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SEWARD. ALASKA. itoNPAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1920. * _ I I.N (KM,-. IKR COI^
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HAITIMORK. Feb.. ->:I— Herbert
Hoover, speaking at John Hopkins l
iversity toilay. declared opposition to
making the ratification of the t ea;.,
an issue in the presidential campai* n.
Hoover said the arguments on li.
treaty would obscure “our pres • 4
Ihuuocratic issues.’
-The country has already mad* v»
'[s mind on the treaty, said Iloovoi
ai..! th re can bo no party credit ir,
the tieaty fight. I hope for the iir.me
diat - ta.'ficat'on but this, I believe,
r \sts solely on the Us er reservations
of th arid res(‘i vat:oniats. lloth sid\s
to agiee on the League ol Nn
t on T'»o world’s real peace is now
dig delayed until America ratifies
:ho treaty.**
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CHICAGO Feb., 2»— A
meeting under the auspices ot the Pol
ish National Committee, the first u
series to be held throughout the coun
try to combat radicalism, featured the
Washington Day program here.
Sp makers inserted the Republic of Po
land must bo strengthened in her re
sistance to the advance of the Soviet
menace. Poland, now devastated, is
starving, but is making a desperate
stand to ward off the Soviet blow.
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BREAKS SILENCE
AFTER 16 YEARS
HONOLULU. T. H, Feb.. 2.‘t— An
tonio Reyes. Porto Kuan bootblack,
broke a self-imposed silence of Id
years in the police court here recent
ly with the remark “Not guilty.’ Rey
es was charged with assault witn a
deadly weapon. He was convicted and
given an hour in jail.
The Porto Rican has not spoken a
word, his friends say, since one of i
countrymen was hanged here for mur
der in 1M4. He has allowed his hair
and beard to grow and generally has
been regarded as an eccentric ch n -
acter.
Following his declaration of inno
cence. Reyes talked volubly in Span
ish and English and has shown no d!s
position to return to his “dumb” ha
bits.
REMARKABLE INVENTION
LONDON. Feb., 2:i— An invention
enabling aimless men to wash, shav *
and feed themselves and to perform
other remarkable feats such as type
writing, has just been demonstrate i
at the Ministry of Pensions.
The appliance which can he fix *<1
to any table, is worked by the
A knob is held betw een the toes an 1
this is attached to levers conne.^'' I
with two arms which are suspended
over the table. These arms can be
made to move about and pick up all
sorts of articles.
WASHINGTON, Feb., 23— Rear
Admiral Robert K. Peary, was buried
today with full naval and military
honors. Capt. Carrol Wright, Chaplain
of the Washington Navy Yard, offic
iated. The casket, draped in the na
tional flag which Peary raised over
th • No th Pole when he discovered it,
was carried to the cemetery on a gun
limber. A company of sailors from the
presidential yacht Mayflower fired the
salute at the grave and a navy bugler
sounded taps.
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MOST KI TH LESS BANDIT
KILLED BY MEXICANS
MEXICO CITY, Feb., 2.°.— Despat
ches from Uruapan tell of the death,
while attacking the Tcpenahua ranch,
of Jesus Cintora. regarded as one ol
the most ruthless bandits in the Mich
oacan- Jalisco region. Most of Ci*i
tora’s followers, together with an
other rebel leader, Gordiano Gonsaln,
are said to have surrendered.
An optimistic note has been sound
ed by Brigadier General Pablo Gon
zalez, operating in the oil regions,
who says that for more than two
months, owing to the vigilance of
government forces, the Pelaez rebels
have attacked neither oil camps nor
oil company paymasters. He repons
that the rebel chief, Pedro Meza, has
surrendered, together with d'O follow
ers. He operated along the banks of
the Panuco.
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Oak Olson and Joe Mcherin, oM
time commercial men making Alaska
territory have formed a brokerage
company with headquarters at Juneau.
BIOT
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DENVER, Feb., 23— An incipient
riot at the army reconstruction hospi
tal at Aurora, a subuib, broke oet
last night when officers ordered en
listed men 10 leave the auditorium
where a vaudeville performance was
being given. The seats from which the
enlisted men were ordered out had
been reserved for officers. It is sai l
the guards were called out and several
soldiers were arrested.
