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ALASKAN ALASKAN
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SPECIAL TRAIN RUSHING THE
PRESIDENT TO WASHINGTON
ANOTHER GREAT SHIP SUNK
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.—A cable message from
Skinner, the American consul general at London, an
nounces that the great British steamship Persia has been
submarined by an unknown submarine in the Mediterran
ean ami seventy-live to two hundred people have perish
ed. The Persia was bound from London to Alexandria,
Egypt, and was sunk last Thursday evening. With the
exception of the Lusitania and the Arabic she is the larg
est British ship submarined since the beginning of the war
and at the time of her sinking she had aboard two hun
dred and thirty-one passengers, including eighty-six
women and twenty-six children. A large number of the
crew is reported lost but several women and children are
also among the missing. The most serious aspect of the
affair from the American point of view is that the Ameri
• can counsul at Aden, R. N. Nely, was aboard as a pas
senger when the vessel sank, enroute to his post, and he
has not been heard from since. His fate is unknown.
Later word has been received that four boatloads of pas
sengers have been landed at Alexandria but it is believed
that no other boats were launched. There is no way of
telling whether the Persia had been warned or had been
fleeing but fears of the gravest international complica
tions are felt in officialdom.
BELIEVE McNELY DROWNED
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.—Advices which have been
received by the state department and which are believed
to have been authorized declare that McNely, the Ameri
can consul at Aden, was drowned when the British liner
Persia was sent to the bottom last Thursday near Alex
andria, Egypt. When last seen he was struggling in the
sea and as several days have elapsed since the sinking of
the great vessel there is only too much reason to believe
that he is dead. It is now believed that two hundred and
fifty people went down with the ship. The greatest ten
sion prevails in official circles. A special train has been
rushed for the president to Hotsprings and he is expected
to arrive before morning. Reports which were circulated
that the Persia had struck a mine are denied by the res
cued members of the crew. No one, however, saw the
submarine but the second officer declares that he saw the
wake of the torpedo. Most of the passengers were at
luncheon when the terrific explosion came and the vessel
sank in six minutes. The acting Austrian ambassador
has already informed the state department that Austria
will make full amends if it is found that an Austrian sub
marine was responsible but all comment is being witheld
pending fuller reports.
PETROGRAD ALIVE AGAIN
LONDON, Jan. 3.—The Russians have captured
heights near Czernowitz. Bukowina, according to advices
from Petrograd this morning and are now pressing the
Austrians hard. The same advices declare that in the
battle for the heights the Slavs captured eight hundred
and seventv-five of the enemv and killed and wounded
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enormous numbers. This demonstration of strength on
that part of the front by the Russians is believed to be
meant to impress Roumania.
DR. COOK ADVISES FORD PARTY
COPENHAGEN, Jan. 3.—Another amazing bit of
humor was injected into the story of the Ford peace ex
pedition when Dr. Cook, of North Pole fame, visited the
members of the expedition yesterday and advised them
not to let ridicule bother them. A full third of the Ford
party, mostly students, will leave the mission here and
probably go home. The ostensible reason given by them
for their departure is that they fear trying to make the
passage of the North Sea.
TEUTONS BUY NEUTRALS
LONDON, Jan. 3.—The Teutonic empires have spent
the sum of three hundred and sixty million dollars in
fifteen different neutral countries to secure the neutrality
or aid of those countries in the present conflict. The
three chief methods of operating on the neutral nations
by Germany have been intimidation, persuasion and brib
ery. Roumania, Greece, and Sweden are the three nations
now said to be receiving the most attention.
MARTIAL LAW FOR GREECE
LONDON, Jan. 3.—The government of Greece has
decided to_declare martial law all over the country on
January 15, according to the newspapers of Athens, but
the reason is not given. Whatever negotiations might
have been going on nothing has been published about
them and the future actions of Greece are expected to
depend on unlooked for circumstances which can hardly
now be even guessed at
R. R. Commission
Man Dies of Grippe
Ernest Boyden Ramsey Passes Away
at Anchorage and Leaves
a Family.
