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VOLUME XIX
NUMBER 32
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6,1924
PRICE TEN CENTS
TOOK PRESIDENCY
HAD BRIGHT’S DISEASE, RETINAL
HEMORRHAGE AND CLOT
IN ARTERIES
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.—It was au
thoritatively disclosed today that ex
President Woodrow Wilson entered
the White House with a well develop
ed start towards Bright’s Disease, that
a retinal hemorrhage, which came on
while at Princeton hadt destroy
ed the sight of one eye. and that years
before he had sustained a blood clot
in one of his arteries in a leg_ and that
a blood clot on the brain was the
cause of his first illness ou a tour ot
the West.
Be Interred At Washington
RICHMOND, Va., Feb. 6.—John R.
Bolling, a brother to Mrs. \\ oodrow
Wilson, wired the Virginia legislatuie
today that Mrs. Wilson felt that
Washington should be the last rest
ing place of the former president. The
message was iu it-p*.' «•« a
the legislature that Mr. Wilson be bu
ried in Richmond.
NATIONALIST LEADER
MUST SERVE SENTENCE
BOMBAY, B. I., Feb. 6.—Physicians
report that a six months’ residence at
the seaside will restore the health of
Gandhi. fhe Nationalist leader, who
has served four of a six years prison
term for sedition. He was released
bv the British authorities uncondition
ally.
HIGH COST PRODUCTION
CAUSE OF GOLD DECLINE
SEATTLE Feb. 6.—Charles D. Gar
field and others, testified today at the
hearing in progress before Fletcher
Hamilton for the Senate committee on
mining, that the high cost of gold and
silver production is the cause of the
deeiine in mining in Alaska.
SEATTLE WILL PADLOCK
ILLEGALLY PARKED CARS
SEAATLE. Feb. 5.—Beattie was in
the marker today for BOO locks with
which policemen are to tag automo
biles wrongly parked along the eitv’s
streets Motorists have gotten into
the habit of paying no attention to
notices placed in their cars demand
ing their appearance in court. Bo the
^ citty council finance committee yes
terday approved a proposal to bu?
locks that will show prominently or
machines and that can be removec
only at police headquarters.
DAKOTA BANKS SAVED
IN FINANCIAL CRISIS
SIOUX FALLS, S. D„ Feb. 6.—Thf
ic-uc:icLi icsn vr tamr tu me leoeue ui
South Dakota banks last night in the
» financial crisis brought on by several
bank failures.
A total of $320 000 in federal res
erve funds was brought here by Harry
I. Ziemer. from the Ninth district
bank at Minneapolis.
Local bankers said the situation had
cleared materially, despite the closing
of a small bank at Renner, S. D., yes
terday.
MAIL ORDER LIQUOR
SCHEME IS ALEGED
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PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 6.—A special
federal grand jury was empaneled in
this city today on orders from Wash*
ington to investigate what is declar
ed to be a mail order bootleg scheme
of nation-wide scope.
WOMAN DOG TEAM
DRIVER IS MISSING
PLATTSBURG, N. Y„ Feb. 6 —
Somewhere along a mountain trail be
tween Elizabethton and Plattsburg,
“Whistling Lyd” Hutchinson of Ash
ton, Idaho, woman dog team driver is
believed to have made camp and is
v awaiting more favorable weather con
* ditions before continuing her trip to
Montreal.
Some alarm was felt here when
the team did not arrive in this city
this morning, but was dispelled by
statements that Miss Hutchinson is
an experienced “woodsman” and car
ried sufficient provisions for the trip.
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NEW YORK STUDENT
WINNER PEACE PRIZE
AWARDED BY ED. BOK
PHILADELPHIA. Feb. 6— Charles
Herbert Levermore, a New York stu -
dent of International Relations, and
former college professor was announc
ed the winner of the $100,000 prize
offered by Edward Bok for the best
plan to preserve peace among the na
tions of the world.
COOLIDGE DEFINES PLAN
TO ASSIST THE FARMERS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.—President
Coolidge in an address at the opening
of the special conference on North
and Middle West agricultural outlined
a definite proposal for the government
to assist wheat farmers.
