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JAPAN WILL REMAIN FAITHFUL TO ALLIES
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Germany Defends Proposal to Mexico
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♦ / TOKIO, March 3. — The declaration of the Japanese government, through Foreign Minister Motono, that Japan has received no propo- ♦
♦ sition from Mexico or Germany to join in a possible war against the United States, is supplemented by a statement from Vice-Foreign Minister ♦
♦ Shidehara. He declared that Japan was greatly surprised to hear of the German proposal, and that Japan will remain faithful to the allies. ♦
♦ * BERLIN, March 3.—A semi-official statement says the German minister to Mexico was instructed about the middle of January that in ♦
♦ the event of the United States declaring war to offer the Mexican government an alliance and arrange further details. These instructions ex- 1
♦ pressly directed the minister to make no advances to the Mexican government unless he knew for a certainty that America was going to declare ♦
♦ war. How the American government received the information, as the instructions were sent by a secret way to Mexico, is unknown, but it an ♦
♦ pears that treachery was committed in American territory. ’ ♦
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♦ WASHINGTON, March 3.—President Wilson has no intention of. taking action that would bring about war with Germany, unless con- ♦
;;; £ress was summoned in extra session. This information was communicated to senate leaders by representatives of the president who take *
l the Position that if no extraordinary crisis arises it will be unnecessary to call an extra session before late in the spring and then only to pass ♦
♦ any appropriation bills failing to pass at the present session. ’ ♦
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♦ GUADALAJARA, March 3.—General Aguilar, provisional minister of foreign relations, has formally denied that the Mexican government ♦
♦ was approached by Germany with the object of forming an alliance hostile to the United States. ♦
♦ BERLIN, March 3.—In official circles it is expected that Zimmerman will give notice of a rupture of diplomatic relations between Ger- t
♦ and th® United States unless the blockade policy is changed. Zimmerman is issuing a lengthy statement, defending the overtures made ♦
» to Mexico. He says it was proper for Germany to consider this measure in case of an attack by the United States. ♦
BILLS PISSED
CASE WAR
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♦ WASHINGTON. March .1. — ♦
♦ The president has continued his ♦
♦ efforts to persuade the Itepubli- ♦
♦ can senators to assist in the pas- ♦
♦ sage of needed appropriation ♦
♦ bills during the present session. ♦
♦ These senators were told by rep- ♦
♦ resentatlves of the president that ♦
♦ their argument in that congress ♦
♦ should remain in session because ♦
♦ of the German situation was not ♦
♦ logical, as Wilson naturally would ♦
♦ take no action leading to a de- ♦
♦ duration of war without the co- ♦
♦ operation of congress. The pre- ♦
♦ sident feels deeply the implica- ♦
♦ tion behind the effort to force ♦
♦ an extra session, but desires all ♦
♦ important appropriations passed ♦
♦ at this session, so that congress ♦
♦ can begin work immediately on ♦
♦ emergency measures if forced by ♦
♦ the German situation. +
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FIRE DESTROFS
ZEPPELIN UNO
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(By Associated Press) e
BERLIN, March 3. — A new Zeppe- |
lin while being given a tryout on speed t
at Ghent, caught fire and the machine (
was totally destroved. Tho » .
perisned. 11:
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(By Association Press)
WASHINGTON, March 3. — Presl- j
dent Wilson has signed the postoffice
appropriation bill, containing the bone ,
dry prohibition provision. He also (
signed the revenue bill, designed to
raise $350,000,000 through special t
taxes and a bond issue.
The senate has now under debate
the armed neutrality bill. The army
and sundry civil bills, containing the
Alaska appropriations have been
held up.
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(By Associated Press)
LONDON, March 3. — Germany has
failed by over fifty per cent to make
good its threat to sink a million tons
of merchant shipping during the
month of February. According to ab
solutely reliable figures the submar
ines sank 490,000 tons, which was only
140,000 tons above the total of pre
vious months.
APPROPRIATION BILL HEW
WASHINGTON, March 3. — The
senate has agreed to the conference
report of *40,000,000 for legislative,
judicial and executive appropriations
end the measure now goes to the pre
sident tor signature.
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GERMAN RAIDER IS FUEHME.
COPENHAGEN. March 3. — The
released Yarrowdale prisoners Bay the,
German raider in the south Atlantic
Is the Fuehme, commanded by Lieu
tenant Berg.
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A valuable leader belonging to the
Malamute Kid was killed at the ken
nels at Nenana recently by a number
of loose dogs. The leader was chained
and was unable to escape from the
vicious brutes which engaged in the
attack.
