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VOLUME XV. NO. 114. TELEPHONE MAIN 46. NOME, ALASKA. MONDAY, APRIL 19. 1915. TELEPHONE MAIN 46 PRICE 25 CENTS
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JAP NAVAL BASE REPORTS ME CROUNM.ESS
SCORES OF SKY BATTLES
ALONG WESTERN WAR ZONE
PARIS, April 19. Many aerial bum
ba rdmonls ah' reported along the
western battlefront and belli allied and
German airmen are exhibiting unusual
activity which is resulting in scores of
sky battles between the opposing planes
and also heavy losses of properly
caused by the hundreds of bombs which
have been dropped on towns ittd til
lages in the war zone.
ATTEMPT TO DESTROY
GERMAN POWDER WORKS
HRHLIK, April 19. Several workman
were killed Saturday when a l'r< neb
aeroplane attempted to destroy the
government powder factory at Rottweel
in lower Wurtemburg. Many bombs
were dropped before the to rus made
their escape. The factory was un
damaged.
AUSTRIAN AVIATORS START
SEVERAL FIRES IN BELGRADE
VIHNN.V, April 19 Austrian avia
tors yesterday started several tires in
Iielgrade resulting in tinge eonflagra
tions, consuming large portions of the
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MILITARY GOVERNOR PLACES
PRICE ON AVIATORS’ HEADS
A M STKit i >.\ ,\l, April 17.— Because of
the renewed activity of i he allied avia
tors. who have successfully destroyed
several military positions, the military
governor of Tirussels today announced
a reward of $9,000 for the taking of any
hostile airman, dead or alive.
GERMAN AVIATORS THROW
SCARE INTO BRITISH ISLES
LONDON, April 19 —The South' ast
ern and eastern coasts as far north as I
Scotland have been thrown in a terror j
stricken condition by the frequency of.
bombardments by German aviators vvli ■
since last Sunday have visited nearly:
every county along those shores, ilc- ,
straying much property and killing anil
wounding many noneombatants despite |
the increased watchfulness of the
lirilish aero artillery which has been
stationed at ail the higher elevations
along the North sea coast.
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EDES ADVISES AGAINST i
STAMPEDE TO SEWAROj
WASHINGTON, April 19. Chairman
Edes of the Alaska Railroad Commis
sion has issued a statement advising
against stampeding to the scene of fm
are railroad construction, stating that
there will he but little work and that
only a few men will he employed for
the present, mainly in the work of con
tinuing the further surveying of the
route.
C. E. Dole, the newly appointed pur
chasing agent of the engineering coin
mission who was recently sent lo Pa
nama lias reported his arrival and will
immediately begin the select inn of such
railroad material as may lie available
for use on tile new load. The Kngin
, erring i 'nm mission is now forwarding
supplies to Seward and the preliminary
work will lie hastened with all possible
I dispatch, it is not believed, however.
II list the actual work of construction
will be started before July.
The Coast Survey Hoard reports ihai i
the work of construction on the light
house and fog station at Capo Klias on
the southern end of Kayak Island will
begin about Mnv first.
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MERIELLA
PLEADS
GUILTY
NEW YORK, April ID. Later John
Meriella, the young man arrested Sat
urday on a complaint charging him
with an attempt to extort money from
Vincent Astor by means of threatening
letters, pleaded guilty to the charge on
being arraigned in the Surrogate court
this morning.
MANY RESERVISTS RETURN
• TO ITALIAN SHORES
ROME, April 10. Steamships arriv
ing from all parts of the world during
the first half of April, it is estimated,
have brought fully one thousand Ital
ian reservists and officers home
ITALY’S ATTITUDE MEANS
NOTHING BUT WAR
LONDON, April II1 -Sunday advices
from Romo declare that T’rinee von
Huelow has been driven to desperation
by tho Kaiser's imperative order to
beep Italy neutral at all costs but every
passing hour sees Italy's army and navy
forces approaching a degree of mobol
ization which, despite the government's
attitude, can mean nothing but war on
Austria.
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KITGHNER AGAIN
WARNS POPULACE
ABOUT LIGHTS
LONDON, April 1!». Lord Kitchnor
has again warned tho populace that
London must curl* all lights and heavily
(urtain even the windows of private
residences. Street cars and busses
which cannot operate without dim
lights in their interior are ordered to,
stop during the night. Automobile j
traffic after dark in London has almost!
ceased.
