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No. 292 EIGHTEENTH YEAR SKAGWAY, ALASKA, MONDAY, JANUARY 24, 1916 ' PRJCE 1Q
London, Jan. 24—Advices from
Constantinople auuuuuce that the
Turkish, ministry has published a
statement that a Turkish, submarine
sunk the British ; passenger liner
Persia.
Tbt« announcement, following the'
dealal of responsiMaty made to (
the American government by both
Germany and Austria, is received
w)<h keen interest in official and
military circles here, aud the Brit
ish public is wondering what the
next move on the part of the Un
ited States •will be as anA merican
consul and one other American citi
zen were lost with the vessel.
far to, Jan. 24—Two groups of
SVeach aeroplanes comprising
twsuty-four machines today made aaj
attack on the German railway sta
tion aud barracks at iletz, an im
portant town in Lorraine still held
by tho Germans. Thar succeeded
la doing considerable damage to '
thfl barracks and station and also
repulsed a number of Austria and
Garsii* aeroplanes which tried to
intsrfert with their attack.
Roma Jan. 24—Premier Mio-uch
koritch of Montenegro, according to
a dispatch front Brlndisi, says thcu
muntenegxo nrransfd a truce wita
Austria as & ruse to enable her
to galu time and prepare for a re
treat Into- Albania.
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London, Jan. 2% t— An uncon
firmed report has re V c he.-e from
Vienna that Emprri.: -:z Joseph
la confined to his . ut: a fres'a
attack of bronchitis
FRENCH HONOR
EDITH CAVELL
Parte, Jan. 24 — Arrangements ■
are being completed here for the
erection in the Tuilerles garden of j
i statue to Miss Eidth Cavell, the
English nurse who was shot by the i
Sermau military authorities ia Bei- I
jium.
BAPEBT V1SITLNG
P1DALGO MIXES
P. V. Cooper, the mining^and hy- j
Iro-electrical engineer, yvag a pas-1
eager on the launch Shamrock
his morning for Fidalgo hay, bavin
«en engaged to make a re-survey ;
t the underground workings of i
he Alaska Mines Corporation pro
arty. ;
Manager E. D. Reiter and Super- | ,•
itendent A. G. Stahl are develop- j i
ig a big copper mine for th$ com- ,
any, which is composed largely of I j
eattle capitalists, and haye un- i,
htttSiAeVtfX »-• " .
roperty. The services of the engi- 1 <
eer have been employed In order !,
> check up the esumatets of the ! ]
mount of ore which tas practical
r been blocked out by a system of j
mnels and crosscuts.
Mr. Cooper has acquired a repu- ,
*tion ia the western states for ef- |
iclsucy as a hydro-electric expert
nd has the credit of having been
a ciarge of the Installation of some
f tiie largest plants on the Pa-j
ific coast. The hydxo-electric plant
I the city of Medford, one of the
aof=t progressive cities in Oregon,
i as one of the lates*- tasks under
aken by Mr. Cooper before coming ■
o Alaska.—Valdez Prospector, Jan. |
Inventory j
HI Sale m
CONIINIIED
Owing to the Extreme Cold Weather ,
Which Prevailed During the Last Three
Days of Our Sale We Will Continue For
Monday.^ Tuesday and Wednesday.
One=Third Off
On Every Article in
Our Immense Stock
With the exception of Rubber Goods, E. & W. Collars,
Overalls, Jumpers, Threads, Knox and Stetson Hats.
TERMS CASH— Store will be open until 9 o'clock every
«vening during sale.
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II II VM^U THE HABERDASHER AND
: r1» J. L I l\Wn LADIES' FURNISHER
Broadway between Third and Fourth - Phone 41
lis H
V'enua, Jan. 24—The Austrian!
have occupied the Montenegrin sea
ports of Antivarl and Dulcigno on
| the Adriatic Bea, thus giving the
Teutons a new naval base for op
I eratlone against southern Italy and
i the a:iled fleets In Grecian, jv'^ters.
