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FOOD PRICES
TAKER CROP
DECLINE ATTRIBUTED TO PROBE
Officials Believe Threatened Prosecu
tion of Speculators and Monopo
lists Responsible for Lower Pood
Prices Now Prevailing.
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Dec. 12.—
There is a general downward trend
in food prices throughout the coun
try, which is attributed to the threat
ened prosecutions by the government
•of speculators, and the concerted ac
tion against monopolists. The fed
eral grand jury investigations order
ed will be carried out according to
schedule, and a still further decline
in the price of necessities is antici
pated.
IN NEW FIELD
WILL PUT BOATS OX FRISCO RUN
Negotiations Have Been Completed
for the Purchase of the Great Nor*
thern and Northern Pacific—Will
Knter Kotzebue Run.
SEATTLE, Dec. 12.—The officials
of the Alaska Steamship Company
announced today that the steamers
Northwestern and Valdez would be
ppt on the run between this city and
San Francisco in competition with
the steamships of the Pacific Steam
ship Company. It is also stated that
the company has completed negotia
tions Jar the purchase of the steam
ers Great Northern and Northern Pa
cific from the Great Northern Steam
ship Company, and next season will
invade the Kotzebue Sound run.
HOLIDAY RUSH SWAMPS
COUNTY LIQUOR WINDOW
TACOMA, Dec. 12—All records fo
the number of liquor permits issu^l
in one day were broken at the coun
ty auditor’s office yesterday when 622
persons obtained the little red tags
entitling them to ship in two quarts
of whisky or 12 quarts of beer under
the provision of the “dry” law. The
highest previous record was 550. Two
clerks were required to handle the
crowd yesterday and the main door of
the county auditor’s office was almost
jammed for the larger part of the
day. The total of liquor permits is
expected to pass the 50,000 mark be
fore the close of the year.
ALLEGED BLACKMAILER
WANTS TO BE CITIZEN
NEW YORK, Dec. 12.—Explaining
through his attorney that he feared
an attempt might be made by the
German govern men tto get possession
of his person, and that as a citizen
of the United States he could demand
protection, Armgaard Karl Graves,
the so-called “international spy,” who
is held in $20,000 bail on the charge
of attempting to blackmail Countess
von Bernstorff, wife of the German
ambassador, todk out his first citizen
ship papers here yesterday.
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NORWEGIAN GERMAN
RELATIONS ARE TENSE
7'ONDON, Dec. 12.—The Norweg
ian reply to Germany’s note on the
submarine question is unsatisfactory
to Germany, it is reported, and it is
believed that Germany will make
another attempt to impress on Nor
way the consequences of insisting up
on . her present policy, which is un
favorable to Herman submarines.
Basketball Game Tonight
The Moose basketball team and
the Pinzon team nil meet tonight
in Moose hall in a game of basket
ball which promises >o be a hard
fought game from sta.'t to finish.
They will start play at 8 o’clock, and
the nominal charge of 25 cents will
be the admission.
“CIVILIZATION" DRAWS
A LARGE AUDIENCE
About three hundred persons at
tended the great photo drama, "Civ
•lization,” at the Empress last night.
The pictures were exceedingly good,
and the large crowd left the theat.e
with much favorable comment. The
horrors of the present war in Europe,
and the suffering and sorrow inflict
ed upon the women and children
were depicted in a manner calculated
to forcibly impress the uselessness of
war upon the observers. It was a
great drama, with a worthy moral,
and Manager Plnkus expresses his ap
preciation of the large attendance by
stating that the picture would be
shown again tonight for the benefit
of those who could not attend last ;
night’s performance.
CHIMIN MEET
GRIDIRON CLUB
ELECTION EVENTS TRAVESTIED
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Wilcox and McCormick Shake Hands
at Banquet and Willcox Compli
ments Opponent on His Success in
Campaign.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.—At the
brilliant banquet given last evening
by the Gridiron Club in this city,
Chairman Vance McCormick, of^Wie
Democratic National Committee and
Chairman William Russell Wilcox, of
the Republican National Committee,
met as guests of the club for the first
time since the election, and cordially
shook hands. Wilcox heartily con
gratulated his rival on his victory
The banquet was held in the Williard
hotel, and was the scene of much
merriment. The events of the cam
paign were travestied, the women
vote and Col. Roosevelt coming in for
a prominent part.
