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WILSON REFUSES IMSCtISS BRYAN STATEM NI
REPORT A BRITISH BATTLESHIP
HAS BEEN SUNK AT DARDANELLES
REPORT DREADNAUGHT SUNK
NEW YORK, June 15—Arrivals from Europe to
day report that the British battleship Agamemnon was
sunk at the Dardanelles three weeks ago and that the
news was suppressed by the British government. As the
Allies control the lines of communication between this
country and the European continent it is quite possible
that such news could have been hidden. I he Agamemnon
was a dreadnaught of sixteen thousand tons. She was
built in 1!*>$ and at that time was one of the greatest ves
sels of the navies of the world. The conveyors of the in
formation are unable to say whether the vessel was sunk
by a submarine or by the guns of the lurkish forts.
BRITISH DAILY LOSE $15,000,000
LONDON. June 15.—Premier Asquith announced in
the house of commons this afternoon that the war is cost
ing Great Britain fifteen million dollars daily but however,
that in spite of this tremendous expense the country
would continue it to an end. A British trawler was toi-i
pedoed and sunk with a loss of seven lives today in the
North sea. The Board of Trade inquiry into the sinking
of the Lusitania began this morning.
ITALY ACCUSES AUSTRIA
ROME, June 15—It is charged that the Austrians
are encouraging brigandage now in the territory occupied
bv the Italians. According to the information iecei\ed
many outrages are being constantly committed against
the Italian residents of those places and muidei is
frequent.
LOSSES HEAVY
GENEVA, June 15.—The battle of the Isonzo valley
is still proceeding between the Italian and Austrian main
armies. The losses on both sides are heavy but the true
facts as to the progress of the struggle cannot be ascer
tained. Both sides claim to be gaining advantages but
neither seems to regard those advantages as decisive. On
the result will depend a great deal m relation to the
Italian invasion.
TO TALK TO KAISER
-BERLIN, June 15.—The United States ambassador,
Gerard, states that he expects to have an interview- with
the kaiser before the answer to the American note is sent
to Washington- The emperor is now away at the f ont
lmt will probablv meet the ambassador immediately on his
return to Berlin. Several days will probably elapse before
the answer will be tort booming. _
I VLLS FOR BIDS FOR
FOURTH AYE. WORK.
Seward Duma Meets Again and
Basses More Ordinances
Etcetera.
A petition presented by the resi
dents of Third avenue, Washington to j
Adams, for the improvement of that j
street was held over by the municipal
Duma last evening as some of the city j
council believed that the street ought
to be improved further north than
Adams. Mr. Youngs even spoke of an
“old feeling’’ which he seemed to sug- j
gest still exists and is nurtured by one
class against another. From what
could be gathered it seemed to be sug- i
gested that the plebians rather resent
giving board sidewalks to the patri
% cians. Mr. Crawford, as far as a com
parative stranger could see, was in
this case the tribune of the people. He
fought hard against putting back the
petition and said there was no reason
for not acting on it. He voted alone,
however, and then came the petition
from residents of Second avenue and
what do you think?—Mr. Crawford
moved to have the petition LAID
OVER. In this he also voted alone.
The Second avenue petitioners want a
four foot sidewalk.
Soon afterwards Mr. Chamberlin
addressed the council and declared
that the work should be carried on as
soon as possible to give employment
to the men of the town until railroad j
work starts up. The city engineer, j
Mr. Whitfield, declared he could put
forty men to work tomorrow if the
council said so.
“Lay it over for a week” says Mr.
Crawford.
The ordinance calling for bids for
the work on Fourth avenue was pass
ed. The bids will be opened June 24.
Mr. Chamberlin moved a resolution
to the effect that it was the sense of
the council that additions should be
built to the schools to provide for the
coming increase in the number of
children, that a heating plant, etc.
should be installed. He expressed the
belief that two additional teachers
will be necessary, and it was agreed
that the school committee should in
vestigate with a view to getting esti
mates of the probable expense.
Just before adjournment Mr.
Youngs requested that his resignation
as a member of the assessment com
mittee be placed on record. Mr.
