ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE
'‘ALL THE HEWS ’ALL THE TIMET*
VOL XXL NO. 3130
JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JANUARY I, 1923. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS.
PRICE TEN CENT*
INDICTED FOR WAR TIME FRACD
LOCAL COMPANY
MAKES UNUSUAL
PROGRESS, 1922
Alaska Juneau Production
Last Year $1,344,354.92
—Large Increase 1921.
NOW EMPLOYS 370 MEN;
PERFECTS NEW SYSTEM
Trammed 2,316,900 Tons of
Ore Last Year and Milled
Over Million Tons.
More than one-rixth of the entire
amount of gold production credited
to the Territory for 1922 by tHe
annual report of the Geological Sur
vey, appearing cl'ewhere in The
Empire today, came from the- Alaska
Juneau properties. Figures substan
tiating this were made public today
in a statement made to The Em
pire by General Manager P. R
Bradley.
Mr. Bradley, who lias ben actively
in charge of the properties, in the
statement mentioned, reveals strik
ing progress made during the past
year. Heavy increases in all de
partments are shown. More ore was
mined and trammed, more milled,
more w’ent to t lie waste dump, more
gold was recovered, and net produc
tion of silver and load was larger
than ever before in the history oi
the mine. In fact, during the year,
the property was switched from the
debit to the credit fide of tire ledger
and it is now employing the biggest
crew in the history of its actual
mining operations.
Value of Product.
The total gold, silver, and lead
produced by the Alaska Juneau in
1022 was" valued at l1.Sn.3Si4.93,
r.n increase of $355,5.77.98. or in ex
cess of 35 per cenl over tbe pro
duction of 1021. Of the total in
crease, $320,871.17 was in gold and
the remainder a net increase in sil
ver and lead after costs of rellning
the concentrates had been deducted.
More than GOO,000 tons of ore were
trammed in 1922 than in 1921, and
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Pierce Is to Write
Novel About Alaska
SEATTLE, Jan. 1.—Richard® in
Pierce, who last year wrote 47 short
stories, mostly laid 'in Alaska, has
resigned his place in the city pub lie
works department to devote the a at
tire l»21i to writing a novel about
Alaska.
Daughter of Prominent
Man Dies a Suicide
CHICAGO, Jan. 1.—Mrs Maud
Puller Delius, oldest daughter of the
late Chief Justice Fuller, was found
a suicide in her rooms last night.
The rooms were reeking with cigar
ette i and narcotics.
Bandit Knocks Woman
Down; Gets Large Sum
CHICAGO, Jail. 1. A bandit
knocked unconscious Mrs. Katherine
Donovan, head bookkeeper of the
Palmer iHouse, and escaped last Sat
urday nigh: with an amount estimat
ed to be between $.7,000 and 5)0,000.
Government Will File
Briefs in Wet Cases
WASHINGTON', Jan. 1—The Fed
eral government -n a brief to be filed
tomorrow in the Supreme Court will
hold that the appeals of foreign
steamship lines against the recent
prohibition docision in New York,
fails to show the i'mted States con
sented to be sued and the cases
therefore cannot bo prosecuted.
Seattle Grocer Under
Arrest; Arson Charged
iSEAViu.E. Jan. 1.—Georgp Clem
ents, grocer, who was found iattfrday
morning unconscious on 1% door
step with mysterloiA* letters branded
on his arms and .Those store was
burned the day before by -persons
whom be said bad pursued him for
months, has lieen arrested on the
charge or arson. \
It is alleged his stock was over
Insured.
'Police officers charge that the re
iported attacks ar -Jakes and the
-wounds are not set.
TO BE TRIED IN TRIANGLE MURDER MYSTERY.
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T^clvc-t/ tSp-s? ilty Katt^tnue ,»* ]
George l.p Roy Spies, cf Inll inapfills, Ind., 'antTMr's. Katlierino
Schultz, are to be tried in Burlintton, Iowa, for the murder of Mrs.
Schultz's husband, who was shot to death while he slept.
INCREASED MINERAL OUTPUT IS
REPORTED FOR 1922 DY COL A. H.