NORWEGIAN BOAT FIRES
ON GERMAN STEAMER
COPENHAGEN. Dec. 12.— The;
Norgenbladt says that a Norwegian
torpedo boat has fired upon a Ger- i
man steamer which refused to stop i
when passing Stavanger.
The Norwegian fired a shot at the
rigging, the newspaper says, then;
boarded the steamer and dismantled
her wireless.
Since the beginning of the war for
eign ships have not been permitt" 1
to carry wireless installation when lit
Norwegian waters.
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EMPEROR LEAVES £50,000
TO HIS ACTRESS AFFINITY
LONDON, Dec. 12.—A Berne dis
patch to the wireless Press says that
the will of Emperor Francis Joseph
provides a legacy of £50,000 to the
actress, Kathrina Schratt, for years
an intimate of tbe late Emperor. At
Schoenbrunn castle Frau Schratt ap
peared nearly every afternoon. Fran
cis Joseph in turn called at her town
house, where he was able to meet
friends of his own choosing and not
guests imposed on him by etiquette
or reasons of state.
Reynolds Arrives in Seattle.
H. D. Reynolds, promoter of Val
dez, whose Home railway project was
followed by a pitched battle in which
one man was killed and several oth
ers wounded, and which ha3 since
been described in Rex Beach’s “The
Iron Trail,” registered at the Frye
’•ecently. Mr. Reynolds is promoting
a bank and smelter project in Prince
William Sound towns. He is accom
panied in his trip south by his engi
neer, Rex Townsend, who has been
making an examination of copper
properties on Latouche island.—Se
attle P.-I.
BUILDER MUST GO
TO DOMINION PRISON
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WINNIPEG, Man., Dec. 12.—Al
leged to have obtained $100,000 by
graft in erecting the Manitoba parlia
ment buildings, Thomas P. Kelly to •
mer official of Manitoba’s govern
ment who spent several months a
year ago in a palatial South Side
apartment in Chicago while fighting
extradition here, was sentenced to
two and a half years in the provin
cial penitentiary by the jury report
ing last night.
INTEREST NOW CENTERED
ON ATTITUDE OF GREECE
REPORTED THAT KING OONSTAN TINE IH PREPARING NOTE RE
FUSING TO COMPLY W ITH DEMANDS OK ENTENTE ALLIES FO <
RELEASIk OF VENIZELOS FOLLOWER8—INF<>KMN ALLIES THAT
FURTHER DEMANDS MEAN WAR—GERMAN CRUISER ELUDES
BRITISH PATROL—GERMAN SOCIALISTS IN REICHSTAG DE
MAND PEACE—BRITISH MAKE NIGHT ATTACK SOMME FRONT.
PIRAEUS. Dec. 12.—It is repos
ed that King Constantine is prepar
ing a note to the demands of the En
tente Allies refusing to release thi
followers of Venizelos, head of the
Provisional government, who have
been captured by the Greek troop3.
Further Demands Mean War.
AMSTERDAM, Dec. 12.—Advices
rccolved here from Sofia, capital of
Bulgaria, state that King Constan*
tine of Greece, has advised the En
tente Allies that further demand*
i pon Qrecce will result in a declara
tion of war. 1
Center Political Interest.
LONDON. Dec. 12.—The situation
in Greece occupies an important po
sition in political circles, and the out
come is being watched with decided
interest. A report from Athens stat?s
that the Central Powers purpose to
turn important conscriptions from
the army of General Von Mackensen
now operating in Rumania. again?t
the Entente Allies in Macedonia.
Hostility Unchanged
ATHENS. Dec. 12.—King Con
stantine's hostility to the Entente Al- j
lies remains unchanged, and it is ex
pected a crisis will be reached within
a few hours. It is confidently expected
Constantine will issue a declaration
of war, and will side with the Cen
tral Powers.
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German Cruiser at large
LONDON, Dec. 12.—The captain
of a steamer arriving here today re
ported that a German light cruiser
had escaped the watchfulness of the
British patrol fleet and had held up
his vessel in the North sea.
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| Socialists Want Peace.''
