WILSON INSIST!
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♦ (By Associated PresR)
♦ WASHINGTON, Feb. 22. —
♦ President Wilson has asked to
♦ again appear before congress to
♦ request additional authority to
♦ protect American seamen and
♦ ships against the warfare of
♦ German submarines. It is ex
♦ pectcd that he will address the
♦ legislators late the present
♦ week. The president holds that
♦ congress, before adjourning,
♦ should pass a broad resolution,
♦ giving him additional authority
♦ in the premises.
♦ Officials generally expect
♦ that sooner or later that arms
♦ will be furnished to American
♦ ships, as most of the American
♦ vessels are still being held up.
♦ The president will not ask
♦ for a declaration of war,
♦ neither will he call an extra
♦ session of congress unless
♦ there is an unusual emergency.
♦ Negotiations with Austria
♦ have thus far been unsuccessful
♦ and a break is expected unless
♦ Austria changes her position.
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FIR RELEASE
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22. — The
United States in a note transmitted
to Berlin through the Spanish minis
ter, has demanded the release of the
Americans on the steamer Yarrow
dale. In the absence of a satisfactory
response to the inquiry sent recently,
it was decided to demand the imme
diate release of these seamen, which
are being held by Germany.
TIRK.FY PffS
RELIEF SHIPS
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22. — Turkey
has expressed a willingness to let a
thousand Americans depart from Bei
rut, and has guaranteed American re
lief ships against the interference of
Turkish submarines.
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(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22. — After
a conference with President Wilson
yesterday. Secretary of War Baker
said he would send to congress this
week a universal military training
bill, drawn by the army general staff.
It is understood the president favors
the principle of military training if it
can be put into effect in a workable
and practicable way.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22. — The
president is studying measures tc
bring about universal military train
ing, and is anxious to find some plan
he can support
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CENTRAL MARKETS NOW
COMMAND TRADE
(By Associated Press)
MEXICO CITY, Feb. 22. — Becausi
of difficulties imposed by the Eure
pean war the government has extend
ed the time in which permits, trad<
marks and copyrights may be regie
tered and protected in Mexico by citi
zens of belligerent nations. Thee
citizens may register patents, trad
marks and copyrights produced afte
July 31, 1914, at any time within si
months after the ending of the Ei
ropean war without suffering loss c
protection.
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Have you seen that exquisite lln
of one-piece dresses at Clayson’s.
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I ROBERT S. GRIFFIN.
Chief of Naval Bureau of Steam
Engineering Now a Rear Admiral.
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CHICAGO FEARS
ANARCHY AND
RIOTING
(By Associated Press)
CHICAGO, Feb. 22. — President
Griffin, of the Chicago Board of
Trade, telegraphed the Interstate Com
merce Commission and the presidents
of the eastern railroads, insisting that
unless an immediate embargo is
placed on all products east bound
from Chicago except fuel and food
stuffs, the country will face the dan
ger of anarchy and rioting.
NO LI ODOR CAN
BE SRIPPEO TO
DRY STATES
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22. — The
senate bone dry amendment to the
postal bill, prohibiting liquor ship
ments into prohibition states, was yes
terday accepted by the house. The
vote stood 321 in favor and 72 against.
The bill makes absolutely dry the
states which now permit shipments
of liquor in limited quantities. .
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FORMOSA REBELS
AGAIN ON IRE
(By Associated Press)
TOKIO, Feb. 22. — The Formosan
natives again show signs of insurrec
tion. A dispatch from Taihoku re
ports that tribesmen in Nanto prefec
ture in Central Formosa revolted and
attacked a police station^ Two native
policemen were killed and two others
wounded. The station was captured
by the rebels and isolated from all
communication. The government gen
eral has sent a punitive expedition in
to the district.
Nanto province is the scene of the
recent earthquake which destroyed
over 1,000 houses.
