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TEUTONIC AIRSHIPS INVADE
GREECE AND RAID SALONIKI
GERMANS ATTACK SALONIKI
LONDON, Jan. 13.—The first attack on Saloniki has
been made by the forces of the Teutonic allies and it was
made from the air with what is admitted to be very seri
ous results. Great damage was inflicted on the camps of
the British and French. The attack was made by a squad
ron of twelve airships that flew up from the German head-,
quarters near Strumnitz north of the Greek line.
Seventy-eight bombs were dropped and the aim was gen
erallv accurate. The Germans paid special attention to
the arsenals and supply depots. Two airships were,
brought down.
GREECE EXERCISED BY ATTACK
ATHENS, Jan. 13.—The attack by the Teutonic air
fleet on Saloniki is accepted by officials and people alike as
a declaration that Saloniki’s situation on Greek soil will
not be regarded as sufficient reason by the Germans for
keeping it immune from assault and the newspapers re
gard the raid as a tore-runner ot an invasion by the cen
tral powers. The result of the raid in Greece has been the
renewal of agitation on the part of both schools of
opinion.
GERMANS REPULSED
PARIS, Jan. 13.—The German drive in Champagne
has been repulsed with a loss of twenty-five thousand
killed and wounded. The battlefield in Champagne where
the fiercest fighting took place is littered with the bodies
of Gentian troops which can be seen from the French
trenches. The attack was met chiefly by our troops with
gas bombs whose fumes made the enemy easy victims to
our guns when they approached near our positions. The
battle began on Sunday when the enemy started by artil
lery fire followed by a huge infantry attack.
ANOTHER DUPONT EXPLOSION
WILMINGTON, Del. Jan. 13.—An explosion occurred
in the Dupont powder works at Hagley today making the
third explosion to have occurred in plants of the same
company within forty-eight hours. The deaths in the ex
plosion at Hagley are said not to be more than two and
even those two people may turn up. The frequency of the
explosions in the works of the same company leads the
authorities to believe that plotters are responsible and
that they have singled out Dupont’s for special attention.
CROWN PRINCE FOR REGENT
ROME, Jan. 13.—An unconfirmed message from
Switzerland says that the German crown prince has been
recalled from the front to Berlin to assume the regency of
the empire owing to the serious condition of the kaiser’s
health. All the reports are to the effect that the emperor
is in grave danger but the greatest care is taken by the
German authorities to keep his true condition secret.
SAY BRITISH ROUTED
CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan. 13.—The war office an
nounces that the Turkish troops have completely routed
the British from Seddul with tremendous losses. (The
only place of that name to be found in the available maps
is Sedd-ul-Bahr which is at the extreme point of Gallipoli
peninsula. A battle there just now would mean that the
allies had not entirely evacuated the peninsula.)
GERMAN DEPOT BLOWN UP
BERLIN, Jan. 13.—A German ammunition depot has
been blown up near Lille, France, and seventy men were
killed and forty wounded. This statement is given official
ly but the cause of the explosion is not told. Large
quantities of munitions were destroyed.
LONDON HEARS NOTHING
LONDON, Jan. 13.—No official news has been pub
lished regarding the Berlin report that the Turks had
surrounded British forces at Kut-el-Amara, Mesopotamia.
The newspapers, while admitting that the Turks might
have secured some advantage over the British rear guard,
express the belief that the enemy report is exaggerated.
SURROUNDING CETTINJE
ROME, Jan. 13.—The Austrians are reported to have
almost succeeded in investing Cettinje, the capital of
Montenegro. The Montenegrin king and government are
supposed to have their headquarters in a mountainous
district from which their retreat by the Adriatic is
secured.
YOUNGSTOWN IS
QUIETED AGAIN
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio., Jan. 12.—
The strikers have accepted terms and
the riotous scenes are ended. The de
tails of the terms by which peace was
brought about have not been publish
ed but work will be resumed immedi
ately. The settlement is expected to
exercise an influence for leniency on
the authorities when the trials of the
prisoners come up.
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TEX RICKARD
WANTS FIGHT
NEW YORK. Jan. 13.—Tox Rickard I
has offered Willard and Moran forty-;
five thousand dollars for a ten round
go here on March Third. The ofTer
is now under consideration by both
men.
