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NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1917.
NO. 2201
BRITISH PERSIST IN
LONDON, May 2;.—The great
battle on the west front continues
with the point of gieatest intensity
between Fresnoy anl Arras in the
second defense of what has been
referred to as the new Hindenberg
line. The advance positions extend
much beyond this at several sec
tions, one notable wedge being in
the direction of the important Ger
man position of Le Catelet where
they had a base of supplies for
lines now pracitcally a'l held by the
British.
Fighting beyond the captured
railroad line at Croiselles and
Ecoust is very violent, while the
British are also driving the Ger
mans clear of the canal north ot
St. Quentin and Bellicourt.
LONDON, May 22.—Heavy
counter attacks were sent out by
the Germans in an effort made to
re-capture the positions taken by
the British today, but they were all
unsuccessful* and were repulsed al
ter heavy fighting, the Get man losa
being considerable.
The interference of heavy rains
with military operations hr s some
what hampered the offensive move
ment for the past two or th -ee days
and for that reason the gait s re
corded today are received with great
satisfaction.
That the new defense lines,
erected, by forced labor from
French and Belgian prisoners, are
not to stand, is taken to be
proved.
BRAZIL GETS
TO DECLARE WAR
RIO DE JANEIRO, May 22.—
The sinking of the freighter Para
flying the Brazilian flag in the Bay
of Biscay has practically determined
the government of Brazil to declare
war upon Germany.
It is announced tonight that Bra
zil may declare war on Germany at
any minute, and there is consider
able excitement and war feeling
evident throughout, the country, but
most intense, as might be expected,
at all sea ports.
LONDON, May 22.—The Mexican
republic, an Amsterdam dispatch
announces, has delivered serious
remonstrances to the Imperial Ger
man government against the indis
criminate submarinings which are
persisted in by the Teuton govern
ments.
Mexico mentions in its formal
official protest that the Mexican
government fails to discern now
liow it can maintain relations with
a government if it persists in such
barbarous and illegal methods of
warfare.
BUENOS AYRES, May 22.—The
persistent sinkings of ships belong
ing to the South American repub
lics, many of which were bound foi
Spanish or other neutral ports is
creating such a tension of feeling
in all of them that the question ot
a break with Germany is now only
a matter of time.
Rio De Janeiro dispatches this
afternoon indicate that the govern
ment is incensed against Germany
and is making ready to declare war.
LYNCHING BEE SCENE
OF LOATHSOME HORROR
MEMPHIS, May 22.—Horror
■upped with horrpr in this city to
day when three negro degenerates
were summarily dealt with by the
mob.
Three negrofes attacked a young
white girl near this city and having
decapitated her, assaulted her body
In turn.
The three men were chased by a
posse oX angry citizens and one
was taken as he had given himself
up and was under guard to be
AT DREAM TONIGHT,
“The House of A Thousand Scan
dals”, (repeated), magnificent
screen masterpiece will be shown
tonight for the last time, the fea
tured stars are May Allison and
Harold Lockwood, and the entire
production revels in sensational de
velopments. There are four acts
with over tws hundred scenes from
the first exposure to the last, grand
ensembles, picturesque classical ana
modern dances, hordes of beautiful
women, gowned in the very latest
creations and a stojy that holds
your interest to the very end. To
morrow night "A Yankee Froir. the
West”. (Repeated).
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taken elsewhere tor safe keeping.
The mob consisting of about five
thousand by this time also located
the other who was shot. The two j
men were then tied to the same
stake and burned while men and
women unmasked danced round The
burning bodies singing “John
Brown’s Body”. Thereafter the
third negro was located hiding in a
shack and he too shared the same
fate as the rest.
The heads and arms of the
negroes who were burned at the
stake were then taken to this city
and thrown on the side walk while
crowds cheered.
It appears that the girl who was
so brutally murdered was walking
with a child for a companion and
while the latter was some distance
away the girl was set upon by the
three negroes. The child-ran scream
ing for help and when the help did
come they onlv found the mutilated
body of the young girl lying in a
pool of bloody mud marking the
spot where the struggle had taken
place.
The community is stirred by the
horrible scenes.
GOVERNOR KNOWS WHAT
MADE MILWAUKEE FAMOUS
MADISON, May 22.—The gover
nor of Wisconsin knows that it is
dangerous to buck Milwaukee. To
day he vetoed the bill passed by the
legislature providing for a prohibi
tion referendum being held at the
next election.
