IT/ILIM TRANSPORT SUJIKBf
GERMAN DIVER, 998 LIVES LOST
Berlin, Feb. 24—The War Offieo
today gave out tha advice that 99S
tTOOi>3 perished vrhen, the Italian
transpor* Minus was submarined i'1
tUo Mediterranean Sea yesterday.
New Yo.rk Feb. 24—The New
York Herald 'his morning prints an
acccuiit oi a naval engagement
which took placa off the Spanish
coast late yesterday afternoon. The
Her.i'd says that a German subma
j ritie was sunk and two merchant
[ moil destroyed in the Iw-ttle between
seven submarines and nine mer
j chantnien and tfrat the submarines
were about to scor© a victory when
a fleet of six British, destroyers ap
peared on the scone of conflict and
the submarines Immediately sub
merged and disappeared.
SEVEN DUTCH
SHIPS SUNK
Loudon, FeJ>. 24—From advice
received here today it has been
reported that seven Dutch ships, ag- j
gregating 27,000 tons were sunk on |
Thursday in the western approaches!
to ihc English channel.
The British steamer Grenadier
is reDOr'^qd ttt have J>een| sunk this
morning and that the captain and
eix members of the crew were kill
ed 7?hen the submarine shelled the
ship after it had. been torpedoed
and while the crew was leaving the
sinking ship in the life boats.
ELEVEN SHIPS
28,000 T0NNAGE
London, Feb. 24 — Friday's
reports disclose the fact that eleven
vessels with a total tonnage of
28,000 tons had been sunk by Ger
man submarines. This report in
cludes four boats which, had been
torpedoed previously, but had Hot
been reported. The report in
cludes the French, transport Athos,
1,300, which was sunk on the
seventeenth.
The official announcement is
mado that the steamer Malta Was
losf and that an American mis- j
eionary lost hi£ life at the time.
The War Office announced today
♦hat British forces had made gains
on bo*l» the gou'h and west of
Bapaume.
K W. Hewes, traveling for
Sherwin William Paint Co., will
«ail south on Soohia tonight
HAIDER WORKS
MD1JCE!
Tokyo, Feb. 24 — Advice has
been. received here by wireless that
an armed merchant vessel is raid
ing ttio commerce ia the Indian
oceau, and that already two Brit
ish steamers in the waters near
Southeast Colombo have been sunk.
Fas' cruisers were at once Bent
out from Japan ports and will pa
trol the paths of ships in the hope
of getting the raider .
SHIN INK
SEVERELY HUB!
St. Louis, Feb. 24—Jtfadam Sohu
man He'nk sustained two broken
ribs and had her wrist badly sprain
ed as a result of a collision with
a street oar which struck her au
tcmob'Je while the famous 6inger
was being conveyed from, her ho
tel to the theatre where she was
to have given a performance. Her
condition is today reported by
her physicians to be very serious.
XO GO OVER TO NEXT SESSION
Washington, Feb. 24—The Sen
ate foreign relations committee |
today determined that the long j
pending treaty to compensate Col
ombia for a partition of Panama
could not be ratified at this sessiou.
This dtcision was reached after
President Wilson's letter urging
ratification had been read. Chair
man Stone said he would make a j
formal statement later and make j
public *he President's letter. |
Spring
iUtUtnmj
Now on iiaplau
ALBERT REINERT
Broadway between Third and Fourth Phone 41
NORTHLAND AND SENATOR HAVE
BAD COLLISION IN DENSE FOG
Seattle, Fgb. 24—The steamship
Senator bound from this port for
Sau Franciscoi and the steamship
Northland, which sailed from San
Francisco for Seattle, where she
was tr have taken, an a lange
cargo for Alaska ports, came to
{ge'her in collision in a dense fog
' off the California coast this moru
>ng.
The Northland >vag badly dam
aged in the collision and began to
leak badly.
Sne at once fcut back for San
Francisco, and it is believed from
rhe advice received that she will bo
able to make it all right, the
Senator keeping near in case any
thing should happen that might In
quire her assistance.
Both boats belong to the Pa
oifie Steamship Company, and are
»wq of the largest and finest ships
of the company's large fleet of
vessels.
The report states that the Sen
ator sustained but little damage,
but that the Northland had a big
hole stove in her sid-e by the prowi
of the Senator.
There jvere no passengers on
board the Northland, as she was
mailing a fast trip in order to re
port for the Alaska run which she
was scheduled to make just as
go'jn as she could have been load
ed. It is not known, just how ex
tensive her damage jg and there
faro officials of the company here
cannot say how long she will be
delayed in making the northern
trin.
13 LIS LOST
IS TOBNADU
Atlanta, Fefc. 24—A& ft result of
u. terrific tornado which gwept the
greater portions cf Georgia, Ala
bama an<l Mississippi, thirteen
lives los* has already, beon reported,
and over one hundred persons are
reuorted to have been seriously in
jured.
Washington, Fel>. 24 — S.11 pub
lic officials inetitioued in the charg
es which brought forth an investi
gation following the news leak
charges have been completely vin
dicated by the findings of the Seu
atcrial committee appointed to in
vestigate the charges.
