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Seward daily gateway., 1924-09-25
M'kiNLEY PARKLETS

Mrs. David Fairburn, teacher ot the Mckinley Park school, returned on Sept. 2, and school opened on the 3rd Nine pupils are enrolled.
 Mir. FitzGerald, post office inspec tor, spent a few days inspecting the post office here.
 Mr. Paul Criderman, who was em ployed by the Alaska Road Commis sion during the summer, left for his home in Deroit, Mich., last Friday.
 MT. Trundy, Commissioner for the Kantishna district, is spending a few days here.
 MT. and Mrs. Max Manager are wis itors in the Park. MT. Manager, who is Fairbanks photographer, is talk ing pictures.
 Ralph Parker Anderson is making a trip into the Park. MT. Anderson who is writer, has visited all the other National Parks. He will write up his experiences in Mckinley foI outside publications.
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WELL KNOWN ALASKAN PIONEER DIES IN THE
 FAIRBANKS HOSPITAL

James Daugherty, a pioneer of All aska, better known as "Nigger Jim" ]" died Monday in the Fairbanks hos pital of intestinal trouble. He had been employed by the Alaska railroad in the vicinity of Healy and becoming seriously i'll last week, special train rushed him to Fairbanks, where Dr. Romig found that nothing could be done for him.
 MT. Daugherty was born in Ala bama 61 years ago ,and was one of the most famous of Alaska pioneers. He was in the Forty Mile and Circle camps in 1895 and among the first to arrive in Dawson. He acquired much property in and around Dawson and in 1897 went to England where he sold his holdings to an English firm. He returned north in 1898 and remained in Dawson for several years. Because of his ability in singing negro songs he was known as "Nigger Jim."
 In 1905 MT. Daugherty left the Klondike and went to Fairbanks. He remained in that section until 1908 when he went to Seattle. While in Washington he followed the occupa- ton of logging. Four or five years ago MT. Daugherty returned to Alas ka and remained on the coast for some time. He had been employed by the Alaska Railroad at various points and was at Harry Lanes camp at the time he was stricken.
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Government Estimates
 Forecast State Crops

SPOKANE, Sept. 24.-Total pro- duction of wheat in Washington is estimated at 27,728,OOO bushels in report made public by the federal division of crop estimates here to- day. The August estimate was 27,- 421, ,000 bushels.
 Oats production is estimated at s. 796,000 bushels; barley, 2,523,000 bu.; and corn 2,498,OOO, all showing gains.
 The September potato forecast is 6,572,000 bushels, and increase of 270,- 900 bushels over the August estimate. The hay forecast is 1,724,00O tons.
 A decrease from 19,930,O00 to 18,- 330,000 is made in commercial apple crcp estimates. The total apple crop is placed at 21,O72,OOO bushels. The peach crop estimates show 365,OO0 bu,; pears, 1,677,O0O bushels and grapes, 1,766 tons.
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Wheeler Attacks Policies
 of President Coolidge

ST. PAUL, Sept. 25.-Senator Wheeler, vice presidential candidate on the La Toilette ticket, in an ad- dress here last night attacked various Coolidge policies saying: Biased on the reception that Congress has 6iv- en most of Coolidge's pet measures so far, it is not. at all certain that Con- gress would indorse his suggestions concerning farm relief. Congress took his tax plan and rewrote it to make it useful in some degrec to the average man as we'll as to the man of large income; Congress took his plan to cheat the soldiers out of their ad- justed compensation so justly due them, and threw it out of the win dow."
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DAVIS DECLARES THAT
 CAMPAIGN ISSUE FOGGED

NEW YORK, Sept. 24.-J. W. Davis in a letter to Former Attorney Gen. eral Daugherty, stating that the is sue of the present campaign for the presidency cannot be clouded by his forced efforts to suppress the facts about his resignation. "The contest is between the defenders of the con- stitution and those too weak to over throw it, under the leadership fresh from boptism of Bolshevism in lurid and suffering Russia. If the Con- stitution is to endure the first re- quisite is that the men who hold of- flee under it shall be honest and faith ful to their trust.
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OXYGEN FOR PLANES
 LATEST DEVELOPMENT

