LOMEN ASKS AID
FOR RELIEF MEN
WRANGELL ISLE
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—Carl J.
Lomen, Nome operator, has appealed
to the Red Cross to go to the relief
of the twelve men, one white and 11
Eskimos, comprising his Wrangell
Island venture, now stranded in Si
beria.
MONEY WRECKS
HAPPY FAMILY
ALPENA, Mich., Dec. 31—That his
home was wrecked and his married
happiness completely destroyed, when
his wife plunged i*ecklessly in a
whirl of post war gaiety among the
so-called fast set in military and of
ficial circles at Washington is charg
ed by Representative Frank D. Scott,
who is to testify in his suit for di
vorce against his wife, Edna J. Scott.
Scott has named many high army
officials, including Brigadier General
William Mitchell, of the Array air
service, as co-respondents in his suit.
ALASKA DOG TEAM
REACHES SEATTLE
SEATTLE, Wn., Dec. 31—An Alas
ka dog team, composed of fourteen
giant. Huskies, which arrived here
recently from the North, was to be
transported to Longmire Springs, in
♦ Rauier National park, southeast of
Tacoma, where it is to be used to en
tertain winter guests.
Kakisenoruk, an Eskimo driver, was
in charge of the dogs. The win
ter season of thepark began Decem
ber 6.
King Albert Will Try To
Cross the Sahara Desert
BRUSSELS, Dec. 29.—King Albert
of Belgium and Marshal Petain of
France will leave Friday in an attempt
to cross the Sahara desert by auto.
M’CORMICK SUED
FOR ALIENATION
WOMAN’S LOVE
I
NEWY ORK, Dec. 31.—Infatuation j
for a woman half his age, Cyrus H.
McCormick, 60, who shares with Har
old F. McCormick the inherited Mc
Cormick harvester millions, is defen
dant in a $500,000 alienation suit.
The wToman in the case is Mrs. Ed
; win W. Jacobs, wife of a prominent
j retired merchant of New York.
Jacobs bases his suit on the claim
| that the elderly Chicago millionaire
I showered gifts on Mrs. Jacobs until |
' her head was completely turned and |
! she ceased to care for the plaintiff.
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FIRE ON BOARD |
JAPANESE BOAT
SCARES CREW
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 30—Fire on
j board the steamship Ginyo Maru late
'last night forced 79 passengers and
| crew of the vessel to take to the
* life boats. Later however, the flames I
were being battled by a squad of 30
' men which returned to the ship for
J a short time, according to radio ad-:
i vices from the freighter Julia Luck
J eenbach wrhich picked up the occu
! pants of the lifeboats.
Pioneer Lawyer of
Seattle Passes On
j -
SEATTLE, Dec. 30.—A. W. Hostle, 1
j aged 78, a pioneer lawyer, died here
; today.
ALBANIAN CAPITAL TAKEN
TIRANA, Albania, Dec. 30.—The
: j
; Albanian cabinet, headed by Premier
|Jan Noli, fled before the capital wras
1 occupied yesterday by rebel forces,
! the correspondent of the Giornale d’ j
Italia states.
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For the Prospector
Can you make an accurate compass survey of your
claim ?
The strange minerals you find in the hills—can you
determine what they are with the blow-pipe?
Do you know how to test your ore for various meth
ods of concentration such as amalgamation, cyani
dation, jigging, table concentration and flotation?
Do you know how ore bodies form and their habits?
If you do you can pick favorable areas for prospect
ing and eliminate much dead work.
Would you like to be able to assay your ore for gold
and silver?
Will not these aids better your chances of putting a
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College and School of Mines.
The first short course of 10 weeks duration begins No
vember 3rd. The work is repeated in another short
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The charge for books and supplies used, totals about
$25,00 for the complete course.
W ork is offered in geology, mineralogy, mining meth
ods, ore dressing, and fire assaying.
There are no educational requirements except the abil
ity to read and write.
Ihis is not a dressed-up course. Bring along your wool
shirt and overalls. You will need them.
