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VOLUME XIX NUMBER 36. - ^ /
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1924.
PRICE TEN CENTS
RODF.N FAILS TO DECLARE HIJ
CANDIDACY FOR ATTORNEY
GENERAL NOMINATION
MAY FILE FOR LEGISLATURE
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First Division Has Large Number ir
The Field—Convention Delegates
and National Committee AsDir
ants May File up to Feb. 26.
JUNEAU, Alas., Feb 11.—When tin
time for filing declarations of eandi
dacy for territorial offices expired a
5 o’clock on the night of Feb. 6, am
the books in the office of the secre
^ tary of Alaska were closed to all fil
ings except for national committee
man and delegate to the national po
litical conventions.
Late filings included Delegate Dai
A. Sutherland for renomination on tin
republican ticket.
Henry Roden, slated to run for tin
democratic nomination for attorney
general, did not file, but it is report
ed that he may run on an independen
ticket, at the general election.
The filings as listed are: For gov
ernor. under the preferntial law. Casl
Cole and Emery Valentine of Juneau
and George D. Schofield of Nome anc
Seattle, all republicans.
For delegate to congress, Dan A
Sutherland, incumbent, republican
and Frank A. Boyle, democrat.
For territorial senator, first divi
sion, “Jack” Davies. Senator Forest J
Hunt republicans, and Judge W. A
Holzheimer and N. R. Walker, demo
crats. all of Ketchikan.
For the house, first division, Trevet
Davis. Teroy Noland, H. R. Shepard
C. .T Skuse, A. J. Sprague, V. A
Peine of Juneau Howard Ashley anc
Perry M. Hern of Skagway: Williair
D. Grant and A. E. Gurr of Wrangell
C. B. Ferguson of Craig, William L
Paul of Ketchikan and .Tames Simp
son of Douglas, all on the republicar
ticket, and William F. Casey, .Tame:
A. Connor and Nat O. Hardy of Ju
neau. Chris Christensen of Petersburg
and Joseph H. Green of Hyder, demo
crats.
Attorney-General Rustgard has rul
ed that candidates for national com
mitteeman and delegates to the na
tional convention may file up unti
Tuesday, February 26.
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Thirteen File In Fourth.
FAIRBANKS. Alas. Feb. ll.-^Thos<
who have filed for the territorial leg
islature from the fourth division an
as follows: *
For the senate, republicans, Johr
M. Cunningham and Murray C. Smith
democrat, Harry E. Pratt.
For the house; Republicans. H. H
Ross, E. M. Keys and Fred B. John
ston, who served in the last house
* George C Moody, Daniel Bandman
Forber L. Baker and C. W. Joynt
democrats, J. E. Ryder A. H. Nordale
M. F. Miller, John H. Joslin.
The democrats held a public meet
ing and endorsed the candidates win
have filed on the Democratic ticke
and made plans for a divisional cau
cus here early in July.
Sixteen File In Third.
Although official advices from VaJ
f dez are lacking, unofficial advices an<
information received in Seward shov
that the following have filed for th<
legislature in the third division.
For the senate; Republicans. Bart
ley Howard of Anchorage, Senato:
Chamberlin of Seward, and D. W. H
Chase of Cordova; democrats. M. J
Conroy of Anchorage and Dr. >W. W
Council of Cordova.
For the house; Republicans, J. H
Murray, McCarthy; Edmund C. Oldfin
g, Anchorage; Ben Grier Anchorage; J
L. Waller, Anchorage; Ivan H. Sup
hellen and R. S. Eisner of Cordova
Democrats, A. E. Rucker, Seward
Charles Wilcox, Valdez; W. J. Bogard
Matanuska, and William Sherman o
Anchorage.
MARINES BE WITHDRAWN
FROM NICARAGUAN PORI
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.—The Stati
devartment today announced that ar
rangempnt£ for the withdrawal of thi
j force of marines at Managua, Nicar
agua. have been comvleted.
iDER WOOD A UNDERWOOD. N
COMMITTEE ON ARRANGEMENTS DEMOCRATIC N TIONAL CONVENTION
A quartette of prominent Democ -its meeting at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel as the Committee on
mentt; for the Convention of the Democratic National Committee, photographed at their first session,
right: Homer S. Cunningham, Conneticut; Cordell Hull, Tennessee, Chai 'man of the Democratic
Committee; Norman E. Mach, Buffalo, New York, and Clark Howell. Georgia.
