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No. 69 TWENTY SECOND YEAR
* SKAfcrWAY, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 1. 1919
PRICE 10 CENTS
BOMBS BELIEVED 1.11
nun toner
Gadsden, Ala., May 1.—That the
t>i>ni>» plot wa» of ai most far reach- j
lujj character was intfccated by the
explosion of a package which came
he»e addressed to Congressman Bur*
nett, chairman of the federal immi
-,.-uon commitee.
Congressman Burnett received a
V>cKas:e thiough the mails, but as
lie vas unable to open it easily, he !
becamt suspicions anil turaed it
over to tht» police..
The latter, taJting 110 chances, ■
look tii* suspicious package to a j
>acant lot, and then fire# a bullet.
irom a rifle iuto it. This caused;
a terrific explosion.
Tile package bore the Gimbel Bros
New York label, the same *3 tho (
eisii'e» u other bombs which had |
ueen mailed to promineut men, in
cluding mayoj- J{:iaison. of Seattlu
.1 1 ! Senator Hard wick.
Chicago. — An infernal m «.'hiue
Uari:i£ the usual GUULel Bros. label
v.** IcUj.u' on lederal Judge Latr
. Usl>. lute l;Lst uight.
San Francisco,—An infernal ma
chine was rec ived through the mail
addressed to Pistriet Attorney Fio
kert and 0110 was ;|lso receive*!' by
District Attorney Ounha.
Botn of these men were sick iu a
hospital when the packages were re
ceived in their respective) offices,
and each bore the Gimbel Bros, la
bel.
Washington,—The Feder-'Vl Se
cret Service department announced
today that up to date, including one
boniD which was found* in the mails
a*. Salisbury, North Carolina, ad
dressed to Senator Overman, thirty
five bombs, all of which had. been
maiied from Mew York have been ac
counted for thug far iu the nation
wide bomb conspiracy.
Fourteen of thes»> are now iu the
hand of the Pacific Coa-H Secret Sor
vice department.
Secret service men say that the
bcaih y!ot is a conspiracy of cither
f. W. W. or Bolsheviki origin.
Washington,— Federal 1'ost Office
authorities say that it is possible
that one or more of tlis bombs have
c3ne through to Alaska.
A raining deal hag been consum
mated whersbv it ig almost certain,
thai the Raiuy Hollow copper prop
t rtioa will soon be under develop
ment uud put into producing mines.
The company taking hold of this
well Known property is represent
ed bv i)r. S. il. Falser and A. Pate.
The former in the early days was
Aurge.iu for 'he R. X. W. AI. 1'.
at Whitehorse and Dawson and now
lives in McLeod, Alberta.
The latter is one of the best
know a mining engineers in C*»uaJa
ai>d is a son of the late Or. A. Pare,
who fos- inauy years wu chief »ar
geou l'or the R. X. \V. .M. Police
iu Yukon.
The property that has been ac
quit} by these two well known
men, consists or twenty throe crown
sranted claims owned by Richard
Fraser, Martin Conway, J. W.
Buriihain, J. A. Fraser adminis
trator of the estate oC Patrick Ken
ned.'", A. A. Part- and S. M. Fraser
and i Ije time of the contract
rung over a ]terkni ot" five years
dur*:!£ which tiine the company will
have fo do certain amounts of work
auu' make ail o£ the payments aniou.
iug in the aggregratg to Jive hun
dred thousand dollars.
Messrs. Fraser and pare reprj
sei.t ' >rge interests with abundant
cauitpi to develop® and prove this
propertv and the work will be start
ed early this summer by a party of
ensluetrs, who will go up to Rainy
Hollow..
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Come and See
If your Liberty Bond is in.
We just received a shipment of 106 of them
and want to deliver as many as possible.
Perhaps yours is here, Come in and see any
way, and don't forget the
BANK of ALASKA
Safe Deposit boxes only 25c per month.
B ANK OF AL ASKA
Have You Tried
"GOLD CREST"
Brand Butter and Eggs
Just what you would expect when ordering the very best
Fresh shipments received on every boat
The Eggs sell at 60c per dz.
Butter 75c per pound
These prices subject to market changes
P. H. GANTY
BUSSi' 601X11 LEADERS ARE
SEEKING SAFE PLACE 10 LOCATE
London. May 1.—Leon Trotsky
tlie Russian Anarchist-Socialist
Prime Minister, and Nikolai Lenlne,
th« chief leader of the Russian
fioisbeviki ar* authoratlvUy report
ed to now be endeavoring to flea
fro^. Russia.
