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VOL. 11.
NOME, ALASKA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER (i, 1017.
NO.
!430.
WASHINGTON, I). C\. Dec. 5.—
The Interstate Commerce Commis
sion in a special communication to
Congress today makes the startling
recommendation that the American
railway systems must be conscript
ed if this country is to reach its
highest efficiency in the prosecution
of the war and in handling the ne
< essary domestic commerce of the
the country.
it is knowfi that the bickerings
between the railway managers and
the brotherhoods of railway em
i ployees has served to prevent the
| development of their highest use
I fulness to the people, and the ope
j ration of so many lines each under
i a separate management has tended
toward confusion and inadequacy
ol' service in emergencies arising
because of the transportation of
crops ai d the movement to the sea
bords of needed supplies.
It is found necessary to do away
with the senseless competition
that results in such confusion and
for some time the question not
only ci' government control bat of
gvernment direction and manage
ment at their own volition,—a
course that would require the sus
pension of the anti-trust laws that'
at present make such combinations i
illegal and to permit the formation j
of the necessary merges* The al- j
ternativa recommendation is that!
the President shall at once take
over the railroads into his own
hands and administer them as a
war measure.
ARMISTICE ALREADY
NOW IN EFFECT
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THE HAGUE, Doc. 5.—Confirm
ing information contained in the
dispatches ot yesterday telegrams
have just been received here from
Bolsheviki sources to the effect
that the armistice sought in the
negotiations of the passed week
are already in effect between Rus
sian and Austro-Gcrn.an forces on
the Eastern front. The arms of the
opposing soldiers have been stack
ed and they are everywhere frater
nizing as companions.
| BERLIN, Dec. 5.—The War Office
I has made official announcement of
(the fact that the armistice on the
| Eastern front is being extended to
include the Roumanian front and
the negotiations for a separate
peace if perfected will include that
area. Conditions are now such
j along the eastern battle line that
the central powers are enabled to
j remove almost unlimited troops to
j other fronts. Germany and Austria
I with their field forces on the Ital
Ia.ii ancl on the western fronts may
be expected to take prompt ad
vantage of the opportunity afforded
to drive smashing blows at their
enemies before the American troops j
are ir. t'ne field for trench warfare. I
LONDON. Dec. 5.—Loud and pro
longed cheering greeted the name
of President Wilson when mention
of it was made by Lord Balfour
in the House of Commons today.
HOUSE COMMUTE REPORTS
RESOLUTION FOR WIR
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 5.—
The Committee of Foreign Affairs
of the House of Representatives re
ported favorably a resolution for
an immediate declaration of war,
upon the Imperial Government of
Austria today. The vcte on the re
solution in the Committee meeting
was without a dissenting voice and
it is expected that the vote in the
House will likewise be unanimously I
or practically so. Upon its adop- j
lion there it will be Immediately i
forwarded toft the Senate and It is j
believed that a formal declaration
I of hostilities against Austria may
now be expected just so soon as
joint action upon the resolution
may be had.
WASHINGTON. P. C. Dec. 5.—
Representative Saidath ol Illinois
offered a resolution in the House
today whit h provides lor t he ope
ration of all railroads and coal
mines by the Government. This
event happening almost contempor
aneous with tth recommendations
of the Interstate Commerce Com-1
mission felting forth the impera- I
tive necessity of the Government's
assuming control anil operation of
the railways is taken to mean that
this outcome is certain. The pre
vailing feeling seems to be that be
cause of the war conditions the ad
ministration should make short
work oft he continued troublesome
transportation problems by suin^
mary action and that the alterna
tive recommendation of the Com
mission givng control to the Pre
sident will be adopted.
Anything In the line of Jolt trurt
ZURICH, Deo. 5.—The Austrian
Foreign Minister Count Ozren has
indicated the peace terms upon
which the Austrian government Is
willing to negotiate according to
dispatches which have been receiv
ed here from Vienna. The Foreign
Minister states that the primary
conditions upon which any propo
sal aie to be considered must be
the recignition of territorial inte
grity and the establishment of eco
nomic liberty. The position taken
by him tends to sustain the theory
which lias been given so littlo
thought by any of the* bolligerauts
or by any of the war experts and
newspapers that the real cause of
the war have their origins in eco
no nci sources, almost wholly.
BERLIN, Dec. 5.—That the Ger
man field forces have captured the
hill positions in the lighting of the
Northern salient and will prepare
them at once for the delivery of
long range artillery fire is the state
ment of the War Office officially to
(lay.
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ROME Dec. E.—The mysterious I f
inactivity of the enemy forces was j
ended yesterday by the resumption,
of artillery iire along the entire
front In Italy and the big gun duel t
lias continued up until the forward
ing of ihes dispatches without de
velopments of military advantage
to either side.
Express and General Delivery.
See Erickson at Munsfleld’s Cigar |
Stoi e. I
OVER RAILWAYS
FIGHT ON HI GILL FOR
LABOR LEANINGS
' SEATTLE, Dec. 5th.—It devol
1 cps that he alleged vice crusade
' being waged for the impeachment
of Mayor Hiram C. Gill is in reality
ia move upon the part of the
I Chamber of Commerce, the Em
! ploycr’s Association, and the vari
j cus intersets opposed to organized
I labcr, to get rid of him because of
his attitude toward organized
labor.
