SEVEN FEDERAL GENERALS OFFER
10 SUEUR TO GEN. VILLA
Juare*, Dec. 3—A peace commis
sion arrived here today from Chi- J
huahua. It announced that seven
federal generals were ready to sur
render to General Villa, and th.it;
t" city of Chihuahua would also
surrender provided General \ ilia |
would guarantee protection to the
inhabitants when the rebels take
charge.
Other federal strongholds have
likewise signified a readiness to
come to terms.
Mexico City, Dec. 3—British Com
mander Cradiiock is in conference
today with President Huerta. The
belief is steadily growing here that
Huerta's elimination is near.
There has beeu but little com
ment in reference to the part of
President Wilson's message to con
gress wherein he referred to the
situation in Mexico.
The rebel forces have cut off the
oil supply of the national railway an
it is thought the city will shortly be
shut off from communication with
the outside world
STUDKNTS FROM DISTANT
ST.VTKS ATTK.NI> VARSITY
Seattle, Dec. 3—Two hudred and
sixty six students whose homes are
not in the state of Washington are
this year enrolled in the University
of Washington. Undergraduates
come from as far north as Alaska
and the Yukon, as far south as Flor
ida and New Mexico, and as far east
as New York and Massachusetts.
Fifty four students whose home3
are in foreign countries are enroll
ed in the university. This is an in
crease of ten over the number of
foreign students who attended Wash
ington last year and points to the
fact that the university is acquir
ing a national reputation..
Japan leads in the number of stu
dents coming from foreign lands, 21
Nipponese being registered in col
lege, all of whom are mer. Canada,
which has in former years led in
the number of students enrolled
from other countries, comes second
with seventeen students claiming
hemes there, nine of whom are men
and eight of whom are co-eds.
India ranks third in foreign en
rollment having eight students at
tending college. Sweden comes
next with three students. Norway
has two students and Iceland and
China -ive one apiece.
KeM r Broth-rs have secured the
exclusMp right to sell in Skagway
and vuinity <he goods published by
"The Crafttrs" cf Kansas City, Mis
souri A full line of holiday goods
will be cn •jxaifcltion soon at Kel
; r ifvihers' Drug Store.
"THE NEW IDEA BAKERY
AND COOKING SCHOOL"
P. D. Moore will tomorrow morn
ing oi>eu up on Sceond siree, three
doors south on Main, in the house
formerly occupied by Bert Howdo
shell, what he is pleased to term
"The New Idea Bakery and Cooking
School.'' It is his intention, he
says, to furnish the best bread, pas
try, etc., that has ever been turn
ed out in Alaska, at a reasonable
price, and to those who desire he
will give instructions in the work
Twenty-two years experience in
the business, two years of which
were spent exclusively in catering
to banquets,, and the rest in some
of the best hotels, restaurants and
bakeries in the west, have espec
ially fitted Mr. Moore for carrying
on tae business which he intends to
install.
Nothing but the best materials
will be used, and visitors and cus
tomers are cordially invited to in
spect the "New Idea" work room at
any time.
"HASBEENS" AND "CLIMBERS"
PLAY AGAIN TONIGHT
Much interest is being manifested
by lovers of athletic sports in Skag
way over the frieudly contest that
has been going on for several weeks
between the "Hasbeens' and
•Climbers' basket ball teams in the
W. P. A. cl gymnasium. Another
game of the series will be played
tonight commencing at 8:30, and
as the members of each team are
steadily regaining form after month
o' idleness from play, it promises to
be one well worth witnessing.
- OUR NEW FALL LINE OF
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ARE NOW BEING SHOWN
AS WELL AS
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A
n
H. J. LYNCH I
Leading Ladies' Furnisher and Haber
dasher of Skagway
llRRAH FOB PRESIDENT WILSON!
AND THE Ml OF ALASKA"
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE,
Skagway, Alaska:
Washington, D, CM Dec. 2.—President Wilson has
just read his message to a joint meeting of congress, in
which he strongly urged immediate passage of the bill
authorizing government construction of railroads in Alaska.
My bill was favorably reported to the house last Friday
and has right of way on the calendar.
Hurrah for Wilson! And the opening of the develop
ment of Alaska.
JAMES WICKERSHAM,
Delegate from Alaska.
