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VOLUME XLX, NUMBER 196
SEWARI), ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1924
PRICE TEN CENTS
ARGENTINE WORLD FLYER
MEETS WITH ACCIDENT
WHILE STARTING FLIGHT
HAXDI, French Indo China, Aug.
20.—Major Pedro Zanni, Argentina
round the world flyer, met with an
accident today while attempting a
take-off on hid way to Canton, when
his plane overturned. The flyer es
caped uninjured but his plane was to
tally wrecked. He will remain here
until\another plane can be shipped
him.
HAXDI, Aug. 20.—Major Zanni
decided to carry on despite his ill
fortune which befell today when his
plane was wreeled by turning over
as lv%-attempted to take-off for Can
ton. Altho confined to his bed yes
terday with a fever, Zanni planned
the flight, and has ordered a relief
plane sent him from Yokohama. The
new machine will be a hydroplane,
so he will start from Haipong when
it arrives in about three weeks time.
Ame.'jjcan warships have offered
;heir services in hastening the arriv
il of the new machine and it may be
wrought over on the deck of a cruis
?r.
FORD, EDISON AND
FIRESTONE VISIT WITH
PRESIDENT COOLIDGE
PLYMOUTH, Vt., Aug. 20.—Pres
cient Coolidge was the host at his
ather’s home today to three fellow
•acationists, Ford, Edison and Fire
tone. Word was received early last
light that the party would arrive by
notor, and the President sent a re
tuest for them to visit him.
ierMan university has
FIRST SOCIALIST PREXY
HAMBURG, Aug. 20.—Rudolf F.
Laun, professor of jurisprudence
t the University of Hamburg, has
een elected president of the institu
ion and thus becomes the first So
ialist An Germany to be head of a
niversity.
Professor Laun was born in Prague
1 1882, the son of an Austro-Hun
arian nobleman and soldier, Anton
on Lima. He is a member of the
aternational Law* association and of
ie League of Nations association.
IICH STRIKE MADE
IN ESTER DISTRICT
Gold bearing ore running $250 to
ie ton has been struck on Ester
-eek, in the Fairbanks district, ac
jrding to Charles Benson, who re
amed this week from Fairbanks,
[essrs. Henderson, Thomas and
mith are in the pay, and indications
aint to a large ore body.
LORIDA PLANS BAN ON
ANY INHERITANCE LEVIES
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Aug. 6.—A
roposal to amend the state con
itution so as to provide that no in
stance tax or income tax shall
rcr be levied by Florida will be
>ted upon by the people of this
ate in the general election next
dl.
The proposal was submitted to the
>tels in a resolution adopted by the
st session of the legislature, in
>20. Under the pr .visions of the
•oposed*amendment heads of i'anv
}S would, should ii he adopted, be
:empt from taxation on household
,ods(and personal effects to the
due of $500.
TODAY’S COURT NOTES
Several naturalization cases came
* this morning. D- George Collins,
ir Uohanssen and John Colbert,
»re given citizenship papers.
Johannes -Andreas Beck was grant
a divorce from Bessie Marie
;ck.
In the case of S. M. Graff vs. the
>wn of Seward the court granted
s plaintiff a temporary injunction
chaining the town officials from
.eifering with Mr. Graff in the op-;
ation of the local light plant. A. J
mond appeared for Mr. Graff and
torneys Ray and Rucker for de
ldants. A bond of $5000 was post
In the matter o fthe dissolution of
j Seward Arctic Brotherhood, an
sociation, dissolution was granted.
hTe court will be occupied in the
ibbard case the remainder of the
y and probably tomorrow.
BOY, 9, DRAGGED BY
HORSE, NEAR DEATH
YAKIMA, Wash., Aug. 20.—Un
conscious for forty-eight hours after
being dragged by a horse the other
day at his ranch home in the East
Selah district. Edward Burton, aged
nine, today had slender chances for
life. The boy, a son of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Burton, became frightened
while riding and attempted to jump
to the ground. His foot caught in
the stirrup. It was believed his skull
was fractured.
