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No. 225 EIGHTEENTH YEAR
SKAGWAY, ALASKA. THURSDAY
STEAMSHIP SANTA CLARA
WRECKED AT COOS OA!
Caught in Heavy Gale Yester
day and Driven on Rocks—
18 Passengers Drown When
Life Boats Are Lowered in
Raging Surf.
Marshfieltl, Ore., Nov. 4 — The
steamship Santa Clara, euroute
from Portland, Ore,, to San. Fran
cisco, was caught in a heavy gale
near Coos Bay yesterday afternoon,
and -wrecked. Eighteen passengers
were drowned before help could
reach the doomed ship.
She struck on a rock in Coos
bay about 20 miles south of this
city. The life boats were immediate
ly lowered, but the heavy seas
swamped them as fast as they
struck the water.
The cries of tnose on board could i
be heard above the roaring of the
seas, bat the surf was running go :
high that it was impossible to |
launch boats in the heavy seas, j
Several bodies of those drowned
tvere picked up this moruing, but !
uono have been identified.
The Santa. Clara was operated by
tbe North Pacific Steamship com
pany between Porttland and Sim
Francisco. She was built in Ever
ett in 1900, and her home port was
San Francisco. She was 1,588
;roes tonnage with a, registered psus
lenger accomodation of 24 and an
indicated horsepower of 900. For
several years she operated in Al
iska waters.
CERIUTSIHT
SUPPLY SHORT
Rerlin, Nov. 4—The shortage of
the meat supply for Germany is
growing more and more apparent
each day, and official announcement
w.15 made yesterday that the German
government would assume control
cf all meats, and the residents
withlu the large cities would be put
on a restricted meat diet.
ITALY PISHES BACK
AUSTRIAN FORCES
Rome, Nov. 1 —Advices from the
fighting front •were received yes
terday stating that the Austrians
were being repulsed at various
points, and that the Italian forces
had gained some brilliant victories.
J KING (JEORGE
SUFFERS RELAPSE
London, Nov. 4—A bulletin was j -
j posted today in which it is stated [
that King George has suffered a j
relapse, and i3 in much pain from j
the injury sustained from being J1
thrown from a horse some few
days ago. j} 'j
!gou> chokes new
YORK ASSAY OFFICE ;
New York, Oct. 27—The United ;
• States Assay office has notified the
backers here that, owing to the j
glut incident to remelting the for-!
eign geld which has been received j
in enormous amounts, they are un-.
able tc handle any more of the yel- j
! low metal and requests that no j
j more be consigned to it for re-j
| melting and assaying.
Gold has been pouring into New j
.York in a constantly increasing
stream. It is estimated tbat the r©
! ceipts of foreign gold this week will
! amount to $25,000,000.
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HUNS PREPARING FOR SIEGE
OF SERBIAN STRONGHOLD AF NISH
Amsterdam, Nov. 4—Austrian
howitzers big callibre such as
were used in tho bombardment and
siego of Prezemysl when the for
, tresses protective tliat city wore
leveled to the ground, are reported
to have arrived at Plrot whore pre
I paration is now under way for the
j bombardment of Nlsh.
FOUR TORPEDO BOAT DESTROYERS
DEMOLISH FORIS ST METYLENE
Loudon, Nov. 4—Four British tor
pedo boat destroyers mado an at
tack on the forts at Mltylene early |
this morning, and succeeded In en
tirely silencing the lire from the
forts, and demolished almost the
entire town.
Washington, Nov. 4—The United
>t;itfs has declined to express any
tylnion aa to whether it approves
lie proposed change In China from
i republic to a monarchy.
it became known today that some
M" the interested powers, iu seek
ng to sound out the Washington
[overnruont informally, had learned
hat the latter would take no steps
hat might be construed as au ia
.orference in the internal concerns I
)f another sovereign state.
interest in the Far Eastern si tu
ition, which has for months been j
»ver-shadowed by the controversies
if the European war, was revived in
ifficinl quarters by a, dispatch an- !
louncing tho resignation of the
.'hinese premier, Hsu Shih Chang, j
I'his development was regarded as |
iguit'icant, because a few weeks j
igo the premier made a public
.ta lenient saying that as a former
official of tho Manchu dynasty he |
i'onUl not serve under another em-1
ieror.
The Chinese government itself
as not asked for the vlows of the
Inited States, and officially 110
hing has been said here ori the
ubject It is known here, how
ver, that privately the hope is
utertained in Washington that the
hange will not be made, 'ihis is
based not only 011 the natural sym
pathy for the republican form of
government, but because of the be
lit-f that the change might effect
the political equilibrium of the Far
East at this time. The fact that
President Yuan Shi Kai was elected
for a term of ten years and is in
dominant control of the situation
appears to thoso conversant with
Far Eastern affairs to make any
change at present unnecessary and
ill-timed.
