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VOLUME XXIII. NUMBER 193.
SEWARD, ALASKA SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1928
PRICE TEN GENTS
OPENING EMPIRE
SHORT ROUTE TO ILIAMNA COUN.
4 TRY WOULD ELIMINATE 2,000
MILES OF SEA TRAVEL
A road only 10 ano one.iiall miles
long, capable of transporting freight,
would open up a vast country, rich
in game, fur, minerals and timber
aad would start an enormous indus.
try in reindeer product, in the opinion
of Jack Bailey of the Portage Road
House Trading Post on Iilamna Lake.
P He referred to the oft.discussed high,
way from Iliamna Bay on Cook Inlet
to Iliamna Lake. It would save a
steamboat trip of nearly 2,000 (miles
and would bring the trade of a great
section of Alaska directly to Seward’s
door. Mr. Baitey, who is interested
wifih Hans Seversen in the trading
post is now in Seward awaiting the
departure of the S. S. Aleutian Sun.
day, when he will go to Seattle to pur.
dhase supplies and will then continue
* to his old home at Burley, Idaho,
planning to be back here in Novem.
ber.
“The future of that great sweep of
country north of Iliamna Lake and
Lake Clarke, to my mind, lies in the
reindeer industry. It is ideal for the
purpose. The natives have 3,000 head
in the region now but there is no
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FISHERMEN ASKING FOR PRICE
EQUIVALENT TO THAT PAID
SOUTH OF BOUNDARY
NEW WESTMINISTER, B. C., Aug.
9 18 (JP)—The possibility of a strike on
Fraser River and spreading through,
out British Columbia in the salmon
fisheries loomed at the conclusion of
a meeting last night between repre.
sentatives of the fishermen and can.
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ners.
The men remained firm in their
demand for a price equivalent to that
paid for sockeyes, red and white
springs, and cohoe’s in canneries
south of the international boundary.
R. Marshall, of the Fisherman’s
Executive Committee, ‘announced if
no settlement is made a strike will be
inevitable “and it will not end in the
Fraser for they will carry it to the
northern limit.”
He said that despite pressure by
men for immediiite settlement the
cannery fisheries promised a joint
meeting Sunday morning.
NO SHORT “HELLO GIRLS”
PARIS, Aug. 18, (/P)—Short girls
who would be .telephone operators
haven’t a chance in France. Appli
cants less than five fee*- tall are
turned away, for they can’t reach
the top multiple jacks of the switch
boards.
AMUNDSEN MAY STILL
BE ALIVE IK WASTES
OF SIBERIAN ARCTIC
STAVANGER, Norway, Aug. 18, (IP)
—Eommisar Oras, of the Soviet ice
breaker Krassin, believes Amundsen
and his five men are still alive. The
Krassin is undergoing repairs pre
paratory to continuing search for
Amundsen and his party and the six
men missing in the balloon part of
the Italia. He beblieves that the
Amundsen plane may have flown to
the balloon party after being forced
to land because of lack! of fuel.
SEWARD LUMBER
MILL TO RESUME
OPERATIONS SOON
NEW BUILDING ACTIVITY CAUSES
SAWS TO HUM AFTER
SILENCE OF YEAR
After a silence of nearly a year,
the saws of the Seward Lumber Cor
poration mill at the head of Resur
rection Bay on the outskirts of the
city will be humming again in a
short time, according to the announce
ment of J. L. Graef, head m the com
pany.
A logging crew with logging equip
iment has already been dispatched to
Forth of July creek across the bay
to the eastward where they are now
engaged in getting out logs for the
beginning of operations. At the mill j
men are getting equipment in shape j
t
and the machinery will be turnin;
ever soon although no definite date
has b^en fixed, awaiting word fri n
| the logging camp.
The Seward mill turns out rough
dimension stuff chiefly and the re
sumption of operations is called up
on by the number of different con
struction and building operations
now going on in Seward and vicinity
and projects planned for the immedi
ate future.
