Great Mining Organization Promises Help for Gold Output
The American Mining Congress endorses the movement to aid the gold mining industry and backs Western Congressmen, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Mint Director in efforts to prevent a drop in gold production. A committee is formed to devise relief plans, with pledges to exert best efforts.
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American Mining Congress
Aalska
Watt
Suigef
J. F. Calbreath
Mint
Charles A. Sulzer
Ray Baker
Secretary of the Treasury
Congress
Sulzer
Secretary
New Families Move To Perseverance Area
Several families have recently moved here and occupied houses including William Flovans and family Lester Knauff and family of Seattle Charles Perrelle and family and Mat Grazrogg and family.
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Perseverance
William Flovans
Lester Knauff
Seattle
Charles Perrelle
Mat Grazrogg
Steamer Movements and Mail Schedule Update
Jefferson leaves Seattle for mail delivery due Monday. Humboldt heads north from Seattle. Princess Alice to depart Vancouver tonight with arrival Tuesday. Alameda sails Seattle July 1. Prince Rupert from Vancouver Monday night. Southbound ships include Prince George at midnight. Spokane tomorrow around noon. Seattle southbound Tuesday morning.
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Jefferson
Seattle
Monady
Humboldt
Princess Alice
Vancouver
Alameda
Prince Rupert
Prince George
Spokane
President Wilson cited as well informed on war costs
Clairman Hurley of the Federal Shipping Board told the Illinois Manufacturers Association that President Wilson is deeply knowledgeable about all industrial war aspects and costs. He said the President seeks to prevent profiteering and exercises careful oversight of emergency expenditures and questions of war financing.
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Chicago
Illinois Manufacturers’ Association
Clairman Hurley
Federal Shipping Board
Wilson
Congress
British airmen down 21 enemy aircraft in one day
London reports that official bulletin shows British destroyed 21 enemy aeroplanes and forced down nine. British lost 14 machines. Paris notes Germans failed to bomb Paris last night with no hits on the city. one German plane downed between Paris and German lines, one killed, two captured.
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Paris
London
U S Troops Police Panama Canal Report
United States troops are policing the Panama Canal under Washington orders. The 1904 Colon treaty authorized policing if needed to maintain order. Panama has filed a protest in Washington. Old papers for sale at The Empire office.
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Panama
Washington
United States
Panama Canal
Canal Zone
French Declare July Fourth the Only Legal Holiday
June 29 Paris reporters say the Chamber of Deputies voted to make July 4th the sole legal French holiday. All parties united in approving the measure, with cheers filling the chamber in a wartime display of national unity.
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Paris
Chamber of Deputies
German Foreign Minister Von Kuehlmann Resigns in Zurich
Zurich dispatch reports German Foreign Minister von Kuehlmann offered his resignation last Wednesday and the Kaiser is believed to accept it. The article notes the resignation amid ongoing diplomatic tensions in Paris.
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Paris
Zurich
von Kuehlmann
Prisoner Open Conference Set For August in Bern
Washington June 25 Germany has accepted the American invitation to meet American representatives at Bern Switzerland to discuss the treatment exchange and maintenance of prisoners of war The conference is to be held August 5th.
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Washington
Germany
Berne
Switzerland
June British losses total 141147 in June
London reports British casualties for June at 141147, down from 166802 in May. The Empire office at Second and Main streets provided the figures.
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London
Blue Ribbon Honors for Pacific Coast Shipyards
In Washington on June 29 the Pacific Coast Shipbuilding yards swept shipbuilding honors. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation in San Francisco earned the first blue flag for steel ships, with Grant Smith and Porter Company of St Johns Oregon winning for wooden ships. Skinner and Eddy in Seattle and the Moore Shipbuilding Company of Oakland earned subsequent steel honors, while Grant Smith and Porter and Allen Shipbuilding Company of Seattle received wooden ship awards.
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Washington
Pacific Coast Shipbuilding Yards
Bethlehem “Shipbuilding Corporation
San Francisco
Grant,ith and Porter Company
St. Johns
Oregon
Skinner & Eddy Corporation
Seattle
M@pre Shipbuilding Company
Oakland
Grant, Smith and Porter
Aberdeen
Allen Shipbuilding Company
Beliefs Thal Af Steering Profiteering In War Time
The Federal Trade Commission told the Senate it believes American industry is profiteering under war pressure, with packers, flour millers, and allied firms earning heavy profits while government price controls cushion excess. High company salaries also drew scrutiny as the commission warned of potential government action.
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Washington
Federal Trade Commission
Senate
Commission
The
Trade Commission
Denial of Death Of Czar Nicholas Reported
A Berlin dispatch via Kiev denies the czar and his family were assassinated, claiming the revolutionary tribunal report is false and they are in good health. An Amsterdam dispatch notes leaders Milinoff and Gouchkoff have arrived in Harbin to lead counter revolutionary activity.
