SKACJWAY, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1917
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No. 289 NINETEENTH YEAR
NAMELESS BUCK SNIP RAIDS SOUTH ATLANTIC
BROKERS IN WALL STREET HILL
COME UP IMS LEI PROBE
Washington, Jan. 17 — Morgan
Vanderlip, Henry P. Davidsoa and
ot h« r prominent New York bankers
were yesterday summoned to this
city to appear before Congressional
Investigation Committee which is
making a probe into the news leak
charges.
Thomas W. Lawson was again the
star witness yesterday, und while
ou the Btaud in answer to a ques
tion as to whether or not he had
made a certain statement to the
chairman o£ the investigation com
ma'ter, he said: "Unless your chair
man said what I said, I am guilty
of foul perjury and I am unfit to
bo anywhere outside of prison."
At a late Hour yesterday it was
decided to make the inquiry into
j the news leak investigation. more
'sweeping than it was at first iu
' tended.
Tbe investigation will be extend
ed to include a general inquiry in
to stock gambling and a special
Inquiry or probe will be made into
the stock manipulations as conduct
ed on Wall Street, New York, to as
certain if tbe charges of gambling,
. as commonly understood, is con
J ducted there.
Biiighamton, N. Y., Jan. 17—As
a result of aa oil lamp explosion
which happened while a marriage
ceremony was being performed at
the residence of one of *he prom
inent families in tte town of Hart
ford, which is neao- this city, fifty
persons were frightfully burned,
»ea of whom have already died as1
the result of the inuries they re
ceived when their garments were
United by t.he burning oil which
?.;»s thTOjva in ever}- direction when
the lamp exploded.
Seattle, Jan. 17 — Mrs. Freda
Crawford ,wJu> hsa been ill for sev
eral months past, committed sui
cide last night by asphyxiating her
Bell with, illuminating gas. She
wen' to her apartment, and after
first turning on the gas jet, threw
litsrself on her bed, where she was
fcuud dead this morning.
11 IDEM
1 SERIOUSLY ILL
Amsterdam, Jan. 17—Reports re
ceived here from Beriin today state
that it is reported on tjie Berlin
Bourse that" General Von Hinden
berg is reported to bo seriously ill.
The details aTe lacking, and it is
not stated where the great wiurrior
is at the present time,
EI UISENATORI
Tacoma, Jan. 17—Addison G.
Foster, farmer United States senat
or from the Stata of Washington,
died at his home in tliis city yes
terday after an Illness of several
weeks.
Mr, Foster was ome of the prom
inent citizens of this city, having
come west from St .Paul, Minnesota
in 1889. Since his residence here
hn has heen. one of the progressive
business mea of this city, being
president of the Consolidated Lum
ber Company. He also took an ac
tiva part in the development of
coal mines and railway building.
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Unknown Vessel Armed With Twelve
4-inch Rifles and 2 Torpedo Tubes
Sinks Twenty-one Ships off Brazilian
Coast—400 Perish When Raider
Sinks British Ship Without Warning
I London, Jan. 17—The first re
ports of German activities in the
western hemisphere was receive*1 to
day, when it was stated that a Ger
man raider bad sent eight British
and two French steamships to the
b(Horn off the Brazilian coa9t.
The reports received here are
very meagre, l>ut it would, appear
that th§ raider is operating solely
off the western coast of Brazil, and
:s confining its work of destruc
tion to ship® flying the flags of
the nations now at war with Ger
many.
Rio do Janeiro, Jan, 17—Dis
patches received here indicates that
the German vessel which has heeai
raiding the South Atlantic ha« dur
'ng tue past few. days destroyed
twenty-one Bhips. Ths raider is
still at large, and it is feared that
many other merchantmen will fall
vic'ims to it before they can seek
places of safety .
( Rio de Janeiro, Jan. 17—Prom
'reports received here from Periuim
buco .where a number of 3urvivor3
of ships that have been, destroeyd
| by ihe German raider have been
(landed ,i* is learned th&t the
raider bears no name and is painted
I black and is armed with] twelve
four inch) rifles and four torpedo
tubes.
Without giving a word of warn
ing, this strange craft steamed up
to within range of a British ship,
and hurled a broadside iuto her,
finishing the destruction! of the
ship by. sending a torpedo into her
sido. Only a comparatively few of
the passengers and crew could be
gotten into the ships life boats be
fore the ship sunk, and it is stated
that over four hundred persons
were either killed by the cannonad
ing before the ship began to sink
or were drowned after they had
filing themselves into the water
when they found that they could
net £©♦ away in the boats.
CONSERVATIVE ATTITUDE
TOWARD SPECl'LAl ION
tiaii Francisco, Jan. 17—A survey
of the financial situation in this
par' of the country at the year
sud reveals a degTee of conservatism
which, under the unusual conditions
or ilie pas* twelve-month, one
might not have expected to find.