REPUBLICAN NOMINEE SPEAKS
SOUTHERN CALIF. BEFORE
EASTERN CAMPAIGN
j ABOARD THE HOOVER TRAIN,
Aug. 18, (IP)—Hoover tarried for
awhile in the Southern part of his
home State before heading Eastward
for the supreme battle of his careo"
with little more than time to say
hail and farewell.
Hoover has arranged to visit six
California cities in the morning and
late evening with one prepared ad
dress at Los Angeles; he will visit
Santa Barbara, Pasadena, San Ber-i
nardino, Long Beach and Glendale.
SEASON PRONOUNCED NORMAL
FEDERAL OFFICIALS MAKE
JOURNEYS OF INSPECTION
JUNEAU, Aug. 18. (/P)—Present fig.
ures of this year’s Alaska salmon pack
5.250.000 cases is apparently a normal
year, U. S. Commissioner of Fisheries
Honry O’Malley reported. The only
weak area is the west coast of Prince
00 Wales Island.
These figures will presumably be
increased before tihe closing pack in
most aras and compares favorably
with the banner year of 1926 when
6.600.000 cases were packed.
Secretary Jardine, Solicitor General
Miachell, Governor Parks, Mr. O’Mai.
ley, and Chief of the Biological Sur.
vey Paul Redington, left for Skag
way and Sitka on an inspection trip;
they return Tuesday or Wednesday.
Redington sails South in time to
address the International Association
of Game Commissioners and allied
Societies of Seattle on August 28.
RAGING WINDS AND WATERS LAY
WASTE LARGE AREA ALONG
SOUTHEASTERN COAST
ATLANTA, Aug. 18. (£>)— Four
Southeastern States counted 10 dead
and great property damage in the
wake of the storms and floods. Bat.
i ling fch»3 receding waters railroads,
telegraph and telephone companies,
ar struggling against heavy odds to
l'estoi’e commition lintejs. which
were broken by raging waters in Yir.
ginia, North and South Carolina and
in Georgia.
Property owners in thosia states
contemplateed 1,000 acres of farm
land was destroyed including many
damaged homos and buildings as well
as unestimated bridges and highways
damaged which can not be restored
for months. While showors are fore,
casted with drenching rains and wind
•storms of the last few days have ap.
parently subsided.
IT HIATT FOR
SENATOR STILL LEADS
IN CLOSE OHIO VOTE
COLUMBUS, Aug. 18, (^—Recti
fication of two mistakes by the Coup
ly Board’s election placed Hunt, wet,
in the lead for the Democratic short
term in the Senatorial nomination,
over Locher, dry.
An official vote is expected neces
sary to determine the winner. The
latest figures gives Hunt a lead ol
445. The count stands, Hu'nt 93,469
and Locher 93,024.
SAILING SCHOONER
LASHED TO ICEBURC
IN POINT BARROW BLOW
POINT BARROW, Aug. 18, (tP)—
Lashed to stranded icebergs the sail
ing schooner C. S. Holmes, command
ed by John Backland, Jr., of Seattle,
is holding its own against a ragiDg
gale which threatened to blow the
ship ashore Thursday. Small boats,
belonging to Tony Edwardson, Jack
Smith and Henry Chamberlain, Arc
tic traders, have been pinched and
raised up by icebergs.
RAILROAD EXECUTIVE
IS MAIII OF ACTION
ENDORSES REMOVAL OF DEPOT
TO FOOT FIFTH AVENUE;
FOREPART OCTOBER
A man of action arrived In Seward
last night in the person of General
Manager Otto F.*Ohlson of Alas
ka Railroad, new head of the system.
In less than two hours he hacT de
cided that the present Seward depot
of the railroad would be moved from
its present site to a commanding
position on the water front and that
the work should begin in about 30
days, or around -October. He issued
instructions for track elevation, fill
ings, construction of concrete walks,
improvement of levels for dock ao
j proaches, and general efforts of eo
: operation with things already accom
plished toward the beautification of
'the waterfront. His conclusions were
(reached after a brief tour of the
| water front in company with Assis
tant General Manager A. Horn, who
has been in charge of the road,
awaiting his coming. Mr. Horn, who
has made careful study of the prob
lems concerning Seward’s needs,
made suggestions "which were care
fully listened to, heartily commended
and immediately adopted.
