Daily JUashan
XO. 58. TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR
SKAGWAY, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1922
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COAL MINING
Mill
Terre Haute. June 14.—A crowd
of tour hundred left this city today
ill automobile*. The announced in
tention of the crowd was that they
would close every coal mine in oper
ation from Terre Haute to Brazil.
The first step was made at the Ath
ones mine, where two trucks load
ed with coal were seized and the
contents dumped into the road.
AMERICAN Ol'X BOAT
PROTECTS INTERESTS
Klukuang. China, June 14—The
American gunboat Isobel is station
ed at this port for the purpose of
protecting American interests if ne
cessity arises. There are Japanese
and British vessels stationed here
also.
LKADKRS DIVIDED ON
LEGISLATION PREFERENCE
Washington. June 14.—The Re
publican leaders of both the Senate
and the House are very much divid
ed as to the precedence which is
given to legislation In the two bod
ies. Tariff, Soldier's Bonus and
Ship Subsidy have their respective
advocates who are Insistent that one
shall take precedence over the other.
FORMER ALASKAN
TKAlUKK A 81'ICIUK
Manila. June 14—Miss Clara Gil
more. a school teacher who was dis-;
missed duriug the war for alleged
disloyal utterances, committed sui
cide at Albay. Sh6 had been clear
ed by the Governor General, but the
Vice-Governor recently rejected her i
application for reUstatement. Be
fore coining to the Philippines, Miss
Gilmore taught school In Nome and
Fairbanks.
Among the arrivals on the Prlnc-|
ess Louise were Or. and Mrs. James
S. Hill of Salem. Mass. On going
from the hotel to the post-offlce
they passed the Skagway Public Li
brary and felt an impulse to give to
the library a set of Dr. Hill's books,
which they left at Keller Bros, store
for this purpose. The volume on
revisiting the earlier homes of peo
ple will appeal to a\jy who are away
from the scenes of their childhood.
At the postofflce a- letter was found
from Hon. Daniel A. Sutherland of
the House of Representatives In
'Washington, enclosing a letter of In
troduction to the Oovernor of Alas
ka This they will present at the
capital, where they have engaged
rooms tor a week. Their baggage
was checked from Salem to Skag
way. and was not touched by them
between their home and their room
In the Golden North hotel.
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McCAXMESS named
IMPERIAL POTEX f ATE
San Francisco, Juno 14.—James
H. Candless of Honolulu was named
today as Imperial Potentate of tlie
Ancient Arabic Order of N'ob es of
the Mystic Shrine at their annual
convention, which is in session in
t'nia city.
REITTED SK\(i\V\Y
(iIRL UORRED
Seattle. June 14.—Miss Esther
Ditter of Skagwav. who lias heen I
visiting in this city, was robbed of |
her purse containing $2,000, her
return steamship ticket and a la-,
vallier valued at $40 last night
STCDEXT WINS $T.OO A\VARI»
A $500 scholarship at the I.'nl
[ versity of California known as the
Flood Fellowship in commerce, was
awarded this year to Lee F. Hessei
tiue, Seattle, a senior at the Univer
sity of Washington.
The scholarship is one of two
awarded In the I't.lted States each
year aud is of one years' duration.
Hesseltiue was vice-president of
the Tillicums. men's independent or
ganization. for the first half of this
scholastic year.
PRESIDENT WANTS
TARIFF 1511.L FIRST
Washington.. June 14.—Announce
ment from the White House indi
cates that President Harding is anx-i
ious that the tariff hill be passed j
prior to the soldier bonus leglsla
tioc.
HEARST RETI'RNS WITH
BARHAM'S REMAINS !
Paris. June 15.—William Ran
dolph Hearst is accompanying the
body of his friend and companion,
who died in a Loudon hospital.
Hearst sailed with (lie remains of
Barham, the Los Angeles publisher,
on the liner Olympic for New York
HARVEY TO DINE
PRINCESS >IAR\
London, June \5.—Ambassador
Harvey is to have as dinner guests
on June 24 Hon. George Lascelles
and his royal w.fe. I'rim-ess Mary.
Chief Justice Taft is also to be :i
guest of honor.
SOON TO RECOGNIZE MEXICO
Washington, Jure 14.—Tlie rec
ognition of Mexico is expected soon,
according to those who are in the
confidence of the administration.
POSTMISTRESS FOR
SITKA APPOINTED
Washington, June 14.—President
Harding apointed Elizabeth OeAr
mond as postmistress of Sitka.
"5V S\vlc\v 5tv "ivmc Sa\>es §
STOP and figure how much money you shall waste In nine
years. If you do not put »ome kind of a check on it; (lien RK
SOJ.YE to put away |S.OO per week In our SAVINGS ACCOUNT.
In nine years you shall have $2,340 and 4 per cent compound
interest added.
Is It not worth while? There Is but one answer.
Do you not wish you had commenced this system nine years
ago? Then shall you not rejoice many times nine years hence if
you comments NOW?
