Ketchikan, Alaska, Tuesday, April 22, 1919 Number .^7
VOLUME FOUR
GERMAN DELEGATES
DUE AT VERSAILLES
ONLY NEXT MONDAY
Russian Bolsheviki Government And Germany Enter
Into Treaty For Mutual Benefit-Japanese
Question Up For Settlement
PARIS. April 28.—The Supreme Economic Council today a
greed to suspend all blacklists.
Chinese and Japanese representatives today presented their
rival territorial claims at this afternoon’s session of the big four.
Premier Orlando was aeain absent from the meeting, appar
ently clinchine the belief that the Italians have withdrawn from
the Peace conference, pending definite action on the Adriatic
question.
PARIS,. April 22.—Germany has notified the Allies that she
will send a deleeation of six hieh personages to the Versailles
Con cress but that they cannot be there earlier than April 28th
Foreien Minister Brockdorff Rantzau will head the delegation.
President Wilson and Premier Clemenceau and Lloyd George
{re considering the Japanese question today.
NEW YORK April 22.—A Paris cable to the Red Cross head
ouarters received here todav says that German troops atac'-'e^
♦he American Red Cross at Koono- Lithuania. The cause for the
attack and the results were not mentioned.
Germany Preparing Acain For Future Warfare
LONDON. April 22.—The Russian Bolsheviki Government
and the Germans have entered into a treaty whereby Germany
i.r return, for a yearly stipulated amount of provisions, will sup
ply Russia with several thousand military instructors, and dur
mg the next twenty years Russia is to provide military assist
ance to Germany when requested to do so, according to a War
saw dispatch to the Daily Telegraph today.
WASHINGTON D. C., April 22.—The revised text of the
League of Nations Covenant is being received by the State
department, it was announced today. It has not yet been de
termined however, when it will be made public.
The State Department announced today that Germany sought
peace in 1916 and had requested President Wilson to act as me
diator.
A Russian wireless message says the Bolsheviki have recap
11red Vilna. There is an undercurrent^ of belief in this city that
a diplomatic i~-ue r<i considerable gravity exists between the li
nked States and Japan, notwithstanding the earnest efforts of
‘he State Department to allay apprehension.
Russian Workmen Demand Many Reforms
^WASHINGTON.. D. C.. April 22.—The State Department
advises that Petrograds Workmen's organization has passed a
resolution demanding the re-establishment of a constituent as
semble- freedom of the press and the right to private owner
ship of property.
WH/^T TROOPS FIND IN
FARAWAY HARBIN .
In connection with the reported ar
rival a- Harbin. Manchuria, of a con
tingent of American tro r<s, a part of
of a for^e to be stationed along the
t-ans-Sib-rian railway, the National
Geographic = •ci-‘y i.a.s issued the fol
low:-.? bulletin:
"In Harbin east meet- west only to
prove Kip.lag's prophecy that the two
never will blend. Harbin is the loop
fco’e through which the long, lean arm
of European Russia stretched clear a
eross a continent to clutch a coveted
ice-free Pacific port, and thus pre
cipitated the Russo-Japanese war.
"American soldiers will find in Har
bin an oriental boom town, cosmopoli
tan and nondescript- --nlv ten years
o'df r than jar;.-. Indiana, thought built
in a land whose history antedates the
Sphinx and the pyramids.
“Russian and Chinese, French Ger
man and Japanese are spoken there,
but little English. There are schools of
occidental anl oriental mould; Chris
tian churches and temples of the an
eier,- faiths of - Asiatics. Even the
vio-rs of the east and west competed
until a few years ago—the vodka shops
vieing with opium dens to allure the
adventurous visitor
“The Russians founded Harbin in
1S&6 on the site of an obscure Chinese
hamlet It was built for a railway
and military center- Today it is the
Manchurian Chicago, where traffic
streams from Vladivostok, South Man
churia and Europe- converge and a far
eastern Minneapolis, with a score of
modern flour mills attesting its im
portance as a grain center.
