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THE DAILY PROGRESSIVE-MINER
VOLUME FOUR
Ketchikan, Alaska,-Friday March 14.1919
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PRESIDENT WILSON
ARRIVES IN PARIS
WITH PARTY TODAY
Supreme _War Council _Has Decided That Germany
Must Deliver All Her Airplanes To The
Allies-England Wants Cables
BREST. March 14.--Colonel House, and M. Jusserand. French
.Ambassador to the United States, arrived here last evening to
meet President Wilson and his party on board the George Wash
ington. which arrived late, owing to rough weather.
PARIS. March 14.-President Wilson arrived here at eleven
o'clock this morning, and after resting a short time, joined the
Supreme Council which was in session. Thomas W. Gregory,
former Attorney General of the United States, accompanies the
president as confidential advisor.
President Wilson was greeted on his arrival at the Invalides
Station this morning by President and Mme Raymond Poincare.
President Wilson. Premier Clemenceau and Premier Lloyd
George are holding a series of rapid fire conferences this after
noon in preparation for the busy week coming.
The French press declares that President Wilson has ex
pressed himself as firmly resolved to wind up the war promptly.
The Supreme Council has announced its decision that Germany
mu«t deliver all of her airplanes to the Allies, it was reported
to the conference today.
Great Britain is seeking to retain the captured German
cables, especially those to Africa, which would be of great use
to her. The American delegates, however, are opposing this
plan on the theory that these cables would be giving Great
Britain a world monopoly.
Germany owns 9S cable lines, extending 2.956 miles.
Captain Andre Tardieu. of the French peace delegation an
nounced today that the consideration of the Russian problem
willbe taken up by the Supreme War Council the beginning of
i ext week. The meeting of the delegates at Prinkipo on
the Princes Islands has not been abandoned he further as
serted.
Chinese Appeal For Help Against Japan
China has asked the Peace conference to curb Japanese
militarism and restore China's lost cities to China. C nless this
is done the Chinese say that another war will break out which
will again encompass the world.
Kiao-Chau is the key-block in the Chinese puzzle, and is
now in the possession of Japan. Kiao-Chau was once a German
stronghold and its environs, which Japan wrested from the
Kaiser. She is readv and willing, she says to return it to China
under certain conditions, among which are: The opening of
Kiao-Chau as a commercial port; the establishment o fa Jap
anese settlement: and if desired by the powers, an internation
al settlement: arrangements to be made, before the return of
Kiao-Chau. as to the disposal of German public establishments
and properties.
The fortress of Tsing-iao was obtained by Germnay just af
ter the Boxer troubles and was recaptured by the Japanese
shortly after the det-laration of war. The Germans had certain
concessions there and these the Japanese declared themselves
to be the heritors. Back of the city is the province of Kiao
ehau, part of the rich province of Shantung containing valuable
iron mines, and thru which the Japanese are now proposing to
ouild railroads, which according to China, are likely to complete
with their own existing lines.
HUMBOLDT NO
LONGER TO BE
ON ALASKA RUN
Steamship Humboldt, which has been
on the Alaska run for over two dec
ades, has passed into the ownership of
Walter Seammel today to be operated
between San Francisco and Los An
geles.
CITY OF SEATTLE
BRINGING 205
CANNERYMEN
SEATTLE. Mar. 13.— < Delayed* —
The C ty of Seattle sailed for the
north at eleven o'clock this morning
wi’h a total of two hundred and five
passengers, largely canerymen for
Chomley, Ketchikan. Wrangell, Take
Yes Bay.
Forty passengers are for Ketchikar
including F. H. Burns and wi"e, Watt
er Codling, H. F. Geih and Otto F
Sutter.
A new broom sweeps clean. It ought
to sweep twice as clean—the price is
i 5W $2.
MOVEMENTS OF BOATS
‘>nt! hnorrf
Curacoa tomorrow.
Alaska 2tst.
N'nrU.b' und
City cf Seattle Saturday.
Fr . ccut Monday.
