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VOLUME XX. NUMBER 277.
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10,1925.
PRICE TEN CENTS
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CLASH IN ITALY
BETWEEN MASONS
AND THE FASCISTI
ROME, Oct. 10. (£>)—Grand Master
Torrigiana ordered all Masonic lodges
of Italy to cease meetiug, the order
coming as a sequel to the Fascist
Mason clashes at Florence.
A London Daily Express dispatch
said Fascist reprisals at Florence for
the assassination of Cavilier Luper
V tine, one of the directors of the Fas
cist party, included the killing of anti
Fascists, mostly lawyers and also the
killing of former socialist deputy Pil
ati. Homes were burned, as also
were several famous ships.
Terror ruled the city during the out
burst, the newspaper said.
STORM IN ITALY WASHES
OUT TWO BRIDGES
ROME. Oct. 10. (/P)—A severe storm
here yesterday washed out a bridge
over the Ponsa river, the Calabria
train falling into the river killing 15
persons. Another bridge went just
after a train crossed, and the wrecking
4 engine, hurrying to the scene, fell in
to the stream. The engineer and fire
man were saved.
JURY EMPANELED
YESTERDAY FOR
' W.J.IMLACHCASE
I northwestern fisheries is
FINED $200 ON EACH COUNT
VALLEAR CASE TRANSFERRED
Final Report Premier Coal Mine
Handed In By Receiver.
A jury was empaneled yesterday
in the case of U. S. vs. W. J. Im- j
lach Packing Co.. Olof Jacobsen,
Charles Hansen, the plaintiff charg
ing a nillegal waste of herring. The
.jury for this case is composed of T.
*P. Murphy, Mrs. D. Urbach, Mrs. H.
E. McDaniels, Mrs. E. Stump, M. B.
Malloy, B. M. Stone, Mrs. C. H. Phil
lips, J. P. Hannon, E. E. Chamber
lin, Mrs. B. M. Stone, Charles Carl
son and Albert Palmetter.
During the afternoon the jury was
taken down io the Seward wharf J
where an inspection of herring gear!
was made. The case was resumed
this morning and was continuing up
to the time of going to press.
« In the case of U. S. vs. Northwest
ern Fisheries, in which the court on
Thursday rendered a verdict of guil
ty, was fined yesterday, the sum of
$200 on each count.
The receiver of the Premier Coal
Mine on Moose Creek, Ted Bedell,
filed his report with the court yes
terday afternoon.
The case of U. S. vs. George Val-.
lear of Anchorage, was continued
fepver to the next term of court at An
chorage.
Engwald Jacobsen, was naturalized
last night, becoming a 100 per cent
citizen of the United States of Amer
ica.
CHORUS GIRL AWARDED
SEVENTY-FIVE THOUSAND
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 10. (#>)—
Ruby Adams, a chorus girl yesterday
won a verdict for $75,000, for damages
sustained when a sandbag in the wing
of the stage fell and broke her back.
PLAY BALL TODAY
' WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct 10. (£>)—
Clear, cold weather greeted ball fans
this morning, and it is expected the
third game of the series will be played
today.
LEGION ELECTS NEW
NATIONAL COMMANDER
OMAHA. Oct. 10, (£>)—'The Ameri
can Legion, in final session, has el
ected John R. McQuigg, of East Cleve
land, Ohio, as National Commander
The choice was made unanimous. H
Savage of Illinois and Edward Spaff
ord of New York, w’ere the losing can
didates.
AMUNDSEN CONFIDENT LAND
BETWEEN AMERICA, POLE
NEW YORK, Oct. 10. (£>)—Amund
sen returned on the steamer Mure
tania expressing confidence that land
lies between Alaskan and the North
Pole, which will serve as a proposed
dirigible base. He said he would
start in May in an Italian airship nam
ed Norsk.
NORTHWESTERN
LEAVESSEATTLE
WITH LIGHT LIST
SEATTLE, Oct. 10. (JP)—The steam
ship Northwestern left Seattle at nine
this morning, carrying sixty-five pas
sengers, the following listed for Sew
ard:
J. R. Brayles, Mrs. Nellie Beattie, C.
D. Salkeld, J. A. Wilhoit, M. McNeill,
Helen Junes, Mrs. Hans Junes, Ivor
B. Tucker, R. M. McKern and wife, L.
Larum, Mrs. G. Smith, Rev. T. Gra
ham and wife, J. McEachern, J. Me
Millan, Gus T. Engstrom, Conrad John
son and one steerage.
BASEBALL
COAST LEAGUE—
Portland 0, Sacramento 3.
Seattle 3, Salt Lake 2.
Los Angeles 8, Oakland 2.
San Francisco 2, Vernon 1, twelve in
nings.
WILL TRY TO RESTRAIN *
SENTENCE OF HERESY
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 10. (/P)—Bish
op William Montgomery Brown has
announced today that he will file a
petition in the United States Court to
restrain the Episcopal House Bishops
from imposing tha sentence, following
his conviction for heresy.
