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VOLUME 20 NUMBER 233 SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1925 PRICE TEN CENTS
ANCHORAGE MAN
LOST THRU ICE
AT TALKEETNA
ANCHORAGE, Dec. 12 (£>) —Bruce
Rider, aged 26, formerly of Valdez
and Seward, a stationary fireman for
the Talkeetna bridge construction
crew has been given up for dead. He
was last seen on the river on the ice,
and his footprints led to a hole where
he must have fallen in.
H. L. Rider, his father, who lives in
Anchorage, had recently contracted
with the Birch Products Corporation
for Speers and McComb, to cut half
a million feet of birch and two million
feet of spruce. He was just starting
work at Campbell when he was hur
ried to the scene of his boy’s death,
to assist in the search for the body.
SUICIDE JUMPS
FROM WINDOW
SEATTLE, Dec. 14 (/P)—Joseph M.
Harris, 29, a bookkeeper and reported
to be a Young Mens cnnstian Asso
ciation worker, died yesterday after
he was found on the sidewalk in front
of his hotel. The police say that Har
ris registered at the hotel with a wo
man and jumped from a second story
window while intoxicated. Investiga
tions showed the window Harris is
alleged to have jumped from to be but
12 inches wide and 15 feet high.
LIST OF STARS FOR
1925 FOOTBALL
NEW YORK, Dec. 14 (/P)—Satur
day the Associated Press compiled its
list of first All-American football stars
for 1925 which included the follow'
ing: Ends—Benny Oosterbaan, of
Michigan; Mike Tully, of Dartmouth;
tackles, Ed Deir, of Nebraska, Ralph
Chase of Pittsburgh. Guards, Carl
Diehl of Portsmouth, Merbert Stur
hahn of Yale. Center, Ed McMillan
of Princeton. Quarterback, Grange of
Illinois. Halfbacks, Wilson of the U.
of W.; “Swede” Oberlnader of Dart
mouth. Fullback, Ernie Nevers of
Stanford.
CHARGE DYNAMITE
USED ON HOSPITAL
KALISPELL, Mont., Dec. 14 (JP)—
A heavy charge of dynamite was plac
ed under the window of the Sister of
Mercy hospital here and exploded last
night. The hospital was full of pa
tients and nurses, but no one was in
jured. A portion of the building was
demolished and the windows in that
part of town shattered.
PROFESSOR ARRESTED FOR
\ ILLEGALLY MAKING LIQUOR
COLUMBUS, O., Dec. 14 (JP)—'The
arrest of Prof. Dabey Horton of the
Ohio state university on a charge of
illegally making and having liquor in
his possession was announced here to
day. Horton was released on §1000
bail.
FOOTBALL
University of South Carolina 12;
St. Mary’s 0.
Withdraw Offer to Rockne
NEW YORK, Dec. 14 (JP)—Colum
bia University officials announced to
day they had withdrawn their offer
to Rockne to coach the football team
the next three years. The officials said
Rockne had not told them he had
signed an eight year contract with
Notre Dame.
RADIO STATION BEEN
FOUNDED IN ARCTIC
OTTOWA.—The northern lights
have seen strange sights, but probably
not even Service, who penned that
line, dreamed as he did so of a com
mercial radio station in the land of
the midnight sun. Yet such a dream
is a reality today, and tihe world’s
most northerly station is established
at Aklavlk, at the mouth of the Mac
kenzie river, and 125 miles within
the arctic circle.
BANKERS MEET
WITH DELEGATES
OF SOVIET GOVT.
NEW YORK, Dec. 14 (/^—Ameri
can bankers and Russian industrial
ists gathered at a banquet at the
Bankers’ Club hare Thursday. The
proceedings were kept secret, all but
; to the Soviet Official News Agency
and the Associated Press. The Mos
cow agency, which obtained an ac
count of the dinner from the Soviet
agency said the meeting was a “sig
nificant indication of the increasing
importance of the Soviet American
trade.” It said the banquet which
was nominally to celebrate the award
ing of prizes to American manufact
urer of the successful automobiles
participating in Soviet road tests, was
actually the first real outspoken
recognition by American finance of
the importance of Soviet trade and
the stability of the Soviet govern
ment.”
The Soviet agency said that Reeve
Schley, president of the Chase Na
tional Bank, who gave the banquet,
! decided it was as important as the
i Soviets claimed.
SHIPPING BOARD
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| LOS ANGELES, Dec. 14 (£>)—'The
Times published a statement today
j that Meyer Lissner would resign from
the U. S. Shipping Board. Ill health
was given as the reason.
