KING AND QUEEN
if VISIT HE
PRESIDENT
Brussels, Juue 24.—Before
President Wilson left Be'si-um>
it was announced today, that the
Kir.«r ant) Queen accepted his invita
tion to visit the United Stat s.
The date of the royal visit is set
for some time next September
SflCIAUSIS WILL
WEED 'EM OUT
New York Juna 24.—An emer
gency convention ofthe Nation
al Socialist party has t> vn called'
to met, in Chicago on August 30.
The convention is called for the
purpose of axpeliing radical m ni
bi r< of the party.
PERSHING ML
Loudon, Juue 24.—General Persh
ing is duo to arrive here front
France tomorow.
It is planned to eoirfrr tiie degree
ot Oxford tomorrow.
iiilyIekves
POSSIBLEOELsf
Paris, June 24.—The Italian del
«<utes are authorized to sign in be
half of Italy.
This removts the question which
has been feared would (l"elay the
signin of the p«aee treaty.
New York, June 24.—Ealou l>e*
valera, the president of the Irish
Republic arrived here yesterday a,u'
was given a great oration. Deva
lera comes to seek American aid
for tbr. aujw republic.
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n ? § m / s * i n
uUkInP
London, June 2 1.—Tlio German all
mlralty iu a note to thy war oft'ice
ilenits ilie sinking of the remain
der of -he German warships.
claim an
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/ r n 7 f p i a,.
[i)ic ta
I'aris, June 24.—The American
military attaches claimed last night
tha» the G-irmang had signed the)
DKice treaty early in the afternoon. |
Paris, June 24.—Germany's un-j
conditional acceptance Of thy peace
treaty was communicated to the Al-j
lies in a note from Weimar through!
Secretary Haniel at Versailles at
five twenty five o'clock yesterday!
afternoon.
S.attle, Juiue 24. The National
Association o'" Editors will hold, sesi
sioi.s in 1'ortlad, Seattle andl ViJ-j
t< ria, I?. C. August ninth to A«-'
srust nineteenth.
It is expected that many editors
frcui Alaska will be present.
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Now You Know You Did Save
And you did not starve, nor even go hungry.
That proves that you CAN save
The next thing is to do it and
Do It Now
The easiest thing to save on is youi eats. Most people eat
too much. Maybe you spend to much ori fine fealhers.
Now think :hat over a little and think hard.
B A N K OF ALASKA
J
NEW GOODS
Just Received
j GOOD SALMON EGGS
| Friction top cans 40c each
| CHICK FOOD
20 pounds lots up 6 1-2 cents a pounds
P. H. GANTY
WILL RESIGN
HIS OFFICE
Versailles, June 24.— Pre-j
mier Clemenoeau will resign his po-|
sitiou as soon as the peace treaty is
signed.
It is thought that the treay will
he ratified t>y the French parliament
late in July. n j
May Kill Locusts
With Poison Gas
Sacr^nv nto, Cal., June 24.—Poi-.
s.)'i gas like that used In th0 Euro
,peau war may be used by the state I
win mission of horticulture >u its (
war on grasshoppers in California,1
Utorge H. Heck, commissioner, ]
announced. Military authorities,
have been communicated w ith on I
the question of obtaining gas and',
masks for a test. It' these can be |
obtained an experiment will be un
dertaker. in some territory wherel
there will be no danger to poultry,
live stock or human beings, it is j
said.
Elks Want All
To Use Courts'
The following is a cd;^' oS a let
ter sent out l<y to House) Commit
tee of Skagway Lodge -No. 4.'il 15.
1*. O. Kits to a number of known
devotee's of t o game of Iviwii Teu
u is.
In ordir that 110 one will be j
oi <«ed' Hie invitaiton is made geu
erul and U-uy one who loves the
game is included ini the invitation.
To I'll Skagway Teunijj Kuthusi
astit;
To oromote interost in) Toa
nis we are claiming to throw open
the Elks tennis court to all resi
dents ami visitor? in Skyway this
se son, charging- the low fee of ?1>
to cover bare running cxtxjffises.
