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VOLUME 20. NUMBER 7G
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 1925 PRICE TEN CENTS.
TERRIFIC BLIZZARD
HIITS NOME, COAL
FAMINE, 30 BELOW
EVEN THE STURDY DOG MUSHERS
QUAIL BEFORE THE STORM;
NATIVE HAS DIPHTHERIA
NOME. Alaska. Mar. 31.—One na
tive child was found in this city to
day suffering from Diphtheria. Dr.
Welch doubted if he could save the
life of the child. The temperature
in this city was reported at 30 below
zero the latter part of last w'eek. A
heavy snowfall prevailing here for the
past few days makes it the worst bliz
zard so far recorded this winter. It
lasted three days, and communication
with outlying sections have been in
terrupted.
Drivers thruout this district are
quailing before the storm. The snow
P piled to the eaves of the houses made
the homes snug, helping to a certain
extent to face the recent fuel short
age. Many of the residents here
have less than a sack of coal in their
possession.and those having coal for
disposal are asking six dollars per
sack for same, the regular price being
three dollars.
George Goshaw, prominent fox
rancher is starting for his home at
Shismaref by dog team as soon as
the storm subsides sufficient for trav
el.
KETCHIKAN FISH PRICES TODAY
Halibut being sold here at seven and
three cents. Salmon quoted at six
teen and one-half, twelve and nine.
„ Explosion of Oil Results
Damage 81 Automobiles
LIVINGSTON, Mont., Mar. 31.—A
fire following an explosion of an oil
furnace in the blacksmith shop of the
Mammoth Hot Springs, at Yellowstone
National Park, caused six hundred
thousand dollars’ damage, and burned
the garage adjacent with a loss of 81
buses.
RUSSIA WILL PLANT MORE
4 COTTON, SUGAR THIS YEAR
WASHINGTOTN, I). C„ Mar. 31.—
The International Institute of Agri
culture in Rome advised the depart
ment of Agriculture here that Russia
will plant a larger area of cotton and
^ sugar beets this year.
OREGON PENITENTIARY
INMATES AND GUARDS
ARE GIVEN BAD SCARE
SALEM, Ore., Mar. 31.—Lightning
played havoc with the nerves of guards
and inmates of the state penitentiary
* when a bolt struck a tree near the
* guards’ quarters and passed through
the main building. It broke several
windows, and tore a hole in the roof.
It also set fire to the woodshed and
the! flax watchman, near the shed was
knocked down. No other damage was
reported.
MARQUIS OF SALISBURY
TO SUCCEED LORD CURZON
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LONDON, March 31.—The London
Evening News says the Marquis ol
4 Salisbury will succeed the late Mar
quis of Curzon.
AUSTRALIAN TENNIS STARS
WILL SAIL FOR ENG' ANC
SYDNEY, March 31.—A strung
team of Australian women lawn ten
nis stars will said April 21 to com
^ pete in the Wimbledon tournament.
Join the Chamber of Commerce.
MILK RIVER FLOODS;
MANY ARE HOMELESS
GREAT FALLS, Mar. 31—A Trib
une dispatch from Glasgow, in north
ern Montana said the residential sec
tion of that city was fooded as a re
sult of the rise of Milk river. Many
'families are reported driven from their
homes.
MAMA FERGUSON
GIVES THE OLD MAN
CLEAR CONSCIENCE
SHE SAID IT WAS THE HAPPIEST
SIGNATURE SHE HAS EVER
PUT ON DOTTED LINE
AUSTIN, Tex., Mar. 31.—Full poli
tical and civil rights were restored to
day to former Governor James E. Fer
guson, who was impeached in 1917,
when his wife, the governor of the
Lone Star State signed the amnesty
Bill, as passed by the State Legisla
ture.
“I have signed my name hundreds
of times, but this is the happiest sig
niture that I have ever written,” said
the governor.
Americans in China Unite
To Help Needy Travelers
SHANGHAI, March 31.—Any wan
dering American who becomes strand
ed in China in the future will have
a better Chance of being helped home
than has any of his long line of pre
decessors in the same predicament.
Realizing the necessity of doing
something in this field, the Ameri
can Association of China, has decid
ed to raise a fund of $15,000 Mexi
can, from American residents, to be
expended in caring for destitute Am
ericans.
UTAH SENATOR IN
FOR SLASHING TAXES
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 31 —
Softiator William H. King of Utah
said today that he would introduce a
bill in the next session to reduce the
national tax bill five hundrd millioi:
dollars. He also wants surtaxes cut
and the excise and nuisance taxes
entirely abolished.
