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■i^o"NINETEENTH YEAR SKASWAY. ALASKA. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 23, 1917
WIVES OF STRIKERS KILL Hi
INJURE GUARDS AT REFINERY
Philadelphia, Feb. 23—The wives
of the striking employes oT the
Franklin Sugar Refining Company.
o# LhU dty, engaged in a v'tb
guards which had been placed about
the premises of the sugar company,
and before they could be driven off
out mau wfco waa guarding the
cuUn entrance to the factory 'Wa3
killed, and nine ethers eerioualy
Injured.
Police were at oucg summoned
to tli* scene by a rlct call, and
the- wemen bad to; be beaten back
by a free use oX the heavy clubs or
the patrolmen.
Several arrests were made, and
it st thought that the woman who
.was the immediate cauge of the
death, of the guard has beeu, iden
tified as one of thosa arrested.
Amsterdam, Feb. 23—la &u ar
ticle which is published in the
Frankfurter Zeituag, it is claimed
mat 't baa been learned from re
liable sources from Berlin that
there can be no doubt but that
• rupture in the relations now e*
•»:in? between the United States
government and the government of
Austria is bound to follow, when
Ambassador Penfield of the United
States presents his note to the Aus
tiian foreign minister at Vienna. j
reported prisoners
have BEEN' RELEASED
Ams'erdam, Feb. 23—A dispatch
'torn Berlin printed in the papers
of this city this morning again re
port thy the American prisoners
of tha steamer Yarrowdale hare
beta re eased.
DEPENDS Off
EXACT FAG1S
I
Washington, Feb. 23—On the
basis of news dispatches tie gov
ernment began seeking official in
formation of thy destruction of the
American schooner Lyman M- Law
by a submarine, t-o determine at
once how the case affects the
delicate situation, between Ger
many and the United States.
The dispatch was taken to indi
cate that the Law was sunk in
tne Mediterranean, where Austria
als<? is conducting submarine op
erations.
The main points to t>e determin
ed are whether the phip was at
tacked) without warning, whether
shs cat lied contraband and whether
any American Uvea were lost.
Whether the destruction of the
Law will turn out to be "the overt
act" r\t the submarine campaign
will have to depend, on the exact
facts
MIRACLE ALONE CAN KEEP U.S.
our OF WAR WITH EM
"Washingtcxn, Feb. 23 — 0£{icials
of the various executive departments
of the United States government
do not disguise the fact that the
German situation is daily growing
graver and graver, and as each re
port is received detailing the iink
iny o* some ship by German sub
marines, and it is learned that no
overt act hap been committed the
relief of the tensity of the situa
tion is made quite noticeable.
WUh the ruthless submarine
j warfare policy of the German Im
perial government now in its eec
1 ond week, and still no overt aot
perpetrated, leads to the belief that
orders may havg been, issued by the
German government to avoid such
act.
It is claimed here that it is
ouly by th,e avoidance of an overt
act such as tbe> ruthless talc
ins: of an Amre'can life that war !
wi'h Germany can be averted, and ;
this will be a miracle. >
spring
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Nnui on Sifipla#
ALBERT REINERT
Broadway between Third and Fourth Phone 41
Two Lives Lost in Big
Fire That Visits Dawson
Dawson-, Feb. 23—iFire -was dis
covered early; Thursday morning in.
thc^Yuifonia hotel, andl by the time
the tire department had arrived on
♦he scene, the big building was a
seething mags of flames.
Fanned by a slight breeze, and
with the mercury between, fifteen
and twwity degree below zero, __the
flames quickly gained headway and
soon leaped to tha nearby buildings.
For the balance of the night the
fire ^ightere fought with a de
termination to best the demon, but
owing to the intense beat they
wee unable to hold the flames j
from slreading and whsn daylight ■
came *he sites formerly occupied
b^ Lhe Yukonia hotels Oonin'p ho
tel, the Pioneer hotel, the Bonan
za hotel, Sales jewelry store and
Pinska's dry goods and clothing
9*010 weTe a smouldering ma^s of
blackered ruins.
C. W. C. Tabor, the well known
lawyer, wag known to have retired
*•> his room In the Yukonia hotel
about one hour befire the fire Was
discovered and jvihanj eearcbi failed
to reiveal bis whereabouts, It Was
discovered that he had not been
setn since the alarm of fire had
been given. Thte led to the sup
position that therg might have
beer more lives logt in the fira and
it wae sooa found1 that t.wo miners,
whose names could not be learned
who had come in from the creeks
late Wednesday] afternoon, were
also missing, and up to a lata hour
today it is still believed that they
wer» burned to death in the hotel.
Billy MoAdamg, the oldest em
p!oye of the White Pa$g route is
also missing, and it Is almost an
assured fact that he also lost his
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Hit's ALLIES EiSffi
UMICIED SUB ill POLICY
Washington, Feb. 23 —Germany
h"»s succeeded in solidifying the
sujport of ber allies to herself and
has received th§ endorsement of
the Central Powers to her announced
pol>cy of unrestricted submarine
warfare.
