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STYaMi SWAfSBOTSj
Capt Bill Mooney, of the cable of
fice force, went to* Anchorage on to
day's train to see about having an ul
cerated tooth treated. \
Steamer Admiral Watson will have
five days mail aboard and the Alame
da will have two days’ mast.
According to the weather report,
the climatic conditions are getting de
cidedly wintry and those having pota
toes, etc., still in the ground, should
get them out. • I
Lieut, and Mrs. D. R. Hartman
chocked out from the Hotel Seward
thin morning and left on the train for
Anchorage.
H. V. Hoben is a passenger on to
day's train for Anchorage going to the
Inlet on a business trip.
Prof. T. E. Savage, from Illinois,
checked out from the Hotel Seward
this morning and leftj f^r Chickaloon.
Prof. Savage is a coal expert and is
going to Chickaloon on official busi
mn fnr the Gn? /eminent
jmpgbeth Romig, Mrs. Paul Bermn
•nd jOrnrge Benning, who visited in
gjpjrf ring the past two days, re
Anchorage on today's tram.
Jl C. Hensh&w checked out from
Overland this morning and left for
hk headquarters at Anchorage.
“Fair and Wanner,” the movie bill
at the Liberty theatre last night and
tonight is a splendid comedy,
bat the reels are in very bad shape.
Titles flew across the screen at a 2:40
gait giving the impression that the
operator was trying to get through
quickly, but it was the fault of the
reels and not the operator.
E. L. Whittemore and wife /were
janenfBrs on today's train for An
chorage and will return Monday.
The Ellis Vaudeville company, fill
ing engagements on Gastineau Chan
nel for thecast three weeks, will come
to Seward very shortly according to
word received on the Alaska. The
company will come well recommended
as entertainers.
An extra coach was taken over to
Anchorage on today's tuun to accom
modate the large number now rushing
" out from the interior and to arrivp in
Seward either next Monday night or
Thursday.
C. D. Hazen and G. E. Holies, nav
al coal commission men, returned U.
Anchorage on the train tfdny.
Henry Couillard, who returned oi
today’s train to Moose Pace, visitec
Seward Just two years ago. Mr. Ceuil
lard, during the past two years hai
been'constantly engaged with hi
' dkUkmm #hkh he only recently dis
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NEW YORK, Sept., The price
oi cotton declined more than five dol
lars a bale for November delivery
white at idinneapolis the weak condi
tion of tthe wheat market foiced the
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pmo of flour down iuo*c man twenty
five to forty cents a barrel. All of the
staple commodities seem to be shoot
iug the shoots of pre war prides.
U*t us hope that there will will be
no obstacles in the downward slide
that will keep them frota reaching a,/
nt that will enable tw to buy them >
without its being necessary to mort
gage our bank account.
Washington reports that the ex
l»ort and import trade for the month ,
of August lias decreased sharply, the
exports falling off sixty seven million ,
from the month of July abd the im- •
ports eighteen million. Gold imported.
in August was fifteen million four
hundred thousand compared with two
and one half million for August of
lust year. Gold exports were twenty
live million compared to forty live ,
million last yeaf for the month of ^
August. . •
'WOOL SHRINKS in price .
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept, 25—
The Cleveland Worsted Mills Com
pany announced a price reduction of ,
fifteen to thirty percent stating as *
their reason that the price of the raw j
material had taken a drop.' Slowly but ,
surely the war prices on some commo
ditie are being forced back to a pre
war basis and* some of us may yet live
long enough to again see a suit of
clothes that contains a few threads of
wool. | J
Toledo, ^hio, Sept, 25— Retail
lumber prices were cut twenty per-1
cent today by the retailers association !
who admitted the reason of their cut
ting prices was because of the action
of Henry Ford who a few days ago
announced a cut in the price of the -
Ford car. |
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WEATHER REPORT
dEWARD 40 Clear North.
Anchorage 32 Clear Calm.
Matanuska 36 Clear Calm.
