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VOLUME XIV, DUMBER 148.
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NAVY PILOTS!
END FLIGHT |
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V PANAMA, Jan. 17— Naval offic
ers of the Canal Zone are entuhsias
tic over the successful completion of a
3,200 mile flight made by twelve naval
seaplanes, which arrived here Satur-!
day evening from San Diego. The trip
was made in eighteen flying days with |
nine stops and only one forced land- •
ing. Two of the fourteen planes mak
ing the trip have not yet arrived, one
being reported adrift twenty miles olf
San Juaadel according to a wireless!
from the United States destroyer,
Munford which was intercepted by the ,
b batt.eship New Mexico. The crew of,
the seaplane are on board the Mun-!
ford, which is standing by the plane
until repairs are made to the engine.
r The oilier plane has not been heard of.
PROHIBIT SNORING
GOVT. DEPARTMENTS
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 17— Senatoi J
SSinoot introduced a bill last Saturday
| d s.ga.d to bid smoking in any gov- J
a i -inunt department including the
White House, l’ire prevention is given
as the c^use of the bill. The recent de
.cw.oii oi the Cjnous records are be
hoved to have been caused by a cigar- j
ette.
A LA BAM M A NATIONAL GUARD |
ir \RRESTED— CHARGE LYNCHING
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BIRMINGHAM, Jan. 17— Eleven
members of Company M. Alabama
National Guards, are under aiTest
charged with lynching William Baird
a miner at Jasper last Thursday. Les
f lie West taxi driver confessed his part
in the lynching and implicated the sol
diers. Baird was awaiting trial for
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irurder of another guardsman.
TACOMA BANK IS CLOSED ON '
ACCOUNT MISMANAGEMENT
1ACOMA, Jan. 17— The state bank
examiner closed the Scandinavian Am
erican bank here on account of “mis
management of buildings operations
and accumulation of non-liquid assets.
The bank had twelve thousand deposit
</iS and a ha.f a million dollars.
This bank is said to have no connec
t.on With any other bank of similar
..ac in the state.
GOVERNOR LOWDEN AND
WILL HAYS ON HARDING’S
UST OF APPOINTMENTS
MARION, Jan. 17— The list of ap
pointments issued by President elect
Kaiding today contains the names of
j Lowden, Will Hays and Ja
cob Co*ey, former leader of Coxey s
Army. .
SPECIAL SESSION OF HOUSE
CALLED APRIL FOURTH
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WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 17
Chairman Fordney of the House Ways
and Means committee is here after
confering with Harding and made the
statement today that from all indica
tions Congress will be called into spec
ial session on April Fourth.
WIFE Ot INVENTER DIES
CHICAGO, Jan. 17— Mrs. Cyrus
5ft dill McCormick, wife of the chair
mj* of the board of directors of the
In*crqational Harvester company died
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“RAGTIME” FRANK KELLY OF
VAUDEVILLE CO. IS OLD
PIONEER OF ALASKA
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Comedian Played in Nothern Towns
During Gold Rush of ’98.
Among the Spokane passengers
was a pioneer well known to many
gold -seekers of the flowery days of
jJawson and other Northern towns.
Many will recognize in Frank Kelly,
Jie ‘ Ray-time Kelly” of Dawson and
the Koyukuk.
Friends of the comedian say that
it was he who named the then “far
.host North” mining city in Alaska.
When Coldfoot far above the arctic
circle was being settled, the question
of a proper name for the town came
up. Kelly was appealed to.
He said: “Well , it seems that
everyone who comes here gets cold
feet and backs out. So why not
dub it ‘Coldfoot* However, I’m not
gomg to get cold feet. I’m going to
stick.”
So did the name and it; is so titled
on the maps.
Befo.e coining to the North in
ihe early nineteen hundreds Kelly ,
was a professional on the stage in j
ihe states. At Dawson in the early j
days he was much in demand as an
entertainer. He participated in a!
dancing competition that was watch-:
ed with wide interest, and though he j
ost to a woman competitor, Annie ,
O’Brien, many spectators were of a «
different opinion than the judges. It \
as in Dawson that he was dubbed
* Rag-Time ” Kelly for his proficiency i
in up-to-date entertainment.
Mr. Kelly did some prospecting j
and in the Koyukuk district,, just j
North of Coldfoot, located a claim on !
what he believed to be Emma Creek, j
It turned out to be but a gorge j
far short of the place he started for.'
