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SKAGWAY, ALASKA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1922. PRICE TEN CENTS
CRITICISE II. S.
RELIEF PLANS
Brussels. Dec. IS.—The reports of
the contemplated action of the Unit
ed States to restore Europe is not
meeting with universal favor in Eu
rope. Much adverse criticism of the
proposed plan is made by the Bel
gian newspapers especially. The Na
tion Beige, says that it would be Bel
gium and France which would bear
the burden of the plan as they would
have to abandon their liens on Ger
many.
I . S. PLANS FOR AID
ALL FOR GERMANY
Paris. Pec. IS.—The Paris Temps,
speaking editorially on the plan pro
posed by the I'nited States, for the
rehabilitation of Europe, says that
the plan seems conceived exclusive
ly in the interests of Germany.
FOOD STI FFS WENT
I P "J PER CENT IN" NOV.
Washington. Dec. IS.—According
to the government's figure* for the
month of November, food pricas
nt up two per cent., during tnat I
month. This refers to both retail
and wholesale prices as they have
been compiN d by the Department of!
Labor and given out today.
COLD WEATHER GETS GRIP
ON THE MIDDLE WEST
Chicago. Ill . Dec. 19.—Coming on
the wings of a high wind the first
severely cold weather of the winter
1. ded on the Middle West vester
U y. while for t''e second time this
> ar the Northwest is in the grip of
be!ow-jero temperatures. The cold
est weather reported is that prevail
ing in the northern part of the Rocky
Mountain re-ion. where a cold wave
throng! out the section was made
more intense by a high wind. Falling
t • rmometers this morning ire her
alding a co'.d wave through Missouri.
Kansas and Oklahoma, where the
first r< I w nter of the year is be
ing experienced. From Duluth. Minn,
zero temperatures are reported,
while a bluzard driven by a sixty
eight mile wind is raging over Lake
Superior.
PRESIDENT DISMI SSES
BOOZE ENFORCEMENT
Washington, Dec. 19.—The L
forcement of the Prohibition Meas
ure. so as to bring about the gr??.t
est co-operation between the fed
eral and jtate governments, was dis
cussed by President Harding with a
group of Governors in the White
Ing to work out a definite division
of the responsibility for enforcement
between the two divisions of author
ity so as to secure the best results,
with the minimum of expense.
SEATTLE KILLS 32
BY Al'TOS IN 1032
Seattle. Dec. IS.—Seattle thusi
far this year has killed fifty-two peo- ]
pie by automobiles. C. R. Kvle v'as j
the last vietlm of this method of lo- i
comotion. He was killed when he
w:-s struck by an auto driven by John |
L. Mountain, a fireman. Mountain j
admitted that he had been drinking.
SUGGESTS PUN
London. Dec. 18.—President Hard |
ing will soon propose two plans tor,
the Internal agreement of the Allies |
with Germany on the Reparation's;
question. One of the agreements j
will be for the Allies; the other will
include the former enemies as well, i
Elihu Root, the Daily Sketch, do- j
clared. is working out the repara-1
tiou's agreements, which Involve a i
drastic scaling down of the repara
tions with the United States taking!
over the German, export and Import
and internal taxes under a first
mortgage. The two agreements.
will. If accepted, replace much of the
Versailles treaty.
DEMOTION OF ARMY
OFFICERS FINISHED
Washlngtin, Dec. 18.—The demo
tion of army officers, which was or
dered by Congress in the reduction
of the army has been completed.
1.S5S commissioned army officers
were ordered separted from the ser
vice in the reduction of the army
to its present status. The elimina
tions include 23 colonels, 39 lleuten-j
ants-colonels. 110 majors, and 345 1
captains.
BIG COMPANIES CUT
SURPLUSES BY DIVIDENDS
New York. Dec. 18.—In the ap
parent effort to distribute their rnr
pluscs in anticipation of strlngnnt
tax legislation on the part of Con
cress. eight of the largest corpora
tions of the country have announced
declarations of stock dividends, the
amount of which totals $97,500,000.
