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The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-30
FIGHT STARTED
 IN HOUSE OVER
 COLLEGE FUNDS
Ross Offers Substitute for Foster Bill Seeks Boost
 Low Estimates.

The long predicted light over the Alaska College appropriation broke in the House this morning when Representative Ross, of Fairbanks, introduced a substitute bill carrying a total of s11S,800 to replace Fos- ter's measure, House Bill No. 30, which only carries $45.000. The debate on the subject was in pro sress early this afternoon. u
 The defeat of the Ross amend mcnt would entail the loss of the estimates for the college which are included in the general appropria- tion measure, as the one is identical with the other. In case of defeat however it would be possible to offer other amendments increasing the sum carried in the original bill,
 Murray Opens Debate.
 Members who are attempting to jam through large appropriations are unconsciously making the col lege a political issue around which much of the Territorial politics will center in the future, declared MT Murray, who opened the debate in opposition to the amendment. He pointed out that the institution is ( Territorial project, one in which al parts of Alaska take an interest ant that it would be unwise to make 1 local one. He argued that th' 1917 Legislature provided funds fo starting the college against the bes 4(s0ntanued on Pnga Mghr.b
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-30
INTERNATIONAL PAN-AMERICAN
 CONFERENCE IS NOW PLANNED

NEW YORK, April 30.-The organ ization of the new international Pan-
 American convention for the primary purpose of ''awaikening the continen- tai public's conscience on the import ant of Pan-American solidarity
 for peace and progress of the Vest
 ern Hemisphere" is announced by
 John Barre.t, former Director Gen
 eral of the Pan-Amercan Union. This announcement came in cable2ram to Austin Edwards. president Of the Pan
 American conference in session in Santiago, Chile.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-30
WOBBLIES STAGE
 RIOT IN 0RECON; WOMEN ARRESTED
Police Reserves Called Out to Clear Wobblies from Port
 land Headquarters.

PORTLAND, Ore, April BOA near riot was staged at the police station late yesterday when striking Wobblies stormed the lobby in pro test against the arrest of two women pickets. Police reserves finally cleared the station and dispersed the crowd.
 Tho disorder resulted from at tempts of Wobblies to picket d hotel which they had ordered be closed on the alleged ground that liquor was being sold there.
 The proprietor refused 10 close whereupon Wobhly strikers sur rounded the place while two women piekets displayed banner denouneing the place as bootlegging resort. The proprietor appealed to the po- lice who arrested the women.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-30
SOCIALISTS ARE
 OUT AFTER TAFT
National Legislative Commit tee Asks His Resignation
 of Impeachment.

CHICAGO, April 30.-The National Legislative Committee of the Social list Party passed a resolution today urging the resignation or mpeach ment of Chief Justice William How ard Taft, of the United States Sh- preme Count bench, because of his continued acceptance of $10,000 annuity from the estate of Andrew Carnegie.
 Acceptance of this annuity coming Indirectly from the steel trust, the most powerful predatory corporation in the United States, is not only unethical, but "a menace to the in tegrity of our courts and detrimental to the best interests of the American people" the resolution says.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-30
Emerson Hough, We'll Known Author, Is Dead

CHICAGO, Apr.l S0.-Emerson Hougn author Of many stories and historical novels, died today ai Evanston, Ill.,. al the age of SC years He was a devotee of outdoor life and had written many Western and Alaskan stories .Hough explored many of the widest parts of the country He was born in Newton Icwa. and graduated from the Iowa University in 1888. He leaves a widow.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-30
YUKON BREAKUP
 WILL BE EARLY
Indications Are that Yukon
 Will Be Open to Navi- ] gation by June l.

