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VOLUME XIII. NUMBER 1*7. “*~ SEWARD, ALASKA. FRIDAY. MARCH 26, 1920. " ~ TEN CENTS PER COPY
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STUDENTS
FORMING
A SOVIET
HAYS, Kansas. March 26— Casper
Harvey, professor of l*ort Hays Nor
mal School, was thrown into the !a!;e
by students along with other students
who refused to help lay a running
track. Harvey has wired the Sti’te
Board of Coniro! stating the students
have formed a Soviet at the Normal
and asked for immediate assistance.
Other officials deny the existance of
a Soviet and say the ducking was only
h prank.
PIONEERS WILL
HAVE ISSUE
IN SEWARD
The May issue of “The Pathfinder/'
the official publication of the Pioneers
of Alaska, will be issued in Seward.
This publication is the All- Alaska
Pioneer Magazine and the circulation
is gradually growing both in AlasKU
and the states.
F. M. Kempfer, territorial repre
sentative or rather field agent for ihe
“Pathfinder” is now in Seward pre
paring for the Seward issue. Mr.
Kempfer is making his headquarte.s
at the Hotel Sexton. While in Seward,
Mr. Kempfer will interest the city
council and Chamber of Commerce in
the edition for write-ups, views, etc.,
to be printed. Various p»oneeis will be
represented in the art gaiiery of the
magazine with sketches accompany
ing. Merchants will be asked to pat
ronize the magazine as the edition
will be a strictly Seward is^ue. Mi\
Kempfer will be giad to get in touch
with all those desiiious ol doing busi
ness in any way with the publication.
He is also soliciting subscriptions f *r
the magazine.
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W K A T II K It It K r o It r
The following u the vrenihcr ri pod
for the 24 hour.-* ending »i 7 o'i^O 'k
t»»is morning:—
SEWAKU 30, Clear, Northwest
Anchorage 14, Clear, North.
Matanuska 2, Clear. Calm.
Chickaloon 2 below, Clear, Calm.
Wasilla 4 below, Clear. Calm.
Deadhorsc 2 below, Cloudy, Calm.
Indian 2 below, Pt. Cloudy, Calm.
Hurricane zero. Clear, North.
Sullivans 4 below, Clear, N. M.
Summit 3 below, Clear, Calm.
Carlsons 10 below, Clear, Calm.
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Thomas Holland, formerly of
Chitina writes a friend at Cordova
that he is one of 1SOO students en
rolled in an auto tractor school in
Kansas City. Mr. Holland was for
merly a representative in the Ter
to rial legislature.
LONDON, March 26— Communis:
workers are entrenched along the Lip
pe river and threaten to destroy ail
factories and mines of western Ger
many if they fail to capture Wessei.
The Reds have established their g^at
headquarters similiar to the German
army’s headquarters. It is reported
Ebert’s troops still hold Wesel. Las:
r ght the government forces attacked
the invading Reds and drove them
back from the city.
PARIS. March 26— It is reported
here this afternoon that the new Ger
man government cabinet has resigned.
Premier Bauer is said to have been
one of those resigning and the other
members also handed their resigna
tions to Ebert.
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SUIT IS BROUGHT
TO RECOVER TAXES
PAID GOVERNMENT
Sn?t has been filed in the Juneau
District Court by the Alaska F sh
Salting and By- Products Company,
through Attorney R. E. Robertson,
agamst Walstein G. Smith, Territor
ial Treasurer, seeking to recover the
sum of $6,492 paid in to the treasur
er’s off;ce under protest, being the
company’s license taxes for the year
1919.
Tho compnnv. which operates a
f*'rt*i*zrtr and fish oil plant at Kd
lisnoo. claims that the acts of the
T^rntonnl Legislatures of 1917 and
ipip. ’mnosine a tax of $2 per
barrel on f;sh oil and a t*x of $2
ten <m fi<*h meal and fertilizer,
manufactured in whole or in pavt
f-om be*-ripcr. are unlawful and not
in accord with the Organic Actj
th^t they are of a confiscatory na
ture and that the tax was imnosed
nnt fo»* the nnrpose intimated in the
title of the acts, “to create reve
nue,” but was intended to rest*-a»n
the pia;ntiff f’om doincr business.