Alaska Railroad Among
Feature Numbers In
Prosperity Edition
The Alaska Railroad will be repre
sented in the Prosperity Edition, De
cember 5, in three pages of facts rel
ative to the railroad itself, and to
the immediate railroad belt. Numer
ous special articles are now in course
of preparation, and according to a
long distance telephone conversation
with the railroad headquarters yes
terday, the first of the articles will
be forthcoming by the end of the
week.
Some photographs have already
been received but many more are
being specially prepared, it is re
ported. The steamer Yukon will car
ry a batch of photographs out, from
the Railroad, from which special cuts
will be made for the Presperity Edi
tion.
Shutting Off Water
Tonite At 10 o’CIock
While repair work is under way
the water on Fourth and Fifth streets
including the Harriman bank build
ing, the Seward bank building and
the Hotel Van Gilder, will be shut
off tonight at 10 o’clock, J. Nelson,
manager of thelocal water company’s
plant announced today.
COLD WEATHER
GREETS CROWDS
TODAY'S GAME
GRIFFITHS STADIUM, Wash., Oct.
10. (/P)—The mercury hovered around
forty today, the fans tramping to the
stands for the third game in the World
Series, wearing sweaters and heavy
overcoats.
Bluege, who was beaned Thursday,
suffered a relapse, and will not play
today.
WASHINGTON
TAKES THIRD
GAME SERIES
WASHINGTON, D. C.. Oct. 10. (£>)
—The short score on today’s game was
given as follows: Washington—4-10
-1; Pittsburg 3-8-2.
Thirty-five thousand saw today’s
game, shivering in a frigid gale.
Game Won in Seventh
GRIFFITH STADIUM, Oct. 10. (£>)—
The Washington Senators won with a
batting rally in the seventh inning in
which Joe Harris scored, with the de
ciding tally. Rice was the hero of
the eighth inning, catching with one
hand Smith’s drive, preventing a home
run.
No pitcher ever faced a tougher sit
uation than Marberry did in the ninth.
Alex Ferguson was the winning pit
cher, although he gave way to a pinch
hitter in the seventh.
SESSION PLEDGES HUGE SUM
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 10. (/P)—A
joint session of Episcopalian Bishops
and Deputies yesterday pledged nine
hundred and twelve thousand dollars
toward the elimination of the denom
ination’s deficit of a million an a half.
Bishop Gailor, Tennessee, president of
the national council, reported the work
of the church had advanced along all
lines since the previous triennial con
vention.
BOWDOIN STORM BOUND
MONHEGAN ISLAND, Maine, Oct.
10. (/P)—The Bowdoin, with Peary and
party aboard, which arrived yesterday
from their Arctic expedition is storm
bound here, forty miles from their des
tination. It has been one hundred
and twelve days since their departure
from WTscasset.
AVIATOR MAY BE DEAD
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 10. (JP)
—It has been concluded here that C.
Ames, mail aviator, lost near Belle
fonte, is dead.
C. P. R. STEAMER
GOES ON ROCKS
VICTORIA, Oct. 10. (£>)—'The Can
adian Pacific Steamer Princess Kath
leen struck a rock called “Hospital
Rock” in a dense fog here yesterday
while seeking her way out of the har- j
bor, bound for Seattle. Examinations
for damage prevented the trip. Later
an investigation showed little injury
to the hull.
EIGHT D1E FROM VODKA
MOSCOW, Oct. 10. (£>)—Eight are
dead in this district this week, death
being attributed to the newly legalized
vodka. A movement has been start
ed against the law permitting its sale.
GAS CAUSED EXPLOSION
IN LA CLEDE GAS WORKS
ST. LOUIS. Oct. 10. (/P)—Gas, not
amonia, caused the explosion Thurs
day in the LaClede gas works, killing
four persons, it was learned today.
SOPRANO PURCHASES CAR
TO PROTECT HER JEWELS
NEW YORK, Oct. 10. (/p)—Madam
Frances Alda, soprano, purchased an
armored automobile saying she was
unwilling to run the risk of a holdup
while driving on the streets of New
York with her jewelry.
MOUNTAIN CLIMBER WILL
TRAIN ON MT. RAINIER
TACOMA, Oct. 10. (£>)— Samuel
Turner, of Wellington, New Zealand,
who has reached the summits of the
principal peaks of North and South
America, arrived in Tacoma yester
day to climb Mt. Rainier, for exercise.
He will attempt to climb the hither
to impregnable Mount Everest, the1
highest peak in the world. He has
arranged to poin the English expedi
tion which starts next year from In
dia, to conquer Everest.
FORMERSEATTLE
MAN ARRESTED
SEATTLE, Oct. 10. (£>)—Charles D.
Davis, former manager, was indicted
in New' York City yesterday with the
Anthracite Railroad and President G.
F. Whittle. Davis is a Seattle mining
man and the son of Clark Davis wrho
was a partner of Thomas Lippy of this
city.
Charles was former exalted ruler of
the Seattle Elks, his indictment al
leging gold bonds were sold by him at
seventy-seven and a half ami eighty,
despite prohibition by the Interstate
commerce commission.
