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.Seward Citizen Reports ‘No Progress’
. SEATTLE, Ju. tt- "Ike people
of Alaska must get together in an ef
fort to make congress understand that
they are mere peons under the present
system of conservation," states John
Noon of Seward, representative of the
Pioneers of Alaska, ho has just return
they are unable to get title to the land
on which they would have to build
their homes. The only thing left is
for the people of Alaska to get to
gether and do something for them
•elves."
During his trip, which embraced
Chicago, Detroit, Washington, Phila
delphia, New York, Baltimore and
many other smaller cities, he spoke
before commercial dubs, lodges and
various other public gatherings and
from the wide publidty accorded him
by the press everywhere in regard to
Alaska's needs, it is bdieved that
much benefit for Alaska will result.
! His trip was financed through the
Seward Chamber of Commerce.
—Anchorage Times.
ed from a tnp to Washington,. D. C.,
in the interests of the territory. * As
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an example of the indifference of gov
ernment officials toward Alaska, -1
4 found Postmaster-General Burleson
more interested in big game, than in
improving the mail service from Sew
ard to the westward. When I tried to
ntalk about our mail difficulties, Mr.
Burleson wanted to talk about moose
ana carribou. He finally referred me
to the fourth assistant postmaster
general, who passed me on down the
line until after two days I reached the
bottom without being able to get any
thing out of the postal department”
Mr. Noon states that he was passed
from the postal department to the
Shipping board, from which he was
also unable to obtain any results.
“Mr. Saint a member of the board,
know so much more about Alaska than
I did that I was unable to tell him
anything,” he stated.
O’CALLAGHAN SAYS HE IS
. SAME CLASS AS OTHERS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 13—
O’Callaghan, Mayor of Cork formally
entered a claim through the depart
ment of Labor for his rights as a po
litical refugee although the State De
partment had previously ruled he was
not a refugee when DeValem retain
ed to Ireland at the same time O'Call
aghan arrived in thin country. Accetd
ng to Lord Mayor O'Callaghan, his
.ase was similar to the hundreds of
jthera who had fled to this country
to escape the autocracy of England
and* who were not hindered upon arriv
ag in this country but were allowed
to proceed upon their way, and that
his case was a matter for the Presi
A |
dent to decide.
"I believe that an industrial agent
should be maintained in Washington*
l). C, by the people of Alaska* to de
vice his entire time to informing the
po<>pie at the capital of Alaska's needs.
The ignorance of the eastern people in
legrd to Alaska is simply appalling.
Host of them thought I would have to
return home by dog team.
Mr. Noon also interviewed Secre
f tary Payne, Joseph Tumulty* secretary
to President Wilson and many others,
and remained in Washington until af
ter the election. One of te proposi
tion he urged upon Secretary Payne
was the opening of the shores of Bes
surection bay so that fishing sites
might be rented. This Mr. Payne re
fused to do, according to Mr. Noon.
Unless he could show Mr. Payne that
he had a company ready to develop the
proposition.
"I talked Alaska everywhere I
could,” Mr. Noon continued* ‘‘I found
men of influence everywhere greatly
^interested in Alaska. After a long
tVk with Joseph Harriman* of fee
Harriman National Bank of Seward,
he told me that if the people of Alaaka
would get their ideas together |hd
present them to him in concrete tom
he would do everything he could to
he p them.
"In fact I found people all over the
east greatly interested add when they
found they could get first-hand infor
mation from a prospector who had
gone through all the experiences of
which they had read they were more
tan willing to believe. Mr.vTumulty,
was very friendly to Alaaka I fowl.
He told me that I was the first sum
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wM had ever gone to Washington who
represented the settlers and prospect
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BODY OF CONTRACTOR
FOUNDS GIRLS APARTMENT
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 13— The
bodies of Aubrey Evans a wealthy
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Fresno contractor and Miss Irene
Adams were found in the latter's
apartment d<*ad from bullet wounds,
it i? be ikwed Evans killed Miss Adams
and then suicided..
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KETCHIKAN FISH PRICES
KETCHIKAN, Jan. 13- The fol
lowing fish prices are quoted today:
Fresh halibut, thirteen and ten; sable
ii8h, five and twd; red and rock cod,
four and one half.
