THE ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE
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“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME”
VOL. XXL, NO. 3164.
JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1923.
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS.
PRICE TEN CENTS.
TERRIFIC EXPLOSION IN MINE;
ONE HCNDRED HAVE BEEN KILLED
Alaskan Fur Pirate Sentenced to Prison; 5 Years
FUR PIRATE IS
FOUND GUILTY;
■ GIVEN 5 YEARS
Robber of Alaskan Tur Island
Convicted at Valdez and
Given Sentence.
MANY ROBBERIES ARE
REPORTED IN ALASKA
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Department of Justice Agents
Disclose Operations of
Northern Gang.
VALDEZ, Alaska. Feb. 9.—M. V.
Hoskins has been found guilty in
the United States District Ccuit here
of fur pirating and has been sen
tenced to five years i;t McNeil Island
penitentiary.
MANY ROBBERIES COMMITTED.
SEATTLE, Feb. 9.—Agents of the
Department of Justice whose inves
tigation resulted in the arrest, con
viction and sentencing of M. V. Hos
kins at Valdez. Alaska, declare that
thousands of dollars worth of furs
are stolen ar.nuallv bv nirc.tes nrev
in# cn fox farms in Alaska.
Hoskins, according to reports re
ceived here from Valdez by the De
partment of Justice agents, confirmed
the theft cf 30 blue lox skins valued
at retail at $8,000.
The robbery was committed dur
ing the winter of 1921.
Hoskins and the furs were traced
frem Cordcva to Seattle, Spokane
and Denver.
Hoskins tc':k the fur? fr~m a shed
wheie Louis Van and Jack Stamier
had 50 diying on their farm on
Axel Lind Island.
Denby Pays Tribute
To California “UM
WASHINGTON', Feb. 9.—Secretary
o' the Navy D nbv has paid a Irish
tribute to the University of Cali
fornia in connection with its con
tributions to the service of the
country.
“The University of California has
become one of thp largest and best
Known universities in the country,”
he salid. “Its war record was a
splendid one and it maintains Uxlay
one of the best courses in military
training in any university in the
country."
It's a Boy!
Princess Is
Now a Mother
iDQNIDON, Feb. 9.—Princess Mary,
daughter of King George, who mar
ried Viscount Uascelles last year, on
iPebruarv 28, has given birth to a
i»on. This is the firs* grandson of
the Royal couple of Kn gland.
SHE WON $50,000 AT BACCARAT—AND QUIT.
, MrMurdock' Eatbri/. /**-. Jj
Mir Paul Munlock Baton, of Wichita. Kansu?-. > Irian ot ' i. .or
Murdock, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission. recently won
$50,000 in one evening's play at baccarat, in Nice, France. Tin n
she pocketed her winnings and left the Casino, declaring she nc\ -r
intended to return to risk her email fortune again with Lady Luck.
RUSSIA WILL
NOT MEDDLE
IN ANY WAR
Decision Is Reached to Re
main Aloof from All
European Troubles.
MOSCOW, Feb. 9.—Soviet leaders,!
following a series of conferences,
have definitely decided against par
ticipation by Russia in any Euro
pean or Near Fast war growing out
of the Ruhr or Lausanne situation.
Russia will defend herself. If at
tacked, but will take no active part
in any conflict outside of her t rri
tory, is the announcement made, i
Russia will not even go to the aid 1
of the German workers should a:
revolution develop in Germany.
Movie Star Wants to
Be Freed; Charges Made
COS ANGELES, Feb. 9.—31: Sel
ma Hawley, movie sitar, better known
as Wanda Hawley, has filed a suit
for divorce front Alan Hurton Hawley,
charging desertion and cruelty.
WOMAN TEACHES THRONG OF
HOMELESS MEN EVERT WEEK
CHICAGO, Feb. 9— (By the Asso
ciated Press.)—'A throng of home
less men taught to write sentences
by a lone woman is the unusual spec
tacle presented every Monday even
ing a't the Hobo College here. The
college its directed by a cabinet of
nomads elected by the men them
selves.
