MANAGER ALASKA
RAILROAD HAS
A FINE RECORD
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.—Noel W.
Smith, general manager of the Alaska
railroad, has an indefinite leave of ab
sence from the Pennsylvania railroad.
He will leave for Alaska within the
next few days.
Before his report he submitted a
comprehensive report contemplating
the expenditure of $11,000,000 in the
development of the railroad.
The history of the new manager of
the government’s railroad in Alaska
is an interesting one. Smith began
as a temporary clerk on the Pennsyl
vania railroad in 1887; became a per
manent employe six years later, as a
rodman for a surveying crew, and
was advanced to the position of as
sistant surveyor, superior assistant en
gineer, division superintendent, and
became assistant manager four years
ago.
He direected the organization of the
Maryland, Delaware & Virginia rail
road, a branch of the Pennsylvania,
and the District of Columbia & An
napolis, another branch.
He has had considerable experience
in rehabilitating run down roads, and
is a first class engineer and construc
tor.
Drive for Membership
Be Started by Chamber
At its regular weekly meeting to
day the Chamber of Commerce re
solved to start a drive for new mem
bers. Dues were also collected for
the ensuing year.
Captain O. A. Johansen, veteran
master of the Starr, was present, and
spoke about the need for wireless
communication with the westward, At
present it is necessary to relay all
message from his vessel to Seward, or
vice versa, and he believes that direct
communication with the Seward sta
tion would be more beneficial to mari
ners and residents to the westward.
Captain Johansen knows the needs
of the coast to the westward better
than most mariners, and besides ad
vocating an increase in the number
of beacons and lights, believes that
better communications would be open
ed with all sections if the local sta
tion were made more powerful.
New membership cards were issued
today.
Citizens May Vcte On
Bonds for Schoolhouse
At the city council last night the
most important order of business was
a discussion as to the proper proce
dure to secure a new school building
for Seward. Professor Guy Barnett,
superintendent of the Seward schools,
was present and spoke at length on
the needs for a larger building and
grounds, which was listened to with
interest by the members. Mr. Bar
nett said the present building was
overcrowded, was dark and gloomy,
and that the children’s health and
eyesight would inevitably suffer as a
result. He believed that a new build
ing should be erected in a part of the
town not directly under the bluff, and
where the morning and evening sun
could have access to the building.
It was resolved by the council to
call a special election in the near fu
ture to vote on a $100,000 bond issue
to be used for a new school building.
Ten days’ notice will be given before
the election is called, and if the re
quired vote is secured Delegate Suth
erland will be asked to introduce a
bill allowing the town to float bonds.
The delinquent tax list was ordered
printed.
The town clerk was ordered to issue
tax deeds to the city for the property
taken over under the last tax sale.
COOLIDGE PANS
LANDLORDS CITY
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 8.—The
move by President Coolidge to have
a bill passed by Congress regulating
rentals in the District of Columbia
has stirred up realtors, who are ap
pealing to realtors of other cities in
half page advertisements to enter a
protest. The president has ordered
the Department of Justice to investi
gate charges of mortgage pyramiding
and fictitious sales to raise values
and has asked a police survey oi
vacant houses and apartments.
The President requested the chair
man of the District of Columbia rent
commission to draft for Congress a
regulatory bill based upon the police
powers of the Federal government.
Increased rentals here to government
employes have forced higher wages
which in turn forces up the cost ol
living throughout the country.
In some cases $10 a room has beer
asked for a three-room apartment
close to the capitol building.
TOOK PAPER 24
YEARS AND QUIT
ACCOUNT PUZZLE
SIOUX FALLS, Jan. 8.—After tak
ing his local paper 24 years, a sub
scriber wrote to the editor: “I am
compelled to abandon your excellent
newspaper and take another -which
prints cross word puzzles that can be
worked without one’s staying up all
night.”
NELLIE CASHMAN
BURIED TODAY
IN VICTORIA
VICTORIA, B. C., Jan. 7—The fu
neral of Nellie Cashman, Alaska pio
neer was held here today, Rev. Fath
er Wood conducting the ceremonies
in St. Andrews’ cathedral, before a few
intimate friends and the sisterhood of
St. Anne. Interment was made in
Roosbay Cemetery.
The cortege left the hospital at
8:45, proceeding to the church.
It was learned here today that Mrs.
Cashman had grubstaked several men
who are now millionaires in Arizona.
BILLIARD TOURNAMENT WILL
START SATURDAY NIGHT
The billiard tournament at the Nor
thern pool and billiard hall wrill start
Saturday, January 10, ninety games
being played in all by the contestants.
