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The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-12-07
HOLY CROSS fl
 HARVARD LINK

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Dec. G. When little Holy Cross held Har- yard to a scoreless tie, it added to a string of achievements that have ranked Crimson supporters.
 During the last nine seasons no small school has been such jinx to Harvard as has Holy Cross. In only one of those campaigns 1922-has the Crimson found II. c. easy. And in three of the last four years Harvard has failed to whip the Crossers.
 Starting in 1920, when Harvard won 3 to o, the Cambridge boys have had a battle on their hands each time with the single excep- tion six years ago. In 1921 Har yard again came through with 3 to 0 edge In 1922 Holy Gross fell 20 to o. But the following year the Crimson was lucky to eke out 6 to 0 triumph.
 In 1924 Harvard won, 12 to G, but in 1925 Holy Cross took the Crimson over, to 6, and repeated the next season, 19 to IA. Last fall Harvard hustled to gain IA to 6 advantage but couldn't avoid a scoreless tie this year.
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By JAY R. VESSELS (Featurc Service Sports Editor)

NEW YORK, Dec. 7-Jim Bot tomley has smiled and batted his way into the hearts of the commit tee choosing the National Leagues most valuable player for 1928. His reward is a trophy and $1,000 in gold.
 Bottomley's selection, announced last night, brings new honors to the cagey Cardinal first baseman, who was a big factor in the two pennants his team has won in the last three years.
 Pressing Sunny Jim" hard for the award was Freddy Lindstrom. Bottomley received 76 votes and Lindstrom 70. Bottomley was within four points of the highest possible total, but if any one of the eight committeeman had made a decided change in his ballot, Lindstrom would have won out.
 The committee, consisting of eight baseball writers, voted be- fore the last world series. Burt Whitman of Boston, president of the Baseball Writers Association, announced the result.
 Twenty-one other players receiv- ed votes as follows: Grimes. 53 i, Benton. 37; Critz, 37; Traynor, 2S; Hack Wilson, 21; Hogan, IT; Jack son. 16; Maranville, IA; Vance, 13, Hafey. II; Hornsby, 10; Hartnet, 6; P. Wagner. 5; Richbourg. B.; Douthit, 5; Bissonette. 3: Flowers, 3; Jimmy Wilson, 3; Whitney, 2; Ford, 2; Thompson, 1.
 Players named in the honorable mention list are: Frisch, Sisler, Stephenson. Heathcote, Bancroft, Haines. Reese. Mcguire. Walker. Welsh Petty. High, Alexander, Sherdel
 Six full years of faithful work brought Sunny Jim" the award. Ever since he broke into big league baseball with the Cardinals in 1922 Bottonley has been ter TOT at bat and great defensive man af.ald.
 His six-yoar batting average is .330. He is a front rank player in distance hitting, and th's year he tied fer home run hoaors, lc l tho league in triples with 20 and placed second in douo' ss w,th AZ.
 ,Bottomley's homer5 for the sea- son total 31.. the sars nanoer Hack Wilscn of tho Cubs conpi.el.
 Bottc.nley piled uo rle~. O. his hitting honors in the oaisy rart of the season. His srccess w..h sha willow won many ba1 games dnr- in gsshlt tired that h t.'c Lhe U-~.d-A...s o.e. .ae dark ,-y-
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Women Smoke Cigarettes
 By Putting Wrong End

HAVANA. Dec. 7.- Trinidad washwomen in Havana launderies are to be distinguished from their swarthy sisters from Haiti and Ja- maica not by the clothes worn or by accents, but from their man. ner of smoking their cigarettes in an inverted fashion.
 It is custom with these Trini- dad women to smoke their cigarets with the lighted end in their mouths where tobacco fumes do not get in their eyes and where the ashes cannot fall on freshly laundered shirts.
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TEAM OF "GIRAFFES"
 ENTERS TIGER CAGE

COLUMBIA, Mo, Dec. T. Tigers is the term applied to athletes at the University of Missouri, but "Giraffes' would be quite appropriate for the basketball players.
 Nine cagers out for the 1929 squad are at least six feet tall. Charles Huhn, sophomore cen ter, tops all of them at six feet, six and six-tenths inch es. He's the biggest "sixer" in the Big Six" conference.
 Other "Giraffes" throwing the ball into the Tigers cage are Bohrer, Mckenzie and Roach, guards, Baker and Craig, centers; Alton, Ruble and Welsh, forwards.
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CONDITIONS REPEATED
 IN IOWA-BADGER GAME

