VOLUME XVIII.
NUMBER 202
SEWARD. ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1923
PRICE TEN CENTS
DE VALERA IS CAPTURED BY STATE TROOP
EXPLOSION TIES MIL IMS
IONITE FROM LIMPS OF WOMEN
BODIES OF NINETY ONE MEN HAVE BEEN RE
COVERED FROM LOWER LEVELS, LEAVING
OVER 100 IN MINE—ALL ARE DEAD
KEMMERER, Wyo., Aug. 15.—Two hundred miners
in Number One mine of the Kemmerer Coal Company
were entombed this morning following an explosion in the
lower levels. A cave-in at Number 5 entry cut off all com
munication with the men. Up to noon but one body had
been recovered.
NINETY-ONE BODIES RECOVERED
KEMMERER, Wyo., Aug. 15.—Rescue crews have
recovered the bodies of 91 miners, who met death this
morning as the result of an explosion in the lower levels
of Mine No. 1, of the Kemmerer Coai Company. Over
one hundred bodies yet remain to be recovered. It is stated
i that all the men yet below are dead.
NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENTS
CLAIM BONE WANTS GO BACK
TO THE STATES
WASHINGTON, D. C., August 15—
Newspaper correspondents, who trav
elled to Alaska with President Hard
ing on his trip over the territory, and
who are on their way back to Wash
ington, are discussing the rumor of the
early retirement of Governor Bone,
who is said to have expressed the de
sire to come back to the states and to
the association of old friends.
TODAY,S FISH PRICES
KETCHIKAN, August 14—Halibut
eleven and eight; pickled none.
JUNEAU, August 14—Halibut ten
and one half and seven; king salmon,,
reds, twelve and eight; white three.
SUSTAINS FRACTURED ANKLE
LONDON, August 15—Prince Hen
ry, the third son of King George, is in
a hospital in Aldershot, suffering from
a fractured ankle, which he sustained
when a horse he was riding slipped on
wet turf.
WEATHER FORECAST
Rain tonight and Thursday; colder
in Tanana valley.
HflTEfl FEUDIST FLEES
HMWUllOFSFOOSEl
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Aug. 15.—
“Two gun” Lee McCoy, the only Mc
Coy who ever ran away from trouble,
is not dead. He has been found in
hiding, very much alive.
When this aged veteran of the Hat
fleld-McCoy feud disappeared from
his home two months ago, he was not
running away from the Hatfields, but
from his wife.
He and his son, Courtney, are busy
attending a big watermelon patch in
Arkansas.
“Please don’t let her know where I
am at,” he pleaded. “Fer she’d jest
come right down here to Arkansas
f and there wouldn’t be no more peace
hyer fer me.”
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WOMAN FAILS IN ATTEMPTED
SWIM OF ENGLISH CHANNEL
DOVER, England, August 15—Mrs.
Clemington Carson, American long
distance swimmer, abandoned her at
tempt to swim the English Channel,
from Dover to Callais, when only a
few miles from the French coast. She
covered a little over sixteen miles, and
was in the water fourteen and one
half hours. She announced that she
would try again, probably next year.
ROYALTY TO MARRY
j LONDON August 15—Arrangements
have been made for the marriage of
Prince Paul, of Serbia, and Princess
Olga of Greece.
ill MOOES
GREAT DAMAGE i
TO HU TOllS
TOKYO, Aug. 15.—A tidal wave, i
apparently caused by the recent ty-1
phoon sweeping in from the tropics,!
destroyed the west coast of Korea.
A hundred boats were wrecked along
the Yalu river, 25,000 houses sub
merged, crops and the lumber indus
try damaged heavily, and the loss of
life was enormous.
The wave swept up the river 25
feet high, causing vessels to drag at
their moorings, and go ashore, and
sweeping whole villages away like
straws.
FIGHT CITIZENSHIP BILL!
SEATTLE, Aug. 15.—The American
Legion members of this state will
fight the proposed national legislation
which would grant rights of citizen
ship to Japanese. Senator Owen of
Oklahoma will father such a bill, Le
gion men say.
MEMBERS OF CABINET
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15—The Pres
ident this morning indicated that all
members of the cabinet will remain
indefinitely. The early recognition of
Mexico is indicated.
