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No. 50 TWENTY FOURTH YEAH
SKAGWAY, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1921
PRICE H» CENTS
GIVEN h BESTING
N'agoya. Japan. May 26.—The son
of Harry F. Hawley and American
consul here »as pulled into the
street, knocked down and kicked by
infuriated Japanese.
TRUNK FOUND
Seattle. May 27.—The dragging I
of Lake Washington resulted in the ;
finding of .1 trunk lid to which was |
ciinsius some human hair. This j
Was the only result of the dragging I
of Lake Washington by the police. ]
Tite husbaml of Mrs. Mahonev. was]
identified l»y Alfred E. Howard as
the man wlio rented a hoat for use
on Lake Washington during the
month of April.
FDR LIBEL
Washington. May 26.—Mrs. Caro
1 tie Votaw. sister uf President Hard
ing has been named defendant iu a
suit for damages for libel in the Su
preme Court. District of Columbia.
Doctor t;. U. Lee Cole, the plaintiff
in the case, alleges that during his
recent suit for divorce. Mrs. Votaw
wrote a letter to Justice Stafford,
which contained libelous statemeuts
and intending to injure the plaintiff
in his good name and reputation and
for the purpose of denying him a
fair and impartial trial.
New York. May 2S.—Recent raids
in this c.tv have netted the raiders
twelve million dollars worth of li
quor. Iu the disposal of this liquor
corporation counsel O'Brien ruled
that the good liquor will be sold to
the hospitals and the bad dumped
into the sea.
Washington. May -2S.—Chief Jus
tice White left a fifty-one word will 1
by which he bequeathed everything '
to his wife.
San Francisco, May 2S.—Mrs. |
Louis Warren was sentenced to 36
days in jail today. The sentence
was imposed for her having Inflicted
her nine-vear-old daughter with 36
lashes.
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Washington. May 26.—Assistant
Secretary of the Navy, Roosevelt'
issued a statement today, in which he
declared that it was dangerouB lor [
the United States to adopt any im- |
mediate elimination of naval arma
ment.
OENBY WILL NOI:
VISITIEST0N4TH
Washington. May 26.—Secretnry
of the Navy, Denby, who was ex
pected to te in Seattle July 4th, can
not be there according to an an- .
nouncement today. He hopes to be i
there later and also to visit Alaska.
HAVE TROUBLE!
San Francisco, May 2C.—Juan and
Juauita Miller, the principals in the
spectacular moonlight marriage in
the Sierras in April, are having trou
ble and are airing their troubles in
the divorce courts. Juunita is the
daughter of the well known poet
J on Hill Miller, deceased.
Washington, May 2S.—President
Harding in his Memorial Day mes
sage to the American Legion, ex
presses the hope that the future will
bring less need for further national
sacrifices in great wars.
San Francisco, May 28.—Upon in
vitation of the president of China.
General Wood will hold a confer
ence with him at Peking before the
general returns home from the Phil
ipinea. This announmement was
made this afternoon. Secretary of
War Weeks has given his approval
to the arrangements.
Washington, May 2".—The air
mail service between Washington
and New York wili be discontinued.
This was the announcement today.
The reason for the change Is that
rail service is more satisfactory.
Seatle, May 2S.—George Edward
Lewis and Dorothy Valeron will sail
on the Alameda Saturday for Alaska.
They are coming North to complete
their moving picture films on which
they have worked for three years.
.PAYING THE FUTURE.
Many a man lias mortgaged the future for two or three years In
just one illness in his home. .You know tome of them—fellows
with all the courage and ambition knocked out of them by "hard
luck." I
Make up your mind right now to pay for the future as you go—
store up a little of your income against the time when fate calls
upon you to sign over your liberty and happiness to debt.
, After you have gotten started you will be surprised how mach
better you feel.
Bank of Alaska
Company To Employ 1200 Men
Plan To Finish Road In Fall
"ft'ashington, May 27.—By J. J.
Underwood.—Twelve hundred rail
road builders will leave Seattle early
In July for Alaska. This company
of men are to finish the construction
of the Alaska Anthracite K. R. at
Controller Bay. The plan is to fin
ish the road this fall so that coal
can be shipped out in considerable
quantities in the spring. This is (
the announcement made by Clark
Davis, the general manager of the
project, who is now in Washington.
He is here to straighten out the de
tails with the interstate commerce
commission. The last remaining
obstacle, a certificate of authority
to construct, was granted yesterday
by the Interstate Commerce Com
mission.
HUMS
DESTROYED
Dublin, May 26.—When the Cus
toms house was fired yes-taoinaolu
toms house in Dublin was fired yes
terday all the important documents
of the government relating to Ire
land were destroyed. The Sinn Fein
ers from the windows of the Custom
house poured a heavy fire into the
soldiers, the latter returning the fire
with machine guns and rifles accord
ing to official statements. Seven
civilians were killed eleven wounded
and 111 captured.
Washington, May 2ti.—The com
mittee appointed by the Alaskans on
Saturday headed by Stubbs ana John
K. Steele, called on Secretary Fall,
yesterday afternoon and presented
him with a formal endorsement of
I'olonel Perkins for governor of Al
aska.
Washington. May 2(i.—Senator
King, of Utah, has demanded that a
congressional investigation of the ac
tivities of Monopolies and Corpora
tions which are accused of attempt
ing to exploit and plunder the pub
lic. These monopolies are accused
of making this attempt thru a control
of legislation.
I.ondon, May 27.—As was an
nounced a few days ago, four battal
lions of British troops on the Hhine
began-thei radvance to Upper Silesia
yesterday. These forces will rein
force the allied troops already
there. The transfer is expected to
be completed by the end of the week.
