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V,»l. Id X ! SEWARD, ALASKA. I RIDAY JULY 7, 1916. Ten Cent* the C«pj
BANDIT NOW THREATENS ARMY
OF CARRANZA IN THE NORTH
\ ILI A RAISING CAIN
KL PASO. July 7. — Villa again looms large in the
Mexican situation and is now threatening the Carranza
army in northern Mexico. Unconfirmed reports from
United States odieials declare that the bandit leader at
the head of two thousand men is in close proximity to
Jiminez and is menacing Torreon, Gomez, Palacio and
other cities which are hold by only small Carranza garri
sons. It is also stated that he has defeated several de
tachments of troops ol the do facto government south of
Pa era I and that the rebels have been leaving a trail of
death and destruction in their wake. Information to
this effect has also been received by the department of
state.
UNITED STATES PLEASED
WASHINGTON, July 7.—The government of Mexico|
has been informally notified through its ambassador that
the United States welcomes the Carranza proposal to ad
just the pending differences by direct diplomatic negotia
tions. The feeling is universal now that no breach will oc
cur and it is said that the feeling on the border has be
come more friendly already. An official of big standing'
stated this morning li at war with Mexico might have
been disastrous to the friendly relations, in trade and
otherwise, of this country with the South American re
publics.
FEUD ENDS FATAIIY
OVER AT ANCHORAGE
ANCHORAGE, July 7.—Late last night Sain Casoff
shot anti fatally wounded Alex fakolt here as the climax
to an old feud in Canada when lakolt killed Casoll s
brother. CasolT emptied a thirty-two Savage automatic
at his victim and four shots took ellect, two in the abdo
men, one in the left lung, and one in the left leg. Takoft
cannot live.
SEVENTEEN tTM.^ \T
LE\S1 LOST IN STOKM
NEW OKLEANS, July 7. Seve n
teen lives at least were lust ami dam
age to property that may amount to
several millions was indicted by the
great tropical storm ot Wedne day.
All the deaths reported occurred near
Beloit. Alabama, where seventeen
negroes lost their lives. Several re
sorts along the coast have not been
heard from but there was no loss ot
life at Mobile or Pensacola.
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❖ BILL1K Bl BKK IN *
* “PEGGY" TONIGHT *
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The special production of “Peggy"
tonight ought to bring a record house
to the Empress Theatre. The time
for the show is 8:1b. The play is so
well known, and Billie Burke also,
that no one needs a reminder of what
a fine picture it is.
DEFENSE RESTS IN
GREET MERGER TRIAL
WAUKEGAN, July 7.- The defense
rested today in the trial of Orpet for
the murder of Marian Lambert.
TAKES OVER FAIRBANKS
AND WILL HAVE GAFF
Edgar Wright has taken over the
Fairbanks hotel and "ill condiut a
cafe and lunch counter in connection
with it. He was formerly a resident
of Nome.
MRS. DARLING TO SING
Mrs. Darling, who is said to be the
possessor of a beautiful voice, will
sing tonight at the Empress Theatre
during the movie show.
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VDYERTISE S VI.ES OF
LAND HERE Jl LY 15
The Seattle Times carries a half
page advertisement which dates that
the sale of the Ballaine lots by auc
tion will take place here on July 15.
The name of J. H, Romig is signet! to
the advertisement.
OKI LE WE TO N AME
THE NEW BOAT VALDEZ
.SKATT1 E, July 7.—Permission has
been granted by the department os
commerce to the Alaska Steamship
Company to change the name ot their
new vessel Bennington to “Valdez”
and to paint the name on her bows.
\SHE5 or R. K. NIXON
GIN EN TO ALASKA WATERS
JUNEAU, June oO.—Thc ashes of
ihe lute R. K. Nixon, pioneer Alaskan
and for many years a Seattle hotel
proprietor, were cast upon the waters
i of Alaska by Bernard J. McGee, just
after the Alameda crossed the bound
ary line between British Columbia and
Alaska. The ship stopped, lowered
j her flag half mast, and impressive
services were said. The services were
conducted by the Right Rev. P. T.