LONDON, Sept. 24-Feeding aero planes with oxygen to keep their en zines going when flying at great heights is the fastest development ot Iaeroplane science.
 Hitherto an aeroplane's speed has diminished as it's height increased, but this drawback has been now over come with the use of oxygen. At a recent trial in this country in which an aeroplane was fed with oxygen, a height of nearly six miles was reach ed without any speed being lost, while other tests have shown that an aero plane can retain speed of three mile a minute in very rareful atmos- |phere.
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FRENCH DETECTIVE
 LANDS HIS CRIMINAL
 AFTER WEARY CHASE

PARIS, Sept 25.-This is the story of a Paris detective who tray eled half way around the world for his quarry, and finally, in the dense jungle of Annam, threw aside his disguise and arrested his man, who is now languishing in jail with sen tence of three years staring at him.
 As related here an antiquary named Malraux was under the obser- vance of the Paris police, suspected of being responsible for some recent thefts from French museums. It was thought he had designs on collections of antiques in one of the French pro- vinces, and as matter of routine a detective was assigned to trail Nal raux and a companion, wherever they might go.
 The pair went to a seaport and there took passage on steamer for Saigon, French Indo-China, and the detective went along on the same yes Isel. He did not even have time to buy change of clothing, but made friends among the crew and borrow ed whatever he needed.
 At Saigon Malraux and his friend posed as rich travellers, anxious to see the country, while the detective sleuthed around in the background. He had, however, made known his mission to the local French authori- ties, and when MalrauX asked for guides to the remote districts of An nam, the detective was among the na- tives assigned, but cleverly disguised. The party secured the region of Ang- kor, rich in holy relics and fine speci- mems of old Chinese art and MalrauX and his companion bought freely. Al so they did not hesitate conditions being favorable, to burglarize Annam- ite temples for particularly fine speci- mems.
 The border of Siam was not far away, and the collectors, having de cided to leave the country by that route, called up the native guides and dismissed them. Then the Paris detective had his day. The humble disguise was cast aside, the French policeman stepped out, and Malraux and his friend were placed under ar rest
 The case was tried at Phom-penh, Cochin China, and Malraux had no de fense It came out, during the trial, that his antiques were destined for a New York antiquary, and were worth 100000 francs.
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MORE CARIBOU ON
 YUKON RIVER THAN
 ANY PREVIOUS TRIP
THOUSANDS OF ANIMALS SWIM AROUND VESSEL SAYS PUR-
 SER OF YUKON
Anchorage Times)

NENANA, Sept. 19-According to Mr. Spreen, the genial purser of the river steamer Yukon plying between Dawson and Nenana, they have never seen as many caribou in all their pre- vious trips down the Yukon as seen on their last trip from Dawson to here. The caribou commenced run ming earlier than usual and were to be seen in great numbers as far down the Yukon as Stephens village and Fort Hamlin The many passengers enroute down the river were privileged to witness thousands of caribou on both sides of the steamer as we'll as the river being filled with the ani- malls swimming across.
 Purser Spreen said the summer had b@en unusually cool, making it nec- essary to keep the radiators on the steamer Yukon going at all times. However, the cold winds kept the mos quitos away, so that the tourists were not bothered with these pests, and nei- ther were the men who had to load firewood for the vessel at the various woodcamps. In previous years this work has been annoying in the ex- treme as the pests were always hang ing around to entertain the men at work.
 Another unusual occurrence this year was the continued high water or the Yukon.
 On this the sixth and final trip of the season of the steamer Yukon she will carry many passengers for the outside via Dawson. Fred Price, of the A. R. C., will be taken on at Eagle en route to Juneau. There will also be number of mining men talk en on here and other points.
 Arrivals from Dawson report there was a severe frost there and at Eagle, on August 13, which did con- siderable damage. The thermome- ter registered g degrees above.
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Seattle Patrolman Shot
 By Youth Who Is Caught

SEATTLE, Sept. 25.-Patrolman R. l.. Litzy was shot and perhaps fatal ly wounded on the stairs of a room ing house in this city last night. F. c. Richardson, a 22-year-old suspect was captured later, after being chased to Ninth avenue and Union street by Patrolman E. N. Johnson. Two other suspects escaped
 Richardson was identified by the wounded patrolman as one of his as- sailants just before going under the effects of ether at the city hospital. His chances for recovery are slight, it is claimed
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QUEEN HEARS OUR SONGS
FONTAINBLEAU, France, Sept.

