I
not to Blow Up
President Foiled
(By Associated Press) ♦
4 HOBOKEN, N. J., March 5.—Detectives have ar- ♦
" rested b ritz Kolb, a German reservist from Mexico. Two ♦
" hombs were found in his room and the detectives say ♦
* Kolb planned to send them tonight to President Wilson, ♦
♦ and confessed to a conspiracy to blow up the president! ♦
H is also claimed Tvolb has confessed to his partici- ^
♦ pation in the explosions at Black Tom island and ♦
Knight s island, which cost a number of lives and manv *
* millions of dollars loss. ‘ ♦
t Two other men were arrested as accomplices and ♦
the police am investigating the ramifications of a plot, ♦
* including the destruction of the oil works at Tampico, ♦
♦ Mexico, and th<* Remington Arms works at Hoboken ’ ♦
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(By Associated Press)
PARIS, March 5. — It is officially
announced that the Germans attacked
the Verdun front violently and failed
under French fire, although lots of
courierers and wood attackers ob
tained a foothold in advanced posi
tions. The Germans lost heavily by
the attack.
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EMPLOYE OF :
UUIIIIIIIUUIUI1
(Special to the Times)
SEWARD, March 5. — Harry C.
Foster, former mayor of Gloucester,
but now with the Alaska engineering
commission, was stricken with para
lysis this morning and died at 11:15
o’clock.
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PRICE OF NEWS
PRINT MUST
COMEDOWN
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, March 5. — The
federal trade commission has named
$2.50 per hundred pounds as a rea
sonable price for print paper, and
higher prices set for paper in less
than carload lots and sheet paper.
The commission recommends a still
further reduction in the size of metro
politan dailies and a decreased num
ber of editions.
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CALLED TO MICHIGAN ON
ACCOUNT ILLNESS OF BROTHER
Mrs. George Hutchinson, wife of the
cashier of the First National Bank at
Fairbanks, arrived in town on yester
day's train. She is going to Grand
Rapids, Michigan, in an effort to see
her brother before he dies, having re
ceived word that he is very seriously
111.
It was less than a year ago that Mrs.
-Hutctrinson prepared- to - make -a- like
trip on account of the illness of her
mother, but was advised that her par
ent could not possibly survlce until
she reached Michigan, and conse
quently she did not go.
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MILITARY OF GERMANY
TO CONTROL RAILROAD8.
( By Associated Press)
BERLIN, March 5. — The Kreux
Zeltung says the entire railroad sys
tems of Germany will be placed under
the military authorities.
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The steamer Alameda left Juneau
at 10 o’clock Sunday morning and Is
due here about the some hour tonight.
She has 290 tons of freight, six horses,
87,000 feet of lumber and 35 tons ol
cans for town and 165 tons for the
railroad.
BIG COPPER ORE
Exports from Alaska for the month
of February reached a total of $4,
834,009, or nearly five millions of dol
lars, according to the report of the
collector of customs. ,
The bulk of the output was copper
:>re, which was valued at $4,099,001.
I'he balance of the product was most
y gold ore shipped from the south
(astern Alaska section. The detailed
’eport follows:
Jones, hoofs, etc.$ 10 •
lopper.. ... . 4,UU9,001 •
’urlos.. 131
Yeah fish. 51,015
Jried and smoked fish .... 79 g
■ickled fish. 13,885
banned salmon. 776
Gther canned fish. 9,606
3hell fish. 1,996
Furs. 18,499
Gypsum. 7,200
Ivory.. .. 100
Lead ore. 11,295
All other products. 495
Total.$4,214,088
U. S. goods returned.$ 40,041
Gold bullion. 321,741
Gold ore .. 182,667
Silver ore. 76,472
Grand total.$4,834,009
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HIT OUTSIDE
(By Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO. March 5. — Af
ter driving her dog team through 610
miles of frozen Alaska, MrB. Pearl
Howard has just arrived in San Fran
cisco for a short “come out," during
which she will visit other cities along
the Pacific coaBt. She is a miner, and
declares that when her property, near
Tanana, yields the "big clean up" she
plans to “come out” for good and to
make her home in the west.
