Hemnrd Daily Gntemny
v VOLUME 19. NUMBER 280
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, NOV. 29, 1924
PRICE TEN CENTS
PARKER SUED
FOR DIVORCE
NON-SUPPORT
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Alaskan Explorer Not Seen
by Wife for Period of
Five Years
CLIMBED MT. M’KINLEY
Well Known in Seward, Where He
Outfitted on Adventurous
Mountain Trip
NEW YORK. Nov. 27.—Professor
Herschel Clifford Parker, scentist
and explorer, who plunged into iame
several years ago when he exposed
the claims of Dr. Frederick Cook as
climber of Mt. McKinley, afterward
climing the supposedly inaccessible
peak himself, is being sued for di
vorce by his wife for non-support.
Mrs. Parker, in her affidavit, declares
that she has not seen her husband
for over five years, and has no idea
where he is at the present time.
Parker’s friends say that he is off
on an exploring expedition, and will
not return for a year or more.
FURTHER REDUCTION IN FLOUR
The Seward Trading Company to
day p\ade a further reduction in the
advertised price of flour. Occident
Flour, advertised the past week at
$6.50 per 100 pounds is now $6.40;
and Gold Medal flour, advertised at
$6.40 is now $5.75 per 100 pounds.
MISSOURI SCHOOL GIRLS
VISIT TOMB OF LINCOLN
SPRINGFIELD, 111., Nov. 27.—
Nineteen hundred Missouri and Iowa
school children on a pilgrimage, yes
terday visited the tomb of Abraham
Lincoln and laid a wreath at its foot
in honor of the distinguished emanci
pator
GRAIN BROKER A SUICIDE
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 27.—W. D.
Sheldon, a well known grain broker
Of this city is a suicide because of
financial difficulties.
TODAY’S FISH MARKET
KETCHIKAN, Nov. 27.—No halibut
ffered; salmon 22, 16 and 10 cents.
DISCOVERS SECRET CHANGING
MINK FUR, LIGHT TO DARK
(Anchorage Alaskan.)
Of* importance to the fur farming
ndustry is the report of the recent
iiscovery of one of the best £nown
.rappers and fur culturist in the
Territory, in which, by a systematic
irocess of feeding, the color of the
nink is changed from a light shade
o a rich dark coloring.
Arrivals in Anchorage last Satur
lay from Wasilla, brought word
hat Jimmy Sinclair, who aside from
ii8 jfuties as a section foreman for
he Alaska Railroad, conducts one
if the few mink farms in Alaska,
.fter many years of close study
.nd application, has solved the pro
ilem of changing the color of the
ur. Mr. Bass, who recently passed
hru Anchorage, and who is the
iead of the Fur Farming magazine,
ublished in Seattle, made the state
ment, that Mr. Sinclair is an expert
n the fur farming business, espec
ally the raising of mink.
'lOL^TORS OF DEER LAW
ARRESTED IN ARIZONA
PHOENIX, Ariz., Nov. 28—Plans
>r the reduction of the overstocked
Laibab deer herd in the Grand Can
on game preserves, by permitting
number of the animals to be killed
y hunters, were halted yesterday
hen state officials arrested Utah
wners for violating the state law
gainst possession of the deer.
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OCAL WOMAN ROBBED
OF CASH AND CLOTHING
May Hadley, a well known old
mer of Seward was robbed Monday
ight of $50 in cash, several pairs of
asses, a pair of binoculars, several
•ess<^|t and a pair of silk stockings
id shoes. The thief gained entrance
her home through a window and
oroly looted the place. Her win
e’s stock of groceries was also tak
i by the hungry thief.
FIFTEEN PERSH ON
WRANGELL ISLAND
MOSCOW. Nov. 27—Fifteen Amer
icans. British and Canadians perish
ed on Wrangell Island, according to
M. Krashinsky, who has just return
ed to Moscow from the Soviet expedi
tion to Wrangell island. The men
were victims of exposure and scanty
food supply. They included Barker,
Brady, King, Dr. Mackey, Murry,
Bucket, Morris, Brawford, Galla and
Naista Church.
