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built and after saturating Ins body wit
4 kerosene the negro was placed in it
f igots heaped inside, and the torch ay
plied. Over five thousand men and tliei
wives were present at the lynching. On
of the two remaining fugitives has bee
cipitired ami i> being held until th
third is apprehended, alter which the
will he lynched together.
Washington: The judge advocate gen
t i.il announced this morning that th
I'nited States .in*! Canadian government
have arranged to extradite all men o
military age who have tied their countr;
in an effort to tvade military service.
Oeuevn: According to a statement b>
hr. A. Guru, formerly Cuban minister L<
Germain and located in Berlin, the .'if
lairs of the Imperial government are fai
from settled, and dissension is beeominv
more and more evident as each day goes
by.
Washington: An investigation into tlu
cause of the accident on the Mongolia i
few days ago, and which resulted in tlu
death of two nurses, disclosed the fac
lh.it the shells supplied the gun crew?
for the trip were manufactured durinj.
the Sp.inish-American war.
London: A dispatch from Copenhagei
this morning gives the following officia
estimate of losses as published by tlu
German military staff for the month o
April: Killed, or death by sickness
ll.ono; severely wounded, 9,700; slight!}
wounded, 18,000; missing, 4,300.
W ellington: was officially stated
by state department officials this morn
ing that the recently announced wireles?
submarine destroyer should he rightfull)
credited to Italy. It was developed b\
Marconi and with it the Italians liavt
blown up 14 German and Austrian diven
in the past week.
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THURSDAY
Sail F'raticisco: Senator Harry K. Lane
died in this city this morning.
London: The second unit of the Amer
ican medical corps arrived in this city
today. The first unit was personally
received by the king and ijueen.
Geneva: A report from Vienna this
morning states that the British have sent
a force of 250,000 men to assist the Ital
■ lans in liieir offensive on the Austro
, Hungarian front.
1 Tacoma: Private Sidney Butt of the
1 North Yakima National Guardsmen com
mitted suicide this morning by shooting
himself with his rifle. Despondency is
given as the cause.
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Fairbanks: ]oe Sherry has started suit
against Dave Cascaden fora quarter int
erest m the Leitrin claim, in theTolovana
district, and for the sum of $5000, which
he claims as damages.
Paris: An 8000-ton American liner
which was reported sunk in theMediter
: ranean sea yesterday is supposed to have
I been one of the German vessels recently
seized by the United States.
Fairbanks: The Fairbanks Commer
cial club held a meeting this afternoon
and decided to hold a big Fourth of July
| celebration and to invite Nenana, Gibbon
and Brooks to spend the holiday m this
city.
Fairbanks: The condition of T. A.
Murquam and Dave l’etree is somewhat
improved.
London: The admiralty announced
this morning that reports from all points
on the British front are highly satisfact
j ory, and also speaks very highly of the
1 activities of the American torpedohoat
! flotilla.
Moscow: A congress of Mussel men,
i with delegates from all over Russia, met
in this city yesterday and by a vote of
l 446 to 271 this morning adopted a reso
, lulion favoring the institution ofa federal
i Republic of Russia.
Washington: A report issued by the
| state department this morning announces
, that the government will not issue any1
passports to persons desiring to leave the
United States to attend the Socialist
peace convention scheduled to meet in
Stockholm in the near future. It is
I claimed that the convention is being in
| spired by German propagandists.
I Washington: According to a bill intro
| duced in the senate this morning this
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government will join a pool with tlie Al
lies for the formation of a purchasing
commission for buying all supplies for
the prosecution of the war. The com
mission will be in charge of one man
and will be made up ot hundreds of the
most experienced of the world’s buyers.
Petrograd: In an address in this city
this morning C.eneral Alexieff, command
er-in chief of the Russitai armies, declared
that internal dissension has rendered the
Russian army impotent, and plead for
the restoration of-harmony.
Pans: According to a statement pub
lished by the war office this morning von
Hindenburg was a spectator of the defeat
administered by the French to the Her
mans on Moronvills Plains yesterday
evening. The French captured several
lines of German trenches including a
number of important observation points.
Seattle: According to li. F. Beck, an
American high school teacher who ar
med in this city from the Orient today,
Japan is rushing many trainloards of troops
actoss Siberia for service on the Russian
front, and there are significant move
ments among great bodies of Chinese
tioops which indicate that they will soon
entrain for a similar destination.
FRIDAY
New York: I)r. Arthur Waite died in
the electric chair last nite,
Copenhagen: Considerable naval ac
tivity among the vessels of the German
Baltic fleet is reported this morning.
Washington: It was announced this
morning that the new wage scale of the
V. S. army will go into effect June 1st.
London: The British steamer Tran
sylvania was torpedoed in the Mediter
ranean sea yesterday with a loss of 413
lives.
Washington: The American force un
der General Pershing will be fed on the
regulation American army ration while
they are in France.
Memphis: I,es Darcy, the heavyweight
Australian boxer who recently joined the
American aviation corps, died in this
city lc.sl nite of pneumonia,
Paris: A fleet of German destroyers
engaged a fleet ol French destroyers olf
the Belgian coast this morning and in the
ensuing battle one French boat was sunk.
