Seven American Refugees Stopped On Their Way Out,
Thrown Into Prison and Four Of Them Threatened
With Death—126 Mexicans Killed in Two Days* Fight
S.»-i Antonio, April 21— (Receiv
ed ; e^'erday, too late lor publi
i tic i A long distance message
has just been receive! from
Xuevo Laredo, saiii^- that
Mexican federals had fired the
town, which seemed certain
of destruction, and had then
commenced firing across 'he border
into Larodo, Texas. Th? American
consulate in Xuevo Laredo was one
of the first buildings to va destroy
ed.
Soldiers have been sea*, to guard
each eud of the Laredo bridge*.
Washington, April M—Every
available warship is uow enroutj
south.
Galveston, April 24—Four trans
ports with the fifth brigade on
board sailed for Vera Cruz this
afternoon.
San Francisco, April 24—The
armoured cruiser Maryland sailed
today for Mazatlan.
' Austin, Texas, April 24—The
state militia has been on'ered to
mobilize on the border for patrol
ANOTHER CO.
IS ORGANIZED
The fox farming bug appears to
vt> inserted its bill full length
o and thoroughly inoculated the
people ot the thriving and progres
sive burg of Whitehorse -with the
serum of achievement. Yesterday the
I'aily Alaskan published a synopsis
of t! preliminary work of the Col
well Fur Farms, Ltd., canitallzed at
SI" i\ ;md now word reaches U3
of the organization of another as
soci.i'ion there under the name of
J. P. Whitney Black-Si'ver Fox
Company. Limited, with a capitali
'Mo: of $100,000 in shares of $100
J. P. Whitney, the pioneer mer
' mt of southern Yukon, is at the
•Mil of the movement, and will
Through here early next week
n h's way to Prince Edward Is-'
i mil, v. sere he is going ii< order to
'horoughh acquaint himself with
duty.
| New York, April 24—The super
dreaduaught New York will leave
lor Mexico tomorrow.
! Galveston, April 25—Thirty-four
hundred United States troops left
here today on transports.
| Laredo, April 25—Mexican fed
eral aroops yesterday destroyed
the town of Nuevo Larario, across
'the border from here, but fled be
fore the American gun fie.
Vera Cruz, April 23—Unite I
Staes Charge d'Affaires O'Shaugh
uessy arrived here this morning.
It is rumored here that Huerta is
stopping the departure of refugees
and that seven Americana employ
ed upon the Mexican railroad have
teen arrested and are held either :U
, Carboba or Orizaba, four of them
[threatened with execution.
The situation in Mexico City is
alarming, the rifles aud rapid fire
I guns of the American embassy hav
| ing been confiscated under orders
from Huerta aud the status of Georg
j Washington destroyed by the mob
1 all the modem methods for the
successful and profitable propn
i gation of fur bearing animals,
j The J. P. Whitney Clnck-Silved
j Fox Co., Ltd., is composed whollv
j of local men and it is their inten
. tion, if possible, to confine the
' issuance of stock to people living in
|?ourhern Yukon.
FEAR Ml
HIS BROKEN GUI
Last night when a short distance
out from Resurrection bay the Sainp
' son received a wireless from Kod
lak that the air was filled with
I volcanic ash and smoke and that
it was so dark that it vvai irapessibl
[ to see the wireless mastj from the
| office. The population v.-e»a wildly
excited and all feared that lCat
mia had broke loose again and was
in active eruption. Cap'ain Moore
said that in his opinion the shower
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I In the two days' fighting hero
j L 2 G Mexicans were slaiu and 195
| wounded.
Tampieo, April 25—The Constitu
tionalists resumed their attack up
! on the city this morning.
Panama, April 25—Col. Goethals
1 has completed the work of put
ting the caual zone on a war foot
Vancouver. B. C., April 25—The
British Columbia parliament bo
j lieves that the British armoured
i ruiser liainbow will be sent to the
i coast of .Mexico to protect Cau
' adiaus.
Washington, D. C., April 25—For
eign countries are showing signs of
j uneasiness because of the occupa
tion of Vera Cruz by the Amaricans
| ni'.d are inquiring if ther<? Is not
i some possible means of mediation.
The collier Cyclofs is reported
cnroute to Galveston with 350
• efugees.
Secretary of State Bryan has
s''nt word to General Carranza ad
vising him to remain neutral.
• ashes was caused by the high
. ■■ iids tint have prevailed during the
i st v fk, and lie hesitates to credit
t!ic sorv that Katmia is again in
eruption.—Seward Gateway
ME GETTING
n\
Whltehorse lovers of oall, play
; era as well as fans, are getting
:eady for the coming season's sport
: cloug this line, and already have
j arrangements under way for a
: thorough organization of a first
i class team.
At a recent meeting there of
hose interested in sporting matters
it was decided to give a dance on
I the Sth of May for the purpose of'
raising money to defray the expenses
J of organization as well as to pay
for new uniforms that had pre
viously been ordered.
Although it is yet early in the
reason a number of expert ball
players have gathered In the Can
adian town, and from now on will
put in all their spare tiuie in prac
| ticing for the match games which
jtake place annually between teams
from Juneau, Skagway and White
iiorse.
Keep next Friday evening open—
why? Because the May Day social
is on for that evening, when the
Woman's Church Auxiliw will have
a social evening to raise funds for
painting the Methodist Church.
May Baskets filled with home made
tandies; winding the May Pole;
fan-drill under the direction of Mi3S
T'aLonde, and good rrogram. Note
announcements next weefc.
15
1
Capt. Burrows arrived here on
the last trip of the Princess Way
and brought word that Dr. L. .S.
Sugden is showing his pictures in tha
Seattle Theatre and is i.ow practi
cally assured of success.
