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SKAGWAY. ai.aska TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1922. riUC* TKJI CKKT*
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WIPED OUT OF
E
Augusta, Ga„ March 7.—Two
prosperous and good sited towns tn
South Carolina were wiped out of
existence today by a terrible storm.
The towns of Wdrrenville and I
Langley were completely demolished |
and several of the residents were
killed while a number were Injured
by the flying timbers.
GOVERNMENT WITHOLDING
SANCTION OF THRl' RATES I
Seattle. March".—The powers at |
Washington are still wltholdlng
their approval of the through rates
from the states over the Alaska gov
ernment railroad aa worked out two
months ago by representatives of the ,
Alaska Engineering commission and
the several steamship lines plying In |
Alaskan waters.
GOVERNOR SMALL PACES
TRIAL IN DISTRICT COURT j
Waukegan. Ills., March 6.—Gov
ernor Small today faced trial in the
district court.
The governor is charged with con
spiracy to embezzle funds belonging
to the state.
DEBS SLATED AS LEADER
NATIONAL SOCIALIST PARTY
Cleveland. March 6.—Leadera ol
the Socialist party announced today
that Eugene V. Debs would be Test
ed in the leadership of the Socialist
party at the National convention.
The convention will he held on
April 29 in Cleveland.
WILL RESPOND PROMPTLY
TO BORAH RESOLUTION
Washington, March 7.—Prompt
response to the resolution introduc
ed by Senator Borah as to the status
of the Lnnsing-Ishil agreement be
tween the United States and Japan
in the event of the ratlflcation of
the four power treaty, was indicated
today after the president had con
ferred vylth Seuatoi Lodge.
JANUARY REVENUES SHOW
DECREASE OVER LAST YEAR
Washington. March 7.—The rev
enues collected during January,
which was the first month of the
operation of the revised tax laws,
showed a decrease In receipts of
sixty-five million dollars as com
pared with January. 1921. This
was revealed In the reports compil
ed last night by the internal revenue
office.
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WASHINGTON STATE
PAID BIG MONEY FOR
SOLDIER BOXES
Olympla. March 7.—The state of
Washington has paid out in world's
war soldier bonus, up to date, the
sum of twelve million and forty-five
thousand dollars.
NEW FISHERIES BILL
REPORTED INTO HOl'SE
Washington, March 6.—After a j
prolonged discussion the house com
mittee on merchant marine and fish
eries reported a reused fisheries bill
for Alaska.
This bill follows In general the
recommendations made in confer-[
ence of the fishing interests with
secretary Hoover and other officials
of the department of commerce In
this city last fall.
The measure greitly enlarges the
powers of the secretary of commerce
in making regulations for commer
cial fishing in all waters under fed
eral jurisdiction.
The bill also prohibits the use of |
traps in bays and estuaries.
ACKNOWLEDGES CRIME
CHARGED TO HIS BROTHER
Los Angeles. March —While de- j
tectives were taking patrolman j
George Carter to ,,ail on a charge |
of robbery, his brother, J. J. Car- j
ter, stopped them, saying that he |
had committed the robbery and that j
his brother was iLiiocent.
NON-COM. OFFICERS
SENTENCED TO DEATH
Manila, March 7.—Eleven ser-1
Reams and corporals of the Island j
Constabulary were sentenced to |
death by the supreme court today!
tor participation in the riots which
occurred in 1920.
During these riots four police of-j
fleers and four other persons were i
killed and a number wounded.
BOGUS NAVAL OFFICER <>V
TOILS IN BROilKI.YN!
Washington March 6.—Stephen j
Weinberg, who. wLile posing as a I
commander of the I'nited States;
navy. Introduced Princess Fitin'U to
President Hardine, is now under ar-|
rest in Brooklyn.
This announiement was made by j
the department of justice today.
MASS MEETING SERVICE MEN
DEMAN D RECALL HARVEY I
Chicago, March 6.—At a monster
mass meeting held here last night'
by former service men, resolutions.
were passed demanding the recall {
of British Ambassador Harvey and i
the payment of the soldier bonus.
Seattle, March 7.—The trip of the j
Reverend Dr. A. L. Sheldon, the not
ed missionary, who is reported as |
having been murdered in Thibet.!
was financed by Mrs. T. W. Berry of j
Seattle.
HOURS-SEATTLE
TO FR'SGO
Seattle. March 6.—"With the
steamship H. F. Alexander, which
was formerly the Great Northern,
which we have just purchased, we
propose to place fvsh Alaska fish
on the talile at San Francisco with
in thirty-eight hou'* of the vessel's
sating from Seattle and to deliver
southern California oranges on Pug
et Sound within ihree davs after
the.v are picked," said manager
Haines of the Admiral line yesterday
in d scusslng the tpeed of the Pa
cific Steamship company's two liners
which will make the weekly round
trips between Seattle and Los An
geles. carrying passengers and ex
press freight only.
