VOLUME XXI, NUMBER 281. , SEWARD ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1926.
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HUGE EXPENDITURES LAST PRIMARY CAM
PAIGN REVEALED LATE SENATOR HAD SPENT
ABOUT $350,000 OF OWN MONEY—WAS IN CON
GRESS MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS
, BUSINESS INNING
Was Best Known for His Contributions to Educational
and Religious Institutions—Gifts to Learning Said to
Have Been More than Million Dollars
MARTINSVILLE, Ind., Dec. 8. (/P)—Senator Wil
liam B. McKinley of Illinois, who has long been ill, died at
Homelawn Sanitarium. He was brought here in August,
afflicted with prostatic cancer. He was 70 years old.
William B. McKinley, whose span of more than twen
ty years in Congress, the latter portion as United States
Senator from Illinois, covered the insurgency among na
tional legislators, the Roosevelt bolt of 1912, and the pri
mary scandals of 1926, was a business man and philan
throist. By his own avowal, he “blundered into politics”
because his business was running so smoothly he had
nothing else to do.
“I really blundered into politics,” the Senator once
said. “I was getting unnecessary in my business. ^Things
went on without me. So when it was suggested to me
that I run for congress, I accepted just for something to
do. I never regretted it.”
McKinley’s “blunder” lasted from the time the Re
publicans of Champaign, 111., and the nineteenth con
gressional district sent him to the lower house of con
gress in 1905 until he was defeated for the party nomina
tion by Frank L. Smith, of Dwight, HI., in the 1926 pri
mary as McKinley was finishing his first six year term in
the Senate.
SMOOTHLY SO ENTERS POLITICS
NORTHWESTERN STATES AND
EASTERN CANADA IN GRIP OF
EARLY SEASON COLD SNOW
AND ICE THREATENING TIE-UP
SHIPPING
MANY VESSELS STORMBOUND
Three Masted Schooner Emile F. Nort
ham Crashes Broadside Through
Twenty-Two Fishing Craft on
Main Coast
NEW YORK, Dec. 8. (/P)—North
western states and eastern Canada
have 16 dead from a record breaking
early season of cold, snow and ice
shipping for the winter ETAOINNNN
which threatened to tie-up river and
lake shipping for the winter. Cities
spent thousands of dollars clearing
away the snow and automobile and
railroad traffic is becoming normal.
Fourteen steamers are icebound in
the Saint Lawrence river; seven were
wrecked off Nova Scotia, New Bruns
wick and fishing and barge fleets are
crippled.
Ice blocked Lockport, New York
canal gates and 26 vessel^ were fro
zen up in port. Bangor, Maine is' offi
cially closed. The three masted
schooner Emile F. Northam lay broad
side to Cranberry isle after smashing
through 22 fishing craft at Islesford,
Maine.
TODAY’S WEATHER
Temperature 46 above zero; rain
and southerly winds.
It was the huge expenditures in
that last campaign that brought a
fi Senate investigating committee to
Chicago after the Pennsylvania pri
mary expense scandal had aroused
^ national attention. The Chicago hear
ing developed that while Senator Mc
Kinley had spent about 3350,000, it
was virtually all his own money.
> Managers of his successful opponent
Colonel Smith, who was chairman of
the Illinois commerce commission, ae
‘con'nted for approximately $300,000
much of it contributed by executives
of public utilities, an industrial field
in which Senator McKinley’had made
a fortune and been interested for
years.
His defeat was immediately follow
ed by the Senator’s decline in health
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Kodiak Island and Unga responded
nobly to the; call for Red Cross funds,
Kodiak having sent in the sum of
$107.65 and Unga $90.10. It is expect
ed other liberal subscriptions will be
received from the Westward in the
next mail. The Westward has never
shirked when it comes to a civic move
ment, and the donations from the two
centers further testify this fact.
The Seward public school children
sent in $4.16, representing pin money
the children contributed to the worthy
cause.
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TO HUN GOVERNMENT FOR NEXT FISCAL YEAR
HEAVIEST ITEM IS INCREASE IN
INTERIOR DEPARTMENT — IN
TEREST IN DEBT CUT THIRTY
MILLIONS
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8. (£>)—'The
Budget address of President Coolidge
asks for appropriations totaling $4,
014,571,124, an increase over the
present fiscal year of $16,543,728. The
largest increase is in the Interior De
partment, amounting to $3,275,28, and
for higher pension payments of $285,
717,596. The largest decrease is $30,
000,000 in interest on the public debt.
The navy is next with a cut from
$9,246,475 to $3,381,500, and provides
for a five-year aviation program for
the army and navy; for the War De
partment, $366,722,142; Shipping
Board, $12,290,000, making a total,
excluding the public debt and Post
OLD CONTROVERSY SETTLED
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8. (^—Bolivia
has accepted the settlement of the
Tacna Arica controversy proposed by
the Secretary of State Kellogg, the
State department announced today,
Under the present plan Chile and Peru
will turn over to Bolivia, Tacna and
Arica for a reasonable consideration.
office Department of $1937,924,449.
