Änrlxomge Dule Times
AND COOK INLET PIONEER
VOL. 1. NO. 281.
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ANCHORAGE, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1916.
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LONDON, Oct. 9.—Tlie Russian attacks along the eastern
front are more violent than any that have been attempted
since the world war began, according to a dispatch received
here from Copenhagen today. Near Kary, Truca and Vebilno
the Russian infantry attacked the German lines with great fe
* rocity. The fighting has been in progress for the past thirty
six hours, without cessation. The assault on the German front
is for a distance of fifty kilometers.
RUSSIANS REPORT PROGRESS.
PETROGRAD, Oct. 9.—Progress is being made by the
Russian army in its attacks on the Austro-German forces from
Cyolliynia to the Dneister river. Hostile positions at various
Points were captured. The foregoing is the purport of an of
ficial report by the Russian war office.
ROUMANIAN FORCES DEFEATED.
BERLIN, Oct. 9.—(By wireless to Sayville.)—Roumanian
forces in Transylvania have been defeated by Teuton troops
under the command of General Falkenhayn, and driven back
over the Aeit river, according to an official report given out
today by the German war office.
ALLIES CROSS INTO BULGARIA.
LONDON, Oct. 9.—A French-Roumanian military expedi
tion crossed the River Danube and entered Bulgarian territory,
according to a wireless message received from Rome today.
General von Mackensen sent troops to attack on the invading
army, lint the attm. futile, says the I’eport.
ALLIES’ LINE ADVANCED.
PARIS, Oct. 9.—In the sector north of Somme the French
troops, in conjunction with the British troops, carried forward
■ the entente line for two-thirds of a mile, in fighting yesterday,
says a French communique issued today.
GERMAN SUB AT NEWPORT NEWS.
NEWPORT NEWS, Oct. 9.—The German submarine IT-53,
from Wilhelmsliaven, arrived in the harbor yesterday-after
noon. The submarine flies the flag of-the German navy and
carries a single gun mounted on the deck.
CUNARD LINER DESTROYED.
^ LONDON, Oct. 9.—The Cunard steamer Franconia, em
ployed in transport duty, was sunk by an enemy submarine at
midnight Sunday night. Twelve members of the crew were
lost.
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SEEK LIFE OF
HINDU POET
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 9.—Ta
gore, the Hindu poet, who is a mem
ber of the radical Hindu or Gadar par
ty in California, has been compelled
to flee the scene because of a plot
among his people to assassinate him.
He has gone to Santa Barbara. Be
cause of Tagore’s pronounced pro-Brit
ish views, the Hindus dislike him and
plan his death. Two suspects in the
plot to kill the poet have been appre
hended.
GIVES PHOFITS
TO SUFFERERS
San Francisco, Oct. 9.—W. A. Clark,
Jr., son of the Montana copper mag
nate, declared today that the profits
^Kat his father had made out of sup
^jping war munitions to the allied
powers, amounting now to some two
million dollars, would be donated to
the relief fund for the suffering peo
ple of France.
IS. CURTIS
SEEKS DIVORCE
SEATTLE, Oct. 9.—MrEd S. Cur
tis, wife of the internationally famous
Indian photographer, has instituted
suit against the artist. Mrs. Curtis
declared that herself and husband
have long been estranged. She asks
for the custody of the two youngest
of the four children, $150 pel month
alimony and a division of the proper
ty.
BILLINGS IS
GIVEN LITE
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 9.—War
ren Billings, the first of the dynamite
suspects to be tried and convicted, was
sentenced to serve life imprisonment
in the Folsom penitentiary. Saturday
afternoon Attorney Dunne, who deliv
ered the prisoner’s plea for a new tri
al, requested that the sentence be
changed so that the prisoner be con
fined at San Quentin, instead of Fol
som. The court refused the request.
JUNEAU, Oct. 9. — Angered by
charges from Kate Sadler and Lena
Morrow Lewis, the socialist candidate
for delegate to congress that he was
afraid to divide time with the women
for a discussion of labor conditions in
the territory, and further angered by
the fact that the people began to de
sert the Coliseum while he was speak
ing here Saturday night, George B.
Grigsby, democratic candidate for at
torney-general of Alaska, started a ti
rade of abuse against Delegate Wick
ersham, Schofield, his opponent, and
also panned Harry Stel and George
Hazelet, of Cordova, and Chas. E.
Herron and John Frame, of Anchor
age. Shackleford also came in for a
round of abuse at the hands of the
enraged speaker.
