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VOLUME FOUR
Ketchikan, Alaska, Wednesday February 5. 1919
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Number 97
SEATTLE AUTHORITIES ON THE ALERT
German Capital Temporarily Removed From Berlin
2 PLANS PROPOSED
FOR ORGANIZATION
OF NATIONSLEAGUE
German National Assembly Will Convene Tomorrow
At Weimar, Capital of The Grand-Duchy of
Saxe-Weimar-Eisenbach
PARIS, Feb., 5:—Two plans have been submitted for the draft
ing of the League of Nations’ Constitution, which are finding
favor among the delegates. One plan provides for a legislative
branch with the great and small nations equally represented as
a unit. The other provides for the executive branch to be com
posed of two members each from France, the United States; Italy
Japan and Great Britain, with the smaller nations having a
certain combined representation.
It is contemplated that for the determination of international
issues, each distinct nation involved will select one member and
the two jointly will name the third arbitrator.
Four Committees Are Appointed
Premier Clemenceau today announced the appointment of four
committees, whose duties shall be to conduct inquiries and make
reports of their work done to the peace conference. They are
named as follows: Responsibility for the War; Repatriation;
International Labor Legislation and Regulation of Ports, water
ways and Railroads.
BERLIN, Feb., 5:—The National Assembly will meet at Wei
mar tomorrow, the government of Germany being temporarily
moved to that city, and it automatically ceased with the convening
of the National Assembley.
Weimar is the capita 1 of the Grand-Duchy of SaxeAVeimar
Eisenbach, and is 155 miles from Berlin.
Pl.oto by American Press Association.
Major Oena-al Choree W.
George B, Goethals
Given Medal of Award
NEW YORK. Feb. 5;—The gold
medal of the John Fritz Medal Board
of Award was awarded last evening
to General George B. Goethals, build
er of the Panama Canal. The Board
is composed of represnetatives of the
Societies of Civil, Mining, Mechani
cal, and Electrical Engineers, which
held their 1919 annual meeting last
night. The medal has previously
been awarded to John Fritz of Bethle
hem, Penn., Lord Keivln George West
Inghouse, Alexander Graham Bell,
Thomas A. Edison, Charles T. Porter,
Alfred Nobel, Sir William Henry
White, Robert W. Hunt, John Edson
Sweet, James Douglas, Flih'u Thom
son, Henry M. Howe, and J. Waldo
Smith.
MOVEMENTS OF BOATS
Southbound
Alameda, 7th.
Northbound
Alaska, 7th.
Ciiy of Seattle, Friday night.
Weimar, a small but interesting town
of Germany, suddenly jumps into the
headlines of the press all over the
world because the new National As
sembly has finally decided on it as
the place where the first meeting will
b- held.
Weimar is the capital of the grand
duchy of Saxe Weimar-Eisenbach and
the res'denceof the grand duke. It
stands in a pleasant valley on the left
bank of the Elm; but the environs, are
in no way rem-arkabU and the town
itself js irregularly and rather poorly
built. Though the residence of the
court. Weimarcarries on neither trade
nor manufactures, and seems a dull,
provincial-looking town. The luster
-on'err^d on it by +he residence here.
?t the close of the 18th and the earli
er portion ofthe 19th century, of Goe
the. Schiller, Herder and Wieland.
at the court of Karl-August, has fad
ed since that group was broken up
by death: and now the interest of
the place (Thackeray's “Pumpernick
el”) is almost wholly derived from its
monuments^ traditions, and associa
tions. The town church dating from
the year 1400 has a "Crucifixion” by
C-anoch and contains a number of
memorable tombs, among which are
those of Pernhard of Weimar and
Herder, Other buildings are the
Rothes Schloss, the Grunes Schloss,
w'th a lib-ary of 180 000 volumes, and
relics of Luther and Gustavas Adol
phus' the court theat-e where Liszt
nred"c-d Waaner’g “Lohengrin” and
*he ho"ses of Cranach, Goethe and
Schiller. The nark and gardens of
th-> palace within which is the sum
mer residence of Goethe, are much
esteemed as a promenade. The popu
'at!on in 1896 was 26 670.
