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VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 67. SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1931.
PRICE TEN CENTS
ROTATIVE BALLOT
SYSTEM ELECTIONS
ALASKA EH
many measures introduced
COVERING WIDE, VARIED
SUBJECTS
JUNEAU, Mar. 28. (Special to
The Gateway)—Inauguration of
a rotative ballot system in Terri
torial elections is provided in a
measure introduced by Doyle in
an amendment proposed to the
election law of 1915. It requires
the printing of ballots in series
of 100 with the names. Candi
dates rotating in each series in
tead of printing the list in an al
phabetical order.
It also requires clerks of the
court to distribute ballots to elec
tion precincts in the same man
ner and judges of the election
issue ballots alternatively to
voters.
The same measure provides a
method of challenging voters un
der the so-called Federal liter
acy law requiring them to make
affidavit of the time and place
of voting and if they claim ex
emption from the literacy stat
ute.
McCutcheon introduced a meas
ure in the house to appropriate
$6,000 for the purchase of 12,000
copies of the 1931-32 issues of the
All-Alaska Review to be distri
buted by t h e Governor and
through the several chambers of
commerce for publicity purposes.
Boyle introduced a measure au
thorizing city councils to classi
fy the various kinds of property
under the general ordinance.
In the senate Bragaw intro
duced a measure to subsidize ra
dio broadcasting stations identi
cal with the measure introduced
last week by Me Cutcheon in the
house.
The senate passed the Bragaw
measure to curb indiscriminate
circulation of subscription lists
by requiring persons collecting
for charitable or eleemosynary
purposes and to procure a license
from municipalities.
A petition was signed by al
most all the residents of the Pio
neers’ Home at Sitka who urged
the legislature to retain Sitka
as the site for that institution
when the newr building is erected
in 1933.
FIRST ROCK DUMPED I
OR KETCH PROJECT
KETCHIKAN, Mar., 27, (^Pi
Contractors on Wednesday dump
ed the first scow load of rock
for the breakwater which will
be part of the $272,000 boat re
fuge harbor.
Rock is being taken from
Penncck Island quarry. The \
dredge from the Puget Sound i
Bridge and Dredging Company,
is due to come north later.
MOELEO UNO HODGES
ARRIVE AT MC CA9THV
FAIRBANKS, Mar. 28. (/P) —Pilot
Fred Molier and Frank Hodges who
have been walking since their air.
plane crashed near the Nabesna
River more than two weeks ago
reached McCarthy, 90 miles froir
Fairbanks at noon yesterday.
! PACIFIC INTEUNmiONIIL
mniYS some iftei
THE COAST BUSINESS
Maurice Anderson, traveling
passenger and freight agent for
the Pacific International Airways
of Alaska, is a brief business
visitor in the city while en route
to Cordova. Mr. Anderson, son
of Oscar Anderson, one of Al
aska’s most prominent business
men, will contact business be
tween Cordova, Valdez and Sew
ard for the Pacific International
Airways.
He will confine all of his ef
forts soliciting business and gath
ering information as to how to
! best serve the interests of outlying
i communities.
! Mr. Anderson informs the Gate
\ way that one of the Fairchild
j planes will be dispatched to Val
dez shortly to care for several
freight shipments and that for
the time being, Pilot Alec Holden
, will be stationed there.
Present plans, he said, are that
a pontoon ship will operate in
and out of Seward throughout the
, entire summer.
| Mr. Lowe and Mr. H. F. Mor
j ton, Pilots Joe Barrows and Alec
j Holden, and Mr. Anderson flew
j to Valdez last Tueday in one of
j the Fleetsers, the flag-ship of
j the P. I. A. fleet.
Andy Derringer, prominent bus
iness man of Valdez, was recent
ly appointed agent to represent
I the P. I. A. at Valdez.
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FREEDOM. DEATH:
NOT LIFE 1 Jill
DISTRICT ATTORNEY CLAIMS
BOWLES WAS THE ONE
STABBED WIFE
HIIJ,BORO, Ore.. Mar., 28, (/P) j
—Freedom or death on the gal-!
lows, rather than life imprison- j
meat, was the plea of attorneys
for Bowles and Loucks in the con
cluding argument to the jury.
W. Lair Thompson, uncle of j
Bowles, is chief defense counsel, i
District Attorney Lotus Lang- j
ley outlined the State’s theory j
in part. He said he would not out- j
line all of it before “one of these j
persons,” pointing at the defen- }
dants; “for one of these persons
held the woman while the other!
used the knife. Our theory is J
that Bowles used the knife.” j
The State’s argument was the j
signal for a bitter attack from •
the defense.
