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NO. 70 TWENTY-FIFTH TEAR
8KAGWAY, ALASKA, THVRSDAY, JULY 18, 1922.
PRICE TEX CENTS
CONIRACiS COLD BAY III
FIELDS SIGH YESTERDAY
Seattle. July 13.—All contracts fn
connection with the development of
the Cold Bay oil fields by the Stand
ard Oil company *nd the General
Petrolium company of California, are
now signed accord.ng to A. S. Kerry,
president of the Westward Develop
ment company, wh.ch company is
the intermediary between the big
concerns and about sixty Alaskans
who havn staked claims.
Seattle, July 13.—Within ten days
both men and machinery of the
Standard Oil company and the Gen
eral i'etroliuin company will be mov
ing into the Cold Bay district of
Alaska, according to word received
from A. S. Kerry.
INDIAN WEIGHS Ulit POUNDS
—HAS EIGHT-FOOT WAIS1
Anardako. Okla, July.—Big Bill,
a Caildo Indian, liviug near Grace
mout. has just ordered hts summer
suit, a pair of trousers and » shirt. !
It took teu yards of material to make
the shirt, while thi trousers have a!
imidest waist measure of eight lee'..
Big Bill is belived to outstrip
ell other Indians u size. He weighs i
Ii24 pounds, has thigh ineasurntents
of thirty-six inches-, and an upper
arm measurment uf twenty-elglit
inches.
SI N VAT SKV \V 11.1, NOT
BOMJiARD CANTON
Canton. China. July 12.—Sun Yat
Sen sailed into Canton harbor aboard
t:ie gunboat Wiugfung, escorted by,
t .vo cruisers and one destroyer, at-,
ter bombarding the forts at Macao,
lie announced that he would not |
again bombard the city of Canton!
proper. The followers of Sun are |
skirmishing on the outskirts of the
TELEPHONE OPERATOR STOW
AWAY ON S.S. ALEXANDER
Seattle. July 12.— It has been dis
closed that Miss Anna Fafail. a tele
phone operator here, made the voy
age from San Francisco to Honolulu
ai.d return as a stowaway aboard the
Admiral line S.S. 11. F Alexander.
FIFTY KILLED IN EX
PLOSION l\ GERMANY
Berlin. July 12.—Fifty persona
were killed when a magazine of the
mines explod-d at Cuxhaven Naval
base.
MAJOR R1.AKE FORCED
LAND PALESTINE DESERT
London, July 13.—Major Blake,
who is attempting a round the world
flight in an airplane, was forced to
descend in the desert lands of Pal
estine late yesterday afternoon.
The Skagway library management |
wishes to announce the arrival ofl
two books of Alaskan fiction ami
travel. Snowdrift, is a book by |
James Hendryx and is fiction in
character, while a book on travels |
etc., is entitled. In the Alaskan Wild
erness. by George Byron Gordon. |
GKItMAOXY WANTS
FILL MEMBERSHIP
Paris, July.—It haa been under
stood that France would not raise
any objection to Germany becoming
a member of the league of Nations,
but it is opposed to her sitting on
ti.e council. Germany, however, will
have full league uiemberehlp on
equality with Great Britain, France,
Italy and Jajau. or will have noth
ing at all. it wass announced this
morning.
MAXY KILLED COLLAPSE
Ol)l> FELLOWS TEMPLE
Philadelphia, July 13.—Five are
killed and forty injured in the col
lapse of the Odd Fellow s temple
here tlus afternoon.
SEATTLE SAX FRANCISCO SOON
T<> HAVE AERIAL 8EKVICE
Seattle. July 12.—That an aerial
mail service will b£ instituted in a
short time between Seattle and San
Francisco was forecast by Second As
si slant Postmaster-General Hender
son.
POLICEMAN LEOATE SIIC1DE
ACCORDING TO TENXANT j
Seattle. July 12.—Mayor Brown
indicated to Capta.n of Detectives. I
Cbas. Teunam tonight that he must I
e.tlier apprehend vhe murderer of I
Patrolman Legate jr resign his po
sition with the force. "The case is
closed so far as I urn concerned for
Legate killed hintstlf," Tennant re
plied in a statement that has been
made public.
GEORGE J. GOl'LD
TAKES ANOTHER WIFE
New York. July 12.—George J.
Gould, whose wife died November
13th. was married a week ago in
Paris to Mrs. Alice Sinclair of New
York. The Gouldj are spending
their honeymoon In Scotland.
Ml'XCIE MAN MADE
ASSISTANT SECRETARY
Washington. July 13.—R. Carl
White, of Muucie, Ind.ana. has been
named by President Harding as as
sistant secretary of labor.
A BANK
FOR ALL PEOPLE
It N our constant aim to meet the needs of
all the people all the time in every particular.
We consider the small depositor Is entitled
to as much careful attention as the large one.
iBaiiinlk ®ff Mask®
SKACWAY, ALASKA
ISMIO GOBLIN
SURRENDERS
TDJOLICE
Los Angeles, Calif.. July.—Wm.
