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(’HH’ACO, July “.1 — Th«* Indiana
and Illinois coal opoiators today firm
ly rojintod tho mpiost of President
I,o\\ is for a joint mooting of th" mint*
operators and coal miners scale com
mittee to settle the scale ol wajjes in
the Indiana and Illinois fields. It is
not I nown what further action will he
taken.
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ALAMEDA THIS UTKKNOON
. Steamer Alameda is due southbound
this afternoon probably about •*
o’clock. The Alameda left Anchorage
at 10:.‘10 o’clock last night having un
1 loaded her freight in ‘J4 hours. The
steamer will probably call at the Sew
ard oock first this afternoon then go
to the San Juan dock to load tish.
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BIG NOISE TONIGHT TO
BE PIONEER S PK’MC
The big amusement feature in Sew
ard tonight will he the Pioneer s pic
nic to be given at the ( ity Par k. I he
dancing and other features will start
at 8 o’clock and there will be plenty to
eat and drink and it is up to those who ,
attend to make merry. There is no
charge and citizens, tourists, in fact
everybody is invited by the Pioneers
to be* on hand and have a good time.
BROOKS TO WESTWARD
Editor of the C.ateway:— Will you
please inform me through the columns
of your valuable newspaper the pies
ent whereabouts of Col. Alfred
Brooks, who came north with the gov
ernmental party? h. W. P.
At the last report Col. Brooks was
aboard the destroyer Macauley visit
ing the ('old Bay oil regions where he
was to make an extensive invest iga
ton for the navy department and the
Department of the Interior. Whether
he has completed his labor and gone
south or not. is not known in Seward.
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WEATHER REPORT
SEWARD 60. Clear. Calm.
Anchorage 58, Clear, Calm.
Matanuska 64. Cloudy, Calm.
Wasilla 62. Clear. Calm.
Talkeetna 55 Cloudy, Calm.
Coldcreek 58, Clear, Calm.
Hurricane 55, Clear. Calm.
Summit 56, Clear, Calm.
Rains 48. Clear. Calm.
Healy 64, Clear. Calm.
NVnana 68, Clear, Calm.
Tail banks 68, Clear, Calm.
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Sam Ouyot and J. J. Chisholm, trav
eling men. are registered at the Hotel
Overland. '
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SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain. July ‘.1
The fir.-t session of the Council of the
League of Nations opened today with
anexecutive session. Only minor mat
te* s are being discussed. 1 he lirst
public session will be next luesday.
SHANNON GETS DECISION
ASTORIA. Ore., July HI— Eddie
Shannon of l.<*s Angeles decisioned
Muff Froeson, last night in the third
of what was to have been a ten round
bout.
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CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR
MENACED BY BLACKMAILERS
CHICAGO, July di — Newcomb Pal
mer. a young farmer of Momenco,
Illinois, is held here and Byiom
Cuudwoll. a former employee of Pal
mer’s at Kankakee, charged with
attempting to extort $40,000 from Per.
Small, candidate for the Republicar
nomination for Governor ot Illinois,
by threats to kill Small s family.
The police say they
now in the hands of the authorities,
instructing Small to place the money
on a road near Kankakee. The
Chicago police planted a decoy pack
age and arrested Palmer when he
came to get it.
12 ENTRIES RECEIVED
IN me; RACOON RACK
NEW YORK, July 31 — Twelve
entries have been received for the na
tiona! haloon race at Indianapolis
September 11, the Aero ( lub ot North
America announced here today. lhte<
contestants ami three alternates whe
will lepresent the United States in the
International Balloon race at Indian
apolis October 23 will be chosen from
those in the national event.
Foreign entries received for the
international race include three each
from France and Italy and one each
from Great Britain and Belgium.
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Mrs. C. G. Jones came in from Mile
■>2 on the train last night and will vis
it friends in Seward for a week or so.
Mrs. M. E. Henning and sons are
registered at the Hotel Seward having
arrived on yesterday s train on their
l way to the states.
