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FIFTH YEAR CHITINA, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1915. u ,r . , NUMBER 14
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.—Dispatches to the state depart
ment reveal that Guiterrez had, before his hurried departure
from the capital, been plotting with Generals Obregon and
Carranza to destroy General Villa. The latter is hastening to
Mexico City from Aguas Calientes with the greater part of
his troops. The followers of Zapata are in possession of the
EL PASO, Jan. 18.—Reports received liere*^say^Hrat
Guiterrez, one of Mexico’s recent presidents, has fled from the
capital to escape assassination at the hands of the Zapatestas.
General Villa, who has been co-operating with President
Guiterrez since his break with General Carranza, is hurrying
with all his troops to the capital from Aguas Calientes.
MEXICO CITY, Jan. 18.—General Roque Gonzales Garza
has been named provisional president of Mexico by a conven
tion in session here, over which he presided. Former Provi
sional President Guiterrez together with Generals Blanco,
Robles and Jose Vasconcelos have left the capital for Pachuca.
Martial law has been declared by Garza. The convention, which
elected Garza declared itself the supreme power of the nation,
and when the new president was elected he assumed all legis
lative and judicial powers.
LONDON, Jan. 15.—The violent German attack north of
Soissons, under General Von Kluck, coupled with a flood
stage of the river, has forced the French back across the Aisne,
but the Germans have not yet succeeded in recovering all the
ground lost by them in former engagements of the week.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.—Spring Rice, Great Britain’s
ambassador, has made urgent representations to the state
department against General Carranza’s embargo on oil exports
from Tampico, Mexico, from which the British navy draws
some of its fuel.
SEBASTOPOOL, Jan. 19.—A detachment of Russian
torpedo boats entered the bay of Sinope, Turkey’s i>ort on the
Black Sea, in Asia Minor, and sent to the bottom a Turkish
steamer and three sailing vessels.
PETROGRAD, Jan,-19.—Russian troops in Transylvania
have commenced a rapid movement westward for the purpose
of occupying the Gzieget pass, giving them additional means
of easy access to Hungary. They now occupy nearly all of the
most amvantageous passes. /
PETROGRAD, Jan. 18.—Grand Duke Nicholas, in com
mand of the Russian forces in Poland, reports that the Germans
under General Von Hindenberg are making a series of violent
attacks in an eff.ort to break through the Russian lines and
reach Warsaw.
PETROGRAD, Jan. 18.—The war office lias announced
the destruction of the Eleventh Turkish corps at the battle of
Ivaraurgan. •
PETROGRAD, Jan. 18.—General Stoessel, defender of
Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese war, died at his honu
here last night. The general was retired from service soon
after the close of that war and because of advanced age was
not called to participate in the present one.
PETROGRAD, Jan. 16.—It is reported here that eight
transports conveying Turkish troops have been sunk in the
Black Sea. Many are thought to have perished.
LONDON, Jan. 16.—Russia has thrown a new army of a
million men into northern Poland, according to an official
account fr§m Petrograd. The new force will operate in
conjunction with the Russian army now advancing in Easi
Prussia and will make an attack on the rear of the Germany
army now in front of Warsaw.
BERLIN, Jan. 16.—The Reichanseiger publishes a decree
signed by Emperor William in which his majesty, in view of
the seriousness of the present situation, asks that all festivities
formerly held on the occasion of his birthday be omitted this
year. The emperor will be 56 years old on January 27.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15*.—The announcement has been
made by the Interior Department that the Alaska Engineeripg
Commission report will be ready in two weeks and that
Secretary Lane’s recommendations to tire President probably
will be ready a week later.
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The 250-ton shipment of ore from the Mother Lode copper
mines, which is being made on the steamer Mariposa tonight,
is the third by this company and brings the total up to a little
more than 640 tons for the three seasons since this property
was added to the list of Alaska’s wealth-producers. The
Mother Lode is a wealth-producer i nail the term implies, as
previous shipments aggregating 391 tons averaged $160 a
ton. It is believed this last shipment contains ore of a grade
equal to that of the first which was $173.60 per ton. The ship
ment made today is to be followed by another early in
February.
In a letter to a friend in Cordova, Superintendent James
J. Godfrey stated that he would ship 1,000 tons of ore during
the present sledding season and probably the output for the
winter would reach 1,500 tons. “We have ore in all our
workings and the mine is now looking like a jewelry store,”
he said. “With our power plant in operation we now become
*a regular and permanent shipper.”
