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Oct., 18— Six years ago Clarence Pinkston, who recently was awarded the world championship in fancy div ing at the Antwerp Olympic Games was swimming about with the boys ot his neighborhood at an oid mill pond at Cedar Point, near here. BARRACK NOTES The detachment lost one of its best men, when Pvt. Thos. Dujka left for Anchorage on Friday’s train. Corporal Oyler returned from An chorage after spending a few days in that town. • Pvt. Obeilande*is spending a few days in Anchorage. We do not know the poet who said: “ *Tis easier to go hunting than find ing.” But we do know the soldier who said: “ ’Tis easier to .kill a moose than to pack one.” Once upon a time in the city of Seward there lived a young man who decided to go bear hunting. After hik ing all day he sat upon a dead tree in order that he could obtain a few min utes rest. Suddenly he saw a black ob ject coming toward him. His heart beat like a bass* drum as he raised his rifle to his shoulder. One minutes more and he would have killed the on coming animal; but something within him told that it was a cub. He tried to take it alive but the “pesky crittur” filled his hands with quills. Moral: Do not play with strange animals. a Now that we have started our paper it is the duty of every one to help. . Soldiers get busy. Hit it and take it. The soldier’s dance, Saturday night proved to be a great success, many re mained on the floor until after 1:80. Evaiitually Oil. Why not Nowf i SOME FACTS WORTH . KNOWING A VITIAL SUBJECT WASHINGTON, d. C., Oct., 18— While election of a President seems the principal concern of the voters, party managers are quietly but stren uously striving for control of the next Cong less, and particularly of the Sen ate. Success or failure of the next Na tional Administration depends on whether a majority of the Senate is of the same political complexion as the new President. If Governor Cox is elected (which seems extremely doubt ful now with the failure of the Gov ernor's campaign fund charges and the verdict rendered in Maine) and the next Senate is republican, the Cox Ad 111 mistration would largely be a failure because a republican Senate would re fuse to agree to some of the Cox pol icies, particularly the League of Na tions, whidethe Governor hung arouno his neck at the beginning of the cam paign. On the other hand, if Senator 1 Harding is elected (which seems high iy piobabie, not to say certain, in the judgement of experienced Washington political obsrveis) a democratic Sen ate would hamper his administration. The republicans now have a major ity of two in the Senate, 49 to 47. 1 ney hope to increase this lead in November. The terms of 32 Senators expire next March fourth. Seventeen a.e democrats; fifteen republicans. Election of democratic senatorial can didates is conceded ‘Florida, Louisiana, Arkansas, North Carolina, South Caro lina, Georgia, and Alabama. Demo crats concede five states,— Iowa, Kan sas, Vermont, Washington, and Penn sylvania,— to the republican senator ial candidates. This leaves twenty states that are so-called “debatable ground.” These states are, Connesticut, Oregon, Ken tucky, Oklahoma, North Dakota, Nev ada, New Hampshire, California! .Maryland, Indiana, Ohio, , South Da kota, Wisconsin, Idaho, Illinois, Ari zona, .Missouri, Utah, Colorado anc New York. A careful analysis, of the senatorial situation in these states made by your correspondent, from re • < Eventually OIL Why Ml New? % « ■ m j GENERAL CONTINUES RULSHEVIKII SEBASTAPOOL, Oct, 18— Two Soviet regiments that have been op posing the forces of General Wrangell decided to surrender today because of the fact that they were entirely with out shoes and food and clothing. According to official reports from the headquarters of the Bolsheviki Army the Soviet government is no longer able to conceal the fact that the ' army is dissolving and that the winter i campaign is impossible. , . Twenty five hundred civil prison ed were m&ssacred by the Bolsheviki troops during the last days that they occupied the city of Berdiphk. The Poles and the Lithunians were engag ed in a fierce battle last Saturday on the front between Viina and Kovao. 