The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 9, 1921, Page 12

THE SEATTLE STAR IL RUSH TO NORTH ON SOON! Prospectors Reach Edmon- ton to Outfit, Tho They Can't Go North Till June TON, Alberta, April 9 ah into the Northland that | ys of the Klondike ts EDMO An oil r will riva to follow the opening up of toe-locked | lakes of Northern ed rivers and Can ada Thousands will take part. Altho the journey cannot be started until June, many hardy Feady have arrived her outfit prospectors al: | Writer to Lead Russians? Bolsheviki Starving Arts everyon ips. It Ol is on . talked on the streets a@nd in ho lobbies. er since drilling parties of the} Imperial Oil company came out of the Northland dust before winter ¢losed last fall with the announce. Ment that they had struck rich oll Qt only $00 feet, this city has bussed With excitement. it UNLESS You FLY Edmonton is the gateway wh Me on and n @f the Arctic circle, 900 miles north by airline and more than twice that @istance by rail, boat and wagon, the Foute that the prospectors must take ‘The ficics embrace more than 300,000 @quare m! extending north to the Arctic ocean ‘The new fields are far removed to the th Will be a job for only the hardy and the brave. There are no towns thin hundreds of miles. A few forts e headquarters for Canadian Mount @d Police detachments—and a few stations of the Hudson Bay company fre the only breaks in the wilder + To reach the fields one must jour: Rey for two days by train from Edmonton to Peace River Landing, | * on the river of that name. Then he goes northward by steamer for 1,500 Miles, beaking the journey up the Slave and McKenzie rivers fre Q@uently with long, weary portages @round waterfalls and rapids. Remembering the death trail of have acted promptly to prevent the ell rush from becoming another Klondike stampede, accompanied by * Jawlessness, gun-play and neediess @eaths by freezing and starvation. ‘The red-coated “Mounties” will be ‘on the job all the way along the trail Edmonton to the Fort Norman | At Edmonton they will turn/ all persons not physically fit or | ntly equipped to withstand | trip into the wilderness. No arma) De permitted, no “bad men” can " @et the police o. k. and no women Swill be given permits unless in ex- e@eptional cases, ‘The police during the past winter Bllowed only 24 oll scouts to go " North to file leases, and these were permission only after they had found to be physically fit, In- red to hardships and properly _@quipped and supplied. Dog teams end siedges were used in making the trip. IN 1919 ‘The Imperial Ol1 company, which fe the Canadian branch of Standard _ Of, has been making geological sur- © Yeys thruout Western Canada since 4. In 1919 oll seepage was dis- - = in the country north of : ton, and the explorations in Pthis district were pushed farther. ing parties were sent out. oe atte almost unbelievable were ‘endured by these pioneers in drag their rigging over the portages river to river. In the fall of 1920 they came back @o civilization with the news of their Gusher. A 1,000-barrel-a-day well, tt ‘was reported, and struck at only $00 feet: Company officials believe a vast pool of oll underlies the region. E4monton at once began to talk @f1, to think oil and to act. In the hope of being among the ~ first tn the rush to stake out claims Bbove the hidden treasure, many set fo work even last fall to outfit for expedition. Outsiders arrived in almost dally and also began Sctive preparations for the explora- tion into the Northland. Two difficulties, oll company offt- @lals say, will retard work at pres- ent in the new fields. One ts that the working season {s very short. to get in only about y work a season before winter closes down. But during that three months it is almost continu- ally daylight. ‘The other difficulty 1s that the fields lie at such a great distance from civilization that it will be al ‘most impossible to ship the ofl. The field soon will show such a great portation will be warranted. fields of Arctic Canada. Is} in the stores from civitization. Pioneering in them | 95, the Canadian Mounted Potice| Prospectors expect, however, that the | Gutput that some means of trans. | The 1,800-mile route from\ Edmonton to the new oil), Henriette Safonoff. NEW YORK, April 9.—HFlenrlette! cient food and who have lost the er to think “It is worse than the French rev. olution, because when it occurred hu- | man nature had reached a greater) development, and the plunge back Into the depths therefore was all the greater “Some day, however, when the! people are not too frightened to talk, Safonoff, @ singer and cousin of the | symphony director, W. Safonoff, has |come to this counry for the first time for a concert tour. She says that the bolshevik gov: ernment is smothgring the art for | which Russia once was known, and that artists and scientists now are starving. & great writer will rine up and tell “Dignity and peace and honor have | the whole terrible truth. And out of jgone out of Russia.” she eays.