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WASHINGTON, Jan., 22— Major
General Graves, commanding the b**
her i an expedition, reported this after
noon to the War Department that a
detachment of American soldiers md
clashed with General Semeno't's
troops near Polsolaakya. The Amer'c
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:.u^ captured one general, six oth-*i
officers and fortv eight Russians. On*
American soldier was killed and o:u
died from wounds. One American wa<
perhaps severely wounded. Five Rus
sians were killed. Graves says tho ax
tack on the Americans was unprovc.k
cd.
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DEAL MADE IN THE
SLATE CHEEK DISTRICT
nw.eoo is transaction
(Alaska Dispatch)
For practically a cash consider
ation of $100,000, Mm. Miller, widow
of Jack Miller, has d :s posed of her
entire interests in the Slate ere* <
mining district to a Mr. Mercondantc,
a capitalist of New York City. The
deal, which was formally closed one
day this week, was promoted by J.
M. Elmer, a well-known mining en
gineer. The law firm of Revelle K
Kevelle represented Mr. Merc andante
in the transaction. The mining pro
perty taken over includes the Miuer
claims, into which Miller gulch empt
ies, and comprises a large 3era of
virgin ground of known value. Mrs.
Miller received a cash payment of
$5,000 and the remaining $95,000
will be paid to her as soon as an ab
stract of title of the claims coir.es
into the possession of the purchaser.
There is no question about the title,
as Mr. Miller was the original loca
tor of the claims involved in the deal.
The Slate creek district, locale !
in the upper Copper river valley was
discovered late in the fall of the year
1893. Jack Miller and Charlie Cram
er were among the discoverers and
staked Miller gulch, named for Jack
Miller. The gulch has probably pro
duced more gold than any creek in the
district and is far from being worked
out.
Mr. Fdmer, who interested the New
York capitalist in the deal. h*s b«on
operating in the Slate Cre*k dUtr'ct
for some vrars past. He also eniovs
the distortion of installing the fir^t
dred™ in the KOndiVe and later o’*
erat*d in the Circle City district, in
interior Alaska.
Mr. Cramer ha« been in chaw 0r
the mining operations on the Mi'lec
gulch claims since the death of Mr
Miller, which occurred several yevs
ago. Mrs MWe* rerides in Seatt,A.
It is understood that the new own*r
plans extensive mining operations in
the Slate creek district next season.
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COYOTE SKINS ARE HIGH
DTLTiON. Mont. dan.. 22— Th'
hijrh price of covote skins is stimutat
inf? hunting and traopin* in this
tion. Muskrats, mink, marten a"d fox
also have been plentiful and all hrinj?
in hi* money.
The unusual snows have hampered
the trappers . however, and thev a'-e
comm* in *arly to dispose of their
furs and skins.
Automobile s<*rv''Co between Fair
banks and the creeks has been aus
ponded because of insufficient travel,
bad trails and railway competition.
WASHINGTON, Jan., 22— Chau
man Kenyon, of the Senate Labor com
mittee, has introduced a resolution
proposing elaborate machinery for the
settlement of disputes between capital
and labor.
Chairman Kenyon would request
Wilson to call a national industrial
congress composed of 300 voting dele
gates representing capital and labor
to recommend a plan for a permanent
industrial court or courts, also to for
mulate a program of principals. Presi
dent Wilson could establish a national
labor board to junction until the labor
congress opens.
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FOOTPRINTS OF CHILDREN
ARE NOW TO BE TAKEN
AS MOTHER’S PROTECTION
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NEW YORK, Jan., 22— A system
of taking: footprints of children hit
been adopted in the New York Nurs
ery and Child’s Hospital to prevent in
fants born there from going: to the
wrong: mothers. Its’ adoption was duo
to the fact that soldier’s wife who re
cently gave birth to a baby in that
hospital at first denied that the chi* 1
was hers. The young mother, who hrd
b«^n rend;ng stories of accidental s"b
stit»*t:on of children at hospitals and
similar pi>hHc institutions, declined to
nurse the baby.
“We brought all the proofs we could
muster.’* exuiam^d th* s«pe»dntende«t.
mp^er nArs*sted in her hall
UC;PRt’on. $hA h«cj»r*e bvstprica! with
nnd fr»*»ht. FmaHv, I brought
her our records whwh showed that on
1„ n erdo**^ h*»hv pud h»r owu
h«en Hat*" »u th« hocnJt.»»l th«t dflir.
