MONDAY
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SENATOR CUMMINS URGING
GOVT TRANSPORTATION
FOR ALASKA
Washington, Mch. 13—Senator
Cummins, chairman of the Senate
Interstate Commerce Committee, is
concerning himself in the government’s
railroad building operations in A Lusk a
and is not only endeavoring to secure
an alteration in the present construc
tion management and early completion
of the road but is also urging the estab
lishment of a government steiimship
line between Seattle and ihe territory
to assist the road and help populate
the territory through lower transpor
tation rates.
Senator Cummins has just concluded
a series of conferences with Secretary
Fall of the Interior Department in
which the senator urged on the secre.
tary these policies:
First—Elimination of the army
from any connection with the railroad,
specifically meaning the removal of
Means as chairman of the Alaska En
gineering Hoard.
Second—Establishment of civilian
control or operations by the appoint
ment of a general manager for the
property, to complete the railroad and
operate It.
fThird—Appropriation of ten million
dollars for the completion of the rail.
Fourth—Establishment of a govern- I
ment line of steamships to ply between
Seward and Seattle in connection with
the railroad, providing freight and
passenger rates sufficiently low to de
velop traffic and permit the territory
to acquire its needed growth in popu
Cummins told Secretary Fall that
high water transportation rates are the
direct cause of the territory's loss of
population in the last ten years. The
senator said further that according *o
bis information the existing steam
ship lines to Alaska .are controlled by
the copper mining interests. Cum
mins is in favor of continuing govern
ment operation of both railroad and
steamship lines.
Secretary Fall was much impressed
by the arguments presented and indi
cated that he would give the entire
problem of Alaska immediate study
ALASKA WOOD PULP
PLEASES GOV’T OFFICIALS
Washington. Mch. I I—Tlie Depart
ment of Agriculture is in receipt of
samples of wood pulp from the first
run of the paper pulp mill recently
established near Juneau, Alaska, and
the officials are much pleased at the
excellence of the quality and other at
tributes. The mill is situated in the
Tongas forest district where a vast
supply of suitable tLinls-r is available.
l*V»rest Service officials declared af
ter examining the Alaska pulp that
the establishment of the mill has mark
ed another milestone in the progress
of pulp production for the news print
paper industry and said an area of the
Tongas district containing two billion
feet of pulp making timber would be
placed on the market soon in response
to inquiries from a large number of
prospective paper manufacturers.
CLAIMED WHOLE WAR FLEET
MAY BE SENT TO PACIFIC
Washington, Mch. 14—The East
ern press this morning carries art.!,
cles to the effect that the Navy De
partment is considering transferring
the entire fleet to the Pacific.
•Secretary of the Navy Denby re
fused to discuss the matter. “There
are policies which cannot be discussed
at present," he said.
PARTISAN LEAGUERS GET ROUGH
DEAL IN KANSAS
Great Bend, Kan. Moh. 14—Details
of an anti Non partisan League demon
stration oceuring Saturday night in
Barton County, which reached a climax
in the action of numerous citizens In
escorting from Great Bend of J. R.
Burton, former senat6r from Kansas
and the tarring of J. O. Stevie and
A. A. Parsons, reveal that Stevie and
Parsons were compelled to apply coal
tar to themselves while undressed.
They were then forced to roll on the
ground, gathering up miscellaneous
decorations of leaves twigs and dirt
In thep roc ess, afterwhlch their cloth
ing was resumed to them and they
were told to leave.
THOUSANDS PRAY WHILE
SINN FEINNERS DIE
Dublin. Ire. Mch. 14—Six Sinn
T'ienners were executed In Mount joy
prison by the British Authorities to.
day. While the executions were In
progress a crowd estimated at twenty
thousand or more perrons knelt in
prayer outside the walla, presenting
one. ef the most dramatic pictures pn
REPORTED PETROGRAD
REVOLT SUPPRESSED
London. Mch. 13—Aoocrding to the
Russian Union agency at Helsingfors.
Finland, the Petrograd revolt has been
suppressed and twenty five hundred
soldiers implicated in the revolt have
been executed by the Bolsheviki.
