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VOLUME XXII NUMBER 158.
SEWARD, ALASKA,* FRIDAY, JULY 29,1927.
PRICE TEN CENTS
Women And Children
' Drown Lake Michigan
Small Vessel Capsizes
DURING BRIEF SQUALL TERRIFIED PASSENGERS
RUSH TO ONE SIDE OF SMALL STEAMER CAUS
- ING BOAT TO LIST AND STAMPEDING BACK TC
* OTHER—BOAT TURNED OVER—MAJORITY OF
DEAD ARE WOMEN AND CHILDREN—CAPTAIN
AND CREW PLACED UNDER ARREST
CHICAGO, July 29. (/P)—Twenty-six persons, mostly
women and children, on a boat excursion to escape the
sweltering heat, were drowned when the Favorite, a small
boat, capsized in Lake Michigan, about a mile off shore,
during a brief squall. Twenty are known to be missing,
Eighteen were rescued.
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BEAVER DISPOSED OF
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NEXT SALE AT SEATTLE FUR
CHANGE WILL BE HELD ON
AUGUST 31
SEATTLE, July 29. (P5)—Ninety per
cent of the beaver sold at the fur
auction averaged $29. Otter averaged
123.25, the best bringing $28. An un
usually fine collection of wolf aver
aged $28; dark gray timber wolf pre
dominated. Blue fox averaged $44.75,
including culls; the best $162. Wol
verine sold for $29.30. Bear skins, as
was the case last month, were in poor
demand, practically the entire offering
going for export. Fisher and miscel
laneous brought full open market val
ue. The next sale will be August 1.
FRENCH HAVE NEW FUEL
TO REPLACE HARD COAL
PARIS, July 29. (/P)—“Anthracoke”
is a new fuel much like coke, pro
mised the French by Andre Tardieu,
Minister of Public Works.
It is to be made from the moder
ately soft French coal, normally too
fast burning and too smoky for the
small, hard-coal base-burner gener
ally used in France. Foreign hard
coal and coke are the standard fuels
for these -heaters.
NEW LONDON STREET
TO COST S20 001 000
LONDON, July 29. (/P)—A stretch
of road through the heart of London
to the dock district is to be .built al
a cost of $20,000,000. The new road
will be known an the Victoria Dock
road. It will be carried for a con
siderable distance on arches, thus
doing away with traffic delay flow
caused by swing bridges and grade
crossings. Nearly 700 houses must
be torn down to make way for tne
road. The Government will pay 75
per cent of the cost, and the LondoTi
County Council 25 per cent.
and vanished as rapidly terrified the
passengers, who rushed to one side
of the boat to escape the rain. The
boat listed and the passengers stam
peded to the other side capsizing the
boat, plunging them into the rough
breakers which tossed them helplessly
about. The noise of a negro band
blaring away was transformed into
shocking cries of drowning persons
trying to catch some floating object.
The boat tumbled half over and set
tled until only the upper deck was re
maining partly out of the water.
Captain Arthur Olson and the crew
were arrested.
Rescue work was begun almost be
fore the boat settled. A few men
aboard fought valiantly to rescue chil
dren. When the first rescue boats
reached the shore doctors and nurses
transformed* the entire beach into an
emergency hospital working over
some of the bodies for hours in efforts
at resuscitation.
NEW TOY FOR BRUINS
GLACIER PARK, Mont., July 29.
(/P)—Bears stole the butter from a
spring near the construction camp of
the new Prince of Wales hotel, so
the cook devised a bell which would
ring in event the bear made another
raid. Aroused the next morning by
a clanging, the cook found a .mother
bear gleefully swatting the swaying
bell for the amusement of two cubs.
The butter was gone.
