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TWO DANS
BREAK AND
100 PERISH
MEXICO CITY, Jan. 20—More than
one hundred people were drowned and
two hundred injured when two dams
above Patchuca broke yesterday. Tor
rents of water swept through the low
er portions of the big mining center.
Lai 2 reports received today say that
thousand of people are homeless.
SPECIAL DEPUTIES AT TRIAL
LO S ANGELES, Jan. 19—A special
detail of deputy sheriffs have been as
signed to preserve order at the trial
of Mrs. Louise Peet who is charged
with the murder of Jacob Charles Den
ton a wealthy mining promoter. The
seating capacity of the court room has
been doubled.
STATE TROOPS CHARGED WITH
MANY BOLD OUTRAGES
INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 19—'The U.
S. Mine Workers of America have is
sued an official statement charging
that the state trops that were sent to
the coal fields at Jasper, Alabama
were there for no purpose except to
break the strike. The statement say*
that th series of outrages perpetrat
ed by the troops were numerous.
YUKON PIONEER DIES IN
BATTLE WITH SNOW DRIFTS
DAWSON, Jan. 19—Frank Wilkins,
a Yukon pioneer, in a battle with the
snow drifts and heavy winds perished
on the trail almost in sight of Stew
art City when his feet gave out. The
marks in the snow showed that he had
crawled several hundred yards before
he gave up the fight
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 19—
The United Mine Workers requested
that Federal Troops be sent to Jasper
to replace the Alabama State troops
that are now guarding at that place.
The request was referred to the war
department whose officials decided the
9quest for federal troops must come
from the Governor of Alabama.
1STH ENGINfcFPS MEET
SAN FRANCISCO, • Jan. 19—Old
bridges will be rebuilt and old songs
icvivic at the first meeting of the
19th Engineers sirv-e they returned
from overseas. The meeting will take
place fcf** Saturday. The regiment
was reciiiited on tiie Pacific Coast and
was one of• the first to be sent over
seas.
Hoy Fairbanks of Anchorage who re
cently disposed of h>s gents furnish
ing store at that place arived in Sew
ard last night Mr. Fairbanks is leav
ing on the Alameda for the state.*
where he will tak*. a well earned va
cation, lie will yar.irey to far points
in tic south and nuij travel through
Old Mexico and the Texas oil fie'da.
Mr. Fairbanks has leased his property
in Anchorage for three years but his
friends predict that the call of the
North wil reach him long before teat
time has elapsed and that he will be
a passenger on one of the boats for
Anchorage in three months instead of
three years.
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J. H. Dodson and J. B. Gottstein are
Sloping at the Hotel Overland.
INCRE ASED MEMBERSHIP IS
VOTED DOWN BY HOUSE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 20
Tb* House yesterday voted against in
creasing the present membership of
435 to 483. The sugestion of an in
crease was made by amendment to the
Reaportiouvnent Bill. Under the amend
ment twelve seats were to be shifted
from eleven to eight states.
Under the Reaportionment Bill the
following states would loose seats two
years hence; Missouri 2, Indiana, Iowa
Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine,
Mississippi, Nebraska, Rhode Island,
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.nd Vermont one each.
Tne following states would gain;
California, 3, Michigan and Ohio 2, and
Conneticut, New Jersey, North Caro
lina. Texas and Washington one each.
