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POLICE GORDON
FORCLEMENCEAU
St. Louis. Mo., Dec. 2.—The au
thorities of St. Louis are taking ex
tra precaution for the protection of
Clemenceau, while he is a guest in
the city. Today as the city hailed
the famous "Tiger" of France, a
thousand police and troops of pa
trolmen lined the streets along the
route of the parade to the Odeon.
where he delivered the fourth of his
American addresses.
CLEMENCEAl" VISITS
LINCOLN'S fOMB
Chicago. 111.. Dec. 1.—Clemenceau
took to the road again vesterda.v.
- His itinerary tof>k him to Spring
field, III., where he is scheduled to
make a short stop, and he plans to
visit Lincoln's tomb and 'ay a
wreath on that shrine. He will at
the rime time deliver a brief eulo
gy on Lincoln. His plnn is to pro
ceed to St. Louis today.
Later.—Clemenceau visited (he
:>>mh of Lincoln, and bared his head
as he paid nis tribute To the mar
tyred President. His tribute was
that "Lincoln was one of the Great
est men that e'er lived."
RF.I'RKSKNTATIVE MAW
PASSES AWAY
Washington, Dec. 1.—James R.
Maun, for many years representative
(rum tbe Second Division of Illinois,
and one of the best known and most
prominent figures in the leg.slative
hails at Washiugtou. died last night.
He was the author of the widely
known Mann Act. dealing with white,
slavery.
He was first elected to the fifty
fifth Confess and has been a mem
ber of every Congress since that. He
was born in 1S56. He was a Repub
lican representative.
SOVIET HOLDS
1>1> \ KM \ HE N T C< >.N FEKK Xt E
Moscow. Dec. 2.—A disarmament
t unfereuce called by the Soviets of
Russia is meeting in this city and
opened this afternoon. Soviet .)&
cials beiieva this to be the most im
portant meeting ever held. The meet
ing is called to establish better re-1
lations between Russia and the
neighboring states. The plan of the
conference is for the neutralization
of the Dalt:c. and tbe settlement of
the neutral zones and frontiers will
be discussed. Delegates from Pol
and. Finland. Esthonia, Latvia and
I,' tiuania have arrived. The Soviet
government annonnx-rt that it will
submit proposals for a reduction ,»f
armaments.
IKISH CONSTITUTION
TO PASS UNAMENDED
London. Dec. 2.—The Irish Con
stitution. before it Is passed un
amended by the House of Commons
today reached the stage in the House
of Lords where it will receive its
third and final reading on Monday.
KING GEORGE
OFFERS TO ABDICATE
Athens, Dec. 2.—King Oeorge of
Greece is alarmed at the turn events
In his kingdom have taken. To In
dicate the force of his protest
against the execution of the eablnot
rainistLrs and high officials he has
: offered to abdicate the thone of
j Greece. The offer was made after he
j had learned that Prince Andrew
would be tried.
KING GEORGE
FOR CLEMENCY
Paris, Dec. 1.—A Belgrade des
patch says that King George of
Greece made strenuous efforts to
stop the executions of the cabinet
ministers. He went so f*r as to ask
the Jugo-S!avia and Rumanian min
isters to act In favor of the con
demned men. In this, he found him
self in conflict with the government.
PRINCE ANDREW
18 ON TRIAL
Athens. Dec. 2.—The trial by
court martial of Prince Andrew,
brother of former King Constantino,
was be&un this afternoon. He is
charged with having disobeyed or
ders from the Greek General Staff
and thus contributed to the nMlltary
disaster in Asia Minor.
COl'XTER GREEK
REVOLUTION STARTED
Rome, Dec. 2.—A Greek counter
revolution has started. The out
break of this revolution occurred In
the island of Pntras and Musaollng
hi. in Western Greece, also on the
island of Corfu. On this latter lal
and. the British flag has been raised
as a result of the Indignation arous
ed over the execution of the Qraek
Ministers.
