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VOL. 9,
NOME. ALASKA. TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1017.
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HAIG REPORTS GREAT NEW PUSH
Bit OPPOSITION TO
COMPULSORY SERVICE
;
WASHINGTON, D. C„ April 9,—
Officials of the administration con
firming this afternoon that univer
sial training was necessary and that
it was essential to send iroops to
Europe there nas suddenly develop
ed marked opposition to any kind
of compulsory military service. This
may seriously interfere with the
plans of the administration.
CHICAGO, April 9.—One thou
sand marriage licenses were issued
today to enable the married people
to evade conscription. Thousands
more waited in line but the Bureau
closed its doors refusing to issue any
more. The officials say that they
did so to avoid rioting as many
called the applicants slackers ana
cowards and trouble seemed immi
nent.
SEATTLE, April 9.—Today a man
was arrested for calling the Amer
ican flag a dirty rag. He was im
mediately brought before the judge
and got thirty days in jail with an 1
accompanying fine of one hundred
dollars.
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 9.- —
The army plans will be before Con- '
gress shortly and even now the mat
ter of universal training for active
service is before the House com
mittee in a bill for that purpose.
The extreme probability of troops
being sent to Europe is not being
relished by a strong element in the
committee and they are opposing
compulsory service altogether.
SENATE PASSED BILL
WITHOUT ANY DISCUSSION
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 9.—
The Senate today passed the bill tor
the punishment of the person or
persons who may attempt or carry
out the destruction of every kind
of war material, docks, bridges,
railways. The punishment is thirty
years in jail and a fine of ten thou
sand dollars. It is intended to pre
rent bombists and other plotters
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 9.—
The sundry civil bill, another hold
over measure which died in the
last session was introduced in the
Senate. It carries boosts for every
department and totals $145,000,000.
It failed in the Senate in Februhry.
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 9.—
Residents of this city are out with
an appeal to all Americans to sup
port the Red Cross Society and plans
for raising funds are now being de
vised.
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 9.—
John Pierpont Morgan, the power
behind the throne, went into confer
ence with the Federal Reserve Board
and they are discussing now the
means of floating the huge bond is
sues through the Federal Reserve
Banks.
It is held in this way this loan
will become more popular and result
in a more instantaneous flotation.
It is held in financial circles that
this will be an immensely popular
security and many will desire to
take huge blocks of the govern
ment loan despite the small per
centage per annum.
het um estimate in your Job Work
ILLINOIS AND MISSOURI
EXPERIENCE A QUAKE
SPRINGFIELD, 111., April 9.—
A very severe earthquake rocked
and damaged many buildings in this
city and throughout Central Illinois
and northeast Missouri. The earth
quake was in a direction from north
east to southwest and its effect
was serious, being somewhat pro
longed.
in many villages houses were
thrown out of plumb and were it
not that they are of an unpretenti
ous nature, the result would have
been much more serious.
Several railroads were thrown
out of line and trains could pass
URGE APPROPRIATION.
The Nome Chamber of Commerce
through secretary Dean yesterday
dispatched a telegram to the House
of representatives in Juneau urging
upon them the need of an appro
priation for road construction
throughout the Territory.
SPRING TIME IS HERE
“NOW FOR THE TAILOR.”
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us. We make alterations.
We do cleaning, pressing and re
paring for ladies and gentlemen.
We make suits to order.
First class workmanship, modern
method and prompt service.
We appreciate your patronage.
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NOME TAILORING CO.
jSmt door to Segerstrom ft Hagen
over them with difficulty, while sev
eral fills collapsed leaving the tracks
suspended over them.
Telephone and telegraph lines
are wrecked in all directions and all
telephone communication is inter
rupted with St. Louis.
Fortunately in St. Louis only
the milder effects of the shock were
felt, otherwise another calamity
might have had to be recorded. Sev
eral buildings rocked to a menacing
degree, but the damage is hardly
noticeable.
The duration of the quake caused
most of the alarm and many feared
a recurrence but after the first sev
ere shock none was felt.
That this seismic disturbance
was local is admitted following the
fact being ascertained that no quake
reports are recorded in other sec
tions. This has?'' not usually been
recorded as part of the quake zone.
ALL AUSTRIA SHIPSIIN
U. S. PORTS ARE SEIZEQ
NEW YORK, April 9.—All Aus
trian ships in American poits were
seDei inrcedaitelv it necame known
that relations between the two
countries had been broken off. The
totU enemy tonnage confiscated by
this means amounts to 620,*900 tons,
about equal to an average month
sinkings claimed by the German
U boats.
Some of these ships are large ca
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The seizure of these ships is caus
ing a controversy on the subject
between the experts upon interna
tional law. The right to do so is
questioned in some quarters.
NOW ENGAGED.
Simon Simson has approved ot
the engagement of his daughter
Lilian Simson to David Mayer, son
of one of the partners of Mayer
Bros., the well known Seattle
jewelers. Miss Simson and her
fiance attended the Washington
University together where they first
met.