( HAS. HILL FOUND TO
BE OF UNSOUND MIND
FAIRBANKS—A jury sitting in
the Detention hospital before Judge
Brown found that Charles Hill, re
cently picked up by the marshal’s
office on the charge of insanity, was
of unsound mind. The hearing was
held this afternoon.
MEXICANS SHOT MEN
AFTER TAKING CLOTHES
Americans Murdered Were Men Go
ing to Get Busy on Min
ing Properties.
EL PASO, Jan.—The latest ac
count of the shooting of eighteen
people, mostly Americans, by the
Villa general, Rodriguez, says that
the men were taken from a train fifty
miles from Chihuahua and were strip
ped of their clothing before being
shot by a firing squad. The Mexicans
who perpetrated the murders are des
cribed as nothing more than bandits
and it is said that their leaders could
not be regarded as being connected
with the Villa cause any longer. One
account says that sixteen of the
victims were Americans w ho were ac
companying two British mining men
1 w'ho were returning to open up their
mines under promise of protection
from Carranza.
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SHIPPING DRILL OUTFIT
ON THE NEXT STEAMER
When William Fairman, one of
those interested in the Quartz creek
claims in the Moose Pass, came in
yesterday he brought with him the
complete drilling outfit and machinery
used by A. H. Case, representing the
great Miami corporation, in drilling
the quartz property of Herschel Park
er and others, on the creek mentioned.
The material will leave on the next
steamer for San Francisco and from
there will go to South America, where
Mr. Case will next investigate prop
erties for his company. It is Mr.
Case’s duties to investigate properties
and after turning in his reports the
company acts accordingly. The party
drilled as deep as fifty feet on the
Quartz creek property.
Huerta May
Have Passed
Away Today
EL PASO, Jan. 13.—Genera!
Huerta is dying. The last sacraments
were administered to him last night
and he may be dead before this ap
pears in print. The doctors have
abandoned all hope and the ex-presi
dent is prefectly conscious that his
end is at hand.
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LUCKY FATHER-IN-LAW
SEATTLE, Jan. 13.—Dr. Rufus
Smith of this city has suddenly be
come a millionaire and managed to do
so while he was attending the wed
ding of his daughter recently in New
York. His daughter, Margaret, was
getting married to John Davis, also
of Seattle, and while Dr. Smith was
looking around he began speculating
in stocks with the result stated.
BELIEVE A SEATTLE
INTERPRETER MURDERED
SEATTLE, Jan. 13.—Peter Peter
son, a Russian interpreter for the
Burns Detective agency, was lured
from his home in Seattle to Mount
Vernon on October 15 and is still
missing. He is believed to have been
murdered.
SAYS MARRIED PAIR
COMING TO SEWARD
SEATTLE, Jan. 12.—F. J. Munson
and Mrs. Rose Fetterley, who were
married last Tuesday on the North
western by Captain O’Brien, are said
to be bound for Seward.
TRIED TO KILL
JAPAN’S PREMIER
TOKIO, Jan. 13. — An assassin
threw three bombs at Premier Okuma
this morning but the premier escaped.
TRAIL FROM RUBY TO
SEWARD IS OPENED
About Two Hundred People Winter
ing at Ophir This Year,
Traveler Says.
The trail from Ruby to Ophir and
thence to the Seward-Iditarod trail is
opened all the way now, according to
J. van Abbema who came from the
Innoko country last evening. Mr.
Abbema has been on a creek about
fifty miles from Ophir and is now
tiking a run outside Some two hun
dred people are wintering in Ophir
this year and the camp is holding its
own.
COMMITTEES ON
APPROPRIATION
Seward just now is directly inter
ested in the personnel of the commit
tees on appropriations in both houses
of congress. In the house committee,
taking the congressional directory of
last year as a guide, not a western
man appears with the exception of
Mondell of Wyoming. In the senate
committee several western men ap
pear. Chief of Alaska’s frineds on
the senate committee is Chamberlain
of Oregon. Jones of Washington also
appears on that list. Fitzgerald, of
New York, chairman of the house
committee, has promised Secretaiy
Lane all the money he wants for the
[ railroad.
