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\o! l MK XIV, NUMBER l*. --- —r- -g-—
FUTILE
SESSION
SAN KUANCISCO, July 2— After
a futile night session given over pi in
• cipelly to debating the wet and dn
fi'Tht on the fUMV, the Pemociatic Na
tional conv, •'♦•on d°’egates adjourned
at 10:‘‘*0 o'clock until this forenoon at
11 o'clock. Amid yells of disappoint
n\ent from a record breaking crowd
which culled for “Biyan, we want
l.ryan," the delegates and spectators
filed out into the night.
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C. Kenneth Smulley. mining ma
ehinery man. is registered at the Ho
tel Scwaid and leaves on the Alaska
tonight for !*»Touihe. thence on busi
ness trips to other mining towns.
The Bridge club will meet tomor
row afternoon with Mrs. A. H. Mc
Neer.
Mrs. H. S. Bulderston. Mrs. Wayne
Blue and Mrs. L. V. Ray chaperoned
twelve young misses out to the Hawk
in’s bungalow yesterday afternoon
where an enjoyable time was spent.
Plenty of money will be taken to
Anchorage by the Sew a id excursion
ists to bet on the Seward gun club
against the Anchoiage hunch in the
match next Sunday afternoon. The lo
cal men have been hitting the clay
birds in professional fashion.
E. C. Howard and S. Sanna, from
Talkeetna. are registered at the Hotel
Overland and will leave on the Alaska
for the states.
Fred Teboe, of Juneau, has pur
chased the Commerce pool hall from
Tecklenburg and Benson and has tak
en charge of that establishment. Mr.
Teboe is well known in Southeastern
Alaska. Mr. Teboe expects his family
to arrive on the Alameda next week
from Juneau.
The Alaska will have only one
day’s mail from the states.
Already over 100 cxcuisionists have
booked for the trip to Anchorage to
celebrate the Fourth.
Station agent E. L. Sweek is eag
erly looking forward to the arrival of
the Alameda for Mrs. Sweek and
children left on the steamer from
Seattle yesterday for home.
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kills himself by rSlNG
DYNAMiTF DESTROY>Tt
Joe McAskill. aged .T7, a carpenter
employed by the commission, blew
himself to pieces with dynamite last
Tuesday morning with apparent sui
cidal intent. The deed occurred near
Nyberg’s camp, about Mile 81.
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Barney Rice, formerly a printer or
the Ketchikan Chronicle, was married
recently at Seattle.
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SAN FRANCISCO, July 2— The
Alaska plank, as adopted by the plat
1 foim committee, is as follows:—
I Wo recommend a democratic admin
| istration for inaugurating a new pol
; !cy as to Alaska as evidenced by the
construction of the Alaska Railroad
and the opening of the coal and oil
! fields.
We declare for modification of the
•xisting eon! land law to promote the
•evelopmont without disturbing fcat
I nos int< tided to prevent monoply.
For such changes in the policy of
•he fo.es!ry control ns will permit im
mediate initiation of the paper pulp
industry'.
For relieving the territory from the
evils of a long distance government
by arbitrary and interlocking bureau
cratic regulations and to that end we
irg * the speedy passage of a law
containing the essential features of
the Lane-Curry bill now pending.
Coordinating and consolidating all
federal control of natural resources
t under one department to be administ
>rcd \r a noh-I'artisan Hoard perma
nently residents of the Territory.
For a fullest measure of territorial
self-government with a view to ulti
mate state hood with jurisdiction ovei
I all matters not of purely Federal con
corn, including the fisheries and game.
For an intelligent adminstiation ot
Federal control.
We believe all officials appointed
should be qualified by pievious bono
fide residence in the Territory.
We declare for a comprehensive
I system of road construction with in
creased appropriations and full exten
sion of the Federal road Act to Alas
ka.
We declare for the extension to
Alaska of the Federal farm loan act.
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MISS SCHNEBBE ARRIVES
Miss Julia Schnebbe, of New York
City, formerly secretary to Command
er Spratling of the Norfolk Naval
Hospital, and more recently in the
same capacity to Supervising Engin
eer Miles of the Norfolk Navy Yard,
arrives on the Alaska to be the guest
of Mrs. John Noon. Letters from dis
tinguished persons in the States have
been received by local citizens in ad
vance of Miss Schnebbe’s arrival ask
ing that she be shown every courtesy,
and saying she would prove a charm- j
ing addition to the social and intellect
ual life of the community should she
decide to remain permanently in Sew
ard.
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ALASKA TONIGHT
Steamer Alaska scheduled to ar
rive at 8 o’clock. The steamer will
probably bem 1i ur or five h >ur*.
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EVANS DI E TOMORROW
Steamer Admiral Evans is expect
ed to arrive at 6 o’clock tomorrow
morning on th(j way south.
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A summer school is being held at
Ketchikan.
