NOME TRI WEEKLY NUGGET
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VOLUME 19 NoXiS * • *
_ U ' .p I NOME, ALASKA MONDAY JULY 21, 1919 TELEPHONE MAIN 119
AUSTRIAN TREATY COMPLETED
COAST PHOI* STUBS TOTE RESEME UBOOS
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AUSTRIANS GIVEN
COMPLETED TREATT
Special to The Nugget by The Associated Press.
I‘.Mils, July 21—The completed peace treaty between Austria and the
Allies was presented to the Austrian peace delegates yeftferday. The Peace
Council !ias notified the Austrian delegation that Austria will lie given fifteen
L’ays in which to make final observations regarding the terms.
Tlie completed treaty is formulated along lines similar to those of the
treaty with Germany, although differing widely in tenor.
The reparations terms'are similar to those of Germany and require1
Austria toqnake good all damage done in the sections occupied hy her armies I
in Italy, Sophia .and i ton mania. The doeuinent also provides that the Austrian
pre-war debt shall he divided up among the states formerly composing the I
Austro-Hungarian empire. The Austrian army is reduced to a volunteer force
«.f 30.000 men, tiie .reduction to take place within three months from the date
M signing the treaty The treaty provides that ti.e military fo. c°s m.-y lie
used used only for the purpose of maintaining order and control within the
Austrian frontier. One factory is allowed for the manufacture of war ma
terials and the importation of munitions is forbidden.
CHICAGO PACKING HOUSE STRIKERS RETURN
TO WORK PENDING ARBITRATION
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CHICAGO, July 21—Ton thousand packing house employees have re
turned to work here pending the adjustment of their claims.
The men are demanding a thirty per cent Increase in wages through
• Federal Judge Alsehuler, who is acting its arbitrator at the request of Mayur
Thompson. .Many thousand dollars are involved in the wage increases de
manded by the employees. The companies claim that the increases will
he prohibitive and cannot lie conceded without compelling them to increase
the price of their products to unheard of figures.
SOLSHEVIKI REFUSE TO RELEASE ARRESTED
UCUDcno >w—,►» w_.-.oO AT PEI KoG RAD
Special to the Nome Nugget by The Associated Press:
STOCKHOLM. July 21---The Rolshevikl government of Petrograd lias
officially refused to release five members of the Swedish legation who were
recently arrested on the charge that they were aiding anti-Bolshevist activi
ties, in spite of the peremptory demand of the Swedish government.
officials of the- Swedish Foreign Office refused to say what further
notion will lie taken or to discuss the situation beyond stating that they be
lieved the Bolshevists are preparing to arrest tin- consular representatives of
c-tlior nations represented at Petrograd.
CHICAGO TRANSPORTATION EMPLOYEES
THREATEN GENERAL STRIKE.
Spt-e'uil to the Nugget By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, July 19—Employees of the local street transportation lines!
threaten to hold a strike of all brnnehes of the service if their wage demands I
are not niet hy the employing companies Immediately.
Mayor Thompson has appointed a riiediation committee to investigate
tt.e controversy and undertake a settlement.
BOSTON STREET CAR STRIKE STIL*L CONTINUING.
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BOSTON, July 19—The strike'on the elevated and street railway
systems has entered its third day today without the slightest prospect of an
early change, in the situation.
The transportation facilities of the city are totally inadequate toJiandie
the traffic and automobile owners who have engaged in passenger transporta
tion are reaping a harvest. ,
Several persons were injured and one man was killed in a crash between
two automobiles in the conjested section today.
FOREST FIRES CREATING VAST DAMAGE IN IDAHO.
Special to The Nugget by The Associated Press.
SPOKANE. July 19—Reports reaching the city from Coeurd’A.lenn say
the great forest fires raging in the timbered regions of northern Idaho ale
continuing to eat their way into valuable timber despite every effort made by
the forestry officials to check their progress.
High winds are prevailing over the greater part of the fire district and
, are creating havoc hy fanning the fires Into greater violence. Many of the
fires are said to be of enormous size.