The companies that have announced
such dividends are: The Studebakor
Corporation, the Vacuum 011 Com-,
pany, William Wrigley, Jr., Com
pany. the Bank of Manhattan, the
Company Trust Company. Standard
Oil Company of Kansas, Equitable
I.ife Company, the Whitman Mills
of New Bedford, and the Dupont
Powder Company.
SUSPECTED BOMB THROWER
RETURNS SAYS DETECTIVE
New York, Dec. 188.—Wolf Llnd
erfeld, arrested In Warsaw because
it was believed he knew who caused
the Wall street explosion In 1920
and released, has been returned to
this country, it was learned today
from Detective Sergeant, who visit
ed Linderfeld in a Polish prison.
Wood has gone to Washington to
confer with William J. Bums, it was
said at the bureau of Investigation, j
HENRY FORD ACCUSED
OF FINANCING GERMANS
Berlin, Dec. 19.—Some of the
newspapers In Germany are charging
Henry Ford, the American automo
bile manufacturer, with the financ
ing of the German Fascial.
ALASKAN BOAT
BUILDER PASSES
Seattle. Dec. 19.—John B. Sted
man, the well known builder of boats
at St. Michael in the early day of the
Yukon Rush to the Klondike, passed
away in this city.
Plan Your Work and Work
Your Plan
DON'T let the dimes and dollars slip through your Angers
without knowing where they go.
Plan to let the bank take care of all your fundi—than you
.. uui muuey goes, and for what It goes.
"Extravagance rots character Train youth away from It."
—Theodora Roosevelt.
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SKAGWAY, ALASKA
LAST BRITISHER
LEffilMD
Dublin, Dec. 18.—The last Brit
ish soldier was evacuated from the
Irish Free State today. The Irish
Free State troops took over the Dub
lin headquarters and seventeen other
barracks. General Richard L. Mul
cahy, the minister of defense, took
a salute as the Wilshire regiment
marched away from the hedquar
ters. The British sold.ers saluted
the Irish flag and tt-en the Free
State troops saluted the British col
ors.
NOTED ACTOR BREAKS
AS NARCOTIC ADDICT
Los Angeles, Dec. 18.—Wallace
Reid, the noted movie star, has had
a complete breakdown. He has been
declared to be a hopeless morphine
addict. The disclosure has brought
Will H. Hays, the dictator of the
movies to the fore with a declara
tion that he purposes to see how It
is that Hollywood's colony Is being
ruined by narcotics.
BROTHER Jl'STICE
SUTHERLAND DIES
Los Angeles, Dec. 18.—Henry
Sutherland, a prominent Utah stock
grower and brother of JuBtice Suth
srland of the Supreme Court, died
suddenly in this city.
PREMIEER HUGHES
WINNER IN ELECTION
Melbourne, Dec. 18.—The returns
From the recent election in Australia
though incomplete Insure the vic
tory of Premier Hughes and his par
ty. The election returned a number
Df Labor delegates.
FORMER MANAGER OF
N. C. COM PA N V DEAD
San Francisco, Dec. 18.—William
H. Fairbanks, the former manager
5f the Northern Commercial Com
pany and well known throughout
the bounds of AlaBka because of bis
former connection up here is dead '
In this city, where is his home.
MULTI-MILLIONAIRE
PORTER, A SUICIDE
Denver. Dec. 18.—John H. Por
ter, a baker, of this city and many
times a millionaire was reported
missing last night. He was found
on the Highway, wl.ere is was ascer
tained that he had committed sui
cide.
PRINCE GEORGE'S
APPENDIX REMOVED
London, Dec. 18.—The Dally Mail
Is reported as saying that the appen
dix of Prince George, the youngest
sen of the king Is to be removed by
the Burgeon's knife.
TELLER OP PORTLAND
BANK DISAPPEARS
Portland, Dec. 18.—Burton L.
Str.nford, teller In the United States
National Bank, of this city has dis
appeared. He Is found to be short
many thousands of dollars In his
accounts.
