L. D. Henderson Re-Elected Commissioner of Schools
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VOLUME XVII. NUMBER 106
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, APRIL 23,1923
PRICE TEN CENTS
Bill for Protection Blue Fox Industry Passes Senate
Taxation of One Dollar on Resident and Fifteen Dollars
For Non-Resident Fishermen To Be Imposed By Measure
Conan Doyle and Scientists
Argue Over Explorer’s Death
NEW YORK, Apr. 23—The asser
tion by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle that
avenging spirits caused the death of
Lord Carnarvon has caused a tempest
of opinions among spiritualists and
scientists, the latter openly scoffing
at the theory—which late dispatches
from Cairo assert is held by native
Egyptians.
Joining hands with Marie Corelli,
the English novelist, said that the
priests of old Egypt knew much more
of the occult than we and that they
might have placed a spiritual element
in the town to strike down the man
man who disturbed the bones of their
Pharaoh.
But Egyptologists and scientists
read “insect bite” and nothing more.
They scoffed openly at the idea of an
avenging spirit remaining faithful tor
3000 years, and Sir Arthur himself is
forced to admit that by now old King
Tut’s spirit may be far enough along
to not care a tuppence what happens
to his bones.
A member of the department of
Egyptology at the Metropolitan muse
um of art declared that if the threats
of the Pharaohs were effective all the
scientists who worked on the tomb
would be dead.
Superstition Scouted
Mrs. Caroline Williams of the New
York Historical Society, was among
those who scouted the ancient super
stition. Unlike others, Mrs. Williams
has been interested in finding its ori
gin and tracing it down, and in doing
so cited some of the tomb inscriptions
which have given rise to and have
strengthened the belief.
“One of these,” said Mrs. Williams,
‘‘was found on a tomb of about 2500
B. C., and read: ‘After any man who
shall enter this tomb to usurp it, I
will receive him like a wild fowl and
he shall be judged by the great god.’”
Another Threat Found
“Another inscription contained a
threat against anyone who should de
face the inscription on the tomb. To
understand this it is, necessary to re
member that certain parts of the
IMPROVEMENTS Mill
SERVICE BE MADE
IN ALASKA
CONFERENCE BRINGS OUT
IMPORTANT CHANGES
INTERIOR ROUTING
SEATTLE, Apr. 23.—Improvements
in the Alaskan mail service and wider j
and more frequent distribution to all
points in the interior of the Territory
will be brought about as a result of a
conference in Seattle between E. G. j
Wetzler, chief clerk of the mail ser-;
vice at Nenana and officials of *
Railway Mail Service, headed by W.
C. Vandervoort, superintendent, at the j
thirteenth Divisional conference.
The conference dealt principally
with new contracts for deliveries and
general distribution throughout the
Territory.
MANY !
IN
AUXILIARY MEETING
American Legion Auxiliary will
meet at Mrs. Sexton’s Tuesday even
ing, April 24, at 8:00 o’clock. Impor
tant business.
ANNE GOODSKEY, Sec.
PARIS, Apr. 23—The very latest
thing out in decorations for women’s
hats is fish fins.
tombs were open so that various rites
might be held there in perpetuity.
The inscriptions contained in many
cases the forms of the rites and so
any defacement of the inscriptions
made it impossible for others to lol
low the prescribed ritual.
“Usually there was a promise of re
ward for those who protected and pre
served the tomb and its inscriptions,
as for instance one about 2000 B. C.
which assured protectors that they
‘shall become elders in their cities.’ ”
Dire Evils Threatened.
Mrs. Williams states that the mor
tuary endowment of Ammon Hotep
III, grandfather of Tutankhamen’s
queen, gave a particularly complete
account of what was expected of the
protectors and preservers of the en
dowment and of the threats against
those who violated it.
Highest blessings were promised to
those who followed the wishes of the
king and direct evil assured those
who violated them. Of these latter
the inscriptions said: "His body shall
be accursed. Ammon shall deliver
violators to blazing wrath.”
Others were to be “engulfed in the
sea.”
Sir Arthur said; “An elemental is a
built up. artificial thing, an imbued
force which may be brought into be
ing by a spirit mind or by nature. It
exists of itself for a specific purpose
and is not procreated. We know but I
very little about them but have proof
of their existence, especially in regard
to the Egyptians.
Theory Held Possible.
“Therefore I think it quite possible
that Lord Carnarvon may have met
his death through one of these ele
mentals. I know' the Egyptians know’
a lot about spiritualism, all the East
erners did. We are often in commu
nication with them. Wise old Eastern
spirits are our faithful guides.
“Still w’e do not know whether the
occult pow’er of the Egyptians extend
ed far enough to bring into being an
elemental which could exist for sev
eral thousand years, although it is
possible, since a spirit is eternal.”
