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VOLUME XX, NUMBER 250
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1925
PRICE TEN CENTS
TRACES OLD INDIAN
VILLAGES IN THE
COLVILLE
Indians of Surrounding Country Can
not Remember When They Were
Last Inhabited
SEATTLE, Sept. 18. (/P)—Traces of
forgotten Indian villages, abandoned
after the influenza epidemic of fifty
or a hundred years ago, were discov
ered by Gerald FitzGerald and his
Geological Survey party, along the
banks of the Colville river, north of
the Brooks range, FitzGerald said be
fore leaving Seattle for Washington.
The valley is called the “Valley of
Winds” by the superstitious tribes of
Indians living to the south of the dis
rict, who refused to accompany the
party there.
Old huts, wooden utensils, pottery,
bones and fragments of old sleds were
found, but no trace of a living indian
was seen on the whole trip down the
river to the Arctic.
Indians of the surrounding regions
said they couldn’t remember when the
village was inhabited.
> FORTY-TWO HUND.
MILES TELEFONE
LINE
Address of President Engineers Heard
Over Telephone Line from New
York via Sacramento
SEATTLE, Sept. 18. The Paci
fic coast branch of the American In
stitute of Engineers, convening here,
heard the address of Dr. Michael Pu
pin, president, speaking over a tele-!
phone line forty-two hundred miles in
length, reaching from New York to
Sacramento, and thence to Seattle.
Prof. Harris Lyan, of Stanford Uni
versity, predicted research will even
tually find the source of atomic ener- j
gy, resulting in the unlocking of the !
world’s greatest storehouse of energy. |
Amundsen’s Book Rejected
By His German Publisher
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MUNICH, Sept. 18. (/p)— Roald Am
undsen’s latest book has been declin
ed by the explorer’s former publish-;
er in Munich. The manuscript was i
rejected because “Amundsen sever
ed all connections with the German
nation when, during the war, he re
turned his German decorations and
resigned his honorary membership of
German societies.’’ The publishers
in their statement conclude: “Not
until Amundsen has made proper
amends for his offensive behavior
to Germany, the result of misrepre
sentations by the anti-German press,
will this firm consent to publish any
more of his works.”
Amundsen is scheduled to deliver
a series of lectures in Berlin prior
to sailing this month for America.
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Attention to minor injuries is pre
vention of major operation.
BASEBALL
AMERICAN LEAGUE—
New York 5, Cleveland 0.
Philadelphia 6, Chicago 3.
Boston 2-4, St. Louis 0-0.
Washington 9-1, Detroit 12-0.
NATIONAL LEAGUE—
Pittsburg 11, Boston 2.
Cincinnati 5, Philadelphia 2.
COAST LEAGUE—
Los Angeles 9, Seattle 1.
San Francisco 4, Portland 2.
Sacramento 3, Vernon 0.
Salt Lake 5, Oakland 4.
Drink, Smoke, Walking
Credited for Long Life
DARIEN, Conn., Sept. 18. (£>)
—Good whiskey, good tobacco
and lots of walking, are the re
ceipt for longevity of Nathan
Doucliy, who recently celebrated
his 91st birthday at lii’s home in
this city.
“To whisky, walking and smok
ing, I feel that I owe by good
health,” he said. Smoking has
benefited my health and good
whisky, used with judgment,
never hurt anyone.”
Douchy is a native of Troy,
N. Y., but has lived here many
years.
FUR PRICES HIGHER
THAN THOSE OF
AUGUST
Prices Paid for Furs at Seattle Fur
Exchange Twenty-five Per Cent
Higher Than Before
SEATTLE, Sept. 18. (£>)— J. E. Ag
new, manger of the fur exchange today
said prices paid for furs at this sale,
were from twenty to twenty-five per
cent higher than at the August sale.
Today’s offerings of northwestern
prime wolf, classes ones and twos, $8
to $10.
Large and extra-large beaver brot
from $28 to $30, all offered being tak
en.
Fisher sold at open market prices.
Muskrat sales were good, average
skins selling at SI.22. The best lost
sold at $1.30, with the poorest grade
going to ninety cents.
Bear sales were good, but wolverine
was neglected.
A large lot of Arctic furs are expect
ed at the next sale on the 21st of Oct.