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FREIGHTER LATOUCHE IN
PORT FROM THE SOUTH
Th« freighter Latouche arrived in
port this morning from the states aft-!
er a trip of several weeks bringing
the rest of the Christmas mail, having1
left Seattle on'December 123rd, and a|
v t amount of freight for the Com-1
mission, which is planning to commen- j
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ce their summer work on a large scale
at the opportune time. The Latouche j
orought a large amount of gasoline;
and dynamite for Cofdova, a large
amfunt coal fof-Valdes and will finish
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WEATHER REPORT
r. SEWARD 10 Pt Cloudy Calm.
Anchorage *28;.B. Clear Calm. .
2 B Gear Calm. ;
. Ciuckalooa S B Gear Calm.
Wiallla 14.B Clear Calm^
falkeetna 10 B Gear Calm.
:Jtortkua* 0 B Gear East
Summit16 B Gear north.
: Bealj** B Ck*rCafan.v
Zenana 27 B Gear Calm.
Fairbanks 40 B Gear Calm.
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i'ayne told ns* that the trouble with^
Alaska is the lack ^population. When
I asked him if he knew the reason hi
couldn't answer me.'Tten T told him
It was because of the laws which tied
everything up. w^
“There are thousands of tittle coves
where whole families could Hte in4
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catch herring, cod, tttinea smd aA*
fish at various times of Af freak.
Their farms would bo As ana. But
oiese famfitta wA Mi mM , w*
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' BERLIN,, Jan. 13- M. Sshwart*
a San Francisco socialist arrived tan
after having bam » prisoner fair fottr
months in a Bolshevik! jaB at Moscow.
Schwarts, who attended thi Third In
ternational at Moscow said that be
cause he expressed frankly hty ftOap*
pointment of the conditlOOH hi -jhmoft
was thrown Into jail Without
his wife at the same time sharing his
lot His wife died shortly aft* their
release of a broken heart St What she
raw in Russia. He assorted 1st the
American workmen moot never pur
sue Soviet methods.
When asked his opinion about re
suming trade with Russia said that the
.'iU3U:g of the blockade would .save
1 u no reds of thousands of lives but
would strengthen Bolshevism find five
them an opportunity to boast that Bley
and secured victory. He said that upon
h»‘s return to America he would tell
the v/oild the actual conditions in that
lesrsome country. Ml don't regard It
as a government at all"
•BALL PLAYERS EXPELLED
CHICAGO, Jan. 13— Players Rum
eler, Maggert, Borton, Dal*, involved
in the alleged baseball crookedness of
chc Pacific Coast Leifne wars expell
i rcm organised baseball bp the nation
al association of mins* leagues.
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<>OULD USE >
BETTING MACHINE*
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OLYMPIA, Jan. iy^SiithrBM»
well of Seattle tabodttcod g bffi into
the state bouse matter * board of
Jta«*Kr supervisors and authorising
vhe use of poximutuol betting ma
chines' .
SALEM, Jan. 13— The First State
Savings bank*of Klamath Falla closed
at the order of the State Superintend
ent of Banks, the action resulting
from depleted tends.
CALIFORNIA AGAIN VEILED
BT KILUNG FROST
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SAN FRANCISCO, W«B*-Tke
continuation of thaoold^btfbMbglit
another killing frost - thrtqfro* to
northern and central CfcEfdr
nia, farther endangering « tile citrus'
and fruit crops. A sixty: v?gp)e Jpile
blowing from the southeast nraa. re
ported at the mouth of the ^Columbia
.iver in Oregon and all shippingfca
been warned.
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KETCHIKAN TO «AVB V- **
Alill NHJHT SERVIChK
That Ketchikan, may be^Wti W
all-night telegraph; ported Ofir tile
military cdble system, -era# tilt ad-r
vices given by Lieut -. ColoBd C/it
Seoane officer, in charge of theiinm,
who was in tmyn on an inspection trip.
The need for an all-night service, the
congested condition ep
ummcr-time mpm^ and tim pH
eral Van ?t business was broupktto
the attention of ColSeoem aadh*
agreed to go into, tile palter mom fil
ly upon hisgetorh to tieattie.
