HEAVY ME
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California Towns Hard Hit by Tremb
lor—One iWson Killed bn Los
Angeles—Structures Tumble
HEMET, California, April 22.—An
earthquake shock which occurred
here Saturday afternoon at 3:30 did
thousands of dollars worth of dam
age to buildings and caused persons
to rush in terror to the streets. The
shock which lasted several minutes
was so violent that every brick build
ing in town was destroyed.
Hemet is a town of about 1000
population in Riverside county, south
ern California, southeast of Los An
geles about 100 miles.
Los Angeles Shaken
LOS ANGELES, April 22:—A gen
eral earthquake shock which struck
the southern part of California Sat
urday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock caus
ed the death of one person, broke all
the large plate glass windows in town
and shook down the cornices from
ten buildings. People rushed into the
streets fearing that their homes would
fall, and for a time a general alarm
was given.
Valdez. Keels Quake
The earthquake which struck
Southern California Saturday after
noon struck Valdez about 5:30, and
started with several short vibrations
followed by a heavy shock, and dying
away with numerous tremors. Clocks
in town were stopped and lights sway
ed back and forth for some minutes.
SEATTLE, April 32. —The seismo-:
graph at the University here tailed to|
register the earthquake shocks Sat
urday afternoon, showing that they]
were local subsidences of the earth j
and not a general shock as at first j
reported. Various points in Alaska re-j
port heavy shocks, but they are be
lieved to have also been local dis-j
turbances.
More Shocks Kelt
SAN JACINTO, Calif.. April 20.—
Two more heavy earthquake shocks
occurred at Hemet and San Jacinto
at 9:07 and 9:14 o'clock this morn
ing. The earth movements were more
pronounced at Hemet than here.
Loose bricks and tottering walls fell,
adding to the general ruin in the bus
iness district.
BITTER FIGHT
OVERNEW BILL
Senator Chamberlain's Measure to
Give Military Authorities Right
to Try Cases Held Up
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 22.—
An intensely bitter fight is impend
ing in congress over Senator Cham
berlain’s bill to give the military au
thorities control of the trial and pun
ishment of spies of propagandists.
DAILY KISH BULLETIN
KETCHIKAN, April 22.—Ketchi
kan prices at Noon Saturday, April
twentieth. Halibut, firsts, thirteen
cents; halibut, seconds, nine and three
quarters; sable fish, four cents; red
rock two cents.
TOLL GATES TAKEN
FROM YORK ROAD
PHILADELPHIA: An interesting
piece of news for the motorists of the
country is the announcement by the
highway department of Pennsylvania
that the historic Old York road, from
Philadelphia to New York, has been
freed of gate tolls.
The road was dotted with numerous
toll gates which in recent years had
bcome a source of vexation and delay
to motorists desirous of making the
journey to and from New York quick
ly- _ _
THIRTY-FIVE FOR VALDEZ
Thirty-five passengers sailed ori the
steamship Admiral Watson for Val
des yfitted toiy- The larger part of them
were employes for the Valdes Kick
GOVERNOR RIGGS ARRIVES
IN SEATLE LAST NIGHT
SEATTLE, April 22.—Governor of
Alaska Thomas Riggs and Mrs. Riggs
arrived in Seattle last night on thei
way to Juneau. They were given a re
ception and dinner today by the Al
aska Bureau of the Chamber of Com
merce and the Arctic Club. Governor
ftiggB stated that he would work for
the best Interests of the territory and
would stand squarely behind Delegate
Sulzer.
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JHffi DAYS
8800 Steep Ship Kuilt in Record Time
by Skinner & Eddy Shipyard
in Seattle
SEATTLE, April 22.—The Skinner
& Eddy shipyard of this city launch
ed the 8800 ton ship West Lianga,
built for the United States Shipping
Board Saturday. The vessel was sent
into the water 55 days from date of
laying the keel, a new world’s record
in ship construction.
Enemy Makes Attempt to Push thru
British Lines Near Ypres hut are
Quickly Checked
LONDON, Apr. 22.—British troops
near Robecq, northwest of B't'.-nw,
to, yesterday drove out the Germans
from their advanced positions. The
German troops last night made a des
perate attempt to push their way thru
tlie British lines northeast of Ypres.
hut were stopped by the concentrated
lire of British artillery.
PITCHER ALEXANDER
DILUTED IN ARMY
ST. I'At’L: Grover Cleveland Alex
ander. pitcher of the Chicago Nation
al baseball team, was drafted here to
day. Alexander's home is in St. l'aul.
Nebraska, lie did net claim exemp
tion.
The drafting of Grover Cleveland
Alexander costs Charles Weeghman.
president of the Chicago Nationals,
$.".0,000. Weeghman just bought Alex
ander and Catcher Nillifer from the
Philadelphia Nationals for a consid
eration of more than $60,000.
The deal was one of the biggest in
the history of baseball.
