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BETWEEN THE RUSSIAN AND GERMAN FLEETS
A _ _ - - —
SITUATION BETWEEN U. S.
AND BERLIN VERY GRAVE
SITUATION OF U. S. GRAVE
WASHINGTON, August 21.—The German-American
situation is now very threatening but officials are hopeful
that the matter will blow over without a breach. Ex
planations are expected from Berlin today or tomorrow.
Germany had been warned by this government that the
violation of American rights would be regarded as an act
of deliberate unfriendly ness. It is stated here unofficially,
however, that America will be glad if Germany can show
that there was no intention to be unfriendly.
WAITING ARABIC DETAILS
WASHINGTON, August 21.—The government is
still awaiting the full details of the sinking of the Arabic
before giving utterance to any definite statement. The
state department is expected momentarily to hear from
Ambassador Gerard whether or not the German govern
ment sanctions the sinking of the liner. Upon that com
munication will depend the action to be taken by \\ ash
ington.
EXPECT TURKO-ITALIAN WAR
ROME, August 20.—The people of Italy are now
awaiting what thev believe to be the inevitable declara
tion of war against Turkey. Both countries have avoided
such a declaration since the beginning of the great conflict
and Germany and Italy are even now not in a state of war
but it is perfectly understood that wheu the moment
comes the excuse will be found and the nations on the two
opposite sides will be welded together as one against the
other. After the declaration of war against turkey it is
assumed that we will send a force to aid the allies around
the Dardanelles and it is also believed that the Turks will
atempt to regain Tripoli.
GREECE TO AID ALLIES
PARK, August 21.—Premier Venizelos is now plan
ning to float a loan to be used for the aid of the allied na
tions. Owing to the condition of politics in the Balkans
it would be difficult for Greece at the present time to en
ter the war but if the many questions pending can be set
tled there is every reason to expect that all the Balkans
will fall in line with us.
TO SAVE SMALL NATIONS
PARIS, August 21.—The social democratic party of
Germany and the socialist members of the Reichstag have
issued a manifesto declaring against the annexation of
conquered territory by the German government. The
manifesto begins by the assumption that the Teutonic
powers have virtually won the war and it calls on the peo
ple of German v to show their magnanimity by giving
freedom to alfthe nationalties that come under its con
quests. The manifesto particularly mentions Belgium
and Poland.___ _
❖ FLYER DERAILED AND •>
❖ TEN PEOPLE KILLED ❖
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HALLECK, Nevada, August 20.—
The Western Pacific flyer was de
railed here last night at midnight and
ten people killed. Several others were
severely injured.
ST. LOUIS IS FLOODED
SIX FEET DEEP BY RAIN
ST. LOUIS, August 20. — Great
rains which have fallen here during
the past few days have flooded parts
of the city to a depth of six feet. In
some places boats are being rowed
around the streets.
WANTS ARMY OF 20,000.
WASHINGTON, August 21.—Sec
retary' Garrison has submitted plans
to President Wilson for the increase
of the army by twenty thousand and
the establishment of a militia to a
like number. He proposes to pay the
militia more to aid in getting recruits.
SEW ARD MAN’S MOTHER DEAD.
Engineer Thomas M. Ward, of the
Engineering Commission received
today the sad news of his mother’s
death. The lady died at the home of
her daughter, Mrs. Edson A. Lewis,
wife of Major Lewis U. S. A., at the
Presidio, San Francisco. The inter
ment will take place in the National
rvmeterv in the Preaidio.
MAN WHO FOUND OUT
MOSQUITOES IS DEAD.
HAVANA. August 21.—Dr. Finley,
the discoverer of the fact that
mosquitoes inoculated human beings
with the yellow fever germs, died here
last night.
BRITISH STEAMERS AGROUND.
GALVESTON, August 20. — The
British steamers Hallesdon and Eaton
Hall were driven aground southesat
of Texas City during the recent great
storm. They are still resting on the
bottom and will probably become total
wrecks.
ROOT IS PRESIDENT.
