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VOLUME 20. NUMBER 7
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1925
PRICE TEN CENTS
MGR. NOE W. SMITH WILL LEAVE FOR NORTH SOON
MANAGER ALASKA
RAILROAD HAS
A FINE RECORD
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7—Noel W.
Smith, general manager of the Alaska
railroad, has an indefinite leave of ab
sence from the Pennsylvania railroad.
He will leave for Alaska within the
next few days.
Before his report he submitted a
comprehensive report contemplating
the expenditure of $11,000,000 in the
development of the railroad.
The history of the new manager of
the government’s railroad in Alaska
is an interesting one. Smith began
as a temporary clerk on the Pennsyl
vania railroad in 1887; became a per
* manent employe six years later, as a
rodman for a surveying crew, and
was advanced to the position of as
sistant surveyor, superior assistant en
gineer, division superintendent, and
became assistant manager four years
ago.
He direected the organization of the
Maryland, Delaware & Virginia rail
road, a branch of the Pennsylvania,
and the District of Columbia & An
napolis, another branch.
He has had considerable experience
in rehabilitating run down roads, and
is a first class engineer and construc
tor.
PLACER MINING
FOR BIRD SHOT
VANNOYS, Calif*, Jan. 7.—Placer
mining for birdshot has begun here
on the gun club grounds by a miner
•who obtained permission yesterday to
shovel off the surface and recover
over two tons of lead it is estimated
trapshooters have pumped into the
earth.
NELLIE CASHMAN
BURIED TODAY
IN VICTORIA
VICTORIA. B. C., Jan. 7.—The fu
neral of Nellie Cashman, Alaska pio
neer was held here today, Rev. Fath
er Wood conducting the ceremonies
in St. Andrews’ cathedral, before a few
intimate friends and the sisterhood of
St. Anne. Interment was made in
Roosbay Cemetery.
It The cortege left the hospital at
8:45, proceeding to the church.
It was learned here today that Mrs.
Cashman had grubstaked several men
who are now millionaires in Arizona.
HIS LOVE FOR ONIONS
COSTS HIM ONE WIFE
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 6.—Onions
or love?
Ralph Brunner picked onions and
lost his wife, Margaret, who obtain
ed a divorce here after she told the
judge her husband ate onions every
day and then insisted upon kissing
her.
"He said if he couldn’t eat all the
onions he wanted to he wouldn’t
stick around,” declared Mrs. Brun
ner. “I said he could eat onions,
but he couldn’t love and kiss me
if he did—so he went away and
never came back.”
WOMAN'S CLUB TO MEET
The regular mothly business meet
ing of the Woman’s Club will be held
Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock. Mat
ters of particular interest are to be
taken up and every member is urg
ed to be present.
BURIED 3 YEARS,
ASKS THAT BODY
BE EXHUMED
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 7.—
Judge Harry Olson, who started the
official inquest at McClintock’s death,
today demanded the exhumation of j
the body of Dr. Oscar Olson, his
brother, dead for three years. Ols
said he beliefed that the death of nia
brother, a friend of the McClintock
family, had been designed by some
one. He said that Shepherd was
alone with his brother shortly before
his death, and that Shepherd told the
doctor that if he would inoculate Wil
j liam McClintock with typhoid germs, j
a post mortem examination would not I
show anything. He said the state
ment came from the doctor’s widow.
Shepherd Says Is Raving
ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., Jan. 7.—
Shepherd who is here in this city,
branding Judge Olson’s statement as
the "ravings of a disordered mind,”
and said that he was never alone with
Dr. Olson.
Corpse Was Badly Swollen
CHICAGO, Jan. 7.—Judge Olson,
who is demanding the exhumation of
the body of his brother, Oscar, told j
the coroner yesterday that when the |
mother of Shepherd died several
years ago, a woman calling herself
Mrs. Shepherd called up and said she j
had been trying for three days to ob-1
tain Dr. Olson, though the doctor had j
been in his office nearly all the time.
The Judge said he had been asked
to be a pallbearer, but refused be
cause he did not like the way the
funeral was hurried. He said he did
not like the looks of the corps, which
was “unusually black and swollen.”
