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VOLUME XSII NUMBER 322
SEWARD; ALASKA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 5,1924
PRICE TEN CENTS
*
TO RESUME ill
SEATTLE, Jan. 5.—The Seward
Dutch Harbor mail steamer Starr will
sail Thursday or Friday to resume
her run from Seward to Dutch har
bor and westward points.
CHILDREN PLAY BALL
WITH SKULL OF CHILD
FALL RIVER, Mass., Jan 5.—A
group of children were playing in
vacant lot near here and were tossing!
around a strange object which they
had unearthed in a nearby dump to(
use as a ball.
One of the group Norman Maynard.,
12 years old took the object to hisj
home to save for a game on the toK
lowing day.
The “object” proved to be the skull
of a young child.
The skull was turned over to the
Medical Examiner Blanchette. He
declared the child had been dead but
a few weeks.
An investigation was started imme
diately.
CEREALS REMOVED FROM
HEADS OF CHILDREN
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.—Operating
on the heads of two children, from
which cereal grains were removed
excited considerable wonderment here
today.
Surgeons took from the nose of 6
vear old Charles Chasteen. a son of
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Chasteen. liv
ing near here, a grain of corn pos
sessing a two-inch sprout. Four hours
were consumed in removing font the
ear of Helen Jane Turner, the eight
year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Lyman Turner, of Hillsboro a grain
of wheat the root of which had grown
along a bone in the middle ear The
surgeons were forced to remove de
cayed bone from Helen’s head.
PARIS STUDENTS TO GET BEER
OR WINE WITH 15c MEALS
F
PARIS, Jan. 5.—When Paris univer
sity students return to their studies
for the winter terra they will find the
club house has been overhauled and
at the bar, a highly popular corner of
the establishment they will be furn
ished with generous meals at the price
of two francs and a half or somewhere
around 15 cents at the present rate of
of exchange.
As these meals include wine or beer
it is a mystery how the students’ as
sociation can supply them at such a
moderate rate. The menu will com
prise meat, vegetables, dessert, cheese
and beer or wine.
FORD BOOSTER SAYS HE IS OFF
FORD CANDIDACY FOR LIFE
ADRIAN, Mich., Jan. 4.—James W.
Helme, who recently filed petitions at
Lansing, placing the name of Henry
Ford in the democratic column of the
ballot in the presidential primary
said he is “off the Ford candidacy for
life,” in commenting today upon Mr.
Ford’s refusal to oppose President
Coolidge “The object of filing Ford
petitions at so early a date, was to
force a statement and find out where
the backers of Ford were at. The
specter of a possible Ford candidacy
was demoralizing to both parties and
brought dissension to third party or
ganization. All this is now removed
and we can settle down to the fact
that there will be no Ford in the race
this year. I am off Mr. Ford for life,”
said Mr. Helme.
Federal Inspection Urged
of All Canned Salmon
SEATTLE, Jan. 5.—Federal inspec
tion of all canned salmon is recom
mended by the Northwest Salmon
canneries in session here with Pres
** ident Dan Campbell of the Association
of Pacific Fisheries as president.
WIRELESS ELECTRICITY
Electric power has been transmitted
by wireless within a radius of two
miles. Because so much energy is
used in the transmission and too
much voltage required to be practice
ble, the tests were discontinued.
ALASKA SAILS WITH 1
BIG PASSENGER LIST
SEATTLE. Jan. 5 —The steamship
Alaska sailed this morning with 150
passengers including the following
for Seward: Robert Hale and wife.
Andrew Forstrom and wife, Mrs. E.
Berutto, Miss E. Kanok, Wm. Gars
ten, C. Lawrence, Mary M. Smith,
H. L. Niel Joseph Gratzsen, Joseph
Knizek, G. B. Stevens, M. Sengert, E.
Anderson, W Forsman, R. Hartman,
Paul Solden, M. J. Smith. Mrs. George
Koch, Miss R. Johnson.