FRENCH START LEAVING
BADEN TOWNS IN RUHR
PARIS, Aug. 20-—The evacuation
began last night in the Baden towns
of Offenberg and Appenweir, and
was completed quickly without inci
dent, the departure of the French
troops being witnessed by a large
crowd of German citizens who had
gathered from all parts of the Ruhr.
The French cabinet today approved
of the work of the French repara
tions commission at the Internation
al conference in London, and chunked
it for important results attained for
France.
It was decided that evacuation of
other towns would be started at
once, despite the French decision to
await the first payment of the in
demnity .
FIRE BUG CONFESSES
TO PORTLAND POLICE
PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 20.—Fire
of incendiary origin early today de
stroyed the old Chapman school, and
causing a loss of $15,000 and six
hours later John Hardy, 40, a sheep
herder, walked into police headquar
ters and declared that he had set the
school on fire. Hardy also confessed
that he had set two houses afire
withjn the last three days.
Hardy said that he had an uncon
trolable mania for setting fires just
to watch them burn.
AMERICAN FLYERS TIED
UP AT ICELAND PORT
REYKJAVIK, Iceland, Aug. 20.—
The American round the world fly
ers will be unable to leave Iceland
for at least three days it is said ow
jing to ice conditions, which are the
worst know'n.
HIGH COST OF LIVING UP
FROM 1 TO 3 PER CENT.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 20.—
The retail cost of food in fourteen
and nineteen cities in which surveys
have just been completed by the la
bor department, increased from 1 to
3 per cent last month.
The department’s bureau of labor
statistics announced today that a 3
per cent increase was quoted in Bos
ton and Indianapolis, 2 per cent in
Dallas, Milwaukee, Portland, Ore.,
I and Providence, R -I.; 1 per cent in
| Birmingham, Denver, New Haven,
| Conn., Peoria ,111., and Scranton, Pa.
Five cities showed decreases of from
3 to less than 1 per cent.
.
ADM. EVANS TO ALITAIv
hTe steamship Admiral Evans will
go as far west as Alitak, where she
will load canned salmon, returning to
Seward Tuesday, leaving at nine o’
clock after the arrival of the train.
JAMES M. COX
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COPYRIGHT KEYSTONE VIEW CO. NEW YORK
U. OF P. LAUNCHES NEW SHELL
Dr. Josiah M. Penniman, Provost of the University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, Penn., is here seen christening a new crew shell with a
glass oi water from the Schuylkill River nearby. The event was made one
of ceremonious import, and the crews expect to sweep aside all competi
tion this year.
ADMIRAL EVANS HERE
ON WAY TO WESTWARD
The steamship A<lmiral Evans ar
rived in port yesterday afternoon on
her way to westward ports, having a
large shipment of cement and other
freight for Seward. He passengers
for Seward were:
Jane Williamson, J. B. Sterling,
Thos. Hoover, Helen Hough, Myra
Armbuster, E. Fulkerson, M .M. Hap
wood. Dan Suthcgland, Mrs. Chas.
Hoover, Mrs. J. B. Sterling, Mary E.
i Stanley, Miss E. H. Middleton, Mrs.
A. P. Anderson, F. Murphy, C. W.
; Hawkins, Frank Foster, J. C. Col
j lins, Miss J). B. Chase, Judge E. E.
Ritchie and 3 steerage.
| For Seldovia—Burrell Foster, Mrs.
Addonia Foster, Mrs. T. Millett, Mrs.
E. C. Swann and infant, J. P. Hoov
er, Miss Jean Mitchell, Mrs. F. Mit
chell, Marian Clark, Mrs. A. Clark,
Oscar Ecickson and 1 steerage.
Fr Anchorage—J .H .Brown and
| Mrs. Brown, Latham True and wife,
; Miss Perci Hurst ,Matilda Murphy,
i Miss Bathia Ross, Joseph Walker, H.
j Emde, Ralph Day, Mrs. Mayo Smith,
Lady Woolseley, Mrs. E. S. Shader,
Mrs. M. L. Hamilton, Inez Underhill,
G. P. Hurst, Mrs. Minnie L. Eba, F.
! P. Metzger and wife, Isabel Howard,
Esther Howard, Elnora B. Day, Miss
; Cora E. Ayer, Alice Conlon ,L. K.
i Church and wife, R. V. Jewett, Rob
ert Easley, Geo. Gibbons, G. H. Om
ohundro and wife, Miss Nan Peter
son, C. Emde, L. Emde.
