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BAND OF 75 IS
SURROUNDED BY
> U. S. SOLDIERS
MARATHON, May 17.—Seventy-five of the bandits who
raided Glenn Springs have been captured by Major Langhorn,
according to a truck driver, who arrived here today from.
Mexico.
Langhorn surrounded the bandits, who surrendered with
out a fight. Cavalry horses and equipment taken by the raid
ers was recovered. The entire band, it is said, will be brought
here for trial.
According to the man who brought the news of the cap
ture, the American troops were taken to the camp of the outr
laws by a Mexican guide.
MARATHON, May 17. — Deemer Deemer and Payne behind.
and Monroe Payne, a negro cook, who -
were captured by Mexican bandits in WASHINGTON. May 17. — The
the Glenn Springs raid today were administration is greatly relieved over
rescued by American soldiers in a the Mexican situation. Carranza fin
village 125 miles south of the border, ally lias been convinced that interven
The entry ot the soldiers into theition is not contemplated, and the re
village was a complete surprise to the J sentment against the presence of
bandits, who rushed away, leaving j Pershing's troops is decreasing.
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PHILADELPHIA, May 17. — Pen
rose today emerged from the state
prVftiaries victorious over Governor
Brumbaugh, in a fight for political su
premacy.
Charles Snyder, a Penrose man, was
nominated auditor over Charles Am
bler, who was Brumbaugh's candi
date, and a majority of the delegates
at large are Penrose men. Knox was I
nominated as senator.
JENSUS ENUMERATORS ARE
APPOINTED EOR CORDOVA
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Applications for liquor licenses hav
ing been made in Cordova, under the
ruling of Judge Brown last year.
United States Commissioner Medley
has appointed George Mosser and
Charles M. liosswog as enumerators
to take a census of the male and fe
male inhabitants within two miles of
the town of Cordova to determine
whether or not liquor will be sold in
Cordova next year.
VALDEZ NOW PROPOSES TO
CAN THE ALASKA CLAM.
J. D. Clark. Oscar Pish and C. El
wood left for a trip down the Sound
this morning to investigate the clam
discovered recently by Messrs.
Cwnrk and Elwood. Mr. Fish will visit
the beds to report on their extent and
productivity and the feasibility of es
tablishing a clam cannery here.
Mr. Clark, who is father of the pro
ject, has interested some capital here
and some on the outside In the project.
An estimate of the cost of the plant j
ts also been secured from manufac- |
ers of canning machinery, and if it;
found that the extent of the clam
beds will justify it, a cannery will
probably be erected here In the near i
future.—Prospector.
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48 AEROPLANES LOST IN MONTH.
BERLIN, May 16.--'Twenty-six aero ;
planes were shot down by German
aviators on the western front in April,
according to official figures given out
Vx>,re ’today. The German looses last
Pjnonth amounted to 22 aeroplanes.
LOGAN TO TIE
SOLDIERS TO
SEATTLE, May 16. — The trans
port Logan, now taking on supplies at
San Francisco, will call at Port
Townsend for the coast artillery com
pany, which it will take to Alaska.
The company will be sent to Fort
Seward, where it will relieve two com
panies of Infantry, which will return
on the Logan and immediately pro
ceed to the Mexican border.
SAY TAX WILL NOT AFFECT
SIZE OF MOVIE AUDIENCE.
LONDON, May 11. — Managers of
moving picture theatres do not believe
that the new government war tax
an their business will make any dif
ference in the size of audiences. The j
tux is to be regulated by the size of i
the admission fees.
There are approximately 4,500 pic- j
lure theatres now open in the United j
Kingdom, or a thousand less, perhaps,
than there were before the war. These
include theatres of all sizes, from
those possessing a seating accommo
dation of 200 to those accommodating
2,000 or more. Reckoning the average
daily attendance at each jit 800 and j
the average admission price as six- J
pence (12 eeuts) per head, the tax j
would bring in a total daily revenue
of £90.000.
Excluding Sunday shows, which are
not general, tiie total for a week
would amount of £54,000, which for
a whole year would be increased to
about £28,000.000.
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WOULD BUILD TESTIMONIAL
FOR BELGIUM AFTER WAR.
LONDON. May 15. — A proposal
has been made by wealthy men of
several European nations to build in
Belgium at the close of the war a
garden city as a testimonial of the
world to the valor of that nation and
as some contribution toward replac
ing the palaces destroyed during the
conflict.
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Forty-three men of the crew which
bus been working on the ice breaker
at the glacier came to Cordova on the
train last night. Others who were on
the job have gone to Chitina or Ken
TEN ARE KILLED
AKRON. O.. .May lfi. — Ten persons
were killed instantly and twenty two
injured today when the Crystal Res
taurant, one of the most popular cafes
in the city, was demolished by a blast
from a nearby excavation.
