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WILL SHIP
REINDEER
OUTSIDE
SE ATTLE. April : 0— A special
dispatch to the Tim» s this afternoon
f.om Washington, b**ys -aH re nth-; r
are to be driven from the Kuskokwim
Valley to Broad Pas* this summer for
shipment outside. W. T. Lopp will
have charge of this transfer.
The biological survey will co-oper
ate with the Department of the Inter
ior this summer in a scientific investi
gation of reindeer, crossing th« m with
wild caribou. Probal !y r sndocr and
wild caribou will b • placed together
in one herd on one of the Aleutian
islands.
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HUNDREDS
KILLED IN
THE REVOLT
SAN SALVADOR. April 20 - Eight
hundred men, women and children
were killed in the recent fighting in
Guatemala City during the revolt
* which resulted in the overthrow of
President Manuel Estrada Cabera.
This is according to advices received
here today.
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STRIKE IN FR \Nt E
PARIS, April 20— The C. neral
Federation of Labor of I- unco has de
cided to support the Railway Men s
Federation by ordering a general
strike tor 24 hours beginning at mid
night on May 1st.
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MEAT INDUSTRY C AN GO
ON IN SAME OLD WAY
WASHINGTON. April 20— The
House agriculture committee has re
jected the proposal to license packers
and create a commission to enforce
laws affecting the meat industry.
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HAIR CUTS GO I P
CHICAGO. April 20— The master
barbers of eleven unions here have de
cided on seventy five cent hair cuts.
SUBSCRIBE FOR THE GATEWAY
SKATTLK. April «0- A special
from Wash ngton to tin* Seattle Post
Inteliigencer -ays that one feature of
who Jones merchant maiine bill vitally
effects Alaska .shipping. The clause
provides that no merchandise can be
shipped b\ land or water between
po nts 'i tee United or territori *s
cither directly or via foreign ports in
\v:.- is which are not built ami docu
mented in the United States, and own
ed l>y citiv.‘ms. This piovision restores
conditions existing prior to the decis- 1
ion of the Attorney (icnoral in
in the application or the White Pass
*.<• Yukon Route to move freight to
Alaskan oints through ( anadhin tei i
tory. Another provision in the Jones
n* chant marine hill directs the Sh’p
ping Board to ascertain the need of
shi»"£ between Seward, the temvir.r’ of
the Alaska Railroad, and Pacific coast
j orts. Th<* indications an* that no gov
ernment line will established on tie
S“\d-Pacific coast ports route. It is
said, acceding to the dispatch, that
Secretary Pavno’s inter-departmental
committee on Alaska has reported this
steamship route as impracticable at
present.
M Ml RATES REVISION IS
DENIED li\ COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, April :U>— The
Interstate Commerce Commission Ins
denied the petition of Postmaster C.< n
eral Burleson and the short line rail
roads for hearings and revised the
findings on f«. r rates for carrying
mail.
COL. M’GRAW DP M>
WASHINGTON, April 20— C l.
John T. McGraw, aged dt years. Dem
ocratic National Committeeman of
We t Virginia, and for the past 2.»
years a national figure politically,
died on a train this afternoon near
Baltimore.
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Bin \N SAYS PRIMARIES
IS WARNING ON TREATY
PITTSBURGH. April .SO— William
Jennings Bryan, in a statement here
tod: y, declared that the recent pri
maries were a warning to the Demo
crat :o Senators that they should im
mediately ratify the treaty with re
servations. Bryan said that Johnson’s
vote and Hitchcock’s defeat was a
protest against the treaty in the ori
ginal form.
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DAWSON, April 30— The Yukon
legislature adjourned Wednesday
night. The legislature passed bills pro
hibiting the sale of liquor for bever
age, requiring licenses for non- resi
dent big game hunters ahd fur trad
ers and forbidding the export of
moose and caribou hides.
