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VOL. IV. NO. 198 CORDOVA, ALASKA. MONDAY. JULY 28, 1919 PRICE TEN CENTS
WILSON CONSULTS DEMOCRATS ON PEACE TREATY
| Sweating Members
Vote for Repeal of
^ |i Tax on Soft Drinks j§
WASHINGTON, July 28 (by jjjj
jjjj Associated Press).—After a de- jjjj
jjjj bate of two hours, with the tem- jjjj
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:jjj 10 per cent tax on soda water, j:j:
jx ice cream, etc. :j:j
PACIFIC FLEET
PANAMA, July 28 (by Associated
Press).—The Pacific fleet of the Unit
ed States navy reached the Pacific
ocean here last evening without mis
^ hap, the average time for the passage
through the canal of the six dread
naughts being ten hours.
The fleet left this morning for San
Diego.
MOTHER AND CHILDREN
PERISH AMID FLAMES
WHICH DESTROY HOME
(MILWAUKEE, July 28 (by Associ
ated Press).—Mrs. Anna Gump and
her four children were suffocated in
a fire which destroyed their home in
this city last night.
DRUMMERS ARE NOW
J ON WAY TO BERLIN
COBLENZ, July 28 (by Associated
Press).—Army headquarters here has
given permission to five American
commercial travelers to proceed
through the Coblenz bridgehead en
route to the interior of Germany on
business.
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MASTER PRINTERS
MEET IN SEATTLE
SEATTLE, July 28 (by Associated
Press).—The master printers of the
Pacific Northwest are meeting in their
first annual conference here today.
Two hundred delegates are in attend
ance from Idaho, Oregon, Washington
and British Columbia.
. DISMISSED AVIATORS
NOT TO BE REINSTATED
WASHINGTON, July 26 (by Asso
ciated Pre3s).—The first strike of avi
ators in history has been settled. The
six aviators who were yesterday dis
missed were reinstated today. The
two pilots whose dismissal led to the
strike have not been reinstated.
FISH QUOTATIONS
SEATTLE, July 28.—The prices for
fish at noon today were as follows:
Pickled sablefish, $20 per bbl.; pickled
herring, $12 per bbl.; sockeye salmon,
$18 per bbl.; pink salmon, $14 per
bbl.; fall salmon, $15 per bbl. These
prices on pickled varieties will apply
until about August 15. Halibut, 14c
£>er lb.; sablefish, 5c; ling and red cod,
l 4c per lb.
NEGROESCAUSE
SERIOUS RIOTS
IN WINDY CITY
CHICAGO, July 28 (by Associated
Press).—One negro was drowned and
another fatally wounded, one white
man is reported to have been drowned,
and a policeman and nearly a score
of blacks were injured by bullets and
missiles in a series of riots in the
negro district on the South side last
evening. Every available policeman
is on the scene.
A small riot occurred this morning
when a negro fired at a wagon load
of white workmen. When the whites
attempted to disarm the negro others
came to his assistance.
In the race rioting yesterday two
negroes were killed and fifty whites
and negroes were injured.
The trouble yesterday started when
negroes attempted to swim on the
white side of the bathing beach on
Lake Michigan. After the beach fight
i had been quelled trouble arose
| throughout the city during the night,
but this was not serious.
INCREASED OIL PRICES
MAY BE INVESTIGATED
WASHINGTON, July 28 (by Associ
ated Press).—Senator Poindexter, Re
publican, of Washington, introduced
a resolution in the senate today pro
viding for an investigation of the re
cent advances in the prices of gasoline
and other oil products. He said that
these rises were unwarranted, and that
the oil companies fix prices at will.
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WASHINGTON, July 28 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The state department
has been informed that John Thomp
son, an American rancher, paid 15,000
pesos ransom to bandits who kidnaped
his 14-year-old son. He did this on
the advice of the Mexican govern
ment, which feared that the bandits
would kill the boy.
Mexico will reimburse Thompson.
FRANCE CANCELS ITS
CONTRACT WITH UNION
PARIS, June 29 (by mail).—An ex
periment# in co-operating contracting
by a workingman’s union in the demo
lition of the fortifications of Paris has
just been brought to an end, after
it had pushed the cost of removing
dirt and masonry from the average
contract price of 5 francs 50 centimes
to 25 francs a yard.
At the request of Socialist mem
bers of the municipal council a sec
tion of the work was reserved for a
workmen’s organization. It fell to the
Stone Breakers’ Union of the Seine.
