FROM SATUDRAY’S DAILY.
s'tnv York. April 17—Largely as
th. result of tlio immense orders for
w a ;• material being received in this
co ntry, the general conditions in
tin cast are steadily improving. This
is especially true of the New Y'ork
Stock Exchange. One order from
Ru««ia for one hundred million schrap
n -1 shells was placed yesterday and
today. i , '
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OFF ON TOUR OF INSPECTION
A. A. Isbell, superintendent of con
struction for the Marconi Wirless com
pany. a resident of Ketchikan for
the greater part of the last year,
recently removed to Juneau, arrived
down on the Alameda last night. Ho
is accompaniel by F. M. Slmints, one
of the heads of the Marconi Com
pany, who recently came from the
east over the Grand Trunk Pacific.
They have been inspecting the local
plant today.
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Paris, April 17—A French biplane
attacked the huge German pawder
factory at Rottwell yesterday morn
ing. Although several bombs were
dropped and exploded, little damage
was doue the factory, the plane being
forced to withdraw owing to the
intensity of the anti-aircraft gun
fire.
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ALAMEDA IN EARLY
The Alameda appeared on the scene
last night a couple of hours or more
ahead of time. She was scheduled to
arrive at two o’clock, but was tied
up at eleven-thirty, two and one-half
hours early. She had a very
light cargo on board this trip, con
sisting of 250 tons of copper ore from
the westward, ten tons of “plunder,”
and six boxes of fresh fish from Ju
neau. She took on 21 boxes of iced
salmon at this port, 9 at the New
England and 12 at the Ketchikan
Cf Id Storage company.
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London, April 17—It is known
here that ten British army officers
prisoners in the hands of the Ger
mans, have been plaeed in solitary
confinement at Madelburg on ac
count of the alleged treatment of
German submarine crews held cap
tive by the British. This is done as
retaliation for Britain’s threat to
try all submarine crews captured, for
murder as' soon as the war Is over.
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OVER FROM THE WEST COAST
Frank Burkhart; superintendent of
the Alaska Fish Company's cannery
at Waterfall, came over from that
place last night. He reports build
ing operations at the cannery mov
ing along as well as the unfavorable
weather conditions will allow. Spring
salmon remains very scarce he says.
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Terra HautOj April 17—The City
Council of this city has Instituted im
peachment proceedings against Mayor
Roberts recently convicted of election
frauds. It is not thought that Roberts
or his friends will fight the proceed
ings.
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Berlim, April 17—The dally attacks
of the Allied fleet on the Dardanelles
have collapsed, and no new demon
stration of any material weight has
been attempted for several days. A
French battleship is reported to have
bombarded and destroyed tho rail
road running south from Acre in
Palestine toward Egypt. It is sup
posed that this was done to prevent
supplies or troops being scut south
again. 3 Y^i
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Paris, April 17—It is believed
at Rome that Austria is preparing to
strike a sudden blow at Italy, the
moment the latter country determines
to interfere in the present conflict.
Evidences of this are seen in the un
nsual activities at Pola. the Austrian
naval base. j ,
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Washington. April 17—Secretary of
the Nevy Department has ordered
Admiral Howard in command of the
Pacific fleet to send the cruiser New
Orleans to Lower California to in
vestigate the alleged presence of
the Japanese in that region. It will
b * remembered that a party of Amer.
lean newspaper men returned from
that region recently and made the
statement that the British, Austral
ians and Jap; uese had established a
naval has., at Turtle Bay or Cove, a
branch ni .'[ugdenana Bay. To settle
the quo tii 1 ibis present order has
been iss c v itli instructions to de
spatch the vessel at once.
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FATHER IS VERY SICK
M. S. Dobbs, deputy collector of
customs at this port, left for the
Sound t 1 the Alameda this morning.
Mr. Dobbs was summoned south by
the unwelcome nows that his father
is very sick and not exected to re
cover. The Dobbs family home is
Port Townsend Washington.
FROM SATUDRAY’S DAILY.
New York, April 17—Mrs. Rocke
feller 's estate was probated today.
