VOLUME XVIII NUMBER 272
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY; NOVEMBER 7; 1923
PRICE TEN CENTS
HALF MILLION DOLLARS SENT TO
STATES FOR PRODUCTS
RAISED BETTER HERE
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A survey of the Anchorage district
shows that the sum of approximately
$500,000 is being sent out of the city
annually for foodstuffs which may be
produced profitable in the surround
ing country. Senator M. D. Snodgrass
of the Fourth division has just com
pleted compiling figures showing the
following range of products, and has
launched a movement with a view of
stopping this great leak in the treas
ury chest.
Bu ter, tons .—.
Milk, cases .—.—
Eggs, cases ..
Hams, tons ..—..-.
Bacon, tons ...
Potatoes, sold in stores, tons.
Root vegetables, sold in stores,
- 56
6459
5075
26
22
172
tons ..
Tub vegetables, do, tons
Soft flour, tons --
Hard flour, tons ..
Beef, wholesale price .
Pork, do --
Mutton, do .
Poultry, do -
Hay, tons —.
Barley, tons .-...
Mill feed, tons ..—.
Total value --
.. 2S
_. 16
. 155
.. 81
.$20,40f
_ 6,84(
. 575C
_ 720*
.. 175
2
_ 50
..$303,640
Under the flour item, some large
firms had not reported at the time o'
the survey, and this item will show s
decided increase when the total fig
ures are conipiled. Neither are the
Alaska railroad figures available.
It is proposed to stop the leak b:
a central marketing system for farn
products, a flouring mill, a creamer:
and a vegetable and berry cannim
plant.
On arrival of Col. Lee H. Landis, as
the new manager of the railroad, f
conference will be held with a viev
to securing the co-operation of th(
railroad in distributing products alon*
the railroad and encouraging loca
production.
The Secretary of Agriculture ha:
been requested to supply a herd o
dairy cattle to farmers to produc<
milk for the creamery.
The Anchorage Chamber of Com
merce is working with a view to se
curing an interchange of 'products be
tween the towns along the railroac
arid thus keeping a half million dol
lars at home that is now going out
side annually.
Ill MILLIONS SPENT IN
nwoNSTin
NEW YORK, Nov. 7.—If the amoun
of building construction now unde
way in Manhattan Borough is any cri
terion, wages and materials here ai
pretty well stabilized and there is ;
small chance of any decline in either
Exclusive of minor developments
such as private construction am
small projects in general, there i
more than $100,000,000 worth of built
ing either under way or immediatel
contemplpated.
SKAGWAY A SLEEPY TOWN;
HAS SIX-MILE SPEED LIMI'
The city council of Skagway ha
passed an ordinance whereby autom<
biles are allowed to run at a speed c
but six miles per hour in the cit
limits. As the town has only a fe1
cars and very few miles of road ou
side the city, naturally auto ownej
are raising a howl, Six miles an not
must appear like a dangerous spee
to some old-timers on the Skagwa
council.
CONDITIONS IN GERMANY FAR
WORSE THAN THOSE DE
SCRIBED IN RUSSIA
WASHINGTON, Nov. 7.—Jermane,
! the Seattle Times Washington corres
pondent wires his paper as follows:
“One of the first measures to come
; before Congress early in December
seems likely to be a bill making an
appropriation to help stave off famine
in Germany. How large this sum will
' be it has not yet been determined. A
couple of years ago when starvation
faced millions of Russian people, con
j gress af^propriated S20,000,000, and as
,1 much more was raised by private sub
scriptions. Conditions in Germany
appear to be far worse than those in
| Russia; first, because of the greater
density of population; second, because
| of Germany’s restricted agricultural
'j area."
PERFECT MIND VET
| COLUMBUS, 0., Nov. 7.—“Whal
may be the capacity of a perfecl
mind never has been demonstrated
L fully,” asserted W. E. Van Amburgh
of Brooklyn, N. Y., addressing an au
dience here on ‘The Perfect Mind.’
“We have some notable example o
what some men have done,” continu
ed Van Amburgh, “Xenophon coulc
call each one of his ten thousand sol
diers by name. James G. Blaine couh
recognize and call by name every per
son to whom he had been introduced
Some have been able to repeat the en
tire Bible word for word.
“There have been so-called ’menta
giants,’ in various walks of life,—law
logic, science, art, music, oratory
and mathematics, but these excellet
in one line only.
1 “The perfect mind should be able t<
? excel upon all lines equally well, oth
j erwise he would not be properly bal
anced and would not be in the imag*
‘j of his Creator. The proper measun
of a man is not his bulk, nor his rnus
cular strength, but his ability to un
j derstand and use the powers of naturi
which God has placed within his do
main.”
