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VOL. 9.
NOMI, ALASKA. FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1016.
NO. 1030.
FRENCH SMASHING GERMAN
LINES VERDUN FRONT
PARIS, April 6.—German trenches
sained in their recent drive upon
the Verdun fortifications wero taker,
along the Malincourt front today.
Substantial gains resulted in the
practical expulsion of Germans
from the Avoucourt wooded hills,
the VauX vicinity and at Doumont.
The Germans are driven back at
Bethincourt and a hot and heavy>
French offensive proceeds along the
entire Verdun front.
PARIS, April 6.—Heavy losses
somewhat counter-balance the great
French sledgehammer blows along
the Verdun front when General
Patain ordered a French offensive
to retake the positions recently cap
tured by the Germans. The fighting
was preceded by a heavy artillery
bombardment that practically enve
loped the whole front since morning
yesterday. The French assault be
gan before daybreak and has con
tinued all day without any set-back
to the continuous advance.
The Germans have been driven
from positions to those they had oc
cupied a week before and the battle,
is still raging.
LONDON, April 6.—The Germans
are hurling vast massos of troops
in an effort to stem the roaction r.t
Verdun where the . French are
smashing forward. The arrival ot
vast bodies of reinforcements is re
ported this evening. The French
will have great trouble in holding
their lines regained should the Ger
mans force the fighting tomorrow.
Let us estimate on /our Job Work
GENERAL GUTIEREZ REPORTS
VILLA IS AT LAST CORNERED
MEXICO CITY, April 6.—Gen
eral Gutierez reporting to tho Mi
nister of War General Obregon says
that the constitutionalists have Villa
now surrouncd. Gutierez does not
indicate where is the American Gen
■eral Pershing with his forces.
Villa has now about a thousand
men, according to this report, and is
well supplied with ammunition by
deserters and secret sympathizers.
He has secured a considerable
amount of support by holding up
business interests and compelling
them to support his revolution.
EL PASO, April 6.—So conflicting
are reports ' coming out of Mexico
that all are doubted.
Hardly an official dispatch from
Poshing has as yet been made pub
lic so that really very little is
known 'known as to the movements
of the American forces.
WASHINGTON, D. C„ April G.—
It is stated that President Carransa
in delaying his promise to permit
the Americans to use the Mexican
railroads chose this method of in
formally letting the Americans know
that he desires a speedy American
evacuation of the republic. It is
known here that the administra
tion also desires this, but that it
will now depend altogether on cir
cumstances.
Carranza so far is pulling well
with the United States government
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ATING, SEE THEM AT EAGLE
HALL SATURDAY NIGHT.
SHIP BUILDERS PLAN
MAKE GENERAL STRIKE
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SEATTLE, April 6§— On account
of the fact that the Seattle Dry
Dock Co. is having work done in
other yards while the strike is on
with the men in their own, the ship
builders are now planning a gen
eral strike of all yards in ordes to
make a more definite stand.
Tho report has created consider
able uneasiness in ship building and
repair circles as there is an enorm
ous quantity of rush work, being
done at the present and many want
their boats released as soon as poss
ible for every day means hundred-?
ol' dollars to owners of tonnage.
Wertzenberger will flow FREE at
the Kennel Club CABARET.
Try Liver & Kidney Tea for
Spring fever.
LOME NS DRUG STORE.
I*ont forget your SPRING TONIC
Flowers of Kurpbtir, Sassafras.-? Hark
.Mexican Sarsaparilly, Caccara Bark.
LUMENS DRUG STORE.
STREET RAILROADMEN
STRIKE IN CAPITAL
WASHINGTON, O. C., April 6.—
The capital is jitneying today, aim
autos are in great demand. The
street railroad employees have
walked out demanding better con
ditions of labor and higher wages.
Tlie employees are paid among the
lowest of the eastern cities and the
men are not making excessively
large demands. The companies wilt
try to get strike breakers and re
fuse to consider any of the men's
demands.
There is a report here that the
strikers will endeavor to have Con
gress investigate working conditions
on railroads in the capital, and to
take summary action t therefore in
interfering with the present strike.
The service is completely tied up.
Singers Re l.uxe Eagle Hall Sat.
MENITION PLANT STRIKE.
DETROIT, Mich., Apri 1 5. A strike
of all employees occurred today in
the Ireland-Mathews munition plant
in this city.
A Mamoiitli Performance Kennel
Club CABARET, SATURDAY.
Freight and passengers by dog
team.. .Rates .reasonable.. ..See
l>uft'y, next the Northern.
VON TIRPITZ RETIREMENT
MERELY SOP AMERICANS
LONDON, April 6.—London pap
ers say that tho retirement of von
Tirpltz is moroly a sop to satisfy
American sentiment in the matter
of the German submarine policy
for the attacks upon neutral ship3
which are now being made without,
warning have resulted in greater
casualties than ever.
