THOUSANDS OF GERMANS ARE MOWED DOWN
PARIS, April- 11).—The Gormans threw twelve
new divisions of 22(1,000 men against the French
troops, between Soissons and Auberve last night, but
the French offensive1 was unchecked. The French
continued their progress north of Vailly and Ostel
and in the* region of Moronvilliers, where two more
batteries of German artillery were captured. The
French have the whip hand of the situation, and' the
Germans are still staggering from Monday’s terrific
blow. The carnage is awful when tin* Germans conn
ter attack in masses, as the French artillery and ma
chine guns destroy wave after wave of Germans.
Yesterday’s work was most satisfactory to the allies,
despite the wretched weather and more rapid pro
gress is expected in the near future.
PETROGRAD, April 11).—Foreign minister Mi
lukoff says the Russian allies need have no fear that
she will desert the alliance or weaken its resistance
to the enemy. Milukoff told the British and French
workingmen’s representatives that free Russia
would become doubly strong through democratisa
tion. Russia has promised to continue the crusade
for the annihilation of German militarism with the
greatest intensity.
BERLIN, April 19.—The strike has ended after
tin* strikers’ principal demands were granted by the
government, including tho establishment of a stand
ing commission of labor representatives to have a
voice in the food distribution, greater and more ex
plicit assurance from Berlin of adequate food rations
and effective measures against the evasion of food
regulations by the rich. The men of three hundred
munition plants struck, and 210,(MM) strikers reported
for work from the metal workers’ union alone. The
censored report telegraphed abroad falsified the
strike situation.
WASHINGTON, April 1!).— Men of niilitarv
age, since a state of war was declared, will not escape
the obligation of military service. Under I la* war de
partment policy, which was formally announced to
day, newly married men will be treated on the same
basis as those unmarried.
PARIS, April 19.—The French troops took 17,
000 Germans and a hundred* guns, while the British
took 14,000 German prisoners.
W ASHINGTON, April 1!). — Kmergency orders
for 0,000 Lewis machine gnus have been placed bv
the government. The Lewis gun was invented by
fin Ainericnn mid once rejected by tlie Araericai
finny, but adopted by the entente allies with entirt
success.
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HI',RIJN, April 19. Germany officially denies
I lliiit it lias a submarine on the American coast, and
brands ns ridiculous the story of an attack on the
American torpedo boat destroyer Smith.
AMS I K.RDAM, April 19.—General Biasing, the
German governor general of Belgium, who was noted
lor his cruelty, died at Brussels.
WASHING ION, April 19. — The press consid
er.' the semi off ieial Gernuin-Austrian notes concern
ing the possibility of conciliating the war of tin* cen
tral powers with Russia as a base, treacherous and
a hypocritical maneuver.
MADRID, April 19.—The entire Spanish cabi
net has resigned.
WASHINGTON, April 19.—The government is
considering the suspension of work on battle cruisers
and other large ships in order to concentrate fill its
labors on merchant shipping.
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4 censorship is strongly opposed, 4
4 Senators Borah and Johnson 4
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CHICAGO, April 19. — May wheat
took another climb today, reaching the
high price of $2.40 a bushel, and the
mills are swamped by orders. The
price of canned goods has doubled and
grocers are placing restrictions on re
tail purchasers.
W BILL TO BE
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON April 19. — Debate
on the administration army bill will
begin in the house next Monday, and
congress today adjourned until then.
It is expected that the debate will last
two or three days.
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GOLF ClflONS
TO MEET NEXT
(By Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, April 19. — Mrs.
Hubert E. Law, the present California
golf champion, is expected to defend
her title this year at Los Angeles in
the California women’s championships
where the qualifying round is sched
uled to be played on Monday next.
Other prominent northern California
players who will compete are Miss
Edith Cheseborough and Mrs. A. B.
Swinerton. A number of younger
players who have not figured in the
championship competitions are expect
ed to make their initial appearance
for titular honors.
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SHOCK WAS TOO GREAT
AND RESULTED IN DEATH.
