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LONDON. April 28. — It was an
nounced officially by the admiralty
today that the British battleship Rus
sell, fourteen thousand tons, had been
slink by a mine in the Mediterranean
sit,*, Admiral Fremantle, with twenty
four officers and 676 men were saved.
Of the crew 124 are missing. This is
the eleventh British battleship lost
since the war commenced in August,
1914. The Russel! was built in 1903
at a cost of over five million dollars.
She carried for armament four 12-inch,
twelve 6-inch and sixteen other guns
of smaller calibre. Besides these she
had four torpedo tubes and was cap
able of making 19 knots an hour.
LONDON. April 28. — It was offi
dally announced this afternoon that
a German submarine had been sunk
off the east const of England by coast
patrol vessels. Eighteen of the crew
were captured.
BERLIN, April 28. — The govern
ment officially announced this morn
ing that the German naval forces were
cruising in the North sea. and that
the battleships ltad destroyed a large
British guard vessel off the Dogger
Bank.
4 vRIS. April 28. — The official
M mmunique issued this morning re
^corded nothing of importance occur
ring along the western front. The
bulletin stated that the whole of the
French front was quiet last night, the
usual heavy bombardment of the
French positions before Verdun being
omitted by the Teutons. The military
exaerts believe that tlie German thrust
alii, crdun has definitely failed, and
that the advantages gained by the
Teutons are inconsiderate as compared
with the awful price in human lives
they paid for their gains.
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CONSTANTINOPLE, April 28.—The
Turkish war office announced today
the story of the battle at Quatia vil
lage which the British made public
yesterday. The two stories differ
ljf*itly. the Turks claiming four en
tire British battalions of cavalry were
annihilated by their soldiers on April
23, at a point 25 miles east of the
Suez canal.
RUSSIANS STILL
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PARIS. April 28. — Another contin-!
gent of Russian troops arrived by.
transport at Marseilles today, and are
dis«®jbarking preparatory to being
enU&ped and sent to the front in
^ed. The Russian troops are
r ndid soldiers of the right age. most
them being strong, virile young
'men, who are officered by some of the
If1' best soldiers in the Russian army. The
enthusiastic scenes enacted at the
quays when the previous two contin
gents arrived wore re-enacted today.
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WITHOUT PARALLEL.
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lends of Fred Kelly, the world's
champion hurdler, believe that his
performances, all within ten days,
fm which he recently accomplished, are
without parallel in the annals of ath
letics. Here ore the events won in
ten days, in which he made two
world's records and tied a third: Oc
cidental meet. March 22, 120 yard
Jlfm-dles; 220 yard hurdles; 220 yard
V.ash, in 22 t-5 seconds around two
bad turns.
STRIKERS STILL!
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SEWARD. April 28. — Further in- j
formation received from Anchorage
today states that instead of the com
mon laborers b'ing offered a daily
wage of $3.50 for eight hours’ work.1
and six days per week, that the arbi
tration board made a schedule of 42
cents per hour, which would mean 1
$3.36 per day of eight hours. The
skilled workers, such as the carpen
ters and machinists were given 70
cents pel* hour. The strikers have
not as yet decided to accept the award
and are still in session considering the
proposition. The chief obstacle is the
wage set for common laborers, which
the men do not think sufficient.
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SWIMMING MEET
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IN FRISCO
SAN FRANCISCO, April 28. — The
Fourth of July swimming meet to be
held at the Sutro baths in San Fran
cisco, whiclt will include competition
for tlie 100 yard national Amateur
Athletic Union swimming champion-1
ship for women, gives promise of
bringing together the fastest and most
celebrated aggregation of women
swimmers that ever has competed in
the Pacific coast contests.
While the trout fishing season al
ready has been opened in many por
tions of the Pacific coast, California’s
anglers have been forced this year
to wait until May 1 before they are
able to indulge in their favorite out
door sport. The streams of Marin,
Alameda, Contra Costa and other
counties easily accessible to the bay
cities are reported unusual!} prolific
of fish, and a banner season is pre
dicted on all sides. Reports from the
country districts in the watersheds
beyond Hayward, Livermore and Plea
santon are to the effect that the trout
are especially larger and abundant.
