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General News
Monday
Seattle: The Chinese tong wars have
broken out iu this city again; and signs
of unrest are again in evidence in all Pa
cific coast cities.
Washington: The president this morn
ing signed the congressional resolution
postponing the effectiveness of the post
al bone dry law until July 1. 1917.
Seattle: It is reported here this morn
ing that the Federal trade commission
has fixed the price of newsprint paper at
J2.50 per hundred pounds in carload lots.
Seattle: The Seattle hockey team has
won the Pacific coast championship and
will play the Eastern champions here
for the world's championship and the
Stanley cup.
Seattle: Gilmore Dobie, for twelve
years coach of the University of Wash
ington football team, and without a de
feat charged against him, has gone to
Detroit university, where he has accept
ed the position of head coach.
Washington: Navy department offic
ials are verv much astonished over the
apparent betrayal of official secrets, as
evidenced by the statement of Senator
Stone yesterday that the navy department
intends to equip merchantmen as light,
speedy submarine chasers.
Seattle: Earl Walderman, 23 years
old, is being held by the authorities here
as tht result of his confession that he was
an accomplice of two others in the murd
er of Wilhelm Huffnagle in St. Louis in
1913 during an attempted auto holdup.
The St. Louis authorities have been not
ified.
Washington: The senate conference
report on the emergency naval bill was
adopted by the house yesterday afternoon.
The bill provides three million dollars
for the Alaska railroad, to become avail
able immediately, to supply funds until
the regular appropriation becomes avail
able at the end of the fiscal year.
Washington: In his inaugural speech
Sunday afternoon President Wilson, de
clared in the most emphatic terms that
“the government of the United States is
absolutely helpless and contemptible."
In reference to the Stone-LaFollette fili
buster, lie said that the entire senate fav
ored the passage of the armed neutrality
measure, but in the absence of a law lim
ing debate Stone and LaFollette, with
nine others, talked all night during the
final hours of the session of congress just
closed, and prevented the passage of
many measures of vital importance to the
nation. The president declared that he
is powerless, as a result of this filibuster,
to take any steps toward tire arming for
protection of merchantmen, and added
that while a special session would be fu
tile as regards the defeated legislation,
he will call an extra session Tuesday for
the express purpose of enacting legisla
tion to limit debate, and forever put to
an end this “filibusters' war-club.”
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Seattle: The trial of Hy Gill and
Beckingham opened iu this city this
morning.
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Tuesday
Washington: Reports from different
I states whose legislatures are in session
I indicate that the recent filibuster in con
gress is almost unanimously condemned
by the people of the United States.
Washington: The military and sundry
civil bills, carrying appropriations for the
Alaska railroad and wagon roads in Al
I aska failed to pass during the recent ses
I sion of congress, altho Secretary Lane
delivered a personal appeal which lasted
for several hours in support of these two
measures. His efforts resulted in the
passage of a joint resolution appropriat
ing three millions as an emergency fund
to the government railroad, which has
already been reported.
Wednesday
Seattle: The tentative jury chosen to
I try the Everett I. W. W. cases has been
selected, and will hear the first of the 7*1
cases this morning.
Seattle: J. F. Dusky, a convicted
bank robber who escaped from the county
jail recently, returned to the jail this
morning and asked to be locked up.
Vancouver, B. C.: Eight persons are
reported to have burned to death in afire
i which destroyed the Coquahalla hotel at
Hope, eighty miles from this city, last
night.
Olynpia: The supreme court has up
held the validity cf the Tacoma two mil
| lion-dollar bond issue for the purchase of
! 75,000 acres at American Lake tor a fed
j eral military reserve.
; Washington: The president has advised
Democratic leaders that he has been as
sured of his authority to arm American
ships as a protection against submarines
and will proceed to do so immediately.
Boston: The worst snow storm of the
season enveloped this city all last night
and until late this afternoon, when it
passed out to sea. Traffic was at a stand
still, and one man, blinded by the snow,
was run over and killed by a street car.
Xcw York: Governor Whitman has re
fused to grant Darcy a permit to fight
Gibbon in this city on the ground that
he has run awav from his own country
to escape a real fight. It is reported that
Darcy lias been matched with Dillon for
a twenty-round bout in Denver for a
purse of 525,000.
