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MUCKIER
DESCRIBE! WRECK
Hays There Was no Excitement on
Board Steamship Mariposa, and
! Crew Helped Passengers
James Fish, who left Valdez on the
steamer Mariposa, and was a passen
ger for the States at the time that ves
sel was wrecked on Strait Island reef,
writes to relatives in this city, giving
a graphic account of the experience
of the Valdez passengers. His story
follows:
At 6:30 on the morning of Novem
ber 18th the Alaska Steamship com
pany’s ship Mariposa struck a reef oft
Strait Island and Sumner Straits,
Southeastern Alaska and sent out her,
last S. O. S. at 9:30 the same night.
The vessel had left Shakan cannery
two hours before and was en route to
Ketchikan loaded with 263 passen
gers, 1350 tons of ore and 4000 cases
of salmon.. The shock was something
terrific and felt as though the entire
hip was crushed like an egg shell.
The rapid ringing of the ship’s bell
and the cry of the crew on watch for
"everybody on deck and the order
to “lower away the life boats” indi
cated to everyone aboard the serious
r.ess of the situation.
But there was no panic, everyone
cot dressed as quickly as possible,
donned their life preservers, and
walked the decks awaiting develop
ments. The night was thick and dark
and the rain fell In torrents, but the
light on Strait Island was plainly vis
ible from the port side and did not
lo6k very far distant.
While the boats were being lowered
everyone was on a nervous tension
as the ship settled first on one side
then oh the other The wireless op~
erator “got busy” immediately after
the shock and very soon the word was
passed that the "Curaco” had an
swered the call and would reach the
scene by 2 o’clock and thatthe Ra
villo” would also reach the wreck
about the same time.
The boats having all been lowered
the women and children were all load
td into them, during a drenching
rain, but after being safely in the
boats they were ordered to return to
the ships for breakfast.
After breakfast all the passengers
were again put into the boats and
rowed to Strait Island, one half mile
distant. The landing was made with
out difficulty and the old sourdoughs
got busy making camp, building fires
and putting up canvas to protect the
women from the heavy rain. About 11
o'clock the whistle of the Admiral
lin “Curaco” was heard and shortly
afterwards the “Ravillo” of the same
line arrived at the scene.
The passengers’ baggage, mail and
express was loaded into the ship's
boats and put aboard the relief steam
ers, and the passengers were then
transferred from the island. Complet
ing this work at 4 o’clock in the af
ternoon.
The Mariposa had by this time isk
en a decided list to starboard and her
bow was very low in the water and
seemed to be getting in a more peril
ous position as the afternoon advanc
ed. At 9:30 the vessel being in a sink
ing condition, all the crew who had
stayed by the ship left hfer and board
ed the Santa Aana, which had ar
rived about 4 o’clock and stood by
-while the Curaco and the Ravilla
steamed away with the passengers for
Wrangell about 46 miles distant,
-where all were safely landed.
Among the passengers from Val
dez were Mr. and Mrs. M. Blum, Es
sie Johnson, George Toplilf, Mrs.,
Gleason, Oscar Olson, Martin Elling
son, Hans Christiansen and James
Pish. Hans Andrus, Geo. M. Esterly,
Hotchkiss and Bert Carvey were also
•on board. At Juneau Bishop and Mrs.
Rowe and Representative and Mrs.
Sulzer took passage and were on
board when the Mariposa met her
doom.
ANCHORAGE NOW WANTS _
INTERIOR HAIL ROUTE
At a meeting of the Anchorage
Chamber of Commerce recently It was
agreed to take every available means
to divert the mail route from the
Fairbanks trail to the government
railroad. In view of the fast that pall
could be In Fairbanks via Cordova
or Valdes before it would reach An
chorage. it Is not believed that there
to mack danger of any change.
JOHNSON SAYS FIGHT
BE MADE ON TAXE8
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SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 3.—Sen
ator Hiram Johnson in a speech yes
terday predicted that public opinion
in* the United States will back up a
fight to be renewed in Congress for
a heavy taxation on war profits.
He said there would be another
fight to make the man who coined the
most profits from war to pay the cost
of war.
eRITtSH STAND
vism
Germans Huffed Heavy Losses in At
tempt to Retake Territory lost
—Evacuate Positions
LONDON, Dec. 3.—General Byng
has for the past three days withstood
the attempts of a large body of Ger
man troops to retake ground won by
'his army about Conneliu.
Germans Gain Ground
LONDON, Dec. 3.—The German
troops have gained a slight advan
tage around Terrain at heavy cost.
Very heavy losses in dead and wound
ed were sustained and the British
have taken many prisoners.
Hritisli Evacuate Mesnieres
LONDON, Dec. 3.—It is reported
that the British troops have evacuat
ed Mesnleres, south of Cambrai, fall
ing back to their main positions in
order to withstand the German con
centration of troops at that point.
