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Governor Bone Secures Consolidation of Departments
Hewnrd Baily Gatemny
VOLUME XVIII NUMBER 267
SEWARD, ALASKA, THU" 3D AY, NOVEMBER 1, 1923
PRICE TEN CENTS
Road Construction Activities in Territory
Will be Taken Over by Bureau Public Roads
SfAYS HAS MADE MORE UNFUL
FILLED STATEMENTS THAN
ANY OTHER MAN
DETROIT, Nov. 1.—“Henry Ford
does not announce his candidacy for
the presidency because he is afraid it
will be as great a fiasco as his peace
ship plan,” Senator Cousens declared
last night, at a dinner given by the
Detroit Republican Club.
During his address Cousens referred
to Ford as a “loveable man,” and de
clared he loved Ford as much as any
man could love another, but ’’When
Ford differed with me on an amend
ment for beer, which I proposed to
insert in the Volstead Act, and says
that I know better than to propose
such an amendment, he challenges
rfuy integrity and sincerity.”
Couzins declared Ford has never re
covered from his defeat as a candi
date for the Senate, and “for a man
so politically ambitious he has made
more unfulfilled statements than any
other man in America.”
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UNCOMPROMISING WING OF RE
PUBLICAN PARTY AGAINST
U. S. INTERFERENCE
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.—Secretary
Hughes and Secretary Hoover hurried
to the Whitehouse today for a confer
ence with President Coolidge, follow
ing the issuance by Senator McCor
mick of Illinois, of a second bitter at
tack on the Hughes-Curzon entente
co’^'rence.
McCormick’s statements are declar
ed to represent the views of an un
compromising pro-American group of
prominent Republicans, who favor the
United States keeping out of the repa
rations squabble.
NOTED VALLE! TO THE
•R. H. Sargent, in charge or one par
ly of United States geologists, and 11.
K. Lyntt, in charge oi another, the for
mer going into ilie Valley of Ten
Thousand Smokes from Ilianma Lake
and the other into the va ley from
Kanatak, left recently for Washing
ton, D. C.
The two parties met and co-operat
ed on mapping the district and in se
curing data for a geo'.og’csl survey to
the government. The central idea for
the work this season was to linisli
mapping this district as an integral
part of the oii holds, which already
had been examined and mapped. The
reunion of the volcano section to the
oil' fields is considered important by
geologists and tins; investing heav
ily in oil formation.
No unusually remarkable features,
geologically speaking, different from
the usual character of volcanoes is
said to -have been encountered by the
parties on this trip but a number of
interesting features it is expected,
will appear in their vepo^t to the gov
ernment.
U^OYD GEORGE RETURNS TO
NEW YORK ON WAY HOME
NEW YORK, Nov. 1.—-Lloyd George
returned to New York tonight, on his
way home.
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CHARGES CORRUPTION, MORAL
TURPITUDE, NEGLECT OF
DUTY—22 CHARGES
.OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Nov. 1 —
Governor Walton was arraigned for
trial before a Senate court of im
peachment today on charges of cor
ruption in office, moral turpitude, wil
1 ful neglect of duty and general incom
! petency. Twenty-two specifiic allega
, tions are in the impeachment indict
' ment.
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Dr. W. W. Council, the well known
surgeon of Cordova, is having a whale
boat constructed for the purpose of
reducing the high cost of living for
1 his foxes on Green island, near La
touche. The boat will be 26 feet long
and 6 feet 4 inches beam. Three har
poon guns will be carried one of them
on the bow. One hundred and eighty j
fathoms of rope will be attached to!
each harpoon.
A 70-horsepower Scripps motor, ca
1 pable of pushing the boat 25 knots an
hour will be installed and will later
be replaced by a 100 horsepower mo
i ior which will give a speed of thirty
miles and hour and thus keep pace
with any wounded whale.
It is the object of Dr. Council to se
j cure enough whales to supply his
1 foxes with good food, a whale averag
ing about 80 tons.
Those who are interested with Dr.
i Council on Green Island are Ed Pike,
H. O’Neil, J. Lydick, Link Wain and
J. B. Carlyle. They have over 600.
| foxes, and three litters of nineteen^
, pups, one litter containing 12 pups.
The chief expense has been the cost
of feed and all feel confident that this
will be solved by the killing of whales
for feed.
Dr. W. D’Arcey Chase, of Hyder, a
well known Alaska physician and sur
geon, pleaded guilty to violation of
the narcotics act, and was sentenced
by Judge Reed to serve a year and 10
days in the Federal jail at Juneau,
j and to pay a fine of $100, says a dis
patch from Ketchikan.
Dr. Chase was one of the best.
