“BRINGING UP FATHER
By GEORGE McMANUS
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8 SEEKING U. S,
GIVING TITLES
PAiaj ai.iu. Aug. Clarence’
Pinkston, world's fancy diving cham
pion and recent winner of the 10
foot board diving event, and A1 Whin .
former holder of the 10-foot title,!
will be seen in action September -
when the American high diving
championships will lie held at Sears
ville Lake, five miles north of here.
Pinkston defeated White in 111 ten
foot board event a few days ago by
a hare fraction of a point. Both arc
proteges of Ernie Urandeton, Stan
ford swimming coach, who is arrang
ing tile coining championship meet.
Helverson of the Chicago Athletic
Association: I.ouis Balbach of the
Illinois Athletic Association; - Haig
Priest, who placed third at the Ant
werp Olympic Games; Swenseu and
Summerville of Lor. Angel* s; and
Knehu of Oregon are among the en
tries.
SHELBY ARENA SOLD
FOR ONLY $5,500
SHELBY, Mont., Aug. 30—The
arena in which Shelby staged its
“folly" July 4 was knocked down to
I lie Monarch Lumber Company for
Just $5,500, It cost $86,000 to build.
The sale of the huge bowl where
Jack Dempsey and Tommy Gibbons
milled fifteen rounds without a knock
out except to the pocketbook of
Montana, was conducted by Janies
A. Johnson, treasurer of the light,
on the foreclosure of a $35,000 mort
gage held by the lumber company.
ADD SPECIAL HURDLE
RACE TO TRACK MEET
NiilV YORK, Aug. 30—At '.he re
quest of Carl Anderson, coaiii oi
the Newark A. C.. a spec'si 40fi
meter hurdle race has been added
to the program fo the Wileo A. A.
games at the Yankee Stadium on
*v pi. 8.
Coach Anderson is pointing Carl
Chiistlernson. the Swedish cham
pion and record holder who is now
in this country, for the 440-yard hur
dle lace at the national champion
ship1 a* Chicago on Sept. 1.
He believes that he is capable of
breaking the present world's record
for 4(10 meters which was estab
lished by Frank Loomis of Chicago
in winning the Olympic championship
at Antwerp three years ago.
LOREN MURCHISON
TRAINING FOR MEET
new YORK. Alls, no—The former,
national ltM-yacd ■ haiupio;. Loren'
Murrhtnson, is ,'oundlng Into high
iB RHEUMATISM i
PAIN FROM SORE,
ACHING JOINTS
What is rheumatism? Pain only.
St. Jacobs oil will stop any pain so;
quit drugging.
Not one case in iuty requires in
ternal treatment. liuh soothing,
penetrating St. Jacobs Oil directly
upon the tender spot and relief
comes instantly. St. Jacobs Oil is a
harmless rheumatism and sciatica
liniment, which never disappoints
and can not burn the skin.
Limber up! Quit complaining!
Get a small trial bottle from your
druggist, and in just a moment I
you'll be free from rheumatic andj
sciatic pain, soreness, stiffness and|
swelling. Don't suffer! Relief awaltsi
you. Old. honest St. Jacobs Oil has,
ci^rcd >millions of rheumatism wif-j
ferers in tho last half century, and!
is-Just as good for sciatica, neural-|
gi, lumbago, backache, sprains andj
itrimni*' taflTwtlsemwrt.T |
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i ' nss form for Bte games of the
Wilco A. A. to he staged .<t the
Yankee Stadium Sept. 8, in which he
will oppose the foremost sprinters in]
the blast. Murchison strained his I
foot two weeks ago while training at j
Weequahie Park, Newark, and it had j
been feared he might b. kept out
■ t competition, hut in a trim tare re '
ceailj Tb showed no ill .cl's front
t!:e injury. j
EASEBALL RESULTS.
Owing to the cable being inter-(
rttpted between Seattle and Sitka,
press and other dispatches are being
delayed. The following are the re-!
suits of the baseball games played
last Tuesday afternoon.
Pacific Coast Leaffue
San Francisco 1; I .os Angees 2.
Vernon 1 ; Oakland ti.
Portland ti; Salt Lake 4.
Scattlc-Sacramento, traveling.
National League,
i Philadelphia 7; St. Louis 8.
New York 1; Chicago 4.
Booton 1; Cincinnati 4.
American League,
i Detroit 9; Washington 10.
STANDING OF THE TEAMS
Pacific Coast League.
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San Francisco .... 89
Sacramento . 83
Portland .
Salt Lake ....
Seattle .
l.os Angeles
Vernon .
Oakland .
81
71
70
70
66
66
L.
61
67
68
76
76
79
84
84
National league.
vV.
New York . 78
Cincinnati . 74
j Pittsburgh . 72
Chicago
St. Louis
V. rooklyn
lioston
66
69
57
40
37
Li.
