®he gJailj) JMasfcmT
No. 353 SEVENTEENTH YEAR
SKAGWAY, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1915 PRICK 10 CENTS
MINESWEEPERS JILMLEM',,.
~W THR0U6HTHE DARDANELLES
Looduis Starch 2fl—Allied mine
nreepm, working under a heavy
rire from the Turkish land batter
ies, are now seeking to clear the
Dardanelles.
The silks, it is maintained, will
liave little difficult}; in countermin
ing the Dardanelles to make a
clear way to Constaantinople so
long as the mine defense guns of
■ he Turks are put out of action. The
»}st<an ol countermining used in the
i»vj involves the employment of
high speed picket launches and tow
ing cutters. To blow out a chan
; elwaj- under fire of mine defense
guns the general practice is to
.uove a parent ship fairly close up
off the channel entrance and to des
patch .straight in for the channel
mouth a picket launch towing a
heavy service cutter. The cutter in
tow carries across the thwarts eight
or ten light but strongly construct
ed hollow steal pot as, each about
flity feet long. These poles are
all connected up by a stout 4-lach
running line, and on each end of
each po> is a coaatrrmtoe weighing
about 50 pounds. When thq picket
launch bM thrown out the eight or
t«n pales there hu been covered
tully two hundred and fifty yards o
! tluumelway, juid at that moment
the launch, It still on top of the
| water, fires a rocket. Instantly
I the p«g"»l la wu»wared from the
parent ship fay a seccnd rocket, and
almost immediately the operators
aboard the parent yMkI fire the
line of counter ndne*. The effect
u to blow oat "very observation or
contact In the channel, and wheth
er or not there was any mine in
the channel before the countermines
were laid. It caa be put dawn to a
certainty that the cl annei tor the
distance of 200 yards, as covered,
is absolutely free of mines. The
HTinilre of tiie allied fleets at the
Dardanelles has undoubtedly been
diratted to destroying the gun pow
er of the forts as a precedent to
rounternUnlag, Once the fort guu
"owsr Is destroyrd the choanal, it is
declared, san be cleared at the rata
of a mUe «n kew by sonntsnalnlng j
lminriise /
GREAT VICTORY
London, March 20—The Russians
are reported to have driven the
Austrian* from the Osscxk paw,
and also to have won a great vic
tory on the extreme right of Buko
Wlca- J.
London, March 30—There are
raan» departures from Italy of Ger
man and Austrian families just at
present, and everything indicates a
readiness for the general mobilisa
tion of the Italian army.
The Duchess of Brunswick, daugh
ter of the Kaiser, gave birth to
a son today .
We are now showing the Largest
Line of New
Spring and Summer
Wash Goods
ever shown in Skagway consist
ing of Plain and Figured Crepes,
Ratinas, French Ginghams. Mer
cerized Plisses, Peacales, Flaxons.
Etc. Ladies' and Misses' and
Children's Ready Made Wash
Dresses at 75c' to $2.25. The
newest things in 36-in silks at
75c per yard
If you want to see something that is
real nice come in and look the goods over
H. J. LYNCH
Up-to-date Haberdasher
and Ladies' Furnisher
Broadway between Third aad Fourth Phone 41
London March 28—The Swedish
it miner GoosebHdge, bound from
Spain with iron ore destined for
Germany, has been captured by the j
British and placed in the prize j
court.
The British Admiralty refnani to
divulge the in—na for the law of
the Ntntfiiui l'-39.
CLKVXLAXD XJ1B1TXOUB
TO REACH MTLLIOX MARK
Cleveland, March 26—The sixth
dty la becoming ambitious lo reach
the million mark. Following an
nouncement# of census bureau fig
ures showing Cleveland's population
to be 707, (63 business men and
commercial organizations are dis
cussing a campaign for a population |
of 1,000,000 in 1920. Annexation j
of adjoining towns and cities in
Cuyahoga county would add 80,-|
000 to the city's population.
STEAMERS ARE
REPORTED SUNK
London, March 36—The steamer
Delmlra is reported to have been
-nnlf by A German submarine otf
Boulogne. The crew has reached
i he Isle of Wight.
The Dutch steamer Media was
sunk off Beachy Head by the Ger
man submarine U-20 She was
bound from Salonica to Uverpool,
loaded with oranges. The crew is
reported safe.
LEGISLATURE
Juneau, March 26—The house
yesterday afternoon unanimously
passed the joint memorial demand
ing aai Investigation of the Mt. Ta
bor sanitarium, alleging that It is
a "political system which exploits
unfortunates for profit, that it is
unsanitary, that the patients do
practically all the work, that it is I
excessive in Its charges/' and re
commending that a change be made
and Alaska's insane taken care of j
within the territory.
The senate authorized Governor
J. F. A. Strong to employ an at
torney general for the present ses
sion, the office to be made elective
at the next general election in the
territory of Alaska.
Senator Sulzer's wolf bounty bill)
appears to have smooth sledding |
for passage with the clause retain
ed that the territory can sell the
pelts.
FALLS DOWN A
PROSPECT HOLE!
I
Dawson News, March 17: Frank
Harris, well known prospcctor and
stampeder, has arrived from Brew
er creek, on the Stewart, with a
broken shoulder, and is in St.
Mary's hospital, undergoing repairs.
Harris was among the stampeders
to the Chisana year before last, and
this winter took In that to Brewer,
and recently started work thore.
While sinking a shaft on his claim
he slipped and fell to the bottom
of the hole, twelve feet. There was
no ladder in the shaft at the time,
Vut fortunately, a friend was near
and assisted Prank in getting to
tho top. In dropping Harris went
down in such shape that the blow
was partly broken by striking the
sides, otherwise the injury might
have been more serious. As it is,
he Is getting on well, and is ex
pected out in a few days.
