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VOLUME XIX NUMBER 30
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1924
PRICE TEN CENTS
EX-PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON IS DEAD
ELECTED SUCCEED LENIN
MOSCOW, Feb. 4.—The Central
Executive Soviet committee today ap
pointed Prime Minister Iiykov to suc
ceed former premier Lenin.
PUBLIC HEARING AT TOWN
HALL AT 8 O’CLOCK TONIGHT
A public hearing will be held at
the town hall at 8 o’clock tonight^ at
which time all perr^ps interested may
be present, make statements or sub
mit testimony relative to the propos
ed change in the rates charged the
citizens of the Town of Seward for
electricity and electric current by the
local power company. This public
hearing is called in accordance with
Sec. 27, Chap. 97 of the Session Laws
of the Territory of Alaska.
The council is seeking to have me
ters installed and to lower the rates
from 15 cents to 10 cents, and such
other business as may come before
the meeting.
DOHENY FLEES TO SOUTH SEAS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.—Edward
L. Doheny, jr., has taken his father s
yacht and fled to the South Seas to
escape the Senate Committee subpoe
naes.
TO SUCCEED VEMZELOS
ATHENS, Feb. 4.—M. Macafanda
ris will form a cabinet succeeding M.
Venizelos, who retired today on ac
count of his health.
VICTIM OF POLICEMAN’S GUN
WILL BE A CRIPPLE FOR LIFE
SEATTLE, Feb. 2.—Mrs. Violet Da
vis, young mother of two children
has been taken home from the city
hospital, where she has been confined
since October 17, when a random bul
let from Patrolman S S. Short’s auto
matic pierced her spine, crippling her
for life. Isaac Hamburger was also
killed at the same time. Suit for
$50,000 damages has been brought by
Mrs. Davis’ attorneys, who allege she
is totally paralyzed.
“TRAMP OF THE YUKON”
NOW WORKING IN SEATTLE
E. M. Shepherd, known ail over the
Pacific coast as “The Tramp of the
\ Y ukon,” whose face and yarns are fa
miliar to every camp in Alaska, re
cently entertained a crowd of Seat
tleites with renditions of his stories
and ballads.
SENATOR POMERENE NAMED
TO PROSECUTE OIL CASES
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.—President
Coolidge has nameed Former Senator
Pomerene to take the place of Gregory
in the Teapot Dome oil prosecutions.
SINCLAIR CHARGED WITH
FALSE INCOME RETURNS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.—Represen
tative Jeffers today charged Harry
Sinclair with returning a false income
tax report and defrauding the govern
ment of millions.
LEGISLATURE ADJOURNS
MANILA, Feb. 4—The Philippine
legislature adjourned today out of re
speect to the late Woodrow Wilson.
JOHN F. COFFEY HAS
COME OUT FOR SENATE
John F. Coffey, popular attorney of
Cold Bay and Anchorage, Saturday
announced his candidacy for the Ter
ritorial Senate, in opposition to Joseph
Conroy who entered the race Tues
day of last week.
Mr. Coffey is one of the democratic
warhorses of Alaska. He went to
Anchorage in 1915 and entered the
practice of law, later going to Ketch
ikan as U. S. Commissioner. Mr.
Coffey served until 1921, when he
went to the Kanatak oil fields and
opened a law office.
l’APER DEALERS CHARGED
WITH HOLDING UP PRICES
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.— Pacific!
Coast paper dealers affiliated with the
Pacific states paper trade and local
deaiers are declared by the federal
trade commission to be engaged in
price fixing operations in a manner
that restrains, limits and lessens com
jpetition.” The dealers were ordered
to cease these methods.
WALL STREET’S BOOKS
BE SHOWN IN FALL CASE
—
NEW YORK, Feb. 2.—Gossip on j
Wall Street says an investigation will j
be made into the books of brokerage i
houses on Wall Street to reveal to j
what extent Fall and his associates
played the market and made millions
i in the sensational rise in Sinclair
| stock on the New York consolidated
; stock exchange following the long de
layed official disclosure of the Teapot
j Dome lease.
