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COMMUNICATION WITH SEPPALA HAS
BEEN CUT OFF; TEAM LEAVES NOME
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Public Health Service, and one hun
dred thousand units from the Bureau
of Education.
Dr. G. M. Magruder, of the Public
Health Service, received a report from
Nome that there were 20 cases and
30 suspects. He said the dose varied
from 1.000 to 20.000 units, and that a
patient required one or more doses.
Expect Seppala Tomorrow
SEATTLE, Feb. 2.—Dr. Magruder
of the Public Health Service received
a cablegram from Dr. Welch, of the
Public Health Service at Nome, dated
yesterday saying: “We expect the an
titoxin to arrive tomorrow. This will
stand me off until your shipment ar
rives. If conditions remain the same
or get no worse I am confident that
with this 300,000 units knowing yours
is on the way will have little diffi
culty in obliterating the epidemic.”
Physicians Not Needed
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—The Bu
reau of Public Health at Nome de
clined the offer for physicians and
nurses from other Alaskan towns, say
ing that it would inevitably spread
the epidemic to other Alaskan com
munities.
Postoffice Department Spurred Up
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—The situ
ation respecting the diphetheria epi
demic in Nome has spurred the post
office department to press its plans
for an air mail service for Alaska.
Congress authorized its establishment
July 1, provided the cost is not great
ler than with the present methods.
Paul Henderson, second assistant
postmaster general declared that ex
periments carrying mails from Fair
banks to McGrath demonstrate the
superiority of the airplane over all
other methods.
Seppala an Athlete
NEW YORK. Feb. 2.—Friends of
Leonard Seppala declare he is a Fin
nish athlete like Nurmi. Ritola said
he was Finnish wrestling champion,
and had won many other events of an
athletic nature.
SUPREME COURT
MAKES DECISIONS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—The Su
preme Court today rendered a decision
in a case brought by the First Nation
al Bank of Mobile, Alabama, barring
the records for inspection by the gov
ernment for assessment for income
taxes.
The court also decided that the
State requirement of a license to sell
intoxicating liquor was valid, notwith
standing the eighteenth amendment.
LUNCHEON TOMORROW
The Chamber of Commerce Lunch
eon tomorrow will be one of the best
of the New Year. Do not fail to at
! tend.
LOCAL NEWS
George Smith, head sawyer at the.
Knight’s Island camp, was a Seward
visitor, stopping at the Overland Ho
tel.
Ed Holland, a miner from Willow
Creek, left on this morning’s train.
Mr, and Mrs. A. Hagen left for An
chorage on today’s train.
A1 Wolf was a Seward visitor over
Sunday, coming in from Mile 5 1-2.
George Colwell and family, of Mile
52, spent Sunday in town. They report
very cold weather in the mountain
belt.
Mrs. A. Osbrone, former Seward res
ident, and mother of Mrs. Pearl Eide,
arrived on the Yukon Saturday, and
will spend a month visiting here.
Word was received on one of the
last boats from Wallace Daykin, who
is now in Seattle, that he is slowly
recovering from his illness, and that
as soon as the rainy season was over
he would journey to Yakima where
he will reside with his mother. While
in Seattle Wallace visited Tommy Os
bo, who is still under a doctor’s care
in a Seattle hospital, and reports he
is still very weak.
Eric Lucas, former Sewardite, when
he was cashier of the Harriman bank
ing interests until it was absorbed by
the Bank of Seward, has been made
assistant vice-president in charge of
the business service department of
the Seattle National Bank of Com
merce.
The Rebekahs will give a card party
and luncheon at Odd Fellows hall to
night. You are invited. A small
charge of 50c per person will be made
to help defray expense of lunch and
prizes.
The steamship Starr sails at 4:00
o’clock for the westward.
