VOLUME 19, NUMBER 2U
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1924
PRICE TEN CENTS
CHAIRMAN DECLARES
COALITION EXISTS ON
THE PACIFIC COAST
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 4.—
Charges that coalition exists in the
West, between the Democrats and
the La Toilette independents, “to pre
vent an election in November,” was
made here yesterday afternoon by
Putler, chairman of the republican
naffinal committee, following a con
f(5nce with President Cpolidge.
giants leading in
first game of series
Up to the time of going to pre «
the Giants were leading 1 to 0 at
the end of the third inning. Fur
ther reports on the game have not
been received.
MINISTER CHARGED WITH
AN ATTEMPT TO BRIBE
HANFORD, Cal., Oct. 4.—Rev. Guy
Field, Pastor of the Temple of the
Lord is held on a charge of Bribery.
Justice of the Peace Irwin said the
minister slipped ten dollars into his
hands when cited as an automobile
speeder.
SsHIELS SAYS CANNERS
OF P. A. F. ARE CLOSING
BELLINGHAM, Oct. 4.—Vice-Pres
ident Archie W. Shiels, of the Pacific
American Fisheries, has returned from
an inspection trip north and says all
company canneries in Alaska have
, closed for the season with the excep
tion of the one operating on Bering
River.
BELGIUM IS HARD HIT
BY FOOT-MOUTH DISEASE
BRUSSELS, Oct. 4.—The foot and
mouth disease raging among the cat
tle of Belgium has already caused
levies estimated at $50,000,000.
HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS
IS MISSING; GUARD SOUGHT
SPRINGFIELD,Mass., Oct. 4.—The
Union Trust company today reported
reported $100,000 coming in the mails
is missing and the police are asked
to locate William Hanifin, a guard.
MAN IS KILLED WHILE
LOADING LOGS ON CAR
EATONVILLE, Wash., Oct. 4.—F.
}$, Stanlup, of Orting, Wn„ was kill
ed and Michael Perry was probably
fatally injured in an accident today
when loading logs on the railway cars
of the St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber
company’s camp nearby.
CATHOLIC SERVICES MAY
BE HELD LOCAL CHURCH
Father Bolster is expected to arrive
in Howard on tonight’s train and if
the Northwestern does not leave be
fore Sunday noon, h ewill hold Mass
at the local Catholic chuich at 9.00
a .m. tomorrow.
The Gateway was unable to get in
formation in regard to the steamer
Northwestern before going to press.
NORTH PLATTE, Neb., Oct. 2.—
Ezra Meeker and Lieutenant Kelly,
flying from Vancouver, Wn., to Day
ton, Ohio, arirved here at lour this
afternoon.
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NOME-SHELTON RAILWAY
RAPIDLY BEING FIXED UP
The Territorial Railway from Nome
to Shelton, says the Nome Nugget, is
being rapidly overhauled and at pres
ent it is possible to travel as far as
Iron Creek with a track speeder. The
road crew expects to reach Iron
Creek in a few days, wThen the bridge
over that stream will be rebuilt. The
~oa^ is being used by an increasing
lumber of miners and travelers!! and
moving that the Territorial Legisl
ate made no mistake when it appro
priated the money for the purchase of
he road. Last wreek, eleven ti avoi
rs, north and south bound, wi re ga
hered at Seppala Station near Big
lorn. Mis sBertha Saville and Miss
tmie^Cochrane were among those go
ig uy to spend a few days at Iron
reek Roadhouse and Miss Blanche
orgerson from her trip to the Koug
rok and Iron Creek. O. E. Wheeler,
roprietor of and dispenser of hospi
ility at Iron Creek Roadhouse, ex
acts a number of Nomeites out to
ike advantage of the excellent fish
!g and hunting.
BOOZE RUNNERS GIVEN
$500 FINES AND NINETY
DAYS IN SKAGIT PRISON
MOUNT VERNON, Oct. 4.—Wil
liam Mullen and Ulysses Grisgarry,
arrested this week near Conway with
a truck load of Canadian beer, were
given fines of $500 each and sentences
of ninety days in the county jail.
The fines were pai 1 and the men
are now serving their sentences.
More than three thousand bottles j
of beer were found in the cargo.
JAP STEAMSHIP LINE
OFFICIALS RESIGN ON
ACCOUNT POLICY PRES.
TOKIO, Oct. 4.—The resignations
of many of the highest officials of the
Nippon Yusen Kaisha, one of the
greatest of Japanese steamship lines,
last week, climaxed a long existing
dissatisfaction. The resignations were
world-wide and included managers at
New York, Seattle and London.
It has since been disclosed that the
cause of the resignations, which num-!
ber six hundred and ten, was said to
be in a declaration to the directors of
the company, the policy of Presidentj
Ito of the Company.
