L Saum-d Baily Geliean
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXI, NUMBER 119.
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MAY 25, 1926.
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MIX IN WILD KLEE
EGGS WITH PUNGENT
ODOHS HIT OFFICERS
BRUISED AND CUT OFFICERS AND
l COLLEGE MEN BATTLE DOWN
STREET TO JAIL WHERE LARGE
CROWD GATHERS JEERING OF
FICERS, SIGNALLING THE START
OF FREE-FOR-ALL BATTLE
STUDENTS AND OFFICERS BOTH
RECEIVE BRUISES AND CUTS
As Wind-up of Gre. t Baseball Victory
Over Michigan Students Touch a
Match to Huge Baseball Stands—
First Defeat Over Michigan in 11
Years.
LANSING, Mich., May 25. (£>)—
Students at Michigan State College of
Lansing and city police mixed in a
■wild melee last night. Seven students
were arrested and several students
and officers were bruised and cut.
The riot started when the students
came from East Lansing to celebrate
a baseball victory over Michigan Uni
versity and started a huge bon fire
in Capitol Square. Police and fire de
partments charged and extinguished
the fire. The students jeered the po
lice who rushed in mass formation
with drawn clubs. The milling mass,
with students and officers fighting in
the center, crept down the street to
the police station when the half doz
en leaders were jailed. Hundreds of
students outside the jail demanded
their release and a free-for-all follow
d. Students on the outskirts of the
crowd obtained eggs and hurled them
at the oficers. One egg hurled, with
a pungent odor, broke on the back of
a brawny cop’s neck.
EAST LANSING.—Returning from
Lansing, students burned the immense
east stands of the Athletic club field.
The baseball victory was the first ov
er Michigan in Eleven years.
S.S, VICTORIA WILL
CALL IN AT SEWARD
SOUTHBOUND, NOME
DUE HERE JUNE 20—WILL HAVE
MEMBERS OF DIRIGIBLE
NORGE CREW ABOARD
SEATTLE, Wn„ May 25. (IP)—Am
undsen and fifteen others of the Nor
ge’s crew are expected to arrive in Se
attle June 26 on the S.S. Victoria.
Ttvo of the Norge’s party will remain
in Nome, one who is expected to en
gage in matrimony. The Vic leaves
Seattle June 2nd and is due in Nome
on the tenth. It leaves Nome on June
14 and will return to Seattle, via Se
ward and Cordova.
New blue suits, with black buttons
have been ordered for 16 men and
will be delivered when the Victoria
reaches Port Townsend.
WmUj Gatanraj—|3 per year.
PRESIDENT HAS NEW NAVAL AIDE
Captain Wilson Brown (at right), new naval aide to
President Coolidge and commander of the good ship
“Mayflower,” receives his ship from Captain Adolphus
Andrews, former aide, who has been recently appointed
a delegate to the Geneva conference.
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES
MEXICO CITY.—The Calles govern
ment is desirous for the United States
to tighten its immigration laws to ex
clude Mexican labor needed at home
but which is lured to the United
States by high wages.
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NEW YORK, May 25. (/P)—Former
attorney general Daugherty pleaded
not guilty to a conspiracy to defraud
the United States in the American Me
tals case.
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ARIS.—Zizi Lambrino lost her suit
against Crown Prince Carol of Rum
ania for establishment of the pater
nity and support of her son.
BERLIN.—The entire diplomatic
corps assembled at the United States
embassy for the wedding of the daugh
ter of Ambassador Schurman to Lieut.
McHugh.
NEW YORK—After a heated de
bate on the liquor referendum bill,
Gov. Smith signed the measure say
ing that New York may blaze trail
for a national movement.
-O-ft
MADRID.—King Alfonzo’s fortieth
birthday was celebrated with the gov
ernment granting amnesty to a large
group of political prisoners.
CHICAGO.—Rosi Kirkpatrick, fly
er for the Ford Motor Company, was
killed when his plane wTas caught in
a cyclone west of Argo and dashed to
the ground.
LONDONBURY.—The Anchor line
steamer California struck an iceburg
on a voyage from New York but was
uninjured.
MELBOURNE.—Australian prime
minister Bruce introduced bills for a
referendum on granting drastic pow
ers to the government in industrial
matters.
SAN FRANCISCO.—A tax cut of 26c
looms for San Francisco during the
next year according to reports from
the city hall.
NEW YORK.—The fifty Russian me
chanics invited by Henry Ford to at
tend his tractor school were reported
barred by the state department ruling.
BUENOS AIRES.—Anti-American
fanatics are believed to have planted
a bomb which shook the American em
bassy causing only slight damage.
There were no casualties.
LONDON.—Lloyd George faces be
ing read out of the Liberal party as
the result of the arival here of United
States papers containing articles writ
ten by him during the recent strike.
LONDON.—Great disappointment
was expressed over the results of the
recent visit of the French finance
minister Perit in regard to the French
debt to England.
DAMASCUS.—A proclamation em
bodying acceptance of peace terms be
tween the natives and France is ex
pected by High Commissioner Juve
nal, Wednesday.
CHICAGO.—Rosalind and Lorraine
Nathan, sisters who figured prominent
ly in the Loeb-Leopold murder case,
were robbed by armed bandits in
front of their home. Lorraine saved
a valuable ring by placing it in her
mouth.
TRENTON, N. J.—Executors of the
late James B. Duke estate of more
than one million dollars requested the
court to pass on the validity of claims
made by distant relatives.
