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THE DAILY
VOLUME FOUR
Ketchikan
vAlyfca,
Tuesday April 16, 1919
Number 151
PRESIDENT WILSON ANNOUNCES
APRIL 25 DATE FOR APPEARANCE
OE GERMAN PLENIPOTENTIARIES
German Official Announcement Says That Country
Will Reject All Proposals To Let France
Operate Saar Coal Mines
PARIS, April 15.—President Wilson, on behalf of the council
of Four- announced today that the 25th of this month was the
Uefinite date decided upon for the appearance of the German
plentipotentiaries at Versailles where the peace , congress will
be held.
A statement says that the questions of peace are now so near
solution that the treaty will be finally drafted at a very early
date.
Germany Must Withdraw Her Troops
PARIS. April 15.—The peace conference is said to have de
cided to compel Germany to withdraw all her troops from the
zone extending twenty miles back from the right bank of the
Rhine, with the Allies occupying the left bank until the first in
demnity installment is paid.
Ambassador Hugh Wallace Arrives
Ambassador Hugh Wallace, arrived here today to replace
William G. Sharp, of Ohio, as American Ambassador to France.
Ambassador Wallace is from Tacoma, Wash., and is an intimate
friend of President Wilson.
BERLIN. April 15.—An official announcement here says
that the German Government will reject any proposal that w'ill
permit France to operate the coal mines and mineral resources
of the Saar Valley in perpetuity.
Men Selected To Attend Negotiations
i BERLIN. April 15.—Dr. Albert Schnee, former Governor of
German East Africa, Dr. Marquardson and Dr. Ruppel- Privy
State Councilors, will represent the German Colonial Adminis
tration at the peace negotiations. The Colonial Minister, Dr.
Bell will take part in the final negotiations.
■ The German Peace Commission will also have at its disposal,
experts from each of the former German colonies.
LOTS TO BE SOLD
AT TALKEETNA
ANCHORAGE. (Bv Mail) Lots inj
Talkeetna, a new town on the route
ot tlfe government railroad 113 mile?
north of Anchorage, will soon be plac
ed on the market. They will be sold
at auction to the highest bidders.
The lots will be appraised by the j
government and minimum values fixed
No applications of purchase will be i
accepted below these minimum ap-!
Praised values.
It is expected that *-5 will be the!
lowest appraised value of any lot and
that this sum will be the least that
will be. accepted bv the government
a3 a first payment. In case the sale
price amounts to more than $50, then
one-ha If; the purchase will have to In
paid at ; the time of the sale and the
remainder in one year after the sale;
but either at the sale or at any time
within one year thereafter the entire
purchase price may -be paid, in which
event a deed to ths property will be
issued to the purchaser.
The time of the sale, which will be
conducted by the Land and Industrial
Denartmeut of the Alaskan Engineer i
in-r Commission, is dependent on the
reril'it of a plat of the townsite from
United Spates General Land Office.
The survey was made last summer.
Talkeetna. which i3 present end of
su-1 on the government railroad, is
at the junction of the Talkeetna. CHu
litnn and Snsitna rivers, all of which
are navigable for come distance uu
from Talkeetna. It is the nearest
ralwav point to the Coohe Creek min
in" district. McGrath. Iditarod and the
other neighboring nlaces in interior.
Bv reason of its location, it is an out
Suing point for miners and residents
of the interior and late last winter and
early this spring a large quantity of
freight was taken from Anchorage to
Talkeetna for transfer by dog teams
there to other points.
The population of Talkeetna is abou*
15fi persons. It has several business
houses. The buildings, with few er
ceptions are temporary in character
as, until the auction sale of lots, no
title can be obtained to any of the real
property.
MOVEMENT OF BOATS
Southbound-—
Alameda tomorrow.
Admiral Watson Sunday.
Tsorthbound
Alaska 13th.
