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\ol i Ml \1II M MIUT 11» SEWARD. ALASKA. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, im
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CONGRESS
TO TAKE
A RECESS
• WASHINGTON. Oct. 21- TUe lie
publicans are planning to adjourn eon
gross on November !>th to give ’lie
members a recess before the regiila*
session in Dwombor.
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NEW YORK. Oct. 21 - Strikebreak
erx ami soldiers are today moving for
ty shins of the international merchant
marine tied-up hy the strike. Vho
troop- are handling the transport car
goes.
JOHN VNDKRSON XCQI'ITTED
After delihe*ating two hours tin
Valdez jury in the case of John An
derson returned a verdict acquitting
the man of the charge of killing < ha*
les Kline near L’nalaska several
months ago.* Attorney 1*. Y\ Ray 01
Seward defended Anderson. Anderson
was confined in the Valdez jail lot
ten months awaiting trial as were al
>o two witnesses from I’nalaska. 1 ho
case cost the government at least $10,
000.
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STEVMER NEWS
Steamer Alameda was advert'sed
to sail from Cordova at 11 o’clock this
forenoon according to cable office ini
vices. The Alameda could arrive \
• Seward early tomorrow afternoon.
The Admiral Watson is expected to
arrive in port southbound on Friday.
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AMERICAN CARGO ON
SCHOONER BELINDA
SEIZED BY Rl’SSI \\S
NOME. Oct, 21— It is reported
that the Russians »>n the northeast
coast of Siberia have confiscated the
cargo of the American schooner Be
linda. The Russians disputed ttie right
of the Americans to shoot walrus o i
the Siberian shores, and as the result
• of the controversy which followed,
they confiscated the cargo of the
schooner.
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SEATTLE. Oct., 21— Fish p»icr^
are as follows: halibut, twenty and
three quarters cents; sable, four cents;
ling and red cod. four cents.
WASHINGTON'. Oct., 21 The ur
jr(>nt deficiency appropriation bill,
which carries tho seventwn million
do'*ars for the Alaska railroad, appro
priated by the Senate appropriations
committee, will get early considora
|on . Chairman Warren asked for this
today. The deficiency bill is the first
of the session and carries $42,000,000,
WASHINGTON. Oct. 21 - The Sen
ate this after noon adopted the commit
tee amendment to tin* deficiency ap
propriation bill providing the seven
teen miPion dollars to complete the
Alaska railroad. This means that w.th
the passage of the deficiency bill, the I
railroad money becomes available im |
mediately.
WAR SCHEME OF
HUNS IS BARED
LONDON, Oct.. 21— German U—
boats tried to bottle up the British
Grand Fleet in the Firth of Forth dur
ing the latter pa; l of the war, says a
London paper which describes this as
th<* most ambitious tactical operation
under taken by enemy undersea craft.
The scheme aimed at the blocking
off of the entrance to the Forth by the
sowing of a big minefield. Three
months of hard work were devoted to !
the task by a considerable fleet of sub- {
marines, the mines being laid in the
shape of a half-moon. But mines wee?)
v s had discovered the plan and, a*
last as the mines wen* planted, thev
were cleared away.
It is recalled that other similar at
tempt.*' to trap the fleet were made in
191.) in the Moray Firth, when over
400 mines were laid, and in 191(5 at
-he Orkney*. In Pound numbers, on
these three occasions, the Germans !
Ia>d 1.100 mines at a cost of $1,000
each. The King fid ward was the only
fighting ship that fell victim in these
operations.
Knotmous numbers of mines worr
laid by the Germans off Harwich. It
was found that these* fields wew
spread regularly at ten-dky intervals
British sweepers occasionally left
portions of these waters unswept so
that when the next batch of subma
rines came along they ran afoul of
their own mines .
’ The task of clearing British waters
of mines is almost comfdeted.
B\KIV. t DM PAN I tN
AUK 1 ' I \D C.i n/Tl*
COLUMBUS. Oct.. 21 — Four la»*g'
Columbus baking companies , indict
ed August *22 on charges of violating
the Valentine anti-trust law in com
bining to fix the price of bread, enter
ed pleas of guilty and were fined $],
000 and costs each assessed a penalty
of $")0 per day from date of indictment
•»nd ordered i»dpce the price of
brpad to what it was before Ihn com
j nation wus entered into.
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WOOD FOR THK
PRKSIDKNCY
I.IRMINGHAM, Ala., Oct., 21 —
Headquarters were opened here
today tor the campaign of Leon
ard Wood for President.
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TREATY TO SOON
BE IN POWER
PARIS, Oct.. 21— The Allied mili
tary authorities are to fix the date fo*
deposing of the ratifications of the
treaty which will bring tin* treaty in
to power.
WASHINGTON, Oct.. 21— Them is
a possibility of a compromise between
the advocates by Democratic leader^
following Senator Lodge’s call today
for a meeting of the Foreign Relation
Committee tomorrow to consider new
reservations and modifications.
McCumbor, leader of the mild re
servation! stS, has introduced a number
of compromise reservations and said
they represented the* efforts of the Re
publicans desiring to reach an agree
ment on the reservations.
McCumber’s reservations concern
the question of the withdrawal or A -
tide 10. domestic affairs, Monro**
doctrine, Shantung and the inequality
of the voting strength of the League.
MORF LAND \DDKD
TO CROOK N ATION \L
FORKST IN ARl/.ON \
PHOENIX, Ariz. Oct.. 21— Presi
dent Wilson has signed a proclamation
adding 20.440 acres to the Crook na
tional forest, Arizona. The lands add
ded are located in the Winchester
mountains and are southeast of the
Gulin ro division of the Crook forest.
