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NUMBER 25
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 29,1924
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WAY TO STATES
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Nome Mining Men Make First Trip
Over Government Railway to
Take Ship at Seward
ALL MINING RECORDS BROKEN
Shortage of Water Holds Back Oper
ations But Weather Conditions
Said to Ha\e Been Good
H R. Edwards general superinten
dent of the Hanimon Consolidated
Gold Company of Nome, arrived in
Seward Saturday night on his way to
the States, having been on the trail
twenty-one days, with Leonard Sep
pala, the Nome dog-musher and prize
winning team of 17 Siberian dogs. Mr.
Edwards declared that the trip was
one of the most enjoyable he has ever
taken in Alaska, Mr. Seppala being
an excellent guide and trail compan
ion. In an interview writh a Gate
way representative Mr. Edwards said
that although his district had suffered
somewhat from a shortage of water,
the extreme length of the season al
lowed the company to work their
dredges up to a few days before
Christmas.. The company operated a
hydraulic plant in connection with the j
t dredges. This plant was shut down a
short time in July and August, but
later resumed work again. Nearly
200 men are carried on the .payroll,
and Nome benefited greatly by the de
mand for labor. By the installation
of the cold water method of thawing
ground an enormous saving was made
this season. A crew of 75 men were
engaged in driving cold water points
at 16-foot intervals and the tempera
atures of the water used varied from
just above freezing to warm.
The. Hammon Consolidated Gold
Company acquired the property of
k the Pioneer Mining company, known
as the l.indeberg claims, about two
years ago.
SEATTLE, Jan. 29.—Gus Boltz, a
i former Nome character, once tried
■ for insanity, has brought suit for five
million dollars against Federal Judges
Holtzheimer. Cushman, and Dietrich,
alleging serious injustice.
TWO BID ON MUSCLE SHOALS
WASHINGTON D. C., Jan. 29.—
The Union Carbide Company and the
E. H. Hooker, both of New York have
bid on the Muscle Shoals property.
♦ BULRUSHES SAID TO HIDE
LARGE AMOUNT OF SUGAR
MUNICH, Jan. 30.—German and
Austrian scientists have come for
ward with the statement that bul
rushes and certain other kinds of wa
ter grasses and reeds contain a large
content of sugar, sufficient for com
mercial use. A content in some cases
as high as 25 per cent is mentioned.
A factory is being built.
I WEALTHY PORTLANDER’S
WET STOCK ILLEGALLY
SEIZED, JUDGE RULES
PORTLAND, Jan. 29.—A search
warrant under which state prohibition
agents on New Year’s night raided
the home of A. G. Labbe a wealthy
and socially prominent Portland res
ident, wras today declared illegal by
District Judge Martin W. Hawkins,
on the ground that the warrant was
issued on an anonymous tip. Judge
Hawkins, at the same time, decided
that two bottles of liquor seized in the
raid should be turned over to the
constable as contriband.
y Labbe’s attorneys had attacked the
’’ avility of the search warrant and
had demanded that the liquor be re
stored. Labbe is president of the
Willamette Iron & Steel works and
the raid was made while a New Year’s
party was in progress at his home.
The search warrant was issued by
Judge Hawkins himself on application
of State Prohibition Enforcement Of
ficer, George L. Cleaver.
DOPE FIEND SOLD STUFF
TO GET CELL, HE PLEADS
COLUMBUS, C.a., Jan. 28.—Deck
ing he sold cocaine so he might be
sent to the penitentiary for treat
ment, D. H. Crockett of Atlanta, was
given one year and a day in the peni
tentiary in the Federal Court here re
cently.
Crockett who is 45, went before the
Court himself and pleaded to be sent
to prison. He told the judge he had
been an addict since 1906 and was
tired of the thug habit and wanted to
quit.
SAYS WIFE DRANK AND
NEGLECTED HER CHILD
WICHITA, Kan., Jan. 28.—An unu
sual divorce petition was Hied in the
District Court here charging the wife
drank to excess.. Emerson A. Mil
ler alleged the mother of his nine
months old son was guilty of gross
neglect and that she had returned to
her home many times so highly in
toxicated that she was unable to look
after the welfare of the child.
