GERMANS RAID
BB TOWNS
AIRPLANES BOMBARD DOVER
AND YORKSHIRE COAST
Two Raiding Machines Brot Down by
British Planes—Many Bombs Dro|»
ped on Sleeping Towns—8 Killed
and Scores are Wounded.
LONDON, Aug. 23.—Reports from
Dover tell of an airship raid by the
German during the night in which
three people lost their lives and
several were injured. Many bombs
were dropped upon the sleeping town
causing the people to rush from their
homes to the bomb proof cellars. Dur
ing the night they also caused much
consternation and fear among the
Yorkshire coast but no casualties
were reported there. Light damage
was however inflicted upon the prop
erty. Two of the raiding machines
were brought down by planes which
were sent up in their pursuit. The
enemy has made many successful
raids this year along the English
coast, although no extensive damage
has been reported.
SCORE OF BRITISH
VESSELS ARE TORPEDOED
LONDON, Aug. 23.—Twenty Brit
ish vessels were torpedoed by subma
rines during the week ending last
night.
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING,
OIL THREATENS TOWN
DRUMRIGHT, Okla., Aug. 23.—
Several houses were destroyed and
2,000 people temporarily driven from
their homes here today, when a 55,
000- barrel oil tank on the outskirts
of the town was fired by a stroke of
lightning.
The flaming contents of the tanlc
poured in a torrent through part of
the residence section. Buildings were
set on fire and the whole town cloud
'ed in smoke.
Three other tanks in the Oilion
field near here also were destroyed
^ by lightning, involving a loss of
nearly $500,000.
ADMIRAL FARRAGUT SAILS
FOR VALDEZ TODAY
SEATTLE, Aug. 23.—The steam
ship Admiral Farragut sailed this
morning at 10 o’clock for Valdez and
way ports, with J. Ray Millard the
only pasenger for this city.
BOV BURGLAR SENT
TO REFORM SCHOOL
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 23.—Er
win Hertig, 16-year-old candymaker,
was committed to the Preston Re
form School from the Juvenile Court
for entering the home of Mrs. L.
Smith, 7 Hollis street, near midnight
July 4 with the intent to commit bur
glary.
* Mrs. Smith was awakened by the
Intruder and her inquiry as to “who’s
there’ was answered by a shot Lom
the youth’s revolver.
The boy was taken into custody
later in the evening after he had been
identified by Mrs. Smith.
HAWAIIAN'S TO ERECT
JACK LONDON STATUE
SANTA ROSA, Aug." 23.—Word
has been received that the Hawaiian
Islanders, among whom Jack London
lived for a long time while securing
material for some of his books, have
decided to erect a bronze monument
in his memory, and that the exer
cises in connection therewith will
take place on Pan-Pacific Day, in
September, at Waikiki.
* CITIZEN’S MEETING
A citizen’s meeting will be held at
the City Hall Thursday night at 8
p’clock for the purpose of discussing
the proposition of bonding the city to
erect a new school building. All tax
payers, citizens and parents with chil
dren are especially urged to attend.
are Invited. This Is a subject
which should Interest everyone In
town and If fou have any arguments
for or against the subject you should
attend.
t( By ORDER COMMITTEE
HIGHLANDERS GET ROUSING WELCOME IN U S.
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The peaceable Invasion of America by the Canadian Highlanders, 200 strong, will be remembered for some time
to come, for these Scots captured Boston and New York. Thev have !>een recruiting in this country
TWENTY-NINE OF CREW
ARE STILL MISSING
Marshal's Office Here Receives Tele
gram From Westward That Jap
Steamer Goes on Rocks on Rat Isl
and Group.
The United States marshal’s office
today received word that the Japan
ese steamer Kotohira Maru had been
wrecked on Amchitka island and that
twenty-nine of her crew were still
missing. The revenue cutter Unalga
is crusing in th6 vicinity of the island
endeavoring to find trace of the miss
ing men. Twenty of the crew are com
ing to Seward on the Santa Ana,
which left Unalaska August 22,
There are several steamers of this
name in Lloyds’, ranging from 161
tons to 4367. It was not stated in the
dispatch which boat was wrecked, but
fromt he size of her crew it is believ
ed to be one of the larger ones.
LABOR UNIONISTS HEM AND
RELEASE OF I. W. W.’S
SPOKANE, Aug. 23—The Spokane
Labor-Oouncil today issued a heated
statement demanding the immediate
release of the I. W. W.’s now being
held under arrest there. These mem
bers of the Industrial Workers were
holding a meeting in their hall and
were arrested by a number of soldiers
of the Oregon National Guard. The
Labor Council is also asking for the
removal of Governor Lister.
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Photo by American Press Association.
Captain Harry MoL. P. Huso.
COURT PLASTER PROBE
PAILS TO SHOW GERMS
LAWRENCE, Aug. 23. — Tests
made in the University of Kansas
bacteriology laboratories of samples
of court plaster thought to have been
innoculated with tetanus germs have
failed to reveal any such bacteria, it
was announced here today.
