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■v VOLUME 20. NUMBER 170
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JULY 18' 1925 _ PRICE TEN CENTS
DARROW CHARGES
BRYAN TRYING
TO EVADE ISSUE
SAYS EMINENT POLITICIAN FLED
FROM ISSUE OF HIS OWN
CREATION
HYPOCRISY CHARGED
Dared Not Test Views in Open Court
Under Oath In Contest With
Great Scientists
DAYTON, Tenn., July 18 (£>)—'The
statement by William J. Bryan that
the Tennessee laws barred from evi
dence the admission of expert testi
mony along scientific and religious,
lines, and asserting that Judge Raul
ston could not have done otherwise,
brought from Clarence Darrow the
charges that Bryan fled from an issue
of his own creation to a “prosecution
on technicalities.” He said Bryan was
quite willing to express his opinions
on science and religion where his
statements were not to be questioned,
but dared not test his views in open
court under oath in a contest with
the testimony of great educators and
scientists.
Judge Raulston and the prosecution
attorneys rested today while the attor
neys for the defense prepared affida
vits from prominent scientists which
will be entered on the record when
court resumes Monday, to show what
they would have said had they been
permitted to testify regarding the
theory of evolution.
SHEEP BURNED IN
FOREST FIRES
VALDEZ ISLAND. B. C., July IS
(/P)—One ranch and twenty sheep
were destroyed by bush fires which
have driven many settlers from their
homes. The fires started last week
and have caused immense damage.
Valdez Island is on the east side of
Johnston straits near Seymour nar
rows.
Rockefeller Founds
Another University
CHICAGO. July 18 (jp)—John D.
Rockefeller, Jr., contributed a million
dollars today for the endowment of
a divinity school in the University of
Chicago.
DENVER KLANS
VOTE TO SECEDE
DENVER, Colo., July 18 (JP)— Forty
thousand Denver Ku Kluxers voted
unanimously to withdraw from the
organization headed by Hiram Wes
ley Evans and form an independent
body, headed by Dr. John Galen Locke,
dragon of Colorado. A dozen other
state locals joined the movement.
The action followed the reading of
a telegram from Imperial Wizard Ev
ans, forbidding the Colorado body to
sell property or spend money without
liis sancition. Colorado is the largest
klan stronghold next to Georgia.
SPECIAL TRAIN TO NORTH
+ AFTER ARRIVAL STEAMER
There will be no train leaving Sew
ard in the morning for Anchorage,
on account of the lateness of the ar
rival of the steamer Yukon but two
hours after the arrival of the vessel,
a special train will leave Seward
for the Inlet. The train from An
chorage will arrive about 6:45 p. m.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 18. (JP)—
* Yesterday’s heat wave in California
^.v caused four deaths.
Government Take Hand
Proposed Coal Strike
SWAMl’SCOTT, July 18 (/P)—It was j
learned today that the government
would take a hand in the anthracite
wage negotiations, should a strike be
called September 1. President Cool
idge discussed the government plans
in the event of a strike with Secre
tary of Labor Davis.
British Workers Plan
Gigantic Consolidation
LONDON, July 18 (£>)—At a confer
ence here today trade union execu
tives approved the plan of a great
consolidation embracing millions of
British workers, including miners,
railway men, engineers, shipbuilders,
and transport workers.
SEDAN AND TRAIN
MEET 5 KILLED
BILLINGS, Mont., July 18 (£>)—
Five members of Raphael Fleck’s
family of eight, of Santa Rosa, Clif.,
were killed almost instantly, and an
other was fatally injured when an
East bound Burlington train crashed
| into the Fleck sedan a mile west of
I Billings. The seventh member of the
j family was seriously hurt.
| Rosie, aged 10, escaped by jumping.
—
Dempsey Agrees Fight
Before Meeting Wills
NEW YORK, July Is (.4s)—Jack
Dempsey visited the State athletic
1 commission and said after a confer
| ence that he had made his peace with
| the commissioners by agreeing to two
or three bouts before meeting Wills
! next year.
French Lose 4000 In
War With Riffians
i PARIS, July IS (#>)—A Fez dispatch
! to the Petit Journal says that French
casualties in the Riffian war are 4,148,
of which 707 were killed, 2775 wound
ed and the remainder missing.
Morgan Company Loans
Huge Sum To Australia
NEW YORK, July 18 (/P)—Morgan
& Company today announced a loan
of $75,000,000 to Australia on a 35
year contract, at 5 per cent. Gold
bonds will be offered the public Mon
day at 99.5 cents.
Belgium Agrees To
Evacuate Dusseldorf
BRUSSELS, July 18 (/P)—Belgium
has reached an agreement w'ith the
French and British government for
the early evacuation of Dusseldorf,
Duisburg and Rusport, simultaneously
with the evacuation of other places
in the Ruhr.
