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MOMK % I, ASK A SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1917.
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HUGE MONTHLY LOAN FOR ALLIES
TENTATIVE PLANS OF
CONFERENCE SHOWN
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 27—
The tentative plans of the confer
ence committee are now being re
vealed.
The most far reaching is a loan
ing scheme whereby the United
States will lend the Allies five hund
red million dollars monthly.
France is particularly anxious
for coal for both France and Italy.
1 he coal shortage in France has
led to the substitution of other
kinds of fuel in the many munition
factories and wood in vast quanti
ties is being cut down while the
supply is small.
WASHINGTON. D. C„ April 27
Coal companies have been ordered
by the government to give prefer
ence to coal which is to be rushed to
the Allies. Although the British
mines are being operated to their
capacity the tremendous drain upon
their output for British works and
ships prevents very much being
available for shipment to the other
nations.
CHESTER, Pa., April 27.—The
officials who have had charge of the
investigation of the explosion in the
Eddystone powder works now admit
that it is impossible to find any rea
son to think that it was the result
of a plot. It is declared it must
pass into the list of unsolved powd
er explosion mysteries, which have
happened so frequently for the past
few years, not necessarily of an in
cendiary nature.
Now is the time to Subscribe.
GEORGE SAYS VICTORY
IS LOOMING UP
LONDON, April 27.—Lloyd
George delivered a very optimistic
speech before the Guildhall this
%fternoon. Victory was looming in
creasingly nearer and It would not
surprise him if it came earlier than
was expected.
The success of the British armies
on every front were more than grati
fying and the news that Haig was
rolling back daily, without a single
retarding step, the Teuton forces
before him was inspiring.
Before June 1915, said the Prime
Minister, Great Britain lost eighty
four guns and a number of men
were taken prisoners. Since that
time they had not lost one gun in
battle of any caliber whatever, they
had captured four hundred enemy
guns and had taken ten of the
enemy prisoners for every British
soldier taken. That was the record
of the new army and it was no
wonder all the nation was proud
of it.
George said that they had now an
ample supply of men and munition
and meant to increase their forces
in France immediately, an increase
which from time to time could have
its losses replenished without diffi
culty and which would enable them
to take up a still larger section of
the lines than they were now hold
ing, enabling France to shorten that
which it had been successfully fight
ing on so long.
GERARD AND CLARKE
EXCHANGE AMENITIES
NEW YORK, April 27.—There is
a covert belief here that Gerard was
speaking for Wilson when he de
nounced the opposition to conscrip
tion upon the part of Speaker Clarke
declaring that Clarke suffered troni
"constitutional cold feet” in the
matter and asserting that he oe
lieved ‘some beneficient policy saved
the Amercan people from putting
forward this Clarke type of states
KLK CONVENTION
AT DREAM SUNDAY.
"The White Rosette” was enthusi
astically received by a large as
sembly of picture fans last night.
The sterling attraction will be re
peated tonight. Positively the last
run. Sunday night, the mixed pro
gram will contain five thousand feet
of select photoplay. These pictures
will show the public favorites Chas
Chaplin in Cartoons, also Arbuckle
and the Vivacious Mabel Normand,
and a host of the best in the world
of fun. The Elks Convention and a
big 101 Bison picture called the
"Love of Men” will also be shown.
The usual headliner Pathe Weekly
completes the Rooster program.
CITY BATH HOUSE
has the largest
j. f i
and only 0 feet
Bath Tubs In Nome.
man”.
Gerard was speaking to powerful
business interests who cheered him
to the echo for his address.
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 27—
Apparently Gerard's denunciation or
Clarke troubles the Speaker very
little. When his attention was
called to the Gerard remark that he
suffered from constitutonal cold feet
he laughed and said that it was
part of a diplomat’s work to know
how to make statements of that
kind. Gerard is trying to keep in
the limelight, said Clarke, because
he has been in it so long, and he
is lying now to gain notoriety. The
ambitions of Gerard apparently are
going beyond the domain of diplo
macy was Clarke's humorous sur
mise when he was told that he had
spoken with vigor.
That Gerard is politically ambiti
ous is a fact known to everyone,
hence the advisability of his keeping
in the public eye.
WILL GIVE HIMSELF UP TODAY
SEATTLE, April 27.—Logan
Billingsley in a letter to the Daily
Star today, Seattle, announced that
he would surrender himself at a
prominent corner at two o’clock, to
morrow Saturday afternoon. He
said that later he would tell how
he escaped and the story would be
a true one. Since his escape Logan
said that he had determined to
ssrve his term of thirteen months
and then lead a straight and for
ward life ever afterwards.
The publication of the letter has
created no end of a sensation and it
is freely asserted that the man was
aided in making his getaway by
some of the officials who were a
party to his confession alleging the
incrimination of Gill and the rest ot
the municipal officials.
GET THE NEWS RIGHT. BEAT*
THE WORKER.
FLOUR FOURTEEN DOLLARS.
ST. PAUL. April 27.—Here in
the very home of the wheat milling
industry flour today was quoted at
fourteen dollars a barrel.
This is the highest on record ever
known for flouS\ It practically
means that daily bread is removed
from the average workingman’s table
and is quite a luxury. Restaurants
are now providing substitutes in the
form of corn and potatoe mixtures
with wheat flour.
