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ANCHORAGE, ALASKA. TUESDAY, JCNE is, i»|«.
PRICE 10 CENTS
S3,000.000 FIRE
VISITS SEATTLE
SEATTLE, June 13.—A bomb
j -which exploded In the upper part of
a grain elevator this afternoon re
sulted In the loss of that structure,
while four men were killed, several
are missing and 50 odd injured. The
bomb blew out one side of the build
ing and the flames soon licked up
the structure.
The fire also spread to the British
steamers Wilsbeck, Hall, Wellenban
riel and Senior, and did considerable
damage to these ships.
^ Over a million bushels of wheat,
belonging to the entente powers was
in the elevator When it burned down.
The loss is estimated at $3,000,000.
STEAMER NORTHWESTERN HAS
CAPACITY FREIGHT CARGO
SEATTLE, June 12.—The stehm
er Northwestern sailed from this
port yesterday with a capacity cargo
for Alaska. There were 25 passen
gers aboard for Anchorage.
PASSENGER TRAIN KILLS
TWO AND INJURES OTHERS
CLEVELAND, June 12.—A New
York Central passenger train ran in
to two hundred laborers, waiting for
their work train, during a heavy fog.
Two were killed and many injured.
CHAIRMAN PUBLIC SERVICE
COMMISSION HAS RESIGNED
OLYMPIA, June 12.—Governor
Lister today accepted the resigna
tion of C. A. Reynolds, chairman of
the public service commission, ef
fective July 1.
ANOTHER PIONEER I» GONE
SEATTLE. June 12. — Major
Jai&es- S. Chase, a pioneer of this
citj-, and member of the Veteran
Union and Arctic club, died here ,
yesterday.
DEMOCRATS GATHERING ST. LOUIS TO
ST. LOUIS. June 12.—There is a
well-defined movement on foot to
defeat . the renomination of Vice
President Marshall at the democrat
ic convention tomorrow. Jacob
Schieff, a New York banker, has
telegraphed Chairman McCombs
urging that a stronger man be
named.
WASHINGTON, June 12.—Secre
tary of War Baker will be President
Wilson's personal representative av
the democratic national convention
and leaves tonight for St. Louis,
carrying practically a complete draft
of the platform t) be adopted.
ST. LOUIS; June 12.—The pre
liminaries for the democratic con
vention were practically completed
today at a meeting of the national
committee which formally elected
Glynn temporary chairman. He de
livered the keynote speech and chose
the temporary officers, which dispos
ed of any contest.
ST. LOUIS, June 12.—Chairman
Stoner of the resolutions committee
of the democratic convention has ar.
rived with a draft of a number of
the planks, which have the approval
of President Wilson, in his pocket.
The object of the platform will be
to present a concrete record of the
party's achievements.
ST. LOUIS, June 13.—Delegates
and visitors to the democratic na
tional convention here tomorrow will
be entertained as delegates never
were entertained before.
Fifty-one non-partisan reception
committees have been named.
Forty-eight committees will take
care of the state delegations; one for ,
the District of Columbia delegation
and one each for the national com
mittee and the visiting newspapei
men.
Thirten state delegations will be i
looked after by clubs composed of
•natives of those states.
The other states will be looked
after by various local business and
civic organizations.
The convention will be St. Louis’
first chance since the Louisiana Pur
chase exposition in 1904 to entertain
distinguished personages and the old
town is going to leave nothing un
done that will make tor convenience
and entortainment.
ST. LOUIS, June 13.—Automobile
rides around St. Louis, a steamboat
excursion on the Mississippi, and
rides through Forest Park, the larg
est natural park in the United States
except Yellowstone, is part of the
entertainment prepared for dele
°'ats and visitors to the democratic
national convention in St. Louis to
morrow.
Shaw’s Garden will be another
point of interest. The reception
committees will include it on the
sight-seeing tours.
