ANCHORAGE WEEKLY TIMES
' AND ALASKA LABOR NEWS.
VOL. i'. NO. S. ANCHORAGE, ALASKA. THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 1918.
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PEICE TEN i'K.Vi'
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JURY SELECTED
AFTERSEVERAL
SEVERAL MEMBERS OF PANEL
ARE EXCUSED FOR HAVING
DISCUSSED CASE.
TWO PEREMPTORY CALLINGS.
Prosecuting Attorney Makes Opening
Statement and Then Examination of
Witness Is Started by Lawyers Con
nected with Proceedings.
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* MEMBERS OF JURY. -k
* W. A. Maltby, contractor. -k
* Altamon Knight, prospector. -k
* T. J. Dodds, former employe *
* of the Alaskan Engineering *
* commission. -k
* John Callin. merchant. *
* Al. Shyman, hardware mer- *
* chant. -k
* A. Supernaut, prospector. *
* R. L. Courtney, merchant. k
* William Long, fishermen. -k
! * S. Maxwell, lumber mer- -k
* chant. *k
•k C. H. Holmes, architect. -k
* W. T. C. Smith, accountant. "k
*■ Frank W. Barr, freighter. -k
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Re-trial of the case of the govern
ment against H. C. Reed, one of the
owners of the Bank pool hall, accused
of having whisky in his possession, is
in progress today before a jury in the
com-' jf United States Commissioner
Leopold David.
Retinal of the case was made neces
sary by the disagreement of the jury
in the first trial, which was held Mon
la >\ Reed was an .«► ct-.* et: ly last
Saturday morning in a room at the
rear of his place of business by Depu
ty Marshal Harry Kavanaugh.
Summoned by Deputy Reed.
A
1 he members of the panel for the
jury in today’s trial were summoned
by Deputy Marshal Ralph Reed. Some
iiitie difficulty was experienced in
obtaining a jury, several of those that
had en summoned being excused be
cau.~ they stated they had either dis
cu>sed the case or had expressed an
•pinion concerning the guilt or inno
cence of the defendant.
The only peremptory challenges
v exercised by Attorney Wil
lie.1 H. Rager, counsel for the de
fen.-e. By peremptory challenges
i . H. '.Villiams, undertaker, and W. M.
M rsters, a former employe of the
United States marshal’s office.
Members of the panel excused for
cause were John Dalton, merchant;
Harold Howard, teller in Bank of
Alaska; Brice Howard, clerk in Bank
of Anchorage; Fred Carlquist, jeweler
and R. W. Silver, gardener.
Opening Statement Made.
After the jury was sworn, the pros
ecuting attorney made his opening
statement. The taking of evidence is
in progress this afternoon. Deputy
Marshal C. W. Mossman was the first
witness for the government.
As in the first trial, Mr. Rager is
the attorney for the defense and As
sistant District Attorney Jeremiah C.
Murphy is conducting the prosecution
for the government.
] ZfCZAR is reported
AT LIBERTY AGAIN
LONDON GETS DISPATCH THAT
FORMER RULER AND FAMILY
HAVE LEFT TOBOLSK.
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LONDON, Jan. 18.—Reports from
Petrograd are to the effect that the
former Czar Nicholas and family have
escaped from Tobolsk, Siberia, to
which place they were exiled by the
Russian republican government.
> No* official confirmation of the re
ported escape can be obtained from
1, the authorities at Petrograd.
IQ RED CROSS
BAG, WHICH WAS FIRST SOLD BY
SHRINERS IN SAN FRAN
CISCO, TRAVELS FAR.
SUBJECT OF THIRTEEN SALES.
Every Temple in North America Will
Be Visited and Final Returns Are
to Aggregate from $500,000 to
$750,000.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Jan. 23.—
The Stunners’ Red Cross Sack of Flour
started by Clarence F. Pratt, historian
of Islam Temple Mystic Shrines of
San Francisco, has traveled 9000 miles
and been sold thirteen times.
The thirteenth sale by Bagdad Tem
ple of Shriners at Butte, Montana,
amounting to $7,160 was the largest
yet held, although Algeria Temple at
Helena, Montana, sold the sack one
eek earlier (December 7) for $5,100,
and Aloha Temple at Honolulu sold it
in July last for $1,036.
$275,000 for Gridley Sack.
Mark Twain in “Roughing It” says
the famous Gridley $275,000 Civil Wai
Sack of Flour traveled 15,000 miles.