MEXICAN GOVERNMENT TO
EDUCATE ITS CITIZENRY
MEXICO CITY, Nov. 27.—General
Guiles declared yesterday that his
first act upon becoming president ot
j the republic will be to launch an ex
| tensive educational campaign.
Steamer Northwestern
Has Very Light Listing
SEATTLE, Nov. 27.—The steam
ship Northwestern sailed at 9 o’clock
this morning with 43 passengers, the
lightest list of the season. Her pas
sengers for Seward are Mrs. J. H.
Langley, P. R. Strong, A. McKay, W.
F. Adams, James N. Nash, H. Ander
son.
STEAMSHIP REDONDO IN
PORT FROM WESTWARD
The steamship Redondo arrived in
port last night from the westward,
with the following passengers: W. D.
Coppernoll, from Seldovia; San Lang
seth, G. Ellerson, H. Warrang, J. Un
bach, all from Halibut Cove.
The Redondo will not know until
the arrival of instructions on the Yu
kon as to future trips. The vessel has
been a great help the past summer to
Kodiak and Seldovia, giving these
ports a splendid service in connection
with the Admiral boats and the otarr.
SURVIVING MUTINEERS
GIVE IN TO GT. BRIT.
AIRO, Egypt, Nov. 29.—The sur
viving mutineers at Khartun have
given it to the British, it was offi
cially announced here this afternoon.
PENSION LIST REDUCED
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 29.—
Over 4,000 names have been drop
ped from the pension roll during
the year, leaving 525,039 pensions
to be paid in 1924. The total
comes to $29,999,477. This is $33,
000,000 under the amount paid in
previous years.
QUARTETTE FACES TRIAL
ON CHARGE OF MURDER
VICTORIA, B. C., Nov. 27.—Assur
ance that Charles Morris, Harold
Morris, Ray Cramer and Clarence
Cheatwood, now in jail in Seattle,
facing extradition on charges of com
plicity in the murder of Capt. William
C. Gillis and son William, September
18, would face the British courts of
justice eventually, no matter wrhat
delays might be interposed by their
counsel, was given here today by
Major Bert C. Ross, deputy prosecut
ing attorney of King county, Wash
ington.
Heavy Sentences Given
Convicted Mail Robbers
CHICAGO, Nov. 27—William J.
Fahy, former postoffice inspector and
James Murray, a local politician, re
cently convicted of conspiracy in con
nection with the two million dollar
train robbery, at Roundout, 111., were
sentenced today to serve 25 years in
the Federal penitentiary at Atlanta,
Ga., by Federal Judge Cliffe.
NO SHORTAGE OF
GRUB IN WISEMAN
WISEMAN, Alaska, Nov. 29.—I
understand from late arrivals from
the coast that the impression there
is that there is no grub here, be
cause my boat froze in at Alatna,
and I desire to correct that im
pression and wish all to know that
fresh grub and perishables are be
ing freighted in here now, and that
ro shortage exists.
SAM DUBIN.
OPERATIC COMPOSER IS
DEAD AFTER OPERATION
OF INFECTED THROAT
BRUSSELS, Nov. 29.—Giacomo
Puccini, the famous operatic compos
er, died today from a throat infection.
He underwent an operation for the
malady and death was attributed to
a weak .heart.
Puccini was born in Lucca in 1858.
He was education in Milan under
Ponchielli. His principal works were
Le Villi, in 1884; Edgar, 1889; Les
caut, 1893; La Boheme, 1896; La
Tosca, 1900; Madame Butterfly, 1904;
La Franciulla del West, 1910. His
home address was in Milan in care
of Riccordi and Company.
CALL ISSUED FOR MEETING
AMERICAN FUNDING COM’N
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27—A call
was issued this evening for a meet
ing of the American Debt Funding
Commission December 1. The status
of the debts of European nations to
the United States will be discussed.
PADEREWSKI, PIANIST
OFFERED POST AS THE
MINISTER TO U. S.
WARSAW, Poland, Nov. 29.—Ig
natz Paderewski, the world’s re
nowned pianist is to be offered the
post of Minister to the United States,
it was announced through diplomatic
circles here this morning.