HEARST CONFERS WITH
PRESIDENT COOLIDGE
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6—On invita
lion, Wm. R. Hearst talked an houi
with President Coolidge today. Ht
called on Secretary Mellon later ant
; then conferred with Senator Reed.
OE LS HUERTA FLEES
POST IT MM
MEXICO CITY, Feb. 6—Adolfo D<
La Huerta head of the Mexican rebel
'ion has fled by sea from Vera Cruz
his headquarters, according to a mes
sage received from the war office t<
President Obregon at the front.
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FORTY MINERS PERISH
WHEN MINE FLOODEI
CROSBY Minn., Feb. 6—Forty min
ers perished when the bottom fell ou
of a small pond and flooded the work
ings of the Milford Iron mine las
night.
TODAY’S FISH PRICES
JUNEAU, Feb. 6—Halibut fourteei
and nine.
DAUGHERTY TO RETURN
FROM FLA. SATURDAY
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 6
Following a call on President Coolidg
Warren F. Martin, confidential sec-re
tarv to Attorney General Daughertj
announced Daugherty would retur
from Florida Saturday.
DEATH PENALTY IMPOSED
FOR MURDER OF WOMAI
GOLDEN Colo.. Feb. 5.—Arthur l
Mitchell, convicted slayer of Mr:
Georgia Bryan, wife of the assistar
Denver dry chief was sentenced t
; hang on May 25th when the judge d<
nied a motion for a retrial.
“FLYING COP" MAKES RECORD
NEW YORK, Feb. 5.—Robert Mi
Allister, the “Flying Cop,” establisl
ed a world’s record in eleven seconds
flat for the hundred meters indoors
in the first event of that distance evei
held on a board tracn.
TWO DEATHS DETROIT
j CHICAGO, Feb. 5.—Two deaths al
ready have been reported from De
troit for the severe cold wave whicl
is gripping the middle west and three
deaths from Columbus, Ohio. Traffic
’ is demoralized in all big cities ant
much suffering from fires.
SEATTLE SALESMAN IS
WOUNDED AND ROBBED
SEATTLE, Feb. 6.—L. H. RowerS
an insurance salesman of this city
who stopped to repair his automobile
on his way home late last night, was
in a hospital today with a bullet hole
in his thigh. Havinfe yielded $40 tc
a bandit who approached as Bowers
leaned at his task, the salesman thol
the transaction was concluded and lei
his hands fall. The bandit shot ant
ran with the $’0.
BOXER’S K'SS FORBIDDEN
PARIS Feb. 6.—The boxer’s kiss
has been forbidden. For some time il
has been the fashion for two fighters
to exchange kisses—one on eaco
cheek—at the conclusion of a ring
battle, but the French Boxing federa
tion has decided that for hygienic rea
sons the practice must go and has
issued an official decree ordering its
abolition.
TAKE DOWN FLAG
HI OFFICE OF
I
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.—The police
\ today removed the American flag
! from above the door of the German
embassy office where it had been
! nailed by a crowd of German citi
zens. After the refusal of the officials I
of the embassy to honor the death of
Woodrow Wilson they displayed the
German emblem on the staff. The
embassy building is under guard this
morning pending a promise that a
German flag be placed half staff at
12:30 P- m.
GAS RAISES IN PRICE
C. E. Moultray stated today that
the price of gasoline has gone up two
cents per gallon in all Pacific Coast
, states and the Middle West.
NEW PUBLISHER NAMED
FOR HEARST NEWSPAPER
SEATTLE, Feb. 6.—A Times special
| from Washington received Saturday
said: “The Herald announced that
E. C. Griffith, director of advertising
I for the Herald and Washington Times
| has been appointed publisher of the
Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
BANK DOORS CLOSl
4! CASPER, Wyo., Feb. 6—The Com
mercial Bank & Trust company of
Douglas, Wyo., failed to open for bus
’ iness today, according to announce
ment received by Casper banks.
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ALBERT OF BELGIUM WILL
BE SUCCESSOR WILSON
IN ACADEMY SCIENCE
PARIS, Feb, 6—King Albert of Bei
. ! gium was proposed as a successor of
! Woodrow Wilson in the French Acad
t ! emy of Moral and Political Sciences.
