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No. -277 EIGHTEENTH YEAR SKAUWAY, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1916 PRICE 10 CENTS
PARIS NEWSPAPER IS SURE
IRE KAISER IS A SICK MAN
Paris, Jan. 6—Le Matin, cue
of the leading daily newspapers of
PaTis, published a statement this
morning claiming that, despite all
denials issued by German court
officials, it lias positive information
ttuw th» Kaser Is suffering from
cancer of tho throat, and lias boen
for several weeks una,ble to apeak.
EVIGlli
Marseilles, Jan. 6—Two Brit: a
steamshiiss, the Middleton ..d H«-li ■
were susiit this nioniteg ia tue Med
iterranean by submarines without
any warning being given. Particu
lars are not yet available but it
ts known that several of tt'.o pas
sengers of each boat perished be
fore smaller boats were able to
rescuo them. It is supposed that
the submarines were Austrian but
thfy did not allow their identity to
become known.
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LflJl
Washington, Jan. 6—Ambassador
Penfield cabled from. Vienna to the
state department this morning that
Austria is still silent -regarding the
siukiug of the steamer Persian by
an unidentified ssubmarico lost
Thursday. The United States
government has asked both Austria
and Germany fcrr explanation of the
occurrence.
TEDDf TO
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Now York, Jan. 6 —- It is an
nounced that Theodore RoOr e. •• t
will sail sometime in February Tor
a hunting, fishing and exploring
trip in the West Indies.
New York, Jan. 6—Approximate
ly i 1,; 00,000,000 (par value) of
AmerUau securities, foroigxi owned
wueu the European war broke out,
have been absorbed In the United
St ucs during the past sixteen
months, financial experts here «#ti
. i it-. d today.
The Delaware &. Hudson company
uiia-juuced that statistics furnished
by the 141 principal railroads of
(lie I'nited States showed that
1*0,332,135 (par value) of Ameri
can railroad securities of nil forms
were transferred from foreign to
American owners between February
1 aui J ulv 31, 1915.
la addition to this amount the
companies estimated that between
i.'ii.t.Di'C.OOO and $75,000,000 was
bought by Americans from foreign
s daring the same period, but had
uof been actually transferred -when
the figures were compiled.
Experts pointed out that not only
id Americans bought back an en
ormous volume of domestic se
curiUes-', but that the recent $500,
i"tu,000 Anglo-French war loan had
■ ?u virtually absoTl)e<l here, thus
bringing the total of securities tak
eu from foreign sources to at least
$2.01-0,000,000.
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V. S. K EJECTS SIX SUBMARINES
Washington, Jan. 6—The Navy
department has refused to accept
the six submarines of the "L" type
just completed by the Electric Boat
Co., at Fore river.
Inspection reports show that the
batteries are defective and the lubri
Mtion system inadequate, bo that
the heats are not capable of the
trial speed specified in the con
tract.
Tiie builders are at work over
hauling the boats and have hopes
of bringing them up to the test
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RUSSIA PRESSING FORWARD
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London, Jan. 6—The Tlmea* Pot
rograd correspondent says that tho
| Russians have forced back the
German and Austrian armies beyond
their defense lines alone a large
sect'on cf the" eastern front and
tlwt the Teutoa losses during sev
eral days of the most severe fight
ing have been enormous.
GREAT BATTLE
Si II IPS
Rome, Jan. 6—A great battle is
In Drogre&s in ths Carnla Alps be
tw^su the .Italians and. the Aus
tria-is and the latter are being
forced bacU steadily with, heavy
losses. The losses of tie Italians
are also Yery great.
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AT HASH
London, Jan. 6—The Time®1 Sa
lonik' correspondent reporta a
piteous condition among the poorer i
inhabitants of Moaa*ttr following .
the stoppage of the American dis
tiil-ution of flour owing to the seiz
ure of the Red Cross atorw.
He says that deaths already have
occurred and are occurring daily
among the Mussulman population
trom starvation because of the
famine. Thousand® of persona are
without bread.
RIVER STEALER
SIS IN 01
Park.ersburg, Ohio, Jan. 6 — The
river steamboat Kanawha was sunl;
in the Ohio river near her© early
th;s morning, drowning fourteen.
W AR FAVORED BV
FRKXCH SOCIALISTS
Paris, Dec. 20—The socialism of
Paris and of this district met in
private session, and It la reported,
voted almost unanimously that
France should pursue the war so;
as to render the defeat of imperial
ism in Germany mor« effective, an
the resolution put It, and peace
more durable.
The resolution is said to haTe
provided also that the renewal of j
socialist International relations
could only be considered when the
German minority had oompletely
separated itself from the German J
social democracy. It is stated that |
the vote was 6000 In favor of the j
resolution to 100 against it
ATJUNEAU
Juaeau, Jaoi. 6—A fier^ Taku
wind is blowing here today, causing
grsat damage to small snipping, row
beats, window lights, telephone and
electric light lines and poles.
Juneau, Jan. 6—Two hundred pei
sons swam in tho Arctic Brother
hood's new natatorium last night,
the occasion being tho firet night
on which it was opened to tho pub
lic.
