EXCURSIONISTS FROM JUNEAU
ARRIVE HERE EOR EMPIRE W
With the arrival here last night
and this morning of forty excur
stouist* from Juneau and. Douglas
JsiiLd. and ethers expected on the
Ui'/ of Seattle tomight, all bound
for Whitehorse, assurance is giv
en that Gastineau chaiwel towns
wil. Le represented by u big crowd
Saturday at the Whitohorse cele
bratiou of Empire day.
\\. C. Blanchard, president of the
Whi e Pass Athletic club, under
the auspices of which the excursion
»iL l'e run over the White I'ass
railroad, said this morning that in
formation from Haines and Caribou
and other points along the line in
dicate a big attendance.
Kequests for information from lo
cal people concerning the excur
sion, are said to show that Skag
way will send a big delegation.
Tickets will be on sale from niue
uutil six o'clock tomorrow and I
fruui seven until nine o'clock to-1
juorrow evening.
Owing to the <;ariy hour or de
garture- Saturday morning, Mr.
Bla-uch&rd sad it would b© necess
ary frr all who intend to make the
♦rip, to buy ther tickets tomor
row, No tickets, he said, would be
sold Saturday morning.
The round trip fare for members
of the White Pass club will be $3,
'he usual faTe The reduced rate
for others than club members will
be $5.
The excursion will leave Satur
day morning at 5:30 o'clock an4
will arrive in AVhitehorse at eleven
o'clock. Two sections will be run
for the return, one leaving 'White
iorse at seven o'clock Saturday ev
ening, the other, Sunday morning.
The Mariposa of the Alaska
Steamship company, E. J. Shaw, the
local agent, announced this after
noon, will arrive here Saturday ev
eving from the w^st coast and will
bo itld until the excursiQn train
arrives from WWteherse atj midnight
Sa'urday to carry excursionists back
tc Juneau.
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* EMPIRE DAY NOTICE *
*■ *
+ Owing to Saturday's being ♦
* Empire day, when, Skagway <•
* will join Whitehorse* ia cele- +
* bra.ing the holiday, the Alas- v
v kan will not be published that ❖
{• day. It is therefore requested *
* that church and other an- *
* nouiicements, accustomed to be *
* run in Saturday's paper, te de- i
* livered 'o the office tomorrow *
*• forenoon for publication in Fri- i
day's paper. *
oan Francisco, May 31. — From 1
stenc-grapher to $150,000 heiress ox
er night is the experience of jVIiss ]
Ameiia JUuiroe iu fate's elevator ]
here
Tne long arm of romance 1ms ,
reached down from far Alaska to;
claim this 17-year-old girl who l>c-:
came separated from her lather. '
.now a wealthy mining: man, when 1
«be was but three yeans old.
Before going north to a fortuue,
Munroe was setting on indifferent-;
ly ia San Francisco. His babo was
left wjili the mother, who lost her j
life during the San Francisco fire j
oi 1906. Since then the girl, Amel-•
ia, has lived with her grandmother, j
making her way during the past two
years as stenographer at a meager
salary.
Recently her father sent his bro- '
■ther, Jim Munroe, here to seek the .
girl. The search ended the other ■
day when her uncle met Amelia on !
the street.
"Jim's girll" he shouted. You're
the image of your father. I'd know j
yo.i anywhere. Your father is wait
lug for you at Valdez. You're to j
have $50,000 cash and mining prop
erty worth $100,000."
When the ice goes out, Amelia ,
is .yoing North to daddy lov0 and
gold
CALLS ON RICH
SERVE C
Miueola, X. Y., May 31.—Gall
ins upon the rich to serve Amer
ica with their bodies as veil as
their wealth in this war, Col. Tlie- i
odore Kosevelt addressed a big ai1"
dieace here last night. He Paid he j
envied "any man who had a chance j1
tc risk his life for his country."
KAISER IS OPTIMISTIC
Copenhagen, May 31. — Emperor
William is quoted iu the Berlin Tag ■
chlatt as having declared in an ad
dress to the troops oa th" Ais'.ie j
front that "a decision in favor of
the Germans is near at hand.'
Suits
Coats
Waists
Street
Dresses
ALBERT REINERT
Broadway between Third and Fourth Phone 41
United States Dreadnought North Dakota
Photo by American Press Association. - t
Tlie Niirlh Pn!;ntsi, CO.POO tons."Is 521.5 feet Ions. She Mas ton twelve-Inch
puns, ami Iter crow numbers otlicira and inun.
».nirn rf\n I TS^f
tihirij riJh iiiM
Seattle, Wr.th., 3Iay 31, — Ttie
I utp.UUa, p tU a largo number of
[ia? senders, will sail tomorrow night
lor Xiine. She will be tho first
v:s-,eiigcr fhip out this season for
.
i.aTouche and Yaldez, the former
ivth CCo tens of steel for the Alas
ka railroad at Xenana, sailed yes
c-rday for St. Michael and Nome.
'i!ie Alaska Bcaid cf Koad com-I
u!.-v;;uners, tunrdJi £ lo a dispatch.
i
laarte's from V'aldez t«.Juneau June
l "). The dhpakli states tliai the I
hange Jias been contemplated l'or
louietime and has now boeu decid
ed u;ion for the date given to lac-!
liai i die work of Maj, P. \V. l>av-1
sou, disbursing ofi'icer of iho b<>ar<V
■■ ho w.h "instruct Aia.ka militia
ii d recruits for tho v w;'.i '
icad-jiiurtpis at Juneau."
J. C. Hayes, field officer in I hi;
lirisien ftt the board, has ln"ii in
itrmtcd to prepare offices for the I
ward.
