WEDNESDAY
(TELEGRAPHIC*
FIVE DEAD AFTER
EXPLOSION ON CRUISER
Norfolk. Oct. 21. iAPI - En
sign Henry Clay Drexler is one of
fire who are dead after an ex
plosion on the Cruiser Trenton
off Cape Henry .yesterday. Hero
tales as related by survivors say
that the Ensign rushed into the
flames, dragged three to safety
and started back into the turret
with his face raw and his cloth
ing burned black and dropped
dead. Powder and shell were
being hoisted for discharge when
the explosion occurred and it is
stated that fifty persons saw the j
accident. The Trenton was com-1
missioned just before the explos-;
Ion which occurred aboard the
dreadnaught Mississippi off the
California coast in which forty
eight were killed.
Washington, D. C., Oct. 21,
<AP)—Bennett Williams, seaman,
died making a total of six casual
ties as a result- of the explosion
cn the Cruiser Trenton.
NEW YORKERS CHEER
GERMAN AIRMEN
New York, Oct. 21. <AP)—An
audience of six thousand cheered
and the orchestra played Duetch
land Uber Alles at a theatre last
night for the officers and crew
of the Los Angeles (ZK-3) who
were guests. No unfriendliness
was shown when lingo Eckner,
commander of the flight spoke to
the audience in German.
STUDENT ACTOR LOST
IN COLORADO RIVER
Yuma. Ariz.. Oct. 21. (AP)—
Thirty hours of searching the
Colorado river bottoms near La
gnna dam failed to yield the
body of William Hardbouph. a
movie student actor who was
drowned yesterday while doub
ling for Victor McLaughlin in
filming a picture.
CARIBOU INVADE
SOUTH YUKON COUNTRY
Dawson. Y. T.. Oct. 21. (API—•
For the first time in thirty years
large bands of caribou invaded
the southern Yukon territory. Tt
is said that thousands are along
the trail between Braeburn and
Takeena. Hunters and photog
raphers engaged every available
automobile at Whitehorse to go
to the scene.
YUKON EX-SHERIFF DIES
Vancouver. B. C., Oct 21. (AIM
- -Robert Eilbeck, former Sheriff
of Yukon died yesterday at his
home at he age of seventy-one.
He has lived here during the last
few years.
ALASKA MAN AND
WOMAN FOUND DEAD
Seattle. Oct* 21. (AP) — Sam
Kricksen and an unidentified wo
man were found dead in a room
ip the Larned Hotel. Three shots
had been fired, one killing each
and the other falling in an ad
j- ining room. Ericksen hod been
a resident of Seattle for a year
and has been living on the pro
ceeds of a mining venture in Alas
ka. A bottle of whiskey was
found in the room.
FIVE DEMOCRATIC
DONATIONS OVER SlOO
New York. Oct. 21, (AP)~-A
report from Treasurer Jones of
the Democratic party given to the
WRIGLEYS
after every meal
Cleanses ntith and
teeth and aids digestion.
eaten feeling and acid
mouth.
Its 1-a-s-t-f-n-g flavor
satlslles the craving for
Wrlgley*s Is doable
value In the benefit and
pleasure 11 provides.
New York Times shows that only
five persons pave amounts in ex
ces or $100 and that a total of
$516,000 had been raised. The
five largest donators are Bernard
M. Brauch, who desired to be
Secretary of State, $500; Henry
Morgenthau, $21,000; John W.
Davis $5,000; Clem Shaver. $10,
000; uud< ;G*ojge Marietta of
Ohio. $7,500:
SUPREME COURT Rl'LEK
ON SHERMAN LAW
Washington. Oct. 21. (AP)—
The Supreme Court decided yes
terday on two cases growing out
of the Sherman anti-strike law
that persons charged with viola
tion of injunctions in connection
with strikes are entitled to jury
trials before being found guilty
of contempt of court.
DISASTROUS FIRE AT
DRYDEN. WASHINGTON
Wenatchee, Oct. 21. (AP)—A
fire which started in an amonia
plant belched forth and ruined
most of the business section of
Dryden. eighteen miles west of
here. Eighteen people trapped
upstuirs in buildings are said to
have escaped by the use of ropes.
Orchard sprayers were used to
combat the flames.
