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VOLUME XX. NUMBER 145.
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE. 19,1925.
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JUDGE KENNEDY
RULES IN FAVOR
OF SINCLAIR
SAYS FALL HAD RIGHT TO KEEP
TEAPOT DOME LEASE A
SECRET
CHEYENNE, June 19. (/P)—Judge
Kennedy ruled the lease of Teapot
Dome to Sinclair, which he took under
advisement on March 26, after trial
was legal. He absolved Admiral
Robison, Chief Navy Engineer, Assis
tant Secretary Finney H. Foster, Bain
director of the Bureau of Mines and
* Theodore Rosevelt, then assistant
Secretary of the Navy.
Judge Kennedy declared, “allega
tions of fraud in the bill have not
been sustained.” The court upheld
Fall in keeping the lease secret, pend
ing the consumation ot the Pearl
Harbor storage lease with Dohenv. He
pronounced Fall’s failure to get the
opinion of the Attorney General on
the legality of the lease “no more than
an error in judgment."
Oil Stocks Go Up
NNEW YORK. June 19. (^—Or
ders to buy Sinclair Consolidated Oil
poured into the stock exchange im
mediately following Kennedy’s decis
ion. It was announced Sinclair com
mon rose two points to above twenty
four and six per cent bonds carrying
stock purchase warrants advanced al
most five pounds.
Co to Supreme Court
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 19. (/P)
—The Kennedy decision will throw
the Teapot Dome Case and the Elk
hills case against Doheny to the Su
preme Court of the United States, it
was declared here today.
Seattle Fur Exchange
Holds a June Auction
SEATTLE, June 19.—(/P)—'Two
hundred thousand dollars worth of
skins were sold at the June auction
of the Seattle Fur Exchange, J. E.
Agnew, general manager, announced
today.
A strong demand was made for
beaver, lynx, mink, otter, ermine
and wolf, and also all the better
classes of foxes from Alberta, Yu
kon and British Columbia. Beaver
sold at a basis of $35 for the large
and extra large with good collors;
large and txtra large lynx brought
from $32 to $35; red fox, ones and
twos from Interior Alaska brought
from $23 to $25; white fox, ones and
twos from Alaska brought $38, show
ing a five per cent decline; cross
fox were neglected owing to a poor
collection; blue fox had no demand;
muskrats from interiar British Co
lumbia, mixed winter and spring
brought from 90c to $1.10, Alaska
springs bringing from 60c to 80c;
otter, ones and twos from Alaska
brought from $22 to $27; Alaska er
mine rose to $1.50; fisher, fine skins
rose to $75, with the ordinary ones
running between $40 and $60; wolf,
ones and twos from British Columbia
brought from $10 to $12; silver fox
moved slowly, the demand being only
for the best quality with open mar
ket prices.
BATHING BEAUTY COMMITTEE
^ APPOINTED BY CHAIRMAN
% i Mrs. Ray and Mrs. Ellsworth have
been appointed as the committee in
Charge of the “Bathing Beauty Re
view,” which will be held at the
small lake near the ball park, direct
ly preceding the game on the Fourth
of July.
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ITALY READY NEGOTIATE
SETTLEMENT OF DEBTS
TO THE UNITED STATES
ROME, Italy, June 19.—Premier
Musolini informed parliament today
that he was ready to negotiate for
mally with the United States and
Great Britaiu for a settlement of
war debts.
REPORTS FROM CHUNGKING
STATE THAT STRIKERS
BECOMING UNCONTROLABLE
SHANGHAI, China, June 19.—(/p)
—Reports emanating from Chung
king said that the striker in that
vicinity are becoming beyond con
trol. Many of the foreigners have
taken refuge in foreign gunboats.
Two Japanese gunboats left Schang
for Chungking.
BAKER AND HARRY
SOWASH GUILTY OF
MURDER GILLISES
VICTORIA, June 19. (£>)—'The jury
today received the case against Owen
B. Baker and Harry F. Sowash. and
quickly convicted them of the murder
of William G. Gillis, and William E.,
his son on the night of September 15,
of last year, in a hijacking raid.
The Gillises. on the rum-runner,
Beryl G., were killed in Haro Strait,
just north of the boundry line.
Justice Morrison immediately sen
tenced Baker and Sowash to hang on
September fourth. The trial had de
veloped to where Baker alone fought
for life. Paul Stromkins, Victoria
boatman, was freed of the charge of
murder and today testified Baker
killed the Gillises, stuck a knife in
their cold bodies, handcuffed them to
gether, and weighed them with an
chor chains. Sowash said Denman,
who was in the second Stromkins’
boat leaving the Beryl G., with So
wash standing in the stern, saw the
Gillises dead on the Deck of the Beryl
G., whereupon they returned. Sowash
corraborated Stromkins’ story, except
as to the knifing, saying that Denman
dragged the bodies from the deck of
the Beryl G., towed them to a deep
spot where they were sunk.
Baker testified that a year ago to
morrow he finished serving two years
in McNeil’s island, where he was pur
chasing agent. His aged mother, his
wife, and fourteen year old son came
from their homes in Pierce county
and testified in an effort to establish
an alibi for him.