“Harbin lies on the Sungari river to
the northeast of Port Arthur. It is a
little less distant from that port than
is New York from Detroit, and Vladi
vostok is only about half as far to the
southeast. The Chinese Eastern rail-1
way, which is the eastern continua
tion of the Siberian line, divides at
Harzin with its main arm running to
Vladivostok and the other branch form
ltg another inverted ‘Y* with the
-r^ugs resting at Pekin and Port Ar i
thur.
“Already the original town is known s
as ‘Old Harbin.' while the ‘New Har
bin’ is the predominant commercial
and manufacturing center. As in j
many new railroad towns w-jth large ■
'creit-n populations there Is an ‘across- j
t'-e-tracy’ district, inhabited in this
'nstance by the natives who have be
come strangers in their own land,
and a considerable floating popula-,
rion of this section, known as Fu-i
e-hi-ticn. to the 40.000 or so resident in
lTarbin proper the to tal population
was estimated, before the world war. j
at about 100.000
“When work began on the railway j
to South Manchuria in 1SSS Harbinj
started its rapid growth, but it was]
the Russo-Japanese war that brought
phenomenal prosperity to the city, jus;
as the war now closing did to manyj
American cities. Fu-chia-tie-n prosper-;
ed so richly that it became known a='
'he ‘Six Million Tiao,’ a Chinese pun
■’hiai-J on the double meaning of
‘Tiao.’ which signiifee either money or
town. ,
“The Chinese Eastern Railway cam
oanv owns the town—literally. It
eoflu'red 29.000 acres, a tract e-xtend
!n" beyond the bounds of Harbi-i.
•h'-oogh a Russo-Chinese treaty. The
railroad permitted citizens of the city
to assume some municipal functions
such as regulating their own schools,
streets, public health provisions and
taxation.”
MR. GARFIELD GOES NORTH
Mr. Cbas. D. Garfield, of Juneau,
who has been visiting in this (listriel i
--n official business for several days,
returned from Kasaan yesterday and ]
k'> for Juneau on the City of Seattle
today.
MOVEMENT OF BOATS !
Norl Abound
[ Jefferson Friday.
Watson Saturday.
fienthhoenJ_
• Alaska May 1st.
Farrs gut Thursday.
, Seattle Saturday.
SWINDLER CAUGHT
DALLAS. Texas. April 22.—J. T.
Murray, said to have been implicated
in the gold robbery in Alaska on the
Steamship Humboldt, has been arrest
ed here for swindling Texas, Oregon,
and Washington banks of Sixty Thous
and Dollars
SAX DIBGO. April 22.—Sixteen
submarine chasers which have been in
service in the South and North Atlan
tic and the Azores during the war, ar
rived here from New York, accom
panied by the Navy collier Brutus
and the Navy tug Snohomish. Five
will be stationed with pases at San
Francisco and San Diego, arfd the
others will have their headquarters at
Portland and Seattle. ,
BRYAN STARTS
HIS CAMPAIGN
LINCOLN, Nob.. April 22.—Williatr
Tennings Bry n's paper, the Common
er. is nc.w making calls to the Demo
era rty to start grooming some
young man tor tho next Democratic
nomination, in today's issue.
SWEDEN HAS NEW WEALTH
LONDON.—Deposits of coal in Swe
den. discovery of which was reported
recently from Stockholm, may help to
solve one of Sweden’* most difficult
industrial problems.
Sweden has an almost Inexhaustabl
supply of very fine iron ore and Swe
dish scientists for years have unsuc
“essfuily attempted to devise means o'
working it by electricity. With a Coe’
supply at home it is pointed out tha‘
Sweden has an opportunity to become
->ue of the great industrial countries
of the world.
The rising cost of labor in Grea*
Britain already has placed England a!