WALKS LEISURLY INTO BANK
AND THEN HOLDS IT UF
RENO, Nev., Mar. 31.—A man to
day walked into the Bank of Sparks
three miles distant, locked the little
force in a vault and took twenty-five
thousand dollars. The robbery was
not dis^vered until an hour latei
when customers tried to gain en
trance to the institution.
NEW PRUSSIAN PREMIER
BERLIN, Mar. 31.—Dr. Hermani
Hoepker Aschoff, democrat, has beer
elected premier of the Prussian gov
ernment, succeeding Dr. Wilheln
Mark.
Three Hundred Natives
Believed to Have Been in
Philippine Insurrecdoi
MANILA, March 31.—More thai
three hundred natives, who are be
lieved to have been connected in th<
late lawlessness in Nevadciji pro
vince, have surrendered, or havi
been captured by the constabulary
who report the insurrection well ii
hand with the leader of the insurrec
tion captured.
Tomorrow is April first, and All
Fools Day.
EXPLORER TELLS
GRUESOME TALE ON
CANADIAN ESKIMOS
KILL GIRL BABIES TO KEEP THE
LIFE OF CAMP—CONSIDERED
BE TRADITIONAL
NEW YORK, Mar. 31.—Kund Ras
mussen, erstwhile Arctic explorer and
student of the Eskimo and their cus
toms, who arrived here on his way to
Ottawa to report to the Canadian gov
ernment on the brutal killings by the
Eskimos of girl babies in the Upper
Hudson Bay country, said, that the
custom is traditional among them, and
originated in the difficulty in secur
ing food for thelarge families.
He added that “if there was not pro
vender enough in the igloos they kill
babies immediately after birth by
smothering. If the girl baby, prior to
birth is a pledge to marriage to an
other, it will be preserved and, if it
not. the infant is killed. Boy babies
have a much greater value and are
seldom, if ever, killed.”
CHICAGO BANKERS FIND
HAVE BEEN BUNKED
ON SCHOOL BOND LOANS
TAYLORVILLE, Illi., March 31.—
The arrival of lawyers from Chicago
who were seeking the high school
district of the South Fork township,
Christain county, disclosed a huge
fraud by three men, who represent
ing themselves as directors, issued a
hundred and fifty thousand dollars
worth of school bonds and sold them
in Chicago a year ago. No such
schqpl district exists. Most of the
bonds have been resold many times
over.
Children Starve When
Father Placed in Jai!
LOS ANGELES, March 31.—Aban
doned by their father, Freddie and
George Anderson were found by the
police at their home last night on
the verge of starvation. They were
so weak they could not stand, and the
only food they had had during the
past week was a few scraps from
a garbage can. Freddie will undoubt
edly die, but George will probably
survive. Their mother is dead and
their father is in jail on a worthless
check charge.
WHITE PLAGUE SCOURGES JAPS
TOKIO, March 31.—An official re
, port states that tuberculosis is in
‘ creasing yearly in Japan. There are
> now 4,300,000 sufferers from the dis
> ease, with about 122,000 deaths a
’ year.
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CINCINNATI POLICE
STANDING TRIAL FOR
BREAKING BOOZE LAW
CINCINNATI, March 31.—Cincin
nati is now hobbling along with nc
police force at all as they are all or
trial for bootlegging. The Federa'
authorities have indicted forty po
licemen for being members of a gi
gantic booze ring.
I The city officials are calling or
pensioned and other policemen tc
t take their places temporary. The
- district attorney states that all the
? forty policemen are well organized
- with wealthy men backing them fi
} nancially and otherwise.
, This assertion seems to be borne
i out when all policemen were able tc
- give $10,000 bail apiece.
Mrs. S. M. Graff will leave on one
- of the next boats for the States where
she will visit relatives for a time
OHIO SENATOR SAYS
COOLIDGE UNBEATABLE
NAPOLEON, Ohio, Mar. 31.—Sena
tor Frank B. Willis, of Ohio, speaking
before the Henry County Republican
club last night said if Coolidge seeks
| re-election it will be “a hard adventur
jer indeed who will make so bold an
j attempt as to contest it with him.”
IcOOLIDGEAGAINSTj
j LOANS TO ADVANCE i
AMER ARMAMENT
PLENTY OTHER GOOD LOANS IN
THE WORLD—SUGGESTS IN
WAY TO HELP EUROPE
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WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 31.— j
Private American loans are not fav
ored by President Coolidge in cases
where money goes for military arma
ment or similar governmental ex
penses.
