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VOLUME ONE KETCHIKAN, ALASKA. FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1916. ___NUMBER 173
EDWARD KRAUSE
FOUND GUILTY
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AFTER DELIBERATING FOUR
HOURS THE JURY AGREES
ON VERDICT.
SEVEN MORE CHARGES
For Which Indictments Were Found
By The Federal Grand
J ury.
^ JUNEAU, April 14. — At eight
o’clock last evening, the jury, after
a deliberation lasting four hours,
returned a verdict of guilty against
Edward Krause, of Petersburg, Al
aska, charged with impersonating
an officer in serving a subpoena
upon William Christie on the 30thJ
4 day of October last. The latter
has not been heard from or seen
since that day he accompanied
Krause from his work according
to the order of the supposed sub
poena.
The report says that the de
fendant’s consul introduced no evi
dence to disprove the charge but
relied entirely on technical points
made out in his arument to the
court and jury.
Seven other indictments are still
pending against the defendant
Krause, the trials of which will he
taken up immediately.
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WOM.'.N WOULD ENLIST
AS COOK IN U. S. NAVY
MINNEAPOLIS, April 14.—For
the first time in the history of the
local recruiting station, a woman
applied for enlistment in the Unit
ed States navy. She gave her name
as Mrs. Mamie Johnson of Willis
ton, N. D.
In explanation of her desire to
enlist she said that every woman
should do something for their coun
try at this time and accordingly
she would like to enlist in the navy
as cook. Furthermore, she said
that in reading the law she had
failed to find a clause prohibiting
enlistments of women.
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58 AEROF; *>;ES LOST
IN MARCH FIGHTING
BERI.i ’ t 14.—During the
month of March in aerial engage
ments on the Western front, the
Germans lost 14 aeroplanes, of
which seven were lost in air com
bats. Three were shot down from
the ground and four are missing.
The British and French lost 44
aeroplanes, of which 38 were lost
in air combats, four were shot down
and two were forced to land within
the German lines. Twenty-five ene
my aeroplanes fell into German
hands. The fall of 19 others was
noticed.
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WILL SETTLE
PACKERS’ CLAIM
GREAT BRITAIN HAS AGREED
TO PAY FOR ALL THE
MEAT SEIZED.
LONDON, April 14.—The min
ister of foreign affairs today an
nounced that he had finally agreed
to pay the claim presented by the
United States government for the
settlement of .the meat seized from
the American Packers’ Association.
The amount is said to be approx
imately twenty million dollars.
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WILSON STRIKES
RESPONSIVE CHORD
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IN SUBSTANCE HE ASKED IF
WE SHOULD FORCE NATIONS
TO RESPECT US.
WASHINGTON, April 14.—At a
Jeffersonian banquet last evening.
President Wilson, in substance at
least, asked his audience whether
we should go to war in order to
force other nations to respect us.
He said in part: “Are you willing
to fight when humanity coincident
with our interests are involved and
withdraw when this purpose has
been served?” He was interrupted
with shouts of “Yes, yes.”
From the_ president’s speech, the
American people may well infer
that in the event Germany is found
guilty of sinking the liner Sussex,
drastic action will like'y follow un
less Berlin can show' good faith in
promising to be more humane here
after and severly punish the com
mander of the submarine that sunk
ihe steamer.
DIES TO STRAINS OF
HIS BELOVED VIOLIN
MINNEAPOLIS, April 14.—Mar
velle Shaw layed dying to the tune
of" his old violin. Strains of the
instrument he had played and lov
ed soothed him as his life ebbed
away last Saturday.
When he was informed at the
hospital that he probably could not
live through the night, he called for
his physician. “Get Otto Mayer,
my best friend,” he said, “and
have him bring my old violin. I
want to die to its strains.”
When Otto arrived, the dying
man said, “Play me something
from Chopin, Liszt or Bethoven.”
Then he asked for “Nearer, My
God to Thee.”
“It is all so beautiful,” he mur
mured, and at last went into un
consciousness. Shaw who was
wealthy, has been known for years
as the East Side Fiddler. He died
a little later.
