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Phone Adams 128
CITY EXPRESS
Billy Patterson
Meets All Boats and Trains
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F. B. MOORE
Gore Bldg. Adams 145
WALL PAPER PAPER-HANG
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CREAM
Also fresh Lettuce, from
our hothouse, delivered
daily by order.
Our Motto:
“The Best”
SEWARD DAIRY
TAILORING
Come In and Get Measured for
a Suit. Guaranteed Fit.
C. HENNING
Seward, Alaska
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THE FUR FARMER
MAU4ZINE
and know th( business. It
deals with ev^ . phase of fur
farming. Learn how others made
a success of farming fur bearing
animals.
Address
21 COLMAN DOCK
Seattle, Wash.
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Point, It’s mim
Important
—the point of a Parker & Duofold
is made of genuine native
Tasmanian Iridium which costs
over three times as / / much as the
iridium used in / / ordinary
fountain pen / / points. That's
why the Parker If Duofold is
called the 25- If y e a r point.
That’s why it Ifl is the cheapest
penonearth /£/at $7—because its
usefulness is everlasting.
Lady DooMd or DoofoM Jr., is
Gold Ring or Gold Pocket-clip
iacluded free.
Pack along a Dnof old
on your vacation
Ask To See It At
ORLANDER, the Jeweler
SHORTAGE FUNDS REPORTED
IN MONTANA TREASURY
BUTTE, April 27.—James Brett
treasurer of Silverbow County, in
formed the Commissioners yesterday
of a shortage in his office which oc
curred during the administration of
his predecessor, McIntyre.
McIntyre, on February 2Sth. report
ed cash and negotiable papers, includ
ing two checks totalling $24.00 in the
Metals Bank and Trust company, sign
ed “Howard McIntyre, trustee.” The
bank informed Brett McIntyre had no
funds in the banks and had made no
arrangements to take up the checks.
FARM WOMEN ORGANIZE
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 27.—
The Federal Farm Women of Ameri
! ca organized after Coolidge and Jar
jdine received the delegates.
SEWARD LODGE NO 219, F. & A. M.
Stated communications first
^cenfand third Wednesdays of each
fyr\month; visiting brethren wel
come, J. P. Hannon, W. M.; Harold
Painter, Secretary.
RESURRECTION LODGE NO. A-7,
I. O. O. F.
Meets every Thursday at
^^=^^8:00 p. m. in Odd Fellows’
Hall, next to the postoffice. Visiting
brothers welcome. Fred Martineides,
N. CJ.; Chas. Lechner, Secretary.
IGLOO NO. NINE, PIONEERS OF
ALASKA
Meets every Second and Fourth Fri
day nights in Odd Fellows’ Hall; John
Flowers, President; Coll A. McDou
gall, Secretary.
SEWARD CHAPTER NO. 10, ORDER
OF EASTERN STAR
Meeets the second and
fourth Mondays of each
month in Odd Fellows’
Hall at 8 p. m. Visiting
members always wel
:ome; Goldie Blue W. M.
Mrs. Viola T, Swetmann, Secretary.
SEWARD REBEKAH LOGE NO. 6-A,
I. O. O. F.
Meets the first and
third Mondays of
each month in Odd
Fellows Hall at 8:00
p. m. Visiting mem
bers are always wel
come. Mrs.' John
Rosness, N. O.
TEA POT DOME
CASE NEARS END
(By Associated Press)
CHEYENNE, Wyo., Apr. 27.—T h e
tempest of Teapot Dome had its in
ception in Washington early in April
1922, when reports became current
that the then secretary of the inte
rior. Albert B. Fall, bad leased the
big Wyoming naval oil reserve to Har
ry F. Sinclair’s Mammoth Oil Com
pany. Reports of the leasing were
confirmed by Mr. Fall himself after
the senate, at the instance of Sena
tor J. B. Kendrick, of Wyoming, had
demanded of the interior secretary
the facts* in the case.
It was April 21 of that year when
Mr. Fall reported the lease had been
given Mr. Sinclair. The next step of
consequence was the creation of the
Senate Oil committee', headed by Sen
ator Walsh, of Montana, which probed
long and deep into the transaction,
giving the government information
upon which it based its suit for an
nulment on the ground of fraud and
illegality.
The suit was prepared by Owen J.
Roberts, Philadelphia lawyer, and At
lee Pomerene, former Ohio senator,
who were appointed by President
Coolidge as special government coun
sel. It was filed in March. 1924, just
a year before being brought to trial.
