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VOLUME ONE KETCHIKAN, ALASKA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1916 NUMBER 111
PATRIOTS ARE SAID TO BE
RESPONSIBLE FOR
THE CRIME
OPPOSED GIVING UP
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COUNTRY IS IN AN UPROAR
AND EVERYBODY WANTS
TO FIGHT
PARIS, Feb. 3.—A dispatch from
Ricks says that two Montenegrin
Generals wore assassinated last
evening by some patriots who claim
that the capitulation of their coun
try was due principally to those
generals.
The report says further that the
country is in an uproar and that
every man wants to take a hand in
defense of their country.
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STEAMER SIGHTED
THE SUBMARINE
OFF JUPITER AND APPARENT
LY SOUTH BOUND
NEW YORK, Feb. 1.—The steam
er Canfield just arrived from the
south, the captain of which reports
sighting the missing submarine K-5
for which the revenue cutters have
been looking. The captain said
that he is positive of the identity
and that it was apparently south
bound.
GIRL “CUTS OUT" HER MOTHER
ST. LOIUS, Jan. 29.—Miss Am
elia Moss of Welston “cut out” her
mother when she and John Riley
were married in Clayton by Justice
Mathews. Mrs. Moss was a wit
ness. She gave her consent to
the marriage. Her daughter is
only 17 years of age.
“I don’t blame them,” said Mrs.
Moss, with a sigh. “After I was
divorced from Mr. Moss I met Mr.
Riley, and Itbought him a very nice
young man. He courted me four
years, and we were engaged to be
married when he saw Amelia for
the first time. He fell right out
of love with me and in love with
her. It’s alright.”
AT THE GRAND T0NIGH1
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“The Tenth Commandment,” fea
turing Wm. Shay and Violet Mer
seruer well supported by others, is
a well constructed story which is
to be seen at the Grand tonight.
In a sucession of impressive pic
tures the story of a jealous wife
and the inevitable other man ter
minating in a happy ending. Thou
shalt not covet, is the theme for
the story. A single reel drama
and a comedy completes the show
tonight.
Change of program Wednesday.
FRENCH TROOPS
STILL LANDING
INDICATION POINTS TO INVA
SION OF ASIA MINOR BY
LARGE FORCE
PARIS, Feb. 1.—Orders have
been issued for more troops to land
at Mytilene Island. While no rea
given for the move, it is
thought that the purpose is to in
vade Asia Minor in the near future.
The forces already on the island
are considered large for the pur
pose first intended, hence the sup
position that other plans have been
made and that the invasion of Asia
Minor is one.
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FLOODED DISTRICTS
ARE BEING LOOTED
UNITED STATES MARINES ARE
ACTIVE TO PREVENT
THIEVERY
SAN DIEGO, Feb. 1.—The Seser
ted flooded districts have been re
ported to be the fields of operations
for an army of theives who have
looted every place. In order to
prevent further looting the auth
orities have requested the govern
ment to order the marines and pro
tect the property. All the flooded
districts are being patrolled and in
chare of government officials.
RUSSIAN PRINCESS
COOKING IN MINER’S HUT
LONDON. Jan. 30.— Princess
Serge Beloselski-Beloserki, who was
Miss Susie Whittier, of Boston, an
other Russian Princess, has been
doing Red Cross work while her
husband is at the front.
She made a romantic marriage,
for she brought her husband no
dwry such as Mrs. Potter Palmer
provided •'for her niece, Miss Grant,
and Prihce Beloselski was not es
pecially well off himself at that
time. His family has been enor
mously rich, and the palace in Pet
rograd, which was bought by the
imperial family for Grand Duke
Serge, was his father’s home. But
both father and son made love mat
ches without money, and being gen
erous to prodigality, both came to
financial grief.
The Prince’s mother was a sister
of Gen. Skobeleff, one of thegreat
tst gen'rals Russia has produird,
and another sister came to be fe
'wife of Duke of Leuchtenberg.
The Boloselski family own? large
mines in ilie Ural mountins, and a
few year,- ago Prince and Primers
terge went out to the mines, tacirg
an economical vacation away from
the expensive entertainments cf
the court. The prince put on min
ers overalls and went to wort and
the princess kept house in a miner’s
cottage.
