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Washington, March SO.—By di
rection of the foreign office in Lon
don. the British embassy here has
requested the state department to
have all courtesies extended to Sir
Ross and Keith Smith, the British
aviators, when they reach the Uni
ted States.
These birdmen will attempt to
circumnavigate the world .begin
ning from London on April 21.
The first stop will be in France
and the route lies across southen
Europe, Asia Minor, India, Chini
Japan and Siberia.
The Pacific ocean will be crossec
at Bering straits and a landing wil
be made on the Aleutian islands ain
Unalaska.
The course will then be acrosi
Canada to the Soo and then to New
York, from where they will go t<
New Foundland. where the star
will be made across the Atlantii
ocean.
SKNATK MAKING GOOD
TIME WITH TREATY
Washington. March 30.—Late this
afternoon the aubmarine and gas
treaty was ratified unanimously by
the senate.
Only the nine power treaty, pledg
ing support to China, and the treaty
relating to Chinese transfers are all
that remain to be acted on by the
senate.
These. It Is said, will be ratified
without much discussion or amend
ment.
l.ATK TELEGRAPH
Washington. March 30.—During a
debate on the naval treaty. Senator
Hiram Johnson of California ex
pressed "grave misgivings" about
the provisions in the naval treaty,
prohibiting the United States from
fortifying the islatm of Guam and
the Philippines.
Washington. March 30.—It is pro
posed to have (212,500 of the fund
allotted to Alaska road and trail
construction spent under the super
vision of the war department. This
work will chiefly be In Mating trails
an completing roads for President
Harding and party in their trip
through the territory.
Souix Fall. S. D.. March 30.—
Governor McMaster won the Repub
lican nomination (or governor in the
primary elections held on Tuesday.
Washington. March 30.—The sen
ate committee on territories has fav
orably reported the bill authorizing
the war department to make con
tracts in advance of federal appro
priations for Alaska road construc
tion.
Seattle. March SO.—The capacity |
of the S. S. Alameda Is being taxed i
to its utmost with reservations for j
the sailing of the ship on April 5.1
Four hundred and twenty-eight have
already been listed.
Washington, March 29.—By a
vote of seventy-four to one. the
treaty limiting the navies of all the
great sea powers was ratified by the
senate today.
Seattle. March 30.—Sir Auckland
Geddes. the British ambassador to
t!:e United States, and Lady Geddes
arrived here this morning.
The distinguished couple were met
by a representative committee and
today are guests of the city.
l'RKI'ARATIO.XS mark to
SKVKR SIAMKSK TWINS
Chicago. March 29.—Prepara
! Hons have been made In a west end
j hospital to save one female of i
( pair of "Siamese" twins by severing
I the strip of flesh that joins the two,
when death becomes inevitable to
the other. The action was followed
by a decidedly unfavorable change
in their condition.
The names of the twins are Rosa
and Josefa Blazek and they are ill
with jaundice. Josefa. in addition
to the jaundice, is suffering from
appendicitis. They were born in
Austria in 1S79.
ULSTER PRKMIKR l>OKS
NOT FAVOR RI.OORSHKR
Belfast. March 29—Sir James
Craig, in his speech to the lister
parliament last night, declared
"while there now is a pause in the
epedenilc of murders, the next mur
der that takes place may not be the
case of one man killed, but perhaps
a thousand "
The I'Ister premier appealed to
the people of I'Ister factions not to
back up extremists and to think less
of the past and more of the future
ITALY HAS HKNKWAL
OK INTKIt.NAL WARIMItK
Rome. March 30.—There have
been renewed outbreaks between the
Fascist! and Socialists in various
parts of Italy during the pask week.
A number of violent outbreaks
have been reported and several cas
ualties hav resulted.
Seattle.—The department of com
merce will send a party headed by
Assistant Secretary C. H. Houston
to Alask this summer to make a
general investigation of conditions
in which the department is specially
interested, pertaining to the bureau
of fisheries, coast and geodetic sur
vey, lighthouse and steamboat in
spection service, particular atten
tion will be paid to the salmon fish
ing industry.
London. March 29.—The confer
ence called by the Imperial govern
ment to consider the sitnat.on grow
ing out of the recent disorders in
Ireland opened here today.
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CHURCH Wdi.KK PUSSYFOOT
JOHNSON WAS 8PKAKIN(«
Green Bay, Wis., March 21 —A
bomb was huried through the win
dow of the Union Congregational
church last night.
