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VOLUME XXI, NUMBER 8
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 1926.
PRICE TEN CENTS
HOUSE REJECTS
PROPOSALS TO
CUT RY. MONEYS
PACIFIC COAST DELEGATION DE
FENDS APPROPRIATION AND
SCORES BUREAUCRACY
WASHINGTON. D. C., Jan. 11 (IP)—
ed the three propo
Representative
Treadway of Maso*ciiusetts, to reduce
to §500,000 the $1,700,000 Alaska Rail
road appropriation; to discontinue
the appropriation at the close of the
fiscal year and to authorize the expen
diture* of $500,000 for a wagon road,
taking these moneys for expenditures
from the capital account and strike
from -the annual Interior Department
the annual appropriation of SIS,700
used for the Mt. McKinley National
Park.
In the debate following Representa
tive Treadwell’s Mt. McKinley propo
sal, Representative Albert Johnson of
Hoquiam, Washington, said that the
“outburst of Congress against Alaskan
appropriations was a crime and an
outrage,” and would result in diveiting
capital from Alaska to South America
if continued in.”
Delegate Sutherland favored reten
tion of the appropriation, but favored
limiting Alaskan appropriations to the
minimum fixed by the government.
Representative Taylor of Colorado,
a member of the committee which
drafted the bill, declared that the
greatest blight suffered by Alaska
was its administration by Bureau
chiefs of all departments, and advo
cated Territorial government under
control of a co-ordinated head.
DEMOCRATS DRAFT
TAX REDUCTION OF
OVER FIVE MILLION
WOULD REPEAL TAXES ON CAPI
TAL STOCK, AUTOMOBILES
AND ADMISSIONS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 11 (jP)—
Democratic members of the Senate
Finance Committee in a program
drafted Saturday proposed a tax re
duction of §5,000,000 for this year, ap
proximately §70,000,000 more than th<
House revenue bill. The measure
would increase the House reductions
on incomes from §20,000 to $100,000;
repeal taxes on capital stock, admis
sions and dues.
Senator Simmons of North Carolina
announced that the program urged the
payment of the public debt from a
sinking fund _ and application of the
foreign war debt to the sinking fund.
ROBERT JAMES OF
NOME BADLY HURT
_ «
NOME, Jan. 11 (jP)—Robert James,
officer for suppression of the sale of
liquor to natives is in the hospital
not expected to live, as a result of
a fire in his home the first of last
week. He wa3 badly burned about the
hands and face and inhaled the flames
and smoke. He had planned to leave
on a tour of the district this moaning.
Nome is enjoying very mild weather
with insufficient snow to run dog
races.
Later—James died this morning. His
funeral will take place Wednesday un
der the auspices of the Loyal Order
of Moose and the Pioneers of Alaska.
COOLIDGE APPEARS TO BE
LOSING HIS GRIP ON WEST
WASHINGTON, D. €., Jan. 9. (JP)
—Is President Coolidge slipping in
popularity?
The question has been raised by
the failure of the president to satis
fy the agricultural industry in his
Chicag6 speech outlining his propos
ed agricultural policies, by the de
flection of republican leaders and
their constituancies from ithe Cool
idge leadership in agricultural mat- j
ters, and by (the critical attitude to-;
ward ithe president adopted by pow-1
erful (farm organizations since the,
Chicago speech and by talk emanat-;
ing from the western states on put
ting forward former Governor Frank
O. Lowden of Illinois, Vice-president,
Dawes or Senator Capper of Kansas,
a farm candidate, for the republican
nomination for president in 1928.
Defenders of the president profess
to regard the agricultural revolt as
only a squall. They enumerate the
agriculture revolts of the last genera
tion or two from the rise of popu
lism down to the mid-western upheav
al of 1922 and ask what republican
they ever discomforted. So they
(think these squalls will blow over
like the others.
DR. SILVERBERG
EVADED DRAFT,
i GETS 3 YEARS
__
'court martial disposes of
f CASE OF YOUNG SEATTLE
MAN WHO FAILED FLAG
SEATTLE, Jan. 11 (/P)—A court:
martial held here Saturday convicted j
Dr. Arvite Silverberg, a Seattle phy-1
sician who evaded the war time draft.!
Silverberg received a sentence of three
years at hard labor, the place to be
chosen by Major General Menoher,
S commander of the Ninth Corps Area
j of San Francisco.
