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VOL. IV. NO. 233 CORDOVA. ALASKA. SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 6. 1919 PRICE TEN CENTS
RAILROAD APPROPRIATION MAY BE PASSED BY HOUSE TODAY
PRESIDENT WILSON DECLARES
• CAUSE OF WORLD WELFARE IS
GREATER THAN U. S. SENATE
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If Little Groups of Selfish Men Are Allowed to
Control European Nations d here Is Danger
That Similar Elements Will Control in
United States, Declares Mr. Wilson
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ST. LOUIS, Sept. (> (by Associated Press).—In a second
speech in this city, delivered at the Coliseum yesterday, Presi
dent Wilson said that there could be no League of Nations with
cut the partnership of the United States. “If we become part
ners,” he predicted, “we will be senior partners.”
The President said that amending the treaty would mean
Its failure and the isolation of the United States. America, he
said, should have representation on the powerful reparations
commission, as without it we would be playing a lone hand and j
would be fjpoEen out.
He charged that the opponents of the teaty would be abso
lutely contemptible quitters if they did not see the game
through.
Cause Is Greater Than the Senate
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The President said that tlie people had been misled as to
what the treaty meant by men who looked at-it with the preju
diced eyes of those who had private interests of their own at
stake.
f Three or four men who controlled the affairs of Russia, lie
said, represented only themselves, and there was a closer mo
nopoly of power at Moscow than there had been at Potsdam
before the war, and that a man more cruel than the czar was in
control of the destinies of Russia.
“If we do not want little groups of selfish men to plot
America’s future,” said the President, “we must see that little
groups of selfish men do not plot Europe’s future.”
He said that the war had been won by American spirit, and
that in the treaty America would realize what her gallant boys
had fought for.
The President said he had the greatest respect for the
Vnited States senate, but he had come out to fight for a cause
greater than the senate, “and I intend to fight for that cause
until I die,” lie concluded.
The presidential party left for Kansas City last night.
Kansas City Is Enthusiastic
KANSAS CITY, Sept. 6 (by Associated Press).—In his
speech here President Wilson appealed to his audience to sup
port the treaty of peace as the charter for a new order* of the
world’s affairs.
Every member of the crowd of fifteen thousand persons
which greeted him carried a small flag, and they cheered the
% chief executive for two minutes. A big crowd was unable to
get inside the hall.
The President will speak at Des Moines tonight. He type
writes his speeches on the train.
4> Will Endeavor to Refute President
WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 (by Associated Press).—A num
ber of senators have made engagements to discuss the treaty of
peace in the East and Middle West in the near future.
The Republicans propose to reply to the President’s ad
dresses on the floor of the senate and elsewhere.
CABINET MEMBERS
NOMINATE MEN TO
ACT AS DELEGATES
WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Secretary of the
Treasury Glass, Secretary of the In
terior Lane, Secretary of Commerce
% Red field and Secretary of Agricul
ture Houston have prepared a list of
names from which President Wilson
will select fifteen of men who will
represent the public at the labor and
industry conference in October.
The names have not been an
nounced.
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VICTOR BERGER RETIRES
FROM SOCIALIST WORK
CHICAGO, Sept. 6 (by Associated
Press).—Victor Berger, the Socialist
elected to congress from Milwaukee,
and who has not been seated because
of his conviction of sedition, has re
tired from the national executive
committee of the Socialist party. In
announcing that he would not be a
candidate for re-election he said he
had been a member of the committee
ever since the party was organized,
“and all I ever got out of it was a
twenty-year prison sentence.”
AUSTRIANS ARE
INDIGNANT AT
GENEVA, Sept. 6 (by Associated
Press).—The Austrian peace terms
have been received at Vienna with
the greatest surprise and indigna
tion It is believed the ministry will
fall.
The monarchists consider that the
peace terms have killed any hopes
of the return of the Hapsburgs.
They Will Sign, All Right
PARIS. Sept. 6 (by Associated
Press).—The Austrians probably will
decide tomorrow to accept the peace
treaty.
