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No. 300 NINETEENTH YEAR SKAttWAY, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1917
NORTHERN BANK AND TRUST CO.
CLOSES OOORS TO DEPOSITORS
Seattle, Jan. 30 — Following an
examination of the books of the
Northern Bank and Trust Company
cC this city, situated at he corner
of Pike and Fourth Avenue, by the
Stat§ Board of Bank Examiners,
•he institution vas forced to close
its doors to the public thia morning.
The deposits of the institution
amouct to nearly ou« and one half
million dolfctrs.
Ever since the failure of the
Broadway state bank ther^ has been
a tendency to withdra-w the de
dosR', from the Northern Bank and
iTust Company with which the
former was once closely allied.
Wben the news was spread
around that the Northern Bank
and Trust Company had been clos
ed a bJrf ruu oa the Peoples Sav-1
iugs bank at once began. This In
stitution is regarded as one of the |
strongest institutions in the North
west. The run. continued through
out the da.£ and a vast amount of
cash jvaa withdrawn.
There were several smajl runs on
other State hanks, but tht time for
closing arrived and they will be iu
be'ter shape to meet tlie demands
made uaon. them tomorrow, should
any of the depositors show a ten
dency to withdraw their deposits.
The National banks pf the city
are undisturbed, and it Is thought
that there will not be a serious fin
ancial crisis arising out of the run
ou the Peoples.
WASH, m
Spokane, Jan. 30—This city may*
te the next one of the larger muni
cipali'ieB of the country to hire a
majaager.
A strong organization of business
and professional ruon is being form
ed for the purpose of framing a
new citv charter embracing tie city
managership plan. Public meetings
are to be held early in 1917 for
the discussion o' the question and
the matteT will then be put before
the voters for action.
opoafcne adopted the commission
*orm of government in 1910 and ha i
been governed by five commission-;
ers
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Cleveland, Jam. 30—The seimo-l
tjraph at Stlgnatius last night re- 1
corded the most severe earthquake j
shock that has been felt during the
oast two years. It is estimated that
the quake occurred over seven .
thousand miles distant from the in
strument.
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ARE TERRIFIED
Rio Janiero, Brazil, Jan SO—It is
considered almost certain, here that
the German sea. raider which has
been creating havoc among entente
shining in the South Atlantic, is
the Moewe, the German armed raid
ed which captured th© Appam and
sang numerous entente ships in At
lantic waters a year ago.
The American consul at Pern am
buee cabled the embassy here con
•iimin? the landing of several Am-j
fricau? from vessels which fell vic
lur to the raider, lie said that no
Amerian ship had been Bunk by the {
German craft and that all the Am
erican sailors landed were men from
'he crews of foreign vessels. t
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New York, Jan. 30—The people oj i
Kingston, Jamaica, are in constant! i
fear r>f a raid by a German ship, | *
according to stories told by pass- s
engers on the liner Aimirante, j •
which arrived here today from the
W«s* indies. No street lights burn
at night. Searchlights nightly play
from tne fortifications, while fleets
of small boats patrol the harbor
entrance.
FIRST WIFE FORMER
EGYPTIAN CONSUL DEAD
London, Jan. 30—Evelym Baring,
first wife pf Earl Cromer, former |
British Agent and Consul General
in Egyp+ died at her home in this
ci*y this morning after a lingering
illness.
SAT. FEBRUARY 3rd
At 9 O'clock p.m*
Our Gigantic Clearance
Sale Will Come to a Close
REMEMBER—Until 9 o'clock Saturday
night only our Tremendous Clear
ance Sale Prices will prevail.
ALBERT REINERT
—Successor to H. J. Lynch—
Broadway between Third and Fourth Phone 41
BRITISH FORCES MAKE URGE
GAINS ALONG TIGRIS RIVER
Loudon, Jan. 30—'Advice receiv- ! cadured cover a distance Qf over
ed at the War Office today states
that the British forces have cap
turrd tli ^ first and second line of
trenches southwest of Kntelamara,
situated on the right hank of the
rigris river, and that the lines
forty three hundred yards.
The thirdi and fourth line of de
fensive trencher, have also heen
carried, but the extent is only for
•abcut six hundred yards.
OvUl llV| «IOsU. OV tj. -TV.
tvho iB under Street, charged With.
*i)ling his four children bjr break
:he skulls of the four helpless lit
'le ones, and thesa leaving their
lead bodies in the bo>me which he
set on lire with the Idea of obi it ed
iting all traces of his foul deed,
irotests that he is innocent of the
:rlme.
Hie wife wag found late yester
lay afternoon at the house of a
li iend, and she aaye that she Is Bure"
KMT TESTIFY
New York, Jan. 30—Pliny Fibk '
[id Archibald S. White and a num
ier o* other influential and pro al
lien t financiers and opreators in |
Vail Street have appeared before
he congressional investigation com-j
li'tee, which has been probing in
cj the leak news charges as made
y Thomas W. Law»on, and in ans
wer to the questions put by their
:iquisator§ emphatically denied that
he sensational charges of Law- f
on that they had any information
rom the sources as claimed in
he charges.
that Hewitt is guilty of having mur
lered their lour children.
In order to give the police suf
ficient time to make a thorough ia
r&stigation o£ the crime, the in
luegt has heen. postponed for sev
irai days.
Seattle, Jan. i30—At a late hour
:cday, Prosecuting Attorney Alfred
3. Ludin etated that he would file
:harges against S. A. Hewitt, im
nediately, charging him "with the
nuTder of his four children.
