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No. 42 TWENTIETH YEAR
SKAGWAY, ALASKA. FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1917
PRICE 10 CENTS
COLLIER SENTENCED TO PRISON
FOR FALSIFYING BANK'S BOOKS
Seattle, March. 23—Expert ac
countauts have been at worjc on th
books of the Northern Bank ani
Trust Company since that Jnstitu
tiou closed its doors on Januar;
30, owing depositors more than i
million and a half dollars, and thei
finaiy discovered irreg-uarittes whic
led up to the arrest of W. L. Col
lier. oresident of the institution.
When Collier was taken into CUS'
tcdy and charged with falsifying
the books of the bank, he brok<
dowu and made a clean, confession
He stated to Froeecueing- Attor
noy Clay Allen that he had embez
vled thirty 'housed dollars, anc
- 'hat he had covered up his thefts
i by making false entries.
11 Ho was at once taken, befon
- Judge Everett Smith, where he a.
' gain made ♦hQ statement, and thei
1 entered a plea of guilty to the
charge of embezzelment, and mak
1 tag falge entries in. the bank's book
and the judge immediately; sen
, tenced him to from one to ten yean
'(in *he state penitentiary at Walla
. Walla.
W. L. Collier wag atl one tim§ an
f Alaskan, being located at Nome,
! where he held an important posl'ioi
with mining companies at that place
Juneau, March. 23—The canvass
ius board has filed witb Judge Rob
ert Jeunings, Emery Valentine'!
proles' which ha made against tit
counting o£ the forty seven pre
cincts in the territory in which, he
claims that certifiates were not
enclosed with the returns. The
board asks for advice iu the prem
ises.
In a shore crisp opinion, which
he handed down late yesterday af
ternoon, Judge Jennings said thai
he cfuld not offer any advice to
the matter, as he was not in a
position to do so. He stated that
he could, however, treat the com
munication accompanying the pro
test as an amended supplemental
answgr.
At a late hour this afternoon
Judge Jennings issued a preemptory
wr®*. of mandamus, upon which
each member of the canvassing
board, instructing tiiem to issue im
mediately a certificate of election
to Caarles Sulzer.
GERMAN'S APPLY TORCH
TO EVACUATED VILLAGES
Paris, March 22—Repot ts receiv
ed at War Headquarters ia this city
froai the French, forces all along
the western front state that most
of the villages from which the
German troops have been, withdrawi
are in flames. ' • I '
Villages before their lines neai
St. Quentin have been, fired and are
now iu flames.
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COPS HOT ON
S0UDA5 TRAIL
SeaUlo, March 23—The search, foj
• Soudas, who escaped with Dr. Allen
i and three other prisoners from the
Kink county jail some two weeks
ago, was continued at Ren ton
Thursday, deputies following a trail
located Wednesday, wlien they
reached a bouse near the town twen
ty minutes after a man answering
the description of the fugitive de
parted.
Information charging F. J.Dusky
with roobery of a revolver belong
■ ing to Jailor Allen J. Stark the
night of the jail-break was filed
yesterday by Assistant Prosecuting
Attorney Ellis. Dusky is alleged to
have taken tha weapon, valued, at
j $15, from tlie desk of the jailor
I while Soudas kept him covered with
j his gun. The revolver was recov
ered from Dusky when he returned
1 to the county jail on the morning
after the break and demanded ad
(mittance; enforcing Jiis order with
the same weapon.
Whetner one state can legally of
fer a reward for a fugitive charg
ed w.ith a crime in another state "is
the question raised in the case of
"Dr." Allen by requests mad© on
the governor of Minnesota that he
; increase the reward offered for
j Allen's apprehension. Relatives £
j Anna Danielson, of whose murder A
j len is accused, Wednesday asked
I Gov. Burnquist to add an additional
i reward to the $100 offered by the
King county commissioners. Miss
Danielson formerly resided in Min
neapolis
Allen first escaped from the jail
last fall and was recaptured in Cali
fornia while working as a barber.
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The 16,000 ton Connecticut was laid down In 1903 and cost $7,911. i74. She
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knots. Her crew comprises 836 office: a and men.
Amsterdam, March. 23 — Advici
has bean received here that th<
American steamer Healutcn waj thj
morning torpedoed while stoamin;
on her course a short distance oul
from Terschelling island.
Three boats containing eight mei
were launched from the sinking vea
sel. One of the boats was injured
and a torpedo boat brought it au(J
;t3 occupants to Terschelling island
One of the maa who was in thii
boat had been badly; wounded at th.<
time of the explosion of the tor
pedo, and he died before shore Has
•reached.
Nothing is known of the otfaei
two boats.
From informatlcn gained by th<
men who were broufeht to the is
land, it is believed that fourteen
of the crew of the steamship H«ald
ton were killed outrlfht at th(
time cf the explosion.
