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VOLUME 20._NUMBER 34
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAW, ~ FEBRUARY 10, 1925
PRICE TEN CENTS
DOG TEAM RELAY
NEARING RUBY
WITH ANTITOXIN
NOME WIRES FAIRBANKS THAT
AIRPLANE FLIGHT NOT NECES
SARY AS EPIDEMIC ABATING—
TOO COLD FOR PLANE START.
RUBY, Alaska, Feb. 10—Four hun
dred and eighty thousand units of se
rum which left Nenana Sunday, is be
ing relayed every thirty miles, and
is leading in the official race with the
airplane, which was to have left Fair
oanks yesterday carrying 600,000 units
of antitoxin to Nome.
The dog teams passed Fort Gibbon
at 1 o’clock yesterday afternoon, and
Old Station, eight miles west at 3:00
o'clock, arriving in Ruby at 3 o'clock
this morning. The teams are aver
aging ten miles an hour, in a tem
perature between 40 and 50 below,
which has continued this way
since January 13. The mercury is 48
below today, with no prospects of any
change. The airplane is reported to
have remained in Fairbanks, owing to
radiator trouble, intense cold and low
visibility.
Aviators Working on Plane
Roy Darling and his mechanic, work
FAIRBANKS. Feb. 9— Aviators
Darling and Mackie worked all day
on their plane, and decided to fly
tonight if the temperature moderates
and the haze lifts.
Outbreak at Kokrines Stopped
SEATTLE, Feb. 10.—The report of
Dr. Frost at Ruby declares the out
break of pneumonia at Kokrines is
under control. Two died and five are
convalescent.
Another Maan Freezes Face
FAIRBANKS, Feb. 10.—Darling and
Mackie last night said they would
leave today sure. A second man had
his face frozen while holding the tail
of the fuselage down while the en
gine ran full speed. The moisture
from the escaping exhaust froze to
the manifold and side of the fuselage.
The temperature here today is 46 b£
low.
Darling said: “Both of us keenly
feel the disappointment over our ina
bility to hop off Monday, as great
preparations had been made for our
departure.”
Flight by Plane Not Necessary.
NOME, Monday, Feb. 9.—No new
cases have. appeared here during the
past four days and the epidemic situ
tion has greatly improved, said the
Board of Health today. The Board
also sent word to the Fairbanks Air
plane Corporation that an attempt to
fly to Nome is unnecessary at present,
as the second shipment of serum is
due to arrive within three days.
The Board said the second consign
ment will relieve any situation which
may arise. All patiehts are improv
ing. A message of gratitude was sent
Another Man Freezes Face,
poration. and the residents of Fair
banks.
Hollywood Wants Kasson.
SEATTLE, Feb. 10.—A Times spe
cial from Hollywood said that Frank
Lloyd had made Kasson an offer to
appear with his team in the picturi
zation of Rex Beach’s novel, “The
Winds of Chance.”
Mushers Will Be Rewarded.
SEATTLE, Feb. 10.—The manager
of the Seattle branch of H. K. Mul
ford & Company announced today that
the company would present Kasson
with .$1,000 and give the other driv
ers in the first relay medals of honor.
The Alaska dog reward has reached
the sum of $202.
CAPT. CURRY ORDERED ALASKA
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 10.—
Capt. Harry Corry has been relieved
from duty as instructor with the Con
necticut National Guard, and assign
ed to duty with the Third division in
Alaska, according to announceme
made a War department.
ELKS TEAM WILL GO KODIAK
ON WATSON TO START CLUB
The officers aud initiation team of
Anchorage Lodge No. 1351 of the B.
p. o. E. will arrive on tomorrow’s
train from Anchorage, and embark on
the Admiral Watson for Kodiak, where
antlers will be placed on a number
of candidates. Kodiak wired this
morning that they had a class of 20
novitiates that were going to solve
the mysteries of Elkdom. It is re
ported that the Admiral Watson will
remain in Kodiak 24 hours in order
to bring the Anchorage bunch back
to Seward. Quite a few local Elks
will go on the trip. The Anchorage
lodge boasts of 850 members.
