SKAGWAY, ALASKA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1916
PRICE 10 CENTS
DISAGREEMENT OVER 8 HOUR
Iff LEADJO BIG SHE
Railway Managers and Brotherhood
Chiefs Differ Over Application For
Enactment Relation to Mileage
Xew York, Nov. 14 —-Genera]
managers oC the 'various Qas'.ern,
railroatis and the executive heads ol
branches of the Brotherhood of'Lo
comotive Engineers, Brotherhood; of
Trafirj Conductors, -and Brother
hood <r Trainmen have held a con
ference in this city far the purpose
of discussing the new eight hour
law. ' 1
The members in attendance ^t
the meeting disagreed -out thei appli
cation of the enactment, disputes
arising over the question! of mile
age. Both sides stood firm in their
\jate?rpretatiion of the laiw.: 1
| The conference closed! with:
threa/s that the Brotherhoods woul
[ call a strike which; would enforce
'the adoption of their version of'the
law.
It Id believed' her? that another
'.conference will 1>e held Tt>etweenj the
.'Br'otherhoods and the Railroad man
! agera very BOpn, and that the
threatened strike may.he averted.
ll.e announcement made today-by
B«n\- of Alaska of the increase
cf ..s caDital stock from $50,000
to ?7 j 000 is something 'of mere
than ; assing interest to the iveople
i ' ®kagway. The bank opened 'its
dc-ors in Skagway March. 20th of
* M!s year, and is therefore * less
t-an eigh* months old. The growth;
in its business and the 'increased
f-K-ilitie provided by the bank for
i's customers -ha3 justified *he
iaith of the stockholders in largely
increasing its working capital at
thfc's t:tne. ! 5
There will appear tomorrow a
<-o i lcte statemeuf of the condi
tion o' the bank under the last call
o* f-be Territorial Banking Board,
wh- required all banks in the
Territory to report on -November
Sth The statement of the Bank
of Alaska • -shows its resourc
es around the half millioni dollar
ma-rk with -approximately -fifteen
hundred, depositors. '
Of t*e $25,000 additional capital
ir is .iiteresting to observe the'in
troduction of three new stockhold
ers into the rank3. W. TV. Hall,
a 'capitalist of Naw York Oity, (C.
C. Btebee, Vice-Prescient -of the
Midland Linseed Products Co., of
Minneapolis, and E. Sears Har
ro'd it New York, are'the new
names . Of the seven, hundred-and
I
: fifty shares, under the new plan,
Zohefh C. Freeman of New 'York
holds seventy five and Andrew St«v
ensoni of Skagway, seventy five,
the 'wo being the' largest In
dividual Btodkhiolders in| the bank.
Henry D. "VValbridge of News York
follows with sixty five. Andrew A.
Bentou, Thomas H. Dinsmore, the
Donan tier Company, and Fred ' W.
Gordon, all of New York, and An
drew H. Noah! of Akron,'Ohio, and
Howard E. Young of Baltimore,
«ach( have thirty eight shares. Fin
lev J. =hepard of New York has
thirty shares, -and Alexander J.
Hemohill andj Archflbald E. -Stev
enson, both at Nox York come
next with twenty each. The'other
shar»»s are distributed in) various
lots amoue the balance'of the stock
hlolders. P. H. Ganty and W. L.
LandsboroughJ-of Skagway, and'I>r.
J. T. Westermann of Anchorage,
hold ten shares each.1
The new concrete building be
ing erec'ed for the'bank in Skagway
in whi-h will also be located' the U.
6. Postoffice, is rabidly nearflng
compl^Mon. The new .'concrete
building at Wrangt-11 will soon be
ready- for oocupany. while the con
crete building'at Anchorage wag
\oocupi°d ' early in August.' It is
the policy of the bank to build-Der
manentl.v -wherever it is located.
The statement of the bank1 now
being issued reveals a most extra
ordinary condition in the amount
of cash! on hand and in banks, bin
der 'he law, »a twenty per cent re
serve is requird, whereas the
statement being) published! Bhows a
reserve of more than, fifty per cent,
a remarkable evidence ttfl strength.
