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that Hie right of Americans to travel unmolested be accepted without ■ |H (B RT II B J> f5 H A Bk Hr B R__R R. JR R today at a mass meeting held In the Guildhall, when he asked ror more
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length. Ambassador Gerard has been warned not to express an opinion W » H I R H ■ H ■ H B ■ B ■ R HALIFAX. N. S.—The steamship Minnehaha is hot from stem to stern,
publicly. The state department announced that a proposal has been made K: R R |a I Bf JB >§* H R JH ^B ^k^H ^B and the lire is spreading.
by Germany for the opening of direct cable communication to the United JB. " ' BrB ^BR^. • ™ GENEVA—Printing presses and type are being converted Into bullen
States. , .... ___ in Austria.
, RERUN—Advices state that the Germans have bombarded and com- ______
pletely ruined Arras. Sections of the city are on fire
Two Bits Per Copy
One Dollar Per Month. _—?
TURNING OF THE TIDE
IN RUSSIANS’ FAVOR
LONDON, July 8.—The arrival of reinforcements and a great supply
of shells for the Russian forces has enabled them to check the Germans
around Lubin. The Austro-German rush in the eastern zone has sud
denly lost its momentum.
Good reasons are not obtainable for the retirement of General
Sokhomlinoff, the Russian minister of war, as he was regarded as re
sponsible for the modern Muscovite army.
At a rate estimated at five miles a day. General Mackensen s forces
are swinging northward to Galicia and Poland in a colossal endeavor to
drive a wedge into the Russians’ center, forcing the grand duke back
over the Bull river, thus splitting his forces.
The Austrians admit being badly defeated east of the Vistula.
WARSAW IS FULLY PROTECTED
PETROGRAD, July 7.-— It is denied here that the Russian forces in
Galicia have been split. The Germans are now meeting greater re
sistance than ever before, and Warsaw is fully protected.
A terrific bombardment of the Russian position gained temporary
victories for the Germans in the first stages of the battle south of Lubin.
Between Wjeprz and Bug rivers the right wing of the German army has
been checked.
It is believed that the Galicia retreat was ordered in the hope of lead
ing the Germans into a trap.
RUSSIANS FIGHT DETERMINEDLY
PARIS, July 5.—In Southern Poland the Russian armies have been
driven over the border of Galicia and are fighting determinedly to
check the German advance toward Warsaw. The Austrian statement
admits that the Russians have been strongly attacking, and Petrograd
reports an engagement between the Vistula and Bug rivers, and the
claim is made that the Austro-Germans have been checked at different
points. The Russian retirement in East Galicia from the Gnila Lipa to
the Zeoli Lipa is admitted.
RUSSIAN LINES HOLDING WELL
LONDON, July 5.—A daring attempt to split the Russian center by
driving one section into the swamps is being made. General Mack
ensen is advancing at the rate of five miles a day. It is admitted that
if the movement is not stopped Warsaw is doomed inside of a week.
The Russian wings are holding well.
WARSAW IS THREATENED
BERLIN, July 6.—-The Russian line near Braikaw has been broken
in two, one part being driven eastward and the other toward Lubin.
The Austro-German forces now threaten Warsaw.
RUSSIAN NAVAL SQUADRON VICTORIOUS
PETROGRAD, July 3.—A Russian naval squadron has given battle
to five German cruisers and a flotilla of torpedo boats off Gothland.
One German cruiser was beached and the others escaped under cover
of the fog.
GERMAN WARSHIP DESTROYED
PETROGRAD, July 3.—A Russian submarine has destroyed a Ger
man warship at the entrance to Danzig bay.
THE SUBMARINE WARFARE
Crew of Merchantman Slaughtered
QUEENSTOWN, July 6.—The British steamship Anglo-Californian
arrived here yesterday with twelve of the crew dead and many injured
as a result of being shelled by a German submarine. The steamship suc
ceeded in making her escape. Captain Harslow was struck by a shell
and killed, and his son took his place on the bridge.
German Submarines Operate at Mouth of Thames and in Channel
LONDON, July 6.—A German submarine has evaded the cordon of
destroyers and is now operating at the mouth of the Thames.
