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\ olumc XI, Number 2*0. _ _ _ __
MAY PATCH AND FLOAT
WRECKED
STEAMER
MAY YET
RE SAVED
SKATTLK, Nov. 20.—The officials
of the Alaska Steamship company re
report that there i* a possibility of
patching and floating the steamer
Mariposa, which struck a rock on
Straits island last Sunday morning.
This work can he done, it is said, un
less a storm arises and breaks the
steamer to pieces.
(apt. Charles O’Brien sent a wire
less last night that he had returned
to the scene of the wreck and made
a more accurate survey which chan
ges his report previously sent that
the Mariposa was in deep water.
( apt. O’Brien, with six of the mem
bers of the crew are now camped on
the beach near the scene of the wreck.!
The Mariposa is submerged at high
tide, hut the main and between decks
are dry at low tide, according to the I
captain's report and he also states
that her back is not broken.
Steamship officials cannot explain
why the first report that the Mari
posa was a tot si loss,
water, was sent, unless everybody,
was excited.
PASSENGERS OF
MARIPOSA ARE
ON WAY SOUTH!
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Jl NEAl*, Nov. 20. — The passen
gers and crew of the wrecked steamer
Mariposa will be taken to Seattle on
various steamers according to word
received from Wrangell this forenoon.
Scores of messages have been sent
regarding the safety o; those .■'hip
wrecked an<l as the Wrangell office
is short of men very little press mat
ter is allowed to be sent out.
According to additional advices re
ceived here, there was a drizzling
rain at the time of the accident. One
report says that the Mariposa struck
on a blinker light or. the reef otr
Strait Island but whether the light
was burning or was out has not !>♦« n
learned here.
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each got a moose
Kev. J. J. Patton and H. H. Hil
dreth returned last night from a
hunting trip to Juneau Lake. Each
brought back a moose as the result
of their exeprt markmanship.
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fish quotations
KETCHIKAN, Nov. 20.—At noon
today halibut was quoted at tit teen
and one-quarter cents; sable at four
cents and red rock at one and one
half cents. Pickled fish was not
quoted.
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BAGPIPERS ABOARD
NEARLY ALL OF THE
BRITISH WARSHIPS
LONDON, Nov. 20.—It repaired a
European ear to force the bag pipes
on the British navy. Four yoais ago
only British warships had official pipes
on board, where as today it is excep
tional to find a warship or a naval es
tablishment without its pipe** Very
often there is a whole piper ban l.
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MAY TAKE OVER COAL
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20. — Coal
Administrator Garfield asserts that
the government will requisition a per
centage of the American coal output.
MOVE TO
FLAND RS
Large Forces Reported Being Sent
From Russian Front to Combat
the British—Artillery Is
Kngaging in Duels
LONDON. Nov. *20. — Reports re
ceived today from Amsterdam de
clare that a great movement ot’ Ger
man troops, with artillery, is now on
from the Russian front bound for the
Flanders battle line. Field Marshal
Haig reports that apparently fresh
reserves have been sent from some
where as greater resistance is result
ing. For two days there have artil
lery duelling on the Flanders liont
neither side so far having gained any
advantage.
KERENSKY IS
WITH TROOPS
OF RUSSIANS
PETROGRAD, Nov. 20.—Two army
corps of the loyal Russian Provision
al Government troops reported today
that Premier Kerensky is with them.
There is however, no official confirma
tion of this report nor of Kerensky’s
whereabouts.
LONDON. Nov. 20.—Seven loyal
corps of the Russian government
troops are reported to have arrived
at l.uga on the Petiograd-Pekotf;
nil road which is ninety miles south
of Petrograd. The corps are on their
way to Petrograd to wrest control ot
the city from the hands of the Maxi
malists.
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GREAT PROSPERITY
AFTER THE WAR IS
PREDICTION MADE
CHICAGO. Nov. 20.—‘‘I believe
that after the war is over we ai*c go
ing to see the greatest business in the
United States that we have ever seen.
It may not come the first year, but it
is coming.” This prophecy is made
by Howard Elliott, of the Railroads’
War Board.
“The movement of putting all the;
railroads in the country under the so
called war board,” continued Mr. El
liott, “is of interest in another way
than simply for its aspect of giving
a higher efficiency for the use of the
people of the United States.”
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TOOK HIS DRINK AT
AGE OF SEVENTY-FOUR
BUTTE, Mont., Nov. 20. — Peter
Sullivan, placed in the city jail here
recently on a drunkenness charge,
said he took his first drink at the age
of 74, and promised it would be his
last.
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CHICAGO EGG DEALERS
APPEAL GOVERNMENT
TO HELP THEM SELL
CHICAGO, Nov. 20.—Caught with
a great surplus of cold storage eggs,
on which they are losing $400 a car;
at present prices, Chicago egg specu- j
lators have appealed to the govern-1
ment to save them by making cold
storage eggs a part of the aim\ 1a
tions. If their plea is granted, the
eggs may endanger the supremacy of
army bean in the soldiers diet.