BEAT ANTI-CONSCRIPTION MOTION
LONDON, Jan. 13.—A motion introduced in the
house of commons this afternoon to reject the consciip
tion bill was overwhelmingly defeated. The sentiment in
favor of conscription seems to be growing stronger and
stronger and the final passage of the bill is assured.
GORIZIA STILL HOLDS
VIENNA, Jan. 13.—The Italians have abandoned, at
least for the present, their assaults on the Gorizia posi
tions. Their losses have been enormous and they have
failed to take any important defenses.
To Ship Out
3,000 Tons
of Antimony
SEATTLE, Jan. 13.—The American
Yukon Navigation company has clos
ed a contract with W. It. Taylor of
Kantishna, Si ScrafTord ol 1* airbanks
and the Northern Commercial com
pany for the shipment outside via St.
Michael of three thousand tons of
antimony next season. The ore will
be shipped for treatment to the plant
at San Pedro, California.
TWO JUNEAU
COUPLES WEI)
JUNEAU, Jan. 13.—Lewis burns,
a well known Alaskan, and Mrs. E. B.
Grove, a nurse at Thane, were mar
ried hero last night.
Pat Scott of Thane, former light
weight champion of Seattle, was mar
ried here yesterday to Miss Bess
Gaupiny. The bride arrived on the
Jefferson.
WILSON OPPOSED TO
MILITARY COMPULSION
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—Presi
dent Wilson declared today that he
is unalterably opposed to the principle
of compulsory military service and
he will oppose it while in or out of
office.
MERCURY JUMPS DOWN
KANSAS CITY, Jan. 13.—The mer
cury has dropped thirty-five to sixty
degrees in the past thirty-six hours
in .Kansas, Missouri, . Oklahoma,
Nebraska and Texas.
SCHMIDT SENTENCED
TO LIFE IN THE PEN
Delivers Tirade in Court Against the
Rotten Industrial Conditions.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 13.—Sentence
of life imprisonment was inflicted on
Mathew A. Schmidt today for com
plicity with the McNamara brothers
in blowing up the Times building.
In court Schmidt delivered a bitter
tirade against the existing industrial
conditions which he described as rot
ten.
RAILROAD SURE
NEARJLATALLA
CLARK DAVIS ANNOUNCES
SEVENTY-FIVE THOUSAND
TO BE SPENT.
SEATTLE, Jan. 13.—Clark Davis,
manager of the Alaska Petroleum and
Coal Company, announced today that
the company has decided to begin im
mediately the construction of a rail
way from Goose City, Controller Bay,
to the company’s properties seventeen
miles distant. Seventy-five thousand
dollars will be spent at once in the
construction of coal bunkers and for
completing work on the oil wells.
Clark Davis is the man who in
augurated the scheme before of build
ing a railroad in that district.
PROSECUTE ROCKEFELLER
UNDER SHERMAN LAW
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13. — The
government has decided to start a
new prosecution against William
Rockefeller and other New Haven
directors but this time the prosecution
will be carried out under the Sher
man law.
seattlecutsTdown
ON ITS WATER SUPPLY
SEATTLE, Jan. 13.—Owing to
breaks in the main pipe the use of
water for commercial purposes has
been prohibited here. The city
authorities say the water supply for
ordinary uses is no longer threatened.
II. S. MAY YET INVADE
MEXICOTO OTIET IT
Resolutions in Both Houses Asking
Intervention Because ol Slaughter
of Seventeen Americans.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—As a di*;
rect result of the foul murder of sev
eral Americans near Chihuahua
strong resolutions were introduced
yesterday in both houses of congress
calling on the president to take action
immediately and to intervene in
Mexico until atTairs in that country
have become settled. Both resolutions
favor holding on to possession of
Mexico until order has been restored
and then to relinquish it. The ad
ministration has issued a statement
declaring that it cannot be held
responsible in any way for the loss of
the lives of the Americans as it had
warned all United States citizens to
keep out of a country which was
known to be infested with bands of
guerillas and bandits. The whole
country has been shocked and extreme
expressions may be expected in con
gress when the resolutions come up
for discussion. The murders of the
Americans are regarded as the most
cold-blooded and defiant of all the
outrages committed against American
citizens by Mexicans of any side or
party. So deep is the feeling that
everyone believes the administration
will be forced to some action.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13. — The
whole country is now aroused by the
massacre of the Americans by the
Mexicans near Chihuahua and con
gress may force the administration to
take action at once. When the senate
assembled today the Republicans at
once introduced a resolution calling
for intervation in Mexico by the
United States and the six Pan-Ameri
can nations which have agred to unit
ed action unless Carranza shows at
once that he is able to protect foreign
lives and property. The resolution has
been referred to the foreign relations
NINE DEAD IN BOX CAR
EL PASO, Jan. 12. — Eighteen
deaths are occurring daily in Juarez
as a result of a typhus epidemic ami
the lack of proper safeguards is re
garded as a serious threat of the
further spread of the disease. In one
box car yesterday there lay at the
same time nine bodies of men who
had taken refuge in the car when they
became sick.