Arrange
Left to
National
ON FLOATING ICE
IN SI. LAWRENCE
QUEBEC Feb. 11.—Fourteen per
sons are adrift in the St. Lawrence
river on floating ice cakes, and all ef
forts to reach them have so far been
futilte. The victims are part of a par
i ty of 17 who were standing on an ice
bridge between Quebec and Levis
when it broke away with them. Three
were rescued, the others going adrift.
As the weather is bitterly cold it is
feared that the party will perish of
cold before they can be reached.
STONE COFFIN OF KING
TUT NOW EXPOSED
LUXOR Egypt, Feb. 11.—For the
first time in 3,200 years, the great
stone coffin ot King Tut-Ankh-Amen
today stood forth in all of its majes
ay shorn of its protective covering of
golden shrines. The huge casket prov
ed a less formidable problem than at
first surmised and was removed with
in a few hours. It is not touched by
the tooth of time and is a gleaming
pink, unique specimens of funeral art
of the eighteenth dynasty.
BANDITS ENTER NEW FIELD
AND STAGE HOLD-UP
[ PASADENA, Cal., Feb. IT—Bandits
garbed in blue overalls swooped
down on the Anadale golf club
I course here in automobiles and robbed
four wealthy business men, at the
1 sixth hole, and escaped with approx
' imately $600 in cash.
ALAMEDA PASSENGERS
_
The following passengers sailed on
the Alameda, for Seattle:
Mrs. U. V. Westenbarger ,Dr. H. A.
Blyth, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Lewis, J. G.
Laughlan, Rasmus Casperson, Albert
Anderson Victor Durand, Richard
Wakelin, *L. G. Laughlin, Mrs. W C.
Hutt, Mrs. Edward McNally and chil
’ dren, Mrs. N. O. Mullino, H. J. Emard,
Mrs. W. A. Beet, Mr. and Mrs. D.
! Harp, Mary Moak, Sven Dahlquist, R.
F. Edwards Miss Andree Moore, L.
Koicer.
Passengers for Valdez were Judge
. ’ Ritchie and Deputy Clerk Selma N.
[ ^ Scott.
! REFUSE TO FLOAT LOAN
NEW YORK, Feb. 11.—Internation
- al bankers announced here that they
• would finance no loan to Germany,
on account of her actions in refusing
to join in national mourning over the
death of Woodrow Wilson.
PLYMOUTH, Ind., Feb. 11.—Ray D.
Smith, a prominent farmer and lead
er in church affairs, is held by the
> authorities in connection with the
. simultaneous deaths of his father,
; mother, wife and grandmother. It is
- charged that Smith administered poU
son to his relatives.
iiLAN OFFICIALS C HARGED
WITH GRAND LARCENY
TACOMA, Feb. 11.—A warrant for
he arrest of Maury J. Butler, former
secretary of the Tacoma realm of the
Ku Klux Klan, on the charge of grand
larceny has been placed in the hands
of the authorities. Auditors discover
ed a shortage of $1,884.58.
MILITIA CALLED OUT TO
SUPPRESS RIOTING AT HERRIN
HERRIN, 111., Feb. 9.—State troops
this morning took over government of
the town as a result of rioting by
,'oal miners.
TRAIN STRIKES AUTO TRUCK;
SIX NEWSBOYS KILLED
MILWAUKEE, Feb. 9.—A Chicago,
md Northwestern train struck an
into tnick filled with newsboys and
killed six. ^ * v
\\ ASHINGTON, Feb. 11.—Attorney
General Daugherty who arrived from
Florida Saturday evening, stated the
he would hand his resignation to the
President immediately, in order to re
lieve the President of embarrassment
in the prosecution of the Teapot Dome
oil leases. It was stated here today
that prosecution to cancel the leases
would be started some time this
week.
BLIZZARD AT IDITAROD
A thirty-five mile gale blew the
greater part of last week at Iditarod,
wiping the ground free of snow and
spoiling the sledding, it is reported.
WANTS LIVE MARTEN
Chas. Goldstein of Juneau, adver
tises that he will pay $120 per pair
for live marten delivered to the ex
press office at Seward. He asks
all trappers to wire when shipment
is made.
GEORGE JOHANSEN NOW
IN HOSPITAL AT KODIAK
George Johansen, the missing cook
of the gasboat Viking, which went
adrift from Kanatak over two months
ago, and who was found last week by
a natice on Sitinok island, south
west of Alitak Bay, is reported to be
in the hospital at Kodiak, so badly
frozen that both feet will have to be
amputated. The story in the Gateway
Saturday was that Johansen had been
found on Sutwick island, which was
not a fact.
