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WASHINGTON. June 1— The
House has passed the bill abolishing
eighty rod resetve shoie space bo
iv.asjit homesteads and navigable wat*
et in Alaska. The measure now goes
tu ti i* Senate. The Secretary of the
In*** or is authorized to sell lands re
\ ,1 .uuler the old law and also
v »: • :ostrii tions that no homestead
n*t. ti ext* ini more than 150 rods
;ooi.- !M\ioahle water in Alaska.
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COUNCIL HOLDS MERIT NO
With Mayor Chamberlin ami all
members present, the city councilmon
held a special session Saturday night
at 7 o’clock. A permit was granted to
Wayne Blue, agent for Dr. Andrew ('.
Smith, to store distdlate or gasoline
in some building or. a vacant lot be
tween Jefferson street and Lowell
creek, op>t of lLoadway. The cit,\
aHoinev was also instructed to take
up with the proper authorities at
Washington, 1). (\, in reference to se
curing a municipal right-of-way, with
a frontage on the beach, for the use
of the small fishir.g fleet, such loca
tion being wanted either at Second oi
Third avenues for approach so that
the city could go further in the mat
t**r of docks and wharfage.
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START CANNING FISH
The M.r Juan plant canned 170
case* jfituday thi.- heinr** the lirst
run this season.
WILL HOLD RECEPTION
The Women's Club of Seward will
receive from 3 to 5 o’clock tomorrow
afternoon at the residence of Mrs. Gus
Bergen, the guest of honor being Mrs.
R. L. Wcver. former member, who re
turns to Anchorage this week.
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north w ester n n earing
Steamer Northwestern sailed west
bound from Skagway at 5 o’clock
Monday afternoon and allowing her a
40 hour run to Cordova, she should, ar
rive at that port about 0 o’clock .to
morrow forenoon.
train out tomorrow
The Gateway City limited will leave
• on scheduled time tomorrow morning
at 8 o'clock for Anchorage and way
stations. •?
I \’1>I AN ATOMS, June 1— I'efore
the greatest crowd on record and i.»r
f.ri7.es totalling $85,000, twenty th.ee
01* th«* hot known auto racers in the
vo hi si arced in the eighth i inual -V 0
ni*!• race on the local speedway yes
terday. Gaston Chevrolet, driving a
Monroe, won first prize; Rene Thom
as, in a liallot car, took second money.
(Tieveilot’s time was five hours, fo tv
minutes and sixteen seconds. While in
the lead, Ralph He Palmas’s car
caught fire at nile 407 and he had to
drop out of the race.
\MERIC\N !N GERMANN
OCCUPIED TERRITORY
TO RESIGN POSITION
WASHINGTON, June 1— Pierpont
R. Neve?, representative of the State
Department in American occupied ter
ritory in Goimany, is to resign and re*
turn tn Ids business duties in Chicago.
!i is innounced that Major Henry T.
\Rvii, Atnoiican commander in Gor
\: v\. will succeed Noyes. The resig
nation of Noyes is taken to indicate
that the situat;on in the occupied area
li.is f.*»»eted completely.
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CITY or SEATTLE GETS
VALUABLE WATER RESERVE
SEATTLE. June 1— A perpetual
j -»,t to water resources of the Skagit
River has been granted the city of
S'.attlc. This will permit of the con
struction of a $7,000,000 power and
ieht plant. According to plans the
.wuk will involve the construction of
-ix miles of railroad. When the plant
is eompletcd it will generate fifty
thousand horse power.
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AVIATORS ON a FI.lGflT
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OSKA, Japan, June l— Lieutenants
Masioroa and Ferrarri, Italian aviate
or*, fl.-ing from Rome to Tokio. have
a l.ved h jre from Seoul.
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CHICAGO, June 1— The police have j
began the clean-up preparatory to the j
Republican national convention. The j
•xodus of pickpockets and fakirs has j
commenced. A deadline has been os-1
tablished and the order issued for the
arrest of known crooks who cross it.
CHICAGO, June 1— The Republic- J
i an national committee opened head
ings yesterday on 1*>7 contests cases.
The hearings are open to the public,
rime limits have been placed on argu
ments. The first contest, that from
Ubama, the contestants failed to ap
pear and the Wood delegates wo. ej
i seated.
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CHICAGO, June 1— Chairman;
Hayes arrived yesterday morning to*
inspect the arrangements for the Re
publican national convention. He vis
ited Presidential Row but found none
of the candidates on the ground.
Chairman Hayes issued a statement
declaring that Republicans every
where were “preparing to go” for a
i successful campaign.
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GREEKS FIGHT TURKS
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CONSTANTINOPLE, June 1—
4 Greek troops have started the or
* conation of Turkish Thrace the .
4 first troop train having arrived
at a point east ot Adrinoplc.
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VOTE THIS AFTERNOON
ON ARMENIAN MANDATE
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WASHINGTON, June 1— By un
animous consent, the Senate agreed to ^
vote at four o’clock this afternoon on
the resolution declining to grant nu- j
thor*v for a mandate over Armenia. |
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DISMISS QUAKER OATS CASE i
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WASHINGTON, uno 1— The Su
m over* Court has dismissed the gov
ernment's appeal in the Federal anti
trust suit against the Quaker Oats ^
company. The dismissal was on tho
•ro\ ernmcnt’s motion.
