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SEWARD, ALASKA, VOLUME XX. NUMBER 115.
PRICE TEN CENTS.
FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1925.
HIGH WATER ON
YUKON WASHES
AWAY SEVERAL
HOMES DAWSON
YUKON OVERFLOWS BANKS DO
ING MUCH DAMAGE—FLOOD IS
WORST EVER KNOWN IN HIS
TORY OF DAWSON.
VANCOUVER, B. C., May 15. (/P)—
A delayed message from Dawson dat
ed May 11th, stated the worst flood
ever known in Dawson, caused the
Yukon to overflow its banks.
The city is flooded, the administra
tion building being surrounded by wat
er, the fire hall, Bank of Commerce
building. White Pass Transportation
Company's dock and offices seriously
damaged by the water.
Many homes in Dawson are now un
der water and several have floated
away. The government radio station
is now out of commission and no news
^can be sent out. The north and the
south approaches of the Klondike
bridge are impassable, cutting many
off from town.
At present the Yukon is full of ice,
and when the message was sent, it
was stated the water was still rising.
INDIANS TAKE
GAME FROM
VERNON TODAY
WILD HEAVES BY VERNON IN THE
SIXTH INNING LOSE GAME
TO SEATTLE VETS
LOS ANGELES, May 15. (/P)—Wild
throws by the Vernon fielders contrib
uted to the Indian’s victory today. The
teams were tied in the sixth inning
^when the erratic heaves by Kelly and
Griffin permitted the scoring of the
Seattle runners.
Batteries—Miljus and E. Baldwin;
Penner and Whitney.
Today’s Standings
COAST—
Vernon 1, Seattle 4.
Sacramento 1, San Francisco 0.
Oakland 3, Portland 4.
Salt Lake, Los Angeles, rain.
NATIONAL—
Boston 1, Pittsburg 7.
Philadelphia 2, Chicago 4.
Brooklyn 4, St. Louis 8.
New York 5, Cincinnati 4, twelve in
nings.
AMERICAN—
Chicago 1, New York 0.
Detroit 2, Philadelphia 4.
Cleveland 4, Boston 3.
St. Louis 3, Washington 5.
MEASLES IN JAPAN SPREADING
TOKIO, May 14. —A Jiji Shimpo dis
patch reported forty-seven hundred
cases of measles in Kuji, northern
Hondo. The disease is spreading and
already there are seventy deaths.
KENTUCKY DERBY
START TOMORROW
LOUISVILLE, May 15.—Twenty-five
three year olds were named today to
' start the fifty thousand dollar Ken
tucky derby at Churchill Downs to
morrow. Sport writers here are of
the general opinion that the first five
will be Quatrain, Captain Hal, Ken
tucky, Cardinal Chantey, and Alma
4el. Quatrain is the favorite.
• Quatrain, Benny Bruening, who will
ride him tomorrow, up, did five-eighths
in one and two-fifths. Johnson, owner
of the favorite said he was never bet
ter, and there will be no excuses if
* he loses a Mthe. a wet or dry track.
CAMP LEWIS BE BASE
FOR ARCTIC FLIGHTS
TACOMA, May 15. (^P)—Camp Lew
is will be the base for Arctic flights
of the dirigible assigned to relief work
according to word from Washington.
It was pointed out that either the Los
Angeles or the Shenandoah could mak
a non-stop flight from Lake* Hurst, to
Alaska, but officials say this is unlike
ly as the distance would be too far.
SEATTLE HUSKIES TO LEAVE
FOR EASTERN RACES IN JUNE
SEATTLE, May 15. (£»)—The Husky
crews, starting June 6th for Pough
keepsie, will take several hundred gal
lons of Cedar River water and doctor
Don Palmer, former Husky athletic
star, with them. These measurer are
taken on account of sickness to the
rowers, on previous trips east for the
title.
STUDENT HANDS
BRYAN QUESTION
CANNOT ANSWER
PROVIDENCE, May 15. (£>)— After
William Jennings Bryan had swayed
his audience with an emotional ap
peal for the protection of Man’s Faith
in God, against the teacher’s doctrines
that man descended from the lower
animals, George L. Cassidy, junipr at
Brown University, stepped to the plat
form with the question:
“Isn’t it possible to gain by evolu
tionary thinking, philosophy which pre
sents worship and reverence for fu
ture generations as an ideal, and looks
toward the development of Heaven on
earth through science; and isn’t this
ideal capable of producing as noble a
standard of morality.”
He repeated the question at Bryan’s
request.
Bryan said the hour was late and
added, “I have to retire before this
magnificent, bubbling fountain of wis
dom on my right.”
The students booed and hissed be
fore this statement. Bryan told an
other inquisitor, William G. Chase, “I
am sorry for you and ashamed of you,”
when Chase admitted he didn’t believe
in the Bible.
