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NOME, ALASKA. TUESDAY, OCTOBER, 29, 1918.
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SUPREME COURT MAY REVIEW
ASK SUPREME COURT
TO REVIEW CASE
WASHINGTON,—The Attorneys
acting: for Thomas Mooney, now un
der sentence of death in San Quentin,
have asked the United States Supreme
Court to review the decision of the
California State Supreme Court
which refused to review the court pro
ceedings which resulted in the con
viction of Mooney and the facts alleg
ed to have been discovered throwing
grave doubts upon the credibility of
the witnesses and the methods by
which that testimony was secured.
They will also submit the statement
I of Judge Griffin who says that had
the facts as to Orman come before
I him when a request for a new trial
was made, he would most certainly
have granted it.
Since the Mooney case evidence has
been accumulated that Oxman io not
only a perjurer but has been a swind
ler, a common thief, a professional
witness and a. bunco steerer.
The Supreme Court of California
refused to review the proceedings in
the Superior Court denying that Cal
ifornia laws would allow higher
courts to take cognizance of acts de
veloped after the trial, if the trial re
cord was technically perfect as was
the case in the Mooney trial. No er
rors that they could discover cropped
up in the proceedings and whether
Mooney was convicted on perjured
testimony or not was not up to them
to determine.
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BOILERMAKERS SORE
AT LONS DELAY
* OAKLAND,—The Boilermakers
and Ironship builders of this city have
resolved to quit work on November
2 unless the War Labor Board rend
ers its edcision on the long delayed
wages question. The Union has re
quested all coast organizations of the
Boilermakers to join in the movement
so that speedy attention to heir griev
ance would be recveived. The rapid
ly increasing costs of living ma|e the
wage adjustment more and more im
perative from day to day they claim.
Should the boilermakers of the
Pacific Coast join in the strike it
would affect at least 58,000 men.
The ship building companies would
willingly have granted an increase
but the matter is not in their hands
for disposal. The War Labor Board
has the question under consideration
for several months and the patience
of the boilermakers is rapidly break
ing.
It is not generally believed that
the strike will ever come to a head
and it is held that the War Labor
Board will hasten its work without
any further procrastination now that
such delay would occasion a tie up
of shipping. Unionmen complain that
threats of strikes would appear to he
the only way whereby prompt atten
tion is given their demands by the
board as far as the western yards is
concerned.
SEATTLE,—So far as can be de
termined there has been no action
taken or is likely to be immediately
taken in the matter of supporting
the Oakland workers in getting a
quicker decision from the War Labor
Board. In this city the decision is
also eagerly awaited and the men, to
tell the truth, are getting greatly ir
ritated by the delay.
It is likely that the Pacific Coast
Council of the Boilermakers will hold
a conference to consider the critical
situation and to urge prompter ac
tion by the boaid.
GET THE NEWS RIGHT HEAD
THE WORKER.
AWFUL CALAMITY WHEN
PRINCESS SOPHIA SINKS
VANCOUVER,—The most shock
ing disaster which the Canadian Pa
cific Alaskan liners have ever exper
ienced took place sometime Thurs
day night when the Princess Sophia
which grounded on the Vanderbilt
reef, a long narrow island at the en
trance of the Lynn Conal, slipped off
the pinnacle upon which it was fast
ened and foundered with aall hands,
from captain to mess boy and includ
ing in the terrible death list 26 8
paassengers and 63 members of the
crew. All these perished and not a
solitary survivor has been reported.
The fact that, all are lost confirms
the view that the Sophia during the
• night began to take water and weight
astern and when this became sufficient
to break its hold on the rock instantly
slipped down and off, carrying over
three hundred to eternity.
The long passenger list includes
many from the lower Yukon and
among the list to be noted dead are
from Iditarod; A S Bourne, book
keeper for the N. C. Co, R. M. Hall,
R. E. Sole, Mrs F. Beaton and two
children, D. A. McDonald, N. S. Som
erset, G. A. Niles, Thomas Hennes Sr,
Thomas Wichart and J. Mclvor. From
Fairbanks; Peret Gurkevitch, Skag
way; W. F. Shaw, From Ruby;Wm.