Sulzer, democratic candidate for
delegate, has been forced to return to
his home town, by reason of trouble
with his labor campaign.
The fight in the first division is get
ting exceedingly warm. Wickersham
will carry the district by a good ma
jority and the republican legislative
ticket will also win.
Wickersham Strong in Fourth.
FAIRBANKS, Oct. 9.—Indications
are that Wickersham will carry the
fourth division by a three to one vote.
FAIRBANKS
IT SEATTLE
SEATTLE, Oct. 9. — Charles W.
Fairbanks, candidate for vice-presi
dent on the :epublic.m ticket, spoke to
a monster crowd at the Moore theatre
Saturday night. Tin camli. at; de
clared that there must be no surren
der to foreign producer ; and said the
republican party is pirdged to lOotore
trade to its normal conditions and will
do so through proper tariff legislation.
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THEN HERSELF.
WILLOWS, Cal., Oct. 9.—Jealous
because she feared her victim was
about to steal her husband’s love, Mrs.
H. B. Tipton, aged 30, shot and killed
Miss Birdie Noble, aged 20, and then
took her own life.
HIM PINS
THE PRESIDENT
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Oct. 9.—
Former Governor Hanley, of Indiana,
prohibition candidate for president,
spoke in Council Bluffs Saturday
night across the Missouri river from
where President Wilson was speaking
in Omaha. Hanley charged that Pres
ident Wilson was opposed to state
wide prohibition.
SEATTLE, Oct. 9.—The steamer
Northwestern sailed for Anchorage
and way ports Saturday forenoon with
the following passengers for the Cook
inlet metropolis: Wm. Ray, Marcus
Meyer, Mrs. A. Johnson, Mrs. N. Rich
mond, S. Bachman, Miss B. Banvers,
Mrs. A. Shimeko, O. Olson, H. Mathi
son and Miss A. Ekary.
NEW YORK, Oct. 9.—Five hundred
wives of striking car men rushed out
of a hall, after listening to an address!
by Mother Jones, Saturday night, and
began a riot, attacking the trolley
lines, throwing stones and shattering
the windows of the street cars, driv- j
ing the motormen from the cars and
raising all sorts of trouble. Police-:
men were summoned to the scene and
restored order, employing clubs to
pacify the frantic women, many of
whom were badly wounded. A num
ber of the women were placed under 1
arrest. Mother Jones, in her incendi-!
ary speech, denounced the traction i
heads and strike breakers and at the
close said, “ You women are too sen
timental, staying at home and think
ing of dress and trinkets, when you
ought to be out raising Cain.” Fol
lowing this warlike preroraticm, the
women engaged in rioting.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 9.-JVPPic
de Marco, aged 19, alleged queen of a
murder gang that killed Henry Rider,
wounded four others and robbed A. J.
Rider, in a raid on the business place
of the Riders rerevlv, was taken into
custody today.
OAK CREEK, Colo., Oct. 9.—Kid
naped by a band of foreigners and
held for a $15,000 ransom, Robert Per
ry, manager of the Moffitt coal mines
at this point, shot and killed one of
his captors, who was on guard and
made his escape home. A posse is in
pursuit of the kidnapers.
TO END LIFE
SEATTLE, Oct. 9. — Broken in
health, David B. Donnelly, a mill
hand, leaped from the fourth floor of
a hotel to the sidewalk below, in an ef
fort to commit suicide. The fall fail
ing to kill him, Donnelly took his
pocket knife and cut his throat and
slashed his abdomen. He is still alive.
NORFOLK, Oct. 9.—The British
ship Bankhead, lying in the harbor at
Hampton Roads, was run down and
sunk by the ship City of Norfolk last
night, while a heavy fog prevailed.
No lives were lost.
EL PASO, Oct. 9.—Placing wreaths
of flowers on the grave of former
President Huerta, of Mexico, Mrs.
Huerta departed today, en route to
Cuba, where she will make her future
home.
BOOTLEGGERS
SEATTLE, Oct. 9.—“A former
member of the police force is the j
head of the bootlegging syndicate l
which is getting carload shipments of
liquor from California and peddling,”
Chief of Police Beckingham declared
today.
” He is wise enough to keep himself
in the clear but we are destroying a
lot of his booze lately.
“ There are some officers on the
force also too friendly with the boot
legger and something will drop when
we get the goods on them,” concluded
the chief.
Patrolmen Guntermann and Pender
gast were found in a blind pig joint
late last night, when they were sup
posed to have been on duty. They
were arrested on a charge of being
drunk and disorderly and were sum
marily dismissed from the force.