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TWO JAP AVIATORS COLLIDE:
BOTH LAND UNINJURED:
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TOKYO. April 19.—Two Japanese
aviators while engaged in maneuvers
near tho capital collided but flew a mile
before the rigging of the machines dis
engaged. l'.oth landed uninjured.
RUSSIANS DEMAND THAT
CHINESE WATCH CAREFULLY
PEKING, April 1!' The Russian gov -
ernment has sent a note to President
Yuan demanding ail increasing watch
fulness in Manchuria, where the Rus
sians suspect that German-hired Chin
ese bandits are plotting to cut, the
Trans-Siberian railway line under the
guise of ordinary brigandage.
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ACTRESS SUICIDES IN
HOTEL AT SEATTLE
SEATTLE, April 19, Mrs. .1 F.
Derry, an al lie s, well known In thea
tre goers under the stage name of .lime
Fields, committed suicide hi shooting
in Hie fashionable Chelsea hotel in this
city last night. Mrs. Derry is the wife
of a Xcw York business man. De
spondency is given as the reason for
tiio woman's act.
BARON DE REUTER SUICIDES
AFTER DEATH OF HIS WIFE
LONDON. April 19. —Halim Herbert
De Reuter, director and manager of the
Ileuter Telegraph and Cable Company,
(he leading telegraphic concern of the
European continent, suicided today In
tense grief over the death of the Rar
I oness Do Reuter last Thursday is as
signed as the cause for the rash art.
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jSEATTLE REALTY DEALER
ACCIDENTLY ASPHYXIATED
SEATTLE, April 19.—John F. Foster,
a prominent realty dealer and well
known in Northwestern business circles
J was accidently asphyxiated in his
apartments last night. The body of the
real estate man was found by an at
tendant following his failure to appear
at his usual rising hour. The police
assert that the cause of death is un
doubtedly accidental.
FORMER SEATTLE JUDGE
REPORTED TO BE DYING
SEATTLE, April 19.—J. W. Langley,
former judge of the Superior court of
King county, who has been ill for some
time is reported to bo dying today.
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REPORTS JAP
NAVAL BASE
A HOAX
WASHINGTON, April l-' That the
recurrent reports that the Japanese*
j government has obtained a naval base
<ai the Lower t'ahl*rnia coast has
'caused the administration no little con
cern despite the evident disinclination
to « redit the talc, was manifested toda>
; through the publication of a complete
i denial of Lite report b> the Nav> L>e
j pal'lment on the autllorit> of I'ntnm.iii
j dcr ii vvm. td tin* cruiser .Ww orieiuis.
i who has reported tiiat iu\estimation j
I Jiscioses no sign that l lie Japanese arc]
I establishing a naval base .it Turtle l»a> j
It has developed that the cruiser was!
sent to the scene of the supposed naval j
I base b> liear Admiral Howard for the1
I express p11rpost of investigating t In '
matter.
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HUERTA DENIES |
GAVE JAPS
NAVAL BASE
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NKVV Vc illK. April is luniner Mm
1 i• :111 President Huerta lias formally de
nied the story that the Japanese were
■Riven a territorial concession of anv
i
| nature during his administration of af
fairs in the southern republic. Huerta
states that it is his belief that the re
ports that the Japs are establishing a
naval base in tho vicinity of Turtle Hay
are canards.
SLAVS DEFEATED
GIGANTIC BATTLE
VIENNA, April 19.— An ortiii.il gov
ernment statement issued Saturday
states that the Austrians and Russians
met in the most gigantic battle in all
history on the Eastern slopes of the
lower Carpathians and has resulted iti
the complete defeat of the Russian at
tempts to cross the mountains into
Southeastern Hungary. No d tails are
published but tile Russians are declared
to he in full retreat before the victor
ious Austrians.
CANADA ISSUES
DRASTIC ORDER
AGAINST FOES
VANCOUVER, B. April 19.—All
lues of England, composing either the
passengers or crews of vessels arriving :
at Dominion ports, are to he arrested
and detained under military guard tin
der orders received from the Dominion |
government today. Local offices are i
instructed to seize all persons regard- j
less of station.
EXPOSITION ADMISSIONS
ARE SLOWLY DECREASING
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SAN KHANCISCO. April n The
exposition admissions the slowh de '
creasing tint it is predicted that the at-j
tendance during the sumer months will \
break all records.
