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VOLUME XVfV NUMBER 6
SEWARD; ALASKA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1924
PRICE TEN CENTS
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.—Senator
T. K. Caraway of Arkansas, in the
Senate this afternoon charged that
the lease given Harry F. Sinclair by
the former secretary of the Interior,
Albert B. Fall, for development of the
Tea Pol Dime naval oil tract, was
CviTupiiy obtained ana he asked out
jight that the lease be cancelled, in
troducing a resolution to this effect.
Mr. Fall reiterated his statement
today that the money loaned him by
E. B. McLean, the Washington pub
lisher, had no bearing on the oil lease
and was given him to purchase addi
tional ranch hohb igs ir N w Mexico.
The statement tiled by fhe f jrmer
secretary dealt also with various oth
er subjects which have been previ
ously touched upon.
The SI00,000 advanced by Mr. Mc
Lean, says Mr. Fall, was secured by
p„s personal note and was loaned lot
the purchase of the Harris ranch ad
joining that of the secretary. The
;oan was for three years at the end
of which time the publisher was to
nave the right to call the loan or en
ter into co-partnership with Mr. Fall j
in which the latter was to put up:
lands or other assets equal to the,
loan. The statement placed the pres-j
ent book value of the Fall property
jj New Mexico at $600,000
Was a Cash Deal
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to large sums of cash presented in
payment for Hie Harris property, Mr.
Pall said he expected it to be a cash
deal, and therefore took the entire
sum with him
Mr. Fall said he never approached
Mr. Sinclair or Edward L. Dohenev
for a loan, advance or other assist
ance.
Referring to a shipment of blooded
cattle to his place by Mr. Sinclair J
Mr. Fall said he had insisted that thej
livestock be paid for all full market
price. Mr. Sinclair’s visit to Three!
Rivers, N. M., prior to the leasing of
the Wyoming reesrve was pure coin
cidence, the former secretary said.
The Three Rivers Cattle Company,
in which Fall owns 5(T per cent and
his son-in-law the remainder, was de
scribed by Fall as holding a line of
credit at Pueblo, Colo., from the
Thatcher estate and from the same
estate he borrowed $100,000 to finance
improvements on his home ranch, re
maining unpaid
Holdings Are Numerous
Practically all of his holdings in
New Mexico were acquired before
1906, Mr. Fall said, and comprised at
least forty separate parcels of land.
Th evaried composition of the whole
area was given by the secretary as
one of the causes of unpaid taxes.
The officials of Otero county, he said,
attempted to assess him on the full
value of the whole tract as well as
on the value of the improvements.
His opposition to the assessment he
declared was finally upheld in the
courts. The legal fight began in 1912
and W'as settled in 1922 when he paid
all back taxes on the basis for which
he had been contending.
BfiflWI IKS TWIT
miSSII BE UffiED
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.— Senator
Borah urged Bussian recognition in
the Segata tqday which was bitterly
opposed by Senator Lodge, who de
clared tfrfipe tyere Interlocking direc
torates between tjhe Spvfct govern
ment ^ >e Cp^ni^ International
ftpn* Ot govern
ment
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LADY Dl TAKES PA
Photographed in the costume whi
Cooper (nee Lady Manners) rehearsi
“The Miracle,” in which the famous
to the legitimate stage soon. Lady I>i
Cooper, D. S. O., arrived in the Unit
LAST ftSTOR HONORED
LONDON, Jan 8.—Ramsay McDon-|
aid, soon to head the British Labor
Party and Lady Astor received one of
the greatest ovations ever seen in par
liament when that body assembled to
day.
.ALASKA TREASURER PAYS
BOUNTY ON 4500 EAGLES
Announcement from the office of
the Territorial Treasurer is that the
Territory has paid the bounty on 4500
eagles killed within her confines with
in the past year and that since the
bounty was increased to one dollar,
a noted increase is shown in the num
ber of claws presented One resident
of the Rocky Pass neighborhood, 100
miles south of Juneau, has collected
bounty on 400 eagles.
TO BUY LETIML WEJtfilK
SEATTLE, Jan. 8.—Having borrow
ed two dollars with which to purchase
a second hand weapon, A. R. Purdy,
a former Alaskan prospector, shot
and killed himself today.
MISS HALEY APPOINTED
TOURIST AQENT ALASKA RY.
Miss Dorothy Haley this morning
assumed her duties as tourist agent
for the Alaska railroad, a new posi
tion recently made by order of Col.
Landis. Miss Haley will remain in
Anchorage a few weeks preparing
data and will then establish head
quarters in Juneau where she will in
terview all travelers to the Yukon
district.
PEKING, Jan 8.—Two Americans
are standing off a horde of Thibetan
bandits in the city of Batang it was
announced today.
GAM£ CLUB B€ ORGANIZED
Dr. O. A. Br^afladt, Prof. J. A.
