMES TO END AS MAN
WALKS TO SCAFFOLD
WALLA WALLA, Aug. 31. (R>)—
Just as the first faint traces of dawn
ware showing in the ky today, Gaines
mounted the scaffold at the State
penitentiary here to pay with his
life for th*e murder of his daughter
Sylvia. He maintained his innocence
to the last with only a few news
paper men and prison officials and
attendants grouped about the scaf
fold.
Preparations were made rapidly
and the 'execution was said by au
thorities to have been one of the
swiftest, to take place bare. Gaines
walked from hes cell flanked 011 one
side by a prison official and on th'e
other by Frank Novak, prison Evan
gelist who attended him during the
I night.
| The condemned man walked with
!a firm step and as he mounted the
jgallows. He was a little ahead of
jthe rest looking back to see if they
ware following.
When asked if he had .anything to
say Gaines said“ get it over with as
quickly as you can”. With these
last words t lie mask was quickly
drawn over his face and the trap
sprung. He was pronounced dead in
lour minutes. The body will proba
bly be sent to Seattle Saturday.
Novak told newspapermen of the
conversation with Gaines. “Gaines
declared he was innocent up to the
last moment. He had maintained he
v-as not guilty of the crime. Most of
the night was spent praying. He
confessed to me upon my earnest re
quest a few minor sins having no
bearing on the crime of which he
was accused.
Novak said Gaines told him “I am
sorry I was drinking that night” but
in the same breath denied the crime
Novak went to tire hotel room where
William Gaines, brother, and Mrs.
Elizabeth Gaines, wife of the dead
j man were waiting. As the hour of
the execution struck, Mrs. Gaines
said “Its near time isn’t it?” She
wept qu'tetly when told it was all
over. William was mqch distracted
pacing the floor in a hysterical man
ner. He was prevailed upon to calm
down but often put his head up as
though the rope was about his own
neck.
REVIVE CHAIN
HUNTSVILLE, Tx„ Aug. 31. (£>)—
The 'electric chair of the State pen
itentiary is being rewired for or.e
legged Juan Flores, 21, sentenced to>•
slaying a boy of 15 in an attempted
store robbery.
ST. FRANCIS SOLD
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 31. —
Purchase of the St. Francis hotel of
this city by the United Hobels Co., af
America was announced. It is re
ported that the price was in the
vicinity of 19,000,000.