A mass meeting of citizens was
recently pulled off avowedly for
the purpose of inaugurating a vice
clean up and charging the Mayor
with responsibility for the alleged
vice conditions, of demanding his
removal rrom office. The com
manding officer of Camp Lewis,
American Lake, where some, forty
thousand conscript soldiers are en
camped, had issued a general order
forbidding soldiers of the canton
ment to visit Seattle except upon
necessary business connected with
/V the service ayd giving as his
reasons the danger to the health
and morality of his soldiers because
of the intolerable vice and immoral
ity of the city. Tacoma a city of
considerable size is situated in a di
rect line between Camp Lewis and
Seattle and soldiers must pass
through the former city in order
to reach Seattle.
flavor Cill promptly responded
defending Seattle against the
charge ot having more than the
usual amount of vice conditions
which are unavoidable in a city of
this size. He stated tliat a fair in
vestigation would reveal that ia
fact Seettla is freer from vice and
immorality conditions than ever
before and i.s much cleaner and
more healthful than Tacoma.
Just prior to the issuance of ihc
embargo order against Seattle the
general commanding Camp Lewis
had been entertained at a banqaqt
given in his honor by the Chamber
of Commerce and he is supposed to
have been induced by them upon
false representations tc him to is
sue the order to fern- a basis tor
proceeding to remove the Mayor
and his Chief of Police Charlie
Beckinghani.
Mayor Gill's administration and
(hat of Chief Beckinghani have
been exceedingly distasteful to the
employers opposed to organized la
bor to “open shop” advocates and
newspapers. At the outset he had
made it plain that he would not
allow the executive department to
be used in the interests of employ
ers to crush labor and stated em
phatically that he would not allow
scabs and strike-breaking niminals
the run of the city when imported
to break strikes. When several
hundred East Side gun-men and
gangsters were brought in by the
Traction Company to break the
street car strike he refused to al
low them to man the cars without
first being searched by the police
for firearms and without their
"gats ' they would not take the cars
out. He had fearlessly denounced
the Commeicial Club of Everett for
the massacre of a dozen or more
members of the Industrial Workers
of the World who were peaceably)
entering that city on the memorable
j Bloody Sunday' of November .lilt,
las* year, and while th«* 1.....,r has
never been regarded as a partieau
lal.'or man lit, had shown that ho
rouId not be made a tool against,
tabor.
For all this Mayor Gill has b ■< n
marked by all the powers opposed
to labor, for political detrustion.
In the spring oi this year he had
been indicted at the instigation of
a member of the employer's asso
ciation who was a member of the
Federal Grand Jury on a tflnnped
up charge of accepting a liquor
bribe of $4,0t'0 from the notorious
bootleggar, Logan Billingsley hut
was triumphantly acquitted on the
trial of the case.
The labor people believe that the
present move to discredit and if
possible to impeach the Mayor is
of a plan to capture the city gov
ernment and place at its head a
Mayor and Chief of Police who will
do the bidding ot the 'minute men’
a pscudc-patriotic society organized
her to do the dirty work of the
Chamber of Commerce. At first
they had slated one F. \V. Becker
for Chief of Police. Becker is a
water front scab-hetder and was
instrumental in breaking the long
shoremen’s strike last summer. But
tho deal was too raw and efforts
are now being made to induce
Judge Kenneth McIntosh of the
superior court to become Chief ol!
Police, if Mayor Gill can be outset.
The Mayor refuses to resign and a
merry fight is in prospect.
Let ns estimate on your Job tVnrr
ENGLAND REJOICES AT
U. S. DECLARATION
LONDON, Dec. 5.—The news
when received her of the prospect
that America would formally* de
clare war c» Austria at the present
session of the American Congress,
has caused a great wave of rejoic
ing throughout every allied coun
try.
Such a course by America will be
regarded as a tremendous aid to
l he cause of tlie entente powers in
two directions. On the one hand
as is believed, it will increase the
depression and pessimism now per
meating the dual monarchy o£
Austro-Hungary by making it cer
tain that the United States may
then send troops to other fields
than French only. On the other
hand,—and this is taken to be of
the greatest importance,—it will
enable the allies the better to carry
j out the plans of the inter-a,..
conference now meeting in Wr
bailies for tha purpose of bringing
about a greater eo-or lin.itiou of
the economic resources for war
purposi i over to one central gov
erning head. This plan has been
in contemplation for some months
and is believed 10 be nearing per
fection though the proceedings of
the conference continue to be most
curt fully guarded no statement
!>*. ....r, . .. fr. i'.t them for
publication since their convocation.
nominate: ni;\v oiikkhs.
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The Pioneers of Alaska held
their regular bi-monthly meeting
it tlieir Igloo last, evening.
Tlnee new members were initi
ated as follows: Chas Larsen, Pan
Crowley and Buss Bowen.
The principal additional order of
business was the nomination of of
iieers for the ensuing term, as
follows:
President: Toni M'Qann. Scotty
Allen.
1st Vice President: Paul Kjeg
itad.
2nd Vice President: A. Polet.
Chaplain: Bobb Janies
Historian: Wm. Stipek.
Librarian: Barney Lande.
Trustee: E. E. Grimm.
Door Keeper: Chas < -.seller.
WKATJIRK KI-lPoKT.
IT. S. Weather Bureau.
Nome, Alaska, Dec. F: G A. M. .
Temperature: Max. 12, Ai• n a.
Barometer: 3 0. B 2 S inches
Weather: Clear.
Wind: N. H miles per ho i
Precipitation: None.
Dec. 5, fi 1’. -f.
Temperature: Max. G, M*'i. —2.
Barometer: 30.388 inches.
Weather: Clear.
Wind: N. 2 miles per hour.
Precipitation: None.
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