VOLUME FOUR
Ketchikan, Alaska. Tuesday March 25, 1919
Number 133
PEACE COMMISSION WORRIED
BRITISH MONITORS ARRIVE AT BUDAPEST
AMENDMENTS ARE
ADDED TO LEAGUE
MEETS OBJECTIONS
Peace Delegates Worried Over Situation In Eastern
Europe and It Is Realized That A Check
Must Be Placed On Bolshevism
PARIS, Mar. 2a.—The peace conference amendments to the
League of Nations' constitution will meet at least fifty per
cent of the objections of the American senators, it is declared
today.
The JtigoSlav delegates to the conference say that the Bol
sheviki movement in Hungary is very apt to spread over Ru
mania and Poland and measures should he taken at once to stop
the menace.
The peace delegates here are extremely worried over the sit
uation in eastern Europe and it is ralized that they must check
the spread of Bolshevism. Conferences are now being held
daily by President Wilson, Lloyd George, Clemenceau and Or
lando until the question of the Franco-German and Italian-Jugo
K!av frontiers have been defined.
According to advices received today by the American dele
gates from the American commissions in German-Austria, that
country is badly torn up by Bolshevism.^
YVAStlUNGlUiN, V. L., Mar. 2a.—Senator liorah declared
here today that Japan will attain her great objective of over
turning the immigration laws of the United States if the League
of Nations constitution is adopted as it is now drafted. i
RAILS LAID ON
ICE ACROSS TANANA
Nenana, (By Mail.).—On the ice a
cross the Tanana River at Nenaaa
track has been laid by the govern
ment railroad. The rails over the froz
en stream extend from Nenana, which
is on the south side of the river, a
cross the waterway to its north side.
The main channel of the Tanana riv
er at Nenana is about 800 feet wide;
but on account of the approaches a
bout 1500 feet of railroad were re
quired to be put down.
Laying of track and operation of
trains cn ice, while unusual, present
nothing new in railroading. Such was
dene years ago at Duluth. Minn., on
Lake Superior.
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CAPTAIN “JOCK”
FALLS DOWN HATCH
AND IS INJURED
Captain “Jock” Livingston of the
steamer Jefferson is lying in the hos
pital in Juneau with several broken
ribs, some internal injuries and a
long face, the result of an accident
which occurred shortly after the Jeff
erson left Ketchikan on her last trip
north,
The genial Captain in seme way fell
down a hatch on the ship and on the
arrival cf the ship at Juneau, lie was
rushed to the hospital where an exam
ination revealed serious injuries. On
the retur^i of the Jefferson from Skag
way, he seemed to bo resting easier
the officers reported and the ship is
under the command of Pilot Simpson.
CITY OF SEATTLE SAILS
SEATTLE, Mar. 2g.—The ity of Se
attle sailed for the north this morning
at ten o'clock with two hundred and
forty-two passengers, largely crews
for canneries Passengers for Ketchi
kan are Miss E. Faust, F, E, Patching
and wife, John Johnson and wife,
John Mannes, Ed. Migney, Holmes
Hogdahl. W, J, Cheney, and thirty
steerage.
MOVEMENTS OF BOATS
Southbound
Northbound
City of Seattle Thursday
Princess Friday.
Alaska Saturday 29.
Jefferson Sunday.
When the troops return we shal‘
hear just how some of thg socks wr
knitted fit,
Ketchikan Pajamas
Distributed In
Belgrade, Servia
Ketchikaners in general and Red
Cross workers in particular will be
-nore than interested to learn that
some of the material turned out by
the local workers is playing an import
ant part in the present Hungarian re
volution, according to a notation made
cn a shipping notice by a Red Cross
Wo'ker now in Belgrade, Servia. The
notice accompanied a box containing
"0 suits of pajamas.
Cant. L„ B Fenner, of the Ameri
can Red Cross, formerly of Burwell.
Nebraska, now in Belgrade, writes:
“I gave these goods to people in Bel
giade, Servia, and thought you would
be g’ad to know that they were given
out to people who needed them badly.
These people are in a terrible condi
tion, especially for clothes. We are.
doing all we can, Your box helps.”
This small note from far away Ser
via, from one who is in the midst of
the gigantic task of trying to extr eate
*he war-ridden peoples of eastern Eu
rope fom the horrible condition into
which they have been cast, brings
home the appeal for clothing more
forcibly than any poster or stirring
appeal written by the best writer in
America, and is especially timely.
This week the Red Cross drive fori
c'd clothing is on, also the Spring
drive for Refugee garments. Think
of that little note above, and let the
♦bought make all Ketchikaners who
are able, do their bit again towards
a’ltviating the suffering of the people
of Europe.
