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VOLUME XV. NO. 187. TELEPHONE MAIN 44 NOME, ALA8KA, MONDAY, JULY 19, 1916. TELEPHONE MAIN 48 PRICE 25 CENT'
CLARK ADVOCATES
MILITARY PREPAREDNESS
A. P. A. Service.
SAN FRANCISCO. July 19.—During
the course of his address at the cele
bration of the arrival of the famous
liberty bell Saturday, Champ Clark
declared himself in favor of increasing
the army to such proportions as will
insure an adequate defense in the event
of hostilities with foreign powers. “It
lias been my observation,” the speaker
said, “that human nature has changed
lul little since Adam and Eve were
driven with flaming sword from Para
dise and I am in favor of putting the
country in such posture that if war
should for any reason become neces
sary we may emerge as conquerors as
we have in all our wars. Toward the
consumation of this plan, I favor
double the number of cadets at West
Point and I also favor a Congressional
enactment making it obligatory upon
the Secretary of War to detail trained
army officers to train for military ser
vice the pupils of any school, college
or university which will furnish a
minimum of two hundred students for
military drill. In this way we can
build up a trained army that will in
sure the safety of the nation.”
The reference to the Increase of the
military forces was met with great ap
plause and seemingly struck a popular
chord.
AUSTRIANS SUCCESSFUL
AGAINST THE RUSSIANS
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German Preaa Service.
BERLIN, via Sayville, July 10.—
The Austrians continue successful in
tlie Tyrol and Gradiska sections and
the Italians have been severely re
pulsed at all points of attack, and
have also suffered a severe defeat along
the new line of invasion through the
Stelfser Joch pass in West Tyrol. Se
vere fighting in the Dolmitian Alps
and along the Monfalcone front has re
sulted in heavy losses to the enemy
both in men and supplies.
It is reported that Italy is again fac
ing a cabinet crisis over the unsuccess
ful conduct of the war and the general
(dissatisfaction of the public who arc
j greatly desirous of peace. The Mo
| hammedan revolt in Tripoli is also giv
ing the Italians much uneasiness as the
dissatisfaction among the native
tribesmen is daily growing more ser
ious.
Late reports from Serbia indicate
that the spread of cholera in that
country is appalling and the people are
dying by thousands daily. The Aus
trian government has suspended all
operations aside from those purely de
fensive owdng to a fear that the plague
may be transmitted to the Austrian
tfoops.
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SUFFRAGETFES I
AGAIN ON A
JAMPAGE
A. P. A. Service.
LONDON, July 19—The first suf
frage outbreak since the beginning
of the war took place In London
Saturday afternoon when forty thou
sand marched through the streets of
the city. No attempt was made to in
terfere with the women and no violence
was attempted by the great throng
which looked upon the demonstration
with little favor and frequently voiced
their strong disapproval of the suf
fragette activities at the present time.
ROOSEVELT GREETED BY
MANY SEATTLEITES
A. P. A. Service.
SEATTLE, July 19.—Colonel Roose
velt arrived in the city last night on
his way to visit the exposition in San
Francisco. An immense crowd gather
ed to greet the rough rider and he was
given an ovation.
KOKUGAROK MAIL ARRIVES.
The Kougarok mail arrived this
morning in charge of carrier Pete
Yeager. Yeager will start on the re
turn trip tomorrow morning.
STOCKHOLDERS MEETING
All stockholders in New Era Mining
Co. are requested to meet Saturday,
July 24, at 8 o'clock p. m. at Gus
Lynell’s residence, First Ave. (next
door to Chilberg’s old tea store). Busi
ness of importance.
A. POLET,
19-21-23 Secretary.
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jA. P. A. Service.
LONDON, July 18—The latest offi
cial statements issued by both Berlin
and Petrogrnd report that the Germans
have launched a new offensive of huge
proportions against the Baltic pro
vinces, with Riga, the great Russian
seaport and seat of the Governor Gen
eral of the Baltic section of the Rus
sian domain, as Its objective. The Pet
rograd dispatches state that the Ger
mans are pouring into the districts
north of the Nieman in gigantic col
umns.
TEN THOUSAND FRENCH
CAPTURED IN MONTH
German Preea Service.
BERLIN, via Sayville, July 19.—
General Staff reports state that the
German forces have captured over ten
thousand French troops in the lighting
in the Argonne, Champagne and Vos
ges seetlons during the past four weeks
and hundreds more are failing into the
hands of the Germans daily, especially
in the latter district, where the Crown
Prince is pushing forward his lines
with great rapidity. According to the
official bulletins, the situation on the
west front is satisfactory in every way
and general success is attending the
German arms. Severe fighting along
the Flanders front has resulted in the
British being compelled to give con
siderable ground in the region north
west of Arras. The British forces fol
lowing the engagements have retreated
along the whole northwestern front.
Saturday dispatches from Vienna
state that the Austrians have renewed
the offensive in eastern Galicia and
have retaken Czortkow after a bloody
battle in which the Russians were
heavy losers. Operations north of
Romberg have enabled the Austrians to
cross the Bug in the vicinity of Sokal
and the city has been taken by storm.
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GERMANY WILL SEND
RUMANIA ULTIMATUM
A. P. A. Service.
LONDON, July 19—Owing to the re
fusal of the Rumanian government to
permit the passage of arms and war
munition through the Rumanian ter
ritory it is stated that an Austro
German ultimatum will be sent to
Bukarest today or tomorrow demand
ing that Rumania permit the unim
peded passage of munitions through
that country under a threat of hostili
ties. It is authoritatively stated that
the ultimatum is now in course of pre
paration and will he forwarded as soon
as completed.