TONG ROW IN MEXICO
Guay mas. Sonora. Oct. 21. 'API
—Five persons including n .Mex
ican policeman were killed as a
result of a tong uprizing at Santa
SAYS RANKERS TO GIVE
RUSSIA CREDITS
Moscow. Oct. 21. (AP. Fi
i nance Commissioner Sokhnkov
announced before the all Russian
parliment that English bitnkers.
supported by American hankers
have agreed to advance Russia
extensive commercial credit* re
gardless of the position ot the
labor government. It is declared
that Russia balanced the budget
for the first time since the revol
ution. The budget is stated to
be two billion, ninety-one million,
six hundred thousand rubles of
which eighteen million will be
used for famine relief and three
hundred severity-eight million for
defense. The revenue from state
property is expected to bring in
over a billion rubles and two
hundred million yield from credit
operations including insurance
copper silver and eurrenev
| GERMAN PLANTS GO
BACK TO OWNERS
Coblenz. Germany. Oct 21,
(API—-The Interallied high com
mission has ordered the discon
tinuance next Tuesday of the
! Franco-Belgian occupation ser
vices operating German plants for
: reparations on account of turn
I ing the plants back to the hands
of the owners at that rime
THURSDAY
TELEGRAPHIC
Berlin. Oct. u 1. > A I') —€han
eelor Marx told Associated Pres*
representatives today that the dis
solution of the Reichstag yester
day and the advent of a new par
liment would not affect the Ger
man execution of the London
Dawes agreement.
MANY DIE IN TROPICAL STORM
Havana. OCt. 21. <AP)—Eight
to thirteen are reported killed and
fifty hurt as the result of a trop
ical storm which hit the town
of Arroyos de Mantus in Pinar
del Rio. Almost every building
was badly damaged and the to
bacco crop laid waste. Wire com
munication was also crippled.
SHENANDOAH BACK IN
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
San Ijiego. Cal . Oct 21, (AP)
—The dirigible Shenandoah after
being delayed by heavy fog, was
moored at eleven this morning at
the North Island Air Station.
SILVER WAVE REPORTED
DRIFTING OUT TO SKA
Information reaching here from
Kotzebue states that the motorahip
Silver Ware, operated by the Lo
men Reindeer and Trading Cor
poration. had arrived at Sadie
Creek. 8 miles below Kotzebue,
and had landed its cargo of freight
passengers and mail. It appears
when Captain Hegness returned
from Kotzebue with the mail for
Nome, he found the boat frozen-in j
and was unable to go aboard on j
account of slush Ice. Later in
formation states that the wind
has taken the Ice and boat out
to sea with four men on board,
and that the vessel is helpless. It
is more than likely that the Cutter
Mojave will be dispatched to ren
der uid to the crew and vessel.
coolidge Inarticulate
SPEECH LESS. SPINELESS
SAYS HOI! LAFOLLETTE
Peoria, 111., Oct 22. (AP)
Bob LaPollette. here for a speech j
tonight was met with great en
thusiasm and in his speech re
ferred to Coolidge as “the inar
ticulate, speechless, spineless fig
ure of the Whltehouse” who "pus
syfooted every proposition that
required any backbone all of his
life.'* When he asked "Who had
ever heard of Coolidge four years
ago" somebody in the audience
shouted “Boston Police Strike"
In reply to this Lafollette said
that Coolidge didn't take a hand
in the striko affair "until the
trouble was over and he saw
which side the public opinion was
JOHN JOHNSON MEETS
DEATH BY DROWNING
IN SAFETY LACJOON
While enroute to Nome from
Solomon Tuesday by dog team.
John Johnson, the well known
Solomon mining man of the firm
of Ivorson and Johnson. was
| drowned in Safety Lugoon. From
j information at hand Fred Mebes
j and Mr. Johnson were mushing
j along the ice on Safety Lagoon
j when to their surprise they broke
j through. Both men got out of
I the icy water and returned to cut
| the dogs free from the sled when
jthe ice on which Mr. Johnson was
J standing gave away percipitating
appears that he made frantic ef
; forts to get out and as the ice
| kept breaking around him. Mr.
j Mebes could not render any assist
! ance. Full details will be printed
(in the Nugget Saturday.
I
ACCUSES MAYOR BROWN
OF ATTEM1*TEI) OKA FT
Seattle. Oct 22. (AP) Cor
poration Counsel Kennedy testi
fied before the City Council in
vestigating committee yesterday
that Mayor Rdwin .1. Brown had
came to him with a proposal to
split, three ways on a fund of two
‘million dollars that could he ob
tained by the breaking by the
city of u contract to purchase the
(street railways. The system sng
j gested was for Rdwin .1. Brown.
Jr., won of the mayor to have
, charge of the city's fight, one
(part going to those working up
j the case, one part to the special
counsel fighting the case on the
part of the city and the other
part to go to the corporation
counsel for letting it go through.
