Cook Iknlet Pioneer
VOL. 1
Anchorage, Alaska, Wednesday, November 17, 1915
NO. 22
JAPAN SHIPS WAR
MUNITIONS 10 AID
THE NEEDY SLAVS
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LONDON. Nov. 17.—Petrograd 1
advice* received here today state
that the arrival of shells and other;
munitions of war. sent by Japan, has
relieved the war situation, whjeh has
been sadly handicapped by a lack of,
ammunition. With the arrival of an
abundance of munitions of war, the
Russian army is now placed on an
equal basis with General von Hiin
denberg's army of Invasion, and the
Russians are now confident that they;
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will drive Hlndenberg out of Russia |
and Poland. All of the Russian |
armies are being supplied with ara-j
munition. It is coming in in great
quantities over the Trans-Siberian
railway line, and as fast as it ar
rives. it is being distributed among
the various bases and in turn given
out to the various armies. The Rus
sians feel hopeful that with adequate
munitions of war they can w in back
what the Teutons have taken from
them.
CHURCHILL IKES
DEFENSE OF HIS
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LONDON. Nov. IT.—In a speech.
In Guild-Hall before a vast audience, '1
last night, Winston Churchill, for
mer first lord of the admiralty, j
warmly defends his administratiion i
of the affairs of that office. Refer-j
ring particularly to the Dardanelles
campaign, which has been the object
of most of the criticism directed
*list'llin,, Ch'ufchlll said:
“Every move of the navy under
my administration was done after
consultation and by the advice of
naval experts connected with the
navy department. I won't have it
said that the Dardanelles attack wob
a civilian plan foisted by political
amateurs upon reluctant officers. The
campaign in the Dardanelles met
with the hearty approval of the not
ed naval experts connected with the
office. The matter was gone Into
very throughly. Had success been
achieved, there would have been no
criticism.” ■
Churchill urged the young men of
Great Britain to join the army with
out further delay, declaring ?that he
himself was going to the front, and
wished to see all able-bodied young
men or his country follow his ex
ample.
lack of salvarsan
DEATH TO THOUSANDS
NEW YORK, Nov. 17.—The lack
of salvarsan Imports from Germary
11b causing the death of thousands of
Americans throughout the Country.
(Note—Salvarsan is a blood spe
cific, widely known as "60B.” It
was discovered by 1 lof. Ehrlich, a
German. >
LORD KITCHENER
AT LEMNOS ISLAND
LONDON, Nov. 17.—Lord Kitch
ener, minister of war, arrived at
Lemnos island, in the Aegean sea.
yesterday, according to advices re
ceived from Milan today. When the
war minister departed from London,
his destination was not revealed.
CITY OF SEATTLE IN
PRINCE RUPERT DOCK
(%tNCE RUPERT, Nov. 17.-—
Temporary repairs are being made to
the steamer City of Seattle in the
local dry dock, to. edible the vessel
to proceed, under its own steam, to
Seattle. The damage to the steamer
/j^ is quite heavy.
Merchants Cafe, bnp block from
the Northern. c
The Alaska Pool Rooi^-—best
7* lights, good tables, good service.
Bring your films to McCain’s
Studio for development and printing.
Work guaranteed.
Clothes cleaned and pressed at
The Model, corner Foourth and B at.
GREECE OBJECTS
I TO ALLIED TROOPS
: ON GREEK SOIL
I _
PARIS, Nov. 17. — The allies j
| Ihreau-n to send a fleet to Greece;
; and dethrone King Constantine. The |
j trouble grows out of the objection;
I of Greece to the landing of allied
j forces at Salonika, which would hin
! der thejr advance into Serbia. The ^
allies declare that the former Greek
premier, Venlzelos. when in power^j
I Invited the allies to land at Salonika.)
and say that they propose to con-1
! tinue to do so, with or without the i
| consent of Greece; they will force a,
| compliance with the Venlzelos prom, j
ise, declaring that Greece has no !
| right now to object,
j On the other hand, Greece has no
i tifled the allies that if any of their
troops are forced by the enemy over
) the border of Serbia Into Greece.
■ they will be considered as interned,
j King Constantine is known to
! ravor the central powers, but the
; Greek people generally favor the al
| lies. As a compromise, the king
! proposes to remain neutral. The ac
j tion of the allies may force him tp
1 abdicate, as the allied fleets could
, raise havoc with his country, if
' driven to heroic measures.
J BERLIN, Nov. 17.—Advices re
! ceiveil here, today state that the
! french and Greek troops clashed at
Salonika yesterday, but that later
the French general apologized and
smoothed out the trouble.
