YANKS ME ON If FROM SER
IN PRISON CAMPS 10 AMERICA
B9ru«, Dec. 14.—Four long spe
cif tr*lns, carrjiti£ -,500 American
aojdji'es who have been held as
prisoners ol w-'r within the Ger
! men prison cmups, passed tlirough
thi« citj today enroute to Frauce,
, au»l ,bi'ttce home to America.
HlIOMFfitlii
LIFE SENf£fiG£
Huntington, W. Va, Dec. 14. —
Wher hs was sentenced to life im
prisonment for the theft of one uu*
tomubilf. tire ana one iuner tut>e,
Robert Bayles fainted- in Judge T. .V
Taylors court This sentence was
tbg ouly recourse of th$ trial judge.
a« It was the third conviction -for
the prisoner, and the laws of West
Virginia provide a life sentence for
th» third offense. Bay lis' previous
sentenrts "were of three and ten
years respectively. wa-5 jiaroied
both times and was on parole when
last arrested. He is about 40 years
of age.
Private telegraphic advices from
Seattle which were received in this
city this morning are to the fefe.
that the influenza epidvmic is again
much worse in that city, and- that
theev is a probability that drastic
steps may be resorted to l>y the
Uealth authorities in an effort to
stamo out the dread disease.
ThLe health department in Seattle
reports 323 new cases yesterday and
14 deaths, which are «Utribut< to
tte disease.
CflU iC llh
10
Pallia Cii
Paris. Saturday. — The municipal
council has conferred unou Presi
des* V.ilson the honor11ry title of
Citizen of Paris, which is the
greatest houor which can he he
stone' ut)on a non"resident of the
city
dlisii ^,11 li.h
on ill iUL
Cordova, Nov IS.-—The ball park
been tlooded and' will siioitlj- De
converted into a good ice ri"lf.
Skagway hag a plot of ground ;
all walled with concrete, the humps ;
all off, leveled, the grass cut, and j
Boreas has furnishe-d most delightfu
coll weather for the Vast several
days, ant1 has not even as yet turn
ed oo the heat, hut there 110
*>rospect yet of this plot being turn
er'1 into a good ice riuk. it is won- j
<lered why?
Wll.HKIl DEAD
Juneau. Dec. 14. — Charles H. 1
Wi'btr died of pneumonia at Seat- |
tie a few days aSo. He ^sa former
manager of the Pacific Coast Cca*
Company in Juneau.
Third Installment Due
The Third Installment on your Fourth Liberty Bond
is due and must he paid before closing hours
December Nineteenth, Come in any time and make
your payment We will cheerfully wait on you—
that is our business.
BANK OF ALASKA 1
NOTICE
On account or continued bad 'weather and the poor success
aow obtained in the search for bodiea, the Canadian Pacific
Railway Company announce the organized search that ha$ Desa
maintained pince the wreck o; their steamer Princess Sophia
Will b9 discontinue# this week.
REWARD
Effective at °nce, and until December 31, 1918, a reward of
>50 wOl be paid for each body recovered and Drought in, bear
ing no signs of haying been tampered with,
Th0 reward will be paid at the office of thQ General Agent,
Seward street, Juneau.
HITS OF 11 CIEtT
SNUGS FUGE IS FACE
Paris, Dec. 14.—President Wood
row Wilson made his entrance in
to Paris at 10:15 o'clock this morn
iaj,
As his train steamed into the
statioa he was greeted witi a salute
from one hundred cannons, and as
those battle monsters belches forth
their greeting of th© people of
Franct to the President of the U
nite States, the dense throng of
ptoa'e who had gathered to wel
come tie American Nation's chief
executive nailed this morning vvi U
volleys of cheering.
President Wilson was greeted by
President Poiutcajre, remier Clem
enceau and' Andre Tardiou, as
we'* as many other high officials.
