Sec. Fall Flatly Charged
In Tea Pot Dome Case
RAILROAD EMPLOYEE, INJURED
IN EXPLOSION, GETTING WELL
P. R. Strong, who was injured in a
premature blast at Mile 88 on the
Alaska railroad a month ago, will be
discharged from the railroad hospital
to another week, according to Dr. C.
H. Turpin, surgeon in charge.
Strong received severe burns on the
lace and head, and also had several
broken limbs when he entered the
hospital. His face has almost entire
ly healed with the exception of one
eye, which is still causing some lit
tle trouble.
It is not expected that Strong will
be able to return to work for several
months.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 —Congress
men calling at the Whitehouse have
been informed that President Cool
idge is determined to veto the Sol
dier bonus bill, but that he does not
as yet enough votes in either
branches of Congress to sustain the
veto.
TYPE SET BY HARDING
AT FAIRBANKS ALASKA
MAY BE SHIPPED EAST
WASHINGTON Jan. 17.—Pall, the
former secretary*of the interior was
charged flatly today with accepting a
corrupt consideration in connection
with the Teapot Dome oil lease by
Senator Caraway. In a speech on the
floor of the House today, Caraway
said that it has been the first time in
the history of our nation and hope it
will be the last time that a cabinet
officer betrays the confidence and the
trust bestowed upon him by the Am
erican people for a corrupt consider
ation.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—Senator
Caraway also assailed Secretary Den
by and Asistant Secretary of the Na
vy, Roosevelt, in connection with
their approval to Fal’s Teapot Dome
oil lease which was turned over to
the Sinclaire interests recently. He
attacked Daugherty, the attorney gen
eral, declaring that as long as Daugh
erty remains at the helm of the De
partment of Justice they may as well
sell the White House and be absolut
ly immune from prosecution in the
Federal courts.
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 17.—Former
Secretary Fall of the Interior Depart
ment vigorously denied the accusa
tions of Senator Caraway that there
were irregularities in the leasing of
the Teapot Dome Naval Oil reserves
to the Sinclaire interests and has
received no compensation from any
one, he said.
APPOINTEES ARE NAMED
HANDLE COOLIDGE CAMPAIGN
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—Butler
designated Marshall Hale, Percy V.
Long of San Francisco, Mark L. Ri
qua of Oakland, Ralph Arnold and
Frank Merriam of Los Angeles to han
dle the Coolidge campaign in Calif
ornia.
FAIRBANKS, Alas., Jan. 14.—Type
composed by Warren G. Harding in
the office of the Fairbanks (Alaska)
News- Miner, will be forwarded to the
Harding Memorial association, if the
organization accepts the offer at its
coming meeting in New York City of
the newspaper, which is a member of I
the Associated Press, according to
an announcement made today. Mr. j
Harding was the only president of the
United States to have set type in the:
office of the farthest newspaper of the 1
noftli. This type was the last com-!
posed by Mr. Harding prior to his
death in San Francisco, Cal.
PAVALOFF BLOWS OFF HER TOP
SEATTLE, Jan. 17.—The Freight
ed Latouche wirelessed from Western
Alaska stating that the southern edge
of Pavaloff volcano was blown to
bits, at eleven Tuesday morning. Dur
ing the seven minutes the earthquake
lasted it was probably thecontinua
tion of the tremblers that shook Ja
pan the same date.
L
THECOpiSSU
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—Hurley,
former chairman of the shipping
board has been nominated a member
of the World War Debt Funding Com
mission.
George B. Christian, former secre
tary to the late President Harding
will be appointed a member of the
Federal Trade Commission.
BANDITS MAKE BIG HAUL ......
BROWNSVILLE, Tex., Jan. 18.—
Four bandits robber D. A. Tilley, pay
master of the Pipe Line oCmpany of
75,000 pesos last Saturday, according
to word received from Tampico today.
SEATTLE STREETS
SEATTLE, Jan. 16.—Hun down by
an automobile driven by N. J. Foy, a
mechanic of this city, Mrs. Nellie
White, a widow aged 62 years, sus
tained a broken arm, a broken back
a broken leg and other injuries and
is still alive.
E. M. Harison, a plumber of this
city was sentenced o serve sixty days
in the workhouse and fined $200 foi
driving his automobile along the
streets of this city while drunk.
