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VOLUME ONE KETCHIKAN, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1916. NUMBER 96. ,
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FALL IS CRY
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7 OF TURKS, BULGARIANS AND
AUSTRIANS, AND ATTACK
PROCEEDS
AT THE SAME OBJECT
With thP Allies Confident of
Their Safety For an
Indefinite Period
LONDON, Jan. 14—Hourly dis
patches from Athens report the at
tack on Saloniki as being in full
vigor. The attack is make with the
compined forces of the Turkish,Bul
gars and Austrians, commanded by
German officers.
While the allies consider the situ
ation most grave, being attacked j
from three sides, yet they depend !
on their ability to hold out for an '
k indefinite period. Their prepara
tions for attack was anticipated
many weeks ago and with all the
energy possible, the allies prepar
ed to receive the enemy.
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NEARLY A MILLION RUSSIANS
TAKE PART IN BATTLE
TARIS, Jan. 12—Fighting on
the Russian frontier is fast grow
ing in intensity and assuming
great ferocity, says the Petrograd
correspondent of the Havas agency.
Dispatches from Kiev declare that
the noise of cannon can be heard a
long a distance of 36 miles and
that windows in all the villages in
that region had been broken by the
concussion.
The battle is raging with fury
on the Tarnopol-Trembowina front
and more than 800,000 men with
3,500 cannon are incessantly en
gaged.
Russians in certain sections have
blown the first line trenches, and
slow but irresistible progress is
being made. Officers tell of enor
4 mous difficulties the. Russians have
had to surmount on the front, where
entanglements of barbed wire are
often laid 24 deep and charged
with powerful electric currents sup
plied from stations especially erect
ed.
As immediate approach to these |
entanglements is impossible, the |
Russian soldiers have invented the
following method of surmounting!
the difficulty: Good marksmen fling j
ropes with hooks at the end over the !
barbed wire, then pull until they
have broken one of the lines of |
wire and continue the method until j
the whole entanglement is removed.
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GRAND ARCTIC CHIEF
HOMEWARD BOUND
After spending a vacation of six
weeks in the States John T. Reed
Grand Arctic Chief of the A. B.’s
was a local visitor for a few hours
while the Evans was in port. Mr.
Reed continued on his journey to [
Juneau, where he will resume the
duties of assistant clerk of the
court.
stuongI
W. G. STROl
GOV.FURGESON
DISAPPROVES
OF PLAN TO EVEN ATTEMPT
TO PACIFY MEXICO AT
THE PRESENT TIME
AUSTIN, Jan. 14—When Governor
Furgeson was told of the movement
on foot to organize min'ng men
into a regiment to round up bandits
of the Villa type, he said that It
would be folly for us to attempt to
pacify those factions at the pres
ent time. The Governor, however,
said that the inevitable had appar
ently arrived and that the United
States would have to take a hand
in the immediate future, unless Car
ranza promptly showed his ability
to control his people.
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ARMS EMBARGO
MADE BY SPAIN
MADRID, Jan. 10—A prohibition
of the exportation of arms has
caused a serious industrial situa
tion among the manufacturers at
Ebiar, Eigoibar and Geumica, who
fear that their business will be cap
tured by American and Japanese
arms makers.
The government is seeking to
solve the difficulty.
APPARENTLY
HARD PRESSED
MONTENEGRINS
ASKS A RM1STIE
LONDON, Jan. 14—A report
from Athens says that the com
manding general of the Montenegrin
troops opposing the Austrians at
Cetinje, had requested an armistice
for twenty-four hours to bury their
dead.
The presumption is that the city
will be abandoned as soon as the
twenty-four hours have expilred.