INSECTS DO $100 000,000
ESTIMATED YEARLY DAMAGE
WASHINGTON. Jan 5.—Tree-kill
ing insects do damage estimated at;
one hundred million dollars annuallyi
in the United States, and damage for.'
est products to the extent of an addi
tional $45,000,000 each year, according
to experts of the bureau of entomol
ogy. Much of this amage can be
•prevented by the bureau, Depart
ment of Agricultural officials declare
A City of 50,000 May
Rise in Sage Brush
SEATTLE, Jan. 4.—A city of 50,000
persons engaged in electro-chemical
industries may rise on 6.000 acres of
sagebrush beside the Columbia river
to exploit water power rivaling that
of Niagara Falls if success follows,
plans referred by the Federal Water
Power Commission in Washington, D.
C., to Col. W. J. Borden, army engi
ueer for this district
Such a city would stand at Priest j
Rapids, Wash., 150 miles east of Se
attle on the other side of the Cascade
mountains.
A subsidiary of the General Elec
tric company has applied to the com
mission for a license to construct a
dam two miles long and 90 feet high,
a dam declared here to be in blue
print half again as long as the bar
rier across the Mississippi river at
Keokuk Iowa. It is proposed to de
velop 750,000 horsepower from the
rapids, besides irrigating 100,000 acres
of land in eastern Washington now
devoted to sagebrush and bunch grass1
but capable of yielding unsurpassed
fruits and crops under irrigation. The1
soil is volcanic ash. |
The cost of the power development
is put in the application at $31,000,000
and the cost of building the city ac
$12,000,000.
\ NEW YORK, Jan. 5.—Dr. Norman
Guthrie,, pastor of St. Mark’s in the
Bowery, and his board of vestrymen
were called before Bishop William T.
Manning, of the Protestant Episcopal
diocese of New York today to explain
i reports of dances and festivals in the
down town church and parish house.
: These reports have “shocked and
«scandalized” Bishop Manning, he
said.
The dances, most of them of the
Greek classic variety, have been giv
en by young women members of the
parish. Newspaper accounts declare
'the girls have been garbed in sun
shine and powder.
“Nothing we have done at St. Marks
has ever been from a church point of
/jew either immoral or illegal,” said
Dr. Guthrie. “At all times we have
1 endeavored to bring beauty and ex
pression into church activities These
dances were public and given on the
! lawn of the church. They were clas
| sical and highly beautiful.”
ARIZONA OFFICIAL WOULD
BAR ADVERTISING SIGNS
PHOENIX, Ariz. Jan. 5.—Placing
the ban on all advertising signs along
the highways under his jurisdiction,
-E. S. Wheeler, district engineer of the
bureau of public roads, has ordered
the immediate removal of a numbei
of such signs which grace or disgrace
the forest roads in this State Author
ity for this order is contained in a
Federal statute governing forest res
ervations, according to Wheeler, who
'is determined to see that only signs
placed by highway organizations, or
automobile clubs shall remain. The
ogy. Much of this damage can be
made to cover all state roads as well
If Wheeler Is successful in securing
the passage of a uniform State law
on the subject
Railways Will Spend.
.. Over a Billion Dollars
CHICAGO, Jan. 5.—The Railway;
kge says that the railways of the
country will spend a billion dollars in
permanent Improvements and for'
equipment in 1924, provided no leg-'
slatiou adverse to railways is passed;
ar seriously threatened by congress. ^
IN TOILS OF TOE LOW
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 5.—Some-!
where off the rugged coast of Califor^
nia the rakish schooner Prince Albert
—known along the coast as a “hell
ship.” wallows low In the waters with
a cargo of rum all unconscious that
at last justice has overtaken her.
The Prince Albert’s crew, according
to reports, lave committed several
murders, just outside the twelve milej
limit, but i.o one is worrying about
that, as it was dog eat dog. j
Her captain tortured one sailor un_
til he was driven insane but no one
got very much excited about that.
But now her crew has wantonly cut
a trans pacific cable and the govern
mont is moving heaven an! earth tc
find some aw under which tin-' can
be punished lor their 00t< act of
vandalism.
The Postal Cable went out of busi
ness last week and the repair ship
Restorer steamed at full speed from
Honolulu to pick up and splice the
broken strands The break was 25
miles off San Francisco, aiid the rum
runner was tied on to the cable. As
the impair boat approached sue slipp- J
away.
