THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
VOLUME XV. NO. 163. TELEPHONE MAIN 4* NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 21, 1915. TELEPHONE MAIN 46 PRICE 25 CEN~
FRENCH AND BRITISH ON OFFENSIVE IN WEST
SLAVS IN 6ENERAL RETREAT WEST LEWBEHO
FRANK’S DEATH
SENTENCE COMMUTED
MACON, Ua., June 21.—The gover
nor lias commuted the death sentence
passed on Leo Frank for the murder
of Mary Fliuguii and the prisoner who
lias made such a biller tight for life
will serve a life sentence in lieu of
suffering the extreme penalty of tie
law. Sheriff Mangum received the an
nouncement of the commutation of the
sentence last evening and immediatelj
► gave out the news which has given
general satisfaction to the majority of
the people who have lately become
convinced that Frank was the victim
of injustice and a direct attempt at
railroading.
ATLANTA, June 2},—The announce
ment of Governor Slatton that he lias
decided to commute the sentence of
Leo Franks to life Imprisonment has
been received with general approval by
the people of the capital the most of
whom believed that tile persecution of
Franks was hardly justilied b> the evi
dence. The governor was at his coun
try home when he announced ids de
cision. In making the announcement
ho dictated the following message to
the people: "All 1 ask is that the peo
ple of Georgia read the statement of
my reasons for commuting the death
sentence of Franks to that of life im
prisonment before they pass judgment
| on tile matter. Feeling as 1 do about
I'.he case, I would !>e a murderer if I
allowed that man to hang. 1 realize
what this decision means to me: that
I must lhe In obscurity for the rest of
my days but I would rather he plowing
in the Helds than to feel for the rest
of my days, that the blood of that man
was on my hands.”
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BRITISH STEAMER
DULCIETORPEDOED
German Press Service.
BERLIN, Via Sayville, June 21.—
The British steamer Duleie was tor
pedoed in the North sea off the Suftilk
coast by the German submarine fleet
Sunday morning. Three members of
the crew were drowned. The Austrian
fleet on the Adriatic has captured sev
eral of the steamers belonging to the
FLYER LEAVES FOR
SOLOMON AND CHINIK
The Flyer left for Solomon and
Chinik at ten a. m. with a considera
ble quantity of freight and the follow
ing pasengers: For Council: Ed Rob
erts and wife, Curley Lovell and his
brother who are en route to Dime
creek with a couple of boilers and
other mining equipment. Charles Schif
ferle, who is also going to Dime creek,
and C. C. Brayton, who will drill oi<
the Koyuk and Sweepstakes. Three
mining outfits were also taken and a
number of men who will compose the
crews of several outfits. Mr. Espey
is taking an outfit and four men to
I Bluff, Sam Gaylord is en route to the
Casa section with four men and John
Wick is taking a crew to the Solomon
section.
Italian fishing fleet which ventured to
far from the land. The full details of
the losses sustained by the British in
the rerent Zeppelin raid show the
damage to have been terrific. British
reports indicate that the Armstrong
plant is finding much difficulty in get
ting men to rebuild the factories burn
i
ed in the attack of the air fleet.
CUTTER BEAR ARRIVED
AND DEPARTS
Tlie coast guard cutter Beat arrived
from St. Michael via Golovin bay at
10:SO this morning and. after landing
Walter Johnson of the bureau of edu
cation, who has been aboard during
the cruise, departed for. St. I.awrence
island with Walter Shields and the
mail for the missionary stationed on
the island. Mr. Shields is on his an
nual tour of Inspection of the native
school.
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TERRIFIC FIGHTING FOLLOWS
JOINT OFFENSIVE IN FRANCE
i JjONIXjN, June 21.— Dispatches from
the western front this morning state
that Ixitlt tlie French and British forces
ale engaged in u Joint offensive against
the German positions and fighting of
tlie most terrific order is now in pro
gress. Tlie British troops are press
ing forward along tlie line from Yores
to l.aOasse snd are making steady
gains against Hie enemy although the
latter are putting up n most desperate
resistante.
Tile Krench offensive is pressing 1
heavily on the (iernian lines at all im
purtant points from the Vosges to Ai -
ms and terrific artillerv duels are in
progress n Lorraine aid the Argonne
sections. So extended has the fighting
become that it is practically one great
battle with the allied operations pro
ductive of .small hut steady gains The
French are now employing th# new
fourti t n guns vvhieh have lately been
added to the allied militur> equipment
and have been vers successful in off
setting the attac ks of the heavier tier
man weapons. The infantry attacks
promise to continue as the present
tight mg is part of the allied plan t<*
force tiie issue in the hope of bre thing
the present deadlock.
TI;«• enm\ have i,,»t much valu*l «
ground between Luhusse and Arias
and tliei is a strong probaoiiit> the
thex ma> be compelled to abandon
their positions The losses on both
sales .ire heav>
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RUSSIANS RETREATING
WEST'OF LEMBERG
VIENNA, June 21.—Th* Rusians are
retreating steadily sine* morning along
lhe east bank of the Wersyea and are
falling back on the last defenses be
fore Lemberg. The passage of the river
alone remains before the Austro-Oer
man forces will be in direct contact
with the Oalician capital and its fall
seems now assured.
