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Daily Edition, ajnd The Alaska Weekly Post
TolPME XIV numbs! is! ~ ■ SEWARD. ALASKA^ ^RIDAY, JU¥e17T920. TjgN li nts PE&fcOPY
CHICAGO. Juno I— The affairs of
the National Republican convention
are beginning to assume a definite
foim. The candidates have agreed to
give daily interviews to the press. Del
egates and boosters are pouring into
the city. matters stood at noon to
day, General Wood has 117 delegates
pledged; Johnson 112; Lowdcn S9;
Harding 2.9; Poindexter 14; Sproul 7b;
Sutherland 16 and Pritchard 22. The
uninstructed delegates number 444
out of a total of !>84 l.owden gained
•J.’i delegates this forenoon when tho
National committee seated the Mulvi
hill faction fit»m the eighth district of
Mississippi and the Tolbert regulars
from South Carolina. This marks the
first important defeat of the Wood
foiCi'S.
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PRESIDENT OF GRAND
IGLOO OF PIONEERS
VISITING IN SEWARD
T. W. Nelson. President of the
Grand Igloo of Pioneers, is registered
at the Hotel Overland having come
over from Anchorage on the Gateway
City Limited last night. Mr. Nelson
will return on tomorrow’s train hav
ing come over on Pioneer business
and to have a conference with Dr.
Sloan.
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RESIGNS— GOING Ot’T
Hugh R. Laughlin, with the com
mission for several veal's at Anchor
age, in the aialiting department, ar
rived on last night‘s train, accompan
ied by his wife, going to the states.
Mr. Laughlin has resigned and will lo
cate outside. While waiting for the
Northwestern Mr. and Mrs. Laughlin
are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Erich
Lucas.
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W FATHER REPORT
The following is the weather repoit
for the 24 hours ending at 7 o’clock
this morning:—
SEWARD 47, Cloudy, Calm.
Anchorage 58. Clear, Calm.
Matanuska 64, Clear, Calm.
Chickaloon 65, Clear, ('aim.
Wasilla 61, Cloudy, Calm.
Talkeetna 60, Cloudy, Calm.
Goldcreek 62, Clear, Calm.
Hurricane 65, Cloudy, Calm.
Summit 52, Clear, Calm.
Bains 52, Clear, N. W.
Hcaly 62, Cloudy, Calm.
Nenann 68. Clear, Calm.
Fairbanks 65, Clear, Calm.
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DISPLAYS AN OLD SI IT
LORDSBURG. X. M. June 4—
President William Sproulc of the
Southern Pacific Railroad gave this
town some inside information on cir
cumventing the high cost of clothing,
while here recently when he displayed
the date of October 12, 1017, on the
suit he was wearing.
SUBSCRIBE FOR*THE GATEWAY
CHICAGO. June 4— Virgil J. Hin- j
shaw, Chairman of the National Pro
hibition Committee, who recently an
nounced his intention of obtaining
from every Republican candidate for •
President a statement concerning the
party stand on prohibition, said that
if both parties come out strongly for
the Eighteenth amendment, the Prohi
bit inn party will probably cease to
exist. Mr. Hinshaw said that if either
party nominates a wet candidate, the
Prohibitionists will fight to the finish.
Hinshaw said General Wood told him
, that prohibition did more for the army
than any other one thing but that the
General seemed inclined to leave the
prohibition matter in the hands of the
platform committee.
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Lieut. Richard Gifford, of the navy
commission, came over from the Mata
nuska on yesterday's train and is ro
gistored at the Hotel Seward. Lt. Gif
ford came to meet civilian members of
the commission arriving on the North
1 western.
A. 1». Cummings, who has been in
charge of mess houses of the Alaskan
Engineering Commission and who re
signed several weeks ago, is register
ed at the Hotel Seward while waiting
for the Northwestern.
W. S. Halloran and J. E. McFad
zen. f^om San Francisco, who came
north several weeks ago to look the
country over, are registered at the
Hotel Seward, having arrived on last
night’s train.
Mrs. A. W. Roberts came in on the
train last night from Mile 23 and is
registered at the Hotel Seward. Mrs.
Roberts brought in a bouquet of flow
ms which would put to shame the hot
hou^e variety of the states, and her
flowers were giown out of doors.
Victor Guimbard, from out the line,
came in last night and is registered at
the Hotel Sexton.
Mary Morrison is registered at the
Hotel Sexton from Anchorage having
arrived on the train last night.