Th« formalities of the greeting
over, President Wilson escorted oy
President Polncaire .entered a car
riage which was in waiting, and
forwarded another carriage in
which were Airs. Woodrow Wilson
and Miss Margaret Wilson, wife
and daughter of the President, who
we- accompanied by Madame Point
cftire, wife of the French president, j
•n" the party immediately drove to
the residence of Prince Murat in
the fue de Monceau, where Presi
ded "Wilson and big party will re
side while in the French capital.
In replying to an. address by
President Pointcaire which he
made at a d'inner given in honor of
President Wilson the latter in
par' said,
"From the very first, the thought
O' the people of th® United States
turned to thought® of something
more tvan winning thig war. The
I Deople of America turned their
! thoughts toward the establishment
j o" the eternal principles of right
, aad justice. ,
"The peopl0 of niy country real-1
j 'zed that merely to win this »ar <
wag not enough. They realized that
It mus* dt won in such a way that
any questions raised by it must
settled in such a way as to in
sure peace of the world' and lay the
foundations for its freedom and the'
happiness of its many peoples and j
nations.'? <> I'j j|j!
The Skagway Commercial Club,
through it$ Socretary, Phil Aora-j
ham.—has been busy with the mail
problem from Seattle to Skagway,
anJ believing that relief could be
obtained by soliciting the aid °f
tho Chamber of Commerce of the
Cnited States of America, cabled
tn» facts to the Chamber's head
ofiico in Washing-ton.
Today the Skagway Oommrecial
Clu^ is in receipt of the fololwing
cablegram from that office:
"The postoffice department Btates
that ships leaving Seattle and
stopping at Juneau cannot rfeuae
to carry mail, but it is impossible
to compel any ship to stop at Ju
neau if the course °* 8UCh ship has
been otherwise.
"The mail contracts existing be
tween the government and various
steamship companies prior to Au- I
gus*. upon their expiration could
no* renewed by reason of the
fa<5t that the contracting steam
Bh^j companies would; not under
•ake any specified number of trips
to Alaska during the winter and
throughout the term that the speci
fication of the contract called for
Th, department expects fewer trips
this season on account of the re-1
duce-1 traffic to and from Alaaska
por's but insists that there Is no j
wa» by which, the present service
can jt.e improved.
"I' any ship arriving at Juneau
ha« refused' to take on mall con
signed to Skagway at Seattle, it
is suggested that you report this
immediately to the Second Assistant
Postmaster General at Washington
or "'eport the case to this office." j
ARMISTICE EXTENDED 10 JM.17
Copenhagen, Dec. 14.—According
to a 'dispatch wbich hag been re*
ce:ved here from Treves, the ar*
mis*'ce between the Allies Ger*
manjr has been extend«ed until jan
U8rr 17, in order to give the Ger
mae- additional time to carry out
the .'trms of the agreements a« Bet
fortv therein, and to permit the Al"
Ilea to formulate terms upon which
to ads* orospsals of peace.
Henry Phillips and little eon were
returning passengers from Ha:;ne*
Friday morning1 on the Est&beth.
Th°y are Interned in the hospital
anex, as per the influenza quaran
tine regulations, and will be out
the farly-part of thg coming week.
Mr. Phillips was called, to I-Iaines
by tiio death ol hi? Tvlte Vhlch. oc
curred at thp Presbyterian mis
si on hospital on Sunday, Dec. li
and although the burial took place
withifc a lew days, he hap not had
an opportunity of returning home
to Skagway prior to this time.
