All Reports Unite in DeciaringThat Americans Without Excep
tion Acted Heroically and Surviving Officer Tells How
Men Under Him Lined Up on Deck at Attention and
Waited Until Rescued by Lritisk Destroyer—Two Women
Smile Bravely As They Go Over Side.
WASHINGTON, Feb. S.—William
A. Bishop, who, when he enlisted in
the Twentieth forestry engineers, gave
his place of residence as Anchorage,
was a member of one of the four units
cf the regiment aboard the transport
Tuscania when she was sunk last
Tuesday night in the waters of the
European war zone by a German
submarine and his name has not yet
appeared on any of the lists of sur
vivors.
Revised figures of the Tuscania’s
fatalities place the deaths at about
LX*0. Several days must elapse before
the losses can be definitely ascertain
ed, as survivors have been landed at
widely-separated places on the Irish
and Scotch coasts.
The bodies of 144 American sol
diers have been washed ashore on the
Irish coast.
Best of Order Prevailed.
All reports unite in declaring that
the best of order prevailed among the
company on the ill-fated ship at the
tune of the disaster. This is con
‘ •used by tin* fact that two typhoid
: r.d two pneumonia patients from
the ship's hospital were taken off the
vss.-l and landed, without suffering
any i!! effects.
Three men in one of the lifeboats,
which had difficulty in reaching shore,
died from exposure.
lhei“ wa re only two vcmer aoourd
the Tuscania. Both smiled bravely
j as they went over the side of the
I sinking craft and down a rope into a
small boat. They were landed safely.
American Officer’s Report.
An American officer, who landed at
an Irish port, has cabled the United
States war department that the
American soldiers, without exception,
behaved heroically in the crisis. He
cites an instance of where two detach
| meats of soldiers under his command
! were marched to the davits of two
| lifeboats assigned to them, only to
! find that the lifeboats had been dc
■ stroved by the explosion of the tor
pedo. The men lined up on deck at at
tention and retained their composure
; until they were taken off by a British
i destroyer, which came alongside the
sinking ship.
A report has been received in
Washington to the effect that the Ger
man submarine, which sank the Tus
cania, was itself attacked and sunk
immediately afterward by one of the
British destroyers convoying the
Tuscania.
The name William A. Bishop, who,
according to the Associated Press
dispatch from Washington, gave his
residence as Anchorage when he en
listed in the army and who is among
the ill-fated Tuscania’s list of miss
ing. does not appear either in the An
chorage city directory or on any of
,he employment rolls of the Alaskan
Pcgineering commission.
REPORT IN REGARD TO AFFAIR
IS SENT IIV AMERK \N MIN
ISTER TO SWEDEN.
NEWS LACKS CONFIRMATION.
State Depart men*, at Washington Has
Not Heard from Cnited .States Am
bassador to Petrograd Since Feb
ruary 2.
WASH I NCTO.N. I). CM Feb. !>.—
Ail diplomatic representatives of the
entente allied nations at I’etrograd
have been driven from there by the
Russian Muximiiist party, which is in
control oi the Russian government,
according to a dispatch received by
the American state department from
Ira Nelson Morris, United States
minister to Sweden, who is at Stock
holm.
Minister- Morris, while reporting
t E - -1 iie had received the intelligence
from i’etrograd, declared he had been
’••noble to confirm the news.
I he American state department ha
learned nothing in regard to the mat
ter direct tram Russia. It has not re
ceived any message from David R,
Francis, l i:itod States ambassador
to Russia, since February
WHILE IN ACTION
TWO M EM HERS OF C.EN. .1. .1
I'ERSHIMI’S FORCE MOUNDED
FIGHTING IN FRANCE.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.—Twc
American soldiers were wounded yes
terday while in action on the battle
front in France, according to the re
port today of General J. J. Pershing
commander of the United States arm\
in the foreign service.
The commander’s report was brie!
and went into to details.
SENATE COMMITTEE ON MILI
TARY AFFAIRS AMEND CON
NO RELEASES AFTER AGE OF 31.