NEW YORK.—Osborne Wood ,son
of General Wood, who won and lost
$1,000,000 on the New York stock
market, has returned from Cuba as a
new king with good business connec
tions.
BERLIN.—Captain Karl Boyed is
believed to have been refused a Uni
ted States passport because of his ac
tivities during the war at Washington.
CHICAGO.—Professor Bruasted of
Chicago University, an Egyptologist
arrived from his camp on the Nile
bringing with him a book on surg
ery written in 1700 B. C.
NEW YORK.—The new Michelin
Tire company has acquired a tract of
120,000 acres in Indo China and will
plant rubber trees.
I. SMITH. HILLED B Y
T. PERICH. HHUTIH
OWNER OF BLUE GOOSE ROAD
HOUSE NEAR PEARL DOVE
MEETS DEATH IN FIGHT
WAS OLDTIMER IN TERRITORY
Ran the Exchange Bar In Va»dez
When That Town Was In
Her Prime.
ANCHORAGE. May 25. (jF—Adolph
Smith, early day Alaskan, formerly a
resident of Valdez. Fairbanks and An
chorage, who for the last several years
has been operating the Blue Goose
roadhouse between Kanatak and Pearl
Dome was killed Sunday night during
an altercation with Tony Perich. a
tractor driver, who was stopping ov
ernight. Perich is now at Kanatak
awaiting the arrival of the Kodiak
deputy marshal. Information is de
sired of Smith’s relatives.
NOTE.—Adolph Smith, better known
to the oldtimers of Valdez as ‘ Polph”
was for many years proprietor of the
Exchange Bar. Friends of the dead
man in Seward stated to The Gate
way today that Smith has a w.fe liv
ing in the States somewhere, her pres
ent address not being known here.
OUTLAWS AND SOLDIERS CLASH
! MANILA, May 25. (JP)—For:: Moro
outlaws were killed and several
wounded in a battle with Philippine
constabulary in the Tugaya Lauao dis
trict on Mindanao Island. One sol
dier was killed and nine wounded.
LONG DRAUGHT BROKEN
MANILA, T. H., May 25. Light
showers fell breaking a five months*
draught. The fresh water shortage is
now expected to be relieved.
SI0J00 FOR MILL CREEK
MADE AVAILABLE JULY 1
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WASHINGTON, D. C., May 25. OP)
—Allotments for forest highway funds
from an apportionment of four million
and one half dollars will be available
for the fiscal year beginning July 1.
Included in the apportionment is that
for Mill Creek, Alaska, the sum of
$10,000.
MANY KILLED IN TRAIN WRECK
MUNICH. Germany, May 25. (#*)—
A passenger train smashed into a
standing train at the station here
and resulted in the killing of 25 per
son and injuring 83.
NEW YORK.—The drowned body of
Mrs. Harriet F. Sammet, concert pi
anist and daughter of an old New Eng
land family, was found in the bath
room in the McAlpen hotel. Acciden
tal death following an attack of the
heart was the verdict.
TEN THOUSAND ACHES OF RICE
FIELDS DEVASTATED — ARMY
ENGINEERS AND *-lNDf?EOS Or
RELIEF WORKERS RUSHED ~0
SCENE Or DISASTR—N i. VE®Ol S
LANDSL’DES OCCUR
TOKJO Hay 2*v. S>—Ore thousand
farmers are reT*or-ed m -*:iic as the
result of the e-afr nr r>* ?. r.c ex
tio-ot vokmM it the Tnerrtabi* of To
leach: Province. :r centraKanin FIT-'
bodies have be«r reerv-^
Twe thousand farmers rear here
south: refute It. the h - »her the
River K amber tor over?lowed
The volcano exploded *hree tense*
yesterday. each blast carry tap hr.ee
Quantities of rod:* and lav;.
tutpe-nos lands] xie*
Wa * er arc 1m f>5 ---* *he * s.c
and buried irhabitar * FtPy *>
my enfrineers and * ^ re':-? w-.rfc*
have beer sent to the scene Two
xriies of railroad, rear the volcano
vf'f destroyed and I* acre* of
rice held* devastated
PRISONERS HAVE TRIED VAKE
ESCAPE TWELVE TiVES IN
THE PAST YEAR
PIXE BLUFF, Ark., May 2.L Jfr—
Two trusty guards shot and killed 4
prisoners at the State farm at Tuck
er in one of the boldest break? for
liberty ever known at the farm.
The convict? ■were Bill Bishop, alias
Jack Wade John. Burchfield. Benny
Casey and Boyd Jewell. Two of the
dead men were lifer? and were work
ing in a cotton field when the men
said they were sick. They were turn
ed over to trustees to be carried to
the hospital. Reaching the nearby
woods the met made their break, and
the guards opened fire with two shot
guns and two pistols which were emp
tied. Farm Supt. Horton said :he
break was the twelfth the men made
within a year.
BP BE DEUTED
IRSHE SEWRD FOB
PERIOD THREE MRS
Aviator Merrill, who flew a plane
out of Seward last summer tor a few
months, writes to local friends that
owing to meeting with a slight acci
dent to one of the wings while test
ing a plane oat at Portland, Oregon,
his arrival win be delayed for at least
three weeks. Tt is thought he will
continue on to Bristol Bay upon his
arrival here. Though nothing definite
has been learned it is presumed Avia
tor Davis will accompany him north.