BREACH WITH GERMANY IS WIDENING
(By Associated Press.)
LONDON, Feb. 8. — A German sub
marine torpedoed the British steamer
Turino, bound from Norfolk to Liv
erpool. Three firemen were killed,
including an American Negro, George
Washington. The survivors have ar
rived at Queenstown.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8. — President
Wilson is greatly Interested In the
sinking of the Turino. After all of
the particulars had been obtained he
called on Secretary of War Baker and
Secretary of Navy Daniels.
The German submarines are main
taining the average destruction set
by Berlin naval experts as necessary
to success — a million tons monthly.
The Germans contend that this aver
age will cut England off from the
world and end the war by starvation.
Howecver, the British government
Hkclaims it has means of retaliation,
MPwhich will appear as the campaign
progresses, and says the world hears
of the losses of merchantmen but no
thing is said of the submarines de
! stroyed.
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(By Associated Press.)
LAPASE, Feb. 8. — Bolivia has de
j elded to completely support the atti
tude of the United States against
German submarine warfare.
Washington, Feb. 8. — Nether
lands has formally declined to break
with Germany, and Spain has also de
clined to accept President Wilson’s
suggestion of a break In its diplo
matic relations with Germany.
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RECEIVE IE
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8. — France
has formally granted safe passage
through the allied blockade for Am
bassador Bemstorff and suite. Simi
lar action o nthe part of Great Bri
tain is awaited.
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FROM LINER
TORPEDOED
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8. — The
liner California was torpedoed at 10
o'clock Wednesday morning off the
coast of Ireland. The number of
missing people has been learned to
be forty-one, there being 162 surviv
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(By Associated Press.)
RIO JANEIRO, Feb. 8. — Peru and
Chile will address protests to Ger
many regarding its submarining. A
wireless telegraph station established
to communicate with German ships
detained in the harbor here has been
discovered In the suburban town of
Nlchhreoy.
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Anchorage has a new Masonic tem
ple, 60x60 feet, which has been re
cently erected at a cost of $12,000.
GERARD BEING
DETAINED IN
BERLIN
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8. — It is of
ficially announced that Ambassador
Gerard, the American consuls and the
American sailors from the steamer
Narrowdule, are being held in Ger
many until assurances are received by
that government of the safe depart
ure of Ambassador Bernstorff and the
German consuls, as well as the safety
of the German war bound ships in this
country. Gerard is still in Berlin,
where the officials minimize his de
tention, saying it is the result of a
misunderstanding which will soon be
removed.
pleogTlobut
ID UNITED
SMS
(By Associated Press)
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 8. — The
German-American National Alliance,
with three million members, has adop
ted resolutions endorsing the action
of President Wilson in severing diplo
matic relations with Germany, and
pledging loyalty to the United States.
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(By Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Feb. 8. — The Anchor
Line has been informed that the
steamer California was sunk unwarn
ed. J. W. Anderson and son, of Van
couver, are among those missing. The
submarine gave no hail or warning,
but fired two torpedoes from a dis
tance of three hundred yards. The
California carried a large cargo of war
supplies for the British government.
The American member of the crew
was saved.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8. — The only
effect of the destruction of the Cali
fornia had is the quickening of pre
parations by the government for war.
Later. — The California sank nine
minutes after it was torpedoed. There
are fifty people missing.
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(By Associated Press.)
LIMA, Feb. 8. — Peru has instruct
ed Its minister at Berlin to make a
written claim on the German govern
ment for the sinking of the Peruvian
bark Lorcton, by a submarine in Span
ish territorial waters.
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LIQUOR TOUTED AS HAIR
_TONIC AT ANCHORAGE.
Is whiskey a hair tonic? Cat it be
considered as an ingredient in the
manufacture of hair tonic? If it is
a hair tonic must it be applied as a
massage or taken internally, asks the
Seattle Times.
These and a few other questions
of a like nature must be answered by
the United States court at Anchorage
to decide whether three barrels of li
quor shipped Into the town by a citi
zen of that place can be held by the
government and returned to the ship
pers in Kentucky or turned back to
the consignee, according to J. A. War
dell, deputy United States marshal.
"Liquor can only be imported into
Anchorage for private use,” said War
dell. "The man who received this
large shipment made no effort to dis
guise It or to evade the law."