For t ie trap shooting enthusiast
whose business precludes him from
getting any practice until after bis
evening meal, the problem has been
solved of making it possible for him
to do Ids preliminary training in the
gloaming. At the Everding park traps
of tlie Portland Gun Club, four big
100 candle power electric lights have
been placed in front of the trap
house. The degree to which the
equipment has been perfected may be
judged from the fact that one of the
contestants in a night shoot recently
broke 92 out of a possible 100 targets.
Two other shooters broke over 90 per
cent in the initial tryout.
NEW METHOD.
Tlie Carlisle Packing Company will
put into effect an innovation in the
fishing line of business, whiclt is new
and unique. They have received from
the states a hydroplane, which will
be used, according to report, for scout
ing purposes. The machine will do
the work which in former times was
done by boats, that is, find by obser
vation the schools of fish and flash
word to the regular fishing boats. This
is a new method here, but the com
pany have every confidence in its
practicability.
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SHORTAGE OF CANINES.
BERLIN, April 28. — Following a
conference just held with the sausage
manufacturers of Germany, tlie Cen
tral Foodstuffs Control Commission
has announced that conditions require
a radical decrease In tlie production of
| sausages of all kinds.
NEW YORK. April 28. — While the
trouble in Ireland over the outbreak
in Dublin continues to be the most
absorbing topic of the war in the
papers, it is impossible to obtain news
of the exact situation. The censor
ship instituted since the imposition of
martial law in the country is extreme
ly rigid, and there is no way to get
news through. No dispatches at all
were received today, and the newspa
pers are confining themselves to com
ments on the situation being bare of
facts.
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UNUSUAL ABILITY.
SAN FRANCISCO. April 28. — Fol
lowers of tennis on the Pacific const
who have watched Miss Molia Bjur
stedt, the national woman tennis
champion, play, may get an inkling
as to the reason for her unusual abil
ity on the court when they learn that
her real practice is practically all done
against men opponents. In this Miss
Bjurstedt lias taken a leaf out of the
book of the Pacific coast players.
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DELEGATES APPOINTED.
PEKING, April 28. —- Ten delegates
have been appointed by the metropoli
tan police bureau to investigate medi
cal practice and the quality of medi
clnes offered for sale in the Peking
market, preparatory to imposing re
strictions which will protect the pub
lie against quackery and impure
drugs.
Through its support of modern me
dical schools and hospitals and its
propaganda for a higher standard of
medical education, the Rockefeller
Foundation is already making its work
felt in China.
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THREAT
WASHINGTON. April 28. — The
delay in the House in the considera
tion of the administration program of
legislation, which the Democratic
leaders have been threatening to abol
ish by the introduction of special rules
if the Republicans did not cease their
dilatory tactics, was definitely ended
when the Democrats carried out their
threats by adopting a rule intended
to force speedy action on the legis
lation in question. Under the rule
adopted, the three important amend
ments to the agricultural appropria
lion bill, providing for grain grading
federal warehouses, and the cotton
futures proposals, will 1^' voted on
after a live hours' debate.
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HARVESTER EMPLOYEES ARE
OFFERED NINE HOURS
CHICAGO April 28. — The Interna
tional Harvester Company today of
fered its employees a nine hour work
ing day without any reduction it:
wages. The offer cornea as the result
of a strike in the twine plants of thf
company yesterday affecting five
thousand employees, if the offer is
accepted it will mean an increase fot
twelve thousand employees, all o:
the workers being benefltted, the raise
not being confined solely to the strik
crs. it is thought probable that th*
offer ' in result In the men returnini
to work.
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BAD
NEW YORK, April 28. — Secret
agents of the department of justice
are making a rigid investigation to see
whether or not a crime has not been
committed by the editors of certain
Irish American papers who have been
viciously attacking President Wilson
and the administration since the out
break of the revolution In Ireland last
Monday. Articles, extreme in tone
and violent In denunciation, have ap
peared regularly in these journals the
! past week, and if there are any federal
I statutes to cover the case those re
sponsible will be prosecuted crimin
ally.