Among European countries, he be
lieves, however, Americans should
make an effort to restore normal and
j economic conditions through the sta
1 bilization of currency and rehabilita
tion of commercial enterprises and
other peacetime measures.
The government, said President
Coolidge, has no authority over for
eign loans floated in the United
States, but Americans usually seek
governmental advice before contem
plating purchase.
AIR RAID SUFFERERS
ARE STILL UNPAID
LONDON, March 31.—Englishmen
who suffered damages during the big
war from the German air raids over
London have been paid a total of $25,
000,000 as compensation by the gov
ernment. This amount is, however,
considered inadequate by the claim
ants, some of whom have received
nothing and they now suggest that
German reparation money be divert
ed for their benefit.
ANOTHER ARMS MEET
FOR THE NEAR FUTURE
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WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 31.—
Senator William H. King of Utah pre
dicted there would be another arms
conference, sponsored by the United
States “before next winter.”
After a conference with President
Coolidge and Frank B. Kellogg, he
said the conference would seek to
curtail land and naval armament.
DOLLAR LINE TAKES
OVER ORIENTAL LINE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 31 —
The Shipping Board accepted Stanley
Dollar’s bid of five million six hund
red and twenty-five dollars for the Or
iental line, which has been operating
out of San Francisco by the Pacific
Mail. The sale includes five combin
ation passenger ships, of the Presi
dent type which are now on hte Se
attle-Oriental Service.
Numerous Prizes Alloted
For Best Holstein Cattle
■ CHICAGO, March 31.—Agricultur
! al fairs and dairy cattle shows hav
i ing district, state-wide, regional and
■ national prominence will share in
the $25,000 in cash, and other num
: erous awards offered by the Holstein
• Friesian Association of America this
year as special prizes for the show
ing of Holsteins. These awards are
! made in addition to the regular prize
! offerings of each fair and dairy cat
, tie show.
UNFORTUNATE MAN
FROM NOME FOUND
SEATTLE, IS HAPPY
DESPITE HiS AFFLICTIONS HE
SAYS HE HAS LITTLE CAUSE
FOR WORRY
(Nome Special to Gateway)
SEATTLE, Wn, Mar. 31— Peter
Densmore, a former Yukon steamboat
engineer who lost both hands and one
foot as a result of a battle of six days
in a Yukon blizzard, during which he
lay down thrice to die and thrice rose
and continued to battle, was found
today digging postholes at his little
home near here with a mechanical
hand he designed and made.
Mrs. Densmore was working beside
him., and declared that he got more
use from that one hand than many
men with two hands and two feet.
Fire and landlords have left Dens
more penniless twice inSeattle. Com
menting, on which he philosophized,
“the less you have, the less you have
to worry about.”
Coast Guard Seizes
Rum Running Plane
NEW YORK, Mar. 31.—The Unit
ed States coast guard service today
seized near rumrow, a liquor-carrying
airplane and the entire crew. This is
the first time the coast guard has seiz
ed an airplane in the illicit traffic on
rum row'. The plane was brought here
on a barge today.
WORK STARTED ON REPAIRS
TO ST. PAUL’S CATHEDRAL
LONDON, March 31.—The announce
ment this week of the partial closing
of St. Paul’s cathedra], allowed the
public to realize the magnitude and
the cost of the work which will be
required before the edifice is made
secure for the future. No exact es
timate of the cost can be made, but
the work extending through tha
years will make large demands on
public purses.
Stewart Edward White to
Hunt With Bow and Arrow
NEW YORK, March 31.—Stewart
Edward White, famous author and
T. Saxon Pope, of the university of
California, sailed for Africa last nite
to hunt big game with their bows
! and arrow's, as the only weapons.
POWERFUL WIRELESS
INSTALLED BY FRENCH
GENEVA, March 31.—A wireless
apparatus so powerful, that it will be
able to establish communication with
ships crossing both the Atlantic and
Pacific oceans, and be in touch with
all parts of the globe, "will be erected
on the top of Mount Saleve, together
with the world’s largest astromical
observatory, which the French gov
ernment proposes to build, contain
ing the most powerful telescope in
the world. Four years will be re
quired to build both the observatory
and radio station, which will be er
ected at an altitude of 4,000 feet.
DOUBLE CHANCE WINS GRAND
NATIONAL STEEPLE CHASE
LIVERPOOL, March 31.—“Double
Chance”, owned by D. Gould, won the
grand national steeple chase today
over the Aintree course. Mrs. W.
Dixon’s Old Baybridge was second.
Double Chance is a nine year old
chestnut gelding and was ridden by
Ma;or J. P. Wilson.
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