FIVE THOUSAND GALLONS
GOVT. WHISKEY STOLEN
1 SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 6—Five
thousand gallons of whiskey was stol
: en from the government warehouse in
! charge of internal revenue agents,
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: STORES CLOSED TODAY
; IN HONOR OF WILSON
SEATTLE, Feb. 6—All retail stores
^ . closed at eleven o’clock this morning
I for a peiiod of two hours, in respect
d | for former President Wilson.
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lt WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 6—
0 High winds and extreme cold grip
eLthe section in which W Ison’s funeral
j is to be held, according to forecast.
C- NEPHEW LATE PRESIDENT
i- WILL STUDY MEDICINE
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s COLUMBUS, O., Feb. 6.—Warrer
r Gamaliel Harding, II., nephew and
namesake of the late President Hard
ing, aged 18 and a senior at Ohic
State University, has voiced his inten
[- tion of studying medicine—thug fol
i- lowing in the footsteps Of his father
ti Dr. George T. Harding Worthington
e brother of the late president, and oi
c his grandfather, Dr. George T. Hard
3 in, Sr., Marion, Ohio, the late presi
dent’s father.
Enrolled in the college of rats, phil
osophy and science, young Harding is
> specializing in natural sciences, with
j mathematics, philosophy and psychol
ogy as his minor branches of study.
* He expects to begin studying medi
e cine soon after he graduates next
s spring from Ohio State University.
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31 YOUNG MAN GOES TO BED
t IN SUMAS—WAKES UP IN
t! HIS AUTO IN BELLINGHAM
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SUMAS, Feb. 6—Palmer Hendrick
son, a >oung man who lives two miles
south of C!umas took a night ride to
3 Be'dr gham last week under circum
t stances which are still a puzzle to
3 him. When he awoke at 6 o’clock in
1 the v i"'r.g his car was packed on
I Railroad avenue. He ^aid that upon
* awaking he felt puzzle • at firu, but
* soon recognized his surroundings^ as
3 he had lived in Bellingham for several
* years and the streets are familiar to
him.
OTTAWA, Feb. 6—Both Ottawa
and Montreal are on line of route for
the round-the-world flight to be at
tempted by British airmen next month
it was announced here. The aim of the
airmen is to complete the trip in 90
days starting from Croyden, England
the f light proceeding eastward thru
India. Italy, Burma, China, Japan, the
Aleutians, Canada, and back to the
starting point.
F R FIGHTER A BA N DON ED
| SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 6—The
freight steamer Mary Horlock was
abandoned 2700 miles west of Honolu
i lu and her crew taken aboard the liner
President Taft.
URUGUAY HEADS FIGHT DUEL
MONTEVIDJO, Feb. 6—Former
I president Brum of Uruguay and min
! ister of War Rivera engaged in a pis
j t >1 duel but neither suffered injuries.
; EIGHT PERISH IN STORM
THRUOUT MIDDLE WEST
CHICAGO. Feb. 6—Eight persons !
| perished in the storm-swept midd'e
| western states today.
NINE DIE FROM EATING
HOME CANNED BEANS
ALBANY. Feb. 6—Nine members of
the Paul, Gerib, and Ruhling families
are dead from eating home canned
beans.
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j TACOM A MINISTER DISAPPEARS
TACOMA. Feb. 6—Arthur DeJacob,
i minister and educator disanpeared un
der circumstances indicating suicide
; by drowning.
' ELECT MAYOR IN MANILA
INSTEAD APPOINTMENT
—
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.—The Senate
passed a bill making the office of ma
yor of Manila an elective office in
stead of appointive by the governor.
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CHOMLEY SOUND FOX
FARMER DIES SUDDENLY
William Johnson died Wednesday,
January 16, at Chomlep Sound. He
; was a partner of Peter Wie on the
Grinnel Island fox farm. The death
is supposed to have been caused by
a gastric hemmorrhage.
The body was taken to Ketchikan
and shipped south on the Princess
Mary for burial at Coupeville, Wash.