COLOGNE CATHEDRAL
IS SCENE OF SUICIDE
BERLIN, July 29. (£>)—For the
'irst time in its history, the venera
sle Cologne Cathedral, whose founda
:ion.s were laid in 1248, has been the
scene of a suicide. A young man of
15, from Stettin on the Baltic, shot
limself in the famous house of wor
ship. The incident carries with it
ar reaching consequences. Accord
ng to the regulations of the Roman
Catholic Church, an ecclesiastical ed
fice is considered polluted by an
ict of suicide, and the whole cere
mony of consecration must be gone
through anew. The consecration will
5e in charge of the Arch-bishop of
Cologne, Cardinal Karl .Joseph
Schulte.
DEATH I TERROR
KANSU PROVINCE
, FIRST DETAILED ACCOUNT DE
) DESTRUCTION THREE CITIES,
TOWNS AND VILLAGES
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LONDON, July 29. (#*)—Scenes of
’ death and terror are described in the
. first detailed account to come out of
the Wild West of China of the great
earthquake which occurred in Kansu
province May 23. The details tell of
complete destruction of the cities of
Sisiang, Liangchow, Tumentse, Ruling
i and innumerable towns and villages,
hundreds ofshrdlu shrdlu shrdlu rdlu
with the casualties estimated at 100,
000, show that the disturbance may be
classed among the most terrible ca
tastrophies of all time. At Liangchow
alone 10,000 were killed, while a mov
ing mountain completely wrecked the
city of Tumentse. At some places
great fissures in the earth appeared
from which a bluish black liquid
spurted.
TOPEKA, Kas., July 29. (jP)— John
W. Gardner of Marion, Kas., made a
sacrifice to the cause of good roads
when he became State highway direc
tor.
He disposed of his interests in a
lumber firm because a law specifies
that no person may be appointed State
highway director if he profits from the
sale of building material.
“I shall lose money because of the
job, even1 if it does pay $5,000 a year,”
Gardner said when he became boss of
the 8,690-mile State highway system.
“But I have become so enthusiastic
about better roads for Kansas that I
am willing to make a sacrifice for the
good of the State.”
INTERURBAN LINES BUSY
CHICAGO, July 28. (/P)—Motor cars
aren’t hurting the interurban busi
ness, the American Electric Railway
association says. Electric railways
of the United States carried 230,000,
000 more passengers in 1926 than
in the year before.
MEMORIAL FORT MIRKS
CURK’S HEIDQUIRTFRS
HARRODSBURG, Ky., July 29. (JP)
—A wooden stockade, with three
blockhouses and four cabins, now ,
marks the site here where George ,
Rogers Clark planned his conquest of
the Northwest.
The replica of the old fort, which
was constructed by the Kentucky
Pioneer Memorial Aasociatiop, also
is the State’s latest park. Among the
structures in the 16-acre plot is the
cabin in which Thomas Lincoln and
Nancy Hanks, parents of Abraham
Lincoln were married. It was moved
from Washington county, Ky., to the
park.
Tourists visiting the stockade may •
stay in the cabins a night if they de
sire.
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WATER NOTICE
Water will be shut off on Second
and First Street about 8 o’clock to
night for a few minutes.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Boston 6, Cincinnati 11.
Brooklyn 7, Pittsburg 5.
New York 6, Chicago 5.
Philadelphia 8, St. Louis 10.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Cleveland 0-3, Boston 3-4.
St. Louis 4, New York 9.
Detroit 5, Philadelphia 2.
Chicago 2, Washington 12.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Portland 3, San Francisco 5.
Hollywood 4, Sacramento 2.
Missions 2-3, Oakland 4-2. Second
game seven innings by agreement.
Seattle 10-2, Los Angeles 2-0.
AIMEE TO ABDICATE
THRONE OF ANGELUS
TEMPLE IN L. I.