ENGLISH RAILWAY STRIKE
HAS BEEN ADJUSTED
LONDON, Jan. 29.—The railway
strike has been ended through medi
ation of Premier Macdonald.
INSURGENTS BLOCK
CQB1TI1 DF
GEO. 0. C1ST1
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—Senate
insurgents, led by La Follette, are
blocking the confirmation of George
B. Christian, late secretary to Presi
dent Harding, as a member of the
Federal Trade Commission, on the
ground that he is unfitted for the po
sition.
DENBY ATTENDS MEETING
OF CABINET TO TALK LEASES
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.— Secre
tary Denby attended i regular meet
ing of the c abinet today.
WOMAN HAS THREE
HUSBANDS, IS CHARGE
SPOKANE, Wn., Jan. 29.—Charges
with having three living husbands
from none of whom she has been di
vorced, Mrs. Geneva Miller is under
arrest at a local sanitarium under
guard of a sheriff’s matron. Her bond
has been fixed at $2,000.
Mrs. Miller according to a state
ment from the prosecuting attorney’s
ottiee, is declared to have married
Frank Miller at Rochester, Minnesota
in 1922, and to have married Rile\
Cummins in St. Paul in December ol
the same year. They came to Spok
ane shortly afterward, it was stated
and last November she was marriec
to Lucius Hampton, whom she met ir
Coure d’Alene, Idaho. She has tout
children by her first husband, it was
declared.
MUCH WATER CONSUMED
BY POPULATION OF LONDON
LONDON, Jan. 29.—Although there
are approximately 14,000. beer anc
rum houses in London, the populatior
used more than 88,000,000,000 gallons
of water last year or 35 gallons a daj
per head according to the Londoi
water board in its annual report.
DOHENY INTERViEWED
KNOXVILLE Tenn., Jan. 29.—“N<
I I didn’t own a' penny’s worth of in
j terest in the Tea Pot Dome proper
ties,” said E. L. Doheny, when inter
viewed in his private car en route t(
Washington, D. C. He declared tha
j “Sinclaire and I are rivals, and I hav
a statement to make but will not re
veal it until I give it to the Senati
Committee.”
GETS A LIFE TERM
CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis., Jan. 2S
—John Astor McCormick, formerly ;
Ladysmith grocer was yesterday cor
victed for the second time of th
murder of his wife and now goes t
! the penitentiary for his life.
HELD FOR DEATH OF SPOUSE
SACRAMENTO, Jan. 29.—Jame
Frahan, age 25, is held for the deat
of his wife, Mary, who died in a he*
pital here, after a minor operatioi
When she died, Frohan rushed froi
the death room and went to Portlam
1 Veteran of Two War1., Dangerously
Wounded When Husband Finds
Two Alone in Cafe Box
SOUGHT TO TEACH A LESSON
One of Five Shots Fired Takes Effect
in Lungs of Victim—Wronged
Husband in Jail
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SEATLE Jan. 29.—Major Wil'iam
J. Muirhead, a veteran oi the world
and Spanish-American wars, and for
m<r trafiic manager and port com
missioner, was shot and dangerously
wounded last night while in a cafe
dining with Mrs. Derby, wife of a
traveling sale man. Dei by took lire
shots at Muirhead, whom he said he
wished to teach a lesson. Two took
effect, one in the lung. Derby is in
jail.
FRANK O’SHEA RETURNS TO
TERRITORY WITH BRIDE
Frank O’Shea, conductor on the
Alaska railroad returned from the
Stales on one of the last boats with
Mrs. Frank Shea, who until Decem
ber 6, 1923, was Miss Harriett Pop
ham of Chicago. Following the mar
riage the Sheas took an auto trip to
Texas, thence to California.