SALT LAKE, August 20. — Elihu
Root, formerly United States senator
from New York, has been elected
president of the American Bar Asso
ciation.
RAID AUTOMOBILES.
BUTTE, August 21.—Five higway
men operating on the main through
fare held up nine automobiles one
after the other here last evening and
carried away loot amounting to five
thousand dollars.
WINSLOW COMMANDER.
*
WASHINGTON, August 21.—Ad
miral Winslow has been appointed to
the command of the Pacific fleet
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❖ THOUSAND HOMELESS •>
❖ NOW IN ST. LOUIS. *
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ST. LOUIS, August 21.—A thou
sand people have been rendered home
less by the floods in this city. The
rain fall averaged so far seven inches
a day which is the highest on record.
WILSON BREAKS ALL
THE OLD PRECEDENTS.
Knocks About Philadelphia and Trav
els Home all Same Bookkeeper
Out for a Jaunt.
WASHINGTON, August 21—
W’hile on a visit to see an oculist in
Philadelphia yesterday President Wil
son broke all the precedents estab
lished by his predecessors for dignity
in travel. He went to lunch unan
nounced in a hotel and strolled around
the streets as if he were only a clerk
out for a holiday. Later he return
ed to Washington in a public train
and drove to the white house in a hir
ed automobile.
YAQUIS SAVAGELY
ON THE WAR PATH.
Take Town, Beat Mexican .Soldiers,
Execute Colonel and Kill
Many.
GUAMAS, August 21.—The Yaquis
are now on the warpath and becoming
savagely fierce. They raided the
town of Vamou yesterday, killed
twenty Mexicans and defeated the
Mexican troops that attempted to re
pel them.
NOGALES, August 21.—The
Yaquis who are serving in the army
of Governor Maytorena took Colonel
Memurill out of jail yesterday and
executed him. The Mexicans who at
tempted to prevent the execution
were overpowered. A general rising
of the natives is expected.
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❖ MEXICANS FIRE ON ♦
❖ THE U. S. TROOPS. ❖
•> - •>
WASHINGTON, August 21—Gen
eral Funston announces that the
Mexicans have fired on United States
troops across the border. He also re
ports that General Calles has three
thousand Carranza troops opposite
Lochiel.
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* GREAT LINERS NOW ♦
•» IN SUBMARINE ZONE. ❖
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NEW YORK, August 21.—Five
passenger carrying liners enroute to
European ports are believed to be now
within or approaching the zone in
which the German submarines are
operating and the greatest anxiety is
felt as the vessels are carrying large
numbers of passengers. One of them
the Red Star liner Lapland, has three
hundred passengers aboard. The
others of the five are the White Star
liner Baltic which sailed from New
York Wednesday, the Scandinavian
American liner Frederick the Eighth,
the Copenhagen American liner St.
Paul, the Norwegian American liner
Christianfjord. The anxiety is felt
chiefly because more than a dozen big
ships were sunk in the past two days.
•> THE TWO AMERICANS ♦
❖ LOST ON THE ARABIC. *
♦ - *
WASHINGTON, August 21.—The
names of the two Americans who lost
their lives when the Arabic was sunk
by a German submarine were learned
today. They are Mrs. Josephine
Bruguiere of New York and Dr. Ed
mond Woods of Janesville, Wisconsin.
HELLO ! GIVE
US ANCHORAGE
IN TWO DAYS SEWARD WILL BE
CONNECTED UP BY
TELEPHONE.
Within two days Seward will be
connected up by telephone with a city
which was not in being at all a few
short months ago. The telephone line
between Seward and Anchorage had
only a length of four miles to be add
ed for the completion of the work
when the news came in yesterday and
the message also stated that only two
days would be required to make the
line complete.
The line will, no doubt, be used for
commercial and private business but
as Chairman Edes of the Commis
sion is away at present no positive
information can be secured, although
of course, such information is hardly
necessary.
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❖ STRIKE OCCURS IN *
.;. ARMS FACTORY. *
BRIDGEPORT, August 21.—Hun
dreds of men and women have gone
out on strike in the Westinghouse,
Remington and other factories and
demand an eight hour day. The or
ganizer of the Federation of Labor
says that unless the demands are
granted thirty thousand will strike
within a fortnight.
