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TWENTY-FIFTH TEAR
SKAGWAY, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1022 PRICE TEX CENTS
ALL READY FOB CELEBRATION
OF INDEPENDENCE Oil
The following list of events have
been given out by the ""SPoKi'si
COMMITTEE" for iNUEPENDUNCE
PAY CELEBRATION, Jnlv ist. ana
-lh. Programs »! I Iw distnbuted
I Faturelay, showing thr* exact time toi
I each event. No ae-Mitd prize wil
; be awarded in ev?rt3 where there
' are not more than t»vo contestants
j foi the lirst prize.
SATURDAY. JULY FIRST
Base Ball Game
Tennis. Skagway vs Wbltehorse
100 Yard Dash
Hose Fight
Tug of War (Natives)
Grand Tree Ball. {White Pass Club)
Grand Free Ball. A. B. Hall (Natives Only i
MONDAY. JULY THIRD. -
Teunls Tournament, Mens Doubles
Tennis Tournament. Ladies Doubles
'lennis Tournament. Mixed Doubles
Tennis Tournament. Mens Singles
TUESDAY.JULY FOURTH.
Roys Ball Game
Children. -4 years or under, 50 yd. race....
Children 6 year* or uuder. 50 yd. race....
Boys and Girls 6 years or under. 50 yd. . .
Girls S years or under. 50 yd. race
Boys and Girls, under 15. 50 yd
Boys 12 or under. Shoe Scramble race....
Boys 15 or under. Three Legged race
Girls under 15 years, 50 yd. race
Girls 15 years or under. One Legged race.
Girls and Boys Pie Eating Contest
Girls and Boys, Potato race, 50 yds
Boys Slow Bicycle race, 15 or under
Girls Slow Bicycla race, 15 or under
If Its possible and convient there will be more childrens events.
The Skagway Volunteer Band will furnish music throughout the day
There will be a Tennis Tournament in connection with the Fourth of
July Celebration and the various events will be played off next week com
mencing Monday. July 3rd.
There will be four events in this tournament, viz:—Man's Singles.
Men's Doubles. Mixed Doubles and Ladies Doubles.
The Celebration Committee are putting up good prizes and ull those
desirous of entering should put their uaines on the lists at Keller Bros.
Drug Store, or notify Mr. Jud Rogers, for whatever event or events they
wish to compete In.
Names should b« in not later than Saturday night in order that tin
drawings for the first round can be made on Sunday.
$100.00 $50.00
.Two Mdse. Prizes
5.00 2.5(1
60.00
10.00
10.00
10.00
10 00
10.00 6.00
25.00
2.00 1.00
2.00 1.00
2.00 1.00
2.00 1.00
2 00 1.00
2.00 1.00
2.00 1.00
2.00 1.00
2.00 1.00
5.00 2.50
2.50 1.50
3.00 2.00
3.00 2.00
EXPECT TO GET
LEADERS TO COFER
Washington, June 27.—The lndi-|
cations are at present that the lead- ^
ers of the miners and the operators
interested tn the cual strike will be
gotten together for a conference on j
the strike situation. This was the'
announcement givea at the White
house today. The s.tep contemplated •
is that of getting the leaders together j
to discuss the wage differences and1
come to some agreement.
INSURGENTS HOLD
Ol'T AGAINST TROOPS'
Dublin. June 29.—Rory O'Con
ners, the leader of the band of in
surgents who are battling with the
Free State troops. Is still standing
firm and the Free State troops are
are unable to dislodge the insur
gents from their stionghold at Four
courts.
BIELASKI ESCAPES
FROM HIS CAPTORS
Mexico City, June 29.—After four
days of captivity, Bie'.aski escaped
from the bandits who kidnapped him
for ransom. After escuping. Bruce
Bielaski returned to Mexico City.