Atnalong and wife, S. J. Bagley and
wife, H. S. Parkin, Mrs A1 Winchel,
From Juneau; W. F. Pugh, From
Nenana; Mrs Geo Markus and daugh
ter, C. E. Tackstron and wife of Ruby.
The rest were mostly from the Upper
1 Yukon. The United States ship Cedar
arrived at he scene of the foundering
but only discovered four upturned
boats and one woman’s body.
JUNEAU,—The bodies of 175 vic
tims of the deplorable wreck of the
steamer Sophia have been taken to
Juneau.
JUNEAU.—‘Thirteen bodies have
been identified. Identification is
very slow on account of the bodies
being covered with oil. 25 crafts are
engaged in searching the scene of the
disaster.
It has been ascertained that the
Sophia sank on Friday morning at 6
a. m.
Keep Posted, Head the WORKER.
WINTER TRAIL WILL
RE PROPERLY STAKED
ANCHORAGE,—^Considerable of
the winter travel between the Fair
banks region in the interior of Alas
ka and the coast section of the south
western part of the Territory, is ex
pected to be by way of the route
of the government railroad. The
trail across the gap between the end
■of steel in the Anchorage Division
and the end of steel in the Fairbanks
JHvision will be marked by the Alas
ka Engineering Commission, which
has charge of the construction of the
government railroad.
In the Anchorage Division the end
of steel building north is at Mile 211.
In the Fairbanks Division, the end
of steel building is at Mile 401. The
gap between the rails, therefore, is
190 miles.
William C. Edes, Chairman of the
Alaska Engineering Commission, and
Wiliam Gerig, Engineer In Charge of
the Anchorage Division, recently in
spected the route of the railroad for*
a distance of about thirty miles be
yond Mile 211, the end of steel in the
Anchorage Division. Mr Edes gave
drections to the engineer in charge
of the workers at Mile 211 for tb
markiitg of the overland winter trail
from there to the summit of Broad
Pass, a distance of about 103 miles.
Railroad workers in the Fairbanks
Division will mark the trail from the
end of steel in their Division to the
summit of the Pass, a distance of
about eighty-seven miles.
Regular standard time is now en
joyed by the people of Nome. Day
light saving is a thing of the sum
mery past.
KAISER REFUSES
TO QUIT JOB
PARIS,—The Austrian reply to the
Wilson terms declares that nothing
now prevents the starting of peace
negotiations.
With internal troubles of an ex
treme nature and with the Italian
offensive steadily driving the Aus
trians out of Italy it has become im
perative for the Austrian government
to sue for peace.
The Austrians have long since found
out that a victory by force of arms
was impossible and have been will
ing to quit if suitable peace terms
could be arranged.
By accepting the terms of President
Wilson the Austrians virtually sur
render unconditionally.
PARIS,—In a recent dispatch to
neutral countries the Kaiser declares
that he is willing to be hereditary
monarch of a Republic, but refuses
to abdicate.
The Kaiser, it would seen, desires
peace but does not care to lose his
job.
It is not known what view the En
tente takes of the situation but it
is hoped that in the near fuure
the Allies and the Central Powers
may be able to agree upon a plan of
armistice which will mean nothing
less than the complete downfall of
Germany.
PARIS,—The Kaiser has accepted
tl^e resignation of Gen Ludendorff as
Chief of Staff.
When the German Reichstag took
the military command out of the
hands of the War Party and put it in
the hands of a Council of Civil Gov
ernment it virtually left Ludendorff
without power to act therefore his
resignation.
Ludendorff who has been given the
credit of being the brains of the Ger
man army, along with General Hin
denberg has had complete control
of the miltary situation and has di
rected every move that the German
army.has made in the last two years.
Keep Posted, Head the WORKER.
GERMANS NOW
IN GREAT RETREAT
PARIS,—Newspapers and military
experts declare that it is impossible at
the present stage of the offensive to
give an approximate estimate how far
the German army which is being rout
ed in the battle sector between the
Oise and Aisne rivers will etxend.
