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ANCHORAGE, ALASKA, TUFA!'A V. .JULY 25. 1916.
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PARIS, July 25.—It is officially announced by the French
war office that in yesterday’s lighting on the French frontier,
the French troops captured a large block of houses south of
Eastrees, driving the German forces from them, and that rn
the sector north'of Vermadevillers, the French troops drove
the German troops from trenches and gained the occupancy of
them.
British Claim Success at Pozieres.
LONDON, July 25.—The British official reports today
claim that the British forces have captured from the Germans
y the greater part of the village of Pozieres. The Germans brougnt
* re-inforcements to the scene and engaged in counter attacks,
but were repulsed with heavy lo-se- by the British.
Russians Near Turkish Fortress.
PETROGRA1), July 25.—An olneial report says that some
detachments of the Russian army have already reached a point
within three miles of the fortified city of Fvzinuen, in Turkish
Armenia, and that a bombardment will follow immediately.
Italians Capture Monte Cimona.
.ROME, July 25.—The Italian war office officially announ
ces the capture by the Italian troops of the fortress of Monte
Cimona.
DISH WEST INDIES
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WASHINGTON, July 25.—It is officially armoimeed at
the white house today that the United States government lias
practically completed negotiations for the purchase of the Dan
ish We.st Indies from Denmark. The purchase price, $25,00u,
000, has been agreed upon by the contracting governments.
The treaty will probably be signed today and be rushed to the
senate for continuation. Because of its distance from Den
mark, that country lias long wished to dispose of this posses
sion, which is coveted by the United States as a coaling base [
for the navy, as well as for commercial purposes.
EXPLOSION KILLS IINIM
LABORERS ON TUNNEL WORK
CLEVELAND, July 25.—The explosion of gas in the wat
er works tunnel, Lake Erie, five miles from shore yesterday,
resulted in the killing of twenty-four workmen and the serious
injury of many others, six of whom will die as a result of their
wounds. Three men were taken out uninjured. Gustav Van
Dusen, who led the first relief piTrtv, is among those who lost j
their lives. He was the superintendent of the work.
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CLUES FOUND
IN BOMB PLOT
SAN FRANCISCO. July 25.—The
police authorities have obtained two
letters that may prove valuable clues
in the bomb plot, in which prepared
ness paraders were killed Saturday.
One of these mj33ives was received,
previous to the outrage, by Police
Commissioner Woods, who stops at
the St. Francis Hotel. This letter
told the commissioner that he should
take precautions against poison as
the writer had knowledge that an ef
fort was being made to have the
deadly ingredient placed in his food.
The other letter was received by the
head waiter of the St. Francis and
urged him to place poison in the soup
when he served the police commis
sioner.
While following the letter clues,
the police are bending their efforts in
other directions as well.
WASHINGTON, July 25.—United i
States Ambassador to England 1’age
and United States Ambassador to 1
France Sharp have been instructed:
by the State department to advise i
the British and French governments ,
that the British note dealing with ■
the seizure of United States mails
on neutral vessels was not satisfac- J
factory, and that another memoran-;
dum complying with the demands of I
the American government would be j
expected without unnecessary delay, j
DEMOCRATIC DIVISIONAL
CONVENTION TOMORROW j
SEWARD, July 25.—The democrat- j
ic divisional convention will convene
m Seward tomorrow morning at 10
o’clock. Quite a number of delegates
I are here, to attend the convention, in
cluding Delegates Murphy and Martin
from Anchorage.
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❖ SECRETARY LANE WILL VISIT ANCHORAGE
❖ TO TAKE A LOOK AT THE RAILWAY PROJECT
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♦ SEATTLE, July 25.—Secretary of the Interior
■*> Fran Ivlin K. Lane will visit Anchorage the latter part
^ of August, according to information given out by Bo
^ Sweeney, the Seattle attorney, who i- now assistant
^ secretary of the interior. Mr. Sweeney is here on a
brief vacation trip. He says that Mr. Lane is very de
^ sirous of making the trip to Anchorage and will make
^ it if he can possibly spare the time from his du
^ ties at the capitol. Mr. Sweeney further says that
^ “Secretary Lane feels that if the Alaska railway is
♦ economically constructed and operated successfully,
^ it will be a great and lasting monument to President
♦ Wilson and himself.”
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READ! SALE FOR
LOIS AND TRACTS
The sale of town lots and acre
tracts at public auction was continued 1
last evening, with the following re- 1
suit as taken from the official rec
ords:
Lot Block Name amount!
3 1? E. J. Warner .S280 00 j
fit
13 Eser Wikholm ....
63 John A. Carmodv .
63 John Thompson ...
63 Oliver W. Evans ..
77 Henry C. Hall ....
87 Raymond W. Silver
87 Raymond W. Silver
87 Raymond W. Silver
10 87 Anton Johnson ....
11 87 Holmar Saarale ....
12 87 Finar Thomsen ....
