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 with the significant statement that if the Susitna route should be adopted, this would cut out Seward as the ocean terminus. For months that kind of propaganda was carried on by the Morgan-Guggenhe press and workers.
 'To the public at large, who knew nothing about the geography of Alas ka, it was accepted as solemn truth. But to me and others who knew the inside facts, it was highly amusing fiction. promptly informed Presi- dent Wilson of the true situation, and left official data with him to verify my statements. The result was that the Portage bay propaganda seriously damaged the interests that were back of it, and helped the cause of Seward as the terminus finally selected.
 The official data I left with Presi- dent Wilson showed that Portage Bay had been we'll known since the time of Capt. Cooks voyages in TIT, that the route leading over the pass from it had been travelled by thousands of miners since the Cook Inlet gold stampedS in 1896, and that the Alas ka Central had made a complete sur Vey of that route in 1902, as shown by maps then in the Interior Depart ment, which the Alaska Central had rejected as physically impossible
 "The plain facts were and are that a tunnel 13,00O feet long would be re- quired to pass under the mountain range between Portage bay and Turn again Arm. The route then emerges into valley a mile wide and would cut through another mountain with a tunnel of 5000 feet Portage glacier comes down for twenty miles from the southeast, a mile wide and from 800 to 1000 feet deep, forming a bar Tier across the valley which the rail road would have to cross between the two tunnels. Periodically that gla- cler jams up against the mountain on the west side of the valley, making a complete dam A lake then forms behind the glacier and over the dis cussed railroad route, seven miles long and 300 feet deep. Such a lake filled that valley all through the years 1S96 to 1900, as hundreds of Alaskans know, and as maps prepared by the War Department expeditions of 1S9S and 1899 show. Many times since that lake has formed and continued for months at a time, until the inn pounded waters would slowly wear q enamel between the glacier and the western mountain wall. Those condi- Clons are obvious at a glance to ev- eryDody who sees them. At no time is the glacial wall of solid ice a mile
 0 "Au oVU Ieet high, more than 20 Io 5o feet from the mountain. the riv- CT flowing in canyon between the perpendicular walls of mountain and ice.
 But that is not all, impossible as it is. Portage bay has two glaciers discharging at its head, almost into the water, with only 100 acres of glacial moraine between the head of the bay and the perpendicular noun tain enclosing it. Mountain walls rise all around. At its entrance hundreds of icebergs often float out from the Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Harri- man glaciers that discharge into Port Wells, and Government charts show numerous sunken rocks there. In the winter months, the thick snows and
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Concluding Chapters on Building the Alosko
 Central Ry., and It's Purchase by the Cout

dense fogs make navigation of those waters extremely dangerous if not impossible. All storms from Prince William Sound sweep through the pass from the southeast, and all storms from Turnagain Arm cross over from the west, making it the worst storm driven center on the Alaskan coast.
 From any one of these combina- tions singly, it is impossible as a rail road terminus or as an open seaport Taken all together, no place in all the world, in Alaska or elsewhere, could be more impossible.
 President Wilson verified these statements, through surveys and ex- aminations he caused to be made, and found them exactly as described. He rejected it. The Navy Department later investigated, with the same def nate findings. It rejected Portage bay as impossible for any Naval pur- pose whatsoever. Still, we occasion ally hear yet about Portage bay, but always from people who don't know or from interests bent on making the Alaska railroad ridiculous. Coming back to the thread of my story, President Wilson in 1914 sent crews of engineers under the Alaska Engineering Commission to check up on the data and the arguments I had submitted to the House and the Sen ate Committees and to him, with the result that every detail of my data and statements was verified in full He accordingly, in April, 1915, official ly designated the route for the Alas ka railroad to be from Seward as the ocean terminus, following the original Alaska Central survey mile by mile through the Susitna valley to the Tan ana river at Nenana and on to Fair banks.
 "The President rejected both routes through the Copper River Valley, the one from Cordova and the other from Valdez, on the ground that the Cop per River Valley offered no resources of any kind to support population or provide traffic
 
