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No. 2S8 SEVENTEENTH YEAR
SKACJWAY, ALASKA.
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TODAY'S III
DISPATCHES
SINK BY SUBMARINE
London, Jan. S—Announcement
was nuule in the House of Iiunls
today tliat after a thorough investi
gation into the causes of the
sinking of the BriUjh battleship
Formidable in the English Channel
on Friday of last week, in which
>:<H> marines were lost, it ha<l been
decided that the vessel bad tieeu
torpedoed by a hostile submarine.
FORCED Xl» WITHDRAW
Berlin, Jan. S—The extreme ac
tivity of Austrian submarines has
compelled ihe French admiral in
11 e Ail ratio Sea to withdraw French
>hi|»s fr»un the Straits of Otranto.
RUSSIANS CELEBRATE
st. Petersburg, Jan. 8—Yester
day Russia celebrated Christmas.
«"ranges anil apples were retailing
in the fruit stores at 25<. each.
IKKIWKINC. (ill, ANTIC INVASION
l.oudon, Jan. 8—According to ad
\ ices received here today the Rus
sians are preparing for a gigantic
invasion of Austria, the intention bo<
ing to pour immense armies over
the Carpathian mountains at Cra
cow into Bukowina.
<»FFEHKI> A NEW EXPLOSIVE
London, Jan. 8—The British gov
ernment has been offered by the
inventor, a new bullet which it is
claimed is a protection against Zep
pelins, and will explode when it
-u-ikes the gas in a balloon.
UICITISH REPLY TO PROTEST
1 .ondon, Jan. S—The govem
i- cut's reply to tlie American note
protest again** British war
s' ips interference with the com
• one of the United Stales on the
h _'h m-iis was given to the Ameri
can ambassador today with a re- I
«iuest that it be furwanlel to Wash- j
iiigton City,
t.ERMAN CRUISER INTERNED
Taris, Jan. 8—The German cruis
er Otavi, according to advices rev
ceiveil here, was today Interned at
I.as Palmas.
MUST SUE FOR PEACE
Vienna, Jan. 8—There is a su- ,
preme attempt now being nuule
DECIDE AGAINST
ALIEN LAW
San Francisco, Jan. S—Three fed
[ feral judges here today declared the
Arizona state anti-alien law uncon
stitutional.
to raise a new Austrian unity, ami
a failure to do so will mean that
Austria must sue for peace.
GROWING IX INTENSITY
Geneva, Jan. 8—Fi^Ming in
Lower Alsace is growing in inteust- .
ty and is now being carried on ,
at the poiut of the bayonet.
ITALIANS GETTING READY
. |
Geneva, Jan. 8—Italian reservists ,
living in Switzerland are preparing |
to return honte for military duty.
SITUATION IS CRITICAL
Constantinople, Jan. 8—The situ-1
atiom here is critical on account of j
internal disortlei s and prepara
tions are now under way to move
the government treasury to safer
quarters, not yet decided upon.
BROUGHT DOWN LIKK DUCKS
Berlin, Jan. 8—It is rei>orted
here that ten Russian aeroplanes,
scouting over the German lines,
were today brought down like wild
ducks by the Germans' fir?.
RESTRICTING SOLDIERS
Lodz, Jan. 8—In the Lowicz dis
trict the German troops have been
prohibited by their officers from
fraternizing with the Russians in
the trenches along the battle
front during the cessation in hos
tilities.
RAINS HAMPERING OPERATIONS
Lodz, Jan. 8—Heavy and continu
ous rains are hampering the op
erations of the armies in both I
Flanders and Russian-Poland.
EXPECTS BIG RE-ENFORCEMNTS
Copenhagen, Jan. 8—General A on
Ilinderberg of the German army is
expecting 100,000 additional troops
to join him before lie again starts
toward Warsaw.
Ten Days' Annual
Inventory
Sale
33i saie i33i
One = Third Off
On Every Article in
Our Immense Stock
With the exceptions of Rubber Goods, E. & W. Collars
Overalls, Jumperg, Threads, Knox and Stetson Hats
Sale Starts Thursday Morning, Jan=
uary 7th at 9 o'clock; closes Satur=
day' night, the 16th, at ten o'clock
TERMS—CASH. Store will be open until Ten o'clock
every evening during sale.
