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LARGEST ALASKAN CIRCULATION
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BIG BATTLE EXPECTED IN ALBANIA
WHERE ITALIANS REINFORCING
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RUSSIANS SURROUND ERZERUM
ATHENS, Jan. 31.—The Russians have inflicted a
fresh defeat on the Turks in the Caucasus and have sur
rounded the Turkish city of Erzerum near which the
campaign has been waged since Turkey entered the war.
The Turkish authorities have left the place and the bank
ers got away with the bank funds just before the Russians
. had completed the investment of the place and they bare
ly escaped from the advance guard which was composed
of Cossacks. The Russian guns have already started
bombarding the fortifications and the Turks are hastily
erecting new fortifications. The Slav forces in that re
gion are said to have been heavily reinforced for the pur
pose of relieving the pressure on the British forces under
Townsend in Mesopotamia.
EXPECT BIG FIGHT IN ALBANIA
BERLIN, Jan. 31.—A big battle is looked for be
tween the Italians and Austro-Bulgarian forces at
Avlona, Albania, where the former have landed another
force. The Austrians are reported this morning to be
closing in from the north while the Bulgarians are moving
from the east. A defeat would compel the Italians to re
tire to the ships under fire.
ITALIANS LAND IN ALBANIA
ATHENS, Jan. 31.—The Italians have landed a fresh
division of infantry and several batteries of artillery at
Avlona to strengthen her position there against the com
ing attack by the Austrians who are moving close to the
place from the north. When the Italians evacuated
Durazzo it was expected that they would also evacuate
Avlona but the allied governments are reported to have
specially requested the Rome government to resist the
Austrians at that place.
FRENCH MAY INVADE TURKEY
SALONIKI. Jan. 31.—French troops are being land
ed on the island of Mytilene and it is clearly the purpose
of that nation to invade Turkish territory again. The
island is close to the coast of Asia Minor and French aero
planes are making constant scouting trips to the main
land, evidently wrth a view to study the coast for the
best landing place. An invasion at that point would mean
that the Turks will have to fight on at least four different
fronts, not counting on an attempted invasion of Egypt
at all.
GATHERING BRITISH CONSCRIPTS
LONDON, Jan. 31.—Not one of the new conscript
army has been summoned to the colors yet. The war de
partment is preparing proclamations which will first be
posted all over the country telling that the king summons
all men of the military age prescribed to report at the
military headquarters of their districts. The labor unions
have made no further protests but have indicated their in
tention to see that the “duke’s son" is treated just as the
“cook’s son.”
PARIS DEAD ARE CIVILIANS
PARIS, Jan. 31.—The people killed in the Zeppelin
raid on this city were all civilians, some of whom were
women and children. The latest figures are twenty-four
dead and twenty-seven injured. It has since been learned
that French aeroplanes went in pursuit of the Zeppelin
but it escaped in the darkness.
BULGARIANS TO DEFEND TURKEY
ATHENS, Jan. 31.—Bulgarian troops, with the con
sent of the Turkish government, are now actually occupy
ing Turkish territory for strategical purposes while
Turkish forces are being dispatched to meet the enemies
who are attacking the Turks on several different fronts.
PARIS, Jan. 31.—The spasmodic engagements of the
past few weeks in the west have lulled, according to the
official bulletins this morning and no fighting of unusual
significance is reported.
ROME, Jan. 31.—Two small freighters have been
sunk by hostile submarines in the past twenty-four hours
in the Mediterranean. They were an Italian boat arj a
British. ,
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Los Angeles Girl
Kills Her Father
Shoots Him For Beating Her Mother
But He Pleads For Her.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. *1.—Zulu
Moore, seventeen years of age. shot
her father James Moore, in the
shoulder last evening for beating her
mother and the man »’s dying. After
the shooting he pleaded with the
authorities not to prosecute her and
admitted that he was entirely at
fault.
TWO IDAHO BOYS ARE
DYING OF EXPOSURE
BOISE, Idaho, Jan. 81.—Hiram and
John Cressy, aged respectively eleven
and six, are dying here of exposure.
The boys got lost in the hills and were
almost dead when discovered.
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PREDICT MORE FLOODS
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31. — The
weather bureau predicts further
floods in the Mississippi, Arkansas
and Ohio valleys. It also says that
all signs point to the likelihood that
the floods will be long continued.
