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NO. TI, TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR
SKAGWAY, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JULY 15, 1923.
PRICE TEN CENTS
until 10 HSSSSS1TE
PRESIDENT IlLLERIi
Paris. Jul yl4.- -An attempt was
made to assassinate President Mil
lerand of the Freiivh republic today
on the Champs Elyjee as he was re
turning from a military review held
in connection with the celebration
of the anniversary of the capture
of the Bastile. Day Gaston Bomet.
aged 23. who fired three shots imo
the automobile in which he though!
Millerand was riding, was arrested
after an attempt was made by the
crowd to lynch him. Bouvet con
fessed that he was an anarchist and
the he intended to kill the Presi
dent. The shots were fired into an
a itomobile bearing Chief of Police
Naudins.
WIVES FOR ROYALTY
SiARfE IX El'ROI'E
Sef a, Bulgaria, July 14.—Despar
ing of finding an American wife for
Boris of the Bulgarian throne. Pre
mier Stjboulisky asked Premier
Lloyd George if he could not suggest
a suitable mate for the lonely mou
arch. To this the British Premier
replied that he has not yet been able
to find a wife for the Prince oi
Wales, and that King Boris would
have to wail as the supply of Roya,
Princess' and other tilled ladies iu
Europe were rather depleied.
LOWE MI ST SI I'IKKT
HIS OWN CHILI)
Seatije. July 13>.— Cnder evid
ence. >aid Judee Pullman, and ud
r.iissunis made by the defense, the
■ ._>urt find# (hut the defendant John
(' Lowe is the faMer of the child
born to Miss Louise Dedrickson.
nurse. who sued Lowe, an Alaskan
fur trader for support for the child.
L.>we must furnish annually $300 for
sixteen years for the ci.I'd's support
and give name of Lowe to child.
MINER KILLED U HEX
DYNAMITE T.tAI* EXPLODES
Whitesville, W. Va.. July 14.—One
miner uus killed and ten others in
jured today when - mine train car
rying them to worL ran into a dyn-j
at 'e trap arid was destroyed. The
in■ ne is owned by '.he Mordue Col
leges com pany and has been oper
ating under the protection of feder
al court injunction.
CIIINKSK EIRE ON
ST \\ DARD OIL HARtJES
Canton. Cliiua. July 14.—Two
Standard Oil barge.', flying the Am
erican flag, were tised on in the riv
er two miles from here by troops ■
of Yip Kui'. opponent of Sun Yat
One hundred shots were fired
but the barges suffered no damages.
I'RIM INS ALICE ARRIVES
TOMORROW EHUIT O'CLOC K
The C. P. R. S S. Princess Alice
will arrive in the morning at eight
o'clock with 230 pajsengers and 100
ton, of freight.
It was a splenuld show at the
Broadway List night. Everybordy
highly pleased Repeats tonight.
KRANCK BKtilXS \\ IR
1>KBT TO I N1TKD STATES
I Washington, July 14.—Negotla-j
tion (or the refunding of the French
I war debt of three and one-half bil
I on dollars to the I'nited States ha»
1 begun at the Fedeial Treasury, uu
I der the direction of Secretary of the
' Treasury Mellon, and Jean V. Par
| mentsen. director cf finances of the
| French Treasury. This is the first
: contact between this country und the
..Hies on the subject of debts which i
| aggregate eleven billions dollars.
SULLIVAN DISMISSED ALLEGED
KI NDS MIS tl'l'ROI'RLVTED
Seattle, July 14.—Captain Sulli
van, deposed secretary of the polite
department here, was dismissed froi-i
the force by Chief of Police Sevryns
tor "alleged i..lsappropriation ol
funds" and other t'uings.
JAI'AN WILL WITHDRAW
TROOPS FROM S1HER1\ i
Tokto, July 14.—Japan will with
draw all her troops from the main
land districts of Siberia opposite t'u
island of Sakhalieu by September 30
according to an announcement today
CONSTITUTIONAL AMKMHIKXT I
FOR REGULATING ELECTIONS I
Washington. July 15.—Chairman
Dallinger of the House elections com-1
mittee has introduced a resolution'
proposing a consti utional amend
ment giving Congress the power to
regulate election ai.d nomination of
Senators and Representatives.
Two trials growing out of the
raid last week at Si-lmon Creek have
resulted in the convlctiou of two of
the men arrested. John Wagner and
J. R. McNeil, of violation of the Al
aska Bone Dry law. The third man
under arrest, Milton Rhodes will be
tried tomorrow morning.
Wagner was given a hearing In
the l\ S. Commissioner's court, the
Jury returning a verdict of guilty on
two counts, the manufacture and po
session of intoxicating liquor. Mc
Neil was tried before the same court
and was found gufUy of possession
of intoxicating liquor and maintain
ing a place for the sale of the same.
