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VOLUME XVIII NUMBER 231 — 'X "3 2~
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1923
PRICE TEN CENTS
Many Deaths Caused by Earthquakes in China
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THREE EARTHUAKES ROCK CHI
NESE CITIES—POPULATION
OF THIRTY MILLION
SHANGHAI, September 19—Three
earthquakes rocked Chihli province tc
day and numerous buildings collapsed
Casualties are very heavy at Huh
sien, Chihli province, in which Peking
and Teinsin are situated, and has a
population of thirty-three millions.
CHANCELLORS IN CONFERENCE
Paris, Sept. 19—Premiers Poin
care and Baldwin, are in close con
ference today.
AIRPLANES MAKE FAST
TIME SEATTLE TO CHICAGO
CHICAGO, Sept. 19—Lieutenant
Bertrandis and Lieutenant Garret,
testing out the air mail routes, arriv
ed here in 22 hours 14 minutes actual
Hying time in fog and snow, from Se
attle.
MEETING OF DAIL EIREANN
DUBLIN, September 19—The meet
ing of the new Dail will be held for
the first time today.
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THiRD LARGEST IN HISTORY OF
INDUSTRY, ACCORDING OF
FICIAL ESTIMATES
The total Alaska salmon pack for
this year will be slightly in excess of
5,000,000 cases, according to estimates
made by E. M. Ball, Assistant Fisher
ies Agent for Southeastern Alaska,
and made public today. This pack has
only been exceeded twice in the his
tory of the salmon industry in the
Teritory—in 1917 and 1918—when
5,922,330 and 6,677,569 cases respec
tively were packed.
Mr. Ball’s estimates place the total
t > pack at 5,022,600 cases. In arriving at
this figure, packs of individual can
neries were used, some being actual
pack figures and others packs to re
cent dates and estimates on the packs
for the remainder of the season, it is
stated. In every case the cannery es
timates are considered to be con
servative. The total estimated pack is
more than 500,000 cases larger than
last year’s pack when 4,501,428 cases
were packed.
The increased pack is caused by
the heavy production of Southeastern
Alaska canneries which, it is esti
mated, will put up 2,908,600 cases as
* compared to 1,994,679 for 1922, a gain
of 913,921 cases. Other Alaska dis
tricts show declines as a whole. In
western Alaska, that is the Bristol
Bay district, this year’s pack is esti
mated to be 1,200,000 as compared to
1,474,221 cases in 1922, and in central
Alaska, 914,000 as compared to 1,032,
000 in 1922, a total loss for the two
districts of 392,749 cases. This means,
said Mr. Ball, that the pack of red
fish will be something like 25 per cent
less than last year’s output.
I f All over Southeastern Alaska, he
added, there has been a heavy run on
fish, equal, if in fact not greater than
the big runs of 1921 and 1922. Despite
the low water that prevailed over the
district for a large part of the season,
there was a fair escapement to the
spawning beds. During the recent vis
it of Senator Jones and Commissioner
of Fisheries O’Malley, several small
streams were inspected by the party,
said Mr. Ball, in which as many as
50,000 salmon were seen.
Saturday Gateway, $3 per year.
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PRESIDENT COOLIDGE AND “GENERAL”
The nation has been wondering w hat would be the pet diversion of the
, new president, it seems to be horse b aek riding. Here is “General,” who is
now housed in the White House stab les. President Coolidge can be seen
early every morning cantering down the beautiful bridle paths of Potohac
Park.
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FISHERMEN WITHDREW FUNDS
SEVERAL WEEKS AGO
OLYMPIA, September 19—With j
State Senator Percy L. Sinclair un-j
! der arrest, facing filing of charges in
connection with the failure of theI
Southwestern Washington bank of II- j
waco, his son, Myron E. Sinclair, un
der sentence to prison and awaiting
transportation to Walla Walla, people
are beginning to talk in Ilwaco and
Pacific county.
It developed today that residents of I
Ilwaco had for some time heard om
inous warnings that the Ilwaco bank
was in financial difficulties, and that:
many business men and others were j
steering clear of it.
On the other hand, Myron Sinclair
asserts that none of 'the money,
amounting now to $91,000, that was
diverted from the bank, and used in
a personal way. He insisted that it
had all gone toward the development
of the community.
Myron refused to state just how he
managed to conceal his speculations
over a period of ten years, as is now!
claimed.
COOLIDGE IN CONFERENCE
OVER CONDITION FARMERS
WASHINGTON, D. C., September 19
—For an hour this afternoon, Coolidge
and cabinet had under consideration
a remedy for the disasterous condi
tions in the wheat belt, which has
prevoked the present revolt of the
farmers against both of the old poli
tical parties.
SEWARD AUXILIARY HOLDS
DELIGHTFUL CARD PARTY
Last night, at Odd Fellow’s Hall, 1
the Auxiliary ol the American Legion
gave a luncheon and card party five *
tables of bridge and six of whist be- t
ing in play. Bridge prizes went to Mrs. (
O. A. Johansen and Donald H. Tyer. f
Whist prizes to Mrs. Gordon Shea and £
A. C. Goodskev. At a late hour lunch
eon was served to the many guests.