FONTAINBLEAU, France, Sept. A. I-Dowager Queen Maria Christina of Spain, mother of King Alfonso, visited the American Conservatory of Music, installed in a wing of the palace here.
 Her Majesty, who was accom- panied by her sister-in-law, the In fanta Isabella, and the Spanish Am bassador, listened to the work of the vocal students, among them a young American soprano, Miss How ison, of whom much is expected.
 Maria Christina was greatly in terested and congratulated the pro- moter.
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SMOKING ALTERS WOMEN'S FACES SAYS GYNECOLOCIST

VIENNA, Sept. 25.-Women who are heavy smokers lose their fair complexion more quickly than non- smoking women in the opinion of Dr. R. Horstatter, noted Viennese gyne- cologist, who has written a book en- titled, "The Smoking Woman
 The features of smoking women, he contends, are usually much sharp CT than those of non-smokers. The more women smoke, the sharper the nose and chin are outlined and the skin becomes very taunt.
 The lips, says pr. Hofstatter, lose their rosy natural color and become pale, while the corners of the lips show wrinkles prematurely and there is tendency for the lower lip of a female smoke addict to project fur ther than the upper lip. Through this gradual change the features of the smoking woman become more mascu- line. Dr. Hofstatter claims to have observed that heavy female smokers have a pronounced growth of beard.
 The eye of strong femals smokers undergoes a change, says Dr. Hof- statter. The lids rise and fall much more slowly. There is a tendency to stare. Some women even become crosseyed as they smoke.
 Among the women who smoke heav- fest are teachers, students, female physicians, actresses, artists, and pi- ano virtuosos.
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CLOCK MADE WHOLLY OF
 GLASS EXCEPT SPRINGS

A Bohemian glass polisher has per formed a wonderful feat in the glass industry. He constructed a clock, with the exception of the springs, is made entirely of glass.
 The glass plates and pillars of this extraordinary timepiece are bolted together with glass screws. The dial plate, hands, shafts and cog wheels are all glass, and glass wedges and pins are used for fastening the var ious parts of the running gear.
 All parts are ground to the aver age proportions of the metal parts of other clocks of the same size. The teeth of the cog wheels are cut with minute exactness.
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FLOODS AND QUAKES
 KILL MANY RUSSIONS

LENINGRAD, Russia, Sept. 25.- Nineteen persons were killed in a great flood which followed Tuesdays earthquake. The quake was one of the most severe ever recorded in this section, and the downpour following caused small streams to become rag ing torrents.
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CATHOLIC HIERARCHY
 MEETS IN WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 24.- Added dignity was lent to the occa- sion of the assembling Catholic hier- archy in America here today by the presence of four cardinals, 61 arch bishops and bishops, who will discuss church affairs and activities.
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AMERICAN PAPER COMPANY
 TAKEN OVER BY MUTUAL

A report has reached Seward that the American Paper company, doing business in Alaska for many years, has been taken over by the Mutual Paper Company, whose representa- tives also make Alaska. The Concern is large one and the deal represent ed a huge sum of money.
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Thousand Refugees Will
 Leave for United States

MANILA, Sept. Ex-Governor Gen. eral Wood returning to Manila from Olongapa, where he made arrange ments for one thousand Russian refu- gees harbored there to leave for the United States said they would set sail in. December so as to be included in tfA 1925 immigrant quota.
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GOOD LOOKS SAVES
 PREMIER OF FRANCE
 FROM ASSASSINATION

FAMBOUILlET, France, Sept. :7. inst as Premier ilerriott left the Presidential chateau here today, a wo- man entered the room at the chateau gate and handed over a loaded re- volver to the police on guard, saying she had intended to kill the premier but that her heart failed her, because "he looked so nice she just could not kill him." She said that as he ap- preached, she was unable to fire.
 The woman gave her name as Mime Bigot Pemjean.
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PERSHING WILL DRAW
 FULL PAY BY RULING
 OF U. 5. COMPTROLLER

WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 25.- General John J. Pershing will draw his full salary of $22,OO0 year in retirement, under a ruling made to- day by U. S. Comptroller McCarl. The Pershing case is the first in which a retired army or naval officer is al lowed full pay on the retired list.
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WASHINGTON HOSPITAL
 FOR INSANE BURNED