At the present time, owing to
business conditions Ipt, itis bo
Ueved that tp Ketchikan office is do
ing pj ore business tips ply ePH of
fice in Alaska,.and it M doing this
with less mm than pd# of tip larger
officio.
Col. & tonne Juts bee* It danit
of the cable Syrians only .a. ,*dtlri
tune, .baring recently succeeded Cot
1). 0. Lenoir. He catne oa tbe dbb>
?hip Burnside after ‘ maMaf a .teif
through Northern water* in which be
visited a number of stattona •.
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CHAMPION WILL
WASHINGTON HEAVY
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Jan. 18— Article*
ive been signed be
Lewis, world's ebam
to wrestle here on
Daviscourt defeated
in a handicap match* I
METAL TRADE COUNCIL
OPPOSED REDUCTION WAGE;.
PORTLAND, Jan. 18- Pacific
coast district metal trades council
went on record last night as "uwtftor
jbly opposed to gay reduction of yrpg
e* at tide time.? They Htynuaeaged
quotations of redaction affecting
*1 council. OfOeers off
were affected by thir reduction of
wage*. '■
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UNITED STATES TO ADVANCE
MILLIONS TO GREECE
ATHENS, Jan. 13— It Is announc
ed that the United States government
had consented to advance thirty two
millions of dollars to the Greek gov
ernment This has already been proar
;*ud to Veni oles, the Prime Bfinist
er on condition that the money be ex
pended in the United States on non
war materials.
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JAPANESE MOODIER TO BE
COORTMABTIALED FOB DEATH
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TOKIO, Jan. 13— Japanese offte- '
era report-the fetal shooting of Ueu«
tenant W. H. Langdon fired first at >
the pentinel, according to the minister
of war. The sentinel is*being;court-?
mar' /tied and die Japanese govern
j.meal expresses the deepest regret ^
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ALASiUN CENSUS RETURNS '"
ABE FINALLY COMPLETED
y AMcsr-^ Additional reP
t^w.^qr.the Second CfensttsDiatrict -
wej* xvcd*ed'4Ki*iaoriiing from 4b*
office ,of<*ov. Th&nas Rigtywhich
make |he total population for $h*di#? >
jtriitt *4^94 and for tito^ondto^^i^:
071. "The report received covetf* th* ,<
Aleutian Islands giving them, fgapn& *
ration ,of J38 whites and "728 nstjim i
^ahd mired bloods. " .... ^ ^:
With these figures the population
of Alaska is almost evenly divided b#-> i
tween the,natives and the whites. U i
*Is believed that these figures complete <
the census beraMk’i' %ork in Alaska*
anduntasaerrors areeincoTered ii> th«
tabulation of the’flitftw %sp »W )
stand for the final total for Alaska's
1920 Population. '**#&•*?
,. i jACcount of tot rum
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TORONTO, Jan. 18— The aero
dub (if £^mn»Am aUMlttcdd ttfflJyMl
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sbandwaad the offletal banquet to'be
i Reach Juneau
Lost Launch Diana
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ted By Storms For Nineteen Days
I? News conge* dp from the south that
Jto small |&b*t Diana has been
todnd after «ifr*teen day search of
the beaches focky shores in the
/idnity of Junto*. The Diana was lost
daring the heavy gales which swept
ite Alaskan ceasftd during the first
of .December and a steady search
:*a* kept uphy the various craft of
buneau. The Allowing is an account ol
die trip of tfcd Diana taken from the
iuneau Bnftffe*:
MarooncdHfor several days in a
boat With a broken tail shaft and
jammed rudder off the Northeast
shore of Lemeseur Island in Icy
itraits, while adosen beats scoured
dm aos for the missing craft, was
:he experience of Ospt Ed Jones
and John Olson of the gat boat
Diana which made port here at 8$9
last night, with the gas boat Daunt
less.
