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VOLUME 21, NUMBER 3.
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1926.
PRICE TEN CENTS
LEGISLATORS
LAUGH AS GOV.
ACCUSES THEM
HARTLEY ACCUSES LEGISLATORS
WITH BEING TRICKSTERS
AND RAIDERS
OLYMPIA, Jan. 5. (/P)—'The House
passed a resolution on “the action of
the governor appearing before the
legislature for the purpose to set
forth his message and advise his con
• stitutional privilege and invasion
rights in the legislative branch of the
state government” by a vote of 60 to
30.
Hartley charged the majority of the
faction with “trickery, jobbing, dou
ble-crossing, scheming, befuddling or
disgruntled politicians, special privi
lege seekers, treasury raiders” and
other hot remarks. The legislators
laughed as the governor left the House
and then indulged in a heated debate
over the condemnatory resolution.
Lions Led by a Jackass
Mary Reed, minority leader of the
House, whom Hartley denounced per
sonally, said, “The message is a down
right lie.”
Representative Shields of King
county said, “I am wondering if we
. are a bunch of jackasses led by a lion
or a bunch of lions led by a jackass.”.
Representative Gilworthy, chairman
of the House appropriations commit
tee, usually a Hartley supporter, said,
“I have been damned if I did and
damned if I didn’t, and have gotten
to a point where I’ll do as I damned
please. Although I respect the chief
executive I must vote yes.”
Representative Allen of King coun
ty, said: “Today we had the spectacle
, of a governor appearing before this
body which had he used it on the
streets he would have been assaulted.
It was the language used in logging
camps.”
DAN INTRODUCES
BILLS IN CONGRESS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 4. (/P)—
Dan A. Sutherland, delegate to Con
gress from Alaska introduced bills
to authorize the Scretary of the Inte
rior to appraise and sell timber and
public lands in Alaska, and permit
settlers to use such timber for fire
wood and fencesj to appropriate $35,
000 for buildings and mining opera
tions; for the Secretary of Commerce
to explore the halibut banks of the
North Pacific and Bering Sea with a
view of obtaining knowledge on the
halibut supply, and allow fish to be
taken from Alaska waters at all
times for bait, and for the construc
tion of an asylum for the insane so
they can be cared for in Alaska.
ENGLISH COMPANY TO
OPERATE IN THE NORTH
PRrNCE RUPERT, Jan. . (jp)—
With the object of operating in the
Portland Canal district an English
company, The Porcupine Goldfields
Development and Finance Company,
Limited has been gazetter in this
province. Its head office is in Lon
don and the capital employed is Brit
ish capital. Lord Gisborough is
chairman of the board, and Col- :
onel W. Grant Morden, M. P., of 1
London, is one of the directors. The
head office for this province is at
Vancouver.
For a long time it was difficult for :
British capital to invest here owing
to the differential in exchange. Now
that English money is at /par in Can
ada, that difficulty is removed and
the tendency is for capital to move
this way. The more of it comes
here, the better for the country.
Florida’s new song: “Blest Be
The Tie That Binders.’
REAR ADMIRAL GILES DEAD
YOUNGSTOWN, O., Jan. 4 (£>)—
Rear Admiral Giles Battes Harder,
76, retired, died here last night.
WOMAN MAY RUN FOR OFFICE
NEW YORK, Jan. 4 Mrs. Scott
Durand Stobety, matron of the Lake
Bluff prison, may run for the legisla
ture to reform prison policies and
prisoners.
TWO ENTER MONASTERY
NEW YORK, Jan. 4 (JP)—Baron
Willy Knotilich Droste, a German
aristocrat, has renounced night life
and the wiles of the world and se
cluded himself in a monastery. In a
letter here he stated that Henry
Clews, a grandson of a banker, who
disappeared recently from London, is
also in the monastery.
WHITEHORSE MAN
DROWNED RIVER
VANCOUVER, B. C., Jan. 5 (£>)—
Footprints leading to a hole in tjie
ice-covered river is the only trace left
of Fred Eliason, 50, a Norwegian
railway employe, who disappeared
from his home in Whitehorse, Decem
berl5, one day after he married a
Montreal woman. Eliason had been
in the Yukon country 20 years and
had worked on the railroad twelve
years.
BELGIUM SUFFERS
RESULT FLOODS
BRUSSELS; Belgium, Jan. 5 {!■P)—
Twelve known dead, and an estimated
damage of $4,000,0000 dollars resulted
yesterday from the worst floods re
corded in Belgium since 1740.