 Every disinterested man in Alaska today frankly acknowledges that the Seward-Susitna route is the one logi- cal and rightful route, from the stand point of resources, central location, and all natural advantages.
 ''The Government bought the Alaska Northern as the first section of the Alaska railroad under it's own appraise ment, by provision in the Alaska Railroad Act giving it power of ap- praisal and condemnation, which I myself wrote and had incorporated in the Act. The Canadian owners asked $6,OO0,000 for it, but the Government set the price at $1,15O,0O0, which is the amount it paid. That is $16,OOO mile for a railroad that originally cost $4,125,000 to build, or an average of $6O,000 a mile. It was 25 cents on the dollar. Far from being an 'exorbitant' price, 1t was pickup. But the Cana dian owners had frozen out all inter- ests in it except those held by the de- funct Sovereign Bank of Canada. and consequently the Government did not feel in a philanthropic mood in deal ing with them.
 Although the Alaska Northern sec tion traverses the heaviest work be- tween Seward and Fairbanks, it stands the Government less in cost per mile than the level work through the Susit-
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Million Pay Tribute to Dead

WILLARD, O., Aug. Mrs. Hard ing requested that the speed of the funeral train not exceed 50 miles an hour on it's way to Washington. and that speed of only ten miles an hour be maintained through towns and villages. Secret service men accom- panying the body estimated today that more than a million persons turned out in various towns and eft les thus far to pay tribute to the dead President.
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DIAL PASSES SAFETY BILL

DUBLIN, Aug. 7.-The Dial passed a public safety bill whereuRdef the government may continue to hold prisoners who are charged with act ively opposing the Free State govern ment
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ATTEMPT ID LAUNCH
 BOOM FOR JOHNSON

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 7.-An at tempt is being made to launch booms for Hiram Johnson for president is already under way in California, Ore gon and Washington, Johnson having indicated he wanted these delega- tions.
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DISARMAMENT PROCEEDINGS
 AGAINST FORMER JUDGE

SEATTLE, Aug. 7-Disbarment pro- ceedings were instituted today against William R. Bell, former judge of the superior court for converting thirteen hundred dollars belonging to a client, to his own use.
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MILITIA GUARD POLLS CHARLESTON, s. t.. ,i> C|TY PRIMARIES POPULAR PASTiME IN THE SOLID SOUTH CAUSES TROOPS TO
 BE CALLED OUT

CHARLESTON, S. C., Aug. -Four companies of the South Carolina Ma tionSl Guards stood in readiness for emergency today while the voters of Charleston cast their ballots in a bit terly contested mayoralty primary. Two military units are at their ar
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MOROS KILLED BY CONSTABULARY O|V
 ISLAND M|NDANAO
PITCHED BATTLE NEAR LAKE LA MAO BRINGS DISASTER TO :,
 INSURREcTOS

MANILA, P. l., Aug. Fifty Moros were killed and a number wounded, and three members of the Philippine constabulary were wounded in hard battle near Lake Lanao, on the island of Mindano yesterday.
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WILL ENTER COTTON MARKET

CAIRO, Egypt, Aug. Tt was an- nounced that the Egyptian govern ment has decided to enter the cotton market with a view to maining the price.
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Large Demonstration in chicaoo

CHICAGO, Aug. 7,-Harding's fu- neral train passed through here this afternoon attended by the greatest demonstration the city ever witness ed, compared only with the reception according the body of President Lin coin in 1865. A dense throng over 15 miles long witnessed the passing of the train.
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CORlNNE GRIFFITH SUES
 HUSBAND FOR DIVORCE

