SO. J>0. TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR
SKAGWAY, ALASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST SI, 1022.
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FOUR BILLION DOLLAR BONUS PASSES SENATE
Nome. Alaska. Aug. 30.—R o a 1 d
Amundsen, the north pole explorer
has definitely abandoned his hope
of a polar flisht this year. His plan
was to fly across the pole to Spitz
bergen or Greenland.
His plans now contemplate hop
ping oft oil this flight next spring.
Tliis information came to be known
when the Revenue Cutter Bear, ar
rived today from Point Barrow. \m
undseu is at the latter place and he
said the start had Seen delayed oy
the unfavorable ice conditions, and
t it the season was too far advanced
to permit of the greatest chanccs
for success being achieved in the
flight.
1RKNCH TKtH»PS MOVE
TO OCtTPY RHIR
Paris. Aug. 31.—The war office
has been kept busy and is in con
st nit communication with Genera'
DeGouttes and the headquarters at
Mayence. Large movements of
troops were reported from Nancy.
Metz and the Rhineland, and there
seemed to be no doubt in the minds
of officials generally that those move
ments contemplate the occupation
of the Rhur district.
V.NTON LEADER
SHOT ISY Gl'ARD
Sacramento. Cal., Aug. 31.—'Wil
liam M. Meero. president of the fed
eration of shop cffts workers of ]
S.: ramento was shot and killed this
morning Ly H. IS. Debolt. a guard iu
the Southern Pacific shops.
Ill P \RATIONS' COMMISSION
Aft KIT BKLGLVN PLAN
Paris. Aug. 31.—The allied rep
arations commission has decided to
accept the Belgian compromise on
the German Moratorium proposition
as a solution of the present crisis.
HINGARIAN TROOPS
CONCENTRATE ON BORDER
Vienna. Aug. 31.—The reports of
the concentration of Hungarian
troops on the western borders of
Austria are officially confirmed.
EXPLOSION IN MINE
CAISES DEATHS
Cumberland. B. C., Aug. 31.—Nine
are dead and three are missing and
seventeen are injured as the result
of an explosion which caused the
cave-in of a mine in this place.
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CLOSE CHICKALOON MINE;
OPEN LARGE HEALY MINE
Seattle, Aug. 30.—The govern
ment is closing down the ChlcVnloun
mine in the Matanuska fields, rtvs
action on the part ot the govern
ment will mean t'-e Immediate open
ing of a large mine In th.j Xanana
, ticlds. C.oorse WatUIn Evans, a ir.in
| inK engineer will leave Seatl'e in
September for the opening oi the
new mine for the Healy Creek Coal
| Company. This company is backed
by A. K. Latthrop i'.nd his uaiK.ates
i PREMIER POINCAIRE
ACCKITS POSITION"
Paris. Aug. 3t.—Premier Poin
calre of Prance accepted i e divi
sion of the Reparations' commis
sion in favor of liie Belgian com
promise on the German repara
tions. The Belgian government had
previously assured Premier Poitt
i cr.lre that the arrangements for t:co
i moratorium was very sarislaetory.
However. Poincaire would not g.ve
his approval until a German gold de
posit had been mad a. that deposit of
| sufficient measure to guarantee the
I deferred payments involved in the
Belgian plan. This 1 e C.ermans were
able to assure and the plan wen!
through.
JOHNSON AN1) RICHARDSON
W IN IN «'Al.lrO!!\l \
San Francisco. Cal., Aug. 31.—- -H i-1
ram Johnson, senator from • ".i! for
nia was the winner in the race for
I'. S. senatorial nomination 'o suc
ceed himself. His majori'j wis V.
000. F. W. Kiciia,dson is the He-'
publican nominee for Governor and
Thomas Lee Woolwlne, the promi
nent district attorney of.Lo- Angele:
is the Democratic gubernatorial nom
inee.
RICHARDSON IN I.EAD
FOR CAL. GOVERNORSHIP
San Francisco. Aug. 30—v h e
treasurer of the state of •" ' foptfij
is leaJiug Governor Stephens i ti e
race for the Kepul-ican noi <,;i;r.i :i
for governor of that state His nunc
is Friend W. Richardson.
CIVIL WAR LOOMS
_ IP IN MEXICO
Mexico City, Aug. 30.—TI ■1 pros
pects of civil war in Mexico looired
up today. The secretary of war di
patched the fedora, troops after a
band of rebels commanded by Ftati
cisco Murguia.
MASTER UARTLETT
POI ND ClILTI
..Seattle, Aug. 31.—In a trial ofj
Master Bartiett, who commanded
the liner H. F. Alexander in its re ,
cent mishap, the commission found
him guilty of negligence and his li
cense as Master was suspended for,
four months.
W ASIIINOTt >.N MI N ERS
RETl'RN" TO MINES
Senttle. Aug. 30.—Three thousand
miners in this state returned to j
work In the mines.
LET US HELP YOU!
The fact that your account may be a small one in t'.e begin
ning does not bar you from the benefits of a bank account. We
shall be glad to have your name on our books and furnish you
with bank book and checks.