The players and their handicaps
are as follows:
A1 Peel _ 25
W. H. Whittlesey . 20
Jos. Schulte . 20
H. B. Selby .... 18
T. J. Selby . 16
Harry Selby .. 16
John Maderick _ 16
J. S. Bogart _ 16
Jos. Hofman. 8
In case any player drops out his
j place will be filled by the manage
ALLIES RECEIVE
BERLIN, Jan. 8.—The German pro
test to the Allies’ failure to evacuate
Cologne declared “Germany feels she
has sustained a heavy blow to hei
hopes in consolidating her affairs
and entering into peaceful co-opera
tion with other peoples.” The note
insisted that the nation had disarmec
as agreed and demanded a bill of par
ticulars and the order of reply in de
tail.
differencesTn
PAYMENT WAR
DEBTS SETTLEB
PARIS, Jan 8.— Anglo-Americai
'differences over the payment to th<
j United States of Britain’s war deb
and damages have been virtually set
tied. Both countries made conces
! sions, the United States extending
the time of payment of the costs o
the army of occupation from twelve t<
twenty years, and Great Britain a]
lotted a three per cent share of thi
Dawes plan under the Spa agreement
All countries have been won over ti
'the American view point.
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BORAH SCORES
BRITISH POLICY
RDM RUNNING
NEW YORK, Jan. 8—The Commit
tee of One Thousand for Law Enforce
ment received a letter last night from
Senator Borah comparing the activi
ties of British co-operation with the
American bootleggers with the Zino
viev letter preceding the downfall of
the McDonald ministry. He said:
The Eighteenth amendment noti
fied the world that the United States
would undertake the stupendous task
<ef ending the liquor traffic. We are
entitled all governments respect this
policy and compel their people to re
spect it.”
He cited Chamberlain’s declaration
to Russia: “You can either control
your national in its effort to sow dis
cord among other peoples, or you can
not.” We say to Britain, “You have a
government or you have not. You
can control your nationals in their
effort to break our policy and plant
murder and misery among other peo
ples or you cannot.”
If it is against international law
to run guns, or spread discord and se
dition among nations, it should also
be against international law for a na
tion’s subject to conspire to violate
the laws of another country declared
Mr. Borah.
Mrs. Fred Parsons and two chil
dren left for Australia on the Alaska.
She will also visit in Honolulu and
Southern California.
LIVENGOOD HOTEL HAS
FIERCE BLAZE AND
BURNS TO GROUND
One of the fiercest fires that has
ever occurred in the Livengood dis
trict happened on the morning of
the 24th, when the Livengood Hotel,
a wooden structure, owned and op
erated by Mrs. A. L. Dickenson, went
up in flames and burned to the
ground within an hour. All efforts
to recover furniture and personal be-j
longings proved futile as the ravag- >
ing flames swept from one end of j
the building to the other.
Guests stopping at the hotel at the
time were all asleep, as the fire
broke out in the early morning. Liv
engood being but a small camp, is
one of those unfortunate places i
where the fire demon has the advant-!
age in that no fire department is i
being maintained by it. The loss of j
the hotel is estimated at about $7,
000.
Mrs. Dickenson, the proprietor of I
the hostelry is a well-known business
women of Interor and a sourdough
of the Fairbanks region, having own
ed divers establishments for years
throughout the Tolavana district and
was at one time in business in Nena
na when the latter town boasted of
a population envied by other towns
along the Alaskan coast. When Nena- j
na was doomed and took the count,
after construction days of the Alas
ka Railroad, Mrs. Dickenson was one
of the business women to seek better
pay. She started a roadhouse at
Log Jam, on the Tolavana river and
later moved to Livengood where she
received her recent loss. It is Mrs.
Dickenson’s intention, according to a
letter received in Seward, to remove
to Fairbanks and look over the field
there for future prospects. She being
interested in other business in In
terior camps she will make Fair
banks her headquarters for a time.
Her daughter has been visiting with
her for the past month, the latter los
ing considerable of her belongings.
After spending a month or so with
her mother, she will come to Seward,
where she expects to make her home.
FORDSUEDBY
JEWISH LAWYER
CHICAGO, Jan. 8.—Aaron Sapiro.
counsel for several farmers’ copoera
tive organizations, mailed Hem-y Ford
a document today, as preliminary to
a libel suit for one million dollars
against Ford, demanding a retraction
of statements made in the Dearborn
Independent connecting Sapiro with
an alleged Jewish conspiracy to con
trol agriculture by organizing the far
mers into communism interests.
Kid McKoy Gets One To
Ten Years In San Quentin
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 8.—Kid Mc
Coy, former middleweight champion
of the world was today sentenced to
serve from one to ten years for man
slaughter. He received the sentence
with apparent indifference.
Miss Julia and Jennie Thorsen will
sail for westward points on the Starr
tonight.
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