That COP’dAA-'d h^r hMt, hict thin1* 0'
vhf*f ioamM V*a*»a V<*a«a«a/I to th«t
r**srw ntVa«« h^lvAC had
he^n hn~u hn»*A au dpv.’*
fn o**dAr to P*A»*d a similar pxnef
Unr.A fV*A j*»i»NArlrt.»ndept ou^u^ed a
nrint. exnArt to instruct the
VA«<t nn»CA tr*ndr<r the on th'
“Wa fAond n*e ronldn't, ret
pAAd of their h*mds ’’ said tnc
0ff;AJnl “TVoir fAAt. however, came
out h*aut»fullv and for greater securi
ty the mother is finder-printed also.”
Verv young babies, it was said,
may look just alike but their feet a»r
quite diss'milar. One child, the super
intendent declared, will have a per
fectly formed minature pedal extrenv
ity, another’s will print mostly vagti*?
criss cross lines and still another wilt
look like “an egg and five toothpicks.”
Under the present system, winch
has been in ooo>*ation nearly six
months, the child’s foot ?s inked nnd
stamped on the hospital chart of the
mother Although he mav not resemble
anv o^e »n th* family a"d though no
one can tell where he got his nose or
his eves or his mouth ov the color of
\i\* Jmir, a comparison of th$ footprint
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t SPOKANE, Jan., 22— Marie Me*
■ Donald, Fay McDonald and Ted Me*
Donald were acquitted this forenoon of
the murder of W. H. McNutt. 'In
McDonalds admitted killing McNucl
but in self-defense following a quar^C
over u lodging house here and a fa*m,
the McDonalds owned with McNv.tl.
Tne McDonalds buried the body and
fled to California, where they were ar- i
rested and brought back here for trial.
9POKANE, Jan. 22— This after
noon the McDonalds were again ar
rested, Marie and Fay McDonald be
ing charged with forging a check
found or. McNutt Ted McDonald is
! charged with grand larcency, that he
stole McNutt’s automobile.
SIMS IS
ROASTED
WASHINGTON, Jan., 22— Senator
Walsh, Democrat of Montana, has in
troduced a Senate resolution condem
ning Admiral Sim’s action in making
public official instructions of the most
confidential character affecting inter
national relations. Senator Walsh said
Admiral Sims should be condemned by
all Americans.
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CONCRETE STADIUM IS TO
BE BUILT AT THE Uf. OF. W.
SEATTLE, Wash., Jan., 22— Seat
tle’s proposed concrete stadium, to bi
built on the University of Washington
campus, is to be horseshoe in shape
and is to be built in units, each unit
costing about $100,000.
Members of the faculty of the civil
engineering department of the univer
sity spent their Christmas vacation
surveying the stadium site.
The Seattle chamber of commerce is
working with the University of Wash
ington in obtaining funds for the
structure. The stadium will be used
not only for university sports but a1 so
for productions not connected with the
institution.
A running track is to be built un
der the concreto grandstands so that
students may practice in wintry
w’eather.
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OPEN BIDS ON JANUARY
29th FOR NEW BUILDING
OLYMPIA, Wash., Jan.. 22— Bids
for the construction of an administra
tion office building, the second of a
state capitol group, will be opcred
here January 29. The building is to
cost approx;mately $588,000. Accord
ing to present plans the building will
be completed by December 1, 1920.
t^ken at b*rth it was said will te'1
whns* ch»*M h* is from amon" the h»m
drods of infants in this New York in
stitution.
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WASHINGTON, Jan., 22— Secre
tary of War Baker approves the Sen
ate's army re-organization bill provid
ing for compulsory military training
and the formation of one big army *.0
be divided into a citizens reserve and
the regular army, together with the
National guards. The bill provides for
a regular aitny of 280,000. #
Secretary Baker told the Senate
military committee the bill was the
most statesman like over attempted to
reorganize the army.
Sec rota »y Baker said he does n*»t
want General Pershing as Chief cf
Staff, Pershing does not want it and
the problem is now to find a post fit
ting Pershings’s importance.
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DISTILLATE IS
TO BE CUT OFF
SEATTLE, Jan., 22— The Stand
ard Oil Company of California and iho
Union Oil company announced today a
discontinuance of selling distillate :n
the Northwest. This may also cripp'c
the Alaska fishing boats. Distillate
sa’es h ive been discontinued on ac
count of the great demand for gaso
line. f
8 DROWN
HAIFAX, Jan. 22— Eight were
drowned this forenoon when a boat
from the transport Great Northern ov
erturned in attempting to transfer
passengers from the disabled trans
port Powhatan at sea, 200 miles sou'll
of here. The Canadian steamer LaTy
Tianrier is reported to be towing the
Powhatan.
