CONGRESS READY
10 HEAR WILSON
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President Will Deliver Message Next
Tuesday to the Regular Ses
sion of Congress.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29—The
members of congress will jointly at
tend the session of the House next
Tuesday when President Wilson will
personally deliver his message to con
gress regarding the views of the ex
ecutive with reference to anti-trust
legislation, the currency bill and Mex
ican situation.
The members of the {senate wilt me
into the House of Representatives at
one o'clock and a few minutes later
tile president will ascend the ros
trum and deliver his address.
The regular session of congress will
convene next Tuesday. The present
session was called specially to pass
the tariff bill.
PRESiSGI
ON
Leave New York for Europe—Crowds
Stop Traffic in an Effort to Get
a Glance at the Bride.
j
NEW YORK, Nov. 29.-—Mr. and j
Mrs. Sayres, who were recently mar- j
tied in the White House, sailed front j
here today for an extended honey- 1
moon trip in Europe.
A large number of friends were at ■
the dock to see the young couple off i
and it required the reserves from all j
the down-town stations to handle the j
throngs that crowded on the dock to |
get a view of the president’s (laugh
ter.
The crowds were so great that
traffic was stopped for more than
an hour and it was only with diffi
culty that many of the passengers
made their way to the gangplank.
The boa t was delayed sailing by rea
son of the crush.
" BILL
SURE 10 PASS
Chairman Houston, of Territories
Committee, So States in Pub
lic Address.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29—Chairman
Houston, ol the House Committee on
Territories, announced today that the
committee would favorably report the j
Alaska railroad bill, providing for a
railroad from Cordova or Seward to
ihe Bering or Matanuska coal fields
and to be continued on into the in>
terior of Alaska, so as to provide
cheap transportation for the ld|#'
grade mines of the Tanana and Yu
kon sections. The total tiutilber of
miles to be built under the bill to be
reported by ihe committee will be
721.
“The committee will be guided
greatly by the report of ihe Alaska
Railroad Commission,” said the con
gressman. “Alaska will have a gov
ernment railroad in less than a year
that will tap the coal fields and al
so provide qu'ck and cheap transpor
tation of freight and passengers from
and to the interior of the territory.”
.Alaskans here are very jubilant at i
the statement of Chaihna'n Houston
and they now consider that the bill
will surely pass at the next session
c? congress.
Forty million dollars is to be ap
propriated for the work.
OUR WARSHIPS ORDERED MEXICAN COAST
SAIL DIRECT FROM EUROPE TO MEXICO
Conditions Still Unsettled—Germany Predicts War WiH Be Costly Between Un
ited States and Mexico—Our Ships Will Start Blbckade, Is the
Prediction Made Ift Washington.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29—The Navy
department wired to Rear Admiral
Charles J. Cadger yesterday, com
manding the Atlantic fleet of battle
ships now in the Mediterranean, to
immediately return to America, tak
ing a beeline ror /ne Mexican coast.
The order allows of no delay and it
is believed that the ships are now
heading for the United States under
full steam.
The battleship fleet now in the
Mediterranean consists of the flagship
Wyoming, the Utah, Florida,
Arkansas, Deleware, Vermont, Con
necticut, Kansas and Ohio with the
auxiliaries Celtic, isolace, Cyclops,
Orion and Jason. The ships are the
nick of the American navy and when
they arrive on the Mexican coast the
blockade of the poics will be a simple
matter.
The sudden order to Admiral Badg
er has caused much speculation here
and it is generally believed that the
president is not satisfied with reports
from Mexico and fears the anti-Amer
ican sentiment may cause the popu
lace of Mexico to turn upon foreign
ers and he is anxious to have the
fleet ready to pounce upon the coast
cities and force the Mexican people
to respect foreign residents and their
property.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.—'The
State department has received word
from El Paso that General Villa, who
defeated the federal troops at Juarez
a few days ago, is preparing to march
upon Mexico City, where it is report
ed a famine exists.
The march of the rebels towards
the capital is taken here as an in
dication that the end of the Huerta
dictatorship is in sight and that the
crisis is near at hand, and it is fear
ed that America will be forced to in
tervene in order to protect the lives
of foreigners.
Figure War Would be Costly.
BERLIN, Nov. 29.—German .mili
tary experts incline to the view that
the United States will be unable to
whip Mexico unless it draws lavish
ly oil "its full financial power and
human material."
"Mexico,” according to Major Mo
raht, the military expert of the Ber
liner Tageblatt, “cannot be sudued
speedily unless there are many
strokes of good luck and the expendi
ture of many millions of dollars” on
the part of the United States.
If the country is prepared to go
to the full extent of its capacities in
terms of both blood and treasure,
German experts “are ready to ad
mit” that favorable results might be
attended without a long or costly war.