SILL SECURES
LEGAL COUNSEL
Seattle, Jan. 30—Mayor Hy Gill,
kho is under indictment for con
wiring in the bootlegging cases
ifhich liavo been up 'before the
ir&nd Jurj- in this city for several
re eke past has retained Frederick
Sausman and Wilmon Tucker as
ounsel to defend him w};en bis
ase comes 'o trial.
The trial will be set for a date
,ot later than February 26, occord
ng to an announcement made by
ha Judge yesterday.
MID! MM MIS 1U I) I ALL
HUGE COfflilll MILL
Ou h r last trip t® the North the
li'y of Seattle brought to Skag
vay from the States several men an I
iue woman bournd for tb<} Interior,
iinong the number being CoL A. M.
Dewey and J. L. Harper of Seattle,
vho are interested the old Con
ad mines on the LJttle Windy Arm
md Lake Tagish, some sixteen miles
rem Carcross. Mr. Harper is head
>f -what is called the Harper Syndi
:ate owning and operating these
►roDerties and is the general manage
ir for the syndicate, which. h3® s&v
ral groups of mines in different
ilaces in Alaska besides those In
he Yukon. Both ol these gontLa
nen are stopping at the Golden
\Tcrth awaiting train service to the
nterior. Colonel Dewey has but
•oceiitly returned to hi* Seattle
lome from New York and other
Sastem cities, and talked interest
inglypa reporter for the Alaskan
1 concerning tlie eastern, Bantjimeint to
ward Alaska interests in general
anil of the coming tourist travel in
particular. Tlie Colonel said in
part:
"Eastern people are jus* awaken
ing to the commercial value of Al
aska as an asset of the United
States. And even yet many Relieve
this territory to be one vast glacier
of ice and snow, and it is difficult
to make theni believe that we here
hsve a wealth of mineral and agri
culture equal to many of the East
era and Middle Western. States, to
say nothing of our fisheries and
timber. Alaska has as great gold
mines as California, better copper
mines than either Montana, Michi
gan or Nevada; coal deposits great-?
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CONGRESS PETITIONED TO GRANT
PROHIBITION FOR ALL ALASKA
Washington, Jan. 30—Senator
Asle J. Gronne, of North Dakota has
presented to the United States
senate the informative petition, from
Alaska, showing that the Voters of
that Territory had at general elcc
t'on held last November voted
against the sale, importation a-nd
manufacture of liquor in th© Ter
ritory
Tht» petition also asks for the
*• ght to control its public schools,
and that the present bureau which
has control of education be re
placed by a board to be either ap
Paris, Jan. 30—"An, American ar
my o* 250,000 men, trained on the
battlefields of Europe in, the world's
greatest war, would respond to the
call oI the Stars and Stripes if
thev weTf needed," was the remark
of a British, officer liere today. He
declared it to be a positive fact
that tjiere are now that many Am
ericans nojy serving with the al
lied armies.
"These men are trained soldiers,
every one of them. They have tast
ed battle, have smelled gunpowder,
iieen under bursting shells and have
fought hand to hand in the trench
es. They speafc of preparedness in
America, but here is where Ameria
is being prepared."
The officer, who ig noted for his
conversavitism, declared that he has
talked with Americans from every
State in the Union, except Florida,
He declared that the men serving
with the Entente armies either are
adventurers, serving for tjhej love of
a fight, or thinkers, who believed
that everything that stood for Am
ricanism was being threatened in
the world war.
Half the nurses in the Canadian
army are American trained he de
clared, while American nurses are
very numerous at the allied fronts.
He declared that in one platoon of
55 men, 60 of them were Americans.
They are scattered in every army
from France to Egypt.
HOUSE PASSES DEFENSE BILL
Washington, Jan. 30—The Coast
Defense bill, providing for the ex
oeuditure of $51,000,000 passed
the House of Representatives at
yesterday's session.
opjnted from residents of the Terri
tory or elected by the D«ople of
the Territory.
The petition outlines the views of
^ne Fou'rtli Judicial division, and
snows the matter up in a logical
manner as seen by tho prohibition
narty advocates of Fairbanks. This
•vr.s forwarded to Senator Grornie
by Aline Bradley, superintendent o
education of the Fourth division,
and <n a letter accompanying it the
latter eloquently oleads for imme
diate congressional action of the
measure.
NATIONAL GUARD
ORDERED KOI
Washington, Jan. 30—By ordar
of the war department issued this
morning. Troop B and Company A
of the Washington State National
Guard, who have been stationed cn
the Mexicaui border has been order
ed home.
Washington, Jan. 30—President
Wilson put his veto on the Immigra
tion Bill, giving us his reason for
so doing that he did not approve of
the literacy test contained in the
measure.
SLAVS CLAIM HALF
MILLION" PHISOXEKS
. London, Jan. 30—More than
428,000 officers and men were tak
en orisoners by the Russians dur
ing the last year and 525 guns cap
tured, according to the Russian ser
vice crgan, as quoted in a Central
N'ewa dispatch from Petrograd to
dav. The Journal closes its re
view of the war operating during
the year with the following au
proximate figures of men and booty
taken:
Officers 8770, men 420,000, guns
525, mahine guns 16C1, trench mar
tars and mine throwers 421.
More than 80 per cent of the
foregoing jvas yielded by the opera
tions of Gene.ral Brussiloff.
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