PROHIBITION
TO BE ISSUE
IN ELECTION
WESTERVILLE. 0., March 8.—
"Will the issue of prohibition figure
in the nomination of presidential can
didates and the election hereafter.
The Anti-Saloon League of America
through a statement issued by E. H.
Cherrington. secretary of its executive
committee, endeavors to answer that
question by declaring that prohibition,
or rather, safeguarding of prohibition,
^il^be a very live issue in not only,^
the presidential campaign but in the
election of Congressman.
“Prohibition is here, and. as we be
* lieve. to stay. The question at issue
is not whether prohibition is or is
not desirable. That was a question
on which men might honestly differ
before prohibition became a law of
the land and part of the federal con
stitution. Triumph of prohibition was
made possible only by a will of the
majority, and that same will, working
through the lawful processes by which
prohibition became law. can. if it
chooses, take prohibition out of the
constitution.
‘“The question at issue now is
shall the law be enforced? To that
question there can be but one answer.
Whether a man believes in prohibition
not he must comply with the law
*id aid in its enforcement or be a
lawless citizen. As the Anti-Saloon
Laague sees it, two important things
are involved in the coming nomina
tions and elections: firstly, that the
chief executive of this nation, who is
the chief law enforcement official,
must be a man wholly committed to
the enforcement policy; and. second,
that a Congress must be elected that
will take no backward step in prohi
bition legislation.’’
TOURIST HOTEL BURNS
AT VIRGINIA RESORT
OLD POINT COMFORT. Va„ March
8 (by Associated Press).—The Cham
berlin hotel, a famous tourist resort
here, was destroyed by fire last night.
There were £wo hundred guests in the
hotel, none of whom is believed to
have been lost.
STEAMSHIP ELLITHROPE
AT MERCY OF GALE
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HALIFAX. N. S.. March S (by As
sociated Press).—The United States
Shipping Board steamship Ellithrope.
from England to New' York, having
lost her propeller, is being sw'ept by
a seventy-mile gale toward the Sable
island rocks. The coast guard cutters
are hurrying to her assistance.
TEXAS DEMOCRATS
INDORSE ACTIONS OF
PRESIDENT WILSON
® DALLAS, Texas, March .8 (by Asso
ciated Press).—A state-wide confer
ence of Democrats here on Saturday
indorsed the administration of Presi
dent Wilson and condemned the anti
administration sentiment as expressed
by the Baily faction of the party.
GRIM REAPER BUSY
IN CITY OF SEATTLE
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SEATTLE, March 8 (by Associated
Press).—Gerhart Erickson, postmaster
at Bothell for more than twenty years,
and a former member of the state
legislature, died here yesterday.
Captain John Taylor, a former coun
cilman of this city, also died yester
day.
HOUSEWIVES URGED
* TO USE ECONOMY IN
* PURCHASE OF MEAT
WASHINGTON, March 8 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The department of jus
tice has Issued a bulletin urging
housewives to purchase inexpensive
instead of expensive cuts of meats as
a means of forcing down prices.
The Dally Times job plant is
well equipped for all classe of com
mercial printing.
PROSPECTORS
1 SEARCH OF
OIL AND G OLD
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(From McCarthy News)
M. B. Vaughn and Martin Nelson
left this,morning on an extensive pros
pecting trip to the country between
the head of the Chitina and the Brem
ner. They have purchased two sled
dogs ftom J. Pitcher, and will haul
their outfit of about 1,500 pounds in
relays, 'and expect to land at their
destination before the break-up.
The country they will traverse is
most alluring for the prospectors,
there being indications of placer gold,
quartz, copper, oil and coal, and since
the oil and coal-leasing bill has been
passed, there is nothing they may not
stake.
Yakataga beach is only 100 miles
distant as the crow flies in the same
direction, and James Barclay, who was
one of our chief prospectors before he
lost his life in a snowslide near here
a few years ago, used to speak of a
lake of oil he once found between
Yakataga and the Chitina.
E. L. French, instructor of the Ken
necott mine schools, paid us a visit
last Monday. The pupils have at
tained a high grade of efficiency dur
| in gthe term, and Mr. French is in re
ceipt of gratifying letters from the
I commissioner of education and the im
migration department at Washington,
D. C. Forty per cent of the pupils
have 100 per cent attendance, and all
have correspondingly high marks in
the various subjects they have stud
ied. Mr. French deplores the fact that
there is no way for applicants for citi
zenship to secure their papers with
out taking the journey to Valdez, and
several of his puplis have found it im
possible to secure their final papers
on that account.
The "honest prospector,’’ Chick Nek
son, visited our city this week.
Chris Radovich is now btisv putting
up ice for the Hotel de Golden, for
next summer.
Capt. Hubrick has received the good
news that Mrs. Hubrick has left New
York on her return trip North.
Cjeorge Walker, the census man, has
finished the task of enumerating the
> residents of Kennecott and the mines.
1 also Nizina, and is now waiting to
: leave for Chisana as soon as Joe Mc
Lellan returns.
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1 Dr. W. D’Arcy Chace, who is taking
! Dr. Gillespie’s place at Kennecott for
some weeks, paid a visit to our city
last Wednesday.
I Mrs. R. W. Williams has moved
into the New York building, which will
hereafter be known as the Home res
: taurant.
