Ketchikan. Alaska. Thursday, March 13, 1911)
VOLUME FOUR
Number 124
FINAL CONSIDERATION OF
NAVAL & AIR TERMS TO BE
GIVEN CONFERENCE TODAY
Robert W. Lansing Declares Germany Is Receiving
Just Retribution For Crimes But Must
Be Fed To Block Bolshevism
PARIS, Mar. 13.—Secretary of State Robert \Y. Lansing,
chairman of the Commission appointed to investigate the Re
sponsibility of the War. anounced in a speech before the confer
ence today that the Allies must feed Germany so that she may
develop her trade, in order to prevent the spread of Bolshevism,
which menaces not only Germany but the entire world.
While asking that Germany be fed. Mr. Lansing said that all
the suffering from want and violence and murder stalking the
streets of her great cities, with the structures of her sociey tot
tering. she. nevertheless was receiving as just retribution for
Germany’s crimes in devastated France and Belgium. While in
vestigating the responsibility of the war question. Secretary
Lansing and his associates could not help but discover the ter
rible conditions existing in Germany.
Rhine To Be Opened To International Navigation
PARIS. Mar. 13.—The Committee on International Water
Ways has recommended to the peace conference today that the
River Rhine be opened to the navigation of all nations.
Final Consideration today of Terms
PARIS, March 13:—The peace conference is today giving final
consideration of the naval and air terms which are to be sub
mitted to Germany on the twentieth of this month.
The naval terms, it is understood, have not been approved by
the War Council yet. The agreement concerning the dismant
ling of the fortifications of Heligoland and the Kiel Canal, will
have some reservations from American quarters so as not to es
tablish precedent for the non-fortification of canals and water
vays wholly within American national boundaries, such a$ Hell
Gate, the Cape Cod Canal and the system of canals running par
allel with the Atlantic coast line. The dismantling of the Heligo
land fortifications will, it is believed have in view the establish
ment of precedent against the fortification of islands lying along
the American coast, which are regarded as par tof the coast
defenses
The President to Arrive at Brest Tomorrow
ON BOARD SS. George Washington, March 13:—The ship is
steaming her way along the coast and will reach Brest by tomor
row morning. Fair weather prevails with a smooth sea.
PARIS. March 13:—Canada’s claim against Germany inclu
ding war expenditure to date now totals over §740,000,000, ac
cording to a statement made today by Premier Borden, Canada’s
delegate to the conference. These figures are of interest in view
of Bonar Law’s statement recently made that the British dele
gates intend to claim indemnity which include the cost of war.
CAPTAIN JERRY
“CAMPING OUT”
ON REDONDO
Captain Jerry Flynn, master of the
freighter Redondo, says he never did
like tents, but now.—well, it's gone be
yond that. And it all happened be
causeof the Seattle strike.
"it was just like this,” says he, “the
shrp had been lying in dry-dock for
two whole months, not doing a thing,
and the metal workers had just got
through workin' on her, when the
strike went on. and the carpenters
went out leafin' me without *.sign of
a pilot house. Well, after bein' there
two months, and the strike lookin’
no nearer the end, they decided to
send me out with cannery supplies
and the crecsoted piling for the new
lighthouse dock here, so they rigged
me up with the tent thing you see
there, and say, its worse than living
in a balloon. I tell ye it was pretty
‘ierce acoming across the sound last
night wid the wind a-biowing and ev
ery moment I was athinkin’ we was go
ing straight up. I*d rather not have a
thing up there because: when you’d
have the wind only on one side, whilst
this way it comes in every crack of
canvas and wood and it's a holy terror,
I’m tel I in’ ye.’’
The Redondo looks rather queer
with the lower part of the polit house
painted a bright red, to prevent rust,
and the tent-like house on top with its
walls flapping to the breeze, but Cap
tain Jerry says, "she’ll be a bird of a
different color on her next trip.”
Cannery supplies for Kasaan, Kla
wock. Port Walter, Petersburg, and
Skagway. form the cargo of the Redon
do this trip.
Eefore next July the water wagon
will look like an army transport col
umn.
MOVEMENTS OF BOATS
Southbound
Alaska 21st.
Northbiund
City cf Seattle Saturday.
Fa-ragut Monday.
Jefferson Tuesday.
Alameda Wednaday.
NO GENERAL
EXTENSION FOR
ALASKA RETURNS
Mr .Harvey M. Stackpoie, cf the Jno.
R. Beegie & Company is in receipt of
the following message today from Da
vid H. Williams, collector of Internal
Revenue, at Tacoma, Wash,:
••Returns mailed March fifteenth
vill protect tax payers against a pen
alty. No general extension granted."
According to Mr. Stackpoie this is
I terpreted to mean that there will be
no thirty-day extension of time for
‘ laska payers of income tax, as last
year. Tax returns mailed from Alas
ka on March 15, wil], however, be
counted as within the time specified.