AMSTERDAM, Dec. 12.—Copies of
the Vorwqerts, the German Socialist
paper, received here, announces that
the Socialist Deputies in the Prus
sian Diet have made a bitter attack
on those receiving enormous war pro
fits, while the people are starving,
and demanded that peace be restored.
British and Russians Gain
BERLIN, Dec. 12.—After a violent
artillery bombardment, the British
made a night attack on the German
positions near Letranley. on the
Somme front, gaining some ground.
On the eastern front the Russians
succeeded in advancing north of
Dorna Vatre, but at a heavy cost in
inen.
VILLA TO FORGE
AMERICANS OUT:
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TROOPS MI ST hKAVK OK I KiHT
In Ail Interview with Representatives!
of New York World Villa Says Sol- ;
diers from I'nited States Must!
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heave Country at Once.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 12.—The
World today prints an interview had
in Chihuahua City by a representa
tive of that newspaper when the out
law chief was in command of the city
recently. Villa is quoted as saying
that he is planning to drive the Amer
ican soldiers under General Pershing
out of the country or make them
fight. He said he liked President
Wilson and thought him his friend
until he turned traitor and recogniz
ed Carranza.
Referring to the raid of Columbus,
New Mexico, which precipitated the
American expedition into Mexico, Vil
la said it was easy, as the townspeo
ple were asleep and he and his fol
lowers were wide awake. He says he
had but 300 men with him on that
expedition.
SHOT I OK RKJKCTINO MAN
WHO WAS KAMI i.V KRIKND
NEW YORK. Dec. 12.—Mrs. Em
ma C. Maun, widow of Henry Mann,
widely known as an editor and au
thor, was shot twice by Alfftd Hea
rieksen, 51 years old, a friend of the
faintly, after she had rejected his pro
posal of marriage at her home here
last night. Henricksen then shot him
self in the head. He is not expected
to live.
Pennsylvania is sanctioning unpar
donable waste every ysar by throw
ing away ':oal by-products worth over
fifty million dollars. This waste lies
in the failure to fully utilize the by
products of coke-making.
SOME TROLLEY CREW THIS!
Photue by American Preae Association.
Garden City (N. Y.) trolley creW is nerer Idle between trips. One, O. E
Wallace, embroiders fancy dollies, while the other. Julius Hohmann. has a llttli
truck garden he “wastes" his extra time In.
KVNHTON MAY SUE BAPTISTS
FX>R ALLEGED LIBEL
SAN ANTONIO, Dec. 12.—Com
menting on the action of the Baptist
General Association of Virginia, at.
Norfolk, Va., yesterday in adopting a
resolution protesting against the gen
eral’s alleged attitude, General Funs
ton remarked, "Baptists who are dis
torting the statement of my position
regarding the kind of church work
acceptable In border camps had better
put their property in the names of
(heir wives.” He intimated that he
might bring libel suits against his
critics.
The controversy started when Gen
eral Funston told Dr. J. B. Gambrell,
representing the Texas Baptist state
! board, that he did not want men in
the army to be considered as "lost
souls.”
SHE SAILS
POSTPONED FROM THE TENTH
Telegram Yesterday Stating That She
Would Not Ijeave Seattle I'ntil the
Twentieth Is Believed to Have
Been an Error.
SEATTLE. Dec. 12 (Delayed) —
!The scheduled sailing of the steam
ship Spokane in place of the Steam
ship Admiral Evans, has been post
poned until Tuesday, Dec. 12. The
boat was to have left yesterday, but
owing to delay in loading she wi»!
not get away until tomorrow.
A message received at the local
steamship office yesterday stated that
the Spokane would not leave until
the 20th. This is believed to have
been an error in transmission of the
message as postponing the sailing un
til the 20th would cut out one trip
of the Admiral line.
VILLA COMMIIS
MANY ATROCITIES
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WILDEST , DISORDER REIGNED
Bandits Loot Store of American—
Scores of Mexicans and Chinese
Murdered—Secure One MUlion
Pesos In Silver.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 12.—Mrs.
Barnett Dannis, the wife of an Amer
ican storekeeper in Chihuahua City,
has written her son in this city that
when Villa and his followers took the
city the wildest disorder reigned and
the bandits committed all sorts of
atrocities. Scores of Mexicans allied
to the Carranza government and
many Chinamen were wantonly mur
dered, and stores and residences were
looted of everything valuable. Mrs.
