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VOLUME XVIII NUMBER 310 -
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22,1923
PRICE TEN CENTS
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.—“I have
promised Senator Borah, the Foreign
Relations Committee will fully consul-;
er the Russian question,’4 Senator
Lodge, committee chairman, said to
day.
The State department and Depart-'
ment of Justice have already begun
compilation of data which Secretary
Hughes, and William J. Burns, head
of the Bureau of Investigation, con
sider as best proof that the Soviet
authorities are seeking to undermine
the political and social institutions of
the United States.
As opposed to this evidence, advo
cates of Russian recognition, headed
by Senators Borah, Wheeler, Norris
and Ladd will introduce a similar
mass of testimony from Soviet offi
cials designed to refute the charge.
JAPAN ASKS REVISION OF
TREATY WITH UNITED STATES
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22—Japan has
approached the State department with
a proposal for a revision of treaty re
lationship between the United States
and Japan in connection with Japa
nese laud rights as recently defined;
b* uie * U. S. supreme court.
BRYAN SAYS FORD HAS HURT
COOLIDGE CHANCES IN 1924
MIAMI, Fla., Dec. 22.—William J.
Bryan today declared that Henry
Ford’s indorsement has hurt Cool
idge instead of helping him. "Cool
idge will find Ford the most expensive
booster wrho has climbed into the
band wagon. His action emphasizes
the deepening division between those
with big incomes and those with small
incomes,” Bryan declared.
SKAGIT PIONEER BURNED
SEATTLE Dec. 22.—Henry Vin
ing, a Skagit valley pioneer, w-as burn
ed to death in his home today.
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TOW LI,
ADRIFT IN GULF
The steamship Starr is having hard
luck. Recently on the rocks on Rasp
berry Island near Kodiak, she started
to Seattle in tow of the freighter Cor
dova. A radio dispatch at noon from
Operator Horn said she had broken
her tow line last night and was adrift
in the gulf about 90 miles from Cape
Spencer, with the Cordova standing
by and endeavoring to get another
line aboard. A heavy gale is blowing
and the sea Is very high. The vessel
is in no danger, and crew are all well.
FRANCE WILL TO RECOZNIZE
RUSSIA IF DEBT ARE PAID
PARIS, Dec. 22.—France, according
to a semi-official report in Le Temps,
is willing to recognize Russia when
she satisfactorily adjusts the Czarist
debt to France and French claims for
property damage.
PARIS, Dec. 22.—France Genres she
made new proposals to the United
States on the war debt funding policy.
It was formally denied at the foreign
office today the report arising from an
erroneous interpretation published by
an American French newspaper.
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CHICAGO, Dec. 22.—Henry Ford
cannot deliver the men who suppoit
him to Coolidge, and Coolidge cannot
carry one state west of the Missippi,”
Roy M. Harrop head of the Ford lor
President Clubs in the United States
said today, at the same time declar
ing that Ford will be nominated as th
Third party candidate.
SEATTLE, Dec. 22— VV. G. McAdoo
in a letter to King County democrats,
looks for a democratic victory in ,924.
He says that his trends tell him he
cannot possibly be defeated in tbe
192 ; convention, and that he is sorry
he cannot be here for the Jackson
Day banquet, January 8th.
NEW SHIPPING BOARD B£
NAMED BY THE PRESIDENT
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.—White
house officials indicated tonight that
President Coolidge plans to name an
entirely new Shipping Board member
ship.
MRS. McCORMICK BUYS
HEAVILY REAL ESTATE
CHICAGO, Dec. 22.—Edith Rocke
feller McCormick has turned realtor,
having acquired a $13,000,000 interest
in the real estate firm of Krenn &
Dato, and became an active member.
ATLANTA, Dec. 22.—Philip E. Fox,
editor of the Night Hawk, Ku Klux
Klan official organ, convicted of the
murder of Capt. W. S. Coburn, an at
torney representing the Simmons fac
tion of the klans, must spend the rest
of his life in penal servitude. This
was the sentence meted out when a
jury tonight returned a verdict of
“guilty,” with a recommendation for
mercy.
NINE POLITICIANS FORM
BOARD FOR HIRAM JOHNSON
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. 22.—A
committee of nine politicians who will
form the nucleus of a committee of
one hundred to form the Republican
convention here, and will move John
son’s headquarters from Chicago. It is
stated that Johnson’s campaign will
start January 3.