WELCH DEFEATS O’LEARY
IX A I a-ROUND CONTEST j
WINNIPEG, Nov. IT.—Welch de.
feated O'Leary in a twelve-round
contest here last night. In the first
three rounds O'Leary had all the
best of the fight, but after that
Welch's superior weight counted and
he took the aggressive. The fight
ing was fast and furious, and from
a spectators’ standpoint was all that
could be desired. Wjhlch was four
teen pounds heavier nHtn O’Leary.
HISTORIC RUNNING#'
rackItrack EIRE
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.—The
grand stand and fourteen stables of*
the hlstorir Hennings race track In
this city were burned to the ground
| last night. The head stableman was
burned ti death, and four other eni
| ployes were quite badly scorched.
The cause of the fire is unknown.
Remember, this is the last month
that you get the 10x16 photo free, at
the J/cOain Studio, Third avenue
and H street. -
Wiinted—Hoarders and roomerB.
Fourth and B sf., E. Mrs. jlr Sharts.
A good place to eat—-Merchants
Cafe.
For Sale—Cheap, corner lot,
cleared, and cabin partly finished, at
Third avenue aad East B. Inquire
ob prealises.
ALASKA, AS SEEN THROUGH THE
DISCERNING EYES OF A TOURIST
WHO VISITED ANCHORAGE IN JULY
In a leading Michigan newspaper, l
Or. Robert McGregor, a tourist who
visited Anchorage in July, gives his
impressions ot Alaska, as follows:
Alaska! The name suggests to
the average mind a wilderness of ic<
and snow—the habitat of the Eski
mos and the polar bear. This sim
pression seems not unnatural, when
it is considered that the territory
known as Alaska runs through the
latitudes of Labrador, Southern1
Greenland and Northern Norway—
regions which are cold, barren and
inhospitable.
In the high latitudes the develop
ment of communities and the pro
gress of civilization have always
been extremely slow. Accepting the
assertion of the old prospector,
“There is no law of God or man runs
north of fifty-three,' the visitor nat
urally expects to find society and so-,
cial order of a rather rough and
pritnitlve sort. With such expecta
tion the writer found himself last
July off the north Pacific coast,
speeding through the fifties bound
for Alaska, and was fated to have all
preconceived notions regarding the
character, progress and climatology,
of the territory completely upset.
About the fifty-fourth parallel on thP
island-guarded coast is a rather tem
pestuous bit of water known as
Dixon Entrance. When this is cross
ed, a dozen miles or so. the voyager,
| finds himself in Alaska.
Mild, Ple^ant Climate,
t Fo* a day. or. .ttf^_mu.V*id
[sailing with a bleak wind under,
| cloud-clad skies and a drizzling rain.
I but on reaching Alaskan waters it
I seemed as if we had passed at once
| into the balmy, the bright sunshine!
| and placid waters of the Italian I
I lakes. Thanks to thP genial Japan-1
i ese current, cloudless skies and;
| unite warm weather prevailed dur
ing many days and through hundreds
of miles of cruising, till Dixon En
trance once more lav to the north
i ward.
The continuously warm weather
was one of the surprises of the trip. j
Strange as the statement may ap
pear, the warmest consecutive ten
writer has exp-"'
where during the past unusual sum
mer were spent in Alaska. At Ju
i neatt, the capital of Alaska. July 25,
the highest temperature was 89 de
| gr6es, and tne lowest 68 degrees.
I The Japanese current, sweeping
along the coast, modifies the climate |
: throughout tne year to a very great
i degree, so that the northernmost.
I cape of Alaska, Point Barrow, well
| within the arctic circle. Is much j
j warmer than any point so far north,
| of the eunator.
Alaska may be said to have two
climates—that of the coast and that
of the interior. ThP winter tempera
ture along the coast rarely goes far
below freezing, while the summers
are warm, with a moderate amount I
of rain. The summers of the in- [
terior are hot, shorthand dry, while j
the winter are long and extremely j
cold. Along the coast flowers bloom |
in great profusion, and garden truck !
of many kinds is successfully raised,
in a garden at Sitka the writer
picked strawberries as large and
finely flavored as any he had ever
seen.
Along the water courses of the in
terior— tlie Susitna, Matanuska and
Tatiana valleys are vast tracts of
land suitable for farming, on which
hay, oats and wheat can be grown
and stock profitably raised. Accord
ing to government reports, the agri
cultural possibilities are us great, if
not greater, titan some of the central
states.
I''e<lcrnl Stla.OOO.tHHI Itallroad.
