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WASHINGTON. Jan., 7— Hep
received from rampico, Mexico, ! t
that Karle Bowles anti C. J. Ken y,
two Americans employe! by the In
ternational Petroleum Company,
btM*n murdered by Mexicans within cnc
mile of Palo Blanco, near Port Loon*.
The State Department is endeavor
to ascerta'n all info’-mat ion.
WASHINGTON. Jan.. 7— T u
State Department has asked the Mexi
can government to punish the murder*
of Uoonev and Powers.
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WASHINGTON, Jan., 7— The Am
erican consul at Tampico reports that
a-Mexican Federal army officer shot
and killed Gabriel Porter, American
citizen, on December 21st.
NORTHWESTERN
REACHES PUtt?
—
Steamer Northwestern docked at
7:I>0 o’clock this morning. The st*‘i.m
er brought 145 tons of freight for her
and the following passengers: Mrs
Helen Van Cam pen, N. C. Chapin, <>
M. Reynolds. O. M. Rufsvald. V. i
Hansen. J. R. Weaver, A. FT. ..To:*
house, D. Movais, S. Baker, Cl. Farris
and ten steerage.
The Northwestern sailed toi i
south shortly before noon with the lot
lowing passengers for S tittle or ot.i
Alaska ports: U. K. Wiley, C. Soigne:
A. 0 . Kind, R. I.. Klkins, Thoma,
Morgan. Jack Hatonic, Mrs. M. tii’
more and daughter, Sam M»l>orv.:I
wife and two daughters, 1*. H. St'ig e
ton, Kobei*t Oleson, Otto Nelson, K.
Armstrong, J. M. Clarke, < . A. ( eat
J. A. Mclnnis, J. B. Johnson. M. :.:a
lila, S. R . McC”!inton and wife. J.
Dougherty and Arthur 1‘aul.
STORMY ON THE ATL VNTK
NEW YORK. Jan.. 7— The Fnmh
liner Latouraine arrived hero this af
ternoon with several lifeboat- rnisunc.
from her port side. The port side deck
was also smashed. Officers of the
steamer report the roughest voyage
in history. The latouraine brought 7(k
passengers.
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STOCKHOLM, Jan., 7— Leninc is
sending Colonel Tallente, British re
presentative in the Baltics, to London
with a new Bolsheviki peace of* **.
Lenine promises to abolish terrorism
and the revolutionary tribunals.
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IS TO FIGHT
DEPORTATION'
TO GERMANY
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan., 7— Wil
helm von Brincken, former attache <
the German consulate, released fiv.r
McNeils Islam! penitentiary last Fri
day after serving two yenrs, •■ns *
nounced he will fight deportation t
Germany. From advices received hci;
von Brincken is now being held i
Seattle until the deportation party v
made up and he will then he tak^n t
Kllis Island.
FISH QUOTATIONS
SEATTLE. Jan.. 7— Halibut
quoted at HO cents; red and lin# co<
at six cents; sable fish six cents.
SINN FEIXERS RAIDED
DUBLIN, Jan., 7— Police and sol
diers raided the Sinn Fein headquart
ers and the Irish Parliament. Mirh.v-1
Staines, Sinn Fein member of Parlia
ment v.’r.s arrested by the rajders.
Vo Oldo Fashioned Concert Comp ny
is going to give one show in Sew trd
and the date has been fixed for »’l
day evening, January 10th, the p t'1
to ho designated within a few day
The concert is something diffe* ni
than has ever before been giver if
Seward. There will not be a jazz so
tion beard but instead the good i»
songs, choruses, (juatettes and so >
grandmother and grandfather im •
hum or sing, are to be the feature of
the evening.
And everybody can go, by pay ng
the small price, dressed in their '•••!
clothes, men as boys, women as yom-.g
girls, with their hair hanging dc w:
their back in braids, etc. This is to *1
no stuck up affair by heck because i
performers are going to be in tN’»
old fashioned Sunday-go-mcetim;
clothes, and greased boots or lov
heeled slippers. Then after the co
cert is over, every body is going to
joy the country’ supper which is to be
served by the big boys and g*»r!s n
the com pan? and their assistants.
It is going to bo a big night.,
for the banker, the merchant, the
sourdough and the chechacco. It is
ing to be a night for the hoys and »nr1
to hold hands, when the lights •«
down, you know, during the co-v-e *
Itut of course the b;g feature o '
evening will be the concert which V’
cany the older ones baev to the no .
and 70s, by the songs which will live
when shimmy music, Jazz music, n»n
the other kinds of frou have long h*ev
buried.
The concert will bo a benenr.,
just k^p the date open and get v "
partner for the big night.
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rMTEP STATES
NOT HICKVILLE
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* NEW YORK, Jan., 7— Supreme
* Court Justice Mullan today refus
* ed to grant a divorce to a husband
* who sued because his wife smoked
* cigarettes. Justice Mullan said:
* It is not immoral for women “lo
smoke. Some of the best women in >
* the world smoke. This is not Hick- *
* ville.”
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TO GREET HARVARD WITH
A GREAT RIG WELCOME
CAMBRIDGE, Jan., 7— Harvard is
planning an informal but enthusiastic
welcome to the football team when it
returns from the Pacific coast tonight.
NEW COAST CHAMPION
SEATTLE, Jan., 7— Billy Wright,
of Seattle, by a decision, last night
won the Pacific coast featherweigh*
championship from Travie Davh, of
Everett, in six pounds.