A. L. Powell is in McCarthy this
j morning anxiously awaiting the ar
! rival of today’s train, which will bring
his bride-elect from California. They
will be married today.
John Wilson, who has spent sev
eral years at the various placer camps
in this vicinity, returned from a winter
spent at Tenakee Hot Springs, and has
gone to spend the season at Valdez
creek.
Chitina Doings
Paul Schwartz, teacher of the na
tive school here, is on a dog team trip
to the Interior, to take the census.
| Ed Young is accompanying him. Mr.
| Schwartz is -writing a book on the
• Alaska Indians, and thinks this trip
; is a good opportunity to study them.
I He has invited his brotheer, who is a
1 musician, to see if native chants could
i
| not be written down in notes, and pos
sibly used as “motifs” for musical
compositions.
The McKinley placers, successors to
the Valdez Creek Mining Company, are
taking in a big outfit on sleds. On ac
count of the trail being bare in many
places, poles had to be cut to pull the
sleds over.
Mr. and Mrs. H. N. Wilson recently
returned from a winter spent at Ar
kansas Hot Springs, and are occupy
ing the Feaster residence during Mrs.
Feaster’s absence.
Although admitting there is a lot
of money in circulation in the boom
camps of Texas, John Demos, former
Nenanaite, says, in a letter to Wil
liam Papadopulos, that the South is
not a good place for those seeking
employment. There are chances for
the investment of a little or much
capital, if one cares to gamble, but
jobs are not plentiful and the pay is
not all in keeping with conditions.
FINDS WIFE WAS
LOST HALF-SISTER
Avoided- Talking of Their Child
hood Because of Bitter
Memories.
Chicago.—There can be no happy
ending to the story of Joseph Buckley
and his wife. They found too late
they were half brother and sister. So
the man has asked Judge Sheridan E.
Fry for an annulment of the marriage.
"Dora and I met in San Francisco,”
said Buckley in telling of his wrecked*
romance. “It was love at first sight
with us both. Our surname was the
Bftrae, but there was nothing out of the
ordinary in that.
“In our courtship we never spoke of
our boyhood and girlhood. I knew why
I
Life Was Ail Too Wonderful.
! I didn’t. Mine was too bitter. We lived
| in Louisiana and were as poor as folks
I can be. My boyhood memories were an
| unpleasant picture of no food in the
house, of rags and tears, of a father
who died—and better so. Then came
another father. I left home.
“Then came my manhood and Cali
fornia. I had risen to a good job and
happiness. 1 met my sweetheart and it
seemed to me life was all too wonder
ful.. She never told me of hef girl
hood. I never asked. I was afraid it
might lead to questions about my early
life.
“Then came the blow that has killed
me. My wife is my own half-sister.
Her experiences were mine. She is
the daughter of my mother and the
new father who came when I left
home.”
USED DOG FOR SMUGGLING
—-.
1 Made Frequent Crossings of the Rio
Grande at El Paso, Tex., Until
Killed by Border Guards.
El Paso.—Ingenious Mexicans, work
ing in conjunction with confederates
on the Texas side of the Rio Grande,
taught a dog to smuggle whisky, or
tequilla, and were very successful un
til the border guard became weary of
attempting to capture the dog and
shot him as he was swimming the
river.
Each evening the dog's departure
from Mexico was marked by a flash of
| lights on the Mexican side, answered
by a flash on the American side.
* For weeks the border guards tried to
EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS
FELT IN INTERIOR
A severe earthquake was recorded
in Interior Alaska recently, the vibra
tions being so pronounced along the
Broad Pass and Richardson trails as
to tumble dishes from shelves and
rock buildings so as to alarm the
occupants and cause a general hasty
scharmble for the open.
The shock was felt in Nenana and
also in Fairbanks, but. so slight was
it in the two towns that many did
not notice it. On the Richarson
1 trail the disturbances were very pro
nounced, at Millers and Paxsons and
between those two points the shock
lasting more than a minute. Dishes
were knocked from the shelves at
Millers and the roadhouse shook as
if it were about to collapse.
The shock was also severe along
the line south of Nenana, and par
ticularly so beyond the end of steel.
Mrs. Allred, who conducts the Can
yon roadhouse, eight miles beyond
the end of steel, reports that much
excitement was caused at her place
by the quake, the shock being one
of the most severe experienced in
that section in a number of years.
As nearly as can be ascertained,
however, no damage of consequece
resulted at any point.
lasso or capture hfm with some liquor
strapped on his back, being loath to
kill an innocent offender of the law.
After all efforts failed, the animal was
killed while swimming the Rio Grande.
During his busy life the dog made
from 12 to 15 trips a night from Mex
ico to thfe United States, and each time
carried a gallon or more of liquor.
| Kept Deformed Children :
; bidden 20 Years in Home j
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A woman living in a busy ]
• street in Portsmouth, England, ?
; had hidden her children, a male i
f dwarf twenty years old, and two ?
I girls, eighteen and fifteen, re- i
t spectively, from the time of j
l their birth. No one knew of f
! the children’s existence until a ;
i few days ago, when an ex-sol- ?
? dier took it into his head to I
i climb over a wall into the ?
I woman’s garden from an adjoin- i
f ing room. ?
i Because of their deformity i
f the mother feared the children ?
; would be taken from her. So f
? she had concealed them all ;
i these years. ?
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igation, has been placed on the inac
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