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CHORAGE, IS CONVICTED
IN COURT AT SEWARD.
FINE OF $100 IS ALSO IMPOSED.
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Prisoner Testified That Liquor Be
longed to Woman Who Had Hired
Him to Transport it From This
Community.
J. Olsen, formerly of Anchorage,
was convicted yesterday in the Unit
ed States commissioner’s court at
Seward for having whisky in his pos
session, and sentenced to serve one
year in the Seward jail, according to
advices received here today by Depu
ty Marshal Clarence W. Mossman.
This is the first conviction in Alaska
for violation of the federal bone dry 1
law which went into effect January
1.
Olsen, while in Anchorage, lived on
Eighth avenue near E street. He
testified at his trial in Seward that
the whisky found in his possession by
Deputy Marshal Isaac Evans, of that
city, was the property of an Anchor
age woman, who had engaged the
prisoner to take the liquor to Seward.
This was denied by the woman.
The maximum punishment for vio
lating the federal dry law is a fine
of $1,000 and a year in jail.
VETERAN TEXAN HAD SIX BUL
LET WOUNDS AS TROPHIES
OF EXPERIENCES.
EL TASO, Tex., Jan. 11.—Another
Texas border character is dead in the
person of George Heroic!, Confederate
soldier, Texas ranger and veteran po
lice officer.
Herold claimed credit for the killing
of Sam Pass, the notorious Texas out
law about whom a popular chanty of
the cow camps was composed by some
cowboy band.
He also defended the city jail when
it was attacked by negor soldiers of
the Fort Bli.-s command many years
ago. He carried six bullet wounds as
trophies of his experiences on the bor
der and in the civil war.
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INCRIMINATING PAPERS ARE
EOUND ON ALIEN ENEMIES
ARRESTED RECENTLY.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 11.—
Thins to reorganize sabotage as an
anti-war movement throughout the
nation have been frustrated by the \
government, according to announce- j
ment today. Evidence of the plot was
found in papers on scores of alien
> enemies who have been taken into cus
tody within the last few days.
Government officials say that they j
believe the movement has been broken
up as a nationally organized affair1
p and that sabotage activities will be i
confined to a comparatively few spo-1
radic cases without guidance from any
central headquarters.
* DYNAMITE IN COAL
INJURES TWO MEN
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MEMPHIS, Tenn., Jan. 11.—Dyna-J
mite, which was mixed with coal, ex- j
ploded when the coal was shoveled in
to the fire box of a locomotive engine
here today. The explosion injured the
engineer and fireman so badly that
there is no hope for their recovery.
Whether the dynamite was mixed
with the coal by designing persons or
whether the dynamite was some that
had failed to go off when used in the
coal mine from which the fuel came
has not been ascertained.
APPOINTMENT IS MADE BY SECRETARY OP INTERIOR
FRANKLIN K. LANE AND POSITION COVERS ALL
HARBOR WORK AND TRANSPORTATION MAT
TERS AT THIS END OF SYSTEM.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 12.—
William Gerig, who since early this
last spring has been consulting en
gineer to the Alaskan Engineering
commission in connection with harboi
facilities and improvements at An
chorage, Alaska, was today appointed
consulting engineer to the commission
with the position of engineer in
charge of the Anchorage division by
Secretary of the Interior Frank K,
Lane. In announcing the appointment
of Mr. Gerig to his new position
which gives him jurisdiction not only
of harbor facilities and improvements
as hertofore but of all railroad mat
ters in the Anchorage division, Secre
tary Lane stated that Major Fred
erick Mears, who is now on his way
to Washington, had been relieved at
his own request of the office of mem
ber of the Alaskan Engineering com
mission, with headquarters in An
chorage, and that the major would be
promoted within a few days by’ Presi
;lent Wilson to a colonelcy in the
United States army with instructions
to lead a regiment of railroad en
gineers to France.
Will Leave for North Soon.
Mr. Gerig, who is now in Washing
ton, is expected to leave soon foi
Alaska. He will make the trip to An
chorage over the trail. Upon his ar
rival there he will relieve Andrew
Christensen, manager of the land and
industrial department of the Alaskan
Engineering commission, of the duties
lie temporarily assumed on the depar
ture of Major Mears in connection
with harbor and railroad matters in
the Anchorage division.
Whether there is any’ likelihood of
Mr. Gerig succeeding to the vacancy
on the Alaskan Engineering commis
sion caused by the retirement of Ma
jor Mears would not be discussed by
Secretary Lane.
Secretary Will Be in No Haste.
Mr. Gerig’s appointment as consult
ing engineer in charge of the Anchor
age division is regarded byr Alaskans
in Washington as indicating that the
secretary will not be in any hurry to
name a successor to Major Mears on
the commission.
Mr. Gerig has wide and varied ex
perience as a construction engineer.
Shortly after having been graduated
,-rom the University’ of Missouri in
1886 he was engaged in the location
and construction of railroads in the
vest, in which line of work he remain
2d until 1890 when he joined the en
gineering forces of the Chicago
Drainage Canal. From 1891 to 1904 he
was with the Mississippi River com
mission of the United States Engi
neers in charge of surveys, flood pre
vention and levee work, and the har
bor construction at Memphis and New
Superintended Large Dredge.
During this period he had supervis
ion of the development and operation
the large dredge fleet which main
tains a navigable channel from Cairo,
111., to the mouth of the Mississippi.
From 1905 to 1908, Mr. Gerig was
n the employ of the Isthmian Canal
commission at Panama, first in charge
rf La Boca division canal consiruc
:ion, later going to the Cristobal and
jlatun divisions of that work. After
eaving the Isthmus he entered upon
:he private practice of his profession
is consulting engineer of various
arge projects, notably the Grand
lunction, Colo., irrigation work, the
Siew York barge canal, New York
vater works, and the Wisconsin hyd
ro-electric power plant.
