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SKAGWAY, ALASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1922
PRIt'K I lvV CENTS
STRIKE AGREEMENT HAS BEEN REACHED
itfoiiEiiE nuns bt no i
HUH) JHOUS'l VOTES'
Milwaukee. Wis., Sept. 6.—Sena
tor Lafollette of this state won the
renominution (or I'niteil States sen
ator 011 the Kepublican ticket by a
majority of more than one hundred
thousand votes. Governor Blaine was
iso renominated. It is now seriously;
considered whethei the Democrats
or Socialists polled enough votes to
enable either to show as a political
par;y under the Wisconsiu law.
Madison. Wis., Sept. 7.—Senator [
Lafolleite. who is flushed with a
signal victory of nearly 200.000 ma
jority votes in the primaries, today!
declared that he was prepared to j
undertake t e reopening of the New- j
berry case. |
KKFI «.KKS KUH'KINU
TO SMYRNA
Smyrna. Sept. 6.—The war between
the l>reeks ami the Turks is driv
ing refugees (ruin all parts into this
i if. so that at present there are
15U.OOO refusees of every national
ity in this city. The American Relief
nimmittee has published an appeal
calling on all to ofer assistance to
this great throng. It is reported that
t ie Allied troops will land in the city
tomorrow.
(iKKKKS \\ 11.1. KVACVATK
IK A KMISTH'K tiKAN'TKH
Constantinople. Sept. 7.—T h e
French. British and Italian Drago
nt.t'is here have iuformed the repre
'
government that the Greeks are
ready to evacuate Asia Minor if all
immediate Armistice Is granted.
MWIHMt lll'T FOR
1'KKSIDKVT FOR
New York. Sept. 7.—William >IC
Adoo. has thrown his net in the ring
for the ['residential nomination on
the Democratic ticket for the Presi
dency for 1924.
William l\ Lyons of Denver, to
ilv.\ declared that McAdoo had so in
formed him.
si ITT1.K M HIK1LS
HAVK SCHOLARS
Seattle. Sept. 6.—The schools of
the - it;- oi>etied yesterday morning
and show enrollment of 43.250 pu
pils.
APPKAL TO l.F.AGlE
TO STOP GRKEK WAIl
Geneva. Sept. 6.—Lord Cecil made
today to end the war between the
Greeks and the Turks in Asia Minor.
Arthur Balfour was elected a vice
president of the League of Nations
at the assembly today.
FLYING PARSON KILLED IN FALL
Rutland. Vt.. Sept. 7.—Lieutenant
Maynard. known as the flying par
son. and wirier of the first trascon
tinenial air derby, was killed here
while flying at the Rutland fair.
Lieut. Charles Wood of Ticonderoga.
,.!.d Charles Mionett of New York
were also killed when the plane fell
three thousand feet.
RI'SSIANS SKI'/.K TWO
MORE BRITISH SIII!'S|
Datum, Sept. 7.—The Russian port
authorities i>f this place have seized
two more British vessels, the Hed
wige, and the Lady Elinor.
When the British f!:iK was lowered
the military band struck up "Ood
Save the Kins." After which the.
I red flag was hoisted to the strains
of the Internationale. Word has been
receive*' here from Constantinople,
that if the ships are not released, the
British will despatch a fleet of de
stroyers to Datum and forcibly take
them.
FlltST DEGREE Ml RDER
AGAINST MISS SKAR1N
Seattle. Sept. ti -Miss Clara Skar |
in. who was arrested in Oakland.
Sunday, and returned to Seattle, has |
been charged with murder in the
tirst degree.
SKARIN WOMAN
CONFESSES TO MI'RPER
Oakland. Calif.. Sept. •>.—Miss
Elizabeth Skarin has conf ><ed to
the killing of Fernantl Hochhru'i, the
Seattle capitalist on Octobi : 13. SVe
claims that the murder was commit
ted on account of many acis of cru
elties which had been heaped upon!
her for weeks.
PLOT TO KII.I. ROY A I.
IWWILY OISCLOSKR
Bucharest, Sept. C.—The coming1
raees. which were to be staged in j
this city was given us the time for j
the carrying out nt a plot to kill the
Royal family of Rumania, while they
were attending the same. The plo*
has been uncovered and a number of
Hungarian army officers are uitdet
arrest.
AVIATOR I'RKST
KKVt'HKS SKATTI.I
Seattle. Sept. 7.—Aviator Prest.
who has made two attempts to reach
Siberia, and this last time almost
succeeded is in this city on his re
turn from the North.
