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VOL. 1
Anchorage, Alaska. SaturOd^y, May 6, 1916
NO. 44
WASHINGTON, May 9.—Representations with respect to
the raiding by Mexican outlaws of Glenn Springs, in the Big
> Bend country of Texas, were made by the state department to
the Mexican government today. The messages to President
Carranza suggest that he exert his utmost power to prevent a
recurrence of these outlaw raids into American territory; that
a re adjustment of tin* Carranzista forces would be advisable,
so-that scattering bands of Mexican outlaws should not he
able to again cross the border.
TJ. S. CAVALRY IN PURSUIT.
EL PASO, May 9.—Four troops of the United States cav
alry have arrived at Glenn Springs, Texas, to take up the pur
suit of the Mexican raiders. They are instructed to follow the
bandits into Mexico and remain in pursuit until the outlaws
are overtaken.
INDIGNATION RUNS HIGH.
GLENN SPRINGS, Texas, May !).—Indignation runs high
in Glenn Springs, following the raid (of the Mexican bandits.
Residents assert that their home government affords them no
» protection. People here are arming and propose to protect
themselves.
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LONDON, May 9.—The White
Star liner Cymbric is sinking at sea, ,
v according to wireless messages re- !
F celved in London this morning by
Lloyd's. The nature of the accident j
that befell the Cymbric is not re- ,
vealed in the messages, but it is
feared that she fell victim to a Gor
man submarine.
The Cymbric sailed from Now
York, enroute to Lierpool, several
days ago, and was nearing her des
tination when she. mot with the ac
cident. The Cymbric is laden with
a genera] cargo, including munitions
*■ - of war for the allies. She carries no
passengers, but her crew consists of
several hundred men.
WASHINGTON, May 9.—President
Wilson has written .a letter to Sen
ator Culberson, chairman of the
senate judiciary committoe, urging
,the confirmation of Louis D. Brau
dels, nominated as an associate jus
tice of the United States supreme
court. The chairman read the letter
to the committee at its session to
day. It is believed that the presi
dent’s letter will do much to hasten
confirmation of the nominee.
''The tug Walowa, drawing the
barge Harvester and scow D. & L.
No. 2, reached this port at 8 o’clock I
this morning, with Capt. S. F. Snow .
in charge. She svas loaded with
800.000 feet of lumber for the firm
of McNally & Maitland, who aro un
loading same at., tne new yards just
west of the old Maitland dock at the
foot of H street. Capt. Snow loft
Port Angeles on April-22nd, and will
return at once for another cargo of
lumber for McNally H Maitland.
The monthly report of tho secre
tary of tho Alaska Labor Union,
l submitted last night, shows that tho
total in all funds now. exceeds the
indebtedness by mi most $100. The
indebtedness a month ago was about
$1100. Net receipts of tho smoker
. Saturday night w'c-ro $190, which in
cluded a donation of $21. from Chas.
E. Herron for the building fund. A
hearty vote of thanks was extended
to Mr. Herron last night for his sub
stantial “recognition" of the organ
ization.
FOUND GUILTY
SEW TIOIiK, May "9.—TilBW. ray,
Walter Scholtz anJ 1’aul Daeehe, on
trial here for the past month
fliarged with conspiracy to destroy
American munition plants, wore
found guilty by the trial jury, that
reached a verdict last night. The
convicted men are Germans who
have been active in plots for the de
struction of munition plants.
NEW YORtv, May 9.—Two Ger
man submarines and a commerce
raider escaped from Kiel apd are re.
ported at largo in the Atlantic
ocean, according to confidential ad
vices received by steamship oper
ators. The warning is Bent in an
effort to protect Atlantic liners. It
;s believed nere that the British
liner Cynibric, in distress In mid
ocean, fell victim to one of these
marines.
ENGLANDER
GETS A FAT 10
WASHINGTON, Way 9.—The
president today sent to the senate
the nomination of Eugene E. Heed,
ot' New Hampshire, to ho a member
of the Philippine commission. The
appointee, if confirmed, will succeed
'Hilton L. Riggs.
YOST) WOMAN SUICIDES.
SEATTLE, May 9.—Mrs. Virginia
Hand, aged 90 years, committed sui
cide by shooting herself last night.
She was broken in health and mind
and sought refuge in death.
I William Kerr and wife are among
the many recent arrivals in Anclior
j ago and will make their home here
| for the summer. Mr. Kerr is cer
tainly entitled to the distinction ■ of
being numbered among the pioneers
of this country, as lie camped at the |
mouth of Ship creek in 1909 while
on a prospecting trip, at which time
the tide came in and wrecked the
camp, and naturally notices some
change in this particular part of the
inlet.
