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NOME, ALASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST :i,
NO. 2021.
Artillery Duels Are
Now Roaring In East
PETROGRAD, Aug. 2.—Rifle and
artillery duels prevail along the en
tire front with the Russian army
resting. The artillery bombard
ment at some points is intense. The
troops are jubilant over their con
tinuous successes.
BERLIN, Aug. 2.—The Russian
advance from the Stockhod had
come to an abrupt stop as they
came against the iron clad German
defenses further west.
VIENNA, Aug. 2.—While the Ger
mans are holding the Russians well
in western Volhynia, the fighting
continues against the advance of
the Rusisans under Letchitsky.
The Sakharof Russians have also
been halted by a determined Aus
tro~German resistance.
LONDON, Aug. 2.—Conflicting
reports are being issued from both
| the Petrograd and the Berlin war
offices, the former claiming that
the Russians were repulsed, the lat
ter merely reporting heavy artillery
and rifle fire. The statement that
the Russians are resting after day
and night attacks is probably near
the truth.
RAILROAD STRIKE VOTE
IS ALL FOR WALKOUT
NEW YORK, Aug. 2.—Half of the
four hundred thousand votes cast
by the railroaders on the strike
question have been counted and so
far all favor a strike.
Railroad men now predict that
the vote will be unanimous for a
strike in the event of the eight hour
day being denied.
The situation is assuming the
gravest aspects for the railroad
companies although the manage
ment is slow to admit that the
-difficulties will not finally be ad
justed in a compromise by arbitra
tion.
There were hints that some
drastic coup would filially prevent
a strike but the railroad workers
spy that these reports are for the
purpose of. intimidating the brother
hood men.
The strike vote affects two hund
red and twenty five railroads an.l
would paralyze industry in the
United States within a very short
time.
The National Conference will
meet next Tuesday for the purpose
of again trying to effect a settle
ment, but the chances so far as one
can see without a back down unon
upon the part of the railroads seem
remote.
Sojne of the members of the man
agers association speak bitterly of
the efforts of the union men to
force their hand. The railroad men
believe that the public would insist
upon a settlement and thus compel
the managers to concede their de
mands after a short strike.
Strike insurance is now being
written up by many firms in this
city to provide against all possible
contingencies.
Now Is the time to Subscribe.
INFANTILE PARALYSES
RAINING IN NEW YORK
NEW YORK, Aug. 2.—The city
to panic stricken over the alarming
growth in the number of infantile
paralysis cases which are reported
today. With fourteen hundred new
beds, the hospitals are all over
crowded add the capacity of the me
dical staffs taxed beyond any poss
ibility of adequate treatment.
From all sections of the city new
cases are reported today with the
death list jumping from forty to
sixty and every sign that before the
night, this record will be eclipsed.
Parents are panic stricken.
Numbers failed to pass the federal
quarantine, their children being
auspect when examined by the fed
eral doctors and are therefore un
able to leave.
The extremest measures are being
MARINE BULLETIN.
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Nome Radio, Aug. 2, 1916.
Susie at Gibbon.
Delta down Nulato 1st.
Davis at St. Michaels.
Reliance down Yukon up Na
;naiia.
Julia B and Tanana at Gibbon
lor Fairbanks at noon.
Sibella down Nulato 29th.
Sarah up Kotllk 26th.
Casca down Isaac 7 a. m.
Alaska down Eagle 8 a. m.
taken by those who can afford It
to prevent the children being in
fected and in consequence of their
being deprived of their out door
exercise, the children are far from
healthy in other respects.
Schools, Sunday attendance in
churches, and moving pictures have
all been closed to minors under
seventeen by order of the health
department. The affected children
range from infants to children of
twelve.
It is admitted that the possibil
ity of any over seventeen acquiring
the disease is remote, but one doc
tor said that a case is recorded in
Vermont of a woman eighty years
succumbing to the disease.
AEROPLANES KEEP TRACK
GERMAN UNDERSEA LINER
BALTIMORE, Aug. 2.—There is
now no news of the Bremen, and
sailors are referring to it as the
phantom ship.
The Deutschland Is now speeding
to the Capes returning within the
three mile limit and it is believed
will stop temporarily at Newport
News. The patrol boats report
seeing two unknown aeroplanes fly
ing low beyond the three mile limit
and watching every move of the
Deutschland. It was presumed that
these airships were from some of
the Allied cruisers that have been
on the look out for the under sea
liner.
