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Ottowa: Premier Balfour in an ad
dress before the Canadian parliament
this morning said that Great Britain has
staked her last dollar on the present war
for democracy winning, and would be
bankrupt if the Allies should fail.
London: According to a Vienna dis
patch received in Amsterdam this morn
ing Emperor Charles of Austria hasasked
Count Andrassy to form a new Hungarian
cabinet. It is known that CouutAndras
sv is a strong supporter of Kaiser Wil
helm an 1 that the present cabinet is
strongly pro-German.
Rome: Official dispatches tni> morn
ing state that the Italian forces are
pounding at the gates of Fiume, the last
obstacle in thrir path to the conquest of
Trieste. The actual capture of the city
is said to be difficult because of the fact
that the heights which surround the city
are fairlv bristling with fortifications.
Chicago: The officials of the depart
ment of justice in this city this morning
apprehended three men and one woman
on a charge of conspiring to instigate a
nation-wide movement to discourage con
scription. Reports of their activities
have been received at department head
quarters from all over the United Slates.
Juneau: Governor and Mrs. J. F. A.
Strong left for the national capital yester
day. It is understood that the trip is
being made to enable the governor to
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! strengthen his political fences, and as a
result of advices received from his sup
' porters there to the effect that unless
I strong representations are made to Pres
! ident Wilson and Secretary Lane that the
I governor’s supporters are in the majority
I in Alaska Commissioner Thomas Riggs.
Jr., now in charge of the Fairbanks di
vision of the government railroad is
; practically assured of the appointment to
succeed Strong as governor of Alaska.
Seattle: Fred Witrenberger and Karl
Raake, two German sailors, were arrest
ed here this morning. It is charged that
they had signed on on the Norwegian
steamer Baia which is due to sail from
this port tonite for South America after
touching at San Francisco for a cargo,
with the intention of crippling the ship’s
machinery when she had put to sea.
THURSDAY
Cincinnati: Jack Dillon was
given the shade in their 10-round
bout in this city last nite.
Washington: President Wilson
this morning formally turned over
to the navy department five of the
great German merchantmen seized
by this government as war prizes.
El Paso: By reason of an order
issued bp the war deportment all
Americans attempting to cross irr
to Mexico are being stopped by
the authorities here.
Vancouver, B. C.: The Canadian
government hos issued orders to
the effect that no American citi
zen can enter this country without
a written pass from the federal
authorities at Washington.
Washington: Complaints filed by
a short time ago against the railrod
and steamboat transortation com
panies in Alaska have been under
meree commission and they have
reported that the excessive rates
which they were accused of charg
ing had been discontinued over 8
months ago.
Los Angeles: A Pacific Mail
steamer was halted near this ports
this morning ond examined her pa
pers. No reason for the halting
i was given.
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London: Friday will see the
closing of the fourth month of the
German submarine blockade, at the
expiration of which time Germany
t.nrted that she would hrve Eng
land on her knees. The admiralty
claims that the number of ships
sunk during the past wek has been
less than during any week of the
war.
Copenhagen: German Socialists
in convention in this city claim
that the French decided to send a
delegation to attend the convention
being held here to relieve the Brit
ish of the necesity of sending a
delegation.
Paris: Socialist leaders in this
citf formally denied ehis morning
that they have sent a delegaton
to attend the convention which is
being held in Copenhagen.
Rome: Reqorts from the Ital
ian front this morning state that
the Italian troops under General
Cardona are contiuing their suc
cessful advance in the direction q{
Trieste.
Washington: The officials q£
the secret service department are
making elaborate qreqar3tions to
! rope with the anti-conscription re
volts which are anticipated, sim
ilar to those which occurred dur
ing the Civil war.
FRIDAY
S^n Francisco: The jurv for the re
trial of Mooney has been complete*! and
the hearing of testimony will prol>ablv
commence tomorrow.
Washington: A great Memorial Dav
parade was the feature of the services in
this city today in honor of the country's
dead. President Wilson led the parade.
The Hague: Kaiser Wilhelm is re
ported to have visited the Teuton trcops
in the vicinity of Laon this morning,
and in an address delivered there is said
to have declared that ''the war will sure
end in a German victory,"
Amsterdam: According to a dispatch
from Constantinople via Berlin received
this morning twentv-six attaches of the
American consular service inTurkevleft
forjAmerica last nite by wav of Berlin.
Ruby: Theodore Matheson, of the
firm of Gidlund and Co., operating on
Spruce creek, fell from a backet recent
iy while being lowered into the workings
and died 2-f hours later of injuries re
ceived. The accident occurred Mav 15.
Laredo. Texas: A force of over a thou
sand Mexican bandits raided the towns
of Saltillo and San Luis Potosi vesterday
and looted the buildings and dvr.amited
the railroad yards and tracks. A force
of Carranza troops was despatched this
morning in pursuit of them and it is ex
pected that they will engage them in
battle before nightfall.