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 7.-Corinne Griffith, popular movie actress, said she had instructed New York attor- neys to file suit for divorce from Pe- ter Campbell, movie director
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(Continued from Mondays Paper)
 The President by Executive Order created the Alaska Engineering Com mission to carry the provisions ot the Alaska Railroad Act into effect. That Commission has no relation to the former Alaska Railroad Commission. It is purely a creature of Executive Order, and can be changed or abolish ed any time by Executive Order.
 "Partisans of the different routes at once began a spirited contest to in- fluence the President in locating the mail line from the coast to the inter for It was contest that engrossed National attention from Alaska tc New York for the next year.
 Delegate Wickersham worked to have him name the route from Valdez through the Copper River valley to Fairbanks, and was ably assisted by delegations from Valdez.
 Tt fell to me to present and defend the merits of the Seward -Susitna route. which I did single handed.
 The Morgan-Guggenheim people carried on a most energetic and spec tacular campaign in support of the route from Chitina through the Cop per river valley to Fairbanks, connect ing with their Copper River & North western. They offered to sell the Cop per River & Northwestern, the part oi it from Cordova to Chitina, 130 miles themselves retaining the branch to the Kennecott copper fields. Their cause was trumpeted every day thru a string of newspapers they controll- ed
 Chief among their newspaper or gans which advocated the Cordova- Chitina- Copper River route was the Seattle PostIntelligencer, under the editorial management of Scott Bone It had frantically supported the bill backed by Falcon Joslin and his CO workers, representing the Morgan Guggenheim properties, to continue the Alaska Railroad Commission which both Committees unanimously reflected, in preference to the railroad bill that did pass, which both Com mittees favorably reported with prac' tical unanimity.
 It is an interesting side light to know that the Post-Intelligencer soon afterward went on the financial rocks, largely through loss of prestige in flicted by it's Alaskan commitments. MT. Hearst bought it, and wholly changed its management and policies.
 'I may appropriately digress here slightly from the thread of my story to throw another interesting sidelight on :ne situation. It involves Portage Bay as a possible terminal for the Alaskan railroad which Congress had lust dutlOflZSu. l uo uudl passage LII the railroad bill centering all author ity in the President, which I had sup ported, seemed to forecast that the President would naturally, as the next logical step, designate the Seward Susitna route. The Seattle Post-In- telligencer and the rest of the string of Morgan-Guggenheim newspapers then began concerted campaign, which they carried on day after day for months, to find some other termi- nal than Seward on Resurrection Bay, in the event that the Susitna route should be chosen.
 Accordingly, the Post-Intelligencer started with a sensational news arti- cle, telling about the discovery of a wonderful new harbor, called Portage bay, which led over a low pass to the
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Postoffices Be Closed Friday

WASHINGTON, Aug. 7.-Postmas- ter General New today ordered all postoffices in the United States and possessions will be closed between 8 and p. m., Marion, Ohio, time, Aug ust 10th, the day of the burial of the late President
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RUM SCHOONER SEIZED

WASHINGTON, Aug. 7.-The Brit ish rum running schooner Pessaquid was taken into Norfolk by a U. S. coast guard cutter. The Pessaquid was off Hatteras inside the three mile limit.
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PROFESSIONAL sWlMs LAKE ERIE

LORAIN, Ohio, Aug. 7.-Crabis Walker, long distance swimmer, swan across Lake Erie from Point Pellee, Ontario, to this city. He made the distance of B miles in 21 hours.
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RUTH HOMERs o5Tu p,,n

NEW YORK, Aug. 7.-Babe Rutb today homered his 25th run in tb. ninth inning of a game with tba Cleveland team.
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WIdoWs of Presidents Number Eour

WASHINGTON, Aug. 7.-The wid- o"s oI various Presidents of the Uni ted States now number four: Mes danes Harding, Cleveland, Harrison and Roosevelt.
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mories here while troops in Orange burg and Walterboro have received orders to stand by.
NORTHWESTERN OUT OF
 KETCHIkAN YESTERDAY

SEATTLE, Aug. 7.-The steamship Northwestern sailed from this port northbound at 4:30 D. m. date.
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M|LL|ONA|REs NOW MADE
 F0R 0NE J. $. DOLLAR

BERLIN, Aug. 7.-The mark drop ped today to two million for one good American dollar.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-11-03
Bed Time Stories OF,
Pullman Smoker

In purest English of Bostonian in
Election, the dining car waiter had
announced the "lawst call for din
nah." I drifted back, to the smoker,
and in doing so passed a vacant, Sec
ton, where the Pullman porter had
been resting and reading. His book
lay where he had left it. I picked it
up and read the title: GIANTS Cri-
tique of Pure Reason" Whew! Some
classic atmosphere surrounding lowly
service, suggested by the walters
accent and the porter's choice of read
ing!
A globe trotter, who scours the
world looking for flax to make linen,
had the floor in the smoker. He was
of undoubted Jewish caste; in fact,
his nose seemed to be describing a
circle. on the map of Palestine from
Joppa to Jericho. But he was kindly,
polished, and knew his stuff. His OBJ
servations were being politely heard
by a group of business men who tar
ried under the cloud of smoke before
retiring. There. was one exception
the usual Pullman commercial hound,
who sells spark plugs and knows
Henry Ford intimately (by sight).
He laughed wilfully at his own
thrice-told tales and wondered why
the others were immune to his gay
and festive fever. ,a......s .-
But the Wandering Jew had the
floor and was telling how Soviet Rus
STA produced 80 per cent of the flax
woven into the worlds linen.
"That is the reason England is
trading with wobbly Russians" said
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-11-03