The Shriners’ sack is to visit every
Temple of Mystic Shriners in North
America and it is estimated it will
have traveled 75,000 miles, or three
times around the globe. The Red Cross
sack has now traveled from California
to Honolulu and back, to Ohio, Iowa,
Alabama, Montana and Y\ yoming. and
now has a value of $15,038.05, all of
which has been turned over to the
American Red Cross. The Hour will
be .old c.v Ivorein Temple, at Raw'll id-',
Wyoming this month and by Khedive
Temple at Norfolk, Virginia early in
February.
From Virginia, it will be sent to
Kentucky, Michigan, and Kansas.
The Shriners of Islam Temple of
San Francisco, who have charge of the
flour’s itinery, believe the sack will
net the Red Cross from half to three
quarters of a million dollars.
John D. McGilvray, potentate of
Islam Temple will take the sack to the
Imperial Council of Shriners at Atlan
tic City next June.
ALASKA SOLDERS
SEW TO PRISON
THREE TROOPERS CONVICTED
OF ATTEMPTING MUTINY AT
FORT WILLIAM H. SEWARI).
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Jan. 23.—
General Murray, commander of the
western department of the United
States army, today approved the sen
tences imposed by a court-martial at
Fort William H. Seward near Haines,
Alaska, on three privates of company
C, Fourteenth infantry. They were
convicted of having attempted to in
cite a mutiny at Fort William H. Sew
ard. The three convicted men are Mi
chael Salai, who was sentenced to 10
years at hard labor in the federal
prison on McNeill’s island and dishon
orable discharge from the army; Ed
mund Gooding, sentenced to five years
and Thomas Connors sentenced to two
years in Alcatraz military prison.
Privates Senter and Messer were
released. They, too, had been charged
with having participated in the at
tempt to incite a mutiny.
packJngplanTfire
LOSS IS $500,000
SWIFT AND COMPANY SUFFER
HEAVY DAMAGE BY FLAMES
AT RIO —ANEIRO, BRAZIL.
RIO JANEIRO, Brazil, Jan. 19.—
Swift and company’s packing house
here was destroyed by fire today. The
loss is $500,000.
STATESMEN EAT
TURNIPS RAISED
ON 01 INLET
SECRETARY OF INTERIOR HAS
VEGETABLES FROM THIS
PART OF ALASKA.
KUSKOKWIM LINE DISCUSSED.
! John Troy, Juneau Newspaperman,
Is in Washington in Effort to Ob
tain Governorship Office for Him
self.
By L. F. SHAW,
Former Editor of Anchorage Times.
NEW YORK, Dec. 28.—(Special
Correspondence)—I have just return
ed from a short visit to Washington
and while there had the pleasure of
I meeting Secretary of the Interior
Lane. The secretary told me turnips
j grown in the Cook inlet country form
ed the chief feature of a dinner serv
ed at his home recently, to a number
of official friends, and that those at
the table could scarcely realize that
the delicious vegetables came from
Alaska.
1 discussed the matter of a branch
railway line leading from Talkeetna,
via the Cache creek country to the
Kuskokwim river, and there can be
no doubt but that such a road would
have his earnest support. I discussed
the same matter with Herbert A.
.vleyer, assistant to the sercetary of
the interior, in immediate charge of
Alaska railway matters here, and he
is equally enthusiastic over the prop
osition. While of course construction
yT v i;.; branch road will not begin
until after the completion of the main
| line to Nenana, it is well to begin to
talk it at this time. In fact, Chair
man William C. Edes, chairman of
the Alaskan Engineering commission,
who is at \\ ashington, told me he
would like to send an engineering
force to make a preliminary survey
! of a prospective route during the
next summer.
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Judge James Y\ ickersham, who is
i contesting the seat of Delegate in
Congress Charles A. Sulzer, retains
his office in the house office building
| and has his case ready for the house
committee on elections. Representa
tive Riley J. \Y ilson, democrat, of
Louisiana, the chairman of this com
mitte, says that there is one other
, case that will be tried before the
Wickersham-Sulzer case comes on for
1 hearing. Wiekersham appears confi
dent that he will be seated.
John Troy, editor of the Juneau
| Empire, is in Washington. I did not
; meet him, but it is said that he is
| there to oppose the reappointment of
[Governor J. F. A. Strong. It is fur
; ther said that while Troy is ostensi
bly in favor of the appointment to
the governorship of Commissioner
Thomas Riggs, jr., he in reality is in
| favor of himself for the job.
i Mrs. Robert L. Hatcher, of Anchor
age, of national prominence in the
prohibition movement, was in Wash
ington while the prohibition bill was
up before the congress and did yeo
man work for its passage. Mrs.
