Victoria, Jan. It. — The inquiry
Into the Princees Sophia disaster
t>«gun before Justice Morrison yes
terday, and considerable preliminary
testimony was heard.
Today Optaln Mller of the gaso
hi«j vessel and the United states
line power schooner King and' Wingc
In givin his testimony, swore th»t
Lighthuose Tender Cedar found it
impossbile, owing to the high, seas
and tho increasing storm to remove
the passengers from tho Princess SO"
phia after he had arrived) at the
scene of the wreck.
Washington, Jan. 11. — Advance
es*;mates from the forthcoming1 an"
uual report of the United States
geological survey, gives the value
of las* years mineral output of Al
aska at 129,000.000.
This figure includes the &olti out
put wihch shows that about $10,
OOO.OOO worth of the yellow metal
was mined in the teriitory during
1V1S.
T!ie tot-H proJucti. n of minerals
show decrease of about $13,000,"
000 over the previous years produc
tion, but this is said to ha\'e been
brought about by the hteli cost of
opeiatiii£ ai'.d the s'.iortage of
ships.
Thc. report will show that the
file' production h;is been increas
ed sixiy percent over the previous
year.
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Sea«tl£, Jan. It.—The influenza
epidemic in Seattle and all north
westeru towns and cities continues
\*ith distressing stubbornness.
The number of new- c-ases and fa
talities fluctuate much after the *a*
ahion ot the weather.
The official report of the he'lth
department shows that there were
(en deaths and 91 new cases report
ed triday. Thursday there were
twtlv, deaths aoid 134 new cases.
The day before that, Wednesday,
ther« were ten deaths and 94 new
cases.
Reports from San Francisco and
other California cities show that the
situation there is much worse than
itt this city.
C1 . AC Y
ilSUlICtif iS
Found Dead
Seattle, Jan. 11.—J. B. Fowles
wn3 foui<j dead in the shipyards dis
trict this morning with a bullet
wound iu his head.
i Tho d«ad man is a biother of
Patrolman T. T. Fowles of the Re"
s'tie police force, and is a chauf
feur.
The police are of the opinion that
th- dead man was murdered by a
bootlegger.
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IDLE MONEY
IS LIKE A TRAMP NO
VALUE TO ANYONE
Your MONEY Work
Deposits made here before January 10th draw
interest for the full month
BANK OF ALASKA
Ifajjpg Nnu Ikixx
P. H. GANTY
FAST TIME BEING
MADE DEMOBILIZATION
j Washington, Jan. 11.. —— General
i March, chief of staff, announced! to*
(lay that the American amy via.a
j being demobilized at a rate which
w»s Just twice ag fa«t a^ that be
ing employed by the British gov
ernment.
DELEGATES ARE IB ACCORD OVEB
FREEBDIH OF IDE SEAS QUESTION
London, Jan. 11. — Despatches
received here from Paris today in
dicate that the question or the
I "Freedom of the Seaa" hag been
practically settled to the eatlsfac
tlon of France, England, and' the
English acceptance of "free —
free goods" is likely to be accept
ed by tbe peace congress when it
J convenes at Versailles.
Washington, Jan. 11.—Yesterday
Secretary of the interior Franklin
Li'ne asked congress for an imme
diate consideration of his plan to
us- one hundred million dollars in
the reclamation of two hundred
million acres or unoccupied lands
f»r tna use or returned soldiers.
LABOR STRIKE II BUM AIRES
IT RESULT IS RESOLUTIONS
Buenos Aires, Jan. 11.—A general
strike in all branches of the 81"
lieri Tadeg was called' in thLa city a
fe.w days ago, and industries of ev"
• ery description are tied UP'
strikers ar» beginning to get disor
derly and the situation is rapid'ly
developing the possibiliites of op
en revolution this afternoon .
WHERE WILL HE
fill FHOI IHEfiE
Stockholm, Jan. 11.—It was of
ficially announced this morning
that t' e Swedish government has
granted Ludendorff, th^ former
German general, permission to re
main in Sweden one Month.
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IDE SPAIN
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London, Jan. 11.—The Sp&nlsh
; Morocco issue, which Will oome up
I for final settlement at the peace
| congress for the Allied delegates
settle bas been talked over In In
formal conferences between the Al
lied delegates, and fromthe des
patches receive# here today It is
believed that an agreement has been
reached, and the matter will meet
with a speedy settlement at the
! coming conress.