Barak ©IT BEaiskai
SKACWAY, ALASKA
SHIP SUBSIDY
LEGISLATION
ESSENTIAL
Washington, June 14.—The Pres
ident and his cabinet are interested
in the enactment of ship subsidy
legislation at this session of Con
gress. Official statement from the
While House after a meeting of the
cabinet was to the effect that" there
could be no greater disappointment
than the failure of Congress to re
spond at this session and enact ship
subs.dy legislation." The cabinet
meeting was taken up with a dis
cussion of the needs of ship subsidy.
GEOGRII'HIC BOARD
NAMES ALASKAN' POINTS
Washington, June 14.—TheGeo
graphic Board has determined the
names by which nine geographic
points in Alaska will hereafter be
known on the governmental maps.
They are as follows: Biscuit, two
miles north of North Hunter bay;
Bokan mountain, two miles north
west of head of west arm of Ken
(irick; Guilde rocks, about half a
mile north of the northern end of
Eureka pass, Cordova bay; Gusda
gane point, five-eighths of a mile
southeast of Klinkwau, Prince of
Wales island: Huaji cliff, two miles
north of Cape Ct.acon, Prince of
Wales island: Intun hill, sduther
niost of three conical hills on Cape
Chacon island in Prince of Wales
archipelago between Noyes, Naker
and San Fernando islands. Vorota
island, between Khaz bay and Klag
bay. In Southeastern Alaska.
LONGSHORE I'MON
MEN REPLACED
Tlie coming of the Princess Louise
with a large cargo of freight was
the occasion for raising the ques
tion of rates which the local Long
shoremen's Union has been charg
ing for longshoring. The local
union has been charging $1 an hour,
while the other boats have been hir
ing men for 75 cents an hour or us
ing their own deck hands. The C. P
It., therefore, resolved to pay no
more than the other boats were pay
.Tig, and secured a crew of men at
the rate of 75 ceuts, thus replacing
the men of the union. When this
was done the union meu cauie
around and offered to reduce the
Iirice to the lower figure, but the of
fer came too late for this boat.
Ql'EEX ARRIVES
Tli? steamship Queen arrived In
port this morning at 5 o'clock with
one hundred and twenty-five tons of
freight and a large passenger list.
Seventy-five round trippers took ad
vantage of the trip to Bennett and
enjoyed the scenic trip of the White
Pass.
Those leaving for the south on the
Queen are:
G. J. Farwell is leaving for Ju
neau.
John Vanderbllt, son of Mrs. De
groff of Sitka, is revisiting the old
town. Mr. Vanderbllt is now a res
ident of Honolulu and recently has
been on an exteuded trip thru the
Orient.
Mrs. Tuck Flaherty is a south
hound passenger on the Queen.
Mrssrs. Preston, Van Mavern, Ar
nold, Greene and Purdue are re
turning to Juneau on the Queen.
A happy company of Camp Fire
Girls under the direction of Mrs.
Walter Bathe are taking the trip to
Sitka, where they will spend two
weeks camping. While in Skagway
they are taking advantage of the
I scenic White Pass trip to Bennett.
The girls are having the time of
j their lives.
Goldstein, of the firm of Charles
Goldstein company of Juneau, was
a passenger on the Queen today on
his way to Sitka and other porta of
call. Mr. Goldstein Is buying fur«
for his house.
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LIQUORS LEGAL OUTSIDE
THREE-MILE LI>IIT
Washington, June 14.—The sale
of liquors outside the three-mtle
zone on Shipping Board steamers
and other ships flying the American
flag is legal, according to an an
nouncement made by Chairman
Lasker of the Shipping Board, after
the board had gone over the mat
ter.
BAKED* SIOP WHEN CMS STOP
Mexico City, June 14.— When the
street car service ceased in this city
owing to a strike of the street car
meu, the bakers quit "vork. The
BUHpension of light, power and wa
ter supply services for the city 1s
expected as a result of the strike r.f
the car men.
i
ENLARGING SCOPE
OE TRIP OF MOJAVE
Seattle, June 14.—The coaat guard
steamer Mojave, which is to convey
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Huston and his party of govern
ment officials to Alaska .will not
stop with her journey to these parts.
The party will proceed from Alaska
around the world via Japan, China,
the Philippines and India.
The Mojave reached Seattle last
night and will sail (or Alaska June
19. When the vessel leaves Seattle
the party will include Ward T. Bow
ers, Aluska field agent of the Bu
reau of Fisheries; Alfred H. Brooks
the best known Alaskan geologist,
and H. M. Evans of the Public
Health service; Doctor Leonard
Stenjneger, biologist, and C. F. Lind
qulst and Joseph Baker, technician*.
BROWN SEEKS
FEDERAL SCALPS j
Seattle, June 15.—Mayor Brown
of Seattle this morning forwarded
affidavits to the Washington con-|
gressional delegation,, setting forth
that certain federal officers who are
charged with the enforcement of
law in Washington state were drunk
at the Republican State Convention
last week. One of these officers,
while in such a state, addressed the
convention, apologizing for Seattle's
"Having a Socialist iMayor." The
names of the men whom the affidav
its relate have not been made pub
lic as yet.