Representative Nate H. Coombs, of
iome, was in town today en route to
uneau to attend the legislative ses
ion. He came out over the trail via
!uby to Anchorage, and reports the
rip was very pleasant, and he had
lenty of company on most of the
len across the portage to Kaltoz,
lence up the Yukon to Ruby through
ong City, Poorman, Cripple, Ophtr,
akotna and over the pass to Anchor
ge. Mr. Coombs says all the camps
n route were prosperous and that
lany stampeders were mushing into
olstoi.
Speaking of conditions on Seward
eninsula, Mr. Coombs said:
"The mining industry in the vicin
:y of Nome, Council, Candle and the
ributary camps has taken on renewed
ctivity and we look for a prosperous
ear. Socially the camps have all ex
erienced a delightful winter, and
lany local dog races and other Win
er sports have added to the enjoy
lent of the season.”
Mr. Coombs is one of the real old
Imers of the interior and was former
f connected with C. D. Lane, but at
resent is developing some placer pro
erty in the vicinity of Council.
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TERM COURT
By an order issued by Judge Brown
n the district court the date of the
erm of court called for Cordova was
•hanged from March 26, the date set
n the order calling the term, until
April 2.
The jury for the Cordova term of
;ourt was drawn by Clerk of the Court
Arthur Lang and Jury Commissioner
Charles Kraemer, and the following
jurymen were drawn, a majority of
them residing at Seward: F. D. Nick
erson, John Fiannigan, F. P| Skeen,
F. W. Powers, W. L. Conway, L. C.
Bates W. M. Sauers Charles Craw
ford, D. W. Alderman, Samuel Mc
Donald, - Charles- Kma-woHer>- Cub A.
Seifert, from Seward; Charles Spong
berg, Valdez; Norman Merchant, W.
S. Frazer, Granby; Ixmle Little, Ella
mar; H. Daniels, Fred Schrenger,
Eyak; Exel Nasman, ). S. Malone
Granite; W. L. Smith, Janies Buchan
an, Cordova; Ephriam Brewster
Roosevelt; R. F. Spicer, Latouche
The jury is ordered to report at Cor
dova at 10 .o’clock a. m. on April 2.
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SPRECKLES OFFERS HIS YACHT
(By Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, March 3. — Join
D. Spreckiesh sa offered his yach
Venetia as an auxiliary to the Unite)
States.
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Mr. Ceorge Ed. H. Lewis will preacl
at the Presbyterian church Sunda
evening, on the subject, "Undevelopei
Resources." Everyone is Invited t<
hear this Interesting speaker.
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(By Associated Press)
HONOLULU, March 3. — Intense
activity, greater than known hereto
fore to any Hawallans now living, is
;!iinlLe85-e|ft.rfeiH^tlvv^1''^'re.a"Rna
uea is the largest active crater in the
world, eight miles in circumference,
and is situated in the southeasterly
part of the Island of Hawaii, the larg
est island of the group.
The volcano, enclosed by a circular
wall from 200 to 700 feet in height,
as a black plain of some fohr square
miles in area, within which is the pit
of Halemaumau, about 2,000 feet in
diameter, recently empty to a depth
of a thousand feet, but now nearly
level to Its mouth with boiling lava.
A few months ago the life of the vol
cano could hardly be discerned, but
today the pit is a roaring, boiling,
swirling lake of fire of many acres In
extent and at night the glow from the
red hot lava can be seen all over the
island and far out at sea. This fiery
lake Is filled with spouting fountains
that shoot the liquid rock hundreds
of feet into the air. The rim of the
pit is constantly crumbling, eaten
away at its base by the surging tide
of fire, and tumbling with deafening
crashes into the molten mass.
Reports from Hilo record the peril
ous feat of Professor T. A. Jaggar,
Jr., director of the volcano observa
tory, In venturing out on the hot,
more than 100 iZifa o* tto Java for
instruments into the lake of fire for
the purpose of ascertaining its tem
perature. He was successful, and he
and his assistants escaped in safety
only a short time before the spot on
which they had stood was engulfed
and became itself a part of the boil
ing flood.
The temperature of the lake is mor.
than 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit, accord
ing to the results obtained by Pro
fessor Jaggar. The temperature wn
found by thrusting into the molten
lava lengths of pipes screwed togethe
and into the end of which had been
fitted six Seeger cones, conical plug:',
of fusible clay designed to melt at
inarylng temperatures.
To reach the living lava, Professor
Jaggar and his assistants had to
scramble down sixty feet over the rim
of the pit, holding on to the knife edge
crags that had been thrown up by
the volcano's activity. One of the
party fell when near the bottom, bui
fortunately regained his feet in time
to prevent rolling into a fissure where
he would have been consumed in an
instant.
