BOV SCOUT DAY
Washington, May 12—June
Sth-14th has been proclaimed Boy
Scout Week by Prensident Wilson
who urges all communities to aid
this movement.
STUDY FISHEIES
SEATTLE, May 12—Henry O’
Malley, heading a party of govern
ment experts departed on the steam
er Alaska today to study the Alaska
fisheries under the auspices of the
U. 8. Bureau of Fisheries. A thoro
investigation of the salmon fishing
and canning industry and of salmon
propogation will be made and the
need of the proposed legislation for
the further restriction of the salmon
and herring fishing will he studied
by this party during the summer.
JOHN BROWN'S SON DIES
PORTLAND, May 12—Oregon
Salmon Brown son of the famous
John Brown, of Harper’s Ferry fame,
killed himself here today. The reas
on for this act has not been made
public.
GO HOME BY JUNE
ARCHANGEL, May 12—It has
been stated here that tentative ar
rangements have been made to with
draw all the American troops from
the Archangel and Murmansk sector
in Russia, early in June.
Transports are reported to be en
route for this port to carry the Amer
ican troops to the U. S. for demobi
lization. ^
AUSRTIAN DELEGATES ARRIVE
ZURICH, May 12—The Austrian
Peace Delegation, headed by Chan
cellor Renner are expected to arrive
here on Tuesday noon, en route to
the Peace Conference. The dele
gation will probably aritve at St
Germain next Wednesday.
OVERSUBSCRIBED
SEATTLE, May 12—The Victory
Laon quota of the State of Wash
ington has been oversubscribed
about seven hundred thousand dol
lars according to an announcement
made today. Judging from reports
received here from other states of
the union the Victory Loan has been
oversubscribed by approximately one
billion dollars.
CONCENTRATE TROOPS
LONDON, May 12—The German
government fearing an outbreak of
disorders and riots during the con
sideration of the Allied Peace terms
by the German Assembly have in
creased the garrison in Berlin to
one hundred and twenty thousand
men.
Considerable unrest prevails
among the radical element in Berlin
and the popular excitement oevr the
severity of the Allied Peace terms
has reached such a point, that a pop
ular outbreak against the German
government is greatly feared by the
conservative element.
TO ATTACK PETROGRAD
LONDON, May 12—Dispatches re
ceived here from Helsingfors, Fin
land state that the Allied troops are
about to attack Petrograd to wrest
the control over this important city
from the Bolsheviks.
TROOPS LEAVE
new YORK, May 12—Officials
of the War Department announced
today that twenty eight thousand of
ficers and men of the U. S. replace
ment troops cleared for French ports
! to relieve an equal number of mem
bers of the American Expeditionary
Force doing duty in the Area of oc
cupation.
ARE ACTIVE
BERLIN, May 12—Reports re
ceived here from different parts of
| Germany state that the German rad
i icals are increasing their activities
everywhere.
At Eisenach, the former capital
of the Grand Duchy of Sachsen-Wei
mar, the radicals forced the mayor
j to march at the head of a parade and
I compelled him to carry a red ban
i ner. The unlucky mayor was after
; wards badly beaten by a crowd of
[ radicals whose anger he had aroused
| by hi3 actions as mayor of the city.
NO I NK FOR RELIGION
LONDON, May 13—Dispatches
received here via Archangel state
that the Bolshevik are doing their
; utmost to destroy religion by bring
ing it into disrepute.
According to a Reuter correspond
ent at Jakaterinodar in the Kouka
sus, a mock wedding ceremony be
1 tween an aged Greek Catholic priest
and a mare was conducted in one of
: the most prominent churches in the
latter city. The mock marriage was
conducted with the full ceremonial.
The Bolshevik forced the members
of the choir to sing tha psalms and
canticles of the liturgy under threat
of death if they refused.
Among the official Bolshevik pub
lications of the Russian Soviet a
parody in verse on the church fun
eral service supposed to be perform
ed over the body of a dog is being 1
published and circulated thruout the
country, and the Bolsheviks, accord- \
■:ng to the dispatches never fail to
take advantage of any and all op
portunities to ridicule and bring in
to discredit the whole Greek Cath
olic religion.
WANT TO MEET
VERSAILLES, May 13—The Ger
man Peace Delegates are reported
to be making attempts to arrange
a conference with the Austrian Peace
Delegation as soon as the latter ar
rives at St Germain tomorrow, to
discuss matters ldating to Gorin .n
and Austrian national affairs, as
they may be affected by the Peace
treaties.
MAY METTLE
^ARIS, May 13—It has been of
ficially stated that when the confer
ence among th? Allied powers was
it turned today if at the Ualitu Ad
;!atic problem so mis consider:;lily
rearer solution.
