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VOL. 2. NO. 145. ANCHORAGE, ALASKA, MONDAY. APRIL 25, 1917. PRICE TEN CENTS.
BIG MINES FLOODED
Treadwell, Mexican and ‘Seven Hundred’ Properties Ruined
by Subsidence of Surface Into Underground Workings.
GERMAN EMPIRE FACING GREAT ECONOMIC
AND POLITICAL CRISIS THAT THREATENS
DOWNFALL OF GERMAN MILITARY REGIME
NEW YORK, April — Despite the strict censorship
maintaining and the shackled condition of the (iennan press,
enough lias leaked through to indicate that the (iennan cm
pire is facing a great economic and politeal crisis. The de
mauds made by the hinders in the Berlin strike are of such a
revolutionary character that compliance with them would mean
a prompt ending of the military regime in the (iennan empire.
Similar demands have not been voiced publicly in the empire
since the imprisonment of Dr. Karl Liehknecht. the socialist
leader, convicted on the charge of treason against the govern
merit. It is significant that the strikers’ demands include the
release of Dr. Liehknecht and all other political prisoners.
The exact status of the strike situation is not known, but it
is certain that a very considerable portion of the munition
workers on the great Krupp works at Essen and in the big
branch at Madeburg have ipiit work. Since the Kussian revo
lution, the unrest in Germany has been growing.
REVOLUTION IMMINENT. IN HUNGARY,
ACCORDING TO ADVICES BY VATICAN
ROME, April 23.—A revolution is imminent in Hungary,
according to Vatican advices received today. Following the
revolution in Russia, the unrest in Hungary has been growing,
culminating in strikes and labor disturbances ot a serious na
ture. According to advices received by the \ atiean, Budapest
and 2b other cities and towns of Hungary have been proclaimed
in a state of siege and arc now ruled by martial law. Details
are lacking, due to the strict censorship.
UNITED STATES WILL SEND GROUP OF
STATESMEN TO CONFER WITH RUSSIANS
WASHINGTON, April 2d.—A group of distinguished
AnuVieans, headed by a member of the cabinet or by lormcr
Secretary of State Root or former Secretary of State Bryan,
will be named by President Wilson within the next few days,
to go to Russia and advise with the head of the provisional
government in Petrograd.
BELGIUM RELIEF SHIP, LADEN WITH
SUPPLIES, SUNK BY GERMAN SUBMARINES
AMSTERDAM, April 2d.—-The Belgian relief ships Kong
sli and Ringhorn were sunk by German submarines yesterday,
while en route laden with supplies for the stricken people of
* Belgium. One member of the crew of the Kongsli is missing.
All others have been rescued.
TWO STEAMERS ARE LAUNCHED FROM
THE YARDS OF SEATTLE CONCERNS
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SEATTLE, April 23.—The tender B., 85 feet in
length, built for the Kodiak Fisheries company, was launched
irom the Wilson shipbuilding yards Saturday afternoon. Sal
lie 15.. the year-od daughter of Captain and Mrs. .lames M.
I.atkrop, christened the vessel. Lathroji is concerned in the
company. The 9,500-ton steel tanker Joshua Mary, built for
Ihe Standard Oil company, was launched from the ways of
the Skinnerl-Eddy yards Saturday afternoon.
LOGANBILUNGSLEYSAWSls WAY OUT
OF DETENTION STATION AND ESCAPES
SEATTLE, April 23.—Logan Billingsley, the bootlegger,
sentenced to serve 13 months at McNeill’s island, sawed his
wav out of the detention staion last night and escaped. He was
to have been taken to the island today. Fred ami Ora Bil
lingsley began serving their three months’ sentences in the
* Whatcom county jail hist night.
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.11 XKAI’, April 'J.T Tin* three great mines on I tongas isl
and the Treadwell, the Mexican and the Seven Hundred are
all flooded and a $1 d.1)00,000 investment is an absolute loss to
day. Sunday morning, a cave in of stopcs in the old workings
of the Treadwell mine allowed the waters from Bastineau chan
nel to pour in. In an hour after the cave-in, the great mine
was flooded. The flood waters soon reaclfhd the adjoining
mines the Mexican and Seven Hundred and these were soon
filled with water. All of the miners had been warned <>111 of
the mine, when the cave in occurred, and all hut two were res
cued.
Three large buildings were engulfed in the cave in. Sev
eral others are expected to go any time now.
The Ready Bullion mine, located near the other mines, i<
taking water fast, hut hundreds of men are employed in con
-trueting a bulkhead, which it is thought may save the prop
erty from inundation.
Five million tons of ore had been blocked out in the lower
workings of the three mines, ready to he taken out at the time
| of the accident, and this will prove a total loss, estimated at
over $10,(XX),000.
In a statement issued today, i'. if. Bradley, superintendent
of the great properties, which had recntly been merged under
j one operating head, said he would employ all the men who
wished to remain in surface work and in the development of
| new properties, which would he acquired at once.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT OF SUBSIDENCE.
./I XT)Al , April The Alaska Treadwell, tla* Alaska
Tinted and the Alaska Mexican, three of the largest units of
i lie famous Treat I well mines, are abandoned today, a> a result
of the subsidence of the surface along a fault into the enormous
worked out slopes, w hich lot the waters of (iastiueau channel
into the lower workings, at midnight Saturday. The alarm
was given by an engineer, who had been watching the general
settling of the surface and all the men were ipiickly. and with
good order, raised to the surface. Horses and mules that were
I used in the lower levels in tramming ore to the hoist chutes
were drowned.
