JJatly Alaskan
No. 850 SEVENTEENTH YEAR SKAGWAY, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1915 PRICE 10 CKNT8
ANOTHER RUSSIAN ARMY FORCES
My INTO GERMAN TERRITORY
I'etrograd, March 23—Another
itiissuui army has forced its way
into German territory, baying cross
ed the East Prussian border north
of Tilj.it, and the advance is now
occupying the Prussian town of
l-nu^hargen, where the Russian*
hare already established A bade
f»r offensive movements.
In the Carpathians the Russians
are now pressing towards Bucko
win a, on the southeastern border of
i.ulticia, determined to strike a
crushing blow to the Austrian#.
Giiyuitic movements have also
been started along the Duklla l'ass,
clear to the Roumauiau frontier,
and the Slavs are stubbornly driv
il)£ their way through the Carpa
thians.
Advices have Just been received
in this city that 50.000 Austrian®
were captured by the Russians when
Przemsyl fell, there being among
them 800 officers, of whoru nine
w«re generals.
GOING TO THE
Part#, March M—The French
battleship Jaufegulberry hM bee*
ordered to the Dardanelles, accord
ing to an official arneunceoait |
made here today. Late adric«« |
bring the Information that
heavy gale has temporarily stop- I
l>txl the bombardment of the Dar- ;
danelles forts by the allied fleet.
L
Home, March 23—It Is announced j
that a royal d*ree will soon be Is- |
sued having for it« object the pro
tection of the country from the
machination* and spjiny of agents ,
of foreign power*.
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London, March 23—The British
prize court today ordered that
.$600,000 be paid the owners of
American foodstuffs which had
be«i seized by the British an two
Swedish and one Norwegian steam
er*.
The Brtiish steamer Concord was
torpedoed by a German submarine
In the English Channel today. The
crew of the Conct-td managed to
the ship, which Is still afloat.
THROWlOMBS
CITY OF OSTEND
Berlin, March 23—Hostile avia
tors are reported today to have
thrown several bombs down on the
city of Ostmd, without doing any
(image, however.
Northwest of Verdun a French
aviator was shot and killed, while
near Frieburg, a French aircraft
wa* forced to land and its oc
cupants captured today.
APOLOGIZES"
FORJflURDER
Washington, D. C., March 23—
General Pancho Villa, the Mexican
iebel leader. It Is understood has
apologized for the murder of John
McManus, who wa* killed In Mexico
City recently while resisting the
looting of his home by Villa's sol
diers. The family of the slain man
are to be indemnified, according to
the report received hare.
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' Furnishsr
Broadway betweca Third and Fourth Phone 41
SEMI-FAMINE
OF DEFENDERS
LepJberg, March Hi—Austrian
prisoners from Przemysl, the Gall
clan fortress captured by Rus
sians the other day alter a sie^o
•»f several mouths duration, claim
the fortress' condition to have been
that of semi-famble lor a long time,
and that except the liorses of the
officers, all livestock had been kill
ed to feed the soldiers.
Seattle, March 23—Lc'egnte Jas.
V.'ickersham, who was a gup.t to
day of the Alaska bureau of the
Seattle Chamber of Commerce at
luncheon, was warm in his praise of
Secretary of the Interior Franklin
K. Lane for the good work he has
done for Alaska.
NEW KELP POTASH FACTORIES
TO BE OPENED IN WASHINGTO
Seattle, March 23- Several new
factories will probably be opeued U
Washington this suinmtr for the
manufacture of potash fertiliza.
from kelp, according to Profes30:
George B. Rigg of the botany de
partment of the Unlvei-sity of Wash
ington. The checking ot' impor
tations from Germany l.as excited
interest in the Industry, he says,
not in this state, b'.it iii Oregon anl
British Columbia.
"The whole th'ng," Dr. Rigg told
s reporter for the campus daily,
"tends to emphasize the resources
of the northwest, for we might sup
ply the world with this necessity if
we only made use of our facilities.