Rowe Bishop of Alaska, and w ith
bared Lends all the passengers and
; many of the crew witnessed the cere
mony.
As the a.-hes were scattered over
j the water, flowers were thrown with
them, and all that was mortal of the
well known Alaskan wore given to the
elements.
Before his death a few months age
Mr. Nixon asked Mr. McGee to have
his body cremated and his ashes easl
upon Alaskan waters, and the cere
' mony on the Alameda was in com pi i
ance with the dying request.—Empin
Believe Bin Storm
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Did Much Damage
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NEW ORLEANS, July 7. — It is
! now believed that the big tropical
storm has done much more damage!
than at first believed. Eighty persons
are missing and reports received here j
from various sources indicate that j
many ships are also missing. T?tc
Frieda with a crew of twenty-one
from Progressive, Mexico, is two days
overdue and it is feared she is lost.
The schooner Sixteen which left a
Gulf port last Thursday afternoon has;
also not been heard from.
WRITES Of NAVAL
BASES IN THE WEST;
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By JOHN BARTRAM KELLEY
(Written for the United Press)
PORTLAND, Ore., July 1. — From
Montana to the Pacific Ocean there
has arisen during recent months a de
mand, persistent and serious, that the
mouth of the greatest river on the
Pacific Coast of America, the entrance
to the 250.000 square miles of Ameri- ,
can territory, known as the Columbia
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Basin and the Inland Empire, receive
governmental recognition by the es- (
rations to protect this investment. ,
The acorm from which this mighty ^
oak of sentiment has grown is known
as the Columbia Naval Committee. ,
In January E. C. Harley and Wal
lace R. Struble started this movement
in Astoria.
The necessity for the naval base
was an easy matter to prove. The
Pacific Coast is so helpless at this
moment that our military experts say
that in case of an invasion the first
stand American troops could make
would be in the Bear River Valley in
Utah. That means the evacuation of
the Pacific Northwest.
Our naval base at Bremerton is en
tirely unprotected from a nakfl or real
attack so long as there is no adequate
defense at the mouth of the Columbia.
Furthermore, it is located 1J2 miles
from the ocean and its entrance is
dominated by territory of the greatest
sea power in the world.
Strategically, the mouth of the
Columbia is the key to the Northwest.
From it to Alaska is open American
roadstead and the shortest route.
It is the nearest point to Yokohama.
It is the entrance to the wheat belt, to
three-fourths of our trans-continental
lines, to a 500 mile navigable water
way, and to the only water grad™
route to the Northwest.
These are arguments which the
residents of-the basin considered be
fore making their demands.
Commercial bodies of Eugene,
Salem, Portland and Astoria have en
dorsed the movement. In March the
city of Spokane, uniting with the1
naval base committee, held a prepar
edness convention in which five states
were represented. This convention
was held at the suggestion of P. N.
Bernard of Kalispell, Mont.
Six hundred Portland business men
have sent a long omnibus telegram to
Washington in six sections, urging the
necessity of the naval base. The
present status of the campaign is
considered favorable.
Secretary Daniels is considering
the naval report of 1900 in connection
with the army report of 1916.
Chairmen of naval committees In
the House and Senate arc both friend
| ly to the Hawley and Lane bills for
the establishment of the naval base.
Don’t walk. HettePs sell* postage
> stamps.
Hi^ Land Oiler Is
Killed Near Cilv
j
Last night at nine o’clock the dogs
of I''red Krushar killed a land otter!
measuring six feet, six inches at
Porcupine City under the most pe
culiar circumstances. At the time
stated Mr. Krushar was reading in his
cabin when he heard the King's lighting
with something outside the door.
Suddenly they chased the great otter
into the cabin and Pandemonium!
reigned for a time. All the dishes
and everything movable in the place
was thrown around and smashed and j
Krushar himself wisely jumped out
through the window. One of the two j
dogs belonging to him was injured by |
the otter but his airedale grabbed the
big brute bv the back of the neck fin-j
ally and killed him. The skin is in ;
good condition.
