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VOLUME XVIII. NUMBER 126
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1923
PRICK TEN CENTS
Alaskan Squabbling Regarding
Appointment Of Falcon Joslyn
NEW YORK, May 16—Tex Rickard
> announced today that Jess \\ illard,
and Firpo, the Argentine heavyweight,
had been matched to fight in New
York or vicinity not later than July
7, The winner of this engagement
will be matched with the winner ot j
the Dempsey-Gibbons contest, in a
finish fight for the title, which will
probably be held labor day.
TRANSPORT 10 BRING
PRESIDENT HARDING
TO ALASKA
PRESIDENT WILL DR.VE GOLDEN
SPIKE CELEBRATING COM
PLETION OF RAILWAY
WASHINGTON. May 16.—I* ■ “-idem
Harding will go to Alaska aboard tit1
tianspo/i Henderson, accompanied bv
a division o; torpedo destroyer? sail
* ing from Seattle July 5, Secretary
Denby announced today. On the re
turn voyage the president will trans
• fer at San Francisco to a shipping
board vessel for a circuit through the
* Panama canal back to an Allan' ic
port.
While in Alaska President Hunting
w will drive the golden spike celebrat
ing the completion of the Alaskan
railway. The place for holding the
ceremonies has not been definitely
decided.
MENTONE, France, May 16.—Geo.
J. Gould. American capitalist and
* financier, who has been ill with ty
phoid fever at Cape Martin, near here
for several months, died this morning.
Deceased was born in New York,
Feb. 6, 1864; a son of Jay and Helen
Day Gould; brother of Edwin, Helen
Miller, Howard and Frank Jay Gould.
He married Edith M. Kingdon, Sept.
14, 1886. Soon after leaving school
he became clerk in banking house of
* W. E. Connor & Co., New York, and
succeeded Jay Gould, his father, as
a partner in December, 1885.
* Mr. Gould was interested in hun
dreds of investments in America, and
was many times a millionaire.
ENGLISH COURT ORDERS
RELEASE OF IRREGULAR
LONDON, May 16.—The Court of
appeals today ordered the release ot
Art O’Brien who was deported to Ire
land after being arrested in the March
round-up of Republican sympathizers.
O’Brien was brought before the court
on a writ of habeas corpus.
WATSON DUE TONIGHT
The steamer Admiral Watson is due
to arrive in Seward this evening at
nine o’clock, having reported out ot
Cordova at 10 o’clock last night.
The halibut boat Signal arrived in
port this morning with 20,000 pounds
of halibut which was disposed of to
the San Juan Company. The Signal
< is a three-man boat.
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CLAIMS PROMOTER HAS BEEN
OPPONENT OF WHOLESOME
ALASKA LEGISLATION
SEATTLE, May 16—John E. Bal
laine today in a public letter to Presi
dent Waterhouse of the Seattle Cham
ber of Commerce this afternoon pro
tests against Falcon Joslyn serving as
a member of the committee to receive
President Harding, charging in effect
that Joslyn has been lobbying against
wholesome Alaska legislation.
TORNADO WHICH KILLS SEVENTY
SEVEN, FOLLOWED BY FIRE
AND FLOOD
HOT SPRINGS, Ark., May 16 —j
Flood and flames which followed the|
tornado Monday night which killed |
77 persons, damaged the business dis
trict the past two days over a mil
lion dollars. Flames broke out in
wrecked buildings in many parts of
the city adding to the hororrs of the
storm.
DEMENTED SOLDIER IS
ON HUNGER STRIKE
SEATTLE, May 16.—Douglas Cau
lev, the Fort Lawton soldier who was
adjudged insane after he had shot
and killed Frank Peterson, a fellow
soldier, has been transferred to the
Lettterman hospital in San Francisco.
It was stated today that Cauley has
refused to eat for the past few days,
and is rapidly weakening.
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DURBAN, South Africa, May 15
Two American girls who are sailing
before the mast, are the talk of the
African coast.
Eli and Inga Benneche, San Fran
cisco sisters serving in the crew of the
American barque Monterey, caused
considerable commotion along the wa
terfront when their ship slipped into
the harbor, for South Africa had nev
er seen a woman acting as foremast
hand.
Clad in blue overalls the girls ex
plained that despite the fact that their
father is master of the barque, they
share all the duties of the crew and
and draw a salary the same as the
men.
I “We have a splendid time,” they
declared. “We have lessons in navi
gation and take spells at the wheel
when the weather is fine. Then there
are wonderful evenings when the crew
give themselves over to music, the
charm of which is added to by the
motion of the vessel and the moon
light on the w'ater.”
The mother of the girls accompany
them, but she is not signed on as reg
ular members of the crew as are the
daughters.
