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FIRST CONFLICT IN COAL K$'STRIKE FATAL
Seattle. Aug 5.—tn the case of the
d.-.ith of Kev Morrison, who was giv
i kiriutu sulphide instead of bari
um sulphate. l>r. C. V- Bryant, phy
sician. and M. W. Dix. druggist. were
censured, the one is blamed for giv
ing the oral prescription and the
other for giving the poison.
SI II'IDES AFTER
ATTEMITED MIRDEH
e»l ut Ins love suit for the h»ud of
!• ••[[> Ma-v Hough. Taul Ourran. son
ui Frank t'urratt. manager of the E.
K \V,»ih1 I.umber lonipany commit
ted litule. . et'ore tak.ng i.is own
In,-. t'i jh:is man shot arc dan
£eivu~l> wounded Miss llougu.
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XI'I'OlVll DO\ ( OMMISSIOX
tgton. Aug. 5.—Fred K
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department was nominated to
; le B s -American . (aims associa
t.i'X I liNMI VI TO SEI/E
COAL ROADS
J! ist? Indicated tonight that the gov
r. . roads if it Is nen-ssary to keep
t e fuel and food movug in the eoun
si \ \TI In« i;i isks
I*K.\S1«».NS TO ttllHUVS
Washington. Aug 5 —The senate
,ml.,, pasxil with some amendment
the House bill Granting an increase
of pensions to the widows and de
pendent children of parents of vet
truns of the war w;th Spain, the
Philipp tie i? uirrectiou and the Chin
doll.Lrs a mouth increase.
T<' H\\(. W 11 M>V
Ml lUlKUKRS A1X8. 10.
Lot ilnn. Aug -Joseph O'Sulli
van aud Reginald l>unn. the men
v* ho killed Field Marsha! Wilson,
and under death sentence for the
kill • g. will he hanged on Aug. 10.
>u\ II. TS J IM) \K\V MINKS
Christiana. Aug. 5.—The safe,
t
w^ian Consulate, in Moscow, was
Mown open and robbed of important
Norwegian. American and Rumanian
Consular records.
A! \SU\N \ sr.'U'KR MAN OIKS
V.''.ilia Wulla. Aug. 5.—E. D. La
■
' •' northw- ^t died last night. La
n ..n was the founder of the Alaska
Itespatch of June.tu. and was promi
nent in newspaper work in the
ci% sr states for many years.
| HOIST BRITISH FLAG
OX WRAXUELL ISLAND
Nome. Aug. 5.—The advance
I guard of Steftanson's expedition
spent a year on Wraitgell island.
The expedition will be brought
back to this place on the Schooner
No Katak. The purty which land
ed on the island last summer, and
wintered there hoisted the British
Bag and claimed the territory for
Ureat Britain.
MOTORCYCLE Col'
KILLED IX COLLISION
Chicago. III., Aug. 5.—Motorcycle
policeman Robert P. Gibbons, was
killed in this city when lies niachne 1
j collided headon with a taxicub.
BR<>THERH< M)l> CHIEFS
SEEK CONFERENCE
| Cleveland. Ohio. Aug. 5.—T h e 1
Chief executives of three of the rail
way brotherhoods have telegraphed
President Harding requesting that 1
the President ill connection with the
[present strike situation with them.
IMPERIAL FOTE \ TA TK
VISITS SEATTLE
Seattle. Aug. 5.—James S Mc- '
t'andless. of Honolulu, the Imperial 1
Potentate of the Shrine tb visiting
in the city.
WINS NOMINATION; BIT 1>IKS
Nas'iville. Tenn.. Aug. 5.—Lemuel '
P. Padgett was renominated from h
the seventh Congressional district i I
of this state. The returns which i
were completed today Rive him the I
nomination. But Tadgett died yes-1'
terday at his home.
INIIICT TttKEE FOK IIAVCIMiS
Medford. Ore.. Aug. 5.—Dr. Jou
ett Bray. J. F. Hittsou, a former
chief of police, and Howard Hill, a <
prominent fruit grower, were In- ,
dieted on a charge of having par- |
ticipated n several night rider gangs i .
TWO DEAD, ONE IN.H KKI)
Seattle, Aug. 5.—Allen I. McDon
ald. fourteen years old. Freda Rog
ers. seventeen, are dying, and Clyde |
Emery, nineteen, the girls sweet- |
heart. Is In jail as the result of i |
collision between an automohle, a |
I motorcycle and an auto truck. !
I Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Miller were
I dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ken
I neth Hannan on Sunday last.
Subscribe fnr tb# Dally AJaokan
St\\er
do no? spond all their money as fast aa they make It. They
are more conservative. »-t*>Oa <#*|
It always looks well for a young man to have forethought
enough to bank his earnings tor the proverbial rainy day.
