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Änchomge Knili Timä
AND COOK INLET PIONEER
VOL. 1. NO. 215.
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1916.
PRICE 10 CENTS
Sporting Editor Smith is getting
his dope on the baseball situation in
shape for tomorrow’s publication and
has four teams as selected by such
dyed-in-the-woOl fans as Billy Nor
mile, Bill Spencer, Blackie Wible and
J. T. Cunningham.
Managers Tracy and Robarts have I
turned in their line-up and much in- \
terest is being taken by the lovers of
j/ the national game in Mr. Smith’s in
novation.
There will be nothing binding on
these line-ups and no feelings will be
hurt but the idea was promulgated in
order to keep up the interest in base
bal circles and is only following out
the line of the metropolitan papers in
the east. Much interest, is being cen
tered in the series ot games that will
be played at Seward early next
month and the town is absolutely be
hind the team that will represent
Anchorage and The Daily Times is
interested enough in the series to send
a correspondent with the Anchorage
team to Seward so that its readers
will get the game right off the bat.
Chief Operator Stine working over- :
time to make up to The Daily Times j
for the several hours’ delay in trans
mission of news on account of “break ,
in the Anchorage-Seward ‘line’ ” rush- j
ed into the office at the last minute
this afternoon with news relative t«
the steamer Alaska which will arrive
in Anchorage tomorrow at high noon !
and sail for Seattle at 3:30 o’clock
tomorrow afternoon.
He also reported the Admiral Far
ragut would arrive at 5 o’clock to
morrow morning, bring 580 tons of
freight for the Alaskan Engineering
commission, 170 tons for the city
merchants, anl 20 tons for the upper
inlet.
TALKEETNA ON
IHE MAP
In speaking of boats now days the
remarks may not always be confined
to the Admiral lines and the Alaska
Steamship company, for there are
4 others. For instance there is the fleet
plying between Anchorage and « Tal
keetna, the Hazel B No. 2, and the
Marathon, to say nothing of the J.
and J. and other power boats. Nor
are these boats idle half the time, but
run on schedule time and regular runs
(Land each boat takes its quota of pas
sengers and freight to Talkeetna and
different river points which are rapid
ly assuming the distinction of being
called town.
There doesn’t seem to be any ques
tion but that Talkeetna will make a
town, being situated as it is at a
strategical point at the confluence of
the Chulitna, Susitna and Talkeetna
rivers and will probably be the base
of supplies for the Great Alaska rail
road for that section.
* However, there is nothing at pres
ent that would justify a stampede in
to that country but several of Anchor
age’s progressive citizens have taken
the initiative and will establish stores
at that place.
Chairman Wm. C. Edes, Commis
sioner F. Mears, Andrew Christensen,
Walter De Long and B. H. Barndol
lar returned from an inspection trip
^to Talkeetna and the railroad camps
»of that district at 8 o’clock this morn
y ing on the river steamer Omineca.
LONDON, July 21.—The British war office today officially
reports that the British troops yesterday advanced against the
Germans in the Forteaux woods zone. The British drove the
German troops, that occupied the woods, from their positions,
but in subsequent attacks to regain the lost ground, the Teu
tons were partially successful. The losses on both sides were
quite heavy and the fighting was intensely vicious.
BARIS, July 21.—An official statement issued today by t:ie
French war office declare that vigorous German counter attacks
on the positions recently captured by the French forces in south
Somme were successively repulsed by the French defending
troops, the Germans losing heavily in men.
PETROGRAD, July 21.—The Russian war office officially
claims the capture of Gumuskliang, an important point located
forty-five miles southwest of-Trebizond, in Turkish Armenia.
The Turkish troops occupying the captured city evacuated be
fore the arrival of the Russian troops.
VIENNA, July 21.—The Austrian war office today official
ly admits that in the Styr Li pa region the Austrian forces were
compelled to withdraw, following heavy attacks by the Rus
sian forces.
