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VOLUME XX. NUMBER 148
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SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JUNE 23.1925.
PRICE TEN CENTS.
OFFERS BLOOD;
DIES IN HIS CELL
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3ERNARD GRANT, UNDER SEN
TENCE OF DEATH,STABBED
BY CELLMATE
CHICAGO June 23. —Bernard Grant,
•whom Walter Krauser stabbed five
times Saturday, fearful of the hang
nan's noose despite thousands of pe
titions for clemency, spurned blood
transfusion today and died thirty min
utes after the stabbing.
Before he died, he said: "I will be
( dead soon if you will let me alone, so
why prolong my life, when it’s going
to be taken from me anyway.”
He and Krauser were sentenced to
aang together for the killing of a po
liceman. Krauser obtained a new
trial in which he admitted Grant was
nnocent, and then proceeded to stab
him, when they were alone in jail.
DEATHS IN SEATTLE INCREASING
SEATTLE, June 23. (/P)—Deaths
c yesterday of Mrs. Hazel Dailey, thir
ty- two. of Seattle, who leaped out of
the car her husband was driving, and
Mrs. B. B. MacMahon, of Mercer Is
land, who was hurt in a collision of
automobiles near Kent, made the to
tal of motor fatalities for the week
end in western Washington, six.
TODD RECALLED
FROM POSITION
‘ ASMAYORRELSO
AFTER LONG FIGHT IS FORCED
TO RESIGN—MAKE EFFORTS
TO FIND SLAYER DOVERY
KELSO, June 23. (#>)—’Todd was
recalled June 3 as mayor of Kelso, af
ter a long fight with the council and
citizens, accompanied by libel suits.
He announced Saturday in Seattle,
following the assassination of Dovery,
one of his supporters, that “friends of
Dovery will make every effort to learn
who shot him down in the street.”
Dovery was slain while on his way
home from a political meeting, where
the return of Todd to office was agi
tated.
Still Considers Self Mayor
KELSO, June 23. —Todd announc
t ed today that he still considered him
self mayor, and that he would proceed
to appoint a new council and chief of
police.
Nat Smith, selected as mayor to suc
ceed Todd, started for Olympia today
to confer with Attorney General Dun
bar.
Todd arrived at four this morning
in an automobile from Seattle, accom
M panied by his lawyer. John T. Casey
of Seattle.
SNOW STORMS IN ARGENTINE
CAUSED MANY DEATHS
BUENOS AIRES, June 23. (/P)—
Snow storms in Argentine, of unusual
violence, have caused many deaths
this winter, accompanied by extreme
cold weather. A very heavy loss in
beef stock is reported due to exposure
which loss, it is estimated, will run
up into hundreds of thousands of dol
lars. This is the coldest winter Ar
gentine has, encontered for many
years.
PARIS, June 23. (/P)—Ann Lewis
f , mer, dressmaker, was found guilty of
murdering her sister and sentenced
to two years imprisonment.
The prisoner testified how she fired
j sl number of bullets at her sister af
ter she had been begging her to put
her to death, as the sister knew she
could never recover from the disease
with which she suffered.
I
DARROW ANSWERS QUESTIONS
IN REGARD TO EVOLUTION
NASHVILLE, June 23. (JP)—Darrovv
in as we ring a questionnaire present
ed him by Drj Noel H. Cooper of Nash
ville, wrote, “If evolution is contrary
to the teaching of the bible, then as
tronomy and geology should be barred
from schools. If it is a crime to
teach evolution then it should be a
crime to teach the same in schools,
public or private, or print it in news
papers and books.”
CUTTER HAIDA ON
WAY CORDOVA;
SICK OFFICER
EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF BERING
SEA PATROL NEARING POINT
OF DEATH—RUSHED SOUTH
DUTCH HARBOR, June 23. (JP)—
The cutter Algonquin arrived here
Friday night at full speed with Lieut.
Commander W. J. Scammell, execu
tive officer, ill with hernia and Malar
ial fever.
Commander F. H. Vanboskerck, who
is commanding the Bering Sea patrol,
had Scammell transferred immediate
ly to the Haida, which left at full
speed for the nearest hospital, Cordo
va.
If Scammel lives he will be trans
ferred from Cordova by the Unalga to
Juneau, for* further treatment.
Vanboskerck said the episode illus
trated the urgent need of a govern
ment hospital at Unalaska.
SCOPES TRIAL NOT STUNT
TO SECURE PUBLICITY
DAYTON, Tenn., June 23. (JP)—At
torneys for the prosecution in the
trial of Scopes, issued a statement de
nying the evolution trial to be a pub
! licity stunt to gain no.toriety for Ten
nessee and Dayton. They asserted
the entire matter originated with pro
ponents of evolution, G. W. Rapple
yea filing the complaints against
j Scopes, who will be prosecuted like
any other man.