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ALLIES pAD 100 MILE CANNON READY.
Special to Tjie Nome Nugget uy The; Associated ess.
PARIS, July 18—Chief of the Ndvy Department Bourgeois told the
military committee of the Chamber oJLDeputies today that the Allies were
preparing to eclipse the best performances of the German long range gun ex
perts afy the time the armistice*was signed and but for the suspension of hos
tilities would have startled even 'the Germane by sending a missile from the
firing line one hundred miles into German tpYritory? f
Commander Bourgeois stated that at tfre time the armistice was signed
he had a cannon ready for action which would fire a shell one hundred miles
with ease and reasonable accuracy.
KAISER REPORTED EXTREMELY ILL.
Rprr's.' to tha Nugget By the Associated Preaa. #
BERLIN, July )8—The Pan-German Vossitche Zeltung, which stands
close to the former royal circles of Germany, takes a most serious view of the
reported illness of th<* former kaiser. The journal calls the exemperor’s
* Illness regrettable and ascribes it to "deep melancholy.**
% The kaiser Is said to rarely leave his apartments and spends many
^tours dally In prayer. The paper says he is depressed and nervous and
wants to talk continually on religious subjects.
The paper also refers to the exkalserln in lugubrious tone and says
;gi§ nuty have Id return to Germany for treatment for her old heart trouhje.
Wide* Is said to have returned.
WHITES AND NEGROES
RIOT IHWASHIHGTON
Special lo the Nome Nugget by The Associated Press:
WASHINGTON, July 21—Scores of negroes were injured here during
•" clash between negroes and whites last night.
The riots was the result of a report circulated in the capital to the
effect that a negro attempted to attack a white woman at her home on.the
outskirts of Washington. The report resulted in the assembling of a num
ber jof crowds of whites.who attacked negroes unmercifully in various parts
of the city. Negroes were pulled fr<un street cars and subjected i<t ;i beating
by the whites without the faintest suspicion attaching them to the alleged
attack. In a number of instances the negroes were beaten unconscious
beiore the blood lust "of thb whites was satisfied. Soldiers, sailors and
marines helped the mobtf to vent their rage on the blacks. Just how many
negroes were injured is unknown hilt more than a dozen were treated at the
various city hospitals.
Numerous arrests were m.qle by the police before the rioters were
dispersed.
SENATOR POMERENE DEFENDS LEAGUE OF ^NATIONS IN SENATE.
.Special to the Nome Nugget by The Associated Press:
WASHINGTON. July 21 Speaking before the senate today. Senator
Pomerene. Democrat,.of Ohio, urged prompt and unreserved ratification of the
peace treaty and la-ague of Nations and offered strong defense of the League,
which lid said couft l»e amended as experience requires.
*Tlie senator declared that the League tends to prevent future wars
and should />e given a trial before rejection.
REPORTED BELA KUN GOVERNMENT OVERTHROWN.
Special to the Nugget By the Associated Press.
advices stating that the' TTela
thrown by a triumvirite of opposing radicals.
According to the reports the men who have displaced Bela Kun and liis
associates are Varga, Moses. Alpr.v. Tiber and Szamuely, all of whom have
been prominent in opposing the Communist government.
The new government is said to have ordered the Communist commander
at Budapest to turn the city over 1 • • the new government. A call has also
been mirde for volunteer troops to prevent the Communist reviving tile reign
of terror by which they formerly gained control of the government. The
Bed army forces built-up by Kun are said to be throwing down their arinsj
and tlie whole organization is breaking down rapidly. Money issued by the
Kun government is also reported depreciating rapidly.
STATE DEPARTMENT DEMANDS EXPLANATION FROM MEXICO
REGARDING BANDIT ATTACK ON U. S. SAILORS.
Sp eial to the Nome Nugget by The Associated Press:
WASHINGTON. July 21 The State Department has sent urgent
representations to the Mexican government regarding the attack on American
sailors from the American monitor Cheyanne by Mexican badits yesterday.
