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NO. 88. TWENTY-FIFTH TEAR 8KAGWAT, ALASKA, XI hhUAY, aii.im i.»—.
TARIFF BILL
PASSES SENATE
Washington, Aug. 21.—The Mc
Oumber tariff bill passed the United
States senate on Saturday evening,
only Republican Senator voting
against the bill being Senator Borah
Four democrats voted for the bill,
including the Louisiana senators
The bill had two thousand amend
ments after having passed the house
and will id wgo to a conference of
the two houses which will probably
take a month for consideration and
final adoption as the law of the laud.
The bill grants authority to the Pre
sident to raise or lower the tariff
rates if it Is deemed necessary to
meet new economic conditions. It
doubles the tariff on woolen goods,
and offers 33 cents a pound on
straight wool. It carries the highest
duty which has been placed on sug
ar for a half century.
MONTANA COAL OPKRA l"ORS
SIGN AGREEMENT
Billings. Mont., Aug. 22.—The:
coal operators and coal miners have
signed a strike settlement agreement
here today. This agreement reestab
lishes the wages and working condi
tions in the coal mines and work
will be begun at once.
YOl'THFl'L FIGHTER .
DIES IX FIGHT
Palmyra. N Y„ Aug. 21.—Two
buys. Floyd Shawl, aged 13 and John
Schwartman. aged 14. while attend
ing the Palmyra Chautaqua. got In
to an altercation and came to blows.
Young Shawl dropped dead during
the tight.
HIGHES DEFENDS
SENATOR NEWBERRY
Washington. Aug. 21.—Secretary
Hughes iu a personal letter to Rev.
Hugh B. McCauley, of Peterson, N.
J . says that Senatorf Newberry suf
fered a "most serious injustice" iu
being tried for alleged violation of
the election luws iu his last election
MEXICAN GENERAL
TRIED AND EXECUTED'
Mexico City. Aug. 21. —-General
Juan I'brea was executed here on j
Sunday by the military agricultural
colony of Atlonilite in the state of
Pueblo. I'brea was given a summary
trial by the military court and con
victed on charges of rebellion
VETERANS OF WAR
CLOSE CONVENTION
Seattle. Aug. 19.—The Veterans
of the World War. who have been
holding their convention in this city,
closed the sessions with an Ameri
canization parade In which many
thousands participated. There was
an enormous crowd of people view
ing the parade despite the steady
downfal of rain.
THKEE PERISH IN
AEROPLANE ACCIDENT
Battenboro, Vt., Aug. 19.—Three
people were burned to death in an
aeroplane accident while the dedi
cation of the flying field iu the city
was taking place.
BRITISH EYES
OX MANCHURIA
Peking. China, Auff. 21.—Britain
has occasion to turn hor attention
to the Chinese province of Machuria.
where Chang Tso Ling, the defeated
governor of that province still
The governor has threatened to
withhold his protection from Brlslsh
lives and property throughout the
province as a i^prisal measure for
wha» he calls British contempt of his
authority. British subjects through
out the province are alarmed over
the threatened measure of reprisal.
GERMANY AND FRANCE
TO TRY CO-OPERATION*
Paris, Aug. 21.—There Is a pos
sibility of a friendly understanding
being arr ved at between France and
Germany, which would Include a
close economic collaberation. This
suggested plan wa« given serious
cons:deration in commercial unoffi
cial circles today.
HILARIOl'S POI.ICF.MEN RI X
AM U K STREET CAR. IN°.ll;RED
Seattle. Aug. 19.—A high power
ed automobile, belonging to Police
man Fred Mills and ruunlng at fifty
miles an hour, ran Into a street car
and all the officers were dangerously
injured. Besides Mills, the owner,
those in the car were G. 0. Jensen.
Davy Robert, and Bert Kerner. The
officers are all reported to have been
in a hilarious mood and were off du
ty at the time of th« joyrida.
MICHIGAN MINKS
RESl'ME OPERATION'S
Saginaw, Mich.. Aug. 21.—Opera
tions in the coal iniues of Michigan
were resumed this morning. The
mines have been sl ut down for five
months.