In an effort to develop the country
the t'nited States government has
begun the construction of a railroad
from Seward to Fairbanks, a dis
tance of over 400 miles, the sum of
$3.r>,000,000 having been appropri
ated by congress for this purpose.
On the spot where tlie first load of
rails was landed for this road, early
in July, there grew up, within a very
few days, a city of 3,000 souls.
Houses, stores and buildings of all
kinds went up at an amazing rate,
following an auction sale of lots by
th(, government. The tbwu lias been
called Anchorage, and bids fair to
become a place of some importance.
Considering the vast size of Alas
ka -fourteen times that of the state
of New York, nine times that of the
state of Washington, larger thaTi all
the states east of the Mississippi and
north of the Ohio and Potomac—the
number of inhabitants is surprisingly
small. At the present t.ime the pop
ulation of the entire territory—
whites and Indians included—does
not much exceed that of the city of
jiwglnaw- - .These ») <*,
and about the same number of In
dians.
Alaska is an empir sin the mak
ing. rts fisheries a^e the greatest in
the world. It has more gold than :
California, more coal than Pennsyl
vania. more copper than Michigan
and Arizona, and the only tin mines
in the T'nited States.
When Secretary Wiill'am H. Sew
ard in 1 867 secured Alaska from
Russia it was said that he had made
a -bad bargain. Since that time,
scarce fifty years ago, Alaska has
yielded, in fisheries and minerals,
over $600,000,000.
Along the coast there are some
established and thriving towns—
none, however, with a population
greater than 5.000. The most im
portant is Juneau—-a compact, well
linilt place, of comfortable homes,
fine public and office buildings, de
partment stores, high grade hotels,
an excellent hospital and a $50,000;
Elks temple, as commodious as the
onP In Saginaw.
Normal Orderly I.lfe.
Life in an Alaskan coast town is ■
qu'te as orderly as in a New England j
village. At some points saloons and
dance halls seem rather much in evl- !
dence. with occasional carousals of
mining and fisher folk. In summer
the hours of business arP long, to
accommodate traders who com? by
water at all hours. The Indian ele
ment, always conspicuous. Is remark
ably temperate, industrious and
home-loving. The results of mis
sionary work among the aborigines
ar,, marvelous. 'J’be old myths and
totem poly superstitions are rapidly
passing, and boys and girls, trained
in mission schools, bring to their
homes many of the arts of civiliza
tion and refinement.
8. S. HRUMANIA SI NK
BY BRITISH SI IIM A HIM':
CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 17.— |
The German steamship Hermama
was sunk by a British submarine in
the Mediterranean sea yesterday.
The. crew went down with the ship.
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All kinds of heating stoves, large
and small, at absolute oost, at the
Ciocker Mattress Co., near corner of
Fourth and H street.
Underwear, boys' and girls’ vests
and drawers, 75c. Hosiery, ladies’
and children’s suits. Francisco Mer
cantile, Fourth and K St.
For Rant—Nicely furnished rooms,
with heat, over the Francisco Mer
cantile. corner 4th are. and K at.
X|.;\v VOItR MAVOH ON
THE OlMSRATl\<i TAUI.K |
V
NEW YORK, Nov. 17. John Pur-!
roy Mitchell, mayor of the city of
Sew York, was on the operating
table yesterday, a victim of appendi
citis. He is doing wpll after the op
eration.
Merchants Cafe, four doors from
Hotel Crist.
Having received special mould
ings, lumber furniture, fixtures,
fancy veneer, etc., f am now in a
position to do anything la the furni
ture line.
WILKES. Shop 4th and H.
Merchants Cafe, under the man
agewent of .t. Casey McDaaael
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WASHINGTON. r>. C„ Nov. 17.— ]
Called meetings of the democratic1
and republican national committees:
is naturally turning attention in this1
city to things political. It appears
to be a foregone conclusion thatj
President Woodrow Wilson will b"
renominated by the democrats with
out opposition. Just who his run
ning mate will be is another matter.
Home leading democrats seem to
think that the proper thing to do is
to renominate Vice-President Mar
shall. Vet others are now agitating
the nomination of Brand Whitlock,
j who has just returned from Belgium. ;
being the Cnited States minister to j
j that country. Whitlock achieved al
- , .
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world-wide reputation for his capa
ble handling of th(. relief work in
stricken Belgium, and some big
Democrats say lie would make a
whirlwind run as Wilson's running
mate. The redoubtable Colonel
■iano-s Hamilton Lewis, 1'. 3. senator
from Illinois, is another man who is
being urged as a candidate.
