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CAPTURE GERMAN RAIDER
AtTIE STUBBORN NT
NEW YORK, Feb. 10.—The German warship
Roon, captor of the British ship Appam, has itself
been captured by a British cruiser after a three
hours’ fight. Two merchantmen were also taken
off the coast of Bermuda. Thirty-two officers and
cne hundred and nineteen men were captured with
the three prizes.
Hamilton Has No News of Capture
HAMILTON, Bermuda, Feb. 10.—No advices
have been received here regarding the capture of
the Roon.
Additional Victims of Moewe
LONDON, Feb. 1 1.—A new list of merchant ves
stls which probably have been victims of the Ger
man raider Moewe contains the names of the Brit
ish steamships Satrap, Tynemouth, Hammersea,
LJenariff; the Spanish steamship Benihure and the
Italian steamship Inizativa.
German and British Wireless Stations in Operation
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—Numerous secret wire
less stations on both coasts of the United States are
being operated by German and British agents, ac
cord rg to information received at the navy and
commerce departments.
British Vessels Destroyed By Zeppelins
BERLIN, Feb. II.— The British cruiser Caroline
was destroyed and the Eden and Nish sunk in the
last Zeppelin raid on England.
XAPTURED SHIP TO BE HELD AS GERMAN PRIZE
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.—President Wilson has
decided to hold the steamship Appam, recently cap
tured and brought to an American port by a German
prize court, to be a German prize, in accordance with 1
the views set forth by the department of state. The
Appam’s passengers have been allowed to land.
Another Armed Passenger Vessel
NEW YORK, Feb. 8.—Another Italian passenger
vessel equipped with guns has arrived here. This
is the fifth such arrival at this port.
Has Been Interned
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—Germany has officially
notified Washington that the Appam has been in
terned under the terms of existing treaties and will
remain indefinitely in American waters.
FROM EUROPE’S CAPITALS
LONDON, Feb. 9.—Heavy fighting has been re
newed in eastern Galicia. It is rumored that the
German offensive is not yet started.
The Austrian and Bulgarian forces have joined in
Albania and now occupy Elbassan. Land has been
purchased for soldiers of the provincial government
to provide for the soldiers during and after the war.
Advices from Kiel tell of a fearful air raid. The
sirens of steamships in the harbor were utilized to
notify the population of the impending danger.
The newspapers express the conviction that the
Germans are planning a new offensive movement on
a large scale against the left wing of the allies.
Far-Reaching War Measures
BERLIN, Feb. 6.—Far-reaching war measures
have been taken in the confiscation of practically all
stocks of clothing, textiles, woven and knitted goods
for the use of the army and navy.
The steamship Koenig Albert, flying the Italian
flag and carrying Servian refugees, has been cap
tured by the Austrians in the Adriatic.
New Outlet to White Sea
PETROGRAD, Feb. 6.—The short line of rail
way between Petrograd and Sorroka has been com
pleted, thus giving another outlet to the ocean be
sides Archangel.
The new premier, Sturmer, has galled the duma
to assemble on February 8.
The Turks have evacuated Erzerum, the principal
stronghold on the Russian front.
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ROUMANIANS RECEIVE GERMAN WARNING
MILAN, Feb. 8.—Vienna and Berlin have notified
Roumania that they will regard the eventual elec
tion of certain candidates for parliament and the
sale of eighty thousand carloads of grain to England
as hostile acts, and that the central powers will take
measures accordingly.
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UNCLE SAM HAS LATEST IN WAR EQUIPMENT
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NEW YORK, Feb. 10.—The United States now
has the most effective torpedo in the world, and also
the latest aeroplane engine. The navy department
- fuses to divulg hov the foreign secrets were ob
tied.
PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS
DESTROYED BY INCENDIARY
OTTAWA, Feb. 6. The Canadian parlia
ment buildings were destroyed by fire last
night. Four men were killed and two
women, and the bodies have been recovered.
Two members of parliament are missing.
The fire spread rapidly, and the belief is
general that it was of incendiary origin.
Montreal sent a fire company and appar
atus to the aid of the local firemen.
Result of a Plot
OTTAWA, Feb. 9.—The Dominion police
have received an anonymous letter, dated
Detroit and postmarked Cleveland, which as
serts that the destruction of the parliament
buildings was the result of a plot.
Accused Man Arrested
WINDSOR, Out., Feb. 7. Charles Strong
was arrested here tonight, upon his arrival
from Ottawa, accused of starting the fire
in the parliament buildings.
Factory Destroyed
OTTAWA. Feb. 7.—Fire of unknown ori
gin destroyed the plant of the Grant-Holden
Graham Company, manufacturers of cloth
ing and haversacks.
