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No. 241. ELEVENTH YEAR. SKAttWAY, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 19IW PRICE, 10 CENTS
SEVERE EARTH QUAKES SHAKE SOUND CITIES
Buildings Cracked And People Thrown Prostrate
Se title- Tacoma Vancouver, Sverett. B ^ling
ham and Blaine Visited by Tremors Wild
Scenes of Panic as Terror Stricken People
Hush for Shelter. No Deaths Reported But
Many Minor Injuries. Office Buildings Prac
tically Deserted Today as Repetition of
Shocks are Feared. Alaskan Cable Snap
ped In Two Places.
(United Press Telegraph-Cable Service.)
?j? SEATTLE, Jan. 12. ? Seattle and every city on Puget Sound ?$*
?5* and on the coast of British Columbia were shaken by severe earth ?J*
?j* quake shocks at 3:50 o'clock yesterday afternoon. ?
?J* The quake came without warning. Suddenly the earth started ?I
?j* to heave up and down with a sickening motion. Thousands of peo
?i* pie were on the streets of Seattle at the time. Cracks appeared in
?i* many of the down town business blocks and In some cases stone cop- 4*
?j* pings fell Into the streets. Many minor Injuries were reported but ?j*
4* no lives are reported to have been lost. 4*
?{* Wild scenes of panic followed the quakes. With the awful hor
?J* rom of Messina In their minds, many people feared that Seattle ?$*
?5* w*s doomed to a similar fate. People struggled with each other to +
?i* reach places of shelter and many women and children were tram- *J*
Pled upon. 4*
?i* The occupants of the sky scraper office buildings hurriedly left r
4* their offices on the upper floors and reached the streetB. Until late *J*
?i* in the night the public parks aud all open lots were crowded with ?J*
4* people who would not remain In their homes fearing a repetition 4*
T of the shocks. Many of these people suffered bitterly in the cold 4"
?i* and snow, but refused to return to their homes. 4*
?S* There are noticeable twists in several of the street car tracks -}?
4* as a result of the quakes. 4*
?J* The shock was particularly severe at Blaine and Belllngham.
4* At Bellingham many people were thrown to their feet and un- *f*
able ?o stand up until the earthquake hud subsided. The shocks ?J
?J* lasted for several minutes. Several brick buildings were badly
?J* damaged and there is a reluctance among business men to occupy 4*
?J* their office buildings today for fear that another more severe shock 4*
?j* may destroy the buildlugs entirely. 4*
?I* Hard shocks were noted at Vancouver, but so far as is known 4*
??? no great amount of damage is done. 4*
?5* No reports have come from Victoria and It la not learned 4*
??f* whether the earthquake was felt there. ??
*4* The Alaskan cable from Seattle to Sitka was snapped in two ??*
??J? places near Cape Flatery. The United States steamer Burnside
?J* left yesterday to repair the damage. _ 4*
??}? There is great fear among the residents of all the cities along
?4* Puget Sound and In Vancouver that yesterday's shocks may be but
** (ortffnnnars of harder shocks, in order to allay this natural fear
many scientists have given out Interviews stating the quakes were ?!*
?i- caused by "faults in the earth's surface" and that now the surface ???
has apparently settled and more quakes are not apt to follow. 4*
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(By United Press.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.? The sen
ate today appointed a special com
mittee at the request of Senator Till
man of South Carolina to investi
gate his actions in the Oregon lands
case. President Roosevelt had a sus
picion that Senator Tillman was try
ing to obtain public lands fraudulent
ly. Tillman admitted In his speech
yesterday that he tried to obtain
lands, but his methods were purely
within the law. Congress is much
stired over the attack Tillman made
on Roosevelt.
HI THE NEWS
As stated in yesterday's Alaskan
tho government cable from Sitka t;
Seattle was broken yesterday after
noon. An earthquake was the cause
as learned today. Being cut oTT from
communication with Seattle by tho
regular channels. The Alaskan at
once arranged to receive the United
Press dispatches by wire overland.
The news is sent from Seattle to
Vaucouver over the Postal telegraph
wires. From Vancouver it goes to
Ashcroft over the wires of the Cana
dian Pacific railroad and from Ash
croft over to Whltehorse the news
is flashed over the Dominion govern
ment wire. From Whltehorse to
Skagway It comes in over the White
Pass & Yukon railroad wire. This
necessitates the use of the wires of
four different companies and a cir
cuitous route nearly 1 .400 miles long.
