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VOLUME 10, NUMBER 248.
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1924.
PRICE TEN CENTS
CLAIM POWER COMPANY PAID TO HAVE
SALE OF ITS RAILWAY LINES PVT OVER
THRV COVNCIL; OTHER CHARGES FILED
Councilman Bolton Paid One Thousand Dollars
By President of Company to Aid Sale;
Whiting Tried Break Driver’s Union.
SEATTLE, Wash., Oct. 22.—Developments before the city
council committee investigating the conditions under tin* Brown
■ T^viyoralitv included: Allegations that Harry Bolton, running? for J
cii v councilman, was paid one thousand dollars by Robert 1. A\ hit- j
imr, a representative of the Puget Sound Light & Power company, |
as a compensation for using his influence in bringing about the re
cent street railway deal, in which the City of Seattle purchased the
street car system from the Puget Sound Light & Power company.
This money, it was stated came from A. W. Leonard, president of
the company.
Second: Testimony was introduced that Whiting, working for
the Puget Sound company, joined the jitny driver’s union for the
sole purpose of wrecking the organization when its busses became
a serious factor in competition with the company’s transportation
system. It was stated that Whiting worked several months in his
efforts to break up the union, and that he was receiving a large sal
ary from the P. S. L. & T. Co. while engaged in this work.
Third: The declaration was made that labor leaders in the
city were paid large sums to help put the deal through while it
was pending in the city council.
Leonard, superintendent of the company, speaking of the charges
'• i 'C that he paid Bolton the thousand to help turn the deal said,
"I have absolutely no knowledge of any financial transaction taking
place between Whiting and Bolton.” Leonard declared “so far
as his company is concerned not a single dollar has ever been given
to any member of the city council before or after the sale of the
street railway.”
The investigation of Seattle’s mayor and police chief arose out
of the trouble arising when Mrs. Brandis assumed the mavorality,
at the time Brown went east to the Democratic convention. At that
time charges of corruption were made by her and all bootlegging
joints and gambling dens closed. Chief of Police Severyns was
dismissed from the force and also several police. After Brown’s
it turn fiom the Last, Severyns was reinstated, and vice and cor
ruption continued unchecked.
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SEATTLE, Oct. 22.—The money
which Seattle would get back from
its $15,000,000 purchase of the city’s
street car lines, if the contracts were
rescinded by court action, should be
"split three ways among those who
have put all their efforts aud worked
up the present case, special counsel,
fighting the municipality’s case and
the city’s mayor, Edwin J. Brown
told Corporation Counsel T. J. L.
Kennedy, the latter testified this
morning before the city council's de
partment of the efficiency committee
selected to hear the evidence.
Kennedy’s testimony charging also
that Mayor Brown wanted his son in
charge of the city’s court action, and
that the council men had threatened
to run the Puget Sound Power &
Light company out of business if it
refused to sell the railway lines and
that booze parties were given by E.
B. Minich, the mayor’s secret inves
tigator, with the mayor’s knowledge.
This latter assertion came from the
, concluding statements of Minich him
self.
EX-SERVICE MAN
CUTS THROATS OF
WIFE, DAUGHTER!
SEATTLE, Oct. 22—William C.
Krueger, thirty-three years old, a coal
packer in this city and former service
man, severed the heads of his wife,
Jennie, 22 years of age, and his two
year-old daughter, Louise, from their
bodies with a razor and then slit his
own throat last night.
Krueger is declared to have been
extremely pealous over his wife’s ac
tions, neighbors declared they were
constantly quarreling.
DEMOCRATS WORRIED WITH
STRAW VOTES AGAINST THEM
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Oct. 22 —
Either the people of the U. S. are
going to get the surprise of their
lives the morning after the national
election or else the political “straw
votes” which are being taken today
may be written dowm as the most
collossal farce of all time.
These votes, being gathered under
the various auspices in different sec
j tions of the country, would indicate
at this time that outside of the Sol
id South and one of two of the so
called “border” states, the Democrats
promise to be third ticket in the
race.
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SOCIETY WOMAN IN BUSINESS
Mrs. Morgan Belmont, New York
society woman, who made a hit on
tKescreen and then droppd out, has
again tired of the social world and
has decided to go into business.
