VOLUME XIX. NUMBER 156
SEWARD, AASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1924
PRICE TEN CENTS
NEIV REVENUE NUISUNCE
TAXES M[ ABOLISHED
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 3—The
public purse will heave another sigh
of relief at midnight tonight, (July 2),
when, under the new revenue law, the
nuisance taxes are abolished. These in
clc'e the abolishment o ftaxes on tel
egrams, amusement tickets, and a
great many other things.
OLDESfCOMSll
• PLANS BUS) CAMPAIGN
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TOLEDO, July 3—Congressman Is
aac R .Sherwood, 89, who filed peti
tions here for ree-lection, said that he
intends to stage an aggressive cam
paign, which will not terminate until
tl ^pvotes are counted in November. He
has served nine terms in congress and
is the eldest member of that body.
SLIDING SCALE IS FIXED
B! JUDGE FOB SPEEDERS
DES MOINES, July 3—A sliding
scale for speeders, with no discounts
for cash or alibis, has been fixed by
Judge Herman F. Zeuch here as his
part in the police drive against leck
less automobile drivers. The arrange
ment provides “a speed for every
purse,” and en’ables the speed enthus
iast to accommodate his pace to the
fatness of his pocketbook and deter
mine the exact rate of speed at which
he can financially travel.
Judge Zeuch’s speed quotations are:
30 to 35 miles an hour, $25 fine .
35 to 40 miles an hour, $50 fine.
40 to 45 miles and hour, $75 fine.
45 miles and up, $100.00 fine.
Judge Zeuch also made it clear that
feAs quotations were subject to advanc
es when bullish influences such as in
toxication, extreme recklessness, or
other factors affected the market.
FtM OF IIS ' !
MOSFS JUDOL10
POSTPONE ACTION
CHICAGO, July 3—When Judge W.
Lindsay today passed sentence death
upon Russel T. Scott, who had plead- |
ed guilty to slaying a drug clerk in;
a holdup, such a flood of tears follow- j
ed on the part of the defendant and his
attorney that the judge held his de
cision in abeyance and continued the
case.
Judge Lindsay had just completed
the sentence, where he pronounced the
words “hang by the neck until dead,”
when Scott and his father fell into
each other’s arms and Attorney Walt
Stanton, appointed by the court to de
fend Scott wept so that it was several
nPlnutes before he could speak.
“Your Honor,” Stanton cried, “let
me withdraw this plea. Spare his life
for my sake.”
Judge Lindsay replied, “Well, I
would rather you put it tip to a jury.”
' Scott with his brother Robert was
charged with the murder of a drug
clerk who was working his way thru
* school.
TIN STOPPED FOB TINE
FOR WHEELS TO COOL
SPOKANJE, July 2—Passengers on
the Great Northern train running be
tween Marcus and Oroville, Wash., ap
parently are becoming more inclined
to accept the explanation offered by
members of the crew as to why the
train is delayed after descending Mile
18 Molson hill, in the opinion of Con
ductor J. F. Getsey. He notes a gen
eral scarcity of burned fingers afc com
pared tc- previous years.
The Molson hill has a declivity of
2.5 per cent and it is necessary for
both passenger and freight trains af
ter descending the grade to stop for
ten or fifteen minutes to allow the
wheels and brake shoes to cool. Here
*^ofore many passengers have suffered
burned fingers when they refused to
accept the reasons advanced for delay.
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PERMIT FOR KU KLUX
PARADE IS WITHDRAWN
OAKLAND July 3—A permit grant
ed the Ku Klux Klan to hold a parade
of approximately 10,000 of its mem
bers from all parts of the state, in
Oakland on July 4, was revoked by the
police today, after they had been in
formed that a disturbance during the
parade was contemplated. The po
lice announced that more than 300 in
dividuals and organizations had pro
tested against the parade. The klan
is to hold its state convention, begin
ning July 4.
GOUGE ILL OPEN
SKAGIT POWER PROJECT
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 4—Pres
ident Coolidge promised Senator Dill
of Washington and Mayor Edwin J.
Brown of Seattle today that he would
push a button opening in August the
Skagit hydroelectric power project
now under construction by the city
of Seattle.