LONDON, April 0.—Whit .ho War
Office says is the biggest British of
fensive of the war is now being car
ried out by Haig in the forty'mile
front from Lens to Cambrai. This
offensive far overshadows the vast
drives of the Somme and is meet
ing with complete success in the
first attacks. The entire front lines
of the Germans gave way befoie the
onslaught of the British and sev
eral towns have been occupied. The
Germans are ottering a determined
resistance. Haig reports that no
tanks were used in this attack, but
that vast droves of aeroplanes co
operated with the infantry move
ments and contributed greatly to its
success. Desperate battling nia>
be looked for says the Official
Press Bureau in its evening state
ment.
PARIS, April 9.—The great Brit
ish offensive that started on Sunday
is now the sole object of attention
and overshadows every other inci
dent of the war. The bombardment
| which prepared the way for
the advance is described as
even more intensive than that
Somme drive but did not last half as
long. The aid given by aeroplanes
in very*' unfavorable weather is a
marked tribute to the advance ot
this arm of the service.
Big fighting is predicted as cer
tain to accompany this new drive
which is still taking part in a night
attack. The airmen report the
German lines as well reinforced.
ARMED LINER GETS RACK
TO ITS HOME PORT HERE
NEW YORK, April 9.—The Am
erican liner St. Louis the first armed
liner making the round trip to Eu
rope and return docked this after
noon.
They report an uneventful voyage.
Twenty men in a gun crew fore and
aft were on duty day and night
and a close watch was kept for all
U boats. They encountered none.
They admit that the British waters
are alive with submarine chasers
of every description and they met
all kinds of them. At night it was
a strange experience noting the fly
ing signals of these swift boats in
every directions as they also kept
watch upon the steamer from the
time it reached the danger zone.
SEATTLE, April 9.—The steamer
Seward, for years a Seattle-Alaskan
freighter but which was compara
tively recently sold to the present
owners by the Alaska Steamship
Co., was torpedoed and sunk in the
Mediterranean by a German IT boat.
All on board are reported to have
been saved.
PORT ANGELES, April 9.—An
other mystery of the sea came up
for solution when the brigantine
Harriet G. was towed Into this port
in a dismantled condition, but dry
and cargo intact with not a soul oil
board. There was nothing to indi
cate that the crew had left the ship
and it was still in a very sea worthy
condition with timbers in plenty on
board from which to make jury
masts.
MAY PUT SCREWS ON
ARGENTINE FOR EMBARGO
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 9.—
There is every indication that the
LOCAL ITEMS.
The boiler tubes went on the bum
in the Public Schools yesterday ana
firing up became out of the ques
tion. The professional services ot
Grant Laiblin were requisitioned to
make the necessary repairs and the
equipment is now in a condition
when it is expected to last out the
rest of the school season. It is
said that a new boiler will have
to be installed or very extensive
repairs effected before the heat
plant will be equal to
the demand of anotl er winter.
The school was closed for the day
yesterday on this account.
....
At the Dream tonight Francis X.
Bushman & Beverly Bayne will
star in a ma'JEOth feature in five
acts. The story of “The Wail Be
tween” deals with a condition which
obtains in the United States Army,
where rigid discipline maintains a
barrier between the commissioned
officer and the enlisted man, which
Is never broken down. There are
scores of thrilling battle scenes in
which more than two thousand men
appear. A fort near Savannah,
Georgia, was used by Metro to ob
tain much of the realistic photo
graphy, and more than five hundred
regular soldiers participated in
many of the important scenes.
A big picture.
United States may now place an em
bargo on coal for the Argentine to
compel the South American repub
lic to raise the embargo placed upon
the exportation of wheat to Europe.
The embargo was placed on wheat
owing to the excessive costs and in
response to a popular demand.
RIO DE JANEIRO, April 9.—
Brazilian papers admit that the
government is now working out
plans for a break with Germany anu
it is momentarily expected. Thou
sands of Germans are leaving. The
first step in the break is believed to
have been taken when the Brazilian
government ordered the seizure of
forty Austrian vessels interned in
Brazilian ports.
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 9.—
The Austrian Charge d'Affaires
called upon the State Department
for his passports, today, following
the break between the two nations.
All Austrian consuls and other offi
cials numbering approximately two
hundred will be given safe ocn
duct by the American government.
That everything of the kind had
been already anticipated by Secre
tary Lansing is seen in the fact
that upon the Charge preferring
the request, he was immediately
handed his passports as requested—
all were written up and ready.
ZURICH, April 9.—Ambassador
Pen field arrived here today from
Vienna, en route to the United
States. i
SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS
ORECON MININUM WAGE
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 9.—
In a general decision which is of a
far reaching scope the United States
Supreme Court today upheld the
Oregon state minimum wage law
as in no way invalid because un
constitutional. The decision de
clares in clear terms that there is
no question as to the perfect con
stitutionality of the taw.
Many firms employing women in
the state had pooled interests to
fight the law and they were con
; fident that it would be declared
invalid by the Supreme Court.
There is little ground for hope that
much more radical measures will
not also be held when coming bi tore
the body.
PIG IS INSANE.
CADILLAC. Mich. April 9.—Ad.
Wolgast who has been declared in*
sane had his wife appointed guard'
ian by the state courts.