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VILLA SUFFERS
A HEAVY LOSS
1h»o Thousand of His Best Troops
Are Killed in Battle in Sonora
AJL.AMITO, Sonora, Nov. 23.—The
Villaistas who have held this city for
some time were suddenly attacked
yesterday by an overwhelming force
of Mexican federal troops. The bat
tle raged all day and until night,
when the rebels were completely
rooted, leaving nearly two thousand
dead on the battlefield.
The battle was one of the most
sanguinary fought during the year,
i neither side asking nor giving mer
«y> and all who fell into the enemy’s
hafiids were immediately executed.
V*iA'e Villaistas had evidently been
preparing for the battle as they had
sent their women and children from
the city. The defeat of the Villa
troops is noteworthy from the fact
that they were among his best fight
ers and were well equipped with
munitions but were outgeneraled.
CHAS. SCHEFFLER
•Cordova Democratic Club favors Ap
pointment of Tried and True
Member of the Party.
CORDOVA, Nov. 23.—The Cordo
-»* Democratic club, at a meeting held
lust night, passed resolutions endors
ing Chas. Scheffler, a member of the
Democratic territorial committee, as
its choice for postmaster here to fill
the vacancy cauced by the resigna
tion of Harry G. Steel, the present
Incumbent.
Scheffler is one of me publishers
uf the Cordova Times, of which Steel
>f editor, and has always been a
staunch Democrat even during the
Ipup -years for members of his party.
~ Cordova Times has been se
verely criticising Postal Inspector
Noil for reducing the clerical force
of the Cordova postofflce and reduc
ing the salaries of the remaining
stuff.
The resolution condeming the ac
tion of the inspector which it was be
lieved would be submitted to the
meeting, failed to materialize and ac
tion was confined to passing the res
olution favoring the appointment of
Scheffler as postmaster.
RI HSIAN GENERAL TO
SERVE FIFTEEN YEARS.
PETROGRAD: Absence from the
fortress at Kovno, during the fight
fug and inadequate preparations for
defense of the city were charged
against General Gregorieff, who was
commandant of the fortress when it
fell, in the court martial proceeding
at Dvinsk, which resulted in his re
viving a sentence of 15 years at
hard labor and the loss of all his
rights.
Beginning to Slush Rates.
In order to offset the Grand
Trunk’s efforts to secure the passen
ger travel from Alaska and Yukon
with the eastern states and Canada
the Pacific Coast Steamship company
has reduced the rates. First-class
transportation may now be had from
Ketchikan to St. Paul or Duluth for
$53.72, and $46 for second class.
This is a material reduction and the
'Grand Trunk is expected to announce
a lower .rate.
Alaska's Fur Production.
Alaska is the greatest fur-bearing
section of the United States. It
produces about $1,000,000: worth of
furs annually. These include all va
rieties, from squirrel pelts of an av
erage value of 8 cents each to black
fox pelts worth from $260 to $1250
each. The .fur output in 1913 in
cluded 2600 bear skins valued at
$33,000 at from $9 for brown bear
skins to $40 for the grizzly or polar
hear.—Leslie’s.
LAST BODY RECOVERED
FROM RAVENSDALE MINE
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SEATTLE, Nov. 23,—It was re
ported from Ravensdale, where more
than thirty miners lost their lives in
a coal mine as a result of an explo
sion, that the rescue workers had
succeeded in bringing the last body
to the surface. Only two of the miners
were brought to the surface alive.
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INSURANCE CLAIM
AGENT IS FIRED
Believed Fraudulent Warrants were
Used to Finance Gigantic Opium
Smuggling Ring in State.
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OLYMPIA, Nov. 23.—Claim Agent
Gillies, of the Washington State In
dustrial Insurance Commission, has
been discharged from office for al
leged complicity in connection with
the looting of the fund to the extent
of $20,000 by means of forged war
rants. Gillies had'engaged counsel
and will fight to clear himself of the
charge and asserts that he is being
made the goat for other officials of
the commission.
Detectives who have been working
on the case believe the bogus war
rants were issuer in connection with
the financing of a gigantic opium
smuggling fraud which is now being
investigated by the federal officials.
In every case the warrants were
cashed in saloons where habitual
users of injurious drugs are known
to the police to make their head
quarters and it is suspected that the
proprietors are part of the opium
smuggling ring.
Counsel for Gillies promises that
there will be some startling develop
ments In the case and state that their
client will be able to not only clear
himself of suspicion but secure the
conviction of the guilty parties.
FAIRBANKS HAS HAD
GOOD BUSINESS YEAR.
SEATTLE: The last year in Fair
banks has been one of the best ever
experienced in the city from a busi
ness Viewpoint, according to Lewis T.