VETERANS PROTEST
AGAINST DELAY
Seattle. March 6 —A protest
against conKres.sioi.il delay on the
national soldier bonus question was
expressed in a parade and mass
meeting held this afternoon by Se
attle veterans.
Roosevelt Tost. No. 24. Veterans
of Foreign Wars, and Seattle Chap
ter No. 2, Disabled American Veter- J
ans of the World War. participated j
officially, with many members of the
Ainer.can Legion marching. Six ol I
the t-eattle American Legion si<
withheld their sanction of the dein
•itiat ration.
I ully one hundred thousand pe<>- I
pie witnessed t'.o parade.
WILL RIN ON ANTI
N EWBERRY PLATFORM
Washington, March 7—Represent
ative Patrick H. Kelly of Lansing. I
Michigan, yesterday announced hisi
rand dacy for the United States sen- |
ate. Kelly will oppose Senator;
Townsend, the present incumbent j
for the Republican nomination. j
Kelly will run on an "anti-New- i
berry platform."
AMERICAN VESSEL
t'APTl'RED BY R.C.M.P.!
Vancouver, B. C., March 7.—The
sas launch Cisco, flying the Ameri
can flag and carrying a cargo, was
raptured by the R. C. M. Police to
iay.
The vessel is being held for Inves
tigation.
'•WAYFARER" WILL AGAIN
BE PRESENTED 1\ SEATTLE
Seattle, March 7.—It was an- j
nounced yesterday that the play
"Wayfarer" will be again presented
in Seattle this summer.
This great play was run last year
in the new Stadium and thousands
attended its performances.
Washington. March T.—Prosident
Harding was the guest of tile N'a-'
tional Press Club last night at the]
birthday party of the first unuiver-1
sary of his administration.
Judge W. B. Stout, the Haines at
torney. was a returning passenger
on the Kstebeth from Juneau.
Judge Stout has been on an extend
ed trip to the states, where he spent
the holidays with daughters and
other relatives.
Charles Keller, who has been a
member o fthe bridge gang of the
W. P. & Y. Route for a couple of
years, left this morning for W"hite
horse on the train and from there he
expects to go to Mayo. Mr. Keller
is an expert carpenter and will prob
ably engage in contracting in Mayo.
"WTiite Rock, Cllquot, Bevo, Bud
weiser, Sheboygan, Rainier, Pluto
and Red Raven Splits are all car
ried by Keller Brother*.
PRESIDENT HARDING
WILL OPEN REPUBLICAN
CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGN
Washington, March, 6 —President i
Harding's trip to Alaska will figure;
in the opening of the Republican,
campnign for the control of the next!
congress.
The Presidential jarty will return
from Alaska in August-and It is
planned to have the President make
several political sieeches. formally!
launching the congressional cam-J
paign.
The first speech will he made In Se-;
attle, and in any event. President \
Harding will, in these speeches, out-1
line his ideas of the Issues of the •
campaign. The campaign is to be
waged relentlessly for a continued
Republican congress.
GOVERNMENT RAILROAD
GETS FINANCIAL HELP
Washington. March 6.—According1
to the Alaska Engineering commts-j
sion the government railroad will
earn six hundred and fifty thousand
dollars during the Sscal year begin-'
mug July first.
The report also shows that the!
cost of operating the road from that j
period will be two million three;
hundred and twenty-two thousand
and ten dollars.
Kor this reason the appropriation
bill which has just passed, grants
the engineering commission one mil
lion six hundred and sixty-two
thousand two hundred and ten dol
lars.
This is done to make up the deficit.
IRISH REPRESENTATIVES
TO VISIT UNITED STATES
Dublin. March 7.—Commandant |
General Pierce Bcsley, Councillor 1
Forrestall and Stephen Moara will ;
sail on the S. S. Aqpltania on Friday,
for Washington.
These officials will make a tour!
of the Inited States as repres-nta-j
tives of the provisional Irish e'-v-.
erumeut
RETORT SHOWS IMPROVED j
CONDITIONS PACIFIC COAST
Washington. March 7.—A marked
improvement of the Industrial condi-j
tions on the Pacific coast during I
February is noted in the department j
of labor's industrial survey for the
month.
D.U'GHTERS RKCEIVE NOTICE ;l
OF Ml'RDER OF FATHFR j!
