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Reported Delegate Griggsby
Will Contest Decision Made
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SEATTLE, Jan. 26—A special message/rom Wash
ington to the Seattle Times says that it is understood that
George Grigsby, present Delegate from Alaska is to be un
seated. This is the report given out by the election com
mittee which has been investigating the contest The re
ort of the Committee, number three, which has been in
vestigating the contest. The report of the Committee has
>en adopted by the House. The report which will be filed
. in the near future recommends that the seat be given to
* Tn^ge Wickersham. It is exoected that Delgate Grigsby
dll contest the report which was made. The decision to
seat Wickersham was made purely o na party vote on the
floor of the House.
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AMERICANS BE RETURNED
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COBI.UN2, Jan. 25—Fourteen hundred Americans,
members of the demobolized Polish Army will be returned
to this country on the American transport, President
Grant, which left Danzig on January 20.
SCHOONER FIGHTS TERRIFIC BATTLE
( CORDOVA, Jan. 26—The power schooner Olga, nine
ty days out of Nome arrived here today after fighting a
series of terrific battles with the heavy gales along the
northern coast. She had been given up as lost many weeks
ago. The crew has substained on dried fish and reideer
meat
TO SETTLE JAPANESE QUESTION
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day that the negotiations between Ambassadors Morris
and Shiedesara over the settlement of the California ques
tion for the definition of the rights between the Japanese
ad Americans had been successfully concluded. The two
governments must now approve of the negotiation before
any definite action towards the signing of a treaty can be
taken by either side.
INVESTIGATION OF SOPHIA
DISASTER REVEALS MUCH
SEATTLE, Jan. 26—Evidence which shows that the
Princess Sophia was not properly manned at the time she
was wrecKed and that Captain Locke had the habit of
spending considerable of his time in his cabin with women
, plbsengers, was introduced by a claimant- yesterday af
ternoon after a motion to limit the liability. A. Dickensen,
room steward said that on several occasions Capt. Locke
had invited women passengers to his room and that he had
received life boat instructions only once. Frank Sinnot, a
former member of the crew testified that he had never r
:eived such instructions.
QUADRUPLE BIRTH RATE PREDICTED
MILWAUKEE, Jan. 26—Charles Kirschner, profes
sor of astronomy predicted yesterday that the country will
>3 flooded with twins, triplets and quadruplets during the
next six years. His prediction he says is based on the con
junction of certain stars with the moon. The world will be
startled at thes^ecundity among.all races especially during
the next four years.
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BROKERAGE FIRM CLOSES PORTLAND
PORTLAND, Jan. 26—Receiver W..D. Whitcomb to
day announced today the analysis of the affairs of Morris
Brothers, the brokerage firm which close dlast month. The
analysis indicates that the crdeitors will receive anywhere
. from fifty four to. ninety-six cents on the dollar. The de
ficit will probably total $700,000.
TRY TO TURN AUSTRIAN QUESTION TO LEAGUE
PARIS, Jan. 26—An unsuccessful attempt was made
today by the Allied Supreme Council to turn the Austrian
problem pver to the League of Nations.
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NEW COMPANY *0 START
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That abundant capital has already
been secured for the development of
a group of oil claims in the west
field of the Cold Bay district was
stated today by J. W. McCord, agent
I f >r the locators who has been in Ju
i neau for several days on business
(in connection with the filing of ap
plioations for oil leasing permits
Mr. McCord , who is an old time
Alaskan of the Tolovana that has
produced in an average of a millior
a year since discovery, said that
the Westward Development Com
pany, an Oregon corporation, formed
on December 18, last, is to actively
push drilling as soon as machinery’
and supplies can be landed in the
field.
The company is a closed corpora
tion and not a stock selling proposi
tion, accrding to Mr. McCord. It
numbers among its stockholders
prominent Oregonians including
James B. Kerr, . attorney, Portland;
A. S. Kerry, of the Kerry Timber
Company* Kerry, Ore., a former
Northerner who was head of the old
Lake Bennett and Yukon Navaigation
Company in the early Yukon days;
Bert C. Ball, President of the Will
iamette Iron & Steel Works; Frank
lin T. Griffith, President, Portland
Railway, light and Power Company;
George L. and J. A. McPherson,
large timber owners, Portland; Mor
ton H. Insley, vice-president Will
amette Iron & Steel Works and A.
G. Labbe, second vice-president of
the same company; Mr. Corbet
with Ladd & 'Tilton’s Bank, Port
land; Kfr. Woodard of Woodard &
Clark, Portland; J. W. McCord, Ko
Portland bankers.
Mr. McCord stated that although
permits have as yet been issued to
i none of the locators, no trouble **■
anticipated in that respect and prep
arations are being made to begin
actual drilling next season. Fifteen
out of 22 claims represented , are
reported by the L. S. Land Office
entirely free from conflict and while
there are some apparent conflicts on
tne otner seven claims, in reairty
. there are none. “In fact,” declared
Mr. McCord, “all the men in the
west field of the Cold Bay district
are 'working in harmony and any
seeming conflicts will be amicably
straightened out among the locators
without difficulty. All of them are
anxious to get permits' and begin
prospecting and there will be no
trouble oevr conflicting claims.”
M Outlook Is Promising.