Mrs. W. R. Rathbun, from Anchor
age. is registered at the Hotel Seward
and will leave for the states on the
Northwestern.
There will be seven days mail on
the steamer Northwestern due from
; the south this evening.
* TREATY SIGNED *
VERSAILLES. June 4— The 4
i * Hungarian peace treaty was sign- *
* i*d this afternoon.
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DRAFT FOR PERMANENT
INTERNATIONAL COLRT IS
GIVEN OFT TO THE PUBLIC
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THE HAGUE, June 4— A draft
| for the Permanent Court of Interna
i tional Justice of the League of Na
tions, as it hus been offered to the
Secretaries of the league in the name
of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Switz
erland and Holland, has been made
public by the Dutch government. It
is the result of the conferences held
in the Peace Palace at the Hague in
Febiuary.
According to the plan the court
would consist of 15 judges and six
substitutes, who must all be recogniz
ed authorities on international justice.
Its members would bo chosen by the
assembly of the league; the judges to
he appointed for nine years, the sub
stitutes for six.
Tie* members would ho elected with
out regard of their nationality but no
more than two judges of the same
country could hold office in the cou'L
'i'h *y would be re-eligible but they
would have to resign when 66 years
old. They would then have a right to
a pension, which, like their salary
would be fixed and paid by the Lea
gue.
The duties of the court would be to
adjudicate differences between nations
ami it would bo competent to act on
all cases in which its decision is ask**d.
The permanent Court of Interna
tional Justice is provided for in Artic
le XIV of the covenant of the League
of Nations. The Council of the League
of Nations at a session in London in
February announced that a committee
of 12 distinguished international jur
ists including Elihu Root ot the l n
ited States had been invited to p' c
paiv plans for the constitution of the
Court. Mr. Root accepted the invita
tion as did Lord Phi IF more of Eng
land, Baron Descamps of Belgium, l>r.
Lode r of Holland and M. Vesnitch of
Jugo- Slavia. No plans as formulated
by the committee for the organization
of the Court have yet been announced.
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GOING OUT ON VACATION
Miss Gertrude Kendall and Miss
Nellie Nash, of the Reward Public
school faculty, will leave on the Nor
thwestern to spend their vacation in
the states. Miss Kendall will visit with
her parents at Seattle and Miss Na^h
will visit at Seattle for a week then ,
go to Dayton, Wash.
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OMAN RENOMINATED
WASHINGTON, June 4— Presi
dent Wilson lias renominated Rear
Admiral Joseph W. Oman to bo gov
ernor of the Virgin Islands.
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EVANS NORTHBOUND
Steamer Admiral Evans sailed
from Ketchikan at 11 o’clock this fore
noon hound for Seward and way poi ts.
SUDDENLY DISAPPEARS AND
IS FOUND IN MONASTERY
TOKIO, June 4— Kanae Ikeda .di
rector of the Middle School of Ku\e
suddenly disappeared a few weeks ago
leaving a letter stating that he was
dissatisfied with ths recent state of
social affairs and determined to lead
a hermit’s life. Now he has been dis
covjitd in a famous Buddhist monas
tery leading the life ot a monk.
This is an incident showing the
spread of the social unrest in Japan.
The old national mentality has great*
ly been modified since the war and the
authorities find it hard to recruit suf
ficient officers for both the navy and
army as well as officials for the diplo
matic and consular services. Commer
cial careers now appeal more to young
Japanese.
IRISH TD
BE GIVEN
NO TIME
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WASHINGTON, June 4— Gillett
this afternoon refused to grant the
floor to any member for the purpose
of railing up the resolution expressing ’
sympathy for I inland. The reason, ac
cording to Gillett, was because of lark
of time. The resolution was favorably
repoited by the foreign affuirs com
mittee. A * jjrj
LONDON, June 4— The executive
body of the National Railway Union
will ask for calling off the special
Congress of the Irish and British
Trade Unions to try and bridge the
gulf between the Irish people and the
British government.
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CHICAGO MAN WORKING
OUT PLAN FOR A HOTEL
FOR THE STRAY BOYS
CHICAGO, June 4— The stray boy
who for dinner flattens his nose
against the bakery window and who at
night sleeps with grown-up tramps in
the park or in the back alley shed, will
come upon better days if the plan of
George W. Brown, of Chicago, works
out.