INCREASE PRODUCTION
OP COAL TAR DYES
Waghlngton, Jan. 0—Important
Increases lu the production of coal
tar dyes in the United States since
the beginning of the European war
are reported in an official state
ment by the bureau of foreign a>nd
domestic commerce. Nearly all the
American coke otcus now are
equipped to produce tho coal tar
bases from which dyes are manu
factured. ileauwhilo the demand
for the same bases for the manu
facture of explosives has kept prices
so high that the dyastuff industry
has been hampered.
WILSON GIVES WIFE
LESSON ON THE LINKS
Hot Springs, Va., Dec. 23—For
the first time 6ince their arrival the
President and his wife played golf
today.
They went on the cours® while
many of the other guests were hav
ing lunch, and on their return to
the hotel found practically all of
the winter colony gathered on the
lawns to greet them.
Thfcy had played fourteen holes,
with two secret sen-ice men act
ing os caddies. The caddiee in
sisted that no score was kept.
Mrs. Wilson is a beginner on the
links, but under the coaching of |
the Pretident is rapidly improving ;
her game.
"PREFERRED STOCK"
Means the very beat in canned goods
Unsoliced testimonials from many sat«
isfied customers give evidence of the
good quality of these goods. We are
the Skajway agents for "PREFERRED
STOCK" brand and are authorized to
guarantee every can—This means that
should there happen to be a can not up
to standard, all you have to do is to let
us konw and another one will be sent
you in place of it, or money refundee.
P. H. GANTY
IGLOVANA DISTRICi SHOWS UP
WELL IN U. S. GEO .OGIOAL REPORT
■Washington, Jan. 6—According t.o
advance sheets from tho U. S.
•Geological report covering the new
Tolovana, district thg report when
printed will have this to say of the
new "itrika."
The *ejrljr discovered Tolovana
district lie* about 60 miles north
west of Fairbanks. It is connected
with Olnes, a station on the Tan
aua Valley; railroad, by a winter
rjad about 65 miles long. This
road ha« also bean used for pack
horsee In Bummer. Another route
of access Is by launch up Tolovana
Tiver to a log Jam, around which
a iram has been built. The dis
tance to the log Jam by the wind
ings o* the river from the Tauana
is about 200 miles. Above the log
j-im a launch can be used for an
other 20 mile3 to the head of navi
gation; thence a wagon can go up
tae rlvw bars to Llvengood, the
principal settlement of the dis
trict, where there is a post office
ai.d a wireless station.
The gold placers of the district
that hare actually beon developed
are nearly all on Llvengood creek
and lt« tributaries. Of these the
richest deposits aro the so-called
"bench grarels," which have been
traced ae a deep channel for 2 or
3 mill®. Probably a dozen shafts
ha re been sunk to bedrock on this
de.p channel, which lies on the
in th Bide of the creek. At Dis
co ery claim the dee® placers axe
au mt 100 feet below the efface.
T < overburden thickens rapidly
downstream and becomes thinner
Ui> Jtreara,
Placer gold haa also been foimd
in gravels of kivengood creek.
T:.'se gravels are said to be from
li to 20 feet deep and to carry
ssc .je gold, but they bays not been
di..flcped. Besides the work on the
dt _-n placers, mining has also been
dc10 in the comparatively shallow
gi tvels of several tributaries of
L;vengood crgek and on. Olive creek,
in tbt same district. There were
p. .-fcably in all not over half a
(!• ;en plants installed in time for
ni tration during th"e summer of
1. 15. ThesQ produced gold to the
vn ue o.f about |60,000. There was,
lit wever, a good deal of prospect
ii. ;, and the results were for the
is a* part encouraging. Late in
t' j summer some promising pros
p ts werQ found on the South Fork
ui Mike Hesa creek and its tribu
te les. The information at hand in
d att* that auriferous gravels are
w lely distributed in the district
a i iha^ the work on Livengood
a. 1 several other creeks has proved
i,.i presence of workable placers.
I HflOSUD IONS
ORE READY
Cordova, Jan. 6—E. D. Reiter,
manager of the Alaska Mines Cor
poration, of FIdalgo bay, reports
that everything la la chape to b&
glu the construction of the com
pany's wharvea and ore bunkers,
and that It will Boon be In Bhape
for handling ot&
On the last trip of the Admiral
EvaDS ehe brough* a pile driver out
fit from Katalla to FIdalgo bay.
The outfit lg new, bavin* been tak
en to the oil city during railroad
construction dayB, but was never
used.
Mr. Reiter eta tea that hla com
pany 1b employing a force of twenty
six men, twenty of whom are em
ployed In development work and
about the mine, and six on the
v. aTf construction -work. Lara
I; Hand Ib in charge of tho con
si uctioa work.
During tlie development work
n. jre than one thousand tons of ore
h i been taken out, and will be
si pped to the Tacoma smelter as
8 in aa the wharf and bunkera aire
r. <dy for handling the ore.
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1 FRAUDS
Washington, Jan. 6—A drastic
a lendment to the interstate com
ir >rce law to urevent "cheating and
b\ indling in interstate and foreign
c< aimerce" is proposed by; Rep'resen
tv ivo Adamson of Georgia, the
ci airman of the committee handling
c aimerce legislation.
(Continued on page 4.)
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