They charge that the district
attorney’s office was unfair in
managing evidence and suppress
ing other evidence.
It is expected that Judge Geo.
R. Bagley will charge the jury
before adjournment today.
21 GUNS BOOM
RIO DE JANEIRO, Mar. 28. (JP)
—Twenty one guns boomed as the
liner Aleantara, bringing the
Prince of Wales and Prince George
here for a visit, arrived in the
harbor here.
Another plane sent to pick them
up found no landing place and
they were forced to make the fin
al stages of their trip by auto.
Moller reported by telephone
thaat both were in good shape.
DEDICATED TO ALASKANS
Aleutian History
J. N. Cannon
The following is practically a literal translation
from the Russian taken from the manuscript of Fr.
Gedeon, priest-monk of the Alexandro-Nevsky Cathe
dral, Moscow, Russia, and was written in Kodiak be
tween 1804 and 1807. It has never before appeared in
| print.
HUNDREDS ABOARD
! SS YUKON ENROUTE
i NORTHERN HOMES
_
i
EIGHTY-SIX PASSENGERS FOR
SEWARD; NUMBER LOCAL
RESIDENTS
I -
I SEATTLE, Mar. 28. (JP) — The
! S. S. Yukon of the Alaska Steam
i ship Co. sailed at 9 a. m. and
j carried 305 passengers, 844 steer
age and 84 for Seward as follow's:
Sam Romack, A. L. Baker, A.
Steinaur, wife and baby, Carl
Messer, Carl Johnson. Mrs. A1
| Hilty, E. D. Martens, A1 Jones,
O. Neilson, Gunnar Gabrielson,
R. W. Roell, Chris Pappadis and
wife, Eugene H. Dawson and wife,
V. Carlson, F. M. Fenton, Mrs.
Beaton and twro sons, Mike Koll
ger, Chas McFadden, A. Yejana
and wife, F. I. Reed.
G. D. Phillips, T. S. Simonson,!
L. Mathews, Geo. King, Mrs. A. j
H Meyer, F G. Spellman, Fred j
Parry and wife, A. J. Hewitt and 1
wife, Herman Kloss, Julios John
son, C. O. Pearson, John Con
tardi, S. Kilan, E. Burnson, J.
Johnon, A. Marlett, H. H. Trim- j
mer, W. W. Estes, Oric G. Nel j
soe, S. G. Sands, Fred K ling, Ole j
Gausland, Robt. Neilson, Norman j
Moen.
Chas. Exelson, Nels Johansen, j
V. Lipp, W. Lipp, E. Nordstrom, j
NeLs Sundquist, Mrs. R. Martz-1
loff, E. Maurer, Mrs. M. G. Gile, >
John Jensen, John Holden, Wm.
Fenswold, Lester Clark, J. E.
Coughline, A. Rod, Peter Ausness,
O. Westram, Mrs. Edna Borige
and daughter, Mrs. N. Hart, Miss
M. Sutton, James H. Petrie, N.
W. Vance, Howard Steenes, H. A.
Brown, John Lassida and wife,
W. K. Farer, J. E. Frances, Ed.
Lindberg, Thor Boyson, and 38
steerage.
MUST MILLION‘BUCKS'
IRISH 5IEPSTIKE5
LONDON, Mar., 28, (JP)—C. C.
Woods of Buffalo, N. Y., won ap
proximately $886,360 in the Irish
Hospital Sweepstakes with a tick- |;
et on Gretealach which placed J
second. j
Emilio Scala of London wron j
first and $1,772,720 on Grakle.
George Dyamond of Capetown, i
South Africa, won $590,905 for :
third place on Annadale. *
Smaller fortunes went to sev
eral other ticket holders.
Continued from yesterday
The middle bararaba contains
yukolo, of which in good seasons
>90,000 are obtained; while the
! third bararaba contains four vats
; of blue berries—shiksha in seal
I oil, equal to about 30 barrels; be
j tween the second and third bar
^abara is a bin of sarana (wild
potatoes), of which in good sea
sons 600 vedros (buckets) are ob
; tained.
This sarana is dug in June,
'washed, boield, dried and stored
in bins for future consumption.
This staple food .diluted with
water formed a desirable article
of food—barduck. Its other use
will be considered later. Near the
bararabas are the cattle barn, hay
barn, shed for bidarahs and bi
da rcas, and a mud hut for the
kayurs and kayurkas.
