SKAGWAY, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 12. 1919
®he ?piailt) ^loskan
No. 77 TWENTY SECOND YEAR
PRIGE 10 CENTS
PEACE CAN ONLY 8E HAD WHEN
II IS PROVIDED FDR ALL MEN
Loudon. May 12.—'There are
no terms writc-i* in the peJU>e trea
ty that can bring: peace to Europe."
saia frank Underllp. "Real ace
may be brought about by a plan
whereby Eutv>l»e may be able to
get machinery. rolling stock and
raw materials $o that Europe niay
b» Diacetf in a position to help her-'
self" ' ■' J'
Continuing; Mr. Vander'ipl st^t s,
"lu England more than one nUllion
persons aro receiving regular grants
from the government because 4>f un
emiJoymeut and th is number is ex
pected to Krow as the Srittish. ar
my Is further demobilized. In Bel
glum there are SOO.UOO who are no
receiving iin?uii)loyBWflit aid
from the government."
VICTORY LOAN
PUI OVERTOP
®an Francisco, Sunday, (10:27 a.
m.—Official totals are unavail
able tonight, but the indications are
that the Twelfth Federal reserve
distr'rt final totals will show that
the quota, of bonds allotted in the
Victory Umn baa btceu iroactHd1. I
It was estimated Saturday night!
tha» the total number Of subscrit>-j
era In the Twelfth district would
be more than eight hundred thou
sand oersons.
The figures show that the num
ber o* persons subscribing to the
Fourth Liberty Loan »was 2,
U3,063.
Seattle, Sunday (4:00 p. m.) —
One million dollars short of $18
000,000 allottment in the Victory
Loan was reported up to noon to
day. It is believed that this will
be m.«de up by noon Monday.
Washington. .May 12.—Treasury
advices received from all over the
country indicate today that the na
tion h«3 materially over subscribed
the Victory Lua«a.
A. E. Cady and wif® ware round
trio nassengera on thy Princess
Alary, arriving in this port last Sat
ur**v. Mr. Cady is cashier of a
large benkiii^ instit.ui-^n in Grand
Island, N'eb., and is a guda Elk, b2
longiu? to Grand Island Lodge
C04. Mr. Cady state 1 that he is
al.edv olanning a second trip to
Alaska, in which he is making pro
visions for staving several we ks, in
order to see more of the "great
(outitry" as he express.s it
TROPES HURT HI
PERSERVERENCE
Juneau, Jl-iy 12.—1^>ny Tropea,
who Is employed in the Parssrver
ence mine met with ail accident lest
Saturday, t It o seriousness of which
ijj to be determined by an X-ray
exauiinatiuu to b(j made today,
Mr. Tropeu is hut recently re
turned from the military service
and is a bivther of Jameg Tropea
of Skagway.
RELEASING MEN
■Washington, May 12.—Gen.
.March announced late Saturday af
tterneon that uj« to that tiane one
laillion Amorioau soldiiert? had be"n
returned from France, and that over
two million more had been domobli
Jzed from the service uj> to the
s.nn* time.
Cl'Xn Ask. who ha-i Iwn in his
country's service ftr the past sev
eral months, having reached a«5 far
east as Iowa, returned to Fort Se
ward on the Admiral Evans last
wee* where he was mustered out,
and camw to Skasway on the Jef
'erson Sunday.
J. A Foley, of Toronto, Ont., was
a ro-'i ^ trlpoer on the Pr'moess
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Notice To Bond Buyers
First payment muft be paid
into the bank on or before
May 1 Oth.
BANK OF ALASKA
NEW GOODS
Just Received
GOOD SALMON EGGS
Friction top cans 40c each
CHICK FOOD
20 pounds lots up 6 I-2 pounds
P. H. GANTY
BIG FOUR ASSERT ALLIES WILL I
RESIST ALL TEUTONIC PROTESTS
Paris , May 12.—It was an
nounced to<iay t'iat 31-*- members of
the German psace have Bent notes
tfi Premttaf Cl-emenoeaui protesting
over the harahikcss ot tb© terms
which Germany ig asked! to accept.