MILLIONAIRE MAKES V AY
HOME AS SHIPS C N BOY
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.—It isn’t ev
ery ship that has a millionaire for a
cabin boy, but the Lurline of the Mat
son Navigation line, arriving from
Honolulu, carried one in the person of
Gecrge Sherman of New York, head
of the American Factor, Ltd., acting
president of one of the largest raw
sugar exporting concerns in the Ha
waiian islands.
Sherman, who has additional dis
tinction in being the double of former
President Taft was in Honolulu when
the Lurine arrived on a return trip
f.crr. Manila. Her passenger carrying
cense had expired and the only way
he could make the trip was to aign on
as an employe, which he did, although
t is intimated that he didn’t work
very hard at it
Sherman is on his way to Washing
ton to make a report to A. Mitchell
Palmer, custodian of alien property,
on the American Factor, Ltd .This con
cern was formerly operated by Ger
man interests under the direction o(
George Riedek, German consul in Ha
waii, Riedek was found guilty of com
p ic ty in the Hindu plans, after which
the government took the plant over
a d pieced Sherman In charge.
The Christmas drum for the boy
generally comes from outside the
family.
SWITZERLAND
RECOGNIZES THE
NEW REPUBLICS
BERNE. Switz.. ar. 13.—The Swiss
Government has today formally recog-■
! nized the new governments of Poland
and Czecho-Slovak states, it was an-.
I nounced.
SAN JUAN, Mar. 13—Senator Miles
Poindexter, member of the senate na
va] affairs committee has written t*
Porto Rican department of education
promising to endeavor to name a bat
tleship after the island of Porto Rico
A petition signed by thousands of
Porto Rican school children recently
was ."orwarded to Washington request
ingthis.
WILL VINDICATE
HIMSELF IN BOOK
LIN. Mar. 13.—President Eber'
has reeived a communication fro- ;
General Ludendorrff. announcing h- j
return to Germany from Sweden, an
lequesting that a court of inquiry b'
convoked for the purpose of requl
ing from him the vindication to whic1
he declares he is entitled. He is credit
ed with having been the guiding min
in the final German offensives in th
west. In his letter he says he has wri»
ten a book which "furnish justifica
ticnfor my acts."
REFERENDUM
VOTE MAY
BETAKEN
Senator Borah Declares
People Should Have
Chance to Decide
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Mar. 12. —
Senator Borah announced here toda
that a plan was on foot whereby
nation-wide referendum vote on the
question of the endorsement of the
League of Nations, be taken.
The plan is being developed by th»
Senators who are opposed to thr j
league in its present form, and is be i
iap developed. It is only fair, Bora! j
(added, that the American people b j
given the right of voting on the ques !
tion.
63d ARRIVES - j
SEATTLE Mar. 13.—The Sixty-Thir j
Coast Artillery arrived here safely a4 !
noon yesterday and were given a grea
welcome.
PURCHASE OLD
HOUSE AS MEMORIAI
NEW YORK Mar. 13.—The house ir j
which the late Theodore Roosevelt wa t
born, in New York City, has been pu j
ased/.'or a memorial site, it was j
’earned today.
HALF OF SPANIARDS
AREJIELEASEr
NEW YORK. Mar. 13.—Seven o'
the fourteen Spaniards who were ar
ested here on suspicion of complicit
in a nation wide "terrorist plot” wer
released today and it is understoo
that charges #or deportation will b
preferred against the remaining sever
GIANT AIRPLANE DESIGNED
PERLIN.—If the war had lasted r
’ew months longer Germany was pr'
■ared to surprise the world with a
euomous airplane. The new giant c
the air, which was planned by Haro’
Wci'f, an engineer, will have its firp
T a) at Doberitz within a few days.
The new machine is nearly 165 fer
from the wing tip to wing tip an
stands more than 23 feet high. It ha
six motors with a total of 1800 hors
cower, driven by four propellors tw
of which are forward and two aft. Ear
i -f the orooellors has four blades. Tv
, *t the motors, it is said, can stop sr
( 'Itaneously without affecting any t
ecting any of the propellors. or ha
'ing any result except to reduce tl
speed of the airplane.
The new airplane is not only equir
: red with devices enabling the pilo'
' to know at all times their altitude an
• a.:gle of elevation, but also with d*
' vices to tell the absolute as well -
j.elative direction which, it is belir
I ed, will make flying possible on t
I darkest night and in the thickest
. C. H. Van Alta of Yes Bay, Ike Bu
.of Very Inlet. Teddy Voss and 0
Opperman of the Salt Chuck mine, s
[guests at the Revilla today.
GEN. LEONARD WOOD
_L.-ii pnorograpn of Gen. Leonard
Wood, who has been assigned to the
command of the central department
with headquarters in Chicago.
