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VOL. 11.
WOMB, AMHKA, MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 1918.
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NOME LEADS GOLD PRODUCTION
SEATTLE MOB
LEADERS PINCHED
SEATTLE, Jan. 18.—The men
•who performed the bravo deed of
citing and leading twenty uniform
ed sailors, armed with revolvers,
upon six unarmed and defenceless
printers, and of wrecking and de
molishing one of the leading com
mercial printing establishment in
this city, have .been apprehended.
Entrance was forced into the
plant of the Pigott Printing con
cern last Saturday. The six print
ers at work in the establishment
at the time were forced to lie face
downward upon the floor at the
points of a dozen revolvers while
the work of demolishing three lino
type machines and several modern
printing presses, a total damage
now estimated at 815,000.00 was
carriod out.
Today Murl Gordon, an Engineer
and Fred Drake, a jowelry worker,
were arrested and charged with
leading the mob. Gordon has been
positively identified as ope of., the
men by the printers. He was pro
minent in the late activities of the
Red Cross, having delivered ad
dresses at tho various theaters, and
claims to have been a membor of
the French aviation corps. When
arrested he was armed with a re
volver and twenty one shells and
his accomplice Drake had two re
volvers. The city is incensed over
tho outrage and the powerful ty
pographical union is aroused to the
highest pitch of indignation.
The two men, arrested, Gordon
and Drake, are not regarded as
principals, but a3 tools of higher
ups alleged to be in tho Chamber
of Commerce, and who resented
the continued printing of labor pa
pers by tho Pigott concern.
The ablest counsel in the city has
been procerned to aid in the prose
cution and it is not believed that
the parties responsible will be
able to escape the searching inves
tigation being made.
Mr. Pigott, the owner, and chief
sufferer from the outrage is a pro
minent and well liked business
man, formerly one of the owners
of the Metropolitan Printing Com
pany, the largest publishing estab
lishment in the city.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 13.—
Another American industry ap
pears to be in line to come under
the control and operation of the
Federal Government if plans now
maturing in the Senate can be car
ried forward. By unanimous con
sent that body has decided to vote
next Tuesday to put the production
of white paper under Goveriynent
control.
WASHINGTON, D. C.. Jan. 13.—
Senator Brady of Idaho is seriously
ill with heart disease and is not ex
pected to survive the day.
Anything m the line of Job wort
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PEOPLE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 13.—
Tho ice King holds the greater part
of the United States in a chilling
grip today.
Ten deaths have been reported
from freezing and several hundred
are reported as injured and many
thousands are suffering untold
agonies with no hope in sight.
Several of the more important
cities have been isolated and cut
off from the outside world by
snow and blizzards. It is said that
tho coldest weather prevails today
since 1909 and it is estimated that
because of the coal shortage due to
incompetency in tho distribution
of cars for rail transportation the
people have lees than one fourth
the coal required by them, and
many thousands are totally with
out.
The severe cold wave has reach
ed as far south as the gulf of
Mexico and the coal famine has
added to the seriousness of the si
tuation.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 13—.
According to dispatches reaching
this city the Berlin newspapers are
publishing a story that the Teu
tonic submarine campaign is to be
revived and its scope expanded.
The tenor of the publications is
to the general effect far damage
has been inflicted upon Germany’s
enemies by this means of war than
any other agency, and estimate five
million being inflicted.
Raviolis, Italian style every
Evening at Modini’s B. O. T. Cafe.
You’ll see it first in the Worker.
FOOD HOGS TO
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 13.—
Charles McCarthy, an. Associate
Food Administrator, today declared
that President Wilson is preparing
a message on the food situation, to
be forwarded to congress.
The President will urge legisla
tion which will provide his depart
ment with adequate power and
finances to deal with the food price
situation to boost their profit and
to thus add to the difficulties of
properly carrying on the war.
The continued and artiflcialized
high prices of food without appar
ent limit except the greed of the
money mad profiteers is said to be
iho cause of increasing murmurs
and discontent throughout the
country and it is thought to be de
sirable to enable the officials upon
vyhom the duty devolves to prose
■cuto offenders against the laws and
regulations applicable in the food
administration department.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 13.—
Nows reaches here from Petrograd
that an immediate resumption of
the Brest-Litovsk conferences will
be held between the Bolsheviki en
voys ar.d the German representa
tives, the former having received
their instructions from the Bolshe
viki regime headquarters at Petro
grad.
MINERS TO AID
RED CROSS SOCIETY
SEATTLE, Jan. 13.—Tho Mem
bers of Issaquah Miners Local of
tho United Mine worker.) of Amer
ica have adopted a novel method of
aiding in the financing of tho Am
erican Red Cross.
By adoption of a resolution they
have levied an assessment of one
per cent upon the pay of each
member per month.
