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NOME, ALASKA. SATl'RD.W, I>KCEM1!KK K, l!)17.
NO. a-4»2.
HALIFAX, Xova Scotia. Doc. 7.
The number of the dead, dying,
missing and fatally injured in the
catastrophe front the explosion of
munitions ship, continues to grow
as the work of the relief parties
and lhe fire department proceeds.
That fixe thousand dead will not
compass tlie total is gathered from
the latest official police figures.
N'o recent disaster has equalled
the sufferi: g lots of life and de
struction of property occasioned
here. The property loss is general.
scarcely a structure escaping intact
1 re m the torces ot' the exjdosion
.ukI some are completely wiped out
by the devastating flames which
have ravaged the city.
This city is the capital of Nova
Scotia a province of Canada, and
has a population of fifty thousand
It is a fortified poit, naval and
scaling station and is railroad ter
minus of considerable import
nice. It is situated on a splendid
harbor a mile in widtli and six
miles long.
WASHINGTON, I). C., Dec. 7
I3 res id 01 t Wilson today forwardet
a (ommanieation to tlic Governor
General of Canada (lie hoarthfell
cndokiuos of himself and of tin:
America over the disaster at Hali
fax. The explosion is now officially
Known to have occurred through a
collision cf a French munitions
steamer and the Belgian ship Mt.
Blanc.
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CONFESSES PERJURY
AGAINST TOM MOONEY
Under an Associated Press date
line from San Francisco the Nugget
yesterday published ihe following
dispatch:
‘Adding still further tc the com
plications already developing in
connection with the Preparedness
Day bomb explosion cases Mrs.
Alice Kidwell one of the prosecu
tion’s chief witnesses in the trials
of Thomas J. Mooney, Warren K.
Billings, and Mrs. Rena Mooney,
wife of the alleged ringleader of
bomb thro wees whose activities :e
mlted iv. the death of ten persons
and the injury of forty others July
22. lUlti, signed an Affidavit today
admitting that she gave false testi
mony before the grand jury which
indicted Mooney and others for al
leged complicity in the infamous
murder of innocent people.
The admission has further in
creased the doubt in the minds of
many persons relative to the guilt
of Billings and Mooney, both of
whom have been convicted of
murder. Two other witnesses for
the prosecution have already ad
mitsed that they falsified their tes
timony while the state’s chief wit
ness, Frank C. Oxman, a cattleman
of Durkee, Oregon, has been com
pletely discredited through the
voluntary confession of Frank E.
Rigall, that Oxman attempted to
bribe him to give false testimony
in order to secure the conviction
of Mooney.”
(All of which is confirmatory of
the information published from
time to time in The Industrial
Worker and its sister publications
throughout the United States. The
frame-up against Tom Mooney, his
wife and colleagues, involves the
courts, officials, detective agencies,
the United Railways, and the San
Francisco Chamber of Commerce in
an outrageous and criminal conspi
racy that should put every one con
nected with the disgraceful pro- J
ceeding in the penitentiary. As the
villainous history is written let the
reading public take notice that not
a single one of these scoundrels
will be brought to judgement, just
as they weie not in the Mollie Ma
guire cases, the Homestead, the
Haymarket, the Moyer, Haywood
and Pettibone, the McKee's Rocks,
Ludlow, Cabin Creek, Paint Creek,
Bayonne, Bisbee, Frank Little
Tulsa, and in thousand other
dastardly outrages. Take notice!
that no single American crime
against labor has even been pun
ished—yet.—The Editor).
GERMANS TO PRESS
WINTER FIGHTING
I'AHIS, Dec. 7.—That there is
to be no winter cessation of fight
ing as in former winter seasons is
the opinion of experts- on war and
“THK Ol'TCAST” TONIGHT
WILLIAM K.tliMM, SI XD.W.
At the Dream tonight one of the
best sermons ever delivered in
Nome or anywhere else will be
"seen’’ tonight. A smug respect
able citizen follows a cafe singer to
her humble. but honest lodgings.
He forces an entrance into her
room and attempts tc violate her
and is all but accomplishing his
purpose when a waiter rooming in
tho same house hears the scrimm
age and interfere. The respectable
citizens gets the best of the tight
that ensues and is choking the boy i
to death whore the excited girl
discharges a revolver she has!
snatched from the good man’s pock ;
et and kills him. She is tried by a!
mug respectable judge and by a
bulldozing prospecting attorney
andis convicted. It turns up that
military matters expressed here to
day.
It is kuowt, that notwithstanding 1
ihe vigor and unfailing courage j
with which the German forces are !
j the Judge who has convicted iter1
I is her father, having seduced her I
mother in his earlier years. The I
; climax presented is thrilling and
the lesson taught is one that should
j explain much of the present day
social and criminal conditions. This
I is not a advertisement. It is this'
! papers opinion that the Federal i
Judge the Prosecuting Attorney, J
and all tJhu good conventional peo
ple of Nome, and the “bad” loo |
should see “The Outcast” by liar
roun and Mae March at the Dream
tonight. On Sunday night Caroline
Lockhart’s great story “The Man
from Bitter Roots” with William
Farnnnt in the leading role will be
screened. We won't boast the show,
William Fr.rnnms name i3 enough
to fill the house. Nuf sed.
GET THK nEWS RIGHT. READ ;
THE WORKER. ,
maintaining their fighting fronts,
the lias drawn into field service
down to iier last line of military
reserves and it is believed that
Germany feels that if she wins the
wat she must do so before the
middle of next year. It is admitted
that as the war map now stands
the Teuton forces hold the chief
points of military, vantage, and
although their strength is for the |
present superior it is pointed out ,
that her great strength must prove
a waning one while that of the al- -
lies is on the incline. The entry of <
the American armies into the active! f
tightii g on any effective scale is
act tlie tight probable before next .
spring but is supposed to add a (
[lowereful new current of military ^
resources at that time.