RECOVER BODY FROM YUKON
The remains of Frank X. Drumon- 5
tier, who was drowned in the Yukon
almost two years ago, were found
just below Ring Rapids recently and
taken to Dawson for burial. The
body had been taken into the woods
a considerable distance from the liv
er by a ebar. Identification was made
thru the teeth and clothing.
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BELIEVED INSANE
CHICAGO, 111.. Jan. 23.—It is be
lieved that Miss‘Alice Franklin, aged
33, who hid herself behind a pillar in
the Federal building here waiting to
, kill Postmaster Luedor and who was
arrested in the nick of time, is insane.
POSTPONES BLOCKADE
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—Adolfo de
la Huerta has postponed for about 10
days the blockade of the port of Tam
pica in Mexico and which he recently
ordered.
CAUSES INCONVENIENCE
LONDON Jan. 29.—A strike of lo
motive engineers and firemen which
has failed to tie up the country’s rail
and communications although it has
caused enormous inconvenience to all
classes.
Sydney, N. S. W., Jan. 29.—*-Mine
workers and officials have rejected
Premier Armstrong's request for a 15
day truce so that 12,000 striking min
ers could return to work, pending the
resumption of wage contract negotia
tions.
PRIVATE AFFAIR, SAYS BOK
I 1 WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—Edwin W.
i Bok, donor of $100,000 for the peace
II prize, and who is appearing before
the senate committee which is inves
i tigating propaganda, repeatedly told
the members that he has regarded it
solely as his own little affair, and the
amount of money involved in bring
> ing it to a close has been placed in
- j trust.
Author To Get $50,000
> PHILA, Pa., Jan. 29—The identity
t of the author of the Bok Peace Prize
3 will be revealed on February 4th, and
- $50,000 check will be presented to the
* winner.
Join the Chamber of Commerce.
: ALASKAN STIMPEDER
: FOUND DEAD IN WELL
s SEATTLE, Jan. 29.—Alfred Nor
1 -i ge, 65, a participant in early Alas
>• ka gold stampedes, was found dead in
• an abandoned well near here today.
The deceased was nearly blind and
J;ad taken his own life.
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Trio of Youth.- Com ess to Holding Up
Postoffice Yesterday and Taking
Thirty Thousand
MONEY FOUND IN BOY’S ROOM
Quick Action on Part of Post office
Detectives Nip Carter of Boy
Bandits ai Start-off
BUTTE Jan.. 29.—Robert A. Heller
of Boston; Robert Arkler of But!e;
and Bernard Quesnel, of Kali spell, a
trio of University of Montana stu
dents confessed today to having held
up the Missoula j,oostoffice, taking a
package containing $‘10 000. which
postoffice detectives recovered from
Heller’s room. The boys said they
took the money “as a lark.”
MABEL NORMAND WANTS
FRIENDS TO TELL FACTS
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 29.—Mabel
Normaud, motion picture actrress
whose chauffeur, Horace A. Greer,
shot an
shot and seriously wounded Court
land S. Dines here New Year’s night,
is frankly opposed to any efforts on
the part of her friends or others to
suppress any of the facts relating to
the shooting, the Los Angeles Exam
iner stated.
“I am absolutely opposed,” the Ex
aminer quotes Miss Normand as say
ing in an interview at a hospital
where she is recovering after an op
eration for appendicitis, to any sup
pression of the facts in this case.
ARREST BANKERS IN
CITY LOS ANGELES
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 29.—George
W. Casteel, president of the defunct
Helena bank, was arrested here this
morning by deputy sheritts on tele
graphic warrants as the result 01
grand jury investigation.
Lester H. Booker, former cashier oi
a Gieat Falls, Montana bank, and For
est Nelson, president of the same in
stitution were arrested here several
days ago on warrants from Montana.
SHENANDOAH DELAYED
LAKEHURST, N. J., Jan. 29.—Three
months will benecessary to pass be
fore the U. S. dirigible “Shenandoah”
will be ready for any future flights.
It had first been announced that she
would be in shape in one month but
since the last escapade it will pro
long her period for repairs.
