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built on the Pacific coast.
^ Washington: President Wilson’s at
tempts to ratify the Colombian treaty
have been unsuccessful, and it was an
nounced this morning that no further at
tempt will be made this season.
New York; The soaring cost of food
thruout the country is causing widespread
hardship, and in this city has resulted in
serious rioting. It is reported that Pres
ident Wilson will call an extra session of
congress for the express purpose of en
acting legislation to dissolve the food
combines which are known to exist in all
sections of the country.
I Chicago; E, T. Davis, head of the
anti-saloon league, produced statistics to
day showing that congress is overwhelm
ingly in favor of prohibition, and that it
is possible to travel from the Atlantic to
the Pacific and from Mexico to the Arctic
without traversing wet territory. He pre
dicts that every state in the union will
vote on the prohibition law before 1920.
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Berlin: Heavy pressure is being felt
along the entire Rumanian border, ac
cording to reports received by the mili
tary staff this morning.
Tokio; The Japanese naval program
includes seven battle cruisers as large as
the Arizona, America's largest battleship,
to be completed by 1923.
London: A report from Christiania
this morning states that over a thousand
women and girls were killed in a muni
tion factory explosion in Dresden yester
^ day.
Washington: The whereabouts of the
Atlantic fleet is being kept an absolute
secret, and its present location is known
only to President Wilson and Secretary
Daniels.
New York: According to a statement
made by Alfred Noyes in this city today,
England's anti-submarine fleet consists
f of 4000 private launches, yachts, whaling
and fishing vessels, manned by 60,000
men, and this fleet has sunk over 200 U
boats since the first of February.
Washington; An official check made
this morning shows that aure than 30,
000 freight cars are stalled in Eastern
shipping centers because of congestion in
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various ports due to submarine activity
of the past three weeks, and lack of stor
age warehouse facilities.
Washington: State department officials
admitted this morning that there is no
use in disguising the fact that the situa
tion with regard to Germany is growing
more grave as each day passes, and that
unless the undersea campuign is called
off or orders issued to prevent an overt
act being committed, only a miracle can
now avert war.
Amsterdam: Count Reventlow, writ
in' tit the Berlin Stats Zeitung this
morning, said that the United States
may get plenty of enthusiasm out of the
present crisis, they will have to be better
prepared than they were when they ent
ered the Spanish war if they expect to
fight Germany.
New York: Open rioting is taking
place among the poor, as a result of the
high cost of foodstuffs. Shops are being
broken into and food carried off by the
mobs, who are actually starving in many
instances. Similar trouble is reported in
Philadelphia.
San Francisco: In the finals of a two
and one-lialf hour wrestling card held in
this city last night, Joe Steelier, the Ne
braska marvel, defeated Ed. Santell in
straight falls of 3S:17 and 17:54, respect
ively. Steelier used the double wrist
lock for both falls. The bout was for
the championship, and was witnessed by
14,000 spectators.
Washington: The Reed amendment
I to the postoffice bill which makes it un
| lawful to ship liquor into dry territory iii
the mail, will, if incorporated in the
bill, make twenty-six states and the ter
ritory of Alaska dry, as laras postal ship
ments are concerned, oil July 1, 1917.
Dawson: A disastrous fire,originating
in the Yukonia hotel last night, resulted
in the death of two persons and a prop
erty loss amounting to 5200,000. The
buildings destroyed include those along
Front street from the Yukonia hotel to
the Royal Alexandra hotel, the latter
not being damaged.
New York: Onions were selling today
at 514.00 per cental and cabbage at 5160
per ton, which is an example of the phe
nomiual rise in foodstuffs. The selling
price of onions one year ago was 52.50
a cental and cabbage $11.00 a ton.
Philadelphia: Chief Bender received
his unconditional release from the Ath
letics yesterday.
Pierre, S. D.: Governor Norbeck this
morning signed the bone dry bill for
this state.
Washington: It was stated here this
morning that the nation is facing ail even
more serious danger than war in the ex
treme shortage of food and fuel which is
claimed to be general all over the United
States.
Washington: Pershing was appointed
■this morning to the position vacated by
the death of General Funston.
Washington: Major General Pershing
has been named to succeed General Fun-1
ston, and has already assumed temporary
command of the border. Brigadier Gen
eral Edwards, now commanding the Pan
ama canal zone, will be advanced to the
rank of Major General made vacant by
Pershing’s promotion.
Olympia: Any effort of the liquor int
erests in Californ a and other states to
supply funds to Washington to fight the
new bone dry law with the referendum
will be strenuously prosecuted, according
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to a statement issued by Governor Lister J
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New York: Teddy Roosevelt and Gen- ;
eral Woods were guests of Governor j
Beecktnan yesterday, and made an in* j
spection of the Plattsburg military train
ing camp.
Washington: The house passed the ;
senate bill for the creation of the Mount 1
McKinley National park yesterday, and !
it goes to the president for his signature
today.
San Francisco: The body of W. G.
Gould, a dairy farmer of Fairbanks, Al
aska. which was found in the bay here a
week ago, was identified by friends this
morning.
Olympia: Governor Lister signed the
Washington state bone dry bill yesterday.
Mexico City: Ambassador Fletcher ar
rived here today from Washington. This
is the first time in four years that the
American embassy has been occupied.
Washington: A report has been re
ceived here that a band of 100 cowboys
have entered Mexico to avenge the death
of‘lie three cowboys who were killed by
Mexicans last week
Wilmington, Del.: The Cunard Line
placed orders today with the Harlan Hol
lingsworth company tor thirteen million
dollars worth of ships, and with the Se
attle Construction & Dry Dock company
for steel freighters to the value of sixty
million dollars.