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SEVENTY YEARS OLD;
DRIVES AWAY ROBBERS
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Cashier of Firemen and Stevedores at
Seattle Uses Axe With
Effect.
SEATTLE, Jan. 12.—William J.
Hamilton, cashier of the firemen and
stevedores on the Great Northern
docks, drove away two bandits last
night with an axe, although he has
reached the age of seventy and the
highwaymen were armed. A thou
sand dollars in cash was in the place
at the time but the pluck of the old
man saved it. Before the robbers ran
they put up a fight but Hamilton and
his axe put them to hasty flight.
FIREMEN’S SICK FUND
TWO HUNDRED FIFTY
With the $75 placed in the sick
fund from the proceeds of the Leap
Year masquerade ball the balance l.i
the Firemen’s sick fund is now $250.
The banquet to be given the fire boyu
| about the first of February will not
be paid for out of the firemen’s fund
but will be stood for individually by
the fire boys.
committee. In Lansing's statement
regarding the butchery of the Ameri
cans, who are now said t<» number
seventeen, he declares that the de
partment feels that it took every pre
caution possible to prevent American
from entering regions where guerilla
warfare is in progress. He says hi'
advice was not followed but he will
take every necessary step to “.-ee that
the perpetrators of thi- dastardly
crime are apprehended and punished.''
It was learned this afternoon that
Lansing has already telegraphed to
Carranza demanding the prompt
punishment of the murderers of the
Americans. He has made the same
demand through Elizo Am nendo, the
newly appointed Mexican ambassador
to the United States. Carranza ha
communicated with the state depart
ment on the matter. He confirms the
news that the Americans were taken
out of the train and slaughtered in
cold blood. He expresses the great
est sorrow and asks for further de
tails of the occurrence so that he
might know how to act. Arrange
ments are being made today to bring
the bodies r * the i/.urdered men from
Chihuahua to Juarez on a speial train.
The more news that comes about the
affair the greater becomes the hor
ror. The murdered men were resi
dents of California, Texas and
Arizona and were all of the best type
of Americans. When taken from the
train, it is said, they were treateo
with inhuman cruelty. As they were
led out one by one to be slaughtered,
with their clothes torn off, they asked
for the reason but no answers were
vouchsafed and they were done to
death is cold blood like mad dogs.
Many of the newspapers and publTc
men are calling for the immediate in
vasion of that part of Mexico to
wreak vengeance for the murders.
SAY VILLA WAS
THE MURDERER
BELIEVED NOW HE PERSONAL
LY LEI) MEN WHO SLEW
AMERICANS.
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EL PASO, Jan. 12.—'The startling
intelligence was received here today
that Villa himself was in personal
command of the Mexican hand that
murdered the sixteen or eighteen
Americans who were taken ofT a train
at Chihuahua last Tuesday. This
gives rise to the belief that the
rumors that Villa is in the United
States were only invented to deceive
the American authorities and that he
has decided to stay in Mexico and re
sume his old lawless existence. In
formation from the best sources in
dicates that the murders were meant
as revenge against the United States
for recognizing the government of
Carranza. The victims were taken
out one at a time and each was shot
separately Not a charge of any kind
was laid against any of them and the
act can only be looked upon as a
wanton slaughter. The state depart
ment has instructed the local author
ities to secure every bit of evidence
possible and it is more than likely that
the murders will precipitate serious
action on the part of this country.
The train made splendid time yes
terday, making the round trip by 3:30
p. m.