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SEATTLE fACES !
A CAR STRIKE|
Punch and Controller Men ant
Recognition or I'hey
Will Walk Out.
SEATTLE. Saturday. June
Local street car men have formed aj
union and demand that the company
recognize it. threatening a strike un
less this is done.
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OVERBOARD, HE j
DIES OE SHOCK
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Fisherman Ends Life By Leap I rom
Dora on Her Last
Trip to West.
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Details have just been made public
of the death of John Xorheim. whoj
committed suicide by jumping over
hoard from the Dora on its last trip
to the westward.
A peculiar incident connected with
the death is that although Xorheim i
jumped into the water he did not die
from drowning. A witness to th» oc -
currence says that Xorheim was at
no time submerged and must have died
from the shock of the cold wat<V
Xorheim was a fisherman who hail
come to Seward on the last trip ot the
Dora and was returning to I’nga to
engage in fishing at the time%of his
death. His remains were buried at
I’yak and all details have been report
ed to the U. S. commissioner.
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BOY SCOCTS TAKE IT
IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS
Commence Drill on Signalling by
Flags, First Aid and
Squad Formation.
Nine boys attended the Boy Scout
^meeting held last night and were in
structed by Acting Scout Master John
M. Cook. Doctors, hydrants and pre
vention of fire were strong points
mentioned. Later came squad forma
tion, several first aid demonstrations,
study of trail signs; signaling by flag,
hand and whistle were also taken up.
The evening was topped off with
an enjoyable Scout game.
The boys are greatly interested and
a full turnout is expected when the
boys take a hike Sunday morning.
TWO CENT INCREASE PER
HOl'R AVERTS CAR STRIKE
(By United States Cable)
CLEVELAND, SATURDAY. June
23.—Threat of a general strike by
street car men and the tieup of all
Cleveland’s street railways was avert
ed yesterday when the motor men and
conductors were granted two cents an
hour increase in pay.
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members of parliament to
- SPEAK FOR IRISH PARTY
(Br U»lUd Sue** Cabla)
BOSTON, Saturday; June 23.—T. P.
Connoi*and Mr. Hazelton, members of
the British parliament, are on their
way here to make an address in be
half of the Irish Nationalist party.
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Mrs. Frank Cotter returned from a
visit to her mother up the inlet and
reports her brother, Bob White, who
has been seriously ill, out of danger.
[+jRED CROSS W K +
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Red Cross day started with a rush this morning
when all the children turned out to tag every one in ,
town and by noon it looked as if they had succeeded.
Plans for the Red Cross musical and dance to
he held tonight are complete and a large attendance
is expected. ___
RUSS ARMY SHOWS BETTER MORAL,
GORKY WANTS TO FIGHT ALONE
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(By United States Cable)
PETROGRAD, Saturday, June 23.—Elihu Root in
p.s first public speech today stated that America would
hot cease fighting until the whole world was safe for de
mocracy.
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W ANTS RUSSIA TO FIGHT ALONE
(Uy United State* Cable)
LONDON, Saturday, June 23.—Sensational sug
gestions that Russia disavow her alliance with other en
tente powers and wage a separate war on Geimany and
her allies is the advice of Maxim Gorky, according to in
formation from Petrograd. His plan is intended as a
refutation of the aggressive war aims of the entente.
The Times’ correspondent at Russian headquarters
cites Gen. Brussiloff in support of his own previous as
sertion that there has been a marked improvement in the
morale of the Russian army during the past six weeks.
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RUSS WOMEN IN DEATH REGIMENT
(By United State* Uakl*)
PETROGRAD, Friday, June 22.—“The command of
Death" is the title of a woman’s regiment raised by a twice
woundd girl officer, Vera Buitzhareff, which was review
ed yesterday by the minister of war. The regiment will
have its first public appearance Sunday and will leave
for the Minsk sector of the front within two weeks.
RAID BIG SUBMARINE
BASES SAYS WEEKS
Senator Declares That Allied Navy
Should Kaid Ostend and
Zeebrugge Bases
(By United States Cable)
Washington, Saturday, June 23.—
While discussing the submarine men
ace before the upper house Senator
Weeks, himself a graduate of Annap
olis, stated that it was his opinion that
the United States, England and
France should concentrate all avail
able war craft, big and little, arid
make a grand attack on the German
submarine bases at Ostend and Zee
brugge. He said that it would take
Germany years to rebuild these bases
at some other point. v
| THE WEATHER
Yesterday. ||
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o Minimum .46 ij
Current .54 |
South winds; partly cloudy.
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WEATHER TOMORROW
Clear, south winds.
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MARRY THRICE TO
REACH HAPPINESS
• Young Gottstein and Gentile Bride
Evade Mike’s Ire and Get
$250,000 After All.
(Br United State* Cable)
SEATTLE, Saturday, June 23.—Jo
seph Gottstein, son of the late Mike
Gottstein, returned to Seattle yester
day with his wife, formerly Helen
Elaine Mix, a divorce, to whom he has
been married twice, following the first
marriage eight months ago.
Mike forced his son to secure a di
vorce from his wife shortly after the
first marriage, on the ground that she
was a gentile, but two weeks later
Joseph outwitted the old gentleman by
remarrying her in New York secretly.
Later Mike died leaving Joseph
$250,000, and the latter joined his wife
in Los Angeles where they were pub
licly married.
