MEXICAN OUTLAWS KIDNAP
. SEVEN AMERICAN SOLDIERS
BORDER PATROLS WERE CAPTURED AT LONELY OUTPOST IN
NEW MEXICO AND COWBOYS HAVE CROSSED THE BORDER IN
PURSUIT OF THE MEXICANS AND THEIR PRISONERS—BELIEV
ED THAT FIGHT MAY HAVE PRECEDED THE KIDNAPING—IN
TERVENTION IS SURE TO FOLLOW AND PERIOD OF WATCHFUL
WAITING WILL BE ENDED.
HACHITA, Jan, 19.—Intense ex
citement prevailed here today when
the news was received that Mexican
bandits had crossed the border and
had kidnapped seven cavalrymen of
the Thirteen regiment who have been
petroling the border to intercept raid
ing parties crossing the line.
Details of the afTair are lacking but
it is believed that the American
troops were captured after a fight in
which several lives may have been
lost. The indignation here is intense
and hundreds of cowboys have or
ganized and crossed the border in
pursuit of the Mexicans and their
prisoners.
Cavalry troops stationed at other
points along the border have been
also sent in pursuit of the kidnappers
and will undoubtedly give battle to
the daring raiders, who are thought
to be part of General Villa’s band of
rebels.
I Will Mean Intervention.
| WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 19.—
That President Wilson will be able to
restrain congress in ordering inter
vention in Mexico as a result of the
latest indignity to be heaped upon
the American troops by Mexican ban
dits, is doubted by the most ardent
advocate of peace. Secretary Garri
son of the War Department, has or
dered the American troops to cross
into Mexico to rescue the American
soldiers who were Kidnaped and it is
believed that they will not be with
drawn until President Carranza has
shown that he can control the lawless
element which has been preying upon
Americans and other foreigners, and
guarantee the safety of their lives and
1 prpperty. The news of the capture of
the troops by the bandits is the only
I topic of conversation and official an
nouncement of the affair is eagerly
awaited by the public.
NO ULTIMATUM SENT
... TO KINO CONSTANTINE
ALLIES COUNCIL OF WAR HOLD CONFERENCE IN LONDON AFTER
HAVING BEEN HASTILY SUMMONED TO CONSIDER THE GREEK
HITOAZiCM^REPORTS FROM ATHENS STATE THAT REVOLU
TIONARY MOVEMENT IS BEING ORGANIZED IN GREECE TO
OVERTHROW KING CONSTANTINE'S GOVERNMENT AND ESTAB
LISH A REPUBLIC—ALLIES AGENTS ARE ACTIVE IN MOVE
MENT.
L«ONDON, Jaft. 19.—T^e war coun
cil of tbe Allies met In conference
here yeslferdey to consider the vari
ous campaigns in which the armies of
the nations represented in the coun
cil are engaged. It is officially an
nounced that no ultimatum has been
sent to King Constantine of Greece,
demanding that the Teutonic officials
in that country be given their pass
ports and dismissed from the country.
It is reporibu from Saloniki that
the Allies are preparing to begin the
campaign for the invasion of Bulga
ria and that additional troops are be
ing landed from transports dally.
Establish Greek Republic..
ROTTERDAM, Jan. 19.—Advices
from Athens state that a movement
has been started .for the purpose of
overthrowing the government of King
Constantine at,.- establishing a repub
lican form of government for Greece.
The dispatches, which come direct
from Athens, have onflrmed the press
reports that the Allies have landed
troops close to Athens and it is be
lieved that the revolutionary move
ment is being organized by agents of
the French and British governments
in retaliation upon King Constantine
for bto refusal to allow his country to
be drawn into the war against Ger
many.
X, H. Ingram, superintendent «t
the Alaska Road commission for this
district, Went to Cordova on the
Northwester? this morning en route
to the interior where he will look
ever thW situation at a number of
places wbere bridges are to be built
newt summer should congress make
the necessary appropriations.
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Lieutenant Kohler of the Post, tel
ephone*! the Prospector this morning
that auj 18-foot rowbout had drifted
ashore there. There was nothing to
identify;the owner, sa^e a few pros
pec^rs’-tools and a pair of oars.
2 James Fish, agent for the New
York Life Insurance company, went
to Cordova this morning to meet Jno.
Barrett, 'traveling agent of'the cbta
pany. They will continue their jour
ney to the Kennecott mine.