PETTING PARTIES
ARE LIABLE LEAD
HERE’S WHERE WE SHUN THE
PATHS OF IDLE DAL
LIANCE
SPARTANBURG, S. C., Jan. 5 (JP)—
T. B. Bailey, professor of psychology
of the University of South Suwanee, j
Tennessee, said yesterday that pet-j
ting indulged in by persons not in
love injures them physically, men- j
tally, and morally and may lead to j
insanity. He deplored the petting par- j
ties indulged in by the youngsters of
today and declared they would ulti
mately end in physicial deterioration
and mental weaknesses.
U. S. VICE CONSUL
ACCEPTS BRIBES
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 5 (£>)—
David C. Kerr, former American vice
2onsul of Vancouver, was indicted to
3ay for accepting bribes from Chinese
svading the exclusion act.
The Beauty Shop, Mrs. Ratliff pro
prietor, has moved into the upper floor
)f the Bank Building.
Mrs. Mabel Hutton will return to
norrow from a short visit to friends
n Anchorage.
What the tax shave needs is some
thing more than the once-over.
If the moth didn’,t get your last
winter's wool sock you're lucky.
A few more of these day and Sew
ird kiddies can take a dip in the
ake above town.
EVELYN NESBIT
THAW IS NEAR
DEATH'S DOOR
SWALLOWS EIGHT OUNCES POW
ERFUL DISINFECTANT AND
THEN CALLS DOCTOR
CHICAGO, Jan. 5. (,/P)—Evelyn Nes
bit Thaw is near death today after a
suicide attempt last evening. She
l swallowed eight ounces of a power
ful disinfectant and then telephoned
a physician.
She was rushed to a hospital uncon
scious.
Evelyn Thaw had been expected to
leave for Florida Friday.
I
WORK DECLARES
THAT RAILS BE
NOT TORN UP
!
NOEL W. SMITH BEEN GRANTED
FURTHER LEAVE AND WILL
RETURN TO ALASKA
| WASHINGTON,D. C., Jan. 5 (JP)—
Secretary Work denied that the Alas
j kan Railroad would be abandoned or
I that it would be transferred from the
‘Interior Department, or that Noel W.
' Smith, general manager would not re
| turn to Alaska. He said that the
| Pennsylvania Railroad, of which Mr.
Smith is vice-president, had extended
his leave, and he would return to the
Territory from his duties in Wash
ington in about a month.
Mr. Smith asked Congress for five
hundred thousand dollars additional
for the road for next year, above the
operating expenses for permanent im
provements on the line.
Appropriations Asked for
Interior Department appropriations
for Alaska asked for at this session
of congress are:
Governor’s salary, $7,000.
Secretary’s salary, $36,000.
Contingent expenses, $12,500, an in
crease of $1720.
Legislative expenses, $40,260.
Care of Alaska insane, $159,248, an
increase of $14,091.
For suppressioon of liquor traffic,
$16,200. '
For the Alaska Railroad, $1,700,000.
A decrease of $155,000.
COMPILING DICTIONARY OF
PURELY AMERICAN ENGLISH
CHICAGO, Jan. 5 (IP)—Call a man
“awful” a play “awful,” and a meal
“awful” and you make use of a word
moulded into its sense by New Eng
landers. In England they refer to
the same group of dislikes by the word
“frightful.”
Add “bogus” “caucus,” “gerryman
der,” “boom” and “buncombe” to your
vocabulary and you have increased in
creased it by six purely American
words, says Prof. William A. Craigie
of the University of Chicago.
The professor came to Chicago from
England, where he edited the Oxford
dictionary to compile a dictionary of
American English which is to include
only words that have originated in
America and those that have had
meanings supplied by American wri
ters.
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BOYS KILLS HIS FATHER
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 4 (JP)—John
Leon, jr., 31, was arrested today after
his fathert died from a fractured skull.
According to the police Leon struck
his father in a fist fight knocking him
down and hitting his head on a stove.
SHAH NOT A SUICIDE
PARIS, Jan. 4 (JP)—The ex Shah of
Persia is busy today denying reports
that he had committed suicide.
ENGLAND’S TITLED RUM
RUNNER IS A BANKRUPT
LONDON, Jan. 4 (JP)—Activities of
American coast guard and prohibition
agents were responsible for the ap
pearance in bankruptcy court today of
Sir Broderick Hartwell, England’s ti
tled rum running baronet. Broderick
said after six successful shipments of
liquor to the United States one ship
ment of 36,000 cases was lost and es
timated his loss at $1,2500,000.
DAN SUTHERLAND
INTRODUCES BILL
CHANGE MINE LAW
WOULD PROHIBIT ONE PERSON
LOCATING MORE THAN TWO
PLACER CLAIMS MONTH
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 5 (IP)—
Delegate Sutherland introduced a bill
in Congress to amend the mining
laws of Alaska. The bill would pro
hibit one person from locating more
than two placer mining claims in any
one month in the same recording dis
trict; also requiring a person locat
ing a mining claim for another to
carry a written power of attorney.