Apparently Captain Koenig is play
ing a game of hide-and-seek with
the advantages all on his side with
the welcome assistance of dark
nights.
The greatest interest is here mani
fested in the struggle of the subma
rine merchantman to escape with
its precious cargo and the betting is
in favor of its doing so. Naval men
think it a literal impossibility
barring accidents for the cruisers to
track the submarine once it pro
perly submerges.
INVESTIGATES.
NEW YORK, Aug. 2.—The Pub
lic Service Commission is now inquir
ing into the street car srrike. Whit
man Is ready to call out ten thous
and militia so between industrial
and military preparedness the work
ers ought to get it in the neck.
Germans Admit British
Destroy Monacu Trenches
BERLIN, Aug. 2.—The most im
portant admission Berlin has made
in some time is the announcement
that the British artillery has de
stroyed the trenches in the Monacu
woods.
The Germans after a violent as
sault captured the heights north
west of Seville, in the Verdun sec
tion.
The French were successful in
their onslaught on the positions
west of Highwood.
NORFILK, Aug. 2.—A radio re- 1
port flashes that the Deutschland i
was seen off New Point Comfort, a 1
four hour run to Cape Henry. It i
is also reported that the liner is c
merely awaiting nightffal to dash
to sea. More aeroplanes are re
ported in the distance. t
PARIS, Aug. 2.—The situation in \
the west today, practically all day
was marked mainly by the renewal
of the German efforts to capture
1
'erdun and the titanic bombard
ment by the British of the German
Ines. The French troops are clos
ng in upon Peronne and expect to
apture the city before sunrise.
LONDON, Aug. 2.—The German
.•ar office says that the French and
tritish advance along the Somme
.•as most important to the enemy.
GET THE NEWS RIGHT. REAF>
HE WORKER.
JURY FINDS PERSONS
UNKNOWN PLACED DONID
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SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 2.—The
Jury impannelled in the inquest on
the dead, killed in the preparedness
parade, after hearing the testimony
of all concerned returned a verdict
to the effect that they met their
deaths through criminally placed
humbs by persons unknown.
The Grand Jury has been work
ing overtime and returned today in
dictments against Moony and wife
and Israel Weinberg.
The efforts of District Attorney
Flckerts to secure two John Doe in
dictments failed.
SAN FRANCISCO, Auk. 2.—The
police admit that nothing hut
anonymous letters and some papers
found in the residence of one of
the arrested and indicted parties
connect them with the crime, but
they do not hesitate to state that
they believe them guilty and think
that they “will be able to make a
case out of it”.
Unionists are bitter at the ar
rests which are declared in some
cases to have been made of union
men because they were union men
and not because of any tangible
evidence against them.
The general public is feeling its
way at the present time and de
pends for its opinions on the sen
sational news published in one Issue
to be denied in small print in tho
next.
FRENCH MAKE GAINS
SOMME ;LOSE VERDUN
PARIS, Aug. 2.—A heavy offen
sive began along the line north
and south of the Somme where the
French again with their rapid on
slaughts made big gains.
The Germans also almost simul
taneously made considerable gains
in the woods Close to Fort Vaux
where , they dislodged the French
defenders after violent fighting.
The fighting in both instances
took place at night and the losses
were heavy on both sides.
BERLIN, Aug. 2.— The heavy
fighting which marked last night’s
struggle on the weBt was favorable
to Germany especially in the Ver
dun region where in the woods en
circling Vaux the enemy was dis
lodged after hand to hand fighting
of considerable ferocity.
in'
* The British positions are quiet
today while they are sending the
usual intensive Are upon the Ger
man lines. The General Staff admits
that it would not be unexpected did
the British begin immediately an
other effort to drive forward.
The British are apparently troub
led concerning the danger from a
flanking attack.
GERMAN ADMIRALTY IS
ISSUING FACTS AND FIGURES
BERLIN, Aug. 2.—The Admiralty
states that the Allies lost 49 war
ships during the war witli a total
tonnage of five hundred and sixty
two thousand. During the same pe
riod the Central Powers lost thirty
ships with a tonnage of one huna
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Bulletin issued gives the name, size
and number of men lost on both
sides. During July the Anglo
French lost three hundred and fifty
thousand men and the Germans
during the same time incomparably
less. Eight French attacks were re
pulsed near Maurepas.
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