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VOLUME XIV, NUMBER 149.. - SEWARD, ALASKA. TUtSDAY. JANUARY 11, 1921. TEN CENTS PER COPY
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UNANIMOUS ADOPTION
OF RESOLUTION
SACREMEN+O, an., 11— The as
sembling of te California legislature
was marked by* the unanimous adop
tion of tiie resolution asking the gov
ernment not to make a treaty with
JL,
Ji»!-an that would grant them citizen
ship or nullify the provisions of the
^ Anti-Alien Land Law. Ibis is the first
*n« asuie to come before the legislators
and it is ex pec till that it will pass both
h ses.
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AMSTERDAM. Jam, 11— Opposi
tion to the reduction of the Dutch ar
my has revived here because of fears
that a eBlgian invasion may resu t
fivm frhire of the two governments
to *eai.h an agreement in the long
3v'ati'-ling boundary dispute under the
tre .*y of 1839.
At a recent meeting of the society
“Our Army”, which includes most of
1 the Dutch officers, men high in com
mand of the Holland forces spoke
strongly against a reduction of the
army. One of them, Staff Captain Van
* Gensau, declared that a diminished
army could not resist a Belgian invas
ion three months.
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ALASKA NOTES
A public library association has been
or iranized in Skagway. Funds are be
ing collected to establish o library.
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The Pacific Fruit and Produce Co.
lia. established a branch house at Ju
neau.
Edward Sholin, fox fanner on the
mainland near Seldovia, has leased
<*an Island, near the Chicagof mine,
to raise goats and for animals.
The Gambler Bay plant will not be
operated this season according to an
ai.aouncement just made by the Hoo
n:.h Packing Company. -
The Alaska Sea Food Product Com
pany is discontinuing operations of its
r honing cannery at Halibut Cove, near
S *idovia, for the season and will send
its crew to the states. The company
has packed 2,500 barrels of herring
during the past season.
Three men convicted of murder,
two Mexicans and a Canadian, were
brought to Seattle from Ketchikan,
Alaska, on the steamship Northwest
ern by United States Marshal J. M.
Tanner of Juneau. The Mexicans will
be confined at McNeil's Island peni
tentiary and the third man is being
taken to the Morningside Hospital for
I the Insane, near Portland, Ore.
The Alaska Territorial Medical As
sociation has been organized at Juneau
with the following officers elected; Dr.
Daniel S. Neuman, Jueneau, President;
Dr. John H. Mustard, Ketchikan, Vive
president of first division; Dr. Welch,
Nome, vice-president of second divi
sion; Qr* Chase, Cordova, vice-preai-j
dent of third division; Dr. Hill, Fair-;
banks, vice-president of fourth divi- I
sion; Dr. Gladys Rowley, Treadwell,
secretary-terasury. All reputable
doctors in Alaska are eligible and in
vited to affiliate.
V A Washington special says: The
Secretary of Commerce, with the pas
sive backing of the secretary of the
navy and of the Interior Department,
will make an effort at this semion of j
Congress to establish a government;
supply station at Dutch Harbor, Alas
-ka, where coal, fuel and other supplies
can be obtained by government ships
at any of the yearNIbe real pur
pose behind this plan is to establish
4 coaling base not only for naval ships
but for the merchant marine, survey
ah<ps and other vessels spiriting in
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OIL SITUATION
IS FAVORABLE
The department of the interior has
forwarded to the registar of the gov
ernment land office at Juneau thirteen
o:t leasing and prospecting permits,
totaling 28,680 acres, land situated in
the Katalia, Yakataga and Cold Bay
districts. While the total acreage of
claims covered by the 300 applications
for permits wited in Alaska since the
passing of the new oil leasing law last
February covers 690,333 acres, more
than half of which is located in the
Cold Bay district, the Alaska bureau
of the Seattle Chamber ox Commerce
is advised. In Juneau it is predicted
chat spring will see a large number Ox
prospectors scattered westward iron*
Cook inlet, as men intent upon making
0(1 locations are ready to go into that
country.