3d any were killed on both sides. i ? ; fT JAPANESE IMMIGRATIONS TOKIO, Oct., 18— Alleging that ! under the names of “territorial greed” | and “invasion” the Japanese people fare prevented from seeking land be yond the seas to live and have their being, the Nichi Nichi puts the ques tion: “Where shall our countrymen go?” After remarking that the Unit ed States had protested against Jap an’s Siberian policy thereby causing undesi rable complications between the two nations, the newspaper gives pro minence to an interview with an anon ymous high official who says that Ja pan’? development in Siberia will be beneficial both to Japan and the Unit ed States, if the matter is considered rationally. r: The utuuuned official writes'as fol lows: The land where Japanese should emigrate is Siberia after all, in veiw of various diplomatic circumstances. America refuses admission to Japan jse immigrants and Australia shuts her door. The lands which Japan has newly acquired and for which we are given the trustship have not suffic ent space to welcome immigrants. “Our country is prosperous in the power of multiplying population and die density of population is fast in jreasing here. The people are ener getic and alert, full of ambition and powr of activity. • They know of no /ay of stretching out their powerful lands. Japan is destined to seek plac es abroad for their activity. Japan’s perplexity because of her surplus po pulation is not a problem for Japan alone. Neighboring nations should study calmly how this surplus popu lation mby be disposed of* Even if Ja pan had territorial ambitions, what of unt? Why should the present terri torial limits of any country be con sidered as the proper limits? “Territory is acquired accidentally. Because of such accident, a country viiyoyt- limitless natural reaanres, while another has to suffer because of a surplus of population. When such a perplexed country seeks to change the p honal boundary lines to relieve cov iitions which are not just to that Country, such a policy should not be called irrational by any means. If wa j , ^ * ter or air is compressed into a narrow sj'iu e, it will burst out in an expio<*io?.. | The same thing msv be said af -ii in | ^ national relut' * *od blessed Ja pan with Siberia which fortunately | Hes beside her* Bat Japan baa •* t»r j ritorial ambitions there. She only ' wants to exploit the natural resources there under the flag of equality of op portunity. To obstruct that policy is indeed a selfish thing t# do 4*Besides, Ap .erica has a vaBst ter ii; • jy of her own, a virgin soil# Al most ao hand of development touched 1 he? Alaska. So American.* do n«»i •'are to emigrate into Siberia. But for Ja pan, emigration is of vital tieeev.ity If developed properly bv Japanese, Siberia, where large 3calc agriculture is absolutely necessary, will secun agricultural implements from Amer ica's profit There will be mutual ben efits acruing from such a scheme. I hwpe that the American government and people will regard the question cr Japan's pressure of population upon the means of subsistence as a world issue.” i_ iable data gathered here; gives the following results: The States that will very probably elect republican senatorial candidates are Connecticut, Oregon, North Da I <cota, Nevada, New Hampshire, Indi um, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin, .daho, Illinois, Arizona, Utah Mary and, and New York,— total 16. The states that may or may not jlect democratic senatorial candidates are Kentucky, Oklahoma, Missouri, California, and Colorado, total, five. The republicans have high hopes of Kentucky as the State administration, leaded by Governor Morrow, is re publican. Oklahoma has nearly always been found in the democratic column. Missouri is normally democratic. So is Colorado. Though there are more re gistered republican voters in Califor nia than democrats, democratic lead ers claim reelection of their candidate, Senator Phelan. This computation would give the republicans in the* “debatable sUfces”, 15 senators and the democrats five. > • ■ • It would give the republicans twenty senators, including those from the five states already conceded by the demo crats. The democrats would win, in cluding the seven states conceded by the republicans, a total of twelve. If these predictions become real ities in Noveraflb^r, and these estimates are very reasonable, the next Senate ■will have 55 republicans and 41 demo crats,—.a republican riajority of four teen, to back up Senator Harding's policies v'hen he enters the White House next March. Representative Simeon D. Fess, Ohio, chairman of the National Repub lican Congressional Committee, is more conservative in his estimate. He says the republican majority in the next Senate will be at leaflet ten. Senator Mjiles Poindexter, chair man of the Republican Senatorial Committee, believes the republican majority will be from twelve to four teen. SOISSONS, France* Oct, IS— Am erican merchandise valued at 15*000, 000 francs during the last year and a half. This work of fighting the higi cost of living has been carried oo by welfare societies in cooperative stores established and stocked by the Ameri can Red Cross. When there no longef is need of the stores whatever funds may remain after tits “selling below cost” cam paign* witybe used to found a perma nent social welfare fhetitutioa such as libraries and dispensaries ip commor ate America's tiff. LONDON, Oct., 18— The British coal industry is at a standstill today and the nation is