The French steamer Carthage has been torpedoed and sunk by two
German submarines in the English channel.
Successful Attack on German Warship in Baltic
LONDON, July 9.—Advices from Petrograd state that a British sub
marine has entered the Baltic and made a successful attack upon a
German warship on July 2.
British Steamships Hereafter Will Be Armed
British steamships hereafter will carry guns on their stern to light
submarines.
American Tanker Seized by German Warship
LONDON, July 7.-—The American tank steamship Platurea, from
New York for Sweden, has been seized by a German warship and taken
to Swinemude. _
BOTHA VICTORIOUS IN SOUTH AFRICA
German Military Forces Surrender
LONDON, July 9.—General Botha, commander of the British forces
in South Africa, has accepted the surrender of all the German military
forces in German Southwest Africa.
For a Short Time Only
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VICE PRESIDENT MARSHALL
NOT ALARMED BY THREATS
HOT SPRINGS, Ark., July 5—Vice
President Thomas C. Marshall, in the course
of a patriotic address delivered here today,
said that during the past six weeks he had
received many threatening letters, but had
thrown them all in the waste basket.
Mr. Marshall said he was not alarmed, as
he was a fatalist.
THE POWER OF HOT AIR BATHS
Heat being the best and most universal
disinfectant, it naturally follows that hot
air, as we find it in the Turkish Bath, is an
active agent in destroying disease germs,
and has so proven in thousands of cases,
notably those of inflammatory rheumatism.
THE CROSBY MASSAGE AND BATH
PARLORS
The Home of the Twentieth Century Turk
ish Bath
MIDDLE WEST STORMS
RESULT FATALLY TO MANY
CHICAGO, July 8.—Fifty killed and a
hundred injured is the toll taken by a vio
lent windstorm extending from Ohio to Ne
braska. The greatest loss of life was at Cin
cinnati and vicinity, where thirty-three per
sons were killed.
UNITED STATES MINISTER
IS REQUESTED TO RESIGN
WASHINGTON, July ti James Sullivan,
American minister to the Dominican repub
lic, has been asked to resign. A commission
will be appointed to investigate his conduct.
NATIONAL CELEBRATION
DISASTROUS AS A BATTLE
CHICAGO, July 6.—Reports from all over
the country to the Chicago Tribune show
that nineteen [>ersons were killed and 903
injured as the results of the nation’s celebra
tion of the Fourth of July.
SALE OF TOWN LOTS BEGINS
AT RAILROAD TERMINUS
SHIP CREEK, Alaska, July 9.—The sale
yf town lots along the route of the govern
ment railroad between Seward and Fair
banks has begun under supervision of land
office officials.
NEWS OF SULTAN’S DEATH
ALLEGED TO BE SUPPRESSED
ATHENS, July 7. Rumors are In circu
lation here to the effect that the sultan of
Turkey is dead and that the Young Turks
have suppressed the news for political rea
sons, fearing disorders. The sultan was re
cently operated on for gallstones.
TOM TAGGART’S ASSOCIATES
PLEAD GUILTY OF FRAUDS
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind„ July 7 Six of
the men indicted with Tom Taggart, the
prominent Democratic politician, for elec
tion frauds, have pleaded guilty.
J. P. MORGAN WOGNDED BT MANIAC
NEW YORK, July 3.—J. P. Morgan, head of the great banking firm of J. P. Morgan & Co., was shot
at his home at Glencove this morning by a man who was later identified as F. Holt, an instructor in German
at Cornell university, who was captured. Physicians pronounce the wound not serious.
Accounts differ regarding the number of shots fired. One bullet struck Mr. Morgan in the hip and
another in the breast, passing out through the arm.
The would-be assassin went to Morgan’s home early this morning, and managed to pass the butler.
He asked for Morgan, and when the latter came from the breakfast room Holt opened fire. Several serv
ants overpowered him.
A dispatch from Ithaca states that Holt was a professor in Cornel! university during the past term.