WANT TO KNOW
HOW USE THE MONEY
The Hague, June 2S.—The insist
ence of the Bolshevik delegation at
the Hague Conference for a loan
from the Allies, is meeting with a
corresponding insistence on the part
of the Allies that they be given a
clear understanding of how the
money loaned is to he used. The
Allies Insist that b<sfore any money
can be loaned Rus«ia. the, courts of
Europe must know the exact situa
tion in Russia, and for what purpose
Russia plans to use the money.
I'. S. TO SUBSTITUTE
CRl'ISER KOR CURRENCY
Washington. June 28.—The cruis
er Galveston now at Guantanamo is
being held in readiness to proceed
to Tampico to n:al.e a demand for
the release of the forty Americans
who are held in tUat city for ran
som. by a rebel general, Alfouzo
Gorozave.
JAPS PASS NAVAL TREATY
Tokio, June 29.—The Privy Coun
cil of the Japanese Empire passed
the naval treaty agreed upon at the
Washington conference and today
submitted it to the prince regent for
his ratification.
A BANK
FOR ALL PEOPLE
It Is our constant aim to inert the needs of
«11 the people all the time in every particular.
Wo consider the small depositor is entitled
to as rnu.'h careful attention as tlie large one.
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SKAQWAY. ALASKA
COAL OPERATOR
WILL CONKER AT WASH.
Washington, June 29.—The Coal
operators have expressed themselves
as willing to meet In conference In
this city, at the invitation of Secre
tary Davis. The acceptance was
sent out last night by President
Harding. They will meet at the
Whitehouse Saturday, and there will
confer with the UnJted Mine Work
er officials to devise some ways and
means for the settlement of the coal
strike.
RUSSIAN'S CRY
GIVES lT8 CREDIT
The Hague. June 27.—Maxim
Litvinoff of the the Russian delega
tion said that Bolshevistic Russia
wanted credit before anything else.
The French and Belgian delegations
in response to this appeal Indicated
that they would oppose the extend
ing of such assistance to the Soviets.
BIG PRIZE FOR
PLANET COMMlTN1CATION
Paris, June 28.—The French
Academy of science has offered a
prize of a hundred thousand francs
for the first communication which Is
made with any plaaet except Mars.
Communication with Mars Is pro
nounced "Too Easy" to permit the
prize being paid for the feat.
BODY GUARD
DIES TO A MAN
Shantghai, Juno 28.—Madame
Sun Yat Sen. arrived at this city
from Canton. In an Interview she
stated that the body guard of fifty
men which were left with her In
the palace when her husband fled
from the palace died to a man. Mrs.
Sun Yat Sen had repeatedly urged
her husband to seek safety In flight.!
THREE ARE KILLED
WHEN PLANE PALL
San Antonio, Te*.. June 29.—W.
U. Farrell, George I'. Thompson both
of Philadelphia, and William C. Mc
Coy, of Nashville, who were all ca
dets in the Nashville aviation school
were killed and their bodies burned
hist evening when the plane In
which they were riding fell to the
ground from an tUevation of two
hundred feet.
BROADCAST RADIO
MARRIAGE CEREMONY
Oakland, June 28.—The marriage
ceremony and the wedding march of
Viviane Kidd Leland, to Hodgson
will be broadcasted tonight.
PROPOSE NEW
CONSTIT. AMENDMENT
Washington, June 29.—A consti
tutional amendment which would
give Congress the power to regulate
the nomination and election of S»n
ulors and Representatives, thus giv
ing the control over the strike pri
maries has been proposed In a res
olution which was introduced by
l'haii man Ballinger of the House
Klections committee.
SAYS HE DID NOT
PURCHASE GLAND
Chicago, June 29.—Harold r. Mc
Cormick, who recently underwent an
operation and of whom It was Bald
that he had purchised the gland of
another man at an enormous figure,
for transplanting, declares that he
did not purchase the gland of anoth
er man. This McCormlck stated Id
a reply to the press reports which
came out recently.