Seatle, May 27.—Mrs. E. J. Sliter,
the wife of an Alaskan pioneer, died
at the Providence Hospital here yes
terday. Her death followed an op
eration. Sliter was formerly the
cashier in Brown & Hawkins" store
in Anchorage.
Redwood, Cal., May 27.—Itock
enbacker, the American ace, left this
city yesterday morning expecting to
reach "Washington, D. C„ direct by
today some time.
Washington, May 27.—At a priv
ate dinner in New York President
Harding spoke to an aggregation of
New York bankers. He said that
the administration proposed to
promote "exportation with a view,
thru this means, of restoring normal
conditions. No word of the dinner
was made public until yesterday.
London, May 27.—American am
munition, totalling 16.3S8 rounds,
has been captured in Dublin district.
Sir Hamar Greenwood made this
aniiouncement in the House of Com
mons today.
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GEiSIOMONTHS
Leipsic. May 26.—Germany today j
convicted her first war criminal, I
Sergeant Heinen. He was given ten
months in prison and ordered to pay
part of the trial costs. He was found
guilty of maltreating fifteen British
and Belgian prisoners of war.
Washington, May 26.—The Unit
ed States senate late today adopted
an amendment to the Borah naval
appropriation bill. This amendment
would request President Harding to
invite Great Britain and Japan to j
join with the Unitetd States in a con- |
ference looking toward a reduction I
or cessation of armament.
Copenhagen, May lit.—The!
Danish government is trying to for
mulate a new system of government j
for its colony of Greenland, but the j
royal commission appointed for that
purpose has been unable thus far to i
agree whether the Eskimos of that
far northern land shall be allowed
to have free trade with all nations.
King Christian is to visit Green-1
land in June, the first time a Danish
king has ever visited that colony,
and the commission hopes to reach
an agreement in time to enable him i
to announce the new plan of govern- j
ment when he is greeted by the Es
kimos.
A well kown Greenland explorer
who is not a member of the conin is
sion. told the correspondent that one
section of the commission was hold
ing out for free trade between the
Greenland Eskimos and the nation
als of all countries. "This section."
present system of the Danish state
granting a monopoly to a single
company, even if this company is
managed by Danish state officials
and for all 'practical purposes is a
government department, is a direct
dotation of all democratic princi
ples.
"Without any competition o;ie com
pany, and particularly a company
managed by state officials, could
possibly be expected to obtain for
products of the natives the same
high prices as would be < btainable
in the open market. Monopoly never
bred efficiency.
"On the other hand the o'.her sec
tion of the royal commission asserts
that the Eskimo is a chil'l and must
he treated like a child that intoxi
cating liquor and other of the 'nles
sings' of civilization must be kept
I away from him or lie will go to rack
and ruin.
| "Every Greenland settlement has
been visited by Uta.vtl traders who
have shamelessly taken advantage of
the confiding natu.'O of the Eskimos.
For a bottle of vile ?mrits, or a row
of glass beads theu9 traders ha
| robbed the natives tf bearskins r.nd
other products of great value. So a
grandmotnoi ly trade restriulon may
not be rig'it In principle, but certain
ly in pracii-e."
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Washington, May 20.—The bill re
cently drafted for the administra
tion and having for its purpose the
administration of national properly
and the development of Alaska, will
he referred to all the department
heads and bureau chiefs now admin
istering the federal business in the
Territory. To this bill as drafted
will be added another section. This
proposed section will provide that
on request of the president the Ship
ping Board shall allocate steamers
for service In connection with the
building and operation of the gov
ernment railroad in Alaska or such
agents or agencies as he may desig
nate. The new bill will confer on
the president broad powers tn do all
the necessary acts and things in au
dition to those specially authorized
In the act, and to administer the af
fairs of the territory.
Stubbs, Ballaine, Herron and oth
era of the Alaska delegation here say
that the new bill la an improvement •
on the Curry bill.
Washington, May 2ti.—It is un
derstood that William Howard Taft,
Kx-president of the United States,
has informed President Harding tha*.
he is willing to accept the office of
Chief Justice of the Supreme court.
Seattle. May 2S.—The police are
working; on I he theory that Mahon
ey had an accomplice in ridding
himself of his septuagenarian wife.
The last time Mrs. Mahoney was
seen in the city she wore jewels to
the value of $30,000. This was the
middle of April. The police have
lieeu trying to locate Mrs. Jessie
Barnes, the widow of George Barnes
a Denver millionaire, who has also
been missing since Mrs. Mahoney
was last seen alive. It is believed
by the police that Mahoney had a
woman accomplice.
<'anaiiian Kxcliange
Canadian exchange is reduced to
12 per cent, from this date.
SOLDIER BRIDES
Paris. May 2«».—One of the after
maths of the war is the number of
girls leaving France to become
brides of the soidiers who were
"Over There". An average of ten a
month are coming to wed their sol
dier lovers.
London, May 2S.—Admiral Sims
Spoke at a luncheon given in his
honor by the Pilgrims Society. In
referring to the part played by the
American naval forces in the war, he
said: "The help we gave was that
which comes of the free masonry of
the sea."
Seattle, May 27.—The last five
thousand tons of rails for the com
pletion of the Alaska government
railroad will lie shipepd from Mo
bile, Ala. rails will be shipped
by steamer direct to Seward. Alaska,
via the Panama canal.
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Interior Alaska
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and Whitehorse during the winter season
Full information regarding' passenger aad freight rates
upon applying to
11. Wheeler, General Hanager
Skaguay, Alaska
or
510 Alaska Building, Seattle. Wash.