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► VOLUME XXI. NUMBER 298.
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1926.
PRICE TEN CENTS
Faithful Malamute
' Carries Note Telling
Of Serious Accident
MINERS INJURED BY EXPLODING BOX OF DE
TONATORS TIE NOTE TO DOG’S NECK AND
SEND HIM TO SUMMON ASSISTANCE—AWAK
ENS MASTER AT 2:30 IN MORNING TO DELIVER
MESSAGE
LITTLE SQUAW MINE, Dec. 28. (/P)—Awakened at
s<2:30 yesterday morning by his malamute dog scratching
and whining, Oscar Ottersoniz, a miner, found his dog
“Nigger” with a penciled note tied to his collar which read
“Come, both seriously injured by explosion.” “Nigger”
was loaned a few days before to J. S. Shaw, who was min
ing with his partner, C. Dunlap, on Tobin creek. The
two men started in the darkness and without a trail, over
the barren 3,000 foot pass with the temperature 40 below
ezro to Little Squaw Signal Corps station, where they
radioed Fairbanks for an airplane to take the men to the
hospital. Dunlap was blinded by the explosion of a box of
detonators. Both men were much lacerated in the face
and their bodies shot full of copper shells from the detona
tors. They are awaiting arrival of the planes.
DOG WARNS OF DANGER
NEW YORK, Dec. 28. (^-Summon
ed by a barking dog, a fireboat and
tug captured 26 coal barges drifting
down East River into the treacher
ous Hellgate with 125 persons on
board. The bargemen families and
the fireboat crew were asleep when
the barges broke from their moorings.
Peggie, a Spitz mascot, barked and
Lieutenant John Hughes, in command
awoke and heard faint help cries
above the howling of a 35 mile wind.
Through the early morning sleet he
saw' barges moving out into the river.
A tug came to their aid when the
fireboat, after a chase down the river
was unable to hold the barges.
NUMBER DEAD AND SICK MORE
THAN 1924 AND 1925
COMBINED
NEW YORK, Dec. 28. (£>)—Eleven
are dead and 75 in hospitals as a re
sult from drinking poison liquor which
is more cases than were reported for
^/1924 and 1925 combined. The chief
medical examiner blamed the govern
ment denatured alcohol which boot
leggers improperly distilled. His as
sistant reported seven deaths result
ed from excessive drinking.
NORTHEASTERN SUITES
IN SHIP SNOW, ICE
NEW YORK, Dec. 28. (£>)—Snow
H and ice covered Northeastern states
after mild Christmas temperatures.
New York streets glared from an inch
sleet followed by a light snowfall.
Many accidents were reported in
which two were killed.
MOTHER KILLS
CHILDREN AND
THIRD CASE WHERE FAMILY
BEEN DESTROYED IN
LIKE MANNER
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 28. (iP)—Offi
cers announced that a third Los An
geles mother in two months has kil
led her children and herself. The
father, Merle G. Haines, as in the
case of the previous tragedies, came
home and found the bodies of his
family. A post-mortem examination
disclosed a quick-acting poison in the
stomachs of the mother, 28 years old,
a boy 11 months and a daughter aged
three months. Ada Chamberlain, two
months ago, gave sleeping portions to
three children and sat by their beds
and turned the gas on. Her husband
found them all dead. Mrs. Louise
Simmons took the lives of her child
ren and herself in the same manner.
THOUSAND HOMELESS
RESULT OF QUAKE
MUSSOLINI ORDERS RELIEF SENT
NEW CRATER FORMED IN
CONSTANT ERUPTION
ROME, Dec. 28. (JP)—It is reported
an earthquake destroyed houses and
left 1,000 homeless at Durazoo, Al
bania. Premier Mussolini has order
ed relief dispatched.
TIRANA, Albania, Dec. 28. (JP)—
Violent shocks persisted for several
days in the mountain zone near Dur
azzo and a new crater formed, which
is in constant eruption. Water, in a
nearby lake, boiled and inhabitants
fled. ... .
FORMER SECRETARY
FALL IS SUFFERING
PNEUMONIA ATTACK
EL PASO, Texas, Dec. 28. (#>)—
Former Secretary Fall who was
stricken with pneumonia upon his
arrival from Washington Sunday,
rested well last night. He is G5
years old.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 28. (£>)—Less
brawn and more brain are the need
of the navy. The seagoing military
arm of t he nation gave notice it could
use a number of men, learned In the
sciences of engineering and aeronau
tics.
Admiral Eberle told the house com
mittee that the expenditure of $450,
000 for cruisers and submarines will
place the United States on a coopera
tive footing with England and Japan.
)
A group of leading Republicans have
formulated a program for opposition
against Frank Smith when he presents
his credentials as senator from Illi
nois.
Senator Smoot in a speech criticiz
ed Columbia university professors,
who advocated canceling of all war
debts, saying they harmed the situa
tion they wish to help.
The house approval of the Senate
amendment on rivers and harbors was
balked when Speaker Longworth re
fused to take up the measure on the
last day before recess.