(By United Press)
KANSAS CITY, April 19. — Ser
geant John Itavencamp, 55 yeqrs of
age, a policeman, 'Med of heart failure
when his alarm clock awakened him
too suddenly.
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DIVINE SARAH IMPROVING.
(By Associated Press)
NEW YORK, April 19. — Sarah
Bernhardt is resting quietly and her
condition is slightly improved.
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Captain John Robinson, 70 years
old, and one of the early pioneers of
Alaska, coming north to Sitka in
1871, was instantly killed at Nome re
cently while attempting to lower the
mast of the Elk. The mast fell, strik
ing Robinson on the head and crush
ing his Bkull. Deceased at one time
owned the rich "My Own” claim on
McDonald creek.
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The Daily Times’ war news is au
thentic and worth readiug.
FUN DROPS
TO HIS DEATH
J. Durkin, a fireman in the auxiliary
service on the collier Saturn, which
is at the Cordova dock, was instantly
killed last night. He had been in his
sleeping quarters until about 11
o’clock, when he started on deck, and
as it was dark, walked into an open
hatch and fell to the bottom of the
ship, a distance of about twenty-five
feet. When picked up it was found
that he had fractured his skull and
knee cap and sustained a broken
thigh, death immediately relieving him
of his sufferings.
Durkin was a very reliable and ef
ficient fireman, who enlisted at San
Francisco just before the sailing north
of the Saturn. He was 40 years of
age and a member of Camp 24, Span
ish-American Veterans, at Presidio.
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PROTECTIVE LAW FOR
ALASKA ROADS BEING PUSHED
Members of the Alaska legislature
are urging the passage of a law at
the present session for the protection
of Alaska roads. The legislation is
needed particularly to regulate the
class of traffic on roads after they
are constructed. At the present time
there is no method whereby any one
can prevent the destruction of roads
after they are built.
The board of road commissioners
has been harassed by the disposition
of people to use the roads for heavy
traffic at times when heavy loads and
narrow tires would cut them to pieces.
The legislation that is suggested
would place the authority in the hands
of some territorial officer to prevent
such use of roads as would destroy or
unduly injure them, and to protect
them against such other dangers as
might suggest themselves.
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SKETCHES OF THE MEN WHO
RUN THE U. S. NAVV.
(By United Press)
WASHINGTON, April 19. — The
man who puts the teeth in the navy’s
dreadnaughts is Admiral Ralph Earle,
chief of the bureau of ordnance.
His is the task of building and in
stalling the giant guns for the fleet.
He it is who must keep abreast of the
ceaseless struggle of the nations for
the “outranging gun.”
Striving for the fraction of ord
nance power which may mean suc
cess or failure to a fleet. Admiral
Earle is installing in the navy the big
gest guns now known to naval war
fare. Rumor has It that he is even
now planning to reach into the future
with bigger ones.
The ordnance bureau, under Earle,
has taken rapid strides in naval de
velopment. The navy department
briefly reports, “he has discharged his
duties in a most satisfactory manner."
"Most satisfactory,” indeed, they
must be, that he is retained in charge
of this vital bureau during this period
of national preparation.
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Have your Job printing done at the
Times office.
WANT INSANE ASYLUM
ESTABLISHED IN ALASKA
House joint memorial No. 7 has foi
Its object the abolishment of the pre
sent contract system and the estab
lishment of an institution in Aluskt
at some convenient and desirable lo
cation, at which the insane of Alaskr
may be properly cared for.
The memorial to congress recites
that the system now in vogue of car
ing for the insane of the territory uu
der contract is productive of greal
harm to the unfortunate inmates; thal
numerous complaints have been filed
against the Morningside asylum ir
Oregon and facts of mismanagement
and Improper care have been veri
fled.
It is averred that the care of Alas
ka's Insane has been commercial
ized to the detriment both physical
and mental of all the insane; that il
has been proved to the entire satis
faction of the legislature of other ter
ritorial officials that an absolute lsrck
of any humanitarian spirit in the con
duct of the Oregon asylum prevails;
that there is not sufficient space not
room for patients; that patients have
been committed suffering from mild
mental derangements and who have
by continued confinement in the in
stitution become worse.
