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KOK IM.MKDIATK GONSTKI't TION j
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secretary of Navy Daniels I’copaiing
IMans for Strict fensoi-sliip Naval
News In Kvent of War—May Kin
ploy Interned Men.
WASHINGTON. D. March 26.—
The navy department late Saturday j
afternoon awarded contracts for the i
mmediate construction of twenty
tour destroyers. Secretary Daniels
nas practically completed plans for
t ,1 strict censorship of naval news in
he event of hostilities. Secretary ofi
War Baker is considering the project
•>f working the interned German sail
ors, who number several thousand, on
ihe government irrigation projects,
'he men to be paid $15 per month
and board. Secretary of the Interior
i-ane is investigating the question of
'hup employing the interned men.
gerniansTlan
INVADE MEXICO:
ro RAISE ARMY 150,000 MEN |
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(ioverument Agents Unearth Plot of
Germans in United States to Seize
Mexico and Make War I |x>n tlie
United States.
GALVESTON. March 20.—It is re-j
\orled here that secret service agents
have unearthed a plot among the Ger
mans in the United States to raise an
army of 150,000 men to invade Mex
ico, seize American and British prop
erty in that country, and, using that
•ountry as a base, wage war upon j
•he United States.
KENT DEIS THE
METZDODF STONY
■SAYS NEVER THREATENED MAN
Metzdocf Sticks to Story Under Stiff
Cross-Examination — Prosecution
Says Will Introduce Further Cor
roborative Evidence.
SEATTLE, March 26.—Patrolman
Kent, whom Eddie Metzdorf, a wit
ness in the Gill case, testified had
threatened him with jail if he did not
testify in behalf of GilL, was placed
on the stand Saturday afternoon and
testified that he did not know Metz
dorf and had never threatened him.
Metzdorf was subjected to a search
ing cross-examination, but came out
of it unscathed, sticking closely to
the story told on his direct examina
tion. All attempts of the attorneys to
confuse him or get him to contradict
himself failed. Prosecutor Reamos
declared he would introduce further
evidence to corroborate the Metzdorf
story.
PACIFICISM HAS BROKEN OUT
AT EASTERN COLLEGE.
NEW YORK, March 26 — The
World says radical pacificism has
broken out among the students of
Columbia University to such an ex-;
| tent that the trustees have become
alarmed. Charges of “unpatriotic
instruction” have been made, and a
committee has been appointed to In
vestigate the faculty and doctrines
being taught at the institution.
Notice Eastern Stars.
There will be an initiation follow
ed by a social session at the Eastern
Star lodge on Tuesday evening. All
members are requested to be present
promptly at 8:00 o’clock.
2t L. B. DOUGLAS, Sec. j
AMERICAN FREIGHTER DARED BARRED ZONE
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i-'hmo American tress Association <;
The American freighter the City or I’nebla loading with cotton before s*l
German war zone decree. She was not zebra striped but carried the stars!
sides. _ __===== ,_J
J. D. Jefferson of the Bald-Head
Chris Island stock farm is expecting
a number of foxes on an early boat
from the westward.
FIVE POTATOES TO
PRESS YOUR SUIT.
CHICAGO. March 26.— P.H.Cro
cker, who conducts a chain of tailor
ing shops in the loop, has placed signs
in his windows advertising that suits
or overcoats will be pressed in exch
ange for five potatoes.
ROOSEVELT GOES
TO HUNT SHIRKS
PLANS HAVE BEEN COMPLETED
Now Wants Government to Organize,
Arm, and Equip HLs Proposed Ex
peditionary Force of Two Hundred
Thousand Men.
WASHINGTON, I). C., March 20.—
C ol. Roosevelt announced this morn
ing that all the details for raising his
expeditionary force of 200,000 men
in the event of war with Germany,
have been completed, and he now
needs the help of the government in
arming and equipping the force. He
will leave today for Florida on a
shark hunting trip and will remain
there until April 2, when Congress
convenes.
GRI6HDS
8 HOUR LAW GOOD
RKNDKRKD AN OPINION TODAY
Senator Sutherland Asks >*rivilege of
Moor to Reply to Editorial In the
Juneau Empire on Remarks Made
During Recent Caucus.
JUNEAU. March 26.—The lower
house this morning took up the dis
cussion of rules and the matter went
over into the afternoon session.
Attorney-General Grigsby rendered
an opinion this morning on the legali
ty of the Senate bill making eight
l ours a day’s work in all underground
workings. He held that the legisla
ture had authority under the enabling
act to pass legislation of this charac
ter and that the proposed law was
constitutional.
