VOLUME XXI, NUMBER 269. SEWARD ALASKA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23. 1926. PRICE TEN CENTS
' Seward Peninsula Mining
Activities Described By
Captain of the Donaldson
GENERAL REVIVAL OF MINING OPERATIONS
THROUGHOUT ENTIRE DISTRICT — NOW ERA
PROSPERITY IS CONFIDENTLY BELIEVED AT
HAND, ASSERTS VETERAN NAVIGATOR
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Mining activities in the Nome district are interest
ingly portrayed by Captain T. Cheatham of the motor
'ship Donaldson during his brief stop in port while en
route to Seattle for the winter. A general era of pros
perity has been felt throughout the Candle Creek coun
try, he said, and a revival of mining in the Council dis
trict has been one of the big factors of the past season.
The future outlook of the Kougarok section is brighter
today than it has been for the past ten years; operators
in the Inmachuk region enjoyed a most successful sum
mer, reports from the Solomon river country were high
ly satisfactory, and Dime Creek apparently has taken on
a new lease of life and promises again to be one of the
great many producers on Seward peninsula.
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me umuen teuier mining company
which has taken an option from E. J.
"Matthews of the Keewalk Mining com
pany, Candle Creek, had a force of
35 men working this summer. In ad
dition to scattered pieces of property
on the upper part of the creek, they
own from No. 7 below to 15 above disr
c&very—which includes the benches
also. It is estimated that with only
one dredge working this season, the
output of the creek will be over $150,
000. This dredge working on a por
tion of No. 1 below took out $100,000
and it is conservatively estimated
there is still half a million left in the
claim.
A singular incident, this claim was
sold three years ago for $1,000, such
is mining luck. During the forepart
of the season the company suffered
lavich difficulty from water shortage,
aVl the season’s operations were
merely a test by the company of the
mineral values in the ground. The
cold water thawing process proved
most excellent.
After closing down active mining
the company’s General Manager, Mr.
Herschman, put a force of men to
work prospecting with drills and shaft
sinking, which will probably be con
tinued during the winter season.
Close to the coal mine is the Kug
ruk Galena mine which mining engi
neers have pronounced one of the
largest masses of average galena ore
ever discovered. In addition to the
work already enumerated a number
oc individual operators have enjoyed
a successful season, prominent among
whom are Mr. L. A. Sundquist on No.
3, Patterson creek; Norland and
Swanson on No. 8 creek claim; O. A.
Lundberg on No. 20 above and Wil
liam Hammond on No. 15 above. On
Jump creek, Wm. French, John Red
ding and Jack Murphy on the first tier
bench off No. 8 above, and Dune Mc
Donald and Alec McIntosh on No. 11
benches.
Considerable mining activity is evi
dent in the territory adjacent to
<^:ndle. On Quartz - creek, about 30
miles from Candle, Ed Hansen and
Chas. Evans, both reliable miners, are
freighting in hydraulic supplies. They
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WERE NOT PLOTTING
CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 23. (£>)—
Official Russo-Turk communique from |
Odessa regarding a conference be
tween Turkish and Russian foreign
ministers confirms the belief that the
interview was not concerned with the
formation of the Asiatic league
against Occident.
FISHING BOATS SINK IN GALE
PROVINCETOWN, Mass., Nov. 23
More than a score of fishing boats
were sunk, two wharves were washed
away and the U. S. S. Morrill, mother
ship of the rum-chasing fleet, was
washed high and dry on shore during
a gale from the south.
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EXPLOSION OCCURS IN GULF OF
GEORGIA—WAS EIGHTY-FIVE
FOOT STEAMER
ANACORTES, Wn„ Nov. 23. (£>)—
The tugboat Bahada with a crew of
ten sank ten miles from Anacortes in
the Gulf of Georgia after an explosion.
The body of William Hansen, deck
hand, was washed up on Samish Is
land. Seamen said there was little
chance of anyaine having escaped
alive.
The vessel was en route from Ana
cortes to Bellingham. A search for
it started -when it failed to arrive.
Ships, scouring the gulf, found the
log raft which the tug was towing and
wreckage, including splintered frag
ments of the pilot house and lifeboats.
Gilkey Brothers, a towing company,
owned the Bahada, which was an 85
foot steamer.
LAURA MARRIES DIRECTOR
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 23.—Laura ,
La Plante, motion picture star, and ;
■William Seiter, film director, were ,
wed here yesterday. 4
MUCH CONTROL
OF SENATE DEPENDS
ON ONE NOMINEE
MAINE ELECTIONS THIS MONTH
WILL BE DECIDING FACTOR
IN UPPER HOUSE
PORTLAND, Me., Nov. 23. (/P)—
With the Republican control in the
Senate dependent upon the special
election in Maine on November 29,
Arthur R. Gould, Republican nominee,
faced charges of exceeding the legal
expenses in the primary and with giv
ing a $100,000 bribe several years ago
to the premier of New Brunswick.
In the senatorial investigation Gould
was asked about this and he replied
that the bribe story was old stuff and
that a former business associate paid
some money as a campaign contribu
tion without his knowledge.
DETECTIVE RECOVERING
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 23.—Earl
Roney, detective, who was wounded
by Joe Tanko, a desperado who es
caped from San Quentin prison, and
who "was killed in a battle with the
police, is reported to be recovering at
the hospital here.
HEAD CRUSHED WITH AX
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov.-fiO. (£>)—
Her head crushed by blows from an
ax a woman was found in a dying con
dition in her home yesterday.
YOUNG MAN FOUND ON RAIL
ROAD TRACK PINNED DOWN
WITH RAILS
ALAMEDA, Calif., Nov. 23. (/P)—A
Southern Pacific track foreman found
Ered W. Klens, Junior, 21, lying on j
the railroad track with two 50 pound
rails holding him down, a few minutes
before a train was due to pass. Klens
said he had attended a party at Oak
land Saturday night and doesn’t re
member what happened since that
time.
