PRICE 10 GENTS
VILLA REPORTED
Condemned Bandit
Leads Corps to
Fresh Grave
ui •
BODY DISINTERRED
El Paso, April 17—The wild de
predaticna of the lawless bandits
of Mexico under tile command of
Villa will be no more, if the dis
patches which have been seat to
Mexican officials at Jau\ez arc au
thentic.
A series of telegraphic! messages
have been receivaj by army officials
at Jaurex to the effect that Villa
is dead. A condemned member of
the baudit gang, who was recently
captured by Carraaza, lead a spec
ial corps of men into the narrow
confines of the Sierra Madre moun
tain and pointed to a fresh mound
of earth, informing the members of
the embassy that therein was con
fined lhe body of Francisco Villa,
the fiendish bandit jf the southern
republic.
The body was exl.umed and tak
en la charge by the forces of Cair
ranza. The body is a direct re
semblance of Villa. His identity
will be established toady by to em
bers of his family and near-by as
sociate.
IS GIVEN SEVERE TASTE
OF HIS OWN MEDICINE
Copenhagen, April 17—An Am
sterdam 'dispatch says that when
the- Kaiserin visited the wounded
soldiers in a Berlin hospital and
addressed one of them. "My good
ffcllow, I hope things are going
better with you today," the man,
an irreconcilable 3D Mil-democrat,
replied: "I only hope it will be go
ing as well with you i^nti yoursons
as it is going with me at thismo
ment. - The Kaiserin staggered and
was led almost swooning into an
other ward.
* VILLA'S BODY EX ROUTE +
•»■ Washington, April 17—The +
❖ Mexican embassy has received +
❖ word from Consul Garcia at *
❖ El Paso, that the body at VU- +
<• la is on 'he way to Chihua- +
❖ hua. +
+ + + t + * + +
TROOPS WILL BL
WITHDRAWN
INSISTS OX IDENTITY
Washington, ApTil 17—The War
Department hag issued a statement
to uress representatives, that the
troops will be withdrawn from Mex
eo immediately, if Villa is dead.
Tlio department will insist on a
positive identification) befarei act
ing. Ifth© iidentification is es
tablished beyond any reasonable
doubt, the work of transporting the
American soliders now on M®*tean
soil will be begun. They -will be
assembled on th« American side
and reassembled in their various
districts and sent to the forts and
barracks from which they came.
an Antonio, April 17—Flashes
from P.ershing states that a motor
truck which was loaded with aero
planes for use by the U. S. Avia
tion Corps in the Mexican cam
paign, was attacked last Friday
nigh' by bandits. No details of
the eencounter are given. ThQ ma
chine's are reported to have reached
their destination.
The Spokane has left Ketchikan
with twenty tons of freight fo<r
Skagway. It carries sixteen pas
sengtrb for this port. It will make
this harbor Wednesday.
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Paris, April 17—The FYancij are
assuming offensive tactics In
district east of the Muse. After
a driving struggle with the Ger
mans thoy have succeeded in cap
turing the trenches which front on
•he south line of Doultmont.
Berlin, April 17—The War Office
denies that the French have scored
a victory in the Verdun campaign.
Thy impression is given out by the
department that the Germans will
contiuue the struggle until the
las* man stands before they will
admit of anv defeat in this stragetic
campaign.
GERMANY IS MAKING
SPECIAL EFFOltT TO GAIN
TRADE WITH SWITZERLAND
Paiis, April 17—Germany la mak
ing a special effort to gain the
Sriss trade, says a Temps -writer,
and as a result 900 cartcods of
morohondise enter Switzerland daily
as against 150 from France. Com
mercial travelers and machinists
have been taken from the firing
llue, one to visit customers in
Hollind and SwlUerH-nd, and the
ot' er to set up a prers sent to
Geneva.
RI'HSIA CANNOT
MAKE PEACE VET
Petrograd, April 17—In the
Duma debate. Party Leader Miliu
k-.tt said that Russia cannot make
peaco until she has secured for
herself Constantinople and the Dar
danelles, as an essential access to
th» Mediterranean.
JUNEAU BEER IS SEIZED
Seattle — One thousand cases of
beer presumably froa San Francis
co and consigned to "R Juneau,
Seattle," was seized during the
night. The consignment was found
in a car which wa3 abotvrd a scow
in the East Waterway. The police
swooped down on the outfit and
the entire shipment was loaded on
to auto trucks and taken to the po
lice headquarters. It is
probable that the entire 1,000 cases
will be confiscated and destroyed.
* OilTPlIT INCREASES +
♦ Washington, April 17—Sta- +
* tifitics from the Debarment *
♦ or Interior which have just *
•fr Ttwen tabulated, Bhow that th<? ♦
'>• copper output m Alaska last 4*
•> ye-ar was four times greater '2'
❖ thtim the year before. *
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IURKSCLAIM5HIP
WAS TRANSPORT
Berlin, April 17—The Turkish
government have admitted that it
was thev who deatrcye*! thu Rus
sian hospital ship in the Mediter
ranean. They further assert that
it was being used ns au onny trans
port and that the shty was sent
out as a hospital relief ship simply
as a blind to throw other nations
off their guard.