FORMER HARBORMASTER IN
SKAGWAY DEAD IN SEATTLE
(By Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Feb. 2.—Funeral serv
ices over the body of Charles F. Jahn,
a widely known Alaskan mariner who
died here Saturday, were held last
Tuesday. At one time , he served as
harbormaster at the port of Skagway
for the Seattle Clipper Line. He is
credited, while in that post with hav
ing landed the first locomotive and
railroad coaches ever brought to the
Territory. They were delivered at
Skagway for the White Pass Railroad
in 1889. At one time Jahn was cap
tain of the A. J. Stoddard which oper
ated an Lake Bennett.
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The broadcasting station at Tokio,
Japan, is known as “JOAK.” This
is no joke.
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I SLEEP IN COMFORT -
WOOL AND COTTON
Blankets $3.50 and Up
Quilts $4.75 and Up
-Also
SHEETS, PILLOW CASES
and PILLOWS
Leon Urbach
Specialists in Men's Wear
NOME REPORTS
DEATH FROM COLD
(By Associated Press)
NOME, Feb. 2.—Joe Ferrara. 14. a
son of Franz Ferrara, pioneer Portu
guese resident of this section, froze to
death in a heavy blizzard January 16.
while covering his trap line for foxes.
The death occured near Cape Thomp
son, north of Kotzebue Sound. Ferrara
recovered the body shortly after death
occurred.
Foxes are reported to be unusually
abundant this year in this section. .
FARMER BEATS CHILDREN
TO DEATH IN RELIGIOUS FIT
POTTSTOWN, Pa.,Walter Bingham
a farmer, while in a religious frenzy
beat to death two of his three child
ren. When the police broke into the
farmhouse they found the farmer’s
father, George C., seventy-three years
of age, dead; death probably result
ing from exictement as he suffered
from heart disease.
OREGON AGGIES BEAT
WASHINGTON QUINTET
SEATTLE, Feb. 2.—The Oregon Ag
gies beat Washington twenty-seven to
sixteen last night; but the Huskies
beat Oregon the next game played by
a score of thirty-three to twenty-nine.
This places the Huskies in second
place in the Northwest conference,
the Oregon Aggies taking first.
A New York physician who says
we should not bathe often in winter
is our idea of a smart man.
AT THE HOTELS
Hotel Sexton—A1 A. Wolf, Mile 5:
C. W. Palmer, James Kennedy, I. G.
Nattveit, G. B. Nelson, Skilak Lake.
Hotel Overland—Hazel Watson, C.
A. Chamberlin, T. W. Carr, Chas. C.
Divine, Seattle; N. G. Johnson, Sand
Point; Harold Lauritzen, Seattle; F.
Komedal, Seattle; Maurice Phillips,
Seattle; R. J. McKenna, II. Hugh, Miss
D. Pech, Hrs. T. W. Williamson, A.
H. Hardy, D. D. Phillips, M. H. Lunch,
L. C. Larson.
Hotel Van Gilder—Mrs. Geo. Black.
Adriana Black, Arnold M. Nordale, R.
Lucason, all from Fairbanks; Mrs. B.
Hill, Elsie Davis, Mrs. Rose Wheeler.
A. J. Cornwall. C. M. Sharpe, all from
Seattle; G. B. Phillips, San Francisco;
Joe Henderson and wife, A. J. Dimond,
Valdez; Izorah Henry, Cordova; J. E.
McEeachen, Kanatak; E. M. Taylor
and Jean Taylor, Tunnel; Frank L.
Knight.
Hotel Seward—Carl Osterlund. F.
DeLong, Geo. Smith, Ed Holland, Ma
bel Teeland, S. R. Brown, Ruth Mor
ton, Pavl Chamberlin, Seattle; Mr.
and Mrs. Nels Hagen, T. J. Scanton,
Mr. and Mrs. A. Hagen, Ben Eastwood
and P. Gilbert.
GREEK SOLDIERS CALLED
TO ARMS OVER ACTION
OF TURKISH GOVERNMENT
ATHENS, Feb. 2.—Indignation
swept the country upon the action
of Turkey expelling the most rever
end Constantinos, patriarch of the
Greek Catholic church. The class of
’23 has been ordered kept under col
ors.
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