Kive fields are presented in last
month’s filings. These are Cold Bay,
45 c aims for 115,200 acres; Illirana,
seen claims for 17,920 acres; Anchor
age, five for 12,800 acres; Katalia
seven for 10,460 acres. It is known
that in the Aniakchak field there are
a number of claims located on which
no applications have yet been filed
twenty-four being in a single group
There are also a large number of pre
ference right claims in the Yakataga
district, for which it is known that
pieference right applications wil be
filed in/he near future. It is conserv
atively estimated that more than
three- quarters of a million acres in al*
fields have been located by oil pros
pectors.
HARDING CALLS
REPRESENTATIVE BUTLER
INTO. CONFERENCE
MARION, Jan., 11— Harding call
ed Representative Butler of Pennsyl
vania to the House Naval Committee
conference to consider the means ot
reducing aimament without imparing
the efficiency of the nations for a line
of defenses.
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FORTHWORTH, Texas Jan. 11—
The Japanese business n^en of Texas,
the representatives of the Japanese of
south east Texas and the Japanese
Legislation.
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Casey McDannel’s Buffet car was
niiaging this morning when the Gate
way Flier pulled out for Anchorage,
and the genial Casey was missing like
wise. The reason for the absence of
both the car and Casey was the break
ing of the trucks under the car and the j
loss of a wheel. This accident happen
ed last Saturday when the train was
enroute iron Anchorage. Casey was
obliged to hold down tne lort ai Mile
52 Saturday night and an day Sunday.
New trucks were sent out yesterday
and the car repaired, it will probably
attached to the Flier tomorrow as
per usual.
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Albert Gray was a passenger on the
train this morning bound for the end^
of Steel. Mr. Gray stated yesterday
that the Commission was moving the
‘shops and getting everything in shape
for a campaign which will finish the
Hurricane Gtuch bndge at an early i
date. With the completion of this .
bridge eany in the season the balance
of work between steel wiU be accom
plished rapidiy and the through train
between Seward and Fairbanks will be
a reality. Mr. Gra| who has made
Seward his home during the past fif
teen years ia the type of man who is
an assett to Alaska. Full of pep and!
Optomism, he has great conudence In
the future of the country.
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WHISKEY -FLOWS « . v'
IN STREETS
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WAUKEGAN, HI. Jan. 11— Twen
ty Chicago prohibition agents made a
'swift raid here today. More than 150,
000 quarts of whiskey was seised,
broken with axes on the main street
and the gutters turned into brooka of
fiery liquid. The agents all *ore go
loshes and were armed with axes and
revolvers. The spectators were told,
that the liquor was poisonous . but
some courted death by scooping ft out
of c gutte*r with tin c j|:. and dry
ing iL No • asualties »i *b • n r port
ed. .
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DENVER, Colo. Jan. 11— The
Meetinghouse Electric Company to
day filed an application for a re
ceiver for the Denver Tramway Com
pany, which operates Denver’s street
car system.
SAVE CARSON
PERSECUTION
MACCLESFIELD, Eng. Jan. 11—
The Irish Nationalist leaders, John
Dillon and John Redmond, saved Sir
Edward Carson, Unionist advocate,
from presecution for preaching rebel
lion in Ulster in 1914, says Charles F.
vi. Masterman, who was then Finan
cial Secretary to the" Treasury.
- Mr. Masterman in addressing an
audience here blamed Sir Edward for
beginning the resistance to the crown (
which led up to the present situation I
in Ireland. One of his hearers asked
why the Ulster leader was not then
prosecuted and Mr. Masterman re- !
plied: j
“The cabinet waa ready to do so
but John Redmond and John Dillon,!
acting through Mr. Lloyd George, par-1
suaded the cabinet not to take the step* <
They argued that in three month’s
time the Home Rule Bill would be-i
come law, and they would then be re-1
sponsible for the government of Ire
land. They asked that they should be
allowed to undertake the government
of Ireland without being hampered by
.ny feeling created beforehand by the
prosecution of Sir Edward Carson.
They thought they could •
what they regarded as the blague
(humbug) of the Ulster movement.
“They may have been right or
wrong” concluded the speaker, “but
the war broke out before the test
came.’*
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BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 11— The Ar
gentine provinces are trying to form a
combination against Buenos Aires, the
capital city. Overtures are bing con
ducted between political districts ot
the country against Buenos Aires and'
oter coastal districts. Some, political
observers see in this movement an at
tempt to return to the former division
of the country politically into oppos
ing sections while others maintain
that it merely is an economic measure
having as its purpose the protection of
the productive areas.
