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VOLUME 20. NUMBER 4
SEWARD. ALASKA, MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 1925
PRICE TEN CENTS
SEIZURE QUADRA,
BRITISH BOOZE
VESSEL LEGAL
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 5—The
seizure of the British rum ship Quad
ra, by a United States coast guard
cutter, with a $500,000 liquor cargo,
was pronounced legal by the United
States Federal court here today, and
the vessel will be advertised and
sold. Twenty defendants will be tried
for complicity in running the cargo.
The Quadra was seized in November
while laying off San Francisco at
tempting to land her cargo.
ARTIST TAKES GAS ROUTE
NEW YORK, Jan. 5— Carl Lotave,
internationally known portrait paint
er, was found dead in his studio here
Saturday with a tube in his mouth
connected with a gas jet.
PERFORMS ILLEGAL OPERATION
HAS HER LICENSE REVOKED
* WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 5.—The
Supreme Court refused to reinstate
Dr. Annie K. Russell, of Seattle as a
licensed physician in a decision to
day reversing the decision of the
King County Superior Court. Dr.
Russell’s license was revoked by the
State Medical Board following her
conviction of performing an illegal
operation, the nature of which has
Dot been made public.
DEAD FROM MOONSHINE
LOS ANGELES. Jan. 5.—Two men
here were found poisoned by moon
shine during the New Year’s festivi
ties. One of them was found in an
alley, clutching with _ death grip an
empty bottle and in the other a pic
ture of a woman and baby.
VILLA WILL FIGHT SENICO
MANILA, Jan. 5.—Pancho Villa, fly
weight champion of the world, has ac
cepted an invitation to box Young
Senico, fly-weight champion of the
Orient, in Manila, about the end of
January. Senico is a Filipino.
Gerry Wants Permission
To Elevate Ship Guns
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.—Senator
Gerry today introduced a resolution
asking Secretary of State Hughes
whether any foreign power objected
to the elevation of their guns by U.
S. battleships.
ICE BOTHERS IN COLUMBIA
PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 5.—With
the advent of warmer weather it was
hoped that the ice blockade of the
Columbia river would cease, but it
has become worse on account of ice
working down from above. The ice has
stopped shipping above Astoria, and
the passengers on the Rose City had
to proceed to Portland by rail.
GOVERNMENT CAN
CANCELSALESOF
WAR SUPPLIES
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.—The Su
preme court decided that the auction
of surplus war supplies can be set
aside when the government deems a
bid inadequate. It also decided that
tentative valuation of railroads by the
Interstate Commerce Commission is
not subject to review. The courts de
jf, cided the kosher laws of New York
are valid.
A POOR CONCOCTION
VICTORIA, B. C., Jan. 5—British
Columbia legislature unanimously ap
proved of the Minister of Mines
Sloan's resolution in which the Cana
dian government will be asked to
wave to see that all treaties to pre
vent Canada from controlling oriental
immigration be ebrogated. Sloan said
orientals and whites couldn’t mix.
PRESIDENT CALLES APPEALS
TO CITIZENS OF MEXICO
MEXICO CITY, Jan. 5.—President
Calles appealed to the Mexican peo
ple to “have patience, calmness and
faith while I devote my time to re
storing the financial equilibrium and
make Mexico live on her own re
sources. He further stated that he
hoped a balance would be reached in
the first year of his administration of
all financial problems so he could
take up the problem of educating the
Mexican peons.
WORST STORM IN 31 YEARS
HITS COAST OF ENGLAND
LONDON, Jan. 5.—The storm which
swrept the English coast Saturday was
the worst in 31 years. Hundreds of
ships were lost and all roads in the
shires are under water.
SHAKEUP IN POSTOFFICE
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.—The recent
shakeup in the postofTice department
resulted in six postal clerks through
out the country being suspended, the
house postoffice committee clerk re
signing, and the senate postoffice
clerk being discharged as a result of
the payment of money by the men to
influence legislation of the pay bill.
SENTRY FIRES ON
WOMAN AT FORT
ROSECRANS,CAL
SAN DIEGO, Cal., Jan. 5.—Mrs.
Chas. Rockwell was seriously wound
ed when a sentry fired a shot yester
day at Fort Rosecrans, where she was
visiting. Her baby, two years old,
carried in her arms, was unhurt. The
woman and her baby were riding in
automobile driven by George M. Cook,
who slowed down upon entering the
fort’s gate, and received a nod from
the sentry, "which he said he believed
was a signal to proceed.
As the car gained speed Sentry Pri
vate Sterrett fired in their direction
to compel them to halt. The bullet,
he said must have glanced into the
auto while it was 150 feet distant. He
was arrested and is being held for
court martial.
ANOTHER BILL INTRODUCED
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 5.—
Congress has been asked in a bill
introduced to appropriate forty mill
ion dollars under a ten-year program
for the purchase of forest lands and
for forest conservation. The program
contemplates the purchase of about
eight million acres, principally in
eastern and Great Lakes regions.
