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SEWARD, ALASKA. Tlll'KSDAY. M W 2!'. 1019. . --
VOU ME MIL M'MIIKI! 2!. _-- - .- - * ....
. alga is now to the westward but tin*
The raf’"R ,n ,l!" o not rover the i hole district.
M B«y • :,:"1 y* " M dual aid and mire. . arc now badly
*ut‘h Harbor. Many nr. .lead an v.. m. ^ wjth „.,ii>r in sjK|„ „nk-«
tmis arc bcinjs reported hmn y. w (|imt from Scar
The above advices have boon r* env- tie.
ed in Seward b\ the radio tation com- The ' i first 'rue’; the l’risto1 bay
ing from various nations to the \v» s .i ict .;c\* n < a\s ago ;i> Nushag«t\
ward. and then spread to other places, ac
It is stated i at na 've. or ' i .or<,;ag !.» the radio advice .
Bristol Ba> di t ict h d did! and co • \ • Commercial Company
. ire now ill with the flu. port n live; dying in large numb
Highly have lv«n stricken with *’•' rs. Many of the indio boys and their
flu at Dutch ha I" the past * *» •’anii’ • s :• !hp v:i ions tations are
hours. Four vith the flu and aim • ! unable to
Dutch Harbor. The *. venue cutter l a- attend to business.
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By Associated Press
CHICAC.O. May 2l> - National IVn
ocratic Chairman C.immins, in an in
terview hero today, stated that he be
lieves Presiil m Wilson’s candidacj ,
for a third term will bo deteimin d
largely by the fate of the League o
Nations.
“1 believe President Wilson will I"
a candidate for the Presidency.” s" 1
Mr. Cummins, “if the 1 ('ague of Na
tions is beaten. 1 believe however that
the League is unbeatable."
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BY NG-4
By Associated Pr«*s9
LISBON. May 2:»— The Arr. rican
seaplane N C 4- made the High* from
the Azores to this port in nine ho
and forty three minutes. 1 he tota' ’ly
ing time ftom Newfoundland is twen
ty six hours and forty one minutes.
The Portuguese Foreign Minister
decorated the crew of thrt N C -1 with
the ord*r of the Tower .md Sword.
LONDON Ma] 29 Ha ry H
and navigator Grieve arrived here to
day. The King ha> given the insignia
of the Air Force Cross for their de
votien to their duty.
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Charles Ingersoll, proprietor of the
Revilla Hotel at Ketchikan, has gone
into the fishing business. He will op
erate a floating mild-curing plant on
the west coast of Prince of Wales.
By Associated Press
SKAT ILK, May 2D— Officers of
the Alaska Steamship Company an
no nee that the application yester
day to ih' Into state Commerce con
mi ; m fo • an incica e in rates to
Va kn fiom Seattle and Tacoma, does
not mean that the local fares *>;
freight rite.- to Alaska on coastwise
business ar * to be increased. The new
• at1*- eff* *s pas-enjc rs and freight
bus no ; o *«;iuatinyj ad p »i iti oth* r
ban So-it •. ..mb a touiist tickets
old to i. land points. The amount o'
nor * ♦* i :*Son on* |v cent of ill
• ♦ b s. The application is in
• m’od to rai ' them f ' the rates or.
">»a business last March.
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WASHINGTON’ . May 2!>— T’ac
to.-ina' Naval I! >ard icvomniomlod t.>
ay that the tDHJ building program
• jo completed as rapidly as possible
’t is * xported that sixteen first clas
battleships will comprise a portion o'
he peace time forces.
\ AND BEAR CRASS
ii \RVKSTED LIKE WILD II
FL FASO. Tex.. May 20— Yucc?
nd I; at g. ars at e h >ing harvested o*
he d‘> e t h />nd Fort Bliss like \vi*.
hay. baled and shinned to St. Loui
*ot making con* e fiber brushes
hro m ; and oth* r fiber articles. A S*
Louis company has contracted for :ii
he yucca and bear grass fiber to m
mind on the plains near here and
*s being cut by Mexicans, baled an<
loaded on cars for shipment.
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A Dapper arrived in Fairbanks re
I cently with the pelts of seventeei
wolverines besides considerable othe
fur. The catch of wolverine was un
usually large, as it is a hard anima
to trap.
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this auk nuoi cur
INTO (JI KKU STATI S "
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NUTTK, Mont., May 2S— 1f> have
the “toys**, which he started making
as a means of diversion during his
leisure hours, come into demand in re-,
mote corners of the earth, and to have
them figure in the cour*. in impoita i
liti- ation is the experience of I‘\
Linforth, a geologist and mining en
gin< ( r.