These notes were all turned, over |
to the Cquincil of Four and notes in;
replv were drz.wn up by President
Wilson, in which, the other three
members collaborated. The. replies
al" statod that tlie Alliea were firm
ly resolved to present a firm re
sistance to ail Teutonic protests to
the peace tarmg as presented to
Foreign Minister Count Von Brock
dorff Rantzau. ' ' ' ,|
SIX HUN PEACE MISSIONARIES
LEAVE VERSAILLES FOR BERLIN
Versailles, May 12.—Six mem
bers of the German peace mission
left this city for Berlin today.
L»ahor Leader O&rl Le&ien, head1
ot t'i» German, trades union fed-era
tlm is among the drl^tog
loft. and it i3 charged that they'
h&Ye been carrying on drect discus-j
eions of the situation with the G«r
ntn,a government. .
BE FOREVER
DENIED
Anchorage, May 10.—In the «lif
trim court ihijj afternoon. United'
i'aus Attorney William A. Muoly, I
I'y request of the bureau of natura
lization, presented to the »i>u:t
oetitious in th0 nauic of the United
States that th,» declaration^ of the
iut .ntion to become citizens of the
United States heretofore maue by
Frca Nelson Hagerup, C^ii Alfred
Laison and Petrug Albin Byatiom of
Valdez; Frediric*. Axel Jensen and
Olaf Nordeng, of Suward; Arthur j
Alatson, Cajl Anton Lundgruu, I
John Love, Frank JJmila Hanson,'
Jens Olof Alofson and Johan Ar-1
vid Nystrom of Anchorage, be can
celed and held for naught, and that
an order be entered upon the re-'
cor 'js of U19 court forever barring
th6 parties above named from be
coming citizens of the United
States.
Upon a hearing on the petitions,
JLK'ge Brown this afternoon made
an order and decree cancelling the
declarations of intentions of the
parties above named find forever
barring (hp parties from becoming
citizens of the United Static.
This action on the part of the
government and the court is thg re
sult cf the endeavor of the partie,
to escape military duty: und*r the
draft laws. All of the men above
1 named were within the a^jeg pre
scribed by the draft laws, and were
mustered into the service, and
that they might be exempt from du
ty eeah of the part'ieg made and ex
act! ted an affidavit which, reads in
part as follows;.
"That I hereby withdraw my in
tention to becom^ a citizen^ of the
Un fed States, which withdrawal T
understand, shall operate and be
heia to cancel my; declaration to
become a citizen of the United State:
and shall forever debar me from be
coming a citizen of the United
■•States. , , " ^ ,„
0.- the parties name£< eight are
eubjecfa of Sweden, two of Nor
way, and orw of Denmark. All
have been residents of Alaska for
several years and pome of them are
well Known hire.
Mr and. Mrs. T. R.. Needhajn,
of Ketchikan, havg removed' to
Seattle." Mra. Needham will go to
.Detrjot on a visit and Mr. Need
hame will engage in newspaper
work in tbfl Sound oitlep. Both
are oioneera of Alaska, Mr. Need<
hum following the newspaper busi
liess In various parts of the Terri
tory, his last Ventura being at
Ketchikan, where he founded the
Weekly Pioneer with the late Paul
Stanhope. The paper was taken
over by the recently organized' Ket<b
ikan Printing Company, and hence
the move, . iJiiJ
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There is no band practice
row. Pracioe at home fcc F
- -f
Big Game Hunter
Picks Skagway I
Route
Dr Evans, a big game hunter
from Eag]a Pas®, Texas, arrived) in
Skarway on the Princess Mary last
Saturday evening and is stopping: at
'be Pullen House until tha next
'rai-i for Whlltehorse,
At Whiteborse, Dr. Evaug Will
nv.ct Cha-rleg Baxter, tbo well knowii
guide, and as scon as possible quite
a wirty will lea-vie there with saddle
and pack horses for 'he head of
the Wbit© river, the big ga.me hunt
ers' paradise. in addition to Dr.
Evans and Baxter there w'ill be
Er-nvc Sketch, horee wrangler, Al
Voss cook. Mike Knowles, guide,
and, George Armstrong. Tb9 lat
ter iS)tg not really belong to the
Baxter party but will iceep with
them until the head of the White
rivcx is reached. Ho Is going out
on a well earned vacation trip of
three or four months, and) incident
ally, while recuperating, from
years of indoor confinement and
toil at of Sice work will gather
miterial for a series oi magazine
articles which it is his intention to
write. He wll travel by buckboard.
