Heward
Delikly
Gestemny
VOLUME 19, NUMBER 232
SEWARD, ALASKA. 'TJU KSDAV, OCTOBER 1924.
PRICE TEX CENTS
BROOKHART CAUSES SENSATION WHEN
ASSERTION IS MADE THAT DAWES
INCOMPETENT TEAM-MATE, COOLIDGE
. SAYS DAWES TOO OLD TO BE OF
USE—NAME WILL DEFEAT
COOLIDGE GRAIN BELT
CHICAGO. III., Oct. 2— Senator
Brookhart today demanded of the Re
publican National committee that
Chas. Dawes be removed as a vice
presidential nominee and Senator Nor
wd^uibstituted as Coolidge’s team
linte.
He asserted that Dawes’ “mile
stone'' was dragging Coolidge down
to defeat all over and especialy in
the granarj belt of the l nited Slates.
Creates A Sensation.
WASHINGTON. D. C., Oct. 3.—The
demand of Senator Brookhart that
Charles Dawes withdraw from the
vice presidential race and substitute
in his place a Farm-Bloc candidate,
which was sent to Chairman Butler
of the Republican national comittee
in a letter yesterday, has created a
sensation in political circles in this
city.
Dawes On Defense.
CHICAGO, 111., Oct. 3—Senator
Brookliart’s demand for the resigna
tion as vice presidential candidate
j of Chas. Dawes, will be replied to by
the latter in his speech in Kansas
City tomorrow night. The phase of
the coming address will undoubtedly
cau>e more sensationalities in poli
tical circles, although no mention has
been made as to the gist ot his sub
ject in which Dawes will retaliate and
defend his right to the honor extend
ed him at the National convention.
TWO WOUNDED IN
RUM RUNNING BATTLE
NEAR CARLEW, WASH.
SEATTLE, W'n., Oct. 2.—In a battle
veen federal border patrol agents
and rum runners, near Carlew last
nighi. George B. Murray, aged 32, ot
the Seattle federal service, and Folley
Payne, one of the suspects were
wounded.
MRS. LA FOLLETTE HAS
AUDIENCE IN NEW YORK
NEW YORK, Oct. 3—Mrs. Robert
M. La Follette, addressed a West
Forty Fourth street audience in sup
port of her husband.,
< ALASKA WEEK IS TO BE
CELEBRATED, SEATTLE
SEATTLE, Oct. 3—The Young
Men’s Business club will promote Al
aska week, October 13 to October 18,
to commemorate the fifty-seventh an
niversary of the purchase of Alas
ka. Gov. Scott C. Bone is expected
to attend as he has promised to come
4fcwth if possible. All girls born in
Alaska, now in Seattle, have been
requested to register as candidates
for certain honors.
TY COBB IS GREATEST
BALLPLAYER OF TODAY
CHICAGO, Oct. 2.—Ty Cobb today
remains the greatest record breaking
baseball player in an Major league
team, and he is the only Major League
player who ever batted over three
hundred per cent for eighteen consec
utive years.
CONFESSES TO MURDER
OF ORANGE PACKER
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 1.—William
Young, 39 years old, a widower and
the father of six children, confessed
to deputy sheriffs yesterday that he
had shot and killed Mrs. Jennie Tre
witt, 26 years old, an orange packer,
employed at Covina, after she had re
pelled his advances.
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VETERAN SEATLE COP
DEAD, HEART DISEASE
SEATTLE, \Vn„ Oct. 2.—Albert A.
Ostrom, forty years on the Seattle
police force and of late years in the
customs department of the city died
in this city yesterday of heart dis
ease.
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LENINGRAD, Russia, Oct. 1.—Spot
ted Typhus has broken out in this
storm swept city .adding its horrors
to the flood which recently inundated
the city, with over one hundred cases
being registered daily.
“Sheik” Flyer
To Address
Wesleyan “Shebas”
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 3.—
Handsome Jack Harding, world
flight hero, who made such a tre
mendous hit with young ladies
along the route during the round
the-world flight, has been invited
to address the girls at Wesleyan
College at an early date.
The girls at the college are “dy
ing” to meet the “sheik” of the
air squadron, and promise him so
cial functions galore upon his ar
rival, which will, no doubt be en
vied by the other flyers. »
BEER-GLASS PLEBISCITE
DEFEATED ACCOUNT
RECHECK OF VOTES
VANCOUVER, B. C., Oct. 3.—As a
j result of a reclieck of the votes that
were cast here in the Beer-Glass pleb
iscite, which was held in June of this
i year and favored beer being sold by
,the glass came an abrupt change,
Iwhen the provincial election records
of the city were brought out to show
that the vote was against beer being
sold by the glass by a majority of 18.