On bis arrival in Seattle the Dr.
met all kinds of opposition and tho
party to whom was given the work
of developing and fixing up the films,
spoilt them entirely and it was nec
essary *o send East and have the
work done all over again.
Capt. Burrows states that despite
stories to the contrary, i)r. Sugden
has gone quietly on overcoming all
sorts of difficulties, but that now
at last ue Is en the road to suc
cess.
The ifcvernor of Washington
State has taken great interest, and
some fllui3 taken by Mr. Claude
Wales last summer have been added
to Dr. Sugdeu's and much Interest
has been and is being shown by
the public.
Dr. Sugden is leaving Seattle In
a week or so for the East, show
ing the present enrouto, and has
been invited to Washington D. C..
and while it is difficult to measure
results, it Is absolutely certain the
small sum donated by the Skagway I
and Whitehorse merchants will br '
justified and much attention drawn '
to the Skagway route io interior
points, even if the travel to Chisan:i
does not materialise as oxjiccled. I
SEES I RAT
OF SUNSHINE
There is a ray of suini'.ne in Uie
fact that the Atlas Mining company
has put a force of men to wo. k 011
tiie War Eagle property ami excel
lent showings are being mr.de there.
Before ore is shipped from the War
E&gle it will be necessary to con
tinue the railroad spur from the
Pueblo to that place, a distance of
about two miles, but for which a
right of way was cleared a number
of years ago. As this will 110 doubt
be the banner year in the history of
the Pueblo mine, tilings la mining
circles are beginning to bear a j
rosette tint—and we pre not a
people to whom rosette tints are j
repugnant.—Whitehorse St;ir.
MI ST HE MAKKIEI)
An exchange wants to know when
a man can can be considered le
gally drunk? This is a hard ques
tion. We have heard it said that a
man was not really drunk so long
as he could lie on his b'lck in the
road and motion teams around him.
We have seen men han.<j to tin
grass to keep from falling and at
the time professing 1:0 ba compara
tively sober. We. have known of
men tipping their hats to a hitch
ing post, but we think the drunkest
man of a"Tl is the fellow who tries
to explain to his wife' when lie!
could just as well keep his mouth j
shut.—Ketchikan Moil.
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SKAGM'AY, ALASKA.
Rome, April 24—Tlie volcano of j
Vesuvius 011 Mount Etna is again
in a state of eruption.
SUNRISE HAS I
Col. Revel 1 brings word that on
last Thursday a disastrous fire oc
urrcd at Sunrise. Tim 'ire broke !
uut in the White road .iouso and
completely destroyed that popular
stopping place. From the White:
building the flames spread to the |
Doohickey building next, door en
.irely gutting that building before
he volunteer fire department, un
der the leadership of R. '5. Oldham
ind Mike Connolly, coul-.l get thein
under control. The lc.:-s 's estimated
it $3,590, with no insurance. The
fire sturtcd from a deftviive flue
in the White buildintr.—Seward
gateway. "
I
A social dance will bo given by
the Elko' club of Skagwa.v on th-i
night of Saturday, May Jd, which
event will close tile social reason lor
that organization for tUo winter of'
1913-1.H4. The <juU.:iuuiueats
tiven by the Elks' club have been
extremely popular with the amuse- 1
nient lovers of the town, and the (
spacious hall always crowued to its ,
rapacity whenever they take place, j
Courteous . ad attenthe treatmen* j
Df ituosts are features oI the Elks"
club dances and the ev.-tilcnce of
the m'usic provided is an additional
ind thoroughly apnrecia. 1 part of
ihe program.
THE BOATS
The Peterson made her regular
run between Ft. W. II. Seward and
Skagway today reaching here at her
usual time. Several officers and en
listed men from the post wore on
hoard.
ABOLISH AXE IN
GERMAN EH
Berlin, April 24—Agitation has
been started in Germany to abol
ish the axe and the block? Of all
civilized and cultured peoples, Ger
many is 'he only country in the
world today which has retained and
still clings to this ancient form of
executing the death sentence of the
law. Even Russia, so often char
acterized as benighted, has adopted
hanging; France, often the most en
lightened nation, also still clings to
its traditionally gruesome behead
ings in preference to the less spec
tacular and more refined form of
hanging, adopted by tee greater
portion of the civilized world, aud
to electrocution ia voguo in th*
United States. But France makes
some claim for refinement in the
tragedy of a human life by the
l'act that it executes the law's sen
tence with a machine, the mechani
cal guillotine, merely set in motion
by human agency. The machine does
Iho rest.
la Germany society euu riu»
itself of undesirables by the simple
though primitive operation of sev
ering the head from the body with
an axe swung by brawny arms,
just as was done in England in the
days of Mary, Queen of. Scots,
Queen Elizabeth and I (wiry the
Eighth. The human butcher block
has long been abolished in England.
In Germany the idea has been and
still is to a lage extent, that in
crder to make human execution a
check upon crime and -.9 prove a
deterrent to murder, it should be
surrounded with as much terror as
possible. Advocates claim that the
glistening axe and the blackrobed
block are a greater symbol of that
terror of the final act of the law,
than the hangman's nooso.
RAREST BOOK IN LIBRARY
I SEI) IX RESEARCH WORK
Seattle, April 24—The most
valuable of the old vol
umes in 'he University of Washing
ton library is a first edition of
Spenser's "Faerie Queen," printed in
London in the year 1611, The vol
ume is valued at $150 and is ex
tremely rare. With elaborately deco
rated covers, the book presents a
grade of bookbinding seldom attain
ed in the present day, according to
Librarian W. E. Henry. The volume
is now used by Dr. F. M. Padelford,
head of the English department, in
research work in Spenser's writings.
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