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VOL. 9. ■
NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, .JANUARY 20, 1»17.
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JUNEAU, Jan. 25.—The 'Can
vassing board adjourned todaj
subject to call by the President whc
is the Governor. No certificate o:
election has been- issued and non<
"will be for some time.
Many returns from the Fourtl
Division are declared to be defec
tive as no notice of election was
sent into the Board by the Com
missioners. These returns and al
particulars have been sent for, anf
until their arrival it is impossibU
to do anything more.
Utica in the Second Division has
been passed and is still, 60 to say
subjudice although it is admitted
that it is unlikely that this vote
will be recognized. The count stands
now:
SULZER:
First.
Second .
Third.
Fourth.
Total.
WICKERSHAM:
First.
Second .
Third..
Fourth.
2395
673
1683
1445
6196
1906
886
1972
1468
Total
6232
This total gives Wickersham a
lead of thirty-six votes with Bristol
Bay yet to' be heard from, flie
Fourth Division count includes only
48 precincts, and most- of those
which are considered defective are
in favor of Sulzer and if thrown
out will unquestionably result in
the election of Wickersham. The
returns for the First is complete,
the Second complete except that
Ftica is passed and no!: counted the
Thr,d is comp'ete except for Bristol
Bay. It is apparent that the elec
tion will be evry close but the Wick
ershamites are quite sanguine of the
result.
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NEW YORK, Jan. 25.—Counsel
Whipple is much annoyed at the
statements which press reports have
been responsible for fathering that
the leak probe has been suspended
because of the fact that the brokers
refused to submit their books for
inspection.
Whipple declares that these re
ports are all wrong. The brokers
did not refuse, but asked that they
be given time to get their books
and separate the later and previous
transactions from those taking place
during the week asked for, in order
that undue publicity concerning
other matters which might be harm
ful to their clients could not be
given. In addition the inspection
will be strictly confidential and
will not be made public as to re
sults.
Whipple further says that the
brokers are rushing their books
and that the work of probing the al
leged leak will be resumed on Mon
■ day next. The idea that the leak
■ probe was to be dropped is ridicul
ous, he said.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 25.—
The declaration by Counsel Whipple
that the leak probe would be re
sumed after the brokers’ books had
been supplied and examined is occa
sioning some astonishment, as it is
entirely different to the statements
given out by members of the com
mittee on Wednesday afternoon. The
inspection of the books it is under
stood will be confined to Whipple
himself.
ViLLATISTS ARE STRONG
AND CAPTURE PARRAL CITY
EL, PASO, Jan. 25.—The great
est excitement prevails in this city
following the announcement that
three Villatist armies are now
marching northward and are well
equipped to sweep everything be
F1NAL DECISION.
The Democratic Division Com
mittee met in the city clerk’s office
last night and in a most harmoni
ous meeting made the final endorse
ments as indicated in the following
wire to the chairman of the Terri
torial Qommittee:
T. J. Donahoe, Valdez, Alaska.
Divisional Committee makes the
following endorsements: For Gover
nor, Strong; for District Judge,
Cochran; for District Attorney A. J.
Diamond and Hugh O’Neill, which
ever can land; for Marshal, Daly,
Corrigan and Kjegstad, either of
whom satisfactory this Division, one
of them should be appointed, and
your committee judge who can land.
COMMITTEE.
ERNST, Chairman.
MURPHY, Secretary
SOLBBRG,. GAFFNEY,. ORLAND,
McGANN, CARMAN.
fore them.
EL PASO, Jan. 25.—Several thou
sand strong, Villatists attacked and
occupied Parral this morning. They
have been taking what looks like per
manent occupation of the city as
they proceeded according to advices
received, to strengthen the defenses
against all probability of attack.
EL PASO, Jan. 25.—Villatists
sweeping northward have occupied
El Valle when Pershing departed
with his forces for the border, ap
parently having waited until the
American troops were in motion to
take this step. This is one of the
three Villatist armies which are
making a supreme effort to conquer
the northern states of Mexico. So
far there has been little or no fight
ing to be reported.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 25.—
Coincident with the withdrawal of
the American forces Carranza was
requested to protect foreigners in
that section of Mexico.
The State Department has been
assured that this will be done, but
reports which are coming out of
northern Mexico this evening are
not very reassuring.
MEXICO CITY, Jan. 25.—Mexican
de facto officials warn against all
sorts of reports being circulated to
alarm the border tov/ns as to Villa
tist success. It said that these are
all groundless. Many of these have
been planned beforehand.
LOCAL ITEMS.
The anniversary celebration of the
F. O. E. locally will take the form
of an invitational dance, the ex
penses being borne by the Aerie,
the invited guests being free. .
The Pioneers of Alaska rounded
off their card party on Wednesday
night with an elegant dance whicn
was greatly enjoyed by all present.
The Igloo is ju3t a nice hall for a
dance and the committee having
the affair in charge saw to it that
all had a good time, which indeed
they had.
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One of Rowe’s teams yesterday
left its driver behind and pursued
a wanton course down Steadman
WILSON SAYS OPPOSE!
