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AMERICANS BELIEVED TO BE
ABOARD SHIP SENT TO BOTTOM
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WOMEN AND C HILDREN LOST
LONDON, Nov. 10.—Lloyds report that three hun
dred people, mostly women and children, were lost on the
Italian liner Ancona which was sent to the bottom yester
day by a German or Austrian submarine in the Mediter
ranean. Most of the passengers aboard were emigrants,,
according to the same authority. It is stated that more'
than a hundred shells were fired at the liner and that
many of the passengers were wounded by the gun fire
from the submarine which is how said to have been an
Austrian flying the German Hag. The liner travels to
America and it is thought that many Americans were
aboard. The case is regarded as similar to that of the
Lusitania.
ANXIETY AT WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.—The torpedoing of the;
Atlantic liner Ancona is causing intense anxiety in otli
caildom here as it is thought that if Americans were
aboard and if the torpedo was launched without warning
the situation which threatened war with Germany will be
repeated with Austria. It is now fully understood that
an Austrian and nbt a German submarine sank the ves
sel. Dispatches have been received stating that the
Ancona was shelled only when she tried to escape and
that she was torpedoed only because she refused to stop
when called upon to do so, and according to the latest in
ternational agreements, her torpedoing under the circum
stances will have to be regarded as justiliable. This is
about the only fact which will prevent a very serious state
of affairs in the relations of this nation with the Austrian
empire if Americans lost their lives.
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BULGAKS PURSUE SERBS
BERLIN, Nov. 10.—The Bulgarians are now pursu
ing the Serbians south from Nish to prevent the escape
of shattered remnants who escaped from the city after
its surrender. It is also announced that the Bulgarians
have defeated the French at a number of points and have
taken much booty and many prisoners. Many dead were
also left on the battlefields but the Allies are now rushing
reinforcements from Saloniki.
GREECE NEUTRAL
ATHENS, Nov. 10.—Greece and Bulgaria have ar
rived at an agreement by which this country will be kept
out of the war. It is reported today that the French have
recaptured Vales from the Bulgarians. ^
SINK TWO SUBMARINES
MADRID, Nov. 10.—A British cruiser has arrived
and reports having sunk two German submarines off
Gibraltar.
LONDON, Nov. 10.—The British torpedo boat Louis
has been stranded in the Mediterranean but the crew is
safe. _____
FOUR SHIPS SUNK
LONDON, Nov. 10.—The admiralty announces that
four British steamsnips have been sunk by German sub
marines this week.
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NO PEACE SAYS BRIAND
PARIS, Nov. 10.—“Peace talk is groundless” said
Premier Briand today “until the war has been won by
the allied nations. Until the victory of our arms we shall
continue fighting.” This statement was made in an in
terview.
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MORE WAR MONEY
LONDON, Nov. 10.—The house of commons is ex
pected to pass promptly a further credit of two billions
which will bring the total appropriated for the war to
seven billions.
GERMANS REPULSED
• PARIS, Nov. 10.—The Germans have been repulsed
at Gevinchy woods following a fierce infantry engage
ment.
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RUSSIANS REPULSED
BERLIN, Nov. 10.—It is officially anounced this af
ternoon that the Russians have been repulsed every
where.
COST MILLIONS
FOR WORK HERE
CHAIRMAN EDES SAYS WORK |
FROM SEWARD END THIS
YEAR IMPOSSIBLE
It will cost between two million
and three million dollars to build the
railroad from Mile 71 on the Alaska
Northern railroad to Anchorage, ac
cording to the statement of Chair
man W. C. Edes of the railroad com
mission this morning. This is the
chief reason why no attempt was
made this year to do the work as the
total appropriation would have been
completely exhausted in that one
local effort.
As a sort of survey of general I
conditions before Mr. Edes goes out
side he was asked several questions
this morning. He was asked, for in
stance, wether any statement has
been made to the effect that only two
per cent of the men employed on the
railroad work altogether were
foreigners but he was unable to make
any definite statement on this subject
without looking into it more thor
oughly. The statement was reported
to have been made by one member of
the commission but, if it was, it was
only a conversational expression not
given officially. As to statements
about the relative positions of Seward
and Anchorage as claimants to be the
terminal—a ridiculous statement, by
the way—Mr. Edes pointed out the
announcement of Secretary Lane last
April when the choice of route was
made. In referring to this announce
ment again it is seen that Seward
has teen chosen as the terminal and
that Anchorage “is a present base
for the work of construction and
from it during certain periods of the
year coal may be shipped out from
the Matanuska coal fields."
