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_—= SEWARD, ALASKA. THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 191#. _ . ■---:—-—
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()wing to steamer accomnuula*
tions on the Alameda and Admir
* al Watson already being "old out
* for the southbound trip, many
* are coming to Seward Irom An
chorage on the return trip of the
* Mamed a and wait here tor the
* steamer Northwestern. C'ordata
is now hating a great exodus, ow
ing to the canneries closing, and
* passenger accommodations are
** going like hot cakes from that
* citv.
The big Julian tunnel is being driv
en steadily near Juneau. Manager (\
Titus recently placing nto»e men
on the shift. The men are on a bonus
system ami are speeding up the work.
By Associated Cress
WASHINGTON. Aug., 21— The
House Agricultural Committee has
*a\orabl\ to ported amendments to the
vo.l control act imposing a $5,000
fine and impi sonment for two years
for those convicted of profiteerng.
BKFKNDS BACK KBS
WASHINGTON. Aug.. 21— Senat
or Fernald. of Maine, speaking in the
Senate this afternoon, attacked the
governmental tendency toward assum
ing control of business. Senator I'or*
nald referred to the proposed legisla
tion for supervision of the packing in
dustry. Senator Fernald said that Ken
yon and Kendrick hills, which propose
regulation of packets, were examples
of stifling and throttling legislation.
Senator Fernald defended the packer*
in all their actions.
PALESTINE CHILDREN ARE
INJURED BY \V VR RELICS
JERUSALEM. Aug.. 21— Many
children are injured each day in Pale- j
stine by shells and explosives which |
were scattered throughout the coun
try during the open waifare between
the Turks and the Allies. The battle
fields cover such a large area that
careful salvaging has been impossible,
and the result is that children, farm
ers. or peasant women are mangled al
most every day by accidental ex pi os
ions.
A large number of the eases treat
od in the American Red Cross surgical
hospital here have been bomb or ab
dominal cases, according to the nhs
sician in charge. The hospital was on
erated for seven months.*trea(*iig a . “
tal of 668 patients. In the various
clinics and dispensaries operated by
the Red Cross in connection with the
hospital, 24.000 men. 46,000 women
and 70,000 child*-en were treated in
month’s time. The hospital has
now b"on turned over to the city
Health Department.
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STRIKE AT I.OS AXGEI.ES
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DOS AXCEI.ES. Aug., 21— About
400 sympathizers of striking street
car platform men blocked cars this j
forenoon and jeered the strike break- i
ers. The Police dispersed the crowd.
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Bv Associated Press
SEATTLE, Aug., 21— A Post- In
telligencer dispatch from Washington
says .1. Summers, of Fairbanks; P. 1)
Stewart, of Juneau; and William A
Hesse, of Cordova, are among the can
didates for surveyor general of Alas
ka. succeeding Charles Davidson, who
was drowned in Taku recently.
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JAPANESE SEND M \N
TO NEW i;FSSI \N SKAT
OF ANTI—BOL GOVERNMENT
TOKIO. Aug., 21— The Japanese
Japanese government lias decided t<
appoint Tsunetadu Kato. former Min
ster to Belgium, ns high commission
*r to Omsk, seat of the Kolchak anti*
Bolsheviki government.
Great Britain and France have high
•ommissioners at Omsk, but the 1 nit
•d States has no permanent diplomat
ic representative.
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MEXICO REOPENS POSTM,
CONNECTIONS WITH HCNS
MEXICO CITY. Aug.. 21— Mexico
I reopened postal connections with Her
many on July 10 coincident with th'
resumption of such relations between
the United States and Go, many.
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Ed. O. Hoxie, owner of the trolling
boat, “Haven/* is inquired for by his
mother, Mrs. James Scott, Richmond
IT?ijfhts, Wash. <
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ATTA BOYS
GOI'KXHAGKX, A up.. 21 — Amer
ican and German soldiers mixed it
Tuesday at Xeufabrwasscr and sev
• ral cisilians and one German sailor
were wounded.
The fipht started in a dance hall
londay niplit and continued in the
•roots. 'The American Doughboys won
out.
On Monday. German sailors and
civilians attacked American sailors
and the American boys, outnumbered
20 to I, were getting the worst of it,
when tho French seamen pitched in
ami the (Sermans were routed, many
being so badly thumped that theii
comrades were forced to carry them
away. During the melee, guns were
drawn and shots were exchanged but
the American boys and the Frenchmen
seemed to he taking such good aim,
the (icrmuns put their guns up, re
membering what had happened to
them in various battles.
