WEEKLY EDITION
AND KNIK NEWS
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VOL. 1
Anchorage, Alaska. Saturday, January 15, 1916
NO. 28
WASHINGTON. Jan. 15—The execution of the prominent
American mining men at the hands ot Mexican bandits is tne
sensation of lie day in the uational capital. A warlike feel
ing is notcil among the members of the congress, and while
noi likely, it would not be surprising if a resolution would not
, l>e rushed through both houses calling for the president to in
tervene in the Mexican situation. Many members of congress
nake no secet of the f%rt that they have no confidence what
• ever in the ability of President Carranza of Mexico to protect
the lives and property interests of foreigners in the southern
republic.
Regardless of the warlike attitude of the congress and the
feverish protests pouring in on the president from all parts
of the United States, and particularly from California, Okla
homa and Texas, the home states of the victims of the das
tardly crime, the ehief executive retains his composure and
' stands pat on his ‘ watchful, waiting” policy, and will give
President Carranza every opportunity to restore order and
bring about the punishment of the offenders. Should Presi
dent Carranza fail to punish the offenders and disorders con
tinue in Mexico, then President Wilson says that intervention
will he the only solution remaining.
LANSING SAYS WARNING WAS GIVEN.
Secretary of State Lansing today reiterated his statement
to the effect that the slain mining men entered Mexico in the
free of repeated warnings issued by the state department,
, which published far and wide the information that a state of
gorilla warfare existed in Mexico and that Americans should
not enter that country until’ complete order was restored.
• Lansing insists that the assassins shall be brought to justice,
and declares that the state department will see that this result
is achieved without delay.
CARRANZA TROOPS ARE HOT IN PURSUIT
OF THE LAWLESS GANG OF ASSASSINS
WASHINGTON, .Tan. 15.—President Carranza of Mexico
today wired Senor Elizo Arrendo, Mexican ambassador to the
• United States, informing him that a company of Mexican sol
diers" a re hot on the trail of the bandits that killed the Amer
ican mining men and that when caught orders had been issued
by him to deal out summary punishment. The ambassador
was instructed to convey this information to the American
state department.
MARTIAL LAW PREVAILS IN EL PASO
GROWING OUT OF KILLING OF MINERS
* EL PASO, Jan. 15.—The city of El Paso Is under martial
law. Soldiers of the Sixteentli infantry, recently from Alaska,
are patrolling the streets and preserving order. The feeling
• over the killing of Arneican mining men by Mexican
bandits became so intense here that it was. feared by the
authorities- that the citizens, in their frenzy, would
seek vengeance on Mexican residents of El Paso. To save the
people from themselves, General Pershing, commander of the
ynited States troops on the border, took charge of the situaion
and forthwith declared martial law.
SENATOR WORKS WOULD SEND TROOPS .
INTO MEXICO UNTIL ORDER RESTORED
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.—United States Senator John D.
Works of California introduced a resolution in the senate at
its meeting last nighf calling upon the president of the United
States to send United States troops into Mexico and keep
them there until complete order has been restored.
In speaking to his resolution, Senator Works declared that
up to this time all the responsibility had been on the presi
, dent. “‘We sympathize with the president,” said he, ‘but
the time has arrived when the congress should assume some
of the grave responsibilities growing out of the Mexican trou
- hies. I hope that my resolution shaH receive speedy action.”
The resolution was referred to the committee on foreign re
lations.
For Sale—Five Llewellyn setter
pups, two months old. llanan Cafe,
Ninth and B streets.
Bring your films to McCain's
f Studio, Third and H street, for devel
opment and be sure of good work.
Anchorage Laundry under new
management. All work guaranteed.
Fourth and B east.
Everything in hardware at the
Matanuska Hardware Company’s.
Undervlsning i Engelska spraket
gives mondag, onsdag och fradag
afton af Oskar Gohranson kl. 7 i
kyrkan melian 4th and 5th, bakom,
Robarts’ hall. Alla Skandlnavief
valkomna.