Jefferson Tuesday.
Alameda Wedntday.
CARUSO’S INCOME
TAX $154,000
NEW YOAK, Mar. 14.—Henrico Ca
ruso, noted Italian tenor of the Metro
politan Opera Company, paid one
'ourth of his income tax today, wWeh
In all amounts to $154,000. This is for
salary and royalties on records.
THOMAS W. GREGORY
Attorney General Gregory re
tire from the cabinet on March 4, hay
ing resigned because the salary Is tee
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WESTERN ALIENS
ARE DEPORTED
WASHINGTON, D. C.f Mir. 14.
Secretary Wilson of the Department of
Labor hat ordered the deportation of
37 undesirable western aliens held at
Ellis Island. His Oder has been com
plied with.
TORONTO. March 14:—It fs an
nounced that a notice has been served
on the city authorities by the Chinese
! vice-consul that the new by-law of
' the Police Commissioners, refusing bu
siuess licenses to aliens is a
breach df promise between Great Bri
tain and China, under existing condi
tions.
CONFERENCE
M AY BE HELD
IN CAPITOL
If U, S, Will Consent First
International Labor
Body Will Meet
PARIS, ar. 14.—It was announced
here today at the meeting of the la
bor delegates that the first inter
national Labor conference will be held
in Washington. D. C- if the United
S*ates will permit it, according to an
official announcement made by the la
bor commission.
1,000 riveters"
60 ON STRIKE
SEATTLE, Mar. 14.—One thousand
riveters in the Steel shipyards went On
' strike todap charging that the operat
ors were not living up to their agree
ments.
SAVANNAH, Ga„ Mar. 14.—“Vine
gar'' was labeled on two barrels reach
here on a steamer and aroused the
suspicion of the government agents
who on investigation found two' large
- rubber bags containing whisky float
j ing in the vinegar.
KOREA ISSUES
A DECLARATION
OF INDEPENDENCE
SEOUL, Korea., Mar. 14.—"We have
| put off the yoke of another nation. We
were made the victims of the curse of
-nost imperialistic imperialism is the
world.” reads the new declaration of
^dependence issued by the new gov
ernment of Korea which recently de
clared her independence from Japan.
U. S. NAVY MAY
USE ALASKA
COAL SOON
Bill Failed To Pass Last
Session to Be Brot
Up Again
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 14. —
■ Present indications are the United
States Navy will soon be using Alaska
coal.
The general Apprapriatidj$ Bill
which failed to pass in the last ses
sion of congress carried an appropria
tion of one million dollars which was
to have been expended undeT the direc
, ticn of the Navy Department for the
developing of the Matanuska and Ber
j ing River coal fields in order to obtain
-.oal for the Naval vessels operating on
| he Pacific.
The bill will be brought up for pass
! age as soon as Congress reconvenes
1 and the item will doubtless be allow
j ?d to remain.
! WAR INCREASES
MENTAL DISEASES!!
NEW YOSK, Mar. 14—The State
3iate Hospital Commission has com
;-l|ed figures showing that 3,995 more \
otients havebeen admitted to the
itato hospitals for treatment of mental
diseases during the time since war was
declaed than for the similar period |
■’ time prior to the begining ofhos
itiee.
Aw, but just wait till the orators
jet started at celebrating it! i
-.
A peace-celebrating republic is nc 1
| «ilace for anybody with nerve*. i i
AMERICAN I
MARINES ON 1
RAMPAGE
lapanese Consulate At
Tientsin Raided And
Consul Beaten Up
PEKIN, China. March 14:—The
lapanese Consulate at Tientsin, the
narines and the Japanese consul badly
riles distant, was raided by American
He reports that he has sent his first
jeaten up today. Previously, the Amer
cans were said to have been roughly
landled by the Japanase; the latter
ising their bayonets.
WASHINGTON, D. C„ March 14: —
tmerican troops clashed with the Jap
mese police and civilians at Tientsin
iceoiding to a report received by the
State Department here today from the
\merican minister Relnach at Pekin.