DOIOGS IN
CONGRESS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 20—
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The senate finance committee approv
ed the Fordney emergency tariff meas
uie with the addition of ten amend
ments. The measure will be reported
to the senate today.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 20—
.Secretary of the navy Daniels ordered
the naval court of inquiry to convene
atNRockaway, New York, today and
i)' estigate the flight and loss of a
navy balloon by three naval officers,
also inquire into the conduct of the
baloon personnel while absent from
the Rockaway station.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 20
Miss Alice Robertson, representative
elect of Oklahoma, in discusing prohi
bition recalled the old days and said
when her father was ordained for the
ministry such a big crowd gathered he
had to open ten barrels of whiskey to
satisfy die demand. Such custom she
^aid was common in the old days.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 20—
rhfc parole of Lord Mayor O’Callaghan
of Cork was cancelled Saturday by
Secretary of Labor Wilson who an
nounced the mayor could be reshipped
on any vessel bound for a foreign port.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 20
Senator Phelan of California, blocked
further progress of the resolution pas
sed Saturday ordering the war depart
ment to stop recruiting until the army
*s reduced to cue hundred and fifty
thousand men. The senator, by formal
notice declared hit* intention to offer
a resolution to reconsider to. mbers of
•he military hfluus commit‘ee. It is
si'id there is little mo'j&'U of a
.lumge in tbo sentiment of the senate
on the question.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 20
Surgeon General Cummings of the
public health service said that one
half of the wounded soldiers and sail
ors of the world war at present are
(.bartered in hospitals of “flimsy and
irflamable construction." Cummings
pleaded for additional hospital facili
ties and said an apropriation of thirty
million dollars is required for improv
ments and to provide thirty thousand
additional beds.
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WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 20
Emmet Kilpatrick, American Red
Cross worker, reported killed by the
Bolshevik* last summer, in in jail at
The local radio station this morning
caught a flash sent out from Chignik
which stated that the S. S. Pulitzer,
the mail boat to the westward, which
was recently reported lost was safe
at iJhfemk. No additional Views has
Vcn received. The U. S. Revenue cut
ter which was dispatched from Seat
tle in ouest of the Pulitzer is reported
f'li.'winj? in the wake of the Alameda.
The Joseph Pulitzer was formerly
a pilot boat in the service at the mouth
of the Columbia river. She is owned
by Dr. Andrew Smith of Portland,
who purchased her soon after he was
awarded the United States mail con
tract from Seward to Western Alas
ka. The vessel has been plying on the
route served by the famous little stea
mer Dora, which was lost recently in
British Columbia waters whle on her
way from Seattle to the Alaska pen
sula.
The Pulitzer, commanded by Capt.
A. Faggerreng, sailed from Seattle
March 14th, for Seward, but engine
trouble developed and the little vessel
was forced to put back to9that port
for repairs. She began her voyage
again March 18. The Pulitzer loaded
Moscow, acdrding to advices received
by the state department The report
ol .tcs mat Kilpatrick w&i raptured
October J) -h *e engage*' « r# li. f
W'-rk on the-• \nt occuo *i . e *s»
Wra.\gells f* • ct-s in Cr n 4.
Two snow slides occurred at Mile
72 today. The rotary plow has gone
to the scene of the slides to move them
irom the right of way. Unless serious
damage has been done the train will
leave for Anchorage in the morning
on schedule time.
CHICAGO, Jan. 20—President J. R.
Howaid of the Farm Federation bu
reau, today announced that the far
mers of i merica are ready to give
enough com to apease Uu hunger of
the w* tld if the people *n «*Uio!
and towns wil furnish the r importa
tion.
BANDTS KILLED IN GUN FIGHT
NOGALES, Jan. 20—Thomas Ro
man, and Y'ictor Martinez, Mexican
fcaidits were seriously wounded yes
terday in a gun fight with immigtrion
inspectors nine mjUe • north of here.
Th*. b$;ndjt3 had previously confessed
to having Idled C. M. Shangler and
Ernest Hintze and wounding H. C.
Barber last Tuesday.
The bandits were ^placed in the hos
pital upon arrival here. The police
threw a heavy guard around the hos
| pitwhen feeling against the.bandits
asurr.ed a demonstration. The angry
citizens were somewhat pacified when
it was announced that the bandits
wouid die from their wounds.
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Several blasts of wind last night sac
ceeded in tipping the telepraph poles
opposite the Hotel Seward untfl they
leaned at a 46 degree angle. The w|nd
was a regular sou’wester.
. K. A. Tlnlayaon aa old timer from
the Nenana country is stopping At the
Hotel Seward. Mr. Tinlayson wiS do
art for the Outside on tip steamship
Alameda for a lmtfcpse sad pleasure
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MAIL BOAT AT CllIGNIK
AND ALL ARE WELL
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at ?ier 14. W. C. Dawes and Company
acting as agents.
