VOLUME 19, NUMBER 273.
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1924.
PRICE TEN CENTS
COAST-WIDE CONSPIRACY
TO VIOLATE LIQUOR LAWS
FOUND BRITISH COLUMBIA
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2RAND JURY INDICTMENTS IN
'FRISCO WAS CAUSE FOR
OLMSTED’S ARREST
:XPORTl|RS MAKE CONFESSION
>fficial Ramifications Extend Along
Entire Pacific Coast—When Dis
closed Many Will Be Implicated
SEATTLE, Wn, Nov. 21.—
'hat the officials of several Brit
>h Columbia distillery firms and
iquor exporting houses have been
ivestigated by secret agents, who
ave been working under Federal
rohibition chiefs in Seattle, de
eloped today in connection with
iie coast-wdie liquor conspiracy
ase, on which Federal officers
ave been working following the
rrest of Roy Olmsted.
The Canadian angle of the con
pirac^* took a new turn today
hen news was received from San
'rancisco that Charles Balinger
nd Max Ripstein, directors in a
■ritish Columbia exporting eom
any had surrendered themselves
> a United States marshal in
mnection with the seizure of 40,
30 cases of liquor on the steam
lip Quadra last week. The men
ere in San Francisco to oversee
le landing and delivery of the
irgo, and were picked up follow
ig the seizure of the vessel. The
mspiracv is shown to have offi
al rsimifications from California
» Vancouver, and some surpris
ig revelations will be made.
OMMISSION WILL MAKE
STUDY OF HALIBUT LIFE
SEATTLE, Wn„ Nov. 21.—An ex
mstive research into the lives and
ibits of the halibut along the west
n coast of the United States and
uiada will be conducted shortly by
. F. Thompson, an expert on fish-]
iturj|| who was selected for the
■st by the International Fish Com
ission.
The best methods of preserving
e halibut beds and the most ef
ctive time for closed seasons will
• decided upon from data collected
r Thompson and his assistants,
tompson has been director of the
ological laboratories for the Calif
nia Fish and Game commission
id previously was connected •with
e 'British Columbia Fisheries at
:tawa.
NDERSON BE PAROLLED
FROM SING SING XMAS
OSSINING, N. Y., Nov. 21—Will
m H. Anderson, former state super
tendent of the anti-saloon league
New York will be parolled from
e Sing Sing penitentiary Christmas
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V1ERICAN AMBASSADOR TO
JAPAN GIVEN AUDIENCE
TOKIO, Nov. 21.—Edgar A. Ban
oft, American ambassador to Japan,
presented his credentials and was
/en audience by the emperor.
ANAGER PICTURE SHOW
TRIES PUBLICITY STUNT
SAN DIEGO, No/. 21.- The mana
r or a local motion picture show
aight confessed to the police that
had ordered a dynamite bomb
iced in the Union-Tribune editor
rooms as a publicity stunt to ad
rtise a motion picture man. Dis
ct Attorney Kempley stated that
e stunt seeker would be punished
the fullest extent of the law, “the
me ^ any other criminal.”
iAS. S. BARNETT TO
HEAD FARMER UNION
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Nov. 21.
Charles iif. Barnett, of Unfontown,
... was today re-elected president
the Farmers' Educational and Co
PARENTS ARE URGED
TO INQUIRE CLOSELY
INTO NEEDS OF CHILD
CHICAGO, Nov. 21.—The failure of
parents to understand their children
bring about tendencies “which result
in the breaking up the home,” W. D.
Scott, president of the Northwestern
University said in an address radio
cast from here.
“When children go off to college,"
President Scott said, “the danger of a
gulf between the student and his par
ents is greatly increased. To over
come this difficulty, college and uni
versities have found it wise to set
apart certain days at which time the
parents are invited to come to the
campus, to enter into that life which
has become the life of their children.”
STUDENT MANACLED TO
TREE FOR HOURS; BUTT
OF STUDENT HORSEPLAY
YOUTH WHO ADVOCATED CLEAN
LINESS IN ATHLETICS AT
STANFORD CHASTISED
SA N FRANCISCO, Calif., Nov. 21.
—Manacled, pinioned and placarded,
J. J. Collins, a graduate student who
recently attacked the cleaniness of
Stanford in student athletics in an
article in the student paper, stood
chained to a tree before the cam
pus postoffice for nearly an hour,
subject to the jeers.and abuse of a
swarm of students. Pinned to his
breast was a sign which read: “This
is J. J. Collins, a traitor to Stan
ford. He is a man without a col
lege.”
The authorities are threatening to
suspend the ringleaders.