AMUNDSEN TO
HAVE RIVAL TRAVELLER
Washington, June 288.—When
Amundsen, the North Pole explorer
starts from PoiPt Barrow to fly to
the North Pole and then on to
Spitzbergen, another aviator will
start from Spitbergen to fly to the
Pole and return. Gran a Norwegian
flyer will shortly go to Spitzbergen
(o map out his route according to
advices received from the foreign at
taches of the American air service.
Washington, June 29.—William
T. Garden was nominated by Presi
dent Harding to be attorney for
the district of Haivail.
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REBEL GENERAL
WANTS BIG RANSOM
Washington, June 27.—The bus
| iness of ranBomlng Americana and
, their plants and employee# In Mex
I ico la growing. Forty American em
ployees of the Cortege Oil company
near Tampico and a property value
at a Quarter of a million dollars is
being held for rar.som by a rebel
i general. The latter wants fifteen
thousand pesos, and declares he
! will hold the men and plant until
the ransom is paid. The report
comes from the American consulate
at Tampico to the State department.
GOVERNMENT EXPERT
TEACH FISHERIES COURSE
R. Donald Crawford, a graduate of
the University of Washington, and
now with the United States Bureau
of Fisheries in Washington, D. C.,
will be assistant instructor of &sb
culture in the College of Fisheries
at the University nt>xt October.
After he tlnislied school in 1916.
Crawford was with the United States
Bureau of Fisheries as a herring can
ning expert in Alaska. He was {hen
transferred to the biological station
at Key West, Flor.da, where he re
mained several years. He was then
transferred to the head office at
Washington, 0. C., to do investiga
tion work on fish tulture and fish
diseases.
He will do research work for the!
State Department of Fisheries until
college opens about Oct. 1.
SHOPMEN CALL STRIKE
Chicago, Jur.e 288.—The shopmen
whose wages have been ordered re
duced by about sUty mllllom for
the coming year, tnd, who took a
vote as to whether a strike should be
ordered, voted to .trike July first.
This la contingent upon the wage
cut being actually >,ut in force. The
results of the vote on the strike
question was made known by a tele
gram from B. M. Jewell, the head
of the shop crafts to the association
of railway executives.
BIG SHIPS
START FOR SEATTLE
San Francisco. June 28.—Eight
battleships of the U. S. Navy Pa
cific fleet, Including the flagship Cal
ifornia, sailed from this port this
afternoon for Seattle. This is part
of the big fleet which is to spend
July Fourth at the ^ound metropolis.
FIGHTING GOES
MERRILY ON IN DUBLIN
London, Eng., J>ine 29.—At two
o'clock thin Thursday morning a
message was received from Free
mens Journal of Dublin, stating that
the flghtiug continues in that city
and there is no sign of a truce.
REVEREND AND MRS. G. G.
BRUCE IN 8KAGWAY
Rev. George G. Bruce, D.D., and
Mrs. Bruce of June«u came to Skag
way on the Jefferson and will be in
town for a few weeks. Dr. Bruce
will supply the pulpit of the First
Presbyterian church while the Pas
tor, Rev. E. L. Wlnterberger, is
absent at the meeting of the Synod
In Tacoma. Dr. and Mrs. Bruce
have been in Alaska tor nine years
having served several years In Fair
banks. and for the past five years
in Juneau.
BANDITS SEIZE
ANOTHER OIL CAMP
Washington, June 29.—Another
American oil camp has been seized
by Mexican bandits and a ransom Is
demanded. The State Department
was informed by American Consul
Shaw at Tampico, that General Gor
osova, who has 240 heavily armed
men made a raid on the oil camp
and demands nine thousand pesos I
as a ransom for the men and camp. ,
PRESIDENT'S SECRETARY
MARRIES SHEPPARD
Cincinnati, June 29.—Miss Cor
anell Matteen the confidential sec
retary of President Harding was
married in this city today, to Nor
man P. Sheppard.