ROYALTY BLACKMAILED
BY COUPLE OF CROOKS
LONDON, Nov. 27.—Win. Cooper
Hobbs, law clerk of Appleton & Co.,
who furnished the legal brains in a
plot to blackmail Sir Hailissings, ra
jah of Jammi and Kashmir out of
$750,000, was arrested tonight, follow
ing complaint by his intended vic
tim.
The arrest of Hobbs came follow
ing the exoneration of Charles Ern
est Robinson and his beautiful wife,
who was trapped with the Rajah in
a Paris hotel. Robinson and wife
were not in the conspiracy to black
mail the Indian prince, the jury said.
Robinson has sued the Midlay uank
for 625,000 pounds sterling.
BANDIT KILLbu HAD
S17,000 IN LOCAL BANK
SEATTLE, Nov. 27.—Karl Peter
son, killed Monday by Detective Kush
in a pistol duel, left S^.7,000 in one of
the Seattle banks, which he deposi
ted October 20.
Emissary of Seattle’s
Underworld Arrested
On Charge of Bribing
SEATTLE, Wn„ Nov. 29—Geo.
W. Klan, an American born Chin
ese and well known Seattle im
porter was jailed today as being
an emissary of the underworld
forces here which came about as a
result of trying to bribe a federal
officer by the name of W. J. Pat
terson.
LONDON PAYS WELL
FOR U. S. SAXOPHONISTS
LONDON, Nov. 18.—English danc
ers are paying American saxophone
artists real money to coax their feet
into the ever-popular fox trot.
London dance orchestras alone are
paying $15,000 a week for American
saxophone players.
The dance craze is running strong
er than ever in London, and the
leading hotels and clubs are spend
ing huge amounts in luxurious fit
ting for the dancers.
The Savoy Hotel is paying one or
chestra alone, an orchestra recruit
ed from America, something over
$5,000 a week, and this is but one of
four orchestras catering to dancers
in that hotel. Other hotels are also
paying large salaries and a good
“saxophonologist” can demand $300
a week in London, and, what’s more,
he can get it.
It is customary to say, “I don’t like
to blow my own horn,” just before
blowing it.
If we must have death scenes in
plays it should be arranged to kill
off the poorest actors first.
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R AINIER CLUB HOME
DINNER TO PARTY OF
U. S. CHAM. OF COM.
SEATTLE, Wn„ Nov. 29.—Presi
dent Richard F. Grant, of the cham
ber of commerce of the United States
and his party, which included na
tional chamber officials were guests
last night at a dinner at the Rain
ier club in their honor and given by
the Seattle Chamber of Commerce.
ANCHORAGE STARS
TAKE SECOND GAME
In one of the best basket ball
games ever seen in this city, the An
chorage star team won the second
game of the three series with Sew
ard by a score of 27 to 23.
The Anchorage boys started out
with a rush and at the end of the
first half was leading by 13 to 8. At
the beginning of the second half the
Seward team forged ahead and was
leading 21 to 20 a few minutes be
fore the final whistle, but three field
goals and a converted foul by An
chorage, while the best Seward could
garner -was an additional field goal,
put the visitors four points in the
lead, too far to be headed off in the
three minutes additional play al
lowed.
Anchorage made a total of 11 field
goals and converted five out of 15
free throws. Seward made 10 field
goals and converted three out of 14
free throws.
Dr. Roberts acted as referee and
Prof. Olsan of the Anchorage schools
as storekeeper. The game was ex
citing and full of thrills from start
to finish, both teams playing fine
ball, and fighting desperately for the
points gained.
Tonight the girls will also be seen
in action, and if you believe that
we have no star players among the
gentler sex, we advise you to *eome
out and >see them rough house the
opposing’side. Several of the ladies
are in the near star class, and the
game tonight will give the spectators
thrills a-plenty.
The game will start at 8 o’clock
tonight and should be the best of the
series as the local boys are improv
ing in team work with practice. The
Anchorage boys are anxious *o re
turn home with a clean slate. Conte
early and be assured of a good seat,
as the hall was crowded to capacity
last night.