BIG SEAPLANE
REACHES FLORIDA
Palm Beach. Fla.. Aug. 21.—The
gigantic seaplane, Sampaio Corelia.
nith Lieutenant Hinton. command
ng, reached this place on its trip
from New York to Brazil. The big
ulane spent the night in the hurbor.
POLAND INCREASES.
ARMY TO 300,000
Warsaw, Aug. 19.—The presence
>f the Russian forces on the frontier
jf Poland is given#us the reason for
the increase of the latter* standing
trmy to 300,000.
MELLONS LEGAL
ADVISOR EOl'ND DEAI)
Pittsburgh, Aug. 19.—James H.
Beale. the legal advisor of Secretari
at the Treasury Mellon, was found
lead In his bathroom in this city.
The cause of his death is not given.
BIG BRISTOL BAY
SALMON' PACK
Seattle, Aug. 19.—The Bristol
Bay salmon pack this year will yield
n million and a half cases of sal
mon according to estimates received
here today.
'heavy fighting in di bun
Dublin, Aug. 19.—Last night the
guns of the National army forces and
those of the Republican Irregulars
were belching all night in the fight
which is going on in this city.
LET US HELP YOU!
The fact that your account may be a small one in the 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 busi
ness for yourself.
Barak ®ff HBaiskai
SKACWAY, ALASKA
. Seattle. Aug. 21.—The prelimin
' ary hearing on the insanity charge
I made by Mrs. Waiker, against her
|daughter, Roberta, was hcitl. It
1 developed in the course ot the hear
I ing that Mrs. Anna S. W-ilKer. the
| mother of Iloberta and a prominent
I club woman, made the daughter
'Sign a note (or $2,300 as reimburse
ment money for the mother'? hav
ing reared the daughter. T!ic mus
ter also stated that site had pa d sev
eral hundred dollars on the note.
The daughter is a school teacher
and has become involved in the le
gal proceedings because of the inter
est which the s< n of a wealtliv r-iajii
er has evinced for her.
Seattle. Aug. 22.—A jury ot alein
ists before whom the charges of In
sanity of .Miss Itolierta Walker, were
presented yesterday, returned a ver
dict that Miss Walker is not insane
The mother was hissed by the crowd
in the courtroom when the verdict
was auuouuced.
ItOl'SE TO ADOPT
PRESIDENT'S Sl'(i(iKSTIO.N
..Washington. Aug. 21.—Chairman
VVInslow, of the Commitie of Com
merce in the Houes of Representa
tives after a conference with Presi
dent Harding stated that he would
introduce a bill to create a fact find
ing coal commission to follow up the
suggestion made in the President's
recent message to congress on the
coal question.
SMKJtil.KI) CHINICSK
TO BK DEPORTED
Seattle. Aug. 22.—Fifty-four c in
ese, who. according to the federal
authorities paid out fifty thousand
dollars to he smuggled into the Unit
ed Stares have been ordered deported
to China.
I.KtUON PROTESTS
WOMEN* EMPI.OVKS
Washington. Aug. 19.—T e Amer
ican legion Post. No. 1. have passed
and had sent to President Harding
resolutions of protest against the
further employment of Mrs. Caroline
Harding Votaw. sister of the Presi
dent. and twelve other women,
whose husbands are also in the em,
ploy of the government. The conten
tion of the Legion is that the con
tinuance of Mrs. Votaw as the head
of the industrial service section of
the Veterans' Bureau at $5,000, is
keeping an ex-service man out of the
position, and that Mrs. Votaw's hus
band as superintendent of prison,
draws a salary of four thousand. The
same contention is made of the oth
er women employes whose husbands
are in the government service.
C.OVKRNOR-GBNKRAL WOOD
TO HEAD I'MV. OK PEXNA.
Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 19.—Oov
ernor-General Wood, of the Philip
pines, will assume the duties as Pre
sident of the University of Pennsyl
vania. on January first, of next year.
This is the message the governor
general sent to the alumni of the
university and tho secretary of the
institution.
