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iCV AGF. CONTi'OVu RSY COMES TO
HEAD ON SOUTHERN PACIFIC
MEN OIVE ULTIMATUM
SAX FRANCISCO, Dec. 9—A threat
ened strike of 0.000 engineers fire- j
men. hostlers and employes on the
Su'iUv- • Pacific 'u .is awcied here j
]. to today when the management of j
Die re.v’ ' in ; .a- u* to what was vir
; a.Hy ..a ; It I m dm. from the Brother
hood of Loeonv-Dve engineers and i
the B- • " Hit f I > motive v';re-|
men agreed to meet representatives
of the men for a seClmncnt of the !
l>r: drawn oat wage controversy. i
REFUND CAMPAIGN
RECEIPTS TO DONORS
POMFKOY, Ohio., Dee. ft.—In a r ■
port to the Vcoresary of the in nate
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T> ; re.< ion < maivn, Senator
Borah of id:;]' > . - that lie re;tim
ed to the uoih rs every c-. til which he
ha t reci ivt d for that purpose.
HERE'S WHAT HAPPENS
WHEN SHERIFFS DANCE
POMEROY, Ohio., D c. 9.—In a
most unusual manner Sherifi Wilbur
Reeves fractured an arm. While at
tending a dance, he became very hot.
Going t at oi' d >ors to cool off, the
sheriff sat cbm •> on a stone wall,
overl kii >hio Rlv< r. lie faint
ed and fell off.
The steamship Northwestern, which
sa.iled southbound yes'erJay morning
lmd a huge c argo of herring and prac
tically evt ry stateroom being taken.
Travel i unusually heavy for this
t me of y< ar, and while the greater
number of A!:: bans have already gone
outside, i ::••• r apparently desire
Ly spend t Holidays in the stat >.
' loseng r* on the Northwestern
f-r p .nc •! sotnh wore:
For L .touch George F. Barrett,
George L. Johnson, Dan Williams, Mr.
nd hire. F ...l Graham. Nr. and Mrs.
v , John Campbell.
. L. G. Hille ry, Agnes
-hi! ary, Ch. . J. Gaisn.
i 'or Cor lies, J. J. Col
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Ole A. Cl.
fca • loerage.
P< ■/ ' t'l —P. L. Jensen, Henry |
Hn-;:;ell, O. Hofstad, AIoilie Harstad, j
C. Cli: 1st t :i-. i n, W. Gronby, O. J. Jor
gensen, Mrs, O. J, Jorgensen, W. Iv
erson, E. L. McCloskey, II. R. Madi
son, Mari.: Hadley, Willie Anderson, !
Ed Johnson. Fred Sparring, John
Magsted, Chris Jangord, D. M. Haw
kins, John Maars, Emar Sorley, Juli
us Alsted, E. E. Larsen, W. II. Wat
son, Walter Adams, II. Halpern, Mr.
and Mrs. O. J. Murie, Frank DeMars,
Earl Olmstead, Mrs. Frank Larsen,
Frances Larsen, Victor Locks, Harry
Pear: on, Matt Larson, Mrs. Emma
Lyons, John Lechterwater, 13. J. Rick
ett, Mrs. Agnes Sherman and two
children, M. A. Pinska, Joe Bruesch,
John Bruesch, E. Lundin, I. L. Starr,
Norman C. Stinnes, Mrs. M. D. Days,
Arthur Hillman, Arthur Prickett, Mrs.
J. C. Gilpatrick, F. G. Noyes and wife,
M. H. Johnson, Mrs. J. D. Sullivan, J.
B. Wadman, Mr. and airs. G. C. Hen
derson, Mrs. Capt. O’Flanagan, O.
Hofstead, J. A. Rasmussen, Harry
I on, Clara Christianson, Mollie
Harstad, Myrtle Wiberg, Helen Nas
lund, Laila Larson, L, C. Shaeffer,
Brice Howard, Chas. Isaacson, Mrs. B.
Raymond, Alex Carlson, Mrs. A. Mc
Clellan, L. C. Swanler, Gertrude Rody,
A. Gordon, II. B. Robinson, H. C. Heu
shaw, Oscar Anderson.
Mrs. J. H. Emard left on the Re
lond£ for her home at Halibut Cove.
DC YOU RECOGNIZE THE SHEIK?
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K uoij;h Valentino is the handsome
gentleman hiding behind this beard.
