ALLIED PRESS
London Pa|iers Hays if Allies liud I's
ed Same lainguaffe Russia Would
Still be in War
LONDON. I>ec. 5.—The press of
vhis city unanimously endorses Pres
ident Wilson’s address delivered yes
terday before the joint houses of
congress. The Daily News observed
/hat if Great Britain, France and
Italy had used such language earlier I
Russia might today be driving Ger-J
many from her borders, and adds- j
•'It would be affectation to pretend
that the great speech of President
Wilson echoes the declarations of the
allied statesmen. His vision compre
hends the whole world; their only
half."
The London Times refuses to agree
with the president in a differentiation
netween the German government and
ihe German people, stating that if
• he people were not behind the kaiser
his power would soon fail.
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OLYMPIA, Dec. 5.—According to
reports from various parts of the
-fate sent by the deputies of ('. H.
Younger, state labor commissioner,
.here is a serious shortage of men in
the logging camps and mills. One of
he big troubles, as well as facing a
••hortage of labor, that confronts the
loggers and millmen is the fact that
in numerous Instances the men are
practicing what is known as "strik
ing on the Job." That means they are
not working to full capacity and
flings "happen" around the plant that
<ause delays.
It is well known that while the I.
TV. W. is in bad repute that many of
The men belong to the same organi
sations that they always have belong
ed to and cause trouble. When an em
ployer finds an agitator on the place
he usually ousts him and then the
pther men leave. Some place the per-1
•entage of I. W. W. in some of the i
•amps as high as 80 per cent, but
ethers think this is too large.
But whatever the reason may be
there is no question but that there
ta a shortage of skilled men for the
woods and likewise that even when
1P0WB are obtained the best results
are not obtained.
Kl'HH HOIJ»lKRS Wild.
RRPUDIATR BOLHHKVIKI
WASHINGTON. D. C.. Nov. 5.—
Russian army and navy contingents
^erring in France have repudiated the
Bolsheviki regime at Petrograd.
KI'NMDIESL
KIM'S ISLAND
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Beatenced to Fifteen Yews in Pen,
Health Rapidly Pedines and He
Putm Away
J. W. McNamara, who was sen
tenced by the district court at Val
dez, on December 1, 1909 to impris
onment for 15 years in the peniten
tiary at McNeil Island for the killing
ef.T. R. Carpenter, at Cordova, died
on Novmber 2, according to advices
received at the court house from the
penitentiary authorities.
The case of McNamara attracted
considerable attention at the time of
the trial, the crime apparently being
a most brutal and cold blooded kill?
ing of an inoffensive man. It develop
ed in the trial that McNamara was
practically insane from drink when he
shot down his victim in the Windsor
Hotel at Cordova. His trial occurred
at Valdez on October 29th, 30th,
November 1. 2. 3, and 4, resulting
in a verdict of murder In the second
degree. On Deoember 1st, McNamara
was sentenced to 15 years lmpricon
mept at MoNeU's island. Daring bis
confinement be rapidly declined in
health, and on June 22nd of this year,
after serving about.seven, yean and
seven months, be w^s paroled, but bis
health did nQt Imptove end death
came on November tad.
ANCIENT FRENCH CHURCH SHELTERS AMERICAN ARTILLERY
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Iiclttchmcul of Amcrlcuu field artillery camped in llie Hholler of a French church ihut dales from the tenth cen
tury.
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Chairman Hood Introduces l*resi
dent’s Kesolution to that effect—
Kail road Crisis Pending
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WASHINGTON. I). Dec. 5.
Chairman Henry D. Flood of Virgin-1
ia, today introduced the President's!
resolutit> in the houje. declurin::
that a state of war exists between the
United States and Austria.
The declaration of a state of war |
with Austria will be taken up in the!
house for a vote either tomorrow or I
Friday. Congressman Claude Kitchen
of North Carolina, notified the house
today that the railroad crisis placed
squarely before congress today by the
commission report meant that the
lines must be unified either under gov
ernment ownership or private control. |
WASHINGTON. D. C.. Dec. 5.—!
It is estimated here today that with I
a declaration of war against Austria !
nearly a million Austrians In the Uni-!
ted States would automatc.ally be-.
come alien enemies.
liKITIHH STKAM8HII*
TORPKDOKI) BV SI'B j
LONDON, Dec. 5.—The British
steamship Apap was torpedoed today,
80 persons perishing. It is stated that
the submarine shelled the open boats
containing the women and children af
ter they had left the side of the doom
ed vessel.
H. E. Ellis made the round trip
to Fidalgo Bay and other Sound
points on the launch Della, returning
today.
Mr. Johnson of Fidalgo is in town
today.