To Argentina, the dty of Buenos
Aires has the relation of the spout to
the tea-kettle and practically all of
the wealth of the country poors
through it It is at once the financial,
distributing and political capital of
the country. It it claimed by the lead
ers of the League idea, the city has
disproportionate power and the north
tern states need union to offbet thin.
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RIO t>E JANEIRO, Jari. 11— bidd
ings for Brasilian embassies and legs-,
t ions abroad will be acquired by pur-'
chase under a legislative leeohvtlbn
sanctioned by Preaident Pease*. The
government is authorised to open nee*
eesary ^jiti to the of apyft**
imately $750,000 in each fhimrinl er*
led. i
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DENIES PRESSURE
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WAS BROUGHT
• WASHINGTON, Jan. 11— Acting
Secretary of State Davis yesterday
(lor id( before the Senate Committee
tha* the State department had brought
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auy pressure to bear on Cuba to pre
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vint the landing of caUaa. .
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WASHINGTON LEGISLATURE ■
M CONVENES
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Whin the legislature convened at
n«jtn yesterday there was one Demo
crat. one Fanner-Lab^ and thirty Re
publicans in the Senate. One Demo
crat* one Farmer-Labor and ninety
foui Republicans in the House. After
organisation they adjourned until to
day. ^
WOULD SERVE
5 IMMEDIATELY
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 11— (Special
correspondence)— Congressman Clif
ton N. McArthur of Oregon is the
i.vithor of two proposed amendments to
the Constitution, recently introduced
in the Hmse of Representatives. Both
a»m to reduce the time which now
elapse* between the election of the
President, Senators and Representa
tives in Congress and the date upon
whvih they take their oaths of office
and enter upon the discharge of their
duties. As the Constitution and the
laws now provide, the President as
sumes control of the executive branch
of the Government on March 4th, four
month* after the people have elected
him Chief Executive. Senators and
Congressmen are compelled to wait
until the first Monday in December
of the following year, a delay of thir
teen months, before they are able to
participate in national legislation, un
less the President in the meantime
sees fit to call;a special session of
Congress.
“No other civilised country,” de
clares Mr. McArthur, “tolerates .the
grotesque conditions which surround
the election and inauguration of the
President of the United States and the
election and qualification of Represen
tatives and Senators. As objections t,
our present system, he charges that
often legislative and executive author
ity are permitted to remain in the
hands of political parties and indivi
duals who have been discredited at
the most recent elections. The period
of depression and uncertainty between
the elections and the time when the
victorious party assumes control of
national affairs should be prevented
As an instance of the harm which may ■
come to th e country as a result of,
those long delays ,Mr. McArthur cites
the vacillating policy of President
Buchanan following Lincoln's first
election. “Had Lincoln been nbls to
take his seat in December following
bia election,” he asserts, “the Civil,
War might have been averted.”
The first of Congressman McAr- j
thurs’ -amendments v fixes the first (
Tuesday after the first Monday in No- j
vember as election day and provides
that the terms of service of Senators
•ad Representative. shall begin on the j
second Monday in December, or about
five weeks following the election and
one week following the meeting of
Congress. That week is needed, in the
'opinion of the author of the amend
neat further provides that the elec
toral tele shell be canvassed by the
Speaker of the Veoae instead of by
'the President ofthe Senate, and, in
y^eaadWagdy m***.**^
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GERMAN GOODS
IN S01_AMERICA
The tremendous efforts being made
by Germany to regain her export mar
kets are already apparent jn the in
creased competition that American
r anufacturers are meeting in ho •
America. “In Chile, for example/*
says the National Foreign Trade
Council, “the American toy manufact
urer had succeeded in building up a
good business with ingeniously design
ed toys during the absence of the Ger
man-made articles. But during the
business boom in the United States,
u>ys were sent to foreign customers
that were too fragile or too expensive.
The result has been' that the Chilean
no longer cares to deal with the Am
erican manufacturer when he can pur
chase German toys which, though not
of pie-war manufacture, are in no way
inferior thereto.
