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SEWARD ALASKA. MONDAY EVENING, MAvJt 1914 NO. 18:5
IG VOLCANO WRECKS
12 T0WNS--7OO HURT
Catania, Sicily, May 11.—After
smoking for three days Mt. Etna be
came violent Saturday night, and the
accompanying earthquakes destroyed
the towns of Linera, Consentini and
ten other small villages. The known
dead number 100, while over 700 are
reported injured.
The eruption continued all day
Sunday and streams of lava pouring
down the sides of the crater could be
seen a hundred miles distant to the
south last night. The northern part of
the island is clouded in smoke and
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ashes.
Scenes on the roads leading from
Linera were heart-rending. Hundreds
of men women and children fled from
the scene of destruction, carrying their
injured relatives. j
Martial law has been declared and
soldiers are now in charge of the
* stricken district.
PITTMAN SAYS
CHUGACH BILL
SURE TO PASS
Washington, May li.--Sen. Key
Pittman of Nevaba stated today, that
every effort would be made to restore*
the t’hugaeh forest reserve and that
the chance-, for the measure in the
lower house are growing brighter.
SKEEN TREATS
TOWN TO BLAZE
Frank Skeen, misunderstood Dr.
Komig’s clean-up order, Saturday, and
ui.detrook to burn the rubbish on Ins
lot on first avenue, instead of hauling
it awi-y. The wind carried the flames
up the hill back of town, and it looked
like Seward was going to have a first
cla-»s forest fire on its hands for a time.
Marshal Guest summoned a lot of
men, and they went after it with wet
gunny sacks. Three hours hard work
up and down the almost impassable
ledges on the face of the Lane-Tozier
mining claim, were necessary before
the last embers were stamped out.
Guest says its up to Skeen to pay the
fire fighters.
AQUIT MAYOR
IN FRAUD CASE
Terrehaute, lod.. May 9.—Mayor
Roberts wasaquitted today of the cha
rge of conspiring to corrupt the elect
ion by which he gained office.
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Life Nets lail to Save Two
Caught in Upper floors of Ten
Story Building.—Over 200 Es
cape on Elevators.
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Birmingham, Ala.. May 11. —Two
lives were lost here today, when the
10 stor> oitice building of the Binning
ham Klectrict Light and Power com
pany was gutted by lire.
Over 2 10 pe >ple were in ti e building
at the time. When the alarm was
sounded,the elevator boys remained at
their posts, until all were taken from
the upper Moors, but those cut otT hv j
Mines, which rushed up tin* air shafts
Firemen with extent ion ladders res
cued the>e, with the exception of a gild
stenographer and a clerk on the upper
floor, who were out of reach. An at-1
tempt was n i la t > save t i * ra by seal |
ing ladders, hut the flunks drove the j
firemen hack. Nets were spread am* »
they jumped. The nets held, hut both
were killed by the fall.
TO INVESTIGATE
HALIBUT BANKS
Seattle. May S.—Four of the most j
expert halibut fishermen of the Seat-!
tle-Alaska halibut fleet, will be chosen'
to investigate tin* halibut hanks of the
Oregon-Washington Coast this coming
summer. The steamer Alhatros will
be used for the work, which will he
u der the direction and management
of Deputy Oommisioner Jones.
NEW BALL
GROUND LOR
LOCAL LANS
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Ground Secured for Field at Foot
of Washington Street. Alii
Players and Prospective Specta-i
tors Needed on Ground Tonight
Seward baseball bugs have secured
a tract of land at tne foot of Washing
ton streel, just across the railroad track
from Charley Crawford’s black-onilh
shop, for a ball park.
All fans and candidates for the Sew
ard team are wanted on the ground to
night, with picks, shovels and wheel
barrows to help clean out a trail from
home plate to Hirst base, elbow room j
around second base, and a place where |
t e short stop can chase himself around
a circle.
Get a move on fellows.
ICE GOES OUT
WHOLE YUKON
ON SAME DAY
Iditarod, May I!.—Following two
weeks of warm weather and a heavy
rainstorm the the ice went out in the
Iditarod river yesterday.
Fairbanks, May 11.-The ico went
out in the Tanana river yesterday.
Dawson, May 11. -Following a three
days’ rath the ice went out in the
Yukon at dark last night.
Tanana. May 11.—The ice began to
run early Sunday in both the Tanana
and Yukon rivets.
Washington, ■Man ! 1.—Following a protest
from■ the state department here, agents for the
K'rapp Arms company of Germany oraered two
steamers loaded with mm supplies which arrived,
at Puerto Friday, not to unload bui to return to
Germany. The ref sets carried fall cargoes of rifles,
machine guns and ammgmition for the .Mexican
dictator.
