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No. 293 EIGHTEENTH YEAR SKAGWAY, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1916 PRICE 10 CENTS
New Tor*, Jan. 25—Tho Italian
■teamer Verona arrived today carry
tat guns mounted on the stern.
It t> said that this will probably re
suit In the Austrian goterament talc
ing uo diplomatically -with the Unit
ed States the question of the aim
ing of merchant shipg.
SEPARATE PEACE
' IN CANCELLED
Rome. Jan. 25—Fighting between
Austria and Montenegro will soon
be resumed, peace negotiations hay
ing been cancelled.
Notification that there would
be no separate peace between King
Nicholas' country and Au^cria^liun
gary was made to tue it-lun war
u trice today.
The Giornale D'ltalia published
dis^auhes from Pant nuxh said
that King Nichols iiad sailed for
Italy, a fugitive from the invaders,
accompanied by the Queen, and the
membeiB or the royal suita
Failure to seal the peace pact wag
due to Montenegro's refusal to al
low Austria to maintain a naval
baae oa the Montenegrin coast, ac
cording to a variety of reports re
ceived from the Balkans. As Aus
tria now occupies nearly four-fifths
of Montenegro, that country's status
la practically the same as Serbia,
overran by the Austrian®, Bulgari
an* and Germans.
Panama, Jan. 25 — Serious dif
ference* ol an official nature have
arisen between Major General Goe
thals, governor of tha I-anama can
al «one, and Brigadier General Clar
ence fidwards, commander of the
garrison and troops stationed here.
When general criticisms of the
governor reached Secretary of War
Oarrwoc In Washington he seat a
requeo' for full information <°-nd
both parties to the dispute have left
for Washington to present their
statements to Secretary Garri
son and President Wilson.
RADIO STATION
TOR USUI
Washington, Jan. 25 — Senator
Wesley L. Jones of Washington
state Introduced a bill tills morn
ing for the establishment of a
high power radio station on Unga
Island, Alaska.
Seattle, Jan. 25—The Alaska
Bureau of the Chamber of Com
merce received yesterday a letter
from Secretary Laaa commenting
upon and complimenting the ex
teut of tha bureau's campaign for
calling the attention of congress to
the needs of Alaska for legisla
tion to aid in the development of
tha resources of the territory.
MEXICAN ACCUSES
AMERICAN &OLDIEKS
El Paso, Jan. 25 — General Ga
briel CaTira, commander of the
Carranza garrison at Jaurez, has
presented a roqueet to the mili
tary authorities hore that soldiere
from the garrison be punished for
the wounding of a Mexican civilian
Saturday. He referred to the
nrsraot punlahment meted out to
♦he Duran brothers by the Mexican
authorities as showing the deter
mination of the Carranza adminis
tration to prevent any lawlessness
amoug the Mexicans along the bor
der, and asked that equally ef
fective methods be adopted by the
American authorities.
Inventory
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CONTiNUED
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Owir>rr o ,u>- Extreme Cold Weather
Which I, :c led During the Last Three
Days of Our Sale We Will Continue For
Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday.
One-Third Off
On Every Article in
Our Immense Stock
With the exception of Rubber Goods, E. & W. Collars,
Overalls, Jumpers, Threads, Knox and Stetson Hate.
TERMS CASH—Store will be open until 9 o'clock every '
\ evening during sale.
HI f V TVT LI THE haberdasher and
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Broadway between Third and Fourth Phon* 41
Wasaiugton, Jan. 25—The liouae
committee on mines and mining has
killed the bill passed by the senate
; providing for the appointment of a
commission to revise the mining
laws.
Washington, Jan. 26 — Senator
Robinson of Arkansas today intro
duced In the senate a bill propos
ing a tai of two cents a pound on
all high explosives and of ten per
cent ad valorem on all implements of
war manufactured in the United
States for export to foreign coun
tries, the tax not to apply to materi
ul used lu the United States.