The apprehension that court plas
ter which was vended by a peddler
in Modesto had been innoculated with
disease-infectives was dissipated yes
terday by the bureau of communica
ble diseases of the University of Cal
ifornia when a chemical analysis of
the plaster failed to reveal poison
germs.
HUGE CONTRACTS
FOR VESSELS
SEATTLE FIRM WILL
BUILD FORTY-SEVEN
Shipyards May be Established Near
Vancouver on the l<'raser River in
British Columbia, to he Near the
Timber Supply.
SEATTLE, Aug. 23.—Skinner &
Eddy, local shipbuilders with yards
in this city are~H^urin&_gn a thirty
million dollar contract for the con
struction of forty-seven wooden ves
sels fort he French government, the
ships to be 2600 tons each.
It is stated by representatives of
the firm that there is a likelihood of
the vessels being built at a point on
the Fraser river near Vancouver,
where a plentiful supply of suitable
timber is available.
REDFIELD MAKES REPLY
TO MAN OF PEACE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 23.—
Secretary of Commerce, William Cox
Redfleld, today wrote a scathing let
ter to a pacifist in which he character
ized Germany as a desperado nation
and also added the following state
ment; “and this is the time you cun
ningly left your voice in behalf of
autocracy.” Secretary Redfleld is
working strenuously to build up the
army and is endorsing a plan to en
roll women in the Aviation Reserve
Corps.
DEPENDENT CLAIMS ^
ARE TOO NUMEROUS
WASHIf^pTON, Aug. 23.—Whole
sale claims for exemption from the
army draft reported from many sec
tions, caused Provost Marshal Gen
eral Crowder to telegraph the govern
ors of the states last night directing
that local boards “reduce discharges
for dependency to a far more restrict
ed class and to very necessitous and'
clearly defined circumstances.”
In some districts as high as 80 per
cent of the registrants called for ex
amination are filing claims for dis
charge on the ground of dependent
relatives. Such a condition Indicates,
General Crowder said, that unfair ad
vantage is being taken of the regula
tions designed to protect men who
properly should be exempted from the
military service and actually threat
ens to interfere seriously with the
raising of the national army.
SAYS RICH MEN
ESCAPE TAXES
SKNATOR LEWIS SUPPORTS
THE GEARY AMENDMENT
Government Itefrauded of $300,000.
OOO Dollars Annually l>y False Re
turns in Income—Amendment lias
Iteen Tentatively Adopted.
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WASHINGTON. D. C., Aug. 23.—
Senator James Hamilton Lewis today
made a stirring speech in support of
the Geary amendment to raise funds
for war purposes, and which would
add forty millions by increasing the
sur-taxes. Senator Lewis charged that
rich men had defrauded the govern
ment of three hundred million dol
lars per annum by perjury and trick
ery In the matter of income tax re
turns.
It is stated that the amendment
had been tentatively adopted.
MANY DRAFT CASKS
MAY BK RK-OPKNKD
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 23.—
I’rovost Marshal General Crowder
laid additional stress today on his
statement to the local boards that it
might become necessary to narrow
the exemptions to married men and
others with dependent relatives. The
draft law did not exclude any such
from military service hut merely au
thorized the President to grant such
discharges where circumstances made
it appear advisable.
The effect of General Crowder's
condition to local boards is to make
possible a reopening of every case
where a registered man has already
been held discharged by reason of
those dependent upon him.
PROFKSHOR JAILKD;
DEFIES DRAFT LAW
SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 23.—Guy
H. Broughton, formerly assistant pro
fessor of chemistry at the University
of California, who was arrested lu
Berkely last Monday for refusing to
submit to his call in the selective
draft, continued defiant when ar
raigned before United States Com
missioner Francis Krull.
“If every citizen took your view
against the law and organized gov
ernment,” said Commissioner Krull,
“There would be chaos in the coun
try.”
“Some laws are so vicious,” was
Broughton's rejoinder, "that a little
chaos is the only way to get them
out of the way.” He announced he
intended to atack the constitutional
ity of the draft law and would persist
in his refusal to submit to physical
examination.
He was held for further evamina
tion on $500 bail. Unable to provide
the amount, Broughton was sent to
jail.
MARIPOSA SAILS FOR
SOUTHWESTERN ALASKA
SEATTLE, Aug. 23.—The steam
ship Mariposa sailed this afternoon
at 1 o’clock for Valdez. Her only pas
senger for Valdez was Mrs. M. Rich
ards. Ten round trip passengers are
aboard.
STEAMERS WILL NOT
BE TAKEN OFF RUN
SEATTLE, Aug. 23.—Capt. James
S. Gibson, a prominent Seattleite and
chairman of the committee of the As
sociated Chambers of Commerce of
the Pacific Coast, who was recently
sent to Washington In the Interests
of Coast shipping has made his re
port. He says that there Is no danger
that any vessel In the Alaska service
will be commandeerer, and that Can
adian vessels will be kept out of the
Alaska coast trade.