JUDGE WICKERSHAM TAKES
TRIP TO THE INTERIOR!
Judge James Wickershara return-j
ed on Tuesday evening from Ketchi
kan and Hyder, where he had been
for several weeks on professional
business. Yesterday morning he
sailed away to the westward on the
Alameda, to be gone five or six
weeks. He will first go to Fair
banks, to attend to some personal
matters, and on his return to An
chorage or Seward will catch a
steamer to take him to Cold Bay,
where lie will look after some oil
property for a client.—Juneau Cap
ital.
PRINCESS LOUISE ARRIVES
The Princess Louise arrived Wed
nesday morning at 6:30 with the
largest passenger list of any boat
this spring. Most of the passengers
were tourists, and this really marks
the opening of the tourist season.
Owen Flynn returned from Mount
Angel Academy. With him were
Henly Murry, from the same school,
and a friend, E. J. Bucknum, who
will stay with Owen for the summer.
Ed Foreman Is on his way to the
interior to look after some mining
interests. Ed is a guest at the Gold
en North hotel.
Two trains took the tourists from
the boat to Bennett and Taku, leav
ing the wharf at 9 a. m. The regu
lar train left the depot at 10 o'clock.
„ Max Gutfeld, who has been in the
states for his health, returned home
on the Louise.
Th;e Princess will sail for the
south at 7 o'clock this evening.
8*b«critM tor Ui* Dallj tm>n
BIG POWER BOMBS
PLANTEQ IT BRIDGE
Seattle, June 14.—Six bomba fill
ed with high explosives and splint
ered glass, each bomb cagable of
blowing up an office building, were
found on the approach to the high
way bridge over the Chehalis river
at Aberdeen. The boraba were
found by government agents who
believe they were planted there to
blow up the national guard troops
as they were passint over the bridge.
BOOTLEGGER GETS TWO
YEARS IN PENNITENTIARY
Seattle. June 14.—Judge Ronald
yesterday sentenced William Per
rln to two years in the pennitentiary
for bootlegging. This Is the longest
Imprisonment ever Imposed in this
state for the violation of the pro
hibitioa law.
STANDARD OIL FINDS
GAS IN PHILIPPINES
San Francisco, June 14.—The
Standard Oil company a year ago
sent an expedition to the Philippines
and a recent report states that the
expedition has discovered gas on the
island of Luzon. This is taken to
indicate the presence of oil, accord
ing to a cable received at the local
office of the coinpauy.
DIES OF MALADY
OF CHINESE ORIGIN
Baltimore. June 14.—A. J. Frey
of Los Angeles, who was vice pres
ident of the Emergency Fleet cor
poration, was stricken with a dis
ease of Chinese origin and died in
St. John's hospital In this city.
REX BEACH'S FAMOUS
WOMAN' SEEKS DIVORCE
Los Angeles, June 15.—Mrs. Caro
line Cbilberg, posing as the original
of ltex Beach's famous character,
Cherry Malotte descended to the or
dinary today when she started pro
ceedings for a divorce from Eugene,
son of Chliberg, the Seattle banker.
She married Chilberg In Nome In
1907. Mrs. Chilberg declared her
husband left her after she Insisted
on working.
MONEY IS ALLOTTED
FOR TWO SCHOOLS
The Territorial Board of Educa
j tion has deuided to make an aiiot
| meal of $1,500 for a school build
| ing at Tenakee, t. (i residents of that
j town agreeiug to contribute $500 in
1 cash or such labor as may be re
quired to tiuish the building. An
allotment has als" been made of $1,
000 for enlarging the building at
Craig, where there is necessity for
a two-teacher school.—Juneau Cap
I Ital.
BELIEVE SUICIDE
EXPLODED SHII'S
! Seattle, June 14.—The American
I and Canadian secret service men an
nounced today that they are con
vinced that Willtam Johnson, an
educated Finn chemist, who com
I mitted suicide in Skagit county last
| month, is the man who set off the
i explosion which destroyed three
| British ammunition ships, with
I great loss of life, in the harbor of
'l-lalifax in IS 17.
| KIVKKS FLOOD CITY
FOUR. HUNDRED DROWN
San Salvador, June 14.—Floods
in the Acelhuate and Arenal rivers
reached an abnormal stage, so that
the rivers overflowed their banks
and united in one stream. This in
undated the Candelaria district of
I the city of San Salvador and drown
i ed 400 people. Three hundred bod
I ies of men, women and children
! have been recovered from the flood
• ed section.
Popular Fiction at Popular Prices
A large list of ths very latest hit*
I on the Edison An.bercola cylinder
bave been received by Kellers and
■ ay be heard at a„y time.
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Daily Train Service (except Sundays) between Skaguay
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For full Information regarding passenger and freight
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Skaguay, Alaska
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