facing future days of industrial chaos that will be un equalled even by those days of the war. A feeling of pessimism prevades the entire country notwithstanding Lloyd .George’s promise that every thing possible will be done to keep the industries going. Severe disorders have occured at Whitehall in connec tion with the strike. During a demon stration by the unemployed men who sent a delegation to Lloyd George, several were severely injured when they tried to break through the police lines. Two policemen were also injured in another part of London when a large crowd bearing at its head a red flag. Another crowd of hoodlums and an archists gathered in Trafalgar Square where they waned a red flag and cheered tar Lwiine amfr-Tiutsky. The police also interfered here and soon re stored order. —i-o--<r CHAMPION CANNER SPEAKS Contributed to the Gateway by a Sew ard Citiien. % In the Seattle P. I., of Oct., 4th, Mr. Gifford Pinchoti the enemy of all living Alaskans, tells why he is sup porting the G. O. P. Now Alaska Re publicans are sorry to learn that Pin chot is warmly supporting Harding, because Pinchot has never supported anybody unless they were believers in, or probable converts to, his. hobby of canning the resources of a country for some future generations to feast on, while letting the present inhabitants ^ starve. This Pinchot has shouted for Rooseveltian Policies ever since Presi dent Roosevelt “Fell” fbr the conser- j vation doctrine, and allowed Pinchot to CAN our resources tight as to , have preserved them against all at tacks by hungry pioneers until the pen of Thomas B. Drayton started prying the cover off. j Hr. -Gifford Pinchot's most effect ive political work is done just before a Presidential election, nod at this time he breakB into print, with th^ backing of sudi men as William Homaday, '(of brown bear preserving fame,) so conspicuously as to “Flimflam*’ one or the other Candidates into committing themselves to his autocratic conserva tion schemes. If he succeeds in “Slip ping -it-over** this time we will see the 6IL and Coal fields withdrawn again for further consideration by*a feu. more COMMISSIONS. Altifro"* send up a mighty prayer hmt neither one of the Candidates al ow this monomaniac Pinchot to hyp jotiie them into sanctioning the starve ng of the LIVING people so that % jmM-natieal no UNBORN might lire a little easier. Hew ie it tfabt Seattle, ovr FRIEND Pinchot, when orayoee realisae that what ha atanda for ninad Alaaka? aidant, bet we CAN and DO CRY, DOWN WITH RNCHOnSM.1 ■ L JIJ | _ A..... -* COMMISSION COAL MINERS RETURN TO WORE ANCHORAGE Oct, 18— (Special to the Gateway)— Col. Mears, in charge of the Alaskan Railway Com mission granted to the striking miners today the same increase that has been recently given to the coal miners in the States. The men returned to work entirely satisfied. Work at the mine is progressing rapidly. The buildings for the town are being erected and every thing is gradually assuming a ship shape look. TELEGRAPH • V LOS ANGELES, Oct., 15— An automobile race of 250 miles is in pro spect for Thanksgiving Day on the Los Angeles Speedway at Beverly Hills. Prize money has been tentative ly fixed at $35,000 and a number of special features are being planned. HUNGER STRIKER DIES CORK, Oct, 18— The first death among those political prisoners who declared a hunger strike some weeks ago occurred last night when Fitz gerald died. The death of this man will probably have a bad effect on the balance of men who have been fasting for so many weeks. Lord Mayor Mc Swinney passed a good night after his sixty seventh day of fast Fitzgerald had fasted sixty eight days. Several other political prisoners who have entered upon their sixty ninth day are expected to die very shortly. ROCKFORD MINE DAMAGED MORGANTOWN, W. Va., Oct, 18 An explosion of dynamite badly dam aged, the entrance to the Rockford mine last night Twelve men who were working in the mine at the time suc ceeded after considerable difficulty in making their escape. The power house was atacked about the same time by armed men and shots were exchanged by the non-tlnion miners. A great game drive is ill progress in Zululand, with the object of stop ping the raveeihs of the tsetse * fly, which is fatal to equines and bovines. Wsole tribes at Zulus, attracted by the prospect of unlimited meat, are *king part in the drive. They are mostly armed with asmgais, the na tive spears.; ' It is thought, however, that, the size of tim drive is defeating its own object The wild creatnrea have be epee pqtife stricken and the ludicrous situation bow exists of the hunters having becomd the hunted. * The great cordon of white men aad Zulus has been broken ih several places by charging birds of frantic aehra and other lift ala sail tit banb ers have bam eoatpeUll to*split ep te» to small parties for1 their owe aatbty*