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TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR
8KAGWAY, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 1922
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Milwaukee. June 1.—The national
baloon race, which started this af
ternoon from this city, started out in
a storm.
Milwaukee. June 1.—Twelve of
the thirteen baloona which started in
the National Baloon race are still
in the air as we ro to press. Ac
cording to reports reaching here to
day seven of the twelve were seen
passing over towns in Illinois and
Missouri, going in a southwesterly
ch.vm; tso lin
IX Ft'RTHER TROUBLE
Peking, May 31. —General Chang
Tso Lin, who was defeated in the
war iu Central C>iina. felt secure
when back in his Manchurlan prov
inces. Now mutiny .s spreading and
Harbin is in the control of the mu
tineers. They have seized all the
Chinese Eastern railway from Har
bin to the maratime province of Si
beria. Chang's conqueror. General
\\"u Pel Fu. is in virtual command
of the Pekiug government.
STUMER H. F. ALEXANDER
OFF FOR SEATTLE
New York. June 1.—The Steamer
H. F. Alexander, the fastest mer
chant ship carrying the U. S. flag,
will sail for Seattle this evening.
She will stop at San Francisco and
Havana on the trip out. When she
made the start the other day she
ran down a steamer near Phlladel
p'ula and put back to New York for
slight repairs.
RUBBED OF 12f; THEX
KILLED BY TWO BANDITS
Los Angeles, June 1.—Lester T.
Shedon Helm, a building contractor
of this city, was robbed of twelve
cents and then shot and killed by
the two bandits who had robbed
him.
STEAMSHIP Ql'EEN
ARRIVES AND DEPARTS
The steamship Queen of the Ad-1
miral Line arrived iQ port about
three o'clock yesterday afternoon |
with a number of passengers and t
about two hundred tons of freight. j
After discharging the freight she
left for Seattle and way ports about
10 p. m.
SEATTLE PAYS TR1BI TE
Seattle. May 30.—Seattle paid
tribute to the heroic dead of the Re
public by appropriate exercises at
the various cemeteries.
REPORT MrCCMBER BONUS RILL
Washington. May 31.—The Mc
Cumber bonus bill was ordered fa
vorably reported by the Senate fi
nance committee today.
direction. These may land in Texas.
The other five, it is maintained,
crossed lake Erie, having been re
yorted in that vicinity from num
erous points early in the day.
Chicago, June 1.—Five of the
twelve baloons which started in the
race have been carried by adverse
air currents into Canada. Others
are sailing high over Indiana, Illi
nois and one is floating low over
Chicago this morn'Jig.
PACIFIC COAST CO. TAKES
KFSKOXWIM SERVICE
Seattle. May 31—With the sail-J
ing of the Adniinl Goodrich the
PiU-ilic Coast pteamship company
opens up its Kuskokwim service.
The Northern Commercial company,
on account of the loss of the mo
torship Oxmo, has withdrawn from
that trade. The Goodrich sailed for
Bethel this morning at ten o'clock.
WATSON CARRIES
GEOLOGICAL PARTY
Seattle. June 1.—The Admiral
Watson sailed Monday from this
port, having on board a geological
party headed for Portage Bay. The
party consists of tifteen men and
twenty horses. They will land at
Portage Bay and survey in that re
gion during the summer.
BANDITS LOCK LAO
IN SAFETY INITi
Orovtlle, June 1.—Bandits locked
William Knosher. son of the cashier
of the Loomis state bank, in the
vault and carried away all the cash.
The youth had been left in tempor
ary charge of the bank.
WOMAN STABS MAN TO IlKATH
Seattle. May 31.—Because he per
suaded his friend. Harder, to de
sert his wife and join him at a j
drinking party. Samuel Brown, a
marine engineer, incurred t' e wrath
of Harder's wife, and he is now
dead. Mrs. Vivian Louette Harder
sought out Brown aboard the steam
ship Russel Haverside, which is ly
ing in the harhor, and stabbed him
to death for having induced tier
husband to forsake her for the
drinking party.
MARY'S DIVORCE
DECLARED VALID
Carson City, June 1.—The state
supreme court of Nevada rendered
a dicision in the case of the divorce
of Mary Plckford. the noted movie
actress, shall stand. Mary had mar
ried Douglas Fail banks after her
divorce.
Seattle. May 31.—Haggard, the
personnel clerk in .he Seattle cable
office, and for a lo.ig time connect
ed with the cable system, died this
morning.
Springtime is the Time to
liny sprout to a full grown stalk.
LIKEWISE, this is a good time to plant dollars in the bank;
you may start with a tiny deposit, but give It the same attention
you do the growing plant and you will eventually have a substan
tial bank account.
Plant a tew dollars with us TODAY—the harvest is sure to
come.