According to the records the estate j
is worth in the neighborhood of two
millions of dollars, and is bequeathed !
to relatives and charitable institu
tions.
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Paris, April 17—A Zeppelin operat
ing in conjunction with the Aus
trian fleet at Palo, sustained an ac
cident of some kind yesterday, and
fell into the Adriatic Sea, drowning
the crew.
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Amiens, April 17—A German Taube
dropped several bombs in the neigh
borhood of the cathedral at this
place last night and this morning.
Fortunately the birdmen’s marksman
ship was poor and no hits of impor
tance were made.
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Seattle. April 17—The announce
ment was made by British represen
tatives in this city that an order had
been issued whereby all Germans,
Austrians or Turks, whether passen
gers or mombers of the crews of
neutral vessels in the waters of Brit
ish Columbia will be liable to seiz
ure. The order states that any such
found will be turned over to the
military authorities to be interned
until the end of the war.
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London. April 17—Advices receiv
ed from Sofia state that the Bul
garian Prime Minister had acknowl
edged the probability of Bulgaria
entering the war as an ally of
England, France and Russia. This
was in answer to the statement from
Turkey that Bulgaria wes responsible
for the recent raid on servia and
Greece by a body of Bulgarian irreg
ulars.
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New York, April 17—Huerta in a
signed statement in the Herald of
this city, denies that Mexico either
under his rule or since has made any
concessions of territory to Japan in
Lower California.
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MEETING AT METLAKAHTLA
(.'has. D. Jones and wife, in charge
of the native school at Metlakaht
la, were local visitors last night and
today. They left for Metlakahtla
this afternoon taking with them Mrs.
Cornelia Hatcher, the W. C. T. TJ.
lecturer, who w ill hold a meeting at
the Psimpsean town this evening.
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IN WITH TOW
The cannery tender Quadra arrived
in port from the Sound last night
with the scow Vixen in row. The
Quadra is the tender for the North
western Fisheries cannery at Boca
De Quadra.
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MAKING ANOTHER ATTEMPT
Paris, April 17—The Germans
launched another of their attacks
at LeSaparages last night. They
were unsuccessful in the attempt, how
ever, the French maintaining such a
machine gun and rifle fire that the
attack was driven back with terrif
ic loss.
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SATISFIED WITH OUTLOOK
G. H. Marsh, a capitalist of Ta
coma. who is interested in the Ready
Bullion property at Hollis, left for
the south on the Alameda this morn
ing. Mr. Marsh has been at Holis
for the past week, with Mr. Mc
Candless who is associated with him
in the Ready Bullion, looking over
the mill and property. To the Miner
Man he made the statement that
everything at the mine Is highly
satisfactory. The mill is working
smoothly and the mine is opening up
in fine shape. Mr. McCandloss did
not come over with Mr. Marsh and
Harry Webber, but will stay over
at the property for a couple of
weeks or so longer.
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SOUTH FOR A VISIT
Mrs. II. M. Stackpole and two
children are passengers south on the
Alameda. They go to visit relatives
in Oregon and will be gone several
weeks.
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Miners working on Wilber creek in
the Tolovana district, have come a
cross an old dump showing that the
creek was prospected years ago. Pans
from the old dump gave returns of
about three cents, but as that would
not pay in the early days the discov
erer abandoned the ground. Ho after
wards lost his life in the Tolovana.
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The Knik News contains the in
formation that the farmers of the
Matanuska valley have formed an
organization to be known as the Mat
anuska Farmer’s Association. F., F.
Krueger was elected president and
Charles Martin was elected secretary
treasurer. Thirty-three farmers sign
ed the membership roll.
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The Weekly Miner $3 per year.
FROM SATUDRAY’S DAILY.
•
DIVISIONS WIN FIGHT FOR
MONEY
Tlio divisional road supervisor bill
passed the house by a vote of 9 to 7
today, the vote having been taken
after the noon recess. The bill pro
vides that a road commissioner front
each division, named by the legis
lature, shall have jurisdiction to spend
one fourth of the forest reserve mon
eys yielded from the sale of timber
and rent of land in the Third and
l-’trst division forest reserves.