These two Bolsheviks are trying
to find refuge in another country,
•ac-Joiding to government advices
received hero today through jh'U
tral sources, aud have appealed toj
Norway, Denmark, Sweden. Spain
Switzerland an# Germany for as J'- j
lutn, but these naions declined to
permit these two infamous agitators
to come within their l^orders.
Hungary, to which a>n appeal for.
refuge wag aJso made, ig reported
to have made no such answer to .
the appeal, and th9 two Russian ]
reds may find1 shelter there..
Paris, May 1.—Many soldiers
and civilians have been injured
this afternoon in clashes resulting
from the May day anti-government
demonstrations. Thai disturbances
began in Place De la Conlcorde and
Place de la Rajvutollque.
Shor'ly afterward th0 crow# at
tempted to rush the military cor
don in Rue Royale. It broke thru
the lines of gendai-meg but was
shopped by a troop of cavalary a
few yards beyond.
Numerous f'st fightg occurred be
tween 'he gendarmes and civilians.
while stonca and' ghillaJahg wore al
so used, when. the red fl0^: was un
furled ueap Ma-ciellaa.
Peace wag finally restored, but
not. before a number ware hurt.
Seattle, May 1—.Aa a| precaution
arv measure, Chief o£ Police War*
ren today swore In one hundired
tra policemen.
These men are held in reserve at
the headquarters eo that should
any hostile demonsrtation ©usuiq dur
ing (.he ;\lay day celebration they
v."ill be able to oopo •with. It.
HOIS 8R1GNI FOR HEUVT
SEASON'S TRAVEL 10 SKAGWAY
•'Ti» the states the i*>licy of "waufl
ful waiting" is practiced. In Se
attle there is au apperant prosper
ity, yet, espically among the larg
er businesses tliere is oan uncer
tainty as to what the next few mont
will bring.. No larga orders are
beiiijj placed)..
"During the period of the war,
everybody expected Price? to eonie
i down as soon as peace was restored.
J Whv» the armistice was pinned it
I was in many quarters taken as
| peace. Buying was postponed in
j the hone of getting better terms
As au example, the Tacoma smelter,
•vhose sales averaged 50,000 tons
of cot Per .monthly, sold during the
month of January only thirty six
tons.. As prices on copj»er did'
corue down during March, th© s^les
wer« almost normal.. As soon as
the ai-tifical Prices now existing on
many other articlcs are agaja nor
mal business will also be normal.
As for Skagway the outlook Is
.good. Mr. Wheeler, of the Whi'e
Pass, stated there were more in
quiries for travel to the North
than ever before, in fact It the quar
antine la Yukon did not interfer,
he expected a banner year. Mr.
San Francisco, May 1.—Bants
throughout the Twelfth Federal Re*
serve district have reported to to
tal of $71,182,600 worth of bonds
sold up to last night to 226,080
subscribers..
Deputy Governor John. U. Cal*
kins hag been, appointed hea<i of
the 12th District Victory Loan or
ganization to succeed the late Goy
I ernor Llynch, deoeascd.
Secretary Glass hag designated
M.iy 7th, as navy day for the Victo
ry Loan and asks all mambers of t] c
navy to increase their activities on
that day in ordier that they may em
phasise their achievements.
At a meeting1 of the Portland Ad
i Club, subscriptions to the amount
| of $201,600 were received In sex
minutes, and they have challenged
i aU organizations throughout the 12b,
j district to match i.
The Bank of Alaska reported
early thia morning that it ha<J ro
Nelson, the president of tho mew cor
poration to operate tho Veaus
i:iitie ^ ill l>e coming through here
t!ie 1=«fter part of this month with
men, and moniey for the Venus.
A new company is being- formed
lor rofining the copper ore at
hitehorse at the mine.. By a
newly discovered process, now suc
cessfully used, copper can. be pro
duced from crude ore in 24 hours
and the cost for this prooees is
nothing in comparison to the coat
of a smelter.
"As for the Bank of Alaska, our
people are very much pleased. with
♦ho prospects. One of the en
couraging features ia that as soon
as the formal arrangementa can
be concluded, we will be depository
fc-r Territorial funds. Our depos
its arG larger today than they have
been at any time for a year. A
fhiri encouragement is that the
subscription on the Victory Loan at
Skagway pi\> rata to our population
and allcttmeat is ahead of Seattle.