Admiral Evans Saturday
Princess Thursday Bight
LINEN SPINDLERS
OF BELGIUM ARE
VERY SCARCE
NBW YORK, April 15.—Consul Na
smith of Brussels. Belgium, in his re
port to the central office of the linen,
'lax, anil jute spinning mills, reports
that about one-tenth, or 30 000 to 40,
000 spindles, have been destroyed
completely. Of the 340,000 spindle3
which remain, at least one-third will
be able to work as soon a:s coal, oil' Bad
raw materials are obtainable, which
should be in May or June. The other
two-thirds can be set in motion when
the belting, machinery, copper and
other things which were taken by the
Germans, can be replaced.
Traveling for business purposes
trough the districts of Ghent, Courtrai,
and Roulers is perfectly feasible at the
present time.
Farmers Could
Purchase Entire
U, S, Victory Loan
The farmers of the United States
alone could subscribe the entire
amount of $5,000,000,000 to be asked
for in the Victory Loan which is to
bo opened by the government April
21- Figures given out by the treasury
department show that the earnings of
American farmers for 1918 totalled
more than -12,000,000,000.
Ability of the American people to
meet the obligations of its government
is shown through figures issued by the
'rea3urv department showing the earn
ing power of the nation in 1918 to have
been in excess of $73,000,000,000. It
would have taken less than two days’
warnings of the American people Xo
"ay all the Interest charges on all the
Liberty Bonds outstanding during that
rear.
There is far more gold hack of a
United States government 'bond than
hat standing behind bonds of any of
'he others of the allied nations.
' merica’s total wealth is estimated at
1 150 000.000,000. The part of the
vorld’s monetary stock held by this
'Untry is -3,079,000,000, an increase
>t $1,192,000,000 since the beginning
of the war.
George B. Smith, of the Sullivan Ma
hinery Company, and Sam Guyot, of
Fisher Bros. Seattle, were arrivals
rom Juneau on the City of Seatte.
hey are at the Revilla Hotel.
John S. Hume of the Nakat Inlet
aunerv was a southbound passenger
at evening on the City of Seattle On
- business trip to the Spirit City.
SUPREME COURT
RENDERS DECISION
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 15. —
The Supreme Court in a decision band
ed down today says that the transpor
tation of liquor through a "dry” state
Is not prohibited 'by law.
SYDNEY, N. S. April 15.—Owing to
influenza becoming more serious in
New South Wales, the government has
again ordered the wearing of mask*,
in trains, trams and ferries.
DELEGATE ELECT
_ IS VERY ILL
CRAIG. Alaska April 15.—Delegate
Elect Charles A. Sulzer .became dan
gerously ill on Monday morning, from
stomach trouble. Dr. D. W. Figgins
was called to Sulzer from Craig and at
| sis o'clock last evening the report was
brought here that Mr. Sulzer was Im
proving. f
f 1R MAIL FOR CUBA
TAMPA, Fla., Apr: 15. An agree
ment .with the Cuban Republic for
aerial mail service between Havana
and Santiago will be put into agree
ment shortly when three aviators re
cently released from service at Carl
strom Field. Fla., will go to Ctfba.
POLICEMEN
OF SEATTLE
ARRESTED
Six Are Arrested Charg
ed With Stealing
Booze
SEATTLE. Aprill 15.—Police Ser
geant Gus V. Ha-tselblad, Patrolman
W. F. Patton and four others ware
arrested this morning by the federal
authorities charged with robbing the
j United States appraisers’ store In Seat
i tie of 31 out of 3,000 quarts of whis
' key. >
The same syndicate, the authorities
believe, are implicated in the bringing
in of 3,150 quarts of whiskey seized at
the Meadow Race Course yesterday af
ternoon.
The arrest of Hasselbland seems to
| be developing into a police scandal.
I the magnitude of which is still Un
| known. It develops now that the
city police, in many instances instead
fof arresting bootleggers, simply reliev
id them of their liquor. A number of
[patrolmen. it is alleged, made fortunes
I during the past year, three of them re
tiring.
HAWKER MAY BEGIN
FLIGHT TONIGHT
ST, JOHN'S, N'fld., April 15.—Lieu
tenant Harry Hawker may begin his
flight this evening, as the weather has
materially improved. He has .been de
layed forty-eight hours from starting
tin his Sopwith Biplane with his pilot
on his trip across the Atlantic.