CASE AGAINST RAILROAD
DISMISSEDBY FEDERAL COURT
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 22.—Federal
Judge Dickinson has thrown out of
court the suit brought by the Broth
erhood of Clerks and Freight Hand
lers and Station Employes to force
the Pennsylvania Railroad to recog
nize the delegates of the Brotherhood
as representatives of all employes in
a conference on wages and working
conditions.
SEATTLE, Dec. 22.—James McCabe
foreman of the grand jury investigat
ing graft conditions in Seattle, report
ed today that an attempt had been
made to bribe a juror with two thou
sand dollars offered through a friend
and spurned before the identity of the
man making the bribe was learned.
THREE AIRPLANES NOW UNDER
CONSTRUCTION MOST MOD
ERN KNOWN
CHRISTIANIA, Norway, Dec. 22.—
Raold Amundsen, Arctic explorer, to
day officially announced that his plan
of a flight over the North Pole had
been assured by the expense of $150,
000 being guaranteed by the Ameri
can Navy Department and Aeronautic;
Bureau.
The expedition will use three air-^
planes of modern construction, now
being built at the Dournier wharves in
Friedrichshaven, and will leave for
the North as early as possible. The
flight will be made between May and
August in several stages from Spitz
bergen to Alaska.
ACTION ON BONUS BILL SENDS
STOCK MARKET DOWNWARD
NEW YORK, Dec. 22.—Dispatches
1 indicating that the bonus might be
passed over the president’s veto and
the speculative belief that the techni
cal position of the stock market war
ranted a downward trend caused a re
actionary tone. Sales were one mil
lion one hundred thousand.
' Bills n UKPOST
NEW YORK, Dec. 22.—Cyrus H. W.
Curtis, Philadelphia publisher, has
purchased the New York Evening
Post for $1 700,000.
GOVERNMENT WILL NOT SUBMIT
SOVIET EVIDENCE TO SENATE
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! WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.—There is
no likelihood that the United States
government will submit to arbitration
by the senate the authenticity of the
documents which the State depart
ment recently made public to show
that revolutionary Soviet activities
and propaganda are being conducted
in this country with the object of un
dermining the government. This gov
ernment is fully satisfied with the gen
uineness of the evidence.
FRANCE AND BELGIUM WILL
TREAT WITH GERMANY DIRECT
PARIS, Dec. 22.—France ana Bel
gium have agreed to enter into direct
negotiations with Germany. The sub
' ject matter to be discussed must be
plainly limited in advance and must
involve no reparations or treaties.
MOORISH CHIEF POISONED
LONDON, Dec. 22.—A daily Mail
correspondent telegraphing from Tan
giers says the notorious Moorish chief
Raisuli was poisoned and is dead.
PRESIDENT OF REiCI-BANK
BERLIN, Dec. 22.—Dr. TTJatmar R.
Schacht, currency commissioner, was
I appointed president of the Reichbarik
[ to succeed the late Havenstein.
GERMANY SEEKS LOAN
PARIS, Dec. 22.—Germany has re
quested the reparation commission to
grant it permission to pledge its re
sources from 50 to 75 million dollars
with which to buy grain and fats
STRIKE ON CRIPPLE CREEK
COLORADO SPRINGS, Dec. 22.—
A local mining company announced a
report that dirt assaying one hundred
dollars a ton had been struck on the
Wortland property, Cripple Creek.
The report was later confirmed.
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SEATTLE, Dec. 22.—Col. George S.
Gibbs, Signal Corps U. S. A.., who is
in Seattle from Washington, D. C., to
take charge of laying the new million
and a quarter dollar cable, has been
in the Signal Corps 26 years, 11 of
which wrere spent in foreign service.
He served in the Spanish-American
■war and in the word war, being sta
tioned at different times in the Phil
ippines, Alaska, Cuba, Hawaii, and
France. He was a major in the army
on the Mexican border when America
entered the world war and left for
France in 1917, where he was assis
tant chief signal officer.
The cableship Dellwrood will lay one
thousand miles of line at a time, re
turning to London each time to have
her tanks filled. The cable is being
manufactured In England.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.—Christ
mas whiskey is leaking out over the
city, from foreign legations, and car
goes of holiday hootch are arriviing in
the capital steadily from the south,
principally from Savannah, according
to agents of the Treasury department.