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MURDER OF KITCHENER
t IN BATTLE JUTLAND
LONDON, Nov. 7.—Lord Alfred wa
arrested and arraigned in the Bo'S
Street court today charged with ms
liciously publishing defamatory arti
cles libelling Winston Churchill, in :
pamphlet entitled, “The Murder o
Lord Kitchener and the Truth Abou
the Battle of Jutland and the Jews.”
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PASSES HI! HU
REN0, Nev., NOT. 7 —John A. Barr
reputed to be the first majror Pa!
banks, Alaska, add kfiown 'throughoi
the Northland, Is dea4 here.
PROMINENT WOMEN AT PAN-AMERICAN CONFERENCE
Left to Right: Mrs. Charles Evans Hughes, wife of the Secretary of
State; Miss Mabel Boardman, of the Red Cross! and Mrs. Robert Lansing,
wife of the former Secretary of State,and chairman of the conference.
ASH CONTEST ONLY FOUR TC
TEN PER CENT—OF GREAT
VALUE TO NORTHLAND
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j SEATTLE, Nov. 7.—Speciments t>
j the coal beds discovered by Earner
| M. Patty, professor in the senool o
. mines, on the upper Healv river, neai
Nenana, as analyzed by Dean Melnci
■ Roberts, of the College of Mines, Uni
\ersity of Washington, average 10.t>0(
British thermal units as a heat pro
~ i
• i ducer and has but four to ten per cen
|j of ash content, which means that th<
. fuel ranks unusually high as a clean
1 useful coal for household use.
“This discovery is of vast impor:
. ance to the Northland,” said Deal
■ Roberts, “this coal being higher ii
heat units than many lirsi class coal;
I in the States.’
WASHINGTON, Nov. 7—Legislate
may be expected for the Sixty-Eight!
Congress to facilitate government or
eration of U. S. Shipping Board ves
sels and the building up of a merchan
marine it was indicated at the Whit*
House tonight.
ON PUSET SOUND ISU
BELLINGHAM, Nov. 7.—Cendov
| island, 12 miles south of Bellingham
! is to be converted to one ol the fines
3 fox farms on the Pacific coast, accord
r ing to information received here, fol
.-j lowing the arrival in Seattls this wee!
-[ of 100 live blue foxes from Petorsburi
i\ Alaska. These foxes are valued a
f! $ir.,ooo.
tj Vendovi island will thus have th
distinction of being the farthest soutl
fo': island in the world. As there 1
only about 5 degrees difference ii
temperature between Bellingham am
Petersburg, Alaska, it is believed th
| foxes should thrive.
’ GERMAN MARKS WORTHLESS
NEW YORK, Nov. 7.— Germa
marks have lapsed to a point wher
y they are absolutely worthies? and al
■- banks and foreign excbapge houses i
,t this city have discontinued haudlin
them.
JAPANESE LOGGER
BEATEN fl ROBBED
VICTIM KNOCKED OFF TUG AND
DROWNED—ROBBER SEEN
LATER WITH ROLL
HOQUiAm, Wash., Kov. 1—Beaten
and robbed, Moki a Japanese logger,
well known in Washington and Ore
■ gon, was knocked from the tug Borer
■ of Aberdeen and drowned in the Ho
. quiam river last midnight, by a man
i known as Vic.
Two seamen aboard the tug saw Vic
and Moki struggling and both went,
i overboard, just as Vic struck Moki on
, the head with a handspike. Vic swam
ashore and was later seen in a local
. pool room with a large roll of bills
l taken from the dead Japanese.
j WASHINGTON, Nov. 7.—President
Coolidge officially confirmed the col
lapse of the plan for participation b>
i the United States in the reparations
i controversy. Confirmation of the fail
. ure of the plan was given following
- a long conference between President
t! Coolidge and French Ambassador Jus
; serand, and through discussion of the
situation by the cabinet.
I0STM PUCE! BM
j ON EXPORT BOOS
I CINCINNATI, Nov. 7.—Australia
j has placed a ban upon the export of
t kangaroos, according to Ellis S. Ja
.! cobs, who has just sold fourteen of
. the long-legged marsupials to the Cin
• cinnati Zoological Gardens.
r The letter stated that this would be
t the last shipment of kangaroos to go
out of Australia.
! COURT REFUSES TO REVIEW
3 ANNETTE ISLAND TAX CASE
1 WASHINGTON, Nov. 7.—TJie Su
5 preme Court has refused to review
the case in which it was sought to de
termine whether Alaska can colled
taxes from the, Annette Island Packing
l Company for fishing rights upon An
e nette Island. The. government o
l Alaska through. Attorney . Genera
i Rustgard, brought th% case, before th<
S Supreme.. Coswt inattempt to mak<
the company pay taxes
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C. J. LINCKE DECLARES CHAM
BER VOTES TO HELP SEWARD
GET THE CAPITAL
“One of the outstanding impres-i
sions created by my visit to Seward is
the apparent energies being manifest
ed by the chamber of commerce,”
said C. J. Lincke, who will go north
to Fairbanks tomorrow. “I used to
think Seward was enmeshed in too
many local jealousies to make rapid
progress, but this appears to have al
most completely disappeared, and the
beautiful little city is getting into her
stride.
