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VOLUME^XIV. NUMBER 212. 1 ' SEWARD, ALASKA, , • . ojWtiAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1920. TE1* CEXTS ral vOPf
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" AT THE LIBERTY TONIGHT
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^ Mack Sennetts* latest five-part
comedy comedy sensation “D6WN ON
THE FARM** will be the big feature
at the Empress to-night.
“Down on the Farm** represents
Sennett’* genius as “Comedy King” at‘
its height. Thur five reels he carries
the beholder thru alternating scene; of
comedy, travesty, hilaiious satire, ser
ious drama and thrilling episodes, nev
er permitting the action to. languish
for an instant, but keeping it up at
typically “Sennett terapo.*^
Every player in the cast is a Sen
nett comedy expert, and some of the
funniest scenes are due to the master
ly efforts of Teddy the Great Dane,
Pepper, his feline enemy, John Henry
Jr., the famous Sennett baby star, and
a host of farmyard residents, four
footed or feathered.
Though the the plot is melodra
I matic, and concerns the romance of a
pretty rustic maiden, a menacing
mortgage, a villainous landlord and a
beautiful and harrassed wife, the
treatment is as new as it is refreshing
• and different”
“Down on the Farm” has been call
, ed the most sensational comedy of the
season because of its “punch”’, and the
number of ingredients from which it is
concocted^ including travesty, comedy,
melodrama, “mellerd rammer” and de
lightful satire.
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ty driven out “DOWN ON THE
FARM” To-Night, at the Liberty.
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INNSBRUCK, Austria, Nov., 29—
The commune of Reschen, which is bi
sected by the Tryol boundary, has just
voted, to be incorporated into the Ital
ian South Tyrol. Under the law the
Austrain government must accede and
lose this community.
FIREMENS* DANCE TO BE THE
. BIGGEST AND LAST FEATURE
OF THE TEAR.
On New Tear’s Eve the Firemen el
Seward will give their annual event,
in line of a big dance, and refresh
manta to be held at the A. E Hall
Hie firemen guarantee a better time
than any of their annual events of this
..nature ever held before. Be sure to be
there. Keep that date open, come down
and dance the Old Tear out and the
New Tear in. Everybody invited.
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CONSPIRACY TO DAMAGE
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' LONDON, Nov., 2d— Siezure in
• raids in Ireland of Sinn Fein docu- •
ments that are said to give details of
a conspiracy to damage government
i:. buildings in England. This is said to
have been the cause for the police
erecting barricades in Downing and
Charles streets.
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FINISH WORK SOON
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vr‘ GENEVA, Nov., 29— Optomists
. count on finishing work on the League
of Nations assembly next week ten
days earlier than first calculations.
' The committee has virtually finished
and the International court has been
: tloeedvand much other business hand
v 'led.
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. LONDON,— Police surprise six men
"• yv- preparing to set fire to lumber-yards
v * in die Finsbury section of city, ail
. eecaped suspects later arrested are be
lieved to be part of Liverpool’s first
plot
AT THE HOTELS
J. Kinney and Mr. Starr, commer
cial men are stopping at the Overland.
Pet Monahan of Valdez is register
ed at the Overland Hotel.
J. C. Jacobson, K. Wunderlich and
Frank Williams, old timers from th<
interior are stopping at the Seward.
Vince J. Tuttle and wife of An
chorage are guests of the Seward Ho
tal.
F. V. Jacob of Iditarod and G. W.
Doano of the Dixon country came in
on the Flier Saturday night and are
stopping at the Seward Hotel.
R. Creighton of Fairbanks is among
the guests from the interior who are
stopping at the Seward Hotel.
W. F. Scott, general manager and
agent of the White Pass Co., with
headquarters at Nenana came in on
the train last Saturday night
He is at the Seward.
W. F. Lews is in from Coopers
Landing on a business trip.
0. E. Harrington, A. E. C., Engin
eer is at the Seward.
