®he Jloily
No. 317 NINETEENTH YEAR SKAGWAY, ALASKA, MONDAY,
Alaskan
FEBRUARY 19, 1917 PRICE 10 CENTS
GERMANS FAIL IN HARD STRIKE
TO REGAIN LOST POSITIOA
London, Feb. 19 — In the Mara
mont section along the Aiicrtj front,
the Germans made a fierce drive
against the Allied forces in an at- j
t«mix to reagln the position which,
was wrested from tlj^m last Satur-.
day.
Time after time *he Teutoi* foro-,
es swept up against th^ strongly |
fortified position, and like waves
beating against a rock bound ehon
they were buried back to thei:
treuches. eaclt time suffering hear]
casualties. After several fruitless
attacks, they were forced to remai
'u tho shelter of their tren.ch.os.
A reportj given out by; tie War
Office here stsates that the. Britist
caDtured 780 m-en and officers.
FOR JAPAN
El Paso, Feb. 19—According to
a statement made by W. L. Craw
ford a rich, cattleman of this sec
tion. Jose Villa embarked on a late
vessel sailing from tie west coast
for Japan.
iir. Crawford says that he got
hi* information from a man who is
well known to him, and be lias
always been absolutely reliable.
When Mexican Consul Bravo was
•eon relative to Villa's reported de
parture for Japan, Mr. Bravo ad
mi'tbd that the Mexican government
has not been able to locat^ the rebel
chieftain since the latter's defeat |
at Jimlnez, but that he doubted If 1
ViJlf had fled to Japan.
SEATTLEjiTNEY
KIllSJMAN
Seattle, Feb. 19—Mrs. Nettie Van
Oriaer, while waiting for a street
car this morning, was run down by
a lilney bus driven by 0. Disler, and
ius'an'ly killed.
Mrs. Van Onmer wag a widow, and
Hved some distance out f'-om the
htart of tie city. Disler was ar
retted by a member of the traffic
squad, and is being held, pending
aa Investigation,
DANCE COMMITTEE
TAKE NOTICE I
There will be a meeting of the |
Dance committee 'onlght at Firal
Hall No. 2 at 7:30 o'clock. All
members are urgently requested to
be present.
"W ashington, Feb. 19 —President
Wilson has had a conference with
tbe leaders of Congress, and during
the conference he advised them, thai
betrre Congress adjourns in March
ho should be given the broadest pow
era toward guarding the lives and
rights of Americans, and asked that
a joint resolution, vesting him with
this power be concurred in, in or
der that he may be in a position to
cover any eventuality that might
arise.
BEG CONTRACT
Gill SEATTLE
Seattle, Feb. 19—Late Saturday
afternoon agents for the Cunard
Steamsaip Line placed orders with
the Sea'tle Construction and Dry
Dock Company for six 7,500 ton
steel freighters, the aggregate cost
to be $6,500,000.
The freighters are to be of mod
ern construction, Dians of which
were made some time ago, and
wJi th were yesterday accepted, and
tne contract calis for the delivery
[>f the ships all complete in 15
nmu'hs /
SEATTLE WIDOW. WEDS
• -
Chicago, Feb. 19—Mrs. E. W".
Andrews, widow of tihe lat§ E. W.
Andrews, president of the Seattle
N*a'<onal Bank was quietly married
to Edward O. Talbott of Terre
Ha,i»e, in' this city this afternoon.
Th© groom is said to be seven
teen years the junior of his bride.
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AND
Coats
FOR BALANCE OF WEEK 1
"N
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ALBERT REINERT
—Successor to H. J. Lynch—
Broadway between Third and Fourth Phone 41
LANSING DEMANDS PRISONERS
Washington, Feb. 19 — Secretary
| of State Lansing today forwarded
a preemptory demand oji the Im
perial German government for the
, immediate release of the passengers
. taken .from the ebips tatoen In the
Sou'h Atlantic raid recently and lat-'
, I i -■
er transported to Germany om th.e
steamer Yarrow dale. Snhi® demand
011 the part of the American govern
ment wag made immediately after
wor® had been received here that
the Germans would release the pris
oners shortly.
Seattle, Fob. 19—In, t^ue investi
gaclon which is being mack* by Fed
eral officers into the destruction, of
»1ip machinery in the German steam
ship Saxonlan, which! wag interned
in this harbor shortly after the be
ginning of the European war, Cap
tain Franz Heifer, master of the
s'lii". was one of the principle wit
nesses examined yesterday.
in hi" testimony, Captain Heifer
■confessed to the federal) authorl
| tio& thai het bad. disabled the ma
I chiiiery of his vessel oa the night of
February fifth, but that fro had
1 do\i" so in compliance ■with specific
instructions from, thi^ late German
I consul 'o Seattle, General Ohrt.
General Ohrt sailed from Ameri
ca in Count Von Bernstorff'ss party
' list week.
Thursday evening:, February 22,
which is the anniversary of the
bir'h of George Washington, has
been set aside in this city by the
Skogway Voiunteeir Fire Department
as a fitting day on wlilca' to give
their annual bail.
As a rule, in Bmall communities
which: do not support a paid fir®
department, the functions of the
paid department is performed by a
volunteer aggregation. This is not
always looked upon with the pro
per iesx.ect that jt should command.
