VOLUME XVIII NUMBER 227
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 14,1923
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PRICE TEN CENTS
FIGHT IK AS
TO LOCATION OF
JAPANESE CITIES INSISTING THE
CAPITOL BE MOVED AND NOT
REBUILD TOKIO
FIRST NIGHT FREE OUAKES
More Than Thousand Shocks Since
Disaster, Some of Which Were
Plainly Felt
SHANGHAI, September 14—An in
tense light is already raging between
several of the more prominent Japan
ese cities concerning the location of
the miure Capital of the Empire, ac
cording to reports reaching Shanghai
today. Koto, Osaka, and Kobe dis
patches say that all are insisting that
the capital be transferred to one of
these cities and that Tokio be aban
doned.
However the government is said to
be opposed to any such plans and Vis
count Goto, minister of Home x\ffairs
is quoted as saying that Tokio will be
rebuilt as soon as posible and that
the capital will not be moved.
Relief Party Sails for Japan
SHANGHAI, Sept. 14—A relief
party sailed for Japan today on the
Chinese ship Shin Minabo. The expe
dition includes American, British and
Chinese physicians and nurses.
Night Free From Quakes
TOKIO, Sept. 14—Relief was on the
faces of the people today for they had
passed the first night free from earth
quakes since the fatal first ot Septem
ber.
It is estimated that during the week
there were more than one thousand
shocks, seven hundred of which were
plainly felt and some severe.
Seventy-four Thousand Cremated
WASHINGTON, D. C., September 14
—A Japanese embassy dispatched to
the foreign office, stated that seventy
four thousand bodies were cremated
in Tokio up to September tenth. Five
hundred thousand left the capital and
there is no estimate of the others who
left by foot and boat.
Red Cross Fund Six Millions
WASHINGTON, D. C., September I
14—The total Red Cross Japanese re
lief fund to date is six million, two
hundred thousand dollars. Donations
4 are still incoming.
Tokio be Bigger Than Ever
TOKIO, September 14—The work of
clearing away the debris is under way
in Tokio. Japanese business men de
clared they will make the capital city
greater than ever. Distribution of sup
plies, including fresh foods, is in pro
gress.
Foreigners in Kobe
WASHINGTON, D. C., September
14—Practically all foreign residents
living in Yokohama are now in Kobe
says a telegram to the State Depart
ment from Consul Dickover. Refugees
are being well taken care of, says the
telegram, and the relief committee at
Kobe has the situation well in hand.
NEW YORK, September 14—The
Salvation Army announced it cabled
$100,000 to Osaka for Japanese relief.
Stranded newspaper men will be for
warded $2,000.
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PULL 8HERE REFUSE
PORTLAND, Sept. 14.—Pallbearers
at the funeral of P. H. Allen, a mem
ber of the \)rtland Post, American
Legion, refused to wear gloves with
a label on them stating they were
“Made In Germany.”
Two residences at Salt Chuck were
burned to the ground recently. One of
the house belonged to J. E. Chilberg
and the other to a workman. The two
homes were ignited by forest fires.
LINER IS TOTAL WRECK
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 14.—The
company marine engineers of the
wrecked liner Cuba say it is useless
to attempt to salvage the vessel as
heavy seas have nearly destroyed her.
WARSAW BANK TO OPEN
WARSAW, Sept. 14. —The Warsaw
and London Bank will be opened be
fore the end of the month it was an
nounced with a paid capital of $250,_
000 pounds sterling subscribed in En
gland.
FUNERAL TIME BEEN CHANGED
Owing to the arrival of the Alame
da earlier than planned, funeral serv
ices for Mrs. A. F. Davis will be held
in the M. E. church Sunday morning
at 10 o’clock instead of at 2:00 o’clock
in the afternoon as announced in yes
terday’s paper.
HELPLESS Mil
BUI-ID DEATH
FORCED TO STAND HELPLESS AS
BURNING HAY FI ELD CON
SUMES MAN IN AUTO.
LODI, Calif, September 14—Firemen
responding to a fire call in a hay field
near here, were forced by the heat
and flames last night, to stand help
lessly by and watch the flames con
sume the automobile in which Alex
ander Kohl, wealthy butcher, sitting
apparently dead, with hands lashed to
his steering wheel. It is believed he
was robbed and murdered and the hay
fired to cover the murder.