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CONDITIONS IN ALASKA ARE
MOST PROMISING, SAYS DUNN
SCARAMOUCHE IS HELD
YEAR'S BEST PICTURE
NEW YORK, Jan. 6—Rafael Saba*
tini for his novel “Scaramouche,” has
been awarded the $10,000 prize offer
ed by Adolph Zukor to the writer
whose story or play made the best
motion picture in the year, which
ended last September 1, the Authors’
League of American announced yes
terday.
Final selection was made the re
port of the judges said, after con
sideration of a “surprisingly num
ber of worthy pictures,” which were
narrowed down to seventeen from
which “Scaramouche,” “The Thief of
Bagdad,” and “A Woman of Paris,”
were chosen for the final selection.
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SEATTLE, Jan. 7.—John Dunn, of
Juneau, clerk of court of the First
Judicial division, told the Seattle
Daily Times today that conditions in
Alaska are the most promising in
years. The said fishing was becom
ing an increasingly important indus
try in Southeastern Alaska, and the
price of copper has given an impetus
to the Kennecott district. Coal min
ing in the Matanuska district along
the government railroad is sure to be
a success, and gold mining in Fair
banks is better than during the boom
days of 1902. Nome is counting on
a good season this summer with all
dredges and sluices at work.
Mr. Dunn brought his son John to
Seattle to attend the University.
CONFERENCE OVER
FRENCH DEBTS
HELD IN PARIS
PARIS, Jan. 7.—Lord Churchill, the
British chancellor of exchequer; and
James Logan, representing the United
States, with the reparations commit
tee, held a conference today, following
a plenary session of the Allied finance
ministers, and it is understood that
the prospects of a settlement of
American claims and reparations are
favorable. The session lasted forty
minutes, after which Chflrchill and
Clementel conferred. The latter, it
is understood, suggested an increase
in the French percentage of repara
tion payments by the elimination of
pensions from war damage claims.
Churchill, it is understood, replied
he would put the proposition up to
the general war debt conference.
SENATOR LADD
ANSWERS MEN
TRADUCE PARTY
W * ^RTNGTON, D. C., Jan. 7. -Sen
e" win Ladd of North Dakota,
Ay threw down the gauntlet to
lean leaders who declared that
“the leading p; -ty has gone back
wards and dow'uwrards from the su
heights it reached at the time Abe
Lincoln fell.”
He stated that the party stood for
greater progress today than at any
time in its history, and had steadily
advanced since the days of the civil
war.
ROSE QUARTZ AND
FREEGOLDFOUND
CASSIAR STRIKE
WRANGELL, Jan. 7—Good sam
ples of rose quartz with free gold was
taken this week from Gold Pan Creek
in the Cassiar district, where placer
gold was discovered in September,
according to a cablegram received in
this city today, from J. Frank Gall
breath of Telegraph creek. He said
weather conditions were most favor
able. Dease lake is frozen solid and
since December 1 but six inches of
snow have alien at Dease lake and
18 inches on Telegraph creek. The
Stikine river is frozen over, with the
weather clear and cold throughout
the district.
shotTmuIeck
AS WALKS STREET
SEATTLE, Jan. 7.—Fred Clements
was shot through the neck last night
either by a policeman or an unknown
man who ran when two policemen
accosted him. The bombardment took
place in front of a restaurant and
Clement, who was walking down Den
ny Hill on Sixth avenue was hit. His
wound is serious.
It is not known whether the man
or the policemen hit him.
U. S. EATS MORE APPLES
THAN ANY OTHER NATION
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.-—The Unit
ed States eats more apples a day
than any other nation in the world.
The Department of Commerce today
annouced figures showlg this country
was the world's largest consumer of
fruit
ALASKA PIONEERS WILL STAGE
BOXING MATCH NEXT FRIDAY
AMERICANS MAY
BE SHUT OUT IN
STICKINE STRIKE
VANCOUVER, B. C., Jan. 7—Fol
lowing a conference here today, it was
decided that a special meeting of the
Dominion Mining Bureau would be
held soon to consider suggesting to
the government that all British Col
umbia mines be owned only by Brit
ish Columbia citizens, all other na
tions being barred. The proposal is
aimed tO| safeguard the business inter
ests of the province in the event that
the Cassiar field develops into a rich
strikes and a stampede ensues. It was
declared that Seattle and Wrangell
merchants are arranging to capture
the Cassiar trade.