Orders Strike
Settled Soon
Washington, Jan. 11.—President
Wilsca has cabled to the shippers
in New York that he wanted a set*
tlement made in the marine work*
erg strike at once. Ho Stated that
the disembarkation of the returning
soldiers must not be impeded.
THE REASON IS GIVEN'
OUT FOR PAPER SHORTAGE
Washington, Jaji. 11.—A report
given out. today states that during
the past year the clgarette factor
lea throughout the Unite# States
turned out thirty nine billion* cigar
ette*.
WILSON SEEING
n
Paris, Jan. 11. — Today Presi
dent Wilson is visiting those sec
tions along the western front which
hav6 been tho hardest hit by the i&"
vask)n of the Huns.
The sections whi<h have been
devastated.' by th© Germans where
»o military advantgae was to be
gained by such destruction of pro
perty will be shown to President
Wilson that he may better know to
what barbaric methods of warfare
t'-o Huns resorted.
'Successor To
McAdoo Named
L03 Angeles, Jan. 11. — Former
Secrtarj- of the Treasury McAdoo,
1 'W'o arrived in this city on his way
Santa Barbara, where he intends
bp ending the next few weeks in a
j much need<ed vacation, stated that
President Wilson has cabled the aP"
polntment of Walter D. Hines, as di
rector general of the railioadg to
succeed. Mr. McAdoo. Mr. Hinea
ha3 bcea MoAdoo'g assistant for
several months past
Mr. Hines was formerly the
chairman of the directors of the
San^t Ft- railroad.
I Wanted: One
Republic, Quick!
Metz, Jan. 11.—The abdication
of the rrftnd duchess and the forma
tion of a republic wag demanded by
an immense crowd which) assembled
In front ox th® dukai fialaee in this
city this morning. . , > A
Socialist Minority Leader Lieb
knecht Shot While Directing
Movements Of Followers In
Defending Newspaper Row
From German Troops
Report First Reaches Copenhagen
Copenhagen, Jan. 11. — A re
port was received here today that
Karl Liebknecht, the leader of the
Bolshevists Jn Germany wag mitea
during the street fighting in Ber
lin Thursday evenin. . :
Machine Gun Kills bpartacans Leader
London, Jan. 11. — Prom official
advlc.es from the German govern
ment which were received here to
day it is now an assured fact that
Karl Liebknecht, the Bolsheviki
l-ad0r was Instantly killed. d'Uring
the fighting which took place in the
streets of Berlinj Thursday evening.
Lleoknecht was directing the
movement of his followers in
the defens.e of a printing house °n
Zimmeretrasse, in which he and a
small group of his forces were barrt*
caded, when they were attacked by
e strong forc9 of government sol
diers. In the battle which, follow
ed Liebknecht was struck in the
he^d by a bullet from a machine
gun and instantly killed.
A Berlin despatch to the Lond
don News says that a German offi
cial &aid that the death of Lieb
knecht means the end of the Spar
ta can movement.
Brig. Gen. Harris Has Narrow Escape
Berlin, Jan. 11. — Brigadier Gen
eral Harris, head of the American
commission in this city, narrowly es
caped being killed last night by a
bullet which imbedded itself in the
casing of th© window near which he
was sitting. It ia believed that
the shot was fired with the inten
tion of killing the American army
officer. il'li.'f
Spartacans Still Holding Newspaper Row
Berlin, Jan. 11. — The Sparta
cans, although deprived, of their late
leader, Karl Liebknecht, are still
holdlne out In Newspaper Row on
Zimraerstrasse, and without the d'8*
strvetion of the property, with the
possibility of starting conflagration
which might sweep that' portion of
the citv, it is believed that |t will
I b* necessary for the government
troops to besiege the section and
! wait until the revolutionists hava
' run out of supplies.
Government flame throwers killed
many. Iiut this method of fighting
the business district is not advocat
| ed, and the flame troops were with
' drawn.
New Republican Government IViay Leave cerlm
Washington, Jan. 11. — Adviees re
ceived in thig city today state that
the removal of the German capital
BOLSHV1KI KILLING MANY
GERMANS IN BALKAN'S
Berlin, Jan, 11.—Advice r®ceiv"
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fron Berlin is under considferatiou
by the new republican German gov
ernment.
fed here this morning state that Bol*
sheviki are killing many Germaas
in the Balkans. i ! f
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