Johnson is survived by a wife and
two brothers who are residing in Ju
' neau and also other relatives in the
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NEVADAN ATTACKED
BY BATS IN CAVE
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I IMLAY, Nev. Feb. *>.—Attacked by
a colony of bats, his clothing torn to
shreds and his body a mass of scrat
i ches, Joseph Morasky, station agent,
attributes his escape from death to
the fact that he pulled his heavy cap
down over his face.
Rambling over the country near
here a few days ago, Morasky discov
ered a natural cave and investigated.
After following a tucnel-like passage
j way for a hundred feet, he found that
it terminated in a sheer drop of some
twenty feet. Curiosity-stricken, he
secured a rope, fastened one end
j around a huge boulder and lowered
1 himself to the bottom.
Morasky declares the cavern was
1 literally alive with the ferocious little
animals. Hundreds clung to his
body and clawed and bit him. He
doesn’t remember how long he was
in the cave, but a party of rescuers
who had become alarmed at his long
absence, found him staggering fiom
the cave entrance.
Morasky declares he is not going
back again until he gets a suit of
armor.
MARION LONGFELLOW DEAD
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb: 6.—Marion
Longfellow, 75> author and translator
and a niece of the poet, died yester
day at the home of her son, Henry W.
Morris, at Chinese Camp’ Tublume
county, an old mihing town in the Si
erra Nevada mountains; according to
advices received here today.
SEVEN MARRIAGES OF MEN
ABOARD COAST SURVEY
SHIPS OCCUR SEATTLE
SEATTLE, Feb. 6—Seven marriag-!
es of subordinate officers and men [
of the Alaska Coast Survey ships Pio-'
neer and Discovery, have taken place
since the vessels tied up here at their 1
i winter quarters.
FALCON JOSLYN TALKS ON
ALASKA’S MINING INDUSTRY
SEATTLE, Feb. 6—Alaska must be
given an autonomous government to
insure the rebuilding of its gold and
silver mining industry, Falcon Joslyn
told examiner for the Senate Commit
tee, investigating the decline of prec
ious metals.
WOULD PREVENT SINCLAIR
FROM TAKING MORE OIL
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 6—
An injunction preventing Doheny Sin
j c!air from taking any more oil out of
‘ the navy oil reserves will be sought by
! Pomerene, special consul in the oil
i fraud cases, just as soon as their ap
j pointment is confirmed by the senate.
HEAD OF GEN. ROBERT E. LEE IS
CARVED IN NATIVE ROCK
UNVEILED ON MOUNTAIN
ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 6—The South
today paid homage to the memory ot
General Robert E. Lee.
Governors of southern states, con
federate veterans and men and wom
en hi^gh in rank and national and
state affairs, stood with bowed heads
as tons of granite crashed down the
precipice of Stone'mountain, leaving
on a thirty-foot square the head of the
South’s greatest general standing out
in relief, carved in native rock.
As the granite rumbled its way from
the working platform to the ground
below, two American flags, covering
Lee's features were d~awn aside a?
Mrs. C. Helen Plane, 94 years old, wi
dow of a Confederate colonel, who
died in oat lie, and a charter member
c{ the United Daughters o. the Con
' federacy commanded Stone Mountain
to give forth the head of Lee, comman
der-in-chief of the armies of the Con
fed e racy.
Lee’s head is the drst unit of what
is destined to be one of the world’s
greatest monuments. Cut in living
stone, the head of General Lee is the
central figure about which will be
carved a panoramic group of Dixie’s
immortals as an everlasting memori
al to those who died for the Confed
erate cause.
| LATE SENATOR'S FRIENDS
OPPOSE TWO CANDIDATES
ATLANTA Ga., Feb. 6—Avowed
; followers of the late Senator Thomas
! E. Wdtstftt, informed the Georgia state
democratic' legislative committee to
day that they will support neither W.
! G. McAdoo not Senator Oscar W. Un
j derwrood for president, but will place
a third candidate in the field. While
no announcement was made, it was
reported that their candidate probably
will be Senator James A. Reed of Mis
souri.
