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GERMAN CONSUL AI
SEATILE ACCUSES
Protests Against the Invasion ot
Consular Offices by
Police
SEATTLE, March 19.—Mueller, the German consul
in this city, has entered a strong protest against the in
vasion by the officers of the consular offices which, he
claims, should have been regarded as German territory.
He further states that the bills of lading prove clearly
that the Seattle Construction company has been shipping
submarines in parts to England,through Canada and that
he will so report to the German embassy at Washington.
He denies that he made any attempt to bribe the em
ployees of the company to secure the bills of lading. The
feeling here in many quarters is that the officers act
ed through ignorance of the proper course to pursue when
dealing with a consular officer of a friendly power. The
arrest of Mueller is causing more bitterness of feeling
than any other event connected with the European war.
The pro-Germans declare that it shows the authorities to
be discriminating against the German side. Such an in
sult to a consul of an empire is believed by the better
informed people to be unwarranted as the consul could
have been dealt with through his government and not ar
rested as a common thief.
❖ ANOTHER BRITISH *
•> STEAMER TORPEDOED. *
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LONDON, March 19.—Another
British steamer was torpedoed and
sunk in the English channel today by
a German submarine. It is useless to j
deny that, although the trade of Great
Britain is safe, the constant loss of
merchant ships is causing a falling
off in travel and business generally.
Passenger traffic between England
and the Continent has fallen far be
low its normal quantity.
PROHIBITION ORDER
FOR THE PRIBILOFFS.
No Whisky to be Allowed on Bering
Sea Islands Expect for
Medicine.
WASHINGTON, March 18.—Secre
tary Rerfield of department of com
merce issued today a prohibition order
for the Pribiloff islands. No liquor
will henceforth be allowed on the isl
ands exvept for medical purposes.
This order is probably due to the re
port of a fisheries official named
Jones who was sent by the depart
ment of commerce to investigate con
ditions on the Alaska coast.
CHINESE PEOPLE OBJECT
TO ONE FAMILY RULE.
PEKING, March 17.—In reply to a
document recently printed and cir
culated by a supporter of the Manchu
Dynasty, the Republican Government
has issued a statement concerning the
dangers of attempting “to act con
trary to the wishes of the people.”
saying that “it is no longer pi ssible !
for one family to govern China.”!
That this is the popular opinion seems
to be borne out by the fact that the
newspapers, though some of them are
not very friendly to the government,
condemn always any attempt at re
storation of the Manchus. The author
of the reactionary pamphlet is an old
man who has been engaged, it is said,
in compiling a history of the Ching
Dynasty, and his studies and labors
have probably inspired his enthusi-!
asm. He is to be sent to his home in
Szechwan Province, and his family are
to be made responsible for his loyalty
to the Republic. It is the time-honor
ed custom in China to make a whole
family liable to imprisonment, banish
ment, and ev*n death for the action
of one of them.
The Catholic Ladies Altar society
met yesterday at Mrs. John Ronan’s
and will meet next week at Mrs. Gus
Borgen’s.
❖ BRINGING UP MILLIONS *
❖ OF FEET OF LUMBER. ❖
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Eight hundred thousand feet of
lumber leaves Bellingham this week
for Seward according to the man who
is bringing it. The name of this
gentleman is not known but he told
A. P. Brown directly that he is ship-;
ping the lumber on a sailing vessel.
D. H. Dutton, the portable house
builder, says also that he knows for
a postive fact that a million and a
half feet of lumber is now being pre
pared for shipment to Seward in
Seattte.
ADMIRAL WINTER SINKS
THREE BRITISH BOATS.
Elements Back up Efforts of Admiral
Tirpitz to Hurt
Shipping.
LONDON, March 19.—A severe!
storm accompanied by snow has visit
ed the coast of England in the past
forty-eight hours and much damage !
has been inflicted on shipping. Three
boast are known to have been lost in
the gale and nine lives at least have
been sacrificed. The storm was of un
usual intensity.
WILL EXAMINE j
WAR PRISONERS;
BRITAIN, AUSTRIA AND GER
MANY AGREE TO U. S.
EXAMINATON. j
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WASHINGTON, March 19.—Great i
Britain, Austria and Germany are
now completing arrangements with
the United States government for the
inspection of the prison camps in each j
of those countries. After the examine
at ion by the American investigators
a report will be issued. Russia has
refused point blank to let anyone ex
amine its prison camps in that
| country. The decision has been made
by the three countries that are parties j
to the arrangement to let the United
States conduct the inspection and each
of the three says it has nothing to
conceal.
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MOOSE MEET TONIGHT.
