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VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 1.
RESIDENTS MEXICALA AND OTH
ER BORDER TOWNS FLEE TO
VACANT LOTS WHILE EARTH
ROCKS
PASSENGERS DESERT SHIP
Heavy Swells Caused by Swinging of
Ocean Drive All Ashore From S. S.
Emma Alexander—Disturbance Ex
tends to Wide Area in California
and Arizona
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 3. (^—Mexi
cali reported the last of a series of
earthquakes beginning shortly after
midnight occurred at 7:10 yesterday
morning. The Overland and Calexico
hotels were most seriously damaged.
Pipe lines were broken and basements
flooded. Residents of Mexicali and
Calexico gathered in the streets and
vacant lots. Passengers aboard the
S. S. Emma Alexander, anchored off
Ensenada, spent the night ashore as
the heavy swells rolled the ship until
it listed heavily.
YUMA, ARIZ., SHAKEN
YUMA, Ariz., Jan. 3. (TP)— Eight
quakes, beginning at 1:17 yesterday
evening and ended at 6.10 were
felt. No damage resulted. El Centro
residents began arriving at dawn to
escape quakes felt in the -Imperial
Valley, 60 miles away.
BRAWLEY, CALIF., QUIVERS
BRAWLEY, Calif, Jan. 3. (^—Thir
teen quakes, four of them severe,
shook Brawley early yesterday morn
The tremblors were long drawn and
altogether sharp.
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QUAKE CAUSES MARTIAL LAW
CALEXICO, Dec. 3. (5*)—Governor
Abelardo Rodriguez of Lower Califor
nia declared martial law and closed
all saloons in Mexicali following the
earthquakes which continued in the
afternoon. Police Chief Hardwick oi
Calexico prepared to create a special
patrol to protect business houses
from plunderers. Orders have been
given to shoot to kill. The Chamber
of Commerce prepared for immediate
rehabilitation.
The series of more than 50 earth
quake shocks rocked the Imperial
valley from shortly after midnight
until 10:30 yesterday morning and
caused an estimated damage of $2,500,
000 in the valley towns in the United
States and Mexico. Fire followed
the shocks.
HOME FOR AGED ALASKANS
SEATTLE, Dec. 31. (JP)—Mrs. Geo.
W. Carmack gave the Alaska Yukon
club 15 acres of land near Seattle
closely situated to a railroad, on
which to construct a home for aged
Alaskans. Charles McKay was elect
ed president of the club last night.
CLAIMS GOVERNMENT ISSUED
STATEMENTS REFLECTING ON
THE CONCERN
i VANCOVER, B. C., Jan. 3. (/P)—The
Lightning Creek Gold Gravels and
Drainage company has sued the Unit
ed States, its president or any agent
thereof for $10,000,000, alleging that
| the Postoffice and Justice Depart
ments injured its character and prop
erty by statements reflecting unfav
orably on its merits as a concern in
which to invest. Charles H. Unver
sagt, who fled the United States when
indicted as a mail frauder is associ
ated wnth the concern. J. S. Swenson,
of Seattle, a postal inspector, who
obtained an affidavit against Unver
sagt, is declared to have made dam
aging statements to the Canadian and
American offcials regarding the com
pany.
VICTORIA’S PASSENGER LIST
SEATTLE, Jan. 3. (IP)—The S S.
Victoria sailed at 9 o’clock Saturday
morning with 113 passengers. For
Seward: J. E. Beattie, Lew Baldwin,
I. S. Simonson, Ralph J. Rivers, F. A.
Mann, Harry D. Austin, Mr. and Mrs.
B. Wandling, Emily Townsend, J. A.
Denny, Mike Thomatz, T. C. ^ule, S.
T. Pinkham, J. E. Fitzgerald, C. H.
Hutton, Joseph Roats Krohn, F. W.
Christie, L. Mcllrav, Hags Simondson,
Mrs. Ed Marshall, Mr. and Mrs. C. R.
Specer, A. McPhail, Mrs. V. A. All
| man and daughter, G. BB. Tenneson,
I B. Bartlett, A. Lappi and twro steerage.