GET REAOTFOR
CONVENTION
Chicago, Jan. 25—Preliminary.
plats of the sub-committee on ar-j
rangemeiits for the republican na^;
tional convention have been ap
proved by the executivo officers of |
thf national committee. Senator
Elihu Root of New York and sena^
tor William E. Borah of Idaho, are
both, mentioned tor temporary chair
man.
ALAS RAN VISITORS ft.
AT WASHINGTON^"D. O.
WasMagton, Jan. 25 — Alaskan !
visitors at the national capitar to-'
day are Falcon Joslin and John F. |
Dillon, United States commissioner j
at Fairbanks.
ALLIES PLACE BIO
WAR ORDERS HERE
New /ork, Jan. 25—The world
says that the allies havo placed tre
mnedoua new war orders In this!
country, some calling for the con
tiguous delivery for the next two]
yeare. One company Is said toi
have secured $200,000,000 addi-j
tional contracts in the last few i
montba. The Bethlehem Steel Cor-:
poratlon has war orders for five,
years' straight delivery. The Mid- j
vale comoany, through W. E. Cor
ey closed a $30,000,000 Bhell con
tract with the French government
las* week and now has $100,000,
000 of ordere on their books. The
Pressed Steel Car Company has se
cured 314,000,000 stee.1 freight car
orders from Russia, the payments
to be mado through the sale of I
Russian 5 per cent bonds by the j
National City Bank. The Colt's
Arms company is sold 6 yeans ahead
INCOME 1
CONSTiTUIIONAL
Washington, Jan. 25—The Income
tax wae today declared constitutional
by the supreme court in a unani
mous decision.
Proposals are pending before the
coingrecslonal committees having
to do with the raising of revenues
to tax Incomes of mora than a mil
lion fifty per cent
Uerlin, Jan. 25—The town and
fortifications of Scutari have been
occupied by Austrian troopg. This
places fully three fourths of Mon
tenegro under Austria^ control, but
King Nicholas has escaped to
Italy and a portion of the army
has retreated into Albania to Join
the Italian and Serbian, forcea there.
VESSEL BUILDING RECORD
MADE IN THIS OONTRY
American shipyards have under
construction, now more vessels than
ever before were building in the Un
ited States to add to au American
merchant marine whose gross ton-,
na$e already is the largest in the j
country's history, says a report just
issued by the United States Com-'
mjasioiier of Navigation.
Niaetv eight merchant vessels, are
being built or are under contract
These, with many small vessels be
In/ constructed, have a total of
761,511.
The total tonnage of ships under
the American flag, numbering 26,
883, December 1, was 8,444,258, h
net gain of more than 50„000 tons
since July 1. There was a net gain
of 187 ships, despite 272 vessels
lost, abandoned and. sold to aliens.
Twenty three came under the Am«rl
can flag from foreign registry and
436 wero completed in shipyards.
Altogether 171 foreign vessels have
taken American registry under the
Acf. of August 14, 1914. Ninety
eight American vessels have been
transferred to foreign registry since
August.
Many hig vessels aro being built.
Thirteen mentioned In the report
are of more than 10,000 tons. Twen
tv are of tonnage between 7000 and
10,000 and 36 are of from 5000 to
7000 tons. Eleven vessels are col
liers, 47 oil vessels, 34 general
freight vessel and six passenger and
freight vessels.
CUSTOMS HOUSE CHANGES
Juneau—R. W. Reed, deputy col
lector o? customs at Nome, who
has been filling in at the local cus-,
toms house, will leave on the
steamer Northwestern for the south.
E. R. Stivers, now at Ketchikan,
will come north on one of the next
■teamers as Mr. Reed's relief.
HOT SOUP AND
HOT TAMALES
Sounds pretty good this kind of weather
We make a speoial price per doz. on
CambelTs soups of $1.40 per doz.
straight or assortad varieties.
We offer you I. X. L. Chicken Tamales,
the best made, at 20c per tin 3 for 50c or
$1.85 per doz. I. X L. Chili Con Carne
15c per tin 2 for 25c or 1.40 per dozen.