Suits covering previous years’
taxes have been brought and aie
now before the Supreme Court on ap
peal. (Juneau Empire.)
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CONFEDERATE VETERANS
HOME DESTROYED BY FIRE
HEROISM SHOWN BY VETS
LOUISVILLE, Ky., March 26
Fire this morning destroyed the Con
federate Veteran’s home. Veterns
able to walk, marched out in military
formation and obtained litters and
went back for others unable to walk.
The veterans are now bovouaced in n
church. No lives were lost
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TWO POLICE OFFICERS
AND OTHERS IMPLICATED
IN THE ROBBERY OF CLUJ
LOS ANGLES, March 26— Two
police officers, one civilian and two
women have been arrested charged
with the hold-up of a Chinese club.
Only $461 were taken from the
Chinese gamblers who numbered 40.
One officer confessed at noon today
and said the gang had planned to
steal $30,000 in gold from Chinatown.
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John Gillis, who was formerly in
charge of the rad;o station at Mile
14, on the Copper River Railroad, is
now working in a shipyard in San
Francisco.
ALASKA TO GET
MORE CASH FOR
WORK ON ROADS
Copies of the bill appropriating
$100 000,000 per annum for the next
four years to aid in the construc
tion of rural post roads under the
act of July 11, 1916, received show
that for the first time Alaska is in
cluded for her share of the money and
aid. The bill was introduced by Sen
ator Chamberlain, and Alaska was in
cluded in the measure at the instance
of Delegate George B. Grigsby aryl
Gov. Thomas Riggs, Jr., Gov Riggs
has appeared before the committee in
behalf of Alaska’s right to be includ
ed in the measure.
While the Chamberlain bill ap
propriates $100,000,000 annually
for four years each year’s approp
riation shall be available for two
years after the end of that year,
which would allow until June flO,
1927 in which to expend the total
sum of $400,000,000.
The amount allowed to Alarka
for roads is $750 000 a year. While
the law under which the appropria
tion is made contemplates State and
Territorial aid, Senator Chambci*
lain provides that in those States
and Territories are unpatented lands,
owned by the United States, and
without the boundaries of forest re
serves, tho Secretary of Agriculture
may make regulations that will re*
quire less of State and Tcrritarinl
aid that the laws now require.
This appropriation of $750,000
for Alaska roads is in addition to
the road funds derived from the
proceeds of National Foreats, those
expended under the Alaska Board of
Road Commissioners and other Al
aska road funds.
Gov. Riggs Speaks for Alaska.
This bill was introduced Febru
ary 27. On February 14, Gov. Riggi
appeared before the Committee on
Post Office and Post Boards, and
offered the following statement in
behalf of consideration of Alaska
in connection with appropriations
for these roads:
Mr. Riggs . Mr. Chairman, I think
our time has expired.
The Chairman. That is all right
Go ahead.
Mr. Riggs. I am merely asking
consideration. Mr. Chairman, for
Alaska, of the enactment of public
roads acts, and if possible to ex
tend the present acts to us. pend
ing the enactment of others. The
way the laws are now, Alaska can
not participate in the appropria
tion made by Congress for Federal
aid and on roads. We desire to
co-operate; we are not asking that
you give us roads, but let us co
operate so we can have roads. We
need them for the development of
a country which is of vast value to
the United States. We are co-oper
ating to a certain extent in the
various roads under Section 8 of
the Federal Roads Act. Otherwise,
we have no opportunity although
v’P arp dosirious of doing so in our
limited capacity. We have but lit
tle taxing power. There is very
little property vested in private
ownership. Ninety-nine and f’ve
tenths is government-owned. 34.000
square miles in forest reservations,
and so we feel that we are not asking
too much. Mr. Chairman, in ask
ing you to allow the Territory to
stand as a State does. We are not
even asking that the Government
shall pay in proportion to lands own
ed. b"t to merely give us the same
consideration, so we can build roads
and develope our country.