Hatcher is one of Governor Strong’s
firmest supporters for reappointment,
! an(l "’hile in Washington did much
j work in his behalf.
^uaoivd iiu mure loyai or lniei
I ligent booster than Dr. S. Hall Young,
who went to Wrangell as a mission
ary in the seventies. After long
serviec in Alaska, Mr. Young was re
called by the mission board and placed
i in charge of the home office in New
\ork city. Much of his work is rais
ing funds for church work in Alaska,
and he is delivering illustrated lec
turs in most of the big eastern cities.
Dr. Young plans on visiting Anchor
age next season.
A man named Jackson, from Fair
banks, is said to be a candidate for
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NON-RICOCHET DEVICE WILL
SINK AND EXPLODE AT
PREDETERMINED DEPTH.
CONCUSSION BY SOLID SURFACE
United States Navy Department
Adopts Invention and It Is Also
Taken by Admiralties of British
and French Governments.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 23.—
A non-richoet shell, deadly at a depth
charge is the newest device perfected
by the ordnance experts of the United
I States for use against the German
I submarines, according to an announce
; ment made today by the navy depart
ment.
The new shell dives when it strikes
the water instead of bouncing along
the surface as the ordinary shell does, i
The new shell will not explode until
when it hits a solid surface or reach- j
es a predetermined depth in the water, j
Besides the United States navy de
partment the British and French ad- i
miralties have adopted the shell.
CHANCE TO COOL OFF
GIVEN PARTISANS
SENATE ADJOURNS U N T I L
THURSDAY IN EFFORT TO
STOP POLITICAL DEBATE.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 23.—j
Partisan debate in the senate, precipi
tated yesterday by the attack of Will
iam J Stone, democrat, of Missouri,
against former President Theodore:
Roosevelt will begin at 2 o’clock to
morrow afternoon. Adjournment of
the senate was taken late yesterday
afternoon until Thursday in the hope
that the extreme partisans on both
sides would cool off, but this does
not seem likely.
Senators today admitted that the:
prospects of the enactment of legisla
tion for a war cabinet and a munitions J
bureau had been greatly lessened by!
the vigorous opposition of President
Wilson.
JAIL IN TEXAS
HAS ROOF GARDEN
SUN PARLOR IS ALSO PROVIDED
GOOD PRISONERS AT BAS
TILE IN EL PASO.
EL PASO, Tex., Jan. 23.—Sheriff
Seth Orndorff claims the distinction
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for his new jail that it is the only one
which has a roof garden and sun par
lor for the prisoners.
The new jail is located on the sixth
floor of the courthouse building and is
so arranged that the prisoners may
spend the mornings on one side of the
! court where they can enjay the warm,
i sunny winter days and on the other
side for the afternoons.
Only the good conduct prisoners are
! permitted to enjoy this privilege.
GIRL DENIES SHE IS
TO WED PERSHING
ANITA PATTON SAYS SHE IS NOT
ENGAGED TO GENERAL
PERSHING.
EL PASO, Tex., Jan. 22. — Miss
Anita Patton, of San Marino, Califor
nia, denied in El Paso today tha she
is engaged to wed General J. J.
Pershing, commander of the American
forces in France. Miss Patton is vis
iting friends in El Paso.
Several days ago a report was pub
lished in a Paris newpaper and cabled
to the United States that Miss Patton
and General Pershing were engaged
to be married.
POPULAGEIN
BY MURDERS
PREMIER ORDERS INQUIRY IN
SLAYING OF A. I. SHINGAR
OFF AND T. IKOKOSHIN.
WANTS ASSASSINS ARRESTED.
Government Officials Suspected of
Having Inspired Commission of
Crime and Cabinet Leader Hopes to
Appease Popular Wrath.
PETROGRAD, Jan. 23.—Thorough
investigation into the murder of A. I.
Shingaroff, who was minister of fin
ance, and of Professor T. Kokoshine,
who was comptroller, in the cabinet of
former Premier M. Kerensky, and the |
pursuit and arrest of their slayers!
have been ordered by Leon Lenine,:
premier of Russia, and leader of the
Maximilist party. Shingaroff and j
Kokoshine were slain while they were
asleep in bed at the marine hospital
in Petrograd. The police declare they
have no clue to the identity of the as
sassins.
The murder of the two former cab-j
inet ministers has occasioned a revul
sion of feeling against the present
government, officials of which is sus
pected of inspiring the double crime.
