AND ALASKA LABOR NEWS
VOL. I. NO. 46.
ANX'HOBAGK, ALASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1917.
PRICE TEN CENTS.
LIQUOR SEIZED;
THREE]!! JAIL
THOMAS PATTERSON, FREDER
ICK HARRIS AND M. V. ED
WARDS TO HAVE HEARING.
BROUGHT HERE ON POWER BOAT
Contraband Stuff Is Contained in Five
Gallon Coal Oil Cans and Its Trans
fer to Jail Aroused Curiosity of
Theatre Crowds.
One hundi'ed and twenty gallons of
home brewed liquor, all contained in
tive-gallon coal oil cans, were seized
at ii o’clock last night by Deputy
United States Marshal Kavanaugh, as
it was landed from the power boat
Nugget on the beach at the foot of
Fifth avenue by Thomas Patterson,
Frederick Harris and M. V. Edwards.
The three men who were engaged in
the landing of the liquor are in jail
awaiting a hearing before United
States Commissioner Leopold David.
The hearing is set for 10 o’clock to
morrow morning.
As the liquor was being transferred
’from wagons to the jail last night
many persons coming from the mo
tion picture theatres stopped to won
der at the confiscation of the oil cans,
and bombarded the deputy marshals
with inquiries.
Patterson and Edwards are general
ly known here in Anchorage. Edwards
has been engaged as a “fiddler” at
various times by several of the pool
halls.
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y
ATTACKS MADE OX GERMAN
POSITIONS IN BELGIUM AND
TWO TEUTON PLANES LOST.
LONDON, Oct. 1G.—British aircraft
yesterday raided the Bruges docks, the
Varssenaere airdome and the Hout
^taye airdome in Belgium. The British
raiders were attacked by German air
planes and brought down two of the
Teutons’ craft.
No activities of consequence ai*e re
ported on any of the war fronts.
TWO DIVERS DESTROYED.
PARIS, Oct. 16.—French warships
have destroyed two Teutonic submar
ines in the western Mediterranean.
I
VOTES FOR WAR CREDIT WILL
BE WITHHELD IF CHANCELLOR
DOES NOT QUIT OFFICE.
AMSTERDAM, Oct. 18.—The lead
g German socialist newspapers de
clare the socialists in the reichstag
have decided to vote against the new
war credit of ten billion marks un
less Chancellor Michaelis resigns.
The credit will be submitted to the
reichstag in December.
The Berlin correspondent of the
Hamburg Fremdenblatt discerns in
4 dications of forces m Michaelis’ en
tourage working for a military dic
tatorship, at least to the extent of
having the chancellor hold office in
defiance of the reichstag, supporting
himself by military backing.
DAWSON REPORTS
FIRST SNOWFALL
DAWSON, Y. T., Oct. 17.—The first
snowfall of the season occurred here
last night. The last boat of the navi
gation season left here last night for
Whitehorse. It carried 150 passen
gers.
SUCKERS ARE HELD
TO BE DESERTERS
ARIZONA FUGITIVES CANNOT
RETURN FROM MEXICO WITH
OUT FACING PUNISHMENT.
PHOENIX, Ariz., Oct. 16.—Men
(that fled from Arizona to Mexico to
avoid the United States selective con
scription law will not be permitted to
return to Arizona to register now,
without having to face trial as desert
ers. This ruling was made today by
Col. Fred Breen, of the state exemp
tion board of Arizona, in a letter to
the local exemption board at Nogales.
Col. Breen said the reward of $50 for
the capture and return to Arizona of
every man that fled to escape the con
scription law still held good.
Many of the fugitives are now pen
niless in Mexico and are anxious to
return to Arizona. The Nogales ex
emption board recommended they be
allowed to return to register, without
punishment.
OFFICERS ARE
ELECTED FOR
CHARLES W. JONES IS CHOSEN
CAPTAIN AND J. C. SEELY
FIRST LIEUTENANT.
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WILT IS SECOND LIEUTENANT
—
Organization Has Membership of 100
and P'ans Are Made for Continuing
Military Drills Indoors During the
Winter.