“The outlook in the field, from
the surface of course, is promising
Four of the biggest. seepages in
Alaska are located there. One can
wade in oil above his boot tops. Gas
seepages also exist oil is high
grade and of a parafine base and
where evaporation has taken place
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deposits of parafine substance lie on
the surface of the land to a depth in
some instances of four feet. Th s
makes fine fuel for which it will be
used in drilling operations. The geo
logical structure is not folded to
the extent that is noticeable in other
Alaska oil districts and this with
the excellent surface indications
leads to the belief that oil pools (
will be found to exist all along the !
peninsula. Actual tests have shown
the oil to have about three times the
value of- California oil.” •
Mr. McCord stated that the ma
chinery and supplies would be taken
into the field next Spring by Capt
Peter K.' Larson, Superintendent of
San Francisco. It will be shippe '
by the way of Bering Sea into Bris
tol Bay up the Egakuk River and
into Betharof Lake, on the shores of
which a number of claims are lo
cated. Capt Larson is interested ir
the locations as is Guy V. Graham,
a cannery, superintendent of Libby
McNejl and Libby with whom ar
rangements have been made for use
of machine shops located near the
field. Others interested in the claimr
include Jerry Ford, prominent gold
mining operator of Idftarod, L. C
Early of . Standard Oil Land &
Leasing CMpStry of Eleetra, Tex.,
Wallace Cathcart, formerly vice
president of the Farmers Bank of
Fairbanks and owner of mining
grodnd in the Interior.
Gus Peterson, of Fairbanks, also
has a lease in the field. He is one
of teh most prominent mining men
of Alaska, owning vast tracts of
placer mining ground in the Fair
banks vand Livengood districts. He
also is majority stockholder of the
Healy River Coal Corporation, which
has a government lease on coal
land in the Nenana coal fields and
is supplying the Alaskan Engineer*
ing Commission and Nenana and
Fairbanks with coal at the present
enced drill man is now drilling on
a 2,000 acre ranch he owns in Ben*
ten County, Wasn. He nee oeen
asked to take charge of the drilling
operations in tile field next Spring,
according to Mr. McCord.
Mr. McCord commended in warm
est terms tile methods of the local
land office in handling applications
for oil leasing permits. “AH of us
who have submitted applications to
the Juneau Land Office have found
Register F. A. Boyle willing to meet
us more than half way in every re
spect,” he said, ‘‘and he has bandied
all of them without delay. It is a
pleasure to encounter and do busi
ness with an afficial of this type.”
Mr. McCord wiU leave Juneau on
one of tiie first southbound steam
ers enroute to Washington where he
will endeavor to faciHtate issuance
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of permits.
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SPINACH POISONS THREE PERSONS
GRAND RAPIDS Mich, Jan. 26— Two persons are
dead and three dying and several in a critical condition as
the result of eating preserved spinach.
CR1 E IN VIENNA INCREASES
VIENNA, Jan. 26—Crime in Vienna has increased
five-fold this year, Police President Schober has just told
the Vienna Trade Association. He added that nearly every
case was one of serious nature, 1
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Charge Billion and Half Has
Been Swiped by Coal Dealers
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 2ft-Senator Calder of
Jew York, a witness testifying before the Senate Commit
tee which is considering his bill for the Federal regulation
of the coal industry expressed his belief that the American
sople had been mulcted of more than $1,500,000,000 by
the coal men of the country last year.
LARGE FUNERAL PROCESSION
SEATTLE, Jan. 20—Police officers and many busi
ness men joined the funeral procession of the three police
en who were slain last Saturday night in fights with
Tohn Schmidt an alleged bandit. Dense crowds thronged
'he down town streets and at the request of the mayor a
ent many business houses suspended for a few moments
rhile the cortege was passing. A monster benefit is being
danned to raise funds for the twelve rttembers of the fam
’?es of the officers who were thrown on the public for sup
port by the death of the policemen. Jack Dempsev has
i ^-o/yrj f» sked to refree a feature bout and the newspapers
'ave been asked to assist in collcting funds. The mavor has
-'aVed the city council to increase the police force and make
*. determined effort to rid the city of gunmen and crimi
'als.
NEW NAVAL SITES HAVE BEEN SELECTED
WASHINGTON, D. C. Jan. 26—Alameda has been se
lected by the joint committee for the site of the naval fleet
ase in the Pacific. San Diego has been choosen as the sub
marine base and Sandpoint, Washington as the site for
for the aviation base.
GERMANS PASS SENTENCE
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COBLENZ, Jan. 26—A German Court yesterday sen
tenced Gilbert Mains, a German civilian to be guillotined
for the murder of an American soldier last April. It is al
leged that Mains killed the-soldier with his own pistol and
hen robbed him.
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BANKER
RESISTS EXTRADITION
r CARSON, Jan. 26—Cornelius Huley, former presi
> lent and manager of the American State Bank at Fair
banks will resist extradition to Alaska. He says that he
: wants a fair trial, which he could not get if he returned to
Fairbanks in charge of a marshall. He is charged with ac
cepting deposits when he knew hat the bank was insol
vent. His attorney has announced that Governor Boyle has
set the date for a hearing next Friday.
JUDICIARY COMMITTEE CONVENES
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26—The Senate Judiciary Com
mittee today resumed its hearings on the charges against
Attorney General Mitchell Palmer and the Department of
Justice in connection with the administration of the Espi
onage Law. Palmer is charged with, the violation of the
law and the constitution and the conducting of raids for
the arresting of alleged radicals.
BEGIN INVESTIGATION TODAY ,
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MEMPHIS, Jan. 26—Agents of the United States Bu
reau of Explosives began an investigation today to deter- .
mine the cause of yesterday’s explosion of a gasoline car
which destroyed a city block and caused the death often,
negroes and injured scores of others.
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LABOR ASKS TRADE RESUMPTION
SPOKANE, Wash. Jan. 26—The central Labor Coun
cil today passed a resolution asking Secretary of State Col
by to confer with President Wilson regarding the immedi
ate resumption of trade with Bussia. They further declar
ed that many thousand workers were nowJout of employ-*
ment who might be engaged on Russian contracts,
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