When tue Restorer raised the cable
it was found to have been cut clean
with an axe. Apparently it had been
f ailed by an anchor, hois ed to the
surface and ruthlessly cut tc avoid
the trouble of disengaging it. The
company is determined to make an
example of the vessel to save future
breaks
kJAPAN’S SHORE LINE HAS
INCREASED FROM QUAKES
TOKIO, Jan 5.—Japan’s area has
been considerably extended as a re
sult of the earthquakes felt recently.
There has been a marked change in
the shore line of the Miura and Iza
peninsulas which form Sagami Bay,
the center of the disturbance.
According to soundings the bay is
many fathoms deeper and along the
shores rocks heretofore immersed are
showing, while residences built on the
seashore have considerable stretches
of land between them and the sea
which, if reclaimed, will be of great
value.
The admiralty boats have been out
for some weeks now preparing new
Charts of Sagami Bay and surround,
ing waters. New charts of Tokio bay
also have been completed.
The meterological officials find that
the land rose to the extent of nine
feet on parts of Mura and Boso pe
ninsula, and at Choshi at the mouth
of the Tone river, north of Tokio and
about eight feet at Aiso on Izu penin
sula. On the other hand the earth
has settled at Inatori, a village at the
extreme end of Boso peninsula, and
'at Oshima or Vires Island, just oppo
site Inatori.
GERMAN LEGACY SEEMS
STAGGERING, BUT IS IT?
I DENVER, Col., Jan. 5.—It looks
I like the wealth of Croesus, when reck
oned in German marks, but the rate
of exchange is responsible for German
heirs being notified that they are to
inherit 20,000,000,000,000,000 marks.
When Adolph Schinner of Denver
I died recently he left an estate of
! $42,000 to relatives in Germany.
When expressed in German money
the estate represents more marks
than the average man can count.
' The estate is at present in the
hands of the alien property custodian.
OLYMPIA MOONSHINER IS
CONVICTED BY JURY
PORT ANGELES, Jan. 5.—After de
liberating nine hours a jury in the
superior court here returned a verdict
late last night convicting Ernest Pe
tersen of ownership of a still on the
Jack Rainey place in the west end oi
the county. Petersen was not at the
still when the raid was made but evi
dence submitted showed that he was
owner of the house in which it was
located
BLAMES MANY ILLS ON
HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE
—
COLUMBUS, O., Jan. 5.—That mor-!
tality may be reduced by teaching!
the public how to control high blood
pressure is the belief voiced by Dr.
Martin A. Martenson of the Battle
Creek Sanitarium, in an address here
at a meeting of physicians and sur
geons.
He declared that persons should be
suspicious of chronic cases of morn
ing headaches, nervous disorders, and
in later life, dizzy spells, vertigo
palpitations and chest pains.
Careful watch on the arterial ten
sion of youthful patients was urged
by Dr. Martensen who asserted his
belief that many times high blood
pressure was prompted by heredity.
Five Thousand Rifles
Sold to Mex Government
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.—Secretary
Weeks announced the sale of five
thousand rifles and five million
rounds of ammunition to the Mexican
government.
EDISON GIVES MEDAL
TO NEW YORK INVENTOR
NEW YORK, Jan. 5.—John William
Licb of New York has been awarded
■the Edison medal for 1923 by the
Edison committee of the American In
stitute of Electric Engineers, it was
announced here today, for the devel
opment and operation of electrical con
trol stations for illumination and
power. Mr. Lieb is 63 years old and
is president of the New York Edison
company. For several years he was
assistant to Thomas A. Edison. He
Is the thirteenth man to receive the
award.
NOTED GLOBE TROTTER
IS FROZEN TO DEATH
SUPERIOR, Wis., Jan. 4.—The body
of a man found frozen to death in a
haystack at Oliver, Wis., a suburb,
has been identified as that of Frank
Fletcher, famous globe trotter who
started out from San Francisco in
June^ 1919, to walk to Buenos Aires,
and circle the United States before
June, 1924.
I he American Athletic association
had posted $10,000 for Fletcher in case
he should complete the trip success,
fully according to papers found in a
knapsack near the haystack.
d he proviso in this wager chat
Fletcher must always sleep under the
open sky is believed to have caused
his death last Saturday night, which
i was bitter cold.
Hundreds of letters from mayors
and police chiefs of cities visited by
Fletcher were found in his knapsack
Fletcher was 53 years old.