WILL HOLD FISHERIES MEETING
IN THIS CITY SHORTLY AFT
ER ARRIVAL
The Territorial Fish Commission,
composed of Governor Scott C. Bone,
R. J. Heckman, of Ketchikan, Calvin
Hazelett of Cordova, and H. E. Eells
worth of Seward, will hold a meeting
in this city August 25th.
Mr. Ellsworth received a cablegram
today from Governor Bone stating
that he and Mr. Heckman would leave
the 21st on the Alameda and that a
meeting would be held here about the
25tli inst.
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QUESTION OF WHAT IS THE MAT
TER WITH WHEAT BRINGS AL
MOST AS MANY ANSWERS AS
THERE ARE CLASSES ASKING
World’s Crop 119,000,000 Bushels in
Excess of Last Year, According to
Estimate—Despoilers Blamed.
CHICAGO, August 15—What is the
matter with wheat?
For this question, asked with anx- j
iety in hundreds of farm houses thru
out the nation, in financial centers,
and in the councils of the major poli
tical parties, there are almost as many
answers as there are classes propound
ing the query. When wheat went be
low the dollar mark here this week,
the fact was heralded as a seventh
day wonder. In 1914 dollar wheat
caused an even greater hullaballoo,
but in a different sense. Dollar wheat
before the war was the heighth of the
farmer’s ambition, but today, after
years of inflation, dollar wheat brings
cries of calamity.
The farmei\ it is admitted, has good
grounds for complaint. But he is also
the victim of poor judgment. Intoxi
cated by the pre-war high prices, he
increased production greater than the
world consumed and now he is suf
fering because of this fact. In addition
many renters, who became prosperous
through wTar prices, were able to buy
their own farms, but they paid sums
far above the intrinsic value of the
land, Today, they find they are un
able to produce wheat on this inflated
land and secure a profit at the present
price of grain.
The greatest sore spot to the farm
er is the fact that while he has to un
dergo all the sufferings of deflation,
industrial lines have not been subje
ted to the same operation. As a result
he finds his income too meagre in
comparison with his outgo or the cost
of ilving which remains in the neigh
borhood of 1918.
FRENCH TROOPS OCCUPY A
BANK BECAUSE REFUSE CHECK
DUSSELDORF, August 14—French
troops occupied the locan branch of
the Reichbank, because of the refusal
of the cashier to honor a check for one
billion marks presented by a French
civilian.
GRAND JURY INVESTIGATION IN
MURDER MOTION PICTURE
DIRECTOR REOPENED
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 14.—Mary
Miles Minter, motion picture actress,
has supplied the authorities with in
formation which may result in t_he re
opening of the grand jury investiga
tion of the case of Wm. Desmond Tay
lor, motion picture director, to whom
she was engaged.
Desmond was assassinated as he
stepped from his auto, at his bunga
low in a lonely canyon near Los An
geles.
SYRACUSE CO-EDS ADMIT THEY
CRAVE CAVE MAN BUT HE
MUST BE POLITE, TOO
FI MI IB LIE
Girls Believe Some Suffering Needed
To Make Affection an En
during Quality.
SYRACUSE, August 15—Is greater
love inspired by the faultlessly polite
wooer or by the brute cave man?
Syracuse University co-eds general
ly agreed in response to questions pro
pounded just prior to the close of the
past term, that it’s the man who arous
es the primitive instincts of jealousy
anger and fear, who makes suffering
and perhaps, torments with his cave
man ways!
Nine out of tne of the Syracuse as
pirants to love and marriage shake
hands on the fact that it’s the love
that carries some degree of suffering
that, is enduring. And this, they claim,
is to be found in marriage' with a cave
man lover.
Likes Caveman
“Yes, sir, I like the caveman!” ad
mits Miss Vician Watkins, 25, third
vice-president of the Women’s student
Governing Association.
“Give me a polite man with just a
touch of the caveman,” said Miss Dor
othy Lamb, ’25, women’s editor of the
Phoenix literary publication.
Miss Dorothy Coleman, ’23, presi
dent of the Women’s Student Govern
ing Association has her own ideas of
the kind of a man to marry. “He must
be good looking and of course the nec
essary politeness of a gentleman. He
must be a real he-man.”
Wants ’em Strong
“Give me a caveman every time. A
very strong one—one who is not afraid
to express his feelings. That kind of
a man is more appealing.” That’s what
Miss Dorsie C. Bonham, vice-president
of the sophomore class thinks about
it.