A bank account will eventually enable you to start in bust
Less for yourself.
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SKAQWAY, ALASKA
Kl.OMUKKK WITH SKCOM)
SrOUSIO SKKKS NO. 1
Chicago. III. Aug. 30 —John 0.
Bock, who won a fortune in llio
Klondike twenty y?.t:-e «r" rat u reed
to this city last nlsht accompanied
liv \\ ifo number tw<\ The latter was
weil in Snn Francisco, and lias ac
companied him lu t.to hope of ''r.d
ing wife number one. Uocl; never se
cured a divorce from wife number
one. whom he left in Chicago when
he '.tried out to '.ha Klondike. Num
ber two says she wants to restore
the husband to wife number one.
ii:i-; i-:itst>.\ sails
FOR SKAGWAY
Seattle, Aug. 30.—The steamship
Jr-'ierson of the /laska .Steamship
line left Seattle this morning at nine
o'clock. L. Kepper and Mrs. Kopper
and Anna C. Ruflntr are bound for
Skagway. white K. R. Rogers ;s for
H.iiucs and R. G. Wright and Mrs.
Wiiglit are hot ked for Ft. Seward.
ItKKtTKRS TAKK TWO DAYS
TO ItKAt'H MIXKKS
Jack on, Cal., Aug. 30.—The res
ell. crews which are clearing out the
caved in tiiunel leading from the
Kennedy to the Argonaut mine in
tlie hope of reaching the trapped
i:.liters are hard at work iti the hope
of reaching tl e men. It will take two
d ivs to reach the men.
I SKS W1RKCT ACTION j
Poking. Aug. 31.—The Chinese
w Umgmen showed their attitude
toward the military governor of the
province of Ilupeh, in the dost ruc
im of the Charles Arsenal, the lat
:• Ii.id been ashed to resign in fav
• :• n • e civil governor apiiointed by
e.-;dent Li Yuan Hung. The!
Charles Arsenal is located at Wu
Chang.
u::3 TI!V;E TO ADVANTAGE
Napoleon Profitably Occupied Hour*
Which He Was Forced to Spend
in Unjust Confinement.
When Napoleon 1 was forming the
Cntic Napoleon, he astonished the
0 inn il of state hy the readiness with
winrii be Illustrated any point in dis
cus- "ii 1>.\ quoting whole passages, ex
tempore. from tne Roman civil law.
a subject entirely foreign to him, as
his whole lit'** hail been passed In the
1 amp. On being asked by Trellhard
how lie had acquired so familiar a
knowledge <>f law. Napoleon replied:
"When I was a lieutenant, I was
»nee unjustly put under arrest. The
small room assigned for my prison con
tain i| no furniture, save an old chair
and a cupboard. In the latter was a
ponderous volume, which proved to be
a digest nf the Kornan law. As I had
neither paper, pens. Ink or pencil, you
may easily Imagine this book to have
been a valuable prize to uie. It wa»
•II bulky, and the leaves were so co*
••re<l hy marginal notes in manuscript,
thai had I lu-en confined 100 years, I
need never to have been Idle. 1 was
only ten days deprived of my liberty.
Inn on recovering it. I was saturated
ulth Justinian, and the decisions of
the Roman legislators. It was thus
I acquired my knowledge of the civil
law." g,
Prices are falling In France. The
first twelve cherries of the season sold
in 1'iiris fur $1.10 each. Last year, the
: rst cherries brought $1.25 each. This
explains why France Is too poor to pay
her debts. Cherries cost too much.
Tfie Mode-n Kick.
"My hoy, John, says he gets mighty
poor food down at college."
"Yes? William hasn't complained
yet about the food, but he says the
gasuiine Is tierc«."
AGED BANKER
COMMITS SCICID1
! Seattle, Aug. 31.—N. B. Soiner
president of the First National banl
of Bremerton, committed suicide yes
terday afternoon by jumping from
the eighteen story Home building
I The body landed on the tile roof ol
the court sixteen stories below. The
cause of his suicide is given as ill
health and the prospect of a serious
, operation, which prevented his gel
I ting sleep. Soiner was 63 years ol
I age, and was the organizer of the
| Hank of Cape Nome. Bremerton bank
| ofli-jials say that the institution
i which is owned largely by the Hoge
i interests is in gooi. shape and thai
Solner's personal aflalrs are straight.
When he left Nome, he became as
sociated with the Hjge interests and
l.c has been widely known as a bank
er and clubman. lie leaves a wid
ow.
SHRINK POTENTATE SPED x
MISAPPROPRIATION Fl NI)H
Tacoma, Wn,, Aug. 31.—Alice C.
Sum pel la King and Martha Bullen
filed suit this afternoon against the
estate of the late Kills Lewis Gar
getson. a Past Imperial Potentate of
the Shrine. The women ire si?ter3
and they allege that Garre'son mis
appropriated twetpy-oni thousand
dollars which they had given him to
invest for them.
GOLD IN COINS
BEING MINTED
San Francisco, Cal., Aug. 30.—Di
rector of the San Francisco Mint an
nounced last night that the mint is
now coining cold at the rate of four
hundred thousand dollars a day. The
gold is being miutod in twenty-dol
lar gold pieces.