REPORT STATES
JAPS KILLED IN
CHINESE RIOTING
JAPAN THREATENS STRONG AC
TION UNLESS APOLOGY IS
MADE
SHANGHAI, June 23. (£>)—An un
confirmed private telegram from Wu
Chow, one hundred and eighty miles
west of Canton, said the Japanese
customs commissioner had been kill
ed there and two Japanese injured.
Attack Japanese Consuls
SHANGHAI, June 23. (JP)— It is re
ported that Chinese mobs are attack
ing Japanese consuls at Chuking and
Chingkiang. The consul at Ching
kiang has demanded an apologj
threatening strong action by Japan
Loot Customs Mess
NINGPO, June 23. (/P)—Antiforeigr
rioters here damaged and completelj
looted the junior customs mess Iasi
night.
ALGARSSON ON HIS
WAV TO ARCTK
LIVERPOL, June 23. (JP)—Gretti:
Algarsson sailed yesterday announc
ing the abandoning of his attempt t<
reach the pole, stating he will merel:
try to attain a point further north thai
MacMillan or anybody else this year
NAVAL ACADEMY
WINS VARSITY
RACE, IN EAST
POUGHKEEPSIE, June 23. (£>)-—
Naval academy won the varsity inter
collegiate crew race, with Washing
ton second and Wisconsin third.
Passing the one mile point, Wash
ington led by half a length, with the
middies second and Pennsylvania 3rd.
Columbia brought up the line of rac
ing skulls, holding fourth place, with
Wisconsin fifth and Cornell sixth.
At the two mile post Washington
had made a lead of three quarters of
a length over the middies who were a
length ahead of Pennsylvania.
At the three mile post the Navy i
and Washington increased their
strokes, being nearly even and Pen
sylvania third.
A false start was made. Washing
I ton getting the jump. Rain began to
fall as the boats were called back.
The middies got the break in the
final start, with Cornell and Pennsyl
vania following nearly even.
The race was rowed in a heavy rain
storm; time: 20:34, 2-5.
Conditions were ideal as the varsity
crews took their positions, with a faint
breeze straight down the course, with
scarcely a ripple on the water.
Syracuse won the Freshman race
leading Pennsylvania by a length and
a half; Columbia came in third. Time:
9:59, which was twenty-seven seconds
faster than the Junior varsity race.
WASHINGTON IS
FIRST IN JUNIOR
VARSITY RACE
POUGHKEEPSIE, June 23. —Wash
ington yesterday won the Junior Var
sity race, with Cornell taking second
place and Pennsylvania third.
Pennsylvania got the jump at the
start and held a slight lead for the
first hundred yards, with Cornell a
close second and Washington third.
Then Cornell took the lead with the
Washington crew second and Pennsyl
vania third. Washington won by a
length and a quarter, after a brilliant
contest during the last mile.
Weather Perfect for Race*
POUGHKEEPSIE, June 23. —A
cloudless dawn revealed a quiet river
for the twenty-eighth annual intercol
I legiate regetta, including seventeen
crews for three races.
After final spins in the stream the
crews walked briefly into the hills
west of the river. Washington and
the Naval academy are favorites for
the varsity race which is four miles;
Syracuse and Washington for the
Junior varsity race of two miles and
Wisconsin and Pennsylvania for the
Freshmen race, of two miles.
The junior varsity race will take
place at four o’clock in the afternoon,
eastern standard time, the freshmen
at four forty-five and the varsity at
five-forty-five.
AMUNDSEN PLANS NEW FLIGHT
COPENHAGEN, June 23. (/p)—Am
undsen has already parts of his plans
of another North Pole flight formed,
quotes the newspaper Social Demo
kraten, which further states that he
wants to beat other attempts and is
certain he' can reach the pole. The
members are now enroute to Oslo and
a late nfesage from Amundsen says
that there is no land in the Norwe
gian sector of the Polar basin.
ENGAGEMENT ITALIAN HEIRESS
ROME, June 23. (JP)—The engage
. ment of Princess Mafalde, the second
) daughter of the Italian rulers, to Phil
t ip, Prince of Hesse, nephew of the
i former German kaiser, has been an
~>ced.
CORRESPONDENT CENSORED
BY NORWEGIAN EXPLORERS
NEW YORK, June 23. (IP)—'The As
sociated Press received a message
from its press agent at Kings Bay,
saying the Associated Press corres
pondent who accompanied the gov
ernment search expedition, found the
explorers cheerful upon their return
from the adventure, but that he was
not permitted to file anything more.
CASSIAR DISTRICT
NO PLACE FOR
THE PROSPECTOR
VICTORIA MINING ENGINEER IS
POSITIVE DEASE LAKE DIST.
WILL PRODUCE SOON
PRINCE RUPERT, June 23. (IP)—A.
Saint Claire Brindle, Victoria mining
engineer, enroute to Vancouver after
six weeks in the Dease Lake district,
said he was confident the country wil
be a fruitful field if operated by capi
tal, but it is not the place for stam
peders seeking gold in the raw. He
reported prospectors coming out but
the old sourdoughs are remaining in
hope of finding something before the
freezeup.
