MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 135.
SEWARD, ALASKA. TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 1929.
PRICE TEN CENTS
STEAMER HUSKS L
OFF FOR ALASKA |
LARGE LISTING
MANY WELL KNOWN ALASKANS
RETURNING NORTH ON
FAST LINER
SEATTLE, June 11, </P)—The S.j
S. Alaska, of the Alaska Steam
ship company, sailed Sunday lor
Alaska carrying 225 first class ,
passengers and 108 third class.
There were 75 reservations for
Seward, as follows:
F. S Gordon, Peter Vachon,
Charles Edwards. J. F. O'Connor,!
Dr. J. F. Baughman, J. M. Me
Donald, O. Williams, F. Felix.
Mr. and Mrs- John E. Ballaine,
Mother Amarina Mogher Joseph, j
Sister Phillipe, Col. Otto F. Ohl- |
son and Mrs. Ohlson, E. W. Saw- (
yer Mrs. G. W. King and baby.
Mr and Mrs. Woddington, Mrs
Hegstrom, Bruce Thorne, G. C.
Graves, Miss J. Byine, Mrs. Byrne,
Mr. and Mrs. Wilcox, Mrs. G.
Hagstrom and three children,
Lillian Tanner, Mr. and Mrs. L
E Judd.
Mrs. G. Smith. Gerald bnmn,
Mrs. Charles Oodyke, Miss A.!
Ondvke. H. Romisr, H. S. Sogn,
Harel Rosenoff. Mercendes Rose
Helen Larsen. Mr. and
Mrs- P. T. Be'ers. J. G. Watts/ ^.
j. Loussac. Ray Clark. O. Heims.
H. Lirkel. Miss J. Beers. Miss B.
Beers t, Hoen. Mr. and Mrs.
r B. Browne. Robert Tonner.
pv-ve Lideerwood. Miss E. Webb.
M Iverson. W. H. Connors, Ed
Hershev. D. F. Mitchell, T. J.
McDonald, T. M. Brown, Mrs. A.
Wik and child. Miss A. Shackle
ton. Mrs. A. Williams. Louise Hol
land. Irene Freeoneyer. Melvin
Blake.
James M. Elleson. M. Soera,
Mrs. L. M. McMellan, John
Thompson, and five steerage.
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SEARCH STARTED TWO HOURS
AFTER DISAPPEARANCE;
FEAR FOR MEN
CORDOVA, June 11, (A5)—Aj
searching party of 10 men were j
sent out today by Commissioner E. i
P. Harwood, to locate Arthur Cox j
and John Wagner who have been
> st for two days on Hinchinbrook'
land.
Neither of the men are armed
and the island abounds with brown
bear. Some fear the men were vic
tims of these animals as a search
failed to reveal any trace of them
though they were seen an hour be
fore their disappearance and the
search started within two hours of
their being lost.
SIX-YEAR-OLD MESSAGE
CORDOVA, June 11, (/P)—After
floating 1,000 miles in six and one
half years, a myrographic observa
tion sealed in a bottle was picked
up near Cordova by a fisherman.
The-note was dropped in the sea
on the Seattle-Oriental shipping
lanes by the steamer “Empress of
Russia”. Cant. A. J. Hooker, Decem
ber 15, 1922.
SMALLPOX IN VALDEZ
CORDOVA, June 11, (A5)—Indica- j
ons that smallpox has broken out
1 Valdez was received here in a ,
able. A request for vaccine serum
ar 100 persons to be shipped on the
Leam°i Alaska now enroute north
as been made.
STEAMER SURVEYOR ENDEAV
ORING LOCATE SUNKEN
A. S. S. CO. LINER
SEATTLE, June 11, (£>)—The
investigation of the S. S. Aleutian
wreck has disclosed the steamer i
was out of it’s course when it
struck a rock in Uyak Bay.
The rock, as shown on the
chart, is one-quarter of a mile
south of Amook Island. At the time
of the wreck it was said the Uyak
Bay charts failed to disclose the
rock the Aleutian struck.
Efforts are being made by the
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
vessel Surveyor to locate the
sunken vessel to determine the
Uyak Bay course
SEATTLE, June 11, (/P)—The de
rision of Alaska packers generally
to wait until early August before
raining opening prices has caused
a good volume of sales in the Puget
Sound canned salmon mart the Iasi
few days..
Spot prices are firm for pinks anc
chums with sockeyes heavily reduc
ed. The choice for Alaska tails ar<
i meeting a brisk demand at $1.40.
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VISITOR WONDERS IF PIONEER
ING IS NOT AHEAD OF ULTI
MATE DESTINY
“An adequate idea of Alaska
is a land of magnificent dis
tances and infinite variety of vis- !
ta and view cannot be obtained
from well intentioned study of
maps or reading descriptive fold
ers of transportation companies.
These are planned to give infor
mation, but they fall far short
of their mission. And I’m not
sure that a single visit in person
will suffice.”
Such was the observation of
Garret B. Hunt, newspaper man
formerly of Western New York
and in later years in Eastern
Washington. M. Hunt arrived in
Seward on the Admiral Watson
on her return trip from Kodiak
(trip and is passing a week here
land at Anchorage.
