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SEWARD, ALASKA. MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1919. - --
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SKATTl.K. Oct., b— James D. Tren
holme, gem*1 ul manager of the Thorn*
dyke- Trenholme Company, shipping
brokers. died here at his iome veste* -
ilny afternoon.
J. IV TrenlyMme helped organize
the Northwestern Steamship Co., in
Seattle several years ago. The North -
western Steamship 1 ompany lat*
consolidated with the company now
known as the Alaska Steamship < «>.
Mr. Trenholme also organized the
Northwestern Fisheries Company d<>
ing business in Alaska and else-wher.»
on the Pacific coast. Several years ag '
Mr. Trenholme was a candidate fo»
Mayor of Seattle but was defeated by
Hiram dill.
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11 KJ.i:;.A. Arkansas. Del.. U - 'Hie
. »* he .> utbeni j’.rt «>f this
coun’ry, Lincoln county, had planned
tites on O
i»th today, according to members <»!
tl, » unmittee of seven appointed to ’
investigate race troubles. There are,
nmny confessions to be given the Fed
era’ authorities, these having been se
cured from negroes by the specin’
com mittee.
The list of those who wore to have
been killed in this country numbered
21, all prominent citizens. That the
p’ot was to have been wide spread » >
indicated. Those marked lor death
were to have been killed on sight.
Fifty thousand pounds of ammuni
tion were discovered last night in a
branch of the normal school at Pin •
Bluff, Arkansas, a negro institution.
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PARIS, Oct., 0— Col. E. M.
House, confidential advisor to
* President Wilson, has left here
* for America.
TURKISH
CABINET
RESIGNS
CONST ANTIN'OP1 K. Oct.. ♦» The
resignation ot the Turkish cabinet,
headed by the Grand V:zer and th»*
Minister of Foreign Affairs, lias b* on
accepted by the Sultan.
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MAKES A HIT
Miss Mae Gilmour, pianist at the
Liberty theatre, gave an added num
ber last Saturday night by a vocal se
lection, “I’m longing for You.” The
men. especially those off the Saturn,
were glad of the tip and there was a
near stampede for the stage. Miss Gil
mour gave as an encore ‘^Lassie O’
Mine.” Miss Aldoren Carlson was the
efficient accompanist.
BULLETIN Lincolnton, (la.. Oct.
»»— Jack Gordon and Will Brown, ne
groes, were lynched by a mob this af
ternoon, they having confessed to hav
ing murdered a deputy sheriff.
WASHINGTON, Georgia, Oct., fi
One negro was killed, and five
others held for lynching by n mob
which is f|*w scouring the swamps o'
Lincoln county for another negro who
killed a Deputy Sheriff. The mob an
pounces that the negroes will he take?
to the scene of the crime and them
lynched. The one negro already killed
by the mob is said to have made :i
boastful remark of killing the Deputy
£ neriff and that the negroes were go
ing to kill other white officials. Tin*
whites are well armed and any stmt
made by the colored population her*
will witness a wholesale slaughtering.
W \ NTS TRE \ n R VF1FIED
RIO DF JANFRIO, Oct.. 6— Presi
dent Pessoa wants Congress to ratify
' the peace treaty without reservations,
he has made a request to this affec:
in a special message.
! -rnsrRiRE for tiif gateway
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RESUME
WORK AT
PLANTS
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PITTSBURGH. Oct., <>— Several!
plants resumed operations today. 'Che
strikers lire not stampeding hack to
work as expected.
Twenty pickets we»e arrested to
day on a charge pf unlawful assembly.
Five shots were fired early this i
morning by striking snipers at a
street car carrying men to work.
GARY, Oct.. f> — Four companies of
state troops arrived here during tie*
night to stop expected rioting. Several
hundred strikers congregated before
one steel plant but the crowd was dU
porsed after threats wore made that ,
a wrecking party would return early
today anti demolish the plant.
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\ i:w PASTOR is COMING
TO THE METHODIST CHCRCH
The choir of the Methodist hutch I
held the usual song service last even
ing assisted by Mr. Engberg as solo
ist. Through all the weeks that the
church has been without a pastor the
choir has faithfully met on one night
in the week anti practiced the songs to
be given on the following Sunday ev- 1
ening, ami on each Sunday evening
rendered the service in a manner that
all lov/\s of good music would have
enjoyed had they been present.
The sorg service by the choir wa
ft »l lowed by the usual church service.
When the announcements were made
for the coming Sunday two letters
were read, one from District Super
intendent McQueen stating that the
Rev. D. F. Carter would arrive at Sew
ard on the next voyage of the North
western and requesting that the new
pastor he met at the boat and he giv
<.n a cordial reception.
The other letter was from Rev.
Cr.vter stating that he and his wife
and son. a hoy of the age of fourteen
years, would arrive on the S. S. North
western. He also said he was antici
pating th< enjoyment of his work
among the people of Seward. The Rev.
Carter is doubtless prepared to do his
part and it only remains for the peo
ple of Seward to do theirs.
\ I, AM EDA IN AND OFT
Steamer Alameda arrived at 5 o’
dock this morning from the westward
and sailed southbound at 7 o’clock.
Tim Alameda had 201 passengers
aboard from Anchorage and Uyak.
From Cordova tlm steamer goes to
Seattle via the outside passage.
Passengers leaving on the Alame
da from Seward were as follows:' for
Seattle H. G. Wilcox, Gus Anderson.
