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CALIFORNIA YIELDS GREAT T> . ,
PARIS, April 1— Reports received
QUANTITY OF QUICK SILVER here indicate that the Hungarian re
* - * volution was staged largely to fright
SAX FRANCISCO, Aptil 1— Ac en the Allies with the idea that Ger
cording to the State Mining Hureuu, many might also rapidly disintegrate.
California yields approximately 70 per Secret documents that have been
cent of the quick silver output of the found by Allied agents show that the
United Stale : and since 1850 has pm Hungarian revolution was due parti/
duced i total of 2,1.*57,72$ flasks \in to Count Karolysis*s maneuver in con
the end of 1917.) valued at $101,992,-I junction with a German movement
560. aimed directly at the Allies.
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WILL PLEAD
TO CHARGE
OF MURDER
By Associated Press
SEATTLE, April 1— Kuth Garri
son will plead this afternoon to the
charge of murdering Mrs. Gracr
Storrs, by placing poison in her foo t.
The girl’s attorneys stated this fore
noon that the plea will probably V*
“mental irresponsiblity.”
HAVE FLU
NO GAME
SEATTLE, April 1— Tonight’s
Seattle-Montreal game, to decide the
world’s championship, has been called
off. Five Montreal players are suffer
ing from influenza. Probably thi*
years’ championship will now no
abandoned.
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JEWISH SITUATION IN
POLAND IS MOST TRAGIC
LONDON , April 1— By A. P
“The Jewish situation in Poland and
Lithuania is so tragic that thousands
are starving and tens of thousands
clamoring for permission to join their
relatives in the United States”, savs
a report just received by the London
bureau of the Zionist Organization
from its special commissioner, Israel
Cohen. The question of reuniting
families, the bureau announces, has
been presented to the State Depart
ment at Washington.
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ARCHANGEL, April 1— The Bol
sheviki artillery has subjected the Al
lied railway front and positions south
of Odezerskai to the heaviest of bom
bardments of many weeks. It Is dc
lieved that the Bolsheviki expected an
attack. Bolsheviki air plane and bal
loon activity is increasing.
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PEACE DELEGATES DRESS IT
PARIS, April 1— Top-hats and
morning coats are commonly worn at
the Peace Conference. Although top
hats made their reappearence in Paris
on Armistice Day, it was not until
President Wilson arrived that they
really began to flourish. The President
was never seen on the street without
his . According to French observers,
he is one one of the most carefully
dressed of all the delegates. One has
said that he never has seen a frock
coat sit so well on a man as on Mr.
Wilson.
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CELEBRATE CENTENARY
OF FRENCH ADMIRAI
PARIS, April 1— The fourth cen
tenary of the birth of Admiral de
Coligny, the famous victim of the
Night of St. Bartholomew, has been
celebrated in Paris by the protestant
community.
A solemn commemorative service
was held at the Oratory, on the Rue
St. Honore, at which the memory of
the great admiral , who in Victor Hu
gos* words was “the initiator of Fren
ch colonial policy and the dreamer of
a New Franee” was venerated, and
his statue, one of the notable monu
ments of Paris, was decorated with
flowet*.
The Queen of Holland sent a
wreath in honor of her illustrious an
cestor, whose daughter Louise, of
tragic memory, became the wife of
W:niam the Silent in 1583.
Helen A. Crawford, well known
Anchorage young lady, and Walter K.
Barnard, with the 14th Infantry, were
recently married at Anchorage.
SUBSCRIBE FOR THE GATEWAY
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LEAGUE OF
STATES IS
PROPOSED
By Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO, April 1— Geo.
L. Raker, Mayor of Portland, Oregon,
is here and he proposes a league oi
Western States for economic and in
dustrial interests of the coast. The
matter is receiving much attention
here and elsewhere along the Pacific
Coast.
denTdebs
REHEARING
By Associated Press
WASHINGTON, April 1— The Su
preme Court has unanimously denied
Eugene Debs a rehearing for his ten
year sentence. Debs was convicted of
espionage, and i& now serving hi*
time.
EXPOSlON
KILLS 13
By Associated Press
TRINIDAD, April 1— The bodies
of 13 miners have been recovered from
the Empire coal shaft at Aguilar. The
miners were killed by an explosion of
coal damp.
APRiTToOL
Bv Associated Press
PARIS, April 1— It was rumored
this forenoon that Col. E. M. Hou^e
had announced that the peace treaty
had been signed. The telephone line*
to the American headquarters were
kept hot until it was remembered tha:
this was April First, and the Ameri
cans were springing jokes.
STEAMER IN
DISTRESS
HALIFAX, April 1— The American
naval supply ship Culgoawith, carry
ing a small number of troops from
France, is reported by wireless to be
in distress. The ship is off the Virgin
ia Capes.
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SAYS RUSSIAN NATION IS
AGAINST LEAGUE OF NATIONS
VLADIVOSTOK, April 1—By A.