Cotter Sends Out Report
SEATTLE, June 23. (IP)—A dispatch
to the Post Intelligencer from Frank
Cotter, said the prediction of Grady
that there was “nothing in the Cas
siar district that would warrant a
stampede, was true, but it is a prom
ising place to prospect.”
“Everybody I found,” said Mr. Cot
ter, “doing any work at all, showed me
a small amount of gold, but all seem
ed to think the chances of locating
the pay streak sooner or later, were
good.”
Considerable men are quitting the
district.
TODAY’S BASEBALL
NATIONAL LEAGUE—
Chicago 9, Cincinnati 6.
St. Louis 6, Pittsburg 24.
COAST LEAGUE—
Los Angeles 4, Seattle 3.
AMERICAN LEAGUE—
Philadelphia 2, St. Louis 9.
Washington 7, Cleveland 2.
Detroit 8, New York 1.
FRANKCAMPTO
SPEAK SEATTLE
MINING CLUB
SEATTLE June 23. (/P)—F. B. Camp,
who has been operating in the Kus
kokwim gold fields for the past quar
ter century, and whose interests cen
ter around Tacotna, speaks at the Se
attle Mining Club tomorrow. He
came here to urge the government to
build a road from Ruby to Tacotna,
via Long, Poorman, Cripple and
Ophir, one hundred and fifty miles.
NEW YORK, June 23. (/P)—August
Belmont’s nursery farm of twelve hun
dred acres near Babylon, Long Island,
has been sold for about five hundred
thousand dollars, to Cad man Fred
rick, who will cut it up into lots and
sell them for small homes.
fiveIenhold up
ILLINOIS TOWN
FREPORT, Ill.t June 23. 0?)—Five
men held tip the town of Shullberg,
a small lead mining village, keeping
the populace at bay for over an hour,
while they blasted the vault of the
First National Bank and escaped with
several thousand dollars. A great
many shots were fired.
COOLIDGE GIVES
ADDRESS ON TAX
REDUCTIONS
NEW MEASURE WILL BECOME
LAW BY TIME TAXES ARE
DUE NEXT YEAR
WASHINGTON, June 22. (/P)—Pres
ident Cooliclge, addressing the semi
annual budget meeting, promised to
recommend to congress, further tax
reductions for the December session.
He predicted there would be a sur
plus in the treasury of two hundred
million dollars at the end of the fis
| cal year, June 30, and two hundred
and ninety million dollars at the end
of the coming fiscal year.
President Coolidge said it was im
probable that government expenses
wouli be cut below three billion an
nually for several years, and he es
timated the outlay for the current fis
cal year would total three billion,
thirty-five million, exclusive of money
applied on the reduction of the pub
lie debt and operation of the postal
service. He told his audience of cab
inet officials and departmental execu
tives, they must continue in their ef
forts to decrease governmental cost.
The President gave Congress credit
for supporting the budget and declar
ed the burden of taxes has been ma
terially lightened, but is still present.
He reviewed operations of the bud
get for the past four years, and said
expenditures in 1921 totalled five bil
lion, one hundred and sixteen million,
which had been reduced by two bil
lion. eighty-one million dollars, be
sides having three billion, four hun
dred and twenty-six million lopped
from the public debt. Interest to
talled one billion in 1921, against only
eight hundred and seventy million
this year.
“If we could confine our federal ex
penditures to ligitimate obligations
and functions of the federal govern
ment, a material reduction would be
apparent.” said the President.
He said, “back of a tireless, persis
tent and drastic campaign for con
structive economy in federal expendi
tures, has been the relief of the peo
ple of this nation of the great burden
of taxation. So far tax reductions
have been successful, but the reduc
tion hasn't reached a point where
taxes have ceased to be a burden.”
Approve Economy Measures
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 23 (/P)
—Critics of the administration were
answered in detail today by di
rector Lord of the budget, in a speech
which with one by Coolidge, outlined
the government’s spending program
for the year, before a meeting of gov
ernment executives, by saying: “If
earnest interest in conducting federal
operations economically; if honest ef
fort to conserve the taxpayers money,
and if a determination to reduce the
government costs at the same time in
creasing government efficiency, be a
parsimony of false economy, then let
parsimony be enthroned and false
economy glorified.’’
Meet in October
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 23. (JP)
—Chairman Green announced the
House Ways and Means Committee
will meet October 18 to draft the new
tax revision, holding public hearings
for a fortnight, and having the bill
ready for the opening of Congress.
He predicted the new measure would
become a law by the time the govern
ment taxes are due next year.
FORD SHIP SAILS NORWAY
NEW YORK, June 23. </P)—Henry
Ford’s transoceanic freight ship sail
ed from Boston for Copenhagen, with
Ford parts and tractors.
BERNE, June 23. (/P)—The Swiss
government has equipped its entire
army with light portable machine
guns instead of the usual rifles.