ENGINEER, FIREMAN KILLED
PITTSBURG, Jan. 29.—Three men,
including the engineer and fireman
were killed when the boiler of the
Eire Railroad engine, which was haul
ing the morning express from Pitts
burg to Cleveland exploded while the
train was near Aliquippa Pa. The
engine at the time of the explosion
was running at 45 miles per hour.
ACCUSES BROTHERS
NEW YORK, Jan. 29.—Testifying
at the referee’s investigation of the
accounting filed by trustees of Jav
Gould’s thirty-five million dollar es
tate, Mrs. Finley J. Shepard, the for
mer'Helen Gould, disclosed that her
brothers, George and Edwin, had se
cretly sold millions of dollars worth
of their father’s holdings. She de
clared that these sales weremade with
out her knowledge, although she was
; one of the trustees.
FIRE CHIEF SUCCUMBS
NEW YORK, Jan. 29.—A fire de
partment lieutenant dropped dead
from cold while fighting a fire in the
Queens.
OBEY STEP-DIME!
SEATTLE Jan. 29.—Mrs. Olevam,
wife of a prominent attorney in Se
attle has secured a divorce on the
ground of misconduct by her husband,
alleging that he forced her to obey
Frances, a daughter by his first wife.
GOVERNOR BONE PROMISES
AID TO BRITISH AVIATORS
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—The ter
ritorial government of Alaska wdl
render any aid ossible in facilitating
squadron leader A. S. C. MacLaren
of the British Royal Air Force in fly
ing over Alaska during the spring of
1924, it was stated at the interior de
partment today.
The British aviator will attempt
from April to June to fly around the
world and his proposed itinerary will
carry him over Alaska, land and wa
ter. In a recent communication to
the Secreetary of the Interior, Gov
ernor Scott C. Bone announced any
seiwice that can be reasonably ren- j
dercd to facilitate the flight over the
Territory will be freely granted.
SALVATION ARMY HEAD
NEGLECTED HER CHILI)
| LONDON. Jan. 28.—Tens of thou
sands of British subjects are learning
to live without work, according to
Salvation Army General Booth.
This he says is not from choice,
but because of a job shortage and the
labor dole. He estimates 200.000
boys of working age are idle. The
■ondition he declares is leading to
moral decline and a mischievous in
fluence over all alike.
LEIFS FOB STSTES
1J BUSINESS TRIP
TAKES OUT ALASKA EXHIBIT TO
SHOW TERRITORY CAN
RAISE PRODUCE
W. F. Thompson, veteran newspa
j Per publisher of Fairbanks, left on
I yesterday’s boat for the States en
! route to fifteen principal cities where'
! be will give interviews of Alaska and
' exhibit pictures of the railroad district
; including mines, camps and farms. Mr.
Thompson plans to visit R T. Porte,
in Stilt Lake, The Denver Post, Ed
gar Allen White at Emporia, Kansas;
Omaha, Kansas City, St. Louis, Wash
ington, Baltimore, Boston, New York
going as far east as Maine before re
! turning by way of Rochester, Minne
sota, where he will spend a siiort
time in Mayo Bros.
Mr. Thompson took with him his
famous Harding exhibit, including the
golden make-up rule used by the Pre
sident on the forms of the News
Miner, and the type set by the Pres
ident on the occasion of his memora
i ble trip north. Some thirty articles
have been written by Mr. Thompson.
' which will be submitted to various
papers. An exhibit of pictures, let
ters and curios of the Harding visit
will be made in leading store win
I dows.
In this way much information can
be desseminated about Alaska as a
j home-builder, and much eroneous in
formation dispelled. W. F. Thomp
son is perhaps one of the oldest news
paper men in Alaska having spent
his youth on several large papers of
the East and West. He went to Daw
son in the boom days, later going to
Fairbanks where he established the
News-Miner, which he has managed
since. He is known to every promi
nent publiher and politician in the
j States, and has exerted every effort to
bring Alaska into the limelight. He
will be gone about three months.
