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No. 218 TWENTIETH YEAR SKAGWAY, ALASKA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20", 1917 PRICE 10 CENTS
ARID AUSTRIA! REGIMENT
SURRENDER TO RUMANIAN TROOPS
Washington, Oct 20.—Advice was
received today at government head
quarters by cable from overseas
stating that one entire Austrian
re*lmeut, including all officers, and
sneu, fully armed, had voluntarily
1 sui rendered to'a detachment o:
Rumanian troops and offered t<
'figU in their Jugoslav division.
Wie regiment which, surrenderee
was composed of Mohammendar
Serbs from Bosnia.
VICE CONDITIONS
10 BE LOOKED
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Seattle, Oct. 20.—Maj or Gill y<L- j
terday appointed Judge Hirum E. •
Hadley as chairman, of the com- |
mittee whicji Is to investigate the
yica conditions of this city. Judge
Hadley, who was formerly chief i
Justice of the Supreme Court,:
w*a najned by Mayor Gill as chair
man at the committee which will
consist of seven,members altogether
This committee will begin its in
vestigations at once, -with & view
of making a report at au early date,
that the city may be cleared of j
the name which was applied to it j
by Commander Greene, in charge of!
th« V. S. | troops n°w stationed at |
Camp Lewis, a® being a city moral- j
ly unclean and not fit to be visited |
by the troops until all disorderly j
houses, gambling and bootlegging ]
was put a stop to.
TO GONGETRATE
ON TRANSPORTS
V
Washington, Oct. 20.—From ad- [
rices received from authentic sourc
es overseas, it is indicated that 1
Germany is concentrating its sub
marine operations against American
transports.
The greatest precaution is being j
taken to guard all transports eith- | _
er goln^ to or coming from French [,
an<! other ports. J j
Th» passengers arriving in White-1'
horse on the steamer Casca will',
come over on tonight's train, and
from information received, there
will be between 130 and 140 visitor
ia the city tonight.
ZEPPELINS MID
ENGLISH TOWNS
London, Oct. 20.—Seven [Zeppe
lin^ made a dashing raid on the
eastern) and north eastern coun
ties lafet night and got away with
out one of the number being
br tight jdown.
Today reports received from the
district raided by the night | air
craft place the number of killed at
twenty-seven, while the number
wounded is given at fifty.
INSPECTS MAST
SIGNAL POSTS
Seattle, Oct. 20.—Major General
Jeorge O. Squire, chief of the Un
ited States Signal Corps, arrived in
his city on a tour of (inspection.
\fter inspecting the government of
fices in this city he left [for San
Francisco.
DANCE TONIGHT
In order that the visitors arriv
ug on touight's train [may be
pleasantly entertained the White
?ass Athletic club will give an in
formal dance at the club gym to
iigb< at 9:30 o'clock. AH are cor
iially invited to [attend, and the
idmisslon will be one dollar for
sich gentleman.
Tbe latest advice received by
^gen' (Wier of the Pacific S. S.
rompany as to the arrival of the
iteamship City of Seattle in this
>ort was [the message received by
um last night from) Ketchikan which
tated that the ship sould [arrive
u this port at 8 o'clock Sunday
I'ght. • i t: Ij
Subscribe for the Dally Alaskan.
Unconsciously
People take you at your own
estimate
Feel Sure You Appear Well
You Always Will in
STEIN-BLOCH
Smart Clothes
JUST RECEIVED A SHIPMENT
ALBERT REINERT
Broadway betwaen Thied and Fourth Phone 41
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TRANSPORT SUNK IN WAD ZONE
SIXTY-SEVEN OF CREW LOSE LIVES
Washington, Oct. 20.—Late last
night advice wag received jat the
I War Department that the Govern
. meat Transport Antilles, j homeward
'bound from France had been) sunk
| in the war zone, and that the loss
I of life was sixty seven.
I Tb» dispatches were very brief,
! and the dispatch stated that prob
abJy all those lost jyrere membert.
Qf the crew. The total number Jof
persons on board the vessel was
fiiven at one hundred and sixty
seven. j
This morning advice received stat
tM that neither a submarine or
mine | had teen sighted, nor hadl
there been any indications of a
torpedo haying been,,'fired at the
ship.
| Those missing are all from| the
crew of the vessel, and in addition
to those who are missing there
WPie;one hundred and sixty seven
other persons on board, consisting
of soldiers, enlisted men from |the
array and navy, and civilians and ei*
glneers. The vessel was under
convoy of several jbattle ships, and
no vessel was sighted at the time
the transport waa hit.
The aurvivorfc from the sunken
transport are being brought home
oa one of the warships which [had
acted as a convoy to the Antilles.
SHY TO IKE BIG DIE
SALE OF LIBERTY LOAN BONDS
j
Wednesday, October 24th through,
out the entire Uulted States, Lib
era Day, the day set aside by the
President and the Governors of
the respective states and insular
j Possessions of the United States and
j the mayors jof all cities, towns, vil
lages and hamlets will be observed
[ as a national holiday, upon which a
i great drive will be made by the
\ American people for the sale of
| bonds of the Second Liberty Loan,
I and Skag way, through Mayor Ash
I ley lias proclaimed the day a legal
holiday.
Plans are now being formulated
for a mass meeting, and Skagwayane
are going to ghoy (that their city
is still oa the map and is loyal and
staunch to the'government by com
ine forward and assisting in the dis
position of the bonds.
The dav will be observed by the
| merchants of Skagway as a holi
day, their places of business be
in? j closed at noon and remaining
closed until Thursday morning.