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NO CHANCE FOR PUBLIC
BUILDINGS AT THIS TIME
Delegate George B. Grigsby, wr.*. •
ing from Washington, says there is
no longer any hope that Congr«*<s
will make any appropriations for pub
lic buildings at this session for Alas
ka or any other section of the coun
try. Mr. Grigsby was hopeful just
before Christmas of getting sum ?
or all of the various measures he
had introduced authorizing the con
struction of buildings in Alaska
eluded n the omnibus public build
ings bill. The item for a public build
ing at Juneau already is in that
measure. However, the House le
cently decided that it would not
for the passage of the omnibus bill,
or any other building bills, this yea *.
Mr. Grigsby enclosed correspond
ence he had with Chairman John W.
Langley of the Public Buildings Co n
mittee, which included the following,
dated January 21:
“My Dear Congressman:
“Referring to the letter which was
sent you on December 22, 1010, ad
vising you that the Committee o'.
Public Buildings and Grounds wduM
proceed this month to hold hearings
with a view to reporting an omnibus
public buildings bill at this session, I
beg to nclose herewith a copy of re
solutions which the committee has to
day adopted and which will exp'a n
for rescinding its former action.
“Very truly yours,
“(Sgd) JNO. W. LANGLEY,
“Chairman."
Resolutions
The resolutions referred to in
Chairman Langley’s letter follow:
“WHEREAS, the House Commit‘.t‘
on Public Buildings and Grounds de
cided on December 10, 1010, to re
port a general public buildings bill at
the present session of the 66th Con
gress; and,
“WHEREAS, the estimates of re
ceipts and expenditures for the fiscal
year 1021, as recently reported by
the Secretary of the Treasuiy, show
that there will be a very lai gv done t
for said fiscal year: Theieioic, be i
“RESOLVED, that said decision to
report such a bill at this session be,
and the same is hereby, rescinded,
because of said deficit; and be it
further
“RESOLVED, that the committee
will not report at this session any
individual bill which authorized the
appropriation of money; and be it
fuither
“RESOLVED, that a copy of these
resolutions be transmitted by the
chairman of this committee to the
members of the House for their r
formation."
BIG TRANSPORT AT FRISCO
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb., 23— The
Army transport President Grant, for
merly a German liner and second in
size only to the Mount Vernon, arr v
ed here this forenoon enroute to V ladi
vostok to aid in the repatriation uf
Czecho Slovak soldiers.
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WILL SELECT ALTERNATE
WOBBLY JUROR TOMORROW
MONT ESANO, Feb., 23— An alter
nate juror will be chosen by lot to
morrow to replace juror Parr, suffer
ing from the flu. Dr. F. S. Fitz, county
physician, says Parr will be confined
to his bed for ten days. The trial will
be resumed tomorow.
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FIRE
NEW YORK, Feb., 23— Fire start
ing in the room of William H. Ed
wards, collector of Internal Revenue,
drove 400 guests from the Marie An
ti noctte Hotel early this morning. Ed
wards is a former Princton football
captain and lost many priceless foot
ball trophies in the fire.
WETS ARE
FIGHTING
CHICAGO, Feb., 23— Major A.
Dalrymplo, Federal prohibition direct
or for the Central states, announces
a rebellion against prohibition has
broken out in Iron County, Michigan.
The supervising prohibition agents in
that district have reported the disor
ders and Dalrymplo has appealed to
the Attorney General for assistance.
Picked men will start an armed expe
dition and cleanup Iron County. The
various Departments at Washingto \,
including the War Department,•prem
ise assistance.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Feb., 23
Governor Edwards announces his ir
tention of attending the Democratic
national convention at San Francisco
and will be prepared to fight for an
anti- prohibition plank in the partv's
platform.
Gov. Edwards says the prohibit? 1
issue is the livest that will come b<
fore the convention of both parties.
PLACER FIELD
BURIED UNDER
A LAVA SHEET
Prospectors who recently arrive l
at Nome told of a great valley of
placer gold ore believed buried beneath
a huge age-old blanket of lava which
stretches for miles along the rig! :
shore of the Inmachuk River in th"
Kotzebue Country north of Nome.
