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NO. 109. TWENTY-FIFTH TEAR
SKAGWAY, AT.AHKA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1022 PRICK TEN CENTS
GEORGE (MICK'S DAUSFITER
TESTIFIES CONTEST OF ESTATE
Seattle. Oct. 17.—Mrs. Graphlt
Grace Saftig. daughter by his In
dian wife, is testifying in her con
test of the administration of the es
tate of her father. George Carmack
the discoverer of the Klondike. Thi
daughter said that her mother a:u
1 'ather were married under the In
Jian custom, about three miles from
Skagway. A captain Healy repre
sented father. My mother may have
been only an Indian, but she was a
.voniau novertheless. She wouldn't
>ave thought of living with my fa
ier unless they had been married.
HOOVER STANDS
.FORREPIMENT
Toledo. Oct. 17.—Secretary Hoov
er, who la a member of the Allied
Debt Commission in an address here
lust night, touched upon the ques
tion of the loun repudiation by the
Allies. He stated that a repudiation
of the loans made by the United
States to the Allied nations during
the war would undermine the whole
fabric of International good faith.
CONVICTS ESCAPE
LOS ANGELES JAII.
Los Angeles, Oct. 17.—Herbert
Wilson, a former Evangelist, who
had been convicted of the murder
of Herbert Cox. and was incarcerat
ed in the Los Angeles jail, escaped
from the jail with another convict
ed murderer, Adam Ward, and the
baudit. Ouido Spignola.
FRENCH SEE TROUBLE
IN EASTERN THRACE
Constantinople, Oct. 17. —The
French military commander at Ad
riauople has requested that immedl
ate reinforcemeut be sent the Al
lies in eastern Thrace. He declares
the situation is fraught with danger.
WKKk.S PROTESTS
ARMY REDACTION
Washington, Oct. 17.—Secretary
of War Weeks has again represent
ed to the President that the nation's
military policy cannot be sustained
by a regular army of less than thir
teen thousand officers and a hundred
and fifty thousand men.
KAIL EQI'IPMENT IS
BEING LOADED
Seattle. Oct. 17.—The freighters.
Latouche and Skagway have begun
the loading of railway supplies and
equipment for the winter In the
north. They expect to make both
deliveries at Anchorage before No
vember the 15th. Other shipments
will continue via Seward, through
the winter.
RECORD OF LAST
CONGRESS PRAISED
Washington, Oct. 16.—President
Harding In writing to Republican
House leader Mondell, commands
the record of the sixty-seventh con
gress and declares its record as uu
pararelled.
M'ADOO ASSAILS
ADMINISTRATION POLICY
Denver, Oct. 17.—McAdoo, the
former treasurer under the Wilson
administration, made an address
! here In the democratic campaign. In
his address, he assailed what he
termed the Harding policy of defla
tion and the Republican tariff bill.
He concluded his address with an ap
peal for the election of a Democratic
Congress.
TURKS SAY GREEKS
FLAX TO BI'RN ADRIAXOPLE
Constantinople, Oct. 17.—Humid
Bey, the representative of the Na
tionalists made a statement to the
Allied Commissioners in which he
asserted that the Kemalists have
unquestionable evidence of a plan
of the Greek Irregulars to burn the
sacred city of Adrianople.
LONG NOSE DIVE
ALMOST FATAL
Mt. Clemens. Mich., Oct. 17.—The
noted Italian aviator, Lieut. Samuel
Cuhnano. after completing a 2,500
foot nose dive, fell with his plane
and broke both his legs.
GREEKS FLEE FROM
CITY OF ADRIANOPLE
Adriaople, Oct. 17.—Thirty thou
sand Greeks and Armenians have
passed out from this city to the west
of Thrace, since last Saturday.
NEWEST V. S. DIRIGIBLE BURN'S
San Antonio. Texas, Oct. 17.—The
army's newest d risible, C-2, was de
stroyed by fire today. The loss runs
into many thousands of dollars.
TAILOR KILLS
RESTAURANT OPERATOR
Bremerton, Wn.. Oct. 17.—E. J. <
Rowley, a wealthy tailor, shot <md!
killed Mrs. McElhenny, a restaurant j
operator, and then took his own life.
The cause of the double tragedy is |
not known.
GREEKS LEAVE THRACE
TAKE THEIR POSSESSIONS
Constantinople. Oct. 16.—Thous
ands of Christians, many of them
hungry and with all their posses
sions packed in trunks, trudged out
of Thrace today as tho cross gave
way to the crescent.
Seattle, Oct. 17.—The Indictment
which charged Charles B. Wood, the
county purchasing agent with grand
larceny, was dismissed today by
Judge Askren.