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Czar
Nicholas
Berlin
Kiev
Ukraine
Amsterdam
Memsovia
Paul Milinoff
Constitutional Democrats
Alexander J. Gouchkoff
Harbin
Russia
Counter Revolutionary
Van Bergen Commissioned as Captain in Camp Lee Regiment
Word reaches here that Rh. E. Van Bergen formerly of the Engineering Department, recently passed an examination and was commissioned as a captain. He is assigned to a regiment at Camp Lee, Virginia, after graduating from the Michigan School of Mines and the University of Minnesota, with many friends in Juneau and across the region.
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Rh. E. van Bergen
Department 1
Alti Plage
Laka
Camp Lee
Michigan School of Mines
University of Minnesota
Juneau
Typhoid Rumors Hit German Trenches in France
Amsterdam reports Echo Belge rumors of a typhoid epidemic among German soldiers in Northern France. Several units are said to have lost most of their personnel, contributing to delays in resuming offensives on the Western Front.
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Amsterdam
Echo Belge
France
Americans in Italy Review by Gen March
Gen March announced the first American troops landed in Italy, largely non combatant sanitation units. Pershing will send additional combatants. He praised the Allied battle-front situation as favorable. The 77th Division from New York, trained at Camp Upton, led by Major General Franklin Bell, took over a sector and reported prisoners and war booty from a recent counter offensive along the Piave River.
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Washington
March
Italy
Pershing
National Army
77Th
New York
Camp Upton
Gapi J. Franklin Bell
Ambulance Units Arrive to Warm Reception in ROMS
Thirty ambulance units of the American Army arrived in ROMS on June 28 and were met with great enthusiasm. The arrival sparked excitement among residents and officials as mobility and medical support expectations increased.
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Roms
Crowder Promoted to Lieutenant General by Senate
Washington June 29 Senate approves amendment following praise from Administration senators for the Army draft making Provost Marshal Gen Crowder a Lieutenant General for the war period.
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Washington
Senate
Gen Crowder
Trap robbing reported from fishing grounds
Ketchikan June 29. Fish trap pirates are increasing in numbers this week. Several traps have been pilfered, provoking cannerymen to demand government aid to punish the offenders.
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Ketchikan
Empire
Big War Debts Shown Present Fiscal Year
Washington reports the government closed its books on the just ending fiscal year, the largest since the war began. Over 12.6 billion dollars was spent to fund the army navy ships aeroplanes and loan programs, a daily Treasury drain of about 50 million dollars versus peace-time expenditure under a billion.
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Washington
Allies Begin Offensive on Western Front
Allied forces launch a sudden offensive on the western front catching German defenders in the trenches by surprise. Prisoners are reported captured as the advance unfolds across contested sectors.
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Western Front
Americans Capture More Prisoners and Down Planes
General Pershing reports that American forces captured 309 additional prisoners and destroyed three German aircraft, as the battle advances.
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Washington
French frontline gains and 60 prisoners reported
Paris reports an official bulletin stating French forces attacked a front four and a half miles southeast of Amble tions and, at some points, advanced about a mile and a quarter. Sixty prisoners were counted at the time.
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Paris
British advance near Nieppe Forest front in France
Reuters reports a successful British push of nearly a mile between Bailleul and Labasse. The forces captured the German strongpoint at the western Boesival area and the east angle of Nieppe Forest as part of the front line near the Bailleul sector.
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London
Reuters
Bailleaul
Labhasse
Boishaval
Nieppe Forest
British Forces Take 400 Prisoners in Flanders Action
British troops in Flanders and French forces to the south struck first against a German drive toward English Channel ports. They captured over 400 prisoners along with guns and trench mortars as the enemy was caught unaware. The Germans, confident against an epidemic called the Flanders Grippe, were taken by surprise and defensive positions of value were gained.
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Flanders
Associated Press
Paris
London
Keeping Germans Busy
Berlin reports an official evening bulletin stating German forces are repulsing vigorous Allied attacks north of Thelys and south of the Aisne River.
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Berlin
Thelys
Aisne River
Germans Barrage North of Merville But No Infantry Action
With the British report a heavy barrage last night along the sector north of Merville the bombardment intensified but there was no follow up infantry assault as reported. The line remained largely quiet with artillery exchanges dominating the scene.
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Merville
Senate backs future army expansion as plans mature
Senate today rejected the amendment to direct the president to raise an army of 5,000,000 men as soon as transport and equipment can be provided. Senators said the vote does not show opposition to a large army and favor expanding the Army as soon as War Department plans permit.
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Washington
Senate
War Department
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