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FINAL PORT OF CALL FOR THREE
STEAMSHIP COMPANIES
HEADQUARTERS U. S. SIGNAL CORPS
COMMUNICATION FACILITIES I N
, ALASKA PROPER
COAST TERMINAL FOR THE ALASKA
RAILROAD
' Home Of Baltimore Mayor,
Presbyterian Church In
Philadelphia Bombed
MIDNIGHT EXPLOSIONS KILL MANY, INJURE
MORE THAN A SCORE, DISRUPTED TRAFFIC
AND THREW THOUSANDS INTO CONFUSION;
OUTRAGE THOUGHT TO BE WORK OF SACCO
YANZETTI SYMPATHIZERS—EXCLUSIVE RESI
DENTIAL SECTION OF BALTIMORE IS SCENE
OF BLAST WHICH SPREAD PANIC THROUGH
OUT DISTRICT
HEWVOBK DENTIST 15 HBBESTEO
A Terrific Explosion Tears Large Hole in Philadelphia
Church—Heard Throughout Western Portion of City;
Police Find Can High Explosive With Fuse Attached in
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Basement of Building
(By Associated Press)
Two midnight explosions in New York subways in
jured over a score of persons, disrupted traffic and threw
the districts into confusion. The Fourth avenue and
Twenty-eighth street station of the Interborough compa
ny was wrecked. One person was killed and nine men and
i one woman were injured. One man had a screw embed
ded in his skull, one man was blown from the platform
on to the tracks and the Twenty-eighth street station was
4 converted into a mass of wreckage. Water pipes were
broken and flooded the platform; hangings, turnstiles,
booths, tile, brick and cement littered the scene. Newspa
per photographers shooting flashlights created a second
panic. A crater was blown through the pavement and
kiosks sheltering the entrances were a twisted mass of
metal. Broadway surface cars were halted and police
reserves were sent for all night duty. During the confu
sion a policeman shot and wounded a pickpocket. Anoth
er policeman clubbed into unconsciousness a man who was
robbing a store through a broken window.
EASTERN VISITORS
Among the tourists who are expect
ed to arrive in Seward from the Interi
or Sunday are Elmer W. Grinnell, vice
president of Grinnell Brothers’ Music
House, Detroit, Mich. Mr. Grinnell
has spent the past two weeks in Fair
banks on w'hat is his second visit to
^ Alaska, and announces that he will
return again next year.
TEXAS GIRLS LEAVING
Miss Lois Cochran and Miss N.
Singleton, from Lufkin, Texas, house
guests of Mr. and Mrs. P. C. McMul
len for two months past, will be
among those leaving for the States,
enroute home, on the steamer Alaska.
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BALTIMORE, Aug. 6. (£>)—'The
home of Mayor William Browning was
damaged by a bomb at 6 o’clock this
morning which terrified his wife and
two children and set fire to the rear
of the house and rooked the Forest
Park section of the city’s northwest
quarter. Mayor Brown was not at
home, being en route to St. Louis. The
police are unable to assign any motive
for anyone to mark him and his family
for death. George Henry, chief police
inspector, refused to express an opin
ion as to the motive. Other quarters,
howeter, attributed the outrage as be
j ing in connection with the bomb ex
plosions in New York and Philadel
phia raid of Sacco and Yanzetti sym
pathizers. The blast shook every
house 1 x ti e area, shattering windows
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SYMPATHIZERS OF SACCO-VA,N
ZETTI ON RAMPAGE IN SOUTH
AMERICA
| BUENOS AIRES,, Aug. 6. (^—Vio
lence marked the general strike in fa
vor of Sacco and Vanzetti in the in
terior of Argentina last night. Dis
patches from Pergamino say a bomb
I was exploded in the Ford agency
{breaking some windows. Another was
| placed on a railroad. The demon
1 strators roamed the streets compelling
| the closing of establishments and ston
J ing those which refused.
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Charles D. Garfield, assistant sec
retary of the Seattle Chamber of
Commerce, in -charge of Alaska work
for that organization and for 25 years
a resident of the Territory, returned
'to Seward last evening form the In
ferior, accompanied by his niece,
Miss Lillian Lyons of Seattle. While
awaiting the departure of the S. S.
Alaska they are guests at the Van
Gilder hotel.
More settlers for Alaska has been
the object of this year’s trip of Mr.
Garfield, and during his brief visit to
the various towns, communities en
route to the Interior, he has taken
the opportunity to confer with civic
leaders and commercial organizations
with the view of forwarding the set
tlement and colonization movement.
At noon today a special luncheon
of the Seward Chamber of Commerce
was held at which time local busi
ness men had the pleasure ot hearing
Mr. Garfield.
PAPER MANUFACTURER
Charles T. Rundlet, wife and daugh
ter of New York, who have been tour
ing Interior Alaska, are expected in
Seward this evening en route to the
States. Mr. Rudlet is a paper manu
facturer.
Herman T. Tripp of Juneau, 33rd.
Degree Mason, who has been in Fair
banks conferring the Scottish Rite
Degrees on a class of candidates,
returned to Seward yesterday enroute
to his Juneau home.