H. J. LYNCH
Up-to-date Haberdasher
and Ladies' Furnisher
Broadway between Third and Fourth Phone 41
IS
Olympia, Jau. S—Governor Lis
ter, this state, today granted full
pardon to former chief of Police
AVappeustoin of Seattle.
Wappenstein was convicted in the
Washington courts several years
ago, after he had been deposed as
chief of the police department of Seat
tie, on a charge of having received
money from dive keepers below the
dead lino for allowing them to
conduct unlawful resorts and was nl
so proven to have profited by the
pulling off of several fako prize
fights by a gang of eastern crooks,
whereby sundry local would-be
"surething"' sports wevo relieved of
their surplus cash.
BILL II IDAHO
Boise, Jan. S—The draft of a pro
hibition measure for Idaho was
introduced into the stata legislature
today.
GOVERN>1EXT CONTESTS
KETCHIKAN LOCATK >NS
The government will contest |
the mineral locations ol' a large |
tract of land in the vicinity of
Ketchikan claimed b.v James A. Da
vis, and on which application 1ms
been made for patent as lode min
ing claims. The government charg
es that the laud in question is non
mineral in character, that sufficient
work has not been done to entitle
the claimant to patent ar.d that
the locations were not made for
their value as mining properties
but for townsite purposes. There
are 36 lode mining claims all told
in the tract. The Juneau land
office set the hearing on the case
for January IS, 191").
SNAPSHOTS AND l'HOTOGRAPHS
OF THE MOORE'S WHARF FIRE
On the night of December 12th,
when the glare from tho conflagra
tion at Moore's wharf was lighting
up the waters of Skagway bay and
throwing into bold relief the frown
ing cliffs in the background, E. H. j
Ohrner took advantage of the un
usual opportunity and secured sev
eral fairly good snapshots of the
wierdly beautiful and awe-inspiring
scene, which ha has reproduced
on postal cards.
On Sunday, tho day following the
fire, Joe Tyozlma took two 8x10
eectional photographic views of the
still smoking ruins—one being of
the north end of tho wharf and the
other of the south—which give a
truly panoramic effect as the result,
of his work.
Both postal card and photograph
ic copies of the above are on dis
play at Keller Bros, store.
WANTS ONLY
SHORT TIME
El Paso, Jan. 8—General Villa
today sent a letter to General Scott,
in command of the United States
troops along the Mexican border, in
which he said that If the latter
■\vould give him eight hours with
8,00 soldiers he would drive the
Carranzlstas from Naco, the bor
der town where all the recent fric
tion has taken place between the
Mexican belligerents and the citi
zens on the American side of the
line.
REQUEST FOR MAIL
SERVICE NOT GRANTED
Fairbanks Times: In a letter
received yesterday from the second
assistant postmaster-general, Post
master Guy H. Madara, of Chona,
was informed that the department
would not honor the request for a
regular mail sen-ice to the Kau
tishna. The reasons given were
that the distance was too great;
tf.at there was no postoffice in
the Kantishna; that the expense
would be too great, and that there
were not sufficient people in the
district now to justify the deoart
meut in taking any action.
Last summer, the residents of
the Kantishna and a number of
people interested in mining proper
ty there circulated a petition ask
ing for a regular mail service to
the district. Copies of the peti
tion were sent to the president, to
the postmaster-general, and to Dele
gate Wickersham.
Although they have met with de
feat the first atempt, the people
of the Kaatishna are not discour
aged. according to a number of
them who are in town new, and
they will reaew the request in the
near luture. They have new plans
whereby they think they will be
successful, and, as it were, will
spring something new on the en
emy.
BIG LIVE FOX SHIPMENT
FROM THE WESTWARD j
Cordova Alaskan: A shipment
of 40 foxes valued at about $20,-j
000 was made on the steamer Mari
posa last night. They are from [
the Fundy Fox Co.'s assembling J
station here, are consigned to |
St. Johns, New Brunswick, and
are in charge of C. D. Colwell, sup
erintendent of the local station.
Each fox occupies a separate
crate. Thirty-seven of the foxes
are of the blue variety and three
are the silver gray cros3.
These animals go to replenish the
herd at the Fundy company's big
propagating farm. While the com
pany is engaged la propagating on
several islands of Alaska, it also
has about a dozen men purchasing
throughout Alaska and the North
west territory. The furs of the sil
ver gray variety are valued at
$1,250 to $1,500 each, those of the
blue at $50 to $60, hence the in
creasing number of fox farms In
this part of the country.