Slnre Taft and Mann came out
with a vigorous endorsement for
Etfhu Root for the republican nom
ination for president. Root stock has
advanced several points, but his
nomination seems unlikely. One
chief cause is the fact that New
Vork state turned down the constitu
tion framed by a constitutional con
vention of which Root was president.
SEATTLE. NoV. 17. — Edward)
jjj,rause. of. *Ua,ska..»ww
tak'-r. into custody upon his arrival:
here ’ n t night on the steamer .let '
ferson, charged with the abduction !
of William Christie, the anialga )
mator of the Treadwell mines.
Krause hoarded the Jefferson at
Ketchikan, buying a ticket-under the
name of Mo •
Cpon being taken to police head
quarters, Krause was subjected to a!
severe grilling, but revealed nothing!
tangible as to the whereabouts of
Christie, lie said a stranger had |
hired his launch and paid hint to de. j
liver a letter to Christie in Tread- j
well. HP gave the letter to Christie,;
who followed him down to the
launch, in which the stranger was j
sitting. He took both Christie and i
the stranger to tHuneau, and that's
the last he has seen hr heard of
either one.
Krause's hank book showed he
had two thousand dollars on deposit,
lie will be held on a charge of im
personating an officer, pending fur
I ther developments.
1 mtlTAIV WANTS NO
Sl'FI ACITATIpN NOW
LOfStfllN. Nov. 17. — EmeTine'
! Rank hurst, the suffragette leader.
I was denied ])ermission to renew sttf
fragette agitation at this time. The ,
home secretary declared that the war
was taking ail the time of tlv gov
ernment and it did not propose to
he diverted from the main purpose
by internecine troubles.
ZERRKLIN DAMAGED
BY SLAV AitriLi.pruv
TONPON. Nov, 17.—A Hague re-1
port from Frankfort states that a
Zeppelin flying over Russia was fired
upon by Russian artillery and was;
damaged to such an extent that it
had to descend. The crew was tasen |
captive by the Slavs and the aerial1
machine destroyed.
Hot corn bread at the MeVchants.
Choicest cigars, candies, fruits,
grape juice, at the Alaska Root
Room.
Hot biscuits at the Merchants Cafe.
Holiday"'orders are coming irTfast,
and i now have a shop full, com
pleted, to select from. Better drop
In and see some ntfty designs. Did
you see those Baby Toboggans?
WILKES, Shop tth and H.
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Window Shades, all sizes. Eck
Mtsaa's Khndtars Store.
VIENNA, Nov. 17.—~After glori
.ons lighting. covariviiS a period dl
four weeks, we have driven back the
Russians to their original positions
on the river Styr." This is the offi
cial report of activities in the river
Styr region, as given out by the Aus
trian war office in Vienna today.
Tt'tiS FAIR TO I INO
ST FA MK.lt MACKINAW
ASTORIA. Nov. 17.—-Answ'ering
wireless calls for aid. sent out by the
steamer Mackinaw, several tugboats
departed from here yesterday morn
ing in quest of the distressed vessel.
ITp to this morning, the tugboats re
port that they have been unable to
locate the Mackinaw. The call for
aid gave the position of the vessel as
off the Columbia river, but a search
of these waters fails to reveal any
ship. The fear is expressed that the
Mackinaw has gone down, although
the search has nol been abandoned.
PATROI.MAN ACQCITTER
OK A Ml'IlDEK (’HAROE
SEATTLE, Nov. 17.—Alex. How
ley. a merchants patrolman, who has
been on trial for the alleged murder
of a delivery boy, was foiind not
guilty by the trial Jury. Th. mes
senger boy was speeding on a motor
cycle at night time throughout the
streets of Seattle, when the patrol
man, thinking him a thief, com
manded him to halt. The lad kept
on going, whereupon the patrolman
pulled his gun and tired, inflicting a
wound from which the victim died.
STEAMER MARIPOSA
IN SEATTLE DKYROCK
TTLE, Nov. I 7.—The steamer
Mariposa, towed by a Canadian tug
boat, reached here last evening, and
today is being placed in a local dry
dock, where It will receive a thor
ough overhauling, necessitated by Its
recent contact with a reef on , an
couver island.
C.o to The Model for photo sup
plies. We also develop and print.
Opposite Brown & Hawkins, corner
Fourth and E street.
They are ready—Crawford Flats.
Nifty office rooms, f>th and I Sts.
Merchants Cafe, next door to the
White House.
Johnston’s Ferry, The Brighton,
at your service from this side to
and from the boats. Office, next
door to Admiral ltna. Franklin
Johnston. Manager.