Professor Jaggar, who Is connecte 1
with the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, has spent five vears at
the volcano for scientific purposes
He takes daily, almost hourly obser
rations, .makes chemical analysis of
the lava, the gases arising from the
pit, and is endeavoring to deduce from
his studies general rules from which
to predict volcanic activity and its in
fluences.
The city of Honolulu, the capital of
the group, on the island of Oahu, is
about 180 miles distant from Kilaue i
volcano, but there is a population of
nearly 50,000 persons on the island
of Hawaii, where the volcano is situ
ated. Kilauea is only one of five vol
canic mountains on the island, and
though not as high as Mauna Lon
(Oreat Mountain) on the south, which
rises to a height of 13,675 feet, making
it the highest volcano in the world, it
is far more active than the highe
mountain. According to an account
of the natives, a violent eruption o'
Kilauea occurred in 1789, and lease
eruptions as recently as 1907, but con
fined to the pit of Halemaumau.
LIME DEPOSITS
Our former townsman, n. M. Lynch,
who owns a homestead about seven
miles out on the railroad from Mata
uuska, has received the following let
ter from the department of the in
terior at Washington, to whom he sent
samples of the lime deposits found on
his property:
“The sample you Bent Is a fresh
water marl composed chiefly of cal
ciOm carbonate, or lime. It was pro
bably deposited on the bottom of a
fresh water lake. This material
should be of considerable- local value
as a land dressing, since the soils
in Alaska are for the most part acid
and need a dressing of lime to coun
teract this acidity and to lnerease
the fertility. Soils thus treated will
get in good condition much quicker
than otherwise.
“It might be used as a flux for
smelting, but for this purpose it Is
not valuable enough to be shipped for
any distance. If there is any con
■ siderable local demand for quick lime
for building, this material could be
burned for that purpose.
1 "No analysis has been made, but
‘ tests indicate that about four-fifths
1 of the substance is lime.
“I was interested to note that you
state It contains some shells. 1 should
> like to see what they are, and will
' request that you send me some of
I the best preserved of these shells, as
> well as a small quantity of the marl
in its natural condition, in order to
see just how the shells occur in it. I
"I would suggest that you commu
nicate with the agricultural experi
ment station at Sitka, regarding the
use of this material for agricultural
purposes."
EHliZEl IS
(By Associated Press)
SEATTLE. March 3. — The Admlra
Evans sailed last night for Alaska
Her Cordova passengers were Mrs. 1)
Scurry and three children, Abe Van
Vechten and wife, Mrs. L. Ward, Mis:
E. Sparrow, Nellie ('ashman. S. Lewis
A. Hamilton and If. Mcuuire.
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WATSON DUE TONIGHT.
The steamer Admiral Watson is
due to reach here from the south to
night at 10 o’clock. |
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Representative A. A. Allan, o(
Nome, sails this afternoon for Ju
neau, to be present at the opening
session of the legislature on Monday.
He Is taking "Baldy.” bis famous dog
team leader, with him and before de
parting they were photographed by
Operator Woodworth for the Culver
sal Film Company.
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Charles Kraemer came over fron
Valdez on the steamer Northwesterr
with several men and horses, and lefi
on this morning's train for Chltina
They will spend the summer prospect
ing above Slate creek.
TRYING HOLD UP
ELECTION
(By Associated Press)
JUNEAU. March 2. — Judge Jen
nings today issued an alternative writ
of mandamus, returnable tomorrow af
ternoon, directing the canvassing
board to show cause why they should
not issue a certificate of election tc
Charles A. Sulzer as delegate to con
gress. The attack is made by Demo
crate here on the action taken by the
canvassing board in deciding by a vott
of two to one to count the votes frorr
Choggiung and Nashakag, in the Thin
division. Utica in the Second and Bon
nifield in the Fourth, thus insurint
the election of James Wickersham.
Objection was filed with the cour
to the counting of the vote in the pre
cincts where no official ballots weri
used, and no certificates of electioi
returned. This is based on the opin
ion rendered by Attorney Genera
Grigsby and upon the ruling of th
court depends not only the electioi
of a delegate to congress, but als
as to whether James Murray or Tor
Holland will represent this divisio
in the legislature.
JUNEAU, March 3. — At 2 o'cloc
this afternoon the mandamus proceei
ings were postponed until Tuesday a
ternoon. District Attorney Smis«
was engaged by the canvassing boun
but stated that he was not qualifie
to appear and sought a postponemei
so that Abe board could engage a legi
representative. ^
LEGISLATION BE
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(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, March 3. - Th <
senate is still debating the armed neu
trality bill, with long opposition I
speeches ahead. Although a great me ]
jority of the RepublicainLiirgfl4i|e~Bii*
SAHA of this memoirs )e„|ore «re
Lafollette will stand, and the strain
is increased by Stone's offering of
amendments that are disagreeable to
the president. The situation has
forced other legislation, ineludin
Alaska's appropriations. into th'
eleventh hour jam, where much will
be sacrificed.