W, T, LOPP
HERE FROM NORTH
W. T. Lopp, head of the Bureau of
Education for the natives of Alaska,
was an arrival last evening from the
north on the City of Seattle, accompan
ied by Mr. F. R. Falconer, of Klukwan
who plans to locate in Ketchikan.
Mr. Lopp has been making a visit
to the government schools in South
eastern Alaska since the native fair at
Klawock, and will 'be in this vicinity
for several days. They are guests at
j the Stedman Hotel.
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LEAVE FOR THE SOUTH
Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Needham, of the
Ketchikan Pioneer, a weekly publica
tion, who recently sold their plant to
the Ketchikan Printing Co., left last
evening for Seattle.
Mrs. Needham will go to Detroit and
Chicago to visit relatives while Mr.
' Needham will remain In Seattle and
, other Puget Sound cities.
Both are Pioneers of Alaska. Mr.
Needham following the newspaper bu
: siuess in various parts of the territory
| His last venture being here in partner
i ship with the late Paul Sta.nhope in the
! Monthly and later in the Weekly Pio
neer. Their many friends will wish
. them success wherever they may de
cide to settle.
WILL SELL HERRING
i _
Mr. M. LcGaz is a recent arrival
trot Seattle who is on his way to Teua
kee, where he will engage in selling
, hearing for bait to all fishermen. ’
SEC. BAKER AMD
IN FRANCE
i Warren Pershing Had Not
, Seen Famous Daddy
For Years
PARIS, April 15-—Secretary New
ton D. Baker, accompanied toy Warren
Pershing, the S-Tear-old son of the
commander in chief in France, Gen
eral John J. PersMng, arrived here this
morning from America.
Warren has not seen his father for
two years and is very anxious to be
with him again. Warren has as a
body guard on the trip. First Sergeant
Joseph A. Walz, of New York, who was
decorated for Ibravery at Chatteau
Thierry.
WASHINGTON.'*D. C„ April 15. —
i U. S. Consul General George D. Hop
: per. to Sweden, 'has informed the De
j partment of Commerce that plans are
I being-made for thp establishment of a
| motion picture Cjty cowering ten acres
j outside of Stockholm. It Is the inten
tion of the promoters to specialize in
! Swedish literary films, or dramatiza
j ton of Swedish books. The production
will be about S.oop.oon meters of film
» year.
FOOD STEAMER
| FOR POLES IS
i < PILLAGED
ZURICH, Switz., April 15.—An A
: raerican steamer laden with food con
| signed to Poland, -was pillaged by the
j German rioters at Hamburg, accord
i ing to word received here today.
AIRMEN TO DANCE
NEW 1 ORK, April 15.—An aviation
! ball Is to .be held on April 26 In com
memoration of the part which aviation
has played in the winning of the war
and the money will be the start of a
fund to aid in erecting a permanent
memorial to those Americans who were
killed in aerial fighting. Representa
tives f the allied armies and navies
now in this country have been invited
and some are coming to New York for
i the event in their airplanes.
Coal Mine Blocks
Out Reserve Deposits
ANCHORAGE,, (.By Mail)—Stlffl
cient reserve coal deposits have been
blocked out at the fine operated by the
| Alaskan Engineering Commission at
Eska. -fiftveight miles northeast of An
| chorage, to insure to the Commission
‘ an adequate fuel supply for several
; years, report Sumner (S. Smith, who
has charge of the Commission’s coal
mining department. Further prospect
ing, he declares, continues in order to
determine the regular area of the coal
deposits at Eska and to discover, if
'•ossible, beds of better quality. The
output at present has been raised to a
point high enough to afford not only
j an ample supply of fuel for the con
! structiou and operation of the govern
ment railroad but also a surplus euf
ficiently large to protect against in
terrupted traffic and accident* at the
mine.
With respect to the geology of the
Eska mine,, Mr. Smith gays:
“The general structure at Eska is
synclinal although there are faults par
allel to and at various angles to the
axis of the syncline which obscure
much of the structural detail. The aur
.face of the area under consideration
slopes gently toward the south, the
[ waters of Eska Creek, which drop ap
( proximately 400 feet in three miles.