1 88 John Erickson and Is
Martin .
2 88 Lunvig Olsen ....
11 83 Carl Johnson ...
F. Kildall . . .
: Ibert Lopaz ....
4 94 Price McLaughlin
5 191 Morris S. Coble . .
10 1 'Jl .Arthur Thompson
11 101 Albert E. Cary ..
1 102 Homer T. Fowler
2 102 Henry Segall ....
8 102 Simon Olsen .
9 102 Milliam H. Tolan
10 102 Axel S. Johnson .
5 103 S. Wolsky .
6 103 Guy Cordiner ....
2 105 James Anderson .
10 107 Pete Martin .
3 108 Isaac H. Fleis'ehman
East Addition
19 Lawrence B. Cole
19 Victor Johnson ...
19 James Hansen ...
20 John Rawluk ....
20 Nik Cohokes ....
20 Nels Lundell ....
20 Joseph Vogler ...
20 Gudni Jackson ...
6 21 Edward Vogel ...
1 22 Hitding Hagstrom
22 Cora M. Berg ...
22 Wilbur F. Catton
22 John Carey .
22 Wilbur F. Catton .
22 Andrew Amodt ..
22 Charles G. Bacon
8 22 'L. J. Englund
9 22 Mrs.Christina Hanson 143.00
10 22 Thomas M. Sheehan.
11 22 Thomas M. Sheehan.
12 22 Henry A. Mills ....
11 23 Andrew Amodt . . ..
12 23 Wilson Freeman . . .
8 24 Bob A. Votava.
3 25S Hans Martinsen and
ner Dybvik .
25S Thomas Coffey ....
25N William Loftus ....
25N Ivan Hanus .
25S Martin Scott .
South Addition.
5 17 Werner Biornson . .
1 18 Carl O. Diener ..
2 18 Geo. S. Koch .. .
3 18 Alfred S. Koch .
4 20 Lena Noslosky ..
5 20 Patrick J. McDonald
1 21 John A. Carmody ..
2 21 Clarence R. Rhodes .
1 22 Oscar Anderson ...
700.00 j
75.00
80.00 !
85.00 i
150.00
75.0f
65.00 !
50 00
60.0C j
80.00 1
115.00
100 00 :
75.00 |
25.00
150.00
140.00
125.CC
145.0 J
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175 CO
275.00
160:0
130/0
1.30.09
110.00
180.00
260.00
105.00
75.00
110.00
135.00
145.00 ;
153.06
165.00 :
160.06 :
150.00 j
180.06 |
200.00!
250.0“ !
160.00 |
155.00 :
155.00
165.00
185.00
21100
135.90
160.00
150 00
145.00
170.00
150.00
170.00
125.00
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200.00
225.00
215.00
240.90
390.00
260.00
270.00
275.00 :
275.00 !
250.00
275.00 '
510.01!
380.00 ;
510.00 1
TWO ARE KILLED IN
PORTLAND AUTO RACK
PORTLAND, Ore.. July 25.—Driv- j
er Ulysses Aubry and Mechanician j
Frank Lane, participants in the big j
auto race here Sunday, were instant
ly killed when their machine met j
with a mishap. Their bodies will be |
shipped to Tacoma for interment, the j
racers coming from that city to par- j
ticipate in the big event here.
SALE OF LOIS
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A sm;:ll Im.u.site survey is being
made a'. Matanuska Junction consist
ing of 52 li -mess lots and about 50
residence lot.-, and a sale will be held
at Matanuska Junction commencing
at 12 o’clock Wednesday, Jyly 26,
1916, at which time such number of
busint - lots as there is a demand
for will be sold and also a number of
residence lots.
There will be an assessment of $20
on the business lots for improvements j
and Jit1.'' i or $15.00 on residence lots. |
These a -.-uients are for the purpose !
of covering the cost of improving the I
streets and other improvements. The
assessments will pVobably be levied i
later, the same as will be done at An- 1
chorage, for improvements that are
made from time to time.
It is not expected that there will be
a large town at Matanuska. The
purpose of placing these lots on the
market at this time is to arrange for
the placing of restaurants, hotels and
such business houses as there may be
demand for. The town will be located
at the junction of the Matanuska
branch. There will be a freight house
and depot. The town will be the dis
tributing point for the farmers in the
vicinity thereof.
The homesteaders in that vicinity
have already petitioned for the re
moval of the Matanuska post office to
this point, and they are now seeking
a person to accept the postr.iaster
ship.
The lots will be cold under the Alas
kan railroad townsite regulations, un
der the same terms as the lots at An
chorage were sold. Persons purchas
ing lots must be prepared to make
payment at Matanuska Junction on
the date of the sale. Payments can be
made in cash, post office money order,
or government checks. No individual
checks will be accepted.
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COMMISSION ISSUES j
CALL FOR LABORERS!