ORGANIZED RESISTANCE AND
SYSTEMATIC STRIKES GIVE
FRANCE NO ALTERNATIVE
LORRAINE, France, Apr. 23.—“Or
ders from Berlin for organized resis
tance and systemic strikes oblige us
to make the Ruhr occupation more
strict so far as military operations
are concerned than we intended, and
it is up to Germany (to alleviate her
own conditions by ceasing further re
sistance,” declared Premier Poincare
in a speech here last night.
The premier came here to unveil a
monument to the French war dead.
AMERICAN DESTROYERS
TO PROTECT INTERESTS
SHANGHAI, Apr. 23.—Seven Amer
ican destroyers have been ordered
from this p^rt to Hankow to protect
their nation’s interest as a result ol
threatened civil war throughout th«
Chinese provinces.
AMONG THOSE NAMED ARE DR.
COOK AND E. C. KINSGBURY,
TEXAS POLITICIAN
FORT WORTH, Apr. 21— Indict
ments charging ninety-two oil promo
ters with using the mails to defraud
were returned by a Federal grand jury
today.
Those named included Dr. Cook, the
Arctic explorer, and E. C. Kingsbury,
a prominent Texas politician.
According to United States Attorney
Zwifel, outstanding stock companies
have swindled investors of sums ag
gregating $7,044,500.
BOMB WEIGHING TWO HUNDRED
POUNDS PLACED NEXT DOOR
BY ARMED MEN
DUBLIN, Apr. 23.—Worshippers in
the Carmelite church in Dublin nar
rowly escaped death this morning
when a land mine weighing 200
pounds was placed next to the door
by armed men. The bomb failed to
explode as spectators rushed up and
extinguished the fuses.
LOAN OF SIXTf MILLIONS
BE MADE TO FRANCE
PARIS, Apr. 23.—A loan of sixty
million pounds by the Bank of Eng
land to the Bank of France, to be re
paid in instalments covering a period
of seven years has been negotiated,
the government announced.
ONE GENERAL AND 17
OFFICERS SENTENCED
MADRID, Apr. 23.—The Supreme
War Council has sentenced one gen
eral and 17 other officers to imprison
ment for misappropriation of funds.
CEASE PUBLICATION
LINCOLN, Apr. 23.—It is announc
ed The Commoner, William J. Bri -
an’s famous political paper published
at this place will cease publication
with the April issue, owing to a fall
ing off in receipts.
BARKENTINE AND TANKER
COLLIDE NEAR SEATTLE
SEATTLE, Apr. 23—The big oi
tanker La Purissima, bound from Se
attle for California ports, and th<
wooden barkentine Mary Winkleman
coming up the strait of Juan be Fucj
under sail, collided off Slip Poin
this morning. The barkentine was
badly damaged, but no lives were lost
ALASKA MINERS SAIL
FOR SIBERIA TO
HUNT GOLD
WILL SPEND FROM TWO TO FIV"
YEARS IN SEARCH FOR
YELLOW METAL
SEATTLE, Apr. 21.—Passengers on
the President Madison which sailed
for the Orient (today include a quar
tet of veterans of Alaska, Canada, and
Nevada mining fields, who have out
fitted for a mining expedition into Si
beria. The quartette include J. Vint
of Seattle, W. M. Hyland and John
McCallister of Saskatchewan and Al
berta, Daniel M. Ulm, of Nevada.
The party is prepared to spend two
to five years in Siberia in quest of
gold deposit said to exist.
OE VALERA REPORTED
IRISH AUTHORITIES WOULD BE,
GREATLY EMBARRASSED IF
HE WERE CAPTURED
DUBLIN, Apr. 23.—Eamon De Vale
ra is reported to be preparing to flee
to America and it is indicated thait
the government will not interfere if
he can find a way to leave the coun
try, because it wants to avoid the em
barrassment that would attend his
capture and execution.
Ill SEAHLE HOSPITAL
SEATTLE, Apr. 23— James Kenne
dy, a resident of various sections of
Alaska for the past 25 years, was
buried this morning, having succumb
ed from complications resulting from
an attack of appendicitis.
GERMANY OFFEAS PHY
THIRTY-FIVE BILLIONS
BERLIN, Apr. 23.—Germany’s new
reparations offer shows that she is
willing to pay thirty-five billion gold
marks to France.
EiTHQUE GURRIES
VILLAGE INTO SE1
MOSCOW, Apr. 23.—An earthquake
at Petropovlovsk, Kamschatka, April
15, carried two factories, a hostiptal
and a large number of houses into the
sea. The loss of live has not yet
i been given.
THREE MILLION ORPHANS
ARE WITHOUT FOOD SUPPLY
RIGA, Apr. 23.—Ukranian authori
ties announce that there are three
million orphans in Ukraine and the
' authorities are able to provide but 15
• per cent of them wRh foo«.
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President of College Denied
Authority to Name Faculty
(By Special Correspondent.)
