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VOLUME 19
NUMBER 221
SEWARD, ALASKA,
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1924
PRICE TEN CENTS
BENEDICT FOUND
GUILTY OF BUYING
VOTES IN SEATTLE
SEATTLE, Sept. 19.—Louis W.
Benedicti, a co-partner in the Men’s
Exchange ,a lunch and card room in |
this city, was found guilty today of
attempting to defeat the Bone power
bill by illegal methods and conspir
acy, Judge C. C. Dalton stating that
he was guilty of buying votes for ^
l'he circulation of initiative petitions. J
KETCHIKAN BUILDING NEW
WHARF FOR HALIBUT FLEET j
Definite arrangements have been
completed for the construction ot a j
big wharf with float and a ware- j
* house for the accommodation of the ;
halibut fleet at Ketchikan, all to be I
ready by the time the season closes, j
The wharf will be located at the
foot of the Newton hill, north of the
(i. P. Co. oil dock. As soon as the
piling can be secured work will be
started on the 180-foot dock. The
warehouse is to be constructed ad
joining the street, it being 110 by
40 feet of two stories frame con
struction.
On the upper floor will be forty
rooms or compartments where vessel
owners can store gear and fittings
during the winter months.
The lower floor will be used for
a store building by the Tongass Trad
ing Co., and goods will be carried in
stock or delivered from there.
CLERK LEAVES BIG
LEGACY TO FRIENDS
NEW YORK CITY ,Sept. 19.—
Some two score old employes of the
Hotel Waldorf are enjoying today
the unexpected fruits of a friend
ship that flourished, for itself alone,
through many years.
‘•You could have knocked me over
with a feather,” said one, describ- j
ing his amazement at learning that
Artnur Fowler ,for thirty-three years
a clerk in the drug store in one
corner of the famous old hotel, had
jUft a fortune of $10,000 and that
he had willed it, in iots of $300 to
$300, to his many frit lids and asso-;
mates in the establishment.
John Killackey, the cashier, has j
Just finished distributing the gifts.
* Fowler was a native of England
and left no kith nor kin to share
his secret fortune. With the ex
ception of two bequests to cricket
clubs and to “two old English
friends,” Fowler’s whole estate went
to his friends at the Waldorf.
Prohibitionists Ready
for Eastern Campaign
HARRISBURG, Pa., Sept. 19.—The i
Prohibition party candidates for pres- j
ident and vice president—Herman F.
Harris of Missouri and Miss Marie
C. Brehm of California—will begin
their campaign in the east the latter
part of the month.
Miss Brehm will speak first in
Wisconsin and Indiana. At East Liv
erpool, O., she will be joined Sept.
30 by Mr. Faris, and the two candi
dates will then carry the fight into
Pennsvlvania, New Jersey and Conn.
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Marshal Tso Lin Has
Chinese Really Worried
PEKING, Sept. 19.—President Tsao
K%,i by mandate late today created
Marshal Wu Pei Fu as supreme com
mander of the government military
«• forces in the field against Chang Tso
Lin. General Fu declared today he
was in a position to place 20,000 sol
diers in the field against the Man- j
churian warlord.
PROSSER LOSES GOAT
Jack Prosser has lost his goat; or j
more properly speaking the goat be
longing to Jack Prosser has been lost
strayed or been stolen. No trace of
it has as yet been Lmnd.
Nome Legislator Burned
to Death in Roadhouse
NOME, Sept. 19.—Representa
tive John A. Wilson, Alaskan
legislator, was burned to death
in a fire which destroyed the
Megan Roadhouse at Bluff, 50
miles east of here yesterday.
No particulars have been re
ceived here beyond the fact that
he lost his life in the fire. The
5 roadhouse was entirely consumed.
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WORLD FLYERS REACH
MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA
MUSKOGEE, Sept. 19.—The
world flyers arrived here today
from Omaha.
OMAHA, Sept. 19.—The U.