I cutting a valley from 20 to 200 feet be
i lorw the general level of the ground.
As the coal measures were folded and
broken. long before the formation of
'he rresent topography, the 'beds are
set parallel to the surface. They ap
’’ear in the bluffs which form the sides
of the creek as a series of rather dls
touted 3emi circles, one above another,
•he lower portion of the arcs b/ing con
coaled by the debris on the bank and
in the creak bottom.
"There is no doubt that the drain
ceo 0f tJris field has followed in many
instances, the lines of least resistance
'Tf’^t *d by fault zones and it therefore
follows that the pioneer mining which
has > iturally started upon the outcrops
exposed by stream valleys will, in gen
era), be in the mast disturbed portions
of the district
"The prospecting baa consisted of
churn drilling, open cutting, a few
crosscuts and sinking some shallow
test pits. ,
Twsraueh as there arc- six different
beds all of different thickness under
exploration at Eska, and as dip varies
FORBIDS STATE
CHURCH IN GERMANY
.PARIS. April 15.—A dispatch from
Weimar says that the 0..amission on
Constitution of the Gi. man National
Assembly has adopted a clause stipu
lating that there shall bo no State
ichui'ch. Sunday is maintained as a le
gal holiday.
SENATOR BORAH
STILLOBDURATE
WASHTNOTTON, D. C., April 15. —
Senator Borah continues to declare
the League Of Nations Covenant is
wholly unacceptable, despite the fact
that a specific proviso affirming the
Monroe- Doctrine was made a part of
the Covenant, which it was believed
would cover nil olbectlons raised by the
American senators to the, original
draff.
HONOR COL. JONES
WASHINGTON, D. C„ April 15. —
Word has been received here that King
Victor Emanuel of Italy has made Col.
Lester E. Jones, Director of the Coast
Geodetic Survey, an officer of the Or
der of the Saints Maurlzio and Lap
zaph, first class, for distinguished civ
il and military service. The decora
tion is the oldest given "by Italy and
is rarely conferred upon a foreigner.
WAS A FIGHTER
A Distinguished Service
Medal To Be Given
To His Family
WASHINGTON..' D. C., April 15.—A
cable from General Pershing this morn
!ng announced the posthumous award
for distinguished service to Lieutenant
Prank P. Luke, of Phoenix. Arizona.
Aviator with the American force.
He is cited for having destroyed two
German balloons in which six Ger
mans were killed, and fought eight
Germans until he was killed when they
surrounded him after he had fallen in
his machine within enemy territory.
N. Y. POLICE WILL
PARADE ON MAY 10
NEW YORK, April 15.—It waB an
nounced today at police headquarters
that the annual police j>arade will take
place on May 10. It is reported that
there will be 7.000 members of the uni
formed force and about 5,000 reserves
In line. Mayor Hylan will head the
parade. One of the feautures -will be
a service flag made up of a lieutenant,
t sergeants and 250 patrolman of the
regular force.
WICKERSHAM IS
RETURNING NORTH
—
SEATTLE, April 15.—James Wick
if •.•sham will sail for Southeastern Alas
ka tomorrow on the Admiral Evans, to
fine up for the coming contest for the
1 delegateship of Alaska.
from 10 degrees to 60 degrees, no one
method of extraction can 'be applied to
the entire series," says Mr. Smith.
“However, all the coal so far poduced
Jins been recovered iby the roof and
-'liars method, the room width, in gen
eral, being twenty feet with thirty
foot pillars 'betw-wen. There have
been slight variations to this rule oc
casionally, due to faulted or broken
condition of the ground. All rooms
are run on sights and where the-‘beds
are paallcl the pillars of the upper
bedB are kept vertically over those of
the lower. *
“The room and pillar method, with
the rooms driven straight up the pitch,
was adopted because the demand for
coil was acute and this offered the;
ereatest immediate supply. At some
future date it wll be possible to experi
ment with other methods, although the
reerfery so far as been excellent and it
Is doubtful if any other method would
give as satisfactory results, as the
svetem is flexible and lends itself read
:'Y to the varying conditions met un
derground.