ALASKA COMING
SEATTLE, Feb, 5:—The steamer
Alaska sailed for the north this morn
ing with one hundred and eighty pas
sengers aboard, including Attorney
General Grigsby.
Passengers for Ketchikan are R.
Jasperson, M. Snorey, R. O. Bennett.
W. H. Quirt, Arthur Whltty, L. F.
Johnson, J. A. and R. A. King, D. D.
Daiken, A. Osborne, R. H. Copeland,
Mrs. R. Bray, Frank Jackson, Ole
Kjer, Ole Bakke, H. Mathison, D. W.
Sheldon, M. Anderson, F. Rlenson, F.
Crindle and wife. A. Ande son and
wife, Mrs. A. D. Bosworth, S. Selig,
A. W. Smith, T. J. Johnson, Ben Mager
H. A. Rice, Mrs. Bravick, Mrs. H.
Eerne, Wm. Currie, C. Johnson, E
Hudson, R. Ridley, F. Zar, H. Hudson.
J. Hudson, G. Booth S. Ore,
SUIT TO RECOVER
BIG SUM OF MONEY
FROM EMPEROR BEGUN
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GENEVA, Feb. 5:—Papers were fil
ed today in an action instituted by
the Commercial Bank of Budapest to
recover over one Hundred million
crowns. The defendant’s name ap
pear as Ex-Emperor Charles of Aus
tria. This sum, it is said represents
subscriptions to the war loans by the
Emperor, which was never paid. Oth
er suits will also be Instituted against
high Austro-Hungarian officials.
BERLIN, Feb. 5:—In consequence
of the strike of the electrical workers,
the greater number of amusement in
Berlin have been closed and the gen
eral public is suffering great Incon
venience.
WILL NOT CUT WAGES
PITTSBURG, Pa., Feb. 5:—The loc
al iron and steel circles have been dis
cussing the prediction made a few'
days ago by Repogle. to the effect \
that steel and iron was about due for
a great boom. While these mm be
lieve that a revival will soon COme,
they think the prediction over opti
mistic. However, at a meeting last
evening, it was decided not to cut
down wages, at least for a month yet.
NEW YORK, Feb. 5;—Mrs. Helen
Glidden Grant of Sewaren, N. J. wid
ow of Frederick Fierman Gran1, the
banker, was married yesterday after
noon to William H. Tombs of Rah
way, N. J., who base been her chauf
feur for the last three years. The j
bride is about 65 years old, and her
husband is 24.
MEXICO CITY, Feb., 5:—Rails and
ties are here with which to construct
the road between this city and Cuer
navaca, which was destroyed during
the last few years as the result of
bandit depredations.
WAR HAS CHANGED THE
APPETITE SAYS REPORT
WINNIPEG, Can.,—War-time food
conservation campaigns in the Cana
dian Northwest have changed the ap- i
petjtes of the people. Hundreds of;
tons of fish and game once deemed
unfit as food, are being consumed
each month throughout the Dominion.
Whale and flatfish seem to lead as
sea foods, while beaver and other fur
bearing animals, hitherto unthought
of as table delicacies, likewise are
given prominent places in the food
lists used every day .
Whale meat which failed to win rec
ognition in Canada until last summer
is being sold by the ton from Vancou
ver to Halifax. The Dominion Food
Board’s success in the campaign to'
market Pacific flatfish is indicated by !
‘he officials estimate that 3,500,000 !
oounds have been consumed in six |
months. Fishermen formerly threw |
away this fish.
Until 1918 trappers retained only
*he pelts of beavers. The Minnesota
campaign in behalf of beaver flesh as;
a food attracted attention in Mantlo-:
ba and hotels, in this province added :
beaver meat to their menus.