CHARLES E. BUNNELL
President.
FUND RAISED SEND'
OLD TIMER TO i
MAYO BROS.
SEATTLE, Dec. 30—A fund is be
ing raised to send Win. J. Julian, a
Broad Pass mining operator, suffering
from cancer of the stomach, to Mayo
Brothers for an operation. Mr. Julian
arrived in Seattle from Alaska about
a month ago.
Mike McTeague Wins
Over Jimmy King
ATLANTA, Dec. 30.— Mike Mc
Teague, world light heavyweight
champion of the world, won a tech
nical knockout over Jimmy King of
New Orleans in the fifth round of a
ten-round match here last night.
ASKS FOR HALF MILLION
FOR PORTLAND VETS’ BUREAU
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—Repre
sentative Watkins, of Oregon, has
introduced a bill to make $500,000
available for the Veterans’ Hospital
Bureau at Portland. This includes
a complete hospital plant.
KETCHIKAN MAN FOUND
INSANE BY THE JURY
John Gasper, said to be a home
steader in the Ketchikan district,
was the other day adjudged insane
by a jury in the Juneau U. S. Com
missioner’s court. He was ordered
by Judge elix Gray, of Douglas
who presided over the hearing, to be
committed to Morningside Sanitorium.
Gasper was before a Ketchikan
jury last March for an investigation
as to his sanity and was at that time
said to be sane. It was said he
is laboring under the delusion of per
secution and claimed that he was be
ing persecuted by the Ku Klux Klan.
He was taken south on the Alaska on
her last trip south by Deputy Mar
shal Mort Truesdell.
NATIONS' FARM .CROPS ARE
VALUED OVER NINE BILLION
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—Import
ant farm crops of the nation for
the year are valued at $9,179,902,
000, according to estimates made
by the Department of Agriculture.
The estimates' are based on Decem
ber 1 prices.
GOLD COAST HOLDS
NO TERRORS FOR
ENGLISH PRINCESS
LONDON, Dec. 30.—Princess Marie
Louise, King George’s cousin, has de
cided to leave London in February
for a months’s visit to the Gold
coast of West Africa, where she will
take part in some big game shooting.
AMERICANDWIAR
HASCONQUERED
THE WORLD
LONDON, Dec. 30.—Commenting
an America’s great wealth the London
Chronicle says the action of Ameri
ca’s vast wealth is rapidly drawing
in all that money can buy. There has
been nothing like it before in the his
tory of the world. The ancient power
af Rome and Carthage was small in
comparison to that which America
wields. All this power has been won
not by physical conquest, not by the
sword, but by a new kind of economic
imperialism.
The Chronicle bewailed the fact
that Europe is being stripped of all
their treasures by rich American peo
ple, -who outbid the poverty stricken
collectors of Europe.
Freight Clerk Arrested
Passing Spurious Checks
SEATTLE, Dec. 31.—Edwin Randall
Becker, freight clerk on the liner
Emma Alexander, and well connected
both in San Francisco and Victoria,
is in jail here charged with passing
spurious chcclt3. Eleanor Caldwell,
his sweetheart, and telephone oper
ator aboard the ship, is also in jail,
‘v aiding and abetting him in his
swindling nerations.
Administration Fight To
Uphold Postal Veto
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30—The ad
ministration believes it now has
enough votes to sustain its veto of the
postal pay bill.
ATTORNEYS GET
ENORMOUS FEES
IN MURDER CASE
CHICAGO, Dec. 30.—Clarence Dar
row and the firm of Benjamin and
Walter Bachrach, lawyers, who saved
Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold
from the gallows when the pleaded
guilty to kidnapping and killing Rob
ert Franks, received $150,000 for their
services it was announced today.
NEW WESTMINSTER HAS
BAD FIRE IN CHINATOWN
NEW WESTMINSTER, B. C., Dec.
30.—Quick action by the fire depart
ment here late last night saved the
lives of many Chinese when a block
of Chinese stores were burned at an
estimated loss of $30,000.