PERSHING THINKS COAST
DEFENSE SHOULD CONTINUE
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.—War ex
perience and peacetime tests thus far
made do not altogether warrant the
conclusion that either seacoast de
fense or battleship protection can be
dispensed with, General Pershing
finds in his annual report as chief
i of staff of the Army made public to
! day.
7-Year-Old-Girl Struck
By Truck While Running
Greet Returning Mother
SEATTLE, Wu„ Nov. 29.—Run
ning with hands outstretched to
greet her mother, as she return
ed to their home after holiday shop
ping tour, Majorie, seven-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cordie
Tufty, was struck down and killed
by an automobile truck late yes
terday afternoon.
CHAS. WIDMAN CRUSHED
WHILE ON A DREDGE
—
A letter was received recently from
Jack Cameron, former Yukoner, now
in the employ of the Yukon Gold Co.,
in the Malay Peninsula, giving par
ticulars regarding the death of Chas.
Widman, also an oldtime Yukoner,
who at the time of death also was
employed by the Yukon Gold Co.
Mr. Widman was crushed while re
pairing a screen plate on one of the
company’s dredges. He was rushed to
| the hospital, but lived only two days.
He was operated upon, but could not
! be saved. He was buried the day fol
lowing his 'death, the rule of the
i tropics being that a body must be
burrivd within twenty four hours af
ter death. There was a large atten
dance at the funeral.
A special train will leave Seward
for Anchorage tomorrow at ten a. m.
As no diner is attached passengers
iT-e requested to carry their own
lunch.
ELECTION CAUSES
/COMM. SHAKEUPS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 28.—
The outcome of the election will
cause a general shakeup in the per
sonnel of the House and Senate com
mittees. There will be probably less
than a dozen changes in important
chairmanships. The heads of three
House committees will have finished
their terms at the expiration of
thfe present Congress.
Due to the deaths of Colt and
Brandegee of the Senate, former
heads of the Immigration and Ju
diciary Committees respectively,
new men will fill those positions.
Ranking is in position for the
chairmanship of the Immigration
Committee, but he will not be in
the Senate after March 4, which
leaves Hiram Johnson of California
in line. Borah is ranking Republican,
for the chairmanship of the Judi
ciary Committee.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 29.—
Thriteen of the principal committees
will be supervised by senators from
states west of the Mississippi river,
as against five which will be headed
by Eastern senators.
Thos.e credited with Western helms
men are as follows: Agriculture, Nor
ris; appropriations, Warren; claims,
Gooding; commerce, Jones of Wash
ington; education, Phipps; finance,
Smoot; foreign relations, Borah; im
migration, Johnson of California; In
dian affairs, Herreld; privileges and
elections, Spencer; public lands,
Ladd; rules, Curtis; judiciary, Cum
mins. Eastern controlled committees
are, military affairs, Wadsworth; na
val, Hale of Maine; banking, Mc
Lean; postoffice, Moses; public build
ings, Fernald.
VETERANS OF PICK AND
GOLD PAN ASSEMBLE
SEATTLE, Nov. 27.—Veterans of
the gold pan and pick met on the
pack trail again last night in this
city and revived in memory the ad
venturous days of the gold strike
when the Alaska Yukon Pioneers as
sociation held their annual entertain
ment in their hall. Mrs. George Car
mack and Mrs. Nettie Frew, wives of
j the well known pioneer discoverers
i addressed the gathering.
NEW TREATMENT
FOR BAD GIRLS
LONDON, Eng., Nov. 29.—The
English reformers’ idea of making
bad girls better is to give them
trips to the seaside. Accordingly
last year several of the detention
institutions for young girls took
parties of inmates to various sea
side resorts, where they were giv
en a two weeks’ vacation with only
the supervision of two matrons to
each party of 25 girls.
Last year’s outing proved so
successful that nearly all similar
institutions this year took up the
idea and allowed their best be
haved girls to have a vacation.
The expenses of the trip, above
what it would have cost to feed
and provide for the girls at the
institutions, were donated by per
sons interested in progressive and
humanizing methods in the cerrect
tional institutions of the country.