PRESIDENT HARDING HAS
Ql'IET THANKSGIVING
Washington, Dec. 1.—President
Harding celebrated Thanksgiving
quietly In the White House. The
dinner was a simple, unpretentious
family affair for two in Mr*. Hard
ing's own room. The room was
luxuriously decorated with flowers
sent by kind friends. Turkey, with
the usual trimmings for the Presi
dent and Mrs. Harding was not al
lowed to eat much as sho Is slowly
convalescing from her illness.
S.S. PRESIDENT WILSON
MEETS FIERCE GALE
New York. Dec. 1.—-The Atlantic Li
ner President Wilson, arrived yester
day afternoon from Trieste. On her
trip over, the ship encountered a 120
mile gale which crushed In doors
and Injured twenty of her passen
gers.
LONDON TIMES
GETS OLD EDITOR
London. Dec. 1.—The Evening
Standard of this city says that Wick
am Steed will be succeeded as editor
of the Times by George Frey Dauson
i Dauson was formerly editor of this
I well known paper.
// We Can't Save, We Cant
Succeed
J
AMES J. HILL, The Empire Builder, said:: "If you
want to know whether you are going to be a suc
cess or fa'ilue in life you can easily And out The
test is simple and infallible. ARE YOU ABLE TO
think it but you will lose as sure as you live. The teed ot »u>
cess is not In you.
WE INVITE YOU TO OPEN' AN ACCOUNT WITH US. i '
PERCENT PAID ON SAVINGS DEPOSITS AND CERTIFICATES
OF DEPOSIT
Baurak off Rlfflskai
SKAGWAY, ALASKA
FREEING REDS
Chicago, III., Dec. 2.—Governor
Len Snail's action in pardoning
William Bross Lloyd, the Red mil
lionaire and his fifteen followers has
been bitterly denounced by the Chi
cago posts of the American Legion.
Springfield, 111., Dec. 1.—Gover
nor Len Small of this state commut
ed the sentences of William Brons
Lloyd, the millionaire Socialist and
sixteen of his assistants, who were
J serving time in the Joliet peniten
tiary and the Cook County Jail. They
I were convicted of syndicalism. The
I commutation of the sentences was to
I take place at once.
MAHOXEY EXECUTED
AT VALLA WALLA
Walla Walla, WaBh., Dec. 1.—
James E. Mahoney was hanged this
morning in the prison, (or th>t mur
der of his aged wife, Kate Moore
Mahoney, on April 16, 1921.
Yesterday, Mahoney. with the gal
lows staring him in the face, con
fessed that he had committed the
crime. He made a statement in
which he declared he had killed his
wife as she was preparing to take
her bath. The confession was made
to Superintendent Pace of the Walla
Walla state's prison.
His aged mother, Mrs. Nora Ma
honey said that she was going to
Bangor, Maine, to start life all over
by Christmas. By that time she ex
pects to he back In her old home,
where sha has a brother still living.
BISTER OF MAHONEY
CONFESSES TO KILLING
Seattle, Dec. 2.—A confession
signed by Mrs. Dolorerj Margaret
JohnBon, the sister of Mahoney, who
was executed, yesterday, states that
she was the one, and not her broth
er. who killed Kate Moores Mahoney.
The confession was presented to act
ing governor Coyle yesterday after
noon. by Thomas J. Casey, attorney
for Mrs. Johnson. Acting governor
Coyle was intending the football
game at the time Casey presented the
petition. Governor Coyle Ignored
the confession.
POLICEMAN SHOT
BY CAR BANDITS
Seattle. Dec. 1.—Policeman John
F. Stevens vas shoe and possibly fa
tally wounded this morning. He
was shot by two bandits driving a
stolen Callllac limousine. He drove
his machine to the Providence hos
pital after being shot, and then col
lapsed over the wheel. He himself
was in the car hunting the bandits
when he encountered them.
HOOVER 8AYS RUSSIA
OX ROAD RECOVERY
San Francisco, Dec. 2.—Secre
| tary Hoover declared that Russia is
on the road to recovery. He made
this statement in a talk to the San
Francisco Center, a Woman's Organi
zation, yesterday afternoon. He de
clared that communism had failed
and its leaders kDOW it.
