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WASHINGTON’. S**pt.. AiVr .
Sonato K »»i ha . *v«l a to ir hour
it' la... • Nati m'
>(!« vtuior* in tho Senato jjallerirs
• ...a a vioVnt \lraioa.-lrat <*a of a
id his> *d when improved from
* floor, it s now seriously diseuss
• ! .1^ !o win’ her the jralferies will hrt
; '*'• i *t**r and it is stated no
I*, i * » s will he permitted if further
mon>*.rations oiyui1.
WASHINGTON. S pt.. 22— Secre
tary Panic's is to ask Congress to au
thorize the «stabii hment of addition
al dry dock navy ya.d ami ship build
ing .:u:l i.**' on * 11 * * P. ’ilic Coast.
Puget Sound and San i uncisco i* \
\ :ll be the two chief bases. The Pa
cific fleet ot causer-- aim hvad
nought.** is to be etjuallj uivulcd be
tween the two bases.
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MIAMI. Ida.. Sept.. 22— A subma
rine chaser has tound twelve sui\
ors of the hurricane huddled in a ligh’ *
hou.^i on North F .bow, a small island
of the Florida straits. The men were
eleven days without fom! or watei.
Waves swept the island and carried
away every thing but tin* lighthouse.
TAMPA. ■Sept. - A fishing
smack has landed eleven survivors of
the British steamer Bavronto. which
went down in the recent hurricane on
the gulf, and one negro survivor, a
Porto Rican, from the American
steamer Lake Winona, also lost n the
storm. The negro was found in a boa.
filled with water. He had been without
fresh watoi fo* >»*ven days and had
lived on ^ca grass.
The full complement of the crew o:
the Bayronto is now accounted to*,
nineteen having prvve usly landed at
Charleston and 31 others at Havana.
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SETH BIT.LOCK DEAD
DEADWOOD. X. D., Sept., 23—
Soth Bullock, personal friend of the
h»te Theodore Roosevelt, died during
the night. Mr. Bullock \va$ 02 years of
age and made many hunting trips
with Roosevelt.
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SKATTI.K, Sept., 22— A dispatch
to t .» l*o, Intelligencer from Wash
ton. I>. C. says J. L. McPherson.
M. uc.,v of the Alaska Bureau of tin*
st-attle Ghamher of Gommerce is -
■ truing hero. Mr. McPherson says the
t ,'iits will prevent Senate considering
t’. Alaska railroad appropriation for
* >aps a month. Assistant Secretary
of the Interior Hallowed predicts the
**• lotion of the railroad in 1022 or
1023.
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TIKI.IS. S**pt., 22— General Burn
toff. Ro;nesentative in Georgia of
Genera! D» rtekun*. the anti- Bolshev»ki
lead r in South Russia, was severely
wounded, and Georgian General Odes
lodise was wound*-d by the explosion
of a bomb thrown into Buratoff’s a"
tomobilo. The thrower of tlie bond*
w as not caught.
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PORTLAND VITKR TOGRXKY
PORTLAND. Ore.. Sept., 22— Port
land is after the 1020 meeting of the
Pacific Northwest Swiming associa
tion. The tournament was held at
Vancouver in 1018 and this year.
Neither Spokane nor Seattle has
* •*. ht th** 1020 championship and it
;d»!y will go to Portland. Th°
in jar, if given to Portland, will take
; : c in August, 1920.
!*i:ROUGHSWINGING POORS
FEET ON R UL \ND S\Y
• I WILL T VK E SAME THING”
VANCOUVER. B. C., Sept., 23
i’\i sty travellers coming here from
■.he dry United States find themselves
:.W to push bpon a swinging door,
wa’k it o a regular saloon, put their
, ».»* on the rail and order beer, which,
i * Lough of the two and three quarter
' net* cent variety, still, according to
some, taste* much like it did down ir.
‘♦he states” before July 1.
And. often to the surprise of the
stranger customers, the bartender or
ha maid serves the beer for the old
price of five cents a glass, without
war taxes.
“Hard” liquors, under the British
Columbia prohibition act, are handled
in the larger cities at Government
“liquor dispensaries” where they are
sold on doctor’s prescriptions.
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The Wrangell Sentinel claims that
that town has the original jazz or
chestra.
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UF.NO, Sept.. 22— President Wil
son spoke here hist night, in the thea
I ire, to an audience ol 2,000. I»y eire
trical devices hi> words were cai; ied
t » three other theatres holding 10)0
persons each.