our globe trotter. ENGLAND never
overlooks the main chance of going
to market and she knows that the
small product of flax yielded by Ire
land will not enable her to take her
linens to market"
knew it was coming; so lighted
my pipe and seated myself in easy
expectorative range of cuspidor,
and calmly waited. 1t wasn't long
delayed.
Cotton is uncertain" our Jewish
speaker declared. with the colored
man going and the boil weevel stay
ing, the South cannot supply the
spinners. There has never been a
labor crisis in the world that equals
the desertion of the soil that the COL
ored man is now accomplishing. In
some subtle way he seems to associ-
ate cotton with lynching, disfran-
chisement, and the other. repri ais
that have been visited upon him in
the South"
"Some people thought that a finer
process of manufacture would render
the cotton fabric as a serviceable
substitute for linen, but unless the
South can keep it's colored workers
and dismiss the boil weevil, the pros
pect for this development is dismal
for sure"
Then the, rancous spark-plug dis
penser interposed to know why there
was not some law or some way to
make the darkies stay South to save
cotton"
"Pshaw! That's bunk! Where dye
get that stuff ?" exclaimed our wan
derer, who must have been a descend
ant of one of the Three Wise Men of
the first Christmas. "How does an
apparently sensible white man get a
fool notion like that in his head?
How would you make an American
citizen stay where he doesn't want to
stay? What do you think this coun-
try is-a slave republic? You don't
know the colored man, my vivacious
friend. He's ellofasight smarter
than you are. Best evidence is he's
not going. He's gone! Besides, there
is a sphinx in the White House, who
isn't talking, but is busy testing and
adjusting the scales of national JUS
tice so such chaps as you can't cheat
with them"
I thought again of the walters &C.
cent and the porter's book as I stag
gered with the motion of the train
to my berth, which the porter had in
formed me was "quite prepared, sir"
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TALKED LIKE NORTHERN
MAN; ALMOST LYNCHED

Pin Bluff, Ark, Sept. 27.-Having
in his possession clippings which
showed that he had been delivering
lectures in Louisiana and Mississippi,
urging colored people to stay in the
South is all that saved J. w. White,
a colored visitor, from a severe fog
ging by whites at Crossett, Ark, re-
Gently. Five white men had taken
White five miles west of Crosses,
to either lynch of fog him because he
was believed to be labor agent, and
that he had enticed many colored
people to go North. White was well
dressed and is said to have "talked
like Northern Negro" and this was
why he was mistaken for a labor
agent. When his captors became con-
WINGED that he was "on their side of
the fence" they brought him back to
town, loaded him down with good
cigars and other refreshments, and
sent him on his way rejoicing.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-11-03
NOTICE OF EXPIRATION OF TINE OF
REDEMPTION
No. 1S94S

Office of County Auditor, County of Ramsey
State of Minnesota, SIS.
To Marrett & Sheperd.
% You are hereby notified that the fol.
lowing piece parcel of land situated in
the County of Ramsey, State of Minnesota
and known and described as follows, to-wit
Lot Thirteen (13) Block Seven CD Oak Vile
Park, is now assessed IN your name.
(2) That on the 18th day of May, 1909
at sale of land pursuant to the real estate
tax Judgment duly given ard made in and
by the District Court in said County OF
Ramsey on the Goth day of April, 1909, in
proceedings to enforce the payment of taxes
DELINQUENT upon real estate for the year
1907, for said County of Ramsey, the above
described piece or parcel of land was duly
offered for sale, and no one bidding upon
said offer, said piece parcel was bid in
for the State of Minnesota for the sum OF
($7.4s) Seven Dollars and forty-eight Gents
(3) That thereafter, and on he13th day
of August, 1928. the said piece or parcel not
then having been redeemed from said sale
was sold and conveyed at public sale by
the County Auditor of said County, and pur-
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THE
RIGHT THING AT
THE RIGHT TIME
q, NARY MARSHALL DUFFEE
TRAVELLING