For Kodiak—A. S. McDonald, Al
bert Lucas, Leslie H. Warfield, Mar
tin Carroll, Edward Ryan, T. Smith,
Howard Ferris, Mrs. F. H. Foster,
Frank Foster ,jr., Marian Foster, A.
| Mattson ,Dorothy C. Kelsey, J. R.
Delveldahl, Clarence Hood, Miss M.
; Norma, Miss I. Oldberg, Miss Anna
Manual, Mrs. A. I. Bernard, Mrs. E.
Jaeger, rs. L. Dahl, Mrs. A. Myseth,
| Miss E. Augland, Miss A. Augland,
; rs. S. Sanvik ,Hilma Heaga, Mrs. J.
| Salater, Mr. S. S. Lee, Otto Slater,
For Alitak—Mrs. Alys Tyson and
j Mrs. Agnes R. Whitford.
BAD INDIAN KILLED BY
NATIVE AT LAKE TETLIN
Dawson Luke ,a bad Indian, in
other words a muy malo hombre, was
wiped out recently at Lake Tetlin,
in the Fourth division. Luke had
caused a reign of terror for several
days, running amuck with a high
power rifle. Little Old John, or Lat
Tetlin, as he is better known remov
ed the menace to the tribe by pump
ing Luke full of lead as he was at
tempting to kill chief Luke. Lat
Tetlin was tried by the tribe and ac
quitted, but the chief felt that white
man’s law- should rule so sent word
to Marshal Stevens at Fairbanks. The
officials investigated the shooting
and recommended a medal for Tet
lin.
At the regular meeting of the An
chorage Pioneers recently ,a resolu
tion wras passed by the Igloo petition
ing congress to declare exempt from
federal taxation, gold mining. It is
the belief of this organization that
the lifting of the federal tax upon
gold mining will attract capital and
prospectors and that much more of
the claims now discovered will be
worked, and much more of the un
known pans of Alaska prospected.
It is the belief that such action would
result in the discovery of many
strikes in Alaska.
DELEGATE SUTHERLAND
ARRIVES ON AD. EVANS
Delegate Dan A. Sutherland arriv
ed from Washington on the Admiral
Evans ,and left on the same boat for
Kodiak, Abtak, and other ports. Mr.
Sutherland will visit the interior and
returning to Seward, spend several
days here. The Delegate had little
to say regarding the Territorial com
mitteeman controversy other than
that the voters had elected John
Frame and he should be named for
the -place. Speaking of railroad con
ditions h-* stated that the squabbles
and charges arising from Anchorage
were hurling the railroad bad'y and
would ultimately result in great harm
to the entire district unless the
senseless charges against the man
agement ceased. He declarel that
many congressmen were against the
government owning therailroad and
it might be thrown into private
hands in case the quarrels weie kept
up- Mr. Sutherland paid Manager
Lee II. Landis a compliment over the
showing made in reducing expenses
and stated that in his opinion it was
a good advertisement for Alaska, as
the road must pay or quit running.
He declared that it was hard to get
appropriations for Alaska, even with
the entire support of the people and
with continual bickering and quarel
ing over minor matters a feeling of
disgust was engendered.
Tiie Delegate was also more liber
al, in his views regarding the fish
eries, believing that more elastic rul
ings would hel-p the industry, which
is the chief and main one of the
country to the westward. He will in
vestigate conditions and sentiment in
the towns visited, and will be better
able to express an opinion upon his
return.
