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FINAL PORT OF CALL FOR THREE
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COAST TERMINAL FOR THE ALASKA
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VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 74.
SEWARD, ALASKA,SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 1927.
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^AWARDS WILL BE ANNOUNCED
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COMPANY LOW BIDDER
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WASHINGTON, April 16. (£>)—'The
Forest Service received two bids in
response to invitations for the pur
chase of 835.000.000 cubic feet of tim
ber in the Tongass national forest,
near Ketchikan. The Alaskan Inter-:
• nCjional Paper company, a subsidiary
of the International Paper company of
New York, bid 90 cents per hundred
cubic feet for spruce and 30 cents per
hundred cubic feet for hemlock. The
Zellerbach Paper Corporation of San
Francisco bid 80 cents per hundred
for spruce and 40 cents per hundred
for hemlock.
The Forest Service officials said 75
per cent of the timber is hemlock, and
it -herefore appeared that the Interna
tional bid was the lower. The bids were
taken under advisement and the award
will be announced within a w£6k. The
contract, when signed, will call for a
paper mill of 200 ton capacity to
be erected within five years, and the
capacity to be increased to 400 tons
In ten vears. The Forestry Service
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announced that the sale w'ill promote
the establishment of paper mills in
Alaska and an immense supply of tim
ber in the Tongass reserve will be
used under regulations imposed by the
Forest Service to insure a perpetual
supply of timber. Bids will be opened
April 25 for timber on the Tongass re
serve near Sitka.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Brooklyn 1, Boston 3.
Pittsburg 10, Cincinnati 6.
St. Loui3 0, Chicago 1.
New York 6, Philadelphia 3.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Detroit 2, St. Louis 2. Called in. the
sixth inning on account of rain.
Chicago 0, Cleveland 1.
Boston 1, Washington 7.
^Philadelphia 3, New York 6.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
4 Hollywood 8, Portland 9.
Missions 4, Seattle 4. Called in the
ninth inning on account of rain.
Sacramento 5, San Francisco 8.
Oakland 7, Los Angeles 5.
MEMBERS TWO FAMILIES
KILLED IN EXPLOSION
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^CHICAGO, April 16. (/P)—Eight per
sons, members of two families were
killed and their bodies burned beyond
-■ecognition and four buildings razed
as the result of an explosion and sub
sequent fire. The explosion was ap
parently caused by a gas pocket in a
tailor shop.
CARROLL IMPROVING
GREENVILLE, S. C., April 16.</P)— |
Earl Carroll continues to improve, al-,
terna’.ing between a period of con- j
sciousness and coma. He sometimes
recognizes relatives at the bedside. I
MUTER MAJESTIC i
STRIKES ROCK, CREW
NARROWLY ESCAPES
EFFORTS BE MADE TO RAISE
BOAT—STRUCK NORTH END
DOUGLAS ISLAND
JUNEAU, April 16. (/p)—Eight men
narrowly escaped death when the hali
but boat Majestic struck on rock and |
sand at the north end of Douglas j
Island. Captain C. P. Peterson, bet-j
ter known as Peter Kaloogan, was!
master of the vessel, which carried j
Karl Abrahamson, owner, John Bogen,;
Gus Olsen, John Johnson, Nets Stan-!
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wick, Lawrence Knutson and Fred
Hanson, fishermen. Knutson was a
member of the crew of the Scandia,
which was wrecked two months ago
near kodiak. The Majestic was built
in Seattle in 1923 and cost $20,000.
She was insured for $10,000. Efforts
will be made to raise the vessel. The
Majestic arrived Thursday with 15,000
pounds of halibut and was returning
early Friday when she struck a rock.
AGREEMENT SIGNED ADJUSTING
MATTER OF VOROVIKY AS
SASSINATION
MOSCOW, April If*. (£>)—The So
viet Foreign Office announced the j
signing of an agreement adjusting the
long controversy with Switzerland
over the assassination of Vaslav Voro
viky, Soviet representative to the Lau
sane conference in 1923. The an
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nouncement said Switzerland has ex
pressed regret for the killing of Voro
viki by Maurice Conradi, Swiss en
gineer, who las later acquitted. 'Since
the assassination the Soviet govern
ment has refused to accept an invita
tion to attend the League of Nations
conferences held in Switzerland.
KOTZEBUE OOOD SHAPE
NOME, April 16. (£>)—Aviator Al
ger Graham of the Wilkins expedition
arrived at Kotzebue at 1:45 yesterday
from Point Barrow to Fairbanks. He
made the journey in five hours and a
fine landing. He expected to leave
for Nome today, weather permitting.
The words rang out upon
the air, to be taken up arid
re-echoed down the avenues
of time.
It might have been a phys
ical substance those who
went to the sepulchre beheld
floating in the air. Marvel
ous things were happening
in those days; things man is
unable to refute.
Be it physical or an appa
rition, a spirit entered the
world to bring to it some
thing better—brotherly love,
justice and mercy for the
weak aye, the very founda
tion upon which all modem
progress has been achieved
—the foundation of govern
ment upon earth; democracy
in its fullest term; a square ;
deal for each and everyone. ‘
This is what Easter sig
nifies.
Man may well pause in
retrospection and while thus
pausing indulge introspec
tion and self-interrogation:
“Am I living by the Code?”
