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VOL&ME^fvJl'iUMBER lOtr^^^. .. .. SEWARD, ALASKA, TBl^BpAj, MvBMBERTI. 1920. ' TH CENTS PMCOW
FARMER’S I'MON REEVED
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- . KANSAS CITY, Nov., 18— The
r ‘ National Fanner's Union today sent a
-o'aH for a nation wide producers strike
•• to combat the falling prices of farm
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products. Reduction of production in
•• the future is threatened unless prices
•-are /fairly readjusted.
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CHICAGO, Nov., 19— Advice to
farmers to cuitail production ahd wait
for price adjustments was given to
day by J. R. Howard, president of the
American Farm Bureau Federation
and C. W. Hunt, president of the Iowa
Farm Bureau Federation. Howard said
“Prices at the present time are fright
/, fully low on all farm products. Theyi
have declined fifty to one hundred per
cent when other commodities decline
in proportion we will go ahead with
r production.
RECENT ARRIVALS
W. C. Baird, commercial traveler
from Seattle is registered at the Ov
erland.
Lester D. Henderson, school com
missioner and superintendent of the
Alaska Public Schools arrive*,
aid last night on the Gateway Limit
ed from Anchorage. Mr. Henderson is
making his annual fall trip of inspv.
ion and will return to .Juneau on the
S. S. Northwestern next Sunday. Dur
ing his travels he reaches practically
every school district in the Territory.
He visited Nome this*past summer.
His report of conditions throughout
the territory is satisfactory. Mr. Hen
derson has demonstrated his ability as
a commissioner during the entire per
iod he has served. He is capable and
thoroughly familiar with existing con
ditions and if willingto serve another
term should be re-appointed regard
less of his political affiliations. The
Territory of Alaska has too few men
holding public positions of the calibre
of Mr. Henderson and it is to be hoped
that he will be retained in his present
capacity. Mr. Henderson is stopping at
the Overland Hotel.
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H. J. Swanson, farmer and dairy)
man from the Matanuska country, is
staying at the Overland. Mr. Swanson j
will go to the states on the Northwest
ern where he will gather together
some first class dairy stock for his
ranch.
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F. B. Waahborae and F. W. Densler, \
commercial men are registered at the’
Overland.
Fred M. O'Neil from Seldovia,
Alaska's Bol-mule town on the Inlet
came in on the Flier last night and is
stopping at the Overland.
Alvah Eames, Robert Evans, J. E.
Fitzgerald and Tom Tesaier are re
gistered at tiie Hotel Sexton.
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JAPANESE SURLY
TOYKO, Nov., 18— Two thousand
students at a meeting held here last
night discussed the question of “Shall
Japan fight America” for four hours.
A vote was not taken because of the
police officials in the audience but
apparently the sentiment for and
against war was divided equally. The
speakers agreed that California Legis
lation furnished cause for hostilities
but they differed concerning the ex
pediency of going to war.
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JAMAICA GINGER ALSO
WASHINGTON, Nov., IS— The In
ternal Revenue Bureau today issued
an order to become effective in 90
days that Jamaica Ginger be classed
as alcoholic peparation subject to Pro
hibition Regulations.
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GOOD STAKE
ALICE ARM, B. C., Nov., 18— To
buy a silver mine at a sheriff’s sale
for $200, the property being sold to
lay wages due the purchaser, and then
to sell the mine a few years after
wards for $75,000 has been the good
fortune of Pedro Salina, of this city,
who just disposed of the Esperanza
nine to a group of Vancouver men.
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LOWER PRICES
WASHINGTON, Nov., 18— Price
studies given by the Department of
Labor showed a marked decline in Oc
tober in virtually all items entering
nto the cost of living, except house
furnishings. Clothing dropped eigh
;een percent below figures represent
ng the 1919 costs. Farm products 21
ier cent
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GOING SOME
QUINCY, Cal., Nov., 18— Starting
with a small discovery less tha ten
years ago, and without any of the
s;>t«*tacular discovery less t.ha 1 ten
yeai* ago, and without any of the
spectacular strikes or stampedes
which mark the history of most min
ing regions, the Plumas copper field
is forging to the front as one of the
greatest in the west if not America.
For a number of years the field was
thought to be small and probably lim
ited to the original deposit discovery.
With two mines 14 miles i'.part pro
ducing millions of pounds of copper
annually and scores of strikes in wide
ly scattered sections made in pro
spect shafts or by diamond drilling,
this theory has now been abandoned
and the belt is now declared to extend
from within three miles of Reno, Ne
vada, across Plumas county and will
into Shasta County, California, a
distance of more than 100 miles with
laterial limits of at least ten miles.
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Anton Anderson, A. E. C., engineer j
from Mile 52 is stopping at the Sew
ard Hotel. Mr. Anderson who arrived
last night says that the snow shed on
I the summit is rapidly nearing comple
tion.
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Robert J. McKenna of Moose Pass
1 arrived in Seward last night
SEND TROOPS
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GENEVA, Nov., 17 — The League
of Nations announced that Spain,
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Great Britain, France and Belgium
would send troops to Vilna to main
tain order during the plebiscite to de
termine the political fate of that city,
'between. Lithuania and Poland.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Alaskan Engineering Commission
CIRCULAR No. 444.