The Seward lodge of the L. 0. 0. M.
holds its regular meeting this even
ing
DARDANELLES
FLEET FAILS
GERMANY SAYS ALLIES PRE
PARE TO ABANDON
ATTEVPT
| BERLIN, March 19.—The attempt
J of the allied fleets to force the pas
! sage of the Dardanelles has proven to
; be a failure according to the accounts
received here today and it is stated
that the warships are now preparing
; to give up the attempt to reach Con
i stantinople and to retire. From the
beginning the belief prevailed here
that the effort could not be success
i ful and the announcement of the in
tention to give up the task was ox
; pected, particularly during the few
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days during which severe damage has
j been inflicted on the bombarding fleet.
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FRENCH SUBMARINE SUNK.
LONDON, March 19.—A French
1 submarine which made a gallant at
tempt yesterday to run the gauntlet
of the Dardanelles forts was struck
by a Turkish shell and was sunk with
all hands. The effort was made in
the hope that she could gain the Mar
mora sea entrance to the channel and
attack some Turkish gunboats that
are stationed there and shelling the
allied fleets.
FRENCH BATTLESHIP SUNK.
CONSTANTINOPLE, March 19.—
The allied fleet renewed the bombard
ment of the Dardanelles forts today
but the forts replied with such telling
effect that the French battleship;
Bouvet was sunk. The Bouvet was j
one of the great ships of the French j
navy and had been specially chosen
for the hard work in the attempt to
force the Dardanelles. She was a ves
sel of twelve thousand tons and four
teen thousand horse power. She car
ried twelve inch guns amongst others
and nad double armor. The people of;
this city have now lost all fear of an
invasion as it is evident the allied i
ships cannot force their way through, j
JENNINGS AND RUSTGARD
FIGHT OVER VAGRANTS.
Judge Upholds City Ordinance Again
st Vagrants and Rustgard
Protests.
JUNEAU, March 18,—Judge Jen
nings has upheld the city ordinance
which regulates vagrants but John
Rustgard, formerly district attorney
for this division, has attacked the or
dinance and brought habeas corpus
proceedings on the ground that the
ordinance is discriminative and un
fair. The ordinance was passed by
the city council to guard the public
again! t the robberies and general Taw
breaking which has broken out in this
city as a result of the unemployment
of a large number of people, or, per
haps it would be better to say, be
cause of the influx of large numbers
of questionable characters. The fight
on th; ordinance promises to be a hot
one. Rustgard has given notice of
appeal against the .decision of
Jennings.
NEW CITIZEN LAW.
PARIS, March 19.—The new natur
alization law proposed by the govern
ment and which will be voted without
opposition, provides that any decree
of naturalization may be annulled by j
the cabinet on the proposition of the j
Minister of Justice in the following >
cases: When the naturalized citizen j
has recovered his orginai citzenship
or acquired another; When, a citizen ,
in the service of his orginai or another
country, he has borne arms aganist
France; or when he has quit France
to avoid his military service.
One hundred and twenty-five people
have registered for the city election
of whom only five are women.
Ike Evans has now begun prepara
tions for the tennis season. He has
sent out for supplies and the game
' will soon b« in full swing.
❖ ZEPPELIN RAIDS ♦
❖ t CITY OF CALAIS. ❖
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CALAIS, March 19.—A Zeppelin
raided this.city last night and dropped
' several powerful bombs. Seven peo
j pie were killed and some property
was injured. After having bombard
ed the city for a time she withdrew.
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* RUSSIAN TORPEDO ♦
* BASE BOMBARDED. ❖
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CONSTANTINOPLE, March 19.—
The Russian torpedo base in the Black
sea has been bombarded by the Turk
ish fleet. The bombardment is sup
posed to be proceeding still. No de
tailed news of the result has arrived.
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❖ ANOTHER BRITISH *
❖ STEAMER IS SUNK. •>
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LONDON, March 18.—A small
British steamer is reported sunk to
day off the coast of Holland. It is
assumed that the destruction of *he
vessel was due to a submarine al
tho: gh this has not been stated posi
tively in the dispatch telling of the
occurrence. This is the only vessel re
ported sunk in the past couple of days
although the Germans are known to
be eagerly seeking British ships on
almost every route.
GIRLS AND BOYS CONFESS
TO MANY DARING HOLDUPS.
Youngest is Sixteen and Oldest of the
Gang is Only Twenty
Years.
_
CHCAGO, March 19.—One of the
j most extraordinary circumstances in
j the crime records of this city came to
light today when three girls and four
boys confessed to having committed
a series of daring robberies and hold
ups which have baffled the authorities
for some months. The youngest of
the gang is sixteen years of age and
the oldest is twenty. It is made evi- j
dent by the police that the youths i
were strongly organized. The girls
were just as active members of the
gang as the boys and committed some
■ of the robberies directly.
