No. 11 TWENTY SECOND YEAR
SKAGWAY, ALASKA, FKIDAY, FEBRUARY 21. 1919
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PRICE 10 CENTS
HUNS WILL HAVE TO PAY FOR OVER
FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND HOUSES
Paris, Feb ,21—It was announced
'he French Delegates to the Peace
Congress that Fiance would1 demand
pav for 450,000 houses which
had been destroyed by Germany and
he» armies in the crusade of devas
tation and rapine and it is claimed
t^a. thousands of these homes were
destroyed needlessly and merely as
acts of vandalism and1 to promote
♦ he supposed needs of hellish actions
bv an army of occupation.
Th* claims for the houses do not
include the claim which will be
mad« for the destruction of thou
sands of factories and other insti
tutions both Private a»d public.
Washington, Feb. 21. — Louise
ftryant appearing before the Senate
i>roj ogauda investigating: committee
admitted visiting Russia during the
period of the war, and then return
ing for the purpose of spreading
Russian Bolsheviki propaganda.
In her investigation it was brough
out that her husband, John Reed, !
's tui American writer, and that he
ia now employed' in the propoganda
department of thg. Russian Gov
■ernmeut.
j She admitted that she had partici
pated in the recent burning In effi
gy of President Wilson ag a demon
stration for suffrage in America. i
PltW Hi
IN aBCTIC WATER
Vancouver, Feb. 2.1. — Great her
ring v a'ers lie ill the Arctic off Can
ada's far northern coast, according
to a report issued at Ottawa re
gardui? th,-. findings of Vilhjaimur
Stefansson exploration, evpedition..
The report was issued by hte Cana
dian federal naval department un*.
der whose auspices Stefansson made
his last trip north.
Easf and west of the Mackenzie
river the herring are found, the re
port ?ai<>. if the geat transporta
tion difficulties can ever be over
ton^ the herring waters will be
developed.
Berlin, Feb. 21.-—The govern
ment announced this afternoon that
hos'ilifies against Poland had' been
suspended in compliance with an
armistice that was signed by both
powers today.
Will) WILSON
10 KEEP STILL
Washington, Feb. 21.—A repolu- |
tioa was introduced today by Senat
or Sherman requesting President
Wilson to not discuss the League of
Nations in Boston.
In the debate that followed Sen- j
ator liorah demanded that the peo*
pie be. given a chance to v»te on j
• he League of Nations constitution
before- the government binds itself
under the compact,
SEWARD PENINSULA TIN
UNDER IN VESTIGATION
Tii deposits of the Seward penin
sula, sait» to be among the largest
on this continent, are being: inspect
ed by John A. Davis, special rep
reset tative of the bureau of mines
at the Fairbanks station.—Cordova.
A BANK BOOK
You will search high and low before you will
find another book (except the Bible) that means as
much to you as your Bank Book.
It makes a long story short.
It is full of dates and amounts'of vital import
ance to you.
We have a few extra copies for distribution
to those who have not already called for theirs.
BANK OF ALASKA
New Goods Just Received
Van Houten's Cocoa 1-2 lb 70c
Christie's Soda Biscuits 2 lbs Tins 75c each
Royal Yeast Cakes (Canadian) 2 for 25c
Bake-Ko (Egg Substitute) 1 Package Equal
to 3 doz eggs 30c each
P. H. GANTY
CRUSHING THE SEATTLE STRIKE I
PROBABLY AVERTED REVOLUTION:
Portland, Feb. 21.—A desperate
light tool- place last night at a
convention of the Metal Trader Un
ion in this city, when the leaders of
the Metal Trades proposed that a
coast wid<e walkout be ordered in
sympathy with the Seattle and oth
er Pacific Coast shipyard strikers.
While the men who took part in
the debate did not come to blows,
the session at time assumed a most
disorderly manner, and It was only
bv- tbe action of tbe cooler heads
present that violence was averted.
The leaders are continually stir
ring up strife, and It is fear©d that
the trouble In the shipyard^ can
not be settled on an amicable basis.
The shipyard worker# who are
sout on strike In the Pacific
' Coast yards display no signs of
i wea^enin# and they; will not return
to work *n order to submit their
J eas«» to arbitration at the present
* Ime.
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Npw York, Feb. 21. —Secretary
Of Labor Wilson, In an address
I wliich he made her© last night d'e
; clared that the strikes at Seattle,
j Butte, Montana, and Lawrence,
: Afass., were all the outcome of Bol- i
eheviki propaganda born in Russia.)
S-cre'flry Wilson further assert
ed *hat If the strike at Seattle had j
not been crushed in the manner in !
which it had been the result would I
have led 'o where no man knows.
an'1 >vould' have probably resulted in
a Bolshevik! revolution throughout i
th«> nation.
Washington, Feb. 21.—Secretaryj
o* the Navy Josephus Daniels an
nounced thi$ morning that President
W'son and party, who are on board
the, steamship George Washington
would arrive in Boston harbor next
Tuesday morning. He also an
nounced that President Wilson
would reembark on th© George
Washington on March 6th for the
return trip to France.
C1AMG
UNJUST CLAIMS
Tokio, Feb. 21. — In a speech
which he made in the Japanese Diet
yesterday afternoon Premier Hara
expressed great surpHse that China
should insist upon the return of
Tslngtau.