SEATTLE, Oct. 9.—The customs
inspectors raided a noodle joint on
Weller street last night and found
opium to the value of $1,000, which
was seized.
TOOL OF OTHERS
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 6.—Dis
trict Attorney Brennan, in referring
to the Billings conviction, stated this
morning that he was firmly convinced
that, though the convicted man was
guilty of placing the bomb, he un
doubtedly did not conceive the project
and was merely the tool of others.
The attorney says he is so firmly con
vinced of this that he will work for a
pardon for Billings if he will help by
his testimony to convict Mooney and
the others, whom he is convinced, are
the instigators of the bomb outrage.
Billings asks if he is guilty, why did
the jury recommend imprisonment for
life instead of hanging. Mrs. Belle
Lavin, Billings’ land lady, kissed the
prisoner when the verdict of the jury
was received. The case will probably
be appealed.
coppHe
EFFECTS ALASKA
SEATTLE, Oct. 6.—The Times, of
this city, speaking editorially of the
enormous order of 200,000 tons of cop
per placed Saturday by the French
and British, says the transaction is of
the greatest interest t6 Seattle, be
cause of its possible effects upon the
mining industry of Alaska. The pro
duction of the Northland during the
past two years has been marvelous,
and the enormous purchase for export,
it is believed, will have the effect of
still further increasing the output of
the Alaska mines. The editorial says
that one of the largest copper produc
ers of the country predicts that the
price of copper will not fall below 20
cents for at least two years follow
ing the ending of the European war.
NEW YORK, Oct. 9.—Former Sec
retary of State Elihu Root, in a speech
here Saturday night, denounced the
foreign policies, the tariff and the pre
paredness policies of the democratic
administration and plead for an awak
ening of the spirit that bore up our
forebears in their fight for liberty.
Carnegie hall, where Root spoke, was
filled to overflowing.
NEW YORK, Oct. 9.—According to
the New York Evening Post, which
says its information is authentic, the
American ambassador to Germany,
Mr. Gerard, is returning to the Unit
ed States, armed with authority from
Kaiser Wilhelm to urge President
Wilson to sue for peace on behalf of
the central powers.
Department Knows Nothing.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9.—In the ab
sence of Secretary of State Lansing,
Counsellor Polk today declared that
the state department had no knowl
edge of any peace proposals from Ger
many that might be conveyed by Am
bassador Gerard. Polk admitted that
Gerard was returning.
Premier Tisza Hints at Peace.
AMSTERDAM, (Via London), Oct.
9.—Premier Tisza, replying in the
Hungarian house of deputies to a
question concerning the vacancy in
the post of Austro-Hungarian ambas
sador to the United States, according
to dispatches received here from Bu
charest, replied:
“ I can assure the house that all
competent authorities in the monar
chy set great value in the relations
with the United States. In due time
we shall find a way for an appropri
ate settlement of the matter.
“We all expect that a suggestion
of peace will come eventually from
across the ocean. When that time
arrives, it will be unfortunate if we do
not find ourselves represented there.
Certain steps already have been taken
by the American administration hint
ing that it would be pleased to see the
monarchy again represented in Wash
ington.
“ How does the foreign office ex
pect to solve the problem ? And does
it not find it awkward that in times
like these we are not represented ad
equately in the greatest neutral coun
try? ”
Suggest Apponyi.
LONDON, Oct. 9.—Count Albert
Apponyi, one of the leaders of the op
position in the Hungarian parliament,
according to advices from Budapest to
the Mail, is a receptive candidate for
the post of Austro-Hungarian ambas
sador to the United States. He is well
known in America, and it was urged
in the lobby of the Hungarian house
of deputies that his appointment
would be received equally well in Hun
gary and the United States.
HITS HE ROCKS
PORTLAND, Me., Oct. 6.—The
coastwise steamship Bay State, be
longing to the Eastern Steamship Co.,
was wrecked Saturday afternoon by
striking a reef oif Cap Elizabeth dur
ing a dense fog.
The steamer carried 200 passengers
and was bound for Boston. She had
just left Portland and while making
her way out got off her course in the
fog and struck, punching a large hole
in her bottom. The wireless summons
were picked up by the coast guard
ship Ossippee, which, with tugs went
immediately to the rescue and took
off the passengers and crew. Thu
steamer is not in a particularly dan
gerous position and will probably be
saved.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9.—Orville
Wright has presented all his patents
free of charge to the United States
government. He is the inventor of an
aeroplane which is much in use by the
United States aerial fleet.