Superintendent Bradley admitted twdav that the prospect
of ever opening the three great mines again was hopeless. All
day yesterday, thousands of visitors from Juneau and other
channel towns visited the scene of the disaster. Hoards main
i tained by the com pa nv kept the crowds away from the sinking
surface. Ivesidents are busily employed today in removing
I household effects and furniture from their homes located near
[the great cave in, in fear of a still greater subsidence*. Miners
are hastily removing their wearing apparel from the mine
rooming houses, several of which are sinking into the ground.
BALFOUR’S FIRST PUBLIC STATEMENT
IS TO EXPLODE THEORY THAT AMERICA
FACES A SHORT AND BLOODLESS WAR
WASI II XtSTOX, April Foreign Minister Balfour's
lust public statement, since he landed at an unnamed American
part, at the head of the British French commission, was to ex
plode the theory that this country face- a short and bloodless
war. Summed up briefly, his statement follows;
“You people of America must realize that you face a real
light and that you must la* prepared, for great indiv idual sacri
(ices, for they will be demanded of you. We have conic.” he
said, “to help America turn the first page in the history of
mankind. I appreciate that it will he <|iiitc a long time before
the people of the 1 nited States, to borrow an American phrase,
thoroughly realize ‘what they are up against,’ and I am ipiite
sure that when (lormanv forced you into war with her, she did
not realize ‘what she was up against.’ ”
DEATH CALLS WILLIAM H. PARRY, A
PROMINENT SEATTLE BUSINESS MAN
WASHINGTON, April 2d.--William II. Parry, member of
the federal trade commission, died here yesterday, from a com
plication of diseases. Parry was a former newspaper man of
Seattle. He was a prominent member of the Seattle ('handier
of Commerce.
PORTUGUESE CABINET RESIGNS.
LISBON, April 2d. The premier and all the members of
his cabinet tendered their resignations today, due to internec
ine troubles in Portugal.
TWO GERMAN TORPEDO BOATS. COMPOSING
PART OF RAIDING SQUADRON, ARE SUNK
NEAR DOVER BY BRITISH WAR VESSELS
I .< >.\ I )< >X. April Tin* British admiralty today an
flounced that two and possiblx three (ierman torpedo boats
had been sunk by British warships, in the course of a (ierman
raid near l>o\er. Five (ierman torpedo boats, in a spuadron.
made an attempt to raid the Fnglish eoast late Saturday night.
A British Meet gained knowledge of the proposed raid and laid
in wait tor the intruders. An engagement followed, in which it
i' known that two of the (ierman boats were sent to the bottom,
find it is believed that a third was destroyed. One hundred ami
five <ioniums, members of the crews of the lost boats, were
rescued by the British warships. The British Meet suffered no
lasses. I lie (ierman flotilla is believed to have come from their
base at Zeebrugge. Belgium.
ARGENTINE REPUBLIC SENDS SAUCY NOTE
TO GERMANY AND THREATENS WAR ON HER
B1 FXOS .N't KFX. April l!i!. The Argentine republic has
made a demand on Bermany for satisfaction for tin* sinking
of the Argentine steamship Monte Protegido, which was de
stroyed of! tin* eoast of France by a Berman submarine. I/An
neioif. Argentine’s leading newspaper, declares that it under
stands tluit if Bermany’s reply is unsatisfactory. President Iri
guyed will not only break diplomatic relations but will declare
w fir on (iertnam .
TO CO-OPERATE WITH UNCLE SAM.
HI(» BF .lAXFIBo. April J.‘>. Brazil formally announced
today that she will co-operate with the United States in send
ing munitions and supplies to the allied powers.
TWO BILLION DOLLARS’ WORTH OF
TREASURY CERTIFICATES ARE GRABBED
\\ ASI11\< i'l'l ).\, April -Secretary of the Treasury
MeAdoo’s lirst informal offering of $2,000,0()0,0(M) worth of
treasury certiorates, authorized in the war finance bill .just
passed by the congress, has been greatly over-subscribed. The
interest rate will be three per cent on the tir>t issue of two bil
lion dollars. Indications are that the first issue will be speed
ilv followed by other large issues.
TURKEY BREAKS DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS
WITH UNITED STATES, SAYS A REPORT
UKh’XK. Switzerland, April 2.'!.- A dispatch from Con
stantinople today says: I'he Ottoman government has noti
lied the American embassy that following the example of its
allies. (Jermany and Austria Hungary, it has broken diplomat
ie relations with Hie I'nitcd States.
HOUSE COMMITTEE VOTES IN FAVOR OF
FIRST TRYING OUT VOLUNTEER SYSTEM
\\ ASI11 X< JToX, April l’.'!. The house committee on mili
tary allairs voted today to report the army selective mnserip
lion hill, carrying an amendment prov iding that the volunteer
system shall he tried out before the president resorts to com
pulsory military service. The senate is debating the bill today.
I’lie senate committee on military affairs, headed by Senator
Chamberlain of Oregon, favors the selective conscription bill,
which is the administration measure.
ADMINISTRATION HAS WON THE ELECTION
IN JAPAN, ALTHOUGH RESULTS ARE CLOSE
TOKIO. Japan. April 23.—Indications are that the admin
istration has won the elections in Japan, although the results
are very close. Many outlying districts are still to be heard
from, that may change the present figures, which favor the
government.