3ENERALWOOD
SAYS WORK MUST
BE PROVIDED
MILWAUKEE. Mar. 13.—General
eorard Wood in a speech here toda>
■»;d that America's returned soldier?
'vst be provided with employment
nd right away or else they would
'rift into tne ranks of Bolshevism or
emething equally damageable.
SEATTLE. Mar. 13.—The govem
’ent cable broke again yesterday
lear Cape Flattery, it was learned to
lay.
-«
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
FOR WASHINGTON
OLYMPIA. Wash.. Mar. 13.—Capi
al punishment may be restored in this
state if the acting governor signs the
oill which passed both houses, it was
-arned from good authority today.
The legislature adjourned last eve
ning.
The appropriations made by the leg
slature this session amount to thirty
!ve millions.
CHILDREN PERISH
SEATTLE, Mar. 13.—Having locked
*r two small sons. Lee and James,
ee and five years respectively, in ?
om, Mrs. L. J. Barry went to a cor
er store to make purchases. On her
turn the house was on fire and botn
Mlden had perished from the intense
-t a. d smoke.
•OREIGN AUTOCRACY
IN AMERICA
War revealed an astonishing condi
n in many parts of the United Sta
s which the Bureau of Naturalization
epartment of Labor, has just made
•blic. A statement by the bureau
-aling with the growth of foreign ins
‘utions in America follow:
Section after section of the country
'3 been disclosed as being under the
smiaation not of American institu
ins of government but cj? the most
ilmical form of foreign autocracy.
'In many cities children by the thou
mds have been found who have not
ten allowed the inherent right to
eak in the schools of their training
the English tongue. They have been
?ught a foreign language. They have
’en disciplined for failure to use the
reign tongue. They have been train
*o sing the patriotic airs of coun
' » uthe. than the country of their
They have been taught so thpt
y would grow up to a firm convic
,j that righteous government alone
>u;d be achieved by some other form
■an that which is here created and
rried on by all of us.”.
A campaign is to be started against
•a offensive teaching, said an offi
recently.
ip ;e-cstibiished Fairbanks Cloth
company will formally throw open
'oors to the public on Monday
ing. Established in cozy quart
next to the First National bank it
-nts a neat and attractive ap
,ie«rsnee.
' BRITAIN HAS
' 900,000 SOLDIERS
IN OCCUPATION
LONDON, Mar. 1 .—The war office
announced today that Great Britain
has nine hundred thousand soldiers in
all the armies in occupation of enemy
territory.
PARIS, Mar. 13.—Captain Bouchar
don of tile Paris military court today
asked Dr. Roubanowitch. a widely
known alienist, to examine Emile Cot
tin. assailant of Premier Clemenceau,
to determine his degree of mental re
sponsibility.
NO WORK ON THE
ALASKA ROAD
SEATTLE. Mar. 13.—Chairman Wm.
C. Edes, of the Alaska Railroad Com
mission wired here today from Wasli
neton. D. C.. that men should not be
mis'ed to believe that they could ob
‘ain work in Alaska on the railroad on
recount of the )fact that the funds for
j that enterprise were still in the bal
| t lce. the last congress having made no
rovisions for the continuance.
10,000 RETURN
SEa-TL Mar. 13.—Ten thousand
■^hicyard workers resumed work at the
shipyards yesterday, it was reported
by shipping men.
WICKERSHAM
HASANOTHER
BIG SCHEME
Advocates Tunnel Under
Behring Strait For
Asiatic Trade
—
SAN FRANCISCO. Mar. 13.—James
Wickersham, Alaska delegate who ar
•ived here today from Washington, D.
j '■> on business, advocates the construc
[ tion of a tunnel under Eering Strait,
j ’stablishing a rail trade between the
; 'siatic and American continents.
He is also active in aiding a num
| >sr of Pacific Coast firms in leasing
1 'overnment coal fields in Alaska
ith a view to giving cheaper fuel to
is section.
The unexpeted visit of Wickersham
o San Francisco has aroused much
peculation among Alaskas as to his
~al mission here.
CANADIAN SOLDIERS
RESENT ALL DELAY
HALIFAX, Mar. 13.—Canadian sol
diers aboard the transport Toloa
vhich has just arrived from overseas
ave threatened to sink the ship un
’ss the delay in disembarkation is
"t remedied. The men are wild to get
to their homes.
GEN,GOETHALS
GOING TO FRANCE
WASHINGTON. D. C., Mar. 13. _
Major General George W. Goethals
who returned to civil life as a retired
tfficer this week, has relinquished hie.
duties as assistant to the chief of the
tenoral stair and directorof purchase
storage and traffic to Brigadier Gen
*al George W. Burr, who has been his
thief aid in the depatment. General
Toethals expects to leave for France
shortly for an engineering firm witu
vhich he is to be associated.