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1ST REPEATS LUST
TEAR'S VICTORY:
DEFEATS EAST 7-3
ROEBUCK, HA-SKELL, CAPTAIN
KELLY HEROES OF EXCITING
GAME
SANFRANCISCO, Jan. 3. (JP)—
Twenty thousand spectators watched
the West repeat last year’s victory
against East who scored first when
Rauber of Washington and Lee Uni
versity, halfback, hooted from 12
yards after1 a drive from midfield. The
Westerners scored when Kelly passed
at 35 yards to Sweet, who ran 45
yards to goal, then converted. Roth
Montana’s stars and teams had beau
tiful defenses. Ten Roebuck and Ha
Skall, Indian, tackled and squashed
thru the line to nip the Easterners
before plays got started. Captain
Bill Kelly played a flashy game. The
game was staged at Ewing Field by
the San Francisco Shriners. The final
score was West 7, East 3.
DESTROYERS SENT SOUTH
WASHINGTON, Jr 3. (#»)—1The
destroyers Borie and < D. Edwards
leave Hampton Roads Tuesday to re
lieve the sister ships Barry and
Brooks on Nicaraguan duty.
ALABAMA TIES SCORE IN LAST
FOUR MINUTES OF PLAY WHEN
WINSLETT BLOCKED WILTON’S
PUNT — BALL WAS PUSHED
OVER
Estimated Between Fjfty and Sixty
Thousand Fans Saw Game—Punt
ing Worse Than Poor—Hoffman’s
Passing Starred
PASADENA, Calif., Dec. 3. (/P)—
Perfume of roses pervaded the July
like air and bright sunshine with mu
sic from the Alabama and Pasadena
bands greeted the Stanford-Alabama
football classic here. George Rogue
of Stanford and W. U. Winslett of Ala
i bama practiced place kicking after
the teams came upon the field. The
crowd was estimated from fifty to six
ty thousand.
In the first period Stanford started
on its own 34-yard line. Hoffman
passed to Hyland for a 40-yard gain.
Hoffman to Bogue, made six yards.
Hoffman made four and lost one in
three line plunges. The ball went to
Alabama’s 18-yard line on a pass
from Hoffman to Hyland.
The second period ended without
I scoring, and was marked by frequent
Stanford penalties, Alabama’s failure
to puncture the Stanford line and
Hoffman kicking off-side for Stanford.
The heat told on the Alabamans.
Bogue failed to place kick. Taylor
kicked on Alabama’s third play. Stan
ford started from her own 27-yard
line. Hoffman made a yard on a re
verse. Hoffman to Shipkey gained 24
yards and on a reverse Hoffman to
Bogue, for four. Hoffman plunged
for a gain of three yards. Alabama
j got the ball on her own 44-yard line
on a fumble. Hoffman in the next
pay passed to Winslett who made 11
yards in two plays. Bogue intercept
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FILIPINOS WITH KNIVES
PRECIPITNTE BICE BIOT
SEATTLE, Jan. 3. (/P)—Slashing
wildly in a frenzied battle against 200
pedestrians, who closed in on they,
six Filipinos wielding knives and
daggers, precipitated a race riot on
a downtown street at the height of the
New Year’s celebration. Seven white
men were stabbed and the Filipinos
were jailed.
moonshine make buzz-saws look tame.
SOCIETY WOMEN SELECT
FOBS ON LIVE ANIMUS
EDINBURGH, Scotland, Jan. 3. (IP)
—Society women traveling to fox
farms select pelts on live animals.
The raisers dislike waiting on the cus
tomers. The average price paid is
?20.
MANY AND PRETTY COSTUMES REPRESENTA
TIVE OF PAST AND CURRENT HISTORY MIN
GLE IN MEDLEY OF BEAUTY—LARGEST GATH
ERING IN HISTORY OF ANNUAL MASQUERADE
COMPETITION FOR MANY HANDSOME PRIZES IS SPIRITED
Decorations in Hall in Harmony With Pretty Scenes as
Youth and Beauty Romped in Care-free Abandon to the
Strains of Good Music—Judges Have Task Decidiing
Winners
Obeying the summons to set aside the actual workaday
world, don festive raiment and sally forth to do homage
at the cradle of the New Year, Seward responded to a man
New Year's eve, and packed the Sew^ard Athletic club hall
from floor to balcony, there to participate in the annual
mask ball given by the Seward Volunteer Fire Department.