REMOVING CREW OF
WRECKED TACOMA
WASHINGTON Jan. 18.—The crew
is being removed from the cruiser
Tacoma, which ran aground on Blan
quilla reef, off Vera Cruz, en route
to Tampico to reestablish communica
tion with the United States and pro
tect the American interests during
the insurrection.
SEATTLE, Jan. 18.—Mrs. Hazel
Fiske and Doctor M. B. Mattice, fian
cee and father, respectively, this
morning began a suit for the collec
tion of one hundred and fifty-five thou
sand dollars of life insurance on the
life of Doctor Albert F. Mattice, their
contention being that the latter ac
cidentally killed himself on Thanks
giving Day, while the insurance com
panies refuse to pay, claiming that it
was plain case of suicide as has been
announced.
THE ALASKA WEEKLY
ALREADY IN THE FRONT RANK
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days has been called upon to contribute to the Convention
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ries of articles on Alaska to the Christian Science Monitor;
was the only paper published in Seattle which was quoted in
the Literary Digest’s comment on the Presidential Speech in
Seattle, and has been frequently quoted on Alaskan subjects
in many other nationally known and circulated publications.
We feel that In establishing a newspaper capable of gaining
such recognition that we are making rapid strides toward the
• * attainment of our principle objective—that of giving Alaska’s
marvelous resources the type of publicity to which their
magnitude entitles them.
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By FEB. TROOPS
SHIPMENT TEAR GAS BOMBS BE
STOPPED BY REVENUE
OFFICIALS
MEXICO CITY, Jan. 14.—Three
hundred rebel troops are said to have
been killed In the battle in which
Federal troops recaptured the city of
Pacliura. Hundreds of wounded men
are being rushed to the hospitals of
this city.
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 14.—A local
paper of this city publishes a dis
patch stating 4,000 tear gas bombs
consigned to Mexican rebel forces,
were stopped in transit under the
American embargo.
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.—Revolu
tionary advices from Vera Cruz says
; the Rebels have forbidden oil pro
; duction in the regions under their
| control, by all companies, foreign or
othewise, refusing to pay taxes to
! them
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VER ACRUZ, Jan. 14.—Rebel
j troops have permitted the docking of
j Spanish steamers at Vera Cruz, to re
j move foreigners stranded there, who
' arrived after the revolution started.
LAKEHURST, Jan. 14 —The air
ship Shenandoah was taken from her
hanger today and secured to the
mooring mast starting a seven-day
| mooring test in preparation for her
j North-pole flight.
Summers, Seattle’s weather man,
| who established the Point Barrow'
weather station, believes from obser
j vations there, the crewr of the dirigi
, ble Shenandoah will encounter war
| mer w'eather in the Arctic than the
I Atlantic seaboard in winter.
POINTS OF FLIGHT
START BY WAY OF ALASKAN
PENINSULA AND RETURN VIA
ENGLAND
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.—The Ar
my Air Service board' this morning,
announced the details of the round
the-world flight, to begin about the
first of April.
From Seattle the flight will be
made by way of the Aleutian Islands,
to Nagasaki, the American naval
coaling station on the southern end
of the Island of Kiushu, Japan. From
Nagasaki, the planes will fly to Cal
cutta, Constantinople, and over to
France ,and the Netherlands, and on
to London.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 144.—To make
reconnaissance survey of the naval
ail reserve bordering on the Arctic oc
ean, Philips Smith, of the U. S. Geo
logical survey, left today for Seattle
and will sail north on Jan. 19th.
He will be joined at Nenana in Feb
ruary by J. A. Mertie, geologist; Ger
ald Fitzgerald R. K. Lynt, topograph
ers and four other technical men, yet
to be selected, from there proceeding
overland to the oil fields. The party
expects to reach the Colville river ba
! sin about the first of May.
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TAKING ANOTHER CHANCE
AT THE NORTH COUNTRY;
97 YEARS AGAINST HIM
SEATTLE, Jan. 16.—A. M. Burns,
an intrepid sourdough declared he
will leave shortly on a prospecting
trip to the Jack River country. He
is ninety years old and declared it
may be his last trip but was confident
he would strike it this time.