Dr. Evans is in quest of bear
trophies, and after spending a
few weeks at the head of the White
river will leawe thore in time to
reach McCarthy, Alaska, Aiug. 1st,
where he expects to meet a friend,
Mr. Snyder of Matamora, ^11. At
McCarthy the party will separate,
Dr. Evans and Mr. Snyder going
with Morley Bones as guide into the
wilds of Alaska, while the Baxter
iflrty, after being joined by C. H.
Harrison and H. P. Lyon of San
Francisco, Bon Oroutch of Chlco,
Cal., and Roy I/Ozler, a guide from
Meran, Wyoming, 'who was in the
Yukon with Baxter in 1914, will
return to the headwaters of the
White river. A moving picture
photographer is being brought in
by Mr. Oroutch, who will accompa
ny the party in its wander fugs.
SECOND LEG IS
NEGOTIATED
Trespassy, N. F. Ma; 12.—Com
pleting th.£ second log1 in the trana
Atlautic flight tho American. navy
'seapian© N. C. 1, arrived' at this
.niece "at four o'clock Saturday af
1 tsruoon, _ u
A huge female polar b:ar wf|
killed by a Native on Spruce
creek near Nome recently, which
had two cube just born. T^a lit
tle auimala wer® taken In to the
city and sold to Witt. Webb of tho
independent Meat Market. What
the mother to com© so lar
'» water la a puazel to
..JUll S Vl-zOJtAliil
GERMAN NATIONAL ASSEMBLY WILL I
REFUSE TO SIGN PEACE TREATY '
Base), May 12—A Berlin news
agency sent out a despatch
this morning in which it sayg that
a majority of the members of the
National assembly hav$ decided to
reject th9 pcace treaty proposed
by the Allies to the Germans.
Parle, May 12.—Foreign. Minister
Vo.n Brookrdroff Rantaaiu In a note
which he gent to Premier Clemejn
ceau relative to th© repatriation, oX
prisoners asked that th® detail® of
fh." transfer l»e entrusted to & oo<a
misslou.
The German Foreign Mtalatar
stated that thQ German pea*^ del
egation has noted with. mu<ch sat
isfaction that the tfraft ol the peaoe
treaty TecognLzes In ) principle^ re
patriation of German war and civil
ian crisoners withj great expedition.
HOLLAND WILL GIVE FORMER
EMPEROR TO ALLIES EOR TRIAL
London, May 12.—It was an
nounced thig mamiug th&t advice
of a semi official nature tad baen
received that Holland baa decided
to surrender ttuj former GarniAa em
l>eror to the AJUad power?. The
Information cameq in a despatch
from the Hague to the National
News bureau. ' '1 i 11 IM
BOY SCOUT WEEK
PROCLAIMED
BY WILSON
Washington, May 12.—President
Wilaon cabled, to th^ White House
from France thlg morning' pawlalm
iiiK the week o£ June 7th to 14 th.
as "Boy Scout Week,' and h« urg
es ail communities to aid in the
movement ol the strengthening and
enlargement of thia institution. '
Will Studv The
M
Alaska Salmon
✓
Seattle, May 12.—Henry O'Mai ley,
heading the governmental party of
fLsh exiverta and salmon scientists,
departed from this city this morning
on. the Alaska Steamship liner S3.
A'aska. Thgy -will make a study
of the Alaska fisheries.
VAXThtv- WASHING to do notify
Mrs. McWtfliame at Backer's raioch. '
WOULD QUIT
III SAFETY
Budapest, May 12.—Bel* Kua,
head of the Soviet government has
aopeal^d to Phillip Brown, United
ritatfl£ peacy representative ben® to
guarante safety to himself and fam
ily in view of thg approach ofl Una
Czecho SLQViUc and) Roumanian; forc
es.
Ro[>ort,<j reaching here today pay
that the civilian population In many
portions of Hungary are raisins In
revolt against the Soviet gxr
erument. < '1
ROTHAOilS
SUESII NUT
Seattle, May 12—Aa Ruth Gar
rison was being conducted, from the
couri room Saturday after the ju
ry had rendered a verdict of not
guilty, but pronoimead the woman
criminally insane she said, to Sher
iff atarwich laughingly, "Be care
ful, you know 1 am a "nut" mow,'-'
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 tbey will not latt
long at these prices
JAMES KENNEDY