CHICAGO. Dec. 6.-Athletic his tory and weather conditions re- peated themselves when Wiscon- sin defeated Iowa in this years Western conference race.
 In 1925 Iowa, undefeated, was the favorite; weather conditions were miserable, and Wisconsin won. By another coincidence Joe Magidsohn, of Michigan, and Tony Haines, of Vale, refereed and um- pired both games.
 This year rain swept the field during the game; three years ago it was snow.
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GERMAN SHIPPERS
 ARE TESTING NEW
 MARINE AIR DEVICE

TRAVEMUENDE, Dec. "A newly invented drag-sail as a sur face for landing and takeoff of hydroplanes on and from moving vessels was put to test in the Bay of Luebeck with the cooperation of the North German Lloyd steamer Roland" and q hydroplane.
 The innovation consists of q huge sail which is allowed to trail from the vessels stern. From and on this undulating, floating surface the hydroplane repeatedly effected start and landing with complete success.
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FAIRBANKS FARMER KILLED

The body oI Herman Muatka- jarvi, farmer and woodchopper, was found recently on the Cinema Slough road, ten miles from Fair banks, where he had been killed by a piece of tree that fell from the limbs of another tree where it had lodged. He was a native of Finland, where rela- tives reside. He had been living on his farm for twenty years.
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CHINA SACRIFICES OLD
 GODS TO NEW PROGRESS

SHANGHAI, Dec. 7.-To dis courage superstitious beliefs en- tertained among the general pub- lie and also to make room for modern buildings, the municipal government of Ranking has de- cided to abolish all temples and shrlnes along the main streets of Ranking.
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PARIS PASSES NEW YORK
 IN SIZE OF SUBWAY JAM

PARIS, Dec. 7.-New York, which has been bragging about possessing the greatest subway crowds in the world, must pass on the crush championship to Paris, if official figures publish ed by the Paris Metro Company are to be believed.
 The Paris Metro lines carry more than twice as many pas sengers per mile as the New York subway.
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III FIVE WILL
 PLAY TONIGHT
Will Meet Alumni Basket eers Tn First Game
 of Season

With a final pre-game brush ing up, the Juneau High School basketball team will make its of fieial debut tonight in the first game of the season, meeting the Alumni.
 Within short time the play CTS have improved considerably, particularly in the case Of the new players. While Coach Wade will use as many as ten men, the greater part of the game will likely be played by forwards J. Orme and F. Orme: center, Jen- sen, and as guards Sturrock, Brandt and Berggren.
 Although Sturrock, Jensen and Brandt are relativey new on the first string, they have been com ing to the front at a rapid pace. Nelson. Johnson and Jackson will be good men to draw on. Barra- gar, new on the squad this year, should be going good by mid season.
 The Alumni team, composed of the J. H. s. stars of the past, is well oiled up by several weeks practice and the dope seems to be about even for both teams, so no doubt the fans will see an ex- ceptionally good hard fought and close game.
 u.Lo .4ont;x, I;,ovn will ha.
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of the late season when disaster threatened, disaster that struck in the worlds series, crushing the weary Red Birds. N
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The doors to the SlXth Street entrance to the school gymnasium will be open at o'clock and the game will start promptly at 7:3O o'clock. The high school band, led by Miss Fisher, will be on hand to liven things up and entertain the fans between thrills.
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F. o. E. AUXILIARY TNSTTTUTT0N

Will take place Monday even ing at 8 o'clock, December 10, in Eagles Hall, Douglas. All those who have already signed the charter membership roll, and any other ladies eligible to become members who may desire to join. are invited to attend.
 The regular meeting of the Eagles Lodge will be held at ' o'clock to permit the Auxiliary institution.
 SAM DEVON, P.W.P., -adv. Inst. Officer.
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Just what you want-Christ mas greetings. See display of Cards at Empire.
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Dell E. onerifr, AYaska's tuner. Gail or write Juneau Music House. adv.
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Number in parenthesis indicates rating.
 *Tied for first with Hack Will son, Cardinals.
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They will please all-Christ- mas greeting cards. Call at the Empire.
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VANITY KODAKS

In all colors-See our line.
 Winter and Pond Go. adv.
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AIRIIMS

For your Summer Snap Shots.
 Winter and Pond Co. adv.
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KODAKS IN COLORS Something New in Xmas G.fts.
 Winter and Pond Co. adv
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-04-18
CONFESSES TO
 MURDER OF ]
Man Claims He Killed Rev Hall and Mrs. Mills Tn
 New Jersey

