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VOLUME XVIII NUMBER 246
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5,1923
PRICE TEN CENTS
Continuous heavy rainfall for the
past week has caused washouts along
the Alaska railroad at many points.
At Mile 31 i the bridge went out at
noon today. At Mile 13 and 14 the
waters from Snow river have covered
the grade, and a washout of about
three rail lengths is reported. At
Mile 52 severeal washouts are report
ed, and rumor states that the steel
bridge at Spencer glacier is gone.
This bridge was built last November.
It is also reported that heavy rains
have caused slides the other side of
Anchorage.
Communication between Anchorage
and Seward is interrupted and it may
be a w'eek or two before damage can
be repaired. The past week of rain
was the heaviest seen in this vicinity
for many years.
Roadway Under Water
It is reported that the road at
Grouse Lake is under water, and also
the road at Mile 314. The road crew
had several inches of water over their
camp, and several men came in to
town yesterday.
NEW YORK, Oct. 5.—Bermuda has
a law banning all automobiles from
the islands, according to Dr. F. M.
Mabardi, a passenger on the liner
Victoria. He reported to'day that the
nearest approach to anything resemb
ling an auto on the island was an en
gine received for pumping purposes.
Bermuda banned autos because she
lias only a few miles of roads, and
her streets are so narrow there is no
room only for the carrioles and cabs
driven by the conch coachmen.
CHICAGO, Oct. 5.—Captain Dan
Donovan, a professional diver for 45
years and one of the best known men
on the waterfront died here today of
heart disease. His career as city div
er was one crowded with thrilling ex
periences. In the Eastland disaster,
working between jagged beams and
the river’s mud, he brought to the sur
face more than 148 bodies. Tales are
told of how he was pulled to safety
gasping for breath with his suit torn,
but still clasping the inert forms.
A piledriver crew under charge of
Gus Manthey, left at one o’clock for
3Vi mile where the bridge is out. The
bridge near Ed Yogi’s homestead is in
danger from high water and drift
wood piling against it.
Word was received here today from
the Anchorage hospital that Earl
Hartsough had died at 6:45 a. m.
from infection arising from a fractur
ed ankle.
Deceased was injured a few weeks
ago in the logging camp of the Resur
rection Bay Lumber company at Day’s
harbor, and was taken to Anchorage
for treatment. His wounds became in
fected and he rapidly became worse,
death resulting.
Mr. Hartsough was unmarried and
his only known relatives are a father
somewhere in Ohio. The American
Legion at Anchorage has taken charge
of the remains pending an answer
from his father.
UNIVERSITY ENROLLMENT
ABOUT FIVE THOUSAND
—
SEATTLE, Oct. 4—The University
enrollment for the fall term is about
live thousand with prospects of a to
tal enrollment of seventy five hun
dred. President Suzzallo said.
MAYOR OF KETCHIKAN *
BREAKS LEG BY
Mayor Thomas Torry, of Ketchikan
sustained a broken leg recently when
he slipped and fell while walking a
plank on the superstructure for a
road. He will be laid up for several
weeks, doctors say.
GoeiOiE
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Oct. 4—
| Following his arrival yesterday in the
nation’s capital, Governor Hone held
a conference with Secretary Weeks on
Alaska Territorial matters.
The Governor expects to remain
several days on Administration ques
tions between his trtice and depart
ments in Washington.
BILLION STAMPS BE PRINTED
WASHINGTON, D. C, Oct. 4—One
billion additional Hardin i memorial
stamps were ordered printed today by
■ Postmaster General New. Two lots o'
. three hundred thousand have already
been printed.
M STORM IT ST»
DRIVES WATSON BACK
The Admiral Watson, which left
here at 10 o’clock yesterday morning
returned to port last eve'ning about
6:00 o’clock, the seas running too
high outside to make safe going. She
left about midnight for Anchorage,
the storm having abated somewhat.
Passengers on the Admiral Watson
declared the wave breaking 100 feet
high.
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NORTHWESTERN IN GALE
The trip south by the Northwest
ern was declared by Capt. Glasscock
to have been one of the worst in
years, a sixty mile gale making up a
| tremendous sea, even the crew of the
I vessel being seasick.
JUNEAU DAMAGED BY STORM
A 40 to 60 mile gale at Juneau this
I week damaged a number of small
boats and blew down the eld wharf
at Douglas.
