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VOLUME XXIII. NUMBER 159.
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JULY 10, 1928.
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PRICE TEN CENTS
Flume Builder Coming Yukon
Warrack Company
Wants Local Labor
Work Starts at Once
SEWARD GATEWAY. July 10, —WOULD AP
PRECIATE A NEWS ITEM TO THE EFFECT THAT
OUR SUPERINTENDENT, J. A. ECKER, WILL
ARRIVE IN SEWARD ON THE S. S. YUKON TO
START ON THE LOWELL CREEK PROJECT. WE
WILL USE LOCAL LABOR AVAILABLE AND WANT
QUOTATIONS FROM INTERESTED PARTIES ON
FURNISHING CRIB LOGS, BRUSH AND OTHER
WORK.
WARRACK CONSTRUCTION CO.
KETCHIKAN
HER COULD LOSE
MOST OF THE EAST
STILL BE ELECTED
WOMEN OF THE WEST ORGANIZ
ING ALMOST ENTIRELY ANTi.
TAMMANY BASIS
EVANSTON, in., July 10. {JP)—A
statement has been issued from Na
tional headquarters of the Womaa’s
Chritian Temperance Union which
said Hoover could lose most of th*e
East and still be elected.
The statement said Hoover might be
defeated in New York, Pennsylvania,
Massachussetts, Connecticut and New
Jersey and still win the majority of
the nation’s electoral vetes.
W. C. T. U. officers assorted “two
or three Wet neighborhoods in a State
do not give that State to Tammany,
citing figures to show 61 Wet votes in
Congress came from scattered dis
tricts; 15 States in the Union declared
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the women of the Middlewest are or.
ganizing “almost entirely on an anti, j
Tammany basis.
NEW YORK, July 10. (/P)—An at.
tempted demonstration in front of the
Wall Street offices of J. P. Morgan,
f landed 16 men and women an jail.
Several members of the “All Ameri.
can Anti.Imperialist League’* gathered
with unfurled banners in the financial
district at the noon hour when thous.
ands of stenographers and clerics filled
the streets. A special detail of 44
detectives and special patrolmen were
waiting for them.
EL PASO, July 10. (jpy—Shaken up
but uninjured, Mrs. Phoebe F. Omile,
only woman pilot in the National Re.
liability Air Tour, and passenger, Mrs.
Eddie Stinson, arrived after the plane
was wrecked in landing at Marfa, Tex.
“It was all my fault. I just turned
to sharply after landing,” she said.
Undaunted they will continue the tour
in a similar plane.
JARDINE COMING ALASKA
WASHINGTON, July 10. (£>)— Sec.
i*3tary of Agriculture Jardine will
visit Alaska leaving Seattle tb3 first
week in August. Under tentative
plans details of his trip are unan.
nounced.
THE SUMMER WHITE HOUSE FOR 1928
BRULE, Wis.,—A- view of the picturesque Cedar Island, lodge,
about 40 miles oast of Duluth. Wis., where President Coolidge is
spending his vacation this summer amid the picturesque and beauti.
ful surroundings of the home of the late) Henry Clay Pierce.
DIES Mill®
| MARRIED TWO YEARS AGO AT
AGE OF 72; WIFE'AND DAUGH.
TER AT BEDSIDE
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WASHINGTON, July 9. (JP)— Form,
er United States Senator Georgia
■ Chamberlain died after a lingering
illness. Mrs. Chamberlain, to -whom
I
I he was married two years ago, and
l
j his daughter Mrs. Gporge Blain, were
at the bedside.
Chamberlain was a former membar
or the United States Shipping Board;
| w'hen he married he gave his age as
I
72, and his brid-a at 49.
FOUR ARE SHOT
MANVTLrLE, July 10. {•/?)—Mrs.
Henry Booher and her son Fred, age
four, and two hinad men, Gabriel
Grummley and a man named Bill,
were shot to death from a house.
There is no clue as to the slayer. *
CURTIS BE NOTIFIED
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j WASHINGTON, July 10. <£>)—Sena,
j tor Curtis will be notified of his Vice.
I Presidential nomination on August 18.
A week after Hoover’s notification
in Topeka.
Curtis is home at -work and an.
nounced Representative Tilso^i will
open the Eastern speakers bureau in
New York.
