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VOLUME ID, NUMBER 233
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1924
PRICE TEN CENTS
MAJOR LEAGUE PLAYERS ACCUSED
OF BRIBERY; TWO ARE OUSTED FOR
ALLEGED IMPLICATION OF CHARGE
TRY TO BRIBE HEINE SANDS OF
PHILADELPHIA THROW GAME
TO THE GIANTS
i
OCONNEL AND DOLAN GOATS
World Series To Start Tomorrow Be
tween Giants and Senators
In Washington, D. C.
^*>W YORK, Oct. 3—A sensational
charge of bribery, involving members
of the New York Giants, the National
league champions on the eve of their
opening in the world series battle
with the Washington Senators, was
disclosed here by Commissioner Lan
dis, czar of the major leagues
and champion arbitrator.
Jimmy Dolan, the $750,000 young
uotfielder for the Giants has confes
sed that he offered a bribe of $500 to
Heine Sand, the Philadelphia short
stop to throw the game between the
two teams which was held on Septem
ber 27.
According to Commissioner Landis,
who announced the players had been
declared ineligible for the title games.
Cozy Dolan, veteran coach of the
Giants and close friend of Manager
John McGraw, also was implicated in
the attempt of bribery, according to
O’Conners confession, who also has
been luled ineligible to associate liim
sel! in any of the games which are to
conn; off, according to a decision
handed down late today by Commis
si cr. Landis.
Protects Accused Men.
PITSBURG, Pa., Oct. 4.—O’Conncl
ami Dolan are only the goats, Bar
ney Dreyfus, owner of the Pittsburg
Pirates said today in commenting on
the baseball scandal, which has led
to the expulsion of Cozy Dolan and
Jimmy O’Connel from organized base
ball.
Dreyfus further stated that the in
vestigation into the bribe ottered tc
.Heine Sand should go further that
ousting of two men, and that il
investigated more thoroughly, the
low-down truth of the whole af'faii
in which the two men were implicated
may exonerate them of any wrong-do
ing.
Giants Leave for Capital.
NEW YORK, Oct. 4.—Shrunken £
little by the two members, through
the baseball scandal, the New York
National league baseball club depart
ed this afternoon for Washington, D
C., to play the first game of the world
series with the Washington Senators
The game is scheduled for Saturday
Case Cleared Up.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 4.—'Thf
investigation into the charges of at
tempted bribery, involving the New
York Giants, of the National league
champions aspiring in the world ser
ies, has been completed and basebal
officials here are convinced that thf
expulsion of Jimmy O’Connel thf
young $750,000 substitute outfielder
and Cozy Dolan, veteran coach has
fought the case officially to a close.
CANAL ZONE GOVERNOR
RESIGNS; MAN NAMED
SUCCEED IMMEDIATELY
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 4.—Sec
retar>* of War Weeks announced yes
terday the resignation of Colonel Jaj
J. Morrow, governor of the Cana
Zone who has had his headquarters a
Coion. Merriwether L. Walker ha:
\ ‘ i n appointed to succeed him.
NOTED RODEO STAR
THROWN FROM STEEC
SPOKANE, Oct. 4.—Mable Strick
land, the noted rodeo star, was
thrown from her horse yesterday
while engaged in a steer roping con
test. She was taken to the Coeur d
Alene hospital in an unconscious con
ctition.
4; -
Regained Consciousness.
COEUR D’ ALENE, Oct. 4—Mabh
Strickland has regained consciousness
and her condition is not considered
serious.
CIGARETTE IGNITES HER
, CLOTHING; MAYBE FATAL
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 4.—Mrs. Marj
Carbajal, aged 38, is dying from burns
received when her clothes were ig
nited by sparks from a cigarette sh(
was smoking.
TAKES FOUR WORDS
ANSWER BROOKHART
DAVENPORT, Oct, 4.—“Wounded
birds always flutter,” was the reply
Chas. Dawes made today to Senator
Brookhart, after the latter had de
manded that he be dispatched from
the Republican ticket.
JAPS MAY RECOGNIZE
SOVIET GOVERNMENT
PEKING, Oct. 4.—Conversations be
tween Karakhan and Yoshizawa pro
mise an early recognition of the So
viet government by Japan. Accord
in to advices Karakhan has waived
the question of the evacuation of
Saghalien admitting it is impossible
to settle that question owing to the
approach of winter. It will be taken
up in the Spring.
SOUTHERN PACIFIC EXPANDS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 4.—The
Interstate Commerce commission has
i approved of the Southern Pacific rail
; road acquiring the El Paso Southwest
| ern System. This gives the Southern
Pacific virtually a double track from
! Chicago to the coast.
WIFE OF BERYL G.