Some are a bit wary of committing
themselves by reason, perhaps of the
bejeweled pins above their palpitating
hearts, but a keen eye can perceive a
flash and uncontrollable smile when
the word “caveman” is broached to
them.
In Syracuse Hill vernacular, the
caveman “goes big” and the faultless
ly polite wooer, who gives in to the
slightest whim “is out o' luck.”
SELF CONSTITUTED PRESIDENT OF IRISH RE
PUBLIC FAINTS WHEN VOLLEY IS FIRED
OVER HEAD BY CAPTORS
LONDON, Aug. 15.—A dispatch form Ennis, County
Clare, says that Free State troops have captured Eamon
de Valera, and he is now a prisoner at the local barracks.
De Valera was addressing a meeting of electors in
the market square when the Free State troops came upon
the scene and fired several volleys over the heads of the
crowd. A stampede then occurred.
The troops surrounded the platform and took the Re
publican leader prisoner. De Valera fell to the floor in
a faint when the troops fired over the platform, and it was
first thought he was wounded, but later he walked down
the steps to the waiting troops, who marched him off to
the barracks, in a pitiable state of fear.
VOLSTEAD ON TRIP TO OLD
COUNTRY, SPEAK PROHIBITION
NEW YORK, August 15—Represen
tative Andrew Volstead, father of the
prohibition law, sailed for Copenhag
en, Denmark, last week, where he will
speak before an International Con
gress against liquor. He insisted that
New York was dry, even when the re
porters insisted that there are 1200
saloons here, and that plenty of liquor
is being sold. He answered “rats.”
When asked if he ever took a drink
himself, he answered, “I don’t know
if there is any harm in one drink,”
but failed to answer the question di
rectly.
OFF NEW YORK
UPHELD BL com
NEW YORK, August 15—The seiz
ure of all alien craft, hovering about
the three mile limit, supposedly to
land a liquor cargo, either by them
selves or in cooperation with the less
er rum runners, was upheld by the
federal court of New York today.
in coiiiTst
LONDON, Aug. 15—A dispatch from
Berlin says that Communists stormed
the town hall at Alsborf, with hand
grenades, and that 100 were killed or
wounded by police.
Rioting at Wilhelmburg
BERLIN, Aug. 15.—Three persons
were killed and nine wounded in riot
ing at Wilhelmsburg.
LONDON, August 15—Hamburg is
the scene of further rioting with many
killed or wounded, saws a Central
News dispatch.
NEW YORK, August 15—The Inter
national General Electric Company an
nounced today that they had been
awarded a contract of a million dollars
for new equipment for electrifying 35
miles of the Paulista railway in Bra
zil^
CROWD ATTEMPTS TO STORM A
POLICE STATION TO RESCUE
PRISONERS
BERLIN, August 15—Twenty per
sons were killed and eighty wounded
when a crowd attempted to storm po
lice headquarters here and rescue fif
teen prisoners, taken when the police
broke up a food shortage demonstra
tion. All of the victims were Germans.
CHAS. MORSE ACQUITTED
WASHINGTON, D. C., August 15—
Charles W. Morse, a New York ship
builder, his three sons and tour others
were acquitted here yesterday, by a
jury on the charge of conspiracy to
defraud the United States in connec
tion with war time ship building and
operating contracts.
HAND GRENADE INJURES 2
DU8SELDORF, August 15—A hand
grenade was thrown into the midst of
a detachment of French troops yester
day, while passing the corner Platz.
Iwo soldiers and a German woman
and child were injured.
TYPHOON WORST IN YEARS
NAGASAKI, Japan, Aug. 14.—One
of the worst typhoons in years is re
ported approaching from off the Chi
na Sea. Many vessels have been
driven ashore and hundreds of fisher
men drowned.
Mini ON 11
TO NOME IN CUTTER
NOME, Aug. 15.—Raold Amundsen
is on his way to Nome aboard the
cutter Bear which he boarded at
Wainwright. The exploration ship
Maud is attempting to drift across
the pole with the ice pack.
BOLOGNE , August 15—Five per
sons were wounded at Molinella in re
prisals for bombing of the Fascisti
headquarters and the home of the lo
cal Fascisti leader.
ROME, Aug. 15.—Several fires due
to a severe heat wave, broke out to
day in various parts of Italy.