GENERAL EDWARDS
RETIRED YESTERDAY
Boston, Mass., Dec. 2.—Majof Gen
eral Edwards, commander of the
First %rmy Corps Area, was restir
ed from the active list of the army
I yesterday. Major General Edwards
has giveu forty-three years of serv
ice to the army.
STROM DOLI IN'
VIOLENT ERITTON
London, Dec. 2.—Word comes
from Sicily, that Stromboli, a vol
canic island off the northern coast of
Sicily, is in violent eruption. Strom
boll lies less that fifty miles north of
Messina on the island of Sicily,
the scene some years ago of a terri
ble volcanic disaster.
Dl. L S. KELLER
PA^ES AWAY
Northerners throughout Alaska
and Yukon Territories will be griev
ed to hear of the passing of Doctor
Louis Scott Keller. For nearly
twenty-five years, men who have
come In in the spring, and have gone
out in the fall, have been c 1'ered
on their way as they passed through
Skagway by his genial snlle, cor
dial word and hearty hand-shake.
He knew most of the men in tiie
Northland from Nome to the Mac
kenzie. and from Ketchikan to Point
Barrow t~ their personal names. He
know much of their lives—their sr.c
cesses and failures. He had me: them
in so many different places and un
der such varying conditions that they
were not surprised to meet him al
most anywhere.
Doctor L. S. Keller was born In
1S59, la Saint Paul, Minnesota,
and was educatod In the public
schools of that city, his father, J.
M. Keller, being one of the Influen
clal men of thr.t city. He was one of
Ave boys, three of whom are still
living, the fourth having died four
years to a day of Ooctor's passing
away. He studied dentistry and be
gan the practice of his profession at
the age of nineteen. He followed
this work for two years, when an
opportunity to engage In business
with his brother led him to Grand
Porks, N. D., where he and his
brother had a lumber yard from
18SO to 1883. At the close of that
period he returned to St. Paul, where
he assumed the superintendency of
the factory of C. E. Keller and Com
pany. In the year, 1886, he retired
from the lumber business and re
sumed the profession of dentistry.
He went to Duluth, Minn., and there
opened an office. After some few
years in Minnesota he left that city
and settled In Great Falls, Montana.
He remained in Great Palls but a
few years, returning to St. Paul.
There in the year 1891, he married
Miss Martha B. Schafer.
Shortly after his marriage, he and
Mrs. Keller left St. Paul and settled
in Pocatello, Idaho, where he built
up a most successful practice. ,While
a resident of Idaho, he took an ac
tive part in state and city politics, |
being elected to the state senate on
the Silver-Republican ticket.
In 1897, the great Klondike rush
attracted his attention and rhe fall
of that year saw him In Skagway.
where he spent his first winter In
the North. He returned to Idaho
the next spring and with Mrs. Kel
ler came back to Skagway where he
has made his home ever since.
Here he has practiced his profes
sion of dentistry, making frequent
trips to Haines. Alaska, Atlln, B. C.,
Carcross and Whitehorae, Y. T. Up
to 1915, he made regular trips of a
professional character to Sitka, Al
aska.
He was connected with all the be-1
nevolent and social orders of the
North. Dr. Keller was the first
Grand Arctic Chief of the Arctic
Brotherhood, and the charter of
Cr.mp Skagway, No. 1., the mother
camp of the fraternity, bears hia sig
nature. He was a charter member
of Skagway Lodge, No. 431, Benev
olent and Protective Order of Elks;
a member of White Pass Lodge, No.
113, F & A. M.; Skagway Aerie, No.
25, Fraternal Order of Eagles;
Woodmen of the World; The Mac
cabees. and the Independent Order
of Odd Fellows.
He served a number of years as
councilman of Skagway and was ma
yor a number of times, the last elec
tion to this office being last April.
He was elected president of the Skag
way Chamber of Commerce and the
Commercial Club a number of times
and was largely Instrumental in or
ganizing the Christian Science
Church of Skagway and securing the
building on Main and Fourth av
enues, and refitting it for services.
At the time of his death, he was
engaged with his brother John M.
in the drug and curio business in
Skagway.
He leaves a wife, Martha B., and
three sisters, Mrs. Percy Vittum, St.