He reuorts that he has sent his first
;ecretary of the legation to Tientsin
0 investigate.
Tientsin has a population of about
1 million people and enjoys a large and
■apidly increasing transit trade with
tussia, via Siberia. It is the river port
jf Chia on the right bank cU the
3eiho. thrirty four miles from the
nouth of the river which is generally
rozen from December 15 to March
15. Ey the treaty o 1858. the port
was declared open.
NEW YORK, March 14. — The
Jnited Aircraft Engineering Company
proposes to start an aerial passenger
ind freight line between Toronto and
Hamilton. Canada.in a few weeks, with
he four hundred aeroplanes recently
purchased from the Canadian govern
ment by Roy U. Congen, the com
pany's representative.
TO STOP HOARDING
AND SPECULATION
WASHINGTON, D. U., Mar. 14. —
Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer
took steps today to prevent the furth
er hoarding and specu,ation in the
meat supply of the country as has
been going on for years according to
recent evidence given in the trials of
the various large packing houses.
THE HAGUE. Mar. 14.—Baron von
de- Lancken, who confirmed the death
sentence of Edith Cavell, and who fled
to Holland, is now standing in line for
a bread card among the unwashed re
fugees and it is reported that he was
efused special privileges.
NO DREAONAUGHTS
SCHEDULED FOR 1919
LONDON, Mar. 14.—The War office
has announced that Great Britain will
build no dreadnaughts thisyear and the
work on the battleships and cruisers
has been suspended indefinitely.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 14. _
The Treasury has announced that a
credit of $5,000,000 has been establish
ed in favor of Rumania, giving her a
total credit of $10,000,000 and $868,157,
300 for all the allies
AUTHORTIES
KNOW NOTHING
OF BODY FOUND
It ia reported on good authority that
ren at work on the site of the new
ighthouse depot, south of the Stand
ird Oil Dock, found the body of a na
/e. last week in tearing down one o
he old shacks on the property.
The body after it had been examined
cr papers of identification was found
o be that of Dan Lott, a native who
vas lost abort eighteen months ago.
vhile on his way ,from Ketchikan to
attend a fair at Saxman. Papers and
etters addressed to him were found
;n the body.
inquiry at the court house revealed
he fact that none of the local officials
lave been informed of the finding o.'
he body, and no license was procured
is required by territorial law, before
lurial. Asst. District Attorney Ragan
eported that he had heard a rumor a
lay cr so ago, but had not been noti
ced officially. An investigation is to
>e started immediately.
Mr. Wm. Morgan, of Pennoch Is!
ind, who reported the matter to the
>rogiessive-Mlner stated that Lott was
i!so a resident of Pennoch. He was*
: heavy drinker, a”d it la presumed
ha-.he must have obtained liquor on
lis way to the fair at Saxman. being
ivercome when about midway. He pre
>ably crawled into the the old building
or protection and died of exposure or^
ither causes.
INQUIRY ON THE
SOPHIA NEAR END
VICTOIIA. B. C.. Mar. 14. — The
“rincess Sophia hearing is nearing the
sud here after a short session in Ju
teau, and it is eported that a decision
Mill be rendered within two weeks.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 14. —I
Hiere is every indication here that'
President Wilson will back Secretary
Lane's plans for farms for the return
'd soldiers, on his return from France.!
The bill was one of the many which
railed to pass during the past session
an account ol the Republic fillibuster.
FIRSTDUEL
IN THE AIR
IS ARRANGED
Two Captains Arrange To
Fight Battle In Single
Seat Machines
PARIS. Mar. 14.—The first aerial
duel i ■ the history of the world was
arranged for yesterday, the two princi- ‘
pals being Captains Schriber and Vau- j
deorane.
The two duelists will use single
seat machines equipped with machine
guns and their seconds. Captains Wa
don and Babo will take the air at the
same time. The cause for the duel is
unknown^ and its place and time have
been kept secret.
