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November 22.
Official estimates indicate the pres
ence of 400,000 enemy aliens in the
United States.
It was learned on good authority
today that Felix Diaz was offered $400,
000, principally by German-Americans
in Mexico, for the purpose uf conduct
ing a counter revolution against the
Carranza government.
Alien slackers will be included in the
next draft for the National armv, ac
cording to assurances made to members
of congress by the State department,
which has been conducting negotia
tions with the allies.
November 23.
The government announces contract*
are being let for 778 steel, wood and
concrete vessels, with an aggregate
tonnage of four millions. The com
plete program calls for twice that
amount of tonuage.
In the list of promotions announced
today in the cavalry of the National
aimy Captain Frederick Meat's, of the
Alaska engineering commission, is ad
vanced to the rank of major.
It is announced that Rear-Admiral
W. L. Capps will shortly resign a
general manager of the Emergency
Fleet Corporation, because of failing
health.
Answering the query of the British
premier as to the number of Americans
to be at the front, it has been stated
that one million Americans will be in
France ready for the beginning of the
spring drives.
November 24.
The United States government will
go very slow and cautiously in dealing
with Bolsheviki’s Russian overtures
for an armistice and universal peace,
stated the State department today*,
W'hile declining to state the exact
number. Secretary of War Baker said
as many American troops had been
landed in France as has been planned
by the War department.
Ninety-six deaths occurred at differ
ent cantonments of the National army
during the week ending November 16,
mainly of pneumonia.
The latest improved tanks will be
used by the American forces in open
ing the spring drive in France.
Ambassador Jusserand has forwarded
a communication to the French dicta
tors of women’s and men’s fashions,
that the United Slates desires the
style designs to be as simple as possible
in order to effect a saving in clothing
materials.
November 26.
The party of congressmen have been
visiting the western war zone, retu-ned
here today.
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Hiram Says He'll Stick
Seattle. Nov. 24.—Mayor Hi Gill an
nounces that he will not resign his po
sition no matter how strong the pi as
sure is applied.
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Paris, Nor. 23.—The A merican mis
sion headed by Col. E. M. House, ar
rieed here today, after crossing the
English channel at a speed of 31 knots
an hour. Col. House, replying to a
delegation of women, said in part:
‘‘There is a grim determination
among us to wage war until the world
is free from the shadow of the spectre
of the sword. What we want is an as
surance of permanent peace and secur
ity. Our soldiers upon the soil of
Franc* will be heard from ever in
creasingly uatil this is fully accom
plished. It is here that our brave men
will come to mingle our blood with
yours.”
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WOULD “REASON"
WITH JAPANESE
Amsterdam, Nov. 26.—It is reported
in diplomatic circles that Germany ha*,
offered Kai Chao to Japan and have
announced a willinghess to discuss the
future of occupied islands in the Paci
fic, as the price of Japanese retirement
from the war. Japan is said to have
spurned the offer.
SULZER READY
FOR HARD WORK
Seattle, Nov. 24.—Charles A. Sulzer,
Alaska delegate to congress, departed
this morning for Washington, to at
tend the coming session. Mr. Sulzer
said he proposed to work to the end
that the people of Alaska may be
given better opportunities and facilities
for the development of the resources of
the territory.
DIDN'T LIKETHE DRAFT
Seattle, Nov. 24 —James McPugh. a
wealthy farmer, and son of John
McPugh, was convicted in the federal
court today for complicity in conspira
cies to violate the selective conscrip
tion laws.
TWO AIRMEN KILLED
Dallas, Ter., Nov. 26. — An English
man and a Canadian were killed heir
i his morning when their aeioplanes
collided at a height of tvro thousand
feet. They were training for army
service.
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PERSHING BOUND? UP SLACKERS
Paris, Nov. 24. —General Pershing
has rounded up two hundred American
young men in Paris who are wearing
the uniforms of ambulance drivers and
told them they must enlist at once or
they would be sent back to America,
and drafted as conscripts. Some of
them have seen active service.