Sacrifice Sale
SHOES and
CLOTHING
To make room for our new line of
shoes and men's clothing we have
placed certain lines on sale at a
great reduction.
Come in and look them over. Do not
delay as these bargains will be snapped
up quickly.
Albert Reinert
Successor Jto
HI f y M THE HABERDASHER AND
• «J* L# I l\vn LADIES' FURNISHERS
Broadway between I"hird and Fourth □ WKPhone 4IT.5
921 FRAUDULENT VOTES MAY
THROW IDAHO TOR HUGHES
Boise, IdaUo( Nor. 14—Tb<J of
ficial coun* of the ballots cast in
tbia state at tie presidential el©c
t ion, begun' bera yesteTday.
Ttaei official canvass may give
the Btate to -Hughes, 'owing to the
elimination of the votes cast
Boon,?yllle county, 1 which) 'has heei*
proven to be fraudulent. TJita 'will
•throw out 921 votea, and-wipes out
the Democratic lead. '
Sydney, Nov. 14—The latest re.
returns on) the referendum) regard
ing compulsory military | service
sho.v a majority against it of about
75,000. There la a diversity'of op
inion i-egsundingi tka soldiers' yote.
It '7 believed. thle figures will'favor
conscription although! many Austnl
iau soldiers' -are against it.
LOSSETfOIAL
3452 MEN DAILY
LONDON, Nov. 14.—The Britisli .
casualties reported lni 'October i" |
all w3r areas were: Officers, 4,331; I
nuu 5 03,702, 1
1 hp total British, casualties for |
four months in the Sonnnie offensive
were 414,202.
Tne do-oly) average loes for Octot>
er was 3.452.
LONDON, Nov. 14.—Th^ Canad- (
ian divisions ars resting after a- (
se^cs of severe lights in. the Som
rue district.
BEACH gold
Tne finding'of a $20 goAd pflece
in tne cleanup 0f a Nome 'beach
mjiiei recently'was given, publicity,
and brings to lightthe faet that a
native there'has piickejl up several
and $10 gol{£ piecep during the
mst tummer/and an) Eskimo found
a $?0 gold piece. -It is said) that
some of the natives make a regular I
pr^ctic* of -searching thel beach)
for lost coins.—Ex. |
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VMS CREW 10
SEEK SAFEIY
London, Nov. 14—Captaim Fr§d- t
ericifc Curtis, master of the ill-tat
etd Columbian, today miade a state
ment in which! he said that hla
vessel was given) wainingi'by the at
tacking submarine, and time gdven,
the crew in which, to -make 'good
their escape from the doomed ves
sel to places of safety, -before -the
sMd was sent to the bottom of -the
sea. i | If
BISHOMN
HURT COASTING i
MUle Randall springer, son
Bis'Uo aradl Mrs. Stringer, collided ,
with a horse drawing a delivery wa- (
JOa on Oct.'26 whil^ coasting on a. J
smal? eleighl The boy was struck f
bv thf horse's feet or otherwise, *
and sustained; a long, ugly cut In 1
the hip, antd may lia-vei been hUrt 1
somp.what internally. Dr. OuBiert- l
son took a gootl many sftichea in {
the wound, anld'it will be only a c
malter of time until it heals. Tie c
boy is resting easily, and if noi fur- 8
(her untoward developmental take
place within] a few hours he should
recover ratpddly. He Sg at the* Good *
Samaritan; htospitaj,
—Dawson "News
NEW R. R. l'RESS RATE c
— 1
The P^s 'rat© between Seward ^
Jn<". Anchorage is now only-half a s
lent a word and no minimum. That s
means that a piress message *
d* six words oan be sent for thiree y
:ertts end so* on.—Seward' Gateway. f
WILSON Si 10 FAVOR NEW
TARIFF 111 END OF EUROPEAN WAR
Washington, Not. 14—It has
been intimate*! that President Wil
son'may change his vietws on the
■tariff law? of the United)'States at
the en<l of the European^ war.