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NO MAIL FOR A WEEK
Ketchikan will be without mail
from the south for a week. The next
mail hoat will be the Spokane, sail
ing Monday 17, and will be due to
arrive here the morning of Thurs
day the 20. The Armiral Far
ragut and the Jefferson are both
scheduled to sail on the 18th, and
the Border Line announces a guar
anteed sailing of the Al-Ki on the
22nd, a week from tomorrow. After
the Jefferson, which is expected
from the north tonight, there will
not be another going south for a
bout ten days.
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QUIETLY WED
Mr. Bert B. Barclay and Miss
Estelle Keener were quietly marrie*
last evening by Judge Stackpole
The bride is well known locally and
was for a long time in the Poodle
Dog Grill. Mr. Barclay is in the
employ of Mr. Peter Nelson. The
many friends of the young couple
wish them a happy life and a long
one.
4TOVF CO.
1G. Manager
Monarch Ranges
Coal and Wood
Cook Stoves
Hot Blast Heaters
Camp Stoves
Heckman Bldg.
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Ed. V. Price & Company
CHICAGO, U. S, A.
January, 6, 1916.
Mr. P. J. Gilmore,
Ketchikan, Alaska,
Dear Sir:—
Following the custom pursued by us for many
years, we wish our old customers, as well as our new
to return any coat made by us during the past sea
son in which the lining has not given satisfactory
wear or tho fronts have not held their shape. We
will bo pleased to re-line the garment and put in
new fronts, or if this cannot be done, make a new
coat free of charge.
Very truly yours,
<r E. V. PRICE & CO.
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EL PASO IS NOW UNDER
MARTIAL LAW
General John Pershing, Commander of
Fort Bliss, Takes a Hand
POLICE UNABLE TO CHECK RIOTING AND MEXICAN RESIDENTS ARE
IN DANGER OF BEING EXTERMINATED
EL PASO, Jan. 14—After the
passing through of the eighteen
bodies of the murdered Americans
yesterday, riots started. The po
co in full force endeavored to
pacify the Americans, but to no
avail. Many arrests were made,
yet riots continued and therats of
extermination of the resident Mex
icans were heard frequently until
General Pershing was forced to~de
clare martial law at the instance of
the Mayor, Sheriff anf citizens. The
general issued his proclamation at
eleven o'clock last evening and
turned the companies of soldiers of
Fort Bliss to police the town.
Five of Villa's officers were
recognized and immediately they
were set upon by an enraged mob,
but were soon rescued by the sol
diers and deported across the bor
der.
There is a movement on foot to
oragnize a regiment of one thous
and Americans—mining men—to
run down the Mexican bandits. The
offer will be submitted to Carranza,
The Mexicans throughout the
state have been advised that if they
value their lives, it would be a wise
move for them to leave the country.
Many have already done so.
AMERICAN BATTLESHIPS TO
RESIST ONE TORPEDO
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14—Future
American battleships will be able
to stand the explosion of a single
torpedo against their hulls, regard
less of where they hit, is the opin
ion of navy experts.
Experiments which have been in
progress for more than a year have
demonstrated that two or more tor
pedoes must find their mark be
fore ships subdivided and protested
as new American craft will be, can
to be sent to the bottom.
The two superdreadnoughts and
two batttle cruisers congress has
been asked to authorize this year
will be designed on this plan. Bat
tleships Nos. 43 and 44, contracts
for which have already been award
ed to the Mare Island and New
York njii’r ^.i-a
ior construction resulting from the
study made of the question of tor
pedo defense since the outbreak of
the European war, but later ships
will have even increased provisions
in this regard.
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CAPTAIN GREGORY
BACK AT HIS POST
Captain W. E. Gregoory, Master
of the Lighthouse tender, Kukui, re
turned from his holiday visit with
his family in Portland, on the
steamer Northwestern yesterday.