Plant Seeds
in the ground. You watch
the tiny plant grow from a
SKAGWAY, ALASKA
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London. May 31.—Secretary for
the Colonies Churchill, in his recent
address to the House of Commons
warned Ireland th*t the establish
ment of a Republic will not be per
mitted. "In the event a Republic
is set up." said the secretary, "it Is
the intention of the British govern
ment to hold Dublin, as one of the
preliminary and e^ential steps of
military operations"
He further declared that If De
vulera and the othei members of the
!)uil Kireann cabinet refuse to sign
the prescribed declaration of al
legiance to the Crc*rn, as embodied
in the peace treaty for the estab
lishment of a free Ltate, Britain will
consider the treaty oroken and will
resume liberty of uction In Ireland.
CORDOVA OFF FOR NOME
Seattle, June 1.—The steamer
Cordova of the Alaska Steamship
company left this city for St. Mi
chael, Nome and Golovln this morn
ing. The Cordova had a capacity
cargo of freight and passengers, In
cluding sixteen lower Yukon steam
boat men.
BRITISH SHI1*
ARTILLERY TO I I-STER;
London, May 31.—The British are
shipping heavy artillery and large
quantities of shells to Belfast, and
these are being rushed to the Ulster
frontier. Heavy lighting between
the I'isterites and Republicans la In
progress at many places on the
I'lster border. .
SECRETARY WEEKS
UNFAVORABLE TO FORI)
„ I
Washington. June 1.—Secretary |
of War Weeks told the Senate Ag-I
ricultural committee that he does |
not consider the Ford offer for the
Muscle Shoals nitrate project a sat
isfactory offer.
BETTER DEAD THAN
LOSE TEETH
Seattle, June I.—A dentist told
Miss Elizabeth Valen, aged 38 years,
that she would have to lose all her
teeth. Miss Valen committed sul
fide today.
STEAMSHIP MAUD
STARTS FX)R POLK
Seattle. June 1.—The good ship
Muud. Roald Arauiidsen's flagship,
left the harbor of Seattle Saturday
afternoon. A flotilla of torpedo de
stroyers and many vessels of the Se
attle Yacht club escorted the Maud
down the bay on her Journey to the
North Pole. Amundsen will stop at
Nome on his way.
PROVISIONAL MORATORIUM
GRANTED GERMANY
Paris, June 1.—The Reparations
Commission last night decided to
granted Germany a provisional mor
atorium for the year 1922.
INTERNATIONAL COURT
TO MEET AT HAGUE
The Hague, May 31.—The per
manent court of international jus
tice, which was set up by the League
of Nations, will meet June 16 In the
Peace Palace at The Hague to con
sider the various questions which
have been submitted to it by the
.League of Nations.
DENBY WINS OUT
AGAINST SEN ATOMS
Panama, May 31.—Secretary of
the Navy Denby has won out in the
contest as to whether the Class of
'81 in the Naral Academy at An- ]
napolls should ho<d a reunion in
Tokio. Baron Urln, a member of
that class, is spoiBor of the sug
gestion that the class meet in Tokio
as his guests. Secrbtary of the Navy
Denby has given his approval and
the weight of his official position to
the plan, while a number of Sena
tors were opposed to the proposi
tion. Yesterday afternoon the
transport Henderson sailed from I
Panama bound for Tokio. On board i
was the class of 1&81.
HISTORIC FLAG PRESENTED
UNITED STATES BY FRANCE
Washington, May 31.—The Amer
ican Flag which wus hoisted by the
French over the Arc de Trloraphe in
Paris, and which marked the arriv
al of the tlrBt Aiuerlcan troops in
that country, was today presented
to President Hurding by Ambassa
dor Jusserand. The Hag will be pre
served among the American war rel
ic*.
PACIFIC FLEET
TO VISIT PUGET SOUND
Seattle, May 81.—The entire Pa
cific fleet of the U. S. uavy will visit
the Puget Sound navy yard late in
June.
FOREST FIRES DO
THREE MILLION DAMAGE
Seattle. June 1.—Forest fires In
Western Washington, so far this
week, have done damage of more
than three mlllioj dollars. The
damuge is principally in timber, lum
ber, logging railways and homes.
DEP09ED AND PLACED
UNDER ARREST
Tokio, June 1.—President Mer
kuleff of the Eastern Republic of
Siberia has been deposed and plac
ed under arrest by order of the con
stituent assembly. This is accord-1
Ing to advices received In this city
from VladlvoBtock.
AMERICAN DEAD IN
FRANCE REMEMBERED
Paris, May 31.—The forty thous
and American war veterans who He
burled In France were remembered
by their countrymen who are In
France at this time. The graves
were visited by groups of their com
rades today.