Those who have already Bignifled
their intention of closing ar«:
The|Vienna Bakery, William Britt,
l'edersen & Co., Frye Bruhu Co., '
Ask ii Sons, Jas. Kennedy, C. P. '
tt., Keller Bros. Albert Keinert, L.'
A. Harrison Co., P. H. Ganty, Dor- |
tero & Son, Tony Dortero, Perry
Hern, H. D. Kirrnse, American Tail
ors, all the Federal Offices and
the Post Office, and when Manag
er Wheeler wa^ spoken to, lie said
that the White Pass would observe
the day as far as possible.
The Bank of Alaska stated thru
Cashier Landsborough that he j
thought it advisable to keep the bank
ojen in order {that those who'
might desire to learn about the
issuance of the bondy might do so,
as the Bank of Alaska is the only
place in the city where application
for the [purchase of the Liberty
Bonds may be made. 1
This paper will not publish on
that date, ag the proclamation of [
tne President and the Governor of i
the Territory hag set the day aside I
aa a legal holiday, and failure to J
•publish will not invalidate any of j
the legal notice which are now ap
pearing. | 1 |
Seattl.e Oct. 20.—Captain Wil
liam Fisher, former Pacific [ Mail
Steamship commander, has b«en ap
pointed to succeed Captain "Whit
ney as member of th© jtJnited
Stages Marine Inspcetion board, for
the Washington District, Captain
Whitney haying resigned bis posi
tion. I ,i
There,'has been no advice received
u£ to time of going to prss by the
local jagent of the Alaska Steam
ship company relative to the arrival
oX fhe steamship Alameda, which is
scheduled]to arrive in this port
either late tonight j or early to
morrow morning.
IKES LAST
LONE VOYAGE
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Seattle, Oct. 20.—William H.
Triggs, formerly a purser on the
steampLiv Humboldt and also other
Pacific Coast steamships and Yu
kon river steamers, died at his
home iujthiji city; today as the re
sult of cancer of the throat.
The steamship Jefferson is due
to arrive here,'Monday night.
Rev. Father Turaell will leave
for Fort Seward on the Peterson
today, and| will hold services at the
ptfst tomorrow morning. He will
return to Skagway on ,the City of
Seattle, and if that vessel arrives
l»erc in time, he will hold |sorvices
at St. Marks ia the evening.
Coffee To Suit Every Taste
We carry the following well known brands of Coffee
Hills Bros. "Highest Grade"
Schilling's Alta.
M. J. B. Coffee
Golden Gate
Packed in Vacuum at 45c per lb., 2 lbs. 85c, 5 lbs $2.00
Good Bulk Roast Coffee at 30c per lb.
P. H. GANTY
IF FORGED FO WORK MAKERS
MIGHF TURN OUF LEAKY BOILERS
Seattle, Oct. 20.—Ia a report j
made by ♦'h.Q striking boilermakers ,
to)Chairman Mack, over the adjust-,
ineut of wages, it wa*i stated in tlie j
renort tha»( the government mighty
compel the men to return to work,
but this would not prevent J the!
men from 'urning out leaking boil- I
ers.
As'a result of this report, scores
of boiler makers were brought be
fore the Federal ]authorltles with)
the view of preferring charges
which might lead to indictment on
the grounds of jsedition.
Today the striking boilermakera
and iron shipbuilders are voting ou
the question of Returning to work.
There is every, indication that the
men will vote to return to| their
oiaces and that all plants Will re
sume operations not later than
Monday morning. (
men
urns
ARE SUNK
London, jOc.t 20.—Reports were j
given out this morning by the |
British Admiralty that the British.1
Torpedo boat destroyers, Mary Rose i
and Strongbow were sunk jyester-]
day in a battle which occurred in
the Xorth Sea between the Shet
land Islands and the Coast of Nor
way. ! • ' | . I
The two vessels were convoying
three large merchant vessel when
they were attacked by [a large
German naval force, and the little
destroyers [succeeded in holding
the enemy off until the merchant*
meu made good their escape. |
Later advice received by the Ad
miralty states that while the three
British merchantmen!- escaped from
the German attack, five Norwegian
and three Danish vessels wer«
sunk along with the British torpedo
dqstroyers.
Thirty Norwegians, from the Nor
wegian vessels ■ were rescued.
TWO GERMAN j
Washington, Oct. 20.—Two Ger
man spies, jwho were discovered on
board one of the transports which
taking American troops over
to France, when two days out from
uort, were summarily shot and their
bodies thrown overboard.
MAN . ARRESTED
ON SUSPICION
ESCAPES
Seattle, Oct. 20,—Albert jMoore
■house, who was arrested yesterday
oa the charge of being the murder
er of Ruth 'Demerrette, while In
tue custody of Deputy Sheriff Jia
lone escaped from the latter jand
is now at large.
It is claimed tjiat Moorehouse had
been paying [attention to Jlise
Demerrette, and that when the re
fused to marry him he had then
threatened to kill her.
HELLO GIRLS
BACK A! WORK
Seattle, Oct. 20.—The Telephone
operators strike which was to
have gone into effect at midnight
last night'did not materialize, but
was called for one o'clock, at which
time all operatives went'out.
After being away from their
places for just two houfts, they all
retunide to work, pending a settle
ment of the wage question by the
federal government, the authorities
of the government [appealing to
the workers through the California
Council of Defense.
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eye glasses. Owner [may h
same by proving property
paying for this ad.
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