ALASKA MURDERER GIVEN
RESPITE OF ONE MONTH
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.--President
Wilson yesterday granted a respite of one
month to Itow, the Japanese murderer
under sentence to be hanged at Juneau,
Alaska, on February 17.
SCIENTIST OF PROMINENCE
ON MISSION TO ALASKA
SEATTLE, Feb. 8 - Dr. Herschel C.
Parker, the “conqueror of Mount McKin
ley,” is eu route to Alaska to stake claims
for Eastern capitalists. He will stay a
year.
Dr. Herschel is a scientist of note, and
is professor of physics at Columbia univer
sity. He is the author of several scien
tific treatises, and has made valuable dis
coveries in the field of scientific research.
In 1906 he headed an expedition which
explored the Mount McKinley region of
Alaska.
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FLOODS THREATENED
SEATTLE, Feb, 8.—A sudden rise in the
temperature, accompanied by warm rains,
has resulted in the quick melting of the
deep snow which has recently covered the
Puget sound region, and the country is
threatened with floods.
Willamette at Flood
PORTLAND. Feb. 8. The Willamette
river has attained a height of eighteen
feet, above low water mark, and the low
lands are flooded.
ADDITIONAL STEAMSHIPS
PUT ON NORTHEN RUN
SEATTLE, Feb. 11 The steamship
Humboldt will resume the run on the
Southeastern Alaska service soon.
The Admiral line has bought in San
Francisco for the Seattle to Anchorage run
the steel steamship Caroline.
ICONTEKTION TO
| BE HELD III APRIL
Republicans Will Meet in Seward
to Nominate Candidate for
Congress and Elect Dele
gates to Chicago
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SEWARD, Feb. 8 - The Republican
territorial committee met here yesterday
and fixed April 19 as the date of the ter
1 ritorial convention, which will be held at
; Seward. The apportionment of delegates
I was made on the basis of sixty to each di
vision.
I The primaries are to be held on March
I 11, and the only qualification required for
I participation is a signed pledge to support
the nominees of the convention.
The territoriel convention will choose I
two delegates to attend the Republican
national convention at Chicago in June.
It is also expected to place in nomination
: a candidate for delegate to congress.
Democrats to Meet in Juneau
The Democratic territorial committee
met at Valdez on January 10 and selected
Juneau as the place for the territorial con
vention, and the date was fixed at May i
24. All the committee was represented
except Martin of Fairbanks.
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GRAND TRUNK COMPANY
PREPARING FOR TOURISTS
SEATTLE, Feb. 10.—The Grand Trunk
Pacific company has entered the Alaska
trade, and will inaugurate a service to
Skagway via Vancouver. The company
I expects an unparalleled tourist trade to
I Alaska this V'ar
DEMOCRATIC SECRETS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9. A telephone
operator at the switchboard in the Capitol
building has been charged with being re
! sponsible for the leakage in connection
| with the proceedings of the Democratic
caucuses.
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NEW STEAMER FOR ALASKA
| SEATTLE, Feb. 8—The Pacific Coast
Steamship Company has bought the steam
ship PavelL for the San Francisco-South
1 eastern Alaska service, to replace the Delhi.
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EARTHQUAKES AT PANAMA
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PANAMA, Feb. 10.—Three shocks of
earthquake were felt in the canal zone
yesterday. The canal w'as unharmed.
SHOT HER SLANDERER
| SHERMAN. Texas, Feb. 8.--Mrs. Annie :
Faust today fatal'y shot Rev. Mr. Cagle,
a Baptist minister. She claimed he had ,
slandered her.
NOTES OF THE WAR
LONDON, Feb. 8.—The British steam
ship Bslgwine has been sunk. Only a por
tion of her crew escaped, nnd but one of
ficer was saved.
COPENHAGEN, Feb. 8. A German
cruiser has been sunk in the Kattegat,
between the island of Anholt and the
Swedish coast. It is supposed that, she
struck a mine. Wireless calls for help
were heard in Denmark, but they pres
ently ceased.
BORDEAUX, Feb. 8.—A bomb has been
found on board the British steamship Han
nibal, Hour laden from New York.
LONDON, Feb. 7.—The British have
seized the steamship Shanghai, with a
cargo of oil and coke.
LONDON, Feb. 8.—The collier Franz
Fircher has been sunk while anchored, by
bombs dropped from a Zeppelin. Thirteen
persons were drowned.
LONDON, Feb. 6.—German shipyards
are turning out orders for neutral coun
tries for delivery after March, and are
bidding on contracts for two Brazilian
cruisers.
