VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 49.
SEWARD, ALASKA,> FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1927.
PRICE TEN CENTS
Breakwater Project
Under Consideration
Board of Engineers
ESTIMATES TO BE SUBMITTED IN JULY ON LOW
r ELL CREEK WORK PROVIDING CITY MEETS CO
OPERATIVE REQUIREMENTS OF LAW, TELE
GRAPHS COLONEL JAS. G. STEESE IN SPECIAL
MESSAGE TO THE GATEWAY
(Special to the Gateway)
In reply to a special telegram sent to Colonel Jas. G.
Steese, president of the Alaska Road Commission relative
to the status of proposed local work, Colonel Steese wired
1 the Gateway *
JUNEAU, March 18. (/P)—Yours to date on Lowell
creek project. Project approved and estimates will be
submitted this July provided the city of Seward meets the
co-operative requirements of the law about which I am
writing them. The survey and report on for Resurrec
tion Bay breakwater and dredging now before the Board
of Engineers for rivers and harbors and to be before the
^next Congress for consideration when the next river and
harbor bill is under preparation. STEESE.
MINK DECLINES AT
SEATTLE FUR SALE;
J^ONE COLLECTION SOLD FOR $16;
MUSKRAT SHOWS IMPROVE
MENT
SEATTLE, March 18. ' (JP)—Mink
showed a 10 per cent decline from
last month at the Seattle tFur Ex
change auction. Virtually the entire
collection of 11,000 mink sold at from
$16 to $25. Red foxes averaged
$26.70, with the best lots bringing up
to $40. Muskrat improved 20 per cent,
clean lots of British Columbians
bringing $2.00 to $2.50; the best lots
of Alaskans brought $2.15; a collec
tion of 3,500 averaged $1.99. Strictly
specimen white fox brought $60; cross
fox improved 10 per cent, the best lots
bringing $92; ordinary Alaskans sold
for $32 to $35.
RATTLESNAKES IN CABIN
SAN FRANCISCO, March 18. (/P)—
Cramer, a ranger near Sacramento,
found 13 rattlesnakes in his cabin
^his week. Finding the cabin empty,
the snakes took possession of it for
the winter.
ICE HOCKEY RETURNS
10 THE PACIFIC COAST
VANCOUVER, B. C., March 18. (JP)
—The return of professional ice hock
ey to the Pacific coast was advanced
one step by the ratification of the
bonds issued for the Seattle Civic au
^ ditorium, which may be used as an
ice rink. Vancouver, Seattle, Port
land, Los Angeles and possibly San
Francisco would form the league.
; NO EPIDEMICS IN INTERIOR
I RUBY, March 18. (^P)—Dr. E. White,
head of Bureau of Education work on
the Yukon, with headquarters at Fort
Gibbon, arrived on an inspection trip
from as far west as Kaltag and reports
conditions satisfactory and no epi
demics.
MB STORMS
HIKE TOLL OF LIVES
HAIL AND RAIN ACCOMPANY
SHOCK TWISTING WINDS IN
SOUTHWEST
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., March 18. (IP)
—Half a dozen small communities in
Southwest Arkansas are recovering
from shock-twisting winds last night
which left at least several dead and
more than a score of injured and
burned. The storm hit Klondike
where five lives were taRfen and one
person seriously injured. All belonged
to a single household. Hail and rain
accompanied the storm. Near Tex
arkana train service was hampered.
EX-PRESIDENT OBREGON
TO SEEK niESIDENCY
MEXICO CITY, March 18. (IP)—'That
President Obregon will be a candidate
in the 1928 presidential elections now
is a foregone conclusion in political
circles. A reported conversation be
tween Obregon and Rodolfo Goana,
retired bullfighter and idol of Mexico,
was held today by political leaders as
proof that the ex-president has made
up his mind to accept the nomination.
TO USE MORAL SUASION
WASHINGTON, March 18. (IP)—
Economic pressure and moral suasion
will be employed by the United States
government to force* France into the
naval policy now being arranged with
Great Britain and Japan, it became
known in official circles here today.
LABOR INSURANCE
BILL INTRODUCED!
1 LEGISLATURE
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SENATE MEMORIAL ASKS THAT j
SEATTLE HEADQUARTERS OF
B. OF E. BE TRANSFERRED
JUNEAU, March 18. (/P)—Industrial
insurance for all labor except agricul
tural and domestic wherever three or
more persons are employed would be
required under a bill filed in the
House. The bill follows in general
the California act, and provides for an
• r
insurance commissioner whom the
Legislature elects.
A Senate memorial was introduced
which asks the transfer of the head
quarters of the Alaska division of the
Federal Bureau of Education from Se
attle to some convenient Alaska city
for efficiency of service.
'DOC COOK IS NOT I
ELIGIBLE TO PAROLE
UNI YEAH 1930
PAROLE AT THE DISCRETION OF
THE DEPARTMENT OF JUS
TICE
WASHINGTON, March 18. (/P)—The
Department of Justice has something
to say about the move to release Dr.
