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REPORTED BANDIT CHIEF WILL I
MURDER ALL AMERICANS FOUND
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CAUGHT AGAIN. OFF AGAIN. VILLA
KI. PASO. April 3.—The information leaking out this
afternoon has created the tear that \ ilia has e\aded the
United States cavalry columns and has again got cleat
away to the open. The columns have been sweeping the
Gurrero district. Indeed, army men are almost certain
that the chief bandit has escaped and they express the be
lief that if further search of his hiding place fails to re
veal him the Americans will enter Parral in the expecta-J
tion that he may have gone there with the hope of raising!
recruits for further campaigning. It is doubted now that;
his wounds are as serious as had been reported as it seems
clear that a man with a broken leg and other wounds
could never have succeeded so fully in evading the cavalry.
REPORT VILLA MURDERS
EL PASO, April 3. — Americans arriving from
Chihuahua say that three Americans, one German and
one Britisher were murdered by \ ilia last Monday when
he captured Minika. At the same time, they say, he also
got possession of Guerrero and Sanisadro. The arrivals
also declare that \ ilia announced that he will kill every
American that falls into his hands. From their stories
the impression is created that the bandit chief is much
stronger than had been supposed and he evidently oper
ates with a confidence which is extraordinary in one who
was believed being hunted to death.
EXPECT \ ILEA'S FINISH
DUBLAN. Mexico, April 3.—Army men here are now
betting even money that Villa will lx* killed or captured
within ten days. They believe the pursuit is now reaching
a climax and that the arch outlaw cannot hope to stave off
> the fatal hour much longer.
FUNSTON THINKS HIM GONE
SAX ANTONIO, April 3.—“It is my belief that Villa
has slipped his collar and has crawled under the fence”
was the terse manner in which General Fred Funston ex
pressed himself today. The phrase is taken to mean that
Villa has quit his forces and everything else and only re
tains the desire to get away as far as he can.
CLOSING ON HIM AGAIN
SAN ANTONI, April 3.—It is reported today that
V ilia's hiding place has been discovered north of Guer
rero and that a thousand cavalrymen are now closing in on
him. This has not been stated officially but on very re
liable authority.
Four Hundred and
Nine Registered
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Number of Voters Greater Thi> Year
by Fifty-Nine.
Four hundred and nine voters had
registered last Saturday night when
the polls closed for the municipal
election. The number registered for
last year’s election was 3o0, so that
the increase is over twelve per cent.
The polls will be open tomorrow from
8 a. m. to 7 p. ra.
CAN A PERSON VOTE
WITHOUT REGISTERING?
The questionu has now arisen
whether or not Alaskans coming on
the Farragut tomorrow can vote with
out having registered and, it is said,
the city attorney will rule that they
• can if they are eligible in other ways.
On the Farragut are men like Ben
tt James and Jack Ronan who have
been Alaskans for years and have
taken a prominent part in the de
velopment of it. On the same boat is
Gaston Hardy who has been in Sew
ard over a year. Some people go even
further and say that a voter who
lives all the time in the city but neg
lected to register can vote just the
Mae.
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HIGH CLASS MILLINERY
ESTABLISHMENT OPENED
IN THIS CITY TODAY
The Most Fashionable Creations Di
rect From Outside Came
on Alaska.
The millinery store of Mrs. D. Hal
lett and Mrs. Selma X. Scott opened
today in the place formerly occupied
by the store of Mrs. McCoy. The
.-dock was brought direct from the
outside after the most careful selec
tion of the very latest metro
politan styles and Seward can now
boast of being ahead of the times in
this respect also. Mrs. Hallett has
had a most extensive experience and
already one can hear the members of
the fair sex congratulating them
selves and the husbands commiserat
ing themselves. The store has cer
tainly opened under the most favor
able auspices.
THIRD LENTEN TEA
The third of the Lenten Teas will
be friven tomorrow afternoon in the
basement of St. Peter’s church. Mrs.
Province and Mrs. Molony will be the
hostesses.
Patronize home industry. Alaska
coal $11.00 per ton. See Bill Henry
Cor. 4th and Adams St Tel. Madi
| son 149.
❖ WAITE NOW WANTS *j
TO DIE THE DEATH *1
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NEW YORK, April 3.—It was
learned positively this morning that
Dr. Waite is now anxious to atone for
the crime of murdering his father-in
law us soon as possible and he says he
looks forward eagerly to death in the
electric chair. The hrst of the series
of examinations to test his sanity will
be made today by alienists who have
been employed by the Waite family in
the hope that he can be show n not to
have been of sound mind. The ex
aminations will take place in Relle
viow hospital.
SAYS THE ENGINEER
CAUSED THE WRECK
CLEVELAND, April 2.—The gen
eral manager of the New York Cen
tral railroad has published a state
ment declaring that Engineer Hess
was responsible for the double wreck
which caused the loss of more than
thirty lives some days ago.
WAITE CONFESSES AND
IS WILLING TO DIE
NEW YORK, April 2.—A newspap
er today prints an alleged confession
made by Dr. Waite and a statement
by him that he is willing i0 die for
the crime of murdering his father-in
law, the millionaire Peck. The evi
dence against him is apparently so
conclusive, anyhow, that a confession
appeared to be inevitable.
