PRICE 10 CENTS KETCHIKAN, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JAN. 17, 1913. VOL. VII. NO. 2
HUSH HOME RULE BILL
NOW UP TO THE LORDS
London, Jan. 17—At last after
years of effort the Irish Home
Hole Bill has passed the House
c f Commons and has beer, sent
to tiie Ilouseof Lord for action.
There is every probability that
the latter body will practice all
tie delaying tactics they • in,
but the emca.-ure will surely be
come a law within ttie next
twelve months. It the upper
house makes too strenuous an
effort to oppose its passage an
understanding exists between
the Premier and the Throne
whereby enough liberal peers
wiil be created to force through
jthe passage of the bill but the
government does not Intend rr,
resort to this unless it is cum
pelled to. By the bill Ireland
is to have the right to elect her
own legislative body, colled
j customs, manage her own af
fairs of justice and education.
| impose taxes, rid herself of the
English constablary, nm«, the
' bill provides and promises, in
I the event of all going well for
live years, more power aid
freedom will be allowed thf
Irish at the end cf that time
the present bill being more r>r
less of a prohitionary measure.
JACK WILL TAKE
A VACATION
Jack Rounsefell, general
factotum at Strongs dock, is a j
passenger down on the May, en
mute south to take a vocation.
He will be gone two or three
v\ eeks.
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THE WEATHER
According to observer Peck
ham the following is the rec
ord of the temperature for the
dates specified:
Jan. 8:30 Max. Mini. Barom.
17 7 20 5 30.00
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CORDOVA FAST AGROUND
The officers of the Princess
May report the Cordova hard
and fast aground in Wrangell
Narrows: Fortunately she had
selected a nice muddy place to
rest on, so there is little prob
ability of her injuring herself.
When the May passed she had
been aground for close to 48
hours. She was floated this
morning.
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Washington, Jan. 17—West
ern Federal Attorneys were in
conference 'last night with At
torney General Wickersham re
garding the disposition to be
made of Ortie McManigal the
confessed dynamiter. The re
port is that no immunity prom
ises have been made to McMan
igal, but at the same time he
has never been brought to trial
which looks as though an un
derstanding of some kind ex
ists between the expert infor
mer and the government.
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“Pathe Weekly” at the Drear
tonight. adv
LEAVES FOR MARY ISLAND
The gasboat Gray under the
command of Capt. Roy Thom
son left for Mary Island this
afternoon with mail and sup
plies. Mrs. Archie McClellan
was a passenger as far as the
light and Mrs. Shepard will re.
turn on the boat. She has been
troubled for the past several
weeks with rheumatism, and
will come here for treatmenl.
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Trenton, Jan. 17—In his de
sire to avoid unnecessary show,
President Elect Wilson has ask
cd that the inaugural ball, the
great function of Inauguration
Week at Washington be dir
paused with. The matter lies
been left with the committee
in charge of the program, but
such an omission will bring
down a storm of protest on the
head of the President and the
lommittee. The baU was pari
of the inauguration of Washing
ton and has been a prominent
feature in every inauguration
ever since.
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NOTICE TO MARINERS
Sumner Strait, Beauclerc
Island Light was relighted Jar
nary 12, 1913.
Sumner Strait, Shakan Bay
Light was relighted January iJ
1913.
Clarence Strait, K<
Light was relighted Jui
14, 1913.
By direction of the Commi
sioner of Lighthouses.
RAY L. HANKINEi
Lighthouse Tnspec'
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Apples at Zimmerman’s. ..adv
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| W. G. STRONG. Manager
Monarch Ranges
Coal and Wood
Cook Stoves
Hot Blast Heaters
Camp Stoves
Heckman Bldg.
SHIP SHINGELS TO
PRINCE RUPERT
The Beaver Falls mill shipped
.',0,000 shingles to Prince Ru
pert on the May today. The
shingles had to he unloaded at
Heckman’s wharf and hauled
over to the May owing to Hie
fact that there was so much
ice in the bay that the Red
Wing was afraid of damaging
herself by proceeding further.
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Paris, Jan. 17—The House of
'deputies last night elected
Premier Poincare president of
France. _
NORTHLAND ON
HER WAY NORTH
The freighter Northland of
I he Northland Steamship comp
any. got nwsy from Seattle to
day for the north loaded with
(••neral freight. She will proh
ably stop in at Nanaimo for
coal.
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New Orleans, Jan. 17—Tncom
ing vessels report the loss of
the steamer Eldorado with all
on board during the recent
heavy gale. She was enroute
from New York to Galveston
and foundered before help
could reach her.
GOEMS AND THE BUREAU HEADS
ARE IN CONFERENCE
Washington, Jan. 17—Col.
Goethals has been in close con.,
ference with the different
Bureau Chiefs today, describ
ing the progress of the work
on the Canal, and making ar
rangements for the opening
dates. The formal opening of
contse will be as stated long
aso, Jan. 1, 1015, but the first
vessel will be sent through tin
canal, barring the unforeseen.
Sept. 25. 1013, on the four
hundredth anniversary of the
discovery of the Pacific.
From then until the formal
opening the canal will be op.
, ated as a “sample” for the
training of the operating force,
the getting of everything into
final shipshape, etc.
! The canal, according to Col.
