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VOLUME XII.
NOME, ALASKA. ‘ 4» U»V APRIL !», 1910.
2660.
PARIS, April 14—It has been un
officially announced that the date for
summoning the Peace Congress at
Versailles at which the German Dele
gates will be admitted, will be be
tween April 25 and May 5.
it is expected here that Premier
Ldoyd George will announce the exact
date in lies address to the British Par
liament.
As the date for the opening of the
Versailles Peace Congress is so near
at. hand. President Wilson will proba
bly remain to attend the sessions.
It is rumored here that in addition
-to a payment of 5 billion dollars in
two years, Germany must according
to the Peace terms, issue to the Al
lies twenty trillion dollars of inter
est bearing bonds.
PARIS, April 15—President Wil
son has officially announced on behalf
of the council of the big four, which
includes America, France, England
and Italy that it has been definitely
decided that the German Peace pleni
potentaries will be summoned to Ver
sailles on the 25th of April.
The President’s announcement says
that all peace questions are now so
near solution that the final Peace
treaty will be drafted at an early date.
PARIS, April 15—Secretary of
"War Baker accompanied by Warren
Pershing, son of General Pershing ar
rived here today.
Secretary Baker will confer with
President Wilson while Pershing jr
will visit his, father at the latters
headquarters.
LONDON, April 16—The British
Premier, Lloyd George declared in
his address delivered at the opening
of the British Parliament, that there
is a complete understanding between
the Allied Powers on all fundamental
questions of the Peace settlement.
He stated that it is not true that j
the U. S. and Kurope are at variance ;
but he admitted that there had been!
slight disagreements, caused by the
immense difficulties of establishing
an effective peace.
Lloyd George said .that a complete
break up of Russia and Turkey is
threatened, and that there is no au
thority thruout Russia. He stated
that he would rather leave Russia
remain Bolshevik until they see their
way out of it, than see Great Britain
in bankruptcy.
Lloyd George said that he believed
that Allied inteifvention in Russia
would be an act of the greatest stu
pidity and that Great Britain should
not be committed to assume the gi
gantic task of improving conditions
in Russia.
The question of recognizing the
Russian Soviet government has
never been proposed to the Peace
Conference by any Allied Power,
Lloyd George staled.
BERLIN, April 17—The whole Ger
man press bitterly denounces the
conditions laid down in the Peace
treaty as given out semi-officially by
French sources.
The "l^jcal Anzeiger" character
izes the Allied terms as a shameless
mockery of President Wilson’s four-;
teen Peace principles.
BERLIN, April 17—The “Frank
fort Gazette” says in yesterdays edi
torial that the German government
will present indemnity claims to the
Allied governments for damages in
flicted by the Bolsheviks and radicals.
The Frankfort Gazette blames the
unnecessary delay in concluding
peace for the unsettled political con
dition in Germany, for the blood shed
snd for the tremendous amount of
material damage caused by the ac
iivities of the radical element in Ger
many claiming that had peace been
concluded sooner the present German
government would have been better
rble to maintain order and to crush
the Bolshevik agitation within Ger
many.
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DELEGATE SULZER
PASSES AWAY
JUNEAU, April 1 (r—Telegraphic
advices received here today stale that)
Chas A. Sulzer former' Territorial
Delegate to Congress died last night
at 10:30 p. m. while on his way from |
his mine at Seward to Ketchikan. The
cause of his death is given as intesti-]
nal trouble.
Mr Sulzer was taken ill Monday |
morning and it quickly became evi
dent that his condition was very ser
ious. Dr Figgins was sent to Sulzer
front Craig, reporting yesterday even
ing that Mr Sulzer’s condition had j
improved.
To secure better hospital facilities
it was concluded to remove Mr Sulzer
to Ketchikan on the power launch
Taku II.
While on his way to the latter place
Mr Sulzer passed away.
Mr Sulzer’s death occurred on the
eve of his victory in the last Delegate
election, the canvassing board hav-;
ing finished its labor today and was
preparing to issue an election certifi
cate to Mr Sulzer.
JUNEAU, April 16—Both Houses
USE CARRIER PIGEONS
POSTON, April 18—The telephone
service in many sections thruout the
New England states being crippled
p ring tot he strike of the telephone
operators, carrier pidgeons are bing
used to supplement the badly impair
ed service.