It is believed, however, that the prob
lem of marching to the capital from
Vera Cruz, while at the same time
employing offensive troops in the
north, would offer the American gen- I
oral staff difficulties perhaps of far!
greater magnitude than are now con
templated.
BERLIN, Nov. "9.—Ambassador
James W. Gerard received a long dis
patch today from Washington for pre
sentation to the German Foreign Of
fice, explaining the steps the Unit
ed States had taken and was about
to take for the settlement of the Mex
ican situation.
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General Rabago Shoots Himself Rath
er Than Fall Into Hands of the
Rebels When Victoria is Lost.
MEXICO CITY, Nov. 2M. The nows
has just reached here that General
ltabago, ol' the Mexican army, in com
mand of the troops at Victoria, which
was captured by the rebels, commit
ted suicide when he saw that capture
was inevitable and that the city must
surrender to the victorious constitu
tionalists. General ltabago blew his
brains out with his revolver.
Tlie rule of no quarter for officers
is riow to be followed by both sides
and hereafter rebel and federal offi
cers captured will be immediately
shot. It is believed here that Gen.
ltabago knew that capture meant long
suffering and certain death and that
therefore he might best end it quick
ly, prefering instant death to the fate
far worse in store for him from the
rebels.
WOULD IMPORT
American Irishmen May Soon Have
Chance to Eat Home Grown Po
tatoes When Embargo Lifted.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.—The Sec
retary of the Irish Board of Agricul
ture is here ashing the Department
of Agriculture to rescind the order
prohibiting tire importation' of the
Irish potato into America.
The secretary urges the raising of
the embargo, claiming that the pota
toes are free from any disease and
are inspected thoroughly before per
mits ere issued for export. American
•peculators are piandiug to control
the importat ion of IHsh spuds, and by
cornering the market, should the sec
retary o£ agriculture allow them to
be imported, they nope to reap a big
harvest.
Samples of Irish grown potatoes
were brought to convince the expeits
of the department at Washington that
no harm can come from lifting the
embargo. *
The Mary Sachs, One of Steffanson’s
Fleet, Is Lost With Supplies
and Instruments. * 1
Nome. Nov. 21). A letter was
In ought to this town by natives from
the far north telling of the destruc
tion of the steamer Mary Sachs, one
of the Steffanson fleet of ships now
in the Arctic hunting for a lost con
tinent.
Captain Bernard, a well known mar
iner of the Arctic, sent the lette.
to a friend in Nome.
The Mary Sachs was caught in the
ice and crushed, sinking with all the
provisions aboard and the instru
ments needed for scientific work. The
crew escaped to the other boats, which
were near at hand. The accident
happened in September, when the
three ships were trying to make Her
schel island. The Karluk and Alaska
are the two boats still left to Steffan
son, and it is douotful if the- entire
party can remain on the two ships
because of the large number of dogs
aboard, which are needed for Arctic
travel. The Karluk was last report
ed in August and wild stories were
circulated in outside patters that the
entire expedition had been lost when
the Arctic ocean was swept by a ter
rific storm Oct. 6th. The report from
Captain Bernard is the first news re
ceived since that time of the party.
OFFER WILEY
NEWJfORK JOB
NKW YORK, Nov. 29.—Dr. Wiley,
the pure food expert, has been of
fered the position of commissioner of
health in the city of New York and
has the offer under advisement, it is
generally believed here that he will
accept the post and will take office
on January 1, when Mayor-elect Mitch
el takes the oath of office. The news
papers,.. tWs .city, generally praise
the appoihtmettt of the former feder
al pure food inspector add urge Dr.
\Vtiey to accept the position and j
place the city health department on
a level witii the best health depart
ment’s in the world.
Robert Coles will be a returning
passenger on the Northwestern, which
loaves Seattle tomorrow.
“TRUST
Will Try to Find Way of Ousting
American Concern From Doing
Business in. Germany.
BEKIJN, Nov. 29. The imperial
government has started an investiga
tion into the methods of (he American
Tobacco Trust because of the com
plaints of the German manufacturers
of smoking tobacco, who say that in
a few more years the American trust
will have monopolized the German
market and nothing but American to
baccos will be for sale in Germany.
The government probe will be
thorough and they plan drafting laws
to exclude foreign manufacturers of
tobacco from selling in (he father
land.
Representatives of the American
companies claim that they are not
violating the law and will seek the
protection of the American ambas
sador against any effort of the Ger
man tobacco dealers to have them
eliminated. The resident agent of the
trust at Berlin, in an interview, stat
ed today that “American tobacco
dealers are underselling the Germans
because of improved methods of man
ufacture, packing and handling, and
not through any violation of the law.”