Anchorage, Alaska, Nov., 12, 1920.
TO ALL CONCERNED:—.
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Thanksgiving Day, Thursday,
25th, will be observed as a holiday at
these headquarters and as tar as prac
ticable in the various districts in this
Division.
WM. GERIG, ,
Assist. Chief Engineer
RU LE OF LARGE CALIBRE
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TOKIO, Nov., 18— The Japanese
army is contemplating adopting a
rifle of larger calibre. The rifle now
in use in the infantry is of a 6-5 milli
metre calibre. The rifles used by the
French have a calibre of 8 millimetres
those of# Germany, a calibre of 7.6
millimetres; while those of Great Bri
tain and the United States are re
spectively 7-7 and 7-6 millimetres.
It is also proposed to enlarge the
calibre of the machine guns jn the
Japanese army and to shorten the gun
barrel.
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SHIRT FACTORY TO CLOSE
TROY, N. Y., Nov., 18— As soon as
the few orders now on hand are filled
the shirt factories of George P. Ide,
will be closed indefinitely. Unsettled
conditions of the market and the lack
of business aregiven as the reason for
the shut down.
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POLAND CHOOSEN
BERNE, Nov., 18— The League of
Nations decided yesterday to entrust
Poland with a mandate to carry out
plans for the military defense of Dan
zig.
PAPER SIEZED
LONDON, Nov., 18— Sir Hamar
Greenwood, Chief Secretary for Ire
land stated in the House of Commons
today that luring the raid in Ireland,
troops captured a document 'sent by
the commander in chief oi the Irish
Republic Army to the Chief of Staff
containing statements regarding the
spieading of typhoid among the troops
and glanders among the horses.
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A. W. Huberts, pro-tem Mayor ol
*.he town of Roosevelt, is stopping at
the Seward Hotel. Mrs. Roberts the
real mayor of the thriving little rail
road town reported about two feet of
snow at that place when she called
Seward on the phone this morning.
The freight'train scheduled to leave
this morning will probably be delayed
by the snow which fell last night and
this morning. The snow plow will clear
the track today.
WANTED— AT ONCR- Today if
possible. Second hand cook range. Call
Alaska House.
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HARDING TALKS
* NEW ORLEANS* No?* 18- Plain
living and square dealutk of the na
[ tiohs of $he world will creato the
strongest reliances between them dur
ing the period of after war adjust
ment now taking place were the words
of President elect Warren G. Harding
today gt New Orelean*. Whatever dis
courage and reversemeats there will
be will he temporary. He felt assured
that the industrial development of the
I south would continue and that tho ties
between Latin America and this coun
try would be greatly strengthened by
commercial rn fggjpflon
V SCHOOL NOTES
Monday afternoon, the Sixth Grade
gave current events topics taken from
some good magazine. They are graded
on interest, value and importance.
Mr. L. D. Henderson, the Alaska
School Commissioner, returned' from
Anchorage last night and will Visit the
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Seward schools during the week. All
of the children are going to do their
best work, and qhow Mr. Henderson
that the pupils of the Seward Public
School are just as bright as the An*
ehqiage or Juneau school children.
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^ little girl was trying to tell her
smaller suiter a riddle which read as
follows.* “What is it that stops all day
an<J never moves ? ” She meant to say,
“tyhat is it that goes all day aid nev
er stops?” Her smaller sister said,
“Oh, 1 know, the Glacier stream.” “No
that is not right, a glacier stream
moves and l said it never goes. Well
1 v ill have • ; tell you. It is the Road
*oi[ws «pw*oi — "t8!8
pfu fe[ atAOUX UB3 UOA ® ^*ld
and asqa aeneaaq ‘aAom |{i* %i mo„
l?ih.
Monday morning the pupils of the
rtjjjh School organised their student
body and elected'the following offic
ers:—
President-Meryle Towle
Secretary-Beatrice Baughman
Treasurer-Willard Shellhorn
They are planning various school
activities ana a lively time this winter,
with many good times. The first of
the good times, is to be a taffy pull,
at the home of Miss, and Mrs. Don
Carlos; Friday evening.
Wednesday morning the High
School colors were chosen, and after a
sharp fight, the Maroon and Gold won 1
out.
Hurrah for the Maroon and Gold! .
Mother Goose, set to music, has
jome to the primary room to delight
the little people there. She has come
on small phdnograph records, and at
various times in the day, she may be
heard singing her old familiar jingle,
often accompanied by thirty baby
voices. Do they like Mother Goose ? Do
they like those cunning records? You
isk some of them, and find out what
chey say! Miss Triplett, boirowed the
graphaphone and bought the records
herself. Ii is hoped that sometime, in
.he not too distant future, that the
school may have a graphophone of its
own, and records singing from Mother
Goose, up to those of tT\e really good
artists. In this part of the world, in
which it is impossible to hear much
good musk, first hand, graphenes are
very important educationally.