Minneapolis: Paul L. Scharfenbergof
St. Paul, a private in Company I,, First
Minnesota infantry, was sentenced to a
term of five years in Leavenworth by a
court martial of army officers at Sail An
tonio this morning. He was found guilty
of furnishing military information to the
German government, a letter having been
intercepted which he had written to his
parents in Germany, in which he stated
that there are 10,000,000 Germans in the
United States who are ready to take up
arms against the States in the event of a
war with Germany.
Thursday
Chicago: A new high record for hogs
was established to day, when they were
quoted at SI5 a hundred on the market.
Washington: As a rebuke to the recent
armament filibuster Senators LaFollette
and Gronna have been dropped from the
Senate Steering committee.
Havana: A report reached this city
this afternoon that Santiago has been
captured by the government forces and
General Gomez and other rebel leaders
made prisoners.
Wheeling, W. Va.: An organization
of business men in this city have cancel
led a lecture engagement with Senator
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LaFollette because ol his participation in
tile recent filibuster in Congress.
Seattle: The oil tanker Lyman Stew- ;
art, which arrived in the Sound yester
day, was boarded by custom's officials in
the afternoon and thirty quarts of straight
whiskey found on board were seized.
E. M. Taylor, who has charge of the !
Peoples warehouses at Terminal, report- j
ed this morning that the warehouse was
completely destroyed by fire of unknown
origin last night. The loss will amount
to $i6,W)0.
Washington: Herbert A. Moyer has
| been appointed assistant secretary of the
interior, and will sooner or later have ad
ministrative charge ol the Alaska rail
road. He has been private secretary to ;
Secretary Lane.
Juneau: Governor Strong may decide I
to deliver his message to the house of |
representatives without waiting for the j
upper branch to convene. The senate i
has been in a constant deadlock, and !
their is no indication as yet .that a perm
anent organization will.be effected for.
I some time to come.
Friday
| Washington: President Wilson was;
j ordered to bed this morning by I)r. Gray
son as the result of a severe cold with
which he is afflicted. All engagements
j have been cancelled.
There will be another of tiie popular
I social dances at Mrs. Campbell’sDancing
j academy on Saturday evening, March 10.
A pleasant evening is assured and the
j public is cordially invited to attend.
El Paso: American troops are increas
ing their vigilance in guarding the bord
er, in anticipation of a reported raid by
Yillistas. It is stated that an expedition
is being held in readiness to pursue the
bandits into Mexico it they raid Ameri
j can territorj-.
Lawrence, Kan.: Resolutions were
adopted at a mass meeting in this city
last night to recall an invitation which
had been extended to Win. J. Bryan to
address the University ot Kansas. This
action was taken because of his unpop
ular stand on the international situation.
Washington: Senator Lodge introduc
ed in congress this morning a bill iden- |
tical to the armament bill which was de
feated by the filibuster during the session
of congress just passed, because ot the
fact that vice-president Marshall has de
clared all defeated measures of the recent
session to be dead issues.
Elsewhere In Alaska
Residents of Skag'.vav have formed an
Alpine club, with a charter membership
of 30.
Sixteen residents of Petersburg recent
ly made application to the district court
at Juneau for citizenship papers.
Reports from the Innoko state that the
camp is a busy one this winter, more gen
uine prospecting going on there iliau for
some time.
Juneau dairymen have raised the price
of milk to 18 cents per quart, asserting
that the high cost of grain and hay make
the raise necessary.
Three mining companies have been or
ganized in Anchorage during the past
winter for developing mining properties
in the Willow Creek district.
Fred Vilson, a miner on Cripple moun
tain, in the Iditarod country, believes he
i has struck tungsten ore, and is sending
| samples of his find Outside for assay.
' One of the largest icebergs ever seen
in Gastineau channel floated in on the |
tide recently and laid for .some time be
tween Juneau and Treadwell.
A Taku wind visited Juneau recently,
and after it had subsided the city resem
bled an English town after a Germay air
raid, according to the Dispatch.
At the expiration of the first week of
the recently established school savings
bank at Cordova the pupils had deposited
the sum ot $49.35.
Bjorn Gasperson ot the Yes bay-hatch
ery is the inventor of the latest noveltj’,
a post card made of fish skin, which is I
J reported to be very neat and attractive, j
Perch G. Charles, deputy United States 1
I marshal, recently circulated a petition
among the voters of Flat aud Iditarod, I
Tanana Sheet Metal Works
Steam and Hot Water Heating Plants
Sheet Metal Work and Plumbing
Stoves and Furnaces
Gilcher & Schwendiman “A" Street
urging the reappointment of Marshal
Erwin. Mr. Charles is Republican com
mitteeman of the lower river precinct.