DAYTON, Tenn., May 15. (JP)—H. G.
Wells. British novelist, will be asked
to lead the defense of J. T. Scopes,
accused of violation of the anti-evo
lution law.
FIANCEE TO TAKE
STAND AGAINST
THE SHEPHERDS
PORTLAND, May 15. (/P)—Isabella
Pope, fiancee of William Nelson Me
Clintock, passed through here enroute
to Chicago from Grants Pass, to testi
fy against Shepherd.
She said she “couldn’t understand
why the Shepherds made such a quick
getaway after the death of McClintock
and that she never suspected Shep
herd.”
“I though Mrs. Shepherd treated me
strangely. To my face Shepherd was
nice, but Mrs., I guess, was terribly
jealous.”
PROFESSOR KILLS FAMILY
NEW ORLEANS, May 15. (JP)—Geo.
W. Peckham, professor of philosophy
at Newcomb college, shot and killed
his wife and two children, later turn
ing the gun on himself. The tragedy
occurred in the bathroom of his home
opposite the college.
TEN NEGROES KILLED
MANILA, March 15. (jP)—The wea
ther bureau announced that ten ori
ental negroes were killed in a series
of earthquakes near here.
ALASKA TO HAVE
MANY TOURISTS
THIS SUMMER
ADVANCED BOOKINGS AT STEAM
SHIP COMPANIES SHOW MANY
OUTSIDERS PLAN TO TOUR THE
TERRITORY.
SEATTLE. May 15. (JP)— Alaska will
be vjsited by more tourists this year
than in any season in the history of
the country, judging from the advanc
ed bookings of passengers at the of
fices of the Alaska and Pacific steam
ship companies.
Ten passenger liners will serve the
territory this coming summer. Seattle
headquarters of the Alaska Railroad
reported a record inquiry of summer
tours inland. Representatives Arthur
Free of California; Wallace White of
Maine, and Lawrence Ritchie, assist
ant secretary of commerce are expect
ed here June twentieth, when they
will leave for Alaska.
SOME ARE OPPOSED SALE
VESSELS TO HENRY FORD
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 15. (JP)
—Some members of the Shipping
board are opposed to Ford’s offer to
buy all the shipping board vessels,
admitting that three or four hundred
ships will eventually be forced in the
junk pile, but they are unwilling to
agree on a wholesale scrapping for
some time to come.
Shifting River Banks Take
Two States Into Court
JACKSON, Miss., May 15.—Louisi
ana and Mississippi have taken to
the United States supreme court
their dispute over possession of ap
proximately 5,000 acres of land lying
in the Mississippi River.
The case grew out of the alleged
sale by Mississippi of the contested
land, which Louisiana claims lies
west of the correct boundary between
the two states and belongs to her.
The history of the case involves
nature’s work in changing the river
channel. Louisiana’s claim, filed by
her attorney-general, sets forth that
an imperceptible caving in and dis
appearance of land on the Mississ
ippi side of the river was accompa
nied by a likewise imperceptible ex
tension of land on the Louisiana
side.
When the accretion of land on
the Louisiana side had extended
about five miles, Louisiana’s claim
continues, the river in 1912-13 sud
denly abandoned its old channel and
cut a new one through the addition.
Louisiana claims the boundary line
between the two states “was in and
remained in the middle of the old
channel, which was and is east of
the new channel made by the avul
sion.” The claimant further asserts
that wihen a formation of silt filled
the old channel “the boundary line
then became fixed in the middle of
the old navigable stream.”
Mississippi, Louisiana claims, has
assumed the boundary to be the
same as in 1823 and has sold and is
sued patents for lands west of the
line which Louisiana claims is the
boundary in fact.
Such assumption, Louisiana asserts,
is without foundation or fact or law,
and the selling of the land by Miss
issippi is “null and void and is an at
tempt to appropriate territory be
longing to the state of Louisiana.”
A has-been is the guy who gets a
thrill out of reading the “Twenty-five
Years Ago Today” column in the pa
per.
Mary “had a little ship,
It sailed the ocean blue—
When Mary wanted fresh eggs,
She made the ship lay-to.
BAN ON CIDER IN CANADA
IS STILL IN EFFECT
VICTORIA, May 15, (/P)—Commis
sioner Davidson of the liquor control
board announced today cider( will con
tinue to be under ban in British Col
umbia. He explained it was “hard to
handlg, increases rapidly in alcoholic
percentage, and is dangerous stuff as
is liable to go off.”
SUPER-SUB COMPLETED
TOKIO, May 15. (/P)—Japan’s larg
est submarine capable of cruising
across the Pacific and returning, has ;
been completed. It displaces seven
teen hundred tons.
MARY PICKFORD HAS COLD
BEVERLY HILLS, May 15. (£>)—
Mary Pickford, moving picture star, is
home with a cold.