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Jurors have been drawn for the Lai!
term of court at \ able/.. I he gran*,
jury is called for October bth and the
pi t it jury for October 12th. 1 he fol
lowing jurors were drawn from Sew
ard:
(band Jurors— T. J. Hradshaw.
Frederick llroadwell, Thomas King,
H. K. Allen and T. P. Lorang.
Petit Jurors- - Anton Mclvor, \\. L.
Guy. Frank F. Towle, 1). J. Mchaehen
F. K. Leslie, George Phelps, William
K. Hewitt and Frank L. Nash.
TWO FLOTILLAS OF III N
TORPKIH) BOATS ALL THAT
IS l.FFT OF GKIOI \N NAU
With The American Forces in Her
many, Sept., 2'1— (By A. P.)— The
Hermans have organized two flotilla*
of torpedo boats ^ince the* armistic
and these constitute virtually all the
warships left in active service in tie
Herman Navy, according to informa
tion received here.
One of these flotillas is described
in Mittschiffs, a Herman naval peri
odical which has reached the Ameri
can headquarters, as the Iron Torpedo
Boat Flotilla.
It consists of twelve torpedo 1* >at<
which, the periodical says, have been
engaged in maintaining order on tie
’ ostein coast of Hermany.
Some of the vessels ol the flotilla
have been used on several occasions
for police work in the port of Ham
nirg, doinjaluty guardin\ ed lot 1
shipments to the Czecbo-Slovaks i\v 1
similiar work during periods of dis
order. The flotilla has its headquarters
at Wflhelmshaven. A landing corps of
about 2C>() men is distributed among
the twelve boats, each of which has a
platoon of thirty commanded by a na
val lieutenant. The clothing and arms
of members of this landing corps are
the sap*.a as in the infantry.
The other half group of vessels
oa’N'd the Haff flotilla is supposed to
bo doing similiar duty on the Baltic
^oast near the Russian boundary, with
headquarters in Koenigsberg. , The
boats are armed with machine guns,
and in some cases with 2.7 centimeter
guns as wejl. The flotilla was e/.gan
i7.o/l for operation in connection with
tho East Prussian Freiwillige corps
and was until a few weeks ago sub
ject to the commander of the northern
army.
GOMPERS IS DELEG \TE TO
THE INDUSTRIAL CONGRESS
WASHINGTON, Sept., 22— Sam
uol C.ornn* r: ha.^ announced the names
of th»' fifteen lrbor‘representatives to
participate in the industrial conference
on October 6th. (lumpers is one of the
deYgates. \
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Or. Malcolm E. Smith, has arrived
back at Nrnana, after having spent
fourteen morths in the hospital ser
vice of the United States army, most
of the time b'*ing in Franco. Dr. Smith
resumes his position as chief surgeon,
of the railroad hospital at Nenana.
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NOMK. Sept., 2:»— The Schooner
j Cusco was wrecked on king Island on
| September 8th in a southwest gal«‘.
i'lV* schooner is in a precarious posi*
i lion. Capt. Oliver is imported badly
j hurl. A party of twenty seven has
landed on the island with stores. The
Uevi :um* Cutter Bear is going to leave
J ’rti av to iescue those aboard the Cas
! co.
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PITTSBURGH, Sept., 23— The As
sociated Press, in a summary this
afternoon of the steel and iron wo*k
«i > strike says that the extent of tie*
st'ike is still uncertain although tin*
in i istry is badly crippled.
Plants in the Pittsburgh, Chicago
and Youngstown districts and several
of the Carnegie Steel plants, are clos- j
e<|. The Bethleham men are still work
ing, waiting word from the company
regarding arbitrations.
Rioting at various points is known
I to have broken out and the casualties
are one dead at barrel, three badly
wounded at other points.
NEW YORK. Sept., 23— J. I*.
Morgen has cabled from London t>
Cary congratulating him and approv
ing of his stand for the open shop in |
the sloe! strike and urging the steel
•o’ poration to stand firm.
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FAR RE L, Pa.. Sept.. 23— Rioting j
and shooting started hero at 11 o’clock
this forenoon. On** man was killed and
several injured.
NEWCASTLE. Sept.. 22— Seven
persons were shot, on° probablv f■*■
>Py. when Carnegie St^el plant guards
fired on a crowd of 400 trying to pre
v»mf workers entering the plant.
Two policemen were wounded in an
outbreak at the Shenango Tin Plate
Company’s planj.