BROOKS; GOLD YIELD DECLINES:
Congressman Fixes
Up Cabinet for
President Harding
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| I DUIMJTH. .Ian. 1. Congress
! | man Larson of Minnesota lias
I j suggested to President Harding
j ' that if Secretary of the In
terior Albert U. JatU, resigns,
j j SeerSfiiry- Q.f Comrfrftrr'e llimrer
! be given 'the place'and Julius
| | H. Barnes be successor to ■
! Hoover.
The letter was published to- j
day in the News Tribune.
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SAYS GERMANY ;
DOES NOT WANT
TO PAY DEBTS
Restoration of Financial Sta
bility Not Wanted if
it Means Pay.
i PARIS. Jan. 1. Pram o has made
| an intensive study of tlio repara
i floras question during the last four
• years and is convinced Germany d s
! not want to restore financial stab i ty
,if such steps means payment in full
Jof r"asonat)le war indemnities.
| According to official circles this,
s believed also thp thought S ■• e
tarv of State Hughes had In is
speech list week in which he i.s
closed the belief that the udinini-i a-!
lion of an international controls >n
of financiers, including Amerco s,
• niigh well he called to mee‘ ind
recommend a settlement or th. e-|
parations crisis.
Former Alaskan Pathfinder
Is Going Abroad
j SEATTLE. Jan. 1 Jack Dolt n,
| discoverer of the trail to the Yuk >n
I bearing his name, has obtained pa s
| ports for British Guinea to halt I
| Sold, according to a Washington >li
' patch.
I Dalton is 67 years of age and is n |
excellent health. Ho left hi3 ram b
In tho Yakima Valley a short time I
ago. tlio spell nn I lure of goll hunt
mg being too strong to resist.
Charles Bentley Dies
Watching Football Gaine
I'AU) ALTO. (tal., Jan 3 —
•Charles H. Boot Icy. ()f San Francis- \
director of the Alaska Packers’ A -j
soeia ion and the California Pack.nc
Corporation, died Saturday ufterno i. •
of apoplexy while watching the State
foril-P'ttBbtirgh football game
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Martin Is Nommated
Postmaster at Nenana
W VSHINGTON, Jan. T. Pres:dent
Harding has nominated Martin J.
Martin, to he postmaster at Nenana,
Alaska.
A net increase of $1,250,000 is in
dicated for Alaska's mineral produc- |
tion for the pa3i year over that of ,
1921, by the Geological Survey, in i j
preliminary estimates made public ]
today. The bureau is optimistic over ^
the future of the mining industry ,
and declares that there is a gold
content of $350X00,000 yet untouched
»n known placer deposits of the Ter-i,
ritory, without considering the pos
sibility of future discoveries. i
Last year's gain was made pen- '
sible solely by an Increased copper
production. There was a decline in
the gold production from both placer
and lode mines. It is predicted, how
ever, that 1923 will show a revival j
of both branches of the gold mining'
Industry and larger outputs will
naturally follow. !
Some of the important features of
mining development in Alaska dur- >
inf? 1922 are set forth in the follow- .
Ing statement, which is abstracted
from the annual report on mineral
resources and production in Alaska
now In preparation under the direc
tion oi Alfred H. Drunks, of tlih
United SLatos Geological Survey, I)e
partment of the. Interior. Complete
statistics of the mineral production
of Alaska cannot he collected with
in less than four or five months after
the end of the year, but meanwhile
It appears desirable t> publish
promptly the preliminary estimates, i
which are believed to b within 5 *
per cent of the actual figures.
The General Situation
The rather widespread pessimism
concerning the present and future
prosperity of the Alaska mining in
dustry Is not hard to understand
Dazzled by the quick fortunes mudt
during the prosperous days of bonan
za mining, the public has f tiled to 1
mark the steady advance of other *
and more permanent kinds of mjning :l
which, were not only continued dur ^
ing the war but which have been *■
greatly accelerated during the las 1
two years. The gi at publicity giver ^
to the failure of three of the large *
lode gold mines near Juneau has en
tirely obstructed the slow but steady 1
development of other Alaska lode H
properties. The marked decline In v
Ihe annual output of copper since e
1917, the result of Ihe low price of *
that metal, has been erroneously in- v
terpreted as marking the decline ol 1
the Alaska voppy-mln rig Industry 1
The public, misled by the widely dr- 1:
ciliated and grossly exaggerated *
statements of the extent and value v
>f Alaska coal lands, is puzzled by P
die apparent lack of progress In "
their exploitation. It is true that the 11
rather slight underground explora- f:
t on of the best Alaska coal has thus 1
f r been rather unsatisfactory, hut.