Later' someone discovered that I
chickens “went wild over beaver" and |
esulteing experiments indicated that;
a diet of beaver meat improved the !
egglaying, qualities of hens in cold
weather
Wild rice that grows in abundance
in the Northern Lake districts, also
was ignored until American and Cana
dian commission men in eastern cities
began making steady demands for it.
Canadian people started eating it af
ter it had gained popularity in hotels.
Any city man who goes to the farm
for a rest this s.ummer will in all like
lihood discover that he is the only
one around the place who is n 'h-.t
errand. On the farm this is rot
what might be called the rest period.
CITY OF SEATTLE SAILS
SEATTLE, Feb. 5:—The City of
Seattle sails this afternoon with the
following passengers for Keftchikan,
John Johnson, John Barbour, H. V.
McGee, G. R. Nakahaski, 8. Ono, J.
C. 8tepler and wife, Mrs. J. A. Kumm
er, John McLaughlin and wife, J. E.
Sayles. wife and two children, Mrs.
E. B. Goodick, Samuel Sampson, V.
M. Lansell, Mrs. L. C. Wheeler, F.
Johaneon, Thomas Thompson.
WAR OFFICE
GIVES FINAL
REPORT
United States Army at the
Time Armistice was
Signed. 3 million
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 5: —
According to an announcement made
by the War office today; figures com
piled show that at the time the armis
tice was signed the United States
army, including tho U. S. Marines
ashore on duty, numbered three mil
lion, seven hundred thousand, two
hundred and seventy-three men.
Practically two thirds Of th* army
was overseas, the remainder in camps
of tha U. S. or on transports enroute
for overseas.
TORONTO, Feb. 5:—A six-hour day
with a thirty-three hour week was
urged in a resolution passed by the
local union of machinists on Satur
day night at a mass meeting in Lab
or Temple, as a measure to relieve
unemployed during the period of re
construction.
The resolution also stated that ma
chinists would be given the same
wages fo- six hours wo"k as they earn
ed during nine hours under war con
ditions If it is found that a measure
of this description will produce a
shortage of labor the machinists ex
oress willingness to compromise upon
the length of the work day.
BOLSHEVISM IS
ENEMY OF LABOR
SAYS SAM GOMPERS
He declares Organized Labor is
Protection against Radical
In Address to Commission
PARIS, Feb. 5;—Samuel J Gompers
president of the American federation
of labor who was elected President
of the International commission on
labor, now in session, outlined the
hopes and perils of labor in the future
in a pressl interview today.
He expressed much confidence in
the restraining influence of trade
unions on the workers and said there
was need of sympathetic treatment
and understanding of the men’s aims
on the part of employers.
The armies of democracy have over
thrown the most powerful dynasties
in the world, he said. ‘‘The absolute
autocrats of but a little while ago are
dead in the dust. But there is no use
saying to ill-clad hungry peoDle; You
are free men and women. We have
been victorious in this war. With the
war the cost of living has enormously
increased, but wag;>s have been insuf
ficiently advanced to meet this cost
It is in the inadequacy of his surround
inn's that we discover the cause which
induces the workmen to degenerate
into a Bolshevist. The organization of
labor is protection against Bolshe
vism.”
CONSTANTINOPLE
The fate of Constantinople will be
settled by the peace conferece. My
own view, for what it is worth ,is
that the most satisfactory solution
would be to make Constantinople a
free port, and to place it, together
with the freedom of the Dardanelles
and the Bosphorus, under ihe guard
ianship of the United Stat s, as the
one power which could not possibly
be suspected of any selfish interests
or secret purpose of aggrr ndizemsnt,
while the impartial protection grant
ed in the great western republic to
all races and creeds would guaran
tee the complete religious liberty o'
‘h« many d:fferent comminities that
make up the heterogenous .opulation
of which less than half or barely a
half—according to very conflicting es
timates—are Mohammedan .
That, however, raises C e larger
question whether, after the . ar Amerl
ca will be prepared to ; . ume ha
share of the collective reeaons5?:"''
for the place and good govc .im, i.♦ r
the world which th,. creation c
league of nations implies.—Lor,.:.