Lester D. Henderson, Commissioner
of Education for the Territory, is in
Seward, this week, visiting the school
and making plans for the educational
work of the community.
Mr. Hmdenon visited the Anchor
age schools earlier in the week. He
will be in Seward until' the sailing of
the Northwestern. The town's people
and. the school are vary glad that Mr.
Hendersoa hat been able to give this
much of his time to Sowaid and they
are vmy' anxious to oo-operate with
him in every possible way.
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SIEZE MINES
LARDO, Nov., 18— Striking Mex
ican coal miners who seized the mines
in Montclova district have notified all
Americans to leave the district. If
they fail to do so they are to become
victims of violence. They further stat
ed that the miners, operators and
workers will operate the mines here
after.
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WEATHER REPORT
SEWARD 28 Snowing N. 4 inches
snow.
Anchorage 16 Snowing N. 6 inches
snow.
Matanuska 28 Snowing Calm.
Chickaloon 18 Cloudy Calm.
Talkeetna 24 Cloudy Calm.
Goldceek 18 Cloudy E. 2 inches snow
Hurricane 8 Cloudy North.
Summit 5 Cloudy North.
Healy 16 Cloudy East.
Nenana 6 Clear Calm.
Fairbanks 0 Clear Calm.
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The first snow of the season com
menced falling about 9:30 P. M. last
night and is still coming down as we
go to press. About fourteen inches of
.he beautiful has whitened everything
t/t town. From November 18 to April
1st, is not a long winter. Seward; Al
aska, is an ideal winter town.
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NEW MEMBERS TAKE SEATS
ATHENS, Nov., 18— Rhallis and
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three mmbers of the new Greek cabi
net took the oath of office today.
Rhallis demanded the regents resigna
tion at once and that the other mem
bers take oath before the queen moth
er. Olga Venizelos left the city on a
yacht escorted by British warships.
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HONOLULU, T. H., Nov., 16—
There are more children of Japanese
descent attending the Japanese lang
uage schools of Hawaii than are found
in the American public schools, ac
cording to incomplete statistics com
piled by the territorial department of
public instruction.
It is estimated that 20,000 children
of Japanese descent are enrolled in
175 language schools, with 450 alien
teachers, many of whom cannot speak
English to any degree,' instructing
them.
The total enrollment in the public
schools of all races is in the neighbor
hood of 40,000
DENIAL MADE
WASHINGTON, Nov., 18— The I
State Department today denied that
the United States, Great Britain and
France had entered into a treaty to
Outline the course of action in South
America as alleged by Mexican News
papers.
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TRADE AGREEMENT
LONDON, tfov., 18— Premier Lloyd
George told the House of Commons
cabinet today that the draft of agree
ment to carry out July arrangements
for trade with Russia should be pre
pend at once and that he hoped that
it would be ready to be submitted in
a few days.
TURKS CHOOSE RUSSIA
CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov., IS—
The Turkish Nationalists consider the
treaty between the Allied nations in*
valid and have designated the Soviet
Government of Russia as the warden
of the Orient
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A BUM STBB*
HONOLULU, T. H., Nov* IB
Three automobiles damaged; one boot*
black stand partially wrecked; on^
barber shop badly wrecked; two haves
and one haircut totally spoiled aad oae
steer dead, formed the total Uat ot
casualties here one recent evening
when the steer descended on Hmlni
lu’s business district
The steer, part of a shipment km
the Cooke ranch on the Island of Mel*
okai, originally had bean. Intended to
find his peacefull wag to Honolulu
platters in the form of steaks and
roasts. Instead, he broke from bis
heiders while being unloaded from an
inter-island steamer and wandered up
town in the dusk of a busy Saturday
evening.
At the post office the animal spied
the red tail lights of several automo
biles and lowered his head for a
charge. The rear of one small car suf
fered considerably in the resulting im
pact and two others came in for sim
ilar treatment
Wearying of tilting at autos, the
steer ambled up Bethel street, where
a bootblack stand roused his ire. The
shinners and their clientele drent away
from there in haste.
The ^pen door of an adjourning
harbor shop invited attention and
through it the potential steaks and
roasts traveled “in high". Three barb
ers stopped work on a pair of fthaves
and one haircut with the simultaneous
precision of well-drilled marines. Two
of the barbers and all three customers
left speedily, if not gracefully, lather,
towels, razors and nil.
One barber either thought or moved
too slowly and found himself bounded
by a corner of the shop on one side
and by a peevish steer in all of the
other three directions, from which
preferred position he viewed the rapid
overturning of the chairs, smashing
of mirrors and demolishing of bottles.
While the shave and haircut spec
ialist was figuring what was the most
effective and approved method of at
tacking a steer with a razor, three city
policemen and two military patrolmen
appeared in the door of the shop.
It took eighteen bullets to finish
the steer.
LARGE INVESTMENT
. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov, 18— The
ZeUeibsch Paper Co., sad ease dated
intonate invested $1,600*000 today is
tbs Waetepgton Palp and Papsr Cor
poration of Port Angeles, Waab. Nova
print will be maasfactond.