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SEWARD, ALASKA^ WEDNESDAY, SEPT., frClOift____________1
EXPECTS
TO TALK
TO MARS
OMAHA. SopL* 21— Professor l>a
vi<| Todd will attempt to communicate
with Mar this fall in one of the hug
est balloons ever made which will as
cend fifty thousand feet. The inventor
of the Hal loon has divided the balloon
into two compartments, the upper con
taining hydrogen gas and the lower
fresh air. It is expected the balloon
will be enabled to thus reach a great
height and communication establisheo
by an electrical apparatus with Mars.
TITTONI
RESIGNS
ROMK. Sept., 24— Foreign Minis
ter Tomasso Tittoni has resign* on
account of the Fiume incident.
1*01.A. Sept., 24— D’Annunzio
claims that crew and officers of the
Italian warship Dante Alijfseri and the
crews of three latlian destroyers have
deserted the Italian navy and become
a Fiumian navy. The Allied command
ers withdrew their war craft trom
Fiume Harbor while the Dante Aliir
seri is there.
FOREST FIRES
SAN BERNARDINO. Cal.. Sept..
24_ Eire has burned over 7000 acres
of timber land several apple O'vhaids
and buildings, on a ten mile front.
LOS ANGELES, Sept.. 24— Two
mountain fires have devastated over
2000 acres of timber. The fires a»**
burning unchecked. Eight hundred
men are fighting the forest fires.
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AMERICAN WARSHIPS ARE
SHORT OF ENLISTED MEN
NEW YORK. Sept., 24— Eleven
American warships at the New York
Navy yard are without sufficient
crews on account of the shortage of
enlisted men and the resignations of
many officers. Possibly the annual
fall and winter maneuvers of the At
lantic fleet will be abandoned.
SniSCRIBK FOR THE GXTEWAY
\O.MK, Sept.. 24 - The American
trader Belvedere, the Russian steamer
Stavanpol. and another American
steamer, are held in the iff* at the en
trance of Kolyuchian Bay. on the east
coast of Siberia.
The Nome trader Sea Wolf arrived
here thi> morning with the above in
formation.
According to the officers of the Sea
Wolf, which has made the Arctic trin.
t»uppers and traders on Baily Island
Banks and other points in the Arctic
ran short of food this summer because
the ice prevented supply boats from
getting to them.
N’O.MK. Sept.. 24— Six of the Ca*
cos crew arrived this morning in a
skin boat. They report the Casco
ashore on the lower end of King Isl
and. Others of the crew are living with
the natives waiting for help to he sent
to them.
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BRITISH PROFITEERS
ARE SENT TO PRISON *
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LONDON. Sept., 24— To the *
" present 2W6 profiteers have been
convicted hy the Stephenv Food
committee and have paid fines
* amounting to $20,000 while tour
have served terms in prison. The
newspapers insist that more pris- *
on sentences are needed to bring
the high price traders to their *
• senses.
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mears at anchorage
Col. Frederick Mears arrived at An
i'ho ago yesterday trom Nenanu, hav
ing returned overland. Col. Mears
w. nt to the interior with Assistant
S« etary of the Interior Hallowell
and Col. Alfred Brooks. Col. Mears
may make a trip to Seward within the
next two weeks.
HURRAH FOR OUR SIDE
LONDON, Sept., 24— Undon is
shortly to have bootlacking parlors on
the same lines as those already estab
lished in the United States.
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Dll) NOT KNOW THAT A
WAR WAS BEING FOUGHT
HOUNSLOW, Eng., Sept., 24—
Though several of her relatives die*,
in active service Miss Charlotte Fri
day, who has passed away at her home
here at the age of 100 years and eight
months, was kept in ignorance that
therewas a war.
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LONDON AIR DIRTY
LONDON. Sept.. 24— The air above
London is the dirtiest in all England
according to the British Meterologira!
Office which asserts that 60 tons of
^ont fall on every square mile of the
citv every year.
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Ml ST A KM TO THE
- TEETH IF LEAGUE
IS NOT ADOPTED 4
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WASHINGTON, Sept., 21— 4
Secretary of Mar Baker told the
House committee that the propos
ed peace time army of .>09,000
* men would only he child’s play it
4 the League of Nations is not
formed. M'ithout the League, said
Secretary Baker, every hig nation
must be armed to the teeth. He
said we will have learned a lesson
of balance of power.
