OR NEWS.
AND ALASKA
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA. THHR $DAY, JANUARY 17, 1918.
PRICE TEN CENTS.
AMERICAN FREIGHTER TEXAN IS
RAMMED AMIDSHIPS IN COL
LISION AT SEA.
MANY CRAFTS GO TO RESCUE.
Crew of Forty-Three Is Reported to
Have Taken to Lifeboats—Unfor
tunate Steamer Was Bound for
France With Nitrates.
AT AN ATLANTIC PORT, Jan. 15.
—The American freight steamship
/ Texan, bound from the United States
to France with a cargo of nitrates, is
in a sinking condition at sea, as a re
sult of having been rammed amidships
in a collision with another ship, ac
cording to wireless distress calls re
ceived today at an Atlantic port. Sev
eral steamships are hastening to the
rescue.
£ The Texan carried a crew of forty
three. All of them, according to the
‘ wireless reports, put to sea in small
boats. When the collision occurred
a heavy storm was raging and several
of the lifeboats were lost when they
vere lowered over the side of the big
vessel.
The Texan was a craft of 14.000 tons
ouruen. Before Americas participa
' ion in the war, she plied between San
Francisco and Honolulu.
American Trawler Lost.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 15.—
An American trawler, operating in the
waters of the European war zone,
struck a rock yesterday and sui.k. All
of her crew were rescued.
FORMER PREMIER OF
FRANCE ARRESTED
JOSEPH CAILEEAX INVOLVED
IN ALLEGED DISSEMINATION
OF GERMAN PROPAGANDA.
A -
PAG!.', France, Jan. 15.—Joseph
Cailieaux, former premier of France,
\ who for some time has been under in
vestigation in connection with the dis
semination of German propaganda in
France, was arrested today.
M. Cailieaux, just before and after
the beginning of the war, entertained
at his home Bola Pasha, a German
subject, who some months ago was ar
rested in Paris on the charge of being
a German spy. At the time of Bola’s
arrest, it was not known he was a
German subject. He passed in Paris, as
previously he had passed in the Unit
ed States as a very wealthy man, and
it was supposed he was of Turkish
origin.
M. Cailieaux and his friends declare
C he had not the least suspicion that be
fore Bola’s arrest the supposedly
wealthy foreigner was a German
subject.
PERMITS NECESSARY
FOR EXPLOSIVES
LICENSES CAN BE OBTAINED ON
^APPLIC ATION FROM COMMIS
SIONER LEOPOLD DAVID.
Persons in this district handling ex
plosives of any kind, whether a;
wholesalers, retailers, foremen o1
working crews or engaged in tin
transportation of explosives must ob
j tain permits or licenses, under the fed
eral law according to United State;
Commissioner Leopold David.
Instructions relative to this matte:
were received today by Judge Davit
and affects every person or corpora
tion in any way dealing or handling
tffcy form of explosives.
' Penalties are provided for a failure
to secure permits. The fee for permits
is 25 cents each. , . ,*.>.
i .,i&k
DRAFT OPPONENTS
MUST GO TO JAIL
CONVICTION OF EMMA GOLD
MAN AND ALEXANDER BERK
MAN IS SUSTAINED.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 15.—
The United States supreme court to
day confirmed the conviction of Emma
Goldman and Alexander Berkman,
self-styled anarchists, for conspiring
to urge men of military ages not to
register as required by the selective
conscription law.
In the lower court, the judgment of
which was sustained today by the
United States supreme court, Emma
Goldman and Berkman were each sen
tenced to serve two years in prison
j and to pay a fine of $10,000.
MEASURE COVERS PERSONS
WHO HAVE BECOME 21 YEARS
OLD SINCE LAST JUNE.
TROOPS CAN HARVEST CROPS.