The house wets will meet January
12 to plan a fight on a new dry mea
sure and to bring up a single modifi
cation bill which will be offered as
an amendment to the dry measure.
y. S. WARSHIPS
TO SO. AMERICA
SECRET ORDERS
BELIEVED MISSION LINKED WITH
GRAVE CONDITIONS IN
NICARAGUA
WASHINGTON, Dec. 28. (£>)—More
U. S. warships were on their way to
Central America today on a new mys
terious mission believed to be linked
with the already grave Nicaraguan
situation. Either a cruiser or a des
troyer has been sent to La Cieba, in
Honduras. The names of the ships
were not revealed. ?
KLONDIKER, T. L BOYLE,
DIED SUNDAY, SEATTLE
SEATTLE, Dec. 28. (IP)—Thomas A.
Boyle, aged 65, well known Klondiker,
died Sunday. He "had been long 111
and retired several years ago. Death
came following an operation.
SEATTLE, Dec. 28. (JP)—[Thomas A.
Boyle’s funeral service will be held at
9 o'clock tomorrow morning at the
Stannes church.
Woman Pays $137.50
To Secure Murder of
Obnoxious Husband
SLAYER CONFESSES DID JOB FOR CONSIDERA
TION BECAUSE WIFE WAS TIRED OF SPOUSE
AND WISHED TO RETURN HOME—RAPPED
OYER HEAD WITH LEAD PIPE, SAYS CONFES
SOR
CHICAGO, Dec. 28* (/P)—Pren Patrick was arrested
and confessed he washired for $187.50 to kill Fred Lind
strom so that Mrs. Lillian Fraser Lindstrom, the victim’s
common law wife, could collect insurance and return to
her former husband. Lindstrom was found December
7, with a fractured skull.
Mrs. Lindstrom said she hired Patrick to do the
killing; that she had her" husband insured for $1,000.00 for
she wished to return to her former husband having grown
tired of Lindstrom. She stipulated the killing must ap
pear accidental.
Patrick said he entered Lindstrom’s house posing as
a farmer looking for furniture. Mrs. Lindstrom handed
him a lead pipe and as Lindstrom preceded him into a bed
room he struck Lindstrom as he bent over a bureau. Mrs.
Lindstrom and Patrick took the body to another part of
town and laid it on the icy street where they expected
death would be attributed to an automobile accident. Po
lice, however, noticed Lindstrom’s shoe soles were dry and
i the pavement wet,
THOUSANDS DRIVEN
FROM HOME; LOSS
FROM FLOODS ROOF
—
RAINS SWEEP TENNESSEE, AR
KANSAS, MISSISSIPPI AND
KENTUCKY
MEMPHIS, Dec. 28. (/P)—Floods
drove thousands from Tennessee, Ar
kansas, Mississippi and Kentucky
homes and hundreds of thousands of
dollars damage occured. General
rains prevailed and more than 50
j blocks were inundated. Twenty-five
Ure homeless in Nashville and four
{dead including three drowned.
BILLY SUNDAY
WITH HABTLEY
EVANGELIST SUPPORTS STAND
OF GOVERNOR ON UNIVER
SITY ROW
YAKIMA, Wn, Dec. 28. (JP)—Billy
Sunday closed a six weeks evengeli
cal campaign with an attack upon the
State school for teaching evolution
and not the Bible. He severely criti
cized those who signed the Hartley
recall petitions and said: “If I lived
in Washington I would not disgrace
the state by signing the Governor re
call petition. The Governor Is not an
enemy of education, but a friend of
the University.
COAL MINE DEATHS
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.—A total
of 209* persons< lost their lives as a re
sult of accidents at coal mines in the
United States during Oc^ober^ the
Bureau of Mines has just announced.
AFTER YEARS OF
LEGAL WARFARE
HEIRS SETTLE
WILL DIVIDE WHAT'S LEFT AF
TER LAWYERS FINISHED
WITH GOULD ESTATE
NEW YORK, Dec. 28. (JP)—Fifty
heirs of the late Jay Gould, including
his children, grandchildren and oth
er relatives, announced through coun
sel a settlement of years of litigation
over the will of the late financier.
Litigation and other developments
have dissipated an estate worth $82,
000,000 when Gould died in 1892. Liti
gation alone cost $30,000,000. Charges
were made that the trustees, includ
ing the late George J. Gould estate
and three surviving trustees will pay
$20,00,0000 to the estate but will col
lect their dues. A total of $50,000 is
believed to have been dissipated in
one way or another.
SENTENCES BAD YOUTH
READ SPINELESS CACTUS
SEATTLE, Dec. 28. (JP) — Judge
Batchelor sentenced seven youth who
pleaded guilty to mistreating High
School girls to read Burbank’s articles
on spineless cactus. They must pay
the court costs from earnings within
30 days and must keep a savings ac
count in the bank.
CURFEW WILL NOT RING
NEW YORK, Dec. 28. (£>)—Mayor
Walker’s new 3 a. m. curfew law for
night clubs will not ring on New
Year’s eve on order from the mayor,
the mayor.