BERLIN, July 21.—The German war office officially an
nounces today that in one section of the Volhynian battle front,
the Russian attacking forces were repulsed with heavy losses
by the German troops.
ROTTERDAM, July 21.—Serious food riots in Belgium
and in the northern part of France, under the control of the
German government, have been suppressed by the German
troops.
BALTIMORE, July 21:—The departure of the monster
submarine freighter Deutschland lias been delayed for a few
days, pending arrangements for the shipment of a consignment
of gold for Germany.
LONDON, July 21.—It is reported here today that a Ger
man warship has captured the American ship Prinz Yladimar,
grain laden, en route from San Francisco to Sweden. The re
port lacks confirmation.
BERLIN, July 21.—As a result of a series of raids made
by French aeroplanes against unfortified towns in Germany,
the German government today officially announced that in view
of the French attacks on towns that are located outside the
zone of military operations, German air craft will make raids
on French towns similarly situated.
LONDON, July 21.-—The British steamer Yser, en route
from Portland. Maine, to France, laden with a cargo of grain,
was sunk yesterday, according to information posted by j
Lloyd’s. It is supposed, though not officially claimed, that the
vessel was sunk by a German submarine..
WASHINGTON, July 21.—The Austrian government has
asked the l nited States for further details with respect to the I
alleged sinking of the American tanker Petrolite at the hands j
of an Austrian submarine. The United States, after making an
official investigation through consular agents, charged that the
Petrolite was sunk without warning by an Austrian submarine,
and demanded an apology from the Austrian government and
the adequate punishment of the commander of the submarine,'
as well as due reparation in damages for the loss of the tanker.
The Austrian government shows no signs of complying with the I
American demands.
n MW BE THE
ST. PAUL, July 21.—The national prohibition convention
is in session here and today the nomination of a candidate for
president is the order of business. Nominating speeches are
in progress. Eugene Chapin, in a vigorous speech, named
former Governor William Sulzer, of New York, for the presi
dency, declaring that Sulzer was the strongest man the prohibi
tionists could name. In the course of his speech, Chapin de
clared that the Sunday school politics hitherto prevailing in
the prohibition party would be eliminated and practical politics
applied, if the party is ever to attain a victory at the polls.
He further declared that a stateman was needed to head the
party find that William Sulzer tilled this requirement in this
respect, his long service in the house of representatives giving
him the necessary experience.
Sunnier Haynes placed in nomination the name of former
Governor Hanley, of Indiana. Finley Hendrickson was also
placed in nomination. It is conceded that the race is between
Sulzer and Hanley, but at this time it is not possible to pick
the winner.
WILSON APPEALS IN
BEHALF OF POLAND
WASHINGTON, July 21.—President Wilson has sent per
sonal messages to all rulers in Europe in which he urges their
co-operation in getting food supplies from the United States
to the people of Poland, who are reported to be in a starving
condition. Credible reports from Poland, emanating from re
sponsible agents who have made a personal investigation, give
the condition of the country as in a deplorable shape and if re
lief is not given, thousands upon thousands will succumb
through starvation.
HANGING A1JN OUENI
SAN QUENTIN, Cal., July 21.—Louis Fortine was hanged
here this morning, following his conviction of the murder of
Peter Furrer, his wife and ten-months’-old daughter. The mur
ders were committed in an effort to hide a two-hundrejl-dollar
forgery committed by Fortine.
DIRECTS VILLA CHASE
SAX ANTONft K .July 21.—General Pershing, commanding
the American troops invading Mexico, officially reports that
the capture of General Villa is daily expected. Pershing is per
sonally directing t lie search for the bandit leader, who lias been
definitely located in the region of Torreon. Pershing reports
that Villa has under his command a company of 1,800 men.
The general says that Mila is troubled with hi' wound.
