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1 Jan. 31 Max. 23, M’n. 12 4p.nL 14
ALASKAN Feb. Max. 20, Min. 9, 4 p. m. 13.
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GERMAN RAIDER CAPTURES LINER APPAM
SENDS IT TO UNITED STATES UNDER A GUARD
EXTRAORDINARY FEATS PERFORMED
BY SUCCESSOR OF THE EMDEN
BEATS ALL NAVAL EXPLOITS
NORFOLK, Feb. 2.—(Later)—Gradually the full
story of the Appam is becoming known but even now all
has not been learned. It has been discovered that the ves
sel which captured the liner was not a submarine but was
a commerce raider which escaped from Kiel canal and
got through the British blockading warships successfully.
After getting into the open sea the raider captured sev
eral ships of the allied nations and sank them after hav-,
ing taken the passengers aboard. She traveled right
down the coast of Europe and, it is believed, she destroyed
several important vessels as the waters in which she
steamed are usually much traveled. When the Appam
was captured the commander of the raider placed Lieu
tenant Berg in charge of the prize and gave him twenty
two men as a prize crew. Three hundred people who had
been taken from other captured ships were also placed
aboard the Appam and she was then headed across the
Atlantic for America. The number of her own passengers
is something over three hundred so that she arrived with
more than six hundred people aboard. The whole thing
is regarded as the most remarkable naval occurrence of
the war. There is no likelihood that the German crew will
attempt to take the vessel away and the intention un
doubtedly is to leave the vessel here and have her interned
for the duration of the war. In that way, it is assumed,
the Germans consider her out of commission just as much
as if she had been sunk.
MISSING SHIP WAS CAPTURED
NORFOLK, Va., Feb. 1.—The African liner Appamj
which had been missing for two weeks and which was be
lieved to have been lost off the coast of Morocco arrived
in Hampton Roads this morning in charge of a German;
submarine crew. The immigration officers have refused
admittance to the vessel and will give no information
about it but the capture of the vessel is regarded as the
most extraordinary occurrence of the whole war. The
Appam was on her way from French Senegal to Liverpool
with four hundred passengers when she disappeared.
She was given up for lost and not a word was heard of
her until she appeared off this coast. When she left Sene
gal she had aboard a hundred German prisoners who had
been captured during the fighting in West Africa and
who were on their way to England to be placed with the
other prisoners. When the vessel was held up and taken
possession of by the submarine the prisoners were liberat
ed and placed in charge of the ship by the submarine com
mander. During the journey across, it is said, the liber
ated prisoners kept the regular passengers and crew in
subjection and prevented attempts at an uprising.
MORE ABOUT APPAM
NORFOLK, Feb. 1.—The latest heard today regard
ing the Appam has been learned from a note which was
dropped from one of her portholes by someone who is not
known. This note says the name of the captor of the
Appam is Moew Rinbrish which went through the British
blockading fleet and in two days captured several vessels.
It has also been learned that the Appam carries a full
armament of ten inch guns and must, therefore, be re
garded as a ship of war. The commerce raider which cap
tured her is still, presumably, roving the seas but neither
Germany nor England has said anything about it.
ENGLAND RAIDED AGAIN
LONDON, Feb. 1.—The most disastrous air raid of
the war was carried out in this country last night. Fifty
four people were killed and sixty-seven were injured in
Staffordshire, Lincolnshire and Leicestershire which were
the counties attacked mostly. The official report of the
occurrence indicates that the whole story has not yet been
told and it is feared that the casualties from other places
will be found to have been considerable. The raid was
made by Zeppelins and not by the new battleplanes. The
official account is very meager in every respect. The
names of the towns have not been given out but it is ap
parent that the bombs must have been dropped in cities.
❖ SEATTLE HAVING ♦
v TERRIBLE WEATHER ❖
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SEATTLE, Feb. 1.—Snow has been
falling continuously for thirty-six
hours here and the streets are covered
with six inches of it. The street car
situation is serious and all trans
continental trains are blocked in the
Cascades. The worst of it is that
there is no relief in sight.
AND STILL ANOTHER
DUPONT EXPLOSION
i POTTSVILLE, Feb. 1.—A number
of buildings were destroyed today by
an explosion in the Dupont Powder
Company’s works here. The number
of casualties has not been announced
but it is expected to be very heavy.
TACOMA MAN IS ALIVE
TACOMA, Feb. L—Dr. Sapiro
Sargentich, a Tacoma physician who
went to his native Serbia to fight and
who had been reported dead, has ar
rived in New' York.
DEFENSE CLOSES IN
TRIAL OF MRS. MOHR
PROVIDENCE, Feb. 2.—The de
fense has closed in the case against
Mrs. Mohr who is charged with the
murder of her husband. Dr. Mohr.
PRESIDENT GETS
FINE RECEPTION
CHICAGO, Feb. I.—President Wil
son was greeted with tremendous en
thusiasm last night at the meeting
here. In the course of his speech he
declared that the administration is
ready for war so far as the navy is
concerned but that the army is not
large enough even for the ordinary
duties in times of peace. The presi
dent is receiving a tine welcome
wherever he appears and it is almost
certain that he will cover the entire
country before the end of the series
of tours.
