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No. 52 TWENTY SECOND YEAH
SKAGWAY, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 11. 1919
PRIGE 10 CENTS
iii rmini; i
Paris Friday — TI13 prospects
lor oe:'ce being attained within a
tew uav^ coctimus to gtow blight
er each hour.
The new peace, which is now be
ing considered in the dedibei-atiojis
of the peace council embraces a
set of lour important questions—re
parations rht Fiume question, the
fixing cf the responsibility of the
war and the punishment of those
directly responsible, and the S^ar
river valley problem.
These four perplexing questions
have nnUv been disposed, ot
to th« entire satisfaction of the Ai
lied delete* to the i>e:,co congress.
j Washington, Friday — Advices re'
Iceivtxi the White House today
f roui President Wilson indicate
' tha' >vootl progress is being made
; towards u veaoee settlement.
Washington, April 11 — Aceoid1-1
ing to advices received by the ad"
mintstratfou at tHe White House
! »oday 'rom Paris fiiore progress bas
I been mad*- in the I"eac0 Conference
during the i>ast forty eight hours
■ than wad tr.ade iu the entire two
| weeks previous. j
LEAGUE Or WIS PROVISION I
PRESERVES MONROE OOCIRI
Paris At?ril 11 — A specific pro
vision h:ifc been adopted by
the Lea.'U- of Nations commission
which orovidrs that the MonrC<
Doctrine will uot be affected.
r»arU, A'Til 11 — At two o'
clock this morning after an all
night session of the be;|gu-e of Na
tions commission, President Wilson
i personally announced that the Mon
roe Doctrine had be*»ii exempted
from the constitution of the League
( or Nations.
RAILROAD MEN
GET BIG INCREASE!
Washington. April 11 —Genera
Director of Railroads Hines an
nounced today an increase in the
ol over /out hundred thou
sand engineers, trainmen, fireinei
and conductors.
The w»se increase amounts in
the a<;rf>gate to over sixty five mil
lion dollars a year.
I Par's Airil 11 — Geneva, lias
been selected as the home of the
League of Nations but thy first
meeting \>i the League will be held
In Washington. P. C. is the an
nouncement m^de to the press to
day by the members of the confer
ence.
Everybody Knows Some One
(or nearly every one) Who when they want anything
mighty bad are willing to PROMISE anything, and then
forget it when its time to come across like a little man.
Well—When we wanted to win the war and win it quick
and good and solid, nearly everyone (That is all the real
people) said. "Go to it—To with the cost.
Now we have won it its time to pay and this bank is
going to do its share to make the forthcoming VICTORY
LOAN a success. All any one wants U to do is to do ALL
YOU CAN. But be sure its that.
Then when You get your bonds bring them here and put
them in a safe deposit box-Only 25c a month and large
enough to hold hundreds. Come in and visit anyway and
let me tell you about them.
BANK OF MASK A I
Have You Tried
"GOLD CREST"
Brand Butter and Eggs
Just what you would expect when ordering the very best
Fresh shipments received on every boat
The Eggs sell at 60c per dz.
Butter 75c per pound
These prices subject to market changes
P. H. GANTY
MUTINY OF I S. TROOPS CON
FIRMED Mf WAR DEPARTMENT
Washington, April 11 — Con-,
firmatiou or the report of a mut- '
eny of a company of U. S. troops
at Archangel was given today by'
the War .Department
The s'atuient was made that the
troops refused to fight further
against the Bolshevists and the
leaders threatened that unless giv
en assurance by; Washington that
there i ouU! be an early withdrawal
of the troops from Russia that the
entire American army would mutiny,
and having received such as
surance the situation is agaiu
cleared.
■Washing-ten, April 11 — Sena
tor Johnson, in discussing the mu
tiny of the American soldiers at
Accb&n^el said that it was a strange
thills' tha* American soldiers now
Stationed in Northern Russia are un"
dor the command of tha British,
and tha' »he American soldiers who
had been sent to Siberia, are unjdor
Japanese command.
In commenting on these two facts,
Senator Jolinson said that it
now t'me to put an end to such a
state i f afialrs.