RATS OYKRRI N ANCHORAUK
Rats, tin* source of the bubonic
plague, are over-running Anchorage,
accoiding to the late papers received
from there. The city is taking steps
for a campaign to put the rodents out
of business. The Anchorage Times, in
a large typed two column head says
“rodents come via ship and railroad
from Seward." Well brother Bedell,!
the lats have only become “Mears-j
moan zed" like many commission em
ploy ecS.
FISH FROM A BUMP
LOS ANOKLKS, July :U— Fish ng
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from a ‘‘blimp" is the latest sport of
Los Angeles residents. Recently a
party of local tire men. in their dirigi
ble, alighted on the water, 12 miles
north of San Pedro and fished for bar- *
racuda. Later they rose to about forty I
feet and trolled.
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PLAY TENNIS ON ROOF
SEATTLE, July 31— Two tennis
courts are to be built on the roof of
the Young Women’s Christian Assoc
iation building here. Girl employes of
several Seattle department stores are
organizing tennis teams to contest on
the ioof courts.
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J. B. Gottstein, merchant at Anchor- ,
age, is registered at the Hotel Over- '
land.
Frank Richardson Pierce, well
known, magazine writer, is registered
at the Hotel Seward. Mr. Pierce is
now on his way to Cold Bay to pie-'
pare several feature articles on the
new oil camp for eastern magazines.
Resident Engineer George Colwell •
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left this morning for Eska to estab- |
':sh several now grades for trackage.
Mis. P. M. Cusack expects to leave
on the Alair 'da for the states sum-1
moneri below by the serious illness of
her mother.
R. S. Drury, with the Link Belt
Company at Seattle, is at the Hotel 1
Seward on his way south.
Ruth Whitmore and Mrs. Harry W.
Broadwater, tourists from the east,
checked out from the Hotel Sew ed
this morning and left for the interior.
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They return in time to take the Nor
thwestern south.
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VM ERICAN FREIGHTERS
TIED IT IN HONOLULU
BECAUSE LACK OF FUEL
HONOLULU, T. H., July 31— Five
large American freighters were tied
up here together recently for lack of
fuel oil with which to continue their
1 voyages. After a week’s delay which,
according to waterfront authorities,
cost the ship’s owners many thousands
of dollars, the vessels finally obtained
their fuel, when an oil tanker arrived
from the mainland.
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WASHINGTON, July Ml— The
Chambers of Commerce of tin? United
States today voted unanimously for
"the open shop and to require organ
ized labor to be held responsible foi
the at tion of the members.”
“The Chambers of Commerce in ac
tion declaring for the non-union shop
is running true to form,” said Frank
Morrison, Secretary of the American
Federation of Labor this afternoon.
•‘Nothwitl.standing the Chambers of
Commerce and other anti-union or
ganizations, the labor movement will
continue and the organization will
keep trying to secure better conditions
through collective bargaining.”
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U STRIA WILL REMAIN
TRI E TO GERMANY TOR
EVER, GENERAL CLAIMS
KKM PTEN, Bavaria, July 31 —
England's late King, Edward VIII,
ontried to persuade Emperor
Kranz Joseph, of Austria, to break
away from Germany says Gen. Con
rad Von Hoetzondoiff, former com
mander in chief of the Austrian
army. The General declared in a
speech here the other day that the
fidelity of Kranz Joseph to the Ger
man-Austrian alliance was often ques
tioned, but in spite of many tempta
tions, lie had remained faithful to
the pact.
‘Tifteen years ago,” he went on,
“when I had just become chiel of
the general staff, the Emperor re
marked to me in his peculiar way:
*I)o you know that King Edward has
been visiting me at Ischl and ear
nestly trying to wean me away from
our alliance with Germany? But I
refused.’
“The Emperor saw the war danger
coming but he kept true to the alli
ance. whose spirit still lives in our
nations. What has existed for more
.ban 30 years in peace and war, will
never die out. Such a country as
Germany can never perish, and Aus
tria will always stand by her side.”
CORDOVA BRINGS MEN
The freighter Cordova, of the Alas
ka Steamship company, arrived in
port at I :l»0 o’clock this afternoon
bringing 50 laborers for the Alaskan
Engineering Commission.