Cook on probation. The officials agree
that the Federal jurists have power to !
suspend sentences and place persons
convicted in their courts on probation, i
but doubt appeared to exist whether j
probation could be granted after part
of a term had been served. Cook, un
der the prevailing Federal practice
parole is at the discretion of the De
partment of Justice. Cook will not be
eligible for parole until 1930.
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INTERIOR DOG DERBY
MAKES 28 MILES IN TWO HOURS
AND 12 MINUTES—ILOOK DAY
TON SECOND
RUBY, March 18. (ff)—Walter Nall
ner won the 28-mile dog race in two
hours and 12 minutes. Ilook Dayton i
was second in two hours and 19 min- :
utes. Robert Damoska was third in (
two hours and 20 minutes. All nine ,
entrants finished within eight minutes j
of each other. The race was run in i
sub-zero weather. The six-mile event ,
for women will be held late today. 1
SUGGESTION TO FRINCE
GETS COOL RECEPTION;
PARIS, March i8. (/P)—The sugges- *
tion that France will be asked to take (
part in the naval limitation conference
between Great Britain, Japan and the
United States as an official observer
met'with cool reception on the Quai -
d’Grsay last night, where it was de- \
dared has no intention of taking part c
in the conference. t
Record Travel To
Alaska Indicated
By Manager Smith
RAILROAD MANAGER IN SEATTLE EN ROUTE
NORTH-IMPROVED STEAMER SERVICE INDI
CATES LARGER TOURIST TRAVEL SOUTHWEST
ERN ALASKA AND OVER RAILROAD—ORIGI
NAL BRIDGES BE REPLACED WITH PERMA
NENT STRUCTURES
SEATTLE, March 18. (/P)—Noel Smith, en route to
Seward from Washington, predicted that tourist travel
to Southwestern Alaska as the result of the increase in
steamship company service. “Both the Alaska and Pa
cific steamship companies have increased and improved
their services to Southwestern Alaska which means larger
tourist travel over the railroad.”
Among the railroad improvementsB1
planned are the filling up of wooden
trestles and replacing of original
bridges with permanent structures.
A new gasoline-electric passenger
coach and trailer from the J. J. Brill
company of Philadelphia will be
shipped to Alaska in about four
months and operated between Anchor
age and Fairbanks and occasionally
Seward.
PLANE AND SEARCHING PARTIES
LEAVING AKIAK AND KALS
KAGAMUTE
M’GRATH, March 18. (/p)—'With no
trace of Ed Young near the plane
which was forced to land below Mc
Grath on its way to Bethel, searching
parties are leaving Akiak, Kalskaga
mute and Bethel and joining in the
search for the missing man. A plane
is coming from Anchorage to try and
And Young. A strong westerly gale is
blowing and the temperature is 40
iegrees below zero.
U, OF GAL CAGE TEAM
CONFERENCE CHIMPS
BERKELEY, Calif., March 18. (£>)—
rhe University of California basket
mil team was welcomed back here to
lay after winning its fourth consecu
;ive Pacific coast Conference basket
mil title by virtue of two victories
)ver Oregon. It now holds a record
inequalled in the annals of college
msketball in the United States.
$72,000,000 GOLD CARGO
SAN FRANCISCO, March 18. (£>)—
rhe steamer Norfolk Maru will arrive
tere next Tuesday with $72,000,000 in
cold; also. 600 tons of silk and other
argo.
DUCHESS OF YORK ILL
WELLINGTON, N. Z., March 18.(JP)
-The Duchess of Yorke, here on a
rorld tour, is suffering from an attack
f tonsilitis. The Duke will carry out
he program arranged in their honor.
SOVIET ENVOY ASKS RELEASE
OF MME. BORODI SEIZED BY
CHINESE OFFICIALS
SHANGHAI, March 18. (£>)—'The
American Mission Society yesterday
directed the American consul at Han
kow to protest to the Cantonese of
ficials concerning the disorder which
followed Cantonese occupation, of the
city of Wubu in which the American
mission -was looted. Heavy rains
have flooded all the battlefields of
the Shanghai front effectively stop
ping all military operations or any
consequence for the present. Shang
hai troops, however, continued to ar
rive at Nanking where they took up
positions to ward off the /expected
drive of the Cantonese. The Soviet
envoy asked the release of Mme. Boro
di, seized by the Chinese officials, but
he was referred to Peking. All for
eigners have left Ningpo where fren
zied demonstrations are reported.
WOMAN REPORTED EXECUTED
PEKING, March 18. (£>)—Chinese
sources report that three alleged So
viet emissaries were executed by or
der of General Chang Tunsg, leader
of the Shantung troops, on the grounds
that they were spies in possession of
military plans. Mme. Borodi, one of
the three executed was the wife of
Michael Borodi, and adviser to the
Cantonese government, against which
Chang is fighting.
BUILDING DIRIGIBLES TO
GW 209 SOLDIERS
LONDON, March 18. (^P)—It was re
vealed in the House of Common yes
terday that Great Britain is building
two huge dirigibles in which can be
carried 200 armed soldiers. The di
rigibles would be used to transport the
soldiers to places where emergencies
arise with speed.