It was declared that such an inves
tigation will drag in a number of
high officials in Washington who were
trading on the market.
HEAVY QUAKES REGISTERED
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—Earth
quake tremors lasting from 3 p. m.
Monday to 10 p. m., a thousand miles
distant were registered on the seis
mograph here. The seismograph at
the University of Dublin, Ireland,
yesterday registered an earthquake
1l»,000 miles distant.
GOLD ACTIVITIES IN MANY
PACIFIC COAST STATES
j SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 4.—An
] awakening of gold mining activities in
I California and Nevada are reported
from many districts.
INSURGENTS ARE JUBILANT
INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 4.—Insur
: gents in the United States mine work
; ers convention being held here exult
i ed today in the seating of Nick Perk
ovich of Dowell, 111., despite adverse
recommendations of the committee.
DUKE STUBBS WRITES
FOXES ARE DOING NICELY
Duke Stubbs, a former Sewardite,
who with his wife is raising silver
foxes at Wasilla, writes that he has
completed his pens just before Christ
mas and has had his stock in them
since that time. The foxes are doing
nicely and he expects to have some
large litters in April.
FILE HOST DIVISION
JUNEAU, Feb. 5.—With less than
one day remaining for candidates
to the legislature to file their declara
tions, the democrats have failed to
put a slate in the field but a full
ticket will be filed Monday.
On the republican side two candi
dates have filed for the territorial sen
ate, Forest J. Hunt of Ketchikan and
T. S. Elsemore, a banker of Peters
burg. For the house many candidates
have filed including H. R. Shepard of
Juneau, W. D. Granj^ of Wrangell,
Howard Ashley of Skajkvay, Perry
M. Hearn of Skagway, Trevor Daivs,
C. W. Skuse and Leroy Noland of
Juneau; Chas. B. Ferguson of Craig,
and Wrm. Paul of Ketchikan.
FILINGS MAY BE MADE
UP TO FEBRUARY 28TH
JUNEAU, Feb. 4.—Although the
law provides that filings for the of
fice of national committeeman shall
close this year on Tuesday, February
5, Attorney General Rustgard has
ruled that filings may be made up to
February 28, or 60 days before the
date of the primary which falls on
April 29.
So far Arthur Frame and John J.
Finnegan are the only candidates fil
ing for the office of national commit
teeman. John W. Frame has not yet
filed. T. J. Donohoe has filed for na
tional committeeman on the demo
cratic ticket.
DEATH OF WAR LEADER
MOURNED BY MILLIONS
ALL FLAGS OF COUNTRY WILL BE FLOWN HALF
MAST FOR PERIOD OF THIRTY DAYS—“WIL
SON EXERTED NEW AND ENLARGED INFLU
ENCE IN AMERICA,” SAYS PRES. COOLIDGE
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.—Ex-President Woodrow
Wilson died peacefully yesterday morning at ll:5o, after
remaining unconscious the past 24 hours, the immediat
cause of his death being extreme weakness due to diges
tive disturbances of a week’s duration. Only immediate
relatives and a few friends were at the bedside when his
soul sped. An unbroken stream of condolences has been
Douring in from all parts of the world. Mrs. .Wilson is
bearing up well under the strain. Mrs. Calvin Coolidge
was one of the first women to leave cards.
Secretary Hughes called on all diplomatic consular
posts to half-mast their flags for thirty days, and Presi
dent Coolidge directed that the flags of the Nation be
^alfrinasted for a like period. In his message President
Coolidge said in part: “He gave utterance to the aspira
tions of humanity with an eloquence which held the at
tention of the earth, and made America a new and en
bidred influence in the destiny of mankind.”