47
47
48
65
63
63
80
83
American League.
New York
Cleveland
Detroit .
St. lyOlllS .
Washington
Chicago .
Philadelphia
Poston .
W.
76
65
60
60
57
55
51
45
Li.
all
55
57
61
63
66
70
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Pet.
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.612
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Pet.
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Vanderbilt’s Big Yacht
Heads Annual Cruise.
!
Here is an unuEual picture of
the big schooner yacht Vagrant, !
belonging to Commodore Harold ;
S. Vanderbilt, of the New York I
Yacht Club, which led the more 1
than 100 yachts participating in j
the annual cruise of the historic i
club from New York through ,
Long Island Sound and up to I
Newport, It. I. Commodore Van
derbilt may be seen at the wheel j
of his yacht.
WILL REBUILD DOCK
Work will begin immediately in
building a now dock and warehouse
at Valdez to replace the structures
that recently collapsed causing a loss
of $15,000 to J. M. Lathrop and asso
ciates who own the property.
Old papers for sale at Hie Empire.
Elks’
SMOKER
LABOR DAY
September 3rd, 1923
at Elks Hall
“BATTLING” JOHNSON vs. “SAILOR” DIXON
main event
William Murphy vs. Roy Osborne
“Filipino” Andy vs. Morris Murphy
and other preliminaries
Reserved seat sale begins Wednesday p. m. at The
Brunswick, The Alaskan Hoteband Burford s Corner
Reserved Seats, $2.00. General Admission, $1.50
OREGON AGGIES
GRID TEAM FIT
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trial in prospect fnt (he Oregon
Vgrh iiM'i! cl College football season
s no better or no vo x.' than last
•ear at the same time, according to
"on. h I! H Itnth'-rfonl. Com h
Rnther;orn ,'s getting a line on his
men. end is watch.tv all prospects,
teveral good men from tne fresh
man team are developing •-> P.ii the
holes left by 192 2 stars who have
been graduated. "Hughie" McKenna,
quarter; Ed Clark, guard; Hjelte, cen
ter; and McFadden, end, will not bo
here in the fall. Bell, Snyder, Hoy
ken, Johnson, O&nstead, Billsborrow,
Wilson, Caudle, Jones, and Butcher
are Freshmen trying for the team.
A much faster football field than
last year's is promised, since much
work has been done this summer to
put it into eot’.ditjon. O A. C. games
are scheduled as follow Septem
ber 29, Pacific University, Corval
lis; October fi. Alumni, Corvallis; Oc
tober 1.9, Willamette, Corvallis, Octo
ber 20, University of California,
Berkeley: October 27. open; Novem
ber Washington, Corvallis; Novem
ber 10, Idaho, Boise: November 17.
Washington Statk Portland; Novem
ber 24. University of Oregon. Port
| land; November 29, Multnomah Ath
letic Club. Portland; December 25,
University of Hawaii, Honolulu; .Ian
nary 1, Hawaiian All-Stars. Honolulu.
RUSSIANS ENDEAVORING
TO RESTORE PETrcOCRAD
RKVAL. Aus. 30 Soviet Russia's
effort to restore Potregrad to Its for
Tier importance ns the gateway to
North Russia is having a detrimental
effect on the ports of Helsingfors,
Reval and Riga. The Moscow gov
ernment is diverting all possible busi
ness to Petrograd, and is making
improvements in the harbor to en
able large ships to enter with safety
as they did in the clays before Ho!
shevism worked ruin to the port
which has lain idle for so long.
BETTER HIGHWAYS IN 1923
TO ABSORB $228,000,000
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 Tie 1923
road construction season is expected
to add many hundreds of miles to the
country's system of improved high
ways. Figures compiled by the llu
rcau of Good Roads of the Depart
ment of Agriculture from 21 scattered
states show th y will have available
1 $288,000,000 for this purpos ■, c om
pared to $273,000,000 spent by them
' last year. On federal aid work, which
c onstitutes something like one halt
the total mileage, there was under
construction March 31 work esti
! mated to cost $238,000,000, ns c om
! pared with $233,000,000 on the same
'date a year ago.
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published in, So-ntli which was quoted In the Mtera.y I'ib
ouminint on :he Presidential Speech Iti Sc. ttlo, and hae beon
frequently qjuoted on Alaskan subjects' in many i-thcu national!)
known and eliculatod publications.
We feel that in establishing a newspaper capable of gaining
inch recognition that v.o are making rapid strides toward the
attainment cf our principle objective—that of giving Alaska;
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Wholesale and Retail Butchers
PHONE 39 SEWARD STREET
NEEDN’T WATCH THE OVEN
If the range is fed with our tine
stove coal. There will he sure to
be a fine oven heat that means good
linking and roasting. You’ve got
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time and learn how much more heat
it gives witli less coal than the or*
dinary kind does?
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with reversable plates for either waffles or hot cakes.
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