VATICAN STORE ROOM
YIELDS HARE STATUE
ROME, Jan. 5.—A head in Parian
marble believed to have formed pari
of the decorations of the Parthenon
at Ainens and declared to be the
only relic of the famous temple in
Italy, has been discovered under a
heap of lumber in one of the Vatican
store rooms.
The find was made by Prof. Ame
lung, who recently obtained permis
sion to explore the old Vatican store
rooms for the first time in centuries
AN ETHER JAG IS GREAT—IF
YOU CAN LIVE THROUGH IT
—
SIOLX CITY, la., Jan. 5.—The ge
nial old soaks of Sioux City are tak.
ing a few tips from the young rum
hounds who want the old sensations
at a low price.
The newest stunt of the topers is
the ether jag. Sometimes the drinkei
wakes up and sometimes he doesn’t
but it’s a great experience if one lives
through it, according to the venture
some drinkers who have tried it.
The ether jaggist simply drops a
few drops of ether on a piece of sugai
and swallows it. After that his fate
Is In the hands of the gods of the
bootlegger.
Mrs. C. C. Hinde returned on Iasi
night’s train from Anchorage, when
she spent the holidays with Mr. ant
Mrs. H. S. Balderston.
Marshal G. B. Stevens of Fairbanki
Is a returning passenger on the Alas
ka, which sailed from Seattle today
DEMOCRATS SORE
AT REPUBLICAN
TAX AMENDMENTS
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.—Democrat
ic members of the House Ways and
Means Committee expressed keen re_
sentment today at the fluent announce!
ment from the White House yesterday
afternoon to the effect that President
Coolidge would resist any attempt to
amend the tax bill as framed by Sec
retary Mellon.
While Republican leaders of the
House desire the tax measure shall'
be considered first there is still strong
pressure on both Republican and
Democratic congressmen to take the
soldier bonus legislation first.
GUPID CLAIMS INMATES '
OF 00ME FOR TOE AGED
ALTOONA, Pa., Jan. 5.—The little
god of the bow and arrow on a recent'
raid here invaded the confines of the
Morrison’s Cove Home for the Agedi
and attacked two of the inmates. Onei
is aged 73 and the other 70.
J. C. McClellan and Mrs. Catherine
Blomo, slipped quietly away from the
institution and visited the most popu
lar nearby Gretna Green, Cumberland
Maryland
• They have started a home of their
own.
STOWAWAY BARRED FROM
COUNTRY TAKES AN APPEAL
ASTORIA, Jan. 5.—Gustav Proko
penko and Frederick Charles Markus,
Estlionians, who were stowaways on
the Dutch steamship Tjibesar, which
arrived last evening from Shanghai,
were given hearings this afternoon be
fore a special board of inquiry cot?
sisting of Immigration Inspector Roy
J. Norene Federal Quarantine Officer
H. M Manning and Deputy Collector
of Customs, R. D. Lamb. Markus,
wo had a proper passport, was ad
mitted, but Prokepenko was debarred
' because his passport was no/ prop
erly endorsel. He has taken an ap
peal to the secretary of labor.
PRESIDENT WILL GET A
CHOICE CUT OF STEER BEEF
CHICAGO, Jan. 5.—Choice cuts from
Broadus White Sox, proclaimed the
nation's champion steer, at the recent
International Livestock exposition,
I are to be sent to President Coolidge.
The animal was butchered yesterday
by Prof. M. D. Helser of the Iowa Ag
ricultural college The steer dressed
67.59 per cent.
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace,
and Julius Rosenwald, president oi
Sears-Roebuck & Co., which purchas
ed the animal will also receive cuts of
the beef.
Adjutant American Legion
Has Resigned Position
‘ INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 5.—Lemuel
Bolles National ■ Adjutant of the
American Legion today announced/
his resignation to accept a position f
■with a large publishing house in New
York
RESERVE OFFICERS ASK
FOR LARGER APPROPRITION \
WASHINGTON Jan. 5.—A move-t
ment to have congress increase appro-i
priations for the training of army re
serve officers from ?2,907,640, the re
commendation on the budget, to $6,_
149,150, was launched today by the
Reserve Officers’ association under
the personal direction of Brig. Gen.