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LOOKSLIKE WEMUSTPULL
IN OUR HORNS OR FIGHT
FIRST LOSS OF LIFE IN AMERICAN EXPEDITION REPORTED FROM THE
VICINITY OF DURANGO, MEXICO
WASHINGTON, April 14.—Yes
terday afternoon Eliza Arrendendo.
the Mexican ambassador in Wash
ington, presented Secretary Lans
ing a note from Carranza, request
ing that the American troops be
withdrawn from Mexico. In the
note it is represented that the
American troops crossed into Mexi
co without permission, and that in
asmuch as the Villa forces have
disbanded to al| intent and pur
poses, the Americans should with
draw until a compact be made by
the two governments for the wel
fare of the two countries.
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EL PASO, April 14.—The first
loss of American life in the puni
tive expedition, occurred near Dur
ango, is the report just received.
No particulars are available.
The intense feeling against the
Americans was evidenced yester
day when the troops entered the
city of Parral. They were fired
upon by the residents from various
points. Reports of rioting in var
ious parts of Chihuahua have also
been received.
SAS ANTONIO, April 14.—Great
precaution and an increase in the
vigilance of the troops along the
border is evidenced today. Fear of
httaek from different quarters is
entertained.
General Funston said this morn
ing that it was evident that Gen.
Pershing was stil] in pursuit of
Villa as he had received no word
to the contrary.
THE TURKS ARE
FIGHTING HARD
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IN THE DEFENSE OF ERZERUM
FROM INVASION BY
THE RUSSIANS.
PETROGRAD, April 14.—A re
port from the front line of offense
against Erzerum says that the
Turks are fighting hard in the de
fense of that stronghold. The Rus
sian army was repulsed on the
East side attack but that the army
was now moving in a south and
southwesterly direction where an
other attempt to dislodge the Turks
will be made.
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SKELETON ROUTS BURGLAR.
C HICAGO, April 14.—A skeleton
prevented the robbery of a Chicago.
Milwaukee and St. Paul baggage
car in the Western Avenue yards.
A nero burglar was endeavoring
to force an entrance to the car
when his light revealed the skele
ton, the property of a medical stu
dent. The station agent who wit
nessed the retreat of the would-be
burglar asserts that all speed rec
ords were broken.
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WASHINGTON
APPREHENSIVE
FOR THE SAFETY OF COLONEL
TOMPKINS AND HIS '
140 MEN.
WASHINGTON, April 14.—Offi
cials at the war office are very
apprehensive for the safety of
Colonel Tompkins and one hundred
and forty men who have been re
ported at Parral where the anti
American feeling is so pronounced
among all classes of Mexicans. The
question that is uppermost in the
minds of the officials is "how far
is the detachment from re-enforce
ment?”
The Secretary of War today wir
ed General Funston to take all
necessary steps for the protection
of those men.
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SWEET TOOTHED SOLDIERS.
EL PASO, April 14.—It has just
leaked out that a few days ago the
Quartermaster in charge of the de
pot here received a requisition from
the field Quartermaster at Casas
Grandes for 2,000 pounds of cho
colate candy and 3,000 pounds of
stick candy.
It is said that the local depart
ment took immediate steps to ruslv
the order.
Candy is not regarded as a lux
ury in the army, but as a food
and which is highly appreciated by
the enlisted men after days and
nights of subsistence on nothing
but hardtack and bacon.
GERMANS BEATEN AT VERDUN
PARIS, April 14.—What is be
lieved to be the last attack on
Verdun for the present was made
yesterday by the Germans who were
repulsed with the loss of an enor
mous number of men.
PORTLAND TO MAKE
ANOTHER ATTEMPT
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WILL BUILD THREE LARGE
STEAMERS FOR THE
ALASKA TRADE.
PORTLAND, April 14. — Tenta
tive plans are being discussed
which some are inclined to believe
will materialize which will make
Portand a factor in the Alaska
trade. It was practically agreed
at a meeting last evening that three
large ships would be built by the
Port Commission from funds de
rived from the issue of bonds. Mean
while, the Chamber of Commerce
has adopted a resolution endorsing
unanimously the proposal that the
commission charters three boats to
be used while the others are being
constructed, and enter into the Al
aska trade at once.
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CHICAGO, April 14. — Charles
Lorimer went on the stand today
in his ow’n defense for embezzle
ment. He lays the blame to the
opposition made by the Chicago
newspapers in their publication of
bribery charges which took all his
time and prevented him from at
tending to his own affairs.
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STEAMERS ARE
ALL SOLD OUT
LONG BEFORE THE TIME FOR
THEIR DEPARTURES
ARRIVE.