Mr. Colwell will accompany the
foxes to their destination and ex
pects to return to Cordova about
March 1, 1915.
Breakfast Helps
Albers' Flap Jack Flour per pkg. 30c
Albers' Buckwheat Flour " 30c
Larowe New York Buckwheat, sax 60c
Irize [Self rising flour] " 50c
Pure Maple Sap, quart tins 65c
Pure Maple Sap, half gal. tins $1.25
Log Cabin Syrup from 30c to $1.50 per
tin. Hills1 Syrup [cane and maple] 40c
to $1.25 tin. Imported and Domestic
Jams. Marmalade, etc.
P. H. GANTY, GROCER
Washington, D. C., Jan. 8—Ad- 1
vices received in this city today state
that the British government, before (
any question of liability bad been
raised, had under consideration the
payment of damages to the families ;
of Charles Dorsch and Walter Smith,
the latter of whom was killed and (
the former badly wounded by Can- ,
adian troops while duck hunting 011 ;
i.'j Canadian side of the Niagara
ver a few days ago.
The two men, when they saw the
an.idlnn soldiers, endeavored to
?scape to the American side, when
commanded to halt, failed to obey
ind were fired upon v/ith the above
•esult. The soldiers claimed the
hooting of the men was entirely
iccidental as they had neither de
;ire nor intention to do them in
ury.
WICKERWl
Washington, D. C., Jan S—A fly
ing squadron composed of Delegate
Wickersham, Representativ es Hum
phrey and Kahn is doing good
work in behalf oC Alaska at tho
present session of congress.
DEL'I' SEA DIVER IS
SEEKING RUSSIAN TREASURE
C. F. Stagger, a deep-sea diver,
who was in Skagvay for several
days last fall, has made applica
tion to the United States govern
ment for a permit to salve gold
from the Russian gunloat Neva,
whoch struck a rock off Cape
Edgecombe, and went to the bottom
more than CO years ago. Stag
ger's application was referred to
Maj. J, B. Cavanaugh United State.* j
engineer, in Seattle.
Last summer, whi'e Stagger was i
at Sitka, engaged in salving the .
fishing schooner Montana, which)
caught fire and was beached on
Baranof Island, he was informed of j
the wrecked Russian gunboat Neva, j
by Rev. Father George Kostrometi-:
noff, the resident. Russo-Greek j
priest at Sitka, who, during the j
early summer, visiied Cape Edge-j
tornbe, and while in that vicinity in
a small boat, sighted the sunken ]
craft resting on thu bottom at a I
depth between ten and twelve |
fathoms.
According to the statement made j
by Father Kostromctir.off, more
than 60 years ago, when Alaska was
under Russian rule, the Russian J
gunboat Neva was sent to Sitka
with nearly a quarter of a million
dollars in gold, to pa;' Russian
ICHARDSON'S
HAL REPORT
Washington, D. C., Jan. S—Col.
V.". P. Richardson, head of the Al
aska road commission, in his an
nual report asks congress for a
$750,000 appropriation for road
work in the territory in the next
three years.
officers, soldiers and biuejackets
stationed at that place. When she
was nearing the entrance to the
harbor a dense fog settled down, and
the Neva lost her course, striking
a reef off Cape Edgecombe. So
rapidly did the vessel go down that
the crew barely had time to escape
in the small boats and after several
days succeeded in reaching Sitka.
Unsuccessful efforts were made to
recover the gold, but in those days
facilities for such work were lim
ited and further efforts were aban
doned. The gold was carried on the
main deck of the vessol in a great
iron chest, whTSTi was the usual
way of transporting bullion in war
vessels in those days.
W. I'. & V. R. OFFICIALS'
<)\ THEIR WAV TO SKAGWAV
A cablegram re< eived by the
Daily Alaslcan this morning from
Seattle states that W. J. Mulvihill,
thief dispatcher of the W. P. & Y.
R., with headquarters at Skagway,
had sailed on Wednesday night on
the Jefferson for the north; also
that General Manager H. Wheeler,
Ceneral Agent F. B. Wurzbacher
and Master Mechanic Howard Ash
ley had left that city last night
on the City of Seattle for Skagway.
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