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Seattle. Wash.
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MATCH BOX TRICK WORKS,
BUT ONE MAN IS IN JAIL
PORTLAND, April 23.—The old
match-box trick worked to perfec
tion on Broadway last week and as
a result the victim is short $25 and
one man is in custody of the po
lice.
John Balough, a cabbage farmer, of
Orenco, Oregon, said that as he was
walking along the street a man walk
out and accosted him for a match.
He pulled a box of matches from his
pocket and as he did so another man
stepped from the crowd and offered
the first man his box of matches.
“Here, try these,” he is alleged to
have said.
The second man’s box refused to
open.
Balough volunteered to open it,
and without noticing it, received his
own box of matches. The box open
ed readily.
The second man tried again, receiv
ing the fake box and it refused to
open.
Talk of backing their judgment
with money led to Balough placing
$25 on being able to open the box.
He lost.
Balough refused to take his loss
lightly and called a traffic police
man on a nearby corner and one of
the men was taken to police head
quarters.
He first said that he was Jimmy
Duffy, San Francisco fighter, but lat
er told Inspector Swennes that lie
was Harold D. Phillips. He refus
ed to give the name of his compan
| ion. Bail was set at $1,500.
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SEWARD LODGE NO 219, F. & A. M.
A Stated communications first
third Wednesdays of each
/yrKmonth; visiting brethren wel
come, J. P. Hannon, W. M.; Harold
Painter, Secretary.
RESURRECTION LODGE NO. A-7,
I. O. O. F.
- Meets every Thursday at
£3*^^ 8:00 p. m. in Odd Fellows’
Hall, next to the postoffice. Visiting
brothers welcome. Fred Martineldes,
N. G.; Chas. Lechner, Secretary.
IGLOO NO. NINE, PIONEERS OF
ALASKA
Meets every Second and Fourth Fri
day nights in Odd Fellows’ Hall; John
Flowers, President; Coll A. McDou
gall, Secretary.
SEWARD CHAPTER NO. 10, ORDER
OF EASTERN STAR
Meeets the second and
fourth Mondays of each
I month in Odd Fellows’
•Hall at 8 p. m. Visiting
members always wel
_ :ome; Goldie Blue W. M.
Mrs. Viola T. Swetmann, Secretary.
SEWARD REBEKAH LOGE NO. 6-A,
I. O. O. F.
Meets the first and
third Mondays of
each month in Odd
Fellows Hall at 8:00
p. m. Visiting mem
bers are always wel
come. Mrs. John
Rosness, N. G.
OXFORD STEADFASTLY
REFUSES TO CLEAN UP
ITS INSANITARY DIRT
OXFORD. Eng.. Apr. 22.—Called up
on recently to consider a proposal for
cleaner streets, a perennial question
in Oxford, the town council decided
virtually to do nothing for the reason
that this same project had first been
submitted to it 20 years ago. Where
upon it was recalled that Oxford has
been unenviably notorious in this re
gard for six centuries.
Since the year 1300 the cleaning of
Oxford streets has been a subject of
constant argument. Edward III, in
the fifth year of his reign, stirred up a
great clamor by commanding all Ox
onians, townsmen and students alike,
to take besoms, brushed and buckets
and clean the town from end to end.
That was the last mass attack upon
the accumulated dirt for which Oxford
like all other medieval towns, was fa
mous.
In the middle of the sixteenth cen
tury an even greater clamor resulted
from the imposition of a “taxe to
cleanse the streets” and to pay the
‘‘persons as shall be hyred to carry
away such donghylls as be soysom to
thys towne.” The two “skavingers”
appointed as a result of this imposi
tion were lax fellows, but by a curi
ous happening the results of their
idleness were ascribed to Providence
rather than to accumulated dirt. One
Jencks, a religious but obsetreperous
stationer, was hailed before the magis
trates and condemned to lose his ears.
That very night there arose ‘‘such in
fectious damp or breath among the
people that many were smothered, and
all the court died.”
