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st. Louis Cash Grain.

st. Louis, Mo, March 20.-Wheat:
No. red winter, 1.45@1.46; No. 3,
1.36@1.43.
Corn: No. 2 yellow, 591A; No. 8,
So.
Oats: No. 2 white, 3s1a @4O; No.
8, 3S@3S1a.
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Chicago Produce.

Chicago, March 20.-Butter: I'm
changed; creamery extras, 80;
irsts, 34@38; seconds, 31@33;
standards, 3S12.
Eggs: Higher: RECEIPTS, 16,625
cases; firsts, 23@2313; ordinary
frsts, 21622; miscellaneous. 20
023.
Poultry: Alive, higher; fowls,
Is; springs, 26; roosters, 10.
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LiUe Stock
Chicago Livestock.

Chicago, March 20.-Cattle re-
ceipts. $4,000; beef steers. 15c to
Csc higher; early top, $50; bulk,
7-50@8.50; fat she-stock, stockers
and feeders, 15c to Csc higher; can
ners and cutters and bulls. strong
to 15c higher; veal calves, steady
Hog receipts, $4,000; largely 10c
to zoe higher than Saturdays aver
age; lights up most: lighter
weights, active, others slow; big
packers holding back; top, 1850;
bulk. 1000@1050; pigs, mostly 25c
higher; bulk desirable 100 to 1870
Founders, 9.00G10G0.
Sheep receipts, $4,000; generally
steady; top wooled lambs, 1915;
bulk. 15.00@15.75; top shorn lambs
tearly). 1900; top fat wooded ewes,
9.75; top shorn. SITS; choice shear
ing lambs, 1866.
Prices for livestock in Chicago yester-
day were:
HOGS
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LEGAL.
PUBLIC NOTICE.

PUBLIC NOTICE.
sste OF Illinois. County of Rock Island. So.
Take Notice: That o sale of land and
soss Tor taxes and assessments duly made
n the County and State aforesaid. A. T.
ggseTart purchased the 23rd day of
, ~ 1920. the following property: South
a. RODS Of fractional Southwest of Section
n ~ North Range, two west of the 4th
=; NJ. situated In the County and State
soresaid, for the delinquent taxes levied
&c assessed thereon for the year 1919
.n said premises were taxed for said
-, ,sG IN the name of Ira Long and the
s IN, of redemption thereof from said sale
wi expire on the 23d day of June, 1922.
A. J. STEWART
redemption should be made at the Of
- OF the County Clerk.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-20
Chicago Potatoes.

Chicago, March 20. - Potatoes:
Weak; receipts, 80 cars; total
United States shipments, 1877 cars;
Wisconsin, sacked. round whites,
1.5o@170 cwt: ditto. bulk, 1909
LIS: Wisconsin, sacked, Kings, 1.50
cwt: Minnesota, sacked. round
whites, 1501160 cwt; Idaho, sack
ed, rurals, 170@1S0 cwt: Idaho,
sacked, mixed white variety, LIS
cwt.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-20
st. Louis Futures.

St. Louis, Mo, March 20.-Wheat:
May, 1876; July, 1.171a.
Corn: May 601s; July, 62B.
Oats: May, 391s; July, 4111.
Minneapolis, Mimi, March 90
Flour: Unchanged
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-20
Peoria Cash Grain.

Peoria, ILL.,. March 20.-Corn: Re-
ceipts, SO cars; 12c higher; No.
yellow, 5SA; No. white, 81.
Oats: Receipts, Is cars; I'M
changed; No. 4 white, 35k @35%.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-20
Weather Forecast

Illinois: Mostly cloudy in north ;
probably fair in south portion to-
night and Tuesday; not mucn
change in temperature.
Missouri: Generally fair tonight
and Tuesday; not much change in
temperature.
wisconsin: Mostly cloudy tonight
and Tuesday; probably light snow
in north portion; not much change
in temperature.
Iowa: Unsettled tonight; Tues
day probably fair; not much
change in temperature.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-20
Bar Silver.

New York, March 20.-Foreign
bar silver .64A; Mexican dollars.
.495s.
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Toledo Seed.