SEATTLE CHIEF
IN AWFUL MESS
admits accompanying caba
ret singer in the cool
OF MORNING AFTER.
SEATTLE, August 21.—Chief of
Police Lang, admitted in a statement
today that he was a member of a wine
party in Tate’s cafe recently and that
he later accompanied one of the
cabaret singers to a room at 2 a. m.
The charges were levelled at him by
the Seatle Star and they were at first
denied but the evidence was too strong
and the admission is the result. In
making the admission Lang explains
that the party and the subsequent
basking in the charms of the singoi
were part of a plan to discover who
has been spying on his movements.
He believes the spies are policemen
w’orking under him and them particu
larly he w’anted to catch.
PROMINENT FAIRBANKS
NEWSPAPERMAN HERE.
W. F. Thompson, Who Sold the News
Miner to Senator Gaustad
Visits Seward.
W. F. Thompson, formerly owner
of the Daily News-Miner at Fair
banks and previous to that time a
newspaperman of Dawson, - arrived
this morning on the Alameda to see
the place while on his way to the out
side. He recently sold the News
Miner to Senator Gaustad who is now
in charge. Mr. Thompson will return
to Fairbanks in February.
VILLAITES READY TO
ATTEND THE CONVENTION.
Great Meeting Will be Held at Tor
reon to Bring About I eace
in Mexico.
EL PASO, August 21.—The Villaite
delegates have arrived at Torreon
where the national convention will be
held for the purpose of trying to
bring about peace in Mexico. Other
delegates to the convention who were
turned out of Mexico City will later
join the Villa representatives.
LONDON REPORTS THREE
WARSHIPS SUNK BY EACH
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❖ ABE RUEF PAROLED *
❖ AFTER BIG FIGHT. *
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SAN FRANCISCO, August 21.—
Abe Ruef was paroled today after his
long fight. His parole was granted,
however, on condition that he cannot
visit San Francisco.
CARRANZA TO MOVE
TO MEXICO CITY.
Changes Capital from Vera (mz
and Will Answer Pan- Ameri
can Note Next Week.
WASHINGTON, August 21.—Car
ranza has decided to move his capital
from Vera Cruz to Mexico City im
mediately and the preliminary steps
to that end are probably being taken
already. He states that his answer
to the Pan-American note will be giv
en next week. His generals say as a
reason for the delay in answering
that a breach of discipline would be
committed if Carranza took it upon
himself to answer inedpendently.
FOREST FIRES DESTROY
TOWN IN WASHINGTON.
Farms Destroyed, People Threatened
and Thousands of Dollars
are Lost.
BELLINGHAM, August 21.—Great
forest tires are now raging in What
com county and the town of Alki has
already been destroyed. Several farms
have been burned out of existence and
the crops destroyed. The lives of sever
al people who live in the tire zone are
said to be in danger. The loss
amounts away up in the thousands.
KILLED IN TRENCHES.
REEDING, Calif., August 21.—
Oliver Brouillard * has been killed in
the trenches while fighting with the
French in the Argonne.
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* LOSS FROM FLOOD IS *
* ONE FIFTY MILLION. •>
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GALVESTON, August 21.—Relief
work is progressing*throughout the
storm section and much good is being
done. The exact number of lives lost
by the storm is one hundred and
eighty-three. The damage to prop
erty is fifty million.
GALVESTION NEEDS BREAD.
GALVESTON, August 21.—The
greatest need of the people here at
present is bread.
ST. LOUIS, August 21.—Horsemen
have been placed on watch to warn
the people of East Alton and Benboy
of the coming of floods. When the
levee broke those towns were inundat
ed to a depth of ten feet.
Boarding House for sale, doing
good business. Will sell cheap, for
cash only. Leaving town. Inquire at
the Gateway. 8-21—2t
COMPLICATE FRANK AFFAIR.
ATLANTA, August 21.—The gov
ernor stated today that outside advice
and rewards for the capture of the
Leo Frank lynchers are only compli
cating matters and making the task
of bringing the lynchers to justice
more difficult.
