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NOME, ALASKA. THURSDAY,'JUNE 14, 1017.
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BIG STRIKE COPPER
MINES NEW UNION
BUTTE, June 13.—This city is
now the scene of a great strike. One
thousand miners quit work in the
principal mines today and five thou
sand additicnal quickly followed re
sulting in a stoppage in all mines.
The strike in the largest copper
mines is due to the organization ot
the men in the new Industrial Work
ers of the World Miners Union aided
according to employeers by the
Irish home rule radicals who de
clare that they will mine no copper
to be used in the war to help Eng-1
land.
The work of organization by the
I. W. W. men has been carried on
quietly and quite escaped the ob
servation of the companies who have
a large number of detectives em
ployed for that purpose.
The fire in the Speculator mine is
regarded as having brought matters
to a crisis, but the strike has evid
ently taken the copper operators
unexpectedly. The entire State Na
tional Guard has been ordered here
in anticipation of rioting. Practi
cally every mine is shut down and
all subsidiary work Is at a stand
still. It is likely that the Ana
conda smelters will have to close
as the supply of ore in hand is in
adequate to keep them running and
some of the men have already
struck so that the furnaces are in
danger of freezing solid.
The new industrial union of the
miners has most of th& strikers well
organized.
Let us estimate on your Job Work
PETROGRAD, June 13.—The gov
ernment of France has notified the
Russian government that it is will
ing to make new agreements regard
ing the future operations of the war.
The agreements will cover the
standing of both countries in the
matter of an adjustment of ques
tions in the matter of peace discus
sions as well as the military opera
tions preceding these. The notifica
tion has been very well received.
PARIS, June 13.— One hundred
and ninety-nine are missing out ot
550 passengers who were on board
a Messageries Maritime liner torpe
doed on its way to the Mediterran
ean. Most of the missing are Benga
lese.
PARIS, June 13.—It is announced
that no communications of vital im
portance have been received from
the field today on the west front
where the lull still continues aim
heavy rains are frequent.
LONDON, June 13.—The Official
Press Bureau announces that Haig
states that desultory firing with no j
infantry attacks on either side now |
marks the status of the war along
the British lines today.
Most of the time the artillery
also is silent.
AMSTERDAM, June 13.—It is
stated in Berlin dispatches that the
Germans are now making ready for
their great summer offensive upon
the west front which will astonish
the Allies.
Anything in the line of joli work
VERY SEVERE SENTENCE
GIVEN ON CONVICTION
NEW YORK,, June 13.—Lewis
Cramer, an insurance man, who was
convicted under the conscription
law received a very severe sentence
from the court and a strong rebuke
in addition.
He was sentenced to pay a fine ot
ten thousand dollars: and two years
In the penitentiary for conspiracy
to evade the conscription law while
^ under the same law he was sen
tenced to one year in the peniten
tiary for failing to register.
In addition the court ordered
that Cramer be deported at the ex
piration of the sentence.
SEATTLE, June 13.—Twenty
Russians, who had become citizens
“CARMEN” REPEATED TONIGHT.
“Carmen” with Theda Bara proved
as promised a great production.
As a scrapper Theda is certainly
there. Her battle with another cigar
maker is ono of the most realistic
fights ever shown. The bull-fight,
cock-fights and other Spanish am
usements help to give this a real
Castilian atmosphere. Tonight will
be the last time to see Carmen.
t of the United States, and also all ot
i them of military age, were arrested
here today when about to leave for
I th3 Orient, presumably returning
to Russia. They are charged with
being “slackers” and for failing to
register they will be compelled to
stand trial. The Russians seemed
astonished.
WASHINGTON, D. C„ June 13.
The authorities are slowly gathering
up those who failed to register and
instructions are to prosecute all ot
them.
The intention is to enforce the law
without fail in every instance and
against those who have not register
ed. It is remarkable that so far
most of these arrested for this eva
sion have been workers.
AMERICANS CAIN CONTROL
OF BRAZIL COFFEE TRADE
RIO DE JANEIRO, June 12.—
The next Brazilian coffee crop is
estimated to between 12 and 13 mil
lion bags of 132 pounds each. The
extraordinary feature about this
crop is that about two thirds of
these bags will be bought sold, ship
ped or otherwise handled for the
first time by American business in
terests represented here in Brazil.
War and American enterprise con
stitute the reasons.
The British blacklist, the shortage
of shipping lor European ports,
lack of financial support and the de
parture of Germans to their own
country to fight opened the door for
Americans to take the coffee busi
ness from the Germans.
TORNADO KILLS.
%CHILLIOOTHE,k Mo., June IS.—
Fifteen were killed at Unionville in
a Tornado today.
PARIS GOES
L
TO GREET PERSHING
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PARIS, June 13.—One hundrel
thousand assembled to greet Gen
eral Pershing and his stab.- today
upon his arrival here.