The first death from measles in Ketcli
lcan was reported recently when the 3
vear-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Toe
Johns of Indian town succumbed to the
disease.
The school board of Cordova is consid
ering the charging of pupils from out
side the incorporated limits of town the
sum of <10 a month each for the school
privileges.
Deputy Marshal A. F. Hoffman and
his deputies recently raided a cabin in
Anchorage and seized 210 bottles of beer
and 50 bottles of whiskey. There were
no arrests made in connection with the
case.
A monster snowslide on the side of
Mount Roberts, near Juneau, recently
carried away the longest bridge on the
Thane road and ah o broke the water
supply pipe which carried water to Thane.
During 1916 there were 61 aliens ad
mitted to citizenship at Fairbanks and 75
others declared their intention of becom
ing citizens during that period. A num
ber of these were from the Balkan states.
The annual report of the Fairbanks
Igloo, Pioneers of Alaska, shows that the
Igloo is made up of 821 members in good
standing, the largest number of any Igloo
in Alaska. The treasury of the lodge
contains 56000.
Reindeer have been introduced into
the Ruby district. Frank W'helen recent
ly purchased a herd from Unalakleet
owners and took the animals to Long
creek, where they will be kept in the
future.
Jack Moulton and Iv \V. Smith, two
traveling men, have started overland
from Seward on their annual tour thru
Interior Alaska. They will go first to
Iditarod, later coming up the river to
Nenana and Fairbanks.
Joseph Campbell, who is serving a life
sentence for the murder of the Nelson
brothers in the Kuskokwim country in
1911, has made another appeal for an in
vestigation of his case, in the hope of
securing a pardon.
The Fifth Avenue hotel at Skagway,
which was built during the construction
of the White Pass railroad and the stam
pede to the Klondike, by Mrs. L. A.
Burke, formerly of Cordova, has been
sold at sheriff's sale to satisfy judgements
against the owner.
A special election was held in the
First division on March 6 to choose a
member of the house of representatives
to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
John G. Heid, of Juneau. The Demo
crats have placed in nomination for this
office Isaac Sowerby, a Juneau insurance
man.
The general offices of the B. L. Thane
Exploration department of the Alaska
Gastineau Mining company, of.which
B. L. Thane is the head, have been trans
ferred to San Francisco, and Mr. Thane
will spend a considerable portion of his
time at that place hereafter.
Rev. Jack Dunstan, lormerly of Val*
dez, has opened the People’s church at
Anchorage. Seating capacity for about
100 persons lias been arranged in the old
] Tacoma cafe, which will be used as a
' church until a new church is erected on
! the same lot.
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The Cordo'-a Tacking company has
i disposed of its site, buildings, water
right and launch to the Alaska Sea Food
! company. The plant is located near
Cape Whitshed and the new owners will
commence putting up clams as soon as
the weather permits.
The first crop of pelts from the fur
farm of the Northern Fox Ranch com
pany, near Dawson, was brought into
that city recently. It consisted of 27
skins, including several silver grays
worth several hundred dollars each.
Arrangements for the housing of the
next legislature have been completed be
tween Gov. J. F. A. Strong and Charles
Goldstein, of the Goldstein Improvement
company. The legislature will occupy
practically the same part of the building
as it did in 1915, on the third floor. The
legislature will have the hall on the south
side of the main hallway, with the senate
on the north, or Seward, side of the
building.
The Anchorage Times is now working
for the erection of fortifications at that
place and at several points on Cook inlet
to protect its railroad and coal terminals
from the raids of marauding Japs and
German submarines.
The recent snowslide in Sheep Creek
Basin, near Juneau, is said to have been
the largest which ever occurred there.
The slide was 1300 feet wide and carried
everything before it, including trees fifty
years old. The wind from the slide blew
cabins in its vicinity several hundred leet
and scattered them over the hillside.
Jack Smith, a laborer on the govern
ment railroad at Ancltorage, was arrested
recently, charged with abducting his
daughter. Ilis former wife secured a di
vorce from him in Montana and the girl
was awarded to her. She was married m
Anchorage to Janies L. French. During
the absence of Mrs. French, Smith took
the girl and took her to Anchorage.
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