STEILACOOM, Wn., Sept 25.-Mrs. Melissa Scensier, an inmate of the Washington hospital for insane, was burned to death and scores of other inmates injured when the upper floor and roof of the building were destroy ed by fire last night.
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Republican Congressman Indicted By Grand Jury Violation of Volstead Act

BALTIMORE, Sept. 25.-John Phil lips Hill, Republican Congressman from the Third district of Maryland, was indicted today by a Federal grand jury on charges of violating the Volstead Act.
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It is estimated that 100000 men signed the Defense Day list west of the Rockies, which takes in the 9th Area, and includes Alaska.
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Capt Chas. Emswiler who returned from Nuka Bay Tuesday, will start hauling ties from across the bay to Seward.
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E. F. lessen, of the Anchorage Ad- vertising Syndicate, was a Seward vis- itor over night. He left for his home town this morning.
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Thomas Osbo has been ill for the past few days.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-02-21
Corn Has Dome
For Phillips County

and nothing else because it was the
least difficult and gave good returns.
But when the three dry years came in
succession it compelled many farm
ers to change their methods of farm
ing and many others to seek other
modes of making a living because
their capital was exhausted. Every
body began advocating feed crops,
especially corn, and after the corn
movement was started it gathered
such momentum that it now becomes
a problem of getting farmers to pro-
duce other feeds to be fed with corn.
Some farmers in Phillips county last
year planted from 95 to 100 acres
of corn and had no plans for dispos-
ing of it. However, the sheepmen
came to the rescue and bought the
corn outright in the field so that
these farmers still realized more to
the acre from their corn than they
did from their wheat. The Farmers
elevator of Malta also got busy and
began buying corn, which has kept
many farmers from getting discour-
aged with o r production.
Plans are now being made by the
Phillips County Farm Bureau to con-
duct a campaign for increasing the
protein feeds which are so necessary
to get the biggest value out of the
corn. Variety tests of soybeans,
sweet clover and alfalfa under dry
land conditions will be conducted.
careful selection of seed corr
Phillips county farmers have made
improvements on the varieties of
5anf oorn adoptod m northarp Mon
The Northwestern Dent pro
1uced by j. N. Mangis of Malta won
sweepstakes for Montana at
he state fair and also at the state
,orn show at Miles City. The grow
srs Of yellow and white dents also
Won many prizes at the corn shows.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-02-21

A FEW YEARS ago large quaint.
IA ties of corn and other feeds, as
we'll as pork and canned milk
we're shipped into Phillips county. In
1919 the Farmers elevator of Malta
alone shipped 27 carloads of feed,
about half corn and oats, into the
county. Other elevators of the
county we're also shipping in feed
which would bring the total amount
of feed shipped in around 200 car
loads. This year the Farmers ele-
vator has already shipped three car
loads of shelled corn out of the coun-
ty to other parts of Montana where
corn has not been developed as it
has in Phillips county.
AS a result of the corn campaigns
40 carloads of hogs were shipped out
of Phillips county last year. About
1900 cornfed sheep and lambs were
shipped from the Malta stockyards
this winter. Over 500 cornfed cattle
were marketed in this county last
year. 1t is estimated that 100000
worth of cream was produced in the
county last year. These figures
prove the value of the propaganda
which has been carried on in this
county to encourage Investigation
of farm crops.
Farming methods cannot be chang
ed quickly but years are required for
farmers to adjust themselves to new
methods of producing and handling
crops. Machinery and equip
ment must be increased, which re-
quires capital. Many of the original
ho~mesteaders had little except the
machinery necessary to produce a
wheat crop. Wheat was a good cash
crop and gave good returns for the
operation costs involved during the
favorable years. Many farmers then
'ormed the habit of producing wheat !
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-02-21
M'NARY-HAUCEN
BILL ENDORSED
1T PROVIDES FOR AN AGRICUL-
TURAL EXPORT COMMITS
SION; WEST APPROVES.
Delegates From Eight Western States,
in Conference With the President,
Urge Upon Him Importance of the
Measure.