Mrs. Howard said she made the dis
tance of 510 miles from Tanana to
Chitlna with her dogs in eighty-four
hours of actual traveling. She was
fourteen days making on the way. A
violent blizzard held her up for four
dava at a roadhouse. She has spent
ten adventurous years in Alaska, dur
ing which she has been a placer min
er, prospector, hunter, trapper, dog
trainer and driver.
That even the half wolf racing dog
teams of the frozen north are amen
able to "a woman’s way” is her be
lief. She says that Bhe has no trouble
in ruling her dogs with kindness, al
though at times she is compelled to
use the whip.
Mrs. Howard said she planned to
enter one of her dog teams and drive
it herself in the big mid-winter Win
nipeg-Minneapolis race. She says she
is breeding a speedy strain of sled
dogs that are fifty per cent huBky
and twenty-five per cent each of grey
hound and Russian wolfhound.
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Have your Job printing done at the
Times office.
# by American Praaa Association.
WTO1MGW WDLSOIM
Enters Dnon His Second
No Turning Back
From Tragical
Events Past
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, March 5.—At 12:45 o’clock this after
loon Wodrow Wilson took the oath of office as president of the
United States, and immediately entered upon his second term
js chief executive. He delivered his inaugural address before
i great crowd, which packed the plaza east of the front of the
rapitol. Vice-President Marshal had previously been inaugu
rated in the senate chamber.
With a new consecration to the nation’s service, President
Wilson, in touching on the international crisis, declared that
there could be no turning back from the tragical events of the
past thirty months, which brought upon Americans new re
sponsibilities as citizens of the world. The president said that
America must stand for a peace stability of free peoples, na
tional equality in matters of right; the seas must be free and
the family of nations shall not support any governments not
ierived from the consent of the governed. He sounded a solemn
warning against any faction or intrigue to break the harmony
>r embarrass the spirit of the American people. The president
railed for an American united feeling, purpose and vision of
duty, opportunity and service.
At the conclusion of the address, President Wilson led the
inaugural procession back to the White House, where it passed
in review before him. Extraordinary precautions were taken
along the route to protect the president. The militia lined the
streets, and secret service men and detectives moved among
the crowds and were stationed on house tops.
(By Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, March 5. — Wo
men the world over have enterec
many professions, but it has remainec
for Mrs. D. A. Poter, of Plymouth
Cal., to select one which she says hai
hitherto remained free from the feml
nine invasion. She claims the dls
tinctlon of being the only woman coro
ner and public administrator in thi
country. She also is an undertaker
and recently came here to perfect her
self in the art of embalming.
"While I do not advise young girli
to take up my profession, which ii
not very cheerful,” she says, “I think
every girl nowadays should have some
kind of a profession or some interest
beyond dancing and clothes.”
The dance of the Cordova band at
Ragle hall Saturday night was large
ly attended, and a decided social suc
cess.
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Attorney Thomas A. Marquam, of
Fairbanks, has received word that his
wife passed away in Seattle alter a
prolonged illness.
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Dr. W. H. Chase reports the birth
of a baby daughter to Mrs. Nnute Naf
sted, of Chitina, at the local hospital,
early Sunday morning.
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Charles Close, an old-time Alaskan,
died on Saturday morning with tuber
culosis. The funeral will take place
tomorrow afternoon at2 o'clock. The
i body will be taken to Ottawa, Canada,
i for burial.