PLANS CALL FOR ULTIMATE CON
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STRUCTION SMELTER — WIL
LIAM SULZER INTERESTED
If plans now under way in New
York materialize the White River
copper district, lying at the head of
the Tanana valley and north of Cor
dova will, in the near future, undergo
active development with the ultimate
purpose of establishing a smelter and
utilizing Alaska coal in the production
of copper matte for shipment' to the
States. ,
This information was supplied last
night by Jack O’Hara, who is associ
ated with former Governor William
Sulzer in the Shushana Mining com
pany, which has absorbed the O’Hara
holdings embracing an area of 13 full
claims or 2,600 acres of mineral
ground.
Mr. Sulzer is expected to arrive in
Alaska some time in June, and will
visit the White River district, after
which he will proceed to the Chande
1 ar, where he has extensive gold mine
operation under way including the
operation of a stamp mill,
i Full details of the entire plans of
Mr. Sulzer are not revealed, but it is
known that for some time he has been
engaged in interesting Newr York capi
tal in a large enterprise. The pres
ence of two engineers in the White
River country, where they examined
the holdings of the Shushana Mining
company, and their favorable report,
says Mr. O’Hara, was the first direct
step looking to the final consumma
tion of what may become one of the
biggest industrial enterprises in the
Territory,
Other engineers will visit the prop
erty this summer, including those of
the Shushana company, and members j
of the faculty of the Fairbanks School
of Mine*.
Sampling on the claims embraced in
the property of the company, says Mr.
O'Hara, shows returns of 70 per ce$t
copper and about 15.00 in gold per ton. |
The ore is a chalcocite, of the same i
general quality and nature as that at
the famous Kennecott mines, which
is called one of the “wonder fines’’
of the world. The ledge on which
some 300 feet of development has
been done, averages 20 feet in width
and three miles in length, with a par*
ralel ledge of about the same dimen*
sions, and showing the same general
values and mineralogical structure.
The property lies on the White river,
a fork of the Shushana and about 20
i miles west of Shushana. Mr. O’Hara
has held his claims since 1913, and
during the intervening years has
devoted a greater portion of his time
in proving the strength of his vein
and exploring as far as hand work
would permit.
This season he will have power and
| a compressor, together with other
j machinery. Attention will be given
| to the Butte lode, which shows strong
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S. S. ALASKA SIS
MRS. C. E. ORLANDER AND MRS.
GEORGE SCHMITT AMONG
SEWARD LISTING
SEATTLE, April 16. (£>)—'The S.
S. Alaska sailed at 9 o’clock this
morning and carried 286 passengers.
Seward passengers: K. E. Talmadge,
Mrs. B. Golden and son, W. Curran,
Laura Cote, Mrs. D. M. Wheeler, C.
D. Robertson, John Hershey, Mrs. J. ,
Flynn and daughter, Mrs. Henry Lo
gan, Andrew Fostrom and wife, L. J.
Till, J. L. McCallen and brother, J.
Large, S. Hill, E. B. J. Jones, Mrs. J.
L. Bronson, Miss R. Jordan, Mrs. R.
Morris, Mrs. C. E. Orlander, Leo Penh,
wife and two children, A. L. Harnote,
E. A. Tonseth and wife, Mrs. H. M.
Parker and daughter, Mrs. Mary Chal
four, A. L. Farvin and wife, F. J. Metz
gar, Mrs. George Schmitt, Harper
Workman, R. E. Le$s, Dan Durich,
Claude Rhodes, B. Hagan, F. W. Dun
kel, H. P. Noggle, R. d*Gafney, Clar
ence Barthoff and three brothers,
Stanley Ryne, J. F. Josvod and broth
ers, S. Jacobson, R. Olson and three
brothers, M. Graham. Gilbert Gould,
Mrs. Harry Phillips, R. Schaefer, Gust
Envalte, Thomas Dickinson. Ed. Erick
son, Mrs. Gust Anderson, Mrs. Flor
ence Skelton, A. Zambelli, Peter Bo
tine, Dan Oman, Warren Neil, Mrs.
Ely T. T. Perry and IS steerage.
BEFORE COMMITTEES
JUNEAU, April 16. (/P)—1The Comp
troller bill passed the second reading
in the House without debate. It is
scheduled to come up for final passage
late Saturday. Fishing industry men
are arriving to appear before the com
mittees with regards to the bill which
would inaugurate strenuous fishing
regulations and heavy taxation.
QUAKS SHAKES LOS ANGELES
LOS ANGELES, April 16. An
earthquake Shook Los Angeles and
nearby towns. The temblor was slight
in the Los Angeles business district
but gave-vbuildings in Santa Monica
and Sawtelle a good shaking. The
quake lasted 20 seconds.
ANCHORAGE MIN PREDICTS
COMING PROMINENT IIAEN
SEATTLE, April 16. (/P)—Big game
hunters will flock in unaccustomed
numbers to Alaska this summer ac
cording to R. S. Bragaw, president of
| the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce.
| Marcus Daly has already made ar
! rangements to go north, and Kermit
; and Theodore Roosevelt and R. B. Pat
terson,'cash register king, are likely
to go to Alaska to hunt late in the
summer, using airplanes out of An
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