In a little engineering mining shop
in a corner of his home, Mr. Linforth
:i graduate of the University of Cali
fornia, ten years ago began moulding
or folding, to he i*ore exact, minat ire
models of mine plans and mining ca
chinery out of various kinds of pa*'r*i
and cardboard. It became a hob
with him. and he became so protice ?
that ho was able to ropioducc on
mast a “watch charm**, scale, the vast
and complicated inner works of mining
plants. H-' made models of the largest
mines of Butte so precisely that mi »•
eis could point out the various stope.
or raises in which they worked.
An exploration company which is
building a large smelter in Chile rr*
•entty requested Mr. Linforth to mah *
i paper maphe relief map of the lorn
tion of the proposed plant and to build
on it the smelter. Without even having
men the ground, Mr. Linforth by
means of surveys sent him made a re.
production of the site, hundreds of
loves in exteid, and built on h' <
miniature smelter on which the comp
any since has actually begun construc
tion work on its South American Pro
perty. This model was made on a
cale of 100 feet to the inch.
Miniature duplications of mine.
have bt’en ordered by mining men t<»
he sent to New York and o4hcr large
•ities in oHer to interest financier
in properties for which captital wo
•ought. The model of a smelte>- found
>5 v av to the University of Santiam .
Ch'e with the result that a communi
•e*im came from this school asVin.c
M*\ 1 inforth to reproduce for it mod
els of c rtain mines and smelters of
the United States. As a result SoeV
\me»ican mining students at this uo
:v* <;tv have before them in the •
•’a s roons. other models, the Ur*'-'
Pa^s. Mon.. smelt* • in detail with
wei v piece of mach'uerv In • ’•< o
tho •epi’oduction faithful to the rt n
ite?t detail.
Ir>the Montana federal court a
’aw -nit involving millions o<* dol'a.vs
< ad issue and Mr. I inforth’s services
havo born sought to reproduce for rx
mrmdiou in the court room, sma1'
model • of two of the largest mines :n
‘he Ihitte district. When the ca e
•omos to t”’al the court will follow
'he argument, which involves title to
•aliens veins, by having the points
mentioned in the testimony pointed
>ut.
“Mv hobby never can become a bus
'ne sa;d Mr. Limvorth. “There is
not enough mine construction to mak»
;t a commercial proposition because in
i few weeks 1 can reproduce the min
atuve of a plant costing millions or
dollars.”
Several of Mr. Linforth’s associa -
. (*s work with him each evening in his
’ittlo home factory which is known ir.
most techinical universities of Ameri
ca and to the majority of the mining
I men of the country.
DRESSED MEXICAN FLE\s
NOW C.O OFF MARKET
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. EL PASO. Tex., May 20— Dressed
: Mex'can fleas have disappeared from
| ’ho curio market here. These little in
sects oner wore popular with tourists
or mailing back home. The on’y
- dressed flea in the curio stores here is
\ one being held by a wholesale dealer
r as a souvenir of the days when l*t
- sold the insects, skillfully dressed by
l keen-eyed Mexican women, by the
gross.
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Bv Associated Press
WASHINGTON. May 2d - Kcpre
sentative Alexander, Democrat of .Mis
souri, has introduced a bill to conser
ve Alaska fishing.
The bill provides that cannorie ■ and
fisheries must obtain a license to on*
••rate from the Secretary of Commerce
who would lease fixed locations tor
fifteen year* or less.
iiepivsentative Alexander id so n
♦reduced another mea.suio proposin’:
that December and January of e; h
yea” be a closed season for halibut on
the Pacific.
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By Associated Press
SKATTLH, May 2d • Stramm- A I
I miral Watson . ailed foj’ southeast '’it
md . oothwestern Alnsk i port. , inr i d
ina' Anchorage and Ividiak at
’clock 3 t la> ‘o m. The ; si
ngers f)i Seva til ax as i olio .s:
Virginia Hawkin’, Janie^ Hawkin'*
M s i B. BiPson and Miss F. Hernia t.
The Admiral WaLson has hv^ <h*
mail f, ont the states.
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1 * BE THE rSIIKRS AT THE
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i * TOLEDO, May 2D— Tex Rick
* ard announced today that eight
* hundred armed former over e;;s
! * soldiers will he *ht» ushers at fh *
Willard-Dempsey fight here on
July Fourth.
