THE No: IE DAILY NUGGET
VOLUME XV. NO. 227. TELEPHONE MAIN 44 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1915. TELEPHONE MAIN 4« PRICE 25 ■
PRES. WILSON SEES NO
POSSIBILITY OF PEACE
A. P. A. Service.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.—White
House officials assert that President
Wilson sees no Immediate prospect of
being able to bring about peace through
neutral mediation. The president has
stated to his confidants, that in his
opinion any move toward bringing
about a reconciliation of the belliger
ent powers will be premature at the
present time as it is plainly indicated
that none of the struggling nations are
as yet ready to listen to peace terms.
The president will, however, hold
open the suggestion of the pope that
i concerted action should be taken by the
neutral nations and that this govern
ment should renew the original offers of
mediation as expressed to the execu
tive by Gardinal Gibbons yesterday.
I Germany’s determination to retain
I some of the captured territory, and par
ticularly Belgium, has placed serious
obstacle in the way of peace, in the
view of Wilson.
Also the French and Knglish believe
that any peace pact while Germany is
victorious will only mean that a second
great war will have to be fought within
a short time, is shared by the executive
and Is a further reason for his deter
mination that nothing can be done at
the present time. In addition the presi
dent has been notified by the Ameri
■can representatives abroad, including
Ambassadors Page and Qerard, that the
time is not yet ripe for mediation.
The ambassadors are said to have
assured the president that both the
French and English would consider fur
ther offers of mediation on the part of
the T’nited States as more or less as
an unfriendly act.
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VON HINDENBERG TAKES
LAST FORTS AT GRODNO
A. P. A. Service.
BERLIN, Sept. 3.—The army of von
Hindenberg has captured the last re
mining forts at Grodno, according to a
general staff report today. The Grodno
forts were the last strong Russian for
tresses to hold out against the German
occupation of western Russia.
The fall of Grodno leaves a practical
ly unobstructed passage to the east of
that point and gives the Germans full
control of the Nieman section.
Rate reports say that the Russians
are withdrawing their forces rapidly
to the eastward beyond the river. It is
anticipated that Hie German encircling
movement from the north will now be
rendered doubly effective and only a
complete withdrawal to the Minsk reg
ion will prevent the Russians from los
ing a great portion of their troops.
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RUSSIANS WITHDRAWING
FROM NIEMAN
A. P. A. Service.
LONDON, Sept. 3.—The evacuation
of the Grodno forts is now under way
and the Russian forces are being with
drawn beyond the right bank of the
Nieman river. This is the text ( r the
latest official report from Petrograd
this nfternoonl.
The war offices of the belligerent na
tions are maintaining an unusual si
lenee concerning the activities on both
the east and west war zones, and be
yond the dispatches chronicling the
fall of Grodno received from Berlin and
Fetrograd, hardly a scrap of Informa
tion as to developments has been giv
en out.
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MORE MEXICAN OUTLAWS
KILLEOTODAY
A. P. A. Service.
^ BROWNSVILLE, Sept. 3.—Three
Mexican outlaws were killed by the
country authorities at Los Cuaratos
this morning nfter a running fight ex
tending over several miles of territory.
It has been ascertained that the men
are a portion of the outlaw band that
murdered two Americans a short dis
tance north of Brownsville anti after
ward dragged their bodies to a lake
some distance away from the scene of
the killing.
The information was obtained from
one of the Mexicans before he expired
after being fatally wounded.
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5 DIE IN ELECTRIC
CHAIR AT
JSSINING
A. P. A. Service,
OSSINING, Sept. 3.—Five murderers
were put to death In the electric chair
at Sing Sing, the entire number being
electrocuted within a period of sixty
live minutes.
VILLA FORCES DEFEATED
INBATTLE
A. P. A. Service.
EL PASO, Sept. 3.—Messages from
the interior today state that the Villa
forces operating west of Monterey have
been heavily defeated by the army of
Carranza and driven In wild disorder
from a furi us contested field. The
forces were engaged in reconnoltering
and met unexpectedly.
