SEWARD DAILY GATEWAY
OF SEWARD, ALASKA
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BACK SEAT DRIVERS NOW BOSS
THE ROAD
The most upsetting news of the
season for automobile drivers is in a
state supreme court decision which—
defying every tradition, practice and
custom, carefully built up and sedul
ously guarded by every man at the
wheel—absolutely, positively and flat
ly, upholds back-seat driving.
The court, in a Seattle case, says
that driving from the rear seat is not
only perfectly legal, but that it is pos
itively necessary as a prerequisite to
a suit to recover damages. Because
a “fare” did not protest to a taxi
driver, who drove his car at a high
rate of speed during a storm, result
ing in injury to his passenger, there
can be no recovery.
With this decision as a precedent
every person who decorates the rear
seat and who sits as a potential plain
tiff in a damage case, may be expect
ed to make life miserable for the har
ried driver by bawling out the driver
for every unskillful act, real or fan
cied. The court says that it is not
necessary that this privilege of bawl
ing out be exercised at every turn, but
what occupant on the rear seat of a
gas buggy with a grim determination
on his face to start court action at
once if anything happens, would jep
ardize his chances by holding his
peace!
Not he; more likely that he will be
heard, perched on his throne, issuing
warnings on the slightest provocation.
It will be great—this open season on
motorists, and every driver will wish
that it were possible to recall judicial
decisions.
Just think of the poor criminals
w’ho have suffered from cell shock
without knowing what ailed them.
A knocking engine should have
immediate attention, but a knocking
man should be left severely alone.
The better homes movement is
making great headway. We may
even see families in them some day.
Some elderly maiden ladies get
up a lot of sage advice to the love
lorn for dissemination through the
daily press.
An Englishman has invented a port
able piano that can be folded into a
length of three feet.
Julia Hoyt, famed actress and
society woman of New York, is also
a professional designer of women’s
garments.
For the benefit of students of sur
gery motion pictures of the instructors
hand are thrown on the screen as the
operation progresses.
Paper aprons and raincoats are en
tirely waterproof, and are now being
made by a Wisconsin firm at a low
cost.
Dark Rings Under Eyes
For the relief of dark rings and
bloodshot eyes there is nothing bet
ter than simple camphor, witchhazel,
hydrastis, etc., as mixed in Lavoptik
eye wash. The quick action is sur
prising. Eye cup free.—Seward Drug
Company.
BRITISH RADICAL
CANNOT ENTER
UNITED STATES
LONDON, Sept. 17. (ff)—Shapuurji
Saklatvala, Communist member of
parliament, when notified that the
United States refused his entry as a
delegate to the interparlimentary con
ference at Washington, said, “Kellogg
is imbued with the petticoated aristo
cratic ideas of Great Britain.”
Saklatvala is an Indian representing
Battersea in the House of Commons.
MILTON SILLS IS
SUED FOR DIVORCE
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 16. (/P)—Di
vorce proceedings against Milt Sills,
motion picture actor, were brought by
Gladys E. Sills, in a suit filed in the
superior court.
The complaint charges the actor
with desertion. Custody of their 14
year old daughter, Dorothy, is sought
by Mrs. Sills. No community prop
erty is mentioned, which is believed in
film circles here to indicate that a
property settlement had been effected.
The petition, which in brief, sets
forth that the Sills were married in
London, May 26, 1910, and that the
actor deserted his wife in August, of
last year. Sills at present is in New
York, while Mrs. Sills is reported to
have left some time ago for Australia.
BRITISH FLAYED
BY RADICAL WHO
IS COMING HERE
LONDON, Sept. 16. (JP)—A fiery
speech by Shapurji Saklatvala, com
munist member of the parliament, who
is going shortly to the United States,
in which he declared he hated the Un
ion Jack, (the British flag) and that
he was “out for revolution”, marked
the opening today of a two-day con
ference at Battersea of the so-called
“National Minority party,” an offshoot
of the British communist party. Six
hundred delegates attended and listen
ed to several revolutionary outbursts.
Saklatvala is a Parsee of Bombay,
but represents North Battersea in the
House of Commons. “I am going to
America,” he said, “as a friend of the
working classes and as an implicable
enemy of the Union Jack and British
Imperialism. British imperialist will
crumble in the dust. I am out to
work for revolution and for a day whe
workers will control the whole world.
But before this comes you will have
to face cold steel.”
Saklatvala said he was willing to be
| shot in the cause of revolution.
