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VOLUME XXII, NUMBER 220.
* SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1927
PRICE TEN CENTS
PROMINENT ILLINOIS
CITIZEN, JUDGE C, E,
STONE, IN SEWARD
BACK FROM WESTWARD HUNT
WITH FINE SPECI'MANS SHEEP
BEAR AND MOOSE
Seward is host for a couple of days
to a distinguished visitor from the
State of Illinois, Judge Clyde E. Stone,
of the Supreme Bench. His Honor
arrived in the city this morning from
a Westward hunt, a member of the
yacht Westward party, and brought
back trophies of the Alaskan wilds
upon whieh he and his friends may
look upon with considerable pride, es
pecially the specimen of moose, for it
has a great span, fully 60 inches.
Nothing like it has been taken out in
years. In addition Judge Stone bag
ged beautiful bear and sheep speci
mens, one each, though he could have
just as easily brought back a dozen
or so. But not so, for the Judge prov
I ed himself a rare sportsmen in wait
ing and making his selection from
many, then shot them,
One day 18 moose and six bear
were seen and, on another day nearly
100 sheep, the Judge stated. The
country was fairly alive with game
and many wonderful views, some of
them amusing, were seen. He recall
ed the day when he had the rare op
portunity of witnessing a moose chase
a big brown bear across a swamp;
the bear was contentedly munching
berries when the moose came over
the brow of the hill; immediately,
with a great display of clawing up the
ground and sticking out it’s tongue, it
started downhill after the bear which
( in turn slowly ambled away but hap
pening to look over it’s shoulder and
noticing the moose rapidly gaining,
shoved into high and in short order
. was out of sight.
Caribou Hills, on the west side of
the Fox river country, Katohemak bay,
was the scene of most of the hunts
but sometime was also spent in the
Fox river glacier region; there the
sheep was shot. The bear was bagged
near Cape Chiniak.
Judge Stone, when asked by The
Gateway about the service of the
yacht Westward, the guides, and the
>* country hunted in, remarked he met
with the finest of courtesy at all
times, that the first class service
rendered could hardly be excelled and
that he was taken where the game
was; and got what he went after. In
all, he is greatly pleased with his
hunt; the equipment was all that
could be desired and the fine yacht
wras at all times at the service of the
hunters. “No one could wish to take
a hunt under more advantageous cir
cumstances,” the Judge reaffirmed.
The country west of Seward is a
real game country, he added, but said
Alaska as a whole was the most en
ticing country he had ever had the
pleasure to have been in; not only
from a standpoint of game but also
on account of its natural beauty. So
■well*pleased is the Judge that ihe plans
returning again in the near future.
Judge Stone remains in Seward
until Wednesday when he departs for
the States on the S. S. Admiral Wat
son. During his two day stay in Sew
ard he will be given the opportunity
of visiting local points of interest, do
a little fishing, motoring and golfing.
Attorney L. V. Ray, Mayor of Seward,
paid his respects to Judge Stone
shortly after his arrival and presented
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RUTH SNYDER AND JUDD
ALBANY N. Y., Oct. 10. (/P)—1The
appeal of Ruth Snyder and Henry
Judd Gray, the convicted slayers of
Mrs. Snyder’s husband have been set
for October 24. Both were sentenced
to die in the electric chair.
VISITED NUNIVAK ISLAND, KOT
ZEBUE AND KING ISLAND;
MANY INTERESTING FACTS
SEATTLE, Oct. 10. (JP)—Edward S.
Curtis, known as the greatest living
authority on the North American In
dian, returned from four months
studying Alaskan natives. Many new
and interesting facts were discovered
which will be included in the latest
volume of a 20 volume work on the
North American Indian which he has
spent 35 years compiling. He ex
perienced many hardships and visited
Nunivak Island, Kotzebue and King !
Island.
WING STATION AT
AKUTAN ENJOYED FAIR
CATCH OF MAMMALS
SEATTLE, Oct. 10. (IP)—Sixty-five
whalers returned from Akutan. The
summer’s catch while light was term
ed fair. Several thousand barrels of
oil and a large quantity of fertilizer,
manufactured from the body of whales
was shipped from the Northern post.
Old ti mers said the common belief that
whales are becoming scarce is errone
ous.
TEAPOT DOME CASE
TOST BY SINCLAIR;
CASE SET ASIDE
SUPREME COURT AFFIRMS DECI
SION OF THE EIGHT CIRCUIT
COURT OF APPEALS
WASHINGTON, Oct. 10. Harry
Sinclair lost the Teapot Dome case
when the Supreme court set it aside.
Its effect was to affirm the decision
of the Eight Circuit Court of Appeals
rendered by Judge Kenyon cancelling
the lease and contract on the ground
of fraud and corruption.
