(By Associated Press)
♦♦♦♦♦♦♦444444444*4
♦ WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 —Presi- ♦
♦ dent Wilson today addressed a 4
♦ joint session of congress, making ♦
♦ recommendations for carrying ♦
♦ out the government operation of 4
♦ railroads to guarantee proper ♦
♦ returns to the railroads. He rec- 4
♦ ommended that congress provide ♦
♦ compensation at the rate of the ♦
♦ same net operating income of ♦
♦ the roads received during the ♦
♦ past three years. He also rec- 4
♦ ommended legislation authorizing ♦
♦ the upkeep of the railroads and ♦
♦ that $500,000,000 be provided for 4
♦ operation. Bills containing the ♦
♦ recommendations were introduc- ♦
♦ ed following the address. 4
♦♦♦♦♦♦444444444444
-4
CAUSES RIOTS
BUCK EAST
(By Associated Press)
NEWPORT NEWS, Jan. 4.—Hund
reds of citizens yesterday raided the
Chesapeake & Ohio railroad coal
yards, carrying off two carloads of
fuel In small quantities. The officials
of the road were unable to stop the
citizens from taking the fuel and they
were not driven off until after the
police and military had been called.
Similar riots occurred in Philadelphia.
-4
125,011 CHINESE
(By Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Jan. 4.—Chinese Am
bassador Koo, in an address here last
night, said China has 125,000 men be
hind the fighting lines in France and
Mesopotamia and would probably send
more troops.
-*
JAPANESE
(By Associated Press)
PACIFIC PORT. Jan. 4—It is re
ported that the fire aboard the Japan
ese freighter Shinyo Maura No. 2 is
checked and under the convoy of an
American warship is racing here,
where it is expected to arrive tomor
row.
-«
FAIRBANKS KNOWS NOT
WORD “CHICKEN FEED”
(By Associated Press)
FAIRBANKS. Jan. 4.—-Because
nickels and dimes are seldom used
and pennies almost unknown in the in-'
terior of Alaska, moving picture
houses, transportation lines and other
concerns have had a hard ttme trying
to devise ways of collecting the war ■
taxes.
FULL TEXT OF THE
The eight hour effects nil classes
and applies to all industries save that
of fishing, the exemption being made
by the governor as a war measure, and
the full text of the act is as follows:
To regulate and limit the hours of
employment for all wage and sal
ary earners in the Territory of Al
aska, to declare the violation there
of a misdemeanor and to prescribe
the punishment therefor.
Be It Enacted by the Legislature of
the Territory of Alaska
Employment Limited to 8 Hours
Section 1, That a period of employ
men for all wage earners, and salary
earners in the Territory of Alaska
shall not exceed eight hours (8) with
in any one calendar day, except in
cases when life or property is in im
minent danger. Employment as here
in used shall be construed as the per
formance of labor or services for any
individual, partnership, association, or
corporation, whether the person per
forming such labon or services be a
member of such partnership or asso
ciation or stockholder or officer of
such corporation or not.
Penalty.
Section 2. Any person, persons,
association or corporation who shall
violate or cause to be violated any of
the provisions of this act, shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and
upon conviction thereof shall be pun
ished by a fine of not less than One
Hundred Dollars ($100.00) nor more
than Five Hundred oDllars ($500.00)
or by imprisonment in the Federal
jail not less than sixty days (00), nor
more man six monms ioj, or oy uom
such fine and imprisonment. Every
day’s violation of the provisions of this
act shall constitute a separate offense.
When Governor May Modify.
Section .3. The Governor of the
Territory is hereby given the power
to suspend or modify restrictions con
tained in this law when such shall be
requested by the Council of National
Defense or the 'Secretary of the In
terior, and such modification or sus
pension when made shall continue
for a specified period and not longer
than the duration of the present war,
or during the continuation of any fu
ture war with a foreign power.
Section 4. This act shall take ef
fect and be in force from, and after
January 1. 1918.
Approved May 3. 1917.
-«
MEMORIAL IS ERECTED
TO BRAVE CAPTAIN
(By Associated Press)
LONDON. Jan. 4.—A striking mar
ble memorial to Captain Fryatt, the
merchant shipping captain who was
executed by the Germans, has just
been erected in London. An inscrip
tion records merely that it is the gift
of “neutral admirers of his brave con
duct and heroic death.” The cost
was contributed by the Netherlands
section of the League of Neutral
States.
-«
DECREASE IN NUMBER
NEGLECTED .CHILDREN
(By Associate* Tress)
LONDON, Jan. 4.—The number of
cases of neglect of children has shown
a remarkable decrease in England
slnce the beginning of the war. In
1913 the number of cases officially
recorded was 54,000. Each year since
there has been a decrease, until last
year the number was less than 42,000.