Toledo, Ohio. March 20.-Clover
seed: Prime, cash, 1915; March.
1910; April, 1450; october, 11-80.
Timothy: Prime, cash, 3-b;
March. Sis: NAY. IA
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way of the Panama canal, is $3.50
miles.
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Local Stocks

Quota ions furnished by A. G. Cochrane
Co., 300 Best Bldg)
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An the news an the ttme-The
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HARDING SLIPS
BONUS BUCK TO
CONCRESSMEN

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The Alaska daily empire., 1922-03-18
Europeans Are Sprucing Up
Bathtubs Now in Demand

u tSHfNGTON. March 18-Europe
is turning from Red Sundays and
Bl ok Fridays to White Saturday
n.grt+. She has doubled her importa-
ton OF American bathtubs and acces.
so~ies since before the war.
Nc. withstandicg the fact that for
eiGn trade generally has fallen off
or ly. the United States exported
81 527 900 worth of bathtubs and fix
tures in 1921. according to r. A.
Lund Iuist. chief Of the specialties d.
v.-.cn of the Department of Com
meEce.
And brushes to the value of s1,109,-
O00 were sent to Europe last year, as
cor-ared with $475.917. Europe is
shining up. too. with unprecedented
vigor. for $1,325 900 worth of black
ing. shoe paste and polish were sent
over as against $697.711 worth the
We b 'ore she went to war
Evidently she lost lot of buttons
in what Sergeant Alvin York so aptly
terms "hai turr'ble dispute" She
imported $1.O23.000 worth. compared
with s77s.744 worth in 1913.
BURGLARY evidently has been flour
febsng. rsr $s.195 900 worth of locks
were imported; in 1913 Europe spent
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-03-18
TAYLOR MURDER
CASE CLUES Are
FALSE REPORTS
Detectives Search for Two
Former British Soldiers
Wanted in Case.
ALLEGED THREATS ON
TAYLOR'S LIFE MADE
District Attorneys Office Ex-
plodes Reports-M Men
Not Implicated.

LOS ANGELES, Cal, March is.
reports were received
here this forenoon that two men
wanted in connection with the muir
der of William d. Taylor, movie, di-
rector, in Los Angeles, on February
3. have been arrested at Mexicali,
Lower California.
Detectives are said to have been
searching for more than week the
Lower California district for the
two former Canadian soldiers VINO
were in Taylor's command during
The war. The detectives declare they
received information that the sold
iers threatened Taylor's life be-
cause he had them punished while
in the service.
Late this afternoon the District
Attorneys office exploded the report
that former Canadian war veterans
had been arrested at MeXicali in
connection with the Taylor case. The
detectives returned this afternoon
empty-handed after interviewing the
men. They had no connection with
the Staying of the movie director.
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-03-18

only $1,5SS,365 in America for locks
Sports-loving Yanks left their mark,
for 81, 252 900 worth of athletic and
sporting goods were bought from the
United States, as compared with
$257, 401 in the year before the World
War
Racers to the value of $2,125.000
were imported, as against only $445,-
sos worth in the antebellum year.
Firearms fell from $3.920.00S to
$2.01S. 900, indicating that the indi-
vidual European is well fed up on
that sort ,.: thing.
A rapidly increasing thirst for
knowledge and information is shown
by the increase in simportations OF
printing presses. typesetting machines
and typewriters from s15.516,3S0 to
$23.634.OOO.
Talking machine records and parts
increased from s2.792,0O0 to s3,s7O.-
900: cameras from 1906, 23e to 81
325, 900.
Regardless of her troubles, Europe
Is in a more playful mood. for she
bought s2.023.OO0 worth of toys last
year. as compared with sS13.364 the
year before the war.
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-03-18
PROTEST AGAINST PLAN

Efforts to secure a modification OF
the abandonment plans for the War
Department are being made, accord
ing to Acting Gov. Karl Theile. Mr.
Theile said that the abandonment of
Fort Cibbon would be a severe blow
to the interior and that the Yukon
River post should be maintained at
least for the present. If the War De
partment is convinced of the neces-
sity for discontinuing some of its
stations, Fort Ctbbon should be the
last to be shut down. he said
This view of the matter has been
communicated by wire to Governor
Bone in Washington. 1t was suggest
ed to him that if it is a question OF
at r'c~t1g cithar Fort Gibbon or
St Michael. the lottcr post is the
logical one TO close as it does not
uendor neor the service to the coun-
try 90 'ret aerformed by the one at
thu confluence CT the Tanana and
Yukon Rivers.
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-03-18
SINGING SWAN
SONG OF WHITE
PASS & YUKON
General Agent Of English
Railroad Tries to Show
Fallacy of Rates.