Youngs very properly resigned at the
previous meeting when he found that
personal or petty political reasons,
which seem to sway the duma to such
an extent in all matters, had caused
the solons to turn down the recom
mendation of the committtee in the
appointment of an assessor.
lane is enable to
COME NORTH, HE WIRES.
In a telegram received by Governor
Strong yesterday, Franklin Iv. Lane,
Secretary of the Interior Department,
says that owing to unsettled condi
tions in regard to the foreign rela
tions of the United States, he will be
unable to plan on coming to Alaska
this summer.
Secretary Lane had contemplated
coming North in June, having had a
trip to Metlakahtla in mind/for the
purpose of studying the trouble there.
—(Juneau Empire.)
Meet rne at The Branch.
❖ W. VIRGINIA MUST *
❖ PAY HALF OF DEBT. ❖
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WASHINGTON, June 15.—By a
decision of the United States supreme
I court yesterday the state of West
| Virginia will be compelled to pay her
share of the debt of Virginia at the
time West V'irginia became a seperate
state in 1863. The West Virginia
portion of the debt is twelve and a
half millions.
ARSON PLOT DISCOVERED.
LOS ANGELES, June 14.—Five
men have been arrested here on the
charge of being implicated in an arson
plot whose ramifications extend from
this city to San Francisco. The police
are reticent about the real nature of
the conspiracy but the facts are ex
pected to be fully known today.
PORTUGAL CABINET RESIGNS.
LISBON, Juno 15.—The new cabi
net resigned today after some serious
protests that threatened for a time to
develope into another revolution.
Some trouble is still possible over the
selection of a succeeding administra
tion.
CAPT. LE BALLISTER DEAD.
SEATTLE, June 15.—Captain Lo
Ballister died here last night of
apoplexy.
I). $. INFERENCE
BEGAN TODAY
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FORMER MEMBERS OF CABINET
URGE INCREASE OF AMERI
CAN NAVAL STRENGTH.
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NEW YORK, June 15.—The “Peace
Preparation Conference,” began here
today. The object of the conference
is to awaken the United States to the
danger to which she is exposed by her
lack of preparation to meet a hostile
power of the first class. Von Meyer,
former secretary of the navy, urged
the building of a greater navy and de
clared that the present equipment is
ineffective and some if it entirely use
less. Amongst the other speakers are
former Secretaries Stimson, Lyman,
Abbott and Dickinson, also Alton
Parker, Joseph S. Choate and others
of almost equal prominence. All of
them favor not only the improvement
of the present navy but also the build
ing of a greater number of new ships.
CARPENTER TO WRITE US UP.
SEATTLE, June 15.—Frank Car
penter, writer and geographer, is now
here enroute to Alaska to write
articles on the territory for the east
ern papers.
FRANK CASE HAS BEEN~
POSTPONED TO WEDNESDAY.
ATLANTA, June 15.—The hearing
of the Frank Case has been adjorned
by the governor to Wednesday after
noon. The hearing is expected to be
much longer than had been anticipat
ed as new factors are entering into
the matter and the friends and at
torneys of the condemned man are
leaving nothing undone to save him.
CASH REGISTER MEN
SAVED BY THE COURT.
WASHINGTON, June 15.—The
supreme court has declined to review
the reversal of the conviction of the
Cash Register officials.
[WILSON QUIET
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REFUSES TO DISCUSS STATE
MENT THAT NOTE TO GER
MANY WAS ALTERED.
WASHINGTON, June 15.—Presi
dent WIson declines to discuss the
statement by Bryan that the note to
Germany was altered after the resig
nation of the secretary of state. He
was asked directly by the represent
atives of the press in Washington if
he desired to speak on the subject but
nothingr could be obtained from h in.
The public generally take it that when
Lansing denied Bryan’s statement he
was speaking for the president but
this is the only ground on which could
be founded the belief that the presi
dent denies the assertion of'Tiis form
er right hand man. The matter con
tinues to be the big political sensation
of the day. Some of the papers oppos
ed to the administration hint that
Bryan did not make so serious a
charge without foundation but the
administration press treat the ex-sec
retary severely.