COUNTESS MAZZUCHI
Otunteee M touch I Id the wife of tho
Itilfiii eiheul tendril At ftehr*. She
hoe been active In hoeplUI work elr i
tho battle bf the Manto,
throe other women oho
wounded Poilue during the
ment of Rejme, When . Italy
tho war ehe returned te her
country to do relief work thoroi
IRELAND UNITEO
ONCnMN
Will Resist British Man Power Bill
to the Uttermost—Situation
is Menacing
LONDON, April 22.—A grave and
menacing condition exists in the rela
tions between Breat Britain and Ire
land, on account of the united stand
taken by the Nationalists against the
conscription bill recently passed by
the British parliament. Ireland is
united to resist the draft as never be
fore and the situation is arousing
deep concern among British states
men.
Australia and Canada were allow
ed to vote on conscription while it was
forced upon Ireland without the con
sent of her people being asked, and
the resentment displayed by her peo
ple is causing uneasiness.
FARRAGl/T HAILS NORTH
SEATTLE, April 22.—The steam
ship Admiral Farragut sailed for Val
dez yesterday mor. ing at 11 o'clock
with a total of 264 passengers aboard.
Her passengers for Valdez were A. D.
Thompson, J. M. Scheuber, Mrs. M.
King. Grant H. Remington, three
Chinese foremen and twenty-five em
ployes for the Valdez Packing Com
pany.
WHITER ESTIMATES GERMAN
LOSS AT FIVE MILLION
PARIS. April 22.—Karl Blesetreu.
a German military writer and corres
pondent for the “New European.” de
clares in a signed article today that
5.000,000 Germans have been killed
or died of their wounds and made
prisoners since the outbreak of the
war.
RAIN IN INTERIOR
The operator at Salcha reports that
it rained all last night at that place,
and that the trail is quite soft. At
Donnelly the trail is bare in many
places and a south wind blowing at
oihers. Fairbanks reports 40 above,
cloudy, calm.
NAVAL VESSELS
HAVE CLASH
’ British ami German Light Vessels!
Meet Near Heligoland and For
mer are Victors
LONDON. April 22.—British and
German light armored vessels clash
ed Saturday In the waters east of Hel
igoland, and after the exchange of a
few shots the German vessels took
refuge behind their mine fields near
the entrance to the canal. One enemy
destroyer was observed to be damag
ed. The British returned to their base
without casualties.
WINDMULLER GETS
FOUR MONTHS IN .TAIL
Dick Windmuller, proprietor of the
Poplar Grove Roadhouse was tried to
day before Commissioner Medley at
Cordova on the charge of sedition,
and received a sentence of four
months in the federal jail. He will
come up to Valdez on the next boat
to serve out his sentence.
Windmuller is alleged to have at
tempted to dissuade a young man,
who was coming out over the trail to
enlist in the army, to refrain from so
doing. The young paan reported the
matter to the officials and the mar
shal’s office here wired a warrant to
Marshal Erwin, of Fairbanks, who
was On his way out with a number of
prisoners. Marshal Erwin arrested
Windmuller and took him to Cordova,
Where he was tried before a jury. The
jury returned a verdict of guilty but
recOiihihended clemency.
Windmuller is an old-timer in this
section, having formerly resided in
Valdes, and waa One of the pioneer
miners In 4he Vttrfe* Creek diggings.
For a number of yiars past be has
run the Poplar Grove roadhouse, on
the Valdes-Falrbanks road between
Sourdough and Hogan.
LAY DOWN ARMS
Secretary Daniels Says War WtU be
Kept up Until Menace to World
Is Removed
BOSTON, April 22.—In a speech
at the exercises commemorating the
battle of Concord and Lexington Fri
day night Secretary of the Navy Jose
phus Daniels said.
“The forces of the allies have suf
fered not a few reverses but these
temporary successes, no matter how
great they may be, do not mean that
the enemy will win In the end. It is
his last desperate stroke. Americans
and the nations In co-operation with
them will never lay down their arms
until tills menace to the world is re
moved."
GERMAN BARRED FROM
SPOKANE’S PUBLIC SCHOOLS
SPOKANE: The board of education
of this city tonight voted unanimous
ly to abolish the teaching of the Ger
man language in the public schools
here. No more German classes will he
held, it was ordered, after the com
pletion of the present semester's
work next June.
GERMANY ORDERS
CRIPPLES IN ARMY
NEW YORK: Germany is so haril
pressed for men that permanently
disabled soldiers are retained in the
army and cripples have been called
to the colors, said Deputy Rysel, in
dependent socialist, in an address in
the reichstag February 23, according
to a copy of the Berlin Vorwaerts,
which has just reached New York.
Strikers, the paper says, were put
into the army as a punishment.
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('apt. A. E. Lathrop was a thru pas
senger to Cordova on the steamship
Alaska Saturday night from Anchor
age. ('apt. Lathrop states that busi
ness is good-in Anchorage and looks
for a lively summer in the railroad
town.