ANCHORAGE, Jan. 3.—Ernest
Royden Ramsey, a clerk with the
railroad engineering commssion, pass
ed away at 4 o’clock this morning
after a very short illness. He was
suffering from Grippe yesterday and
ate green olives for dinner, after
which he was taken violently ill. He
was at once removed to the govern
ment hospital but remained uncon
scious until death came. He was re
garded as a most capable man. A
wife and two children are left to
I mourn him.
FLOODS DRIVE TWO
HUNDRED FROM HOME
COLUMBUS, Jan. 3.—Two hundred
families are homeless owing to the
heavy floods which have come as a re
sult of the rains of the past few days.
The state generally is affected but the
worst conditions are prevalent at
Tiffin. In some places the water is
five feet deep for great areas.
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❖ WALDORF ASTOR *
♦ BECOMES A LORD ❖
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LONDON, Jan. 3.—William Wald
orf Astor and Sir Thomas Shaugh
nessy have been made barons by King
George. Both men are born Ameri
cans but Shaughnessy became the
head of the Canadian Pacific railroad
and having made his home in Canada
became a British subject. Astor has
been known for years to have been
seeking a title.
NEW YORK HAS A
WILD CELEBRATION
NEW YORK, Jan. 3.—New Year’s
Eve celebration was the wildest in the
history of the city. Hundreds of
thousands of people of all kinds and
sexes turned the streets into pande
monium until the early hours. Chief
amongst the special celebrations was
that of observing the fact that this is
now the metropolis of the world.
GREAT WAGE INCREASE
BOSTON, Jan. 3.—The American
Woolen Company has granted an in
crease of five per cent in the wages
of sixty thousand employes. The
company runs three mills.
SON OF DR. SUN TO
JOIN REVOLUTIONISTS
BERKELEY, Jan. 3.—Dr. Sun, the
first president of the Chinese republic,
has wired that his son is enroute from
Japan to join the Chinese revolution
ists. He had been under surveillance
by the Japanese authorities for the
past two years.
FIXING RATES ON
GOVERNMENT R. R.
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ANCHORAGE, Jan. 3.—The Com
mission has announced that the tariff
rates have been completed for a por
tion of the line towards the coal fields.
The passenger rates are “ten miles,
twenty-five cents; twenty-six miles,
dollar fifty-five cents.” Freight per
hundred ten miles, twenty-five cents,
twenty to thirty miles, thirty-five
cents. Per ton; fifteen miles, two
dollars twenty-five cents; thirty miles,
two seventy-five cents.
(Note) That passenger rate does
not look right but there was no
chance to have it cleared up.
SEATTLE DRIES
LIKE A LAMB
CITIES INSTEAD OF CELEBRAT
ING GO TO BED AND
SLEEP IT OFF.
SEATTLE, Dec. l.-^Seattle is dry
anil went dry last night almost as
quietly as a lamb might lie down be
side a well. The great uproarious
celebration did not take place and it
anything the New Yeor was more
quietly ushered in than any New Year
for years before. Snow first came to
dampen the anlor of those who had
prepared for a wild time. Then it
was found that the stocks of liquor in
some of the saloons had been exhaust
ed and many of tahe places closed as
a consequence in the afternoon and
early in the evening. Indeed there
was no unusual excitement and all
obeyed the law. Similar reports come
from Portland, Tacoma, Spokane,
Boise and Denver.
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CHINESE TROOPS *>
NOW IN REVOLT ❖
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SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 3.—Sixty
thousand troops in two provinces of
China have broken out in revolt. Ac
cording to cablegrams from Shanghai
the new empire is once again facing
a bloody period.
TACOMA ATTY. DEAD
TACOMA, Jan. 3.—A. H. Garret
son, aged sixty-eight, a prominenet
attorney and politician, is dead of
pneumonia.