Judge V. A. Paine said he would not
impose sentence in either case until
the Rhodes' case had been concluded.
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SPfllfi MANILA
Manila, July 15.—A. Feukihara, a
steward on the ArUona Maru and
Momata Kanegaye, employed at the
Manila hotel, were arrested today at
Fort McKinley on the rifle range.
Thp;.- were taking pictures of the mil
itary reservations with high powered
compact cameras.
GOI I.DS TO RESIDE
IX SCOTLAND PERMANENTLY
London, July 15.—George J. Gould
and bride, who recently sailed for
Europe 011 their honeymoon, will
make their permanent home lu Scot
land.
SERIOl'S POOR SHORTAGE
THREATENS IRISH CIVILIANS
London. July 15.—A serious food
shortage threatens the civilian popu
lation in the areas occupied by the
Republican forces in Ireland on ac
count of commandeering of food sup
plies for use for the lusurgent troops.
MAX'S MINORITY ON EARTH
INCREASED BY RECENT WAR
Berlin. July 14.—Man's minority
on eurtli us compared to women, a
fact even before the war. hag been
Increased by that conflict until to
day it is estimated there are 25,000,
000 more women than men In Eu
rope alone.
Official statistics published here
show that the surplus of women In
Kurope 1 as increased by IS,000,000.
Hefore the war there were 1.038 wo
men to every thousand men; now
the proportion Is 1..11 to 1,000. The
rising surplus has Lsen mo?t marked
in Kussia, where the number of wo
men has grown from 1,042 to 1,299
for every 1,000 men. This is on the
i-asis of figures for 52 governments.
The situation has) also been nota
bly changed in Germany, Austria
Jugoslavia, Great Britain, Luxem
burg, France and Italy. In Germany,
exclusive of L'pper tilesia there were
1,110 women to every 1,000 men j
whereas before the war there were j
about 1,026. On the contrary, the {
number of surplus women has de-l
creased in Denmark. Norway, Swe
den and the Netherlands.
An outstanding feature of the sit
uation is that girls of a marriageable
age are in the minority in the sur
plus. most of tho.ie in the excess
classification being of elder years
and many of them -vidows.
STEWART XOM* TAKES
BETTER POSITION
B. D. Stewart, for the past three
years Territorial Mining Inspector,
returned a few days ago from Wash
ington to which place he was called
by the bead of the Bureau of Mines
ten weeks ago for the purpose of
consultation. The result was that Mr.
Stewart returned to Juneau, which
will be bis headquarters, wltb the
portfolio of a federal mining engi
neer in his possession.
Mr. Stewart succeeded R. J. Som
mers in the office oi Territorial mln
ing inspector whet the latter was
made surveyor general three years
ago this summer. His ability as a
mineralogist has long been recog
nized in the mining world and bis
selection as Supervising Engineer
in Alaska for the Bureau of Mines
is but just recognition of that abili
ty. Mrs. Stewart and their children
are still outside but will return to
Juneau in a short time.—Stroller's
Weekly.
The Elks hall li undersolng re
pp.irs. John Woods and Lee Hud
son are puttings now mud sills un
der the structure and putting the
foundation of the building in good
^shape.
MALONE WAYLAID AND
HANDLED RATHER ROUGHLY
Chattanooga, Tenn., July 15.—Bar
nard Malone, Jr., connected with the
general offices of the Southern Pa
cific railroad at Cincinnati, was held
up by masked men and taken on an
auto tri pand afterwards beaten aud
stabbed.
TEN YEARS PROPOSED
TRAFFICKERS NARCOTICS
Coeur d' Alene, July 14.—A pen
itentiary sentence of ten years for,
traffickers in narcotics was advocat
ed by H. V. Williamson, federal nar-|
cotic director of the western state* I
In an address here.
Jl'DCE RI LES POKER
DEBT IS LEGAL
Vancouver, B. C., July 16.—Rul
ing that poker is a game of skill,
Justice Buggies declared legal a
promisory note given by C. S. Mor
ris to Jack Mayville for $260, fol
lowing a poker game at Ocean Falls.
GERMANSANNbUNCE THIRTY j
MILLION MARKS READY
Paris, July 14.—The German em
bassy announces that thirty million
gold marks for the July reparations
instalment would bj paid today.
CITIZENS WILL FIGHT KLANKRS
Medford, Ore., July 14.—A citi
zens' committee of 50 has been
formed here. This follows the issu
ance of Gov. Ben W. Oicott's order
to Stute Attorney General Van
Winkle to push prosecutions on night
mobs outraging in Juckson county
during the lust three months. The
committee issued a statement that
it proposed to sturt a recall of Sher
iff C. S. Terrlll who is linked with
the activities "of a certain organ
ization" and further charges that it
is "time for the pecple to think."