Andy Dieringer has been confined
lo his bed for several days with an
attack of la grippe.
WANT TAX ON
GATES ESTATE
MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 29.—The
state attorney has started suit t<
compel the probating of CharieB
Galea' will in this stale in order that
the state may secure the inheritance
tax. The attorneys for the estate are
inclined to file the will in New York,
but as much of the property, includ
ing the handsome mansion not yet
completed, is in tl^is state, it is de
sired to have the Will probated here.
The estate is valued ut $35,000,000
and is divided between Mrs. Gates,
the mother of the dead man. and his
wife.
The steamer Jeanie leaves Seattle
Dec. 10th for Valdez and way ports.
She will also take the mail to Ko
diak.
Japanese Sending Strong Reinforce
ments to Island to Pre
„ vent Trouble.
TURK), Japan, Ncv. Jfl. The go\
eminent detective.-, iiave discovered
a plot to raise an army of 100,00a
men on Formosa island and at a giv
en signal to raise and throw off the
Japanese yoke and deliver the island
into the hands of China. The navy
department has di.,patched a number
of battleships and transports to the
island and the garrisons of Japan
ese trocps now maintained on the is
land will be doubled.
Formosa was foimerly part of Chi
na, but was captured -during the Chi
na-Japanese war and by the treaty of
peace was given to the Japs. The is
land is rich in mineral wealth and all
the camphpor used by the Japanese
in the manufactuie of explosives is
mined on Formosa.
TO ARBITRATE
Labor Secretary Tries to Induce Op
erators and Miners to Agree
to Arbitration.
DENVER, Nov. 29.—Secretary of
Labor Wilson, who arrived here yes
terday from het Pacific coast, has
asked the miners and operators of
Colorado to arbitrate their differences
and guarantees to see that fair play
is shown to both sides.
It is doubtful if the operators will
allow Wilson to appoint arbitrators
because of his speech in. Seattle in
which he condemned the Michigan op
erators for instftlliBit a one-man drill,
which caused tlje strike, His speech
was made without a knowledge of
the coridi&ws. assert the operators,
who bhVe protested against the "un
justlHable position of the cabinet of
fleet-.”
The operators fear Wilson because
of previous affiliation with unions and
because he served as a walking dele
gate twenty years ago.
Troops ate still maintained in the
striite zone.'
YUKON OFFICIAL
IS CONVICTED
Supreme Justice Clement, Once Legal
Advisor Yukon Territory, Guilty
of Padding Expense Account.
VANCOUVER, B. C„ Nov. 29—The
court today found former Supreme
Court Justice Clement guilty of fraud
in that he had padded his expense
account, securing $4,000 from the gov
ernment for mileage to which he was
not ntitled.
Justice Clement is well known in
the north, as he was for many years
stationed at Dawson as the legal ad
visor of the offic’als in the Yukon
Territory, and later became a su
preme court justice in this province.
Sentence will be passed upon the
former government official on Mon
day. It is believed he will receive
the full penalty of the law for his
offense, which is ten years.
HOKE RULE SURE
Premier Asquith, in Speech at Leads,
Says “England Will Not be Fright
ened by Threats.”
LEADS, Eng., Kov. 29.—Premier
Asquith, in a speech delivered here
last night, said that ilie government
was determined to carry out the
home rule po.^cy for Ireland, and that
the objection! and threats of the Un
ionists of Ulster county would not
prevent them from doing so.
"The government will not be fright
cited by threats nor the drilling with
wooden guns” said the premier. "\V>‘
will catty to completion the present
plans in spite of till opposition from
North Ireland."
Tile general belief here is that the
opposition to home j ule will disap
pear when tlie Ulster county citizens
see the hopelessness of further op
position.
CONVICT LEADER
OF NEW COLT
Hanish Expressed Obscene Matter by
Express and is Convicted by
a Chicago Jury.
CHICAGO, Nov. 29.—The jury try
ins the Hanish cult leader for send
inp objectionable text books by ex
press from one state to another in
violation of the Interstate Commerce
act, found him puilty today of the
crime.
The books which caused the ar
rest of Hanish were most objection
able and discussed the sex relations
between men and women in as broad
a manner as was possible, leaving
nothing to the imagination. The text
of the book was exceptionally ob
scene, as wore alto a number of il
lustrations. The authorities assert
they never read more degrading
boots.
Hanisli thought .that he could ex
press the book's without violating the
law. believing that if he avoided the
mails he was safe. The federal die
• o-o« .ftlfjr.* I.'. * . .
trlct attorney, however, caused his
indictment under the IntersVaie Com
merce bet and has secured' a convic
tion. The books were mostly express
ed to women, old maids or widows
being the especial object of the lead
er of the new cult.
The Northwestern will leave Seat
■it> tomorrow.