They are rough and broken in char
acter an»l aie not siu able for agri
cultural purposes. Practically the en
tire tract is covered with a stand of
oak, pun5per and cedar timber o! fail
quality. Considerable of the area along
Pine canyon is covered with a good
stand of Western yellow pine.
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SMITH REACHES FRISCO
SAX FRANCISCO, Oct.. 21— Capt.
Smith has arrived. He is the first avi
ator in the army race to make the trip
from hero to Mineola and return.
SEATTLE’S POPE L ATI ON
SEATTLE, Oct., 21— The City d»
rectory just from the press gives Seat
tle a population of 420,000 a gain of
20,000 over a year ago.
ALLENBY IN COMMAND
LONDON, Oct., 21— Marshal Al
lenby has been appointed high com
missioner of affairs in Egypt.
K. Higo returned on the Alaska to
his fox ranch near Latouchc. Mr. Higo
has just completed shipping two-hun
dred skins to the London markets,
where the sales averaged $250 per
skin.
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WASHINGTON, Oct, 21— I’resi- j
dent Wilson, despite his illness, is un
dei stood to he preparing to .endeavor
to prevent a threatened break in th>* *
Industrial Conference on account of :
the inability of the delegates to reach
an agreement on collective bargaining
i <su e .
Prescient Wilson is so improved
that he is able to receive letters re
garding the coal strike, industrial con
ference and the treaty.
WASHINGTON, Oct., 21— Presi
dent Wilson, this afternoon from his
bed dictated a (500 word letter to Sec
retary Lane in which he outlined his
views on the Industrial Conference sit
uation.
President Wilson signed the lettei
with a shaky hand.
it is believed Secretary Lane, who
is chairman of the Industrial confe.
enco, will not use the letter unless tie
conference shows signs of breaking up. j
JOHN MITCHELL LEFT
A LARGE KST VI E
WHITE PLANES, N. V.. Oct.. 21
John Mitchell, former president j
the United Mine Workers of America,
left an estate of $2f»0.000 mostly in
stocks and bonds, according to
petition for letters of ndmini-tratiou
filed in the Surrogate’s Court of
Westchester county. In a will written
in his own' hand shortly before Ins !
death, but believed to be invalid be
cause it lacked witnesses, the labor
leader bequathed all but $10,000 of his |
estate to his wife and children. The ,
$10,000 was to he divided among other
relatives and close friends.
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AMERICANS ARE
AFTER TRADE !
IN GERMANY |
COLOGNE. Oct., 21— British busi
ne>s men have taken notice of the
strides made by Americans in acquir
ing trade in Germany. At a meeting in
Cologne recently of directors of the
British Chamber of Commerce for j
Germany, C. Knott, of London, said:
“America has more than 1,700
Chambers of Commerce in all parts of
the world, and these associated cham
bers some time ago sent a delegation
to Europe which visited Cologne and
Berlin and departed with German or
ders in fabulous amounts. The goods
are to be delivered at once on three
year’s credit. In this way the United
States is securing the lion’s share ot
Germany’s import trade. Such is the
result of the cooperation of their
Chambers of Commerce. I see no rea
son why British Chambers of Commer
ce cannot employ such methods.”
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HARRY S. NEW WILL
HAVE TRIAL LATER
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 21— Trial of
Harry S. New, who claims to be a son
of United States Senator Wew of In
diana, o,i a charge of murdering his
fiance, .'l»ss Frcida Lesser, was post
poned until December 16.
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LO\DON\ Oct., 21— It i.- indicated
the Bnlsheviki forces are defending
Potrog ad stubbornly. Advices from
Helsingfors says General Yudenitch
has halted his advance to await rein
forcements, when he encountered
strong Bolsheviki resistance seven
miles south of Pet’Ograd.
Amster dam advices say commissaiy
Zindonvieff, Chief Bolsheviki repr:
tentative in Potrog rad, has withdrawn
to Moscow.
LON’DON, Oct.. 21— Finland ad
vices an* that the Bolsheviki still hold
K: onstadt. Sunday the lied Flatf was
floated over the battleship Petropav
!ov k which the Bolsheviki raised after
bcinjj sunk in the harbor at Kronstadt
by the British fleet.
STOCKHOLM, Oct., 21— Yud* nitch
Las asked the American Minister to
■ ‘ltd food to Petroffiad which he ex*
peels to take sometime today.
TO DISCUSS
STRIKE Of
lilN IS
DES MOINES, Oct., 21— Gover
nor Harding has telegraphed the gov
ernors of the coal producing states
asking them to attend a meeting to
discuss the arbitration of the threat
ened coni strike.
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IN A MINE
PENZANCE, England, Oct.. 21
Forty nre dead in a disaster in the Le
vant mine, near St. Just, Cornwall.
Many miners were injured.
COUNT TERAUCHI DEM)
TOKIO, Oct., 21— Field Marshal
Count Teraucld, forme*- Premier, didd
suddenly here th?s afternoon.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct., 21— The
Circuit Court of Appeals has ordered a
new trial for John Lindgren, convicted
in a district court in Alaska for the
embezzlement of $5,479 from the Sier
ra Association’s gold claim at Fair
banks. Lindgren was sentenced t>
three years at McNeil island. Lindgren
said he took the money from a clean
up in payment for wood he sold the
company.
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GOES DRY
TORONTO, Oct., 21— It is indi
cated the United Farmers and Labor*
candidates overwhelmingly defeated
Premier Hearst and other conserva
tivos in yesterday’s election. The elec
tion also resulted in Ontario going
dry. The power of the liberals was
unchanged in the election according to
all early returns.
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GERMANS PLANNING
A SETTLEMENT IN A
MEXICAN DISTRICT
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MEXICO CITY, Oct, 21— German
banks here are backing an enterprise
proposing to irrigate the big Sinaloa
tract where thousands of^German im
migrants arc expected to settle.