SECRETARY WALLACE
PLANNING TO RETIRE
FROM CABINET SOON
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 22.—
No formal comment is available at the
White House today on the recurring
report that Scretary Wallace is plan
ning to retire from the cabinet of the
President.
Wallace is in a hospital here rcov
ering from an operation. He ha,-> been
in poo.- health for some time and may
step cut before the opening of con
gress.
GERMAN UNEMPLOYED 1,000,000
BERLIN, Oct. 22.—The unemploy
ed in Germany, including occupied
treritories, now totals 1,000,000, of
whom 540,000 are drawing doles.
AVIATORS MOVE SOUTH
MEDFORD, Ore., Lieutenants Nel
son, Smith and Wade, world flyers,
resumed their flight to the south
yesterday morning at ten.
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GREEK RULERS DEPART FROM BRITISH CAPITAL
The former King and Queen of Greece have left London for
Paris, as part of their tour of the Continent. Photo shows the
former Greek rulers, saying goodbye to their friends.
FRENCH LIFTING
TROOPS FROM
GERMAN SOIL
BERLIN, Oct. 22.—The French to
day peacefully evacuated the river
port of Karlsruhe, preliminary to the
evacuation of the Rhine and Ruhr.
French also evacuated Manheim har
bor and are to withdraw their troops
from Dortmund.
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
URGED TO FIGHT KLAN
ST. LOUIS, Mo., Oct. 22—John H.
Keedon of Denver, SU’>>*n;-> Master
of the Knights of Columbus, at
a banquet last night, urged the
“country be flooded with speakers
to put before the American public
the true attitude of the Catholic faith
toward the society on all civic ques
tions and that there is no room for
the Ku Klux Klan.
U. S. AND CANADA
PROTECT HALIBUT
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 22.—j
Exchange of ratifications between the;
United States and Canada at their |
convention to protect the halibut
I fishing in the North Pacific ocean, j
j took place here today.
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NEW LIQUOR CHASERS
WILL BE READY SOON
SEATTLE, Oct. 22.—By December j
15 more than thirty new liquor chas
ers being built at the Puget Sound
naval station at Bremerton and in
Seattle are to be assigned to pa’rol
work in Pacific Northwest waters, it
was learned here today.
Twenty of the new craft are to pre
vent liquor running and smuggling on
Puget Sound, while seven others are
to patrol Oregon waters. Two of the
chasers are to operate out of Coos
bay with one out of Astoria.
FRIENDLY POKER GAME
LEADS TO COURT CASE
A supposedly friendly game of po
ker, alleged to have taken place
early this week in a Juneau rooming
house, led today to the arrest of Bill
Duly by Federal officers on a charge
of gambling. The complaint was
signed by Paul Bigoff. Duly enter
ed a plea of guilty and was fined $25
and costs by Judge Paine’s court.
Bigoff “invested” $200 in the game,
giving checks in payment. These,
it is said were endorsed by Duly
and cashed by a third party, vnien
the “investment” failed to pan out,
it is claimed, Bigoff stopped payment
on the checks. Later he signed a
complaint charging Duly with gamb
ling.
ALASKA FISH PACK IS
LARGER THIS SEASON
BELLINGHAM, Oct. 22.—The Al
aska salmon pack of the Pacific Am
erican Fisheries was larger in 1924
than it was last year, totaling 519,
OOOcases, according to Vice President
Archie W. Shiels. The pack was di
vided as follows: Southeastern Alas
ka, 113,000 cases; Central Alaska 373,
000 cases; Western Alaska, 34,000
cases. Western Alaska is the only one
of the three districts that showed no
increase. Its pack was slightly less
than that of 1923.
ERICKSON’S VICTIM
IDENTIFIED; LEAVES
3-YEAR-OLD CHILD
SEATTLE, Wn„ Oct. 22.—Saw
Erickson’s victim was identified to
day as Madeline Running, aged 22.
She was the divorced wife of John
Murk, her separation having been
r:anted here one rr. t •'< ag'-. The
woman leaves a child three years of
age.
