Seattle, Saturday—Information
has just beem received in this city
thtt high military houoia have been
conferred irpou Brigadier Gene
ral Wilds P. Richardson, who for
a uumber of yeara past has been
president of the Board of Road Com
tnissioneis far Alaska.
Cables from Europe, received in
Washington last night ptate that
Bri?. Gen. Richardson haa beeu giv
en tbe command of the American ex
pedition in Xorthorn Russia, and
that he will leaTC London within
the next few days with a detach
ment of engineeis and sanitary
workers and new otfieiers who are
to replace those im>w in Northern
Russia, aud who are to be re
turned.
Brigadier General Richardson will
leave with his detachment, every
member of which volunteered, from
the American forces in France, for
Archangel.
Gen Richardson won the distinct
ion of being chosen to command)
this lorce on account of vas* ex
perience m an A!aska aj>my fron
tiersman, and by reason of the
fact that under hig direction near
ly all the post and military roads
and trails in Alaska were con-;
s^ructed.
Pari", Saturday — The American
and British del gates to the peat-e
conleien*^ are opposed' to the plan
which has been proposed by Fr^naa
that th# armies of Roumania, Ser
bia, roi-vnd, Chocho-aio\ ak ' and
Qreect be mobilized to a ful! fight
in? strength to malce war on tho
Bolshe v>ki movement, claiming
th:'t 'be Allied armies of occupa
tion will be sufficient to cope with
tee danger and effectually put
do.vn all revolutions and brimg
abcut a stable form worgk work wo
about a stable state of affairs should
au> larg© force of troops be noc-1
U. S. 10
JMf OF HALF
W«ahl«gton, March 29 — Ohdef
of Staff General -March announced
the new plans for the reorganiza
tion of the American army, which
will have a force of h»lf a million
fighting men.
The army is divided iuto five
corns with a total of 21 divisions.
The 91st Division will be sta
ticnpd at Camp Lewis, and the 7th
Infantry regiment will ho divided
between Alaska, PhilliRitt s and, the
Mexican border.
ILK ILL
BE HOLD (Ifl
Washington, Saturday — Late
last evening it was announced! that
the War Finance Corporation has
advanced a total of one hundred
and thirty five million dollars to
finance the railroads of the nation
which are now under g:verament
management until the convening
of congress.
After the Party
You go home to find it burned together with the
inaurence policy and the Liberty Bond etc:
Too Late then to Say.
"1 wish I had rented a Safe Deposit Box from
the Bank of Alaska, and it would cost me only
25c a month."
"Now is the time to act. Not Tomorrow
which never gets here."
B&MK 0F&LASK&
New Goods Just Received
Van Houten's Cocoa 1-2 lb 70c
Christie's Soda Biscuits 2 lbs Tins 75c each
Royal Yeast Cakes (Canadian) 2 for 25c
Bake-Ko (Egg Substitute) 1 Package Equal
to 3 doz eggs 30c each
P. H. GANTY
SltS MillKfl K m
■n 10 si. une
Washington. Marcth 29—Excerpts
from the flitfU chapter of Qetegaty
Wickers liam'g letter to Secretary of
the Interior Lane says: -
"You should, but you possibly
will not, feei humilated when you
contemtplate this record of your
failure in the government and op
erating public utilities, your waste
of government funds and your re
sponsibility for thiq crimes) "-gainst
the very existence of the govern
ment itself.
"In the meantime the Alaska syn
dicate has, through lt$ agents
gained contracts from the govern
ment which, give it ai monopoly of
AlaskH'g coal fields and ita trans
portation facilities.
"Poor Balllnger was a piker
compared1 to yourself; Whea Tom
Riggs had become a menace to the
eomtflotion of the government rail
road through hisi incompetency,
you aDpointed him Governor of Al
aska, notwithstanding his record at
Nenana.
