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VOLUME XX. NUMBER 119.
SEWARD, ALASKA,
WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1925.
PRICE TEN CENTS.
HALIFAX HARBOR
FILLED UP WITH
LIQUOR VESSELS
HALIFAX, N. S., May 20 (£>)—'The
Halifax harbor has been rapidly filling
up with liquor schooners, which re
* fort that the intensified activities of
the American coast guard have caused
them to run to port. Some discharg
ed their cargo here and began nego
tiations for entering more peaceful
traffic. Others remain in readiness
for sea with their cargoes of liquor
still aboard.
The rum runners say that American
seizures formerly averaged about two
to five in rum running attempts, but
ihat the new blockade has practically
demoralized the business leaving the
operators no margin of profit.
GOLD DISCOVERY
CAUSES BIG RUSH
LONDON, May 20.—A Daily Mail
dispatch from Darossam Tanganyika,
states that hundreds of 'whites and
fourteen thousand natives are work
ing the largest alluvial gold fields in
Africa on the Lupa river between Tan
gayika and Nyasha lakes. Many oth
ers are rushing to the new fields. The
gold deposits were discovered in June
of last year and the government re
served all unclaimed rights.
COURT GIVES ENJOINER
WHEELING, Pa., May 20.—(JP)—
The Federal court on application of
the "West Virginia-Pittsburgli Coal
company has temporarily enjoined
| the United Mine Workers from peace
ful persuasion in the Panhandle coal
district.
BURIED BY FALL OF ROCK
MIAMI, Arizona, May 20.—Several
miners are believed to be buried by
a fall of rock in the Inspiration cop
per mine.
GOV. HARTLEY
SCORES TOTTEN
_
OLYMPIA. Wn.. May 20 (JP)— In a
vigorously worded telegram, Governor
Hartley severely scored William Tot
ten, unofficial delegate from Wash
ington to the New York National i
Child Welfare conference, rebuking
Totten for seeking to explain why Gov.
Hartley refused to name a delegate
to the conference. The telegram said:
“So long as I am governor I shall re
fuse to let this office be used as a
cheap advertising agency whereby po
litical propagandists and paid profes
sionad uplifters operating under the
guise of child social welfare put over
their fantastic schemes.”
Governor Hartley refused to appoint
g, a state representative to the confer
ence saying that “there wras too much
slobbering over the modern child who
wras left at home with the cat and ca
nary while their parents attended up
lift conferences at state expense.”
SEATTLE TO PAY
MILLION QUARTER
FOR RAINIER LINE
SEATTLE, May 21.—Seattle which
in 1919 bought four hundred cars, and
235 miles of track from the Sone &
^Webster interests for $15,000,000 has
offered $1,250,000 for the Rainier car
line with 32 cars and 25 miles of track
it was announced at an open meeting
of the city council today. The com
pany asks $1,325,000 for the property.
COPYRIGHT UNOIRWOOO A UNDERWOOD, N. V,
“RADIO KNIFE” CUTS THROUGH FLESH BUT DRAWS
LITTLE BLOOD.
Photo shows an interne in the Alexian Brothers Hospital, Chicago, us
ing the “radio knife,” just invented by Louis Schmidt, M. D. The “knife”
is one terminal of a low power radio transmitting set, used to generate
electric current. The other terminal is connected by tinfoil to the pa
tient. When the knife is applied the human tissue offers resistance to
the current and heat is generated, the “knife” quickly burning its way thru
skin, fat and muscle almost as if they were butter and it a heated wire.
The new surgery is virtually bloodless, only a few tablespoonsful of the
vital fluid escaping during a major operation, such as for cancer.
BABY FARMER INDICTED.
NEW YORK, May 19 (JP)—While one
grand jury was considering a homi
cide indictment against Helen Augus
te Geisen-Volk, the woman baby far
mer, another grand jury indicted her
for baby substitution.
GOVERNMENT SWINDLED OF
OVER QUARTER OF MILLION
NEWARK. N. J., May 19 (/P)—A
conspiracy in which the government
was swindled out of a quarter of a
million dollars in this city was reveal
ed today, when it was found that this
city was the center of a bootleg ring
handling thousands of gallons of alco
hol. Twenty individuals and two big
firms were indicted by a grand jury.
ADMIRAL WATSON
ON WAY NORTH
SEATTLE, May 20 (jP)—The steam
ship Admiral Watson sailed yesterday
morning at 10 o’clock with 128 pas
sengers. Those for Seward are: Mrs.