SEVERAL BODIES
ARE RECOVERED
FROMM
A. P. A. Service.
HONOLULU, Sept. 3.—Several bodies
have been taken from the interior of
the submarine F-4 now in the naval
dry dock but all are entirely unrecog
nizable owing to the long immersion.
The flesh has disappeared to such a
degree that the remains are hardly
more than the bare skeletons. As the
vessel lays in the dry dock it appears
to have been crustied in at the top
while the under surface has been forced
outward as if by a giant explosion. Na
one outside of the naval officers have
been permitted to visit the interior.
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THIRTEEN FAMILIES
OWN FIFTEENTH
MANHATTAN ISLAND
A. P. A. Service.
NEW YORK, Sept. 3. A local socie
ty engaged in helping the poor of the
city to find lower rents and cheaper
homes has issued a statement disclos
ing that one-fifteenth of the land on
Manhattan island is owned by thirteen
of New York's oldest and richest fam
ilies. Included among the list of those
given as the owners of the land are
such names as Astor, Vanderbilt, Mor
gan. Rheinlanner, Gerry and Goetlet.
The six families named are said to he
the largest owners of land on the Isl
and.
JURY GAN FIND
NO EVIDENCE
A. P. A. Service.
MAR1ETTE, Septt. 3.—The grand
jury, which has been conducting an in
vestigation of the recent lynching of
Leo Frank reported today that they
have been unable to find sufficient evi
dence to indict any one for the offense
to public decency. The Jury summoned
but few witnesses and apparently made
but little attempt to locate the culprits.
MRS. MOHR
DENIES STORY
OF ACGDSERS
A. P. A. Service.
PROVIDENCE, Sept. 3.—Mrs. Eliza
beth Mohr, the widow of Dr. Franklin
Mohr whs released under a ten thou
sand dollar bond following her arrest
lost evening. Closely following the an
nouncement of her arrest, numerous
friends rallied to her support and ball
was quickly furnished.
The woman Is well known and very
popular in this section and few are in
clined »to give credence to the state
ments of the negroes who are under
arrest charged with the murder of the
doctor and his assistant.
Mrs. Molir stoutly maintains her in
nocence of complicity in the shooting
and says the story of the negroes is
a fabrication. Tho woman asserts that
the negroes, who had formerly been
employed by the doctor, had several
times threatened his life because of the
alleged non-payment of wages due
them.
M DEAD RECOVERED
III DARDANELLES
A. P. A. Service.
SEATTLE, Sept. 3.—Over Seas Nows
Agency dispatches to London today
state that over six hundred bodies of
sailors ancl marines have been recov
ered from tho waters of the Dardan
elles. The dead are from the several
allied ships sunk during the numerous
engagements with tho forts in tho ear
lier attempts to force a way through
tho closely guarded passage.
WILL STEEL RETURNS~
TO ALASKA
A. P. A. Service.
SEATTLE, Sept. 3.—Among the
northern people returning on the
steamer Alameda today aro Will A.
Steel, the pioneer newspaper man, who
has been in the newspaper business
since tho nineties, and who recently
closed down his plant in Cordova while
making a trip to the outside because of
being unable to And a competent man
aged. \ well known northern woman
Mrs. Elizabeth Richards Foster, who
is one of the pioneers of the Tanana
valley arrived in tho city last night on
her way to Fairbanks.
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A. P. A. Service.
WASHINGTON, Sept 3.— One-balf of
the total area of Europe is infected
with cholera, according to an an
nouncement today, and vessels from
many European ports will be denied
landing at American ports. The pub
lic health service today announced that
cholera in the most virulent form is
raging in all of the German prison
camps in various sections of the em
pire and notably at the camps in Sile
sia, Brandbenberg, Posen and Sieska.
The dread plague also prevails
throughout Austria, Russia, China.
Egypt, and Ceylon, the Philllpines and
the Balkan states.
Reports from every quarter of Eu
rope and Asia indicate that the scourge
is steadily extending and an epidemic
of the most serious proportions Is
threatened. The plague which was late
ly checked in Serbia has again broken
out with greater virulence thun before
and the authorities are having a most
difficult time to prevent the disease
from spreading beyond all control.