EVIDENTLY A MANIAC
Under constant sweating by the police. Holt claimed that Morgan was responsible for the war by fur
nishing the belligerents with money and also war mun itions. He said he intended to hold the entire Morgan
family as hostages until Morgan would promise to end the war.
Holt’s satchel, found outside the grounds, V’as filled with dynamite. He was seen about the Morgan
home yesterday.
Doctors tonight announce that Morgan is out o f danger. An X-ray examination showed that the bul
let which struck the right hip had not entered the abdomen, but was deflected down through the hip.
The effect of the news of the attempted assassination was hardly noticeable on the stock exchange.
ASSASSIN SUICIDES
MINEOLA, N. Y., July 7.—Holt, the assailant o f J. P. Morgan, committed suicide in his cell at the
insane asylum here last night. The various statement s given out conflict, but it is believed he climbed
through an opening above the cell door and plung ed into the narrow court below, fracturing his skull.
Several officers claim that he was found in a corner o f his cell. After an autopsy it was stated that Holt
dived from the top of his cell, causing death.
Holt had made a previous attempt at suicide by severing an artery in the wrist, using a lead pencil.
Holt was so weak on Monday that when his keeper went to his cell to awaken him he was unable to
arise. It had been the intention to take him into court for examination on Wednesday.
CAME FROM TEXAS
DALLAS, Tex., July 6.—Holt, the attempted slayer of J. P. Morgan, lived here with his wife. He
w'as engaged to teach in the Southern Methodist University next fall. He was a German by descent, but
a native-born American. _ ___
BOLD ATTEMPT TO DESTROY CAPITOL AT WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON, July 3.—A tremendous expio sion, caused either by a bomb or an infernal machine,
wrecked the public reception room on the east side o f the capitol building at midnight last night. No one
was injured, and it is believed to have been the wor k of a crank. The explosion was heard for two miles.
HOLT CAUSED EXPLOSION
NEW YORK, July 7.—The police claim that Holt, the man who attempted to assassinate J. P. Mor
gan, confessed to placing the bomb in the capitol a t Washington which caused the explosion there
on Friday night last. A trunk full of dynamite has b een found in an east side lodging which is believed to
have been Holt’s. ,
Letters found in Holt’s cell indicate that he told his wife that many steamships carried dynamite
ready to be exploded by secret machines, and warnin g has been sent by wireless to steamships all over the
Atlantic to search for dynamite aboard.
An infernal machine exploded outside of the de tective bureau’s headquarters on Monday night.
PRESIDENT WELL GUARDED
CORNISH. N. H., July 6.—On account of the Washington bomb explosion. President Wilson is being
guarded by eleven secret service men. ___
LOADED WITH AMMUNITION
AND ON FIRE IN MID-OCEAN
NEW YORK, July 8.—The steamship
Minnehaha, with 15,000 tons of ammunition
on board, which was loaded here for the
armies of France, is on fire five hundred
miles off Halifax. Ships are steaming to
the scene.
Fire Subdued
HALIFAX, N S., July 9.—The steam
ship Minnehaha has arrived here. The fire
has been subdued. The source of the con
flagration is unknown. Speculation is in
dulged in as to whether the explosion which
started the blaze was caused by a bomb
placed by Holt, the man who shot J. P.
Morgan.
GENERAL PORFIRIO DIAZ
DEAD AFTER LONG ILLNESS
PARIS, July 5.—General Porfirio Diaz,
the exiled ex-president of Mexico, who has
been in ill health for a long time, died here
today.
Government Representatives at Funeral
PARIS, July 6.—The funeral of ex-Presi
dent Diaz was held today, and was attended
by representatives of various governments.
ANOTHER WEALTHY ALASKAN
FACES DIVORCE COURT
SEATTLE, July 7.—Clyde Morris, a
wealthy Alaska contractor and clubman, has
been sued for divorce by his wife, who al
leges cruel treatment.
POWDER MILL EXPLOSION
LONDON, July 9.—A powder mill at
Hounslow exploded last night, and it is be
lieved that one hundred lives were lost.