Sw Army squadron of world fly
ers hopped off for St. Joseph,
Mo., this morning.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo., Sept. 19.—
The round the world flyers ar
rived here at three o’clock today
from Omaha, and received a
wild demonstration. The trio
took wing for Muskogee an hour
after their arrival here.
TRACES OF ANCIENT
RACE DISCOVERED IN
CALIFORNIA HILLS
VISALIA, Cal., Sept. 19.—Archae
ologists of the Uuniversity of Cali
fornia are to be invited by W. H.
Hart, a pioneer resident of Wood
lake, Tulare county, to go with him
back into the Eshom valley coun
try in the high Sierras, to inspect
a recent discovery which the moun
taineer believes indicates that some
unknown race preceded even the
Indians in that country. Pending
the visit of scientists, Hart is guard
ing his secret and has told few peo
ple of the location of his find.
In the heavily wooded and rocky
section within walking distance of
General Grant National Park, Hart
says he uncovered a considerable
deposit of flint entirely unknown to
Tulare county mountains. Flint cut
into shapes and sizes somewhat re
sembling broken weapons of war
fare and possible bits of some an
cient pottery likewise different from
that known to have been made by
the Indians, caused the finder to
look further and he now believes his
discoveries were merely surface in
dications of what may be found be- i
neath the layer of six feet of soil
which covers the small area. He
made no attempt to dig, confining
his search to what might be seen up
on the surface.
Five small stones resembling dia
monds were picked up. Two of these
Hart had tested by a San Francisco
jewel expert who, he says, pronounc
ed them real diamonds of rare ex
cellence. If they are real diamonds,
Hart declares, they are the only
one ever found far back in the
Sierra Nevada mountains, and he be
lieves they must have been brought
into that section by some age-old
civilization which frequented the re
gion.
Hart has lived for 55 years in
these mountains, has made a study
of the Indians who used to live
there, their habits and customs. He
is convinced they cannot be respon
sible for the articles he discovered.
VENERABLE PRIEST
EXECUTED BY REDS
PARIS, Sept. 19.—The Georgian
legation in this city announced to
day that the venerable priest Nazari
had been executed in Kutais by Rus
sian Soviet troops. The aged church
man was 68 years old and ill at the
time he was shot.
Armored trains ,tanks • and air
planes continue to arrive in Georgia
from Russia.
NEWSPAPER NOT CLASSED
AS MECHANICAL PLANT BY
WAGE LAWS, DUNBAR SAYS
SEATTLE, Sept. 19.—Newspaper
establishments are not to be class
ed as mechanical establishment
under the state law governing the
working hours of women ,according
to an opinion handed down recently
by Attorney-General John H. Dun
bar to Prosecutor Malcolm Douglas.
The prosecutor asked the opinion
following a complaint to him by the
typographical union that The Post
Intelligencer had violated the state
statute by allowing a woman to
work more than eight hours in a day.
“In view of the wording of t he
statute,” says the attorney-general’s
opinion, “and in absence of any
authority to the contrary, I am in
clined to the belief that our courts
would hold that a newspaper estab
lishment such as described in your
inquiry was not a mechanical estab
lishment.”
The attorney-general suggests it
might be advisable to have a test
suit instituted to settle the question.
“THE NEXT GOVERNOR OF TEXAS” CAN COOK AS WELL "AS WIN
BY BIG MAJORITY
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“The next Governor of Texas,” as some of the Lone Star State’s j
shrewdest political prophets are calling Mrs. Miriam A. Ferguson, is
proud of her culinary skill as she is of her political ability and grasp of
the problems of statesmanship . She entered the Gubernatorial race when
her husband, ex-overnor James E. Ferguson, was denied a place on the
Democratic primary ballot, and won by a big majority. This is the first
woman in the history of the United States to be nominated for Governor.
BOX SOCIAL AT MILE SEVEN
TONIGHT FOR BENEFIT WOOD
ROW SCHOOLS. Coffee, Milk and
Sugar Furnished Free, Dancing later
in the evening; Ladies requested to
bring well filled lunch baskets. A
good time will be had.