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WILL NOT COMPETE.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 28. — Ad
i \ ices from New York are to the effect
that liannes Kohlemainen, the great
1 Finn runner, will be unable to accept
rthr invitation to compete in the Mt.
iTamalpals race this summer, which
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'has been spt tor Sunday, June 18. The
course up the mountain side is a dif
ficult endurance test, approximating
i six miles, and the champion feels that
his business interests will not permit
the time for him to make the neces
sary preparation for the test.
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SYNTHETIC THEATRE.
ROME, April 28. — The Italian fu
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turlst dramatists have launched a
"Synthetic Theatre" here as a means
j of raising money for war charities.
Here they produce fourteen dramas of
"concentrated impressionism," shorn
of conventional technique. Most of
the plays are one act curtain raisers,
the most popular playlet has no hu
man actors, but only a dog. in an
other only the legs of the players ap
pear behind the half raised curtain.
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U STATES
LEADS AS A
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W ASHINGTON, April '•28. — The
goVernment issued an official bulletin
today, giving statistics concerning the
production of the United States In
leading staples as compared with the
other countries of the world. Accord
ing to the published figures, the
United States leads the world in the
production of the following articles
namely: Petroleum, coal. iron, steel
copper, silver, cotton, corn, wheat
oats, apples, hay and tobacco.
SULLIIIAN HAS SCHEME TO
EXTERMINATE MEXICANS
M. .1. Sullivan, of Port Wells fame
and better known to everybody in this
section of Alaska as "Ftig Mike, lias
evolved an excellent scheme for set
tling the trouble with Mexico, and has
submitted bis plan to the government
tor consideration. The scheme is
novel in the extreme, is simplicity it
self, and it is strange that army of
fleers engaged in the hunt for Vills
had not thought of it be.fore.
Mr. Sullivan's scheme is to load oars
with tortillas, frijoles, pan con carne
chilis and garlic and other foodstuff*
dear to the Mexican heart, and rur
trains from some point in Mexico to
ward the American line. The food U
be shipped in open cars so that it wit
be visible to the Mexican population
The Mexicans, long without luxuries
will follow the train, and upon arriva
on this side of the line, they are to b<
met by a delegation of Texans. wh<
will exterminate the Mexicans witt
1 clubs.
Sues building
SHIPS
WASHINGTON. April L>R. — Statis
tics compiled by persons in the ship
ping business testify to the remark
able fact that despite the heavy losses
suffered by the allied merchant ship
ping, due to the activity of the Ger
man submarines since the outbreak
of the war in 1914, the allies are ac
tually Increasing their mechant ton
nage. as they are building new ships
and launching them in such great pro
portions as to more than offset the
losses suffered. The shipyards of
Great Britain particularly have enor
mously increaseil their output in the
last year, and they are at present pro
during more vessels than at any other
time in their history.
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MEET U. S
BERLIN, April 28. — The feeling
of confidence which officials of the
German government have been expres
sing that an amicable solution will be
found for the submarine troubles with
the United States is growing stronger
daily. This feeling is reflecting itself
in the German stock market, which is
giving many evidences of strength,
although a few days ago it was weak
eriing. That the responsible heads of
the German government do not wish a
; break with America is certain, and
feeling as they do, it seems that there
must be a way out of the difficulty.
WASHINGTON, April 28. — It was
said today on good authority that the
German embassy had received official
dispatches from the German foreign
office, which indicate that Germany
will attempt to meet the American
demands as expressed in the last note
•;ent to Berlin by Lansing on the sub
marine question. That this acquies
cence to Wilson's idea of proper sub
marine warfare will practically result
in the immediate abandonment of the
German policy of ruthlessly attacking
merchant ships of the belligerents, is
forecasted in certain unofficial state
ments made by members of the em
bassy. Bernstorff appears less wor
ried today over the situation, and
greeted the press representatives
amiably, and while refusing to discuss
I the matter, strongly intimated that a
I peaceable solution would be found for
I the controversy.