The man who banks his money and takes care of it is the kind
of a man large companyg are offering fine positions and luxur
ious salaries.
Bfflaslk ©1! Masks'
SKAGWAY, ALASKA
TRANSFER FUNDS
Paris. Aug. 5.—The German banks
,ave transferred seventy million
francs which have been on deposit in
American and other foreign banks
to Holland and Switzerland. In Par
the coin was hurriedly withdrawn
as it was understood that the French
government was about to seize the
funds as part of the penalties to be
imposed upon Germany for her re
fusal to pay ten million dollars as
ihe installment due for private debts
which were contracted with French
men before the war.
PRNA 1.T1KS A<;.\INST
(jiKK.M.WS ITT IX FORCE
Paris. Aug. 5.—The government
oday ordered the penalties against
Germany for failure to pay iu full,
he installments 011 pre-war debts
>ut into elTect. The debts are to
•'rench citizens. The penalties con
cern German propert.es sequestered
11 France. Certain payments that
vere being mad eto Germany on ac
ount of war losses are suspended In
Usace and Ixirraine. are also Indeni
lities and agreements of 1921. No
ii.litary action is involved in the ac
ion taen today.
tKi.i. to i>i: m rieii ox estate
Sydney, N. S.. Aug. 5.—Interment
if Alexander Graham Hell, the tn
•entor of the telephone, who died at
lis summer home recently will take
ilace this evening In the granite
omt> blasted out of the mountain on
he Bell estate in this place.
iEEK CASTOR AS
MlRHKR Sl'SI'ECT
San Francisco, Cal., Aug. 3.—Wal
er Castor, murder suspect, is being
ought by the police. His sisterln
aw. Mrs. Robert Castor and police
ietectlve. Tim Bailey were shot and
lilled and detective. Ernest Gable,
ras severely wounded in a gun duel
;t Castor's home in this city today.
IAKT Q. M. GENERAL
\\ ITH MAJOR-GEN. RANK
Washington .Aug. 4.—Colonel W.
>. Hart, has been nominated for
luarter-master general of the regit
ar army, by President Harding. He
i-tll have the rank of major-gen-srcl.
fl'RKEY PROTESTS
GREEK AUTONOMY
Constantinople. Aug. 4.—The Sub
itne forte, has presented to the Ai
led representatives her formal pro
est against the Greek proclamation
or the autonomy of lon!a. The niove
nent of Greek troops from Ahia Ml
lor to Rodosto in Thrace continues.
PI'RUSHED IN CITY SEATTLE
<K\V NKWSPAPKK SOON TO UK
Seattle, July 4.—The American
Publishing Company, backed by
tegiuald H. Parsons, Moritz Thoin
ien, P. K. Struve, Capt. J. S. Gibson
tnd other local capitalists, who plan
o start a new evening newspaper in
Seattle have signed a lease for the
Uelib building. 1409 Ninth avenue.
The building has 15,500 feet of
door space with entrances oil Ninth
tvenue and Hubbell Place. It will
he held under a three-year lease, It
was announced.
(equipment already is being in
stalled for the new paper, to be
known as the Kvenlng American.
The first issue of the new paper
is to appear about the middle ' ol
September, William J. Davis, pub
lisher, announced.
A number of carefully selected
coords from the June and July Vic
rola lists have just been received
md are now being demonstrated ai
Keller Bros. Drug store. Come Ir
and hear them before the more pop
ular ones are exhuusted.
PROPOSES BIT
PROPOSES TO CITY
TO OWN MOTOR BUSES
Chicago. 111.,' Aug. 5.—As a result
of (he street car strike in this city,
| Mayor Thompson is out with a rec
, ommendation for the municipal own
ership of three thousand motor bus
' es. The proposition Is to be placed
, before the city council for the pur
chase and operation of these buses.
CONSIDERABLE BATTLE
ON IN IRELAND
Kllmallock. Ireland. Aug. 5.—
The largest battle yet fought In the
irisli conflict In tl.is area Is now
In progress. The battle Is on a ten
mile front and the free state troops
are bombardng the positions of their
opponents with eighteen pound guns.
SALMON BEING SHIPPED SOUTH
Seattle. Aug. 5.—The S.S. Admiral
Evans and the S.S. Queen, of the Pa
oiflc (.'oast line, arrived in port last
night, from Alaska. They brought
a total of thirty-three thousand cas
es of new salmon from the north.
IWREREWSKI WILL RETURN'
TO UNITED STATICS
Paris. Aug. 4.—Ignace Jan Pad
erewskl, who has but recently re
turned from America after a stay
Id his California home, unuoiiuced
today that he was convinced that
Poland did not any longer require
or desire his services. He stated that
he would return to the United States
in November aud give o series of
concerts.
