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Daily Edition, and The Alaska Weekly Post_ __
MPWAPn aI.aAkA-SATURDAY. JUNE 19. 1920. TEN CFONTS PER COPY
VOLUME XFV, NUMBER 2d. _-_ __— ___
HOOVER IS
BOOSTING
HARDING
WASHINGTON. Juno ip After
breakfasting with Waiien (i. Harding
Herbert Hoover characterized the
gieoter pat of the A hicago platform
as ••constructive an<kprogressive. Mr.
Hoover announced ho would support
most heartily the Republican ticket.
DANIELS ON
UUAST
0, June 1!)— Secretary of
>aniels arrives on the Pa
in June 2">th on the Flag
sin p .Now .»iexico. will attend the
convention at San Francisco. Assist
ant secretary of the Navy Roosevelt
is due overland on the same day.
Theie is no intimation that the two
officials are going north.
RE-ELECT
GONIPERS
MONTREAL. Juno PJ— Samuel
(tompers, for the ninth time, was late
yesterday unanimously re-elected
President of the American Federation
of Labor.
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JIM H AM WANTS TO
BE VICE PRESIDENT
DALLAS. Tex.. June P>— Jas.
Hamilton Lewis, former senator from
Illinois, today announced his candid
acy for the vice presidency on the
Democratic ticket.
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PROF. IMODY TO GO TO
CHICAGO IMVERS1TY
BOZEMAN, Mont.. June 1!>— An
nouncement is made at Montana S..P'*
college of the resignation of Pro.V.-y-n*
E. A. Duddy. of the English depart
ment, who will take up spewed work
at the Cnivorsity of Chicago.
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TO SEE (•!!\MK H1I.I)
Dr. J. H. Romig couldn’t wait any
longer to see His lirst grandchild, and
accompanied by bis son Howard, left
on the train this morning for Anchor
age to see Mrs. J. P. Hannon and the
baby daughter.
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SEATTLE INC PEASES
CAR FARE TO DIME
SEATTLE, June 19— Associated
Press.)— The city council at its regu
lar weekly meeting, passed an ordi
nance increasing the fares on the
municipally owned street car system
to 10 cents. This action followed the
assertion by city officials that the
street cars were being operated at a
loss of $100,000 a month.
XKW \ OKK, June 1!)— William
M’Adoo, in a telegram to personal
friend> in Washington today, announc
ed that !v* cannot permit his name to
com*1 before the San Francisco con
vention. lb* says his decision is mo
ot able as In* must have more time to
rehabilitate his finance and cannot af
.e*d to mu for President on account
of his finances ard h.* will not peimit
his friends to assume the expense of
a campaign.
ALASKA CITIES
SHOW DECREASE
IN POPULATION
SEATTLE, June 11)— Figures of
the population from the four largest
villages in Southwestern Alaska were
announced today and as follows:
kod;ak 370
Seldovia 258
A fog mi k 308
Katalla 34.
Th“ population shows a decrease in
all of the four villages.
The population of Fort Liscum is
given as 15X. a decrease of o.i>.
The checking of the returns are be
ing made by W. T. Lopp. chief of the
Indian Bureau, assisted by Arthur 1.
Miller, chief census taker.
The population of Juneau and other
points will be announced in about four
days accord;ng to the two officials.
HEIR APPARENT TO
THRONE OF JAPAN TO
BE MARRIED IN 1921.
HONOLULU, June 19— The Mar
riage of Prince Togu, heir apparent
to the throne of Japan, to ProcessYo
shiko of Kuninomiya, will bo solemn
ized some time in 1921, t has been an
nounced by the Impend household, nc
cording to a Tokyo dispatch to the
Nippu Jiji. a Japanese newspaper
here.
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HAWAIIAN TEACHERS
MIST BE AMERICAN I/.ED
HONOLULU, June 19— Hawaii’s
staff of pubic school teacher.- i*. :•* he
Americanised, declared the c nnmis
sion adopted a form whirr, must be
filled out by every teacher b*?fo»e the
applicant’s appointment is confirmed
and which is as follaws:
1. 1 swear allegiance to the United
States of America.
2. I am a citizen of the United
States by birth (by naturalization.)
I am an alien eligible to cit-yon
ship.
4. If you reply to No. is in tho
affirmative, explain in detail why you
have not become a naturalized citt/.en
PERKINS DIED SUDDENLY
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NEW YORK. June 10— The death
yesterday of Georpe W. Perkins, noted
financier, came most unexpectedly. He
recently survived a serious heart at
tack. Physicians say he was a victim
of overwork.
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OFF FOR St’NSHINE
Antone Eide and men left this mora
ine for Sunshine with supplies and
equipment for roadbuildine in the Tal
keetna section.
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COAL MINERS LEAVE
Seven coal miners left on the train
this moraine: for the Matanuska fields
having come north on the Alameda.