" - •»> man risiili
New York, Friday — As Samuel |
Goanpers, President of the American |
Fedoration of Labor rushed <2town
the gaufiplauk from the'steamer on
which he had arrived from France |
last eveiiiiiK, he exclaimed, "I "m,
back iu my own land, thank God, j
and tis he uttered thtpe words he
buxst out ip tears of joy. I
PART! LEAVES
10 GEI BODIES
This morning at seven o'clock a J
party consisting of Deputy U. S.
Marshal Fre' Tanner and undertak
er Bert WhitfUfld, o£ the Skagway j
UndertkaKii.Co. William and Judd
Matthews left on the Matthews
launch 'or deduction Point where
the two boilits, presumably victims
of the Sophia disaster were
discovered by the Matthews boys
yesterday.
The oai U will bring the buitles
'o Ska a way where they will bo iden
tified, ir r.o.ssiblo and prepared for
burial. The party 6houfld' arrive
back early this evening.
Just i'S the Alaskan waa going to
press ' Uy party arrived with tlie
! bodies. >t was not asoerUinidi if
| either had been identified.
SERC.KAX'l' NUGENT IS
NOW IN HOSPITAL OOKPS
A rard wai received from Ser
I geant R. L. Nugent who was for
[a couple of years with the 14th In
fantry at Fort Seward and who is
well known in Sicagway.
The Sergeant 6tatpe that 1)0 is
now in the Hospital Corps and is
stationed at Base Hospital No.
y5 in France and is glad to hear
from the Northland and hopes he
may again b« stationed up in Alas
I ka
!
Mrs. A. Aston was one of th0
! passengers who came up ou the
j Princess Mary, and who went out
ou the train today.
Mn. Ashion is the mother of
! Miss Florence Ashton the Discovery
| school teacher and will visit in At
• liu indefinably. Slie will go from
I Qarcross via the Shultz stage line.
Durltt"' the time of the infl'ir-an
: ssa epidemic along the lower river
| a report wi*s received in. Fairbanks
that the natives along the Koyuiuk
and <ne Alakaket had the disease.
| This rumor was dispelled by the ar
rival c>f ». mail carrier who rapot
|ed that while a number of the na
tives had the complaint, it was ia a
' very mild form, and no fatalities re
sulted. The stolen ess was different
j from th i iDflueoza in that no fever
accompanied it. . *l; t.|j
President Compere, as bead of the
American Federation «o£ Labor baa
been iu attendonCQ at the Interna
tional l"bOf conference which has
btien in session in Parip.
Later in th0 evening, it re
ported, Mr G-ompfira informed bis
wife that lie had sustained a. X>&r
alytic stroke several dAya aso, but
was creatly recovered.
1 WOLF PELI
IS EXHIBITED
l'lie ■ el» o£ a gigantic wolf that
wa$ recently Killed in the Circle cou
try ja said <o measure eleven
lect ii-orn tip to tip.
Accjriliut, to th-o report the bit;
ft'oit' was ltiliid by a tratper namei
.Maclicul do .Michel. 11© was out
on liis tru line about ten milts fr<^m
iiis c-'b •• with two dogs and a
Sled. :V saw a pack of wolves
sotue ilisia.oe away from. Mm bui
did not «.H> anj; particulate attention
then. A little later lie noticed
tliat the na 1- approached closer tc
hint "«d were making an effort tc
surround him aud hip team. Unhitcli
iug his cogs in the screen o]
a bunch of brush, he sent them on
homo and himseJf climbed a tret
Withl« » fc-tort time the wolves hat
the tree surrountfied, whlc& waa tc
tile friooer's liking;. He succeed
ed in l illing three out of the paok
the bi» leliow among tham. But «
coupl0 more remained, and one o.
them was wounded. Getting dowi
front thf tree, ho skituned his "cat'
and wen» cb homa
AT LI MIES MAKE FIRST
TIUP OCT IN 19 YEARS
•Mr. at"l Mrs. Fred Wrong war*
arrivals on today's train comiPi
out to C^rcroisp from, Atlin, and wil
1 eave on the next Princess Mary.