Wish iho moving of the head- J
luartiit-, three going t;> June i]
*•>11 be: Col. W. P. Richardson, I
n-ji'i!-i!t of the Commission, Major
.
)f the the commission, and his fam-!
ij, Captain J. C. Meliafi'ey, of the j
Sugiuetr*s Corp.-, the other me:.i
>&e c l the commission, Oliver A. J
iull, civil engineer and bridge ex- j
>crt, a half dozen or bo clerks.'
iten "graph<T3 and draughtsmen. 11
s olso possible that John Zugg
- igincer and field expert will ac
•otupaay the rtaff here, though Mr.
t; yes says he may he retained in
!i-. Third Di\ ision.
Subscribe for the Daily Alaskar.
ilii Siiitli
AVasfcingtcji, May 31.—The ar
r<:st c£ all persons who denounce
the selective draft plan of rais
:ns the United States war army or
■lis : ur;'g0 registration under the
tlr.u't law, was ordered today by the
cove; ument.
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London, May 31.—War's tell a- j
Ki'.'iis iho British forces on tlio Ar-1
ras frout in May, according to tlie
report issued he-re today, -was 112, i
332.
Increasing this less, eighteen, Brit |
ish vessels, caib of 1.600 tons ami
two lighting vessels wore sunk the
past week by the German U-boats,
a. (orrling to the official announce
Ujrc tcway.
ii.wri; m>n excursionists
TOXIGHT AT, ELKS IIALL
In honor of the excursionists who !
Arrived here this mcrnUig ou the
Xor'lnveste: n fiosu June-iu and other
Castinoau Channel towns, to attend
tae Empire day celebiation Satur-j
uuy at Whitchortc, a (lance will be I
j,'i\eu this evening at Elks ball. |
'i'Ue r.ffair will be the first of the I
Lli.s' summer dances and the com- j
uiillce on arrangements is making I
plans in keeping with, a pro-Empire ■
dav function. Music will be furnish- j
ed by Selmer's orchestra.
THREATS CAl'SE ARREST
Haskell, Texas, May 31.—Threats)
tii.l he would kill President Wil-1
sja for leading the United States ,
i;:to war against Germany, caused;
arrest here yesterday of W. A. j
Borgfield, a mail carrier.
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NSIRUGTIDNS RECEIVED HERE
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TRIBUTES Pi
ills DEAD
With, flags at half mast and most
of 'he business houses closed, Skag
way yesterday did honor to the
nation's dead. Xo program was cai
rind out here, but a number of Skaj>
way citizens went to Haines on the
iiuartermaster'e harbor boat, Pet
erson, and there participated, -in the
Army and Navy union's, observance
of lleuiorial day, the first that has
come in many years, in war time.
Washington, May 31.—President
Woodrow Wilson, speaking yestcr
day at the memorial day services at
Arliugton,"- said be envied "the lie- |
rocs whose memories we are hon- j
pring toil' » because theirs is the
sreat. work for liberty accomplish
ed " 5
The uuicn which "they died to
preserve," he declared, "is the pow
er we arc now using to serve the
world."
Haines, May 31.—With citizens
and officers and soldiers of Fort
Wiliiam H. Seward participating,
tribute was paid here yesterday, un
der the auspices of the Army and
N'avy union, to the country's dead.
Ilie local lodges of the Improved
Order of Red Men and the Loyal
Order of Moose co-op_erated with^the),
union in observance of the day.
l'etrograd, May 31-.— Owing to
the failure of the war loan to pro- !
vide accessary revenues, the provi
sional government is seriously cou
si'lciii't the confiscation of private
properly, according to well-advised
reports hero today.
Much, encouragement is felt here
today from the action of the con-1
cress of delegates at the front in i
passing resolutions yesterday call-1
iu'j upon "all those to whom Rus-1
sia is dear to rally rouud the coun-1
cil of soldiers and workingmen and j
tlio provisional government." j
Preliminary; instructions rela
tive to registration day Alaska
were received, yesterday from Gov
ernor Strong by Mayor Howard Ash
ley. Registration day in tko States
Will be June 5, according to Pres
ident Wilson's proclamation. Gov
ernor Strong, according to a Wash
ington dispatch yesterday, has beea
asked by thq President to fix the
day- in Alaska and then notify Wash
ington so that tlx© necessary in
structions and blanks may be seat.
.Mayor Ashley, Health Officer Ga
bic end City Clerk McClelland will
constitute tjj® registration board ia
Skagway, according to Goveirnor
Strong's letter, which saya in part:
"Under the act of Congress of
Mav IS, 1917, and ia compliance
with a proclamation which will be
issued by £lj.e President of the U
nitcd States, it is deemed advisable,
in view of the peculiar conditions ofe
takiing in Alaska, that the Mayor
,tho city clerk and the health of
ficer or city physcican be constitute'
a board of registration, supervisors
for fhe taking of the conscription,'
registration."
Since it is desired to make the
expense of registration day as light
as possible. Governor Strong saidi
it was hoped "volunteer services will
be utilized to the fullest possible
ex'cnV and the names of those
who perform such gratuitous ser
vices will be reported to the author
ities in Washington.
Washington, May; 31.—Railroads
of tile United States are preparing
>o operate as a unified system dur
ing tUe war according to an an
nouncement made here today. The
bis consolidation is being effected,
by bankers and insurance men, own
ing 'lie securities, and is planned
to eliminate competition and facil
iate transportaton of war supplies.
BRAZIL ACTS FOR WAR
Rio Janeiro, May 31.—With the
passage uuanimously yesterday; by
the chamber of deputies of a res
olution revoking Brazil's neutrality
ns regards Germany, it is believed
jicrie today that the republic will
soon be actively engaged In t}iQ war.
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