VOL. II.. NO. 23
McGRATH, ALASKA, SATURDAY, APRIL 0, 1912,
PRICE 25 CENTS
BONE TAUC3
Says Territory Needs
Oi>ly Fair Charee to
Grow and Prosper.
' Seattle, April y. — “Alaska
needs only a fair chance to come
into its own. It needs only the
•chance given to the Middle West
to grow and prosper. It needs,
and must have, an American
chance.”
This appeal was made tonight
by Governor Bone in an address
before Alaskans and Seattle cit
izens at a banquet given in his
honor at the Rainier Club by the
Chamber of Commerce. The
Governor further said.
“Co-ordination is today the of
ficial watchword, for Alaska bu
* reaucracy has had its day. :t
has stifled enterprise and killed
. individual kaitmtive 'in Alaska:
. it has- halted* growth and pro
duced stagnation. Alaska must
havoi and will have, a simpli
lied, centralized administration,
brought closer home to Alaska.
Progress toward this end has
been made, and still greater ad
vancement is in sight.”
HEADED FOF
THE NORT
Alameda Carries 439
Passengers; Alaska
Boats Crowded.
Seattle, April 6.—The steam -
- ship Alameda, again in commis
sion with new boilers and other
betterments, and carrying -139
passengers, including Governor
: Bone. Col. Mears and numerous
prominent interior-bound oper
ators, as well as several large
• cannery crews, sailed for An
v ehorage- at 10 o’clock this morn
> ing. going vial Ketchikan, Wran
gell, Petersburg, Juneau, Cor
dova, Valdez and Seward. Fully
one hundred were unable to se
cure accommodations and are
awaiting the next steamer. The
Alameda also has on board a ca
pacity cargo of freight.
Acquitted of Murder.
New York, April 7.-^Miss OliVa M.
P. Stone, who shot-and Killed Ellis G.
Kinkead, former corporation counsel,
of Cincinnati, in August last, was to
night acquitted of murder by a jury in
i the Brooklyn supreme court.
m
Caused Death of Edith
Cavell, Martyred Eng
lish Nurse.
i
London, April 8. — Armond
Jeannes, betrayer of Edith Ca
vell, martyred English nurse,
was executed at Motis, Belgium,
' today. Jeannes, following his
| conviction, was condemned to
j death on April 5th for treason
: and espionage during the war,
the evidence showing lie had
boasted that he had been instru
mental in biinging about the ar
rest and execution of Miss Ca
vell by the Germans.
Edith Cavell, head of a train
ing-school l'or nurses in Belgium,
was executed by the Germans
on the (‘barge of aiding English
| and Belgian prisoners to escape.
Desperate efforts by American
and talian diplomats to save her
life were of no avail, and she
was hurried before a firing squad
j bef'f ie the time set by the court
! martial, the manifest purpose of
: which was to frustrate the strong
! appeals still being made in her
| behalf.
Between Jap Troops
and Forces of Chita
Government.
Tokio, April G.—A clash be
tween Japanese troops and forces
of the Chita government occurred
today, the engagement taking
place near Spassk, about 100
miles from Vladivostok,* accord,
ing to a dispatch from the latter
place. The Chita forces, num
bering eight hundred, attacked
the Japanese, following a de
mand by the latter that the
Ohitans disarm. Eighty of the
Chita soldiers were killed and a
large number wounded.
j_
Government Watching
Any Increase in Coal
Rates, Says Daugherty
1 Wosbington, April 7—Attorney Gen
I oral Daughertv, speaking today of tbe
! coal strike situation, said that the Gov
' eminent is "watchfully waiting” for
any increases in coal prices, and de
clared: "1 will see that the public is
not pinched in any way.”
Rep. Garner Pays Ilis
‘Corn pH merits’ to Rep.