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Cv Associated Press
SEATTLE ;.ay 2')— The corn 1
representing Jam s Bruce, aU g'd ra
1’eal chattel v.ith criminal anarch.:
• activitte <11ring th c< >nt g
1 trike here, contends tl a+ much >f
the I. \V. W. doctrines wer * ph’lo o
phies drawn from President Wilson’s
utterances. The counsel stated that *r*
believes Wilson’s book “New Free
dom,” is a singularly powerful expo..
>1 o i of the radicals views especial!'*
h t view existing between capital and
labor.
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KING ALBERT PI s’IN
TRIP TO UNITED STATES
PARIS, May 2!)— King Albert of
Belgium is planning to attend the
League of Nations meeting in Wash
ington, D. C., next October according
to announcements made here today.
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PROBABLE CANDIDATES
FOR AMBASSADOR TO
THE UNITED STATES
PARIS, May 20— The Duke of
Devonshire and Co rral Smuts are
freely mentioned here as possible ap
pointees as British Ambassador to the
United States.
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WEATHER REPORT
The following is the weathe* re
port for the 24 hours ending at 7 o'
Hock this morning:
Seward 64. Cloudy, North.
Anchorage 48, Clear, Calm.
Matanuska 54 . Cloudy, Calm.
Chiekaloon 50 , Clear, Calm.
Wasilla 50, Clear. Calm.
Talkeetna 48, Clear, Calm.
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* MUCKRAKING
WASHINGTON, May 29— Re
* preventative Cralfhm, Republican,
* has proposed a resolution pro.iti
* ing for a complete in\estimation
.of the War Department expendi
* tures.
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TO CHICAGO BALL P \RKS
CHICAGO. May 29— A wound
•bine is etjuivah at to an adn'is:
ticket at the American and Nat onn’
Vague? bail parks in Chicago this s,M
•on. T' a ouumr^ment va made by
iv< s'* • ComL'ky of the White So\
and T> .':s drrit Mi-chcll of *he National
1/ elrb. T’m w v»rded soldi1:*'
! and . i!o»*s will bo admitted free ry
•ut on Saturdays, Sundays and ho1:.
!a*a k There is a large number o*
wounded at hospitals it: and re: ( i•
cago.
By Associated Tre***
DAWSON, May 29— Five miners
.yod during the night of ptomaine
poisoning after eating at the \ukoi
Hold Camp’s mess House on Hunker
Cieek. Fight other miners are dan
gerously ill.
|»RKS( IHBFS FROM FRISCO
SAN FI? A NCI SCO, May 29— Dr.
Charles McGcttigan. the Yukon Gold
1 ompany* mine physician of Dawson,
v: Ring hero, was notified of the
> m.line poisoning cases on Hunker
C ek. and prescribed over the tele
•• anh and cable for the thirteen em
ployees afflicted.
SIXTH ONE IS DEAD
DAWSON May 29—William Daw
on, a distant superintendent of the
Yukon Gold Company died this after
noon as the result of the Hunker
Creek poisoning.
i PARIS. May 29— U is report' 1 ’hat
the Region a my i- being mobo ir.r«i
! o be ready when the Gormans retu.
to sign the peace treaty.
HTN’S COI’XTER PROPOSALS
—
PARIS, Mi 29 It is report
h:*4 the Gemans are to base their
. *0’ u.tcr proposals upon the o’aim thr.
Germany accepted the A'lies peace of
for at the time the atmistice was sign
<! on a basis of the fourteen principles
laid down by President Wilson. Also
•> h r assertions were made by the Al
lies one that peace would not be one
of violence. The Germans will claim
that Germany is now Democratic wita
that kind of a government owing to
he Allies armistice plans. The Ger
man will request amelioration of the
‘ m on these grounds.
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By Associated Press
DAWSON, May 20— Mrs. A. Malt
by, wife of Yukon Territorial Secre
tary. was killed, and Governor McKen
zie injured, when an automobile they
were riding in skidded forty feet ove.*
a bank into Hunker Creek.
(Special |o the Gateway)
JUNEAU, May 29— The Controlie •
of the Treasury has refused to allow
rerritorial Senator Dan Sutherland
mileage from Juneau to Ruby, on the
ground that he is a resident of Junea.
Senator Sutherland drew mileage
| two years ago from Juneau to Ruby
at the time of the Territorial Legisla
ture and this year from Ruby, to Jn
) neau, after he had ceased to be a resi
j dent of Ruby.
The Alaska Daily Empire called
| Sutherland a “mileage grabber" and
! the entire matter was submitted to the
; Controller of the Treasury and decided
as stated above.