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V0I.1MK XIV, NUMBER A y __ _ __2 - - ' --——' ~
MEXICO CITY. May 2t>~ A i -m
mission has been appointed by Gen
erals Obrejjon and Gonzales to inves
tigate the death of President Carran
za. It is repotted here that General
Hervera guided the President to his
sleep!: *? hut and port 'd his own men
as sonnies over the hut and then left
saying that his brother was injured
and he must go to him. Herrera left
the hut ou a supposed visit to his bro
ther. At three o’clock that morning,
Herrera’s men entered the hut of Gar
ransa ostensibV to report conditions
b.jf suppose Uy to locate his bed. Half
vn hour lattei the hut was attacked
fr-uu all sides and fire was concen
trated where Cananza slept. Tho
i’ivs «i< ni cried out that his log was
broken and begged for a carbine to
defend himself. A volley of bullets
s.loncod his cries. Other occupants of
the hut fled bat many were captured
by the Herrera forces. Herrera signed
a statement that Carranza took his
own life.
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M’AOO'J IS
APPROVED
DALLAS. Texas. May 2C— The
delegates to the state Democratic con
vention unanimously approved the
policy of the administration and high
ly commended William McAdoo us a
presidential possibility'. Thirty six dis
trict delegates, including three women
and sixteen delegates at large, with
one fourth vote each were elected to
the San Francisco convention unin
s true ted. Burleson was a delegate
from hib own district. The state plat
form opposes any change in the pro
hibition law.
w K a r II it n k r o it r
The following is the weather lepoit
for the 24 hours ending at 7 oV o* U
this morning:—
SEWARD 55 Clear. North.
Anchorage 50, Clear, Calm.
Mutanuska 50, Clear, Calm.
Chickaloon 50, Clear, ( aim.
Wasilla 56. Clear, Calm.
Talkeotna 50, Clear, Calm.
(ioldcreek 54. Clear, Cahfo.
Hurricane 50. Clear, Calm.
Summit 57, Clear, ('aim.
Cains 45. Clear, Calm.
Healy 52, Ch ar, Culm.
Nenana 56, Clear, Calm.
Fairbanks 60, Clear, Calm.
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ROBBERIES INCREASING
AT FAST RATE IN BERLIN
BERLIN. May 26— In those dis
turbed days, when the “revolution
profiteer” the successor of the war
profiteer— flaunts his newly acquired
wealth in the face of an impoverished
populace, robberies and burglaries in
Berlin increase at an abnormal pace.
Street signs are full of announcements
offering rewards for the return of
stolen goods, and in one of the main
business streets of Berlin a fancy
goods store displays this notice:
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SEATTLE, May 2G— The North
I
ern Commercial Company’s steamer
Ozmo sails next week for Bethel and ,
other Kuskokwim river points with a
full cargo of mining machinery and (
supplies and a full list of passengers
who arc taking outfits north for the
Union Construction Company’s quartz
property on the Kuskokwim and the
Tuluksak Hydraulic Company on the
Tuluksak. Another large outfit is for \
the Alaska Fidelity Company.
“Gentlemen burglars are requested
not to break open the shop front nor
to tamper with the locks. There is
nothing to steal here. All property is
i< moved from the shop windows at J
night.”
There have been scores of hold-ups,
and the other day a man wus stripped
of his clothes, shoos and hat and left
on the side-walk in his underclothes.
It is not safe for hotel guests to
leave any portable property of any
('.« scription in their rooms. Articles of
clothing have a way of vanishing into
thin air. and hotel proprietors decline
ivi responsibility. Police statistics in
il.cuto that the number of hotel rob-i
beries has trebled within the last five
years.
To leave typewriters unpadlocked
is sheer culpable negligence on the
part of the owner. The Berlin crimi-•
nal police has been obliged to organ-1
ire a special department dealing ex
clusively with stolen machines.