The United Slates cable ship
Burnslde has already left Seattle for
Cape Flatery where the breaks In
the cable have occured. The damage
will be repaired as quickly as possi
ble. Until the break Is found and re
paired Tho Alaskan will get its tele
graph news as above mentioned.
Luella S. Dunn has brought suit in
the federal court at Nome against
cJdward R. Dunn, a prominent opera
tor of the Nome district, for $100,000
damages. The plaintiff alleges that
she was married to Dunn in 1899,
when he, the defendant, already had
one wife.
CONGRESS ASKED
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(By United Press.)
OLYMPIA, Wash., Jan. 12.
-The
? Washington state legislature passed j
strong resolutions today which will j
bo sent to the national congress ask- j
Ing that $1,000,000 be appropriated
for the work on Alaskan roads. Tho
resolutions were passed by acclama
i tion.
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"Little Eldorado has turned out not]
only some of the biggest pans in the
Fairbanks district, but its paystr.eak
has been shown to be so wide that
the excitement following the finds on
four and five below Discovery have
caused a new town to spring up at
the mouth of that stream and scores
of lays to be let on the ground above
and below the rich strikes made,"
said George S. Hunter, of Fairbanks,
who arrived in Seattle Jan. 2.
He declared that Vault, Cleary, Es
tir, Gold Stream, Eugineer and Fair
banks creeks were being worked on
the biggest winter's scale known In
that country.
"Eugineer creek," continued Mr.
Hunter, "has become so promising
that a small town has sprung up at
its mouth and the Tanana Valley rail
way has established a station.
"1 expect tho Tanana to exceed Its
last year's output by several millions.
Wo are not only prepared for a great
er output, but the minors will uot
leave their winter dumps remain un
sluiced in the spring. Every precau
tion is being taken to utilize the
great stream of water t.iai . co
waste each spring with the of
the sr.ows. 1 think that Tanana ..ill
turn out $1,500,000 this comi.?0 .ig,
providing we have enough men to
properly carry on the work." ? Seattle
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The Jefferson of the Alaska Steam- j
ship company arrived in Skagway
early yesterday evening with 17 pas
sengers, 50 tons of local freight and
electrical machinery weighing about
21 tons for the Yukon Gold company
at Dawson. The Jefferson left Seat
tle with 44 passengers for Alaskan
ports.
Two of the hugo electrical genera
tors which the Jefferson had on board
weighed 9 tons apiece and it was nec
essary to wait until low tide, when
the deck of the evssel was level with
the dock, before they could be taken
off. For this reason the Jefferson
did not leave Skagway until shortly
before noon today.
She took away seven passengers
and 50 tons of ore concentrates from
the Conrad mines which will be
smeltered at Tacoma.
The freighter Wellington, under
command of Capt. Cutler, arrived in
Skagway last night from Comox, B.
C., with 2,500 tons of coal aboard for
the White Pass & Yukon railroad.
The Wellington will be here all week
unloading. Capt. Cutler reports a
smooth voyage,
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"Bill" King, auditor of the White
Pass & Yukon railroad, returned last
night to. Skagway from a visit to the
Juneau Elks.
BRITAIN 1ST
RULE THE I
LONDON, Jan. 10. ? Speaking bo
fore the new British Aero club, tho
Duke of Argyll took his turn at
warning the English public that tho
day may soon come when it will re
gret bitterly the indifference with
which it continues to regard the
whole subject of aerial conquest
from a defensive point of view.
"The best thing that could happen,"
said the Duke, "In order to awaken
the public to a proper appreciation of
its position would be the appearance
of an airship, preferably steered by
a German, French or American driver,
some fine morning stationary above
the Bank of England. This might
bring homo to the people the fact
that under the new conditions they
cannot expect always to have Eng
land to themselves.
A Peril of tho Futuro.
Tho Duke's speech was described
on the program as on "A Peril of the
Future." His remarks included an
an account of the efforts which are
being made at Aldershot and also In
Scotland to turn out an effective
British model aeroplane. He explain
ed, however, that these things are
not enough, since from public sub
scriptions must come the funds with
whl?h to train aviators, as has been
dono in France and Germany. Men
who had money to spend must spend
it for the patriotic cause, he said, of
"keeping England an Island," which
it now no longer was. England
must keep the supremacy of the
sea ? that went without saying; but
it also must now have the supremacy
of the air.
The Arctic Brotherhood will hold
Its regular weekly meeting tonight at
A.. B. hall.
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