WELL KNOWN ALASKA
MARINER LEASES LARGE
SEATTLE APARTMENT HOUSE
Sidney Sanders, formerly a popular
steward on the Alameda, and for 30
years on various steamers plying to
Alaskan waters, has leased the New
Humphrey Apartments, at 2205 Sec
ond Avenue, Seattle, and will be very
glad to meet his old friends. The
Humphrey Apartments are strictly
modem, with elevator service, and
both furnished and unfurnished apart
ments may be had at very reasonable
rentals.
When you go to Seattle call on
Mr. Sanders.
JEWELRY WAS STOLEN
TACOMA, Wn., Jan. 29.—Cash and
jewelry, valued at four hundred dol
lars was stolen last night from the
Pioneer Loan Company, in this city.
The robbers gained entrance by climb
lag through the transom.
SENATOR WALSH
DEMANDS DERBY
RESIGN 11 ICE
Hout.e Appropriates Two Hundred
Thousand to Aid In Prosecu
tion of Oil Grafters
TO ANNULL SINCLAIR LEASES
Senators in Conference With Presi
dent as to Methods Employed to
Solve Problems
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—Senator
Walsh oi Montana, reviewing the
work of the Senate committee in the
Fall Teapot Dome leases, declared to
day that Secretary of the Navy Denby
must resign immediately or face Sen
ate impeachment proceedings.
The House today appropriated one
hundred thousand dollars tor use by
President Coolidge in pro ecuting the
I'eapot Dome plunderers.
Senators Lodge, Lenroot and Curtis
are in conference with the President
at the latter’s invitation, at the White
House tonight to help soive the prob
!em of the administration’s policy in
the lease scandal.
The Senate passed much of the aft
ernoon debating Senator Walsh’s res
olution to annuli the Teapot Dome
leases.
Fall Gambled Heavily
NEW YOIvlv, Jan. 29. Formei Sec
retary Fail is declared to have gam
bled heavily in Sine’a;r oil stocks in
the New York stock exchange.
WASHINGTON, Jan. .29.—Albert
B. Fall is on the verge of a nervous
breakdown, the Senate Committee was
told today by his counsel.
TO DISCUSS DISARMAMENT
GENOA, Italy, Jan. 29.—The Lea
gate of Nations will discuss naval dis
armament at Rome February 5th.
IS HE, E1SI LIFE
BOSTOX, Jan 2.)—Former Govern
or Harding -.l t' e Fedeml Reserve
Board, issued a statement today that
his daughter had shot herself with a
gun, saying her act was “ hie lo her
love for social It:.. da> ring, and smok
ing too many cigarettes.”
FIVE PERISH IN FIRE
POTTSVILLE, Pa., Jan. 29.—A mo
ther and her four children were burn
ed when a fire destroyed their home
in Middleport. Mrs. Andrew' Harville
the Mother, vainly attempted to save
the tots’ lives. When the fire was
extinguished all the bodies were found
four feet from the door where the
Mother had finally brought them be
fore she had herself become a victim.
TRY TO PLACE HIRAM
LANSING, Mich., Jan. 29—The first
efforts to place the name of Senator
Hiram Johnson on the Presidential
primary ballot in Michigan failed
when Secretary of State Deland re
fused to certify petition that were re
quired.
SEVENTEEN YEAR OLD BOY
IN CHARGE OF ART SHOP
NEW YORK, Jan. 30.—His boy
chums call him just plain “Luke,”
but wealthy art patrons address him
more respectfully for to them he is
Lucien J. Demotte, 17-year-old presi
dent of the House of Demotte, a two
million dollar art concern, located in
this city.
Y'oung Demotte is a dark-haired son
of France, writh more the air of a
student than of a successful business
[ man. Fate cut short his boyhood and
| shouldered him w'ith a man’s respon
sibilities.
Last summer, when life to this
boy meant nothing more than pleas
ant days with a tutor in his ancestral
home near Paris, his father, George
Joseph Demotte, founder of the New
York house, was accidentally shot and
killed in a boar hunt in France. As
is the case in France, the youth had
been trained to follow his father’s
business. He has taken over the big
art house and made a success of it.