UNCLAIMED DOGS BE KILLED
BY ELECTRICITY IN BUTLER
BUTLER, Pa., April 21.—Butler is
believed to be the only town in Penn
sylvania which plans to instal equip
ment for the electrocution of unclaim
ed dogs. There will be no more kill
ing dogs by shooting according to Lee
M. Keely, who has been authorized
to act as dog catcher. Keely who is
also head of the police department
of Evans City, is agent for the Butler
County Humane Society. Dogs found
running at large in Butler will be put
to death in the death cell of the dog
pound which is under construction.
‘‘What could be more sad than a
man without a country,” said the
smart young teacher. “A country with
out a man” replied a pert young miss.
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RUM SMUGGLERS FIND
NEW WAY TO BEAR LAW
OSLO, Norway, Apr. 23.—An ingen
ious procedure whereby smugglers op
erating off the coasts of Norway have
i been successful in smuggling large
quantities of liquor into the country,
has been discovered by the Norwegian
customs officers.
The device, known to the trade
as the corkscrew, consists of a long
torpedo-shaped iron cylinder, capable
of holding a hundred cans of liquor,
I which is towed at some distance as
| tern of the smuggling vessel by a thin
| cable. The cylinder is so weighted
; that it remains hidden below the sur
face of the water. A ship engaged in
| rum running can thus be searched and
nothing illicit found on board. In an
emergency the cylinder always can be
i cast loose.
WAR VETERANS HELP
IN RECORDING HISTORY
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 24.—
The war department’s request for
historical data last September, from
individuals to shed light on activi
ties of the World War has brought
fruitful results.
The department has in mind the
coupling of an official history of the
great conflict ^n future years, and is i
busying itself now with obtaining in
formation on it from active partici
pants, while memories are still fresh.
From all over the United States and
even Canada, have come several hun
dred official documents, in response
to the department’s request. These
include several important maps,
Showing the location of units at vari
ous stages of the war.
A pictorial record of the war is
available in the files of the signal
corps, and motion pictures of many
phases of the great struggle are pre
served in its archives.
Hungry Rats Rebel
At Diet of Vitamines
BERKELEY, April 24.—Some white
rats, under observation for the ef
fects of a newly discovered vitamine
recently tipped over their cages in
search of food and seeing nothing
else handy, started in to devour the
record book of their activities made
in the household science department
of the University of California.
When the class conducting the ex
periments gathered next day, the rec
ord book was found in bad shape.
Several valuable pages had been eat
en up. The rats were still milling
around looking for something more
edible.
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S. S. ADMIRAL WATSON
Arrives
Seward
April 28
South from
Seward
May 2.
Sails from
Seattle
April 21
EVANS
May 19 Tues., 9 p.m.
ADMIRAL
May 12
May
Calling at all regular Southeastern and South-1
western Alaska ports including Seldovia and
Kodiak.
WAYNE BLUE, Agent
Telephone Main 81 Res.. Madison 40
Pacific Coastwise Jerviee
% ADMIRAL LINE
iH.F. ALEXANDER.
STEAMSHIP STARR
. NEXT SAILING STR. STARR MAY 10,1925
San Juan Fishing and Packing Co.
G. C. HENDERSON, Agent
PHONE MAD180N 13*. 8EWARD, ALASKA
CURE FOR SLEEPING SICKNESS, THE
SCOURGE OF AFRICA, IS BELIEVED TO
HAVE BEEN DISCOVERED BY CHEMISTS
_ --1
NEW YORK, Apr. 23.—Relief and
even cure for sleeping sickness, the
blight of Africa, has been found, it is
believed, in the new drug Tryparsa
mide, recently projected, created and
tested by four staff physicians of the
Rockefeller Institute here.
Dr. Wade H. Brown and his asso
ciate, Dr. Louise Pearce, who have
tested the drug for its effects on ani
mals and men, and Dr. Walter A. Ja
cobs and his associate, Dr. Michael
Teidleberger, who attended to the
chemical i)hases of the work, announc
ed today that sufficient experiments
have been made with tryparsamide to
justify, apparently, their hope that it
is a comparatively sure cure for sleep
ing sickness.
Lately, the disease has become
more common in many regions known
to be affected and is spreading to re
gions previously supposed to be free.
Inspired by stories of the ravages of
the dread illness of Africa, members
of the institute began investigating
possible cures several years ago.
Tryparsamide was evolved. First
tests were made on mice and rats
and guinea pigs, all with rare success.
And in May, (1920,) Dr. Pearce set
forth, adequately equipped, for the
Belgian Congo to work with expert
Belgian physicians to test the drug on
man and to help the stricken negroes
in the land of sleeping sickness.
Tests Successful.
“Experiments have been made by
numerous physicians,” Dr. Pearce
said, “to justify our hopes for the
drug. The results of my first clin
ical investigation, based on the treat
ment of seventy-seven patients in Leo
poldville, Belgian Congo, demonstrat
ed that tryparsamide caused a prompt
disappearance of the germ called try
anosomes from the blood and lymph
glands a rapid improvement of the
abnormal cerebro-spinal fluids of ad
vanced patients, which in the major
ity of cases, amounted to a restora
tion to normal and a marked improve
ment in both physical and mental
states.
“Of the thirty-five very advanced
cases, only three died. Thirty-two pa
tients were at last reports, alive and
well, with negative blood and lymph
glands.
