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VOLu 11.
NOME, AliAHKA. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1018.
NO. 2485.
DAILY COST OF WAR ENORMOOS
113 U. S. SOLDIERS, &
97 OTHERS MISSING
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 7.—
The State Department announces
the sinking of tho Anchor Liner
Tuscania. Tho Tuscania was a
British shtv manned by British sea
men and convoyed by British war
ships ar.d being used to transport
American troops from the United
States to England. She had pasesd
through the North Channel, which
situated between the North East
Coast of Ireland and The Penin
sula of Cantre in Scotland, which
eonnect3 the Irish Sea with the
Atlantic Ocean, and just a short
distance off the Maiden Islands at
the time torpedoed. The Depart
ment states that the Tuscania car
ried Twenty One hundred and
seventy Three American soldiers
and officers and of these Nineteen
Hundred and Twelve were saved
and Two Hundred and Sxty One
were drowned. Admiral Simms,
commanding American torpedoe
boat flotilla, reporting from London
says the transport is still afloat
and that he has hopes that the
number of drownedat first reported
may jet be cut down. Most of the
troops on the Tuscania belonged
to the Michigan and Wisconsin Na
tional Guard.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 7.—
The latest reports received by the
War Depa-tn’.cnt shows only One
Hundred and Tbirtfen American
:oldiors missing as a result of the
torpedoing of the British Liner
Tuscania. The later report also
states that there were Ninety Seven
passergera and members of the
iMps crow missing, bringing the
total number of missing to Two
Hundred acd Ten. The total num
ber of all soldiers, passengers and
crew aboard is Twenty Three Hund
red and Ninety Seven. Soldiers
and officers Twenty Hundred and
Fifty Six. Passegers and crew Two
Hundred and Forty One. Naval
officers here believe that the num
ber reported lost will be reduced
when the final report is made by
Admiral Simms.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 7.—
The same German submarine which
which torpedoed the British liner
Tuscania also sank another British
freighter shortly after. The Navy
Department refuses to discuss the
report. The second vessel it is
claimed al30 belonged to the same
convoyed fleet as the Tuscania but
carried no troops.
The following is quoted from
page 178 of the 1916 edition of the
Worlds Almanac and Encyclopedia.
"The Tuscania is one of the An
chor line fleet of vessels, gross
tonnage 14.348, horse power 14,
000, length 667 feet, breadth 66.6,
depth 45 feet, built by Stephens
and Co. at Glasgow in 1914. Main:
office No. 17 Broadway, New York. |
Dock at New York and Glasgow
pier at the vroot of West 14th St.
The Anchor line was established in
1852.
Anything in On liM or Job wort
at the Industrial Worker Offlco
Satisfaction sugared.
GIGANTIC PLOT SPREAD
DISEASE GERMS
AN ATLANTIC PORT, Feb. 7.—
The Nethcrland-Americf.n S. N.
Co’s liner New Amsterdam arrived
today with an immense number of
bulbs from Hollr.nd. Upon arrival
the New Amsterdam was imme
diately placed under a heavy mill
ti-ry guard and no one allowed to
laud from the liner or to go aboard
except government officials. Dozens
of Amcrcian custom inspectors and
British secret service men boarded
ihe liner and proceeded to rigid
ly search all passengers, crew anti
cargo. The Customs Department
has secret information to the ef
fect that German "frightfulness
agents” are plotting to smuggle In
disease germs in the cargoes of all
neutral shpping. All tooth and
face powders carried by the fifteen
hundred passengers was ordered
confiscated and immediately de
stroyed as a >!rst precaution.
Numbers of the bulbs and ether
pieces of cargo will bo subjected
to very sevore chemical tests by
tbe government chsniats aid Jf
ary trace of diso^so germs is
found by them, tbe entire cargo
will be doslrjyed. Oae of t'.ie in
spectors claims that there are more
than a million flower bulb3 in the
cargo. All pasGsigrc-s will bo
subjected to another thorough ex
amination after coming ashore a .u
will he kept ur.'ter surveillance for
s:no time after they have been al
lowed to leave the dock.
ROOSEVELT’S CONDITION
ANNOUNCED SERIOUS
NEW YORK, Feb. 7.—Following
a hurried consultation of several
of tl;o loadiug ph;.:cians here to
day, it was announced that Teddy
Roosevelt’s condition is much
worse since the operation was per
formed. His present condition is
considered serious. Inflam&tion has
developped in his left ear, and the
back of hin head is swollen to the
natural size of a pumpkin. The pa.
lient is suffering intense pain.
The family physicaln further an
nounced that on accont of the ser
iousness of the Colonel's condicio
ho will not be a perogrinator for
Fome time to come.
FIGHT FOR LIBERTY
WAGED IN GERMANY
Democracy In Kaiser's Country Is
In Full Attack on War-Mad
Junkers.
STOCKHOLM, Feb. 7.—The
struggle between, democracy and
junkorism is on in full blast in
Germany, even though many Amer
ican dalies, for reasons best known
to themselves, are attempting to
jnake people believe (hat tho mas
ses of Germany aro cawed and con
trolled by autocracy.
At Frankfort on tfce Main, for
example, a mass meeting v/as held
in which 50,000 persons partici
pated. a ul it was necessary to uti
lize six plaforms to address all
the people who desired to hear the
war problems discussed.