London, June 29.—The House of
Lords passed a bill ratifying the
treaties of Washington, the bill was
passed lust evening.
NENANft INSTEAD OF 1
MATANUSKA COAL 10 BE USED
| Washington, June 29.—The chief
I dependence (or coal in Alaska is to
I be placed on the Nenana mines. This
i will be for the supply of the govern
ment railway for the local industry
and domestic supply along the rail
way line. This is the new order
promulgated by Secretary of the In
terior Fall. Ho announced today
that he has allotted two hundred
thousand dollars of the funds of the
Alaska Railway Engineering Com
mission to the construction of
spur line from the main line at Mile
356 into Henly Creek and that por
tion of the Nenana .lelds In order to
tap that bed and provide transporta- j
tlon.
Washington, June 29.—The Coal
Bay oil field is to be thoroughly
prospected at an Initial expense of
a quarter of a million. This assur
ance has been made and the work
will lie begun at once. This an
nouncement was made by J. W. Mc
Cord today. iMcCord is of Coal Bay.
Alaska, and is now in Washington
after having been n New York for
several months trying to make ar
rangements by which the develop
ment is made poss'ble. The Stand
ard Oil Company of California and
the Petroleum Con"pany have taken
over the McCord i..id associate as
signments of four million prospect
ing permits in the Coal Bay area
with the consent o: the Department
of the Interior. The development
work will be directly under the
management of the Standard Oil
Company of California, which is get
ting things together in San Francisco
to complete the outfit tor sinking
wells in order to ship it to Coul
Bay so soon as po*L.ble.
HUGE RECONSTRUCTION
PLAN PROPOSED
Paris, June 27.—A new and huge |
war reparation plan, by which the,
Germans would reconstruct Trance!
and also build the long planned tun-j
nel under the English Channel was j
submitted to Premier Poincaire by;
M. Letrocquer, the Minister of Pub-.
lie Works in the French cabinet. I
Premier Poincaire has laid the plan I
before the French member of the j
reparations commission. The plan>
Involves the use < f German labor
and material to the extent of twenty |
billions of francs. I
IRISH REPUBLICAN
INSURGENTS WORSTED
Dublin, June 28.—The Irish re-1
publican insurgents were driven j
from parts of four courts this af
ternoon by the freestate troops. The
troops stormed the rebel strongholds
under cover of heavy artillery fire.
While this attack vas in progress
the insurgent bandu seized hotels,
club houses in Rutland Square and
civil war spread to other centers. It
was not long before all Dublin was
involved in the battle.
BLOODLESS REVOLUTION
OVERTURNS GOVERNMENT
Berlin. June 28.—The Horthy
government in Austria has been over
thrown by a bloodless revolution.
STRIKE ORDER
EFFECTIVE JULY FIRST
Chicago, June 29.—The orders for
a strike of the Kail n ay Shopmen af
fecting 400,000 men in the six
crafts represented has been signed
by the six interested presidents and
becomes effective July first. The or
ders were sent out today to the
general chairman representing the
400,000 men and authorizes them to
strike at ten a.m. July first, "On
all railways and Pullman shops in
the United States.
GOVERNMENT TO
FINISH MUSCLE SHOALS
Washington, June 2S.—The army
bill which gives Congress authority
to spend money on the Muscle Shoals
project effective after Octobex-flrst
was passed by the Senate without
any change in the language of the
bill. This had already been approv
ed by the House and the Conferees
of the two legislative bodies. The
bill requires only the signature of
the President to enable Congress to
go forward in the spending of seven
and a half millions toward the com
pletion of the Shoals enterprise.
HOUSE OF LORDS
BARS WOMEN
London, June 27.—The House of
Lords officially decided that women
may not sit as members of that
body.
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Dally Train Service (except Sundays) between Skaguay
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For full Information regarding passenger and freight
rates apply to
H- Wheeler, General Manager
Skaguay. Alaska
Or 510 Alaska Building, Seattle ,Wash.