E. E. Flye, J. Harrington and wife,
Mrs. P. L. Nelson. Mrs. Electra Bryan,
Nolan Hudson, Col. F. J. Morrow, H.
M. Flickinger, Miss A. Stanfield, Mrs.
F. Stanfield, Mrs. Thomas Ede, Mrs.
Mary Simmons and four steerage.
CORRUPTION STILL EXISTS
IN PROHI ENFORCEMENT
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 20.—
(#*)—Senator Jas. E. Watson, of In
diana, said that the inefficiency is
being corrected and the enforcement
strengthened on prohibition. Chair
man Couzens sharply criticized the
enforcement as is being caried on,
declaring that the committee has re
ceived many letters charging more
corruption than ever.
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 20.—
(IP)—Senator Watson told Chairman
Couzens and his committee that the
administration of President Coolidge
is down and determined to enforce
prohibition to the limit, and then if
the people of the Nation don’t want
to stand for it, it is for them to say
so.
MORE VESSELS SCRAPPED
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 19 (/P)—
The sub-committee of the Shipping
Board recommended a program of
scrapping 200 vessels. Yesterday the
board’s committee recommended the
scrapping of 400 vessels.
The mother alligator’s highest am
bition for her son is that he may
some day become a traveling bag.
SEWARDITES WILL
PICNIC TOMORROW
AT SITE OF HOME
Tomorrow every citizen of Seward
who can swing an axe, pile brush or
help clear the site for the Jesse Lee
Home will gather at the grounds at
9:00 o’clock, and put in the day help
ing prepare a building site 300 by 500
feet. The ladies of the town are mak
ing big preparations to feed the army
of workmen and hot coffee and sand
wiches will be| on tap all day long for
those whose appetite is heightened by
their prowess. Most of the business
institutions in town will be closed, the
proprietors and clerks joining in the
onslaught on brush and down timber,
and those who are so unfortunate as
to be compelled to remain in town will
send substitutes.
Promptly at 9 o’clock Mayor Ray
and President Hinde will strike the
first blow for the new home, after
which the fun will be fast and furi
ous. Henry Frost and Hugh Dough
erty are blowing the larger stumps
today, and a number of teams and
tractors will be on hand to pull down
timber and stumps to the large piles
for burning.
It is hoped that the response to the
request for volunteers will be unani
mous as much work has to be done
on the site before next Monday at
which time excavating will start.
Cars will be provided to carry the
workers to and from the grounds and
every imaginable tool will be on hand.
Workers are requested to bring axes
if possible, and join a squad of willing
workers for a greater Seward.
COURT DECIDES
AGAINST MINERS
INDIANAPOLIS, May 20 (/P)—The
death stroke was apparently delivered
to co-operative mining ventures in the
Indiana district today when the court
dismissed an injunction brought to
prevent interference by union officials
of the United Mine Workers with min
ers engaged in such projects. The
union officials threatened to revoke
the charter of any local union whose
members worked in mines on a co-op
erative leasing system.
SCHOOLS TO GIVE HOLIDAY
In order that the older pupils may
help clear the site of the Jesse Lee
Home tomorrow Supt. Barnett and the
school board have declared a holiday.
There will be school again Friday.
BRIAND AND CAILLAUX WILL
NEGOTIATE FOR SETTLEMENT
PARIS, May 20 (/P)—The newspaper
Excelsior, a semi-official organ, said
today that Briand and Caillaux are
considering the creation of a commit
tee to negotiate direct with an Ameri
can committee concerning a settle
ment of the French debt to the United
States.
LIFE OF WITNESS THREATENED
CHICAGO, May 20.—The grand jury
is investigating the disappearance of
the White family, important witnesses
in the Shepherd poisoning case. The
prosecuting attorney declared that the
life of White vras threatened if he
testified against Shepherd.
DAUGHTER PEARY
CHRISTENS SHIP
NEW YORK, May 20 (£>)—Marie
Peary Stafford, a daughter of Commo
dore Robert Peary, discoverer of the
North Pole, christened the Peary the
mother ship of the naval Arctic planes
at Brooklyn today. Mrs. Stafford is
called “The Snow Baby of the North,”
being born nearer the Pole than any
other living white child.
VOTE CONFIDENCE GIVEN
BERLIN, Germany, May 20 (#»)—
The reichstag by a vote of 214 to 129
voted confidence in the government.
GERMANY WILL MAKE
CHANGES IN TARIFF LAWS
BERLIN, May 20 (/P)—'The Govern
ment is contemplating important tar
iff changes affecting the chemical in
dustry because countries which before
the war consumed German chemicals
have started their own plants. It is
understood that dyes will be admitted
free of duty.