The many Valdez friends of Judge
Edward Cushman ahd family will re
gret to learn that their young son Ed
ward, sixteen years old, accidentally
killed Thomas Nelson, agfd 19, by
running him down with his automo
bile. Judge Cushman was judge of
this district during the administra
tion of President Taft and Edward
was here with his parents and is an
exceptionally bright boy. The family
now 'reside at North 26th and Wash
ington streets, Tacoma.
Hank Stoter, the well known min
er, left on the Northwestern this
morning for Cordova en route to
Chltina where he will arrange for
the transportation of machinery and
supplies from the railroad terminal
to Nizina creek, During the 'past
several years Stoter has been with
Jack Miller on' Slate creek but will
work for Frank Kerman, who is in
stalling a new hydraulic plant on the
Nizina. The shipment consists of
sixty tons and several horses and men
will be employed In getting the out
fit to the claims before the spring
breakup.
Harvey Sullivan, who made the
trip to Seward on the Northwestern
returned! this morning on the same
steamer.;
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Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Millikln were
passengers on the Northwestern this
morning from Valdez to Cordova. Mr.
Millikln is visiting all the coast towns
of Alaska with a view of entering
business in the north next summer.
He was very favorably impressed with
the outlook for the mining industry
in this district and believes that Val
dez will enjoy a good business next
summer from the activities of the
many mlniilg companies making their
headquarters here.
The Admiral Evans, which passed
to the westward early this morning Is
expected to return to Valdss tomor
row night or early Friday morning.
J. A. Hagen came over from Cor
dova on the! Admiral Evans this morn
ing and will spend a few days In
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Urges that Carranza Be Notified that
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the United States would Use
force if Necessary.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 19.—
The resolution introduced in the sen
ate by Senator Works to empower
President Wilson to intervene in
Mexico at any time was debated in
the upper house yesterday. Repub
lican members declared that the
president’s watchful waiting policy
has proven a failure and that the
Mexican trouble was no nearer solu
tion than when the administration
came Jnto power.
Senator Borah of Idaho declared
that congress should shoulder the
responsibility of settling the Mexi
can trouble and urged that President
Carranza of Mexico be immediately
notified by the state department that
the United States would insist upon
the lives and property of Americans
being protected and with that end in
view would use force if necessary.
Senator J. Ham Lewis, who had of
fered a resolution endorsing that of
Senator Works, declared that he very
much doubted if the Mexican federal
troops were able to cope with the reb
els and bandits but urged delay in
order to afford the Mexican govern
ment ample time in which to restore
order.
ANOTHER SPLIT IN
THE PEACE BOARD
:
Members Cannot Agree upon Place of
Meeting and Want to Oust the
Advocates of Preparedness.
THE HAGUE, Jan. 19.—A serious
split has occured in the membership
of the permanent peace board as ap
pointed by the Henry Ford peace
conference held here last week. The
trouble began when the board at
tempted to select a place for bolding
its first meeting after the members
of the board who are absent had ar
rived in Europe.
All IUC lUOUiUCIB WUU IUO MW1IUUU
of Rev. Aked, chairman of the board,
have positively refused to hold meet
ings in Stockholm, believing that the
meetings should be held in some of
the countries engaged in the war.
Mrs. Fels, of Philadelphia, believes
that England is the first nation
which should be approached; with
peace overtures and has declined to
attend meetings of the board in Nor
way or Sweden.
Madam Schwimmer, the Hung
arian Journalist and lecturer who ac
companed the Ford peace delegation
from New York and was named a
member of the permanent peace
board from Austria-Hungary, has
started a fight to oust the delegates
who refused to sign Henry Ford’s
resolution condemning President
Wilson’s preparedness policy. She
has demanded that John D. Barry
who is a prominent newspaper man
of San Francisco, be ousted from, the
board to which he was appointed as
alternative should any of the Ameri
(can members be unable to attend, the
meetings of the board. Barry is an
ardent advocate of preparedness and
is given credit for having caused
Ford’s resolutions being defeated
when the vote was taken on the
peace ship Oscar while enroute to
Europe.
Silver Tea Postponed,
The ladtgs to .charge; of tbe Silver
Tea, which was to have been given in
the lecture room of the Congregation
al church this afternoon, have decid
ed to postpone it until Thursday aft
ernoon. Jan. J7. owing to the inclem
ent weather.
The Beet of Everything.
The best theatre in Alaska—.