The House Rules committee vot
ed unanimously that the charges
preferred by Laws on ji^d not betiv
substantiated, and that Boling had
norhiiig to do with the news leak
ing cut, go as to have an effect
on the stocks on Wall Street.
According to facts brought out
in the investigation the advance
news was furnished to brokers by
J. Fred Essary and. W. Price, both
Qf whom are newspaper men.
JUDGE BUNNELL OFF FOR
HIS INTERIOR HOME
Juneau, Feb. 24—Judge Charles
E. Bunnell, who. for the pagt four
weeks has been in Juneau and who
has been assisting Judge Jennings
in clearing the civil calendar of
the First Division courts, left for
his interior home Monday nigiht on
Jbe Alaska, by way of Cordova,
Chitina and the trail. The Judge
WHS ill in his apartments at the
hotel Sunday hut recovered suf
ficiently to leave on the (steamer
Monday.
Washington, Feb. 24—The De
partment of Justice have intimated
that following the investigations |
which have been, made by order of
that department, wholesale in
dictments will bo made against men
who have been manipulating food
prices throughout the ptates, which j
to a great extent hsa been instru
mental in the high, cpst of living.
FOOD SUPPLY
ECOMES LOW
London, Feb. 24—jPremier Lloyd
George appeared before the Brit
ish House of Commons yesterday
and !n his speech said that t&e
success of the allied cause de
pended on the ability of the na
tions to solve the question of ton
nage shortage wheih was not only
affec'ing the needs of the nation
but the people as well,, and that
this situation, demanded the grav
est measures for its solution.
The Prime Minister said that the
only sure way to victory was the
hunting to extermination of the
eubmarines from the deep.
An enormous sacrifice liad to be
made by the British public in all
things which it consumed in order
flial tlu question of tonnage might
he used for the employment of
such commodities which were truly
essential to life.
The British government propos
ed to dispense with, nonessential
importation so as to gain this
tonnage for the essentials of life
and war.
London, Feb. 24—The estimate
issued by the War Department for
the coming year, which was made
public today, provides for five mil
lion men, and an executve India na
vy C 450,000 men.
COMPLETE...
Line of
Perishables
on the
Spokane
P. H. GANTY
MOW MUSI EXPIATE HIS
CHIME ON THE GALLOWS
San Francisco, Fob. 24 -—Ju/dge
Griffin denied the motion made
by tliq attorneys for fllooney when
a new trial was asked for their
client.
Immediately, following the motion
for a new trial Mooney was bro't
uu before the and was sen
tenced to he hung by the neck
until dead on Thursday, May sev
enteenth, before the hour of uun
rise.
Mconey y/ag convicted of plotting
the assassination o£ President Wil
son a' the Preparedness parade
held in this city last July, and
by a suitcase bomb several per
sons were killed and a number of
other? seriously injured when, tha
bomb which was intended to kill
the President exploded before the
carviagc in which, the president was
rjdiug got to tlio point where the
suitcase had been placed.
Amsterdam, Feb. 24—A frontier
correspondent of the Telegraaf
says that a strike in the Krupfl
Iron Works at Esesn, involving
17,000 workmen, has been in pro
cress a fortnight. The men are
demanding higher wages owing to
the increasing cost of food. Many
strikers have been sent to the
front .
Seattle, Feb. 24—The steamer
Humboldt arrived from. San Fran
cisco late last night. She has a
cargo consisting of over one hun
dred and fifty tpns of liquor on
board all of which, is consigned to
various Alaska towns. She will
sail for the north on, Tuesday.
Madrid, Feb. 24—Former Unit
ed States Ambassador to Germany
Gerard, arrived in this city yester
day and was received by the JKng
and taken to the King's palace,
where he will be a guset of his
majesty until Mr. Gerard takes his
deoarture for the United States.
FORMER WIFE
MED ROBBER
Seattle, Feb. 24 —Mrs. Etta
McDonald, formerly the wife of J.
F. Dusky, now oil trial for com
nliti'.y in a bank robbery, testi
fied cn the stand this morning that
tiie mask which was worn, by the
man who robbed the bank was made
by. her. She positively identified,
the mask as ber handiwork, and.
said, that she bad mado it for Dus
kv before she was divorced, from
him.
SPOKANE SAILED
LAST NIGHT
Seattle, Feb. 24—The Pacific S.
S. Company's steamship; Spokane
cleared from this port l'or Skagway
anri way ports last night at nine
o'clock.
Mrs. H. B. McPherson of White
horse, Miss Agues Gardner, propriet
or of the Dewey Hotel of Skagway,
Lieut. T. JR. Mahaffey, of the Al
aska Read Commission, Agnes Kel
ly. S. R. Pierce, William Ryan, J.
F. Smith, W. Chatfield, Dave All
e'y, S. Templeton, Loe Clark and
J. A. Carson are the passengers
booked through to Skagway.
C. N. Pring, expert piano tun
er, arrived on the Jefferson and is
stopping at th.e Golden North Ho
tel. Mr. Pring will he ia Skag
wa« for about a week and will take
care o? any work in his liue. All
work guaranteed. Serman Clay
and Eilers' Music IIouso referenc
ts. 2-24-3t.
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