FL RENO, Okla, April 1S.-A purported confession to the fa- nous Hall-Mills murders have been obtained from Elwin F. All len, held here on burglary charge.<4
 Sheriff Shacklett announced he could not tell whether Allen is sincere or not.
 Allen said he was paid $5,000 and given an autmobile for the crimes. He refused to name the persons who employed him.
 Sheriff Shacklett is of the op- inion that Allen is holding out the names of those who employed him for a purpose. The confession said Allen held up the Rev. Hall and Mrs. Mills, choir singer as they sat in an automobile parked along the highway and shot them. After driving the auto into cornfield he said he arranged the bodies side by side in "Plum Lane, New Jersey.
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BATTLE FLEET
 PREPARES FOR
 BIG MANEUvERS
Seventy-Five War Vessels Assembled for Sum-
 mer Mimic War

SAN FRANCISCO. Cal, April 1S.--The battle fleet is under sailing orders with movements shrouded in mystery which the mimic war to be fought during the summer maneuvers makes necessary.
 Seyenty-five war vessels assem- bled here as a preliminary to maneuvers to attempt to elude the enemy fleet with a base at San Pedro Harbor.
 Naval officers intimated war problems which will be worked out include an effort to move the battle fleet to Honolulu behind a screen of destroyers without all lowing the enemy to get within striking distance unheralded.
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NEW ANGLE IN SINCLAIR CASE.
Testimony Previously Civ en Now Takes on
 New Phase


 WASHINGTON, April 1S-Testi- mony that the memorandum which mysteriously found it's way into the records of the Senate Tea pot Dome Committee four years ago and the discovery of which created a stir, was probably pre-. pared by former Secretary of In terior Albert B. Fall was given by his son-in-law, Clarence Chase, at Fl Paso, at the reopening of the Senate oil inquiry.
 The memorandum asserts the former Interior Secretary never received a dollar from Harry F. Sinclair in connection with the enlargement of his New Mexicn ranch holdings.
 Chase's testimony is regarded by Senate investigators as of high importance in view of Falls pres ent claim that the wealthy oil op. orator paid him S233,00O in Liber- ty bonds in consideration of one third interest in the ranch hold ings.
 Testimony that A. B. Fall car ried on all negotiations for the actual leasing of Teapot Dome to Sinclair and that former Sec retary of Navy Denby never con- suited Fall, was given by Capt. J. K. Robson, retired naval off cer. The witness agreed that negotiations were carried on with Sinclair by Fall and reported by him as representative of the Navy. Robison previously testi- fled that Denby directed the leas- ing of the oil reserve as a unit upon Robison's advice and that this decision had been transmit ted to Fall.
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snith's s Campaign Is Formally Launched

NEW YORK, April 18-The second bid for Gov. A. E. Smith for the Presidency has been formally advanced by the Democratic State Commit tee. At the formal launching of the Governors campaign for the Democratic nomination which took place at a meet iRg of the State Committee in the National Democratic Club, resolution calling on tlse state delegates to the Ma Ftfonal Convention fo present his name and support his can didacy, was adopted unanim- ously.
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JUNEAU WILL HAVE ANOTHER
 NEW BUILDING
Peter Woeck Has Contract for New Home of AL
 aska Steam Laundry

Announcement of the construc tion of new building which il to house the Alaska Steam Laun dry was made today with the ar rival Of Peter Woeck. Seattle con tractor, who came north on ths steamer Yukon.
 Costs of construction of ths building were not named by MT Woeck. who said it would be one story in height, and will be bull, immediately in the rear of the present laundry building.
 Simpson Macl<lnnon, genera manager and one of the proprie tors of the business, said today the present laundry had long been considered inadequate, and E. R Jaeger, who owns the structure had decided to construct the new building, while the present home of the laundry will probably b renovated and rented as storf space. Warren Wilson is presi dent and the other owner of the laundry.
 Work on the new building will start at once, and carpenters were at work this afternoon preparing for the setting of the foundation It will be a frame structure, and on three sides will be steel framed glass, giving a maximum of light
 Accompanying Mr Woeck north from Seattle were ten workmen, including several carpenters, who will be put to work on the cree tlon of the laundry and the Ma. sonic Temple. A. B. Wyley, who is in charge of the construction of the Temple and the School Building. will also be superinten- dent of the building of the laun, dry.
 Heavy steel girders for use in the frame work of the Temple, and wood timbers to be used on the school project, were shipped north on the Yukon and were un- loaded here last night.
 With three major construction jobs to be completed in Juneau this summer. MT. Woeck plans to remain here for some time, pos. sibly most of the summer, unless called south on special business. His wife accompanied him north, ant they have taken over their residence in the MacKinnon Apartments.
 Mir. Jaeger will be in Juneau towards the end of this week, ac. cording to plans he announced to MT. Woeck upon the latter's de. parture from Seattle. Further de tails concerning the laundry will probably be made public when he reaches here.
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DARWIN HOEL.
 IS SENTENCED
Elopes to Alaska, Returns to Seattle, Changes
 Plea, Sentenced