Premier Hara asserted that China
had absolutely no rifcht to make
sue" a demand.
Amsterdam, Feb. 21.—A Munich
dispatch received today »tates that
Premier Kurt of Bavaria had been
shot and killed by Count Arco
Valley another Bavarian, nobleman.
Berlin, Feb. 21—.It official
ly announced today that Joachim
a ton of the former kaiser, had
been deported from Bavaria today
for plotting to restore his father
to tbe throne of Germany.
BOXING TOURNAMENT
TO BE TTRI.n IX BOSTON
New York, Feb. 21. — Secretary
F. W Rubien, of the Amateur Ath
letic union, announced that this
year's national boxing championship
tournamen*. would be held at Me
chanics hall, Boston, under the aus
pices of the Boston AthJet associa
tion, April 7 and 8.
The Metropolitan boxing tourney
has been awarded to th© Brother*
hoo-l of American Railway Express
employes, who have arranged for
♦he events in eights classes. They
will be decided at Madison 8qnare
Garden here, March 27 and 29.
MARRIAGES DECLINE
The marriage market declined ser
;ou3lyin LosAngelea because of the
war, there being 900 weddings fewer
in 1918 than In 1917. The same
.si uran would' of course be noticeable
elsewher® If the figures were at hand.
But we should worry.. There U go
ing to be a regular stampede to the
altar when the boys get homa and
find another Job,—StooktQU Rficord
YANKS WILL ALL
BE HOME nr
SEPTEflBER
Washington, Feb.., 21—The War
Department announced this morning
that all American troops who are
iio«* in France can be returned to
the United States by the end of Sep
tember.
Copenhagen, Feb. 21. — Large
forces of American troops, com
posed mainly of New Yorkers, have
arrived in Berlin.
These troops have been stationed
in the German capital city for the
our^ose of protecting thei transport
In'of food which is being sent into
Germanv and from there to other
devastated and war torn areas for
the starving populations.
New York, Feb. 21.—The cruis
er St. Louis, with thirteen hundred
troops arrived In this port this morn
lag,
The troops arriving from France
are mainly men from the State of
Washington, and they will be sent
Across to their homes at an early
date.
wag announced this, morning
that a dozen delayed transports
would arrive in this port loaded
with Yankee troops within the next
thirty hours.
Warsaw, Feb. 21.—The interal
lied commission seeking to restore
peace between the Ukrainians and
the Poles was fired upon by Ukrain
ian soldiers as the commission was
proceeding- from Cracow to Lem
bur*.
Paris Feb. 21.—The Paris police
raided the homes of th© thirty well
kncwa anarchists today discovering
a. Bolshevist organizaton of far
reacting ramifications. The police
thin! they have secured the right
and will prosecute them to the
ext v mination of their plans.
Berlin. Feb. 21.—The war office
reported today that seven hundred
Spartacans had been killed or
wounded in the Ruhr ooal mines -dis
tw.egn the Spartacans and govern
tric* in a sanguinary conflict be"
men* armies.
SWITZERLAND UNEARTHED
PLOT FOR ASSASSINATION
_W]LSON UNO CLEMENCEAl
^aris, Feb. 21.—According to
advic» received' here by the Foreign
Office thig morning, plots have
been unearthed in Switzerland,
showing that some eectiong of that
country are the hotbeds of pro-Ger
man conspiracies.
The investigations of the secret
oolice have brought to light plans
which were to have been carrie
ou* that would have resulted in tb
assassination of both President Wi.
son the United' States and Prim
Minister Clemenceau of France.
The reason that these plots mij
oarriod was the inability of the cor
spirators to effect a crossing c
the frontier into France.
JUDGE LAIS 8IIES BEfiGER AND
OTHER I. I P TEARS EACI
"hicago, Feb. 21.—Berger and
his associates, who have been on
frial here ag I.. W. "W.'s charged
wi"i esoionage, after being denied
their motions for new trials and a
stay in pronouncing sentence were
this morning brought into court
where Judge Landis of the District
Court of the United States Pro
nQvruced' sentence, giving each
'erm of 20 years in the federal prl*
on at Leavenworth.
After sentence had been prohouo
ed a motion wag again made for ;
m w trial, and thg men under sen
tence were released on twenty flv
thousand dollars bail each.
PREMIER GLEMEnU BELIEVED
00! 0E DANCER Of POflll
Paris, Feb. 21.—Prim9 Minister ,
Clemenceau is considered by his1
physicians to be out of danger< and '
it wag announced this morning tha.
he would receive members of th>
supreme council of the Peace Con
£ress this afternoon.
MARSHAL FOCH
10 IGIT GIAIES
Phoenix, Ariz., Feb. 20.—James A.
Flaherty, Supreme Ki'ight of the j
Knights of Columbus, stated today |
tha'. .Uai-siiai Foeh would make a 1
vialt to the United States ome time
this year and presumably in May. 1
ARMY TG MAKE
GERMANY PM
Paris. Feb. 21. — One of th<
afternoon papers annouaoejj that i
had heard that an interallied ar
my ie soon to be formed to keep ii
the field until Germany malcea J
complete financial settlement of th<
indemnities she will have to Pa7
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