TO EXPERIMENT IN
ALASKA WINTER FISHING
SEATTLE, Jan. 3.—The Maid of
Orleans will leave this week for a cod
fishing cruise in Alaska. The trip
will be in the nature of an experiment
in cod fishing in Alaska waters for
the winter season.
JUSTICE LAMAR
PASSES AWAY
SECRETARY LANE MAY SOON BE
JUDGE OF U. S. SUPREME
C 0 U R T.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.—Joseph
Rucker Lamar, associate justice of the
United States supreme court, died
last night at the age of fifty-eight
after a long illness. Justice Lamar
was a democrat and was appointed to
the supreme court by President Taft
in 1910. He was born in Ruckersville,
Elbert county, Ga., October 14, 1857.
He had been a member of the state
legislature and also a member of the
state supreme court but retired from
office in 1905 because of ill health.
Secretary Franklin K. Lane is be
ing prominently mentioned as the
most likely person to succeed Justice
Lamar on the supreme court bench.
His name, has ,indeed, been mentioned
for some time in this connection and
general opinion is that he will be ap
pointed.
ANOTHER HEAVY SNOW.
COASTER KILLED SEATTLE
SEATTLE, Jan. 3.—The second
heavy snow fall of the season fell
last night and the hills arc covered.
While some boys were coasting near
the city yesterday they ran into an
auto. One boy was killed and others
had legs or arms broken.
A. B. MEET TONIGHT
A meeting of the Arctic Brother
hood wil ltake place this evening.
Miss Frances Root has been confin
ed to her rooms the past few days j
with a severe attack of the grippe.
OIL TANKER BLOWN UP RIGHT
AT THE DOCK AT BROOKEYN
Quakes Felt All
Over the States
Seattle Has One So Has California
and Even Buffalo, New
York.
SEATTLE, Jan. 3.—A distinct
shock of earthquake visited this city
at 5 o’clock Sunday afternoon but no •
damage of any kind resulted. I>ater
reports came in from all parts ot the j
country telling of quakes in various j
places.
SAN JOSE, Jan. 3.—A quake oc
curred at five o’clock this morning and
the instruments showed its center to j
be from two hundred to a thousand
miles away.
BUFFALO, Jan. 3.—Two earth
quake shocks were left here yester
day morning. There was no damage.
COMMITTED SUICIDE
AFTER FOUL CRIME
PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 3.—The
body of Evan Kemp, the assailant of
Mrs. Mabel Myers, has been found.
He committed suicide and left a note
confessing the crime.
❖ ALASKA THIRD *
+ IN GOLD OUTPUT •>
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.—Alaska
took third place in the gold produc
tion of the United States and its ter
ritories last year, according to the of
ficial statement made this morning.
California was first and Colorado was
second. Alaska’s output was sixteen
and a half millions. California and
Colorado produceded twenty-three
and twenty-two millions respectively.
SLEIGHING AT STOCKTON
STOCKTON, Jan. 3.—The first
sleighing since 1882 was indulged in
here yesterday. Stockton and Sacra
mento have each three inches of
snow on the level.
SAN FRANCISCO HAS
A TREMENDOUS STORM
Nothing Like It For Twenty-Seven
Years had Swept Though
the City.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 3.—The
worst storm for twenty-seven years
raged over this city and all the region
around the bay last Sunday. Los
Angeles was also visited by the gale
and in that city some lives were lost.
A falling sign killed at least two. At
one time a ferry was running from
this city to Oakland the pasengers
came to fear that the end had come
and began to pray. Many ships had
to put back wdth their passengers for
safety when the wind rose to its worst
and traveled at the rate of seventy
miles an hour. One two story apart
ment house in the city was blown
down and hundreds of plate glass
windows were smashed by the sheer
fury of the gale.
THE RELOCATION PARTY
DISBANDS FOR WINTER
The relocation party, under George
W. Colwell, has been disbanded for the
rest of the winter for the lack of
funds. The party has been relocating
the Old Alaska Northern railroad in
the vicinity of Kenai Lake and will
probably resume w’ork there again in
the spring.