on 'the other hand, the actual *
achievement of furnishing local coal,c
JUilroad is a very considerable ad- ^
to the region tributary to the Alaska
Vance, even though a reserve of ex- 3
Port coal has no: yet been developed. 0
Many who have long heard of prom- 11
is ng occurrences of petroleum in A! F
aska have wondered at the delay in
Its development, but drilling for oil 11
wag prohibited from 1910 to 1920,. 1
when a leasing law was enacted. ^
Kince (lion 'ihe surface >f the oil P
fields has been actively explored, but ''
there has not vet been Urn? to start
tctuul drilling n these distant fields. 3
Kven Alask ns. many of whom
are survivors of. the days of bonanza p
mining, are by no means hopeful of *
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APPROPRIATION
FOR NAVY HAS
PASSED SENATE
Borah Amendment Is Not Of
fered—House Provisions
Not Discussed.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1. I ho.naval
appropriation bill carry ins {325,000,
000, passed the Senate Iasi Saturday
| afternoon.
Senator Borah dll not offer his
: amendment for a world i inference
to discuss economic com!ton> and the
Senate did not discuss th> House
provisions asking the President to
negotiate further limitation of naval
armament.
TO ask'large
SUM FOR NAVY
Appropriation Is Wanted by
Harding to Modernize
U. S. Battleships.
WASP I,MU TON'. Jan. 1 -President
Harding is to ask Congress for an
appropriation of $6,500,000 fur mod
cruizing battleships.
The President Wifl transmit a loi
ter from Secretary of the Ni\y [)en
by declaring that as th • result* of |
the arms conference decision, the.
nation must adopt a new policy re
garding capital ships if "tho United
Staaes navy is to be main lined at a
standard of efficiency comparable'
with similar vessels of other pow
ers."
Bergdoll Case L A^ain
Proving to Be
Interesting
PENSACOLA, Jan. (.—The police1
md port officials arc* planning to
meet tho steamer Jualter, now due
here, and believed tv have Grover i
Cleveland Bergdoll abjard, as a mem- j
her of tlie crew.
Tlie min arrested at Tallahassee'
Saturday is still being held on sus
picion of being Bergloll.
NOTORIOUS I
PRISON TO
PASS AWAY
Historic Home of Criminals Is
Ordered to Be Torn
Down Now.
PARKS. Jan. 1 -Tine Saint I.ab.iro
prison for women, which 1h both
■’anions am! notorious in tile annals
■f French history, lias been ordered
torn down by the municipality of
Paris. It was in (bis prison that
during the general jvar certain well
known women spits in the pay of
Germany wore dot lined, often pre
vious to execution. Mata-Hara, the1
Red Darn er, spent her last days in
the building.
Before the war the grey walls of
this old convent held in bondage
such women as Oladame Caillaux.
who shot and kiled M. Calmetto,
editor of the Figari; Jeanne Wabe
the strangler; Tierose Humboldt,
charged with one of the greatest
swindles known to erent French his
tory. and a long lb:, of other women
involved in the c.imlnal annuls or
19th century France. When the
walls of this prises have been re
placed by a smilt»g garden there
will have disappea-ed one of the
most remarkable holdings or France,!
from the point of view of historic
association.
Founded in 1110 ts a leper house,1
five centuries later it was taken in
charge by the monk! of the order by i
Saint Victor, who a lolished the leper'
house feature, and tsed the building
ns a monastery. During this period,
or the building's I; let or y the great i
military and 1 (ter ary figures of
France frequented te gardens.
Then, for a brief JO years. It was
used as a political prison, and with
the coming of the 1’fench revolution,I
In July. 1789. during the famine, the I
place was broken ato by the mob.
looted for food and set afire.
