AND COOK INLET PIONEER
VOL. 2. NO. 72.
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1917.
PRICE TEN CENTS.
IN NAM BATHE IN
LONDON, ,/an. 24.—In an engagement yesterday in the
North sea between British light naval forces and German tor
pedo boats aud destroyers, which lasted several hours until
darkness came on, one German destroyer was. sunk and another
torpedo craft was badly damaged, says an official report of
the British admiralty today. The report says that in the en
gagement, one of the British destroyers was lib by a torpedo,
and in the explosion which followed, three officers and 40 mem
bers of: the crew were killed.
GERMAN VERSION OF SEA FlGHT.
* BERLIN, Jan. 24.—Germany’s version of the North sea
v battle yesterday, as reported by the admiralty today, says that
one of the British destroyers was sunk and. that another was
observed sinking; that one German U boat was damaged and
put into Ymudin, the others returning to their respective bases
without serious damage.
j MuTli(Mj rtAi), slateuitnt issued by the iius
sian war office today, read-A: “In the liiga sector, the German
troops, who wore white overallls, made an attack on our field
outposts, 1ml were beaten back, with heavy losses.
HEAVY SNOWS ON ALL FRONTS.
BERLIN, dan. 24.—Heavy snows on all f roi ts. says the Ger
man official reports, has helped, rather than hindered, the
lighting.
SEATTLE, Jan. 24.—Floyd Matth
ews, a shingle weaver, and Frank Wil
son, a longshoreman, were arrested
yesterday afternoon, while about to
hold up the branch of the Scandina
vian-American bank at Ballard. Fol
lowing their arrest, they made a com
plete confession of their p'.i* loot
the bank.
Mayor J. G. Watts has inaugurated
a new system in regard to records and
transfers of city real estate that will
be of great benefit to the Anchorage
property owner. He Informs The
Times that the department is now iu
a position to make informal entries
for all transfers of ownership togeth
er wich all records of any nature.
While it is not compulsory for the
property owners to advise the town
site management in regard to trans
fers or different records it is certainly
advisable to do so and is a commu
nity interest. It is for the benefit of
f the people thr«t the new system has
been inaugurated and they will no
doubt take advantage of the opportu
nity offered. The new system will aid
materially ir. looking up title to a
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 23.—Miss
Betty DeJong, the artist, who shot
herself in an effort to take her own
life Saturday, passed away last night.
There are ugly rumors afloat, con
necting the departed with a San Fran
cisco physiciatt. His failure to marry
her, it is said, -vas the cause of her
self-destruction. She chose to end it
all, rather than be a mother of a fa
tneriess child.
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WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 24.—
Women suffragettes will be barred
from participaition in the Wilson in
• augural parade on March 3rd, unless
| they promise not to display banners
' ov advertise tin- suffrage cause, is the
announcement made here tonight.
Inaugural officials said they learn
ed the suffragettes planned to hold ~
big demonstration during the parade
and thev desiivd to head this off.
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piece of real ot tate and while the rec
ords will not .tuffice for an abstract
or guarantee title it will do away
with considerable bickering and uncer
tainty in regard to assessments,
transfers, lieu , etc.,
SEATTLE, Jan. 24.—Cablegrams received today by the
Seattle managers fi'om the head offices of marine insurance
companies are to the effect that a German commerce raider is
lurking in North Pacific trade lanes. - As a consequence, ma
rine insurance rates are soaring. The information as to the
presence of the sea raider in North Pacific waters comes in a
report to the head offices of the marine insurance companies in
New York from reliable sources in the orient.
STANDING OF TEAMS.
Anchorage Basketball League.
Won Lost Pet.
City . 2 1 .666
A. E. C. 2 2 .500
14th . 1 2 .333
Too much Powery, too much Knut
son and entirely too much Veach tells
the story of last night’s basketball
game in which the City swamped the
Commission 32 to 18.
Veach alone scored 18 points for
the City team, which equalled the to
1 tal of the Commission and it was due
to the superior team work of his
playing mates that this was possible,
i Time and again he would be in an
easy ped.ion to score; receive the
ball from Powery or Knutson and
shoot the basket. Towards the last
ot the game the Commission five
broke up this combination but it was
! too late and in the last half little
Henning' was used with the same ef
fect. It was the City’s night and
they put up a splendid exhibition of
the game and scored almost at will.
Engle of the Commission played a
star game and his work was excep
tionally fast and snappy. Magnus
made two beautiful shots from long
range that brought down the house.
Speaking of houses there was lots of
room and the game was poorly at
tended. The Commission and 14th
seem to draw better and have the
most supporters. In regard to sup
porters the City has just a few ar
dent ones who are sadly in the minor
ity and Jimmie Lankin needs the help
of Bill Spencer.
Sherwin tossed the ball in the air
and the game started with a rush.
Veach shot the first basket with the
aid of Powery and Henning to Knut
son made the score 4 to 0. Commis
sion missed four consecutive attempts
at the north basket and Knutson shot
another basket after the next few
minutes of play. Trachsel tried to
get the runner from third and passed
the length of the field. Engle scored
first for his team after a clever dis
play of head work. On a foul Veach
missed free basket but made it up
Boon afterwards by one from the field.
Captain Magnus called a council of
war and the word went out to pay
more attention to Veach. Powery to
Veach resulted in another basket for
the City. On a double foul Engle
missed and Veach scored.
Engle was playing a fast game and
was ^11 over the court; Costello was
blocking well and blocked several
shots. Henning to Knutson scored
again for the City. Leahy missed
free try. Playing a lone hand Veach
proved his superiority over the field
and scored. The Commission were
playing hard at this stage of the
game and Magnus to Ryan scored one
from the field. One more point was
added to the City's growing score by
Veach and Magnus duplicated for his
team. First half ended City 16, Com
mission 5.