Buy a dozen, they are good
things to have in the house.
P. H. GANTY
Seward, Jan. 21—Docks burned
down last niglit, cause unknown.
Loss, including stored merchandise,
$40,000. Only dock in geward
bough4 by government Irom Alaska
Northern railroad. merchandise
loss is about tea. thousand.
London, Jan. 25—An Amsterdam
dispatch received by the Central
News says th<j total booty of the
Teutonic allies during the severn
teea mouths of the war, is summed
up lu Vienna as follows:
"Three million prisoners, ten
thousand guns, forty thousand
machine guns, while 470,000 square
kilometers of the enemy's terri
tory has been occupied."
PERIL Of CANADA
PREDICTED IF WAR
LOST TO GERMANY
Ottawa, Jan. 19—"I believe Ger
many olana to annex Canada and
that the German reservists in the
are ready for an invasion when the
word ia given." So said James
Lougheed, government senate lead
er, in aji Interview yestf.rday.
Senator Lougheed urged that Can
ada. give every aid possible in
ths prosecution of the war. If the
entente lost he believed it certain
tha» the German reserri.is in the
United States would march on Can
ada,
MEXICANS TO BE EXECUTED
Washington, Jan. 21—Eightee
Mexican prisoners, alleged partici
pants in the massacre of seventeen
American mining men recently, will
be publicly executed at Chihuahua
City tomorrow, according to an El
Paso consular telegram to the State
Department today.
A dispatch from New York quote
Felix Diaz as denying he had or
ganized any new Tevolt in Mexico.
He said he contemplated nothing
that would embarrasB the United
States.
Va.'tffcz, Alaska, Jan. 24—In the
larges» fire since the town was
burned last fall, property worth
$15,000 went up in smoke Friday
morning, with the weather at 14
below zero.
The fire started in the grocery
and bakery shop, of Rudelph
Schmidt, in the center of town, oa
McKinlt/ street, at 7 ft. m. The
flames gutted the bakery, burned
"Louie's" restaurant, and the rest*
dence of Albert .White oyer. ' the
restaurant-bakery building, which
was owned by Dr. C. T. Daggett of
Seward. The restaurant was owned
by WhHo.
A hieb wind was blowing and the
low temperature made fire-fighting
difficult. The chemical engines were
useless but three streams of water
prevented the fire from spreading ts
the Lioerty theatre and tha ad
Joining buildings. Tha occupants
of the entire block, including the
Alaska road commission, the Val
dez drug store, the Pioneer barber
shoD, the Loy<j-Whitley ^ butcher
shop. Mrs. Winters' ladies' ..fur
nishing store and the Pizon bar
and ci^ar store, moved their stocks
into the street, but the fire was
confined to the two bulldnlgs.
Mr. and Mrs. White lost every
thing they bad in their home. Sev
eral firemen were severely frosted.
The loss is partially covered by
Insurance.
ALASKA WHALING PLANT IS
TO BE REBUILT AT ONCE
Juneau, Jan. 25 — The United
States Whaling company will re
build its partly destroyed whaling
station at Port Armstrong, South
eastern Alaska, this spring, aad
will have the plant ready for full
operation when the 1916 whaJlng
season opens. Some repairs may
be made at once. Balfour, Outh
rie & Co., agents for the whaling
company, sent Capt. E. E&rling,
harpooner of the steam whaler Starr
III, to Port Armstrong on the
present voyage of the Border Line
steams-jp Despatch. Eaxling will
make a survey of the damage pre
liminary to the adoption of plans
for the reconstruction of the sta
tion
One building was wrecked and
two others were partly demolished
in a great gale that swept the
Southeastern Alaska coast December
16. It was estimated at first that
the less would total $30,000, but
the figures will be much lower, ac
cording to later advices.
WHEN IN DOUBT
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choosing: a suit or overcoat. There's
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them that makes them becoming
to all types of men, young & old.
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