WAR COST FRANCE
32 BILLIONS
SEATTLE. Mar. 14.—Maurice Boy-1
er. secretary of the Bank of Paris, ar
riving here today said that the war:
had cost France thirty-two billions in!
money.
THOS, F, OAKES
DIES IN SEATTLE
SEATTLE. March 14:—Thomas F.
Oakes, former president cf the North
ern Pacific Railroad, died at the Sor
rentos Hotel this morning.
TWO CENTS FOR
LETTERS AFTER
JULY FIRST
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 14.—It
was announced by the Postoffice De
partment here today that the pre-war
postage rates will be restored on July
first this year.
PORTLANDERS
ARESHOCKED
BY THREAT
I, W, W, On The Rampage
Because Their Demands
Have Not Been Met
POITLAND, Ore., Mar. 14. — The
Industrial Workers of the World here
are sending theatenlng epistles to all
the officials of the city, in which they
declare all sorts of things will take
place unless theirdemands are met.
The most shocking letter was. how
ever, received by Mayor Baker, in
which the I. W. W. threatened to send
the head of Chief of Police Johnstone
byparcel post to the mayor, unless con
ditio. s imposed against the I. W. W.
are not withdrawn.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 14. —
The geographic, board today changed
the official abbreviation for Califonia
from “Cal.” to “Calif.” at the request of
the postoffice department. The
change was made because of the con
tusion with the abbreviation for Colj
orado.
BOY AND GIRL ARRIVE
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Thompson of Ka
saan. arc the parents of a baby boy
born in Newtown on Monday, Mar. 10.
Torn to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hoff,
or Tuesday. Mar. 11f a baby girl, 6 1-2
oundi at their home near the creek.
ii.?. L. Myers, who was in attend- j
ante at both homes, reports mothers
sn j t'bies all well.
The ending cf the war is not at all
like what Wilhelm had arranged to
have it.
Singing Revolutionary Songs Two Hundred Sparta
can Prisoners Marched to Death Thru
Unter Der Linden On Tuesday Night
BERLIN.March 14.-Singing revolutionary songs and march
ing gaily along the avenue Unter der Linden, two hundred Spar
tacan prisoners went to their death on Tuesday afternoon. Twen
ty-four Spartacans were executed in Moahit prison earlier in
theday, it was announced by the Government feday.
German women fighting the Reds here st bbed and scalped
wounded officers on the streets and then he’d a war dance about
the pile of bodies which they had stacked up.
Former Emperor A Prisoner
GENEVA, Switzerland, Mar. 14.-A late dispatch received
here from Innsbruck says that former Emperor Charles of Aus
tria is a prisoner in a castle outside Vienna, where he is being
guarded by Socialists.
SWINDLER CAUGHT
IN ARMY IN FRANCE
NEW YORK, Mar. 14—Alleged to
have misappropriated between $500,
000 and $700,000 of the funds of the
Tax Lien Company of New York of
which he was president, Wm. Lustgar
ten. missing since Aug. 1917, has been
a rested by the military authorities ii
France and will be turned over to the
civil authoities here. He went to
France with the 309th Engineers un
der an assumed name.
SPENT 179 BILLIONS ON WAR
WASHINGTON,—Exclusive of ex
penditures by Belgium, Portugal, Ru
mania, Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria,
the total cost of the European war was
fixed at $179,000,000,000 in an official
estimate made public here today and
based on data in the hands of the Fed
eral Reserve Board, the Secretary of
‘he Treasury and the bulletins of the
Swiss Society of Banks. The table was
compiled on estimated expenditures tc
last January 31.
The expenditures of the Allies anc
the United States were fixed at $119,
581.000. 000, exclusive of loans ~mong
themselves, which totaled $18,375,
000,000.
The individual expenditures of the
nations were given as follows: Greal
Britain, $3 ,100,000,000; France, $27,
700.000. 000; United States, $18,481,
000,000; Russia, $18,000,000,000; Italy
$10,000,000,000: Serbia, $8,000,000,
000 ;Japan and Greece, $1,000,000,000
The loans made by these powers anc
included in the individual expendi
tures, although not added to the tota
as a separate item, were as follows:
Great Britain, $8,500,000,000; France
$2,000,000,000; United States, $7,875,
000,000.