President Ito’s policy is also said to
be blamed for the depression of the j
company’s business. The marine staffs
and seamen have not yet joined the!
land forces in the protest, but they
are sympathetic.
1924 WHEAT CROP
WILL PUT $1000,000 IN
HANDS OF FARMERS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 4.—The
American 1924 wheat crop will put
$1,000,009 in the hands of the farm
er throughout the country, Secretary
Mellon stated yesterday afternoon, af
ter an investigation of the situation
at Chicago by Eugene Meyer, junior
managing director of the War Fin
ance corporation.
CHINA’S WITHDRAWAL
FROM LEAGUE WILL
TAKE SOME TIME
GENEVA, Oct. 4.—Chao Singu, the
Chinese delegate to the League of Na
tions indicated today that China’s an
nouncement of her withdrawal from
the League of Nations, wouldn’t take
place immediately, as it would take
| time to consult with the Pekin govern
ment parliament. In the meantime a
Chinese permanent representative will
remain at Geneva.
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“HE GETS THE GOLFER’S VOTE”
With President Coolidge no golfer,
Hon. John W. Davis, should have the
“links’ vote” cinched. The Democrat
ic candidate is seen practicing an iron
shot at Mattapan, his home in Glen
Cove, Locust Valley, Long Island.
NEGRO WOMAN TO FACE
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT;
FIRST IN FORTY YEARS
HARRISBURG, Oct. 4.—The first
death warrant for the execution of a
woman in Pennsylvania in many years
was issued yesterday by Governor
Pinchott’s office. It fixed the date
of the execution of Louise Thomas, a
negress convicted of murder in Phila
delphia, for the week beginning Oct.
28. The last woman executed in Penn
sylvania was Sarah Whitling, in Phila
delphia, who wTas hanged in 1885.
OFFICERS’ RESERVE TO
HAVE RETIRED STATUS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 4.—Es
tablishment of retired status forms of
the officers’ reserve corps through
creation of an auxiliary section of the
corps was announced today at the war
department. All reserve officers who
shall have reached the age of 64 years
or shall apply for transfer to the aux
iliary section after twenty years’ ser
vice, “or shall have become physically
disqualified otherwise than thru their
own misconduct” for the duties of
their grades in the reserve corps, wall
be eligible for transfer to the new
section.
Regulations in regard to the opera
tion of this new provision will be con
tained in the revised regulations for
the officers’ reserve corps soon to be
published.
EXTRA FREIGHT TRAIN
HITS REGULAR; MAN DEAD
DES MOINES, Oct. 4.—Engineer
James A. McCurry was killed and
Fireman Waldo seriously injured last
night when an extra freight crashed
in a local freight half a mile north
of this city.
KU KLUX KLAN K
ISSUE AT BUFFALO;
2 MURDERS RESULT
CITY LIFE IS AFFECTED BY ILL
FEELING GROWING OUT OF
KLAN FIGHT
BUFFALO, N. Y., Oct. 4.—Some
thing far more exciting than any po
litical campaign has been going on
here. Politicians may learn much from
it, but communities having members
in the Ku Klux Klan may learn still
more.
For the greatest michief, including a
couple of murders has resulted from
the mysterious publishing of a list of
members of the Kan. Denials, most
of which are not being accepted as sin
cere, are coming from every side.
Businessmen, who depend on Catho
lics, Jews, or Negroes for their trade,
are being boycotted—one milk dealer
is said to have lost a hundred custom
ers over night—and the end of the
bitterness is not yet in sight.
The episode has been developing for
several weeks. First Klan headquar
ters were broken into by unknown
persons. It was rumored that a long
list had been stolen. Not long after
wards from a neighboring city there
came by mail the Buffalo membership
cards of the Klan. Mayor Schwab in
vited anyone who owned the cards to
recover their property. No one appear
ed. Then a list of the members was
made available to the newspapers by
the mayor. The newspapers feared
libel as they would not be sure the
list was bonafide and even if it was
they could not risk a law suit with a
few individuals who might be erron
eously listed. Then someone inter
ested in getting the names spread in
the city had them printed in pamphlet
form. Attorneys for the newsboys
association advised against their be
ing handled at the news stands. Hun
dreds of copies, nevertheless were sold
and all over the city people may be
found studying those lists for familiar
names. Fist fights, several houses
painted up and a withdrawal of pat
ronage from business folk mentioned
were some of the sequels. In the
midst of it all, two men killed each
other and a third was badly wounded.
One of the dead was discovered to be
an organizer for the klan sent here
to investigate the loss of the cards.