Preferred Stock canned vegetables
and fruits at Brown & Hawkins'.
“Quality First."
We will give you an Owl cigar for
a dirty old gunny sack. Lyali &
Smith.
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PRESIDENT AND COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN
STONE HOLD AN EXTENDED CONFERENCE
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.—.President Wilson and United
States Senator William J. Stone, chairman of the senate com
mittee on foreign relations, held an extended confrence over
the Mexican trouble late last, night. Neither would speak for
publication after the conference had ended.
OF COURSE THE COLONEL KNOWS JUST WHAT
TO DO TO SETTLE THE MEXICAN TROUBLE
NEW YORK, Jan. 15.—“Send General Wood and an army
into Mexico, just the same as an American army was sent into
Cuba,” said Colonel Roosevelt in comme'nt on the Mexican
situation and the killing of the American mining men. “That
is the proper solution of the Mexican trouble; there’s noth
ing like the cannon to compel respect for the American flag.”
LONDON, .Jan. 15.—Private papers and correspondence be
longing to Captain von Papen were seized by British customs
officers upon the arrival at Falmouth. England, of the former
Austrian military attache at Washington. All the papers
were turned over to the American embassy at London, and an
examination of the correspondence shows that yon Papen,
just previous to the dynamite explosion at Seattle, Washing
ton, paid certain Seattle parties a considerable sum of money.
The names of the parties involved were not revealed.
LETTERS IMPLICATE SEATTLE GERMAN CONSUL.
LONDON, Jan. 15.—Later—London reports that the pri
vaet papers seized b ythe authorities from Captain von Papen
indicate that former German Consul Mueller of Seattle made
a payment of money to one Werner Ilorne .just previous to the
explosion of the barge laden with dynamite in Seattle harbor.
Cither letters from German Consul Mvsenburg to von Papen
make the prediction that the “day of reckoning with this
country is at hand,” presumably suggesting that the reckon
ing is to be at the hands of Germany.
DAWSON VOLUNTEERS TRAINING FOR THE FRONT.
DAWSON, Jan. 15.—The volunteer company of Yukoners,
including in its ranks a hundred Serbians and Montenegrins,
formed lor service in the European war, is now in training at
1 ictoria, under the command of Captain Black, former gov
ernor of the Yukon territory.
EAST IS IN THE GRIP OF COLD WEATHER.
WASHING ION, Jan. 15.—The weather bureau today re
ports that the entire country, save and except Florida, is in
the grip of severely cold weather.
Continuous show at the Movies to
day and tomorrow. (No seats re
served.) First performance com
mences at 6:30 p. m. Change of
program tomorrow (Sunday). Ad
mission, 25 cents.
Oskar Gohr-Anson, Da lezziont in
ingtese ogni lunedi. martedi e mer
coledi: alle ore sette pomeridiane.
nella chlesa fra la quarte e quinta
strada, dietro alia sala di blUardo di
Robarts. Tutti gl’ Italiani saranno
ben renut!.
Just received, a fine line of large
sized gas mantles, at the Northern
Drug Co.’s store, corner of Foourth
avenue and H street. The Hub.
Ridgeway’s Teas at Brown & Haw.
kins’. “Quality First.”
BOWTJNG
Cures stomach fag.
The mail was distributed today op
uosite Robarts Billiard and Bowling
Parlors.
NOTICE
A meeting oi all democrats is
called tor the purpose of organizing
a democratic club, Wednesday, Jan.
19, at 8 p. m., at Price & Bennett s
tin shop, Fifth, between F and O
streets. F. A. MARTifs,
Member of Territorial Com.
, NOTICE.
The regular business meeting of
the Anchorage Woman’s Club will be
held in the social hall, Thursday,
Jan. 20, at 2 p. m. Mrs. Stephen
Brewster will read a paper on “Sys
tematized Housekeeping.”