TRAIN JUMPS TRACK;
FOUR PERSONS KILLED
NEWCASTLE, South Africa, Oct.
22.—Four persons were killed and a
score hurt when the Natal train from
Durbar jumped the track at Miln
i Dale siding recently.
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AMERICAN IS MURDERED
BY MEXICAN; 1 ARREST
WASHINGTON, Oct. 22.—Consul
Stewart of Tor o, Mexico, report
that William B. Massey, of Mus
| kogee, Oklahoma, has been mur
. dered. One Mexican has been ar
| rested.
ENGLAND SINKING INTO
SEA AS SCOTLAND RISES
LONDON, Oct. 22.—England is
slowly sinking into the sea, but to
the same extent to which the south
ern half of the British Isles is los
ing ground, the northern section—
Scotland—is gaining.
Recent hydrographic surveys
show that during the last fifty
years Scotland’s height above sea
level has increased by half an inch.
England’s average height above sea
level, however, is half an inch below
that of fifty years ago.
Humorous commentators ascribe
Scotland’s gain to an abnormal
chest and head expansion as a re
sult of Premier Ramsay Macdon
ald’s success as Great Britain’s first
labor premier. Macdonald hails from
the Scotish moors.
RANCH NEAR SEWARD
SOLD TO JOE WILSON
Tom King, well known rancher in
this vicinity, located at Mile 3%, sold
his 6-acre t^act of land including
house and outbuildings to Joe Wil
son of Seward. Mr. Wilson will take
possession immediately.
Mr. Wilson, who is well known in
Seward, with his two sons has been
hydraulicking up at Moose Pass for
the last summer and since coming to
town the other day made the pur
chase, He anrl hi? two sons will oc
cupy their new home soon.
Tom King, known by many in the
Territory will leave Seward on one
of the next boats for Juneau for a
well earned vacation. After spending
about two weeks in the capital city
he will return to Seward. His in
tention is to go into the Kuskokwim
region and do some prospecting. Ow
ing to all navigable water being iced
up this time of the year he will go
to Fairbanks upon his return and
then over the trail.
Mr. King came to Alaska in the
early days and settled first in Ket
chikan. In Ketchikan he was pro
prietor of a machine and blacksmith
ing establishment and won no mean
reputation at the business. He came
to Seward in 1915 and has been in
this vicinity ever since.
MONTANA MAN LEARNS
MUCH ABOUT CHICAGO
CHICAGO, Oct. 22.—James Harper,
of Billings, Mont., will remember Chi- i
cago for two reasons—deft fingers
and kind hearts. Arriving at Union
station today, three men said “step
this way.” Thinking them guides, Har
per followed them. They jostled him
in the crowd and soon vanished and
he discovered he had been robbed of
$175. Friendly railway excutives :
provided him with transportation to
Canada, where he was bound to visit
his mother and sister whom he had
not seen for eighteen years, he said.
DOC COOK’S WIFE GETS
POSITION IN CAFETERIA
FORT WORTH, Tex., Oct. 22.—Ap
parently substantiating the poverty
claim of her exploiting husband, Dr.
Frederick A. Cook Arctic explorer and
mountain climber, Mrs. Marie Cook,
his divorced wife, who rallied to his
aid during the recent oil fraud trial
here, has taken a position as cashier
in a cafeteria.
KETCHIKAN RESIDENT INJURED
IN AN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT
SEATTLE, Wn., Oct. 22.—George
A. Brown, former resident of Ketch
ikan and well known throughout the
territory, was seriously injured in an
automobile accident yesterday. His
condition is said to be serious with
little hope held for recovery.
DEMOCRATIC CHAIRMAN
CLAIMS DEFICIT $150,000
IN CAMPAIGN FUNDS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 22.—
W. Shaver, chairman of the Democra
tic National Committee arid James
W. Gerard, treasurer, of the same
organization, testified before the Bo
rah committee investigating campaign
funds, that while the committee had
fixed th esum, $750,000 as that need
ed to finance the coming campaign
of Davis, they now had a deficit of
$150,000.
