No. 32 TWENTIETH YEAR
5KAGWAY, ALASKA, MONDAY
BUSH TAKE BAGDAD FROM
IIS AFTER HARD BATTLf
Lor don, MaTch 12 — A strong
Icrce o: the British army, operating
under General Maude ia Mesopo
tamia, yesterday captured. Bagdad
from the Turks.
The wire was received at the War
Office here early yesterday morn
ing, and is considered one of the
greatest successes madQ \>y th<
British in the Southern campaign.
Bagdad has a papulation of nior*
than 200,000 people, and is on<
of the strongholds of the 'Purkisl
government in that section of Tur
key in Asia.
IIIZA IS
AGAIN ELECTED
Mexico, City March. 12 — Sunday
was presidential election day th.ru
ou' the Republic o£ Mexico, aud
returns which have already been
received from the largest lulling
pieciacts shows that President Car
rauza has been returned, to the
jrresideutial chair by the larg
est vcte ever cast in th.e Republic.
UAU SILVER SETS RECORD
New York, March. 10 —The price
of bar silver continues to climb,
a new hiyh reccrd having been
made tcday at 79 cents an ounce.
This is an advance of 1 5-S cents
over last week's high quotation aaid
1.' cents above the selling price of
a year ago.
GERARD NOW
IH HAVANA
Havana, March 12—James W,
' Gerard, former ambassdor to Ger
many at Berlin, together >vith hi a
secretaiies find attaches, arrived
: Jn this city early this morning and
j will proceed to the United States
at once.
j CITY OF SEATTLE SAILS
FOR ALASKA PORTS
Seattle. March 12—The Pacific
I Steamship Company's steamer City
of battle cleared from this port
I for Skagway and -way ports last
, flight at ten o'clock.
B-v Kittle, W. R. Russell and
| Nels Anderson were passengers
cooked through to Skagway.
Newcastle, Intl., March 12—Yester
day afternoon this city was visited
■by a. tornado of terrific violence
whii-n swept through the town
leaving death and destruction in
its wafce.
Seventeen persons are known to
have boon killed l>y falling trees
and (lying timbers, when the storm
swept a p.ith two blocks wide
th-ough the heart of the city, lev
els..< more t'.ian one hundred homes
to ground and damaging three
h i.idred more houses.
Hundreds cf persons were more
cr less severely injured and this
aiort.il g it is reported that grave
; rrs are entertained for several.
The property damage will run
into the millions, as the path of
the cyclone lay through, the portion
of the city which wag the finest
residtnc© section.
Ii.dianapolis, March 12 — Advice
revived here by long distance
l>hf nc from New Castle, which suf
fered terrible results from a ter
rif:i tornado which, visited that
place yesterday, g^te that the
cumber of known dea4 had reached
,»ne appalling figure of fifty.
The bodies of twenty four wo
men have been received from the
•ruins ef their homes.
r is utterly impossible to get
(an accurate accounting of all per
sons now supposed to ^e missing,
i ani it is believed that a careful
search of all the ruins in the
( devastated district w-ill reveal more
victims of the fierce storm.
ITS
We Have on Display
--—-A NEW STOCK OF
Ginghams Voiles Flaxons
Awning Stripe Suitings
Galatea and Devonshire Cloth
A COMPLETE LINE OF LADIES
Summer Weight Union Suits
Middy Blouses for
Women and Children
Shall's Foot Eazer Baby Carriages
ALBERT REINERT
Broadway between Third and Fourth Phone 41
/
United States S-ibmarine G-l
-
[ Photo by American Press Association.
The submarine <!-l is n ">25 ton submersible and tunics si\ ioij-filo tu!'es.
She is feet in length ami at lier best can make over I'oiirlren knots an Lour.
Scat'le, March 12—The Alaska
| cruise arranged. by the Seattle
I Chamber of Commerce in connec
j ♦'on with, tiie fiftieth anniversary
■ celebration in commemoration of
'he Purchase of Alaska by Secre
j tarv Seward from Russia in 1867,
provides for the departure of the
| partr from Seattle on the steam
ship Mariposa of the Alaska S. S.
| Company and the Admiral Evans of
! the Pacific S. S. Company.
The schedule as now planned pro
1 V'dts for the arrival of the two
; shiis at Haines an July twenty
| fourth, where a stop of several
hours will be made.
Skasway will be reached in the
.afternoon of July twenty-fourth and
| 'he party aj;e booked to remain in
| that city until the morning of the
twenty-seventh, when they will
i take a special train on the W. P.
j &. Y R., for Caribou, where a
J day ai.d a night will be spent in
an excursion on Lake Bennett, aaid
ocssbilv a run to Atlin Will be
made. Whitehorse will be reached
on the evening of July twenty
elghth.
Tha plans have not been entire
ly worked out for the itinerary af
ter leaving WhitehorBe, as to
whe'her the party will return to
Skagway and go to the Westward,
or whether the grand trip down
the Yukon will be made.
