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TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR
SKAGWAY, ALASKA. SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1022.
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GOVERNMENT
IS JAPAN BACKING CHANG FOR
TERRITORIAL REASONS?
Tientsin. May 13.—General Chang
Tso Lin has set up an independent
government in Manchuria, Mongolia,
and Jehol. In his initial proclama
tion the general repudiates all in
structions from the president of Chi
na. and all treaties negotiated by
him. With the Intimation that Liu
is backed by Japan, and with the lat
ter intensely interested in Manchur
ia and Mongolia, this last news item
looks like the way is being prepared
for another move on the part of
Japan. Mongolia and Manchuria
are contiguous territory to Korea,
already annexed to the Japanese em
pire.
JAPS AID CHANG IN HIS FIGHT
Tienstin. May 13.—The hand of
Japan is being discovered as an aid
to Chang Tso Lin in his tight against
the forces of Wu Pei Fu. News from
the Kaipiug mining area is growing |
increasingly grave. The American I
military forces which are in charge
of the railway in that section are
considering the advisability of com
pelling all foreigners to withdraw
from that section.
MRS. JACKLING SPONSORS
FIGHT BENEFIT
San Francisco, May 12.—Mrs. [
Daniel C. Jackllng, wife of the min-f
lng magnate Is sponsoring a fight I
show to be pulled off in this city i
for the benefit of the annual conven
tion of disabled American veterans, i
The show Is to be aiven on May IS
and pretty society girls will be the
ushers at the show. It will be given
in the Civic Auditorium, and is ex-1
pected to net a good return for the i
veterans.
COMPTROLLER REPORTS
ON NATIONAL BANKS
Washington. May 12.—The Feder
al Bank comptroller's report for the
first quarter shows the National
Banks with resources of twenty bil
lions of dollars and deposits of fif
teen billion four hundred million
dollars.
LOOTER TROMBLY
GETS FIVE YEARS
Seattle. May 13.—F. L. Trombly, |
a former policeman of Seattle, v.'ho,
while acting in that capacity rented
a room, in which he kept loot stolen
by robbers, was sentenced yesterday
by Judge Netterer. Trombly was
given five years in Walla Walla pen
itentiary for burglary.
A dollar a moati will bring th«
Alaakao to your door.
GOVERNMENT to IXQITRE
INTO STEEL MERGER
Washington. May 13.—Ttie senate
adopted a resolution by which a fed
eral inquiry will be made of the
plans for a proposed merger of a
number of the largest independent
steel concerns. Those mentioned in
connection with the merger are the
Bethlehem and Lackawanna steel
companies. LaFollette of Wiscon
sin, speaking to the resolution in the
Senate, called upor the department
of justice and the federal trade com
mission to take the steps necessary
to prevent the combination. He
charged that the merger was but a
plan on the part of the steel pro-1
ducers of the country to place the)
whol» Industry into the bands of the!
two great monopolies, and increase J
steol prices.
DEMPSEY TO AGAIN
FIGHT CARI'ENTIER
London, May 12.—Jack Dempsey,
who won in the light with Carpen
tier, the French pugilist at Newark.
N. J., last July, has signed articles
by which he promises to a>:alti meet
the Frenchman. This meeting is to
take place in Europe some time be
fore June, 1923.
CHANG TSO l.l.N
TO MAKE STAND
Tientsin. May 12.—General Chang
Tso Lin. who has been moving his
forces back toward Mukden is plan
ning to make a final stand. This
stand will probably be made at
Luanchow. sixty-thv miles south of
the great Chinese Wall and on the
Mukden railway line. He is still
tran»[H>rting troops from .Mukden to
that point.
FRANCE OPPOSED TO
PROPOSED COMMISSION
Genoa. May 12.--France will nev
er agree to the commission propos
ed in the Russian jote, such com
mission to sit while the Genoa con
ference is in session. The intent of
this commision as proposed by Rus
sia was for the purpose of studying
Russian affairs while the conference
is going on. This ultimatum was
issued by the French delegation to
day.
JONES TO H1HER.NATE
ONE YEAR BEHIND BARS
Dan Jones, who pleaded guilty to
a Tiolation of the Alaska Bone Dry
law last week in C.e district court,
was sentenced Monday by Judge
Heed to serve one year in the local
jail. The indictment to which Jones
pleaded guilty contained four counts
and the sentence was for one year
on each count, but as the terms are
to run concurrently Jones will have
only one year to serve.
Seattle. May 13.—Former Mayor
Boyle was adjudged insane by a
commission and ordered detained in
the Meadows sanitarium. Maurice
D. Leehey petitioned the court to be
appointed guardian.
