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DRAFT LOTT
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WASHINGTON, D. C„ July 19.—
Owing lo a vexatious failure to
follow rigidly the very plain in
structions which had been issued
with the draft registration, it is
now announced that the draft lot
tery will require ten hours instead
of one hour as heretofore an
nounced.
The drawing will therefore begin
at nine thirty on Friday mornin,.
Moreover the department also
makes a correction in the number
of names which shall be drawn,
that is ten thousand five hundred
are ordered to he taken out of the
wheel of fortune, instead of one
thousand and eleven as heretofore
had been intended.
These were departmental errors
which have been unavoidable.
WASHINGTON, D. C\, July 19.—
The drawing for the draft will be
rushed with all possible speed. The
necessity for quickly selecting the
men for the first conscripted army
is being impressed by all the mili
tary cheifs upon the officials and
'lie War Department is assured that
the cantonments will be ready to re
ceive the men for training just as
soon as the men who will have
drawn are passed for service.
The work of construction of these
I military camp and the necessary
requirements has been pushed at
top notch ‘-peed and is in fair state
of advancement even now.
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 21.—
Today all day was the intermin
able wrangle over the food hill.
The senators by a vote of 63 to to
refused to appoint Hoover food dic
tator. Instead they named a board
of three to run the whole nn a sure
and see to the enforcement ot the
law.
Moreover with their pruning
hooks they slashed the controlling
process right and lett and center as
it left the committee, eliminatin'?
everything hut food an 1 fuel from
the bill. Hence copper, steel, cot
ton, and other necessities and which
are closely allied with the cheaper
living, were cut out by the senators
who had an opportunity of serving
their more powerful constituents.
WASHINGTON. 1>. C., July 21.—
The food control bill is getting hack
to its most simple form and between
the Senate end the House in confer
ence there is likely to be a big fight
before they do agree.
The fight against the retention
of various other commodities, be
sides rood although essential in food
production they may be, is insisted
upon by the great interests which
are glad to do anything to make
tin bill unpopular.
The Senators claim that there is
no reason for tliis legislation and
have from the first been only in
duced to support food control by
the fact that many of their consti
j tucnts ‘‘back home” have Insisted
upon their voling for it.
; I,et esttmare on /our ,»nb Work
WASHINGTON. D. C., July 19.—
This morning the President extend
ed executive clemency to the sixteen
suffragettes who were jailed for
pickctting with banner containing
quotations from Wilson’s address
upon the freedom of all und.er de
mocracy.
The women refused point blank
to accept the President’s pardon
and insist on their serving 111'ir
sixty days in jail. They say they
prefer to serve their sentence than
accept pardon at Wilson’s hands
For this reason they were this
lilt. COMlillV DUKAM,
Four big comedy stars, Sam Bern
ard as the chef, Glen Carender as
cafe proprietor, Mae Bush as the
cashier and Harry McCoy as the
cook: are featured in “Because He
Saved Her” a screaming Triangle
comedy at the Dream tonight.
Funny Sam Bernard gets into a
taxi wreck, steals motorcycle and
rides through Lunch wagon, build
ings, automobiles etc. Besides these
headliner the Thanhouser Kid ap
pears in the comedy ‘Little Billie.”
0 A beautiful scenic will round off
this special program for young and
4>ld.
afternoon still performing ciiore
work in the jail and will continue
to do so unless the prison author
ities refuse to house them any
longer and fire them out.
KANSAS CITY, July 19.—The
country is warned that one man
died today as a result of using
court plaster which was sold 'by
German agents in this section of
the country and which a "govern
ment examination shows to contain
germs of lock jaw, leprosy and
other dangerous and fatal diseases.
The death of this man is being
made the occasion and the oppor
tunity for issuing a nationwide
warning to the public against buy
ing anything from any persons ot
a like nature and without knowing
the source from whence it comes.
AUTHOR OF JUNGLE
QUITS SOCIALISTS
LOS ANGELES, July 17.—Upton
Sinclair has followed the way of
other prominent American members
of the National Socialist party
when lie withdrew from its member
ship today and lines himself up
with Walling, Russel, Stokes, Spar
CITV BATH HOUSE
bus the largest
and only 0 feet
Bath Tubs in Nome.
go, Benson and a number of other
leading lights of the party.
Sinclair bases his refusal to be
any longer a member upon the par
ty's opposition to conscription per
se. Had they based their oppo
sition to conscription of the person
because of failure to conscript the
wealth of the land, he would have
been with them. Sinclair believes
with many others that the party
members who led the anti-war po
licy were more pro-German than so
cialists.