Washington, D, C., Dec. 3.—The Alaska railway
appropration bill was called in the house today. A strong
effort will be made to obtain its passage in the near future
WANT TO CHANGE THE
FORM OF GOVERNMENT
Honolulu, Dec. 3—A strong ef
fort will be made here soon to have
Hawaii's government changed from
the territorial to the military com
mission form, according to a move
ment started recently. To all out
ward appearances, it is safe to say
everybody who is "anybody" in Ha
waii will be back of it. Very few
people in Hawaii however are "any
body."
The islands are owned and con
trolled by an exceedingly small
clique. Hardly more than a half
doz<»u big estates hold title to prac
tically all the land which is worth
holding title to. The same interests
own all the shipping, jobbing and
eveu retail business of any great
importance. Through their owner
ship of nearly every means of liv
ing on the islands these same in
terests, represented by a numericall.
very small group, control everyone
else who lives here. Whoever ob
jects to their control is starved out
in short order. The big interests
have long wanted such a form of
government as prevails in the Phil
ippines. Their reason for it is very
simple. Lorin Andrews, former
United States district attorney here,
expressed it concisely in a recent
interview in San Francisco, cabled
back to Honolulu and published in
the local newspapers.
"The change will be a good thing
for the business interests of the
islands," said Andrews, "because
Jail the offices will be filled from
Washington and the objectionable el
ections will be dispensed with." The
"objectionable elections" are what
the big interests do not like about
the territorial form of government.
The islands must have labor and
there is a scarcity of it ever since
Oriental immigration was stopped.
To offset this, workingmen have
been brought in in large numbers
from Southern Europo in recent
years. This laboring population has
not yet been seriously troublesome
at the polls but a second-growth of
them, native born and entitled to
vote, will be reaching the right age
ia the future to become a mem
ace to the ruling class. The native
born Japanese have been a source
of worry for some time. Hence the
agitation for a change ia the form o
government.
TO TKACH COLLEGE MEN
REAL ESTATE BUSINESS
Cleveland, Dec. 3—"The idea
now is to turn a college man out
at his graduation equipped to make
a living," said Dean Mathews, sec
retary of Western Reserve Univer
sity when interviewed in reference
to the uew "real estate" depart
ment of the college—the first uni
versity offering instruction in real
estato business to its students. Not
only will the theory of real estate
selling—the old story of unearned
increment which accrues to the land
holder and other bookish angles of
the business—bo taught but practi
cal real estate dealers will tell the
students how to lead a prospective
buyer into a vacant lot and paint a
picture to him of the prospective
palatial dwellings that are to sur
round it—and secure tli© first in
stallment.
Alexander R. Taylor, twice presi
dent of the National Real Estate
Dealers Association will be one of
the leading instructors. "The lat
est trend of college education is to
train students to become economic
ally self sustaining and that is one
reason why we are offering this
course", said Dean Mathews. "The
establishment of schools of journal
ism in nearly all the universities
and colleges is one instance of it.
Tha idea now is to turn a college
man out at Ms graduation equipped
to make a living. There is money
in the real estate business; it
serves a public need and college
men going into it would help both
the real estate business and the
college man too."
CRAB MEAT COCK TAILS
at
The Pock Train Restaurant
Service a la carte.
Preferred Stock Canned Goods. Plum Pudding
Atmore's Minee Meat Fiffs and Dates
Layer Raisins llills Bros. Coffee.
%«-* Extra Fancy Hood Itiver Spitzenberg Apples.
Malaga Grape?, Oranges
Celery Bananas
< ranberries. Head Lettuce
Cauliflower T oinatoes
l'im-apples Popcorn
And Nut* of all Kinds.
P. H. GANTY, GROCER
SKAGWAY, ALASKA.
PROMOTER OF GIGANTIC FRAUD
CAUGHT IK TOILS OF TRE LAW
Philadelphia, Dec. 3—Charged
w'th gigantic frauds In the sale of
Colorado lands supposed to contain
radium miu-a valued at ?52,000,
000, W'Ulam A. Wright, wealthy in
vestment broker of Boyertown, Pa.,
triday vas given a ht&r'iig before
United •ta'cs officials. The spe
cific charge against Wrifeht is "us
ing the United States avails to de
fraud." He was held in ?J,000 bail
on November 13, following a prelim
inary hearing.
Hundreds of farmers :n Pennsyl
vania, New Jersey, Maryland and
Delaware are declared to have been
victims of Wright'3 alleged scheme.
Some invested as little as $50.