FUNERAL OF MRS. LECHNER
AT THE MORTUARY CHAPEL
The funeral of Mrs. Charles Lech
ner, who died suddenly yesterday
morning, was held yesterday at one
o’clock at the Mortuary Chapel, un
der the auspices of the Eastern Star,
E. L. Sw'eek reading the simple and
touching service to the dead pre
scribed by the ritual . Mrs. Spauld
ing sang “Nearer, My God, to Thee,”
after which the audience joined in an
appropriate hymn. The floral trib
utes \vere banked about the casket
in great masses speaking eloquently
of the great esteem in which the de
ceased was held by our citizens. Fol -
lowing the exercises the body was
sealed in the casket and taken to the
boat for shipment Outside. Chas.
Lechner, the bereaved husband, ac
companied the remains to Seattle
where they will be interred.
REDONDO HAS BIG CARGO
FOR WESTWARD POINTS
The steamship Redondo sailed for
westward ports last night loaded to
the plimsoll line with freight and the
following passengers:
For Seldovia—B. O’Brien, M. Mich
elson, Lars News, A. Hendricksen,
Charles Hamenbacher, A. Brisman,
R. E. Mclver, Miss L. B. Wilson, Ed.
Guston ,H. H- Murray, C. F. Demert,
J. J. Chisholm and Wm. Anchoir.
For Kodiak—Jennie Forsen.
For Anchorage—0. E. Rosselli.
MASON NOTICE
Stated meeting tonight. Work in
3rd degree. Visiting Brothers In
vited.
CAL BROSIUS, Sec’y.
CGRKERY OF SPOKANE
FILES AS CANDIDATE
OLYMPIA, Wn, Aug. 20.—Thom
as Corkery of Spokane, filed today
with the secretary of state as a
candidate for the house of represen
tatives from the Fifth district .sub
ject to the republican primaries.
Other filings today include Knute
Hill, Prosser ,as candidate for con
gress from the Fourth district on
the farmer-labor ticket, and Lura
S. Bouch, of Sedro-Woolley, for state j
superintendent of public instruction,
also on the farmer-labor ticket.
FIRPO’S LAWYERS WIN
FIRST ROUND IN FIGHT
NEW YORK, Aug. 20.—Luis Fir
po, the Argentine heavyweight won
the first round in his legal battle here
this afternoon, when the pugilist,
thru his lawyer, Hyman Bushel, ob
tained a postponement of the hearing
in the perjury case brought against
Firpo. The case was continued un
til September 20, which is nine days
after the date on which Firpo is
sceduled to fight Wills. Firpo ap- j
geared in person to answrer to the
charge of perjury, preferred by Can
on Chase.
RHINE TOWN WINE SAID
TO BE 1,700 YEARS OLD
SPEYER, Bavarian Palatinate,
Aug. 20.—This little town on the
Rhine is the proud possessor of
what experts maintain is the oldest
wine in the world. The wine, ac
cording to Hans Runge, a specialist
in antique, was unearthed near here
among Roman ruins some 1,700
years ago and has been kept in a
museum here ever since.
The department of the Speyer mu
seum devoted to old wines also has
tools for trimming grape vines, wine
, glasses, wine presses and other ar
| tides used for wine making by the
i Romans in the third century, all be
; ing in a splendid state of preserva
1 tion.
CANADIAN BANK CLERK
UP FORGING DRAFTS
SEATTLE, Aug. 20.—Edward Mur
ray, clerk in the collecting depart
ment of the Canadian Bank of Com
merce of Seattle, was arrested to
day on a charge of forging drafts to
the amount of $500.
NOBILITY VISITS SEWARD
; Lady Woolseley, a well known
globe trotter, was a through passen
ger for the westward on the Admiral
Evans, touring Alaska. The distin
guished visitor has visited every civ
ilized country on the face of the
globe and is now making her first
tour of Alaska. She will visit the
Orient following her return to the
States.
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ONOERWOOO * UNOERWOOO.
BRYAN’S CHOICE ELECTED
MODERATOR
Rev. Dr. Clarence E. McCartney,
pastor of the Arch Street Church of
Philadelphia and long a leader of
the conservative element in the
church who has just been elected
Moderator of the Presbyterian Gen
eral Assembly. Rev. Pr. McCartney
was nominated by William Jennings
Bryan and was elected by 464 votes
to 446 cast for Prof. Chas. R. Erd
man, of Princeton Seminary, a mod
erate Fundamentalist.