SEKKB TO HAVE
COVRT INTERVENE
Chicago, June \.—Mrs. Harold
McCormick petitioned the probate
court of this city, seeking a restrain
ing order to prevent her daughter
Mathilda, aged 17, from marrying
Max Oser, the riding master of Gen
eva, to whom Mathilde in engaged
and whom she ardently desires to
marry. The hearing of the case will
be held Saturday.
BONl'8 BILL NOW ON 8LATE
Washington, June 1.—The Mc
Cumber Soldier Bonus bill, which
was reported by the Senate finance
committee, has taken Its place on
the Senate calendar and may be
called up at any time.
EXECUTED FOR
POISONING WIPE
London, June 1.—Major Herbert
Rowse Armstrong, a leading Welsh
solicitor, was executed in this city
I for poisoning his wife.
Washington, Mi.y 31.—Yester
day's memorial exeicises at the cap
ital city or the nation centered
around the dedicatory service in
connection with the Lincoln Mem
orial. The Nation i! tribute to its
glorious dead reached a fitting cli
max when the beautiful memorial
erected beside the Potomac to Abra
ham Lincoln by his grateful coun
trymen was accepted. A former
President of the United States head
ed the commission which has had
charge of the memorial and this
commission iias lavished unrelenting
energy and exceptional artistic
beauty on the making of this stone
emblem-America's gratilude worthy
of the man whose memory it will
perpetuate. For the American peo
ple, President Harding in person
accepted the work in the Nation's
name.
Washington, May 31.—President
Harding, in his speech of acceptance
of the Lincoln Memorlnl monument,
said that all are agreed "upon Lin
coln's simple, rugged greatness,"
and Chief Justice Taft, in his dedi
catory address, said it was fining
that the nation shLuid have wa.ted
fifty-seven years to build a memor
ial to President Lincoln, in order
that the highest attainment of the
artists might be the result.
The Lincoln Memorial, the gift of
the nation to the memory of Abra
ham Lincoln, is one of the world's
most beautiful structures and the
greatest shrine of the man who sav
ed the union. Impressive in its
simplicity, the memorial probably is
the masterpiece of ill public build
ings and memorials in the I'niti'd
States. It stands in Potomac Park
facing the Washington monument,
and its construction was begun ou
Lincoln's birthday anniversary in
1914. The total cost has been ap
proximately $3,000,900.
This monument to Lincoln is a
large rectangular building of white
marble, designed by Henry Bacon, a
New York architect. It has a beau
tiful setting on a direct east and
west line with the Washington mon
ument and the nation's capitol atld
rises 14 4 feet above the level of tl-e
park. It is compobed of four prin
cipal features—a s'atue of the man,
a memorial of his Gettysburg ad
dress, a memorial of his second in
augural * address and a symbol of
the I'nion of the t'nlled States.
The most important object in the
memorial is the statue of Lincoln in
marble, by Daniel Chester French,
New York sculptor, placed in the
central hall where, by virtue of its
imposing position '.n the place of
honor, it .predominates all else. The
staLue is colossal n size and yet dis
tinctively person.ii. It represents
Lincoln, sealed. In a thoughtful
. mood, and is the first thing that
meets the eye as one passed thru
! the immense colonnaded entrance.
! Smaller hulls, one at either side of
the central hall, contain monumen
tal tablets in which deeply incised
| letters reproduce word for word.
I Lincoln's Gettysburg address on the
> left wall and the address made by
I him at his second inauguration on
| the right wall. Above these are
| two large mural paintings by lules
! tluerin. a New VorU artist, one typ
I ifying "KmancipalU u" and the other
typifying "Reunion." Their pro
| duct ion occupied t.'.reo years' time.
| More than a dozen years ago ro
tnmac Park, one »f the most im
! portant units of Washington's great
park system, and which lies along
i the Potomac rive.-, was first sug
| gested as the site for a memorial to
j Lincoln. The late John flay, one of
I Lincoln's secreiarks and biograph
| ers. and later Secretary of the I'ni
i ted Stales, favored lis selection.
liy means of terraces the grounds
'around the site are raised until the
Hour of the memorial itself is 45
' feet higher than t.ie grade of Po
tomac l'ark. A circular terrace, 1.
i 000 feet in diameter, first rises
aliove the park. Oil its outer edge
stand four coucentiic rows of irees,
leaving a plateau i.i the center 755
I feel in diameter. In the center of
this plateau, surrounded by wide
I roadways and walks, rises an emin
, ence supporting a rectangular stone
terrace wall 14 feet high, 256 feet
long and 1S6 feet w.de. On tills
rectangular terrace rises the white
marble memorial. All the founda
tions of the steps, terraces and mem
orial are built on concrete piling
which extends down to solid rock.
The movement fjr the construc
tion of the memorial was begun in
1902 and in 1910 the lale Senator
Shelby M. Culloui of Illinois, a
friend of Lincoln, .atroduced in the
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