VOL. III. NO. 32
M'.' 1 RATH; ALASKA WEDNESDAY, MAY 0, 192
PRICK’Sr. CFA.
115, Mostly Foreigners, j
Kidnapped By Chinese |
Bandits Near Tientsin I
_
■ Brutal Guards Make Kidnapped Party, Mostly
in Night Attire, Walk Over Broken Glass ini
Vicinity of Wrecked Train—Ransom of One
Million Dollars Demanded—Representatives
of Four Governments Hold Conference,
'Tientsin, May * 7. — A relief I
1 train has arrived here with a
party of foreigners who escaped
when the iSlianghai-Peking ex
press train was held up by ban
dits at Linishing. In the party
are*Mrs. Robert Allen and Mrs. j
Pinger. These women stated
that their husbands, who are
majors in the American army,
amt Finger’s elder son, were kid
napped. One hundred and fif
teen persons on the express
train were kidnapped, most of,
them in their night attire and i
without their baggage. The;
members of the kidnapped party ,
were forced to walk barefooted j
over broken glass in the vicinity;
of the train and were hustled by
their brutal guards over the
rough country as the bandits fled
in fear of pursuit.
Peking. — A ransom of one!
million dollars is demanded by
Chinese bandits for the safe re
turn of foreigners, among whom
are many Americans, who were
kidnapped Sunday after their,
train was wrecked in the wilds
near Lincheng. The demand for
the ransom was brought in from ;
the bandits by an aged Chinese.
Shanghai.—Miss Aldrich, sis
tor-in-law of John D. Kockofel-,
ler, Jr., has boon found, fifteen
miles from the scene ol the hold
up, at Tseetsun, where she had
dropped from exhaustion and
had been abandoned by the ban
dit horde. Her bare feet were!
cut and bruised and she was suf
fering from exposure, the result
of her forced night march. Illy I
clad, Miss Aldrich was found by
an American engineer of the!
Asia Development Company and !
sent to Tsinanafu for treatment
Peking.—Two Americans and
an Englishman are reported to
have been shot when govern
ment troops attacked the ban
dits. The latter attempted to
make a human barricade of tin
prisoners. By placing f he for
eifiners in front of then!*' t ie ban
dits defended thegvse ves with
return rille fire in response to
attacks by the soldiy - r
America and Britain tonight
intervened in behalf of American
and British citizens kidnapped
by Chinese bandits.
Washington, May 7 —A con
ference cl' diplomats is now in
progress in Peking, at which
are repr - • ' •! the govt rnmontej
of the United States, Great Brit-’
a in, France and .Japan. This1
conference will determine if the !
Chinese government shall be;
taken over and ruled by an in
ternational commission. The
United Stales is represented by!
Jacob Gould bchurman, Amor-!
ican miniater to China.
Peking.—The Chinese govern
ment has ordered the governor
of Shangtung to accede to the!
demand of the bandits and ob
tain the immediate release of alii
foreigners kidnapped. The gov
ernor is ordered to pay the ran
som demanded, if necessary.
Six foreigners released by the
bandits arrived here tonight.
Shanghai, May 8.—lb has been f
impossible to identify the Amer-j
lean shot by .the Sucliow train}
bandits. Advises state that this j
man lost his life on Monday, fol-|
low ing the holdup, during one of
the skirmishes between the brig- j
ands and the pursuing troops.!
Joseph "Rothan, a doctor, who1
was killed, was shot down dur-j
ing the holdup.
London.'—All women, includ
ing Miss Aldrich, sister of Mrs.
John It Rockefeller, Jr., cap
tured by Chinese bandits have}
been released, says a dispatch |
from Shanghai to the Central
News.
‘Washington, May 8.—Sehur-j
man, American minister to Pek-:
ing, advised Secretary of State,
Hughes this evening that the
Chinese government had prom
ised^ to pay the ransom demand
ed by Chinese bandits.
Peking. —- Reports from Li
chi: . tonight place the number
of captive foreigners, still lielo
at nineteen. Of these, eight are
Americans anti Four British. The
two Amo'-'i - is -3 are believed to
include Mrs. L. A. Seaton, of
Manila, and Ultn Auld, of Eu
gene, Ore.
London. —The U'itish anti American
garrisons at fie no. in have been mobil
ized, aecordin > to dispatch from
Pe k i c.
Tientsin.— fiovernmant troops are
believed to hav - .ndetely surrounded
all hill stro nil'll olds where lifteen for
eigners are being held by suchow ban
dits.
Peking—-The . n reuce on foreign
relations has - it. u 'timatum to the
Chinese roverument, saying: *‘Free
all foreigners imuiediately, alive. We
don’t care what meld > is are used, but
free them ”
Heavy ententes Passed
on Krupp Yorks Head
and Directors
Worden, lei many, May 3.—
Dr. K pp von Bolden, head of
t-ne vrr. ,;.t Krupp wo. :;s, and Oi
-c.*c!ors O-torhn and Bar twig
were each sentenced to fifteen
years’ imprisonment and fined
eight hundred and fifty million
marks on •onviction by court
martial of having incited Krupp
workers to resist the French
military, as a result of which
fourteen Krupp employes were
killed. Din tor huhn got ten
years, and two other directors
are in fight.•
Essen.—Director Jaeger, of
the lieinrichschntte iron works,
was convicted by court martial
today of being responsible for
the blowing of sirens when the
French troops came to requisi
tion material at his plant, fie
was fihad fifty million marks.
Georges Carpentier Wins
French Heavy weight Title
Paris. May 7.—By knocking
out Marc ! Killes, the title
bolder, in the eighth round’ of
their scheduled twenty-round
bout, at Buffalo stadium, this af
ternoon, Georges Cai pentier won
the French heavyweight title.
