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VOLUME XX. NUMBER 248.
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1925.
PRICE TEN CENTS
PRIMARIES NOW
ON IN STATES;
HYLAN BEATEN
Robert Lafollette, Jr Lead
ing in Minnesota, Over
Three Others
TAMMANY MAN WINS
Hvlan States Will Quit Poli
* ■ tics and Tend to Person
al Affairs
MILWAUKEE, Sept. 16. (/P)—Rob
ert Lafollette, Jr., overwhelmed three
opponents for the republican senator
ial nomination with 2,269 out of 2,691
precincts.
Lafollette received 160,457 votes,
Wilcox 78,314; Woodward 38,425 and
McGovern 17,502 votes.
Hylan Defeated, Will Quit
NEW YORK, Sept. 16. (#>)—Hylan
was defeated for renomination today
by States Senator Walker, Tammany
designee, by a majority of more than
ninety thousand votes. With six
^ sevenths of the vote counted, Walker
was gaining steadily, and his backers
expect a final lead of one hundred
thousand. The republican contest
was a walk-away from the Waterman
fountain pen manufacturer who led
his opponents eight to one.
Hylan, according to the New York
Times, told his close friends “I am
getting out of politics with a clean rec
ord. I’ve done my best.”
Hylan is said to be in a jovial mood.'
Bowles Leading in III.
SPRINGFIELD, 111., Sept. 16. (JP)—
H. L. Bowles of Springfield, won the
Republican nomination in the second
congressional district, with 7,110 votes
against 1,330 for Mayor W. H. Feiker.
Roland D. Sawyer was unopposed
for the Democratic nomination, getting
seven hundred and sixty votes.
Hylan is Cheerful
NEW YORK, Sept. 16. (vP)—Hylan
arrived at the city hall this morning
feeling very cheerful, and said:
“I am pleased I pulled the mask off
^ the big, Albany ham and egg man. I
made the bosses of the underworld
spend an average of four hundred dol
lars'in each election district to defeat
me.”
When shown a copy of a paper pre
dicting he would head the third ticket
Hylan declined to talk. The article
in the Journal said “It is taken for
granted Hylan will head an indepen
dent ticket.”
PRISONERS BREAK
OUT OF SEATTLE
COUNTY JAIL
SEATTLE, Sept. 16. (IP)—A county
jailbreak, undoubtedly the work of a
f Chicago gang, headed by Johnson, one
of the escapers, took place last night.
Sheriff Matt Starwich declared they
have been toiling for six months in an
effort to escape, being frustrated twice
Avhen caches of arms and ammunition
were seized. Burns, who also escap
ed, was one of the Chicago gang.
FIVE MEN SHOT BY
AMBUSHERS WHEN LARGE
\ ROADHOUSE IS BURNED
JOHNSON CITY, Sept 16.
—Five men were dangerously shot
by ambushers as they fled from a
burning roadhouse near here.
Authorities believe the attack
ers set fire to the roadhouse and
then lay in wait with shotguns.
AIRPLANE SERVICE
REDUCES TRAVEL IN
INTERIOR TO HOURS
8 SEATTLE, Sept. 16. (JP)— 8
8 Airplane passenger service in 8
8 Alaska, from the coast to the 8
8 Interior, has reduced cross 8
8 country travel to minutes in- 8
8 stead of months, Horton, Fort 8
8 Yukon merchant declared to- 8
8 day. 8
8 Horton said he made a trip 8
8 from Fort Yukon to Fairbanks 8
8 in two hours and ten minutes, 8
8 over a distance which usually 8
8 takes twelve days. 8
8 Horton expects to start north 8
8 again next week. 8
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JOE COLLIER
HAS BEST OF
MANILA BOUT
TWO MEN STAGE FIGHT IN CAN
ADA — TRANSFERRED FROM
KETCHIKAN, FIRST DIVISION,
WHERE COURT RULING PRE
VENTS BOXING.
PRINCE RUPERT, B. C., Sept. 10.
—In the fight here last night between
Joe Collier, of Juneau, and Joe Man
ila, of Ketchikan, Collier had six
rounds, Manila two rounds and the
other two rounds were a draw. Col
lier says he is satisfied. The fight
was transferred here from Ketchikan,
owing to a court ruling not permitting
boxing exhibitions in the First Div
ision of Alaska.
OWNER OF WHISKEY SHIP
NOW UNDER ARREST, ENG.