PRAISES FILIPINOS
NEW YORK, April 18—Governor
General Harrison of the Philippine Is-!
lands declared in a speech delivered
her today, that he would thnik very
little of the Filipinos if they did not
desire independence and that they
•were fuly capable of administering
their own affairs.
"LLOYD GEORGE AND
N0RTHCLIFFE SPLIT
LONDON, April 18~The political
alliance between the British Premier
Lloyd George and Lord Northcliffe,
Great Britains greatest newspaper
publisher has been broken. An al
liance whch was always deprecated
by the supporters of Lloyd George’s
policies.
It is reported that Northcliffe and
the British Premier split on Great
if the Legislature adjourned today i
lut of respect for the deceased Ter- i
■itorial Delegate Chas A. Sulzer. Mr !
sulzer was forty one years of age and
i native of New Jersey.. He came <
:o Alaska in 11)02 and has heen m:n- i
ng at Sulzer since that time. i
SEATTLE, April 16—Senator
Poindexter who arrived here today
to address the local Republican CTu'o
axpressed his deepest regret at the un
expected death of Chas Sulzer.
WASHINGTON, April 16—Mrs
Sulzer was informed by telegraph that
her husband passed away on board
of the launch Taku I while on his way
from Sulzer to Ketchikan.
JUNEAU, April -14—The House
joint meorial endorsing Mr Shoups
reappointment as superintendent of
the Pioneer’s Home at Sitka which
was referred to the Senate commit
tee, was adversely reported by that
body.
The bill making the office of Ter
ritorial Treasurer elective was indef
Britain’s Peace policies.
WILL CALL FOR REFERENDUM
WEIMAR, April 18—It has been
announced here that' if the Allied
Peace terms are not in consonance
with President Wilson’s fourteen
peace principles, the question of ac
cepting or rejecting the offered terms
will be submitted to the German peo
ple for a referendum.
TO STABILIZE PRIZES
WASHINGTON, April IS—-In a
communication to the Industrial
Board of the Department of Com
merce, President Wilson urges the
stabilization of price until Industrial
conditions have become settled.
OPEN WILL
SAN FRANCISCO, April 18—The
will of Mrs Phoebe A. Hearst, who
died several days ago from Pneumon
ia, was opened here today. Mrs
Hearst after giving one half million
dollars to other relatives and friends
bequeaths the Hearst Building in San
Francisco and her estate at Pleasan
ton to the five sons of Wm Randolph
Hearst to be held in trust, while the
nitely postponed in the House this
norning, only three members voting
or the measure.
The Collins, Dunn, Rydeen bill
arfying an appropriation of ten
housand dollars for the building of
i road from Seward to Kenai Lake
vas voted down.
JUNEAU, April 16—The Canvass
ng Board completed the official can
rasa of the votes cast at the last elec
ion this morning.
Chas Stilzer was declared elec'ed,
•eceiving four thousand four hundred
ind eighty seven votes to James
iVickersham’s four thousand four
tundred and fifty four votes. Chas
5ulzer won by a majority of thirty
hree votes.
Returns of four of the five missing
jrecincts in the Second Division were
•eeeived yesterday at the office of
governor Rigs, by a peculiar cdin
:ident on the day of Chas Sulzer’s
leath.
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atter receives he rest of her fortune
imounting to several million dollars. |
Mrs Hearst has given away more
han ten million dollars during her
lifetime to relatives and charitable
purposes.
NOME SAILINGS
SEATTLE .April 18—It has been
tnnounced here that the steamship
Senator is scheduled to make four
-ound trips this season to Nome. The
steamship Admiral Siebre will leave
■lan Francisco on June first for Nome
tarrying freight only.
ItAMS TUG
NEW YORK, April 18—The trans
port Saxonia carrying two thuosand
American troops on board, while pro
ceeding up North River, rammed and
out down the tug Freehold, drowning
several members of her crew, the
Saxonia sustaining only slight dam
ages io her hull.
An investigation into the cause of
the disaster is now being made.
MAY GET GOVERNMENT BOATS
SEATTLE, April IS—Suggestions
arc being made here by the Chamber
LOXDOK, April 17—Dispatches re
ceived here from Moscow confirm the
daughter of eighteen hundred peo
ple at, Ufa in Eastern Russia, after the
capture of the tov.n by Bohhevik
forces.
Pour hundred women and children
are reported to be included in the
total number which lost their lives
in this butchery.
