AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 October 1924, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

I_KLOTEUa i Ki.i.O It A MS. J hiOFOB SUPPLY LOOTED. U 1 lAD A, Sept. 30. When America went oineiaiiy tlry, it became iinpossifiie lor me people* ot ixiounyite to octain supplies ot n-iuor even for medical pm poses, the .American officials declining to allow liquor to cro->s the narrow strip ot Alaskan territorv wbicti atlortls me only entiaiu-e into Dawson. T.iis summer Camilla and the Foiled States reached an agreement under which it was anangciT t) allow liquor to he shipped into Yukon territory. A shipload was retcutly sent north, but when it reached Dawson it was di-covered that til per c.-nt, of it had been looted. Many <>i the bottles were refilled with watei. others were empty. Use .supposition i* that the cargo was tapped m \ «"• cotiver in the interests of the b-'ot-legging trade.

PRINCE HE WALKS. OTTAWA. Sept. 30.

Kn route westward Iroin High River the Prince ol Wales will spend several hours in Jasper House Trading Station. He stays one day at \ aucouver, and one dav‘at Yictoria. returning to his ranch about October 9th. and leaving for the Fast on the 11th. Oct. Ills ranch sale is the first annual dispersal „f imported and home-bred Scutch Shorthorn and Hampshire and Shropshire rams. . . The sale will be preceded by a picnic of the Alberta Shorthorn Breeders’ Association, which the Prince attends.