Erwin, United States marshall at
Fairbanks. “The Northern Commer
cial company had $50,000 more busi
ness during the year ending last
month than the previous year.”
"The First National Bank has
$300,000 more in deposits this year
than last year. We had three weeks
of weather during which the temper
ature was around 96 degrees, and
raised seven tons of potatoes to the
acre.”—Seattle P.-I.
HOPE HUNTER KILLED
• BY WOUNDED BEAR.
ANCHORAGE: The body of H.
E. Peterson, who was killed and man
gled by a brown bear near Hope, on
November 2, was brought to An
chorage and laid to rest In the local
cemetery. The body was found short
ly after he had been killed and show
ed that he wounded the bear and
followed it into the brush, where the
animal had turned and torn him al
most to pieces. The body was fright
fully mangled showing that the ani
mal had worried it long after life had
departed.
NO ADVANTAGE IN BEING
PRESIDENTS DAUGHTER
BALTIMORE, Md., Nov. 23.—Mrs.
McAdoo, wife of Secretary McAdoo,
of the treasury department, was fined
$25 for speeding. She was repre
sented by an attorney who agreed to
let her cash bail of $25 be forfeited.
The patrolman who made the arrest
asserted that the machine was trav
eling at the rate of sixty miles an
hour.
FIVE DEGREES BELOW
ZERO AT DULUTH.
DULUTH, Nov. 23.—-The snotf
storm of the past few days has been
followed by a sudden drop in the
mercury and thermometers are now
registering 6. degrees below zero.
The sudden cold spell is causing
great suffering among' the poor who
are ill-prepared for the winter and
charitable societies are endeavoring
to alleviate their sufferings. The
churchs have opened their doors to
the homeless of the city.
ATHENS REPORTS GREECE
MAY JOIN THE AlUES
STATED THAT KING CONSTANTINE HAS DEMANDED THAT HALE
MILLION BRITISH AND FRENCH TROOPS BE LANDED IN HIS
COUNTRY TO PREVENT GREECE FROM BEING DEVASTATED BY
BULGAR8 AND TEUTONS—LONDON BELIEVES RUMANIA WILL
JOIN ALLIES WTHEN ASSURED OF GREEK INVASION OF BUIAJA- j
RIA—GERMAN BATTLESHIP REPORTED SUNK IN BALTIC—PO
LISH JEWS MUST STARVE UNLESS AMERICA SENDS RELIEF.
ATHENS, Nov. 23.—It is reported
that King Constantine, as a result of!
his conference with Lord Kitchener,
has demanded that the Allies land
five hundred thousand French and
British troops in Greece to protect
his country from invasion by Teuton
ic and Bulgarian troops for continued
violation of neutrality by permitting
the Allies forces to remain in Greece.
It is also reported that Kitchener has
been informed that Greece is ready
to enter the war on the side of the
Allies if arrangements are made with
Rumania whereby the invasion of
Bulgaria begins simultaneously from
the north and south.
German Dreadnauglit Sunk.
LONDON, Nov. 23.—It is reported
from Amsterdam that a German
dreadnaught has been sunk in the
Baltic by striking a mine. The bat
tleship was of the latest type and had
but recently been added to the Ger
man navy.
Britain Is Ho|ieful.
LONDON, Nov. 23.—The news
from Athens that King Constantine
of Greece, has shown a willingness to
Join in the invasion of Bulgaria has
created a feeling of optimism through
out the empire that the Balkan cam
paign has not been lost. ,It is be
lieved that Greece will demand that
the Allies bear the cost of financing
her campaign against Bulgaria if she
finally decides to engage in the war.
It is also believed that Rumania,
which has so far kept clear of en
tanglements although she has been
offered great inducements for active
participation in the war, will join the
Allies when assured that sufficient
troops have been landed in Greece to
conquer Bulgaria and Turkey.
Germans Capture Herbians.
BERLIN, Nov. 23.—Official ad
vices from Nish state that German
troops, operating along the border of
Montenegro, have captured eight
thousand more Serbian troops which
occupied positions in the mountains
after their retreat after the fall of
Nish.
Polish Jews Starving.
NEW YORK, Nov. 23.—Herman !
Bernstein, a prominent Polish Jew
of this city, who has just returned
from Europe, reports that during the
retreat of the Russian armies in Po
land they drove millions of Jews
from their homes and laid waste to
their crops in order to prevent the
Germans from securing any advan
tages from their victories. He as
serts that several millions of Jews
who were driven from Poiand are
Starving and is urging American re
lief. He says that unless relief is im
mediately forthcoming that hun
dreds of thousands of women and
children must perish before three
months. He will endeavor to inter
est the wealthy Jews of America in
the relief expedition.