Bremerton Guns
Fall in The Bay
Washed Overboard and Loss is Ninety
Five Thousand Dollars.
SEATTLE, Feb. 1.—Four eight
inch guns were washed overooard
while they were on the way yesterday
l'rom Bremerton to this city. They
were to be sent to Washington and
had been loaded on a barge which a
! tug was towing. It is thought that
they were loaded on without having
I been properly balanced on the barg<*
and that when a heavy sea came they
; tipped the barge so much that they
slipped olT. The guns were valued
at ninety-live thousand dollars but it
is believed they will be recovered.
One of them weighed forty tons.
MISSING SUBMARINE
SIGHTED ALL RIGHT
WASHINGTON, Feb. L—The sub
| marine K-5 which had been believed
lost with all hands was sighted near
Miami, Florida, today and is due to
a-rive at Key West this afternoon.
The cause of Ver delay has r.ot yet
been ascertained.
KIDNAPS DAUGHTER
OF A PREACHER
Extraordinary Story Related of Girl
Being Sold at Auction.
NEW YORK, Feb. 1.—That the
eighteen years old daughter of the
Rev. Charles Klein was kidnapped by
an Italian and later sold at auction by
him is the extraordinary story told
by the police this morning. The
Italian kept the girl for six weeks
and brutally mistreated her. When
rescued last night by detectives she
was nude and in a serious nervous
condition.
Joe Campbell is one of the pas-j
sengers on his way from Seattle. His
name appeared by mistake as T.
Campbell on the passenger list.
AUSTRIA DENIES GUILT
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—The Austrian note official
ly denying responsibility for the loss of the liner Persia
was received by the secretary of state today. The state
ment of the Vienna government merely is that an
Austrian submarine did not sink the Persia. The note of
the German government about the Lusitania is expected
any time. There is some uneasiness in official circles as
to what it will say. The government is now at a loss ap
parently to know what to do about the Persia matter.
The story that it was sunk by a Turkish submarine is not
believed.
LONDON ATTACKED
NEW YORK, Feb. 1.—-A cablegram which was evi
dently worded to fool the censor has been received from
the Chicago Tribune correspondent indicating that Lon
don itself was included in the places raided last night by
the German airships. The cable is worded by the corres
pondent in a manner which would make it appear that
eleven deaths occurred in England yesterday due to light
ning and that five of the deaths occurred in London. The
message also indicates that three of the people killed were
soldiers.
AIR RAID ON SALONIKI
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BERLIN, Feb. 1.—It is officially announced that Ger
man airships attacked the warships and transports of the
Allies last night at Saloniki and inflicted immense damage.
The official bulletin says the results were “excellent.” The
supply depots of the enemy were also bombed and partly
destroyed. The result of the raid on the shipping is not
'stated.
WAS A LOOTER
AT WORK TODAY;
WATCH AND CHAIN WORTH $180
DISAPPEARS IN BURN
ED CABIN.
When the house occupied by Bert
and Joe Anderson was destroyed by
lire this morning a watch belonging
u) the former disappeared in a maL
ner which creates the suspicion that
a looter was at work. Hanging up on
the wall were a coat and vest be
longing to Bert. In the top pocket of
the vest was a fountain pen and in
the pocket underneath were the
watch and chain. After the lire, or
during it, Bert went to get this vest,
naturally, and found it in a badly
charred condition but with the foun
tain pen still in its place and the
watch and chain gone.
TEMPERATURE IN DAWSON
SIXTY-FOUR BELOW
White Pass Trains Unable To Run
For Two Weeks Because
of Blizzards.
DAWSON, Feb. 1.—The trains on
the White Pass railroad have been
unable to run from Skagway to
Whitehorso for the past couple of
weeks owing to the blizzards and
drifting snows but the service has
again been resumed. The w'cather
during the recent cold snap has been
the coldest that Dawson has experi
enced for the past three years. The
lowest temperature was sixty four be
low.
ANDERSON'S LOSE ALL
IN THE CABIN FIRE
Bert Anderson and Joe Anderson
lost “everything but w’hat they had on
their backs,” as one of them says,
when the cabin in which they were
living w'as destroyed by fire betw'een
9 and 10 o’clock this morning. The
cabin is the one owned by Dr. Allen
who formerly had a drug store here.
The Andersons had rented it, furnish
ed it and were living in it. Joe was
at w’ork in the post office and Bert
had gone out for a bucket of water
when the blaze started. He believes
the fire in the stove must have start
ed the blaze and Fire Chief Horner fs
of the opinion that a spark flew' out
of the stove. Whatever the cause was
the cabin was ablaze w'hen Bert re
turned. The fire department was
right on the spot immediately but the
interior of the place w'as consumed.
The tenants lost all their clothes and
personal belongings. Bert also lost
part of his business stock.