Neutrals are now .being sunk
without warning all over tho At
lantic and Mediterranean.
LONDON, April 6.—A German
submarine of the latest type has
been captured and sunk by the
British. The crew has been tr.ken
prisoner. The submarine was sunk
in the Mediterranean.
QUEENSTOWN, April 6.—'^ho
steamer Kent was submarined off
this port today in the Atlantic and
fifty stamen ‘are missing.
MADRID, April 6.—So many
Spanish steamers have been recently
sunk that the cabinet, which how
ever is strongly pro-German, is con
sidering the situation.
CHRISTIANIA, April 6.—Norway
is incensed over the sinking ot
twelve ships in five days. Excite- |
ment is very high and diplomatic re
lations may be severed.
WASHINGTON, D. C„ April 4.—
The Wilson administration having
its hands full, indicates ^ disposition
to avoid taking up the sinking oi
steamers by German submarines.
The entire matter is being post
poned on a nominal basis.
Dont forget 'your SPRING TONIC
Flowers of Sulphur, Sassafrass Bark
Mexican Sarsaparilla,, Cascara Bark
UOMEN8 DRUG STORE.
TURKS MASSING PREVENT
SLAVS ATTACKING RAGDAD
PETR OG RAD, April 6.—The
Headquarters staff reports progress
from the various fields in Armenia
and Persia as well aa in tho west
ern Caucasus before Teebizond.
The dispatch announces that the
Turkish troops are massing in con
centrated force at Kanikln Pass in
the Zagros mountains to prevent the
/ coalition of the Persian with the
l Armenian forces.
All Armenia and practically all of
Persia are under Russian control,
and the two forces now plan So
move from the bases in Persia and
Armenia down on Bagdad.
The Turks are tryirfg to forestall
this movement and occupy the
heights of the Zagros mountains at
Kanlkln where heavy fighting may
bo expected.
British signals indicate that oppo
sition to General Lake is doc reaming,
he is how outside the Turkish lines
investing Kutolmara, but the river i
is protecting the Turks.
LONDON. April, 6.—Petrogfad
dispatches are interpreted to mean
*khat a big battle is raging at Ka
nikin, and that the Turks who are
massed there in force are offering a
stern opposition. Yosterday an
Overseas dispatch from Turkov
stated that the Russian offensive
had been checked and reference was
PROFITS SMALL SAY
PACKERS; PRICES HIGH
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 6.—
The Packers have issued an official
statement in response to the resolu
tion calling Ipr an Investigation oi
their business methods.
The Packers insist in this declara
tion that they are making very little
profit although the prices are high;
that the cost of operation are rapid
ly increasing beyond the receipts
and that many undertakings have
proved to be quite unprofitable.
They declare thatt when it is re
membered that in the industries the
companies have invested huge sums
and that the plants all are excessive
ly large and equipped with most
costly machinery, that the fuel and
labor bills are cbnstantly increasing,
even if the stock had not arisen
over fifty per cent in price in all
lines of raw products, their profits
would be very small and not what
they should be. But as products
have in the raw increased almost
fifty per cent, that railroad rates
have similarly been raised, the mar
gin of profits is gradually diminish
Ing to such an extent as it must
soon disappear altogether.
The Interstate Commerco Commis
sion made public its preliminary re
port on the Louisville and Nashville
railroad. Therein the commission
declares that this railroad spent
millions of the company’s money in
influencing public opinion to elimi
nate all competition.
The report has created a stir in
railroad circles.
Let us estimate on your .lob VYorr
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VARIOUS WAR ITEMS
FROM DIFFERENT CENTERS
PARIS, April 6.—Tho British are
piling up vast supplies of munitions
back of their lines from tho Somme
to the Yser. The work Is probably
In preparation for future operations.
LONDON, April 6.—Another raid
with Zeppelins was attempted on the
northeast coast but frustrated.
VIENNA, April 6.—Ancona was
heavily aeroplaned yesterday. Some
possibly made to an engagement In
the Zsgroa mountains between Tur
key and Persia.
lives were lost.
BERLIN, April 6.—Tho Allies lost
forty aeroplanes (luring the past
month, the Gormans four aeroplanes
only and two Zeppelins.
BERLIN, April 6.—Spain has sent
a note of Inquiry relative to the
sinking of two steamers off Barse
lona. *
The note le friendly.
THE HAGUE, April #.—Consider
able dissatisfaction Is felt over the
he German submarine policy, al
most all the victims being tor the
past week neutral steamers. The
figures are four British, two French,
one Italian, one Russian, twelve
Norwegian, throo Swedish, five
Spanish, eight Dutch and one Greek.
Or twenty-nine neutral to eight bell
igerent. It is pointed out that the
latter are armed and while osten
sibly attacks* are supposed to be di
rected against the enemy steamers
they are directed mainly against
friendly neutrals.
See the famous Knockabouts, CA
BARET NIGHT, Eagle Hall. .