M KI1AXK AKI5KSTi:n
I'OIS SPKIUHVi.
Sacramento. Cal.. Sept. 7.—Luthc
IJurbank. the plant wizard was ar
rested in this city for speeding.
LET US HELP YOU!
The tact that your account may be a small one In t' e begin
ning does not bar you from the benefits of a bank account. We
shall be glad to bave your name on our books and furnish you
with bank book and checks.
A bank account will eventually enable you to start in busi
ness for yourself.
Baurok "©IT Mask®
SKAGWAY, ALASKA
Houston. Tew, Sept. 6.—Three men
lire dead and two injured as the re
sult of a family fued. arising from
interest in the Ku Klux's political
activity in the affairs of Sealy, Texas.
DI'MOS. ACT ON' Kl KLVX KI-AX
San Antonio. Tex.. Sept. 7.—T h e
Democratic sta'e convention last
night rejected the minority reports,
which openly denounced the Ku Klux
Klan and its activities.
COAST KTKKIj
INTERESTS MERGE
Seattle. Sept. 7.—The Pacific
Coast steel interests are being merg
ed into the Pacific Coast Steel Cor
poration with a capital of twenty
million dollars. William Pigott an
nounced this evening that t e plants
would be in Seattle. Portland. San
Francisco, and Los Angeles. The
plans have provided for the secur
ing of raw products from 'the Utah
Iron ore fields.
Jackson, Cal., Sept. 6.—It is ex
pected that the rescuers of the Ar
gonaut miners will reach the mine
some time today. It is not
known whether the men are still
living or not.
ALASKA SPRITE OFF
FOR NEW YORK
Seattle, Sept. 6.—The first ship
ment of a half million feet of Alaska
spruce lumber cut near Wrangell, Al
aska, arrived in this port and has
been consigned to New York, via the
interstate line/.
VICE PRESIDENT ROOED
IN MINNEAPOLIS
Minneapolis, Minn., Sept. 7.—Vice
President t'oolidge was booed by a
crowd of twenty thousand people at
tend! ig the state fair in this city. He
was forced to stop bis set speech In
the middle and leave. His speech was
devoted to the agricultural problems,
and interests of the northwest.
S:in Francisco. Cal., Sept. 5.— |
'harlos Carlson reacl.ed home yes
terday after a long trip on the trans
port lluford. which lias been in Al
aska transferring troops and sup-j
plies from one post to another in
Alaska. Carlson is Master of Arms
on the Buford. When he arrived in
San Francisco he found his wife had,
died and was buried while he was!
away and that his home had been
robbed of five thousand dollars ;n
cash and jewels.
Pl'ItLIC STOOL EMiOLlMEVr
The opening of the EXagwav I'ub
ir school this week is the occasion
<>r noting conditions in town with
fere nee to thu children.
Despite the number of those leav
"C for the status, the enrollment
his year was within two of that last
•; r on the opoitiiii? day. This year
I enrolled. !n 11;•• High School de
railment thers is one more than last
* car. this year's being nine members.
Had the beginners showu up as good
:is last year there would have been
more enrolled. This year . ut s>e"ei>
beginners while last year there were.
One of the two new teachers '01
repurt this year, was taken sick at |
Ketchikan and forced to return. '1 he I
other new teacher is Miss Esther Nel-j
son of Portland, who will hav-?
charge of the fifth and sixth grades,
and will give the work in physical
training, and that in penmanship.
.Miss Nelson having taken special
work in the latter subject. Miss Vi
vian Talbot is substitute teacher In
the beginner's room and with the
firsr grade until another teacher can
be secured.
BISHOP FALLOWS IS l)K.\n
Chicago. HI., Sept. G.—Bishop Fal
lows, head of the reformed Episco
pal church and for many years one
of the leading clerical lights in the
city of Chicago is dead.
Smyrna. Sept. 7.—The rapidly ad
vancing army of the Turkish Nation
alists are now only forty miles from
this city. Smyrna will soon be the
only remaining outlet for the stream
of refugees which are fleeing before
the appreach of the oncoming Turks.
The Gas Launch Anthinette made
the trip up from Haines last nven
ing, bringing a number of the boys
from Fort Seward to attend the in
formal dance held la A. 13. Hall.
HAD THE LAUGH ON TEACHER
Instructress Called for Examples, and
Tommy Was the Boy Who
Could Furnish Th«m.
There has never been any love lost
between Tommy and Ills teacher. T"in
my thinks t lie teacher Is a severe ami
occasionally unjust person, who has
never known what It "Is to be young,
while the teacher considers the little
chni> b«tli stupid and mischievous.