| our miseries of the past will rise « “There remains only a disheveled, | new and a better and stronger gov mournful people, who have insuffi. | ernment.” HERE'S BRITISH COAL STRIKE PAGE. 1 MORE ABOUT out nearly 4,000,000 workers, includ] “If the triple alliance strtkes, {t ing the miners now on strike—was| Will not be necessary for the others accepted as @ good omen fn official|to fo out as the stoppage of es circles. |sential Industrial life wil! mean com: | ‘The meeting was ostenstbty for|Plete paralysis for Britain, the purpose of formally conveying “There te no reason to fear a do | the strike decision to the govern. |'iberate communist uprising. The ment, but there was @ fecling that |COmmittees formed to handle the it also represented a disposition on | Strike are keeping the men under| the part of the laborites to nego |‘iscipline. I returned yesterday from tate if they saw their way clear | Scotland where the miners are the to do #0, ‘reddest’ in Britain. Any talk that Refusal of the raftway and trans |‘*y are planning to form soviet ts, port workers of Liverpool and other |POnsense. They are young, Intellt- centers to accept the general strike |f°t and studious. They do detest decision was pointed to in official |"™* Present system and are deter quarters as indicating the correct |™!ned to change It. | ness of the government's statement If trouble comes, It will be thru that not more than 50 per cent of |"0™¢ !mpulsive, fiery youngster not the men will respond to the strike |S*"N® for communtam, but rising hued against the capitalist system and | Meantime, there hae been @ big) "/Ting up the others by oratory reponse to the king’s call for vol- | UP! th€y also become impulsive. unteers for a defense force. Drill| 7% miners hate capital now as halla were presenting scenes eimi.| Dever before, They distrust the gov lar to those in August, 1914, at the |Crmment, believing It Is incapable of outbreak of the world war. being impartial They are deterte Destruction of mines thru ceses-| no) ‘hat if they Gght at all they will | ton of pumping eontineed to grow. | mnt ate - [Most of the mines in the Rhondda | sa nue may be Some head break | ST. ae - ing, but It won't be the result of valley were sald to have been tr slanned, delih te bolshev retrievably flooded. All pumping | t sas agumbvs face der ae the blind, impulsive fight for life.” eee Americans Didn’t and Were Indicted! INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, April 9. Officials of the United Mine Work: e i ers of America today called attention | Capital Facing to the fact that in the strike of Brit a ish coal miners, the pumpers were Bitter Struggle | «a1 out, while during the 191 BY CHARLES M. McCANN jstrike In America the pumpers were | LONDON, April §—"The ap- | ered to remain at work. proaching strike le the opening of «| Zils Searles, editor of the Mine peseontarry, Lorcaeytingign Semen Candie rkers’ Journal, declared that be | |and labor,” Ramsay MacDonald, ta-|°@uUs* the pumpers in America were | | ared |OMdered to remain at work to prevent had ceased tn the Cardiff district Glasgow already was experiencing a coal famine. It was eatimated that fully 600,000 persons were out | jot work in Scotland and that this| number would fncrease to two mil Mon If the general strike went thru. eee bor leader in parliament, declared | 974°r in an interview with the Unitea “0oding of the properties, the union Press today. ofifelals are under federal indict-| ment. | } “The Pritish government ts en-| deavoring to persuade the British miners to do one of the very things | that the members of the United Mine | Workers of America have been tn- | dicted for doing,” Sarles said. “The British miners called out the pump. | ers who keep water out of the minen | and save these properties from ruin. | This action hay caused an uproag in | Great Britain,” MacDonald added: “If the general strike fs not avert. | 4, British industry will be paralyzed | within a week,” | There may be some “head break ing,” but It will not be the result of | deliberately planned bolsheviam The workers now thoroly distrust |the government, believing it ts an| unwitting tool of capital. The miners “hate capital now as never before.” “The general strike te not merely a walkout by miners, railway men| Mirg, Stillman Gets and transport workers, but the) showdown in the division of inter-| $62,500 i in Alimony| Jests between capital and labor gen-| xew YORK, April 9—Attorne: 4 jerally,” MacDonald said for Mre. James A. Stilima “ | “Capital wants to force labor to! : mony 7 cap Apes | p ‘ F b nounced today that check for $62,500 accept anything it wants to offer.