“In New York City, two Americans
in the advanced stages of sleepingg
sickness, have been successfully treat
ed with tryparsamide. One patient,
whose condition was extremely grave,
was given tryparsamide intervenously
and by the end of three courses of ten
doses, both her physical and mental
condition appeared normal. Since this j
time, she has resumed her household !
and social duties which have been j
only interrupted by the additional |
treatment administered. The other re-!
acted even more quickly, and with1
equal success.”
Caused by Fly.
Sleeping sickness is an unusually
dread disease, caused usually by the
bite of th<* tsetse fly. Its victims do
not at first seem very ill, according
to Dr. T. Mitchell Prudden, who has
made a special study of it. They may
have a little fever and the lymphatic
glands about neck and elsewhere in
the body become swollen. They often
go about their business for months,
even years.
But sooner or later, unless they get
suitable medical treatment, they be
come dull and apathetic, sometimes
have headaches, tremers, low fever;
the heart labors and after a while
they emaciate, become feeble, drowsy,
lethargic and lapse into coma and so
die, forlorn. The invading trypan
somes which appear in the blood, are
the diseases incitants. They damage
the blood, incite a series of inflama
tory reactions in the body and when
at length they; invade the brain, bring
on the sleeping sickness and lethargy
which forecast death.
Tryparsamide is described as the
sodium salt of N-phenylglycineamide
P-arsenic acid—which exists in thin
pearly crystals.
Only 168 hours were lost by the 7,
000 students of Ohio State university
during January, this year, on account
of illness.
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SNOW AT RIM OF CRATER
LAKE IS 16 FEET DEEP
%_
MEDFORD, Ore., Apr. 23.—Official
report received yesterday from Crater
national park was that there are 16
feet 3 inches of snow at the rim of
Crater lake and 11 feet at Anna
Spring camp. It was still snowing at
the park.
Not only is this more snow than
has been at the park for years at
this time, but it is solidly packed
down.
CAR CLEANER WHO FOUND
PILFERED FEDERAL FUNDS
AND KEPT THEM JAILED
BUFFALO, N. Y., Apr. 23.—August
Lehman, a car cleaner, and Herman
Reis, alais Rice, alais Chuck Conner,
are in custody in connection with the
loss from the mails of $120,000 in cur
rency February 27.
Lehman says he found a pouch con
taining $120,000 in $10 bills, consign
ed to the Federal reserve bank of De
troit from Washington, under a pile
of empty mail sacks in the corner of a
car which was sent to be cleaned in
the yards where he worked. Postal
inspectors said the pouch apparently
had been lost in the transfer of the
car.
Lehman took the money home,
keeping it there until stories appear
ed in the newspapers about the rob
bery, and then hid it in a garage.
There the authorities last night found
$115,000. The other $5,000 Lehman
had lost in gambling, he said, or oth
erwise disposed of with the aid of
Reis.
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LADIES LOUNG CAR IS
PLANNED BY RAILROAD
CHICAGO, April 23.—A special cat
for women to chat and smoke in will
be contained in a “ladies lounge” car
to be added by the Chicago, Milwau
kee & St. Paul railroad on its Olym
pian express between here and Seat
tle, the management has announced.
The car also will contain a new type
of sleeping quarters.
HOLLYWOOD GIRL NOT
INTERESTED IN STAGE LIFE
HOLLYWOOD, Cal., April 24.—Had
16-year-old June Norris been brought
up in Iowa or Nebraska, she might
have cun away from, home to come to
Hollywood and a film career, but her
home is in Holly'wood and therefore
she sees to much of actors.
To the officers who found her in
Los Angeles she explained that her
mothei had insisted on her preparing
for a stage career and as she could
not bear the thought of it, she ran
away from Hollywood and home. She
was disguised as a boy when found.
Gateway want-ads bring results.
The Alaska Railroad
TRAINS LEAVE SEWARD
6 A. M.
Monday and Thursday
TRAINS ARRIVE
8 P. M.
Wednesday and Saturday
Gas Launch
KENAI
FISHING AND HUNTING
PARTIES CARRIED DOWN
LAKE KENAI FOR THE
DAY OR TRIP. TELE
PHONE ARRANGEMENTS
TO MILE TWENTY
Louis Bell, owner
ALASKA STEAMSHIP
COMPANY
Southwestern Alaska Route Schedule
Vessel—
Yukon
Northwestern
ALASKA
YUKON
Northwestern
ALASKA
Scheduled
Lv. Seattle
April IS
April 25
May 2
May 9
May 16th
May 23
Scheduled
Ar. Seward
April 25
May 2
May 9
May 16
May 23rd.
May 30
Scheduled Sail
from Seward
April 25
May 2
May 9
May 16
May 23rd
May 30
Steamers in the above schedule will make all regular ports of call
in Southeastern and Southwestern Alaska.
Steamers in above schedule leave Seward every Saturday midnight.
J. H. FLICKINGER, Agent
PHONE MAIN 125 SEWARD, ALASKA
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contributing factors in development of the regions through
which they passed, so also is THE ALASKA RAILROAD each
day accomplishing much towards the building of an empire.
In place of the old, tremendously expensive and inconve
nient methods of transporting supplies of whatever character
over rough trails from the coast, there is now a modern rail
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to and from the Interior, and along the way, in much less
time and at far less expense than was formerly required.
This great steel highway offering regular twice weekly
freight and passenger service between Seward, Anchorage
and Fairbanks; and tri-weekly mixed service over the
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