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BELGIUM NAMES CONSUL
MEXICO CITY, Nov. 20.—Belgium
has named Jules Le Jeune as Minister j
to Mexico. Mr. Le Jeune has been
chancellor at Madrid.
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BELIEVED PRISONER '
OP HERMAN FORCES *
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PARIS, Nov. 20.—Nothing has
been heard of Gabrielle D’Annun
* zio, the Italian poet and Captain
* of an aviation corps. The novo- 4
* list has been missing for days
1 and it is feared that he has been
* captured by the Germans.
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LONDON, Nov. 20.—Serious riot
ing occurred Sunday in Berlin ac
cording to dispatches received this af
ternoon from Amsterdam. It is claim
ed that the fighting was fierce and
followed a meeting of Socialists who
were making addresses for peace.
The police used their revolvers and
rifles and the rioters used their fire
arms and knives. German newspa
pers have been forbidden to publish
the details of the affray.
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IMITATES A
GUNMAN AND !
NOW IN JAIL
Man From Anchorage Loads I'p On
Joy Fizz, then Attempts to Shoot
Toes Off Newsboy—Chief Guest
Takes Disturber to Jail
Chris Michaelson tried to imitate a
regular New York gunman late yes
terday afternoon in the Ranier bar
and as a result is in the jail and will
be permitted to explain his actions to
morrow. Michaelson was hitting the
joy stuff as fast as the glasses could
be filled up. A newsboy went into
the Ranier and Michaelson wanted the
lad to dance. When there were steps
produced, the gunman hauled out a
Colts 32 calibre and letVr blaze. Ehc
bullet glazed the tip of the newsie’s
shoe and disappeared through the
floor. Michaelson was arrested by
Chief. Guest. The man came here
from Anchorage last Saturday and
has been a liberal spender. Michael
son worked during the fishing season
on Cook Inlet and just prior to the
closing of the shipping season had
been doing long shore work at An
chorage.
FIVEOUT OF
30 SAVED IN i
A DISASTER
LONDON, Nov. 20.—'The British
Admiralty announces that a missing
boat from the topedoed American
steamer Rochester has landed on the
Irish Coast. The boat contained five
men, the only survivors of the Roch
ester’s crew of thirty men.
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LONG SUB JOURNEY
LONDON, Nov. 20.—An Italian j
submarine recently went under its j
own power from an Italian port on i
the Mediterannean to the Russian!
port of Archangel, on the Arctic
shores of Russia, the longest subma-1
rine voyage on record.
D CISIVE
FIGHT IN
PROGRESS
ITALIAN HEADQUARTERS AT I
THE FRONT, Nov. 20.—The Italian!
possession of Venice and the secur-j
ity of the Piave line is today depend- (
ing upon the outcome of the desper
ate battle now progressing between
the Piave and ttrentA rivers.
The Teutons are attacking heavily!
and are advancing, despite the stout
resistance of the Italians.
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ROME, Nov. 20.—It is reported in
official dispatches that Emperor Char
les of Austria, yesterday visited the j
conquered Italian cities of Udine and i
Gorizia.
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TRANSPORT IS
AFIRE-ORIGIN
IS A MYSTERY
AN ATLANTIC PORT, Nov. 20.—
Fire mysteriously broke out in the
hold of an American transport tied
to the dock here at noon today and
it is not yet under control. A guard
of soldiers was immediately thrown
about the pier and the local firemen
were only permitted to pass the lines
when the ship’s crew was unable to
combat the flames. War munitions
are aboard the transport which lias
half the cargo loaded.
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EXECUTED SPY WAS
WELL KNOWN BY
COLORADO FACT LTV
GOLDEN, Colo., Nov. 20.—News of j
the execution in England of Metoi
Swarzkopensky as a German spy has
been received by members of the fa
culty of the Colorado School of Mines
here, before whose students he ap
peared as a lecturer some time ago.
Swarzkopensky, who said he was a
native of Russia, told grim and vivid
tales of alleged Russian tyrannies. He
appeared in several other cities in the
States, usually before small audiences.
Word of his death was the first
news concerning him received since ho
left the State.
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PRO-GERMAN SINGERS
ARE NOT DESIRED
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Nov. 20. —
The concert engagement here of Frie
da Hcmpel, noted soprano of grand
opera, scheduled to appear here next
April, has been cancelled because of
her alleged pro-German sentiments.
Steps also have been taken to can
cel the engagement of Fritz Kreis
ler. noted violinist, who is an Austrian
army officer, for the same reason.
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NEW FATHERLAND PARTY
COPENHAGEN, Nov. 20.—if state
ments of its friends are to be believed
the new Fatherland party in Germany
is increasing at the rate of 31,000 en
rollments a day.
MORGAN, JIL, SERVING
ABROAD IN F. S. NAVY
LONDON, Nov. 20.—Ensign J. P.
Morgan, Jr., is now serving with the
United States Navy forces in Europ
; ean waters.
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INQUIRY SHOWS
PROTOPOPOFF INSANE
PETROGRAD, Nov. 20.—Alexander
D. Protopopoff, ex-minister of the in
terior under the late monarchy, has
been pronounced insane by a medical
commission of inquiry.