It is thought p ■ vat'le tha la basis
of understanding may be reached to
day as the Italian representatives
are evincing more willingness to j
make concessions and seem to have
moderated their demands consider
ably.
TREATY NEARLY COMPLETED
PARIS May 13—It has been offi
cially announced that the Austrian
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With every cash sale or cash receipt we will issue a cash
register slip with amount of the transaction printed thereon
Every cent on these slips counts one vote.
Every Saturday afters ion at 5 o’clock the boy or girl hav
ing received the largest vote will be awarded one of our boy proof
indestructible.
SAM-E-KAR’S FREE ‘
All slips must be dated of the week of the contest, in other
words a new contest starts on every Monday morning.
Votes will be counted or posted every day at 2:30 p. m. ex
cept Saturday when the final count for the week will take place.
No one will be allowed to contest but once if winner.
Purchases from other grocers not allowed to be counted.
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Peace Treaty will probably be com
pleted this week. Most of the pro
vin'ons of the treaty have been set
tled by the Allied Council and the
work is rapidly being completed.
BAMBOOZLE WAR DEPARTMENT
WASHINGTON May 13—Armour
and Co., Swift .and Co., and other
big meat packers have after a series
of conferences succeeded in induc
ing the War Department to keep two
hundred and sixty four million
pounds of meat, which had been bot
by the War Department for army
use, and is no longer needed, off the
market.
The packing interest claimed that
the sale of this surplus meat would
entail great losses upon them and
that it would upset the American
meat prices.
MAY TEAR CP ROAD
SEATTLE, May 14—Negotiations
for the dismantling of the Seward
Peninsula Railroad and the ship
ping of the rolling stock, rails and
ect of the latter concern are now in
{.repress between interested parties
in this city and San Francisco.
It is report 'd here that if this
contemplated dial is consummated,
the ails ec-. of the Solomon River
! :lroad will als.i be shipped to
oiuside this coming summer.
SINK GUNBOAT
ARCHANGEL, May 14—Durin,
:in engagement between a 13riti.- i
river flotilla and Bolshevik gunboats
on the Dvina river one of the latter
was sunkV'-while the British boats
altho exposed to a heavy bombard
ment by Bolshevik gunboats which
were assisted by powerful land bat
teries sustained only minor injuries.
The Bolshevik gunboats unable
to withstand the punishment meted
out to them by the British boats were
forced to retire.
AERIAL MAIL DELIVERY
CHICAGO, May 14—Aerial mail
delivery between Cleveland and
Chicago will start next Thursday ac
cording to a statement made by local
postoffice officials.
Eight machines, of great carrying
capacity will be employed in this
service, while it is very likely that
this number will be increased should
the aerial service prove successful.
GETS INT<) STORM
SEATTLE. May 14—According to
advices received from the Alaska
Engineering Commission today the
Tug Anyox towing the barge Boroda
bcth heavily loaded with equipment
from the Panama canal for the Al
aska railway put into Prince Rupert j
for repairs.
The two vessels encountered a
heavy storm while off Cape James
and were badly battered by the ele
ments. The Boroda's cargo being
nearly completely washed overboard
only good seamanship prevented the
complete loss of both vessels.
PARIS, May 14—Chancellor Ren
ner, head of the Austrian Peace Del
egation is reported to have declared
in an interview with a news corre
spondent at Basel, Switzerland, that
he intends to return to Vienna with
a peace that will end the sufferings
of his country.
When the Chancellor was asked
his opinion regarding the proposed
trial and punishment of the former
Kaiser of Germany, Renner stated
that the hanging or the infliction of
some other punishment of the form
er Kaiser would prove a less simple;
matter than the majority of the Re- j
sponsibility Committee anticipated.!
as none of the Allied countries wasj
a3 yet found wiilling to assume the j
role of prosecutor.
BERLIN May 14—The popufation '
of Danzig, having issued an appeal
to the German government for the
latters assistance to stop the en
croachment of the Poles, the German
Chancellor forwarded a proclama
tion to the citizens of Danzig in
which he declared, that the German
nation would fight to the utterm.ost
and as one man against the separa
tion by violence of any German ter
ritory.
ITALIANS LAND TROOPS
LONDON, May 14—Dispatches
received here state that large Ital-;
itn military forces have been land-,
ed at Zara and Sebenico in Dalmatia
and are proceeding into the interior!
as fast as embarkation proceeds. All j
strategical positions especially the j
mountain passes are being heavily
fortified as fast as the troops ad
vance.
No opposition has been offered by
the Jugoslav population althp the
action of the Italian government is
bitterly resented by them.