The vote was as follows:
Aye: Coombs, Daly, Day, Driscoll.
Getchell, Noon. Snow, Tansey Speak
er Collins.
Nay: Britt, Bums, Heckman. Heid,
Holland, Moran, Shoup.
In explaining his vote. Representa
tive Moran of the Second division
declared his division needed the mon
ey, and needed the roads, but, he
maintained, that by every authority
the First and the Third divisions
were entitled to the money. ‘ ‘ I would
vote differently if I thought the de
partment. intended that the entire
Territory should split the money” he
said.
Governor To Name Counsel
The House passed ’a substitute for
the Senate legal counsel resolution,
by a vote of 13 to 3, Shoup; Britt,
and Burns voting in the negative.
The amendment takes the appointive
power from the judiciary committee
and lodges it with the Governor, af
ter the Legislature adjourns. It em
powers the governor to represent the
Territory, when legal representation
for enforcement of Territorial laws is
necessary. The resolution now goes
back to the Senate.
The ‘‘16-year-old actor bill” was
killed, by indefinite postponement.
The opposition to the measure main
tained that the councils should gov
ern the question, without appeal to
the legislature. The vote was as fol
lows:
To postpone bill: Combs, Daly,
Driscol. Getehell, Heckman, Holland,
Moran, Noon, Snow. Tansey, Speaker
Collins.
Against postponement: Britt, Heid,
Burns and Shoup.
The measure would have made it
unlawful for children under 16 to'
appear in theatrical productions, or
in moving picture shows_Umpire.
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The Knik Commercial Club has in
vited President Wilson and Secre
tary Lane to that town if they come
to Alaska. They arc also experi
menting with fine success on the re
moval of ice from the harbor_Ex.
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Judge John Randolph Tucker, Jr.,
of oft he United States District
court at Nome, has held that the act
of the territorial legislature, which
permits any private citizen of the
age of 21 years to make services of
a summons in a civil action, Is void.
♦ ♦ +
Investigation of the possibilities of
the Tolovana camp by representatives
of Fairbanks business houses has re
sulted in a movement being started to
ask the government to build a road
connecting the new camp with the
railroad terminal on Chatanika. A
number of valuable discoveries have
been made during the winter and well
informed miners declare that it will
develop into a big camp and be one
of the best in Alaska.
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There is now lying at Sulzer. Alas
ka, awaiting a freight boat, the first
shipment of bariumite ore ever made
from the territory. The new ore
is used to mix with white lead in the
making ofpaint and is found In only
one place in the United States. The
mine is at Limestone Point, about ten
miles from Sulzer. The ledge is
forty feet wide and it is estimated
there is enough ore to furnish the
paint mills with all they can use
for years.
Writing from Wiseman, Dr. Dan
forth says that the coldest weather
for February in his vicinity was 41
below zero, while the average for the
month was only 12 below. This is
mild weather for the northermost
mining camp in Alaska, located a good
hundred miles within the Arctic cir
cle, on the Koyukuk river, and indi
cates a much milder season than usual.
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Representatives of the Union Con
struction company, of San Francisco,
recently went over the trnil to Fair
banks enroutc to the Circle district,
where they will set up a mammoth
dredge on Mastodon creek for the
Berry brothers. The dredge will
have a capacity of 2,000 yards a day.
♦ ♦ ♦
At Wrangell but one woman exer
cised the right of franchise at the
spring election. The councilman el
ected were J. G. Grant, N. M. Tate,
L. 0. Patenaude, Arnt Sorset, C. A.
F.nerv, Chan. Bryant, and Frank
Spa ulding.
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The D»By Mow #1 p«r mmrtfc.
The steamer Leelanaw, well-known |
. a the Pacific coact. h'S been sold to i
'Iarriss, Ryley & Vose, of New York.
!• lie has been delivered to her new
.vnors at Galveston,Texas.