•COLUMBUS, July 21.—Mexican peon employed as road
workers stole several rifles and a quantity of ammunition from
an American army engineering camp located on the line of the
road to General Pershing’s headquarters in Mexico. One of
the suspects was taken into custody and confessed his guilt
and involving his associates.
WASHINGTON, July 21.—All restrictions for the expor
tion of goods from the United States to Mexico, save and ex
cept munitions of war, have been removed. This is taken to
indicate that the government anticipates no trouble with Mexi-;
OF DliEADCHILD DISEASE
NEW YORK, July 21.—The health department reports
thirty-two deaths and eighty new eases of infantile paralv
i sis since yesterday morning. Since the plague began, June 26,
twenty-five hundred and twenty-six cases of infantile paralysis
have developed. Of this number, five hundred and nineteen
victims have died. The health department declares that it has
the situation well in hand and is sparing no effort to prevent
further ravages of the dread disease.
MINNEAPOLIS, July 21.—The ten-round bout scheduled
to take place tonight between Charlie White and Freddie Welsh :
was called off today, because of the failure of the participants
to agree upon a referee.
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ANCHORAGE IS
PROUD OF IIS
OLD nuns
It is great to sit and listen to the
old Tillicums reminisce of the golden
days of Nome and Candle and Fair
banks and the interior camps of Alas
ka, and it also makes it easy to un
derstand why they are clannish and
stick closer than a brother in time of
hardships and equally share the joys
of this world.
Perhaps there is no place in the
world where men become better ac
quainted with each other than in the
mining camps and on the trails in
this northland where it is necessary
to spend so much of their time to
gether.
The littleness in a man conies out
at such a time; his selfish nature as
serts itself and this characteristic
brands him as a marked man. His
friends may overlook the little things
that border on the shady but selfish
ness and untruthfulness have no place
in Alaska.
Living the life in this frozen north
adapts him for many things and it is
a case of the survival of the fittest,
in which the winner comes out a
broader and a deeper man, for he
has lived a life away from little
things, away from studied and narrow
conventionalities which are conducive
to selfishness and untruth.
Anchojaw js- fortunate in being
the iio'me of several of these men who
have survived and they have entered
the commercial life of this city in
the manner born; they are always in
the front of any movement for better
ment and upbuilding; they are clan
nish for they come of a type that has
been tried and proven true, but they
make splendid citizens of whom this
city is justly proud.
AND ANOTHER
GOOD INVENTION
Another man with a substitute for
gasoline has made his appearance,
this time at Stoneham, a little suburb
of Boston. His name is Daniel E.
Smith, an attorney. While he claims
to be the inventor, it is believed that
a young fellow who has a reputation
for experimenting in chemistry is the
real inventor and Smith is represent
ing him. According to Mr. Smith, the
chemicals are simple, and they are of
American manufacture. They may be
procured anyw. ere, and when mixed
with water furnish a fuel at 3 cents a
gallon. He says all the operator of
a car has to do is to fill the car with
the mixture and when the tank is
empty pour in five gallons of water
and empty the contents of a six-ounce
bottle in the water and he can con
tinue on his journey.
BILLY MARTIN DELIVERED.
True to his word which is a bore
to his friends the public-spirited Bill'
Martin has presented the city of An
chorage a valuable specimen of high
grade quartz from the famous Alaska
Free Gold quartz mine in the Willow
creek district.
The specimen, weighing in the
neigborbood of 200 pounds, Carrie'
values of $45.00 per ton and is or. ex
hibit .n the display window of the
Anchorage Chamber of Commerce.
It is the intention of the chamber
to get other specimens from the var
ious mines in the Willow creek dis
trict and word has been sent to the
Bullion, Mable and Independence to
come through with their exhibits.
Accompanied by Commissioner F.
Mears and Superintendent Hansen,
Chairman Edes left this afternoon for
the Turnagain Arm district where the
party will spend today and tomorrow
inspecting the railroad work of that
district.