ULL SUIIS
NATIONAL LEAGUE
New York 0, Cincinnati 3.
Philadelphia 9, Pittsburg 7.
Boston 2, Chicago 5.
Brooklyn 5, St. Louis 2.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Chicago 1, Boston 4.
Detroit 2, New York 5.
St. Louis 8, Washington 17.
Cleveiand-Phiadelphia. Threatening
weather.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Seattle 11, Sacramento 3.
Los Angeles 1, Oakland 2—11 in
nings. *
San Francisco 13, Mission-* 4.
Portland 5, Hollywood 2.
HOP-OFF OF COLUMBIA
IS FURTHER DELATE!
PARIS, Aug. 6. (#>)—Forecasts foi
an early hop-off of the monoplane
Columbia for the Paris to New Yorl
flight were upset by the failure of Le
vine to keep an appointment and sigr
a contract with the French piloi
j Drouhin, and the money not having
been deposited. A start will not b(
made before Tuesday.
PROMINENT ALASKAN
OFFICIAL DUE ALASKA
| J. R. Ummel, office manager of tli<
Alaska Railroad and the Alaska di
vision of the Bureau of Education ii
Seattle, will be among the prominen
people arriving in Seward tomorrov
on the steamer Alaska. Mr. Umme
will spend some time in this distric
and while here will consult with J. F
Gartland, special representative o
| the Department of the Interior am
i with Governor George A. Parks oi
| department affairs. A deiegatioi
from the Seward Chamber of Com
merce will welcome Mr. Ummel t<
the city.
TORRENT COTTING WAY
TOWARDS RADIO STIT1
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The combination of streams, mos
of which are now almost raging tor
rents, are -swinging down the streqn
on the other side of the radio sta
tion with such fury that it is rapid
ly cutting down the banks until a
the present time there is but a hund
red foot strip of land between th<
torrent and the radio plant. A crev
of men began work this morning cut
ting down trees and brush, throwing
them into the bank, with the view o
protecting as much as possible tin
cutting current. If the creek get!
away it is stated there will be fou:
feet of water which will flood tin
plant and station, which may no
only put the entire station out o
commission but cause a heavy loss
The S. S. Alaska, of the A. S. S
Co., will arrive in port tomorrow
morning at 8 o’clock, according to tin
local bulletin.
HIM 15 bUAL
j OF ANNUAL PILGRIMAGE
I
Nile Temple of the Ancient Arabic
Order of the Mystic Shrine have
| launched a pilgrimage to Alaska with
Fairbanks as their goal, and tomor
'row morning there will arrive in
Sew-ard a representative party from
Nile Temple, Seattle. The party
'includes the officers of the Temple,
'accompanied by their wives and
, friends.
The personnel includes William A.
Eastman, Potentate, and Mrs. East
man, Mr. and Mrs. Van S. McKenny,
Mr. and Mrs. Frank B. Lazier, Mr.
land Mrs. Charles M. Howes, Mr. and
Mrs. Jos. H. Sayer. Past Potentate
Thomas Askren, Mrs. McDonald, and
the Misses Howard. The ladies are
fall members of the White Nile.
| Due to lack of time it is not
• .• 'S’.u a. ce” » wtil- bo held m
(Seward, so according to present ar
jrangements, a number of* candidates
;will travel the hot sands of the des
sert in Fairbanks. Due to the lateness
of arrival of the S. S. Alaska the
itinerary can not be announced at
: this time, stated Shiek H. V. Hoben
yesterday. A number of local shrin_
ers and novices will accompany the
pilgramage to the heart of Alaska.
I The present pilgrimage to Alaska
from Seattle marks the 15th annual
trip of the Shrine officers to the
I j Northland. Aside from Fairbanks,
ceremonials have already been held
at Cordova and Juneau.
,j Coming as a sudden shock to Al
askan Shriners was the announce
, ment received last week of the death
at Seattle on July 22 of Fred R. Har
. rison, Potentate of Nile Temple of
j the Mystic Shrine at Seattle. Mr.
y Harrison was to have sailed last
Saturday with this pilgrimage.
: I1I0US MUTTERS TAKEN
IIP AT COUNCIL MEETING
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The , local hospital • problem was
taken up at last evening’s meeting of
jthe City Council but no action was
I i taken as further correspondence is
! necessary with Dr. Alcorn, now in
jthe States.
The decision of the United States
^of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in
‘jthe case of Samuel M. Graff vs. The
L|Town of Seward, in which the degree
‘jwas affirmed, was read.
’ j The matter of clearing up Fifth
' j Avenue, in responce to a petition
'l from property owners, was passed
J over to the Street'committee who in
turn will obtain the approximate
costs needed for the improvement.
’ The glacier stream was discussed
r at some length and the proposed im
* j provements which will undoubtedly
’ get under way next spring.
Bills rendered were ordered paid.
E The Reedy party of 27 tourists, who
have toured Interior Alaska, coming
’in by way of Skagway and down the
I Yukon to Fairbanks, will arrive In
r Seward Tuesday by train and will sail
2! for the States on the Admiral Evans.
They will spend Monday at Lawing.