No, Rady hasn’t turned doctor. He
at three months in Spain cultivat
ing ihe lovely thing and also gather
ing color for a movie he is to produce
soon.
Fire Chief Loaning announces that j
; !n,orrow afternoon about 1:ft0 o’clock i
the big siren will be tried out again.
Citizens at this time need have no !
cause for alarm, as this is but a trial !
of the sound-carrying capacity of the
new system. The alarm will be blown !
for several minutes, and the Fire
Cl id of a: ks citi :cns in all parts of town
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the efficiency of the machine.
dais is one of the most modern
sound producing machines obtainable
and it should be heard a distance of
several miles. . It is run by an elec
tric motor of several horsepower, and
s the same size instrument as is used
by the government at light rouse sta
tions for fog signals.
file machine has been erected on i
top of the city hall and after a good
try out will be used instead of the
1 11. owing to its greater carrying ca
pacity.
LOS ANG CLES, Dec. 0.—Four well
dressed bandits, each firmed with two
revolvers, robbed the West Adams
State Lank of $4,000 shortly before
o u today, and before leaving lock
ed the manager and four dorks in a
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SEATTLE, Dec. 9.—The discovery
of a nationwide scheme to swindle
the banks of the country, whereby it
was planned to obtain thousands of
dollars from a Seattle bank with the
aid of specially printed spurious
checks was discovered today by the
vigilance of a Pennsylvania banker.
ESTIMATED WET AND DRY
LINE-UP IN NEXT CONGRESS
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.—The Sixty
Ninth Congress will have 319 dry
votes in the House to 111 wet votes,
with five unclassified. The Senate
will have 74 dry votes with 21 wet
votes and one vacancy. This is ac
cording to estimation of the Temper
ance Board of the Methodist Episco
pal Church made by Dr. Deets Picket
research secretary.
California Democrat Dies
Suddenly in San Francisco
SAN ^ rtANCISCO, Dec. 9.—Frank
M. Lilva, U. S. attorney here during
the Wilsqn administration and promi
nent in Democratic politics, died to
day.
PASSENGER AGENT WATSON IN
SEATTLE INTERVIEW, TALKS
ON ALASKA TRAVEL
SEATTLE. Dec. 9.—Harry G. Wat
son. passenger intent of the Alaska
Railroad administration Chamber of
Commerce this afternoon said, “We
• e the numb) • of tourists tin t
will enjoy the wonders of interior
Alaska will be limited only by the ca
pacity of steamship lines scrying the
Territory. We are now perfecting an
o’a. borate future passenger arrange
ments which we will be able to an
nounce in the near future. Watson
will leave lor the East in about a
week.
HAPPY WOMEN CO EOT
SMOKE SAYS PHYSICIAN
VIENNA, Dec. 9.—Happy and satis
fied women al
the opinion of Dr. Hofstatter, who
sometime ago created a stir by his
assertion that smoking alters wo
men's. fact s. making them look more
masculine.
“Women who smoke much have al
most invariably contracted the habit
at a time when they were especially
unhappy, he says in his book, “The
Smoldr.g Woman.”
YARDMASTERS CANNOT WORK
MORE THAN NINE HOURS
CHICAGO, Dec. 9.—In a deci ion
handed down yesterday by the U. S.
Circuit Court of Appeals* it was held
that railroad yardmastc-rs could not
bo permitted to work over nine hours
a day. The ruling was based on an
interpretation of the federal safety
appliance act.
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DAWSON, Dec. 1.—Suffering Vroni
a broken pelvic bone, Bryan Williams j
:1m well-known big game hunter in
British Columbia, is lying in the hos
pital at Atlin, according to word' from
.V. J. Carr- tt, ot tl e A lin Inn.
Williams was caught when a horse!
he was riding, threw himself back
ward, pinning his rider beneath him.
GO,000 CROWS BITE DUST
IN U. S -CANADA CONTEST
GORDONSVILLE, Va., Dec. 9.—Fox
killing more crows than any of the
other 700 entries in an international
crow-shooting contest, R. L. Turner,
of Culpepper won the grand prize of
$100. Thirty-three states were rep
resented in the contest.
More than sixty thousand crows fell
during the contest in United States
and Canada.
Idaho led in the number of crows
killed.
England Blocks Plans
cf League of Nations
ROME? Dec. 9.—The council of the
League of Nations today decided at
a private session to accede to Eng
land’s request and postpone consid
eration of the Geneva peace protocol
and arrangements for a disarmament
to the March meeting of the council.