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I Boycott of Ford Automobiles Has
Spread to Every Part of Em
pire and Can’t Advertise.
LONDON, Nov. 23.—Newspapers
from every part of the British empire
are refusing to accept advertisements
from the Ford Automobile company
because of Henry Ford’s utterances
in regard to the Anglo-French loan,
recently secured in the United States.
When the commissioners of the
British and gjrench governments ar
rived in the United States, Henry
Ford, the president of the Ford com
pany, visited President Wilson and
urged that the commissioners be in
structed to return home. As the
European governments had spent
millions of dollars for Ford trucks
for war purposes, and his Canadian
company had recently declared a
$20,000,000 dividend, the British
have taken offense and have institut
ed a boycott against the cars bearing
his name. The boycott has spread
to every part of the empire.
TOLOVANA LOG JAM .
WILL BE REMOVED.
FAIRBANKS: Delegate Wicker
shaw has promised to introduce a
bill In congress to reimburse the min
ers of Tolovana to the extent of $1600
which will be expended in removing
the big log jam which prevents nav
igation on the upper Tolovana river.
Tho Jam will be blown up and de
stroyed during thq winter and it is
expected that a saving ot 10' cents
per pound in landing freight at the
new camp will be affected.
The steamer Alameda is bulletined
by the local office of the Signal Corps
as having left Haines at 10 o’clock
this forenoon for Cordova. She is
not expeijted to reach Valdez before
tomorrow night or sometime Thurs
day morning.
TWELVE KILLED
SCORES INJURED
Circus Train Wrecked by Passenger
Train and Fire Adds to Hor
ror by Cremating Injured.
COLUMBUS, Georgia, Nov. 23.—
Twelve persons ai*e dead and scores
injured as a result of a passenger
train running into a circus train on
the Georgia Central railroad, which
had been sidetracked here last
night. The engine of the passenger
train telescoped several coaches car
rying the circus employes.
The accident happened In a su
burb where the circus had been
showing, and the passenger train
was traveling at a high rate of speed.
The wreckage of the circus coaches
caught fire from * the engine and
many of the injured were cremated
before they could be released and
the flames were brought under con
trol.
Both the engineer and fireman of
the passenger train were among the
victims of the wreck. The accident
was due to the failure of a trainman
to throw a switch after the circus
train had entered the sidetrack.
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STEAMER DORA IS
OUT OF COMMISSION
CORDOVA, Nov. 23.—Wireless
advices received at Wliiltshed from
the steamer Dora, of the Alaska
Steamship company, states that she
has broken her high-pressure piston
rod, which necessitates her coming
to Cordova for repairs. The Dora
was enroute westward and was at
Seldovla .when the accident happened.
Left Fortune ot' 0,000,OOO.
PHILADELPHIA, No*. *3.—P H.
Widener, the traction magnate who
died last weei, (eft a tbrfune of 970,
000,000. His will was probated yes
terday and it was found that he had
left his estate to his son, Joseph
Widener.
WILL NOMINATE WOMAN
J<X>R VICE-PRESIDENCY, j
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WASHINGTON. D. C., Nov. 23.—
It Is announced that Kate O’Hara
will probably be the Socialist party’s
nominee for the vice-presidency. A
strong effert is being made to have
Eugene V. Debbs reconsider his de
cision not to again be the Socialist
candidate for the presidency.
AMERICANS WIKI
FOREIGN TRADE
Will Go After South American Trade
Now While War Prevents Com
petition from Europe.
NEW YORK, Nov. 23.—A syndi
cate of New York financiers are form
ing a fifty million dollar company to
assist in promoting United States
trade in foreign countries, and espe
cially in South America.
The American manufacturers have
been brought to the realization that
foreign trade can be established now
to’ advantage owing to the European
was preventing the German and Brit
ish manufacturers competing for the
trade.
Foreign consuls have been urging
manufacturers to establish branch
houses in South American countries
now when it will not be necessary to
make an aggressive campaign for the
business owing to lack of competi
tion. They assert that the United
States manufacturers must have
branch houses in the. South Ameri
can countries with managers who un
derstand the languages of the natives
and their methods of doing business,
: which is vastly different from the
system prevailing in the United
’States. It is planned to establish sev
eral banks in the South American
republics as an aid to securing the
business.
VON TIRPITZ IS IN
BAD WITH KAISER.
LONDON: A Central news dis
patch from Amsterdam says the Kai
ser has disgraced Admiral von Tir
pitz. To him was due the naval pol
icy of nipping off the British fleet
by submarine attacks and the at
tempted destruction of England’s ma
rine. Both campaigns have failed ac
cording to British claims and the
German government has guardedly
admitted in a measure the failure of
the operations. Von Tirpitz’s repu
tation suffered, but it was because of
the torpedoing of the Lusitania and
the Arabic that the “fashion of the’
king’s countenance was changed" to
ward the admiral. Prom that time on
von Tirpitz has been demoted in im
perial esteem, but this is the first in
timation of his “official" disgrace.
