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FIVE WERE KILLED TODAY
AS RESULT OF HUGE SLIDE
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CONCRETE, Wash., Jan. 24.—Five j
persons were killed in an earth slide |
here this morning when half a moun
tainside came roaring tremendously
down and buried the Derrick house
of the Skagit power project of Stone
& Webster, who are constructing a
giant hydro-electric plant on the Ba
ker river.
There were also three persons in
jured during the crash. All eight
members were crushed under the
heavy timbers supporting the huge j
derrick. Some of the members were j
eating lunch at the time.
The injured included Frank Heffer- j
nan, son of John T. Hefferan, of J
Seattle.
AGED LEGISLATOR ROUTS
ROBBER WITHOUT WEAPON
(By Associated Press)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., Jan. 24.— j
An unsuccessful attempt to stage a
holdup in the state capitol was made j
yesterday, by robbers who held up
Representative Perry, aged 71, and
demanded his money but the vigorous |
old legislator disarmed the robber,
who escaped.
EASTERN STAR INITIATION
The Eastern Star will initiate mem- !
hers Monday evening, tonight. A full
attendance is requested. All visitors j
are welcome.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
W. D. Coppenioll
attorney and counselor at
LAW
Will Practice in All Courts of the j
Territory
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NATIVE OF KODIAK
ISLAND IS KILLED
Deputy Marshal Williard T. Scott
it Kodiak, reports that a native by the
lame of Nick Stepan came in from
Italic and said he shot and killed an
other native there on January seventh,
had been drinking and was chasing
him with a gun. The native was put
had been drinking and wash chasing
him with a gnun. The native was put
under arrest and is being held in jail
pending investigation by Deputy Scott.
The scene of the killing is about 120
miles from the town of Kodiak, on Ko
liak island.
Mechanics Barred from
Riding with Drivers
In 1925 Grand Prix
(Bv Associated Press)
PARIS, Jan. 26.—For the first time
in the history of automobile racing
in Europe, no mechanic will be al
lowed to sit with the drivers in the
Grand Prix speed test which will take
place at Monthlery, July 26 of next
year.
The French Automobile Club has
made public the regulations governing
the race and they provide that al
though the car must have two seats
side by side, the driver will be alone
on board.
Only constructors of the nations in
vited will be allowed to take part.
The weight of cars, empty, will be
limited to 650 kilograms. The race
will be over a distance of 1,000 kilo
meters, or 80 laps around the course.
The winner will draw down 150,000
francs, while 50,000 will go to the
second and 20,000 to the third.
Snow Shoes, S9.50 per pair, at
Graef’s. tf
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CONTRACTORS SOLVE
BUILDING PROBLEMS
OF WINTRY WEATHER
NEW YORK, Jan. 25.—Constructors
say midwinte** building has become a
conquered peak. First scaled success
fully after years of effort in the win
ter of 1923, they report that during
the present winter they will go 1923
enough better to make the conquest
permanent.
The business world, watching the
climbers from below, already sees the
effect in an early easing of seasonal
unemployment in both the building
trades and; the field of bidding supply,
in relieving of the housing shortage,
and in a better stabilizing of the
building industry as a whole by dis
tributing the old back-breaking sea
sonal loads over a full 12-month pe
riod.
Dwight L. Hoopingarner, executive
American Construction Council, in de
scribing some of the new aspects of
winter construction, says:
“This greater stabilization has been
secured by relatively simple methods.
Experience has shown that wmrk on
large buildings, whether of steel, ma
sonry or concrete construction, can be
conducted with safety in temperatures
down to 20 or 25 degrees above zero.
“After that, salamanders to provide
heat, tarpaulins to keep it, and hang
ing scaffolds to hold men and mate
rials where they are needed, have
solved the problem of keeping out the
cold and frost and permitting winter
operations to go ahead in many cases
at more even temperatures and great
er economy. Records of contractors
over periods of years have shown an
average ofl about 14 days, with scarce
ly over 31 days maximum in any one
year, in which the weather necessi
tated that the precautions of winter
building be taken.”
Mr. Hoopingarner advises the build
ing investing public to recognize the
necessity of exercising special care in
securing responsible and thoroughly
skilled architects, engineers and con
tractors in the performance of wintei
work.
Four per cent more contracts were
let for new building in the first 11
months of 1924, ended Nov. 30, thar
in the full 12 months of 1923 in the
36 States covered by the Dodge Re
ports, says Mr. Hoopingarner. The to
tal figure for the 11 months was S4,
100,000,000. Compared with the same
11 months of 1923, the increase was
13 per cent. With prices in the main
slightly lower than the year before
he says the comparisons are conserva
tive.
Mr. Hoopingarner finds winter ac
tivity producing a relative increase ir
prices, although prices for the year as
a whole show a slight decrease. Pre
vious to last year the winter demani
for materials was relatively small. “Ii
is well to note the fact,” he observes
“that with a greater volume of win
ter construction there will be a ten
dency toward higher relative prices
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for materials, and possibly for labor, j
than have been considered normal for j
the winter season. Such a condition
however, will not vitiate the basic ad
vantages of winter work.”
Death Removes Man Who
Mastered 53 Languages
(By Associated Press)
TOCOMA, Wash., Jan. 26.—Profes
sor Carl J. Arnell, credited with be
ing master of 53 languages, from the
j Eskimo to that of the African Hot
tentots and including all the leading
; languages of the world, died here re
j cently.
He was secretary to American am
bassadors to Japan for 12 years and
was the second white man to com
plete the course in Oriental languages
in the Imperial University of Tokio.
It was said that he knew Japanese
and Chinese languages as few na
tives did. On leaving the American
embassy at Tokio, Dr. Arnell became
professor in two universities in the
Japanese capital. When his health
broke down four years ago, the Japan
ese government returned him to the
United States on a battleship.
He once traveled through the Ori
ent investigating the opium problem,
on which he compiled a voluminous
report for the United States Senate.
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