The statement is generally credited
and is partially confirmed by the
statement published in the Russkowe
Slovoe of Warsaw which states that
large bodies of German troops are
massing on the Rumanian border to
give emphasis to the threat of an arm
ed attack i nthe event of the Ruman
ian government failing to accede to the
German demands. The report is a
seeming contradiction of the frequent
assertion of Berlin that the Dual Mon
archies had a thorough understanding
with the Rumanian government con
corning the attitude of that govern
ment toward themselves. The news
papers commenting on the situation
assert that the present situation indi
cates that there is a serious rift in the
lute and the understanding is more
mythical than real if the present re
port is true.
ALLIES
ORDERS
TOTAL
MILLIONS
A. P. A. Service.
CHICAGO, July 1!».—A compilation
of the war orders so far received from
Europe will reach the enormous total
of nearly three billion dollars, accord
ing to expert statisticians. The great
bulk of the orders are divided among
the ammunition factories but huge or
ders for clothing, blankets, shoes, sad
dles have also been placed with a large
number of American firms. It is stated
that practically every arms manufac
tory In the United States is working at
Its fullest capacity and the supply of
war munitions is fast becoming one of
the most prominent features of rail
road transportation, hundreds of ears
of war supplies passing to the eastern
coast on all of the railroad lines dally.
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LEO FRANK NEARLY
MURDERED IN CELL
A. P. A. Service.
i MIDDLEVILLE, Oa„ July 19,—At
tacking his intended victim while the
latter was sleeping, Saturday night.
William Green, a fellow convict, made
a desperate attempt to slay Leo Frank,
cutting his throat in a fearful man
ner and partially severing the jugu
lar vein. Green, who is also serving a
lif* sentence for murder, conceived th,
idea of murdering Frank, according to
his statements, shortly after the arrival
of the latter at the penitentiary and
has waited during the interval until
circumstances were propitious. Sat
urday night Green saw his opportunity
while Frank was sound asleep and,
stealing up on his victim armed with
a table knife, he attacked the sleep
ing man inflicting wounds of the most
dangerous character. Frank is in a
very dangerous condition, according to
the statements of the prison physicians
who were hastily summoned after the
atack and succeeded in saving the
wounded man's life. Green says, by
way of explanation for-his peculiar act,
that he believed that he was doing
something that ought to be done.
SLATTON SORRY
FOR LEO FRANK
SEATTLE, July 19.— When Informed
of the murderous asault on Leo Prank,
former Governor Slatton of Georgia,
who arrived In the city yesterday, said
that he was very sorry to hear of the
occurrence and also expressed the hope
that Frank would recover. "I am very
sorry.” said Slatton, “but for the sake
of the people of the state, I am glad
that the attack was the work of a
prison inmate and not that of some one
outside.” Slatton refused to discuss
any of the circumstances attending the
commutation of the prisoners' life sen
tence beyond stating that he felt that
justice would be best served by such
action.
BRITISH WAR LOAN
A COMPLETE FAILURE
German Preai Service. 1
BERLIN, via Sayville, July 19.— i
The press of Great Britain openly
admits that the effort to secure a new
war loan in the British Isles is, as far
as appearances indicate, a complete
failure. Discussing the failure of the
public to come forward with their
money in answer to the call recently
authorized by the British parliament,
the Mail asserts that there is every in
dication that if the war continues for
a much longer period the people of
England will bo unable to carry their
future taxes. The article also points
out that nearly all of the immense
sums expended in the conduct of the
war are spent outside of the country
and the British people derive no bene
lit therefrom. Several of the leading
publications, guardedly infer that Bri
tain will have to look to outside sources
for money if the nation is to continue
the great struggle. The more radical
papers assert that not only are the ex
penditures nut of all proportion to the
results but are also for a very doubtful
purpose.
ROOSEVELT REFUSES TO
DIVULGE POLITICAL PLANS
A. P. A. Service.
SEATTLE, July 19. — Although
pressed for an answer by a score of
newspaper reporters, all that could be
elicited from Colonel Roosevelt as to
political plans for the coming year
was, “You toll me what 191G will
bring and I will tell you what I will
do.” This was all that Roosevelt
would say concerning politics or any
thing else save to reply in enthusias
tic tones "fine” every time he was as
sured by some one that they had voted
for him at tho last presidential election.
To a progressive committee of five,
headed by J. C. Y. Kellog of this city,
Roosevelt talked confidentially for a
period of two hours and, according to
members of the committee, told them
of his entire plans for 1916. The
members of the committee refuse to
give out even a hint concerning the
intentions of the Bull Mooser, stating
that they are pledged to maintain si
lence for the present. After a short
conference witli Senator Poindexter
this morning. Roosevelt proceeded to
San Francisco.
ALLIES ARE HOLDING THEIR OWN
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A. P. A. Service.
LONDON, July 19.—The French war
joffice declares that the allied forces are
holding their own at all points despite
the severity of the German offensive
which is being maintained with unus
ual tenacity. Field headquarters dis
patches state that the Germans are
displaying every intention of making
a desperate attempt to break through
the French lines below Verdun and
thousands of troops are being sacrificed
in constant attacks. In spite of the
weighty German offensive the French
have made slight gains at several
points and have taken a considerable
number of prisoners. The present Ger
man plan of attacks seem to be di
rected to mnintaining a vigorous offen
sive at several points at the same time
in order to prevent the sending of re
inforcements from one sectioh to an
other. (
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