Protests against the double tragedy
are pouring into Premier Lenine.
The premier, by ordering the inves
tigation and the arrest of the slayers,
hopes to appease public sentiment and
to prevent the threatening situation
from getting beyond the government’s
control.
CITY LIGHTS WILL
BURN ALL NIGHT
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STREET LAMPS, WHICH HAVE
BEEN PUT OUT AT 1 A. M. WILL
KEEP GOING UNTIL DAWN.
The street lights which during the
last several weeks have been turned
off at 1 o’clock in the morning, were
kept lighted last night until 5o’clock
this morning. From now, the lights
will be kept burning throughout the !
night and will be extinguished just be
fore dawn every morning.
A committee headed by Frank Red
wood yesterday interview Andrew
Christensen, acting division engineer i
for the Anchorage district at the |
meeting of the chamber of commerce
and the new ruling was made and
went into effect last night.
KAISER’S MONEY
DECLINES IN VALUE
DECREASE IN MARK IS DUE TO
LIKE FAILURE OF PEACE
WITH RUSSIANS.
LONDON, Jan. 19.—The value of
the German mark has fallen sharply
on neutral exchanges in the last few
days, reflecting a loss of confidence
in neutral countries in the outcome of
peace negotiations between Germans
and Austrians and Russians at Brest,
Litovsk province, Russia.
STEAMSHIP TEXAN
ARRIVES IN PORT
VESSEL WITH HOLE IN SIDE
MANAGES TO NAVIGATE UN
DER HER OWN STEAM.
AT AN ATLANTIC PORT, Jan. 19.
—The steamship Texan, which was
damaged at sea recently in a collision
with another vessel, arrived today at
an Atlantic port under her own steam.
She was convoyed by warships. She
has a large hole in her side.
IS OBSERVED
BAKERS, SCIENTISTS AND CITI
ZENS GENERALLY FOLLOW
CONSERVATION RULES.
NO WHITE BREAD FOR SALE.
Dealers, Because Public Anticipated
Regulations Going Into Effect, Did
Not Sell Usual Supplies Tuesday
and Had Some Left.
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* End of a Wheatless Day
* I have come to the end of a
* wheatless day,
* I have. eaten no cookies or
* pie;
* I have had no bread that was
* made with wheat,
* It was made out of corn or
+ rye.
* Aad I liked it so well that
+ when war is past
* And a glorious victory won
* 1*11 keep on observing “wheat
* less” days
And I’ll eat “corn pone” for
* fun!
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By C. W. JONES,
Publicity Agent of Food Campaign.
Rigid observance of the first
“wheatless” Wednesday was the rule
in Anchoi'age today. This fact was
attested by the bakers and restaurant
owners of the city, who report they
did not offer for sale any wheat,
bread, cake or pies.
With no precedent to guide them re
garding wheatles days, bakers and
restaurant owners found themselves
supplies with quantities of wheat
bread and pastry. The public, evi
dently anticipating a wheatless day
today, did not buy the usual amount of
wheat products yesterday. Bakers and
restaurant men say the experience has
taught them to prepare for wheatless
Wednesday in advance and not to
make up the ordinary amount of
wheat products Tuesday.
Wheatless day was observed at the
mess houses of the Alaskan Engineer
ing commission. Bread of rye flour
and pie crust of the same ingredient
made satisfactory substitutes.
The conservation regulations were
cheerfuly observed by all citizens of
the city and vicinity in unanimous ap
proval of the national policy to save
food and eliminate waste.
CHINESE FIRE ON
AMERICAN GUNBOAT
ORIENTAL REBELS AT PEKING
KILL ONE AMERICAN SAIL
OR AND WOUND TWO.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 23.—
Chinese rebels today fired upon the
American gunboat Monacacy at Pe
king and killed one sailor and wound
ed two other sailors.
The commander of the Monaccey re
ported that he returned the fire and
silenced the rebels.
The Japanese steamer Tayuen was
also subjected to fusilades by the Chi
nese rebels.
Soldiers of the Chinese government
has started in pursuit of the rebels.
NO ACTIVITY IN
FRANCE OR ITALY
BULGARS ATTACK IN MACEDO
NIA AND GREEKS HELP TO
DRIVE THEM BACK.
LONDON, Jan. 22.—Almost com
plete inactivity persists on the Italian
and French war fronts.
Bulgars heavily attacked the French
positions on the Macedonian front.
The French and Greeks drove the Bul
gars back