"We possess a great deal of
water power, by which we can fix
atmospheric nitrogen in forms to be
used for fertilizer. The supply of
phosphate rock in Idaho and adja-.
cent regions will last this country
for thirty-six centuries at the pres
ent rate of consumption.
IvNIK HOMESTEADER
PREPARES TO FARM
Valdez, March—Gust. Haller, a
homesteader In the S'usitna valley,
'ocated about twenty n iles from
Knlk, was a passenger on the Ala
meda yesterday returning from a
trip to the states, where he pur-1
chased horses, cattle, and imple
ments for his ranch. He stated tha
he had five acres under cultivation,
and that the soil la the finest he '
has ever seen and would produce
anything.
Hallor has arranged that his wife !
should come north about May 1, I
at which time the stock will also «
be shipped to Knik from Seattle.
He expects the railroad construc-1
tion work will provide a market for j
all kinds of garden truck he can .
grow, and will help >ide over the
ranchers in the Susitna until they j
are on a self-supporting basis.
n WILL ME
I A NEW PftPER
Seattle P.-I-. March 17: T. R.
Needham, of Kulk, will leave tomor
row for San Francisco, where he
will complete negotiations for found
lag a newspaper ftt Knlk, to be
jenowu according to present plan*, «<■
tho Cook Inlet Pioneer. Mr. NeeJ
ham is a sourdough editor. He went
into Alaska In 1894 as associate edi
tor of the Juneau Searchlight, und,
has followed the newspaper busi
ness in the north ever since. Soon,
after leaving the Searchlight - i
founded the Douglas Miner. I"
1S98, during the Stlklne -river b
when the excitement over the pro
jected building of the so-called dir
ect railroad to the Klondike « ^
its height, he started the Stlkl
River Journal at Wrangell. In 1906
he was one of the founders of the
Fairbanks Dally Times.
Mr Needham is firm in the belief
that tho first railroad work to be
done by the government will be t
construction of the railroad coal
branch from Ship creek to the Mat
unuska fields at Chhkcloon.
The Ship creek terminal Is on gov
eminent land, reserved from entry,
and all the- early birds who are In
the Cook inlet country waiting
grab tho expected opportunities re
sulting from the railroad construc
tion are making their headquarter*
at Knlk, across the Inlet.
Knik now has a population of ap
proximated six hundred, says Mr.
Neediiam, and besides being provid
ed with the usual facilities of a
out-fitting point has what to per
haps the most novel community or
social center in the north, develop
ed through the efforts of Rev. T. P
Howard. « Presbyterian home mis-j
fionary.
The social center is a large fr*™e
building with a variety of enter
prises lioused In It. On thc
street front, are two store rooms,
one occupied by a cigar and candy
chop and the other to be used by
Mr Needham's newspaper. On tne
floor above Is Dr. Spauldlng,.hos
pital, and in the rear is a arg° ^'
forty by seventy feet whlch Berv^
as church, theater, end dance hall
Rev. Mr. Howard decided not only to
minister to the spiritual wants o
hi<- parish, but also to their ^
needs. 3o he built a church that
hs a th wter and a gcod floor, an
at the cocelusion of a Sunday n gM
se-vice, Mr. Needhani says, it
not unusual for the pastor to an
nounce taat -next Fridaynlghtthe
vo, people of Knlk will ghe a
dance, to which all are cordially m
V''t\vo nights a week moving pic
ture. arn "hown. ana at other times
the hall 13 open for public meeting
on civic affairs or women s enter
tainments. indicative of the bal
anced character of the POP*£«°»
of Knlk. Mr. Neodham says that at
tL Ne* Year's eve ball there were
240 persons present. 110 women and
Needham says «*t while
there is a great future ahead of
the Cook mlet and Matanuska dls
it » ... •»:
seeking ordinary w°-k-a-day wag .
There is plenty of room he says, f
the miner and prospector who In
tends to develop his propertj^and
SEEDS
SEEDS
SEEDS
Large varieties of seeds from
reliable growers now on sale.
