MONDAY
(TELEGRAPHIC)
FARMERS TO PLACE
NEW I* ARTY IN
POLITICAL FIELD
Chicago, Feb. *0—United Farm
ers National Bloc in a meeting held
here have determined to place a new
political party in the field, In protest
to the action of the banking Inter
ests whom the farmers accuse of
pernicious attempts to throttle the
agricultural Interests of the country.
The new farmers party will enter
the field with a full list of candidates
in the next presidential election.
REORGANIZATION PROHIBITION
FORCES CONTEMPLATED
Washington. Feb 20- Fed3.al
I'r .Mbition Directors will b* in
rrrt'fj to t* e number of fifty six
According to an announ . ment made
by Commissioner Haynes a reorgan
isation of national prohibition forces
is expected to be completed soon and
<hat the present force of Directors
will be Increased to fifty six. a con
siderable Increase over the present
number of field officers.
NATIONAL RANK RESOURCES
#10,430,000.000
Washington. Feb. 20—Econom
ists are viewing with great satisfac
tion the statement issued by the
White House relative to the finan
cial situation in the United States.
An encouraging turn has taken
place in the financial affairs of the
country since 1919, and the analysis
of the December Bank call records
that the total resources of National
Banks on that date, exclusive,
counts at $19,420,000,000.
TWO SISTERS POLITICAL
OPPONENTS FOR CONGRESS
Ashillnd. Neb. Feb. 20th—Mrs.
Irene Bull and Mrs. A. C. Gault, two
sisters, have announced their candi
dacies for congress from the same
congressional district. It is repor
ed that the ladles will stump the
••tale and have decided upon an ac
tive campaign.
SAUSS TAX FIGHT LAUNCHED
AT TONIGHTS CAUCUS
Washington, Feb. 20—Fight tor a
Sale* Tax method to finance the
Soldiers’ Bonne Bill will tonight be
iadsched before the entire Republi
can membership gathered in caucus.
President Harding is au ardent sup
porter of the Sales Tax method and
the administration whip will in all
likehood be used to force the issue.
FORMER NOMETTE FILES
FOR DELEGATE CONGRESS
Cordova, Alaska. Feb. 20—James
L. Galen today announced his can
didacy for Delegate to Congress
from Alaska, on the Republican tic
ket in the coming Primary election.
Galen comes from Montana and
went to Nome in nineteen hundred
where he was actively engaged in
mining and prospecting until nine
teen seven. For six years Galen
was in the Tanana and Copper River
districts, after which he came to
Cordova and has been engaged in
the transfer business here ever since.
The telegram states that Galen
will have the solid support of the
Third Division.
HABEAS CORPUS PROCEEDINGS
LINDEBERG ON TUESDAY
San Francisco, Feb. 20—Accord
ing to the stipulation entered into by
counsel, Habeas Corpus proceedings
will be Instituted Tuesday on behalf
of Jafet Lindeberg, for whom an ex
tradition warrant was issued for his
return to Tacoma. Authorities of
the State of Washington are leaving
no stone unturned to return Linde
berg to answer the charge of wreck
ing the Scandinavian American Bank
of Tacoma.
DEFENSES PANAMA CANAL
OUTRANGED BY FOREIGN SHIPS
Chicago. Feb. 20—Harold McCor
mick. head of the International Har
vester Trust, today announced the
.engagement of his daughter, Mathil
da to Max Oeer According to the
report issued by the press of last
Saturday Miss McCormick Is sixteen
years old while her fiance is forty
elght.
Oser is a riding master In the Zu
rich, Switserland Riding Academy
and when the engagement inis an
nounced a storm of protest was rais
ed by the girl’s father and her grand
father, J. D. Rockefeller. Misa Mc
Cormick refused to be Influenced by
the opposition of hef family and as
the best way out the difficulty waa to
accede to the girl’s intention her
father' announced the engagement.
FORMER SAN FRANCISCO
HOTEL MANAGER SUICIDES
London. Feb. 20—Captain Chas.
Percy Smith, former manager of the
Palace Hotel, of San Francisco, com
mitted suicide here Saturday. No
reason is assigned for the rash deed
as Smith seemed to have been in
good health and with no financial
troubles to warrant such action.