SEATTLE, April 30-The early breakup of the ice in the Yukon River is anticipated and the steamer Yukon will undoubtedly leave White horse June 1 for Nenana, according to officials of the White Pass &
 Yukon Railway X Navigation Com pany Officials who came here sew eral weeks ago are planning to leave for Skagway this week preparatory Ito opening of the seasons business.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-30
NEW DIRECTORS
 AT FAIRBANKS
Flouriing Mill Corporation Holds Election Seed
 Grain Is Received.
Special from News-Miner. )

FAIRBANKS, April 30.-At the election of the Fairbanks Flouring Mill Corporation Directors last Sat urday night Snodgrass and Mcintyre were replaced as directors with R. T. Kibon and James McGrath.
 Seventy-five tons of seed grain from North Dakota are here for farmers for planting after the fail ure of last years harvest with $9,00O in the bank to take the seed up.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-30
Makes Murderous Attack;
 Five Persons Are Dead

MALTA, Mont, April 30,--James K. Hoyey, wife and two small children. are dead, their bodies badly mutilat- ed at their ranch home near here. and baby girl is ibelievei fatally injured following an axe and club attack by Hovey early yesterday morning. Two boys, aged and II years, made their escape and noti- fled the neigshbors Hovey is be- lieyed to have gone suddenly insane
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-30
LIVING COST
 ON INCREASE
Bureau of Labor Publishes Figures Showing
 Big Increase in Living.

WASHINGTON, April 30. The Federal Bureau of Labor statistics made public today figures showing the cost of living was 68.s per cent higher last March than the average for the year 1913.
 Food was 42 per cent higher. clothing 744. housing GOA, fuel and light S6.2. furniture 17.4 and mis- cellano0us commodities 100.03 ac- cording to the figures published.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-30
MEETING IN SEATTLE.

SEATTLE, April 3O.-A continu- ous meeting yesterday afternoon and last night at Wobbly headquarters where several speeches were made was the only development in the stfike here yesterday. Twenty soft drink resorts were closed yesterday by the police on request of the Wobbly leaders who said they did not want too many places open where the strikers could spend their money.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-30
Two Women Held for
 Murder; Home Bombed

PADUCAH, Ky. April 90. A bomb explosion this morning wreck ed the home of Mrs. Rosetta D. War ron, killing her and her unborn child Three children escaped un- injured. Two middle-aged women, charged with murder.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-30
German Reparation
 Plan Is Discussed

LONDON, April 30. - British, American and Italian members held a conference today with Chancellor Cuno, in Berlin, in regard to Ger many's new separations offer. This Is according to a Central News dis patch.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-30
Steam Boiler Explodes;
 Citizens Are Frightened

ATLANTIC. N. J., April 30.-An explosion of a steam boiler in the plant of the Atlantic City Chs Com IrIany last night wrecked the engine room of the plant, shattered windows for a radius of one mile and fright ened hundreds of citizens. One man was injured.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-30
Memphis Man Succeeds
 Mitchell on Fed. Board

WASHINGTON, April 30.-Presi- dent Harding has appointed George R. James. of Memphis, to the Federal Reserve Board to succeed John R. Mitchell, of St. Paul, resigned
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-30
COLUMBIA DISTRICT HIT.

PURTLAND, April 3U.-PracticaI- ly every logging camp in the Lower Columbia River district is closed to- day as the result of the l. w w
 ttike but curtalled operations are continuing in other logging centers.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-30
Ruth Damage Case Is
 Taking New Angle Now

NEW YORK, April 30.-Hymen Bushel, counsel for Babe Ruth, to- day laid before District Attorney Pecora charges of conspiracy and the request for the indictment of Dolores Dixon and others involved in the girls suit against Ruth for S50,000 damages.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-30

LONDON April 30.-The conven- lfion under which Rear Admiral Ches- ter, American navy. retired, and as sociates are granted development concession in Anatolia, has been signed at Angora, according to dis patches received here.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-30
SENATOR KNUTE
 NELSON PASSES AWAY ON TRAIN
We'll Known Minnesota Sena- tor Dies While on Way
 from East to His Home.