TODAY’S FISH PRICES
KETCHIKAN, May 20.—Halibut is
quoted here at 9 and 4 cents. Sal
mon at 16, 9 and 4 cents.
SHEPHERD JURY
BEING SELECTED
CHICAGO, May 20 (/P)—Questions
applied to Shepherd veniremen dis
closed that the State will insist on
jurymen being selected whose educa
tion is sufficient to understand the
testimony by chemists on bacteria
poisons, and will also seek those not
opposed to capital punishment, not
skeptical of circumstantial evidence,
or the testimony of an accomplice.
CHIEF SEVRYNS WILL MAKE
POLICE FORCE EFFICIENT
SEATTLE, May 20 (JP)—Announc
ing that he “would crack the whip of
discipline to strengthen the morale
and efficiency of the police force on
the downtown beats,” Chief Sevryns
announced that he would make exten
sive reassignments of patrolmen. One
policemen resigned for drinking, and
one was suspended for failure to re
port an automobile accident in which
he was involved.
YESTERDAY’S BASEBALL
Pacific Coast League
Sacramento 2, Portland 3.
Los Angeles 3, Oakland 6.
Salt Lake 15, Seattle 8.
San Francisco-Vernon, rain.
National League
Boston 3, Cincinnati 7.
Brooklyn 9, Pittsburgh 5.
New York 2, Chicago 8.
Philadelphia 8, St. Louis 4.
American League.
St. Louis 8, Boston 2.
Cleveland 3, Washington 4.
Detroit. 11, New York 5.
'Chicat Ph la. 3.
AGENT J. H. KLINE
OF ADMIRAL LINE
MAY BE SUICIDE
SEATTLE, May 20 (JP)—J. H. Kline,
general Alaska agent for the Pacific
Steamship Company formerly station
ed at Juneau, tendered his resignation
to the company Saturday night and
taking a pistol and his automobile dis
appeared, saying, “I guess I’ll end it
all. I have had financial difficulties I
cannot meet.” No trace of him has
been discovered and it is feared he
has suicided in some remote spot.
Officials of the Admiral Line state
that Kline has been with them for the
past eight years and that their busi
ness relations with him have always
been pleasant and satisfactory. They
professed ignorance as to why he wraa
despondent.
Mr. Kline recently made a tour of
Alaskan ports returning to Seattle on
the last trip of the Admiral Watson.
He was well known in Seward and
was universally liked by all who knew
him.
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VICTORIA WILL
SAIL JUNE 3RD
SEATTLE, May 20 (,/P)—Carrying
400 passengers including miners, mer
chants and fur traders who will invade
Siberia, and residents of the Seward
peninsula, the Alaska steamship Vic
toria will leave Seattle June 3rd for
Nome and St. Michael.
The steamer Santa Ana left Tuesday
for the Kuskokwim district with Capt.
Charles White, Capt. Sabine Craft and
Wm. Brine of the United States steam
boat inspection service aboard. They
will transfer to a coast guard cutter
at Unalaska.
Varsity Shellmen Are
Wanning Up for Meet
On the Hudson River
SEATTLE, Wn„ May 20.—(/P)—
The Husky crew of the Washington
university set their minds on the
time which is the big thing to over
come for the Hudson-Poughkeepsie
races, on June 22, when Callow told
them that they must row four miles
in approximately 19 minutes.
Cornell won in the best time ever,
when they traveled four mile3 on
the Hudson in 18 minutes 53 and 1-3
seconds.
Washington retained the title in
the three-mile races.
The Huskies will leave for the
battlefield June six, it was stated.
Four hours will be^ spent in Chica
go, where they will workout at the
Lincoln Club Rowing Club course,
the club placing two shells at the
disposal of the Westerners.
In the annual drawing on Friday
. for positions, Halsey Wyckoff of
Poughkeepsie, a former Washington
oarsman, will pull the straws for
the huskies. Word was received in
Seattle from the east that the Hus
kies will have the same boathouse
they used in 1923 and 1924. Callow,
the coach is trying ten mile rows at
a low stroke. Three crews went six
miles yesterday.
SEATTLE PLANS PURCHASE
OF RAINIER STREETCAR LINE
SEATTLE, May 20 (^P).—A tentative
price for the Rainier street car line
was fixed at a secret meeting of the
city council yesterday with Manager
Walter Brown. Another secret meet
ing is being held with Brown today.
H. E. Ellsworth and Capt. Charles
Emsweiler left last night for Nuka
^Bay on a business trip.