He declared that E. B. Minioh,
investigator of the street car pur
chase for the mayor held booze
parties with the investigators of
the Puget Sound Light and Power
Company and had made an offer
of two thousand dollars hush
money to Harry Bolton, formerly
a councilman and later Civil Ser
vice Commissioner.
JIMMY WELSH OUT
OF MINOR SERIES
Seattle. Oct. 22. (AP| -Jimmy
Welsh will be unable to play in
in the minor league championship
series here next week on account
of a blood clot which followed a
"Charley-horse” which developed
in the right thigh after an injury
playing against Los Angeles. Billy
Lane center fielder who arrived
for the series said that he had
left Welsh just able to hobble
around and unable to sleep. He
says the star has lost twenty]
pounds.
POUR MORE DEATHS
OS TRENTON LIST
Norfolk. Va., Oct. 22. (AP)—*
Four more seamen are dead to
day as the result of the explosion
which occurred yesterday aboard j
the Cruiser Trenton. This makes ,
a total of twelve deaths from the
accident and four of six other
survivors are in a critical con- |
BWJ PLACER STRIKE
ATTRACTS PROSPECTORS
Carcross. Y. T.. Oct. 22. (AP) 1
—Practically the entire popula-1
tion of Carcross has gone to Little
Lake Atlin, forty miles from here
and twenty miles from Old Eng
lish Poet, where Indian prospect
ors led by Big Lake Jim are re
HI EEDHOAT I'Al'UHT
SMUGGLING CHINESE
Seattle. Oct. 22, <AP)— The
Coast Ouard Picket Poat number
2229 cuptured the speed boatlS4
last night off Port Townsend with
six Chines<» aboard being smug
gled into the United States. The
boat was captured and the crew |
and Chinese turned over to the
Cutter Arcadia.
ported to have made a big dis
covery of placer gold. Indians
have been widely notified and
have staked the best of the claims
and prospectors are reported en
tering from Whitehorse and Skag
way in large numbers. The new
strike is said to be ideally located
with two creeks running on either
authorizes sale of
TF.NAKEK TOWN LOTS I
Washington, D. C., (Oct. 22, J
(AP) The apartment of the In- j
terior today announced the auth- j
crization for the sale of town lots
' at Tenakee. Chicago! Island in
Southeastern Alaska. Then- are
I twenty-three hundred forty one
[lots platted from the one hundred
[seventy-three acres compos'ng the
| townsite. A. Parks. Assistant
[ Supervisor of Public Lands in
Alaska has been named trustee
and has been directed to give
•the present residents of the town!
the tirst opportunity to buy.
[SIR THOMAS LIPTON
ARRIVES IN l. S.
1 Thomas Lipton. arriving here ye«
jtevdsy from London reiterated his
intention to challange the Ameri
can yacht cup in 192t!. He had
S.\vs COAL REGULATES
GASOLINE PRICKS
Tulsa. Okla.. Oct. 22. (APi
An official of the Standard Oil
Company of New Jersey announc'd
| that the price of coal regulates
I the price of gasoline to a large
extent He stated that under ex
isting conditions, easoline is often
j produced cheaper from fuel oil
jthan from crude petroHum
FRIDAY
TELEGRAPHIC
1 SEATTLE INVESTIGATION
COMMITTEE BUSY
Seattle. Oct. 23. (AIM O. B
Thormrimson. lawyer. testifiying
| be fore the Council Investigations
(Committee yesterday said that
| Mayor Brown told him that some
! counciltnen had taken bribes and
named T. Parry. Harry Bolton. 1
■ civil Service Commissioner and a|
former councilman issued a stale
1 ment that the thousand dollars j
(Stone & Webster was borrowed on !
'a note to help him with a divorce I
[suit which had cost him twenty-,
live hundred dollars beside his j
home. He said that he had paid
it all back having sold some lib
erty bonds for the purpose. The
mayor was called to the stand last
night and when asked what he
learned when he went back and
investigated Bolton replied to
Chairman Ralph Nichols "That's
none of your business."
HELPS ROCKEFELLER
WITH TRUST MONEY
New York. Oct. 23. < AIM Ed
win Gould, testifying in the
eighty-two million dollars account
ing suit of the estate of his father
Jay Gould, admitted that seven
and a half million of the trust
money had been dumped into Col
orado Fuel and Iron Company
stock to help Rockefeller rehab
ilitate and reorganize the enter
.1AMEK H. CRANDELL
FOUND DEAD IN BED
Eugene. Ore.. Oct. 23. (AP) —
James H. Crandell, credited with
having made and lost two large
fortunes in mining in the Rocky
Mountains was found dead in bed
yesterday. He was formerly the
Secretary-Treasurer of the Colo
rado Fuel and Iron Company.