COMPULSORY TRAININS
I WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 25.—
President \\ ils'-n 'told representa
tives of the National ■ Security
League that it-was sufficient that the
| professional army gave ample secur
ity for preparedness. He an
nounced that he was opposed t-j
compulsory military training.
Wilson is now practically holding
his office in the capitol. It is un
doubtedly the case that he fears a
tie-up of legislation and the prospect
that the democrats may be unable
to swing the next Congress is one
that the adminstration does not
face with any sort of satisfaction.
The democrats are trying to rush
the railroad, the mineral, the cor
rupt practices act to completion
and also to rush through the fiscal
plans of the administration without
any hesitation or delay.
Many senators and congressmen
are putting the screws upon the de
partments to get what they want as
a quid pro quo for their support.
This has greatly annoyed the Pre
sident who intends to watch every
move that is calculated to impede
any administration legislation.
Republican members who are
planning to encourage filibustering
or any kind of political play which
will delay legislation until the next
session are incensed at what is
called the interference of the Pre
sident in the legislative branch of
the government. An extra session
is also pretty well assured.
CANUCK SOLONS ANGRY
WITH WILSON’S SPEECH
OTTAWA, Jan. 25.—The President
of the United States came in for
some stout Canadian criticism in the
Dominion Senate today when the
Wilson part in the peace negotia
tions was considered by both
houses of parliament.
While there were upholders of
the American executive, those who
condemned him were more numer
ous and quite free in their criti
cism. Senator Hope fathered a
resolution declaring that only those
representatives from nations active
in the allied cause should take part
in peace negotiations. Others fol
lowed suit in attacking Wilson for
interfering in the muddle which
had only helped to enrich many Am
erican business men while the rest
of the world suffered.
In the House members of parlia
ment were no less hostile to Wil
son and to the United States as
well. One conservative member de
clared that Wilson’s entrance into
the war question was essentially in
opportune. Nor was the United
States free from criticism. He said
' that the United States signed the
Hague agreement to protect the in
dividual nationality of the smaller
nations ani yet had watched the
despoliation of Belgium without
moving a hair. He said that the
smaller nations would require mere
protection in the future than the
United States was prepared to give
in the past or the present. Members
quoted freely from Roosevelt
speeches in attacking Wilson’s peace
policy.
The Hope resolution was agreed
to without a division.
MANCHESTER, Jan. 25.—The
most important Labor Congress held
in the country since tell war began
was not pacificist in its attitude.
The conference voted down imme
diate peace proposals as embodied in
a resolution introduced the first
thing in the session. The resolution
submitted the war was intolerable
Avenue and Front street, coming to
a stand when A1 Braten grabbed
the maddened steeds at the barns.
The city team was the one that be
came affrighted at something or
another and started for home with
a speed made Scotty Allans auto
sled in the hasbeen class of speed
makers. Just 'opposite the Lobby
the sled careened up against a tele
phone pole and the box was knocked
off while the animals continued on
their way. No one was hurt.
Word received from Teller in the
last mail says that it has been
storming almost uninterruptedly in
that section. No snow has been
falling but with the sky clear a
twenty knot gale and thirty or
forty below travel has been next
to impossible. Many had narrow
escapes while trying to mush thru
the blizzards, the worst that have
ever been experienced in many,
and that a peace based upon the
'status quo ante bellum would be
acceptable to all the powers en
gaged. This was ultimately voted
down the majority against the re
solution being in the proportion of
three to one.
The congress also defeated by a
small majority the proposal that an
International Socialist Congress
long years in the Port Clarence
district.
The news that another strike is
reported from Good News Bay re
calls the fact that a few years ago
the camp here was alive with ex
citement over an alleged strike there
which promised to be a second Daw
son, according to reports which
were received. Over fifty miners
left here for the scene but most
quit after a survey of the camp.
Frank Waskey was then in that vi
cinity and he wrote encouragingly
of its future although he shook the
dust off his feet at the earliest op
portunity. There returned here
several good miners, however, and
they said that back nearer the hills
It looked good to them but they
had neither the time nor the money
to prospect. It is interesting to
know that the new strike is reported
“back closer to the mountains".
f meet simultaneously with the peace
| congress. The arguments advanced
I against the resolution were to the
effect that the majority in control
of the socialists in Germany was es
sentially a war party with aims
identical with the party of conquest
that brought on the war.
Ramsay M’Donald's resolution for
an immediate conscription of wealth
throughout the country took a
greater hold upon the approval of
the delegates, especially after a
powerful speech by M'Donald where
in he pointed out that the national
debt would be twenty billions after
the war. He said that they proposed,
to pay that from the product of
labor, and labor proposed that the
war be liquidated here and now by
the wealthy interests of the country
who could more than pay it. The
workers were giving their lives he
said, and there should be little he
sitancy upon the part of the idle
classes to give their wealth.
MARDI GRAS NOTICE.
The Arctic Brotherhood wish to
announce that to gain admission
to the Mardi Gras to be held on
Saturday evening, all guests muBt
bo in costume and present their in
vitations at the door. d