Though later prospectors found pay
in the gorge, the place is to this day j
known as “Kelly’s Mistake.”
Mr. Kelly is as interesting in
private life as he is on the stage.
He plans to take the Kelly Comedy
Company through all the big towns
in the North, from Seward he will
go to Anchorage. *
INTERIOR OF CHILE
RUdED BY BANDITS
BUENOS, AIRES, Jan. 17— Dam
ages estimated at many millions of
psos caused by the depredations of
outlaws yrho are said to control the
whole of the interior of Chilee and
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number one thousand well armed men
are reported from the central regions.
They are pillaging farms, buring
crops and destroying all agricultural
machinery that comes into their pos
session. Reports from Santa Cruz state
Jiat many persons have been killed
during the past few days.
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SERIOUS feEVOI T THREATENS
SOVIET GOVERNMENT
IN PODOLIA
l ON DON, Jan. 17— The Rega Cen
tral rews says chat a wireless .report
ice ved from Moscow states that a
<x • . * >'.s peasant reb^i ipn has broken
t at in the Govec*%menc of Podolia in
Ukraine. The Soviet t overnment lev*
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that the revolt will spread and in *>a
sequence of the u^.ift among i»*e
Ukianian peasants ever the refusal c*f
the Sovi* i government 1o remedy th^
nunwous gr:cvar**es
J. C. Smith and Thos. T. Garrison
of Cordova are in Seward for a few
days.
Free Dance Tonight After the Vau
deville.
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NAN AND
BOYPERISH
IN STORN
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KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Jan. 3—
Lost in a blinding snow storm on
Mary Island, south of here, Leslie
Williams, seventeen-year old son of
City Councilman Ed. Williams, stag
gered over a precipice and was kill
ed, Herb Scott, lighthouse keeper,
aged CO, was frozen to death and
Charles Chapman, stepson of former
Chief of Police Aug. Groot and Ket
chikan High School student, is in
precarious condition after hours of
wandering and exposure.
The boys went to Mary Island
from hero last week at Scott’s in
vitation for an outing. Wednesday
they started on a hunting trip over
the island and remained out all
Wednesday night and the following
day. They had lost their bearings
tompletely. Finally Scott was un
able to proceed farther and Chap
man started out alone to seek help,
leaving Williams to minister to
their aged friend until he returned.
For, twenty-one hours he was lost
in a storm but finally made his way
to the lighthouse more dead than
alive and too exausted to give a
coherent account of his companions’
whereabouts.
Attendants at the lighthouse rais
ed a distress flag and twenty-four
hours later the halibut schooner
Washington called in and brought
the news to Ketchikan.
Searching parties started from
here yesterday morning and* late yes
terday found William’s body at the
foot of a cliff. Early today Scott’s
body was found nearby. He had died
from cold and exposure.
Chapman was brought back to
Ketchikan last night. He is .serious
ly ill as a result of his experiences but
is expected to recover.
KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Jan. 4—
Within half a mile of the light
house where he was keeper, and
where, if he had gone two hundred
feet further he would have had an
unobstructed . view of the light, the
dead body of Herbert Scott was
found by searchers on Mary Island
yesterday noon. The body lay on a
high headland, in the underbrush and
woods about fifty yards from a
large clearing cut, to allow a larger
sweep for the light along the shore.
This afternoon the funeral of Leslie
E. Williams, the other victim of the
holiday tragedy, was held, attended
by scores of the schoolmates and
other friends. Charles W. Chapman,
the only survivor of the trio who
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ieft Mary Island light last Thurs
day on a hunting expedition, is grad
ually recovering his strength after
almost complete exhaustion and the
effects of severe exposure to the ele
ments. / '
Finding Scott's Body.
The body of Scott was found just
a few minutes before noon by mem
bers of the volunteer searching party
from the Lighthouse tender Fern,
which, with the Leonine, resumed the
hunt early Monday morning. The
body was first spied by “Jack” Ol
son as it lay partly protected by
the underbrush, who immediately
called the rest of the members of
the Fern party to him.
One shoe had been thrown aside
by the aged keeper which lay, with
his hat, some distance from the body.