AUSTRALIAN BALLOT
SYSTEM FOR SEWARD
Inspired by an unconquerable sense
of honor and righteousness the inner
cabinet of Seward’s municipal gov
ernment last night began the work of
making the Australian ballot system
the system which will prevail here in
future. An ordinance will be introduc
ed later so that some more printing
can be done at the expense of the
city. This council has now passed a
number of ordinances that will make
it go down in history as the greatest
law-making body of this or any other
time. The introduction of the Aus
tralian system is said to have been
made legal by an act of the Juneau
legislature, but whether the Juneau
legislature could enact such a law still
remains to be seen.
The W. C. T. U. yesterday decided
to disband with the purpose of later
reorganizing when the National W. C.
T. U. representative comes during
the summer.
COMMISSION GOVT.
BILL A DANGER
Contains a Joker That May Place
Alaska Under Bunch oi
Carpet Baggers
It has been made clear tha*, the
Development Board biM wliirh has
been introduced in .ongress fo * the
purpose of conducting the atfa is of
Alaska might mean nothing more or
| less than that the territory is to be
governed by carpet baggers. Those
who read the interview with Senator
Ray in yesterday’s Gateway will re-!
member that he suggested that the
method of selecting the personnel of |
the Board might be a Joker and some
other people have since called atten
tion to the fact and they thoroughly
agree with Ray’s views. J. L. Galen
and Representative W. VV. Getchell
are amongst those who believe the
bill contains the joker all right. The
bill provides that of the five men U>
constitute the Hoard two must be the
governor and the survey or-general
and that two mu it be residents of the
territory. It is pointed out that as
the governor and surveyor-general
are residents of the territory the
other three can be outsiders anti,
therefore, be the real bosses of the
territory. Some of the people spoken
to believe this “joker” is intended but
it might be an oversight.
BOOTLEGGERS WILL
LOSE THEIR LOTS
ANCHORAGE, Feb. 2.—Private
advices have been received that state
that Secretary I^ane of the Interior
Department has reached the decision
to take away the lots partly purchas
ed by the people convicted of boot
legging here. The selling of liquor
is regarded as a violation of the regu
lations. Other cases of the same
kind are now pending and the same
action is believed to be probable. The
parties involved are those who were
found guilty in the local Commission
er’s court.
PIONEERS PRESENTED
WITH NEW GAVELS
Theodore Sweers and Jacob Phile
both presented the Seward Igloo of
the Pioneers of Alaska with fine gav
els at the meeting last evening. This
meeting was a most interesting one.
John C. Smith of Unga was elected to
the order and E. F. Casscl and W. E.
Rich were initiated. A new commit
tee was appointed to look after en
tertainments. The members of the
committee are Matt Button, Ray Ash
croft and Grant Carlson. It is intend
ed to have an entertainment in a
couple of weeks. Last night a lunch
was served and the meeting was
really an entertainment in itself.
HORNER APPOINTED
Mel Homer was elected flue in
spector last night by the city council
at a salary of fifty dollars a month.
The duties of inspector will be in ad
dition to those of fire chief.
SEWARD MAN GOING OUT
FOR SWIMMING RAC E
Jimmie Hammond will go out • n
one of the first boats and will be one
of the team that will represent the
Seattle Athletic Club in the annual
swimming contests against other
cities and organizations.
FIREMEN WILL HAVE
MEETING TOMORROW
Tomorrow evening the members of
the fire department will meet and
part of the business to be transacted
will be action on the resolution in
troduced by Alex McDonald about the
supply of water.
DREDGES IN DAWSON
NOW GETTING READY
DAWSON, Feb. 1.—Work has al
ready been begun to get several of
the dredges ready for the spring
work. It is expected that every j
dredge in the camp will be operated ^
this Bummer.
Quarter ol’ All The
Midshipmen Fired
Navy Cleaned of the Men Who Failed
In Their Examinations.
ANNAPOLIS, Feb. 1.—Two hun
dred and twenty midshipmen, a
quarter of the entire enrollment, have
been asked to resign because of fail
ure in the annual examinations. The
resignations have been asked for as
the first step in the effort to make the
navy as efficient as possible. Hither
to, the authorities say, the examina
tions were conducted in a way which
indicated that they were of no im
portance and slipshod methods had
crept in.
TWO FIRE ALARMS FOR
VERY SAME HOUSE
In addition to the fire which
destroyed the cabin just ofT Fourth
avenue today there were also two
“alarm” which came from ore house.
This house is owned by Wm. Mc
Neiley and is next to his hotel. It
is occupied by Mrs. James and her
son, L. L. James, Jr. At about 9 a.
m. someone told Mrs. James t^at the
house was afire in a casual manner
and, sure enough, there was smoke
issuing from the place where the
pipe goes through the roof. Ray
Ashcroft and some others put it out
and all was tranquil again for quite
awhile until Miss Carlson informed
Mrs. James that tho house was afire
once more. With the experience gain
ed in the first fire Leander easily ex
tinguished the second, he says. The
alarms w’erc caused by the igniting
of creosote.
❖ THE CARD PARTY *
❖ THIS EVENING *
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Nothing more need be said except
the w'ords in this heading about the
| card party which will take place this
evening in the basement of St. Peter’s
j church. It will be a delightful affair
and something really new. Every
one is invited and welcome.