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R. D. Averill from Nenana is re
gistered at the Seward Hotel while
waiting for the next boat
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Mrs. C. Elliott, Mrs. E. W. Carr,
and Mrs. G. Lang all from Fairbanks
are stopping at the Seward. They re
port a very fine trip from the interior.
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NAVY WINS
NEW YORK, Nov., 27— The Navy
football team took a fall out of the
crack army team today by the score oi
7 toO.
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The earth quake that shook up
Seward last night was felt at severs
other points in the Territory. It was
severe enough to break the Valdez
Sitka cable, the Valdez— Cordova ca
ble and the Valdez— Seward cable,
owing to the fact that these cables are
out of commission there will .be no ca
ble news from the outside in today’s
paper. We may be able to get a few
flashes by wireless from the Radio
Station. If we do we will print them.
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NOTICE
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The open meeting and tea planned
for Wednesday by the Wonfan’s Club
has been indefinitely postponed.
NOTICE
Mr. E. M unt, Prop., of the Sew
ard Shoe Repair Shop wishes to
announce that his shop will be
closed for a period of 3 months
after the 12th of December. Those
wishing shoe repair work done
will do well to bring their work in
now. Don*t wait until the last min
ate.
INDICT SUGAR COMPANY
BUTTE, Not., 29— The Utah Idaho
Sugar Company was indicted Satur
day by the Federal Grand Jury for al
leged violation of the Lever act Six
instances of selling sugar at an aver
age profit of thirteen cents to twenty
one cents a pound. Similar charges
were made in Utah, Idaho and South
Dakota.
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WEATHER REPORT"
SE VARD 26 Cloudy Calm.
Anchorage 12 Cloudy Calm.
Matanuslca 10 Cloudy Calm.
Wasilla 0 Cloudy Calm.
Talkeetna 17 Cloudy Calm.
Goldcrqek 10 Snow Calm.
Hurricane 8 Snow Calm.
Summit 0 Snow North*
Healy 4 Cloudy North.
Nenana 4 Cloudy North.
Fairbanks 6 Cloudy North.
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LONDON, Nov., 29— To combat
execessive use of intoxicating liquor
in England, a campaign will be inau
gurated shortly by the “Fellowship of
Freedom and Reform” whose chief
planks in their platform Will be indi
vidual freedom, true temperance, re
form of the public house and abolition
of drunkenness.
The new organization has for vice
presidents the Earl of Denbigh, the
the Dean of Exeter, Sir Alfred Fripp,
surgeon in ordinary to the King; the
Archdeacon of Wellington, Sir Arthur
Cope, Henry Arthur Jones and J. W.
Locke.
It is said not to be the intention of
he Fellowship to interfere with W. E.
Johnson, in the way 'of breaking up
iis meetings when he comes from
Scotland, but to so educate the pub
ic that it will be necessary for him
;o return to England.
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BATAVIA, Java, Not., 29- the
Dutch government has decided to
study the American school system in
he Philippines, with the view of pos
iibly adopting similar methods for the
Japanese. A commission will go from
aere, to Manilla in January.
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DUBLIN, Not., 29- In official cir
cles here the suggestion of Lord Rob
ert Cecil, Viscount Grey of Fallodon
md Herbert H. Asquith, former Brit
ish Premier, that there must be a pub
ic inquiry into the reprisals and Irish
military administration generally is
regarded as impracticable. It is said
that it would be like trying a com
mander in face of the enemy. No in
quiry would be complete which did not
include the men in highest authority.
They would either haTe to repudiate
heir subordinates or admit responsi
bility. Inquiry, it is urged, is impossi
ble while the fight lasts.
If the government yielded to the
demand for inquiry in the form called
for it would mean the resignation of
some of the highest officers. It is ex
pected that a day will be given for a
debate in parliament on the whole
question and what the government will
face a division in which it will be sup
i
ported by all the stalwarts of the Un-,
ionist party perha]>s with Sir Edward,
Carson and even by most of the Liber-:
al Coalitionists.