Commissioned officers were elected
by the Alaska Loyal League last ev
ening at the club rooms of the Rail
road Young Men’s Christian associa
tion.
Charles W. Jones, editor of the
Alaska Railroad Record, was unani
mously elected captain of the organi
zation; J. C. Seeley, of the accounting
department, first lieutenant; and W.
G. Wilt, of the mechanical department,
second lieutenant. The non-commis
sioned officers of the league will be
appointed by the captain later.
Membership of 100.
The league has a present member- i
ship of 100, nearly all of whom are
employes of the Alaskan Engineering
commission. Much interest is mani
fested in the drills, which are held
three times a week at the terminal
baseball grounds. One night a week
the drills are under direction of Cap
tain Davis of the local infantry de
j tachment and on the other two even
ings instruction is given the compa
ny by squad leaders chosen from the
members of the league.
Will Drill Indoors.
Plans are under way to drill indoors
during the winter months and an ef
fort is being made to secure the nec
essary rifles and other equipment from
the War Department, through the
medium of Governor J. F. A. Strong.
The organization is rapidly acquiring
proficiency in military sceince and
maneuvers and by spring should round
out into a crack organization.
Lectures on modern warfare will be
j given during the winter by the regu
| lar officers stationed here and by the
| commissioned officers of the league.
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SEATTLE, Oct. 16.—The steamship
Alameda, which arrived here yesterday
from Anchorage and other Alaskan
ports, was raided today by the Seattle
dry squad and a large seizure of liquor
was made. Nine members of the crew
were arrested and are held in jail in
default of bail. The raid took place at
5 o’clock this morning.
WISCONSIN LEGISLATOR’S
ADDRESS IN ST PAUL IDE
SUBJECT DF INVESTIGATION
MEMBER OF UPFER BRANCH OF CONGRESS, ACCUSED
OF DISLOYALTY, DECLARES HE IS WILLING TO
GO AGAINST WALL IN ORDER TO PRESERVE DEM
OCRACY FOR UNITED STATES.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.—Senator Atlee Pomerene, dem
ocrat, of Ohio, chairman of tlie special committee appointed by
the senate to investigate alleged disloyal utterances in a speech
at St. Paul last month, of Senator Robert M .La Follette, re
publican, of Wisconsin, refused today to grant Senator La Fol
j lette’s request that the investigation be broadened so as to ac
j quit or convict him of disloyalty.
Senator La Follette’s request, if granted, would include
| in the scope of the inquiry all his statements with reference to
the war and would allow the submission of evidence relative to
his sentiments on the conflict.
DUTY OF COMMITTEE.
Senator Pomerene held that the duty of the committee
was merely to ascertain the correctness of published accounts
of Senator La Follette’s St. Paul speech, and to report state
ments actually made by the Wisconsin senator to the senate.
Senator La Follette’s speech in St. Paul was delivered in
the middle of September. It has been subjected to severe crit
icism and has resulted in demands by many organizations and
prominent individuals that he be expelled from the senate.
The Wisconsin senator declares that his remarks in St.
Paul were misconstrued and that he was being deliberately
misquoted throughout the country.
WANTS TO PRESERVE DEMOCRACY.
“*] am one citizen of the United States who i* ready to go
against the wall to preserve democracy,” said Senator La Fob
lette.
Senator La Follette was quoted as having declared in his
I St. Paul speech that the president of the United States swayed
congress to such an extent that the declaration of war was not
| the representative opinion of a democratic government, lie
; advocated war in defense only, and in case of aggression to
sumnl* the question to the people of the nation in the form
of a referendum. He also said the United States government
should not have allowed passengers on the Lusitania or on
. uy other merchant ship sailing for the submarine zone.
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UNITED STATES IS CALLED UP-!
ON TO SUPPLY ONE-FOURTH
OF TOTAL OUTLAY.
ENGLAND AND GERMANY NEXT
Fifty-Three Million Men Are Engaged
in Great Struggle, of Whom 33,000,
000 Are Enlisted on Side of Entente
Allies.