War Department Rejects Vll Sugges
tions to Change Age Limits As Now
Provided in Military Conscription
Law.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 15.—
At the request of the war department
; Senator George E. Chamberlain, dem
ocrat, of Oregon, chairman of the sen
* ' committee on mPi+ary affairs, ,.i
Produced a bill in the senate providing
Lor the registration for military duty
of all men who have become 21 years
of .ige since last June 5, when the mil
itary law became effective.
Senator Chamberlain also intro
duced in the senate another adminis
tration bill providing for the fur
loughing of national army men for
the harvesting of crops and other ag
ricultural duty.
The war department, the senator
said, had rejected all proposals to
raise the draft age limits.
SOLDIER STATESMAN
DIES OF PNEUMONIA
A. I’. GARDNER, WHO RESIGNED
SEAT IN CONGRESS TO EN
TER ARMY, SUCCUMBS.
—
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 15.—
Major Augustus P. Gardner, who re
signed his seat in congress to enter
the national army, died yesterday at
Camp Wheeler, near Mason, Georgia,
of pneumonia.
Major Gardner’s home was in Ham
ilton, Mass. We was born November
5, 1865, and was graduated from Hai*
vard in 1886. He was a member of
the Massachusetts senate for two
years and afterwards served in the
. Spanish-American war.
Mr. Gardner was elected to the fif
ty-seventh congress to fill a vacancy
and served continuously for eighteen
years. He resigned his seat last fall
to accept a commission as major in
the national army.
teutons suffer reverse
* j near monte grappa in nor
thern PART OF COUNTRY.
. I
I j ROME, Italy, Jan. 16.—Severe win
ter weather conditions prevent mili
: tary operations on an extensive scale
in the northern part of Italy.
! The Italians yesterday attacked the
i German-Austrian wedge near Monte
Grappa and forced it back a little.
Chancellor George Hertling, on Account of Attack of Illness,
Has to Postpone Delivery of Address Before Reichstag in
Answer to Speeches Recently Made by Lloyd George, Pre
mier of England, and President Wilson, of United States,
on War Aims of Entente.
LONDON, Jan. 15.—Although the belief recently was ex
pressed in some quarters in Germany, that the anti-militarist
party was making progress toward getting control of the Ger
man government, the fact is apparent now that the militarists
are gaining even a firmer hold than ever on the destinies of
the German empire.
DEMAND KUEHLMANN’S DISMISSAL.
The militarists are demanding the dismissal from office of
Foreign Secretary Kuehlmann, who was chairman of the Ger
man peace commission, which recently conferred with Russian
peace commissioners at Brest, in Litovsk province, in south
western Russia. He is charged with having been too liberal in
promising to return to Russia certain of her territory now oc
cupied by Germany.
Chancellor Hertling’s address before the reiehstag in an
swer to the peace conditions recently enunciated by Lloyd
George, premier of England, and President Wilson, of the
Tinted States, was expected to be delivered today, but had to
I be postponed on account of the chancellor’s illness.
CONGRESS URGED TO INVESTIGATE
ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE OF AM
ERICA IS SAID TO BE BEHIND
ACCUSATION THAT OFFICERS
ALLOW SOLDIERS TO USE IN
TOXICATING LIQUORS.
WASHINGTON, I). C., Jan. 16.—
i A joint resolution was introduced in
| congress today calling for a congres
j sional investigation of charges of mis
I conduct aginst Amenean troops in the
European war zone. The charges are
said to have been circulated by the
Anti-Saloon League of America and
are to the effect that American troops
in Europe are allowed by ther officers
the use of intoxicating liquors and
that many of the soldiers imbibe too
freely.
Persons making- the charges have
declared that the congressional law
and the army regulations against the j
use of intoxicating liquors by soldiers
in the service should be observed by
the expeditionary forces in Europe as i
well as by troops in the United States.
General J. J. Pershing, commander
of the American army abroad, was re
ported recently to have said that Unit
ed States soldiers in France drank
French wine, which he declared was so
light that it was not intoxicating and
which he stated was more wholesome
than the contaminated wells in the |
war sectors.