"U'i'h the new business in pros
pect for the town, wq eipoct, and
are assured, wq will get our ahare
of the reviTal in buslnesg which we
all «o wefll need.
ceiwd- nearly half of tlia amount
Of subscriptions covering Skag-way's
quota, and that It wa« known that
several large al^ed applications had
been made In addition to those al
ready In Its hands, wlhlch would
Indicate that SkagWay has now sub
scribed fully three-fourths, If not
two-ihlrda of the amount of bond®
allotted herft •>
Mili
jOU no
i Paris, May, 1.—It Is reported" of
ficially today that Japan had been
given Kiao Chau In tUe a3
now agreed upon by the conference.
J. H. Rogerg, who haa succeedd
ed Frank Wurzbacher as agent for
'the White Paap Route arrived' yes
terday on the Princess Mary and
, has assumed hig position.
Mrs. Clyde Rogers and lUtlo eon,
J Jimmy, arrived home on tha Prluc
:cegj Jiary, _ Ul.'
Versailles, May 1-—Pe3*® negoti
atious were officially opened thlp af
ternoon 'with Germany.
- There waa only a short session In
order to act on the credentials of
the delesrateg, ag far they had
been passed' on by the credentials
committee).
Versailles, May 1.—TJ19 examina
tion of the credentials of the Ger*
man delegates Is taking' place In
th« ramnuo Trianon PaJacn hotel
and It is expected tha it will take
at least twenty four fcfiura to com
plete the task.
Foreign. Minister Brock<Iorf£ Ran
tz3 heads the German, delegate
and Jules Cambon si chairman, of
the Allied credentials committee.
Paris, May 1.—The work of the
peace conference on the peace tr©3-*
t.y will contLnue without r®E«rd to
ItaJy'js absence up to tbe time of
the signing- of the document.
Roma May 1.—Yesterdayj Prtnc«
Colonna, Mayor o£ Rom®, in a pub"
lie speech which, he made hens to
the Houee of Deputies, urged the
revocation Of Roman citizenshigj to
President Wood row Wilson, which
had been awarded, to the American
president upon his recent vieit here
in urging that the right of citi
zenship be withdrawn. the Romaa
major said, "That false philoso
pher Wilson, should not be permits
to hold citizenship la the Italian
cajltol.
Notwithstanding: this action o
tbe Part of th9 mayor, there ®-re
sls'.is. however, thai the anti-Wll
sou feeling is subsiding.
News was receive^ on thg last
h.oat that. Allan Smith, who had
made Caj-croes hig home, for several
years had accidentally killed him
aeit at his hom^ in Philadelphia.
Particulars of the sad event are
meager, and it is only known that
in handling 3ome firearm it acci-,
d'en'.ly went off with fatal effect.
Mr. Smith waa Interested with
the late Captain Alexander in the
Engineer Mine and wa^j at the time
of his death trying to sraighten out
the legal tangle caused by th<e sud
den death of both Captain and Mrs.
Alexander. •» '
Mr. Smith leaves a young) wife.
The Victor}- Loan Commltt e will
get you If you don't watch out.
GOVERNMENT
6AINIIGC0NTR0L
Copenhagen, Alay 1—A despatch
received Irom. Berlin thlg nu>r*i»g
aayg that th» armed ring ot govern
ment *roop3 is now closing la aroua<
Mui.ich and the nearby villages of
Schorgan and Umfiiig having fall
en Into the hands of thie goyenunen*
The report further etatea that
the Bfiliogslfo Tiden^ carried a
despatch stating that the Munich
Soviet government had been over
thrown,
James Lauderdale, chief en
gineer on the Gleaner and Tootchi
for many years, returned' yesterday
and will so over fro Carcroas t<>
morrow where he will resumg hi#
work after a winter spent In Vic
toria and Vancouver. , -
May started' in with on9 of the
finest litle euow etorma ever
seen here on that date, and on that
account there wag no May daj; pic
! nic 'oday. -
Ridiculous Shoe Prices
A big line of
Oxfords and High Shoes for
Ladies
We have placed on our
Bargain Tables
Oxfords At - $1.50
High Shoes At - $2.00
There are Blacks, Whites, Tans
and Patent Leather Shoes in good
styles and large range of sizes
You will have to come quick as they will not last
long at these prices
JAMES KENNEDY