NOTE BROUGHT OUT
IN DOHKNY CASE j
Los Angeles. Oct. 23. (AP)— I
The government investigators in- t
troduced a note for one hundred
thousand dollars in the handwrit
ing declared to be that of Fall,
payable to Doheny in the suit for
me investigators charged that the
lote was a receipt for the hundred
housand given to Fail .n a little
)ag in a conspiracy to grant I)o
leny leases out of which he esti
nated the proflit would be a hun
lred million dollars. Mrs rto
rony testified that Frank Hogan,
lefense counsel had the signature
orn from the note
FORM Kit LEGION HEAD
SHOT IN SHOULDER
Grand Rapids, Mich.. Oct. 22,
(AP)—Colonel John O Emory,
former National Commander of
he American legion was shot in
:he shoulder today as he sat in
lis office, by Chedell Simpson for
ty-four. against whom Emory's
stenographer had a divorce suit
pending Simpson is under ar
DOCTOR MKISEH LICENSE
FOR MISREPRESENTING
Sacramento, Oct. 23,‘ (AP)—Dr.
Frank P Young, prominent sur
geon was convicted before the
state medical board of having is
sued fraudulent diplomas as head
of the Pacific Medical College and
he was deprived of his license to
practice in the state.
EDITORS CHARGED
WITH INCITING RIOT
Manila. J* !., Oct. 23. (API
Seventeen Chinese editors of the
Manhop. Chinese Daily were ar
rested h*r* charged with sedition
in inciting a Chinese attack on
Filipinos, contributing to riots
here Sunday and Monday
SHOT IN ARGUMENT
OVER AN ELECTION
Alex Hatfield, member of a family
ol celebrated feudalists was shot
called Thurman Chambers a liar.
Chamber told investigators that
he hit Hatfield first, and the latter
drew .. pistol and was shot during
the -•rnggl* for possession of the
ALAMKH\ irOEK T1 >
GOLOVIN FOR < ARGO
The Steamer Alamoda having
discharged her carro here without
delay will move to Golovin and
go Passengers will probably b»
loaded here on Sunday for the
III ST KXFLOHION IN COAL
MINK ENTOMIIS MINERS
Madisonvllle. Ky . Oct 23. (AP)
Paul Wheeler, nineteen year old
n.irier was today recovered from
tli*- Hard Coal Company mint
where a dust explosion last night
entombed a minimum of t'fteer
miners. Two still missing are be
lieved to be buried under a fall
of slate. Fourteen escaped last
CHINESE DIVISION
STACK X REVOLT
Tientsin. China. Oct. 23, (AP'
Portions of the eleventh division
01 the Chinese National Army
commanded by General Feng Yu
Hsiang. commonly known as the
Christian General, staged a revolt
in Peking, seizing the city’s gates,
cutting the telephone tnd tele
graph communication and stopping
[train service according to infor
i mat ion reaching here.
COURT DECISION NOT CURE
OF ALL JUDICIARY EVIL
Washington. Oct 22. tAPi
• Concerning the decision of th*
Supreme Court on Monday that
strikers are entitled to trial by
jury when accused of contempt of
court. Samuel Goinpers. national
labor leader said ’it was con
structive and progressive and a
recognition in some degree tlia1
the tendency of the courts to as
Uunie autocratic powers must be
i curbed if the whole court system
, is not to he impnred.” He adds
It mustn’t be thought that this
I decision cures all judiciary evil."
FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND
XDDKD TO CAMPAIGN FUND
1 Washington, Oct. 23. (AP)—- A
I statement by Treasurer Hodges
[ of the Republican National Com
I rnittee received by the Senate In
i vestigating committee showd five
j hundred thousand dollars added
the campaign fund between Oc
i tuber tenth and fifteenth bringing
the total within e:f;h‘. hundred
thousand dollars of the three mil
lion mark, the maximum set by
the national committee.
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ALASKA S.S. CO.
S. S. Alameda
Replaces S. 5. Victoria'on last
trip of the season, sailing from
Nome about October 26th.
S. S. Cordova
Will sail for Seattle about Nov=
ember 1st.
SAILINfi DATES SUBJECT TO CHANBE
James P. Daly,
Agent, Nome