Contractors in charge of the exca
vation work, have been arrested,
charged with criminal negligence.
They claim they took all the usual
precautions, and are unable to ac
count for the unusual strength of the
blast.
The building occupied by the res
taurant was totally destroyed.
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LAKE STEAMER LOST;
CREW OF 20 PERISH.
SAULT STB. MARIE, Mich., May
lfi. — The steamer S. R, Kirby, owned
by the Western Transport Company
of Detroit, was lost off Eagle Harbor,
Lake Superior, yesterday, during a
terrific storm, according to a report
received here this afternoon. The
steamer carried a crew of 20 men.
and it is believed they were drowned.
ITALY FORBIDS
meeting today the importation of lux
uries and all bulky articles not ab
solutely necessary was prohibited.
The government also is considering
the fixing of maximum prices on all
provisions, and the further extension
of female labor in the government
service.
Prices of all foodstuffs have ad
vanced to such an extent that it is
felt necessary for the authorities to
take some acion to prevent a further
increase.
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SAY CHITINA WILL GO WET
THIS YEAR
Late arrivals from Chitina say that
the town is sure to go wet this year,
judging from the expressed sentiment
of the people. The enumerators yes
terday started taking the vote, and it
is expected they will have completed j
their work by today.
Since McCarthy went wet the peo-l
pie of Chitina feel that in self pro
tection they also must favor the
granting of licenses.
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ACTION BROUGHT AGAINST
THOMAS-CULROSS COMPANY.
An action has just been filed in the
district court at Valdez by John A.!
Christenson against the Thomas-Cul
ross Mining Company, of Cnlross Is
land, near 1’orl Wells, in the sum of
$1.1)70.50. and an attachment issued j
against the property of the company.
Deputy Marshal A1 Sullivan left yes
terday to serve the papers in the case,
and Kd Dickey was taken down to act
as custodian.
The action is to recover the sum
of $1,325.50, allaged to be due the
plaintiff for labor, and for the further
sum of $345. assigned claim of .1. R.
Howard, also for labor performed on
the property of the company.
CHICAGO PLANS
< MCAC,'), May 10. — The Illinois
Naval League is planning a prepared
ness parade, which it is asserted will
urpass the 1 ig demonstration in New
York last Saturday.
Already nearly 250,000 marchers
have enrolled for the parade. Thia
Includes 30,000 women, and 9.000 of
the Illinois state militia. There will
he eighty bands in the procession.
Hundreds of business houses will
close for a portion of the day, and
their employees will be in the parade
or given an opportunity to witness
the demonstration.
BORDER IS Si
Tl BE FREE OF
WASHINGTON. May 16. — The
government today expressed the opin
ion that all border towns on the Am
erican side now are safe from raids
on the part of Mexican bandits.
The willingness of. Carranza to co
operate with the American forces and
the steps he lias la|en to patrol the
border, will, it is asserted, make fu
ture excursions by bandits impossible.
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FREIGHT RATE TO THE
TOLOVANA IS ANNOUNCED.
Now that the trails have broken tip‘
and that practically all freight which
will be taken to the Tolovana country
will have to go by the all water route,
the water transportation companies
are getting busy.And in accordance
with their plans for work during the
coming summer, one of the companies!
has announced a schedule of freight I
rates on freight from Fairbanks lo
Brooks.
The entire cost Will he five and one
quarter cents per pound. By far tht
larger part of that amount, however,
is the two cent rate from West Fork
to Brooks. For the rate by the all
water route from Fairbanks to West
Fork will be but three and one-quarter
cents. Front Fairbanks to the Log
Jam the rate will be one and one-half j
cents. The portaging of freight across j
the jam will cost one quarter of a cent j
per pound. And from the jam to West!
Fork the cost will be one and one-half
cents.
Ml IN M ING EASE
DISAG S
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LOS ANGELES. May 16. — The!
jury which has been trying David (
('apian for complicity in the Times j
dynamiting case, today disagreed and <
was discharged. The poll of the jury
is said to have been seven to five for
conviction.
The district attorney has announced
that Oaplan will be re tried.
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BRITISH BUILD ZEPPELINS.
LONDON, May 16. — That England
Is building airships of the Zeppelin
type was disclosed in the house of
commons today by Thomas James
MacNamara. financial secretary of the
admiralty, who said that it was not
in the public interest to say how
many such aircraft Great Britain
possessed.
FIGHTING NEAR
DEMIN HILL
LIST NIGHT
PARIS, May 17. — The German
troops last night attacked with hand
grenades the French positions near
Headman's Hill.
