The Alaska citizen., 1916-06-12

II aidr,ssiny the honor graduate, at the National Cathedral school saui that the flag meant America first an undivided allegiance and nt ton united and equal to it's tasks"
 STORM REPORTS
 MEMPHIS. June 7-Reports Tg Ceiyed in this city have increased the number oi known dead as th" result of the tornado which swept this part of the country to 16e, and hourly communicat Is beinG re-estahlished with the damaged dis trict showing a great increase. bot iii the number of lives lost ill the number of injured and in th. property damage
 ST LOUIS. June The revised list of deaths and missing people since last Saturdays tornado shows that there are at least 150 tha, cannot be accounted for.
 In Poplar Bluff alone 90 people were killed and a number of ot9ers Were seriously hurt. The list of l50 includes those missing in iliirois, Arkansas and Missouri.
 LEFT stoO0o, 900. ST. PAUL June Ct became known today that James ] Hill. the railroad man, left no will. The widow has been petitioned to allow Louis W Hill. his son. to be named administrator.
 In the preliminary estimate of the value Of the estate inc heirs fixed it at approximately $l0.000.- coo In life it was fiNeI at a guar Ter of a billion dollars
 EAGLES CONVENE. CHICAGO. June 7.-The eleventh annual convention of the Eagle 1 lodges in the State of Illinois con yened in this city today Two hun dred Eagles reached here today in special train.
 TROUBLE IN CHINA. WASHINGTON D C.. June B. According to a dispatch received from Tien Tsin, China. it is said that the United States troops there have been ordered to hold them selves in readiness to proceed to Picking without delay
 The French authorities have al ready dispatched a strong force of native troops from the French pro tectorate at Annam to Picking. It | k feared that there will be seri -us unrisins now that the preei dent Yuan shi Kal, has died and here is no other man strong enough 10 handle the situation.
 STRIKE OVER. SAN FRANCISCO. June 9.-The J0ngshorpmpn's Tnlon has agreed to truce and are now going to work at ad tancpd wages, set accord. ing to their demands, until such time as the matter is arbitrated All of the ships in the harbor Of San Francisco have begun to take on their cargoes.
 NEW MAN NAMED
 WASHINGTON. D. C.. June g. It was announced today that Anere Sato former Japanese ambassador to Austria has been named as the sue cessor of Ambassador Chinda. who is going to represent this country at the court of St James.
 BIG PARADE EXPECTED
 SEATTLE. June 9.-It is expected that between 35.000 and 10000 peo- pie will parade here tomorrow in the great preparedness demonstra- ton that will be held in this city. The city employees will take part in the parade each department be ing represented
 NEW COINAGE WASHINGTON D c, June g Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo has announced that new ten-cent twenty-five-cent and fifty-cent coin age would soon be put out. It will how liberty with a shield uDraisad in an attitude of defense and will be part of the preparedness propa- eanda which the Democratic party will launch immediately.
 HIS PLATFORM. WASHINGTON, D. C., June g. President Wilson has practically completed the draft of the Demo cratic platform which he will have submitted to the Democratic party at the convention in St. Louis which opens next Wednesday.
 The principal plank of the plat form will be the praise that is be- slowed upon the administration for the very able and efficient manner in which they have handled the trying and difficult international crisis and the excellent work that has been done in keeping the Unit ed States out of war without sacri- ficing the honor and the integrity of the country.