The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 30, 1929, Page 8

e SURVIVORS it SEABIRD COME Coast Guard Cutter Picks Up Men—Two Lost, En- gineer’s Back Broken The Coast Guard cutter Unalga, Lieut. N. S. Haugen, commanding, returned to Juneau today after a {en-day cruise in search of the missing halibut schooners Seabird and Kanatak, which were reported overdue from the fishing grounds, Capt. Holten Reiten and four men of the Seabird, survivors, were pick- ed up at Wingham Island, on Prince William Sound. Two men lost their lives and one of the sur- vivors has a broken back. The story of the disaster, as told by Capt. Reiten, stands out as one of the most thrilling tales of the North Pacific fisheries. Men Carried Into Sea At 10 o'clock on the night of November 11, while the Seabird was bucking a strong easterly gale off Cape St. Elias, a heavy sea car- ried away the mast and pilot house Capt. Reiten, who was lying down in his room aft of the wheelhouse and two men on watch, went over- board. Reiten managed to stay afloat and in some miraculous way was snatched back aboard by the engineer who had been driven from the engineroom by the deluge Of water. The other two men, louis Dyb and Elias Dyb, were seen no more and it is believed they were instant- ly killed by the impact of the forward part of the wheel house crushing them against the parti- tion of the stateroom. Knocked Unconscious As the engines and pumps were out of commission all hands turned to with buckets and began to bail. It was while helping with this that Alfred Dyb, the engineer, Wwas knocked unconscious by a mast or boom which was thrashing around on deck, and sustained a broken back. He was rushed to St. Ann’s hospital when the Unalga arrived here. Is Near Rocks During the night the wind shifted and set the Seabird close to Cape Suckling. The tide changed just as the Seabird was about to be dashed against the rocks and the ebb set them out against Cape St. Elias. Meantime the Seabird’s crew had succceded in bailing her dry and started the engine. They made their way through the nar- row channel between Wingham and Kayak Islands, and anchored in a cove on the east shore of Wingham on November 14, whence they were taken ashore by a fox farmer. On November 20 a gale set the Seabird ashore and left her high and dry. It is thought that the drift ice will |Island where conditions were more ABOARDUNALGA |for the Kanatak as PYNRNN Y L halA® 0% acee o oand w e B0 G ddhthad Sadhdhibdh S0 ol 1 inding the whistle tention. It was impossible to land on Kay- ak Island because of the heavy swell and Lieut. Haugen decided to| send a boat ashore to Wingham | to attract at- favorable. Upon approaching the island smoke was observed ascend- ing from a high bluff A surf boat was launched and was half way to shore when met by Sigerd| Hedenstrand, a fox rancher, who had rowed out to tell them that the Seabird had been wrecked and that five of her crew had been at his house since November 14. | Hedenstrand piloted the Unalga's motor launch through the treacher- ous flats and at 1:35 o'clock in the afternoon the survivors of the Sea-| bird wreck were taken aboard th: cutter. The Unalga continued her search far as Cape Martin and Middleton Island. No| trace of the missing craft was found | and on November 28 the cutter headed for Juneau to permit the injured engineer the benefit of hos- pital treatment. It is believed the Kanatak foundered in heavy seas. ——,——— DEER HUNTING SEASON ENDS Most Successful in Years— Animals Plentiful—No | Casualties in Field The 1929 deer hunting season| closes at sundown today. It is generally regarded as having been | one of the most successful in manvi years. | The deer were numerous in every | part of Southeast Alaska. Local- ly, there were more killed in the 90-day hunting period than usual, and those bagged were as a rule in fine condition, evidencing that food conditions were very good. So far as the Juneau district isj concerned the season passed With- out any untoward incident, such as accidental shooting of hunters, eith- sr by themselves or by others mis- | ‘aking them for deer. No casualty of any kind was