The wounded man admits being a lo
cal kleagle. The second man killed
wras a former policeman, who is now
supposed to have joined the Klan as
a spy for the major. It was he who
was charged with having stolen the
list. He is dead now, so he can tell
no tales, but the list has proved a
terrihlA 1 Ptmoir
TWENTY THOUSAND PERSONS
IN STATE OF STARVATION
IN PHILIPPINE PROVINCES
MANILA, Oct. 4.—That twenty
thousand persons are in a state of
starvation in one province and that
misery covers other provinces on ac
count of crop failures, was revealed in
a report made public today by the
Red Cross. A locust invasion and
the prevalence of anthrax among the
work animals, which is killing them
! off, is mainly' responsible for the sit
uation, the report said.
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FOREIGNERS CAMPING ON
BEACH NEAR SHANGHAI
TIENTSIN, Oct. 4.—Americans and
other foreigners at Shanghai and Iva
wan, are camping on the sea-shore
five miles from the city. They have
been driven from their homes by the
daily bombardments by Chang Tso
Lin’s artillery.
WILL DEMAND FEDERAL
INVESTIGATION OF BALL
CHICAGO, Oct. 4.—Ban Johnson
will demand federal investigation of
the present baseball scandal to rid
the future series games of crooked
ness. He said he would not stand for
any “covering up” of the scandal.
GEORGE EDW. LEWIS
AND PARTY LEAVING
FOR YUKON RIVER DIST.
SEATTLE, Oct. 4.—Fourteen movie
actors and actresses under George Ed
ward Lewis, producer of the Cheecha
kos, left Seattle last week for Skag
way and the upper Yukon country,
to complete a new picture on the in
ternational frontier. A second spec
ial company including Robert McKim,
Gladys Johnson and William Dills,
will worjc between Skagway and White
horse.
BANDITS WRECK TRAIN,
13 KILLED, MANY INJURED
ODESSA, Oct. 4.—Fifteen persons,
including five women were killed, 25
critically wounded and 43 seriously
injured when bandits derailed a Mos
cow train today, 300 miles north of
here.*
The engineer, fireman and conduc
I tor are among the dead.
NERO’S BATHING HOUSE
EXCAVATED AT AGNANC
MILAN, Oct. 4.—Nero’s pompous
bathing house ,the largest of the Ro
: man period yet discovered, has been
I excavated at Agnano, near Naples.
The structure is six stories high and
1,125 feet long. The three topmost
galleries were reserved for individual
steam baths.
TWO MEN WITH CARGO
OF BEER ARE ARRESTED
MOUNT VERNON, Oct. 4.—Con
cealed in baled straw, 3,360 bottles of
Canadian beer were seized by the sher
iff’s office at Conway early this morn
ing. The officers placed under ar
rest two men who gave their names
as William Mullen and Ulysses Yrisar
ry. The suspects and their cargo
and the truck in which the liquor was
concealed were brought to the court
house here. The origin of the liquor
supply is not known, although it is
believed that it was unloaded from a
boat which had brought the beer from
British Columbia and that it was on
its way to Seattle.
SNOW FALLS IN OREGON
KLAMATH FALLS, Oct. 4.—Four
inches of snow fell last night at
Crater Lake National Park.
FRENCH GIRL WINS
BRITISH GOLF TITLE
STOKESPOGES, Eng., Oct. 4.—
Simon Thion de la Chaume, of France,
aged 16 years, today won the British
girls’ golf championship defeating the
English champion 4 and 2.
SCANDALOUS AFFAIR
WOULD NOT AFFECT
WORLD SERIES GAMES
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 4.—The
World series will be played according
to schedule in spite of charges In the
York Giants, Landis, high commission
attempted bribe by members of New
SEVERAL KILLED IN
CUSH; SOLDIERS VS.
STRIKING WORKERS
TAMPICO, Oct. 4.—Several work
men were killed yesterday in a clash
between strikers and soldiers guard
ing the property of the Mex-Gulf Oil
Company. The strike has been in
progress for some time and a general
strike has been ordered.
Five hundred strikers attempted
to prevent the loading of ships when
the soldiers fired on them. Several of
the strike leaders have been arrested.
NEW RECORD SET BY
MORTORCYCLE DRIVER
SYRACUSE, N. Y., Oct. 4.—A new
world record for the 20-mile solo mo
torcycle championship race at the fair
grounds here today by Paul Anderson,
of Chicago.
Two other world records also were
broken in the five mile side car event.
Andy Hepburn and Scott both set new
figures. Hepburn, the winner, had a
time of four minutes 4.31 seconds.
In the five mine national sidecar
championship, Hepburn also set a new
record of four minutes and five sec
onds flat.
CLEVER CHECK FORGER
IS CAUGHT AT ST. PAUL
ST. PAUL, Oct. 4.—George Gardner
who says he is from Spokane, Wash.,
and who, police believe, is wanted in
several cities on charges of forgery,
was arrested here today when he at
tempted to cash a $25 check at a lo
cal bank.
Gardner represented himself at the
bank as a western “wheat king,” po
lice said. They said he had admit
ted serving time in Walla Walla, Wash
state prison for forgery.