! BRITISH WERE NOT SURPRISED BY
GERMAN COUNTER ATTACK AT CAMBRIA
CHANCELLOR OF EXCHEQUER
BOXAR LAW TELLS COMMONS
THAT TEUTONS DII) NOT RE
TAKE AS MUCH GROUND AS IT
WAS THOUGHT THEY WOULD.
LONDON, Jan. 16.—In answer to
j criticisms that the English troops
J were surprised by the counter attack
j of the Germans November 30 in the
Cambrai region, Bonar Law, chancel
lor of the exchequer, today told the
house of commons that General Haig,
commander of the British army in
France, has notified the war office in
London of the approaching counter at
tack and had reported that all pre
parations had been made to meet it.
It was expected that the Germans,
in their counter attack, would retake |
some of the ground they had lost at j
the time of the British drive in the
Cambrai sector, but they did not re
take, the chancellor, as much as the
war office had expected they would.
CAUSES
EXTENSION OF FEDERAL INSURANCE
SECRETARY OF TREASURY ORE
ERS THAT PROTECTION B]
MADE APPLICABLE TO MEN O!
SHIPS GOING TO CAPE VERDI
AND WEST AFRICA.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 16.
Because of the extension in area o
Germany’s submarine activities, Sec
retary of the Treasury William G. Me
Adoo today ordered that governmen
MTOEE’S NAME IS
SENT TO SENAT!
_
| WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 16.
J President Wilson today sent ta th
j senate the nomination of Everett Me
I Phee to be postmaster at Anchorage
The president’s intention to appoin
| Mr. McPhee was announced som
time ago. It is believed the sendinj
of his nomination to the senate await
ed the receipt and approval by th
post office department of his bonds.
- life insurance be made applicable to
2 officers and crews on United States
* merchantmen plying between Ameri
2 can ports and the Cape Verde islands;
and ports on the west coast of Africa!
north of Sierra Leone.
The insurance went into effect to-1
f day, and now protects all officers and
- crews on American ships that are atj
- sea en route to or from any of the!
t designated ports.
~F1RE IN SCHOOL
; COSTS 13 LIVES
J MUSKOGEE, Okla., Jan. 12.—Fire
' | destroyed the boys dormitory of the
! Dwight Indian Training school at
^; Marble, forty miles southeast of here.
21 Thirteen boys lost their lives in the
r i fire and a hundred escaped from the
-. burning building scantily clad. A
3, snow storm was raging at the time of
the fire.
GOVERNMENT WILL
TAKE SAILING SHIPS
HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FIVE
VESSELS HAVE CAPACITY
OF 425,000 TONS.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 15.—
All American sailing vessels will soon
be requisitioned by the United States
government, in the opinion of federal
officials here. They base their belief
on the fact that today the United
States shipping board asked the de
partment of commerce for a repoi’t on
the location of all such vessels.
Secretary of Commerce William C.
Redfield replied that there were 175
American sailing vesels, with a capac
ity of 425,000 tons, either within
American waters or adjacent to them.
LEGISLATORS REFUSE TO AP
PROVE MILITARY POLICY SUB
SERVIENT TO AUSTRIA.
WANT TO DIRECT SOLDIERS.
Emperor Charles Rejects Proposal for
Organization of Force That Would
Not Be Under Command of His
Officers.
LONDON, Jan. 16.—The Hungarian
cabinet today resigned office because
of its failure to obtain approval from
Hungary’s legislative body of the min
istry’s military program.
Hungarian legislators, supported by
the Hungarian people, demand the or
ganization of a separate Hungarian
army, whose first allegiance shall be
due to Hungary rather than to Aus
tria or Germany and whose command
shall be directed by Hungarian offi
cers, independently of Austrian or
German commanders.
The organization of such an army
was recommended by the Hungarian
premier to Charles, emperor of Aus
tria and king of Hungary, but the
monarch rejected the idea Without
qualification. The premier then urged
the Hungarian legislative body to
abandon the plan, but his proposal
was almost unanimously condemned
by the legislators.