Another message reports that the
Bolsehvikl have been overthrown .it
Kief. Tauibov and Orel and that one
hundred and fifty Soviet Commissaries
have been crucified by the revolution
ists at Tmrltsyn.
SOVIETS GAINING IN
REVOLT STRUGGLE
Copenhagen, Mch. 14—Advices
frouriHclsingfors, Finland, today state
that the fortress of Krasnaya-Gerlta
has 'been recaptured from the Russian
revolutionaries by Soviet troops and
that the Moscow uprising has been
quelled after severe fighting in the
streets of the city.
According to the advices, conditions
at Kronstadt are serious, owing to a ,
lack of food.
ROTARY CLUB
HOLDING CONFERENCE
Seattle, Mch. 14—A conference of
Rotary Club representatives of nine
teen cities of the Northwest opened
here today with fifteen hundred dele
gates present.
WILSON ARMY
PROMOTIONS RATIFIED
Washington. Mch. 14—Five thous
and army promotion nominations
submitted by Wilson before the change
in administration have, been confirmed
STEVE O’BRIEN, DAWSON
PIONEER, DEAD
O'Brien, a pioneer saloon man of Daw
son. Yukon Territory, Seattle ami Vic
toria, B. <\ is dead here.
RUMANIAN QUEEN TO VISIT U S
Athens. Mcb. 14—Queen Maria of
Rumania will visit America soon, she
announced here Sunday.
BOLSHEVIKI WARN FINNS
TO AVOID REBELS
Helsingfors. Finland, Mch. 14—
Warning from the Bolshevik} was re
ceived today by the Finnish govern
ment not to communicate Vfe any way
with the Kronstadt stronghold of the
stronghold of the anti Soviet revohi
TUESDAY
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GOV’T CONCENTRATING
ALL WAR AIRPLANES
New York, Mch 15—In conformity
to new army orders, nearly all army
airplanes of the bombing type, and
also many army air service pursuit
planes, are being drawn from tbe var
ious government flying fields for con
centration at Uangley Field. Vorginia.
BATTLE FLEET PROSPECT
CREATES STIR
Seattle, Mch. 14—According to
Jermore, the Post Intelligencer’s
Washington correspondent, the fact
that at two meetings, the cabinet has
discussed the question of putting the
entire United States battleship fleet in
the Pacific to remain there indefinitely,
h^s created a bigger stir in Washing
ton than anything that has happened
for a long time. Speculation js every
where rife as to the object of the con
templated amove and many inferences
and deductions are being made.
Official Washington refuses to discuss
the quesiton and is apparently no bet
ter infonmed, outside of exclusively
cabinet circles, than the press and pub
lic. It is understood that no decision
has been reached on the question but
there is a general impression that the
decision will ultimately be favorable.
STATE DEPT*
PRESENTS BOUNDARY
SETTLEMENT PLANS
Washington. Mch. 14—Acting un
der the provisions of the treaty nego
tiated by William Jennings Bryan
while Secretary of State, the State
department has dispatched a note out
lining a settlement of the boundary
dispute between Panama and Costa
Rica, which is expected to receive the
endorsement of the two countries.
EXPLOSION WOUNDS IRISH COPS
Dublin.'Ireland, Mch. 15—-Five po
lice recruits were wounded here today
.by an explosion.
*ubecrlbe NOW for tne Nome Nugget
GOVT TO DIVERT
IMMIGRANTS TO FARMS
Washington. Meh. 15—Plana to di
vert incoming immigrants from the
cities and to co-ordinate the agencies
of the Department of the Interior. De
partment of .Labor and the Depnrt
ment of Agriculture so as to place the
nounced today by Commissioner (Jen
era! of HmmifTnition Husbands.
PAYNE RESIGNS AS RAILROAD
DIRECTOR GENERAL
Washington. Mch. 15—Announce.
m*mt was made today that Payne has
pr&«ient»*d his resignation as Director
General of Itailroads.