TRAVELERS HERE
Among the guests at the Stedj
man frnm the North today are
H. J. Noble for the National Gro
-*«rv Co., W. l^L Whee’er of the
Nut House, A. Van Mavern of
the Wesjt Coast Grocery. At the
j Revilla fire J. H. Nichoalds of
Vrmcun& Company, Sam.Guyot
j of Fisher Brothers and Sam Ba
ker of the Western Drygoods &
| Company.
j
J. D. He’ps Alaska manager
| for the Standard Oil Company,
was an arrival on the Jefferson
from the north and will be in
town on business till the nexti
northbound steamer. He is at
the Revila._
Niw it seems that German effi
ciency was only skin deep.
Polgium occupies a comparatively
sma’I space on the map, but will take
a big place la hlxtery. I
FOOD TO GO ON
TOBOGGAN SOON
WASHINGTON, Mar. 25. — Chair
man Peck of the Industrial bureau of
the Department of Commerce declar
ed today that food prices will soon
get on a toboggan and take a long
slide down, and that the days of mate
rially cheaper food were near.
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HONOLULU. Mar. 25,—At least 75
per cent of the 3600 men recently dis
cnargca trom the army nere are
still idle, according to reports from
the outlying islands and are spending
:!• :>• savings in the small towns before
returning to wo k The sugar plant
ers have been short of labor since the
selective service act went into effect.
ALASKANS SAIL
FROM FRANCE ON
THEIR WAY HOME
WASHINGTON, D. C. Mar, 25, —
Alaskan troops in the Fortieth and
Ninety-First of “Wild West” Divi
sions have sailed from France, ac
cording to word received today oy
the War Department
Major General William H, Johnson,
is in command of the ninety-first. Two
sergeants received the congressional
medal cf honor and nealy 80 distin
guished service crosses were awarded
officers and men for extraordinary
heroism by General Pershing person
ally.
ASSASSINS
PLOTTING TO
KILL KAISER
Guards About House And
Grounds Are Being
Increased
AMERONGEN, Holland, Mar. 25,—
Guards have been doubled again a
bout the house and grounds of Count
Rentinck, host to the former Emper
or Wilhelm of Germany It is known
there are several plots on foot to as
sassinate him and efforts are new be
ing made to remove the former kaiser
to another sanctuary. He protests a
eainst being held in Holland where he
declares the weatner is disatreeabie
and wishes tc go to a warmer climate.
CHINA TO HAVE
AIR SERVICE
PEKIN. China, Mar. 25—A Chinese
mercantile aerial service is to be in
augurated here this month it was an
nounced today The ministry of com
munications signed a contract recent
ly with a Pekin syndicate for several
'oreign made airplanes. The machines
will be capable of making 100 miles an
hour and of carrying 20 passengers
or cargo of equivalent weight.
MRS. WEIGLE HOSTESS
Mrs. W. G. Weigle entertained a
number of her girl friends at dinner
’«st evening at five o’clock. Covers
were laid tor six, tne guests being
the Misses Corinne King, Martha Fost
ness, Claire Buor, Inabelle Hawk, and
Irene uuHamel. Mr. weigle, forest
supervisor for Alaska is out of town
on official business on the Tahn,
MRS, HENDRICKSON BACK
Mrs. K, M, Hendrickson was an ar
rival from Haines yesterday on the
Jefferson after a month's visit north
with her daughter, Mrs. Wm, Winston,
Mrs. Hendrickson reports that Mr.
Winstcn expects his discharge very
soon now and they hope to return to
Ketchikan on the City of Seattle,
with the new baby daughter who ar
rived at the Winston home during
Mrs. Hendrickson’s visit.
The Nansing and Half Moon cleared
today for sea fisheries. The Half
Mocn arrived from B, C.
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Gecrgo Stinson, of Juneau is regia
,Brod a:. the Stedman today, arriving
from the north yesterday.
More of the mighty have fallen
The flu is no longer even a minor
topic of conversation.
Admiral Auatin M. Knight.
WILL GIVE MEDALS
WASHINGTON. D. C., Mar, 25—The
Navy Department has announced the
appointment of a board of -ward to
consider the cases of all officers re
i commended to receive medals for dis
! iinguished service in the war. The
-oard is headed bp Rear-Admiral Aus
'-'n M. Knight and includes in its per
so^nel Rear-Admirals M. T. Endicott,
Charles J Eadger and Dewitt Coff
nan. »■
SINN FEINER ESCAPES
DUBLIN, ar. 25.—R, C. Bartin, rep
i resenting West Wicklow, in the
,~louse of Commons has escaped from
‘he Mount Joy prison in Dublin by sub
stituting a dummy in his bed- He es
"aoed by sawing his way thru the
bars of the window. He was fcrmer
i 'v an cfficer of the Dublin Fusiliers
j but quit the Army and joined the
j Sinn Feiners.