Washington: General Funston died of
heart failure in the lobby of a hotel in 151
Paso last night, shortly after having par
taken of a dinner with a party of friends.
El Paso: W. Crawford, a large stock
raiser located here, reported to the auth
orities here today that a Mexican, a man
close to Villa, told him that the rebel
chief left for Japan three weeks ago. He
said before leaving that he would return
in three months.
Emporia: General FunSlon's mother
is at her home in this city, stricken with
the news of her son’s death, and little
hopes are entertained for her recovery.
Washington: The sundry civil appro
priation bill was reported to the House
this afternoon by Representative Fitzger
ald of New York. The bill contains,
among other items, the following items
for Alaska: $10,500,000 for Alaska rail
road, $70,000 for care of insane, $200,000
for education of natives, $5000 for pro
tection of reindeer, $50,000 for medical
relief, $20,000 for game protection, $15,
000 for suppression of the liquor traffic
and $35,000 for building construction in
Cordova.
Rov Lund arrived from Fairbanks this
forenoon, and leaves on the up trip to
morrow morning. He states that he will
be back in Nenana in ample time to bring
costumes for the masquerade at the Col
iseum next Thursday evening, for any
who are desirous of sending to Fairbanks
for their outfits.
Elsewhere In Alaska
Something oyer $2,000,000 is on de
posit in the two banks at Anchorage.
Twenty-five inches of snow fell recent
ly at Valdez in 24 hours, making a total
of 54 inches on the ground.
Three well-known and substantial in
surance companies have withdrawn from
Valdez as the result of the recent fire.
A trapper near Salclia recently caught
22 lynxes in one week. He reports the
animals unusually numerous this year.
It is reported that with the increased
facilities next season’s output from the
Iditarod district will show a material in
crease over that of the past year.
The name of Judge C. E. Bunnell is
being mentioned prominently as a can
didate for governor, to succeed Governor
Strong.
The Herron-French placer holdingson
Bear creek, near Hope, have been trans
ferred to the Alaska Hydraulic Mining
company, composed of Philadelphia cap
italists, who will work the claims on a
large scale.
After holding onto his claims for four
years, Ransom Alguire is reported to
I have struck high grade ore on the San
i don copper claim, lying between the Pu
| eblo and War Eagle mines in the White
horse district.
Tanana Sheet Metal Works
Steam and Hot Water Heating Planta
Sheet Metal Work and Plumbing
Stoves and Furnaces
Gilcker & Schwendiman “A” Street
.
Three dog teams have been purchased
by the Alaskan Engineering commission
for use between Mile 40 and Kern creek.
The Ketchikan Citizen’s Light & Pow
er company recently gave bonuses to all j
of its employes.
Basketball contests are all the rage in
the towns of Southeastern Alaska, and
some stai teams are being developed.
A Valdez man has invented a safety
lock nut which is guaranteed to hold un
der any conditions of strain or vibration.
Five feet of wet snow is reported to '
have fallen at Seward in 36 hours recent
ly.
At a recent meeting of the Juneau city j
council it was voted to purchase an Amer-;
ican LaFrance Junior fire engine for the :
Juneau fire department.
C. \V. Hawkesworth, in charge of the j
bureau of education for Southeastern Al
aska, reports an epidemic of measles in !
nearly all the native towns and villages'
of the west coast.
Owing to the heavy snowfall the moose j
are reported to be having hard picking j
this winter on the Ketiai peninsula. The
animals are reported to be so poor that
thev are not fit for food.
A branch of the secret organization
known as "The Army and Navy" has
been organized by the soldiers of Fort
Wm. H. Seward, at the town of Ilaines. j
It has a charter membership of twenty. '
Olaf Olafson and Gustave Giv-tavson, \
representing a syndicate of Laplanders,
arrived in Anchorage recently from the
Interior for the purpose of looking over
the country in that vicinity with a view
to establishing reindeer herds.
Two former residents of Valdez, now
prominent in moving picture circ!es, were
married recently. Miss Alice Niece, of;
the Dudley Motion Picture company,
was married at San Francisco, and Clias.
Holt took a wife in another California
city.
Unexpected delay in the completion of;
the electric light system at Anchorage .
recently resulted in a shortage of gas-!
oline and kerosene. The price of the i
latter advanced to 51.00 a gallon before
the situation was relieved by the arrival j
of a supply from Seward.
T. R. Kershaw’, former state game com- j
missioner of Washington, announces that
he has completed the organization of the
Alaska Packing & Navigation company
and that the company will build a two
i line cannery at Chatham Strait, about 100
i miles south of Juneau, and will have the
sime in operation next summer.
Fox farming promises to be one of the
leading industries along the Valdez-Fair
banks trail. Many ranchers have turned
their attention to this lucrative business
and are meeting with gr at success. The j
foxes are easily raised and their furs are j
higher in price this season than ever be
' fore.
At a recent meeting of the Anchorage j
Kennel club it was decided not to attempt |
to run the Anchorage sweepstakes race i
! this winter. More recently a decided int- I
: erest in the race has beeii revived, and a
I number of prominent men of the town
; have promised financial aid, with the re
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suit that negotiations are now under way
to pull off the race.
Alaska turnips and rutabagas are win
ning a place on the Seattle market, and,
says a Seattle trade journal, they are de
manding higher prices than the best Yak
ima product. The quality of the Alaska
product is said to exceed anything ever
offered in the Seattle market.
The records of the office of the secre
tary of the Territory of early Russian his
tory in Alaska for the last century, are
being translated by Rev. Father Kashev
aroff. The records appear complete from
the year 1816. Many interesting events
are shown, one of the first being the mar
riage of Governor Yanofsky to a half
breed daughter of Governor Baranoff.
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