According to the advices, two Indilan
boys found the Viking piled up on the
beach on Sitinak Island and reported
to the school teacher at Akhiok Island
that Johansen was alive. A rescue
party has gone to bring Johansen to
Akhiok and the gasoline boat Apex
will bring him to Seward or Anchor
age for medical treatment. First aid
treatment will be given at Kodiak it
was reported.
The point where the Viking is re
ported to have been found is just 100
miles south of aKnatak, where the
vessel broke loose from her mporings,
but it is probable that the vessel
drifted far to sea in the two months
since she was reported missing.
JAPAN ASKS TO BE
TREATED TIE SAME
AS OTHER 1TH
TOKIO, Feb. 11.—Foreign Minister
Matsui, in a statement appealing tc
the United States, asked her to heed
Japans desire to be treated on the
same footing with other independent
nations. The foreign minister viewed
with great anxiety the increasing re
strictions placed upon Japanese res
idents in the United States, and pro
posals now before Congress for fur
ther exclusion of Javanese from the
United States.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.—Further
opposition to the McKenzie Bill au
thorizing the acceptance of Henry
Fords offer for the Muscle Soals pro
perties to be used as a nitrate plant
developed here today. Republicans
are lining up against the Ford propos
al and a party issue is liable to bt
made out of the propasal.
SHORT TERM OF COURT IS AD
JOURNED AT NOON—NEXT
IN MAY
(Anchorage Times)
* Judge Ritchie adjourned a two-day
civil term of the district court here
Saturday.
Action taken on cases brought up
! was as follows:
Mrs. Mayme C. Baldwin vs. W. A.
C. Baldwin, Anchorage, divorce grant
ed.
James Bogard vs. Valentine Bogard,
Anchorage, divorce granted.
Alexandria Muller vs. P. C. Muller,
Kodiak .divorce granted.
Mrs. Susie Kerr vs. Walter Kerr,
Anchorage, divorce granted.
The report of Leopold David, re
ceiver for Alaska Publishing Company
received anti approved.
Blanche Garrison vs. Dan Daxon,
$7,500 for personal injuries, demur
rer of defendant taken under advise
ment. Jerry Murphy for plaintiff J.
L. Waller for defendant .
Han*y Cribb vs. O. G. Berry et al..
dismissed on motion of A. G. Thomp
son for plaintiff.
Miss L. A. Craevn vs. Mrs. J. B.
Larson, for $1,830.65 .alleging misrep
resentation of facts in connection with
lease on premises, demurrer of defend
ant taken under advisement. Arthur
Frame for plaintiff, J. L. Waller for
defendant.
John Johnson, a native of Sweden,
admitted to citizenship and permitted
to take the name of John Carl John
son.
Judge Ritchie said Anchorage could
count on a criminal term of court to
j start May 2.
WOMAN ACCIDENTALLY
SHOOTS SELF WHILE AT
TENDING MOTION PICTURE
BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Feb. 11.—
During the exciting part of a West
ern comedy film here, the hero fired
a revolver and almost simultaneous
ly, Miss May Snoody, pretty 18-year
old daughter of Robert Snoody, fell
into the aisle, as if she had fainted.
When ushers carried her to a rest
room it was found she had shot her
self. She died within a few min
utes.
Coroner W. C. Reed found that the
girl had taken the revolver from
her sweetheart, fearing it would cause
him trouble. During the play she
laughed with Miss Marie Lane her
girl friend, and playfully pulled the
trigger of the weapon.
The Coroner said her death was
accidental.
Louis Lauritsen, an old timer of
this section, and foreman of the Can
yon Creek Development Company, op
erated by N. O. Anderson, died Fri
day evening at the company property
at Canyon Creek, about 30 miles from
Moose Pass station on the Alaska
railway. News of his death was brot
in to Mile 29, and phoned to George
Sexton of Seward, wh caused dog
teams to be started out immediately
from Mile 29 to bring the body to the
railway, from where it will be shipped
to Seward, where it will be prepared
for burial and probably shipped to
Gustine, Calif, where it is said his
only relative, a brother, resides.
It is stated that Mr. Lauritsen was
seriously hurt in a snow slide at Can
yon Creek several years ago, from
which injury he never recovered. De
ceased was a member of the local or
der of Masons, and the Seward lodge
of Odd Fellows. He was also a mem
ber of Seward Igloo of Pioneers ot
Alaska.
