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DIFFER ON* ACCEPTANCE
BERLIN, April 21—The different
political factions in Germany are un
able to agree on the policy to be
pursued by the German government
regarding the Allied Peace terms.
The radical element, fearing Allied
Intervention and further extended
occupation of German territory de
manded this afternoon the acceptance
of any Peace terms offered by the
Allies, while other factions urge
their rejection without waiting for
a formal submission of terms.
.JOIN LOYAL TROOPS
BERLIN, April 21—It has been
reported here that three thousand
soldiers from Wuertenberg have join
ed the loyal government forces which
are beseiging the radicals in Munich,
Bavaria.
NEW MILLIONAIRES
NEW FORK. April 21—Statist cs
compiled by U. S. Treasury Officials
reveal the astonishing fact that!
seventeen thousand American indi
viduals have graduated into the mill
ionaire ciaAa duping the last two
years. The State of Ney York sup- j
plied about half of this total.
GERMANS DOWNCAST
BERLIN, April 21—Deep gloom
prevails among the German people
owing to the impression which pre
vails here that the Allied Peace i
terms will not be based on President
Wilson’s fourteen Peace principles,
but that Germany will virtually have
to surrender to the Allies under their
own conditions.
WILL SEND DELEGATES
PARIS. April 22—The German:
government has notified the Allies!
that a delegation of high personages!
will be sent to Versailles to conclude1
the Peace treaty, but that the dele
gation wiill be unable to arrive atj
Versailles before April 28th.
Foreign Minister von Brockdorf
Rantzau will very likely head the|
delegation which is now being chosen j
by the German government.
DEFEAT BOLSHEVIKS
SALONIKI, April 22—Reports j
have been received here stating that
the Bolsheviki have been driven out
of Sebastopol and their further ad
vance into the southern Crimea has
been checked by the Allied troops
who are being assisted by the Allied
warships. The Bolsheviks have been i
unable despite desperate fighting to
advance their lines to any consider
able extent.
ARREST GOLD THE1VES
DALLAS. Texas, April 22—J. T.
Murray who iis said to be implicated
in the gold bullion robbery of the
steamer Humbolt, was arrested here,
charged with swindling. Washington,
Oregon and Texas banks of approxi
mately sixty thousand dollars.
An investigation into his previous
career is now being made by the
authorities who claim that his crimi
nal .record extends over many years.
NEED YOUNG BLOOD
LINCOLN. Neb. April 22—William
Jennings Bryan issued a rising call
In the ‘Commoner’ for a young man
for the next democratic nomination
tor the Presidency, as more likely
to be in sympathy wiith modern prob
lems and policies than the old line
politicians who have outlived their
usefulness and are out of harmony
with the problems confronting the
present generation.
GOV UK N ME XT RESIGN S
AMSTERDAM, April 22—Dis
patches received here from Vienna,
state that the ilolshevik government
of Hungary has resigned owing to a
defeat administered to the Hungarian
Soviet forces by a combined Czeclio
Slovaks and Roumanian army.
Information to thjis effect is report
ed to have reached Vienna from Buda
pest by aerial mail.
ROSE rONTKOI, IX MIXICH
LONDON, April 22—Continental
dispatches received by the ‘Daily
Mail’ state that the Soviet govern
ment at Munich has collapsed and
that lits fall was followed by a dec
laration of martial law at Munich by
the former government who has as
sumed full control.
The radical element who were
greatly outnumbered by the loy:|l
'roops, seeing the hopelessness of
their cause are reported to have laid
down their arms and surrendered to
the government forces.
CONSIDER JAP CLAIMS
PARIS, April 22—President Wil
son, Premiers Clemenceau and Lloyd
George are reported to be considering
the Japanese qustion in relation to
affairs in China and the Pacific today.
DEMAND ASSEMBLY
WASHINGTON. April 22—The
State Department has received ad
\Vces from Continental sources that
the Petrograd workmen organization
has passed resolutions demanding the
re-establishment of the constituent
assembly, full freedom of the press
and the right of private ownership
of property.
MAKE TREATY
LONDON, April 22—According to
dispatches received by the Daily Mail
fromh Warsaw Poland the Russian
Bolshevik and the German govern
ment have entered into a treaty
whereby Germany in return for a
stipulated amount of provisions will
supply the Bolshevik government
with several thousand military in
structors during tho next twenty
years.
