The Alaska citizen., 1916-07-31

His follow prisoner who escaped re. gently was caught in Colorado and gave the authorities the tip which led to the capture of Gillies
 LOAN BOARD NAMED.
 WASHINGTON. D. C.. July 27.- ' President Wilson today nominated iHe following Wrn as members Cf the new Farm Loan Board Juds Charles F Lobdell. Great Bend Kan sas; George W. Norris. Philadelphia
 aptain N. A smith. Sioux City 1 Iowa. Herbert Quick, Berkeley Springs. w. Va
 1 AFTER BILLlNGSLEYS i SEATTLE. July 27-Fred and Lo- gan Billingsley, the bootlegging drug store proprietors, who were arrest ed on the charge of murder. were released from custody on bail. which was fixed at s1OO0O They were immediately rearrested on the charge | of forgery. On the second charge it is alleged that they tempered with the liquor permits. In the latter case their bail was fixed at s1, 800 in each case. This was also fur nished
 Chief of Police Rockingham stated | today that he will put either one of | them in jail on some kind of a charge every time he appears on the streets Mayor Gill. the churches and the newspapers of Seattle are deter mined to drive the Billingsleys out of Seattle Logan Billingsley is a fugitive from justice from the States of Oklahoma. West Virginia | Texas and Alabama, in each of which states he has violated the prohibition laws
 WAITING FOR BREMEN.
 BEAUFORT, N C., July 27.-Two allied warships appeared today off the coast of North Carolina It is now reported that the second Ger man merchant submarine to have sailed from Bremen will make this port, and that the British cruisers are laying for her.
 STILL IN PORT.
 BALTIMORE, Md, July 27-The Deutschland has not yet sailed from this port. The belief is that tho second German submarine will dock here within A hours
 STRIKE SPREADING
 NEW YORK. July 27-It is the intention of the Amalgamated Asso- citation of Street and Electric rail way employees to spread the strike to all lines in Greater New York, according to the decision of the ex- ecutive board which met today. 1 Several persons were hurt in the first riot which occurred today when l ., car in the Bronx. throwing bricks through the windows. Six hundred police are being held in reserve in | the Bronx, where intermittent clash es are in order.
 HOT IN CHI.
 CHICAGO, July 27,-At seven o'clock last evening the mercury stood at ST and it was the same all night. By three o'clock this after noon the temperature had risen to one hundred degrees and there were six prostrations reported.
 CROPS THREATENED.
 LINCOLN, July 27.-W R. Meller, state secretary of agriculture, an nounced today that unless the heat wave is broken by rain in the very near future the middle west will suffer millions of dollars worth of damage to the crops. In this city | the temperature is 95 and there is no wind.
 AIRMAN KILLS BABE. ONTARIO, CaHs, July 2S.-Lieut s. H. Wheeler, of the army aviation school at North Island, lost control of his machine today and it crashed into an auto, overturning the auto mobile and killing fouryearold liar old Stoebe, and seriously injuring his mother, Mrs. c. A. Stoebe.
 Lieut.. Wheeler was lost in the fog yesterday and was forced to land in an open field near Ontario Four other aeroplanes returned to the school, but Wheeler did not make it. When he attempted to start | this morning, the spectators gathered around the machine. The aeroplane rose slowly and the low rise pre- vented Wheeler seeing the automo- bile He grazed the top, overturn- ing the auto. On learning that the 1 injured woman would recover Wheel CT proceeded on his flight
 WILSON IS BOSS. WASHINGTON, D. C., July 2S.- Foreign Minister Burian, of Austria Hungary, announced today that Hun gary. cooperating with Germany, would grant Wilson's wishes regard | ing the work of the Polish relief committee.
 BANDITS MAKE HAUL. STERLING, Colo, July 28.-Three bandits first stole an automobile then they robbed the Nebraska state bank in this city of S30000 in gold | coin loaded it into the stolen auto and made their getaway pursued | by a posse. Two men were killed and one man was seriously wounded | in the battle which preceded the escape of the robbers.
 BANDITS CAPTURED SIDNEY, July 2S.-Sheriff McDani- els and the possee have captured the bandits who robbed the Sunel bank ten miles from here. The loot has been recovered. The men gave their names as J. w. Cornell and R. G. Luken.
 MAY BE IN TOLLS.
 NEW YORK, July 2S-A report from Portland states that the sub marine Bremen, the merchant sub marine supposedly enroute from Ger many to the United States, has been captured and is being lowed to Hali- fax by British auxiliary cruiser. The Canadian naval department at Ottawa denies this statement. WASHINGTON SHOCKED.