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ANOTHER PROTEST IS
SENT TO CARRANZA. |
This Time He is Accused of Placing
Exorbitant Taxes on
Foreigners.
WASHINGTON, March 19.—The I
department today sent another pro-;
test to Carranza. This time the pro-1
test is against the alleged exorbitant,
tax levied on foreigners in Monterey:
by Carranza. Scarcely a day passes
now without the sending of a protest
of some kind or another to Mexico. j
The papers in the east are beginning1
to poke fun once again at the depart-!
ment of state over the question of
useless protests.
CONDEMN DIGGS
AND CAMINETTI
_
CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS
SUSTAINS CONVICTION
OF BOTH.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 18.—The
circuit court of appeals handed down
its decision today in the Diggs and
Caminetti cases. It sustains the con-j
viction of both men and declares that!
no other verdict could be arrived at.
The defendatns will not, however, give 1
up the fight. It is likely that the mat-;
| ter will brought to the highest tribun-1
al in the land. The people seemed to
think that the quashing of the con
viction of the lower court was certain
and great disappointment is felt. The
general opinion seemed to be that the
girls in the case were as much to
blame as the men and that Diggs and
Caminetti would never have been
charged with the offence at all if they
had not been prominent in political
and other circles.
Job printing of every description at
The Gateway.
QUIET IN THE
EAST AND WEST
ALLIES CLAIM SLIGHT GAINS
AND THE GERMANS
ALSO.
LONDON, March 19.—The war
bulletins today show that conditions
are quiet in the east and west. The
French have made slight gains in the
department of Champagne and near
Nieuport but the Germans claim that
the allies have suffered reverses
around Arras and Lille. The French
reports contain nothing about the Ger
man claims to success. There has
i been apparently no fighting of con
sequence around Labassee since the
British took some trenches there last
week. The French attacks near Lille
were probably the sequel to the Brit
! ish gain and were intended to follow
I it up.
_
CONVICTED OF TRYING TO
GET FALSE PASSPORTS.
I
Two New York Men Must go to Jail
Over Stegler Case Which
Caused Sensation.
NEW YORK, March 19.—Richard
Madden and Gustav Cook have been
convicted on the charge of conspiracy
; in the attempt to aid Richard Stegler
1 in obtaining false passports. This is
the case in which the military attache
of the German embassy was involved,
j Captian Boyd, the attache in question,
denied that he had anything to do with
the matter and Ambassador Bernstorff
declared the accusation of the captain
j to be ridiculous. The charge against
Boy-Ed has apparently fallen down
entirely.
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THE UTAH UNIVERSITY
PROFESSORS ON STRIKE.
Eighteen Profs Quit Because od Dis
agreements with the Board
of Regents.
SALT LAKE, March 19.—Eighteen
professors of the university resigned j
in a body yesterday following dis
agreements with the board of regents.
The trouble has been brewing for
some time and a fear prevailed that j
something like the resignation would
occur. The professors declare that
the regents are unfitted for their posi. j
tions and try to be so high-handed in
their rulings that no self respecting
members of the teaching body could
tolerate them.
WANTS COLONIES OF
BRITAIN TO PREPARE.!
Prime Minister Says Peace After
the War May Not
Last.
j
WELLINGTON, New Zealand, Mar.
18.—Andrew Fisher, Prime Minister
of Australia, in addressing a gather
ing of politicians and newspapermen
soon after his arrival here, said there
was a more important question than
how long will the war last, “and that
is, how long will peace last after the
war?”
Mr. Fisher was discussing the
necessity of New Zealand and Aus- j
tralia joining hands in some action
looking to the protection of British
interests in this section of the world.
“The question of the defense of the
Pacific," he remarked, “is a matter
of urgent necessity. Some people
think that after the end of this war
there will be peace for many years,
but this is too uncertain a foundation
on which to build for permanence and
security.
“Nor should we depend upon the
mother country for our defense, now
that our strength enables us to act in j
our own behalf. The national devel- 5
opment of Australia and New Zealand
will be stimulated if they rely on their
own resourses by maintaining a naval
force which is a direct part of the
British Navy, but under our local
executive control.
“The day has come when self
respect should persuade us to abahdon
our policy of reliance upon the Brit
ish taxpayer."