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AMERICAN CRAFT
GOES DOWN IN A
COELISION AT SEA
FORTY-ON i
BADAGAIN
Washington Patrolmen (lather In a
Large Delegation of Women
Who Start Picketing At
the White House
PROMINENT WOMEN TAKEN IN
WASHINGTON. Nov. 20. — Forty
one members of the Woman’s party j
were arrested today as fast as they
appealod in front of the White House
healing banners inscribed with argu
ments for giving the vote to tlie weak-1
er sex. On the occasion of Miss Alice
Paul’s arrest several weeks ago, the
suffragists made the announcement
that picketing would soon be under
taken again on a larger scale than
ever. Today’s harvest of “stiff’s” as
shown on the blotter at police head
quarters, show that the women made
good their promise.
Miss Paul was sentenced to six
month’s confinement at the time of
her trial and immediately went on a
hunger strike. The news given out
by the authorities yesterday that she
had taken food was declared by the
suffragists evidence that she had been
forcibly fed. They were convinced
.hat she never would have willingly,
taken nourishment. Today's extra
ordinary demonstration is believed to,
[ have been an outgrowth of the feeling
I aroused over the matter.
Among the women arrested were!
wives of several nationally known;
men. Mrs. Harvey E. Wiley, wife of
the pure food expert and the Misses
Alice and Betty Gram of Portland,
Oregon, wore in the list. Mrs. Wil
liam Kent was taken into custody and
her husband was formerly a represen
tative from California. He is now a;
mem go r of the tariff commission.
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TWO MEN SECURED
$600,000 FROM A
WOMAN IN CHICAGO
CHICAGO, III., Nov. 20.—Two men,
were arrested in a hotel here today,!
accused by a woman of having swind
led her out of about $600,000 in the
last six years.
The men are L. T. W. Froelich and
J. S. Level. The woman is Miss Agnes
L. Skelly, who broke into the lime
light some years ago when it became
known she was the Secretary and
’ Treasurer of the American Steel C ar
Company, a $10,000,000 corporation.
| In the possession of the men was
[ found a suitcase, said to have contain
ed about $300,000 worth of securities
in Miss Skelly’s name.
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THIRTY BROS AT
DISPOSAL OK THE
RED CROSS MEMBERS
j PARIS, Nov. 20. — Arrangements
j have been completed by the American
; Red Cross, whereby members of the
I organization, who become ill or in
i jured, will receive care and Ucatment.
i The American Civil Hospital at Neu
| illy has placed thirty beds at the dis
posal of the Red Cross slat!*. The
hospital is one of the best equipoed
in France and occupies a beautiful
1 location in the Paris suburbs.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20. — The
sinking of the Cnited States Destroy
er, Chauncey, in a collision in the war
/one in European waters early thi>
morning with the probable loss of
twenty one members of the crew is
announced by the Navy Department
this afternoon. No further details
were gi\en in the brief report reced
ed from Admiral W. S. Sims.
The destroyer Chauncey is a small
old type of war craft for four hun
dred and twenty tons burden. 1 he
Chauncey is understood to have been
one of the first fleet sent across the
Atlantic to assist in patrol duty off
the Kritish coast.
PLOT OF REDS
TO BREAK JAIL
IS FRUSTRATED
Supposed Plan lo Aid Getaway of a
Large Number of Members of the
Industrial Workers Foiled
By Chicago Police
MAN AND GIRL UNDER ARREST
CHICAGO, Nov. 20.—What is be
lieved to have been an intricate plot
to aid the escape of nineteen Indus
trial Workers of the World here to
day, was frustrated when the officers
arrested a man and a sixteen year old
girl who are almost certainly the “out
side” assistants relied upon by the
prisoners.
The “Reds” were to have been
transferred from one jail to another
today and the man and girl loitered
around outside their present place of
confinement. Suspicion was aroused
when the man approached one of the
jail guards and gave him a note for
“Bill” Haywood, leader of the I. W.
W., who was among the nineteen in
the jail.
Investigation of the contents of the
note showed that it read: “What ac
tion should we take on the outside*’
Give answer to the girl in red.”
The man was arrested and police
had no difficulty in identifying the
' “girl in red” as the youngster loiter
ing near the building,
i Later in the day, after the ached
uled time for making the move from
one jail to another had pasesd, the
prisoners were safely transferred. 'I he
authorities believe that a bold dash
for freedom would have been made if
the “outside” helpers had been able
to work with the incarcerated “Reds.'*
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TRAIN CRASHES INTO
BUS WHICH IS FILLED
WITH SCHOOL CHILDREN
WALLA WALLA, Wash., Nov. 20.
_A work train of the Union Pacific
at a crossing backed into a motor bus
carrying school children and work
men from College Place, a suburb of
Walla Walla early .his morning. Two
children were killed outright; three
died while being taken to the hospi
tals and several other children and
i men were seriously injured.
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DORA IN THURSDAY
Agent McDonald received a wireless
from Kodiak this morning that the
steamer Dora will arrive in Seward
on Thursday. The Dora has a goodly
number of passengers for here.