PIONEER FARMER
OF SKAGIT IS
KILLED BY FALL
WILLIAM WALLACE'S NECK DIS
LOCATED AS HORSES RUN
AWAY AT BURLINGTON
BURLINGTON, Sept. 17.(^P)—Wil
liam Wallace, 47, was instantly killed
last week, by a fall from a stack of
oat sheaves, while at work on his farm
four miles northwest of Burlington.
Mr. Wallace with fourteen other
men, wras at work this morning in his
oat fields. Noise made by the thresh
ing maching exicted a team of horses
he was driving. Breaking away sud
denly, the team jerked Mr. Wallace
off the stack of oat sheaves, resulting
in a broken neck and bringing death
instantly.
Detroit has nearly four times as
many people and 20 times as many
telephones as it had in 1900.
In five years the Jewish population
of Palestine has more than doubled,
being now approximately 115,000.
New 16-inch guns for defense of the
Panama canal can throw a projectile
weighing more than a ton a distance
of 27 miles, making a shot every 50
seconds.
Former Alaskan Is Back;
Looking for Investment
Mr. and Mrs. George E. Dismukes
of Florida, who have been making a
tour of the Territory with the view
o fbecoming interested financially,
arrived in Seward last evening from
the Interior. They are guests at the
Hotel Van Gilder.
Mr. Dismukes is not a stranger to
Alaska having resided for two years
in Valdez and at Juneau some years
ago, leaving for the States in 1916.
During the trip to the Interior, Mr.
and Mrs. Dismukes spent some time
in the McKinley Park and Fairbanks
district and on the way back to the
coast, visited the Willow Creek re
gion.
Carl Lund Draws Sixty
Days; Disorderly Conduct
Arrested on the charge of being
drunk and disorderly, Carl Lund was
sentenced to serve 60 days in jail,
before C. R. Morford, U. S. Com
missioner, in the commossioner’s of
fice this morning. The young man
was picked up on Fourth avenue
last evening by Martin Lanning,
chief of police.
Wonderful Summer Days
Charm Outing Parties
\ -
For several days past a group of
local citizens and friends have been
taking day jaunts to the various
beauty spots adjacent to Seward.
The wonderful weather, w,hich has
been prevailing the greater part of
the summer, has been a constant
magnet for many such outings thru
out the season. And this month,
September, never has been equalled
for gorgeous days, according to resi
dents of many years.
Yesterday a party of eight motor
ed out to Lake Kenai, where the
day was spent picnicking, lolling
about while fishing and boating was
the main diversion. Comprising the
party were "Mrs. Weybrecht, Mrs. H.
V. Hoover; Mrs. Wagner, Miss Syl
via Sexton" Dennis ' Hurley, Frank
Skeen, W. H. Whittlesey and Mr.
Farran. The 'day previous George
Sexton was a member of the party.
A new light bulb without filaments
will greatly reduce the cost of light
ing current, according to its new Jer
sey inventor. ■
Each month the Chicago Tribune
gives a pri^e of- $100 to the police
man wrho has done the most heroic
w-ork in line of duty.
About 10,000 new books are now
published annually.
FOR ONE WEEK
Lowered prices on all
merchandise.
Friday and Saturday
we will have a DOLLAR
SALE.
BANBURY & OGLE
Cabin for Rent
On Fine Trout Stream
Bungalow with fine fire
place. large living room,
furnished for six persons,
plenty of bedding and
essentials, stove and all
cooking utensils. Will be
rented by the day or week
end to responsible parties.
Good fishing in lake and
stream and hunting in
season.
Apply A1 Davis
SEWARD, ALASKA
One Show Tonight—8 Sharp
JAS. KIRKWOOD
AND
LILA LEE
Wandering
Husbands
There is sure-fire interest in this splendid drama
of two women and a man.
SHOULD A HUSBAND LIVE WITH HIS
WIFE JUST FOR THE SAKE OF HIS CHILD
REN EVEN THOUGH LOVE IS ENTIRELY
GONE?
CAN A WIFE COMPETE WITH A VAMP IN
STIRRING HER HUSBAND?
An absorbing story in pictures of the everlasting
triangle of life, vividly portrayed
BOTH STARS DO SPLENDID WORK!
And we have again another of those fine two
reel comedies, starring
Jack Dempsey
entitled:
“K. 0. for Cupid”
AND A TOPICS REEL
The Liberty
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