MAYOR GILL DODGES
COMMITTEE OF VETERANS
SEATTLE. Aug. 23—Mayor Hiram
Gill today when learned that a com
mittee of Spanish War Veterans was
about to call upon him to demand
that he suppress anarchistic meetings
and seditious utterances, stole away
and went fishing.
WAR SECRETARY'S WIFE
LEADS ECONOMY PLAN
WA.-MIN1TOW D C.. Aug 23.
Mrs. Newton I). Baker, wife of the
Secretary of War is leading the Wash
ington women in a campaign for dis
counts in return for parcels carried
home by the purchaser. Mrs. Baker
and women of the council of defense
and suffrage organizations insist that
they as well as the merchants should
have a share in the fruits of their
economy.
MEET DEATH
TAKEN PRISONERS BY Sl'B
SUNK BY FRENCH PATROL
Survivors State That After American
Captain and Gunners had been tak
en Prisoners on Submarine Latter
Is Sunk by French Vessel.
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AN ATLANTIC PORT, Aug. 23.—
Captain Albert Oliver of the steamer
Campania, and the United States
gunners taken prisoner after the
Campania had been sunk by the Ger
man submarine U-2, went to their
death with their captors, when the
submarine on which they had been
forced to embark was sunk by a
French warship, according to a story
brought by the survivors of the Cam
pania. who landed here today.
Shortly after sinking the Campan
ia and taking the prisoners aboard
the U-boat fell a prey to a French
patrol boat within a short time after
sinking the compania.
STIRRED UP GERMANY.
Matthias Erzberger’s Speech In
Reichstag 8tarted Peace Crieie.
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Herr Ersberger is one of the leaders
Sf the Catholic or Center party in Ger
many. His sensational speech before
the main committee of the German
celchstag brought to a head the peace
term crisis. It is said Ersberger made
the statements after long conferences
With thQ young Austrian ruler, Em
peror Charles, at Vienna.
HEARST RUNS
NEWSPAPER MAGNATE SEEKS
HONORS IN NEW YORK
Has the Su|t|M»rt of (lie Pro-German
Element ami the Tammany Or
Ganlzation—Was Formerly Mayor
of tlie City.
NEW YORK. Aug. 23.—William
Randolph Hearst has filed petitions
which designate him as a candidate
for the nomination of Mayor on the
Democratic platform. Hearst will be
a strong candidate. He is a character
of prominence in New York politics
and in the last municipal election
Tammany strove eagerly for his sup
port because of his power with the
pro-German voters. Undoubtedly the
mayorality struggle will be one of the
keenest ever pulled off in New York.
4,323.307 WAR TOLL
OF GERMANY’S DEAD
LONDON, Aug. 23.—The German
casualties reported in the German of
ficial list are given out by the war of
fice here as follows:
Killed or died of wounds, 1.032,
800. Died of sickness. 72,960. Prison
ers and missing 591.966. Wounded,
2.825,581.
The naval and colonial casualties
are not included..
NEWSBOY IS SHOT
IN SALOON BRAWL
SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 23 —Wil
liam Little, a newsboy, was treated at
the Central Emergency Hospital ear
ly yesterday morning for a gunshot
wound in his left thigh, suffered when
saloon while Badioca was engaged in
boy. In a saloon at the southwest cor
ner of Sixteenth and Valencia streets.
According to Little, he entered the
saloon while Babioca was engaged in
a fight with unknown persons. He
received a bullet Intended for Ba
dioca’s enemies.
Badioca is charged with assault te
commit murder.
MANY KILLED IN
RIOTS IN SPAIN
PARIS, Aug. 23.—Two dispatches
from Madrid received here today
state that as a result of yesterday’s
rioting in Balboa. Barcelona and Ma
drid, and a few smaller towns, five
hundred people were killed and many
injured. The people are trying to put
the king from his throne and dis
patches received yesterday state that
a republic has been proclaimed at
Balboa. An iron censorship has been
established in Spain and many news
papers been suppressed.
Jews Are Ix>yal
NEW YORK. Aug. 23.—The
American Alliance for Labor and
Democracy has sent out invitations to
more than 100 prominent Jews in
Pennsylvania. New Jersey. Rhode Isl
and and New York state to attend a
meeting here on Monday at which
plans will be discussed to counteract
the influence of anti-conscription or
ganizations throughout the United
States. The alliance, according to the
secretary. Robert Maisel. will work
in co-operation with the American
Federation of Labor.
MRS. WILLIAM KRAMF.R
ELECTED SCHOOL TREASURER
A total of one hundred and forty
three votes were cast at the school
election yesterday, but little interest
being manifested by the voters. Wal
ter Elliot received 12 votes and Mrs.
William Kramer 123 votes. Mr. El
liott was the regular candidate on the
ticket, but the ladies hustled out to
the polls in great numbers, casting
their ballots for Mrs. Kramer, whose
name was written on the ballots after
the polls were opened.
For a time previous to the election
it was believed that there could be
no election, as It was impossible to
secure the consent of any person to
place their name on the ballot, but
Mr. Elliot consented to be the victim.
The newly elected member of the
school board Is a woman with larg»
experience In school matters and with,
make a very capable officer. ,