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BIG ORDER FOR COAL
IN EUROPEAN MARKET
LANDED BY AMERICANS
LONDON, Aug. 20 (Correspondence
of Associated Press).—British indus
trial interests view with alarm the
gaining of a foothold by American
exporters in the coal market oi
France and Denmark. Industria
disputes in Creat. Britain have given
American dealers an opportunity tc
obtain huge orders in quarters for
merly supplied exclusively by Soutl
Wales mines.
American dealers are said to have
contracted for the delivery of ovei
100,000 tons of coal in France anc
negotiations are now under way foi
an additional half-million tons. On<
or two cargoes of American coal al
ready have been laid down in Den
mark as sample shipments, orders for
which were placed last March during
the strike in England, it is stated
The price was said to be $2.50 pei
ton lower than the English price a
that time
The iron and steel industries o
England also are said to feel theii
outlook is not very hopeful becaus<
of opportunities afforded America]
competitors through the curtailec
English coal production.
1 CONTEST CASE
REVEALS SOME
ILLEGAL VOTES
In the hearings held before Frank
H. Foster last week in the matter of
the contested election case of Wick
ersham versus Grigsby, involving the
seat of the latter as delegate in con
gress from Alaska, testimony of a
most startling character was adduced,
showing that illegal voting had been
indulged in at the last election in this
city, and that it had apparently been
aided and abetted by friends of the
contestant. It was brought out that
steamboat men from Interior Alaska,
men and women from the Tolovana,
and other residents of the Fourth di
vision, had voted here on their way
Outside, and according to the testi
mony most of them had voted for
Wiekersham.
What is alleged to be a most fla
grant violation of the law in the inter
est of Wiekersham was that of a
woman who testified that she was
urged by her employer to vote for
Wiekersham, and upon her statement
that he wa not sure as to her right
to exercise the franchise, was told
that if she voted for Wiekersham she
might have a day off from her work.
Altogether, it developed that about
nine illegal votes had been testified
io at the hearing.
Some of the illegal votes were those
of men who had been under the im
pression that they were entitled to
vote on the strength of having made
declaration of intention to become
citizens.
YOUNG REVOLUTIONIST
HAD METEORIC CAREER
BUDAPEST, Aug. 12 (Correspon
dence Associated Press).—“Comrade”
Sczamueli, one of the organizers of
the Red army, who was shot while at
tempting to cross the Austrian fron
tier after the fall of Bela Run, was
one of the most spectacular figures
in the brief but sanguinary reign of
the Hungarian Bolsheviki.
Sczamueli was thirty years old, the
son of a small landowner. He worked
on the Budapest radical newspaper,
Nepsave, and \yas rather an obscure
member of the left wing of the Social
Democratic party. He entered the
army and was among the officers cap
i tured by the Russians in 1915. They
| sent him to a Siberian prison camp
; where he remained until the Bolshe
' vik revolution, when he went to Mos
cow. Here he took a leading part
among the agitation of the prisoners
cf war, and became intei’ested in the
Bolshevik movement.
Returning to Hungary after the j
; downfall of the Hapsburgs, he worked
unceasingly in preparation for the
j Bolshevik coup d’ etat, enjoying great
popularity among the soldiers.
After the soviet government was
set up, Sczamueli entered the govern
ment as a member of the war college,
and passed much of his time organiz
ing the Hungarian Red Army. He
took a personal part in resisting the
Rumanian advance.
ENGLISH FARMERS USING
MORE FARM MACHINERY
LONDON, Aug. 27 (by mail).—The
fields of England are crowded with
harvesters and in many of them
farmers and their hands are working
in the moonlight to gather the crops.
* This is the most crowded time for
the English farmer in many seasons
as the early crops were late and late
crops were early. There is an in
creased use of farming machinery in
harvesting the winter wheat crop.
This crop is not particularly heavy
but has been well ripened by the in
tense August sun.
On account of important business
I shall be compelled to be absent from
Cordova for about twenty days. I
shall sail on the Watson on the 28th
of September and return to Cordova
about October 15.
8-13 DR. L. VON M. ZESCH.
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1919
EDUCATE THE LEGISLATORS
Fish Commissioner L. H. Darwin
of Washington is on the right track
in taking a party of state senators
from the inland districts on a person
ally conducted excursion over the
Puget sound fishing grounds during
the salmon season. To legislators as
to many others living in the interior
of the country, the word “fishing” is
too often apt to bring the idea of a
can of worms, a willow pole and a
long summer’s day; and as long as
this idea persists it will alw-ays be
difficult to secure for the fisheries
the attention they deserve, or to
bring about constructive action on
fishery matters by the legislative
bodies. In view of the widespread
lack of knowledge of or interest in
the fisheries in the inland communi
ties. even among otherwise well
informed people, the frequent mis
e -'Wage of efforts to obtain adequate
measures for their conservation and
upbuilding is not surprising.
Tf the fisheries are to receive the
serious consideration that they
should have from the lawmakers, the
popular conception of them must be
changed from the primitive one men
tioned above. They must find some
popular appreciation as a most im
portant source of the nation’s food,
the preservation and welfare of which
is as much to the interest of the peo
ple of the interior as of those along
the coasts—as one of the great nat
ural resources to be wisely developed
and conserved for the public benefit,
and which if undeveloped are useless,
and if misused or destroyed can not
easily be replaced. The fisheries need
many things, but the underlying need
is for intelligent understanding on the
part of the public.
If all the legislators could visit the
fisheries, and get a first-hand knowl
edge of conditions, tendencies and
methods employed, there is little
doubt that this part pf the country’s
resources would be more amply pro
vided for and more wisely adminis
tered than at present. In the case of
Alaska, where the need of wise, con
structive action is becoming increas
ingly urgent, it is especially desirable
that conditions should be brought viv
idly before more of the United States
congressmen and senators.—Pacific
Fisherman.