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(By Associated Press)
JUAREZ, April 19. — Official no
tice has beon received here from the
war department at Mexico City by
General Jose Carlos Murguia, of the
opening of a uniform and shoe factory
at Tacubaya, Mexico, to supply the
Mexican federal army with uniforms
and shoes.
The uniform factory will have a ca
pacity of 1,600 complete uniforms daily
and the shoe factory is expected to
produce an equal number of pairs of
shoes for the army. In the past it
has been necessary to buy quantities
of uniforms and shoes from the United
States.
The uniforms now worn by the de
factor army resemble those worn by
the United States army. The uniform
of the private soldiers is made of a
cloth closely resembling khaki and a
soft felt hat, similar in shape and
texture to the American soldier’s
campaign hat. Instead of shoes the
typical Mexican guarache, or sandal,
is now worn by a majority of the pri
vate soldiers, as the price or shoeB
is almost prohibitive.
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Test borings on the banks of the
Tanana river at Nenana for the rail
road bridge show that the gravel ex
tends to a depth of 65 feet on the
south bank of the river and on the
north bank a hole had been driven
down 86 feet with no bedrock in sight.
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James Robertson, general manager
of the Tenakee Fisheries Company,
predicts that the canneries will face
a fish shortage which will be disas
trous unless the laws for the protec
tion of fish and against Sunday fish
Ing are not strictly complied with.
TOKIO, April 1!>. —' Japanese au
thorities assert that there Is no r’i
denee that the recent murder ol Mrs.
Irma von Saldern, dau titer ol Vice
Admiral Eduard von C ipelle, the Her
man minister ;f aaiy.V v nr. act of
vengeance upon the Herman naval
chief, and that the mttrder was com
mitted undoubtedly by a Japanese
burglar. The fact that the crime oc
curred at a time when Germany’s tin
restricted submarine warfare was
holding the world interest, the au
thorities declare, was merely a coin
cidence. Nevertheless, the tragedy is
widely discussed in diplomatic circles.
Irma von Saldern was a beautiful
woman of twenty-eight years, who
passed her time in seclusion nenr the
German prisoners' camp at Fukuoka,
the southernmost Island of Kyushu.
Her husband, Captain Siegfried von
Saldern, was one of the most promi
nent German officers taken pi isoner
by the Japanese at the surrender of
the German fortress at Tsing-tau.
Von Saldern was a member of a
well known German family, with a
seat at Dessau, and his marriage with
the daughter of the German minister
was a happy one. In China, Captain
von Saldern was an inimate friend of
Governor von Waldeck, the command
er of Tsing-tau fortress. After tho
capitulation Mrs. von Saldern, with
her two children, followed her hus
band to Japan and rented a fashion
able Japanese house near the com
pound in which her husband was an
officer-prisoner.
I I UCIC OI1C I11VU v I 1 I •< 11
ing her children except to visit her
husband and some of his officer
friends during their illness. A few
weeks ago she suggested that she
leave Japan with one of her boys, to
further his education and try to re
turn to Germany. Her husband urged
her to remain. She consented.
One morning, when a domestic en
tered, she found her mistress stretched
upon the floor of a bedroom lifeless.
An electric cord, bound tightly about
her neck, showed that she had been
strangled to death. The police re
constructed the crime In this way:
The assassin entered armed with a
poignard, or short sword, and stabbed
her. When she become unconscious
or helpless, he cut the electric wire
or cord which connected the lamp
with a wall fixture and, making a
noose, choked the woman to death.
There were evidences that burglary [
was committed.
The next act of the tragedy came
three days later, twenty-four hours
after the funeral of Mrs. von Saldern.
Captain von Saldern was Inconsolable.
The fact that he had urged his wife to
remain preyer upon his mind and, ap
I parently he did not forgive himself
| \bout the hour of his wife’s murder,
lie detached from the wall of his
house an electric cord similar to that
: with which she was strangled, fixed
it to the chandelier in his saloon and
committed suicide by hanging.