reported. Carcasses of legally killed deer! now held locally, will be authenti- cated and tagged today or Mon- day by wardens of the Alaska Game | Commission. This meat may be kept and used without time limit. This is not the case with migratory wild fowl. Such birds, even though legally killed, can be possessed only | until 10 days after the season closes on December 15, or until December 25. ————————— COAL RIVALS CORN DES MOINES, Iowa, Nov. 30— Towa, the corn state, mir coal valued at $10,000,000 annually. — v TION NOTICES AT THE EMPIRE LODE MININu CLAIM LOCA- THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, Daily Cross-word Puzzle SATURDAY, NOV. 30, 1929. ACROSS Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle 7. Gaze 1. Ono confined 8. Stratagem in an institu. . River between tion Brazil and 1. Watery o Taragusy b M Current of Scot, water Defercnce Jortaining to ne day before 14. Go softly to-day’ £ 15 Withdraw . Biblical ity 16. Warns of dan- Withers . Eer Aretie Mountain tn . French artielo Crete Jump on one 18, Frighten foot Dine Cereal flour Tropical vines Mediclne to roduce voms ting Controlled Put in tune again oll: sufiix - Showers uns awa ne . Young saimon 46. Innermost iin- 32. Go up IR g 7. Points jng memhrane b3 Exchanges 38. Plece of wood (Genus of the of a blood DOWN 89, Alternative cow vessel * 1. Interlor Commence 41. Stagger 48. Broad thor 2. Required o be it 42, Feminine oughfare 4. Parrots . State posl- name 50. Maker of 4. Metric land tively 43. The great metal fastens measuro 47, Isiand: artery ers 4. Npreads for Freneh 45. Inhabitant of: 51. Becomo less drying 49. Guldo's high- “uffix eruel 6. Upright est note 7 - RS & e AT q o |w |2 /3 Z3 5 ARE TRAPP Firemen, Soon to Have man and a young girl, perished a fire which swept through a room- tion, San Antonio has several Jjun- ing house early this morning. B IN FIRE, BOSTON ! H 2 3 years, VlCllms Ind“lde Captam Of Reginald Root, former Yale star, UNIVERSITY OF MEXICO | STARTS FOOTBALL TEAM | | SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Nov. 30.— The University of Mexico, which only recently was inoculated with the football germ, may produce |some stellar teams within a few ‘ndmitccdly faces a big task in drill- 1ing his pupils in gridiron funda- Been Retired 'mentals. Yet he will find them ——" apt athletes, as coaches of prep | BOSTON, Mass, Nov. 30.—Five school eclevens in San Antonio will persons, two women, an elderly | testify. in| With its large Mexican popula ior schools attended exclusively by The fireman, Capt. Lawrence Sul- | children of Mexican parentage. livan, "and other occupants of the| were trapped when the blaze, starting on the lower floor, building, burned away the stairway and c off eseape. Their grid teams usually make serious bids for the city champion- ship. They excel particularly in ut | basketball. 2 - e R Firemen stopped the blaze bol’o.‘c: STEEL HERE AFTER LONG [“Scrap Iron” Arrives, Fol- lowing Explorations in Northern B. C. urived in Juneau recently lfu lowing a prospecting trip that |1asted twelve months and led him !into some of the least known sec- ons of northern British Columbia. | Steel started down the Dease | River in the fall of 1928 in com- pany with Bill Grady, discoverer of |Gold Pan Creek in the Cassiar, with |the intention of prospecting along |the lower Liard in an attempt to find the rich diggings reported by rench-Canadian bar miner nam- bert, or “Tibbett,” who as- d the Liard in 1867, and who wed the trails of the old Hud- Bay voyagers. These dig- tradition says, may be found one of the tributaries which flows into the Liard somewhere in he main range of the Rockies. Prospect on Bars steel and Grady did considerable yrospecting along the bars last fall, then built cabins and trapped the winter Steel reports of a number of the old s where the Hudson's Bey lu ing canyons, and several old cab- with parchment still in the dOws. nk Peary's “Tropical Valley,” the report of which caused s much ronical comment a -few years ago, ; exists after a fashion, Stecl says. The valley is situated in a favorable belt where Chinook winds cem to strike and great areas of pare ground may be