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VOLUME XIX NUMBKK 193
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, AUGUST l(i, 1924
PRICE TEN CENTS
LAFOLLETTE NOTIFIED OF HIS
ENDORSEMENT BY FEDERATION
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.—Hubert La Follette was
formallv notified this afternoon of his indorsement for
the Presidential candidacy by the American Federation
of Labor. La Follette received the Labor committee, con
sisting of Secretary Morrison of the Federation; I lesi
dent O’Connell of the Metal Trades; and President Ryan
of the Railway Carmen of America, in his office at the
capital. j „ ....
“We are instructed to say to you, sa l Morrison,
that the American Federation of Labor is for you and
Senator Wheeler. That we are for you without restric
tion, and that so far as the 1924 Presidential tickets and
platforms of the two old parties are concerned we have
burned our bridges and the light is on.
La Follette promised an early formal-reply.
BULGARIANS TO STUDY
WILSON’S FOURTEEN POINTS
• SOFIA, Aug. 16—A chair for the
study and explanation of the late
ex-President Wilson s fourteen points
will be established this fall by the
Free University of Sofia. Special
attention will be given to the elev
enth point, which deals with the
freedom of minorities and self-de
termination. These lectures are to
be delivered at the special request
of Dimitri Ikonomoff who has given
500,000 levas to the Academy of
Sciences to endow the chair.
FORD LEASES DULUTH DOCK
DULUTH, Minn., Aug. 16.—Henry
Ford has obtained a one-year lease
on the Superior Coal and Dock com
pany property on the bay front here,
it was announced by Oscar Mitch
ell, one o fthe receivers of the prop
erty.
Headquarters Air Mail
Removed to Omaha
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.—Head
quarters for the air mail service will
be removed from this city to Omaha,
' Neb., October 1.
PTOMAINE FATAL
TO THEO. BRAKivE
* Theo. Brakke, veteran employe of
The Alaska Railroad and one of the
most widely known oldtimers in In
terior Alaska, having been a resi
dent of Fairbanks many years before
railroad construction started, suc
cumbed Tuesday morning to an at
tack of ptomaine poisoning, death 6c
curring at St. Joseph’s hospital in
Fairbanks.
SEWARD GOOD LOCATION
FOR HERRING SALTERY
Millions of herring are reported by
fishermen running in the bay at the
present time. These men claim that
Seward could support a small saltery
with ease, and this would give em
ployment to both fishermen and lo
cal labor. At the present time no
herring can be secured for halibut
bait closer than Sawmill Bay, which
makes for an additional expense in
fishing.
If several citizens would finance a
saltery, such as is being erected at
Seldovia, there is no question but
that it would pay.
PICTURES BLAMED FOR
CRIME WAVE IN TAHITI
PAPEETE, Aug. 16.—Motion pic
* ture films depicting valiant deeds
of handsome bandits ,arousing great
excitement among native audiences,
are blamed for the mild outbreak
of banditry that took place during
May. Early in the month four nat
ives, imprisoned for various offens^,
took to the hills back of Papeete,
They descended from time to tifne
on raiding expeditions, chiefly
against Chinese provision shops, un
guarded clothes lines, pig pens and
chicken runs. In the course of their
plundering they obtained firearms
and ammunition, and after that
their armed forays caused some
thing of a panic among the house
holders of the island.
After many unavailing efforts to
capture the bandits, the govern
ment organized parties of natives
to search the mountains systemati
cally. One of the .parties found the
four in a remote valley, but they
were not subdued until one of the
fugitives had been killed and anoth
er wounded.
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Sheep Raising Now
Profitable Industry
Unalaska Says Supt.
On her return trip from the west
ward, reaching Seward August 4, the
steamship Starr, Captain O. A. Johan
sen, brought 18 sacks of wool, about
three tons, the product of the Aleu
tian Livestock Company at Unalaska,
with herds on Umnak and Unalaska
islands. This wool was of extra long
! staple and absolutely free from the
grease and dirt so common to sheep
on the Outside ranges of Idaho, Ore
gon and Colorado. There is also no
shrinkage to the wool, this fact
alone causing it to bring a fancy
price on the market.
