Voters of Southern Ire
land Electing Irish
Parliament
London, June 10.—The draft
of the new Irish constitution,
just made public, gives force of
law to the Anglo-Irish treaty
and generally places the rela
tions between Ireland and the
empire on the same basi.> as
Canada and the other dominions.
It requires every member oi the
Free State parliament to sub
scribe faith and allegiance to the
constitution and to swear to be
faithful to the king.
Voters’of Southern Ireland
Electing an Irish Parliament
Dublin, June 17.—The voters of
Southern Ireland went to the polls to
day to elect an Irish parliament, as
. provided under the terms-of the Anglo
; Irish treaty. Under recent agreement
• between the factions, a coalition panel
of candidates was presented to the
people by apportioning representation
in the parliament at approximately the
same ratio-as shown in past-tests of
strength in the Dail Eireann.
Mystic Shrine Potentate*
San Francisco.—James S. McCaad
- less, of Honolulu, was chosen imperial
potentate of the Ancient Arabic Order
of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, today,
in their final sefsion.
Says Federal Officials
Drunk at Republican
State Convention.
Washington, June 17.—Mayor
Brown this morning forwarded
affidavits to the Washington
congressional delegation setting
forth that certain Federal offi
cials, charged with law enforce
ments. were drunk at the Repub
lican State convention at Che
halis last week, and that one of
these officials, while in such con
dition, in addressing the conven
tion, apologized for Seattle
“having a socialist mayor.” The
names of the men to whom the
affidavits relate have not been
made public.
Yukon Str. Movements
Anna up Koyukuk Station 4 am.
Kith.
St. Joseph en route ditarod.
Seattle No. 3 down Koyukuk for St.
Michael a. m. .]6th.
Teddy H. in1 the Koyukuk. .
Sibills due at St. Michael.
Alaska up Tanana.
Jacobs up Gibbon 11 a. m. 16th.
A. E. Bartlett, from Candle, was one
of yesteiday’s arrivals.
Accidental Discharge of
Shotgun May Cost
Life of Old-Timer.
Tacotna, June 15.— M. Newell,
familiarly known as “The nan
behind the stove,” accidentally
shot himself in the left arm with
a shotgun on May _6th at the
Carlson roadhouse, on the In
noko river, according to Iv. M.
Pearson and S. E. Coffin, who
have just arrived here.
„ Newell and Paul Keating were
returning from a hunt. 'hen
about to enter the boat Newer
grasped his shotgun by the muz
zle and in some manner discharged it
into the left arm near the shoulder, al
most blowing' the arm away. The
muscle and practically all tiio b c was
carried away.
Mr. Keating rushed the wo aided
man to Oippie tan* night, and th: fol
lowing day, with the aid of others,
pushed on to Max Simel’s place at
Fairview. From there a party of three
pushed on in a larger boat in an effort
to reach Holy Cross as ->uon as possible,
it being hoped that medical aid would
be available at that place.
Mr. Newell will lose his arm at the
Shoulder, providing medical aid is
reached before blood poisoning set:; in,
but if blood poisoning should set in it
! is feared he will lose his life, as the
wound is almost at the shoulder.
The party has not been heard from
since leaving Simel’s
Found On Approach of
Highway Bridge Over
Chehalis River.
Seattle, June 15.—Six bombs,
tilled with high explosives and
splintered glass, each one capa
ble oi blow ng up an office build
ing, were found yesterday on
the approach to the highway
bridge over the Chehalis river at
Aberdeen. Government agents,
who located the plant, belie.ve
they were planted there to b >w
up National Guard t roops paus
ing over *he bridge.
Northcliffe Danger
ously IU, Associates
Start Libel Actions
Loudon.—Lord Northcliffe is danger
ously ill in Switzerland, where the
members of his family have been hi
moned.
Coincident with the sickness of the
great publisher, two of his associates,
Andrew Caird and Walter G. Pish an
nounced tonight that they have en
tered libel suits against him.
Joe blanched returned today from a
three-day visit up river.
American Journalists
at Hague Conference ,
Ordered From Palace!