LONDON, Sept. lfi. (/P)—Mabel Cas
ares, part owner of the whiskey ship,
General Herrett, has-been arrested on
the charge of obtaining goods under
false pretenses.
BASEBALL
AMERICAN LEAGUE—
Washington 5, Detroit 3.
New York, Cleveland, postponed on
account of rain.
Boston 1, St. Louis 2.
Philadelphia 4, Chicago 2.
NATIONAL LEAGUE—
Chicago, Boston, rain.
Cincinnati 1, New York 4.
St. Louis 2, Phila. 4.
Pittsburg, Brooklyn, called off in
the third inning, rain.
COAST LEAGUE—
Salt Lake 6, Oakland 0.
Sacramento 6, Vernon 5.
San Francisco 10, Portland 5.
Spark-Smoke-Alarm
At Noon Hour Today
*
A spark, becoming lodged in
one of the local buildings, in
the allvway between Fourth and
Fifth street, created a slight
smudge from which smoke drift
ed lazily was the signal for a
fire alarm to be turned in at
noon today. The volunteer de
partment backed up by the fire
truck, responded to a man, arm
ed with extinquishers. Fire
Chief Laning called off his
crew following a close inspec
tion of the fire hazard.
COLUMBIA RIVER,
ALASKA LINE IS
BEING PROPOSED
JACK McCORD AT PORTLAND,
TELLS STEAMSHIP LINE
BE REMUNERATIVE.
Efforts to interest Portland jobbers
and business men in establishing a
line of steam -schooners between the
Columbia river and Alaska are being
made by Jack McCord of Seward and
a conference was held at the chamber
of commerce Friday to discuss the
possibilities of such a line, says the
Oregon Daily Journal of Portland,
Oregon of recent date. The Journal
goes on;
McCord represents the Westward
Development company, which recently
interested the Standard Oil and As
sociated Oil companies in the Alas
kan oil fields.
The proposal made by the Alaskan
visitor was that coal from the Mat
anuska field be brought to Portland
by these vessels and that general
merchandise be handled on the re
turn trip. He said that the coal was
of a high grade and could be laid
down in Portland at a cost permit
ting distribution thru this territory.
To interest jobbers in the Alaskan
trade territory McCord met with a
group of these distributors at the
chamber of commerce at noon. Other
conferences are to be held with bus
iness men and bankers.
MoCord told the businessmen that
this line should be financed by Port
land capital and declared that the
enterprise could be made a profitable
one.
LONE JACK GOLD
MINE SUSPENDS
FOR THE WINTER
BELLINGHAM, Sept. 16. —Opera
tions at the Long Jack free milling
gold mine in the Mount Baker region
have been suspended until next
March, when the work of driving a
large tunnel, recently projected, to its
completion, will be resumed, Carl S.
Willis, superintendent and engineer,
said today on his departure for Sierra
City, Cal., where he will act as super
intendent in the Primrose free milling
gold mine.
Bishop Rowe Will Hold
Service Seward* Shortly;
En Route from Interior
Bishop Peter Trimble Rowe, of the
Episcopal diocese of Alaska, will ar
rive in Sew'ard shortly from the Inter
ior, according to a letter received by
A. E. Rucker, local attorney, and will
hold services at the local church, be
tween September 19 and the 26th.
Bishop Rowe is now’ at Nenana,
having come from Fort Yukon, where
he supervised the rebuilding of the
mission which was destroyed last year
by fire.
Bishop Rowre made the trip into the
Interior via Skagwmy and Dawson. On
his way Outside he will stop at An
chorage, Seward, Valdez and Cordova.
SUES DIVORCED HUSBAND
FOR BREACH PROMISE
CHICAGO, Sept. 16. (^—Marguer
ite L. Sofield, sued Armand Sofield,
her former husband today for tw’enty
five thousand dollars for breach of
promise. This is the first breach of
promise suit in Cook county’s records
brought by a wife against her divorc
ed husband. Sofield denies and pro
posed marriage.
MEMORIAL TO DEAD
PRES. UNVEILED BY
KIWANISIN CANADA
8 VANCOUVER, B. C., Sept. 16. 8
8 (JP)—-A Harding Memorial will 8
8 be unveiled today by John tt
tt Moss, international president 8
tt of the Kiwanis. Senator F. tt
tt Willis, Ohio, will represent the tt
8 United States, and Dr. J. King, 8
8 Dominion Minister of Public 8
8 Works, will represent Canada. 8
8 Dr. George Harding, brother 8
8 of the late president, will talk 8
8 at the ceremonies, broadcast 8
8 from CNRV, at two this after- 8
8 noon. 8
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NEW FREIGHTER
PURCHASED FOR
ALASKAN TRADE
SISTER SHIP OF THE CORDOVA
TO BE PUT ON RUN OUT
OF QUEEN CITY.
