ALASKA V TURNS TRAMP TO
FIN'D GIRL HE RESCUED IN
NORTH ONLY TO LOSE IIEl?
Cheyenne. YVyo.. October 28th —
Somewhere on the road, either
tramping along the dusty highway
or roaming with a freight train and
headed east, is a (ramp who in real
ity is not a tramp and who has tak
en advantage of the present condi
tion of unemployment and the fact
that there are tramps to bring to a
conclusion a picturesque romance
which started three years ago in Al
His name is Jack Searies. of Yu
kon. his home is on a big timber
claim in Alaska, and he is seeking
a girl whose name and address are
•dike unknown to him. He is not
even sure she is in the United States
but he is “taking a chance."
Searies told one of the most re
markable stories ever offered while
he was eating the meal he had earn
ed for chopping some firewood at
a local residence.
“I'm no tramp," he said. “I'm
not even out of a Job. My home is
in Alaska. I own enough timber
to build a town nearly as big as this.
I am trying to find a girl Isaw once.
And when I learned of the big num
ber of men who are out of work
and who are tramping it in the
states the idea came to me that by
knocking around myself, by posing
as a tramj) and chopping wood at
people’s houses, or doing anything
else that came along. I might find
her. No use trying to get anybody
else to find her. because I have no
picture, but 1*11 know her if I ever
see her again.
“Almost seven years ago T was
going to marry a girl. The war
came, and I enlisted in a Canadian
regiment. I was overseas through
the whole war, and when I came
home this girl, who had promised
so much, was married and had two
children. My faith in girls went
out like the ice on the Yukon. I
went up to my claim and was living
alone. Then, three years ago this
winter, I found another girl.
“I was coming down from White
Horse, and it was snowing hard.
Had eight doRR and a load of flour,
when, right square in the trail. I
found this girl, unconscious and
partly frozen. I unloaded two
sacks of flour and piled her on the
sled and mushed on inhaste for
my shack on Abaorka creek.
“When we got there I took the
girl in the house. Her left arm
and leg were badly frost-bitten. s»
I went to work on her to bring her
out of it. All you can do when
they get nipped like that is pack
them in snow, so I took most of her
clothing off. laid her on my bunk
and packed snow around her. I
rubbed snow on her side and where
ever she was frost-bitten until T
could see her coming out of it. She
Anally came to. but was delirious.
1 fixed her some grub and started
out for Yukon to get a doctor. It
was fifty-four miles, and the snow
was light. Traveling was hard.
“I was gone for two days. When
I got back with the doctor my shack
was cleaned up like I had never
seen it cleaned—dishes all washed
floor swept, and everything very
tiddy—but the girl was gone. All
she left me was this”—and he pro
duced a small linen handkerchief
from an inner pocket.
The suggestion that she might
have taken a husband in these three
years was waved- lightly aside by
Searies. That sh*e might be living
in a hotel or apartment house where
his clever scheme 'for discovering
her would fail because of the inac
cessibility of these places to evep
the most romantic hobo seemed to
concern him not a whit.
“I’m going to knock as some door
some of these days, and that girl’s
going to open it. I feel it in my
bones.” he declared.
Searies is about twenty-six years
old. tall and broad shouldered, with
the complexion peculiar to men who
have lived in the cold regions just
below the circle in the north. His
eyes are deep gray and smile a great
deal; his hair is light, curly and
pompadoured. and he wears a soft
hat. a mackinaw shirt, corduroy
trousers and blue serge coat.
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KIKSIA TO SPKND TKX
MILLIONS IN U. S. FO|{ FOOD
Washington, !)•<■. 29—Permission
has been granted to the Soviet gov
ernment to send a representative to
the I'nited States to supervise the
expenditure of ten millions of former
imperial Russian treasury funds for
the purchase of food and grain for
the famine poor, it was announced
officially today.
ASKS RFrKIYFI.su 11* FOIJ
KLL’ KLt’X FI NDS
Atlanta. Ga.. Dec. 21»-—A receiv
ership of all property, records and
funds of the Klu Flux Klan is
sought in a "petition filed today in
the Superior Court liy '/ Y * T.,
persons describing themselves as
‘‘members” of the Klan.
BANDITS KILL HANK OFFICIALS
Pearl River. \\ Y.. Dec. 29th—
Bandits today shot and killed the
assistant cashier and a clerk of the
First National Bank here and es
EGYPTIAN SITUATION
NOW IMPROVING
London, Dec. 29—An official re
port from Cairo today states that the
situation in lower Egypt is ap
proaching normal, with the suppres
sion of the revolutionaries.