He is being quoted "as having said
thlat the' conditions After Jjeacei
hag been established T^etrvreeni the
[warring nations of the "world na&y
justly cause arevision'Qf the sched
j ule, tut at present he will contin
iue the policies which he has been;
I gofverntd hy during the past three
| and one .half yeprts of hi3 "adminla
i tratlon. •
Pumpkin Fie
is made best with
"Preferred Stock"
Cream runipkin
sold at 20c per tin—try it and be convinced
After Nov. 1 we will be open from 8 a. m. until
6; excepting Saturday—from 8 until 8
P. H. GANTY
Fuel Tanks Full—Shore Leave For Crew
Revoked—Heavy Fog Envelopes
Her Movements
New London,'Not. 1—The under
sea freighter Deutchland, is now all
ready foT Jier daring dash! across thq
Atlantic to hier home port in'Ger
nany.
The t il tanka oil the submarine
sraft are'full, steam is'up, and
ihiore letave for the members • -of
ier crew have'hen, revoked.
From early morning there ■ -has
been a heavy.'fog hanging: over this
section of the coast whicb is looked^
upon as a most favourable condition;
ior tn» safe get away of th§ .Ger
man; eraft.
'In as muchJ as ♦•he crew "all work
by secret signal, at any moment the
immense hawsers which^ -hold "her
to her berth may be loosened, and
she may sink under the "waters and
silen'iy move away. '
IOW THEY CAST
THEIR VOTES
. 1
New Yorfc, No*. 14—The! Re
lu'-.'ftan can/didata- for thepresi
lojjcy, Ch^-rlea Evans Hughes, was
11110rig the I first to vote election
normal, )>eing third in Une. ' H,e
vas accompanies to-the "polls by
>arl shedard, hia publicity -agent
■od i.wo detectives.! '
Princeton, N. J., 'Nov. 7—
Resident Wilson wa$ out early el
ctlon monning and cast his vote
ust about 9 o'clock. His was the
iftbieth rote cast in the precinct,
•ad was the straight, Demooi-atic tic
:ef both, state amd national. it
eq-.iired three autos, sixteen men
nd 00 gallons of gasoline toi deliv-1
r the vote,-the' President being ac-;
ompsreid to the polls by a nii/miber,
' newspaper and' two secret j
ervice men. 1
tvf season on gold
BULLION, WILLOW CREEK
Seward, Nov. 14—J. -H. Collier
f the Gol^j; "Bullion mine in Wil
3-v creek passedj through >on the
Gaston recently and 'will return in
pring wtithl hi si family. .The -eea
on was very successful and the
line was worked! until Octob&r '22,
rhich. waa stx idays later than last
ear. supplier will t>e sent "over
be snow this winter. I
IKS FAILED
CREWSJUGHT
Amsterdam, — British 'j>riso.uera
taken in th<j Somme offensive who
acted a? -the "crew"' for tank 'oars
wL'ch werg ^urrcunded and. cap
tured, denounced the machines aa a
comple'e failure, according to an
noiiLcement made by the Overseas
News Agency at Berlin.
The ageticy report says: ."The
prisoners *state that th§ o^rs ' are
able to advance onJy at the rate of
amile an hour, and. therefore make
excellent targets for artillery fire.
They instance a case of 'Seven, of
these macbttneg that started, in the
advsnct recently, only two* of
which, reached their 'objective, even*
these being then completely put out
of cemmiissiort by shell .fire. -The
occupants declare them atrocious
contrivances to travel in because of
tbo noise, smoke and heat and.
the trpachfrous ground-over whichi
*he» bave to'move in field1 service.
"In another case," the| prisoners
say, "thee infantry has been told
that six of the machines-had been
sent to the attack, but 'only one
appeared, and this -soon afterward
was wrecked." '
William Aitken, representing
Schillings & Co., ■ th>? "Sam Francis
co tea, co'fee and spice house ar
rived in Skagwayj from Vancouver on
the Prince Rupert yesteiday morn
ing, and after calling on his trade
in this city, 'will sail for Juneau,
and other Southeastern, Alaska
towns, in the iirteresf of his house.
We Have On
Display Our
Fall and Winter
Line Of
Ladies Coats
Come In And\Look
Them Over
WILbCLA YSON