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No. ill) TWENTY THIRD YEAR
SKAGNVAY, ALASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21. 1920
PRICK 10 CKN'IK
i.or.dim. AV Tl'« -overn
-."••nt is cw'entratinr-' tts cffoit-'lo
lTt-vi n.t the sr.-^'.id of the miners
' strike to ti® railway3 and docks.
Much uiire.1 exists in tlies
quarters t>wt stror.s lioiYs are'-ieldl
out that f.ijro "ill ho no Hrilteak.
WashirfcU.il, Wednesday — Ho
Port- r coivt-J in official circle'
thai tho forces of G»iicr;xl
\Vri>r.-i-ll in southern, itus-i.i have
rested from fifty thousand to
t»'o fcrasdrvd : ::cl fif:y thousand.
Vi 0 UnKu'viki arc loslns Kround
and wcak'3i:i-' nil over Russiti.
C !u;»_ cncsUaj— Th ree Police
i-.a >"-Tc w.iuuiU-d la a lutUe be
•the P*>U'0<! iltld R Kimi boot
; o Wire b^itt; rounded up
V.rtlnRtoa, Wednesday—Ia a
nt "'»•!> 'tonight G«a..-ra! Bar
■t; ,1 J ),vn to a in irked •!,.
• !:is <.'.ar-V resi^'iaj* the
ri:; i: at of marine,
.. i.ajt!- i ; S«-w.t"U In ; din
"••• If • k, von Brv>-id'vay a
t; •. u;> v en that --tnotliad
i," : i i-.V tuaS-i. for :: taj>i - s'ory.
Aj'skan
ol3 mm
PASSES MIT
Xcw Port, Tuesday —John W.
McUcnald a PioDe®r o£ the Klondike
and Xome sul-.l dUcoverie« dll'd,
acre today.
Archdeacon Stuck
Buried In Indian
Cemetery
i: aw so n. V. T. October- Arch
•Joarix K«dson St'k-k Ei'lscoP.ilian
I'l's-i-.ii.ary in in" north, n'ho dii.il In
r. >rt Yukon <>arly t'il; v.-oek of
d.< 'ble Pneumonia, was fc''ried la th
Ir.Ji'.n c-me^iy thcro jn accordant
with hi4 rcqul!3t mado j'i*t befor0.,
hi» d 'ssh. 5or>icf9 conducted
!;/ !>'. Graton 15urk«s and ""embers
or the native council acted ad Tali
b avers.
DON'T DESPISE THE SINGLE |
DOLLAR
If you watch over the sma'l tilings of life, tliey
will make you; if you neglect them, they will
break you. Neglect the dimes and you will
never have the opportunity to neglect the dol
lar. Start an account with us and become ac
quainted with our modern banking methods
1.00 Starts an account
We can help you and you can help us
BanK of AlasKa
TOILET SOAPS]
+
&
We have a cornylete line of high grade *
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! toilet soaps at low prices. Special prices p
\ by the bdX and dozen lots. It will par yOu s
1 to buy frOm uS. £
• P. H. GANTY I
Full supply of fresh fruit and vegetables ex "SEATTLE'
.PRESIDENT WILSON TRIES TO
PUT NVDKII THE HOLE
Washington, Tuesday — The
!etter written by Presi dent Wilsou
: to Senator Hardin? asked Hard
ing i: lie had V*n correctly re
Ported as stating that he had been
aPprcoched by Fren-cii reqr«s©ntativ
e» aud asked for information aiwl
jaUo asked by tliem if the LMuMj
liva-es would le«t' the way to
i-Worid Fraternity."^
I Ti e Pro'ideiit "wrote In Part, "I j
n°ed not Point out to you the'erave,
and extraordinary inference to bo
drawn fro® such a stat«mont. Tho
epartn*ent of state has alwaya
found tli© government of Frajice
u:;)8r. honor-bly mindful of its in
ternatiOTiai obligations and Punctil
lou»]y carefuj t0 obtain and observe,
ajl the ProPrieti1^ of international in
tercours©". s
Washington, Wednesday A let
»Cr which was wr;ttoa by President
Wilson to Senator Harding will be
given out at tno Whitehous® Uxl^-y
as it re) Wlls«*n'sj oamPaien docu
It Is announced that 1U° letter
wll' d^al witvi 'the L©aeue of
N'atlors.