The work was to be paid for at the
regular wage scale instead of by con
tract price. Work on other sections
was let at from 4.50 to 7 francs per
yard, who paid their workmen the
same wages. When the cost of the
work done by the union amounted to
25 francs a yard the city authorities
called a halt.
Alvah Eames, railway mail clerk,
reports that the steamer Bergen ar
rived at Kodiak yesterday from the
westward, and that after August 1 the
mail for Unalaska will be dispatched
from Seward instead of Kodiak.
NOTORIETY-LOVING SEATTLE MAYOR |
MAKES UNDIGNIFIED ATTACK ON |
IMPRUDENT I. W. W. MEMBER
YAKIMA, Wash., July 28 (by Associated Press).— &
Ole Hanson, mayor of Seattle, climbed out of his automo- jji:
bile here yesterday and smashed a man who made a re- |:|i
mark to the effect that he ought to be hung to the nearest |:|:.
telephone pole. :|;j
Hanson remarked later that “that was the way to £
deal with the I. W. W.’s, as they were all cowards.” He g
said he remembered the man who had made the remark §:
which he had resented as one who was arrested in Seattle.
Hanson says he has visited Yakima five times, and every il;!
time has had a fight. ijij
WASHINGTON, July 28 (by Associated Press).—Presi
dent Wilson conferred with Democratic senators today, discuss
ing the treaty of peace. Senator Thomas of Colorado, one of
the senators who conferred with the President, described his
talk as highly satisfactory. Senator Johnson of South Dakota
said after his conference with the President that in his opinion
the treaty must be accepted by the senate without change or
be flatly rejected.
Judge Hughes Urges Reservations
Charles E. Hughes, formerly justice of the United States
supreme court, and Republican candidate for President in 1916,
in a letter to Senator Hale of Maine, suggests a number of res
ervations to the League of Nations covenant. Judge Hughes
says he feels that two-thirds of the senate will refuse to ratify
the peace treaty with the covenant as it now stands. He sug
gests that nations be allowed to withdraw from the league on
two years’ notice, that immigration questions be settled by do
mestic jurisdiction, and that under Article 10 the United States
shall assume no international obligation to send her forces over
seas unless with the consent of congress, and that the Monroe
doctrine be preserved.
Senators Will Work During Recess
The house resolution providing for a recess from August 3
to September 9 was adopted by the senate today. The senate
expects to work continuously during this time on the peace
treaty.
TRADE UNIONISTS TAKE
CHARGE OF MARKETS
AND REDUCE PRICES
HAVRE, July 28 (by Associated
Press).—Officials of the Federated
Trades Unions went into the whole
sale market here Saturday and com
pelled producers to sell them a
quantity of foodstuffs at prices vary
ing from 5 to 75 per cent under the
market price, and then took it to the
public markets, where they sold it at
cost.
FIRE SITUATION IN
MONTANA IMPROVED
MISSOULA, Mont., July 28 (by As
sociated Press).—The forest fire situa
tion is becoming greatly improved, ex
cept in the Lolo forest, where the situ
ation is worse.
ELECTRICAL WORKERS
IN GERMANY ON STRIKE
BERLIN, July 28 (by Associated
Press).—Thirty thousand employes of
the Siemens Schuckert Company, one
of the largest of German electrical
concerns, are on strike.
NINETY DAYS MORE
GIVEN WICK IN HIS
CONTEST FOR SEAT
WASHINGTON, July 28 (by Associ
ated Press).—The resolution extend
ing for ninety days the time for the
collection of evidence in Alaska in
the contested election case instituted
by James Wickersham to unseat
George Grigsby as delegate in con
gress, has been adopted by the house
of representatives.
HUNGARIANNOBLEMAN
WANTS TO VISIT AMERICA
VIENNA, July 28 (by Associated
Press).—Count Karolyi, former provi
sional president of Hungary, is here,
endeavoring to secure passports to the
United States by way of Holland.
THIRD DIVISION WILL
SOON LEAVE COBLENZ
COBLENZ, July 28 (by Associated
Press).—The Third division of the
United States army has been ordered
home, and will begin entraining for
Brest August 5.
VIOLATIONS OF I
ARMISTICE BY
PRAGUE, July 28 (by Associated
Press).—The Czecho-Slovak govern
ment has sent a strong note of protest
today to Bela Kun, the Hungarian
communist foreign minister, concern
ing the aerial bombardment of
Czecho-Slovak towns on Thursday
last and other violations of the armis
tice.