|in payment of alimony allowed’ by The government is behind the own-| Justice Morschauser had been re ers—but is only partly conscious | ceived by them, ‘This demongtrate: of the mischief it t# doing. \ thet attorneys for titan’ have “The miners, determined to have! given up any intention of appealing a living wage, are forced to fight|from the alimony decision, | Mrs. against the owners’ contemplated gtiliman's lawyers belloved | reduction. The other workers real _- | ize their fight is coming. All or * ganized aber reniten thin ta their| Pres to Swallow | fight and accepts it aa such, If the| Bank Notes; Fails; Shot thru the shoulder in a run ning fight with deputies at Toppen. ish Thursday night, Donald Hanlon tried to swallow two $500 federal re general strike ts not halted, all Brit: | Wh Industry will be at a standstill | within a week “The present situation Is regarded as a general war opened by capital for the subjection of labor, for| “*TV® notes at a hospital, He fall 1 hiattthe "hemes aaa tha others 0 suit cases, sald to have ment, have,” been preparing for| checked by Hanlonfin ‘seatt months. ‘The miners were not pre-| PIN& sought by Sheriff Matt Star. | oe wich, at the request of Sheriff Bear, Capital selected the point of at-| °F Yakima, | tack, planned not only to overwhelm | "aaee the ‘‘regiment’ of miners, but to| Court Kills Claim smash the entire army of labor. | British workmen, lke soldiers in the | for Loss of Beer field awaiting an attack under fire,| OLYMPIA, April 9. Supreme are consequently court denies claim of B. C. Schmie- | to fight than aw a gelow for $6,185 gainst Ocean | aults and detailed defeats of smal!l| Brokerage Co, for alleged tons of jenemy offensives, 400 cases Wiedlands beer in 1918. |have JAPAN MISSION COMING TOU. S, Will Seek to Strengthen Friendship BY A. L. BRADFORD, WASHING April 9—Japan in about to make a number of im portant “ * to atrengthen th relations betwe the United Sta day rhe mikado's government ts un derstood to making these tm portant moves to avoid the least ‘Kenturen it was learned to. be possibility of a break in the present | friendly relations between the United States and the absolute importance to the peace of the world of maintaining the strongest friendship between the two countries ti tak pn soon by Japan to strengthen | Ameriean-Japanese relations will be of member to the United the sending of & misw of the Japanese dict States, The party will leave early nonth There may be nome slenifigant pro ment on the subject of Amer relations while the next nour ioanJapanese mission is here. ‘i There are probably no two coun. tries which “Jingolsm’ ts more prevalent than in the United States and Japan, tt t* believed, in respon sible quarters here Race antagonism been fanned also ts maid to during the past neveral months to dangerous point by these two Ismues exteting between the United gitates and Japan: 1, Japan's protest againat the antl. allen land we of California protest against n of the inland of Yap under & Japanese mandate No U. S. War Says Japanese Envoy | Kanda, member of of peers, pro! fennor emeritus of the University of | Baron Naibu the Japanese house Commerce, Tokyo, and noted Eng Hish scholar, on his way to the Lisbon. With two other dele- Takio Isawa and L. Kobay: Baron Kanda arrived In city last night on the Maru. He aughter, Yurtko Takakt. Paron Kanda ts one of the fore most scholars of Japan, in gates, arht, the movement to supplant the Chi nene chara with the Roman letters: Any talk of war between Japan and the United Stat ia Without | foundation, the Daron declared, but on the Chinese question he tm lens hopeful. There tx very strong iit feeling between China and Japan. he sald. How Drunk Before One's Really Lit? How @runk a man must be to be | drunk ts a question Loule Johnson, logger. wants the superior court to decide, He asked Friday for an or der Girecting Police Justice A. M Reynolds, of Kent, be directed to allow an appeal, BELLINGHAM—WiHll D. Wallace, Whatcom county sheriff, pleads gullty to Wlegul possession of former Uquor, Fined $156. LAST TIMES TODAY The Carnival of Laughs BUSTER KEATON and WM. H. CRANE in “The Saphead” THE FUNNIEST PLAY A BLUE MOON IN Special Attraction: Mt. VESUVIUS IN ACTION Starting Sunday: EVA NOVAK -IN- “The Smart Sex” “Back Stage” Story of a Hard Luck Chorus Girl p Shots of the