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VOLUME 19. NUMBER 291
SEWARD, ALASKA,
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DECEMBER 12, 1924
PRICE TEN CENTS
HIGH SCHOOL BOYS
' SUSPENDED FOR
USING LIQUOR
DOPED PUNCH IN STUDENT’S
HOME AND EVEN THE CAT
4 V BECAME HILARIOUS
SEATTLE, Dec. 12.—Seventeen Lin
coln High School boys were suspend
ed from further attendance today for
having introduced bootleg liquor into
the punch at a party given by Miss
Claire Stoyes, at the home of her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. William Stoyes, on
American avenue.
Many members of the party got
highly hilarious, according to the tale
told of the affair, even the parents of
the young lady sustaining a sudden
rise in temperature.
The students claimed the liquor
was sold to them by a man named
William Pelletier, who is being
sought by the police.
The affair has caused quite a stir
in school circles, and other expulsions
are expected.
Seattle Repeals Code
Regarding Parking Zone
SEATTLE, Dec. 13.—Approving a
majority report of the public safety
committee, the city council yesterday
passed an ordinance repealing
the section of the traffic code which
prohibits parking of automobiles be
tween the hours of 4 p. m. and 6
p. m., within, the district bounded
by First and Fourth avenues. Uni
versity and Pine streets, inclusive.
Council snetiment was almost
unanimous against continuance of
^he restriction, Councilman Robert
B. Hesketh casting the only vote
against removal of the existing ban,
although Councilman Philip Tindall
declared in voting for the repeal
that he did so only with an under
standing that immediate steps are
to be taken to improve traffic con
ditions downtown.
As the situation now stands, as
the result of yesterday’s change,
automobiles may be parked for not
to exceed thirty minutes anytime
during the day anywhere in the
main business section except at
safety and commercial zones. This
places the whole downtown district
on the same basis.
Plans for preparation of a pro
gram to bring about relief from
the peak traffic jam on the main
downtown highways are immediately
to be started, Chairman W. T. Camp
bell, of the public safety committee,
announced yesterday. A committee
of five from the retail trade bureau
of the chamber of commerce are to
%e appointed today to work with
the city officials in the matter.
Installation of automatic sema
phore signals about three blocks
apart, so that traffic can be moved
three blocks at a time simultaneous
ly throughout the length of First
Second Third and Fourth avenues,
will undoubtedly be a feature of the
relief program, Chairman Campbell
announced. Councilmen have agreed
that these signals, when installed
should be at least fifteen fet high,
so that they can be seen from a
distance.
AGRICULTURAL BILL
CARRIES $124,000,000
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12—The agri
cultural appropriations bill carrying
$124,000,000, of which $80,000,000 is to
be used in road construction, was
passed today by the House.
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COLD WEATHER REPORTED
Weather bureau reports from the
interior today give Fairbanks 63 de
grees below zero; Nenana 54; An
chorage 37. The local banana belt
had a few degrees of frost also.
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Wife of Slain
Man Jailed At
Vancouver, Wash.
VANCOUVER, Wn, Dec. 12.
—That J. C. (Karl) Peterson,
alleged ex-convict, who was kill
ed in a gun battle the other
day with a Seattle detective
had operated in this vicinity,
was revealed today when his
widow, formerly Hazel Nichols,
whose home is here, was taken
into custody by Vancouver pol
ice and a considerable amount
of alleged stolen goods taken
from her home.
After being taken into custo
dy, Mrs. Peterson declared she
was not aware that the arti
cles which her husband had
sent her had been stolen. She
said she was not aware he was
a thief, and did not know he
had been killed at Seattle^ un
til informed by police here fol
lowing her arrest. The woman
is about 20 years of age.
FROM WISEMAN IN
A BASKET SLEIGH
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(Fairbanks News-Miner)
There arrived at the Nordale on
: Tuesday in a big basket sleigh with
seven dogs, a passenger fri>m Wise
man with many bags of luggage and
a native musher who managed to
bring his charge across the snow,
making trail most of the way, until
they were within a few miles of Fair
banks. Mrs. L. Van Wrinkle was the
woman who made the trip and she had
as her musher, Edward Nenan, a na
tive from Point Barrow, who has liv
ed in Wiseman the past few years.
The party was 16 days on the w'ay.
OPHIR WOMAN ON WAY
OUTSIDE FOR WINTER
Mrs. J. A. Cameron, of Ophir, will
sail on the Alaska for Seattle, where
she will join her husband. She has
been doing prospecting, assessment
work and dredging for the past twelve
! years on Little creek. She has sold
! her interests to N. J. Vine, a partner,
and will not return to Alaska. Mrs.
1 Cameron has drilled more than 3800
feet of holes to bedrock. Mrs. Cam
j eron was on the trail six days but
j actually made the trip in 34 hours
! and 40 minutes, breaking all records.
She drove three dogs of the Lamont
strain, one of them a pup.
She will arrive from Anchorage on
tomorrow night’s train.
