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FRENCH PRESS ATTACKS AMERICA
FQM POWER TREATY JAPANESE EDITOR HUGH
ROYAL SCANDAL
AIRED IN COURT]
BERLIN, March 11—Princess Eitel Friedrich was called into the i
Potsdam court yesterday, as a correspondent in a divorce suit brought ,
by Baroness Plattenlmrg. The princess created a sensation when sh- I
boldly confessed an intrique with Baron Plattenburg. both before and j
after her marriage to the former Kaiser’s son.
LIEUT. OF HIGHLANDERS KILLED BELFAST BIOT
BELFAST. March 11—Lieut. Bruce of Seaforth Hightlanders was
shot and killed in Albert’s Street this morning, (luring the greatest mili
tary activity of the present period of Belfast opposition. Following the]
killing of this officer an official statement was issued stating that since j
February 11. twenty two Catholics and seventeen protestants have been
killed in Belfast. ^
COMMON SENSE DICTATES GET TO GETHER PLAN
WASHINGTON. March 10—Secretary Davis told operator? and
miners that common sense demanded that they get together and save the
country from a costly strike.
ENGLISH MECHANICS LOCKED OUT.
LONDON. March 11—Three hundred thousand machinists i„ en
gineering trades were locked out at noon today.
KANSAS TRAIN liOST IN SNOW STORM
JUNCTION CITY. Kansas. March 11—An east bound Union Pa .ifif
passenger train is lost in the snow between her** and Abilene. Kanse
DIRECT ACTION BY
SO.AFRICAN MINERS
JOHANNESBURG. South Africa. .March 11—Benoni and Rrakpan,
South African gold mining centers, were captured today by strikers aided
by bands of Boers, after a battle in which 21 constables were killed.
Fighting continues at Fordsburg and Jeppes with heavy casualties.
It is feared that strikers may capture central Johannesburg.
DEMAND FOR UNITED STATES WAR EXPENSES PRESENTED
PARIS, March 11—Allied Finance Ministers held their meeting
yesterday to consider financial matters relative to reparations. At this
meeting a demand from the United States for $241,000,000 for its expenses
in connection with occupation of the Rhineland and to be paid before any
reparations are paid, was presented to the ministers.
JOFFRE TO VISIT VICTORIA AND SEATTLE
VICTORIA, March 11—Marshal Joffre and party will arrive in
Victoria March 28th and from here will pay a visit, to the peace arch at
Blaine. Joffre will spend April First in the city of Seattle.
ALASKA PIONEER PURSER APPOINTED AGENT AT KETCHIKAN
Seattle, March 11—George P. Banbury, many years an Alaska
purser, has been apolnted Ketchikan agent of the Pacific Steamship Com
pany. to succeed W. J. Peterson, deceased.
KILLED PUGILIST IN SELF DEFENSE NO PROSECUTION
SEATTLE, March 11—Frank E. Leslie, who yesterday killed Johnny
O’Leary the pugilist, will not be prosecuted for the slaying. Prosecuting
Attorney Douglas announced today that the action of Leslie was purely a
case of self defense.
1 PROHIBITION AGENTS RAID N. V. TOWN
HUDSON. N. Y.. March 11—Chief of Police Cruise is under sus
pension, twenty saloons and hotels have been closed and State trocp*
assumed duty here yesterday as a result of raids by prohibition agents.
Ill KLUX KUN
WARNS NEWSPAPERS
FRESNO, Calif., /R.ich 11— F.<g ai announcement that the
Kern County Gram! Jury would begin an investigation into the activities
r»f the Ku Klux Klan and armed hooded gangs in t!»♦; oil field district,
am* a warning. The Fresno .Morning Republican and Daily .Midway
Driller were warned to cease th* pub!, at ion of all news relating to activi
ties here or be subject to “the sain* treatment that lias been accorded
IbKK l l/n'IMh KNTItIKS I'KIl.'l ISSABI„E ON Oil.. UOAI. I. \NDS
WASHINGTON. .March 11 P ••sident Harding has signed the hill
providing for Agricultural entries on Coal and Oil lands
The above is a telegram received by the Nugget from Delegate
to Congress, from Alaska. Dan Sutherland.
ODDS AGAINST TREATY
RATIFICATION INCREASE:
WASHINGTON. .March 11 —While voting in the Senate against t ie
Four Power Treaty is still far off. opponents freely claim odds will be
against ratification. Word was brought from the Democratic side that
there will be twenty eight democratic votes against th** treaty pledge,
news to this effect was given irreconciliable republicans, of whom there
are four. 32 votes will defeat the treaty but Lodge, treaty leader of the
administration, claims enough votes .to obtain ratification.
FRENCH PRESS ATTACKS AMERICA FOR PAYMENT DEMAND
PARIS. .March 11 Allied Foreign Ministers, meeting here to dis
cus;- a division of German Reparation Payments, today announced their
design relative to the demand of the United States for her share of Rhine
occupation costs and to various allied governments. The conclusion is that
concerned governments will negotiate direct with the State Department at
Washington, in as much as an interpretation of the Versailles treaty is
involved. French newspapers bitterly attack America for her stand.