The rapid spread of the disease is^
causing great alarm throughout Eu
rope and tlie health authorities of the
several nations are taking all possible
precautions to check the wave of dis
ease and prevent a repetition of the
great plague which devastated Europe
in the fourtenth century.
The reports declare that thousand ;
u-e 'lying in the great prison camps
in Germany and Russia and the dis
ease has gained a serious foothold
among the civil population of hotii
countries. The government will take
every precaution to prevent the plague
from entering the TTnited States and
the port authorities of both the At
lantic and Pacific sea boards have been
given orders to strictly enforce the
uuarantine regulations.
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MEXICAN BANDITS MURDER
TWO AMERICANS
A. P. A. Service.
BROWNSVILLE, Sept. 3.—A burn! ot
sixteen Mexicans desperutdoeB again
started across the border last night and
succeeded in kiling two Americans be
fore being driven across the border by
the cavalry.
The dead men nre Earl Donaldson, a,
farmer, late of Fayette, Mo., and .1. S.
Smith an engineer. The bodies of both
men were riddled with bullets when
founil by the regulars and the bodies
had also been dragged for a considera
ble distance with a rope.
Botli men were found lying at th •
jottom of a dried up lake some distance
from the point at which they were at
tacked. The Americans evidently put
up some sort of a. fight as there are
indications that some of the bandits
were wounded. The noise of shootinc
resulted in attracting the attention of
Hie border patrol who hurried to the
scene but arrived to late to save the
Americans. With the exception of one
man killed by the soldiers, the entire
band of Mexicans succeeded in making
[their escape from the soldiers.
TENNESSEE LANDS TROOPS
AND ARTILLERY AT HAITI
A. P. A. Service.
CAPE IIAITIEN.Sept.3.—TheAmer
ican cruiser Tenneseee disembai ked one
hundred artillerymen with field and
machine guns this afternoon. The
troops are newly arrived from the
states, but were not landed until today
owing to the negotiations going on be
tween the revolutionists and the Am
erican naval authorities.
Following the refusal of General
Casos, the revolutionary leader, and his
followers to lay down their arms the
artillery were landed and posted on the
outskirts of the city.
The revolutionary forces immediate
ly retired in the direction of Principle
In the territory some distance behind
the city a large body of the revolution
ists have taken up positions and have
cut off all communication with the in
terior. The natives are maintaining a
most surly attitude and tlie authorities
and not entirely satisfied that hostili
ties may not break out at any time.
BRITISH ARE
PESSIMISTIC
OVER GRODNO
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A. P. A. Servlet*.
LONDON, Sept. 3.—Following the
announcement of the fall of Grodno, the
press, for some unexplained, reason, has
adopted a tone of deem pessimism which
cannot be amounted for on the theory
that the fall of the last great fort pos
sessed by the Slavs along their west
frontier constitutes a renewed danger
to the retreating armies.
The papers generally appear to have
suffered an attack of blues and are
speaking of the situation with a tone
of anxious foreboding. Military experts
on the contrary assert that the fall of
the Grodno forts tends to relieve the
Russians from a great strain and will
enable them to act with far greater
efficiency.
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PREDICTS ENTRANCE
OF THE BALKANS
A. P. A. Service.
ROME, Sept. 3.—The Sofia corre
spondent of the Gironale Italia in a
communication to his paper today as
serts that there is an evident under
standing between the Balkan states and
every Indication points to the entrance
of both oRumanla and Bulgaria at a
given signal. The correspondent states
that there is evidence that the armies
of both nations are being brought up
to a war footing by slow and hardly
preceptible degrees and the government
arsenals aro betraying unusual activi
ties.
BELIEVE ROUMANIA
AWAITING WORD
ATHENS, Sept. 3.—Reports from the
Serbia territory today to the effect that
Roumaniu is only awaiting the word
from Serbia before Joining in the war
lias cauaed great excitement through
out Greece. No confirmation can be
obtained and both capitals remain
silent.