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IN THE DRAYING BUSINESS
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Kindly leave your next order for
coal with
MRS. RYAN
VILLA’S IE
HAS COME
HE MUST PAY FOR ALL HIS
AND OTHERS’ ACTIONS
WITH HIS LIFE
IS TAKEN FROM TRAIN
BY ARMED SQUAD AND WILL
BE SHOT IN CEMETARY
AT JURAZ
JUAREZ, Feb. 1.—Carranza’s
last order was “Take him out in
the cemetary and shoot him.” Fol
lowing the order of the chief after
the capture of Villa, he was taken
from the train by an armed squad
and was taken to the cemetary
where the order to shoot him will
be carried out. The command to
fire is momentarily expected.
General Onelas, commander of
Villa's troops here until he escaped
and made his way to El Paso, was
today adjudged guilty of murder by
a courtmartial and sentenced to
death.
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REPRESETATIVE
BRITTEN’S NOTION
INTRODUCES BILL AUTHORIZ
ING PRESIDENT TO
PURCHASE
—
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.—In the
house of representatives today, a
bill was introduced authorizing the
president to negotiate for the pur
chase of lower California from the
Mexican government. Mr. Britten,
the sponsor of the bill says that
with the purchase of that part of
Mexico, to latter country would be
relieved of a gseat deal of trouble
and would not add much to ours.
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STEAMER AL-KI GOES SOUTH
The steamer Al-Ki arrived from
the north last night about 12 o’clock
taking 500 cases of salmon from the
Fidalgo Island Packing Co. can
nery and the following passengers
from Ketchikan:
F. Tidball, Horace Ker, J Lang
mon Sr., J. Langmon Jr., Erick
Lund, Mrs. L. B. Stevens, Mrs. T. j
Miller, L. Alvens, W. H. Durston,
J. Forrester, W. E. Epperson, and
one steerage.
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IN FROM GEORGE INLET
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Mr. and Mrs. George Chesney are
local visitors from George Inlet to
day. This is the first visit in
several weeks. George says they
have "been frozen in good and plenty.
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LEAVES FOR VISIT
Ilrs. Miller, wife of Dr. Miller,
left on the Al-Ki today for a three
weeks visit in Seattle and Puget
Sound cities.
ALL ENGLAND
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ZEPPELINS TRAVEL OVER THE
COUNTRY DROPPING
MANY BOMBS
DURING WHOLE NIGHT
THE RAID WAS KEPT UP WITH
SEVERAL CASUALTIES
REPORTED
LONDON, Feb. 1.—All England
is frightened. During the whole
night, the Zeppelins were active in
different parts of the country, drop
ping bombs here and there and
causing considerable damage to pro
perty, besides killing a few.
The eastern as well as western
front line were visited. Likewise
the midland counties received their
share of their attention.
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ARE ACTIVE
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WAR ZONE FRONT IS GROUND
OF MANY AND BLOODY
CONFLICTS
WIN MORE VICTORIES
AND DRIVE THE TURKS WITH
FEARFUL LOSS FROM
POSITION
PETROGRAD, Feb. 1.—A report
from the front line in Albania says
that the Russian armies are active
and glory in more victories, par
ticularly over the Turks who they
are driving southward. The last
engagement proved extremely cost
ly to the Turks as is evedencd by
the dead on the field in their hurry
to get away from the Russian ar
mies who are still in pursuit.
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SUBSTITUTE FOR MEAT
Beef and mutton eating Great
Britain is learning to do without
its meat dishes. Vegetables are
he only commodity that has not
risen to exhorbitant prices. Some
of the restaurants are making a
feature of all vegetable dishes and
demonstrations are given for the
benefit of housewives who are hard
put to make their allowances cover
their household expenses. One of
the dishes, a “poor man’s pie,’’ is
made by slicing potatoes and onions
thinly and placing them in alter
nate layers between tapioca which
has been soaked in water for an
hour. This is baked for an hour
in a tin nearly filled with hot wat
er and with pieces of butter in
margarine on top.