"Your partiiisan influence Sec
retary of the Interior and: as ad
ministrator of the goveofliment rail
road was pursuasive in parttsan pol
itics and on the government rail
road, and this i.nfluoace wag direct
ly responsible for many criminal
violation^ of the election laws, there
wlie.-e Commission©.- Riggs and his
secretary, Mr. Cramer, got overly
enthusiastic! in the aiding of j'oUr
idea of conducting partisan pol
itics from the offie3 of tho gu^tern
PASSES MEASURE
1C POSTPONE
ELECTIONS
Mayor Ashley received a ca-1
b!o from Governor Riggs yesterday
stating that thJ legislature lias l-as-|
sti! a soeoal act providing: for the
postponement oS municipal elect j
ions, and that immediately af-,
ter the paissiige of the act Gov. j
Kiggs signed it go as to niake it
effective at once- The pro-,
vision is as follows ••
"Section one: That whenever in
the opinion of the local Board of
Hea''h of any incorporated .town
in the territory of Alaska the pre
valence of any epidemic or conta
gious or infectious disease in the
to>vn requires, the common council
of eucn incorporated town shall
have power, upon the recom
mendation of the local BoarU o:
Health, to potpone the date of the
annual city elelction by ordinance
or resolution, for a period) not to
exceed sixty] days; such ordinance
or resolution shall be passed by the
Common Oouncil of puch: incor
porated town at any regular or
special meeting of the oouncil hu-lcl
at an*- time -within fiftewn days
prior to the date of the regular el
ection and notice of fsuch Or
dinance or resolution shall be giv
en publiciy by such, publishing) atid
post in st ag the coan-il may, provide.
"Secion two: An emergency is
hereby declared to exist find this
act shall tkae effect from and after
its passage and approval."
yOU'LLHAVE 10
GEI UP EHf
Washington, March 29—The
daylight, saving plan is to be car
ried into effect again thiflj year
and the department baa ordered
that all clocks la Alaska shall be
advanced oa Sunday morning,
March 30, at two (2) o'clock to
make these read three (3) o'clock
legal time.
! meat railroad and 'want over the
'■ top.'
"It waa your bad example which
i rande the Alaalca Engineering Com
! inimlssionl the head and. front of
| the most corrupt political machine
• wp bare &\*>t had in Alaska, Hand
in hnnd with the Alaska Syndicate
and the transportation companies
you workedi your corrupt methods,
and when the electors of Alaska
gar. a majority of votep against
you and your associates, th^y un- j
dertook to steal the election of >
delegate.
"Your administration of thlese
great trusts and tho expenditure of
the vasts amounts of money with
which you lav beeen. emtrustedi is
morA than a failure—It 1# a
positive injury to the development
of Alaska, atntfj it la Just what corn
trresa attempted not to do.
"I am informed that you have
made some suggestion of placing
Ijoin E. Ballaine in charge
some of the activities of the gorv
I eminent railroad in Alaslca_ Whlfle
j It m?.v he conceded that he is a
good citizen, and familiar with con
ditions at Seward, where he is a
laree property bolder, be ip oot a
proctioal raiload man and) ought not
| to have any official connection with
• the management of this road.
"Finally, in my Judgment, there
Is no remedy for bringing success
I to »he enterprise, Or any rem
edv which can save It from pmbllo
.scandal so long a« you remain a«
I its administrator " I
YANKS ABE MOVIE
FINS OVER IN
GERMANY
Paris, March 29 — American eol
(lierg oil the Rhine now: carry their
mes» kits wh.cn a specially popular
motion picture ig to be shown in
the Young Men's Christian assoc
iation huts at Cobienz. As P. E.
Carson, of Pittsburg, Kans-, the
Rbd Triangle secretary in charge
or olcture work observed, there is
do comp-laimt about lack of prompt
ness on the part of the audience
arriving. "Either they arq La
their seats on time or they don't
com9 at all because they cant
shoe horn their way in," be says.
That is how much the America® ar
my of occupation likes | movies
from homeu
Six movie shows a night are be
injr slven in CWblenz for the Amer
ican army of occupation. Because
ot the big| demand for the film
entertainment Mr. .Orson recently
came to Paris and; took back to
Coblenz equipment for three more
movie shows.
th a bunding which was formerly
a turnhallen the Y. M. C. A. shows
tbo screen products culled* all the
way from Fort Lee to Hollywood,
entertaining audiences averag
ing 760 men nightly. So great la
th« call for motion pictures that
fourteen German projection mach
ine were pressed into pervica.