The vessel has accomodations for
about twenty passengers and can carry
100 tons of cargo She left Seattle to
serve the stormy western Alaska
route as a United States mail boat be*
I :ween Seward and Kodiak, Uyak, Cold
3ay Chignik, Sand Point, Unga, King
Jove, Morhovia, Sannak, Sarichef, Ak*
utan, Unalaska and Nushagak.
The lack of news the past few weeks
| relative to the Pulitzer’s whereabouts
recalls the experiences of the officers
and crew of the steamship Dora ir*
| .000 when she was blown to sea while
plying on the same route the little
power schooner was serving. The Dora
was swept far out on the Pacific from
the Western Alaska coast in a great
storm and after a battle lasting 88
days finally put into the straits of
Juan De Fuca with her provisions ex*
1 hausted and her officers and crew aL
worn out by the long struggle with
i the elements. Heavy ice which formed
on the bow of the Dora tilted the lit
tle vessel raising her propellor out ol
the water making the little vessel as
helpless as in a storm.
POLL TA FOR PAST YEAR
SHOWS LARGE DECREASE
JUNEAU Jan. 20—More than 18000
persons paid poll taxes during the cal
endar year of 1920* in Alaska, acord
ing to figures given out by Walstein
G. Smith, Territorial Treasurer. Poll
tax collections from al judicial divisi
ons up to the close of busness Decem
ber 31, 1920, according to
totaled slightly more than $90,300.
Out of this amount aproximately
$82,600 was received from the First
and Third Divisions. From the Bristol
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Bay section almost $25,000 in collec
tions was received. The greater part
of this was derived from the employes
of the big fish companies. The Third
Divison leads al others n receipts.
The collection of taxes by division
folows.
First divison, $32,000, Second Division
3,000, Third Division 60,000 'Fourth
Division 4,200.
v Compared with the amount of actual
cash recived by the Treasurer for 1919
poll tax colections for 1920 are in ex
cess of those for the former year ap
proximately $86,000 being collected in
1919. However something like twenty
thousand dollars s stil due the Terri
tory for tax^s collected from the' em
Bristol Bay and which is being held
by the companies pendnig the outcome
of test vat es to determine the legality
of tie Territorial act requiring the
companies to be responsible for the
payment of the tax. The law has ben
uphold in the U. S. District Court and
the circuit court of Appeals. The test
ca o in now pending in the United
States Supreme Court and a decision
is expected at any time.
Attorneys for the Territory are con
fident that the tax will be sustained
and the money held turned into the
Territorial 'treasury.
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J C. Cunningham la registered at
the Hotel Seward from Anchorage.
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A. Gwndaie of.Swttl« is ngistand
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KLONDIKE PIONER PASSES
AWAY IN VICTORIA, R C.
VICTORIA, Jan. 20-Kenneth Nich
olson, a Klondike pioneer seventy-two
years old and formerly chief enginer
on the North Pacific waters, died to
night at the Jubilee Hospital here. He
had resided in Victoria and Seattle for
the last forty years and is widely
known in coast marine circles.
ISLANDS WANT INDEPENDENCE
MANILA, Jan. 20—The people of
.he Philippine Islands want their in
1c. nderce in whatever form they can
;et ♦. This was the sum and substance
f an address delivered yesterday by
Manuel Quezon, president of the Phil
ppin Senate before that body.
EX-SOLDIER
IS WOUNDED
PORTLAND, Jan 20—James M. Mc
Jougall, a former soldier was shot and
seriously wounded early today while
fleeing before the police officers sent
.o ;hc Portland Heights district to in
vestigate a burglar alarm telephoned
to the station by a resident who said
a man was trying to break into his
lou.-e. No one was in sight when the
police reached the place but they fob
.owe the tracks in the newly fallen
light snow until they came upon Me
Dougall who tried to escape. Later the
police said McDougall had confessed
$e7«*ral burglaries.
BUFFALO HUNTERS RETURN
WITH LARGE GAME BAGS
SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 20-Five
hunters bringing five bull buffaloes,
returned last night from their hunting
expedition to nAtelope Island in the
Great Salt Lake district, after having
been gone from Salt Lake three and
one half days.
