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BUILDINGS GUARDED .
LONDON, Dec., 1— The public
buildings throughout England are be
ing closely guarded against any Sinn
Fein attack. Aimed motor boats pa
trolled the Thames River front The
parliament buildings are also closely
guarded. Scores of arrests have been
made throughout Ireland.
MAY BE SAFE
SEATTLE, Dec., 1— There is a
possibility that the barge Pirric
weathered the severe storm of last
week , on the sheltered west coast of
Vancouver .Island. A wireless from the
Empress of Japan says they sighted a ;
schooner similar in appearance to the j
barge. The cutter Snohomish left im
mediately for the acene.
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The S. S. Alameda left Valdez at 1
11 o'clock last night ,,
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VOLUNTEER WORK
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CINNCINNATI, Ohio, Dec., i— Five
„ himdrtd employees of tbs Nash .Cloth-\
iag Cow, which has been operating on j
a Golden Rate basis decided today vol- !
untarily, to relinquish tfcmr jobs either j
in January or February to provide |
ers. They also agreed if necessary to
a reduction of wages to meet lower
* • clothing costs. Those getting more
thaa five dollars per day will be the,
first to hate their wages reduced.
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EARTHQUAKE IN SEATTLE
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SEATTLE, Wash., Dec., 1— A
slight earthquake early this morning
was felt in the district bounded by
Spokane and Portland. Dishes were
rattled and light sleepers awakened by
the tiemors which lasted tetermittent
ly for ten minutes. The werst disturb
ance was about two hundred miles east
of Seattle.
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INCENDIARY FIRES
LIVERPOOL, Dec., 1— Fifteen
warehouses in Liverpool and Bootle a
suburb were fired last night the po
lice believe by Sinn Feiners. Two
cotton warehouses were burned down.
Considerable shooting was done by the
ci .vstab*e*. who arrested five men.
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G. H. Ruark of Seattle, represen
tative of the Wells Fargo, American
and other express companies is a
guest of the Overland Hotel. Mr. Cn
dor will be in Seward several days at
tending to business connected with the
companies he represents.
H. D. Bouse, Chief Deputy Marshall
of Alaska is stopping at the Overland.
Charles C. Black a member of Co.
G. 21st Inf. which is* stationed at
Fort Gibbons is registered at the Ov
erland Hotel. Black came in on the
last train from the end of steel via
the Broad Pass route. He reports a
good trip and says all the boys like
Fort Gibbons.
The Ladies Aid Society of the Me
thodist Church, will meet Thursday
afternoon at two o'clock, with Mrs. D
E. Carter at the Parsonage. This be
ing the last meeting of the year wil
be held as a business meeting.
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. M. P. McCarthy, Frank Cooper and
J. F. MacDonald are registered at the
| Seward Hotel.
| Tlfey arrived on the Watson last night
! and will go to Anchorage on the Gate
[ way Limited in the morning.
Mrs. Stuart of Valdez is a guest of
the Seward Hotel.
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WILSON ACCEPTS
WASHINGTON, Dec., 1— Presi
dent Wilson has accepted the invita
tion of the League of 'Nations to act
as mediator in the Armenian situation.
His acceptance is conditioned upon the
use of moral influence. He further ex
plained that he was without authority
to employ force unless the authority
was vested in him by Congress.
ARMISTICE ARRANGED.
LONDON, Dec., 1—The League of
Nations Committee of Control has ar
ranged an armistice between the Li
thuanian General Zellgouski and the
Insurgent commander at Viliria accord
ing to Kovno dispatches.
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SEATTLE, Wash. Dec., 1— A
special message received today by the
Seattle P. L says that Secretary Pay
ne was informed by a telegraph from
Engineering Commission had removed
Charles Dole the Commission’s pur
chasing agent at Seattle. Payne was
surpi ised at the message. He has issu
ed orders suspending the action of the
Commission until he is fully informed
with the facts of the case, and the rea
son from Colonel Mears who is now
enroute to Washington to report on
the condition and explain the esti
mates which have been submitted foi
the completion of the Alaskan Rai)
road. Dole when interviewed in thf
Seattle office said that he had known
the orders for several days. He denied
that any friction existed and that Col.
Mears simply decided to cut down ex
penses of the department
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NO KICK
BERLIN, Dec, 1— Economic ex
«
perts report that many German brew
eries are facing rain as a result of the
falling off of the consumption of near
beer. To prevent this the Imperial
Council has adopted an ordinance
which will permit German breweries
to thicken brews by an increase of
malt content.
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Bob Brown of the Vancouver, B. C.
club, is admittedly seeding a berth in
the Coast league, said George M. Fer
ris, president of the Spokane P. I.
club . He has told us that the Van
couver club has $75,000 available with
which to finance the franchise he
hopes to land this season. With Van
couver in the Coast League it would
leave Seattle, Everett, Bellingham,
Anacortes, Victoria, B. C., Tacoma
and other west side towns to form an
| organization
! BORDEAUX, Dec., 1— A “Mother*!