Special Discount
ox THE FOLLOWING SUBSTITUTES? j\
Corn Hour, 10 Jjouivd sacks 90c each, less 25 perccnt $ .67
Corn Flour 100 pound sacks, $7.50 sack, less 23 percent 5.05
Barley Floor 10 pound sacks 90c each, less 25 percent .67
Ric« Flour, 10 pound sacks $1.20 each, less 25 percent .00
Potato Flour, 10 poniDQ Micks, 91.50 e»<A, less 25 percent 1.15
P. H. GANTY
MUST H FOOD OR BOLSHEVIK
HEADQUARTERS WILL BEIN BEBLIN
London, Deo. 14. — Chancellor,
Eber* of the conservative German
government is quoted in a dispatch
from Ber'in today aa saying, "The ,
Allie- must send us food in or* |
<icr to protect Germnay from a
revolution and the whole world
from the Bolshevik. j
"Wo must have food at once, or
til* seat of the Bolshevik! government
wlT te in Berlin instead of in
Moscow, Russia."
WILSON ASKED
10 VISI1 LIEGE
Liepe, Dec. 14.—A delegation of
prominent citizens and dignitaries
has been sent from thi$ city to Paris
with an invitation to President Wil
son to visit the city where the Gre
cians were halted for several days
on their first r"sh into France.
E.S PA BETH GETS Df
SAFELY FROM JUNEAU
The gas launch Estabeth arrived
In this port Friday morning at
12:10 o'clock and got away for the
return trip to Juneau a short time
after that hou.r She brought up
considerable mail which had arrived
In Juneau from the States, as well
as Juneau and' mail from the Alas
ka cities to th« westward.
The little craft was forced to
seek shelter in Bernera Bay, and
ha: % rougn trip, although the mas
ter stated that at no time wa« the
weatbe-; so roug^ that hQ could
no* have continued on his cowse,
but for the comfort of his passen
gers he decided to seek shelter and
heave tp, M If
•OV«5 MOKE SOPHIA
victim is found
' a.e this afternoon ad'vice was
received here that searchers for So:
pl^'a Victims had recovered the
oodv o' .Sam Sorensen. and that the
remains had Deen taken to Juneau
whera it was identified.
A. J. Baker, better konwn to all
his friends here as "Daddy" Baker,
wi<' be a passenger for th0 States
on the Jefferson, and will ppen<J the
winter with his bob, E. Baker at
Ellensburg, Wash. Just before leav*
ing "Daddy'-' stated that he would'
bp pack early in the spring, and
tha* ho intended to bring with him
a fine Jersey cow so that he could
have the best milk ever.
U. S. TOBflCCO
13 ,RECOVERED
S&loniki, Deo. 14.—The opening
ud of Bulgaria to the Allies has
caused the release of $6,000,000
Wortl. of American-owned tobacco
In *he towns of Seres, Drama and
KayaiN on the Greek coast of the
Aege«n Sea Bordering Turkey, oc
curred by the Bulgars until their
surrender. The Transportation of
th's supply may materially affect
the shortage in hiAh-grade tobacco.
Since the beginning of the war
hug© new acreage in Greek Mace
donia have become the principal
tobacco of Europe. The Greek
crop has increased 75 per cent dur
ing t'n war. The labor comes main
ly from skilled Turkish growers
who escaped from Smyrna and? Euro
pean Turkey to produce tobacco in.
Greoce for Entente armies.
GElMILi
London, Dec. 14. — William
Honenzoilern, former German kais
er keeps himself under guard con
tinual, living in constant f^r
of assassination.
The world outlaw is still at Amer"
ongen, and despatches from there
state that be has several score of
Potsdam de'ectiveg always on guard1,
to Drotect him from a oossible ene
my who might get within range and
shoot liim.
Tbp Jefferson was reported to
fce »n Juneau at noon today, and ac*
cordign to the best information ob
tuinabls at the hour of going to
press 6he will arrive in this port
■ometime tomorrow forenon, prob
aolv at nine or ten o'clock, and
Trill gall about noon for the south.
Who's Your Tailor?
The Autumn and Winter woolens recently sent us by
E. V. Price & Co.
are the handsomest ever shown in this city and reasonably priced
Select
Yours
Today
and have your Autumn clothes
made up for future delivery to'suit
you—and you only
JAMFS RENjNEDY*
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