RADIO HITS THEATRES
NEW YORK, Jan. 5.—The theatres
of this city are alarmed over the in
roads of radio on their patronage, the
first nights showing a decided slump
while people remain home and listen
in to cabaret performances.
SEVENTY MILE GALE
GLASGOW, Jan. 5.—A seventy mile
gale hits the Scottish coast Saturday
doing immense damage. A blizzard
of snow accompanied it.
WILL KEEP NAVAL STRENGTH
WASHINGTON, D. ., Jan. 5.—The
House approved of the provisions of
the Navy appropriations bill for the
maintenance of the Navy at its pres
ent strength, of eighty-six thousand
men, including officers.
SECOND CLASS MAIL MAY
BE ADVANCED SHARPLY
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.— Editors
here prophesy a sharp advance in the
postage on second class mails.
U. S. SHOULD INSIST ON
FULL FRENCH REPARATION
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 5.—
Treasury department officials predict
that this government, like that of Gt.
Britain, would insist on equal treat
ment in any settlement of the French
debt.
ALASKAN GAME
COMMISSION TO
BE CREATED
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 5.—
The House today passed the bill au
thorizing the creation of an Alaskan
Game Committee to handle the game
question in the Territory. It is said
the members of the commission will
be Outsiders instead of Alaskans.
MARTIN WILL RISK TITLE
IN MILL WITH TOM MURRAY
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NEW YORK, Jan. 5.—Martin, the
world’s bantamweight champion, will
risk his title for the first time January
12, when he meets Tommy Murray of
Philadelphia. Tommy Gibbons chal
lenged Gene Tunney today for a title
match which was sanctioned by the
New York State Athletic Commission.
Tunney is now ill but has been order
ed to accept the match at the earliest
possible date.
LOOKS FOR BIG BUSINESS
James L. Galen, president of the
Richardson Highway Transportation
Company who has been in the East
and is now in California, writes Cor
dova friends that the outlook for big
travel to Alaska next summer is most
encouraging. He saw the football be
tween Notre Dame and Stanford on
New Year’s Day.
NEGRO GETS HIS WHERE
CHICKEN GETS THE A-X-E
CHARLSTON, Mo., Jan. 5—A fu
rious mob of more than two hundred
men overpowered the sheriff here
and dragged a 20-year-old negro, who
had been identified as the man whe
had attempted to attack a white girl,
across the court yard and hanged him
to a tree within fifty feet of the sher
iff’s office. The body -was later cut
down and burned.
WATSON MUST STAND
TRIAL FOR ROBBERY
SEAJTLE, Jan. 5— Judge Gilliam
Saturday refused to admit Ross C.
Watson, Seattle police officer arrest
ed for complicity in the robbery of
the Royal Canadian Bank at Nanaimo
B. C., to secure bail of any kind,
pending a hearing on whether he
should be extradited to stand trial for
the robbery, the judge ruling that to
do so would violate our treaty with
Canada.
Watson will be taken to Canada to
stand trial.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY RADIO
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 5.—Photo
graphs of the Stanford-Notre Dame
football game were flashed to Chicago
and New York by the Transcontinen
tal Telegraph Picture corporation, us
ing the telephix, an instrument per
fected for the transmitting of pictures
by wire.
PRESIDENT RECEIVES 4,000 .
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5—Four thou
sand persons were received by Pres
ident and Mrs. Coolidge at the annual
White House reception New Year’s
Day.
Italian Government
Dissolves Committee
ROME, Jan. 6.—The government
has ordered the dissolution of the Cen
tral Committee of the Italian Liberal
Association and its branches in all
provinces. The measure was execut
ed today without incident. Mussolini
announced Saturday that the measure
was adopted for overcoming opposi
tion to the Fascist! administration.
FEDERAL JUDGE RESIGNS
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.—Chief Jus
tice Taft today announced to Con
gress that Federal Judge Harrison
had resigned. He was appointed by
Wm. McKinmley.
COOLIDGE INAUGURATION BE
SAME AS THAT OF HARDING
WASHINGTON, Jail. 5—It was de
cided today at a conference at the
White House that the inauguration of
President Coolidge on March 4 would
be similar to that of the late Presi
dent Harding.
DAMAGE TO TELEPHONES
CHICAGO, Jan. 5.—The Illinois Bell
Telephone Company estimated damage
jdone to their system by the storms
I of the past week at two million dol
1 lars. Two more deaths were reported
| today from freezing.
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KING'S RESOLUTION TARRIES
WASHINGTON, D. ., Jan. 5.—Ac
tion on Senator King’s resolution for
navy investigation has been postpon
ed idefinitely by the Senate Naval
Committee.
OIL BOARD APPOINTED
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 5.—
President Coolidge has appointed an
oil conservation board consisting of
secretaries of war, navy and interior
and commerce to study the govern
ment’s responsibility in conservation
and to seek cooperation of the oil
industry to that end.