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WASHINGTON, Aug.. 21—The
j * Senate has adopted the Reed re
solution authorizing an investiga
tion of the news print paper in
dustry to determine if it is engag
ed in illegal practices and wheth
* er the prices are excessive.
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WAR LOAN WORK BEING
SPEEDED IT BY DIRECTOR
or THE TWELFTH DISTRICT
SAX FRANCISCO, Aug.. 21— All
the war financing organizations o.
the Twelfth Federal Reserve district
have just been consolidated by Gov
ernor John l’. Calkins of the San
Francisco Federal Reserve Bank into
the war loan organization of th«
Twelfth Federal Reserve District, with
Robert K. Smith, president of the Title
and Tiust Compand of Portland,
director, and C. A. Farnsworth, Twelf
th District Liberty Loan Publicity
Manager, as associate director.
The War Loan organization will
direct th** closing up of the Imsim-S"
of the Liberty Loan organizotion and
also look after the sales of certificates
>f indebtedness and war savings cer
tificates and stamps. Particular at
tention will be given to the sale of
the new Treasury savin? certificates
just issued by the l\ S. Treasury De
partinent. They are in denomina
tions of $100 and $1,000 and the in
erest is compounded quarterly as
with tin* War Saving stamps.
* Director Smith made a spcctacula'
listribution of the Treasury Sav
ings Certificates throughout tie
Twelfth district. On receipt of the
first million dollars worth of the new
securities in San Francisco by Gov
»inor Calkins he turned them over
to Smith for dispatch to the direc
tors in the several states and terri
tories in the district.
Hurrying from the Federal Reserve
Bank by auto and ferry to the aero
plane field hack of Berkeley, Smith
hopped into the passenger’s seat in ;♦
big !>e Haviland bomber from Mathe*
Field, Sacramento, with Lieutenant
E. E. Neubig as pilot. A record
breaking flight was made to Portland.
From there Smith raced down the
WfMiamctte and Columbia rivers to
Kalama in the motor boat Vogler Boy
and then proceeded by auto to Seattle
n time to hand a hunch of the Treas
ury Saving Cert if i i'.tes to the cap
tain of a fast mail steamer about to
<ail for Alaska. Director .Smith ho
’ loves in putting speed into the dis
tribution and sale of government se
curities in the Twelfth district.
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PERSHING ENTERTAINED
BY ITALIAN KING
ROME. Aug., 21— 'Hie King en
tertained Commander Pershing who is
visiting the Italian battlefields.
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J \ P\N DOES NOT THINK
AMERICA AFTER TRADE
OF CHINESE MARKETS
TOKIO. Aug.. 21— Count Ishii says
there is no collision of vital interests
between America and Japan and does
not believe that America plans to
monopolize Chinese markets.
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Weston Coyne, journalist of Prince
Rupert, who came north for the New
York Herald in 1897 and spent part
of the winter of 1897- 98 at Juneau,
and who was afterwyds engaged in
nowspape* work at Skagway and later
at Dawson, vecentlv celebrated his 70
th birthday at Prince Rupert.
GRIGSBY
FDR R.R.
WASHINGTON. Aug.. 21— George
j 11. Grigsby is going to Alaska to talc.*
I testimony in the delegate election just
| as soon as the House considers the
$17,000,000 appropriation for the
Alaska railroad. Mr. Grigsby intends
to remain here and assist in every
way possible to secure the passage ot
the railroad appropriaton.
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PRESIDENT
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WASHINGTON, Aug.. 21— Ans
wering Senator Falls written quest
■ ions. President Wilson says the Prosi
, dent has not the power to declare
peace by proclamation before the Sen
ate ratifies the treaty. President Wil
son also stated that he believed that
ratification by three powers could not
•reate the League of Nations. *
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SENDAY SCHOOL DELEGATES
TO JAPAN CONGRESS MAY
HAVE SPLENDID LODGINGS
TOKIO. Aug., 21— P»y A. I\— A
j proposal that the foreign delegates to
the International Sunday School con
vention to he held in Tokio in the au
tumn *of 11)20 he lodged in Japanese
houses has been made by Japanese.