Pussyfoot Johnson, the great pro
hibitionist, was delivering an ad
dress at the time on the New In
j dia.
i Several persons were hurt by the
flying missies, but no one seriously,
j Johnson has just returned from a
| trip to India.
j FAMOUS CATHOLIC SHRINE
DESTROYED BY FLAMES
Quebec. March 30.—The famous
North American Shrine of Saint
Anne do Beaupre was entirely de-1
s!roved by fire last night.
The property loss Is estimated at I
one million two hundred thousand
dollars. This land mark will leave
a void in eastern Canada, as thous
ands of Catholics made the pilgrim
age to St. Anne's every year and
many thousands were healed of var
ious diseases.
ROIiRKRS (JOT BIG LOOT IX
LADXKR HRAXCH ROYAL BANK
Vancouver. B. C.. March 30.—It
has developed that the bandits who!
robbed the Ladner branch of the
Royal Bank of Canada secured se-1
ctirities worth fifty thousand dollars.
No clues have been obtained of I
the robbers as yet. attho the police
department is working on the case |
with every available man.
Seuttle—Volney Richmond, pres
j ident of the Northwestern Commer-|
j cial company, has brought his fam
' ilv here to reside, aa the headquar
| ters of his company Is now located J
here. This succeeds the old North-)
j ern Commercial company. I
GENERAL PERSHING
SOUNDS WARNING AGAINST
CUTTING DOWN ARMY
Washing, March 30.—A warning
against what he calls the ruthless
slaying of the United States army
as proposed by the house appropria
tions committee, was sounded by
General Parshing today.
Redustions of these forces, he de
clared. cannot be made without vio
lating the soundest principles of se
curity.
START FIGHT AGAINST
REDUCTION OF NAVY
Washington, March 30.—The first
Run in the fight in the house against
the efforts of the committee on ap
propriations to so reduce the per
sonnel that the V. S. navy will be
Inferior to the Japanese navy in
stead of in the first place and on a
parity with Great Britain, as pro
vided under the 5-S-3 ration in the
naval limitation treaty as adopted
by the arms conference In Washing
ton.
TKYING FLIGHT FROM
LISBON TO BRAZIL
Lisbon. March 30.—An attempted
flight from Lisbon to Pernambuco.
Brazil was started this morning.
Naval captains Sacadura and Cou
tinho took the air at seven o'clock
in the hope of making the trans-At
lantic passage of more than four
thousand miles In sixty hours of ac
tual flyinfc time.
A large crowd was on the field and
cheered the Intrepid men as their
machines raised into the air.
Revival of the Alaska salmon
packing industry explains some of
the large unmber of persons going
north thus early in the season
WIL USE AEROPLANES IN
MAPPING OF POLAR US
New York, March 30.—Captain
Amundsen outlined his plana for the
aerial exploration of the roof of the
world with a Lj.rsen monoplane,
which was in flight from Mineola
last year, when its wings stood a
temperature of 4S degrees below
zero.
Amundsen will also take an aeor
scout plane and monoplane capable
of carrying eleven persons and large
stocks of fuel and provisions. The
monoplane will be able to land on
any surface and to her can be ad
Justed skiis, wheels or pontoons so
that she cau land on any kind of
surface.
With the aid of the monoplane |
Amundsen believes that he can chart
a course two hundred miles wide
across the top of the earth.
From his ship, the Maude. Am-;
und^en will conduct great sallies on ]
either side of the vessel, sending |
drawings of the great Ice fields and |
currents.
I IKKMKN AMI COUNCIL
HAVE A MISUNDERSTANDING
Quite a little excitement was creat
ed by the action of the city council
on Monday night in cutting down
the membership of the Volunteer
Klre Department to thirty members.
Many of the members did not un
derstand the proposition and a spe
cial meeting was called for last
night.
The city council also called a spe
cial meeting and before the two
meeting had adjourned the matter
was pacifically settled and all went
merry as a wedding bell.
The matter of the reduction of
membership was raised to forty-flve
and the fire department agreed that
they would not require a payment
; of three dollars each for attendance
| on a fire.
There was no disposition shown
on the part of either organization
I to impose on the other; only a mis
j understanding, which, when cleared
| up, made things all right again.
Wholesale prices of canned sal
mon at Seattle are as follows:
Sockeyes
Rl*ds
Kings
Cohoes
Pinks
Chums
Toils
$4 25
2.25
1.76
1.25
1.10
1.00
rials
$4.50
3.00
1.75^
1.25
Halves
$2.50
2.00
2.00
1.15
.95
.85
LAST OF SOLDIER DEAD
TO ARRIVE TOMORROW
Washington, March 29.—Tomor-1
row the last of the soldier dead who |
are being brought from Europe will ,
arrive at New York.