SAN FRANCISCO, July i— Son
a tor Rood, of Missouri, lust night ad
dressing a crowd estimated to be at
least 6,000 attacked the committees of
the Democratic National convention
and the leaders who denied him a seat.
Reed denounced the League of Na
tions as “treacherous, treasonable and
stupid suicide for the United States."
The meeting was held under the au
spices of the All American friends of
Ireland.
MISS CARLSON GOBS OCT
Miss Aldoren J. Carlson, who has
been office manager of the Gateway
for the past eleven months, leaves on
the Alaska tonight for the states go
ing first to Auburn, Washington, then
to Petaluma. Cal., for a visit with hov
sister, Mrs. Otto Poehlmann, and will
probably remain in California foi a
time. Miss Carlson is one of the popu
«ar young ladies of Seward and her do
•mrture is not only regretted by her
'nisi ness associates but by scores of j
Seward friends. Miss Carlson's moth
er, Mrs. A. J. Carlson, who arriv'd
from Anchorage last night, goes out
also, and the two will be met at Ket
chikan by Mr. Carlson, he also gor"g
to the states to locate.
WEATHER REPORT
SEWARD 55, Pt. Cloudy, Calm.
Anchorage 56, Cloudy, Calm.
Matanuska 58, Cloudy, Calm.
Chickaloon 57, Cloudy, Calm.
Wasilla f>0, Clear, Calm.
Talkeetna 05, Cloudy, ('aim.
Goldcreek 00, Cloudy, Calm.
Hurricane 49», Rain, Calm.
Summit 42, Cloudy, South.
Bains 41, Cloudy, North.
Healy 59, Clear, ('aim.
Xenana 05, Clear, Calm.
Fairbanks 58, Clear, Calm.
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MORMONS IN HONOLULU
HONOLULU, July 2— Twenty
Maoris from New Zealand have arriv
al here with James M. Lambert, head
«»f the Moiman mission in New Zea
and, for a series of tests to establish
or refute the theory that the Maoiis
and the Hawaiians are sprung from
the same stock. The Maoris will spend
two months in the Hawaiian Islands,
is guests of the Mormon church hove.
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GOOD PROGRESS MADE
IN RECONSTRUCTION WORK
IN DEVASTATED .FRANCE
PARIS, July 2— Great progress
s being made in the work of recon
struction in the devastated regions of
Northern France, says the Matin.
Traffic has been completely reestab
lished on 12‘> kilometers of railway
track which was totally destroyed by
the Germans.
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SIX ALASKA MOOSE TO
BE TAKEN TO STATES
SEATTLE, July 2— Dr. Nelson an
nounced today that six moose will be
brought here from Alaska by the gov
i ernment and placed in the Olympic
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SUGAR DROPS
SAN FRANCISCO, July 2— Sugar
dropped fifty cents today and is now
$22.25 a sack.
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DANIELS WILL COME
NORTH AS SC HEDI'LED
SEATTLE. July 2— Secretary
Daniels sent a message to the lo
cal Chamber of C ommerce that he
would arrive here on the New
Mexico on the morning of July 8
(h and leave for Seward. Alaska,
on July 10th as per schedule.
rEXT or BILL
PROVIDING FOR
SO- ROD STRIP
Pertaining to Alaska house resolu
tion No. 10800 has been read twice
and referred to the committee on
territories. The act provides for the
abolition of the eighty-rod reserved
shor" spaces between claims on shore
waters in Alaska and is as follows:
“Re it enacted by the senate and
house or representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assem
bled, That the provisions of the Act
of May 14, 1808 (Thirtieth Statutes
at Large, page 400). extending the
homestead laws to Alaska, and of I he
Act of March 3. 11>0R (Thirty-second
Statutes at Large, page 1028), amen
datory thereof, in so far as they re
serve from sale and entry a space of
at least eighty rods in width between
tracts sold or entered under the provi
sions thereof along the shore of any
navigable water, and provide that no
entry shall he allowed extending more
than ICO rods along the shore of any
navigable water, shall not apply to
lands classified and listed by the sec
retary of agriculture for entry under
the Act of June 11, 1006 (Thirty
fourth Statutes, page 233), and that
the secretary of the interior may upon
application to enter or otherwise in
his discretion restore to entry and dis
position such reserved spaces and may
waive the restriction that no entry
shall be allowed extending more than
160 rods along the shore of any nav
igable water as to such lands as he
shall determine as not necessary for
harborage uses and purposes.”
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NEW YORK REPORTER
AWARDED $1,000 PRIZE
NEW YORK, July 2— Award of
the Pulitzer prize of $1,000 to John J.
Leary, Jr., of the New York World,
“for the best example of a report
er’s work during the last year” was
made today by the School of Journal
ism at Columbia University. The work
which won the prize was a series of
articles on the coal strikes last winter.
