The Alaska citizen., 1916-09-04
.OF INTEREST
 ID ALASKANS
WICK COMING HOME.

SEATTLE, Aug. 2S-Delegate Wickersham states that he will prob ably start north about the last of the week His plans are not def nitely settled, but he expects to stop at Juneau, thence to Seward, An chorage, Cordova and home to Fair banks over the trail
 CARS COMING.
 SEATTLE, Aug. 29.-The Alaskan Engineering commission purchased three passenger coaches from the Northern Pacific. The cars will be used on the coast end of the railroad
 STEAMSHIP RAMMED.
 SEATTLE, Aug 29.-The steam ship Humboldt, bound from Seattle to Skagway. was rammed at an early hour this morning off Port Town send by the Mexican steamship Providencia There was a heavy fog on at the thee, and the accident is attributed to this. As a precau- tiOnary measure the passengers were 1 taken from the Humboldt and put aboard the ProVidencia, which is bringing them back to port, although | it Is expected that the damaged ship will be able to get back to Se- attle. The ship has a big hole in her bow, but the captain wires that he believes he will be able to land it back in dry dock safely.
 STEAMSHIP WRECKED. SEATTLE, Aug. 3O.-The Admiral Clark, one of the steamships pur- chased last season by the Pacific Alaska Steamship company, is at | I, ,f her master, Captain James Daniels, of Seattle, is lost. Chief Officer Rotch is safe It was at first re- ported that he was among those .ost with the vessel, but he was picked up with several other mem berS of the crew by the Swedish bark Tana. after they had drifted around the Caribbean on a raft for six days and l2 hours. Among those saved. besides Chief Officer Rotch, was Second Officer Carl Johnson, Steward C. II. King, Third Engineer W. Robinson, Peter Anderson, sailor and Fred Cusick an oiler, Captain Daniels and 20 others Were drowned. As far as could be ascertained last evening from President Alexander, of the Pacific Alaska Steamship company, the yes sel was caught in the hurricane that swept the Mexican gulf about the middle of August. The vessel foundered on August Is.
 At that time the Admiral Clark was bound from Port Arthur, Texas, to Trinidad. Captain Daniels was well known along Puget Sound and Southeastern Alaska.
 SAlLlNGS ANNOUNCED
 SEATTLE, Aug. 31.-The Victoria sailed for Nome and the Seward pc ninsula points this morning. The Victoria will make three more round trips to the Seward peninsula. She is scheduled to leave Seattle on the 18th of October on her last trip north. The Senator, now enroute to Nome, will sail on her last trip from Seattle on October 5th.
 SHORTAGE FEARED.
 DAWSON, Sept 1.-The merchants of this city believe that if the threat ened railway strike occurs there will be some freight ordered from the east by Dawson merchants that will not be delivered this season. Whether or not it will effect the freight shipments for Fairbanks is not known here.
 MORE BOATS FOR ALASKA.
 SEATTLE, Sept. 1.-Seven new steel steamships will be added to the Alaska Steamship company fleet, This was the announcement made at the Seattle office of the company today. Three of the ships will replace the steamships Jeffel son, Dolphin and Dora, and four will be additional to the number of ships the company has had dur ing the present season. With this increase there will be twenty yes sels under the companys flag.
 The three ships to replace those named will be built in Seattle ship yards. Four of the ships will be designed especially for carrying ore from Alaska.