! SEATTLE LAWYER MUST
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SEATTLE, Oct. 5.—Ervin Palmer,
a lawyer and former deputy prosecut
ing attorney was given flie alterna
tive of contributing $20 a week to
his wife and five children or serving
■ six months in the stockade. He told
the court his earnings would not al
low him to contribute anything to the
support of his family.
NEW CABINET FORMED
BERLIN, Oct. 5.—Chancellor Strese
mann announced today the comple
tion of another cabinet.
BRISBANE, Australia, Oct. 5.—A
five mile reach of galena deposits has
been discovered in the vicinity of
Chelragoe. Assays show the silver
will go 2000 ounces to a ton of ore, in
addition to a heavy lead content.
KEYSTONE VIEW CO. NEW YORK
MUSSOLINI'S GIFT TO THE UNITED STATt OF AMERICA
Mrs. McCormick, well known American sculptress who has just com
pleted a life like bust of Italy’s Prime Minister, Mussolini. The bust
will come to this country as a gift from Italy to her sons and daughters
in this country. Tim T'nited States has rsiuinod thanks for th • gift.
NEW YORK, Oct. 5.—Police re
serves today broke up a of
middle aged women carrying bauners
denouncing Great Britain. The pa
rade marched to the city hall where
a great crowd had gathered to greet
Lloyd George.
Many banners were displayed, some
of which read: “Don’t Let England
Pull Wool Over Your Eyes,” “British
Bootleggers Are Flooding America
With British Booze,” and others.
Police grabbed the banners and tore
them into shreds.
“Unhappiness and difficulties re
l suiting from the war have been ag
gravated by the ineffective operations
of the provisions of the treaty of Ver
sailles, Lloyd George declared soon
after his arrival here.
LOWELL CREEK SAFE
Despite the heavy rains of the past
week Lowell creek has not risen to a
dangeodus stage, the only damage be
ing a cut started in the bank, near
the bridge on Fourth avenue.
DIVORCE ACTION STARTED— AL
LEGED HUSBAND AND OTH
ERS DISAPPEARED
DETROIT, Oct. 4—When Miss Win
nifred E. Morgan emerged from the
shadows of a strange mental break
down—and she isn’t sure whether or
not that condition was induced by nar
cotic drugs or otherwise—she was
handed a slip of paper containing the
following message:
“This is to certify that Julius F.
Vanden Boom and Winifred E. Mor
gan were by me united in marriage on
the sixteenth day of January, 1922, at
Crown Point, Ind.”
The certificate was signed by How
ard Kemp, a Justice of the Peace, who
however, disappeared from Miss Mor
gan’s reach as completely as did Van
den Boom, her reputed husband.
About all that is clear to Miss Mor
gan now, nearly two years after the
mysterious experience, is thai she was
in a Chicago hospital in January, 1922.
She was treated there for a nervous
and mental collapse.
The realization that she had gone
through the formality of marriage
came to her after she ha'd regained
the full use of her faculties. Never
did she live with Vanden Boom as the
latter’s wife, she alleges in a petition
for annulment of the marriage filed
in the Wayne County Clerk’s office.
The marriage certificate is attach
ed to the bill. Efforts to obtain more
direct information from the officer
who married them have failed, Miss
Morgan saya, and she has been unable
to locate her alleged husband.
| WINNIPEG, Man., Oct. 5.—Police
| guarding the Prince of Wales were
; pushed aside today by a swarm of
i harvast hands who came from Eng
j land only to find no work and who are
stranded here; overran the Royal
j Alexandria Hotel, and were success
; ful in obtaining an audience despite
the efforts of the police to keep them
from the heir apparent of the British
throne. The men laid their grievances
before the prince and demanded they
be returned to England.
OPIUM SEIZED SEATTLE
SEATTLE, Oct. 4.—Twenty thous
and dollars worth of opium was seiz
ed on the liner President Grant, ar
riving today from the orient.
RIVER DIVISION OF ALASKA RAIL
ROAD ON PAYING BASIS,
DECLARES STEESE
Steamers on the river division of
the Alaska Railroad will show a small
net operating profit for the season
when it ends this month, said Colonel
James G. Steese, head of the railroad,
who recently passed through on his
way to Seattle.
Up to the present time, said Colonel
Steese, the two steamers operated on
the Tanana and Lower Yukon Rivers
in conjunction with the railroad have
handled 3,300 tons of freight out of
Nenana. In addition they have car
ried six hundred paying passengers.