SEATTLE. March IS. = John L..
Burnside, General Agent of the
White Pass e. Yukon Route today
attacked the statements attributed
to William Gerig, Assistant Engineer
of the Government Railroad in AL
aska, and denied that the new
freight rates to Interior Alaska will
make the reduction as claimed.
II note that Gerig said as an ex-
& mple of what the new tariff means
to Alaska consider the rate on gro
ceries, said Burnside. "At present,
If you ship a carload of groceries
from Seattle or Tacoma to Nenana
or Fairbanks, by the mouth of the
Yukon. or by Skagway, the gateway
of water and rail. the rates total
$40 per ton. This cargo is on a
weigh: or measurement basis option.
which means the steamship COM
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-03-18
Cars Held on Liquor Charge
Silly Thing Says Officers

SPOKANE. Wash, March 49,
Though out OF Jail on $4,000 bonds.
an electric locomotive and freight
car operated by the Spokane & East
ern Railway e. Power Company over
the company's interurban lines must
be produced in the Federal court in
SDckane in May. when it is expected
the railway COMPANY viii be tried for
alleged transportation Of liquor Fed
eral officers claim to have found
five cases of liquor in the car at
Colflx recently.
ITS silly" declared Waldo Paine.
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-03-18
TWO FORTS IN
ALASKA ARE TO
Be ABANDONED
Fort Liscum, Near Valdez,
and Fort Gibbons on
Yukon, Are to Go.
REDUCTION in ARMY
FORCES REASON GIVEN
Detachment at Anchorage
Will Be Increased Shortly
Is Claim Made.

SEATTLE, March ia special
dispatch from Washington says that
because of the impending reduction
in the size Of the United States
army, also to work out economics, the
General Staff is preparing to make
changes in the army stations in Al
aska.
II is indicated that Fort Liscum,
near Valdez, and Fort Gibbons, on the
Yukon, may be abandoned.
The Fort st. Michael establishment
will be retained.
A detachment of soldiers will be
maintained at Nenana until the rail-
road bridge is completed there, then
the detachment will be moved to An
choragc, where larger force Of SOL
diers will be maintained than here
tofore.
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-03-18

traffic manager of the ecu any. in
commenting on the temporlry relat'e
from custody Of the car 'Ths Lax
was meant to cover only aufon hiles
in which liqror is trsasne-sed A
similar case in which a Pullman car
was involved was tried recently and
the case dismissed.
Bond for the release OF the Law
breaking rolling stock VS. nest,i
personally by the officers ~ he essi-
pany The freight car j. he nroNe-'y
Of the Great Northern r 4rwsp., t. IS
said. but II is on the Spokane 4
Eastern rails.
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-03-18
HERRING RATES
TO EAST GIVEN
Good REDUCTION
Rates on Picked Product
from Seattle to Chicago
Extended Eastward.

SEATTLE, March 1S.-The local
railway offices have been advised
that the transcontinental railroads
have granted. effective on April "a, a
reduction in the rates elstbound of
picked herring shipments.
Under the rates. the present rate
OF 95 cents hundred pounds, Puget
Sound 10 Chicago. will be extended to
Pittsburgh and Buffalo districts.
Later the same rate may probably
be extended to New York and At
lantic Coast points.
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-03-18
Entire Matter Will Be Dis
cussed with Harding
Tomorrow Night.
ROOT CHARGED WITH
DRAFTING BIG TREATY
Senator Watson Discusses Pa
ci6c Pact in Speech
in Senate.

WASHINGTON. March 18. - The
Republican House leaders expect to
confer with Preside1t Harding to-
morrow night regarding procedure
IN handling the COMPROMISE seldfefss
bonus bin. They are hopeful he
will approve of the plan under sus-
pension of the rules.
1t is understood the Republican
leaders do not favor calling a con-
ference as suggested by Representa-
tive Dineberger, OF California, until
after talking the matter over with
the President
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-03-18
Jury in Obenchain Case
Is Still Delibera!ing

jury in the case of Mrs Madalynne
Obenchain, charged with completely
in the murder of J. Bolton Kennedy,
which took the case yesterday noon
was still celebrating this. morning
1t is reported the jury is divided. 9
to 3. on the guilt of the woman. The
jury has asked for certain transcripts
in the testimony to be read
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-03-18
Lure Of Gold Causes
Many to Go on Stampede

WILLIAMS LAKE. b. C.. March IS
Attracted by the lure Of gold new
Corners are appearing in droyes. al
sncw. to stake claims on Cedar Greek.
Quesneed district. Stree the discov-
cry Of gold on Cedar Creek last year
all land within 10 miles of the dis
covery claim has been staged.
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-03-18
FOUR POWER TREATY.

WASHINGTON, y. G., March ID.
United States Senator Thomas f..
Watson, in speech in the Senate
power behind the drafting OF the
four power Pacific treaty. Senator
Watson said that Root, because of
his international relations was the
influence in forcing the American
delegation to the Arms Conference
to agree to the treaty as substitute
for the Anglo-Japanese alliance.
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-03-18
CLAIMS ENDORSEMENT.

