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NOME. ALASKA SATURDAY. MARCH IS, II
£tetivar«l fey Carrier
.$1.00 per Mo.ith
Name is the Distributing Center and Gateway to Northern Alaska OIL FIELDS
NO COMMERCIAL FISHING YUKON
ALASKA ARMY STATIONS TO BE DISCONTINUED
REDUCTION EXPRESS
RATES SEATTIE-ALASKA
SEATTLE, March 18—Reduction of nearly one half in the express
rata between Seattle, Fairbank and other Interior Alaska points was af
fected by an agreement between American Railway Express Company and
Alaska Government Railroad.
Under the terms of this agreement May 15 is the date set for the
change to become effective. First class express rate between Seattle via
Reward or Anchorage to Fairbanks will he Sll.fiO per hundred pounds.
OIMECTS TO WALL STREET DOMINATION
WASHINGTON, March 18—Representative Curry yesterday said
"I am unalterably opposed to Alaska being pioneered by Wall Street. The
trouble with Alaska is a tangle of red tape, emanating from 3S government
departments and bureaus, each having some authority over Alaska and
each so jealous of the other bureau that they will not steady down and
pull together.”
| " * SHAMROCKS COVERED WITH SNOW CALIEORNLA
San Francisco. Marcli 18—Shamrocks in Bakerslield amd Porter
till, California were white yesterday instead of green as a heavy fall of
snow covered the ground.
TACOMA ATTORNEY TAKES OWN Llfr'K
.SPOKANE, March 18—Oscar C. Cain, former I\ S. District Attorney
for Eastern Washington, was found dead in the bathroom of his residence
early yesterday with his throat slashed. Cain had a nervous breakdown
following an attack of influenza.
V
FORD TO m
MUSCLE SHOALS
DETROIT, March 18—Henry Ford has broken his silence of two
months on the subject of Muscle Shoals and said: "If its the last thing
I do I’ll exert every resource and influence at my command .to keep the
hands of Wall Street off Muscle Shoals project. I will perpetuate it as
a great example to American people. If the people of the United States
once catch the idea what water power means they will never again submit
to the proposition that to get power they must pay tribute to Wall Street.”
ATTORNEY GENERAL TO C ONSOLIDATE DEPARTMENTS
WASHINGTON, March 18—Announcement comes from the presi
dential party in Florjda that Attorney General Dougherty is preparing to
remove the Prohibition Bureau from Treasury Department to Department
of Justice. Dougherty feels that such a change would result in better
enforcement of Volstead legislation. Lobbyists are in arms and a vertiable
hornets nest has been stirred up.
FORMER ALASKA MISSIONARY IRES CONN.
NEW YORE. March 18—Rev. Charles Eugene Batticher, Episcopal
clergymen and editor of "The Spirit of the Missions,” died at Coscob, Conn.
For seven yean he was a missionary in Alaska, where he married Margaret
C. Graves of Baltimore, also a missionary.
EApeont’ agent released FROM CHARGES preferred
SEATTLE, March 18—August B. Hamer, narcotic agent was acquit
ted by the Jury yesterday afternoon In the Federal court. Hamer was
charged with tradicing in narcotics and drugs with his adict sweetheart
Mae Butchart aged eighteen. ’
WINS IN FIFTEENTH ROUND.
NEW YORK, March 18—Johnny Dundee was given the decision
over Charlie White in the fifteenth round.
_ DEMANDS RETURN OF V. 8. TROOPS.
WASHINGTON, Mareh 18—Underwood demanded that United States
troops bn withdrawn from Germany immediately. Other Senators *aid
U. 8. troops are being kept In Germany for the Interest of allies who refuse
MwHi» mwr mtuck i» dp* ly*.
COMMERCIAL FISHING
PROHIBITED ON YUKON
PHILADELPHIA, March 18—Commercial lishing on the Yukon
River has been prohibited by Department of Interior according to a tele
cram received by Bishop Rowe from Earl I Crum. Secretary to Herbert
Hoover. This legislation is for the purpose of protecting the native
Commercial fishing on the Yukon is conducted by the Carlisle
Packing Company as the largest operator in the district, and this com
pany will be forced to remove operations to the limit distance beyond the
mouth or discontinue business.
According to Custom House returns 1.126.809 pounds of Can
Salman. 91.890 pounds of Mild Cure. 40.13S pounds of Salt Salmon and
20.200 pounds of fresh and frozen fish were shipped by the Carlisle Com
pany during the year 1921.
AHI'MISEX LEAVES FOR SEATTLE—LATER NOME
CHRISTIANIA. March 18—Amundsen sailed yesterday for Seattle'
to dispatch an expedition from that, city via No*jie for the Arctic.
Amundsen will leave Seattle for the North about June 1st. 1922.
with his exploring ship Maud.
WEALTHY SCION RECEIVES LIGHT SENTENCE
DETROIT. March 18—John Daval Dodge, millionaire son of the
late John F. Dodge, automobile manufacture, was given the ridiculously
mild fine of five days in the House of Correction for fast driving. Dodge
was drunk at the time of arrest and a large quantity of liquor was found
in the machine.