PASSENGERS PANICKY
OX Hl'XAWAY STREET CAR
Spokane, Aug. 19.—Fourteen
homegoing passengers were panic
stricken on a street car in tills city,
when a shooting short circuit set fire
to the vestibule and cut off the mo
torman from his control. The car
ran wild for two blocks before it was
stopped by breaking the connection
from the rear. Three people were in
jured in the panic.
IA)RD XORTHCUFFE
LEACES $45,000,000 ESTATE
London, Aug. 19.—Lord NortV
cliffe, who died recently is reported
to have left an estate estimated at
forty-live million dollars.
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IS NEM~RERRYISM
PARAMOUNT ISSUE?
Washington, Aug. 22.—Chairman
Hull, of the Democratic National
Committee has Issued a statement In
which he declares that the republi
can leaders are planning to make
I "Newberrylsm, the paramount issue"
| in the fall campaign. But this is de
1 dared to be only a means for divert
; ing the public attention from "many
I other issues which are Btlll more
i damaging."
DAUGHTER OP GOVERNOR
8R11MJ «<F DOCTOR
Seattle, Aug. 21.- Among the J
pnsengers leav.'i; this port on the
liner President McKluley, is Klsi I
Florence 'Dixon of Montana. Miss
Dixon is the daughter of governor i
Dixon of that stulj and is bound for,
the Orient to Wrme the hride of
Doctor Charle? >1. Lei.V the sani
tary advisor of ths Philippines con'-1
mission, stationed at i>!aiilla.
I'MTED ST A II.S OFFICIOS
UKT RANK WRKC RER
San Diego. Cal., Aug. 22—Alva E.
Smith, who is wanted in Arizona,
Oklahoma and Nebraska on the
charge of bank wrecking, is in the
hands of United States offcers vho
have been efater him for some time.
He arrived on the power schooner
yesterday afternoon from Ma/atlan,
w ience he had been deported by .the
authorities and was arrested by the
nited States officials.
PAILKD TO GET COLLINS
IX ANOTHER ATTEMPT
Dublin, Aug. 21.—Another at
tempt to get Michael Collins, the
leader of the Free Staters by assass
ination failed today.
< Ot'NCIL ELECTS
COTT1.R1LL COMM.SS ONi:n
Seattle. Aup. 22.— 1 he citv cun
• ill elected F,-in'» W. Cotterill a la
••'or leade ra civil service enuimis j
s.tner
COMMISSION TO SEXD
DELEGATION TO BERLIN"
Paris, Aug. 19.—The reparations
commission of the League of Na
tions. will send delegates to Berlin
to confer with Chancellor Wirth on
the problems of reparations. The
delegation will leave Paris on Sun
day, the twentieth.
Barleduc, France. Aug. 22.—France
is determined that Germany shall
pay for the devastation which she
caused in the great war. Rather than
depart from this final Intention she
will act alone, his was the assertion
of Premier Poincaire in his speech
at the opening meeting of the Gener
al Council of the department of the
Mouse.
Seattle, Aug. 21.—The S.S. Vic
toria of the Alaska Steamship -Com
pany arrived from Nome this after
noon.
Not So "Lonpry" After All.
A shrewd lunatic. tin Inmate of an
asylum. Inn) a shilling which he hid one
day in a hole. Tin- attendant
wiitchlog him, so he went lifter him to
the place, took the shilling und |>ut H
sixpence Id Its stead. Next dtiy the
patient came to see his shilling, nnd
when he examined It he said: "You
must he In consumption. You're get
ting so small nnd pole."
He put It hnck Into the hole.
The attendant, who had heen watch
inc. went again. took the sixpence and
put a sovereign In Its place. On the
following duy, when the lunatic came
to see his coin, he looked at It and
'■aid:
"I fear you have yellow Jaundice
his time. I must take you home and
mind you." So saving, he put the
sovereign In his pocket and kept It.
The warder Is still studying the
profit and loss account.—London Ideas.
Sufficient Unto the Day—
The subject given them being the
ruture. one schoolboy wrote. "We are
i old not to be anxious about the fu
ture. as the future will come In time."