Speakers representing the “de
mocratic bloc”—Socialists, Radi
cals and Catholics—pounded hard
against annexation schemes of the
imperialists and in favor of an
honest anc". democratic suffrage sy
stem.
Meetings are also being held in
other cities to arouse the people
and the junkers are being forced
on the detersive more definitely
than ever before.
CERTIFICATES FOR
$500,000,000 MORE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 7.—
Secretary of the Treas
ury McAdco today make?
(he announcement of the issuing
of five hundred million of certifi
cates of indebtedness. Subsequent
issues may be expected until the
tot? 1 of throe billion is raised to
relieve the present tension. The
Secretary stated fhet at the present
time the war was costing America!
on an average of $40,000,000 a
day and a? the third liberty loan,
'.vould not In all probability, be
launched before April it wes abso
lutely neceisary to issue certificates
of ir.debtness at this time. The
estimated coast of the world war
up to tl.e present time is an eve*.
5.100,000,000,000 and if continued
until next August will m.u’it to
the stupendous sum of $165,000,
000,000.
The daily cor.t of the war in
cluding all belligcreifts is die st.-g
gcring sum of $160,000,000.
Interest on the German public
debt lias reached te;. per cant cf
the normal income of the people
of that country while in America.
It is up to date less than one hair
of one per cent.
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 7.—A Commit
tee of the St. Louis Chamber of
Commerce today called on the
Board of Directors of the Traction
Co.. After a lengthy conference
one of the committee gave out the
information that the strike would
be settled in the next forty eight
hours by the Traction Co. atv.eed
ing to the strikers demands.
The city has been almost com
pletely paralyzed by the tie-up of
street car traffic on most all lines.
The sympathy of the people was
so overwhelmingly in favor of the
union mens demands that business
in general throughout the entire
city was at a stand still and the
businessmen themselves were for
ced to take action. They showed
that they had at least a little com
mon sense in compelling their
Chamber of Commerce to act, in
stead of calling the union men
pro-German and having them ar
rested for attempting to halt the
military preporations of the govern
ment. But this is exactly the way
the San Francisco Chamber of
Commerce would have done. This
goes to show that a man may be a
member of one of these organiza
tions und still not be a boi o head.
GET THE NEWS RIGHT. REAP
THE WORKER.
MILWAUKEE COUNCIL
MAY TURN TAOLES
ARREST OF OFFICERS MAY
FOLLOW THEIR BREAKING
UP OF MILWAUKEE PEACE
MEETING.
MILWAUKEE, Feb. 7.—Warrants
have been issued by District At
torney Zabel for the arrest of three
deputy sheriffs and a federal
agent, charged with stopping a
meeting of the Polish branch of thei
People’s Council for Democracy
and Terms of Peace List night.
The raecti-’g was addresesd by
W. D. Dinoski, editor of a Polish
paper in Pittsburg. It is alleged
that Dinoski said this country is
just as bad as Russia ever was, and
that soon there would take place in
the United States just what is tak
ing place in Russia today.
The warrants charge the deputy
sheriffs and federal agent with un
law fu.ly, wilfully and wrongfully
breakng up a peaceful gathering.
Edmund T. Mcms, farmery sheriff
and county organizer of the Social
ist parly, was the complainant.
“I waited 24 hours after hearing
the complaint of Mr. Melms,” said
Zabel. “I took this time to seo
whether or not the department of
justice made many ar
rest as a result of the affair. They
did not, and that, to my mind, is
sufficient evidence that the meeting
was not in violation of the law.
When it wr.s stopped by these de
puty sheriffs and this supposed fed
eral investigator, they stopped a
meeting that was peaceful and not
detrimental to the interests of the
government.”
“I think that the three deputies
did not exceed their authority,”
said Sheriff Patrick McManus.
“They were sent out from this of
fice with instructions to prevent
any seditious or treasonable talk.
Wften the speaker made the refer
ence that a civil war should reign
in this country as well as in Rus
sia, I believe that the men were
justified in stopping his address.
The men did not stop the meeting
but simply requested that another
speaker be introduced.’
$15,000 JUDGEMENT AWARDED
CHILD FOR SCAR’S ACT
Li
NEW YORK, Few. 7.—A Little
Bronx girl, Kathrrino Catona,
9 years olti was run over by a
Union Railway ear operated by a
strike breaker raotorman, at Jer
ome avenue and Evelyn place in
February a year ago, was given
$15,000 for the loss of nine fingers
by a jury in the Bronx supreme
court today. The child with the
pitiful little rubs of hands, was in
court when the sealed verdict was
opened.
Her father, Paul Catona, janitor
at the New York university, and
whoso home is at Jerome avenue,
was awarded $1,900 as guardian
of the maimed girl.
The case was hard fought for
five days by Attorney Thomas J.
O’Neill, who represented the Cato
nas. He proved that the ear was
run at a speed of 20 miles an
hour, past two crossings, regard
less of efforts of a passenger to
stop it; that it had no headlight,
although darkness was on, the hour
being 5:45 in the evening, and
that the moterraau railed to ring
his bell cr to give any other
I T!!., I
alarm.
The attorneys fcr the Union
Railway showed considerable dis
satisfaction with the verdict, and
told Justice Peter Hendricks that
they would contest the findings by
taking the case to the court of ap
peals.
Catona offered, a few months ago,
to compromise the case for $10,
000 with the Union Railway, but
Us attorneys decided to try for a
better settlement by the supreme
court.