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GOVERNOR STRONG SAYS NO Cc‘i?OSI
TION IN CONGRESS TO BIG AFTRQPRIAION
FOR THE GOVERNMENT RAILWAY PROJECT
SEATTLE, May !>.—‘‘There will jbe in difficulty .at
all about securing the big appropriation for the Alas
ka railway project at the hands of.the congress. 1
talked with a ntimbor of senators and congressmen
with respect to this matter, and I found that there is
practically no opposition to appropriating funds for
the big development scheme.”
The foregoing statement was made today by Gov
ernor d. F. A. Strong, who, accompanied by Mrs.
Strong, returned from an official trip to "Washington
last night. The governor further s aid that he had
talked with President Wilt on about the railway pro
ject and about Alaska generally, and deelared the
chief exeentive is taking the deepest interest in the
big territ ry and follows its development with the
keenest interest.
Governor and Mrs. Strong will sail for Juneau to
morrow.
WASHINGTON, May !). Latest* hi 15k American note
cabled today to 1 lie German empire; Prcidont Wilson accepts
tlie German pledge to conduct tiie submarine warfare accord
ing to international law. With this acceptance is coupled the
formal notice to Germany “that the iJjrnlcd States cannot for
a moment entertain, nmeli less discuss, the suggestion con
tinned in tlie German note, that respect by the German naval
authorities of the rights i f citizens of the United States on
the Idgli seas should in tlie slightest degree be made contingent
upon tlie conduct of any other government affecting the rights
of neutrals and non-combatants.’’
LONDON ,May !>.—The Rotterdam c •lTemondent of the
London Telegraph sends a cable message alleging that 1-m
peror William of Germany has w ritten the Dope request
ing 11 if; Holiness and King Alphonao of Spain to arrange an
immediate armistice, looking toward the consummation of
peace.
O. A. Kenyan, railroad secretary
tor tlio International Committee or
rite Young Mena Christian Associa
tion, with ofnees in New York city,
arrived on ilie Alameda and will
make IU3 headquarters in Anchorage
tor a tew months while organising
Association work along the line of
the now railroad.
Mr. Kenyon conies from 'Chicago,
where ho has been attending the As
sociation College the past two years,
previous to whies he was aiilliated
v ith. the Association at Boulder,
Col., and later Assistant Employ
ment Secretary of the Seattle Y. M.
C. A. As secretary to the mill su
perintendent of a prosperous mining
company in Soutneastorn Alaska, ho
became interested in the industrial
department cf t ie Association work,
and appreciating the limited advan
tages open to men desiring a whole
acme social life while pioneering in
the North welcomed the opportunity
that came to demonstrate the ability
of.-lho Y. M. C. A. to adapt its pro
gram to the field of labor.
Since the organization of the
Young Men’s Christian Association
in London, England, Juno G, 1844,
by a young man who later became
the member of the large drapery es
tablishment of Hitchcock & Wil
liams. and bearing tiie titlo of Sir
;George Williams, it has met with a
/nost remarkable growth, not only
tin practically all of the European
countries, but more especially ir.
North America. Beginning with first
a religious work, it no wembraces
fourfold work in developing the
hipliost type of efficient iuanliood,
emphasizing the physical, social, ed
ucational and religious development.
A work organized lirst for clerks in
a drapery establishment has been
adapted to serve the office men of
the cities, the men of the universi
ties, the boys of the high school and
country districts, the men of the
a’ iny and daw* men in the mining,
lumber and in construction camps,
and last but by no means least, the
railroad companies* and employees,
which department alone has eighty
five thousand men using the privi
leges an members and participating
in its activities.
Mr. Kenyon will take this inter
esting and beneficial proposition up
with tjio Commission in particular
and endeavor to find a largo enough
.field far his labors In this commun
ity to wake Anchorage his summer
home. Mr. Kenyon is stopping with
Or. MqBrido, who will materially
assist him in this splendid under
raking.
Mrs. G. J. Swensen, who recently
i came to Anchorage from Juneau,
will establish an office in the Fowler
building. Mrs. Swenson is a notary
and an abstractor, and in addition
to this will deal in real estate and
handle musical instruments.
Captain Sid Barrington, a pioneer
j Yukon navigator, is a passenger on
the Farragut, enroute to Anchorage,
and will establish a line of river
boats from this port to the Mata
• nurktv river.
UNITED STATES ARMY
Vi ASHING I ON, May 9.—By a vote of 221 to 142, the house
yesterday afternoon refused to concur in the senate amend
ment to the army hill providing that the regular army shall be
increased to 250,000 men.