AMERICAN VICE CONSUL
MEXICO SHOT IN BACK
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 18 —
American Vice Consul Herold G. Bro
therton at Agua Calientes, Mexico,
was shot in the back and slightly
wounded the night of July 16. The
American embassy at the City of
Mexico was instructed to investigate
the reason for the shooting and try
to apprehend the assailant.
MIKE M’TIGUE WINS
ALBANY, N. Y., July 18 (£>)—Mike
McTigue won over Frankie Carpenter
of Freeport, in a 12 round bout last
night.
Attend the Liberty tonight.
LARGE NUMBER
TOURISTS ARE
ABOARD YUKON
YUKON DUE IN MORNING WITH
GOOD LIST OF PROMINENT
PEOPLE.
COL. STEESE ON BOARD
Three Special Tourist Parties On
Vessel Besides Large Number
of Round Trippers.
Tourists from naif a dozen States
in the Union will arrive on the S.S.
Yukon tomorrow morning. Among
the large listing of passengers aboard
there are three special tourists par
ties composed of 30 excursionists
from Los Angeles, organized by J.
L. Criswell and headed by John
Hazelet of the Southern California
city. Mr. Hazelet was formerly a
resident of Cordova, and recently
conducted a tour around the Golden
Belt; a personaly conducted party
from Denver, Colo., and ten round
trip excursionists from Dallas, Tex.,
headed by W. Roy Bregg.
Also aboard the Yukon are Brig.
Gen. Wilds P. Richardson, United
States Army, retired, former chair
man of the Alaska Road Commis
sion, and Major-General Harry Tay
lor, chief of engineers, United States
Army. Gen. Taylor will make a sur
vey of roads and rivers and harbor
projects for the government. General
Richardson, who makes his home in
Washington, D. C., is making the trip
for his health, hoping to recuper
ate from a severe illness and to visit
old friends and familiar scenes. “Col.
Dick,” as he is familiarly known,
spent 20 years in Alaska in connec
tion with various development en
terprises of the War department. He
and General Taylor were classmates
at West Point and will make the
entire Alaskan trip together.
Plans were completed to enter
tain the distinguished visitors at the
Seward Grill, but owing to the late
arrival of the Yukon the banquet
had to be called off.
Aside from the parties mentioned
there are many individual tourists
on board the Yukon and quite a num
ber of round trippers. It is report
ed the Y'ukon is bringing about 700
tons of general cargo to Seward. Ow
ing to her delay in arrival in Seward
it is expected it will be late tomor
row night or early Monday morning
before the big liner gets under way
for the south. She is due to arrive
in port tomorrow morning between
10 and 11 o’clock.
Rockefeller of China
Visiting United States
NEW YORK, July IS (TP)— Ko Pa
Hong, “the Rockefeller of China,” and
considered the world’s greatest Cath
olic layman, arrived here today en
route to Rome for an audience with
the Pope. He has been decorated by
the Pope on several occasions for his
donations to charity.
HART CASE TAKEN UNDER
ADVISEMENT BY COURT
OLYMPIA, Wash., July 18 (/P)—The
supreme court today took the Hart
case under advisement, after hearing
an argument over the dismissal of the
criminal complaint, charging the for
mer governor with attempting to ob
tain a bribe.
CANADIAN TOWN BURNS
CALGARY, July 18 (IF)—Fire last
night in the business section of Bow
den, Alberta, destroyed ten business
houses including the Union Bank,
postoffice and telephone exchange.
Rev. Snape at M. E. Church.
Father-In-Law Caruso
Disinherits His Family
NEW YORK, July 18 (/P)—Accord
ing to the files of the local probate
court, it is revealed that the late Park
Benjamin, father-in-law of Caruso,
left his fortune of $256,000 to Mrs. |
Anna Bolchi Fuller, better known as
“The Girl with the Golden Voice.”
The will states that he gave her
the money because she gave up her i
career as a singer and postponed her ;
marriage to Fuller to act as a com
panion to his daughter and a nurse !
to himself.
Benjamin cut off his five children, j
including the wife of the late Caruso,
with $1.00 each.
Prohibition Agents Find
Large Brewery at Work
SAN FRANCISCO, July 18 (£>)—
Federal prohibition agents seized a
large brewery yesterday in acitve op
eration. Thousands of cases of beer
were found, which with the equip
ment is valued at $100,000.
SEOUL INUNDATED
MANY LIVES LOST
_ !
TOKYO, July 18 (JP)—Dispatches
from Korea say that a large portion
of the city of Seoul is inundated by
floods caused by heavy rains, the
Seoul river overrunning its banks. A
special dispatch from Osaka says all
lines of communication from that city
to Korea are severed and the damage
is worse than earlier reported, with
many lives lost:
Asahi newspapers say the Seoul
power house has been destroyed and
the city is in darkness, with refugees
occupying railway cars and barracks.