NEW PERISHABLES
Extra Fine Quality
Just Received Today on Humboldt
Fancy Asparagus
Rhubard
Cauliflower
Head Lettuce
Q-reen Onions
Cucumbers
Tomatoes
Bell Peppers
Large Head Lettuce
Celery
G-rape Fruit
Grape Frut
Bananas
P. H. GANTY
RECOMMENDS
ROAD.ACTION
That the time has arrived wheu
the territory of Alaska should pro
Vide the machinery and funds for
the purpose of carrying on road
work in Alaska, first in conjunction
with the board of road commission
ers and later without its assistance
at all, is recommended by Col. W.
P. Richardson, for ten years head of
t'ie board of road commissioners in
Alaska.
The recommendations of Col.
Richardson, conveyed in a recent
letter to Gov. J. F. A. Strong, and
transmitted to the legislature Tues
day, are as follows:
1. Creation of office of highway
commissioner to handle territorial
road building.
2 Restitution of poll-tax in Alas
ka.
3. That the legislature memorial
ise congress for an increased appro
priation for military and post roads,
bridges and trails in Alaska, point
Irg out that legislature is doing its
sliare.
4. Protection for roads, bridges
and trails through the territory, as
uivsent law is lncomprehcnslve to
meet situation in Alaska.
•1 UIS(X) GUIDES
UNIVERSITY MENT
Sau Fraucisco, March 26—Twenty
ttree uuiversities are represented in
Ue 59 guides employes by the Pan
ama Pacific Exposition to assist vis
itors in seeing the fair.
Every one of the gray class squad
is a university man, a student, if
not an actual graduate. They are
authorized by the exposition com
pany to hire themselves to visitors
for 2 J cents an hour.
"We are supposed to answer all
questions within reason," said one
of the guides today, "but we cer
tainly do get some posers. A wo
man in the Fine Arts palace asked
me to explain to her the meaning of
a certain bronze piece of sculpture.
I said it was a certain sculptor's
conception of Eve. '0 yes,' said
she, 'tell me was Eve one of the
Madonnas?' "
General Manager H Wheeler of
the W. P. & Y. R. company will
leave for Seattle on tho Spokane In
the morning. He is uncertain as
to when he will return north.
WOl'LI) BOOST GAS RATE
Topeka, Kans., March 26—The
question of 50 cents natural gas
in Kansas is being considered by the
public utilities commission. The re
ceivers of the Kansas natural sub
mitted statistics to show that the
company had lost $100,00<" in the
last year with gas at 25 cents a
thousand.
U. S. SUBMARINE SIS WITH
CREW OF TWENTY-FIVE MEN
Honolulu, March 26—Carrying a
crew of twenty-five men une'er com
mand o* Lieut. Ede, the . Seat-tie
built United States submarine F-4
sank yesterday off the entrance to
the harbor and failed tc come to
the surface. *•
The grappling hooks "of the res
cue boats, which were immediately
sent out, made fast at a depth of
thirty-five fathoms to what was
believed to be the submarine, but
the water Is deep and shelves to a
precipitous drop so that divers who
aad descended to a depth of 196
feet, were drawn up unconscious
without having accomplished any
thing..
The surface of the water In the
vicinity of where the submarine dis
appeared is covered with oil, which
is taken as an indication of there
being ho hope for either the vessel
or its crew.
ONE SELECTED
Seattle, March 26—Announce
ment was made here today, through
a United Press dispatch from
Washington, D. C.. that Seward had
bc-en selected by President Wilson
aa the routo for the Alaska rail
road.
The announcement has started a
rush to the north and the steam
ship offices ire besieged with peo
ple who want to get to Alaska.
PEOPLE DYING
ON THE ROADS
London, March 23—Sir Thomas
Lipton has just returned from mak
ing a personal investigutioh of the
conditions in Servia.
He says the conditions there are
appalling, and that fire is needed to
stamp out the contagion of typhus.
Sir Lipton declares that people
are dying along the highways in in
creasing numbers from the dread
disease.
In some of the districts there are
not enough living to bury the dead,
which lie exposed in the cc-meteries.
Sir Lipton eays that physicians
nnd nurses have been stricken and
unless prompt and drastic measures
are taken to stamp out and con
fine the terrible malady, the toll
in death will exceed the horrors of
war. Moreover, the children and
women seem to be the heaviest suf
ferers. !tH]
FIFTY LIVES ARE
REPORTEO LOST
Brittania Beach, B. C., March 23
—Fifty lives are ty»lleved to have
beep, lost In -s. snow and land slid*
which overwhelmed the property ot
tho Brittania Mines Co., limited,
midnight Sunday. '
Eighteen bodise have been recov
ered and 32 are sttll mlselng. Re
lay rescue workers are still busy
hunting for the missing bodies.
Thirty-five were injured and 15 of
tliem severely, who have been sent
to Vancouver for treatment. The
main office building, the store, the
cookhouse, bunkhouse, ore bins,
tramway terminal and several dwel
lings were completely wrecked. Sev
eral women and.children are among
those missing.
Britannia is a mining settlement
( near Howe Sound, north of Vancouv
er. It was operated by the Brlttania
Mining & Smelting company, and
I consists of a large low grade cop
per property.
I The settlement is on a mountain
side , at the mouth of the working
tunnel, some distance from the
beach, with which it was connected
with an aerial tram, which transport
ed the ore from the mine to the
smelter.
ARREST TWO FOR
KNOWING TOO MUCH
Brandon, Man., March 26—Henry
ivloth and Ouetav Kloth, GermanB,
art held here today tn a military
prison, and the only charge against
tliem fc that they know too much.
TJiey are alleged to have known too
niuch about the German consul at
St. Pau] and to have known too
much about aircraft.
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