McNIDER PROTESTS AGAINST
BONUS BILL DELAY
Washington, Feb. 20—McNider,,
head of the American Legion, in
protest against further delay of the
Soldiers’ Bonus Bill, wired President
Harding: “Service men do not un
derstand committing and then re
traction, had capital and Labor been
drafted when men’s lives were draft
ed, present aggravated situation
would not exist.”
ROCKEFELLER HEIRESS OVER
COMES PARENTAL OPPOSITION!
Washington. Feb. 20—According
to the report of military experts sub
mitted to congress, the guns consti
tuting prenent defenses of the Pana
ma Canal are outranged by rifles of
foreign warships. In the report
submitted it is shown that the war
ships of foreign power* can remain
a thousand yards beyond the canal
range and with their superior guns
level the shore defenses of the Unit
ed States.
MEXICAN REVOLUTIONARY
MOVEMENTS DEVELOPING*
Washington, Feb. 20—Govern
ment advices received from the Mex
ican border and from points beyond
the line, indicate that the Ohregon
government fears trouble.
Obregon views with apprehension
the growing signs of revolutionary
movements, which are becoming par
ticularly active in the vicinity of the
border uear Juarez.
VILLA ASKS PERMISSION TO
FIGHT REVOLUTIONISTS
Mexico City, Fob. 20—-Pancho
Villa, former bandit chief, has asked
permission to lead his men against
Qeneral Rosalia Hermandex, who is
in rebellion in the State of Chihua
hua. Since his reformation Villa
has been occupied with ranchiug
and the peaceful pursuits incident
to the life of a land holder, but now
like Cincinnatus of old. would leave
the plow and and come to the res
cue of his country.
TUESDAY
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INFLUENZA VICTIMS
RELIEVED BY WHISKEY
Redding, Cal., Feb. 21—Three
hundred resident® of Redding are
down with the Influenza and local
drug stores are dispensing whiskey
as the specific for this malady.
The drug stores have received an
emergency supply of seven barrels
of bonded whiskey, which was ship
ed by express from Sacramento.
Prohibition agents have received
instructions to permit the dispensing
of whiskey by doctors and drug
stores in event of any flue epidemic.
JAPAN' TO BEGIN'
SCRAPPING SHIPS
Tokyo. Feb. 21—An announce
ment of plans to scrap a total of
twenty four ships in the Japanese
navy was made yesterday by the
naval minister. Appearing before
the national Diet the minister made
the statement that these ships wcu'd
ha scrapped in accordance with the
terms of the Washington Con fere t.co
EDISON SUBMITS A NEW
QUESTION AIRE TO BANKERS
West Orange, N. J., Feb. 20th—
Thomas A. Edison, in a new ques
tionaire addressed to bankers and
economist asks whether our na
tional resources are not a good basis
for Federal currency and why cur
rency issued on a basis of
60 per cent of the value of the ne
cessities of life, stored in Govern
ment warehouses, would not be
sound money also.
Edison's master question is: “What
in your opinion would be the approx
imate market value of a troy ounce
of pure gold if all governments In
the world should demonitize?”
FRENCH PIPIiOMAT GIVEN
OVATION BY PARIS
Paris, Feb. 21—Albert Sarraut,
head of the French delegation to the
Washington Arms Conference arriv
ed here yesterday afternoon and was
given a tremendous ovation by the
people. Crowds gathered at the
station to receive the distinguished
diplomat and for the time Sarraut
is the idol of public adoration.
Decided stand taken by Sarraut
against the transparent submarine
policy of England has endeared him
in the hearts of loyal Frenchmen.
SENATE FOREIGN RELATION
COMMITTEE FAVOIW
YAP TREATY
Washington, Feb. 21—President
Harding replied to the senate on the
Hitchcock resolution asking for in
formation relative to negotiations
entered into between the powers in
the formative period of the Four
Power Pacific Treaty.
Harding stated that it was im
possible to furnish the requested in
formation for the reason that most
negotiations are conducted with out
preserving any records of the pro
ceedings. That no concealed under
takings and no exchanges of notes
were part of the deliberations is a
positive statement made by the ex
ecutive.
