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BIG SLIDE
AT JUNEAU
1 KILLED
(SPFATAL FROM KMPIRK)
.. JUXRAU, Jan, One man was
killed, two are missing ant? eignt ..
injured as a result of a slide late v*
terday from the slope of Mount Rob
erts. The slide was caused bv Tien •
rains and melting snow.
The dead man is Andrew Wallin
The missing men are Laurie Mak»
and Henry Jearger
The injured are Peter Koskv, Kei •
Kaiander, Vieno Kallio, John Neitr.s.
John l4irson. Henry Hainomen ami
Mrs. Peter Koskv.
It is fearetl Peter Koskv and ?\nv’
Kaiander will tlie as the results o(
their injuries.
Six houses including Isadore floM
stein’s apartment house and the Kos
ky bonding house were cfestroycd by
the slide.
Three other houses, the treneni
store of Isadore Goldstein, the ir!o
store of James Russel^and a Japanese
toy store, all on lower Front street,
were damared considerably.
Goldstein, is the heaviest loser »r.l
his loss is about $10,000. The tot*'?
damage to property may reach $ '0 -
000.
One of the missinpr men buried un
der the slide was heard moanimr r*v
several hours and then these monrs
stopped.
Crews of miners from the Gast n
eau mine, under direction of Gen*'”"1
Manager George T. Jackson. and
crews from the Alaska- Juneau min*
under Superintendent George Getc>»* V,
have been working constantly si»*e.'
the slide, clearing away the debris and
recovering the victims.
Most of the victims were emplovn s
of the Alaska-Juneau mine.
Henry Jearpfer, one of the men
still missinpr, was a pioneer fr *m
Nome, and owned mining property
Southeastern Alaska.
John Xeims is well known *n ??ew
ard, havimr left here several moot's
ago to work in the mines at Juneau.
MEN WORKED ALL NMJHT
JUNEAU, Jan., :i - Crews fwm
the Alaska Juneau and Alaska C.a ti
neau mines, members of the Juneau
Fire Depaitment and many volunteers
continue work today lenioving the le
bris of the slide .
The men are searching for the tv <•
missing men believed to have b'*'n
buried under the snow and debris.
A trunk, suitcase and other proper
ty of Jearger has been located but his
body has not yet been found.
Women furnished hot coffee n"d
food to the working crews last night
and the Red Cross is furnisplng *>e
coffee and food today.
Work will continue until the twe
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BANKER
RESIGNS
SKAT'i LK, Jan.. 3— Ralph S. Sta< y,
of Tacoma, on January 13th, succeeds
J. E. Chilberg as President of the
Scandinavian American Hank. Mr.
Chilberg resigns to devote all of his
time to his new shipping business.
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DENEKINE’S GOVERNMENT
IN S. \Y. Ht’SSIA OVERTHROWN
LONDON. Jan., 3—General Do . -
kine’s southwestern Russian govern
ment is overthrown. General Roman
ovsky has been chosen to succeed the
anti- Hoisheviki chief. Romano vsk> ;s
a former commander of the far east
ern Siberian anti- Bolshcviki force”.
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KING BREAKS ANKLE
ATHENS, Jan., 3— Kinc Aloxiiml
or, practicing jumping, Broke ms an
kle today and will be in bed for about
one month.
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FORM \L CALL SOON FOR
THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS
PARIS, Jan., 3— Premier Clemen
ceau will issue a formal call short'v
for the first meeting of the Leagu*' of
Nations.
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FIRE AT SEATTLE
SEATTLE, Jan, 3— Fire at iu/«»
today destroyed three buildings of the
Todd Dry Dock plant on Harbor Isl
and. The loss is only $12,000. Fin
boats responded to the call but thr
shipyard’s fire department put lee
fire out.
URGES BIG FAMILIES
PARIS, Jan., 3— Clemenceau, to» i
ing the Province of Yar, is urging
! families of 10 to 12 children in order
to repeople France.
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CLAY IS EVERETT’S MAYOR
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EVERETT, Jan, 3— Commissi >nev
of Public finance \V. H. Clay ha< ben.
elected mayor of this city.
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JEFFERIES UNCLE DEAD
LOS ANGELES, Jan., 3— Ed Jcf
fries, uncle of Jim Jefferies, died to*
day in the receiving hospital f*om
drinking wood alcohol.