Gold bearing gravel has been found
by miners who have attempted to tun
nel under the rim of the lava sheet.
Nearly every pan of dirt they took
from under the edges contained gold
prospects in some quantity, they sa»d.
Relief that the lava-covered valley
contains great wealth is strengthened
hv the fact that several gold deposits
found on the Inmachuk River were lo
cated near the mouths of streams
which have cut their way through the
lava during the hundreds of years be
lieved intervening since the volcanic
outbursts.
Prills will Not penetrate the lava,
the prospectors said. One “sourdough”
miner, H. L. Stull said he tried to
break the lava with power drill last
summer but failed when he found his
drill striking seams and cracks whien
pi evented it from boring straight. An
other prospector lost his equipment at
a depth of 102 feet .
Rlasting will be tried next sumrrrr
to get through the lava to the floor of
the valley. Stull believes there arc
millions of dollars worth of gold on
the floor and will ship a blasting out
fit to the Kotzebue early in the spring.
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FOUR AGED WOMEN ARE
BURNED TO DEATH IN A
FIRE IN MASSACHUSETTS
LYNN, Mass., Fob., 23— Four in
mates of the home for aged women are
burned to death during the night in
a fire which destroyed the building*.
Scores of women made their way pain
fully down the stairs and out to safe
ty. Others who were bed ridden were
carried out to safety.
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VANCOUVER, I». C., Feb., S'
James J. Winn, a Chinaman, ala is
Chan Chin, was arrested early this
morning by the police who foun •
drugs worth $20,000 wholesale, tin ler
the bedroom floor. The police found
letters from Spokane, Seattle. Ib.iU *,
Denver and Tacoma, ordering ♦be
drugs, tiu* price being $7;> per on nr \
While the i»olico were in the wings of
du house, Wing’s phono was constant
ly ringing, many residents from a1!
pa ts of tho city ordering the drug,
mainly opium. The police say tho seiz
in* "as one oi the largest ever made
on the coast.
PHOENIX, Arizona, Fob., 23— Th«
flood has reached an alarming stage
and the water is rising at the rate of
one foot an hour at the Granite ee*.
dam which regulates the flow through
the Salt river Valley. Eight feet of
water is flowing over the dam, the
highest in history. Seven feet of wa
ter is flowing over the spill wavs of
the Roosevelt dam and still rising.
The power house is under four feet of
water.
MAY RECOGNIZE
SOVIET RUSSIA
LONDON, Feb., 23— It is believe 1
Premier Lloyd George and Italian
Premier Nitti favor resumption of re
lations with Soviet Russia . Premia.’
Millerand is not inclined'in that di
rcction. Immediate action on the ques
tion may be discussed during the day
when the three meet. The Chronicle
says candid minds must recognize So
viet Russia is all Russia as no anti
Bolsheviki organization exists.
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MORRISON REACHES OGDEN
OGDEN, Utah., Feb., 23— G. G.
Morrison, a government engineer wK
left Ogden in 1018 to become assist
ant to Captain J. H. Waugh, head of
the Alaskan road commission, has
returned here and has been reinstat
ed in the Ogden office of the bureau
of public roads as senior engineer.
While in Alaska, Mr. Morrison was
assistant in charge of all federal road
construction.
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CHICAGO, Feb., 23— Attorney
General Palmer declared today that
retail meat dealers throughout the
country must reduce their prices as
the wholesalers have now reduced
their pi ices. Wholesale meat prices
have dropped at the stockyards to pre
war levels for many grades. Retail
meat dealers who do not reduce thei**
pric \s will have their books seized by
Federal agents and their profits inves
tigated.
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U. R. STUCK WAS RIGHT
AUSTIN, Texas, Feb., 23— The
proprietor of a cigar store here ad
mitted it, when the cashier called his
attention to the fact that one of th ‘
checks he had offered for deposit was
signed “U. R. Stuck.”
This check had been cashed by the
cigar store during the day’s business,
and the proprietor was unable to n
member who had tendered it, to re
ceive $1.30 in return. The swindler, o»*
joker, had heaped still further insult
upon his victim by writing a telephone
number on the check. This telephone
number proved to be that of the local
police station.
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Wrangell Republicans also have or
ganized.
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