In the year intervening between
the filing of the suit and the trial Mr.
Roberts and Mr. Pomerene obtained
information which they said indicated ;
an exchange of liberty bonds between
Mr. Sinclair and Mr. Fall shortly af
ter the lease was executed, and their
hunt for evidence led them to Toron
to, Canada, to the threshold of the
Continental Trading company, which
they later charged was an organiza
tion fostered by Mr. Sinclair and oth
er oil men.
One of the functions of this compa
ny, the government charged, was the
passing of securities to Mr. Fall from
I Mr. Sinclair. The government at
j tempted to prove that $230,000 in
j bonds bought by thei trading company
i were given to Mr. Fall. H. S. Osier,
j head of the company, refused to an
j'Swer Questions in Toronto when ask
I ed for a deposition by a representative
of the American state department.
After three relays in ‘ the starting
of the case, it got under way here on
March 9, last. Mr. Sinclair and his
small army of attorneys, among them
Martin W. Littleton of New York. Geo.
P. Hoover of Washington and J. W.
Lacey of Cheyenne, were on hand to
fight the government’s charges with
every means at their command.
E. C. Finney, assistant secretary
of the interior, was the first wit
ness called by the government in its
attempt to prove that the negotia
tion and execution of the lease were
carried out in secrecy and that it
had been granted without competi
tive bidding. Mr. Finney testified
that he had not been informed of
the signing of the lease until some
time after it had been executed.
Senator Kendrick also was called
to testify as to a flood of inquiries
by his constituents as to prospects
for leasing the oil reserve, and of
his unsuccessful attempts to get def
inite information from the interior
department. Then the government
plunged into its attempt to estab
lish that Mr. Fall had received liber
ty bonds from Mr. Sinclair. It call
ed to the stand bank officials and
employes from Pueblo, Col., El Paso,
Texas and Carrizozo, N. M., where
Mr. Fall had banking .connections,
and produced records of Mr. Fall’s
bank accounts.
The defense objected vigorously to
the introduction of these records on
the ground that no evidence had been
introduced to connect either Mr. Sin
clair or Mr. Fall or the Mammoth
Oil company with the transactions.
Federal Judge T. Blake Kennedy took
the objection under advisement over
the week-end and on the following
Monday Upheld the objection on the
ground that the government had es
tablished no connection between Mr.
Sinclair and the bank accounts. The
government then reversed its order
of the testimony and called bank
clerks from New York, who testi
fied as to bonds bought there by
the trading company. Then through
witnesses and records the govern
ment traced the .bonds by their se
rial numbers to M. T. Everhart, of
Pueblo, a son-in-law of Mr. Fall, who
was called to the stand. Mr. Ever
f
hart refused to answer questions re
garding the bonds and the deposits
he was alleged to have made in be
half of Mr. Fall on the ground that
such might incriminate him. Again
the case was tied up pending a rul
ing by Judge Kennedy, and the judge
finally held that Mr. Evernan, musr
answer certain questions, but that
the court would guide him it the
questions oibviouslv were of a na
ture that would implicate him. He
was promptly upheld by the court
and excused from testifying when
government counsel quizzed him as
to whether he was in the eastern
p^rt of the United States in 1922.
The j^>vernment had attempted to
prove that Mr. Everhart carried the
bonds from the trading company to
Pueblo and had deposited them there
for Mr. Fall.
After that the government’s case
was short and the defense launched
into its side of the fight.
The disposition of Rear Admiral J.
K. Robinson, chief of the navy bu
reau of engineering, which required
almost two days for reading, was
put before the court. Admiral Robi
son’s testimony was to the effect that
Mr. Sinclair’s offer was the best that
could have been obtained by the
government; that Teapot Dome was
in imminent danger of drainage from
the wells in the adjacent Salt Creek
field, and that the national defense
situation in 1920 and 1921 was such
that the navy was badly in need of
oil.
Another high spot in the defense
was the calling to the stand of Rear
Admiral Julian L. Latimer, judge
advocate general of the navy, who
appeared as the representative of
Secretary of the Navy Wilbur. The
defense had subpoenaed certain rec
ords of the navy department in sup
port of its contention that the in
ternational situation demanded that
oil be made ready for naval use.
Admiral Latimer brought certifi
cates from Secretary Wilbur and
from Secretary of State Kellogg, in
which they made known their refus
al to produce certain of the records
subpoenaed on the ground that they
contained naval secrets, and that to
put them before the public would be
inimical to the interests of the Uni
ted States. The certificates request
ed Judge Kennedy to excuse their
refusal which he did.