JUNEAU FISH PRICES
Halibut 13 and 8 cents. Salmon is
quoted at 15, 10 and 5 cents.
PRINCE OF LOPEZ ISLAND
LAID AT REST IN TACOMA
SEATTLE, Nov. 21.—H. Smith
King-, aged 70, known as the Prince of
Lopez island, where he raised poultry,
was buried last week beside his broth
er at Tacoma. The Prince came from
England in 1881, and roamed Canada
and Alaska until 1900. His family is
believed to be wealthy.
ANTI-PAROCHIAL BILL
DEFEATED IN MICHIGAN
DETROIT, Nov. 21.—Opponents of
the proposed legislation to abolish pa
rochial schools in this state were far
ahead in returns in the last election.
CHINESE WILL START
DRIVE ON WALLED CITY
HANKOW, Nov. 21.—Following the
announcement today of the formation
ol an independent military govern
ment Wong Fu, ousted military head
of the Peking government issued a
manifesto announcing that immedi
ately he will start a drive on Peking
in an endeavor to get possession of
the city.
EGYPTIAN SIRDAR DIES
FROM BULLET WOUNDS
LONDON, Nov. 21.—Governor Gen
eral Stack, who was shot yesterday at
Cairo by members of the students’
party, died last night at the hospital
to which he was taken following the
shooting. The British cabinet in con
nection with the assassination, has
decided to hold the Egyptian govern
ment responsible for the sirdar’s
death.
FRITZ’S ROADHOUSE
DESTROYED BY FIRE
What is known as Fritz’s roadhouse
on the Ophir-Iditarod trail was burn
ed to the ground in October, accord
ing to information reaching here in
the Kusko Times. The roadhouse was
located at a spot about 36 miles out of
Ophir, was built by Fritz Wolter sev
eral years ago, at the time Torn Boyd
put the mail route that way and has
since been the route generally travel
| ed. The house later became the prop
! rty of A. H. Twitehell and until last
spring was operated by Jerry Wynne,
deceased.
Two dog houses and a bam adjac
ent to the roadhouse were saved. A
! new roadhouse may be built about two
MRS. FLORENC
.Ji ll'K
HARDING DIES
MARION, Ohio, Nov. 21—Mrs. Florence Kling Hard
ing, wife of the former president, Warren G. Harding, died
this morning after a long illness, her death being due to
an ailment from which she suffered for years, and which
nearly resulted fatally while she was mistress of the
White House. She died peacefully and quietly, Dr. Saw
yer said, never regaining consciousness from the coma in
which she sunk yesterday. At her bedside was Clifford
B. Kling, her brother, George B. Christian, jr., Mrs. Saw
yer, widow of the president’s physician, Brigadier General
Sawyer. *
The funeral will be held Sunday, the body being in
terred beside that of the late president in the family plot
here.
TRAPPERS, WRANGELL
ISLE IN VLADIVOSTOK
VLADIVOSTOCK, Nov. 21—The
Russian expedition which recently
took possession of Wrangell Isle and
hauled down the American flag, arriv
ed here today with Charles White, a
white man from Point Hope, Alaska,
and 12 Eskimos, left on the island
by the schooner Donaldson when he
survivors of the Stefanssen expedi
tion were taken off last year by Har
old Ncice.
(The interview with Hans Olson,
who claimed to have been in com
mand of the Donaldson when it visit
ed Wrangell Island and took off Ada
Blackjack, was published in the Gate
way the other day. Olson tells of
White who is alleged to have been
living with the natives for some time,
going ashore at the Bay of Doubt
with the natives and also tells of the
trip to the island for the survivors.)
Want Dry Laws Extended
To the Philippine Islands
PITTSBURG, Pa., Nov. 21.—A res
olution asking the United States gov
ernment to extend the prohibition law
to the Philippine islands and make
them effective was adopted this after
noon by the Board of I oxeign Missions
of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
The resolution called attention to
the lessening of drunkenness and
crime in the United States, and stated
that he believed it time to extend the
workings of the Volstead act to our
foreign possessions.
OLMSTED BOOKED TO
LANGUISH IN THE PEN
SEATTLE, Wn., Nov. 21.—Federal
Prohibiion Director Lyle in reply to
Mayor Brown’s statement that the
arrest of Roy Olmsted, alleged- king
of the bootleggers, was “a grandstand
play,’’ said that he has a complete
chain of evidence leading to higher
ups which will put Olmsted in the
Federal penitentiary.
“And I do not think this,” said
Lyle, “I know it.”