AFTER WAR'S
RAVAGES
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♦ (By United Press) ♦
♦ BOSTON, March 5. — On the ♦
♦ theory that men's souls will be ♦
♦ sick after the European war has ♦
♦ finished tearing them to pieces, ♦
♦ famous religious leaders met ♦
♦ here to consider what spiritual ♦
♦ medicine shall be prepared for ♦
♦ them. The prevention of future ♦
♦ wars by proper religious teaching ♦
♦ also was considered. +
♦ "This convention of the Reli- ♦
♦ gious Education Association,” ♦
♦ said Secretary Dr. Henry F. Cope ♦
♦ of Chicago, "is one of prepared- ♦
♦ Be by education rather than by ♦
♦ armament” Among those pres- ♦
♦ ent are Bishop Francis J. Me- ♦
♦ connell of Denver, Governor Me- ♦
♦ Cali of Massachusetts, Professor ♦
♦ J. E. Kesler of Texas, Dr. Katsu- ♦
♦ iji Kato of Japan, William Doug- ♦
♦ las McKenzie of Hartford, Rabbi ♦
♦ Henry Devi and Harrison C. El- ♦
♦ liott of the International Y. M ♦
♦ C. A. ♦
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GOUDOVA PUPILS
ALSO VERY
THRIFTY
(Hy Associated Press)
ctiowledge of banking, the Oakland
ligh School Savings Dank has been
darted in that Institution. The pupils
111 all the official positions of the
tank, which is conducted, in mlnla
ure, along the most accepted lines
if modern banking.
A dollar starts a savings account.
Gach afternon, before the large
lowntown banks close for the day,
he deposits in the school bank are
aken to one of the larger institu
:ions. The school bank is conducted
is a branch of the Farmers' and Mer
chants' Savings Dank of Oakland.
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SHORTAGE PIPER
CAUSES MANY
SUSPENSIONS
(By Associated Press)
BERLIN, March 5. — It has re
quired a 32-page booklet for the im
perial postoffice to enumerate the list
of newspapers and periodical publica
tions in Germany of recognized stand
ing which “temporarily will not ap
pear during the course of the war.”
The list includes 1,430 publications,
but of course does not include hun
dreds, if not thousands, of "fly by
night" papers and magazines which,
in many instances, have come Into be
ing since the beginning of the war and
have died a natural death within a
short time.
The 1,430 enumerated constitute
just about one-eighth of the publica
tions that flourished before the war,
but that have had to cease issue since
then because of the Increased short
age of paper, high prices, scarcity of
labor, dropping circulation and other
things. Tho postoffice cites them all
as having suspended “temporarily,"
but their more fortunate contemporar
ics insist on enclosing the word tem
porary in quotation marks.
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The Grand Camp of the Arctic Bro
therhood will meet in Juneau on
March 13, 1917. Delegates and alter
nates from all of the thirty-three
camps of the order distributed
throughout Alaska and the Yukon
territory will be present at the meet
ing.
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The herring pack at Seldovia has
been conudeted, barrels and salt hav
ing been exhausted. About 1,200 bar
rels have been put up. The run of
herring have been bo largo and fat
that only 2C0 fish were required to
fill a 200 pound barrel.
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Malcolm Brock and H. J. O'Neill
are on a business trip to McCarthy.
Senate Holds Up
Alaska Funds
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(By the Associated Pn «e)
WASHINGTON, March 5. — President Wilson believes
that the killing of the armed neutrality bill by the senate fili
buster before adjournment on Sunday, may effect ivelv prevent
the house exercising its executive prerogative to arm merchant
ships. He advocates the immediate reform of the senate rules
at the session called for today, to prevent the minority holding
up legislation in the future.
After twelve senators, led' by Lafollette, had defied the
wishes of an overwhelming majority to vote on the neutrality
bill until a forced adjournment, they carried the measure down
to death.
President Wilson lias issued a statement, denouncing the
obstructionists, in which he says: “The result i< a complete
paralysis of legislative and executive branches of the govern
ment by a little group ot willful men. In reporting no opinion
but their own, they have rendered the great government of the
United States helpless and contemptible.”
Senators Lafollette, Kirby, Lane, Martine, Reed, Stone,
Thompson, Hillman, Yardman, Clapp, Cummins, Dupont,
Gronna, Kenyon, Lippitt, Norris, Penrose, Warren, Weeks and
Works declined to sign a statement favoring the nrinv appro
priation, with the Alaska road item and the sundry civil bill,
carrying millions for various Alaska appropriations, which
failed to pass.