The local board of steamboat in
spectors will arrive on the Northwest
ern. Those interested in obtaining
licenses may secure blanks from Cus
1 toms Collector Abrams.
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WASHINGTON, May 16— President
Harding has decided definitely to
make a trip through the west and to
Alaska, leaving June 20, and being ab
sent from the capital about sixty days
it was announced today at the White
House The itinerary provides for
twelve speeches, the first in Saint
Lo.i’s and the last at San Oiogo
MUST SEND ALL VIOLATORS OF
FISHING LAWS BEFORE U. S.
FEDERAL JUDGES
WASHINGTON, May 16.—Faced by
the prospect of having, under a recent
ruling of the United States Supreme
Court to send all offenders of petty
or grave offenses against the Alaska
fisheries laws before U. S. federal
judges instead of before United States
commissioners, officials of the fisher
ies bureau are considering a recom
mendation to congress that certain
provisions of the statute be changed.
The Bureau announces that it has
issued instructions to representatives
in Alaska to lay information concern,
ing law violations before the nearest
district attorneys or take the defen
dants before commissioners so that
they may be held for grand juries.
SAN PEDRO, May 16.—The seventy
five thousand barrel oil tank on the
General Petroleum Company’s tank
farm near here exploded today, and
the burning oil spilled down the hill
side threatening to spread into the
fortifications of Fort McArthur.
George A. Parks, chief of the field
division of the general land office for
Alaska, left this morning for the in
terior where he will spend some
weeks on official business.
Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Datson, who ar
rived on the Alameda, will leave for
Mile 12, where Mr. Datson has charge
of road work.
LARGE TOURIST TRAVEL TO
EUROPE EXPECTED THIS YEAR
LONDON, May 16.—One transat
lantic line alone announces that it ex
pects 80,000 American tourists to vis
it Europe this summer.
SEATTLE PISH PRICES
SEATTLE, May 15.—Price at noon
April 15, fresh halibut, 14 cents.
Mr. and Mrs. Feakes and son left
this morning for Anchorage, where
Mr. Feakes will open an office for the
display of numerous lines of mer.
chandise which he will carry for out
side firms.
NEW ASSISTANT SECRETARY
WASHINGTON, May 16.—J. Walkei
Drake, of Detroit, has been appointee
assistant secretary of commerce.
The Canadian schooner Chief Zibas
sa, arrived In port yesterday with i
cargo of fish, clearing this morning
for the banks.
CHINK BANDITS
KILL CAPTIVES
TRANS.POLAR FLIGHT 3Y NAVY
BE STARTED FROM PUGET
SOUND CITY
SEATTLE, May 16.—The Chamber
of Commerce of this city has received
a letter from the Navy department
asking the estimated cost for building
space at Sand Point, in the center of
which will be constructed a mooring
post for one of the navy dirigibles. It
is intimated that this station will be
used when the navy attempts its
trans-Polar flight with its huge diri
gible now being built for the United
States.
WASHINGTON, May 16.—Arrange
ments have been completed, the De_
partment of the Interior announced
today for a comprehensive series of
motion pictures of Alaska this sum
mer, showing the development of that
Territory, the upbuilding of its cities,
and its commercial advancement.
Two cameramen from the reclama
tion service of the department will
spend several months there making
the pictures.
I The itinerary of the congressional
! party, as far as their visit to Alaska |
is concerned, is made known through !
the medium of a bulletin issued by
W. H. Hart, quartermaster general.
The party will journey north from
San Francisco on the transport Cam
brai, leaving the California city, May
27, arriving at Seattle on May 30. The
' Puget Sound city will be left on June
! 2, with Fort Seward as the first port
of call, which will be made on June 5.
i The schedule calls for a three days’
| stay at the Lynn canal port, after
which the course will be laid to Sew
ard direct, arriving here about June
110, with a three-day stay allowed for
! Seward. This interim will probably
i be spent in visiting on the railroad
and in securing datum for reference.
The departure from Seward will be
made about June 13; arriving in Se
attle on June 17, leaving there for
i San Francisco June 19, and arriving
back at the California city on June 22.
The plot of ground in the rear of
the Federal building has been consid
erably improved by the erection of a
brush hedge, which makes that local
ity an attraction. Marshal Reed in
' tends to make a lawn effect out of the
premises.
Miss Carol Baer, who came to Sew
ard to greet her mother on the arri
val of the Alameda, returned to An_
chorage this morning.
| James Clinton, connected with the
Alaska Road commission, was among
those who left for Anchorage this
! morning.
L. Levensaler, the field expert of
the Guggenheim corporation is a pas
senger on the Northwestern listed for
Seward.
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. j James Anderson, a Los Angeles
resident who arrived recently in Sew
; j ard, was numbered among those leav
I ing for the north this morning.