German 'esistance seems to have
collapsed, and their retreat resem
bles a complete rout. This makes the
fall of Guise inevitable.
PARIS.—The British Tenth Army
who is assisting the Italians in their
offensive against the Austrians on
the head waters of the Piave, in an
irrestiable charge swept across that
river on a front of 12 miles north of
Montebello driving the Austrians, ut
terly routed before them. Seven
Thousand prisoners, guns and im
mense amount qf war material of all
kinds was captured. The British are
following the retreating Austrians
without giving them a chance to
re-organize.
LONDON,—The terms of the ar
mistice laid down to Geramany stipu
lates as one of the main paragraphs
is that Alsace and Lorraine will hav^
to be evacuated. The rest of the terms
to which Germany will have to com
ply with before an armistice is grant
ed means her virtual and uncondi
tional surrender.
Knowing how the Kaiser and the
junker class feels on the question of
Alsace and Lorraine the Allied War
Council believes that Germany will
-balk at accepting these terms.
JUNKERS DEMAND THAT
GERMANY FIGHT
COPENHAGEN,—The Berliner
Tageblatt says’that there is no doubt
but that the military leaders and the
Junkers will demand hat the Kaiser
refuse the Wilson conditions under
which an armistice will be agreed
upon between the Allies and Germany.
The War Party urges the Kaiser to
immediately call the whole nation to
arms and keep up the fight to a finish
THE HAGUE,—The Workers in
Germany led by the Social Democrats
threaten to revolt en masse unless
the Kaiser abdicates and accepts the
terms as laid down by the Allied
War Coupncil.
LONDON,—Reports from the Con
tinent say that the people of Austria
Hungary are on the brink of revolu
tion. Food riots are raging in the
principal cities of the Dual Monarchy.
Rioters in Budapesth entirely wreck
ed the enrance to the imperial Palace
Sanguinary street fighting continues.
LONDON,—Czecho Slav Legation
says that Hungary must release sev
enty five per cent of her territory oc
cupied by other than people of tha
Magyar race unconditionally. It must
also grant full independence to tha
Juge Slavs. Austria will be compell
ed to allow the Poles in Galicia to
join Poland.
PROCLAMATION
The following proclamation was is
sued by me today:
Whereas it has please# Almighty
God to visit the Territory with a
calamity which has resulted in touch
ing the hearts of each and every citi
zen, thru personal bereavement either
of a beloved family or of cherished
friends and
Whereas the wind swept waters of
Alaska have closed over the gallant
steamship Princess Sophia, leaving no
known survivor of passengers or crew
and
Whereas Death has brot untold sor
row to all Alaska andt herefore I,
Thomas Riggs Jr, Governor of Alaska
do request that as a matter of respect
to our beloved dead and to the cher
ished and broken families, all flags
in the Territory shall be placed at
half mast for a period of three days
and that al churches shall conduct
Memorial services and that each per
son believing in a Just and Merciful
God, knowing how little and helpless
are we all, shall ask for guidance and
strength and be of such service as can
be given.
Given under my hand and the seal
of Alaska at Juneau, the capital, this
the 26th day of October in the year
of our Lord 1918 and of the independ
ance of the United States the 142nd.
THOMAS It RIGGS
Governor of Aaska
By the Governor
Chas M Davidson,
Secretary of Alaska.
SELLING OUT CHEAP. WE
CLOSE NOVEMBER 1. GET YOUR
WINTER’S OUTFIT NOW AND SAVE
MONEY. THE INDEPENDENT GRO
CERY. HANCOCK AND YONG.
IKE 75,000
PRISONERS
LONDON,—The British tenth army
in Italy continues her victorious ad
vance. In the offensive started in
conjunction with the Italians, 75,000
Austrian-Hungarian prisoners were
cut off and captured. The advance is
general on a 36 mile front, the Aus
trian defense having entirely collaps
ed.
COUENHAGEN,—Turkey has
started to negotiate for a separate
peace on the terms laid down to her
by ttft Allied War Council. The col
lapse of Austria and Germany's Mili
tary machine forced her to end the
conflict and make? the best terms pos
sible.
THERE IS NONE AS GOOD AS BEVO