Chickaloon 30 Clear Calm.
Wasilla 34 Clear Calm.
t Talkeetna 34 Clear Calm.
Goldcreek 30 Cloudy Calm.
Hurricane 28 Cloudy Calm.
Summit 26 Cloudy N. W.
Healy 28~ClWdy East
1 Nenana 30 j Snow Calm.
1 % Fairbanks 30 Snow Calm.
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iV Sam Guyot Frank Parrish, M £.
i' V.uKg and other traveling men check
• o^rt from-the Hotel Overin^d and
left for Anchorage on today's train.
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RENO, Nev., Sopt, 85— WMj* the
state Prison Commissioners jprdre in
specting the *State . Penitentiary at
Carson City two convicts appropriated
Die wardens automobile and drove
through the prison gates to freedd?h.
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APPLICATIONS FOR OIL r , ;;
LAND LEASER INCREASING
According to advices received froih
the Land office at,Juneau, the appli-*
cations for oil land leases are increas
ing rather than decreasing, When the
Alaska left Juneau the following ap
plications had been made on various
fates:—
Cold Bay— W. E. Maas, H. N.
Evans, N. J, Gaikcma, Earl E. Al
ien, William Rudahaw, Henry S.
Balderstpn, L. V. Ray, F. L. Nehf,
John J. Sturgeon, Jaffceq V. Davis, all
for 2,560 acres each. #
Iliamna: NeS J. Corroy, Janies
Ward, William Murray, M. J. Con
roy, Laura Houston, all for -2,560
icres each.
Katalla: J. M. Hiller and Geo ge
Warmbold, 2^i0 ac&of.cipcji; Will
am A. BSberJy, 2,400, aud Ji»
Davis 800 acres. %
Chitina Buy: L. D. .. Ellexson,
Deri E. Martin and W. II. Rager, 2,
>60 acres each. , *?*■
Wasillk: JameB A. StewaVt, 2,560
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icres. /
Cold Bay— George £. Henderson,
Ludwig Larson, Dr. A. Layne, Albert |
Louis Carlton, W. L. Keyser and H. W.
ECuhnhanser (2) one in the Spat and
me in the West fJbhL Each of the
jlaims contain the maximum of 2,560
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Alfred Standber, Cold Bay, 2,560
icres; J. T. Pancoast, Katalla,' 1,280
icres; H. Naray C. D. Halferty ugd
Charles Olson, all of Col^ Bay, 2,560
icres each. V
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B. B. NeiiUng, for several years
superintendent of the Perseverance,
nine at Juneau, is coming’north on tin?
Alameda to become general manager
of the Kennccopt Copper Corporation.
Mr. Neiding takes the position left
vacant when E. T. Stannard resigned;
to beebrafe .vice-president of the Ken
necoJJ Corporation and general mat*
agev;of the AUudnt Steamship Com
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V RBCORD CBOWD EXPECTED
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept, 26— *
Franklin Doiier, national comroandoj
of the American Legion stated today
that he expected to see the largest
crowd that hap eveV visited Cleveland
to be present Monday at the paraAp
which will heraldthe opening at the
Convention. Twenty thousand men and
women are Acpected to march.
SAN DIEGO, C*J., Sept, Eh~ U* 8.
Destroyer Bailey during" manedfe*
ering off this poH rm,—hort at high
speed into the ***** Tfe
force of the cutk<J ^adt ^
Baileys how
was done Jo* Swahoftand no
was injured. •
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| • SAN QUENTIN, Cal., Sept., 25—
JMose Gibson the negro who murdered
Roy Trapp and his wife and Jacob
firhardt and wife of Fullerton, Cali
fornia was hanged this morning. Be
fore going to his death Gibson con
fessed to having killed four oilier peo
ple but the statement has not been
proved.
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{ ROCHESTER , N. Y, Sept., 25—
The executive committee of the Inter
national Associated Machinists called
u general strike against the American
Can Company which controls fifty six
plants including Shift Francisco and
Los Angeles where more than five
thousand machinists arc employed.
