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VOLUME XXI, NUMBER 232.
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SEWARD ALASKA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1926.
PRICE. TEN CENTS
, DEEGATE CANDIDATE VIGOROUSLY
POINTS OUT ISSUES OF CAMPAIGN
DESCRIBES IN DETAIL EVERY ISSUE AND REM
EDY-BACKS UP CHARGES OF NEGLIGENCE OF
PRESENT DELEGATE WITH OFFICIAL RE
CORDS—WINS APPLAUSE FROM AUDIENCE
WHEN EXPOSES ACTIONS OF SUTHERLAND
ENDORSES BUREAU OE FISHERIES POLICIES
Warns Alaskans of Danger Natives Procuring Control
^ —So Called “Morality” issue and “Literacy Test” Con
troversy Major Issues in Campaign—Stresses Need of
Roads, Colonization Plan for Agriculture, Change in
Caring for Insane
Everywhere he has appeared Thos. A. Marquam. In
dependent candidate to congress, has been accorded a
hearty reception and at the conclusion of his addresses,
wherever they may have been, resulted in the making of
new friends and supporters. The personality of the man
never reached further than it did last evening at the Lib
erty theater, when in a voice, harsh and cracked with a
/severe cold contracted during his recent airplane trip in
the Interior, he enumerated to the large gathering each
issue of the campaign then, later, coming back and in a
man to man talk, described what was involved in those is- <
sues, and a practical remedy for them. <
It was particularly noticeable that he at no time at
tacked his opponent in a personal manner but backed up 3
each statement with records. The impression made upon *
his audience was most impressive and they listened in- s
tentively for three solid hours. Scores congratulated him 5
upon his stepping from the platform at the conclusion of 1
his address.
Mayor L. V. Ray, introduced Mr. Marquam, who im
mediately swung into action, as follows:
“As you all know I am a candidate for Delegate to
Congress. I sometimes wonder why I was persuaded to
be. I never had any intention of being, although I have
had many opportunities of becoming candidate for office.
But I have always refused until my friends prevailed up
on me to become candidate for mayor and that is about
the only elective office I have ever held, which means that
it is a great deal like the old chap that went to Congress;
when he got there his friends asked him, “How do you
feel since your arrival in Congress?” and he replied “At
first I wondered how such an old fool as I ever got here,
and later I wondered how so many other old fools got
there.” And yet there must be some good reason why I
am here, why I should disregard by personal business and
permit my name to go before the people.
HOME PORT, VICTORIA
/ CAUGHT TOTAL OF 260 MAMMALS
NADERN HARBOR AND
ROSE HARBOR
VICTORIA, Oct. 11. (JP)~After five
months hunting in the North Pacific
the whaling fleet of the Consolidated
Whaling corporation is returning to
Victoria. They caught 269 mammals
during the season. Stations are lo
cated at Nadern harbor and Rose har
bor. Boats operating out of Rose har
^bor captured 211 while the
contributed 58.
Nadern
KILLED CELEBRATING VICTORY
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 12. (/p)—’William
Toll, 17, was killed celebrating the
Cardinal’s victory when he was brush
I
ef\ off the running board of a ma- .
Caine. Four others were injured cele
brating.
“During m3* 29 years in the terri
tory I have devoted all of my inter
ests to the Republican party, and all
of my activities have been in the in
terest of some other person than my
self, but there arose a situation dur
ing the last year that made it appear
necessary to a great many people in
Alaska and among whom were many
of my friends which made it necessary
to put up a candidate against Mr.
Sutherland because of certain happen
ings, and a great deal of pressure was
brought to bear, and I finally permit
ted my name to be filed.
“Mr. Sutherland has a great deal to
say of anyone who runs on the In
dependent ticket and seems to think
that a candidate is entitled to a great
deal of consideration because he is
running on a Republiacn ticket. It
has not been his custom to pay much
attention to party. Mr. Sutherland
served two years in the Territory of
Alaska, and upon both occassions was
elected as an Independent candidate. !
In the last four elections that I have 1
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STEPHEN I. MILLER
OFFERED OFFICE OF
PRESIDENT. U, OF W.
IS UNDECIDED WHETHER TO AC
CEPT; MILLER CAME TO UNI
VERSITY IN 1918 AS INSTRUCT
OR MILITARY, TRANSPORTA-!
TION, EUROPEAN ECONOMICS |
PERFORMING SPECIAL SERVICE
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Court Holds Equalization Act Valid;
Governor Hartley Declared Act to
Be Void
SEATTLE, Oct. 12. (£>)—'The re
gents of the University of Washing
ton offered Stephen Ivan Miller, the
university presidency. Mr. Miller Is
educational director of the American
Bankers association and former dean
>f the University of College and Busi
less administration. After two con
erences with the regents Mr. Miller
laid he was undecided whether to ac
cept.
Miller came to the university * in
918 as instructor in military, trans
ortation and European economics,
imultaneously he has performed for
ears the service of special investiga
dt for the Federal trade commission.
The regents told Miller they will give
him a free hand in educational affairs
and in the selection of the faculty and
promised they would seek sufficient
appropriations.