MINISTER IS ACCUSED
BUT ALSO DEFENDED
CHICAGO, Jan. 31.—The Rev.
Madison Slaughter, a well known
Baptist pastor of the city, has been
accused by a fifteen year old girl as
her betrayer but the majority of his
congregation support the minister in
his denial and they declare the ac
cusation has been planned by the
saloon men. A remarkable fact con
nected with the matter is that the
parents of the girl express the be
lief that the minister is not guilty.
CREST OF FLOOD IN
CALIFORNIA EXPECTED
Residents of Yuma Rushing Their
Goods and Household Ef
fects Away.
YUMA, Calif., Jan. 31.—The crest
of the flood is expected to be reached
today and the residents of the lower
parts of the city are now feverishly
working to save their goods and
household effects. Some of the
streets are under water as it is but
the effects will probably become very
much worse before night
BROTHER OF MOHR ON
STAND IN BIG TRIAL
Reads Letter In Which Murdered Man
Says Daughter and Son
Were Not His.
PROVIDENCE, Jan. 31.—In the
trial of Mrs. Mohr for the murder of
her husband, Dr. Mohr, the brother of
the murdered man appeared as a wit
ness today and read a letter in which
the doctor denied that the son and
daughter of his wife belonged to him.
The case continues to attract an im
mense amount of attention.
FARRAGUT COULD NOT
BRING SELDOVIA COAL
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The Farragut was to have brought
eight tons of coal from the Seldovia
mines for A. G. de Sherbinin on her
last trip but was unable to do so ow
ing to the lack of buckets for loading.
The coal is on the wharf at Soldo via
ready for shipping here on the first
available steamer.
PIONEERS TONIGHT
The Seward Igloo of the Pioneers
of Alaska will moot this evening,
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Senate Refuses
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1\ I. Independence
McCumber Amendment Asking
Autonomy For Islands
Turned Down.
| WASHINGTON, Jan. 31. — The
senate today rejected the McCumbor
i amendment to the Philippine bill and
j so declined to grant the islands in
i dependence. Several speechs were de
! livered for and against and some of
the opposing penators declared that
| while they believed in the principal
I of autonomy for all countries they
considered the time not come when
autonomy would aid the Filipinos.
UPHOLD CONVICTION
OF WALL ST. WOLF
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.—The U.
S. Supreme Court has upheld the
conviction of David Lamar, the “Wolf
of Wall Street” for impersonating a
congressman. The act of which
Lamar was guilty was the calling up
on the telephone of officials under
the names of congressmen in the ef
fort to influence those officials.
MOTHER AND SON BEATEN
TO DEATH BY A ROBBER
BUFFALO, Jan. 31.—Mrs. Charles
Leiper, aged sixty-seven, and her son
Frederick were beaten to death last
night in their automobile by a negro
robber and the daughter of Mrs.
Leiper was mortally wounded. The
negro held up the car and the oc
cupants probably resisted. The facts
have not been fully ascertained yet
owing to the condition of the daught
er, Grace.
to raisTwages
ON RAILROAD
CARPENTERS' UNION VOTES IN
CREASE AND ALL AN
CHORAGE WILL FOLLOW.
ANCHORAGE, Feb. 1.—By a vote
of twenty-nine to one the carpenters’
union last night decided on an in
crease of the wage scale to seventy
five cents an hour. A movement is al
so afoot to organize all trades and
workers of all kinds to bring about an
increase. The pick and shovel men
on the railroad, including foreigners,
are also about to form a union and
fix a minimum wage.
NORTHWESTERN PASSENGERS
SEATTLE, Jan. 31.—The North
western left on Sunday with the fol
lowing passengers for Seward; R.
Larson, Chas. Tusting, H. Seidenbcrg,
Charles Kennedy, J. Smith, George
Reilly, J. Cunningham, Van D. Payne.
EVANS PASSENGERS
SEATTLE, Jan. 31.—The Admiral
Evans left Sunday. She has the fol
lowing passengers for Seward; N.
Quitsow, Mrs. Collins, Gus Johnson,
Chas. Johnson, T. Olson, H. Stites, T.
Stites, Miss Stities, T. Campbell ai •.