NORTHWESTERN
BRINGING BIG LIST
SEATTLE, Wn., July 18. (/P)—Tlie
steamer Northwestern, one of the
fleet of Alaska Steamship company’s
liners running to Alaska departed
from this port this morning at nine
o’clock for Seward and Way points.
The liner carries 155 passengers,
most of whom are tourists making
the trip north. Those booked for
Seward and points along the Alaska
Railway and Interior follow:
Robert F. Rowner, J. J. Chorpen
ning, A. Revolin and wife, E. G. Mc
Coy and wife, W. H. Boland and
wife, Miss Jessie Bingham, Miss L.
A. Leadbetter, Mrs. E. Young, Miss
H. L. Tonn, Miss M. L. Tonn, Miss
Elizabeth Crane, Miss Ann McCaily, i
C. E. McKinney, Edwin Moore, Hal
G. Evarts, jr., Mrs. H. G. Evarts,
Miss C. A. Reese, Thomas B. Har
din, A. H. Jeffries, Dr. J. C. Turk
ington, G. B. Stevens, N. Kitzmiller,
Dr. W. W. Kain, A. C. Illeyus, Dean
B. » Bever, Mrs. J. E. Burr, Miss Cora
Atwood, Mis Marie May, Miss Agnes
Carr, Mrs. Ida Reynolds, Mrs. Mary
Evans, Miss Mabel Roberts, A. McIn
tyre, and wife, John J. Demarest,
and wife, Miss M .E. Miller, Miss
M. E. Phinney, Miss Harzel Preston,
Miss J. Todd, K. R. Spencer, Mrs.
Nelson Spencer, Alma Edwards, A.
Roper and wife, and daughter, H. K.
Spencer, Miss M. E. Fernald, Pat
Mee, B. Livere, Miss Chishire, Olive
Bertraska, Miss B. A. Kirley, W. E.
Culver, wife and three children, E.
A. Ellis, wife and son. There were
also 5 steerage.
CHAMP BRONCHO BU8TER
EDMONTON, Alta., July 18. (£>)—
Pete Knight of Crosfield was declar
ed the world champion bronco bus
ter as a result of riding several bad
horses during a stampede ending
yesterday and won.
ENGINEER SAYS
PUBLIC IS BEST
JUDGE ROADS
NSPECTION OF ROAD WORK IN
THIS DISTRICT HAS BEEN
COMPLETED.
WANT BEST SURFACING
Maintenance On Roads Is Given the
Particular Attention by the
Bureau.
Following a trip of inspection over
he Bureau of Public Road projects
n this district, which trip was made
'rom an admniistrative point of
fiew, J. A. Elliott, assistant district
ingineer from the Portland office;
VI. D. Williams, assistant district en
gineer on Alaska projects, with head
quarters at Juneau, and J. B. Reher,
engineer in charge of the projects in
this district, returned to Seward on
Thursday evening. Mr. Elliott, Mrs.
Elliott and their little daughter will
be southbound passengers on the S.S.
Vukon leaving here Sunday, en route
home to Portland. Mr. Williams will
also be a passenger on the boat,
en route to his office at Juneau.
The work is progressing in good
shape, Mr. Elliott said yesterday,
and he is well pleased with what
has been done and with what is be
ing done. The main work for the
season has all been started and spec
ial attention is being given to the
maintenance work in which a higher
standard is promoted. “The public
wants a good riding road, more than
anything else,'’ stated Mr. Elilott,
“and after all, the public is the
judge whether or not a road is a
good or bad road. Engineers may
criticism certain road constructions,
but if the public is satisfied, that is
the main point.”
The road projects visited by the
road officials were at Moose Pass,
Sunrise and Girdwood districts. Pri
or to their departure for the States
tomorrow, all are guests at the Hotel
Van Gilder.
Move Started Simplify
Divorce Proceedings
SEATTLE. July 18 (/P)—Divorce
Proctor. R. L. Bartling has announced
that he will ask the next legislature
to revise the state divorce laws, to
permit a simplified annulment of mar
riages in deserving cases and allow
the court greater discretion in the
matter of granting final divorce de
crees. The proposed law is to allow
persons deceived into bigamous or
fraudulent, marriages immediate relief
whereas now they must wait a year.
Evacuation of Ruhr
Progressing Rapidly
BERLIN, July 18 (^—Evacuation
of the Ruhr district is in full swing
today, the French troops marching
out of Recklinghausen, and Gelsen
kirken. They will leave Hattingen
Monday, and Dusseldorf, Duisburg
and Ruhort will be evacuated early
in August.
HEAT TAKES BIG TOLL
NEW YORK, July 18. (IP)—The
Health Department announced last
night that there were 859 more
deaths in June than normal, due to
the excessive heat prevailing thru
out the month.
REV. SNAPE TO PREACH
Rev. John Snape, pastor of the First
Baptist Church of Oakland, Calif., will
preach at the Methodist church Sun
day evening at 7:30 o’clock. Every
body welcome.
Ball game Sunday, 1 o’clock sharp*