Shenandoah Makes Record
Flight Seventy Mile Gale
LAKEHURST, N. J.,Jan. 17—The Shenandoah, larg
j est airship in the world poked her nose into her hangar
at the naval air station here at 4:24 o’clock after complet
ing the most remarkable flight a ship of her type has ever
made.
The flight was a fight against a wind blowing seven
ty-two miles an hour at times. The gale wrested the giant
.-•raft from her mooring mast at 6:25 last night and swept
her on a mad chase up the Atlantic coast to Staten Island
where Captain Anton Heines, German Zeppelin expert in
command when she broke her mooring, as soon as he w7as
able, turned her nose into the teeth of the storm and ma
neuvered her back to her home port.
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NEW Id GETS
DEIMTIC Nil.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16—The Dem
| ocratic National convention will be
held in New York on June 24, the
National Committee decided late this
afternoon with she bid $205,000, which
wipes out all the National commit
tee's back indebtedness and gives it
a new working fund of twenty-five
thousand dollars.
LEONARD WOOD, JR. UP
FOR NON-PAYMENT TAX
—
PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Jan 18.—A
levy against his assets has been is
sued, but so far we have not been
able to lay our hands on him, Deputy
Collector of the Internal Revenue de
clared, in response to the failure of
Leonard Wood, Jr., to pay theatrical
taxes in the amount of $3,000
THOMPSON DELAYS TRIP
W. F. Thompson, Fairbanks pub
lisher, who is planning to go to Ro
chester, Minn., for an operation in the
Mayo clinic, probably will not leave
for the east until March, according to
word received here. Mr. Thompson
has been advised that he is not
strong enough to withstand the shock
of an operation at present
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—The crui
ser Richmond has been ordered to
proceed immediately to Vera Cruz to
replace the cruiser Tacoma which
went aground on Blanquilla reef, two
miles off Vera Cruz at the breakwa
ter. The warships Bay Springs and
the Allegheny areproceeding to the
assistance of the Tacoma.
JOHNNIE HARRIS DOES
REAL MARATHON STUNT
JUNEAU, Alas., Jan 18.—Johnnie
Harris, Juneau’s exclusive night mer
chant’s patrolman, has walked, since
October 1920, when he put on his
speedometer, 7,900 miles up to Janu
ary 1 this year. This is the record
Harris gives to the Empire. During
that time Harris has found 505 doors
unlocked. Last year 104 doors were
found unlocked according to the rec
ord Harris keeps in his little book.
Harris is going to take a vacation
possibly next April, and is going to
Goddard Hot Springs. He might re
main at that place for some time but
his friends predict that he will not
stay away from Juneau very long.
FOR RENT—Furnished flat; foui
rooms and bath See Dougherty, t
Demos Received In Home of
Former President Wilson
UNION PACIFIC SHOPMAN
TAKES FERRELL PLACE
According to a general circular is
sued today at headquarters of the Al
aska railroad, Robert H. Hale will
succeed Fred C Ferrell as master me
chanic of the railroad. The change is
effective immediately.
Mr. Hale arrived recently from
Kelso, Calif., where he was master
mechanic for the Los Angeles and
Salt Lake railroad, which is part of
the Union Pacific system. He was
accompanied to the town of Anchor
age by Mrs. Hale. The new master
mechanic was employed by the U. P.
and L. A. & S. L. shops for several
years before he became master me
chanic for the latter road. His cre
dentials, it was said at railroad head
quarters today, are of highest or
der. He i sthe son of H. H. Hale of
San Francisco, field representative
of theGa’ena Signal Oil company, who
has been spending several weeks
in the vicinity of Anchorage examin
ing lubrication of therailroad, at the
request of the general manager, Col.
| Lee H. Landis.
Mr. Ferrell'? retirement as master
mechanic terminates a service of
nearly four years on the government’s
Alaska transportation project, first
| with the Alaska Engineering commis
sion and later with the lAaska rail
road. He has been master mechanic
since May 20, 1920, when he began
his service under the administration
of Col. F. Mears, the then chairman of
the A. E. C.
ARRANGING PLEBISCITE
ATHENS, Jan. 17.—Premier Veni
zelos announced today that he is ar
ranging a plebiscite on the banish
ment of King George of Greece. Ven
izelos is strongly opposed to the ban
ishment of the crown.