The Aleutian Livestock Company
took in 1030 sheep to Unalaska Isl
and on the steamship Oduna, Sept
ember 29, 1923. The trip was made
quite late in the season at a time
of heavy gales, but the animals came
through without loss, arriving in
Chernofski Harbor eight days out
from Seattle, and were landed on
rafts of cedar logs, 250 head at a
time. Despite their shipment at a
time when they were supposed to be
breeding, the animals came through
the winter on the open range, and
the loss was negligible, considering
the animals w'ere not yet acclimated,
or used to the range. Lambing time
passed with small loss and shearing
time showed unusually heavy fleeces.
Unimak Island is ideal sheep range
beng covered with succulent grasses
to a depth of six inches on the hills
to three feet in the valleys, several
varieties of grasses being found but
all suitable for sheep grazing.
Climatic conditions are also per
fect, the United States government
report showing that during the past
18 years the temperature reached
seven degrees above zero but once,
in 1918, the lowest temperature of
other years being 26 above zero.
The snowfall is very light, lying on
the ground but a few days. For Jan
uary, 1924, but four days of rain
were recorded.
ihere are innumerable springs,
small lakes and streams of fresh wa
ter on the islands, and these remain
open throughout the year. No preda
tory wild animals of any kind are
to be found, and owing to a lack of
trees and brush, one herder can take
care of from five to six thousand
head of sheep.
The experiments conducted by the
Aleutian Livestock Company during
the past six years have proven abso
lutely that sheep can be raised on
these islands with native grasses
alone as food during the entire year.
It takes about $6.50 per head to raise
a sheep in the States. Mr. William
R. Sprote, in charge of the Unalaska
herds and assistant manager for
Alaska, etimate that this sum can be
greatly lowered in raising sheep on
the Aleutians. The animals of the
Aleutian Livestock Company sheared
about 12 pounds per head this year,
and will probably go even better
than this when they become accli
mated. The meat is far superior to
mutton raised in the States, and is
free from the oily, muttony taste of
sheep led in the sagebrush districts.
It is estimated that about ninety per
cent of the lambs will live to matur
ity, on account of the equable climat
ic conditions.
“Zeke the Tapper, No. 2’ ’returned
the latter pai*t of this week from a
trip to the Russian river district. He
reports seeing plenty of moose,
sheep, and several brown bear. While
on the trip Wallace caught quite a
few Rainbow* trout .
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.VILLIAM TILDEN WILL
CONTEST SINGLE TITLE
SP0K1E COUNTRY CLUB, Glen-1
coe, 111., Aug. 16.—The championship j
for men’s singles and doubles advanc- !
ed to the final round in the Illinois ;
state tennis tournament today, with
the world’s champion, William T. j
Tilden, surviving to contest the sin
gles title with Howard Kinsey of1
San Francisco, and Kinsey and his
elder brother, Robert, national title
holders, facing Gerald Patterson and
Pat O’Hara Wood, the mighty Aus
tralian for the state doules crown.
Meanwhile, the junior singles state
championship was settled when Em
mett Pare, of Chicago, national boy
champion, took the emblem by de
feating A. L. Weiner, of Philadel
phia, in a five set match. ,
Progressive Party
In Evergreen State
SEATTLE, Aug. 16.—To meet the
requirements of the State law the
Progressive party was officially re
born in the State of Washington last
night at a mass convention, the ob
ject being to place the names of La
Follette and Wheeler on the State
ballot this fall.
THREE STATE NET TITLES
WON AT SEATTLE TOURNEY
SEATTLE, Aug. 16-—Three state
titles in the Washington state tennis
tournament being held here were de
cided this afternoon. Mrs. William
Henry, of Los Angeles, and Ray Cas
ey, of San ’Francisco, won the mixed
doubles event; Miss Marjorie Thorn
and Miss Winnifred Suhr, of San
Francisco, the women’s doubles, and
Howard Langlie, of Seattle the junior
singles.
