The Alaska citizen., 1916-06-12
GENERAL NEWS
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STRIKE TROUBLE.

,latlon asking permission in the name of the government and th" conclliators to mediate
 John Warnicke a guard al the ( NJ & St P k R dock, wa Kidnapped by the strikers last even ing In the morning he returned 10 the dock in a badly battered up condition
 ] A Shadd nonunion worker was badly beaten up by the strik- CTS. Shadd has appealed 10 Mayor Gill for protection
 E. (. Hughes of Los Angeles. a nouunion longshoreman and dock worker was fatally shot by a gang of striking longshoremen today. Iat CT the strikers forced their way into the office of the C NJ | St P. R R. where they causht r.. x. OBrien whom they clubbel into Ciousness.
 READY TO GIVE IN
 SAN FRANCISCO. June ! Il Va announced here today tha' tare@ large shipping firms ard thirteen smaller concerns were ready and willing to come to terms with the strikers.
 Photographic communications re- ceiyed from Seattle state that tt. Seattle firms are ready to recog nize the union and pay the scale of wages demanded
 FREIGHT LOST IN FIRE.
 SAN FRANCISCO June 5.-Fiye thousand tons of Oriental freight was lost when the concrete pier which the state recently constructed was badly damaged by fire of un- known origin The damage is esti- mated at S300.O00 Two steamers, the General Forbes and the Shinyo Maru, which were tied up to the dock. were damaged before they could cut I0es@ aud stean t0 safety
 STORMS IN ARKANSAS.
 LITTLE ROCK. June 5.-Fifty- people were Killed and loo injured in series of tornadoes which struck this state yesterday All communication has been crippled D, the storm.
 AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT
 SEATTLE, June 5.-E. B. Forces president of the Forbes Supply com pany. was killed this afternoon when an automobile failed 10 respond to the steering gear and jumped over a cliff at Marysville. California
 AMERICAN KILLED.
 BALTIMORE. June it is b.. lleyed that Lieut. Commander Pow CTS Symington. an American at tache of the London embassy wa lost in the sea battle He wrot~ his relatives before the fight that he was spending his time on tn" cruiser Indefatigable
 U. s CFFICTP KILLED.
 
 Captain J H Hishinger. of the [ S marine corps, was killed in d skirmish during the landing of the American forces at Puerto Plata Santo Domingo
 CONVICTION UPHELD.
 WASHINGTON, D. C. June D. The supreme court upheld the con vction of the Spokane X Inland Empire R R company. which wa@ fined $15oO for failure to oheY the Spokane safety crossing ordinances
 FOR STRICT PROHIBITION.
 SALEM, June Secretary Ol- cott has approved the form of the petition for the initiation oi an amendment 10 the prohibition law which would forbid all importation of liquor to the State of Oregon
 FOR LOVE OF HER
 LOS ANGELES, June 4-Captain H. C. Vanstein, commander of tHe Netherlands army aeroplane corps committed suicide by nhaljng I luminating gas. He dressed in his best clothes, clutched a picture of his sweetheart in his hand and turned on the gas
 TAMPERED WITH MAILS.
 LOS ANGELES. June 6.-Ricardo Flores Magon, at one time an IS sociate of General Pancho Villa, and a real brother of Enrique Ma gon, was today found guilty of Us ing the United States mails to incite murder and revolution. Both he and his brother have served terms in the penitentiary for breaking the neutrality laws of this country, Ii is believed that Magon will be given the maximum sentence for his crime
 NINE REBELS KILLED.
 WASHINGTON, D. C., June s. Reports received by the war de partment today state that the land ing force of the Americans in SantO Domingo killed nine of the rebels who attempted to prevent the land ing of the American marines near Fonda Varratas The Americans nave now landed two troops or ma rines on the shores of Santo DO- mingo and expect to quell the revO lution in short order,
 STORM IN SOUTH.
 MEMPHIS, June 6.-Seventeen persons were drowned when the steamer Elanore, operating between Memphis and Ashport. was caught in the torpado which swept this part of the country and was cap sized The vessel was IT mics north of Memphis when the s'olm caught and upset her.
 JACKSON. Miss. June 6.-Eisht were killed and fifty were injured in the storm which swept this cly last evening.
 MEMPHIS. June 6.-Advices re- ceived from Heber Springs Arkan sas, state that 25 were killed and 70 injured by the storm that did $50,OO0 worth of damage there.
 Three are dead in Cabot, and sev en are dead in Judsonia, Arkansas The tornado which swept For dyce left five dead and 40 injured. and damaged property to the ex- tent of s35,000.
 HOT SPRINGS. Ark. June 6.-Four were killed and eight were injured in this city today when torpado swept through the town.
 VICKSBURG, June 6.-Three were