REWARD, Sept. 6 (Special to the
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Daily Times).—Dempsey, who killed
Deputy Marshal Isaac Evans on Mon
day last, and who confessed to the
murder of the Lavor woman at An
chorage. was arraigned yesterday af
ter a ^on before the United States com
missioner here. He waived examina
ti m and pleading and was bound over
to the grand jury-without bail on the
charge of murder in the first degree.
The self-confessed murderer main
tained a smirky attitude during the
hearing. Only three witnesses were
examined, all identifying him as the
man who shot Evans.
The term of the district court
will begin here on Monday next, but
as only a petit jury has been drawn,
Dempsey will be taken to Valdez and
placed in the federal jail there to
await the term of court to be held
there later.
1 LARGE SUM OFFERED
FOR BIG BRUISERS
RENO, Nev., Sept. 6 (by Associated
Press).—An athletic club here has
offered Jack Dempsey $60,000 for a
fight with Willie Meehan of San Fran
cisco, to be staged in thjs city, and
to be for twenty-five rounds. It is
stipulated that the fight is to take
place after the first of the year.
Meehan claims to have been award
ed two decisions over Dempsey be
fore the latter became champion.
INTERESTING RUMOR
COMES FROM LONDON
LONDON, Sept. 6 (by Associated
Press).—The Evening Standard says
it learns on the highest authority that
Great Britain and the United States
have guaranteed Belgium against fu
ture German aggression.
POLISH GOVERNMENT
MEETS DIFFICULTIES
PARIS, Sept. 6 (by Associated
Press).—Premier Paderewski of Po
land says that Germany is battling
in the east in the hope of gaining
the victory she lost in the west. The
Germans are using the Bolsheviki to
overrun Poland, he ays.
GOV. HART IS
IN IGNORANCE
AS TO WILSON
SPOKANE, Sept. (I (by Asociated
Press).—Governor Hart of this state
says that he has not been invited
to meet President Wilson during his
sojourn in the state of Washington.
‘‘I have not been notified of President
Wilson’s coming,” he said, “and in
fact do not know what the President’s
mission here is.”
Governor Hart says he Wjill not be
a candidate for the governorship next
year. He is filling out the unexpired
term of the late Governor Ernest
Lister.
NEW*WESTMINSTER. B. C„ Sept
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6 (by Associated. Press).—A copy of
the international fisheries treaty re
cently signed between Canada, Great
Britain and the United States at
Washington, has been received here.
The treaty affects British Colum
I bia fisheries, and especially those of
the Fraser river. It provides for a
closed season of twelve days each
year, the regulation of traps and
purse seins.
The purpose of the treaty is to re
habilitate the fisheries of the Fraser
river.
ENGLISH LABOR TROUBLES
BECOME LESS COMMON
LONDON, Sept. 6 (by Associated
Press).—The industrial situation is
far less grave than a few month ago.
No strikes of magnitude have oc
curred since the strike of the York
shire coal miners was settled. The
one serious question concerns the
tramway workers, who threaten to
nation-wide strike unless wages are
increased.
NITRATE DEPOSITS
WORKING AT CAPACITY
SANTIAGO, Chile, Sept. 6 (by As
sociated Press).—Work has recom
menced on the German nitrate prop
erties in Chile, which were tied up
during the war. Two hundred thous
and tons of nitrates are reported »1
leady to have been sold.
RAINS IN MONTANA
QUELL FOREST FIRES
MISSOULA, Mont., Sept. 6 (by As
sociated Press).—The forestry offict
here reports that the forest fires
which have been raging in Westerr
Montana and Northern Idaho are over
due to the heavy rains, and that onlj
a few small fires are still burning,
COMMUNICATIONS PASS
RELATIVE TO STEEL WORKERS
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 6 (by Associate
Press).—President Wilson has sent £
reply to a telegram of Samuel Gom
pers in behalf of the steel workers
who are threatening to strike. Th(
nature of the reply has not been mad<
public.
NO OPPOSITION HAS APPEARED
TO BIG APPROPRIATION BILL
GRIGSBY TO START FOR ALASKA
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Correspondent Gives Impression 1 hat Bill Which
Means So Much to Alaska Stands Chance of
Passing Lower House of Congress Be
fore Adjournment This Evening
SEATTLE, Sept. (> (by Associated Press).—A Washing
ton special to the Post-Intelligencer says that the house is ex
pected to vote today on the hill of Chairman Curry of tin* com
mittee on territories, appropriating $17,000,000 for the com
pletion of the government railroad in Alaska.
