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cause of the fact that the Entente allies
have resorted to the subterfuge of trans
porting active troops on hospital ships,
to gain protection from the immunity
heretofore accorded that class of vessel.
Paris: France is experiencing the
most severe weather this year of any
winter since 1S93.
Amsterdam: It is estimated here that
Germany has sent S00 submarines to sea
since the beginning of the war.
Berlin; A report from the Overseas
agency this morning states that the En
tente powers have had four million tons
of shipping destroyed to date.
New York: This port was opened to
incoming and outgoing vessels this morn
ing, after being closed since the receipt
of Germany’s threat to launch her pro
gram of unrestricted naval warfare.
London: According to the testimony
of Captain R. Norton, her commander,
the British auxilliurv cruiser Lauren uc
was sunk by a mine off the Irish coast
a week ago yesterday, with the loss of
350 lives.
London: A finish fight oil the sea be
tween England and Germany is expected
here as the result of Germany’s note to
the United States. Great Britain is ex
tending her mine fields to a new area of
the sea as a preliminary move.
General News
Monday
St. Louis: Fur buyers from all over i
the world are arriving in this city on !
^ every train to participate iu the annual
sale to be held here soon.
Washington: General Weaver, of the
Coast Artillery, called the attention of
the appropriations committee, in a speech
Saturday, to the fact that no provision
has been made in the appropriation for j
coast defense for the fortification of Cook j
Inlet and Ressurection Bay, plans for I
which had been included in the original I
estimate on the defense appropriation, j
He declares that the fortification of these ;
two points is of vital importance for the 1
protection of the mineral wealth of Inter- j
ior Alaska.
Chicago: Wheat dropped five cents on
the stock exchange just before the.close
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Saturday as the result of the rumor of
the Kaiser’s anticipated peace negotia
I tions.
Seattle: Private messages received in
| this city Sunday morning state that Ter
ritorial Representative John G. Heiddied
very suddenly in San Francisco Saturday
while arguing a court case.
i El Paso: It was reported here this
I morning that the first of the expedition
ary force which has been stationed at
Colona Dublan, field headquarters for
the Pershing column, have arrived in
Columbus.
Seattle: Gill and Be*kinghatn were
released on bail fixed at #3500 each with
in ten minutes after their indictments
were returned by the grand jury this
morning.
New York: States Attorney Wipple,
who lias been conducting the peace leak
investigation in New York, made the
statement this morning that “it would
not be necessary to call Lawson as a wit
ness again: there will be plenty of fire
works without him.” Investigation thus
far has revealed the fact that 5,000,000
shares of U. S. Steel were turned over in
thirteen days' trading as a result of the
leak.
Washington: A United States torpedo
boat is reported to be afire off Orient
Point, Long Island. Her identity is un
' known.
Washington: President Wilson this
morning accepted the resignation of Ber
nard Baker of Baltimore as a member of
the federal reserve board.
New York: The torpedo-boat destroy
er Sampson steamed into Brooklyn navy
yard today after her collision with the
French motor bark Ouevelly last night.
She was damaged quite severely, but
made port under her own steam.
Los Angeles: Miss Kellie Harvey, a
graduate of Exeter college, was found
dead in bed here early Sunday morning.
Harold J. Winter, a motion picture actor
and son of former District Attorney Win
ter of New York, with whom Miss Har
vey was living, is being held as a suspect.
Tuesday
New York: Louise Saclien, posing as
a rich Alaska girl, and. who has captivat
ed all of the most select circles of societv
throughout the Eastern states with her
personal charm, has been shown to be
the daughter of a Kansas City laborer.
She claimed to have immensely rich min
ing properties in the Kovukuk, and said
that her present trip is the first time she
lias been in the States.
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Seattle: C. S. A. Hewitt, father of
the four children recently found murder
ed in the ruins of their burned home in
this city, was taken into custody this
j morning, accused with the death of the
| four children. The evidence of the case
shows that the four children, the oldest
! of whom is only ten years old, were
| beaten to death with a hammer, and the
j home set afire m the hope of destroying
| all evidence of a crime having been com
| mitted.