Clark Griffith’s Washington Sen
ators will be here during the con
vention days for a series with Jones’
Fed-Brown aggregation, and special
arrangements have been made to
have large delegations visit Sports
man's Park to see tTiem battle.
Visiting newspapermen and the
national committee were entertained
at a dinner last evening at Sunset
Inn, a beautiful lodge in St. Louis
county, a special cabaret program
being arranged.
MANY NEUTRAL VESSELS ARE ALSO DESTROYED
ODESSA, June 12.—The Russian torpedo boat destroy
ers have made a big raid on the Turkish merchant ships and
destroyed thirteen large vessels, laden with merchandise, of?
the Anatolian coast.
LONDON, June 12.—Four neutral vessels today were
reported sunk by mines or torpedoed, with many deaths. The
Norwegian steamer Prosper III was sunk and only the first
officer landed. He reported that he feared the crew, with ihe
exception of himself, had been lost. The Swedish steamer
Emma struck a mine and sank off Falsterbo; one was killed
by the explosion and four drowned. A Norwegian bark went
down, but the crew was landed at Ymuiden. The Swedish
vessel Para was also sunk, the crewr being saved.
Germany’s Losses Up to June 1.
LONDON, '.Tune 12.—Germany lost a total of 2.92-b58G
men up to June 1, of whom 734,412 were killed, according to
British official tabulation.
Artillery Active on the Meuse.
BERLIN, June 12.—Violent artillery fighting is in prog
ress on both sides of the Meuse, north of the French fortress
Verdun, according to a German statement issued today.
Russians Take 35,000 More Prisoners.
PETROGRAD, .Tune ’12.—In the fighting yesterday in
front of Volhynia and Galicia, the Russians took 409 officers,
85,000 men, 30 guns and an enormous quantity of booty. Hen
t -al Teeshitskyu, who was alone in command, and operating j
Znerpowitz and Bueko'wina, overwhelmed the Austrians1
and Hungarians, taking 18-000 prisoners. Since the pres
ent Russian offensive movement started the emperor’s troops
have.taken 118,000 prisoners.
French Repulse Infantry Attacks.
PARIS, June 12.—1The three Herman infantry attacks
against the French trenches at Hill 304 and the positons east
of that elevation, were completely checked last night hv the*
French troops, is the information contained in a statement
issued by the goernment.
Italian Cabinet Resigned. '
LON I >ON. June 12.—The Italian cabinet, headed by
Salendena, resigned today. This action was the result of a
failure on the part of the chamber of deputies to pass a vote
issued by the government.
ROME, June 13.—Former Minister of Finance Paolobo
zelli has been asked to form a new cabinet.
Aeroplanes Attack Venice.
BERLIN, June 13.—A squadron of Austrian aeroplanes!
attacked Venice on Sunday night. Several other points in
northern Italy were also bombarded.
CHAMBER TO MEET IN NEW
HOME TO! NIGHT
The Anchorage Chamber of Com
merce will hold their regular semi
monthly meeting at 8 o'clock tonight
in their new home on 4th avenue
and all members are expected to re
port, as there are several matters of
importance to be brought up before
the chamber. C. W. Bolte is the
latest Anchorage business man to
sign the roll and the names of Eli
De Hon and Capt. S. F. K Idall will
be voted on for election.
BARGE WITH COMMISSION LUMBER
AT MERCY OF SEA; MAT BE TOST
Captain S. F. Kildail, port coptain
for the Columbia Contract Company,
.s in receipt of two wireless messa
ges from the tug Sampson off Yaku
tat reporting extremely bad weather
and high seas. The Sampson is tow
ing, by the outside passage, a barge
of 700,000 feet of lumber for the
Commission in agreement with the
contract the Commission has with
the Columbia people. The messages
several hours apart anil dated Sun
day, were addressed to Capt. Sildall
and are as follows: "Fifty miles
southwest of Yakutat barge water
logged. got crew on board tag Samp
son and am heading for Yakutat
with barge hut at very slow rate of
speed.” Signed Captain Odsen.