The Dauntless, Capt Robert Bar*
-day, sighted the disabled craft ft
3 o’clock 'Friday afternoon, finding
her ancored a quarter of a mile off
shore in shoal water midway between
Willoughby '•Cove and the lighthouse
>n Lemeseur Island. The Dauntless
iad left Juneau Wednesday afternoon
nd reached Hoonah Friday. There
a rumor was Jieard of a gas boat in
listress at Lesmesuer Island about
hiity-five miles away and they left
t noon Friday for the reported
place, finding the Diana as stated.
The disabled boat was at o bee
-aken in tow and assisted to Ex
ursion Inlet where she tied up while
ne Dauntless went to Hoonah to re
port the Diana’s safety. The Daunt*
jss then returned to Excursion Inlet,
picked up he£ tow and continued
>n to Juneau. Besides Capt Barclay
h ,n the Dauntless were Fred Oliver
^onner maatrifoi tho Dii—, sad '
John Winn.
Capt Jones narrating hi* exper
ience said:
JART ADVOCATES
DRECT PRIMARY LAW
OLYMPIA, Wash. Jan. 18— Gov
ernor Hart of Washington, in a biena
message to the state Legislature ad
vocated that Congress pass a direct
primary law to be held ior the sole
rainy state an* party conventions.
eii not to be “a rose strewn pathway
or a political Utopia/* He asserted that
“demoralisation was responsible in the
party organisations for the unfair ad
vantage given the minority of the
groups." "A modification of the law
is required, strict divorce laws and en
forcement of the?revisions of the con
stitution against the Alien ownership
of land was also urged.’*
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"We left Juneau about mlilni^bt
m November 30 with a cargo ef sup
plies for the Hirst-Chichaguff Island,
//hen approximately twelve hours
jut of ort or about 12:30 p. m., the
next day, the tail shaft of the boat
oroke as we were passing Lemeseur
island in Icy Straits. John Olson
was at the wheel and was holding
the boat well off shore and favoring
Lemeseur Island, so we were closer
j) that place than any other land.
‘‘When the tail shaft broke", he
continued, “the propeller jammed
jgainst the rudder and the boat was
perfectly helpless as far as steering
>as /concerned. We took' the little
power boat we had on board and
towed the Diana within a quarter
of a mile of shore where there was
little protection form the wind.
Hoisting a.white sheet into the rig
ging and carrying lights there at
night we remained seventeen days.
All the searching boats with Hie
exception of a fishing boat that left'
.Sitka late last week to seiuch near
cape Spencer are in port today..
Charles Goldstein, owner of the
Diana, spent many anxious days and ;
nights while the fate of the men wds :
in doubt but never gave up hope.
He asked that The. Empire thank
Gov. Thomas Riggs, Jr* Commissions •*.
N. L. Burton' of Juneau^ the U. S. **
Harry Fisher, Capt George Naud of
Hie Hum and crew and his crew, and
the captains and crews of the gas^ '
boats that were concerned ha 4the s
search for the missing vesttL
LAST PIECE MACHINERY
READY FOR PULP MILL
The “log splitter” f6r the pulp mill
at Speed river is in Junean, having
arrivedfrom the outside 'on the last
bdat * and will be included in the
{(eight which will be taken to the
plant 6f the Alaska Pulp and Paper
mill by Captain Tay Bayers of the
A&fttojwho will leave Thursday on
hit neat trip. , c
- ^BUt^few hours will be required to
put tho log splitter in place and the
plant will then be ready to turn over
thg machinery: On the first day of
tgkgafteait^was planned to turn on the
water and grind out the first pulp
ever madh in Alaska. A resow has
boen/fesde in asseirnbUpg * the plant
and machinery and getting it ready
Pop busIhOSS. '
nc ftssengers hooked for Speel river
m,-Ah* Alecto Thursday , are Steve
(teyritead; the well known carpenter,
Seoige Leghorn, Johnny Penglase
md^FrtedlD^ttriea*
fa Dougtea Mead the foreman of the
jtitt construction work and machinory
(eft 4m the mail bidt Pheasant Men
iayv and along with him were F. Nor
ton, the storekeeper, and Ed. Hall,
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.Severaltimber contracts have been
iwarifeTBy t&ebaipfny> there
wi# b« « *d*d .apply <« hud 'fcor
the nriHwhetf * hegW fttadlw #rtp.
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