C ases of housebreaking have quad
rupled within the last throe years. Ar
ticles of clothing, bedclothes, carpets
and curtains are the objects most do-,
iired by the thieving fraternity.
Dishonesty among factory hands j
has grown to a deplorable extent, the
police say. leather belting disappears
vholesale; it Is cut up and sold to
! shoe repairers.
Nor are churches, cemeteries and
museums immune from robberies, the
booty carried off being mostly ancient
gold ornaments and jewelry.
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LOW WATER
IN YUKON
RIV I
SEATTLE, May 26— The officials
of the White Pass & Yukon Route re
ports the Yukon river the lowest in
over 25 years anti the indications aro
that navigation will not open until
about June 12th.
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PULPW000 SALE
IN ALASKA
Information has just been given
out by the District Forester’s oflice
at Poitland of the immediate adver
tising foi sale of 100,000,000 board
feet of pulp wood in Alaska. The tim
ber to be advertised for sale cove rs
10,000 acres on Port Snettisham anti
Glass Peninsula, in the Tongass Na
tional Forest, in southeast Alaska.
The timber is Sitka spruce, western
red cedar, Alaska cedar, and western
hemlock, all suitable for paper pulp.
Forest Examiner B. F. Hointre
man, from the District Forester’s of
fice in Portland, recently left for
Alaska, where he will remain all sum
mer examining this and other bodies
of timber, and forest officers predict
unusual timber activity in Alaska
from now on.
In giving out this information As
sistant District Forester Ames empha
sized the point that the Forest Service
is now, as it has always been, extrem
ely anxious to see the resources of the
Alaskan National Forests develop d
n every legitimate way, and especial
ly that the National Forests may play
their part in helping relieve the pres
ent acute shortage of news-print pa
per. Mr. Ames states that there have
been sold during past ton years 420
million feet of timber from the Alas
kan National Forests, and that it is
h:s belief that this proposed pulp
wood sale is simply the beginning of
metensive timber and water power de
velopment in Alaska which is sure to
follow, and in which the Forest Ser
vice will do its utmost to help along.
According to Forest Service esti
mates there are not less than 100,000,
000 cords of pulp wood in the National
Forests of Alaska, and forest officers
say that if this is cut under pioper
methods that there could be an annu
al nit of two million cords, or enough
to supply at least one third of the
present consumption of pulp wood in
,)\c United States.
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RICH CHROME MINES
UNCOVERED IN SERBIA
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PKLCRA.DE, May 2C— Chrome de-*
posits, sufficient to meet the world’s
demands, have been discovered in
Serbia, it is announced by the Am
erican advisory committee to the
Jugo-Slavinn government. The dis
covery was due to the gratitude of
ratives who brought large Quantities
of the ore to the American Pod
Cross at Prizren after being given
treatment.
Mining machinery taken by the
Austrians is expected to be delivered
soon and will be sent to the ore
deposits, which will be developed
immediately. It is said rich veins of
load and einnebar have been found in
the same region.
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The native hunters of Wninwright
in the Second division, have had ex
cellent success fox hunting this winter j
some of the trappers having bagged j
upward of twenty.
Earl Hirst has purchased the
»*oadho\isc at Chestochina, formerly
owned by John Paulson. He will op
erate it this season.
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PALMER'S
CAMPAIGN
FUND BIG
WASHINGTON, May 26— Former
Representative C. C. Carlin, of Vir
ginia, Palmer’s campaign manager,
told the Senate committee today that
contributions amounting to $59,610
had been received, the largest being
from James McClurg Guffey, Pitts
burgh oil man.
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U. S. SHIP SALE TERMS
ARE SET BY COMMITTEE
WASHINGTON, May 26— Present
costs of production rather than or
iginal costs should determine the
shipping board’s prices for its war
built tonnage, in the opinion of tho
committee of business men appointed
by chairman Benson to suggest terms
of sale for the vessels owned by the
board.