THREE MORE
ARE LAUNCHED
3e«i tle, March 29 — Thra© steel
steamsnips, aggregating 72,000 tons
wer* launched from the Settle
shipyards this ftftemoom. Great
throngs of people! witnessed the
launching?, which were all accom
plished without accident J
The export of r^-w fur from the
Whitehorse district foe the year
1918 was approximately $128,000.
—Star, w
UH ME SMS R
UHIiEHI MUST FOLLOW
Mpnchestcr, Eng., Marcii 29—Thej
Guardian of this city today prints
a signed statement by Prime Min
ister Lloyd George which is in l^rt
a? follows: -
"Disarmament is one of the es
sential condition# to our success.
We cannot expect the nations which ,
h°ve been ravaged. by war to trust
their desolate lands to the protec-,
tlon of a League of Nations if its (
advocates (hesitate Co show any con
fidence themselves in its guardian- *
t Insure a fraternity among the
peoples of the earth, while at the
game time increasing the respect
ive armiea an4 novice of the nations
of such a league to insure an. ef
fective fratricide, is to maOfo ai mock
&ry of the great ideal.
"All oiur hoped of saving the
world from a repetition of the in
fathomable cataclysm cf 1914 cen
ter upon our working out a Prac
ticable means by which the nations
of the earth can conduct commit
ten affaire of the worfdi in friendly
rnnnpraf imi instant a of hr iplOUS
'To set up a society oj nations]rivalry." I
BOLSHEIIIKI REVOLUTIONISTS SHE
BADLY BEATEN IN MI BATTLES
, I.ondon, Saturday — Advices re
eclveed this morning state that Ad
miral KolchaJc's army continues to
defeat th4 Bolnh^vLki forces and
h«s advanced more than fifty miles,
taking five thousand prisoners in
th ejmgaigenneniW which, followed bis
adva^rre.
Paris, March. 29 Despatches
received here this morning say that
Bulgarian troops are being rapidly
mobilized in large numfbera on the
Serbian frontier.
Berne, March 29 — Acoording to
i London, Saturday — Acting on
instruc'ions from the gov
ernment large forces of
German fresh troops are being des
patched to Danzig. The Germans
are also mounting guns along the
coa,°t to prevent Polish troops from
| making a landing.
offidal reports reaching thia city
this morning Rumanian troops have
Inflicted many crushing defeats
to the Bolshevik! arn*icfl( along the
left bank of the Dneister river, and
that larg® numbers of prisoners
were taken.
HAVE CLOSE CALL
WHEN LAMP
EXPLODES
Anchorage, March 12—Charles
Lenhart John 'Wisgsr and Adolpb
Gottler nairowly escaped death at
Brooks recently. -The men wer«| us
ing a gasoline lampr for for illumima
ing their cabin, -when in eome man
ner it exploded, throwing the in
flammable liquid) over tihe men and
aroui'd the cabin. T^vo of the men
succeeded* in gettjng out ofl tna a»oi
way, bu* the third member waa fore
ed to plunge out of a window to «'
cape leing burned alive ®<9 tlxQ cabli
was totally destroyed The men Rr<
under a doctor's care, receiving Al<
for 'heir seve burns.
Paris, Saturday — The Bol
shovik: revolution which bag brok
en out in great force throughou
Hunaary has produced a pan!
junoa? the dielegaes of the peac
conference.
Most joyfully we welcome you back!
May the days as well as the years ahead of
you ever keep fresh in your memory the
appreciation and pride which mere words alone
cannot express* You did the job right!
f Iff J Military training has certainly worked
wv flO 5 wonders with your physique—your new
clothes to properly fit your bigger chest,
A %JUl smaller waist, more muscular limbs, should
T* •! O be made expressly for you by Ed. V.
lQllOTi Price & Co.
Our new fashions and woolens await your inspec
tion and we will gladly measure you and arrange for de
livery of the finished clothes to suit your convenience.
JAMES KENNEDY