ROYAL WEDDING
IS IN PROSPECT
ROME, July 5.—(Correspondence
of the Associated Press)—Unconfirm
ed reports that- Prince Edward Albeit,
of Wales, heir apparent to the British
throne, seeks the hand of Princess
Yolanda, the eldest daughter of King
Victor Emanuel of Italy, have excited
widespread discussion here. The ru
mor is a surprise to Italians general
ly, for it had been supposed that the
British prince would marry one of the
daughters of Emperor Nicholas of
Russia, but there are a number of
incidents that have led the Italian
people to believe that Prince Edward
will marry the Princess Yolanda.
It is now stated that the reason of
the visit of the Puke of Connaught to
j the Italian king in May was to present
the formal request of the king and
queen of England for the hand of the
■ Princess Yolanda. The princess i;
only 15 years old, and the prince is
only 22. She received an English ed
ucation from babyhood under the tu
telage of an English governess, Miss
! Brown, and those who know her inti
mately have spoken of her as one of
the best marriageable prospects in
European royal families. She is said
to be an extremely sensible and prac
tical girl, having been brought up in
a family that is peculiarly domesti .
and being the oldest girl in the fam
ily, her royal intimates say she has
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been regarded as the “boss” of the
household. She has always acted at
the protectorcss of her younger sis
ters and her brother, Prince Humbert
Sometimes she has extended this rob
even to her mother, the queen. The
latter, on one occasion recently, wher
speaking to the American wife of ar
Italian journalist, said “I rarely at
te’mpt to speak English because Yo
landa insists on correcting my mis
takes.”
The princess strongly resembles
her mother,having dark hair and eyes,
an olive complexion, and the slow
smile not unlike the famous one in the
Mona Lisa paintings. She has been
given even more of the modern out
door education than many of the
Italian girls who have followed the
English and American custom. She |
plays tennis well, rides, swims, is an |
excellent pistol and rifle shot. Since ]
the war began she has been the con- j
stant companion and aid of her moth
er in the work among the poor fam
ilies of soldiers and in the hospitals,
particularly the latter.
The princess is a Catholic, and the j
English law does not allow of the oc
cupancy of the British throne by a
Catholic, but among these who wish to
see the marriage carried out, it is re
called that in recent years certain
princesses have changed their religion
in order to become queens. The
Queen of Spain became a Catholic on
her marriage, while the Queen of
Greece adopted the religion of the
country for the same reason.
Should the marriage not take place
the fact may develop that it was be
cause the princess so willed. The
Italian royal family is known to be
sufficiently converted to democratic
ideas not to insist on a wedding which
the princess fails to view with full ap
proval. As the throne of Italy cannot
;;e inherited by a woman, the marri
ige of a royal princess has not the
far-reaching political importance that
is tree in the case of the Prince of
Wales. The war having apparently
eliminated both German and Austrian
suitors, if the Princess Yolanda mai'
ries in neither England nor Russia,
she may after all marry in Italy,
where many' of the princely houses
consider themselves quite as good as
the House of Savoy.
The Italian royal family is 'or
wealthier than the English royal fami
ly, being rated only' second as to that
:>f Russia in wealth, and much of this
wealth is in cold cash, not in undevel
oped lands.
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Skagway held its Fourth of July
- celebration on the first.
Fai banks postoffice became a soc
g end class office on July 1.
i, The Petersburg shrimp p’ar.t is rc
i- ported to be having a prosperous sen
e son.
n Last week Whitehorse was visited
- by a genuine old-fashioned thunder
E storm.
B Two native bands furnished the mu
e sic for the Haines Fourth of July eel
n ebration.
e Nearly every coast town in Alaska
- barred firecrackers from the Fourth
. of July celebrations.
The foundry firm of Frit:; & Mam
i, of Ballard, Wash., will establish a
foundry at Anchorage.
e Frank Berg, a gardner at Melozi
. station, recently severely cut bis knn
, cap with an axe.
j Bernard Friss was convicted re
- cently at Fairbanks for beating hi.
i wife and was sentenced to six months
t j in jail.
s I A movement -has started at Fair
1 [ banks to grab the army post station^!
C ! now at the mouth of the Tanana river.
2 i oni Young, who is operating a
I prospecting drill on the Lewies river,
3 is reported to be taking out an ounce
_ j a clay.
s Reports from Gold Hill, in the Fair
5 banks district, say that a shortage of
c men is handicapping the operators.
] 1 The Ketchikan Miner says the sun
. has shone so much in that vicinit
(. that even the water in the creeks ap
.1 pears dry.
2 Gregory Fox, a resident of Seldo
t, via, has been taken into custody at
C that place, charged with making
, j “Hooch.”
2 A baseball club has been formed at
_ the new railroad town of Xenana and
has challenged tire Fairbanks team to
. | a game.
, Lars Johan Erikson and Charles
s Theidor Crozier. of the Fairbanks dis
trict, have received patents to their
r homesteads.
_ j The Juneau band is making ar
, rangements to give Monday night
5 open air concerts during the summer
months.
f ifteen hundred people took part in
■ the preparedness parade, which con
stituted a feature of Juneau’s Fourth
, of July celebration.
Owing to recent strikes the town of
Poorman is taking on new life, and a
number of new business houses are
I i starting up.
| At the Douglas Fourth of July cel
ebration Graeff & Martini won the
rock drilling contest with a hole 25%
inches deep.
The Indians of Metlakahtla are
some ball players. They recently de
feated the Anyox, B. C., team by a
score of 4 to 3.
J. H. Wheeler, superintendent of
streets at Juneau, has resigned his
position. He has held the position foi
the past two years.
Yukon territory has made a greater
per capita contribution to the Cana
dian patriotic fund than any other
province of Canada.
Fairbanks papers claim that the
Tolovano country, principally Livin
good creek and its tributaries will i
produce a million dollars this year,
and will do much better next year.
The Number Nine Mining company, •
on Fairbanks creek had a clean-up re
cently.- Four men were working on
the ground and the clean-up showed
up close to $2,000 for each man.
The Cordova Light & Power.com
pany has commenced the rebuilding
of their dam at an expense of $3,000
and are employing a crew of eight
men.
FREE GOLD STRIKE
MADE AT MCA BAY
Frank P. Skeen, a pioneer prospec
tor and mining man of the Kenai pe
ninsula, writes Jim Nicholson of
Anchorage that himself and Charles
Emswiler have made an important
free gold discovery at Nuca bay, at
the southern extremity of the penin
sula. The vein, at the widest point
uncovered, is seven feet and an av
erage assay taken across the face
gives a return of $150 a ton. Skeen
says he found rich float quartz on
three creeks in that region and re
gards it is a likely, field for the pros
pector.
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