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SKAGWAY, ALASKA, MQNDAY, MAY 19. 1919
SECOND YEAtt
No. 83 TWENTY
EBERT DECLARES PEACE TREAir I
IEA1S GERIANY'S ENSLAVEMENT
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Berlin, Mfty 19—.Chancellor
Ebert in addressing a demonstration
meetiu» yesterday said that Ger
man y would never sign the peace
terms as a urodttct of the euemiea
revengtul hyateria.
Ke adnlej that 'foreign countries
would not permit of the proscription
oi Germany, ajkd that they will
rai^e their voices with, ug that this j
is peace enslavement, and we shall |
uevbr gigiti the treaty. Tlhis en- j
slavemeut of the Cei-nwui. people will
nevar com,e to pass.
Versailles, M>'.v 19.—Ooniat Von
Broendroff Rantzau returned1 to thia
city this morning aiwi is aceonipan
ied by forty prominent G-erniana.
f?r. Germain, May 19-—The Al
lied and Austrian liefltgatee* to the
peaev. conference exchajige<J credi »
tiaU in the pavilion of Ilenry IV
thia afteruoou. the ceremony last
ed 'Wo minutes. Foreign, Minister
Can bot, presitied at the meeting iii,
behalf of th<> Allies Mid Rei^uer •Wt
a-i for the Austrian jjovemuraeut.
Cons ta 11timepJ e, May, 19—Fighting
took place after the landing of
Greek troops at Smyrna Thursday in
which 300 Turks and 100 Greeks
were killedi.
Seattle, May 19.—Rutli Garriswm
was »ak.ei* today to WalJa Walla
penitentiary where sht. 'will be <x>ni
rnltW to the ward set aside for
*h» criminal insane.
Washington, May 19.—The Oon
gr^b of the United States assem
ble In extroardtinar}" session at aiocj
today.
Washing1 ton. May 19.—Jn an in
terv'ew today, Saarc.tray .Uuiswig
stated' that then- was no doubt aboiifl
thn United Stays holding BUch Ger-|
man ships as she now iwsaeeses.
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Seattle, May 19.—James I'ruce,
one of the 28 men chapped. with an
attempt to overt brow th8 govern
ment of tiie United States, and al
so charged with preaching anarchy
in connection with the Seattle gene
ral strike was placed on trial dn the
Federal court this morning.
During- tlie progress of the trial
of James Bruce, in the Federal coUiC
•his afternoon, fifty i>oIicemein nro|
patrolling the corridors of the court j
hus© t prevent any possible demon-!
stra'ion which might be attempted.
Weimar, May 19.—'Leaders of j
♦hp Geiman national assembly have!
decided' not to convene the legisla
ture oat Berlin, as iifljs bwn sug
gested _ I
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Yesterday Has Passed
Into History
And We Have Put The Loan Over
Now is the time to open an account and begin
to save for the future payments. If you paid
in full begin to save to buy some more from
those who may have to sell them later.
Now that you have the habit of saving keep
it up.
BANK OF ALASKA
NEW GOODS
Just Received
GOOD SALMON EGGS
Friction top cans 40c each
! CHICK FOOD
' 20 pounds lots ap 6 1-2 cents a pounds
P. H. GANTY
UNKNOWN SHIPS
BOMBARD NEAR
PETBOGfiAD
London, Ma)] 19.—A wireless tliia
pa'ch jpceire- i here today from Mos
cow reports that me cruiser audi two
destroyers of uialcuwm, nattouajlity
bombarded the regiom north of Rop
shire, 24 miles "rth qf Petrograd.
yesterdtay and considerable damage
r«#u]ted the shelling:.
Ausiiiis
TRYINS STUNT
-si-1 ti.u
St. Johns, May 19.—I-u. an ef
fcrt to wrest away from the Amer
ican navy pilots the honor of beihg
the first to complete the trans ocean
13 fllnht. Hawker, the Australian,
aviator and navigator, as com.maJiti
er an" Mckenzie Genevieve as pilot
are winging their way across the A
lantic t' the eleventh hour.
'idiese airmen took to the air iu
a sSopwith plane at 5:05 New York
time Sunday afternoon.
Fredrick P. Raynham, a rivat for
tb* honors, in attempting to follow,
broke an axel awl hi§ plane was
wrccfced'.