The governor is firmly of the opi
nion that prohibition referendums
and that sort of things are strictly
unconstitutional in the state that
beer made so famous.
CITY BATH HOUSE
has the largest
and only 0 feet
Bath Tubs in None.
SHELLS WERE ANCIENT
GIVEN MERCHANT SHIP
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WASHINGTON, D. C., May 22.—
The investigation by the Navy De
partment as to the explosion of the
shells on board the steamer Mon
golia, shows an incredible unpre
paredness upon the part ol’ the
Navy Department and no indications j
have been noted of any German I
plots whatever.
The investigation produced the !
fact that when the order came to
arm the merchantmen, the shells
were furnished by the United States
government.
These shells had been supplied I
the United States during the Span
ish American War by contractors
and how old they were then is not
known. The shells, even if allowed
to have been newly made at that
time, are now more ttian twenty
years old and anything can be ex
pected of such explosives.
The strange part of the investi
gation is not made public and that
is the explanation as to what
had become of the shells supplied
or supposed to be supplied the navy
annually. The fact that target
practice is supposed to consume the I
older shells in the order of their
being supplied to the department,
evidently has never been lived up
to, and the warships took no chan
ces with the ancient explosives, but
used the more modern munitions
supplied from year to year.
That the Navy Department may
recall all these archaic shells is ex
pected to be almost certain, and
that the ships will be supplied wills
shells of higher efficiency a"d nr
least supplied with smokeless
powder.
LIST SHOWS LOSS
COPENHAGEN, May 22.—While
the German staff has long ago aban
doned a detailed publication of an
official casualty list, Great Britain
alone continuing to do so, the Gen
eral Staff issues today a summary
of the losses, all of which are ad
mitted to have been incurred or the
■west front, during the month ot
April. The official list u.co'rding
to an evening dispatch from Berlin
today is as follows for the month
of April:
Killed or died of sickness 11 000
Severely wounded 9,700.
Slightly wounded 18,000.
Prisoners and missing 4,300.
This is a total of about 43,000
and Berlin papers cite it in refuta
tion of the Entente claims as to
killed and prisoners captured.
Local papers however point out
that they have no way of verifying
the details published by the German
I General Staff and point out that
; the number of prisoners who have
arrived in Great Britain, ant! pub
( lished in the official papery, shows
! a total of fifty-eight thousand sinca
; April 1. Obviously this discr-pancy
j will be hard to explain, and one or
| other of the reports must b> false,
j In any event, the admitted losses
indicate the severity of the British
' drive.
MOONEY CASE IS TO
BE LONG DRAWN OUT
SAN FRANCISCO, May 22.—
The same bitter scenes between op
posing counsel in the examination
of jurors as marked the Billings
and Thomas Mooney trials also
mark the examination of the jurors
in the trial of Itena Mooney.
This evening after two days only
LOCAL. ITEMS,
One of the main topics which is
a subject of controversy at the pre
sent time is whether or not the fact
that the United States is at war will
affect the usual summer influx
of travellers to Nome. For some
reason the general opinion seems to
be that there will be many less
coming up this season than in other
years. It is highly improbable that
actually, the war will directly affect
the situation at all, but the fact
that wages are now higher outside
than in ten years is likely to very
seriously affect the number coming
to Nome. Those who have a sure
Job here at good wages to go to,
will probably come up as usual, but
those who year after year came up
as a matter of fact, almost certainly
will remain outside where work is
more plentiful, and relatively, the
wages are higher. Common labor
temporary jurors were passed for
cause and are still subject to
challenge.
In all only thirty eight were ex
amined, the progress being slow in
the extreme. The effort to ring in
again professionals who lived by
their jury duties occasioned bitter
comments from the defense.
The objections to questions asked
jurors were perpetually interrupt
ing the defense and the wrangling
caused the presiding Judge to cau
tion both sides to observe more de
corous conduct in court.
in shipyards in Seattle is now paid
at the rate of 47 1-2 cents an hour
and eight hours constitutes a day’s
work. Furthermore advices indi
cate that there is lots of work to he
had atjsimilar wages and often times
much higher for even a small de
gree of skill.
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defense each believed that before a
jury would be secured it might
take a week or two.
The present venire will soon bo
exhausted and another choice wilt
have to be made.
It is extremely difficult to find
many who have not read of tho
case and who have not formed an
opinion on the guilt or innocence
of the accused.
Many show an inclination to serve,
but make admissions which excuse
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