S. Coburn, Grand Goblin of the Ku
Klux Klun, arrived here today from
Atlanta, Georgia, and surrendered
himself to the police a itho-illes. Co
burn was among the thirty-seven
members of the Klan indicted for
| conspiracy as a result if the Inglt
wood raid last Ap:ll, *hlch result
ed in oue death, v.'hen members ol
the local Klan sought to lutlicl p<iD
ishment on a bootleggei. Coburn was
at once taken before the court and
had the indictment read to him. Ho
pleaded "uot guilt.'-"
Los Angeles, July.— tha «ourt
after rece.vlng a plea of "uot guil
ty" from William £.. Coburn, the tu-1
dieted Grand Goblin of the Ku Klux
Klan, fixed his ball at $5,000. Pend
ing arrangements to furnish t'le ball
Coburn was committed. Krtends im
mediately came to 1.1s resrue d he
was released shortly.
GOVERNMENT EXPERTS WILL
DEVELOP FOREIGN TRADE
Washington, July.—A m e r i c a u
manufacturers and exporters Willi
compete for foreigu markets after i
July 1 aided by a Lew force of gov
ernment trade experts to be sent
throughout the world to further de-!
velop existing fields, according to
plans being completed by the De
partment of Commerce.
As Europe is the best customer of;
the I'nir.ed States, Secretary of Com
merce Hoover believed that especial
care is necessary In that part of the
world at this time to guard American
commercial interests. It is hiB plan
that American business men should ,
cooperate energetically with the gov-'
erument during tho coming year to I
throw safeguards around fields al-|
ready developed a.id to find new |
avenues for the s»le of American
goods.
Ilf Uitip the request of busmen* in
terests In tills couutry, the govern
ment will open a bureau at Alliens
to study American trade opportuni
ties arising constantly along the
Mediterranean Sea. An expert In
trade with the Balkans and the near
east will be put in charge of the bu
reau. A permanent American offlce
i
will be established likewise in Col
umbia, and existing bureaus In Lat
in America will be strenghtened by
sending additional trade commision
ers to Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro
and Mexico City.
In the Far East American offices
will be opened at Calcutta and Hong
Kong. The latter branch will take
care of Siam, French Indo-Chlna, the
Federated Malay States, the EtraltB
Settlements. Dutch East Indies and
Southern China.
Special study of China's financial
.situation will be undertaken by an
American agent at Shanghai, and an
assistant trade commissioner will be
assigned to new work at Melborne.
Secretary Hoover's program alBO
contemplates the assignment of rec
ognized experts at certain advantag
eous points in Europe and Asia to
study commercial pos&'bllities In Rus
sia. If diplomatic relations should
be established between the United
States and the Soviet government
American trade agents would be
sent to that country Immediately.
One of the Important bureaus
whicu Secretary Hoover will develop
as an aid to American industry will
be one dealing exe'usively with for
egn finance and investments. New
appointee* to existing divisions of
the Department of Commerce will
include also an International wire
less and cable communication In its
commercial aspects. Experts exper
ienced in export foodstuff trade and
in the marketing of a wide range of
commodities will be added to the
staffs of the department.
Miss Esther Madsen, who has been
assisting Mrs. J. M. Keller, for sev
eral weeks, returned home on the
Jefferson to Juneau, and her sister
Miss Elizabeth Madsen has taken
(her place for the summer moths.
GERM'NS SAY
NtOIEYISREADY
Paris, July 12.—The German rep
resentatives today submitted to the
reparations commission a forma)
note requesting that a moratorium
on reparations payments be granted
for the remainder of the year. The
note further states that the gold
marks due on Saturday would be
available If the commission Insisted
upon this payment, but the repre
sentatives recommended that it al
so be waived. The German request
did not specify an extension of the
moratorium throughout the next
two years as had been forcastad in
some quarters, but urged that the
Commission consider Germany's con
dition financially, and to make pub
lic, as soon as possible, a complete
plan for her relief.
ALASKA FUR RADER
ENTANGLED WITH COURTS
Seattle, July 13.—John C. Lowe,
an Alaskan fur trader, wac taken
into the courts today 011 an action
instituted by Miss Louise Dedrick-'
son, pretty nurse of 24, to compel
him to support her and their one
year old baby boy. Lowe, who was
recently married, ofTered to adopt
the child and take him to Alaska,
his bride has already started north.
Lowe, who is fifty years of age, be
came acquainted w.'th Miss Dedrick
son two gear's ago in Providence
hospital where she uursed him as a !
patient.
HARDING OBLIGED ACCEPT
PRESENT BONUS BILL
Washington, July 19.—President
Harding will be obliged to accept
the soldier's bonus bill fathered by
Senator McCuinber, and now on the
Senate calaudar, o: have no bonuB
legislation at all during this session,
io administration senators announce.
CHILBERG AND ASSOCIATES
ARRAIGNED YESTERDAY
Seattle, July 12.—J. E. Chllberg
ind J. F. Lane, prosident and cash
er respectively of the defunct Scan
iinavian-Amertcan bunk, with eight
nher prominent men of Seattle, were
trralgued yesterday on charges grow
ng out of an indictment by a spec
al graud jury Investigation.