I ‘It would be presumptous on
my part,” said Mr. Hunt to the
Gateway, ‘‘to comment on any
feature of Alaska except what
may be observed from the deck
of a steamer- I am visiting youi
shores in fulfillment of a child
hood dream in a little old school
I house in Western New York or
the day I made the discovery ir
Monteith’S geography that Alas
i ka and myself had arrived ii
I the United States in the sarm
iyear. It has required more thai
'half a century for that juvenil
■ fancy to visit here to become ai
II actual fact.
s “In the interim, my understand
5 mg has for the most part bee
t; gleaned from impressions caugt
t while editing telegraph news an
titling pictures along the old tra
d
e
over the Chilkoot Pass, of tl
frozen gravel If the Yukon
Kwickpak in that old geography
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YACHT ENTERS RACE
SEATTLE, June 11, (/P)—The
imeric&n Hawaiian carrier Ken-1
ucky brought a cabin cruiser own- j
d by H. J. Thurling for entrance |
n the Olympia-Juneau capitol to !
apito1 race. Part of the deck load j
if the yacht was lifted aboard at j
Jan Francisco.
ICE CONDITIONS ALMOST UN
PRECEDENTED FOR THIS
TIME OF YEAR
ST. JOHN, Newfoundland, June
11, (/P)—The steamer Earl of
Devon and several other fishing
schooners, have been caught in
the heavy ice extending north
ward from Cape Johns, New
foundland to the northeast coast.
The steamer Clyde was forced
to turn back a few miles south
! of the cape. The schooner Lady
A and the Persons, have not been
heard from since they landed
four men on Belle Island, a fish
ing station.
Numerous icebergs of unusual
size have been sighted one of
which was estimated to be twc
miles long; another was at least
40 feet high. Ice conditions are
L almost unprecedented for thu
t time of the year.
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NATIONAL LEAGUE
St. Louis 10; Philadelphia 9.
Chicago 10; Boston 8.
Cincinnati 7; New York 3.
Brooklyn 7; Pittsburgh 6.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Cleveland 4; Washington 3.
Detroit 1; Boston 0. x
Philadelphia 3; Chicago 1.
New York 3; St. Louis 2.
BRITISH DIRIGIBLE NEARING TIME FOR TEST
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As the new British dirigible R-100 will appear
when completed (above). The craft is as large as the
steamship Mauretania. Below is shown a portion ot the
interior of the hull.
FROTH*
BUGS MONSTER
KODIAK BEAR
A FULL-FURRED, TWELVE-FOOT
PELT. ESTIMATED WEIGHT
CARCASS 1800 LBS.
Brown as his trophy and
radiating boundless enthusiasm,
Robert Frothingham of New York
returned on the Steamer “Starr
this morning from a five-weeks
bear hunt on Kodiak Island with
two magnificent bear hides meas
uring 12 and nine feet respect
ively. The big fellow is, unques
tionably, one of the largest bears
'that have been taken from this
(famous hunting ground, as may
be seen from the following dimen
sions :
Length of hide—12 feet.
Circumference of head—4 feet,
4 inches.
Height from heel to shoulder—
4 feet
I Circumference of ‘‘fore-arm’’,
II after skinning—2 feet* 2 inches.
■ j Length of skull—18 inches.
Width of head, before skinning
1 18 inches.
E ; size of hind foot—13,1-2 inches
3 by 9,1-2 inches.
t Estimated weight of head, after
e skinning—60 pounds,
s Estimated weight of pelt—135
to 150 pounds. ,
Length of claws on fore feet—
& 6 incnes.
BEAUTIFUL SILVER-TIP
Notwithstanding the unquestion
ed advanced age of the animal,
the tushes, which were two in
ches long, were in perfect condi
tion and the fur between four
and five inches thick, uniformly
distributed all over the body and
beautifully silver-tipped.
Earl Olmstead, of the Alaska
Guides, Inc., was Frothingham's
: guiae, and to whom Frothingham
iaccords great credit for a degree
of craftsmanship far beyond the
usual thing. Also to Slim
Crocker who packed the hide
between four and five miles to
camp. Crocker is a young giant
lof six feet, built like an athlete.
He estimated that he was 15
I pounds lighter in weight after
reaching camp with the most
ponderous pelt he ever grappled
The bear was spotted at 7:30
a .m. and followed for approx
imately 15 miles before coming
within rifle-shot at 5 p. m. The
party “siwashed” it for one night.
Owen Springfield “Sporter” did
Ijob and the animal ran for near
ly a mile before he “caved in.”
PRAISE FOR OLMSTEAD
Said Frothingham: “Earl Olm
stead is one of the finest rifle
shots I ever saw. If it hadn’t
been for him I question very
much whether I ever would
have brought that monster down.
And when it comes to following a
trail, both through alders and in
the clear, well—I'd hate to have
him on my heels if I were ‘want
ed’ somewhere. Incidentally, I
might say that hunting isn’t
'the only pleasure there is in the
i wilderness. The culinary capacity
of Mrs. Olmstead in the cook-tent
| is something to remember for
many a day. If one wants to set
! his teeth in the real article
| when it comes to ‘sour-dough’
ihot cakes, I’ll commend that es
timable lady to the most fasti
1 dious sportsman that ever wan
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