From the above dispatch it Wll
be seen that Skagway is to
have the party of distinguished
suesta for the better part of two
whol-e days, and as it is highly
probable that J. L. MacPherson, sec
rotary of tlie Alaska Bureau of the
Seattle Chamber of Commerce, has
had much to do with the planning
of the excursion, and his friendship
fr.r Skagway ig made very apparent
by the fact that provision for two
days af Skagway is made in the
schedule. ' j > j*Jj
For this reason Skagway should
begin at^once to prepare itself to
fi'tiiiglv act as host to this party,
and plans should at once be gotteu
under way for the entertainment oi
v
these business men who are comioi
North to see that Skagway has to
offer them in the way of induce
ment for the investment of capital.
PRESIDENT AGAIN READY
TO ATTEND BUSINESS
Washington, March 12 — Presi
dent Wilson has so far Tecovered
from the cold which has confined
him *o his bed for the past few
days .V to be able to be about liis^
office today.
HUMBOLDT EXKOUTE
Seattle, March 12—The steamer
Humboldt sailed from this Port
for Skagway Saturday night at 10
o'clock.
The passengers booked for Skag
way are: J. E. Smith Larry Mc
Kimiy, Samuel Irwin, Dan Lakich,
S. Vuchovich, B. Plockovich, N.
Lucinch, and Charles Kvernick.
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Unfailing Satisfaction
Is one of the many reasons why
Preferred Stock Goods
is increasing in popular favor
—SOLD ONLY BV—
P. H. GANTY
RUSSIANS G1 III BATTLE
WITH THE TERRIBLE TURK?
Petrograd, March! 12—Russian
trar.ps have occupied the town of
Sahna In the northwestern part
'of Persia aftgr a fiercely fought}
battle which, waged la fury for the
greater part of the past two days.
1 The Turks put up a stubborn resis
' *aitce, and it was only; after sev
t eral desperate onslaughts tha'
their defensive was broken and en
trance to the town gained.
Following up their defeat Pf tin
defenders of the town, the Russiam
•are pursuing tho retreating Turk:
who aro fleeing in disorder in tin
direction of Bisitun.
GOV. ASKS FOR
BETTER LAWS
Juneau, March 12 — Senator
Hubbard this morning temporarily
withdrew his p.oimt of order, and a
vote was taken for the permanent
presidency of the Third Ssesion of
the Territorial Senate.
j The eight senators in attendance
had no* wavered in their determin
ation to stand by their orginal
choice, and the vote again showed
four to four.
It is predicted that the dead
lock will be broken within the
next twenty-four hours.
This afternoon, Governor Strong
read his message to the House of
Representatives.
He urged that the Legislature
make fewer but better laws for
the territory, and also suggested
that some provision be made for
a publicity bureau whose duty }t
would be to secure home builders
for Alaska.
WASHINGTON LEGISLATURE
ADJOURNED TODAY
Olympia, March 9—The Washing
ton Sta'e Legislature adjourned this
morning at a few .minutes before
'welve o'clock.
Mf.xico City, March 10 — Having
presented his credentials to Presi
dent C'arranza of tlio Defacto Mex
i ican government at Gudalajara, Am
bf.sdor Fletcher was officially re
I cognized by the Mexican govern
j meut and he was escorted to this
city by an armed detachment °"
! eoklie*, and he has taken posses
j siou of the American embassy here.
NEW POST MASTERS FOR
ALASKAN POST OFFICES
Washington, March 12 — Todaj
the Senate confirmed the nomina
tliii made by President Wilscm. tc
fill the offices of the various post
masterships jvhich were vacant ii
Alaska.
Alonzo C. Doty, Tyee.
William C. Freeburn, Baranoff
This is a newly created office.
Max Simel, Chicagoff.
G. H. Jernlgan, Cripple Creek.
Emrys B. Morgan, Dolomi.
Conrad Freeding, Taylor.
WANTED — Gcod man, exper
ienced in restaurant business. Smal
investment. GockI business. Se*
Max Rcsenberg. 3-10-12.
Stockholm, March. 12 — Advice
received here this morning give de
*s'' or serious food riots which
have recently taken place in Petro
grad and Moscow.
Demands for peace were made
bu the rioters as they; hungrily at
tacked some of the governmental
huiidiugs, men, women and children
demanding food to keep them from
starv'ng to death.
The food situation is becomini
mere grave each, day, and whili
the government is making a 6trenu
ous effort to keep the prices o
l he necessities of life down, ther>
Is insufficient quantity now oi
luuid to feed the people, and cliil
dren and aged people are dying fa
lack of proper nourishment.
WHO'S YOUR TAILOR?
DON'T WAIT TO ORDER
YOUR SPRING CLOTHES
a By special arrangement with Ed. V.
Price & Co., our Chicago tailors, you
can order Spring clothes today and
accept delivery any time that suits
your convenience.
Insur 1 our
Getting Exclnsivness
with the very pattern you'want by
ordering while its here. "The Wise
Ones" are ordering this way!
JAMES KENNEDY