- disadvantage with the United States
in the Italian coal trade, and if Swed
•n -could produce Coal in quantities
1 warranting export she doubtless would
become a competitior of both the U
•litci States and England.
Th-- coal contained in the newly dis
-overed Swedish deposits is said tr
"'are a caloric value 50 per cent grea'
■r than that of British coal and it is
| stated that it can be Produced for a
I bout J5.71 a ton.
PATRIOTIC NOTAR
IES REFUSE TO
ABET SLACKEP
The records of the Naturalization
Bureau reveal the very rocky road to
^'acker-town taveled by a certain n«e
*ral alien not long ago.
T?nder the law. if an alien from ?
neutral country desires to obtain ex
emotion from military service he mav
*;le a certain form from the Provoa'
Marshal's Office with the local draff
board. This form provides for th*
withdrawal of his declaration of in
tenrion and surrender of it, and 1*
•"i'st be witnessed by a notary.
This particular alien made out the
'em and sallied forth with confidence
n find the nearest notary to witness
st Oa all his pilgrimage he found no*
one man who was willing to abet him
The sequel to the case is that a loca’
1 'v-mptiou board sent the form in tc
•he Naturalization Bureau, which has
'orwarded it to be the court out Of
which declaration was issued with 8
Petition for cancellation of the declar
ation and entering an order forever
barring the alien from, citizenship as a
slacker.
The act of July S, ISIS, apparently
•rovided for such cases, and about
20.000 others of like nature. In this
act Congress stated that any alien of
a neutral country who, having declar
j ••d bis intention, was drafted and
would not enter the mill tar}' service
I should be forever barred from becom
j ing an American citizen. Under this
aw, the Bureau of Naturalization is
filing petitions in all of the naturaliza
tion courts where these declarations of
•ntenten'.n were issued, petitioning
the court to enter the order forever
barring the alien declarant who pre
ferred to renounce forever his possi
bilities of secuing American Citizen
ship to entering the military service of
the country which he had declared
his intention to adopt ns his perman
i ent home.
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GIRL USHERS NOW
j The Liberty Theatre has no end or
i srir!); ■working for the house now,
1 with the addition of two young girl
ushers who have replaced A. Mitchel1
^leth who leaves next week for the
west coast. The girls started work
; on Sunday night and are the Misses
Ocorgie Leadbetter and Mary Brindlo.
who together with the two girls In
the orchestra, give the Liberty s very
modera atmosphere.
«,*
Frank Parriah, of the Fobes Electrl
es>l Company of Seattle, wa3 an arriv
al cn the City of Seattle and is at the
Stedman. Mr. J. S. Killeen of Water
fall U also at the Sterlings.
WAR DEPT, j
ORDER MORE
RECRUITING
Soldiers At Liscum To
Take Up Vigil To
Recover Body
WASHINGTON, D. C.. April 22. —,
"he War Department today ordered
' he recruiting of ton thousand soldiers
among the men just demobilized for
•he purpose of forming a protective;
uard for the American possessions
n the Pacific.
An order has also been issued to
‘he soldiers at Fort Liscum, to take
up a vigil in the hills above Fort Lis
ntm to await the breakup In an ef
'ort to recover the body of Ralph K.
"Silver. returned soldier who lost his1
life last winter in a snow avalanche.
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CHILD IS BORN
WHILE MOTHER
SLEEPS WEEKS
M^RPHYBORO. III.. April 22. — A
-"u’iar case has come to the atten-,
of the local physicians here when:
’-s. Thomas De Witte, who slept con
"•ous'y for the last three weeks.
"®> birth to a son weighing ten
•Minds. Immediately after the child
as born. Mrs DeWitte relapsed into;
sound slumber and several physi-'
"ans have admitted their inability to'
waken her
>HOUR LAW !