REV. FR. TURNELL COMING
Rev. Fr. T. H. Turnell announces
I that he will arrive from Anchorage on
: Saturday’s train, holding services in
i the local church. Mass at 9:30 as
usual.
Weeks Appeals Congress
Approve Appropriation
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12—Secretary
Weeks today personally appealed to
Congress to approve the opening step
in a $115,000,000 program for new
army construction.
AWARD ANNOUNCED
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—Thirty
eight awards to American claimants
were announced today by the mixed
claims commission, set up to adjust
war claims with Germany. The de
mands of 167 other claimants were
dismissed. The Standard Oil com
pany of Ne\^ Jersey was the largest
gainer by the action of the commis
sion, receiving $6,500,000 on one
count’ and $30,000 on another.
NEW CABLE GOES PELUK
The Gateway’s cable service was
somewhat curtailed today by the new
cable breaking at a point between
Ketchikan and Seattle.
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Army Officers Fired
On By Coast Guard
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 12.—A vig
orous protest against the crew of a
coast guard cutter, which fired six
rifle shots at a tug boat in San Fran
cisco Bay, containing a number of
army engineering officers, who mis
took the boat for a rum runner, was
made today by the captain of the boat
and by the officers.
WILL SEE LANDIS
GRAHAM TO PLEAD REINSTATE
MENT OF O’CONNELL
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 12—Chas.
H. Graham, manager of the San Fran
cisco club in the Pacific coast league
of baseball clubs, is to make a per
sonal plea to Baseball Commissioner
K. M. Landis for the reinstatement
of Jimmy O’Connell, a former out
fielder of the New York Giants who
was ousted from organized baseball
for an attempt to bribe a player on
an opposing team.
Graham expects to arrive in Chica
go next week, according to a letter
received from the San Francisco man
ager by a friend here, and will lay
O’Connell’s case before Commission
er Landis. Graham is credited with
having developed O’Connell here.
MOSES BEATS RETREAT
WHEN VOICES COME
FROM CASE OF CARTONS
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 12.—Moses
Washington, negro truck driver, last
night deserted his load of long wood
en boxes and telephoned police when
he heard muffled voices coming from
one of the boxes on his truck. Offi
cers hurried to the scene and opened
the box which Washington insisted
contained an either dying or already
dead victim of foul play.
They found it snugly packed with a
cpnsignment of “mamma dolls.” Each
time the truck bounced over a rut in
the road the dolls, their mechanical
•lungs compressed by the jost, sighed
in unison, “mamma!”
ANCHORAGE IGLOO
NAMES OFFICERS
Anchorage Igloo of Pioneers nomi
dated officers at the last meeting. The
business session was followed by a
sourdough spread of salad and head
cheese served by the ladies.
The present first vice president, M.
W. Sinclair, was nominated for pres
ident; H. W. Ross, for first vice pres
ident; Axel Nelson, second vice presi
dent; C. R. Booth and Robert Lath
rou, secretary; I. Bayles, treasurer;
Henry Sogn, historian; J. W. Phillips,
chaplain; Geo. Howe', sergeant at
arms; J. N. McCain, Felix Brown and
Capt. Webb, trustees.
The Auxiliary placed in nomination
Mrs. Lillian Keeley, president; Mrs.
Elsie Sogn, vice-president; Mrs. Edith
Allen, historian; Mrs. Sadie Reeder,
treasurer; Mrs. Isabel Nelson, secre
tary; Mrs. Edith Waller, chaplain;
Mrs. Ida Green, sergeant-at-arms;
Mrs. Jennie Silver, Mrs. Mary Orr,
Mrs. Frances McCain and Mrs. Mae
Fitzgerald, trustees.
DEPUTY IS PLANNING TO
INTERPELLATE GOVERNMENT
PARIS, Dec. 12.—Deputy Taitinger
intends to interpellate the govern
ment in the French chamber of depu
ties today regarding the incident
which marked the march across the
city by revolutionists following the
cortege which transferred the ashes
of Jean Jaures to the Pantheon Sun
day.
The deputy declared that he and his
friends were aware of a plan of mo
bilization by the communists who
hoped to launch into the streets of
Paris 500,000 foreigners upon whom
the revolution depends.
The League of Patriots he declared,
should line up against these revolu
tionaries to save France.
Pigeons Carry
Verses Taken
From the Bible
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec.
12.—Each of the carrier pig
eons placed aboard the airship
Los Angeles for release by Mrs.
Calvin Colidge as part of the
christening ceremony, bore the
age-old Biblical message of
peace and good will toward men.
In a tiny metal container at
tached to their legs were strips
of paper bearing the thirteenth
and fourteenth verses, second
chapter of St. Luke:
“And suddenly there was with
the Angel a multitude of the
Heavenly host, praising God
and saying: ‘Glory to God in
the highest and peace and good
will toward men.’ ”
The messages were taken by
the birds to their home naval
stations.