SEATTLE, Sept. 14—The steamship
Admiral Evans sailed this morning
with 44 passengers, including 10 ex
cursionists. The following are for
Seward: Mrs. Ethel Reeder, Sadie
Reeder, Charles Fritz and wife, John
Fritz and wife, William Grimm, and
W. B. Snodgrass.
CABLE AGAIN UP
The cable between Seattle and Sit
ka was repaired today at 10 a. m.
0 MEET III OGTOBEN
MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 14.—Republi
can leaders from Iowa, Minnesota,
Wisconsin, Dakotas, Nebraska, Mon
tana and National Chairman Adams
has been invited to meet in St. Paul
in October to discuss party affairs in
the Northwest.
FIGHT NEWS TONIGHT
The Dempsey-Firpo fight starts to
night at about 10 o’clock, New York
time, or about 5 o’clock here. The
preliminaries are called at 8. The
news will be received as soon as pos
sible and wired to the Northern Pool
Hall by the Gateway. The fight will
be given by rounds tomorrow.
Re-entry of the Grand Trunk Pa
cific Steamship Company in the Alas
ka transportation field is forecast in
a letter just recently received by H.
R. Shepard, of Ketchikan, the com
pany s only Alaska agent, from R. F
McNaughton, district passenger agent
at Prince Rupert.
Mr. McNaughton said this matter
had been under serious consideration
by the company officials for some per
iod of time. It was taken up by the
president of the company on a recent
visit to Prince Rupert.
The Grand Trunk Pacific is operat
ed in connection with the Canadian
National Railway and Grand Trunk
Pacific Railway.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14.—The total
counted dead in the Japanese disas
ter has passed the 200,000 mark, ac
cording to a cablegram received from
the Japanese embassy tonight from a
Tokio foreign official. •
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FIFTY-FIFTY BASIS
The grand jury at the Valdez term
of district court now in session, con
sists of 11 women and 11 men, as
follows:
Lillian Miekelson, Walter Ives, Mrs.
John Vinquist, of Cordova; Mrs. H. L.
Lein of Anchorage; George Larson of
Eyak; E. J. Tomlinson, of Matanuska;
W. M. Brooks of Seldovia; Charles J.
McMahon 01 Copper Center; John An_
derson, of Bonanza; W. M. Meals,
foreman; Mrs. W. J. Whalen, Mrs.
Bruce Haines, Mrs. C. H. Wilcox, Mrs.
A. Gravelle, Mrs. S. I. Hemple, Sam
Knudson, J. H. Biggs, A. J. Meals,
Minnie E. Whitley, Annie S. Edwards,
and Ruth A. Bulkley of Valdez, and
; Milo Hulbert of Seldovia.
The only indictment up to the time
the boat left Valdez was a true bill
against Arthur McCallum of Seward,
on a charge of petit larcehy, and he
was sentenced to serve 130 days
in the Federal jail at Valdez. The
grand jury is now investigating a
, murder case from the westward.
In the case of the U. S. vs. Fred
j Haef, a motion was filed by the defen
J dant to suppress all of the testimony
obtained under a search warrant on
the grounds that the affidavit upon
which the search warrant was issued
did not state facts sufficient to justify
the search. Judge Ritchie granted
the motion which automatically threw
! the case out of court.
National League—Brooklyn 7, Pitts
burgh 4; Brooklyn 3, Pittsburgh 6;
Cincinnati 5, Chicago 3; no other
games.
American League—Chicago 5, New
York 1; Cleveland S, Boston 9; Phila
delphia 3, St. Louis 2; Washington 7,
Detroit 3.
SITUATION IS
llEfi? DANGEROUS
LONDON, Sept. 14.—Dr. Gilbert
Murray, member of the League of Na
tions International Committee on In
tellectual Co-operation describes the
Fiume situation as dangerous in a de
spatch to London, and predicts gener
al hostilities involving Greece, Ser
bia, Bulgaria and Hungary on Septem
ber 16, unless there is intervention.
BELT TIE GLOBE
WASHINGTON, Sept. 13.—The dir
igible ZR-3, which arrived Tuesday
and Hew over New York and Phila
delphia, will yet fly to the North
Pole, belt the globe and prove a revo
lutionary instrument in transporta
tion and communication, Rear Admi
ral Moffett declared, praising the mak
ers of the airship and crew.
