WOULD COMPLETE ROAD FROM
TIDEWATER TO iTAiSKA COAL
1 i — | —
Wasnington, July '16.—An. addi
tional appropriation was asked for
today by Secretary Lane for ?4,
000,000 fu- the Alaska railroad con
struction work.
This appropriation will be used
to rush to completion a gap of 30
miles now existing o» the main line
from Tidewater at Anchorage to Se>«
an!, and is for tho purpose of op
eninne up the Matanuska coal fields.
Secretary Lanes ' request bears
the approval of President Wilson.
BBITiWyiCTORY
II GfiEATESf
1 FiGHr
Loudon, July 16.—As a result of
th- jrreatost aerial "fight which has
thus far taken place in th§ present
war in France, fourteen 'German
aeroolaues were brought down by
air artillery and sixteen more either
driven away or captured by British
airplanes and put out of commis
sion. TLis was an announcement
made Saturday by the war office.
The report states that nine Bri
tish machines were "lost in the air
fight.
Petrograd, July 16. — The Fin
nish utt parsed on to its second
■reading Saturday the bill providing
for th0 establishment 'of Finnish
independence. r
Seut'Ie, July 10. — Troops were
todav rushod to the Cascade tun
uel t-" protect that piece of pro
perty from menacing I. W. W's.
BRITISH SHIP
BLOWS UP
3 MANY KILLED
London, July 16.—According to
advices Riven'out by the admiralty
Saturday afternoon, tbQ British Bat
tleship Vanguard sunk while at'an
chor in an English port as the re
sult of au internal explosion. '
The report states that ail save
two of the ill fated ship's compli
ment of officers and men, perished
who were on board at the time of
thQ explosion. The compliment of
men on the ship before the war
was 87t". At the time'ol the ex
plosion 94 vore off on shore leave.
isEEKUilOF
| WAR MISSION
I
: Los Angeles, July'16.—A plot to
l assassinate the members of the
! Beleian war'mission that arrived in
I this city Saturday was frustrated by
I t.ie police. 4
As a result one Austrian is un
der arrtfit, and'the police are search
i iug for three others who are be
lieved to be'implicated in the plot
The plot was to hurl a bomb in
; to the. automobile in which the mem
bPrs of the mission were riding.
1 The bomb was secured, and It is'of
sufficient strength to have blown
toe car and all its occupants to at
, cms. i . , ..
SEEDED POWER
DIN BOARD
j Washington, July 16.—The pow
er nocessa'ry for the requisitioning
of vessels needed. 't>y the govern
ment was definitely conferred t>"
the Uu'»ed Shipping board, wh.o is
liu'chv.Ke of the emergency fleet.
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ALBERT REINERT
Broadway between Third and Fourth Phone 41
The fact that J. A- Anderson,
fi-rmor saloonkeeper In Skagway,
having- for many years conducted tb
P.- -.iheon saloon here, had 'applied
for a license through Judge Ra»
muson, as clerk of the district
cciijrt, has called for a storm of
protest, and the cable has been
kept hot today with message® to
Judge Jennings protesting against
the granting "of a license to Ander
son or any other person.
For more 'than a year the sa
loon? have been closed la Skagway
j and tne result has been so entirely
satisfactory that scores of promin
ent men who were luke "wram or
indifferent as to he town- being dry,
are now active in their work against
the saloon again gaining 'a footing
here.
Many of the younger men who
havo been spoken to on the sub
ject e.vpress themselves as not
f wanting a. saloon here, claiming that
| they now hare money with, which.
I to Day their bills and buy clothes
and other necessites, while during
the regime of'the saloon they were
always broke.
Another proof that the closing
O' saloons here has been a 'benefit
is the fact that there 'is no record
v-ith the railroad that a man has lost
his position, through 'intemperance
for the past six months.
During the past year thQ arrests
' and convictions In Skagway have
fallen off 94 per'cent and not one
| o* the cases on record can b0 attri
I buted to'liquor.
It Is hardly probably that Ander
son will 'be granted a license as &
} '-elegram from Judge Jennings shews
'hat he will "have to gir^ proof that
{a saloon Is wanted here.