WASHINGTON* Jan. 19.—Delegate 'Wickersham oif
Alaska and E. Lester Jones, deputy commissioner of fisheries,
clashed during a hearing before the House ways and means
committee today. The bureau of fisheries is seeking to have
greater authority conferred upon the secretary of commerce,
enabling that official to make regulations regarding fur
bearing animals in Alaska. Delegate Wickersham made a
vigorous protest.
“Under such regulations,” he told the committee, “a
citizen who disturbed a harmless jackrabbit and frightened it
from repose would subject himself to a term in the peni
tentiary. This measure is another instance of highly objec
tionable bureaucracy against which Secretary Lane protested.”
Mr. Wickersham quoted Governor J. F. A. Strong who
advocates giving the territorial legislature jurisdiction over
such matters. Dr. Jones in rebuttal argued that the governor
and delegate are not familiar with actual conditions.
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ROME, Jan. 19.—The news reached here today that the
heavy earthquake of the 14th inst extended as far south as
the province of Calabria and was especially destructive around
Cosenza, the capital. The entire population "of Cosenza, Paola,
Amantea, Luzzi, Castrovallari and Rossano fled from then
homes and many of them cannot be induced to return.
ROME, Jan. 14.—Another distinct earthquake was felt ai
3 o’clock this morning and people fled from the city in a state
cf panic. There are fully 15,000 dead at Avezzano, very few
having escaped alive. The property loss through Italy is
appalling. The stricken zone extends from Naples in the south
to Ferrari in the north, a distance of 300 miles. The shock was
most severe east and south of Naples, with Avezzano as th>
center of the disturbance.' Among the towns in ruins are Bessi
Capelle, Scurcoli, Magliano, Cappadocia, Celano, Pesaro, Sora
and Arpino. Further reports from the district affected by th
disturbance pr.ove that it was more appalling than the Messin?
disaster.
ROME, Jan. 14.—The latest reports indicate that the dead
and injured throughout Italy as a result of yesterday’s earth
quake will exceed 50,000.
LONDON, Jan. 14.—An extra edition of the Express say
that 15,000 people were killed in Avezzano alone and that the
town was completely destroyed. Avezzano was a prosperous
railway town in the province of Abruzzi about 70 miles
northwest of Naples. The city is in a wine-making district
and contains a castle which was built in 1499 by Virgilio
Orsini and which now belongs to the Barbermis. It is thought
that the castle has been destroyed.
ROME, Jan. 15.—It will be several days before the exact
loss can be ascertained, as at least 60 towns and villages
suffered total demolition or serious damage. King Victor is
personally superintending the work of relief and contributing
from his private funds to assist in caring for the destitute.
AVEZZANO, Jan. 15.—Nearly all of the civil officers of |
this place, including the mayor and judges, perished. They
were crushed when the town hall collapsed. The few survivors
dazed and frightened into helplessness, were unable to rendei
aid to the injured.
LONDON, Jan. 15.—Dispatches from Rome say that the
Pope, accompanied by the Papal secretary of state, visited the
hospital of San Marta near the Vatican to see those injured by
the earthquake and that he conversed with and distributed
gifts among the sufferers. The dispatch adds that the Pope
went by an interior passageway across the basilica of
St. Peters.
This is the first time a Pope has left the Vatican since
Pope Pius IX went into voluntary retirement there September
20, 1870, when the separation of church and state was decreed
by King Victor Emanuel during the civil war and the Quirinal,
or palace of the Pope, was seized. Since that time the palace
has been occupied by government offices.
LONDON, Jan. 15.—The Chronicle’s Rome correspondent
estimates that 100,000 persons were killed and injured by the
earthquake in Italy.
ROME, Jan. 15.—It is estimated that 4,000 are still
buried alive in the ruins of Avezzano. All save four out of 500
soldiers in the barracks at that place were killed. The town
of Sora, with a population of 20,000, was almost entirely
destroyed and many smaller towns were entirely blotted out.
One hundred and fifty panes of glass in St. Peter’3
Cathedral were broken and the See was badly damaged;
ROME, Jan. 16.—Famine and intense cold are adding to
the sufferings of the earthquake victims and slowly increasing
tation to uviau'y of the stricken towns is all but impossible
because of obstructed roads.
AVEZZANO, Jan. 18.—General Marina and 2,000 troops
are at work among the ruins, recovering and burying the deac
andjSaring for the injured.