Congress passed a resolution extending the time for the
bone dry law to become effective to July 1.
WASHINGTON, March 5. — President \\ ilson has re
ferred to his legal advisers his power to arm American ships, in
the absence of direct authority from congress, a he is in doubt
as to how far he can go under the circumstances. A decision is
expected from the attorney general within twenty lour hours.
WASHINGTON, March •>.—A Democratic senate caucus
.. r~> -»rM.■
have agreed to co-operate with the anti filibuster movement.
WASHINGTON, March 4.—Congress adjourned sine die
at noon today, without passing the armed neutrality bill. Rep
resentative Hitchcock read a portion of President Wilson’s ad
dress, asking for the armed neutrality bill, and declared that
twelve men had defeated the measure by the must reprehensible
filibuster in the history of a civilized government.
An administration leader said Wilson will arm merchant
men and take whatever steps he deems nece->ary to protect
them, despite the defeat of the tinned neutrality bill.
The president went to the capital and signed the naval bill
and other legislation during the closing Innn of conuress.
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♦ WHATCHAMA COLUMN. 4
♦ Plumbing. *
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4 (By United Press) 4
4 Does your plumbing grumble? 4
4 Ours does. It's had a grouch 4
4 on ever since we rebuilt and let 4
4 it out in the open. We can't even 4
4 turn a faucet now without being 4
4 growled at. 4
4 Since we've given it the run 4
4 of the bathroom it has spread 4
4 itself all around In kinks and 4
4 curleycues and festoons and 4
4 dropstitch effects and nothing 4
4 can please it. It mumbles and 4
4 mutters to itself all the time. 4
4 Put plumbing back in solitary 4
4 confinement! ’ ♦
4 Then maybe it’ll shut up. 4
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At a meeting of the Chamber of
Commerce was held Saturday evening,
for the purpose of~ taking ftnr'liiUlu
tive in an attempt to secure an appro
priation from the legislature out of the
territorial funds, with which to build
a good road connecting Cordova and
Oldtown and running to the cemetery.
Work was started on this Improve
ment last year by Hoad Overseer
Wood, and about $1,600 of forsetry
service funds expended. This was a
beginning, and as the legislature has
monies for road purposes, it is pro
posed to ask that a sufficient sum be
set aside to complete this road.
A committee consisting of Caleb
CorBer, A. J. Adams and W. J. Mc
Donald was appointed to make a
sketch map of the road, with tho ap
proximate cost of its construction. As
soon as this is done a formal requesl
will be made of the legislature for ar
appropriation of the money required
A recent Seattle dispatch says:
Government agents and secret ser
vice men, in a large number are quiet
ly moving into all parts of Alaska to
keep an eye about what Is going on in
view of the war situation. Their real
mission, however. Is not known, only
to Washington officials. Alaska may
become an important base of supplies
in the event of war, with its great cop
per and gold mines.
Tt was learned today that the Ken
necott Copper Mining Corporation,
owners of the great Bonanza mine—
the Guggenheim’s property, together
with the railroad, had doubled the
guard about the property and other
wise is taking extraordinary precau
tions for future protection of these
properties.
Further indication of extra precau
tion being taken by the government
is indicated in the announcement that
steel nets of great power of resist
ance are to bo placed across the en
-trunee of the StruB-o-f-J'.um du. Fuixi
and other channels for protection
against German submarine attacks on
Puget Sound. Every governmental
department is rushing preparations
for eventualities.
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FUNERAL NOTICE.
The funeral of brother Charles E.
Close, of Douglas Aerie. No. 117, will
take place from Eagle Hall on Tues
day, at 2 p. m. Visiting brothers in
vited. GEO. DOOLEY, Sec.
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During a recent storm at Soldo via
several launches went ashore, hut
were not badly damaged. The tem
perature dropped 30 degrees In as
many minutes and the herring fisher
men lost about fl.000 worth of her
ring.