We strive to please the people from the
creeks when they come to the
CROSBY BATHS
HUERTA ARRESTED
FOR CONSPIRACY
Huerta Arrested on New Charge
EL PASO, July 6.—Ex-Dictator Huerta
and five others have been arrested here on
a new charge of violating the neutrality
laws.. Their bail has been fixed at $15,00(0
each. They spent Saturday and Sunday in
jail, but probably will be released today.
Huerta gave way to a fit of weeping when
detailing in his cell his account of his treat
ment by the Americans.
Huerta Promises to Be Good
WASHINGTON, July 8—The United
States government will be likely to win the
fight against Huerta without going into
court. He promises to leave the Mexican
border and reside in the northern part of
the United States.
Orozco Escapet
SAN ANTONIO, Tex., July 8.—Genet?!
Orozco, who eluded the federal authorities,
has escaped to the mountain fastnesses.
FATAL MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT
SEATTLE, July 5.—Horace Merrill and
wife, while riding a motorcycle here today,
were killed in a collision with an auto
mobile.
BRYAN REVIEWS PROCESSION
SAN FRANCISCO, July 5.—Ex-Secretary
of State Bryan reviewed the patriotic parade
here today.
Miss I. Graham, sister of Mrs. Annie Clif
ton Cleveland, was a passenger on the Wash
burn, arriving at Dikeman last Saturday.
She was accompanied by Russell Lynden
Graham, a winsome little chap of 8 years,
whom she has adopted. Miss Graham is a
teacher by profession.
Jtb Printing st Pioneer offlee.
SECOND THURSTON CASE
ON TRIAL THIS MORNING
The case of the United States vs. 1 nomas
L. and Agnes V. Thurston, in which the
defendants are charged with violations of
the postal laws, was called in the district
court yesterday morning, and the selection
of a jury was immediately commenced. A
special venire of thirty men had been sub
poenaed, and when the jury was finally
completed, at 4:30 in the afternoon, the
regular panel and the special venire had
been almost exhausted.
This is the case in which the defendants
are charged with delaying, detaining and
embezzling six packages of mantels of the
total value of $18, while they were acting
as postmaster and assistant postmaster at
Iditarod, in March, 1914. The packages
were alleged to have been addressed to
Joseph H. Smith, the local merchant.
This is the second trial on a series of in
dictments charging various infractions of
the postal laws against the defendants, a
verdict of acquittal being rendered in a pre- j
vious case. A demurrer was sustained to
one of the indictments, and the case was
dismissed on yet another one in which T. L.
Thurston alone was the defendant.
After the jury had been sworn, District
Attorney Roth moved for an adjournment
until 10 a. m. today, which was ordered by
the court, who also ordered that the jury
be kept in custody of bailiffs. They were
admonished by the court not to discuss the
case. The following is the jury:
Emil Anderson, Mead Maynard, A. E.
Meacham, Philip Riley, J. B. Elliott, Charles
Schubert, P. A. Bugge, Mike Lucey, Phil
Keith, Joe Keen, George Mutchler and Pete
Michaels.
Joseph H. Smith arrived in the city from
Fairbanks last Sunday. He had been in the
Tanana valley metropolis but a couple of
days when he was served with a subpoena
to appear at the Iditarod term of court as a
witness, and left for this place immediately.
After July 15, drop in and see the new
things I selected for my store while I was
Outside. C. R. PECK.
GERMANY’S ANSWER
REARY FOR CARINET
WASHINGTON, July 9.—The message from the German govern
ment on the subject of the submarine warfare is expected tomorrow.
It is understood that the Berlin government will attempt to justify the
illegal stand taken regarding her war on merchantmen.
President Wilson so far has refused to yield on any point, and under
standing is that the German reply, as outlined in the first draft, is un
satisfactory.
Upon receipt of word from Ambassador Gerard at Berlin, it was an
nounced that President Wilson would return from Cornish, N. H., his
summer home, immediately and the reply of the German government
would be laid before the cabinet on Tuesday next.
REPLY DELIVERED
BERLIN, July 9.—The German reply to the American submarine
note was delivered to American Ambassador Gerard last night.
BERLIN WILL MAKE COUNTERCHARGES
BERLIN, July 7.—The first draft of Germany’s reply to the American
submarine note has been prepared. It is stated that the claim will be
made that British submarines in Turkish waters have repeatedly sunk
unarmored passenger ships.