Called to Oregon.
During the next five years his du
ties called him to the far west in the
capacity of vice-president and chief
engineer of the construction of a rail
road in Oregon, and as consulting en
gineer in charge of dredging, rail and
rater terminals at the mouth of the
Columbia river. In 1915 he was con
sulting engineer of the Union Depot
company of St. Paul, Minn.; and in
1916 returned to New York, where he
again engaged in barge canal work,
various investigations of rail and har
bor projects and in bridge contracting.
He was appointed consulting en
gineer in charge of harbor facilities
| and improvements in Anchorage in
March, 1917.
DOCTORS HELP THEIR
BROTHERS IN ARMY
MEDICAL MEN IN MILITARY
SERVICE WILL GET ADEQUATE
PAY AND HOME PROTECTION
SPOKANE, Wn., Jan. 10.—Mem
bers of the Spokane County Medical
society, who have been ordered into
active service with the United States
armed forces will receive at least $200
a month, the pay of an army captain,
under arrangements completed by the
society recently. The society will
make up the difference between the
government pay received, the salary
of a captain.
In addition, each member will be
protected by a $10,000 life insurance
policy, to be paid for the society.
About 122 members of the society al
ready are in the national service.
From an emergency fund, families of
members who fail to receive pay from
the government when it is due. will
be advanced money pending receipt of
the government remittance.
GOATSKIN FORESTS
PREVENT FIRES
ANIMALS KEEP UNDERGROWTH
GRAZED SO CLOSELY THAT
FLAMES CANNOT SPREAD.
, EL PASO, Tex., Jan. 10.—Goats
are a means of fire protection in the
national forests W. R. Chapline, of
the United States forestry service,
told the executive committee of the
I National Mohair Growers’ association
which was in session here recently.
Mr. Chapline gave the committee
men an outline of the facts as he had
developed them in extensive studies
of the use of goats in the forest re
iserve.
His theory as advanced to the goat
growers was that the mohair growing
animals would keep the undegrowth
i spreading from tree to tree through
! the medium of this undergrowth
I would be eliminated. He also urged
. mohair goat breeding on the forest
reserves as a means of increasing the
: nation’s food supply in wartime.
HOUSE TO VOTE ON
WOMAN SUFFRAGE
ADVOCATES OF CONSTITUTION
AL AMENDMENT ARE CONFI
; DENT IT WILL BE ADOPTED.
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| WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 10.—
The house of representatives will vote
late today on the Susan Anthony
woman suffrage amendment to the
United States constitution. The ap
proval of the president was given to
the amendment yesterday.
The suffrage leaders are certain,
after a poll of the house, that the
amendment will receive the necessary
two thirds vote.
NEVER AGAIN.
“How’ is it you let your wufe have
her own way?”
: “I once tried to stop her.”—Brook
! yin Citizen.
OVER $30,000,000 IN COPPER ORE
WILL BE PRODUCED IN
TWELVE MONTHS.
THREE MORE SHIPPING MINES.
Five Larger Salmon and Three Clam I
Canneries Are Putting Up Food for
United States and Her European
Allies.
Cordova and the Copper River val
ley may well rejoice at the prospects
of the new year, says the Cordova
Times.
“The region of marvelous resources
looks forward with greater promise
than ever before,” declares the Times.
“During 1917 more than thirty mil
i lion dollars in copper ore has been
shipped from this port. And more
than that sum will be produced during
1918.
“There is virgin gold of untold
wealth being mined at the interior pla
cer camps. Copper mines are being
opened up on a more extensive scale
than ever, and three more properties
will be on a good shipping basis this
winter.
Bering River Coal Fields.
“We have the Bering river coal
fields and if the government extends
to Alaska the same privileges it ac
cords operators in the states this coal
can be worked as long as man has
need of fuel. Cordova has five large
salmon canneries and at least three
clam plants that will furnish the Unit
ed States and our allies with the best
foodstuffs the sea contains.
“The growth of Cordova has been
slow but permanent and is now look
ed upon by all as the most prosper
ous and substantial towns in Alaska.
Our first concrete building is about
completed and contracts have already
been let for three or four more con
crete buildings in the spring and this
is only the beginning of our tidal
wave of future security and happi-1
ness in the coming metropolis of
Alaska.
Funds for Federal Building.
“The government has already ap
propriated $.‘14,500 for the erection of
a federal building here and another
appropriation of $65,500 is now be
fore congress for the completion of j
this structure, for which the Cordova '
Townsite company donated a large
plot of ground.
“Alaska yields the most opportuni
ties and the best returns of any land
to man whose sole capital is brawn.
It also yields to him whose capital is
brain and whose investment is dollars.!
Every step of exploitation on the part
of the United States, of the territory 1
and of capitalists and individuals will
yield returns. No land shows the
profits of Alaska, and particularly I
that section adjacent to Cordova, j,
Alaska is on the top grade, and Cor- j
dova’s best days are to come.”
BRITONS OBTAIN
DYE SECRETS
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formulas that were used
BY BADISCHE WORKS ARE
NOW IN LONDON BANK.
LONDON, Jan. 11.—British textile
manufacturers have obtained posses
sion of 257 secret recipes for German
dyes, belonging to the Badische
Works, according to the London Daily
Mail.
The recipes are now in a London
bank.
APPROVAL URGED
OF PEACE DEMANDS
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WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 12.—
Senator James Hamilton Lewis, dem
ocrat, of Illinois, today introduced in
the senate a resolution expressing ap
proval of President Wilson’s course
in recently setting forth before a joint
session of congress the war aims and
conditions of peace of this country.
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