New Strike Keno Hill
District Yields High
DAWSON, Y. T., Feb. 10.—A four
loot ore body on the thirty-loot level
values between three and four thou
sand ounces of silver to the ton. The
vein was discovered by Cammon and
Graves on the Lucy Queen Gulch,
between Keno Hill and Mayo.
Acting Gold Commissioner Percy
Reid on his return from that vicinity
said that the district is assured a
very promising future.
Killer of Two Is
Sentenced to Life
GENEVA, 111., Feb. 10.—Warren J.
Lincoln, eccentric Aurora lawyer and
florist, who confessed that he killed
his wife and her brother, Byrom
Shoup, cremated their bodied in his
greenhouse furnace and sealed their
heads in a concrete block, was con
victed by a jury here and sentenced
to life imprisonment.
Falls In Gas Tank
And Is Drowned
RENO, Nev., Feb. 10.—Albert Wen
i zel, aged 22, was drowned in a twen
| ty thousand gallon tank of gasoline
i at Tonopah according to word re
ceived here tonight. Wenzel was in
specting the gasoline thru a manhole
and is believed to have been over
come by the fumes.
REX RUNN ON TRIAL
WARREN, O., Feb. 10.—Rex Runn,
Niles, the first of the ninety indict
ed for riots occurring in Niles on
November first thru Klan and anti
Klansmen will go to trial. His con
| viction is alleged to be from an as
sault in the shooting of Frank Mc
Dermott, son of the former senator.
No Grease Paint Used In
Picture “Big Brother”
Cosmetic dealers, who supply the
grease paint for motion picture ac
tors, would find business exceeding
ly dull if they had to depend on pic
tures such as Paramount’s “Big
Brother” for the replenishment of
their coffers. Here is a production
in which only one member of the
entire cast uses makeup in exteriors
and two members in interior scenes.
Allan Dwan, directing the filming
of the story, which is from the novel
by Rex Beach at the Liberty Theater,
is the author of the idea, and it has
proven an exceptional one. Most of
the characters in the play are gang
sters of New York’s lower East Side.
In fact nearly all of the action takes
place in that vicinity. So, in Mr.
Dwan’s opinion the exact characteri
zations could not be procured with
the aid of makeup. Hence Tom
Moore and others have no more cos
metics on their face before the came
ra than they would have on Broad
way.
Raymond Hatton, who plays the
part of a dope fiend, is the only mem
ber of the cast to wear makeup thru
out, which of course, is necessary to
get the correct charact "ization.
Edith Roberts, playing the feminine
lead, wears make-up only in the in
terior scenes.
RESCUERS DOWN
38 FEET IN SHAFT
TOWARD CAVE
MEDICAL EXPERTS ANNOUNCE
THAT COLLINS IS STILL ALIVE
TODAY—AUTHORITIES BELIEVE
LOCAL PEOPLE HOLDING BACK
CAVE CITY, Ky., Feb. 10—The
shaft being sunk in the rescue of
Floyd Collins is now down 38 feet at
10:15 this morning. The bottom is
saturated with water and more bowl
ders have been encountered.
State officials, and geological and
medical experts announced their con
viction today that Collins, was acci
dentally imprisoned and that he is
still alive.
Miller, the Courier Journal corres
pondent. who has been in and con
versed with Collins several times, was
the first witness in the military court
which was convened this morning.
The hearings are public.
Tests Show Collins Still Alive
CAVE CITY. Ky., Feb. 10.—Ampli
fier tests today indicated that Collins
was still alive and breathing fourteen
or fifteen times a minute.
Miller and B. G. Fishback, a farmer,
testified that rumors that Collins is
not in the cave were false. They de
clared that threats to harm Miller
were not from enemies, but from
friends seeking to warn him of the
peril he faced. Miller told how he
wormed his way almost to Collins and
Coollins exclaimed:
“Oh, you and Stone are hurting
me.”
