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SNOW IS SO DEEP IN JUNEAU
THAT I IKE DEPARTMENT HAS
TO USE YUKON SLEDS.
WINDS OF GREAT VELOCITY.
Steamers Cannot Maintain Schedules
and Smaller Crafts Are Wrecked
and in Instances Lives Have lleen
Imperiled.
Winds of terrific velocity, unusually
heavy snow falls and low tempera
tures, continued for long periods, have
united to make the present winter the
most severe and the most disagree
able within the memory of any per
son. red or white, in southeastern
Alaska, declare reports from Juneau.
Tiie deep snow in Juneau compels
the fire department to use Y’ukon
sled.', drawn by hand, to transport its
five-lighting apparatus.
Chief Sim Freiman, of the Juneau
department, has issued a warning to
a!1 property owners to be exceeding
ly careful of fires while the deep
.-•now is on the ground, because the
big five truck is unable to “navigate”
in the snow
Snow Operates Brakes.
‘‘ The truck can go, all right,’’ ' e ■ c
t plained, “and the wheels can g> l tr.. ■
cion, but the truck sinks into the snow
untd the banked snow under the truck
causes the emergency broke to set it
self. .^topping the truck.
■•U.itii the snow goes, or is cleared
;wry. the fire department will have
> wort to the old system of Yukon
•:> drawn by hand. It is useless to
ak the truck out.
Six Sleds Are Used,
y. Yukon sleds with hose and fire
;gkdny viipmcnt have been distrib
uted o’ or the city and in case of an
alar ' id’. 1're boys will repair imme
diately to the sled located nearest the
alarm box.
"t sled has been placed in the
Juneau Coin Storage plant, one at
the Davis Garage, one at the reser
voirs on the hill and two are a: the
city hall. The boys are on the job
ami even without a truck it will be a
good tire that gets away from us.”
Steamers operating in the vicinity
of Juneau at the present time are hav
ing trend’1 maintaining their sched
ule, on ■ a of weather conditions.
4f* Utirv Boats in Trouble.
. .e Juneau Ferry and Navigation
com'any has been having considera
ble trouble in maintaining its sched
ule on account of the high winds. One
of its bout- was blown against the
Doi.e ... vk by the wind and sprunk
a leak, from . hich she almost sank.
She had to be beached for repairs.
The Alma has been laid up for several
weeks with a damaged manifold and
cannot go on the run until the part is
sent from the east. The Lone Fisher
man had to go off the run for a few
days because she had lost her rudder.
The latter boat is practically the on
ly one on the ferry run between Ju
neau and Douglas at the present.
Many small boats have been
swampep and wrecked. To add to the
( list the gas boat Unity of Excursion
inlet was driven ashore on Outer
Point and is now a uotal wreck. The
boat left Excursion inlet for Juneau
but was forced to drop anchor on ac
count oi the wind.
Anchors Would Not Hold.
The anchors were not sufficient to
withstand the force of the gale and
the boat was driven ashore. As the
Unity’s small skiff had been lost
some time before, the men were forced
to jump into the surf and swim ashore
as best they could. As the temper
ature was nearly zero they started to
freeze and were obliged to keep con
stantly in motion. They soon found a
cabin, however, and built a fire, ar
riving' in Juneau sevral days later.
The Unity was owned by the Puget
Sound and Astoria Packing company
and was valued at 1,500.
The Bell Island Canning company is
a new organization to engage in the
salmon canning industry on Bell isl
> and, about 45 miles from Ketchikan.
MAXIM1LIST LEADERS USE SOL
DIERS TO FORCE ADJOURN
MENT OF LAWMAKERS.
TROOPS GUARD DESERTED HALL
Premier Announces That Delegates
Who Had Been Chosen to Formu
late Permanent Government Cannot
Meet Again.
PETROGRAD, Jan. 21.—Russia’s
constituent assembly existed only a
few hours before it was dissolved by
the executive committee of the con
; stress of workmen and soldiers, of
which committee the cabinet ministers
are members and which is really the
agency of the maximilist patry that
now contorls Russia.