T. Laurence.
NO TRAIN WEDNESDAY
The car will not go out the lino to
morrow, Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Evans. enter
tained at bridge last evening. Three
tables were going.
U. S. SUBMARINE
LOST WITH CREW
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HAD TWO OFFICERS AND
TWENTY - TWO MEN
ABOARD.
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 31. — The
submarine K-5 has undoubtedly been
lost somewhere between Hat ter as and
Charleston. She was manned by two
lieutenants and twenty-two men and
hope has all but been abandoned al
though a flotilla of warships is now
searching in the slim hope that the
vessel may be found afloat. The
submarine should have reported sev
eral days ago. One of the oflieers of
the K-5 is Lieutenant Charles Gier of
Tacoma.
ALL TOWNS FROM SEWARD
TO SEATTLE WENT DRY
John Nelson is able to boast today
that from Seattle to Seward the only
two towns whose water did not freeze
up are Seattle and Seward them
selves. The water supply of Ketchi
kan, Juneau, Cordova and Valdez
were amongst the sufferers, accord
ing to the officers of the last boat up.
CITY VISITORS
William F. Rohrbaek, the genial
representative of the Hardeman Hat
Company, is u visitor in the city
again. Ben Landauer is another
visiting angel of commerce. Major
Lamode and P. S. Roebuck are also
recent arrivals.
A JANUARY CHAPEAU
THAT IS ULTRA INDEED
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(Thin brimless pressed beaver Is faced
with black velvet. IHirple glazed kid
has been used for the Jib sail effect, this
leather trimming being edged with fur
and held on by two big black velvet but
tons. The result Is rather dashing.]
ADVERTISED LETTERS.
The following is the list of adver
tised letters in the Seward Post Office
February 1st, 1916:
Anderson, Lawrence; Belmont, Miss
Florence; Chambers, Mrs. Son; Dries
bach, Mrs. C. W.; Danielson, D.;
Dorn, Mrs. A.; Frank, Mrs. P.; Fitz
erald, Harry; Gaddo, Fred-, Hoen, F.;
Hintner, Joe; Hall, Otto; Lisson, Mr.
Richard (2); Larson, Mike; McLaugh
lin, J. M.; Nord, E. A.; Peterson,
Ralph; Pape, M. W., Esq.; Reed, Mrs.
Wm.; Rohda, Mrs. Alice; SeminofT,
Peter; Shalif, Mrs. Billie; Shea, Jack;
Teresin, J. M.; Vicklund, Fred; Ward,
R. M.; Wolf, H. H.; Woodward, W.
W.; Wehe, Chas.
When calling for the above please
say advertised. One cent due on all
advertised letters.
PHILIP J. HICKEY, Jr.
Postmaster.
C. W. H. SCHULTZ WANTED
His son has WTittcn asking about
Charles W. H. Schultz. Mr. Schultz
is on Mummy island near Latouche.
The son writes from California.
GREAT REBEL ARMY
MARCHING ON PEKIN
PETROGRAD, Jan. 31.—Advices
have been received here that a rebel
army of twenty thousand well armed
men is now marching on Pekin and
that the position of the emperor and
his government is exceedingly criti
cal. The opinion in this country is
' that the new monarchy will fall.
MOVIES WILL
BOOST WILSON
WILL SHOW PROSPERITY UNDER
DEMOCRATS AND PRESI
DENT MAY APPEAR.
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CHICAGO, Jan. 31. — Movie
Pictures are novv being worked out
| to show the prosperity which has
been maintained in the commercial
I fe of the counir) under the Dcmo
i cratic administration and the pictures
I will be shown all over the country.
The pictures are said to be a purely
commercial undertaking but some of
the papers are hinting that political
purposes may also have something
to do with them. His advisors are
urging President Wilson to appear in
them but he has not yet given his
consent.
' SEWARD IS BECOMING
SEATTLE’S SUPPLY POINT
Seattle People Now Turn to the North
For Their Fire Water.
Alaska has had a new source of
revenue supplied to it as a result of
the prohibition law in the state of
Washington and this source is the
selling of whiskey to the dry resi
dents of the Spirit City. The prohi
bition law allows people to buy two
quarts of whiskey at a time if the
purchaser first gets a permit from
the authorities and Alaska has been
found to be the handiest place to
Puget Sound in which to make the
purchase. As a matter of fact, when
Joe Morris of the Palace came back
the other day from Seattle he brought
several orders from some of the suffer
ing souls down there and also exhibits
some of the permits for purchasing
which ar* necessary under the law.
