BILLINGSLEY IS
THE STAR WITNESS
IN TRIAL OK MAYOR HIRAM GILI.
Will Go On Stand Today and Detail
Transactions Leading to and the
Alleged Bribery of Gill and Beck*
ingliani by Whisky Ring.
SEATTLE, March 8.—Logan Bil
lingsley, the noted bootlegger and the
government's star witness in the case
hgainst Mayor Hi Gill and Chief of
Police Beckingham, will go on the
Hand today in the trial of those offi
cials and detail the transactions lead
ing up to the alleged bribery of the
Mayor. Attorney Frederick Bausman
for the defense, in his opening state
ment to the jury, declared the charges
against the officials were hatched in
hate, and denied emphatically tnat
the sum of $4,000 alleged to have
been paid to the Mayor to protect the
Wpotlegging ring, was ever passed.
> Prosecutor Reames in his opening
address, detailed the operations of the
bootleggers and claimed to have coi
joborative evidence that the Mayor
and Chief of Police were the recip:
ents of bribes.
PROBABLY ABM
AMERICAN SHIPS
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DRKHIDKNT TO TAKK AI THOKITY j
Helieved Wilson Will Issue Formal j
Order to Secretary Daniels to Kquip ,
^ Merchant Ships With Guns and
Gunners From Navy.
WASHINGTON, D. C.. March 8.—
it is hourly expected that President
Wilson will issue formal orders to
Secretary of the Navy Daniels to arm
and equip American merchant ships
to repel attack. The President has
been in conference with Secretary of
•State Lansing and leaders in the
Senate, all of whom are said to have
approved of the contemplated course
in the event it is found under the lav'
that the President is authorized so to
do. It is believed that the opinion of
Attorney General Gregory on this
point, requested by the President sev
eral days ago, will be favorable.
WILSON SUFFERING
FROM HEAVY COLD
WASHINGTON, D. C„ March 8.—
President Wilson is confined to his
>,ed by an aggravated cold and for the
time b-5ing there is little doing in Ad
ministration circles. It is expected
that he will speedly recover and will
rot be absent from his duties for
more than a day or ttoo.
Moose Dance Saturday
The Moose will hold another of
their enjoyable dances next Saturday
sight. Good music will be furnished.
Lunch served at midnight.
Watson Due In Morning.
The steamer Admiral Watson is
scheduled to arrive here tomorrow
morning from the westward. She will
stop at Ellamar and take on a cargo
ore before coming here.
Ivan Donaldson came in from the
Ramsay-Rutherford yesterday and
will leave for the States on the first
boat, where he will attend school.
Excellent program tonight at the
Empress in Eagle Hall. Patbc News,
4-act drama. The Commanding OH1
eer. and comedy, Bug-House Bellhops.
Tonight at 8 p. m.
WANTED—Mill man's job as first
amalgamator. References to prove for
several years, handy with tools espe
cially wood work. Inquire at the
Prospector for K. Lahz. k-2?
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Attorney R. E. Capers of Cordova
is a visitor in town on legal business.
Ueorge Merrifield is laid up with a
sever attack of rheumatism.
MAY BUILD TEN VEH8ELS
FOR FRENCH SYNDICATE
EVEKETT, March S.—Announce
ment has just been made by Patrick
J. Donohoe, representing the Over
reas Shipbuilding Company, that he
liad leased the former Summer Iron
Works site on the Snohomish rtvor
and is preparing it for a shlpbuildiiij
plant. The Overseas concern has un
der consideration the construction Of
ten ships 220 feet in length for a
French corporation. The vessels, if
built, are planned for use in Euro
pean waters.
GERMAN PRESS
LAUDS STONE
CRITICISES WILSON'S SPEECH
Berlin Newspapers Uuil Work of
Stone and LaFollette In Senate as
Indicative of America’s Wish for
Peace—Curl) President’s Ambition.
AMSTERDAM, March 8.—The Ger
man press is universal in its praise i
of United States Senators Stone and J
LaFollette for their attitude toward
t.ie armed neutrality bill before the
United States Congress, and state
these men represent the best spirit in
America, and have put a stop to Wil
son's unreasoning ambition. The Ger
man newspapers also bitterly criticise
tnc President’s Inaugural rpeech.
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I. W. W. TIL
NOW IN PROGRESS
SELECTION OE.II HV COMPLETED
Social Prosecutor Heames Makes An
< tpening Address to Jury and the
Trial of the Case Has Keen Com
menced—Many Witnesses.
—
SEATTLE, March S. The work o"
selecting a jury in the 1. W. \V. case
was completed last evening just be
fore the closing hour and an adjourn
ment was taken until this morning.
Special Prosecutor Reames this morn
ing made the opening address to the
jury, and the trial of the case is now
in progress.
HURJA REPORTING THE
LEGISLATIVE DOINGS
Emil Edward Hurja, former mem
ber of Ford’s peace party from the
University of Washington, where he is
a student, is at Juneau, covering the
activities of the Territorial Legisla
ture for a number of newspapers in
the States and Alaska.