59 RIOTERS DEAD IN CHILE
SANTIAGO, Chile, June 19. (#>)—
Fifty-nine rioters were reported kill
ed in a recent uprising in northern
Chile. The government troops used
artillery to dislodge the rioters from
their positions.
BEATS DAUGHTER TO DEATH
UNDER “COMMAND OF GOD”
LOS ANGELES, Calif., June 19.—
(JP) Thomas Gilchrist confessed to
day, that under God’s command, he
beat his step-daughter, Mrs. Olive
Morse, aged 19, to death last night
and placed her body in a vacant lot
near the home while his wife was
in Texas.
FIANCEE OF LATE WILLIAM
M’CLINTOCK GETS HUGE
FORTUNE, JUDGE’S DECREE
CHICAGO, 111., June 19.—(/p)
Judge Olson declared last night that
under the marriage contract which
Shepherd frustrated, Isabelle Pope
should receive the McClintock for
tune, regardless of the outcome of
the murder trial.
At fourteen y ears of age, George
Washington gave up a midshipman’s
warrant and stayed at home at his
mother's behest.
LIFE HISTORY OF
LAFOLLETTE IS
GIVEN IN DETAIL
Perhaps few American public men
ever drew such bitter criticism as was
heaped upon Senator La Follette dur
ing and immediately after the World
| War. and certainly none could have
been more staunchly defended by his
friends. His speeches and public
policies had been the target for wide
| spread denunciation previous to 1917.
while the great conflict was raging in
Europe, but the crisis came when he
voted against America entering the
struggle when the Lusitania outrage
and other violations of our neutrality
were still burning in the public mind,
i He was hung in effigy and even was
; threatened with expulsion proceedings
| in the Senate, but in the 1922 elec
| tions he was sent back to liis place
! in Washington by a tremendous ma
j jority.
Thrice Senator Lafollette was plac
ed in nomination for the Presidency
in Republican conventions—in 1908, in
1912 when he charged Theodore Roose
velt with promising to support him
and then becoming the Progressive
candidate himself, and again in 1916.
In each convention La Follette had
the support of a small but intrepid
bloc of delegates, as he did in the 1920
and 1924 Republican conventions when
he received a handful of votes, al
though not formally placed in nomina
non.
Nominally a member of the Repub
lican party, Senator LaFollette was
best known for his leaning toward
progressive or radical policies and for
his life-long fight agains* trusts and
monopolies. Throughout his public
life he was continually at odds with
his party leaders and most of his as
sociates—an insurgent of insurgents—
in his home state and in the national
capital.
La Follette’s insurgency reached a
j climax in 1924. His followers in the
j Senate and House, defying Republi
can leadership, had demonstrated they
j held the balance of power. The re
! Port was prevalent that although he
had been desperately ill he would seek
the presidency as an independent or
as the head of a new party, but the
: Senator himself steadfastly declined
j to disclose his intentions.
The Republicans, in convention at
j Cleveland, having selected Coolidge
as their standard bearer after reject
ing the platform demands of the Wis
consin delegation, La Follette’s ad
herents issued a call for a convention
in the same auditorium several weeks
later. Urged by delegates to this
conference that he accept their en
dorsement as a presidential candidate
he sent word in a mesage which be
rated both the old parties that he in
tended to enter the field as an inde
pendent. Declaration of his candi
dacy came on Independence Day, with
the Democrats in their New York con
vention still balloting for a presiden
tial nominee.
His decision injected him into the
campaign, as a full-fledged candidate,
with Senator Burton K. Wheeler, a
Montana Democrat, as a running mate
and President Coolidge as his Re
publican opponent and John W. Davis
his Democratic opposition.
Born on a farm near Madison, June
14, 1855, La Follette was a contem
porary of Cleveland, Harrison, Mc
Kinley, Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson and
Harding, as well as “Czar” Reed, J.
G. Blaine and Mark Hanna.
In stature he was a figure to at
tract attention. His build was short,
heavy and exceptionally strong, with
broad chest, a wide girth and power
ful arms. He wore a high heavy
pompadour above deep-set, sharp blue
eyes with overhanging brows; and
had a broad, high forehead, prominent
aquiline nose and mobile mouth.
In public address, Senator La Fol
lette’s delivery was dynamic and dra
matic always, with violent gestures
FRENCH SENDS NOTE TO
GERMANY OVER LEAGUE
LONDON, June 19. (JP)—A French
note to Germany on the security pact
which the Germans proposed, was
published yesterday. France insist
ed on Germany entering the League
National, assuming all obligations,
and enjoying all the rights of the cov
enant, also stating that existing peace
treaties will stand as a “repudiation
of all ideas of war with strict respect
for the existing territorial situation
in Rhineland.”
YALE DEFEATS HARVARD
NEW LONDON, Conn., June 19. (/p)
—Yale freshmen defeated Harvard
two lengths, while the Yale junior
varsity defeated Harvard four lengths
over a two mile course.