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WANT MUNICIPAL DOCK
VANCOUVER. Wash.. .Tan.. 22
Vancouver is co"s;dern*r balding n
pvitvr’njO dock in the Columbia River
here to accommodate oc*an crom" FhM*s
C’tv hns bnen instructed
to start on a tveHuvnary survey of the
dock site and project.
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CHICAGO, Jan., 22- William R.
Ross Lloyd, millionaire parlor .Social
ist, surrendered this afteinoon and im
mediately furnished $10,000 band.
Lloyd was indicted on charges of con
spiring to overthrow the government,
li'oyd, in a statement to the newspap*
»r reportc.s who interviewed him, de
scribed himself as the “Reddest of
| Rods.”
DEFENDS
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ALBANY, N. Y., Jan., 22— Sey
mour Stedman, a Chicago attorney i'or
the live suspended Soc.abst assembly -
men, on the floor of the Assembly to
day defended £o/iet Russia. He sa.d
that the five suspended Soc.alists were
ignored because the Socialist Pa.iy
approved of the Soviets. Continuin';
he said that belief in the Soviets was
not a crime in England, Gcimany or
Italy.
Morris Hiiquit, chief council for
the five suspended Socialists, declared
that if the Assembly ousted the f.\e
suspended Socialists, they would loos
en a violent revolution which the Soc
ialists were trying to check.
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FLU EPIDEMIC PEAK REACHED
CHICAGO, Jan , 22— The influen
za epidemic is believed to have readi
ed the peak here. New cases aie de
creasing.
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SEMENOFF IN CONTROL
LONDON, Jan., 22— Advices fiom
Pekin state that General Semenoff nas
assumed full governmental powers n
far east Siberia, Gcneial Kolchaks
whereabouts being unknown.
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HOCKEY TOURNAMENT
SEATTLE Jan., 22— Last night
Seattle hockey players won from Vic
toria by three to one. Seattle, Victor* x
and Vancouver are now tied each hav
ing won four games and each having
lost four.
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LET ’EM COME
ROME, Jan. 22— The ItaHan avia
tors who intend to fly to Japan may
continue to America going via Alaska.
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NEWSPAPERS STILL SUSPENDED
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WINNIPEG, .Tan. 22— The deny
nAVTsr*aiv»rs co^Uruc to issue m’v
hull >t;n shoots. There is no ind?cnt:on
when newsprint paper will be shipped
here.
RICHMOND, Jan., 22— WilPam
Jennings Bryan attacked Democratic
cha'rman Cummings in a speech last
night. Cryan said Cummings sho id
not have attended the inaugural din
ner to governor Edward, of New Jer
sey, because Edwards was elected by
the wets. Bryan said the Democrats
cannot line up with the wets. Edward*
is a Democrat.
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WASHINGTON, Jan., 22— The
House Public Buildings committee has
decided not to rccomnund a g ncra^ bill
authorizing new government buildings
throughout the country in the interests
of economy.
TIT FOR TAT
WASHINGTON, Jan., 22— As a
retaliate y act against Canada for en
forcing a newsprint embaigo, Repre
sentative Dyer, has introduced a bill
proh biting the export of coal, culm,
s’ack, shale and coke for five years.
Representative Dyer said Canada re
ceivers about P2,000,000 tens of coal
annually from the United States.
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SEATTLE MAYOR MAKES
CAMPAIGN ANNOUNCEMENT
SEATTLE, Jan., 22— Mayor Fitz
gerald made his first campaign speech
last n’ght. He sa;d he will continue to
enforce law and ovder if e’ected and
says he stopped the recent Mooney
parade. The mayo** announced he w»ll
work for a big municipal auditorium.
DEMOCRATS OPEN CAMPAIGN
LINCOLN. Neb., Jan.. 22— The
DAmo/rats at a banrmet last night.
thrt It was unani
mously resn'”t’onAd nl«d<r*ng sopnort
fo w:,eA»> p*w TT’^^fock In tv*n treaty
f?«rht P-w^a** Wl'r*on sent his greet
ings to the banqueters.
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SVRSCRTRE FOR THE GATEWAY