It. P. Heastan, P. Hwr/elman, Capt.
C. A. Johnson, K. C. Jack, Mrs. J. O.
Patton, A. Strom, C. Johnson and
family. Mrs. William Ellis, William
Kinglslev, Mrs. A. Good, Mrs. T. S.
Prown, X. W. Dennis and J. W. Scott.
Among those leaving for Valdez were
Dr. Itomig, D. T. Hill, H. O. Roberts,
George Adams. T. P. Lorange and
Frederick Broadwell.
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The City council will hold a session
tomght at 8 o’clock tn the Town Hall.
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Oomiskey Park, CHICAGO, Oct., d
• Hod Ellers did almost perfect pitch
ing for the Reds today Ellers allowed
hut throe hits. Ellers doubled in the
Sixth starting the Red’s runs. The •
Reds played errorless ball.
Today's game was the fifth of the
world’s series and the Reds shut out
Chicago, a to 0. Chicago did not sup
port Williams like the Reds did Ellers.
Rariden was behind the bat for the
Reds.
The battery from the White Sox
was Williams, Mayer and Schalk and
Lynn.
The Reds scored four in the sixth
and one in the* ninth.
The Reds have now won four of the
games, Chicago only one. If the Reds
win tomorrow the world’s series is
over.
The short score of today’s game was
as follows:
CINCINNATI 5 l 0
CHICAGO 0
CINCINNATI, Sept., 6— There was
no game yesterday on account of ruin.
VERY S'CK
WASHINGTON, Oct., (J— President
Wilson passed a fairly good night ac
cording to Dr. Grayson, and the
change, if there is any, is regarded as
favorable.
UALTIMOUK, Oct.. 6— Joseph Wil
son, only brother of President Wilson,
returned last night from Washington
and said there was no immediate
cause for alarm concerning the Presi
dent’s condition.
“The President is very sick howev
er,” said Joseph Wilson,” but all are
honing that his splendid recuperative
powers will save him. It is a wonder
the President stood the strain of the
past six months as he did.”
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ISMANTLE
HUN FORTS
MAYENEE, Oct., 6— Tho Germans
are dismantling twelve ancient forts
around this district in accordance
^ith the treaty. The work of dismant
ling will take over a year it is said.
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BOLSHEVIK! SURRENDERING
COPENHAGEN, Oct., G— General
Denikines troops are within thirty
miles of Orel, on the Moscow road.
Tho Bolshoviki forces are surrender
in large numbers according to the of
ficial reports received here.
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WEATHER REPORT
'Dio following i •• tin* wrnlh*j»- m*
port for the 2J hot is ending id 7 n*
clock this morning:
Seward 30, Cloudy, North.
Anchorage 24. Cloudy, North.
Matanuska 26, Cloudy, Calm.
Chickaloon 22, Snowing, North.
Wasilla 26, Cloudy, Calm.
The Alaska labor union has insti
tuted a local at Sitka, with Frank D.
Rice ns secretary.
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BULLETIN- London, Oct.. r>-- A'.i
railways are resuming operation on
schedules, all railwavmen having re
turned to work.
LONDON, Oct.. <> - The strike of
railroad men begun on September *.W
th, th;<Sighout Great Britain, has been
settled.
The settlement followed a meeting
of Premier Lloyd George with the Ex
ecutive Board of the Bail roadmen’ *
U nion.
The men resume work immediately,
negotiations to be resumed on an un
del-standing that all agreements will
be completed before the end of the
year.
Wages are to be stabilized at thu
present level until September 20th,
next year and at any time after Aug
ust 1st, 1020, may be reviewed in the
light of circumstances then existing.
\o adult railwayman is to receive
less than fifty shillings a week while
the cost of livjng is 110 per cent above
pre-war level. Arrears of wages are
to be paid on the resumption of work.
WASHINGTON, Oct., 0— The
Shipping Board has partly lifted the
embargo against shY>s to England as
the result of the settlement of the
railwpymen’s strike. The British docks
are said to be congested with freight.
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WASHINGTON, Oct., 6— The In
dustrial Labor Conference convened
hen* this afternoon at 2 o’clock.
The Railroad Brotherhoods are re
presented at the conference they have
accepted President Wilson’s comprom
ise giving the Brotherhood orders one
delegate each.
The Department of Labor najned
Henry S. Dennison, of Framingham,
Mass., as the general public’s repre
sentative at the conference.
Dr. Grayson prohibited President
Wilson fiom preparing a statement
for the Industrial conference, and tho
President is chaffing because not al
lowed to do so.
KING AND QUEEN
WEAR OILSKINS
NIAGARA FALLS, Oct., 6— The
King and Queen of Belgium arrived
here in aNdrizzle. The queen wore a
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raincoat, rain hat and red veil. The ,
King donned oilskins and is seeing the
eights despite the rain.
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WASHINGTON, Oct., 6—Colonel
Townsend Dodd, pioneer army aviator,
was killed yesterday afternoon at
Bustleton Field, near Philadelphia,
when his large Martin bombing plane,
enroute from Lagley Field, Virginia,
to New York, to enter the transcontin
ental races , struck a tree at Landing.
Fifteen minutes after Colonel Dodd
was killed, another Army plane made
a bad landing near here, injuring
three officers, one seriously.
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P. B. Heastan, mining man wfco
has been at the Hotel Seward for sev
eral days, is a passenger to Seattlo cm
the Alameda.