Mr. Anderson, superintendent ol
the mine, is at present at his home in
Skamania, Wash., and has been noti
fled of the death of Mr. Lauritsen.
ROUES
BEFORE COMMITTEE
AS 10 OIL LESSEE
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.—William
G. McAdoo emphasized before the
Senate Oil Committee today that his
personal relations with E. L. Doheny
recently terminated, were in good
faith and had nothing to do with the
leasing of the naval oil reserves.
McAdoo declared that while he was
Doheny’s attorney, nothing was said
or done in connection with the oil
leases, other than to investigate tin
legality of the proceeding.
HAS STUDEBAKER AGENCY
Robert Sheldon of Fairbanks has
taken the agency for the Studebakei
car.
SIX PERISH BY FIRE
NEW YORK Feb. 11.—Six persons
perished by fire when Sally’s Inn, a
resort near the city was destroyed.
GRANDDAUGHTER BEECHER
PASSES SOMS BAD CHECKS
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 11.—Beatrice
Beecher Johnstone, a granddaughter
of Henry Ward Beecher, was sentenc
ed to prison today for passing worth
less checks.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.—Harry
Sinclair presented the Standard Oil
company with a million dollars worth
of oil, in order to remain undisturbed
in possession of the Teapot Dome
fields, in addition to a million dollars
in cash, according to Bonfils, of the
Denver Post.
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STATE TRROPS SENT TO QUELL
RIOTING IN LITTLE'/L L MIN
ING TOWN
HERRIN-, 111., Feb. 11..Due to Klan
and anti-Klan riots, fourteen compa
nies of the National guard are patrol
ling Williamson county today. Sev
eral wounded in Saturday’s shootings
have died from their wounds.
HERRIN 111., Feb. 11.—The town
| or Herrin, made famous by past min
ing disturbances, riots and massacres,
is again suffering from the turmoil,
and at late reports has been taken
over by Illinois state troops. The
! troops arrived this morning as the re
; suit of a night-long of fighting and dis
orders between the wet and dry fac
tions. Last nights fatal battle, in
which Constable Cagle was killed, was
the culmination of wholesale dry
raids^ which have recently been con
I ducted throughout Williamson coun
ty.
It is reported that the raids were
really conducted by reputed members
of the Ku Klux Klan with Gen. Young,
paid employe of the order, in charge.
The shooting last night followed the
storming of a meeting of the Knights
of the Flaming Circle, an anti-kian
organization.
After Cagle was killed, Deputy
Sheriff Layman went with Sher
iff Galligan to ask the members of the
Flaming Circle to disperse, in the in
terest of peace. During the controver
sy Layman was wounded, which caus
! ed promiscuous shooting by both
sides.
Hundreds of shots were poured into
1 the hospital where Layman had been
taken by Mayor Anderson and Ora
| Thomas, recognized Klan opponent.
Hospital inmates and attendants re
plied with a fusislade of shots.
Guardsmen are now protecting the
hospital. After the state troops ar
| rived the dry forces established quar
ters in the city hall. Three of Her
rins lour policemen, including the
chief, have been arrested.
The crowd loudly called for lynch
ing the policemen who were rushed to
Murphysboro for safety.
Sheriff Galligan was later arrested
for connection in the death ot Cagle.
: The latest reports state that a wildly
excited crowd has gathered at the
undertakers where Cagle’s body was
taken. Members of tl.e crowd took
a solemn oath to avenge his death.
More trouble of a serious nature is
feared.
SEATTLE SERVICE MEN
DEMAND PASSAGE BONUS
SEATTLE, Feb. 11—Three thous
and former service men at a mass
I meeting held today demanded the
■ passage of the soldier bonus bill by
congress. Much paid opposition hat
developed in Congress to the bill it i&
said, and Washington soldiers are go
ing for the bonus.
MINISTERED IN
DISHONEST MAiER
WASHINGTON, Feb. ll.-The admin
istration of the War Veterans’ Bu
reau under Charles Forbes, was mark
ed by incompetency, waste and dis
honesty, the investigating committee
testified in its second report today.
SINCLAIR, DOHENY AND
STANDARD IN CONSPIRACY
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—A charge
that the Sinclair, Doheny and Stan
dard interests conspired to secure the
award of Tea Pot Dome oil fields to
the Sinclair interests, was made be
fore the Senate Oil Committee today
by Frederick G. Binfils, publisher^ of
Denver.
CRUISER GOES TO HONDURAS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—The Uni
ced States cruiser Rochester was dis
patched to Honduras today to protect
American property.