®he ©aita Alaskan
TWENTY FIRST YEAK " SKAOWAY, ALASKA. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 12. 1918 PRICK 10 CENTS
ENEIIf LOSSES
ARE APPALLING
Amtiican-French Armies oa Aisne
Pr-nt, Tnursday. — Germans are
attacking this afternoon on the
Montrome plateau with great de
termination. The Franco "American
forces ar- withholding the advance
of the enemy, and the losses to the
Genua 1.9 in the last three days
operations in this sector is appal
ling.
CAP!. HUNTER
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jeattle, Sept. 12.—Captain J. C.
Hunter, who has been master of Al"
dsia Steamship company's ves
sels for » number of years past, and j
who has been master of the steam
ship Northwestern for the past Bev" j
eral years, died in this city this
morning as a result of an opera
tion which he underwent for gall
stones.
WILL HOLO
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W. Pollard Grant, a pioueer bar" (
rister of Atlin, but now one of
Vancouver's prominent lawyers,
arrived in Skagway this morning
and continued his journey form
hers to Atlin on the train.
Mr. Grant h«s Been retained by
Jot Tailmire who is under arrest
fn At'in charged with perjury.
'tjje case arises over the staking
of some mining claims and 'will be
hardly fought out.
Juihre Barker of the Provincial
bench and the other court attache* |
also went over on the traju aud
win holi court in Atlin upon their
arrival.
Mrs. Gillis. wife of the veteran
deutUt of Dawson arrived out last
ni^ht and is visiting with h-er sou
>d<elber> Baker for a few days
rats lis in TODAY ON IETZ
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INS BUMS
NEWOEFENSES
Paris, Thursday. — Advice was
received by the Frencn war office
V.:> afternoon that the Germans
are continuing the reconstruction of
the!r new lin-e of defensives from
Antwem to Metz. This system of
defeases is to b« known aa the par"
sisa' line.
Mr. and Mrs. Dias Fonseca, two
prominent Portuguese citizens are>
visitors in Skagway for a few days,
having arrived in Skagway this
morning on the Princess Sophia. Mr.
Fouseca is a native of Lisbon,
while Mrs. Fonseca was born in
Oporto.
O* course the war is the topmost
thought, and it is with a display of
great rid© that this couple informs
one that Portugal was England's
first ally, and they speak with
much love for their army which is
fixating today shoulder to shoulder
with tho Americans, French and! Brit
ish in their battle against the Hun.
Mr. Fonseca reasons that tnere Is
but one ultimate outcome to the
world's war, the utt$r defeat of
the Prussians and the German gov
ernment, and he firmly believes
tha' with the strength of the U
iiited States thrown into the oon
fliot, the end is not far distant. He
says that as he crossed the Ameri
can continent, there wag only one
industry evidence^ throughout the
broad expanse of territory travers
ed and that was "war."
"With the coalition of a nation's
resources of the magnitude of the
United States, Germany can never
overcome it and the effect of their
vast resources hurled against the
enemy must soon bear fruit in the
nature of a glorious victory,"' con
cluded Mr. Fonseca.
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SKAQWAY, ALASKA
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W. H. W»rren, Vice-Pres.. Wrsngell,
W. R. Hillery, Vice-Pres., Cordova
E. B. An»ley. Vica-Pres., Anchorage
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CHAPTER 12.
CHARLES MURRAY »nd LOUISE FAZENDA In MAID MAD.
IN TWO ACTS
MR. and MRS. SIDNEY DREW la THIER FIRST. jj
i Will show SKAGWAY PICTURES. *. ^ *
VIOLIN, PIANO, DRUMS. 4 MUSlfl
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8:30 r>.m. Sharp Admission 25c, 10c
London, Thursday, — An Ameri
can offensive was begun on the
Meuse and Moselle rivers at five
clock this morning, and reports re
ceived at the British war office at
noon today say that the operations
ar® progressing very satslfactorily.
ten villages having been captured
up to that time.
The attacks was carried out by
the First Amerioan army und>er
the direction and command of Gen
era" Pershing.
With the American Forces on
th Lorraine Front, Thursday. ;
French and American forces this
morning launched an attack against
the German positions on both sides
of the Mlhlel salient with the
weatn?r most favorable for the
ot>eratious. The attack against th®
enemv was a most daring one, and
utj to noon has been very success
Jul. The asault wag preceded by
e "arrace lasting four hours.
The attack on the southern sides
o* the 3t. Mihisl salient was made
al< ng a distance of twelve miles.
General Weeks was on the western
Bide and his attacking front extend
ed for eight miles.
As this message is being Sent
'here is some indications of the Ger
man *orces preparing to retreat.
Paris, Thursday. — Reports from
the American lines this afternoon
state tW the St. Mihiel salient
southeast of Verdun, -which the
American-French forces are driv
ing against today has been main
tained for the past four years by
the Germans and no attempt has
been made by the Allies for Its re"
moval. it is now believed here by
military experts that the attack
on this salient is the preliminary to
a Teit American dvive on Metz.
SEATTLE if BE MADE GREAT
BASE III JAPANESE OPERATIONS!
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Washington, Thursday. — New
York advices received in this city
tb's afternoon indicate that Seattle
will be made the great base for COn"
necting the Japanese operations
throup1* Siberia.
lie Plan may involve the tak
ing over of the entire port.
I That such an Impending move
ment is contemplated is reflected in
the purchase during the Past sev
eral weeks of one hundred and 8ev
| enty five of Seattle's hotels and
lodgine apartment houses by JaP"
' anese corporations.
Washington Sept. 12.—The re*
snl's of a census of the Virgin Is
lands (formerly the Danish West
Indies) have Just been published.1
TJj* inventory was mad^ by the
Bureau of the Census of the Depart
ment of Commerce.