JAPANESE PUBLIC TO SEE
BEAUTY OF IMPERIAL ABODE
TOKIO, Jan. 8. (/P)—The ordinary
Japanese public rarely, if ever, has
bee npermitted to view the interior
of the Imperial Palace. The motion
picture is to change all that, in ac
cordance with an agreement reached
between the Educational and House
hold authorities.
In order that every Japanese may
have an idea of what his Majestys
home looks like from the inside,
films will be taken of every inter
esting room in a magnificent palace.
Among the “shots” will be those
of the Main Entrance, the Imperial
Porch, Homei Hall, Chigusa Hall
and Phoenix Hall. Films also will
be taken of the Imperial Ancestral
Shrines, as well as the Fukiage Gar
den.
Heretofore only certain persons
were allowed inside the palace. Re
cent social tendencies of the Japan
ese which brought aibout passage of
j a new suffrage law giving all citi
I zens the vote, are said to have caus
ed the authorities to decide that the
Imperial Family should be! brouht
in closed touch with the masses.
The films will be given to various
public bodies and associations for
display.
FILES CERTIFICATE
NEW YORK, Jan. 9. sheriff
today filed a certificate to the ef
fect that he had served summons on
Countess Salm von Hoogsitraten in
her husband’s suit for separation.
REP. TREADWAY
HAS NO FAITH
IN RESOURCES
SAYS HE IS TOLD FROM TIME TO
TIME OF TREMENDOUS
RESOURCES—
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jau. 11 (JP)—
The House rejected the amendment
of Representative Treadway in the
reclamation bill to strike out §50,000
of the appropriation for the investiga
tion of the mineral resources in Alas
ka. Representative Treadway started :
the debate with the assertion “that i
this appropriation illustrates the way j
we are wasting money in Alaska. We
are told time and time again of the
tremendous mineral resources of Alas
ka and that as far it goes.’’
Rep. Crampton of Michigan defend-1
ed the item saying, “It will enable
Uncle Sam to find what he has up
there. We oug’.c not to kick Alaska1
around continually This meek little
item is of considerable importance to
the Territory.”
A clause in the bill provides that not
more than $30,000 of the §50,000 in the
bill be spent in Alaska. Representa
tive Blanton said “this will take care
of the employes of the government i
who get tired of Washington in the
summer and want to take a nice trip
to Alaska.”
FOUR MILLIONS j
IN GOLD TAKEN
ALASKA MINES
MILLION AND THIRTY-THREE
THOUSAND PRODUCED IN
YUKON DISTRICT
SEATTLE, Jan. 11 (/?)—The assay
office handled $7,295,000 worth of gold
and silver in 1925, of which §4,474,000
was from Alaska, mostly from the
southeastern section, with big ship
ments from Cook Inlet and Nome.
Of the total amount §1,033,000 was re
ceived from the Yukon and §999,000
from British Columbia.
Receipts of nearly §8,000,000 in
gold and silver at the assay office
last year brought the total since the
opening in 1898 to §295,000,000 includ
ing §72,000,000 from the Nome dis
trict and §92,000,000 from the Yukon.
SEMIAHMOOSPIT
SOLD TO COMBINE
CANNERY MEN
BELLINGHAM, Wn., Jan. 11 (yp)—
The recent sale of Semiahmoo Spit,
on the westerly side of Blaine, is re
ported to have been sold to a combi
nation of cannery interests which will
erect a big supply station on the point.
The Alaska Packers’ Association
Company and George & Barker al
ready own canneries on the spit.
CALL IN SPECIAL POLICE
NEW YORK, Jan. 9. (IP)—Police
Commissioner McLaughlin has abol
ished for Commissioner Enright, the
special service squad which investi
gated gambling and vice charges
and made secret reports to the com
missioner. Precinct chiefs will han
dle all such cases formerly handled
by the special squad.
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Victoria Is Delayed
Arrives Port Morning
Due to gales and resultant rough
weather the SjS. Victoria which was
scheduled to return to Seward ithis
morning from Tutka Bay to (which
point the vessel left port Saturday (to
pick up the San Juan crervv and herr
ing ipack, will not depart for Seward
until 4 o’clock this afternoon, ac
cording to the local naval radio sta
tion. The dispatch was to the effect
the run would require thirteen hours
and that the vessel would probably
noit arrive in Seward, en route to Se
attle, until 5 o’clock tomorrow morn
ing.