The decisive vote rejecting the senate amendment indicates
that the house will not recede from its position, and if the sen
ate declines to yield, the army bill will be held up indefinitely.
I ii(‘ failure of the two houses to reach an agreement, in the
crisis which now confronts the country growing out of the
■ orman and Mexican problems, but adds to the perplexities of
!he administration. President Wilson lias had conferences
with Senator Chamberlain, chairman of the senate committee
in military affairs, and Congressman Hay, chairman of the
house committee on military affairs, in an effort to get the
oiiH hill through congress as soon as possible. The president
ii:mi.l\ informed the respective chairmen that the responsi
bility rests entirely with the congress, and if the law-making
body refuses to act definitely, he will have no hesitation in
felling the country of the true situation.
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OLYMPIA, May 9.—Chairman
Krnst and Floyd Daggett, members
»t the Washington state industrial
insurance commission, acting on an
mrornial request ny uovernor ihsier,
today sent in their resignations,
which were accepted. Tiie yesigna
ions follow the scandal growing out
d grafting in the industrial insur
ance commission. While the com
missioners were not guilty of partici
pation in tlie defalcations revealed,
they are culpable to the degree that
.hey were negligent.
IRE VICTIMS OF
TOE IRISH REVOLT
LONDON, May 9.—The govern
ment issued an official statement this
morning announcing the execution
ot Cornelius Colbert, Edmund Kent,
Michael Mallon and J. J. Hueston,
for taking a leading part in the Sinn
Fein revolt in Ireland.
DUBLIN, May D—James Sullivan,
the American, arrested for complic
ity in the Sinn Fein revolt in Ire
land, lull been released, mainly
through the efforts of American Am
bassador Page.
Lawrence Barrett, one of the old
timers in the Nome country and a
registered “sourdough” of the early
days, later made famous by a cer
tain brand of cigars, is proprietor of
the Normile-oummy rooming house,
recently erected on Fifth street, ad
joining the grocery store of t inlay
& Co. This rooming house is com
modious, being 21x50 feet, and con
taining 63 full sized Oklahoma
bunks, which insure perfect comfort
for tall customers.
Miss June Peterson, of Portland,
who is in Anchorage for a few days,
has opened a drug store at Mata
nuska Landing, and will also handle
newspapers, periodicals, cigars and
tobaccos. Miss Peterson came to
Seward early in the season and had
the novel experience of mushing in
to Anchorage over the trail.
FAKUT SAILS
WITH BIG LIST
SEATTLE* May 9.—The steamer
Admiral Fairagut, of the Admiral
line, sailed from Seattle at noon yes.
way ports. First-class passengers
enroute to Anchorage are:
Joseph Berri, B. D. Guppin, C. C.
Osier, A. Aireland, E. R. Stivers,
Mrs. John T. Coffey, C. M. Miller, M.
A. Ellis, Joseph Groggln, J. W. Baer,
Lew Criden, J. J. Lindquist* L. J.
Englund, John Coman, Edward Au
gella, A. A. Adams, H. L. Reed, Mrs.
M. J. Wilson, Mrs. Gus C. Staburg,
Mrs. E. Sherman, R. L. Kinney, Her.
bert Gates, Mrs. Ben Levin, Barney
Simon, Mrs. Simon, R, S. Temme. J.
H. Gardiner, B. E. Gaskill, A. S. See.
sions, E. Reed, S. E. Barrington,
Frank Marino, Edward Bourgct, and
ninety in the steerage.
IF REPLY IS
SENT TO GERM
WASHINGTON, May Secre
tary of State Lansing said today that
a brief reply had been sent to the
German government, in response to
the Teuton reply to the American
ultimatum. The secretary declined
to give the purport of the American
Early Monday morning, the sec
retary sent a brief note saying that
the German note had been otlicially
received.
Dr. E. S. Ueedy recently operated
on Jim English at the government
hospital. Mr. English was suffering
from a ruptured appendix and com
plications and was In a serious con
dition. but is much improved this
morning. Ho is a man of mature
years and an interesting character,
having been employed as road mas
ter for the Copper River railway
from 1905 to 1911 and otherwise
being identified with the building of
this road, and is familiar with the
hardships of Alaska life, but even
with his experience and age mushed
in to Anchorage from the Copper
river country.
The gas schooner Halscon, with
Capt. Scott as master, came in last
night with 150 tons of cargo for An
chorage Supply Company, consisting
of rootling, building material, win
dows, etc., which is being unloaded
at their yards near the site of the
new commercial warehouse.