SHIPS WILL BE CONSTRUCTED
FOR FOREIGN OWNERS
Camden, Me., April 17—Six four
master schooneia are to be built
i.y p L,. Beam, to can $800,000,
to go to foreign owners. In sev
eral o<ner Maine coast towns, the
rhlpyard plants tele for years are
being worked or mada -.ready for
new construction.
AMERICAN CRUISER
18 GUARDING NEUTRALITY'
Wafhington, Aril 17—The United
States crui3er Brooklyn Is patroling
the Sulu Sea as neutrality guard. It
is declared 'he Germans are as
sembling U.boats there, anld that
allied crews have landed and com
mandeered supplies.
HANK OF ENGLAND CUTS
INTEREST ON DEPOSITS
London, April 14—The Bank of
Ed eland has cut the interest rate
allowed on three days' deposit*
from 114 to 4 per cent. This is
par'- of a generral nlan todivert capi
tal inf. long-term governmental
loans.
LARGE ORE SHIPMENTS
FOR THE STATES
The Redondo loaded to her full
est capacity with copper ore firom
the Yukon Copper Mine, Grafter
Mine and the Arctic King, lifted
her inchor and sailed for Seattle
Saturday,. In all 7C0 tons of ore
were loaidad into the hold. On, its
upwarl passage it carried 250,000
feet of lumber for .he White Pass
to be used in the construction of
bunkers.
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Ut
I P. H. GANTY
Fairbanks, April 17—Dan Calia
lan, tho well known (democratic
politician or the interior, often
:a!.led tho "Big- ChJieX" was sen
e'.iced yesterday to 3erve 12 years
Tot 'he statutory crime of rape.
When sentenced he grilled the
lourt officers and accused them of
svery crime in the calendar, declar
ing he had proof that would con
»!c> them and breath ad yengoancee
igainst them
The last of the criminal trials is
thaf of Camirand for rape which! be
5118 today. Waldridge was sen
tenced to six years on a similar
Miarge.
The prisoners, including Callahan
are supposed to leave before day
light this morning for the coast. J
ANOTHER OF WAR
STARTEltS IS DEAD
London, April 1—According to
i Daily News Dispatch. Srom Milan,
N'edo K&rovifch. ono "1 the convict
id assassins o£ too Arcfetluka Franz
Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary at S»
rajtvo, the oviyrt act that precipi
tated the European, way, is report
2d by Vienna papers 'o have died
j? tuberculosis iu prison.
Koravitch is the third of the
rarul found guilty of the murdor
ivho is alleged to hive died In
irison of the same 'ItSeaiie. He was
irifeinally sentenced to death, but
lis sentence was commuted to
twenty years' p«mal servitude.
GERMAN OFFICIAL LIST
Berlin, April 17—The German
official lists of ca3ualtias, covering
lists of Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony
ind Wurtumburg, give the total
casualties for the 18 months of j
war to, Jan. 31. as 2,6;>9,086.
With a new bank bulldog, a gov
ernment land office, hundreds of
tourists and other industries in
Dur midst, won't Skagway shine this
summer? i
♦
+ Juneau, April 17 — Special *
<♦ ta Daily Alaskan — Mrs. Mor- *
* ria Ripin died hore suddenly *
* last night. She has been in *
f" poor health for some little 4*
* time, hut her death .was en- <•
<• tirely unexpected. She died *
of heart failure. *
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Constantinople, April 17—Hostile
aeroplants ascended off Dardan
elles dropping- bombs over the city.
Property damaged and many lives
lost.
LotfJtn, April 17—One neutral
an-* one British steamer have been
seat to the bottom )u the English.
Channel. Four mail carrying steanu
ers have been captured and taken
to Kirkwell to be censored.
Washington, April 17—Wilson's
last word to Germany is ready for
trajismlssiou. The president de
voted the entire day completing the
Sussex case. The message sums up
all the charges alleged to be il
legal. The message is very em
phatic In its declaration.
INTERIOR PIONEER DIES
Fairbanks, March 27—Mrs. Chas.
P. Johnson, a well known pioneer
woman ol the north, died at the
fani'ly residence on Garden Island
of acutg pneumonia.
CHINA'S NEW DOMESTIC LOAN
Peking—It is reorte.1 that the
government lias ordered the im
mediate issuance of China's annual
domes: ic loan, which will bej called
the Domsetic Loan of the First
Year of Hung Ksien. The amount,
OirigiuaJly fired In the budget at
ten million dollars, has been in
creased to *wenty-four millions. It
will bear interest at C per cent ant'
|w!li be Issued at 90. The loan will
be secured on the surplus funds
of the salt revenue, and will be re
deemable after five years. The
bonds will be issued in six denomin
ations from one *o one thousand
dollarn.
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