Another Sutherland bill would ex
tend the time for completion of the
Alaska Anthracite railroad main line
and Stillwater and Canyon Creek
branches another year.
Another Sutherland bill would ex
to Annette Island, and the Secretary
tend the United States mineral laws
of Interior would be authorized to tax
the net income of any operating com
pany on the island one per cent for
the benezt of the Metlakatla people.
JAKE S. SCHAFER
WINS TITLE FROM
BELGIAN CHAMP
NEW YORK, Jan. 5 (JP)—Jake S.
Schafer last night won a 1500 point
match, 500 to 375 with Edouard Hore
mans, the Belgian title holder, there
by regaining the world’s champion
ship.
QUIETUDE PROVIDED FOR WEAK
AND WEARY IN CONSTANTINOPLE
CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan. 5 (£>)—
Constantinople has become a model
pity for persons with weak nerves or
irritable dispositions.
Under a mayoralty edict, the hours
between midday and two in the after
loon and between midnight and morn
ing are to be regarded strictly as
lours of rest for the population.
During these period residents of
louses are not to be disturbed by the
playing of hurdy burdies, phonographs
>r pianos, or by.the raucous cries of
peddlers, knife Sharpeners, old cloth
ng hawkers or itinerant hucksters
generally.
Under another edict, housewipes
ire forbidden to beat carpets, chop
vood, or to hang out washing in the
public streets expect on Thursdays,
in ^ a third ordinance it is forbidden
;o stretch oneself out on the pave
nent or in the roadway or to ride a
lorse or a bicycle, or to drag a hand
;art on the pavement.
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FUNERAL BEATRICE
BAUGHMAN HELD
TOMORROW
BELOVED SEWARD GIRL WILL BE
BURIED TOMORROW EVER
GREEN CEMETERY
SATTLE, Jan. 5. (JP)—The funeral
services of Beatrice Baughman will be
held here tomorrow morning at eleven
from the Home Undertaking Company
conducted by Reverend Charles T.
Shaw. Besides her parents Beatrice
left a sister Dorothy, residing in Seat
tle with her mother. Burial will be
in Evergreen Cemetery here.
INTERIOR DEPT. SUPPLY BILL
PROVIDES HUGE AMOUNT
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 5. (JP)—
The Interior Department Supply bill
reported before the house, provides for
the expenditure of two hundred and
twenty-six million, seven hundred
thousand dollars. This is seven mil
lion seven hundred thousand below
current funds and six hundred and ten
thousand below budget figures.
CITY MANAGER
ASKED SEATTLE
SEATTLE, Jan. 5 (JP)—Councilman
Campbell yesterday offered a resolu
tion to place on the ballot March 9,
the question, “Shall the proposed Se
attle charter prepared by freeholders
elected March 9 provide for the city
manager form of government?”
Action was deferred until Friday.
PROHIBITION
DIRECTOR IS
BACK ALASKA
BIRGEFELD CONFERS WITH OFFI
CIALS OF KETCHIKAN EN
ROUTE WASHINGTON
After spending several weeks in
Washington, D. C., conferring with
prohibition enforcement officials, Ed
win O. Birgefeld recentiy appointed
director of prohibition for Alaska,
passed through Ketchikan last week
en route to Juneau.
Mr. Birgfeld announces that no ad
ditions can be made to the present
force in the Territory because of lim
ited appropriations. He is, however,
determined that enforcement shall be
rigidly carried out and to this end he
conferred with federal and municipal
officials while here yesterday and de
clared that no more passing the buck
will be possible in his department.
He believes that the municipal au
thorities with the assistance of the
United States Marshal’s office and the
Proohibition Agents should be able to
afford Alaska the highest type of en
forcement and to this end he is re
arranging the placing of the agents
under him. He did not announce how
this would be done other than that
Roy F. Jones would be assigned to
the Ketchikan district.
Mr. Birgfeld believes that the three
departments co-operating can do much
more than they have in the past as
individual units and he is conferring
with officials throughout the Territory
that this end may be accomplished.
BIRCHWOOD MAN GOES OUT
Milo Kelly, Alaskan promoter, who
has been residing in Seattle for the
past few years and who recently pass
ed thru Seward en route to {Anchor
age, his former home, departed last
Saturday on the S.S. Alameda for the
South. Mr. Kelly is endeavoring to
market Alaska birchwood at the pres
ent time. Indications look very fa
vorable, it is stated.