The teacher Is Mrs. Frances Dono
van, a resident of Hyde Park, and
author of “The Woman Who Waits."
ia study of waitresses’ life and condi
tions. Mrs. Donovan seems to en
joy her task, and to command the
interest of her pupils.
Two of the most interested pupils
are “Scotty,” a man of middle life,
and his son, a ruddy, spectacled
youth )n his teens. “Scotty" has
a bald head, keen eye3. and sines
epattered with mortar—for he is an
Itinerant bricklayer as well as a
street speaker. HiB speech Is weight
ed wi.'h imposing Latin derivatives,
and seasoned with an occasional |
homely Scottish phrase, redolent or
the heather.
“I have my own lea-son." he told a
visitor. "1 take such words as fruits :
ansi cereals, write synonyms an 11
metaphors for them, and then com-j
I use cutty (short) sentences, calett- j
lated to make people think."
One of the few nomads who hu.sj
remained in attendance since the
college opened last autumn is a
gaunt, boarded dreamer “I ant one1
of your milleniumltes.” he avows,
figuratively. “I like the philosophy
of the doughnut: the bigger the
doughnut, tho bigger the hole."
A stage has been oquipped with
odds and ends gathered by the
pupils -and plays wore produced at
the college until -the director felt
lhe pangs of starvation and w»nt to
work.
Food Sent to
Marooned Persons
By Airplane
j -
| SALT LAKE, Feb. 9.—Pilot
Kenneth Unger, of tile air mail
j service, flew to the head of tiro
Anuertk in Fork Canyon, south- |
east of Hero, and dropped 200 ,
pounds of food to three | torso ns i
j marooned in the Pacific mine ]
by snow. The prisoners had |
| telephoned their plight. .
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HARDING IS
CRITICISED
ON MESSAGE
Senator Harrison Claim!
President Has Given an
Insult to U. S. Senate.
WASHINGTON, Feb fl.-^riticis
ing President Harding for coupling
the ship subsidy Issue with the de’.ii
funding report in his message de
livered In person before a joint set*
si on of Congress, Senator HarriBon
of Mississippi said:
"President Harding descendec
from a high pedestal and insultct
the l.’nited States Senate."
The American Debt Commisslor
does not desire to make more favor
able terms with debtors of this na
lion than are embodied in the settle
mont agreement reached with th<
British. This was the informatlor
given to the House Ways and Meant
Committee by Representative Bur
ton, of Ohio.
Pothier Carries Case
To Supreme Courl
PROVIDENCE, It. I„ Feb. 9.—Fed
oral Judge Brown has permitted eoun
sel for Roland R. Pothier, formet
army sergeant accused of murdering
Major Alexander P. Cronkhito al
Camp Lewis October 2.r>, 1918, tc
prosecute an appeal to the United
States supreme court. The case
will go up on the denial of the courl
here to grant Pothier's petition for b
writ of habeas corpus.
Pothier on January 11 was held
by Judge Brown for removal to Taco
ma. Wash., for trial. The appeal
automaWeally stay's lus removal.
TURKS MINING
HARBORS;KEEP
WARSHIPS OUT
Entrance of Harbors at Con
stantinople and Smyrna
Reported Being Mined.
LONDON, Feb. 9.—It is reported
from Constantinople that the Turks
are mining the entrance of the hat
bcr here like it is having dene at
Smyrna. This is being done, it is
reported, as part of the ban against
foreign warships entering the two
poits.
COLLISION REPORTED.
LONDON, Feb. 9.—According to a
despatch from Constantinople the
Fiench cruiser Ernst Rena collided
with an American destroyer in Turk
ish waters. The American craft was
damaged but the French cruiser sus- j
tcined no injury.
TO ENFORCE ORDERS.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb 'J.—'
'The Turkish Commander at Smyrna j
| iias Informed the Allied commanders;
of warships he has orders to enforce
their withdrawal if they refuse toj
comply with the Turkish order to;
leave Smyrna.