SEATTLE, Sept. 16.—Purchase of
the steel freighter El Capitan from
Andrew F. Mahoney of San Fran
cisco was announced today by the
Alaska Steamship Company. It will
be used in the Seattle-Southeeastern
Alaska service. El Capitan is the
sister ship of the Cordova, which
has made good on the run. It is ex
pected to arrive in Seattle next week.
Captain Joseph Dodge, one of the
pilots on the navy transport Hender
son during the Harding Alaska cruise,
is bringing the vessel here.
LAST BOAT FOR
LOWER YUKON
LEAVES TODAY
NENANA, Alaska, Sept. 16. —To
day, Wednesday, will be the last sail
ing of river steamers out of Nenana
for this season for Tanana River and
lower Yukon River points. The last
sailing of the season frorrt Nenana for
uppfer Yukon River points will be
about September 20.
Frau Bang of Denmark holds the
office of national minister of educa
tion.
TWO SHOT BY
DAIRYMAN NEAR
M’MINNVILLE, ORE
George Hamlen Killed and
Father Critically Iniur
ed by Enraged Man
ACCUSED OF STEALING
Party Was Hunting Deer
When Fired Upon—
Trent Arrested
MCMINNVILLE, Oregon, Sept. 16.
(/P)—J. S. Trent, a dairyman living
on the outskirts of this city, shot and
killed George Hamlen and critically
injured his father F. R. Hamlin. Trent
accused the men of robbing his water
mellon patch near his ranch last even
ing.
Hamlin, accompanied by Earl Ham
lin, brother of George, and an uncle,
William Hamlin, were hunting deer
when the shooting occurred. Trent has
been arrested.
DYING IS EASIER
THAN RETURNING
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 16. —Dying
is easy, but coming back to life is a
living hell.
“Dead” for five minutes and restor
ed to life by adrenalin, W. Beturum,
72, described tonight his excursion in
to the realm of the “Hereafter.”
Beturum collapsed in the county
Sheriff’s Office when informed that
friends had bailed him out of jail af
ter he had spent some time there on
a minor charge.
County jailers believed him dead
and Dr. Benjamin Belank was called
to sign the death certificate. Though
he had little hope of reviving Betur
um because of his extreme age, Dr.
Belank decided to administer the med
icine.
Beturum responded quickly to treat
ment and was delivered smiling to his
home in less than an hour.
“The dying didn’t hurt a bit,” he
said. “I don’t remember a thing
about it. It was just like going to
sleep.
“But the coming to was hell. 1 was
never so deathly ill in all my life as
when the effects of the adrenalin
were wearing off.”
“I’ll rest up a bit for a few days
and then go back to work. I am too
young and full of life to be lying
around and doing nothing.
MAN IS MONKEY’S COUSIN, SIMIAN
AUTHORITY ASSERTS TO PRESS
BALTIMORE* Md., Sept. 16. (ff)—
“Man and monkey are cousins.”
This is the statement of Dr. Odolph
H. Shulz, associate professor of physi
cal anthropology at the John Hopkins
Medical school.
Dr. Schulz has traveled extensively
through Central and South America
and has captured many types of mon
keys. He is an authority on the sim
ians.
“Man and monkey came from the
same ancestors, only man went one
way and monkey the other.” he said.
“Man developed his brain, and with
that came other developments. The
monkey retained his tail and follow
ed along different lines. With the de
velopment of man’s brains came the
shortening of his tail, until the tail
disappeared entirely. With the mon
key came different forms of evolution.
He grew his tail.
“However, some monkeys grew
along different lines altogether, and
their tails either failed to grow or dis
appeared entirely. These monkeys
are the chimpanzee and the gorilla.
“Human beings have tails. An
adult has his hidden in his body. It
is in his vertebrae. It cannot devel
op any more because of rudimentary
muscles. They are in the body, but
are of the non-growing type.
“When human evolution begins
there is a tail until the embryo com
faiences to attain its age when it ar
rives into the world; then the tail dis
appears into the body.
“When the human being is about
half an inch in length it has a tail 1-6
the length of its body. This tail is
like a monkey’s.
“There are no differences between
the anatomy of a human being and a
monkey. They have similar muscles,
blood vessels and nervous systems.
Only the human system is larger.”