SPECIAL ATTENTION
If, tn the handling of your business, anything should occur
that is not entirely satisfactory, we should consider it a favor
if you would call this to our attention, or if there is any sen
ice this bank could rentier you, individually, or to the com
munity, that it doe* not now render, we should be glad to en
tertain any suggestion, consistent with sound bunking.
i.' ■ r-T' I YOURS FOR SERVICE
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SKAQWAY, ALASKA
SUBSTITUTE
BONUS BILL
BY BURSUKI
Washington, May 12.—Senatoi
Unrsum today introduced a bill foi
a soldiers' bonus as a substitute toi
the pending soldier bonus bill in
traduced by Senator McCumber. Thi
Bursum bill follows the general out
lines of the McCumber bill but pro
vides for the immediate payment ol
50'*, of the adjusted service com
pensation and the issuance of cer
tificates of indebtedness bearing
interest, due September SO
19:17, for the unpaid balance of th«
remainder due the veterans. ThU
latter unpaid balance due will beat
interest from October 1, 1922.
I'EGGY HOPKINS JOYCE
FILMS DKBABREE
Washington, May 12.—The mo
tion picture theater owner* of Am
erica in convention in this cltj
adopted a resolution, debarring from
motion picture theaters the fllmi
depicting Peggy HopklnB Joyce, the
notorious divorcee.
IU SSIA STILL CLAIMS DAMAGES
Genoa, May 12.—The reply ol
Russia to the memorandum submit
ted to her by the Genoa conference
reiterates her claims for damages
because of the blockade of Russia
itid the war against her which she
.leclares was promoted by the for
signers. She quotes all the claims
if the United States which grew out
if the civil war In this country as a
precedent for her demands for
lamages.
IROOl'S ORDERED
TO QUELL NEGROES
Haverstraw. N. Y., May 12.—State
troopers have been ordered to this
town in order that they might be la
readiness against a threatened out
break of a thousand Negroes who
ire on strike in the thirty-live brick
plants near town.
I'ARPENTIER ADDS
NEW LAURELS
London, May 12.—Georges Car
pentler, the noted French fistic
.-liampion, met the British champ
on. Ted Lewis, and knocked the lat
er out in the first round. The fight
lasted two minutes fifteen seconds,
rhe light was for the world's light
lieavy weight championship.
DIRECTOR BAIN
REACHES SEATTLE
Seattle, May 2.—Director of Mlne«
Bain, who is on his way to Investi
gate the mines In the MatanuBka re
gion for the U. S. government
reached Seattle on his northen
journey.
AMERICAN SOLDIERS
ON IMPORTANT MI88IOJ
Peking, May 12.—A company of i
hundred American soldiers has beei
dispatched to Tongshan, a towi
northeast of Tientsin. The Intent li
for the soldiers to maintain com
municatlons with Peking and to pro
tect foreigners in the vlclnty of thi
Kaiping coal mines.
ITALY DUPLICATES
POLISH-FRENCH PAC1
Genoa, May 13.—Italy has. slgne*
a commercial treaty with Poland
This treaty Is similar to that signei
by France with Poland.
FRENCH ARK THRU
WITH RUSSIANS
Paris, May 13.—The Trench dele
gation will remain at the conference
In order to titke part In the dellber
atlons on the other questions of
property which will come up before
the conference. But the French for
eign office announces that the
French conferees will have nothing
more to do with the discussion with
the Russians. So far as the Rus
sian problem Is concerned, the
French government considers that
the conference is at an end.
"FLYING SHIPS" WERE
PROPOSED IN YEAR 18:EJ
Washington.—(Ey mail)—More
than a hundred years ago, when the
United States ma.'ls were being
transported on horseback, the editor
of the Freeman's Journal, now the
Norristown, Pa., Herald, suggested
the use of "flying snips," and today
Postmaster General IVork decided it
was time publicly to acknowledge re
ceipt of "friendly advice."
In the issue of the Freeman's
Journal, of March 1822, the edit
or wrote:
'We would advise the postmaster
general to avail himself of the novel
and very ingenloui flying machine,
Invented by James Benuett, of Phil
adelphia, by which we conceive, the
maJls could be transported with
more celerity and their arlrval at the
places of destination be much more
J certain than Is the case at present." ]
I In approval of the development of
the air mall service, Postmaster Gen-1
. eral Work said:
j "If it was true then, it Is true to
j day, aud I wish I might be able to
i advise this old eduor that we are
[ today using the 'flying machine' I
I with splendid results In transporting j
the malls with safety and celerity "!
PoitoSce records show that In
183J a "wonderful feat" was per
formed In carrying the mail and !
news dispatches by relays of horses
every five miles, between Washing
ton and New York, in 15 hours. j
DRASTIC NARCOTIC
BILL PASSES SENATE;
Washington, May 13.—The meas
ure designed to amend the Harrison j
act tor prohibiting the Importation j
of narcotic drugs into the United j
States or the territories, passed the l
senate last night. It will be sent to I
the President for his signature. The |
penalty provided in the measure Is |
a fine of {50,000 or ten years im- j
prisonment for violation.