In the Senate Senator Sutherland
asked the privilege of the floor this
afternoon to reply to an editorial
v.nich appeared in the Juneau Empire
recently, in which it was stated that
the remarks of the Senator that men
had been railroaded to prison in the
Fourth division, made in a recent cau
cus of the Senate, were not true, but
were due to heated partisanship. Suth
erland claims that in his address this
afternoon he will produce proof as to
the truth of his assertion.
WARNS AGAINST
INADEQUATE FORCE
NEED 10,000 MEN EOR EACH Ml LI
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| Chip ini'. War Correspondent Declares
it l> Colly to Send a Small flody o
Tmo|i.« to Euro|>e In Talk llefon
the War College.
WASHINGTON. I). C.. March 26.
Erederick Palmer, the noted war cor
respondent, made a brief talk Satur
day night before the members of th
War College. He was very guarded i
his statements regarding condition
in Europe but advised against send
ing to Europe an inadequate force
Ten thousand men. he declared, woulpj
be necessary to hold a mile of trenches i
under present conditions.
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POTATOES TAKE
ANOTHER JUMP
CH.-WOK FOR WAR RAISES PRICE
Tubers Reach lamest Price Saturday
and Rapidly Advance I’ntil Reach
$«.-> to $80 Mark Again With l*ros
l»ects of Further Advance.
SEATTLE, March 26.—With Sec
retary Daniels’ proclamation to the
public asking for the rapid mobiliza
tion of troops, potatoes and other veg
etables opened this morning at a big
advance over Saturday night’s prices.
Several commission men were offering
{65 to $70 far spuds this morning,
with no sales, the market in many in
stances reaching $80, the top price.
Eggs took a sharp advance and but
ter went up two cents per pound,
being quoted at 41 cents wholesale,
with butter fat at 43.
While new potatoes are coming in
more rapidly every day it is not be
lieved that they will afTect the market
to any appreciable extent.
TEXAS GOVERNOR PROVES
HE IS BRONCHO BUSTER
FORT WORTH. Texas. March 26—
Governor James E. Ferguson, by mis
take. mounted a broncho used in the
Wild West exhibitions at the stock
show here yesterday and was thrown
and pinned under the horse without
serious injury. After he was extri
cated the governor again mounted the
animal and rode it around the ring.
Intending to ride in the arena with
Mayor-elect W. D. Davis, the governor
was waiting for a mount. One of the
cowboys not noticing who it was,
threw the reins of the broucho to the
governor.
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LOST—Safety razor, between cable
cffice and Keystone avenue on McKin
ley stroet. Finder please return to
cabin oflice and receive reward. Bob
Scearce. tf
lory to include a good part oi tne i
country occupied by the German j
troops.
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SUITE TROOPS ORE
CALLED TO COLORS
PREPARIN<« COUNTRY FOR WAR
President Exercising the Limit of His
Power to Place Country on a War
Footing—Wood Transferred to the
South as Disciplinary Measure.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 26 —Or
ders have been received at the army
headquarters here from the national
capital, calling out one regiment of
infantry from the State troops in each
of the states of California, Washing
ton, Oregon, Idaho and Montana.
Each regiment is to be brought up to
full war strength by filling in the va
cancies in the ranks from other com
panies of the state troops not included
in the order.
Wilson Going the Limit.
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 26—
President Wilson is exercising the full
limit of his powers to place the coun
try on a war footing. Orders have
been issued increasing the enlisted
strength of the navy to 87,000 men.
The army is being reorganized into six
departments, instead of three, as at
present, and Major General Leonard
Wood, at present commander of the
Eastern Division, has been transferred
to the head of the Southeastern De
partment. with headquarters at
Charleston. General Wood is a close
friend of Col. Roosevelt, and has fre
quently criticised the Administration
for Its negligence in preparing for
the crisis.
Militia Called Out.
WASHINGTON, March 26.—Orders
have been issued by the War Depart
ment calling out the militia in^llinois,
Indiana, Iowa. Missouri. Nebraska,
Minnesota. Wisconsin, North Dakota,
South Dakota. Colorado. Wyoming
and Ohio.
Subscribe for the Prospector.
PKKHIDKVT WIIjSON SIONS Itil.M
Need Is lni|M‘rntive for .Men in N'avj—
Authorized Strength l> 87,(MMI1
Men and Hut 511,000 Have Volun
teered—President Will Force War.
WASHINGTON, D. f„ March 26.
Saturday night President Wilson
signed an executive order directing
that the authorized enlisted strength
of the navy be increased to 87,000
men. He was authorized by Congress,
in the case of emergency, to direct
such increase in enlistment. New
■.-.hips and ships in reserve are being
fully commissioned as rapidly as pos
sible, and the need is imperative for
a larger enlistment to man them.
