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The launch Pioneer left this morn-,
ing for Katalla.
The Alaska Public Utilities has is
sued a new telephone directory.
A large number of Interior people
are here awaiting a boat for the
States.
There wras a train this morning for
Chitina and Kennecott, carrying pas
sengers and mail.
A dance will be given by the mem
bers of the Northland Club at their
club rooms tonight.
Mrs. C. G. Wier, wife of one of the
men at the radio station, is coming
to Cordova on the steamship Alaska.
The steamship Northwestern left
Seward this morning and is due here
tomorrow morning on her south-bound
trip.
Matt Vaughn, who spent'the sum
mer in the Nizina district, has re
turned to Cordova and expects to win
ter here.
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C. A. Eby, bookkeeper for the Pin
nacle Rock Packing Company, will be
an outgoing passenger on the North
westeren.
At the Empress theater this evening
Mabel Normand will be seen in the
comedy-drama, “The Floor Below”—
six reels of thrills, mystery, romance
and fun; also Patlie News. You will
enjoy this program, so don’t fail to
take it in.
James Kennedey and famiily will
leave on the Northwestern for Seattle
and Portland. Mrs. Kennedey will re
main Outside for the winter, but Mr.
Kennedy will return about the first of
th<° year to resume his position with
Will Clayson.
H. E. St. George, a recent arrival
from Fairbanks, who will leave for
the States on the Northwestern, re
ceived a wire yesterday informing him
that the river steamer on which his
family is en route to Seattle is frozen
in on the Yukon, about fifty miles be
low Dawson.
COL WAIT C. JOHNSON
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Col. Wait C. Johnson of the general
staff, chief athletic officer of the A.
E. F., who is chairman of the inter
allied game committee, under whose
auspices the big meet in Paris was
held. Colonel Johnson was well known
in athletic circles during his college
days. He staged the recent A. E. F.
championship games.
HOUSEPLANNED
BY COLORADO
DENVER, Oct. 13 (by Associated
Press).—The movement to establish
a “summer White House” on Mount
Falcon, fifteen miles from Denver, and
in the Rocky mountains, has been re
vived by Colorado citizens. The war
interrupted the campaign started sev
eral years ago with the object of pro
viding a picturesque mountain palace
where presidents of the United States
might find refuge during the warm
months.
The building, it is estimated, would
require an initial expenditure of $50,
000, and leaders of the campaign plan
to raise $250,000 additional to com
plete the entire structure and put the
grounds in shape.
The summer home would be held in
trust by the governors of the twenty
two states west of th<* Mississippi
river, acting as a board of regents.
TRUST CASES
TO BE ARGUED
PRESENT TERM
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 (by Associ
ated Press).—Because of the an
nounced intention of the government
to push* prosecution of anti-trust cases
held in abeyance during the war, the
present session of the supreme court
is expected to prove one of the most
important in the history of the court.
Cases pending include those against
the alleged anthracite coal trust, the
United States Steel Corporation, the
Eastman Kodak Company, the Asso
ciated Bill Posters and Distributors of
the United States and Canada, the
American Can Company,^ the Quaker
‘Oats Company, and also the* Southern
Pacific merger case.
The coal case will be the first to be
heard, the steel case probably will be
the second, and others will be argued
at intervals. But under an agreement
between the government and the Qua
ker Oats Company that case will not
be heard until January.
General public interest attaches to
another case before the court, that
of the right of breweries to continue
the manufacture of beer containing
2.75 per cent of alcohol. Appeals from
lower court decrees at Baltimore and
New Orleans already have been filed.
A case of importance to business
interests is the Macomber stock divi
dend proceedings, which involve the
constitutionality of the provisions of
the 1916 income tax act taxing stock
dividends as income.
Although the supreme court at its
last term upheld the constitutionality
of the espionage act, a large number
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of appeals are still pending in cases
growing out of convictions under that
law. Among these is the case of
James Peterson, candidate for the Re
publican nomination in opposition to
Senator Nelson of Minnesota in 1918,
and who was sentenced to four years’
imprisonment because of newspaper i
articles which he wrote. The appeal j
of Victor Berger, representative-elect;
from Wisconsin, from conviction under
the law, is also pending.
James D. Maher, clerk of the court,
announces that the number of appeals I
filed this term is 125 less than during j
the last term. While there is no ex
planation of this decrease in the mini
ber of appeals, Mr. Maher said he be
lieved it was due to the fact that law
yers generally are becoming more in- j
dined not to appeal cases of only mi- ;
nor importance.
HABITS OF NATIVES OF
LOWER KUSKOKWIM
A recent visitor to the lower Kus
kokwim region describes the native
population there as being of a very dif
ferent type from those that are found
along the Yukon and Tanana rivers.
They are, he says, a short, stocky
built people, “with flat or ‘dished’
faces.” During the summer months
they live mostly in the open, but in
the winter season they inhabit holes
dug into the ground.
For the most part they are found
in large villagees, with a ruling clan.
They are very socially inclined. Dur
ing the winter evenings practically ihe
entire village, including dogs, congre
gate in a public hall called in the
native tongue ‘kishim,” where their
local disputes are settled by the rul- J
ing clan. Here also they give enter
tainments and tell stories to pass away
the time.
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Here, too, the village medicine man
has his abode and works his miracles
as though it were the eighteenth in
stead of the twentieth century. And
the kishim, whatever appeal it may
have for the native and his dog, is not
a pleasant place to visit. It has plenty
of openings for ventilation, but of ven
tilation there is none. With the place
thoroughly warmed, the aperture in
the roof is closed, the door is tightly
shut and the big social event is on.
Fish, good and bad, is distributed to
everybody. Even the dogs get their
portions. And after a couple of hours’
refreshing entertainment the atmo
sphere is perfumed to a degree de
scribed by white men as “fifty-seven
skunk power.”
The natives also have bath houses.
These are very small kishim, equipped
with heated stones to furnish steam.
It is a common sight to see young
“bucks” dash out of the bath house
clad only in their “birthday clothes,”
speed across the village street and
into their own igloos. Contrary to
common belief, the natives bathe of
ten, although they seldom or never
launder their clothes, thus losing part
of the efficacy of the bathing.
Job printing at Daily Times office.
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