SPECIAL SESSION CONGRESS
STARTS APRIL 11
Washington, Mch. 15—April 11 is
the date definitely fixed by President
Harding for the scheduled special ses
sion of Congress, according to a White
House announcement today.
FIVE DIE IN TRAIN FIRE 4
Ihieblo, Mch. 15—Five persons were
burned to death when a rear Pullman
sleeping car on a Denver and Rio
Grande train caught fire here early
this morning.
WASHINGTON SOLDIER BONUS
PAYMENTS COMMENCE
Olyimtpia, Wn. Mch. 14—The State
will begin payment Wednesday of the
compensation under the Soldier’s Iton
elcven million dollars.
ASSISTANT TREASURY
SECRETARY NOMINATED
Wadsworth of Boston has been nmni
VETERAN SLATED FOR ASS'T
WAR SECRETARY
Washington, Mch. 14—J. M . Wain*
weight of New York, who served in
vision colonel, has been named for
|SEATTLE MINISTER
BURNED TO DEATH
day when the hath robe he was wear
JURY DISAGREES,
MOB HANGS PRISONER
Versailles, Kentucky. Mch. 13—A
trial jury having failed to agree on a
penalty for the murder of which he
was convicted Saturday night, a mob
today took Richard James, a negro,
fro mthe jail here and hanged him
CONGRESSWOMAN RANKIN
IN NEW ROLE
Chicago, Mch. 13—Congresswoman
ILuikin cntfne to Chicago today to
preside at the forthcoming meeting of
the National Consumers League as
PACKERS AND
EMPLOYEES NEGOTIATING
Washington. Mch. 14—Representa
tives of the meat packing industry and
the r employees are scheduled to meet
Secretary of Labor James J. Davis
on March 21 to adjust their wage dis
putes. at'cc.rding to nn announcement
WEDNESDAY
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ALLIES DEMAND 2 BILLIONS
FROM GERMANY MAY 1
Par M<h. 16—The Allied Repara -
j tions Oorrtmdttee has called upon Ge-_
many to pay two billion mark* in
gold, ' orr. modi ties, ships or negotiable
Securities by May 1, at the same time
informing he.-’ that out of this sum the
expense*' of ihe airnidts of occupation
will first be met before any portion Is
credited to Germany as reparation
BRITISH SIGN TRADE
AGREEMENT WITH SOVIETS
London. Mch. 16—Trade agree
ments unde- which commercial rela
tion.* will be resumed between Great
Britain and Russia were signed here
this morning.
CUBA ELECTS NEW PRESIDENT
Havana. Mch. 16—Dr. Alfredo
Zaya* has been elected president of
PERPETUAL MEMORIAL
FOR WILSON PROJECTED
was Liunchcd here tocL'iy to establish j
a perpetual memorial in honor of
Woodrow Wilson, "the man who pro
jected into the. world the idea of the
Ijeague of Nations.”
GOV’T BUREAUS EXTOLLS
ALASKA « RADE
Washington, Mch. 16—According to
a stat ament just prepared ’> the Di
vision of Static tie's of the Bureau of
.Foreign and Domestic Comm ere trade
between the United States prop -r and
Alaska in 1920 was one of the most
productive and wholesome trades the!
country possessed, the statement dis
closing that the people of Alaska have
a larger purchasing power per capita
than the peoples of any other extra -
territorial possession of the United
States and equally as large .1 produc
tive jreople.
CABINET DISCUSSES
ALASKA SITUATION
Washington, Mch. 16—It may have
been the result of what Senator Cum
mins told Secretary of the Interior Fall
the. other day, or the result of infor
mation supplied by other sources, but
the fact remains that President Hard
ing and Secretary Fall are receiving
serious impressions regarding the
troubles of Alaska.
A hopeful suggestion, however, is
found in the fact that both 4he presi
dent and Fall are sincerely interested
in til. Territory and convinced the re -
whatever the reasons, responsibility for
tin- I'rmisr in Alaska's population . »id
her failure to develop lies at the door
*il the federal government.
Washington, Mch.