BREAKFAST IMBEDDED
IN CEILING BY BLAST
YAKIMA, Jan. 6.—A frying pan
with eggs for the family breakfast
was imbedded in the ceiling at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Fletcher
in the Parker Heights district yes
terday morning, when an explosion
of hot water and pipes in the kitch
en range blew the top and one side
from the range, and filled the room
with pieces of iron and live coals.
Mrs. Fletcher, who was standing
near the range, escaped unhurt.
MAN WHO SHIPPED
FIRST GOLD FROM
KLONDIKE DEAD
SUMAS, B. C., Jan. 7.—Clare Saint
George Yarwood, who is credited with
making the first shipment of gold to
Seattle from the Klondike, died of
cancer here today.
The Canadian Bank of Commerce
sent him to Dawson in the early days
where he helped to organize the first
Bank on the Yukon.
FAMOUS MINSTREL OF SOUTH
DIES IN POVERTY AT DENVER
DENVER, Colo., Jan. 6.—Milton H.
Hall, two decades ago one of the best
known of the blackface minstrel com
edians, and the man who wrote “Down
Where the Cotton Blossoms Grow,”
the “Cuban Star March,” was buried
here the other day with only four
mourners at his grave.
Hall stepped down from his pinna
| cle of fame twenty years ago. The
last twelve years of his life he spent
; as a dishwasher in a Denver hotel
and when he died in the general hos
pital, there was none at the hospital
who knew of his early career.
Not until he was buried yesterday
—with the four friends as the only
mourners—did his real identity be
come publicly known.
VESSELS OF UA
IN BAD CONDITION
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 7.—
After examining Secretary of the
Navy Wilbur and other high officials
of the Navy Department, the Senate
naval appropriation committee con
curred in the House committee’s re
port that with the exception of the
battleship Florida, which is awaiting
refitting, no one can say if the ratio
of five to three on capital ships does
or does not prevail.
Friday night at Odd Fellows’ hall
the local Igloo of Pioneers will give
a grand blowout at which a bean
supper and two boxing matches will
be staged. Red Campbell and Roy
Lawson will be the stars of the even
ing, both having good records in the
squared circle. Red Campbell recent
ly fought a draw at Anchorage with
the “Cook Inlet Kid,” and can be de
pended upon to put up a first class
exhibition. Roy Lawson is an ex-sol
dier station at Anchorage, and has
been in action several times in the
railroad town. He is also fast and
clever.
The second mill will be between
Innis, the Seward Grill’s champion,
against an unknown. Innis is clever
and has appeared in several matches
in Seward where he gave a good ac
count of himself.
After the bouts a bean supper, sour
dough style, with sandwiches and
coffee, will be served.
The price of admission to supper
and both bouts will be $1.00; ladies
will be admitted free, and are cor
dially invited to be present.
THREAT ABOLISH
FRENCH PRIORITY
CAUSES ALARM
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 7.—The
threat of the Paris conference to abol
ish Belgian priority in the German
reparations payments, has produced
astonishment and alarm in Belgian of
ficial circles it was reported here to
day. Unless Belgian troops evacuate
German territory as provided by the
treaty of Versailles, she is liable to
be penalized by the conference.
ADMIRAL WATSON
ON WAY SEWARD
SEATTLE, Jan. 7.—The steamship
Admiral Watson sailed for Seward
and way ports this morning with 51
passengers. The following are for
Seward: Fred Brenthinger and J. E.
Courtney.
PHANTOM FINN
WRITES EPIC IN
NEW YORK MEET
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, New
York, Jan. 7.—Pavo Nurmi, the Phan
tom Finn, wrote an epic in indoor
track field history tonight, opening
his American campaign with two
spectacular victories in which he
shattered the world’s records, conquer
ing the pick of American and Finnish
distance runners. He defeated Joie
Ray by a narrow margin in the mile
run, and tw’o hours later won the 5000
meters from Willie Ritola, a Finnish
runner.
Nurmi’s time in the 1500 meters
was 3:56:5, which eclipsed Ray’s
former record of 4:0:1 3-5; while at
the mile his record of 4:13 3-5 clips a
second from the record established by
Ray in 1919. His time for the 5000
meters, 14:44 3-5 bettered by 10 sec
onds the record hung up by Ray in
1919.
Eioran Milrchnison wron the 50-me
ter print over Frank Hussey, who
held the world’s indoor record of 6
seconds, and easily won the 250 me
ter sprint in 29 seconds.