El Paso: Anti-American demonstra
tions were resumed in Juarez this morn
ing, and culminated with the charging
i of a wild mob of Mexicans across the In
ternational bridge. Company A, Twen
ty-third infantry, was called out and suc
ceeded in driving them back across the
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bridge. Crowds aie gathering on both j
sides of the river, and all traffic across
the bridge has been prohibited in an ei- j
fort to prevent an open clash.
Washington: It was announced in j
military circles this morning that as soon :
as the Pershing column is withdrawn
from Mexico another large unit of infan-'
try, prolwbly 25,COO, will lie ordered !
home.
San Diego: The new naval radio sta
tion recently installed near this city by
tlie navy department established success- j
ful communication with Nome, Panama, 1
Honolulu and Washington, D. C., in a
series ol tests made Sunday.
Washington: In a petition forwarded
to congress by Aline Bradley from Fair
banks, Alaska, an urgent demand for
immediate congressional action is made
with regard to the passage of the Alaska
prohibition law and the control of the
schools by the Territory, both measures
having the approval of the voters there.
Wednesday
Philadelphia: In a speech at a lianquet
in this city last night. Congressman
Humphrey advised all those Americans
who are longing for the Huropean war to
cease that they may resume their annual
migration to the various watering places
on the continent, "to turn their eyes to
Alaska, whose grandeur of scenic beauty
surpasses anything in foreign lands.”
Washington: A new revenue bill, pro
viding for an additional revenue income
amounting to approximately $402,000,000
annually, has been presented in the bouse
by Representative Kitchin as a means of
providing funds with which to carry out
the preparedness program of the admin
istration.
Washington: After a series of confer
ences at the White House today with ad
ministration leaders, it is announced this
morning that the president is confident
that the passage ot the main administra
tion measures will be accomplished dat
ing the present session of congress.
New York: Testifying before the leak
investigation committee today, Barney
Baruch stated that he cleaned up .*476,
000 from December 10 to 23, and that
this profit was directly traceable to the
interpretation he placed on different
statesmen's utterances. lie declares that
if he had known of the attitude of the
administration before the day the peace
note was made public he would have
continued to sell short, thereby increas
ing his profits, instead of covering at the
time he did.
San Francisco: Sadie Fdeau, testify
ing in the Mooney anti-preparedness plot
trial here yesterday as one of the state’s
chief witnesses, while being subjected to
a grilling cross-examination by Bourke
Cochran, exclaimed that she had no
thought or desire for reward when she
offered her testimony, and would never
accept a penny of the bounty which the
state has placed on the heads ot the men
I who are guilty of the recent bomb out
rage.
Thursday
Seattle: A run on the smaller banks!
ot this city, which started yesterday morn
ing after the refusal of the Seattle Nor
thern to make payments in gold, has re
sulted in the closing of that bank and
the German American, according to re
ports made public today. The Peoples,
Scandinavian-American, and several of i
the smaller banks are said to be success- i
tullv weathering the storm, and the re- i
port that the Federal reserve bank in
San Francisco has offered to supply sixty
eight million in gold to them has restor
ed confidence to a great extent. The
postal savings bank has experienced a i
rush of businesses a result of the flurry, !
practically all of the money withdraw n
from other banks being put in the safe :
keeping of Uncle Sam.
Washington: Representative Anthony j
of Kansas introduced a resolution in the
house this morning demanding of the
secretary of war a statement as to what,
, steps, if "any, have been taken by the ad- i
1 ministration to secure from the defacto
| Mexican government reparation for the
i lives of the American soldiers killed at
. Carrizal on June 21, 1916.
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Washington: The senate naval com
mittee this morning ordered a favorable
report on the nomination of Dr. Gray
son for the position of Rear-Admiral.
Washington: The Alaska Bone Dry
prohibition bill was passed bv the senate
this afternoon without a roll call.
New York. U. S. Steel opened twelve
points off on the first sale of35,000 shares
on Change today.
Friday
Seattle: Runs on all banks in this city
had ceased this morning, with the ex
ception of the Scandinavian-American,
and as that institution is paying off in
full and is being supported by the clear
ing house, the run there is rapidly abat
ing.