GOVERNMENT AID
TO SUPPRESS SABOTAGE
Wasington, Aug. 31.—By direc
tion of the President, the Depart
ment of Justice will devote it en
tire energy to the suppression of sab
otage and disorder by the disgrun
tled rail workers. It is claimed that
there is already a marked Improve
ment in the transportation.
DAUGHTER OK
U. S. GRANT DIES
Chicago. Aug. 31.—Mrs. Franklin
Hatch Jones, the only daughter of
the late U. S. Grant is dead in this
city. Interment will be in Spring
field. III.
JOHNSON HAS HIG
LEAD ON MOORE
San Francisco, Aug. 30.—About
half of the votes In the Republican
primary nomination for the United
States senator for California. John
son has the lead of C. C. Moore by
thirty thousand votes.
MURDERER SLAYS
AS VICTIMS ENTER HOl'SE
Canton, Ohio, Au^. 30—Two wo
men and a man were murdered to
day by an unidentified man The vic
tims were struck down as they en
tered the house.
CANADIAN DOIjt, \il
I1H.M II-.S PVR
New York, A us. 31.— The Canadi
an dollar touched par here for the
first time since August 19'5.
FIRST HERRIN
INDICTMENT RETURNED
Marion, 111., Aug. 31.—The first
indictment in connection with the
Herrin, III. massacre was returned
by the special grand jury late yes
terday afternoon.
STATE CONVENTION
OP LEGION OPENS
Wenatchee, Wash., Aug. 31.—The
fourth annual state convention of the
American Legion opened in this city
this morning.
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Form Which Bonus Will Take
Is Optional With Recipient
Bursum Amendment Rejected
Waslngton, Aug. 30.—In the flrat
vote of the day which the senate
took on the Bonus measure, it re
corded its rejection of the Bursura
j amendment, which proposes that the
pay of the soldiers shall be half cash
I and half in certificates of indebted
j ness, payable in five years. The
| amendment was defeated 44 to 27.
Washington, Aug. 30.—The Unit
ed States senate is expected to vote
on the Bonus bill before adjourn
ment this evening. In order to speed
up their work on the tariff measure,
the senate and house conferees are
holding night sessions.
Four Billion Passed.
Washington, Aug. 31.—The four
billion dollar soldier bonus measure
passed the senate today and now
goes to conference.
Provisions of Bill.
Washington, Aug. 31.—The Bonus
bill as amended by the senate would
become effective January first of next
year. It would provide three option
al plans for the payment of the mon
ey to t.He veterans of tho World
War other than thoso whose adjust
ed pay would not exceced fifty dol
lars. These latter would be paid la
cash. The options are adjusted serv
ice certificates payable In twenty
years or sooner if death occurs. They
contain loan provisions and vocation
al training at t'.ie rate of $1.75 a day
up to 140 per cent, of the adjusted
service credit, aid In purchasing a
farm or home, the total amount to
range from 100 per cent, of the ad
justed service credit if the money
were advanced in 1923. To 140 per
cent, of an adjusted service credit
if the payment were made in 1928 or
thereafter.
Washington, Aug. 30.—The sen
ate has agreed to the method of pro
curing the money for the proposed
Bonus bill for soldiers of the late
war. An amendment to the bonus
measure, which was adopted by the
Benate procures the money from the
interest collected on the Foreign
debts owing the United States gov
ernment.
CAPTURE REPlUi,ICA\}
4si.Kt;p i.v OAsrr.c
Castlehane, Ire., Aug. SO.—The
National troops made a foray aiul
surprise attack on Castle Mouaghan.
The Nationals «i'i>ris;d the guard
of the castle r.n.1 captured Rcvea
hundred Belf.iat refuei e republicans.
The captured ones w-sie found asleep
and were taken without a struggle
Large quantities ot arms, ammuui
tion and bombi were found hidden
in the dugouta.
JAP CRl'ISER SINKS
WITH Ffl.li CKEW
Tokio, Aug. 30.—/he Japanese
Cruiser Niitaka eucour.tere-l a ty
phoon off the coast of Kamchatka on
August 26th, and went down with
all hands on board She rarrled a '
crew of three hundred. The destroj- '
er Maki has been ordered to the I
scene of the disaster.
ODESSA SOVIET
BREAKS WITH MOSCOW
London, Aug. 31.—A dispatch to
the Daily Wail from Berlin states
that the report of a break between
the Odessa Soviet und Moscow. The
German capital report states that the
southern soviet has purged itself of
bolshevism and proclaimed Itself In
dependent of Moscow. It calls upon
all its citizens to unite against the
communist usurpers. The report al
leges that the whole of south Russia
has joined with Odessa and that the
revolution has been attended with
bloody encounters.
CALGARY BANK
RORRED OF $80,000
Calgary. Alberta, Aug. 30.—Ran
dits entered the Union bank of this
city and robbed it of eighty thou
sand dollars in cash and bonds. The
robbers used grease gloves and pro
tected shoes to prevent imprints.
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Daily Train Service (except Sundays) between Skaguay
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