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VOL. •.
VOMK. ALASKA MONDAY, MARCH 26, 1917.
NO. 2211.
CERTIFICATE IS AT
LAST CIVEN SIILZER
JUNEAU, March 25.—Obeying the
summary mandate of Judge Jen
nings, the Election Board at which
all three members were present,
after considering the communication
from the court finally granted the
certificate of election to Charlez
Sulzer. They had no option but to
do this or be in contempt.
Sulzer announces that he will
leave for Washington today, Sun
day, and will be in time to be able
to present his credentials as the
elected Delegate when the special
session convenes.
JUNEAU. March 25.—Torn with
dissension over the Sulzer-Wick
contest the legislature in a great
measure had its attention diverted
to this very interesting piece of po
litics while it was going on.
An Saturday afternoon Aldrich
was elected permanent president
pro tempore (the senators them
selves indulged in this paradoxical
title). Hubbard who has been pre
sident left for Valdez on a ten days
leave of absence.
A bill lias been introduced by Sul
zer to establish the Pioneer Home
at Skagway with an appropriation
of twenty thousand. Aldrich weut.
him thirty better by introducing a
bill for the establishment of
Home in Juneau with a fifty thou
sand apropriation. A bill was intro
duced by the Judiciary committee
compelling the appearance of wit
nesses and the production of papers
before the executive committee.
WASHINGTON. D. C\, March 25.—
Through the Swiss Minister who is
representing the interests of Ger
many w hile diplomatic relations are
severed, Germany announce^ today
that the first shot from an American
armed merchantman would be the
signal for an immediate declaration
of war upon the part of Germany
against the United States. This
practically makes war certain sooner
or later in any event.
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 25.—
“The president last night signed an
executive order directing that the
authorized enlisted strength of the
navy be increased to 87,000. He
was authorized by Congress, in case
of emergency, to direct such in
crease in enlistment.”
The above dispatch was dictated
and signed by Secretary Daniels and
adressed to all morning papers in
the United States for Monday morn
ing publication. In addition to the
above the Daniels dispatch con
i
ti nu'ed:
‘“New ships and ships in reserve |
are being l'uliy commissioned as ra-l
pidly as passible, and the need .s'"
imperative !or a iarge enlistment to
them. ’.'here has been a net in
crease ol over six thousand five
hundted in enlistments since con
gress recently authorized an in
crease, uBt many more are needed,
and needed now.” Then follows an
appeal to urge enlistments in the
r.avy “in this emergency” through
papers addresesd.
GILL TRIAL BECOMING
MUDDLED UP AFFAIR
SEATTLE, March 25.—In spite
of third degree methods of cross
examination by the defense, Metz
dorf adhered to the details of the
story told by him that Police Ser
geant Kent gave him one hundred
* dollars to circulate the reports that
Bilingsley paid him on Tuesday
thirty dollars for the prosecution.
The Gill trial is now hopelessly
muddled by charges and counter
charges of perjury and intimidation,
-these rising to heights of extravag
ance never before heard of in any
trial in this city. Intimidation, sub
ornation of perjury and perjury
charges are such that the Grand
Jury is to be convened again on
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Monday to secure additional indict
ments, so says the prosecutor.
The defense declares that the pro
secution is holding grand jury in
dictments as an intimidating threat
over all the witnesses for the de
fense and many fear to tell the
truth that they also be jobbed.
Counter charges are made by the
prosecution side to a similar effect.
It is expected by the prosecution
that the Gill trial will- be in the
jury’s hands by the end of the
week, and they are very confident
of securing a conviction in every
case. The defense intimates that it
has only just begun and will have
some startling things to lay before
the court before it reaches the jury’s
hands. No intimation is given as to
the nature of these.
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 25.—
Hurried executive plans have been
made to protect the danger points
along the coast and these are now
being worked out at a high pressure
by the Departments. Lists of spies
and suspects who will be interned
on the outbreak of the war have
also been worked out and fully
completed. This work has been in
the hands of the War Department
RUSSIAN RED FORMULATE
PLANS EUROPEAN REVOLT
COPENHAGEN, March 25.—The
revolutionary socialists in Russia
are now in the ascendancy in that
country, according to well authenti
cated but private reports which have
been received. It is genrally indl
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cated that they plan to declare peace
and aid the socialists of other coun
tries in overthrowing their rulers so
as to end the war. It is reported
here that there has been an active
underground communication carried
on between the German and the
Russian socialist leaders to that
end.
The possible developments fore
shadowed will be world wide and
there is great concern felt in all
the capitals over a possible work
ing class up-rising everywhere. Even
the most conservative papers in the
different countries contain scarcely
veiled allusions to this possibility.