The statement charges the police
officers and constables are members
of "this socioty" and that "promi
nent members of the National guard
at Medford have urgod members of
this society to fill the vacancies in
the guard."
Governor Olcott, In directing the
attorney general to take charge and
prosecute tho lawless ones said the
local authorities hare failed to up
hold the law.
lJIO RUSH PEOPLE
INTO THE YUKON
Seattle, July.—W. L. Burnslde,
general passenger agent of the White
Pass Railroad declared last night
that the passenger traffic over the
White Pass & Yukon service to the
Klondike and Atlin districts was
smashing a J1 records for many yearB
Virtually all reservations are sold
out up to August. Scores of tourists
are being refused accomodations for
July travel, altho the company was
doubling all along the line. A great
amount of tourist traffic was also
coming north on the American line
steamships as well as on the Cana
dian-Paciflc boats. The efTect of this
latter was to utterly swamp- the
White Pass river service.
FORMER WHITEHORSE BABY
DIES IJr ALBERTA
A letter has been received from I
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Cole, formerly of j
Whitehorse but now of Llnarla, Al- j
berta, conveying the sad news of the j
death of their baby girl, Evelyn. The
little tot passed away in July 1, death
being caused by dlptheria and bron
chial pneumonia.
The Alaska S.S. Company's freigh
ter, Latouche, arrived in port yester
day morning with 100 tons of mer
chandise for Skagway. She also car
ried some mail.
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HALF MILLION I RE
MEN 10 DIN STRIKE
Miners Turn Down President
Harding's Proposals for
Peace—Both Sides
i
Stand Firm
New York, July 15.—It is preduct
ed that E. P. G ruble, president of the
Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way
employes an d Railroad Shops Work
ers will Issue a strike order to four
hundred thousand men of his union
at any hour of today, according to
William Parker, leader cf the New
York Central Maintenance of Way
men and president of the Union's
Association of eastern chairman.
Washington, July 15.—One hund
j red and twenty-six members of the
policy committee of the United Mine
Workers of America gathered here
today to authorize a reply to Presi
dent Harding's offer to arbitrate the
coal strike, resulted in refusal on the
I part of the miners to accept the of
Ifer, President Lewis, of the Miner's
Union, Secretary-Treasurer Green,
and Vice-President Philip Murray be
ing present. As a result of the re
fusal a final conference was held by
the three union officials late yester
day afternoon with President Hard
ing and Secretary cf Labor Davis. It
is understood that Ilarding has auth
ority in the case of an emergency to
operate not only the coal mines but
also the railroads.
Chicago, 111., July 15.—Virtually
abandoning hope of an early settle
ment of the railroad strike the rail
road executives today prepared to
make a determined effort to reopen
their shops with employes Monday.
Peace moves will te suspended for
the present as the carriers and strik
ers are unable to find any common
ground for starting negotiations lead
ing to an agreement.
! MAJOR-GENERAL. MORTON AM)
I STAFF IN SKAGWAY TODAY
The Fornance arrived from Fort
William H. Seward shortly before
noon with Major-Goneral Charles G.
Morton and officer*. After looking
over the city, and taking luncheon at
the Pullen House, the party return
ed to the Fort leaving about two
o'clock.
HUNT DIES FROM BLOW
BY EX-POLICEMAN
eSattle, July 14.—J. M. Hunt, died
this evening. Two days ago he was
dealt a blow on the head by D. M.
Baer, an ex-policemau, vr'ion the lat
ter found him in compr.n ywitl) Mrs.
Baer. The charge of manslaughter
will likely be preferred iS'iinst Baer.
TWO TRANS-CONTINENTAL
AI It FLIGHT AUTHORIZED
Washington, July 15.—Two trans
continental air flights from Jackson
ville, Florida, to Rockwell field in
California were authorized by the
aruiy air service today. Lieut. Jas.
H. Doolittle w.ll make ti.e first ilight
August first.
JAPANESE DESTROYERS
ORDERED TO (ANTON
Tokio, July 15.—Japanese des
troyers have been ordered to Canton,
China, according to word from To
kio.
Don't forget to attend the White
Pass A. C. dance oil Saturday night.
Everybody welcome—good music.
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Yukon Rout";
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During season of navigation our fleet of modern steam
ers will operate the entire length of the Yukon River.
Daily Train Service (except Sundays) between Skaguay
and Whltehorse. Parlor observation cars on every train
For full Information regarding passenger and freight
rates apply to
H- Wheeler. General Manager
Skaguay, Alaska
Or S10 Alaska Building, Seattle ,Wash.