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NOME, ALASKA,
THURSDAY, JULY, 4, t!M8.
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60MPERS GARRIES FBHT
TO PRESIDENT Wit
WASHINGTON, D. C. July 3—i
Samuel Gompers is bringing the
fight against prohibition legislation j
right up to the White House and is
supporting strongly the administra-j
tion faction which is lined up against
it. He appeared with several other
labor leaders at the White House
to lodge a formal protest against
tho projected labor legislation and in
doing so he forecasted labor dis
sent-; or.s as probable should such
legislation bo enacted.
Prohibition supporters are dis
counting the opposition of Gompors
and the rest. They have openly
taken issue with Hurl y and have
shown that the most efficient and
productive shipyards upon the figures
•issued by the Emergency Fleet Cor
poration were those which were es
tablished in dry territory, a yard in
! the dry state of W.tsiiirgton lead
ing all others in the number of
ships finished and furnished the
government and that the most ton
nage per man employed was also
produced by a yard located in a
dry slate.
Powerful interests are backing
Gompers and others in their fight
on the introduction of prohibition
age.list which Gompers has however
consistently fought.
Tho powerful brewery workers
unions aro lined up a solid unit
against the passage i f such a meas
ure.
Fourth of July dance at Eagle
Hall at nine thirty tonight, Adm. $1
Ladies free.
GERMANY IMPOSES TERMS
FOR POLISH KINGDOM
GERMANY IMPOSES TERMS . .N
ZURICH, July 3—Tho establish
ment of nn independent kingdom of
Poland la agreed to by Germany
under a rescript wherein tho follow
ing terms aro imposed as essential
to such an establishment:
The army of the kingdom must
bo limited to 90,000 men.
Germany and Austria will enjoy
preferential trado rights with the
Polish Kingdom for fifty years.
Germany and her-Allies as well
as the enemy nations of the Central
Powers will be whoty excluded from
the internal jurisdiction of tin; King
dom.
While those terras look not un
reasonable on paper they are offset
by the fact that it is proposed that
Germany and Austria will unite in
selecting a ruler who will accept tile
throne upen conditions agreeable
to him and t'r.o G rim n and Aus
trian nations. Such a ruler would
ha the servant of the ruling houses
of cither Germany or Austria and
I ho Polish independence w* u'.d be
more apparent than real.
Moreover according to every in
dication such a monarch would, be
! Teuton in birth, class and racial
i sympathy and would have according
: to all understanding practically
autocratic control over his subjects
who would be different in rr.ce and
national sympathies to their ruler.
The acceptance or rejection of
these terms is not deft to the Polish
pcoph.
The Central Powers have 'shown
an ardent wish to bring the settle
i ment of the Polish question to as
rapid a conclusion as possible.
It is taken from these signs that
the situation is being found to be
at present somewhat embarossing
owing to the internal conditions now
prevailing thruout Palish territory.
Austria has given no opinion on
1 the Proposed German terms.
BERNE July 3—A dispatch from
Vienna announces that the Aus
trian government captured thr*-e
hundred Czccho-Sinv conspiratcvs
within the confines of the empire
and promptly hanged all of them.
The men were identified with the
movement to establish the indepen
dence of the Czech-Slav provinces
within Austria Hungary, a conspiracy
is reputed to be, of extensive scope
and which is exciting extreme con
cern among the rule? ; owing to its
close connection with the former
Pan-Slav movement that so disturbed
this country.
All sections of the country inlia’o
itated fcy Czechs and Slavs are said
to be embroiled in the plots and
the strikes which have been very
common ;n such sections had all
of them more or less political sig
niflcar.ce.
Economic and political disturb
ances arc ctiil reported as being
very general thraout wide sections
of Austria-Hungary, even Buda
Pest being the scene of these to
a great extent.
The movement is also strongly
opposed to a continuance cf the war
and the alliance with and prepon
derance of Germany.
PRESENT STATUS EIGHT
HOUR LAW APPEAL
The present status of the eight
hour law passed by the territorial
legislature in compliance with the.
most sweeping popular mandate
ever delivered hv any state or ter
litory is that the appeal against
Bunnell’s decision is not to be car
ried out.
Hearing that such a step was to
be taken, Attorney General Grigsby
of the Territory of Alaska, wrote
to Attorned General Gregory asking
him not to dismiss this appeal.
The Territorial Attorney General
since his arrival in Nome received
! the following advice from Juneau.
■ “U. S. Solicitor General writes that
, writ of error in eight hour case
! would be dismissed as he considers
! statute invalid because unlimited..
WASHINGTON, July 3—Senator
Bonjamm Tillman died here today of!
paralysis.
Tillman has been very unwell for
some few years past and his re
tirement from public life has often
been forecast.
Senator Benjamin Tillman was
born on August 11 1847 and was
governor of South Carolina his na
tive state in 1890 and re-elected
in 1892 by an overwhelming vote
In 1894 he entered the race for
Senator from* S. Carolina and was
again ©lectc d, representing that
state up to the present time of
hia death.
His term of office did not otherwise
expire until March 3 1919. Tillman
has been hotod for several fights
in tho senate of some degree. Most
notable was his altercation with
Roosevelt and of 'aim it can be said
he is one of the few men who in a
direct cn itrovcrsy with the Colonel
corno off with all the honors. Ills
scratching denunciation of the pri
vate system of espionage which
Roosevelt was reported to have es
j tabiished over Senators was one of
the most forcible phillipios over
heard in the walls of Congress.
