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MARCH 9. 1916
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STEAMING TOWARD ENGLAND
Testing of Naval Power Ex
pected at Once—Zeppelins
and Submarines to Take
Part in Battle.
London, March 9- Tha greatest
excitement prevails in this city
oyer the report tint a German fleet
of fifty, warships, accompanied by
twc Zeppelins and numerous subma
lines and trawlers has been sighted
iu the North Sea moving westward.
It is thought that »he long expected
naval battle between the British
.ind German fleets Is about to occur
or may have already begun.
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LONDON'S OOOO
London, March If—It was dis- 1
coTered today tha- a. German sub
marine has laid a numter of mines
between the mouth of the Thames
and GaJLlower lightship in a chan
nel which Is traversed by hundreds
of boats, large ana small, every
month. The discovery was made in
to prevent aay jv recks re-;
RUSSIA TO ALLOW JEWS
TO COME TO AMERICA
New York, March tf—The Russian
government has gi anted permission
to "the wives and children of men
who cam* to America before the
war to leave Russia and join their
relatives in America,'• says Leon
Sanders, president of the Hebrew
Sheltering and Immigration Society
of America. The news came in a
message from Isldoic Hershfield, a
lawyer sent by the society to give
relief to tha Jewish war sufferers
In Poland and Galiua. The mes
sage waa forwarded by Ambassador
Gerard at Berlin t» Secretary of
State Lansing in Washington, who
transmitted it to Mr. Sanders. The
society had been trying for a long
time to obtain this permission.
PRAOIICAL JOKE
STARTS 11
Toronto, March 9—During a pa
rade here today some returned sol
diers pinned a placard on a water
wagon float and the resulting con
test between them and thosei who
wanted to remove it develoced in
to a riot in which several were in
jured.
JAl'S PUBLISH BOOK ON
"WAR WITH AMERICA"
San Francisco, March 9—A book
entitled "Tho War Between Japan
and America" has been published by
the Japanese Lea<u? for national
defense and 1,000 0C0 copies have
already been sold. The chief causes
for this proposed war are given as
"inhuman treatment of the Japan
tie immigrants and the hostile leg
islature of the United States." Ja
pan ou^ht to oicupy California,
Hawaii and the Philippine islands,
according to the dook, which says:
"The hearts of 60.0u0,000 of Ja
puni'ae are inflamed with courage,
aud we are stormy like the strong
winds of the heavens, insisting that
•t war be bt'gun against the United
St Ues which will prove to the bluff
ing Americans th^t the Japanese
people do not know defeat and that
her soldiers cannot be beaten."
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VILLA BANDITS IKE RAID
OK It AMERICAN CITY
Columbus, New Mexico, Mar 9—
Eight civilians and tlx soldiers are
dead and an unknown number per
ished in a hotel fire and nine sol
diers wounded aa a reBult of a
raid early this morning by Villa
haudltb ■who held potsMBion of thta
tewn for an hour and a half. They
were driven off by >hree troops of
cavalry, leaving ths town in flames.
! Many Mexicans were killed.
UK ADVANCE IN ASIA
TURKS GALL OH KAISER FOR HELP
1'etrograd, March 9—The Rus
sians have captured the towns of
Rizan and Selma In Asiatic Turkey
and are advancing ou Tr©bizond.
London, March 9 —An Athens dis
ratch states that the fall of Bag
dad i:s considered imminent. This
Is one of the main fortified Turk
ish positions in Asia Minor and
its capture will prove a crushing
blew to the hopes oT Turkey for
further resisting Russian and
British forces.
Ii is also reported that Enver
Pasha, the Turkish waT minister,
has been wounded hy the bullet of
an assassin.
Turkey has asked Germany to
send ienforcements to Constantin
ople, and this appeal indicates that
the Ottoman Empire considers that
Oonstautinoplc itseif may be threat
ened any moment bv the allies.
The Siva powder magazine in
.'onstantinople blew up during a
fire and caused a great deal of
destruction and some loss of like.
The Turkish situation continues
to be featured In the London pa
pers. The belief prevails that the
Turks t-re fast crumbling to pieces
under the combined hammering
from the British anc Russians, and
that ci1 less Turkey soon secures re
inforcements from Germany she will
eudea-vor to make s« parate peace
with the allies.
Washington, March 9—Germany's
lates* note, just received by Sec
retary of State Lansing, states that
Germany will operate submarines in
accordance with international law
as laid down in the American notes
if Kngland will also obey the
snme laws.
CHURCHILL'S REMARKS
ARE RESENTED
London, March 9—Many members
cf the house of commons are very
bitter in their comments regarding
Winston Churchill's attacks upon
the navy. They say that
Churchill is trying to get back
into politics.