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* TORNADO RUINS CROP *
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HASTINGS, Neb., June 15.—Two
tornadoes swept over parts of this
state yesterday and inflicted fright
ful damage on the wheat crop. In
Adams county the crop is a total loss.
Other injuries were also inflicted but
no lives have been lost.
SCHOOL BOARD VERSUS
THE CITY COUNCIL.
Board Still Insists that Old School
Building Cannot be Sold
Except by Itself.
At last night’s meeting of the—the
—city council the city attorney stated
that according to a decision handed
down in a case between the city coun
cil and school board of Nome the
council could compel the school board
to “come to time.” h rom this the
council seemed to believe that it can
sell the old school house without ask
ing the permission of the board. Mr.
Coppernoll secured his information
from John Rustgard of Juneau who
was city attorney in Nome at the
time the matter came up. If memory
is correct that Nome case had nothing
whatever to do with any question
similar to the one before the two Se
ward bodies. In Nome the school
board declared that the council had
to turn over to the board any funds
which the board demanded, provided,
no doubt, that the amount asked for
did not exceed the amount received
from licenses which were specially in
tended for school purposes. The dif
ference of opinion in Sew aid aiises
from the fact that the city council be
lieves it has the right to sell the old
school house while the board states
that the house was given for educa
tional purposes before the council ex
isted, and that, therefore, it could not
be regarded as within the jurisdiction
of the council. The Nome council w’on
their case against the board but the
question was a totally different one.
However, Curtis Morford of the school
board says the board is willing to sell
the property if it can secure a fair
price for it, but the board apparently
still insists that it is the sole arbiter
in the matter.
BIG SUITS AGAINST R. R.
NEW \rORK, June 15.—Mrs. Wil
liam Laimber has brought suit
against the Long Island railroad for
three quarters of a million, and Mrs.
Osgood Pell has brought suit against
the same road for a quarter of a mil
lion for the loss of their husbands wdio
were killed by a train of that road at
a grade crossing.
GERMANY CLAIMS ANOTHER BIG
VICTORY OVER THE RUSSIANS
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❖ CAMINETTI MUST *
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WASHINGTON, June 15.—The
supreme court has refused to review
the case against Caminetti who was
convicted of an often jc against the
Mann Act in California. It has taken
under advisement the case of Diggs
who was the alleged partner of Cami
netti in the taking of young girls
from one state to another.
STRIKERS ATTEMPT TO
WRECK ELEVATED CARS.
CHICAGO, June 15.—The strikers
made an attempt to wreck the cars on
the elevated that were started run
ning late in the morning by the aid
of strike breakers. The surface cars
are now running in some parts of the
city in spite of the efforts of the
strikers to prevent them.
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WILSON WORKING ON
MEXICAN QUESTION.!
WASHINGTON, June 15.—Presi
dent Wilson is now working on the
Mexican question and will be ready to
make a statement in a short time. As
matters look in that republic now the
interference of this country can hard
ly be avoided.
ALAMEDA IN SEATTLE.
SEATTLE, June 15.—The Alameda
arrived here last night.
STRIKERS CAST
BOMBSjOF ACID
VIOLENT ACTS AND FIERCE
FIGHTING TURN CHICAGO
INTO A BEDLAM.
CHICAGO, June 15.—The strikers
became violent this afternoon and are
now committing crimes which have
never been equalled in the history of
labor troubles. They are using bombs
charged with acids which they throw
at the cars on the elevated lines and
make traveling almost impossible.
Several fights have been reported in
various parts of the city and Chicago
is almost reduced to the condition of
a city attacked by a foreign, enemy.
A board of arbitration is about to at
tempt to end the strike and will meet
this evening but at present matters
look very serious.
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NEW YORK, June 15.—Advertise
ments appear in all the newspapers
here today calling for carmen for
Chicago. It is stated that similar ad
vertisements are being published in
other cities.
RIGGS NOT AMBITIOUS
POLITICALLY, HE SAYS.
Interviewed at Fairbanks regarding
published reports that his Northern
friends were advocating his candidacy
for delegate to congress or other poli
tical office in Alaska, Commissioner
Thomas Riggs, jr., of the Alaska En
gineering board, said it was news to
him. He expects to take up his resi
dence in the interior next y£ar close
to his work, but he says he has abso
lutely no political aspirations or In
tentions, being well satisfied now and
believing he can best serve Alaska in
building railroads.—(Ex.)