Tillman was as progressive as
night be expected from a democrat
! of the old school, but long since
younger and more earnest men had
left him in the folds of reaction.
Ho was mainly responsible for the
South Carolina dispensary liquor
system and for the establishment of
the first woman’s college in the
! South, U.g Wintrhop Normal and
i Industrial College for Women at
I Uockhill.
POSTPONE THE BERNE
CONFERENCE FOR PRESENT
WASHINGTON, D. C. July 3—
The United States State Department
has been notified cf the postpone
ment of the Berne conference which
■was to have been held between Ger
many and America to consider the
maintenance of prisoners of both
the conferring belligerent*.
No reason has been assigned for
this postponement. The conference
was only agreed to a short time
ago.
A similar agreement had already
been reached at a similar conference
between the French and German
•Govornm nts, it is said, as a result
of the condition of the French
prisoners which had been very bad
being very greatly improved.
English organs complaining of the
treatment of British prisoners said
that Great Britian should have been
a party to the conference and that
it was one more instance of the
lack of unity of action among the
Allies r suiting unfortunately for
one or other of them.
How far this criticism is justified
is not known.
Fourth of July dance at Eagle
Hall at nine thirty tonight, Adm. $1
Ladies free.
SYRACUSE, N. Y. July 3—A
terrible explosion of the deadly T.
N. T. again accompanied by enor
mous casualty lists destroyed a fac
tory hero and caused a property
loss of over a million dollars.
At least 45 are known dead and
50 are reported injured. But it is
admitted that these lists will prob
ably be augmented when the actual
loss is more fully checked up.
Tho cause of the explosion so
far is not known, and an effort will ^
be made to investigate it fully.
The government has been taking
especial precautions to prevent ac
cidents in these oxplosive factories
and the safety precautions taken
have been usually considered very
perfect.
The factory was engaged in the
production of high explosives for the
use of the government in the war.
This is the third serious explo
sion in a factory where trinitrotoluol
has been manufactur'd since the
beginning of the ^ear. Most of the
factories are behind in their orders
for other bellig< rents.
SYRACUSE. N. Y. July 3—This
I evening the casualty list in the T. N.
T. factory explosion which occurred
this morning at the Semet Solwy’s
plant, the death list had increased
to sixty and the injured to seventy
persons.
THE INDEPENDENT GROCERY
NOW OPEN FOR BUSINESS.
RECEIPTS SHOW DECREASE
IN NATIONAL ROADS
WASHINGTON, D. C. July 3—
Not receipts of the railroads for the
first five months under government
control decreased one hundred and
ton millions four hundred and sixty
four thousand dollars.
It will be noted that this report
gives a wrong conception of the
actual receipts. It includes the first
two disastrous months when a rr.il
roal congestion and traffic embargo
prevailed on almost all the eastern
lines in order to give coal and steel
preference. Since that time the
traffic has been recovering by leaps
and bounds notwithstanding the
fact that all United StateE freight
is receiving favored treatment and
non-rcsontials are barred on all
roads.
WELL KNOWN DIVINE DEAD
COLUMBUS, O. July 3—Last
evening Dr Washington Gladden
passed away at his home here.
Gladden was p, noted writer, lec
turer and preacher, hut he will he
remember*d chiefly for rejecting a
Rockefeller donation because of the
money “being tainted.”
Fourth of July dance at Eaglo
Hall at nine thirty tonight, Adm. $1
Ladles free.
He takes position that you have no
authority to appear m case.”
Mr. Grigsby intimates his inten
tion of so doing, although ho may
have to commence proceedings all
over again.
In this connection it is interesting I
to observe tho reason given for
considering the law invalid in
Washington D. C. The law applies
to all whether working for them
selves or frr ethers end it is this
amnibus feature that is disliked.
This however in any event no mat
ter what the result may h<, can
easily he aracr.d-ac! and the State
of Arizona has cn its st'.tuto books
a law which has so far steed the
test ofthe courts.
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ROTTERDAM, July 3—Indicative (
of tho disturbed political cituat’on
becoming beyond them tho news
papers here say that tho Dutch
cabinet will resign in a body to
morrow.
Almost since their holding office
the Dutch cabinet has had to handle
national and international troubles
of U:o most serious nature and theso
have been accumuh ting instead of
diminishing. Popular discontent
over the food situation has becomo
sharpened for the Inst s x months.
WASHINGTON, D, C. July 3—
Gi n ral Pershing cabled to Chair
man Hurley of the Shipping Board
that the launching of one hundred i
ships on July 4 was the most inspir
ing news he had received from
America. With such backing we can
not fail to win and win well and
quickly said Pershing.
An aggregate of 380,000 tons will
bo sent into the water tomorrow
in yards east and west. Almost
all the western yards contribute
their guota to the grand launching
festival while many of the new
eastern yards will begin their regular
launching, expecting to keep up the
big licks which will put all previous
records to tho shade. One eastern
yards which will launch several
ships tomorrow, will launch one a
day from that day on.
WILSON SETS PRICE
FOR JULY COPPER
i WASHINGTON, D. C. July 3—
Copper magnates are made glad by
the, announcement that tlio Presi
dent has approved 26 cents a pound
as the maximum price which will
be paid producers for copper and
dealers must also be supplied at
this government rate.
This price goes into effect from
July 1 but is subject to a general
I
revision on August 15.
WICK WINS IN COMMITTEE
WASHINGTON, D. C. July 3—
Tho House elections committee fav
orably reported for Wickorsham be
ing seated as delegate from Alaska.
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