PURCHASERS WILL MEET
PORTLAND, Ore., July 3—Expendi
ture of hundreds of millions of dollars
annually rests in the hands of dele
gates who will assemble here July 17,
18, and 19 for the first annual con
vention of purchasing agents from all
states west of the Rocky mountains.
The convention has been called by
the Oregon Purchasing agents asso
ciation. In carrying out its plans for
the sessions it will have the assistance
of the district association, which links
up with those of California, Utah, Ore
gon and Washington and the Associat
ed Industries of Oregon.
POWER FROM SMCIT
IT 111 FOR
SERTUE UNTIL FALL
SEATTLE, July 3—Power from the
Skagit hydro-electric project in the
Cascade mountains being built by the
city of Seattle will not be available be
fore September or October in the opin
ion of the members of the utilities cotn
mittees of the city council, expressed
after a visit to the enterprise.
Contractors expect to complete the
work on the Gorge creek tunnel about
July 10, but at least thirty nays will
be required for the cement in the tun
nel to set, he added, with that much
more time to elapse before fhe current
goes over the transmission lines.
HONEY OUTPUT INCREASED
ST ELECTRIC APPARATUS
GLOUCESTER, Eng., July 3—Elec
tricity has assisted bees in producing
an increased output of honey, accord
ing to an announcement of the Glou
cestershire chamber of agriculture.
A number of beehives were erected
in an apiary both lighted and heated
by electricity during the winter days,
with the result thatvstrong broods of
bees stai’ted to collect honey much
earlier than usual and so obtained sup
plies from the early blosoms of the
fruit trees. The output of each hive
was thus greatly increased.
womanIhargesThat
SHE IS HORSEWHIPPED
ALEXANDRIA La., July 3—Charg
ing that she was taken from her home
by three women and horsewhipped,
Mrs. Lillian Bonnette has filed suit
for $75,000 in district court against
Mrs. Gertrude Ball, Mrs. Amelia Jor
dan and Mrs. Leslie Hatchett whom
sse named as her alleged assailants.
Mrs. Bonnette is the mother of a
boy of seven and a girl of nine. Offi
cials have not announced the reason
for the assault.
WERT LAUNCHES
DRIVE TO SECURE
TEAR FOR RALSTON
M’ADOO REACHES 505 MARK IN
FORTIETH BA I, LOT BRYAN
FAVOR’ u HIM
NEW YORK, July 3—Thomas Tag
gert leader'of the Indiana democrats
this afternoon launched his long
heralded offensive for the nomination
of Ralston as a long succession of
ballots approached the half hundred
mark, the Indiana leader began bring
ing from under cover the votes he had
been holding out unt'l he had convinc
ed the leaders had been eliminated.
In quick succession two states left
the McAdoo standard and went over
to recruiting for Ralston. First Mis
sissippi and then M*ssouri went to
Ralston. Ralston was third in the
52nd ballot with ninety-three votes,
having passed John W. Davis, whose
total had fallen to 59. IVlcAdoo had
dropped to 412 with Smith 320.
NEW YORK, Juiy 3—McAdoo shot
over the five hund o<l mark last night.
His vote ir re £ ••*.i«.;h ballot w >s 505
to 317 for Smth. At the close c.f :hr
42nd ballot the convention at midnight
adjourned ten this ?■ oin:ng. The
• csults of the 42nd ballot ./now ' o? f .r
McAdoo. 313 for Smith, Davi~ 6". TV
del wood 39, Cox 55, Glass 29, Ralston
30, Robinson 24.
Bryan, speaking again tonight from
the platform, replying to a taunt of
Hit ,\;\v Jersey dei-g'Hon '/.out Mc
Ai.oe's acceptance of retainer from
‘he <>i: companies, ret rted- “Mr. » •<>
r y'i retainer relate! to oil in Mex
ico but Li! go for a thousand, and ^ay
if j»r> oil touched .v.r:A ctuo, intense a H
o-'‘iste • opposi . • n t Y/all -,r et
has washed it away.”
Senator Walsh of Massachusetts
presided as chairman last night in
stead of Senator Walsh of Montana.