Goodskey and other prominent sports
men are talking of organizing a game
club fqr this district, |he object being
to seek several changes in the local
game laws. It sjt^ted, traps will
be purchased and weekly gun club
shoots held this 3&Q&&
vHYR!GH~ UNDERWOOD A UNDERWOOD. N Y.
RT OF MADONNA
cli she will wear, Lady Diana Duif
ng for her part as The Madonna in
English beauty will make her debut
and her husband. Major Alfred Duff
ed States only recently.
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PROSECUTE FORRES
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.—Charles
Forbes has written Attorney General
Daugherty daring his to prosecute him
'lor irregularties while in charge of
the Veterans’ Bureau, and threatening
to present evidence which will cause a
greater upheaval in Government cir
cles than was caused by the testimony
at the Senate inquiry.
SEW CUE ML
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.—It is an.
nounced today that revised plans of
the Signal Corps contemplate having
the Alaska cable completed and in
working order by November.
The first section laid will be from
Seattle to Ketchikan via Craig going
overland from the latter point seven
miles, and thence to Ketchikan under
water.
The remaining stretch will be laid
from Ketchikan direct to Seward, and
will be completed this year.
“HEW DEVIL fN FRAUDS
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.—That C.
W. Forbes, deposed director general
of the Veterans’ Bureau, was a “head
devil in an established conspiracy to
defraud the government,” was charg
ed today by General Counsel Ryan in
his report to the Senate Veterans’
committee.
PARESIS AND LOCOMOTOR
ATAXIA BELIEVED CURABLE
COLUMBUS, O., Jan. 8.—The Rock
feller institute is soon to release to
physicians a new specific called trypa
samid, of A-63, which is asserted to
show a 50 per cent result in the treat
ment of paresis and. locomotor ataxia,
accprding to a story that appears ir<
the Ohio State Journal which gives
Dr. H. M. Brundage of Columbus as
its authority. Fifty per cent cures
was declared by Dr. Brundage to be
far in excess of results obtained by
any previously known specific for
these two diseases.
The specific’a greatest virtue was
declared to lie in the fact that the
possesses an affinity for tissues
of the central nervous system and can
injected Into the velna
SAN DIEGO, Jan. 8 —Definite de
ails have been received here stating
hat Commander Martin and his Army
liers will leave Langley Field, Vir
ginia, March 1, for Santa Monica, then
:o San Diego for a trial flight, tin n
fly to Seattle for a round the world
flight. From Seattle they will hop
3ff April 2 on the first leg to Attu
Island, thence to Nagasaki, Japan;
Calcutta India; Constantinople, Tur
key; London, Iceland, Greenland and
thence down the Canadian coast line
to Langley Field.
BUGLE PLAYERS MAKE BIG
HIT AMONG CHURCH GOERS
BERLIN, Jan. 8.—Buglers who give
Sunday concerts on church spires at
tract large crowds in Germany, and it
fact the practice is extending all ovei
Central Europe.
Trinity church which stands neai
the American embassy in Berlin fre
iiuently has such concerts on religious
holidays. A quartet of bugler* plaj
religious tunes on a balcony abou
100 feet above the streets.
Four Dresden clergymen wdto ar<
expert buglers but found it difficult t<
earn a living preaching because of th<
financial depression are making a su<
cess of bugle concerts in Czecho-Slo.
vakia. They are given on churcl
steeples, in the auditorium of tin
churches; in marketplaces and evei
on street corners and the contribu
tions of the listeners maintain tin
clergymen who play only sacred mu
sic and hymns.
SEATTLE, Jan. 8.—The- coroner i:
seeking to establish the identity of i
body found in the water front at Se
attle this week, especially to determ
ine whether it is that of Chester Ar
thur Billingsley of Juneau, who arriv,
ed here December 28th, and disap
peared.
FLU EPIDEMIC IN ANCHORAGE
Anchorage papers report at least ai
hundred persons ill with the influenz.
with physicians on duty day am
night. The epidemic is ascribed t<
recent sudden changes in weather.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.—Presiden
Coolidge has issued a proclamatioi
creating an embargo against the shij
ment of arms to Mexican revolution
ists.
A CORRECTION
The report in yesterday’s dispatcl
that the mercury registered seven be
low at Pensacola, Florida, was an er
ror. The dispatch should have rea<
seven “above” at Pensacola.
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KILLED BY CmDITS
SEATTLE, Jan. 8.—Capt. If. J
Brandt, commander of the Dolla:
Steamship Company’s steamer Tzdsu
was shot and killed aboard his vesse
by Chinese river pirates at Tung To
according to a cablegram received b;
KOYSES MARU SINKS
SEATTLE, Jan. 7.—The Koyses
Maru which was reported in distress.:
Sunday had her crew taken off by the
President McKinley yesterday.' 'Fixe
vessel at the time was in latitude 49.1
north and longitude 174.10 east, and
was sinking fast Her rudder chains
were broken and the vessel was drift
ing helplessly.
USE tl. S. SHIPS
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 —Congress
may pass a law requiring all Ameri
can officials, diplomats, consuls and
agents to travel on American ships in
! the future.