BEAR CAME AND ATE
OUT OE MAN'S HAND
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Most Extraordinary Occurrence Takes
Place Over at Virgin ( reek. J
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The most remarkable bear story on
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record is a true one and it is the real!
-ruth about an actual occurrence
which took place at Virgin creek last -
Saturday week when a bear came out
)f the woods where seven men were
mating lunch and actually ate a
loughnut out of the hand of one of
>ewaru oy d. 1- C OiWeii who nem iu ! t
he scene on the day after the hap- j j
icninug to get a photograph of Mr. |(
[{ruin. On the day named the seven j s
non, including well known people like!
[. C. Starkey, C. E. Stahl, .1. 1>. |
Meaeham and A1 Muir, were finishing j
their lunch sitting on the ground
when they saw the bear, a good sized <
two year old, come out of the woods
!ind watch them. At last one of the
men threw a bit of bread towards the
animal and he came up and ate it |
after watching them carefully. Then j
more bits of food were thrown closei \
and closer to themselves and the bear j
approached to cat each piece. 1* in
ally he came to a log quite close to
them and placed his fore paws on It.
Starkey took courage and held out a
doughnut and the bear actually bit it
out of his hand and, more remarkable
still, evidenced every desire not to
touch the man’s fingers for fear of
hurting him. Stahl then bold out 1
recklessly his empty hand but the
bear saw there was nothing in it and
made no attempt to bite. Stahl then
touched bruin on the nose but the
animal showed a little anger at this.
Later the men decided to get a camera
to take a photograph but as they
moved he took fright and ran into the
woods. Mr. Colwell was not fortun
ate enough to see the bear next day
to take a photograph.
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KEEPER OF SPOKANE
STOKE SHOT TO DEATH
SPOKANE, July 7.—Theodore
Tobiason, owner of a millinery store,
was shot and killed in his store last
evening by Alphonso Pansier** who,
according to the police, Ummed that
Tobiason owed him five thousand dol- j
lars. Tobiason recently asked the
poliee to arrest Pansiera on the
charge of insanity.
rain caused death
OF FOUR AI TOISTS
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., July 7.—
Rain blinded E. P. Coe, a wealthy tur
pentine manufacturer, while he was
driving an auto yesterday and he and
| three companions were killed when
the car skidded in front of a train
near Elkton. The men with him were
H. P. Parris, John Newcap and John
*E. Quigley.
BERLIN REPORTS BRITISH MET
WITH SEVERE CHECK IN WEST
DEMOCRATS WILL
ELECT TOMORROW
The delegates to the Democratic
divisional convention will be nominat
ed and elected tomorrow night at a
meeting of the Democratic Cfub. The
convention will be held here in Sew
ard on July 27 and eight delegate*
will represent Seward therein. At !
the convention will bo nominated the
candidates for the territorial legis
lature. It has been decided to nomi
nate the convention delegates at a
meeting of the club instead of calling
a special primary. At the Republican
primaries last week the delegates
elected to the Republican divisional
convention were those whose names
appeared on the ticket published be
fore the primaries were held.
IN PANTILE PAR ALYSIS
ALSO IN PHILADELPHIA
PHILADELPHIA. July 7. — The
liscovery of two cases of infantile
Kirnlysis here has led to drastic av
ion by the health authorities to pre
rent a repetition here of the New
fork epidemic.
VLASKA COPPER SHIPMENTS
HAVE BEATEN RECORDj
ix months of tiu* fiscal year, ending
oday, Alaska has exported more
opper ore to the States than was
hipped during the entire year of
pi:». Figures were compiled at the
ocal customs house today showing
he volume of export business from
Mask a during the past six months.
Hie figures for the six months almost
•each the half-way mark of the entire
wlume of business for last year, and
the next six months business will
greatly exceed the mark of last year.
Copper to the value of $17,441*,111
has already been shipped this year
and the next six months will see those
figures doubled.—Ex.