The house ways and means commit
tee has reported favorably a resold
tion authorizing a J150.000.00d bond '• 1
sue for hurrying naval construction
The committee denied giving unliati (
ted power to the president in expend
ing money, despite the vigorous el
forts of the Democrats and Kepubli
bans. The committee contended that
in case of war congress probabl
would be sitting and it would then be
possible to broaden the president':
power.
WASHINGTON, March 3. — Con
gress will be In session until Sundaj
at noon.
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mmis GIVEN
PREFERENCE
Questioned regarding the telegraph ;
ic report received during the weel
to the effect that two thousand men i
would be brought in by the Alaskan (
engineering commission this spring i
to work on the railfoad in this divis
ion. Commissioner Thomas Riggs, Jr.,
authorized the statement that there
would be no change in the policy of
the commission, which is to give Alas
kans the preference in the matter of
employment. If it is possible to so
cure sufficient help in Alaska, the en
tire force in this division during the
coining summer will consist of men al
. ready in the country.
Mr. Riggs wired to II. P. Warren,
who is reported to have given out
the information from the Seattle of
fice of the commission, and was ad
vised that the statement referred
merely to the number who would be
employed, nothing having been said
1 regarding the manner of employment
* The statement regarding the num
> ber of men to be employed on the Ne
* nana-Kairbanks division is substantial
' ly correct. Mr. Riggs said, and addi
1 tions to the present force will be made
as rapidly as conditions will permit,
after funds are available for the ro
ll sumption of work. This means that
I there will be work during the ap
r- preaching working season for every
r one in interior Alaska who desires
I, employment.—News-Miner.
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t On orchestra of ten pieces will fur
il nish the music for the band dance at
I Eagle hull tonight.
HE THE ORTH
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♦ ( Ry Associated Press) a
a WASHINGTON, March :i. — ♦
a Prt ident WII on has completed a
a ills Inaugural address, the for a
a elgn ii tatioa being the principal a
a subject tow ii"'i He w ill take a
a the oath of office In his room at a
a the capitol on Sunday, which will a
a be administered by Chief justice a
a White, of the - ipreme a
a Wilson w in g , to the capitol a
a shortly before noon to sign hills a
a He win take the oath again on a
a Monday in front ot the capitol a
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TOKIO HOSPITAL
FIRE '
(By Associated Press)
TOKIO, March 3. — The Japanese
!ed Cross hospital at Mukden was de
frayed by fire on January 6, accorJ
ig to a Mukden dispatch. After ries
erate efforts of the medical -tuff and
urses the patients were all removed
3 a place of safety.
(By Associated Press)
PEKING, March — Liang Chi
hao, China’s most famous scholar,
nd one of the chief promoters of the
evolution which upset the monarchi
ll movement, has finally been in
ured to come to Peking for the pur
use of harmonizing the various fuc
ons which threaten to upset the par
ament, and force the formation of a
ew cabinet. President LI Yuan Hung,
rentier Tuan Chi Jui and prominent
laders in all the political parties have
ntertained Liang Chi-Chao and con
)rred with him at length. The dis
nguished scholar professes to be free
•om all party affiliation, and is hope
il that he may be able to reconcile
le various factions and make it pos
igle for parliament to promulgate the
ew constitution which it now has
nder consideration.
mmm for exports
GERMANY ANO HOLLAND
(By Associated Press)
AMSTERDAM, March 3. - Negoti
tions which have been going on for
ome time between the Dutch ami Cer
ium governments for the idprttment
if the export of iron and steel from
Jermany to Holland are now neating
lattsfactory completion. Pending the
conclusion of a definite agreement,
jermission has been given for the
export of materials lying in readtm ss
or transit. Transport will have to
oe by water owing to shortage of
cars on the German railways.
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CONDITIONS AT ANCHORAGE.
Situation Wanted Young Ameri
can up against it will work for board.
— Anchorage Times.
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NOTICE.
Special meeting of (he Cordova c*
'harnber of CtHBmerce wRl be held
Saturday, March 8,-^yi7, rtt the North
land Club, at 8:30 p. m. Improvement
jf Old Town road through legislative
appropriation subject of evening. All
are invited whether members of the
Chamber or not
GEO. C. HAZELET. President.
EDWARD E. MEDLEY. Secretary.
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According to a representative of
the land office, many ranchers in the
vicinity of Fairbanks will be unable
to obtain titles to their land when
they attempt t** (trove up unless they
get busy and fulfill the terms of the
homestead law, which provides that
one-eighth of the entire homestead
must be under cultivation after the
second year.