The scene was the most exciting
that has been witnessed since the
war began in this city.
Dense crowds packed every sec
tin of the streets through which the
American general had to pass on his
way to the quarters arranged lor his
reception by the Government.
The cheering was deafening and
the *rowds threw flowers at the sold
iers as they passed along while Am
erican flags were seen everywhere.
The reported famine in American
flags had quite evidently been over
come for they were waved in the
thousands by the enthusiastic crowds
and they hung from windows in all
directions and the streets were
ablaze with the stars and stripes.
General Pershing will operate un
tier General Petain in the first de
tail and will be in direct communi
cation with Washington D. C., from
his Field Headquarters.
The troops had much difficulty in
keeping the way clear for the gen
eral and his staff. He was received
| by Joffre and staff together with an
j array of troops specially brought in
: for the occasion.
Now Is the time to Subscribe
MOONEY TRIAL IS
PROCEEDING SLOWLY
SAX FRAXCISCO, June 13.—The
Mooney trial proceeds today with
little variation from the preliminary
methods of the prosecution in the
Billings and. Thomas Mooney trials.
Witnesses were called proving
deaths in the. explosion and the tes
timony of physicians who treated
dead or wounded, was also given in
the same way as in the preceding j
trials.
The prosecution made the an- j
riouncement today that the state j
would call Estelle Smith«who was
the star witness in the Killings case.
She was not called in the Thomas
Mooney trial at all.
Estelle Smith was former
ly a prostitute 'ffom Los Angeles
and in the Billings case before the
Grand Jury she swore th.at Billings
was a mile away from Steuart and
Market Street, at 721 Market for the
purpose of throwing the bomb from
the roof at nine minutes to two
o'clock while another witness John
M’Donald, tilias McDaniels swore
that he saw Billings at Stuart and
Market Street at that time. Both
witnesse have since been exposed as
having been promised rewards, the
Smith woman quarrelling with her
mother over hef share wanting eight
thousand dollars for her testimony.
It was not believed likely in that
the testimony of both these wit
nesse conflicting to some extent
with Oxman’s they would be called.
U BOATS GOING SOME
FOR THE PAST WEEK
LONDON, June 13.—Official re
ports of the Admiralty state that
during the past week the German
divers accounted for 22 vessels over
sixteen hundred tons and ten vessels
under that tonnage.
The announcement is also made
that 23 steamers reported unsuccess
ful attacks by divers and in two
cases the IT boats were sunk by gun
fire from the boats they sought to
make victims.
AN ATLANTIC PORT, June 13.—
An American liner arriving here
reports sinking by ramming a Ger
man U boat which rose to attack, it.
LOCAL ITEMS.
Accompanying A. 'j. M’Connell,
the General Manager of the Alaska
Public Untilities Co. which has ac
quired the Cordova Power company’s
plant and franchises will be Mr. and
Mrs. O. S. Weaver, O. S. Weaver
having been the Secretary of the
Alaska ^Industrial Mining and Power
Co. of this camp. He goes to check
up the books and re-open the ac
counts in the name of the new com
pany which has acquired the pro
perty. A1 Gawne will remain in
Nome in charge for the time being
of the power company's affairs In
LONDON, June 13.—Lord Derby
tonight announced that forty-nine
were known to be dead and two
hundred were injured some serious
ly in the German aeroplane raid
over the metropolis today at high
noon.
No German raiders were downed.
LONDON, June 13.—The German
air raid today was the most serious
in its consequences of any that has
as yet been delivered. The main
reason for its immunity from at
tack was the hour chosen for the
raid—midday. The airmen have
been attending to night duty most of
the time and were practically away
from their hangers when the call
came for duty. The Germans were
clear away before the British ma
chines were in the sky.
TOO MANY SPUDS IS ■
WARNING NOW MADE
MILWAUKE, June 13.—Unless
tlie frenzied planting of potatoes is
stopped, next season will find an
over-supply, with prices far below
the normal according to state agri
cultifral experts here.
These agriculturists are engaged
in a campaign to prevent the over
planting of potatoes and are urging
the planting of turnips, parsnips,
carrots, onions, and other root crops
instead.
COLUMBUS, June 13.—State in
stitutins MU produce at least 76,000
bushels of potatoes during thi3
summer season, with favorable
weather, say members ol the state
board of administration.
OllEItLIN, O., June 13.—Coeds
of Oberlln College ave leased sever
al acres of land and will raise their
own potatoes this season.
CROSS BORDER.
EL PASO,, June 13.—Forty Mex
ican bandits crossed tbe border four
teen miles from El Paso and drove
off the American patrol which later
being reinforced pursued the Mex
icans across tWe line when the latter
fled.