London: The British forces in the
Neave Chapeile sector conducted a suc
cessful attack on the German positions
there this morning after a violent artil
lery preparation and the French report
violent fighting on the front to the south
of St. Quentin. A number of German
counter attacks are reported to have been
successfully repulsed.
Fairbanks; Efforts are being made by
tbe Tanana Valley Agricultural associa
tion to induce the government to purch
ase potatoes for use in the Territory from
local farmers. Wires have been sent to
the authorities at Washington, and while
definite assurances have not a« vet been
received, there is reason to believe that
the movement will result in success.
Fairbanks farmers are planting unusual
ly heavy crops this spring in anticipation
cf a heavier demand than nsnal.
Anchorage: Regular Sunday excur
sions are now being run on the govern
ment railroad between Anchorage and
King. The new service, which promises
tc become verv popular with the public,
went into effect May 20.
Tokyo—According to an official an
nouncement by the minister of finance
this rooming the recent heavy with
drawals of gold which Japan has
made from the United States were
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Chicago—The grain gamblers who
were recently b' rred from speculat
ing in wheat and other grain pro
ducts by action of the board of trade
I have turned their attention to other
lines and are now speculating in
butter, eggs, cheese, etc., and as a
result the prices of these commodi
ties are soaring.
London—The admiralty announced
this morning that another British
hospital ship was submarined in the
English Channel last night with a
loss of six lives.
Washington — The naval board
which h -s been investigating the re
cent explosion aboard the Mongolia
reported this morning that the cause
was not due to any plot nor tc care
lessness, but was probably the result
of faulty shells.
Elsewhere In Alaska
Word has been received from
Chieagoff that the Golden Gate
mill, consistng of ten stamps and
which has been closed down tor
six months on account of lack of
water, is again in operation and
that the min? is running: to its
full capacity.
At a meeting: of the city coun
cil held in Juneau a short time
ago to hear the charges that have
been made aganst Chief of Police
Warren Harding in particular and
the police department in general,
: there were presented IS affidav
its answering the charges in de
tail. The affidavits show that a
majority of those who have made
charges against the police depart
ment have been frequent offenders.
A number of them have plead
guilty to one charge or another
as many as five or six times, and
1 others are alleged to be parasites
who gain livlihood from the earn
ings of fallen women. The affidav
its of Chief of Poke Harding and
Mullenbaek and W. D. McMillan
net only cover every detail of the
charges against the police depart
ment, but they are supported in
detail by fifteen other affidavits,
some of them affidavits from the
people who figure in the affidav
its of those making the charges.
The mill at the Alaska-Janeau mine
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tens of ore daily acceding
, Charles Brutf. who had charge
I the construction of the p a:.:.
On March 19th the steamer .• -
1 was launched at Carer* ~s, the tir-t : •
White Pass fleet to take to the v..a r.
j and the earliest launching in the hv
i of the Carcross-Atlin run.
Carl SeleniU'. while working < n tl:
Ray men mine near Nome, fell down tin
; shaft a distance of 5 feet and lives :•>
tell the tale. When lie ha-ulcil •
I of the shaft and taken to town for an e\
amination it was found that he h i i -
, tered no greater injura than a fracture 1
rib and several slight abra-:oii- of the
' skin where it had come in o u .. t w
the rough walls of the shaft.
Frank J. Cotterank Miss Martha i’.d e
White were recently married at Anchor
age. Judge Leopold David etfliciatine it
the ceremony.
The natives at Susitna, men, won
i babies, dogs, bags and baggage, are
'ported to have left n their annual : Hir
ing trip in *jue»t ot the it’d: pen-dle
moose.
,, Reports from the M trshal! district
state that pay has been located on
claims on Disappoi- tuie-nt er rk wi
richer than anything heretofore loccl i
in that district.
i Alaska’s scenic and indcstr. d
ages are the scbiect that :< tn a
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presented thruout tile Untie 1 te- in
, strenuous campaign inaugurated by t
Northern Pacific railway Pr< t. Ch^rd -
i Norton Hunt, lecturer for that raiir
j has for some nionths conducted ad*ire--es
in every important city in the o unii
amplifying his descriptions <>r the won
dertul northern possession witli stervup
ticon slides.
A heavy piece of freight falling on lin
en*! of a crowbar which he was holding
in his hand threw the bar violent *
upward, striking Ike leavers. dri\ tr
| the White Pass caterpillar, on the si le ■ t
the head and rendering him uncon-o a
: for several hours. At first it v> — tear d
! the skull was fractured but he i- now
out cf danger.
The women of juaeau recently give a
i rummage sale for the benefit of the Bel
1 gian children and a neat sum was cleared.
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