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IRISH IX BAB
PARIS, May 14—Owing to their
pro Irish activities in Ireland, Frank
P Walsh, Edward F Dunne and
Michael Ryan. representatives of
Irish societies in the United States
who have been visiting Ireland will
not he received by the British Pre
mier. Lloyd George, on their return
to Paris, nor will they be accorded
any official or semi official recogni
tion.
The.ir activities in behalf of the
recognition of Irish independence
proved very embarrassing to the
British government in view rt the
expirsrsed policy of the Peace Con
ference to grant independence to
subject nationalities.
WONT QUIT FIGHTING
PARIS, May 14—A wireleis mes
sage received here from the Bolshe
vik Foreign Minister, Tschitscher re
layed by the officials of the Ministry
of Foreign affairs at Berlin,, an
nounces that the Bolshevik govern
ment refuses to agree to a cessation
of hostilities, which was demanded
by the Allied governments as a con
dition to allow the importation and
distribution of foodstuffs into Bol
shevik Russia under Neutral super
vision.
Tschitscherin states that the Bolshe
vik military activities are caused
by the aggression of the Allied army
of occupation and would cease im
mediately upon the withdrawal of
the Allied forces.
MAY GROSS ATLANTIC
MONTANK POINT, May 14—Thai
navy dirigible C H left here today
on a flight to St Johns N. B. which
may be followed, if the coastal trip
proves a cuccess by an attempt to
to cross the Atlantic, providing
favorable weather conditions are
encountered.
MESSAGE WILL BE BRIEF
PARIS, May 15—It has been
Btated ithati IJre^dent WilBon has'
advised the Atlantic Cable co that
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his message to the forthcoming
special session of Congress will be
transmitted in a eondenced form and
will not contain more than a few
hundred words.
WILL REPRESENT l . S.
V/ASHINGTON, May 15—It ha3
been announced by officials of the
State Department that Raymond B.
Fosdick, noted New York lawyer
will be one of the American repre
sentatives on the Council of the
League of Nations when the latter
has been fully organized.
WILL REPORT OX HUNGARY
VIENNA, May 15—Professor
Phillip C. Brown, a member of the
American Embassy to Austria has
gone to Paris to make a report on
the Hungarian situation to the Amer
ican Peace Delegation.
His report, it is believed will ex
ert considerable influence in rela
tion to settling the Hungarian dif
ficulties at the Peace Conference.
TO DISMANTLE SKODA WORKS
PARIS, May 15—It has been of
ficially announced that the Austrian
Peace treaty will be' submitted to the
Austrian Delegation on Wednesday.
One of the stipulations of the
treaty demands the dismantling of
the great Skoda works in Bohemia
where an immense amount of war
material including the famous Skoda
twelve inch howitzers for the' Aus
trian army have been produced.
AUSTRIANS ARRIVE*
PARIS, May 15—The Austrian
Peace Delegation headed by Chan
cellor Renner, arrived at St Ger
main-en-Laye at six o’clock last,
everfing and started without delay j
on the preparations for the Peace
negotiations.
RECEIVE DELEGATES
PABIS, May 15—Jules Cambonl
French, ami Henry White, Arueri]
can Delegates to the Peace Confer !
ence have been chosen to act jts sM
rception Committee for the Austnai]
Peace Delegation, which will b;J
formally received some time toiuorj
row'.
Cambon and White will also exj
amine the credentials of the Austriai J
Delegation.
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U S MAILS
United Stages Post Office
Nome, Alaska May 9 1919
Bids will be received at this offioj
up to 5 p. m. May 23rd 1919, fof
the performance of the service del
srribed below:
For carrying the U. ,S. Mail fro ml
Golovin, Alaska to Haycock, Alaska
about 110 niiles and back, twice
month from1 July 1st 1919 to Oc
tober 31, 1919 by a schedule satis I
factory to the Department of notJ
to exceed 4 days running time eacll
way, carrying all mail offered. Bid!
to state the rate per round trip.
For carrying the U. S. Mail from
Nome Alaska, by Hot Springs (N.l
O.) Mary’s Igloo, (N. O.) and Dahl|
(N. O.) to Taylor, Alaska 125 miles
and back, from July 1st 1919 tol
October 31st and once a I
month from November lst|
to June 30th) Hot Springs (N. O. t[
and Mary's Igloo (N. O.) to be-|
omitted from July 1st to November!
30th, by a schedule satisfactory tol
the Department ?f not to exceed 41
days running ti~ - each way carrying]
not to exceed 400 pounds of mail I
a single tr'p each way. Bids to state)
the rate per n nd trip
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Postmaster.
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