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SOUTH FOR OVERHAULING
The Lighthouse tender Kukui,
will be taken south by Captain
Gregory within the next week or
ten ys for the purpose of going
into drydock and for general over
hauling. It is expected that the
ship will be away for a period of
six weeks or more.
| THE KAISER IS
SERIOUSLY ILL
QUEEN SOPHIE WAS SUMMON
ED TO BEDSIDE LATE
YESTEftDAY
LONDON, Jan. 14—Emperor Wil
liam was reported quite seriously
ill yesterday, according to a bullet
in issued by his physicians. Later
Queen Sophie was hurriedly sum
moned to his bedside.
Early this morning it was rumor
ed about that the emperor was un
conscious and had been for several
hours, but that his physicians had
not lost hope of his recovery.
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REMFMRF.R t*wf mn. ri4XTr-r>
Don’t fair to make your arrange
ments to attend the Camp Fire
Girls Dance at the Rink Saturday
night. The building will be thor
oughly heated; the floor will be
fine; the music will be by the
Emanon Orchestra and the punch
I will be of Wohelo brew. The gate
receipts will go into the Camp
Fire’s outing fund, which will be
used to finance the girls next sum
men’s camping trip. Turn out and
give them a good boost. Admission
50 cents. Adv.
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ST. JOHN’S MISSION
CHRISTMAS
Through an error in yesterday’s
Progressive-Miner the name of
Sparhawk and Co., was omitted
from the list of those who helped
at Christmas time. Mr .Sparhawk
gave a generous supply of candy,
fruit and cakes.
NOTED SIOUX INDIAN DIES
CHICAGO, Jan. 10—Chief Ogal
ala Fire, who fought with Sitting
Dull in the Custer niassacree, died
at a hospital here today, aged 90
years. A week ago, apparently tired
of life, he cut his throat and was
unconscious most of the time at
the hospital. The chief for many
years was an attraction at circuses
and Wild West shows.
Chief Ogallala Fire was one of
the Sioux Indian chiefs who with
Sitting Bull fought against the en
croachments of the white settlers
and who repeatedly gave battle to
the United States regulars.
He was severely wounded in the
battle of Little Big Horn, in which
Gen. Custer and his troops were
slaughtered, and bore the scars of
that encounter to his death. Two
bullet wounds and a saber slash
len; mm wounded on tne neiu.
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RETURNS FROM VACATION
Mr. F. J. Gibson, chief engineer
of the Fern, returned on the Evans
this morning from his vacation of
six weeks spent in Southern Cali
fornia.
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PRINCESS MAY SOUTHBOUND
The C. P. R. steamer Princess
May went south on schedule time
this morning, taking two passen
gers from here for Prince Rupert,
Miss Schaffer, and Edward Ben
son. She will be due back here a
gain in ten days, Monday Jan. 24.
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SALMON STILL RUNNING
Geo. A. Brown, the fish buyer, re
ports that the King Salmon are
still running, butt hat it is so cold
that there are not many trollers
fishing.
I TONIGHT at the Home of PARAMOUNT FEATURES 1
THE DREAM 1
I “ROSE
of the
RANCHO”'
presented by
Jesse L. Lasky
and
David Belasco
The greatest living
director on the stage
today
This is a magnificent
American classic Zi
in Si
Five Big Reels ^
and £2
360 Scenes H
Don’t miss any of &
these H
PARAMOUUT |
FEATURES, |
pictures that are fit
for the whole family.
These pictures are run Sg
in Seattle’s newest
magnificent theatre,
the Coloseum. The ^
DREAM §
THE DON *s the only house in
iniASKVj Alaska that shows k
them Si
AMBASSADOR
IS ANXIOUS
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PAYS HIS RESPECTS TO LAN
SING AND ASSURES HIM OF
HIS CHIEF’S INTENTION
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14—Sig
t nor Eliseo Arredondo, Carranza’s
! representative here, visited Setrs
i tary Lansing this morning and as
sured that official that Carranza
would send a st rong detachment of
troops with an order to capture and
kill every bandit who participated
in the slaughter of the Americans.