Under the Terre , .Saint I.azare
again became a prison, mostly for thp
detention of men nd women of
prominence previous to their execu
tion. Shortly after that time the
building was converted into a want
m's prison
WIFE OF DIPLOMAT SEEKS DIVORCE.
ffrr ?■!?,'<Tr Gfon»!4jwo»ft u^3
Mrs. Neils Qron, suing for (l vcrce in Portland. Maine, limn
the Danish diplomat, declares sli «», often forced to give him
money nnd that at one time site gave him an allowance of $100 a
month. Her attorneys are Judg Joseph K. F. Connolly and ('has
J. Hutchinson
RAILROADS IN
MONEY AGAIN
Forty Systems in United:
States Have Earned Good
Returns — Report.
WASHINGTON. Jail. 1 Aiti'mi:
niaiely do railroads in the Cnited
Stales earned more than ii per tea;
• .sir returns of the standard set up
by the transportation act of the In
terstate Commerce Commission. Th -
tratt reported to the Senate late last!
Saturday in response to the Cippet-J
resolution. Estimates of the amounts,
due the United States are now he-1
ins worked out.
eightTw, w.
ARE RELEASED
Harding Commutes Sentences
—Must Leave Country
and Not Return.
WAHHt.VCTOX. Jan. I. 1.1 to last
Saturday afternoon President Hard-1
Ina commuted sentences of eight In-1
dustrial Workers of the World con -1
vletcd in ihe Haywood c.tso of vlol-t-1
tion of war-time laws. The sentences
expire Immediately and are upon con
dition the prisoners leave the United
States never to return.
Among those whose sentences were
commuted were Aurllio Asmara, serv
ing 20 years; C. J. Bourg, 10 years!
Petei Clreen, 10 years; Charles Lam
bert. 20 years, and Burton Burton,
10 years.
Disarmament Parley
Failure, Says Daniels
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WrCH'lTA, Kan., Jan. 1 What be
termed the failure of tho disarm.i-'
nent conference, held in Washing!
ton some time ago. w.i t stressed t
here by Josephus Daniels, former
secretary of the navy. Mr. Daniels,
addressing u meeting of the Knife1
tnd Fork Club, discussed various
national end international issues.
"Recent events,” Mr Daniels said,
“demonstrate that the disarmament]
conference failed in Its purpose. Ung
laml and Japan, it would appear, got
Lho best of (lie United Statet ,n the
agreement to scrap capital ship, and,
pi icing no restrictions upon construe-,
tion of light vosseln an I aircraft.
‘‘We cannot have a disarmament '
conference that will accomplish any
material worth until the nations of
the world agres to disarm npnn land
is well as Ihe sea”
The mail md passenger boat Hu!li
bel h arrived in port this mroqlng
rrorii Sitka. Stormy weather was ex-,
perienced yesterday, a northerly
wind blowing. Cap'. Davis said, hot
it no lime was the lamt forced to
»lop on the entire trip.
GASOLINE TAX
IS SUGGESTED
FOR MICHIGAN
Amount Raised Can Be Used
for Construction of High
ways in
State.
I.ANSIXd, Mich., Jin. 1 -Enact
ment of legislation to remodel the
stmte • Fixation system, cut down
,
the cost o: -late government, develop 1
tho state a. an agricultural center, I!
Lighten 1I10 “hluo sky” laws and 1
broaden women's rights will he asked *
along with other proposed changes'
in the laws, of the Michigan legis
lature when it convenes in regular
session this month.
Outstumll tag In the prospective
legislation are the following pro-!
poruls:
To provide a gasoline tax to
finance h ghway development and
maintenance without a real prop
erty tax. ! i
To make more compact the cen-]<
trullzed atate government which was' I
inaugurated two years ago. by eur-j
tailing and combining departments.'
To make the furnishing of poison
ous liiiuor punishable as man
slaughter
To tighten the motor vehicle luws.
by prcK'iiidilg more specifically the
lighting equipment on automobiles,
and Increasing the penalties for I
speeding and reckless driving. ji
To deb ate to the state agriciit- 1
tiiral college much of the work done 1
by the ate agricultural depart- t
ment.
To provide w'hat amounts to a lit
rracy ti ■ for voters.
To p ide u bill of rights for
women. wiUch will put them on an
equal standing with men in IiiibI
ne-v and welfare matters.
To enact a land certification law
which w t 1 enable non-residents of
the stat' to invest In Micigan’s un
developn lands and to provide that
the state ncourage reforestration of
ulle land- not suited to agriculture
by reducing tuxes.