ALLIES JUSTIFY
THEIR ACM
GREECE PERMITTED GERMAN
SUBMARINE TO VISIT
SALONIKI
EOAUL TO INVITATION
TO ENTER THE COUNTRY AND
PROTECT THEIR OWN
INTERESTS
LONDON, Feb. 1.—The war of
fice today issued a statement to
silence the critics in regard to the
allies occupying part of Greece and
justify their action. The statement
in part says that the occupation by
the allies of the Greek fort Kara
buran anil peninsula was on the in
vitation of Greece in her allowing
the German submarines to use Sal
oniki harbor. That while Greece
did not say as much ,her break of
good faith was considered epual to
an invitation for the alies to take
part of her territory and protect
part of our interests.
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NO CHURCH BELLS
ALLOWED TO RING
UNTIL ZEPPELINS HAVE DONE
THEIR WORK
LONDON, Feb. 1.—The war com
mission issued an order today pro
hibiting the ringing of bells at
nights, churches or others. In the
order is* included te extinguishing
of all lights after six o’clock until
further orders.
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FROM HADLEY ON BUSINESS
N. W. Sweester of the Granby
Consolidated Mining, Smelting and
Power Co. at Hadley arrived in
town late yesterday and returned
to Hadley last night.
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WANTED:—A position as assis
tant teamster. Apply to Mrs. Ryan,
advertising 6t.
AT THE HOTELS
AT THE RE VILLA
Stanley Oaksmith, Hadley; F. E.
Parson, Juneau.
AT THE STEDMAN
Ole Bakke, Hadley; Geo. Dahl,
Sulzer; Ed. Christoferson, Sulzer;
S. A. Plumley, City; G. M. Scott,
Juneau; O. I. Nergaard and wife,
Yes Bay.
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LEAVES FOR BUSINESS TRIP j
—
Mrs. H. V, SStevens left on the
Al-Ki today for Seattle where a
visit of three weeks will be made
with friends and relatives. On
her return Mrs. Stevens will open
up hair dressing parlors in this j
city.
U. S. INSPECTOR
IS INDICTED
IN CONNECTION WITH THE
MEXICAN CIVILIAN
HE KILLED
EL PASO, Feb. 1.-—As a result
of the killing of a Mexican civilian
the other day the United States
customs inspector White, was in
dicted by the grand jury yesterday
on a charge of murder in the first
degree.
The inspector feels confident that
when he is tried, he will be able
to prove that he shot the Mexican
in self defense; although others dif
fer with him in their opinions.
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THREATENED FLOOD
DISTRICT DESERTED
EVERYBODY LEAVING HOMES
FOR SAFETY CAMPS
LITTLE ROCK, Feb. 1.--A safe
ty camp has been established on
a high elevation and temporary
quarters prepared to receive the
large number of inhabitants who
are in fear of a flood throughout
the valley. Five thousand inhab
itants have already left their homes
and are being takencare of at the
.camp.
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NEW BOOKS AT THE PUBLIC
LIBRARY
d at tho Public LibrarypW
A few of the new books which
may be had at the Public Library
by the payment of twenty-five cents
per month and the usual deposit,
ich is refunded when book and
are returned:
Tho Secret of the Reef, Bindlass.
Flying U Ranch Bower.
Chip of the Flying U, Bower
Contrary Mary, Bailey.
The ladder, Curtis.
Toll House—English war time
story, St. Legar.
Confessions of a Clergyman.
The Rim of the Desert, Anderson.
The Night Riders Cullum.
The new books for February are:
The Patrol of the Sundance Trail,
Connor.
Hepsey Burke, Companion toDavid
Harum, Wescott
Saddle Boys in The Rockies,
Capt. J. Carson.
Campfire Girls at Hillside,
Sanderson.
Reference books, Poetry, Classics,
Essays, Histories. Any of the
above books are to be had at
(Your) Library
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GUESTS AT THE DREAM
The Misses Nieta and Mary Mit
chell, Miss Clair Bour, Miss Ruth
Hall, Miss Emma Kent and Mrs
Engstrom who compose tho local
staff of teachers were the compli
mented guests of Manager Ivubley
at last nights’ performanc of the
“Crucible” at tho Dream Theatre,
a Paramount Feature with Mar
guerite Clark in the titlo role.