WASHINGTON, D. G., March Is.
United States Senator Wesley l..
Jones, o Washington, addressing the
Senate this afternoon predicted con-
tirma by the people nxet Nov en-
Der OF the verdict of the last cleo
ton Senator Jones asserted that
the work which the Republican
party had been able to accomplish
was done despite the heritage of the
las: administration and persistent
Democrat obstructionists tactics.
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-03-18
ZEPPELIN AIR
LINE SERVICE
NEW PROPOSAL
Seven Day Schedule Between
Hamburg and Frisco by
Way Of North Pole.

BERLIN, March 18.-An interest
ing project for connecting of San
Francisco with Hamburg in seven
days. with day and half stop
over Ell route has been laid before
the aerial navigation department of
Washington.
Details of the plans which have
been divulged by Walter L. Bruins,
former Zeppelin commander, has
aroused much interest, not only In
German scientific circles, which
have to do with every phase of
aerial navigation, but with Amer
lean military aerial representatives
here as well.
To Fly Over North Pole.
The most unique feature OF the
project lies largely in the unusual
route chosen, namely. along the
Norwegian coast to Spitzbcrgen.
whore there will be halliday
stopover: thence over the frozen
wastes of the Arctic Circle, directly
over or past The North Pole. over
the northern edge of Alaska to
Unimak. IN the Aleutian Islands.
whore there will be a stopover for Il
day.
In Unimak the main system will
connect with an aerial line TO Hong
king, Yokohama and San Francisco.
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The Alaska daily empire., 1922-03-18
Murdered Policeman
Shot at His AssaiIant

SEATTLE. March 1S.-Police in
vestigation into the death of Charles
egate. p'tr0lman. whose body was
found in a Main Street garage yes.
to-day morning with two bullets in
The head. show that the dead officer
fired two shots at his murderer. The
case is one OF the most battling the
police have been concerned in for
months.
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-03-18
Income Tax Time
Extended to
Alaskans

WASHINGTON, d. C., March
1S.-The Commissioner of Inter
nal Revenue has granted an ex-
ton a.on of time to May Is for
the filing OF income tax returns
by taxpayers residing in Alaska
and the Hawaiian Islands.
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-03-18

The Duke OF Torlonia, who mar
ried Miss Elsie Moore, of New
York. has been accommodated
from the Catholic Church by Pope
Plus Nj. because he fought duel
with Count Lovateili, a noted sculp-
ter. The Duchess Torlonia, shown
here with her husband, posed for a
statue executed by Count Lovatelli
and offered a thousand lire in pay
ment The Lovatelli and Duke Tor
lcnia later met at a dance, ex-.
changed words of anger and the
duel, won by Duke Torlonia, fol
lowed
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-03-18
ACTIVITIES RELATED

Mohandas X Gandhi, leader of the
nationalist movement in India, is the
central figure of the remarkable pa
cifist revolution which has stirred
the 313,O00.000 people of the Indian
Empire as, perhaps, never before
since the days OF the Sepoy mutiny.
He has been called a philosophic
anarchist. a new Tolstoi He became
more dominant than ever in the cam
paign against British rule in India
when, in December last, the Indian
National Congress in its annual SEES.
sion at Afmedabad invested him with
sole executive powers Of that con-
gress with authority to appoint his
successor sin any emergency"
The congress voted to suspend all
other activities in order to concen-
trate upon civil disobedience. a fea-
ture of which was to the enlistment
in the National Volunteer Corps but
included also refusal to pay taxes and
an attempt TO boycott British goods.
Manifesto BY Gandhi
Soon after the congress adjourned
Gandhi sent a manifesto to Lord
Reading, the Viceroy. offering to
abandon aggressive plans provided
the government set free his follow
ers. many hundreds of whom were in
prison. and provided the press was
released from administrative control
and fines and forfeitures were re-
stored.
The British India office promptly
announced that ii woiild not discuss
such demands and that 1t intended to
adopt stern measures to suppress the
campaign Of civil disobedience.
Non-violence and non-co-operation
with the Indian government have
been the fundamental principles OF
Gandhi's campaign. His ideas have
dominated the Indian Congress and
his appointment as executive OF ia.
body virtually mode him dictator 81
the revolutionary movement He
sought to attain swaraj. (self-deter
mination or freedom Tor every one)
(Confiuue6 on Page TwO.s
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-03-18
Reindeer Herd
Has Reached
Broad Pass

SEATTLE, March 1S.-W. T.
Lopp, chief of the Alaska Divi-
sion. Bureau of Education. has
been informed that the first of
the great herds of reindeer to
be taken from the West Coast
to the Broad Pass country have
reached their destination. The
herd contains 1900 reindeer.
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-03-18
CONCLUDES VACATION.