TO ESTABLISH CHAIR
MEMORY OF WILSON
SAVANNAH, Ga., Nov. 21.—Steps
will be taken by the United Daughters
of the Confederacy to establish a Wil
son chair at the University of Virgin
ia. The chair will be endowed with a
fund raised by the U. D. A.
Paul Flynn, of Taootna, who is visit
ing relatives in Everett, Wash., is now
making his first trip out in 27 years,
which we opine is some record for
even a sourdough. He will return
CONFERENCE APPEALED
TO SAVE HUMAN RACE
FROM SCOURGE OPIUM
GENEVA, Nov. 21.—The venerable
bishop, Charles H. Brent, addressing
the International Opium conference,
presented the American proposals
for regulation of the growth and traf
fic of the drug and appealed to the
convention to take practical steps to
save the human race from tlje opium,
morphine and kindred narcotic scoui’ge
He asserted that all nations must
recognize the essential unity of hu
manity and that there is no white,
yellow, black or brown race, but the
race of human beings. He said God
never made one race to be exploited
»*r despised by another race.
BIGGER APPROPRIATIONS
URGED FOR AIR SERVICE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 21.—
Brigadier General Patrick, chief of the
Army Air Service, in his annual re
port to the Secretary of War, urges
a larger appropriation for the pur
chase of new planes as a measure for
keeping alive a minimum number of
factories capable of forming a nucleus
of adequate war-time production.
PROPER REWARD FOR HONESTY
KEMPTEN, Bavaria, Nov. 21.—A
local laborer recently found on the
road a purse containing 180,000 gold
marks, equal to $45,000. He learned
the money had been lost by some Am
erican tourists, and returned it. The
honest man was honestly rewarded,
for the tourist gave him one-tenth,
$4,500.
COOLIDGE BUSY ON HIS
MESSAGE TO CONGRESS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 21.—
President Coolidge is very busy on his
annual message to Congress which
will be sent to that body to be read
in re-establishment of the custom
prior to the Wilson administration.
TACOTNA PIONEERS BUILD
The Pioneer Igloo of Tacotna, is
building an annex to the hall at that
(place, excavation work being complet
ed. The old boys have gathered and
helped build the new resort and expect
to have some high old times this win
ter.
PORTUGUESE AVIATOR
FALLS INTO ATLANTIC
LEYBOURGTHEM, France, Nov
21.—Admiral Sacadura Cabral, the
Portuguese ace who started on a hy*
^ro-airpane flight from Rotterdam,
■and, to Portugal, is said to have
SOUTHAMPTON DOCKS
TO COST $50,000,000
SOUTHAMPTON, Ping., Nov. 21.—
Following the recent action of the
Cunnard Steamship Line in landing
passengers from New York at Ply
mouth instead of here, the Southern
Railway company has announced
plans to extend the Southampton
docks, at a cost of $50,000,000.
The work will not be completed
for five years, but at the end of
that time the Southampton docks
will be able to accommodate four
liners the size of the Leviathan at
the same time.
JUDGE LINDSEY ELECTED
DENVER, Nov. 21.—A count of the
vote received here by mail reveals the i
election of Judge Ben Lindsey to the
juvenile judge’s seat he has held here
for the past 23 years.
SENATE COMMITTEE
IS INVESTIGATING
THE REVENUE BUREAU
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 21.—
The special Senate committee investi
gating the Internal revenue bureau
was called in executive session today
to receive the report of the findings
of fifteen investigators who have been
compiling information for the commit
tee during the recess of Congress.
The report contains evidence con
cerning the prohibition unit and en
forcement of the tax law.
SEATTLE PIONEER DIES;
IN STATE SEVENTY YEARS
SEATTLE, Nov. 21.—Edgar A.
Bryan, 83, former president of the
Pioneers’ Association of Washington,
who had been a resident of the state
seventy years, died here last night.
YOUNG RETURNS FROM EUROPE
NEW YORK, Nov. 21.—Owen D.
Young, the American financial genius
who started the machinery of the rep
arations plan working, returned from
abroad today, confident that Europe
is on its way to a harmonious cooper
ation and prosperity.
SIREN READY FOR BUSINESS
The Siren owned by the town has
been installed on top of the fire hall
and is now ready for operations. Citi
zens hearing it tested out today thot
| it was for fire. It works perfectly.
ANOTHER ALASKAN STUNG
BY FEMALE OF THE SPECIES
SEATTLE, Wn„ Nov. 21.—George
Sacolof, who recently arrived here
i from Nome, caused a warrant to be
issued today for the arrest of Ida
Wilkerson, whom he charges with
having separated him from $160 of
l his savings by a promise to marry
him.