LOWER CILIFQRNIAFISHING
1 IN HANDS MEXICANS
(By Associated Press)
MEXICO CITY, Feb. 22. — The de
partment of fomento has decided to
i establish an agency in l^ower Califor
nia to take charge' of the fisheries in
- dustry on the west coast of Lower
i California, and until this has been es
- tablished the Mexican consul at San
Diego, Ca., has been commissioned to
s issue fishing permits and collect ac
; crulng duties.
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t Judge C. E. Bunnell, who was re
- porter ili at Juneau, decided at the
f last moirent to board the steamer
Alaska, and spent the day with Cor
dova friends. His health is not the
u best, and the judge wtll go on to Val
dez before returning to Fairbanks.
AMERICAN CONSULS HAVE
REACHED ZURICH
(By Associated Press)
ZURICH, Feb. 22. — Twenty Amerl
con consuls and government agents,
with their families, reached this city
after waiting a week for permission
to leave Germany.
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(By Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Feb. 22. — After the
housewives had informed Mayor Mit
chell that their children were starv
ing by the hundreds, because of the
high cost of food, Mitchell promised
to place before the board of estimate
their plea for the appropriation of a
million dollars by the city.
CONTROL ALASKA
GIL VESTED
The control of the game of Alaska
is vested in congress and not in the
territorial legislature, although un
juccessful attempts have been made
to transfer such control to the legis
lature. Three distinct departments
sxercise control over the game, fish
md fur bearing animals. These In
dude the department of agriculture,
;he department of commerce and Ihe
Governor’s office. The department ot'
:ommerce. through the bureau of fish
sries, exercises complete control over
he fish and marine fur bearing ani
nals, the department of agriculture
>ver the terrestrial fur bearing anl
nals, while the latter department ■ “-* i
jiH g/ntoHua* ®t Atanka share In the ,
iperation of the game laws. This dl- ,
dded responsibility does not work for
sfficiency in the enforcement of the ,
;ame laws and regulations, nor does ,
t increase respect for the law' on the
oart of the people. This is the opin
on of the secretary of the interior in
lis annual report for 1916. In the en
’orcement of the game laws and re
gulations nine wardens are employed,
md besides the employees for the
mppression of the liquor traffic among
the Indians are ex-officio game war
lens without pay. Special game war
lens are employed from time to time
or whenever the funds at the disposal
of the governor’s office will permit.
In June last the territorial council
of Yukon Territory, Canada, passed a
resolution recommending that some
plan of action be mutually undertaken
by the governments of Canada, the
United States and the province of
British Columbia for the protection
of game animals, game birds and fur
bearing animals.—Alaska Railroad
Record.
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MANY SHIPS IN
PANAMA CANAL
(By Associated Press)
PANAMA. Feb. 22. — Traffic sta
tistics for the Panama canal show that
the number of ocean going shipB which
made the transit through the canal in
the calendar year 1916 was 1,253.
Their aggregate net tonnage was 3,
933,869 tons, and they carried a total
of 4,931,911 tons of cargo.
The number of ships was seven
per cent greater than in 1915, but in
net tonnage, tolls, and cargo Hie re
cord for 1916 was a little less than
one per cent less than 1916. The two
years had about the same bulk of traf
fic, and both saw the canal closed for
a period of three and a half months.
The tolls collected in 1916 were $,3
677,695.60. which was not equal to the
expenses. The ships in the United
States coastwise trade were slightly
over three per cent of the aggregate
tonnage in 1916. In 1915 they were
onefourth of all the traffic, and in
1914 they were two-fifths. Most of
the former coastwise ships have been
diverted to the more profitable for
eign trade.
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Teddy Hudson, the discoverer of
Livingood creek, in the Tolovana dis
trict, was an arrival on the steamer
Alaska and left for the interior on
this morning's train.
INTERIOR MINE!
BE DEVELOPED
UKSEU
Angus McDougall has returned from
a flying business trip to the states,
where he purchased machinery to be
used in the development of the War
Kagle group of copper claims In the
Kuskulana district. The outfit con
sists of about a hundred tons, and in
cludes a steam electric plant, of 120
horse power, a sawmill, with 12,000
feet capacity and a five drill com
pressor plant. Mr. McDougall also
brought four horses with him and he
says that his property will he worked
on an extensive scale during the com
Ing season and employment given to a
large number of men.