TRAIN KILLS TACOMA' LOGGER.
Tacoma. Wn , Dec. 29—Harold
L. Winston, a logging operator, was
killed today when a Northern Paci
fic train ran down his automobile
at Lakeview Crossing.
SOVIETS ISSUE TRILLIONS
IN PAPER MONEY
j Riga, Russia, Dec. 29—A Mos
cow dispatch today say3 the Soviet
' government in the last four years
! hu9 issued eleven trillions in paper
V. s. MAY FORCE
FRANCE’S HAND ON
SUIt. QUESTION
Washington, Dec. 30—America, it
is hinted, may demand that France
immediately pay her debt to this
country, as a means of forcing her
to abandon her big submarine fie«t
HARDING TO ADDRESS
CONGRESS ON SHIP HI It^lDY
Washington. Dec. 30—A pecial
message on ship subsidy, which Pres
ident Harding, early in January, will
address to Congress, briefly outlined,
will propose that Congress authorize
the Shipping Board to charter a fleet
of merchant vessels at sufficiently
low rates to attract operators. It
will then be proposed that the Board
take a portion of the receipts of
these vessels on export trips and turn
it over to American vessels on im
port trips.
CHINA AND JAPAN
REFUSE TO REOPEN
SHA NTUXG X EGOTIATH »\S
Tokio, Japan. Dec. 29—Although
regretting the deadlock existing in
the Shantung negotiations at Wash
ington, it was made known torjay
that neither China or Japan will re
open them.
CALIFORNIA RANK ROBBERS
KILLED IN BATTLE
Sacramento. Calif., Dec. 29—Ban
dits who robbed the Lockford. Cali
fornia bank were killed in a gur
battle with law officers, according to
information received here.
Deputy Sheriff T. W. Wheatley was
wounded four times in the battle.
AUlXiRI) TACOMA ABDCCTOUK
HCHXJHT BY MILITAltY
Tacoma. \Vn„ Dec. 2ft—The mili
tary authorities of Camp Lewis ar«*
searching today for three men, be
lfved to have been soldiers, who ab
ducted W. Ii Townsend, an auto
mobile mechanic The three men
forced Townsend to drive them into
the woods, where they robbed him
and fled in his machine.
lilt; THEFT OF
MOTION I'HTIUK FILM
Seattle. Dec. 2flth— A hundred
thousand dollars worth of motion
picture films, with bookings valued
at five million dollars, has been
stolen here from the vault of the j
Motion Picture Corporation. !
TItOOINS CALLED TO gi'IOLL
BIOT IN MEXICAN COXOBKSS
Mexico City. Dec. 3o- Til Mexi- j
can Chamber of Deputies was invad- •
ed by an armed force today to quell j
fighting in the spectators’ galleries j
between factions sympathizing with
the Liberal Constitutionalist. Party
and the Social Democracy bloc.
LISBON liABOUITES BLOWN II*
BY OWN BOMBS
Lisbon. Portugal. Dec. —Two
were killed and five wounded by an
explosion of bombs which were in
process of manufacture In the
building of the Lisbon confederation
of Labor today.
hXPKIITS MKRT TO
KKoiuaxi/i; i:
of Great Britain and France met hen
today to break th- around in rli*
financial rebuilding of Kurope.
OKLAHOMA HANK
PRKSIHKXT ASSASSINATFI
Oklahoma City, Dec rso- A. \V
Brindley, president of tin- .Mustanr
Slate Bank, was shot and killeil i*
front of his home this morning, th*
murderers •■scaping.
•>( TIIKKLANH ANXOF.V KS
( ANPIPAI V FOR and THRM
Seattle. Dec. 2!»—"Delegate Dan
Sutherland told me he will fire again
for Alaska delegate early in Jnn
Jury.” said ('has. K. Herron on ar
•iving here from the Fast today.
Heron will leave for the Fast
igain Saturday.
I'AltlS FINANCIAL
(ONFKRFXCK MOMFNTOIS
Paris. Dec. ;i" -The meeting of
British and French financial and
economic experts, now in progress
tere. is regarded as the most im
portant one that has develop d since
he beginning of efforts to bring
Europe back to a peace basis.
KKFNCH POPULATION
SHOWS IMG DKCItKASK
Paris. Dec. TO—Final census re
;urns issued today give France, in
cluding Alsace-Lorraine, a popula
:ion of 39.402.739, a decrease of
;wo hundred thousand in ten years.
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