W. C. T. U. MEET
The W. C. T. U. will meet at Mrs.
Cook’s tomorrow afternoon at 3
o’clock. Everybody cordially invited.
SINK SHIP AT DOCK
NEW YORK, Jan. 3.—What is regarded as the most
daring and sensational act of the alleged teutonic plot
ters occurred here this afternoon when a Norwegian
tanker was blown up while she floated at her dock in
Brooklyn. The vessel had been carrying oil to the allied
nations and the authorities have no douot hei destiuction
was intentional. One man is known to have been killed,
seven are missing and believed to be dead, and ten others
are in the hospital. The tanker went to the bottom at
once. The two tanks aft were blown up.
ANOTHER LEVIATHAN SUNK
LONDON, Jan. 3.—The big British freighter Glen
gyle, a vessel which might be regarded as in the class oi
the Lusitania, Arabic or Persia, was torpedoed Sunday
morning in the Mediterranean and sunk but with the loss
of only a few lives. Although mostly used l'or freighting
the Glengyle had a few passengers aboard ah of whom
were, however, saved.
JAPANESE SHIP SUNK
LONDON, Jan. 3.—The Japanese steamship Ken
kon Maru has been torpedoed and sunk in the Mediter
ranean but all aboard were saved. This is the third ship
sunk in those waters within a week and the fact has caus
ed people to assume that Germany is shipping submarines
overland and launching them at Constantinople.
FORD PARTY CROSS GERMANY
COPENHAGEN, Jan. 3.—The German government
has given the Ford Peace party permission to cross Ger
man territory by train on the way from this country to
The Hague but with the proviso that no member of the
party leave the train on German territory. A special
train has been chartered and the party will leave soon.
BRYAN MEETS FORD
NEW YORK, Jan. 3.—Ford arrived from Europe to
day and wired Wiliam Jennings Bryan to meet him im
mediately, which he did. After the conference neither
would speak but Bryan declared that he will not go to
Europe very soon. Ford seems to be recovered from the
nervous effects of his expedition.
KING AND KAISER SICK
AMSTERDAM, Jan. 1.—The kaiser is now reported
to be suffering from virulent carbuncles and blood poison
ing and it is believed that he is confined to bed. King
Constantine of Greece is also sick and will undergo a min
or operation tomorrow.
WILSON TO APPEAL TO WORLD
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3—The next statement to be
made by President Wilson regarding submarine warfare
is expected to be an appeal to the whole civilized world in
favor of what is coming to be known as the “Wilson
Doctrine."
PASSENGERS SAFE
NEW YORK, Jan. 3.—The passengers on the Greek
ship Thessalonica which had been crippled have been
transferred to a Greek liner which is now towing the ves
sel. The liner and her tow are proceeding slowly.
ALL FRONTS QUIET
PARIS, Jan. 3.—Fighting on all fronts remains al
most at a standstill. Nothing more than local skirmishes
and artillery exchanges are reported.
RUSSIANS SINK SUBMARINES
AMSTERDAM, Jan. 3.—Russian warships have sunk
two Bulgarian submarines at Varna, Bulgaria.
TURKEY TOUCHES GERMANY
ZURICH, Jan. 3.—Turkey has applied to Germany
for a loan of a hundred million dollars.
BOMB KILLS THREE
IN SACRAMENTO
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Jan. 3.—A
bomb which was hurled through the
window of the residence of an Italian
family here last night killed three
members of the faimly and wounded
another. It is supposed that the act
was due to a quarrel with another
family. Several suspects have been
arrested.
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❖ HUERTA BELIEVED ❖
❖ NEAR TO DEATH ❖
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EL PASO, Jan. 3.—General Huerta
is now in a serious condition and is
not expected to recover. He has just
undergone an operation for gall
stones and the operation brought out
the fact that he is also suffering from
a complication of diseases which make
it almost impossible for him to live
long.