Sergeant Kirby of the local cable
office force, will leave on the Alameda
for Seattle.
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THOMAS D. SCHALL.
Progressive Congressman
ef Minnesota la Blind.
NKW YORK DEMOCRAT DIES j
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Conry of New York Passes Away and
Yot© in House Stands 215 Repub
licans, 214 Democrats, 5 Progres
sives—Balance of Power Shifted.
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WASHINGTON. D. C.. March 8.—
Representative Michael Conry. Dem
ocrat of New York, died today. He
had been re-elected to the next Con
gress and his death may have an im
portant effect on the next House. Be
fore his death the membership con
sisted of two hundred and fifteen Re
publicans, two hundred and fifteen |
Democrats and five Independents |
Conry, however, was elected from a|
sure Democratic Tammany district, j
but his colleagues say that a successor {
will not be elected until November.
However that may be a special elec
tion could not be held inside of 30
days and if an extra session is called
the Democrats in it will be only two
hundred and fourteen strong.
AFTER STORE
SAYS KAISER’S FRIENDS Ml ST <i()
Cleveland IMaindealer Starts Fight to
Oust Senator Front Missouri Front
Chairmanship of Senate Foreign
Relations Committee.
CLEVELAND, O.. March 8.—'The j
Cleveland I’laindealer, one of the!
im>st inliuential publications in the
State, lias started a campaign to oust
Senator Stone of Missouri from the|
chairmanship of the Senate Foreign ]
Relations Committee. The paper de-!
Clare sthat Stone and other friends ' *|
the Kaiser must go.
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CHS APPROVES
CHANGE OF ROLES
TO LIMIT DKBATK IX SKXATK
Caucus of Democrats and Republican
Members Kavor Amendment of
Rules Suggested by Committee—
Come Up for Vote Soon.
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 8.—
The Democrats and Republicans of
the Senate last night held a caucus
and approved the committee report
providing for the change in the Sen
ate rules, whereby debate might be
closed by a two-thirds vote of the Sen
ate. The matter will probably come
before the Senate for a vote within
a short time.
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Send Aviators to I1 Vance.
SAN FRANCISCO. March 8.—First
Lieutenants J. E. Carberry, Millard F.
Harmon, jr., and Davenport Johnson,
army aviators, who, according to
Washington dispatches yesterday have
teen ordered to France for special |
training in military aeronautics, arc
graduates of the North Island Avia
tion School here, and will attend the i
famous aviation school at Buc for in- j
structions in piloting single-seated i
battle planes equipped with machine,
guns.
Bond for Ship’s Repairs.
BOSTON. March 8.—The North
German Lloyd S. S. Company, own-1
era of the Kronprinzessin Cecillc,
whose machinery was damaged by her
crew January "1, while in custody of
the court, yesterday filed in the dis-;
trict court a surety bond in the sum i
of $200,000 to cover the expense of;
making the vessel seaworthj.
Threatened big revolution
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Reported Germany Informed Carr an
s za Huge Revolt Would Take Place
1
Unless He Declared War Against
the United States.
t).
* NEW YORK. March 8.—The latest
developments in the Qerman conspir
acy to embroil the United States in
war with Mexico is that Germany
fhreatened President Carranza with
k gigantic revolution in Mexico unless
Carranza declared war upon the Uni
ted States, and that German agents
were responsible for the Villa activity
ih Northern Mexico. This startlln
Information was unearthed by federal
investigators through the arrest of >
a Qerman doctor, among whose pa
pers were found proofs that Germany
had spent three million dollars in fo
menting plots against the United
States
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SMASHED BIG HOLE IN BOW
t'ollidcd With Dock at Port Wells
, Last Saturday ami Has Put Into
Bremerton to Have Ten-Koot Hole
Patched t'|».
SEATTLE, March S.—The cable
ship Burnside arrived at Bremerton
last evening from Alaska, where she
as been repairing the Valdez-Cordova
cable. She had a big, ten-t'oot hole
in her bow, occasioned by ramming
the wharf at Port Wells last Satur
day. She will go onto the drydocks
at the navy yard to have the damage
I repaired.
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JONES ASKING
AN APOLOGY
1)11) NOT DELAY LEGISLATION
I Senator From Washington Wires the
Everett Commercial Club Demand
ing Public Apology for Condemna
tory Resolution.
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 8.—
Senator Wealey L. Jones of the State
of Washington, who has been roundly
criticised in his home state for alleged
participation in the filibustering tac
tics in the Senate which delayed the
passage of the administration legisla
tive program, has wired to the Com
mercial Club of Everett, demr.nding
a public apology for the condemna
tory resolution recently passed by that
body. The Senator states that betore j
passing such resolutions the Commer
cial Club should have investigated the
matter. He states that he was not en
gaged in filibustering and that he
spoke but briefly on the subject under
discussion.
WOlTLI> ABOLISH OFFICE
TERRITORIAL INSPECTOR
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! Senator O. P. Gaustad of Fairbanks
! has announced in Juneau his inten
i tion to introduce a bill abolishing the
cffice of Territorial Mine Inspector.