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The cause of the strike is due to the
dissension that arose in the Newark
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# REAL IVORY BRADS
A man from Now'York w$s heard
t6 make a remark last evening as he
stood looking' at tfcs display of a cer
tain article in-the show window of the
Seward Drag Co., that he guessed that
little old New York and TifTanys had
nothing on the local town or the 3tid
store when it came to handling the
real goodB*. The certain articles he
wa& looking at were a dozen or> more
strings of beads made from Alaska
ivory. Alee McDonald wa| asked to
display these beautiful ornaments\nd
to sell any of them that might* be
wanted until such a time • when the
next Alameda will carry them south
on the first leg of. their journey across
the continent to the same little old i
New York that the man from New
‘Xork mentioned last night Better take
a look atthem and grab them at the
price offered, because as the man
from New York said who purchased
several strings "I’m saving a whole lot
by buying them here and besides I
know they are the real things." A
wonderful beautiful present" •
RAIL-ROAD ORDERED SOLD
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qr was signed this morning by Federal
Judge Waiter Sanborn for the sajp of
the Denver Rio Grande Rail-road. The
reason for this order was . caused by
die action of the Equitable Trust Co.
of New York. A motion for postpon
ment was denied the stock-holders.
W^RiNOTONTs^PtT25— The
Committed ' of Statistics and Stand
f ardc of the Chamber of Commerce of
the United States,has published a re
port which predicts good business
throughout thfecountry for the bsStpnce
. of the year. Despite > the disturbing
of commercial, ftdustrisd and
agricultural affairs die buying by die
jpeepi; is new bdpg on nmore
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SEBASTAPOL, Sept., 25— Caval
ry forces under the command of Gen
eral Wrangell outflanked the Reds on
a front of one hundred miles along ttfb
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Dnieper river and captured more than
ten thousand prisoners.
z WARSAW, Sept., 25— The Poles
occupied the city of Kopuciow in the
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offensive they have started against
the Lithuanian aggression taking a
thousand prisoners. The Bolsheviki
forces are being hard pressed on all
fronts and it seems certain that they
will be compelled to accept the peace
terms of the victorious Poles it they
wish to avoid the winter campaign
which they claim they are not in a po
sition to endure.
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MUST HAVE PEACE ?
RIGA, Sept., 26— Adolphe Jotffe,
head of the Russian Peace Delegation
.now negotiating with the Poles for
‘proposed armistice said that the fail- j
ure on the part of the Poles to ar- ■
range satisfactory terms would compel j
the Soviet Govepiment to inaugurate
a winter campaign which they wished
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NEW G. A. R. COMMANDER
INDIANAPOLIS. Sept, 26— Will
iam A. Ketcham of Indianapolis was
elected commander-in-chief of the G. j
A. R. during the closing session of the
encampment Selection of the next
meeting place to be determined by the
National Council.
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LORD MAYORS’ WIFE SHOT AT
•'* CORK, Sept, 26— The wife of the
late Lord Mayor, Mrs. Xhomaa McCur
tahi narrowly escaped death- this
morning when a (hot fired by some
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BOSTON, Sept, 26— Tfcji Cosmo
politan That Company was dosed to
day by the older of bank commission
or Allen . Thf dosing of'this bank al
so affects all of its saving banks de
partments abroad and makes.a iota*
of five banks to be closed daring the
past five yoeks, the doting of them
being caused by the collapse of r the
Pond schemes.
BUSINESS STABILITY ASSURED
MARION, Ohio. Sept, 25— Warren
G. Harding , Republican nominee for
president addressing a gathering of
several thousand commercial travel
ers, promised an era of business sta
bility and outlined a policy of common
sense for a business like government
He further stated . that ho emi
opposed to a one - man government
that treated all the businemrtranaact
ed with other governments with su
spicion and contempt and promised
when elected thst he woptdiun the af
fairs of the government on s basis ef
common sense.
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