ALASKA PUCKERS CD.
SEATTLE, Jan. 14.—The A. & P.
Products company, the Seattle subsi
dary of the great Atlantic and Pacific
tea company of New York recently
purchased the Waterfall Salmon pack
ing plant and fleet of thirteen vessels
from the Alaska Fish company of Se
attle, giving the A & P. seven pack
ing plants in Alaska.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 18.—In impos
ing the life sentence on Edward H.
Carlton as directed by the jury for
the killing of Policeman Magee while
Carlton was attempting burglary with
his bride, Judge Russell Avery placed
on record the recommendation that
Carlton never be parolled.
POWERS WILL BE
OBLIGED TAKE ACTION
PEKING, Jan. 18.—Citing six at
tacks upon Americans in China with
in the past sixty days, Minister Sich
man today intimated that if the Pek
ing government cannot protect the
foreigners within her gates the pow
ers at large will be abliged to do so.
SEATTLE, Jan. 18.—The girl who
lost her memory and was token from
the rest room in the Bon Marche to
a hospital yesterday was identified as
Cora Major, a sophomore at the Sta
dium high school in Tacoma. Her id
entification was detected when
she vaguely mentioned the name of
Cecilia Burgess, who proved to be a
teacher in the high school.
SPRINGFIELD, 111., Jan. 18.—Sher
iff Galligan has wired the Adjutant
General that he was unable to handle
the bootleggers’ war at Marion
DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP
Notice is hereby given that the co
partnership heretofore existing under
the firm name of Gagnon & Dahl, pro
prietors of the Hotel Seward, is here
by dissolved by mutual consent, Mr.
Oscar Dahl will collect all indebted
ness due said firm and be responsible
for all bills contracted.
Seward, Alaska, Dec. 26, 1923.
WM. C. GAGNON.
OSCAR DAHL.
311-3t
Ice creepers at J. L. GraePs. tf
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—Having
an hour before the adoption of a res
olution assuring him that the Dem
ocrats will go into the approaching
presidential campaign, Shaunessy
pledged to uphold the political people
and their ideals for which he gave his
health and very nearly his life. The
members of the Democratic National
Committee and three hundred other
admirers late this afternoon called
and were received by Woodrow Wil
son who was seated in his home. They
came in a down pour of rain and ap
proximate one hundred taxicabs
were in waiting outside his library.
WILLS HUGE SI
TO FIGHT CH1PI01
NEW YORK, Jan. 11.—Tex Rickard
announced this morning he has offer
ed Harry Wills, negro fighter, three
hundred thousand dollars for fights
next summer with Luis Angel Firpo
and Jack Dempsey, which Wills is
willing to accept although his mana
ger is holding out for more.
T
Advices received in Fairbanks in
the late mail from Norman Dawn indi
cate that rapid progress is being
made in the completion of the com
pany’s first picture, at present desig
nateed by the working title “The
Trail of Broken Hearts."
The company arrived at Holly
wood December 19th and started to
work immediately. The use of the
Universal Company’s extensive stud
ios was obtained for the few interior
and finishing scenes to be filhied and
the developing and printing was done
at the Standard Film Laboratories.
Mr. Dawn reports remarkable luck
in the photographs. In spite of the
j cold weather in which many^ol' the
[ scenes were takeeu, and notwith
! standing the peculiar light encount
! ered during the short winter days, all
the film turned out clear and not a
foot was lost. This is considered a
! notable achievement even in Califor
nia.
The company attracted consider
able notice in Los Angeles after their
return from the North and were writ
ten up extensively in the local pap
ers. The big dog “Ilak,” which Mr.
Dawn purchased in Fairbanks from
Theo. Van Bibber, made a hit all a
long the route and drew knots of in
terested observers at every stopping
place.
Mr. Dawn reports that the cutting
is nearly done, the titles are being
printed and the picture will be ready
to put on the market within a few
weeks. He is highly pleased with the
results and they all tell him he has
a very fine picture.
Mrs. Elkind of Bayonne, New Jer
seey, is seeking information in regard
to her son, William Elkind, who was
last heard from in Juneau, Alaska,
June 13 ,last. Any one who knowrs
anything regarding the w-hereabouts
of the party is requested to notify J.
J. Flickinger of the Alaska Steam
ship company.
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