It may possibly be of interest to.
you to know that Alaska is now pay
ing a greater proportion per caoitc
than any other State or Territory of
the United States into the Treas
urv of the United States and if the
whole United States were to nay an
amount per capita equal to Alaslcat
• BRITISH LOST
• THEIR HEADS
9 WASHINGTON, March 26—
9 Rear Admiral Plunkett told the
9 Senate Committee today, in giv
9 inf testimony concerning the U.
9 & Navy, that the Germans by su
9 perior gunnery turned the British
• on their heels, that the British
9 lost their heads entirely, at the
9 battle of the Jutland.
9 Rear Admiral Plunkett gave no
9 details regarding the Jutland na«
9 val battle. He said the American
9 navy was without sufficient men
9 when the war began and had no
9 men because Daniels “would not
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9 let us have them and would let us
9 do nothing to get them.”
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you would have an annual income
of nearly $20,000,000,000.
The Chairman. That is, from
private property ?
Mr. Riggs* I hope you will con
sider favorably our plea, wheu it
comes to consideration of road ap
propriation. Eve’-y time we build
a piece of road — we do not attempt
great highways —we open up a new
industry which immediately becomes
taxable to the Federal Government,
tnd relieves the burden of the gov
ernment
Thank you Mr. Chairman.
The Chairman. Very much ob
liged to you.
Alaska's Request Modest
N. G. Hedin, Road Commissioner
for the State of Oregon, who ap
peared before the committee as an
expert on Western Roads, comment
ing on the statement of Gov. R’ggs
fqr the committee, appended this to
the statement:
Gov. Riggs, who refrained from
making more than a two minutes
speech before your committee, re
presents all of Alasxa. You all re
call how ridiculous it seemed to pay
the original price for that vast north
ern empire, but through development
Alaska haa returned a hundredfold
above the original cost and we have
scarcely touched her timber and agri
cultural resources.
Alaska has approximately $200
000 on construction money that might
be matched, so that limits her re
quest to avery modest sum that no
American could turn down as unfair
to so great a Territory of full-blood
ed pioneers.
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IRISH MAGISTRATE IS
SHOT DEAD NEAR A CLUB
LONDON, March 26— Allan Bell,
resident magistrate who presided over
the inquiry for Sinn Fein dealings
with the Irish banks, was shot dead
last night while he was passing the
Dublin Masonic club.
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KILLED BY SNOWSLIDE
SALT LAKE CITY, March 26 —
E. M. Parr, wife and two sons, Harold
and Earl, were killed early this morn
ing when a snowslide at Bingham,
Utah, demolished their home. The
bodies were recovered. It has been
snowing here for the past twelve
hours and already one foot of new
snow has fallen.
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EXPLORER AMUNDSEN OFF
ON DASH FOR NORTH POLE
LONDON, March 26— It is re
“ported that Arctic Explorer Amund
sen, who has been in the Arctic, olf
Siberia, has left his ship and is now
on a dash overland to the North Pole.
No news is expected from him unt l
next spring. Two men are with
Amundsen It is possible that the ex
plorer and his men are using air
planes.
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Captain George Naud, of the fisher-,
ies boat Murre was married at Ketchi
kan to Miss Helga M. Stanfield. The
brde formerly was a school teacher at
Metlakahtla, and was transferred
lately to Bay View.
STEAL LAD
HELD FOR
RANSOM
LEXINGTON, Ky., March 26- E.
R. Little, capitalist, has received word
from an unknown kidnappc*-, Hvrt he
is holding his eleven year old buy
Paul for $25,000. Little has publicly
announced he would meet all demands
of the kidnapper. The boy thief stated
he would put the boy to death if the
demands were not met Little says no
attempt will be made to arrest the
kidnappers.