Ole Derg was a returning passenger
yesterday from Boston, where he went
to consult with the other directors of
the North Midas Copper Company,
which owns some valuable property
near Strelna. They were so favorably
Impressed with the showing that they
have decided to go ahead with the
work of opening up the claims, and
Mr. Berg brought back with him a
compressor, drilling machine and a
hundred drums of crude oil for the
engines. A force of men will immedi j
itely be put to work.
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CLUB BOUSE IS
OPENED BE TOE
The Ked Dragon Club House, of St.
ieorge’s Episcopal Mission is again
>pen to the public. The hours are
rom 2 p. m. to 10:30 p. m. This in
ititution is a free reading and recre
ition room, where everyman will find
nnusement of most diverse charao
i warm, clean and interesting place,
hooking Is permitted.
The current expenses are met l»y
he Woman's Guild and voluntary suls
icriptions. Men employed out of town
vho desire reading matter 11 be
mpplied by applying to the superin
endent.
Mr. Ziegler sees in the coming
iprlng and summer a greater oppor
unity of making this institution a
idtal centre for social life to men,
jarticularly to working men.
The club house is open to all, and
ill purposes, and a cordial welcome is
jxtended to everyone.
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GEORGE COUNCIL
(By Associated Press)
LONDON, Feb. 22. — The war coun
cil of the British empire, over which
Premier Lloyd George will preside,
will constitute a supreme proof of the
commanding influence which lawyers
exercise in British affairs, for an over
whelming majority of the statesmen
present will be members of the legal
profession.
One of the lawyers who will attend
the council has played a conspicuous
part on the field of battle. General
Smuts, who has been in command of
the British forces in East Africa, is
a members of the Capetown bar, and
served as state attorney of the Trans
vaal.
To find a lawyer-soldier of General
Smut's eminence in the annals of the
British soldiery, it is necessary to go
back to the Parliamentary war, in the
seventeenth century, in which General
Breton took a prominent part'.' A mo
tion for the exclusion of all lawyers
from the house of commons was dis
cussed in 1649, but was defeated af
ter a long debate.
JAPANESE POETS SPRING U(
BY THOUSANDS
(By Associated Press)
TOKIO, Feb. 22. — Thirty-sevei
thousand verses have been submitter
by the Japanese people In the annua
poetic competition under imperial aus
pices. This year the subject is “Thi
Distant Snowclad Mountain." At th<
final examination six poems will bi
selected and read before the ompero
and empress.
GENERAL PERSHING HAS
SUCCEEDED FUNSTON
(By Associated Press)
EE PASO, Feb.| 22. — Ocneral Per
shing has permanently succeeded the
late Major General Funston In com
mand of the national guard trops on
the Mexican border.
col dmbTT will
RECIEVE ITS
JUST DUES
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22. — The
foreign relations committee has do
cided on a treaty to compensate Co
lombia for the partition of Panama,
but it is not to be ratified this session.
The president has especially asked
for Its ratification.
DESERTERS-1LOSE
BIGHTS
(By Associated Press)
PARIS, Feb. 22. — The property of
all deserters from the French army
will be confiscated by the state if
the chamber of deputies concurs in
legislation that has just passed the
senate. The chamber passed a law
authorizing confiscation of the pro
perty of childless deserters only, hold
ing that integral confiscation would
be an unmerited hardship upon a de
serter’s offspring. It decided to de
prive the deserter of the use of his
property, but not to withhold it from
his children. The senate refuses to
'slMeT}L1th'tte?t''orm wonld not be ade
quate to the crime. The chamber is
expected to accept the senate amend
ment.
