Hemard Bnily Guteumy
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXI, NUMBER 179.
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY. JULY 29. 1«.
PRICE TEN CENTS
Terrific Hurricane Strikes East Coast
Destruction Property, Shipping,
Communication, Totals Millions
Eight Persons Known to Have Been Killed in Tropical
Hurricane Which Struck Nassau on Monday—
Steamer Anchored Nassau Harbor Wires
Estimate of Damage to Port
STORM INCREASES ALONG COAST OF GEORGIA
MIAMI, July 29. (A.-P.)—Eight persons are known
to have been killed in the tropical hurricane that struck
Nassau on Monday. It is said that reports from the
steamship Munamar, anchored at Nassau, that the prop
erty damage is estimated at from four to five million
dollars.
July 29. (A.-P.)—High seas and wind
increasing .^iiony along the Georgia coast presaged
the advent of the tropical hurricane which has been
thundering up from the Florida east coast since Monday.
The hurricane left a wake of damage and destruction to
shipping, property, communication lines and crops that
may run into the millions of dollars.
KILLS HIS NEPHEW
MISTAKEN FOR GOVERNOR OF
VEGA, MEXICO WHILE IN
OFFICIAL AUTO
NOGALES, Arizona, July 29. (/P)—
Juan F. Zakany, nephew to the gover
nor of Vega, State of Sinaloa, Mexico, |
died from an assassin’s bullet which
■was intended for his uncle. The dis
patch to the Herald said Zakany was
mistaken for the governor while rid
ing in the official automobile. Three
suspects are held.
MILLION DOLLARS SPENT
CHICAGO, July 29. (/Pj—it has been
disclosed that expenditures in the Illi
nois primary amounted to almost the
million dollar mark. Six hundred
thousand dollars was spent directly in
The Republican senatorial contest
which Smith won from McKinley.
SEIZE $90,000 WHISKEY
NEW YORK, July 29. (£>)_ a
British auxiliary schooner was seized
here with a cargo of alleged whiskey
malt valued at more than $90,000.
northwestern is late
The S. S. Northwestern will prob
ably arrive late in port, according to
present indications. The vessel left
Juneau yesterday morning at 4 o’clock
anti has not yet arrived at Cordova.
HUNDRED Dim IN M
FLOOD FROM H 01
TOKYO, July 29. (/P;—A report
from the Xiligata Perfecture stated
100 people have been drowned in
floods caused by heavy rains. The
telegraph, telephone and railway com
munication has been interrupted.
MOTORSHIP CULBURA.
OF P. .S. S. CO. IN PORT
DISCHARGING CARGO
The large freighter, the motorship
Culbura, Captain Giljy, of the P. S. S.
Co., arrived in port last night at mid- ■
night from Seattle and proceeds West
ward upon completion of discharging '
local cargo sometime this afternoon. <
The Culbura brought 3,500 ties from ■
Seattle for the Alaska railroad, 50
tons of oil supplies for the local '
Standard Oil plant, and a consider
able cargo of general merchandise for
local rail and down-river points, j
From Seward the vessel goes for Sel- ]
dovia. A large tonnage is yet aboard i -
the freighter. i
REV. NORRIS INDICTED !l
FORT WORTH, July 29. (JP)—Rev. s
Norris was indicted by the Tarrant
County Grand Jury for the murder of
Chipps.
—_ I
MONTGOMERY, Ala.—An innova- i
vation in Alabama fire control is a I
group of steel observation towers to \
be erected in the various timbered i
areas of the state. The cost will be I
borne by the government.
I
W01EMJL CONDITION
COUm DDE UfiGELT
PRESIDENT COOLIE
EDSEL FORD. EXPRESSES POi ~ .
CAL VIEWS TO CORRESPON
DENTS AT SUMMER CAVP
PAUL SMITH. July 2<- S> The
belief that Presides: Cool Ire > :a a
stronger position with -re people
than he ever has beer. was expressed
by Edsel Ford, a gnes: a: he White
Pine camp. Accompanying Coohipf
to the executive offices. Ford received
newspaper correspond es: -. He d—
dared his confidence of future com
mercial aviation and rave h.? view
on political conditions. The po>.:ion
of the President is due “to sound poli
tics, especially in the ma*:er < f econ
omy. The country is In a wonderful
condition and President Coolidge to
a great extent, is directly : -t>:n
sible.”
