MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXIII. NUMBER 183. SEWARD, ALASKA MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1928.
PRICE TEN GENTS
KODIAK FARMERS
PERMITTED TO KILL
MINK TRAPPING RESTRICTED
TO JANUARY; GAME PRE
SERVE ESTABLISHED
CORDOVA, Nov., 26. (JP)—Propos
ed changes in the Alaska Game
Lav/s were announced by Dr. W. H.
Chase, chairman of the Alaska |
Game Commission. These include
permitting persons to take live wild
fur-bearers during the open season
and retain them until the closed
sen on for proportion purposes.
One of the changes would abolish
season on caribou, north oi
the A.-ciie •Circle; permit a resident
of Alaska and farmers to kill Kodi
ak beer which a:tack stock; estab
lish a game preserve on the Eyuk
watershed and to restrict mi
trapping to January.
The Commission requests Federal
and. Territorial to aid in combatting
the menace' to predatory animals
sweeping over the country destroy
ing game and wild life.
.'fU'” ■; ps, The co::.
guard cutter Unalga sailed Satur
day to search Alaska renters for the
overdue schooners Erounvol, C.
Bi om list, owner;' arid tl
ml J C. R' -ken owner; both of
Ketchikan. *
Each boat had a ere-,/ .•! six and
were la-t seen by the fishing fleet
in the vieiriu of Yakttt.at. It is 11
days since the close of the season
and neither craft has reported
since.
n
PATRIARCHAL PIONEER appAR
ANTLY CROSSING THE
“LAST TRAIL”
SEATTLE. Nov., 26. Essia,
Meeker is seriously ill in his hotel i
room and is reoorted barely holding
his own. Although the 97-vear-o!d
nioneer has recovered from many
illnesses since he reached the age
of 80. his family and physicians
stated there was little hone for the
patriarchal trail blazer of recover
ing.
His condition was weakened from .
confinement this fall in a hospital
at Detroit. It is only occasionally
that Meeker is able to speak and
then only in a whisner.
Hie breathing is quiet and scarce
ly audible. He is surrounded by his
three daughters, in the belief this
will be their final watch over their
noted father.
EIELSON MAKES HOP
HATTON N. Dak., Nov., 25, (£>)—
A in s’’* rT<="’bert Wil
kins, leader of an Antarctic expedi
tion was received by Ole Eielson,
father of Lieut. Ben Eielson of the
Wilkins party, saying that the flier
had made his first Antarctic flight.
STILL AT LARGE
OMAHA, Neb., Nov., 26, (A5)—The
hatchet slayer is still at large. Con
sequently 90 percent of Omaha’s
homes remained lighted while dou
ble the number of police patrolled
the streets as a guard against fui
ther attacks by the negro hatchet
man.
THE IMPERIAL AND BRONVOLD
ARE UNREPORTED;CUTTERS
SEARCHING
’TLE, Nov. 28, (JP)—After
two days of search off the coast of
Junes u, the cutters Unalga and Or
gan were unable to find any trace
of the halibut vessels Imperial and
Brunvold.
The Brunvold was last seen Nov
ember 15 off Middleton Islands by
the Thor. A heavy storm followed
but the Thro crew believes the
Brunvold may be sheltered in a
cove off the islands.
The Imperial was last seen by C.
Erland cn Capt. of the Sonic, which
arrived in Seattle Saturday. The
coast guard vessels were ordered
hv O'nf, C*r, r?,rr.i~~n v» r]ry
fif :;h? DMvict to li-' ’-r> I'cViin?»*
tv-11! the r-hfjjs are either found or
are'definitely established, as lost.
The TTurlea'T; ef diking the out-'
wide waters and the Cygan is
■ d a ‘v the Inside Pass ice. Cant.
Berry is hopeful of rescuing the
ships. -They're seaworthy ships
dnd . .or, by ships and their men
almost invariably turn up.”
Northwestern 27. Dartmouth 6.
Illinois 8, Ohio State 0.
Michie . n 10 .Iowa 7.
Harvard 17, Yale 0.
Minnesota 6, Wisconsin 0.
Army 13, Nebraska 3*
Pinner ten 0, Navy 9.