This treaty as reported further
stipulates that the Russian govern
ment will provide military assistance
to Germany whenever needed.
LOOKING OVER COVENANT
WASHINGTON. April 22—The re
vised text of the League of Nations
covenant is being read at the State
Department, it was announced today.
It has not yet been determined
when the text of the covenant will
be made public.
TO RECOVER BODY
WASHINGTON, April 22—The
War Department has ordered the sol
diers at Fort Liscunt Alaska to take
up their vigils »in the hills above
Fort Liscurn to await the breakup to
recover the body of Ralph K. Pulver,
COMMENCING MONDAY APRIL 2ITH
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 count i one vote.
Every Saturday aftennon 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.
Mr James M. Streoten has kindly consented to act as judge
in the contest.
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a soldier who lost his life during an
avalanche which engulfed him while
out skiing with other soldiers in the
hills above the fort.
TO SUSPEND BLACKLIST
PARIS, April 22—The Supreme
; Economic Council today agreed to
j suspend all blacklists in national
| economic affatrs.
The Japanese aud Chinese repre
' sentatives presented their rival ter
| ritorial claims at this afternoons ses
! sion.
The Italian Premier Orlando was
j again absent from the meeting today,
j apparently confirming the belief that
the Italian delegation has withdrawn
from the Peace conference pending
definite action by the conference on
the Adriatic question.
WANT 10,000 SOLDIERS
WASHINGTON, April 22—The
War Department has ordered the im
I mediate recruiting of ten thousand
soldiers to protect the American pos
sessions in the Pacific.
AVENGES HIMSELF
SEATTLE, April 22—Claiming
that he stole his wlife’s affections John
McDonald shot and severely wounded
Joseph Mercer, fracturing both legs
and one arm and inflicting other
slight fleshwounds.
Mercer, who was removed to a
hospital is expected to recover, while
McDonald' is being held under a
charge of attempted murder.
Both are employees of a local ship
yard.
TO INSPECT ROADS
SEATTLE. April 22—Federal Rail
Road Director Hines arrived on a
trip of inspection of the Pacifis Rail
roads today.
START DRIVE
SEATTLE. April 22—The Victory
Loan drive was started this morning
in this city. Twelve hundred bond
salesmen are canvassing the city for
subscriptions to the loan.
CONTROL VIENNA
VIENNA, April 22—The soldiers
and Workmen’s Council has taken
over the control of affairs in this city
and has started to communize all
property. Mr Cunningham who is in
control of the Allied food distribution
has warned the Council that all food
supply will be cut off if the Bolshe
viks who are in full control, resort
to violence.
WANT R. R. COMPLETED
SAN FRANCISCO. April 22—The
Associated Chambers of Commerce of
the Pacific Coast have adopted resolu
tions calling for the immediate com
pletion of the Alaska Railroad.
The California. Oogeon and Wash
ington Senators and Congressmen
have been requested to aid in all pos
sible ways to have Congress appro
priate sufficient money fro the com
pletion of the project.
Funds are also asked for to com
plete a thorough survey of the coastal
waters and establish much needed
aids to navigation in Alaska.
GEORGE WASHINGTON ARRIVES
BREST April 22—The transport
George Washington arrived here last
Sunday evening after an uneventful
voyage across tne Atlantic.
The George Washington will carry
President Wilson to the United States
atfer the work of the Peace Confer
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WANT IMJPORT DUTY
WASHINGTON, April 22—Alaska
interests have begun an agitation for
the establishment of an import duty
of three cents a pound on herring, to
offset the continental rail rates, which
handicap i3 too great to be borne by
the Alaska Herring Ashing industry
to alio# it to flourish if compelled
to sell in the open market in com
petition with the Euorpean product
which enters the U. S. free.
STRIKE SETTLED
BOSTON, April 22—The New Eng-1 r
land telephone strike has been set-1
tied. The telephone operators re-! \
turned to work while an arbitration j1
committee will set the future wage £
scale. s
ASSUME CONTROL
LONDON, April 22—According to
dispatches received .here from Rus
s's, the Bolsheviks have assumed
control in the Crimea and have estab
lished a Bolshevik government.
Sebastopol is reported to have been
evacuated by the Bolsheviks.