WIPE OUT RACIAL HATREDS
COLOGNE, Dec. 22.— Dr. Johannes
Bell, vice president of the Reichstag
declared that not only through creat
ing a United States of Europe but the
total wiping out of racial hatreds can
the European countries effect actual
reconstruction on the continent.
NEW YORK, Dec. 22.— Eighteen
tugs pulled all the afternoon and up tc
six o’clock this evening, and hauled
the Leviathan off Robin's Reef. The
vessel is apparently uninjured
MUTINY OF SOVIET TROOPS
N HAS NOT YET BEEN QUELLED
HARBIN, Russia, Dec. 22.—Mutiny
of Soviet troops commencing Monday
was reported from Nikolsk, Harbin
and Vlyadivostok, and has not yet
been suppressed by the authorities.
The population being driven desperate
by the ruthless collection of food and
taxes, persecutions and harsh official
regime killed the officers and joined
with forces from Nikolsk.
TRAIN ON TIME
The Overland Limited is reported to
be on time up to the hour of leaving
Anchorage. The Alaska will sail as
soon as the train arrives.
HOUSTON Texas, Dec. 22.—The
fifth body, burned beyond recognition
has been recovered from the ruins of
the Hotel Capitol, which was destroy
ed by fire Monday with a loss of over
three hundred thousand dollars.
WILLIE HOPPE IN LEAD
CHICAGO, Dec. 22.—Willie Hoppe
has a lead over Welker and Cochran
of 1500 points in 18-inch balk line, 2
balk line billiards.
NORFOLK, Va., Dec. 22.—Twenty
two men perished when the! Norwe
gian steamer Iuna foundered Satur
day on the Frying Pan shoals. Only
five men survived the disaster.
Claims Fishing Industry Is “Monopo
ized by Big Interests and Waters
Are Being Looted
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 22.—
Suit has beeu filed in the District Col
umbia Supreme Court by Delegate
Dan Sutherland enjoining Secretary
Hoover from issuing permits lor fish
1 ing rights in Alaska.
In a resolution introduced in tiie
House today by Delegate Sutherland,
he asked for the administration of
Alaskan fish reserves by a committee
of five members of the House, to be
appointed by Speaker Gillette.
Delegate Sutherland charged that
the reserves have been dishonestly
administered by the Bureau of Fisher
ies, and proposed in his resolution a
committee of investigation and report
relative to “any monopolization or at
tempted monopolization of the fishing
industry in Alaska.”
Delegate Sutherland’s action in tak
ing the fisheries question to court, has
occasioned much surprise among the
i congressmen and statesmen in the na
! tional capital, as it is the first case
on record where a member of the cab
inet has been enjoined by law from
carrying out the duties of his depart
ment.
It was known here that Delegate
j herland was against the reserva
tion system buc it was expected the
matter would be threshed out in com
mittee.
VICTORIA SAILS VIA
SKAGWAY WITH FORTY NINE
J SEATTLE, Dec. 22.—The steamship
i Victoria sailed this morning via Skag
way with 49 passengers, including the
following for Seward: Earl Brocket!,
E. W. Wyant, Wm. Depperman, An
j tone Astor, B. M. Cunningham, Mrs.
G. E. Ward, Margaret and Juneau
Ward, John Smongeski.
PRESIDENT OF CHI
PROTESTS TO AMERICA
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.—A protest
against the presence of American war
ships In the harbor at Canton, was re
ceived here today from Dr. Sun Yat
Sen, president of the South China re
public.
C. M. BROSIUS INSTALLS
HIGH POWER RADIO SET
C. M. Brosius has Insranej a high
powered radio receiving set, and hay
been enjoying the concerts these per
fect radio nights. He has picked up
Chicago, Regina, Calgary and other
eastern stations. J. P. Hannon put
the set in for Mr. Brosius.
DUKE OF SUTHERLAND IN U. S.
NEW YORK, Dec. 22.—The Duke of
Sutherland, under secretary of avia
tion in England arrived to make a
first hand study of aerial progress in
the United States.
ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., Dec 22.—
The death toll of the New Mexico
blizzard Sunday and Monday last has
been increased to 11. Many tourists
are still trying to buck the deep
snowdrifts along the highways.