AN OLD SALOON HID TWO
LARGE VEINS OF GOLD
COLORADO SPPRING, Col.—“The
Gold Mine” might well have been the
name of the old Can Call saloon in the
| Burns property of the Nuestra Ventu
|ra Company back in the ’90’s in the
jheydey of the Cripple Creek mining
boom, for after 35 years it has been
found the basement of the onoe fa
mous grog shop was a veritable find,
though none knew it at the time.
Recently Edward Annette and his
son, Edward, were probing around the
old basement site and ran across what
they believed a high graders’ cache.
They found' pieces of high grade ore
showing free gold in the refuse. The
first piece of ore found showed bub
bles of free gold on the surface hav
ing apparently been roasted. This is
believed to have happened when the
saloon burned down several years ago.
1 The free gold first attracted the
attention of the miners. A shipment
of 110 pounds or the ore showed 45.8
ounces of gold to the ton.
Bedrock was struck but the vein
continued and the prospectors discov
ered that the former refreshment par
lor had been built over the junction
of two well defined veins.
NEW YORK—Six deaths were re
ported as a result of the blizzard' and
cold wave which is sweeping the At
lantic coast southward. Heavy snow
fall made it impossible to keep train
schedules. ^ r
About two feet of snow fell in Sew
ard last night accompanied by a rain
today. It is one of the heaviest snpw
ifalls for years.
JAPANESE LAND
MEN ON BEACH
AT TIEN TSIN
TOKYO, Dec. 14 (JP)—'The Navy de
partment announced that the destroy
er Fuji Tsuta had landed 50 sailors
o,n the beach at Tien Tsin, Manchuria.
Ambassador Kopp, of Russia, in a
statement to Foreign Minister Shida
ra said: “In view of the rumors re
specting the peaceful policy of the
United States of Soviet republic aim
ing to prejudice its relations with
Japan, I have the honor to declare
[that the United States of Soviet re
public does not pursue in the Far
East any aggressive plans intended
to menace the interest of Japan.”
SENATOR PHIPPS
SUCCEEDS MOSES
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WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 14 (£>)—
Senator Phipps of Colorado was nam
ed chairman of the Republican Sena
ing Senator Moses of New Hampshire.
POLYGAMMY BE ABOLISHED
BY TURKISH ASSEMBLY
ANGORA, Dec. 14 (/p)—Polygamy
as well as divorce by mere flat by the
the husband will be ended in Turkey
under a modernized civil code to be
introduced in the National Assembly.
Divorce will be by decision of the
courts. If a person be *already mar
ried the second ceremony will be
annulled.
STRIKE REPORTED
NEAR BOISE, IDA.
BOISE, Ida:* Dec. 14 (^)—A strike
of lead ore assaying $205 to the ton,
was reported yesterday in the Old
MscCarthy mine on Shaw mountain,
eight miles northeast of here.
Mrs. Martha McCarthy formerly
owned the mine which was once the
heaviest gold producer in the state.
Scott Anderson is its present owner.
HUNGRY DOGS FIGHT OVER
BODIES DAMASCUS SLAIN
DAMASCUS, Syria, Dec. 14 (J.P)—
Hungry dogs are fighting over the
dead bodies in the olive groves in the
battlefield around Damascus. The city
is hourly thrown into a panic between
rears oi a massacre or unristians by
Syrian rebels who attack daily and
nightly, and the French cannonading.
That Damascus can be taken by
rebel forces is improbable as the last
attack was of 24 hours durations. The
American vice consul visited the bat
tlefield at the edge of the city and saw
dogs tearing at the bodies within 100
yards of the French barracks.
DOLLAR PUSHING HIS
ADMIRAL LINER OFFER
R. Stanley Dollar, president of the
Admiral Oriental Line left Seattle
for Washington, D. C., to urge accep
tance by the Shipping Board of his
charter-purchase pla]|i for acquiring
the five President type government
owned liners now operating from Se
attle to ports in the Orient. The bid
of the Dollar interests was unlike any
think previously submitted. The pro
posal to charter the five ships at a
fee of $1000 a ship a month carries
the obligation on the part of the Ad
miral Oriental Line to assume all fin
ancial responsibility for the opera
tion of the tonnage from Seattle to
the Far East for a period of five
years.
George Colwell, roadmaster on the
wSeWard division, is in town today.
INSURGENT REPUBLICAN ASKS
CONTINUANCE OF BOARD
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 14 (JP)—
The joint democratic insurgent ma
jority committee which investigated
the Shipping Board recommended its
continuance under practically the
same conditions as now exist. The
regular Republicans prepared a mi
nority report dissenting.
MILLIONS IN $2.50 GOLD PIECES
BE MINTED AS SOUVENIRS
DENVER^ Dec. 14 (jP)—The mint
has completed making listens of dol
lars in $2.50 gold pieces. They will
be used as souvenir gifts.