London, Jan. 24—Two attacks by
German aeroplanes were made on,
villages along the coast of the
county of Kent at a point about
forty-tjve miles from London Sun
day. A'ine bombs were dropped lu
the first raid, killing ono person
and injuring several and doing con
siderable damage to private proper
ty. .No casualties resulted fromi
the second raid.
IN TEIUUSTIXG PACTS
ABOUT POX FARMING
- farming, the poeslbili
ies of which have attracted con
tiderable attention la recent years'
icc&usg or the money milady upends '
or silver fox furs is under pres- !
!i»» conditions a highly speculative:
md uncertain business, according to i
pecia'iats of the U. 3. department
>r agriculture. Since 1910 the pro-1
its in the business haTe been da-'
"ifi.opiyfi,'
■ff becaus milady's fancy!
hangd and in consequence there !
ias been a sharp decline in prices.
As long as high prices for the
iclts are maintained, black and
md silver fox farming offers good j
importunities for reasonable re- j
urns providing that the location of
he farm and other conditions are>
,'avorable.
The silver fox can bo raised
srhernveT foxes in a wild slate
jut the fur will be of a superior ■
juallty in the eastern and northern
•tatc-j. *"*
A pair of good breeding foxes
have been known to bring several
thousand dollars each on the mar
ket but common silvrra can be pur
chased for breeding purposes for
from $150 to $200 each. The sil
ver fox is very nervous. The female
is so nervous sh« will often kill
her young to protect them from im
aginary dangers.
Foxes require great ca^e In feed
ing and a varied die'; which In
cludes meat, fish, mush, milk, Wread<
and table scrape. From $5 to $15 a
year for each animal must be al
lowed for feeding. Only about half
of the female foxea produce young in
any given year and as the average
litter is four cubs the annual in
crease en fox farms does not
average above 100 per cent. — Ju
I neau Dispatch,
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COL. HOUSE
TO SWITZERLAND
1 '
Paris, Jan. 24—Col. House, per
sonal representative of President
Wilson, left Paris today for Switzer
'hfud.
NEWSPAPERS
RELEASE SHIPS
London, Jan. 24—English, news
papers liave agreed, on request of
i the government to reduce the plze
of the^r editions In order to reduce
the importation of paper and wood
pulp forty per cent and thus lib
erate a considerable number of
shins wnlch the paper suoply com
panks hold under long time char
ters so they may bo used in the
transportation of food supplies and
munitions.
El Pufio, Jan. 24—Bernardo and '
c
Prederico Duran, two Mexican cattle j
thieves, were executed Sunday at a
Taurez by Carranza authorities for 1
having killed American cowboys lu
—'•» -"•*■ — a
BRIT'SH CARGO BOAT
SUSK BY GERMANS
SalOLlki, Jan. 24—A German oub
mariue suuk a British, cargo boat ,
noar here yesterday. 1
ROOSEVELT TO TAKE
LONG PLEASURE TRIP
New York, Jan. 24—Col. Roose
velt and wife will leave their home
at. Oyster Bay on February 10, toT
a pleasure cruise of Beveral weekB
among the "Windward islands, &
trcplcc; group lying about three
hundred miles southeast of Porto
Rico.
DEATH OP A. L. RINGLING
A. L. Ringllng, of the Ringing
brothers, circus men, died at Baara
boo, Wis., his home, January 1,
of Wright's disease, following aH
illness of over a year. He was '66
years old and the oldest of the four
brothers who survive him, Henry,
John, Alfred and Charles. Otto Rlag<
ling died a few years ago-.
HOT SOUP AND
HOT TAMALES
Sounds pretty good this kind of weather
We make a speoial price per doz. on
Cambell's soups of $1.40 per doz.
straight or assortad varieties.
We offer you I. X< L. Chicken Tamales,
the best made, at 20c per tin 3 for 50c or
$1.85 per doz. I. X L. Chili Con Carne
15c per tin 2 for 25c or 1.40 per dozen.
Buy a dozen, they are good
things to have in the house.