SKIPPER BELIEVES
HE IS MURDERED
VANCOUVER, B. C., Oct. 2.—Mrs.
1 W. Gillis, wife of the owner of the
Beryl G., a small schooner picked up
near Stuart island in the Gulf of Geor
gia, without a sign of life aboard, but
with evidences of a severe fight be
fore she was deserted, said today she
heard from her husband a week ago
from Victoria. Mr. Gillis wi'ote he was
| going to a west coast logging camp
to do some towing. Mrs. Gillis be
, lieves liquor hi-jackers boarded the
; vessel and killed both her husband and
son.
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CRIME WAVE IN
SEATTLE GROWING
SEATTLE, Oct. 4.—Two burglaries
were reported here last night. One
of the robbers revealed himself in a
policeman’s uniform and was reported
to be working from a point near the
Broadway residential district. This
district has been the scene of late, of
many petty robberies.
BOY WHO STOLE §772,000
I ROM BANK IS ACQUITTED
, CHICAGO, Oct. 3.—“Little Willie”
Dalton, the 16-year-old boy who in
i 1921 upset the country by walking
away from a Chicago bank where he
was employed, with bonds valued at
$772,000, went home with his mother
j last night without fear of being sent
to the reformatory or a penitentiary.
A jury, trying him for the theft of
I the securities after two other juries
had disagreed, yesterday, decided he
| was not guilty.
—J>T0N* VIIW CO.. HiW_VO««l
MAY TAKE POST AS DAWES
PLAN AGENT.
S. Parker Gilbert, jr„ formerly Un
;der Secretary of the Treasury, who is
i being mentioned for the post of Agt.
Gen. of the Dawes’ Reparations plan.
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COPYRIGHT KeVSTONI VIIW.CO, NtVY YORK
THE KNOCKOUT
Just as Tommy Gibbons knocked out Jack Bloomfield in the Third
round at the Wembley Stadium, the camera clicked and the picture caught
Jack Bloomfield in this rather ungraceful position. There were over 60,
000 people to see the fight. E Corrie was the 3rd man in the ring.
SO. AMERICAN EXPLORER
i RELATES STRANGE T ALES
CERTAIN TRIBAL BELIEFS
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 3.—Killed by
a jealous lover in 1019, the soul of
Spier Maddelon L-mous “Queen of
Boa' ty,” of the fierce Southern Amer
ican tribe known as the Jiveros, rests
now within he>- withered skull in Los
Ang;Ies until the death of the tribe’s
chief priest relc..so'. the last tie that
binds her to earth; then her spirit
will be reincarnated into a bright
plumaged female bird to flit and fly
in the Ecuadorian jungles, while the
soul of the priest, in the form of a
male bird, will be her happy compan
ion.
That was the story of the Jiveros
tribe belief told by Curtis Kimball
and George Sullivan, explorers, here
recently, while making final plans for
their jaunt into Peruvian and Ecua
dorian lands.
The adventurers will leave here to
day sailing to Guayaquil, Ecuador,
and thence going into the interior.
Kimball and Sullivan are hunters of
skulls and strange stories. While in
South America they expect to obtain
the complete story of Maddelon, the
beautiful dancer stabbed to death as
she danced before a South American
tribal chief.
The explorers have already a huge
collection of skulls, each with a
| strange history.
I They said they had no difficulty in
exchanging beads and cheap millinery
| and finery for the most historic of
S&1IIS4
LASHBROOKE DIES
IN EARLY MORNING
Frank Lashbrooke, formerly U. S.
commissioner at Kenai and well
known throughout the Cook Inlet dis
trict, died last Saturday at his An
chorage home at Ninth and K streets,
at 12:15 a. m. The cause of his death
was attributed to cancer of the stom
ach. Mr. Lashbrooke had been ill
ever since his arrival in Anchorage
about a year ago.
Mr. Lashbrooke is survived by no
known relatives and was about 68
years of age. He purchased his home
in Anchorage shortly after his arriv
al here. He was U. S. Commissioner
at Kenai for two years during the pe
riod of the World war.
BRITISH KING REVEALED
OWNER OF PUBLIC HOUSE
LONDON, Oct. 3.—It is just reveal
ed that King George is the owner of
a saloon, or, in the parlance of a cer
tain class of Englishmen that he is a
“fully licensed gennelman.”
The royal saloon, or pub, as the
Englishman terms it, is situated in
the village of Dersingham, on the roy
al estate of Sandringham, and bears
the name of the “Three Feathers.”
According to local gossip, King Ed
ward frequently dropped into the pub
when passing through the village,
while King George has been known to
look in on occasions.
TEX RICKARD LOST $5,000
ON WILLS-FIRPO FIGHT
TRENTON, N. J., Oct. 4.—Tex Rick
ard lost $5,000 on the Wills-Firpo
fight it became known here today. The
loss is placed to the purses paid the
fighters. Firpo received $156,211 and
Wills, $150,000.