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Couneilmen James Fay, Harry Hig
..ins. R. M. Odeli, Timothy Crccdon,
. E. Dehavon. W. B. Stout and James
IcQuinn will servo the town of
' nines fort lie1 coming year, and A.
. McLean will serve three yearB as i
■hool treasurer.
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Skagway elected Howard Ashly, A.
Blanchard, James Kennedy, O.
oliuer, W. R. Hillery. W. B. Bntson
. nd N. O. Hardy, couneilmen; and V.
Hahn, school director.
* * ♦
The body of Louis Sehonbord, the
1 liisana storekeeper who was murd
red last January, was recently laid
i rest in the cemetary at Puyallup.
- .’ashington.
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Jerome Chute, one of the oldest
ml best known pioneers of the in
territory, recently suffered a fatal
■troke of paralysis in Ruby.
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It is more than likely that the
' iventy-five thousand acres of land
eserved on Cook Inlet are meant
or the raising of reindeer.
♦ + ♦
Quarantine was placed on the homes
f two Skagway families on account
? the breaking out of measles among
ho children.
♦ ♦ ♦
Fairbanks will ask Congress to ap
ropriate money to aid the exposition
vhich that city will give In 1917.
♦ ♦ ♦
Vinginzo Salvator, a pioneer mer
• iant of Whitehorse, died on April
ad at the age of 71 years.
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Councilman elect N. M. Tate, ot
.'rangell, is laid up with the mumps.
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It has been proposed to hold a fair
't Knik in the fall.
♦ ♦ ♦
r ISN’T YOUR TOWN IT’S YOU
. f you want to live in the kind of
a town
ike the kind of a town you like, j
' oy needn’t slip your elothes in a grip
' nd start on a long, long. hike.
ou’ll only find what you left behind,
or there’s nothing that’s really new,
* t’s a knock at yourself when you
knock your town,
’t isn’t your town—it’s you I
foal towns are not made by men afraid
east somebody else getB ahead,
.’lien every one works and no
body shirks,
foil can raise a town from the dead.
And if. while you make your per
sonal stake,
our neighbor makes one, too,
''our town will be what you
want to soe,
t isn’t your town—it’s YOU.
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A sled, driven by anair propeller,
’or the transportation of malls in
Alaska, is the invention of I. S. Mc
Gregor. of Spokane, who will leave
shortly for St. Michael, Alaska, with
he first completed model of the new
’ivontion. The machine, known as
■ he Gale power sled, was built at the
Novelty Carriage WorkB, and the
motor, which was formerly used In a
'urtis biplane here, is of the eight
•ylinded, air cooled type, generating
4 horse power. The new sled is 13
eet long and the widest part is three
eet. The body is made of 22-guage
teel.^ The drawings provide for five
assengers. or for 147 cubic feet of
■arrying capacity. The runners of
he machine are detachable and are
our inches in width, Two runners
dx feet long, are attached to the
‘ront of the machine, and one, five
feet long, in the rear. The lnven
ror has already tried out his model
md claims that he has proved its
ibility. The completed machine will
bo used to carry the mail between
Valdez and Fairbanks and St.
Michael—Spokane Chronicle.
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The Seward Gateway says: Over
>n the Kenai river. Deputy Gamo
iVardcn Ericson says some of the men
have taken up again the search for
i treasure supposed to have been
hidden there by the Russians. Mr
•Oricson has seen himself several oh;
’hafts and dumps dug by the Ru.-.
’inns long before Portage bay got
the idea that it would be a railroad
lerminal. He returned the day be
fore yesterday from that quarter and
■it that time the search was on. There
are two stories about the gold. One
is that it was hidden by convicts,
but for the sake of local color convicts
arc always dragged into stories of
Russia. It is said that some of the
natives have nuggets in their pos
session from the hidden bunch, blit,
that they keep it quiet not to let the
vhltes get too wise,
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The Weekly Miner $3 per year. I
FROM MONDAY’S DAILY
DEFERRED UNTIL TOMORROW
The hearing in the Commissioner’s
office of the Government protest a
gainst the issuance of a patent to the
Ketchikan Consolidated Mining com
pany, (the Shoenbar property,) was
begun this morning. Col. Shoenbar
representing the company appeared
rnd asked for a continuance of the
ease. This the government objects to,
and the former was given until tomor
row morning to prove he is the repre
sentative of the company and make
Ids showing to have the case post
aimed.