President Is Authorized to Call Into
Service of Government Industrial
and Agricultural Experts Regard
less of Classification.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—Young
men as they attain the age of twenty
one years must register under the se
lective conscription law, according to
a bill on which the senate military
committee has unanimously ordered a.
favorable report to the senate. The
bill is really an amendment to the se
lective conscription law now on the
statute hooks.
Tire bill also bases the quotas on the
number of men in class one of tire
questionaire instead of state popula
tion.
The proposal to cancel from mili
tary registration lists all undrafted
men as fast as they become thirty-one
years of age was not included in the
| amendatory measure.
A proposal to* require the registra
tion of youths of 19 years of age was
■ defeated.
The senate committee on military
! affairs late yesterday afternoon re
i ported a bill authorizing the president
i to call skilled industrial and agricul
! tucal experts into the service of the
I government regardless of their classi
fication and places of residence undei
the military quota.
CORRECT.
“There is one thing that I well know,’
Observed Mr. Hutch;
“Man wants but little here below,
And seldom gets that much.”
—Luke McLuke.
“Well, Mr. Hutch, you are a mutt,”
Replied Beriah Hitt;
“I want but little trouble, but
I get a lot of it.”
OFTROOPS NOT
EXPLAINED YET
SECRETARY OF WAR NEWTON I)
BAKER DOES NOT WANT
TO MAKE PLANS PUBLIC.
SENATORS AVOID SQUABBLE.
Cabinet Officer Declares That He and
President Plan to Reorganize War
Department so as to Satisfy All
Critics.
i WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—In the
opinion of national legislators, the ex
amination of Newton D. Baker, secre
tary of war, before the senate com
mittee on military affairs leaves un
settled the chief issue in the con
troversy over the government’s ad
! ministration of war matters, namely,
I where the United States can obtain
the ships with which to transport
j 2,000,000 men to France this year?
| Secretary Baker, while declaring
that in figuring on the transportation
1 of 1,000,000 men he did not depend en
; tirely on American shipping facilities
! did not volunteer and was not asked
to outline the details of any of his
plans, because members of the com
mittee did not want to get into a
squabble over whether it would be pro
per to have the secretary make public
his calculations on shipping facilities.
The secretary intimated that he and
, President Wilson were discussing a re
organization of the war department
which they hoped would satisfy those
critics of the administration that are
pressing the bill for the creation of the
office of director of munitions.
ALBUQUERQUE FAMILIES MAY
KEEP PORKERS AND FEED
THEM ON TABLE SCRAPS.
ALBUQUERQUE, X. M., Feb. 9.—
! City ordinances which from early
days have prohibited the keeping of
i livestock inside the city limits, except
i under special license, and then only
! in the case of dray animals or dairy
| cows, may be abrogated soon in fav
or of the “war pig.” A war pig ac
I cording to the city officials, is a pig
! raised or fattened on table scraps.
I kept to aid in winning the war by
i increasing the food supply.
City authorities are investigating
j the question of permitting “war pig
| geries.”
The state food administrator, Ra'ph
j C. Ely, brought the matter to their at
j tention, and, while they have taken no
j oofTicial action they sav they likeU
i '
j will allow the piggeries.
SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, Feb. 9.—
“Porto Rico has on hand and immed
i iately available more foodstuffs than
! at any time during the past two years.
| Prices in the island for staple commo
! dities are, on the whole, lower than
anywhere under the American flag, so
far as available records give us
figures.”
This was the statement today by
i John M. Turner, treasurer, of the food
| commission, who characterized it as a
J message of cheer to Porto Ricans on
| the opening of the new year.
RAILWAY MEN TO
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8. — Nine
hundred and forty-five million dollars
annually, or five and thirty-two hun
dredths per cent in dividents is guar
anteed owners of railroad stock while
the government retails control of the
transportation lines, according to the
provisions of a bill introduced in the
senate today by Senator Ellison D.
Smith, democrat, of South Carolina,
chairman of the senate committee on
interstate commerce.
L
JOINS iff
MAYME BYLES, FORMERLY
WITH TIMES, WILL ENTER
ACTIVE SERVICE MONDAY.
HERRING NETS $25 A BARREL.
Charles E. Herron Leaves Seattle for
Pittsburg—Mr. and Mrs. William
Gerig Will Sail for Alaska This
Week.
Special Cable to The Times.