John R. Delafield, of New York, pres
ident of the association.
EXEMPT FROM TAXES
VICTORIA, B. C., Jan. 5.—By an
amendment introduced in the legisla
ture yesterday by John Hart, minister
of finance, and approved, ships plying
between Canadian and foreign ports)
will be exempted from paying the fuel
oil tax of half a cent a gallon.
Nothing Found of Ship
Sending Out S. 0. S. Call
SEATTLE, Jan. 5.—The fate of 60
officers and men of the Harold Dollar
, and the Kyosei Maru remained a mys
[ tery today, although wireless stations
along the coast and cf Alaska made
every effort to get in touch with the
( disabled vessels. It is feared that a
. ,hoax has been perpetrated by some
, amateur wireless station.
'
MABEL fill
ASKS PUBLIC IB
GIVE FAIR PLAY
LOS ANGELES, Jan 5.—Fearing
that announcements from the censor
boards throughout the country ban
ning her pictures will influence the
' public, Mabel Normand issued an ap
peal for fair play and a chance to
show* that “I am innocent of any
wrong in connection with the shooting
of Mr. Dines.”
t Already the censors of numerous
1 states have ordered the removal from
! the screen of any pictures in which
! Mabel Normand is shown.
I_
Washington Publisher he
Asked to Explain Loan
1 WASHINGTON, Jan. 5—The Sen
,1 ate public lands committee voted to
. day to ask Edward B. McLean, the
[(Washington publisher, for a sworn
>i statement regarding the hundred
I thousand dollars he is alleged to have
> loaned former secretary of the into
>! rior, Albert B. Fall, whose financial
- affairs have come under review in the
1 Teapot Dome investigation in the
Senate.
r
AVIATORS WHO HUNTED
DUCKS IN AIRPLANE
. DECIDE TO PAY FINES
1 TACOMA, Jan. 5.—A. J. Davis and
John Clements, of Portland, the two
aviators charged in state and federal
courts with illegally huntine ducks
with an airplane on Willapa harbor,
have settled the cases against them,
it was disclosed today. Checks for
$75 each from the men have been re
ceived by Justice F. R. Wright of
South Bend, who fined the men that
sum on the state charges against
them.
The fines were paid after Wallace
Mount, deputy United States attorney
here, had notified the two aviators
that the federal charges of violating
the migratory bird law would be drop
ped if a settlement was reported on
1 the state charges.
Troy Brewster, South Bend hotel
i nian, is awaiting trial on similar
^charges. He is accused of accompa
nying the aviators when they flew
over Willapa harbor killing ducks.
Frank Mossman, Pacific county, game
^warden announced that the federal
^charges may be pressed against Mr.
•..Brewster.
HOUSING SHORTAGE IS DUE
MANY STUDENTS MARRYING
STATE COLLEGE, Pa , Jan. 5 —
Housing accommodations in this city
which is located near the Pennsvlva
nia State College are in greater de
mand than ever before mainly be
cause fifty of the students who attend
the school are married and maintain
families here.
A number of the students who
were married were sent here by the
federal authorities for training as a
part of the rehabilitation program.
MIDGET CO-EDS GO INTO
DRAMATICS FOR LIVELIHOOD
COLUMBUS, O., Jan. 5.—Belief that
her diminutive stature gives her a de
cided advantage over other folks is
voiced by xMiss Virginia Moore, fresh
man the smallest student at Ohio
State University.
Miss Moore, who is 1, weighs but
80 pounds and is 4 feet, 3 inches tall,
has announced her intention—after
several years of dramatic study—of
entering a dramatic school. She hopes
eventually to play juvenile parts, be
lieving this would be impossible if
she were of normal stature.
NORTHWESTERN SAILS
WEST TO HALIBUT COVE
The steamship Northwestern arriv
ed in port late night about 11 o’clock
and sailed for Halibut Cove. She will
return to Seward some time tomorrow
south bound.
LIGHTHOUSE FOR PACIFIC ISLE
HHONOLULU, Jan. 5.—The Hawa
iian department of the army is co-op_
erating with the Federal Lighthouse
service in plans to map the small
rock island of Kaula, which rises sev
eral hundred feet above the Pacific at
a point 35 miles south of the Island