Manager Wilford announced the
next game for Sunday afternoon be
tween City and 14th and stated that
all games in the future would start
promptly on time.
Captain Magnus led his men in a
mad rush to stem the tide that re
sulted in two fouls in the first few
minutes of play; Veach made one
and missed one free try. Costello to
Ryan scored. It was anybody’s ball
for a time when Ryan passed to Mag
nus on the extreme boundary of the
west court line; the captain immedi
ately s’-ot and the ball went home.
It wa; by far the prettiest and most
difficult shot of the game and received
deserved recognition.
This extraordinary shot put hope
in his team mates’ hearts and they
rushed things for a while. Overanxi
ety on the City’s part to stop the
spurt gave Magnus a chance to miss a
free try. On the next few plays the
ball was passed regardless by both
teams and gave some wit in the gal
lery an opportunity to make mention
of “field goals."
The players settled down, however,
and Knutson standing directly under
the south basket received the ball
from Henning and counted two more
points. Veach did and didn’t on his
attempts at free baskets. Henning
w;*Tcoming to the front on every play
and the next skilful passing from
Powery to Veach to Henning scored
a field basket. Knutson, unguarded
and unafraid, scored another one from
the field. Knutson was much more
accurate than in previous games and
played a whirlwind game.
Leahy made free basket and Veach
two in succession. The game was de
veloping into something similar to a
class rush with the City having by
far the best of it. Veach and Hen
ning, with the assistance of Trachsel
both scored in rapid succession. Lea
hy passed the ball into the waiting
arms of Trachsel, but Joe Ryan caus
ed him to fumble. Joe recovered,
shot and scored.
Kngle was here, there and every
where and playing a great game but
lacked support from his team mates.
Perhaps it was on account of too
much powery and Veach but even at
that Engle did his part well. Roy
Trachsel scored from a difficult angle
and Leahy missed on free try. Mag
nus scored one for his team and Ryan
scored two from the field. This was
followed up by the combination of
Ryan to Engle that added two more
points for the Commission.
With only a few minutes to play
Leahy passed to Magnus who again
made a perfect shot for field basket
from a long distance.
The game ended City 32, Commis
sion 18.
The refereeing of Sherwin deserves
compliments and he acts in this ca
pacity equally as well as he plays
center, which is par excellence. Pres
ident Loussac acted in a double role
and umpired, with Scott official scorer
and Werner and Sullinger timekeep
ers.
Line-up:
City A. E. C.
Powery .R. F. Engle
Henning.L. F. l«ahy
Veach .C.. Ryan
Knutson .R. G. Costello
Trachsel .L. G.. Magnus
Field baskets—Veach 6, Knutson 4,
Henning 2 Trachsel 1, Engle 2, Ryan
3, and.. Magnus 2.
Baskets from foul—Veach 6, Leahy
2, and Magnus 2.
Fouls—City 9, Commission 10.
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.—Official and diplomatic Wash
ington now believes that when President Wilson addressed the
senate upon the subject of permanent peace, he had in his pos
session information still undisclosed which led him to believe
he could eventually bring about peace.
RECEIVE SPEECH COLDLY.
LONDON, Jan. 24.—The Manchester Guardian and the
London Daily News, leading English newspapers, received
President Wilson’s speech in the senate very coldly. They ad
mit that they are much troubled over the real meaning behind
certain passages in the speech.
CUMMINS RESOLUTION BEFORE SENATE.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.—In opening the debate in favor
of his resolution for weeks of discussion of the president’s
peace address yesterday afternoon, Senator Cummins declared
that the president’s suggestions were the most important ever
made by a chief executive of the United States, and right or
wrong, the senate owed it to him and to the country .to set
aside time for wide discussion of the subject by members of the
senate.
TOKIC), Japan, Jan. 24.—In an address in the diet yester
day, Foreign Minister Monoto, of Japan, intimated that the
government proposed to take all the German colonies in the
Pacific taken from Germany.
CONSULAR AGENTS TO INVESTIGATE.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.—Secretary of State Lansing to
day announced that American consular agents were instructed
to investigate the circumstances surrounding the importation
of Belgian workmen to Germany, where they are made to work
in the fields and in various industries.
SOI DUTIES
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Jan. 24.—
The advisability of restoring tariff on
wool, rubber and coffee, and of in
creasing the present tariff on sugar
is under consideration by the treasury
department officials as their recom
mendation to congress for ways arid
means to meet the threatened deficit
at the end of the fiscal year,
1917.
The treasury department
from examination of the department
records, believe if this is done, it will
meet the situation.
The Wilson administration does not
contemplate returning to a stamp tax
law.
June 80,
in
official!,
BIG FREIGHTED
SEATTLE, Jan. 24.—The Louise D.
Elson, a 9,000-ton freighter, was suc
cessfully launched from the ways of
lie Skinner-Eddy corporation here
this forenoon.
LONDON, Jan. 24.—A deep sincer
ity and insight mark the bust which
Mr. Richard Belt has executed of
Lord Kitchener. The work has been
accomplished in altogether remarka
ble circumstances. Mr. Belt, who is
very well known as the sculptor, has
not done any work as a sculptor for
the last 80 years, with the exception
of a statue of Sir Richard Burbage
eight years ago. His admiration for
the former secretary of war induced
him once more to seek expression
through the medium of the modeler’s
clay.
DRflCliT
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.—Consul
George M. Hanson writes from Prince
Rupert, Canada, that the drydock
there, part of the equipment of the
Grand Trunk Pacific system, and com
pleted at a cost of $2,500,000, has
been in use for the past six weeks.