It appeared that he had also started
i 0 pull off a sock, as if long
along the rocky^shore and wet woods
bordering it had caused chafing dad
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| pain. The ground about was scratch
j ed and pawed.
The body was about a half mile
j closer the lighthouse than the spot
• where Leslie Williams had been
found, Williams had died ^ about a
mile away in a Southerly direction
from the light No accurate infor
mation as to when Scott passed away
can be determined, but he had evident
ly been dead for some time when dis
covered.
COLE HANSEN MAKING
TROUBLE IN EAST
RACINE, Jan. 17— Former Mayor
Ole Hanson of Seattle disrupted a
meeting at which Irwin St John Tuck
er, recently indicted under the Espin
age act, was the principle* speaker.
Hanson challenged Tucker to debate
but Tucker declined after an audience
by a vote disapproved of such proced
ure.
BRITISH TROOPS IN
CHARGE IRISH CITY
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DUBLIN, Jan. 17— Troops today
| occupied a wide area of this city, be
[ ing stationed in houses commanding
"the streets in the occupied districts.
The houses were entered and the oc
cupants of the upper floors were giv
en twenty minutes in which to move
down stirs, machine guns were plac
ed in the windows and the area, the in
habitants virtually made prisoners.
MANY JAPANESE HOUSES
DESTROYED BY FREb
FRESNO, Jan. 17— Evidence of in
cendiarism fires in the homes or busi
ness places of five Japanese residents
of this city during the last three days
;were reported to the chief of police.
He announced that the fires were due
to racial antagonism and that the en
tire force of the city had been on the
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jook-out for a number of gangs who
have been robbing and destroying Ja
panese property for the past few
weeks. One fire badly damaged the
warehouse of the Kamakawa brothers,
one of the city’s largest mercantile
firms.
BENNINGTON, Vermont, Jan. 17—
Pi*otest against antisemetic propagan
da bearing the signatures of Taft
Cardinal O'Connell, and many other
prominent men was made public to
day, by John Shargo, socialist writer.
Wilson and Harding have approved
the protest.
BILL NEEDED TO STABUZE
BUSINESS CONDITIONS
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17— The Sen
ate today following the lead of the
House, approved the Fordney Tariff
Memorial Bill. The bill is needed to
■stablilc business and financial condi
tions.
LIEUTENANT LANGPON'S WIFE
COMMITTE SUICIDE TODAY
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VLADIVOSTOK, Jan. 17— The
Russian wife of Lieutenant Langdon
wlo was shot by a Japanese soldier
last week at this place committed sui
cide today when she learned of her
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AGED PROMOTER
FINED AND SENTENCED
BOSTON, Jan. 17— K. B. Matthews,
the aged promoter of the bogus Na
tional Touring Club of America with
which he obtained thousands of dollars
for falsa/memberships was sentenced
today to serve five years and was fin
of a thousand dollars for the misuse
IoX the mails.
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WOULD CALL
CONFERENCE
OF NATIONS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 17—
The Senate Finance committee approv
ed the Fordney Tariff measure with
an addition of ten ammendments which
will be reported to the Senate tomor
row. The House Foreign Affairs Com
| mittee without a dissenting vote ap
| proved a joint resolution asking the
'President to call a conference of na
tions to consider universal disarma
ment. The Committee rejected the
amendment that invitations that invi
tations to participate be extended to
! Ireland and the Philippines. The war
! finance corporation revised by an act
: of congress passed over the Presi
dent's veto today and announced they
j are preparing to consider the applica
• tion of loans to finance exports in the
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| same manner as they did prior to the
I suspension of that corporation last
I May.
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GERMANY WILL NEVER
ATTEMPT WAR REVENGE
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MILAN, Jan. 17— Dr. Bernard
j Dcrnbcrg, former German minister o
finance told the League of Nation
societies in a conference yesterda.
Jiat there was no chance of German.
| ever attempting a war of revenge be
| cause she had been cured forever o.
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j .he old militarism spirit.
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1 NAVAL ACADEMY NURSE
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HEAD LAST NIGHi
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j ANNAPOLIS, Md. Jan. 17— Mis;
! Harriet Kavanaugh, a nurse in thv
1 Naval Academy Hospital died thh
; morning as the result” of being hit on
: the head last night. She was attacked
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on the road near the hospital. No mo*
! tive except robbery is assigned.