Reparation and promise that there
will be no recurrence of the bombard
ments are demanded.
Hungarian Bolsheviki Defeated
VIENNA, July 2S (by Associated!
Press).—It is reported that the Hun
garian soviet troops have been thrown
back in disorder across the Theiss
river by the Rumanians.
Poles Defeat Hungarians
COPENHAGEN, July 28 (by Asso
ciated Press).—It is announced that
the Poles now hold all of Galicia up
to the Hungarian frontier. The Poles
advanced so rapidly that the retiring
; Ukrainians had no time to destroy the
| bridges.
The Poles took sixty-five hundred
prisoners, forty-one guns and vast
quantities of ammunition.
Reverses in Russia Also
LONDON, July 28 (by Associated
Press).—A Bolshevik wireless message
announces the retirement of the Bol
sheviki along the railroad on the Arch
angel front owing to enemy pressure.
CANNERY SHIP
IS BURNED TO
WATER’S EDGE
VANCOUVER, B. C„ July 28 (by As
sociated Press).—The Admiral Knight,
a wooden ship of 600 tons, bound for
Ketchikan with cannery supplies, was
burned to the water’s edge off Van
couver island yesterday.
The crew of the Admiral Knight was
rescued by the steamship Princess Vic
toria and brought here. One man is
in the hospital suffering from burns.
The vessel sailed from Seattle Sat
urday night, bound for Southeastern
Alaska points. She had no passengers
on board. Captain L. J. Allen was
in command of the ship.
What caused the fire on the Knight
is not known. Her cargo consisted
of extremely inflammable materials.
The burned seaman is B. Neilson of
Seattle.
Due to Boiler Explosion
SEATTLE, April 28 (by Associated
Press).—It is reported that the Ad
miral Knight's boilers exploded. It is
not known whether the ship can be
salvaged.
AMERICAN INTERESTS
MAKE BILLION-DOLLAR
LOAN TO BERLIN BANK
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LONDON, July 28 (by Associated
Press).—It is reported that the
Deutsch Bank of Berlin has obtained
a billion-dollar loan from American
interests.
ALASKA MINING STOCKS
NEW YORK, July 28—Alaska Gold,
3%; Alaska Juneau, 2Ms
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California Judge |
Gives Ray of Hope
To Thirsty Ones g
rji SAN FRANCISCO, July 28 (by g
Associated Press).—A decision
ij: was handed down in the United
States district court here today x
which holds that the sale of beer
x containing 2% per cent alcohol
is not a violation of the war- j:-:
time prohibition act.
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AUSTRIA GIVES
FORTH
VIENNA. July 28 (by Associated
Press).—Foreign Minister Baer, dis
cussing the Austrian peace treaty, says
the Austrians will bo slaves of the al
lies economically for thirty years.
The peace is a shameful one, says
the minister, and can be destroyed
only through a victory of international
solidarity.
MRS. MOONEY TALKS
TO MINERS OF BUTTE
BUTTE, July 2S (by Associated
Press).—Mrs. Mooney, wife of Thomas
Mooney, convicted of the San Fran
cisco bomb murders, addressed a mass
meeting here yesterday She said she
would not cease public speaking until
she and Mooney had been cleared.
A collection was taken up to defray
her expenses.
MILITARY PRISONERS
FORCED TO GO TO WORK
LEAVENWORTH, Kan., July 2S (by
Associated Press).—Twenty-five hun
dred military prisoners here, who re
fused to work last Tuesday, resumed
work today, after being on a restricted
diet.
BELGIANS ARE
APPRECIATIVE
OF WAR RELIEF
NEW YORK, July 2S (by Associated
Press).—Rev. Father Stryckes, secre
tary of Cardinal Mercier, primate of
Belgium, arrived here today. He says
Cardinal Mercier will come to the
United States in September.
Fifteen or twenty cardinals are com
ing as representatives of the Belgian
people at that time, says Father
Stryckes, for the purpose of thanking
the American people for the war re
lief extended to the Belgians. They
will visit as many parts of the country
as possible.
WOMEN OF GERMANY
CAST MOST OF VOTES
BERLIN, June 19 (by mail).—Fifty
four per cent of the voters in the last
national assembly election were
women. The total number of qualified
voters was 37,000,000, as against 14,
000,000 in the last reichstag elections.
Young women proved more ardent
voters than youths of the same age.
Both wings of the Socialists polled
45 Vi per cent of the total vote.
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