FORT YUKON MAN
FOUND FROZEN
While out hunting on the north !
shore of Beaver slough, about 100
yards from a trail and one and a half
miles from Beaver, H. J. Patterson, a
Fort Yukon resident, found the body
of Beaver William, a native. The man
who had been missing for about three
weeks had broken through the ice,
and crawling out made his way into
the timber where he attempted to
make fire of shavings, but was unsuc
cessful. He then attempted to make i
town but the cold overcome him and
he sank down in the snow, where his
body was found.
Chinaman Cheats Foe
By Committing Suicide
NEW YORK, Dec. 12.—Lee Song
went out and met death yesterday
rather than continue to await it at
the hands of enemies. Police found
his body in a tiny fourth floor room
in a lower East Side tenement just
outside Chinatown. He had turned
on the gas, composed himself on his
bed and calmly waited for the end.
Cruise Is Called Off
By Stanwood Mariner
EVERETT, Wn, Dec. 12.—The
world cruise of Tommy Drake, an
cient mariner and entire crew of the
Pilgrim, which started October 25, is
off for this year anyway. The Al-1
mighty was against Tommy, he told;
his friends when he got back to Stan
wood after bucking the storms outside
Flattery.
The old fellow, sailing his own ves
sel, has been tracking around the
world alone for years. A few weeks
ago he sailed out of the Sound intent
on another cruise to nowhere, with no;
time set for coming back.
Storms outside the Strait kept him!
on duty four days and nights without ■
sleep. His sails were blown away, and
under a trysail he managed to bet ujp J
for Flattery. He nearly got there,!
but another storm blew him 120 miles
out, and his craft began to leak.
•Finally he managed to get inside
the strait and beached the Pilgrim at
Port Hadlock. He patched her gaping
seams and come on home.
“I guess the Lord was against me,”
he said. “But he as good to me and
opened up the boat near shore instead j
of letting me out into the middle of
the Pacific.”
Drake and the Pilgrim are at Stan
wood. They will winter there and
start out again next spring.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Krefting will
sail tomorrow night for San Francisco
California, where they will spend the
winter, returning to Seward some
time in April. Their daughter will ac
company them.
FIST FIGHT 0Vrn
EXTORTION BY
DRY OFFICERS
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PROHIBITION DIRECTOR AND A
PEACE OFFICER MIX IT IN
JUDGE CUSHMAN’S COURT
SEATTLE, Dec. 12.—C. H. Benson,
a soft drink proprietor in business in
Darrington, accused two prohibition
agents of attempting extortion when
they called at his place of business
recently. Assistant Prohibition Direc
tor W. M. Whitney and Snohomish
County Peace Officer Kennon, who
testified for the defense, came to
blows just outside Jude E. E. Cush
man’s court this afternoon, and the
defendant had been acquitted.
“I’ve got a broken arm,” eKnnon
. said, as he glared down at Whitney,
! who is shorter and fatter.
“I wouldn’t have slapped you if I
had known that,” Whitney replied.
YOUTHFUL MARRIAGES
OPPOSED BY PROSECUTOR
SEATTLE Dec. 13.—The folly of
youthful and secret marriages was
stressed by Deputy Prosecutor Eu
gene Meacham, county divorce medi
ator, in a lecture on the divorce evil
before a bevy of University of Wash
ington sociological students in the
County-City building.
A large number of students occu
pied seats in the courtroom of the Su
perior court, where Meacham dis
coursed on the state’s marriage and
divorce laws, pointing out the rela
tion of divorces to hasty and early
marriages^. ^
“As uni’versity students/’ Meacham
declared, “I warn you against getting
married and expecting at the same
time to work your way through col
lege. It is rarely successful and di
vorce records will bear out my as
sertion.”
SUSPECT IS SLAIN
FIGHT WITH COPS
PALO ALTO, Cal., Dec. 13— An
unidentified man, believed to be one
of two suspected safe crackers who
disarmed Policeman L. N. Lawrence
here the other night and engaged in a
pistol fight with Policeman Delbert
Gorman, was found shot to death on
a Palo Alto street last night.
The policemen, who were walking
a beat together, surprised the two
supposed cracksmen as they were
acting in a suspicious manner, in
front of a downtown store. The
men disarmed Lawrence, but Gor
man opened fire. The men returned
the fire, one of the bullets wounding
Gorman in the leg.
The dead man was found about
four blocks from the scene of the
shooting. There was a bullet wound
in his chest and nitro-glyeerin and
dynamite in his pockets.
CoL Watkor Confirmed
Governor Canal Zone
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.--The Sen
ate this afternoon confirmed the nom
ination of Colonel Watkor as govern
or of the Panama canal zone.
ALASKA DUE AT NINE
The steamship Alaska is due in port
about 9:00 o’clock tonight. She is
scheduled to sail south about mid
night tomorrow night.
PARLEY DELAYED
PARIS, Dec. 12.—The Franco-Ger
man commercial negotiations were
again delayed today by the unavoida
ble absence from the conference of
the chief German expert on iron and
steel. The German legation refused
to discuss the important subject un
til the expert could attend.
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