The California investor is exer
cising, in even more marked degree,
that caution that was comented on
in the letter last year. It is
"safety firs'" in all investments.
Thus, State bonds are Belling on a
3.80 per cent. basis. Municipals are
in j.;ood demand. The whole tone
of the market is conservative. "Mon
ey remains easy," is the statement
in the monthly letters of the banks.
Yes, but not for anything that looks
speculative.
RHODES NEW PRESIDENT
SEATTLE CHAM. COMMERCE
Seattle, Jau. 17—Thomas Burke,
w ho has been president of the
for several years past, resigned fror
New Seattle Chamber of Commerce
the position recently and at a
Rhodes »the orominent Second Ave. i
meeting held last night, Albert K. j
merchant, was elected to fill the (
position, made vacant by Mr. I
Burke's resignation.
SAME DAY, SAME TOWN,
SAME DISEASE KILLS TWO
Seattle, Jan. 17—<Dr. W. S. Law
son and Dr. G. W. Crawhjll, two
prominent dentists, are reported to
have died of heart disease on Mon
day. • | h'.sflUT
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I» SMALL ONES ARE
INDICTED BY (t. J.
Seattle, Jan 17—The Federal
Grand Jury has returned; thirteen
indictments against small offenders
♦oday. None of these indictments
cover any of the charges which, are
being investigated relative to the
bootlegging cases.
DANISH WEST INDIES
NOW BELONG TO lT. S.
Washington, Jan. 17—By the
formal exchange of ratification pa
pers between Secretary Lansing and
Minister Brien, the Danish West
Indies today passed into the posses
sion of the United Srtatcs of Ameri
ca.
l'AYS ALIMONY IN
MOLASSES SOAKED PENNIES
Cripple Creek — Mrs. Minnie G.
Soanlan, divorced wife of Thomas
Scanlan, a miner, has filed suit
here to compel her husband to pay
her #45 a month alimony in legal
tender. Scanlan for three months
has paid the alimony in pennies. A
month ago he sent 9,000 pe-mnis, be
ing arrears.
Mrs. Scanlan, alleges he sent
4,500 pennies which had been
soaked in molasses. It took near
ly four hours to wash off the molas
ses. Mrs. Scanlan said.
Mrs. H. M. Oraig of Haines ana
Miss Thompson, government pchool
teacher at Klukwan, Steve Sheldon
of Haines, and Mrs. Capt Stedeman
of Fort Seward, made the round trij
to Skagway on the Peterson today.
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WED STATES DOES ENORMOUS
BUSINESS WITH WHOLE WORLD
Washington, Jan. 17 — The de
oarfment of Commerce have just
issued a report covering the im- J
1 ncrts from Euirot*e, North and Southj
America, Asia, Oceania and Africa
for the 11 months ending November,
11916 which shows that the United
States received $2,186,821,703
I worth of goods.
During the same period of time
the export from the United States
'o rhe same country was ?4,980,
302,030 worthi of goods, 1
Of the imports, Europe is credit
ed with, having shipped to the Un
ited States $574,212,649 worth of
goods, whilo the United States is
credited with haying shipped to Eu
rope $3,464,518,743 worth of goods.
COHIHE
If BE CANNED
JRome, Jan. 17—It Is generally j
believed that at the recent war,
council held by the European En-,
tente powers, that it has been de-1
cided to depose King Coiistantine, j
of Greece, and that Dujce Aosta '
will be placed on the throne. |
KHIzWlO !
m BE SUICIDE!
Port Tojvnsend, Jan. 17—Former
Mayor Israel Katz has be«ui miss tag
from his home in this city for sev
eral days past, and it is believed
tha4 he has committed suicide.
MIBEY 1
passes mr
Washington, 'Jan 17 — Admiral
George Dewey died at his homo in
this city at six o'clock last evening.
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COULDN'T FIND
Seattle, Jan. 17—George Jlushal,
au ex-sailorman in the United States
navy, was discovered dead this
morning in his room in a cheap
lodging house near the water front.
Muahal enlisted la the navy and
served one enlistment, but did not
re-enlist, and Bince that time he
has been out of work, only secur
ing a few days labor now and then
as he wag able to find odd jobs to
do. It is believed that growing
despondent over his inability to se
cure work ,he decided to do away
with himself, and going to his room
tocls a dose of carbolic acid.
Seattle, Jan. 17—United States
District Attorney Reames, of Port
land, Oregon ,has been ordered to
this city to assist Federal Dis
trict Attorne£ Clay; Allen in prose
cuting the liquor cases which are
up before the Grand Jury. It is be
lieved that a thorough probe will
be made into the alleged organized
bootlegging ring, and a number of
higher-ups will be indicted following
the evidence which is being intro
duced . ' '
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