London, May If-—The Sopwith
Aeroplane company )ia$ received a
report that Kawlser was five hundra
miles off the Irish eoast u<t 3 o'
clock this ajfterooon,
iMavop J. M. Hourky of Clifton I
was a Skaigway visitor todi.ty.
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There will be a train out of Skag
way tomorrow leaving: the Broad
way Nation at nine o'clock.
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Mayor Howard Ashley returned
yesterda on the Seattle from a
short business trip to Juneau.
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XliB town is Cull of flu birds to
day as the quarantine on a number
of these who hav© been confined to
♦here homes for the past few days
has run out.
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The wrecking crew of the White
Pass are busy today clearing the
tra:it of an immense boulder that
slid down onto the rails m*ar Den-1
vtr station.
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Charleg Peterson, chef of the
White Pass eating house at Bon-'
net, caiDg on the last train and is
paying a visit to his farily. He
vv ill return, tomorrow.
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Frederick. P. Burrall, the Dafwson
mining engineer, arrived an the
Seaitl6 yesterday and will leave to
morrow for Dawson. Mr. Burrall
spent nart of th0 winter in London |
looking after the Intejests of his
fompeny.
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Tlie Popular Picture Palace -will
resume ou Wedjnesday night with
Mine, Petrova. in the leading- role.
Tho P. P. P. hag been cloned dwr-1
in? the quartfctino.:
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The City ot' Seattle arrived* in
Ska^way at four o'clocic yesterday
afternoon with freight and passen
ger? aEd sailed for the south
an hour after phg arrived.' '
MEXICO iY RE
Pr\-1 r . . Vf V *<*> 11 'tHJ
Washington, May 19.—Finan-,
ical legislation which President Car
rauzii ims as wed the Mexiaanj con
gress to consider at th^ extra
session now being held is being
watched closely by officials here, it
was learned today; This is under- j
stood to be dfue to the American in- I
terests dnvolvied and to the recant
statement by JJu is Cabrera, Mexican
secretary of finance, that Mexico
would not pay its debts at present,
even if it had the nHouey preferring
to await the results ctf the Paris
peace conference to see "wiuat the
world in general will do with, its
obligations, how many nations will
re,>u(iidato tUelr debts, and how
many will trim their obligations to
figures compatible with their ii>
cotib."
y. S. WILL HOLD :i
li 111 SHIPS
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Washington, May 19-—At a lata
hour Saturday evening President
Wilson's messagg to Congress was
received at the White Hcfuse.
Washington, May 19.—It is re
sr ">td by the war department that
British warsUipp had engage^ the
Hussi 'ii Bolshevik^ fleet in a thir
minute gea fight in which the
latter got very ni'ucji the worst of
it.
Tiie engagement took place in
(he Gulf of Finland and the Bolshe
viki only escaped by eluding the
British and fleeing to Ivnonstadt.
One of the Russian ships was
aujik and another stranded which
took nil the fight out of thorn and
hey turned) tail and ran. for shore.
BItlDE -VXD GROOM NOW
ON1 WAY TP FAIRBANKS
Mr. and Mrs. Buchholz wo,re er
riv-il on the City of Seattle, en
route to Fairbanks the honxg of Mr.
Bt:chholz.
This young couple come to Al
aska as bridje and groom. On Dec.
3, 1917, Buchliolz anlisteJi in the
U. S. Navy, and earned the rank of j
Q. M. Third a ass, U. S. N. whil«
on overseas duty.
While stationed at Richmond, Va.,
before going t Europe the yotuig
couplc met and1 when the troops
turned they were made man'aod wi*
The bride is aa charming young
woman, and the groom is mad© of
th* t'gh.f sort of stuff from which
good mon are made, and a happy
and T)rosp«rou» future ia predicted
for the "Young Ohechacoes."
Capt. A. C. Bell, of th0 R. N.
W. M. Pollco at White horse ar
rived in Skagway an Saturday and
will eo b:wfc on the train tomorrow.
BRITTS PHARMACY
71 f °ti" r'.,i rn I <%
At Skagway
Will be moved to Juneau at once.
Before packing we will now sell all
Drugs, Patent Medicines, Toilet Articles, I
Stationery, Candies and Sundries
At 5, 10, 25 and 50 per cent off the regular retail
■ < . . , i '•'(fit;
price. .
LOSS OF SEAPLANE MAY PREVENT
.Washington, May 19.—While tne
N. 0. 1, N. a 3 and N. C. 4 a^ll ar
rived at various stations in the
Azores in safety Saturday, the N.