P. H. GANTY
Juneuu, Jan. 24—Juneau has
been in the grip of a fierce storm
accompanied by extreme cold, since
last Wednesday.
Frozen water pipes and heating
apparatus have given endless
trouble all over town and it to
only by enforcing thq strictest econ
omy iu the use of water tha£ the
authorities of the town hay# be«a
able to keep on hand a sufficient
supply of water for fire fighting
purposes.
Seveial fires hay© occurred but
all haye been controlled before any
great amount of property was d«
Ptroyed.
13 TRAIN
8ea»tie, Jan. 22—Tile Great Nor
thern Company's westbound Seattle
Spokane "Owl" waa wrecked this
morning near Scenic Hot Springs
ind at least fourteen were killed,
UthOugfc the exact number la not
ret known. The train was Bwopt
iway by a mountain enowsllde.
An tarljr report from Everett said
;hree were killed, but this number
va.a Increased by later reports.
Definite Information was difficult
o secure all day. The dining car is
cnown 'o have caught fire, after it
iad landed at the bottom of a gulch
A dispatch from St. Paul quotes
'resident Louis Hill, of the Great
Jorfhern, as stating: "Thq number
f killed and injured is not definite
y known. The chair car contained
en passenger* and the sleeping car
ontainod six. Both cars were
urled to the bottom of a coulee,
nd It Is Quite provable all within
)st their livee."
unuiin itrrni-u
Miniu* operators Of EuTeka
reek, in the Hot Springs district,
vill build a ditch fifteen miles long
o bring water from the Hootalinqu
lv«r.
Eugene N«lson, a Juneau boy, has
jonsiructed a motor sled with which
ie travels the hilly streets of the
japital city at a speed of from 10
to 15 miles an hour.
The little town of Tanana, at
the month of the Tanana -river, re
ceived ? 2,0 80 aa Its share of the
license money collected by the
clerk of the court for thg Fourth
division during the mouth ol Octo
ber.
Two Fairbanks women, Mrs* J,
J. O'Connor and Mrs. R. L. Mitchell,
have leased an antimony nxlne thai
own on Era creek, tor a term ot
three years, and by; the terma of
the lence they ar« to get fs per
ton of antimony ore mined.
j A 5,000 pound shipment of mail
was started down the Yukoa river
for FaJrbankfi late in the s«n«on,
and was frozen la at Circhj City,
it is parcel post and second class
, mail, and the contractor between
i Circle and Fairbanks Trill £>e r««
I quired to carry the full weight of
his contract each, trip until the big
shipment baa all been cle&aed up.
j "Caribou Bill" Deterlng, well
i known mining operator all over
'he north, was seriously injured oa
October 4 at Otter creek, Iditarod.
While engaged at scraping work, he
fell and was rendered unconscious.
On October 9, according to the Idit
arod Pioneer, he had lost the use
of bis limbs. Caribou Bill is one of
the mos* famous miners cf Nome,
Dawson and Iditarod.
Anton Eidp aiinorinfanAM.*
of Alaska. He ia traveling by dog
team and ia detailed to m^kfl a* U*
spection of road# and trail*. From
Anchorage, hf) will 6° *
Iditared thence to the Yukon, rlv«r,
thence to Fairbanks, and thence
over the trail to Valdet or C«Td«v«
I SI icrofford, the sourdough
'ka miner, whose ship came la via
the antimony route, ha. announced
that, he will become interested »
! properties in th9 Juneau district
and will make his home In Juneau.
Scroffo.rd haB cleaned up a forua#
through the operation of Ms mI
i mony mine at Fairbanks, tb* me»l
I having come into strong demand, as
1 it is used in the manufacture ■ M
| munitions.
WHEN IN DOUBT
= MAKE IT A
HART
SCHAFFNER
& MARX
That a safe rule to follow when you're
choosing: a suit or overcoat. There's
a clean cut stylish dignity about
them that makes them becoming
to all types of men, young & old.
WILL CLAYSON
The home of Hart Schaffner & Marx clothe*