DKCKMItKIt WEDS MAY—NEBRASKA ROMANCE
Grand Island. Neb.. March 18—W. II. Jones. 81 years old. bachelor
and Civil War pensioner was married to Nellie Woods, who Is more than
half a century his junior,. <; *
PRINCESS FATIMA REFUSED HOTEL ACCOMODATIONS
NEW YORK, March 18—Princess Fatima, Sultana of Kaboul, whose
4 4 caret diamond was seized by the government for failure to pay duty,
has been denied further shelter by the Waldorf Astoria and other swell
hotels. The princess was unable to pay her bills. At the time the
Sultana was presented to society she wore the magniflcient diamond which
she later tried to sell before having paid the requisite duty.
GANDHI SENTENCED
SIX YEARS SEDITION
ABMEDABAI). British India, March 18—Mohandas K. Gandhi.
Indian non cooperationist leader, was arrested recently on charges of
sedition and was sentenced today. The sentence given Gandhi is six
years imprisonment without hard labor.
The policy of Gandhi is passive or non resistence to British edict
or for.ce and his following is numbered In the millions. However, many
of the followers have disregarded the teachings of the leader and indulge
in direct action which the British are attempting to suppress.
CLASH IN IRISH-CITY DU RING PARADE PROTEST
CORK, March 18—Pour people were wounded yesterday when a
clash occurred between Republican police and a crowd followtng a brass
BRITISH NEGOTIATIONS WITH MEXICO
London. March 18—Negotiations are proceeding with the Mexican
government ,Upr conclusion of an agreement for submission to arbitration
of all British claims against Mexico.
SUTHERLAND IN N. Y. KNROUTE TO ALASKA ELECTION
NEW YORK, March 18—Delegate from Alaska, Dan A. Sutherland'
arrived here yesterday morning and left late the same day for Seattle.
From Seattle Sutherland will proceed to Alaska, sailing on March 28th.
He will go to Ketchikan where he will open his campaign for re-election
as Delegate.
FORT SLIM
TO BE RETAINED
WASHINGTON', March is -Hpcau.se of impending reductions in
the size of the American army the general staff is preparing to make
several changes in the army stations in Alaska.
It is indicated that Ft. Liscum and Ft. Gibbon will be abandoned,
but that FT. ST. MICHAEL WILL BE RETAINED. A detachment will
be maintained at Nnnana until the railroad bridge has been completed and
then probably will be removed into Anchorage, where a much larger force
will be retained than heretofore.
St. Michael was also considered as one of the stations to he dis
continued. but pressure, sufficiently strong, was brought to bear and front
all indications then- will be no change made, for the present at least.
With the abandonment of St. Michael and the resulting loss of ship
tdnnage for Bering Sea, Sewaru Peninsula wou. l suffer materially thru
a fewer number of ships carrying the supplies necessary to meet the needs
of the various communities.
NIECE FORMER AMBASSADOR ENGAGED FRENCH i OF N'T
PARIS. 'Match 1 5k- Hugh Wallace, termer Am .idean \"•■•flor,
has announced the engagement of his niece. Miss Sally Beecher, to Count
Jean Bertrand de Luppe.
CRIPPLE COMBINE EXPOSED NEW YORK CITY
NEW YORK, March IS—Two crippled women. .1 crippled ooy and
an an ilis. man appeared v• stT-'.a / in court ns wita'. ^es agai'*st John
Stefans who admitted he employed the four cripples to beg for him. The
wages and compensation he gave the beggars was $3.00 per day, board and
liquor” when they wanted it." they paying him all money tinkled into
their tin cups.
SEATTLE POLICEMAN
SHOT BY BOOTLEGGEOS
SEATTLE, March 18— ('has. B. Legate, veteran Seattle policeman,
was found shot dead in an automobile in a garage on Main street, early
yesterday morning. The body was found in the back seat of the machine
with a bullet hole in the forehead.
The district in which tlie body was found is Infected with boot
leggers and the crime is laid at their door.
MOT IX IIKITISH EAST AFRICA OVER AX AKRKST
LONDON, March 18—Twenty natives were killed and thirty wound
ed at Nairobi. British East Africa in fighting which occurred when the
police demanded the arrest of an Indian agitator named Thtiku.
ILLINOIS BANDITS SEIXE EXPRESS SHIPMENTS
CHICAGO, March IS—Three bandits boarded a Sante Fe passenger
train near Galesburg yesterday and after holding up the messenger at the
point of their guns, seized large quantities of express shipments and es
caped. An Illinois posse immediately gave chace.
O BENCH A IN JIRY DELIBERATING
LOS ANGELES. Mar. 18—The Jury in the Obenchain case is still
deliberating on a verdict.
TERRORISTS EMERGE FROM COYER
•BELFAST. March IS—Terrorists who remained under cover all St.
Patrick’s Day, resumed activities today, with two being shot and one
fatally wounded.
SENATOR MALIGNING IRISH GIVEN VITROLK' CLASSIFICATION.
WASHINGTON, March 18—Senator Williams of Mississippi criti
cised Irish Americans during a speech in the Senate and Senator Ashurst
replied in a manner that took the breath from bis collegues. He said that
the Irish had a high degree of civilization established a thousand years
before “the slant headed Welch ancestors of the Senator from Mississippi
bad stopped eating raw meat"