BRITISH TAKE
FAIRS CITY
OF JERICHO
ENGLISH TROOPS ENTER HIS
TORIC PLACE WITHOUT MEET
ING ANY OPPOSITION.
NO MILITARY SIGNIFICANCE.
Capture of Ancient Municipality
Marks Incident in Development of
Plan to Free Holy Land of Control
of Turkish Nation.
LONDON, Feb. 23.—Jericho, the
ancient city in Palestine in the Holy
Land in western Asia, was entered
yesterday with scarcely any opposi
tion by the British. The British now
control practically all the valley of the
Jordon.
The capture of Jericho is of little
significance from a military view
point aside from its historical import
ance in connection with the plans of
Great Britain to free the Holy Land
of the Turk.
GIRL SCOUTS TAKE
MILITARY DRILLS
A KM V LESSONS INCULCATES
OBEDIENCE AND EFFICIENCY
IN YOUNG \V O M E N .
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 23.—
Washington Girl Scouts are being
trained in military drill. This inter
relation of the military idea into the
scout movement at first sight appears
to be at variance with previous con
ceptions of the scout plan, which since
its inception has been opposed to mili
tarism in any of its phuyes.
Military drill makes for instantane
ous obedience and response and ulti
ate efficiency, and these are essen
tials to the best team work demanded
of the Girl Scouts of today. Ail play,
as play, has ceased in Girl Scout or
ganizations of the country, and efforts
, all being directed toward serious
war work.
"Woman’s work cut down to girl
size” is the way it has been express
ed. Out of the records which the girls
are making today will be built the
homes of the future.
The Girl’s Scout organization in
Washington is already cooperating
with the government in several of its
departments. It is linking up with
the state relations service of the de
partment of agriculture in the Boys’
and Girls’ club work of the latter;
with the food administration in the
preparation of, and giving instruction
in, war-emergency foods; in the
bureau of education in the matter of
Americanization of aliens; and with
the department of labor in assisting to
bring the jobless men and women to
the bureau of that department.
WORKERS ANSWER
GOVERNMENT’S CAMPAIGN FOR
250,COO SHIPBFIEDERS BRINGS
LARGER NUMBER.
W ASHINGTON, I). C„ Feb. 23.—
Treliminary estimates of the results
of the government’s campaign to en
roll 250,000 shipbuilders for work on
government ships show that the pres
ent enrollment greatly exceeds the de
sired number.
Thousands of union workers enroll
ed without trying to impose any re
striction against working in yards
with non-union men.
GERMANS TO MELT
CATHEDRAL BELL
AMSTERDAM, Feb. 23.—The great
bell of Cologne Cathedral (‘Maria
Gloriosa’) was rung for the ’asi time
on New Year’s eve, and the metal
which weighs sevral tons will be used
for war purposes.
PETROGRAD GOVERNMENT AP
PEALS TO ALL RUSSIANS TO
DEFEND FATHERLAND.
MUSCOVITES DISORGAN I Z E D.
Objective Point of Invaders Is Not
Known But It Is Conceded They
Can Capture Capital City If They
Desire to Do So.
LONDON, Feb. 23.—Resistance to
the German troops invading Russia is
irged in a proclamation that was is
j 'Ued yesterday by the Maximilist
i government at Petrograd. An appeal
i has been addressed to all Russians to
defend their fatherland against the
j invader. The proclamation declares
Petrograd in a state of siege.
Despatches from Petrograd declare
that the Russian army is so disorgan
ized that there is no likelihood of its
obeying any orders.
The naval authorities at Petrograd
declare that all available warships
have been sent to Helsingfors, Fin
land, and Reval, Russia, the twc
greatest fortified ports on either side
of the entrance to the Gulf of Finland,
which protect Kronstadt, the Russian
naval base at the head of the Gulf of
Finland, near Petrograd.
Forty-five German warships are re
ported to be nearing Reval.
The advance of German troops into
Russia so far has encountered no seri
ous opposition. The invaders are col
lecting immense stores of food, wea
pons and war munitions which forces
of disorganized Russians have left
!r. the wake of their retreat.
Objective Is Not Known.
'i he objective point of the invading
Russians is not known to the Maxi
milist leaders or to the entente diplo
mats in Petrograd. There is nothing
to prevent the invaders from reaching
Petrograd if they so desire. The Ger
mans could easily reduce Petrograd
by famine, which is already closing its
grip on the inhabitants of the city.
Despatches from Petrograd declare
♦hat the advancing German army is
not very large.
ANOTHER CANDIDATE
FILES FOR SENATOR
THOMAS C. PRICK WILL SEEK
DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION IN
APPROACHING PRIMARY.
Thomas C. Price, senior member of
the firm of Price & Bennett, plumbers
and sheet metal workers, of this city,
has filed his candidacy for the demo
cratic nomination for senator for the
third division in the Alaska legisla
ture.