NEW Y^ORK, Oct. 17.—War is cost
ing belligerent nations $160,000,000 a
day, or $6,666,666 every hour, accord
ing to estimates made public today by
the Mechanic’s National Bank, of New
Y'ork.
Of this great expenditure the Unit
ed States is one quarter, or $40,000,
000 a day.
Her rate of expenditure is greater
than that of any other nation. Next
to the United States in the matter of
expenditures, comes England, and
Germany is third.
The German people are paying more
than 10 per cent of their normal in
comes as interest on the public debt,
while Americans are paying less than
half of one per cent of their normal
incomes as interest on the debt of
their country.
By next August, the total cost of
the war to the world will have
amounted to one hundred and fifty-five
billion dollars.
Fifty-three million men are engaged
in the great struggle. Of these, the
entente allies muster 33,000,000 and
the Teutonic powers 20,000,000.
CHIEF JUSTICE OF
NOVA SCOTIA DIES
HALIFAX, N. S., Oct. 13.—Sir Wal
lace Brown, chief justice of the prov
ince of Nova Scotia died today at the
age of 69 years.
i A. CHRISTENSEN IS TEMPORARY
PRESIDENT AND E. T. LIND
ER, TEMPORARY SECRETARY.
CAPITAL STOCK OF $10,000
! Organization Will Erect Permanent
Buildings on Spacious Site and Will
! Hold Annual Exposition of Alaska
Products.
At a meeting of business men at the
headquarters of the Chamber of Com
merce here last night action was taken
toward forming a fair association. A
temporary organization was affected
by the election of Andrew Christensen,
president and E. T. Linder, secretary.
Alaska Fair Association.
It was decided that the name should
be the Alaska Fair Association and
that it should be incorporated with a
capital stock of 10,000 shares, of the
par value of $1 per share. Several
businessmen present announced they
would be glad to take stock in the en
terprise.
The purpose of the association will
be to hold an annual exposition of
| products typifying the resources of
Alaska.
Rules and Regulations.
Communications will be exchanged
with fair associations in the states,
and rules and regulations found feasi
ble by them will be followed here so
far as it is practicable to do so.
Permanent fair buildings will be er
ected on the site reserved by promot
ers of the exposition enterprise at yes
terday’s sale of government acreage
tracts. This site, which contains eighty
acres and which will be enclosed with a
fence, is situated between Twelfth and
Fourteenth avenues and G and N
streets.
OCTOBER 24 TO BE
LIBERTY LOAN DAY
TWO BILLION DOLLARS WILL
HAVE BEEN SUBSCRIBED BY
END OF THIS WEEK.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.—October
twenty-fourth has been designated as
National Liberty Loan day by Secre
tary of the Treasury William G. Mc
Adoo, and at his request governors of
states have issued proclamations de
claring it to be a legal holiday. An
effort will be made to speed up the
second campaign for the second issue
of liberty loan bonds.
Secretary McAdoo said today that
subscriptions for the first billion dol
lars of the loan will have been ob
tained by tonight and that subscrip
tions totalling two billion dollars will
have been secured by the end of the
week.
The government’s latest offer of
certificates of indebtedness of the
face value of three billion dollars,
drawing 4 per cent interest, is heav
ily oversubscribed.
KA IS E R’S FORCES OCCUPY
ARENSBURG, CAPITAL OF
POSSESSION IN BALTIC.
NAVAL FORCES IN BATTLE
Teutonic Torpedo Boats Force Back
Muscovite Patrols But Retire When
Engagement Is Offered by Large
Warships.
PETP.OGRAD, Oct. 15.—The Ger
mans Saturday occupied Arensburg,
the capital of the Russian island Osel,
in the Baltic. Fighting for possession
of the island continued all day yester
day between the German and Russian
naval forces.
One group of German warships
bombarded unimportant parts of the
Russian coast. German submarines
were observed in the Baltic.
One German torpedo boat squadron
pressed back the Russian naval patrols
between the islands Osel and Dago.
Russian warships at once reinforced
the small patrol craft and accepted
battle, whereupon the German torpedo j
boats retired.