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A good Investment — the Dally
Times six months for $5.
GERMANY SINKS
99 VESSELS
IN WEEK
(By Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Feb. 8. — Fifty-nine
ships have been sunk by German sub
marines or mines since the German
blockade began on February 1. They
hud a tonnage of 116,000 burden and
thirty-two of the vessels carried the
British flag.
iiaskTOcense
TAX MEANS
i
Alaska territorial license tax laws
upon fishing and mining corporations
were recently put into effect by a su
preme court ruling. Appeals in test
suits from the lower courts decrees
upholding the territorial legislature's
tax acts were dismissed.
The decision of the supreme court
in upholding the territorial courts in
the tax cases generally pleases Alas
kans, because of the fact that it means
a guarantee of an additional income
to the territory of nearly $500,000 an
nually. This income from the can
nery tax of from 1 to 4 cents a case
on salmon, a saltery tax of 2 2-1 cents
per 100 pounds of fish, a fish trap tax
of $100 per year and a gill net tnx
of $1 for each 100 feet, as well as a
mining tax of 1 per cent of the net
income in excess of $5,000.
Contested by Miners and Fishermen.
The suit was commenced by repre
sentatives of mining and fishing in
terests at Juneau, following the de
mand of the territorial officials for
tinea as tin potted by the legislature
of 1913 and 1915. The companies ad
mitted the facts and the amounts due
in the test cases and the territory
agreed to accept taxes and accrued in
terest at the rate of 8 per cent per
year and waive enforcements of the
penalties provided by law, in case
the decision resulted favorably to the
territory.
Penalties in the statutes for non
payment of taxes include in per rent
interest charge as a fine, with each
month a separate offense.
Claimed It Additional Tax.
Fish packers and mining men who
objected to the payment of the terri
torial tax did so on the ground that
it was an additional tax, as they were
already paying a federal tax. Their
point was that the Organic Act which
was passed by congress in 1912, and
which gave Alaska her territorial form
of government, specifically provided
that the territory should not legislate
on fish or fur laws. The act of 1906,
which exempted the salmon canneries
from the federal tax of 4 cents a case,
by the release of salmon fry from pri
vate hatcheries, also was brought into
the case, because it specified that the
federal tax “shall be in lieu of all
other license fees and taxes.”
Contention of the Territory.
The territory contends that the Or
ganic Act, passed in 1912, should “not
operate to prevent the legislature from
imposing other and additional licenses
and taxes.” The territorial point of
view was that this section of the law
repealed the act of 1906 and made can
neries and mining companies liable
for a territorial tax which would be
“other and additional" to the federal
tax.
The first territorial tax imposed in
1913 on the fisheries provided for 7
nanta a oaan nn »nfV«y. and hlng sal
mon, and 1-2 cent a case on hump
back, cohoe and chum salmon. The
tax law of 1915, which superceded
that of 1913, provided for 4 cents a
case on king, sockeye or red salmon
2 cents on medium reds and 1 cent a
case on all others, besides the saltery
fish trap and gilt net taxes.
Will Yield Half Million.
Estimates of the incoi le from the
tax to the territory place the revenue
from the mines at about 3250,000 pei
year, with 3175,000 from the fisheriee
and about 375,000 from all other bust
ness and manufacturing plants tax
able under the territorial law.
The appeal of the cases from the
district court of the first division ol
Alaska to the circuit court of appeal!
at San Francisco, was taken by Johr
Cobb, territorial counsel, last year
The cases were continued and foughi
out in the supreme court by George
B. Grigsby, attorney general-elect, ami
present counsel for the territory.
(By Asnoclated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8. — The
breach between the United States
and Germany widens hourly, and
the hope of avoiding hostilities Is
almost gone. Germany's subma
rine campaign Is developing with
a fury which officials here he
lieve that it soon must produce
an overt act, which President
Wilson said would be the signal
for war.
No Americans were lost on the
liner California, and no American
ships have been sunk unwarned
since the new campaign was an
nounced.
The United States feels as
sured of the moral support of the
neutrals in its protest against
Germany's course, but it Is impro
bable that there will be any break
in the relations of those countries
with Germany.