Take An Inventory of Yourself
What Have You Saved So Far
The wife and children—What can they look forward to If
you should dfe? Who would support you and your family il you
should become disabled? Would your children receive an educa
tion and thus make the path of life easier, or would they be left
to shift for themselves against odds?
THESE ARE THOUGHTS FOR SERIOUS CONSIDERATION*
l'OU CAN'T OFEORD TO l»ASS THEM BY.
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BRIDSR REJECT SEIZURE PLAN
Washington, Oct. 16.—In a case
which is regarded as "laving a bear
ing on the prohibition enforcement
and anti-narcotic laws, tho Supreme
Court by a tie vote today, declined
to overthrow the opinion of the low
er court, which makes It unneces
sary for shipmasters touching Am
erican ports to list in their mani
fests, articles which cannot be law
fully imported.
Washington, Oct. lfi.—President
Harding will ask Congress at its next
session to make such modification
in the Volstead Act as It concerns
the Philippines and for the protec
tion of foreign shipping.
Washington, Oct. 16.—Great Bri
tain in a communication, which was
delivered to the State Department
today declined to agree to the sug
gestion made by Sscretary of State
Hughes for a reciprocal agreement
for the extentlon of the right of
search and seizure, so as to give the
American Navy and the prohibition
authorities jurisdiction outside the
three mile limit..
GRIFFITHS CULLS
FOR II SPECIAL
GRAND JURY
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Seattle, Oct. 16.—Senior Judge
Griffiths acted Id deflauce of five of
the dissenting judges of tbe super
ior court, when he Issued orders tor
the calling of a special grand jury
tt> meet on Not. 13, for a further
investigation of tbe Scandinavian
American bank failure.
JAPS MAP SIBERIA
AND BERING COAST
Seattle. Oct. 16.—Japanese mili
tary parties who are traveling under
the guise of scientific expeditions
are Industriously mapping the Siber
ian coast line across Bering sea
from Alaska. This is the word which
has been brought in by the officers
of the power boa: Chukotsk, which
reached Seattle late iust Saturday.
NOTED ARCHITECT
DROPS DEAD
Seattle, Oct. 16.—A. Warren
Gould, one of the best known archi
tects of the northwest, and designer
of many of Seattle's most notable
structures, dropped deed at the
I'nion Station, in Tucoma last night.
Gould was the designer of the Coun
ty and City buildings.
SO'KRll 8ETTIXXGS IX MARION
DA VIES' PHOTOPLAY
In this picture, which will be seen
at the Fifth Avenue Theater next
Tuesday and Wednesday, much of
the action centers about a medieval
Irish castle. The castle is one of
the most majestic ever seen on the
screen and is, moreover, notable for
the remarkable detail of carving,
fretwork, and other features of an
cient architecture which distinguish
it.
Miss Davies plays two roles In "The
Bride's Play"—that of a modern
mischievous and lovable bruiette
and that of an Irish maiden of long
ago. In the medieval part of the
story she wears a wedding gown of
wonderful richness and displays
gems worth $75,000.
"The Bride's Play" was directed
by eGorge W. Terwilliger, from the
story of the same name by Donn
Byrne. Wyndham Standing supports
Miss Davies and others in the cast
are Carlton Miller, Jack O'Brien,
Thea Talbot, Richard Cummings and
others.
ARRIVAL OF NEW BABE
Rev. and Mrs. Shoemaker are the
happy possessors of a baby girl. The
new arrival came to town Sunday
afternoon at the White Pass hospi
tal. Mother and baby are getting
along splendidly.
Mr. C. S. Crlder, the traveling au
ditor of the American Railway Ex
press Company has been making the
rounds of the offices In the north,
and has spent a tow days in Skag
way.
SEC. DK
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Athens, Oct. 16.—Secretary of La
bor Davis, in an address at this place
flatly advocated the abolition of the
Railroad Labor Board, and suggest
ed the restoration of the system of
mediation and concilliatlon.
LABOR BOARD GRANTS
TWO CENT RAISE [
Chicago, 111., The Railway Labor
Board ou Saturday granted a two
cent an hour increase in wages to ,
451,911 members of the United
Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way
employees and railroad shop work-1
era.
RATHENAL S MURDERERS
GET PRISON TERMS
Liepzic, Oct. 16.—Sentences have
been imposed on the murderers of
Rathenau, the German minister, who
was murdered. Terms up to fifteen
years of penal servitude were Im
posed on the men, who are charg
ed with complicity In the murder of
the Foreign Minister.
WIN'S FLYING RACE AT
SPEED OK 20« MILES
Mt. Clemens, Mich., Oct. 16.—Lt.