The constituent assembly, which
was comprised of delegates from all
parts of Russia, and which, it was ex
pected, would draft a constitution for
the new republic and adopt a form of
permanent government to take the
place of the provisional government
now in control, aroused the resent
ment and the opposition of Premier
L. Lenine and his maximilist asso
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ci .i. in the cabinet when it defeated
ti: ir candidate for chairman of the
assembly. They realized that they
could not control it and that if it re
mained in session and arranged a per
manent form of government they
w >u!d be ousted from power.
Premier Lenine announce 1 today
that neither the constituent assembly
as a body nor its members as individ
uals would be allowed to convene in
session again.
Maximilist troops, who were used
to dissolve the assembly, are now on
guard at the deserted assembly hail
and will permit none to enter it.
LOS ANGELES WORKERS HONOR
tiOO OF THEIR FELLOWS WHO
HAVE GONE TO WAR.
LOS ANGELES, Cal., Jan. 22.—
Los Angeles Labor’s contribution to
America’s fighting forces was signal
ized here by the formal raising at La
bor temple of a service flag hearing a
i star on its white field for each of near
ly six hundred organized workers off
to war. Simultaneously a great Am
erican flag was run up the Temple’s
flag pole.
Both banners were presented by the
Women Garment Workers’ union,
whose members made them, and were
accepted in behalf of the Labor Tem
ple association by its present, C. M.
Feider.
A band composed of members of the
Musicians’ association furnished mu
sic for the presentation ceremony
which was attended by the mayor and
members of the city council.
CANTONMENT BANK
RECOVERS $62,000
MONEY STOLEN BY ARMY CAP
TAIN IS FOUND HIDDEN IN
WALLS OF HIS QUARTERS.
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Jan. 17.—The
money obtained from the military
bank at Camp Funstan, Kan., by Cap
tain Lewis Whistler last week when
he killed four men in robbing the in
stitution was found hidden todayr in
the walls of his quarters in the bar
racks at Camp Funstan. The military
officers are reticent as to the amount
of the money. It is understood, how
ever, to have aggregated more j;han
$62,000.
The remains of Captain Whistler,
i who committed suicide the day fol
j lowing the robbery, have been sent tc
j his home at Salfa, Kansa.
An investigation by the military
j authorities has convinced them Cap
I tain Whistler was insane.
| SECRETARY OF TREASURY SAYS
| FEDERAL CONTROL NECES
SARY EVEN AFTER WAR.
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OLD LAWS ARE INADEQUATE
Cabinet Officer Declares New Legis
lation Is Necessary Before Trans
portation Lines Are Returned t<
Private Ownership.
! WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 21.
; Control of the railroads, which recent
! ly was taken over by the Unitet
! States as a war measure, should be re
tained by the government at the con
| elusion of peace until new and com
prehensive laws are enacted to regu
1 late them, declared Secretary of thi
j Treasury William G. McAdoo in tes
I tifying today before the senate inter
; state commerce committee, which ii
j investigating the seizure of lam
transportation lines by the federa
authorites.
Secretary McAdoo declared that th<
laws under which the railroads oper
i ated before their seizure by the gov
eminent were entirely inadequate t<
! control them in the interest of th<
public or to permit their developmen
| in the interest of stockholders an:
that new legislation should be enactei
: before the lines were returned to pri
! vate ownership.
C ANDIDATES FOR OFFICE ARI
NOMINATED BY CITIZENS
AT MASS MEETING.
Harry Long Is Chosen Mayor am
Edward Marsden, Mho Has Dorn
So .Much to Help His Race, Is Se
lected fcr Secretary.