BARRICADED BLACK STANDS
OFF OMAHA OFFICERS
OMAHA, Dec. 30.—Barricading
himself in his house, where detec
tives had been sent to arrest him on
a serious statutory charge, a negro,
said by police to be Frank Nyler,
shot Chief of Detectives Ben Dan
baum and then sent a bullet into De
tective Tom Ryan’s hip.
The negro resisted all efforts of
the police to dislodge him and it
was decided to burn the house. He
kept up his fusillade, seriously en
dangering the attacking officers and
others who congregated about the
scene. The house is located in the
negro district.
MARTIN TESTIFIES
IN TRIAL FORBES
AND MORTIMER
CHICAGO, Dec. 30.—Testifying for
the defense in the trial of Forbes, for
mer head of the veterans’ bureau,
Major Frederick Martin, first flight
commander of the world flyers, said
he would not believe Mortimer on
oath, and told of alleged irregular ac
tivities of Mortimer, while he, Mar
tin, was in the army air service office
in Washington.
Two Dead, Two Injured
When Jap Liner Burns
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 31.—Two chil
Iren are dead and two passengers are
seriously burned in a fire that swept
he decks of the Japanese liner Gin
fomaru, 1600 miles south of Los An
gles yesterday. The1 report says that
nany passengers were injured.
noelwTsmith
NAMED MANAGER
ALASKA ROAD
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.—Noel W.
Smith, special temporary assistant to
Secretary Work, in charge of the
Maska railroad, was today named
general manager of the road, succeed
ng Col. Lee H. Landis. Mr. Smith
/vill leave Washington shortly for
Maska.
Engineer Hangs Self;
Grieved Over Accident
MINNEAPOLIS, Mjnn., Jan. 2.—
(AP).—Harry J. Cornell, engineer of
the Soo Line train, whose rear coach
fell into the Chippewa river on Dec
ember 20, with eight deaths, hanged
himself in his home here last night.
Corwell has been an engineer for
21 years and never had an accident
until the Chippewa tragedy, which
was attributed to a broken switch
bolt.
HERRICK REPORTS
FRENCH VIEWS
DEBT FUNDING
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.—Ambassa
dor Herrick’s report of his conversa
tion with Premier Herriott on the
repayment by France of her war debt
to America reached the State depart
ment early today and is understood
to contain the first official assurance
to be received here since the question
entered its present phase, that France
does not intend to repudiate her ob
ligations to this country. It is un
derstood that the State department
welcomes the communication.
Mrs. Wilson Allowed
Pension $5,000 Year
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.—The Sen
ate late yesterday afternoon passed a
bill granting $5,000 yearly pension to
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, wife of the
former president.
TROTZKYHELDA
PRISONER BY REDS
LONDON, Dec. 31.—Reports brought
here from Moscow by travelers said
that Trotzky was held a prisoner in
the Kremlin because of his refusal
to leave Moscow.
It is said that Trotzy was imprison
ed by the council of commissars last
week, following his acceptance of an
invitation to attend a conference on
Russian affairs. It is known that for
some time the council has been dis
satisfied with Trotzy’s views on cap
italism, believing that he has aban
doned his affiliations with the bour
geoise.
Chinese Bandits Rob
Americans of $10,000
LONDON, Dec. 31.—Seven Ameri
cans were robbed by Chinese bandits
yesterday, who boarded a train be
tween Peking and Tien Tsin, accord
ing to a dispatch recived in this city
today. The Americans gave up ten
thousand dollars.
A company of British soldiers in
another part of the train remained in
ignorance of the robbery.
Head Anti-Saloon League
Passes Away In Seattle
SEATTLE, Dec. 31.—Widely known
for his activities as a militant prohibi
tionist in the Northwest, Rev. Joseph
Pope, head of the anti-saloon league
in Washington and Idaho died last
night at his homes in this city.
Postoffice Appropriations
Bill Passed by the House
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31—The treas
ury and postoffice appropriations bill
carrying $763,190,522 was passed by
the House today.
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