"You are not attending to what I
*ay. Thomas," said the teacher one day
In the midst of an address to her
class.
"Y<a>. teacher. I Is," suld Tommy
wlih much earnestness. I
"You should never say 'I Is'" cor
rected the teacher. "I have told you
that a hundred times. You know the
correct form. There are no excep
tions to Its use. tilve me two ex
amples at once!"
"Yes, ma'am," in Id Tommy, meekly.
"I am one of the letters of the alpha
bet. I am a pronoun."—Philadelphia
Ledger.
Stlli, the chances are If the fussy
old world were to get back to normal
with peace, prosperity und everything,
we wouldn't be satisfied with It. There
Is simply a whole lot of wolf and cal
In human nature and It is going to
manifest Itself.
Ex-Chancellor Scheldemann says
the blame for the war must he placed
on the Germans, which should he seri
ously considered by those of his coun
trymen who seem to be laboring un
der the Impression that they were
deliberately attacked by Belgium.
The number of women who have an
nounced themselves as candidates for
seaD* in congress indicates that while
[ they may think the office should seek
I the man they believe the women
I should get out and work for It.
A woman tells her sex that they
should follow nature and go to the
birds and the animals for their style
of dress, hearing which a bird of
paradise and a seal looked at each
uther and exchanged grins.
Chicago, Sept. 7.—An agreement
has been reached for the settlement
of the Bhopmen railroad strike. This
agreement will be placed before the
policy committee of the Railway em
ployees of the Department of the Am
erican Federation of Labor on Mon
day. The committee is expected to
take favorable action on the agree
ment according to an announcement
The committee has been called to
meet on Monday according to the
Secretary of the Railway Department
of the American Federation of La
bor, John Scott. The agreement was
arrived at In a secret conference,
which was attended by Jewell, the
president of the Railway Employees
and representatives of the railroads.
This meeting wag held in Baltimore.
This announcement brought the first
hope of a peace in the strike situa
tion. since the break in negotiations
which occurred three weeks ago in
New York.
Chicago, 111., Sept. 5.—An army of
5,000 United States deputy marshals
were on alert today ror any infrac
tion of the Daugherty injunction.
Labor Day demonstrations, par
ades and addresses in a score of cit
ies and towns were watched closely
by the federal authorities.
Chicago, 111., Sept. 6.—Seven rep
resentatives of the striking shop
crafts unions were declared by Jo n
Scott, secretary of the Railway Em
ployees Department of the Federa
tion of Labor, to be in Baltimore to
day. These leaders would there meet
for a conference with the railroad ex
ecutives on a proposition to end the
strike. Scott intimated that a pro
posal had been prepared on which
it was hoped that the strike could
be halted.
Washington, Sept. 6.—The bur
den of the messages from the Labor
Day speeches throughout the coun
try was for all the workers of the
country to organize a war for hon
orable industrial peace. Com |jers
made his appeal for labor to rail*
and stand by the anions and end lie
anti-labor war.
Los Angelas, Cal., Sept. C.—The
dynamiting, of railroad bridges in
southern California still continues.
Atlantic City, Sept. 7.—The La
bor chiefs o£ the American Federa
tion of Labor led by Samuel Gom
pers today prepared to draft a plan
of attack upon the Injunction ob
tained by Attorney-General Daugh
erty.
This has followed upon a series of
secret conference.; and it was indicat
ed that it had been decided to at
tempt the attack through the courts
and thereby to have the Daugherty
Act 'acated .
New York, Sept. 7.—The support
of t;.e American Federation of La
bor in the L'nited Siates was pledged
by Fresident Comp.jrs in a telegram
to the Central Trades Labor Council
in its determination to secure the
impeachment of Daugherty and fed
eral Judue Wilkerson of Chicago. Im
peachment proceedings are to be
started against these two for their
part in t! e issuance of the rail in
junction. Oompers sent his offer of
aid by wire to the officers of the
Trades Council.
Omaha, Neb., Sept. G.—The Neb
raska Fed ration of Labor has adopt
ed a resolution asking that a general
strike of all organized labor in the
United States bo called in support
of the railroad shopmen.
Omajia, Sept. 7.—Declaring that
the rail nr " had been irrevocably
lust Carl Cray, president of the Un
ion Pacific system, in a statement
sent out to t e men on strike offered
them full pensions provided they re
turn to work be' ire Sept. 15. Presi
dent Gray urgei : shop workers to
return to work under the promise of
the restored pension.
Smyrna, Sept. 7.—A fleet of Am
erican destroyers arrived at this port
today.
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