There will be 1,200 bodies, and
this shipment completes the return j
of 45,623 bodies of soldiers who!
died or were killed ta the Great War i
over there.
TEX RICHARD ACQUITTED
BY XEW YORK JURY!
New York, March 29.—Tex Uick
ard. the famous fight promoter, was
found not guilty by the Jury that
tried his case today.
Rickard was charged with crim
inally assaulting Sirah Schoenfeld.
a fifteen-year-old girt.
"This is the happiest moment of
my life," Rickard exclaimed when
I the foreman of the Jury read the
I verdict.
Seattle.—The tourist information
service of the Seattle Chamber of
Commerce is receiving inquires from
all parts of the United States rela
tive to Alaska trips. The national
publicity on the new government
railroad has prompted many inquir
ies about the trip from Seward to
Fairbanks.
mill GOAL LAND SOON
10 BE IMBED
' Washington. March 30.—The navy
department's investment in Alaska
; coal lands, which are principally lo
cated at Chickaloon mines, will be
I transferred to the Interior depart
j ment on May first.
| This announcement was made hv [
i Secretary Fall this morning, and is
, a result of the controversy that has
| been going on for tome time.
I Washington, March 30.—Secre-!
I tary Fall said today, respecting the
' coal lands transfer, that the mines
I will be closed down on "May first.
' pending an arrangement of a new
| program, but that no evictions of
i tenants *111 take place. Neither
j will the schools or homes be dis
continued
"The navy's investment amounted
to one million one hundred thous
and dollars for the development of
the Matanunka, where four hundred
thousand tons havp been blocked out
by diamond drilling Two million
five hundred thousand tons of coal
on Cold Creek, two and one-half
miles from Chl<" loon have been
developed "
Secretary Hen by. !n di-cussinp the
transfer, said, "The navy depart
ment is not prepared to guarantee
to purchase any coal from the Al
askan fields <> ive any favorable
price or different als to Mimuiate
the development of a l';icific supply
of naval coal."
SIAMESE TWINS
1HK DESPITR EMINENT
MKDICAL HKLP
Chicago. March 30.—Rosa and
Josepha Ralzek. the Siamese twins
I died today Doctor Jenjamin Brak
| stotie and a stall of eminent Chicago
1 surgeons worked all night trying to
j save the lives of this famous pair.
| Josefa has been near death's door
I for nearly a week, but Rosa was in
j good health until two days ago
1 She made up her mind, according
to Doctor Brakstone. that she want
ed to die with Josefa.
[ K1N(5 OF BKUilt'M FA I.US IX
FRONT VATICAN; IS INJt RKD
Rome, March 3ft—King Albert of
Belgium, who has been visiting in
Rome for some-days, stumbled and
fell In front of the Vatican today
and injured his head
It has not been learned how esr
iously the King was hurt, but he is
under medical treatment.
$12,000 STOLEN IN MAIL POI CH
Kellogg, Idaho, March I? —A
mail pouch containing twelve thous
and dollars in currency d sappean-d
from a hand truck at the Oregon
Washington railway sation today.
There is no clue as to the robbers
SKATTI.K \< VOI M A NT
I'l.ACKS 1(K> VAl.l K ON
WIITS AI I K(TM\S
Whlteplalnes, New York, March
30.—William J Lester, an acconnt
ant of Seattle. Was.h ngton. brought
suit today for one hundred thou*and
dollar*' damages against George T.
Williams, all-tins that Williams
had alienated the affections of his
wife. Mrs Amatidi H. Lester
Mrs I/ester is William's fir*t wife
Mrs. Isabelle Williams. Ii:- second
wife, is In New York.
Williams is the original own> r of
the old Northwestern Commercial
company, ard a former Nome min
ing man
He Is now pre-ident of tlie Wil
liams Steamship company of New
York, which operate* bet»iin N»w
York and Seattle
It is charted in the complaint that
Will ams has been maintainlnc re
lations of husband wijb botfi women
in New York
<i«»\ KHNOR I-HI I I lt!»
Al. X < MM VIK
Chicago. March 2!> Governor
Scott C. Bone <>f Alaska com i
Chicago of tii J "I and nene'sat
in,: cold woatbe. ^f tbe e««t
The governor ]-:«-fers th' ,-Mnnte
of Alaska
THE WHITE PASS S
YUKON ROUTE
THE GATEWAY ROUTE TO
Yukon Territory, Atlin and
Interior Alaska
Semi-Weekly Train Service between Skagiiav and VTiitehorse
during the Winter Season.
For information regarding passenger and freight rates app'v to
H- Wheeler- General Manager
Skaguay- Alaska
or
510 Alaska Building
Seattle Wash