It is suggested that one thousand
Japanese families open their homes to
he visitors and that the delegates be
given an opportunity to experience
! something of real Japan. They would
I sleep on mattresses laid on the tatami
or straw-matting floor, and they
would move in stockinged feet instead
of shoes or boots. Instead of opening
doors and windows, they would get
used to shoji, or paper covered sliding
panels. Instead of reclining in chairs
and divans, they would sit on the spot
less tatami floor and get accustomed j
to the simplicity of Japanese internal |
decoration.
In tho morning each Japanese host
or hostess would supply the two or
throe foreign guests with broad, milk
and eggs, giving a Japanese break
fast only when tho foreigner request-,
ed it. Luncheon and dinner could be
taken by the delegates in the hotels. |
A writer says: “It is not only the j
practical solution of the difficulty but i
it will also servo towards breaking up
the barrier that has ieen for so manv j
years a stumbling block to prefect un
derstanding and friendship with for
eigners.”
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TO FIGHT DRUG HABIT
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MEXICO CITY, Aug., 21— The
federal Department of Health has an
nounced that a vigorous campaign wdl
be conducted agair t the use of habit
forming drugs in the republic, a
practice which is alleged by several
newspapers to be widespread.
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The Nenana Pioneers have taken
; charge of the cemetery there and re
cently put the place in good order.
HOLD-UP
Hy Associated Press
NASHVILLE, Aug., 21— Four
masked bandits held up a passenger
train between Cincinnati and Montgo
mery and took all of the registered
mail. The passengers were not molest
•d.
INIH’STRIAL CONGRESS WILL
D1SCTSS NEW LAHOR LAWS
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MEXICO CITY, Aug.. 21— The
second annual convention of Industrial
'ongress of Mexico, which is to ine* t
in Mexico City September 14 next, is j
forecasted by newspaper*- here as the
most important gathering of labor and
capital representatives e\er held i.^
the republic. The congress is schedule
ed to discuss at length various non •
labor law*.
Bv Associated l're*»
MARFA, Aug., 21— It is reported
that Captain Leonard Matlock of the
Kighth American Cavalry, has captur
ed two Mexicans believed implicated
in tin* capture of the two American
aviators held for ransom.
The two Mexicans put up a fight ami
one attempted suicide.
American aviators are assisting the
Cananzistas in the hunt for the ban
dits and are carrying messages be
tween the American and Mexican for
ces now in the chase. General Prunedu,
with a large force of Carranza soldiers
is in the field, helping the hunt for th *
bandits*
WHAT IS this:
WASHINGTON. Aug., 21— A dis
patch from Mexico City says the Mex
ican government has instructed the
Mexican government to protest the
sending of American troops across the
border and to request their immediate
withdrawal.
THROUGH TRAIN SERVICE
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SOON PARIS TO BELGRADE
NISH, SERBIA, Aug., 21— J
Through railroad service from Paris
to Belgrade, Constantinople and Ath- j
ens is expected to be established about
the first of September. The railway
from Semendria, on the Danube, to
Nish, which was destroyed by the Aus
trians and Germans, has been recon
structed. From Nish to Saloniki the
railway was repaired some weeks ago.
To complete the through line from
Constantinople to Paris it is now only
necessary to repair the partly destroy
ed bridge over the Save river at Bel
grade.
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TO GET YANKEE IDEAS
TOKIO, Aug., 21— Miss Miyorko.
proprietor and editor of the h ujin
Shuho, the Woman's Weekly, will go
to the United States soon for a thrert
year stay for the purpose of investi
gating the courses in journalism in
the leading American Universities.
By Associated Prens
SEATTLE, Aug., 21— A Post-In
telligencer dispatch from Washington
says Assistant Secretary Roosevelt,
Secretary Lane, Senator Poindexter
and J. L. McPherson are endeayoring
to get action toward the new navy
fund for investigating Alaska Coal.
This fund was recently discovered In
the deficiency bill which was passed
in February and Congress later re
pealed, including the million dollar ap
propriation for coal investigation.
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NEW MEXICAN LAND LAW
MEXICO CITY, Aug., 21— A Pro
posed land law carrying it is said, pro
visions of vital importance to largo
landholders and those desiring to se
cure small parcels for individual cul
tivation, has been submitted by the
Department of Development to Pres*
dent Carranza for consideration and
submission to congress.
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