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NO CHARGES FILED IN
BIG WHISKEY CARGO CASE
No charge has been filed concern
ing the seizure of 1800 gallons of
liquor from the schooner Lucy at
Anchorage recently, but the liquid is
still in custody of the government.
ENEMY’S BALL '
TOSSERS SIRONGj
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Reserve Forces From Up Inlet on Way ;
to This Port Is the
A\sk filing News.
The baseball game scheduled for
tomorrow afternoon between Seward
and Kern Creek will start at 2 o’clock
on the new grounds in Federal addi
tion.
According to advices received today
the Mile 71 bunch are coming with a
full crew of regular ball tossers, many
of whom have been gleaned from the
ranks of the Cook Inlet league teams.
If this turns out to be true, and the
local team is in hopes that it will,
there ought to be a game tomorrow
that will give the most finical fan a
treat that will tickle his baseball pal
ate.
The local lineup has not been an
nounced and will not be decided upon
until it is determined whether or not,
a few of the local ball players out the |
line will be on hand.
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coon catches of fish
MADE BY SAN JUAN CO.
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Salmon and halibut catches of con- ■
siderable size are being delivered to
the local plant of the San Juan Fish
ing & Packing company these days,
but the big concern is so thoroughly
organized and runs so smoothly that
were it not for an occasional puff of
smoke from the stack or the patter of j
the gas engine local people would not
know it was^n operation.
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GORKY DENOUNCES PURCHASE
BY U. S. OF RUSSIAN ART j
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(By United State* Cable)
PETROGRAD, Saturday, June 23.
—In a big advertisement Novde Vrem
ya printed during the past week an
: advertisement from an unnamed
American corporation, which declares
that it has assigned $20,000,000 for
the purchase in Russia of antiques,
pictures, porcelains and tapestries.
Maxim Gorky has issued a furious
protest describing the plan as a “rob
bery of our national treasures.”
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JOHN J. SEE IS HEAD OF
WASHINGTON-A CASK A G. A. R.
(By United States Cable)
SEATTLE, Saturday, June 23.—
Capt. John J. See of Anacortes was1
elected department commander of the
Washington-Alaska G. A. R. at the
annual meeting of the department
yesterday.
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I BOATS AND TRAINS
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The S. S. Mariposa sailed south at
midnight.
The Santa Ana will sail west in
place of the Dora on June 2f>.
The S. S. Dora will sail shortly for
Seattle.
The Admiral Farragut is due from
westward Sunday monrng unless she
loads chrome ore at Port Chatham, in
which case she will arrive Sunday
night.
The Admiral Watson is due from
the south next Wednesday.
The Northwestern sailed from Ju
neau at 8 o’clock last night and should
arrive Tuesday.
LOSE POSITIONS ON
SALIENT BUT HOLD
ALL MAIN TRENCHES
(Hr United States Cable)
PARIS, Satur y, June 23.—With the flower of the
German army in the attack a series of furious assaults by
the enemy were hurled back across the Craonne plateau
south of Laon during the past 24 hours, according to the
official French communique.
Although the Germans penetrated the salients of the
French in the center all positions were maintained, the
enemy being driven from the temporarily lost ground by
counter attacks.
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GERMANS TAKE FRENCH POSITIONS
(By United States Cable)
BERLIN, Saturday, June 23.—French positions
southeast of Lilian on a front of one and a half kilometers
and 500 meters deep was captured by German troops, ac
cording to reports from army headquarters. Three hun
dred prisoners were taken.
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REPORT ONE THOUSAND CASUALTIES
(By Unit'd Statra Cab'e)
AMSTERDAM, Saturday, June 23.—One thousand
people were killed or injured as the result of an explosion
in the munition plant at Bloejeg, Austria, according to an
announcement in the Austrian parliament today.
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GOETHALS AUTHORIZED TO SEIZE
ALL SHIPS NOW ON THE WAYS
(B/ United States Cable)
WASHINGTON, Saturday, June 23.—President Wil
has authorized Col. Goethals to commandeer all ves
sels now on the ways and to build all vessels possible with
the present plants.
Number of ships, regardless of whether they are
wood or steel construction, is the aim of the administra
tion and contracts will be placed wherever a ship can be
built. .
DRAFT REGULATIONS READY
(By United State* Cable)
WASHINGTON, Saturday, June 23.—Regulations
for the army draft are awaiting Wilson’s approval.
U. S. GUNNERS ACCOUNT FOR PERISCOPE
(By United State* Cab:*)
WASHINGTON, Saturday, June 23.—The master of
an American steamer arriving at a U. S. port today re
ports that while on the way from Italy gunners on his
ship fired three shots at a submarine, one of which carried
away its periscope. _
SUFFRAGISTS FLAUNT BANNERS
(By United State* Cable)
WASHINGTON, Saturday, June 23—Militant suf
fragists again flaunted banners addressed to the Russian
commission, denouncing Wilson and Root in the faces of
the commission as they entered the capital today.
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PROHIBITION IIP AS WAR MEASURE
AND A EIGHT IS EXPECTED
(“By Unite* States Cable)
WASHINGTON, Saturday, June 23—Prohibition as
a national war measure is the big issue before the house
today, with a sharp fight promised before the final vote
on the food control bill, of which the liquor resolution is
an amendment. . v..,.. —