STOCKHOLM, April IS—A dis
patch received from Libau, Cour
landi states that the Bolshevik ele
ment in the Riga district is engaged
in a systematic destruction of the
Boufgeoise population.
bodies that in the event of the pass
ing of the bill now before tne legisla
ture at Juneau, empowering the Al
aska Territory to engage ;n the ship
ping business, the i'eiritorial govern
ment could secure the needed vessels
fr.the U. S. Shipping Board. The
hope is also expressed here that the
Federal government might be willing!
to encourage this enterprise which
promises to forward the development i
of ine territory of Aorta by turning!
over the required number < ships at
a nominal price. J
WILL, Sl’Pl*ORT FRANCE
PARIS, April 18—The “Temps"
3ays on reliable authority that the]
Peace Treaty virtually stipulates that
ihe U. S. and Great Britain are to sup
port France in case the latter coun-,
try is again attacked by Germany.
LETTER TO RUSSIAN NATION
RIS, April IS—It is slated here!
it , in a letter to be transmitted to
the Russian' petrpnr *tj^*ed jointly
the British Premier Lloyd George,
the French Premier Clemenceau and;
the Italian Premier Orlando to ex
plorer Frithjof Xanfeeu who is to sup
ervise the distribution of the food
stuffs furnished to Russia by the Al
lies, it was stated. “That the govern
ments of the peoples whom we repre
sent would be glad to cooperate with
out thought of political, military or
financial advantage in any proposal
which would relieve the situation in
Russia.
GET EIGHT HOUR DAY
PARIS. April 18—That the French
workers at least have not bled and
suffered in vain during the struggle
for democracy has become manifest
by the establishment of an eight hour
day by the French parliament.
This action has been approved by
the majority of the French people who
insisted upon a shortening of the
daily working hours and whose agi
tation has at last born fruit.
W1L USE COERCION
PARIS, April, 18—It has been un
officially announced that General
Foch is planning to take some definite
action in the event of a refusal by j.he
German Peace Delegates to sign the
Peace Treaty, which may not be pre
sented to them until April 28th.
Included In the coercive methods
which may be adopted by General
Foch, is the discontinuance of all
further dispatch of food supplies to
Germany and the blockade of all
enemy ports.
The area already occupied in Ger
many by the Allies may also be great,
ly extended and other coercive meas
ures to force Germany to accept the
Peace Treaty as imposed upon them
by the Allies are held'in obeyance.
waiting the action the German Peace
Delegates will take at the forthcoming
conference.
LONDON. April 18—It has been
announced that the body of Miss Edith
Cavell will be removed from Brus
sels and brot to Doves on board of a
British War Ship. ,
Miss Cavell’s body will be intered
at Norwich, the Cavell home town on
May 18th after appropriate ceremon
ies at Westminister Abbey.
(Miss Cavell was executed at Brus
sels on October, 13 1915, in pursuance
of a sentence passed by the German
military court at Brusaels. the charge
against her being that she had assist.
Seventy thousand people are re
ported to have been murdered ann
unspeakable crimes committed by tne
llolsheviks in the Riga district.
Many women and children’s bodies
have been thrown into ihe Dvina river
and murder and rapine are practic
ced by the Bolsheviks to an unhe
lieveable extent.
All order and authority, except as
imposed by the Bolshvlks has van-i
shed, leaving the radicals free to'
wreck their revenge upon the hated j
Bourgeoise element.
COPENHAGEN. April IS—Conti
nental dispatches received here state
that German troops have occupied
Libau in Courland and have over
thrown the provisional government
which had been established by the
Letts and are in full control of tne
city and the surrounding districts.
STOCKHOLM, April 15—Contin
ental dispatches received here state
that in a clash over food distribution
Poles rounded up a crowd of Jews
and shot them in the market place of
Minsk in Russia. Among those who
were reported to have been executed
were twenty three Jewish Zionists.
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LATE TELEGRAPHIC NEWS IN BRIEF
SEATTLE, April 19—J. Christof
fers, assistant agent, made the an
nouncement that the Federal Bureau
of Fisheries will permit the slaughter
of 30,000 fur seals on St Paul Island;
this summer. The hides will be taned
while the carcasses after the oil has
been extracted will be reduced to
fertilizer.
SEATTLE, April 19—Major Ken-j
neth Marr from Nome arrived herej
from France today. Major Marr who!
won high distinction in the French!
aviation service, was a member of the
famous “Escadrille Lafayettee”, join
ing the American aerial forces after
the entrance of this country into the
war.