DEMONSTRATOR
TOO REALISTIC
HANDLING GUN
TRIBUNE, Mo., Dec. 14 (JP)—Dem
onstrating how a new device would
permit a personage to get out of a
vault in case he was locked in by a
bandit, Wm. Liggett, Cashier of the
First National Bank, fatally wounded
Benjamin Brown, vice president of
the bank and shot Clement Wilson,
president of another bank in the leg.
He carried a gun to make the demon
stration realistic.
MOB ASSEMBLES
TO LYNCH NEGRO
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Dec. 14 (/P)-*
A mob of 4000 men is reported to have
assembled at a school house near the
home of Mrs. Lela Blevins, whom a
negro killed in a lonely spot five
miles from here Friday.
Sheriff Adkins sped away with
George Washington Martin, a negro,
held in connection with the crime.
It is alleged the negro pointed a
pistol at the woman, and when she
pulled the weapon down and screamed
her assailant fired.
Intense excitement prevails and it
is feared that a race war will ensue.
M’CORD TO TAKE
CHARGE YOUNG
GIRL’S EDUCATION
MISSOULA, Mont., Dec. 14 (IP)—
John Warren McCord, Alaskan mining
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his intentions of taking Victoria Des
Champs out of High School in San
Francisco, and placing her in the No
tre Dame Convent at Delmont, Cali
fornia, for special training in music.
McCord said that her parents with
whom he conferred yesterday neither
forbade nor agreed to this plan. The
mother said the adoption plans would
“be sidetracked for the present, but
may be pushed to completion after
about the first of the year.”
MOVIE ACTRESS DIVORCED
PARIS, Dec. 14 (jP)Anabelle Owen
was granted a divorce today from her
husband, Edward Ricart, by the Paris
divorce court today.
MAN USES RAZOR STROP ON
WIFE WHO LIKED LATE HOURS
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 14 (/P)—It re
mained for Louis Ansonia to prove
that the punishment meted out in
childhood is equally effective in man’s
estate, even if he is facing a divorce
suit. He said his wife went out to
dances and road houses every night,
coming home in the wee sma’ hour's,
neglecting her family, so he resorted
to a razor strop. It proved effective
but the woman charges him with cru
elty and now wants a divorce.
FAMOUS PISTOL
KILLS WOMAN IN
VANCOUVER B. C.
SEATTLE, Dec. 14 (JP)—'The Post
Intelligencer received a dispatch to
day from Vancouver, saying that the
gun which killed Jessie Rose, sten
ographer for the brokerage firm of
Davidson & Wright Friday, klled John
Reid, of Bellingham, Washington, at
Skagway many years ago in the fight
with “Soapy” Smith. The gun belong
ed to “Soapy,” and was acquired by
A. C. Wright, a partner of the firm,
who kept it in a pocket in his auto.
It is believed Jessie became despon
dent and stole the gun and shot her
self.
NO AUTHORITY TO
APPOINT SEN. NYE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 14 (/P)—
The Senate Elections Committee
adopted an unfavorable report on the
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for North Dakota. The committee
held that the governor was without
authority to fill the vacancy.
MAYOR BROWN
SAYS HE’S ONE
SLICK WEASEL
SPOKANE, Dec. 14 (JP)—Mayor Ed
Brown of Seattle, speaking before the
public forum Saturday said: “If there
is no law enforcement in Seattle,
either the prosecutor or the Federal
Prohibition officers, who are sworn to
‘get me’ because I am off color politi
cally are entirely incompetent, or I am
the slickest weasel on two feet.”
Mr. Brown declared that he favored
development of Alaska.
JAN VAN EMPEL GIVES
EXHIBITION SEWARD WORK
SEATTLE —Paintings of rugged
American lanscapes by Jan Van Em
pel of Seward, Alaska, are being ex
hibited this week in Parlor A of the
Olympic under the auspices of the
Seattle Fine Arts Society. An infor
mal reception was later held in the
exhibit salon to honor the artist and
introduce his work to the city. The
exhibit lasted four days.
COOS BAY MAGNATE DEAD
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 14 (JP)—C.
A. Smith, president of the Coos Bay
Lumber Company and one of the lead
ers in the lumber industry died here
at his home today.
COUNCIL TURNS
DOWN PETITIONS
IMPEACH BROWN
SEATTLE, Dec. 14 (£>)—'The Judi
ciary Committee of the city council
unanimously recommended the denial
of the petition to impeach Mayor Ed
Brown. It, was declared unfair as the
council which would accuse him would
act as trial judge. It was suggested
the people can pass on his - actions
In a much better way, inasmuch as he
announced December 6 that he would
be a candidate for re-election and ex
pressed a belief that the council Is
disqualified from sitting on account of
the personal prejudice of some of the
members who would not give him a
fair trial, to which every person is en
titled.”
Councilman Erickson added a plea
for the city manager plan, on which
the people will vote March 19.