NICHOLSON IN ’HARBOR.
| CONSTANTINOPLE Feb. 9. The
British light cruiser Curacao car-1
rying Hear Admiral Nicholson has]
| entered Smyrna Harbor. The Brit
ish commander is reported to have
l| visited the Turkish commander andl
: warned him of responsibility lor any!
j act of host ility.
U. S. CRAFT REMAINS.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9. Tiiej
American destroyer EPsall will re
main at Smyrna according to advices'
received from the Turkish authori
ties The Edsall is less than 1,000’
ions and it is also indicated that the
I Turks do not consider the United
States as "Allied.”
II. S. AVIATOR
FLIES FROM
N. Y. TO BRAZIL
1 Lieutenant Hinton Completes
Long Flight by Seaplane
—Friendship Trip.
’j RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb. 9.—I.Ieu
| tenant Waller Hinton, American
j aviator, has arrived here completing
'a seaplane flight from New York. j
lieutenant Hinton and his com-j
'panions, by the arrival here has;
' completed a journey of more than
5.000 miles undertaken as a mark
of friendship between the United
States and Brazil oil the occasion of
the latter's centennial celebration.
| Hinton left the Rockaway flying
j station on August 17 but met with
much hard luck. The original plane
j was wrecked during the latter pi I:
i of the journey and he was delayed
j many times by motor trouble.
Diplomatic Measure
Is Passed by House
WASHINGTON. Feb. 9.—The ad
ministration's bill to consolidate the
diplomatic and consular services has
been passed by the House.
j Germans Stop Orders
For French Music:
PARIS, Feb 9,—Germans who buy
quantities of French music have writ
] ton dealers of musiic canceling their
orders, placed with them and ex
pressing regret that politics should
•interfere with their business.
French hotel k-mpers have an
nounced that they are ready to bar
Germans from their hostelrics, but
; that they prefer to wait until they
j are quite certain of the accuracy of
the news that Germans are boy-1
cotting Frenchmen and Belgians.
PRESIDENT HARDING BACK AT DESK.
3p<r«-tit
His face plainly showing the results cf his recent illness, Pres
ident Harding was photographed the day he returned to his desk,
alter a mild attack of Influenza, which k pi him in the White House
for several days.
LOCAL COMMITTEE OF BUREAU
REPRESENTATIVES CAPABLE OF
HANDLING FEDERAL INTERESTS
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No Perpetual
Peace Wanted
| By Mussolini
ROME, Peb. 9.—The Chamber
of Deputies has approved the
Washington conference itreaties.
j The deputies became hilarious j
when Premier .Mussolini said:
1 “I do not believe in perpetual
I peace. I do not think even
Kant believes in it."
Kant, is the famous German
1 philosopher.
CALIFORNIA
CONGRESSMAN
PASSES AWAY
Henry Z. Osborne, in Con
gress for Many Years, Dies
After Short Illness.
I .OS ANGEJ.ES, Feb. ft — Con
gressman Henry Z. Osborne, is dead
at Ills home here after several weeks
of falling health.
H. Z. Osborne, Republican, was
born in Now Lebanon, N. V., October
1, 1848; son of Rev. Zenas Ward Os
borne and Juliette (Bristol) Osborne,
newspaper man and miner; appren
ticed at II! and learned printer's
trade; enlisted In Glvil War at 16,
private. Company E, One hundred
and ninety-second New York Volun
teer Infantry, and honorably dis
charged at close of war. After the
war he worked several years as
a printer in New York, Cincinnati,
Memphis, New Orleans, and Austin.
Tex.; at 24 was president of New
Orlean Typographies Union, in 1872,
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Bestowal of greater power of ml
ministration on the Alaska Interde
partmental Committee, the local 01
| gan ignition of Burenat representatives, |
i iml abolition of the Interdepartmen
'la! Alaska Board at VVasliingion, in'
site ad of thn creation of the Alaslci
"caibinet" recommended by him In
Ills first article, Is advocated by P'.ior
nmn Rogers In hte fourth and con
cluding article on Alaska, which up
poarol in The Outlook of January
24. Tho final article is in the na
ture of a summing up and review of
the fir i three that were published:
In th > - one magazine in Decomb 'r.