A good custom Is better than . law
Euripides.
OUR friends are beginning to travel
~ again.
Now it is more like old times, and
If our friends 60 abroad they 60 with
lighter hearts and with more baggage.
Therefore it Is quite the thing to give
them little gifts and, If they want US
to, to see them off. Be sure, though.
that you are wanted. Nothing is more
embarrassing than to arrive unexpect-
eddy on the deck Of q steamer to find
the friend you have gone to see of
surrounded by an invited party Of
which you are not q member. So don't
60 unless you are quite certain that
you are wanted, both for your sake
and for the sake Of the traveller.
As for the gifts you send, be sure
that they are really desirable, and not
merely something that will fill up the
steamer trunk and bags. If you know
Of some travelling accessory Of which
your friend stands in need, that is a
good choice. A book il never amiss
because after it Is read it can be left
on shipboard If it IL in the way.
Candy, although 1t il q conventional
present, and one Of the few things that
a man is supposed to give to woman,
Is nevertheless not q very good choice.
A great many persons even though
they enjoy ocean travel are particu-
larly careful not to indulge in sweets.
Flowers, another Of the conventional
gifts of men to women are always in
perfectly good taste. However, they
are sometimes in the way in the state
room. If you know that anyone dis
likes flowers on the steamer don't send
them.
As in all other cases where gifts are
concerned q man may send flowers,
candy or books to a woman. Books
in this case include magazines, and
sometimes half a dozen current maya
zines are as welcome gift as anyone
could receive. They provide just the
kind of reading that some people like
on shipboard and can be discarded
without a qualm when their reader is
through with them.
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CARNEY AND THE, KHAN
(Fron the St. Louis Argus)

(FrOn the SC. LOUIS AISuS)
AS head of the Universal Negro
Improvement Association, Marcus
Garvey has officially stated that that
organization is not opposed to the Ku
Klux Khan.
Just how the announcement strikes
the local branches, we are not able to
state at this time. But sufficient to
say that this statement by Garvey
must be regarded as binding on every
member and sympathizer of the Gar
vey movement throughout this coun-
try, unless they repudiate it.
In signed official statement in
the Negro World, the official organ
of the Universal Negro Improvement
Association, October 81, Garvey has
this to say:
"The Unisarvel Negro Improvement
Association has never fought the
Khan as an organization and does not
intend to do so in America"
The above are the exact words OF
Garvey, not binding himself alone, but
the Universal Negro Improvement
Association with all it's members. We
doubt very much whether the mem
bers of the U. N. 1. A. will back Gar
vey in such a statement. Because the
Ku Klux Khan is the worst enemy the
Negro has in this country.
Garvey styles himself as Fighter
The public will be interested to know
how it is that he has so calmly sur
rendered to the Ku Klux Khan? He
says he is not worried about the
rights of the Colored people in this
Country, yet he is bitterly complain
ing about glass of soda" which was
r.fused him in a white drug store
"Be consistent and the world will
have more faith in yotr sincerity"
He says that it will require from
two to five hundred years for his pro-
gram to become operative. What are
we going to do until that time?
Doe Garvey believe in the Jim
crow" cars? Does he believe in the
Klan's program? If he is not opposed
to these things, surely he is for them
We wonder if Garvey is really
afraid of the Khan? If he is, then he
is a coward. If he is not, then he is
a hypocrite of the worst sort.
Garvey says we are weak and that
it is useless for us to fight for our
rights in America. That's the same
doctrine that the weaker have always
heard. If somebody of our race did
not make the fight, Garvey nor his
followers would have place to lay
their heads in safety in this Country
The poet says, "Sure, must fight
if 1 would reign, increase my courage,
Lord" No man or set of men is fit
to lead this race of ours, who is
afraid to fight the Khan and every
form of race predjudice.
In this enlightened age, we, as a
group, have no time for chasing sha-
dows. This is a day of thought and
reason. There is neither logic or rea-
son in Garvey's program and the
sooner all the people find it out the
better off the race w illbe in the fu-
ture
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-11-03
SEE NEED OF LOAN COMPANY.

Reports from Cleveland, Ohio, say
that city is splendid field for a av-
ing and loan company properly con-
Quoted by our people. There are
more than 10000 colored people there
and all are working. Many have
bought homes and other are buying
them. The demand for homes is
greater than in almost any other
Northern city, with the possible exc
ception Of Detroit, Mich.