HALIBUT PRICES
KETCHIKAN, Aug. 1C.—Prices for
fresh halibut 12.55 and 6 cents.
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; FRENCHMAN WILL MEET
SLATTERY AT BUFFALO
—
NEW YORK, Aug. 16.—Georges
Carpentier was definitely matched
today to meet Jimmy Slattery at
Buffalo, August 18. Although^Char
ley Murray, Slattery’s manager, has
had the bout virtually clinched for
two days ,he did not come to a final
agreement with Francois Deschamps,
the Frenchman’s manager, until this
afternoon.
BILLIAR KING GRANTED
INTERLOCUTORY DECREE
NEW \ ORK, Aug. 16.—An inter
loctory decree of divorce signed by
Justice Wagner in the suit brought
by Willie Hoppe, billiard champion,
against Mrs. Alice Beatrice Hoppe,
was filed in the office of the county
clerk the other day.
The jury before whom the case
was tried rendered a verdict against
Mrs. Hoppe
LIVE SON PROMISES
SALEM, Mass., Aug. 15.—Still he
smiles.
Would you if you were victimized
like Charles Brown?
Brown found $52,000 in cash. Of
course the news got around and a
mysterious doctor appeared and told
Brown the money belonged to him.
Brown believed him, and gave it up.
The doctor praised Brnvn’s honesty
and promised hirn a house and lot as
a reward
The money, the doctor and the re
ward offered went into thin air.
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BEAR EN ROUTE TO SEATTLE
DUTCH HARBOR, Auf- 16.—The
Cutter Bear put in here Sunday with
a badly damaged propeller. Captain
Cochrane and the crew are in good
spirits but decline to discuss the
report current regarding the scrap
ping of the Bear. There are several
passengers ,mostly government offi
cials, aboard the Bear en route to Se
| attle. She will remain here until the
propeller and other damages are re
paired.
New Landing Place /
For American Fliers
REYJAVIK, Aug. 16.—The Ameri
can Army world flyers will hop off
for Greenland, and a new and bet
ter landing place has been discov
ered 15 miles from Angoagsalik.
Marking out this new base and
taking supplies from the Danish ship
Germarud Rask will oebupy twenty
four hours.
Coolidge Formally
Accepts Candidacy
WASHINGTON, AttR. 16.—Calvin
Coolidge last night formally accepted
the Republican presidential nomina
tion and offered as his personal plat
form a government of common sense.
In a brief address responding to the
formal notification address by Chair
man Frank Mondell, permanent chair
man of the Republican National Con
vention, the President set forth his
beliefs and principles and submitted
them with his alleged faith to the
judgment of the American people.
Two thousand persons crowded the
memorial hall to hear the chief ex
ecutive declare his principles as he
saw them.
The Piesident reviewed with satis
faction the record of his administra
tion, a record he said was not the
way of dishonesty. . The people ot
the country, he asserted, was thor
oughly aware of his own determina
tion to resist corruption in office and
punish wrong-doing, in order to keep
American government clean.
Excerpts from Coolidge’s speech:
“It is well for the country to have
liberality in thought and progress
in action, but its greatest asset is
common sense.”
“I want the people of America to
bo able to work less for the govern
ment and mere for themsclve^.”
“I believe that the safest place to
declare and interpret the Constitu
tion, which the people have made,
is in the Supreme Couia. of the
United States.”
“I don’t want the safety of my
r-o.ivy to be impen’.1 in its on.
me-r-ie or foreign relations by any
fa^uie to be ready t. i; ; n ve ord« c
or rt pel attack.”
