JAP EfffKlfl ILL
Hi REGENT IS
PROPOSED
Tobio Feb 14—The lead«'rs of i
th« opposition to the government
ikiay t>«atJon to have a r*K>nt ap
pointed owing to the of the
Kmcnur.
ILIfiH
"Washington Keb 14—Opposition to
the immigration bill pres^WU by
Dillingham developed In the Senate
/The eause of tile opposition \vas giv
en on the ground that the bill
would admit to this country one
,anj % quarter million Germans
within a year.
Sultan's Envoy
loins Nationalists
Constantinople r>b 14—The Sul-!
tan toihy received a telesnuu
r*>m 1 '.z<-t fat-ha whom he had sent
to An&ora to negotiate an agree
ment with the Turkish nationalists.
Jh«- Sultan stated that izz^t Pajsha,
had joined U'e -Nationalists and had
d s^rt-d him.
Cannot Reduce Its
Wages Arbitrarily
Chicago Feb 14—The question as
to wheth<"rt th-- railroads fan reduce
wag ■> at thHr own option lias ben
d-v it!, J by the fetleitei- railrtad la
bor board. T'.ie decision was hand
Id down today, it stu-t-j that the
n Crouds cannot r>ducv the wag"3
v' th^ir eniplo»?f4 arbitrarily.
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Wailill-fcton Feb 14—Secretary
Dank-13 (p a letter to ra?e tl>° chair
man o£ the Senate naval commitfe0
doclar" 1 that the l'rt'sidt-nt si.ould
be gi> in now. ! ic lay an embargo
on exportation of oil to countri-;
which xvtVe Am rji an citizens t'.i"
right t'> acquire oil lands.
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Mo-Vow tuila.- i,'.at 0 :r:
Kuropnikiu U dcad.
Russians Attacked
American Sailor:
Mauila Fvb 14—Tlie American
sail'>i"J who w<-Te uttaik«d in Vlad
ivostok ; w-r(. not u; on 1>;- the
•Tarts hut t>y a pa-t* rf Russia: --. It
prol. blo that t • Kussians intend
«d holding ti -u hp. Tliij is iho
advice which has l-Ceti nvelvod
Irom .Admiral Strauss t!r <.'> mm11:ti
er of it*
Th* department 0f tti(, lutTior]
Jiap forwarded to the registrar of
Hi" govirnm0-t la 1:il offic at Jun
eau tl: ite"a t il ! i: a J prosP^ct
ing pi-rmiti totaling I'CtiSO :'-?rcS
laud ""ituatcd in i . Katalla Ya* • t:i
Ktl an.l Cold lUy illstiicts. While
tli® total acror.yo of ilaim* covered
J>y the 300 applications for pormii.
flt'd in Alaska si my th<? P\*jrtn«
o£ th" r< w oil 1 ' in ; law 1 : F I;
ruary c v- rs a r■ *■ th- n
half of '.viiicli i- t' il -i-i tit<-> Cold
.'.ay district th,? Alaska bu.re~u of
the battle Cli: nib r of Coww^ny i*
«ilvisei!.
^>\\m TiUasows
iVvotiVd V.voc a. "EmO*
?Vccow(v\ M3\\.Vv •as.
SAFETY—No risk whatever. Lost or stolen
checks can be duplicated without cost.
CONVENIENCE—Paying bills by check is the
easiest, simplest method of raying tln-m.
SYSTEM—You have a complete record of all
money received and spent, with accurate
dates and amounts.
We assure you Safety Convenience
and System
Bank of AlasKa
..S YR UPS.
AT LOWER PRICES
Liberty Bell, Cane and Maple 2:
Liberty Bell, Cane and Maple o
Liberty Bell, Cane and Maple 10
Pure Maple Sap from Vermont -
Rogers Golden Syrup Canadian -
Rogers Golden Syrup Canadian ">
pound tins £ .70
po'ind tins 1.
pound tins 2.33
pound tins 1 ir>
pound tins .40
pound tins .7."
P. H. GANTY
FIRES BELIEVED
THE II OF
nip CC
.Manchester Feb 14—Eight fire»
trot;* out sim Uataneoiusly in the
factories in Ma:ichej.teri Follsworth
IR tyton and Roo'daU'. Much in flam
t'bla liquids we-iv found and men
v ore i-i.' ii fleeing sotn° of whom
\vyr0 fired upon by1 t'.ie Police.