Washington: No man in the United
States within the prescribed age limits is
exempt from registration for selective
draft. All aliens and even convicts must
register.
koric: it was omciaiiv announced
this morning that the Italians captured
3000 prisoners and a considerable portion
of enemy trenches in the region of Clor
uia yesterday.
Rome: According to a report issued
hv the naval board this morning only two
Italian sailing ships were submarined
during the week ending May 22. No
steamers Were sunk.
Paris: Alt official report issued by the
war office this morning states that the
Prencli have captured 8600 Teutons since
the first of May in the region immediate
ly north of the Aistte river.
Washington: It was announced by
the. war department this morning that
a cantonement camp with a capacity of
two army divisions is to be established
at American Lake, near Seattle.
London: The admiralty announced
officially this morning that about 10,000
members of the U. S. army including
over 1000 engineers have arrived in this
city in the last,few days.
Ottawa: To prevent Canadians from
evading military duty by crossing into
United States territory orders have been
issued that no male between the ages of
18 and 45 years can leave Canada with
out written permission from the author
ities.
London: It was announced this morn
ing that a fleet of Japanese war vessels
has arrived in the Mediterranean to co
operate with the Allied fleet in those
waters. The announcement was made
simultaneously with the arrival of the
fleet at the Allied base.
Washington: A report from the Dan
ish West Indies states that sounds of
heavy cannonading were heard to sea
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board yesterday, but no information as
to the cause could be secured. It is said
that the sounds of firing came front the
general direction of the base of the AtJ
lantic squadron.
London: David Lloyd George stated
in the house of commons today that more
effective blows have been dealt the sub
marines during the past three weeks than
during any other equal period during the
war, and as a result the blockade has be
come practically eliminated and all danger
of a food famine is over. lie said: ‘‘The
breaking down of file submarine block
ade is due to the activity of the United
States flotilla of torpedo boat destroyers,
and Knglaud owes a very considerable
debt of gratitude to that country for her
assistance. ’ ’
Elsewhere In Alaska
The Alaska Securities corporation,
owned by Duncan M. Stewart, recently
put thru a deal in the Seward district,
acquiring title to all of Mills creek up to
Juneau creek and all of the latter cieek.
Men will be put to work immediately to
develop the property which is a placer
| proposition.
McGrath and partners on Willow creek
at Marshall City have stripped about
3000 square feet ready to shovel in when
water runs. This firm look out about
581,000 from this ground last summer.
The better element among the natives
of Douglas are planning to move the na
tive village from its present location to
some place where the natives will not be
thrown in such constant contact with the
whites. The beach district where they
now reside lias never been recognized as
a native district.
A herd of reindeer recently brought
into Nome to be slaughtered for the local
market was completely stampeded by
dogs, breaking up into small bands, and
it is doubtful if they can be recovered.
Bud Whitney, an Anchorage rancher,
claims to have a hen that has laid a froz
en egg every day since December 25. He
is commonly known as “Tratliful Bud."
It is rumored at Seldovia that a sale of
a large chrome iron deposit in that vicin
ity was consummated recently.
Charles Castleman, who arrived from
Pimute recently, brought word of a kill
ing which took place a short time ago in
the town of Bethel on the lower Kusko
kwim. The story told was that three
sailors marooned at Bethel for the winter
imbibed too freelv of home-made hooch.
| As a result they became engaged in a
I fight aud oue of them became enraged
I and went to his cabin for a gun. On his
I return to the place where the fight took
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place he was ordered to drop bis pun,
and on bis refusal to do so lit- was shot.
The slayer went to Nushagak and gave
himself up.
Hobby Brown, a sawmill owner on
Dime Creek near Nome, was fatallv in
jured on March 31 when one of lus legs
was cut ofT by a saw ill the mill. As it
was necessary to convey him to Candle,
50 miles distant, (or medical treatment,
Leonard Seppala’s team of Siberian wolt
dogs, winners for the past two rears of
the Alaska sweepstakes, was pressed into
service and the trip made over a rough
trail in six hours.
The residents of Douglas are making
arrangements tor the formation of a mil
itia company at that place. C. A. Hunch,
formerly a lieutenant in the Washington
national guard, is heading the move
ment.
Cameron it Finnegan, who conduct a
pool room and cigar store at Klat, in the
blitarod country, were fined £450 and
costs recently lor gambling.
The (Iirwood (lee-l’ole is the latest uc
quisition to the literary field in Alaska,
the initial issue of which appeared recent
ly. It is published at (lirwood by one
of the government office force.
Clifford Kennard, swimming instructor
at the A. H. hall, in Juneau is organizing
a branch of Hoy Scouts in that city
Simpson McKinnon of Juneau, who
was recently appointed to Annapolis, lias
passed his final examination for admi
sion to the naval college. He w ill spend
the summer at Juneau and w ill return to
Annapolis in the fall.
Chris Beaton of Atlin has installed a
small gas engine andpumpon bis ground
on Spruce creek, where he has found
good pay on the back channel, lie be
lieves that he will make a good clean-up
by the end of the coming season.
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