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WHY SEND THIS BY TELEGRAPH?
Seattle, Nov. 26. —Frederick C. John
stone, president of the Alaska Fish
Company and the Tongas Trading Com
pany, has been elected president of the
Arctic club, and A. F. Zipf, manager ot
the American-Yukon Navigation Com
pany, vice president.
Clarence White left during the
week for a prospecting trip to the
Kuskokwim, whero he and Charley
Worder will work on some promising
ground.
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OUTLAWRY IN HARBIN
Tokio, Nov. 24.—The city of Harbin
Russia, is in the midst of a reign of
terror, robberies in the streets being
almost of hourly occurrence. The Rus
sian police have entirely lost their
power of control over the criminals,
who form mobs and parade the streets.
ADRIFT SIXTY HOURS
p^ris, Nov. 28.—Three American
naval airmen, after being adrift at
sea for sixty hours, were picked up
bv a French patrol boat today.
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ALASKA ENGINEERS BEGIN WORK
Camp Mead, Md., Nov. 24.—
Alaska, Washington and Mon
tana mining men are well repre
sen ted in the engineering corps
of the National army that has
just arrived here for training.
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GERMANY'S CHANCE OF WINNING
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New York Aug. 27—Arthur H.
Pollen, the English naval critic,
in a Tribune article, says that
U-boat< will win it Germany can
hold out on land. When Eng
land won the battle of Jutland
the enemy attempted a slower
campaign which is surely wip
ing out the merchantmen the
fleet was built to protect. Brit
ish command of the sea is the
historic sense is still absolute.
So far as the figures of lost ton
nage are known, says Mr Pullen,
it looks as if the world’s ship
ping were dwindling at the rate
of from 20 to 25 per cert a year j
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KITCHENER VICTIM
OF GERMAN SPY
New York.—Out of the long accus
tomed Siienca of Scotland Yard, Eng
land's secret service headquarters,
comes the startling announcement that
the disaster which cost Lord Kitchener
and his staff their lives, was caused
not by his ship striking a mine but by
a bomb placed aboard the boat by a
German spy.
This bald announcement is enriched :
by few details for “silence and
secrecy” is the motto of the Yard un
til an incident is absolutely closed,
nothing concerning it is ever given
out and then, very little.
It is known that the perpetrator of
the crime was a Gorman who had been
educated in England, masqueraded
au Englishman and commissioned in
t he British navy.
Lord Kitchener and his staff were en
route to Russia on the cruiser Ham
shire when the ship went down off the
West Orkney Islands. Not a man ol
the crew of three hundred were saved
It is considered remarkable that a
German could so completely work him
self into the confidence of high naval
authorities as to have been able to
Dave access to the vessel on wuicti the
distinguished party embarked.
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mystery of the ship’s sinking but the
general public believed it must have
struck a mine. It remained for Scot
land Yard to find the true cause which
robbed the nation of its war leader.
•The Yard” is the headquarters of
London’s metropolitan ponce. And
after its methods will be modeled the
national intelligence service of the
United States, which has been created
to exterminate the audacious spy and
make impossible further “leaks”
likely to imperil by U-boats our sol
diers on their way to France.
Scotland Yard is world famous for
its detective work in connection with
national affairs as well .s for being
the backbone of the L mdon police
system. What the United States will
copy is the “special department”—the
secret police force engaged on “politi
cal work” for the whole erupi*-a.
The workings of the “Yard” are
veiled in deepest secrecy. Its plans
are made in a small council of men.
Evety morning Sir Edward Henry, the
commissioner, holds a “council of
seven.” At these 20-minute sessions, at
which the aides sit around “the chief"
like school . children before their
teacher, plans ara decided upon that
may start wheels of the gigantic ma
chine moving in most distant parts
of the world.
When Scotland Yard goes after a
man it lands him. It doesn’t defeat
itself by allowing a press agent to
give all the latest and prospective
developments to the newspapers.
