Heward Dnily Gatem sty
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXI, VOLUME 181.
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JULY 31. 1 _
PRICE TEN CENTS
SENATOR ALBERT B. CUMINS OF IOWA PASSES AWAY
Chairman Senate Judiciary
Committee Suddenly Stricken
ELECTED TO THE SENATE IN 1908 AND ASCEND
ED TO HIGH PLACE IN THE LEADERSHIP OF
REPUBLICAN PARTY —SERVED FOR MORE
FIVE YEARS AS PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE OF
THE SENATE
FIST FEIN INTIS HERLTH SUBJECT SHE CONCERN
Father Was a Carpenter—Journeyed to Iowa with 850 in
Pocket—Worked On Survey Crew Destined to Change
His Whole Future—Broke into Politics in Des Moines
in 1887
DES MOINES, Iowa, July 81. (A. P)—Senator Al
bert B. Cummins of Iowa was suddenly stricken with a
heart attack from which he soon died. His health had
been the cause of concern for several months.
Elected to the senate in 1908 as one of the pioneers
in the movement which swept so many insurgents into
the United States senate from the northwest, Albert
Raird Cummins remained to become a regular of the
regulars. He ascended to high place in the leadership
of the Republican organization and served for more than
five years as president pro tempore of the senate.
An exponent of wThat was known as the ‘‘Iowa Idea”
in tariff legislation, since translated into law in the flex
ible tariff, Mr. Cummins early found himself in violent
disagreement with the Republican leaders on the funda
mental principle of protection and joined with Doliver,
Bristow, Clapp and Beveridge in the memorable senate
fight over the famous Payne-Aldrich tariff.
OPERATION OF LARGE
COMPANY INTERIOR
JUSTIFIES RAILROAD
CONGRESSMAN SHREVE STATES
“SEEMS TO ME YOU’RE RUN
NING COUNTRY WELL”
CORDOVA. July 26. (ZP)—Congress
man Milton Shreve of Pennsylvania,
who arrived here today from Fair
banks, said he believes the operation
of the Fairbanks Exploration company
alone more than justifies the money
spent in the construction of the Alas
ka railroad. “Somebody once told me
that in Alaska it was the case of the
survival of the fittest. All the men
I met here seem to be the fittest. It
seems to me you are running your
country well.” O’Malley andvShreve
left on the B. of F. patrol boat Brant
for Juneau.
SHORTAGE MEN WHALING
STATION AT PORT HOBRON
The Port Hobron whaling station,
Kodiak island, are in need of ten
men according to arrivals on the S.
S. Redondo yesterday. It is stated
fair wages are offered and time and
a half for overtime. Twenty-six
working days comprise a month on
the payrolls.
While thus placing himself in the
forefront of the ranks of the Republi
can Progressives, as1 they were de
fined in those days, Senator Cummins
allowed the Progressive movement to
run ahead of him. As a result, some
of the Progressive element in his
state opposed their former leader in
his ambition to succeed himself in
1920, and the old guard leaders came
to his rescue.
Telling a group of Mends about it
at the national convention in Chicago
that year, Leslie M. Shaw, former
secretary of treasury, and the man
Cummins succeeded as governor of
Iowa in the first outcroppings of re
volt in the Republican ranks, saw the
humor, as he put it in“Shaw making
speeches in support of Cummins.”
“Why did you do it?” he was asked.
“Well, as I told Albert,” Mr. Shaw
replied, “I thought it best to sink our
differences and help him put out the
fires he had set.”
Although the tariff furnished the
vehicle in which Mr. Cummins first
rode to nation-wide attention, his real
life work in the senate was in the
moulding of railroad legislation. His
first serious task in life had been in
railroad construction and while he
turned later from that to the law, it
always held his interest.
Early ^in his senate service Mr.
Cummins obtained a place on the in
terstate commerce committee and as
its chairman in 1919 he became joint
author with Representative Esch, of
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AT HALF-MAST
Honoring the memory or Sena
tor B. Cummins of Ioaea. who died
today, flags are being flown at half
mas:.
(HEN JSK FOR
YEAR EXTENSION FOR
COPPER RIVER AREA
POINT OUT SALMON RETURN IN
FIVE YEAR CYCLES WHICH
ENDS NEXT YEAR
CORDOVA. July 31. tJT-—Cannery
men on Tuesday night, :-kel T. S
Fisheries Commissioner H nry O'M al
ley for another year salmon fishing
in Copper river under the presen•
regulations. O'Malley had previous:;
announced he was seriously consider
ing closing the area. They pointed
out that under the present regulations
which became effective fiv~ years ago
when the fisheries wre depleted by
unlimited catches, that salmon return
in five year cycles and another year
is the only way to tell if the closing
is really necessary.