SKULL OF QUEER
BIRD FOUND AT
PRINCE RUPERT
(Prince Rupert News)
Waterfront people are speculating
as to whether a skeleton picked up by
Ted Shrubsall is that of an extinct
Dodo or some other huge bird, at pres
ent unknown. They all pronounce
it an any rate something unusual. It
was recently pulled up in fifty fathoms
of water on the fishing gear of the ’
Canadian schooner H. & R., owned by
Ted and Bob Shrubsall, while the boat
was fishing off Tow Hill, Queen Char
lotte Islands. The head is about the
size of a man’s fists put together with
two eye-sockets and a pronounced
hole in the center of the skull, while
a bone beak protrudes some six or 7
inches from it.
It looks like the head of a bird but
is larger than any knowm living spec
imen.
Ted Shrubsall is talking of giving
the skeleton to the local museum.
12,000 Sing In Chorus
DRESDEN, Sept. 18. (#*)—A reunion
of male choral societies of Saxony
recently brot together 25,000 singers,
including guests from all parts of
Germany. A feature of the first
concert was a program by a male
chorus of 12,000 voices.
Doubtless the modern-language
cranks would change “Well done,
good and faithful servant” to “Atta
boy!”
Planting a garden is inspiration;
weeding it is perspiration.
STATE BOARD WILL
ALLOW ONLY 3T.
COAL TO HOUSE
Massachusetts Coal Commission Takes
Charge of Fuel Shortage jn That
State—Stop Winter Hoarding
BOSTON, Sept. 18. (JP)—'The state
emergency fuuel administration has
has prohibited delivery of domestic
anthracite coal to consumers who have
half of their winter’s supply in. or
more than three tons in their bins.
NORWEGIANS DIVIDED
AS TO BENEFIT FROM
OWNING SPITZBERGEN
BELIEVE SPITZBERGEN WILL BE
COME STATION FOR AIR
TRAFFIC IN TIME.
OSLO, Norway, Sept. 17. (/P)—The
new Svalbard (Spitzbergen) law by
which the archipelago is incorporated
in the Kingdom of Norway has been
placed on the statute book after hav
ing been passed in the two chambers
by narrow majorities.
Norwegians are divided regarding
the benefits to them by the acquisi
tion of these islands, which were as
signed to Nomay by the Spitzber
gen Treaty concluded in Paris be
tween the great powers on February
9, 1920.
On one hand, popular feelings of
national prestige have impelled ac
ceptance of responsibility for the
sole remnant of what, according to
perfervid nationalists, ought to be a
Norse Empire embracing also Iceland
and Greenland. Norsemen, they
claim, ought to possess the command
of the Arctic Ocean and they find it
hard to forgive Denmark for appro
priating Iceland and Greenland.
The possibility of Spitzbergen be
coming at some future time an im
portant station for transarctic air
traffic is also not lost sight of.
On the other hand, the islands,
which are inaccessible during the
long winter season, have been hither
to satisfactorily administered by pri
vate interests, and they will now re
quire an administrative body headed
by a provincial governor, with a host
of civil service officials.
The first Svalbard estimates, for
1925-26, recently published cover an
initial expenditure for the new ad
ministration, estimated at 240,000
crowns. An income tax will be lev
ied estimated to produce 160,000
crowns and an export duty on coal
is calculated to yield 80,000 crowns.
Coal companies’ oficials opine that
advantages and disadvantages under
the new regime will about balance
each other. They will be relieved of
many administrative burdens and the
task of keeping law and order, but
they will have to submit to govern
ment supervision as regards produc
tion and export; moreover, all pri
vate wireless stations on the islands
will come henceforth under govern
ment control.
If the fiction characters cuss, it’s
a high-brow magazine.
Druggists's Error 1
Proves Fatal for
Vancouver Woman
VANCOUVER, B. C., Sept. 18.
(/P)—Mrs. Frederick Biggam
died here today when she itook
bicholide mercury tablets from
a box she bought at a drug
store labelled Asperin.
The druggist told police that
he discovered his error to late.
Traffic Dangers Canse
Fewer Baby Carriages
TOLEDO, O., Sept. 18. (^P) —
Despite the faot that babies
are born in the United States
at a rate of one every thirty
seconds the use of baby car- ,
riages is falling off.
This bit of socialogical phe
nomena was divulged by J.
Weir Coover, secretary of the
Gendron Wheel company, one
of the oldeat baby carriage con
cerns in the country.
Coover attributed the de
creased demand to the automo
bile, to the danger of crossing
the streets and 'to increasing
j apartment houses existence.
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OLD FAMILY DOCT R
IS COMING IN TO
POPULARITY
Doctor Who Tends to Baby and Aids
Throughout Childhood Better
Fitted to Serve Patient
SEATTLE, Sept. 18. (£>)—'The trend
toward specilization in medicine is
turning back to the old family physi
cian, Dr. Henry Christian, of Boston,
told the state medical association con
vention here today.