GRAND JURY RETURNS
CHARGE OF MURDER
AGAINST KID M’COY
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 20.—A coun
ty grand jury late today handed down
an indictment against Kid McCoy,
charging him with the murder of
Mrs. Moels. Another count charges
assault and robbery in connection
with McCoy’s hold-up of the West
Seventh street antique shop, Wednes
day. While this hold-up was in pro
gress McCoy s’l >t and seriously
wounded W. G. Ross, an eastern mil
lionaire, a customer of the place, and
the proprietor and his wife, Mr. and
Mrs. Schaupp, all of whom are re
covering in a local hospital.
THREE HUNDRED TRIBESMEN
KILLED BY BRITISH TROOPS
LONDON, Aug. 20.—Three hund
red Waharis tribesmen were killed
when they were attacked by British
troops in the trans-Jordania, and dri
ven from towns they had occupied, a
dispatch states from Jeddah tonight.
YUKON PASSENGER LIST
SHOWS NO DIMUNITION
IN TRAVEL THIS FALL
The passenger list of the steamship
Yukon, Captain Glass.-oek, sh ws no
d’monition in travel so far thi.-, fall,
many roundtrippcrs swelling th? list,
and taking all available space. Those
leaving on yesterday's boats ,ve-e.
For Latouche—W. J. Imlach, Matt
Baker, Jack Smith, L. Haggerty, H.
Fils, Phill.p Webb and Chas. Match
For Cordova—Joe Linke, Isaac
Love, M. G .Miller, Ruth Barker,
Berdina Ward, Fay MacDonald, Mike
Brokovich, Lynn M.Franks, Sam
Stone.
For Juneau—Jas. Srudard, Wnr. E.
Britt ,Sam Shttcklin, E. Thiossen an 1
Mrs. Maude Fender.
For Ketch kan—Richard Wakelin,
Wm. Law ley, Harry Sandoin, Mrs. L.
L. Girard.
Local persons for Seattle—Mrs. O.
A. Johansen, Mrs. George Doncber
ger, Gus Borgen, Chas. Leehner Mrs.
M. V. Nicholich, Thomas Seminich, J.
Richards.
One hundred and twenty interior
passengers and round trippers com
prised the remainder of the list.
HUNTING PARTY ARRIVES
FROM PENNSYLVANIA
A hunting party composed of John
B. Sterling, Mrs. John B. Sterling,
M. M. Hopewood, Mrs. Charies V.
Hoover and son ,all of Keystone, Pa.,
came in on the Admiral Evans, and
will leave Friday for lower Kenai
and the Skilak lake districts, guided
by Henry Lucas and George Nelson,
the well known guides of the lower
lake. The ladies will remain in Se
ward while the men hunt, and the
party will return by way of Los An:
geles, and from there over the Santa
Fe through the Grand Canyon.
BOSTON, Aug. 20.—A suit asking
damages of $100,000,000 was filed by
Conrad W- Crooker today on behalf
of E. F. Brown of Ipswich, against
the New York, New Haven & Hart
ford and Boston & Maine railroads,
the Boston Railroad Holding compa
ny, the estates of the late J. P. Mor
gan, William Rockefeller and a score
or others.
It is contended that these damages
hace resulted from the New Haven
road’s parr in the control of the Bos
ton & Maine . Brown is chairman of
the Boston & Maine railroad stock
holders’ protective committee.
Mrs. George Hutchinson, wife of
President Hutchinson of the First
National Bank of Fairbanks, was an
outgoing -passenger on the Yukon en
route to Michigan to spend the win
ter with relatives. Mr. Hutchinson
will join her later.
Miss Yteve Eames, field represen
tative of the Red Cross, arrived in
Seward from Anchorage Saturday,
returning to Fairbanks on Monday’s
train.
John B. Talbert geological survey
or, left for tie States on the Yukon
after oomph ting his summer's work
near Fairbanks.
Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Whbur of
Fairbanks, left on one of the late
boats for the States. Mr. Wilbur
recently sold his sheet metal wo-ks
in Fairbanks.