It must have been annoying to Mr.
Edes to have those old chestnuts
thrown at him again. The above an
nouncement of the secretary of the
interior was made on April 11 but
some Rip van Winkles are apparently
just awaking to the fact. That
phrase “present base" ought to be
enough to tell the dullest of us what
the government means.
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DELEGATE WICKERSHAM
GOES TO ANCHORAGE
Delegate James Wickersham pass
ed by to Anchorage this morning on
the Evans. Owing to the infernal
time of the boat’s arrival the com
mittee appointed by the mayor was
all asleep. No way of learning the
exact time of the coming of the vessel
could be found, but Mr. Wickersham
will come back this way, and the dele
gate is sure there when it comes to
getting back.
COURT NOTES
The case of John S. Haynes vs. F.
M. Boyle was set for trial next
Thursday morning at 10 o’clock.
The case of J. L. Reed vs. Eri
Thompson and M. A. Ellis & J. M.
Cummings was set for trial Friday
morning at 10 o’clock.
In the case of E. B. Roy vs. Kenai
Mining & Milling Company and
others, a demurrer to the reply was
overruled.
The case of J. T. Walsh vs. J. P.
Mantell was on motion dismissed
without presjudice.
LIEUT. DOUGHERTY HERE
Lieutenant Dougherty of the
United States Army signal corps ar
rived this morning on the Evans and
will be here about a week.
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SHANGHAI GOV.
SHOT BY REBELS
REVOLUTIONISTS IN CHINA
AGAIN RESORT TO AS
SASSINATION.
SHANGHAI, Nov. 10.—The gov
ernor of the Shanghai district was
assassinated last night by revolution
aries just as he was about to depart
for the coronation of the emperor of,
Japan. The assassins performed Hie
act with automatic guns. The sec
retary of the governor was severely
wounded but the injury to him was
clearly accidental and the bullets
were intended for his chief. lhe(
cause of the act is not quite clear but
it is either due to the opposition to
the proposed restoration of the
monarchy’. The only other cause that
can be assigned is that that it was
due to the dislike of the Chineso to
be represented at the coronation of
a Japanese emperor.
SCHMIDT, MURDERER
OF ANNA AUMULLER,
SEEKS NEW TRIAL
NEW YORK, Nov. 10.—The appeal
for a new trial for Hans Schmidt, the
New York priest convicted of mur
dering Anna Aumuller here several
years ago, was to be argued before
the Court of Appeals here today. At •
torney A. G. Koelble was assigned to
Schmidt’s case, by the court.
KANSAS CITY COMES
WITH A FULL CARGO
SEATTLE, Nov. 10.—The Kansas
City sailed last night wih a full cargo
for Anchorage. She is in command
of Captain Nord, and will sail by the
outside passage.
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THE FEDERAL LEAGUERS
LOSE THEIR FRANCHISE
INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 10.—The
franchise of the Federal league at
Buffalo and Kansas City has been
forfeited and the Kansas City fran
chise will be transferred to New
York.
CHINA AGAIN TO
BE MONARCHY
ORIENTAL REPUBLIC WILL BE
AT AN ENI) NEXT
YEAR.
PEKIN, Nov. 10.—The order re
storing China to the Monarchial state
has been authorized and the Republic
will come to end in a year, the time
specified for the change in the system
of government. This order has been
made by the government itself. The
present president, it is believed, will
be the first emperor under the new
monarchy but the time for establish
ing the monarchy is probably delayed
just for the purpose of settling this
phase of the subject.
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LEVIETTA TOTAL LOSS
GALVESTON, Nov. 10.—'The
Italian ship Levietta which is afire is
now certain to be a total loss. The
oil aboard has evidently caught fire
and the ship is blazing fiercely.