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PROGRESSIVE
LEGISLATORS
(By Associated Press)
PHOENIX, Feb. 22. — The lower
house of the Arizona legislature, now
in session here, has three feminine
members, all' of whom profess to be
long to a different branch of the De
mocratic party. Notwithstanding this
divergency in the brand of democracy
they have declared themselves as
standing united on all matters per
taining to legislation affecting the
welfare of women and children.
Mrs. Pauline O’Niel, of Mariposa
county, says she is a "regular" Demo
crat. Mrs. Viola Marsh, represents
tive from Santa t’ruz, says she is “just
a Democrat." Mrs. Hosa McKay,
member from Cochise county, admits
membership in the faction which sup
ports O. \V. I’. Hunt, recently decided
not to be the de facto governor of the
state.
Mrs. O’Niel has acted as a leader in
the suffrage and prohibition cam
paigns and had a very active part in
the campaign for the election of Pre
sident Wilson, Senator H. F. Ashurst
and Congressman Carl Hayden. She
was chosen, it is said, to introduce
the bills officially backed by the state
federation of women's clubs. Mrs.
O’Niel is the widow of “Bucky" O’Niel,
who was killed in the Spanish-Atneri
can war. In 1901 she was married to
Eugene Brady O’Niel, a leader in Ari
zona political circles.
M.rs. McKay at one time managed a
hotel in Bisbee, scoring a material"
success. She has a wide know-ledge
of state and national laws and in her
legislative program stands for good
roads, Improved schools and proper
management of state institutions. She
formerly lived In Colorado.
Mrs. Marsh also is a business wo
man. She is president of a hardware
and furniture corporation, and has
many other interests. She is rated as
the wealthiest individual member of
the legislature. Though she takes a
keen interest in other affairs, Mrs.
Marsh spends a good portion of her
I time at her desk in the corporation of
. flee.
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i The Canoe Pass Packing Company
i today received 50,000 feet of lumber
• to be used in the construction of its
now clam plant at Shepherd Point.
ALEXANDER BERKMAN.
Anarchl.t Donl.d Any Knowl.dgo
of Plot to Blow Up tho Proaldont.
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'hoto by American Press Association.
KEPT CLEAR OF
TOE MEXICAN
(By Associated Press)
SAN DIEGO, Cal., Feb. 22. — Af
ected only indirectly by the series
>f revolutions that have scourged
Mexico in recent years, the Inhabi
ants of the territory of Lower Call
ornla are continuing their usual pur
luits without molestation and under
he leadership of MilitaTy Governor
•Isteban Cantu, and are entering into
m era of progress that portends an
mportant development in the agrt
nsula 'id Industrial life of the oen-J
Governor Cantu has held aloof from
he Internecine warfare that has rav
iged the other states of Mexico and
lecause of Lower California's isola
ion the people under his rule scarce
y have been brought Into touch with
conditions existing beyond the waters
if the Gulf of California.
Although a soldier by choice, Gov
ernor Cantu has proved during the
ew years that he has controlled the
erritory that he leans strongly to
ward the pursuits of peace. Coming
nto power in December, 1914, when
Belthazar Aliez, civil governor, was
iverthrown in a bloodless uprising at
Tijuana, the then Colonel Cantu began
lo reorganize the economic life of
Lower California.
First he sent Avilez’s followers to
the farming districts in the south and
idtnonishod them to abandon the rifle
ind till the soil: then he set about
to develop the agricultural, mining
and shipping resources. A program
of business expansion, just announced,
has for its object the stimulation of
'rude relations between his people and
'hose of the Pacific coast of the Uni
ted States.
Always a friend of Americans, Gov
ernor Cantu holds the respect and
confidence of authorities and busi
ness men here, and it is understood
he will welcome American capital in
developing the little touched resour
ce of Lower California.
BARBERSHOPS CONDUCTED
IN THE OPEN
(By Associated Press)
JUAREZ, Feb. 22. — Four walls
Jo not make a barbershop in Mexico.
A curbstone haircut and shave is the
rule among the poorer people of this
border town.