The total expenditures of German)
were given as $36,500,000,000, and o
Turkey, $23,000,000,000, making an ag
3 regate of $19,500,000,000 for these twe
members of the Germanic alliance.
MOEiLE, Ala., Mar. 14.—A toraadc
which caused great property damage
and some loss of life has been report
ed to have swept at least three towns
in southern Alabama, according to re
-,rts reaching here.
S. ALFRED SZE
S. Alfred Sze, Chinese minister to
Great Britain, Is one of the peace dele
jates t< represent China at the peace
sonferenca.
CARIBOU MEAT
TO BE PLACED
OM THE MARKET
VANCOUVER, B. C.. Mar. 14.—Vlad
iimir Stefansson announced here that
he is arranging with the Canadian
srovernment to place Caribou meat on
'he ma-ket at less than half the pres
ent price of hecf. Shipments will be
made via th: McKenzie River with
Edmonton as a gateway. Immense
herds of Caribou in the Arctic are
i available the Arctic explorer de
| elates.
DRASTIC MEASURES
FOR PROTECTION OF
SPCKEYE SALMON
I
Drastic measures for the protec
j tion and preservation of the sockeye
, ssalmcn of Puget Sound are outlined
i in suggested regulations received re
cently from Washington, D. C., by Mr.
i Henry O'Malley Field, Assistant U. S.
-Vreau of fisheries, with offices in
the L. C. Srvi'h building, for submis
sion to the State legislature now in
r-'s.Von at Olympia. *
Similar regulations have been for
warded to the British Columbia exe
<-u*ive bodies, and if both the State
of Washington and British Columbia
favorably, a fish treaty governing the
sockey salmon industry on Puget
Sound and in British Columbia wat
ers will be ratified by the United
states and Canada.
CONFERENCE
The regulations were drawn up by
the American Canadian Fisheries con
reiencc which met in Seattle last
April and have just been made pub
>ic.. The American representatives at
the conference included Mr. Redfleld,
United States Secretary of Commerce,
E. F. Sweet Assistant Secretary of
Commerce and Dr. H. Ma Smith,
United Statrs Commissioner of Fish
eries.
The Canadian, representatives to
| eluded W. A. Found, Superintendent
of Fisheries, G. J. Desbarats, Deputy
Minister of Naval Service, and Chief
,i r.t:ce J. D Hazsn, of New Bruns
wick. E. T. ? j I glr y was secretary of
the conference.
th; proposals
The suggested regulations provide
that ‘fishing for sockeyo salmon shall
ot be permissible except under li
cense: number o liensfces shall be
lim'tPd in sta’e of Washington to II
-rnses issued :n 1918, and in British
r'shimbis not *o exceed 1,800 gill nets;
only Americf n citizens shall be allow
'd to fish in American waters and
rr‘tish subjects in Canadian waters.
Technical restrictions in regard to net
fishing are mvlo; a closed season each
■ear of ha’f the sockeyo salmon run
and weekly closed periods are provid
ed; crowding of fish traps so as to
prevent the f ee passage of salmon
between them is prohibited and the
size o,t nets is fixed. Regulations In
regard to the use of purse seine nets
are made. Regulations applicable on
ly to Pritish Columbia waters include
“;c prohibit!"! of fishing in certain
parts of the : -asor River except with
hook and line.—Prince Rupert News.
While Pair >anks fairmers in 1918
harvested a short crop as compared
wil i the production In 1917, they ex
I perioncod satisfactory marketing con
ditions and they feel ao encouraged
•hat they hgv cleared moro land for
cultivation ir. 1919. Potatoes and
cabbages we c o ;’y half a yield,
while other p du~ 3 were about two
thirds of a ere ). ">‘ho decreased yield
• •> caused fc / the late spring and
very early frost in the fall.