THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
VOLUME XVI. NO. 114. telephone main 46 Nome, Alaska. SATURDAY, APRIL 15, :gi6- telephone main 4®. PRiwE a cents
CLAIMS PROOF U. BOAT GUILTY
MEXICANS REPORTED THREATENING
LINE OF COMMUNICATION
By A P. A. Service.
COLUMBUS, April 15.—Re
ports arriving here today state
that the American military lead
ers in Mexico are becoming un
easy over the action of General
Arnulfo Gomez in moving up a
large force of Mexican troops to
a position which enabled him to
dominate the American line of
communication from the border.
The reports, which are from the
headquarters of the commanding
general of the expedition declare
that reliable information has been
received that Gomez is moving his
forces from Sonora into Cliihau
hua in several columns which are
so disposed that they will menace
the American lines. Nothing has
been learned as to the location of
the cavalry under Major Dodds
and it is believed that they have
severed all connection with the
base at San Geronimo.
WASHINGTON, April 15.—
Secretary Baker announced today
that there is no change in the
Mexican situation and that there
is still friendly co-operation be
tween the military forces of both
countries. There are many indi
cations today that the note being
prepared for Germany will be the
iinal word on the submarine ques-,
tion.
WANTS VILLA CAP
TURED OR EXILED
A. P. A. Service
WASHINGTON, April 15.—
Representative McLemore of
Texas is firmly of the opinion that
in no event should the United
States withdraw its troops from
.Mexico until Villa is either killed,
captured, or driven into exile
where he will no longer be a trou
ble maker in the lower republic.
In pursuance of the idea he, to
day, introduced a resolution into
the house requiring the continu
ance of the American efforts to
locate and either kill, capture or
compel Villa to flee the country.
CAPTURED SUBMARINE OFFICER REVEALS
IDENTITV OF SUSSEX ASSAILANT
A. P. A. Service.
WASHINGTON, April 14
Secretary Lansing announced late
today that the United States is in
possession of most conclusive evi
dence that the steamship Sussex
was attacked by a German U boat
in the shape of information ob
tained from the crew of a cap
tured German submarine by the
French naval forces.
Lansing asserts that this infor
mation tends to show the identity
of tr.e submarine which destroyed
I
i the Sussex and set at rest all
'doubts as to the responsibility
therefor. It is generally conceded
in official circles that this infor
mation will either compel Ger
many to adhere to her promises in
i future or inevitably result in a1
[diplomatic break with the United
States.
Friends of the president assert
j that he is firmly determined to
bring Germany to a halt in the
work of jeopardizing the satety
of neutrals and will proceed to
any length to accomplish that ob
ject. It is plainly indicated that
the administration has losfaTTm
clination to temporize with Ber
lin and the matter will be forced
with all the powers of govern
ment.
You oau keep your friends outside
posted by having the Nugget mailed
•-> them for so cents per month.
WILL TREAT
WITH CARRANZA.
OVER WITHDRAWAL
A. P. A. Service.
WASHINGTON, April 14.—
Secretary Lansing announced to
day that he is prepared to treat
with Carranza over the proposal
for the withdrawal of the Am
erican troops in Mexico.
He added, however, that no im
mediate withdrawal of the expedi
tionary forces was in contempla
tion. The secretary reiterated his
former statement that the troops
will not be withdrawn until such
time as the object of the expedi
tion has been, in the view of the
administration, fully accomplish
ed. He says that for the present
the United States will inform
Carranza that arrangements will
soon be made to discuss with him
the time and manner of the re
moval. In the meantime the mili
tary forces will redouble their ef
forts to capture the bandit chief
BRITISH SEIZE
THOUSAND SACKS
NEUTRAL MAIL
—
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CHRISTIANA, April 15.—
Great indignation is expressed at
the action of the British govern
■ment in removing from a Nor
wegian steamer over one thou
sand sacks of mail from the Uni
tde States destined for neutral
points. The mail was seized by
the authorities at Kirkwall, Scot
!and, to which point the steamer
was directed by a British cruiser.
The only portion of the mail con
signment allowed to pass was a \
quantity addressed to an Ameri-1
can gunboat at present stationed i
it Constantinople. The British
made no attempt to interfere with '
this mail, probably because of a
fear that it might lead to compli
cations with the American gov
ernment.
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CLAIMS EIGHTY ENEMY
SHIPS SUNK IN MARCH
A. P. A. Service.
BERLIN, April 15.—The ad
miralty announced today that a
total of eighty enemy merchant
ships with an aggregate tonnage
of over two hundred and eighty
thousand tons were sunk in the
course of submarine operations
along the British coasts and in
the Mediterraneon during the
month of March. This means an
average of nearly three vessels
pay day and indicates the complete
success of the submarine opera
tions in spite of the effots of the
allies, to counteract the efforts of
the under water boats.
COMPLETE RACE STORY.
A complete story of the All Alas
ka Sweepstakes Dog race, day by
day, with the score card will be
printed in Saturday’s issue of the
Nome Daily Nugget. Extra cop
ies will be on sale at this office.