Mr. Price was a member of the
house of representatives in the last
territorial legislature.
The announcement of his candidacy
is the second for the senatorship so
far in this division. The other is that
of J. W. Ward, vice-president and
manager of the Anchorage Daily
dimes, who has filed as a candidate
for the republican nomination.
VESSELS FROM THIS TIME FOR
WARD WILL STEADILY BE
COME MORE NUMEROUS.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 23.—
The low point in available entente al
lied shipping is passed now, which is
two or three weeks earlier than was
expected.
American officials calculate the
amount of shipping available for the
future will increase steadily.
COST OF FARMING.
BERKELEY, Calif., Feb. 23.—The
University of California has determin
ed that the average general farm of
forty acres in California, if the land
costs $150 per acre, requires $12,875
to establish the business.
OFFICER FROM NEW ENGLAND
CAPTURES GERMAN IN SHELL
HOLE SINGLE-HANDED.
CHEMIN DES DAMES SECTOR
French General in Command of Front
Welcomes United States Soldiers as
Comrades in Arms and Kisses
Their Flag.
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY
IN FRANCE, Feb. 23.—American and
German patrols engaged in a conflict
iate yesterday in the famous Chemin
des Dames sector in France, where a
detachment of United States troops
are under instruction in actual war
fare. One German was killed and an
other was captured. One of the Am
| ericans was slightly wounded.
The capture of the German was ef
| fected single-handed by a young
i American officer from New England.
1 He went into a shell hole where a
i German was hiding and overpowered
him.
When the American forces early
yesterday morning entered the French
trenches in the Chemin des Dames
sector they were greeted by the
! French general commanding the sec
! Lor, who greeted them as comrades
in arms anti kissed the American flag.
F O R M E R FEATHERWEIGHT
CHAMPION PUGILIST SUC
CUMBS IN NEW YORK.
'JET AI NED TITLE TWO YEARS.
Well-Known Fighter Made Several
Hundred Thousand Dollars in Ring
But Spent Money Freely and Died
Practically Penniless.
NEW YORK, Feb. 23.—Terry Mc
Govern, aged 38 years, former feath
erweight champion pugilist of the
world, died here yesterday. He had
i
been ill for years, and had spent a
great deal of time in a sanitarium.
McGovern won his title in 1899 at
i Tuckahoe, N. Y, by knocking out Ped
lar Palmer. McGovern lost his cham
pionship two years later at Hartford
to Young Corbett.
McGovern, who was called “Terrible
Terry,” made several hundred thou
sand dollars in the ring. Aside from
pugilism, the only business he ever en
i gaged in was in connection with sa
loons. He spent his money freely. He
!
died practically penniless.
NO CANDIDATES
FILED AT JUNEAU
i SOUTHEASTERN POLITI CIANS
MAY BE WAITING OUTCOME
OF DELEGATE CONTEST.
JUNEAU, Feb. 23.—No announce
ment of candidacy has yet been filed
for any territorial office, despite the
fact that but seven days remain with
| in which filing can be made. The can
| didates are believed to be awaiting the
; result of tiie contest for territorial
i delegate.
TEUTON TORPEDO
TAKES 100 LIVES
PARIS, Feb. 23.—One hundred of
those aboard the steamship Ladivies
were drowned in the Mediterranean
sea February 4 when the vessel was
torpedoed by a German or Austrian
submarine.
News of the disaster was received in
Paris today.
ON ALL GLASSES OF GOODS
OFFICE OF PACIFIC STEAMSHIP COMPANY AT SAN
FRANCISCO ISSUES STATEMENT GIVING DETAILS
OF PROPOSED SCHEDULE WHICH IT HAS PLACED
ON FILE WITH FEDERAL AUTHORITIES.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 21. — In
crease in Alaska freight rates will be
come effective March 1.
At the offices in San Francisco of
the Pacific Steamship company an
nouncement was made today that be
ginning March 1 the freight tariff on
general merchandise will be raised 50
cents to $1 a ton; on shipments of tin
plates, tin cans and box shooks the
* increase will be $1 a ton; on canned
salmon from southeastern Alaska to
Seattle the increase will be from $3,713
to $5 a ton; on canned salmon from
southwestern Alaska to Seattle the in
crease will be from $4 to $4.50 a ton.
The Pacific Steamship company has
filed its proposed schedule with the
federal authorities.
All other companies operating
steamships in Alaskan waters are cer
tain to announce schedules of similar
advances.
NO OPPOSITION
SIS'
j
TEUTONS WILL NOT STOP UNTIL
MAXIMILISTS UNCONDITION
ALLY SURRENDER.
MESSAGE IS NOW ON ITS WAY.
_ I
Kaiser’s Forces Have Occupied Sev
eral Important Cities and Havel
Captured Vast Quantities of Food
and War Supplies.