The finest pictures produced—
Always comfortable and warm—
Pon’t be afraid of the cold weather
hat •tt«i4 -:——
Telephoned Police Headquarters
that Husbands are Drink* at
Club and Threaten Action.
SEATTLE, Jan. 19.—Chief of Po
lice Lang, who has been made the
target for bitter attacks in several
of the Seattle newspapers because he
cauped the fashionable Rainier club
herjb to be raided and the liquors seiz
ed, pays that he was forced to take ac
tion as many women had complained
that their husbands were securing li
quor at the club.
It is asserted that during Sunday
afternoon three prominent women,
whose husbands are members of the
club, had telephoned to police bead
quarters that their husbands had re
turned home in an Intoxicated condi
tion after'spending a few hours at a
favorite haunt. One of the women
informed Chief Lang if he failed to
take action that she would lay the
matter before the attorney-general of
the state.
The prosecuting attorney is confi
dent Of securing a conviction in both
the Rainier Club and New Hotel Ce
cil cases aB the attorney general of
the state has ruled that social clubs
cannot maintain lockers in their
rooms and that individuals must have
permits for their liquor in their pos
session.
THIRTY MILLION
LOST NT BERGEN
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Business Section and Four Hundred
Homes Destroyed in Norwegian
Coast City—Dives Dost.
BERGEN, Norway, Jan. 19.—The
conflagration which raged in this city
for more than thirty-six hours has
burned itself out and has been
brought under control after destroy
ing property to the value of more
than thirty million dollars.
In addition to destroying the busi
ness section of the city four hundred
homes In the residential sections
were burned, leaving thousands of
persons homeless and destitute. The
stricken citizens are being cared for
by relief committees organized under
the direction of the government which
Its sparing no effort to provide for the
I sufferers.
The entire waterfront of the city
was destroyed and shipping will be
hampered until the wharves and
warehouses have been reconstructed.
The losses sustained by the shipping
interests has been enormous as Ber
gen has been the principal port of en
try for all goods coming into Norway
and Sweden since the establishment
of the British submarine blockade in
the straits.
Reiter trams bringing supplies irom
other portions of the country, have
been arriving at the camps establish
ed by the government at the outskirts
of the city and hundreds of the wom
en and children have been sent to
other cities and towns where they
will be provided for until their homes
can be rebuilt.
It Is reported that a number of
lives were lost, several bodies having
been found in the ruins of the homes.
ADMIRAL EVANS GOES
TO THE WESTWARD
The steamer Admiral Evans, of the
Pacific Alaska Navigation company’s
Alaskan fleet, arrived In Valdes from
Beattie at a very early hour this
morning and sailed again for the
westward shortly after six o’clock.
When the steamer left Seattle she car
ried a good passenger list for Juneau,
Douglas, Cordova and other points.
She also carried twenty passengers
for Seward, many of whom are en
route to their homes in the westward
towns served by the steamer. Dora.
The passengers arriving on the Ad
miral Evans from Seattle were Mrs.
P. Davidson, Mrs. W. 8._ Flemming
EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION
FOR RAILROAD NEXT WEEK
CHAIRMAN FITZGERALD, OF APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE, IS RE
PORTED TO BE IN FAVOR OF TWO MILLION DOLLARS APPRO
PRIATION IN ORDER THAT ALASKAN ENGINEERING COMMIS
SION MAY PROSECUTE CONSTRUCTION WORK DURING WIN
TER—APPROPRIATION WILL PROBABLY BE INCLUDED IN THE
URGENT DEFICIENCY BILL TO BE ACTED UPON NEXT WEEK.
WASHINGTON, D.. C., Jan. 19.—
rhe Housp committee of appropria
tions, of which Representative Fitz
gerald of New York, is chairman, at
its meeting yesterday considered the
amergency appropriation of two mil
lion dollars which Secretary Lane
has asked for the Alaska railroad
construction work.
Commissioner Edes appeared be
fore the committee and stated that
should the money be made available
in the immediate future that the
completion of the railroad from tide
water to the Matanuska coal fields
would be completed before the close
pf the present year.
When asked by members of the
committee as to the amount of sup
plies which the Commission has been
able to land for the winter opera
tions Mr. Edes stated that there was
no shortage as the freight which had
failed to be landed was timbers which
could not have been used until next
summer.
A number or prominent Alaskans
who are in the city also appeared be
fore the committee to urge the emer
gency appropriation, which, if grant
ed by congress will be deducted from,
the amount asked by Secretary Lane
for the work during the coming sum
mer.