SEATTLE, Feb. 8.—May me Byles,
who formerly had charge of the cir
culation department of the Anchorage
Daily Times and who just at pres
ent is managing the office in Seattle
of the Anchorage Times and the
Ivachemak Canning company, has en
listed in the United States naval re
serve forces as a first class yeoman.
She will enter active service next
Monday at the Puget Sound Navy
Yard at Bremerton, Wash.
The recent shipment of 500 barrels
of herring from the Kachemak Can
ning company’s plant on Kachemak
bay, on Cook inlet, brought $25 a bar- i
rel on the Seattle market.
Charles E. Herron, publisher of the |
Anchorage Times and president of the ;
Kachemak Canning company, will ’
leave Seattle tonight for Pittsburg on j
a business trip.
William Gerig, recently appointed'
engineer for the Anchorage division]
of the Alaskan Engineering commis- ]
sion, has arrived with Mrs. Gerig in
'Seattle from Washington, I). C. They!
: are staying at the Frye hotel. They;
i will sail this week for Anchorage.
G () N N O P GUTHRIE, ENGLISH
SHIPPING REPRESENTATIVE
IN AMERICA, IS HONORED.
NEW YORK, Feb. 7.—American
friends of Gonnop Guthrie, the repre
sentative in the United States of the
British ministery of shipping, have
just learned that knighthood has been
conferred him in recognition of his
work here. He has been made a
knight commander of the Order of the
Britsh Empire and henceforth will add
the prefix “Sir” to his name. Sir Gon
nop has made his headquarters in
this city whence he has controlled ail
the British and some of the entente
allied tonnage employed in the trans
portation of supplies to the war zone.
This has brought him in close con
tact with large business interests of
America. At the beginning of the
war he went to France with the
Grendadier Guards, was wounded at
Neuve Chapelle and incapacitated for
further military service, retiring with
the rank of captain. Afterward he
was attached to the British admiralty
service in London.
i
BUTTE, Mont., Feb. 7. — Fire
| alarms in the Butte Mining company’s
properties here are to be spread
through the sense of smell, rather
j
than that of hearing or sight. By the,
means of compressed air, an unusual j
' odor is to be forced through the work- .
\ ings, and it is believed that the alarm
: may thus be spread quickly.
Because it will not depend upon the
; unbroken circuits, as the present sys- j
tern of electric lights does, and will be j
' distinctly noticeable everywhere in the j
| mine, it is believed that the proposed j
| system will be most efficacious.
As a part of its “safety first” pro- j
; gram at its Black Rock mine, the j
; Butte & Superior company is issuing
: at intervals a periodical, containing a
tabulated record of all accidents
whereby a man is incapacitated for
14 days or more. First aid sugges
tions and rules for accident preven
tion also are given.
We are Helping Our Customers
to Meet the Demands of the
Present
and are Assisting Them in
Their Plans for the
Future
We Invite Your Account
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bank as decided in a recent publicity contest entitled “Can You Tell
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COLLEGE TEACHES
COLORADO INSTITUTION GIVES
WORKING KNOWLEDGE OF
FOREIGN LANGUAGE.
FORT COLLINS, Colo., Feb. 11.—
So that drafted men may have a work
ing knowledge of French before they
are landed on French soil to fight the
Germans, a class in elementary
French recently was opened at the
state agricultural college. Miss Saah
L. Kettle, professor of modern lan
guages, is responsible for the new
class for which no charge is made.
The membership is not limited to
Ik Sitka Hot Springs
These springs are fivA in
number and one of the old Mrid
marks of Alaska. The Russians
had a hospital there in 1841.
where they sent patients with
diseases of the skin and consti
tutional blood disorders.
The temperature averages
143 degrees Fahrenheit at the
Spring. The baths are effica
cious for rheumatism, stomach
and liver troubles, kidney and
bladder diseases, and for consti
tutional disorders.
These springs are in charge
of Dr. F. L. Goddard. The
terms for room, board, kand
baths, $2 a day and up. Cdtnns..
87.50 per month and up, includ
ing furnishings, except bed
F. L. GODDARD, M. D,
ding.
ADDRESS
SANITARIUM,
ALASKA,. „
draft men and several
! joined.
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