It is expected that the demand will bring a prompt reply from Car
ranza. to the effect that efforts will be undertaken to punish the offenders.
The attack is said to have been entirely unprovoked.
Secretary Daniels stated in an interview today that none of1 the units
of the Pacific fleet will be diverted to Mexican waters because of the affair.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee Is reported investigating the
Mexican situation and has asked for full information regarding the depreda
tions against Americans in Mexico during the more recent years.
RECOMMENDS NO SUBSTITUTION FOR KAISER AT TRIAL.
Spu-ial to the Nome Nugget by The Associated Press:
The Commission on Responsibilities, for the war and the crimes against
International law and morality during the struggle, has reported against allow
ing any one to substitute for the former German kaiser when his case is tried
before an international tribunal. The Council has so far not acted on the
report. Should the recommendation be endorsed by the Council, the ex
kaiser will he compelled to personally appear before the international court,
instead of sending a legal representative, as it is surmised he might intend.
YAQUI INDIANS ATTACK CARRANZA GARRISON IN SONORA.
Special to the Nome Nugget by The Associated Press:
NOGALES, July 20—Reports reaching the border today announce that
the Yuqui Indians are again.on the warpath in Sonora and have attacked the
Carranza garrison at the town of Posa, situated in Central Sonora some dis
tance south of Nogajes.
According to the reports, twenty seven Indians were killed during the
course of the action.
GERMAN 0OVT ESTABLISHES STATE OF SEIGE IN POMMERANIA.
Special to Xbe Nugget by The Associated Press.
COPENHAGEN, July 20-—Berlin reports today say the government has
declared a state of seige In the Pom morn province to overcome the "moral
strike iu that section of Germany.
The district has been placed under strict martini law and the general
strike which has disrupted industry and commerce for some time is ended.
VANGUARD OF PACIFIC FLEET DEPARTS FROM EASTERN COAST.
Special
OLD POINT COMPOtrr, Vtt., July 19—The vanguard of the new Pacific
war fleet departed for the' Pacific coast at elflht thirty this morning. The
fleet is moving to the Pacific individually today and many of the six dread
naughts and thirty destroyers so far designated for attachment to the squad
ron will Join tho fleet on Its way to Pacific waters or will be waited for by the
others until all can be assembled in the Pacific.
The Navy Department has announced that tbe main base of the fleet
will be on Puget Sound, w ith headquarters at Bremerton Navy Yard.
PRESIDENT ILL:
ORDERED TO RED
Special to th* Nugget By the Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, July 21 — President Wilson was ordered to t..<1 by i,,s
physician Dr. Herbert Grayson, yesterday and will probably not i-,- allowed,
t.. receive visitors or conduct more than'the most imporant state, a flairs before
Hampton Hoads last night suffering with an attack of dysenteiy. ihs ,
dition was such that Dr. Grayson ordered him to remain in bed for several days.
will have to rest and will net he able to see callers before the end or the
week. All engagements made for the President this week have been can
celled in accordance.
WASHINGTON. July 21 —President Wilson, lias asked the Senate For
eign Delations Committee to approve appointment ..f number of American
In his communication t.. Hie committee. Mr. Wilson explains his re
to :. place on the Depurations Commission. Marmli is in I
in the peace treaty.
I tit has not taken any action regarding it up to the present.
NINETEEN COAST TELEPHONE UNIONS VOTE UISCUNIINUE STRIKE
lotions have a I read j voted t.. discontinue the telephone strike at presen in
union has gone out following an atllrmative vote by the organization. The
ganization. It is expected that a majority ->f the strikers will return to
work by tomorrow, ending the strike which has virtually paralyzed const
Frisco and Sacramento Unions Remain Out Despite Orders.
SKATTLK, July 21— The coast strike of telephone workers is virtually
ended today. The telephone workers and wire men of Seattle, Tacoma and
Spokane will return to work. The Los Angeles strikers hive already
I resumed their labors. The Saji Francisco and Sacramento uni-ms have de
cided to remain out in deliance «.f the order to return issued bv tie strik i