INTERNAL REVENUE STAMPS
REQUIRED ON LIQUORS.
The regulations of the Treasury
department require that internal rev
enue stamps be placed on bottles
containing rebottled wines and li
quors, in amounts as follows:
Still Wines—Pint, lc; quart. 2c;
gallon, 8c. Larger in proportion.
Champagnes and other Sparkling
Wines—half pints, 5c; pints, 10c! 1
quart, 20c! and larger quantities in
proportion.
Liquors, Cordials and other simi
lar Compounds—Half pint, 1 1 -2c;
1 pint, 3c; 1 quart, 6c; per gallon,
24c.
"Prince John" on Skagway Run.
SKAGWAY: It is reported from
Prince Rupert that the Grand Trunk
Pacific will put their steamer Prince
John on the Prince Rupert-Skagway
run and that the company will ex
tensively advertise in the Eastern
States during the coming winter to
secure a share of the tourist trade to
Alaska . next summer, when the
Pr(nce George, one of the largest
steamers operating between Prince
Rupert and Seattle, will be placed on
the Alaska run.
RESIDENTS ABB
PEEKING PROM VOLCANO.
ROME, Nov. 23.—Stromboli vol
cano continues to qrupt and the resi
dents are fleeing in terror from the
district. It is reported that streams
of lava are pouring down the moun
tain side enveloping everything in
their path.
BODY OF EIIH
FOUND IN GEUAF
Wife of Victim Asserts Husband ua
Hurled Alive by Hon-in-Law for
for Assaulting Daughter.
NEW YORK, Nov. 2?,. —Mrs. Mi
troni, who was arrested on suspicio
of having committed several mui
ders, including her husband, test
fied yesterday that she had witnesse
her son-in-law knock her husban
unconscious in Batavia, New Yorl
last year. When Matroni was revi'
ed he begged for mercy but was bu:
ied alive in the cellar of their hftm
by their son-in-law.
The police have unearthed the n
mains of Matroni from the cells
and believe he was clubbed I
death. Mrs. Matroni’s son-in-law wi
recently killed for another crim
The woman asserts that the murdi
of her husband followed her tellin
her son-in-law that her husband ha
assaulted their daughter in the
apartment before her marriage t
him.
AD1ML LITTLE
IS EXONEIIATEI
Courtmartial Finds tliat He was »
Careless in Examinations of
Boats—Daniels Dissatisfied.
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WASHINGTON. Nov. 23.—The n
val courtmartial appointed by Seer
tary Daniels, of the navy departmer
to investigate charges that Rear A
miral Little, now retired, had bei
careless in his inspections of the su
marines, reported to the departme
that the officer was not guilty of tl
charges and exonerated him from t
blame in connection with the loss
the P-4.
It is reported that Secretary Da
iels is dissatisfied with the finding ■
the courtmartial and will cause an i
vestigation, but that a retrial of tl
case is unlikely.
Rear Admiral Little had inspect'
the submarine P-4 shortly before s!
submerged in the Honolulu harbe
from which she failed to come
the surface, causing the deaths
her entire crew. The vessel hi
been known to be unseaworthy f
some time before the accident, ai
the members of the crew had pr
tested against her being submerge
Admiral Little examined the vess
and reported that her machinery w
in good condition and the fatal ac<
dent followed.
STEAMER NORTHWESTERN
, CARRYING ORES SOl'T
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When the steamer Northwester
which passed southward last nigi
leaves Cordova, she will carry mo
than two thousand tons of Alas’
copper ores to the Tacoma smelt*
The steamer called at Latouche i
her way to Valdez yesterday ai
loaded four hundred tons of ore ai,
when she departed last night s'
went to Eliamar where nine hundr*
tons of ore was to be loaded. T
balance of the cargo will be tak
from the great shipments of copp^
ore which is piled at Cordoba frci
the Kennecott mine, in the interi*!
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Waterfront. Case in Wrangell. |
Suit has been filed by J. G Grai
a property owner of Wrange
against Ben Silverman and the SIJ
ine Mining company. The complai
charges that the mining company i
tender to erect docks which will cc
stltute an obstruction to upland prc
erty owned by him.
Jury Host No Time,
i JUNEAU) The Jury in the case
the..UnUe4 States vs. George Kus
nick, cnbr'ged wlthshootlng with |
tent to kill St.eve Stampolio, on P*|
none island, near Ketchikan, in Sr
tember, after deliberating three mt
utes returned a verdict of guilty |
the charge ott'dhootlng with inte
to kill.