GERMANY NOW WANTS NO GAIN FROM WAR
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nil WIDE DRIVE Oil
1.1.IS Ml
Seattle Headquarters Are Raided "Pap
ers Seized Show Huns Active In
Starting Trouble
RUSSIA FINDING HER POISE AGAIN, SAYS ENVOY
The Russian situation Is grave, Professor B. A. Balthmeteff, head of the war mission to the I'uited States from
free Russia, told the senate, but the ultimate outcome is certain to be favorable to democracy's cause This picture
of the Russian mission was taken In Washington. Professor BakhmetefT Is marked with an X
CHILDREN SAVED
H GAS
BOMBS
j
Washington, Sept. 6. — Four
Hundred small children threatened
jwith death by gag bombs dropped h
German aviators on a small French
village near the firing line jvere
successfully removed to a place of
safety by the American Red Cross.
Word of the desperate plight of
the children reached Paris head
quarters on a Thursday afternoon
ftnd the following day doctors, nurs
es, and a truck load of condensed
milk, clothing, and drugs had been
dispatched to the stricken Village
by the Red Cross officials.
MENlflS
AT CAMP LEWIS
Camp Lewis, Sept. 6. — It is
estimated that arrivals of honor
men from all parts of the Western
department will reach. 2500 by Mon
day. By the end of the month;
45,000 are expected here.
SCHOOL TEACHER AT
JfCSHAGAK KILLS WIFE
Alexander McLean, government
school teacher at NushAgak, has
been, convicted of manslaughter and
sentenced to 20 years at McNeill's
island. McLean killed his wife
Nushagak last January, and the
trial took place last yeek.
GERMAN FLEET
N HIGH GULF
Petrograd, Sept. 6.—The German
fleet has inade its appearand in
the Gulf of Riga.
INTENSE^BATTLE
OK !Ii
; FRONT
Rome, Sept. 6.—An intense bat
tle for the possession of vital po
sitions northeast of Gorizia, on the
Austro-Italian front, continues to
day, according to a statement of the
war office.
KETCHIKAN GERMAN
IS ARRESTED
U. S. Marshal Tanner last Fri
day arrested Joseph Riddle, a Ger
man. fisherman in Ketchikan, charg
ed with making seditious remarks.
According to Marshal Tanner, Rid
dle said the "President and all of
ficials down to the lowest ought to
be hung on the highest pole."
CONGRESS MAY ADJOURN OCT. 1
Washington, Sept | 6.—President
Wilson is trying to bring about
the adjournment of Congress by Oc
tober 1.
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LARGE WAR BILL
SENATE
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Washington, Sept. 6.—An in
formal agreement was reached by
leaders in the House of Representa
tives yesterday which assure* the
passage of the eleven and one-half
billion dollar war bond bill. Ad
ditional advances today brings the
total of loans to the Allies up to
two billion seven hundred million
dollar^.
INFORMATION" FOR
LATE REGISTRANTS j
All information and official pa-'
pers regarding local J registration i
for the New National Army has
been turned over to the secretary of i
the exemption board. E. J. Shaw. '
Persons coming into Skagway from
Canadian territory for the first 1
time since the beginning of regis- .
tration are allowed five days in I
which to see Mr. Shaw and register. I
Vorwerts Organ
Outlines Hun
Terms of
Peace
Berlin, Sept. 8.—will
toll Pope Benedict XV tltW thf (.«r
man people want no ijain fmni ti*c
war, but only a durohlc peace
antocd hj- international treaties. ao
conlirg to an authoritative fomrart
published toilaj- by the Vopwrrt*.
!>>po Benedict i* quietly working
among the belligerent nations to
sound their view* roj.-<*r<B|hg peace.
HEAVY 1 ON
PROFITS OF
Chatham, N. Y., Sept. 6.—Col.
Roosevelt, in a speech here
terday demanded that profits made
because oI the *aT be taxed as
heavily ai= Enland is doing.
FLIMfi
IS FflTETIE
Seattle, Sept. 6. —From many
buildings, windows, and flap polei
tri-color flags are flying lod'ay 'Q
honor of the birth of l^aFayctte.
Seattle. Sept. 5. — Acting} sim
ultaneously with federal agents
throughout the United States, de
puty marshal^ In this city yester
day noon led a squad of police in
a raid on the I. W. W. headquart
ers, cleared the hall and seized all
the organization's property. This
action Is part of a concerted na
tion wide drive to ptop pro-German
•-ctivitias of Industrial Workers of
the World. ^ . J Jj
FIND TREASONABLE AND
1XCHIMINATENQ PATERS
'
Washington, Sept. 5.—^Treason
able and incriminating payers, seiz
ed in country wide raids on I. W.
W. headquarters, will be submitted
to the various federal grand juries.
The Taids throughout all parts of
the nation are said to have be&n
made as the result of findingB by
Judge Covington, who unearthed an
other investigation of I. W. W.
activi'ies, together wfthi discoveries
of the Chicago Fedeml Grand jury
and aggnts of the department of.
Justice. i ; ;j . ,\CJ i]
Tells LaFoUette
Marshals Seize Property
* Chicago, Sept. 6. — During a
raid on the Socialist headquarters
in this city today the national So
cialist secretary, a German, wired
Senator LAFollette, pf Wisconsin,
that U. S. marshals were seizing
property, „ ,;. [ i
Facts Show Source
Of I. W. W. Finances
Washington, Sept. 6. — The Un
ited States government today came
into possession of facts which show
conclusively the source ofi financial
support for I. W. W. officials. Gov
ernment officers declare that in
formation gained t>y the various
raids will conclusively prove many
German I. W. W. plots throughout
the Unfiled States.
RUSS. RETREAT
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Petrograd, Sept. 6.—During the
last two days the Riga front has
been broken on a width of forty
miies. ' German forces are energeti
cally pursuing their offensive par
ticularly north of Ukkull in order to
cut off the Riga-Vennen railway
which connects with Petrograd.
'SUB SHELLS !
SCARBOROUGH
London, Sept. 6.—A laTge Ger
man submarine bombarded Scar
borough Tuesday night killing three
people and injuring five. Scarbor
ough is a seaside resort.
ASSUMES COMMAND
AVESTERX ARMY DIVISION
San Francisco, Sept. 6. — Major
General Murray today assumed com
|mand of the western department of
the National Army.
"Ah, But Madame,
It Is Something New"
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