Mr Rogers frankly admits tiiat lie
in . studied “the present Alaska dc-:
I par: mental boards” carefully since
writing his first article in which he,
srgge : d a cabinet of assistant kc«- |
ret arias acting as an admlni-drai ivei
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MINE EXPLOSION
TAKES BIG TOLL
IN NEW MEXICO
One Hundred and Twenty
Are Entombed Under
ground by Explosion.
RESCUING PARTIES
FIND 100 BODIES
Solid Concrete Work in Mine
Wrecked by Explosion
—Former Disaster.
DENVEE, Feb. 9.—An explosion
from an unknown cause entombed
122 men in the soft coal mine No.
1 of the Phelps-Dodge Corpoiation,
at Dawson, New Mexico.
The Denver Post says rescue par
ties have feund 100 bodies already.
So terrific was the explosion that
rnnrrPt#' u/nrlr thA minn u:oc rnn..
plctely wrecked.
Comnsny officials assert the mine
was well sprinkled and was not
;asrous.
In 1913, at mine No. 2 of the
»"me company, at Daws . n
etc and two rescue worl .,, t«-m
Hvi.k iu » U»nid - ex.pL
FIRES IN Cuhl
MINES BURNING
FOR LONG TIME
Unsolved Problems Confront
Mine Operators in State
of Illinois.
-,
(SPRINGFIELD, 111.. Feb. 9.—(Ry
th? As*o»ilatio<I Press.)—Flre8 burn
ing for years In coal mines, deep be
neath the around, are one of the un
solved problems of cool mining 1n
Illinoia.
Many of these fires, walled up
voars ago, recently have caused trou
ble In Southern Illinois mines, ac
cording to Robert M. Mod-ill. director
of the State Department of Mines
in 1 Minerals.
The Dong brothers’ mine at Collina
viille, the North Mine of the Illinois
and Indiana Coal Corporation at
Witt, and several mines near Spring
field. have been <■ m pel led roce :tly
to seal up portions of their workings
to prevent the spread of these smoul
dering furnaces, which burn without
stopping in the hidden chambers un
derground. One mine was ordered
closed entirely.
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BILLION AND HALF INCREASE IN
SAVINGS DEPOSITS DURING 1922
CHIC VCO, Feb. 9.—■ Saving* depos
es In the Unite:! st.nti s increased
by .1 bout $1,500,000,000 in 1922 as
umpired with 1921, according to pre
liminary figures tabulated by the
I Savings Hank Division of the Amarl
I f .in Hankers’ Association and an
, >un< d here through district head
1 quarters.
The figures show that, compared
to reported savings deposits on June
'.’,0, 1921, of $16,618,695,000, the
a mount for the corresponding date in
1922 was $18,087,49.2,000.
The number of savings accounts in
dicated bv the partial data In hand
wa • 28,957,526 on June 30, 1922, as
'comparts) to 26,637,831 on the cor
r - ponding date in 1921. a gain of
2 314.695. For both the amount of
jv'ngs and the number of deists!
tors, later data of states from which
complete returns have not yet been
I received are expected to show larger
I gains f t 1922.
According to this repot t schoo
ravines svstoins reported deposits or
$5,:.<X),000 during tho last school year,
in tncr.'iso of 40 per cent over 1921
iml 100 per cent over 1920. Tho
number of scluool systems also In
crossed by over 100 per rent during
the last school year, and tho num
ber of pupils roportol as participat
ing was 1,271,000, a growth of 50
|ior cent over the previous school
year.
Tho data collected by the Savings
Batik Division indicates that life In
ti ranee, not including beneficial so
rides or the government bureau,
now carried on American lives, totals
more than $50,000,000,000. Premiums
in new business during the year
ending November 1. 1922. amounted
to $225,980,000. The total premiums,
including the payments on annuities,
paid during tho year, amounted to
more than $1,500,(100.000. The amount
of new life insurance purchased dur
ing the year 1922 was $9,300,000,000,
an Increase of $000,000,000, or 7 per
cent ovor 1921.