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OUTPUT OF MINERALS FOR YEAR
JUST PASSED S17,490,000, COM
PARED WITH $18,224,000 1925.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3. (IP)— Not-j
withstanding dimunition in the miner-,
al production in Alaska during 1926,
the gold output increased over that
of the previous year. Decreases in
mining of co-pper, lead and other min
erals overbalanced the slight gold
improvement.
The Department of the Interior es
timated gold production at $6,620,000,
compared with $6,360,000 in 1925. The
total mineral output for 1926 was $17,
490,000, compared with $18,224,000 the
^previous year. Copper dropped from
^ $10,360,000 to $9,500,000, silver from
; $611,000 to$500,000. Coal showed lit
tle variation. The report said large
areas in Alaska have not been ade
quately prospected and many prom
ising properties lie undeveloped be
cause of “lack of capital.”
BODY OF BEER RUNNER FOUND
WITH BULLET HOILES IN
* SKULL
CHICAGO, Jan. 3. (£>)—Renewal of
gangland’s warfare was predicted
when the body of Hillary Clements,
former beer runner, was found two
weeks after the family had pleaded
with the gangsters to let them have
it by Christmas. The body, frozen
and with three bullet holes in the
skull, was discovered by boys in a
deserted house.
Detective Captain Stege said: “This
killing means reprisals. We’re in for
another era of wholesale killings.”
Clements has been dead for two
w'eeks as his brother John had said
that he was the first beer racket
figure slain since Heinnie Weiss was
shot and a peace pact made.
Out of the distant past flitted happy
spirits to romp beneath the multi
colored lights in happy abandon. Sir
Launcelot and Sir Galahad, fresh from
the Table Round “caparisoned cap-a
pie,” strode forth out of history to
claim the coy glances of a dainty
■wood nymph who had crept from be
neath the moss and blossoms to tim
idly steal a draught from the foun
tain of make-believe. From Dixie
came Uncle Tom and Aunt Dinah, be
speaking cotton blossoms, corn pone
and ’taters. The heralds sounded a
blast on the trumpets and the bold
Sheik of the Sahara, beturbaned and
sparking with jewels, scimeter in belt,
slipped from his tent, followed by his
favorite, veiled and furtive, stealing
sly glances at the booted and sinis
ter replica of Captain Kidd, fresh
from ravaging the Spanish main.
Again the dainty little heralds sound
ed the call, and a group of perriots,
leading a throng of grotesque charac
ters who might have stepped from a
picture book of spooks and hobgob
lins, scampered down the floor, only
to make way a moment later for a fai
ry fresh from the heart of a red rose,
and who held the big audience en
tranced while she flitted about like
a butterfly in the swinging lilt of the
Charleston. She vanished into the
kaleidoscopic sea of humanity to make
way for the “Rose of Dixie,” with
crinoline and poke-bonnet, conjuring
up a breath of jasamine, magnolia
and honeysuckle, her gallant swain
leading her by her dainty finger-tips
as they treaded the minuet.
Stolid Eskimos stood among bevies
of beauties fresh from the Ziegfield
Follies, unmoved by charms of lithe
limbs and twinkling toes beating a sta
catto on the polished floor.
An iredescent gypsy maid fresh from
Romanie shared the moment with a
proud beauty from old Castile, be
speaking musty old Spanish castles
with latticed windows, and a lover
thrumming his guitar beneath a bal
cony and pouring forth his love-story.
The orchestra struck up a lilting
air, and down the floor came Mr. and
Mrs. Vernon Castle in miniature, their
nimble feet beating off the tread of
the Charleston and their lithe child
bodies swinging in rythmic harmoney
with the music.
Sourdoughs from the “frozen trail,’*
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