Dannis states that the entire stock in
her husband’s store was confiscated,
and they were glad to escape with
their lives. Villa is reported to have
Becured one million pesos in silver in
the city.
MEXICAN GIRLS EXECUTED
FOR PLANNING MURDER
Were Shot by Squad of Soldiers After
Brief Trial and Conviction.
ELAVILLE. Mex., Dec. 12.—Mar
garita Acosta, Maria Castillo and
Dolores Reis were executed last even
ing after a brief trial at which they
were convicted of plotting against the
life of Col. Gonzalez Diaz, chief of thr
Carranza garrison here.
It was brought out at the trial
that the girls made a date with the
Colonel, and attempted to lead him
where confederates were in waiting
to shoot him down when he appeared.
Moose Gym Classes.
Ladies’ class, 3 to 4, Monday, Wed
nesday and Fridays.
Girls’ Classes 4 to 5, Mondays,
Wednesdays, Sundays.
Business Men’s apd Young Men’s
classes, Monday, Wednesday and Fri
day evenings, 7:30 to 10 p. m.
ARE NEGOTIATING
OVER FISHERIES
MAY MKTTIJS PKOBLKMH MOON
State Department Announces Negotia
tions Are L'nder Way for a Settle
ment of tlie Disputes with the Can
adians.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.—Nego
tiations are under way between offi
cials of the State Department and
Canadian representatives for a com
plete settlement of the Americ&n
Canadian fisheries questions. The
visit of the Canadian officials here
during the last session of Congress
while the halibut bill was under dis
cussion, which has been generally
designated rs Canadian lobbying in
Congress, was In reality made for th.;
purpose of negotiating for a settle-,
ment of the various questions in con
flict between the American and Can
adian governments regarding the
rights of their respective fishermen,
and the present indications are that
these questions will soon be definitely
and satisfactorily settled within a
short time.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Bf NEW MINISTRY
WILL IM’RK.AHK KFFICIKNCV'
Calls for Mobilization of .All Civilians
Between the .Ages of Sixteen atul
Sixty for Service at the Front—
Will Coni|tel enlistments.
LONDON. Dec. 12.—The publica
tions of Lord Northcliffe (Alfred
Harmsworth) today announced the
program of the George ministry. It
is said to consist of arming all Brit
ish merchantmen to repel attacks of
submarines, and in anticipating of a
huge offensive in the Spring, the mo
bilization of all civilians between Hi
and 60 for service at the front; the
making over of the blockade of the
German coast along more stringent
lines; the conservation of the food
supply through the issuing of ration
tickets to the people; the increasing
of home food production; a strict
enforcement of the act against the
importation of luxuries, and oth >"
measures intended to increase the
war efficiency of the nation.
The war council now includes Lord
Milnor and Lord Curzon, two of the
ablest Conservatives. It is reported
that Waldorf Astor will be named for
one of the Under Secretaryships.
SOLDIER MYSTERIOUSLY
KILLED AT THE BORDER
Three Others Meet Sudden Deaths
At Army Camp.
LAREDO. Tex., Dec. 12.—Army
officers are investigating the sudden
deaths of four United States soldiers
here within the last 72 hours. Pri
vate Michael Teadin of Troop 1, 14th
cavalry, was found yesterday in a
camp roadway, dead, but without any
indication of what caused his demise.
It is believed that he may have
been suffocated. Private Paul Torrey
of the 9th infantry’s supply company
and two other privates were struck
and killed by a train.
Found Dead, Throat Slashed.
MISSOULA, Mont., Dec. 12.—Ed.
Cameron, a lumberjack, was found
dead in a local rooming house here
early today, with his throat slashed.
A man who was known to have gone
to the rooming house with Cameron
could not be found by the police.
Dr. Duckw&ll, formerly surgeon at
Fort Liscum, is pow at Eagle Pass,
Texas, where Its Is stationed. Last
month Dr. Dnckwall's father died
suddenly of pneumonia at his home
near Pittsburgh, Pa., where he con
ducted a bacteriological laboratory.
Dr. Duckwall will resign from the set
vice in the early spring and will take
up his father’s business.