Times.
LABOR PROBLEM IN
CANADA WORRYING
THE GOVERNMENT
TORONTO, Feb. 5.—•Employment
agencies, government municipal and
private, today report an extremely a
cute labor situation. “Two months
ago,” said tho head of an office today,
“there were 10 jobs for every man;
now there are fifty men to each job.”
Unskilled labor'is chiefly affected
and while the tendency is downard,
wages are as high as can be expected
under the present conditions.
LONDON, Feb. 5;—Press dispatch
from Reuter’s. The home secretary
at the request of the prime minister
has decided to order the release on
license of Alfred and Wlnnifred Mas
son, conspiracy to murder the premier
500.000 HOUSES NEEDED
WASHINGTON, Feb., 5:—The hous
ing committee from England, headed
by Sir Tudor Walters, reports that
after the several hearings at which
many experts appeared, it has been
decided to construct cne hundred thou
sand houses each year until the five
hundred thousand needed are eompiet
ed.
.PARIS, Feb., 5:—It is widely fepOrt
ed here that at least twenty thou
sand skilled silkworkers at Basel,
Switzerland, will soon be thrown out
of employment unless the government
rind a way to establish trade agree
ments with the powers.
LONDON, Feb., S— The govern
ment ban on borrowing capital has
been removed so far as local authori
ties are concerned. Fresh capital can
now be had for public utility impro
vements.
BANK OFFERS
THREE PRIZES
FOR BEST ESSAY
The Miners & Merhcants Bank,
through Mr. A. R. Larson, cashier,
has offered three cash prizes of $12.
50: and $7.50 and $5.00 to the pupils
of the Junior and Senior High School
for the best essays on, “Why Ketchi
kan should have a city Park."
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METLAKATLA BOAT
BUILDER RETURNS
R. F. Davis, veteran boat builder
of Metlakatla, returned from Seattle
last week prenared to open up his
establishment again this spring. While
south, Mr. Davis purchased a stock of
hardwoods and announced his pre
paredness to undertake contracts of
all kinds.
OSBORNE WILLIAMS
GOES TO PT. WALTER
Friends of Mr. and Mrs. Osborne
Williams have been informed here
that Mr. Williams has accepted a posi
tion as bookkeeper for Lee H. Wake
field and company at their Port Wal
ter cannery, where Mr. J.E. Sayles
will be superintendent this year. Mrs.
Williams and children have been
visiting relatives in Oakland for sev
eral months and it is not expected
that they will return,.north with Mr.
Williamg.
5?EV. VAN MARTER
IS A GRANDFATHER
A bo"ncin«t baby boy was born at
one o’clock this afternoon to Mr. and
Mrs. Johnstone Van Marter, at their
home in Newtown. Dr. Myers was in
attendance and reports mother and
son progressing nicely.
Rev. Van Marter, newly made
grandfather, and Mr. Johnstone Van
Marter. father of the boy are very
happy over hi* arrival, as are all th»
members of the family.
MRS. STANHOPE
NEW OPERATOR
Mrs. Paul Stanhope, whose hus
band was a victim of the Influeuza
■ijring the epidemic in November,
taken a position as telephone
■>_:r at the Citizens L. P. & W.
-.••any phone office. Mrs. Atkinson.
:$ht operator is now on the day shift
[with Miss Edna Mart.
MAYOR HANSON DECLARES
WILL SWEAR IN 10,000 MEN
FOR PROTECTION OFTHE CITY
Strikers Official Organ Declares Strike Will
Be Most Tremendous Move Ever
Made In ThisCountry
SEATTLE, Feb. 5:—Mayor Ole Hanson declared this morning
that if it is necessary to protect the lives and property of the
people of Seattle,he will swear in ten thousand civilian special
policemen, to patrol the city which will he mapped out in dis
tricts, with a certain amount of police for each district.