The public is gradually getting the
idea that the doctor who attends to
the baby, and watches through its
childhood, is better fitted to serve the
patient in later life.
SPANISH TROOPS LANDING
AGAIN ALHUCEMAS BAY
FEZ, Sept. 18. (/P)—Spanish troops
are reported to have landed again at
Alhucemas Bay, occupying a strip two
miles deep, and flanking their original
forces on the Morro Nuevo peninsula.
PARKS APPOINTS
HEALTH COM’RS.
TWO DIVISIONS
(Juneau Empire)
The appointment of two new Assis
tant Commissioners of Health, one for
the Fourth and the other for the Third
division, was made public today from
the Governor’s office. Gov. Parks ten
dered the appointments some time ago,
the acceptances and oaths of office be
ing received in a recent mail from
the westward. They are the first of
ficials to be appointed by the gover
nor.
Dr. W. W. Council, of Cordova, was
appointed for the Third Division. He
was named by Governor Parks to suc
ceed Dr. W. H. Chase, also of Cordova
who resigned about the middle of Aug
ust.
Dr. J. H. Romig, of Fairbanks was
appointed for the Fourth Division, to
succeed Dr. J. A. Sutherland, resign
ed. His appointment wras effective
September 3, the date he took the oath
of office.
Both Drs. Council and Romig are
widely known throughout the Terri
tory, and are oldtimers in the north.
Other members of the Board of Health
are Dr. H. C. DeVighne, Commissioner
of Juneau, and Dr. Curtis Welch of
Nome, Asst. Commissioner for the
Second Division.
The reappointment of Dr. F. B. Gil
lespie, of Kennecott, as member of
the Board of Medical Examiners was
also announced. Dr. Gillispie has
been on this board for several years.
One objection to movie kisses is
that they look too much like vul
canizing.
CHIEF STARWICH IS
PUTTING HIS MEN
THRU MILL
Two Men, Believed to Have Been Es
caped Prisoners, Seen in Vicin
ity of Everett
SEATTLE, Sept. 18. (JP)—Starwich
summoned head jailer Dave Morgan
to his office today, and severely dress
ed him down for his failure to pull the
lever sounding the alarm at police
headquarters, declaring the six out
laws would have been caught if he
had attended to his business.
“There were several moments,” the
Chief said, “when Morgan was not un
der the guim of the outlaws and abso
lutely free. It took the prisoners 20
minutes to make their getaway.”
A. C. Rosenfeldt, fingerprint expert
who was acting as guard, and who
opened the door of the cell at the
point of a gun, was called “chicken
hearted.”
“No prisoner will shoot from within
a locked cell,” said Starwich.
The latest definite clew reported by
Harry Murgatroyd, a Seattle salesman,
was when two men, believed to be
Ward and Kilbourne, stopped him on
the outskirts of the city and forced
him to drive them toward Everett.
The men then took Murgatroyd’s
clothing, damaged his automobile and
disappeared in the woods. A posse is
searching the region.
MITCHELL MAY BE
TRIED FOR HIS
UTTERANCES
Aircraft Bord will Begin Public Hear
ings Monday, With Mitchell Tak
ing the Stand First
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept, 18. (JP)
—The Aircraft Board hs decided to be
gin its public hearings Monday, and
will summon Mitchell as the first wit
ness.
The War Department has indicated
that Mitchell will be courtmartialled
for his utterances in regard to the
wrecking of the Shenandoah, and the
hardships of the crew of the navy’s
seaplane.
Former Head of Discount
Bank to Face Fifth Trial
CLEVELAND. Ohio, Sept. 18. (#>)—
Josiah Kirby, who has faced four ju
ries on charges growing out of the
collapse of the Cleveland Discount
company, which he organized "virtu
ally singlehanded, will go to trial
here again on a federal indictment
charging use of the mails to defraud.
Twice juries that sat in judgment
on Kirby disagreed and twice he was
acquitted. In each case it was said
that the defendant “sold himself” to
the juries, it being freely admitted
that the same personal magnetism
and “supersalesmanship” which lift
ed Kirby from a penniless stranger
in Cleveland to the head of the $40,
000,000 concern, helped to convince
the jurors that he was innocent of
the charges made against him.
Kirby has started in business in
California, while the discount com
pany being reorganized by the re
ceivers. The company was establish
ed in 1918 and $14,000,000 of its pre
ferred stock was sold thruout the
state. Shortly after the company pur
chased the Rockefeller Building, the
name of which was changed to Cleve
land Discount Company Building,
which it still bears.
About the only thing reformers
never denounce is the collection
plate.