NEW YORK, July 3—Seeking to
pull the convention out of a deadlock,
Bryan, varhorse of many campaigns,
took the platform yesterday and de
clared himself for McAdoo two votes
of the ninety, which for thirty-six
ballots had been cast steadily for ex
governor Smith. This started Mc
Adoo supporters off on another dem
onstration. The two delegates break
ing to McAdoo were Lathrop Brown of
St. James, and Roscoe Irwin of Kinks
ton. The votes were Robinson 24, Mc
Adoo 444, Smith 321, Davis 107, Cox
55, Glass 24, and Ralston 32.
NEW YORK,. July 3—McAdoo will
not surrender his delegates and is not
authorized to speak for himself in con
ference with leaders in other camps,
in an effort to agree on a compromise
candidate, declared David Ladd Rock
welll, McAdoo’s manager, just before
the convention re-convened last night.
Rockwell added that McAdoo lines are
stronger than ever and that McAdoo in
GENEflAL D1WES TO FIRE
OPENING GUN AT LINCOLN
CHICAGO, July 3—General Charles
G. Dawes expects to make his first
political speech as republican vice
presidential nominee at Lincoln, Neb.,
about September 1.
The general said his Lincoln address
would in a way show his appreciation
of the Nerbaska delegation, who pre
sented his name to the Cleveland con
vention and voted solidly for him thru
out the three ballots.
Altho the general spent his early
day in Ohio he moved to Lincoln a
year after he graduated from Cincin
nati law school in 1886.
HOMESICK EX-MONAHGH
SECBETLT VISITS HOME
LISBON, ^Tly 3—If a story that is
being whispered among royalists and
scowled at by republicans is true, Don
Manuel of Brazanza, ex-king of Portu
gal, recently broke his exile and paid
a clandestine visit to his favorite old
country place of Villa Vicpa. Manuel
was exiled when the republic was de
this fight to stay. He also announc
ed the Oregon delegation will stay on
McAdoo’s side until he released them.
Excerpts^ from Bryan’s speech yes- |
terday said “People have said you \
could not nominate a man from the
south. A man who says the north :
won’t vote for a southern man libels!
the north. What this nation wants is j
a man whose heart beats for the com
mon people and they don’t care where
he comes from.”
NEW YORK, July 3—The conven
tion adjourned at four o’clock yester
day until eight that everting, the 38th j
ballot showing McAdoo 444, Smith 321
and Davis 104. Bryan, in his ad
dress from the platform cited a long
list of eligibles including Ralston, Rob- i
inson, Walsh, but he climaxed his long
speech with a direct appeal for Mc
Adoo’s nomination.
! NEW YORK, July 3—There was no
nomination on the 45th ballot, and no
difference of vote between ballots cast
for McAdoo on the 43rd and 44th bal
! lot. The convention is preceding this
morning before practically empty gal
leries. The Forty-forty ballot gave
McAdoo 484, Smith 319, Davis 71, Un
derwood 39, Ralston, 31, Glass 25, Rob
inson 43. Alaska gave McAdoo one,
Smith three and Underwood two on
this ballot.
NEW YORK, July 3—Oklahoma
with twenty votes, left McAdoo and
went to Robinson on the forty-fourth,
fifth, sixth and seventh votes. Glass
released twenty-four of the Virginia
delegation from their pledges to him
but the delegation decided to continue
voting for him until they could agree
where to go. Several members of the
National Committee are discussing on
the floor of the convention that the
committee is seeking to end the dead
lock by pressinfi for simultaneous pub
lic withdrawal of both Smith and Mc
Adoo. The forty-seventh ballot gave
McAdoo 484, Smith 320, Davis 70, Un
derwood 54, Cox 54, Glass 24, Ralston
31, FJpbinson 45.
NEW YORK, George Brennan, boss
of Illonois deligation, notified the del
egation not to make any arrangements
to return home for the Fourth. Mc
Adoo leaders idicated this morning to
hand the play bver to their opposition
at any stage in the proceedings from
now on, but that they have plans all
ready that if they should fail with Me
Adoo, to throw their support to a can
didate of their own picking and get
the credit of ffiaming the candidate.
Senator Walsh of Montana is to
be their man if they cannot push Mc
Adoo through.*
NEW YORK, July 3—Bryan is off
I the grape juice today. He came out of
1 a confcct*onery store with a box of
taffy.