Washington, March 23—Americaj
11 Consul Mahin, stationed at Am
: sterdaai, sent a cable to the State
i Department this morning confirm ug
; I the report from Amsterdam. 1 le
, : c-afcle states that the S. S. Heali
j ton had been sunk by. a German su'tr
marine off the coast of Tersche)' ng
- i Island, which is directly north of
Holland, and that the subma ie
had torpedoed the ship withou a
moment's warning. This r« ort
states «ha* twenty of the crew >f
j the vessel were drowned.
Philadelphia, March 23—The S.
jS. Healdton was owned by the
[standard Oil Company, and sailed
| from Chester, Pennsylvania, on
January 26 with a cargo of refined
j petroleum for Rotterdam. She had
•a crew of 38.
Amsterdam, March 23 — There
j were thirteen Americans in the crew
of the Healdton, and of this num
k ber six nave been accounted for.
Whitehcrse, March 23—Late ad- •
vice received from the Pueblo mines'
state that it fcelieve-l that the
entombed miners bewteen the 200
and 400 foot levels are still alive
ai.d hope is now eutertained that
•they will be rescued.
Instead of trying to remove the
debris from the cave in, work was
:at once started from another tun
nel in the rear of the one ia which
the men are confined, and more
than thirty feet of solid rock was
drilled in the time thus far consum
ed.
The men axe working only few
m'nute shifts, and ag one csrew of
drillers become exhausted, fresh mri
are put at owrk. It is with fran-1
tic energy *hat the men are working
to ge* at their imprisoned fellow
workmen, and if possible rescue
tiiem alive. The speed, with which
the hard rock is being penetrated
is a world record breaker,
and it no contingencies arise which,
will cbstruct the forward movement,
it is believed that the chamber in
which the men are supposed to be
entembed will be reached early to
morrow morning'.
The names of men entombed a're:
T. M. McFadden
Bcb Collins
Harry Graham,
Thomas Davis
Andrew Beecher
P. LevicU
Mike Kasorlch.
Nick Radovich
Tom Zuckoff.
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UNCONSCIOUS FOB TEN OUTS
I Seattle, March 23—After remain
ing unconscious for tern days at
the Minor hospital Jin, t-his city, Sid
ney W. Stevenson today recovered
his mind. ; j ;
I Ten days ago Stevenson, who was
a guest at thej Frye Hotel was found
unconscious In his apartments by
the hotel employes when they went
in to make uo his room in the
morning.
He is a British secret ser
vice agent, and was commissioned to
buy munitions fpr his government,
and at the time that, he was found,
the evidence showed that he had
been assaulted by som© person or
rpersons, having been, struck on the
head with a heavy instrument. He
had $30,000 on hi3 person in travel
ers checks at the time he was
found by the. hotel attendants.
While his mind is normal this
morning he was not sufficiently re
covered to be able to state* how or
by whom he was assaulted.
A. E. Harris, traveling passen
ger agent for the Chicago, Mil
waukee and St: Paul railway, for
Alaska, with headquarters In Ju
neau was a visitor in Skagway a
few. days this week.
New York, March 23—The trial.
of Captain Charles Von Klqlst, whoc
is accused of having been engaged
in making bombs, and acting in the
capacity of chemist in the bomb
factory which was discovered in
Hoboken 'recently by secret service
asrents is still in progress.
Karl Schmidt, formerly chief en
gineer on the German S. S. Fried
rich Der Grosse, and Ernst Becker,;
electrician on th.e same vessel, as
well a3 many other members of the
crew o£ the same vessel have given
testimony which shows that the
money lor the establishment of the
money lor the establishment of the
bomb factory at lloboken was furn
ished direct to the men by officials
of the German embassy at Wash
ington.
PRINCE RUPERT
RUNS ASHORE
Seattle, March 23—Axlvic© wag
received her© this morning that
the S. S. Prince Rupert Jja3 run
ashore at Glenn Island near Prince j
Rupert.
Her nassenger were at o/ce taken
off and sent to Prince Rupert.
The extent of damage sustained j
bv the Prince Rupert could not be I
ascertained, but tugs were at I
once dispatched to pull her off and ]
stand by in case they are needed.
A1 Shyman, representing the I
Schwabacher Hardware Company ol
Seattle, arrived in Skagway Wednes
day and will spend the. next few j
days taking orders for hig firm
from the firms handling his line of
goods in Skagway. Mr. Shyman is
one of the most popular of the j
younger ambassalcra of commerce in
the Northland.
Seattle, March 23—The Standard
Oil Company's new oil tanker, S.
V. Harkuegg, a ste^l vessel of 9,
500 tons displacement, wag today
launched at the Skinner Eddy ship
yards this city. Tb,Q wooden auxil
iary schooner Portland, built by
the Washington Shipping: Corpora
tion ship yards was also launched
this morning. j _. /
NEW SECRETARY FOR
CHAMBEIt OF COMMEIl("E
Seattle, March 23—Gordon C.
Corbaley, of Spokane, today accept
ed the secretaryship of the Seattle
Chamber of Commerce at a salary
of $8,000 per year.
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