SKKB1AN CROWN PRINCE
TO THANK THE ALLIES
Paris, March 9—Crown Prince
Alexander of Serbia, accompanied
by Premier Pachitcb, is soon to
make a trip to Rome, Paris and
London to thank the entente gov
ernments fOT the assistance they
have rendered to Serbia, says a
Haras dispatch from Athens.
EUREKA SOLD TO
ALASKA STEAMSHIP CO.
According to advices from the
fas', the Alaska Steamship company
has tiurchased the steamer Eureka
Iroiu the Pacific Coast Steamship
tomi any and the r<>scel will be
jrouuht to Tacoma fur operation in
the ore trade from Alaska «o Ta
coma.
Tne Eureka is well known on this
coast, having forxei.'y operated
from i'acoma in the 'rade to Al
aska -td San Frm i>co. She will
be sent from New York to the West
Coast and will briai; ore from the
Wt-st Coast to the T&coma smelter.
The yUTchase pnee for the Eureiaj
is sa-d to have b -o;. ^i>proi.imatcly
S2iO/-uO. She is a steel freighter
bull* ia Cleveland in ls99 for op
eration on the Gtcci Lakes. She
vas breught to the Pacific Coast
several years later by the old Globe
Navigation companj, which sold her
to the Pacific Coasr companj,. She
is 237.5 feet long, 42 feet beam
and 2.5.4 feet deap, with a gross
registered tonnage of 2,122 tons,
and a net registered tonnage of
1,305) tons. She has a cargo ca
pacity of 3,500 tons, and is equip
ped with oil-burning J>oilers.
Early last year, the Pacific Coast
Steamship Company chartered the
' LureXa to the CiXMBfct Western Lunvi
ber company of Wanna, Ore., which
i operated in the ia'ercoastal lum
ber trade until the closing of the
Panama canal. Sin.\! then she has
been operated in ♦he Atlantic coast
trade.-—Juneau Dispatch.
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TUBE PLANT
New York, March 9—A ■•wsteel
tube plant to cost twenty-five mil
lion dollar* is to be constructed at
Gary, Indiana, work upon which wtl
be begun at once, *va» announced at
the office of the United State*
Steel Corporation today.
ALASKA FUKK (JOLD <XX
PAYS GOOD PIVTDKJrD
Anchorage, Majrh ?—The Ala*,
ka Free Gold company, owner of
a gold quart* property la the Wil
low creek gold camp, has declared
an annual dividend of 1S.J-J per
cent from the r"jaJtiee received
from William Martin, lessee. Up
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perty, the compan- If operating the
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JiKW YORK IS RITPOKTKO
New York, March 9—It beeama
known here recently that a daring
attemtt to steal a sum estimated
at $1,000,000, cons'gned to New
York banks, had been made by
burpl:»m who broke into a United
States mau ran while It was on a
fern- iu transit from the Jeney
Central railroad.
U was said that four money
pouches were stolen, and according
t« reports from other sources one
them contained IJOO.OOO. Ib
form.uion as to the rj*et amounts
involved was rt-'used by the po«tof
flce inspectors. One of the pooches
caire from Washington and Is be
lierod to have contained a large
amount of currency from th« treas
ury department.
You at* to* a, Ohio. March 9—The
federal grand Jury for this district
hag Indicts 1. O. Garr, chairman
of the United Stat pa Ste^l Corrpora
tion, and the bradt cf tlx other
companies on a chaise of conspiring
to fix wad the prices of
me'au and forest atd ch am teal pro
duct* u*«l by them :n the manufac
ture of monitions.
COLORADO POLICE MAY
HAVK 8<»IT POISONER
Chicago, March ?—A man ans
wering th« description of Jean
Crone*, alleced poisoner of soup
a» the Archbishop Mnndelein ban
quet, is under arret at LeadrtUe.
Colo., according to a telegram re
eelred by the poll re here. A pic
ture of a suspect held a» Mafberly,
Mo, was declared not to he that of
Crones by employes of the club in
which be worked.
REPEAL OP PEEK SPGAR
PAVORARLY REPORTED
Washington, March 9—A faror
»Me report on the administration a
bill to repeal the free *'»ig*r clause
of the tariff law, which would be
come cperatira May l, tw author
ised today by nnantmons rote of
the house ways and means com
mittee. The bill will be brought up
Thur*day.
The majority report reiterates
that the repeal o* the clause is
necessitated by conditions due to
the war and ertlffl&les the proposed
earing la rerenne at $44,000,000
annually. The republican members,
while roting for the repeal, prob
ably will state th«?r Tiews in a
minority report
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