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VOLUME XVI NO. no. telephone main 46 nome. Alaska TUESDAY, APRIL n jqK. . telephone main 46. pri„e 25 cen i «
A. P. A. Service
PERSHING HEADQUAR-j
TERS, via Columbus, April n.—!
General Pershing has received a!
report from Mexican sources stat*j
ing that Villa is dead and buried.1
So far no confirmation of the re-1
port can be obtained- According
to the information reaching here;
Villa succumbed to wounds re-1
ceived in the fighting in the '
cinity of Namiquipa two weeks
I
ago.
Carranaz Embassy Informed Vil
la Dead
A. P. A. Service.
WASHINGTON. April u.
I’nofficial reports have been
received by the Carranza emhass;
today stating that Villa C dead
l lic report comes from Oueivtari
and although unofficial, is give,
rente credence.
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By A P. A. Service.
EL PASO, April n.—Villa is
.suffering from an infection from
which he will die unless he is able
to obtain medical attention soon
Reports *to this effect wera re
ceived today from the Carranza
officials who are said to have re
ceived authentic information con
cerning the condition of the ban
dit leader.
Villa’s condition is said to be
the result of wounds recei\ed i
the fighting with the Carranza
and American forces in the ear
ly stages of the American pursuit
He is said to have been had!'
wounded in the right leg, above
itiit knee at El Oso, since which
[time he has been compelled to
travel in a buck board while con
tinuing his retreat to the south.
Owing to lack of care and proper
medica! attention the wounds be
came infected and he is now in a
highly dangerous condition. Ac
cording to the statement of the
[Carranza officials unless an oper
ation is soon performed Villa will
die before he is caught The limb
[is said to be in a fearful condition
and will have to be removed above
| die knee
The Family Paper is the Vonie
i Jaily Nugget.
OF SIATOFORV OFFENSE
FAIRBANKS, April n.—W i
H Woolbridge, who was indicted '
by the last grand jury and latet
convicted of a statutory offense
against the person of Laura Har
rington, a half breed girl, was to
day sentenced to a six year tern
in the penitentiary by Judge Bun
nell.
*
The crime for which Wool
bridge was convicted occurred or
February 9 of the present year.
The indictment returned byr the
grand jury also recites a previous
offense of the same character com
mitted in September 1914. The
girl, Laura Harrington, is agec
less than fourteen years. Dai
Callahan, formerly a member of
the city council, who was recent
ly convicted of statutory rape on
the testimony of Grace Carey, a
half breed girl, will be sentenced
today.
ZACH TAYLORS
GRAND NEPHEW
CHARGED WITH MURDER
PINE BLUFF, Ark., April xo.
—T. S. Bradberry, a great grand
nephew of Zachary Taylor was
placed on trial here today, charged
with the murder of H. G Jenkins,
a wealthy planter with whose
wife he was infatuated.
lutter—Butter
i
We have kept back a brand of butter that was shipped to us by
our old milkTnan, Herman Hoop from Ellensburg, Wash., last fall.
We did so for the purpose to be able to offer something good in
the spring days when it wouVi be appreciated.
TRY A BRICK
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85c for 2 pound brick
coffeeIoasted daily
NOME FAVORITE BLEND S POUNDS, 9100.
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OUR FRESH ROASTED |
COFFEES
Cost Less
Taste Better i
Qo Further
Last Longer
i Please All
jj Ask for free sample and convince yourself
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Last Mail Brought Advices
DIAL CODFISH
has risen in price as follows:
[’.ticks to, per pound.:.ioc
Middles to per pound...12 t-2c
\\ hole to, per pound . .8c
t'oiiaider merchants as well consumers that at 8c per pound hi
X' me and less for large quantitio that it is good business to come
and buy all that you will require for next summer. Our price is de
1 ered to you, Seattle price the amount of two cents per pound
freight should be added.
““coffee roasted daily V
POLET’S EXTRA BLEND. 2 POUNDS 86c.
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A. P. A. Service
SEATTLE, April ll.—A car
load of Leer which was maroon -d
in the bay was seized by the po
lite today and confiscated under
the terms of the prohibition law.
The beer was the Rainier brand,
formerly manufactured in Seattle,
and was shipped here from San
Francisco, whither the company
has betaken itself since the dry
law prohibited the manufacture
til liquid amber in Washington.
1 he beer was landed on a scow
on tlte bay where it remained un
til the police gathered it in todaj 1
’i he :iuI In .lit! are si ill finding all;
sorts of difficulties in suppressing'
li e illegal sale of liquors and it
• barged that there ■ more
ho/.e being sold in Seattle now
than before the dn law became
operative.
A. P. A. Service
BERLIN, April 11. It is tiie
claim of the war office that the
losses of the defending forces
around Verdun have greatly ex
ceeded those of Germany during
the 'terrific fighting-of the pa 1
month. A large share of the
French losses are composed of the
prisoners captured by the Ger
mans.