The press maintains silence con
cerning the tragedy. The police are i
making every effort to discover the
murderer.
PROSPECTORS CASTING EYES
IN DIRECTION OF SIBERIA.
The next big gold rush, Alaska pros
pectors say, will be in Siberia.
That that country is rich in gold,
especially that portion opposite Nome,
is well known. Many Alaska pros
pectors can verify that from aciual
knowledge. ^Jaffet Linderberg found
tremendous quantities of it on Siber
ian beaches, but the Russian govern
ment turned his pockets inside out,
and he left his placers and returned
to Nome.
Other Alaska prospectors who visit
ed the country had similar experi
ences. They found gold in plenty, but
they found also the emissaries of the
Czar, and a set of laws which plun
dered the prospector and practice.Ily
prohibited mining.
It is generally believed that the re
volution will be followed by the pas
sage by the duma of favorable min ng
laws, and many residents of this
territory who have followed
prospecting all their lives, expect to
make for that country whenever the
expected changes occur.
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FOUR ALASKA PATIENTS
DISCHARGED FROM ASYLUM.
The following advice has been re
ceived from the Sanitarium Company,
Portland, Oregon:
Julius Hansen, patient No. G05, \ ho
entered out institution July 8, 1916,
from Knik, was discharged March 29,
and has gone to California.
Joseps R. Willoughby, patient No.
594, who entered institution Febru try
27, 1916, from Juneau, was dischar ed
March '29, and has gone to Anchorage.
Ed Tegart, patient No. 625, who en
tered our institution August 30, 1916,
from Knik, was discharged March 29,
and has gone to Anchorage.
Paul Benson, patient No. 643, v ho
entered institution November 25, 1516,
from Kenat, was discharged March
29, and has gone to Anchorage.
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JEALOUSY STIRS CRACKER
BOX WHITTLERS OF KANSAS.
(By United Press)
CHANUTE, Kan., April 19. — Pro
fessional jealousy lias stirred the 1 !si
bilities of the two acknowledged
cracker box champion whittlers of
Kansas. It came about thus:
A. B. Baker, an old soldier of tills
■ity, has been a famous whittler all
iiis life, but until the past year had
never had occasion to prove his right
to the state championship. It v as
lay default, according to his enemies;
liy consent, according to his friends.
But last year another old soldier
whittler, John Barker, came to C'ha
aute. He believed he was more adept
it the art than Baker and 4id not
nesitate to say so. Furthermore, he
whittled out several- unique articles
:o prove his contention.
Old Man Baker snorted in disd ain
ind set about to show the outsider
i few wrinkles in what could be done
with a pocket knife and a piece of
wood. He scorned such soft wood
is pine and used oak or walnut when
le could get it. The contest now is
tearing the close of its first year.
Baker's friends now- claim the
hampionship for him, from the fact
hat from a thick piece of walnut
>oard he has whittled out a picture
rame made of 104 small pieces and
olnod them together so adeptly no
me can tell where the joints are made,
laker and his friends, as you might
iay, paused for reply.
NEWS ITEMS IF
PURELY LOME
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The steamer Alameda is due from
the south on Sunday morning.
Marry Hober contemplates making
a trip to Anchorage on the next boat.
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Clyde Morgan has accepted a posi
tion ns assistant engineer with the
Canoe Pass Packing Company.
No word has been received from
the boats to the westward, but they
are expected here on Saturday.
The launch Waif has finished re
pairing its engine, and expects to leave
this evening for Middleton island.
The circulation of the Daily Times
is growing by leaps and bounds. Bet
ter get your name on the honor list.
Thomas Haines will leave on the
next boat for Anchorage, he having re
ceived a good offer from the baseball
team there.
“Chimmie Fadden" sure kept the
Empress patrons in laughter last even
ing. Don't miss seeing it tonight. A
sure cure for the blues.
Extensive improvements are being
made to the interior of the Northern
drug store, which will add consider
ably to its attractiveness when com
pleted.