The Union Record, the official organ of the labor organiza
tions here on the front page leader says, “Labor is shutting
down Seattle’s industries and Labor will re-open them under its
own management.” It states further that the strike effective
Thursday morning at ten o’clock will be, “the most tremendous
move ever made in this country, a move which will lead no one
knows where.”
The strike situation is growing worse hourly. Leading busi
i ness men in the community, with cool heads and patriotic heart
■ see in it nothing short of attempted revolution. Conditions
have been put up to the President and the cabinet by local fed
eral officials andpublic men in a series of lengthy telegrams
The strikers say, “there shall be no lights either in the streets,
| homes or hospitals, we shall make no exemptions whatever,”
quoting Leon Green, business agent for the electrical workers,
./.-i’jrihis Mayor Hanson has replied, “The city light plant is go
ing to operate and there will be lights on the streets, in the
hospitals and homes,”
I The strikers have appealed to the miners of the states to close
down coal mines and other mining industry. No answer thus far
! has been given to the appeal.
The central labor Council tonight in issuing a formal call will
have issued it for the first really general strike the United States
: has ever known.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 5:—Chairman Piez, director-gen
eral of the Emergency Fleet corporation is considering the sub
mission of a proposal or compromise affecting the Seattle ship
j yard strike which contemplate their return to work and settle
i ment by arbitration. However, it is the belief of all interna
tional leaders and representatives of the Department of Labor
i ihat this proposal will not avert the general strike in Seattle.
MEMORIAL SERVICE
FOR ROOSEVELT
SUNDAY NIGHT
In compliance with the request of
the Natonal Council of Defense, re
I questing all States, county communi
ty and municipal councils of defense
! to do everything possible to make
j successful the nation-wide arrange
ment for a memorial service for Theo
dore Roosevelt on February 9, at the
j same time that services are held by
j Congress, Rev. C. M. Van Marter lias
I announced today that the local mem
I orlal service will be held at Red Men
; Hall here Sunday. Feb. 9, at 7:30 p.m.
The Council of Defense, by direc
ition of Secretary Baker, has sent out
i telegrams to all local councils which
j reads in part as follows:
| “Because of the peculiarly non-par
• tisan character of the great Council
! of Defense system,’’ said the telegram.
I “it is singularly fitting that the f°re
; going action should be taken. The
■ honoring of Theodore Roosevelt is a
matter thattranscends party belief
i and personal prejudice. He lived
1 greatly for America and that is en
ough to justify even those who op
i scsed him in mourning his death.’’
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According to rd by way of Ams
! erdam, the latest imperial order to
Gemisnd in regard to clothing in that
' henceforth coats shal be unlined in
the back and >ined on'y halfway down
the front. And with pneumonia creep
| ing into the system through a chilled
I back more often than not. Where is
i German medical efficiency?
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The extent to which the people of
|’he United States ar„ lending money
| to the government indicates that in
I spite of the high cost of living many
of them are saving and investing
more than they did before.
Since the telephone girls are rorbid
den to tell the time father is again
'earning how to wind the clock just
| before going to bed.
ALASKANS
STAMPEDE
FOR HOME
Steamers Leaving Today
for north carrying
capacity number of
Passengers
SEATTLE, Feb. 5:—Alaskans in
Seattle are displaying a feverish
anxiety to return north before the
strike goes into effect here. The
steamships Alaska and City of Seattle
sailing today have a total of two hun
dred and ninehy passengers. The
City of Seattle is sailing two days in
advance of her regular schedule be
cause of a shortage of supplies in the
Lynn Canal district also because the
strikers might bP able to prevent her
departure.
ARCHIE SMITH ON
BOARD S. S. ALASKA
Mr and Mrs. C. A. Smith have just
received a wire this morning inform
ing them that their son Archie was
on board the steamer Alaska on his
way back to Ketchikan. Archie
Snvth was one of the Ketchikan boys
who enlisted, after he had not been
called in the draft, going north to
Haines with the drafted boys, then
to Camp Dodge.
COUNCIL MEETING
THIS EVENING
There will be a meeting of the
council at the council chambers this
evening at the usual hour. Import
ant business.