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I PREMIER SUCCEEDS
; IN FRAMING CABINET
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PARIS, Jan. 17— A. Brand, former
premier succeeded today in framing a
cabinet in succession to the ministry
f Premier Leygues, re signed, and
j presented the list to President* Miller*
and. Premier Brand said France ha*
the wannest desire to be on a friendlj
footing with Britain and America and
that the Versailles peace pact must be
fulfilled. 44 I sincerely hope the full
fillment of this treaty will not bring
us in contest with our friends.”
Perets failure to form a ministry
was due largely to the refusal of for
mer president Poincaire to enter into
the combination except under condi
tions difficult for Peret to accept.
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MAYOR AND COMMISSIONER
SUBPOENAED BY GRAND JURY
NEW YORK, Jan. 17— Mayor Hy
len and Police Commi88ioner Enright
have been subpoenaed to appear, to
day as iritnesses in the Grand Jury
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mC|Uiy into the alleged official cor*
t ur turn. The inquiry is being conduct
ed by C». vernor Whitman. ' . J
Mr. Ross Vill leave on the train in
the morning for Anchorage. From An
chorage he will go to Fairbanks ana
Nenaha.
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Dan Ross from Valdes, traveling
'presentative of the Pathfinder Pub
shing Co. arrived in Seward oh the
9. & Spokane last Saturday night
TO INVESTIGATE KILLING
OF AMERICAN OFFICER
MANILA, Jan. 17 —Rear Admiral
Gleaves is leaving tomorrow for Vla
divostok to investigate the Langdon
ailing. A court of inquiry is also leav
ing.
WOMAN ENDS HUNGER STRIKE
* DANVILLE, Jan. 17— Mrs. Er
ne? I Harrington, who fasted forty
eiglu days to influence her husband to
join the church, ended her hunger
?t"ike today when the minister of the
church advised her to take food.
TO FIRE ON ALLIED VESSELS
CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan. 17— A
Moscow wireless says that vessels fly
ing the Allied Flags and approaching
within twelve miles of the Black Sea
coast will be fired upon by land bat
teries, and are subject to attack by
submarines.
OFFER REWARD
FOR “SHADOW”
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PORTLAND, Jan. 17— A reward
: of a thouamd dollars for the “Sha
dow” dead or alive was posted in po
I lice headquarters today. Heavily aim
' ed police are maintaining a guard ov
31* the homes of those who have de
ed the orders of the “Shadow”. The
.ian who signs the threatening letters
.hich he writes ‘‘Shadow” has terror
zed many people in the town during
die past week.
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LEGISLATURE OPENS WED.
MICHIGAN, Jan. 17— A Repubucan
ogilature, the first in years in which
lo Democrat is seated will open next
Wednesday, to consider, among other
diings, reorganization of the state de
partments and budgets of state in- ’
stitutions.
EFFORT BE MADE TO
LEGALIZE SUNDAY SPORTS
NEW HAMPSHIRE, Jan. 17— An
3ffort will be made to Legalize Sunday
jports that are not conducted for pro
turbance of others.” Resubmission to
ifs and that do not tend ‘‘to the dis
turbance of others.”
HfREST DISTRICT
FIXED IN ALASKA
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PORTLAND, Jan. 17— On New
fear’s Day AlaSka came into its own
as a United States forest district. For
nany years all matters pertaining to
Alaska forests were handled through
lie Portland office* of the forest ser
ice. Field agents in Alaska were giv
m wide powers, but all matters of im
portance had to be referred to Port
and. Under the new district organiza
tion, the district forecaster of Alaska
will report direct to the Washington,
1). C., office. The new district is known
as No. 8.
Charles E. Flory, former superin
tendent of Alaska forests, is the first
district forester. He will have his
leadquarters at Ketchikan, Alaska,
until July 1 when the district office
vill.be moved to Juneau.
M. L. Merritt, for many years in
charge of all improvement work done
dirough the Portland office, will be
Assistant district forester.'
• B. F. Heintzleman, who has made a
special study of pulp and paper re
sources of Alaska w$U be lumber
man of Alaska. Hfe has been attached
to the Alaska service for several /
years. g
C. T. Gardner will continue as su
pervisor of Tongass Nations
Southeastern Alaska, and C. T. Beach
wOl continue as supervisor of Chu
gach forest in Central Alaska* *
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