EIGHT LABOR LEADERS
WERE INDICTED
Chicago, May 12.—Eight of the!
union labor leaders were named In [
true bills voted at the special see-!
slons of the grand jury last night.
The bills were rendered in connec-l
tion with the slaying of Terrance j
Lyons, a police lieutenant.
HON OF DAVIDSON'
GETS $4,500,000
Mineola, May 12.—New York As
semblyman F. T. Trubee Davidson
of Nassau County, was left $4,500,
000 by the will of his I'ather, H P.
Davidson, who died recently and
left an estate valued at $10,000,000.
ATTORNEY SOUGHT
KU KLUX MEMBERSHIP
Los Angeles, May 13.—Joe Burke,
United States district attorney, ad
mitted that he had signed an appli
cation for membership In the Ku
Klux Klan a year ago. He was then
engaged In a private law practice at
Santa Anna, California.
POLICE KILL TWO BANDITS
1 Chicago, May 13.—The city police
• turned the tables today in the war
I with bandits when they shot and
killed two of them.
CHICAGO JUDGE DECLARES
. STATE OF WAR EXISTING
Chicago, Mar 11.—When an at
tempt was made to secure a release
of the labor leaders who have been
arrested In connection with the
riou in this city, Judce Kirkham
Scanlon declared that he agreed
with the contention of the police
that a state of war exist* in the city
and he refused tc issue writs of
habeas corpus for Cornelius Shea
and John Lafferty. who were arrest
ed in connect on with the murder of
two policemen.
TO PLY TO ALASKA
FROM NEW YORK
Buffalo. Slay 12 —C. O. Pre?! of
Kenmore, New Yo: k, hopped off
from Curt.t Field In his biplane
Prest declares he will visit Alaska
and Siberia on thii trip. He plans
to fly via Chicago, Salt Lake City,
etc. Last year he started from the
Mexican border on a similar trail,
but never roachtd his proposed des
tination.
WILL NOT DALLY
WITH RISSIANS
Genoa. May 11 —Llovd George, in
a statement today, indicated that
Britain is with Fiance in the lal
ter's determination not to indulge
In a protracted series of negotia
tions with the Russians with reter
ence to the memorandum features
as given to the Russians
PROGRESS MADE
FOR NEW CABLE
Seattle. May 12—The proposed
new cable for Alaska, which is to
become a link in the trans-Pacific
cable, made progress yesterday
when an appropriation of a million
and a half, the estimated cost oi the
new cable, was reported favorably
by the senate committee in congress
This is the news which the Seattle
Chamber of Commerce received from
Washington yesterday.
PRESENT PRINCE WITH
A PRIZE PIECE
Osaka, May 12.—A decorated cab
inet which represents ten years work
by the master carvers of this city
will be presented to the Prince of
Wales during his v.sit in the city
Kl SSIANS W \NT
LONG POW HOW
| Genoa. May 12.—The Russians. Jn
their reply to the allied netnoran
dum. made public this evening, de
clare that the financial difference*
between the pov s and Russia re
quir'- deeper study and the rtlly
.-ugfcests that a mixed committee of
1 liie experts »( tt • fiouomlc confer
ence In? appo.nu-u .o consider the*e
questions
! KR.VM K IU1.KS AT
UlsMtN I*IU»l*oSAL
Paris. May 12 -France, thru Ita
premier, Poincaire, alter reading the
Russian reply. stated that the terms
ot this reply are utterly unaccepta
ble to France Tc..itcherin present
ed the note in reply to the allies'
memorandum the other day at Ueu
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SKATTI.K WKliMCSHAV
Seattle. May IS—The SS Jeffer
son of the Alaska steamship com
pany left Wednesday morning at 1
o'clock with seventy-five passenger*,
including tLe crews of the hidden
Inlet. Ketchikan and Burnt Inlet
canneries. The following passen
gers are booked for Skagway W
A Hilton. Robert W arren, M. Rudd.
C. J White and H. I- Shaska vJ.
A. Landgren is booked for Halne*
BRITAIN AMI 1". S.
A;.KICK «>N Oil. RIGHTS
London, May 12 T Great Britain
and the I n ted States have reached
an agreement as to the rights of
each with respect to the oil field* In
Russia.
1 WHITE PASS ft
ION ROUTt
THE GATEWAY ROUTE TO
Yukon Territory, Atlin and
Interior Alaska
Semi-Weekly Train Service between Skaguav an J Whitehor»e
during the Winter Season.
For information regarding paasengrr and freight ratei apply to
H- Wheeler- General Manager
Skaguay- Alaska
or
510 Alaska Building
Seattle Wash