TREATY FRAMED
FOREIGN DIPLOMATS
WASHINGTON, March 11 — Senator Robinson declared in his speech
before the Senate that the Four Power Treaty is of Japanese-British ori
gin. In his speech of opposition Robinson declared that “It was conceiv
ed by Briand and Balfour and written by the hand of Tokugawa “
The senator charged this statement after he had forced Lodge
and Underw'ood, both of whom had signed the treaty, to admit that they
did not know who wrote it. Robinson said "when Russia gets her fleet
anu China awakens from her long sleep" they will attack Japan and tnee
the United States will be called upon to help Japan.
CURRENCY MYSTERIOUSLY
DISAPPEARED FROM
M AILS—SE A TT LE
Seattle, March 10—Fifteen thous
and dollars in currency mysteriously
disappeared from the United States
mails after having been checked in
to the Seattle postcfflce.
The currency was in several regis
tered packages, sent from Juneau to
i Seattle bank, and was delivered
t>y steamship officer^ to armed pos
tal employees and a marine gu: rd
it the steamship Northwestern.
Marines and postal employees
lafely transported the money to the
nain Seattle postofllce and then a!i
trace wa% lost. Secret service men
are at sea as to what became of the
PRESIDENT MAY PITCH
SUMMER CAMP CALIF
San Francisco. March 10 — If Is
the intention of President and Mrs.
Maiding to pitch a summer camp it.
the heart of California redwood* ■
between June 15th and July -1th I
'’his information became known
oday with the receipt hv the War
Department of orders at the Presidio
;o assemble army tents and conv*\v
inces for use by President Ha-din:*
then ne arrives.
FREIGHT RATES
ALASKA RY. APPROVED
WASHINGTON March 11 Authorities have* ai»pi»*.. ■ 1
•at' ?- on Haight and passenger* over the water haul via the gu\
Vla.-ku railway to Interior points as far as Fairbanks and r< tun
ipprovett plans are in accordant.: with those worked out some twr
jo by epresentatives of Alaska Engineering Commission and s
ines. Ti.e proportion that each carrier shall receive and th
ates to be charged am fixed by the government, which has not. y\.—
OIL |*1I*E LINE RROKEN Hi EAKTHQl .\KE SHOCK
SAX Ll'lS OlHSPO calif.. March 11—Due to earthquake shocks
tin- oil pip- line of the Union Oil Company of California was broken in
four places yesterday Shocks also did heavy damage to the San Luis
Obispo telephone system. The quake covered northern ( alifotnia. •
territory one hundred fifty miles wide and two hundred miles long.
V\VAL OFFICER ASPHYXIATED—COFFEE POT ROILED OVER
rnontha
•a ms hip
GREAT NECK. New York. March 11 Philip . ’’eridaii
maiider in Naval Reserve during the war. commanding the L.
was a-plr xiatid under peculiar circumstances. A cutTee ...
and ext i-died the gas flame >>• neath it forcing ‘
» . * -- • >2 • #v ,
boiled over
ALIFORM A EXPKHIK
■»-:s WIN TEH \\ PATHK.lt
SAN FRANCISCO. .March 11 San Frauc.idco this morning- exper
ienced a touch of winter weather wh*n a heavy hail and sleet storm swepl
over the city. Mount Tama I pais is entirely covered with deep snow.
DEMOCRATS OPPOSE
HOOSE GAG ROLE
WASHINGTON. .March 11 .. House leaders hav. as
.11 red Sales Tax advocates and other friends "1 .Soldiers- Bonn, on h"
llepubllcan side, that they will Joir. in opposinB gas rule or any other
parlimentary strategy designed to jam Insurance Certificate measures
thru the Ways and Means Committee and the Mouse.
WEALTHY \\ 11M > W ENDS LIVE WITH PISTOL
SEATTLE. Wash.. March 11- Mrs. Helen V Denny, aged fifty
years and widow of the late Orion O Denny, who was the first white person
in Seattle, ended her life with a pistol shoi this afternoon in her palatial
home in Los Angeles, according to private advices received here.
Mrs. Denny was divorced a year ago from Doctor Wyeth, the court
giving her her former name.
JUDGE DENIES MOTION DISMISS INDICTMENT TEX RKKART
NEW YORK, March 10—-Supreme Justice Washervogei today denied
the motion to dismiss the indictment charging Tex Rickard with assault
upon Alice Ruck, aged fifteen.
CALIFORNIA GETS ANOTHER EARTHQUAKE SHOCK
HANFORD, Calil*.. March 11 —San Joaquin towns were shaken by
an earthquake at three thirty yesterday morning.
HARDING IN FLORIDA WINTER RESORT
SAINT AUGUSTINE, March 11— President Harding played golf late
yesterday afternoon on the links, at this, the oldest city in North America.
File President retired after midnight, aft* ! witnessing a Spanish Carnival,
•uacted in his hnor.
HEIR TO ESTATE FIGHTS FOR RELEASE ASYLUM.
SAN FRANCISCO. March 11—Couut Hugo Attaberg heir to an
•state in Germany valued at 12.000.000 marks, has begun fight for his
■elease from Napa Insane Asylum, where he has been Incarcerated tot
Jx years.