FRANCE MAKES
CONDITIONS IN PLAN
Paris. Dec. 18.—France Is deter
mined to oppose any plan made by
America, for an Internal loan, unloss
the major part of such a loan Is
dovoted to the payment of Indemnity.
TRANSPORT SINKS;
A NUMBER LOST
Constantinople, Dec. 18.—The
transport Vlnh Long, of the French
service, burned In the Sea of Mar
mora. Twenty were lost. Including
a number of women and children.
FIRST ACT OF PAR LIME NT
IN 123 YEARS
Dublin, Dec. 19.—The first act of
the Irish Parllment In 123 years whs
passed to day by the Senate when a
bill was presented from the Dall
Ear«ann.
MAKE BIG HAUL
Denver, Dec. 19.—Auto bandits
made a big haul In this city today.
When the Federal guards emerged
from the mint with a bundle of bills
aggreagting $200,000. Auto ban
dits opened up a fusilade of shots it
the guards and shot and mortally
woulded Charles Linton, one of the
guards and seized the entire con
signment of money and made good
their escape.
MILITARY LEADER
IS CHINESE PREMIER j
Peking, Dec. 19.—General Chang I
Sham Tseng, the military leader, has |
been appointed premier of China,
with the approval of parliament. His
selection which was supported by
General Tsato Kun Is believed to be
an indication that the Intention of
the military party Is to assume con
trol of the government In China.
FREEZING WEATHER
PREVAILS OX COAST I
Sau Francisco, Dec. 19.—Rain and
snow, with freezing temperatures,
are prevalent along the Pacific Coast
this morning and for some d stance
back into the interior. No break in
the cold snap is promised by the
weather bureau before tomorrow
night. The lowest temperature of
the year for the coast was reached at
Seattle last night, when the ther
mometer registered nineteen above
zero.
SOURCE OF Ol'Ft LOCAL COAL
Many people find It difficult to
understand how an Immense bed of
cool, similar to the large beds of
lignite near Healy, can originate
from the accumulation of vegetable
matter, such as moss, leaves, trees,
etc. The College has Just received
from Mr. R. W. Calderhead of Lig
nite Creek a fossilized segment of a
tree trunk, which be found embed
ded In one of the coal seams. This
fossil is In reality now lignite coal
but the texture of the work, wood
fibre and many knots are so well pre
served that they Indicate that th»
original tree was no different from
the present day Alaska conifers; pos
sibly spruce, cedar or tamarack. The
fossilized remnant suggests that the
original tree was probably two feet
or more In diameter.
After this tree died it would
have rotted away from exposure to
the air had It not been buried be
neath the water of some ancient bog.
Accumulations of other vegetable
swamp remains were also collecting
at the bottom of the bog, otherwise
there would be no present day de
posit of cuhI at this point.
The accumulation was first In the
form of peat and was converted into
lignite coal, first because sand was
washed In the bog to cover the p.at
also because the weight of the over
lying sand and subsequent pressure
and heat from the gentle flexing of
the earth'B crust in the Healy river
area, expelled part of the gases and
left behind the residue of the lignite.
Many small rounded grains of
white sand can bo noticed Ailing
the specimen sent ihe College. This
very fine Band mixed with the wood
fibre accounts for most of the ashes
which are accumulating today in the
ash pits of the Fairbanks stoves and
furnices. If nature had been less
gererous with this ash many dutiful
husbands of Fairbanks would be
spared the questionable pleasure
these "crimpy" mornings of dashing
outdoors attired ir. bathrobe- and
slippers to empty a pan of ashes and
thereby feive the stcve more breath
ing space.
It is estimated from ordinary de
position of swamp vegetable matter
in bogs that it requites the accumu
lation of roughly two hundred years
to yield a thickness of one foot of
coal. Some of the coal seams near
Healy exceed thirty feet In thickness.
Coal seams of such thickness are not
common. Unless this process at
Healy proceeded witn great Intensity
we must assume that the larger coal
measures represent a swamp accu
mulation over a period of at least
five thousand years.—News-Mln#r
siTBFiGimr
SERVICE GIVEN
Washington, Dec. 19.—According
to the annual report of the Forest
Service of Alaska, this Bureau is giv
ing satisfactory service to those who
come in contact with it. This re
port recites the fact that those who
know of this branch of the adminis
tration are satisfied with the exist
ing form of administration in this
department. The department is
seeking counsel and assistance of a
scientific bureaus that these may be
made use of In the service. W. B.