Indians at Metlakatla the other da;
; held their town election. Five day;
before the regular election day candi
! dates were nominated at a large pub
i lie meeting of the people. Variou:
expressions of opinion were given b;
the speakers. All the way througi
an earnest desire for more busines
! activities, more enlightened educa
lion, more progress and freedom ii
religion and local government wen
a; ked for. The prevailing sentiment
! v-ore for a united action on all pub
he questions by the community.
; The election day was quiet. Then
1 were no band wagons by any of tin
I candidates to influence the voters
There were 121 votes cast of the mal
i population above the ages of 2
The elected candidates were chosei
for two years, and they are as fol
lows:
Mayor, Harry Lang; secretary, Ed
ward Marsden; treasurer, Charle
Brendible, and councilmen, Fred H
Verney, Daniel Reece, Frank Aller
Jacob Bolton, Jacob Scott and Adol
phus Calvert.
It is worthy of note that of all th
; candidates, Mr. Marsden, who ha
done so much to improve the condi
turn of his people, received the high
i cst number of votes, which was SC
| This shows the confidence of his owi
i people in him, for it was the case o
i the office seeking the man and no
otherwise. He had preferred to tak
no active part from this year on bu
his people would not have it that waj
As secretary he is the legal custodial
of all the public properties belonging
I to the people of Metlakahtla, except
ing what is owned by the governmenl
and besides this he has many duties t
perform under the rules.
The mayor and councilmen receiv
no salaries. Both the secretary an<
treasurer are allowed $10 each pe
year for the expense of accounts an
no allowance is made for traveling ex
peruses.
ARMED VETERANS ESCORT RE
CRUITS IN SOME PRUSSIAN
TOWNS TO STATION.
PROTECTED ON ALL SIDES.
Letter Found on Person of Dead Teu
ton Makes Sarcastic Reference to
11 Newspaper Stories About Enthus
iasm of Soldiers.
FRENCH FRONT, Jan. 21.—Ger
man soldiers from some of the towns
1 of Prussia are sent to the front under
■ armed guard “as criminals are led to
■ the executioner,” says a letter found
■ on a dead German soldier, who was
• killed in a recent battle on the French
! front. The writer had given a vivid
' description of the scene at the depar
' ture of a detachment of reinforce
5 ments from Saarlouis, a town in
I Rhenish Prussia. The recruits were
1 intended to fill the gaps in a battalion
which had suffered heavy losses. The
vvni-d
“The first battalion is ordered to
• furnish a reinforcing detachment of
> ninety-nine men. To escort them to
? the Saarlouis station 300 men have
t been ordered out, some of them with
1 arms to march alongside the men go
■ ing off and others to act as pickets on
the way to the station. The men were
all ready in the afternoon and had to
wait some time for another squad of
comrades from the First company of
convalescents, who eventually arrived.
“What a scene! Ahead marched a
squad of guards and to right and left
I of each tile two armed guards, while
another squad of guards brought up
the rear to guard these German sold
t
icrs—our brave soldiers in field-gray
! who, according to the magnificently
, phrased stories of the newspapers,
dash forward full of joy and sustain
ed by love of Fatherland to destroy
our enemies.
j “The detachment moved off with a
, band playing a march. The guards
were so numerous that there was one
! for every two men of the departing
; detachment. Is it not a scandal that
our children in field-gray should be
led to war to fight and shed their
blood in the same way a scriminals are
led to the executioner or, still worse,
like cattle to the slaughterhouse?’ It
was not sufficient that for hours be
forehand—in fact from the moment
1 of the announcement of the departure
5 of the detachment—even soldiers who
' did not belong to it were prevented
1 from going into the town by sentinels
- posted every five yards. No, it was
3 considered necessary to submit the
' men to shame of marching to the
depot under guard.
“Do not the magnificent mendacious
article in our papers represent in a
false light our brave boys in field
gray going to fight and destroy the
^ enemy for the love of the fatherland,
while such things as these are happen
ing? Verily it is a voluntary sacri
fice!”
: GERMANS FORCED
OUT OF TRENCHES
5 BERLIN SAYS FRENCH GAINED
3 TEMPORARILY FRONT LINE
TRENCHES IN VOSGES.