LEXINGTON, March 26— Late this
afternoon Paul Little phoned from a
hotel and said he had been kept a
prisoner since last Wednesday by one
of h;s kidnappers. Paul's parents went
to the hotel and found the boy un
banned but hungry. Last night, Paul’s
father left $25,000 ranson in a gar
bage can at a down town place, but
no one called to take it
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ANCHORAGE MAN IS
GOING TO RUSSIA TO
HELP THE RED CROSS
SEATTLE, March 26— Lieutenant
Neil McGregor, formerly of Anchor
age, has been appointed a member of
the Red Cross commission to work
among the destitute civilians in the
rear of Denikine’s aimy.
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ALASKA STEAMER HITS
WRANGELL NARROWS BOTTOM
SEATTLE, March 26— The steam
er Spokane, of the Admiral Line,
southbound struck the bottom in
Wrangell Narrows while seeking an
chorage in a snowstorm. The steamer
is proceeding here but leaking in
tanks one and two. The Spokane will
be drydocked on her arrival here on
Sunday.
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FISH BOAT’S CAPTAIN
LOST OVERBOARD AT SEA
SEATTLE, March 26— The Alas
ka fishing schooner La Paloma has ar
rived here from Hecate Straits and re
ports that Captain Axel Antonsen
was lost overboard last Monday in a
storm off Goose Island.
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RE—INDICT CAPT BLAIN
SEATTLE, March 26— The Fed
eral Grand Jury this afternoon re-in
dicted Capt John Blain as the court
threw out the other three indictments
on echnicalities. The latest indictment
contains the same charges of alleged
fraud in shipyard cases Blain was re
arrested and released on the same
$10,000 bond.
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J. B. Kershaw, a hardware merch
ant of Atlin. and Mrs. E. Winnifr.nl
Tallimire, .interested in mining in
the AtMn country, were married re
cently at Skngwny nnd left for the
South to spend their honeymoon.
SEATTLE, March 2G— Prosccut
ing Attorney Brown is investigating
charges that members of the Indust
rial Workers of the World are tamp
ering with jury panels by working in
the residential districts seeking infor
mation from ncighbois about pro
spective jurors who may sit in the
criminal syndicalism trials. It is re
po ted several Wobbiies have posed as
officers of the law in seeking infor
mation.
SPEED IS
SHOWN BY
FjGHTER
NEW YORK, March 26— Georges
Carpcntier showed a world of speed
and cleverness, last night in a spa r
ing exhibition with Major Anthony
L^rexei U.dd e at the International
sporting club’s dinner and smoker
last night. Tex Richard was the re
feree.
MINISTER
KNOCKING
SEATTLE, March 2G— Fred Ful
ton, Minnesota g ant, meets Young
Hector, of B emerton, in four rounds
here tonight. Rev. M. A. Mathews,
tjSL6jor oi the First Presbyterian
church, wrote a letter to prosecuting
attorney B own protesting that the
bout would be an infamous and dis
graceful prize fight in violation of the
law.
P osecuto • Brown wrote right back
today and said that the bout would
rcsemb’e a prize fight about as much
as a ping pong game would resemble
a naval battle. Brown also inv*t“ l
Rev. Mathews to be his guest at tb»
bout and see the fight for himself.
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM
CHAIRMAN OUTLINES THE
PLANKS TO BE INSERTED
PROVIDENCE, R. I., March 26 —
Ogd'm Mills Chairman of the Nation
al R^pubMcan platform will oppose
government ownership, operation of
railroads and will favor a fedenO bud
get system. The platform will also
favor a tariff to guarantee to Amen *
an interests the most favored treat
ment in the World’s markets. Mr.
Mills sa?d he hopes the platform will
;ne!”de a decoration favoring the 08
tnb,;shmnnt of a Nat’onal District In
dustrial Commission for the settle
ment of dispute** for the prevention of
strikes. Mr. MiHs sa*‘d the Leogue of
Nations was .defective.
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Dr. W. D’Arcv Chas« of Co-dov:
KftnT'A/'ott wh*re he will re
Peve D~. Gillespie while the latte'
takers a vacation in the States.