This is the likely seque^to the in
, cident which has just aroused the
senate in connection with the discov
ery that the American Bar Associa.
> tion did not buy passage for its mem
bers on an American ship, but gave
the business to a foreign steamshif
line.
While Congress has no control ovei
private bodies like the American Bai
Association, it can compel people or
Hhe Federal payroll to travel on ships
owned by American firms.
The shipping board has again anc
again been confronted abroad witl
'ithe humiliating argument that if th<
American officials do not conside:
''their own ships worth patronizins
■ why should any one else do so. A
1 present it will be a simple thing fo
! congress to attach a rider to all ap
1 -propriation bills where travel is in
volved requiring that passage be en
' 'gaged on American ships where sucl
vessels sail to the destinations t<
which the journey on official businesi
is to be made.
The general effect, however, o
such a stipulation in appropriatioi
bills would be to make American offi
cials patronize their own fleet and t h»
impression resulting therefrom woult
be beneficial to the American busi
ness as a whole.
I
POLL TAX UPHELD
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1 WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.—The valid
'1 ity of the Alaskan poll tax of $5.00 oi
1 non.resident fishermen was raised ii
case brought by Sven Daavik agains
the Alaska Packers Association, wai
Upheld by the United States Supremi
;court today.
CHICAGO, Jan. 8.—A nation wid<
movement is under way to brinj
about the release of Lieutenant Cor
liss Hoover Griffis, former Americai
1 soldier, sentenced to 19 months in ;
German prison for attempted kidnap
' ing of Grover C. Bergdoll, wealth;
1 draft evader, Dr. James Whitney Hall
president of the Iroquois club, has an
nounced. He is head of a national or
ganization to obtain a pardon for thi
convicted soldier.
Dr. Hall said that Lieut. Griffis wa
E being notified of the movement in hi;
[ behalf by Americans.
On© of the activities of the com
mittee. he said, was to botain sig
. natures to a petition addressed to th
• German government asserting that th
l American ggpnjp, w,ojjl<J consider a hi
L release a ‘‘most gracious act”
l .The first signature was that of Mor
:. 3® Sussman, a former Q^rn^ le
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COLO IS RIB6E
CHICAGO, Jan. 8.—A total of fifty
three persons were frozen to death in
the section of the Middle West hit by
the extreme cold wave Saturday, ac
fording to reports.-. In Chicago the
toll by Boreas vis especially heavy,
twenty-five persons succumbing to the
stinging blasts, which blew in from
the lake shore. The cold wave extends
i from the Rocky mountains to the East
! ern States, and from Canada to Cen
tral Florida.
Much Damage to Crops
JACKSONVILLE. Fla., Jan. 8.—Re
ports from truck growers in this state
indicate that heavy damage was done
; to growing crops and to fruit, thou
sands of young trees being killed in
the sections around Ocala, Sanford,
' and as far south as Bartow. Heavy,
killing frosts are reported in many
districts unprotected by water, and
the loss will total hundreds of thou
sands of dollars.
Mississippi Hit Hard
i NATCHEZ Jan 8.Much suffering
ensued from the extreme cold weather
l f the worst in thirty years. Many ne
, groes are congregating in the small
. towns to escape the bitter cold.
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Cold at Louisville
,( LOUISVILLE, Ky., Jan. S.—The
. 'Coldest weather experienced here in
_! the past half century was felt here
. Sunday and yesterday. Much suffer
1 ing and several deaths are reported.
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J Nebraska Blizzard Swept
j OMAHA, Jan. 8.—The coldest wea
flther in years was recorded here yes
,1 terday, the mercury going to 12 be
low. Several deaths are reported from
, outlying districts.
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.! Snow Deep in Mountains
j DEN\ ER, Jan. 8.—Six feet of snow
is reported in many mountains passes
and roads, and all traffic is practi
cally suspended
LOCAL MAN GETS TWO MOOSE
Di. O. A. Braatladt who returned
Saturday from a hunting trip to lower
Kenai, reports killing two moose a
short time after Christmas. The ani„
mals were killed the first day’s hunC
and brought as far as Mule point and
. cached. Dr Braafladt reports seeing
i a large number of moose on the trip,
t He reports the lake frozen with ice
t eight inches thick as far as Mule
5 point, the ice being excellent for skat
> ing purposes.
: WOODROW WILSON POPS
PITTSBURGH, Jan. 8.—“It will be a
' pleasure for me to take part in an ag
’ gressive fight for the redemption of
the nation from the degradation of
1 purpose into which it has been drawn
L in recent days,” said Woodrow Wil
son in a telegram read at the Jack
son Day dinner last night.
■ CLIIMS HE BEIT MCI
: III DISCOVERY KLONDIKE
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 8.—Robert
(Bob) Henderson, who while fishing
claims to have found gold on Bonan
za but did not take the trouble to
stake It, several weeks prior to the
discovery of the Klondike diggings
Carmack, arrived here,
faya with the object of marrying.
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