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DISSOLVE MASONIC LODGES <
COPENHAGEN, June 1— A Buda
n*\st disnateh says Minister of the In
terior Rudolsky has issued a decree
dissolving alt Masonic lodges and con
fiscating their funds for humantarian
purposes. It is alleged the lodges, even
before the war, were revolutionary
cento s.
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HOUSE ADJOURNS SATURDAY
WASHINGTON, June 1— The
House has adopted a resolution to ad
journ next Saturday.
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SI'. Quentin, New Brunswick, June
l— Half of the residents of this city
are homeless as the result of a forest
fire Saturday night. There has been
no loss of life reported but the pro
perty loss is nearly one million dol
lais. Sixty three large dwellings, three
lumbei mills, two hotels and many
business places were burned. The
henvv loss is ■ in the destruction of
manufactured lumber.
Relief trains are taking out the
homeless.
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, June 1—
Fire swept the main street of London
dciry Sunday afternoon destroying
forty seven buildings including four
churches and schools and the public
haP. Sparks from a forest fire started
the hi axe.
DROWNS
BEND, Oregon, June 1— li. K.
Shepard, prominent merchant, v as
drowned at Sutton’s Landing vest* r
day forenoon when the boat he was in
overturned.
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SOLDIERS RELIEF BILL
TO DIE IN COMMITTEE
WASHINGTON, June 1— The Sol
d’er udiof MU was before the senate
today arid vmt back for reference to
the comtv.ittcft. This is considered
or.uivalent to burial. I.eaders afcid
there senns to be no chance oi con
.dd *-atior before the recess which is
xpocted to continue until September
1st.
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WANT POLICE ASSISTANCE
BALTIMORE, June 1— The Brit
sh steamer Tregantle, inside the
Chespeakc, has wirelessed for police
assistance and a surgeon. The police
reserves have started in a special boat
for the steamer.
DR. MORRISON IS DEAD
LONDON, June 10— Dr. George
Morrison, political advisor to the
President of the Chinese Republic, and
a famous Pekin correspondent of the
London Times, is dead according to a
report received here.
POSTMASTERS RE-APPOINTED
WASHINGTON, June 1— Among
the Alaska postmasters who have
been re-appointed are W. E. Root, at
Seward; Charles Scheffler, at Cordo
va and Zina Bradford, at Juneau.
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ON TRAP SHOOTING TEAM
NEW YORK, June 1— Frank M.
Tvoeh, of Vancouver, Wash., has been
•elected a member of the American
trap shooting team at the Olympic
games.
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WASHINGTON, June 1— Rccom
mondation that full recognition ef the
Mexican government be withhold until
an agreement has been made to re
vise the constitution of 1017, in the
form of a treaty, was made by Senat
or Fall to the Foreign Relations Com
mittee in his report of the sub-com
mittee which has been investigating
Mexican conditions. Should the Mexi
cans refuse to accede, the report sug
gest? that the American government
hold the Mexican government to a
: definite reckoning for the losses and
sufferings for failure of the Mexicans
(o maintain law and - order and give
protection to Americans. This should
then be followed by the dispatch of an
armed force, the report suggests. Sen
benator Fall also recommended that
Provisional President De la Huerta
•not be recognized until his selection is
approved by the Mexican people and
he shows he is the head of a stable
govei nment.
MEXICO CITY, June 1— This city
is ‘dry” n gilts as precautionary meas
ure for the 30,000 soldiers who will
parade tomorrow as a manifestation
of the strength of the revolutionary
movement.
VERA CRUZ, June 1— President
Wilson has offered to send hospital
ships, nurses, doctors and medical
supplies to this city immediately to
issist in combating the bubonic pla
gue of which there are twelve authen
ticated cases developed with five
deaths. This city Is completely shut
off Horn the remainder of the Mexi
can republic. Medical authorities do
not believe the plague has yet attain
ed the character of an epidemic.
MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa, June 1—
Forty two were injured, four serious
ly, at Liscomb, Iowa, yesterday after
noon, when a squad of former soldiers
fired the memorial Day salute. The
cartridges used make a maximum
noi3e. One gun was pointed at such an
angle that the shot struck the barrel
of another gun scattering the load in
to a crowd estimated to have been not
less than 1000.
ONTHNOB
FEIGN, China, June 1— Charles
R. C-ane, new American minister to
China, assumed his post at the Ameri
can legation today.
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PARIS, June 1— America’s war
dead in Europe was eulogized Sunday
and graves decorated in the second
Memorial day since the close of the
war. Thousands of French troops act
ed as guards of honor at various ex
ercises in 497 burial places on the old
battle lines.
PARIS, June 1— Marshal Petain,
standing on the slope of Mount Val
crain, the last stronghold of the Fren
ch, during the seige of Paris in 1870,
’ast Sunday told of France’s gratitude
for the sacrifices by America's sons
during the last world war.
LONDON, June 1— Unprecedented
observance of America’s memorial day
was held in England on Sunday. The
graves of 2500 American soldiers and
sailors, buried in British soil, were
adorned with wreaths and flags. Ser
vices were held in many cities and the
speakers eulogized the Americans and
expressed “more than sympathetic
sentiment" to use the words of Canon
Carnegie, Sub-dean of Westminister
Abbey. Ambassador Davis and Earl
Reading were among the notables
present at the Abbey services.
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