INITIALED DOLLAR
RETURN'S TO MARKER
Cheh&lls. Wash., Aug. 4—Her
first dollar, spent 27 years ago, re
cently returned to the hands of Mrs.
Torrence Hagernian of this city.
When she was eight years of afce
Mrs. llagerman received a silver
dollar from her father. She placed
her Initials on the ooln and ipent It
with a merchant at Lancaster, Mo.,
where she waB then living. The dol
lar turned up again when Mrs. Hag
erinan received it In change frotr, a
merchant in Montesano, Wash.
HITCHCOCK ASKS
I X V E 8 T I « A T I O V
SEAL CONTRACT
Washington, Aug. 4.—Senator
Hitchcock urged In the senate an In
vestigation by the government of the
contract with the Fouke company of
St. Louis under which the company
receives $20 for treating and dyeing
the skin of each seal killed in the
Pribllof slands. Senator Hitchcock
declared that through the contract
the company receives the lion's snare
of said profits from the industry, and
the cost of treatment.
LOCAL MAX IS
CAUGHT WITH BOOZE
One of the dry squad agents from
Mr. Marshall's office In Juneau, has
been In town and this morning got
the evidence for swearing out a
warrant for the arrest of Henry Ded
man. Jr.
Mr. John M. Sharpless, the agent
of Prohibition Enforcement Officer.
Marshall, was given a drink by Hen
ry Dedman, and afterwards bought
a quart for $S.OO, after which with
lu. S. Deputy Marshal A. E. Ken
detl. search was made of the Golden
North hotel, and several bottles and
glasses in which liquor had been,
were found in the young man's room,
besides a quart bottle about one-half
full. An affadavlt was sworn out by
Sharpless and Mr. Kendell was look
ing for Henry Dedman, to serve
the warrant for his arrest as we were
going to press.
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NATIONAL GUARDS BRING
AUTOMATICRIFLES IN PLAY
J
I Staunton, Ind., Aug. 5.—The first
I hostilities incident to the attempted
I operation of the mines in this vicin
| ity under the protection of the na
j tlonal guard troops, occurred today.
The mine's guards were flred on
from aoibush and the fire was re
turned by the guards. Later the out
break Bpread over the entire area
and the section was put under mar
tial law. The troops brought auto
matic rifles into play and the firing
continued for more than an hour.
The mines have been taken over by
the state under the direction of the
governor.
j MODEL CITIZEN FLEES—
SHORT IX ACCOUNTS
Tacoma. Wn., Aug. 6.—Spencer
Conroy, assistant manager of the
Bank of California, In this city, was
considered as a model citien and re
garded as a civic leader. He has dis
| appeared and his accounts are heav
ily short. He is sought charged with
| embezzlement.
PROPOSES COURT
OF MEDIATION
Washington, Aug . 5.—Senator
Spencer of Missouri is the author
and introducer of a bill, in which it
is proposed to set up a court whch,
is to be called a court of mediation.
The lnient of the court is to have
jurisdiction in the cases of Labor dis
putes. Under the bill introduced In
the Senate the President would ap
point three judges who would poss
ess the same qualifications and draw
the same salaries as Judges in the
Federal court.
BIG OIL MAN TO
ENTER ALASKAN FIELD
Seattle, Aug. 5.—Edward Lau
rence Doheney, of Los Angeles, the
largest Independent oil man In the
I'nlted States, arrived In Seattle and
while here will make preparations
for an oil prospecting expedition to
Western Alaska.
CABINET SEEKS
SOLUTION OF STRIKE
Washington, Aug. 5.—The cabi
net has been in session most of the
day, considering the strike situation.
GOVERNMENT FORCES AWAIT
STRI KK SETTI.EMENT
Chicago, III., Aug. 5.—Peace is
said to be Id sight in the coal strike.
In view of this federal and state offi
cials were withholding action which
was called to bring about a speedy
resuming of the production of coal.
But they are being held in read.ness
with such propositions should such
a projected settlement plan fail.
COVERT THREATS IN
EROT HER HOOD'S WIRI
Washington, Aug. 5.—It was felt
that a threat was contained in the
telegram which the Brotherhood
chiefs sent to President Harding,
when they asked for a conference
with him on the question of the
strike situation, in the telegram,
which the chiefs of the four big Bro
therhoods sent to the President,
these words were construed in the
above light:
"We fear that a continuation of
these conditions will inevitably re
sult In our members as a self pro
tective measure being drawn into
the controversy and we greatly de
plore such a contingency.
THREE FIXE CIHS
SENT TO WASHINGTON'
Washington, Aug. a.—Three re
markably fine bear cubs arrived in
this city today, from Alas' They
are the gift to the District of Col
umbia collection from Dr. Tait o?
Cordova. One is a grimly from St.
Elias, the other two cubs are of the
brown variety, and are from the Al
askau pen?T,sula.
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For fun Information regarding passenger and freight
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