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NOME, ADASKA. TUESDAY, JULY, 23, 1918
MARNE BATTLE CONTINUES
MOONEY CASE UP TO COVERNOR
HISTORY REPEATS ON
MARNE BATTLE
PARIS,—History, is repeating it
self in disaster for the Germans in
the battle of the Marne, with the
Teuton forces dropping guns, bag
gage, machine guns and leaving their
wounded behind in a desperate strug
gle to extricate themselves by re
treating from a position that has
rapidly become extremely dangerous.
The French within the 24 hours
ending at noon Tuesday captured
Ouchy lx* Chateau after the Ger
mans had put up a rigorous resist
ance, bet ween the Aisne and the
Marno the Allied artillery is shell
ing both sides and brooking the Ger
man salient leaving but a seven mil
strip thru which the German force
are piling rapidly backwards ii
their withdrawal. The American
have taken Buzancy, Waulgonnc am
Epides, the. latter being taken b:
storm and three hundred prison
ers captured at this place. Th
Germans are retreating northwar<
everywhere from their cxtrcmel
dangerous position, but in som
cases regiments and platoons hav
been taken and taken wholesale b
the Allies. Disaster is marking th
- German fortune in the Marne posi
; tons everywhere.
; The fighting continues without
i any interruption day or night, and
5 the Americans and French are ap
I parently tireless in chasing down
r their quarry. In military circles it
- is believed that the rout now cver
s whelming the Germans in the Marne
I salient is even greater than that
7 which marked the close of the
; fighting in this sector in the first
; year of the war.
7
Keep Posted, Head the WORKER
YANKS MOVE ON IN
WEST FRONT FIGHT
PARIS,—On Monday the Ameri
can troops passed Bezeu, five miles
north of Chateau Thierry which on
Sunday was captured by the Ameri
cans and the Germans are moving
in retreat before the still advanc
ing Yanks. Stubborn rear guard
actions arc delaying the American
advance somewhat in their advance
South of the Marno the Americans
are meeting with stubborn resistance
as the Gormans have brot up heavj
levies of fresh troops to stem the
tide of retirement that has set in
Monday afternoon the Americans
captuiled Barbillon wood and in
that place took five hundred, pris.
-oners.
LONDON,—Monday’s battling on
the west front was particularly
conspicuous for the desperate counter
attacks which Germany continued
to deliver south of Soissons.
These counters wrere of the ut
most fury, and the thrusts made at
the Allied lines quito regardless of
the cost in human losses. The
lines were fluctuating in the ebb
and flow of fighting below Soissons.
The Germans were, trying to break
thru west of Berzy and between
the Ourcq and the Marne. A groat
battle of attacks and counter at
tacks with the free use of German
reserves is developing here.
The French now command Neuteil
railroad junction on this front a
most important position and they are
nolding off the attacks of the Ger
man reserves with astonishing vigor
tnd spirit.
The French War Office in a com
munique issued Sunday evening an
nounces that the French took 4 5
guns and four hundred machine
guns when the Germans re-crossed
the Marne.
Monday night it is announced that
part of the Soissons-Thierry railroad
is in the hands of the American
troops.
GET THE NEWS RIGHT READ
THE WORKER.
WATERMOOSE IS NAME
OF GOOD NEWS GAMP
A letter to a friend in Nome from
tho strike at Good News Bay says
that up to June 25 very little pros
pecting had. been done. Wages
were seven dollars a day and board
for eight hours work and the men
who made tho discovery took out
about twelve thousand dollars on
Watermoose creek in five or six
weeks. They had formed themselves
■into what was known as the Dis
covery Mining Co and were working
what men were employed. Water
moose was discovered by a native
who enjoyed that name, and whc
loved to pass his time prospectinf
instead of hunting and fishing foi
which reason his fellow Eskimos re
garded him as eligible for a nut fac
tory..
When the letter was written then
were thirty men there and then
was one white woman on her way
Mrs Kinion, formerly of Ophir City
She was to open a laundry or road
house.
There was another stampede fron
there to the south fork of the Gooc
GAINS COMTINUE BIG
ON MONTDIDIER FRONT
L.ONDON,—A Tuesday night dis
patch from Paris announces that
the French advanced one milo along
a four mile front in the Montdidicr
section where three villages were
captured: that the British took five
hundred prisoners between the Marne
iaiul Rheims, the first inntimatioi
by the way that the British force
wore operating also in this sector
and that the French had crosser
the Marne at Pont Bisson whici
the Germans had he’d so secuiel:
'last week.
News River toward the Togiak but
no reports had been brot in as to
how good the reported strike had
been.
The nearest post office to Water
moose is Quinhagak, the creek where
formerly gold was struck and to
! which several years ago there was a
moderate stampede.