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Work of rciuu*’iug tuMjs on l uina* '
g-;i /vi m iuva» -.i .fi'ic.> <1 ami ili has
i>oc.4 stopped. i nose in caaiRo no not
to iukc u.i> iu»uier i isK <>i in oil
noiim caught t>y sades that are liaoie
t*> .van1 ui any time owing to tne »x
i.i ine change in the weather. Uoih 10
tunes will not be put to work untn
next Monday. A lcport irom Mile <b
ilns ioienoon was to llie cited that
sevo.*u smau slides had occurred dur
ing the nig tit but no men were at work
at the time and there were no fatali
ties.
Ol' the three victims who lost tle ir
lives in the slide at Mde 1<> on Wednes
a.*. the bo.lies o.' John Kudeen, was
recovered a . hort time after the acci
dent, the body ol I’e-c* Kgelyain, an
Armenian, was recovered yesterday
.orenotn but tiie bod;» of U. Komero,
has nut yet been recovered, Rorneio
came north on the iast trip of the Ad
miral l.vans. I To has a brulnm* also
a itli tiie commission at Anchorage.1
tV»h* ns Romero’s body will not bo re
cover--d a.> the sand in the Arm gen
erally fills a person’s clothes ^:u!
quickly takes :t u the bottom.
Several Heroes develope d at th<•
Lime oi tile 8»ik*c Sit .Uile .d, 1 lie elov
en me a in the gang were ail pushed by
me slide m.o me Arm. Light were
nnaiij* rescued a.id sent to the hospi
vai ;u Au di dag*’, One man was carri
» w fai out .nto tiie arm a.id managed j
to oiun .. Heating puce ot' ice. He
was bemg carried do.m the ana by
lae tuie ami began yelling for assis- ,
.mice. Albert Uaumberger, fireman on
me of the rotaries declared that he
would save the man or lose his life J
ni l!.e attempt. Baumboi ger’s compan
ions put a rope arcund his waist and
to.d him to go. Baumboi ger swam out
into the cold water and had nearly
reached the man on the cake of ice
when the rope became tight and he
v.. s told from shore that ail sis.ai; had ,
been taken up.
“Cut the repo’’ yelled bark Bnum
be’ger.
The rope was cut. Buuinbcrgcr
reached the cake of ice, giabb-d the1
slide victim and safely swam a. In re t
with him, although nearly exhausted
when he did reach the shore.
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TALCUM POWDER
fOr) ALASKANS
< EATLE, April 3D— The *ovom
a-.eent b'ds for supplies for ICS
wan*«s on the Pribiloff islands, off the
coast of Aia'dca. The items include one
1 con , talcum powder, farm im
plements, mot'on picture films, 400
books, arms, ammunition,corn poppers
... ’ cal supplies, even reserved fiff?.
D diwiy is to be made between June
and September this year.
MINERS WANT AN INCREASE
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NEW YORK, April 30— The An
thracite coa.l miners have declined the
counter proposal of the operators for
a fifteen per cent increase and have
also refr.s d to arbitrate.
PROMT ON CLOTHES IS
SMALL SAYS WOOLEN MAN
BOSTON, April 30— William M.
Wood, President of the American
Woolen Company, in a statement ex
plaining the companies profits of $15,
500 000 last year said the profit on the
average $60 to $65 suit of clothes did
not exceed $1.50,
LOS ANGIOLKS, Apiil 30— James
; K. limit, who is availed with having
nad thirty wives, lias confessed to the
nun dec of four, as ioLo\\S:—
Bertha Goodrich, whom he drown
! ed in Lake Washington, Seattle.
Alice Ludvigson, drowned in the
' Idaho Kiver.
Lee Deloncy, killed with a hammer
1 at Long Beach.
Betty Prior, killed with a hammer
1 near Olympia.
Hunt said that he might have
i murdered more. He admitted having
mairivd fifteen or twenty women. He
i has been too weak to give many de
tails of his escapades and marriages
I with subsequent murders.