Third Class Passengers
Get First Class Drinks
On Atlantic Steamers
PARIS, Sept. 19.—For the first I
time in the history of trans-Atlantic
travel many first-class cocktails were
drunk this Summer by third-class:
passengers. This was noted on the
first ship out of New York which
reserved its entire third-class for
teachers ,students and othei*s of that ;
class.
A group of eight or ten college
i students, after finding their way to
the veranda cafe, made themselves i
so popular that everything, even
champaign, was bought for them by
some of the first-class passengers. j
A professor of English in one of
the big colleges, traveling third
class was acustomed to get a cock
| tail every day in the first-class buf
fet. On the last day of the trip he
was asked if he was going to the
first-class for his usual cocktail. He
replied: “No, I think I’d better go
to the second-class today. They
will feel slighted if I don’t.”
This “freedom of the ship” in
dulged in by the third-class passen
gers was nobody’s fault. The deck
stewards were bewildered by the!
natty clothes of different varieties;
which the third-class voyagers put
on display. The women school teach-;
ers and the girl students wore gay!
sport clothes, and the men came,
out in golf knickers with stockings j
of various hues. The third-class;
travelers looked like first-class to
such an extent that a steward would
have had to be a wizard to separate
the wheat from the chaff.
The third-class of tourist pas
sengers found traveling by t^3 new!
way so advantageous that at the
conclusion of the trip they volun
tarily signed a petition thanking
the steamship company and the
ship’s crew for the services given.
235 Universities in
Russia, 94 Work Schools
—
RIGA, Sept. 19 —According to j
Russian educational authorities there
are £.35 universities in Soviet Russia ;
besides 94 workingmen’s high schools
otherwise called people's universities.
Nearly 50 per cent of the 4655 pro
fessors listed resided in Leningrad
and Moscow.
TODAY'S FISH PRICES
JUNEAU, Sept. 19.—Halibut 12 and
7; salmon 15, 10 and 5.
SEATTLE DOCTOR
PAYS TO ROB RIVAL
OF $100,000 FILES
SEATTLE, Sept. 19.—A confes
sion that he paid a man $30 to loot
the of-Lce of Dr. Charles J. Dean of
Portland and steal files valued by Dr.
Dean at $100,000 was made here
today by Dr. David Dale after his ar
rest in Seattle.
Northwestern Sails
South With Big List
The steamship Northwestern sailed
for Seattle last night after remain
ing in port from Monday morning to
Thursday loading herring transhipp
ed from westward jgrts on the Re
el ndo. A large number of passen
gers were aboard for the following
points:
For Seattle—J. H< lden, L. Sager,
W. B. Yonkers, D. E. Madden, Erik
G. Belting, Wallace Fairfield, E. H.
CaHs’n, Harold Beeson, Vera Kim
ball, Gertrude Watsrr Wm. P. Pesh
el, C. A. To\tr, Clam B. Brown, L.
F. Gi’lett, Louise Collett, Carrol Gil
lett Mrs. B. T. Thompson, Willis
Thompson, Paul 7. Borak, H. Hanson,
J. B. Mathews. W. . G Suench, A. K
Allen, John Monnich, A. F. Guinar.,
Edgar Brocks Jr.. H. N. Burgin, A
Rue -nd wit?, Sam U.desich, E. W.
Shaw, Chas. Rebburn T,ete Carriln
sen, L. A. Levensaler R. S. Saun
ders, Florence Howe, J. \brams, E
B. Merovitch.
For Latouche—If. J. Emard, R.
Douglas, R. Mooney, Mrs. R. Moon
ey, Mrs. G. C. Br'wn, W. R. Vruland
John Hran U. Sande, O. Westgard,
Mi’s. W. Sande, Me:; Surefand, Mary
Schneider, Mrs. F. Jetland, Mrs. Ax
erdal, Mrs. Deeper, Mis. Johnson
Miss Maydoll, Mrs. Olson, Mrs. Nel
son, Mrs. Systad, Croige Morris, H.