VOMAN CONVICTED OF KILLING
OAKLAND,'Jan. 20—Mrs. Virginia
P. Clark last night was found guilty
of murder in the second degree for the
slaying of her husband, Chester J.
Clark, while he lay in bed on the morn
of Aug. 15th last
FAMOUS PAINTING STOLEN
HAMBURG, Jan. 20—Rembrant’s
andscape, ‘After the Thunder Storm*
vas stolen from a private owner here
Jan. 5th and suposedly was shipped
to the United States Jan. 6. The paint
ing is said to be valued at two million
hdara.
P. C. MacMullcn, manager of the
hardware department in the Brjwu
and I.\\wkin- . •*; .in* .1 store «ft
on the ^ S A'*w <U *nt a two montas
vacation in fc*» •'*>>» MuMcMub.n
will vir it n» folks in rii old home
in Texas am! will go U Louglas, An
zona and poeoihly into the Sonma
country of Northern Mexico. This is
Mr. MacMullen’s first time oat for sev
errnl years and the first time he has
been home for more than twelve years,
fie expects to find mady strange faces
among the people he used to know. He
will letam to Seward about April 1st
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Other Anchorage people registered
the Hotel Seward ere W. B. Walker,
J. Peters, James W. Dixon, James E.
Boatflo. H* H» McCotchemiand MfSi
Harry SoMte
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JURY HOLDS
GUARDSMEN
FORMURDER
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JASPER, Jan. 20—A special grand
jury yesterday* returned indictments
charging murder against nine Nation
al Guardsmen in connection with the
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lynching of William Baird, a miner.
ENORMOUS CROWD AT TRIAL
LOS ANCELES, Jan. 20—A stam
of more ti an one thousand men
ana women who were trying to gain
admittance- to the trial of Mrs. Louise
Pete who is charged with the murder
jf Jacob Dentcn, overwhelmed the
i-pccial ft rce of deputy sheriffs which
were appointed for the occasion. A
arge force of policemen wer required
to dispense the crowd. •
ORDER OF “RED FLAG"
PARIS, Jan. 20—According to a
wireless dispatch received here today
from Moscow the Bolsheviki have In
stituted the order of the “Red Flag."
FOURTEEN YEAR OLD LAD
SHOT AS AUTO THIEF
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 20—Henry
Aldana, fourteen years old, son of Dr.
E. M. Aldana was shot and posibly fa
tally wounded last night after a four
mile chase through the downtown sec
tion by membes of the shotgun auto
mobile squad who said the boy refused
to halt when they discovered him driv
ing a stolen automobile.
Harry Buzby and family are guests
3f the Seward Hotel. Mr. Buzby is a
prosperous farmer from Fairbanks
who has helped demonstrate that all
kinds of farm products can be raised
in Alaska. His two sons are healthy
jpecemins of Alaska^ children. They
eport exceedingly fine weather in the
Fairbanks district this winter with
the exception of one cold snap when
the thermometer fell to sixty-two de
grees below. The snow falphas been
exceptionally light After visiting a
number of friends and relatives in the
states the Busbys will return north.
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HAZELET FOR GOVERNOR
HARWOOD STRONG FOR
Ed. L. Harwood, ofte of the best
posted busiiies men of the Copper
River section is in Seattle boosting
George C. Hazelet for governor of Al
aska. Harwood tells the Dispatch the
Appointment of Hazelet is being urg
ed by an overwhelming sentiment in
the Third Division and he believes the
Cordova man is equally popular all
ovei the Territory.
Harwood was a former business man
of Juneau, and has been prominent
in. Cordova affairs. There he served
as a member of the 2i!y council on sev
eral occasions. He is registered at the
Frye hotel.
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WHISKEY SOLD AGED WOMAN
NEW YORK Jan. 20—Charged with
selling ghiakey to a seventy-one year ..
old inmate of the Osannm House for
Friendless Woman hi Brooklyn, a sa
loon keeper and his bartender ware,ar
rested today. The aged woman docbm»
ed that the saloon keeper employed
women agent to drom op trade among
the inmates,
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