HARRISBURG, Pa. April 30-unit- ed States Senator Knute Nelson. of Minnesota, died on a Pennsylvania train Saturday night while en route from Washington to Chicago on his way home.
 The body of Senator Nelson left yesterday morning for Alexandria, Minn, where the funeral will be held probably on Friday.
 The Senator's sudden death was due to heart failure brought on by grippe and colds, of which he suf- fered during the winter, according to physicians.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-30
IN GOOD HEALTH

WASHINGTON, April 30.-Senator Nelson, though i'll from influenza last winter, remained active and when he left for his home in Minnesota late last Saturday afternoon appeared to be in excellent health
 Close friends, however, say he nov CT recovered from depression due to the death of his wife year ago.
 During the war Senator Nelson worked hard for legislation dealing with Americanization, including the espionage act.
 ~sPresident Harding received the news of the death of Senator Nelson
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-30

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The Delta independent., 1923-05-18
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ECKERT ITEMS
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> j.,

Mrs. E. E. Simpson was shopping
in Delta Saturday.
A number from Eckert attended
the play in Delta Thursday and Fri
day of last week.
The Y NJ. c. Club met with Mrs.
Lockard last Thursday. A pleasant
time was had.
Mrs. Joe Benefiel and children
came over from Montrose last Satur
day for visit with her mother Mrs.
Polanzi, returning home Sunday.
They started work on the Baptist
Church last Tuesday, they are adding
on more room which they expect to
put in a furnace and Sunday School
rooms.
J. N. Bailey's nephew, Mr. Howard
from Clarksburg, West Virginia, who
has been here visiting him left Mon.
day for Denver for a short stay
before going on home.
The Juniors entertained the SEN
iors to banquet last Friday evening.
In the Presbyterian church basement.
The room was decorated in their
class colors, orange and red.
The Delta independent., 1923-05-18

presumption. however. IL that Chicago
again viii win the Republican CON
vention. Many leading democrats
favor st. Louis for the Democratic
convention.
The Delta independent., 1923-05-18
Tn. FIsh. !. on

The Fight 10 On
The fight for the national conven-
ton cities in 1894 ID ON. San Fran
cisco wants both and has already
pledged . large sum Of money. The
The Washington times., 1923-06-13
THE. LOVE GAME
A CHARMING ROMANCE OF CITY LIFE
Winifred Experiences Thrill as She Gets
Ready to Go to Dinner and the The
alter With Donald Muir.

the other would fail. That was
the way of the world.
A sharp pain stabbed her at the
thought. Why should not the
beautiful win over the practical?
As she looked into the young
mans deep and wistful eyes she
longed to tell him that. If she
must take sides, ii would be with
him.
Yet. only few. minutes ago,
she had hoped that Donald was
going to tell her that he cared
for her.
She told herself fjercely that
had been her moment Of weak
ness. Now she saw things clear
". Life was only = vision. and
she would try to make it q beauti-
full vision for those less fortu.
nate than herself.
But how?
She would have to ask Rich
ard. He had the vision. He would
tell her how.
Later. when she had her own
money.
Money was sordid- yet one
must live If one would help others
and one could not live without
funds. Money was Of the oil that
creased the wheels OF progress
toward the beautiful.
That was an expression that
Richard had used to her. she
recalled it now and thought 1t
exquisite.
The successful man of the world
was standing in front Of her.
Good nights' he said.
Good nightF' she murmured
dreamily.
He hesitated asif to say some
thing more, than, thinking bet
ter of IT. went on out OF the
room.
Richard did not speak until the
front door closed behind Muir.
Then he turned to his hostess
with sad smile.
You see what the trouble Is
he remarked. 1T is next to Inn
possible to make q successful
man understand-isn't it?'
1T seems So" the girl said re-
gretfully.
She did not want to admit that
Donald was at fault. Yet-she
could not deny that he was cold
and practical in his way Of look
ing at the young reformer's IDEAS.
Go Be Continued.)
The Washington times., 1923-06-13
THE RHYMING
OPTIMIST
d., AIR. RNsnAnnls-
BY Aline Michaelis'


"HE artist was man Of SOUL
brimful of temperament;
- he lived upon a meager
\dole and seldom paid his rent.
The wolf camped close beside his
door up seven flights of stairs
and with him shared the attic
floor and added to his cares.
And though the baby howled for
bread and rent the air with woe.
II cannot paint" the artist said.
till I'm inspired, you know. l
mon mortals do, but wait until I
hear the call of muses. that l
WOO. Each morn his wife went
forth to scrub, for she was
coarser clay and, quite unlike the
soulful dub, she worked the live
long day. No inspiration did she
seek, no muse did she invite, but
with her scrubbing brush each
week she toiled from morn till
night. 1t vexed the artist when
he thought how lowly was her
lot; but still he ate the food she
bought, for it was all he got.
Sometimes he raved and tore his
hair, and vowed he longed to die.
said inspiration wasn't fair and
always passed him by. She
seemed to be a tickle jade and,
much as he implored and spite
of promises he made, she only
acted bored. She really never
took a squint along the artists
way, but, had he tried some sim
pie stint, like settling down to
stay, and had he done the best
he could. content to toll and
climb, it might have been the
lady would have smiled on him in
time. For that is Inspirations
joy, to pass her wooers by and
camp beside some busy boy who
works each day in high.
The Washington times., 1923-06-13