Taggert is a modern politician, he
comes to the hall every day with his
pockets full of chewing gum for the
women and cigars for the men.
Parley Sheldon, Iowa banker, 81,
a veteran of every democratic conven
tion since 84, finds the present gather
ihg the best thriller in his experience
he says, and thinks the convention is
still young.
dared in 1910 and forbidden to re-en
ter the country.
His brief return, however, was* not
to conspire against the republic but
was impelled by an irresistible home
sickness, according to reports, to re
visit the scenes of his happy youth in
this beautiful palace and park.
While there he is said to have re
ceived two personal friends and to
have made close inquiries as to the ad
ministration of the -Braganza estates.
OFFICIALS START FOR
UPPER REE15 WAII
The Federal party of the Fourth
division, which is investigating the
death of a native at Lake Tetlin, start
ed its long trip into the headwaters
of the Tanana at 8:00 o’clock yester
day rporning. The first stage is being
made by automobile to McCarthy, and
from there a motor boat will be taken
up the river.
The party consists of Assistant At
torney E. B. Collins, Dr. J. A. Suther
land, Deputy Marshal John J. Buckley,
and John Hajdukovich, newly appoint
ed commissioner at McCarthy. The
party will be gone about two weeks.
Attorney Collins is driving the party
to McCarthy in his car which wilt be
left there until they return.
YACHT SHIM IN PORT
PARTY GOES INTERIOR
The yacht Samona, flying the bur
gee of the Freeport Yacht Club of
California, arrived in port yesterday,
with her owners, Mr and Mrs. W. J.
Hole and wife, of Balboa, Cal. Mr.
Hole is a retired business man who is
with his wife is cruising in Alaskan
watei^ for pleasure ,and is now mak
ing his second trip. The Samona left
California in May and touched in at
Seattle, Ketchikan, Sitka and other
points of interest. The owner is an
ardent fisherman, and a chance will be
given him to wet a line in the numer
ous trout streams along the Kenai
road. Mr. and Mrs. Hole leave for
Fairbanks on tomorrow’s train, return
ing to Seward the forepart of the
week. The yacht is in charge of
Capt. W. W.'Putta, well-known in Al
aska for his daring exploits at Ana
dir last year, when he overpowered
the Red guard, on the Iskum, which
had been captured by Soviet authori
ties, and carried them prisoners to
Nome. Capt. Putta is one of the best
navigators in Alaskan and Siberian
waters, carrying licenses for Mexico
and Central America.
The Samona is 115 feet long, and is
a evry handsome vessel. She is the
largest yacht calling here for some
time. Leaving Seward she will proceed
back to California .
KISSING OP PET OOGS
LONDON, July 3—The peril of
kissing pet dogs has been the subject
of a warning by Dr. Ingleby Oddie, the
chief London coroner, when holding an
inquest on Mrs. Af^nes Hodgson, who
died from a cyst.
“Mrs. Hodgson was devoted to a
pom,” said Dr. Oddie, “an animal the
ladies are so fond of hugging and kiss
ing. f
“Ladies also kiss Pekinese dogs on
the nose and mouth and they should
know that they are liable in that way
to acquire a horrible hydrastic cyst,
generally with fatal results.”
Doctors stated that Mrs. Hodgson, a
perfectly healthy woman, suddenly be
gan to suffer fiom fainting fits, fol
lowed by pain.
The husband stated that his wife
was devoted to a “Pom.”
DIEM DIBITS OF MONKS
STUDIED IN HEALTH DOUSE
COWFORD, Eng., July 3—Immun
ity from influenza, consumption and
other diseases has induced the Min
istry of Health to study the dieti’y
habits of the monks of the Carthusian
Monestery here with a view of ap
plying their fruitarian principles to
the treatment of cancer.
The first meal each day at the mon
astery is at 11:00 a. m. and consists
usually of bread and cheese, omelette,
fish, cauliflower and fruit pudding, ac
companied by red or white wine. No
hot liquid is ever consumed, nor is
meat eaten. The second meal, which is
the last,'is taken at 4:30 p. m. and
consists only of dry bread, or chocolate
and wine.
- Longlevity is most common in the
monastery; the youngest brother bur
ied in the cemetery was more than 80
years old when he died.