ANOTHER DREDGE
MAY BE WORKED
FAIRBANKS DIST.
| FAIRBANKS, June 19. OP)—Noel S.
Whitworth, resident representative of
the English dredging company, leaves
Monday for London, with another min
ing proposition from here, which may
mean another dredger here this win
ter.
Enroute he will stop at Anchorage
i and Seward where he will employ 30
! carpenters and dredge builders to
i come in immediately to help with the
j construction of the Fish creek dredge.
IT’S THE SAMEALL
OVER THE WORLD
PETERSBURY, Transvaal, June 19.
—(J-P)—The incessant chatter of Zulu
women drowned out the words of
the Prince of Wales here yesterday
when lie tried to address an assem
bly of natives. After the brief re
view native policemen were running
around waving their knobkerries,
threatening to pummel the women,
but failed in their attempt to si
lence them.
MOORE TAKES PARTNER
IN HIS LOCAL BUSINESS
F. B. Moore, local painter and
paperhanger announces Alfred Beau
lieu, expert painter, a former resi
dent of Seward, has entered into part
nership in the business and that the
firm name in the future will be
known as Moore & Beaulieu.
; and penetrating voice. When he
! wanned up with an oratorical effect,
he had a habit of tossing back his
pompadour with a quick, sharp jerk
of his head and running his fingers
through his thick locks. His speech
es often lasted for hours, especially
during his filibustering in the Senate.
Senator La Follette derived his
name from ancestral stock of French
Hugenot refugees. His Kentucky
father, Joshia La Follette, and his
mother, Mary (Ferguson) La Follette,
were pioneers in Wisconsin, where
they went from Indiana. Their chil
dren were reared in the face of pov
erty, but all were able to attend the
rural schools.
Robert was admitted to the Univer
sity of Wisconsin by special waiver of
entrance charges. He soon attained
prominence in dramatic and debating
classes, and also as editor of the col
lege magazine. After his graduation,
he was called upon to support his sis
ter and mother, while teaching a lit
tle country school and studying law.
He was admitted to the bar in 1880
and' soon entered politics as a candi
date for prosecuting attorney. Des
pite the opposition of what he term
ed political bosses and machines, he
was elected and subsequently re-elect
ed. Again over the opposition of
party leaders, he was nominated and
elected to the Forty-ninth Congress in
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AMUNDSEN SAFE
AT SPITZBERGEN
WITH HIS PARTY
AMUNDSEN FELL SHORT HUN
DRED MILES OF REACHING
THE POLE
OSLO. June 19. (/P)—The entire
Amundsen expedition arrived at
Spitzbergen, with one plane. The
party did not return to King’s Ray by
plane, but a fishing boat picked them
up and conveyed them there. The
expedition reached 88 degrees and 80>
minutes north latitude.
Plans Another Expedition to North
STOCKHOLM. June 19. (/P)—A de
spatch from Oslo indicated the Arc
undsen party arrived at Spitzbergen
Tuesday afternoon. Amundsen has
planned a new attempt to reach the
pole.
Seaplane as Marker
LONDON, June 19. CP)—An aban
doned seaplane frozen in the ice one
hundred and fifty miles from the pole
remained Amundsen's farthest north
marker. The explorer’s pried the
other out of the ice and flew back to
ward Spitzbergen.
TODAY’S BASEBALL ^
COAST— }
Salt Lake 6. Oakland 5.
Los Angeles 8, Seattle 1.
San Francisco 1. Portland 0.
Sacramento 7. Vernon 7. 14 innings.
NATIONAL—
Pittsburg 2, Broklyn <5.
j Chicago 1, Phila. 5.
Cincinnati 3, New York 5.
St. Louis 4, Boston 3.
AMERICAN—
Boston 1, Chicago 5.
New York 3, Detroit 6.
Philadelphia 6, Cleveland 2.
Washington 6. St. Louis 9.
STRANGE MALADY
ALONG KOYUKUK
AND THE ALATNA
JUNEAU, June 19. (JP)—A myster
ious epidemic lias been reported pre
vailing on the South fork of the Koyu
kuk river and the Alatna, north of
the Arctic circle.
Reports made to Governor Parks
indicates that mostly Indians have
been affected. Some are dead and
others seriously ill.
As there is no physician in the en
tire district the epidemic is spreading
rapidly.
The message received from the
Episcopalian mission on the Alatna,
said the symptoms are headache,
convulsions, vomiting and dysentery.
Parks has authorized an airplane
flight with physicians and supplies
from Fairbanks.
Young Girl Being Interred
Conies to Life; May Recover
OKLAHOMA CITY, June 19.—(£>)
—As Bertie West, aged 16 was be
ing lowered into her final resting
place, near Wellston yesterday, the
coffin was opened to give the heart
broken mother a last gaze, sweat
was noticed on the girl’s forehead,
and upon examination it disclosed a
faint heart beat. Physicians predict
ed her recovery.
WATER SHUT OFF
The water will be shut off tomor
row morning at 9:30 on 1st, 2nd and
3rd Avenues between Jefferson and
Railroad.