PASSES THE I
LOWERHOUSE
Mayor R, L, Petty Receives
Messages To That
Effect
Mayor R. L. Petty received two
'essages this morning from Junetfn
norting the successful passage of the \
-ht-hour law in the lower house. I
'ne of the messages is from Delegate:
Vet James Wickersham and reads a3;
'ollows :
"The eight hour law has passed the
-wer liouse today by a big majority, i
'uch opposition was shown in the;
’“nate but it may be overcome. Have
ramintd the bill carefuiTy and think
♦ will stand the test. Sutherland is
'or it strong.”
The second message is from Charles
T Oliver, or "Bob” as he is better
•'own. and reads, in part:
“The eight hor ulaw has passed the
■ -ntse fourteen tp two. Strong oppo
Mon in the Senate.”
Mayor Petty stated that he was very
•uch in fador of the passage of the
ill, but that he was not quite sure
bout the time and a half for over
"me which it asked for.
IRS. J. A. CLARY
AND FAMILY HERE
Mrs. J. A. Clary and two daughters,
'lice, Evelyn, and son Jack, Jr., were
rrivals on the City of Seattle this
-nornine from their home in Olympia,
'Vash., to join Mr. Clary, who is in the
Standard Oil office here.
tTntil a suitable house can be se
~ured Mr. Clary has taken a suite of
■'o’ls at the Revilla Hotel. All three
-hildren will enter the public school
this week. Alice, the eldest daughter
being in the second year of High, and
’’-'■Ivn and Jack in the third grade,
grade.
Mrs. Clary and family visited in
Petersburg last summer while Mr.
Clary was stationed there, so they are
t entirely strangers to Alaska,
OFF TO PORT WALTER
Mr J. J. Raleigh, formerly Grand
""rank Pacific agent here, was an ar
rival on the City of Seattle this morn
ne from Seattle where he was recent
’v discharge from Fort Lawton. Mr.
’iVieh accepted a position after his
Vscharpo with the Alaska Herring &
tartline Company, wosc plant Is at
’or'. Walter and is now on hia way to
■he packing plant for the summer.
While the heat was In port this
1 morning, Mr. Raleigh made a round
->f 1.1s friends visiting them for a tew
me aents and is looking particularly
*it and fine, and all irp hoping to Me
•m back in Ketchikan again MOB
John F. Chamberlain, of tbe.Whiton
Hardware Company was a northbound
passenger today for Juneau.
WOMEN ON JURY
SAN FRANCISCO. April 22 . The
first time that women have served in
the capacity of jurors in San Francis
co occurred here when two women
were impanelled in .he 1919 county
grand jury. They are Mrs. Clarence
M. Smith, and Mrs. Emma P. Taylor.
DETROIT, April 22.—In the comple
tion to the launching point of U. S.
Eagle boat No. 59 in exactly ten days
to the minute from the time the keel
was laid, a new world record in ship
building was claimed for the Ford
Eagle plant here. Three shifts Of 400
men each eight-hour period were em
ployed in building the vessel.
LEOMISTER, Mass., April 22.—Ac
cording to news received here by his
father. Lieutenant R. B. Andrews of
this city who is stationed in Rumania,
says that lie did not hear from home
for fifteen manths and then received
200 letters in one day.
MANY ANIMALS TRAPPED
YAKIMA. Wash—W. B. Gunnoe,
who has been working in this district
for the last three years as a gov
ernment trapper, has in that period
trapped and killed 1600 coyotes and
125 bobcats.
Basing their figures on data regard
ing the killing capacity of coyotes and
bobcats ranchers estimate that the
animals taken >bv Gunnoe represent a
saving of 24.000 sheep and 80,000
game birds, tied t' at the saving to the
sfockmen amounts to $240,000. The
fur was worth about $16,000. In a
two months' campaign in the Wenas
valley Mr- Gunnoe recently captured
and killed 200 coyotes. These animals
still constitute a past in some por
1 tion of .the valley.
WOMEN URGED TO HELP
.SAVE U, S, INTEGRITY
By Mrs. Sarah A. Evans, State Chair
man, Woman’s Liberty Loan
Committee of Oregon
! ■ !