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.luifcjQN.DtyN,. Jan. 14.—With Emperor Willaim witnessing
and in part, personally directing their operations, the Germans
won an important victory- near Soissons, in France, today,
according to official statements from Paris and Berlin. Victory
for the Germans on the heights of Vregnv northeast of
Soissons is al$o recorded. A Berlin statement adds that the
Germans, charging through the heavy mud, took trench after
tVenc'h,-Clearing the heights and capturing 1,130 prisoners.
LONDON, Jan. 13.—Two German subarines which were
sighted todav approaching the English coast were sunk bv
the batteries near Dover before they could be submerged.
j.. PFjTjRQGRAD, Jan. 13.—An advance detachment of the
Turkish army has occupied Tabriz, a city of 180,000 popula
tioji, in! the' Persian province of Azerbijan.
tDPN'DON. Ian.'13—A stand by Russians who defeated
the (Turkish army at Karaurgan, attempts of the Germans to
chee& the advance of the allies in. France, .northeast of
Soissons and near Perthes marked the principal points today
where-‘desperate conflicts are raging. r , ,
• " J.'NEW YORK, Jan. 13.—The report from Petrograd that
a syndicate of American bankers headed by J. P. Morgan has
agreed to make Russia a war loan of $12,000,000 was confirmed
by Mr.^Morgan today.
^ MONl’REAL, Jan. 13.—The Canadian Vickers Company
is buildihg twenty submarines for the British navy, presum
ably for use in Canadian waters.
PETROGRAD, Jan. 13.—Orders have been issued by the
government that all Germans and Austrians between the ages
of 16 and 60 must be expelled from Russian territory.
, ££RIS, Dec. 28.—(By mail to New York)—A British
sp Idler .relates a remarkable story of "bow the English and
Gci'flmnsriiob nobbed in' the same trench a few miles south of
l pres.
Thpjte were a handful of Germans and a smaller handful
of allied, targes.,. Trenches were but a few yards apart, and
in these for more than a week the men of both'sides had been
bored- and inactive. They amused themselves as best they
could—exchanging messages, swapping newspapers and
tobacco, hurling back and forth greetings and epithets.
.More days .passed and still neither side received orders
either (o attack or to withdraw. Some sort of co-operation
seemed necessary. Accordingly, the Germans hoisted a white
flag, -and, advancing under this, entered the allied trench for
a conference. The result was an agreement was reached that
it woujd be more comfortable for all to live in one trench until
one side or the other received orders. The Germans mo\ed
over bag and baggage, and for a number ot days all went well.
Many of the Germans spoke English or French. Under the
strange circumstances friendships sprung up. Both faction*
dreaded the arrival of a messenger.
One day a messenger came, and plans for the reneval ot
hostilities were hastily made. But the messenger proved ;•>
be only a bearer of mail and newspapers for the Germans. Ail
gathered round while a German began to translate the late*t
dispatch from Berlin. Unhappily tor the harmony of the
gathering, it referred to Ostend by its German knick-name
“Kales;” spoke of bomb droppings on various French towns,
of contemplated air raids on Great Britain.
The English frowned, growled; the French grew excited.
Both sides had bv agreement laid aside their rifles; but both
sides still had their fists. Both used them. A free-for-all fight
followed, and the unique compact came to an end.
The most far-reaching point in the friendly remonstrances
sent by Washington to Downing street as to the searching ot
American vessels bv British cruisers is the American conten
tion that the belligerent must prove that conditional contra
band 4s destined fpr use by the army or navy of its enemy.
Washington ajso maintains that a neutral vessel may not be
sent to a belligerent port for search.
It is reported from Switzerland that the brother of Jan
Paderewski, the famous pianist, has been killed in the fighting
in Poland.
There have occurred three cases in a Russian hospital of
German prisoners suffering fro mbayonet wounds and wearing
German uniforms who have proved to be women.
The due d’Orleans pretender to the throne of France, has
written a letter to Premier Viviani, in which he says that,
inasmuch as all the allies have refused his services in the war,
he begs the introduction of a bill to amend the Exile Law for
his benefit. The Duke offers to return to exile after the war if
France will permit him to serve with her army.
There are more men in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada,
anxious to enlist for service in Europe than the militia
department can handle at present. Instead of its being
necessary to take measures to stimulate recruiting, the number
offering themselves is likely to prove a teamporary source of
embarrassment.