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VOLUME MU. NUMBER 290. .. ____ ___ ’
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WASHINGTON, April 22— Reports
received by the State Department and
also the War Department indicate an
increased area in the Mexican revolu
tion. President Carranza has not \*t
asked for assistance hut it is expect
ed that a request for permission to
'import war materials will be made
within the next 2-1 hours iioiti Wash
ington. Mexican soldiers have refused
to attack the Sonora Republic de
fenders and the situation is most ser
ious* at other places in northern Mex
ico regarding the loyalty of the Mex
ican fedetal forces to Carranza as
against their own people. ,
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PORTLAND, Oregon, April 22—
Fre<l Fulton knocked out Jack Thomp
son. of Tulsa. Okla. a negro, in the 6th
round last night.
CAMDEN , N. J., April 22— Jimmy
Wilde knocked out Battling Muriay,
of Philadelphia, in the eight round
last night.
NEW YORK, April 22— Georges
Carpentier is to box four rounds with
his partner here May Day at a bene
fit in the War Veteran s Building.
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NEWSPAPER TRUST IN
ENGLAND MAY NOW
GET AN INVESTIGATION
LONDON. April 22— One member
of the House of Commons wants an
investigation of the newspaper busi
ness in England. Captain William T.
Shaw asked Premier Lloyd George in
the House the other day, whether he
would consider appointing a commit
tee to inquire into the profits and bus
iness methods of the “great news
paper trusts in Gveat Britain. He
wanted the committee especially to
ascertain whether the prices for news
pan^s and advertisements were rea
sonable.
Mr. Lloyd George replied that “the
whole subject of trusts and their ef
fects on prices is under careful con
sideration/*
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BOSTON, April 22— Thomas W.
Lawson and L. C. Van Riper today
pleaded guilty to the charge of illeg
al advertising of mining stock. Both
men were fined $1000 each which they
paid.
GRAVE OF HORSE IS
KEPT IN TIDY WAY
GRASS VALLEY, Cal., April 22—
The strange spectacle of the grave of
•\ horse being k»pt in tidy condition
and decorated once each year with
flowers and flags is witnessed near
fovest Hill, Placer county, southwest
of here.
The horse a common stage animal
cn July 3, 1902. was shot dead by a
bandit who was attempting to holdup
a stage.
Among the passengers was a China
man who following the robbery care
, fully buried the horse and placed Am
I erican flags on the grave. Once each
vear he has reappeared to renew his
ministrations.
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hun helmets in mud
CROYON, Eng., April 22— Ten
thousand German army helmets have
been crushed into the mud at a Sal
vage depot here to make a pathway
for captured German guns and other
heavy traffic. It would have cost more
to sell them as souvenirs than would
be derived from the sale.
FISH QUOTATIONS
SEATTLE, April 22— At noon to
day halibut was quoted at fifteen and
one half cents, small halibut at ten
cents; sable at five cents, and red and
ling cod at two cents.
DIAMONDS NOW
$900 A CARAT
Men contemplating marriage last
fall gasped when the price of dia
monds went to $000 a carat.
The second semi-annual gasp is
due, for diamonds are now $000 a
carat.
From the standpoint of those who
already own diamonds the news of
the increased prices is good news.
Diamonds never get to be second
hand. Thousands are affected by the
33 1-3 advance. The one carat engage
ment ring purchased ten years ago
for $150 is now worth exactly $000.
It’s getting tougher and tougher
to fall in love, the bachelors say. A
solitaire is as essential to an en
gagement as the girl’s consent, it is
maintained, and with diamonds at
$000 a carat, the bachelor is worrying.
But the married man isn’t worry
ing much, with diamonds going up.
One look at his wife’s ring finger,
where the $150 diamond of ten years
ago sparkles its now $000 rays, makes
the married man feel in the same class
with Rockefeller.
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ORGANIZED BUTCHERS
OF TORONTO WANT TO
BE SERVED WITH TEA
TORONTO Ont., April 22— The
organized butchers of this city have
submitted to their employers a de
mand that tea be sei-ved to them at 9
a. m. daily and that they be allowed
10 minutes of company time in which
to drink it. They also ask for 10 min
utes in the morning to don their but
cher clothes and 10 more at night to
dress for the street. These demands
are made part of a proposed renewal
of the working agreement drawn up
by the Amalgamated Meat Cutters
and Butchers Woikmen. Other re
quests are for a 44-hour week and a
wage increase averaging 50 per cent.
Backing plant managers declare these
terms cannot be granted.