"This is to he the last Liberty
! Loan!”
j These words we send to you, still
' thrilling with the joy that was ours
when they camp to us; not for the
nromise of work curtailed; not for the
lifting of a financial burden from
weighed shoulders, but for their re
, sounding cry of victory, heralding a
thanksgiving call to all the nations of
I the earth.
I
Six months ago we urged you to
1 dedicate your services and your money
to the use of the government that vic
tory might be ours The magnificent
response from the women of Oregon,
and other states, by their consecrated
loyalty and generous suppor played no
small part in bringing joy to the world
j on the eleventh of last November. Our
! money, lavishly loaned and used, was
: the dynamic force that prostrated the
Oerrnan barbarians, and stopped the
slaughter of our splendid manhood.
The magnitude of our preparations
s'-oke terror to the enemy, for it im-5
| olied the obligation America had taken
■ upon herself, and her grim determina-'
i **on to see it through to a glorious
j finish.
The victory has been won, but have
j we canceled all our obligations? Cer
ts inly not until we have paid every
j debt incurred to bring about this vie
I tory, and honorably return home every
; soldier who made it possible.
| Our thank-offering for the speedy
1 close of the war, the thousands of
; lives spared, and the untoldsuffering
i thus saved must be the preservation
; of the financial integrity of America,
and a comprehensive readjustment of
disturbed conditions. This can only
be done .by a generous and ready re
sponse to this last great call—THE
VICTORY LIBERTY LOAN.
Let us rededicate ourselves and our
, treasure once more to the cause of
Peace, as did the wise men of old when
i they heard from the Judean Hills the
song of victory:
“Peace on Earth; good will to men.”
WATCH OUR NEIGHBORS
Australia lias made -war bond buy
'ntt compulsory. Every one of tbe
'tritish countries is still buying, and
Prance—France with her industries
laid waste, her farms devastated, her
land shell blown, and her homes de
1 stroved—France is buying short term
j bonds at decreased rate of interest In
! small amounts but great numbers.
I
TAKES PRISONERS NORTH
Mr- F. E. Hoffmler, guard at the j
Ptderal jail left for Juneau on the
'"’itv of Seattle this morning, escorting
three prisoners to the federal jail
where they will servo terms. Those go
lag north were Martin Valdez, Jose
Martinez, Pedro Accosta
Mr. and Mrs Johnstone Van Mar-^
*»r have purchased the Ela mldeaoo. j
next to the Wm. Spaulding residence,
from H. L. Fcdderson of the Ketcl
kan Ri-»1 Estate & Insurance Com
"itiy, and expect to take possession
shortly.
BOLSHEVIK GOVERMENT IS
OVETHROWN IN HUNGARY
SOVIET TROOPS DEFEATED
Collapse Of The Soviet Government In Munich Is Also
Reported And Fall Is Followed By Declaration
Of Martial Law By Former Government
AMSTERDAM, April 22,—A Vienna dispatch says today that
the Bolsheviki Government of Hungary has resigned and that
the Soviet troops have been defeated in a fierce battle by a com
bination army of Czechs and Rumanians. Information to this
effect reached Vienna via aerial mail from Budapest- the dis
patch adds.
LONDON, April 22.—The collapse of the soviet government
at Munich is reported in a dispatch to the Daily Mail which adds
that its fall was followed by a declaration of martial law on the
part of the former government.
PARIS, April 22.—A Basel dispatch says that the Eela Kun
Communist government at Budapest has been overthrown.
SALONIKI. Turkey, April 22.—The Bolshe-. !H have been
driven out of Sebastopool, and their advance in the southern
Crimea has been checked, a dispatch here advise.