BRITISH LINER
A WAR PRIZE
WAS GIVEN Ur AS LOST IIUT
WAS CAPTURED BY
GERMANS
20 MEN CAPTURED
ARRIVED AT HAMPTON ROADS
FLYING THE GERMAN
EMBLEM
NEW PORT NEWS, Feb. 1.—The
British liner Appan given up as
lost sometime ago, arrived at Hamp
ton Roads last evenng in charge
■ German crew and flying the Ger
man flag.
The liner and its crew of twenty
men wero captured at sea January
the fifteenth. The Germans claim
it as a war prize, and after the
time expires for the boat to leave,
if it still remains in port, will be
interned.
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REPORT THOUGHT TO
BE MISLEADING
THE DEATHS REPORTED ARE
BELIEVED TO BE DUE
TO ZEPPELINS
NEW YORK, Jan. 1.—A report
from London says that eleven
deaths occured yesterday by lightn
ing in a fearful storm.
It is believed here that the deaths
are due to the Zeppelins that raided
tho country the night before and
that this was withheld by the censor
AVIATOR WOUNDED IN WAR
WILL RE-ENLIST
SEATTLE, Jan. 31.—After serv
ing several months in the French
army as an aviator and getting' his
discharge because of wounds. Fran
cis Do Lackso, a former student of
the University of Michigan, is in
Seattle on his way to Victoria to
again enter into tho service of the
allies.
He had not expected to return to
the front, but he says that a let
ter from France telling of the death
of his mother during the bombard
ment of a French village changed
his plans. He is now anxious to
see service, because he says his
father, mother, two uncles and
ee girl cousins, have been killed
in the war.
I)e Lackso gained much publicity
last summer when he won the prize
offered by the San Francisco ex
position for the most novel method
of crossing the continent. He made
the distance from New York to San
Francisco chained to his bicycle dur
ing tho trip. He will go to Vic
toria today, and this time will en
ter the medical corps.
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At Heckman’s they sell regular
.75 aprons for .45 this week. Adv. Gt.
STRONG STOVE CO.
W. G. STRONG. Manager
Monarch Ranges
Coal and Wood
Cook Stoves
Hot Blast Heaters
Camp Stoves
Heckman Bldg.
Ed. V. Price & Company
CHICAGO U. S, A.
January, 6, 1916.
Mr. P. J. Gilmore,
Ketchikan, Alaska,
Dear Sir:—
" Following the custom pursued by us for many
I years, we wish our old customers, as well as our new
to return any coat made by us during the past sea
| son in which the lining has not given satisfactory
wear or the fronts have not held their shape. We
will be pleased to re-line the garment and put in
new fronts, or if this cannot be done, make a new
>; coat free of charge.
Verj truly yours,
J E. V. PRICE & CO.
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J. E. Ghllburg Pres. .1. R. Heckman Vice-pres. A. R. Larson Cashier j
Miners and Merchants Bank i
Foreign and Domestic Exchange ]
Travelers Checks
Safe Deposit Boxes for Rent
Territorial Depository
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KETCHIKAN, ALASKA
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Hadley Lumber Yard
Correspond with R. L. Petty at Had
ley, Alaska before buying your Lumber.
His prices will save you money. This of
fer will only last a short time.
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1 TONIGHT AT THE HOME OF §
PARAMOUNT FEATURES §
1 5 Reels - HON DAY & TUESDAY = 5 Reels §
| Daniel Frohman g
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ImwGiiemte ajiw” |
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“CRUCIBLE” I
The fascinating, irresistible little actress who g
has but one rival: MARY PICKFORD. 3jf
A Famous Players Production in Five Full Reels. «
A Picture that should not be overlooked by g
any one who appreciates a beautiful Masterpiece, g
Corning:- CHAPLIN, Wednesday; CAMEO, Friday and then g
CINDERELLA, then the MILTON Family and then $[
The GIRL of the GOLDEN WEST. |
They are all the best that can be procured! g
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