seen in the I of winter. A portion of the orrain is fed by hot springs and Steel tells of finding the deserted cabin and garden of Tom Smith, onetime trader at Teslin Lake, who was drowned in the Liard canyon [ § { 13 Giftsto Wear § Men like them; they are sensible yet personal. If men are on your shopping list you need not gues you can be SURE of correctness in Haberdashery, if you get it at PROSPECTING , portaged their scows around | about four years ago. Potatoes from Smith’s garden provided 2 welcome change from thé “straight meat” diet that the two prospectors had locked forward to. Marauding Coyotes Steel has much to say about the diabolical cunning of a certain band ,of marauding coyotes he ran across. |He moulded cubes of moose fat, in- serted the “strych,” dipped the {cubes in hot grease again—using |paddles all the while, so there would be no man scent—and plant- ed his bait in likely places. The coyotes came and gnawed off the corners of the grease cubes, but left the poisoned centers for the foolish ravens. Steel consigned the coy- otes to the place where he thought |they belonged, picked up his poison, Tand went on. Plans Spring Trip Sometime in the early spring, probably in March, Steel is to go ter, enthusiastic sportsman and out- door man of Flushing, N. Y, on a dogteam trek across the country Iby way of the upper Pelly and the South Nahani rivers to some point on the Liard or Mackenzie Rivers. They will start when the crust is the thaw comes, pack their dogs until they find water trails running ir,hc‘u— way and then travel by raft or canoe to their destination. |to Atlin to accompany Fenley Hun- | good, abandon their sleighs when | George Ball, well-known guide and mail carrier of Telegraph Creek, will be one of the party. Fenley Hunter is said to be in search of a rare white sheep which 1n0 sportsman has been able to bag. iThese sheep were reported by In- |dians on Hunter's first trip into the country four or five years ago. - {BARN DANCE GIVEN TONIGHT BY MOOSE; TO FOLLOW SMOKER The Moose will give a “Barn Dance” tonight in their hall at iwhich prizes ‘will be offered to the (best “Farmer” lette.” In order that there will be "|no conflict in tonight's events, the| |dancing public is assured that while jthe music starts at 9:30 o'clock |everything will be running full blast | immediately following the American |Legion smoker in the Arena in A B. Hall. | . | AT THE HOTELS | Alaskan | Mr. and Mrs. Berg, Tenakee; O. G. Hillman, Hoonah. Zynda Mrs. E. E. Zimmer, Haines. — e New and select mue of Christmas cards at The Empire. | l | | DO IT Clean out Boiler. BUY GLOVES NOW! — Heavy Canvas Gloves, regular 25¢ pair, $2.00 dozen a GARNICK’S, Phone 174 Change water in Heating Plant. Cover Pipes and Furnace with Asbestos. See that Safety Valve works. Inspect Smoke Pipe and clean Chimney. t- NOW ~- PHONE 34 T L PHONE 478 Rice and Ahlers Co. Plumbing—Heating—Sheet Metal “We tell you in advance what job will cost” Ty CALIFORNIA GROCERY PHONE 34 The Home of Better Groceries: and also “Farmer-!| T P.-T. A MEETS TUESDAY NIGHT The Juneau Parent-Teacher As- sociation will hold the regular Deo- |cember meeting in the Grammar 'School auditorium next Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock and the pub'iz lis invited to attend. The program will be mainly giv- en by children in appropriate exer- cises and Territorial Commissioner of Education L. W. Breuer will make the principal address. e a0 _anescognnd GiFT LINE The Winter and Pond Christmas Gift Line is better than ever this year. —adv. —— > | New, select nne s +ISlUNg carcs Emplre. _ Exclusive Agents for Juneau 50c pound Purveyors to Particular GEORGE BROTHERS 5 FAST DELIVERIES DAILY 10 a.'m., 11 a. m,, 2 p. m,, 3:30 p. m. and 4:30 p, ™= } i —_— CALL THE “Fish school” is compulsory for freshmen at the Texas College of Industrial Arts. There the f 1 year students are taught tradition. the house was destroyed but some of the victims were suffocated. Five, persons were overcome while oth- ers leaped from windows and es- caped. Capt. Sullivan, who was one of finish her during the winter. Lieut. 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