-*
Read the Times and keep posted
By ALLIES
(By Associated Press)
♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦
♦ DATELESS. — Unless there ♦
♦ was a change in plans the Rus- ♦
♦ sian and Teuton emissaries will ♦
♦ meet today and continue the dis- ♦
♦ cussion of peace terms, which the ♦
■ ♦ Bolsheviki declared were unac- ♦
, ♦ ceptable. It is reported that the ♦
♦ Russians made counter proposals ♦
i ♦ calling for the evacuation of oc- ♦
! ♦ cupied territory, pending a refer- ♦
♦ endum on something definite. ♦
♦ They probably will meet at Brest ♦
♦ Livost, although the Russians ♦
♦ asked that the conference be held ♦
! ♦ at Stockholm. ♦
♦ It is reported that German ♦
♦ Chancellor Hertling is ill and it ♦
♦ is rumored Prince Von Buelow, ♦
♦ former chancellor, is to replace ♦
! ♦ Hertling as chancellor. There is ♦
! ♦ no change on the war fronts. ♦
♦ - ♦
♦ LONDON, Jan. 4 —The Chron- ♦
| ♦ ic.le says the allies may recog- ♦
| ♦ nize the Lenine government of ♦
♦ Russia, owning to' the develop- ♦
' ♦ ments in the peace negotiations. ♦
-»—
SECY. MUNITIONS
LIKELY BE
I
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4—Senator
Chamberlain, of Oregon, introduced a
1 bill in the senate proposing the de
j partment of munitions, under a new
cabinet head to be known as secretary
of munitions. The bill is a result of
i
1 the senate military committee’s In
! vestigation.
B. R. REGIMENT
i -
I
|
I
|
!♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦
1 ♦ SEATTLE, Jan. 4.—United ♦
♦ States Engineer H. P. Warren, ♦
i
♦ representative of the Alaskan ♦
♦ Engineering commission, has ♦
♦ been instructed to raise a rail- ♦
♦ road construction regiment from ♦
♦ former employes of the commis- ♦
♦ sion and other Alaskans. It is ♦
♦ expected that the regiment will ♦
♦ consist of 2.500 men. A colonel ♦
♦ is to named soon and probably ♦
♦ will be an engineer formerly ♦
♦ with the commission. ♦
♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦
-♦
meeting postponed.
I he meeting of the Cordova Credit
association, scheduled for the city hall
tonight, has been postponed until
Monday on account of the big Red
( ross rally to be held at Eagle hall
tonight.
-«
RELIEF SHIP IS
SENT BY RED CROSS
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.—A Red
Cross relief ship is being sent to Guat
emala to relieve the earthquake suf
ferers.
(By Associated Tress) '
BRATTLE, Jan. 4.—Sergeant Geo
Comstock and several members of the
police dry squad have been arrested
charged with being connected with a
plot Involving the theft of enormous
quantities of liquor from the public
safety building.
SAYS THERE ARE
90,000 MEN
SLACKERS
0
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4—General
Crowder, in his report to Secretary of
War Baker, estimated that there are
50,000 slackers in America. He be
lieves that ten men in each registra
tion district escaped service without
beins caught.
A_ --
I
I
By an executive order of Presiden
| Wilson the following tracts of Alaski
land are withdrawn for the use of thi
, United States bureau of education am
of Natives of Alaska under care of th<
bureau.
Akiak Reserve—Begining at a pos
1 about 6 feet long set in the groum
two feet, 200 feet in an easterly d
rection from the northeast corner o
I the public school building thence ii
a southerly direction along the righ
banks of the Kuskokwim river 1 mile
to post 2; thence west 1 mile to pos
No. 2; thence north 2 miles to pos
. No. 4; thence east 1 miles to post No
5 set on the right bank of the Kusko
kwim river; thence south along thi
right bank of the Kuskokwim river
mile to the initial stake; estimated t<
contain two square miles.
Mountain Village Reserve—An esti
mated area on the Yukon river con
taining about two square miles ant
adjacent to the United States pnblit
school building.
Tatitlek Reserve—Beginning at *
point on the easterly shore of Tatit
lek narrows and at the middle of th«
spit connecting the mainland witt
Graveyard Point, this above point be
ing situated about half way betweer
the villages of Tatitlek and Kllamar
with corner No. 1 a post 4 feet high
and 4 inches square set 18 inches iri
the ground; thence running due easl
about l>4 miles to the shore line ol
Boulder bay to corner No. 2; set same
as corner No. 1; thence meandering
southerly along the shore line which
meandering is continued regardless ot
direction but in observance with the
shore line until corner No. 1 is reach
ed.
-♦
ANCHORAGE MAINTAINS
MUNICIPAL ICE RINK
" \
(By Associated Press)
ANCHORAGE, Jan. 4.—A nice skat
ing rink has been constructed by the
municipal authorities on the vacant
lots next to the Anchorage Townsite
office. The rink is free to the public.
(By Associated Press)
HOBOKEN, Jan. 4.—Firemen, sol
j diers, civilians and fireboats conquer
I e,l a stubborn blaze which destroyed
a six story manufacturing plant in
I Part of the industrial section of the
city, paralleling the government con
I
trolled water front. The loss was
$250,000.