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KOREANS
SEEK AID
SEOUL, Sept., 24— The Korean:
have raised five thousand dollais in
American money for defense of the
leaders of the insurrection at the trial
to he held within a few weeks. The
Koreans are going to try and secure a
prominent foreign lawyer for the de
fense.
OFFERS FIFTY THOUSAND
FOR FLIGHT OVER OCEAN
VICTORIA, R. C., Sept., 24— Nor
man Yarrow has offered a prize of |
$50,000 for the first non-stop flight
across the Pacific from Vancouver
Island to Japan in an airship made in
Canada and manned by Canadians.
DEMOIIOLIZED IIKITISII
SOLDIERS ARE BINDING
EMPLOYMENT IN CAN \1> V
LONDON, Sept., 24— Canada
offering a cordial reception to demob
ilised British soldiers who have not
fouirfl in England satisfactory employ
ment upon their return to civilian pur
suits. North American emigration is
being suggested as possible solution
1 of England’s pressing resettlement
j problem.
While all British emigrants will h'»
j welcomed, Canada is particularly
warm for the coming of professional
men. Canadian professional societies
' aie said to be prepared to give special
preference to men of this class. Qual
ified accountant*, chemical and forest
j ry interests, for instance, have many
positions which it is hoped may be fill -
! ed through absorption of this excess
» of British professional men.
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MACHINERY IS REPLACING
MEN IN BRITISH MINES
MANCHESTER, Eng., Sept., 24—
The repeated statement by trade au
thorities the preeminence of the Unit
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ed States in the coal trade of the
world is due to mining machinery, lias
awakened the coal operators and min
ers of the Manchester and Bolton dis
tricts. Electrical and compressed air
coal cutting machinery, called “iron
men” by the miners, is being intro
duced very generally, one big plant
having recently installed an elaborate
power plant in connection with the in
noviation.
WASHINGTON, Sept., 24— Com
pels, Warren Stone, chief of the En
gineers Brotherhood, and Plumb, the
author of labor's railroad solution, bit
terly protest sections of the Cummin's
reorganization bill which will prevent
railroad workers striking.
(loinpers said he did not wish to
live one day after the right had been
abolished to strike and he served no
tice on the Senate Interstate Cominer
ce committee that if the law was pass
ed, he would issue a notice that it need
not he obeyed.
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REPUBLICANS TAKE SENATE
CONTROL ON TREATY DEBATE
WASHINGTON, Sept., 24— Re
publicans took control of the Senate
treaty procedure today. The first test
vote, by a margin of three vote-;,
adopted Lodge's motion to postpone
for one week consideration oi the
amendments which will relieve the
United States from service on com
missions created under the treaty.
Senator .Johnson returned today
from his speaking tour and said he
was prepared to visit the Pacific
Coast states later to continue his fight
on the League.
AMERICANS ARE
FOR THE LEAGUE
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Sept..
•>4 — President Wilson spoke last night
in the Tabernacle to 10,000 persons.
The President said that from tele
grams, letters and other personal ways
he was certain that eighty per cent of
the Americans were in favor of the
League of Nations.
OGDEN, Sept., 24— Making a plat
form speech from his private car.
President Wilson said it was now pro- j
posed to cut the very heart out of the j
Leagueof Nations by political mur- ,
derers.
CHEYENNE, Sept., 24— President
Wilson arrived here this afternoon at
four o’clock. He immediately went to
the largest theatre in the city to !
make his address.
President Wilson will leave here
this evening for Denver where he is
billed to speak tomorrow morning.
DECENTRALIZATION OF
FRENCH ARMY COMPLETED;
PARIS, Sept., 24— The decentral
ization of the French Army has been
completed, all troops, with the excep
tion of those on the Rhine, have re
turned to their usual garrisons.
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KINK AND QUEEN OF
KELGIUM ON THE SEA
ENROUTE TO AMERICA
OSTEND, Sept.. 24— The King and
Queen of Belgium are now at ea en
i-oute to America aboard the trans
port George Washington.