Blanton, From Texas
Washington, April 7.—Representa
tive Garner, Democrat, of Texas, de
clared in the House today that, if per
mitted by the rules to speak what was
in the minds of 43-1 of the 43o House
members, he would say that Repre
sentative Blanton, of that State, “is a
disgrace to this House and ought to f>e
kicked out.”
Representative Garner, in the course
of his .attack, further declared that
Blanton was “as common a liar as ever
spoke a word ot English in this coun -
try
Blanton was not in the hall to hear
Garner’s characterization, having left
the chamber at the outset.
ICOLL
-AIR
Faris-London Express
Planes Crash While
in Heavy Fog:.
i
| Paris, April 7.—The Paris
Liondon aerial express collided
in mid air this afternoon, the
collision occurring over the vil
lage of Thieulloy, seventy miles
j north of Paris. The pilots of
both aeroplanes, three passen
| gers and one mechanician were
killed in the wreckage that fell
flaming to the ground. A heavy
fog was the direct cause of the
colliding of the two /planes, one
! a British, the other a French.
—
Mrs. ObencbaiiTs Sister.
Dos Angeles, April 6.—Miss Glenlys
Smart, a half sister of Mrs Oben
chain, was arrested late today. She is
charged with grand larceny, preferred
by P. W. Douglas, who asserted that
Miss Smart took $240 from him.
Bandits Hold Up N. Y. Tribune.
New York.—The cashier’s office of
the New York Tribune was held up by
two masked men last night, the ban
dits getting away with eight thousand
dollars.
Haughdahl, In Motor
Car, Negotiates Mile
in Just 19.97 Seconds
Daytona Ueach. PI a.. April 8.—
Driving a specially constructed motor
ear at a speed of 170.27 miles an hour,
Sid Haughdahl, of Norway, today ne
fiotiated a mile on the beach here in.
19.97 seconds. The wonderful perform
ance was witnessed and applauded by
thousands.
Capt. George Green returned here;
Thursday from Nancy, to which place
he convoved Mrs. Green and Master
Jack Green in the first lap of their
journey to the Outside. The return
traveling time from Nancy was six and
one-half days.
Nels Vibe, who arrived v^Btardav,
returned to-Tacoma this morning, tak
ing up a quantity of shorts.
HOT SHOT
FOR TAFT
-,
Hobnobs at Too Many
Social Functions With
Idle Rich, Charged:
-,
Washington, April 7. - William.
H. Taft, Chief Justice of the
| United: States Supreme Court,
was sharply criticised in -the
Senate today by Norris (Rep.;
of Nebraska.
Norris charged the Chief -lus
Jec with hobnobbing at toe
many social functions with the
idle rich. ‘ No man,” said Nor
ris, “can stick his legs under the
tables of the idle rich every
night and be fit to sit in judg
ment next day on those who
toil. Social activities here are
seriously affecting public busi
ness,” he asserted.
Camp Davis Buildings
Go 10 Methodist So
ciety for Hospital Use
Washington, April '..—The Meth
odist A'ome-n’s Missionary Society of
Nome is given the buildings on the
abandoned Camp Davis site under the
terms of a House resolution adopted u>
day by the Senate - The buildinga are
to be used for hospital purposes
—
3D SACKS
OF MAIL
Robbery in Attempt!to
Capture Genoa Con
ference Papers
Paris, ApriT 7.—The ras. mail
train running1 from Paris to La
.Roche was last night robbed of
more than thirty sacks of Eng
lish-mail, bound for Italy. The
robbery was undoubtedly the
work of international spies, in
an attempt to capture the diplo
matic correspondence relating to
the Genoa economic conference.
Whether any of this, correspond*
enoe was lost in the robbery is
still a matter of doubt.
Charles, Deposed Em
peror. Passes Away
Funchal, Madeira,-“-former Emperor
Chariesv deposed monarch of Austria
■Hungary, passed away here today. He
had been slowly losing in health from
the commencement of his exile.
Chris Nelson, who arrived Thursday
from Nixon, left yesterdav fon Taootrr
on a hueiaessXrip