*EC. FALL TO INVESTIGATE
COLUMBIA BASIN IRREGATION
Washington, July 12.—A bill to
luthorizo Secretary of the Interior
F"all to investigate the survey on the
Columbia river basin irregation proj
jct in Washington state, and report
:o Congress has been passed by the
Venule.
SKAt WAY'S COMMU NITY CLUli
STARTS OFF AUSPICIOUSLY
The Skagway CommunSty cflub,
which was organized on Tuesday
ulght with six persons on the board
of directors, has started off very
auspiciously. About 50 people gath
ered at the Case & Draper building
to perfect the organization, after
ward going to the dining room of |
the Golden North botel for a good |
time and refreshments. The regular
meeting night will be Friday and j
the children will not be allowed to
attend without proper supervision j
at all times. The management an-'
nounces that all parents are request
ed to send in suggestions for the
success of the new venture for the
good of the children of the city. The
younger children will come from
6:30 to 8:30 and the older ones lat
er. The doors will always be closed
at eleven o'clock except from special
arrangement. Beginning at ten o'
clock on Saturday, food sales will
be conducted, as also cut flowers and
fancy articles. Any donations to the
works will be gratefully received.
RAILWAY EXECUTIVES
REFUSE CONFERENCE
WITH B. M. JEWELL
Chicago, July 13.—A flat refusal
to meet with B. M. Jewell, head of
the striking shopmen, to discuss
i peace proposals was the answer to
night of the railway executives to the
| proposition made by Chairman Hoop
I er of the labor board.
| Chicago, 111., July 12.—A settle
ment of the rail stilke seems a step
nearer today when It was disclosed
that a secret conference was being
held between Chairman Hooper of
the labor board and the leaders of
the six shop crafts, that are striking,
Washington, July 12.—President
Harding has virtually declared a
national emergency in his proclama
tion that the rail utrike must not
Interfere with interstate commerce
and the movement of the mails and
thus paving a way for the use of
federal troops whera necessary.
Chicago, 111., July 13.—In a tele
gram sent to President Harding to
day by B. M. Jewel, head of the
Hailroad department of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor, and sign
ed by six international presidents of
the railroad shop crafts, he insisted
[ that the night interruption of com
merce and the interference with the
mails had been caused by unlawful
acts. The Shipmeu's telegram laid
such interefence d./ectly to an at
tempt by the raihoads to operate
their roads with incompetaut work
men.
Washington, July 13.—Secretary
of War Weeks today instructed Jla
jor-General I lines, commanding the
8th corps area at £111 Anlynia, Tex
as, to prepare sufficient force of
troops to protect tne property of the
Missouri, Kansas <Si Texas lines,
which are in the l)i..ids of receivers,
appointed by the United States
courts.
WATER POWER PLANT
TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
Washington, July 13.—An Initial
development of sixteen thousand
horsepower is contemplated under
the permit granted to F. L. Dutton,
F. W. McNear, and F. C. Dougher
ty, of San Francisco, for the plant
they are placing on Cascade creek
in Tongasa National forust. The pow
site will be situated about twenty
two miles north of Petersburg.
EIGHT CHILDREN BLOWN
PIECES SHELL EXPLOSION
Watertown, N,. Y„ July 13.—
Eight children, from the ages eleven
to sixteen years years, were blown to
pieces late today by the explosion
of a weventy-five millimeter shell on |
the back porch of a house occupied 1
by Edward G. Workman and Wm. I
L? Salisbury.
Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Stockdill are
round trip passengers on the Prin
cess Louise. Mr. Stockdill is Assist
ant Vice President of the C. P. R.
EGYPT SINKS AT SKA
WITH GOLD ABOARD
London, July.—Speaking ot the
treasure ship Egypt which sank at
sea over a month ago, one of the
London bullion houses points out
that the wreck contained over one
million pounds in both gold and sil
ver. The Egypt Is said to be lying
in sixty-live fathoms deep, and the
recovery of that treasure will be
difficult, it is said.
PREST ARRIVES IN
DAWSON ON TUESDAY
Dawson, Y. T., July 12.—Aviator
C. 0. Prest, who is flying from Buf
falo to Siberia, arrived in Dawson
Tuesday.
"The tariff is a political Issue. It
is not a partisan question," says a
Democratic periodical. Not partisan
eh, when the Republican party de
clared in favor of a protective tariff
and the Democratic puny declared
in favor of its traditional attitude—
that protection is unconstitutional.
The
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Yukon Rout?
TIftie HS®tiDtte to ttDne Hiraien©r
The Gateway Route of Comfort, Service anil Safety
Tb and From Atlin, Dawson and Interior Alaska and
Yukon River Points
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During season of navigation cur fleet of modern steam
ers will operate the entire length of the Yukon River.
Daily Train Service (except Sundays) between Skaguay
and Whltehorae. Parlor observation cars on every train
For full Information regarding passenger and freight
races apply to
H- Wheeler, General Manager
Skaguay, Alaska
Or 510 Alaska Building, Seattle .Wash.