Corn Wednesday —TUo firsti
dt?' . anions the hunSer Rtrikers'in
the Cork jail .occurred yesterday.
FitzBeraiJ died last ni^'h' after.
haUag lasted sixty eight days. I
H« "was imprisoned for shoo'inS a,
^ojdler named. Jones outride of the
Termey church.
McWbinny is en Uls sixtieth. dW
hunger strlko and Is said to boj
fairly '"'ell. I
K..rtcMkaiik Wednesday—Bdwar G.
Morris<-y oditJr of tho Ketchikan,,
t-':ironlclo and Mis" Myrtl^ D.
Cujlir. of Baltimore were married on
Saturday.
Council Meeting
Held LastNight
TV.<-re n'as a a adjourned meetlnsi
ct the ('ity t'0uncil last nl^'h1 a
wMcu considerable routin« b"si
n?ss wa» transacted.
The war tim> cattle' ordinan,ce'wa-s
r^rraU'd and the old ordinance re
enacted.
'"here has b'-en so niuch com
Plaint to tho city Council a
bo"B cattle »jid horses running at
[ largo that th0y fe°l constrained t<
tnforce the ordinance to th° letter
The matter cf water supply was
discussed and Progress made whl°h
would Sisnlfy th°t this question, wil]
bo amicably startled before Ions.
The matter of the tax levy was
takenK UP and uPon rpCommendation
of tho committee on ways and,mean.s
the levy for 1920 ,vas fixed at
fifteen mills.
'*ho question of ridins McycleS'was
brouEnt uP and the Police dePart
ment reported lr,uch comPiaintiand a
r,?> lL1tion was Parsed alowin£ bt
cyclu riders to t-So t^o sijewalks'Iro11
the north side of Seven,th avenue to
the cJty northern limlts and ao'more
Summary arrests will be made
of any one riJjng on, the *idewalk
south of the north sido ofsevent
avec»e.
The usual n 'mber of bill5 wer° Pas
Med and ordered Paid.
It is nov Possible to travel fro'
rikagway to Valdez by "affon road,
with tho exception of one or two
sat>s which c'tn be covered by boat.
The :oad runs to Whitehorse and
ti^nce aions the Yiukoin, river to
Da >vsjn. A t) iat must bo taken, to
circlel, from which Point a wa£on'a1|
cover tho sr«ater Part of th° dis
tanco to Fairbanksa A Rood1 road
,run9 from Fairbanks to Valdlez. —
V9jdcz Min$r.
IMD'S TALK
MAKESJiG 111
Hon. John KuUsard who Is caadi
dato for Attorney General oa
t >a Republican ticket has a most
enthusiastic ni0, tins at A. B. Hall o
f I'c^day iiiglit.
The ball was filled and' Jude
Ruitt'ard hjd hi3 hearers la wraPt
attention, durins tbe whole of bi3
sl*ech.
l"be analysis of the Democratic
•'arty aad their failures durinsl
the l«H sixty years showed mucb
thought and research and. his
lh> stration of t^ Democratic "Bravo
yard'1 '"ot Tviuli fcear'y aPPlause.
Mr. Ru^tsard wbo was always a
fsvorlto la, Slots«"ay maintained liis
imputation and wju carry Skagway,
by a big nurSin.
Tbe oltber candidate3 oa tb° R®
Publi'anl ticket reviewed a liber
ai »">ount of attention at he hands
of Mr. Riusteard w.io*e ''lea was
fo (be whole ticket aad aothins
bu' the straight ticka .
Alls. Rustffard's answers to the
calumny that has been, h®aPodi -up
on ni"» by the opposition, candidates
and the hostile Press woftt well
aa»"veied and thow'ed that the'°harg
es ini'd« were wholly false ami til. /
a'i'.i nirely act ag a boomerang.
The BPeech of Mr. RuHBard,
I was calim Uignitit-dl and without any
of tho mudslinsins that has"charact
erlzed speeches of the Democratic
1 candidates and tfce Democratic Press
ard by very contrast made friend3,,
for Mr. Rusteard and/ the Re Pub U
can rarty as a whole.