(Goeti*«»d on page 4)
BIG Lie
RUNS AGROUND
St. Johns, N. F., July 16.—The
Norwegian Liner Kristiania Fjord,
v-ith thirteen hundred passengers on
board is reported to be aground
near Capo Race. Tha big liner :waa
on her way from an American port
to Norway, and ran aground 'In a
heavy fog. All the passengers and
crew were removed in safety.
GERMAN PLANT
HAS BIG LOSS
| Amotrrilam, Juno 29.—According
to the Cologne Volks-Zoltung the
j annual report of the Hartung Iron
! and Steel Works of Berlin shows a
loss of 1,410,000 marks, which' is
equivalent to six-sevenths of its cap
ital. More than a third of its to
tal 'capital has been lost in the last
j five months, . j
616 ADVANCE
IS DEMANDED
London, June 29.—If the demand
for a ten shilling advance la the
wages of half'a million semi-skilled
and unskilled workers In the en
cineering industry, which la now
V>ing considered by the Committee
e* Production, is conceeded, the
employers will hare to pay an ad
ditional 13,000,000 pounds sterling
a year ia wages.'
[Meetings will be held at the Gos
pel tent on Tuesday, Thursday and
Frid&v evenings of this week. An
nouncement of the subject will 'be
made in advance of each meeting.
jEuth Oruger wul Allegcil Slayer
Rome, July 16.—The American
Ambasaadci has been Informed by
the T'allan government that it
could tot comply ■with th# request
for tbp extradition of Gocchi, the
aocused slayer of Ruth Cruger, as
It would be a violation of the fun
damental law of Italy,
GERARD QUITS PUBLIC LIFE
Washington, July 15, — Jamea
Gerard, formerly American ambass
ador to Germany, has resigned from
the diplomatic service and retired
to private Hfe- 1
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P. H. GANTY
Phcenlx, July 16.—The Govern
npr of this state received a tel
egram from President Wilson Sat
urday iu which the latter stated
that he looked upon such actions
ae > e 'citizens taking the law into
their own hands in regard to thq
I. W. W. strife 'with gTave appre
hensloa.
Prtsiden* Wilson said 'that Fed
eral officers had been ordered in
to the state and that they'were in
structed o report the conditions ex
iting in Arizona with the vew of
the natoual government cooperating
with the state authorities in 'main
aung law and order.
HITTERS GIVEN
Dan bury, July 16.—By the sign
ing c* a release by President Loe
we of tlie company which 'was the
principal plaintiff, freeing the de
fendants from all claims, the fa
mous "Hatters" "case was settled
Saturday, and the 141 hatters home£
which were threatened to b0 taken
awav from them and at auetion,
are thu« secured to them.
Ansterdam, July 16.—Dispatches
received today'from Berlin say that
th« Reichstag has gone on a strike.
The cause for the dissent ion is
the refusal of the main committee
to vote for the proposed'fifteen bil
lion war d-redit sought by the gov
ernment. '
Petrograd, July 16.—In the St&a
islau sector the Russian troops hara
advanced 177 miles nearer'to Lem
berg. The advance has been made
in a uorthwesward direction alon$
the Daeister river
The report states 'that the Riua
sian drive is menacing Styre and
Rosatyn and that it threatens to
cut the Austro-German. lines la two
be*ween thesse two towns.
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Zurich. July 16.—A 'great roar
waa' rp. at tl^ Austrian Reichstag
when former Czech. Minister Praa
chek declared. .'that 'he entjre hata
of the world was not directed to
wards Austria but "against Germa
ny. Hh stated further that Austria
should detach, 'herself from her al
ly and sue for a peaceful termina
tion U the 'strife in so far as Aus
tria was concerned. This was re
ceived in a'dispatch from Vienna.
JVasliinstGiii, July 16.—donfcrftcta
for tlie construction of four hund
red steel vesssels for the govern*
meat wore closed Saturday hy Geuer
al G-oe'hals. The vessels yrill 'ba
built ir two great shipyards, onfl
of which is possibly located on the
Pacific coast. The contracts BDec
ify that the greatest pogstble speed
bo had in 'he completion'of the ves
sels. *
, \V. E. LEONARD MADE
FIRST LIEUTENANT
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| Washington, July 16.—President
j Wilson, .in an executive army "order
| issued Saturday, made Walter E.
[Leonard a First Lieutenant to be
station*.q at For Gibbon, Tanana,
' Alaska.
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