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DOLPHIN WAS LATE
Owing to making stops at Roe Point
and Hidden Inlet canneries, where
cannery supplies were discharged, the
Dolphin did not get to this port yes
terday until about seven last even
ing. Her stay was short when she
did arrive owing to the fact that she
had but 11 tons of local freight. She
will call in at the Santa Ana and
Cake Bay canneries between this
point and Wrangell and will not arrive
••t the latter place until this evening.
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TWO ADMIRALS IN PORT
The Admiral F.vans and Watson
were in port yesterday, the one north
bound. the other south. The Evans
had a small amount of freight for
local people, and soven passengers for
Ketchikan. Among the latter were
.11. A. Mitchell returning from a trip
to the south, A. W. Burton, J. P.
Stephenson, and four steerage.
The Watson took on 38 boxes of
halibut and 30 boxes of salmon at the
Ketchikan Cold Storage company.
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MANY SHIPS IN PORT
Yesterday was steamer day for
Ketchikan, no fewer than seven ar
riving. They were the Evans, Dolphin
Star and Latouehe northbound, and
tiie Redondo, Watson, and Humboldt
southbound. The Redondo Is tho new
vessel of the Alaska Steamship com
pany returning from a long trip to
tho Westward, whither she had gone
with a big cargo of lumber and can
nery supplies for the Northwestern
; isheries company.
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Rome, April 19-—Several Americans
in Rome and other parts of Italy have
been arrested of late on the charge
that they are German spies. All
have been freed but Rov. Walter
Lowrie, pastor of the American church
in this city, against whom the author
ities seem to think they have mater
i.il ovidence of his guilt.
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Seattle, April 19—The City of Seat
tle sailed from this port last night.
Her passengers for Ketchikan are
Carl Sutter; W. E. Gould; Mrs. Bell
McGoonc; Clarence Wriglit and one
steerage. The Mariposa, with II. G.
Sloan on board for Ketchikan also
sailed.
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GREEK SHIP TORPEDOED
London. April 19—The Greek steam
er EUispontos, en route to Great Brit
ain has been sunk by a German sub
marine without warning. The crew
managed to escope in their boats and
nave reached Flushing in sefety.
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Brownsville, April 19—In compli
lucc with the agreement reached be
tween Villa and the United States’
representatives, the troops of the lat
ter have withdrawn from the border
ill along the line.
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Paris, April 19—With warm rains
drenching the battlefields of the west
ern line, and the rapid approach of
varni weather, it is feared that »
great menace faces both Allied and
German armies from the thousands
of dead and unburied bodies scat
tered along the front. Decomposition
will be rapid when once the tempera
ture' rises, and contamination is bound
to follow.
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NOTED MAN SUICIDES
London, April 19—With a discharg
ed pistol in his hand, Baron Herbert
DeReuter was found dead in bed this
morning. Everything indicates sui
cide.
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London, April 19—The British sub
marine E-15, while reconnitcring tho
mine fields of the Dardanelles, ran
i ground, and was captured by tlie
Turks. The crew was taken prisoners
too.
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Washington, April 19—The Supreme
Court of the United States has denied
the appeal of Loo Frank for a re
trial. Frank it will be remembered
was sentenced to lmng for tkci ipurdpr
of Mary Phagan, a young girl who
was fouqd ppirderod in tho Frank
factory In Atlanta, Georgia,
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The Daily Miner $1 per month.
1
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FROM MONDAY’S DAILY
SENDS EXHIBIT TO FAIR
The local Forest Service office ship
ped a very interesting exhibit to the
San Francisco Exposition yesterday.
It consists of a section of a spruce
saw log. four feet in length, and 61
inches in dinmoter. The log from
which it wns cut contained close to
fifteen thousand feet, board measure,
was 24 feet in length, and the section
sent south came from its upper or
smaller end, tho butt being close to
seven feet in diameter, but lacking
the perfect shape of the section sent.