Greeley, the chief forester, also de
clares that the solution of Alaska's
problem Is local self government. He
added that 86 per cent of the lum
ber used In Alaska is cut from the
government forests.
MORRISON AGAINST
IJDIIGRATION CHANGE
Seattle, Dec. 18.—Frank Morrison,
the secretary of the American Fed
eration of Labor is in the city. In
a speech he made the statement that
the American Federation of Labor
would oppose any proposed plan to
let down the bars in Immigration. He
declares that the proposed plan to
let it down on account of a scarcity
of labor Is wrong, for he declares
there is no scarcity of labor.
IDAHO CAPITAL TO
GET NEW RAILROAD
Boise, Dec. 19.—The Oregon Short |
Line, through Carl R. Gray, presi
dent, has signed a contract with the
Boise Chamber of Commerce to build
a secondary main line of the Oregon
Short Line Railroad.
The Oregon Short Line agrees to
spend $3,180,550 to build a railroad
from Orchard on the present main |
line to Perkins on the present Boise |
branch line within ninety days and
to operate passenger trains over it.
Boise must purchase and deed to |
the Oregon Short Line the right of j
way for a railroad on the bench, es-1
timated to cost $70,000 and deed to)
the railroad the right of way and'
raise a trust fund of $325,400.
TIMES EMPLOYEE
STABBED IN DRINKFEST
Seattle, Dec. 188.—Edward Hol
zer Roland Berbower, an employee
of the circulating department of the
Seattle Times, was stabbed and it is
believed fatally, by an unknown ne
gro during a drinking spree.
Washington, Dec. 19.—The Naval
Appropriation Bill, which carried
with it the request that the Presi
dent negotiate with foreign powers
relative to the limiting of war craft
under ten thousand tons, passed the
House late today. The bill carried
an appropriation of 325 million dol
lars and provides for an enliBted
force of eighty-six thousand men,
the same as at the present time.
JACK DALTON
SEEKS NEW MELD
Yakima, Wn., Dec. IS.—Jack
Dalton, a noted Alaskan and for
whom the trail from Haines to the
Titerior is named, departed for De
marrara, British Guiana, where he
oxpects to locate and proposes to de
velop placer gold mines. Dalton Is
in Washington and is visiting
with his old friend and buddie, Sen
ator Miles Poindexter, with whom
he once explored Alaska.
FASCI8TI AND
COMMUNISTS FIGHT
Turin, Dec. 19.—The Fascist! and
Communistic factions in this city
started a fight, which resulted in
the death of two of the Black Shirt
company and five of the Commun
ists. The fight took place on the
premises of the Chamber of Labor
today. The offices of the Commun
ist Daily Ord;ne were burned.
MORE EXECUTIONS IN IRELAND
Dublin, Dec. 19.—Seven members
of the Republican army were execut
ed today. They were tried by court
martial and sentenced to execution
for having attempted to wreck a
train in County Kildare, in.Novem
ber last.
TUG RELIANCE
WRECKED IN MICH.
Detroit, Dec. 15.—Twenty-five cf
the crew of the tug. Reliance, per
ished when that craft was wrecked
during a storm and blizzard on an
island in Lake Michigan.
ANGORA GOVERNMENT WILL
PROTECT MINORITIES
Constantinople, Dec. 18.—The An
gora government has notified the al
lies that it will protect the rights of
all christian minorities in Turkey.
The
White Pass &
Yukon Route
The Gateway Route to
Yukon Territory, Atlin and Interior
Alaska
Semi-Weekly Train Service between Skagcay and WUitehorM
during the Winter Season.
For foil information regarding passenger and freight
v rates apply to
H. WHEELER, GENERAL MANAGER
SKAGUAY, ALASKA
OR
510 Alsska Building, Seattle, Wash.