~ AMBERT was the bulkier man
of the two, Kestner remem-,
Lsfcd, and in some ways much
the stronger man. But Kestner
had the advantage of youth.
And there were certain things
the lighter bodied man had
learned in his earliest days in
the service. He had long since
mastered the rudimentary jiu.
jitsu tricks of a vocation where
In contests, manual force was
Invariably the final arbiter. His
police-rooky training had also
included something more than
morning pistol practice and
''strong-arm" articles and first
aid to the injured. 1t had taught
him the use of the "arm-twist"
and the 'thip-throw, Of the
meek hold" for breaking a rear
attack clutch, of the 'leg-lock"
for pinning down prisoner SO
that a captor's hands could be
free. He had also mastered that
most efficacious expedient of
thumb pressure on the nose, that
torturing pressure. on the thin
and membranous bones, which
could so promptly break waist
hold, not only by engendering a
pain that soon became, unendur
able but also by COMPRISING an
air-passage that was essential to
life.
That was the trick which Kest-
ner though of as he felt Lam
bert's bear-like pressure about
his con-tricted waist. That was
the trick on which he hung his
hopes, remembering that his hip
wound, however slight, might still
leave him weak from loss Of
blood. 1t was not time, he In
wardly repeated, for half-meas-
ures.
He even lost ground little as
he shifted his right arm, but this
cid not cause him to lose hope.
Once his hand was free, even az
the struggle along the rough
boards continued, he fought to
gain that lean and bony face.
He clutched it savagely, as
collie's jaw clamps on a chicken
bone. He felt for the nose,
placed his thumb. locked his fin
gers, and applied the pressure.
He knew as he did so, that It
was merely a matter of time.
Lambert fought with fresh fire,
knowing that clutch had to be
broken, and broken soon. But
Kestner hung on like q leach.
The great body under him lurchei
The Washington times., 1923-06-13
By Frank Condor.

<<"YE will die together
" Dear, is it best?"
ut is best. It is the
only thing left. We will die to-
gether."
McNaught's pipe fell from his
nerveless lips. His hands clench-
ed the rim of the coping, wherein
he sat. his feet dangling over into
the court. With his body bent
forward, he sat still and listened.
Twenty minutes before Nc
Naught had come through the
scuttle. He had crunched over the
roofs gravel surface to the edge
of the coping.
1t was a steaming hot night. In
side the six-story flat building the
air was ovenlike, sitting the in
mates. McNaught had crawled to
the roof for a breath of fresh ozone.
Silently the night floated about
him and the curling eddies drifted
up from the mouth of his pipe.
Then, as he sat with his collar
off, his arms barred to the elbows,
his shirt open half way down his
chest, the voices came softly to
his ears:
I'VE will die together!"
An epidemic was upon the tor
tured metropolis. Mcknight re-
membered the headlines in the
evening paper. 1t was the deadly
enervating, soul-destroying heat.
"A man had taken his sweetheart
into the woods near the city line.
He had shot her. He had shot him.
self. They had died together.
The father of twelve children
The Washington times., 1923-06-13
HE HAND OF PERIL, By Arthur String
Thrilling Story of the Secret Service, Daring Band OF
COunterfeiters and the Love of a Brilliant
and Beautiful Girl