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DEFEAT BOLSHEVIKS 1
LONDON. April 22—According to
dispatches received here via Con
stantinople the Bolsheviks have been
severely defeated by the Ukranians, (
suffering a staggering loss by the re- f
ported capture of the first Bolshevik ,
amy which was operating near Homel j
on the DniepT in the government j
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SLIGHT LOSSES
ARCHANGEL, April 22—Five
hundred and twenty nine casualties
have been suffered by the American
troops during the fighting on the
Archangel Murmansk sector in
Northern Russia since the first Amer
ican troops arrived here last Septem
ber.
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TROOPS ARRIVE
NEW YORK, Apr/l 22—Fifteen
thousand American troops arrived
here from the Western Battle front
in France today, for demobilization.
HAS NO USE FOR RADICALS
NEW YORK, April 22James P.
Holland, President of the New York
State Federation of Labor declared
in a speech delivered here today, that
the Bolsheviks are dogs of the worst
character.
SOUGHT PEACE IX 1918
WASHINGTON, April 22—Accord
ing to a statement made public today
by State Department officials the Ger
man government, sought peace in
101C. requesting President Wilson
to act as mediator between Germany
and the Allied government.
It wms not stated in this astonish
ing disclosure whether the American
government had acted on the request
of the German governmnt or not at
that time.
RECAPTURE V1LNA
WASHINGTON, April 22—Wire- ,
less messages received here state that
the Bolsheviks have succeeded in re- I
capturing Vilna from the Ukranians
after desperate fighting.
The Ukranians are repoted to have
been forced to retreat on a wide front
BOLSHEVIKS GETTING LICKED
LONDON, April 23—Several diB- ]
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dmtral Kolchak commanding an
rmy composed of ant; Bolsheviks and
zecho Slovaks is carrying everything
efore him and that he has arrived
ithin 10 0 miles of the Volga river.
Kolchak's troops are reported to
ave defeated the BoUheviks every
tine the latter made a stand to re
ist their victorious advance.
VICTORIA TO COME BACK
SEATTLE, April 23—It was an
nunced today that the Steamship
'ictoria Will take the place of the
lorthwestern on the Seattle-Nome
un this summer .
Negotiations whereby the Victoria
rould have entered the Trans-Atlan
ic Trade fell thru and she will re
unia her old run. The Victoria is
cheduled to leave Seattle on her first
rip on June 3rd, and she will make
wo and possibly three or four round
rip voyages this summer.
BASEBALL SEASON OPENS
SEATTLE, April 23—The Pacific
'oast Baseball season opened at the
leattle hall park this afternoon.
The Oakland Cal., team played the
ocal club.
RAID CONVENTION
SOl’IX CITY Iowa, April 23—The
onvention of the delegates of the
gricultural branch of the I. W. W.
ras brot to an abrupt end when Sher
ff Jones assisted by 7 5 deputies com.
losed of federal officials, r^lroad
nd federal secret service men raided
he hall where the convention was
eing held.
Several of the leaders were arrested
nd allt he books, pamphlets found in
he possession of the delegates were
onfir-cated by the sheriff and h " as
istants.
BITC H KING
LONDON, April 23—Dispatches re
ceived here from Podgoritza. Monte
negro, state that the Kingdom of
Montenegro ceased to exist.
The Monjieme^rian National As
sembly decayed the deposition of
King Nicholas and transferred the „
rulring power to the Serbian govern
ment with which a complete "union
has been formed.
Montenegro in joining the Serbian ,
federation retains the power to gov
ern her home affairs thru its own
National Assembly.
CONSIDER C HINA .JAP CLAIM*
PARIS, April 23—Premiers Lloyd
George and Clemencoau are consid
ering the China-Japan claims today, » I
Japan's attitude which is very deter- I
mined is thep rinciple obstacle in a
settlement of these claims, as Japan
showss no willingness to abate her
demands.
FIGHT FORMER COMRADES
BERNE, April 2 4—According eo
dispatches received here from Russia
the major portion of the f.rst Bolshe_
vile army which surrendered recently
to the Ukranians are reported to have
joined their captors, and is now en
gaged in fighting witht hem aga.'nst
the Bolsheviks in the Pripet region
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day, AprU 28, 11)10, at. the building,
on Front Street formerly occupied b.v
Zehners Jewelery store for the pur
pose of electing delegates to the Dem
ocratic Convention to be held in ,lu- .
: neau for the purpose of nominating:
| a Relegate to Congress from Alaska
j Polls open from 8 to 10 p. m.
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