BARK INVERLYON SUNK;
ONE AMERICAN ABOARD
A. P. A. Service
WASHINGTON, April 15.—
Reports from the American consul
at Queenstown today confirm the
reported sinking of the Aberdeen
INDICATIONS OF BOMB
PLOT UNEARTHED
'
A. P. A. Service
NEW YORK, April 15.—What
are believed to be evidences of
another bomb plot were discover
ed today in the barge office at the
Battery in which a number of fed
eral officials, including the cus
toms officials, are located. The
evidences are in the shape of what
appears to be bombs with clock
work attachments which were
discovered by one of the employes
secreted under a pile of stored
lumber. It is not at present dem
onstrated that the peculiar arti
cles are loaded and they have been
forwarded for examination. The
secret service is now investigat
ing.
WILL PURCHASE
TWO MILLION
R. R. MATERIAL
A. P. A. Service.
SEATTLE, April 15.—Lur
ching Agent Dole of the Alaska
railroad commission announced
today that the commission will
expend two millions of dollars
within the next few weeks in the
purchase of rails, bridge material
and lumber supplies for the fur
ther construction of the Alaska
railroad. Aside from the cost of
the rails, which will be purchased!
in the east, the greater portion of j
the money will be expended in
this state.
DIES RATHER THAN FACE
DISGRUNTLED CLIENT
A. P. A. Service.
TONOPAH, April 15.—P. A.
Howler, an attorney of this city,
drank poison and died today rath
er than face a client whose case
he had lost through an inadvert
ant error. The dead attorney left
a note saying that he well pre
ferred death to facing the man |
\vho had retained him after hav
ing made such omission in the
performance of his duty. Bow
ler was well known and fairly well
to do and enjoyed the patronage
of several wealthy clients, among
them Edw'ard Clifford, a wealthy
pioneer who died last night at
Reno
T* o«t th* newt read Nugget.
bark Inverlyon of Kinsale Head,
Ireland yesterday afternoon. The
consul reports that the Inverlyon
which was bound from Portland,
Ore., to Limerick, was attacked
and destroyed by a submarine
vessel with the loss of some of
the sailors composing the crew.
The reports say that there were
iwo Americans aboard the vessel
but both escaped without injury.
1 he inverlyon made no attempt
to escape from the U boat after
being hailed by the submarine and
the crew were granted fifteen min
utes in which to take to tKeir
boats before the vessel was tor
pedoed.
GERMAN BATTLESHIP
CAPTURES NEUTRAL
STEAMERS
A. P. A. Service
COPENHAGEN, April 15,—
Dispatches from Helsingor today
assert that two steamers one Dan
ish and the other Swedish, have
been captured in the Cattegat by
a German battleship while mak
ing Swedish ports.
According to the reports the
vessels were overtaken and com
pellcd to submit under threat of
being sunk. So far nothing has
been learned as to the ultimate
| disposal of the ship’s crews
The presence of the German
warship in the Cattegat is some
thing of a mystery owing to tilt
presence of the heavy mine fields
known to have been planted by
the British at the entrances to all
passages leading to the Baltic mak
ing the passage without escort al
I must impossible.
The Family Paper in the Wtmur
Daily -Vrgget
SEATTLE HAS
EPIDEMIC OF
DIVORCES
A. P. A. Service
SEATTLE, April 15.—Seattle
is threatening to out Reno, Reno
Nevada, in the matter of divorces.
At the present time the city seems
to be suffering from a genuine
epidemic of separations from the
galling bonds of matrimony. For
ty one divorces out of forty five
cases heard in the superior court
| ere yesterday and there were
also eight continuances and eight
new cases filed, all in one day.
Statistics indicate a steady in
crease in the number of divorces
granted and to all appearances
this city will soon take the lead
in the number of separations
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SEATTLE, April 14.—Mrs.
Jane A. Chadwick of Salem, Ore-,
widow of the late Stephen E.
Chadwick, former governor ol
Oregon, and also the mother of
Justice Chadwick of the supreme
court of the state of Washington,
j .led this morning in her eighty
third year.
NIGHT LETTERS NOW
INCLUDE ANCHORAGE
The city telegraph office an
nounces that a night letter tele
graph service to Anchorage via
Seward will be inaugurated" to
morrow, April 16.
The Family Paper l« the Nome
Daily Nuffget
►utter-—Butter
We have kept back a brand of butter that was shipped to us by
our old milkman, Herman Hoop from Ellensburg, Wash., last fall.
1 W^did so for the purpose fro be able to offer something good in
the spring days when it wou 4 be appreciated.
TRY A BRICK
85c for 2 pound brick
COFFEE ROASTED DAILY
NOME FAVORITE BUENO 3 POUNDS, $100.
OUR FRESH ROASTED
COFFEES
Cost Less
Taste Better
Go Further
Last Longer
Please All
Ask for free sample and convince yourself
POLET’S
Last Mail Brought Advices
THAT CODFISH
has risen in price as Follows:
Bricks to, per pound..10c
Middles to per pound.12 i-2c
Whole to, per pound.8c
Consider merchants as well consumers that at 8c per pound in
Nome and less for large quantities that it is good business to come
and buy all that you will require for next summer. Our price is do- j
livered’ to you, Seattle price the amount of two cents per pound
freight should be added.
COFFEE ROASTED DAILY
POLET'S EXTRA BLEND, 2 POUNDS 86c. j j
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