Woodrow Wilson, the 28th presi
dent of the United States was born in
Staunton, Virginia, in 1856, a son of
Revr. Joseph R., and Jesse Woodrow
Wi'son, of Scotch-Irish ancestry on
both sides. He was one of the few men
wh( by the progress of events are
called upon to exert great influence on
the affairs of the whole world. It
was under his leadership that the Uni
ted States abandoned its policy of iso
lation, became an active participant
in European affairs, and, establishing
itself as a great military power, end
ed the deadlock between the Allies
and the Central Powers, bringing Ger
many to defeat.
However history may asse=s this na
♦ ional metamorphosis, it must record
the facts that the years when Mr.
Wilson was president marked a radi
eai diversion from the path of the fa
thers.
The first Democrat since Andrew
Jackson to serve two consecutive
terms as President, Woodrow Wil
son’s career in office resembled in
; some respects that of his illustriour
predecessor. Jackson was a rough,
self-willed, soldier. Wilson was intel
lectual, “a polished schoolmaster.”
Doth achieved their ends, the one by
force, the other by grace and suavity,
i With the possible exception of Theo
dore Roosevelt, Wilson was at the
same time the most idolized and the
most bitterly assailed President since
Abraham Lincoln.
No other President, certainly, ever
took such a part in world affairs; no
other President ever exercised such
an influence upon thrones and cabi
nets, upon Kings and Premiers. . He
began smashing precedents almost
immediately upon his induction into
office by delivering his addresses in
person to Congress and finished by
going to Europe to attend the peace
conference. What he accomplished
there will remain for posterity to ap
praise.
Three epochal periods characterized
Woodrow Wilson’s entrance into pub
lic life. Elected president of Prince
ton University, in 1902, the country at
that time obtained its first glimpse of
him as a National figure. This was
accentuated by what has been called
his fight for the “democratization” of
the University in which student
cliques were abolished and the sons of
rich and poor men were encouraged
to fraternalize. Eight years later, in
1910, he was elected Governor of New
Jersey.
Governor Wilson’s administration
was notable chiefly for his advocacy
of progressive legislation. Political
opponents charged him with radical
ism. “The Seven Sisters” laws,’ a se
ries of seven bills drafted at his rec
ommendation, were passed after a leg
islative contest. They forbade the in
corporation of predatory trusts with
in the commonwealth, New Jersey
previously having been used as a ren
dez-vous for National monopolists.
The nomination of Governor Wil
son to the Presidency by the National
Democratic Convention in June 1912,
at Baltimore, after a long deadlock,
was one of the most dramatic epi
sodes in American political history.
No less interesting was his election
to the chief magistrate of the nation
the following November when he re
ceived 435 votes in the Eleetorial Col
lege to 38 for Colonel Roosevelt and
8 for Mr. Taft, who was renominated
by the republican party to succeed
himself.
During President Wilson’s two terms
of office there was a world upheaval
such as had never before witnessed
since the dawn of time. Empires
crumbled and thrones collapsed. The
map of Europe was torn to shreds..
China that aeons old monarchy, had
already become a Republic and with
the ending of the world war Russian
autocracy had been humbled in the
dust. German militarism crushed,
Austria-Hungary disembered and Tur
key driven out of the Holy Land.
Born in Staunton, Virginia, Decem
ber 28tli, 1856 ,of Scotch-Irish parent
age, and christened Thomas Woodrow
Wilson the future President was
known as “Tommy” until he graduat
ed from Princeton in 1879 and was
thereafter known only as Woodrow
Wilson. His father, the Rev. Joseph
Ruggles Wilson, a prominent Presby
terian minister, moved to Augusta,,
Georgia, when Woodrow was two
years old. Later the family went to
Columbia South Carolina and there
young Wilson, at the age of 17, enter
ed Davidson College, leaving soon to
go to Princeton. Upon graduating
he studied law in the University of
V iiginia and in 1882 began the prac
tice of law in Atlanta, Georgia.
W hile in Atlanta and at Augusta, he
became engaged to marry Miss Ellen
Louise Afflsen, daughter of a Presby
terian clergyman of Savannah Ga.
The young lawyer’s clients were few
and he soon abandoned a legal career.