The hope Is maintained that dip
lomatic relations with Austria
are vanishing.
MISSING
(Special to Dally Times.)
SEWARD, Feb. 8. — The schooner
Harold Blekum, sailed into the bay
this morning with Captain W. Kohl
nlster, his wife and a crew of seven
men safe after a terrible trip. They
report the power b*ut Progress, which
was towing them^fnfil Seattle to
Seward, is missing since January 31.
When last seen she was covered with
ice, having broken her towing rope on
the Blekum off Cape Ornney, and
everything movable was carried away.
The sails were down and the Progress
drifted 250 miles in forty-eight hours.
She arrived off Seward three days
ago, but was unable to get in on ac
count of the thick weather.
Mrs. Kohlmister, wife of the cap
tain of the Blekum, is a daughter of
Dr. J. P. Sweeney, of Seattle. She
has travelled with her husband all
over the world, and says this was the
most frightful trip she ever experi
enced.
The request is made that steamers
watch out for the Progress and wire
here if she is found.
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LOCAL JOTTINGS.
The launch Waif returned last even
ing from a trip to the westward, with
a cargo of gasoline.
The Women’s Guild will hold a card
party at the Bungalow next Tuesday
evening, February 13.
Cordova Lodge, No. 3, Knights of
Pythias, will hold an anniversary ball
at Eagle hall on February 19.
The steamer Admiral Evans, which
left Juneau early this morning, is due
in Cordova at 6 o'clock Friday after
noon.
Having loaded 2,100 tons of copper
ore, the steamer Victoria sailed from
here at 4 o'clock this morning direct
for the Tacoma smelter.
The steamer Northwestern sailed
-from Juneau at 1 o'clock this morning,
and will make a cannery call en route
to Cordova, where she is due early
Saturday morning.
The freighter Valdez arrived In
port at 0 o’clock last night. She
brought a tank car, three box cars
and a quantity of gasoline for the
Copper River & Northwestern rail
way.
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BOY 8COUT EXERCISES TONIGHT.
The Boy Scouts of Cordova will cele
brate the seventh anniversary of the
Boy Scout organisation this evening
at the Presbyterian church room, at
7:30 o’clock.
Everybody is invited to come and
see what the boys have done. Par
ents or Boy Scouts are especially In
vited.
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Job Printing at Dally Times office.
81 PASSENGERS
(Special to Dally Times.)
SEATTLE, Feb. 8. — The steamer
Mariposa sailed for southeastern Alas
ka at 9 o'clock this morning, with a
big passenger list, eighty-one being
booked for Cordova, us follows: Gay
lord Peterson, Carl Anderson, Paul
Ringseth, Joe Ensley, M. Finkelstein,
X. Hawklnson, wife and two babies,
Katherine Oppoim, Irene Hawklnson.
\. Loverty, J. Duff, Tillie Wertenburg,
Ingvald Olsen, Mrs. M. Olson, F. W.
Marshal, P. Iverson, James Scott, Ben
Larson, John Larson, John Wick, U1
"ich Olson, Ed Thompson, Pete Peter
son, A. Wlttig, P. Walden, Andrew
Lund, Ralph Xelson, G. Steel and wife,
Louise Crane, Leah Crane. Otto Erick
son, John Holland, Chris Hovde, Con
ad Ephseland, H. Elmer Foldvlk.
lens Foldvlk, John Jorgensen, Ole
Sandonger, Pete Xelson. Ole Olson,
Hans Johnson. I. Olson, Jorgen
Thompson, E. Olson, Jake Kohler, A.
Nelson, Ole Newland, Isaac Utness,
Knute Olson, Hans Olson, H. Peder
son, Paul Johnson, John Pederson,
iustav Lee, Olaf Munson, Alfred Mun
son, Pete Peterson, and twenty-one
steerage.
NO PEACE IS
YEAR. SAYS
BROKER
E. H. Clarke, of No. 27 William
Street, New York, in his market let
ter this week confidently predicts no
peace Jn t #17. lie (jgutes his assertion
on private advices which he has re
ceived from the leading capitals of
Europe, and declares that his corres
pondents iKJssess unusually good
sources of information.