I. Staser, John Karin Mrs. George
Hillery, W. V. Shidcat Gust Larson,
Nels Nelson, Val Coolige, Robert
Doockhard, Tom Dochhard.
For Valdes. - Leopold David, J. P.
Hannon, L. A. Levansaler.
For Cordova—Dr. and Mrs. W. W.
Council, Ida F. Allen, Henry Meskei.
Wm. Watson.
For Juneau—Mrs. P. Everett, Vir
ginia E. Anthony, Elsie C. Rummel,
Geo. Smith, Rev. I’. C. Dillon, W. S.
Harding, Chas. H Honey, B. B. Grun
N. Madsen.
Wrangell—J. E. Fitrgerald.
Miller Names President
Interallied Combatants
LONDON, Sept. 19.—Col. Thomas
Miller, alien property custodian of
the United States was elected presi
dent of the Federation of Interallied
combatants consisting of the veter
ans of eight allied nations.
SEATTLE PREPARING
GIFTS WORLD FLYERS
SEATTLE, Sept. 19.—Platinum
green and gold seal rings .each
costing $300, bearing in'crip
tions commemorating the end of
the round the world flight are
ready for presentation to the six
history making American Army
flyers upon their arrival in Se
attle. They will be the gift of
the Seattle Chamber of Com
merce.
DEATH OF EXILE
BRINGS MEMORY OF
A GREAT TRAGEDY
HARBIN, China. Sqpt. 19.—An old
man died in a small village of east
ern Siberia whose name evokes am
ong Russian memories of a tragedy,
the poignancy of which is unsur
passed in the annals of that wild and
gloomy land.
St. Petersburg was the scene and
the time the late eighties. The prin
cipal actor was a young officer of
one of the most brilliant regiments
of the Czar’s guard. He was ac
complished and highly connected and
a general favorite, but the life led
by him and a mapority of his com
rades proved too fast for the re
sources of a diminished «and badly
managed estate. The young officer
turned to the money lenders who
preyed upon men of his kind. One
was found who was willing to ad
vance money against his prQmissory
notes, and who never failed to re
spond until the total debt had reach
ed many thousands of rubles.
Finally the chance of a wealthy
marriage gave promise of release
for the young man from his finan
cial troubles. He informed the
money lender of his good luck and
obtained more money.
The money lender told the young
officer that he planned a fine wed
ding present for the occasion of his
marriage. Misinterpreting the man’s
meaning and taking it to be a threat
i that the notes would be presented
for payment or protest , the young
officer foresaw himself ruined and
resolved upon desperate measures
The money lender was found dead
in his own house a few days later,
j and the crime was traced to the bor
! rower. The police discovered among
| the old man’s effects a package
! neatly tied with ribbon containing
' all the other’s notes. An inscription
j showed that this was to have been
j the wedding gift.
! Evidence of the young officer’s
guilt was clear and he was exiled
to Siberia. Old residents of Siberia
tell many stories of his remorse
stricken life, which has just ended
I in penury and misery.
Roosevelt Cabin in the
Dakotas Be Preserved
BISMARCK, Sept. 19.—The Roose
velt Cabin once occupied by Theo
dore Roosevelt when recuperating1 at
the old Maltest Ranch seven miles
south of the village of Medora 'in the
Little Missouri Bad Lands of North
Dakota, is to be preserved in a fit
ting shrine according to the State
Historical Society of North Dakota.
Lewis F. Crawford, curator of the
society is preparing plans for a
stone shrine of stately and substan
tial design to be erected over the
building. Assistance through popular
subscription from every state is be
ing considered, Mr. Crawford states,
owing to requests from all sections
for the shrine’s establishment.
The cabin has historical interest
in North Dakota and the northwest.