II. S. TO MAKE PROTEST
ON BRITISH BLOCKADE
Washington Says British Show
No Warrant lor Their
Action
WASHINGTON, March 19.—The United States gov
ernment is now preparing a formal protest that will he
presented to the British government against the blockade
order recently issued by the latter. It is held by the offi
cials here that in the blockade order the British gave no
warrant for their action in stopping the ships of neutral
nations that did not carry contraband of war. The order
certainly does not explain what warrant under interna
tional law exists for stopping American ships that are
peacefully bound on their regular trading voyages. rI he
form that this protest will take is not known but it is be
lieved that it will leave no room for doubt of the determin
ation of this government to protect its shipping to the
fullest extent of its power to do so. There seems still to be
a hope that the allied nations will depart from their in
tentions to stop the shipping of food supplies to Germany
on condition that the Germans will abandon their sub
marine blockade of the British islands. As the results are
more thoroughly investigated it is found that the loss to
the trade of this country by the blockading of the German
coasts will be even greater than had been anticipated
❖ GOVERNOR OF SANTO *
❖ DOMINGO ASSASSINATED. ♦>
NEW YORK, March 10.—The news
was received here ♦his afternoon that
the governor .of Santa Domingo has
been assassinated with two of his
children. Pending the arrival of more
details no one seems to be able to un
#
derstand the '•ause of the occurrence,
especially what reason could be given
for the murder of the children.
ARCTIC BROTHERHOOD
WILL START BOOM.
Grand Camp Adjourns to Meet Again
at Juneau in March Year
After Next.
JUNEAU, March 19.—The Grand
Camp of the Arctic Brotherhood ad
journed yesterday to meet again at
Juneau on the second Tuesday in
March 1917. In the meantime en
ergetic action will be taken to make
it a strong organization. New' camps
will be boomed and every effort w'ill
be made to secure new members.
WATSON LEAVES JUNEAU.
The Admiral Watson left Juneau at
10 o'clock this morning.
INVESTIGATING
CONSUL AFFAIR
f
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTIC OFFIC
IALS AT SEATTLE GET
ORDERS.
SEATTLE, March 19.—The depart
ment of justice officials here received
orders this afternoon to make a full
investigation of the matters relating
to the arrest of Mueller, the German
consul, and the charges brought by
him. Mueller now charges that a
German steamer has been unlawfuPv
searched by American officers in this
poit. The chief reason for the in
v»stigation is to discover what ground
theic is for th? statement that the
treaty between Germany and the
United States has been violated by
his arrest.
The case of the Alaskan Northern
railroad vs. Matteus which was to
have been heard yesterday was post
poned until tomorrow. This is
the case in which the complaint says
the defendant is holding over in a
house after the expiration of his term.
| Meet me at The Branch.
❖ FINING BELGIANS FOR *
❖ PAYING BRITISH CREDITORS. *
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BRUSSELS, March 18.—A business
firm of this city was fin?d five thou
sand dollars by the Germans today
for having paid debts due to English
creditors in violation of the German
edict. This brings out the fact that
the German rulers of the conquered
country have forbidden the payment
of ar.y debts to British manufacturers
or wholesale houses during the war.
AUSTRIANS CLAIM
RUSSIANS REPULSED.
Russian Army Trying to Cut Com
munications at Sandt»c Pass
is Driven Back.
VIENNA, March 19.—The Rus
sians have been repulsed at Sandec
Pass where they were attempting to
cut the Austrian communications be
tween Budapest and Cracow. Along
the Dniester river matters are report
er to be progressing favorably for our
arms. Przemysl is regarded as an
impregnable fortress and the reports
that its defense is weakening are
ridiculed. It is expected here that the
invasion of Serbia will be renewed
when the weather is favorable. The
conditions in that country are reported
to be frightful. Cholera and other
diseases are said to be epidemic. The
defeat of the Russians in Bukowina
has killed all hope of aid for the Ser
bians.
JUDGE NOYES HAS
LAID BURDEN DOWN.
BARABOO, Wis., March 13.—Judge
A. H. Noyes, who was appointed fed
eral judge in Alaska by President Mc
Kinely, died here today ag»?d 62 years.
Deceased had been ailing for a long
time and had been urged to seek a
southern climate in the hopes of re
storing his vitality. He was at Nome
during the great rush and was the
judge about whom Rex Beach wove
his story, “The Spoilers.”
TO PACK WOUNDED.
PETROGRAD, March 19.—In order
to get their wounded out of the
mountainous Erzerum region where
the snow is knee-high, the Russians
have developed a new transport sys
tem, employing high two-wheeled dog
carts, very lightly constracted, with
room enough for two wounded who
are tied in to prevent them from fall
ing out. On return trips, army sup
ples are carried to the front.
Finch’s Golden Wedding Rye at The
Branch.