Another youngster cogitated this
gem: "We are taught In the Sermon
on the Mount not to think of the fu
.are, because the evil we do in one
day Is eulUclent."—Boston Transcript.
The American building at Brazil s
exposition will later be used for the
embassy and if a few more countries
would only put on fairs our ambassa
dors eventually mitfht have a place to
caU Louie.
Chicago, III., Aug. —The strike
of the shopmen reached out its hand
and wrecked the Kvpres< train of the
Michigan Centrcl line, en route from
New York to Chicago near ^ary,
Indiana. Twenty-seven spikes were
removed from one rail on the line
and the train was wrec.-ed hilling
two persons and injuring a number.
BROTHERHOODS AGAINST
SYMPATHETIC STRIKE
Cleveland, Aug. 21.—President
Lee, and other heads of the Rail
road Brotherhoods, declared today,
that there wa ano danger of the rail
Brotherhoods being drawn into a
sympathetic strike.
HOPED FOR ENO
OP STRIKE NEAR
Washington, Aug. 21.—As a re
sult of the conferences being held
here last Sunday between the Union
leaders the end of th nation-wide
strike is forcast berore the end of
the present week.
CALLS PRESIDENT VNFAIR
CNJt'ST TO LABOR
Washington, Aug. 22.—Represen
tative Huddleston in a speech In the
House charged the President as go
ing beyond his powers under the con
stitution In his Bpeech before the
. oint session of the House and Sen
ale, Friday. The Alabama member
asserted that the speech was an un
fair, unjust and prejudiced statement
as to organized labor.
I'RESIDENT COMMENDS
ILLINOIS GOVERNOR
Chicago, 111., Aug. 22.—President
Harding in a letter received by the
Illinois Chamber of Commerce, ex
pressed his gratification over the
fact that the Governor of Illinois
has started the campaign to bring
about the prosecution of thos« who
are responsible for the Herriu mas
sacre.
GUARDS TAKE
TOLL OP STRIKERS
San Bernardino, Cal., Aug. 22.—
W. V. Prichal, a striking electrician
was killed and B. L. Followell, a
striking machinist was probably fat
ally wounded in a running pistol bat
tle with Santa Fe guards.
BOMB EXPLODES IN
SANTA FE YARDS
Albuquergue, Aug. 19.—A bomb
exploded in the Santa Fe railroad
yards here today. No damage is re
ported.
W iXSLOW IXTROBl'CES
(UAL INVESTIGATION BILL
Washington, Aug. 21.—Chairman
Winalow of the Commerce Coramlt
tee of the House iatroduced a hill
in the House designed to carry out
the suggestions of Jie President for
an investigation of the coal indus
try- ....
CAPTAIN BARTLETT
MIST FACE CHARGES
Seattle. Aug. 22.—Captain Bart
lett of the S.S. H. F. Alexander,
«vhich came to grief the ot-er day,
must face charges of negligence in
connection with the mishap to the
liner. He will be tried by the Marine
Inspectors.
Washington, Aug. 1S.—W h 11 e
Mouse officials notified the senate,
and house leaders that l e President
had made arrangements to address I
congress shortly after noon on the I
rail and coal situation.
PISHING SMACK
TICKS CP SURVIVORS
New York. Aug. 22.—A fishing
smai:k arrived at Long Beach bring
ing in W. T. Miller, the pilot and
Harold Thompson, the mechanician
of the Seaplane Ambassador,II. One
lone passenger was also brought in.
The Ambassador II dropped from
sight on Sunday. These men were
picked up by the fishing smack after
they had been in the water for some
time.
SCX VAT SEN IN LINE
FOR CHINESE PRESIDENCY
Shanghai, Aug. 22.—Sun Yat Sen,
is looming larger on the horizon of
the reunited Chii:?~e republic. He
came to the front today in the reor
ganization of the, Chinese govern
ment with the receipt of a telegram
from General Wu Pei Fu, the domi
nant military figure of North China,
endorsing Sun for president.
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