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BULGARIA TO
ENTER WAR
ROME, April IT.- Advices received
lrom the Balkans give most conclusive
indications that Bulgaria is about to
enter the great war on the side of the
Tripple Entente. Late dispatches state
that war movements are apparent in
• very part of the nation.
WILL GIVE BULGARIA SLICE
OF TURKEY TO ENTER WAR
ROME, April 19.—Balkan advices
indicate that Russia lots at last agreed
to give Bulgaria a slice of northern
Turkey and also to assist in a reai
rangement of the Bulgarian south
western frontier provided that Bulgaria
at once enters the war with the aJlle-s
GRAND DUKE
MICHAEL SHOT
BERLIN, April 19.—it is reported
here that the Grand Ihike Michael of
Russia has been shot and seriously
wounded following a heated quartet
| with Baron Sievers. The Grand links
is said to have been shot through the
abdomen and is in a precarious con
dition.
LARGE CROWDS WITNESS START
OF BARNES ROOSEVELT SUIT
SYUAf'L'SE. April 19—Great crowds
! witnessed the opening of the Barnes
, Roosevelt libel suit, begun today in the
[Superior court of Onondage county The
suit is the outgrowth of the attack on
the former chairman of the state It
1 publican committee
RECONSTRUCTION SNAKE
RIVER SRIDGE ASSURED
SI2ATTFK, April 1* Colonel \V. i
Richardson, head of the Alaska Road
Commission, has announeed the pro
gram of summer operations of the Rond
Commission. included in the list,
which involves a small amount of work
on the roads and trails of the Kenai
Peninsula, is llie reconstruction of the
Snake river bridge at Xante and also
the construction of a new bridge over!
the Chena slough at Fairbanks
col. Richardson states that tho extra
funds provided by the last Congression
al appropriation will greatly facilitate
tin- work of the Commission although
the great r part of the money over and
above the amount asked in the esti
mates furnished the War Department
will necessarily go to tho building of
the new bridges at Nome and Fairbanks
in consequence of which but little
work in the construction of now roads
in trails, i a used by the opening ot
now territory throuRhout the district
ir such. Col. Richardson asserts, that
the next two or three years wouic
necessitate still further increases in the
yearly appropriation.
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and Anvil Bakary.
COSSACKS CUT WAY THROUGH
GERMAN LINES: CAPTURE GUNS
PETROGRAIL April 19. -The War
Ministry reports that under rover of
a heavy snow storm in East Prussia,
several regiments of Cossacks cut their
way through the German lines and
compelled the enentt to either spike
tho guns of four field batteries or let
the Russian's capture them. The great
feat is said to have hern accomplished
at some place in the Mazurian Lakes
region, the name of the locality being
prohibited by the censors.
RUSSIAN GUNBOATS REPORTED
SUNK BY FLOATING MINES
CONSTANTINOPLE, April 19 -Two
Russian gunboats attempting a mine
drag off the Bosphorus were reported
sunk hy floating Turkish mines Friday
night.
GERMANS AND RUSSIANS MOVE
LARGE ARMIES IN SNOWSTORMS
BERLIN, April 19. — Under cover of
unusually late blizzards in northern
t’oland and East Prussia, both the Ger
man and Russian forces are taking
advantage of the great blanket of
whirlin'" snowstorms to move large
bodies of troops into new positions
which can be accomplished without
danger from artillery, owing to the gen
eral invisibility of the opposing armies.
SERBIANS MAY SOON ENTER
TERRITORY OF THE ENEMY
BELGRADE, April 19. With the
eastern Carpathians always increasing
Russian aggressiveness in the south,
the Hungarian opposition to the Serbs
advance along the Danube above Bel
grade is gradually diminishing and the
Serbians may soon again invade the
territory of the Dual Monarchy.
AERIAL BATTLE, INVOLVING
A DOZEN MACHINES, IS
FOUGHT IN CARPATHIANS
VIKNNA, April 19.—The war bureau
reports an aerial battle fought a mile
high over the t’szok pans, on Saturday ,
between Austrian and Russian avia
tors in armoured aeroplanes, Involv -
ing a dozen machines. Several of the
machines on both sides were wrecked
and fell to the earth.
FITZGERALD INSPECTING LAKE
WASHINGTON CANAL
SKATTLK, April 19.—Congressman
J, .1. Fitzgerald, chairman of the House
Committee on Appropriations, is in
specting the lake Washington canal on
behalf of the government.
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