Amor lean Minister Reinsch lias ra
ported from Peking that the Jap
anese and British. governments
seemed to be opoosed to the change,
and officials hero were not sur
prised to learn through pr.'SS dis
patches of the call at the Chineso
foreign office of the British, Rus
sian and Japanese ministers and
of the formal statement from Tokyo
of Japan's opposition. The Ameri
can minister, having received no in
structions from Washington, has
no* participated In any of the
parleys on the subject at Peking.
Both the British and Japanese
embassies here are watching the
situation closely, and the same
views that were reported hi Peking
dispatches today as being expressed
by the British and I Japanese min- I
isters were reflected by the ambas- i
sadors here.
:mlulmer's licenses in
TERRITORY TOTAL EIGHT
Juneau, Nov. 2—Tie total num
icr of licenses issued vuder
ict of the last territorial legisla
urs to embalmers is eight. Three
k-ere issued yesterday by the of
ice of the surveyor general as
ollows: F. B. Wood of Anchorage,
Jeorge W. Robins, of Valdei and
iobert T. Graham of Ketchikan.
ROX-ORE DEPOSITS NEAR NOME
Considerable local interest lias
been 6hown in deposits of iron ore
in an area that centers about 25
miles northwest of Nome, Alaska.
Last rear Henry M. Eakin, of the
United States Geological survey,
made a hasty examination of some
of the more important properties
in this locality and his report has
just been mide imblic hy the sur
vey in Bulletin 622-1.
Fivee groups of claims are held
iu the iron-bearing district, but
little development work had been
done on them at the time of the
examination, so that it is not pos
sible to estimate the quantity of
ore available.
From now. during the
Winter Months
This store will open at 8 a. m. and
CLOSE AT 6 P. M.
'Saturdays 8p.m.
P. H. GANTY
FUNSTCN WOULD RUN BANS
MCI FROM THE BOUNDARY LINE
Washington, Nov. 3—General
Funstoij, who is in, command of the
troops oil the Mexican, border has
wired to the war department asking
for permission to cross oyer the
border into Mexico it the rifle fire
from the belligerents continue to
Interfere with the safety of the
United States.
From information, given out by
the department, there is very little
likelihood of the request being
granted.
V1LLAWITNDREW
FORCESTOSAFEIT
I Douglas, Arizona, Nov. 4—Villa's
forces, after their fifty assauts on
tho Carrauza forces, which are en
trenched outsido of the village of
Ague Prieta, have been forced by
hunger and thirst, together with the
fact that they have a scanty Bup
ply of ammunition, to abandon the
plan of a continuation of the as
sault today, for under cover of the
dark last night he withdrew his
forces to a safe distance fro,m the
firing liue.
Douglas, Arizona, Nov. 4—Later
—General Villa evidently changed
his olans at noon today, for he is
moving his army In the direction, of
Nuco. 3
(Special to thj Daiiy Alaskan)
Juneau, Nov. 4 — The Alaska ]
Gastineau company broke the
world's mining record for handling j
and breaking oro during the month
of September, 1915.
An average or five hundred tons |
of ore were handled each day dur- j
ing the mouth, one hundred and six
ty tons of which was milled at a j
cost of less than sixty cents Per j
ton.
Washington, D. C., Nov. 4—Prom
inent democrats of this city stated
today that the -returns from Tues
day's election showed that the pro
gressives were returning to the
ranks of the republicans.
The fight in Massacussetts was
a surprise, being so very close, the
republicans winning by only a
slight majority. McCall ran away
behind his ticket.
CHICAGO JUDGES BAR HVPHEX
Chicago, Nov. 4—Federal and
county judges of Chicago have
tightened procedure in naturaliza
tion cases for the purpose of elim
inating the hyphen. In practically
all cases applicants are asked if
they would bear arms for the Un
ited States against their native
country, and whether they expect to
be known as Americans or Euro
pean-Americans. Despite this, it
is said that aliens are becoming na
turalized here iu increasing num
bers.
$33,720 FROM TUITION FEES
FLACED IN BUILDING FUND
University of Washington, Nov. 4
—Tuition and matriculation fees
paid by students up to October 31
this year, amounting to 533,720,
will go into the building fund of
thf> university, according to a report
rendered to the board of regents
by Bursar Herbert T. Condon.
The report shows that 2,457
regular tuition paying students sur
rendered $24,570 to the bursar.
New students, numbering 915, paid
In the other $9,150.
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