BALTIC SHALE RICHER
IN CRLDE OIL CONTENT
SANTA MARIA. July 2f». ,.p—
Tests of Esthonian oil shale, com
pleted at the plant of X-T-C com
pany nt-ar here, have proved that oil
bearing rock from th- Baltic re^aon
is nearly twice as rich in crude ode
content and possible recovery as
American shale. z
WEE VESSELS FOUNDER.
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BODIES WASHED (SHORE
SANTO DOMINGO. Haiti. July 21
JP)—Many passenger? were drowned
when three schooners, the Franscimy.
peaceful. and Maooris. bound for the
iVindward islands, sank in a stem:
)ff Saona island. Fify-four bodies
were washed ashore at Saona.
HAWAII SUGAR CROP IS
MORE THAN 500.000 TONS
HONOLULU. July 29. P—Hawaii's 1
.926 sugar season is nearly ended. •
dany plantations will tarnish grind- ;
ng cane in July and August. i
The largest plantations late in June J
lad manufactured 509,655 tons of raw :
ugar and shipped 459.995 tons.
NEW OREGON U. PRESIDENT
EUGENE. Ore, July 29. ^—The i
'niversity of Oregon will install its *
©w president. Dr. Arnold Bennett ’
I all, on October 15, as part of a < 1
reek’s celebration of the fiftieth, an- 3
iversay of the university's founding.
)r. Hall comes from the Ur:vers :y *
»f Wisconsin.
2
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HAS BULLET. LUNG.
RESULT OF FIGHT
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DEVELOPING BiRCH-WOOD
RESOURCES §[ jllllSKI
contev»lates sheave*; l ne
FOR TRANSPORTATION SA*
MATERIAL AND COAL
J- E. BiSaiae. oifuturr of the Alas
ka Norther® Ra'.road ras^uy ard
foxrder of the tew® of Seward. is or
rax.rtxr a company :® Sax FltBasm
for the prrpose at cfre.jf.iic the
rhite birch timber .'rdsstry of the ,
?ook Ixiet coaxtry- The birch. of
rhich it is said there a co£>.certhI
icartity. wi2 be asec ix the marafac
2re of farxitarc- ard v-ceer. for
rhich there is a oosstaxtly txcreae
ng dexnaxd. A steamer I re for he ,
ra®s porta: iob of the raw material
'td octal as a retarx cargo betweex f
Gaska ports aid Sax Praxc see is coa
emplated.
MINTOSH HONEYMOON
EDIXB1TKGK JiCy ». ,<P'~Coe
taxoe Taimadpe axe her Scotch has
iaxd, Captaix Alistair Macintosh, are t
aakixg ax aatoxaobile roar of Sort- x
axd which wfi last for aearly rw I
soxths. ;
This is Mis* Talmadge's first visit s
» Sootlaxc which is a delayed hoxey- »
acorn
YELLOW PERIL IS
PULSE ILIl SAYS
SIR FRED WHYTE
A*4KENNG is se*
♦ NCENTixE TO ecoG^ESS ro»
t S Tms A CALSE
roA alarii states ro*VE*
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NEIUI EAST RELIEF
WORKER EXPECTS
510.01. ALASKA
HELD REPRESENTATIVE RE
TLRMNG SEWARD RROV IS
terror next wees
Th*r* passed through Sewa-d a
rev dart arc XT. a. Seilw-ood. Held
represenfatitv of The Near Fa* Re
EieC which ermiiiuiit'f : a* s-,aa*
headquarters are :a N>w Tort C: y
The co»ns:t:ee is ask-zur Alaska to
"a is* at le«R for
The Near £»«; Relief comae: tee of
Alaska it headed hr Mr. La are ace
rolemaa cta:r»aa. and J W. Spare
er. treasurer, both of S*-a • Wui
Already Ketchikan ha* rats* d
‘S.RRR. Wrangell >1«12>. Pe er*bs~f,
fccet8 and VaMet w.*l he rasva-ed
in the retarr trip of Mr. Sellw >®d
rho spent lie years oversea* N ire
a Russia during the tarbektat year*
d 2$1* to isn and knows con dr ,^n*
ink bar dr
Ke will be ia Seward follow me hi*
oeeting ia Anchorage and Fairbanks
nd Seward w l he expected to do it‘>
hare for :be needy little orphaned
hildrva in the Near But
R4.ANS TOLR OR AMERICA
CHICAGO July », ^—A toar of
he conntry. alvlnf pablk lectures ia
•ere than «fty cities! is planned hy
**» Annie Besant of London, interna
i«al presides- of the Theoeophicn]
«iety. foil owing the national coa
ention of the American Theooophical
ociety here An* 2$ to Sept. L