Howard McGinley, pioneer teacher
in Alaskan schools, has removed from
Kodiak to Post Falls, Idaho. Mr. Mc
Ginley has been teacher of the Kodiak
school for 15 years, and was one of
the most competent of the many
Alaskan teachers. Continued ill health
of Mrs. McGinley made the change
imperative.
SPOKANE, Sept. 14.—Plunging 300
feet into a canyon near Northport
Washington, when their automobile
left the road, Harry Swift of Spo
kane, salesman for Scliwabacher Bros
was killed, and Fred J. Case, a Seat
tle salesman, escaped unhurt by leap
ing from the car as it made the drop
STEAMSHIP ALAMEDA IN
PORT AT EARL! HOUR
The steamship Alameda arrived in
port this morning about 1 o’clock and
sailed about 5 for westward points.
The following passengers were listed
for Seward; J. L. Switzer, Peter L.
Williams and wife, W. R. Nelson and
wife, A. R. Marty, Mrs. Sylvia Bristoe,
D. J. Dawson and wife, Mrs. Robert
Lavery, Helen Lavery, Robert Lavery,
Will Lavery, E. F. Erickson, Judge L.
David and wife, Caroline David, John
David.
For Latouche—Alex Herd, J. D.
Sheehan, Jas. E. Louttit.
For Anchorage—M. Snell, R. E.
Cour3en, W. H. Sellender, Major J. F.
Byron, A. Hertzberg, Mrs. Martha Va
laer, Elmer La Belle.
Round Trip Passengers were John
W. Vanderbilt and wife, R. N. Biddle
man and wife, Mrs. G. W. Kinnaii.
PERSHING CELEBRATES
SiXU-FOURTH BIRTHDAY
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14.—John J.
Pershing today celebrated his 64th
birthday anniversary. He was in fine
spirit and excellent health.
MINE OLA, N. Y., Sept. 14.—A
world’s record of 244.15 miles per
hour was established today by Lieut.
Harold J. Brown, of the U. S. navy.
PARIS, Sept. 15.—Two thousand
American tourists at San Sebastian
the summer capital of Spain, stormed
the American ambassador’s summer
home demanding passports to flee
from the military which broke out in
Barcelona today.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14.—Secre
tary of Treasury Mellon this morning
ordered an investigation of health
conditions at the Ellis Island immigra
tion station. The inquiry will be con
ducted by Asisstant Secretary of the
Treasury Wadsworth, supervising the
United States Public Health and As
sistant Secretary of Labor Henning of
San Diego who is director charged
with reorganization of the staff of
the public health office on duty at
New York.
MATSON COMPANY BUYS SHIP
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 14.—The
Matson Navigation Company announc.
ed the purchase of the steamship
Woonsocket, 9,000 tons, now at Ba
yonne, New Jersey. The freighter
will be put into the Hawaiian-Ameri
can service at once.
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EVANSVILLE WOMAN NAMED
W. C. T. U. PRESIDENT
COLUMBUS, O., Sept. 14.—Mrs. An
na Gordon, of Evansville, 111., -was re
elected president of the Woman’s
Christian Temperance Union for 1923
and 1924.
RUTH HITS 36TH HOMER
NEW YORK, September 14—Ruth
hit his thirty-sixth homer in the first
inning against Chicago.
Italy Will Evacuate Corfu
PARIS, September 14—Italy has
agred to evacuate Corfu before the
end of September.
MARK AT NEW LEVEL
NEW YORK, Sept. 14.—The Ger
man mark dropped to new levels to
day—114,940,000 for |1.00.
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BOGUS TICKETS
FIFTY THOUSAND BOGUS TICK
ETS IN SMALL DENOMI
NATIONS PRICED
NEW YORK, September 14—Six
men have been arrested here charged
with conterfeiting tickets to the Firpc
Dempsey tight, and all are being held
for investigation. Rickard announced
fifty thousand bogus tickets, mostly
five-fifty and twenty-seven-fifty de
nominations have been priced.
Fighters in Fine Condition
NEW YORK, September 13—Firpo
arrived here last night. He is expect
ed to remain in seclusion until the
night of the fight. Dempsey is arriving
today. Both seem in perfect condition.
Rickard said the receipts will prob
ably be approximately one million,
three hundred thousand dollars.