ALITAKSKAYA ARTEL (Alitak)
This artel is situated on the
Western side of Kodiak, built up
on a mountain near a small river
as follows: One apartment for
bidarschik, made of rough hewn
boards and banked with sod; one
for the Russian promishleniki,
kitchen and store room. Farther
apart are the whale oil rendering
plant, whale meat, sarana and
two barabaras for provisions.
First barabara contains two
large vats of pavinaya—whale
meat No. 1; second one contains
whale oil in 25 sealion bladders,
about 150 vedros (buckets). A
shed for miscellaneous products,
cattle barn, hay barn, balagan
for yukolo, of which in good sea
sons 70,000 are prepared. Near
the foot hill is a shed for bidar
ahs and bidarcas.
KARLUPSKAYA ARTEL (Karluk)
This artel is situated on the j
north side of the Karlupskaya j
river. The fortress is surrounded :
by an earthen bulwark from thej
sea-side 27 fathoms long, the |
three remaining sides being 50
fathoms each. The fortress con
tains the following structures:
a fairly clean, light barracks,,
made of rough hewn boards, bank
ed with sod, seven fathoms long
and four fathoms wide, containing
II bunks for the promishleniki;
also an apartment for the bird
arschik, an da galagan eight
fathoms long and four wide. In
good seasons 300,000 yukolo are
prepared here.
Moreover, there are two bara
baras, a bin containing 200 ved
ros of sarana, 20 barrels of
shikha in oil, of 25 vedros to a
barrel, three vats of whale oil,!
two barrels of moroshka and a
barabara for micellaneous arti
cles. There is also a cellar for
Russian potatoes and Swedish
turnips; a summer kitchen; ban
ya, work shed and a watch house;
beyond the fortress, not far
from the gate are cattle barns,
bay loft, pig pen and a square <
tazhim, three fathoms long for j
conscript laborers—18 females andi
20 males; besides 25 females for
cleaning fish, gathered from ;
various artels. <
(Continued tomorrow) <
VETERAN IRISH
STATESMAN. TIM
BUUS DEAD
WAS THE FIRST GOVERNOR
OF THE IRISH FREE
STATE
DUBLIN, Ireland, Mar., 28, (&)
—Timothy Michael Healy, veteran
Irish statesman and first Gover
nor of the Irish Free State, died
last evening.
More than a generation *5igo, at
a time when Charles Jstewari
Parnell’s Home Rule party seem
ed on the verge of success, and
the cabinet makers were forecast
ing the future Irish adiministra
tion, Father Healy, the famous
Irish wit, was asked “What will
jTim Healy be in the new govern
ment?” He replied “He will be a
! very old man.”
| The most daring prophet would
I not have ventured to foretell that
Timothy Michael Healy would oc
jcupy the Viceregal Lodge as gov
| ernor general of a Free State
I at the age of 67.
In the intervening years which
!saw the rise and fall of many
! reputations, while leaders came
land went their history was for
i gotten save in books of reference,
| Healy was in every year an out
i standing figure in Irish life.
Tim Healy was borii in Ban
try in the year 1855 and began
: his political career in Newcastle.
JURY liners BERT
K DONALD. HADED
KETCHIKAN, Mar., 27, (/P)—
A special grand jury indicted
Bert McDonald who was arrest
ed in Portland. Ore., recently,
on the charge of the murder or'
George P. Marshall, an elderly
fish buyer last October.
Close, who was arrested here
and held under a similar charge,
was indicted for grand larceny
in connection with another case.
McDonald was also indicted
for grand larceny in the theft
here of tools which were recover
ed from the bay by a govern
ment diver sent down at the in
stigation of a witness who in
volved McDonald and Close in
the case recently through the
investigations of T. N. Henry,
special department of justice in
vetigator.
District Attorney H. D. Stab
ler and Deputy Marshal W. H.
Caswell reported they are ready
to proceed. The defense counsel
has yet to report.
NEW §1 OFFICIAL
ARRESTED GRIFT CHARGE
NEW YORK, Mar., 28, </P)—
Rollin Bastress, former chief
building inspector of this city,
was arrested yesterday morning
:harged with accepting a bribe.
His arrest followed indications
>f a city-wide legislative investi
gation to be preceded by a clean
up by Tammany leaders.
Rumors indicated that Tam
nany intended to make a thor
>ugh cleanup, if possible, in the
lity government.