ThoV s°venil things led the police
to bL'lieve that tit® fires Were a
r-jult of the Sinn Fein activity
iiir Rob°rt I*«acock the chief con
stable considers that lie has con
vinces c-vid n-» that the fin*
wr0 Flt bv Irish irreconcilables.
W SIS
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Washington F'b 14—Grigsby who
ha i/vii serving as delegate to Con
zv"*i : rt> tu Al-'s^a « as declared by
tlie House's election committee to be
u>'i emitted to the seat- Wickeruhan
was duly elected to the present con
'i.« and took his seat.
?Joted Montana
Lawyer Is Dead
^<>a" F>?> 14—Peter Ra\?en of
.\;ont»na an attorney who was
iu' nti.'icd for many J"ealJ» wlth tl,e
r. nt lL.g"l history of Montana
v/ill" Test Lloyd
: ; r s Governm't
dun Feb ^ -King George to
.w »i l tlip session of par
i v.tiidi promi>es to b« a
. i .• coaliiien government of
Boughtery To Get
A Cardinal's Cap
Hon-.v Feb H—The Vatican mad®
announcement today to the effect
that Th- Mojt Reverend UcnoU 3
Dougtu-rty Archbishop of'Phila.wiU
l>,.. created Cardinal.
Prominent Fruit
Grower Is Killed
Spolrme 14—A D Allison a
prominent fruit grower of the
| state of Wcs'iington wma l.i 110<1 here
■ i:i ;>n putu accident.
Wellington Feb 15—The center
I of pooui&tion in the United States
bas moved westward to SPencer Ind,
Ten yars ago the center was in the
j city of Bloomington Ind. having
, moved 29 miles to the westward
during the decade 1900—1910. The
: Bureau attributes the westward mov
j nrnt this docade to the million in
1 erase in tli-e istate of California.
i S_3tile Feb 14—The governor of
' NTevad.i reruped to honor the req
uisition of Governor Riggs for C J
| H.irli-y. Hurley is under ai'rest at
i Renri Nevada f-.'l.owinjg' an indict
j m* • t at Fairbanks for accenting
' deposits in the American bank whet
;as I'r -id nt of the bank he knew
tU- institution fo be Insolvent.This
l-i the re fort made by Marshal Er
win oti arriving from Reno .stop
per a fcw days in S-alt)tle on bis re
it i t Fairbanks. Erwin sails Fri
•day. . ,• ..
U. S. SHOULD NCI
TIN BACK OH
Washington Feb 14—The Unit®!
ptatcs liaving 'Tut its hand on the
plow shoulld not liow turn back" ac
cording to Rerr Admiral Knapp who
was sent to investlgat0 c:nditior
. . thy hind of Santa Domingo.
H« declared in his report that
It woula wrong the American forc
es to give up at this lime. The ag
itation against the American occup
ation he asserted was represen
ted by not more than five percent,
ot the population.
»5011. OF
Oklahoma Fob 14—Thomas B F> r
guson territorial governor of Oklaho
ma wlii-n that territory was admit
ted to thp Union as a state died
,ii« today.
SRri'So Feb 15—The Sc&ndlnavtan
Am' ricin bank of thfs city tli© lar
cr ''t hold'T of Public Funds and re
di_fl)Osits in the iUitt- ha3 closed it
itootyd.
Sells Troops And
Gets Year In Pen
Cobl' uz Germany F-b 14—Seven |
jperson- \v«ro convict, d b}' a military
court >' selling cocaine to American
trool's. Each of the seven \va.; giv
a ye-T in vrison.
Old Time Alaskan
| Is Off For Siberia
I S attlo Feb I t—M a Malinski an
[old times Alaskan protKCtor sail
ed (or Vladivostock uday with a
vi*w to prosP'Xfcing tlie piac0rs in
eastern Siberia.
Five Victims Of
Sleeping Sickness
i .V'w York Feb 1 —Five persons
fli'tl of slewing sickm-ss and for
jeign iiiflu'nza 011 Saturday.
j Pari.; Feb. 15—Elliott F Sheph
erd of Xew York waB made a knight
' of til? Legion of Honor for his r°
jlief work during the* war.