ALASKA TOMORROW
The steamer Alaska from King’s
Cove is due to arrive at 4 o’clock to
morrow morning.
STEAMER CHICAGO COMING
The steamer Chicago is due to ar
rive here in two days. She is now at
Cordova.
boat traveler makes
IT INTO ANCHORAGE
A wire from Anchorage states that
Captain Cramer has just made the
trip to that place from Seldovia. She
made the journey in 11) hours and
arrived yesterday. The chief signi
ficance of this fact is that a channel of
some kind must be open.
ALASKA'S MERCHANT FLEET
For the big rush this year a total of
36 large steamships will be in regular
operation. All of these will operate
from Seattle, with the exception of
three steamships which will make
Vancouver, B. C., their home port. In
I acklition there will be two steamships
I sailing in June from San Francisco
I and two expected to sail from Panama
i .loaded with equipment for the Gov
| einment railroad. The total of 36
i in the regular service does not in
clude the fleet of full-rigged ships and
schooners operated by the different
salmon canneries, chartered steam
schooners, which may be announced
later, nor the hundreds of tugs,
barges, halibut schooners, whalers
and many other small vessels which
annually ply Alaska waters. The
merchant fleet which is already pro
vided for represents ten steamships
in excess of the best year in the past,
with a corresponding increase in ton
nage.—Railway & Marine News.
GOING ON ALASKA j
Mrs. Hermann is going to Seattle
on the Alaska tomorrow, and Jim
Galen and E. McDonald are going to
Valdez on her. The only other pas
senger who had reserved a berth at 2
p. m. was Sid Anderson.
Fugitive Seattle . !
Cashier Arrested
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I Oliver Cline is Now Charged With
Robbing Pacific Coast Co.
of $100,000.
SEATTLE, April u.~Oliver Cline,
the absconding cashier of the Pacific
Coast Company, was arrested in New |
Orleans yesterday after a search of
three weeks. He is now accused of
having embezzled more than a hun
dred thousand dollars of the com
pany’s funds. When arrested his wife !
was with him and in his possession
was found the sum of $b,.’>50. When
asked if he intended to fight the at
tempt to extradite him he declarer
that he did not but that he is anxious j
to return to Seattle and face his trial.
(Note: The wording of the former
message telling that Cline had ab
sconded made it appear that he was |
only seventeen years of age but it
should be that he had been seventeen
years cashier of the big company.
Cline was very well known and was
trusted absolutely. Of all the people
cf Seattle he was the kind of man
to be least suspected of being a thief.)
YACHTMKN TO LEARN
HOW TO LAY MINES
SAX FRANCISCO, April 2.—
Under the supervision of Major Bur
gess San Francisco yaehtmen have de
cided to learn mine laying so that
they might form an important arm of
the coast defense forces in the event
of war.
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WANT EIGHT FIRST LINE
BATTLESHIPS FOR lT. S.
WASHINGTON, April 3.—The big
navy advocates in the House naval
committee are now planning to ask
congress for the construction of
eight first line battleships instead of
the four which Secretary Daniels has
recommended. A proportionate in
crease in the number of auxiliary
vessels will also probably be de
manded.
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NEW CHISANA GROl Nl>
WORTH TWO DOLLARS
The strike made by Carl Whitman
on Gold Run, Chisana, has developed!
into $2 ground, according to Lee
Green and Jack Sturgess who have
just arrived from that district. The
pay is found at a depth of twenty
feet and has a thickness of eighteen
inches. With the exception of this
strike conditions over there are not
very promising.
W. W. STODDART RESIGNS
That W. W. Stoddart is no longer
an official of the local postofficc is a
fact, and a fact that will be regretted
by the people of the town. Mr. Stod
dart went out of office on the change
of postmasters.
BRITAIN RAIDED AGAIN AND
HOLLAND MAY ENTER THE WAR
ROBBERS HOLD UP A
BANK IN SACRAMENTO
SACREMENTO, April 3. — The
Oakpark branch of the Sacramento
Bank was held up today at noon by
robbers who made away with a thou
sand dollars. A crowd gathered so
quickly, however, and pursued the
holdups so determinedly that the rob
bers were overtaken and captured and
the money recovered.
FISH ASSOCIATION
ORGANIZED HERE
Officers Elected and Efforts Will be
Made to Secure a Lease.
The Seward Fish Association is the
name of the organization which has
been formed in Seward and for which
officers have been elected. Those
officers are John Noon, chairman, 0.
G. van Pelt, vice-chairman, and Ward
James, secretary and treasurer.
Judge van Pelt will go back to Wash
ington after election and make an ef
fort to secure a lease and to take the
other steps necessary. Afterwards
the association will be incorporated
and those who have subscribed to the
fund before will receive promoters’
stock. It is hoped that success will be
attained to the extent of getting a
cold storage plant in this city.