The $500 Pulitzer prize for the
best editorial during the year was
awarded to Harvey E. Newbranch of
the Evening World Herald, Omaha,
Neb. The $1,000 prize for the best ori
ginal play written in 1919, went to
Eugene O'Neill, author of “Beyond
the Horizon.”
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SAX FRANCISCO, July 2— The
platform committee completed its la- j
bors shortly after midnight with a de
cisive defeat for both the wet and dry
planks. The platform draft makes no
mention of prohibition or the enforce
ment issue. Repeated efforts to insert
both the wet and dry plank was de
feated by the same vote, ."»() to 12. 1 he
sub-committees plank on Armenia was
rejected by the full committee. The
plank is understood to have declared
that the United States should con dd
er to sec complete indepen
dence in order to guarantee the new
‘{public. The committee however
adopted a substitute expressing sym
nathy for the Armenian people and ,
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promising assistance so far as it wa' <
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considered possible ami proper.
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SAN FRANCISCO, July 2— At 10:-'
15 o’clock this forenoon Chairman
Class began reading the long waited
'«r platform committee report with
every prospect of a battle royal.
The first skiimish is expected over
the wet plank by James R. Nugent,
of New Jersey and the dry plank by
William Jennings Bryan. Bryan hi
waiting to offer minority reports on
five planks.
As submitted the platform is silent
m i r» hibition. The platform is a long
document treating a wide range of
subjects.
-The preamble is confined to an eu
logy of the President.
Foremost among the planks was the
League of Nations endorsement coup
led with condemnation of the Repub
licans for interposing partisan envy
and personal hatred in the way of
world peace and the President’s stand
against “reservation designed to cut
too pieces the vital provisions of the
Versailles treaty.”
This reading was applauded.
Following this comes a statement,
which was written after a prolonged
struggle, that the Democratic party
did not oppose “reservations making
clearer or more specific obligations of
the United States to the League as
sociates.”
Accompanying this was the asser
tion that the President had declared,
and the committee reaffirmed, that
American obligations were great as a
league member “and must be fil filled
in strict confirmity with the constitu
tion of the United States in which is
embodied the fundamental require
ment of deliberatory action by con
gress before this nation may become
a participant in any war.”
The Irish plank was brief reading
“a great principle of self-determina
tion has received constant reiteration
as one of the chief objective for which
this country entered war and victory
was established and this principle
within the limitations of international
comity and usage. This convention re
peats several previous expressions of
sympathy of the Democratic party for
the aspirations of Ireland for self
government.”
The Armenian plank was silent on
the mandate, merely expressing sym
pathy.
Other important planks were the
same as forecasted previously.
At 1 o’clock Chairman Class was
still reading the platform.
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FIGHT ON McADOO
SAN FRANCISCO, July 2- An
attempt at a combination against Mc
\doo was carried on through th<* night
without any apparent definite results.
Lack of headway is ascribed to the
absence of central control and the
L eling among many that the McAdoo
Luht was really directed against Pre
. blent Wilson instead of McAdoo.
It was still apparent this morning
that no dark horse is available around
which to rally the delegate*.
The McAdoo movement emharrased
*iie leaders when they asked why a>
Lon against McAdoc was necessary
and many forced the answer because
“he is Wilson’s son-in-law.”
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BERLIN AS A TOURIST
CENTER IS ON THE WANE
BERLIN, July 2— As a center of
attraction for visitors from outside,
Berlin is on the wane, said Chairman
Landau, of the City’s Foreign travel
bureau, which held its annual meeting
hero recently.
Landau stated that although in the
year under review 1,389,000 strangers
visited the capital they were on the
whole not the class of visitors that
were desired. Berlin, he added, had be
come hated in the provinces and no
traveller came to Berlin for pleasure.
Moreover there was an alarming exo
dus of industrial undertakings from
Berlin.
The authorities, he said, must wake
up and offer fairs and such like as an
inducement for the desirable class of
visitors to come to Berlin.
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AMERICAN MISSIONARY
MURDERED BY CHINESE
PEKING, July 2— The American
legation here has been informed that
Gen. Chang-Ching-Yao’s northern
I troops in their retreat from Chang
Sha, capital of Hu-nan province,
attacked the reformed church mis
sion at Yo-Chow, fifty miles north
of Chang-Sha and killed the Rev. W.
A. Reinert.
Lilling, on the Wu-Chang -Chang
Sha railway, southwest of Chang-Sha
was attacked. The foreigners in the
town escaped to Pingsiang.
Chang-Sha, capital of the province
of Hu-nan, on the Siang-Kang river,
has been occupied by the troops of
Southern Chinese Republic. Northern
troops retired toward Yo-Chow, fifty
miles northward.
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GORGAS IS ILL
LONDON, July 2— The condition
of former surgeon general William C.
Gorgas, who has been ill here, is re
ported extremely grave today.
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