The report shows 'hat by this
latest territorial acquisition the area
of »Ue United States was increased
slightly more than 132 square miles,
this arpa Deing oractically that of ]
th6 three principal jslandB, St. Croix j
(Santa Crua), St. John, and St. I
Thomas. There are in addition a
bout 50 small islands or cays, the
largest about 1 mile square.
Interesting and significant is the
fact that while the United State®
acquired title to he Virgin Islands;
by treaty with Denmark on August
4, 1916, after negotiations of more
taau half a century, the language
af the people Is English, though
*oe islands were under the Danish
flap for 245 years.
In 1917 the value of the exports
from th* United States to thee is
lands was $1,416,342, (and. of
the imports from the islands $1.*
259,607.
The population as of November
1, 1917, was 26,051, and the com
parison with earlier censuses Bhows
the oopulation ha$ steadily decreas
*d, from 43,178 in 18.35 to 26,051
•n 1917. Of the total persons in
1917, 1,922 were white, 19;523 were
Negro, and 4,606 mixed1. The ®ex
distribution was 11,999 lnalee and
14,052 females. The returns show
ed 5,281 persons, or 24.9 per cent
of the population 10 years age or
ove- to be illiterate. The popula
tion of each of the three principal
islands in 1917 was ag follows; St.
Crcix 14,901, St. Thomas 10,191,
an* St. John 959. The islands con
tain three cities—Charlotte Amalie,
on the island of St. Thomas, with
i population of 7,747; and Chris
tiausted and Frederiksted, on the
island- of St. Croix, with popula
tion*. of 4,574 an* 3,144 respective
ly.
HEART FAILURE VLON'E
CAN* PREVENT VICTORY
Manchester, Sept. 12. — "The
wors* 's over," declared Premier
I/oyd George today, when h§ was
given the freedom of this city. ''The
i_ew? we are receiving from the
i>attl» front now is distinctly good,
really cood," he said.
Concluding t&e prime minister
said "Noth'ng but heart failure on
the Dart of thp British nation can
prevent our achieving a real vie*
torf." ! '
Airs. J. Langloi* Bell and her
daughter, Mrs. Telford, arrived' on
the Sophia today and left for White
iicr^e on the morning train.
NOW IS YOUR CHANCE
Received today on "Spokane"
Fancy Canning Peaches 1.65 per Box Special
Prunes in 20 lb. Boxes 2.00 per Box
We believe this to be the lowest price for this season
P. H. GANTY
KAISER LEF? NO
STOliE UNTURNED
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Amsterdam, Thursday.—Speaking
at the Krupp munition works this .
mornln? Emperor William declared.
that everyone la the Fatherland |
knew that he had left no Btone ,
unturned to shorten the war.
Nenana, Sept. 12.—Ground yield- j
lng more than f 1 a foot in placer I
«old and carrying a conaldreable
quantity of place; tin has been, dis
covered on lower Patterson Creek,
About twenty-two miles from Hot
oor'ngs. The town of Hot Springs
is forty miles from the line of
tue government railroad at Nenana
and southwest from Fairbanks.
The gold and tin deposits ex*
trnd over a large area. About
twenty holes have been put down
witi* a Keystone drill and in every
one of these holes encouraging pros
pects have been found. That the
dei)09its of gold are heavy Is believ
ed to be indicated by the presence
cf *in in the gravel, as the best
iold-producing gravel in the Hot
Springs district carries a large quan
t»ty of native tin.
The ground, for the most part,
is. deep, the drill penetrating to a
depth or 240 feet in places before
reaching bedrock, but the prospects
are so encouraging and the coun
try so well adapted to mining, hav- (
ing an abundance of water and
timber that the operators expect to
realize handsome profits. |
The scene of the new strike is on |
cround owned by Robinson and'
Hestler. It Is only a short distance
below the famous Howell and Cleve
land claims on Patterson, which are j
S3 id to have produced more than [
one million dollars' worth of gold
and a large quanttity of tin.
Details of the Robinson and' Host
ler discovery are enbodied in an
official report to the Department
of the Interior by W. H. Grigg, act
ing manager of the Nenana townsite.
CAGE PRISONERS
TO SAVE HANGARS
Amsterdam, Thursday. — It haa
been learned* here that twenty-five
British prisoners are confined Ilka
bird., in small cages which give
them scarcely room to move a*
bout anH these have been placed
fl4®r the flying sheds at Ever* which
ia a suburb of Brussels. ThU is
said to have been done by the Ger
mans in order to protect the hang*
ars against aerial attacks by the
Allies.
BRITISH STILL
MAKING GAINS
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London, Thursday.—British torc
es hays affected a crossing of tie
Canal du Nord to the southwest oC
the town of Havrloourt today, pays
Field Marshal Haig in a report to
the British war office, and ha clos
es his report by stating that the
oansl at this point form^ the mala
defense ot Cambrai on the south
west.
RUSSIAN EMPRESS AND J
DAUGHTERS ARE DEAD
London, Thursday.—The Daily
Express of thig city in today's edi
tion claims to hare unquestioned
information that the former Em
oress of Russia and her four daugh*
ters Uayp been murdered by Bolahe*
Tiki.
AMERICANS JOIN ALLIES
ON THE MURMAN OOASf
Archaugle, Thursday.—The riot*
iu? in the Murman coast in Russia
is such a« will require more allied
troops. . . ^
Washington, Thursday. — Advice
was received by the war depart
ment this afternoon that a strong
detachment of American troops have
arrived in Arcbangle, and will Join
w)M> the other Allied forces now
there in the campaign against the
Bolsheviki. ' k
Frank Feero returned from Jtt*
neau yesterday and Wm. Bj-itt
on 'hA same hoat for hift home in
Juneau. '
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