The collier Saturn has unloaded its
cargo of freight for the new radio sta
tion and will leave shortly for the
south for another load of machinery
and material.
tvennetn itomen is now attending to I
the wants of the patrons of the Horse
shoe pool and billiard hall, during the
absence of George Burleigh, who is on 1
a visit to his folks back east.
Tomorrow evening the Assembly
Club will hold its last dance of the ‘
first series, and in commemoration '
:>f the event a banquet will be served '
the members at midnight, when the
lancing ceases. A business meeting *
will also be hekl at that time.
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l.ieutenant Frank I.uekel and the |
officers of the U. S. S. Saturn enter-..,
allied a number of townspeople last (
light aboard the collier. Dancing was
ndulged in for several hours, after <
which refreshments were served and
ill present spent most enjoyuble even
ng.
Commencing with the sailing of the l
Northwestern from Seattle on May 4, t
ill steamers of the Alaska Steamship c
Company on the Southwestern Alaska 1
•oute will call in at Skagway. The i
ixcursion season for this line will t
■onimence with the sailing of the t
Northwestern on June 19, and will i
snd with the sailing of the Mariposa t
’rom Seattle on August 22, making t
ileven round trips for this line. i
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Everybody can afford to subscribe : e
or their home paper. ' i
Z4 ARE COINS
TO CORDOVA
ON TUANS
SEATTLE, April 19. — The steamer
Admiral Evai^s sailed from here last
night with the following passengers
for Cordova: Esther Leper. W. Gors
line, W. Sprossig, J. Mattson, Arthur
Johnson, N. Patton, Mrs. M. Fox, Hans
Nelson, \\ . \\ . Work, and fifteen steer
age.
DR. BROOKS IS
STATED TOO
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(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, April 19.—Dr. Al
fred Brooks, head of the geological
survey, has not as yet left on his an
nual trip to Alaska, as he is waiting
here for a captaincy in the officers
reserves and expects to go into active
service.
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Speaking far the people of Alaska to
show that they are ready and willing
to do their part in the conflict which
now confronts the nation, the terri
torial legislature has passed the fol
lowing resolution:
"The legislature of the territory of
Alaska in session assembled herewith
extends to the president of the United
States, the senate and the house of
representatives its approval of the
passage of the resolution "that a state
pf war exists" between the United
States and the German empire; and
we, the people of Alaska, pledge our
jnfaltering support and signify our
•eadiness, loyally and patriotically, to
stand in line with the American peo
ple in maintaining the country's hon
>r and defending the principles of
:ivilization.
"The attitude of the people of Alas
ka is clearly expressed in the words
pf our governor, spoken upon the de
•laration of war.
“ 'This is a time in the history of our
country which calls for self-sacrifice
ind devotion to those democratic in
stitutions and ideals which have been
i beacon light to the oppressed of all
pations; and now, in obedience to
:hose principles of right and truth and
justice, in the struggle now being
waged between the forces of demo
:racy and autocracy, the citizens of
his great republic may be depended
tpon to act well their part. There
thould be no division of sentiment,
put each and all, laying aside every
msideration of partisanisin, should
•emember that they are called upon
o defend those great truths upon
vhich this republic was founded, and
hould uphold and strengthen the
lands of the president and his admin
stration in the international crisis
hat has been forced upon the coun
ry. The time for action is here, and
am sure that the people of Alaska
tand ready to do their part, and to
lo It well. The fires of patriotism
lave been kindled anew, and Alaskans
re ready to respond Whenever duty
alls.' ”
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HR ERNEST SHACKELTON
RETURNS FROM AUSTRALIA.
(By United Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, April 19. — Sir
irnest Shackelton, famous Antartic
xplorer, has arrived in San Fran
isco from Australia, where he has
een lecturing on his exploration ex
eriences. Sir Ernest had planned
a return in March, but so great was
I.e demand for the man who travelled
lore than half way round the world
3 rescue six of his men that he had
3 stay. It was late in January that
!ir Ernest rescued seven survivors
f his latest expedition toward the
outh pole. They were stranded near
loss Barrier.