HAROLD BRADDOCK
Harold Braddock, vice president of
the American.City Bureau, and an ex
port organiser of chambers of com
mere*, jla director of the $1,000,000
campaign for war libraries In every
^iHnSatoaT training camp In the
SIXTKKX Ill'XDRKD HUMS
i*la<t:d on blacklist
WASHINGTON, D. Dec. S.
Sixteen hundred firms In South Am- '
erica doing business with Germany |
were blacklisted by the government;
today, all American firms being for-'
bidden to do business with them. \
ALASKA WHISKKY BKIXG
SMl'GGLKD TO HKATTLK,
SEATTLE, Dec. 5. —Much contra-1
band whiskey is coming from Alaska j
to the States, a large portion of it |
in fishing vessels, according to the i
local authorities. A large quantity of j
whiskey was seized from the fishing!
steamship Chicago, which arrived last i
night front Northern ports. The Chi-1
cago is owned by the Moran Bros, of;
Seattle.
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Borderline Transportation Company's
Steamship Northland Kold to In
terests on Atlantic Coast
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SEATTLE. Dec. 5. The Border
Line Transportation Company's ship
North land was today sold to Atlan
tic coast interests and will be taken
east soon. The sum realized from the
vessel was not made public. The
Northlatid is a steam schooner of 697
tons burden, built in Seattle, Wash.,
In 1898. She is 140 feet long, 27 feet
beam. 14 feet depth of hold. Her
home port, was Ketchikan, Alaska.
Government Will Hold Out no In
ducements to Seattle in Vice
Sit nation
SEATTLE. Dec. 5.—The govern
ment having declined to make any
promises in respect to raising the
quarantine against soldiers coming to
this city Superior Judge McIntosh,
■ho had offered to resign his position
jjfid take that of chief of police with
drew his offer.
5 Chester Thompson Surrenders
SPOKANE. Dec. 5.—Chester A.
Thompson, the slayer of Judge Em
ery at Seattle about ten years ago,
appeared at a farmhouse ten miles
from Medical Lake today and gave
himself up, after having escaped from
the state hospital at Medical Lake
Sunday. He said he spent two nights
In the woods.
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HEAVY ARTILLERY DUEL
IN PROGRESS VERDUN
PARIS, Dec. 6.—The,.war pfllce an
nounoea that,.p heavy artillery due)
Is In progress on the Verdun front
east of the' Mease.
GEN. DIMM
MEER DEATH
Noted Russian (General Thrown from
Train by Revolutionists and
Dies from Kali
PETROGRAD, Dec. 5.—Gen. Duk
honin, the noted Russian General who
took command of the Russian armies
at the time Presdent Krensky was ov
erthrown, was today thrown from a
moving train by a number of revo
lutionists after Ensign Kyrlenko, the;
Bolshevik! commander had captured'
Mohilov, it was announced by the war1
office today.
HuN|>ertN I nder HurvelUai/l*—IWiw- >
ed |*lot May Exist to Wreck
Alaska 8teamslii|ta
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SEATTLE, Dec. 5 What is nowi
believed to be an alien enemy plot to
wreck Alaska steamships Is under in
vestigation by the federal authorities,
and several Austrian suspects are un
der surveillance In connection with
the wrecks of the steamships Alkl,
Mariposa and Spokane. Carl Wiltsey,
who was arrested and released again,
is now in custody suspected with hav
ing tampered with the steering gear
of the wrecked ships.
WIL CREATE
MTERrALUED NAVY
Conference of Warring Allies Con
cluded—Basis of Complete Un
derstanding Readied
PARIS, Dec. 5.—Inter-allied con
ference agreements were concluded
upon a basis of complete understand
ing and close solidarity among the
nations for the solutions of the ques
tions In which they have common In
terest In the war was announced to
day. It was also stated that a supreme
inter-allied naval committee had been
decided upon.
American Homes Overheated
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 6.—
Declaring American homes are over
heated, the fuel administration to
day urged all householders to main
tain a temperature of not more than
«lxty-eight degrees, reootnmended by
eminent physicians. With that tem
perature the saving in coal will go tar
toward meeting the! enormous war
demand tor fuel, officials announc
ed
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PRESIDENT SAYS
nan
Is not Acting I'pon Own Initiative
Hut a Tool of Germany—It Not
Her Own Mistress
WASHINGTON. D. (’.. Dec. 5.
When about half way thru his ad
dress to congress yesterday, right af
ter he had asked that a declaration
of war be made against Austria and
Hungary, the President questioned:
"Does it seem strange to you that
this should be the conclusion of the
argument 1 have just made? It is
not. It is in fact inevitable logic of
what I have maintained. Austria and
Hungary are not for the time being
their own mistresses, but simply vas
sals Of the German government. We
must face the facts as they are and
act upon them without sentiment in
this stern business. The government
of Austria and Hungary is not acting
upon its own initiative or in response
to the feeling of its own peoples but
its an instrument of another nation."