! known of the medical practitioners in
Alaska, beginning his career at Nome
; when a young man, and practicing at
Cordova, Latouche, and Chichagof, lo
cating at Hyder two years or more
ago. His former wife, Mrs. Delie B.
Chase, resided in Juneau for several
years where she was employed as
stenographer. Dr. Chase arrived at
Juneau in custody of Marshal Beau
mont and started serving his sentence.
101 WILL ARRIVE IN
SEWARD TOMORROW
Agent Sweek announces that a
freight train, the first over the road
since the washout, will arrive in Sew
ard tomorrow, making the return trip
Saturday. The first trip with a pas
senger train will he next Wednesday,
regular service - being resumed after
that date.
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KING ALFONSO OF SPAIN AND THE MEMBERS OF NEW CABINET
Showing King Alfonso surrounded by the generals constituting the
present Military Government of Spain. At extreme left, first row, is the
Spanish Dictator, General Primo Rivero, soldier of the new regime.
ERROR OF JUDGMENT
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BOARD OF INQUIRY MAKES RE
PORT ON INQUIRY OVER
WRECKING DESTROYERS
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.—The dis
aster off Point Honda, California,
which resulted in the wreck of seven
naval destroyers and the drowning of
a score of men, is directly attributa
ble to errors of judgment and faulty
navigation on the part of the officers
attached to and serving on the Delphi,
the official Board of Inquiry found in
its report to the Navy Department,
made public this afternoon.
The officers referred to were Squad
ron Commander Capt. Edward H.
Watson, Commanding Officer of the
Delphi; Lt. Commander Donald T.
Hunter, navigating officer; Lt. Law
rence F. Blodgett.
HONOR LOW BE BURIED
IN WESTMINSTER OBBEK
LONDON, Nov. 1.—Andrew Bonar
Law will be buried in Westminster
Abbey Monday.
GIN IN BANKS IS $12,671,000 OVER
LAST YEAR
OLYMPIA, Nov. 1.—Figures com
piled from the official call statements
of the 266 state banks and six trust
companies for September 14, disclose
an increase in total deposits of §12
671,547 over deposits of a year ago,
according to J. C. Minshull, assistant
state supervisor of banking. Total
deposits on this call were §142,385,
209. The bulk of the increase in de
posits can be accounted for, by the
increase of §10,596,000 in savings ac
counts. There was an increase of 22
per cent in the number of savings de
positors which, Minshull said,-is proof
that thrift is being practiced.
LANDIS WILL MAKE SPECIAL BIC
TO SECURE TOURIST TRADE
FOR NORTHLAND
; SEATTLE, Nov. 1.—Plans for the
1 extension of rail service in Alaska
were outlined last night by Manage)
Lindis of the Alaska Railroad, speak
I ing before the Alaska Committee o.
I the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, a
a banquet in his honor at the Rainiei
! Club.
“The Government hopes soon t<
build feeder lines,” Landis said, “in
eluding a branch line to Mt. McKinle]
National Park, and to provide accom
modations in the park for summei
tourist travel, additional sleeping cars
will be put on and hotel facilities a
Curry Station, the present entrance t(
the park be augmented. We are goin£
to develop, not only industrial ton
nage, but intend to make the tourisi
pay a new revenue for the railroad
for the tourist not only spends monej
on his travels, but is a potential in
| vestor and settler.”
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REPUDIATES STATEMENT THAT
KLAN CAUSE OF RESIGNATION
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1— Grand
j Commander Cowles, of the Scottish
Rites Masons repudiated his state
ment recently disseminated that at
the recent meeting of the Council at
Washington of George Moore as in
spector general of Alabama, following
a heated discussion of the K. K. K.
He declared there was no discussion
ol the Klan and the resignation was
lint from any such discussion.
SHIPPERS U DITHER
Till IHE EWERS
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.—Senator
Ladd protested to President Coolidge
today that a proposal to buy wheat
for the relief of Germany would aid
the shipper and middleman, as the
farmer had already sold his wheat.
DIRECTOR CHARLES FORBES AP
PARENTLY ROBBED TRUST
WITHOUT COMPUNCTION
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.— Thirty-j
three thousand of the $105,000 the
government paid for the Livermore,
California, Veterans’ Bureau hospital
site was split up and distributed as
selling expenses, Lucien B. Johnson,
former owner of the property, testified
before the special Senate commission
probing the administration of Director
Charles Forbes.