GERMANS STAVE OFF
FAMINE IN LINEN
CLOTH IS TAKEN FROM SCHOOL
WALL MAPS AND CLEANED
AND MADE SERVICEABLE.
BERNE, Switzerland, Jan. 15.—
German ingenuity has once more
found a way to stave off the crisis
threatening by reason of the lack of
cloths and clothing. The authorities
of the so-called imperial clothing
headquarters, according to Berlin pa
pers just arrived, have ordered all
schools to turn in old wall maps that
are mounted on linen or cloth of any
sort.
The maps, it is explained by the
clothing headquarters, will then be
separated from the cloth by a cleans
ing process, and the supply of linen
thus obtained will be used, for cloth
ing if possible, but in any event for
linings.
GERMANS TORPEDO
HOSPITAL VESSEL
CARDIFF, Wales, Jan. 10.—A Ger
man torpedo was sent through the
Red Cross on the side of the British
hospital ship Newa and the English
craft sank in Bristol channel.
She was loaded with wounded sol
diers. All of them were saved.
MOB IN BUTTE
RIOTS TO SEE
TRIPLE HANGING
SOLDIERS HOLD BACK CURIOUS
CROWD, THREATENING TO
BREAK INTO JAIL.
EXECUTION WITNESSED BY 100.
Negro and Two White Men, Who Had
Been Convicted of Murder, Pay Ex
treme Penalty for Commission of
Their Crime.
BUTTE, Mont., Jan. 15.—Sherman
Powell, a negro, and Roy Gallich and
Frank Fisher, white men, all of whom
had been convicted of murder, were
hanged yesterday in the Silver Bow
county jail in Butte. One hundred
persons, comprised principally of sher
iffs, deputy sheriffs, policemen and
newspapermen in Montana, witnessed
the triple execution.
A mob of 1,000 persons clamored at
the yard gate of the jail grounds in
an effort to gain admission. Soldiers
from the detachment of Washington
coast artillery, stationed in Butte, had
to be summoned to hold back the
crowd.
BOOTLEGGER LOSES
IN HIGHER COURT
LOGAN BILLINGSLY IS OUT ON
BAIL AND OFFICIALS DO NOT
KNOW WHERE HE IS.
OLYMPIA, Wash., Jan. 15. — The
Washington state supreme court to
day affirmed the conviction of Logan
Billingsly, notorious Seattle bootleg
ger, who was sentenced by the King
county superior court in Seattle to
serve three months in the King coun
ty jail and to pay a fine of $250 for
having unlawfully intoxicating liquor
in his possession. The trial and con
viction followed his arrest June 21,
1916, when a drug store conducted by
him was raided by the dry squad of
the Seattle police department.
While Billingsly’s appeal was pend
ing in the supreme court, he was at
liberty on bond. He has not been in
the state of Washington for some
time. City and county officials in
Seattle say his whereabouts are un
known to them.
LABOR LEADER TO
ADVOCATE LOYALTY
WASHINGTON FEDERATION
HEAD RESIGNS TO GIVE SERV
ICES TO GOVERNMENT.
SEATTLE, Wash., Jan. 15.—E. P.
Marsh, of Evei’ett, Wash., president of
the Washington State Federation of
Labor, resigned his position today to
accept a post with the United States
department of labor. He will be dele
gated by the department to deliver
addresses throughout the United
States. He will urge organized labor
to cooperate whole-heartedly with the
government so as to make effective its
prosecution of the war.
STOCKHOLM MAYOR
VISITS PETROCRAD
EFFORT WILL BE MADE TO AR
RANGE FOR FOOD EXPORTS
FROM RUSSIA TO SWEDEN.
LONDON, Jan. 15.—The mayor of
Stockholm, who is a leading member
of the socialist party in Sweden, has
arrived in Petrograd to arrange for
a conference between Russian Maxi
milists and Swedish socialists. He al
so will endeavor to arrange for the
exportation of foodstuffs from Russia
into Sweden.