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PROHIBITION AIDS GOFFEE
! SAN JUAN. P. R.,—The coffee
! shortage has created more suffering
*o the people of the island than even
♦he rice shortage of last fall. The cost
of the home grown coffee has gone up
to 50 cents a pound, a far higher rate
than people in the United States pay
'or their coffee.
The reasons are several. One is
'hat the last crop was very short, An
'■her has been the resumption of the
oxport trade. Before the world war
'main bought the Porto Rican surplus
almost in its entirety, but during the
var there were shipments only to the
j United States. Now the Spanish de
mand has been renewed.
Anotner cause is me entorcement
f the prohibition laws that went in
o effect in March, 1918, which in
creased the drinking of coffee mate
rially.
The more drastic enforcement of
his law, which is now being conduct
-d by federal and insular officials, is
->xoected to increase the demand for
-effco as the difficulty of obtaining
other drinks increases.
BOATS ARE SUBSTI
TUTED FOR SLEDS
Anchorage. (By Mail.)—To facili
tate traffic on the route of the gov
ernment railroad between Seward and
*nchorasre. the Alaskan Engineering
Commission has put into service on
Turnagaiu Arm its power launch Al
aska and its barge Knik. These
-rafts operate between Kern, which is
Mile 71 on the line of the railroad,
and Bird, which is Mile 83. Track
'•>hjch is close to the shore of Turn
again Arm between rtern and bird
!s covered with numerous snowslides
rnd travelers and freight some time
wreetransported over this blockaded
•’art of the railroad in dog and horse
sleds.
SOUTH ON BUSINESS
Martin J. Bugge, of the Stedman
Hotel was a southbound passenger on
the Jefferson yesterday on a short
business trip to Seattle and expects
to return on the same steamer if pos
sible.
Gec-ge and Lewis Alexander, prom
inent cannerymen of Port Walter, are
l.s town on business and are register
ed at the Revilla.
i -.9 u tested States navy emerges
from the war just as it went in, with
colors flying, only more so.
HUMBOLDT SS, CO,
TO BUY NEW SHIP
SEATTLE, Mar. 25.—Mr, Kalish,
president of the Humboldt Steamship
Company, writing to parties in Seat
tle from San Francisco, asserts that
the Humboldt Steamship company
will not disincorporate out intends to
buy or build another vessel for the
southeastern Alaska trade.
PARIS, Mar. 25.—According to a
compilation made by the “Stars and
Stripes” the official organ of the A
merican army in France, foreign med
'als to the number of 9,383 have been
awarfied to members of the American
expeditionary*, forces up to Feb. 26,
1919.
TO USE RELICS
OF WAR IN NEXT
VICTORY LOAN
POSTON, Mar. 25.—Chester I, Camp
bell director-general of the allied war
exposition, has announced that 35
trainloads of war relics have been as
sembled and will be shipped to vari
ous parts of the country for use in
connection with the victory loan cam
■'aie-n which opens April 21.
me collection win include tanks,
big guns, machine guns, airplanes and£
other devices used by the allied and'
German armies.
Prince Eitel Frederich
Wants Divorce From
Princess Charlotte
COPENHAGEN. Mar. 25, — The
Kliene Journal of Berlin, in a late is
sue declares that Prince Eitei Fred
erich, second son of the former Ger
man Emperor has filed a suit for di
vorce from his wife, Princess Sophie
Charlotte, who before her marriage in
19C6, was the Grand Duchess of Old
enburg.
It is alleged that the Prince chare
’s his wife with infidelity before the
war and had attemoted to begin pro
ceedings once before but his' father
vetoed the plan He has no children
Prince Eitei Frederich is the second
son of the emperor to bring divorce
r ocesdinus, the Crown Prince having
fjled suit for divorce, alleging aban
donment, against the former Crown
Princess Cecelie, recently.
WRANGELL INDIAN
DIES AGED 76
WRANGELL, Mar. 25,—Tom Tam
aree, aged 76, died here last night.
He was one of the well educated na
tives cf this city and had been
church interpreter for a good many
years He is survived by a widow.
SHERMAN L. WHIPPLE
Among those mentioned as possi
ble successors to Attorney Genera!