“This small Arcade Park is won
derful; it enhances the beauty of
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SEAPLANE WICKED '
ATTEMPTING FLIGHT
ON INSIDE PASSAGE
PRINCE RUPERT, Aug. 18, (/P) —
Tk>3 wrecked and disabled seaplane of
the fisheries patrol which crashed on
a mountain on Porsher Island, near
Welcome Pass on Wednesday, was
towed here. Pilot W. N. Cummings
is recovering in the hospital from
severe outs on the head. The plane
was enroute from Prince Rupert to
Queen Charlotte City and he attempt.
Aed to climb above a fog bank. Two
fisheries officers, as passengers, were
unhurt.
SEWARD SELECTED
AS SITE FOR BID
SUPPLY COMPANY
PROVEN PRODUCT SALES CO., OF
SEATTLE TO HAVE WARE.
HOUSE HERE
Selection of Seward as one of two
warehouse and distributing points in
Alaska for this heavy hardware and
machinery lines of the Proven Pro
ducts Sales Co., of Seattle has been
announced by George E. Davis, found,
er and head of the company who is
now in Seward. Juneau will be the
other point, under this present pro.
gram, aaid both should be in operation
by next sppring. The movement
! means a direct connection between
the needs of Alaska and the facilities
for supplying them, according to Mr.
Davis. Some of the biggest houses
in America, whose products are
known the world over, will be repre.
■sented in the deal.
“W)e will have warattqitees herre
and in Juneau with allotments of the
products of those bigger companies
which we papresent and those which
w© manufacture ourselves,” said Mr.
Davis. *‘Wo want to get in direct
connection with the trade of the
! North. We will have display rooms,
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SEATTLE, Aug. 18. (£>)—The S. S.
Yukon, of the A. S. S. Co., sailed at
9 o’clock this morning carrying 170
passengers. The Seward listing -was
H. C. Dennett, Geo. Bennett, Mrs. A.
j Langton, Mrs. F. H. Lounsbury and
I daughter, Miss M. Clark, Miss I.
Cline, Mrs. C. Houston, Miss C. L.
I Price, and Miss D. Hill.
B. F. Green, Mr. and -*rs. A. F.
; Wood and son, Wm. H. Miller, Dr. E.
j Romano, Mrs. A. A. Bennett, Mrs. J.
I H. King and daughter, Mr. and Mrs.
Edward Bath, Dr. Frank R. Clark,
Mrs. M. R. Boyd, Lilly Johnson, Miss*
A. Bixby, Mrs. Edgar Clausen and two
daughters, Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Kaye,
Mr. and Mrs. E. Robbins, Bruce
Thorne, Geo B. Graves and Erling
Strom.
i Mrs. Bill-son and daughter, Miss L.
Hopkins, Mrs. W. H. Suksdor-f, Mrs.
Hopkins and daughter, Lorena 'Cuth.
bartson, Miss V. Jones, Miss L. D.
Lehman, Mrs. E. Carlson and daugh
ter, D. M. Hill, Miss L. Ford, Wm.
S. Cluff, J. H. Thurber, Mr. and Mrs.
D. M. Jacobs, Mrs. A. Bastness and
son, Mrs. John Walgren and G. G\
Masic.
E. N. Neeley, N. F. Gilbertson, W.
F. Howard, Miss K. Browning, F. Sim_
mons, Miss F. Pope, Miss A. Jamas,
W. M. Lynch, Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Loh_
nes, Miss Genevieve Lamb, Eva
Argus, Lois- King, Miss Vera Wheeler,
Ramaka Kamkoff, Mrs. A. E. Edgar,
V. Foreman.
Ttoare was also on© steerage and
two round trippers.