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NOME, ALASKA. TUESDAY, MAY 29, 1917.
NO. 22<S(i.
WASHINGTON, D. t\. May 2S.—
A highly authoritative diplomatic
statement to the United Press Asso
ciation today declares that large
forces of Japanese troops, highly
trained and eflieient, will be dis
patched to Russia to help to win
the great war and to prevent the
Germans ever reaching again to
wards China as victors in the world
war.
The significance cf this it is
hardly possible to over-rate and
means that Russia is now getting
into line again for active opera
tions. It is not very easily con
ceivable that Japan would send
troops to fight Germany in co-opera
tion with Russia, unless the latter
was willing that this should be
done. This is accepted as beyond
any question.
LONDON, May 2S.—Dispatches
confirming the ceetaii entry of
Japan on a military scale hereto- '
fore unheard of in the w’ar as re- j
ported from Washington today arc
published in evening papers tonight.
The work of the Japanese fi ret, j
which is much stronger than first
reports had indicated, is beyond all ;
praise, says the Evening Mail . The • !
the _ . .vers now combined against I
the Central Powers are determined
to wage the war on a seale hitherto
never dreamt of, seems certain. In
many circles it is believed that the
offensive in the west will he called
off and a trench defensive begun
instead so that the arrival of Amer
ican, Russian and Japanese troops
on a’l fronts may be carried o it on
a still larger scale and thus prevent
the possibility of any coup being
pulled off by the Teutons before the
now plans materialize. The war
may take longer, but the issue will
he more certain.
Anything in the line of job work 1
HEAVIEST LOSS WAS
IN MATTOON, ILL
CHICAGO, May 28. A throe day
series of cyclones and hurricanes
of astonishing fury and deration
swept over eight southern and mid
dle western states on Friday, Satur
day and Sunday, severing communi
cation everywhere and cutting off
the places en route from all com
munication so that the full details
only arrive today.
The latest ligures of the great
storm which was literally a series
of cyclones, and quite unusual,
show 22S known dead, 1122 injured
of whom the majority will die, two
thousand homes destroyed, many
thousand homtdess and destitute
and the total property loss beyond’
all calculation at present. The
heaviest loss was at Mattoon, 111.
In this small center (53 are dead
and five hundred are injured.
The storm began with a sudden
gale on Friday morning, reaching
twenty miles velocity when it sud
denly stopped and a period of dead
ly calm supervened. This lasted for
about an hour when a terrific cy
clone not preceded by any warning
gust, swept through the stricken
states. Another and another fol
lowed at varying intervals of in
creasing duration and many of
those who lost their lives did so
by venturing prematurely to search
the wreckage of homes for lost ones
or for some treasure which had
been mixed up with the debris. The
maximum violence was reached in a
violent cyclone on Sunday morning,
the following winds being much
milder than any that had preceded
and normal conditions following
Sunday evening and night.
Telephone, telegraph and other
lines are down in all directions.
Power transmission lines went bj
the board and many places were in
! darkness. Rain fell heavily at in
| t^rvals.
SIMS NAMED VICE
ADMIRAL DY WILSON
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 2S.—
Rear Admiral Sims was today no
minated by President Wilson lor
the position of Vice Admiral. The
Senate will immediately confirm
this promotion.
Sims is commanding the Amer
KATAN SANDERSON
AT THE DREAM TONIGHT.
This Magnificent production is
one of the seasons biggest hits, and
also the only feature in which one
we have Mr. Orrin Johnson as a
star healiner. The capable actor is
supported by a select Broadway cast
The story: Satan Sanderson, drama
tized from the novel of the same
name, by Hallie Ermine Rives, in
which Orrin Johnson, the popular
dramatic star, takes the dual role
of the incorrigible “Satan" gives
wide vogue to the dramatic powers
of the the carefully selected cast
of prominent players. Tomorrow
night Mr. Edward Abeles in the
.Making of Bobby Bprnit. 5 Reels.
iean destroyer squadron in Euro
pean waters.
PARIS. .May 28.— Lieutenant
Thaw and two others, when trying
out. a new type of army bi-plane and
travelling at the rate of one hund
red and forty miles an hour, col
lapsed with the machines from a
moderate height and fell to the
ground.
The astonishing thing about the
accident is that none were seriously
injured.
The lull on the west front is in
terrupted only by heavy artillery
duelling at widely separated sec
tions.
RELIABLE TAILOR SHOP.
Front St. 8 doors west of Alaska
Bank.
We do the best
CLEANING
PRESSING
ALTERING A
REPAIRING
Ladles and Gentlemens Clothes.
LONDON, May 28.—The lull con
tinues on the west front although
reports as to weather conditions
show that the day was bright and
sunny and that the rain storms
have passed.
How long the lull is to last can
only be conjectured.