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CHARTER GRANTED.
The union longshoremen have been
I grunted u charter in the International
i Longshoremen’s Association, and will
be represented at the district conven
tion. which meets in Seattle on May
2, 1 Pit), by Peter Sinclair, delegate
I from the Vancouver. B. I", local ot the
11. a. The longshoremen here have
turned their controversy over to the
I. L. A. convention for arbitration.
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The allow at the Empress Theatre
for Sunday evening should draw a
goodly number of the haldheads, and
it is expected that the front row will
be taken up early. The film to be
shown. "Midnight at Maxim's,” is a
portrayal of the. things which fasci
nate.
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The Slag .Cafe has changed hands,
the retiring member being Claude
Snyder. The business will be car
ried on at the same place by Jack
Burnett.
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The steamship Alaska is reported
to have arrived at Anchorage Friday
looming.
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THE MEXICAN
EL. PASO. April 28. - General Ob
regon. Carranza's minister of war, ar
rived at Juarez today to hold a con
ference with General Hugh Scott, chief
of staff of the U. S. army, regarding
the length of stay of the American
soldiers in Mexico. General Scott, ac
companied by General Funston, in
charge of the border operations, are
expected to reach this city from San
Antonio tomorrow.
EL PASO. April 28. — General Obre
gon crossed into this city yesterday
afternoon from Juarez, and frankly
discussed the Mexican situation with
reporters. He said that he believed
Ihe situation in the northern states
of Mexico had so far improved that
the American people could now safely
trust the Carranza soldiers to preserve
order and prevent the recurrence of
such outrages as happened at Colum
bus. Speaking of the American troops,
lie.praises them highly, and said they
had done splendid work in Mexico,
and greatly aided the Mexican gov
eminent is dispersing the Villa bau
bits into such small and scattered
units that they were no longer capable
of organized resistance.
The reason of sending the soldiers
into Mexico had now become obsolete,
he said, because the Anfericans had
accomplished their purpose, and there
fore should he withdrawn. Obregon
declared that Carranza had now forty
thousand soldiers patrolling the bor
der state from Sonora to eastern Chi
huahua. The strongest argument Ob
regon had was these soldiers, whom
he claimed were fully capable of hand
ling any difficult situation which might
arise, without American aid.
EL PASO. April 28. — Discussing
the reported wounding and death of
Genera! Villa. General Obregon said
today that he did not believe that the
bandit chief was dead. From infor
mation in his office he said it was
reasonably certain that Villa had been
wounded, and lacking proper medical
attention, he therefore had a small
chance of being personally active in
the field against the constituted au
thorities in Mexico. As to where Villa
was hiding. Obregon said (his was
clouded in some doubt, but that evi
dence was accumulating to the effect
that he had secreted himself, with a
small party of followers, near the
boundary line of the states of Sinaloa
and Sonora.
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BIG INCREASE IN LUNACY IN
ENGLAND
LONDON. April 28. — The report of
; the board of lunacy control, reviewing
| conditions in Great Britain since the
year 1859, shows a steady and alarm
ing increase of insane persons in till
classes, hut especially among paupers.
In 1859 there were 36,000 persons
under control for lunacy: in 1899,
100,000; in 1915. 140.000.
As compared to the total population
'the ratio of lunatics in 1859 was 18.5
per 10.000. In 1915 the proportion has
I fisen to 37.7.
”\Ye may at once reduce those com
parative figures.” says the report, "by
1 recognizing that the diagnosis of lun
acy has Improved, and that therefore
more cases are recognized and eared
for than in 1859. Yet this does not
! explain all the increase. Other factors
| must be considered. It is at this point
I that each theorist advances his claims.
“The truth is that the cause of lun
1 acy is not known. The factors enu
merated in the report may play a part,
but they also play their part in the
lives of men and women who die sane.
Quite recently It has been suggested
that diet may have some importance,