Later in the same day Captain Odsen
wired "Ten miles off Ocean Cape.
Sampson broke down. Am in tow
fishing boat Knickerbocker headed
for Yakutat.”
Captain Sildall has wired Odsen
for more particulars and asking if
he needs assistance from here but at
the time of going to press had re
ceived no reply. All advices report
very bad weather au i rough seas and
(while Capt. Kildall would not ex
: press himself definitely, as his re- •
orts were indefinite as to the real
trouble, he said it might be that the :
sea had swept over the deck, filling i
the hatches and the cabin of tt.e i
barge ir t! at there was an < pen
seam in the 1 .rie and the pun; s not
of order. I • ha-, great confidence
in Captain C«.-en and says tin* nu
perfectly c.y-Mo of handli ig tie
situation.
Yakutat is situated midway be
tween Cape Spencer and Cape St.
Elias and about 800 miles from An
chorage. The fishing boat Knicker
bocker belongs to the New England
Fishing company who have a fishing
fleet in that vicinity and came to the
Sampson’s aid upon the S. O. S. sig
nal of distress.
Captain Clinger, of the steamship
Alameda, also reports a very rough
passage, saying that this was the
roughest trip he has experienced
this spring and that there were sev
eral boats at sea which had not been
heard from during this rough weath
er but there were no reports of any
of the boats being lost.
LARGES! BANG OF
VILLISTAS KILLED
PERSHING HEADQUARTERS.
Mexico, June 13.—Captain Rethorse,
in command of the twenty and thir
teenth cavalry, had a cla9h with the
Villistas in Chihuahua and wiped
out the largest hand of these revolu
tionists.
LAREDO, June 12.—One of the
three Mexican bandits killed today
In a chase of the outlaws who raided
the Coleman ranch, wore a Carranza
uniform, bearing the insignia of a
Carranza lieutenant-colonel. A pris
oner identified the body as that of
Lieutenant Colonel Villareal, of the
Carranza army.
R. J. Weir and B. H. Barndollar,
who are prominently connected with
the Alaska Engineering commision. j
departed for Seward on the steam- i
ship Alameda after spending a t'ei' J
days in Anchorage and vicinity.
DELEGATES ARE
IN TRAIN WRECK
LOUISVILLE. June 13.—A spe
cial train bearing the Kentucky del
egation from the republican national
convention, including Governor Stan,
ley, was wrecked at Owensboro. All
of the passengers escaped uninjured,
although badly scared. The sleepers
capsized and one of them is now
burning.
Harry G. Locke, accompanied by
Mrs. Locke, returned to Anchorage
on the steamship Alameda last even
ing. Mr. Locke is connected with
the Alaska Engineering commission
in the capacity of harbor master and
has been on the outside since the
first of the year buying boats and [
barges for their use at Anchorage, |
Turnagin Arm and Suistna river.
Miss Inez A'ams has returned
from a several weeks’ trip to the
states, where she purchased the sum
mer and fall stock for Mrs. Cattle’s
new ladies' furnishing store.
IMPERATIVE DUTY OF U. S.
TO RE PREPARED FOR WAR
WEST POINT, June 13.—Presi
dent Wilson, in a speech delivered
here to the army cadets, declared
that it was an imperative duty of the
United States to be prepared in case
of war, adding that "mankind is go
ing to know that when America |
speaks she means what she says.”
The following Alameda passengers
are registered at the Hotel Parsons:
Win. Martin. .1. W. Barr. W. J. Rob
erts, S. G. Ward. Jno. McCallum, .1. j
Peterson. R. O Scott, W T Gilbert
son and E Harris.
BIG SCANDAL IN
POLICE CIRCLES
SEATTLE, June 12.—An investi
gation has been started of the whole
sale theft by members of the police
department of liquors seized from
drug stores and other places and
stored in the city hall. It promises
to develop into a big scandal as prac
tically all the fine liquors have been
ditched. Mayor Gill is determined
to get to the bottom of the affair
and says that if necessary he will
dismiss the entire force and put hon
est men in their places.