BERLIN, Jan. 17.—French troop?
1 today, following a heavy artillery
f bombardment, attacked the Germans
t in the Vosges sector and temporarily
3 penetrated the German front line
t trenches.
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A PACIFIC PORT, Jan. 21.—Dr.
3 Aimaro Sato, Japanese ambassador to
1 the United States, sailed today for
r Japan. He said that he is returning
I home for just a brief while and that
- he will hetum to Washington, D. C.
to resume his diplomatic duties.
SENATOR CHAMBERLAIN INTRO
DUCES BILL MAKING BOARD
OF THREE MEMBERS.
PRESIDENT WILL FIGHT IT.
Leaders of .Majority Party in Senate
Feel Confident Measure Will Pass
in Upper Branch But May Be De
feated in House.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 22.—
j To establish a war council of three
distinguished citizens of demonstrated
j executive ability is the purpose of a
bill that was introduced in the senate
today by Senator George E. Chamber
lain, democrat, of Oregon, chairman
of the senate military affairs com
mittee.
The measure has the expressed op
position of President Wilson who has
notified democratic leaders that he
will exert all his influence to defeat
the measure.
Leading democratic senators, all of
whom were consulted by Senator
Chamberlain before the introduction
of the bill, feel confident the measure
will pass the senate, despite the presi
dent’s opposition. In the house, how
ever, it is admited the measure is like
ly to be defeated.
The introduction of the bill consti
tutes the first rupture of any conse
quence between the president and the
democratic majority in the senate.
j GOVERNMENT WILL NOT PERMIT
LOWERING OF WAGE SCALE
TO FEMININE WORKERS.
—
i WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 17.—
i Announcement today was made by
the newly created federal labor ad
i ministration board, which is under the
jurisdiction of William B. Wilson, sec
retary of labor, that the federal gov
ernment would prevent, so far as pos
sible, the introduction of women labor
into any positions for which men are
still available. Furthermore, the board
announced that it would not permit
any reduction in the wage scales of
those positions in which women take
the places of men.
The board will immediately inaug
urate a campaign to mobilize labor to
meet the large deficiencies now exist
ing in the war industries.
COLONEL CHARACTERIZED AS
MOST SEDITIOUS MAN OF
CONSEQUENCE IN NATION.
ACCUSER IS SENATOR STONE.
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Missourian Declares That Republican
Leaders Are Trying to Get Control
of Government by Partisan Critic
ism of War.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 22.—
I Characterizing former President
| Theodore Roosevelt as the most potent
1 and willing friend of Emperor Wil
liam, of Germany, and the most sedit
ious man of censequence in the Unit
ed States, Senator William J. Stone,
of Missouri, chairman of the senate
j committee on foreign relations, in an
j address in the senate late yesterday
! charged that leaders of the republican
party were engaged in an effort to
turn the world war to their political
j advantage.
Partisan Criticism of War.
He declared that they plan to get
! the government into their own hands
j by constant partisan criticism of the
conduct of the war.
Senator Stone excoriated partian
ship on war measures. He referred to
Charles Willcox, chairman of the na
tional republican committee, and Sen
ator Boies Penrose, republican, of
Pennsylvania, as among the chief con
spirators in the plot to exploit the na
tion’s critical situation for political
purposes.
i Senator Stone’s address is regarded
as the forerunner of bitter strife
partisan strife in the lower and upper
branches of congress.
Efforts were made by democratic
leaders in and out of congress to dis
suade the Missouri senator from de
livering his address.
NEW AMERICAN BOAT SHOWS
| AVERAGE SPEED OF NINE
TEEN KNOTS ON LONG TRIP.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 17.—
A new record for sustained endurance
i has been established by one of two
new American torpedo boat destroy
ers in a voyage from a Pacific to an
| Atlantic port.
The voyage was made in ten and
: a half days. The average speed was
: nineteen knots an hour.
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