The ‘Supreme court held that the
Teapot Dome lease question was con
trolled by its recent decision in the
Pan-American cases, brought by Ed
ward L. Doheny, involving leases and
contracts on the Elk Hills Naval re
serve in California which the court
ordered cancelled.
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Saturday football finals were as fol- j
lows: I
Montana 0, Wash. State 35.
Princeton 42, Lehigh 0.
Pennsylvania 14, Brown 6.
Notre Dame 20)(petroit 0.
Purdue 19, Harvard 0.
Georgia 14, Yale 10.
California 13, St. Marys 0.
Navy 35, Drake 6.
Stanford 20, Nevada 2.
Washington 40, Puget sound 0.
Army 21, Marquete 20. «
Oregon 0, Idaho 0.
So. California 13, Ore. Aggies 12.
RAMSAY ATTACKS BALDWIN
LONDON, Oct. 10. (/P)—Former
Premier Ramsay MacDonald, leader
of British Moderates attacked the
Baldwin Domestic and Foreign Policy
in speech made at an unofficial rally
of his party’s 27th annual conference
at Blackpool, England.
FRENCH FLIERS HOP
OFF FOR ARGENTINE
INSTEAD OF U. S. A.
INCLEMENT WEATHER FORBIDS
ATLANTIC FLIGHT FROM PARIS
TO NEW YORK
LEBCHJRGET, France, Oct. 10. (/P)
—Prevented by bad weather from at
tempting a Paris to New York flight
this late in the season Dieundonne
Costes and Lieut. Le Brix turned the
plane named Nungesser-Coli south
'with Buenos Aires as the destination.
They took-off at 9:43 hoping to make
St Louis Senegar 207 miles away on
the first bop then cross the south At
lantic to Natal on the Brazilian coast
They will proceed to the Argentine
capital with one more stop at Rio Jan.
iero. Soon after the start the plane
signalled all was going well.
HOUSES COLLAPSE WHEN
QUAKE SUES AUSTRALIA
SCWARDORDF, Burgenland, Aus
tralia, Oct. 10. (£>)—Five earth shocks,
coming on the heels of shocks Satur
day night in Vienna and other parts
of the Balkans, shook this town today
causing the collapse of many cottages
and damaging others. The population
was panic stricken and did not dare
to reenter their homes.
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LIFELESS BODY OF
RUSSELL SCOn IS
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FORMER WEALTHY CANADIAN
BRIDGE PROMOTER RECENT.
LY RERLEA8ED ESYLUM
CHICAGO, October, 10. (^—Rus
sell Scott, former ■wealthy Canadian
bridge promoter who narrowly escap_
ed the gallows, his sentence following
his conviction on the charge of mur
der, hung himself in the county jjaii.
His lifeless body was found in his
cell by the jailor; he had hung himself
with his beat. The jailor said he h«4
passed the cell at 9:45 and Scott ap
peared to be alright but when he again
•passed, an hour later, he noticed the
body.
Scott was convicted of the murder
of Joseph Maurer, a drug clerk, and
had been in the cell since, or for sev_
eral months, since he had been dis
charged from an asylum after a sani
ty hearing. He was again to face a
death penalty hearing which had been
postponed from September to some
tme this month.
SIMPLE EULOGY SPOKEN
OV WIFE FOR HUSBAND
CHICAGO, Oct. 10. (/p)— In the
morgue, to where they took him, a
simple eulogy was spoken over Rus
sell Scott by his wife who for three
years worked to save him. Her only
words were “The poor kid.” The body
will 'probably be turned over to the
widow or father for burial in Detroit
city in which he rose to respectability
and promotional success with a De
troit Windsor bridge project.
NOME DRYEST TOWN
IN THE WORLD SAYS
DISTRICT ATTORNEY
WM. FRED HARRISON IN SEATTLE
FOR TREATMENT TO PARALIZ
ED LIMB AND ARM
SEATTLE, Oct. 10. (/P)—William
Fred Harrison, Federal district attor
ney at Nome, out for the first time
since 1898, arrived in Seattle. He said
“Nome, I venture to say, is the dryest
town in the world. We win all our
liquor cases foor Nome is so ina-ccess
sible for smuggling wihich is largly
responsible.” Harrison is here for
treatment for a paralytic stroke which,
a year ago rendered a leg and an arm
almost useless. He hopes to return
north in a month.
FIVE MEN BURN DEATH
IN S. F. LODGING HOUSE
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 10. (&)—
Three fires in San Francisco bay dis
trict killed five men and injured three
and caused 1100,000 property damage.
The men were burned to death in a
lodging house which had long been
considered a fire trap.