From that point the defense made
quick work ,of its side of the case
and rested after three days. The
government used seven days in the
presentation of testimony. Two days
of argument, ip which the validity
of the executive order signed by Pre
sident Harding in May, 1921, trans
ferring the oil reserves from the navy
department to the interior depart
ment, was argued. This phase of
the argument constituted one of the
main issues in the government’s
case.
PATROLMAN FINED FOR
NEGLECTING HIS DUTY
ST. LOLIS, April 27.—The police
board fined patrolman Duff fifty dol
lars because he went into a tailor shop
on his beat on March 3rd, and had his
trousers repaired. The burglar alarm
sounded and robbers took thirty-five
thousand dollars from the Mound City
Trust Company before Duff got his
trousers back on and ran to do his
duty.
Sheaffer’s Life Time Pens, at the
the Alaska Shop. tf
ANDY’S EXPRESS
MEETS ALL BOATS AND
TRAINS
Prompt and Reliable Service
Phone Madison 143
AUTO SERVICE and
STORAGE—
P. M. OGLE
BUTLER COLLEGE TEAM
BREAKS WORLD RECORD
IN DRAKE RELAY MATCH
DES MOINES, April 27—The Med
ley team of Butler College, Indianapo
lis, yesterday opened the two day
Jrake relay carnival, by breaking the
American record, covering the four
forty yards; two-twenty yards, and
eight:eighty and mile runs with Kil
gore, Gray, Caraway and Phillips, in.
7: 43 9-10. The previous mark of the
Irish American Athletic club made in
1909 at Boston, is 7:44 2-5. Wabash
was pushing Butler close at the end
of the race, finishing in 7:44 flat.
Two Chinese women have estab
lislied a newspaper for women at
Tientsin, the first of its kind in China
if you don't get your paper before
six o’clock please phone us and one
will be sent by special messenger.
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
No. 119.
In Probate Court for Kenai Precinct,
Third Judicial Division, Territory
of Alaska.
In the Matter of the Estate of Seymour
L. Colwell, Deceased.
Notice Is Hereby Given, That th»
undersigned is the duly appointed, act
ing and qualified administratrix of tho
estate of Seymour L. Colwell, Deceas
ed; and, in accordance with an Order
duly made therefor, Notice is now
hereby given to the creditors and to
all persons having claims against tho
said deceased, to exhibit such claims,
with the necessary vouchers, within,
six months after and from the date*
of this notice to the administratrix ah
the office of L. V. Ray, in Seward,
Alaska w’hich the undersigned select:-*
as her place of business in all matters
connected with the estate of the said.
Seymour L. Colwell, Deceased.
Dated at Seward, Alaska, this lOtk
day of April, 1925.
KATHERINE COLWELL,
Administratrix of the' Estate of Sey
mour L. Colw’ell, Deceased.
First publication April 13, 1925.
Last publication May 4, 1925. Mon. 45
PROOF OF HOMESTEAD
Anchorage, Alaska, March 5, 1925.
Final proof testimony on homestead
entry, Serial 05927 embracing Lot 4,
Section 32, T. 8 S. R. 14 W. S. M. ha*
been submitted by Dora Brooks, en
trywoman, and her witnesses, Walter
L. Lippincott, and Milo Hurlburt, re
siding at Seldovia, Alaska, and is not?
on file in the local land office at An
chorage, Alaska, and if no protest is
filed in the local land office at An
chorage, Alaska, on or before June*
1, 1925. said final proof will be accept
ed and final certificate issued.
J. LINDLEY GREEN.
Register.
First publication April 4. 1925.
Last publication May 8, 1925. 30t dly
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
W. D. Coppernoll
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT
LAW
Will Practice in All Courts of the
Territory
SEWARD, ALASKA
SEE
Curtis R. Morford
FOR FIRE INSURANCE
Dr. A. R. Roberts
DENTIST
Dental and General
X-RAY WORK
New Tecklenberg Bldg.
Phone Mad. 108 - - - Seward, Alaska
Dr. J. A. Baughman
Physician and Surgeon
CHRONIC DISEASES A SPECIALTY!
Phone Madison 90. Seward, Alaska
Hugh Dougherty
FURNISHED HOUSES FOR RENT
Real Estate and Insurance
Business Phone Adams 152
Residence Phone, Madison 58
Aaron E. Rucker
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Office in Benson Building
PHONE MADISON 114