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VOL. II..
NO. 2
McGRATH, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 19L2.
PRICE 25 CENTS
WANT TO
END WARS
All Nations of Europe
Invited to Genoa
Conference.
] London, Jan. 23.—Addressing
the ^National Liberal .conference
today, Lloyd George declared
that.all nations of Europe, with
out distinction, have been invit
ed to the Genoa economic con
ference, “because we want to
put an end to constant wars and
r u mors of wars. ’ ’
Discussing the Washington
armaments, conference. George
said: “The peace of the world
depends largely upon a good un
.darsfanding between the United
States and ourselves, and the
\ Washington conference has done
t moreiitfean anything else to re
- storeithat? understanding.”
: $30,000,000 Bond Issue
Taken Up in 5 Minutes
New York.—rWithin live minutes
after the.bank ins: house of Morgan &
i Co. opened the subscription books for
thirty million dollars in Southern Pa
. cific railway bonds, at six .and a half
per cent, the amount was heavily over
-subscribed.
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A MERCHANT
MARINE
, Steps to Form One of
Privately Owned Va
riety On Pacific.
San Francisco, Jan; 23.—Steps
► to give the United States a pri
vately owned merchant marine
, on the Pacific were taken by a
conference of representatives of
all major, Pacific coast ports,
held in' this city today.
The conference agreed to the
r formation of a shipping pool, in
which each port would be repre
sented, and which would carry
on trans Pacific trade as a unit
in behalf of all of them.
The conference gave author
ization to Herbert Fleishpacker
to ascertain from the United
States Shipping Board what ves
sels may be obtained and also on
vwhat terms.
DINNER FOR
PRESIDENT
—
‘Produced in Washing
ton’ Kind, to Be Sent
On Seattle Special.
Seattle, Jan. 23. — Forty-one
business men, at a conference
held today in the offices of Gov
ernorHart, at Olympia, iudicat
ed and outlined their plan to
run a special train from Puget
Sound to Washington in March
o; April for the purpose of giv
iug President Harding a “pro
duced-in-Washington” dinner.
The object of the originators
is to awaken in the National
Capital a livelier interest in the
magnitude of the resources and
pressiug needs of this-State and
Alaska.
Gov. Bone, Col. Mears
On Way to Washington
Seattle.—Governor^ of Alaska Scott
C, Bone and Col. Frederick Meat's,
head of the Alaskan Engineering Com
mission, left today for< Washington.
Gov. Bone goes td confer with Secre
tary of Interior Fall on matters per
taining to Alaska, while Col. Mears’
missiou is in connection with Alaska
Railroad .affairs.
LYNCHERS
SENTENCED
Life Imprisonment for
Five Men Who Took
Life of Negro.
Oklahoma <3ity, Jan. 25.—Pun
ishment most severe was meted
out here today when three white
men and two negroes were sen
tenced to terms of life imprison
ment for lynching.
The five men were charged
with being members of the party
that lynched Jack Brooks, negro,
a packing house worker, last
week. They all pleaded guilty
before Federal Judge Phelps,
who immediately imposed like
sentences on the five men.
Rasmus Mauhewson and Sam Nes
voog, from the latter’s beadquarteis,
were amooer yesterday's arrivals.
Jack Mutchler returned Sunday from
a trip to Tacotpa.
Dr. Hubert Work May
Be Successor of Hays
as Postmaster General
Washington. — Dr. Hubert Work,
first assistant postmaster general, sub
mitted his resignation to lay. The
resignation is a matter of formality,
going along with that of Hays, whom
he will probably succeed as postmaster
general. _
Robert E. Lee’s Birthday
Indianapolis.—The birthday aimi
versary of Robert E. Lee, commander
of Confederate forces during the eivii
war. is included in the American Le
gion’s calendar of events and is recom
mended ior observance by American
citizens.
MAMENTS
CONFERENCE
Problems of Far East
Now Being Given
Consideration.
Washing-ton, Jan."24.—Hughes
informed the Par Eastern com
mittee today that the question
of the Japanese twenty-one de
mands, the abrogation of which
had been asked by China, would
be taken up as soon as a settle
ment is reached in the Shantung
controversy.
The Japanese delegation is
sued a statement to the effect
that Japan bas no territorial de
signs in -Russia and giving as
surance that Japanese -troops
will be withdrawn as soon as *
stable government should be es
tablisbed there.
Although President Harding
believes that the work of the
Washington conference eventu
ally will *ead to reductions -in
both naval and land armaments,
he is not prepared at this time
to recommend any radical reduc
tion in the land forces of the
United Slates.
W. R. Hearst to Begin
Publication Morning
Newspaper, Portland
Portland.—William Hr* Hearst will
shortly begin the publication hereof s
morning paper, to be known «s.-tbs
Portland American, Tbe equipment
has already arrived, and within, the
next two days machinists will be at
work erecting the large presses, Mer
genthalers and other-machinery. Pub
lication of tbe new paper will probably
commence earlv in February.
Olaf Waagen, woo nas been spend
ing several weeks past in Anchorage,
returned here today, coming in with
Mail Carrier Beattie. {
BENEDICT XV
PASSES ON
&ody of Pontiff Lies in
State In Throne Room
of Vatican.
Kome, Jan. 21.—Pope Bene
diet XV, m the eighth year ot
his holy office and at the age of
67, passed away this afternoon,
death coming at 3 o’clock,
i In his slight delirium during
the noon hour the. Pontiff re
sisted the efforts of physicians
to listen to his heart action and
expressed a desire to rise and
perform his tjasual‘duties.
Rome, dan. 22.—Arrayed in
full canonicals, with the golden
mitre, gloves, and ring, the /fcody
ofs Benedict XV today lies in
state in .the throne, room of the
Vatican. .f'For many hours to
day to the room where he made
the -fight-foE his life came &
stream -til ’^officials, representa
tives of fareign nations, high
prelates, and others.
The death certificate gives the
cause of Benedict’s death as
bronchial pneumonia-influenza.
A meeting of the Sacred Col
lege, to elect a successor to
Benedict, will open February 1.
FUNERALOF
BENEDICT
Last Ceremonial Rites
Took Flam Late
Today
Rome, Jan,. 25.—The funerai.
of Pope Benedict will be held
this evening. The body will be
bqried in a tomb in St. Peter’s
alongside that of Queen Chris
tina of Sweden, and facing the
tomb of Pope.Pius IV.
The first <of nine pontifical
high masses for the late Pope
was, sung this morning with
grand solemnity in the basiliea
of St. Peters.
Austen Horner arrived this after;
noon, having come from Nixon.
Fred Boethlisberger, well known
Ophirrte, was among today’s arrivals.
Billy Jones arrived this afternooot
bringing the Yukon mail from Oplrri