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WILL SUBMIT HER RESIGNATION
TO CHURCH REORGANIZATION
COMMITTEE
LOS ANGELES, July 29. (JP)—'The
times says Aimee McPherson will ab
dicate the throne of Angelus Tjemple. j
The evangelist announced that she1
would submit her resignation to the j (
church committee engaged in reorgan
izing the business affairs of the Tern
pie to become effective soon as Ai
mee’s position as pastor can be filled
and the present squabble between the
pastor and her mother, Mrs. Kennedy,
can be ironed out. The announce- (
ment came as an unexpected climax (
of the last 15 .months, during which t
thel four-square gospel has rarely been (
out of the spotlight. ^
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OMISSION OF MIDDLE
NAME IS PERMISSIBLE i;
WASHINGTON, July 29. (£>)—
Omission of the middle name of the
contestants in papers bearing on the
case is not sufficient ground for the
dismissal of a contest against a
homestead entry, the Department of
the Interior has just ruled in a deci
sion reversing a finding by the Com
missioner of the General Land office.
Common law recognized but two
names, the surname or family name,
and the first or Christian name, the
iecision states, and this principle has
been adhered to by all the Federal
and State courts so far as is known,
Including the Supreme Court of the
United States. I has been applied in
Doth civil and criminal cases, the
iecision points out. The ruling was
?iven in the case of Hattie Davidson
its. Claude Henry Taylor, involving
an entry in the Las Cruces, N. M.,
and district. It is signed by the
First Assistant Secretary of the De
partment of hte Inerior, E. C. Finney.
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CHICAGO, July VO. (£>)—When Re
publicans and Democrats of Chicago
and Cook county met to draft a coali
tion slate for nominations to Circuit
ludgeships, there was no question
about the retention of Mary M. Bar
telme, Republican, the first and only
woman elected to the bench here.
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GUNMEN BEATEN AT
Oi GAME; DOCTOR
QUICKER ON TRIGGER
HAD RECENTLY BEEN ROBBED
AND WAS SUSPICIOUS AS MEN
ENTERED OFFICE
CHICAGO, July 29. (>P)—A doctor
beat two gunmen at their own game
when they attempted to rob him. The
robbers, who have not been identified,
posed as patients on entering the doc
tor’s office, but the physician, I^rank
Nathanson, had recently' been robbed,
and was suspicious. He stood by his
iesk and when they drew guns he
pulled open a drawer, whipped out a
pistol and fired before they could level
their weapons. One fell dead and the
ither staggered out and fell down a
stairway into the arms of a policeman
svho heard the shooting. The second
"obber died in a hospital.
M0T0RI0US ROBBERS
SLAIN IN SIAM
rERRORIZED LARGE DISTRICT
FOR YEARS, ARE FINALLY
CAUGHT AND SHOT
BLAGOVESHEN.SK, Siberia, July
19, ——Andrew the lame and Basil
he strangler, leaders of robber bands
hat have terrorized a district nearly
is large as the whole of Europe for
■ears, have been caught and shot.
Their chief prey has been the gold
liggers of the Aldam mines in north
irn Siberia. The bandits had posts
istablished on all roads leading from
he mines, whence they swooped
[own upon outbound miners. Their
ictoms were robbed, strangled and
mng up by the roadside. The Aldan
;old district, reported to be of fabu
ous wealth, was discovered about
wo years ago and attracted crowds
f adventurers, who set out reckless
y on a 500 mile trip through the
rackless Siberian forests. The short
st route, during two months in sum.
ner, is 1,200 miles up the Lena river
rom Irkutsk to Yakutsk, and from
here 250 miles further on horseback,
lundreds are reported to have been
:illed in the forests by wild beasts
r by “hunghutzes” (bandits), but
ar more died from starvation. It is
eported that out of parties originally
umbering several hundred frequent
y only two or three reached their
estination. The successful one3
let with disappointment. There was
lenty of gold, but no food, and the
old soon melted away in exchange
r was seized by the robber bands.
INDENTS INFLUENCE
COLLEGE PDESIDENT
TOPEKA, Kas., July 29. (JP)— A
reform” lierally started with the
jet of Washburn College students
Ight years ago has at last reached
le head of the school. President P.
. Warner is learning to dance. He
as turned to a pastime that custom.
>rbade1 on the campus until the
iinior prom in 1919, when students
irried out a conspiracy to break the
istom. Dr. Womer takes dancing
rssons from a professional dancer,
ad “steps out on the floor” at stu
ent parties.