Seattle F>'b. 12—Tourist traffic
to the Pacific Coast will be swel
led this yeart b.v five ship loads of
Eastern tourists who will tail from
I New VorK at intervals of thirty days
, on til.? initial trim of the five V*s-i
V' ls allocated by the I'nited Statoa
"hipping board to the Admiral lino
for the new passenger and freight
senic" to be establish bet^^n Pu
get Sound and th® Orient.
All five vessels were under con
struction in eastorn jlardp "when al
locate.] to the Padfic Steamship Co
and but three of theni have been
named; The Wenatchee the Key
stone State and the Bay State. Ais,
they become ready for service each
•will tarry a load of toursts from
[(New y*rk thiougli the Panama can
|al to Pacific ports.
ALASKA DRY LAW
H UPHELD
IB COURT
San Francisco Fob 15—A decision J
wsfc handed down. today1 by the Cir
cuit court upholding the bone dry
nrohJMtion law in Alaska.
Th« court upheld the 5800 fine and
thn!e months in jail sentence impos
ed on Arthur Abbati of Juneau.The
court held that the bone dry law
remained In effect eh« jaame as
the state nrohibition measures pa|*S-'
vubseQuent' or Previous to the
VolPteM Act. I 1
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NIL BILL!
■ -lington Ffeb 15—The House
ps^ed the naval bill . This aPoro
.priation bill carried a tatal of 3951
milions of which ninety millions are
for new construction. When the
liill was sent to the Senate and Pasg
ed by that body it carried an ajvpro
prlatioa of 410 millions. 1
MADE 10 STICK
Settle Feb 15—.Mrs. Olive Vir
ginia Atkins and Frank L Baker
■are residents of Seattle. Th<£e two
l^apis ere of the number of tlirecj
iiuundrt'd descendants of Colonel
Jacob Baker of revolutionary^ war
and tlit* war of 1812 fame. For ser
vices i i that war Coionel Baiker wa<s
given five thousand acres of land
joc'udiiig the Present town of Chilll
[eothej Ohio and 640 acr°s of land in
the heart of what is now Philadel
phia where t,he city hc.111 now standa
Colonel Baker wa£ the STeat great I
grandfather of Mrs. Atkin^ and Mr
Baker.
.Athena Feb 15—The government!
decide(i to proclaim martial law
thruout ThraCp. ' • I
SEEK 10 IMPEACH
JUDGE MIS
II HOUSE
i Washington F*b 15—Charge^ of
Ugh Times and misdemeanors were
dado against Judge Landis jn the
Hou3e of Representatives byi Repre
sentative Welty of Ohio. Welty
■sought to have the judge impeached
because he had acCePt*d the office
of supreme arbitrator in the base
ball world.
W«iity k"e£u^ed the request of rep
resentative Dial to Include in the
Indictment the aocuusation that th»
Judge In refuMng to send the young
Ottawa cleft to jail for the theft
$96000 which "he had taken from
the bank at OI.fa.wa 111. and used
in some sPeculation stat d that
his rea»on for not sending the J'O-ng
PI* to jail wag the fact that he
felt the (bank officials were re
sponsible for the| cK-rlss sPecula.tions
by" thelr failure to pay him a living
wag®. [Dial announced that he
would make complainta against Lan
dis to the Department of JufstRe.
He characterized Landis statement
that the clerkjs| fempLoyers w^re In
a measure responsible for liils dpfa.
cations a£ the most Bolshevik i doc
trine he had ever heard.
HOUSE ACCEPTS
MMC11
Wishl^ipton Feb 14—The House
»cc°oted the provision in tlie bill for
a reduction of the MBIT from 140
000 to 100)00 after July fiifct. Xo
comment wa« made at the time th®
Li 11 was accepted. '
Senate Sees The
Need Of Speed
IWa'hington 'Feb 14—The Senate
Ijs beglning- to realize that if som()
of the most important appro-;
Prlat'on \bills a.e to be passed 0t
tU'» Sesslon ;>ie Senate must ac
celerate ivB i«nove what 1'
has b«en. i
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