SEATTLE, April 1S-After al. most three years during which time his case had been set for trial and then stricken, so he finally became weary of waiting and eloped to Alaska, Darwin Hoel appeared yesterday in the Fed eral Court and pleaded guilty to conspiracy to import liquor, in 1925.
 Hoel was skipper of the speed boat Cuckoo and was arrested by a Coast Guard boat with liquor in his possession. He was indicted and the case was delayed time and time again.
 Hoel appeared to change his plea from not guilty to guilty and drew a $250 fine and 60 days in jail
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Chicago Air Beacon
 To Be Ready in July

CHICAGO. April 1S-An aerial beacon 520 feet above street level and visible for 100 miles on a clear night will be operating in Chicago in July. Walter Greene baum, Chicago banker and donor of the light, says.
 Work of installing the beacon on the top of loop skyscraper has started. It will consist of "A units of Neon tubes, rising Affect above the top of the building. The tower of light will be so ar- ranged as to give the same effect when approached from any direc- tion.
 Greenebaum studied aerial bea- cons in Europe before deciding upon the Chicago light. He says several other cities are planning similar beacons but are waiting to see how the one here works.
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1ARMOUR'S DEBTS
 ARE TO BE PAID
Widow and Daughter oi Packer Will Pay Ten
 Million Dollars

CHICAGO, H., April 1S.-The Daily News today says the widow and daughter of Ogden Armour will voluntarily pay $10,O00, 1000 of their personal fortunes to set tie the debts of the packer. At his death. Armour owed $1S,000,- 900 to Armour and Company for whose board he was chairman. He had assumed liability for the payment of $7,000,000 worth of bonds of the Sutter Basin Com pany of California, land enter prise, in addition to $1O,0OO, 900. All marketable securities of the Armour Estate will be used in the settlement.
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PUBLISHERS
 ANNOUNCEMENT

Following the rule in force in all daily newspaper offices throughout the coun- try and the custom with most of the newspapers of Alaska. The Empire will re- quire, beginning May 1, that all subscriptions must be paid in advance. The need for this rule is obvious. So many people, particularly in Alaska, change their address es so often, that the loss from the credit system is too large to be consistent with good business. The only way to meet the situation is to make the payment in ad- vance rule apply to every body. So there will be no exceptions.
 The management has had this matter under considera- tiOn for a long time, and decision is the result of ma ture deliberation. Publishers everywhere have found that the only satisfactory manner of handling newspaper cir culation is to require pay ment in advance.
 So, beginning May 1, sub scriptiOns to The Empire must be paid in advance.
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HOWARD MAKES
 STATEMENT ON
 HIS POSITION
Replies to Criticisms of His Stand on Controller
 Bill, Home Rule

Restating his position on the Controller Bill question, reaffirm. ing his stand declaring for Home Rule,' Senator Bartley Howard, candidate for the Republican nom nation for Delegate to Congress, has issued statement from Ket- chikan flashing out at those who have been critical of his candidacy on the ground that he opposed the Controller Bill in 1927 and was, therefore, against Home Rule.'
 Those who are opposing his candidacy most bitterly. Senator Howard intimated, are preaching one doctrine but they are practic- ing something altogether different.
 Cites His Objections
 In his statement. Senator How ard said:
 q do not object to a Controller but refuse to support the bill with the following provisions in it:
 The Controller Bill provided that a majority of the Senate and House must elect the Controller. 1 objected to this because l want ed the Controller elected by the people. The bill also provided for the Attorney General to be mem Der of the board of control. l objected to this because 1 did not consider it good government. The bill did not provide for the Senate to confirm the appoint ments made by the Controller and
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BATTLE WITH ELEMENTS