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FENG KIT A CHONG DEAD
PEKIN, Jan., 3— Feng Kua Chong
former president of China is dead.
Just before he died, the former rule*’
wired a warning to the governors t*
cease the north and south civil war.
missing bodies have been found.
Wallin lived four hours after be
ing taken from the wreckage.
Two other victims, it is believed.
i will die today.
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FUR PRICES
NOT DROP
NEW YORK, Jan., 3— Norman
Paeon, President of the New York I’ur
Auction Sales Corporation, says th tc
will be no reduction in fur prices Y,r
a Ions: time. Mr. Bacon said the cat li
es were short, everywhere includ
Canada, the middle west and even *n
Alaska.
| \v ENTY THOUSAND BODIES
OF AMERICAN SOLDIERS
TO BE BROUGHT TO THE U. S.
PARIS, Jan., 3— Franco has greet
ed permission to remove over 20/100
American soldier’s bodies to Amei ica
The 20,000 are buried in ccmetere*
outside the war zone and not in Mm
big army cemeteries.
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CLEMENCEAU TO WEI)
PARIS. Jan., 3-— Newspapers here
mention Clemonceau’s approaching
marriage to the widow of former am
bassador, probably Countess D’Aunay.
widow of the former ambassador to
Switzerland. The countess is of an Am
erican family.
VICTORIA WINS AT HOCKEY
VICTORIA, B. C, Jan., 3— In the
hockey tournament last night Victo' ia
won from the Vancouver players by
a score of 7 to 4 .
PAPERS INCREASE R ATES
NEW YORK, Jan., 3— Eight Nov
York city dailies and many newspap
ers throughout the Atlantic seaboa'M.
today increased their street prices
from two to three cents on account o
the cost of labor and material. M-*.nv
newspapers have reduced their park's
by ten to sixteen and raised the’!'
prices to five cents on the streets.
EVERETT SUSPENDED
NORTH YAKIMA , Wash., Jan., 3
— The State High School Association
today suspended the Everett High
School for playing the High Sch I'
from Toledo, Ohio. The state associa
tion says tfie rules show the footba'.l
season closes the week after Thank t
giving.
HONOLULU, T. H., Jan., 3— Fred
erick Funston Post, Veteran of Fore
ign Wars, at its last meeting, appoint
ed a standing committee headed by
Commander F. Q. Smith, to enlist the
aid of the Honolulu Chamber of Com
merce in driving out disloyal residents.
Several members reported having
heard disloyal statements made by
German-Americans within the pas:
few months, and, it was announced,
that the authors of these, as well as
war-time pro- Germans, will be inves
tigated.
Officers of the post intimated that
if no results could be obtained locally
the matter would be taken to Wash
ington.
RAY FOR DELEGATE
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* very likely the Seward Republican
* Club, at the meeting tonight, will
* endorse Senator L. V. Ray lor
* Delegate to Congress.
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ROTARY BECKS SLIDES
Tiie train from Anchorage arrived
at midnight and left around about t *.o
noon hour today for Mile 114. The de
lay of the t’-ain in last night was caus
ed by snow slides, one at Mile 4^0110
at Mile 43 and at Mile 22. The did s
averaged 120 feet wide and from n
to If feet deep but the rotary bucked
them aM successfully. The slide ,.t
Mile 22 took out the old water sp<v»t
and just missed the new water tank.
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STEAMER NEWS
Steamer Admiral Watson ar*iv l
at Cordova shortly after the noon hour
today. The Watson could arrive *n
Seward tomorrow afternoon on l e
way westward.
Steamer Northwestern sailed rrom
Juneau at 8:20 o’clock this morning
and is due in Cordova late this ev. fl
ing. The Northwestern could arrive r
Seward late Monday night.
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W K V T H E R It E R O It ’v
The following i.s fhc* wenlhei* repo*!
l*o»* the heuf-? ending at 7 oVn dr
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SEWARD 34, Cloudy. Calm.
Anchorage 30. Cloudy, Strong
S. W.
Matanuska 40, Cloudy, East.
Chickaloon 25, Cloudy, Calm.
Wasilla 40, Cloudy, East.
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TREATY AGREEMENT SOON
WASHINGTON, Jan., 3— It is
generally believed an agreement v::!
be reached soon on the treaty. Sen -
tor Dodge conferred with Swans ”'
and it is also reported McNary to'
Lodge the Republicans must make an
aggressive fight for a com prom
Mild reservationists will favor Sena
tor Underwood's proposals for a bi
partisan conciliation committee to )k
appointed.