Chicago: Hogs were quoted on the
local market this morning at §13.20 per
hundred, which is the highest price re
corded since the civil war.
Elsewhere In Alaska
Louis Dabi, an oliltimer of the Koyu
kuk country, was recently declared in
sane by a Ruby jury,
A shipment of liquor which was en
route to a resident of Seward was seized
by the dry squad in Seattle recently. It
was being shipped in bond.
Mark Loper, Jacob B. Boliver, Jos. J.
Trunk and Janies Gilligau, four oldlim
l ers from the First division, were recent
| ly admitted to the Pioneers home.
! Tom Armstrong’s cabin on Duncan
| creek, in the Ruby district, was recently
; destroyed by fire, the loss being more
than $1000.
There is a report current in Ruby to
the effect that Frank Grace, former N.
C. manager, will establish a bank at that
place during the coming summer. Grace
is now on the Outside.
Senator-elect lack Ronan will intro
duce a bill at the next session of the ter
ritorial legislature providing for the cre
ation of divisional high schools out of
j territorial funds.
The red light district in Douglas has
| been closed by the council of that town
as the result of the murder recently com
mitted there. Most of the women have
moved to Juneau.
The Ruby Kennel club ts planning a
three-day carnival, commencing Febru
ary 11. A handicap burden dog race is
planned to be run from Long to Ruby as
one of the feature attractions.
The Anchorage liquor shipment which
was destroyed at Seward recently, con
sisted of 218 cases of whiskey ana beer.
Seward is to be made the base of anew
steamship line which will operate in the
Kuskokwinf district.
Mrs, John Henson, wife of U. S. Com
missioner Henson of Douglas, has gained
distinction in Southern California by re
cently climbing to the summit of Mount ,
Wilson. The peak is very rugged, and |
attainable only after negotiating a very
difficult nine-mile trail. It has an alti
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tuile of over six thousand feet.
A new and practically unlimited source
of caviar has been found in the roe of
the Alaska salmon. A sample of the
new by-product of the Bristol bay can
neries which was shown at San Erancisco
recently, has been pronounced so perfect
a substitute of the Russian product that
the epicurean palate cannot detect the
difference.
Negotiations are under wav at Wash
ington for the permanent adjustment of
all issues arising between the American
and Canadian governments in connection
with the fisheries, not only on the Pacif
I ic, where trouble has recently been most
acute, but on the Atlantic and the Gulf
of St. Lawrence.
Alaska bear grease waterproof shoe
dressing will soon be known all over the
United States This famous preparation
for leather is an infant industry of Ketch
ikan, Peter Kratnaer, famous prospector
and big game hunter of that district being
the possessor of the original recipe for
1 the dressing and being at present engaged
I in its manufacture.
A resident of Douglas, who is held re
sponsible for the support of his aged
i mother in Germany, recently was made
defend At in a suit to enforce the collec
tion of an allowance of *60 a month since
1914. The defendent claims that he has
sent the money to Germany regularly
but that on account of file war the letters
i have been held up.
The biggest deal in its line for the year
! 1916 was concluded last month by the
; Northwestern Fisheries company, a sub
sidarv of the Booth fishing interests, ill
the purchase of the Roe Point and Sel
! dovia canneries from Lindenberger. The
j combined capacity of the canneries is one
I hundred and tlnrtv thousand cases. The
! consideration has not been disclosed but
i is said to have been very attractive.
A petition signed bv a large number of
residents of Opliir and Takotna has been
forwarded to Washington, asking for a
summer road between Opliir and Takot
na. The petition also asks that a sum
mer trail between Opliir and Iditarod lie
staked; wireless stations established in
the Upper and Lower Kuskokwim; trunk
road from Ruby to Seward.
An independent steamship company
has practically completed its arrange
ments lor operating in Southeastern Alas
ka next spring and summer, with head
quarters at-Prince Rupert. The company
already has one ship arranged for and has
contracted for canned salmon to the ex
tent of 4,000,000 cases, which can be
shipped via Prince Rupert to all Eastern
• points in Canada and by steamship lines
to Europe.
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