The committee today set March
! 19 for the Georgia demimcrats to vote
on their choice for president and
called a state convention to meet
in Attlanta April 23. There was a
sharp division over the date for the
presidential preference primary, af
ter charges were made that the Mc
Adoo supporters were endeavoring to
ruch the primary through before other
candidates have a chance to make a
campaign.
TAX REVISION BEFORE
WEEKLY CABINET MEETING
WASHINGTON. Feb. 6.—Indications
were given at the White House today
that President Coolidge would reward
any surtax rate above 25 per cent as
a change in the fundamental principle
of the Mellon tax bill, and as a basis
for veto of any such bill.
Tax revision was discussed at the
weekly cabinet meeting. It was made
plain that Mr. Coolidge stood square
ly behind the Mellon plan in its fun
damental principles and would agree
only to amendments designed to per
fect It,
EXPLORE. IIII
MAPPING AND PHOTOGRAPHING
ARCTIC REGION PLANNED
BY NAVY
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 6.—The
prime purpose of the Shenandoah's
proposed trip Secretary of the Navy
Denby told the house naval commit
tee Saturday, is exploration of the Arc
tic regions with a view to annexing
lands in that area to the United
States.
! “We cannot permit a million
square miles to fall into the hands
of another power. If we don’t make
the flight this summer the entire
Arctic region will be mapped and pho
tographed by another nation within a
year.
“We are not trying to discover the
North Pole and do not question the
feat of Lieutenant Peary, the Ameri
can explorer. We want to explore
and the Shenandoah is fitted for the
' task.”
1 Secretary Denby said the expedi
■ tion would cost approximately $ 1 S3,
000. The Shenandoah is to follow a
zigzag course over Northern Alaska
to get data but no attempt will be
made to pass over the pole to Spits
bergen. If the dirigible reaches Spitz
bergen it will visit England en route
1 to the United States and may later
attempt a world flight.
1 Commander Robert A. Bartlett
said: “We can do in forty hours
what other have been attempting to
do for four hundred years.” r £
NO FRICTION IN CREW
LAKEHURST, N. J., Feb. 6.—De
nying reports of friction aboard the
Shenandoah between Captain Mc
Creary and Captain Heinen. the Ger
man expert who commanded the air
ship in the flight in the storm last
month which stated that Heinen would
pilot the dirigible over the Arctic.
McCreary said today that he himself
would be aboard the Shenandoah, but
it was for Secretary of the Navy
Denby to decide whether he would be
in command. ^ '
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AMERICANS TO RUN
IN ENGLISH RACE
1 LONDON, Feb. 6.—Ten events, six
of them relays, have been suggested
by the championship committee of the
British Amateur Athletic association
for the proposed Anglo-American
match to be held Saturday, July 19,
j 1924 in London, after the athletes of
the two countries have completed the
\ sports at the Olympic games near Pa
ris.
The suggested events are:
400-yard relay for teams of four,
j each man running 100 yards.
One mile relay for teams of four.
each runner covering a quarter of
a mile.
Two mile relay for teams of four,
each runner going a half a mile.
Four-mile relay for teams of four,
each runner covering a mile,
j 480 yards relay hurdles, for teams of
four, each man jumping a fourth of
the hurdles.
Steeplechase for teams of four.
One mile medley race—880 yards,
| 220 yards, 220 yards and 440 yards.
Three-mile team race, six to run.
four ^ to count, or four to run three
to count.
High jump, aggregate total of a
team of four.
Lopg jump, aggregate total of a
team of four.
SALESMAN ACCUSED
SEATTLE, Feb. 6.—E. W. Weist, who
has been salesman here for a soap
firm, was in jail today on a telegra
phic charge from the sheriff at Mount
Clemens, Mich., that Weist had made
fraudulent stock transactions of $45,
000. Weist explained that the head of
a million dollar corporation was re
sponsible for notes given with trans
fers of stock, and said that this cor
poration and heavy holdings in hard
timber in South America. Weist was
arrested yesterday.
BANK OF ITALY HELD UP
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 6—One of
the branches of the Bank of Italy was
held up yesterday afternoon by ban
dits who secured seventeen thousand
dollars.