Others put into the "Radium Mines"
every penny of their hard-earned
savings, which in some cases amoun
ed to $400 and $500. Many well
to-do farmers, inhabitants of the
smaller towns and cities of the state
mentioned, "invested" from $4000 t
$5,000 apieoe in the Colorado lands.
United States Postoffice inspect
ors who worked on the case declare
that Wright advertised stock certi
ficates, associating tha name of A.
I. Dupont, muiti-millior.aire, head
of the "powder trust", with the
scheme. Dupont originally owned
the Colorado lands, but gave
Wright's firm, the German and
Gold Uranium company, an option on
them. The Wright farm, say fe
them. The Wright firm, say fed
eral investigators, failed to exer
cise the option and Dupont theii
withdrew it. Even after this with
drawal by Dupont, say the postal au
thorities, the Wright firm continued
to sell stock through the mails.
The authorities declare that they
have found thousands of persons
who were investers, but that there
are many more who poured their
savings out for the "radium" min
ing stock.
Wright declares that the charges
against him are ridiculous and that
he will show that every bit of stock
he is alleged to have sold Is worth
every cent paid for it.
MISS CHRISTABEI/ PANKHVRST
PRINTS SPIRITED DEFENSE
London, Dec. 3—Prompted by the
recent threats of suppressing the
publication of the Suffragette on ac
count of her startling series of ar
ticles on sexual diseases, Miss
Christabel Pankhurst, in the current
issue, prints a spirited defense of be
action.
"These articles have simply told
the truth about sexual diseases, the
extent to which they ravage the pop
ulation, the reason why they exist,
■the manner in which they can be
prevented, prevention being, as has
been carefully shown, the only real
cure," she says. "Where is the in
decency in all this? That the ex
istence of sexual disease and the
immorality that is its cause are im
decent, we are the first to admit.
But to tell the truth about such evil
and to fight for their abolition is
the most decent thing that is pos
sible for human beings to do.
"If, however, the Suffragette be
convicted of indecency then equaU
ly guilty of this offense are the fa
mous medical men who have incited
us to our plain speaking. A little
while ago forty of the most promin
ent doctors in England, signed a
memorial appealing to the public
to demand the appointment of
a Royal Commission which should
investigate the facts concern
ing sexual disease and recommend
steps to be taken to cope with it.
In the course of this memorial the
doctors said: 'There has always bee
a conspiracy of silence as regards
venereal diseases. Th etime, how
ever, has come when it is a nation
al duty to face the facts and to
bring them prominently to the notic
of the public.
"It is all very well to try to pre
vent the indiscriminate dissemina
tion of facts but the upholders of
•decency' have never yet succeeded,
In spito of all their secrecy and hush
ing-up, in preventing tho indiscrim
inate dissemnaton o" sexual dis
ease among the moral and the im
moral alike."
WELL KNOWN JAPANESE
WILL LEAVE FOR ORIENT
G. Kanada, more familiarly known
to old-time Skagwayans as "Togo",
who has been a resident of this
place for the past ten years, part of
the time in the ei-ploy of the W.
P. & Y. Route but for the past
five and a half years, acting as
cook at the White Pass Hospital,
will leave on the Spokane for his
home in Japan, where hi3 wife and
three children anxiously await his
coming. After spending a few days
in Seattle he will take an Oriental
liner for Yokohoma and from there
will go to Tokio and from thence
home. "Togo", in addition to his
skill in the culinary art, is an am
ateur photographer of exceptional
ability and numerous Alaskan scenes
the product of his camera, are
treasure as souvenirs in many
homes in Skagway. By close atten
tion to his duties and frugality he
has accfuired what he considers will
be a competency in the land of his
birth, and unless a longing for the
north again gripes him, will settle
down with his family for a peaceful
enjoyment of the fruits of ""'s in
dustry.
RAILROAD SHOPS TO RE
OPEN IMMEDIATELY
Superintendent V. I. Hahn is
authority for the announcement that
the W. P. & Y. Railway shops,
which have been closed for several
weeks, will re-open at once, and
placed on the same footing they wer
before the close down.
Dainty Models
in Women's
Footwear
You will find, in our stock the
very latest styles in women's
footwear in all of the popular
leathers and fabrics. Styles to
suit all tastes at prices to fit
all purses.
We carry exclusively Utz & Dunn Co. high
grade footwear for women—the best wearing and
most perfect fitting shoes on the market to-day.
The present season's models axe particularly pleas
ing. ftYou will enjoy seeing them and trying
them on.
WILL CLAYSON