For two years thereafter, he was a
student at John Hopkins University
and while there published hrs first
book, “Congressional Government,” a
study of American politics. It won
recognition both in the United States
and abroad and is believed to have
been influential in evoking offers of
professorships from Bryn Mawr and
Wesleyan University. He married
Miss Axsen on June 27th, 1885.
He became successively, professor
of history and political economy at
Bryn Mawr and at Wresleyan Univer
sity and later professor of jurisprud
ence and political economy at Prince
ton where, subsequently he was made
head of that institution. Meanwhile,
Professor WTlson had gained high re
putation as a writer. Some of his
works, with the date of their produc
tion, were as follows: “The State-Ele
ments of Historical and Practical Pol
itics,” (1889); ‘Division of Reunion,”
(1893); “George Washington” (1896)
“A history of the American People,”
(1902); “Constitutional Government
in the United States,” (1908); “Free
Life,” (1913); “The New Freedom,”
(1913); ‘When a Man Comes to Him
self,” (1915); "On Being Human,”
(1916). ‘An Old Master and Other
Political Essays” and ‘ Mere literature
and Other Essays” were among his
earlier writings. His State papers
notes to belliegerent governments and !
addresses to Congress would till
many volumes.
The honorary degree of Doctor of;
Laws was bestowed upon him by
Wake Forest College (1887); Tulane j
University (1898); John Hopkins in
(1902); Brown University, (1903);
Harvard University (1907); Williams
College, (1908); and Dartmouth Col
lege (1909). Vale made him a Doctor
of Literature in 1901.
In an intimate pen picture of the
President drawn by himself before the
National Press Club in Washington,
Mr. Wilson once said: “When I think
of the number of men who are look
ing to me as the representative of a
party, with the hope for all varieties
of salvage from the things they are,
struggling with in the midst of if, it
makes me tremble. It makes me trem
ble with a sense of my own inadequa
! cy and weakness and if I seem circum
' spect it is because I am so diligently
' trying not to make any colossal biun
I ders.”
A curious fact of Mr. Wilson’s ca-1
reer was that when a young man he j
. wrote an article under the name o( j
I “Thomas W. Wilson” in which he de- j
! predated the tendency toward auto--j
! cracy in American Presidents. This J
■ was in 1879. Thirty-eight years later,
I on the tloor of the United States Sen
| ate, Lawrence V. Sherman, a Republi
' can Senator from illinois, savagely as
sailed Mr. Wilson as an “autocrat
‘ and offered a resolution declaring his
of lice vacant. The resolution was kia
ed.
Princeton, with its great oaks, its
| shaded lawns and historic halls turn
isiied tiie setting in which Mr. Wilson
did much of the literary work which
later commanded the attention oi tiit
world. His family life was ideal ant;
serene. Surrounded by his wife am.
three daughters—Margaret, Jessie and
Eleanor—the tierce controversy which
raged over the preservation oi demo
era«.ic ideals at the University distuiu
, ed him but little.
j Heretofore he had not been regard
ed as a politician, indeed, it had com
' monly been reported that the Presi
dent of Princeton, never a wealthy
man, was contemplating retirement up
on a teacher’s pension in 1910. In
September of that year lie was nomi
nated by the Democrats tor Governor
I
FAIRBANKS, Feb. 4.—James Ha
gan, deputy marshal at Nenana, was
exonerated for the second time of ail
blame in the fatal shooting of John
Bernard, by a grand jury today.
Hagan during a raid for moonshine
on a cabin near McKinley Park sta
tion on the night of September 13,
shot and killed Barnard in the belief
that Bernard was about to seize a gun
to use on the officer.
At the time of the shooting a coro
ner’s jury exonerated Hagan of all
blame, but friends of Bernard de
manded a further investiagtion of the
case. Bernard was a former Valdez
an, an old timer, and was a civil en
gineer, working on the old Alaska
Northern railroad under the Ballaines.