BERLIN, Feb. 9.—Great enthusiasm is
being displayed here over the raids of the
German cruiser Loewe, which captured the
Appam.
LONDON. Feb. 7.— Austria has decided
to follow' the German precedent, and per
mit iron currency.
ROME, Feb. 7.—Italy has called to the
colors all men born in 1881.
AMSTERDAM, Feb. 11— Prince Oscar,
son of the German emperor, has received
wounds on the eastern front w’hich, though ]
not serious, will necessitate his quitting
the army.
PARIS, Feb. 11.—Saloniki has been
greatly strengthened by the allies, and
troops and artillery are being landed daily.
CONSCRIPTION NOW IN EFFECT
LONDON, Feb. 6.—King George has
signed a proclamation fixing February 10
as the date when the military service act
will be in force.
WHITMAN FAVORS HUGHES
NEW YORK, Feb. 8.—Governor Whit
man has announced his candidacy for re
election. and takes advantage of the occa
sion to urge the election of Supreme Judge
Charles E. Hughes for President.
Hughes Says No
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—Associate
Supreme Justice Charles E. Hughes is op
posed to the use of his name in connection
with the Republican presidential nomina
tion.
MEXICAN TROOPS MUTINY
LAREDO, Texas, Feb. 10—A mutiny
among the troops of the de facto Mexican
government has caused the closing of the ;
international bridge. Many ^shots have j
been fired.
GERMAN CONSUL GENERAL CHARGER WITH GRIMES
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—German Consul General Franz Bopp has been indicted by the federal
grand jury at San Francisco in connection with the Crowley plots to blow up munitions plants and in
terfere with interstate commerce in various sections of the United States. Thirty-two true bills have
been returned against men of Teutonic connections._____' i
VON PAPEN’S PAPERS
SEIZED BY THE BRITISH
LONDON, Jan. 15.—The papers of Capt.
Von Papen, the former military attache of ;
the German embassy at Washington, were ,
seized by the British authorities yesterday
when the boat carrying Von Papen arrived
at Falmouth. The papers were turned over
to the Mexican ambassador, and show that
just before leaving the United States Von
Papen made payments of money in Seattle
before the dynamite explosion there.
Tremendous Sensation
The reports of the seizure of the papers
are causing a tremendous sensation, as they'
are said to show that high German offi
cials took a direct part in causing the out
rages in different parts of the United States
for the destruction of property. One of the
letters seized is said to show that Mueller,
former German consul at Seattle, made a
payment of money to Werner Horne just
previous to the explosion of the dynamite |
barge at Seattle last spring, and that the j
United States authorities ought to have no
difficulty in showing that this money was
paid for the barge’s destruction. Another
letter found in the papers of Von Papen was
one from Mysenburg, the German consul at
New Orleans, predicting that “a day of reck
oning would come with this country also,”
the day of reckoning presumably to be
brought about by Germany declaring war
against the United States when her struggle
in Europe has been ended.
Germany to Protest
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.—The seizure by j
the British authorities of the papers of Capt. j
Von Papen is declared by the German rep- ;
representatives here to be a violation of in- j
ternational law, as Great Britain had given 1
safe conduct to the recalled attaches, and
interference with their possessions was in
terference with their personal and political
liberties. It is pointed out by members of
the German embassy that had Von Papen
believed he was not free from molestation
he would never have carried anything that
could be construed as incriminating with
him when he touched at a British port.
The London reports regarding the con
tents of the papers have caused a sensa
tion, and it is generally thought that if the
attaches of the embassy can be proven to
have been directly concerned in the outrages
there ought to be no trouble to prove that
the ambassador hmiself had a direct hand
in the matter. Confirmation of the news is
awaited anxiously.
ESCAPED GERMAN SAILORS
CHARGED WITH OUTRAGES
WILMINGTON, Del., Jan. 15.—A new
sensation has been caused by the arrest of
four German sailors who were interned on
German cruisers at Norfolk, and who
escaped, but who were discovered working in
the Dupont powder mills, which were re
cently blown up.
Two of the four escaped sailors were work- j
ing in the mill that was blown up here and
two were working in the mill of the same
comyany that was blown up at Hagley. It
is, therefore, believed that all the German
sailors who escaped from internment went
to work in munition factories of all kinds, '
and for the single purpose of destroying
them. A careful search is being made by
the authorities through all the Dupont mills
for more of the escaped men. It is assumed
by officials that when the men rap away
from their interned ships and went to work
in the factories to cause the explosions they
did to at the direction of their superiors,
and it is hinted that these may have been
given from Berlin.