GOLD ASSIGNMENT
ARRIVES FROM IDITAROD
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Three sacks of gold dust arrived
at Anchorage this week from the Idit
arod. The value of the consignment
was $100,000. A gold shipment am
ounting to over $70,000 will arrive
in Anchorage from the interior some
time this week, providing the trail is
In good condition.
CANNED ASPARAGUS
KILLS TWO PERSON
SEATTLE, Dec. 3.—Anton Edlund
and Mrs. Emily Troely died yester
day from eating canned asparagus,
victims of ptomaine poisoning.
RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT
CLAIMS BE AUTHORITY
LONDON, Dec. 3.—The Russian
provisional government, which was
thrown out of power by the Bolshe
vik!, according to a dispatch from
Petrograd, has issued a manifesto
claiming to be the only constituted
legal authority in Russia, and urging
the people to pay no attention to the
commands of the Bolsheviki.
HARD DtilENCE
JFNATIVE
Lives on Rainwater and 2 Raw Po
tatoes and Reduced to
Skeleton.
PRINCE RUPERT Dec. 3.—After
existed 16 days on rainwater and two
potatoes on a ledge of rock, soaked
iconstantly with rain and chilled to
the bone, and reduced in weight to
100 pounds, Stephen Ryan, a native
of Metlakahtla, was rescued yester
day. /
He was believed to have been
drowned. His launch was wrecked and
he managed to climb to a narrow
ledge of rocks.
At every high tide he was partly
submerged and was constantly soak
ed with spray from the sea, as well as
exposed to the full force of the driv
ing winds and rain and snow storms.
* He managed to' keep his hold on
the narrow ledge tyr means of a rope
which he tied about his body and fa*
tened to one of the Jutting rocks.
Before his experience, Ryan was
a. powerful man, ln the ptnk of health.
He was rgdcaTtp 'widget, to ldf
pounds. The two raw potatoes float
ed ashore from the wreck, as well up
the piece of rope whidh saved his life,
CHILEAN HERESS
FHQDBV M
Sooth Ancrte— Be—tjr who Shot nd
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Killed Hash—d la Quirel Over
Hoy is l>«cd
NEW YORK, Dec. 3.—Mrs. Bianci
De Saullea, the Chilean beireas. who
shot and killed her husbond, Jack
Longer De Saulles, former member ol
the state department’s staff of dip
lomats, and ex-football star, follow
mg a quarrel over the possession oi
her son, John, now five years of age,
was found not guilty by a Jury here
today and was ordered freed and giv
en the custody of her child. The shoot
ing occurred in the magnificent coun
try home of the D Saules, on Long
Island, the first week in August. The
court had given De Saulles permis
sion to call and see his child, to which
his wife objected. It was upon one
of these visits that the fatal shot was
llred.
ENGINEERS HAVE
NARROW E^APE
Working on British Railways ('aught
by German Assault and Forced
to Seek Shelter in Holes
• BRITISH ARMY. France. Dec. 3.—
A large number of American army
engineers who were working on Brit
IMr'fkilwajrs yesterday were caught
in a German turning movement, and
to escape capture jumped into shell
holes, while the British dred over
them. They were forced to remain in
their crude shelters until the British
advanced near enough for them to re
join them, where they fought valiant
ly the remainder of the afternoon. !
MEXICANS KILL i
IIS. SOLDIER
During Battle of Buena Vista Across!
the River from Indo, One Sol
dier and 3 Mexicans Killed
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INDO, Texas, Dec. 3.—One Ameri
can soldier, a Mexican foreman of an
American cattle ranch, and three
Mexicans were killed yesterday dur
ing a battle which took place at Buena
Vista, just across the river ffom here.
WOULD BE SUM
CHIEFOF POUCE
Superior Judge States that he will Re
sign Office and take Obligation
if Ban Is Lifted
SEATTLE, Dec. 3—Superior Judge
Mackintosh of this city announced to
day that he would resign and accept
the appointment of chief dt police
if the war department will promise
it win Uft the ban on Seattle the mo
ment he had cleaned np the city.
Seattle Pish Bulletin
SEATTLE, Dee. 8.—Seattle prices
at noon December third; halibut,
nineteen and three-fourths cents,
pickled sable fish, thirty dollars a bar
rel; pickled herring, twenty dollars
a barrel; pickled pink salmon, fif
teen dollars a barrel; pickled salmaa,
ted, twenty-three dollars a barrel.
ffasteni Star to Mesa
The Order of Eastern Star will
meet s! Its hall tomorrow night El
ecttow ot offioers. AU members are re
MSfited to -attend. \ «t
U.S. ENTERS
9MMBT
KcRotuUoai for Separate FMw ai
Repodiatioa of nblflllisi DU*
isMHfI to AUleo
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PKTROGRAD. Dec. 3. — Major
Kerth, the American military attache
at this place, haa been Instructed by
Ambassador Francis, representing the
Uuited SUtee, to make a strong pro
test against Russia conducting nego
tiations with Germany with a view to
a separate peace. This country also
protested against Nicolai Lenine’s re
pudiation of Russia’s debt to this
country in case of her refusal to ac
cept Russia's Bolshevik! ambassa
dors.