SELLS LOTS
John E. Ballaine sold three lots
yesterday near Madison street. I^ot
7 in block 27 was sold to Schuyler C.
Nunamaker, who has already com
menced the erection of a fine little
home.
Lot 12 in block 28 was sold to Roy
J. Thomas, who will also build a
bungalow. Lot 11 in block 28 was
sold to J. T. Harvey, who will erect
a $1,800 bungalow for another party.
ITALIAN LINER
SENT TO BOTTOM
AUSTRIAN SUBMARINE RE* |
PEATS LUSITANIA HORROR
IN MEDITERRANEAN.
ROME, Nov. 10.—The great Italian
liner Ancox was sunk yesterday in the
Mediterranean sea and hundreds of
lives are probably lost. The vessel
had four hundred and twenty-two
passengers aboard at the time she
was torpedoed and one hundred and
sixty-eight in crew.
Two hundred and seventy of the
pasengers have been landed at
Bizerta, a French naval station, and
the remainder have probably lost
their lives, although there is no posi
tive information received to that ef
fect. The dispatches being received
here now indicate that the Teutons
have transferred their main sub
marine activities to the Mediter
ranean.
WASHINGTON MILLS GET
LUMBER FOR TRENCHES
French Army to Fight Behind Tim
bers Suplied From Country
Around Seattle.
ABERDEEN, Nov. 10.—The mill
owners of Grays Harbor are now fig
uring on thirty million feet of tim
bers for use in the French trenches.
The order is so large that it will re
quire a thousand ships to transport
the cargoes and the millmen are go
ing to make every effort possible to
land it.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
HAS NERVOUS BREAKDOWN
NEW YORK, Nov. 10.—Booker T.
Washington is now in the hospital
suffering from a nervous break down
which is regarded as very serious.
WALKS THROUGH WINDOW
IN A DEEP SLEEP
VANCOUVER, Wash., Nov. 10.—
Delbert Lee, a somnambulist, walked
through a window last night in his
sleep and fell a distance of twenty
five feet. The boy, who is only six
teen years of age, had a rib broken
and a shoulder sprained but did not
even wake up with the fall. He
stated later that he dreamt the house
was afire.
ANOTHER SHIP IS AFIRE
ON THE ATLANTIC OCEAN
GALVESTON, Nov. 10.—An
Italian ship which is believed to be
the Iyevietta is afire and has been
abandoned sixty-five miles off the
Sabine Bar, according to a wireless
from the steamer Gulf Stream. The
crew of twenty-six have been taken
off by a tug. The vessel has a cargo
of eighty-one thousand cases of oil
and forty thousand cases of gasoline.
She was bound for Buenos Ayres.
The cause of the fire is either not
known or is kept secret for some
reason.
ADMIRAL EVANS SAILS
The Admiral Evans sailed for the
west this morning at 8:15, and is ex
pected back next Sunday. Ihose
leaving on her were: Charles
Sickels, E. J. Warner, R. N. McFad
den, Miss Elizabeth Bennett, A. Eric
son, J. A. Baughman, William Gruh
haugen, A. G. de Sherbinin and five
steerage.
BIG LIGHTS FOR THE
R. R. MACHINE SHOPS
The Seward Electric company is
1 now installing a four thousand candle
power light in the railroad machine
shops for the Engineering commission
and is stringing p^J-es along the right
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of way for the purpose.
SEWARD ENDORSES
R. R. COMMISSION
Commercial Club Passes Resolution
to End Groundless Rumors
For All Time.
Seward formally put its seal of
approval on the work of the govern
ment engineering commission last
evening when its Commercial Club
passed a set of resolutions endorsing
the acts of the Commission and put
ting at an end the cheap little rumors
which have recently been heard.
Those rumors are the excuse for
what might otherwise be regarded as
an uncalled for liberty in speaking
of the integrity of the commission.
The following are the resolutions
passed at the meeting of the Com
mercial Club last night:
RESOLUTION
BE IT RESOLVED, by the SEWARD
COMMERCIAL CLUB, a civic or
ganization of the Town of Seward,
Alaska.