The Admiral Lino have agreed to
take tho specimen to San Francisco,
free of charge, and same will bo ready
for the inspection of Fair visitors
within tho next week or ten days.
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A LOAD OF GYPSUM
Tho tug Pioneer, with tho barge
Palmyra in tow, were In port this
morning. The barge is loaded with
gypsum, and is on her way to Tacoma.
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PUNCTURES WATER PIPE
Paup’s pile drive crow punched a
pile through the watermaln on lower
Main street this afternoon, putting
it out of commission. Owing to the
fact that the tide is such that the
pipe cannot be repaired before morn
ing, the section supplied from same
will be “dry” until that time.
_I-+
The Spokane is looked for from the
north about four o’clock In the morn
ing. She will load about twenty-five
boxes of iced salmon at Strong’s
dock.
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Washington, April 19—Commander
Irwin of the New Orleans sent to in
vestigate conditions in Lower Cali
fornia, reports by wireless that he has
examined the places where the Japan
ese naval base hau been reported and
found no violations ot neutrality.
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Constantinople. April 19—Baron
vonGlotz, one of the German field
marshals, has been appointed com
mander in chief of the first Turkish
Army. According to reports hero,
the Turks are making big prepar
ations to get the second or reserve
army into the field.
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OFFICIALS COMING NORTH
Seattlt, April 19—Aboard the Ala
meda as she is speeding north are 45
officials of the Alaska Railroad Com
mission, and several of the Alaskn
Road Commission.
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London, April 19—The secret serv
ice brings word that the Germans are
rushing work on several new sub
marines to replace those destroyed
recently by the British patrol fleet,
fhe British admiralty uenics the re
port of a recent naval engagement
in the North Sea.
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Berlin, April 19—A wire from the
front brings the intelligence that
Lieut. Germs, the noted French avi
ator. has been made prisoner by the
Germans in Belgium. Ills aeroplane
was brought down by gun fire.
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Seattle, April 19—140,000 pounds of
schooner halibut was placed on the
market this morning. The best price
offered was 5 1-2 cents. 61 boxes of
steamer fish was offered 5 1-4, and
73 boxes of fresh salmon was sold at
eight and four cents.
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Dr. Alfred Thompson, member from
Yukon territory to the Dominion par
liament at Ottawa, has succeeded in
getting the consent of the government
to have a new authentic and up-to-date
book published on the Yukon and its
resources. This book is now being
compiled by ,W. L. Little, formerly of
llu commissioner’s office, in Dawson.
The new book is not a reprint, but a
new work, giving the latest Informa
tion on hydraulic mining, gold quartz
mining, copper, coal and old methods
of placer mining. F. J. Brownlee, di
rector of surveys for Y'ukon, is also
in Ottawa gathering Yukon material
which is stored up in the different de
portments. lie is compiling a Y’ukon
mop, which will contain all the topo
graphical information which the gov
ernment has from the Yukon.
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NO MARKET FOR FURS
A circular of tlio Seattle Fur Salos
agency says: The results of the Lon
don fur sales, held on the 23rd to
27th of March, were very dissapoint
ing, and as a matter of fact very
little was sold at all. It was hoped
that these sales would show a clean
ing up of at least the cheaper lines
of furs, which have accumulated in
London, but nothing of the kind
developed, which sho,wqd more clearly
that there is tippe from the Euro
pean markets fur a long time to come.