FIREINTORTIIREO
HANDCUFFED TO CHAIR: STRIPS
SKIN CUT FROM BODY:
MATCHES APPLIED
ST. PAUL. July 31. -P —Torture
by fire and flayed by whipping:, b?
a man believed to b; elemented. Ed
ward Horrigan. 2? years old. a cit?
fireman, is in serious condition it
' the hospital. Police found him hand
cuffed to a chair in a rooming house
| Walter H. Fletcher, 37. has been ar
j rested as ^he leader of the attack
He claimed he had 0-n wronged b>
Horrigan so he beat him and then ca
thin strips of skin from Horrigan'
|
body. He followed with a 1 .acksnak*
whip; then burning matches were ap
plied. After five hours torture h<
called a photographer to take a pic
ture of Horrigan. The photographe:
notified the police.
CHAMBER LUNCHEON TUESDAY
The Seward Chamber of Commerc
will hold it's regular yeekly basines:
meeting and luncheon at Fisher';
cafe, Tuesday at noon.
GIBBER HOMEWARD BOUND
Walfred Anderson, a herring gib
ber who has been employed at Blu<
Fox bay for some weeks past, arrive;
in Seward yesterday en route to Se
attle, his homeport. He goes souti
on the Northwestern.
RUTH LINES OUT 32ND HOMER
ST. LOUIS. July 31. Babe Rut!
hit his 32nd homer with Gehring oi
base and Ballou pitching.
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TEN PERSONS WOUNDED IK MEXICO AS
RESULT RELIGIOUS TROUBLE-GENERAL
AND OFFICIALS SIONEO. MEXICO CITY
CROWDS STONE GENERAL DANIEL DAM HEZ,
WHO IS SERIOUSLY WOUNDED AND OFFIC IALS
WHO WERE CLOSING AN NEXES OF THE SAINT
CATHERINES CHURCH—FIRE HOSE TURN ED
ON PEOPLE
GITIIOUCS REQUESTED TO GUST SPENDING MONET
Manager Tito Crespi. in Charge of Apostolic Legation.
Has Been Deported on Presidential Decree—Troops
May Be Dispatched to Strategic Points
MEXICO CIT\. July 31. (A. P.)—Ten million or
more Catholics throughout Mexico were without the be ne
fit of a clergy* as a result of putting into effect religious
regulations which were market] by isolated shooting af
frays. stoning of officials and turning a fire hose on
crowds. Ten persons were wounded in shootings in the
capital. Catholics have been requested to cease spe nd
ing money on anything except the absolute necessities,
the object being to bring about an economic crisis which
"'ill influence government troops to be dispatched to
strategic points to maintain onder. Monsignor Tito Cres
pi, who has been in charge of the Apostolic legation. M< \
ico City, has been ordered to leave the country within 24
hours. . . ^
I MEXICO CIT\. July 31. (A. F.)—The Roman C. tho
he Archbishopric announced that Manager Crespi. in
charge of the Mexico City Apostolic delegation, had lien n
deported on presidential decree.
NOGALES. Ahl, July 31. (A. p.)—General IV hi
Danchez is roj>orted to have been seriously wound*
attack by an infuriated mob at Hidalgo. The advices
said this w as the first bloodshed in the present
trouble.
MEXICO t ITA. July 31. (A. P.)—Crowds stoned
General Ortega and department of justice officials here
while the officials were closing the annexes of the Saint
Catherines church. The officials took refuge in one of
, the church buildings where they remained for a time.
tjThey later forced their way out by discharging pistols in
s the a*r and using whips and canes upon the attackers. At
* that moment firemen arrived turning water on the mob
which fled.
REDONDO BRINES IH
| SIZE CURED OF FISH
The S. S. Redondo. Capta.n Xew
land. which arrived in port yoster
day afternoon from the Westward
*,, brought in <JW ten? off cased salmon
and barrels of hemac This ship
mem will be transferred to the S S
Northwestern. The Redondo departs
for the Westward lav Sunday follow
• -ng the loading of approximately 2$Q
[ ions of cargo from the Northwestern
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TWO SPLENDID LAKES
Skilak lake, a few m.les below Ke~
nai lake, is almost as large as ReaaL
Skilak lake s 2# miles long and ab a
seven miles wide. Kenai is about 2«
i miles long Two of the fines lakes
t in the Territory and jast a few hoars
SEJISON'S SALMON PICK
EXCEEDED 81)1 TNDICE
HISTORT OF TERRITORlf
LAST YEAR'S PACK Sra.000 CASES:
THIS SEASON TOTAL IS
l-WSJl CASES
SEATTLE. Jily SI. up)—The f<®
J plete barf-aa of fisheries report oa
, ike red salmon park of Bristol Ear
■ where the aeoaoa clouted oa Jaly 21
was LMM«t case*. This pack was
exceeded only three ‘ mes in history.
Lost rear the peck was STS.000 cases.
The S S Admiral Rraas. of the P.
; S. S Ce, Is doe to retara to port
from the Westward oa Wednesday at
; 1 o'clock ea mate to Seattle..
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