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HAVE REPUDIATED AGREEMENT
WITH GOVERNMENT TO GIVE
UP FOREIGN CAPTIVES
TIKN TSIN, May 16.—American
troops her* were ordered to be pre
pared to guard railway propercv fol
lowing reports received at American
headquarters of a battle in progress
between Chinese troops and brigands
ctt Tang Shat, on the Peking-Mukdon
railway, according to a statement is
sued by American headquarters 'ie>e,
where 800 marines are based to pro
tect the railway lines from Peking.
The traffic inspector at Tang Shan
reported that Chinese troops there
had turned bandits, and were looting
the city.
Three Captives Killed by Bandits
SHANGHAI, May 16.—A repom was
received here this morning from Lin
Cheng that three of the Chinese cap
fives held by the Suchow train bandits
had been hurled to their death over a
precipice in the Shantung mountains,
as a warning to the government that
they meant business.
Minister Offers Self as Hostage
PSKING, May 16—With the con
sent of the Chinese government Min
ister of Communications Wu Ku Lin
and General Yang have proceeded to
the stronghold of the brigands to of
fer themselves as hostages for the re
lease of foreigners held captive.
Repudiate Agreement.
LONDON, May 16—Dispatches from
Peking say that the Chinese bandits
have repudiated their agreement to
release the foreigners they hold cap
tive.
China Is Facing Problem
PEKING, May 16.—Banditry in six
provinces, anti-Japanese riots in one
province; Japanese boycots in sev
eral; piracy on the southern coast and
up the southern rivers; war in three
provinces and warlike preparations in
the south are problems confronting
the Qhinese government.
U. S. Government Will Intervene
TIEN TSIN, China, May 16.—That
United States marines will take the
trail of the bandits holding American
captives is nearly certain, it is assert
ed, since the bandits have refused to
conform to their agreement and re
lease the captives.
FRENCH SCIENTIST HUS
THEORY ON RELITIVITY
PARIS, May 16.—A new theory on
relativity is announced by Professor
Paul Painleve, former premier and a
noted mathematician, who declares
his conception is based on mechanics
of broader lines titan those developed
by Prof. Einstein.
'<My work is to attempt to recon
cile the old school springing from
Newton’s theory of gravitation with
the new school emerging from Ein
stein’s theory,he said.
“I consider Einstein’s theory a step
in the right direction.”
“Under the old teachings it was ex
plained that the world whirled thru
space on its axis. Of course this is
mere talk for children; no such thing
occurs; but such explanation must be
given so the ignorant can have a men
tal picture of what the universe is
like. Neither the earth nor the stars
whirl in space.”
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HUNDREDS OF TONS CARRIED
ASHORE IN SEALING CANOES
FOR TRIBAL USE
PORT ANGELES. May 16.—Quitla
yate Indians boarded the wrecked
steamship Lake Gebhart, after the
vessel had been abandoned, securing
hundreds of tons of sugar, carrying it
ashore in their sealing canoes. The
underwriters are now trying to recov
er the sugar from the Indians, who
claim it on the ground that the ves
sel was abandoned, and according to
marine laws belonged to the first par
ties boarding her.
CUBE GEIllES
LOOT TRAIN
I SHANGHAI, May 16.—Members of
the Chinese government’s gendarmes,
| or constabulary, bound from Peking
to Shanghai, today attacked Chinese
officials, beat their servants who re
sisted, and seized everything on the
tables, despite the protests of foreign
ers, and held possession of the train
for several hours.
Finally the consular officials on the
train backed by the Chinese officials,
prevailed on the gendarmes to leave
the train.
: SURVEY PARTY OPM
TO WORK IN INTERIOR
The geodetic survey party in charge
of H. P. Odessey, which has been in
Seward since the arrival of the Ala
! meda, left this morning for Fairbanks
where they will engage for a part of
the summer season in running levels
from the interior metropolis to the
coast, over the Richardson highway.
This work it is believed, is being done
in order that estimates can be made
as to the probable cost of establish
ing an all-year highway across the
interior country.
On the completion of work in the
section mentioned the party will re
turn to the coast and establish levels
between Seward and Anchorage.
Three large trucks have been sent
to Fairbanks for use of the party in
transporting supplies and for other
usages. The work will require all
1 year to complete; possibly a portion
of next season.
BOYCOTT BIGS file
SLUMP SUGAR PRICES
NEW YORK, May 16-—Raw sugar
futures declined today from 24 to 42
points at the opening of today’s sugar
market, while refined granulated su
gars were offered 10 points lower,
with the wholesale price ranging from
10 to 10.15 cents a pound. Future
prices are 90 points lower than the
peak of prices this season.
The sharp break wras attributed by
brokers to the housewives’ boycott in
part and to uncertainty as to the out
come of the appeal from the decision
of the courts in an injunction re
straining trading in raw sugars un
less backed by actual ownership.
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