SCHOONER BOXER IN SEATTLE
SEATTLE, Wn„ Nov. 21._The aux
iliary schooner Boxer, under the su
pervision of the Bureau of Education,
arrived here from Nome and the
Arctic coast last evening.
ALIENS SMUGGLED INTO THE
U. S. OVER MEXICAN LINE
MEXICO CITY, Nov. 21'.—This re
public is becoming a populous step
ping stone for thousands of immi
grants who are barred from the
United States by the new laws and
quotas.
Thousands of them go into the
United States legally, but just as
many more pay a large sum to a
well-organized agency, now under
investigation by Department of Jus
tice agents, and go in by the under
ground railway. Those who go in
legally do so under the provision of
the Mexican laws which permit them
to decare citizenship after one year’s
residence and the United States im
migration law, which does not re
strict Mexican immigration.
The other class comes from the
Orient. They may be seen on morn
ings in conference with mysterious
agents, who usually appear to be
Americans. Next they are loaded
into second-class railway coaches and
leave for border States, presumably
for the purpose of working on farms,
or some of the big irrigation proj
ects. From there, Department of
Justice agents now here declare, it
is an easy step across the line to
where they are lost on some Japan
ese town or in Chinatown in some
CANADIAN AUTHORITIES
MAY COOPERATE WITH
AMERICAN DRY FORCES
EFFORT MADE TO HALT TIDE OF
WINES AND BEER ENTERING
THE UNITED STATES
OTTAWA, Nov. 21.—The Prohibi
tion Federation of Canada today sent
a communication to the Premier and
the King, demanding that the gov
ernment take immediate action to
have the prohibition laws enforced
and that cooperation be offered the
United States and dry Canadain pto
vinces which are making an effort
to halt the flood of Canadian beer
and liquors from this side landing
in the United States.
NEPHEW OF BOER LEADER
FOUND SERIOUSLY SHOT
BOSTON, Nov. 21.—Jan Smuts, a
nephew of General Smuts, South Af
rican Boer war hero, was found here
today in his lodging house suffering
from a mysterious and serious gun
shot wound. Smuts is the present
husband of May Yoho. He has a
chance to recover.
ARMED BANDITS HOLD
UP LUMBER COMPANY
SEATTLE, Nov. 21.—Eight armed
men held up the office of the Sno
qualmie Falls Lumber Company at
Snoqualmie last night, taking $700 in
cash and escaping.
PARALYZED PROFESSOR
NEVER MISSES CLASSES
SYRACUSE, N. Y., Nov. 21.—Par
tial paralysis of his legs, which makes
necesary the helping hand of a friend
even when he uses crutches, does not
prevent Dr. Ross Jewell, Registrar of
Syracuse University from meeting his
classes every day.
Every day he comes and goes to his
class of English students in the coupe
of one of his undergraduate aides.
CAVE MAN STUFF HAS
NO APPEAL TO OFFICIALS
SEATTLE, Wn., Nov. 21.— Loo L'.is'
ing, a steward on the s: a: ' ip Yu
kon was arrested and jailed las'
! flight charged with having kidnapped
at the point of a gun Car- ine Rams
! del, a Russian dancer, and ; < Id the
woman captive in his apartments tor
several hours.
TYPHOID FEVER AMONG
NICARAGUAN CHILDREN
MANAGUA, Nov. 21.—A severe
epidemic of typhoid fever and measles
has broken out at Granda, a city of
1500 population. The disease is
among children alone, due to unsani
tary condition and contaminated drink
ing water.
FLAT MAN ACQUITTED
Chas. Berggren, of Flat, who was
tried recently at Iditarod on a charge
of having white mule in his posses
sion, was discharged, the jury failing
to agree. The defense was that the
deputies entered the cabin without a
search warrant and were there illeg
ally.
CORONER’S INQUEST ON
BODIES OF TWO FOUND
IN HOLY CROSS SECTION
IDITAROD, Nov. 21.—At the con
clusion of the term of court at Flat,
U. S. Commissioner E. J. Stier and
Deputy U. S. Marshal Estes, of Flat,
accompanied the district court party
as far as Holy Cross where they con
ducted a coroner’s inquest on the
body of a man named Strangey, who
was found near Holokiehuk with a
bullet hole in his brain. A silver
watch and a few dollars in silver were
found upon his person, and consider
able conjecture was had as to the cir
cumstances under which he met his
death. Strangey left Iditarod for
down river some time in 1921 and was
not heard from afterward. The ver
dict of the coroner’s jury was that he
had come to his death at the hands
of some person or persons unknown.
The same jury also investigated’ the
case of the finding of another body,
which proved to be that of a native,
found near Holy Cross, and a similar