KETCHIKAN FISH PRICES
Fish prices yesterday—fresh halibut
at 15 and 9. Sable at four.
20 STAMPEDERS BACK
WRANGELL FROM THE
OLD CASSIAR DISTRICT
WRANGELL, Oct. 4.—Twenty stam
peders returned here Monday from
the new gold strike on Eagle river,
in British Columbia. They reported
having reached the diggings too late
to do anything except stake claims.
They reported there is no wood with
in five miles of the river. Two days’
prospecting was done under difficul
ties but coarse colors were found all
along the river bed.
Sixty claims have been staked out
by Wrangell miners who are very en
thusiastic and will return to Cassiar
in the Spring by the first boat.
Huge Chilberg, returning miner and
business man said that he will return
in early spring and open a restaurant
and says that prices for his saleables
will range about the same as any
former camp price. Flour will be
sold at forty dollars, hundred pounds
and other commodities in proportion
Some of the prospectors that made
‘the stampede to that district recent
ly prolonged their stay and are going
j to saw timber for lumber for the
| proposed diggings, and sell some to
; other miners when they arrive in the
Spring. The price of the lumber, it
Jis said, will be set at $360 per 1,000
feet.
Two Stikine river boats left today
with supplies which will be discharg
ed at Telegraph creek and will be
taken to the diggings over the ice
during the winter. This was the last
scheduled trip of the boats, but owing
to the fact that fifteen persons are on
their way from Seattle bound for Cas
siar, one of the vessels will make an
extra trip, leaving Wrangell October
6 or 7.
—
Saxony Wants Criminals
And Lunatics Sterilized
DRESDEN, Oct. 3.—The govern
ment of Saxony has filed a motion
with the Reich’s authorities to provide
an amendment to the criminal law
compelling degenerates, feeble mind
ed persons and certain classes of lun
atics to undergo a sterilizing opera
tion.
The amendment would provide that
the compulsory operation be perform
ed after the patients refused to sub
mit voluntarily and then only upon
a court order after a hearing before
a committee of medical authorities.
AIRPLANE IS USED TO
LOCATE FOREST FIRES
OLYMPIA, Oct. 3.—Using an air
plane for the first time in three years
on forest fire reconnaissance work
over the Oylmpic national forest, Chris
Morganroth, federal forester at Port
Angeles, will be taken in a flight over
the peninsula today in an army plane
from Sand Point aviation field, accord
ing to R. L. Fromme, federal super
visor here.
The plane will start in its flight
from the aviation field near Seattle,
and will be piloted over the Little
Quilcene, Snow Creek, Goldie Creek,
Bogachiel and Quinalt fires, Mr.
Fromme said.
The Goldie creek fire is now Threat
ening a large quantity of timber in a
new blown area in the headwaters of
the Elwha, it has been reported to
the federal forest officers here.
C. C. Hinde was a passenger for
Anchorage on yesterday’s train. He
will remain there for a fe days look
ing after some business matters.
LEAGUE ASSEMBLY
ACCEPTS PROTOCOL
GENEVA, Oct. 4—The League of
Nations assembly yesterday unani
mously adopted resolutions recom
mending that all countries involved
accept the protocol of arbitration,
which has been the subject before the
council chamber for the past tew
days and held in high discussion.
It had the security of the forty-sev
en delegates who were in attendance,
and no country which was represent
ed at he meet abstained from voting.
BANDITS SWOOP DOWN
ON BANK; ROB IT, $1,500
DOWELL, 111., Oct. 4.—Four ban
dits swooped down on the bank of
Dowell this noon, struck the cashier
on the head with a gun, shot a bank
guard in the eye and the village mar
shal through the neck and escaped
in an automobile with fifteen hundred
dollars.
GOV. ROSS DIES.
CHEYENE, Wvo., Oct. 4—Governor
Ross of Wyoming died yesterday
morning.
Accidental Poisoning
of War Veteran Causes
Discharge of Physician
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 3—Three employ
ees of the United States veteran’s
hospital, No. 92, near Jefferson bar
racks here, have been dismissed up
on orders from Washington, as a re
sult of the accidental poisoning last
February, at that institution, of Ed
ward B. Weston, world war veteran
of Cedar Rapids, la., who had gone
to the hospital for stomach treatment,
it was announced today.
They are Dr. E. RI. Smith, Miss
Esther Johnson, a nurse, and Lay
Hardy, an X-ray technician.
It was announced that the officials
had made a thorough investigation but
did not fix the responsibility for the
poisoning.