OREN F, HILL
AT CAMP LEWIS
Mis. Oren F. Hill, of the Ketchikan
Peal Estate 4 Ins., Co., received a
vire ,'rom her husband yesterday stat
ng that he had arrived in Oregon and
was on his way to Camp Lewis where
he will be mustered out.
COUNCILMAN PAUP
BRINGS PILEDRIVER
The gasboat Leonine of the Sunny
side Packing company arrived from
he southyesterday towing a piledriver
'cr Councilman G. E. Paup, which is
’aid to be one of the finest north of
"rattle. The Leonine left 8eatt|e last
1 'Acc'n'sdry, making Ketchikan In a
veek.
Mrs. Paup did not return, remaining
-Qutfc fo>- a few weeks longer.
Price raising has reached the plane
'"ere an excuse is no longer bothered
with.
Food Situation Desperate In Moscow Say Reports
Markets For Sale of Human Flesh
Have Been Opened Is Charged
BASEL, Switzerland. March 13.—Martial law has been pro
claimed in the districts of western Prussia, according; to dis
patches reaching here to stop the advance of the Spartacan
forces from the east.
AMSTERDAM. March 13.—The German Government troops
have driven the Spartacans out of Liehtenberg, a suburb of Ber
lin. where they had a stronghold, aided by reinforcement of
twenty thousand troops.
COPENHAGEN, March 13.--Bolsheviki rule has developed
the people of Russia into cannibals, according to the latest re
ports from Moscow which say that a market for the sale of
human flesh for food has developed.
The Bolsheviki having opened the road from Turkestan to
Moscow, a new stream of Russian refugees and Austro-German
prisoners of war have started northward, according to advices
reaching here. There are said to be uncounted thousands of
Austrians and Germans in Siberia and central Russia who have
been trying to return to their home lands.
World Wide Revolution Contemplated
HEI STNGFORS, Finland. March 13.—The Bolsheviki govern
ment in Russia has appointed a Swiss named Moor as the inter
national commissary in connection with Lenine’s plan for a
world wide communist revolution.
LONDON, March 13.—A radio despatch from Berlin says the
Minister of War has demanded the ‘•unconditional surrender"
of all Spartacans i nGermany.
GERMANS RETURN
STOLEN BONDS
PARIS. Mar. 13.—An unusual meet
ing took place in the vaults of the
Credit Lyonnaise here yesterday when
stocks and bonds which had been stol
en from the bank’s branches in St.
Quentin, Douai and other towns occu
pied during the war. were returned to
the owners who could identify them
WASHINGTON, D. C.. Mar. 13. —
Government reports received by the
Department of Labor show that there
is a large decrease in the number of
unemployed in the country now. The
building program is said to have ma
terially aided in placing men.
WILSON WANTS
TO WRITE A
NEW HISTORY
WASHINGTON, D C. Mar. 13.—Re
garding repo *s that President Wilson
had told Democratic committeemen
that he would not accept nomination
for a third time, it was stated official
ly today that the subject of being a
candidate had not been mentioned by
President Wilson.
It ws exp’mned that the President
had remarked to his guests that he
yearned to get back to writing and
that he had in contemplation the com
piling of a history.
START H?M RIGHT
r
■ YOUTH V
SAVING BROUGHT US VICTORY 8WS PRELATE
'•y J. Cardinal Gibbons.
Py r - atinuing the sale of War Sav
ings Stamps throughout 1919 the Gov
ernment has offered to every man,
■/oma > and child an opportunity for
the display cf practical peace time
“icenshln by becoming an investor
n the securities of his country. It
also oll'ers to teach an opportunity
for self-improvement by giving a
chance to save small amounts regu
larly and systematically and to in
vest them wisely.
In the hard school of war we have
’earned much that should be of valua
'o i's and to our country In the days
of readjustment. We have learned
‘he necessity of saving. Indeed it was
saving that brought us tho victory—
*hc willingness of the people to save
mo-’ey. to save coal, to save food. The
man, woman or child who has learned
to spend wisely and look forward to
.the ('iiture, ;rd to lay by something
J which will help him in unforeseen
; emergency is notonly helping himself
but is becoming a better and more
; useful citizen.
V/c should el'-'me the opportunity
?/*ord<?d by • »r ovornmont’ to con
tinue the st *vj iP.bit. To buy War
Savings Stan s is the clear duty of
every American citizen, young and
i old.
I urge all our clergy to promote this
! campaign by every mea«<i in their
power. I urge our good people to
give it their hoartiest support and
from the splendid evldoncea of their
nat-iotlsm e'-own in the last two
yea-s. I am cnfdcnt that It will
'erf »*'*♦*! grr; ‘ •J<|Crn^S>
I shall fellow with profound Inter
at the iesu| it t . s movement, for
m uh of thr future of our blessed
country will depend upon the out
ccmec.