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DYNAMITE PLOT
NIPPED IN BDD
Hundred Pound Box of Glycerin and J
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(Uilorin Found Near Hhlp- <
building Plant
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SEATTLE. Dec. 5.—A hundred ;
pound box of nitro glycerin and j
chlorln was found here today near the ;
Duthie shipyards. Federal agents as-i
sert that a plot existed to blow out j
the whole front of the plant. j
Visit French Headquarter*
PARIS, Dec. 5.—General Bliss and
Admiral Benson, each accompanied by
two member of his staff, motored to j
French army headquarters today.
Hive Bandit* Get *15,000
TOLEDO, O.. Dec. 5.—Five ban
dits today attacked the Huebuer Bre
wery company paymaster and got
away with $35,000 according to a
reports received by the police.
OCTOBER TERM OH'
DISTRICT COURT CI/OSES
The October term of the district
court came to a close yesterday after
noon when Judge Brown adjourned
the sesslou sine die.
Before adjournment the Court
signed the judgment in the case of
Kernan vs. Andrus. A decree of di
vorce was also granted in the case of
C. G. Jones vs. Elizabeth Irene Jones.
The decree was granted the plaintiff,
but the custody of a minor daughter
was temporarily awarded to the de
fendant.
Orders were also entered in the
case of Charles Mayman vs. Annie
Sandberg and the German ^American
Mercantile Bank vs. Annie Sandberg,
dismissing them.
GEORGE M. ROLPH
Qwf|i M. Ralph af tan Franalaaa la
Jn aharga af tha sugar dapartmant if I
tha Unlt^Lttata faad administration.
Ha haa hataaaaanlatad in tha raw and
natal < won .taalnaaa far naarijr twan
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SIM REVERSES
Merlin Reports Trendies Cleared in
Marconi District—Germans arc
MasMnj; Near ,tsiaj;o
Merlin, Dec. 5. Sections of the Kn
glish trenches south of Marconi were
cleared by German troops today an
official statement asserted.
Germans Massing Troop*
ITAIA, Dec. 5.— It is estimated to
day that the Germans are massing ten
division in the district near Asiago,
and that the} will resume the offen
sive before long.
RUMANIA MAY ASK
SEPARATE PEACE
Berlin l»is; atclips State that l,itt.le
Kingdom Ma> i*e Included in
Russian Armistice
BKKL1N, Bee. 5. Negotiations be
tween Germany and Russia tor an
armistice looking toward a separate
peace, are extending to the Rumanian
troops also, the war office announced
today.
Ketchikan Kish lYices
KETCHIKAN, Dec. 5.—Ketchikan
prices at noon. December fifth; hali
but fifteen cents; sable fish, five cents,
red rock fish, two cert*.
GERMANS WIN BACK
GROIN DL/OHT COMBKAf
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LONDON, Dec. 5. The Germans
in the past two days have won back
about one-twelfth of the ground lost
last week south of Cambral.
EIGHT GERMAN BLANK* m
DOWNED HV FRENCH
1’AItIS, Dec. 5.--Eight erntan air
plaues were brought down Monday by
French aviators.
George Hayes, who has been repair
ing the dock for the Fidalgo Bay Min
ing Company was a returning passen
ger to Valdez on the launch Dell*.
Launch Della Reaches Fort
The launch Della, Capt. H. L. Rid
er. arrived in port this afternoon front
Ellamar and down sound points. Geo.
Hayes, H. E. Ellis and Mr. Johnson
were passengers for Valdez.
The Moose Band rendered some ex
client music at the Empress Theatre
last night.
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MOW PEN
Convicted of Murder of Tom Stepan
at Knik, He Served Two and
One Half Years
Among the passengers on the Vic
toria (or the westward was “Indian
Jim” who was recently discharged
from the penitentiary at McNeil's Isl
and after serving nearly two and one
half years for manslaughter.
Jim was arrested by Deputy Harry
Brown, near Knik, in December, 191S,
charged with having murdered Tom
Stepan. At a hearing before the Com
mission he was bound over to the
Grand Jury, and at a term of court
held at Knik in July, 1915, he was
convicted of manslaughter, and sen
tenced to three years at McNeil’s Isl
and. During the trial It was brought
out that Jim shot his victim through
the body with a rifle, causing almost
instant death. Ther* had been a quar
rel between the two men, and whlla
Jim did not deny the shooting ho
stated that it was aedflantgl. He is
now. pp his way to his old home at
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