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THOUGHT ATTACK OF THE
FLU WAS A GAS ATTACK
TOKIO April 22— When the in
fluenza epidemic penetrated the jung
les in the island of Formosa and be
gan tn prostrate the fierce head- hunt
ers, they called a meeting of the tribe
and diagnosed the difficulty as a gas
attack by Japanese, who control the
island. In revenge the head-hunters
made a sudden descent on the nearest
police station and a considerable force
of Japanese troops had to be despat
ched to disperse them. •
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WASHINGTON, April 22— Harry
Saint, formerly chief of the foreign
trade Bureau of the Seattle Chamber
of Commerce has been designated by
Admiral Benson to represent the Ship
ping Board on the committee to for
| mutate plans for better transporta
tion to Alaska and to promote traffic*
for the government raillroad.
Postmaster Burleson has appointed
Otto Praeger on the committee.
Saint and Praeger meet this after
noon with Col. Alfred H. Brooks, of J
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the Geological Survey in Alaska, and ;
! the three will begin their work of
planning development of Alaska and
seeuimg traffic for the government
railroad in Alaska.
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SEATTLE, April 22— Wilber S.
Wewlin, for many years storekeeper
of the Copper River & Northwestern
Railway in Alaska, died today at the
age of 65 years.
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THREE TRAINS
A WEEK TO BE
_NEW SCHEDULE
According to unofficial advices,
three trains are to be operated weekly
between Seward and Anchorage. The
new schedule will probably go into ef
fect next week. Trains will leave Sew
ard on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sat
urdays, according to the present re
ports and will leave Anchorage on
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
The new schedule will permit of a day
lay over at Anchorage so that repairs
can be made on locomotives and other
robing stock when necessary.
W K A T II K if it W r O It r
The following is the weather r«*po*t
for the 24 hours ending nt 7 nV'o-'lc
this morning:—
SEWARD 42, Cloudy, Calm.
Anchorage 30, Clear, North.
Matanuska 38, Clear, Calm.
Wasilla 32, Clear, South.
Talkectna 26. Clear, Calm.
Deadhorse 20, Clear, Calm.
Indian River 18, Clear, Calm.
Hurricane 9, Clear, Calm.
Summit 6 Clear, Calm.
Baines 8, Clear, Calm.
Healy 24, Clear, Calm.
Nenana 25. C’ear, Calm.
Fairbanks 27, Clear, Calm.
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CHICAGO, April 22— Corn closed
today demoralized with eight and one ,
half cents down. Oats fell five cents, i
There arc grave misgivings regal ding :
| the financial situation which is as
cribed to the financial troubles of
Japan.
NEW YORK, April 22— Specula- ;
tivo storks slumped from five to 45
points on the varJovs ex hnnges today.
Liberty bonds went down from one to
three per rent to new low records.
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TOKIO April 22— The silk and
cotton exchanges are closed on ac
count of the slump in prices, specu
'atovs being reported to have lost over
two billion yen.
>:EW YQRK, April 22— Just be
fore closing time this afternoon, the
stocks which have been weak for the
mist two days, reacted from one to
five points, as a spasm of a rally. Li
!> ‘y Bonds dropped further make
newer low records for the second*
thim and fourth quarters.
C lirAC.0, April 22— Corn fell *n
additional six cents just before the
stock exchange closed this afternoon.
AM stocks show a peculiar weakness
and hundr eds of speculators have been
wiped off the boards.
GRIGSBY
HELPING
ALASKA
WASHINGTON, April 22— A
special To the Seattle Post-Intelli
gencer says Delegate Gngsby has in
troduced a bin ceding pan of the bar
racks reservation at Sitka, adjoining
the Pioneer's Home, for a sanitarium
site. The Navy and Interior Depart
ments are favorably to the proposi
tion. No opposition is expected.
Another measure of Delegate Grigs
by permits the existing appropriation
of $100,000 for the Cordova Post of
fice jail and courthouse to be spent
for the jail and courthouse only,
leaving the Post office for later con
sideration. The House committee has
reported favorably.
PIG ANI) CALF CLUBS
WENATCHE, Wn., April 22— Pig
and Calf clubs are being fo mod
among school children of north cent
ral Washington by stockmen of this
section. An attempt will be made soon
to form a club here.
BUTTE, Mont., April 22— A de
tachment of the Twenty First Infan
cy, icquosted by the Governor of
Montana, left Spokane this morning
for here.
Tnere has been no picketing at the
various mines today.
Hugh B. Haran, nineteen, was shot
and killed in the office of the Daily
Bulletin last night by Joe Pabst, a
striker. Pabst was arrested and will
be charged with murder. Pabst claims
the shooting was the result of an ac
cident.
Police and deputy marshals are to
day patrolling all avenues leading to
the mines. All but two of the fifteen
men wounded last night in clashes be
tween strikers and the police, will
recover. Ten of those in the trouble
who were wounded, are aliens.
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OMAHA, April 22— One thousand
and fifty precincts give Hiram John
son a lead of 11,000 in the presidential
primaries. Neville and Emberger,
II:t hcock dalegates to the convention,
are first and second men. Stephens
’* ho is a B yan man, is third. Bryan
h’msnlf fourth. Th° first three are
bunched. Bryan is 4000 votes behind*