AMSTERDAM, March 25.—That
a strong socialist following in Ger
many is working with the revolu
tionary socialists of Russia is con
firmed today by a Copenhagen tele
gram declaring that there are strong
indications that a strong socialist re
volt which will involve all the Eu
I LONDON. March 2 5,— The War
j Office bulletins with the Official
j Press Brueau the anouneement that
i the Entente is continuing its ad
vance against the new German lines
where Hindenberg is commanding
in person.
Sir Douglas Haig officially reports
' the occupation of Roisfele, five miles
from the von Hindenberg line where
(the Germans are expected to make
a final stand and where they have
j been making feverish preparations
< for months to this end.
PARIS, March 25.—The official
communique this evening notes the
continuous advance of both British
and French in the west, to vviiat is
now termed the Hindenberg line.
The resistance of the Germans lias
for the jiast 4S hours perceptible
stiffened and fighting of intense
violence opposed the way of the
Entente forces. The advance was re
sumed this morning by the British
and the French. The British driv
ing back the Germans on their lines
and the French capturing two forts,
closing in on Difere, the key to the
Hindenberg position which is in
duudated by Germans. They have
now taken possession of four miles
of the bank of the Oise across which
the Germans are massed in strength.
LONDON, March 25.—Some re
assurance is felt in the announce
ment that tiic system of supply or
ganization and roar communication
with the front has been maintained
perfectly with the advance of the
Entente on tl-e west and there is
no danger of these being menaced
at any time.
CENSORSHIP IS AGREES TO
BY THE PRESS ASSOCIATIONS
I
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 25.—
Newspapers and press associations
have gone on record as establishing
a voluntary censorship in any mat
ter that is considered of a secret
nature. Representatives of the vari
ous press associations after consult
ing with the War Council agreed
that this should be done at once.
From now on this censorship will
exist and will affect the service of
all papers.
NEW YORK, March 25.—It is
announced that Thomas A. Edison
the electrical wizard has been work
ing for eighteen hours a day, for
full four weeks on the plans for
naval defense. lie has now submit
ted fourteen vitally important re
ports to the heads of the committee
and has passed all inventions for the
use ot the army and navy, these
having only recently been worked
out in a great laboratory “some
where along the coast”.
Officials admit that the reports
submitted by Edison are of a re
volutionary nature but will be kept
strictly departmental secrets for
use in the war.
OMAHA, March 25.—The Union
Pacific Railroad Co. has placed its
resources and equipment at the dis
posal of the government without re
servation.
WASHINGTON, I). C., March 25.—
The president is still working on his
message to Congress which will deal
at length with the entire submarine
question in all its most intimate
and intricate details.
HURRY PLANS FOR THE
PROTECTION VITAL POINTS
ropean countries now in the be
ginning. The reticence of Petrograd
on official subjects is due to the
fact that most of the reports com
ing out are being heavily censored.
Reports from Berlin today show that
the socialist control of Russia and
the general world peace demands
are being kept from the German
people. The danger to the govern
ment in that country is obvious.
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and is conducted with unusual thor
oughness.
It is announced that these who
arc Teutons will number half a
million and will be put at reclama
tion service. The National Guard
will guard vital spots and even now
are in charge of Washington against
revolutionary plans of suspected
Germans. Suspected Germans in
Washington have been secretly
searched during the past 48 hours
but the results are not made pub
lic.
WASHINGTON, D. C„ March 25.—
Contracts have been awarded for
25 destroyers at a cost plus ten per
cent for speeding up construction.
Department commanders have been
instructed to secure big tracts for
training camps.
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 25.—
The Army and Navy Departments
are literally working day and night
at their plans for national defense
and for the plans which will be pur
sued in case of war which is prac
tically conceded as inevitable.
I. W. W. ATTORNEY ADMITS
THEY CHARTERED VERONA
SEATTLE, March 23.—In the
Tracy trial today, the Attorney for
the defense said that they would
admit that the steamer Verona was
chartered by and paid tor by his
clients organization.
Another man introduced as a gov
ernment witness was the engineer
TAKEN TO HOSPITAL.
C. J. Larson who is suffering
from a severe illness was taken to
the hospital yesterday.
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of the steamer. He swore that shots
were fired from the steamer to the
dock by passengers on board. He
refused to swear that the first shots
positively came from the Verona or
from the dock.
SOME CROWD.
Advices from the Hot Springs re
port that there is a big galaxy of
human beings, white and native, r.t
the Reindeer Pair at Mary’s igloo
and they are having a great success
of the big thing. Walter Shields is
the big chief at the annual cele
bration.
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