The organization of a volunteer
fire department, and the keeping of
suis'i an organization is given the
careful thought that all citi
zens who owns property ahould give
to it.
A town, hamlet or village Volun
! te«v Fire Department is looked up
on a3 an organization of young men
! who associate 'hemselves together
for the purpose of promting their
own well-being. Now this is wrong.
It is not. just. It will mo*. bear
fruit.
Like the Yankee who had a leaky
roof, he did not fix it when it rain
ed because he could not do so at
tlia* tjme, and he didn't fix it
when it did not rain, for then
theie was no occasion for fixing it.
When the demon fire does no*
threaten us, we do not need a
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low KILLED
At BELLIB1
Rellingham, Feb. 19—Mr?. Sadie
Margeson, a widow ■woman ress 1 ding
in this city, wag found murdered
alongside the road near Churchanut.
Richard Duncan, who has been
paying attention to Mrs. Margeson
for some time past and who is the
acci edited sweetheart of the murde»
ed woman has been arrested and
cnarged with the crime.
HUNTING SEASON
TAKES TEN LIVES
^Suokane, Fob. 19—The 1916-17
winter season cost 10 lives In *he
states of Washington. Two men
were sho* by; companions, four ac
cidentally shot themselves, two
Wtie frozen, and. two, iMr. and Mrs.
Of'o Powell, are believed to have
entered a death pact in order to
keer> from freezing to (loath after
I the/ ha^ been lost thrap days.
Soa'Ue, Feb. 19—The Alaska S.
S. Company's steamer Jefferson sail-]
ed for Skagway and way ports from
this city this morning at 9 o'clock.
Passengers booked for Skagway are
C. F. Curtis and "wife. Miss Evelyn
Curtis, and A. H. FtnLa^son. Pass
eneers booked for Haines are Robefl
Carlson and Frank Snow.
PRISOO-NOME SAILING MAY 28
San Francisco, Feb. 19 — An
nouncement was made yesterday by
the Pacific Steamship! Company that*
the firs'- sailing of the steamer
Senator for Nome would fee from
this city May 28, and that there
after Ehe would pail from. Seattle.
The firs' sailing of the Umatilla
for Nome will be from Seattle on
June 1. A heayy passenger list
from San Francisco is expected, on
the Senator.
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Spokane
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i yourjconvenience.
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JAMES KENNEDY
FRENCH STEAMER IKS MAT
AFTER FORTY MINUTE BATTLE
New York, Feb. 19—According to
a ren■ rt given out liere by officers j
of a freighter which arrived In this
nor* from Bordeaux tht3 morning, a
German submarine jvas sunk a
ahor* time ago bJ! 'be French, ateam
ah'p Quyane off tbe coast of France.
The French] sf earns hip wag armed
for protection agajngt gubmarines,
and when the German. U-boat was
sighted, immediate^ began firing
a* it. For forty; minutes the bat
t'.e was waged, the diver returning
Uip merchantman's fire, and at th.e
eud of that time, a shot fired from
the Frenchman hit the submarine,
causin" it to sink almost instantly,
with all on hoard.
VESSELS COME
: ANDGOSAFELY
New York, Feb, 19—Sum day, 12
atearashioa of various lines Bailed
for European powers from this port,
and this manning an American
steamer sailed.
Sunday and today three large
vessels arrived in tjils port, having1
passed through the restricted fcone
! without mishap. One of the ves
sels arriving yesterday was an Am
erican liner.
Paris Feb. 19—A wireless re
port was received here today from
Berne, which; says that the Brazil
ian minister to Germany at Ber
lin, by order of hjs government lias
served a note on the Imperial gov
ernment that Brazil would hold Che
former strictly responsible for the
f'lte of all Brazilian Vessels wihich
.might approach the war zone.
lohgIllness
PROVES FATAL
Sanfa Fe, Feb. 19—Governor De
baca died at his lw>me in. thip city
this morning after a lingering Ill
ness. The cause of his death was
pernicious anaemia.
Lieutenant Governor W. F. Lind
says, republican, succeeds to the
gubernatorial chair automatically.
PUT BiG MONEY
ON 1917 COOPS
Spokane, Feb. 19 — Some of the
bjggcs^ whe^t gamblers in the
county are 2000 miles from the Chi
cago pit and the Minneapolis wheat
exchange and they have no private
v/ire connecting them with any tick
or service. They are the wheat
ranchers of eastern Washington, who
produced about 50,000,000 bushels
in. 1910 and 75,000,000 bushels in
1915.
Checks for $150,000 and $250,000
received by a number of ranchers
for their 1916 crop have turned the
,1 pads of hundreds c£ growers and
♦h^y are staking everything on the
.1917 crop. It will be a one-crcj
year for thousands of the growers
and every cent they can command
will go into additional acreage, ma
ch'nery and labor.
UPPliQE
10 0E0 500SS
Seattle, Feb. 19—The Bed Cross
society of this city received a tele
gram from ex-President Taft in
which an appeal is made to the lo
cal branch to add ten thousand
members to the society with the
view of establishing a naval baso
here in the event of war being de
clared between America and Ger
many .
SINKS 12,000 TONS SUNDAY
London, Feb. 19—The War Office
rODcrt covering the time since Sat
urday gives the amontu of ship *on
uajre lost due to German submarine
activity at twelve thousand tons.
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