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WASHINGTON, Jan., 7— A wav
rant has boon issued for the arrest of
Ludwig Mai tens, Dolshcviki ambassa
dor to the United States, selfstyled.
It is believed by the Department o.‘
Justice he is the real leader of the
Communist party in America.
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ALASKA
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The lyiiO census in Alaska wi.I ac
taken under the direction of VV. T.
Loop, superintendent of education «.»
tho natives of the territory and .'h r:
of the Alaska division, and under the
immediate supervision of the sii
school superintendents of the burr.?..
The school superintendents are desg
nated as special agents for the ta‘*\5,)g
of the census in their respective d s
tricts and will have charge of the e
lection and appointment of census
enumerators. The plan l<* to av
many enumerators as possible, 'i
order to save traveling expends,
which are heavy in Alaska. In remote
yep«ons, government school teach* r?
will he the enumerators. The nnv (<’
an enumerator will he $6 per day
with an allowance of $4 per dav f<v
subsistanee. It is estimated that it
wiU cost $10,000 to take tho census ir
Alaska.
C. W. llnwkesworth of .Tuneau, vi*‘
have charge of the census enume r
t»on in tin* first census district it
Alaska, which comprises the F*rs'
judicial district.
Arthur H. Miller will be in charg* |
of the enumeration in the second emt- j
sus district, which takes in the T’n < ;
judicial division.
John H. Pilbuck, of Akiak, Kusko
kwim, will have charge of the cen:u.*
in the Third xlistrict, which com
prises a part of the Second and Fourth
judicial divisions.
F. Ii. Forbes of Tanana will super
vise the enumeration in the fouvti
census district, which takes in tin
greater part of the Fourth judtc a'
division.
E. D. Evans of Nome will coat o’
the enumeration in the Fifth count
district, which comprises the most oi
the Second judicial division.
James H. Maguire of Kotzebue vil
supervise the sixth census district
which comprise a part of the sccom
and the Fourth judicial divisions.
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VANCOUVER MAY GO INTO
THE PACIFIC COAST LEAGUJ
VANCOUVER, B. C., Jan., 7
President Brown, of the local bascbal
club, announces that Vancouver ex
pects to get the Salt Lake City fran
i chise in the Pacific Coast League fo'
$35,000.
GOVERNORS TO CONFER
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OLYMPIA, Jan., 7— Govemo>
, Hart Jeft today for Washington to at
tend the conference of the western
i governors on the irrigation problems
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MEXICO CITY. .Jan., 7- - Eu ih
(juakes possibly killed thousands in
the state of Vera Cruz last Satur lay.
All rivers an* flooded and many towns
are inundated. Oil wells are spouting
>n all directions and there is petroleum
everywhere.
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ASK BiU
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THE LAWS
WASHINGTON, Jan., 7— The La
bor Department has asked
/or a special one million dollars r>
/und for the enforcement of the la ..
against alien radicals and a special
/und for the enforcement of th^ la >
against alien radicals and a special j
/und of $150,000 for their deportation
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SEATTLE MAN !
BADLY BURNED:
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SEATTLE, Jan., 7— Maurice Me- j
Mrcken, w,ell known Seattle attorney j
was seriously burned wnen trap? •,
during the night in his burning hunt* j
ng lodge car Port Angeles. McM>ckoi
»s now in a hospital. He became trap
ped when he entered the burning lod«<
to save some valuables.
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COAL PRICES ADVANCE
CHICAGO, Jan., 7— Retail coal
dealers haVe increased the price of
:oal sixty cents a ton. They state the
cost of operation exceeds the gross i
proceeds.
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The halibut schooner Alaska arriv
ed recently at Juneau with 08,000 lbs..
! of fish aboard. The twelve fisT^erm« n
i secured the catch in four days and
their clean-up was $G00 each.
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PARIS, Jan., 7— Georges Carpen
ter has accepted James Cofforth’s of
fer for a $400,000 purse for the Car
pen t i < r- Dc mpsey fight.
Descamps, manager for Carpenlier
.v ants an even break. He says Carpev
lie. is as big a drawing cart: as Demp
Carpcntlcr also wants the tight to
be »on or fifteen .rounds instead of
forty five rounds, as Cofforth has pro
posed.
l)( scamps says neither man w;ll he
worthy of the championship il tney
cannot settle it within fifteen round?,
at least.
LOS ANGEI.ES, Jan., 7— Jack
Kearns, Dempsey's manager, says
Carpentier's acceptance mean! the
fight will be staged at Tiajuana, Mex
ico, near San Diego.
LOS ANGELES, Jan., 7— Demp
sey, Kearns and Coffroth are satisfied
with Carpcnticr’s acceptance. They
favor the date to be July 4th. All three
approve the fifteen round limit but
expect to induce Carpentier to take the
gambler’s chance on getting $300,000
if he wins or $100,000 ii he lo^s.
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VANCOUVER BEATS "SEATTLE
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VANCOUVER, Jan., 7— The Van
couver hockey playes defeated t?ic
Seattle players last night in a game
by a score of 4 to 3.
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BABE RUTH IS SOLD
' NEW YORK, Jan.; 7— The Sport.
ing Editor of the New YorTc World to- •
day wonders how much the New York
Americans paid for Babe Ruth, the
home run king. It is estimated $123,
000 was paid for the little demon.
Ruth wired today he would not play
anywhere but with Boston as he has
his cigar business there.
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