(iailis made near Villleres, Breton
neux and AU>ert on the Somme
Front and ut Robecq
LONDON, April 22.—British forces
advanced their lines slightly last night
on both battlefronts. Gains were made
near Villieres, Bretonneaux and Al
bert ont he Somme front and at Ro
becq at the top of the Flanders sal
ient. The enemy has been checked at
all points and is giving ground slow
ly before allied counter attacks.
SEATTLE MEN
ANEJKORATED
Lieut. Albert Smith and Private 1M
wurd llickel Receive the Cross
of War for Bravery
PARIS, April 22.—Lieut. Albert
Smith .and Private Edward Bickel,
graduates of the University of Wash
ington, Seattle, U. S. A., were decor
ated with the crosB de guerre today.
They spent nine days carrying wound
ed under a heavy shell fire to places
of safety.
GERMANS tin CATHEDRAL
AT AfttiENS Thrice
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LONDON, April 22—The bombard-!
men! at AmfOhs has Mini renewed |
heavily, according to * dttjtetch today
from the British front Three add!-:
tlonal shells have struck the city’*1
famous cathedral. . J
ALL ALIEN ENEMY WOMEN
MINT NOW REGISTER
WASHINGTON. D. C., April 22.—
President Wilson today issued a proc
lamation requiring the registration of
all women enemy aliens of Austrian.
Hungarian or German birth.
H. J. Harvey has sold his launch
“Minnie'’ to Dan Ross and “Buck"
Hoyt, who will use It in going to and
from their fox ranch at Olson Isl
and.
ALLIES IMS
British and French Troo|M landed on
I
Korean Peninsula in Arctic to
Protect Railway
MOSCOW. April 22.—British and
French troops have been landed at
Mourmansk, on the northeastern
coast of the Korean peninsula, in the
Arctic Ocean to reinforce a British de
tachment sent ashore several weeks
ago.
The allied troops,are co-operating
with the Bolshevik! forces in protect
ing the Mourman coast against at
tacks by the Finnish white guard.
PRESIDENT RIDES
BRITISH TANK
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Severely Iturns Hand oil Exhaust Pipe
Which will Keep him from Play
ing Golf for Month
WASHINGTON, D. C„ April 20.—
President Wilson rode thru the White
House grounds today in a British
tank. He burned his hand severely
on an exhaust pipe while trying to go
over the top. The burn is so severe I
that it will keep hint from playing!
golf for a month.
THREE TllOi SAM) WILL ItF
EMPLOYED AT ANCHORAGE
WASHINGTON. 1). ('.. April 22.
it is estimated Unit there will he iBMiOj
persons employ id at Anchorage this
summer on the construction of the'
Alaska railroad.
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U.S. TROOPS
ME HONS
1200 Picked Troops Storm American
Lines bat are Driven Back After
Desperate Fighting
AMERICAN ARMY, April 22.—
Twelve hundred German storm troops,
the largest body of the enemy yet
launched against the American lines,
wero hurled against the American po
sitions Saturday afternoon, a mile
west of the front In West Rennas For
est northwest of Toul.
A terrific bombardment of gas and
high explosives preceded the assault.
The enemy succeeded In penetrating
the front line trenches taking the vil
lage of Seicheprey, but after furious
hand to hand fighting the Americans
recaptured the village.
Germans Claim Prisoners
BERLIN, April 22.—An official re
port from headquarters today states
that 18B American prisoners and 25
machine guns were taken by German
storm troops who advanced to a depth
of two kilometers into the American
lines at Seicheprey. The Americans
sustained heavy losses.
Fight Tliruout Niglit
['AltIS. April :2.- The French
lines nortii of Seicheprey, where the
Germans i1 ancurated a heavy attack
against the French and American
troops yesterday have keen complete
ly ic-esfai>!i. In d. Fighting continued
throughout the niirht int lie vicinity
of Seicheprey. nortliwest of Toul.
where the Germans launched a heavy
attack against the Americans Satur
day. The allied lines are holding firm
despite the desperate attempts of
picked troops to break thru.
PARIS. April 22.—A number of
German prisoners and several ma
chine guns were captured by the
French and Americans yesterday at
the Toul front.
Huge Itodios of Troops Concentrate
for Another Mighty Thrust at
Amiens—Rattle I in pending
BRITISH ARMY. France. April 22.
—Concentration of huge bodies of
troops in the northern zone and south
of the Somme river indicate trouble
brewing, and that the enemy is pre
paring for another mighty thrust for
Amiens. The Germans are nursing
their hurts in the region of the Le
bassee canal.
ON IM BATTLE
While American Casualties are Heavi
est to Hate They made 500 Good
Germans iu Fight
WASHINGTON, D. April 22.—
General Pershing ia his report today
on the battle at Selcheprey in the
Toul sector states that the American
and French troops suffered the heavi
est losses in the fighting to date. He
states, however, that the Americans
estimate the German casualties at
600, which is double their own.
Jim Reilly was an outgoing passen
ger on the Alaska.
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