MARSHAL GRIFFITH OF
NOME, SERIOUSLY ILL
According to reports received on
ithe steamship Starr today. Marshal
Griffith of Nome is seriously ill; the
Cutter Mojave leaving St. Paul isl
ands with medical suppies and sur
geons for that place.
1 The Mojave will remain in Nome
waters the remainder of the season,
■ taking the place of the ill-fated Bear,
| which was ordered to Seattle after
losing her tail in Arctic waters. She
v\ill probably leave Nome after the
Alameda makes her trip there, at the
close of navigation.
The cutter Haida, which has been
jstationed at Unalaska, left this week
for Seattle, and will spend the win
ter in oouthern waters.
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SAFE RULES FOR BANKING,
USE A CHECK PROTECTOR
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Many persons are ignorant of the
fact that if your check is raised from
$1 to $100 and the signature is gen
uine, you are out the cash instead of
the bank. While it is impossible to
prevent a skilled criminal from rais
ing a check to any amount the use
of a protector gives him more trou
ble, and renders detection more cer
tain. In doing business with your
bank remember:
That as a general rule banks are
responsible for the signature of a
check only. That means that ordi
narily a forged check, that is, one
where the signature has been forged,
or a check where the indorsement has
| been forged, means a loss to the
bank.
That as a general rule raised or al
tered checks mean a loss to the per
1 son cashing the check or, in the case
*f a bank cashing it, of a loss to *he
1 depositor, provided, of course, the
; checks give no evidence of having
been raised or altered.
Salesmen for check writing devices
; and safety paper have presented sales
j arguments for their machines and
i specially made papers which have con
fused the public.
For example, a manufacturer of one
check writing device gives away a ten
j thousand dollar bond with each mach
ine. A man buys a machine, suffers
a loss from forged indorsement and
| then tries to collect.
The bonds cover only raising or al
' teration of payee’s name or date, but
not forgery of signature or forgery
' of endorsement.
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Rev. R. V. B. Dunlap returned on
; the Starr today from Seldovfa, where
he has been busily engaged in the
j erection of a new Mission. During
i the absence of the Rev. Dunlap, Mrs.
I Dunlap suffered the misfortune to
pinch the end of heT finger off in a
door jam. Dr. Bgughman is treating
the injured member.
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KING ALFONSO MAY ABDICATE
King Alfonso, of Spain, who may abdicate his throne. Due to the
arrangement of Dictator de Rivera’s retirement and the change to a con
stitutional government, it is expected that the King and his Ministers will
also resign.
FUR TRADERS ARE
ASSEMBLED, CAPITAL,
TO GET LEGISLATION
WASHINGTON, D, C., Oct. 3.—Can
adian, English and American fur tra
ders are meeting in this city today,
in an endeavor to insure the future
supply of furs, through protecting by
legislation and with a stricter en
forcement of the laws regarding the
! protections of fur bearing animals.
MYSTERY OF STARR
SINKING IS EXPLAINED
J. P. Hannon, local Associated
Press correspondent, is in receipt of
a wire from that service explaining
the origin of the report sent out a
few days ago that the steamer Starr
was sunk.
It appears that the message was
i caught at San Francisco from the
j steamship President Madison. The
message the President Madison re
ceived should have rightly read to
the effect that the Starr had arrived
at Sanak, but in taking the report,
the wireless operator did not get the
last “a” in the word Sanak, which
made it read “sank,”
The day the report was broadcast,
J. P. Hannon received a wire from
! the Associated Press asking for full
particulars regarding the foundering
of the vessel.
The Associated Press sent a wire
of congratulations to Captain Johan
son on the fact that the report was
erroneous.
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ONE OF SIX PORTLAND
JUDGES HOLDS FRANKS'
VERDICT TO BE JUST
PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 23.—One of
six judges in Portland, commenting
on the life sentence imposed by Judge
Caverly in Chicago on the Franks
slayers, approved the finding. The
ethers criticised it. District Judge
R. Deich said that “mighty few per
sons who now criticise Judge Caverly,
if they nad been in his place would
have done any differently.”
Circuit Judge Robert G. Morrow
said: “I think the sentence should
have been death. The life sentence
will have a bad i ffect on the coua
try.”
Circuit Judge Geoige Pa'V* il.
•'Right or .*tie decision wi’i
give persons similarly inclined the
idea that they can commit crimes
and escape with light sentences.”
Rev. Drane and wife left on this
morning’s train en route to> their in
terior station.
The freighter Redondo of the' Alas
ka Steamship company arrived in Se
ward early this morning and unloaded
187 barrels of herring at the San Juan
storage plant.