BIG TOURIST SEASON
PROMISED FOR ALASKA
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SEATTI.E, April .10— Early book
ings by excursion parties indicate a
record breaking tourist season to
Alaska. The reservations come from
widely divergent points.
MANNING HAS RESIGNED
WASHINGTON, April 30— Van
H. Manning, director of Bureau of
Mines, has resigned effective July
30th. Mr. Manning becomes director
of research of the American petrol
eum institute.
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WASHINGTON, April 30— Offic
ial advices here are that the Mexican
rebels have occupied Alvaido, on the
gu.f coast, couth of Vera Cruz and
Federal troops are hurrying to rein
force the Federal garrison.
There has been a revolt at Salina
C. uz, Pacific Coast, and the Post of
fice. express office, customs office and
general stores have necn robbed. The
rcvoltcrs disarmed the police and oth
er officials and cut the wires, took
horses and escaped io the outskirts
of the city where they held that sec
tion against all attacks.
.Mexico Uity newspapers coiuirm
reports of various revolts ami an
nounce that Generals Kcbelo and .Uay
cottc have joined the revolt.
The papers also claim that General
Rafael Garza and Guafardo, near
.Mexico City, joined the rebels. Four
thousand federal troops at Parral and
Jiminez, have revolted.
The Mexican consul at El Paso
confirms a revolt at Chihumua City,
with fighting, but no details.
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WOOD IN LEAD IN N. J.
NEWARK, N. J. April 30— Wood
leads Johnson by 612 votes with 84
precincts missing. It is indicated that
vVood will have 11 and Johnson ten
district delegates with three unpledg
ed.
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HARDING HAS THE OHIO
DELEGATION IN HIS ARMS
COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 30— In
dications are that Harding has 39 and
possibly 42 and Wood the remainder
of Ohio’s forty eight delegates, llarry
M. Daugherty, Harding’s campaign
manager has apparently been defeat
ed for delegate at large.
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KILLED IN TRAIN WRECK
LAMBERTON, Minn., April 30—
Ed. Clark, conductor, L. S. Fuller, en
gineer and K. C. Larson, fireman, all
of Winona, A. Foltz Tracy, wealthy
Minncsotian, and E. W. Augustine,
pioneer of Ohio, were killed and twel
ve injured in a collision of two pass
enger trains this afternoon on the
Chicago-Northwestern.
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.SEATTLE, April ao— A Post- In
vei».g« iiccr special from Washington
mv., ih<> Lou.'C Appropriations com
nuaee has lepoited on the Sundry
civil bin containing a reduction on all
l Pacific Coast and Alaska items.
The Aiaskan Engineering commis
sion appiopnation has been reduced
from $\0uu,0dU to $7,000,000 which
includes a coal cleaning plant for the
Mau.nuska jeoai fields costing $250,
ddO.
There is no appropriation for the
Cape Spencer lighthouse or other
specified aids to navigation but such
may be established in the discretion
of tlie lighthouse committee, the cost
wo be paid out of the lump appropria
tion.
There is no appropriation for the
coast service of Alaska.
Medical relief for Alaska, fur seal
sland and fisheries seivice appropria
tions have been greatly reduced. Only
si5,000 has been appropriated Tor sup
pression of liquor and $115,000 for the
caie of insane.
ROASTED
TO DEATH
BOMBAY, April 30— One hundred
and fifty natives were killed outright
or roasted to death in a railroad wreck
today near Delhi.
HOLD-UP
SAN DIEGO, April 30— Aa uni
dentified negro held-up and robbed the
mail truck this afternoon one block
from the Post office and escaped with
over $30,000.
MASSACRE
WASHINGTON, April 30— The
Japanese foreign office reports Jap
anese guards in the district of Nikol
aevsk, eastern Siberia, annihilated
several hundred japanese residents in
cluding the consul. The guards staged
a regular massacre.
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x\0 STRIKE TOMORROW
SPOKANE. April 30— The build
ing Trades Council decided today
against a general strike tomorrow.
Ma> 1st, as a protest against the open
shop.