It was too early yet to say how
the creek would turn out. The let
ter was dated June 25th.
Keep Posted, Read the WORKER.
LONDON,—A two mile advance
Tuesday afternoon is reported by
the Franco-Amoricans northwest of
Thierry and between Oulchy and
Buzuet.
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NEXT DOOR TO CITY HALL.
LAST APPEAL DENIED
TO TOM MOONEY
SAN FRANCISCO,—The last
legal appeal resort has failed Tom
Mooney when the Supreme Court of
California denied the application for
a new trial on the ground of fraudu
lent testimony and the affidavits of
many state witnesses to this effect.
With this denial the case is now
up to the executive either to have
the death sentence carried out or to
reprieve the condemned man.
Mooney reiterates his demand that
I he be given a new trial before a
fair jury and an impartial judge or 1
that he be executed. He does not
want the sentence commuted to im- 1
prisonment and said so frequently.
Governor Stephens has repeatedly i
declared that he would take no ac
tion in the Mooney case until the i
court had acted and there was no i
other legal action open. i
This is now the status of the case. ;
Mooney is now in San Quentin i
awaiting the execution of the sen- i
tence which was passed upon him <
>y judge Griffin.
He must soon pay the penalty of
lis Ufe for the verdict against him
mless the governor soon takes sc
ion.
It will be recollected that Presi
lent Wilson has twice appealed to
Jovernor Stephens to intervene. Fear
if labor unrest and troubles should
dooney hang is evident in govern
nent circles, and. the longer the caso
ontinues the worse this condition
ibtains.
WASHINGTON, D. C-—It is un
officially announced that joint Allied
action in aid of all Russian factions
are supposed to have been started
and that the main plans have already
been decided upon. The details are
now being worked out rapidly and
will soon be in shape to be formally
promugated.
1 The President will address Con
gross on the subject.
The Allies will pledge thrmselvcs
to absolutely respect the sovereignty
of the Russian republic and its terri
tory intact as at the beginning of
the war, subject, to the satisfaction
of the Russian nation itself.
Neither annexation nor any other
seizure by Germany or Austria wiil
be recognized and the independence
and integrity of the Russian nation
and the right of the nation to con
trol its own destiny will be the form
al subject of tho address, with Presi
dent Wilson spokesman by general
consent for all the nations as
sociated against Germany in the
war.
It is impossible to over-rate the
importance of this.
CHEAPER COAL WITHIN
EASY DISTANCE NOME
Among those- who arrived from
St Michael on the Flyer on Sunday
ast was Mr Tom Powers of Unala
kleet. He has been in St Michael
for some time and determined to pay
a visit to our thriving, prosperous
and bustling burg.
Among others items of interest
which Mr Powers told about is the
fact that at Unalakloet has been
uncovered by a recent storm some
excellent lignite coal, ready in large
quantities for shipment and which
is in fact being burned with com
plete success in the kitchens of St
Michael, making hot and excellent
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fires, burning with a clean ash and
without clinkers. The coal is easily
accessible according to Mr Powers,
and could be brought to Nome by
schooners say for 11 dollars at ton,
and would cost In labor on the
schooner about five or six dollars.
It could profitably be retailed here
at the sum of say twenty dollars,
so why pay the price of thirty-one
dollars asked for outside coal
Here in fact is coal ready to hand
for the asking, so why burden ships
bottoms with monopoly coal from
the outside with tonnage so scarce
as it is when excellent coal is
locally available and at least ten
or eleven dollars a ton cheaper.
There is fine anchorage where
the coal is to be obtained too, says
Mr Powers, and there would bo no
trouble experienced rigging up a
cable and sending it on board the
ship.
Taking everything into considera
tion, there is no reason why Nome
ites if they are really in earnest,
should not get in all the coal they
want for the winter from this sourco.
Anyway it’s up to them.
Let ns estimate on your Job Work.
LIGHTSHIP WAS NOT
ATTACKED AFTER ALL
i
NEW BEDFORD, Mass,—Tuesday
morning the report that the light
ship off the Nantucket shoals had
been sunk by a diver was not con
firmed. Heavy firing had been
hoard in the vicinity all morning.
BOSTON,—Naval officers state
that the communication with the
Nantucket lightship is restored and
that the ship is still at her post.
Keep Posted, Head the WORKER.
BURLESON WILL RUN
TELEGRAPH LINES NOW
WASHINGTON, D. C.—President
Wilson issued an order directing that
all lines be taken over by the gov
(eminent. Burleson will operate the
^wlrea.
OVER HALF
A MILLION
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Secretary
JDaniols told the Naval Committee*
that the personnel of the United
States navy now exceeds tho half
a mjllion mark.
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