“All belligerents want peace," says
Mr. Clarke, "but developments have
proved that peace is possible only on
terms set forth by the allies. Ger
nany cannot accept auch terms in
view of her territorial gains and the
nnocent belief among the German
people that they are winning the war.
Evidences accumulate to show that
the food crisis of the central powers
s acute, but I can state with con
fidence that It is not sufficiently acute
0 induce the people to accept peace
on any terms but their own. Ger
many Is hungry, but her people are
willing to endure much greater hard
ships rather than have peace without
honor. The allies are in no position
now to enforce their terms and will
not he for another twelve months."
As regards the effect of peace upon
American Industries, Mr. Clarke ex
presses the opinion that the end of
the war will be a bull argument for
many securities, especially those of
concerns interested In the produc
tion of raw products. “War or peace,
foreign demand alone will keep our
producing companies, particularly
steel, copper and oil, busy for years."
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(By Associated Press)
COPENHAGEN, Feb. 8. — The sole
survivovr of the Belgian relief steam
er, Lars Kruse, has arrived here and
he says the boat was sunk without any
warning.
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Jepson, a comparatively new arrival
at Anchorage, and some wrestler, re
cently threw one Peterson, one ol
the local experts, the first fall being
gained in nine minutes and the sec
ond in six minutes. A few nights lat
er Martin, the Anchorage champion
defeated Jepson In two straight falls
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John Hague, an employee of th«
Alaska Industrial Mining & Powei
Company at Nome, was severely burn
ed about the arms and face by com
Ing in contact with some high ten
sion wires In the plant of the com
1 pany.
CHS GLACIER
II BIG SCREEN
One of the beat Alaskan films ever
shown in the states was taken by Mr.
and Mrs. A1 I. Smith, during an exten
ded trip to the territory last year.
The wonders of the northland are de
plcted on the screen In the Strand
theatre. New York city, also In Tal
ly’s Hroadway theatre. Los Angeles,
with great success, and this star fea
ture is being state-righted and will
soon appear simultaneously In all
parts of the country.
What especially appeals to the pub
lic is the scene revealing the action
of Child's glacier, one of Cordova's
awe-inspiring attractions. The picture
is one of really absorbing interest.
Erom time to time great masses of
ice break away from the main body
and go crashing down into the water
below, blocking the course of the riv
er and raising a tidal wave that
sweeps up against the rushing current
with all the force of an avalanche.
It Is the sensation of thrill rilmdom.
>nd nothing like it has even been
shown before. Then there is the great
Kodiak bear, in which the bear Is
shot and falls within a short distance
>f the camera after making a head-on
•harge of about one hundred yards:
'he bore on Turnagaln arm, which is
i sight worth seeing, some exception
illy good Eskimo stuff, depicting the
life of the natives and scores of other
scenes, representing the new phase
it the effects wrought by Mother Na
lure in this great northland. that for
beauty and awesome grandeur have
never been equalled.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith will be back
in Alaska early in the spring. It is
their intention to stop at Cordova and
get the "ice breaking up in the Copper
river.” In a lengthy article, descrip
tive of his trip to Alaska last summer.
Mr. taltfc Ctras the following Inter
esting account of his stop at "Cordova,
>ne of the greatest copper producing
sections of Alaska. It was our inten
tion to take the train to Miles and
Childs glaciers which during that
time of the year sluff off Immense
■luantities of ice into the river, af
fording a wonderful sight.
“The railroad runs, from Cor lova
to the famous Kennecott copper mines
>n the Copper river. This railroad Is
mentioned by Rex Beach as being the
Iron Trail of the north. The million
dollar steel bridge which crosses the
river between the two glaciers is
featured in his novel by that name,
The iron Trail.’
“When we arrived at the glaciers
the sun was shining brightly and it
was fairly warm, in fact it was prac
tlcally the first sunshine we had seen
during our trip in the north. After
making our camp, we located our ma
chine on the opposite bank from
Child's glacier and awaited the ice
falls, which could be heard for miles
when they fell with their terrific
thunder. In order to obtain the pic
tures of the ice falling, one must
watch closely for the small pieces to
begin to break off, then begin to
crank with the hopes of getting a
big slide. The glacier is seventy-five
miles in length, over four hundred
feet in height and the face measuring
three miles across. During the few
weeks of summer when the glaciers
sluff off, it is claimed that it sluffs
off and moves forward forty feet per
day. In the pictures that I have to
offer I show some tremendous slides,
although one can not realize the im
mensity of this body of ice or hear
the deafening thunder or feel' the
shock which goes with each fall from
just looking at the pictures.