NEW YORK. Sept.. 22— Over one
| hundred million dollars in riot civic
'ommiss'on insurance policies have
taken out by business men at
n:ltsburgh and elsewhere.
PUFEALO. Sept.. 2,2— A crowd
bent a master mechanic n< ar the Lack
awanna Steel Plant this afternoon and
:i riot call brought out tl* no!ice.
Switchmen struck when the maste**
mechanic ordered cars to be moved
into the steel yards.
PITTSBURGH, Sept.. 23— Both
shies claim advantages in the strike.
Nearly all plants in the Chicago dis
trict arc closed or crippled. The Un
ions predict every plant will be closed
within two or three days.
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GERMANY M ANTS CREDIT
FROM THE ARGENTINE
BUENOS AIRES, Sept., 23— The
government has keen asked to grant
credit of o>n hundred millions in
goM to Germany in order to facilitate
* ho purchase <f raw materials from
Argentine
COWBOYS GOING TO COLLEGE
TUCSON, Ariz., Sept., 23— The
cowboys are going to college now in
Arizona. Not that this means that
range cattle soon will be herded by
those wearing gaudy colored caps
adorned with class numerals, but that
several of the younger generation ol
young men of cattlemen have enrolled
in a university extension course here
whose object is to impart the highest
sort of scientific and technical know
ledge regarding handling of stock on
the range.
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DKCMWRIGHT, Okla, Sept., 2:1
A mob has taken control of the city
and the pol.ce have been driven from
the town, the Chief ot I’olico threaten
ed with (hath unless he resigns.
The outbreak came in connection
••i'll the'trike of telephone operators.
Tim mob is holding three strike break
< >s as prisoners in the company’s of
fice.
The trouble started when the police
dubbed a picket.
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LONDON. Sept., 2:1— It is report
ed tho Italian government has asked
the Allies to send an Allied force, ex
clusive of Italians, to drive D’Annun
zio from Fiume.
It is understood here that the Am
rican naval authorities controlling
operations in the Adriatic declined to
iss u Italy ponding a decision from
Washington or the peace conference
n Paris. The Italian government has
• >int *d out how hard it is for the Kal
ians to handle the situation in view of
nnunzio’s popularity yet wished to
make no move Against the decision
the conference..
ROME. Sept.. 2*— Two plans con
cerning Fiume have been endorsed by
France and England. The plans are
understood to have been presented to
President Wilson.
The first is for Italy to get Fiume
hut Hinterland, with Eastern Isteria,
to go to the Jugo Slavia.
The second plan is that Fiume be
in independent city and Hinterland
ind eastern Isteria to be independent
date, ruled by an International com
mission or the League of Nations.
Finnic in either case would be inter
nationalized.
FIUME FORCES
HAVING A LARK
GENEVA, Sept.,* 23— An Austrian
-Serbian dispatch says trenches have
been built around Fiume. D’Annunzio
has built defenses inside. The soldiers
rind officers of the two. sides are re
port*'! fraternalizing.
Cl/KVKLAND, Sept.. 23— The
Cnited Mine Workers, in convention.
!'av» called a general labor conference
■i launch a National Labor Party for
the election of Labor representative.;
;o ingress and also to state logis
la' ii » s. The plan is also to invite the
I Non-Partisan League and the 1'arm
i . ' organizations to participate in the
conference.
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LONDON. Sept., 23— It is report
ed by the Central News that German
troops on the Baltic intend to remain
i in Letvia all winter. The Supremo
Council last week demanded that Ger
many withdraw the troops. Germany
replied that the troops were not un
der her control.
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II TNG AIUAN AITHORITIES TO
MOVE SEAT OF GOVERNMENT
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BUCHAREST, Sept., 23— It is re
ported the Hungarian authorities are
1 planning to remove the seat of gov
ernment to Stuhlweisenbui f, thiitv
; five miles southwest, where the na
; tionalasscmbly is to meet.
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GREEKS IN NEW ZONE
PARIS. Sept., 23— The Temps says
the Supreme Council has apparently
agreed to the Greeks occupying t ’.«•
zone between the old Greek frontier
and the new Bulgarian and Mediter
ranean.
COMING TO ALASKA
SPOKANE, Sopt., 23— Company
B, 21st Infantry, has been ordered to
posts in Alaska.
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CHARGES DISMISSED
PARIS, Sept., 23— The case again
st Humbert dunging the attempted to
corrupt officials in the matter of con
tracts with America, has been dismiss
ed.