Opening Games Between SEATTLE —AND— LOS ANGELES mmer Japan and to emphasize | © of the important steps to be) Japanese congressional | the! ts In Seattle Saturday International partlamentary commerce conference | the | Fushimt is accompanied by his and for] more than 40 years has championed | ers now used in Japan who fined him $59, to show cause why he shouldn't { i | or favor. IRMA FALVEY On Our WURLITZER ‘HARRIS LETS POLICE WORRY BUFFALO, N. Y., April hope the police think I am a a Then I can go free, and they can do the worrying.” Roy Harris, self-styled accomplice in the murder of Joseph B. Etwell, New York clubman, told this to the United Press today just after having undergone another cross examina tion during which he stuck stubborn: ly to his story of the killing. “Just let them march the women in the Elwell case before me," he ald. “And I'll sure pick out Mrs. Fairehtla who paid Bil) Dunkin and me to kill Elwell.” Harris identified “Mra, Fairchild” |by a photograph and the woman was questioned by detectives in New York, She indignantly denied the |charges and convinced the police of her innocence Unemployed People to Take Up Farming The Association of Unemployed ts going into the farming business. have the land. Several acres slows, hoes, rakes—are needed to prepare It for use and to care for the crops. The use of a team or two for a short time 1s also needed. This is one of the ways that the association is preparing for the com ing winter, Already they have dis | tributed among families of unemploy ed more than 150 tons of foodstuff: Another immedinte need ts cloth ing for children. Elliott 2424, Labor temple, room 9, Is headquarters, 7 have been donated, But tools FU NERAL SERVICES FOR CHARLES MUKK Alaska fisherman who died Thursday at 116 | Fourth ave. §., will be beld at 10 A. m, Monday at the Georgetown Undertaking Co. chapel Daddy, bring home some of Boldt's French pastry.—Advertisement, STARTING TODAY WAY THIS PHOTOPLAY TELLS YOU 2222? WOMEN WILL DO” — STORY BY CHARLES LOGUE—DIRECTED BY EDWARD JOSE | THE PSYCHIC STORY OF A WOMAN CROOK FOR MEN AND WOMEN A woman may do many, many things—that is —under duress and under stress. Many things you might not think of. The story is told here completely. This photoplay ex: poses the practices of fraudulent trance mediums and spiritualistic bunk—without fear # It is a dramatic unfoldment of human emotions with superb touches of magnetic power visualizing a woman's heart and soul. It depicts the fall and rise of a beautiful girl amid temptatious splendor and the lights and nights of New York. Beautiful Anna Q. Nilsson plays “The Woman.” for a “dip in the briny.” BALLOON FOUND AFLOAT AT SEA PENSACOLA, Fla, April 9—A balloon thought to pe the one aboard which five aeronauts from the naval station here were blown to sea more than two weeks ago was found float- ing at sea 20 miles off Panama City, Fia,, last night, according to a re port reaching the naval station here today. The balloon was picked up by @ small boat and has cy taken to Panama City, A seaplane was dispatched from the naval station here to Panama City to {dentify the aircraft, According to reports, the balloon was deflated when found. No sign | of the missing balldvnists was dis- covered. Portland Building Wages Are Lowered PORTLAND, Ore. April %—A 10 per cent reduction in wages of allled building trades, effective May 1, has been decided upon by the spectal arbitration committee representing the builders, workmen and public, according to announcement today by Dr. W. T. McElveen, chairman The reductions will set the scale for carpenters at $7.20 a day, paint ers at the same figure and comn@ labor at $5.40, Fifteen other branches of con- struction work are 5 Arrented, Propgses to Close Terry Fire Station Closing of the fire station at Terry a and Alder st,, with the transfer of the apparatus to the sta nm at Harvard ave, and Union st., was rec jommended to Mayor Caldwell Friday by Chief George M, Mantor, who ed the move would save the city .000. Mayor Caldwell expressed huneeit in favor of the change. | WHERE PARIS PLAYS SPECIAL ADDED ATTRACTION A Prizma subject showing TROUVILLE, the beach resort where Parisian belles hie themselves on summery afternoons A costume exposition. NOTICE—Have the Soldier Boy Psychic tell your fortune free of charge. Bush & Lane win dow, next door to theatre. 2 to 5—7 to 10 p. m. FOX NEWS World Events SELECTED COMEDY. Unadulterated Fun PRISCILLA DEAN LON CHANEY “Outside | the Law” | Maddea” moctety — “Silky Mell” te friends. — TT > gp A ney 3 SILVA lead iene ‘that there ts thieves. HAROLD LLOYD in “HIGH AND Dizzy" a 250 cl ORCHESTRA A CLA, THEDIEC) ‘ - Yara Tacarns Cai