I’KTROGRAD, July 10.—The riot
ins in this city was caused by tlie
railway officials and employees who
were disbanded because of their re
fusing to aid in a continuance ol
tin war. They are all composed of
what. is known as “the better class”
and almost all of them supporters
of tin former regime.
Minister Kciinsky was imme
diately responsible for the disband
ing of the men and officials and
their removal from office when they
refused tc' obey orders given by
the government. An attempt to re
sist brought fortli prompt notion
upon the part ot tlie soldiers.
The rioting tiiis morning was
quickly quelled.
The city is now quite normal ami
no possibility of the trouble l>« ing
renewed again.
NEW YORK, July If).—Tim lii
c-ial statements 01 the Russian r
in the capital again reveal tin
eompk-t' unreliability of non-official
reports many of which are tent out
apparently with the set purpose oC
unpietely discrediting the revolu
tion and the revolutionists.
So grotesque is the discrepancy
n the stories as they first reach
the tinted States and as later con
i’, rmed by officials or Russian pap
ers, that hr comparison is c-ftlu
dicrous in tin' extreme.
!\o>v me iline m Siibscriho.
LONDON, July 19.—A Petrograd
dispatch, revealing the extent of
the reaction in Russia tells that to
day a bridge close by the Russian
Finland border was blown tip. It is
believed that a;i attempt was made
to assassinate the American Ambas
sador Francis, who was travelling
on a train which "as due to cross
at any minute.
The wre k of the bridge was dis
covered just ir time to stop the
I train. It is an open secret in Kus
j -i.i that all the reactionists and the
Rcrruan court party blames tin
American influence for tin
irreccmileable polity ol !
si an government, and hem
tempt upoa tlie minister s
PETROGliAD, July 19.
city here is literati/
with many Gentian spies,
whom fore erly associate !
Court Party and who set m
berally supplied v i h
opt nly admitted.
The workers and sol.
r; utioned gener; lly ayai'.i
tivities of my of these >
present
he Iti’S
the at
;':..it the
iinlioled
many of
with the
to be li
noney is
i rs are
the ac
it public
notices, may be read cautioning
against them f.s desiring to re
chuin liberated Russia.
Already several of these have
been arrested and are awaiting
tiial, several having confessed iu
the hope of their escaping the pun
ishment which they so richly de
so rve.
The good sense of the Russian
>p;. however is almost proof
ni.ainst the wilts of ti. si treacher
ous eoGplt.
Anything in <he Hue of job tv or It.
rat tnwmmwm
WASH'.Vt D. C.. Jui* 19.—
War prospei it v Hus hit Washington
LOCAL ITEMS.
There is still lots or water in the
Koyuk say the navigators, for all
boats going up to the landing and
there is no trouble getting out of
the river to the Bay. There is
some trouble getting into the river
front the bay a ssometimes it is
hard to distinguish the channel
which has cut its way through the
usual bar.
We are using Moonlight water in
the Elite Bath House.
• * »
The alleged strike at the head ot
Peace river, the miners are refer
ring to as the Midas creek strike,
significant enough to Nomeites in
the history of false alarms. How
ever while very little is known and
a great deal is doubted about the
creek, some still insist that tlie
strike is a surfe thing and genuine.
But it is peculiar that almost all
the Dimeites themselves raise their
eyebrows when smiling back a
know-nothing answer on the sub
ject.
aiul those who have room- ■> rent
are getting rich. The eapit d's po
pulation is growing rapid!). Every
train brings its load. War talk
tills the air.
The government and i ii various,
industries that have < ablisheil
War headquarters here will need
50,000 more clerks befoti the fall
days, according to conservative esti
mates. Already there is a famine
in stenographers. Uncle Sain com
mandeered them.
Now government ftiliees are
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NOME TAILORING TO.
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springing up all over the city. De
partment offices which for gehra
tions have been small, ctuiet aflaire
have sudd* lily become bloated to
20 times their usual size. This
means n or employes. The restau
rants arc busier than Coney island
chowder kitchens. The street ears
are almost always jammed to the
guards and fre(]uentl> blockaded.
Apartment houses have been made
into hotels—residences into apart
ments. in some cases startling
prices are demanded lor cots. All
rents are upward bound.
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The mail schooner Silver Wave
sails Saturday July til. for Kotzebue
Sound and all way points. For
freight or passage apply to the
THE ALASKA LHJHTEKAGE and
COMMERCIAL CO., Agents.
Freight for this trip will be re
ceived at Hie dock up to I o'clock
Sat urelay afternoon.
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