PROMINENT SOCIETY
MAN IS DEFENDANT
IN DIVORCE SUIT
| SEATTLE, Oct. 4.—Farewell P. Lil
ly, vice president of the Chas. H. Lil
ly Co., of this city, wass named yes
terday defendant in a divorce action,
instituted in Superior Court by Eliza
beth S. Lilly.
Lilly is prominent socially in Se
attle.
1 LAFOLLETTE STRONGEST
IN OPPOSITION TO WAR
PITTSBURG, Oct. 4.—Mrs. Lulu j
Wheeler, wife of Senator Wheeler told
an audience of women last night that J
the feminine voters throughout the |
country are supporters of Senator La-!
Follette, as the most downright man;
in the country in opposition to war.
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SWINGS GIGANTIC RAIL MERGER,
Oris P. Van Sweringen, Cleveland
financial genius, who, with his brother
Mantis J. Van Sweringen, has just
arranged a railrord merger by which
the Nickle Plate system, his first rail
road purchase, will be consolidated
with the Chesapeake and Ohio, the
Hocking Valley and the Pere Mar
quette, and the Erie into a single rail
road system vith a total of S3.500,
000,000 assets, and a total tro/kage of
14,357 miles. O. P., oi*<? a ragged
newsboy and then a real estate specu
lator, and his Irother at; backed by
IRENE CASTLE CLAIMS
ROBERT TREMAN STOLE
HER VALUABLE SECURITIES
NEW YORK, Oct. 4.—Robert Tre
man, who was the second husband of
Irene Castle McLaughlin, former danc
er, was arrested last week in Ithica, N.
Y., on a civil order obtained by Mrs.
McLaughlin from the Supreme Court
it was learned today.
The order was requested on the
ground that Treman had refused to
return to his former wife some $40,000
worth of securities, which she had
placed in his custody, and to which
she said she was entitled.
M A NC H U RIA N S C A PT U R E
VILLAGE OF TUNTAI
TIENTSIN, Oct. 4.—The Manchur
ian forces last Tuesday morning cap
tured the village of Tuntai, according
to information received today. Since
then the situation around Shanghai
has been quiet.
OLDFIELD PREDICTS HOUSE
BE CONTROLLED BY DEMOS.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 4.—
The Democratic control of the house
and the senate in the next congress,
is predicted by Representative Old
field.
PRINTERS ACCUSED OF
FORGING SEALS FOR
LABELS ON BOTTLES
VANCOUVER, Oct. 3.—Robert M.
Crosby and James J. Leader, printers
of this city, have been arrested on a
charge of unlawfully forging a trade
mark. The accused are reported by the
police to have had in their possession
dies for W. A. Gaines & Co., incorpor
ated, of Frankfort, Ky., manufactur
ers of Old Crow whisky, and also of
the manufacture of Johnny Walker
whisky. The men are alleged to have
sold these labels to bootleggers dis
tributing moonshine.
COURTLAND DINES MARRIES
WELL KNOWN ACTRESS
DENVER, Oct. 4.—It became known
today that Edna Purviance, motion
picture star, and Courtland Dines, the
well-known Denver millionaire, were
married last week. Dines was shot last
New Year by Mable Normand’s chaf
feur, while on a party with Edna Pur
viance. Tho case was dismissed on
account of Dines refusing to bring
charges against the chaffeur, and al
so because of the stubbornness of the
witnesses.
TRACK STAR IS HEIR
TO LARGE SUM MONEY
SEATTLE, Oct. 4.—Bryce Taylor,
negro athlete, reputed one of the best
high school track men ever developed
in Seattle, a member of the Southern
California freshman football and track
teams of last year, will receive $100,
000 when he obtains his bachelor de
gree of arts at the California insti
tution, according to a message receiv
ed here today. A cousin of Taylor
who died recently, left the money to
him with the proviso that the athlete
graduate.
ARCTIC ICE CAPS THICK
WITH GLACIERS LARGER
WISCASSETT, Me., Oct. 4.—Donald
MacMillan, who has just returned
from a fifteen months’ trip beyond
the Arctic Circle, said ice caps are
getting thicker and glaciers larger. He
explained that for the first time in
his memory valley glaciers reached
the sea.
MacMillan discovered enormous bi
tuminous coal deposits, the seams in
some places being 25 feet thick. The
deposits are located a few hundred
miles from the North Pole and eight
hundred miles beyond the reach of
any transportation except sledges.
McMillan said portions of the coast
line are sinking.
AN EASTERN PAPER
WILL COME NORTH
FOR PULP SUPPLY
SEATTLE, Wn„ Oct. 4.—An East
ern paper will go to Southeastern Al
aska for its pulp timber, wsa the re
port of J. C. Sort, hydro-electric en
gineer of the U. S. Forest service on