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1€, 1921 “ x PRICE TEN CENTS
Volumne XIV, Number 41 ___
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CHAMBERLAIN WILL ASK
GOVERMENT TO OPEN UP
, ALASKA OIL RESOURCES
Former Mayor of Seward in Interview Gives Out Plans
* of Next Alaska Legislature.—Will Introduce Mem
orial to Congress Asking Aid of Federal Govern
ment in Developing OiL
ONE WELL FOR EACH DISTRICT REPORTED
Expenses Will Be Paid From Royalties and Rents.—Plan
if Adopted Would Mean Big Thing for the North
* First Trip Out in Fourteen Years
SEATTLE, Feb. 16.—Senator Chamberlain of thif
city who left on the Northwestern for the outeide, in ar
interview here stated that the firet official act of the
Alaska legislature will be to introduce a memorial to con
gross asking that the federal government put down r
test well in each district now reported by the geologi
* lal survey. Senator Chamberlain in the course of his re
marks said: “Practically all of the od lands of tlmnortl
are owned bv the government nnd it is believed that thr
greatest oil fields in the world will be developed in Ala?
ka, therefore it is up to the government to prospect it
own land and the expense will be directly returned b:
wav of royalties and rents. Alaska will be benefited toa
XitriStent and that is the end I seek” Tins is ft
first trip outside of the senator in fourteen years. He
will visit here a few days before his return to Juneau to
attend the legislature.
ITALIANS OBJECT TO
BOLSHEVIKI DELEGATION
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ROME, Italy, Feb. 16.—The police intervened to save
, * prominent socialist from a beating at the hands of te
rotmlace The people were incensed as the result ol tne
arrival of a Bolsheviki emissary from Russia. The So
cialist members of the town council were driven from the
hall and the national flag was raised.
SIGNS FIVE YEAR CONTRACT
ITHAICA, N. Y., Feb. I6.-Coach Dozier, formerly
of the Washington gridiron signed a contract today witt
Cornel University for five years..
STILL LOOKING FOR AVIATORS
EL PASO, Feb. 16.—Members of the Twelfth cal
vary, Texas Rangers and cowboys are still searching
for Pearson, tiie lost army aviator, it is behved tht the
machine was burned.
* WHITE SOX PLAYERS IN COURT
CHICAGO, Feb. 16.^IncBcted White Sox players
-won their first battle when the court granted them a bil)
of narticulars. It is announced Consul George Weaver
-wiuask for a square deal t
BANK HELD UR AND ROBBED ~
EVERETT, Feb. 1&—The Rucker State Bank at
To Vo Stevens washeld up and robbed by three masked
men who escaped in an automobile with twelve hundred
in cash. v'.j„ ' ' 1
| BIG FIRE IN SASKATOON
| SASKATOON, Fek lft—A fire destroyed the entire
Cdbill block ia-this ixxvmj. inchtdrag'alarge department
w stone, and oOuft bu«nesa.ptaces last evening. The loss is
estimated at • half million dollars.
RACE TRACK BILL PASSED BY SENATE
OLYMPIA, Wash, Feb. 16.-4.The senate passed the
race track bill by a bare majority with the referduir
clause attached. The Davis mamege license bill was al
so passed at the same session, requiring fifteen days be
tween the application for the license and the mamage.
Under a suspension rule a memorial was passed asking
congress to release cargo space on government vessels
leaving Washington ports for free transportation for
food sent to China.
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Enrico Caruso Has Attack Heart Failure and His Con
dition is Said to Be Critical—Physicians Are
Administering Oxygen
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NEW YORK, Feb.16.—Oxygen has . been .adminis
tered to Enrico Caruso, the Metropolitan Opera Com
>an’s famous tenor after he had been stricken with an
attack of heart failure which caused attending physi
. :!ans to fear he would succumb before daylight. He rai
led but his condition is still critical.
LOANS TO FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—Senator Houston agreed
/ith the senate judiciary committee not to make addi
lonal loans to foreign governments until consulted by
he committee and had been given time for deliberaation.
BACHELOR TAX BEEN PROPOSED
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MADISON, Wisconsin, Feb. 16.—A bachelor tax has
been proposed by a resolution introduced in the state leg
islature yesterday.
IDENTIFICATION SOLDIERS HOPED FOR
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PARIS, France, Feb. 161—The registration service
has opposed the selection at the present time of a body,
from‘the list of unidentified soldiers for burial honors in
the United States for the reason that in the constant re
duction of the number of unidenified dead it is hoped foi
eventually to identify almost all by the use of teeth'
charts.
MEXICANS ORDERED TO LEAVE
FT. WORTH, Texas, Feb. 16.—One hundred Mexi
cans arrived here from Ranger and said that they had
been badly frightened and some of them beaten by mask
od men wlio ordered them to leave the country and not
to attempt to compete with American labor.
WATJKEEGAN, Feb. 17.—Little Miriam fcubin sud
denly stopped talking after chattering incessantly foi
more than eleven days. She fell asleep for forty minute*
and when awakened sppke only when addressed
1 RECOGNITION HUSH REPUBUC -
Outbreak is New Feared Along Entire Coast of Califor
nia and Police of Coast Cities are Taking Extra Pre
cautions Against Gunmen
THREE CHINESE ARE KILLED IN STOCKTON
Member of Hop Sing Tong in Seattle and Portland Are
Asking Protection of Police Against Fellow
Countrymen on War Path
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SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 16.—A Pall of tong war is
hanging over California cities and it is feared by police
officials here tliat it inght break out along the entire
coast of California. Outbreaks last night at Los Angeies,
Stopktown and San Francisco resulted in three Chinese
being killed and five wounded. All were members of the
-Hop Sing tong. — • -
Extra Precautions Are Taken
; SEATTLE, Feb. 16.—Extra precautions were taken
at Seattle and Portland against possible tong outbreaks.
A few Chinese appeared on the streets of either city and
members of one Portland tong asked protection of the
poliece. '_
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BLOWN VP BY BOMB
ROCK ISLAND, Feb. 16.—The plant of the Rock Is
land News was dynamited last night while the editor
vas asleep on the second floor. The damage was only
slight The editor was, recently convicted of criminal
libel and sentenced to jail but was at liberty on bonds.
He was slightly injured.
UNEMPLOYMENT DECREASING
SPOKANE, Feb. 16.—Unemployment is decreasing
n the northwest and there is toarked signs of industrial
ictivity in this vippity according to a statement made
by federal employment directors.
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