The Senator states that he is moved
I to this act by the pernicious political
activity ot' the present incumbent.
Ur. A. Von Gunther is making a
number of improvements in the Phoe
nix hotel renovating the interior and
adding to the attractiveness 01 that
popular hostelry by repapering and;
1 painting.
DEEP DIGGING FOR HAND,
OIL AND GAS IS ADVISED
NEW' YORK, March 8.—A reduc
tion of 36 per cent in the petroleum
resources of the nited States is es
tlmated by Prof. David B. Reger of
the West Virginia geological survey,
one of the spsakers before the Ameri
can Institute of mining Engineers in
convention here.
States producing paraffin oil exclu
sively are 45 per cent exhausted. Prof.
Reger said, he suggested that the sup
ply might be increased by searching
for new sources by means of deep
digging for sand oil and gas.
GUARDSMAN IS
SENTENCED FOR FIVE YEARS
Private In the Minnesota National
Guard Writes letter to Mother In
Germany Ridiculing Army and the
President—Censor Gets It.
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ST. PAUL. March 8.--Private
'Scharfenberg, a member of the Min
nesota National Guard has been sen
tenced to imprisonment for five years I
in the military prison at Fort Leaven
worth for treason. Scharfenberg wrote
a letter to his mother in Germany in
I which it is alleged he ridiculed the
i United States army and President
j Wilson. The censors intercepted the
letter and turned it over to the mili
tary authorities.
JURUKEN
IN RILL CASE
! MAYOR CO.NUDK.NT ACQUITTAL
Five Farmers, a Clergyman and Siv
Others <V>m|M>se Jury—Mayor Is
j Pleased With Personnel—Trial Is
i Under Way.
SEATTLE, March S. The jurj in
the case of Mayor Gill and Chief of j
Police Beckingham was completed
last evening. The jury consists of
five farmers, a clergyman and six
others. Mayor Gill is well pleased
with the jury and confident that he
will be acquitted. The trial of the
[case commenced this morning.
HUBBARD AND MALTBY
REPRESENTING WICK
Advices received from Juneau
state that O. P. Hubbard of Valdez
and Alfred E. Maltby of Iditarod. are
representing Delegate Wickersham in
the election contest at Juneau.
Don’t forget the Moose dance on
Saturday evening. Lunch served at
midnight.
MONA B. SIMON.
Girl Shot at Columbus,
O, by Woldon H. Walls.
LITTLE DOING
HOl'SE NAMES ITS EMPLOYES
Senate Still Deadlocked on Choice for
President—Third Yote Results In
Tie—Believed Compromise Candi
date Will Be Selected.
JUNEAU. March 8.--The morning
session of the lower house was demot
ed to the naming of the various em
ployes of the House. The Committee
on Committees was given unt'l tomor
row morning tc render its report, and
a notice was sent to Governor Strong
that the House would be ready to te
ceive his report tomorrow mornur
after which an adjournment was tak
en until 2 o'clock tomorrow after
noon.
At 12:30 today the Senate took an
other vote on the presidency of that
body, the result being the same as the
two previous ballots, four each for
Hubbard and Aldrich. Following this
ballot the Senate adjourned until
2:30 this afternoon. There is a grow
ing belief that the deadlock in th,
Senate will be broken by tlie selection
cf a compromise candidate, and some
move in this direction may be looked
for tomorrow.
FILIBUSTERING
THING OF PAST
liKI.IKVKI) CIOSIRF 111 I.K PASS
Large .Majority of the Member* of the
Senate Favor Passage of Closure
Rule—Sherman ami French Only
One* <>|t|Mi*ing.
WASHINGTON. D. C\. March S. -
Filibustering in the Senate is a tiling
of the past, according to present indi
cations. It is generally believed that
the closure rule is sure to pass, cut
ting out the unlimited debate, where
by in the past legislation lias been
seriously impeded. The only member*
of the conference committee opposed
to the change in rules are Senators
Sherman and French, while 01 the
other hand a number of the Senators,
sufficient it is believed to carry the
measure, have signified tHeir inten
tion to vote for it.
REPORTED REBEL
LEADER CAPTURED
WITH HIS STAFF AND 300 MFN
Colonel Collazzo with Detachment ot
Government Troops, Reported to
Have Taken Gomez and Stall—
Revolution Collapsing.
HAVANA, March 8.—Col. Collazzo,
commanding a detachment of govern
ment troops, is reported to have cap
tured the revolutionary leader Gomez,
and his staff together with three hu.i
dred of his followers in the province
of Camaguey. It is also reported that
the revolt is collapsing, a majority of
the revolutionists having laid down
their arms and returned to their
homes
COMPETITIVE EXAMS
FOR POSTMASTERS
WASHINGTON. D. C., March 8. —
Postmaster General Burleson has an
nounced that a i ompetitltive examina
tion will be held on April 1 for candi
dates for postinasterships in ofHces of
the first, second and third class, the
results to determine priority.
Line Inspector D. E. Loder left
yesterday with Driver Rowbottom for
a trip of inspection of the jrovernmetu
t“le?raph lin?.