ANOTHER BRIEF!
FILED IN
CONTEST
The reply brief of Judge Wicker
1 sham, in the matter of the contest for
1 the office of delegate to congress, has
I just been received. In this brief ar
gument is submitted upon the points
covered by the testimony taken in Al
j aska during the last summer, and the
; law is quoted in support of the argu
I ment.
| The issue as raised by this testi
• mony is really very simple, and in
j volves the right of the Russian-Al
| cuts living at Kodiak, Afognak and
J Seldovia to vote. The same question
! Is attempted to be raised by Precinct
1 No. 2 in St. Michael, but by reason
! the fact that Mr. Sulzer's attor
I ney* w’holly failed 'to show for whom
1 the alleged illegal or fradulent votes
• at that precinct were cast, the com
mittee of the house in considering
^ the contest must necessarily ignore
the protest. In other words, from the
testimony it does not appear whether
^ the votes claimed to be illegal were
j east for Wickersham or Sulzer, so
that there is nothing before the house
of representatives upon which it can
act.
i
t Coming in a different class are the
l Indians at Klawak. Craig and Sulzer.
^ some of whom were permitted to vote,
^ while the right was denied to others,
i The brief on these points is a re
| cital of the historical relation (1st) ol
the Russian to the Indians of Alaska,
and to the Russian government ori
( ginallv, and afterwards to the goverrt
I ment of the United States, and shows
I that the votes of the former are legal
l while the latter are illegal.
^ The question of the rights of sol
diers to vote was fully discussed by
j Mr. Wickersham in his original brief,
and his present brief is largely con
fined to proving that federal officials
and military officers conspired togeth
er to control the vote of the soldiers
and then to prevent evidence being
taken of the fraudulent voting.
-♦
CONSERVATION OF FOOD
IN ALASKA IMPORTANT
'
(By Associated Press)
SEATTLE. Jan. 4.—Food conserva
tion work is being carried on through
out Alaska under the direction of At
torney Royal A. Gunnison of Juneau,
territorial food administrator. As a
large part of Alaska's supplies must
, be shipped north by water, conserva
; tlon is considered doubly valuable as
I it saves ocean tonnage which can be
diverted to other routes for war pur
poses.
-«-a
A chapter of the Women's Auxiliary
to the Orders of Pioneers of Alaska
l
was recently formed at Anchorage.
Forty women, headed by Mrs. Martha
White, signed the charter roll.
;
(By Associated Press)
♦*♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦
♦ SEATTLE, Jan. 4.—Reports ♦
♦ from Fairbanks, Dawson and Ot ♦
♦ tawa indicate that explorer Stef- ♦
♦ ansson is at Herschel or Bailey ♦
♦ islands in the Arctic region, in- ♦
♦ stead of Fort Yukon as reported
♦ Arrivals at Fort Yukon say Stef- ♦
♦ ansson is at Herchell island and ♦
♦ the party is well. It is believed ♦
♦ the explorer is planning to win- ♦
♦ ter there and bring his boat back ♦
♦ to Nome when the ice breaks. ♦
♦ The winter police patrol left ♦
♦ Dawson for the Arctic yesterday ♦
♦ and it is expected to return in <►
♦ March with full details of the ♦
♦ explorer’s findings. +
♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦
ALASKA EXPECTS
' DRAFT ORDERS
(From Juneau Empire)
Within the next few days it is ex
pected that the printed supplies will
be received at the office of the gov
ernor and the list of five questions
and other forms which each man reg
istered in the Territory of Alaska.
After the questions are answered *r'7v^
the sworn proof to support the- ans
wers have been prepared by the regis
trants. they must be returned to Cap
tain .J. T. Hunt, in charge of the draft
in Alaska, and those registered will
then be classified according to their*
, standing. -vf 1- \
The registered men will be divided
into five classes, the divisions being
made according to the answers to
their questions. Class' 1 will include
all men single, of the proper age who
are not engaged in industrial pur
suits necessary to the carrying on of
the war and will be the first one call
ed. Until Class 1 is exhausted no>
men from the other four classes wifi
be called.
After Class 1 Is exhausted those
from classes 2, 2, 4, and 5 "ill be
called in order, each classification
before them is exhausted. It is the
duty of every registered man to keep
in touch with their district boards
and keep themselves informed of any
orders issued which might effect
them in any way under the draft.
Failure to keep in touch may result
in their losing their rights to claim
exemption, if they so desire.
The following communication has
been sent out by Captain Hunt and
all those registered who have chang
ed addresses since registering should
take immediate action.
All registrants who have changed
postoffice addresses since registering
should immediately communicate with
local boards having jurisdiction of
their cards, giving present addresses,
so questionaires will reach them with
out delay. Registrants are bound by
law to keep themselves advised of
all proceedings in respect to them and
failure to do so may result in their
losing right to claim exemption or dis
charge.
By direction of the governor:
J. T. HUNT,
Captain Inf., ORC.
Executive officer.
-♦
Increase your business by advertis
ing in The Times.