SIGN AGREEMENT ON
DESK WILHELM USED
BERLIN.—The agreement reached
it Spa 'between the German and allied
representatives regarding the use of
fhe port of Danzig in connection with
the return of Polish troops from
France, was signed at the same desk
it which Emperor William sat when
ve atached his name to the abdication
agreement last fall, the Zeitung Am
I’ittae states. Mathias Eszbergcr, in
the course of negotiations over the
Danzig question, was permitted for
the first time to converse with Mar
shal Foch without the presence of
witnesses, the newspaper adds. Tho
armistice commissioner is said to have
had two lengthy talks W'ith the allied
"mmander-in-chief last week, in the
~ourse of which the internal situation
of Germany was discussed at length.
SHERIDAN, Wvo„ April 22.—Miss
E’s'e Pellister, clerk of the court, in
’•'e absence of the judge, presided at
n enquiry into the sanity of John
Meier and when the jury found him
of unsound mind, committed the un
fortunate to the State asylum for the
insane.
SOURDOIJGf S CON
TROL anchorage
ANCHORAGE, 'By Mail). — Sour
’oughs control civic affairs in Anohor
pge, the youngest town in the Terri
tory. Their ticket, consisting of three
eoribers of the Pioneers of Alaska,
Tgloo No. 15, won by a substantial
plurality in the recent hotly contorted
s hcol e'ection. The successful candi
dates were I. Bayles, J. N. McCain,
end Mrs, Ulna M, Thompson. There
were four other aspirants for the
‘hree vacancies on the school board.
They were of the cheecliaco variety.
Ia the election last fall to select
seven property owners to act as advis
ory council to the Alaskan Englneer
■'nsr Commission in the administration
of townsite business, the Pioneers had
six representatives on the list of six
teen candidates and all six Pioneer
-nndidates were chosen by easy ma
jorities.
NASHVILLE, April 22.—Tlio Ten
nessee Supreme Court has rendered a
decision which now permits Sunday
baseball in the State.
KETCHIKAN DISTRICT TO COMPETE
FOR MEOILS aNO HELMETS TO BE
AWARDED 8 VOLUNTEER HOOKERS
Victory Loan Committee Busy Getting Subscribers
Today, Yesterday’s Subscriptions Total $22,450
Buyers Slow Up Today Account of Weather
_
Mr. Forest J. Hunt of the Council of Defense is in receipt of
two messages today from Governor Thos. Riggs, Jr., at Juneau,
reading as follows:
“Your district has been allotted four v ■ m "i helmets to bo
given to the best four individual workers in sect: 'mg subscrip
tions to the Victory Loan. Give this all possib e publicity and
advise by wire at the completion of drive the nam. : of per
sons who rendered the best work and helmets will be forwarded
direct to them from this office.
“Your district has been allotted eight medals made from exp
lored German cannon to be awarded to eight vo’unteer worker;
securing the largest amount of subscriptions to the Victory
Loan. At the completion of the drive forward name so that
* medals may be issued.”
Yesterday the first day of the drive a committee of the fol
lowing men were appointed to secure subscriptions, Rev. C. M.
Van Marter, chairman, John Koel, H. L. Fedderson- Dr. Geo.
Dickinson, J. C. Barber, H. C. Strong, F. King, P. Gilmore. R. L.
Petty, N. Nixon, and H. V. Hendrickson, and as a result $22
i 450 wort >f bonds were sold, not a gratifying amount in com
parison with the former loans which gave Ketchikan a record
second to none in the country.
Last evening Rev. Van Marter delivered a 4-minute talk at the
Liberty Theatre and expects to speak at the other theatres this
week.
Dr. Geo. Dickinson gave out the following for publication to
day:
“To the Public:
“Why should we invest in the Victory Loan Bonds besides
from patriotic motives ?
1st. Because they are an absolutely safe investment.
2nd. They bring in a very good rate of interest, 4 3-4 percent.
3rd. They come due in only four years, at which timo their pur
chasing power is at least double what it is now.
My advice to all is:—Save now and spend in the future.
Yours faithfully, for the VICTORY LOAN
Dr. Geo. E. Dickinson.”