W. A. Hicks, L. W. Hicks and W.
Henry Robinson, Jr., with the H. H.
Patterson party of tourists aboard the
Alameda, came over on yesterday’s
train from Anchorage and are regist
ered at the Hotel Seward. The three
young men wanted to see as much of
the greatly heralded government rail
road in Alaska as possible. They will
catch the Alameda here on the way
.southbound.
Dr. R. L. Hughes, tourist from Ok
lahoma. registered at the Hotel Sew
ard will leave for the states on the
Alameda.
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WASHINGTON, July :il — The sup
pression of all Bolsheviki newspapers
and magazines in Mexico has been or
dered by President Huerta. 1 he State
Depaitment was advised today that
the Mexican government has also pro
hibitod the big meeting scheduled by
the Uolsheviki to have be'*n held Sun
day at Mexico City. Other meetings
were also scheduled, one on the north
ern border and another at Vera < niz. t
Both of these will bo prohibited.
COX WILL
COM E WEST
• LAFOLLETTK FOR
• THE PRESIDENCY
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* DETROIT, July 3l~ Rohert La- *
* Follette will be the presidential
* candidate of the faction commit- *
* tec of the forty eightcrs which re- *
* fused to join the Farm-Labor "
* party at Chicago at the recent
* convention. This report is accord
* ing to the National vice-chairman
* of the organization. It is planned
* to place the ticket before the vot
* era in III states under the banner
* of the “Liberty Party.”
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FRANCE WILL SUBSTITUTE
ALCOHOL FOR GASOLINE
PARIS, July 81— France’s expen
diture abroad of 1,500,000,000 francs
last year for gasoline has aroflsed par
liament and the newspapers to a point
where the government has renewed ef
forts to bring about industrial use of
alcohol. Experiments here have proved
to the satisfaction of investigators
that automobiles and other internal
combustion engines may be operated
satisfactory upon varying mixtures of
alcohol and petroleum products.
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GUN SHOOT SUNDAY
There will be a shoot tomorrow fore
noon at 10:80 o’clock and all members
of the Seward Gun Club are asked to
report at the local range.
WEDDING BELLS MAY RING
It is reported on very good author
ity that wedding bells will ring in the
city very shortly, maybe tomorrow.
Two well known Seward persons will
j be the principals, according to the re
port.
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Col. Bingham, army post inspector,
i is registered at the Hotel Overland
having come in on yesterday’s Jrain
from Anchorage on his way outside.
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SPOKANE, July 31— Democratic
presidential nominees Cox and Roose
velt are to tour the west according to
notice received today by A. R. Titlow,
Washington State committeeman from
Chairman White, of the National
Committee. Cox will make three
speeches in the state, at Spokane, Ta
coma and Seattle, during the first or
second week in September. Frank
Roosevelt will speak in Spokane, Wal
la Walla and several other western
state cities beginning August 20th.
William McAdoo will also make six or
seven addresses in towns during the
month of September.
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POLISH ARMY DEFEATED
BERLIN, July 31— A special dis
patch from Lych, Prussia, reports the
destruction and encompassing of the
Polish north army as an accomplished
fact. The report says the Russians
captured the forts at Ossowietz, Su
walki and Lomza and are also occupy
ing Graieve and Czutchin near the
east Prussia border. It is declared the
Poles are retreating in a panic.
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SPEAKER LEADS BATTERS
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CHICAGO, July 31— Speaker, of
Cleveland, leads the American league
batters with .411; Sisler, of St. Louis,
second with .396; Jackson, of Chicago,
third, with .395; and Ruth of New
York, fourth with .393. Ruth has 36
home runs to his credit now. Roger
Hornsby of St. Louis, leads the Na
tional League in batting with his aver
age at .363.
OFF TO PORTAGE BAY
Commander Dowling of the naval
^ commission now in the north, Lieut.
| Gifford and two others came over
! from the Chickaloon fields on the
train yesterday as far as Mile 65 and
there hit the trail for the Portage Bay
on an inspection trip..
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