Fee is payable to the underlined j
after which you are entitle to all,
privileges of the court.
Children under the age of 15
w ill be allowed to us^. the court
free of charge, at any timG it is
not 'n use.
Rules will be posted showing
hours for ladies, men, mixed play,
eet; and we expect to pull off sev
eral tournament# during thgj Boar
sj>n.
Get into the gam® with us.
Sl:\XKXt'E IDHMKI! "D1SV"
IS 1 :.\ 1 > I'Olt LIQIOK THKFT
Vancouver, B. C., June 24.W. J. |
Fir.dlay, former British Columbia
prohibition commissioner .was Sen
tences to two years in the peuitenti-|
ary. Findlay was recently convicted*!
of sUatling 75 cases of liquor from
the government.
Sergeant N'ordale of Fairbanks
was a passenger on the; Northwest
ern hound for Valdea, having late
ly received' his discharge. While in
Tort tlie servant visited: liisl "bud
dy" Cleon Ask. These twd Alas
kan boys chummed together in Cam
C.ran- and other posts where they
served.
—"M*—
Horace Leach and wife wera vis
itors in Skagvvay while th^ North
western was in port tli'-p morning.
Mr Leach was a pioneer) of Skagu
way, having been her in the summer
of '97.
He is now a resident of Cordova
where ho hag conducted a hotel j
for a number of years. During his
s'ou here Mr. Leach, found several
ol' time friends among whom were
K J. Shaw, Phil Abrahams, Dr< KeL
ler aud Tony Dortero and Mrs! Pul-.
lea
There will be a Baud' meeting to
rlgh' at eight o'clock.
7W0 KILLED IN
AERO WRECK
New York, June 24.—An aero-j
plane fell today at Rye Beach and
Lieut Watson and hia mechanician |
Ireland were both killed. The
plane was flying' at a great hight.
No cause la assigned for r.he acci
dent.
SS. Northwestern
Docks at 2 A. M.
I
The SS. Northwestern, with a ve>
ry la-rge passenger list arrived in
Skagway at 2 o'clock this morning',
and after discharging over two hun
dred tons of freight dsepatrted for
the westward at ten thirty.
There wore twenty pasaenfjeria for
Skagway and a number of round
trippers who will go to Seward and
return on the sam© boat. The tour
ists r'DOrt ideal weatheir all the wayi
up and depressed' themselves ag de
light d with the trip. j
Berlin, June 24.—Fifteen) cap-!
tured French flags were publicly
burne«t by German officers sol*
die,-s today.
Paris, June 24.—Tha n<e«l Ital
ian peace delegation fca du9 td ar
rive in Paris on Friday.
The delegation ia headed by
Priucv Titoni.
Berlin, June 24.—Von Bulowl ao
tifiid President Ebert todJ^y that
he wag receiving hundreds olf tel
egrams stating that troope would d»
ft u' Germany's eastern territory,
Washington, Juna 24.— -Secret
ary of War Newton Baker an
nounced today that the total cost of
the war up to June amounts to
fourteeu and1 one half billion dollars.
Washington, June 24.&eaator
Lenrcot of Wisconsin today accused
secretary of War Baker of gross
bvt'i-ch oi" trust in spending millions
of dollars in buying lan^ for Camp
Jennings in Georgia.
Sau Francisco, Tune 24.—Thorn* ^
as Mooney declared .today,, that the
report that the fourth of July'
Mo&iu-y d' anonstration was a plot
Of bomb throwers waa propaganda
given out by the big interests.
Washington, June 24.—Se>ni
ator Macuniber of North I>akota in
a speech today asserted that the
war had cost tliQ world seven and oi
half million soldiers' lives, nearly
one hundred' and niroety Jttvej bil
lion dollars and twenty million ton*
of merchant shipping. ;
Paris, June 24.—A conference of
the Allies" peace delegation} to
day is considering the priority of
the Belgiiu- half billioiy marks
man indomnity.