Almost coincident with the ar
rival of the President’s letter at the
Senate, the foreign relations com
mittee of that body, by a vote of ten
to one. ordered favorably on the
reported treaty between Japan and
the United States relative to the
Island of Yap.
NATIONAL SINN FEIN
CONVENTION TODAY
Dublin. Feb. 20—Delegates to
Ard Fheis. or national Sinn Fein
convention which meets tomorrow,
are gathering here in large numbers
HARDING FAVORS
POSTPONEMENT Ol
ROM'S LEGISLATION
Washington, Feb. 21—President
Hording is “strongly in favor" of
postponing all Soldiers’ Bonus legis
lation until next year. Th** fore
going statement was given th.- press
by a prominent Republican Seuator
who called at the White House this
morning and conferred with the
President regarding this bete noir
of the present session of Congress.
PROPOSED TO TOW ALASKA
CEDAR LOGS TO SEATTLE
Seattle. Feb. 20—J. R. Reynolds
has returned to Juneau after putting
iu a week investigating .shipping and
towing rates. Mr. Reynolds pro
poses to tow cedar logs from Alaska
and re-hip them to Japan. If the in
vestment will prove profitable. Up
on reaching his headquarter:, at Jun
eau Reynolds will assemble his data
end determine the feasibility of the
In event thn a profit can bo made
in such a venture a great stimulus
will result in the timber industry of
the North, for millions of feet of
timber await the market that will
take the output at a profit to the
lumbermen.
LAFOLBTTK DECLARES
WASHINGTON CONFER
ENCE OBJECT
Milwaukee, Wia., Feb 20—Robert
Lafolette. Senator from Wisconsin,
in an address made hero today de
clared that the Arms Conference
was every thing but a real disarma
ment conference, he says that the
“primary objeet of the Washington
Conference was to make the world
safe for imperialists.”
I»REKK NAVAL RADIO SERVICE
GIVEN NEW LEASE
Washington. Feb. 21—House res
olution extending privileges of the
naval radio service to the press of
the country for five years, was yes
terday adopted by the Senate.
MONSTER DYNAMO DESTINED
FOR ALASKA RAILROAD
Seattle. Feb. 21—Steamship Vic
toria, sailing from this port Wed
nesday, will have on board an eleven
ton dynamo destined for delivery to
the Alaska railroad at Seward.
IMMIGRATION RESTRICTIVE
LAWS EXTENDED TO 1023
Wellington, Feb. 21—Yester
day the House passed and sent to
the Senate a resolution extending
until June 30, 1923, the three per
cent restrictive immigrant law.
. JAPAN CONSIDERING
RECOGNITION OF .
SOVIET RI'SSLA
Tokyo, Feb. 21—Uchida. in an
address before the Japanese Diet
yesterday declared that Japan is
considering the recognition of Soviet
Russia. Russia will be recognised,
he said, if the Soviet government
will accept the terms of the Genoa
Conference.
WEDNESDAY
(TELEGRAPHIC)
MRS. ASQUITH PREFERS
OUR MEN TO OUR WOMEN
Chicago, Feb. 21—Margot As
quith. prominent English woman
politician, declares that Secretary
of State Hughes is the greatest na
tional figure living at this time.
Margot has little liking for our rail
roads—she calls them abominable,
and when speaking of our people
she says that she “likes American
men far better than American wo
The democratic feature of our
railroad coaches is so far less ex
clusive than the compartments of
English and Continental roaches
that the lady protests; plebeian pro
pinquity shocks the titled dame.
HA I* DIPLOMA FROM FRISCO
SCHOOL OF BURGLARS
Providence, It. I., Feb. 20—Early
this morning Charles Benson was
discovered drilling a hole in the safe
of St. Patrick's Roman Catholic
Church. When surrounded by a
cordon of police and arrested Ben
son was found to possess; what pur
ports to be a diploma from a San
Francisco School for Burglars.
FORMER GOVERNOR COLORADO
PASSES BEYOND
Denver, Feb. 21—John F. Shaf
roth. former United States Senator
from this state, died here yesterday
afternoon. Shafroth was twice
elected governor of the State of Col
orado before entering the senate.