Passage of the McNary-Haugen
bill, providing for an agricultural
export commission, was urged by
the entire agricultural section of
the conference held at Washington,
ID. O., relative to agricultural and
financial conditions in the north
west, in an audience with President
Coolidge on February D, according
to word received from the Montana
delegation.
The agricultural section, including
representatives from the eight north
western states taking part in the con-
ference, waited upon the president
and eight spokesman, one from each
state, told the president that while
they were willing to endorse the plan
embodied in the Norbeck bill, diversi-
fication and more credit do not fit
the immediate situation in the north
west and hat nc plan that fails to
reach the question of price relation
ship will prove effective.
Davis, Montana Spokesman
The spokesman for the agricultural
of the conference were Ches-
ter G. Davis of Montana; George E.
Duis of North Dakota; j. F. Reid of
Carl Gunderson of South
Dakota, E. l.. French of Washington,
T. G. Wynn of Utah and A. R. Shum-
way of Oregon.
Prior to their visit with the presi-
dent the agricultural section Of the
conference unanimously Endorsed the
McNary-Haugen and Norbeck-Burt-
ness measures in the following reso-
eve, the delegates directly repre-
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-02-21
This Farmer Prospers

That last year, despite low prices,
sales of grain, dairy and poultry pro-
ducts and cattle and hogs from his
380-acre farm on the East Fork, neal
Heath, in Fergus county, averaged
nearly $3.50 a month, is the state
ment of F. L. Barger, one of the sue
cessful farmers of that territory.
The livestock on his farm today,
Barger says, inventories more than
it did at the end of 1922. He does
virtually all his own work, hiring
help only in the harvest season. Mr..
Barger, who came to this section
from Illinois, is an enthusiastic boost
er for the Judith Basin, and asserts
that with proper application to work
farmers of that area can realize far
better returns than those of the corn
states.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-02-21

senting agriculture in the conference
called to consider the agricultural
and financial situation in the north
west, have been afforded the oppor-
tunity to meet as an agricultural
group after adjournment, do hereby
express our thanks to the president
of the United States for taking the
lead in asking for financial and credit
improvement of farming conditions
in the northwest.
I'VE express our appreciation of
the projected financial and credit adj
justments by the banking, industrial
and commercial groups, outlined al
this conference. We tender them our
cooperation.
"The agricultural delegates here
assembled take this occasion to urge
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-02-21
BETTER PRICE FOR
HOGS AND HORSES
(From Montana State ColIege)

A STEADILY RISING beef mar
IN ket, higher prices for hogs and
a comeback for the horse, were
predicted by Dean E. J.. Iddings of the
University of Idaho, addressing a
Montana audience recently on "The
Agricultural Outlook of the North
west" He pointed out that his con-
illusions regarding the hog were
drawn from conditions in the middle
west, where the hog producers con
duct their business on the basis that
it takes 10 bushels of corn to pro-
duce 100 pounds of pork and when
ever the price of 10 bushels of corn
exceeds the amount the farmer can
get for 100 pounds of pork, then
there is a dropping off in hog pro-
duction. The present ratio of hog
and corn prices in the corr belt is
such as to bring corn higher than
hogs, and this, according to all past
experience, will mean fewer hogs for
the coming year. In spite of the in
creased production during the past
year, three-fourths of the hogs
bought on the Salt Lake City market
were shipped in from Nebraska,
which would indicate that there is
still considerable room for growth be-
fore even the home requirements of
the northwest are supplied.
Cattle, according to Dean Iddings,
have remained consistently low since
the winter of 1920, and this has
had the effect of causing many to go
out of the cattle business voluntar-
fly, and others have been forced out
or compelled to reduce their herds
because of financial difficulties.
Three successive years of this grad
ual depletion of the herds of the
northwest and particularly the breed
ing stock has had the effect of re-
ducing the number of cattle below
that required to meet the needs of
the people of the west. He explained
that this situation had given rise to
the commonly expressed belief that
the bottom of the cattle cycle had
been reached and that an upward
turn was inevitable.
Sheepmen of the west were the
first of the live stock men to get back
on their feet, said the dean, the wool
growers dollar, based on December
sales, being worth $1.40 as compared
TO $1.00E in 1913. A most favorable
change that has taken place in the
sheep business, according to Dean
Iddings, is the rapid turnover on
lambs that the sheepmen are getting
since the postwar slump. He urged
that a similar system of handling cat
tie, assuring a rapid turnover, would
prove equally beneficial to the cattle
man.