The ' ipportioument of the state
Ic ? i-dtit ive dirt riot, which comes he- ■ 1
fore the legislature by virtue of the1
lf*20 F 'leral census, standa high in
tale interest. Other measures in-1
;!ude provisions for a eugenics law /n
'o devise ways and means of raisin/ g
money to retire the $61.5511..d/i|
call bended indebtedness wi 'inat .
Hiding to the tax burden ow real •
property; and to make iT-uOtty
Sf 1 tide for divorce.
An attempt may be made to re
vive the income tax. w It I aft was In
md
r
ti.ited by the 1 <*1 Eegishlture
1 rented by the voters/
HEBE ON BUSINESS.
the
1■ II. Ouffet, Interested in
dutler-Mauro Drug Store arriv'd in
Innouii on Ike Spokane on a badness
rip. lie expects to be here a short
i 111 e.
INDICT SEVEN
HIGH MEN ON
FRAUD CHARGES
Special Grand Jury Returns
Indictments in War Cases
—Others Expected.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1—Benedict
Crowell, Assistant Secretary of War
in the Wilson Administration, and
six other "dollar a year” men were
indicted late last Saturday afternoon
by the special grand jury investigat
ing war fraud- on charges of con
spiracy to defraud government con
struction of war time army camps
and cantonments.
Otheis Indicted with Crowell In
clude William A. Starrett, Clair
Foster, John H; McGibbons and
James A, Meara.
The Indictments charge conspiracy
and maladministration of existing
laws in regulation to control, giving
contracts to friends, associates and
clients under cost plus system which
charges resulted in a loss of millions
of dollars to the government and
reduced moral labor.
The indictments are the first in
the big salvo In Attorney General
Daugherty’s attacks on wartime con
tracts. Others are expected to fol
low. The estimated amounts Involved
will run Into the millions of dollars
it is said,
Tlie indictments charge 47 over*
arts in vioaltion of section 2'
the penal code which provides i ,
i)«0 Mae or two years Imprisonment
;>i both in case of conviction.
CONSPIRACY DENIED.
C.l.iOVKI.ANr), Jan. 1.—Briist
Crowell categorically denied s
;on«p!racy or collusion in nwsrti.
ban any d^itTiacMona.
Ambassador Warren
Is Leaving Jaj i:
TOK10, Jan. 1 Charles R V
on today announced he would is
fapan and return home on Jans
I. This announcement came at
io hid recclvod advices from Pr
lent Harding and Secretary of St
lughes. Ambassador Warren ?
ils resignation came after the feel
hat danger of strife 'between Ja
ind the United States had pass*
\rmenian National Home
Proposed at Conferee
LAUSANNK. Jan. 1.—Plans for n
Lr.nenian National Home finaO' d
rith the possibility of a $20,000,an
pproprlation by the American C w
Teas or by popular loan from Amei
ca with additional funds from otiie>
ountries were presented to the -V. :.r
last conference todav bv the Ami .
an delegation.
NOT GOVERNMENT PROPOSAL
WASHINGTON. Jin 1 The pr •
lined establishment of a national
irmeniau Home possibly In the rail
'd States with an American laan.
fas presented to the Lausanne eon
ereneo at the real tost of Ambaaaa
or Child by an organization a£ phII
nthroplsts and is not a government
iroposal. It is stated from authorlta
Ive sources.
Another Murder Laid
To Doors of Dr. McKoin
BIRMINGHAM. A Jit., Jan 1.—H. H.
thorn Be • lenier. /lirather of Dr. K.
Thom Hus- iner. who Is alleged
o have been killed "by Dr. B. M.
.IcKoin in l/Hi at Gullion, La., an
icmncos hiv/ias written to Governor
’arker u.rflng a grand jury inveitl
;ation v\-th the view of a charge of
iturdi ■ /
Chinese Cabinet and
Premier Down and Out
I’BKING. Jan. 1. The- Cabinet
lombers and Premier General Chang
hao Tseng have resigned.
Turks Reported
Starting on
Warlike Move
\T IIKNS. Jan. 1. The Turks
are lending r»'nforcemema lit !
the lircction of the >Moa41 oil
f ells. This is according to re*
liille sources, according to Ilia I
C ntral .\e»s<
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