LONDON, Feb. 21.—German troops,
continue to advance toward the inter
ior of Russia apparently with no se
rious opposition. The Russians are
expected to keep advancing- until their
commanders recive from Petrograd
authorized copies of the message,
which has been sent by the Maximilist
cabinet, unconditionally conceding to
Germany’s terms.
Advices from Berlin are to the ef
fect that Teuton soldiers have occu
pied Haspal and Estonia and that
German cavalry is approaching close
to Mohilev, which is on the Dnieper
river and which formerly was the gen- |
■ eral headquarters for the Russian ar
my.
Obtain Rich War Loot.
The Germans have captured ^Covno,
a strategic junction on the Petrograd
Berlin railway and took possession
there of vast stores of food and war
l
materials and a large number of air
planes.
Official reports from Petrograd
admit that the Germans are rapidly
advancing along all parts of the Rus-j
: sian front. They are approaching;
Minske, Vitebsk, Pskov, an important
railroad junction on the Petrograd
Revlin railroad, and Revai, the great •
Russian seaport on the Gulf of Fin-!
land.
!
Control Most of Railroad.
From Berlin to a point near Pskov j1
the Germans control the Berlin-Petro- :
| grad railroad. Pskov is only 180
j miles southwest of Petrograd.
In all, the Germans claim that since
the resumption of hostilities against I
Russia they have captured 1,333 big1
guns and between 4,000 and 5,000 mo
tor cars. I;
Premier Seydler, of Austria, an-1
nounced in Vienna yesterday that
Austria was not aiding Germany in;
her renewal of war against Russia.
YUKON HAS HER
COLDEST WINTER
THERMOMETER AT PELLY RIVER
REGISTERS AS LOW AS 86 1
DEGREES BELOW ZERO.
—
VANCOUVER, B. C., Feb. 21.—
Three northwest police arrived here
today with prisoners from Dawson, Y.
T. They assert the Yukon country is
suffering from the coldest winter in
her history. The thermometer reg
istered as low as eighty-six degrees
below at Pelly January 26.
Six residents of Dawson died in
December of the pneumonia epidemic.
SENATOR J. HAMILTON LEWIS
SAYS TEUTONS AROUSE SEN
TIMENT AGAINST AMERICA.
FAVORS GOVERNMENT RAILWAY
Illinois Legislator Declares thal
United States Some Day Will Have
to Fight to Protect Hawaii and
Philippines.
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Feb. 21.
[f Germany succeeds in maintaining
ler control over Russia, the first act
?f the Teuton government will be tc
irge the Muscovites to seize Alaska
leclared Senator James Hamilton
Lewis, democrat, of Illinois today ir
speaking in the senate fi favor of the
retention and permanent ownership
Dv the United States government of
die country’s railroad systems.
German propaganda, said the sena
:or, had already stirred a great deal
?f opposition in Russia to the United
States.
The Illinois senator predicted that
some day, the United States would
iiave to fight to protect Hawaii and
the Philippines, and that she would
find herself helpless and powerless to
protect these possessions unles there
vere transcontinental government
railroad systems available to trans
port troops and military supplies.
MAN KILLS WIFE ON
CROWDED STEET
HOTEL PROPRIETOR IN LOS AN
GELES BECOMES DESPONDENT
OVER DOMESTIC TROUBLE.
LOS ANGELES, Cal., Feb. 23.—
Don Van Dusen, a hotel man, yester
iay. shot and killed his young wife
ind immediately committed suicide
jy shooting himself on a crowded
street in the business district of Los
\ngeles. Hundreds witnessed the
:ragedy.
The husband and wife had been sep
arated for a short while and the sep
aration made him despondent.
GERMANS HAVE BIG
ADVANTAGE IN AIR
rEUTON AIRMEN FLY AT WILL
OVER AMERICAN LINES ON
EUROPEAN FRONT.
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY
[N FRANCE, Feb. 21.—American
commanders admit the Germans con
trol the air over the American sector
in France.
German airplanes fly over Ameri
can lines almost at will, generally
ibout 3,000 feet high at which altitude
:hey are safe from anti-aircraft guns.
American officers urge that Amer
ican aeroplane pilots be sent to France
immediately.
The Germans are concentrating ar
tillery opposite the Americans and
now have twice the numbers of guns
on the line as when the Americans
first took the sector. They are firing
about 900 shells daily now, while the
number was 150 at first.
American artillerymen are giving
the Germans two or three shells for
one.
SO DATE CHOSEN
FOR SECOND DRAFT
GOVERNMENT DOES NOT WANT
TO DISTURB LABOR SITUA
TION AT PLANTING TIME.
V/ASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 21.—
Secretary of War Newton D. Baker,
today announced that no date had
been selected for the second draft of
army recruits. He said he was not
disposed to disturb the labor situation
particularly on farms, at planting sea
son.
Head the Anchorage Tmes.
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