“In recent months many steamers
have arrived at Valparaiso from Ger
many with articles of German manu
facture of every imaginable sort—
textiles, machinery, hardware, toys,
urugs, etc. American and British
merchants have already begun to suf
fer from the effects of cheap German
.inports into Chile. The high pre
mium on tho United States dotlar ant.
the Ihitish pound, in comparison with
tho German mark, are operating to
turn trade toward Germany as soon
a» production in that country fan be
reestablished."
We are in receipt today of just on.
telegraph file. All news from the out
side is delayed.
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TO EXCHANGE STUDENTS
BETWEEN MEXICO AND
THE UNITED STATES
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In an effort to improve . and
strengthen the relationship betweei.
the United States and Mexico, th»
American Chamber of Commerce is
arranging for the interchange of stu
dents between the two countries.
“One object of this plan ,” says the
National Foreign Trade Council, ‘‘is
to place Mexican students in American
colleges and technical schools so as
to fit them for useful careers. Another
object is to place young Mexicans as
apprentices in American mills and
off ices where they will get industrial
training.
“The American Chamber of Com
merce of Mexico is also arranging to
provide opportunities for young men
from the United States to study in
Mexican schools and industrial estab
lishments. In this way, mutual under
standing between the two countries
will be greatly improved.
“Over <dghty scholarships have
already been offered by various
colleges throughout the United States.
It is expected that many more will be
available for this purpose. The Com
mittee on Mexican-American Scholar
ships of the American Chamber of
Commerce, Mexico City, is now en
rolling business men, Chambers of
Commerce and public-spirited institu
tions throughout the United States in
suport of this project.”
HEADS POSTAL SERVICE
AGREE UPON MEETING
MADRID, Jan. 11— Representa
tives of 23 vountries, comprising most
of the republics of North, South and
Central America, agreed at a meet
ing of the Universal Postal Union here
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to sign the Pan-American Postal Con
venant providing for reciprocal domes
tic postal rates.
Under this agreement, if the c<ym
' tries actually sign, domestic rates of
lexcange will prevail on letters, postal
cards and printed matter between the
following countries:
United States, Spain, Argentina,
'Bolivia, Brazil, Columbia, Costa Rica,
Cul^a, Chile, Dominican Republic,
Ecuador/San Salvador, the Philip
pines, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras,
Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Para
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guay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezula.
As agreed upon here, packages
carried between these countries con
taining books, newspapers, printed
matter and commercial papers shall
uot exceed four kilograms (of 2.20
<»ounds each) nor 45 centimeters
• about 18 inche?) in length. Single
books, however may be carried up to
five kilos in weight
CABLE NOTES
The S. S. Spokane sailed at ten
j’clock Sunday morning from Seattle,
ohe is carrying many tons of freight
and ninety passengers for the differ
ent towns in Alaska. The Seward 1*8
sengers are; J. H. Miles, Carl D. Pol
lock, W. H. Howard and wife, R. 0.
Leary and wife, Hans Rasmusson, G.
V. Harrison, J. C. Jacobson, Mrs. D. M.
Cunningham, E. R. Jordon, E. Weaver,
Ceorge Sheppard, J. Bishop, Joe
i^anghran, and two steerage.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 11— Last
year's pack of dried fruit and vege
tables in California was 480,000,000
cans, valued at $108,096,675, the pack
equalling that of all other states in
the Union combined, according to re- ,
ports filed with the * San Francisco
Chamber of Commerce. In 1868 the
pack was only 7,000 cases, compared
vvith 20,000,000 last year., The reports
show California to be the main source
of supply for the entire world of can
ned asparagus, ripe olives and canned
apricots.
San FRISCO, Jan. 11— A first
class electrically lighted train with all
modem facilities and comforts has
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been chartered for a number of the
Chamber of Commerce and their fam- .
ilies who leave here January 8, 1921,
to visit Mexico City. Mexico.
This trip is to be made to estab
lish a closer commercial and social re
lationship, to gain first-hand informa
tion regarding conditions in Mexico
generally. The party expects to spend
three weeks in Mexico.
CORDOVA, Alaska, Jan. 11— Al
aska’s reindeer industry, which has
importance during the last
two or three years, premises to be
come one of the ‘chief sssfets of the
western and northwestern districts of
the territory, according to Lester D.