WILL ELECTRIFY THE
MOUNTAIN DIVISION OF
THE MILWAUKEE RAILROAD
ST. PAUL, Jan., 3— The official
announcement was made today that
the Chicago- Milwaukee & St Paul is
to completely electrify the mountain.
divsions from Montana to the coast
within the next three months.
NEWSPRINT PRICES SOARING
WASHINGTON, Jan., 3— The Fed
eral T’-adc Commission has reported
that the prices and consumption of
newsprint, the pr.^er newspapers are
printed with, broke all records in
America during the past three months.
Consumption of paper increased four
teen per cent in 1919 over 1918. The
December price at the mills was $3.90
a hundred as against $1.88 in 1916.
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ABERDEEN, Wash., Jan., 3— At
torney Van Derveer is to request a
change of venue from Central in to J a
coma, for all of the Wobbbes tria
for the armistice massacre. Th
change is understood to be for the roa
son there is a lack of accommodatio i
for 225 on the jury venire, 200 staf
witnesses and 100 witnesses for t
defense. Secrctai ics of tne America
Legion engaged all of the availab*
hotel rooms so the defense witness
are now unable to sccuie any accom
modation8.
j WOBBLIE8 RELEASED
TACOMA, Jan, 2— Twenty one a’
loged wobblies were unconditional
released from jail this afternoon. FT
ty re/nain to be tried for criminal sy
dicalism by the state. It in said tne e- •
,rtnee would not convict the 21 woL
blics.
WOBBLIES ARE ENJOINED
SPOKANE, Jan., .n>— The Supe i
Court has granted a permanent in
junction forbidding sixty seven alVg
ed wobblics from further activities ir
connectioVi with the I. W. W.
SEATTLE REDS WANTED
SEATTLE, Jan, 3— Arrests o'
many Reds is contemplated by the
Federal authorities here.
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5480 ARRESTED
CHICAGO, Jan., 3— Five thous
and four hundred and eighty th v/
Reds have been arrested in raids in 51
cities.
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MANY SHIPS BUILT IN 1910
WASHINGTON, ,Tan.; 3— Eleven
hundred and fifty nine vessels nrre
built during 1919 for the United Stat
es Shipping Board, This number in
cluded forty one steel vessels.
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WASHINGTON, Jan., 3— The De
partment of Justice agents havj
launched raids in thirty three cities
:i;m nst the communists and labor
:,-i*oup of radicals with who object that
after arrests have been made the cas
•s '• ill hi submiited to th • Department
of i.abor for Deportation.
A large number of the most danger
ous anarchists and agitators are to bo
ounded up anu a general charge of
attempting to overthrow the United
tales government, by force, will be
need against them after all are ar
rested.
More than 4000 warrants nave be *n
sued acvoi ding -to an official stat »
lent.
Portland, San Francisco and Spo
ane are included in the list of cities
hieh are to be covered in the rai's
i aU sections of the United States.
The clean-up was planned ten da. s
to by the Department of Justice nf
t evidence was revealed showing
here was an attempt being mado to
rganize a negro soviet. Trouble may
?.'i be expected from this source, hc
ording to unofficial statements.
CHICAGO, Jan., 3— The police are
arching for William D. Haywood n
ic general round-up of radicals.
Thomas Whitehead, scci/tary an 1
‘'usurer of the Industrial Workers -f
v World,^has been arrested and . ;
'ing held without bail.
WASHINGTON, Jan., 3— Scores
i explosions in plants where explos*
ves, powder and arms are being mar.
factured, in various sections of the
ountry is today attributed to co/n
uinist and labor radicals.
CHICAGO, Jan., 3— Officials of
he Department of Justice state th X
bring1 the drive last night over 1000
•?ds were arrested in different parts
>f the country, Eight Hundred were
ounded up in New York City, 500
Tteds were taken here, 400 in Jersey
City, 20 in Oakland,' 20 in Portland,
Oregon but nyo in Seattle.
WASHINGTON, Jan., 3— By noon
oday over 4500 Reds had been arresc
*d in various parts of the United Sts'
es. Over half of them are sure to b"
deported. Tons of literature seized
shows connection with the Bolshevik?.
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