“I was fortunate in securing a small
-gas boat and made-my way. through,
the ice fields to the face of Miles
glacier. This was the first time that
a moving picture camera had been
face to face with this gigantic wall
of ice. It was no small undertaking
to photograph the falling ice from
a small boat, as each and every berg
which falls into the water (which is
over 1,500 feet in depth! causes a
huge swell or wave, which we were
compelled to pull away from at full
speed In order to keep from being
swamped. I have pictured a berg
about the size of a small mountain,
which falls over and presents a mag
nificent sight. One that perhaps you
will never have an opportunity of see
ing again. In order to get this pic
ture, I kept my camera focused on
this berg for an hour and a half in
a zero wind which blows from off the
glacier.
“Eight days were spent at the glac
ier* to obtain the picture* which I
am very proud of, and am quite sure
to this date there has never been a
motion picture made of a living glac
ier that will compare with them."
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EXPOSITION
THIS YEN
Juneau Is p ■ .g to i.cld ?n A' s
ka Purchase Ex,. :tlon in celebration
of the fiftieth ann'vorsary cf the pur
chase of Alaska.
It is probable that the exposition
will be devoted to the mineral re
sources of Alaska, and particularly
southeastern Alaska, and one of the
very attractive features will be a com
plete model of the famous Treadwell
mine prepared according to scale, and
showing in detail the various work
ings of the mine, in order to carry
this work forward and have the model
completed in time for the exposition,
it will be necessary to begin its con
struction at once, and to cover the
cost of this expense, the Brotherhood
has determined upon the plan of sell
ing season tickets to the exposition to
-esidents of Gastinean channel.
The transportation companies as a
result of this big exposition are plan
ning to extend the time that their
boats will be in port. The holding of
an annual mineral exhibit will un
questionably be of great value to Gas
tineau channel and southeastern
Alaska.
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PUBLIC SURVEY
READY
During the fiscal year ended June
30, 1910, all field and office work in
connection wit hthe coal areas in Mat
anuska. Bering river and N'enana coal
fields was completed in time for open
ing the coal lands under the leasing
act. Plats of township surveys, ap
proved by the surveyor general and
sent up for acceptance amount to over
150,000 acres, which is about one-half
if the total are of surveyed land in
the territory. The secretary of the
interior, In his last annual report, re
■ommends that an appropriation of
$50 ,000 be made for the prosecution
if surveys in Alaska this year, and
the continuance of the policy of grout)
surveys under the present system of
investigation, selection and execution.
Formal announcement of the open
ing of the coal fields of Matanuska
and Bering river to leasing privileges
was made May 8, 1916, resulting in
six application" in the Matanuska and
two In the P >g river fields, pro
posing a ma Invest'" ">nt '
nearly $3,000,0), .
Under section 1>> of the coal leasing
act, which authorizes free permits to
mine coal on small tracts for domestic
use. 15 permits have been issued. The
estimated annual output under these
permits is 142,700 tons.
The new United States map shows
the extension of public surveys dur
ing the fiscal year to an area of 8.
856,724 acres. The issuance of a gen
eral map of Alaska during 1917 is an
nounced by the commissioner of the
general land office, which will show
all recent work in the public and coal
land surveys, also the line of the gov
ernment railroad and the several
towns located thereon.
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James Russell, an old time pros
pector and hunter, recently reported
that he had found moose tracks and
other signs of the animals within five
miles of Juneau within the past few
days.
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Chris Kromanu, committed to the
Morningside sanitarium from Kodiak
in August, 1915, and dismissed as
cured in December, has suffered t re
lapse of his disorder and has been
recommitted to the asylum.
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Seven Indians were arrested at Klu
kwan and brought to Haines charged
with breaking out of quarantine. They
all plead guilty before Judg Kennedy
and were fined one dollar each.
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Several lynx have been caught on
the beaches about Juneau, the ani
mals having been driven from their
usual haunts by the scarcity of rab
bits and ptarmigan to the shore in
1 search of food.