Henry Harriman, of Washington, D.
C., wrote Parks and Summers, that
he was pushing a plan to complete the
road. Davis said twenty miles had
been built, the road when completed
linking Controller Bay bituminous coal
deposits with the deposits on Bering
River, thirty-five miles from Control
ler Bay.
Yukon In Port Tonight
The steamer Yukon, according to:
late information departed from Val- j
dez this morning for Seward, at six- j
thirty and should arrive in port be- j
tween 6 and 10 tonight.
BAYCHIMO AT DUTCH HARBOR
PORTLAND. Oct. 10. (/p)—Escaping
the rigors of the Arctic ice, the Bay
chimo put in at Dutch Harbor enroute
to Vancouver, said a message to the
Federal Telegraph Company.
Following the burst of dazzling
lightning, a rarity in this district, at
4 o’clock this morning, a tremendous
thunder clap smote the surrounding
mountains, with such furore that it
seemed as if a mountain had toppled
over. The thunderous boom resound
ed for an interval of about ten sec
onds’ duration.
The steamer Starr of the San Juan
Fishing and Packing Co., was sched
uled to arrive at Unalaska today.
The vessel is due to arrive in Sew
ard from the Westward, October 17.
It will leave shortly after for Seat
tle where the annual ten-day over
hauling will take place.
The water main on Fourth avenue
broke last night resulting in a small
size torrent running down the gutters,
flooding the lower portions of the
street with water and gravel. A
crew of men is engaged in making
the necessary repairs.
Sergeant Stahl, chief clerk in the
quartermaster’s office at Valdez, was
an arrival on the Admiral Watson.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lechner will
return on tonight’s train from Curry,
where they spent their honeymoon.
The steamship Yukon is due to
sail on her southbound trip some
time tomorrow morning.
AMUNDSON TAKE
LARGEPARTYON
TRIP INTO ARCTIC
NEW YORK. Oct. 10. (/P)—Amund
sen said today in an interview with au
Associated Press correspondent that
he will take eighteen scientists to ex
plore and survey the million square
miles lying in the polar regions be
tween Spitzbergen and Alaska.
“We are hoping to reach Alaska in
sixty hours,” said Amundsen, “and if
we are lucky will fly on to Nome. If
not we will walk.”
If the airship arrives safely at Nome
it will be deflated and sent on to the
United States.
Lincoln Ellsworth will be scientific
leader and navigator. The Norwe
gian government will furnish scien
tists. officers and engine crew for the
Italian dirigible “Norge,” which will
fly from Italy via England to Spitz
bergen from where the party will hop
off.
SEATTLE TUGBOAT SUNK
SEATTLE, Oct. 10. (JP)—The tug
Sea Monarch, belonging to the Carey
Davis Company of Seattle, was sunk
in a collision with the French steam
ship Zenon off Port Townsend in a
heavy fog. The Zenon rescued the
tug’s crew.
PUBLIC RECEPTION
LOCAL TEACHERS
FINE AFFAIR
The Seward Woman’s club was
hostess-last evening at a public re
ception, held at Odd Fellows hall, to
the teachers of the local schools, Se
ward, Woodrow and the Jesse Lee
Home. The affair was highly en
joyable to the large attendance pres
ent, and spoke well for the efforts
of the members of the organization,
to make the event the decided suc
cess that it was. The program Vas
well received and proved to be quite
entertaining. The luncheon served,
following the program, consisting
of home-made cake and coffee, was
the climax of a happy evening. •
The affair was opened by Mrs.
Ralph Reed, president of the Wo
man’s Club, who, in a short and well
delivered address, welcomed the
teachers and attendance. The pro
gram was then announced in order
by Mrs. Swetman. The first num
ber was the national song, America,
in which the entire assemble join
ed, accompanied by Miss Eccles at
the piano.
The second number was a delight
ful piano solo, rendered in a capable
manner, by Miss Agnes Anderson;
the third number was a lovely vocal
solo selection by Miss Hoffman, as
sisted at the piano by Miss Eccles;
fourth on the program was a splen
did recitation, Kipling’s “Gift,” by
Mrs. Merrill; the fifth selection was
a clever piano solo by little Eleanor
Krefting; then followed the closing
number, in which all joined in song,
rendering that beautiful melody,
“Loves Old Sweet Song.”
Teachers present from the Seward
schools were the Misses Eccles, Hoff
man, Rousch, Moulton, and Messrs.
Barnet and McEwen. From the
Woodrow school Miss Monagle was
the sole representative. The Jesse
Lee Home staff consisted of the Rev.
R. V. B. Dunlap, supt.; Mrs. Dunlap,
assistant supt.; Anna Irene Gould,
Mrs. Ethel Robbins, Mr. and Mrs,
H. A. Trumbull, Mrs. R. J. Meehan,
Blanche Thornton, R. N.; Pauline F.
Collins and Issabelle M. Knapp.
The Bureau of Fisheries craft, Kit
tiwake, made another run for Thumbs
Cove this morning, beating the storm
in by a scant margin.