Me sain uomns naa a wet onciom
over his head, and he begged Miller
not to remove it because the dripping
water hurt him. Miller testified, “I
could see as fart* down as his chest,
but couldn’t tell how much his body
was covered below that.”
He said he examined the place with
an electric light, but could not see
any opening.
Collins told him he had found a very
beautiful cavern eight feet deep when
Miller last visited him Wednesday.
Collins said he was hungry at this
time and that his foot was free. Mil
ler said he found Collins in the cave
on seven different trips. He declared
that rocks were falling continuously
around Collins, and in the passage.
He declared that Captain Topmiller
and a sergeant were acting for the
owner of the farm containing the cave
when they prevented his entering the
last time.
Continuing his testimony before the
Court, Miller said that within a few
hours after Collins was found, neigh
bors were selling hot dogs and cof
fee to visitors. He said that this was
not so much for profit as for accom
modation, as several hundred persons
were in the vicinity for days at a time.
Californian Disputes
History Gold Nugget
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 10.—The
first gold discovered in California by
James Marshall, at Coloma, in 1898,
was the flake now preserved in the
Smithsonian Institute at Washington,
according to Phil Bakeart, California
historian. His statement was made
when he was informed that a nugget
purporting to be the first gold found
in the State, was offered for sale in
New York.
“That nugget has been for sale for
years,” Bakeart said. “It was found
by Marshall four and a half miles
away from Coloma and six months
after the original discovery of gold.
The actual first gold was a flake about
the size of one’s fingernail that is pre
served with thousands of other speci
mens in the Smithsonian Institute.”
THE WEATHER
The mercury jumped up about 25
degrees last night," with a light snow
fall. Rheumatic prophets have been
looking for the change the past three
or four days. At Fairbanks yesterday
the mercury registered 58 below.
HOLLAND’S RIVER SHIPPING
TRAFFIC EXCEEDS PAST YEAR
ROTTERDAM, Feb. 9—The ten
thousandth vessel to enter this port
last year was welcomed by the local
authorities with much rejoicing as it
came up the river, December 30. It
was the steamer Jonge Anthony with
a cargo of piece goods from Italy and
wine and,fruit from Spain.
Year-end statistics show that Hol
land’s inland river shipping traffic,
has grown to more than three times
the size of the preceding year and
even exceeds the record year of 1913
by over two million tons. The transit
of German reparation g^al was an im
portant factor in this increase.
Ocean-going shipping, on the other
j hand, did not show a corresponding
| growth.
Pharmacist Admits
Filling Prescription
For “U” Student
—
| COLUMBUS, O., Feb. 10.—Lewis
S. Fish, of Canton, Ohio, told authori
| ties here that he filled the prescrip
: tion for David Puskin, the Canton
j student at the University’s laboratory.
I Puskin and one other student died
: from strychnine poisoning.
BURGLARS, NOT RAIN
FORCE ROOF REPAIR
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 10.—Carpen
ters were repairing a hole in the rooi
of N. H. Shapiro’s paint store here
Burglars eager to enter the store
made the hole two years ago, but it
does not rain much in southern Cal
ifornia and Shapiro postponed re
pairs. Recently he asked police tc
search for safe blowers who entered
through the same hole and carried
off $248 in currency. Then he call
ed the carpenters.
DEATH AND INSANITY
FOLLOW QUARREL OF
MIDDLE-AGED SISTERS
VERNON, Calif., Feb. 10.—Flaming
death and insanity climaxed a quar
rel between middle-aged sisters here
when one of them, Mrs. Rose Scott,
formerly of Waterford, Calif., poured
gasoline over her clothing and set
fire to herself, according to the pol
ice, dying before neighbors could put
out the flames. The other sister,
Mrs. Myrtle Brasington, who recently
had been paroled from the psycho
pathic ward of the Los Angeles gen
eral hospital, relapsed into violent
insanity at the sight.