Due to the nation wide shortage
of transporiation'facilities the min
ers of this district are working
only half time but it is estimated
the plan adopted will yield two
hundred dollars per month for the
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SEWARD PENINSULAR
FAR IN LEAD
SEATTLE, Jan. 13.—That the
Seward Peninsular has maintained
Us lead over other Alaska gold
producing districts was found to
day when the discovery was made
that tho city of Nome which is the
Peninsular’s one port of any conse
quence had shipped to Seattle As
sayer for the year 1917, $2,410.
915.00, in bullion gold.
The Idit&rod district came next
with an output of $1,641,821.00,
while Southeastern Alaska yielded
$1,564,313.00. , ...
From Tanana there, was received
$372,666.00. while from the Cop
per River Couptry there came
$358,528, and from the Cook’s In
let country, 328,801.00, making a
grand total for the Territory of Al
aska of six million eight hundred
and sixty eight thousand, seven
seven hundred and sixty one dol
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SEATTLE, Jan. 13.—It has just
been ascertained that Alfred
Brooks, the leading Alaskan geo
logist is in France supervising the
building of trenched and dugouts
with the United States Army forces
under General Pershing. The
work of Mr. Brooks is frequently
been mentioned in the reports of the
Secretary of Interior but his iden
tity has only just now been dis
covered.
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PETROGRAD,, Jan. 13.—All
doubt as to the perpetuity and se
curity of the Bolqhevikl regime is
believed to have definitely removed
by the complete rout of the last re
maining armed opposition of any
consequence, and consisting of the
Second Ukrainian Army Corpa with
out, infantry, formation?.
The entir^ command appears to
have yielded to capture, together
with the taking of sixty, live morta
cannon and ten thousand rilies.
following the capture of tlie Ukra
inian corps the second t liigilinsk
corps surrendered to the Bolslieviki
forces.
A severe battle of considerable
proportions was fought between the
Bolshevik! and the Ukraine near
the city of Ekatarinoalav but. in
the end the Ukrainians surrendered.
The Bolsheviki under General
Karhkoff are fortifying the* city.
Premier Lenine j has issued a
statement praising President Wil
son's speech in the highest terms
but finds fault with it for failing
to criticize England equally with
Germany for her pant in the war.
The Bolsheviki envoys now . in
conference with German represen
tatives delivered a report stating
that they will continue in confer
ence with Germany until they are
forced to realize that . every poss
ibility for peace has been exhaust
ed. In the meantime Revolutionary
Russia prepares for battle again.
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CAMP FUNSTON
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OFFICER SUICIDES
CAMP FUNSTON, Jan. 13.— i
Captain Lewis Whistler of tho
United States Infantry is a suicide
here today as a result of suspicion
having been directed toward him
for the fiondtsh murders connected
with the robbery of the army bn-ik
at this post.
The robbery took place last Fri
day night by a man in the United
States army uniform, believed by
the sole survivor of the tragedy to
be the uniform of a Captain. There
were five men in the bank at the
time of the looting of tho bank
took place only after four of them
had been brained with an axe.
Kerney Wprnall who has surviv
ed the experience is from Kansas
City and is the cashier of the at
tacked bank which had been locat
ed on the army post reservation for
the convenience of the command
here. The men murdered were
Charles Fuller Winters. Vice-Presi
dent of the Federal Reserve Bank
of Kansas City, two young men,
Opel3on and Hill, clerical employes,
and Editor John Jewell of the
Camp Paper.
Wornall’s revelation to Camp
Funston officers as to the identity
of the officer committing was diffi
cult to believe but Captain Whist
ler now dead by his own hands was
put under observation. Upon dis
covery that he was being watched
he blew hi3 brains out.
Reasonable prices, an<1 first class
workmanship at the Nome Tailoring
'Vxnpany.
ALASKA SPRUCE
FOR AEROPLANES
ALASKA* CST WOt shrd shrdshrd
PORTLAND, Oregon, Jan. 13.—
The United States Signal corps
have perfected arrangements by
which spruce timber .in Alaska is
to be used in the manufacture of
Red Cross organization from this
single organization.
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HANLEY, England, Jan. 13.—A
! coal mine explosion occurred here
today which resulted in the instant
’ death of one hundred coal diggers.
• The accident occurred because
s | of the accumulation of coal dust.
aeroplanes for service with Amer
ican armies in Europe.
The contract is made with the
Sawmill of F. G. Trumble of Craig
Alaska and calls for the delivery of
three hundred thousand feet moni li
ly output. It is expected that the
Alaska spruce output is to be in
creased by two million additional
feet.
PETROGRAD, Jan. 13.—It was
announced here today that a com
plete re-organization of the Russian
armies by the Bolsheviki govern
ment. The new army is to be on a
basis of volunteer service wholly
md call for a sufficient number of
recruits to put the Russian forces
on if, war footing for use defen
sively against Germany in the event
of a failure or the Brest-Li to vsk
conference to arrive at a basis of
permanent peace with that power.
The work of reorganization is,
proceeding under the direction of
Ensign Krylenko who htd been
placed in command of the army
upon • the accession of the Bolshe
vik! and the overthrow of Keren
sky.
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