It is the genera) opinion of all fur
houses in the United States that even
lower pricos must prevail In this
country,
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The Daily Miner tl j^er month. i
FROM MONDAY’S DAILY
..3 , ‘YSbi Y
BACK FROM LONG TRIP
Dr. J. L. Myerg and wife, after a
trip' extending almost half way around
the world, and of close to a year’s
duration returned to Ketchikan on tho
Dolphin Inst night. They are both
looking hale and well, and both glad
to be home again. While away, and
during the stiring days of last Aug
ust whcu all Europe was thrown into
a-> uproar by the declaration of tho
Great War, they wore In London,
England, withabout fifteen thousand
other Americans, stranded on account
of the banks of Great Britain being
unable to cash their checks. They
crossed the Atlantic during tho days
of the scare, when the British steam
ers ran without lights to prevent cap
ture by tho German commerce raiders,
and American millionairs rode in the
steornge. Since arrival in the United
States, Dr. John has done hospital
work in No wYork, Rochester and
Kansas City. From the latter place
they went south to San Antonio. Tex
as,and then west over the
Southern Pacific to Los Angeles. A.
side trip from there took them to the
San Diego exposition. From thero
they came up the coast to San Fran
cisco, where they took in the big ex
position, and then home.
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GOING TO COOKS INLET
The tug Columbia with tow arrived
up from the south this morning. The
tow consists of the 600-ton barge
Sperm carrying on her dock the now
sternwheel steamship Jane, the ecow
Knik and the scow Susitna. all com
plete and ready to Blip into the water.
The outfit belongs to the Knik-Susit
na Transportation company. The voy
age will take twelve days, the trans
portation company figuripg on havi'ng
tho tug back in Seattle In twenty
• lays. The tug is owned by the
North Coast tow Boat company of
Seattle. Tho stermwheeler aad the
scows were built for the trannporta
tion company at tho yards of Nilson
& Kelez. The Sperm was purchased
by the company fromthe ol<l Tyee
Whaling company. The Knik--Susitna
Transportation company will handle
the lighterage business of the Admiral
Cine in /look Inlet and will s Iso have
:i freight service up the Knik river,
for which the sternwheciler was es
pecially designed. Her- machinery
was manufactured by the.- Vulcan Iron1
Works with a viev. to the peculiar
needs of the service.
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HUMBOLDT HAS SALMON
The Humboldt 'called in southbound
yesterday afternoon about four o’clock
She had a full load of canned salmor t
on board taken on at the Chile! ,t
cannery. Dan McLaughlin board ed
her here for Vancouver, B. C.
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S. M. Graff, owner of the electric
light and power plant and telep hone
system at Seward, A’mgko, is I egis
tcred with Mrs. Graff at the B’utlor,
en route to the eas't, says the Soattlo
l’.-I. They expec” to remain ill the
cast about six weeks, returning by
way of Californ ia. Just from Seward,
Mr. Graff is enthusiastic over the
future of the Northern town and looks
for a big growth there during the
next few *years. ‘ ‘ The population of
Seward ’has doubled in the last three
months,*’ said Mr. Graff. “The
b'rcs.ter part of the arrivals are men
wB.iting for' employment on railroad
'iOnstruction work, however a fow
I are there to invest in the town and*
grow up with it. I would like to is
sue a warning to laboring men to
stay- away from Seward, at least for
•ho present year. I understand tha*„
native Alaskans will be favored for
places on whatever work the i^overn
mont will do thcro or near t’uere) and
it will be usless for outsp(lorg ^ ex.
pect anything.” Mr. Graff expectg
• o enlarge his plant f and while on
this trip will make purchases of steel
pipe to increase the water power o{
his plant.
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That Goniroissioner Thomas W. Han
more, of iiliamna, committed suicide
on January 30 is the nows convey-ed
by ictt er today, says the Seward Gate
w,y on the 6th inst. This letter
"ap' written on the day following the
f '. ruling of the body, but did not ar- •
rive until the Santa Ana brought,
the mail this morning, it was written*
by Fred ,T. Kochi. According to the*
writer the commissioner left a note’
telling that ho was loosing hiB sight',
and not. wishing to become a burden
on others, he had decided to take
his life. He also stated in that note
that he left his position and personal
effects to a party to whom he owed
something. Ho took stock of all the
government’s property. The body
was found in n chair at 10 o’clock
ontho morning of January 30th by
Alexander Flynn, who went to the
commissioner’s house to have a tooth
pulled by that official. HRnmore was
well known all over Alaska, of which
sountry ho had been a resident for
winy years.