Chairman Fitzgerald has express
ed himself as in favor of the appro
priation and states that it will prob
ably be included in the urgent defi
ciency bill which will come up next
week.
The pump and other mining ma
chinery for the Ban of Isles copper
mine which P. J. Bonner and asso
ciates are developing there, arrived
on the Admiral Evans this morning,
and will be sent down the Sound to
the mine on the launch Shamrock.
KING NICHOLAS HAS
SURRENDERED HIS SWORD
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VIENNA ANNOUNCES THAT TEUTONIC CONQUEST OF MONTENE
GRO IS COMPLETE AND KING NICHOLAS HAS ISSUED PROCLA
MATION CALLING UPON HIS SOLDIERS TO SURRENDER AS WAR
HAS BEEN ENDED—ENTIRE MALE POPULATION WILL BE CON
CENTRATED IN CERTAIN DISTRICT^UNTIL CLOSE OF WAR—
RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE MOVEMENT IN GALICIA HAS BEEN
CHECKED.
VIENNA, Jan. 19.—King Nicho
las, of Montenegro, who fled with the
royal family to Italy before the ap
proach of the Austrian troops before
the fall of Cettinje, has returned to
his country and surrendered to the
Austrian general in command of the
victorious troops. Latest advices say
that the king surrendered his sword
to General Herless at Grahovo and
then issued a proclamation in which
he told the Montenegrans to surren
der as it was hopeless to attempt
to continue the war. It is announced
by the war department that the Mon
tenegro troops who surrendered, to
gether with the entire male popula
tion of the country will be concen
trated in certain districts to prevent
their offering assistance to the Ser
bian and Italian troops in Albania,
rhousand of Serbian soldiers who
have been fighting in the Montenegro
irmtes have surrendered and will be
lent to detention camps where the
9erblan prisioners of war are held.
Lutsk is Evacuated.
. LONDON. Jan. 19.—Advices re
solved by the British war office from
Petrograd state that the Teutonic
troops have evacuated the Russian
jlty of Lutsk, near the Galician bor
ADM1RAL FARRAGUT _
IS COMING NORTHWARD
SEATTLE, Jan. 19.—The Steamer
Admiral Farragut, of the Pacific Alas
ka Steamship company’s fleet sailed
tor Valdes and other Southwestern
ports last night Mr. and Mrs. H.
Kirby were passengers for Cordova,
ind Bert Thomas for Latouche. The
iteamer carries a light passenger list
is the tide of travel to the north has
lot yet set in. The Admiral Farragut
will go to Kodiak.
L. Larson was an outgoing passen
ger on the Northwestern this morn
ing for the SUtse.
U. S. Deputy Marshal Jos. Feaster,
who brought "RaStus” over from Cor
lova to the. Valdes Jell, returned
born on the Northwestern *hu *»«*«
der and are retreating to Lemburg.
It Is reported that the fclty was nearly
destroyed as a result of the heavy
bombardment to which it was sub
jected by the Russian guns before
the Austrians left the city. Russian
troops are said to bo attempting to
cut off the retreat of the invaders
and heavy fighting will follotf along
the Bug river. „
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Russian Offensive Costly.
VIENNA, Jan. 19.—The Austrian
war office has issued a bulletin an
nouncing that the Russian offensive
movement In eastern Galicia has been
ended and that the Invaders are be
ing driven back. It is claimed that
the Russians suffered the loli» of
eighty thousand men in killed and
captured during the offensive move
ment whch lasted for several weeks.
The Russian generals are reported
to have determined to capture the
Teutonic positions and throw com
pany after company against the ma
chine guns, resulting in their being
cut down In hundreds. Latest advices
state that the. Austrian troops have
been heavily reinforced and have as
sumed the offensive movement
against the Invaders extending along
the Galician border for the distance
of eighty miles._ .
Rumored Reduction.
It is reported on the streets today
that the commission has gone down
the line in the salary reducing pro
cess. Well, If the rumor is true, it
loes not present a very bright out
look for the clerical force. But when
they read our story next week they
will wake up, If they are Americans,
Dr Intend to become one. That little
document they have printed and ask
white men to sign ought to sour the '
disposition of any self-respecting dtt
sen, and after you read the question#
you will no doubt agree with us.—
Anchorage Alaskan.
If yon need repairs on machinery,
consult us and If It. is to yonk gdvsa
tage financially to sond osLtfds for
the repairs .we are not afraid to MB
yon so. We want your good Wtn
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