; Home”, where womfen may have th<
; necessary care that they themeelvei
| could not afford is to be establishec
! by this city with' funds given by Ma
dame Deutsch de la Meurthe. It wil
1 be open only to married women.
Buildings, a park of 82 acres am
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1,000,006 franca were given for th<
work by Mum. do la Meurthe. *
GERMAN EMPEROR STILL )N
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THE HAGUE; Dec., 1— Holland,
which refused to surrender the former
Gorman Emperor to the AUioe for
trial, has another knotty problenl in a
demand from the Belgian government
for the extradition ot
Freeze, formerly iibrian of Ghent un
iversity, a political refugee and now
librarian at Rotterdam
Professor de Vreeze is one Off the
Flemish Belgians who during thfeGer
man occupUation of their ( country
sought, with German aid, to separate
Flander, the Dutch— speaking part of
Belgium, from the French— speaking
part Many of them, when the artriis
k
tice showed Germany beaten, fled to
Holland. In their absence, they ^rere
convicted of treason and some of them
are under sentence of death. Preffesor
de Vreeze is accused as a leading ^ac
tivist” in the Flemish separation
movement. Considering this a political
offense and therefore not extraditable,
the Dutch government would not give
him up . 4
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Now, at a time when relations be
tween Holland and Belgium are attain
ed because of commercial treaty
plications and the renewed
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separatist movehxt*^—
manded the extradition of De Vreeze,
thi« time on grounds, wihch, if proved,
Holland might consider, while it would
not consider a political offense.
The charge however, is only that
Professor De Vreeze used for fuel at
his house in Ghent some government
property, such as old boxes, old books
and some coal which were on the
"premises of the library at Ghent
It is hinted in Holland that this is
only a subterfuge to get the professoi
across the frontier.
The Dutch government has named
a commission to decide the case.
VANCOUVER, B. C., Dec., 1—
With an average of rather more thar
three candidates for each of the forty
seven seats in the legislature, with 21.
candidates for the six Vancouver seatr
and 19 for the four seats in Victoria,
the British Columbia general elections
will be held December 1. One hundred
and fifty-three candidates have been
nominated in the province. More candi
dates are thus in the field than ever
before in the history of british Colum
bia.
The reason for this is variously at
tributed to the slackening of party
discipline, the breaking away of many
independents from the old party folds,
the tendency to form soldier-farmer
and soldier-labor parties and, finally,
the fact that the last legislature abol
ished the requirement for deposit by a
candidate of one hundred dollars.
Women for the first time will vote
at the provincial general election. On-,
ly three women are running in Van- j
couver city, one as the nominee of the
liberal party, one with the endorse
ment of the conservatives and one as
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t*an independent The first woman to ait
in {he British Columbia legislature,
J Mrs. Ralph Smith, • is again in the
1 field.
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1 Harry Steel puWiaher of the Car
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* Hotel. Mr. Steel came in on the Wat
1 son and will remain until that boat re
tnraa from the westward.
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CALGARY, Alta, Dec., 1— “To say
that Alberta fanners . have gone or
strike is a gross misrepresentation ol
their position,” declared C. Rice-Jones
general manager of the United Grain
Growers, in an interview here.
Mr. Rice-Jones said that because
farmers refuse to put all their wheat
on the market at one time of the year,
he could not see how any interpreta
tion could be placed on it as a strike.
- “The fact of the matter is,” he said
“that before the price was fixed be
cause of large portion of their wheat
in the fall, when the price is always
down, a considerable portion of it, no
doubt, passing into the hands of specu
lators who hold it until the spring
when they are able to sell it at a con
siderable profit It is, therefore, very
* atifying to see that the farmers this
year, as far as they can, are sending
their wheat to market in such a way
as they can, arvaN.,a-G.8... .o o.
as they will be able to get the best
possible price for it”
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NEW EXPEDITION
LONDON, Dec., f—- The first sec
tion of the British imperial antarctic
expedition which left London eptemb
er 28 piana to survey and chart the
western portion of the Weddell sea
An tare tic territory hitherto unexplor
ed. Under the leadership of John L.
Cope, the British explorer, five men
will go to the Antarctic from Christ
ionia.
, After two years Cope plans to re
turn and carry out the full program of
his expedition, including the circum
navigation of the Antarctic and aerial
navigation over the ice. During his
absence his ship is being specially
built and fitted in * England for the
second expedition.
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MASONS NOTICE
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Stated communication tonight.
December, 1st, at 8 P. M.
Work 2nd., degree. Visiting brothers
welcome. W. 0. Perry, Sec.
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AT THE HOTELS
Sarah Sharp is registered from Aus
tralia at the Sexton Hotel.
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Alvah Aemes returned to Seward
on the Watson last night He is stop
ping at the Sexton Hotel.