According to the war office re
ports the French have lost in cap
tured over thirty-six thousand *
men since February 25 in this onrj
section ol the western battle front
Reports from the field head
quarters also indicate that the,
losses of the French in the tics
perate attempts to check the Ger |
man' advance have been exceed
ingiy heavy. .
To get the newt* re^d »he Nugget
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SONG WRSTLR
A. P. A. owi vice
OMAHA. April 11.— Mrs. Jo
seph E. Howard, daughter o£
Michael Kilgollon, a Chicago mil
lionaire and the wife 'of Joseph]
E. Howard the actor and writer of
many popular songs, committed I
suicide here today. Mrs. Howard
was formerly the wife of Count
de Baufort, a European noble
man, who she divorced to marry
Howard. Despondency caused by
ill health is ascribed as the cause.
ABSCONDING CASHIER
UNTANGLING
OWN ACCOUNTS
A. P. A. Service.
SEATTLE, April u.—Oliver
II Cline, the absconding cashier
(if the Pacific. Coast Company who
was returned here from New Or
leans, following his arrest in that
city while attempting to make his'
v/.i\ into Honduras, is back in
Seattle today and is out again!
practically on. his own rccoui J
zance, helping the company which
he is alleged to ha' ■ • fraude
unravel the tangles in the book -
created by his defalcations.
A. P. A. Service
S'X ANTONIO, April u.
Detailed reports of the recent
fighting in the vicinity of Sat
Geronimo were received by Gen
eral Funston from Pershing’
headcpiarters today disclosing that
(the total American casualties
were five soldiers, wounded, non
i f them fatally. Two oft he t -< q ,
ers were rather seriously. injure
but are reported recovering. 1 li
present whereabouts of the cav
fctlr (Solumns* is not known at
present. They have apparently
not reported for several days.
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A. P- A. Service.
SEATTLE, April n—Follow
ing an investigation ordered b\
\ i ay or Gill Chief of Police Lam
has been removed from ollice am
his place will he filled by a new
appointee. The direct chargt
against the Chief is that lie failer.
i<> obev orders with respect to tin
da ding of liquor cases.
I t dlowing- the removal of Lang
Mayor Gill appointed I n spec tot
'ov. ers to the position of acting
chief until he has time to secure
a new man to fill the place.
The official decapitation of the
S hief is indirectly the result of
Lang's action in arresting and im
prisoning a young man without a
arrant because of the latter’s re
ntal to tell where he had purchas
ed two quarts of liquor which
were found in his possession.
Back of this story, however, is
another one that Lang and the
,m or have been at \ariance for
some time, and especially since
the exposure of certain iregulari
ties of conduct involving a visit
of the chief to the apartments of
a woman of the under world. The
mayo < oneratedf the chief at
oi.' hut is said to have prac
l placed him on probation
afterward. Lang claims that Gill
- 'imply playing politics.
Gil! Appoints New Chief,
i, \TTLL. April II.—Chas.
Gingham, a ward politician,
has been appointed to rill the of
rice of chief of police following
lho removal of Lang by .May
or Gill. Beckingham is aged for
b >rn in Victoria.
" 'i lie work uV life grand jury was
rompleted Saturday and the final
report delivered to the court con
tains the following statement of
results:
Si anginal cases were examin
ed and report i t . tin court a
true bill being returned in each
case.,Other matters presented In
the I’nited States attorney and
others were alsry examined and
finally disposed of.
The jury also reported hav
igg examined into the conditions
and management of public affairs,
:,ciiools, etc., and offered the fol
>\\ ing recommendations:
ist. 1 hat there be a new floor
‘aid m the Nome public school
masiura.
nd. that there be more and
better ventilafi<>n in the girl's
toilet.
yrd. I hat the class rooms he
repapered.
;:!i Thai-thei'e be new matting
laid on the stairway.
y,lli - That a sanitary drinking
alignment be provided for the
pupils.
The following recommenda
tions were made with respect to
.. native school.
i. That the toilet be thor
hly'* cleaned and made more
-unitary.
-ii 1. That the girl's toilet be in
x separate room from the boy’s
toilet and that this change be
made immediately.
1 he jury also examined into the
-idion.- and management of the
iiiic I States commissioner’s of
net. federal jail, city hall, United
States court house and detention
-pital and found same in ex
ut order and managed in sat
i'.ry i’. ay. I’he city jail and
fire department were also inves
tigated and found to be satisfac
torih managed and the conditions
of same as good as can be expect
ed under the circumstances. Ad
ditional recommendations were:
T hat a fund be established for
the relief of people in distress, for
v hiclt purpose there is no fund
■ \ available. As an example of
tin- pressing need of such fund the
- ills the attention of the
o mri to the Rice case.
l! .■ report also states that the
attention of the jury has been
called to the manner in which the
the in-ane of Alaska are treated
it du Morningside asylum and
the same is, in the view of the
, must deplorable and a crime
against civilization. The recam
mendation is therefore made that
some steps be taken to better con
ditions and that the government
be appealed to to erect a building
mo establish a fund for its main
temmee in r ' Terence to the pres
ent system.,