BERLIN, September 19—Police last
night and this morning raided the
principal hotels and cates of the city
and emptied the pockets of all guests,
confiscating foreign currency in their
possession.
GOOUDGE RECEIVE GEORGE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 19—
Coolidge is expected to received Lloyd
George at the White House next
month.
SIX MILLIONS INSURANCE
BERKELEY. September 19—It is
estimated that the insurance carried
by sufferers of the Berkeley fire will
total six million dollars.
“The Gulf of Alaska is known as the
breeding ground of storms and low
pressure areas,” said Melvin Sum
mers, former chief of the Alaska
Weather Bureau, upon his arrival at
Seattle recently from Juneau.
Mr. Summers has just been appoint
?d Seattle’s government weather fore
caster, after spending the past seven
fears in a similar capacity at Juneau.
During his residence in Alaska, Mr.
Summers was responsible for the in
itallation of a number of new stations
>f which Cordova and Matanuska are
wo of them, and the perfection of a
;ystem of regular radio reports from
Uaska stations to the stations in the
United States.
“Many of these storm centers in Al
ska move east and southeast toward
he state of Washington at intervals
if a few days and have a decided ef- '
ect on conditions in Seattle,” Mr. :
iummers said to newspaper reporters.
Saturday Gateway, $3 per year.
OKLAHOMA 0!TV
HI IIS CLIMAX
OKLAHOMA CITY, Sept. 19—Mar
tial rule over Oklahoma is approach
ing a climax today and attention is
focased in Tulsa, where Governor
Walton’s authority to suspend the
right of recourse to habeas corpus will
be tested.
MACHINE GUNS TURNED
ON REBEL TRIBESMEN
JERUSALEM, September 19—Rebel
tribesmen in Trans Jorania, have been
put to flight by machine guns and fire
from airplanes.
DETAILS ARE GIVEN TO PRESS
HEAVY STRAPS ARE USED
ON VICTIMS
OKLAHOMA CITY, September IS—
Aldrich Blake, executive counselor to
day presented to the press an account,
of some of the brutal floggings that
lead the Governor of Oklahoma to
declare martial law in Tulsa County.
Blake said: “Through 1,200 pages
of testimony runs the same brutal re
frains. It was always that some mem
bers of the Klan used the same kind
of flogging instruments, the wet rope
being out of style, and a leather strap
about three inches wide and four feet
long writh a cat-o-nine-tails being
spliced into three straps being em
ployed to inflict punishment.”
ARKANSAS FARMER WANTS TO
FIND PROPHETIC WANDERER
WHO FORETOLD OIL
HOUSTON, Sept. 19—Discovery of
oil on the W. A. McKenzie farm in the
Smackover field of southern Arkansas
has made every hobo a prospective
plutocrat, according to letters now
flooding McKenzie’s mail.
The Arkansas farmer has offered
$25,000 to an unidentified Knight of
the Dustry Trail who worked the Mc
Kenzie woodpile one morning a year
before the war and earned a break
fast.
The hobo, after negotiating a side
of bacon and a huge quantity of corn
bread and several cups of coffee, in
gratitude for the hospitality, called
McKenzie to one side and wagged a
mean tongue in prophecy, three pre
dictions:
First, that Uncle Sam would enter
the world war in a year, and with the
aid of the United States, Germany
would be whipped. Second, after the
armistice, President Wilson would
have his laundry done in a foreign
country. Third, pointing over the Mc
Kenzie broad acres, more or less sub
merged, that McKenzie’s land in a
few years, wrould make him a million
aire, as it was over a huge accumula- ,
tion of oil.
McKenzie forgot the incident, until ,
the discovery of the Smackover field, ,
then he recalled that the hobo’s three
phophecies were all true.
McKenzie,s 540 acres brought him 1
$540,000 or $1,000 an acre, for lease
rights. Later, one-half of McKenzie’s
royalty was sold for $300,000, and the
other half has brought the McKenzie 1
fortune up to more than $1,000,000. I
McKenzie now says there is a man c
somewhere in the world who can have c
$25,000 by calling on him. v
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a CHARGES MADE THAT a
8 VILLA BURNED 200 a
a CAPTIVES TO DEATH *
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a MEXICO CITY, Sept. 19—The a
a shooting and burning alive of a
a two hundred prisoners by the a
a late bandit leader Francisco Villa a
a in Chihuahua after the battle of a
a San Andreas de la Sierra on Sep- a
a ternber 1, 1913, is related in a a
a letter by one of the survivors a
a published by Excelsior. a
a The two hundred were about a
a equally divided between wounded a
a and uninjured, according to the a
a story, and many of them, still a
a alive after falling before the fire a
a of the execution squads, were a
a thrown screaming on the great a
a pyre of oil soaked timber which a
a had been prepared and set ablaze a
a by the soldiers. a
a Among the victims were sever- a
a al women, camp followers, with a
a their children, who had ‘dared to a
a scream curses at Villa for sacri- a
a ficing their men. a
a The story of this survivor of a
a General Felix Terraza’s forces is a
a equaled by other anecdotes of the a
a fate meted out to Villistas cap- a
a tured by the Federals, one which a
a narrates how more than a score a
a of bandits were bound and put a
a into a dry well, there to perish a
a miserably of suffocation after a a
a lot of debris had been tumbled a
a down the well to silence their a
a cries. a
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Anchorage was a big success, acocrd
ing to telegrams received today iron:
that place. Captain S. N. Dancey spokt
to record crowds.