C M ATTACKS.
ARE REPULSED
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Kunght to a H Lands till in Great (hun
ter Drive Along Whole Cambrai
Front Today
LONDON. Doc. 3.—Fresh Germah
attacks southwest of Cambr&i were
repulsed today by British troops the
war otlice reports. The Germans were
tought to, a standstill in their great
counter drive along the whole front
of Cambral, and their efforts to roll
back the British from positions cap
tured in Byng'a offensive were a com
plete failure. During the night the
Germans tried to press forward in the
sector at Neendhulle at the extreme
southern end of the British salient,
but there too they failed to take any
ground.
NOME TO SUPPLY STATES
WITH REINDEER MEAT
SEATTLE. Dec. 3.—Residents of
Nome. Alaska, are planning to'ship
reindeer meat to the "Outside” in
large quantities next year as food, ac
cording to S J. Bakke, former mayor
of Nome, who arrived here recently.
It is'said there are. over 12,000 head
of reindeer herded by Eskimos, In the
vicinity of Nome.
One Nome company shipped a car
and a half of reindeer meat to Seat
tle in November. One car will be sent
east and the other will be sold in Se
attle.
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Six Thousand Cases of Hop Juice is
* ,y
Taken from SteaiAshfp Redondo
A.*.
—Billed to Petersburg
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SEATTLE. Dec. 3.—A shipment ‘of
6,000 cases of beer consigned from
San Francisco to Petersburg, Alaska,
was taken off the Redondo by Fed
eral authorities last night. Just before
the vessel sailed for northern waters.
STEAMSHIP ADMIRAL JSVAN8
IN POH® jEHTERDAi:
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The steamship Admiral Evane ar
rived in Port yesterday about 9 V
clpck, and sailed south about 6:|0, af
ter taking some lumbewand a team of
horses tor down-coup!. points. Her
passengers for Valdes wep: Judge
and Mrs. F. M. Brown. Mr. and Mrs.
Albert Dowling, Rev. George John
Zlnn, 8. O. easier, Aer passengers
from Valdes to the States were: Do*
puty Marshal & Casler, Ben HpweU,
Jack Carroll, lease Hamburger, ^ra.
Isaac Hamburger, and two chtlj§yeto,
Louis and Nancy, 1. Lacamana, R.
Llctogas. Juan Faftaes, ftmtitil
Carlson, Ralph 0. Vogt. Commission
er George J. Love, Miss Ethel
Hermann J. Mitchell. Agnes Mitchell.
Elsie a Rocs, tor Seattle; F. J. Mag
well for Cordova.
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• Housekeeper wanted at "G* I*
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WALRUS ARK BOARCK
IN THE ARCTIC OCKAN|
SEATTLE. Dec. 3.—Walrus and I
whales were scarce along the Siberian <
coasts and in the Arctic Ocean last
summer, according to Captain Chas.
Bogie, master of the power barken
tine Beloved ere which arrived hero re
cently from the north with a cargo of
walrus hides. The Beloved ere cruised
over 16.060 miles in search of walrus
and ■wbalee during thesummer. She
left here in March.
KUPUES
ALLIED SECRETS
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Correspondence Showing Allien Prom
ised Greece Southern Albania to
Kotor War on Their Side
LONDON, Dec. 3.—The Petrograd
correspondent of the London Times
wires that the Bolsheviki have pub
lished the diplomatic correspondence
between the allies, showing that the
allies offered Greece south Albania
also territory in Asia Minor if she!
would enter the war on the side of the;
allies.
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SEATTLE CITIZENS
HEEK IMPEACH GILLj
SEATTLE, Dec. 3.—At a mass;
meeting held here yesterday a resolu-.
tion was passed demanding that the;
Seattle city council impeach Mayor1
■H. Gill which was presented to the |
city council today.
Commissioner George J. Love, left I
for the States on the steamship Ad
miral Evans.
CONGRESS RECONVENES
FOR WINTER SESSION
WASHINGTON, D. C.. Dec. 3.—
Congress re-convened this morning.
President Wilson believes Congress
should confine itself to^wanr legisla
tion.
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OLD TIME ALASKAN
ELECTED PORT COMMISSION
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SEATTLE. Wash.. Dec. 3 —T. S.