u II 0 ?
 NEW YORK. April 1S--Frag- mentary details from the frozen Greenly Island, pieced together. revealed the story of the Bre- mems successful groping in the lblinding fog and blizzard for the tss'frass { ss tstlnasiong afeA E most auspicious start from Ire land.
 The fight developed at the end in a battle with the elements as the fliers were some 400 miles off the course due partly to the failure of the planes lighting system.
 For hours the< flight was run blind. Once the plane was 90 feet from the water. A strange river was seen, then a mountain. At last was seen what appeared to be sealing steamer. It prov ed to be the lighthouse on Green ly Island.
 A blizzard swept the ocean all night. The lighting system fail ed and in the darkness the fliers were unable to read the instru- ments.
 Capt. Hermann Koehrs long experience in night flying stood the Bremen's crew in good stead.
 Daybreak gave the fiiers an op- portunity of ascertaining the cor rect direction for the flight. Fin ally they got back on their course and after battling with the fog and blizzards had about dispaired of reaching their goal when the lighthouse was sighted and they landed but where they did not know.
 The Bremen broke through the Ice on the lake on Greenly Island. the metal propeller was bent and the axle of the landing gear broken.
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Col. Lindbergh Reaches St. Louis on Flight

ST. LOUIS. April IS - Col Charles A. Lindbergh landed at the Lambert-St. Louis Flying Field last night, making non- stop flight from Wichita, Kansas. His two companions were Harry Knight and Harold Bixby, of St. Louis.
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Harry Hill Must Remain in JaiI;
 Retrial April 23'

OTTAWA, III, April 1s- Harry Hill's plea for release from the county jail pending retrial on the charge of murdering his mother has been denied. The plea was made that confinement was in. furious to the young man. The date for the retrial has been set for April %.
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AvIATORS HAVE HARD | UCK AT
 END OF FLIGHT
Light System on Plane Fails Flying Is Run
 Blind at Night
PLANE IS 400 MILES
 OFF COURSE ON TRIP
Grew Will Gather at Que bee to Continue Flight
 to New York City

QUEBEC, April 1S.=The Ger man-lrish flying triumvirate plan rendezvous here for continu- ance of the flight to New York in the Bremen's sister plane the F-l3. Under these plans the Bre- men will be left at Greenly Island for the time being.
 Duke" Schiller who brought Col. James Fritzmaurice here rom Greenly Island, has volun- teered to go back after the two German ayiators when he learned they wished to leave.
 The plane F-13 is now at Mon treal where it was flown from New York ready to take the Bre- men's crew to the city they set as goal
 Col. Fitzmaurice and Duke" Schiller spent the night at Clarke City, Quebec, where they were forced down in a storm.
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eral weeks.
 A "son of the parsonage" who successively became minister, col lege president and bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, James Edward Dickey was a staunch fundamentalist and an anti-unifactionist.
 He was one of five Southern bishops who in 1925 violently op- posed the movement to unite the northern and southern organiza. tions of the Methodist Episcopal Church. On that occasion he lined up with Bishops Denny, Candler, Ainswirth and Darling ton.
 Before his elevation to the epis- copacy. Bishop Dickey had given to the church 21 years of educa- tional service, Including eight a: professor at Emory College and thirteen as president of the same institution.
 Born in Georgia
 Bishop Dickey was born at lief fersonville, Ga, May II, 1864, the son of Rev. James Madison Dick ey. Methodist clergyman, and Ann Thomas Diekey. He was edu. cated at Emory College. Oxford Ga, and a few weeks after re ceiving his degree was admitted to trial in the North Georgia Con. ference. His first appointment was as an assistant professor al Emory College, where later h4 became full professor and serv- ed from 1891 to 1899 as teacher of mental and moral science, his tory and economies.
 There followed pastorate ol three years at Grace Church, At lanta. after which Bishop Dickey returned to Emory College as President in 1902 and served ir that office until 1915. His thir teen-year tenure of the president chair is a record in the history oi the institution.
 Ability as Leader
 Returning to pastoral work
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Prohibition Is
 Side-Stepped by Natl. Rep. Club

NEW YORK, April 18.-- The National Republican Club has side-stepped the Prohibition question. The club tabled the majority re- port of it's committee on Ma tional Affairs advoca ting the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. The vote was 124 to SS.
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WATSON SOUTH TOMORROW

The Admiral Watson, Capt. c. c. Graham. is scheduled to arrive here enroute south sometime to- morrow morning. No word had been received from the steamer by local agents up to a late hour this afternoon.