The approach of the Teutons was
discovered by the French soon after
they left their trenches and a terrific
machine gun fire was directed upon
them, which stopped the advance. I
The German losses are given as heavy.
GERMANS SAY THEY ARE
OUTNUMBERED AT VERDUN.
BERLIN. May lfi. — In an official
bulletin issued by tlie war office to
day, the government states that the
failure of tRe Germans to advance in
the vicinity of Verdun is due to the
overwhelming force opposed to them.
The bulletin states that the French
now have eight hundred thousand men
defending the French positions, while
opposed to them are less than four
hundred thousand Germans. Against
this superior number the government
claims that the Germans cannot ad ,
vance.
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KUKAL HIS'
BILL PUSSES
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WASHINGTON. ,May Hi. — The
home today passed the Glass rural
credits bill. The senate already has
passed a bill similar In character, but
not acceptable to the house. The
bills now will be considered by a con
ference of members from the two
bodies.
The house now has under consider
ation the administration's shipping
bill, and it is thought it " ill come to
a vote Friday. President Wilson is
using every means in his power to
force the passage of this bill.
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FOUR BLACKBEARCUS SOLD
IN CORDOVA
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Four black bear cubs, none of
which were more than six weeks old.
confined in a box in front of Raw-son's
store, yesterday attracted much at
tention.
The cubs were caught by Scar Ste
vens, who later in the day sold one]
pair to M. Esterly. and it is re
ported that Oscar Breedmau bought
the other two. In order to feed the
cubs Mr. Esterly was put to the added!
expense of buying a feeding bottle.!
as the cubs are *oo young to partake!
of solid food at this time. Between
feeding the bears and his mining ven— |
tures Mr. Esterly expects to put in
a busy summer.
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MOVEMENTS OF STEAMSHIPS
COMING TO CORDOVA PORT.
The steamship Cordova, of the Alas
ka Steamship Co., last night sailed j
from Cordova for the south with 950
tons of ore, which was loaded here. !
The ^teamship Admiral Farragut.
of the Admiral line, is not expected in
Cordova frara the west before Sunday.
The steamship Alameda, which
sailed from Seattle May 16, is due at
Cordova Sunday...
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BRITISH-GERMAN
ML BATTLE
LONDON. May 17. — British de
stroyers and monitors today encoun
tered German destroyers off the c(«t8t
of Belgium. After a short engagement
the Germans retreated. There were
no British casualties.
MONITOR LOST.
LONDON, May 17. — (Official.! —
The British monitor M -30 destroyed.
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WHITE MAN WAS SAVED FROM
STARVATION BY NATIVE.
DOUGLAS. May IS. William How
ard arrived in town yesterday morn
ing on his gas boat "Kitty of Ketchi
kan." and brought with him a white
man by the name of McCormick,
whom he found at St. James bay in
a starving condition. The man's part
ner had gone to Juneau four months
ago. and had taken the boat, and when
William Howard, native, and master
of the Kitty of Ketchikan, found Mc
Cormick, the latter had not eaten for
four or five days.
Mr. Howard took the man aboard
his boat and fed him well, and brought
him to town, and says that when the
men met him he said: "Thank God
for William Howard."
WON'T BE MISLED.
PARIS. May 16. — "Desirous as he
might be to intervene as mediator in
the war, President Wilson knows that
the present situation prevents all ne
gotiations for peace," says the Jour
nal des Debats.
“The pretended advances of Von
Bethmajin-Hollweg is a gross snare
for the government and the American
people are too well informed to be
misled by Germanic peace talk. All
peace talk is practically useless as
well between the belligerents as be
tween the United States, and one of
the belligerents in particular.”
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The Following interview with Louis
P. Shackleford appeared in the Ta
coma News of May 6:
"James Wickersham probably will
not be re-elected as delegate to con
gress from Alaska, said Louis P.
Shackleford, of Juneau, who arrived
in Tacoma today on his way to the
Republican national convention.
"Mr. Wickersham refused the no
mination when it became apparent
that the regulars controlled the per
manent committees," said Mr. Shack
leford. “He probably thought the
convention would be flooded with
Wickershamites, and wa» disappointed
when this was found not to be the
case.
"The Alaska convention was held fit
Seward, April t9. There were 38
delegates present, representing 240
Republican votes, and HO progressives.
Wickersham may think he has enough
progressives to get him the office,
but if he does think so. I believe he
is mistaken.
“W. A. Gilmore, of Nome, the other
delegate, and myself, belong to the
regular faction; we are not progres
sives,’ ” said .Mr. Shackleford.
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