The contest was witnessed by a
record- breaki eg crowd.
Oh Lin- dale, May 9lh. ihe onun fee
if the Tac-otna has a very brownish
rolor, anil shore ice has beeD bobbins
up most of the day. Not many hav#
jrossed today, the only ones noticeable
aeirig J. H. Peterson and Fti Carlson,
who made a couple of trips to bring
jver a number of dogs, and Gus Schu
,er. who returned todto’ from a trie to
raectnr
Plans fo * Dirigible Dash
Practically Agreed
On by Navy,
!
Washington, May 7.- Tlio non-1
| stop flight of the T-2 from New
York to Sau Jiego lent new in-;
I cere.st today to tiie Navy’s plan I
for flying to the North Pole and ;
around the .vorld. ►Lear Ad-j
mini I Wm. A. Vloffet announced;
I tonight that tentative plans forj
I a dirigible clash to the North;
I Pole have practically been j
agreed upon. Moffett would ee-;
tablish dirigible bases at Nome,'
rx 3 I
Alaska, at Come point in the,
northern part of Greenland, and
Spitsbergen island, which lies
: midway between the North Polo|
and Northern orway.
The North Pole is only vifteen :
hundred miles north of Nome, i
To reach it at the rate of sixty!
i miles a-i hour, which the kiR-1 i
I will attain, would require twenty-1
I five Hours. In another twenty-j
tour hours, it is declared, the I
J l i- I .fillip
«v owuic n ci u i l •
I
l able spot la .North*:m Norway/51
San Diego.—Ezra Meeker, of:
Seattle, 03, famous Western pio-1
ueer, who is now n New York,!
telegraphed Lieuts. Macread.y
and Kelly as follows .
“Congratulationson your won.
derful fight, w/iek beats ray
time seventy-one years ago by
o:* team a« . wo miles an hour,
being live months on the way.”
Mining Notes From
the Cripple Section
Cripple, April JO.— iiliv Gragen and
Coffin are taking out a dump,
Greenberg and Caldwell, on Box
iulch, are 'aki-ig out. a dump.
Mitchell and Wilson, on Cripple
reek, are gelling ready for ooen cut
work,
Ud Kluorudo creek, t wo Greeks re
run the dueling of good pay.
Alex. Shedell and ' 'rlsley, on Colo
rado creetf, are getting ready for sum
mer operations.
B. of E. Scar Boxer
Headed for Alaska !
-_ !
Seattle.—The Bureau of .Education’s |
auxiliary powered schooner Boxer will j;
sail Thursday for Bristol Bay, Kusko
kwim ri very 1 nivak island, tiooper
Bay, Nome, 3t, -.awrence island and i
Bering Gea points.
A1 WaHr who returned here Sun
day from a trip to- Nixon, left Monday
afternoon over-the river ice for Bethel, <
on the way to his lower river quarters. 11
Chris Nelson, who was a Sunday ar- j
rival, returned,toTacotna early Mon- .
day morning ,
EMPSEY
MATCHED
For 15-Round Bout, or
July 4. With Tom
Gibbons,
Chicago, May 7.--^-.Jack ltemp
■;ey, champion heavyweight of
.he world, will defend his title
igainst Tom < ibbons, of St
Paul, the challenger, at Shelby
Mont., next Fourth of July. The
■natch will be for fifteen rounds
o a referee's decision. Demp
-;e.y, for his end of the contest
will receive three hundred thou
sand dollars, the same anr.ouni
le got for knocking out (leorges
arper.ticr at Rickard's, arena
Jersey City, on July 2, 1921
Articles definitely closing the
natch wore signed Saturday
evening when ' •empseys man
iger received a certified check
[or one hundred thousand dol
lars as the first installment of
.he guarantee
Notes Frviii Flat.
I lat, J.-av !• rack Dawson has jusi
iinished hauling his suj piles to ijiscoi
3ry on Moore creek, where he will
again operate this summer. He was
accompanied by Mrs. Dawson, Cecil
Barlow, Homer <,umn a nr' Dick
'tevens. 'loir Shaker’ will be there
he summer as right, chef. Manuel
.' oiarte v/as also among those wb.c
11 ado the trip to Mix re ’ reek
The I'iley dredge is being put ic
cadi ness foi summer operations by
superintendent Harry I!onrelI>- and
mew.
The Heaton a redgt will ue opeiatec
by th.e Scotch Syndicate, with I>ao Me
Kenr.ie as big chief.
The Upgrade is being worked on >-c
ay bv A1 Vong and ('laf 1 'letjoc. and
.hey have a ’crew at work preparing
lor summer operations.
The Strandberg bench, on .Viet, ;s
being worker! by Pete t 'laustrap, Bor
dedertnan and Arthur Kir' .
Dan McDonald has a crew of men .
work on Chicken creek.
On Happy creel:, Dan Olesoft an
jack Handley are getting ready fo*
jumtner operations
Harry Johnson and partners are
working the Manley bench, on Willow
Joe Loranger and Kd Menard are op
jrating on Willow. r>aul i.,a 1 ’laote ■’
muling wood for them.
Pete Thebo, Tom I a Blanche an
'bona LaChance are ooerating with •:
ivdraulic lift on Willow.
On Donlin creek, Harry Stevens i~:
preparing to work his ground.
Barney Walsh has his hydraulic
tlant installed and ready for ( summer
iperatioos!
Hans Halverson and Hank tewne;
ire working on a bench on Scow.gulch
Joe Sorvo, who arrived -yesterday
rohi Tacotna, left tins doming for
Handle. _ /
London.— I'he king and inueen sailed
Saturday evening for Doipe on 1 v'm:
d state /
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