CINCINATTI,— Policemen entered
room arrested two men drying more
than three thousand doll ark worth of j
ten dollar notes printed copper outfit j
one most complete ever found .
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ARTIFCIAL DIAMONDS
AMSTERDAM, Nov., 29— Henry
Polak, president of the Dutch Dia -
mond Worker’s Union, says it is not
impossible that a German explosive’s
firm has discovered how to manufact
ure diamonds artificially, as it claims
to have done. The chief difficulty is to
obtain an unbelievably powerful pres
sure under the right circumstances, M.
Polak explained. Since it is a manu
facturer of explosives which is report
ed to have discovered the method of
making diamonds, he said It was pos
sible that experiments had succeeded
in obtaining the desired pressure.
• M. Polak expressed some doubt as
to whether diamonds could be manu
factured artificially at less than the
cost of mining them.
WOMEN AWAKENING
LONDON , Nov., 29— Egyptian
women are at last beginning to take
an interest in public affairs, particu
larly in the schools . Viscount Milner
in his#report as High Commissioner of
Egypt says that no change which tak
en place in that country in the last
the awakening interest of women in
few years none is more striking than
affairs outside of the home.
The commissioner added that a few
years ago it was rare to find a moth
er showing a derect personal interest
in the welfare of her daughter at
behoof. All this was left to the father
who often had 4o- overcome tha moth
er’s opposition to the education of hei
daughter. “During the last few years
these conditions have changed in the
larger towns where mothers now visit
the schools and discuss their daughters
progress with the head teacher,” said
the report
This change is attributed by the
High Commissioner largely to educa
tion and he predicts that its influence
will be potent on the future progress
of educational development in Egypt.
earthQuake
CHICAGO, Nov., 29— (By Wire
legs)— Earthquake of moderate inten
sity, probably centered in North Pa
cific, was recorded universally in Chi
cago, which lasted one hour and thir
teen minutes beginning at ten twelve
this morning.
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WIRELESS FLASHES 5 P. M.
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SEATTLE,— Special says reform
organizations working passage bill,
Congress for bidding operating rail
roads interstate traffic Sunday, issu
ance newspapers making unlawful
government employees to work on
Sabbath.
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LONDON,— American gunmen re
ported appeared Londonderry, Dublin,
and other Irish citfes. Police and mili
tary are t&Wng all precautions. At
tempted'assassinations made, Police
declare hired American terrorists in
vaded Liverpool.
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THE NEWS O’HOPE
Hope School.
The Turnagain Arm Breeze, pub
lished by the Hope School made its
first appearance this month.
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The Breeze is the first paper ever
published in Hope and has been much
of a surprise to all. The Breeze will be
published once every iponth.
Mrs. Charles Mathison gave a party
for the young folks last Friday and
all who were present report a very en
joyable time.
Mr. Roll has been quite ill lately
but is again feeling much better.
Mrs. Wolfe has returned from a
business trip to Anchorage.
Mike Conly has returned to Sun
rise after spending several days in
Hope.
Mrs. Hub H. Clark has been confin
.d to her bed for the past week having
aad the misfortune to fall and severe
t
y strain her leg. Although still unable
.0 be about Mrs. Clark is now reported
vo be on the aapid road to recovery.
Mr. John Anthony left for Sunrise
.oday. He came to Hope several days
.go and is returning with some winter
provisions.
Mr. Hershie ha*returned to his ca
v. a iii •• •
bin and claim. Mr. Harshie has been
• ecently laid up with rheumatism. He j
has recovered. j
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Hope school is now laboring under
‘Good Speech Weew”.
The Sewing Cub met last Saturday
.ith Miss Elsie Clark.