‘‘And Seward will find Anchorage
ready to co-operate and assist in any
manner possible, if the sentiment of
the railroad city chamber of com
merce can be taken as an augury. This;
was in evidence recently when thej
chamber declined to launch a move
ment looking to securing the capital
in the event of the first division se-i
' ceding, or the capital being moved
further west. Anchorage, contrary to!
' the impression prevailing in some,
j parts Of the Territory, has no desire!
1 to profit at the expense of other com
munities, but rather is committed to
; developing her resources along com-'
| tnereial lines, and lending her support
j to other communities along the rail
< road in the same respect. If it comes
1 to a crucial test, it is sale to say that
! Anchorage Will be found behind Sew
ard on the capital question, as its lo
; cation here would serve every pur
1 pose, give access by water and rail to
| all parts of the Territory, and thereby
reduce the expense of government
! materially.”
WASHINGTON, Nov. 7.—Mrs. Flor
ence Kling Harding is being urged to
become a candidate for delegate at
large from Ohio for the next Repub
lican National Convention and it is
said she has practically consented to
do so.
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WELL-KNOWN CLOTHING MER
CHANT OF SEATTLE GOES TO
RECOVER FORTUNE
SEATTLE, Nov. 7—Charging that
his only son, Robert S. Graham, 31,
J and William A. Green, an attorney had
j conspired to defraud him out of his
j equity of $150,000 in property valued
at $300,000, a suit for recovery was
! started in the Superior Court today
! by S. Graham & Company.
Graham and his wife are well known
j throughout the Northwest as pioneer
! dealers in women’s and children’s
I wear.
WARSAW, Nov. 7.— Twenty-two
p^sons were killed and three score
wounded in the explosion of bombs
: in .a strike of railway workers.
» TODAY’S FISH PRICES .
; Ketchikan—No fish offered; no pick
led fi%,o#u*<$..
DEMOCRATIC JUDICIARY TICKET
SWEPT INTO OFFICE IN
MANHATTAN AND BRONX
WASHINGTON, Nov. 7.—Mississip
pi, Maryland and Kentuceky elected
Jemocratic governors yesterday, Ver
Noort defeating Park H. Pollard, a
cousin of President Coolidge, in Mass
sachuseits, the state also returning
Porter H. Dale to the Senate.
Four Democrats and three Republi
cans were elected to the lower house
of Congress throughout several states.
In New York the Republicans re
tained control of the General Assem
bly, but the Democratic Judiciary
ticket in Manhattan and the Bronx
was swept into office by an over
whelming vote.
The Republican and Independent
tickets supported by Heart in^ Illinois
elected Miss Mary M. Bartelme, the
first woman to be elevated to a Circuit
Court judgeship in Cook county. She
is a Republican and led the ticket,
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Mayor Rolph Re-elected
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov, 7.—Voters
yesterday re-elected Rolph mayor of
San Francisco for the fourth consecu
tive GrTie, and returned District Attor
ney Matthew Brady and Sheriff Thom
as F. Finn to office, ,
Democrats Sweep Maryland
BALTIMORE, Md., Nov. 7.—Govern
or Ritchie was re-elected and the en
tire Democratic ticket was swept into
office in Baltimore in yesterday’s elec
tions.
Republican Mayor for Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 6—W. Free
land Kendrick, Republican, was elect
ed mayor oi' Philadelphia at today’s
elections.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 6.—The late
President Harding demanded the res
ignation of Charles Forbes, head of
the Veterans’ Bureau, as a result of
the Perryville, Maryland, graft dis
closures, where Forbes sold supplies
worth $3,000,000 for less than $600,000,
General Sawyer, physician to the late
executive testified today before the
'Senate committee of investigation.
Sawyer testified today that in face of
an order by the President that ship
ments of supplies from Perryville be
stopped, several carloads of materials
were sent out for two or three days.
FIB WORLD IMS
NEW YORK, Nov. 7.—James H.
Waller, British war veteran, who as
a machine gun sergeant was credited
with shooting down Max Immellman,
German air ace, in 1916, died in a
hospital here today as a result of be
ing gassed.
GEESE SENT TO NATIONAL
PARK AT WASHINGTON, D. C.
Five white cheeked Canadian geese
from Alaska will be domiciled in the
wild bird section of the National Zoo
logical Park at Washington, D. C., the
first of the species that institution
has ever had. The birds are being
sent to the park by E. P. Walker, the
Alaska agent of the U. S. Geological
Suryey.