OLYMPIA, Oct. 12. (TP)—In ordering
the Board of Equalization to fix a ■
higher educational millage under the
law of 1925 instead of the law of 1921,
the Supreme court decided the State
legislature has the power to change
rules and pass on any act or action
and settle any question supplemental
to the budget. Hartley had declared
the act void but the court held the
act valid even if the legislature did |
not follow it’s rules. i
DOUBLE DECK SUPERPUINE
IS TRIED OUT, GERMANY;
CONTAINS TWENTY BEDS
BERLIN, Oct. 11. (JP)—A New
Junkers double-decked superplane
with a surface measurement of 109
square yards, is being tried out in
Germany on a series of test flights.
The body of this giant is nine feet,
ten inches wide and comprises two
platforms with a cabin spacious
enough for 20 beds and also space for
: heavy baggage.
WILLS VS SHARKEY TONITE
NEW YORK, Oct. 12. (JP)—Jack
Wills fights Jack Sharkey in Boston I
tonight. Odds are offered at six to I
five on Wills.
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The Admiral Watson departs South
from Seward tomorrow evening en
route to Seattle. The Watson will
probably arrive in port in the morn-1
ing from the Westward.
ALEXANDER SCARED TO DEATH
COLUMBUS, Oct. 12. — The
Cardinals arrived asleep after a hil
arious night. Alexander awakened
and was asked how he> felt when he
was sent to the box in the seventh in
ning. He replied “I was scared to
death.”
(SCOTT ENTERS PLEA INSANITY
SPRINGFIELD, Oct. 12. (>P)_The
Supreme court issued a writ of error
i in favor of Russell- Scott who is sen
| teQced to hang Friday for murder, on
Scott’s plea of insanity.
YOUTHS KILL, WOUND,
SLUG MEN D THEN
KIDNAP WOMAN, S. E.
TWENTY MINUTES LATER THEY
HOLD UP FOUR MEN IN
SACRAMENTO
J SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 12. (£>)_
■ | Two youths shot and killed Hario Pa
gano, a soft drink proprietor,’ slugged
j three and shot and wounded three,
. then kidnapped a woman. Chief of
I Police O'Brien engaged them in a pis
tol battle for'several blocks. The
! youths stole a car, went to a hard
I ware store and asked to look at a pis
tol. They then ran away with the pis
tol and held up four men and forced
j Mrs. Emma Bird into the car. They
I threw her out a few blocks later say
ing “we don’t like your looks."
SACRAMENTO, Oct. 12. (JP)—Two
youths held up four men within 20
minutes in the business section and
threatened to kill one because he only»
had 50 cents. They debated whethef*
to stab or shoot him but when ano
ther man appeared they held him up.
The thugs answer the description of
the San Francisco bandits. 1
AFTER 65 HOURS
VERDICT RENDERED UNDER DU
RESS, STATES VAN OST,
JUROR
NEW YORK, Oct. 12. (/P)—The
Daugherty-Miller jury was discharged
being unable to agree after deliberat
ing for 65 hours.
NEW \ ORK, Oct. 12. (/P)—Henry
Van Ost, a juror said last night the
verdict was made under duress by the
majority as the sole alternative to im
mediately discharge the Daugherty
Miller trial. He described the hypo
thetical juror who had “made up his
mind. The jury was out 41 hours
r and reported inability to agree. Van
Ost said “You cannot hear the vile
language that was used there.”
NEW YORK, Oct. 11. (JP)—Emory
R. Buckner, U. S. Attorney, who is
conducting the prosecution, argued
yesterday “I know that Harry M.
Daugherty, former attorney general,
that president maker sitting there,
has a cold and is an old man and that
he looks pitiful but that has nothing
to do with this case.”
Fleur 41 HOUR WEEK,
IS STlfOIIGLY MUTED
'WASHINGTON, Oct. 11. (£>)—'The
proposal of the American Federation
of Labor for a five-day, 40 hour, work
ing week must be put into effect grad
ually if it is to be accepted by Amer
ican business, in the opinion of Sec
retary Mellon. The proposal serious
ly might curtail production altho
eventually this could be overcome.
BLAZE SWEEPS THROUGH TOWNS
OF DOUGLAS AND TREADWELL
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY WHITES AND IN
DIANS HOMELESS RESULT OF FIRE WHICH
DESTROYS ALMOST ENTIRE TOWN
Alaska Juneau Mine Shuts Down to Enable 200 workers
| Fight Flames—Crew from Cutter Unalga Assist
JUNEAU, Oct. 12. (/P)—Seventy-five whites and 150
Indians are homeless after a fire which swept Douglas
and Treadwell residences. Twenty-four white and 42 In
dian homes were destroyed. The fire started in the In
dian village near Douglas and wiped it out. It was car
ried before heavy wind and the flames jumped into Doug
las and destroyed the residences, two business buildings,
Catholic Congregational churches and the old hospital.
SEATTLE, Oct. 12. (#>)—'The Ju
neau citizens committee appealed to
former Alaskans on the Pacific coast
:o aid the fire victims and revised the
estimate placed on the loss which is
low placed at $200,000. None of the
lomeless saved any of their belong
ngs. Many had stored their winter-s
uel and food supply in the houses.
..umber and clothing is needed. Only
ix houses remain from the Douglas
natatorium to the old Treadwell cave
in, a distance of a mile.
JUNEAU, Oct. 12. (£>)—Many lost
large sums of money hidden in their
homes. A relief committee composed
of Felix Gray, Mayor Anderson, F. A.
Gallwas, L. W. Kilburn, Charles Haw
kesworth, and John Rustgard has been
formed. Money collected will be used
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