CHICAGO, April 27.—Cash wheat
closed today at three dbllars a bush
el, the highest on record. No such
price has ever been known and it is
said to have m>ghty few offerings
even at that figure because it is not
to be delivered. A panic or some
think like it reigns in broker’s circ
les over the Situation.
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Anything in the line of Job work
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LONDON, April 27.—The Admi
ralty announced this evening that
the shells from the raiding German
destroyers killed two and injured
three while damaging twenty-one
houses at Ramsgate. They were
driven oft" after five minutes shelling
by the arrival of the patrol destroy
er squadron hastily advised of their
presence. The foggy weather assist
ed the destroyers coming and go
ing being protected by the heavy
screen of mist.
AMSTERDAM, April 27.—A Ber
lin dispatch contains an official an
nouncement by the German Minister
of Marine wherein that official
states that the German diver cam
paign is now undergoing its most
successful period. According to the
dispatch the Minister concludes his
statement of the diver successes
with the succinct remark that Eng
land will soon be forced to sue for
or accept peace terms.
COPENHAGEN. April 24.—Au
j thentic reports that the Russians
I have been fleeing are increasing,
| These dispatches say that the deter
mination to continue the war has
halted this stampede. The army
was reported to be wavering, but
finally has repledged itself to con
tinue the war.
Very little real information is
leaking out of Russia, and there
seems to be a stricter censorship on
reliable news even now than during
the regime of the bureaucracy.
DRAFT LAW WILL PASS
TODAY AT VERY LATEST
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 27—
Declaring that the bill was in effect
a fight to amend the conscription
bill and that it was being started in
this way the supporters of the con
scription bill defeated the bill
to authorize Colonel Roose
velt to raise, equip and
take a military division to France
for service against the Germans.
The both branches of Congress
sent the bill down to defeat this
afternoon. Immediately thereafter
in both houses the discussion on the
draft law was resumed. The Senate
is expected to pass the draft bill to
night and the House will probably
put it through on early Saturday
morning.
It is conceded that both houses
will pass a practically unamended
conscription bill as sent from the ad
minstration and introduced by re
quest of the cabinet officials.
Republican leader Mann who was
expected to oppose the conscription
bill and who has little sympathy
with the war policy according to re
ports said this evening that he will
support it, and denied that he had
at any time made any statement
which could give rise to the 'repeat
ed reports that were in circulation
that he intended to oppose the bill.
The speedy passage of the meas
ure is urged inside and outside ot
Congress with tremendous insist
ency.
FIRE ENTRAPS MEN IN
COLORADO COAL MINE
TRINIDAD, April 27.—After a
long period of abeyance a terrible
explosion started a fire in the Vic
toria-American Fuel Co.’s mine
LOCAL ITEMS.
Dad Hays returned yesterday
morning from the Last Chance dis
trict. He says it’s winter out there
yet and it’s the roughest snow that
he ever travelled over. Besides the
snow is packed hard as nails by rea
son of the many windy days that
blew and it’s a case of bumping
the bumps to travel over it just at
the present itme. While out there
he and his partner sank three or
four holes to bed rock.
• • • •
Conflicting advices are being re
ceived concerning furs in Nome by
various dealers. While some ad
vise buying and report that the
market is strong and sound, others
warn against big buying, say that
the prices'are not firm and that care
will have to be exercised as to
prices or big losses will be incurred.
One firm writes that white fox are
going out of fashion red "have
been” the Tashion, and there is a
tendency towards shorter furs. A
very interesting result of Dame
Fashion’s influence upon the fur
market is that a sudden demand has
set in for spotted seal, this the com
mon spotted hair seal which has
heretofore not been much prized.
Now it is very chic and one coat
made of this skin was market at
|300 wholesale, which is going
some.
Number two at Hastings, Colorado,
entrapping a hundred miners at
ten o’clock this morning.
Helmet men who were to have re
turned to the airshaft having gone
in search of the entrapped miners
have not yet reported at the air
shaft, and may still be working in
an effort to rescue the entombed
men.
This is a dangerous mine with n
quantity of fire damp always keep
ing the fire boss on the move. Dust
and gas have been reported in the
mine in ever increasing quantities
owing to the rush to get out coal
on account of the phenomenal de
mand.
There were reports current this
afternoon that there was the poss
ibility that Austrian miners have
NOTICE.
All Members of the Nome Mine
Workers’ Union are requested to at
tend the next meeting April 28,
for the purpose of discussing the
wage-scale for the coming summer.
ANDREW BECK.
President.
JOHN A. WILSON.
Secretary.
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been responsible for the disaster,
but this is discreditted by the min
ers themselves who are more inclin
ed to blame the neglect of the ope
rating companies in providing the
necessary safety precautions.
On account of the tremendous
influence exerted by the companies
in the county, it is almost imposs
ible to get a detail of all the facts
leading up to the mine explosion
whose seriousness is now dwarfed
by the terrific fire blazing in the
bowels of the mine.
FLYWEIGHT WOUNDED.
LONDON, April 27.—Among the
athletes and pugilists who have been
at the front and wounded is young
Dando of Newcastle, the flyweight
champion of northern England. He
was wounded on the firing line in
France.
SHRAPNEL KILLS.
LONDON. April 26.—Clouds of
shrapnel,the intensest ever seen,
were responsible for the slaughter
of Germans at Gavrelle, says Gen
eral Haig. The ground was black
with dead and dying.
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