side of the heaving lungs, but
with a hand held close on the
sinewy throat.
I've got your he, gasped, a little
drunkenly.
He still held the great throat
with one hand while the other ex-
plored the shaking body. every
pocket and garment, to see. that
nothing was there which ought
not to be there. He remembered.
to his sorrow, that he had come
without a pair of hand-cuffs. And
from now on ne would take no
risks. He had learned his lesson,
with this gang; henceforth he
would act as an official, and not
ais an individual. And the Law was
relentless.
ITS taken long time. Lam
bert" he mumbled foolishly
through the darkness. "A long
time-but now I've got your
He sat back, trying to think
connectedly. his body burning with
its innunerable cuts and bruises.
His hip was still bleeding little.
But he knew it was only a flesh
wound He could also feel the
slow tricl1le Of blood down one
side of his stiffened face. What
troubled him most was his thirst.
CTO Be Continued Tomorrow
The Washington times., 1923-06-13
INSPIRED BY YOUTH
LESSON TO BE LEARNED FROM CHILDREN

philosophy and religion. Today
they are studious, reverent and
radient with inspiration for ife's
duties. Their twelve-year-old girl,
now sound and healthy, has a
younger sister to keep her COM
pany.
Once upon time high-school
youth committed prank and was
arrested. The father grew angry
at the imagined disgrace, sold
his little country town business
and moved with the family to the
city. There the young "scape-
grace" got a job, stuck to it and
made good. He is now head of
q big firm which is employing his
sixty-year-old father at salary of
$4,000 per year.
Think of it, fathers and moth
ers-stop, look and listen. In the
keart of your child or your youth
full son or daughter, there is a
slumbering genius, a latent ambi-
ton, or even a temporary fault
which may at length prove the
remaking of you. This magic in
the soul of the child is no re-
spector of persons or of families.
1t is simply part of the deep,
interesting mystery which the
great Beneficence has hid with
in us all. only you and I perhaps
failed to have it revealed.
If your business wanes, if hope
dims and the ambition of your
own youth seems unrealized, per-
baps you should turn to the
young within your own house
hold and there
See the purposes of God writ
ten in a new language"
The Washington times., 1923-06-13

and tossed and heaved. To
gether they rolled over and over.
Then they went bodily against
a wall of high-piled lemon-crates.
That tottering pillar of uneven
units swayed outward, impaired
it's unsteadiness to other col.
umns, and then came tumbling
down in an ever-increasing ava.
lache of bales, half burying the
two figures under their weight,
adding to the clamor and noise
and confusion at the core of
which those two madly threshing
bodies still contended,
Not once did .Kestner loosen
his clutch. Not once did he give
up. Not once did he relieve that
cruel pressure. He knew that
this movement was final, that
with it he must lose or win, for
all time. And he had suffered
certain indignities, in the past,
which did not leave him over
tender of heart. 1t was a fight
to a finish: and this was the
finish.
The Washington times., 1923-06-13
By VIM. A. McKeever.
Noted Lecturer and Authority on
Educational and Sociological
Subjects.

~ EEP within the nature of
your child is an angle or
~ an interest which may
arouse new ambition and Few
ideals for the whole family.
Watch for this inner charm. 1t
may be evidenced by mere nod
or gesture or a request for a
desired plaything.
A father saw his little boy try
ing to make violin out of pine
board and some wrapping Irvine.
That was twenty years ago. The
incident led the father to quit
his business as an insurance
agent and go into music. He is
doing well at that, even to this
day.
In 1906 a little girl came homie
from school and begged her
mother to help her hemstitch a
handkerchief to be sold at a
school bazaar. Out of that Incl
dent grew the development of a
line of fancy work commercially
known and used everywhere.
In 1907 a country youth of
seventeen practically ran away
from his dreary farm home in
order to attend an agricultural
college. A struggle of six years
OF paying his own way finally
brought the coveted degree, with
special knowledge of dairying.
He returned to the old farm,
induced his discouraged father
to try the dairying business with
himself as manager. The turn
was magical. The new COW barn
cost $12 900, and there are twenty
registered Holsteins in it, while
the income from the business is
ample for both the fathers hous-
hold and the sons young family
of four.
In 1912 a year-old baby girl in.
explainably became an invalid.
For five years the young parents
fought to save the tiny life.
spending their small fortune to
that end, and finally won. The
enforced seclusion and self.deniaI
changed everything-the former
wastefullness, the old social dis
sipation, and all.
They stayed at home, thought,
prayed and studied, taking III