COLORED REPUBLICANS
TO SUPPORT COOLIDGE
YAKIMA, Wn„ Aug. 16.—Indorse
ment of President Coolidge and the
platform adopted by the republicans
aa the state at the state convention
in Wenatchee were the outstanding
efatures of the biennial meeting re
cently of the Washington Colored Re
publican club. J. E. Shepperson of
Roslyn was re-elected president, and
T. H. Rogers of Spokane was re
elected secretary treasurer. The or
ganization will hold its next meeting
in Spokane in 1926
i BOOZE BOATS TO LOAD
WHEAT FOR LONDON
VANCOUVER, B. C., Aug. 16.—
| The steamer Norbrnuri, 2,760 tons
j cargo, which left Antwerp last spring
for this port with a cargo of liquor
to discharge off the coast of Califor
nia, has been chartered by the Lon
i don office to load a cargo of grain
for the return trip.
There is no information as to how
this boat will justify having dis
charged all or part of her cargo,
which was billed for here.
SELF-DEFENSE CLAIMED
BY YOUTH WHO ADMITS
SLAYING HIS PARENTS
MONT.ICELLO, Ark., Aug. 16.—
! P- S. Piffin, 60, and his wife, 55,
! were shot and killed instantly near
their home six miles east of Monti
cello late yesterday. Their only son,
W. M. Piffin ,is said to have admit
ted that he slew his parents, but
claims self defense.
POLICE ARE CALLED HALT
FIGHT IN REFORMATORY
RATHWAY, N. J., Aug. 16-—Police
reserves from Rahway and |/ood
bridge were called to the Rahway re
formatory the other day to quell a
riot among the -prisoners.
Three inmates were shot, one pos
sibly fatally and one guard was in
jured.
The disturbance started in the din
ing hall and spread throughout the
open sections of the ’reformatory.
PIONEER MINER OF
STATE DIES AT 84
SEATTLE, Aug. 16.—Thomas A.
Frew, 84, pioneer mining man of
Western Washington and founder of
the town of Silverton, in Snohom
ish county ,died at his home here
Friday night. Mr. Frew, who was
born in Scotland, came to Seattle in
1885- He was the discoverer and lo
cator of many mines in the Monte
cristo district, in the Mineral creek
district above Index and in the Mil
ler river district in King county.
OREGONIAN BREAKS 197
AND COPS COAST TITLE *
PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 16,—J. A.
Gallagher, of Corvallis, Ore^, was re- j
turned winner yesterday of the 1924 (
amateur trapsshooting championship
of the Pacific coast zone, including
eight western states and two Cana
dian provinces. The Corvalis man
scored 197 out of a possible 200.
LOCKED-OUT BAKERS
START CO-OP. SHOPS 1
BUTTE, Mont., Aug. 16.—Locked- 5
out bakers have surprised the citi
zens alliance by starting cooperative (
bakeshops that are operated at full
capacity on the three-shift system. 1
The bakers asked for a wage in
crease and 4 a. m. as the opening
hour for work. Prospects were bright
for an early settlement until the citi
zens alliance, known as the Associat
ed Industries, took charge of the j
employers’ affairs. The usual antag
onisms were developed, and the en- i
tire trade union movement has lined
up behind the strikers ,who are de
veloping an unusual capacity to op
erate their own plants.
LAST GUARD OF
GRAND ARMY IN
BOSTON PARADE
BOSTON, Aug. 16.—The last guard
of the Grand Army of the Republic
marched here the other day and
made an inspiring show of strength.
“The boys in blue” marched thru
a drizzling rain and represented the
survivors of the 2,000,000 Union men
who answered the call of Abraham
Lincoln during the civil war.
As the old soldiers marched in re
view, their path was strewn with
flowers and they were greeted with
a spontaneous outbursts of continu
ous cheering and applause.
BLACKLIST IS DENIED B\
LA FOLLETTE COMMITTEE
WASHINGTON, D. C., ug. 16.—
Vigorous denial that an official
“black list” of members of congress
has been prepared, was made re
cently by the LaFollette campaign
committee.
In a statement issued after a
lengthy conference, the committee
said that “action will not be taken
by the committee until a thorough
study has been made of the official
records of the candidates in the 're-;
spective states.
“The primary interest of the com*
mittee is to advance the candidacy
of Robert M. La Follette for presi
dent and Burton K. Wheeler for the
vice president. For this reason it
does not intend to give undue at
tention to the congressional situa
tion.”