Will be pleased to assist you
in making your selection. Get
them before your favorite
variety is gone
P. H. GANTY
SEEDS
SEEDS
The matter of the lieu proceed
ings by various employes against
the Treadgold company at Dawson,
called fr hearing in the terri
torial court Thursday, March 11th
before Mr. Justice Macaulay was tie
^erred until the 15th. C. W. C. Ta
bor, counsel for the defendant, an
nounced that 563,000, sufficient to
cover all claims under the liens,
h;>d been received by him the
previous day from the Consolidated
South African Goldfields company,
and that as soon as liens could be
assigned and judgment secured in
favor of the company, the sum
.vould be paid.
SOUVElTF
SW50UIH
From E. J. Shaw, who in com
pany with Mrs. Shaw was visiting
lu Macon, Ga., on .March 12th,
comes greetings in the shape of a
"Souven'r Folder; The Sunny
South," a glance over the pages' of
which, with but a slight stretch of
the imagination, would carry the
beholder bac'- to ante-bellum days.
The fold<ir is about the size of
a post card and consists of 11
pages, on each side of which are
typical Southern scenes. The front
views are devoted almost exclusive
ly to the featuring of "King Cot
ton," from picking time until baled,
transported to the steamboat land
ing and on the way to some great
commercial center for distribution j
to the four quarters of the globe. |
There is also a "Logging Scene in j
the South," an old-tin'e horse-pow
er "Sugar Cane Mill" at work, a \
half dozen little picaninnies sitting
on an old stake-and-rider fence by j
the ro.idside, "Waiting for the Par-1
af'e," and another entitled, "South
cm Products; Watermelons, Raz
orbacks and Pickaninnies."
There are also views depicting the
home life of the average Southern
"cottonfield" negro, and last a re
production of a "Razorback."
This folder is now on exhibition
in the fr^nt window o' Keller Bros,
drug store, and is attracting the
notice of passersby as well as the
customers of the establishment.
for the homesteader. Mr. Needham
declares the agricultural opportuni
ties of the Susitna are unsurpassed
in Alaska,
1 NEW BOUT OF
HUSH S.5. CO.
The steamer Redondo, which was
purchased at San Francisco by the
Alaska Steamship company for therr
Southeastern Alaska freight and pas
senger service, arrived in, Seattle
las:t week from the south. The
vessel was brougnt north by Capt
Fred Warner, completing an unevent
ful voyage up the coast.
The Redondo is a vessel of the
steam schooner typo with engines
and passenger accomodations aft.
She has a cargo capacity of 679.83
gross and 462.28 nit tons, 188 feet
I^ng, 38 feet beam and 11.5 feet in;
depth. The vessel was built at Tol
edo, 0 in 1902 and for a time was
operated on the Great Lakes. She
was purchased 'rom the C. A. Smith
Lumber company, which operated
tier between Coos bay and Saa
Pedro in th« lumber trade.
The Redondo has accommodations
for thlrty-thre# cabth and sixteen
steerage paes angers. She is to
Be operated In the Southeastern Al
aska cannery trade, replacing the
steamer Santa Ana. which is now
plving between Seward and Unal
aska.
The latest addition to the fleet of
the Alaska Steamship company is a
staunch vessel of the well-deck tyre,
aui specially adapted for the ser
vice she is to enter.
canaITwins
VICTORIA CROSS
Ottawa—Col. Forteacue, comi>
troller of th« Royal 'Northwest
Mounted Police, confirms the dis
patches from London that Michael
O'Leary, who won the Victoria Cro30
by single-banded rushing two Ger
man trenctes, was in the mounted
police, securing his discharge last
September to rejoin the colors. He
is the first soldier leaving Canadian,
shores to win the much coveted hon
or. He joined the police force at
fteglna in August, 1913,' coming
from Lou Son. Previously he had
served three years in the Irish
Guards. He is a man of splendid
physique, a fine type of soldier, and
highly thought of by the (mounted
police officials.
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