Report Attack on Tampico.
Juarez, .May //.— Word was received here
today that an attack hud been made by troops
under one of I ilia's generals on Tampico. The
city is said to be on fire and ihat all foreigners hare
been taken aboard one of Admiral Mayo's battle
ships.
Wilson Honors Vera Cruz Dead.
New York, May 11.—1 'resident J]'itson, Secre-\
tary Daniels and Admiral ffeorge Dewey stood with
uncovered heads in the rain on the custom house
quay this morning while the bodies of the 17 ma-\
nines, Jcillod at the taking of I era Cruz, were \
landed from the battleship Montana.
Then the chief executive and his aids joined
the procession up Broadnay and later in the day
the president delivered a eulogy over the dead at
the funeral in the Brooklyn navy yard.
Washington, May I /.---Consul Suth man, who
was arrested by the Huerta forces at Saltillo tri
day, was released fate Saturday night, following
an u/timatum from the secretary of state ordering
Huerta to produce him at once. The Mexicans had
preciously reported him missing.
War Correspondents Freed.
I era Cruz, May 11—Richard Harding Davis,
war correspondent for the V\'ew York Tribune, Are
dill McCormick, for the Chicago Tribune, and sw
eep/ other wa r correspondents of note, were arrested
by order of President Huerta’ and thrown into the
mil it any prison at Mexico City Sunday. They were
held until this morning ami then released follow
ing a protest from Jl ashington.
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Paris. May 11.-The Monaco Sea
Bithin^ orao.viy, whicn owns the
ambling concession at Monte Carlo,
declared an annua! dividend of 70 cents
on tlie dollar, today The stock wnich
has $100 par value is quoted at $1019 a
share. I
Give us a trial at the Seward Cafe. I
OFFICER SLAIN
BY THEIR MEN
New York, May 11.—Reports were
relayed here by wireless today from the
steamship Gregory, no* off Peru, that
50 Peruvian soldiers stationed on the
upper Amazon had mutinied and mur
dered their officers. A regiment has
been sent after the mutineers.
Razor back clams at the Commerce.
MILLIONAIRE POST
N $ LIFE WITH RIFLE
Santa Barbara, May 11.—Charles
Post, multi-millionaire manufacturer of
grapenuts and other breakfast foods,
committed suicide in his summer home
today, following a long siege of ill
health.
Post had threatened to end his life
unless he felt better and his physicians
redoubled their efforts to give him tem
porary relief, although it was known
he could not recover. While the nurse
was absent from his room yesterday
afternoon Post left his bed, went to the
closet and secured a small hunting
rifle. Holding the muzzle in his mouth
blew off the top of his head.
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^ To Paise Curacoa. ^
j* Seattle, May 9. — Captain Bis
r sett has left here to superintend j
} the raising of the Pacific Coast S
Ji Steamship company’s steamer ^
Curaeoa, which w as wrecked on ^
^ Hecate island in .June. ^
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Complete new lines of Paints, Oils.
Stains, KaUomine, Paint brushes,
Wallpaper and Houselining at Brown
A' flaw kins.- Quality fiirst.
PRINCE-IVES
MANLEY SELL
TO HAMSHAW
Seattle, May 11.- Reports have l>eeo
recieved here that the syndicate head
ed by Prince, Manley and Ives, well
known Alaskan miners, has released
the option on the Jatnes-Nelson claims
atShushanna to F. T. Hamshaw, own
er of claims below tin* James property
on Johnston crees. and claims od sev
eral other nearby streams.
I* This deal puts nearly all of the
ground in the district from which pay
has been taken in the hands of Ham
shaw.
The editor of the Gateway recieved
a message from Hamshaw two weeks
ago that tins deal was on and would
probably go through*
LANE SUMS
FORMER PARTNER
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Seattle, May 11.—Louis Lane has
instituted an action against his former
partner, Kleinsohmidt, for a share in
the proceeds from the moving pictures
which both took in partnership.
The amount of damages claimed la
forty thousmd, dollars. L:tae
says that the contract calls for one-half
the net proceeds and his former part
ner lias paid him hut one thousand dol
lars. There were ten reels and the
pictures were featured as the Lane
Kleinschmith Alaska Siberian Hig
Game pictures.
MARIPOSA PICKS
’EM UP ON WAY
With almost every berth taken the
Mariposa sailed west from Skagway at
d o’clock this morning. Vacancies
made by passengers landing at porta
in Southeastern Alaska were neurly
all tilled at Juneau and here by people
bound for Seward.
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