R. L. Maughan, an army aviator, won
the Pulitzer trophy in an areal race.
The race was over a course of 156
miles and the average speed of his
plane was 206 miles an hour.
NEW SHIP LINE TO ORIENT
Seattle, Oct. 16.—The Admiral j
Oriental Line, a new corporation has
been formed and this company will
succeed the Pacific Steamship Com
pany as the operator of the passen
ger lines and freighters allocated to
the Seattle oriental route by the
Shipping Board. R. Stanley Dollar,
the first vice-president of the Admir
al Line will become the new presi
dent of the Admiral Oriental line.
CREW AND PASSENGERS OF
WRECKED HONOLULU SAFE |
Los Angeles, Oct. 16.—The trans-1
port Thomas, having on board the j
passengers and crew of the City of!
i Honolulu arrived at the suburban ;
port of Wellington this morning.
Mr. J. J. Hillard, U. S. customs
collector at Eagle, Alaska, is In town
on his way to the States for the win-j
ter. Mr. Hillard will remain in town j
for a short time, visiting old friends
j and acsuaintances.
Judge H. B. Lefevre of Juneau,
was a northbound passenger on the
Jefferson. While in town he is re
newing fellowship with old friends. ,
Coming to town next week at the
Broadway Theater, Tom Mix, In
j "Prarie Trails," a picture you can't
^afford to miss.
LAI OPEN FOR ENTRY
IN FAIRBANKS DISTRICT
Washington, Oct. 16.—The Com
missioner of the General Land office
has issued a recent order and trans
mitted the same to the Surveyor
General, by which 19,000 acres of
land in the vicinity of Fairbanks is
being opened for entry. The lands
are in township 3, south range, east
township 5, south range 4, and
township 7 south range 5 east, Fair
'janks meridian.
Sx-service men subject to prior val
id settlement rights and equitable
claims will be entitled to preference
right to enter these lands under
homestead and desert land laws, for
ninety-one days beginning with the
date on which they will be opened
for entry on expiration of the ninety
one day perfod.
TO CELEBRATE RESTORATION
OP THRACE
Constantinople, Oct. 1G.—Hamid
Bey, the Turkish Nationalist's repre
sentative at the Mudania confer
ence called at the Allied headquar
ters as the representative of the
Turkish population of Constantino
ple and presented a petition to the
Allied leaders asking them to per
mit the 8,000 Turkish gendarmes,
who are to patrol Thrace to be al
iowed to march through the city of
Constantinople in a triumphant pro
cession on a national holiday for the
celebration of the restoration of
Thrace to the Turkish power.
FRENCH FAIL TO
BEAT U. S. RECORI)
Lebourge, France. Oct. 16.—Two
French aviatorB, attempted to excel!
the record of Lieutenants MacReady
and Kelly for endurance. They fail
ed by an hour and two minutes.
WELL KNOWN TRAP
SHOOTER DROPS DEAD
eSattle, Oct. 16.—C. E. McKelvy,
a nationally known trap shooter
dropped dead aboard the yacht Car
rie, while hunting ducks at Nisqual
iy.
COCNCIL OF CHURCHES
AGAINST KU KLUX KLAN
Washington, Oct. 16.—The Feder
al Council of Churches of America,
protestant dominations today went
on record for opposing the Ku Klux
Klan.
TO CELEBRATE ALASKA DAV
Seattle, Oct. 16.—Seattle is to put
on a celebration of Alaska day,
Wednesday, of this week.
Paris, Oct. 17.—France and Mus
tapha Kemal, the pacific policy o(
the former combined with the de
sire of the latter to avoid war and
not the British display of force, are
credited with the averting of war In
the East. This is the version of the
situation which was given to a hun
dred newspaper correspondents at
the French Foreign office by Frank
lin Bouillon, the special envoy of
France at the Mudania conference.
BERLIN DEMONSTRATION
HAS FATAL TERMINUS
Berlin, Oct. 16.—Two were kill
ed and many injured In the Busch
building on Sunday. The fatalities
occurred when the communist
groups attempted to prevent a Sun
day demonstration of the national
ists in the circus Buach building. The
fight ended in the wreck of the
building.
OCCUPATION TROOPS
TO RETURN HOME
Washington, Oct. 16.—The thou
sand troops which constitute the
United States army of occupation of
Germany will be returned home in
the near future.
LIEXTENAXT HALL DIES
WHEN" PLANE FALLS
San Antonio, Oct. 17.—Lieutenant
Walter A. Ball, was crushed to death
today when an airplane fell 500 feet.
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rates apply to u
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Skaguay. Alaska
Or 510 Alaska Building, Seattle .Wash.