Lippy, a pioneers Klondiker, was el-|
ected a member of the port commls-!
sion here Saturday.
STRIKING PHONE OPERATORS
WILL RETURN TO WORK
SEATTLE. Dec. 3 —The striking
telephone operators here last night
voted to return to work under terms
I to be arranged by the federal media
tion commission:
SWEAT .
' JUEB.C.
Fifteen Hundred Men Quit Work to
Express Disapproval of the
Conscription Law.
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VICTORIA, B. C.. Dec. 3.—The
smelter at Trail, British Columbia,
is shut down, according to reports
reaching here today, because of the
walk-out of 1600 employes at the
plant. The men went op strike as w
protest against the conscription act
which pas recently gone into effect in
Canada. .
The men hare not made any secret
of their disaffection and hare boldly,
refused to report to the examining
tribunals in accordance with the draft
law. Each map has been allowed to
present htmselt at his convenience at
any time during** period of several
weeks eljher to Wsxamlned for the
draft or to make hlnel^ps tor exemp
tion. No married me* fifed no skilled
faborci* are being taken in the first
t *fhe emelter men haVatsp refused
subscribe to-the Victory Loan,
Whose bonds arfifcof being sold, they
fens lanssly toreiipfesrs, although the
majority of Canadians are also oppos
ed to the law. v
T PrcutfovBordca has pat the situe
riBwhkHirtihs govern meet at Otta
wa* tor riftfta. r
Iff YOUNGSTERS
HUDEGAPTIVES
CmmIIim Wla la Fierce light Over
On ghwt Ratios*.
FRANCE. Dec. 3—The Canadians
captured three fortified farms on the
left of their advance Saturday, after
encountering a most determined re
sistance from the enemy, whose ma-'
chine gun detachment had to be
driven from concrete strongholds. The
Canadians carriedlhe positions after
crossing a deep morass. The wounded
who are returning from these fights
tell of innumerable heroic incidents
>of men facing the fire from machine
guas stopping to bandage a compan
ion's wounds or to pull men out of
the treacherous water-filled shell
holes which threaten death to the un
wary at every other step.
The enemy's artillery fire, while
heavy over our whole advanced area,
was erratic and scattered, our artil
lery with harassing fire barrages,
dominating his guns. The superiority
of our batteries was proved early in
the engagement when the fire from
then eueray artillery, which for some
time shelled our guns heavily slack
ened off quickly under our bombard
ment. More than 100 prisoners, to
gether with many machine guns, have
been taken in the latest advance. The
morale of the opposing forces is sure
ly weakening, appreciable deteriora
tion being noticeable in the prisoners
captured in the last twenty-four hours
as compared with last week.
•fA visit to the prisoners encamp
ment today showed youngsters of 19
years of age. They report heavy cas
ualties fronr our artillery last week
when our shelling and airplane obser
vation were so good the enemy’s guns
had to be moved constantly from fear
of being put out of action. One of
the most important admissions by the
prisoners is that the enemy communi
cation is in danger of breaking down
in the Passchendaele area. The regi
ment which opposed our advance were
fighting on short rations.
| ACCOUNTS OF WRECK
MARIPOSA DISAGREE
KETCHIKAN.—Passengers arriv
ing here from the wreck of the steam
er Mariposa differ in their statements,
some claiming the crew were too
drunk to row boats after the wreck,
that the women received little atten
tion and In some cases actual disre
spect. Others deny these conditions
prevailed.
H. R. Taylor, agent for the Great
Northern railroad was aboard the ■
Mariposa at the time of the wreck,
and returned to Juneau on the Cur
| acao. He informed the Dispatch that
there was perfeet discipline following
the wreck, officers and crew doing ev
erythin they could for the comfort
of the women and children.
"A big fail was raised on the isl
and," aald Mr. Taylor, "fires were
built and coffee served. In fact out
side of anxiety for an early rescue,
the passengers, women and men alike,
were one big happy family under try
ing condltlona.”
BARGE BARRACOUTA REACHED
IN RESURRECTION BAY
The barge Barracouta, which re
cently went adrift in Ressurectlon
Bay, at Sew
of searchert
the entrance
bay side.. H<
beached the
sails or power, by taking advantage'
of the steerage way from the fierce
gale raging when the barge went
adrift' The vessel was covered with a
foot or (wo of ice,'making It lmpossl
urn had bpefl searching for her and a
launch soot oal by Attorney Whtttel
sey of 8eward. _
OWSRATORBWARNKD BY
/ MpL ADMINISTRATOR
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WASHINGTON. D. C.. bee. 3.—
PW| Administrator Dr. OarSeld baa
the MMInn eoal operator*
ant will commandeer
I the «he* lt they carry
out their threat of refaatnp to cell
coal at the price fixed by the porera