MARK REED WILL RUN
FOR RE-ELECTION AS
MEMBER LEGISLATURE
SEATTLE, Aug. 16.^Mark E.
Reed .speaker of the house of repre
sentatives at the 1923 legislative
session, will be a candidate for re
election to the house from Mason
county, he announced here this after
noon.
Bandits Shot by
Sheriff Identified
SEATTLE, Aug. 16.—The two ban
dits shot by deputy sheriffs whfle
attempting to hold up the Snoqual
mie Valley Bank at Tolt, died last <
night. ' i
The bandits were identified as L. <
C. Malone and Ten Lasse of Great t
Falls, Montana. John Beach, driver 1
of the bandits’ auto, was captured at i
the start of the chase. (
(id McCoy Says He
Shot Mrs. Morse
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 16.—Kid Mc
!oy, under arrest charged with the
laying of Mrs. Teresa Morse, his
lleged fiancee, has confessed to his
ister that lie killed the woman and
he theory of the police is that the
roman was shot because she told
-IcCoy she was on the verge of a
econciliation with her former hus
►and, a millionaire operator on Wall
Itreet.
The other victims of McCoy are
in the road to recovery.
GERMAN FARMER QUITS
CROPC TO RAISE FISH
LUDWIGSLUST, Germany, Aug.
16.—The crops of E. Ziemsen, an ex
pensive land owner near here, did not
pay very well last year, so Ziemsen
flooded the fields in the fall and this
year has been raising fish and doing
so well financially that he is plan
ning to extend his home made lakes.
Ziemsen has about 1,000 lowland
acres under water. German carp
have done particularly well in the
flooded fields, and this year Ziemsen
expects to gather about 80 tons of
fish. i
On some of the higher ground of
his estate Ziemsen has a large tract
devoted to the raising of the blue
fox.
CRUDE OIL PRICE CUT
BARTLESVILLE, Okla., Aug. 16.
—The Prairie Oil and Gos company
recently announced a reduction in
price of mid-continent crude oil of
25c to 50c a barrel for the high grade
oils .eliminating two grades 36 and
39 degrees.
Temblors Totter
Japanese Homes
TOKYO, Aug. 16.—Fifteen heavy
earthquake shocks rocked reeon
structed Tokyo early today.. There
was a general alarm sounded and
the population rushed into the pub
lic squares. Houses rocked and
creaked but the damage was slight.
Flight of Dirigible
Has Been Cancelled
WASHINGTON, Aug. IS.—The pro
posed flight of the dirigible Shenan
doah to the Middle Western states
has been called off.
DEPARTMENT WILL FIGHT
DISEASE AMONG INDIANS
WASHINGTON, D. C-, Aug. 16.—
The interior department’s campaign
to eradicate trachoma, tuberculosis
and other communicable diseases
among the Indians recently initiated
in the southwest, will be extended to
every Indian reservation and every
state having an Indian population.
Begun by Secretary Work and
Commissioner Burke of the Indian
bureau, the plans call for joint
surveys in the Indian states by the
state boards of health and medical
officials of the bureau.
Commissioner Burke said today
thelndian service expected to estab
lish the greater record in its history
in promoting health of the Indians
during the present fiscal year.
Conference Ends in
No Agreement
LONDON, Aug. 16.—The confer
>nce held yesterday by French, Ger
nan and Belgian representatives in
in effort to reach a settlement of
he Ruhr avacuation problem, ended
ate yesterday afternoon without the
arrival of a settlement. The confer
nce met again today.
50,000 Drowned and Millions Homeless
Ten Thousand Villages in Chinese Provinces
SHANGHAI, China, Aug. 16.—Millions have been
rendered homeless and 50,000 have been drowned in de
vastating floods which are sweeping widespread areas of
China, submerging 10,000 villages.
American Minister Schurman today advised his gov
ernment for the Red Cross that $20,000,000 is needed for
relief work in the flood and famine stricken districts. He
says ten million people are without shelter and without
food. The situation is most acute, and an epidemic is
feared.