Poloma. Calif., March 7.—Doris j
and Dorothy Sheldon, daughters of,
the Reverend Albrocht I^eroy Shel-j
don, a missionary of the Christian !
church, reported to have been mur
dered on the Thibetan Plateau of!
China yesterday, received official no
tice from the Chr.stian Missionary ;
Society of the father's death.
Doris is seventeen and Dorothy ;
fourteen years of ago.
Ottawa.—The official figures of i
tlie referendum in New Brunswick]
on whether or not intoxicating li- j
quors should be imported into that
province have beea announced by.
Col. 0. M. Biggar chief electoral j
officer. The total Tote against im-|
portation was 46.050. and the total j
vote in favor of importation was
IS,773.
It was rumored oa the streets yes- |
terday that a team of the Royal |
Mail, running from Carcross to At-i
lin, had broken thi-ough the ice oc '
Lake Atlin and drowned. The team I
was coming this way and it is said 1
that some of the m*il was lost. The!
team was a valuable one and be-;
longed to Louis ScliulU.
There was a mwting of the re
turned soldiers on Saturday night
at which the insurance adjuster
from Juneau was present and ar
rangements were made for the join
ing of the Skagway boys with the
Fort Seward Amer'can Legion. An
other meeting will be held tomor
row night to complete the details.
About fifteen were present.
R. 8H. GILL PROVIDES FOB
IliPHilj M ns
Washington. March 6.—In the rlT-j
era and harbors bl.'l, reported Into:
the house today, authorizing pro
jects preliminary to appropriations
for the surveys, art ordered for the'
following projects ?n Alaska:
Tolovana river, Alaska Yukon.)
Kuskokwim. Portage Alaska, Gas-'
tineau channel and adjacent wate-»
of Alaska with a Tie* to Improving
the connections with existing steam
ship routes
The money li to be paid as soon
as the appropriation! are available.
In the meantime the work of sur
veying the different projects will m
pioceeded with.
PRESIDENT PROHIBITS
SHIPMENT MUNITIONS In"
OF WAR TO CHINA
Washington. March 7.—Shipment*
from the I'nited States of arms, am
munitions and munitions of war to
China was prohibited today by Pres
ident Harding in an official procla
mation.
BONIS Bill. IN HOCSE
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE
Washington, March 6—The sol-1
dier bonus bill was Introduced In (he
house late today. And referred to
the committee on ways and means. ;
Chairman Fordney of the commit-1
tee announced that It *111 be re-.
ported back to the house tomorrow.
SENATE WANTS INFORMATION
Washington, March 6—The sen-'
ate today adopted a resolution ask- j
ing that the senate be Informed |
whether the four power treaty ab-,
rogaies the Lanslng-lshli agreement
between the United States and Jap j
KETCHIKAN HAS NKW
AFTERNOON" DAILY PAPER
Ketchikan, March 7.—J. E. Rivard
and Ernest Blue began yesterday
the publication of the Ketchikan
Daily Press.
This gives Ketcjiksn two after
noon dailies.
Both Rfvard and Blue are well
known newspaper men and have
published papers at different towns
in Alaska.
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lloyd <;eorgk
\\ ILL NOT RESIGN FOR SOME
TIME TO CO.MK
London, March 7.—There U no
lfke!ibood that Premier Lloyd
George will resign from his position
until after the Genoa conference and
the enactment of essential Ir.sL leg
islation.
NINETEEN AMERICANS
FORFEIT CITIZENSHIP
New York, March T.—Nineteen
American* wlio Joined the Spanish
Foreign legion to fight the rebel
lious Moors, have been detained by
the Immigration officials and were
sent to Ellis Island last night.
When these men returned the Im
migration authorities declared that
in Joining the Spanish force* the
men forfeited their citiienahlp
rights in the I'nlted State*.
KSTKBKTH ARRIVED
BEFORE NOON'
The Estebeth arrived at 11 SO
this morning, bringing mall and
passengers and some freight.
She will sail tonUrht at the u»»»l
■tailing hour. 11 P m.
GENOA CONFERENCE OPENS
OS APRIL TENTH
Paris. March 7—The great pow
er* have definitely fixed April 10 a*
the opening day of the Genoa con
ference.
George Braich. proprietor of the
Big Pool Room, is under the weath
er and as a consequence is confined
to his hotel.
IDE WHITE PASS 5
YUKON ROUTE
THE GATEWAY ROUTE TO
Yukon Territory, Atlin and
Interior Alaska
Semi-Weekly Tram Service between Skaguay and MTirtehoO
during the Winter Season.
For information regarding passenger and freight rate* apply to
H- Wheeler- General Manager
Skaguay. Alaska
or
510 Alaska Building
Seattle Wash