ALLEGED MURDERER
SOUGHT ON ANOTHER
CHARGE, $1,200 THEFT
SEATTLE, Wn., Nov. 29.—It de
velops now that Harry F. Sowash,
one of the men who are being
sought in connection with the mur
der of Capatin Gillis and son was
for a time employed by the Breu
saler Cigar Company of this city,
of which $1,200 of the latters funds
Sowash is calimed to have taken
with him when he fled for part
unknown.
ONE VOTE CAST; ONE MAN
ELECTED UNANIMOUSLY
MUSKOGEE, Okla., Nov. 19.—Tak
ing advantage of the absence of names
printed on the ballots, C. B. Price
wrote his name in and unanimously
elected himself constable of a suburb.
There is always lots of unemploy
ment and most of it is on somebody’s
pay-roll.
TIA JUANA HAS
BIG FIRE LOSS;
[ RACERS BERN
Million Dollars Worth of
Thoroughbreds Turned
Out of Stalls
MANY BADLY INJURED
TIA JUANA, Nov. 27.—One quar
ter of the large 1500-stall barn at the
! Tia Juana race track was destroyed
by fire this afternoon and a dozen
thoroughbred racers were burned to
a crip, while 300 others valued at a
million dollars were hastily turned
loosed by stable hands and stam
peded wildly about the grounds.
When the animals were finally
rounded up it was found that thirty
valuable racers were so badly injur
ed by running through fences that
their usefulness was destroyed. Sev
eral large racing stables were flat
broke by the fire.
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CHANDALAR REGION
LOOKS PROMISING
“The only thing which is hold
ing the Chandalar country back at
the present time is the lack of
good roads,” said O. J. Nickolson.
prominent miner of the Chandalar
district, who arrived in Fairbanks
recently. “Freight is fifteen cents
a pound from Beaver to the mines,
which makes it impossible to work
any but the best ground."
Mr. Nicholson came out via dog
team, the trip from Big Creek
where he lives, taking ten days.
The trail is in good condition, with
sufficient snow to make traveling
easy. The Beaver river is not en
tirely frozen over as yet, and Mr.
Nickolson was forced to ford it
About twenty-five men an min
ing in the Chandalar. state- Mr.
Nickolson. There are two outfits
j working on Big Creek—John Ras
mussen, Nickolson and his partner,
j Joe Shaw. Both outfits had a very
[good season, and hat'. alread>
started the winter work. The
ground -which Nickolson is work
ing is about twenty-five feet deep,
making for easy drifting in the
winter.
Charley Carlson and Bart Buck
ley are mining on Little Squaw.
The ground is yielding about thirty
five cents to the foot, and they
have not reached bedrock yet.
They are optimistic about the fu
ture of their property, and expect
to get big returns. Bilh McDaniels
and Art Newton are also working on
Little Squaw, and are said to be do
ing very well.
Chris Olsen has been prospect
ing for the last year on Dictator He
took out a small dump last winter,
and had a fair cleanup. Hugh
Roosevelt is * working on a tribu
tary of the main Chandalar.
The Chandalar Gold Company
in -which William Sulzer is inter
ested, has some very good quartz
prospects, according to Mr. Nickol
son. The company will probably
freight in a stamp mill this winter
and begin active operations next
summer.
Big Creek is above the timber
line, and fuel has to be hauled
about t-welve miles. Wood costs
Mr. Nickolson $45 a cord. Form
erly the fuel was hauled with dogs,
and cost from $60 to $90 a cord.
This is Mr. Nickolson's first trip
to Fairbanks in three years. He
will probbalv start on the return
within a few' days, before the heavy
snows make traveling difficult.
SHENANDOAH WILL SAIL
TO HAWAII WITH FLEET
WASHINGTON, Nov. 28—The diri
gible Shenandoah will accompany the
American fleet to Hawaiian waters
for the naval maneuvers next Janu
ary, Secretary of the Navy Wilbur an
nounced this afternoon.
ESATERN STAR WILL HOLD
MEMORIAL SERVICES
The Order of Eastern Star will hold
a public memorial service in their
chapel rooms at the Odd Fellows hall
at 3:00 p. m. Sunday afternoon. A
cordial invitation is extended to all
Masons and friends.