Mr. and Mra. Wrong are Piooeej
of Atlin and this ia their first tril
out for over nineteen years. Thej
will visit their old homa in BritlsJ
Columbia and will rgtuom when nay
igation ooena up.
Mr. Wrong is one of the besi
known characters in Atlin, havint
been engaged in business sever3
times, bur ior the pagt ten yearfl
he haa been manager of the iwte
and transportation bupineoa o;
Louis Srhultz.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Bladk and tw<
children accompanied by MJJiS Rutl
Hanna. the Atlin nurse, arrived) oi
today's train Mr. Black is. on<
of th® vrominemt mining men a
Atlin district and the object oc
their trip Is to secure modicaj at'
tentioa for Mrs. Black who ha:
been in bad health, for Some tiny
pa^t. They will pail south on th<
^Princess Mary ftext W««lk. l ^ a ;
Mir TET BE ncessnr FH
HUES 10 UGt Wis
I
Paris, Frl<Ifl.y — The confirma
tion of thr. Bolshevik: plan to ssize
Germany a* an initial step in world
wldfe prolt'arian revolution was re
ceived. in government circles here
thig morniiyr and was announced
, ttiis afternoon.
J The information relative to the
' plan, as it is now formulate says
that <he plan contemplates the tak
ing over hy the Spartacans, with
j tlie preset t soviet government's ic
| qiuAestn'ce 'he administrative power
of Germany immediately; oaftep the
Paris reaoe conference closes, and
then, once in control the Spartacans
will refuge to pay the indemnities de
manded by the terms of the peada
treaty or *o carry, out any other of
thve terns provided by the peace pact.
It is believe^ here that the old
German Militarists are back of thia
program, an 1 tliat it is the intention
of the old' Prussian military ring to
assist in the realization, of th.a idea,
go as io repudiate the entire amount
of damagi s which will be assessed!
against the Central Powers by the
AiMed na'iODS.
Berlin, Friday — A despatch re
ceived here today from. Welder aay®
that the Forelga Minister I n aa ad
dress which he made to the Gertnau
Council said that XJermany would
never t'.en any peace treaty that
diff ers materially from Wilson 'a
fourteen points.
BRITISH LABOR PARTY PLATFORM
ENDORSES WILSON'S 14 POINTS
Louden, April 11 — In a state
meat issued toda>* outlining the pol"
Icy of the British Labor party, the
demaad Is Jia.de that thie Paris
| Peace Com mission ma.k.0 peacg at
once on (He President Woodrow WU*
|boh plan as set forth in hia fourteen
points aa<i that military iaterfer
ence in Russia Immediately cga^a.
MACHINE GUNS
KILL SPARTAGANS
Benin, Friday — The Lokafl An
I zeiger of this city says that gov
| ernment troops used machine guns
on Spar'acans in the outbreak yes
1 terday at Dusstddorff, and. that
, twenty live of the rioti-is were
killed.
I Mra. A. H. Kirk of Dawson w^s a
' rotturnine Klond'iker om the l^t
' Princess Mary and left this morn"
ing for Whitehorse, where 9he will
take th» stage for Dawson. Mrs.
| Kirk ent out last f«Jl
Berlin, Friday — Munich; des
patches, received here today say that
diplomatic relations have been es
tablished between the Bavarian
soviet government and the Russian
soviet ^overnmenit.
L. br?tf, a well known Atlinite,
I went out od the train bound for
[ homa Mr. Bratt spent the win
ter outside. ■
Most joyfully we welcome you back!
May the days as well as the years ahead of
you ever keep fresh in your memory the
appreciation and pride which mere words alone
cannot express* You did the job right!
WI/JL } Military training has certainly worked
rr flO S wonders with your physique—your new
\T clothes to properly fit your bigger chest,
M \JUT smaller waist, more muscular limbs, should
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/ CLllOTC Price & Co.
Our new fashions and woolens await your inspec
tion and we will gladly measure you and arrange for de
livery of the finished clothes to suit your convenience.
JAMES KENNEDY