LONDON, May 28.—Much less
news is being received from Ger
man sources since the rupture of r*
lations between the United States
and Germany and even the cables
coming through Amsterdam are
brief and unsatisfactory and ail
highly censored.
IV FROM SONORA.
Hans Thorsen who with his part
ners is prospecting for a third
beach line near the head of Sonora
creek arrived in *town last night.
They are still pegging away after
the concentrates which will yet
make Nome famous.
ROANOKE, Va., May 2S.—Sworn
to resist conscription several hund
red r.iountainers are organizing to
kill federal agents who may attempt
to enforce it according to positive
information here.
It is believed, according to
these statements, that the M'Coy
Hut field gang leaders will be at the
head of the mountaineers in their
attempts to prevent any enforce
ment of the draft.
Another charge circulated is to
lie effect that the mountaineers
resisting conscription Intend, upon
killing the federal agents, to con
fiscate land for their own use.
The militia will be held in readi
ness !or any emergency and trouble
is feared from this source.
The origin of the movement
against the draft is not laid to tin
doors of any foreign agitation.
WASHINGTON, T». (’.. May 2s.—
The Senate today ordered, a pr ibe
of the defective ammunition aban
doned to tile use or the men he ’ t
vessels armed with naval guns. The
fact that old and abandoned ammu
nition was served these boats is oc
casioning serious misgivings among
the officals themselves, and the
Senate is determined to discover
who is responsible for the work.
The ammunition served tin so
ships was concentrated and supplied
during the Snanish American war
and was abandoned as far as the
*Nuvy is c ltcerned for some tin: if.
is not regarded as likely that this
was a mere error.
NEW YORK, May 28.—John D.
Rockefeller took up the largest in
dividual share of the “liberty”^
loan, as the huge seven million loan
is now known in financial circles.
.This was the subscription by the
oil king of fifteen million dollars.
Many other great American capi
talists are also subscribing for the
loan jn great lots, and there is little
possibility of the loan being under
subscribed. In fact it is almost
certain that it will be considerably
oversubscribed.
SAX FRANCISCO, May 2S.—Re
garding it as a gilt edged invest
ment as well as patriotic work, the
City of San Francisco has bought
one million dollars of the govern
ment loan.
Many other cities ar^, to follow
suit.
WASHINGTON, 1). C.. May 2S.—
From present indications the gov
ernment loan will he many times
oversubscrib'd and tin; demand for
portions of it arc surpassing all
expectations.
The government desires to dis
courage individual subscriptions of
an extensive nature when such arc
clearly diverted from other indus
trial securities to the government
bonds.
The additional security felt in the
government bonds would naturally
induce many to subscribe if the
gov< rnment gave them any encour
agement in the apportionment ot
such bonds. This might create a pa
nic and for that reason is being
discouraged as much as possible.
NEW YORK, May 28.—German
Amerieans are now organizing a
new bund which is called the
LOCAL ITEMS.
Pete Carlson is now getting the
500 Grocery on the Sandspit in
shape to begin doing business on
June 1. The Sandspitters who have
no bridge are greatly elated over
the prospect of not having to go
up town every time they want a few
grocery orders tilled.
A. C. Stewart, the Sledge creek
operator arrived in town yesterday
afternoon, crossing Snake river by
the bridge which was erected last
year by the Alaska road commis
sion. He reports that dumps are
still badly frozen because of the
absence of rain and that for tlirnt
reason sluicing has been more or
less impossible. He expects to be
able to begin sluicing just as soon
as he gets back. Not in years has
there been such an early melting
of the stows. From Glacier bar
to the top of the hill there is ac
tually less snow now in that section
than there was on July 1 last year.
“Friends of the German Republic”.
The purpose of the new organiza
tion is the dethronement of the
Kaizer and the establishment of a
republic in Germany. The organi
zation will carry on a national pro
paganda and will endevor to reach
Germany through means not yet
disclosed.
HAVANA, May 2S.—In this port
today a number of explosions oc
curred in the hold “of a certain Am
erican ship” which entered tills
harbor in distress. The explosions
occurred in the hold and it is be
lieved that dynamite was planted,
therein by spies.
Notwithstanding the fact that a
series of blasts went off, none on
board were seriously injured.
There is to be an investigation
at once made and the matter will
be referred to secret service men in
the federal employ.
MUCH FREIGHT READY
TO GO NORTH ALASKA
SEATTLE. May 27.—Much freight
is now offering for Alaska points
and especially are shipments consid
erable for the prospective Nome and
St. Michaels fleet.
A good deal of this freight is
routed up the river, construction
material being especialy in evidence
no doubt for the Alaska Engineer
ing Commission. The quantity ot
general shipments booked for Nome •
indicates no stagnation In tile pros
pects as foreseen by shippers to that
region.
All boats leaving here for the
north will carry capacity cargoes.
START SM'IOVCi.
The Hed brothers or. the Mistle
toe began sluicing yesterday.