PHYSICIANS CRAMMING
EFFORTS TO SAVE
LIFE OF GOVERNOR
i CHEYENNE, Wyo., Oct,. 3.—Notable
[ physicians in this city are resorting
to final emergency measures in the
hope ot saving the life of Governor
\Y. B. Ross, who is on his death bed •
in a local hospital.
The nature of his sickness is not re
ported.
FIGHT OVER WOMAN
ENDS IN RASH DEED
Late reports received from the
[Westward tell of the murder of a'
native at Sanak, during a quarrel
with another man, over a woman.
No definite news of the tragedy
can be secured other than the two
men were alone at the time of the
quarrel, but from what can be learn
ed, the native had a deep cut in his
head as though he had been beaten
to death. Marshal Dan Ross of Un
alaska left immediately for the scene
of the killing and will be a passenger
on the next Starr from the Westward
on his way to Valdez with the prison
er.
GIRL WALKS AFTER BEING
CRIPPLED FOR 17 YEARS
NEW YORK, Sept. 23.—Seven long
months in the hospital and the re
ward—the ability to walk for the first
time in seventeen years. That is the
story of Anna Wolfe, nineteen, of
Brooklyn, who now has the use of her
legs as the result of two operations
performed on them at the Long Isl
and College hospital, Anna’s case is a
striking example of the miracles of
modern surgery.
At the age of two Anna became
a victim of infantile paralysis. Her
legs deformed and she could not move
either.
These deformities were corrected
by the operations. Afterward plas
ter casts were applied and then brac
es. Then she began to learn to
walk.
That is the big sensation in life
today for Anna—her lessons in walk
ing at the hospiatl. Each day Anna
experiences the greatest thrill be
cause she can feel the muscles in
her hips coming into play as she
moves.
“I atn still," she says, “like a baby
—worse than a baby—in learning to
walk.”
After a few more days in the hos
pital Anna will be ready to go home,
and in a short time she will be strong
enough to walk unaided.
Miss Rosalie Anderson of Chignik
was a Seward passenger on the Starr.
Postal Inspector Alvah Eames re
turned to his headquarters at Seward
after a business trip to the westward.
STEAMSHIP STARR IN
FROM WESTWARD PORTS
The San Juan Fishing company’s I
ittle steamer Starr arived in port
it noon today from her run to the
Westward with a large list of pas
sengers and considerable freight. Pas
sengers aboard the Starr report the
S’ew England Fish Co. at Kodiak is
rapidly rounding things into shape,
preparing for the erection of their j
lew cold storage plant at the place [
Kodiak is expecting quite a boom. A
ist of the passengers arriving on
he Starr will be published in tomor
row’s paper.
EZRA MEEKER TAKING
JAUNT ACROSS THE
CONTINENT IN PLANE
OX-TEAM PIONEER GOES EAST TO
ATTEND INTERNATIONAL
AERIAL RACES.
VANCOUVER, Wn„ Oct. 3.—
Ezra Meeker, aged 93, famous old
Seattle pioneer politician, who
crossed the plains to the Pacific
coast in an ox-team 72 years ago,
hopped off yesterday in an air
plane for Dayton, Ohio, to at
tend the International aerial rac
es which are being held there.
He is a passenger of Lieut.
Oakley Kelley, reputed , aviator
who was the first man to make
a non-stop flight thru the ozone
across this continent, adding his
to airdom and a reputation to his
many laurels achieved through
his experiences in the air.
Arrive At Boise, Idaho.
BOISE, Ida,, Oct. 3.—Ezra Meeker,
of Oregon trail fame, arrived at Bar
ker Field, Boise, yesterday afternoon
in the plane piloted by Oakley Kel
ley of transcontinental fame. They
made the flight from Vancouver, Wn„
without mishap at a registered speed
of 125 miles per hour. They are on
ilieir way to Dayyton, Ohio, to attend
the aerial races.
DAYTON, Ohio, Oct. 2.—Twenty
years ago Orville and Wilbur Wright,
proprietors of a small mechanical
shop took a strange looking contrap
tion some nine miles out of town
and made their first public airplane
flight.
On October 2, 3, and 4, Orville
Wright will journey out to that same
piece of land, it now is a part of
Wilbur Wright field, and watch the
invention which he and his brother
gave to the world, hurtle through the
air at speeds which, if any one had
even dared to think of 20 years ago,
would have brought more derision
than the crude affairs of canvas and
wire itself.
McCook Field, the experimental
station of the American Army Air
Service, is located on the edge of
town. Nine miles out is Wilbur
Wright Field. The government either
leases, or owns outright, 300 acres
at Wright Field, but the field itself
now consists of 5,300 acroes, 5,000
of which recently were given to the
government by Dayton, the money
for the purchase of the land being
furnished by citizens.