NO PICNIC
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Owing to tlu* unsettled weather
conditions and the ground being damp
the Pioneer’s picnic scheduled for to
morrow has been postponed. I bis de
cision was made last night at a spec
ial meeting of the Pioneers alter sev
eral had been out to the picnic
grounds and had then sized up the
barometer.
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SPEC l CATION TO BK
PUEVENTEI) IN SALE
COLOMBIA BASIN I. \M>
STOKAN’K, June — To |> ‘event
speculation in lands of the Odwiib: i
basin project and to permit act tat set
tlors to acquire farms at present p- 'c
<»s when water is available, w\ 1 be
the policy of the Columbia ba^*n -».r*
vey commission, Marvin Chase, cbn r
man of the commission meeting it.
.Spokane.
“Through co-operation of g ;ve .1
ment, state and railroad officials, ii
will be possible absolutely to Cx
prices on sufficient areas within the
( olumbia basin to prevent specula*, ion
to the detriment of prospective set
tlers,” he said.
The Columbia basin survey e* m
mission has made a study of laud \al
lies in all parts of the project. acco d*
ing to Mr. Chase, and as determined
that arid lands for sheep graxing l •
poses arc woith now from $*• to 2.‘» an
acre; lands producing small wheat
crops in years of more tha 1 average
rainfall, $10 to $15 an acre, and im
proved lands. $20 to $25 an acre.
“Fully 20 per cent of the land in ;
the project will be cont’-olle 1 as to
price and settlement is 00 nmem d.
or if sales are attempted before the
project becomes assured, it will be
possible to head off the specuia or
who may desire to reap an unb ly
profit from the ignorant ill-rdvis vl
purchaser/* Mr. Chase declared.
“Those who contemplate pur?h jo
of land within the Columbia ba in
with the expectation of irrigation ;n
the near future should be adv. *d
that it may be some years before
active work could be undertaken,
even if conditions prove favor.ibU*. ’
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“BOOZE" HAS ANCIENT
HONORABLE ANCESTRY
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CLEVELAND, 0., Juno II*— I
“Rnoze” has had its ancient and hon-i
orable ancestry in the English lan
guage uncovered here recently by ;
Prof. William H. Hulme, of Western)
Reserve university.
Labeled fur generations as an
etymological outlaw and branded as |
such with quotation marks, Professor j
Hu’me finds “booze" has a pedigree j
longer that that of most kings. Its j
earliest spelling, according to Profes
sor Hulme, was “bowsie". Later writ
ing* show it was “bouse” and finally
“booze.”
“Roth as a noun and verb the word”
Professor Hulme said, “written bowse
in middle English literature as far
hack as 1300, had the meaning to
drink to excess. About 1000 the word
lost the honorable character it had (
and heenmo a slang word. The par
ticular ‘bousing’ is recorded as early
as 1520, and ‘bouser’ was used in Eng
lish in 1011.”
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JAPS WANT RENEWAL
OF ENGLISH TREATY j
TOKIO, June 19— Japan had an
article inserted in the Anglo-Japanese
pact of 1911 to remove risk of Eng
land becoming: involved in any* dispute
between the United States and Japan,
Viscount Kato, fomer foreign minist
er. declared in an interview today' in
which ho urged the renewal of the
treaty.
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NORTHWESTERN
HAS OVER 100
FOR THIS PORT
SEATTLE, June 19— Steamer
Northwestern sailed for Alaska ports
at 9 o’clock Friday morning with XT9
passengers the following b**:r.g for
i Seward:—
Mrs. C. K. Stevens,
Miss Jean McCeleay,
Gertioide Wason,
W. J. Owens,
George Anderson,
1*. H. Crawley,
George Dreebolis,
P. H. Shannon,
Grace Gaines,
Edna Eglcston,
Mable Karr,
Bonie Farwell,
Miss I. M. Cottrell,
T. E. Towle and wife.
\V. 0. Coppernol,
Margaret Stiles,
Grace Ho version,
Ida P. Jacobs,
J. Kaceroaky,
J. J. Recgan,
John J. Clark,
11. W. Spencer,
I). A. Herron,
J. S. Gat wood,
I). B. Steadman,
Sam John,
F. Scnrieron,
T. H. Ch'tterds
Bill Ledakes,
G. M. Pea’oe,
O. Grope,
W. S. Elli.it*.
J. F. Kiivalla,
W. L. Holm'?,
II. Ferryman,
John Si;M,
Mike Konlest
Seventy pierage.
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Reward snapshots!
I). W. Williams, undertaker fiom
Anchorage who has been stoppinp at j
the Hotel Seward for several days,;
left on today’s train for home.
The Christian Science will hold
sendees tomorrow forenoon at 11 o'-«
clock Sunday School will be held at
12:0o o’clock.