Five years after this unpleasant vis
itation the town council passed a gen
eral street-cleaning enactment, which
remains as the basis of the system
now employed. By this act pigsties
were forbidden over waters leading
to breweries, a poll-tax ■was imposed
for the scouring of the local ponds,
moats and streams and provision was
j made for the bi-weekly sweeping of
I streets and alleys.
| At the last meeting of the town coun
cil this ancient question was again re
vived. Extreme reformers had sug
gested that the times of street clean
ing might come at closer intervals and
that the methods employed might be
improved. The council gave its close
attention to the matter, but as it was
discovered that the same suggestion
has been recorded on the council’s
books for more than 20 years, the ques
tion was reserved.
SAN BLAS DISTURBANCES
DECLARED NOT SERIOUS
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 23.—
Recent disturbances among the San
Bias Indians never reached a more
serious stage than mob disorders in
a few native towns, the Pan-Ameri
can legation declared yesterday in
making a flat denial of a statement
by R. O. Marsh, American explorer,
that a “battle” had taken place be
tween the Indians and Pan-Ameri
can troops.
“The few policemen stationed in
Indian villages were assassinated by
mobs,” Minister Alfaro said. Four
teen policemen, school teachers and
I civilians lost their lives in the up
rising. The participation of Mr.
Marsh in these events, the pretend
ed request of an American protector
ate over the Tule nation, and the
report that the American flag had
been raised in the affected region,
caused the American minister to pro
ceed there aboard the gunboat Cleve
| land.
The department of state discon
• tinued the attitude of Mr. Marsh, and
the American minister, acting accord
ingly and displaying praiseworthy
tact, advised the rebellious Indians
to submit to Panaman authorities.
The Indians, free from the influence
of Marsh, quickly submitted and fur
ther bloodshed was prevented.”
$40,000 BRICK BUILDING
OFFERED BY ELKS BUT NO
ONE APPEARS INTERESTED
ABERDEEN, Wash., April 23.—Al
though the Elk’s lodge here today of
fered to give a $40,000 two--story brick
building free to anyone moving the
structure, no one accepted. The site
is to be used to build a $250,000 build
ng.
$500 REWARD OFFERED
FOR MISSING CHINESE
VANCOUVER, April 23.—A $500 re
ward for finding Wong Foon Sing, a
Chinese servant who was one of the
principal witnesses at two inquests
into the fatal shooting last summer of
Janet Smith, nursemaid in a Shaugh
nessy Heights home, was offered here
today by Lin Lao Hong, Chinese con
sul.
Wong disappeared a week ago. A
rumor current in Chinatown said he
was spirited away by a hooded band.
Consul Lin said a visit to Wong’s
room indicated the Chinese was taken
! away by force.
Ten Million Chinese
Are in Want of Food
CHICAGO, April 23.—More than ten
million Chinese are reported to he in
actual want of food in eight provinces
where word from Bishop L. J. Birney
of Shanghai, received by the Chicago
office from the Methodist Episcopal
board of foreign missionaries, indi
cates that fifteen million persons were
affected by the winter flood and fam
ine in north and west China.
A heavy toll of life continues to be
taken as a result of the conditions, the
bishop reports. Many hundreds of
thousands of west Chinese had their
lands flooded and sand was washed
down from the mountains and covered
the top soil. Dikes were broken with
similar conditions in north China with
an estimated property loss running in
to the hundreds of millions of dollars.
Funds available, the commission re
ports, are insufficient to grant relief
to more than six and one-half per cent
of the victims and it has been able to
obtain employment for only 30,000 of
the homeless.
RESTLESS WORLD
SEEKING HOMES
IN NEW COUNTRIES
GENEVA, April 23.—With the one
and three-fourth billion inhabitants -of
the world showing a more marked
tendency than ever to respond to the
eternal appeal of “Westward Ho,”
emigration will constitute one of
the most serious questions with
which almost every nation of the
world will have to deal during the
coming year, according to the Inter
national Labor Bureau.