STEAMSHIP NEWS
The steamship Admiral Watson will
arrive in Cordova early tomorrow
morning and is expected to reach
Seward some time tomorrow night.
COAST BASKETBALL
SEATTLE.—Today’s game tallied
twenty-one for Washington and thir
ty for Idaho.
FAIRBANKS MEN
LAUNCH AERIAL
TRANSPORT CO.
JUNEAU. Feb. 9.—The Fairbanks
Airplane Corporation, capitalized at
$50,000, has filed incorporation papers
in the office of Territorial secretary
Karl Thiele. The company will oper
ate several machines out of Fairbanks
during the coming summer.
R. C. Wood, president of the First
National Bank; J. Fred Strutliers,
manager of Waecliter Bros. & Co. and
James A. Rodebaugh, pioneer airplane
owner, all of Fairbanks, constitute the
incorporators. Mr. Rodebaugh took
in three planes early last year and
these were successfully operated out
of Fairbanks.
APPENDIX MUST BE
SHOWN CONVINCE
WOMAN OPERATION
SOFIA, Feb. 9.—Sofia has an appen
dicitis fiend, perhaps the first in its
its history.
More than a year ago the wife of a
prominent Sofiia business man com
plained of pains in her right side and
immediately decided that she was suf
fering from appendicitis.
Specialists in Sofia and Vienna who
examined her declared she was in the
most perfect health and had not the
faintest suggesiton of appendicitis.
But the pains, according to the wo
man, continued to bother her and she
finally persuaded Dr. Paltcheff to op
erate. She left the hospital declar
ing herself to be in excellent health.
For a year everything went fine,
but recently the woman met on the
street the nurse who had attended her
in the hospital.
The joke was too good to keep so
the nurse informed her that the oper
ation was a fake and that the skin
| had only been cut.
Immediately the pains returned, ac
cording to the woman, and again she
demanded Dr. Paltcheff to remove her
appendix.
The doctor is in a quandary. If he
does not remove the woman's appen
dix he is liable to prosecution for a
bogus operation. But the woman is
entirely well. He is considering the
possibility of operating on a real ap
pendicitis case and showing her the
woman’s appendix as her own.
A FEATURELESS VICTORY
i PORTLAND, Maine, Feb. 10.—Nur
mi won a featureless victory in a
special three thousand yard run but
failed to touch the world’s indoor
record of seven minutes fifty-eight
and one-eightli seconds. His time be
ing eight minutes, fourteen and two
fifths seconds.
SHERIFFS OF WASHINGTON STATE FAVOR JAIL
SENTENCES FOR ALL BOOZE LAW VIOLATORS
OLYMPIA, Wash., Feb. 10.—(By the Associated Press).—Terminating
their convention here, members of the Washington State Sheriffs’ and
Peace Officers’ association passed a number of resolutions bearing on pro
hibition law enforcement, extension of juvenile court functions and amend
ments to the State Motor Vehicle Code.
Heavier penalties, particularly jail sentences, were urged for liquor
law violations and it was further recommended that a law be passed
providing for the confiscation of vehicles used in the violation of the
liquor laws.
After pointing out that the most
efficient and practical work in the
prevention of crime is accomplished
through the workings of the juve
nile courts, the officers recommend
ed that thescope of these courts
be enlarged and that adequate pro
visions be made so that the work
will go gradually to cover effectively
the entire state.
The officers recommended com
pulsory examination of juvenile op
erators and off all beginners and
e sons convicted of motor vehicle
./ violations, where the charge
1 involved reckless or drunken driv
ing, authority to impound the car
of a person convicted of driving
while intoxicated, registration of
non-residents and the memoraliz
ing of congress to fix standards for
automobile lighting, among a long
series of resolutions bearing on pro
posed motor vehicle lavr changes.
A bill sponsored by Senator
Charles E. Meyers, of Davenport,
providing for the doubling of the
sentence of anyone convicted of a
felony, w'here found in possession
of a deadly weapon at th etim9 of
arrest, received favorable action by
the delegates.