HUGHES REPLIES
TO BRITAIN ON
PAYMENT DEBT
LONDON, Jan. 5.—Secretary of
the United States Hughes, replying to
the British note regarding the appor
tionment of the reparations settlement
for war damage claims, was present
ed to the cabinet by Foreign Secre
tary Chamberlain, who is understood
to have requested Great Britain to ex
amine the compromise which James
A. Logan gave Leith Ross of the Brit
ish Treasury some days ago.
It was said this proposal suggested
payment of the American occupation
costs and that damage claims be ex-^
tended much beyond twelve years,
; provided the Wadsworth agreement
I that half the sum be paid in Reisch
! marks in Germany does not effect the
| exchange.
WILL FIGHT CHICKEN DISEASES
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 5.—
Congress has appropriated one hund
red thousand dollars to finance the
fight against the outbreak of poultry
diseases. With the money in hand,
the department of agriculture will de
termine the infected areas and de
clare quarantine at once.
EDITOR GETS 6 MONTHS
OVER IN GERMANY
LONDON, Jan. 5.—President Ebert
of Germany won a verdict in his suit
for libel against editor R. O. Thardi
of the Mittel Reutsche Zeitung, ac
cording to an agency dispatch. The
editor has been sentenced to serve
six months imprisonment.
LOOKING FOR MORE TROUBLE
JOHNSON IS RIGHT FOR ONCE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 5.—The
resolution proposing a conference of
the “White” nations bordering the
Pacific Ocean, was introduced by
Representative Brittain of Illinois,
over the protests of a number of his
colleagues, including some Western
membres. Johnson declared the ac
tion “was untimely and ill-advised.”
MANY UNEMPLOYED AND
HOMELESS IN NEW YORK
NEW YORK, Jan. 5.—Sixty thou
sand are homeless and thirty thousand
are unemployed in New York City, ac
cording to estimates of the Y. M. C. A.
CHICAGO LOSES SANITARY
DISTRICT CASE IN COURT
CHICAGO, Jan. 5.—Chicago lost her
fight in the United States supreme
court to turn her sewage into the
Illinois river by way of the canal.
FRANCE WANTS
EIGHTY YEARS
TO PAY DEBTS
WASHINGTON, Jun. 5.—Secretary
Mellon said he sad received memo
randum which confirmed the press
reports that France desired eighty
years in which to pay her war debts
and a ten years moratorium to pay the
§4,000,000,000 owed.
No comment was made by the Sec
retary as to what action would be tak
en by the United States in its reply
to the request.
The Cleinentel memorandum is un
derstood to refer to the plan of in
cluding the moratorium with the pay
ment over eight years from the time
the moratorium expires, and the pay
ment of interest during the life of
the moratorium at one half of one
per cent.
BOSTON AND MAINE R. R. MAY
BE FORCED TO SHORTEN LINE
BOSTON. Jan. 5.—Recommendation
that the Boston-Maine railroad dis
continue approximately one thousand
miles of road because of motor traf
fic competition, was made by Homer
Loring, chairman of the board’s ex
ecutive committee.
GET ABOUT $180,000, LOOT
VALLEY VIEW, Tex., Jan. 5.—A
band of robbers who looted the First
National banks here and also the
First Guaranty Bank, are believed to
have obtained more than §180,000.
NAVAL BILL PAbStS HUUSfc
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 5.—
The Naval Appropriation Bill, carry
ing nearly three hundred millions
dollars passed the Housv today. The
Bill provides for the maintenance of
the present 86,000 enlisted personnel
and for a slight increase in official
personnel. The Marine Corps strength
would be reduced from its present
strength of 19,500 to 18,000 men.
$500,000 Gambled In One
Night By German Prince
BERLIN, Jan. 5.—Investigating the
charges that the Prussian State bank
had been mismanaged, recently dis
closed a record loan of $500,000 which
it is said King Edward won in one
night of wild gambling from his son
Prince Radzwill. The loan was made
'about 1895.
TYPHOON SWEEPS PHILIPPINES
MANILA, Jan. 5.—A typhoon which
swept over the Philippines during the
past two days forced Governor Gen
eral Wood in his yacht to take refuge
in Malampaya Sound.
C00LIDGETALKS
ON FARM PRICES
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.—President
Coolidge told the annual convention of
National Council of Farmers’ Co-op
erative Marketing Associatioons, that
co-operative marketing can be made
a success in America, because she
provides the best means of stimulat
ing agricultural markets. He warned
his hearers that it would not be thei
panacea thought for, referring to the
supposition that Americans had not
the genius for co-operation and said:
“People who iindulge in this kind of
oof nonsense invariably assume that
co-operation is new and a compara
tively untried formula. It proves they
have not caught the idea. They have
completely missed the forest because
of so many trees growing about. They
have overlooked the fact that all hu
man endeavoor is a vast co-operative
society.”
POPE DOESN’T LIKE SOVIET
ROME, Jan. 5.—Strong condemna
tion of the Russian Soviet govern
ment was voiced by Pope Pius for
the second time, in his allocution
delivered at a secret consistory.