MARTIN’S EFFECTS
BROUGHT STATES
ON THE REDWOOD
BELLINGHAM, Wn., May 15.—Rob
ert West, the Pacific American Pack
ing company’s watchman at Port Mol
ler, brought here Sunday on the steam
er Redwood, the belongings of Fred
erick L. Martin and Alva L. Harvey,
two of the world flyers who dashed
to the ground during their flight.
West made two trips to the scene
of the wreck, which is at an elevation
of sixteen hundred feet. Nearby, said
West was a peak one hundred and fif
ty feet higher. The two trips made by
West were in November and Febru
ary.
SIXTY-FIVE HUNDRED KILLED
IN BIG CHINESE TEMBLOR
—
PEKING, May 15. (£>)—'The famine
relief commission advised that sixty
five hundred people were killed in the
earthquake in Talifu-Yunnan province
March 16.
UNDERWOOD MAY RETIRE
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 15. (/P)
—Senator Underwood, presidential
candidate before two conventions, is
considering retiring when his term is
up, March 4, 1927.
STING BREAKS RECORD
JAMAICA, N. Y., May 15. (IP)—Sting
handicap colt belonging to Janies But
ler, ran 370 yards in 1:41, breaking the
world’s record.
HEARING MURDER
CASE STARTED
BY CROWN TODAY
VANCOUVER, May 15. (£>)—'The
King’s Counsel yesterday started the
hearing of Wong Foon Sing, houseboy
charged with the murder of Janet
Smith, after whose death Fations ap
peared in Vancouver society by sud
denly asking if cocaine couldn’t cause
death even if a local anesthetic had
been administered.
Doctor A. W. Hunter who autopsied
the body said the undertaker’s work
had prevented him determining wheth
er Janet had been mistreated before
her death.
F. L. Baker, wealthy imported and
employer of Janet, took the stand to
day. The body had several bullet
wounds in it.
A new hydrant was installed on
the lower part of the main street,
opposite the Arcade buliding yester
day. John Nelson did the installing.
The Fairbanks Collegian will soon
be on the racks. The last runs are
being pushed thru the Gateway
presses.
ANNUAL RACE TO
THE ARCTIC NOW
ON BETWEEN TWO
RIVAL OUTFITS
TWO TRADING VESSELS LEAVE
UNALASKA IN RACE FOR SIBER
IAN SHORES—CANADIAN SHIPS
COALING UP.
DUTCH HARBOR. May 15. (/P)—
The annual race to the Arctic between
tw'o rival trading interests, with Un
alaska as the base, commenced with
the arrival and departure of the Chas.
Bower, schooner operated Leibes in
terests, and the schooner Nanuk in.
command of Captain Peterson, opera
ed by the Northwestern Trading Co.,
leaving today for St. Lawrence Island
where trading for the season will be
gin.
The Nanuk narrowly escaped seiz
ure by the Russians off the Siberian
coast last year, and survived the ice
which crushed the Arctic.
The Lady Kindersley, Canadian
steamer and the trawlers Canada and
Imbrecaria, are coaling here, on their
way to Japan in the interests of Zan
ni, the Argentine flier.
DAVIS TALKS AT OPENING
CHILD WELFARE COMMITTEE
NEW YORK, May 15. (^—Secre
tary Davis told the opening session
of the Child Welfare Committee of
America that discipline in the Ameri
can home, tempered with parental af
fection, overcame any peril in Ameri
ca, which dissipation and vicious
amusement of boys and girls, might
cause.
PLANE EXPlCTS
BEAT MUSHERS
INTO CASSIAR
PRINCE RUPERT, B. C., May 15 —
(/P)—The plane w'hicli a party headed
by Archibald Little, to fly to Dease
lake in the Cassiar, arrived from
Three Rivers, Quebec, and is being as
sembled here. Little said that he
would reach the latest gold strikes
within five hours from Prince Ru
pert and beat all those who left the
towrn of Wrangell by boat up the Stik
ine on Sunday of this week.
Boats May Be Jammed.
PRINCE RUPERT, B. C., May 15.—
(JP)—Word wms received here from
Telegraph Creek that the three boats
loaded with gold seekers that left
Wrangell on Sunday, have not as yet
arrived. Ice along the river or a log
jam was suggested as the cause for
delay.
SEATTLE GAMBLER
CONVICTED TODAY
SEATTLE, May 15.—Arthur A. Mo
Cafferty, arrested during Prosecutor
Colvin’s war on gambling in Seattle,
was convicted as being conductor of
running such a resort by the Superior
Court. J. Hassett, doorman at the
club was acquitted.
RUM FLEET BREAKING UP
NEW YORK, May 15. (£>)—'The
coast guard patrol boat reported 12
of the 16 rum runners which have been
anchored in rum row, under the sur
veillance of the blockading squadron,
have put to sea toward Halifax, with
only two steamers and two schooner^
remaining.