GERMANS CONTROL
ISLAND OF OSEL
PETROGRAD ADMITS RUSSIAN
WAR OFFICE IS NOT IN TOUCH
WITH DEFEATED FORCES.
BERLIN, Oct. 17.—German forces
have taken full possession of practi
cally all the Russian island Osel, off
the gulf of Riga in the Baltic .
A force of Russians is isolated on
Svorb peninsula and is offering des
perate resistance. The Germans have
captured 2400 prisoners, thirty big
guns, twenty-one machine guns and
several airplanes.
EVANS TO BE LAST
SHIP INIS SEASON!
!
ADMIRAL LINER IS SCHEDULED
TO LEAVE SEATTLE FOR
HERE OCTOBER 26.
SEATTLE, Oct. 17.—The steamer
Admiral Evans, which will leave here
October 26 with a capacity cargo, will
be the last of the merchant fleet to
leave Seattle this year for Anchorage.
The Evans is expected to arrive
in Seattle next Sunday.
STAY AT RIGA
PETROGRAD AUTHORITIES SAY
SEASON IS TOO LATE FOR
ATTACK ON FINLAND.
JAIL ONLY FOR KORNILOFF
Investigator of Recent Revolt Says
That Leaders Cannot Be Convicted
of Charge of High Treason—Truth
I Told Soldiers.
PETROGRAD, Oct. 16.—Russian
I officials believe German operations in
the Gulf of Riga will not be extended
i this fall to the Gulf of Finland. The
; Russian minister of marine declares
I the lateness of the season will cause
i the Germans to localize their efforts
! in the Riga sector.
Not Guilty of Treason.
General Chablovsky, chairman of
the committee appointed to investigate
the recent revolt of General Korniloff
in an interview today, declared he did
not regard as proved the charges of
I high treason preferred against Gen
| eral Korniloff and his associate offi
| cers. General Chablovsky said that
1 General Korniloff throughout the re
! cent revolt made no movement to
weaken the position of Russia on the
j war front and that he was inspired in
| his effort to seize the government by
I the desire to wage a vigorous conflict
I against the Germans,
Civil Offense Merely.
General Chablovsky declared that in
1 his opinion General Korniloff’s only
| offense was an attempt to overthrow
| the established civil government,
\ which offense may be punished by im
prisonment, but not by death, as in the
case of high treason.
TRUTH TOLD SOLDIERS.
BOSTON, Mass., Oct. 16.—Cather
ine Breskovisky, “grandmother of the
revolution” in Russia, in writing to
Alice Stone Blackwell, of Boston,
Mass., said the Russian leaders are
now teaching the soldiers at the front
the true idea of liberty. They are be
ing informed that the only way for
them to assist in establishing a democ
racy is to do their share to defeat the
Teutonic powers. Many uneducated
soldiers and civilians, writes Mme.
Breskovisky, imagined that the war
should be abandoned immediately aft
er the monarchy had been overthrown
and that any further fighting should
be deferred until it had been approved
by a vote of the people. Designing
persons, says Mme. Breskovisky, took
pains to spread this doctrine among
army recruits.
MICHAELIS AT RIGA.
AMSTERDAM, Oct. 16.—Chancel
lor Michaelis, of the German empire,
is visiting the territory around Riga
on the east front recently occupied by
the Germans.
WAITER ROBBED OF
$149 WHILE ASLEEP
THIEF ENTERS JOHN LYNCH’S
ROOM AND IS CAREFUL NOT
TO TAKE ANY JEWELRY.
John Lynch, a waiter in Dicks
Kitchen, was robbed while asleep in
his rooms over Dick’s Kitchen last
night of $149 in gold and currency.
Lynch went to bed about midnight,
and did not lock the door of his room.
The thief was very careful to take
nothing that might later aid in iden
tifying him, as Lynch’s watch and oth
er valuables were left undisturbed on
a small table beside the bed. A labor
pin which Lynch, had in his pocket
book at the time of the robbery was
taken out and thrown on the floor of
the room.