TODAY'S FISH MARKET
JUNEAU—Halibut 10 and 6 cents;
king salmon, reds, 12 ar.d 8 cents;
white, 3 cents.
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ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Sept. 14.—
A suit for $150,000 damages was in
stituted against the Atlantic Carnival
Committee by “Miss Alaska,” other
wise Helmar Linderman, wife of a
physical culture director of New
York, who alleges she came here from
Juneau, Alaska, to participate in the
beauty contests, as a representative
of an Alaskan newspaper, but was not
permitted to particpate.
The Lindermans recently made a
tour of Alaska.
NOME AVIATOR MISSING
NOME, Sept. 14.—Aviator Lajotte,
who left Nome Friday for Council has
not arrived at the latter place and
when last seen was two miles from
Council heading in the wrong direc
tion. It is believed he may have land
ed on sandbars in fish river. Lajotte
came here August 10 with F. K.
Moore and party of gold hunters who
are starting a colony here. He was
the first commercial aviator of Nome.
in court mpr
HELD SUN DIEGO TM
SAN DIEGO, Sept. 13.—A naval
court of inquiry into the disaster off
point Arguello in which seven naval
destroyers were wrecked on the rock?
convened at 10:45 o’clock this morn
ing at the naval air station with the
probability that the proceedings will
not be made public by this court.
Admiral Coontz, commanding the U.
S. fleet, reported to the Navy depart
ment today that no adequate explana
tion had been given for unusual posi
tion of the seven American destroyers
when they were wrecked off the Cali
fornia coast. He declared the squad
ron was far off its prescribed course
and steaming the unusual speed of 20
knots in a fog.
CABINET IN CONTINUOUS SES
SION SINCE THIS MORNING
STAMP QUT REVOLT
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Military Takes Possession of Power
In Cities and Garrisons—Min
ister Under Arrest
MADRID, September 14—The Span
ish cabinet has been in continuous
session since three this morning and
the government feels confident it will
be able to stamp out the revolutionary
movement.
Captain General Primo Rivera heads
the revolution. The cabinet issued a
statement in part: “the Captain Gen
eral of Barcelona last night proclaim
ed on his own responsibility a state of
seige in this district, seized communi
cations and invited other districts to
support his action.’
State of Seige Exists
BARCELONA, Sept. 14—A state of
seige was proclaimed here this morn
ing and the military took possession
of power in the city garrisons, in Ma
drid. Saragossa and Seville have ad
hered to the military movement which
now must be recognized as a regular
coup d'etat. Santiago Alba, minister of
Foreign Affairs is under arrest at Se
bastian.
MADRID September 14—It has been
announced that Foreign Minister Alba
and the Minister of Labe*** has resign
ed.
MADRID, September 14—A military
coup d’etat directed against the gov
ernment as represented by the cabi
net of Premier Alhucemas and the po
litical leaders, but loyal to the King
was announced at Barcelona today by
the Captain General in that city Mig
uel Primo Rivera.
Johan Bojer, the Norwegian writer,
who was awarded the Nobel prize of
$40,000 for his novel, “The Great
Hunger,” is coming to Alaska in Sep
tember to visit friends in Petersburg.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14.—Attor
ney General Daugherty submitted a
prohibition report to President Cal
vin Coolidge showing the conviction
of judges, attorneys, federal and state
officials among those found guilty. A
number of millionaires were convicted
of dry violations. Ninety thousand
cases were entered in the courts. The
fines paid aggregated $12,500,000.
Jail sentences for the last twenty
three months totaled 3000 years.
BUGS ATTRACTED BY LIGHT
FEEDING FISH AT HATCHERY
PRATT, Kan., Aug. 18.—Feeding
channel cat by electric light is the
latest stunt at the Kansas state fish
hatchery. The Kansas hatchery, by
the way; is the largest natural fish
hatchery in the world.
The Kansas hatchery is the first in
the world to raise channel cat in cap
tivity. Experiment after experiment
had by tried and it was declared im
possible by fish experts.
Two years ago in 1921 several thou
sand were raised. Then the following
year more were raised. Both times it
was found that the losses were heavy.
This year 25,000 were raised. The
night feeding was a decided accident.
An electric light bulb was placed at
the edge of the water. Bugs congre
gating about this light fell into the
water or flew close to it'. Immedi
ately they were snapped up by the sh
who fed heartily on the unexpected
repast.