LORD MERSEY’S COMMISSION REPORTS
LONDON, July 8.—The official findings of the commission headed
by Lord Mersey which has been investigating the sinking of the British
liner Falaba, which resulted in the death of an American citizen, and
which has entered prominently into the negotiations between Germany
and the United States, were made public today. The commission finds
that the vessel was sunk by a German submarine, and that she was not
armed, and carried no great cargo of war munitions.
GERMAN WIRELESS STATION SEIZED
WASHINGTON, July 8.—Upon the determination that the German
wireless station at Sayville had been used for purposes prohibited by
the neutrality laws, the United States government has taken charge of
the plant. This station furnished the only direct communication be
tween the United States and Germany.
THE AUSTRO-ITALIAN CAMPAIGN
ROME, July 9.—No important changes have occurred on the battle
front within the past twenty-four hours. The Italians have occupied
lolzeno, which is the key to the Isonzo valley. The Austrians still
hold the neighboring fortifications, and are bombarding the village.
The king witnessed the Italian bombardment of Goritz, where a gen
eral assault on the Austrian front is in progress.
The Italian armored cruiser Amalfi has been torpedoed and sunk by
an Austrian submarine in the upper Adriatic. Most of the crew were
saved.
Italian aviators are busy dropping bombs on Goritz, and also on
Aisozze.
The Adriatic sea has been closed to navigation because of the fact
that thousands of floating mines have been placed in its waters.
FIERCE FIGHTING IN THE DARDANELLES
Rumor of Revolt of Turkish Garrison
ROME, July 9.—It is reported that the Turkish garrison at Constan
tinople has revolted and killed a hundred German officers, whose domi
nation has been very severe.
Turks Putting Up Stubborn Resistance
LONDON, July 6.—Advices state that the Turks are putting up a
stubborn fight at the Dardanelles, evidently holding the trenches no
matter what the cost in lives.
German Reports of British Casualties
BERLIN, July 6.—The British have lost ten thousand men at the
Dardanelles during the past twelve days.
German Commander Is Wounded
ATHENS, July 6.—General Von Sanders, the German commander
of the Turkish fortifications at the Dardanelles, has been wounded.
German Submarines in Dardanelles
ATHENS, July 7.—Seven German submarines aie reported to have
arrived at the Dardanelles.
MONTENEGRIN IS ARRESTED
FOR NEUTRALITY VIOLATION
PORTLAND, Ore., July 7.—-Johan Mata
movitch, a personal representative of King
Nicholas of Montenegro, has been arrested
here, charged with violating the neutrality
laws. He is alleged to have engaged in
wholesale recruiting for the Montenegrin
army in the Northwest, and also in the
East. He is held on $10,000 bail.
Recruits Not to Be Molested
SEATTLE, July 8.-Recruits for the
Montenegrin army who are hurryisg from
the United States toward Canada will not
be molested, but those responsible for their
enlistment will be prosecuted.
ZEPPELIN’S BIRTHDAY
AMSTERDAM, July 9.—The birthday of
Count Zeppelin, inventor of the dirigible
which bears his name, was celebrated
throughout Germany today. The Count is
78 years old.
ALASKA’S PET VOLCANO
ONCE MORE IN ERUPTION
SEWARD, Alaska, July 9.—Mount Kat
mai is again in eruption.
ROCKEFELLER IS 76
TARRYTOWN, N. Y„ July 8.—John D.
Rockefeller, head of the Standard Oil Com
pany, is celebrating his 76th birthday today.
He is in excellent health.
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Fresh Olympia Oysters, for cocVtaila, $2
can. Iditarod Meat Co.
Big
Picture
Show
A. B. HALL
Sunday Eve., July lit!)
The Devil's Assistant — Two
Reels—Drama
Mrs. Casey’s Gorilla—Comedy
Mixed Nuts
Hurst-Selig Pictorial News
Between acts Sigrid McDonald
will favor with a recitation,
entitled “Baby’s
Stocking”
PROFESSOR DRAPEAU