Oa account; of the indiPosl'lou o(
I Howard A»bloy chairman of th
Skaeway Republican, club who i
suffering from an attack of l«mba
So. Mr. Rustsard waa introd)u«ed,
by Dr. L. S. Kfcller.
| Anxious Daughter
! Seeks Her Father
Mrs. E. A uicry, o£ T.homa3, Wn;
is inqulrins for her father. Defter
Byron ^ark, end brothers, Geor*
and Abraham, parties havaxE any
Information rtsardins the mi'-sin^
men ,would do the ladyd a favor I
writing to the aboyo address.
C(,jjje and see Lorely Irene 'Cas^e
ia the Firms Line by Robert "W.
Chambers, '..J
MS-CMli FLI3HT CiP
LETED; MADE UST SIM! IlLES
III MIT FIVE HIES IE
Vancouver B. c. TueeSjay— Fiy
iue tlio last eixty mile3 In tiurtyj
five mlrmtcs C0midaa,dcr Tylee Bad
ffPtala A, G. Thomson, the Pllo
landed hhere at noon, Sunday.
This completed the trans Canad
Ian alrPlane filKht whldh start-d
the "'ominfc' if OctoVr «ev©n,th at
Halifax.
I l SALESMAN STEALS
JEWELS WITH 500.000
New York, Wednesday—Harry C.
Tr! ac of Brooklyn?: aad a "ales
mc.ii for a mercantile house was ar
lcstKl and charffed 'with the theft of
I
Res Reynolds,1 editor of the A1
;i «ka Capital at Juneau, was an
airlvall on, the City of Seattle.
Mr. Remolds "was takiins a vaca
tion and intended to cvi8it WTilte
horse but there was no train Tuesday
he hadi to be contented by
takinKk a lilka uP the Une.
Mr. Reynolds left on the Estebetl
for homo.
Cable Is Down
Burnside On job
The cable shiP Burnside a
rived at Halnes ye»terd->y ov«nins„
and found Mie br°ak in th6 cable
was about a inile or such a "'at
tc-r out of Juneau..
A very "tiff wind is btowlns b,;
it (s thouSht f-hat the line wo '
be iH> tonight or t0m0n-0w.
Jewel' valued a» over on,« half "Mi
lion dollar'
T t Jewel|' Wer» Btol>n from the
horn"* of Enric® Qaj-uso the fam
)U3 tenor.
mum seize!
ill
' Hf'een, oases of whi^k-y and three
b <-la of raisin wia^ were seized,,
. fro"1 Mlko Bubich at Douglasl and
' bto'^ht to Jun<.»au an Saturday ev»
' mns by U. £>. 11 irshal J. M. Tan
tv-r and U. j. JJoPuty Marshals N. O.
| Hardy and A. E. Lucy accordins to
a »tatem«at; mad» by the authorities
I«o<j«y.
Husich wtu released on, a cash
j bond of $2,00'">. Aocordine to a
stato>n*nt "ad 3 by Marshal Tanner,
\ a comPlaint W1J1 be filed asainst B"»
irh en Tu«oday moraine and. he will
al'l'ear before tr. S. Commissioner,
Hon'on at Douglas tomorrow.
| A forty,*on wing *npwpjow , w
recently shipped fro"1 Seattle by the
Aiasna Enginserine commlssion for
use on the main, lino of the Alaska
railroad between Seward and Anchor
ase. similar Ploy was sent XoutU
j ;ast sPrinK. The? Plow an oPerator
one wing at a tlmo or both in
' clearing railway tracks and risht of
1 wa /.
I HIE PUSS &
y
THE QATEWAY ROUTE OF
COMFORT SERVICE SAFETY
FOR
Yukon Territory, Atlin District and
Interior Alaska
Through Tickets to and from3 Dawson,
Fairbanks, and a|l Interior Alaska
and Yukon River Points.
During the season of navigatie* our fleet «f modern steam
ers will operate regalarly the entire leagbk of the Yukon
River and its tribntariee.
Daily train service(«cept Siadaj) between Skagway and
Whitehorse. Parlor obserrafci#* ears oa erery train
Full information regarding pas»e»ger and freight rates
apom applyiee t«
H. Wheeler, Qeneral rianager
Skajuay, Alaska
or
5:0 Alaska Buildiac, Seattle, Wash.