No other building in the state has
traveled as much. It was taken from
the Maltese Ranch where it had
stood for more thar 2C years and
shipped to the St. Louis Exposition
in 1904. At the close of the exposi
tion, the cabin was returned here
and set up on the Capitol grounds.
The building is constructed of pine
logs, cut on the upper waters of the
Little Missouri in .1880-81.
Campaign Is Most
Satisfactory to Party
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 19.—
President Coolidge again announced
today that his campaign is progress- j
ing most satisfactorily and appre
hends no difficulty in being elected.
Join the Chamber of Commerce.
BRYAN SAYS HE
KNOWS CANDIDATES;
COOLIDGE A LEPER
SEATTLE, Sept. 19.—In an an
nouncement that he knows well all
six presidential #nd vice-presidential
candidates, \V. J. Bryan today adroit
ly shielded his personal friendship
for them by praising them without
stint in everything except their po
litical records. He said: “One may
apply every word of praise in the
dictionary to Calvin Coolidge and I
will agree with you, provided you let
me add the last five words quoting
he Bible. I would add, ‘And he is
a leper and a reactionary.’ I mean
by that as such he is incurable.
METAL HOOFS OF TOKIO
GET BLAME FOR HEAT
TOKIO, Sept. 19.—Three hundred
thousand metal roofs in Tokio most
of them tin and galvanized iron,
are adding appreciably to the discom
forts of one of the hottest summers
in recent years. More than one-half
the city’s population lives in build
ings rected since the earthquake of
last September, and nearly all these
buildings have metal roofs. Tempera
tures in such houses are from 5 to
10 degrees Fahrenheit higher than in
buildings roofed with slate or tile.
Experts say that this is not the
only discomfort engendered by the
metal roofs. Tokio and its suburbs
are suffering the worst summer
drought in 30 years. Districts to
the north and southwest get rain,
but not the Tokio metropolitan area,
and half the wells in the suburbs
have dried up.
It is argued that Tokio gets no
rain because the metal roofs, reflect
ing the sun’s rays, generate a body
of super-heated air which rises and
carries the rain clouds away .
LINDBERG PARDON WAS
MADE OUT BY COYLE
SEATTLE, Sept. 19.—A statement
was issued today at the headquar
ters of William J. (Wee) Coyle, can
didate for governor of Washington
on the Republican ticket, in which
Coyle's act as acting governor in par
doning Gus Lndberg, Tacoma whole
sale groceryman, charged with hav
ing helped wreck the Scandinavian
! American Dank was termed daring
land courageous and an act of justice.
Lindberg had been convicted of vio
lating the banking laws as a director
of his bank by borrowing money from
the bank without consulting the direc
torate.
Coyle said alt the jurors appreci
ated the bitter feeling among the
people of Tacoma and the depositors
over the bank failure and said he
did not think it fair to criticize him
for the pardon because it was the
right thing to do.
FRENCH STUDENTS
ASSAULT HERRIOTT
PARIS, Sept. 19.—Premier Her
riott narrowly escaped injury in
Marseilles last night when two hun
dred Communists swing canes and
sticks shouted, “Amnesty for politi
cal prisoners” and made a deter
mined effort to surround and mob
the premier in the Rue Cannedi, Her
riott with difficulty being rescued
from the crowd by the police.
Beyond a few bruises and torn gar
ments the “premier was unharmed.
AMERICAN WORKMEN CANNOT
BE DRIVEN BY OLD GANG
WASTBROOK, Me., Sept. IS.—In a
speech here the forepart of the week
James J. Davis, secretary of labor,
said that no group of old line poli
ticians can control or deliver the vote
of the American workingman. He
said that LaFollette has gathered a
remnant of the socialist group and a
small group of radicals, and near
radicals.
Earthquake Destroys
102 Turkish Villages
CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 19—
An earthquake Saturday destroy
ed 102 villages and killed hun
dreds of people according to a
dispatch received by the Turkish
government from Erzurerum, Ar
menia. The loss of life was es
pecially heavy in those villages
in the center of the disturbance.