DECLINES PEERAGE
AS RECOGNITION
OF WORK DONE
London, Feb. 22—Balfour has
been offered a peerage in recognition
of work done at the Washington
Arms Conference and has declined
the honor. At three different times
in the life of this astute British dip
lomat has a similiar honor been of
fered and at each time been declined
PASSENGERS JUMP OVER
BOARD AND DROWN
San Francisco. Feb. 22nd—Mrs.
Alice Hills* of Los Anbelea aifd Har
old Holloway a passenger from San
Francisco, jumped from the Matson
Liner Buckeye State, and were
drowneid. At the time of the sui
cide the vessel was three hundred
miles south from Los Angeles.
PROMINENT NOME ATTORNEYS
IN SAN FRANCTSfO
Seattle. Feb. 22—O. D. Cochran.
James Frawley and 1. D. Orton are
in San Francisco on legal business.
NATIONAL SINN FEIN
CONVENTION MEETS
Dublin. Feb. 22—The National
Sinn Fein Convention opened late
Tuesday afternoon in Mansion
House. Supplying- opportunity for
revealing the true extent to which
Sinn Fein Clubs in Ireland are sup
porting the new provisional govern
ment. this meeting opened amidst
tense excitement.
RAN AWAY WITH FAMILY
FUNDS AND JITNEY
SEATTLE. Washington. Feb. 22 —
Conrad Hovig. owner of an Alas
kan fishing smack, has asked the
court to grant him a divorce from
I his wife. Hovig has a justifiable
I ground for divorce if the statement
he makes is true; his wife ran away
J and took with her the family bank
roll of two thousand dollars and the
j family fliver.
NATIVE AMERICAN
PRINCESS ARRIVES
AS A STOWAWAY
New Orleans. Feb. 22—Princess
Tschernits Cheo. a native American
identified with Russian royalty un
der the Romanoff regime, arrived
here yesterday. The princess came
home as a stowaway aboard the
Steamship Texandrier, which docked
here from Antwerp.
HAMMOND TO OPERATE
PIONEER MINING CO.
HOLDINGS THIS SUMMER
Seattle. Feb. 22—Contracts have
been signed whereby the Pioneer
Mining Company gives to W. P.
Hammond an option to purchase all
their holdings in the Nome District.
According to the terms of the con
tract Hammond is given the right of
possession and obligates him to mine
and operate with present equipment.
Operations are to be begun this
summer as soon as weather permits
and Hammond will go to Nome on
the first boat
With Hammond will go Edwards,
hie chief engineer. Edwards was in
Nome in 1320 at which time he was
with the Alaska Mines Corporation
Investigating that company’s hold
WOUNDED FORMER SERVICE
MAX BLINDS HIMSELF
Nogales, Arizona, Feb. 22 —Theo
dore Marburg Jr., son of the former
Ambassador to Belgium, accidentiv
shot himself Sunday and as a result
of the accident the surgeons remov
ed both the victims eyes.
During the war Marburg was a
member of the English flying forces
and lost a leg in the service
TEXTILE MILL STRIKERS
AND POLICE CLASH
Pawtucket, R. I , Feb. 22—Textile
mill strikers and local policemen
clashed here Tuesday and one per
son was killed and two wounded
when the police used riot guns on
the crowd.
DEV A LERA ADVOCATES SPLIT
SINN FEIN PARTY
Dublin, Feb. 22—De Valera re
gards a split in the Sinn Fein party
as inevitable and openly advocates
such a division. In an address be
fore the convention De Valera says
it would be better for Ireland to have
two armies, each ready to assist the
other if the country were imperiled,
rather than to have on* army divid
ARMY MAX IXJIRKD
IV At’TO ACCIDENT
Seattle. Feb. 22—Major A H
Cleary, commandant of Fort Lawson,
was dangerously injured in this city
yesterday morning. It is reported
that Major Cleary was one of an
automobile party that collided with
another machine with the result that
Cleary is in the hospital.