BRITISH AVIATOR IN CHINA
FOOCHOW, China, July 3—Mac
Laren, the British aviator, arrived to
day on his flight around the world.
EXHIBITIONS OF PSYCHIC
POWER IS REMARKABLE
NEW YORK, July 3—A Boston wo
man .unknown to the public, has given
“remarkable” exhibitions of psychic
power and not improbably will be giv
the $2,500 prize offered by the Scien
tific American for proofs of genuine
psychic phenomena, J. Malcolm Bird,
secretary of the magazine’s commit
tee on psychic inevstigation, announc
ed today.
The woman, whose name is not dis
closed ,never has exhibited her powers
in public or for money, Mr. Bird said.
SISTER OP SLAIN
ROT IS THREATENED
CHICAGO, July 3—Another “kid
naping letter,” this time threatening
Josephine Franks, sister of Robert
FFranks, has been received by Chief
Justice Caverly of the criminal court.
The letter is regarded by Chief Jus
tice Caverly as the work of a crank.
It was signed George Johnson, the
name used in the ransom note sent by
Leopold and Loeb.
It is only one of 100 letters receiv
ed by Chief Justice Caverly concerning
the Franks case and was turned over
to the police.
NEGROES TO HAVE GOO
IDOLIZED AS OF TORE
NEW YORK, July 3—His Excellen
cy, Marcus Aurelius Garvey, president
of the Provisional Republic of Africa,
has issued a proclamation “to the Ne
gro race to come to the fourth Inter
; national convention of the Negro peo
1 pies of the world,” to be held in Lib
erty Hall, August 1 to 31.
i Garvey, who is aso commander of
the Order of the Nile and Knight of
tthe Distinguished Order of Ethopia,
said that during the'convention, “re
ligious, social, political, industrial, ed
ucation and constitutional phases of
history will be featured.”
Among the subjects scheduled are:
The Deification of Jesus as the Black
; Man of Sorrows, the Canonization of
the Virgin Mary as a Negress and the
j Idealization of God as a Creature of
Imaginary Semblence of 'he Black
Race, being of Like Image and Like
i ness, per the program.
NEHH RADIO STATION AT
! FDRTUNA LEDGE FINISHED
i The radio station recently installed
! at Fortuna Ledge, or Marshall, on the
J Lower Yukon, is now in operation, a
message having been received from it
by the Anchorage station last week.
The Fortuna Ledge station, which is
one,of the several stations to be er
ected at isolated points in Alaska by
the U. S .Signal Corps ,will prove a
great boon on the lower river, where
great distances separate the points of
communication.
HANGMAN, LOSING NERVE
GOES INTO RETIREMENT
LONDON July 3—John Ellis has re
| tired to the peace and quiet of his
| garden at Rochdale to try to forget the
scenes hq has witnessed during twenty
I three years’ service as a public exe
i cutioner.
While he occupied the grim post of
j hangman, Ellis sent to their death 120
men and women whose lives were de
| dared forfeit by the state. Many of
; them were among the most notorious
figures in British criminal history.
It is declared that the reason for
Ellis’ retirement is that his nerve is
at last broken and that he can no long
er face the ordeal ncident upon the ex>
Scution of a fellow creature. - *
Before he became a hangman, Ellis
was a barber, a jovial, talkative, razor
weilder ,who enjoyed the companion
ship of h's fellow men. Small, mild
mannered and retiring, Ellis, when he
set out to conduct ar execution, look
ed more like a doctor going to usher
into the world a new life than a grim
avenger of the law.
Ellis’ friends declared that in pri
vate life he has always been rather
“chicken-hearted,” being unable to
harden himself to drown a cat.
When he mounted to the scaffold to
officiate at the grimmest of human
tragedies, howeevr, Ellis always was
the embodiment of self-possession. He
never betrayed the slightest emotion
and was regarded as the coolest hang
man England ever has known.
It is egne-aliy believed that Ellis’
decision to forsake his job, was influ
enced by the ordeal of executing Mrs.
Edith Thompson, who, with her lover,
Frederick By waters, was hanged a
year ago £>* the murder of her hus
band.
For each of the executions perform
ed Ellis received a fee equivalent to
$100 with an expense allowarce of
an equal amount.