The total revenue for the season will
be approximately $60,000 which will
slightly more than cover the expenses
of operation.
The operation expenses of the rail
road's hotel venture at Curry, a new
departure for the enterprise have also
been covered by the revenues it has
received, said Col. Steese.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 5.—Governor
Scott C. Bone of Alaska is In confer
ence with President Coolidge this aft
ernoon in regard to the reorganiza
tion of the Alaska railway"
BABY CALLED PAPA GORILLA;
FATHER GOES TO COURT
CHICAGO, Oct. 5.—“Papa” is a
banker, lives on the west side, is a
nifty dresser and does not look any
more like a gorilla than “mamma”
does. Even the baby looks civilized.
And the whole family could serve as
Exhibit A for Bryan to prove that
humans and monkeys are not the
same kind of animals. And yet papa,
mama and the baby were in the court
of domestic relations looking as an
grily at each other as Greeks and
Italians.
Baby called papa a gorilla and he
accused mama of putting him up to it.
They were reconciled
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Oct. 5 —
Russia has broken off relations with
Finland in consequence of the recent
assassination of M. Lavroff and M.
Leshneve, Russian members of the
Karelin frontier commission.
Finland disclaims responsibility for
the killing declaring that they were
done by members of the Red guard.
COLUMBUS, O., Oct. 5.—Young
! Stibling of Macon, Georgia, IS years
| of age, a high school boy, wrested the
, world’s light heavyweight champion
ship from Mike McTigue of Ireland,
the referee awarding the decision to
Stribling after he had declared the
match a draw at the close of a ten
j round fight.
COOLIDGE DECLINES TO
ATTEND MEMORIAL MEET
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 4—Pres
ident Coolidge told the New \ ork com
mittee inviting him to attend the
Harding Memorial meeting in New
York on November 2, that he believed
he could honor the late President a
lot more by remaining in Washington
and striving to carry out the policies
of the Harding administration, than
going to New York and making au
address.
The President said he must work
laboriously to crystalize the construc
tively Harding policies by the time
Congress meets.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 5.—The U.
S. Shipping Board cannot sell its
fleet of forty-nine passenger liners
and 1200 freight boats. It will at
tempt to lease them and in the event
the leasing plan fails will operate
them, Meyer Lissness, a member of
the board said in an address here
last night.
SEATTLE, Oct. 5.—Reports from
Peru indicate that Miles Poindexter
contemplates giving up the ambassa
dorship and run for governor of the
stale of Washington next year.
Several local halibut boats were
out in yesterday's gale and fears are
expressed that some of them may
have been wrecked. One or two are
said to be overdue.
SAYS THAT UNLESS ALL ELE
MENTS UNITE NEXT PRESI
DENT BE DEMOCRAT.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 4—
Jermaine, in a special despatch to the
Seattle Times says Mr. Coolidge is
carrying on the policy of conciliation
much further than ever was carried
by Mr. Harding, and he is doing it
with the view of uniting Aie elements
of the Republican party for the sup
port of next year’s presidential ticket.
If such a union can be brought
about the Republican chances will be
materially increased, if it cannot the
next President is fairly certain to be
a democrat.
ARMED INTRUDERS TAKE
POSSESSION WRECKED SHIP
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 4—Lloyd’s
Agency here has requested the United
States District Attorney of Los An
geles to proceed against a band of
armed intruders who are alleged to
have taken possession of tKe wrecked
steamer Cuba on the rocks near Point
Arguello.
EBV
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 5.—A speed of 500
miles an hour can be built but the
craft would fly so fast that it would
burn itself up in friction with the air,
Glen Curtiss, designer of racing air
craft declared today.
WASHINGTON, Octfl 5.—Ambassa
dor Harvey and Ambassador Child
have resigned their offices in Britain
and Italy respectively, effective Janu
ary 1. Both resignations were ten
dered President Harding just before
his Alaskan trip.
SEATTLE, Oct. 5.—The passenger
steamship Buford, of the Alaska Sibe
rian Navigation Company collided
last night in a heavy fog with the
French freighter Montana, off the
Washington coast. The Buford was
slightly damaged, and will arrive here
this evening. The Montana proceeded
on her voyage.
No dance tomorrow night.
RUM SELLERS DEFY
GOVERNMENT TO
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 5.—Of the
1300 saloons closed early this week
In raids by state and federal authori
ties, more than a thousand of them
nave defiantly reopened.