SEATTLE. June 12.—The chief
of police's investigation tends to re
veal the fact that the city employes
have been selling seized liquor and
carrying on a regular traffic. “It
looks as if the city hall had been
made the headquarters for a gang jf
bootleggers," said the chief.
OIL COMPANY'S DOCK BERN'S
AMI EMPLOYE LOSES LIFE
SEATTLE, June 12.—The Stand
ard Oil company's dock at Richmond
Beach was burned today and Claud
Farmer, an employe, perished in th*
flames.
LEADER OF EMPRESSTHEATRB
ORCHESTRA HAS ARRIVED
Mrs. C. E. Richmond and children
were arrivals on the Alameda to Join
the former's husband, who is located
here. Mrs. Richmond is a pianiste
of considerable note and has been
playing in some of the principal the
atres at Seattle. She will be the
leader of the new Empress theatre
orchestra.
The ball fans are looking forward
to next Sunday's contest with con
siderable interest, ns the rivalry tie
tween the local teams is on the in
crease.
WILLOW CREEK OPERATOR RETURNS
AND GIVES INTERESTING INTERVIEW
Hon. Wm. Martin, of Seattle, was
a passenger on the steamship Ala
meda and spent the morning in An
chorage, leaving this afternoon on
the launch Swan for Knik. Mr. Mar
tin is one of the leading atttorneys
on the Pacific coast and numbered
among Seattle's most prominent cit
izens. His overflowing spirit of good
fellowship and generosity is proverb
ial; his love of the game and spirit
of risk is responsible for the town
cry in Seattle of “See Billie Mar
tin.” and they all heed the cry and
it is largely through this that Mr.
Martin is so vitally interested in the
famous gold quartz Willow creek
mining district
Mr. Martin also has valuable sil
ver and lead properties about 90
miles north of Prince Rupert in the
same district with the Armour and
Wingfield interests and visited this
property en route to Anchorage,
leaving Seattle three weeks ago. He
reports that the property owners are
at the presnt building a wagon road
into the district at the cost of $150,
000 and have several diamond drills
operating. His cinnebar property,
18 miles from the entrance of Rai
nier national park, is a proof of his
judgment, as this property is pro
ducing 800 tons daily and quicksil
ver selling at‘$1.25 a pound. The
firm of Stewart and Holmes are the
selling agents for this production.
Just coming from the seat of
northwestern commercial activity,
Seattle, Mr. Martin reports the de
mand for lumber is one of the few
causes of the good times the states
are enjoying: that the banks are
showing big reserve and deposits
only waiting for investment which
will come with a change in the ad
ministration or a settled policy in
regard to the big corporations and
railroads of this country He says
that the eyes of the American tour
ist are turned this way and that
there will be a large number of tour,
ists visit this section this coming
season.
Mr. Martin says the nomination ot
Chas. Evans Hughes on the republi
can ticket was extremely satisfactory
to the party as a whole, especially so
among the more conservative ele
ment; that Justice Hughes would
get the solid German vote; that Wil
son would get a strong vote in the
states supporting woman's suffrage
on account of his policy of peace but
would lose largely from his attitude
in the Mexican situation and he pre
diets a republican year.
Mr. Martin will visit his Willow
creek property, returning to Anchor
age within a few day3. He is send
ing down 100 pounds of sample or •
from his mine to the commercia'
club for exhibit and will use his in
fluence to have the other operator;
in this district do likewise. It is or
account of such progressive men as
Mr. Martin and through their ener
gies that the famous Willow Cree
mining district is comng into sue'
prominence and employing so man
men, all of which directly helps At
chorage. and is considered a part o"
this city.
W. G. Stoeser who received th
contract for the electrical work i
the new Fowler building, has als
recived the contract to do the wi- -
ing for the new Empress Theat.
building now in the course of co
struction on 4th avenue.