State Depart!
s and wishes
discussions
BOLSHEVIKI ATTACKING
KRONSTADT FORT
1.011(1011. M«*li. ir>- The Bolsheviki
are reported in Finnish dispatches at
tacking the revolutionary stronghold
at Kronstadt.
A Bolsheviki aeroplane was shot
down today by the Kronstadt guns ac
cording to a dispatch to the Tunes
from Abo. Finland, and attacks on th -»
fort’s outer works by Soviet uimn.-ed
One of the cars is reported to have
l>een sunk in the river by artillery fire.
JAPS PLANNING BIG
NAVAL AVIATION PROGRAM
Washington, Mch. 16—The embar
kation of Japan on an elaborate pro
gram of naval aviation is to be expect
ed in the near future. In the opinion
of government officials. That such a
move, is contemplated is Indicated by
the present activity of Japan in the
purchase of aeroplanes in Kurope and
an endeavor t'> enlist the expert advise
of British naval flyers.
SENATE EXTRA SESSION ENDS
Washington. Mch. 15—The extra
session of the Senate which began
March 4. ended at noon today.
BIG PUGS TO SCRAP
IN AMERICA
New York, Men. 15—"The cham
pionship match between Carpentier
and Dempsey will not be held in Kur
ope, as recent reports have stated, but
will take place in American territory,"
promoter Tex Rickard announced to.;
TALAAT PASHA ASSASSINATED
IN BERLIN
Berlin, Mch. 15—Talaat Pasha, for
mer Grand Vlzer and Minister of Fi
nance of Turkey and one of the chief!
figures of the Ottonpin empire during: j
the late war, was assassinated today in j
a suburb of Berlin. The murderer was
an Armenian student who is under;
NEW YORKER CONFIRMED FOR
ASSISTANT SEC’TY OF STATE \
Washington, ^ Mch. 15-—The nomi- I
nation of Robert Woods Bliss of New
York for tho pojtt of Third Assistant j
Senate by President Harding toda:
and was immediately confirmed.
NEXT ROTARY CONVENTION
AT VANCOUVER
Seattle. Mi-.h. 15—Vancouver. Brit
ish Columbia, was selected for th*
1923 meting of th** International Rot
ary Club conference bv th** conventor
now in session here.
3,000 SOUND COAL
MINERS ON STRIKE
Seattle. Mch. 16—Three thousand
coal miners of the Black "Diamond and
other nearby coal districts have Ron*'
on strike, refusing to accept the reduc
tion of wages of 23 per cent scheduled
to become effective yesterday.
THURSDAY
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BRITISH BLOCK
SOVIET PROPAGANDA IN
TRADE AGREEMENT
London, Mch. 17—Under the terms
of the trade agreement signed yester
day between Oreat Britain and Soviet
Russia, each nation agrees to refrain
from hostile action or propaganda out
side its own borders against the gov
ernment or institutions of the other, or
any injurious propaganda outside its
own borders.
The Soviet government also pnrtic
| couragement of the Asiatic peoples lo
take action of any character against
British interests, .'specially in Asia
I Minor. Persia. Afghanistan and India
YOUNG IRISHMEN
CONTEMPLATING MARTYRDOM
Dublin. Ireland. Mch 17 He V i
seventy years. \W must ,.l! die; > >
th©se? Never, perhaps, as by dying
do so much for the world ’ "
COL HARVEY APPROVED AS
AMBASADOR TO BRITAIN
London, Me1 16- The British gov
ernment to.iav cave its formal ap
proval to tin proposed appointment ot
Uol. Harvey as United States Ainha«s
ad< r to Great Britain.
| INDICATED ALLIES TO OCCUPY
MORE GERMAN TERRITORY
Dus.seldorff, Germany, M<P»
ALASKA COD FISH SCHOONERS
DAMAGED BY FIRE BUGS
k;i Codfish Company schooners City
of Papeete. City of Glendale and City
of Bangor, all three of which have been
lying in Redwood Slough here, were
badly damaged today by a fire or al
leged Incendiary origin. The schoon
ers are employed by the Company in
the Bering Sea Ashing trade.