1. That this organization does
hereby give its unqualified support,
approval and endorsement of the
STEAMSHIP MARIPOSA
WILL BE HERE AGAIN
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Our Old Friend is Reported to be
Safe and Fairly Sound and
Fit for Work.
Passengers from the Admiral
Evans report that the steamship
Mariposa will probably be floated and
put on the run soon again. Accord
ing to the following notification,
which has just been received, she is
being taken to Prince Rupert:
On account of the wreck occurring
in Canadian waters the Mariposa had
to be docked for repairs at a Cana
dian port and she is being, according- j
ly, taken to the big, new drydock at j
Prince Rupert. This port was deem-!
ed the most expedient, as compared
with either Victroria or Vancouver,
for the reason that in taking the ship
to either of the latter ports it would
have been necessary to tow her across
Queen Charlotte Sound, where heavy i
weather is likely to be encountered at
any time and a boat in tow would re
quire at least six hours for the cross- j
ing. For the trip to Prince Rupert,
however, the only open sea encount- ,
ered is Millbank Sound, a matter of
forty-five minutes.
It is stated that the excellent]
pumping equipment of the Salvor
made it possible to raise the Mari
posa without great difficulty and that
after being thus raised the sealing
up of the forward and after bulk
heads made it easily possible to un
work prosecuted during this last
season by the Alaska Engineering
Commission relative to Government
al railway construction;
2. That the business-like and able
management of the affairs of the
Commission, by its members, has
been of such a high character as to
warrant the support of all thinking
citizens of Alaska, and particularly
those of Seward, and we do hereby
give and pledge our active supjwrt
to such Commission;
3. That the persona’ integrity of
the individual members of the Com
mission is such as to commend the
same, and by reason of the able and
faithful manner in which said mem
bers have performed and carried out
their respective duties, we do hereby
in recognition of such personal in
tegrity emphatically endorse the
personnel of said Commission.
dertake towing the ship to the Prince
Rupert drydock.
No explanation is offered as to the
boat's going ashore at this point ex
cept that the passage is an intricate
one requiring the best of navigation
judgment, especially during bad
weather. An official inquiry as to the
cause of the accident lias been in
stituted. t
ADMIRAL EVANS BRINGS
MANY PASSENGERS I P
The following were the passengers
arriving this morning on the Admiral
Evans:
For Seward; K. McDonald, A.
Christensen, M. A. Ellis, W. F. Mer
chant, E. J. McFarland, I. Smith, K.
M. Brown, G. W. Porter, Dr. J. M.
Boyle, Miss M. Ryan, Mrs. R. G.
Wier, W Todd, H. W. Miller, E. L.
Scrafford, John Erickson, 0. Bredin,
Gilbert Lee, Geo. W. Seay, Jos. L.
Reed, D. Lindsey, Mrs. J. Angerman
and son, Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Stone
and three steerage.
For Anchorage; W. Mclntice, W.
G. Mustard, C. M. Day, B. Simon, E.
J. McDonald, Al Greenberg, A. E.
Lathrop, Ernie P. Hedberg, Nelson
Lexon, Jas. N. Handa, M. J. Norton,
Jas. Wiekersham, Mrs. H. W. Nagley,
J. H. Redfern, J. Lescher, H. VV.
Ross, Mrs. A. B. Lewis, Elwina Mul
key, T. W. Harkins, D. Sorea and
wife, B. H. Durkee, Chas. E. Herron
and 4 steerage.
For Soldo via; S. Joss.
Factory and Big
Guns Burned Up
SOUTH BETHLEHEM, Nov. 10.—Fire today de
stroyed machine shop number four of the Bethlehem
plant. In the shop eight hundred big guns were under
construction for the allies and a hundred and fifty of
them had been finished. All the machinery was destroy
ed and the loss is over two million dollars while two thou
sand men have been thrown out of employment. The fire
caused the stock of the company to fall thirty-five points
on the New York stock exchange.
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HEAD PULLED OFF
FORTH WORTH, Nov. 10.—When C. A. Myers was
hanged here today his head was snapped from his body.
Several spectators fainted.
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JURY COMPLETED
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 10.—After several weeks the
jury has been completed to try M. A. Schmidt, an alleged
accomplice of the McNamara brothers. _