There has been a net increase of 6,500
in the enlistments since Congress re
cently authorized an increase, but
many more are needed, and needed
immediately.
Will, you not emphasize this need
by giving special prominence Monday
cn the first page of your paper, to the
President’s order, and also by making
an editorial appeal for new recruits
for the navy.
The navy otters exceptional advan
tages to young men of stuff and am
bition to serve in the first line for na
tional defense. In this emergency you
have the opportunity and the privilege
of performing this public service, and
i am coniidently appealing to you for
your cordial and helpful co-operation.
JOSEPHI'S DANIELS.
Secretary of the Navy.
STAGES PLAYLET
HITS AT COAL DEVELOPMENT
Laughable Comedy Presented at the
Mining Men's Smoker Given by the
Alaska Bureau in Seattle on Sat
urday Night.
SEATTLE. March 26.- At the min
ing men’s smoker given at the (’haul
ier of Commerce Saturday night
there was staged a farce on the de
velopment of the Alaska coal fields
since 1903. Judge Claypool created
great merriment in his part as head
of the Bureau of Procrastination. A
public performance of the playlet will
be staged in the near future.
SULZER DEPARTS
FOR WASHINGTON
NAMES E. HURJA AS SECRETARY
Newly Elected Delegate to Congress
Left Yesterday for National Capi
tal—Names Seattle Newspaper Man
as Secretary.
JUNEAU, March 26.—Delegate
Charles A. Sulzer left here last night
on the steamer Humboldt en route to
the national capital, and expects to
arrive there by April 2, when the new
Congress convenes. Before leaving he
appointed Emil Hurja, the well
known Seattle newspaper man and
member of Ford's peace congress, who
has been here reporting the doings of
the Territorial legislature for several
Alaska newspapers, as his private sec
retary and took Hurja with him to
Washington.
No News From the Watson.
Up to the time of going to press no
news had been received from the
steamer Admiral Watson. She pass
ed Juneau,* northbound, at 5 p. m.
Friday and should have reached here
some time last evening or early thi*
morning, but, so far as can be learned
she had not reached Cordova at noon.
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PKKSIOKNT INDICTS (.KI!>I\M
Writes Stinging Communication to
German Government—Ten Million
Belgians Must Be I.eft to Hie Merry
of Germany.
WASHINGTON, I). (’.. March
In a coniniunication addressed to the
German government President Wilsoi
indicts Germany for her violations of
the laws of humanity and her aggres
sions against the neutral nations, and
withdraws Ambassador Brand Whit
lock from Belgium. Whitlock is the
head of the American Relief Commis
sion in Belgium, but owing to the in
tolerable conditions imposed by Ger
many must withdraw, leaving the ten
million Belgians who have been the
beneficiaries of the Commission to the
mercy of the Germans.
MR KILLED
TWENTY OK CREW DROWNED
American Consul at Rotterdam .says
Eleven Were Killed by Explosion
and Twenty Ijose Lives by Drown
ing When Sliip (lots Down.
WASHINGTON. 1). ('.. March 2t>.
American Consul Krogli of Rotter
dam. reports that when the Standard
Oil tanker Kealdton was torpedoed
last week by a German submarine. 11
members of the crew were killed by
the explosion and that twenty are re
ported to have drowned.
FRENCH CONTINUE
TO MAKE 6AINS
HINIlKMU’IUi FINK IS TOTTKKING
Knormous Pressure Being Kxerted
Against Germans by the French
Troops, Who Have Captured Con
siderable Ground From Knemy.
PARIS, March 26.—A war office
bulletin issued today states that the
Hindenburg line is tottering before
the French advance. Two advance
forts at LaFerre have been taken by
the French, who have also occupied
four miles of ground on the west bank
of the Oise, and several villages south
of Laon. The German rear guard
was routed in a desperate fight near
Invilles, and the French guns now
command the German key positions.
Exert Powerful Pressure.
PARIS. March 26.—The pressure
of the French lines has become so
powerful that it is doubtful if the
German line can hold. At LaFerre
the Germans have opened the sluices
and flooded the country fearing that
Gen. Nivelle would break throught- at
this point. Further south the French
are making solid progress. The Ger
mans are fully alive to the danger,
and are striving desperately to stem
the advance, but without success.
COLOMBIA TREATY IS
APPROVED AS CHANGED
WASHINGTON. D. C., March 26.
The senate foreign relations commit
tee today approved in modified form
the treaty with Colombia by which
the United States will pay that repub
lic $25,000,000 for the partition of
Panama. It will be pressed to a vote
in the present special senate session.
The Moose Hall gymnasium classes
have been closed for the season, it
was announced today.