Paul, Mrs. Theodore S. Cogswell,
Los Angeles, Mrs. Edward W. D.
Taylor, Orange Grove, California,
and three brothers, Charles E. and
Herbert P., St. Paul, and John M.
Keller. Skagway.
' Last June he left Skagway In poor
PROGRESSIVES AT
WASHINGTON ORGANIZE
Washington, Dec. 2.—An Import
ant conference was held In this city
yesterday. The conference was call
ed by Senator Lafollette of Wiscon
sin. Thirty-five Senators and Rep
resentatives were present at the
meeting. The slogan which the con
ference adopted for future action
was given: "To drive special privi
lego out of the control of govern
ment and retstore it to the people."
Senator Norris was made Presi
dent. Other Senators present, were:
McNary, Shepard, France. Owen,
Shlpstead, Frazier and Ladd, Capper,
Lafollette, Brookhardt, Wheeler, and
Borah.
HALF MILLION FIRE
IN NORTH CAROLINA
Newbern, N. C., Dec. 2.—Firs
broke out in the western part of this
city and before It was under control
it had destroyed that section of the
city. The loss of three hundred
homes estimated at a total damage
of half a million dollars is the re
sult of the Are. No lives are report
ed lost.
MAYOR COUZENS OFF
FOR WASHINGTON
Detroit, Mich., Dec. 2.—Mayor
Couzens of Detroit has resigned his
office at the head of the city govern
ment and is leaving at once for
Washington, where he will take the
seat recently resigned by Senator
Newberry in the United States Sen
ate.
health, and went to Seattle in the
hope that treatment would bring
him relief. Through all the inter
vening months he suffered much, but
ever without complaint. Those who
sew him brought tidi::gs of his grad
ual decline, due, it was thought, to
a cancer of the throat. The end came
very peacefully on Thanksgiving eve
ning. Christian Science Services
will be held in Seattle on Sunday, at
the Bonny-Watson Chapel. The re
mains will be cremated.
Thus closes the chapters of the
book of life of one of the boat known
and beloved men of the North. The
services these pioneers rendered this
territory will bo more appreciated as
time passes and the Great North be
comes a busy hive of industry.
The spirit of his home town is
woll expressed in the words of an old
timer, who, when apprised of Doctor
Keller's death, said: "Well, well, its
too bad, I'm sorry. Skagway loses a
good man."
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Lausanne, D^c. 2.—The Peace
Conference which is being held here
on the Near East situation is dead
locked on the question of the con
trol of the Straits of the Dardanelles
and the Mosul oil concessions, and
the European frontiers. Today the
consideration of the advisability of
taking a six weeks recess which will
begin with Dec. 15th, was up for
discussion and action.
SOVIET STANDS FOR
INDEPENDENT TURKEY
Paris, Dec. 2.-—The Soviet dele
gates to the Peace Conference have
put on their banners as their motto
at this conference the complete in
dependence 01' Turkey. Tchltcherin,
the Russian Foreign Minister made
this declaration as he was leaving
Paris for Lausanne.
MEXICO CITY
HAS FATAL RIOT
Mexico City, Dec. 1.—Liibar
Unions in this city arranged for a
peaceful demonstration at the Mu
nicipal Building, last night. It was
proposed to march to the City Hill
and protest to the Al.lerman, who
was held responsible for tbo condi
tions which led to the water famine
in the city. The authorities evident
ly took It in an entirc'y different
manner from which it was intendeJ
and proceeded to dispose the march
er?. A riot ensued and six hours
of fighting resulted in the death of
seventeen while eighteen were seri
ously injured. The Federal guird
is standing by the batterer! Munici
pal Building, which the mob attempt
ed to storm, and which the mob
nearly tore down.
WOOD WILL NOT
QUIT. JAN. FIRST
Manila, Dec. 2.—Governor Gen
eral Wood, who was reported to
leave his post January first for the
Presidency of t..e University of
Pennsylvania, is likely to remain as
Governor General of the Philippines
well into next year.
He is reported to have abandon
ed the idea of leaving his post and
returning to the state January 1st.
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