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COMMISSIONS
FOR ALASKANS
San Francisco, Nov. 26 —Lists of sev
eral hundred graduates of the second
series of officers training camps an
nounced today included commissions
for the following Alaskans:
First lioutenants — R. R. Pullen,
of Skagway, and C. R. Horner, of j
Treadwell; second lieutenants—J. F.
Kerper, of Nenane, and W. El. Combs,
Alaska; the latter is eligible for future
pro isional second lieutenant in regu
lar army.
Aviation section of signal corps—
J. C. Smith, of Thane, first lieutenant;
non-flying section of signal corps—E. T.
Hawley, of Seward, first lieutenant; J.
C. Lutterell, of Seward, second lieuten
ant.
Fifty-three Seattle men won commis
sions.
DECLARE BURLESON AN AUTOCRAT
Buffalo, Nov. 24. — The American
Federation of Labor yesterday adopted
a resolution declaring Post master-Gen
eral Burleson an autocrat, for forcing
postal employes to endure unsatisfac
lory working conditions.
President Gompers was re-elected at
today's session.
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For the week ending November 22
seventeen British vessels were sunk by
submarines.
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NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To J F. Baird, Marie Baird and Char
les Hoxsie, and to their heirs and as
signs:
You are hereby notified that the un
dersigned have expended in each of the
years 1915 and 1916 the sum of one hun
dred dollars in labor and improvements
upon each of the placer mining claims
known and described as follows, to wit:
The Rainbow association, situated at
the head of Flat creek, in Otter pre
cinct, Fourth division, territory of
Alaska, the location certificate cf which
is found of record in book one of loca
tions, page 318, in the office of the r» *
cordcr for said precinct: the Montana
association, adjoining the above-de
scribed Rainbow association, the Loca
tion certificate of which is found of rec
ord in volume one of Locations, page
318, in the ofilce of the recorder of said
precinct; in order to hold said claim
under the provisions of Section 2324 of
the Revised Statutes of the United
States, and the amendment thereto ap
proved January 22, 1880,concerning an
nual labor upon mining claims, being
the amount required to hold said placer
mining claims for the periods ending on
the 31st day of December, 1915. and 1916.
tVnd if, within ninety days from the
personal serviceof this notice, or within
ninety days after t he publication there
of, you fail or refuse to contribute your
proportion of such expenditure as a co
owner, your interests in the said two
placer mining claims wtli become the
property of the subscribers, your co
owners, who have made the required
expenditures, by the terms of said sec
tion. Geo. W. Albrecht,
Chas. E. Taylor.
First publication Nov. 3, 1917.
Last publication Feb. 2, 1913.
FORFEITURE NOTICE
To Gus Johnson, his heirs and assigns,
You are hereby notified that, during
each of the years of 1913, 1914, 1915 and
1916 the undersigned has expended at
least one hundred dollars in labor and
improvements upon each of the follow
ing named placer mining claims, to-wit:
Lower 3, 4 and 5 above upper discovery
on Ophir creek in the Innoko mining
and recording district, in the territory
of Alaska, in which mining locations
you claim an undivided one half inter
est, as shown by the records of said re
cording district. The said labor was
performed as and for the annual repre
sentation of the said claims and each of
them for the said years of 1913. 1914,
1915 and 1916 as required by the laws
of the United States concerning annual
labor upon mining claims, and the
same was the amount required to hold
said claims for said years. You are
further notified that un!es3 within 90
days after the completed service of
this notiej upon you and within 90 days
after the publication thereof, you con
tribute your portion of said expendi
ture as a co-owner, to-wit: The sum of
two hundred dollars for each of said
claims and six hundred dollars in all,
your interest in said claims or in any
one of which you so fail to contribute
will be forfeited to the undersigned,
who ha# made such expenditure, and
will become his property in the manner
provided by law.
Dated at Ophir September 4, 1917.
ALFRED JOHNSON, Co-owner.
First publication Nov. 3, 1917.
Last publication Feb. 2. 1918
J. W. Farrell,
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