To give an idea of the manner in
which prohibition is affecting the
trade in Seattle it need only be said
that when one of the best furnished
and fitted saloons in the city sold all
its furnishings and fittings some days
ago by auction the whole thing
brought only $150 while one buffalo
head in the place brought $450. At
one time that head was regarded as
only a minor item of the furniture.
PIONEERS OF ALASKA
HAVE INITIATED 3,200
JUNEAU.—During the last few
years the ranks of the Alaska Pio
neers have been increasing rapidly
and the latest reports give the num
ber of members in the different igloos
as follows: No. 1, Nome, 415; No. 3,
St. Michael, 53; No. 4, Fairbanks, 752;
No. 5, Ruby, 321; No. 6, Juneau, 215;
No. 7, Valdez, 225; No. 8. Wiseman,
73; No. 9, Seward, 76; No. 10, Iditarod
155; No. 11, Ophir, 38. Total, 2,323
members. This shows an increase of
695 members since July, 1914.
There are now two auxiliaries,
Igloo No. 1, Pioneer Women of Alas
ka, Nome; Igloo No. 2, Valdez. The
Grand Igloo has a card index of 3,
200 names, Pioneers who have belong
ed to all igloos since the order was
instituted nearly eight and a half
years ago.—Ex.
Don’t forget the Gateway Is estab
lished at Seward, Alaska.
REPORT REBELS WINNING
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 31.—Ad
vices have been received here from
the four principal cities of China to
the effect that the army of the em
peror has been routed by the rebels
after a great buttle at Chungking,
the losses of the monarchical side are
reported to have been very heavy.
Mot places
TO ENGINEERS
WITH MONEY GRANTED AN
CHORAGE PREPARES
FOR WORK.
| ANCHORAGE, Feb. 1.—The very
moment the emergency money is
made available work will begin here.
Clearing the right of way between
Ship Creek Junction and Potter Creek
will begin in a few days. Work on
the Matanu:-.ka branch will also start
at once. Commissioner Mears has
now allotted the work to the several
construction engineers. Kuney will
have charge of all construction work
from Ship Creek Junction towards
| Talkectna, including Matam.sl:a
branch. Warren has charge of all
construction around Anchorage and
from Ship Creek Junction to Potter
Creek. Brock will have charge from
Potter Creek to Kern Creek. For the
rock work from Potter to Kern Creek
the equipment ami supplies will be
landed at Fire Island and taken on
scows to various points along the line
of work.
SCHOONER EDISON
IS A TOTAL LOSS
It Is Believed the Entire Crew Lost
Their Lives.
PETERSBURG, Jan. 19.—It is
I known that the wrecked fishing
schooner, found at Cape Decision by
: the crew of the schooner Alameda, is
: the schooner Edison. As reported in
| yesterday’s issue of this paper the
' crews of the Alameda found the
t License Board belonging to the ill
: fated boat on which was inscribed,
“W 2439.” It was believed yesterday
at the local Customhouse that the
number belonged to the schooner
Edison and this morning that belief
| was verified in a cablegram from
! Tacoma, Washington.
The Edison cleared from the local
Customhouse, December 5, and on
December 14 she was seen going to
the fishing banks by the schooner
Eagle. It has not been reported that
! the ill fated boat was seen after that,
and as reported yesterday, the snow
was too deep on the beach at Cape
Decision for the finding of the wreck
age to make a thorough investigation.
It is believed, however, that owing to
the broken up condition of the two
dories which she carried, that the en
tire crew lost their lives. She carried
a crew of five men and if December
14 was the last seen of her it was
very likely that they lost their lives
at the time of the accident.—Progres
sive-Miner.
HOUSE BREAKS HIP ON
WAY TO ANCHORAGE
Mr. House, a dentist from Anchor
age, broke a hip while on his way to
Anchorage from Seward some time
ago. He left this city with Mr.
Draney, who practised dentistry here
for some time. On the way through
the long tunnel near Mile 53 the sled
shot to one side and the gee pole
struck House and knocked him down.
He had to be carried in the sled to
Anchorage and both men are said to
have been in an exhausted condition
when they reached the new city.