DAWES PLAN CALLING MUCH
GOOD WtLl IN EUROPE
NEW YORK, Oci. 22.—“Although
the Dawes reparation ohm has been in
operation, but a shir, time, there is
more nope, more go > I will, aye, and
mmo cl arity abnx ‘ in Europe than
tt.v'i has been for th:* past ten years
v u.st, if not almost m time im
memorial,’’ Sir Esme Howard, Brit
ish Ambassador to the l nit?J States,
declared in an addrev he- 3 today.
• UNDERWOOD * UNDERWOOD. N. V.
A ROYAL BOSS
H. R. H., the Prince of Wales, as
he looks when he is on his EP ranch in
western Canada. The ranch is near
High River, Alberta.
SHENANDOAH MOORED
AFTER STRENUOUS
TRIP ALONG COAST
SAN DIEGO, Cala., Oct. 22—The
giant dirigible, Shenandoah, is now
safely tied at her mooring mast in
the field here, after her trip to Camp
Lewis and return. The trip is con
sidered one of the hardest the Shen
andoah has ever experienced, be
cause of the fact that both going and
returning she was most of the time
in the teeth of heavy gales and was
forced to fight strong, contrary head
winds that reduced her speed to ten
miles per hour at times. Adding to
the discomforts of the crew of the
Shenandoah were the heavy rains
and fogs encountered all the way
north. At Camp Lewis she was forc
ed to spend the better part of the
; day in the air awaiting the rising of
i fogs which mantled the cap. On her
! return to San Diego the Shenandoah
was blown miles out of her course,
and planes searching for her, failed
to find a trace of the giant airship.
Departs for East Today
SAN DIEGO, Oct. 22.—The Shen
andoah resumed her flight from Camp
Lewis to Lakehurst, N. J. today, via
Fort Worth.
MONTGOMERY WARD AND CO.
TO HAVE EASTERN BRANCH
CHICAGO, Oct. 22.—Montgomery
Ward and Company, the mail order
house with headquarters in Chicago,
and branches at Kansas City, Mo.,
St. Paul, Portland, Ore., Oakland,
Cala., and Fort Worth, Tex., has de
cided to invade the East, ami is
offering bonds to the amount of
$1,500,000 for the establishment of a
branch at Baltimore.
SILVER IS 70 CENTS
j NEW YORK, Oct. 22.—Silver has
been carried to a new high mark for
| the year at 70 cents an ounce. Bul
lion dealers give a heavy demand
from China as the chief factor in
the rise.
EXTENSIVE NEW SEAMS
OF COAL IN YORKSHIRE
LONDON, Oct. 22.—Discovery of
great new coalfields in southeast
Yorkshire is announced.
Sinkings at Moor End, Thorne,
seven miles from Goole, have re
sulted in the striking of a rich seam,
which, it is estimated, will yield
about 23.000,000,000 tons of coal, or
enough to meet England’s need for
the next 400 years.
Mrs. Frank Skeen's children • have
j been very ill for the past few weeks.
; The Skeens were former residents of
j Seward and are now living in Taco
ma.
COOLIDGE LAUDS LUTHERANS
CHICAGO, Oct. 22.—Coolidge in a
greeting read here today, lauded the
contributions of Lutheians to the de
velopment of the Orig nal Colonies of
this country and to the struggle for
American independence.
CASUALTY LIST GROWS
AS RESULT EXPLOSION
NORFOLK, Oct. 22.—The casualty
list of the scout cruiser Trenton dis
aster rose today to six dead, two dan
gerously in grave condition, and 12
seriously injured.
NORFOLK, Oct. 22.—Four more
names last night and today were add
ed to the list of dead from the explo
sion aboard the Scout Cruiser Trenton,
brings the total dead to twelve.
NEW CONSTRUCTION IS
PLACED ON PROVISIONS
OF REVENUE MEASURE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 22.—
Decisions today by the United States
board of tax appeals were regarded
here as placing a new construction on
two provisions of the internal reve
nue laws.
In one case the board held that
losses sustained in the sale of securi
ties by other than registered brokers
and traders, may not be deducted from
taxable incomes.
In the second case, regarded as
qually far reaching, the board ruled
than an industrial corporation may
deduct from its income return such
contributions as it makes to welfare
work among its own employes.