The President asked Congress to
postpone the construction of the re
maining three light cruisers which
were to have been started before
July, as the United States is en
gaging in negotiations to “broaden
our existing treaties with the great
powers which deal with elimination
of competition in naval armaments.”
Speaking of the War Department
appropriations the President said:
“This is a very considerable amount
to spend for protection in time of
peace, but our intent and attitude is
one of peace and friendly regard to
ward all nations, but this is not suf
ficient to warrant neglect of our de
fense and default of necessary pre
cautions.”
Thirty million dollars is provided
for prohibition enforcement.
BUILDING PROGRAM HELD BACK
SEATTLE, Dec. 8. (TP)—Following
the regents meeting with Efficiency
Director Gardner, Business Control
Director Olsen announced the build
ing program plans will he held lr
| abeyance until Governor Hartley
j transmits the biennial budget to tht
Legislature when it convenes Jan. 10
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GAME HWIER RELATES RECENT
IP WESTWARD WHERE IE BAGGED
Til CARIBOU 10 THEE BEARS
H. J. SPORER OF WISCONSIN ELATED WITH ALAS
KA VISIT AND DESCRIBES INTERESTINGLY OF
HUNT AND ACTIVITIES OF BELKOFSKY RE
GION WHERE TROPHIES WERE PROCURED
HOSPITALITY OF FATHER AND MRS. HOTOVITZ
KY IS LAUDED
Brown bear hunting on the Alaskan peninsula is not
without its trials and tribulations, as is established by the
experiences of H. J. Sporer, graduate of law, University
of Wisconsin, during his recent hunt to the westward. Mr.
Sporer left Seward aboard the S. S. Starr on her October
trip. Travel aboard the Starr is in itself broadening—
one learns that a single ship is able to perform an amaz
ing number of maneuvers that have a most disturbing ef
fect upon the digestive functions. Nevertheless he is will
ing to certify, as do so many other friends of the Starr,
that she is a good, seaworthy vessel, and that it's jovial
skipper, Captain Johansen, certainly is an able naviga
tor.
BANKS OF SEATTLE
REFUSE TO HANDLE
RAILWAY WARRANTS
MAYOR LANDIS QUITE CONFI
DENT CITY CAN MAKE CAR
LINES PAY
SEATTLE, Dec. 8. (,£>)—Banks will
refuse to handle the municipal rail
way warrants when it goes on a war
rant basis Friday to raise funds with
which to meet the bond interest prin
cipal on payments aggregating $1,
125,000 due March 1. The ordinance,
introduced into the council as a re
taliatory measure to' increase inter
est, charged banks on muncipal de
posist from two to two and one-half
per cent. Mrs. Landes, mayor, de
manded immediate action in refinanc
ing the railway saying “the company
would want it‘s own terms if the
lines went back to them. I believe
the city can make the car lines pay.”
She proposed a revision of State lawTs
to permit taxation for payment of the
lines.
CITY BEDECKED WITH FLAGS
WELCOMING VICTORIOUS
CANTONESE
AMOY, Dec. 8. (£>)—'The city of
Foochow was handed over to the
southern Chinese forces at 10 o’clock
last night. Today the city was be
decked with flags welcoming the in
coming CantQnese. Peaceful entrance
of the Southerners has relieved the
tension existing among the foreign
. population. Fear here now, is con
cerning the attitude of the student ele
ment which it is possible will remon
! strate against the entrance of the
, Cantonese factions into the city.
The hunting party selected Belkof
sky as its point of departure. It is a
small village, 800 miles west #of Sew
ard,, nestled close against the base of
a mountain that rises close beside the
sea. It’s most imposing structure is
[ the Russian-Greek Orthodox Catholic
church building, painted pure white,
about which the houses of the villag
ers are clustefed.
Belkofsky has no Chamber of Com
merce; so the population estimate of
SO souls may be taken as fairly au
thentic. The only white people resid
i ing in the village are the members
I of the family of Father Hotovitzky
Mis Margaret Richardson, the govern
ment school teacher, and J. S. An
derson. Father Hotovitzky was ab
sent on a business trip to Seattle
when the party started, so the plea
sure of meeting him was postponed
until the return. Mrs. Hotovitzky is
a charming woman. She was born
and educated in Russia and came to
the United States after her marriage
to Father Hotovitzky in 1909. They
have resided in Alaska since 1916.
Miss Richardson is a graduate of the
University of Washington. She has
spent two years on the Yukon, and is
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HUNDREDS OF DEATHS AND
THOUSANDS REPORTED
INJURED
MOSCOW, Dec. 8. (IP)— Another
disastrous earthquake has struck the
Leninkoff district destroying the vil
lage of Kagli. Hundreds of deaths
were reported and thousands injured
although full information of the dam
age was not available at this time.
Scientists declared they were puz
zeled with the earthquake and the
only solution was that it was part of
the Mediterranean convulsions which
occurred last week Coincident with
the eruption fo Mount Vesuvius.