“There were eight alight, five serious
andd»o fatal accidents. There iwerc ap
proximately 57.000 manshifts worked.
both surface and underground. The;
time lost due to accident, amounted to.
30 1-3-Shifts for the slight accidents
»rd 146 shifts for the serious.
“At the time of the Influenza epi
•l-ro'c 'nst winter one of the bunk
' ovses was converted into a temporary
hospital. There wore fiftif-flVe cases,
of which developed into pneu
resulted in the deaths of
those afflicted.” , I
ARCHDUKE JOSEPH AMD HIGH
OFFICIALS ARE EXECUTED BY
COMMUNISTSAT BUDAPEST
Former King Ludwig of Bavaria is Found In Asylum
Under An Assumed Name In Famous Castle
Of Vaduz, As Prince Lichtenstein
BERLIN, April 15.—Travelers from Budapest, according to
two morning papers here, report that the Communists at Buda
pest have executed the Archduke Joseph of Hungary, Dr. Alex
ander Wekerle, the former premier and Baron Joseph Szteprenyi,
minister of commerce.
Vienna Bread Ration Is Reduced Again ..
VIENNA- April 15.—Vienna's bread ration was cut in half
again here owing to the delay in food shipments. It is now one
small slice a day for each person.
Munich Fighting Continues Today
BERLIN, April 15.— The fighting between the communists
and loyal troops for the possession of Munich continues. The
I’ostoffice, Railway Station, and the telegraph offices have
changed hands several times during the past thi-’t'r-six hours.
Food Is Unit Of Value In Germany
Food is now the unit of value in Germany and the mark is
worth only what food it will buy, says the Vossiche Zeitung
which reports the arrival of several ships at Ham1 n with
foodstuffs. The American vessel, the West Carnifax, was the
first to bring food for Germany.
A cargo of herring from Norway is also reported to have ar
rived at Hamburg. It is evident that the arrival of these car
goes of foodstuffs are of the utmost importance- although at the
same time they will cause disappointment as these first ship
I ments will hardly be felt by the majority of the population.
Complaints have been made that Berlin is to buy in the open
market and import 370,000 tons of the foodstuffs which the En
tente allows eachmonth. The Dutch are again to look to their
pocketbooks and are charging tremendous pi ices for everthing.
Another instance where the Sparticides are working against
the improvement of the food conditions in the interest of Bol
shevism is shown in th ereport of the Berlin Lokal Anzeiger
which says that the Sparticides have been obstructing the fish
ing in several small harbors and are endeavoring to socialize the
fisheries, ever since the Entente freed the fishei’ies.
BERNE, Switz.. April 15.—A report received here from Lich
stein, Saxony, declares that the former King Ludwig of Bavaria
has been discovered in an asylum under the fictitious name of
Prince Lowenstein in the picturesque castle of Vaduz, belong
ing to the Prince Lichenstein.
Poles Shoot Jews In Food Distribution Fights
STOCKHOLM, April 15.—A report from Minsk states that
the Poles there, rounded up a lot of Jews and shot them in the
market place. They have clashed over the distribution of the
provisions. The executed include 23 Zionists.
NEW YORK, April 15.—According to j
information received by the Italian Bu- j
reau here from Rome, Italian labor ■
and capital have entered into a.
“partnership agreement" at Milan.
All of the 100 000 members of the Ital
ian federation, under the agreement,
have their working hours reduced from
twelve to eight hours a day. The a
greement becomes effective May 10 for
mechanics, and July 10 for metal
workers.
ROME, April 15.—The National;
Olympic committee decided today to
accept the offer °£ the city of Ant
werp, Belgium, for the holding of the
Olympic games there in 1920.
JUDGE LINDSE.Y ILL
NEW YORK, April 15.—Judge Ben
B. Lindsey of the Denver Juvenile
Court, has arrived here to consult phy
sicians. He is suffering from stomach
trouble. He left Denver a few days a
go for a sanitarium near here to re
cuperate from the strenuous work he
has been doing for the Government. He
has been acting in Franco as a repre
sentative of the Committee on Public
Information until the signing of the
armistice and since his return to this
country last Winter had been broken in
health. Mrs. Lindsey is expected here
shortly,
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