The Hague. -The opening: of The
Hague conference, called 'or the pur
pose of considering llussian economic j
conditions, was marked by soldiers or - j
dering the American and other 'our
nalists to leave the I’eace 1‘alaee—-con
ceived largely by Americans and built
with American money.
The conference was ailed to order
by Dutch Foreign Minister 3. H. A. |
Vankarnebeei:. 3i;:ty delegates, rep-1
resenting about thirty countries, were j
Asserts Supreme Court
Is Now Actual Killer
of American People*
1 Cincinnati, June 15.—Assert
ing that the Supreme Court of
the United States is now the
actual ruler o" the American,
people, Senator Robert M. La
Pollette. of Wisconsin, in a
speech to the American Federa
tion of Labor convention today,
proposed the passage of a con
stitutional amendment giving
Congress the right to nullify
any decision of the high tribunal
knocking out a law by re-enact
ing the measure. The ( mrt, the
i Senator declared, has assumed
| powers over laws and public
! policies oi the country which the
framers oi the Constitutive never
intended it should have
Telegraphic Ticks.
Paris.—The Chamber of Do"nties to
day voted to retain France’s ore ent
big army.
Seattle.—Jacob l»alda, pioneer o:
Kitsap county, perished in tiie destruc
tion of his Mav Harbor hotae by fire,
i Thursday.
| Paris.—To discuss the European po
: Utieal situation with Lloyd George,
: Premier t’oincaire left Paris for Lon
don this afternoon.
Seattle.—Shooting is too good for
peddlers of narcotics, W. H. Bliss,
White Cross ollicial, declared in an ad
dress last evening.
White Plains, N. Y. — Walter 8.
Ward, millionaire baker's son, was to
day indicted by the grand jury, on the
charge of killing C’arenee Peters.
Chicago. — Harold IP. McCormick,
millionaire son-in-law of John 1>. Bock
lefeller, has successfully undergone a
secret operation in Wesley Memorial
hospital._
New General Manager at Se
attle for Two Alaska Concern^
Seattle. -F, if active July 1, Fred !i.
Knickerbocker v.as this afternoon ap
pointed general manager, under Vic
President Stannard, of the Alaska
Steamship Company and the Copper
Liver & Northwestern Railway, with
headquarters at Seattle. Knicker
bocker has for some time been general
superintendent of tho Oregon Short
Line Railway.
Clara Gilmore, Former
Alaska Teacher, Dead
in Philippines.
Manila, June 15. -Miss Clara
Gilmore, for several years a
school teacher here, committed
suicide today at Albay.
Miss Gilmore had been dis
missed during the war for al
leged disloyal utterances. Of
these charges she had, following
a thorough investigation, teen,
cleared by Governor General
Wood. Her application recently
for reinstatement, however, was
rejected by the vice governor,
and this is believed to have been
the reason which prompted her
to take her own life.
Before coming to tne Philip
pines Miss G ilmore taught school
at Nome and Fairbanks, Alaska
Crowd of 300 Starts
to Close Operating
Coal Mines. Indiana
Terre Haute, art.—A crowd oi three
hundred left here in automobiles this
i morning, announeiu r -.heir intention
of closing every coal mine ir operation,
between Terre Haute and Brasil. The
first stop was made at the Hones mine,
where two trucks loaded with coal
were seined and the contents dumped
into the road.
Gen. Chung Mingo Exe
cutes Coup—Sun Yat
Sen Missing.
Canton, -June 1C,--The army
of Ceueral Chung Mingo, in a
surprise , attack this afternoon,
occupied one Canton sea section
of the Southern Ci'.ina govern
merit. Losses in Jig fighting
were not heavy, only thirty
being killed.
President Suu Yat Sen, of the
southern republic, is variously
reported as having been cap
tured and to have lied.
Possible to Send Ra
dio Messages Around
W or Id. Says M arconi
New York.—Marconi announced to
day. on arrival of his yacht Electra,
that experiments which he had con
ducted on tha Atlantic had sho wn that
it is possioie to transmit radio mes
sages -around the world. Previously,
he said,, the maximum sending distance
was 12,203 miles.
Charlie Nystrom, with, the Rod
'Ting, returned late Thursday gig hr
from a trio to Tacetna