The present restlessness of the hu
man race is due largely to abnormal
conditions resulting from the war
and to the ever-increasing awakening
of the races of the Far East.
The International Labor Bureau
has just collected information on
all of the various manifestations,
legislative and otherwise, to which
the present migratory tendency has
given rise thruout the world.
-Owing to the fact that emigration
to date has been considered a dis
tinctly domestic problem very little
international effort has been made
towards any solution of it. The
situation, however, has become so
serious, especially since the war and
with the ever-increasing amount of
restrictive legislation that there is'
a marked tendency for the problem
to come up on the international
carpet for solution.
To date the principal international
effort in this field was made at the
emigration congress held last year
at Rome. This congress dealt only
with certain technical and humani
tarian aspects of the problem and
kept religiously off of the political
aspect.
This year two other international
efforts are in view on the subject.
The first of these is a complete
world-wide investigation of the pro
blem to be made by the Interna
tional Labor Bureau. The second
International effort is the American
proposal of an international con
ference of all the American repub
lics in order to try and arriv3 at a
common emigration policy.
AU ot these efforts according to
experis, aie indicative of the pres
ent tendency of the question to
become an international instead of
a purely domestic one.
After viewing with alarm the bills
introduced we believe it might be
well to abolish the legislature alto
gether.
CROSS WORD PUZZLE
CRAZE PROVES K. O.
FOR MAH JONGG SETS
NEW YORK, Apr. 2^—A receiver
was appointed by Federal Judge Win
slow yesterday for the Pung Chow
Company, Inc., formerly one of the
largest domestic manufacturers of
Mali Jongg sets. The petition listed
liabilities of $210,000 and assets total
ing about $20,000. It is understood
that the company encountered finan
cial troubles with the advent of the
cross word puzzle craze.
It is convenient to be fat in a crowd.
It keeps people from stepping on your
feet.
People who go to Florida miss the
feeling of gratification over the com
ing of spring.
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
No. 119.
In Probate Court for Kenai Precinct,
Third Judicial Division, Territory
of Alaska.
In the Matter of the Estate of Seymour
L. Colwell, Deceased.
Notice Is Hereby Given, That the
undersigned is the duly appointed, act
ing and qualified administratrix of the
estate of Seymour L. Colwell, Deceas
ed; and, in accordance with an Order
duly made therefor, Notice is now
hereby given to the creditors and to
all persons having claims against the
said deceased, to exhibit such claims,
with the necessary vouchers, within
six months after and from the date
of this notice to the administratrix at
the office of L. V. Ray, in Seward,
Alaska which the undersigned selects
as her place of business in all matters
connected with the estate of the said
Seymour L. Colwell, Deceased.
Dated at Seward, Alaska, this 10th
day of April, 1925.
KATHERINE COLWELL,
Administratrix of the Estate of Sey
mour L. Colwell, Deceased.
First publication April 13, 1925.
Last publication May 4, 1925. Mon. 4t.
PROOF OF HOMESTEAD
Anchorage, Alaska, March 5, 1925.
Final proof testimony on homestead
entry, Serial 05927 embracing Lot 4,
Section 32, T. 8 S. R. 14 W. S. M. has
been submitted by Dora Brooks, en
trywoman, and her witnesses, Walter
L. Lippincott, and Milo Hurlburt, re
siding at Seldovia, Alaska, and is now
on file in the local land office at An
i chorage, Alaska, and if no protest is
I filed in the local land office at An
i chorage, Alaska, on or before June
11, 1925, said final proof will be accept
; ed and final certificate issued.
J. LINDLEY GREEN.
Register.
First publication April 4, 1925.
Last publication May 8, 1925. 30t dlv
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ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT
LAW
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Territorv
SEWARD, ALASKA
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Phone Mad. 108 - - - Seward, Alaska
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