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla, March III
President Harding concluded his
vacation in Florida this afternoon
and left on a special train for Wash
ington. lie is due there tomorrow
afternoon.
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-03-18
INDIAN REBEL
LEADER GIVEN
TERM IN JAIL
Leader of Nationalist Move
ment in India Sentenced
to Six Years.

AHMEDABAD India, March 1S-
Mohandas X Gandhi. non-co-opera-
tionlsts leader, recently arrested here
by the British authorities, was to-
ment without hard labor
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-03-18
Two Men Meet DEATH
In Fire in Theatre

AUGUSTA. Ga. March 1S.-Two
were burned to death last night whaa
the Grand Theater was destroyed by
fire The men who lost their lives
were attaches OF the theater who
lived in rooms off the stage.
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-03-18

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Pueblo chieftain., 1922-02-14

Making a &c" out OF an IS" is one
OF the highway activities just. starting
at the Santa Fe Trail crossing of Salt
Creek, east OF this city.
Machinery and supplies are being
unloaded at the site by the Roberts
Contracting company OF F'lorance. and
preparations are being made for the
establishing OF an electric plant for
the operation of machinery.
All this is for the purpose OF building
150-foot concrete bridge in place Of
tho 5-foot concrete bride which the
June flood carried clear out of sight.
and the taking the curve out of the
Trial concrete roadway from the c.
& S. railroad crossing to and beyond
the creek.
The bridge is to be full concrete
road width $50 feet-and have a walk
way with a railing on each side. This
bridge will cost $4,000. and is to be
completed by May 80.
But the new bridge will not be in
the same Location as to two concrete
Pueblo chieftain., 1922-02-14
LARGE CROWD HEARS EIGHT
VICTOR ARTISTS IN PUEBLO

Words cannot fully describe music OF
the eight Victor artists, who appeared
at the city auditorium Monday night,
and who faced a full house. Only the
music and words coming from the art
lists can convey the real meaning as
Henry Burr, tenor; Billy Murray
tenor comedian: Albert Campbell,
tenor: John Meyer, baritone; Frank
Croxton, basso: Monroe Silver mono
logist Fred Van Eps, banjoist. and
Frank Banta, pianist. impressed the
music loving public Monday night.
Every number on the greatly varied
program was SO we'll received by the
audience that the hearty and earnest
applause brought the artists back to
the footlights two and three times.
The voice OF Henry Burr was OF
such a smooth, mellow, carrying ma
turc. that when he sang he perfectly
held his audience the music touching
and playing on their emotions.
When Albert Campbell toined Henry
Burr in a duet there was little left for
music lovers TO want.
The Sterling Trio. Campbell. Burr
and Meyer. sang several impressive Sc
lections which have long ago found
their way to hundreds or homes on
photograph records. With Croxton
added to the Sterling Trio. the Peerless
quartet was produced. Each number
the quartet sang swayed the listeners,
as only four male voices OF that re-
nowu can, but with the lighting effect
Pueblo chieftain., 1922-02-14
SHELTER WAGE IS
STILL ABOVE 1914

A wage analysis of the American
Smelling and Refining company CU.
S. Plants) for the year 1921 shows thai
readjustments produced further slight
decreases in the December. 1921, rates
Of pay compared to. November rates,
but the wages paid. were. n December.
still 81 to Ss per cent. above pre-war
rates.
Indicating how labor costs were fac
tors in increasing the cost OF produc-
ton. the analysis shows that. in 1914
repair, supply and construction labor
was paid an average OF sac for an
eight hour day. whtlc in November.
1920 the rate was $3.50, an increase Of
1873 per cent. The rate sor direct oper-
aiing labor in 1914 was $e.oe per eight
hour day. But in October. 1890, II had
risen to 1.55. an increase OF 12o per
cent.
In December. 1921. thru various read
justments. the rates for repair. supply
and construction labor had been re-
duccd to - for an eight hour day.
This Was n decrease OF onc-half per
cent compared TO November rates, but
80 per cent. below the highest rate.
$3.50, paid in November. 1890.
Similarly tho ratc OF $3.;1 In Dccem-
bcr. 1921. for direct operating labor
was II per cent below the November
rate. and 25e pcr cent less than the
record rate of 1865 for this class OF
labor In October. 1870.