WEALTHY GOEUR
D’ALENE PIONEER
DIES IN SPOKANE
SPOKANE, June 21. — John A.
Finch, one of the pioneers of ths
Coeur d'Alene country and also one ot
the wealthiest men in this section, died
at his summer home at Hayden Rake.
Idaho, Sunday morning. The dead
man was one of the first of the gold
hunters who flocked into the Coeui
d'Alene* during tlie first rush and suc
ceeded in laying the basis of his great
fortune which Is estimated at three
million.
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GERMANS BOMBARDING WESTERN
DEFENSES OF LEMBERG
German Press Service.
RfCRLIN, via Suyville. June L*l.
The German forces in Galicia are now
engaged in the bombardment »»f the
western defenses of Lemberg having
driven back the Russian opposition
along the northwestern side of the city
land enabling the employment of the
heavy artillery. The Austrians far
ther to the south ar»- steadily forcing
j the enemy to retire and the retaking
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til tin (lalician territory seems assured.
j The (jerman operations along tin*1
i
'western front ate progressing success
fully and the village of Kmhremeuit I
I has been wrested from the enemy The
i I'reneli attacks in tin* \ it inity «»f Aria
have been fruitless and the assaults
I have been repulsed with heavv losses.
The offensive of the* British in t h« La -
basso region lias also failed to yield
results in proportion to the losses.
whit'll have been c x. redih«l\
Three hundred British prisoners hav«
been taken in the \ ieinity of Labans*
The Vuslrian offensive in the Tvrol i*
for.my the Italians to assume the de
f' lisiv e and that portion of the Italian
army southwest of Oorizia is in re
treat The Austrians have now mov
• •tl forward to a point south of Mori and
art* stieeessfull> withholding the Ital
ian attack.
VILLA WILL SUBMIT PACIFICATION
PLAN TO WASHINGTON
I
HI* i'ASO. .I line T’epresentatives
of the Villa government in this city
state that the Afexienn commander will
submit the draft of the new plan of
pacification to the Washington govern
ment before proposing it to t'arranza
The plans is said to embrace the re
tirement of both Villa and Curran sea
during the period of pacification, the'
affairs of the country t** he adminis
tered I»\ a hoard of commissioners who
will agree to adopt the agrarian princi
ple anti other features of government
which are advocated by Villa It is
said that with some slight differences'
the plan embraces the ideas of both
contenders for the supreme control of
Mexico and ma> therefore ho adopted
Tin* hitter hostilit\ of Carranza is be
lieved t" In* the only obstacle to the
restoration of po.uv under the Villa
proposals.
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DYNAMITERS CREATE TERROR
IN WINDSOR, ONTARIO
WINDSOR, Ont.. June 21.—The town
is now in a ferment of terror over
what appears to he an attempt at while
sale dynamiting which developed with
the partial destruction of the overall
factory of the Peabody Company, Unt
ited .early today. The company had
just completed an order for one hun
dred and fifteen thousand uniforms for
the Rritisii army and it is believed that
the plot to blow up the buildings was
animated by tlie desire to destroy these
clothes for the English troops.
Shortly after the explosion in the
overalls factory the popular fear was
further increased by the discovery of
twenty-seven sticks of dynamite which
were found in the rear of the Windsor
armory in which are staying the men
now being recruited for the Canadian
company which will shortly leave for
the battle front in France. Tlte escape
of the men of whom fully two hundred
slept in the building last night, was
due solely to the fact that the time
fuse attached to the lynomite had
burned itself out without igniting the
powder. The explosives were evidently
placed in the two buildings some time
during the early hours of tho morn
ing and the fact that no one was kill
ed can he attributed only to a miscal
culation on the part of the dynamiters.
Horace I!. Peabody, head of the Pea
body Company, states that it is bis J
belief that the bomb which destroyed
the overall factor.' was placed in the
building by German symapthlzers from
I Detroit. The discovery of the dyna- j
mite in the armory Inis resulted in the i
authorities giving orders for a strict
watch to he kept on ail public build
ings, and militia will he placed on
guard on the highways
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FORMER MERRY WIDOW
PRIMA DONNA MURDERED
I
JOIJRT, III., June 21—Mrs. Allen, i
wife of Hie warden of the state peni-|
tentinry at this place was murdered in'!
‘the warden's suite in the prison build-j
lings earlv yesterday morning while;
j Warden Allen was away from the i
building. The murderer after complet
ing his ghastly work tired the furnish
ings of the apartments and made his
escape unseen.
The body of the dead woman was
I discovered after the flumes were ex
tinguished badly burned anil showing
unmistakable evidence of violence.
Joseph Campbell, a negro convict, who
has been acting in tile capacity of a
trusted servant, is believed to te the
murderer. The murdered woman was
formerly a well known opera singer
and at one time was the prima donna
of the "Merry Widow Company "
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