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The Alaskan Engineering commis- 1
sion has sent in a call for 200 addi
tional laborers to start work at once, j
The scope of work is large and r
there should be no reason for anyone
being idle in this city because he can 1
not find the class of work he wants ' 1
when this body of 200 men will be f
proportioned to the steel gang, extra *
gang, road work, trail building and j
station work.
It sounds good to The Daily Times ! j
to hear this call for men and goes to
stimulate the present optimistic feel- .
ing the people of Anchorage have in
regard to the great work that is be
ing accomplished by the Alaskan En
gineering commission.
LONGSHOREMEN’S STRIKE f
CHANGES SAILING DATES i
Agent F. B. Watson, of the Admiral I.
lines, advises that the sailing'date ol 1 '
the Admiral Evans due to sail from 1
Seattle for Anchorage July 23, has j 1
been postponed until July 27th, also i
the next sailing dates of the Admiral | \
Farragut have been changed to Aug-, s
ust 6th, Admiral Watson August 13th s
and the Admiral Evans on August : e
20th. This will put the Admiral linejt
boats back on the regular schedule, j f
with one steamer leaving Seattle ev- 1
ery Sunday night at 9 o’clock. i
The break in the schedule was caus- j
ed by the recent longshoremen strike I (
in Seattle, which caused a delay in ad ]
vessels leaving that port. t
WITH ALLIES VICTORS
LONDON, July 25.—David Lloyd George, former minis
ter of munitions and recently named war minister to succeed
Lord Kitchener, deceased, in a speech in the house of commons
resterdav afternoon, declared that tiie world war would reach
in end within the next few months mil that the victory would
u> tn the Allied powers. British resourcefulness and intelii
fence. declared the brainy \\ elshman, would be big contribut
ing/actors in gaining an early victory.
Lloyd-George paid a line tribute to the Allies of the Brit
sh government, lie said the Ru-sians were successfully car
ving on a big offensive against the enemy and that the French,
Jeigiaus and Italians were working in the utmost harmony
mil achieving decisive results, lie paid a glowing tribute to
he ilritish at the front.
Submarine Freighter Soon to Sail.
LALT1MORL. July 2->.—Agents of the submarine freigh
er Deutschland say that the vessel will sail within a few days,
t is authoritatively learned that negotiations have been com
iletcii lor the shijirnent of large gold consignments to Gennanv.
Germans Repulse Russian Attacks.
LLIiLIN. July 25.— 1 lie strong and aggressive Rns -ian at
ari.- oil the German forces in the Volhynia region have been
■epulsod, the enemy meeting with heavy losses.
WASHINGTON, July 25.—President Wilson has sent
rord to the congress that lie stands /behind the senate’s big
laval program which comprehends the construction
>f four dreadnoughts and four battle cruisers immediate
y, as well as destroyers and submarines. The president’s at
itude practically insures the passage of the senate’s naval pro
gram. which is more comprehensive than that proposed by the
ower house.
MISTAKE, RILLS POLICE OFFICER
SEATTLE, July 25.—In a pistol battle last night. Police
sergeant John Feed in was killed and Police Chauffeur Robert
►Viley was dangerously wounded by I. Suchiro, a Japanese
mploycd as a watchman for a warehouse. Suchiro was fatally
rounded during the fight and died at an early this morning,
flie warehouse had been raided several nights before the shooi
ng, in the belief that contraband liquors were stored in it.
die policemen went to the warehouse, dad in civilian clothes,
o make another raid. The Japanese watchman, win thought
he officers were robbers, opened fire, with the result as above
tated.
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JUNEAU,i*July 24.—Belated news
rom Sitka of the death, by su
■ide, of John Goodell, a pioneer of
ilaska. 1., Friday afternoon at
o’clock Goodell entered the bath
oom of the Pioneer’s Hon*1 and took
is life by cutting his throat with a
azor. He first slashed his left
,’rist with the razor, but failed to
ever tin artery. The news of the
elf-destruction of the pioneer shock
d the little settlement of Sitka, al
hough it was known that he was in
inancial difficulties and that his
ealtli was badly impaired. He leaves
. son to mourn his loss and a host of
lioneer friends throughout the south
rn coast of Alaska.
Interment was made at Sitka and
he obsequies were largely attended.
CHARGES REED
AGAINST MILITIA
EL PASO, July 25.—General Gon
zales, commander of t o Cazranzis
ta forces at Juarez, ha formally pro
tested to General 1 ■ -II, on aider of
the United States forces at El Paso,
against the conduct of the Ninth
Massachusetts infantry, national
guard, which is alleged to have enter
; ed Mexican territory and shot up sev
eral Mexican homes. An investiga
I tion of the charge will be made.
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LABOR UNION MEETS TONIGHT.
At a meeting of the Labor Union
: last night it was decided to call a
special meeting for tonight to take
up the matter of requesting the Ai
i aska Engineering Commission to pay
jthe men on the line by check instead
i of requiring them to call in person
| for their money.