The committee which was named
after a conference of business men
here last month has submitted a im
port which asserts that as the ships
owned by the board were built as
a war measure, under war conditions
with attendant abnormal costs and
as a new industry’ had to be built up
as a war necessity, “the abnormal
cost should be absorbed as war waste
and prices should be fixed upon the
basis of present prices for reproduc
tion, considering both foreign and do
mestic production costs.”
Stability Imperative
“The prices should be determined/
the report adds, “in a manner to
assure stability, either by fixing
prices for ships of given types and
tonnage, which could be maintained
over a period sufficiently long to give
buyers the assurance that after they
had contracted for the purchase of
ships they will not be placed at
a disadvantage by subsequent re
duction in prices, or by fixing prices
with definite period, such protection
to consist of an arrangement under
careful safeguards for price readjust
ment should it subsequently prove
necessary or desirable for the ship
ping board to reduce prices.”
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Kany terms Are urgvu
Taking up the question of terms
the committee recommended that ten
per cent cash be payable on the
delivery of the ships with additional
payments to be due at the rate of
five percent semi-annually for three
years and the balance in twelve
yearly installments of five per cent
each. Title would pass to the pur
chaser when in the opinion of the
board a sufficient amount had been
paid. The board would have a first
lein on the vessels, until all pay
ments are made.
The committee made the new sug-,
gestion that “in view of the fact that
the ships constitute a capital asset of
the United States government,” the
proceeds from the sale of the vessels
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LONDON, May 26- The Bolshe
viki forces are pouring into Persia
and have occupied Nesht from which
the British forces retreated, retiring
;
towards Teheran. The Daily Sketch
says Italian reinforcements have land
ed at Datum and will be followed by
other troops as soon as transportation
, is available.
WASHINGTON, May 26— Homer
Carr and a man named McDonald,
both Americana, are reported to be
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prisoners at Jiminez, Chihuahua. The
State Department however has receiv
ed no details.
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be applied to the redemption at mark
et prices of Liberty Loan Bonds and
Victory Notes.
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TORONTO MAN PROPOSED
PECULIAR HONOR TO
SIR WINFIELD LAURIER’
' TORONTO, May 26— If the provis
ions of the will of a prominent
local man, filed for probate here
recently are carried out, his brother
will stand on his front porch on
each May 24th, Queen Victoria’s
birthday anniversary, and shout at
the top of his voice: “Hurrah for
Sir Winnffield Laurier and reciproci
ty.” It was on this condition that the
property was ffiven him.
Sir Winfield Laurier is dead and
the issue of “reciprocity with the
United States,” was declared by some
of his friends here, to have died with
him.
TRAIN OUT TOMORROW
There will be a train out from Sew
ard tomorrbw morning at 8 o’clock for
Anchorage taking passengers, mail (
etc.
ALAMEDA IS DUE
Steamer Alameda is due to arrive j
at 3:00 o’clock this afternoon accord- |
ing to radio advicca.
LONDON, May 26— The Exchange
Telegraph prints messages today
from Durazzo that Albania is in the
throes of a civil war, the consequences
of which are impossible to forecast.
COAST SURVEY BOAT
ON WAY TO THE NORTH
SEATTLE, May 26— The Coast
geodetic survey steamer Lydonia sail
ed last night for Alaska to engage in
work on the west coast of Prince of
Wales and Dali Islands. Captain E. H.
Pagenhart is commanding the steamei
which will be gone for six months
The base of operations will be a*
Craig, near Ketchikan. The work in
eludes the developing of approache:
at Mearcs Passage and Bucarelli Bay
TO NOMINATE HARDING
CHICAGO, May 26— Former gov
ernor Frank B. Willis, of Ohio, wi
nominate Senator Harding for th
presidency at the Republican conver
tion. It is expected that nominatin
speeches will begin on Thursday, Jur
10th.
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WASHINGTON, May 26— Auc!
*and Geddes, British ambassador, t
day presented his credentials to Prei
dnt Wilson.