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a novel ivi uujn, tv um u)/vi»vvu wv
fnr as feasible by boys, and fitted up
in a way to attract the youngster who
finds himself in vast Chicago tempor
ally or permanently without a home,
is the idea of Mr. Brown, who for a
decade, has given most of his time
to volunteer work among homeless
l>oya. His work has brought him in
touch with juvenile court officials in
many cities and he has enlisted th'ir
support in his efforts to obtain a
“transient hotel for boys” between The
ages of 14 and 17. Joseph Tumulty,
the president’s secretary, a school
mate of Mr. Brown, has lent his aid
to some of Mr. Brown’s boy better
ment schemes.
“The Y. M. C. A. conducts in Chi
cago a transient hotel for men, a
high skyscraper, calculated to give its
tenants clean surroundings, morally
and physically, but homeless boys un
de*r 17, hundreds of whom drift into
Chicago every week, may rely on the
dangerous expedient of seeking a
rooming house, or, if without funds
may sleep behind ash barrels,” Mr.
Biown said today. *‘I have scores of
these boys in my own home until jobs
•nul recurrent, pay-days lifted them
off the rocks, and I know what even a
few days of decent surroundings can
do for them.
“The large and properly conducted
hotel for which w'o are working, and
which will not be a “Boys Home,” will
bo equipped to do for thousands and
thousands of kids what my feeble ef
forts have accomplished for a few
hundred.”
FINDING LOST FREIGHT CARS
SAN FRANCISCO, June 4—
Freight cars of Mexican railroads
that were impressed into service to
move supplies to the eastern sea
board of the United States during
the war are being traced, according
to R. M. Campos, western agent of
the National Railways of Mexico.
They may now be found from Los
Angeles to Portland, Me., he said, and
some of the cars will have been fivo
or six years away from their home
! lines before being located.
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act on war measure
i WASHINGTON, June 4— The Sen
| ate judiciary" committee has reported
without amendment the House joint
resolution for repeal of all war legis
lation with the exception of the Lever
and Trading with the enemy act.
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VERA CRUZ, June 4— Four new
cases of bubonic plague broke out here
today. All buildings on the municipal
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dork and the nearby structures were
i burned last night in an effort to elim
■ inate possible renters of infection.
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WASHINGTON, June 4— Frank
L. Polk, under Secretary of State, has
resigned effective June 15th. Pre9i
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dent Wilson today accepted the resig
nation regretfully. Mr. Polk will take
a rest before returning to the practice
of law in New York City.
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IS TO BE
SETTLED
WASHINGTON, une 4— William 1
0. Thompson, of Columbus; Neal J.*
Perry, of tfcAdoo, Pennsylvania; and
William L. Connell, of Scranton, were
today appointed by President Wilson,
as a commission to settle the wage
controversy between the anthracite
miners and operators. The award will
be made within sixty days if possible
and will be retroactive to April 1st. 1
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PETERSBURG GETS LIFT
WASHINGTON, June 4— The
Town of Petersburg, of Alaska, is au
thorized, under a senate bill passed
also by the House, to issue $75,000
worth of bonds for the erection of a
municipal lighting plant and school
building. The bill now goes to the
President for his signature.
ELECT HUNGARIAN WOMAN
TO THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
BUDAPEST, June 4— The first
woman elected to office in Hungary
is Margarete Schlachta, successful
Christian Nationalist candidate for the
national assembly from the first dis
trict of this city.
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ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO, June
4— The Democratic state convention
today named six uninstructed dele
gates to the San Francisco convention.
The convention indorsed the Wilson
administration and went on record as
opposed to a wet plank in the Demo
cratic platfoim.
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LUXURY BUYING SHOWS
RETRENCHMENT NECESSARY
NEW YORK, June 4— Luxury
buying in New York is now going on
at the rate of $1,200,000,000 a year
judged by the amount of luxury taxes
aggregating $10,500,000 a month —
whicn arc being collected by William
H. Edwards, United States Collector
of Internal Revenue for Manhattan.
In February, according to the Collect
or, the government received from his
office $2,000,000 more in luxury taxes
than was paid in any previous month
in the history of the department. The
month of April probably will ixcted
them all. The receipts he says, have
been mi unting higher and highe- for
six months.
“What some people call the ‘orgy
of spending’ has not exhausted itself,”
said Mr. Edwards today, “but my
men, in their talks with merchants
and others who pay the grjit bulk of
taxecs, have been told that the 'peak'
of extravagance seems to have been
reached and that a period of retrench
ment is close at hand.”
NORTHWESTERN TONIGHT
Steamer Northwestern is billed to
reach Seward tonight at 8 o'clock ac
cording to radio advices received by
Agent McDonald.