Stanford 13. California 13.
Oregon 31. Montana 6.
Southern Californai 28. Idaho 7.
ALL INHABITANTS OF PLACES
INFLICTED WILL BE VACCI
NATED
JUNEAU, Nov. 26, (A5)—With five,
:ases of smallpox definitely Known>
it Marshall, others are reported 30 j
niles down the river at Mountain;
tillage.
A stringent quarantine has been
established on the lower Yukon,
Governor Parks announced, in an
effort to curb the epidemic and pre
sent spread of the disease to In
dians and Eskimos.
Dr. A. J. Sutherland, deputy
health commissioner, arrived at
Marshall by plane Saturday. Aii
nhabitants of the place inflicted
vill be vaccinated.
5,000 MILE CRUISE
NEW LONDON, Conn., Nov., 26, j
TP)—Six 125-foot coast guard patrol I
boats set out at noon on the first
leg of a cruise of nearly 5,000 miles
which will end at San Francisco.
EUROPE'S COAST
BEING BUTTERED
- TERRIFIC STM
ONE AMERICAN SHIP DRIVEN
ASHORE: DOZENS OTHERS
IN DISTRESS
LONDON, Nov., 20, (/Pi—The
western coast of Europe is being
buffeted by a terrific Rale and the
storm thus far has taken at least
20 lives, most of them at sea, where
a heavy toll of shipping has been
taken.
At least one American vestal, the
freighter .Taken, which sailed from
Hamburg on November Hi. has been
driven ashore near r‘
Light, but succeeded in •:.!.n., off
safely. Twenty-one other
proved in Lloyd's li t as wrecked, or
in distress.
Tn addition to the 2D dead 3.1; r re
missing' ard with confliodny re
ports concerning the .'•-•fpfcy; of a
score of others/ The r iy is
radio calls of di'dress frem vo.; sis
in per i.
j.Trr*'.o ITS cvrs up m
arc d-vmr can-mt ,;o”k -m 00"
and the toll of those roc.-med from
threatened ships is far gr d ■ rtk ' .•
the lossek The v recast
*s? pn{ f T ’ ‘ ' " •> •
for hr'tc imm v ^' i- ex
pected: the public v/a to : td 1< ok
for more fury from the gale.
There is considerable doutyjus to
the fate of the 1700 ton steamer
Amabel Mrndi of Spain. SOS
were picked up from the steamer
but she did not reply to tire calls.
One cl the notable rescue feats
was the saving of 84 men from the
sinking German schoolsliip Pom
mem near the T le of Guam • ,1
the-English Channel after a mm -
her of big steamers p v
the terrible waves wh:ch-thi’f \U >
ed to °ngnlf the big wind-: ■ 101.
After all aboard had l e 1 rmc.i ;
the Pommern was abandoned and
is now a dangerous deredict.
Tim Admiral Ponty. a 6,003-ton
freighter, is waterlogged 30 milts
west of Ushant Light, France, anu
the latest advices was that she had
16 feni of water in her hold but ex
pected to keep afloat until a sea
going tug reached her. The vesoci
carried a crew of 48 but no passen
gers.
ENGAGEMENT IS OFF
CLEVELAND, Nov., 26, (TP)—Ame
lia Earhardt, the first woman to fly
the Atlantic, is no longer engaged
to Samuel Chapman, young Boston
lawyer, she said.
PLAN SHORT SESSION
! WASHINGTON, Nov., 26, (^—Re
publican leaders conferred with
President Coolidge with reference
to mapping out a Legislative pro
gram for a short sesssion which
would make unnecessary a special
Congressional Session.
FEDERAL AND STATE COVER N
Mr t will rPorv”'.Y de
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pf fi-o rp.’vmf-'-.' "■’oij T'.i-- ■ ; -TjVj''ch ^
wrs elated in New Vt-!; in 13,-53.
The gross rstate is f120,323.514 and
(■■ ; i'r- 1 a Irettu'ost of
mo-o fl;~n ( 7 n'1" "'1, T'l s. Paler!