WAR RISK INSURANCE
DIRECTOR DIES WITH
HEART DISEASE
Iffw York. Feb. 22—R. C. Chie-,
meljr, former director of the War
Risk Insurance Bureau of the gov-!
eminent, diet! Tuesday with heart i
disease. !
WAJfTRD TO BUY SOME KINDI- 1
INC* WOOD, ALREADY CUT, IN-!
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LIST OF UNDELIVERED
MESSAGES AT SIGNAL
CORPS CITY OFFICE
The following persons have mes
sages addressed to them, which are
unable to be delivered or forwarded
on account of addresses unknown:
H. A. CLARK
W . R. WOODS
MRS. BELL
W. F. CHASE1
CHRIS GUDMUNDSON.
J. ALVERD.
ALICE JOURDAN,
CHAS. WEAVER,
Cuticura Shampoos
Mean Healthy Hair
i.socially if preceded by touches
of Cuticura Ointment to spots of
dandruff, itching and irritation.
This treatment does much to keep
the scalp clean and healthy and to
promote hair grow*h.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Charles Spencer, F. A. Cross,
their heirs, successors, assigns,
and personal representatives.
Notice ia hereby given that the un
dersigned co-owners have caused the
annual expenditure required by law
of $100.00 to be made upon each
of the following named association
placer mining claims for the year
1920 and have also caused the ex
penditure required by law In record
ing a declaration to hold the said
claims for each of the years 1917,
1918 and 1919. amounting to $4.GO
for each of said claims, to wit: The
Elihu Association placer mining
claim located on tin- 1st day of Jan
uary. 1912. the notice of location
being of record at page 143, volume
22. Locations; the Ophir Portage
Association placer mining claim lo
cated on thu 1st day of January,
1911, the notice of location being of
record at page 21G, volume 21, Lo
cations; and the Ophir Pay Associa
tion placer mining claim located on
the 1st day of January, 1911, the
notice of location being of record at
page 216, volume 21. Locations;
All of said claims being on the
Niukluk River In the Council City
Recording Distriet, Territory of Al
And if the said Charles Spencer,
his heirs, successors, assigns or per
sonal representatives does not with
in 90 days next sucoeeding tha publi
cation of this notice. v£use to be
paid his proportionate share off tha
said expenditure for each of salt*,
years, that all his interest ia the said
Elihu claim will become forfeited
to the undersigned; and if the said
Charles Spencer and F. A. Cross,
their heirs, successors, assigns or
personal representatives, do not
within 90 days next succeeding the
publication of this notice, cause to
be paid to the undersigned, their pro
portionate shares of said expendi
ture for each of the said years, that
all the interest of each <?f them 1u
the said Ophir Portage and Ophir
Pay claims will become forfeited tc
the undersigned.
Payments made under terms of
this notice are required to be mmle
to E. n. Pfaffle at Council, Territory
E. H. PFAFFLE.
v. v dtcken/ox.
Publish—Jan. 14. 21. 28. Feb. 4,
11, 18. 25. March 4. 11. 18. 25.
April 1. 8. 1922.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To W. A. Maeomber. his assigns, suc
cessors, in interest and legal re
presentatives:
You are hereby given notice, that
the undersigned has expended in
labor and improvements during the
year 1920, the sum of One hundred
dollars on the Placer Claim No. 1
Bench, situated on the Left Limit of
Center Creek, in the Cape Nome Re
cording Precinct, Territory of Alas
ka, notice of location of which is re
corded in the records of the said Re
cording Precinct, said labor and im
provements having been done on said
claim for the purpose of holding the
same under the provisions of Section
2321 Revised Statutes of the United
States and supplemental legislation.
And yon are hereby required to
contribute your proportionate share
of such expenditure, as co-owner, to
the undersigned within ninety days
after final publication erf this notice
or your interest In said claim will be
forfeited and become the property of
, the undersigned your coowner as
provided in said section of the Revis
ed Statutes.
Dated Nome. Alaska. Dec. 3, 1921.
ANDY ANDERSON,
Co-Owner.
Publish Dec. 3. 10, 17, 24, 31, 1921
and Jan. 7, 14, 21, 28; Eeb. 4, It,