Major Marr stated that he intended
to leave for Alaska as soon as navi
gation opened.
t r,i>il iy_ . (L'jga- i
dier General Richardson and h'.s slaFP
arrived here today on board of an j
ice breaker the first boat able o en- j
ter this harbor since last fall. Gen-!
eral Richardson who is to command
the American forces in Northern Rus-I
sia, transmitted a letter written by!
General Pershing to the American j
troops stationed in Northern Russia!
praising their fighting ability and giv
ing them geat credit fr the work
which they had accomplished since
their arrival in Northern Russia.
BRUNSWICK, Ga., April 19—The
Georgia State Federation of Labor
passed a resolution demanding the
removal of Postmaster General Burle
son, owing to his hostility to all or
ganized labor, but especially for his|
efforts in blocking all attempts of
the employees in the Postal Depart
ment to get an increase in wages and
[ better working conditions.
1 COPENHAGEN, April 19—Accord -
[ ing to dispatches received here from
| Germany, a state of seige has been
| declared at Berlin, owln£ to the gen
| eral strike which had been inaugurat
| ed some time ago which the Geman
I government was powerless to sup
press.
The dispatches state that many of
the principal industrial establish
ments in Berlin were forced to shut
I down and that the government has
! been unable to induce the strikers to
return to work.
PARIS, Aprl 19—It has been un
officially stated that President Wilson
contemplates leaving for the U. S. on
May 25 and that before leaving he
! etl English and Belgian soldiers, who
| had come under her care as nurse, to
escape into Holland.
APPEALS TO STRIKERS
WASHINGTON, April 18—Presi
dent Wilson's private secretary T.
Tumulty issued an appeal to the!
striking New England telephone orer-1
ators to return to work and tru.n
Postmaster General Burleson to ad
just their grievances.
Mr Tumulty assured the strikers
that an impartial investigation was
being made and that they would get
a square deal.
TRAINS OOLIjIDE
BREST, France, April 17—Twelve
will convene Congress for an extra
session to lie held on May 15th.
NEW YORK, April 19—The French,
people presented to each member of
the 369th Infantry, New Yorks'a
negro regiment a razor.
Col. Hayward, their commander
claims that the recipient of this gift
are displeased because it is a safety.
ST JOHNS, April 19—The severe
storms ..still raging here have frus
trated all attempts for a tansatlantlc
flight.
WASHINGTON, April 19—The
War Department announced that the
American forces fired 8 million one
hundred thousand rounds of artillery
ammunition during the war.
PARIS April 19—The Adriatic
question is being considered by the
A'l ,Tv t, .o.-*• ■-- - . - t.-v
have decided that Poland shall have
an outlet on the Baltic thru a nar
row stretch of German territory to
Dantzig fhich city is to be interna
tionalized.
COBLENZ, Aprli 19—Secretary of
the Navy Danels speaking to the sec
ond American Division said, that he
had 70,000 american boys in the navy
who are anxious to be discharged,
but he had told them that they must
first aid in returning the men who
have done the fighting ashore in
France.
PARIS, April 19—Lieutenant Fon
tan started on his third attempt to
cross the Atlantic to Brazil, leaving
today from Villa Coublay for Casa
Blanca, Morrocco at 6:10 a .m.
TOKIO, April 19—Japanese jin
goes declare that Japan should se
cede from the League of Nations, as
the principles of humanity underly
ing the same are but falsehoods. The
Japanese press which is advocating
the establishment of a Monroe Doc
trine for the Oreint, attacked Great
Britain with great unanimity today.
LIMERICK, Ireland, April 19—
The attempted transatlantic flight of
Major J. C. P .Woods, British aviator
undertaken yesterday afternoon at
Eastchurcli England ended in the
Irish Sea where Major Wood and his
navigator Captain C. C. Wylie plung
ed witht heir airplane last evening.
Both men and machine were res
cued.
American and eight French soldiers
were killed and fifty six injured in a
rearend collision of two troop trains
bound for this city today.
The collision occured west of Le
Mans. An investigation into the
cause of this disaster is now being
made by the authorities..
TKIND TO IJUUX HOAT
BOSTON, April 17—Major Cava
naugh of the 102 Field Artillery Reg
iment declared to day on arrival of
the transport Patricia, carrying two
thousand soldiers that a Gorman
agent ostensibly on his way to the U.
S. to look after German property,
attompted to set fire to the transport
last night when off Boston harbor.