Gregory, is Sherman L. Whipple of
Boston, who for the last six month
has teen general counsel for tln
Emergency Fleet corporation.
Russian and Hungarian Soviet Governments Have
Called For A Worid Wide Uprising of the
Proletariat Says Late Report
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 25.—The first cfikial reports
received by the State Department today on fV Hungarian situ
ation show a veryserious condition existing in tnat country.
BERLIN, Mar. 25.—According to advices received in Berlin
today from Budapest, the Russian and Hungarian Soviet gov
ernments have called for a world wide uprising of the proletariat.
PARIS, Mar. 25.—Two British monitors h e arrived at
Budapest after being fired at enrcute as thrv proceeded along
<i he-Danube river to the Hungarian capital from Belgrade.
BERNE, Switz., Mar. 25. — The Russian Bclsheviki army is
en its way to Hungary to fight the entente allied forces there.
The army has arrived at Brody, fifteen miles east of Lemburg,
pcland, today, say dispatches received here.
Railroad Completes
Loggmg Operations
Anchorage, (By Mail).—Logging op
erations, conducted by the Alaska En
gineering Commission in the neighbor
hood of Mile 88 on Turnagain Arm,
will be completed within the next few
.weeks. Sufficient logs have been cut
this winter to make about 1,000,000
feet of lumber. The logs will be put
‘hrough the Commission’s saw mill
at Mile 88.
The lumber next summer will be
’sed for bridges and snow sheds on
the A.nchcrage-Seward line of the gov
ernment railroad.
Drill Shoves Boulders In
to Sand
Anchorage, (By Mail).—Soundings
rcr *lie proposed government railroad
bridge across the Susitna river, 150
: miles north c' Anchorage, disclose a
'•rein"ic form? ion that worries con
struction engineers. txtremeiy tine
sand, in which are mixed large boul
ders. constitutes the bed of the stream
and at a depth of thirty feet the
soundinq drill has not yet reached
bed rock.
Tf e boulders refuse to resist the
drill. Instead, when they are touched
i by it they sink into the loose sand.
URGENT NEED OF CLOTHING
FOR THOUSANDS OF REFUGEES
A Final effort to help clothe the thousands of fatherless,
homeless, friendless children, the women who are left destitute
and the men who will be busy reclaiming’ the devastated areas
.if Europe, (except the Central Powers.) This is to supplement
the work of the women of Europe.
WHO—Every Red Cross worker in every Chapter, Branch
and Auxiliary in the Northwestern Division, including Seniors,
Tuniors and everyone who is free to help with the work.
— Anytime betwen now and tne rirst ot June—the
earlier the better. Garments afe being cut out now, ready to
send cut.
WHERE—The work may be done in the individual homes, in
the schools or in the Red Cross work rooms,
HOW—All materials supplied free of charge to the Chapter
together with the finding3 and everything necessary for the
work. Materials should he secured by work.. rrom Chapters.
Kind Of Garments Wanted
Only the simpler garments similar to those i cent allot
ments are to be asked for and these will be out at Division
CuttingDepartment unless the Chapter prefers to do > own
cutting, or unless it is thought better and quicker to r the
uncut materials. So far as possible, the Chapters will be n
their choice of garments within Ihe limitations of obtaink i
certain percentage of each kind of garment.
NUMBER—Just as many as the workers think they can por
sihlv do within the specified time. “The sky is the limit.” The
Refugees need all that we can furnish. Make what you think
enough, then double it.
NECESSITY—“The need,” says one cablegram, “is greater
than we at home can possibly realize. Every article furnished
will give warmth to a body which otherwise would lack clothin
and t. h garment will prevent actual suffering.
Factories wil! be asked to make the more difficult garment .
The wc en of Europe will be sent materials for as much won.
as they can possibly do, in addition to the other work that is ab >
lately necessary, in re-establishing their homes and helping tl e
men prepare the fields for this season’s crops. It must be bori .
in mind, however, that thousands of these families are horn
less, without any facilities for making clotl ing and the Amer
can Red Cross feels its responsibility in furnishing garmen .
for those who cannot get them in these other ways.
• Local Work To Be Completed
r The Red Crass workrooms of Ketchikan will bo open this wee
on Friday only from 3 to 4 o’clock for the distribution of wori
ing material and receiving of completed garments. Knitting i
the most necessary at present and wool cm b3 obtained fc.
r wcaters, shawls, scarfs, and stockings. The stocking legs ai
made by machine and knitters need only k r It the feet on, a
well as a bit of ribbing at the top of the stocking.
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