The conference has beenj olffi<-1 al
ly notified that the Turkish army,
forty thousand strong, had violated
the armistic« by marchijng against
1500 Greekg in Smyrna.
Xew York, June 24.—Th^ staam
sliiu Mount Vernon, which arrived
at Hoboktii from Brest today,
brought among her paasengarn a
"mystery" soldier found wandering
on the eteets of Parig aud| suffer1
iua from loss of memory, whose
only kn»wledge of hig Identy Wa*
the.' liis name was "Roland Philips."
Sent home by General fterahlng
in order that his Identity might be
definitely established, he w&g fQfund
todfly to be Roland Philips of
Eyansville, Ind.
■Washington, Juno 24.—T,hre«
years ago Wesley M. Hague of Sato
DkfiO, Calif., an enlisted man la th«
navy was appointed a midshipman
ar the naval academy. At Annapolis,
Saturday, in a grd'uatlng claisa of
45S membes, b© won first honors,
standing nearly twenty) oodnts ahead
of the next man.
Secretary Daniels, in commenting
today on Hague's record, Bald it was
tbe first timo in the history of tha
academy where first honors went
to an enlisted man. who woo, the
righ* to enter the institution throfugl
competiive examination, J .■
REINS OFFICE
RATHER THAN
SIGNJERNIS
Weimar, Juo® 24J>octor Haniel
tod Haimjtiausetn, who wag designat
ed by the German government to
sign the peacg treaty, telegraphed
hi# resignation, from Versailles rath
er than. sign.
Herman Miller, the new German
forelga minister hag been appointed,
In his place aa present of the
German peace commission and will b
accompanied to Versailleg by about
twenty prominent German*.
The treaty will likely he signed
•on Friday or Saturday.
BERNSTORFF 10
RE AMBASSADOR
Weimar, June 24.—Count Voa
Rernsdorff will likely go to
Rome as ambassador $rom Germany
as soon as the peace treaty la
signed. i
WILL RETURN
AFTER SIGNING
Versailles, Juue 24.—It w-ag an
nounced' today that President Wil
sou and Col. House would (Wll for
the (Jolted Sta.ce* aa 9ooa ag the
peace treaty wag »l«ned.
To Provide For
Seattle, Jum« 24.—At a, sas
slon fo the City Qoumcil last aight
a hali million dollars was appropri
ated for the purpose o£ improving
tb.• municipal railway system and
the same amount wa^ appropriated
for enlarging and improving the [
city light and. power platot*
Better
shonts low
WI1HPHEU11
New York, Juite 24.—Theodore
Shonts, the railroad multimillion
aire is lying very low with poeumo
ala.
Theodore Shonts gained much
fame as head of thg Panama, CanJ
al commission, living been appointed
to that position by President
Roosevelt.
IRlllES
A STRAW VOTE
Washington, June 24.—The
Chicago Tribune has tatoern a poll of
the Senate on the League of Na
tions and S'ves as a result that
only forty senators are in favor °£
the world pact without reservations;
forty three favor it with certain
changes; eight are unalterably op
posed' to it aiid five are non-commit
tal
cyclopsTied
UP IN SEATTLE
I
Seattle, June 24.—The S. S.
Cyclops has been 11 bt>l Led for one
hundred thousand dollars for bring-.
Ing op'iuu and liquor Unto Washing
tOH.
A civil libel suit may aJ&a b^ in
stituted' against Captain. Duncan,
th« master of the CVclojps.
Mystery Soldier
Is Identified
New York, June 24. Announce
ment that the United Retail stores
corporation had been Organized to
finance retail trade in the foreign
XIeld has been made lxere. The
authorized1 capital gtock consists of
100,000 shapes of Sper cent cumula
tive preferred, and 160,000 shares
of common stock without par value,
all having equal voting powat.
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