CLOTHES STRUNG BETWEEN
ANCHORAGE AND SEWARD
The trails between Anchorage and
Seward are littered now with old
clothes, handbags and a thousand and
one odds and ends which are vivid re- j
minders of the fact that hundreds of
men, who never before saw Alaska
and who had no idea of what they j
were to meet in packing over the j
trail, have followed the railroad ex- j
citement. Benjamin L. Campbell, the
well known engineer of the Commis-;
sion suggested this morning that’
some second-hand dealer might go out
and get a fine stock of goods. The
men from foreign countries who come (
to work on the railroad carry the most
extraordinary loads out of Seward
and are forced to shed their “valu- j
ables" as they go along in the deep
snow country.
WATSON IN SEATTLE
SEATTLE, April 2.—The Admira'
Watson arrived in port yesterday.
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FARRAGUT LEFT CORDOVA
The Farragut left Cordova at 7
o'clock this morning.
Don't forget the Gateway Is estab
lished at Seward, Alaska.
HOLLAND TALKS WAR
THE HAGUE, April 3.—That Holland will soon de
clare war against Germany is the feeling which is becom
ing stronger now every moment. Since the sinking of
the Tubantia the Dutch government has sent a strongly
worded note to Berlin and even went so far as to hint at
the possibility of war. The cabinet held a secret council
last night and while the secrecy has been well maintained
reports are current that the decision was arrived at to
send an ultimatum to the German government. Public
opinion, apparently fostered by officialdom, is that the
war, if declared- will not be the result of the sinking of
the Tubantia so much as it will be the result of the belief
1 that the great European straggle has now reached such
a stage where it is impossible for Holland to remain any
longer outside. Some of the opponents of the war in this
country present the argument that Germany would like
nothing better than to embroil Holland in the hope of
over-ranning it and reaching a greater coast line on the
North Sea. Many of the newspapers here openly advo
cate the dispatch of an ultimatum to Berlin demanding
the cessation of all interference with Dutch shipping and
i commerce generally.
| RAID BRITAIN AGAIN
LONDON, April 3.—For the third time on three suc
cessive nights the British coast was raided again last
night by Zeppelins. This time the Zeppelins went as far
north as Scotland for the lirst time and dropped bombs
there. It was probably the most extensive raid of all those
made, judging by the official statement given out by the
i war department. While one squadron of the invading
ariships attacked the Scotch coast other raiders visited
I the northern and southern counties of England simultan
eously and all the raids were preceding together. The
details have not yet been published but it is believed that
it will be found that many lives were lost. A fuller report
may be forthcoming today.
IS HOLLAND AGAINST ALLIES?
LONDON, April 3.—The rumor has gone abroad that
the warlike preparations which are now undoubtedly
proceeding in Holland are due to a supposed allied threat
to violate the neutrality of Dutch territory, but the Brit
ish foreign office today informed the United Press that
there is no foundation for such a rumor.
RENEW SUBMARINE WAR
LONDON, April 3. — At the same time as the three*
separate raids on British territory were made last night it
was learned that the Germans had also renewed their sub
marine warfare with greater vigor than ever and there is
apparntly an intention on the part of the Teutons to re
double their direct efforts against this country. Four
vessels were submarined yesterday and twenty oi the
crews were drowned. A later unofficial report today of
the result of the raids by Zeppelins last night indicates
that more than three hundred casualties occurred. Noth
ing has yet been told as to the loss of property but it is
rumored that the Zeppelins made a particular effort to
throw bombs on the munitions plants on the (lyde.
Whether they succeeded or not has not been learned.
FIGHTING IN ISONZO
ROME, April 3.—The Italians have begun another
offensive movement in the Isonzo valley and the war office
declares it to be proceeding satisfactorily notwithstand
ing the difficult nature of the country.
ZEPPELIN RAIDS DUNKIRK
PARIS, April 3—A Zeppelin raided Dunkirk last
night and dropped eight bombs- killing two people and
wounding four. The raid took place at the same time at
which the Zeppelins were raiding England and Scotland
and the belief is created that the Germans must have in
creased their stock of the airships.
GERMANS WILL SOON REPLY
WASHINGTON, April 3.—Gerard, the United States
ambassador to Germany, has advised the state depart
ment that he anticipates an early reply to the inquiry ask
ing whether or not a German submarine torpedoed the
steamer Sussex near Dieppe when American lives were
lost or endangered.
SUNK RUSSIAN TRANSPORT
CONSTANTINOPLE, April 3.—A Russian trans
port carrying troops and munitions was torpedoed and
sunk last Thursday by a Turk submarine in the Black Sea,
according to the official report issued today. It is also an
nounced officially that another Russian ship of fifteen
thousand tons was sunk in the same sea, also by a Turkish
submarine.
CLYDE WORKERS PACIFIED
LONDON, April 3.—The workers in the munitions
works on the Clyde, Scotland, have agreed to resume their
duties tomorrow, it is officially announced, and it is be
lieved that the trouble which caused the Clyde strike has
been definitely settled.
EDINBURGH RAIDED
BERLIN, April 3.—The story of the Zeppelin raid
Jast night on Great Britain was officially announced to
day. The announcement says that bombs were hurled on
Edinburgh, Leith and Newcastle, Scotland, and that seri
ous damage was inflicted.