CADETS FOR HAYTI.
WASHINGTON, August 21.—A
battalion of Anapolis cadets has been
1 ordered to get ready for departure for
some unknown destination which is
believed, however, to be Hayti,
FLEETS IN BATTLE
PETROGRAD, August 21.—The German fleet has
penetrated to the Gulf of Riga and is now engaegd in bat
tle with the fleet of Russia. The result of the light has
not yet been reached or, at least, the facts have not yet
been published. It is evident that the attack of the hostile
ships in the gulf is meant as an attack which has for its
purpose the opening of the Baltic as a way by which
troops can be sent against Petrograd. More massacres by
the Turks are reported form Armenia. In one village of
a thousand inhabitants all the doors of the houses were
locked and the village then set afire while the people were
barred from egress. All who escaped death by fire were
shot.
RUSSIAN FLEET OVERWHELMED
LONDON, August 21—The battle fought in the Gulf
of Riga yesterday is reported to have been one of the
greatest naval engagements in history and is said to have
resulted in the complete overowhehning of the Russian
fleet The German Baltic squadron made a most deter
mined effort to force a way into the gulf to lend aid t"
the German land forces operating near the city of Riga.
It has been advancing for two weeks and has now suc
ceeded in forcing an entrance. Further particulars of the
battle are expected later.
AWFUL SEA LOSSES
LONDON, August 20.—Within two days German
submarines have sunk sixteen steamships around the
British islands The country received this official notifica
tion this afternoon and the effect on commercial circles
has been bad. The ships sunk were all large ones and in
cluded, of course, two great liners. What the English
people are now asking is whether the tremendous mari
time losses of these two days indicate a greater effective
ness on the part of the enemy’s strength or is merely ac
cidental.
RUSSIANS ENVELOPED
LONDON, August 21.—‘The dispatches from Russia
today are more depressing than ever. The Germans have
circumvented the marshes and have, thereby, virtually
enveloped the Russian armies at Brest-Litovsk. The
tyeat stretches of marsh lands to the east of Brest
Litvosk were depended upon to guard the Russian rear
but with extraordinary foresight the enemy had ap
parently marked every inch of the ground as he had in
the Mazurian lakes region and will now turn his knowl
edge to advantage. The circumvention of the marshes was
effected by the advance of the Austrians from the south
west and of the Germans from the north.
BOVIC NOT SUNK
LONDON, August 21.—The report that the liner
Bovic was sunk by a German submarine has been proven
to be a canard. It was learned this morning that it was
groundless and later in the day the ship was reported ar
riving safe at Liverpool. The details of the sinking of the
Arabic are promised today. The patrol ship Adventuress
arrived at Queenstown today with three life boats of the
Arabic and the bodies of one woman and one man. The
woman’s is unidentified and the man is believed to have
been a steward of the ship.
AVOIDS ANNEXATION QUESTION
LONDON, August 21—Dispatches arriving here to
day are to the effect that von Jagow refused to discuss the
question of annexation of conquered territory by the Ger
mans when it was brought up by the socialists in the
Reichstag. From this the London papers assume that
Germany has no intention of relinquishing Belgium or the
Baltic provinces in the event of victory.
FIFTY LOST ON THE ARABIC
LONDON, August 21.—It is now fully proven that in
the sinking of the British liner Arabic more than fifty
people were lost. Five passengers, including the two
Americans, are amongst the dead and forty of the crew.
In addition to those nine passengers are missing and hope
of their survival has been abandoned.
BRITISH SUBMARINE WRECKED
LONDON, August 21.—The British submarine U-13
has been wrecked on the rocks while attempting to enter
the Baltic sea. The attempt was a heroic one conceived
for the purpose of attacking the German warships in that
sea while they were on their way to the Russian coasts.
PREPARE TO HIT TURKEY
BRINDISI, August 21.—Five Italian army corps are
now concentrated at Apulia and are supposed to^bo get
ting ready to attack Turkey. The orders to depart have
already been issued.