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TOMSK IS CAPTURED
LONDON, Sept., 24— The Bolshe
vik! claim they have captured Tomsk,
500 miles east of Omsk.
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BULLETIN— Washington, Sept.,
24— The Senate has ordered an in
vestigation into the steel stride adopt
ing Kenyon's resolution authorizing a
report as to whether any remedial fed
eral action is possible. Senator Ken
yon proposes to call leading employ
ers and employees to meet here soon
to determine the cause of the strike.
The investigation starts tomorrow and
Gary, also John J. Fitzpatrick, chair
man of the committee organizing the
steel workers, will he the first men to
he called before the investigating com
mittee.
Senator Kenyon today stated he
had hopes that a complete report on
the steel strike inquiry would he made
next week. He said that needed legis
lation to cause conciliation might he
returned.
BULLETIN,^—Newcastle, Pa., Sept..
24— The wife of a striker was shot
Inst night and died this morning.
BULLETIN, Farrels, Pa., Sept., 24
— Two men were killed and two were
wounded last night in a clash between
state police and the strikers. There is
great ill feeling against the state con
stabulary.
BULLETIN, Buffalo, Sept., 24
One man was killed this morning and
four wounded, including a four year
old boy, when the Lackawana Steel
Plant guards fired with shot guns on
the strikers.
BULLETIN— Washington, Sept.,
24— The Senate Labor Committee is
to investigate the charges that Secre
tary Foster, of the steel strikers, is a
leading member of the I. W. W.
FARREL, Pa., Sept., 24— All steel
plants here are closed and there is
new rioting. The authorities are prohi
biting the strikeis from meeting.
PITTSBURGH, Sept., 24— One man
was perhaps fatally injured, one po
liceman was seriously injured and sev
eral persons injured in a riot this af
ternoon in the Lawrenceville district.
YOUNGSyOWN, Sept., 24— A
strike has closed every mill in the Ma
honing Valley, Ohio’s greatest steel
center. Forty four thousand men are
idle.
CLEVELAND, Sept., 24—Four men
were stabbed **»d two beaten near the
entrance of the American Steel Wire
Plant this afternoon when a street
car let the men off for work in the
mills.
PITTSBURGH, Sept., 24— The Na
tional Strikers Committee is making
plans for extending the strike to the
Great Lakes seamen. Secretary Foster
says the strikers are to fight to the
bitter end.
The officials of the Carnegie Steel
Company issued a statement this af
ternoon saying conditions were im
proving, that many of the men were
beginning to realize I. W. W. propa
ganda has been largely respond be for
the present situation.
PITTSBURGH, Sept., 24— The In
dianan Harbor Inland Steel Company
has sent in ultimatum to the a'rikers
stating that unless they T'Cturn to
work within two days, the company
will shut the plant down for six
months. The company’s furnaces cost
two million dollars each and it costs
$50,000 to start the fire in the fur
nace. Many strikers are in favor of
heeding the warning.
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BOLSHEVIKI
NOW ADMITS
BIG DEFEAT
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LONDON, Sept., 24— A Soviet
wireless admits the Bolsheviki forces
have abandoned the town of Lgov to
Denekine, also concede the loss of two
towns south of Voronetz.
The Bolsheviki wireless also report
the discovery of an anti- Bolsheviki
plot with ramifications throughout
Russia, the origin being at Moscow.
The discovery has resulted in the exe
cution of sixty six men to date.
BY JOVeT PRINCE
IS REAL GOER
VANCOUVER, B. Cv Sept., 24—
The Prince of Wales danced until 1:
30 o’clock this morning, at a ball giv
en in his honor. He lunches with Ad
miral Rodman this afternoon and to
night is going to Victoria to hunt and
fish on Vancouver Island.
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CASH HAUL
CHICAGO, Sept., 24—John Wejda,
Chicago postal clerk, and two other
men, have been arrested charged with
stealing $240,000 from a messenger.
The money was from the Federal Re
serve Bank here to the Standard Oil
Conmpany, at Whiting, Indiana. Nine
ty three thousand dollars have been
recovered.
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DAWSON MAN KILLED
DAWSON. Y. T., Sept., 24— Mike
Seidlmeier, pioneer roadhouse keeper,
killed himself accidently this morning
out on the creek, while hunting.
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