ROCHESTER, Minn., Nov i.—At a
recent meeting of the medical staff
of the Mayo clinic, held a few days
ago, Dr. W. J. Mayo referred to recent
newspaper comment on his remarks
made with regard to the cancer prob
lem, quoting him as saying, “there is
no cure for cancer.” Dr. Mayo states
he said, “there is no medical cure for
cancer,” in other words no medicine
taken internally or externally will
cure the destruction of tissue.
Dr. Mayo, in his talk to his staff,
said that the cure of cancer depends
on diagnosis and removal by the knife
at the earliest possible time. In some
manner the laity must be taught to
understand these truths. Experience in
the Mayo clinic has been that 71.9
tenths per cent of patients operated
on for cancer, when the disease is
still localized, that is, has not extend
ed beyond the primary focus, are
cured by operation, and the large ma
jority of the remainder greatly bene
fited, and many have been cured even
when the disease has extended be
yond the primary focus.
Surgical operation is the only meth
od of removal to be seriously consid
ered, Dr. Mayo continued, because it
permits removal with the growth, ol
surrounding tissues and glands that
may have become involved in the dis
ease. The X-ray, radium and othei
agents have a field of usefulness ir
connection with surgery, but a patient
should not be subjected to X-ray, ra
dium or other similar treatment with
out careful surgical consultation since
if such agents are used while the dis
ease is still local, the resultant tissue
changes delay dependable surgical op
eration and may perhaps prevent it.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.—Before his
departure for Alaska today, Mrs. H.
H. Votaw handed to Governor Scott C.
Bone a number of finely engraved
pictures of her brother, the late Pres
ident Harding, and requested that
one of these be placed in each of the
High Schools of Alaska and at the
Pioneers’ Home.
Governor Bone will distribute the
pictures to the schools upon his ar
rival in Alaska.
CHICAGO, Nov. 1.—Scientists claim
■ that the human body is a machine run
i by electricity and chemical reaction,
: and new theories are being proved
1 each day. Each cell of the body is
s now known to be a tiny wet battery,
and there are 28 trillion of them.
IN DEVELOPMENT OF ROAD
BUILDING PROGRAM
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 1.—As
the first step toward the formulation
of a comprehensive scheme of road
building in Alaska, Governor Scott C.
Bone has recommended that road con
struction activities in the Territory be
transferred from the War Department
to the Bureau of Public Roads, a di
vision of the Department of Agricul
ture.
The Department of the Interior,
Department of Agriculture, and the
War Department have acquiesced in
the recommendation of Governor Bone
and the change, it is stated, will be
made as soon as the official sanction
of President Coolidge can be assured,
j The Bureau of Public Roads ~iTas
charge of the administration of the
Federal Highway Act, and an effort
I will be made to place Alaska under
the provisions of this statute,
j Governor Bone said today that Del
'i eSate Dan Sutherland has prepared a
bill which is now being gone over by
'! the three departments mentioned, and
this measure will be introduced as
soon as Congress convenes and a se
rious effort will be made to enact it
into law.
' If this effort is successful Alaska
will obtain lrom the Federal highway
'! funds a sum in excess of one million
dollars a year for road construction
1 in the Territory, and the Bureau of
1 Public Roads will establish a district
1 in Alaska with headquarters either at
l Seward or Anchorage.
Governor Bone, before leaving today
foi Alaska, stated that he had secur
! ecI the fullest co-operation in his plans
' for the development of the Territory,
by Secretaries Hoover, Wallace and
1 Work, and that he anticipated splen
' did results from his trip.
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t DETROIT, Mich., Nov. 1.—How rap
- idly the trend of sentiment is swing
ing toward the use of lighter motor
3 car equipment, in order to more satis
- factorily meet present day traffic con
ditions, is emphasized in the tremen
■ dous increase in sales of the Ford Mo
tor Company for the first three-quar
ters of the present year.
An analysis of these sales shows
that the sentiment is not alone among
passenger car buyers, but extends to
commercial car purchasers who are
finding that the smaller motor haulage
unit effects more efficient, speedy and
I economical delivery service.
Sales of Ford cars and Trucks, in
■ the Dnited States for the first nine
months of the year totaled 1,354,000,
it is just announced. This is an in
i crease of 466,433 over the same
months of 1922.
In September alone, 141,467 Ford
1 cars and trucks were delivered at re
tail, a gain of 39,029 over September
• of last year, while truck sales for the
month were 15,947 or 4,5S9 more than,
in the same month a year ago.
! UNDERWOOD OPENS CAMPAIGN
MOCONA, Texas, Nov. 1.—Senator
Underwood in a speech here this week
formally opened the campaign for
1 the Democratic nomination for the
1 presidency.
1 TODAY’S FISH MARKET
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f SEATTLE, Nov. 1.—Price at noon
today, 15% cents for fresh halibut.