FOSSILIZED EGOS
FROM A 90 FOOT REPTILE WHICH
WEIGHED IN AT 40 TONS
NEW YORK, Nov. 23. (£>)—'The New
York American said L. Yoldey Stev
ens, a mining engineer of Harrison,
New York, discovered five fossilized
eggs from a brontosarus, a 90-foot rep
tile which weighed 40 tons. This
marks the first time eggs from this
reptile have been discovered in North
America. They were found in a rich
setting of silver lead.
COOLIDGE AND CLOWN VISIT
WASHINGTON, Nov. 23.—President
Uoolidge and Robert Sherwood, oldest
iving American clown, tied up gov
ernmental matters yesterday as they
sat and chatted circus stories. e
WASHINGTON, Nov. 23.—An arma
da of 77 fighting ships will sail from
the west coast in February for the
east coast for joint army and navy
maneuvers. They will have a base
at Guantanamo, with ships of the
scouting fleet, after which they will
proced to New York for recreation
and leave, and thence to Narragansett
Bay for for additional maneuvers.
LINCOLN’S PHYSICIAN DIES
; WASHINGTON, Nov. 23.—Dr. Josh
ua R. Hayes, former personal physi
I
cian to Abraham Lincoln, died here
'yesterday. He was 94 years of age.
MAY ALLISON WEDS
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 23. (£>)—May j
i
Allison, motion picture actress was j
wed to James Quirk, publisher of j
“Photoplay” on November 15.
ARMY OFFICER VICTIM
OF HIS OWN SON)
KERRYVILLE, Texas, Nov. 23. (JP)
--Col. C. E. Hawkins, of the quarter-1
master corps, Fort Sam Houston, was J
dangerously wounded while turkey
hunting with four other officers. Mack
Henderson said Colonel Hawkins was |
! struck full in the face with a charge ■
from his own shotgun as he placed it
against a tree.
LITTLE HOPE HELD FOR SEVEN
TEEN MEN IN BRITISH
COLUMBIA
FERNIE, British Columbia, Nov. 23.
(/P)—Two hours after a coal mine ex
plosion near Coleman, Alberta, 35;
miles east of Fernie, it -was reported j
here 17 miners -were imprisoned with 1
little hope any will come out alive, j
Mine owners denied the loss of life;
from the explosion which is attributed
to gas and coal dust. The explosion
occured as miners were going off
shift.
SUPREME COURT SAYS
SHIP OWNERS ERRED
SEEMINGLY VIOLATED ANTI
TRUST LAWS; EMPLOYED SEA- <
MAN THRU OWN BUREAU
WASHINGTON, Nov. 23. (£>)—'The :
Supreme Court declared the Ship: 1
Owners Association of the Pacific <
Coast and the Pacific American 1
Steamship association seemingly are j 1
violating the anti-trust laws by em- 1
ployment bureaus. The Supreme (
Court remanded the cases to the Dis- *
trict Court for trial.
BOBBED BANDIT IN FRISCO
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 23. (£>)— t
A bobbed hair bandit of the. fair sex 1
i
appeared for the first time last night c
when she and two youths held up i
the Fairmont hotel garage and escap- t
I in an automobile.
MRS. BETTY KING SLAIN BY GEO.
W. BARNETT, AUTOMOBILE
SALESMAN
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 23 (Jp)—
Mrs. Betty King, widow of Lieuten
ant Robert King of the United States
navy, was shot and killed Saturday
night by George W. Barnett, an auto
mobile salesman, who followed her
from Minneapolis, leaving a wife and
daughter there. Barnett shot himself
in the head while dining in a restau
rant with Mrs. King. He is not dead.
Mrs. King carried a letter addressed
to Barnett in which she spoke of his
former letters as “incoherent.”
Former Prosecutor Smith of Santa
Cruz county said the woman married
C. V. Cederquest in 1924, but that they
lived together only ten days. Ceder
quest sued for annulment and return
of mortgages he signed to his wife.
Mrs. King opposed this until confront
ed with evidence of illicit relations
with Barnett and had accompanied
him in a car.
LAW NOT FOR OUTSIDERS
ROME, Nov. 23. (JP)—The law for
lefense.of state in death sentences for
attempts on the life of Premier Mus
solini and heavily penalization for any
opposition to the regime does not ap
ply to foreigners visiting or resident
n Italy.
HEAVY RAIN SWEEPS 'FRISCO
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 23. (JP)—
Heavy rains which were swept into
San Francisco by stiff breezes yester
day, flooded streets and basements
and generally disturbed traffic down
;own. No great damage was reported.
HENRY STEVENS IS CONFRONT
ED WITH BUST OF WOMAN’S
HEAD
SOMERVILLE, N. J., Nov. 23. (£>)—
Henry Stevens, a defendant in the
Hall-Mills murder trial, denied under
rigorous cross-examination this after
noon that he shot Mrs. Eleanor
VIills to death or slashed her throat
>r that he had killed the Rev. Edward
Hall in a struggle for a gun in Derus
>ey’s lane on the night of September
.4, 1922. The gruesome blood-red
>ust of a woman’s head was placed
>n the witness stand in front of the
witness and he was asked to show' on
he figure how he used to sash the
leeks of blue-fish when “you were
leaning them.” He refused to make
he demonstration.
AMERICAN LEGION MEETING
Meeting of the American Legion
onight at 8 p. m. Meeting will be
teld at Fire Hall. Nominations of
fficers for 1927. All members are
.rged to be present. Visiting meti
ers wrelcome.
A. E. RUCKER. Commander.