Announcement to this eff&ct is
now in the frauds of the Stale De
partment of the United States, and
shtws that no relief to the situa
tion can bo expected from the Aus
tria-Hurgarianv or the Bulgarian,
or Turkish governments.
SEATTLE TAILOR
DIES IN CHICAGO
Seattle F^b. 23—C. P. Curtis,
o' the firm of Dean, and Curtis,
one o* the largest firms ot men's
ta lors In this city, died la Chi
cago while enroute to his home
here from a trip to New York.
"SPRING MILLINERY NOW ON
SALE AT REINERT6."
EXORMOUS EARNINGS
FOR THE PAST YEAR
Washington, Feb. 23—Comptrol
ler of fie currency of the United
States treasury John S. Williams
today reported1 the earnings of the
National Banks last yeaT to have
been $600,000,000. This is the
largest earnings for any one single
year since the orgamizationj of the
banking system in the United States
POSTAL BILL WILL PUT ONE THIRD
NATION IN BONE OBY COLUMN
Washington, Feb. 23 — Before
taking a recess Wednesday after
noon over Thursday until this
morning; the United States House
of Representatives concurred in the
amendment to the postal Jjill, as
mado by the Senate, which makes
provision far the shipment of li
quors by parcel post or otherwise a
federal offense or the ordering of
liquors by mail to be shipped into
states where prohibition now ex
ists a like offense.
Tflis action on the part of the
House of Representatives makes
such states as already have passed
proniDition laws now absolutely
bone dry. A number of states
which have Veen, voted dry, un
der the state lawe permitted otf the
shipment of intoxicating liquors In
limited quantities, but with the
law just passed by oongress, which
becomes effective Jul} first, accord
ing to the bill, fully one third of
the United States will become bone j
dry.
Washington, Feb. 23—Today; the
6enite a®-ain took upt the ques
tion of the amendment to the post
al" bill, providing for the Pre
vention o£ shipment of liquors
through the mails, or the ordering
of intoxicants through tha mails,
and upon, a concurrent resolution
offered by Representative Jloon
of Tennessee pos'poning the date
at which the law. becomes effect
ive from July 1, 1917 to October
1, 1917, Representative Moon, an
nounced that the House would
press the measure through) at the
earliest possible date.
The Dostofflce bill itself was dis
posed of.
COMPLETE.
Line of
Perishables
on the
Spokane
P. H. GANTY
DIVER SINKS SWEDISH VESSEL
AFTER OFFICERS Hi GREW LEI
Washington, FeJ). 23 — The
State Department is in. receipt. of
advice from Consul General Carl
Bailey Hurst o£ Barcgloa/n, Spain,
la which Ix© states that the Swedish,
Steamship SkogLand was sunk off
the coast of Spain l>y; a German
submarine.
Beforg torpedoing the ship, ten
minutes notice wa$ give® for the
officer.? anidi crew to effect their
esiape from the doomed vessel.
Ther* were five Americans on board
the Swedish shii>, and they had no
sooner taken to the ]>oats than th«
diver sent a torpedo crashing into
tha big vessel. All officers and
members of the crew were landed
safely at this port.
New York, Feb. 23 — According
to Alfred Noy.es, the famous Eng
lish poet, who arrived: In this city
04 one of the late ships passing
thioujrh the restricted war zone
efa'es that England's anti-subma
rine fleet consists of 4,000 private
yachts, whalers and fishing vessels.
Thes© vessels are maimed by over
80,000 men and it is claimed that
thia force has destroyed 200 Ger
man, submarines since the an
nouncement of the ruthless block
ade rf English, French and Italian
ports.
WILSON TO TAKE OATH SUNDAY
Washington, Feb. 23—It was
officially announced today that in
tbe face of the grave situation now
confronting the United States,
President Woodrow Wilson will
taire the oath Of office privately
in the White House Sunday, and
tfrat only a few diplomats from
foreign countries and United States
dignitaries will bq present
BRITISH TAKE
2,000 IK
London, Feb. 23—The British)
tioops continuing their advance at
Kutel Ainara, Mesopotamia, captur
ed two thousand Turks recently
and se-zed important strategic po
sitions on the right bank of the
Tigris. Amongst the prisoners were
eighty-nine officers. Several po
sitions have been taken from the
enemy during the past few days in
♦hat region and there is now every
reason to hope, military men say,
that the city itself will soon fall.
japsMto
Hi SHIPS
Tokyo, Feb. 23—The Japanese
admiralty are planning to at once
arm all Japanese merchantmen now
engaged in trade, and especially
those vessels plying the Atlantic
and Mediterranean.
EDM! KUSE SEMEffl ID
BE HEED ON if ELEVENTH
" and to hanged by the neck
until you axe di§ad."
One man's fate to solemnly de
cree the fate of another. A judge
clothed with the power the law
gives.
" and he banged by the
neck uartil yooi are dead."
While the above words were be
Id® sooken the eyes of two men
were firmly fixed on, the other. One
man, wiili tlie glitter of defiance, al
though not a muscle was perceived
*o be moved in, the face, Btodily
glanced. The other, weighing each
word carefully, spoke low but firm
ly. His eyes fell on the doomed,,
hopelessly ,for it was the law.
•• and be hanged by the neck
until you are dead."
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