HARDING ASKS REVIEW
OF DEBS’ CASE
Washington. Mch. 17—President
Harding has become interested in the
case of Eugene V. Debs, the Socialist
leader, now serving a prison term for
draft obstruction, and has requested
the Attorney General to submit to him
a review of the case, according to a
Judiciary Department announcement
TROTSKY MAKES
OVERTURES FOR
CAPITULATION OF
KRONSTADT
Tendon. Mch. 17—Trotsky is re
ported In a Txtndon Times dispatch
from Stockholm today to hr making
new overtures to the anti-Soviet rev
olutionists for the capitulation ol
Kronstadt fortress, following the fail
ure of all Soviet efforts to regain pos
session of the famous stronghold.
Are YOU • Subscriber Mr. Reader
. FUTURE ALASKA MAIL
SCHEDULE ANNOUNCED
Settle. Mi'i. 16 The postal «u
*!>«•: ■ ' cs here announced the future ,\1
;isk.i m u! schedule an follows this nf
“Mails for Fairbanks. Nena/ia and
other points in the Yukon Itiver dis
trict wdl he sent via .Seward over the
Koverntnwnt railway to Fairbanks for
distribution until April 1. After tbit
date only first class mad an<l news
other classes will b»- held in Seattle
until May. when all ma.l will be rout
ed via Skagway and down the Yukon
on steamers immediately after the op
ening of navigation.
“Mail for Kuskokwim points will be
dispatched by direct steamer from Se
attle after May 15. Mail for Nome.
St Michael and Seward Peninsula
points will leave by boat from Seattle
3 AMERICANS KILLED BY
MEXICAN ROBBERS
Washington, Mch. 17—William
f£oj»er, S. Brown and Earnest F.
Small. Americans, were murdered at
Tampico, Mexico, on March 10 by rob
bers, the State Department was ad
vised today by the American Conset
at Tampico.
HARDING REFUSES TROOPS
FOR IRISH PARADE
Washington, Mch. 17 President
Harding has refused to permit enlist
ed men of the army and n ivy t<> pnr.i 1c
in an Irish demonstration ‘ahedul.-l '
take place in Boston today.
MOTHER OF SIX WAR VICTIMS
GIVES HARDING PRESENT
Seattle. Mch. 16—Mrs. Emma Wil
kins, whose six sons and four s‘ep
sons were killed while serving with tin*
British Army in the World War, this
afternoon mailed to President Hard -
ing a present in the shape of a nickel
plated wash cloth rack of her own
ROTARIANS ELECT
NEW GOVERNOR
I Seattle lawyer, has been elected Gov
ernor of the Northwest District Bn
| fnry PIul> organization by ‘he confer
ALASKA ITEMS
The I’. hJ.Harris Company, operat •
t> capital stink from $100,000 to $75".
\ pulp wood plant, the first unit • f
whi.-h means an investment of $3,000.
000 and will give . mpldyiment t.. 500
men is one of the industries that will
he established on lYinee Williams
I ufa
•nsavely interested in the Territory.
rffe ITnzelet has just returned
n (Jalena buy where he had Unpin -
'ater site which he has filed upon
water [Kiwer purposes in the m.in
•t uring of wood pulp.
No need to worry about the wash
woman not showing up on wash day if
you own a Cataract electric washer.
Pays for itself in a short time. Inquire
Nugget office for particulars
happy Women
Plenty of th«*m in Nome, and Good
Wouldn't any woman be happy.
After years of backache suffering.
Days ot misery, nights of unrest.
The distress of urinary troubles.
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Many readers will profit by the fof
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straighten up when I got down, my
bnck was so stiff and lame. A few
of Dean’s Kidney lMUs soon stopped
that awful misery in my back and put.
my kidneys in good working order.
Of bite years l have been free from this
annoyance, but Doan’s Kidney Pills
would l>e my first consideration, if T
ever had occaMion to take a kidney
medicine again, for I know they have
Price 80 cents, at all dealers. Don’t
imply ask for a kidney remedy—get
Doan’s Kidney PI lie—the same that
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