MEASLES IN SEATTLE
SEATTLE Feb. 2.—Three or four
cases oi measles are repo'ted in King
County and seven thousand cases in
the city of Seattle by medical offi
cials.
“MAMMA'S” BOY WINS
ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 2.—Young
Stribbling of Georgia, light heavy
weight defeated Bill Shade taking 8
of the ten rounds scheduled. There
were eight thousand fans present ai
the fight.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.—The im
migration committee approved a bill
to restrict immigration to two per
cent of the foreign, born of each na
tion here in 1920, and to provide for
selection at the port of embarkation.
MLSOli FU1IL
MAY BE PRIVATE
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.—The fu
neral of Woodrow Wilson will be held
Wednesday and will probably be pri
vate in the sense that it will be at
Baltimore, Maryland. Among the ac
tive ami honorary pal! bearers will
be Vance McCormick, f veland H.
Dodge, Cyrus McCormick, and some
of the members of his cabinet.
The nation’s sorrow will be express
ed by silencing the wheels of govern
ment and in President Coolidge’s
admonition that the highest honors be
. aid the dead statesman.
His Deeds Will Live Forever
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.—Samuel
Gompers declared today that Wood
row Wilson was ‘’the most cruelly
wounded soldier in the world-War.”
McAdoo said: “Wilson the man is
dead; but Wilson the apostle of peace
and the lover of mankind will live for
ever in the minds of his countrymen.
His example and work will influence
the destinies of civilization for centu
ries to come.”
of New Jersey. Elected the following
November he served until March 1.
1913, when he resigned to take up his
duties in Washington.
It was a speech by Colonel George
Harvey early in the Spring of 1912
at Savannah, Ga., that first launched
the name of Woodrow Wilson
for the Presidency. Boornbs in other
States quickly followed and soon the
Ney Jersey State Democratic commit
tee indorsed him for the nomination.
Shrewd Democrats saw the war clouds
gathering between advocates of Pres
ident Taft and former President Roose
velt; they measured the possibilities
of a divided Republican vote which
| would let a National Democratic tick
I et through to victory even on a ma
jority poll. One of the Democratic
j leaders went to the Baltimore con
vention saying: “We gather this year
■ not only to nominate a candidate, but
to elect a President.”
William Jennings Bryan, three times
the nominee of his party, wielded
still the power of leadership. Bryan
men dominated the convention. The
Nebraskan called upon all the aspi
rants to decline the support of so-call
ed ‘ Wall street” delegates. Wilson
was emphatic in his refusal to accept
such votes. Bryan and his followers
| threw all their support to the New
Jersey governor, notwithstanding that
a few months previously Wilson had
written a friend expressing the hope
that Mr. Bryan might be “knocked in
to a cocked hat.”
Meanwhile the Republican National
Convention split in Chicago and the
Progressive party formed with Colonel
Roosevelt as its candidate. Democra
tic leaders were sanguine of success.
Champ Clark. Speaker of the House
of Representatives, an avowed candi
date for the Democratic Presidential
nomination went to Baltimore, it is
said, with more than a majority oK the
votes pledged to him.
\ ne Democratic convention never
had failed to give a candidate who
had a majority of the necessary two
thirds to nominate. Clark got his ma
jority and then, another political “mi
racle” took place. The convention re
fused the necessary two-thirds requir
ed by the democratic pariy. Mr. Bry
an took the floor as the supporter of
Governor Wilson. The convention ran
into its second week; the swellering
days of a Southern midsummer wear
ied the delegates, but the battle con
tinued. Wilson finally was nominated.
The following November he was elec
ted. The country had a Democrat for
President for the first lime in sixteen
years—the first time since Grover
Cleveland.
The President-elect, in designating
his Cabinet, named Mr. Bryan as Sec
retary of State, a position the Nebras
kan filled until June 1915 resigning
because of differences growing out of
the war. With the exception also of
the Attorney Generalship, and the Sec
retary of War the original Cabinet re
main the same for practically all of
Mr. Wilson’s two terms.
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