Dr. Smith was examining Weston
with a Fluoroscope, an X-ray device,
when a nurse administered by mis
take a ooisonous chemical used in
photography. Antidotes failed to
save Weston. Painters in the hospit
al had accidentally mixed bottles, it
was disclosed at the coroner’s in
quest.
DEAF WOMAN KISSED
OTHER WOMAN TOO LOUD
FULTON, N. Y., Oct. 3.—Because
Harry Lefler, formerly of Fulton, now
Binghampton, kissed another woman
right out loud, his wife, Catherine
of Campville, Tioga county, has been
granted an interlocutory decree of di
vorce.
“He was hard of hearing, and I of
ten heard him kissing the woman.”
This was the testimony of James W.
Ullyette, of Danville, where Lefler is
alleged to have lived with the other
woman.
“He called her ‘Winnie’ and he of
ten called her endearing names that
I can’t remember,” Ullyette, who lived
in an apartment adjoining Lefler’s
testified.
PRESENTS UNCLE SAM WITH A
5,000-ACRE FIELD.
Frederick B. Patterson, who today
formally presented to the War depart
ment the deeds for 5,000 acres for a
new McCook Field.
MRS. WILSON LISTENS
IN ON DAVIS’ TALK;
SEC. MELLON FLAYED
DEMOCRATIC PARTY WILL CARRY
OUT IDEALS ADVANCED EJY
WOODROW WILSON
BALTIMORE, Md„ Oct. 4.—Mrs.
Woodrow Wilson sat on the speaker's
1 stand at Frederick, near here, last
night and heard John W. Davis pledge
himself and in behalf of the Demo
cratic party, and said that the Dem
ocratic ’ party would carry out the
ideals which her husband stood for.
She heard him pledge himself to the
people of the United States and to
the foreign nations of the world on
the International policy, based, not
upon the selfishness; not upon the
aloofness; not upon the isolation—but
instead, he said, in readiness and a
willingness to share in all the bur
dens, both foreign and domestic.
In continuing, Davis declared that
“in time, the League of Nations will
be entered by the United States.”
In his attack on Secretary Andrew
Mellon of the Treasury, Davis accused
him of making himself a “financial
prophet,” through the unwarranted in
crease by his party, friends and asso
ciates of the Tariff on aluminum. In
this latter statement, Davis was re
ferring to Mellon’s affiliation with the
aluminum companies of America.
ZR-3 MAY BE DELAYED
LONDON, Oct. 4.—The ZR-3 has de
veloped unexpected engine trouble,
according to a dispatch from Freder
ichshafen, and her departure for Am
erica will be delayed for a time.
PAYS DEATH PENALTY
FOR THE MURDER OF
CONSUL AT TEHERAN
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 4.—The
American legation at Teheran, Per
sia, reported to the State department,
late this afternoon that Private Mor
tesa, one of the Persian soldiers, was
found guilty of having incited a mob
which murdered the American vice
consul, Imbrie, here in July. The in
stigator was executed for his deed.
SOVIET FLAG HOISTED
ON WRANGELL ISLAND
MOSCOW, Oct. 3.—The crew of the
Russian ship Krasny Oktiabr, (Red
October), hoisted the Soviet flag on
I Wrangell Island, off Northern Siberia,
! on August 20, according to announce
i ment made by the Rosta news agency,
j They found an American and eleven
Eskimos on the island. The vessel
! will sail for home soon.
The Red October, flying the Rus
sian flag and with Russian infantry,
was dispatched to take the inhabitants
prisoners, seize the shipping and es
tablish Russian ownership of the is
land in the name of the soviet govern
ment.
MOB KILLS NEGRO
WHO ATTACKS GIRL
CLARKSDALE, Miss., Sept. 3.—
Herbert Taylor, negro, a trusty con
vict of Camp B, of the Parchman con
vict farm was lynched by a mob near
Lambert, Miss., last night, for an al
leged attack upon the small daughter
of a convict guard it was learned here
tonight.
According to the announcement
made by local authorities the negro
was taken from Sheriff McArthur of
Quitman county, marched into the
woods and shot to death.
The alleged victim of the negro’s at
tack is only four years old. Her fath
er is a guard at Camp B, where Tay
lor was serving a sentence.
Local authorities said the attack
ocurred yesterday. Sheriff McArthur,
aided by deputies, arrested Taylor and
decided to bring him to Clarksdale for
safekeeping. AJter several attempts
to elude mobs, the sheriff was finally
stopped. The negro was forced from
the machine and marched into the tim
ber nearby, where his body was riddled
with bullets.
PLACESPOISON IN
HUBBY’S BUTTERMILK
MARION, 111., Oct. 3.—Ruby Her
rington confessed to the police here
the other day that she put a tea
spoon-and-a-half of poison in a glass
of buttermilk which she gave her
husband to drink the night before he
died on September 2.