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VALDEZ.—U. S. Commissioner
Love fined a female gypsy $25.00 and j
cost for stealing. The cost totaled
$38.05 and the “lady” was forced to
pay or go to jail. She paid and the
band of gypsies then left the town.
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SMASH RUSSIANS AGAIN
BERLIN, June 15.—The Germans have again inflict
ed a terriffic blow on the Russians in the country to the
northwest of Lemberg and have captured sixteen thou
sand Russian troops. Our troops have now advanced to
the northwest of Jaroslaw right up to the Vistula river.
The movement has been made by General Mackensen who
now promises to occupy the same place in the hearts of
Germans as von Hindenburg himself. His line extends
from a point that is only twenty miles northwest of Lem
berg for a distance of eighty miles to the banks of the
Vistula. The Russians made a determined effort to out
flank his left but failed completely and were driven back.
In the meantime the Austrians are operating along the
Dniester south of Lemberg and that city is placed in a
position which is very similar to the position in which
Przemysl found itself just before its capture by us and
our allies. The feeling here is becoming a conviction that
Russian resistance is about at an end.
ROUMANIA GETS CONCESSION
SOFIA, Bulgaria, June 15.—Roumania has received
from the Allied nations all the concessions asked by her
and it is believed that she will enter the war immediately.
Some of those concessions are the granting of territory
beyond her border in Russia and all of Transylvania that
she can take from Autsro-Hungary. An unexpected dang
er has come, however, as Greece and Servia have already
protested against the concessions. The two last named
nations see in the concessions the danger of making
Rumania the most powerful of the Balkan states. It is be
lieved that the granting of so much territory would, in
deed, make Roumania almost a great power and Bulgar
ians are also feeling uneasy.
LONDON, June 15.—A French schooner was torpedo
ed yesterday in the Irish Sea by a German submarine
The crew were saved.
NO CHANGE IN WEST
LONDON, June 15.—This morning’s official announ
cements contain only the statement that no change has
occurred on the western front. The artillery duels have
been continued in various places and some of the positions
on both sides have been well battered. The violence of
the German bombardment is regarded as a possible pre
lude to an assault but up to a late hour last night no such
assault had been attempted. The region around Ypres
continues to be the scene of the most severe artillery fight
ing. The long period of indecisive campaigning is again
getting on the nerves of the people as list after list of
casualties is published. In the Dardanelles region much
has been expected owing to the statement by Winston
Churchill to the effect that in that quarter only a few
more days were wanted to witness for the allies the
greatest victory recorded in history. The Turkish army
which had been stationed in Syria for the invasion of
Egypt has, at least for the greater part been dispatched to
Constantinople to defend that city and to reinforce the
Turkish forces on Gallipoli peninsula.
BRYAN HAS PEACE PLAN
WASHINGTON, June 15—William Jennings Bryan
is now preparing a statement that will be issued in a few
days and in which he will propose a means by which the
great European war might be ended. No inkling has been
given as to the ideas of the former secretary of state on
the subject. The statement is being awaited with the
greatest interest.
BRITAIN WILL DENY
WASHINGTON, June 15.—Diplomats here have
come to the conclusion that the answer of Great Britain
to the American protest against the interference with
American ships will be that the blockade is not injuring
American trade and that, therefore, the United States has
no right to make complaint. President Wilson stated this
afternoon that he will give every help to the neutral na
tions to establish peace in Europe. There is quite an in
crease in the indications that non-belligerent powers are
quietly exchanging views with ihe purpose of discovering
some method by which they could approach the warring
nations with a suggestion to listen to peace proposals.
AUSTRIAN ARMY MOVES
INNSBRUCK, June 15—An army of twenty-five
thousand Austrians is now on the move from this city lor
the Italian forntier. The last of the regiments moved out
this morning amid scenes of extraordinary enthusiasm.
This army is made up of new troops gathered from the
Tyrol who have not been under fire in the war so far. It
is stated that other large reinforcements are on the way
from the east, the pressure having been removed from the
Carpathians.