Viola Triplett, of Spokane, is vis- j
ting Miss Clare Schwarz and will pro- i
bably remain here all summer.
Helen Griffith, tourist who has been ;
stopping at the Hotel Seward for sev-1
oral days, returned south on the Ala-,
meda.
Bob Griffiths, Iditarod transporta- |
lion man, left for the south on the
Alameda on a business trip.
.1. M. Myers, U. S. Highway En
gineer, with a force of men, left this |
morning for the Kcnai district to be
gin road work south of Snug Harbor. |
J. E. Whitlock, who has been em
ployed by the commission at Mile r>2,
loft for the states on tbo Alameda.
A. A. Hein, who has been in from
out the line for several days, returned ,
north on the train leaving this morn-1
ing.
The Burnside is expected to get
away from Seattle tomorrow to come j
north and repair the break in the
Seward-Valdez cable.
E. M. Keyes and George Keyes,
Tanana Valley mining men, left today
on their way to the Chatanika.
DIES OF TUBERCULOSIS
NEW YORK, June 19— James H.
Syslop, secretary of the American So
ciety of Psychical Research, died this
morning at the ago of 64 from pulmo
narv tuberculosis.
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GOING TO VERMONT
Lars M. Olson, oldtimer who was
given a benefit recently by the Pio
neers, left on the Alameda enroute to
Vermont where he will make nis fu
ture home.
SEATTLE, June ID— A special
from Washington to the J’ost-Inteli
gencer says that following up the re
port of Secretary of the Interior Pa
yne, it is announced that conferences
will shortly be held with representa
tives of th • steamship lines operating
to Alaska for the purpose of discuss
ing consolidation with a view of econ
omy and efficiency. The anti-trust law
may make special legislation neces
sary however. W. L. Clark is here re
presenting steamship lines and lie has
approved the report of the special
committee on Alaska development.
Mr. Chnk says the steamship lines are
r< ady to co-opoiate and says it is nec
essary to eliminate Canadian trans
portation and passenger service be
cause all receipts from traffic is need
ed to insure a complete American ser
vice to Alaska and Alaskan interests
lie in American transportation and not
with foreign interests as is evidenced
hv the report on the ^ ukon situation
made in 1910.
HOLD 2 IN
MYSTERY
MURDER
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NEW YORK, June 19— The house
keeper and the chauffeur of Joseph II.
Ehvell, wealthy sportsman and whist
expert, shot dead on Friday, June 11
th, were today held by the court as
material witnesses. The examination
of scores of socially prominent friends
of Elwell yielded no clues.
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lT. S. PURCHASES SUGAR
PRAGUE, June 19— The Czecho
slovak government has sold fifteen
and one half million pounds of sugar
to the United States and negotiations
are progressing for the sale of an ad
ditional seventeen and one half mil
lion pounds.
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TWO APPOINTMENTS
BY SHIPPING BOARD
WASHINGTON, June 19— Chair
man Benson, of the shipping boa:<l.
has announced the appointment of
Fred F. Murray, of San Francisco, as
manager of the traffic department of
the division of operations, and L. H.
Ritter, of Chicago, as manager of the
operating department of the same di
vision.
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TRAP SHOOT TONIGHT
There will be a trap shoot tonight
at the range at seven o'clock and all
experts are requested to be on hand
to smash the birds.
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MONDAY LONGEST DAY
Next Monday is the longest day of
the year. Incidentally the day is the
•beginning of summer.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 19— A
lively discussion is now on with dele
gates already here to attend the Dem
ocratic national convention relative to
an “association" of delegates of the
western states and territories. This
discussion will also be taken to tho
floor of the convention. The western
delegates are solid for aid for the
western states and believe planks
sin uld be inserted in the platform for
the liberalization of public land laws
and maritime development of the Pa
cific Coast. Development of the lum
ler, oil and mining industries are a!**o
to be considered.
SIGNS-BILL
WASHINGTON, June 19— Presi
dent Wilson has signed the water
power bill. The president did not ap
prove of the joint resolution repealing
most of the war time legislation and
also failed to approve of the joint re
solution for the appointment of a com
mission to confer with the Canadian
government regarding the export of
pulpwood to the United States. The
President signed the act authorizing
the enlistment in the army or navy of
non-English speaking citizens and
aliens.
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CAMERON’S GRILL RE-OPENS
This afternoon at 5 o'clock, Charles
Cameron v ill re-open Cameron's cafe.
Mr. Cameron has been taking a vaca
tion and is back on the job again, ful
ly rested, and will, as usual, cater to
the public’s appetite in his real epi
curean style.
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ELLISES OFF FOR ENGLAND
Loo Margules received a cablegram
this morning from W. E. Ellis stating
that he, wife and son Jack, sailed yes
terday from New York for England
on the big liner Imperator.
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