An itinerant barber shuffles down
the main street with a folding chair
imdet—his—arm,- a basket of tools in
his hand and a soiled towel thrown
over his shoulder. Coming to the
dead wall of a building which has
been burned or dynamited during the
revolution, the “barbero" sets up shop,
hangs his towel on a convenient nail
and is open for business.
Haircuts and shaves are dispensed
for twenty and ten cents Mexican
money, and the customer must wash
his own face and dry It on the com
munity towel after a shave.
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The radio station at Sitka was out
of commission for a time yesterday,
and this being a legai holiday with
the government offices open but an
hour this morning, accounts for the
fact that our telegraphic service dur
ing the past two days has not been
as complete as usual.
Iking of Greece
(By Associated Press)
ATHENS, Greece, Feb. 22. — The
attacks upon King Constantine are
serving to draw the members of his
family more closely about him. Prin
cess Alice of Battenberg, Prince An
drew’s wife, who Is an English prin
cess and whose two brothers are in
the British navy, Is as loyal and de
voted to her brother in law as are his
blood relations.
“Those who today are engaged in
the revolutionary movement will re
turn to loyal allegiance the moment
the foreign Influence is lifted from
them," declared the princess to a cor
respondent of the Associated Press.
“My brother in law," she continued,
“is precisely what the Greek people
need as king. He is a brave and in
spired soldier, who has led them to
victory; and they adore him for It.
You saw the king at Champ de Mars
ride among his neople without a
guard, the peo-’ , easing about him.
clinging to h < iddle, touching him.
running along beside his horse. I
doubt that if any other country In the
world, monarch or president, would
have been given so wonderful a re
ception.
“Some of the entente newspapers
said my brother In law was trying to
commit suicide by taking such risks.
That shows just how much they know
about It. The people of Greece al
most worship their king, and the great
mistake the entente has made has
been to assume the contrary, and to
orotect and foster a revolution against
him. Mad they spent a quarter of the
Ume and goodwill seeking to come to
an understanding with the king that
they have spent in helping build up
a revolutionary movement directed
against him, none of the sad events
af the last few months would have
occurred; and he and they would have
been working In perfect harmony long
tn» lanpnm ptWeeag declared.
T cannot believe that my own peo
ale are so misinformed of the real
■■onditions In Greece as to consider
far a moment any attempt to take
King Constantine from the throne.
But if they should countenance it, I
am positive that they would realize
fa a very short time what they should
realize now; that no one but King
Constantine is capable of leading
Greece safely through this world
crisis; and that should he go, the
Greek people as one man would call
him back."
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MILLIONS MADE
HONOLULU, Feb. 22. — Twenty
three sugar companies of Hawaii,
which includes all that are listed on
the Honolulu stock and bond ex
change, disbursed in cash dividends
in 1916 a total of $19,259,600, accord
ing to figures just made public here.
Based on the par value of shares,
the average earnings of these twenty
three companies were 27.3 per cent
on the capital invested. In most
cases, however, the capital stock con
sists chiefly of reinvested profits, and
the percentage of earnings is In some
instances more than 100 per cent on
the actual original cash investment.
Stock dividends are not included in
the figures given. Were this done,
it would show the profits derived by
holders in Hawaiian sugar companies
to be very much greater.
The largest earnings in proportion
to capital fell to Onomea Sugar Com
pany, which disbursed cash dividends
aggregating fifty-five per cent of its
capital stock. Pepeekeo Sugar Com
pany came, n.ext with fifty per cent.
The smallest in the list was Olaa Su
gar Company with only five per cent.
This plantation, however, paid no divi
dends until July, the dividend declared
that month being the first the com
pany ever paid.
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ALASKA ALUMNI ORGANIZE
PERMANENT ORGANIZATION.
SEATTLE, Feb. 22. — A permanent
association of the alumni of the Uni
versity of Washington along the C.as
tlneau channel, Alaska, is being organ
ibed, according to a recent special dis
patch to the University of Washington
Daily. The dispatch says that with at
least sixty former Wj&shington men
and women living in the channel
towns, the University of Washington
has a larger representation of stu
dents than any other Institution.