P.~ “The Russian nation follows with
a harsh feeling of bitterness all the
efforts for creating a League of Na
tions”, declares Dr. Vaclav Girsa, lo
cal member of the Czech National
Council. “It comprehends with diffi
culty how the allied democracies can
entertain this noble but rather distant
idea, and at the same time look quietly
on at what is transpiring in Ruwia,”
continu'd P. Ojrwu
WILSON TO
MAKE PART
OF BLAME
By Associated Press
PARIS, April 1— President Wilson
declared today that he is perfectly
willing to accept his share of the re
sponsibility for the peace conference
delays and pointed out that the slow*
ness of the negotiations were not due
to any single country or its represen
tatives.
TROUBLE OVER REPARATIONS
PARIS , April 1— The feeling of
apprehension over the lack of progress
on the peace treaty, especially in Am
erican circles, is not pronounced here.
It is believed that the deadlock has not
been reached yet. The principal diffi
culties are in settling upon repara
tions
AZORESFOR
NAVAL ASE
LISBON, PORTUGAL, April 1
“The possession of the Azores Is
lands as a naval base has been a dis
tinct factor in the Allies’ victor}',’’
says Rear Admiral Herbert Oma'*
Dunn, U. S. N., commander of that
base, who recently arrived in Lisbon,
where the American naval men were
the heroes of the hour.
Rear Admiral Dunn was received
by the new president of the Portu
guese Republic, Admiral Canto de
Castro, and a banquet in his honor
was given at the American Legation,
which was attended by representatives
of all the'Allied powers.
In an interview with a Seculo re
porter, Rear Admiral Dunn expressed
his w'arm appreciation of Portugal’s
cooperation in dealing with the U
boat pest from that outpost in the At
lantic.
Nothing would please the Azoreans
better than to be able to pay homage
to President Wilson personally. When
the President embarked for Europe,
Rear Admiral Dunn cabled him a re
quest that the ship might pass in view
of the islands. The request was grant
ed, and afterwards at a meeting in
Paris, the President charged Rear Ad
miral Dunn to convey to the Portu
guese people his sympathy and thanks
for their friendship and cooperation
with the American naval service at the
Azores.
The influenza scourge has not spar
ed Portugal's westermost colony, ani
there has also been a serious shortage
of food. Rear Admiral Dunn not only
succeeded in obtaining some ship
ments of wheat from the United Stat
es but also distributed to the islancTers
all the available medicine from the
American ships, gasoline for the Red
Cross ambulances. The Stars ancr
Stripes is the most popular foreign
flag in the Azores islands.
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MEXICAN GOVERNMENT
HAS RECOGNIZED EBERT
MEXiCO CITY, April 1—- Sen*
Garza Perez, under Secretary of For
eign Relations, is quoted by the news
paper Excelsior as saying that the
Mexican government has recognize!
the new Ebert government of Ger
many. No official announcement to
thft vfftet b*en mad*.
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MEAT PACKERS
ARE RELEASED
BY GOVERNMENT
By Associated Press
WASHINGTON, April 1— The
meat packers of the country have been
released from food administration con
trol. President Wilson has signed the
proclamation of release.
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SEATTLE TAKES OVER THE
LARGEST TRACTION SYSTEM
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SEATTLE, April 1— By A. P.—
The municipality has taken over the
operation of the Puget Sound Comp
any’s street car lines for $15,000,000. j
This is believed to be the largest mun- •
icipal owned line in the world.
By Associated Press
PARIS* April I— Commander-in
Chief Foch is goin to Spa to have a
conference with Mathias Etzbcrger re
garding' the Allied demands that the
Germans permit, without trouble, the
Poles use of the poit of Danzig.
The Inter-Allied Shipping Commis
sion completed preparations, to trans
port the Poles to Danzig but the Ger
mans objected.
HINDENBCRG IS ACTIVE
PARIS , April 1— Hindenburg is
reported to be concentrating larg*
forces in eastern Prussia, Polish fron
tier, to defend the Danzig-Posen rail
way.
A XT!—J E\V ISH O I T BR E A K
LONDON , April 1— Anti- Jewish
outbreaks have broken out at Kalisvh
on the former Poland-Germany bord
er. A large number of Jews have be.m
wounded and many Jewish shops and
homes have been plundered and dam
aged.
ELECTION IN
CHICAGO IS
HOT ONE
By Associated Press
CHICAGO, April 1— The municipal
election is on today after one of tho
most bitter campaigns. Riots broke
out last night but were quelled by th«j
police reserves.
There are six candidates in the
field for Mayor, Mayor Thompson be*
ing one, seeking his re-election.
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TO REDUCE STEEL PRICES
WASHINGTON, April 1—. Re
presentatives of the steel industry and
the industrial board of the department
of commerce have agreed upon a new
schedule for steel prices. The agree
ment provides for an immediate re
duction in steel product prices. „
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By Associated Press
WASHINGTON, April 1— Secretary
of War Baker has approved the Brit
ish Military authorities request to be
permitted to arrest James Spohr, na
turalized American, also his wife, who
are in Turkey.
Charges have be^n made that Spohr-?
is closely associated with the head of
the Get man spv .system in Palestine
and among the British India subject:.
toInspect
NAVY YARDS
By Associated Press
SEATTLE, April 1— Seven mem
bers of the National Houce of Repre
sentatives naval affairs committee,
accompanied by their wives, arrived
here this afternoon, on a tour of th'*
coast. The members of the com mitt 2®
are inspecting various places and will
go to the Bremerton navy Yards to
morrow.
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