LEAH RODMAN TUBBY,
Cor. Sec.
B. P. O. E.
Meeting Sunday, January 16th, at
1 p. m_, at Byrne hall.
A SURE CURE FOR THE BLUES.
Drop around at the business cen
ter, meet the boys, play a game of
billiards, or bowl a game, listen to
the music. Then the world will look
brighter. Robarts.
NRW YORK, .lan. 15.—Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg,
of the (ierman empire, yesterday cabled the great American
news associations, under his own signature^ the official state
ment that Emperor Kaiser Wilhelm’s condition is not serious
and that he will he able to resume his usual duties within a
few days. At no time, says the statement, has the kaiser been
bedridden.
The statement is given out at this time in refutation of
numerous news dispatches, most of which originate in France,
to the effect that the kaiser has cancer and is in a serious con
dition of health.
CHARGED WITH CRIMES
WILMINGTON, Del., Jan. 15.—Four sailormen who es
caped from the German cruisers interned at Norfolk, Virginia,
have been taken into custody, following the explosion in the
DuPont powder factory at Hagley, Thursday. They are
charged with conspiracy to destroy munition plants. Two of
the sailors, it is learned, were employed at the Hagley plant,
while the remaining two were employed in another DuPont
•plant in which an explosion has recently occurred.
The secret service operators engaged in ferreting out the
perpetrators of the various explosions occuring in DuPont
munition plants express the belief that all the German sailors
who escaped from the German cruisers interned at Norfolk
'are employed at DuPont munition plants and that they are
[primarily responsible for the explosions that have taken place.
ANOTHER DUPONT PLANT EXPLOSION.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 15.—The acid house of the DuPont
munition plant at Gibbstown, New York, exploded last night,
hive employes were killed outright and 'J50 employes were in
jured. Phis makes the eighth explosion in DuPont munition
plants in this section in the past eight months.
CLAY TON, Ala., Jan. 15.—One of tlie boldest robberies re
corded in tbe south occurred yesterday, when three bandits
rode up to the door of the Bank of Clayton, coollv dismount
ed, entered the door and at the point of pistols compelled the
cashier and his assistant to pass over all the money in sight.
The bandits, laden with their booty, backed out of the door,
coolly remounted their horses, ami set off at a good rate of
speed. Hundreds of people were on the streets at the time,
but none of them apparently paid any attention to the crime
that was being enacted before their eyes, until the bank offi
cials raised the cry of alarm soon after the bandits escaped
from the bank. Then everybody got excited. Finally one or
two men that had retained their composure throughout the
excitement suggested that it might be advisable to organize a
posse and follow the fleeing bandits before tliev got, too much
of a start’ and everybody agreed that this would be the proper
thing to do in the circumstances. Whereupon, all who had
horses at command set off in wild pursuit. The bank lost
$25,000 it was found when the excited bank officials took stock
of the loss.
Dr. McCallie says: The greatest j
gift on earth is good teeth.
Then, why not spend your Xmas!
money in surprising your mouth.!
You have no idea how fitting it is.
rt costs nothing to find out at cor
ner of C and Fourth avenue, oppo
site the Crescent.
Merchants Cafe, next door to the j
White House, four doors from Hotel j
1 Crist, and one block from the North
ern. A very good p&ce to eat.
We pay five cents for old spud
sacks with holes in. Lyall & Smith.
Furnished rooms for rent, over
Merchants Cafe.
For Sale—Ope-half lot, next to
corner of Seventh and D street; lot
11, block 71; cash. Apply Lyall &
Smith Kandy Store.
Don’t forget. WILKES makes
DESKS as well as other furniture.
Wife have the material. Shop oppo
site Alaska Transfer Co., on H St.
The Alaska Poo] Room—best
lights, good tables, good service.
Skates of all kinds at the Mata
nuska Hardware Company's.
Have you tried our Pork Sausage?
Made fresh every day. Anchorage
Central Market.