JUNEAU, Alaska, Apr. 23.—Lester
D. Henderson, present Commissioner
3f Education for Alaska, was re-elect
?d late Saturday by the Territorial
Board of Education. His term expir
sd March 31st. Some opposition had
Jeveloped among the board members
to his re-election, which was endorsed
by the School Boards of virtually ev
ery incorporated town. The opposi
tion was unexpected and become pub
lic some ten days ago, when it was
claimed three members of the board
lined up to oust him. The first bal
lot at Saturday’s meeting showed
Governor Bone, and Senators Cham
berlin and Snodgrass voting for Hen
lerson; Brown of Nome for H. L.
Rowley, teacher in the Douglas high
school; and Senator Hunt of Ketchi
kan, for Grace Ban, a teacher in the
Juneau schools. Henderson’s re-elec
tion was then made unanimous.
Senate Bill 107, depriving the pres
ident of the Alaska Agricultural Col
lege and School of Mines of the power
to appoint but allowing to nominate
the faculty of the college, passed the
Senate by a vote of five to three;
Ayer, Dimond and Dunn opposing;
ind the remainder voting for the
measure.
The Snodgrass bill, making the of
fice of Commissioner of Education
elective, was tabled in the Senate on
motion by Snodgrass, after he had
denied the measure.
The Senate also passed Bill 50, pro
tecting th£, blue fox-farming industry
by requiring registration of brands,
and the branding of all animals and
pelts by farmers, and the tagging of
legally caught skins before U. S. ocm
missioners, by trappers.
The DaiT Bill requiring the payment
of persons- in private employment in
United States money or its equivalent,
and establishing a monthly payday in
canneries, and"the so-called herd-law
prohibiting live stock from roaming at
large unattended on public highways,
were killed.
The House passed the Senate Bill
providing for a labor lien for fisher
men on the pack of the canneries.
Foster’s bill providing that the ter
ritory refund $30 annually to Schools
of incorporated towns for each pupil
attending from ouside of town, passed
the House, as did the Bill imposing a
tax of one dollar upon resident
fifteen dollars upon non-resident fish
ermen.
ffllSHl RESOURCES
PACIFIC OCEAN BE
CONSERVED
RAPID DISAPPEARANCE OF SEA
LIFE ALARMS RESIDENTS OF
MANY NATIONS
SAN FRANCISCO, Apr. 23.—Reso
lutions calling upon the government
to seek an international treaty for the
conservation of the vanishing re
sources of the Pacific ocean were
adopted by the Committee of the
Whole Club here Saturday.
The resolutions in the main were
directed at the rapid disappearance of
fur seals, otters and whale and their
ruthless slaughter for commercial
purposes. The United States, Great
Britain, Mexico and Japan are asked
to participate in such treaty.
CHICAGO MIIUHIE
TO HUNT IN ALASKA
SEATTLE, Apr. 23.—William Bross
Lloyd, a Chicago millionaire radical,
left Seattle last night after having
placed an order for a small craft on
which he will embark this summer for
Alaska on a fishing and hunting trip.
SEATTLE BOOTLEGCEH
WOUNDED BY OFFICER
SEATTLE, Apr. 23—Sam McBride,
a bootlegger, is in the hospital here
with two bullet wounds in his side,
and two severe scalp wounds received
when he was shot and clubbed with a
revolver in the hands of W. M. Whit
ney, Federal prohibition officer, who
conducted a raid on the soft drink
parlor conducted by McBride.
ROME, Italy, Apr. 23.—All Italy is
celebrating Rome’s 2676th birthday
anniversary.
WASHINGTON OARSMEN WIN BY
SIX LENGTHS—FRESHMAN
CREW ALSO DEFEATS U
OAKLAND, Apr. 23.—Washington
won its annual boat race with the
University of California by about six
lengths on the Oakland estuary Sat
urday morning. The official time of
the race was 18:05. The record for
the course is 15:35.
The Washington oarsmen took the
lead at the end of the first quarter of
a mile and steadily pulled ahead of
the Bears, winning by nearly six
lengths.
After the Washington Varsity crew
had defeated the California Varsity,
the Washington Freshman crew won
over the California freshman crew.
NEW Dm TANKER
SAILS FROM SEATTLE
SEATTLE, Apx*. 23.—The new Die
sel electric tanker, Standard Service,
of the Standard Oil Company, sailed
today, beginning her maiden voyage
to Southeastern Alaska. Captain L.
Cagle, is commander of the vessel,
the first of her type ever built.
The Standard Service is 218% feet
long and has four cargo tanks, with a
total capacity of 10,510 barrels.
LEGION MEETING
Seward Post, American Legion, will
meet tomorrow evening at eight
o’clock in regular session at their
headquarters. All legionnaires are
requested to be present.
GUN FIGHT RESULTS IN DEATH
MERCED, Calif., Apr. 23.—Hugh
Galt and Thomas Barr were killed in
a Sunday gun fight, with Mark Lester,
the latter held on a charge of mur
der.