C. 3, whlcji wa<j reported off Jier
oourae in tiiying to majkia Bunta, Del
Gada, the American Niaval station,
after having reached! om© of the
station ships had) not been, found
nor had It reported up to a late
hour last night.
As a result of this lost seaplane,
the -V. C'. '4 and N. 0. 1 were to
day ordered to Join in the search
for the missing machine, thg navy
department advised today.
This means the abandonment tempi
oriarily of the trans-Atlantic flight
When last heard from the N. C. 3
was somewhere abofut 100 miles frol
it or: a at t>:xo a. m. YYapuiuevvu
time Saturday. (Sunday).
London, May 19.—Hoyds jagwc)
reooits that the Soatmer Ionia, wltl
the crew of the Affljarlea^-saapflainf
N» C. 1 aboard) arrirad
day. The report further etatei
that the N. Q. 1 (wSfc whttg 12(
mitf-.s off the Island of FHorea. • *
Washington, MajJ 19.—Axsoai^in
to reports i-eachfng here «t" nooi
tods-y, U. s. Destroyers we #tu;
searching for the America^ Arm;
Seanlane N. C. No 3- -
Washington, May 19. (1:40 p
m.)—A report Juflt reoeired, at th»
i nayy department pays that the *N
C. 3 had been sighted, and tHe tiee
patch says that the machine Is pro
ceeding under her owtn power.
AUSTRIA WILL
PAY LARGE SUM
l. ? "\T \J
Oarism May 19.—Tli,e terms o£
thA Austrian peace treaty provide
that Austrio pay an endemnity of 1
quarter billion dollara
The Italian^ have consented
to the establishment of Fium© as a
free port as "well ag relinquishing
th6ir claimg to the portions of the
Istrlaji and Dalmatian, islands as
previously climed.
bbiit to move drug
; X'• -f t~7 r\' I V t 1
STORE TO JUNEA.V
Ska g way will iasa one of its old
est Mid mst ppwlar establishments
within the next few weeks. Willia
Britt, who for almost twenty years
conducted a drug store in Skag
wav W{U remove the store from tjiis
city to Juneau, where he will in
stall it as a branch to his large
store already there.
Ii is with reem that Mr. Britt
deems this mo\'a advisable, but in
speaking of the move he said that
w i' h his m a mi interest^ in J'unea'u.he
belieTfd that he can do better by
having all bis infcerestsw here he
can give it mo,re personal atten
tion.
fviriij Feero, who h^s been in
charge of the Britt 9 to re in Skagway
ever fince- Mr. Britt mov^.d: to Ju-1
nea^i, will accompany Mr. Britt to
Juneau, and will have charge of the
new branch stone.
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AGAINST SELI
Now York, May 19.—Williai
Jennings Bryan, whose candldac
for moderator of tfcm Preebyteria
general assembly was recently at
nouneed-, is to nominate a caadidat
against himselj for that posltioi
His friends amoug: hi^ fellow con
missioners to the general assembl
at St. Louis, May 15-23 are stl
pushing his boopni ik>r the office, b«
Mr. Bryan himself will uamiaat
for moderator hi$ former past
Rev. Henry OhapmaaJ 9w«*rtn4«.
I). D., under who^ poeaahjta® -"M
Bryan sat when "< Dr. fDlftmliig)>
wag pastor of thie First Prmdy.
terian church of Lincoln, Neb., <
which Mr. Bryan a member an
elder. Br. .Swear tag en la now ml'
later of the House of Hapa PreRb:
terian church, St. Paul Mitta.
New Jersey oommlasismera to tl
boom for Rev. jameg Dal lag Steel
general assembly are fostering
D. D., of Passic, N. J.
Dr. S. Hall Youing piofae»
Alaskan missionary, is also a caa<J
date for moderator.
London, May 19.—General Den
kine, who ia conducting tile 031
•a'gn against the Bolsbeilk^ ari
in 'he city of Tsaritz in on the Vc
ga riveraniiounoed today that tl
had captured, ten thousand Bolshefl
k' nrisoners and twenty eight)
♦ hoir heavy artillery guna. •''
Smart, Hats For Spring
Safe for us to sell and for
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you to buy
Felt hats that will induce thrifty
men to come here always for
their hats, because the quality is
as true as the styles
Hats on display that will
hold their Shape
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Large line of
HARDEMEN HATS
For Spring and Summer
JAMES KENNEDY