( APT. CANE OF DAWSON
IS KILLED IN WAR
DAWSON, July 1.—Word has been
received in the last mail by various
Dawson people confirming the death
of Captain Frank (Jane at the front
in France last month. He was killed
while in action with the Canadian
forces. While in Dawson, several
years ago, Mr. (lane was identified
with the Presbyterian church, of
which F. W. Arnold then was one of
the officers. In a letter to \ukon
Councillor N. A. Watt, Mr. Arnold,
writing from Toronto, says:
“I presume you get the war news
almost as early as we do. I do not
know if you remember Frank Gane,
who went through the Dawson high
school and came out to Toronto to
enter the university. He gave up a
position in the Manitoba college at
Winnipeg to join the Canadian ex
peditionary force. His name appear
ed in the casualty list a few days ago
as having been killed in a recent en
gagement.—Ex.
NEW YORK EPIDEMIC
BECOMES SERIOUS
NEW YORK. July 7.—The Board of
Health which has been striving un
successfully to kill the infantile
paralysis epidemic admits the belief
that the scourge will probably con
f tinuc throughout the Summer. So
virulent has been the outbreak that
none of the drastic measures hereto
fore effective have served to check it.
, The mortality continues to be about
twenty-four a day and is much higher
' than ever recorded in previous out
I breaks.
' BRITISH SEVERELY CHECKED
BERLIN, July 7.—That the British army has suffered
a severe check while engaged in the combined offensive
with the French is the information received today by the
war office. It is also stated that the Britsh have suffered
unusually heavy losses in their attempts to break the
German linos. Perfect confidence is felt here that the
allied armies will not be able to gain much advantage in
spite of the long preparation for the offensive.
LULL IN GREAT OFFENSIVE
PARIS, July 7.—A lull in the fighting has taken place
in the region where the allied offensive was inaugurated,
the war office stated today, and throughout the night
there was utter calm along the Somme front. The cause
of the lull is not stated but it is assumed that it is due to
the necessity for further preparations for the continua
tion of the great attack. The lull was on both sides of the
Somme.
BRITISH CAPTURE TRENCHES
LONDON, July 7.—The British troops yesterday cap
tured a thousand yards of German trenches after severe
ish since the first day of the super offensive and must not
he judged by the mere length of the trenches captured.
Haig reports that severe lighting went on last night in the
Laboiselle sector and was proceeding at the time this dis
patch was written. He also reports that the Germans
suffered heavy losses.
RUSSIAN GAINS BIG
LONDON, July 7—Official dispatches from Berlin,
Vienna, Petrograd and other capitals confirm the reports
of the Russian conquests of not only all of Bukowina but
also of the southern half of east Galicia south of the line
connecting Stanislaw and Tarnopol. Petrograd announces
today the cutting of the main line of communication be
tween Lemberg and Budapesth by the capture ot Miku.i
czyn which is half way between Delatyn and Korosmezo.
It is within four miles of the crest of the . Carpathian
mountains, the boundary line between Galicia and Hun
gary. While this gain is tremendous it is admitted jv
military experts that too much must not be hoped from
it as the Russians would have to move four hundred miles
further before reaching the place occupied by them before
their defeat by the Teutons last year. It is also pointed
out that the further they now advance on the south the
more will they expose their flanks to the Germans in the
North. In the earlier Russian advance into Austrian ter
ritory the Russians had possession of Poland and so pro
tected the flank of their southern advance. The chief
value of the present drive is that it is sure to have a veiy
great effect on the attitude of Roumania.
LLOYI) GEORGE WAR MINISTER
LONDON, July 7.—David Lloyd George was appoint
ed secretary for war yesterday by Prime Minister Asquith
to take the place made vacant by the death of Lord Kitch
ener. Sir Edward Grey, minister of foreign affairs, has
been ennobled with the title of Earl as a recognition of his
great service in the foreign office. The Earl of Derby,
who was director of recruiting, has been appointed under
secretary of war. The rise of Lloyd George is popular
with all "classes although before the war he was hated
fiercely by the wealthy whom he taxed to the limit when
chancellor of the exchequer and who constanly insulted
him because of his humble origin. He is now admittedly
the greatest pillar of the empire.