The ambassador said that no pains
would be spared to carry out the
orders, and had the confidence that
it would be only a short time before
Mexico would be rid of that class
of murderers.
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TREE PRINCE OF WALES
PLANTED IS DEAD
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 14—The
big elm tree in Independence square,
said to have bfeen planted by King
Edward VII, of England, when he
visited this country as the Prince
of Wales in 1861, was cut down a
few days ago. The tree had been
dead for sometime . Under the
ground surrounding the tree were
found several objects, including a
six pound cannon ball and a variety
of coins, some of revolutionary date.
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NO REASON GIVEN
FOR SECRECY
SINKING OF STEAMER
WAS KEPT \ SECRET
NEW YORK, Jan. 14—It has just
.leaked out that one of the Leyland
line steamers, the Huronian enroute
from Galveston to Liverpool, was
torpedoed December 29 off the
coast of Ireland. No further de
ails were obtained of the incident.
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MOVEMENT OF BOATS
Northbound
Spokane, Thursday 20th.
jenersuii,
Admiral Farragut, Friday 21.
Alki, Monday 25th.
Southbound
Jefferson 10:30 tonight.
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ADMIRAL EVANS NORTHBOUND
The Admiral Evans arrived from
Seattle this morning about 6 o’
clock, but brought no mail on ac
count of leaving Seattle about the
same time as the Northwestern. She
had 69 passengers, including three
for Ketchikan; they were R. Rys
sejl, J. C. Close, F. J. Gibson. After
taking on fuel oil she sailed for the
north about 11 o’clock. Frank
Tascher was a northbound passen
ger from this port.
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Dr. Blyth the former Dentist of
Petersburg, is a local visitor for a
few days. Dr. Blyth arrived on the
Admiral Evans this morning on his
way to Juneau, but stopped over for
a few days looking for a location.
LARGE NUMBER OF REFUGEES
WANT TO ENLIST AND
FIGHT WITH ALLIES
YO FORM AN ARMY
Those Thousands Who Went to
Italy at Beginning of
Hostilities
ROME, Jan. 14—The large num
ber of Serbian refugees who came
1 into the country at the beginning
^f hostilities, are now flocking to
the Serbian legation to enlist. Their
leaders say that it is their desire
to form another army and enter
the fighting lines with the allies in
the hopo of regaining their country.
The number thus far enlisted is
said to have reached over ten
thousand and are being drilled to
start for the line as soon as trans
partation can be made for their
accommodation.
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VJAGETTES TALK AGAINST
COMPULSORY BILL
CONDOR, Jan. 12—Suffragettes
held a demonstration in Hyde Park
today to protest against the com
pulsion bill. Addresses were made
by numerous speakers, men and
women, from five platforms , around
which large crowds gathered. There
was considerable heckling of the
speakers by the crowd and soon
after the beginning of the suffra
gette demonstration a group of men
wearing Derby armlets organized
a counter-meeting nearby.
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AT THE GRAND TONIGHT
The Unseen Terror, is the title of
the sixth chapter of the Black Box
serial, which will be one of the at
tractions at the Grand tonight and
tomorrow night. This chapter re
tures ofVest/w’ho is’afoul to learn
Lenora’s hiding place from Craig,
when a fire breaks out and com
pels both men to escape down a
rope ladder. Lenora finally escapes
from her attic prison, and Laura
is released from jail. The two
Gallaghers are caught and sent to
prison, and Quest is freed by In
spector French, from the charge of
murder. At the close of the sec
ond reed Mrs. Rheinhokl’s neck
lace i$ again found in a small black
box in the safe.
Along with this two reeler an
animated Weekly, showing the
Kaiser’s Guards in captivity, hun
dreds of the German Emperor’s
crack regiment captured in battle
being taken to detention camps in
England, a single reel drama and
a comedy completes the show.
Change of program Sunday night.
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At Heckman’s they sell regular
.75 aprons for .45 this week. Adv. 6t.
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