PETERSBURG MAN HELD UP
BY TWO MASKED BANDITS
Petersburg is getting civilized. Two
masked bandits on Wednesday night
tried to hold up Jack Sales.
The two men called Mr. Sales to
the door and greeted him by shoving
a gun into his ribs and demanding
money. Jack grabbed the gun and
during the scuffle that followed, the
firearm was discharged and the bul
let smashed a mirror. The two men
[then beat it.
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CHICAGO, Dee. 9.The trial of Charier R. Forbes,
for 1
while head of the war veterans’ bn roan, is mb' •/ far afield
today in the way of scandal. Two : nembers of Congress
were charred .will having accented bribes. Republican
National Committeeman George Vv. Bean of Florida, was
described as a lobby st in Wash.* igteii, who had been in
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government chief witnesses in its case- Mortimer said
that Representative s George Edmonds of Philadelphia
and John W- Langley of Kentucky had accept 1 bribes in
connection with the securing of liquor withdrawal per
mits, engineered by hii >elf an
Washington red tape cutters. The witness said that Ric
her, a protege of Joe Cannon,
dollars in peddling gardens and put big over liquor deals
with the Internal revenue burc :m and Department of Jus
tice
ALL DEPART?* t'.iTG OF P. C.
SYSTEM LOSE MONEY
EX LPT 1ST CLASS MAIL.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.—With the
exception of lint class .mil, ev ",
sorvh e conducted by the Post Qi
ice department slaoved a .substantial
loss annually, Postmaster General
New has informed the Senate.
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PARIS, Fr: nee, Dec. 9.—'While the
centenary battle of Ayaeucho and the
anniversary of Peruvian independence
was being celebrated at Sorbonne,
with President Domurgue as the guest
of honor, large rival crowds of stu
dents began a demonstration for and
against the government in the cen
tral court yard.
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CHARLOTTE, N. C„ Dee. 9.—The
creation of a trust fund of §4G,000,000
for charitable and educational pur
poses was announced here today by
James B. Duke, the well known to
bacco magnate.
Kodak Manufacturer
Gives Away $12,500,000
ROCHESTER, N. Y., Dec. 0—Geo.
Eastman, the Kodak manufacturer,
today announced that he would make
new gifts of §i.z,500,00o to educational
institutions.
NEW YORK, Dec. 9.—Chief Grand
Rabbi Isaac Friedman, reputed to be
a direct descendant of King David of
Biblical fame, died here today. He
was the leading Jewish prelate of
Europe.
Chinese Students Held
for Ransom by Bandits
CANTON, China, Dec. 9.—Three
Canton Christian students were cap
tured by bandits Saturday One of
the captured trio was sent to the col
lege on parole, with a demand for
ransom. The others are still held
prisoners.
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ALLEGED DERELiCTiCN
JEPSEY CIL T, Doc. 0.—The early
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known prohibition o. icial is likely in
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million dollars "worth oC liquor on the
We hawkin shore, which was distrib
uted to metropolitan bootleggers and
their agencies.
William • J. Griffin, a Jersey City
to the authori
ti s on an indictment charging con
spiracy to defeat the state dry law.
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JENBAU, Dec. 9.—Include d in the
estimates of the Bureau of Budget
submitted today to Congress 'or the
next fiscal year was an item of $723,
009 for the construction of roads and
trails in Alaska by lice Alaska Road
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advises received at local headquar
ters from Col. James G. Steese, Pres
ident of the Board. The Bureau
slashed the Commission’s estimates
for tiie year almost in half, the ori
ginal figures submitted by the board
calling for $1,400,000.
Col. Steese appeared before the
Budget officials in defense of his es
timates. He is now in Washington
and will probably remain there until
after the hearings on the item, which
is contained in the War Department
Supply Bill, are concluded before the
Congressional committees.
NENANA WILL NOT HAVE
HOSPITAL IS DECISION
At a public meeting held recently
in Nenana, it was decided not to
have a Bureau of Education hospital
located there.
It had been the plan of the Bureau
of Education to establish a hospital
at Nenana for tubercular Indians,
making separate quarters for the
Whites. In return for aid offered
the community by the hospital and a
doctor and four nurses the town of
Nenana was asked to give heat, and
water and lights. The plan did not
meet with the approval of the citi
zens of Nenana and was turned down.