Xo imposition to the measure has appeared so far.
Following the taking of the vote, Delegate (irigsln will
Leave for A'aska to take testimony in tin* contested election
ease. The forty days allowed him for this purpose began yes
terday.
ANOTHER CANDIDATE
1 FOR RECOGNITION AS
WAR’S GREATEST HERO
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[ XRW YORK. Sept. 6 (by Associat- j
ed Press).—Sergeant Bill Donnelly, t
i an Irish member of Company B, :
Eighteenth infantry, during the sec
j ond battle of the Marne caused the
■ surrender of a lieutenant colonel,
; twelve officers and two hundred and
fifty German snipers, putting him in
the class with Sergeant York as one j
! of the war’s greatest heroes.
FRENCH AMBASSADOR
DELIVERS ADDRESS AT
DOUBLE CELEBRATION
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NEW YORK, Sept. 6 (by Associat
ed Press).—The French ambassador
to the United States. M. Jusserand,
was the principal speaker at exercises
held in the city hall last night com
memorating the 152d anniversary of
the birth of Lafayette and the fifth
anniversary of the battle of the
Marne.
Secretary of State Robert Lansing,
President Poincaire of France, Gen
eral Wood and General Pershing sent
greetings.A message wired by the
prince of Wales declared that Great
Britain never would forget how
Frenchmen and British stood together
at the Marne.
A Celebration in France
PARIS, Sept. 6 (by Associated
Press).—President Poincare and Gen
eral Wallace will be the principal
speakers today at the laying of the
cornerstone of the monument to com
memorate the first landing of the
American troops in France, at Point
de Grave. The monument will be
a replica of the statue of Liberty in
the harbor of New York.
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ENFORCEMENT BILL
GOES TO CONFERENCE
. WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The senate has
passed the prohibition enforcement
bill, and it will now go to conference
for discussion of the amendments to
the house bill.
I AUSTRALIANS BEATEN
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FOREST HILLS, N. Y., Sept. 6 (by
, Associated Press).—The United
s States tennis team won all three
> events yesterday from the Australian
fours.
NEW YORK'S PLANS
FOR RECEPTION ARE
ON ENORMOUS SCALE
NEW YORK. Sept. 6 (by Associat
ed Press).—The board of aldermen
have appropriated $100,000 for expen
ditures connected with the reception
hj General Pei diing on his roturn
home next Wednesday. A holiday
n II be declared in the city depart
n. e ms.
Kcvhood and Mexican border
.'r;< nds of General Pershing are floek
j .g to the city to participate in the
welcome to be extended to the re*ur i
mg general.
WORK OF COMMITTEE
IS INTERFERED WITH
PORTLAND, Sept 6 (by Associated
Press).—Congressman Frear alleges
that someone is distributing propagan
da to discredit the work ot' the con
gressional spruce investigators. Mr.
Lea, a Democratic member of the
committee, has asserted that wit
nesses for the spruce corporation
have been prevented from telling the
truth.
Following a verbal battle, Chair
man Frear yesterday left the spruce
^hearing.
Congressman Lea continued his ex
amination of General Disque, who
testified that the United States would
have but $3,000,000 to pay of the
total of $52,000,000 involved in the
spruce production operations, when
the salvage had been settled.
FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD
GIVES HOPEFUL FORECAST
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WASHINGTON. Sept. 6 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The Federal Reserve
board’s review of business conditions
for August says that a reaction from
the high price level of the war has
set in and that foodstuffs and cloth
| ing are declining. The labor situa
tion is unsettled, it reports.
AMERICAN SOCIALISTS
WOULD EMULATE RUSSIA
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CHICAGO, Sept. 6 (by Associated
Press).—The Socialist convention in
session here has passed resolutions ■
indorsing the Rusian soviets. The
delegates cheered when speakers com
pared the Russian revolution to the
American revolution against Great
Britain.
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