ELECTED HIGH OFFICE
MIAMI. July 10. (/P)—Murray Hul.
bert, of New York was unanimously
64th annual Convention of Has.
HEAT CLAIMS MANY
i NEW YORK, July 10. (/Pj—After a
j 48 hour hot wave most of the East is
(comfortable today with rains and coolj
| lug winds. The heat claimed morej
than two scobs lives in Eastern States
' and many in the Middlewest.
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i NEED NEW PARTY
IS SEEN BY FARMER
LABOR COMTION
I
COUNTRY CALLED UPON TO RISE
AND PREVENT LECTION OF A
TAMMANY WET
CHICAGO, July 10. (/P)—Keynote
! speakers on prohibition at the Farmer.
Labor Conventions proclaimed the
need for a new party. Dr. D. Leigh
Colvin, Chairman of the Prohibition
National Committee declaring new
(party ‘was needed “because neither
the Democratic nor Republican parties
can completely} enforce prohibition be.
cause teach is part wet and part dry
Laura Lundy, opening the Farmer.
Labor meeting, saw the need for party
realignments because of what she
M * I. • ( •
4emmed the “domination of a privileg.
ed few**. Colvin called upon the coun.
Ury to "rise up and prevent the elec,
tion of a Tammany Wet."
LEAGUE STANDING
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Beginning of the sceond half of the
season.
Club W. L. Pet.
Hollywood . 6 2 750
Sacramento .. 6 2 750
Seattle . 5 3 625
San Francisco _ 5 3 625
Missions . 3 5 375
I Oakland .. 3 5 375
Los Ang'ales —— 2 6 250
| Portland __ 2 6 250
BASEBALL GAMES
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NATIONAL LEAGUE
Boston, 5; St. Louis, 8.
Brooklyn. 6: Chicago, 2.
New York, 3; Pittsburgh, 5.
Philadelphia. 4; Cincinnati, 5.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Chicago, 3; Washington. 1.
Cleveland, 4; Philadelphia, 14. -
D *'-oit. 0.2: Boston, 4.8.
St. Louis, 0.12; New York, 4.6.
BOAT TRAIN CRASHES
PARIS, July 10. \lP)—One person
was killed and eight injured wh£n a
boat train, bound from Cherbourg to
Paris, with passengers from the Cun.
ard liner Berengaria on board, collid.
ed with a local train.
SMITH SHIPI
CAMPAIGN PURS
SEEKING HE
GOVERNOR HAD PLANNED A CON.
FERENCE TODAY WITH SENA.
TOR ROBINSON
ALBANY, July 9. (JP)—Governor
Smith is shaping his campaign iplans
and in consultation with others. Al_‘
though h<2 will have final say, both as
to organization and strategy, he is in.
dicating he has no preconceived idea
as to what will be done by seeking the
advic'3 of various party leaders.
The Governor had planned a confer,
ence with Senator Robinson today.
LARGE ESTATE AT
STM IN SEME
THROUGH SUICIDE
SECRET MARRIAGE REVEALED
WHEN HUSBAND APPEARS ON
THE SCENE
SEATTLE, July 10; {£>)—With a
$50,000 estate at stake, the secret
marriage of Mrs. Mabel Seaborg, who
leaped eight stories to her death from
a fashionable apartment* on June 29,
was revealed.
National City Bank officials opened
her afety deposit box and found a
certificate showing she married Sam_
uel H. Jordan, Honolulu chiropractor,
in the Fiji Islands last March.
Jordan appeared last Saturday
claiming the estate declaring they
came to Seattle keeping the marriage
secret fromJVIrs. Seaborg’s relatives.
Mrs. Seaborg was the widow of
Ernest Seaborg, State Fisheries Super. .
visor, whose body was found after a
Strange disappearance from Olympia
on January 1928. Neither deaths were
explained.
ESTABLISH DEHGCHT
BUREAU IN THE SOUTH
NEW YORK, July 10. (#>)—Estab.
lishment of a Democratic Campaign
( Bureau in some Southern State to off.
set the “organized ‘efforts of several
States to defeat the National Demo,
cratic ticket” is advocated by Senator
Robinson.
LOTS OF FIRES
SAN FRANCISCO, July 10. {£>)—
After more than 60 alarms for small
fires had been sounded, one brought
in a three alarm call at ^ 30 and caus.
ed damage ‘estimated at $25,000.