CAPT. LARSEN OF
. SCH. DUXBUPiY
FALLS THRU ICE
WORD BY MAIL COMES TO NOME
OF HAPPENINGS THREE
YEARS AGO
NOME, Jan. 11 (/P)—Word by mail
from Point Barrow, tells of the death
of C. K. (Geepole) Larsen, captain
of the wrecked schooner Duxbury,
which left Nome three years ago on
a trading expedition in the Arctic, fell
through the ice and was drowned east
of Point Barrow.
During the first winter the photog
rapher of the pasty named Charles
Scarborough got lost in a blizzard,
and wandering out on the ice of the
Arctic ocean disappeared. Scarbor
ough was formerly a photographer of
Cordova, and went north to take mo
tion pictures of Arctic scenes and na
tive customs. He left with the mate
of the Duxbury on a carbiou hunting
trip, and separating from the party
tried to make the camp on the beach,
but wandered past it in the storm,
his tracks leading to the ice floes,
where they disappeared.
AUTO MAN HURT
AS TRAINS MEET
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla., Jan. 11 (£>)—
W. C. Durant, automobile manufactu
rer was slightly injured, and two ne
gro attendants on his private car were
killed in a collission at Frontenac
with train 36, on the Florida East
Coast Railway, when it met train 86
on a curve. The fireman jumped be
fore the crash but was instantly kill
ed.
His wife, attorney and several per
sonal friends were accompanying Du
rant.
PASSENGER TRAIN
IN GUADALAJARA
MEXICO CITY, Jan. 11 (^—Guad
alajara dispatches say that twenty
armed and disguised men boarded a
passenger train at Guadalajara and
suddenly between Gegrite and Yure
curraro began knifing and robbing the
military escort and passengers. All
of the soldiers except seven were
killed and the train burned with its
victims.
The bandits, who were under former
Colonel Manuel Nunez escaped on the
engine with 300,000 pesos.
General Ferreira, military comman
der of the state of Jalisco, was ordered
by General Torres to purrsue the ban
dits.
SHIPS SHIMMY IN
SWEEPING SEAS
Radio dispatches state that a ter
rific gale is blowing along the west
ward coast and that all ships are hoVe
to riding out the gale. The Starr
received a general shaking up on her
way to Seldovia, and the Victoria
will not leave Tutka Bay until four
o’clock this evening.
JAPAN CURRENT
CHANGES COURSE
CONFUSING FISH
HERRING OPERATOR SAYS FISH
CAN’T FIND WAY HOME ON
ACCOUNT OF WEATHER
SEATTLE, Jan. 11 (/P)—A. H. Sous
thagen, a herring fleet operator of
Douglas, who is visiting here, said
that the poor fish in Alaskan waters
cannot find their way home because
the Japan current is believed to have
strayed from its course taking its
warmth to new waters, forcing the fish
to find new havens. He said: “The
habits of the fish have changed and
the climate has changed since the
Japanese earthquake changed the di
rection of the Japan current. This
also explains the unusually warm
weather for the last two winters, es
pecially this winter.”
VETERAN MUSHER
ON WAY NORTH
NEW YORK, Jan. 11 (,/P)—A. Mal
colm Smith, veteran Alaska dog team
driver left New York for Seattle yes
terday for Seattle to take command
of the motor sledge caravan equipped
with snow motors which will carry
the supplies for the Wilkins expedi
tion from Nenana to Point Barrow.
LOS ANGELES MAN
WINS GOLF PRIZE
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 11 (/P)—At
the Country Club in Los Angeles Sat
urday, Harry Cooper, 21, professional
from the Denison Park Golf Club of
Dallas, Texas, won the first prize of
$3,500 in the $10,000 open tournament
completing the 72 holes in 279. He
made the final 18 holes in 67, five be
low par.
STORM KILLS 5
IN NEW YORK
NEW YORK, Jan. 11 (£>)— Five per
sons were killed in New York, and
three in Massachusetts and five were
hurt as the result of the severe storm
which swept the coast Saturday.
VEIN OF PLATINUM
FOUND WYOMING
DENVER, Col., Jan. 11 (;P)—1The
discovery of a vein of gold and pkti
num bearing ore three feet wide and
nearly three hundred feet long is re
ported near Centennial, Wyoming. It
is announced here that the ore runs
$250 per ton in gold and $100 per ton
in platinum.