. Following the meeting in Tacoma
of directors of the P. I. league, •'rrgi
uent Ferris staled, another meeting of
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die interested baseball leaders ~
fwUiw! Empire T.ill be called at 'l.o
.konc at which time more definite plv
will he formulated
CHEAP WIVES
NEW YORK, Dec," 1— The cost of
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wives has increased in the far off Chin
Hills of Burma where they are obtain
ed on the “dollar down” plan. Men
matrimonially inclined are demanding
lower and easier terms from their pro
spective father-in- law, who are com
pensated for the loss of their daught
ers' labor, declares a report by Rev.
J. Herbert Cope, representative of the
Baptist Foreign Mission ociety at Ha
ka.
“This year a lively discussion grew*
out of the resolution that selling of
daughters cease,” the report continu
ed. “The custom has grown into an
abuses Men are demanding more and
more until a young chap who marries
. goes frightfully into debt which he is
years liquidating. And, if while pay
ing slowly for his wife, the husband
incurs the anger of her father, the
daughter is promptly called homeland
in some cases sold to another man.
We have been trying to get them to
reduce the charges.”
Efforts to reduce the natives to fol
low the customs of white men are
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being made in educational institutions
opened in these districts as a result
of the New World Movement of Nor
thern Baptists, Dr. Cope said.
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*0n this-side of the mountai!t3;"Xne
league made be made up by Spokane,
Iakima, Wenatchee, . Walla Walla,
Lewiston, Wallace, Kellogg, Couer d'
Alene, Spirit Lake, Pullman and other
prospective centers, which sought ad
mission to the proposed Inland league
ojeclod in 1920 before the Pacific
Interna* onal league was fo-med.”f
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HELENA, Mont., Dec., 1— Air
lanes over the main range of the
Rocky mountains west of Helena will
be determined by the local weather
bureau station to further air naviga
tion, it is announced by W. T. Lathrop,
section director. A nephoscope, an in
strument for observing clouds, is be
ing installed on the roof of one of the
tall business blocks here.
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“These cloud observations will tell
us where the great air disturbances
occur at the summit of the range,''
said Mr. Lathrop. “We can determine
the general currents and the areas in
which clouds Commonly travel, ar.J
with all this we can trace and define
the air lanes.”
The treacherous winds and cur
rents that sweep the top of the range
are widely known and in 'the earlier
days of flying were feared by all avia
tors.
In 1909 Cromwell Dixon, appearing i
at the state fain succeeded in flying]
over the range. Since then several air
craft have negotiated the mountains. !
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ASTORIA, Dec., 1— Delayed mes
i sage. The Washington coast gU$th
cutter Snohomish reported finding
1 scattered pieces of lumber adrift neei
James Island and a large amount ol
lumber adrift near James Island and a
large amount of lumber on the beach
of Cape Johnson indicating that the
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Barge Pirrie had gone to pieces on the
recks during the storm last Friday.
The crew of eighteen is believed to be
lost.
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SEATTLE, Dec., 1— Indians near
Cape Johnson last night found two
survnors of the barge Pirrie on the
fctaeh the'y said upon their airtal here
this: morning. The bodies of Captain
Jenson and Mate Hohmann have been
found fend* indenjtified also a third un
identified body. The men came ashore
on pieces of lumber Friday night after
the ship sunk. There is no. trace of the
missing ship and nothing is known of
the other men aboard. The men boon
been taken to Lapush and given Ike
proper care. Searching parties are now
combing the beach for other bodies
that it is believed may have been
washed ashore. Little hope is held for
the other members of the crew.
^he survivors wars knmnwmuo
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waves coming ashore.. Shipping men
believe that all doubt as to the fate
of the Pirrie has been removed al
though it is possible that some of the
other sailors who were washed over
board succeded ini reaching the shores
of Vancouver Island.
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AMERICAN FLYERS IN POLAND
WARSAW, Dec., 1— American
fliers composing the Kosciusko squad
ron of the Polish army have had many
opportunities to bomb thp train of six
cars which General Budenny, the bol
shevik cavalry leader, used as head
quarters at the front, but they al
ways refused to do so because they
knew his wife and baby lived on board
the train. On several occasions when
the Budenny special was located by
me Americans, they know pretty well
that the cavalry commander was at his
traveling home for a visit with his
wife and youngster but they always
let pass the chance to do him or his
train damage.
% It was reported some time ago
that Budenny had been wounded by a
bomb dropped by one of the American
fliers while he was engaged la one of
his spectacular raids on the southern
Polish front before the armistice was
declared.
It was also said that he had taken
up anna against the red* and that ho
might Join forces with General Wiu
gel
General Budenny is a Kuban cos*
sack and was a Sergeant Major in the
old imperial Russian army. He has
been seen many times tarn the air by
the Americana and is described ns a
short, stocky man with quite an total*
ligent .
outdoor life he has led tar years
His dress urns picturesque, eonatot*
ing most of the thne of a black can*
sack hat, khaU tuafc, black trousers
with bright * Wue stripes gad
boots. He to qn .enrslleat
and often lad hto Imps
the Poles.
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