Goethals, is now more than 75
per cent completed, and July 1,
next, will see it ready for the
turning in of the water. It is
apprehended that the entrance
and presence of the water may
cause some further slides of
I he treacherous banks, parlieu
larly at the Culebra Cut, but the
expectation is that the dredges
are by July 1 of the
material thus deposited in the
big ditch.
Col. Goethals intends, when
the canal is done to retire
from the Government service
and settle in New York as a
consulting engineer, with the
idea of making some money for
his family. Meantime, Presi
dent Taft has asked Congress
l.o reward the Colonel’s work
on the Isthmus by promoting
him to be a Major-General in
the army.
Col. Goethals was born in
Xew York Slate and was grad
uated at the United States Mil.
i I ary Academy at West Point
in 1880. He was the second
ranking member of the class.
He spent two years in the En
gineers’ School at Willett’s
Point and then he went on the
“taff of Gen. Nelson A. Miles,
as engineer of the Department
of the Columbia. He built
dams at Cincinnati under Col
onel Merrill, and in 1908 he
was selected for the General
Staff.
When Mr. Taft, then Secre
tary of War, went to Panama
jm 1905, he took Major Goethals
along to help look info the can .
Jal work, and in 1907, Major
S Goethals succeeded Theodore
iP. Shonts as Chairman of the
Isthmian Canal Comnvssion,
I with rank of chief engineer of
the canal construction, and he
has been chief engineer ever
since.
As chief engineer, Col. Goe..
thals has been practicaly in ab
solute charge of the Canal Zone
He has cleared yellow fever out
of the Isthmus and has been
commended by the Roosevelt
and Taft administartions for his
energy in pushing canal con
struction and in governing the
zone.
This Will Help You Save.
Open a Savings Account
and we give you one of
these handsome home
banks. It takes all deno
minations of coins and
paper money, and is of a
size and shape convenient
to carry in the pocket to
the Bank for deposit
You Keep' the Bank and
PM
|] We keep the Key.
Savings Department Of 1 he
MINERS & MERCHANTS BANK
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London, Jan. 17—Nothing
new has materialized in the
Balkan situation in the last
twenty four hours, and it looks
as though a resumption of the
war is inevitable. The fact
that all communication be
tween the conferees and their
respective governments has to
be in code, taking hour after
hours to decipher, further com
plicates matters. The Turkish
envoys state that Constantino
ple has not been notified form..
ally by any of the interested
governments of a contemplated
resumption of hostilities, and
hope is still entertained by the
Turks that the matter may yet
be straightened out. Europe is
thoroughly disgusted with the
action of the Turkish govern
ment which refuses to give its
emisarics authority to take any
decisive action, and would al
most welcome the sight of the
allied forces in possession of
Constantinople.
NEW LODGE OFFICERS
The newly elected and ap
pointive officers in Tongass
Council, No. 1, Degree of Poc..
ohontas, are:
Anna Dcppe, Prophetess.
Nettie Churchill, Pocahontas.
Frances Hoffman, Winona.
D. G. Newell, Powhatan.
Nettie Ball, Keeper of !
Nettie M. Chesney, Assistant
Keeper of Records.
Della Pollard, Treasurer.
Elaine Hunt, 1st Scout.
Wanda Zimmerman, 2nd
Scout.
Runners:—Harriet E. Hunt;
Elsie Morrison.
Councilors—Mrs. Caughrean
Edith Sickles.
Warriors—Mrs. Akin, Flor
ence Patching, Mrs. Moore,
Mrs. Mills.
Guards—Mrs. Baker, Mrs.
Amundson.
Installing officers, Harriet E.
Hunt, assisted by Wanda Zim
merman.
NETTIE M. CHESNEY
Acting Secretary.
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Kansas City, Jan. 17—Vice
President Elect Marshall and
wife passed through this city
this morning e.n route to Ari
zona to spend the balance of
the winter between now and the
inauguration. Mr. Marshall’s
successor as governor of Indi
ana has just been intailed in
office so he is left with noth
ing on his hands pending his
taking office.
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The corset trust is to be de
clared an outlaw. The corset
has been declared an outlaw
many times and oft, but it stays
just the same.
BAD WEATHER BRINGS
STEAMER IN EARLY
Threatening weather at Skag
way brought the Princess May
out ahead of time, and when
she arrived at Juneau she
found the Taku wind blowing
so strong that twice she was
blown away from the dock, so
she left for this place where
she could be sure of good
weather and arrived here be
tween seven and eight this
morning about fifteen hours a..
head of time, intending to go
in to Spacious Bay for herring
but later was notified by the
home office not to do so. Ac
cordingly, to give the local peo
pie intending to go south on
her time to get ready for the
trip, she lay here at the wharf
for about five hours, sailing a.
hoid, one o’clock with 10 pas
sengers from Ketchikan.
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Seattle, Jan. 17—The Jeffer
son sailed for Skagway, via
IKelchikan and way ports about
I five, last night, on her first voy
age after her annual overhaul
iing. Her passengers for Ketch
ikan are W. G. Weigle; James
Newman and wife, Miss E.
Kirschbaum, H. C. Hawkins
and J. Mirhia and wife. She
should arrive in Ketchikan
Saturday night.
Kansas City, Jan. 17—Wells
Lounsbury, the wealthy Ore
gonian who robbed a train near
here some months ago, was
found guilty by the trial jury
this morning. The only plea
the defense attempted to put
up was that of insanity.
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Dream tonight.
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