Hav ' 7: h. widow, revived the
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The ■ ■; rani $51: 20? eci contin
ues t ■ In-? death reel estate ho'd
r 7-.-■ : n pr-.rlv O'w O'" ard a
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(inughter and son of the snor'smri
and financier. They will enjoy the
•l thee .unde until they
ere $0 years of age, when Payne
Whitney Pay on, grandchild, now
only three and one-half years old,
will inherit the r e., foods of her
mother and uncle.
If is exp coca cl that the Federal
and h yto Governments.will deduct
between $20,000,000 and $25,000.000
from * he . ■i.-.Vc i t r ,.:d hi*
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SPOKANE, r.ov,, 2J, i/P;—Friday’s
airplane crash claimed another vic
tim when D. R. Mitchell died. He
was a mechanic for the Spokane
Airways One of the owners of the
monoplane lost a leg and several
bones were broken: he was the fifth
victim, to die. One other was injur
ed.
CREWLESS WARSHIP IN MOCK BATTLE
Berlin, Germany,—Complete success is claimed for j
the first trials by the German Navy in the control of a
warship by wireless waves sent from another craft. The
Zaehringen, an old cruiser, was specially reconstructed
for the purpose and fitted wrf*. a mechanism of a very
complicated and ingeneous character, devised after years
of study and experiment, and is claimed to revolution- !
ize naval warfare. Speed as well as direction are con- .
trolled by the wireless signals. i
KING GEORGE'S
E:
ILLNESS TAKING ITS NATURAL
COURSE, BELIEVE MEMBERS
HOUSEHOLD
LONDON, Nov., 26, (fP)—The na
tion that awaited in anxiety over
its Sovereign’s health failed to find
relief in the first official bulletin
on his condition when physicians
announced King George had passed
a restless night.
The bulleHn read; *'V viability in
fever and the sp-. d of pleurisy
nurd be expected rt .this stage of
the i:’"ess” An-a A” h~« continued
5*1 no** 1111? C:iv.n’~t dd not reveal
nDvf •'i-v; pho’it, tl'C ‘ eondi
tion ibi • men? In-- T: the
statemerd ’ vn~’ v r > t.-,-,.-iusion
l>v • r"c: of tr« 7 7 * ■ * • ■ * •, .bense
ll old fboi hie 'i1 rh-ore v/cve
tv Ot Vj ' V11 \ v h 0 d OVr V fl’ i r r> yt r| [ ,
T'h •.firio-"-.1 ....... - - • ,...^•..
rion the. t trio r^ab'rh-7', hi their
or!nion. wns lakir>r:; :' a r*turai
eouree.
FTLE S. 3.
Northwestern of the A. 3. S. Co.,
sailed Saturday morning at 10
o’clock v. ith 66 passengers. The
I. J. Norrvett, Ed. Herman, W. D.
Wand’.’ng, C. T Hwr?, E. C. Kara -
..a aard Mr. and Mrs. Ghas. Dei
vite, Mrs. Lilly Scljallerer, Mrs. J. R.
Sapp, L. Sapp, R overt Sapp, Walter
McDonnell. Max Me Niece, Louis G.
Briggs, Mrs. S. Mslnkce, Capt. A.
Horton. Harry J Lick and two
steerage.
PARTY COES ASHORE AMID
LINES BRILLIANTLY DECO
RATED BOATS
AM A PAL A, Honduras, Nov., 25,
(A1)—The battleship Maryland,
bearing President-elect Herbert
Hoover, was welcomed by 4,000 peo
ple as Hoover made his first stop
on his South American “Good Will”
tour.
One hundred prominent residents
of Tenuci Gains, the cnnital, were
also on hand. The Maryland sight
pH V> o v.V» r> 4- O.A'* i-1^ ! n
There were a hundred small craft
in the Fonseca Bav formine a lane
thru which the launches from the
Maryland, carrying the Hoover
partv, papSKi. The boats were
brilliantly decorated with flags ana
bunting.
A MYTHICAL FORTUNE
BERLIN. Nov., 26. (A>)—The fight
’or the $160,000,000 supposed to
lave been deposited in the vaults
if an old English bank by Czar
'Jicho’as and for which Mrs. Wm. B.
jeeds has made a claim, is nothing
Hit a chase for a mythical fortune.