Contemplating that prospect it is c
expected that Germany will throw
her every resources into the con- s
lict in an effort to.deliver a knock- t
ml blow before spring and it is a
predicted that the war will reach r
ts maximum ot aggression about i
he middle of February, 1918, and g
:hen to decline until the end. a
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SK\TTLIC, Dec. 7.— -The In’"roa
tiomil Workingmen s Circle, an old
established Quasi-labor organiza
tion whose membership is made up
for tlie most part of laboring men
speaking foreign languages, felt
the descent of the democratic ad
i ministration’s iron heel here yester
) day.
| In Seattle the local "Circle” is
comprised iargely of Ruslan work
ers. though workers of other na
| tionalities are eligible Acting upon
| sealed information regarding the
i' ' 1=ii
| or^ai'izat ion’s ]k;h“ activities Hu
lo(al agents of the Department of
.Justice descended upon their head
quarters in ti:e mid-Yesler Way
district and arrested fifty of tiieir
members, including Russians, Fin
lar.de:8, Jews and .talians. The
Italians were released upon inves
tigation and request of the Italian
resident Consul but the others were
held Incommunicado and not per
mitted to consult attorneys, or to
see friends
Commissioner Henry M White
<-t the I?moan of Immigration rc
Tnsi il to give :ii:y i:iform:i 1 ion : i -
j gar li ig the reason* lor the .leten
lien oi the arrested mem bat rtuni
l;ots if their families expressed the
bflnl that it is because of their
sympathies for the Bolshevik! gov
ernment in Russia, which is a
workingmen’s regime. The great
est indignation prevails in all label
circles and committeees are de
manding tneir release.
Anything In the line of Job w.irr
I
LONDON, Dec. 7.—The admiralty
offices announces today that in the
progress of an air raid over Belgi
um the British seaplanes have
downed six German patrol machin
es without a single less. It is also
stated in the official announcement
that bombs were dropped success
fully upon the docl.s at Brugge,
upon the Varccux railway lines
and depots, and upon the aeroplane
bases of St. Dome.
PARIS. Dec. 7.—According to
official teports given out by the
minister of war the French patrols
hate repulsed several determined
artillery assaults in the fighting!
which be vigorously resumed by j
the German forces north of Bazon-!
vaux.
STOCKHOLM Dec. 7.—That the
woman contingent of tlie Russian
array forces lia\e complicated the
peace negotiations by serving notice
that they will not abide by ar
mistice arrangements is the gist of
an extended dispatch received here
today.
The women soldiers say that of
any such negotiations they will eon
tinue to fight the enemy whenever
they are encountered.
CHINESE LABOR IS
TO BE IMPORTED
WASHINGTON, D. Dec. 7.—
It is believed that President Wil
son will be facing one of the most
crucial and difficult situations in
this political career of a measure
proposed by Senator Gallinger to
day, should ever be forwarded to
the President for his affirmation
to make it a law.
Senator Gallinger’s n.causre which
;o far is in the nature of a resolu
ion offered in the Senate, proposes
hat under certain conditions the
law forbidding *he immigration of
Ch'nese coolies be suspended dur
ing period of the war. So far Sa
muel Gompcrs, President of the
American Federation of Labor has
loyally sustained the administra
tion in its war policies but it is
known that Air. Gompers and the
immense labor following he con
tracts is uncompromisingly opposed I
even to limited importation of ori-1
entals to be used in the industries, I
no matter what the war exigencies j
may be.
An active propaganda has been
carried on for months bv nanuf.u
turor's ai.d trades publications
throughout the whole country in
the effort to create a scntUno.it.
favorable to the importation ol
coolies for use during the contin
uance of the wai but it is leverthe
less expected that the consideration
of the bill will provoke a bitter
light from organized iabor.
WAR IS
WASHINGTON, I). Doc.
'he Government ol' tlie United
■tales is no.v officially, formally
ml actually at war with Austria,
'lie resolution declaring a state of
rar to exist passed both houses of
'ongres3 and received President
nison’s signature promptly upon
resentalion at the White House ex
cutive office.
The declaration occasioned no
urprise here since recommenda
lons to that end were embodied
ltd stressed in the President’s
lossage to Congress and a sound
lg of all leaders revealed that re
ardless of party lines his wishes
re to be followed without ques
j tion in all matters pertaining to the
conduct of the war.
In the tecnical sense of unani
j mity the resolution's adoption may
not be said to have been unanimous
since it was opposed in the Senate
by Senator Robert La Follette, and
the House by the fcIs Socialist re
presentative Meyer London of New
York city.
It is believed that the United
States will forthwith send Ameri
can troops to the Italian front in
Italy and that this government
may be the better prepared to carry
out such obligations as may be im
posed upon her by the inter-allied
conference now sitting in Versailles
i It had previously been said that tin
j United States had made no d> .-la.'a
tion against Austria and i! ua.<
feared this might prove an obstacle
to the purposes of the oonfore;Kv.
\OTICK TO THU PIHI.IC.
Messrs. Peter Juul and ivtei
Nelson have tattcii over the man*
agenient of the Nome Bakery.
The premises will be closed until
MONDAY Morning for alterations
and repairs.
For the best 5Or. Dinner in Nome
go to the Hoard of Trade I.nnch
Counter.