Captain Dancey will arrive in Sew
ard on the train this evening. His Isi
appearance will be at the Chamber o;
Commerce luncheon tomorrow noon
All members of the Chamber are ex
pected to be present. Arrangements
will be made to accommodate a big
crowd.
On Friday afternoon at 1 o'clock a
school program will be given at the
Seward school. This program is prin
cipally for the children and their par
ents and friends. All the ladies of Sew
ard are urged to attend this meeting
Arrangements are being made for a
mass meeting of the citizens of Sew
ard sometime during Captain Dancey’s
stay here. Further announcements
will be made later.
On Friday evening at the Empress
Theatre will be presented the eight
reel masterpiece “The Man without a
Country.” This is one of the best fea
tures ever showTn in Seward. It has
been procured at a considerable ex
pense by the Seward Post of the Am
erican Legion. The price of admission
will be seventy five cents which is the
customary admision for features of
this class. Children will be admitted
for twenty-five cents.
KANSAS CITY, September 19—L.
A.. Johnson, postoffice inspector, in
charge of the Kansas City district,
said late Tuesday that the total loss
n the holdup Tuesday at Okesa, Okla.
sarly Tuesday morning would not ex
seed five hundred dollars. The ban
iits did not reach the registered mail
touches he said.
HOLDS GUN ON WIFE FOR
HOUR—THEN SHOOTS SELF
SEATTLE, September 19—After
rnlding a drawn gun in the face of
tis wife, who hade recently sued for
livorce, for an hour, S. A. Hagden
olph, of Aberdeen, turned the weapon
pon himself and ended his life.
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WASHINGTON, D. C., September
! 19—Henry Ford, after a conference
I with President Coolidge and Secretary
of War, Weeks, announced he has tak
' en under advisement, Weeks’ request
! he madify his offer for the purchase
| or lease of the Muscle Shoals power
1 project.
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BATTLESHIP ARKANSAS
i RAMS DESTROYER M'FAR LAND
| WASHINGTON, D .C. Sept. 19—
j The battleship Arkansas rammed the
j destroyer McFarland of Newport this
! morning, none were injured.
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MOVEMENT FOR LIGHT WINES iS
GAINING GROUND RAPIDLY
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| WASHINGTON, D. C„ Sept. 19
Wit h the movement for beer and light
wine modification of the Volstead act
gaining ground, increasing curiosity
concerning the attitude of President
Coolidge on the whole question of
prohibition is being manifested.
Senator Morris Sheppard, Democrat
' 1 exas, who piloted the eighteenth
amendment through the Senate, is
confident the President will stand
with the drys against any modifica
tion of the Volstead law. Senator Wal
tei Edge, Republican, New Jersey, is
equally certain that if Congress au
thorizes beer and light wine the Pres
ident will sign the bill with alacrity.
Mr. Coolidge has made it clear that
he stands for strict enforcement of the
. law but as to changes therein, he has
| maintained unimpaired his well-known
brand of silence.
The new president used to take a
drink of hard liquor now and then,
but according to the testimony of his
intimates, he swore off completely a
short time ago for the same reason as
did President Harding. He though that
those who enforced the law ought to
set the example of obedience of law.
PRESSMEN’S STRIKE CUTTING
DOWN SIZE DAILY PAPERS
NEW YORK, Sept. 19—Morning
newspapers like afternoon papers to
day carried combined headlines and
each paper printed a skeleton edition
on its own presses, the result of the
pressmen’s strike.
OFFICERS HAVE NARROW
ESCAPE FROM DEATH
SPOKANE, Wash., Sept. 19—Shoot
ing blindly into a drug store near the
downtown section of Spokane, where
safeblowers were at w:ork recently, 8
police officers came within scant inch
es of blowing themselves, as well as
their human game and nearby resi
dents into eternity. One officer was
wounded at the time by bullets, but
the real danger of the episode has just
..been discovered.
Among the tools and equipment
taken when the officers finally cap
tured the safe-blowers was a small,
innocent looking bottle. It was noticed
at the time of capture that the officers
bullets had shattered a counter at
points but a few inches from the bot
tle.
Chief Wesley Turner had the con
tents of this small bottle analyzed by
the city chemist, with the resulting
discovery that the contents were ni
tro-glycerine, 92 per cent pure, in suf
ficient quantity to blow up any two
office buildings in Spokane simultan
eously. Had one of the bullets struck
it, the chief noted, nothing but a hole
in the ground would have marked the
existence of the officers, burglars and
neighbors and all their quarters.