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The fourth Red Cross drive i3 being |
well met, nearly everyone in Hope iu !.
joined. j
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PARIS, Nov., 29— The enthusiast-'
ically predicted 1,000,000 American
tourists did not come to France this i
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year but the hotel keepers, their as
sociation officials say, are satisfied.
Instead, there were on record 200,
000 polide permits issued to tourists
intending to remain more than 15
days. Among these South America
sent the greater number, with the Un
ited States a good second and Other1
countries trailing.
One ill wind that blew well in
France was the high exchange rate of
he Swiss franc so that travellers gave
whe preference to this country where
their money went about twice as far
as in the Alps.
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THE HAGUE, Nov., 29— The Dutch
government has established a dead
line pOO yards wide along the German
border in an effort to curb the smug
j which has —trend tremendous
proportions, particularly in foodstuffs
and rubber goods gonig into Germany.
Soldiers are constantly on watch on
the dead-line but, in spite of these
measures, the smuggling continues.
Dutch Stores in all the frontier
towns have been prohibited by govern
ment order from carrying more stock
than is necessary to supply the Dutch
villages and the holding of markets in
the streets has been forbidden.
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NAVY WALLOPS ARMY
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NEW YORK, Nolv; 2?— Delayed
message. The Navy foot ball team In
their annual gMne with the Army
.team defeated the Amy warriors by
the score of 7 to 0.
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SEWARD SHAKEN
BY EARTHQUAKE
For more than thirty second* last
night Seward experienced a severe
earth quake shock. Starting about 10:
05 the quake which apparently moved
from the east to west, shook every
building in the town with moie or lees
violence. The thick concrete trails at
the power plant rocked to and fro, the
walls of the Van Gilder Building
ciacked and trembled. Shelves were
emptied of their contents. Clocks were
stopped in many of the public build*
ings and homes. Merchandise was up*
set and tumbled about in the stores.
The building^ swayed more than aov*
eml inches. Many people were fright*
ened and ntartled, particularly those
who had never experienced a trmlhlr
| before. The dock and the buildings os
i the dock were shaken mightily. Never
before in the memory of the oldest in
habitants has such a severe- tremble
hit this community. The dwellings lo
cated along the foot of Marathon and
the other hills were shaken more
those in town. The patrons Ofthe Lib
erty Theatre were inclined to make for
the street when the quake started but
changed their minds : and returned
when they felt assured that it was ov
er. The first show for which the usual
capacity crowd had gathetodwas com
pleted about ten minutes prior fcnjfct
tremble and the crowd ■Web ha4
packed the house wen cm •*w*
to their homes. Ail In all IT was some
shaking. Severe enough fbrevurybody
in town and today there is
in Seward who wants to fbsO-mmttfie ’
LONDON, Nov., 29— The expand*'
ing of the British Empire in Central
Asia for Foreign Affairs, told the
Central Asian Society in an addnes
last night
The function of Great Britain in
the future, he was not to absorb terri
tory there But to give security and to
Mr
arrange that the evolution Jto n differ
ent and higher state of things should
be easy.
The great bulk of Central Asia, he
said, had been thrown into the vortex,
of European politics. The Russian Em*,
pire which Englishmen have regarded
with apprehension had been, for the
moment, obliterated from the scene*
China was in the throes %of a military
crisis, the upshot of which no one
could forsee. Afghanistan had acquir
ed something like independence.
All India was seething with agita
tion and trying to establish some new
form of government In Tibet, the
British had been welcomed as friends.
Lord Curzon expressed the hope
that the Persian government and par
liament would ratify the Angio-Per
sian government and parliament would
ratify the Anglo-Penrian agreement
and that this would assure integ
rity and independence of that eouatry* 4
fie advocated setting up an Arab
form of the administration in limepe
tamia and said Sir Pqrcy Cox 'had
gone out to assist in carrying on that •
work. He hoped for some form of Ara
bian nnity which would gratify the
ambitions of the Arabs. .