PRECAUTIONS BEING TAKEN
TO SAFEGUARD CRUISER
NEW YORK, Feb. 8.—Extra police have
been stationed at the Brooklyn and Man
hattan bridges at the request of Admiral
Usher, for the purpose of safeguarding the
nassage under the structures of the cruiser
Washington on its arrival from Haiti.
ITALIAN CONSUL IMPERILED
MILWAUKEE, Feb. 8.—Ormina Conte,
the Italian consular agent stationed here,
was imperiled today by the explosion of a
bomb at his door. He escaped unhurt. A
second bomb was found.
INVESTIGATION BEGUN
BOSTON, Feb. 10.—An investigation
has been begun in this city by federal of
ficers into an alleged conspiracy of German
sympathizers to harass the Canadian cities.
ANOTHER POWDER MILL GONE
SEATTLE, Feb. 8.-—An explosion in the
Dupont powder works, near this city, killed
three persons. The cause is unknown.
WILMINGTON, Del., Feb. 6— A mys
terious airship has been seen over the Du
pont powder works, near this city.
SECRETARY GARRISON
RESIGNS FROM CABINET
WASHINGTON. Feb. 1 I .—Secretary of War
Lindley M. Garrison yesterday tendered his resigna
tion as a member of the cabinet, and it was immedi
ately accepted by President Wilson. Failure to re
ceive the unequivocal support of the President for
the continued plan of army extension was given as
a reason for the resignation.
Assistant Secretary Breckinridge also resigned as
a mark of loyalty to his chief, whose views he
shared.
No successor to Mr. Garrison has yet been ap
pointed. Major General Hugh L. Scott automati
cally becomes secretary ad interim. He is now chief
of staff. Congressman Sperley, chairman of the
house committee on military affairs; Secretary of
the Interior Franklin K. Lane and Assistant Secre
tary of the Navy Roosevelt are mentioned as possi
ble appointees.
ALASKA BILLS 1 CONGRESS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—Delegate Wickersham
of Alaska has introduced a bill permitting the city
of Juneau, Alaska, to hold an election to vote school
bonds, and also a bill appropriating $100,000 to
dredge Nome harbor.
Ottawa Fire Subject of Resolution
Senator Thomas today introduced a resolution
in which the destruction of the parliament buildings
at Ottawa was declared to have been the work of
incendiaries, and denouncing the perpetrators.
Looking Into Brandeis’ Record
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.-—A senate committee has
begun an investigation of the record of Louis D.
Brandeis, appointed by the President last week to
the vacancy on the supreme court bench caused by
the death of Justice Lamar. The committee re
quested several days’ further time for consideration
of the appointment.
Wilson’s Speeches to Be Printed
The house of representatives today voted to order
the printing of President Wilson’s recent speeches
on “preparedness” as a public document.
Champ dark Is in Line
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.—Speaker Clark yester
day spoke in the house in behalf of an adequate de
fense bill, and urged the house to pass the bill to
authorize the immediate use of half a million dollars
for the purpose of equipping the Mare Island navy
yard to begin the building of dreadnaughts.
To Buck the Steel Trust
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—The senate committee
on naval affairs has reported favorably a bill appro
priating $11,000,000 for the purpose of building
and equipping a government armor plate plant.
For Relief of Armenians
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—-The senate yesterday
adopted a resolution proposed by Senator Lodge,
requesting President Wilson to set a date on which
the American public would be asked to contribute to
the relief of the Armenians. During the discussion
Senator Stone resented the reading of newspaper
clippings by Senator Borah.
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TO RETAIN FRIENDSHIP OF UNITED STATES
LONDON, Feb. 9.—The Manchester Guardian,
one of the most influential newspapers in Great Brit
ain, editorially suggests that former Ambassador
Bryce and Lord Balfour be sent to the United States
to attempt to settle the differences with reference to
the British blockade. The statement is made that
Great Britain is anxious to retain the friendship of
the United States.
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GERMAN COLONIAL TROOPS ARE INTERNED
MADRID, Feb. 8.—The German colonial troops
from Kamerun have crossed the border into Spanish
Guinea, where they have been disarmed and in
terned. The incident indicates that the campaign
in Kamerun is closing.
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RUSSIA PLANNING TO BORROW FROM JAPAN
LONDON, Feb. 7.—The Russian government is
planning to float a loan of $25,000,000 in Tokio for
the payment of indebtedness incurred in the pur
chase of war munitions.
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BIG LINER TO BE USED AS HOSPITAL SHIP
LIVERPOOL, Feb. 10.—The White Star liner
Britannic, just launched, has been taken by the gov
ernment as a hospital ship,