An example of what Alaska may
expect this season is given out in
the following report from Seattle
just received. The report says that
although the Admiral Line’s steam
ships Aroline and Farragut, sched
uled to inaugurate the Cook Inlet
season this year, will not leave un
til tomorrow, nearly four hundred
persons have secured passage for
Anchorage and other points. So
great is the rush to Alaska that all
the accommodations aboard the Far
ragut has been sold several days
ago.
The Aroline will sail first direct
to Anchorage and will be followed
by the Farragut. These boats will
carry over 400 passengers, mostly
for the government railroad term
inal city.
Tfye Farragut has a first-class
waiting list of seventeen persons.
More than twenty persons booked'
passage to Anchorage on the Far
ragut as far back as the middle
of last January.
The seventeen on the waiting
list put their names down in the
hope that some of those who have
passage engaged will cancel their
bookings. That hope, however, is
a slim one. They will probably go
North in the Aroline, a passenger
carrier of high class recently pur
chased by the company.
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY NOT
AFTER NEW TERRITORY
LONDON, April 14.—Count Tis
za, the Hungarian premier, is quot
ed in dispatches from Budapest, ac
cording to the Exchange Telegraph
company’s correspondent at Amster
dam, as stating in an interview
that Austria-Hungary is not fight
ing to secure new territory in Eur
ope, but merely is united with Ger
many in a struggle until a fair and
satisfactory conclusion is reached.
“That’s all we want,” he is reported
to have said. The premier denied
that Austria is “sick of the war,”
but he admitted that the war was
long, hard and-painful for all.
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HOW FLORES WAS KILLED.
EL PASO, April 14.—An account
of how General Flores was killed
at Jiminez a week ago, was giv
en yesterday by a man who has
just returned from that place.
This man says that Gen. Flores,
commander of the Carranza garri
son at Jiminez, together with some
of his officers and men were at a
dance the night the Villistas made
the raid upon the town. Colonel
Chavez heading a gang of some
seventy men fired upon the dancers
killing ten soldiers and wounding
fifteen among whom were several
women.
MORE SHIPS ARE
DESTROYER
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THREE BRITISH STEAMERS AND
ONE RUSSIAN SAILING
VESSEL SUNK.
SUBMARINES ACTIVE
Ten Million Dollars of German
Securities Taken by
The British.
LONDON, April 14.—The ad
miralty this morning issued a state
statement that three British steam
ers and one Russian sailing vessel
had been sunk by German ub
marines the last three clays.
The above statement was sup
plemented with another in which
is stated that the British had inter
cepted a German ship carrying over
ten million dollars. Both ship and
securities were taken to a British
prize court.
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FUNERAL SERVICES HELD
FOR OFFICER OF PATTERSON
Rev. Harold Kelley officiated at
the Episcopal services at St. John’s
church today at two o’clock, which
were held over the remains of Mr.
Charles Olson, petty officer on board
the revenue cutter Patterson, who
died of appoplexy night before last.
The casket which was draped
with “Old Glory” and covered with
wreaths of evergreen, was followed
to the church and to the cemetery
by the officers and crew of the
ship of which he was an officer
and a messmate highly esteemed
'by all who knew him.
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ALL ABOUT THL BOATS
The steamer Prince John arriv
ed last evening with the following
named passengers for Ketchikan:
S. Selig, G. Tosolo, J. Forner, L.
Longo and J. Angello.
The Al-Ki which arrived early
today, besides a capacity cargo of
merchandise had the following nam
ed passengers for this port: Mrs.
L. A. Van Luven, Mrs. A. W. Haw
kins, E. T. Capp, Oscar Moe, O.
Fjelstad, P. F. Smith, F. C. Haq
wara, T. Yanayihara, Ole Joseph
son, L. 0. Nelson, A. Radelet, F.
B. Hovey, Geo. Potter, Geo. Tal
bot, David Sweet, Mrs. C. S. Furb
er, Carl Stote, Gus Johnson, Mrs.
M. B. Balenti, Frank Pierson, Es
ther Huhlgren, Mrs. Ohlen, Tony
Olech, Mike Surnman, Lars Ped
ersen, F. J. Griffiths, P. Peters.
Mrs. J. B. Lantis, N. Casperson and
James Boden.
The Alameda is due hei’e this
evening. Also the City of Seattle.
Both from the north.
The Northwestern is expected
from the south early this evening.
The Spokane is due to sail from
j Seattle this evening.
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