The land has been accepted by
the government, and it is the dream
of Dayton some day to see the field
the greatest air center in the world.
The Dayton plan is eventually to
combine the two fields into one vast
plant, which would be a memorial
to Wilbur Wright.
McCook Field will be open to all
spectators during the meet, and
there will be on exhibition giants
and midgets of the air, as well as
strange mechanical creatures that
fly. The Army Air Service heli
copter, one of the most recent devel
opments, will be one of the unusu
al sights,
The Darling Bomber, the world’s
largest airplane, may be on exhibit
and it is expected that the Shen
andoah will be brought out. For con
tract to these leviathans, one of the
original type Wright planes is being
reconditions and probably will be pi
loted in a flight by Lieut. John A.
MacReady.
ZANNI ARRIVES AT SHANGHAI
SHANGHAI, China, Oct. 2.—Major
Zanni, the Argentine world flyers ar
rived yesterday afternoon at Shang
hai, from Foo Chow.
R. Roberts, manager of the Kodiak
Island Fishing company at Uganik,
was a passenger on the Starr today.
MAN TELLS WIFE
TO ’GO TO HELL’;
SHE SHOOTS HIM
MRS. FRECKLET KILLS HUSBAND
WHILE ON WAY ARRANGE
FOR HER DIVORCE
LARGE CROWD SEES SHOOTING
While Waiting on Post Office Corner
Womans Greets Husband With
Smile—3 Words, Answer.
SEATTLE, Oct. 3.—While waiting
at the post office corner here yester
day, and as a large crowd of people
looked on, Mrs. Hattie Frecklet, 35
years of age, shot and killed her hus
band. After the shooting Mrs. Freck
let told the police she was waiting on
the corner for her husband, where
they had agreed to meet each other
and go to their attorney’s office to
arrange for a divorce.
In her statement Mrs. Frecklet
said that “when her husband ap
pproached I smiled at him and he said
“go to hell” and I shot him.”
MAN RUNS AMUCK
DURING JEWISH MEET
KILLS WORSHIPPER
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 3.—The inva
sion of the Zion Synagogue, during
the Jewish New Years services in
this city, Solomon Ostrow, a retired
business man of this city ran amuck
with a gun in his hand, killing one of
the worshippers and wounding two
others.
It is reported that the man was
slightly demented, which was the
cause for him running wild.
RAINFALL IN THE EAST
CONTINUES—LIFE AND
PROPERTY IN TOLL
NEW YORK, Oct. 2.—Communities
along the Atlantic coast today set out
to repair the destruction which result
ed from one of the heaviest rainfalls
that has ever swept these parts in
years.
Torrential rains continue to fall a
long the coast with appalling figures
to life, sixteen deaths being reported
near this city.
CIRCUS HORSES ARE
BURNED TO DEATH
CHICO, Calif., Oct. 3.—Thirty-six
trained horses, belonging to the F.
A. Barns Wild Animal circus, burned
to death in a fire which destroyed a
box car in which the animals were be
ing transported.
MUCH WHISKEY IN
’LIL ’OL SKAGWAY
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SKAGWAY, Oct. 3.—Two thousand
cases of pure, unadulterated liquor
arrived in this city this week!!
Assorted whiskey, gin, brandy, wine
and good old rum lay in the bonded
warehouses here, and yet, no seizure
was made. The shipment came north
in the hold of the Princess Alice and
will be taken from here to Yukon ter
ritory to be used for “medicinal” pur
poses. The dock was crowded with
spectators when the shipment was be
ing unloaded, all trying to get at least
a whiff of the treasure cargo. Many
sighs were heard, but as “Skaguay”
means the home of the north wind,
the gentle zephyrs blowing down the
famed White pass might have been
responsible lor stentorian noises.
The liquor was valued at $100,000.
MILLS CREEK OPERATOR
ARRIVES SEWARD TODAY
Robert Michaelson, placer miner
from the Mills Creek district arrived
in Seward last night from his prop
erty and reports a busy summer.
Mr Michaelson has one of the best
pi opei ties of the district and although
working a Giant all alone for only
6vt> lays this summer be reports thai
averaged better than twenty dn
la. , a c'ty.
Owing to the scarcity of water in
Hat vicinity, Mr. Michae.mi was ?.«
Ced to suspend operatio .s and lias
b'tn pup'b!: in his ti.nj repairing
his • Quipment and one his ditche • Hu
will ;vo a shipment of machinery
on jre of the next boas and wi.l
h'si b^giu work in earner..
JUNEAU FISH PRICES
Halibut 13% cents. Salmon is quot-'
ed at 15, 10 and 5 cents.