THE UBERTY
How would you like to see a great
ship—costing thousands of dollars—
blown up before your eyes and sunk
to the bottom of the Pacific ocean?
That is only one of the thrilling scenes you’ll see
in the great five-reel Mutual Masterpicture,
The Quest
And you will enjoy the superb acting of beauti
ful Margarita Fischer as “Nai,” the chiefs daughter;
Jos. E. Singleton, Harry Pollard and others.
You’ll want to be down on the tropical isle in
the Pacific—when you see these pictures—
TO-WIGHT AND SATURDAY NIGHT ~
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GARRISON HUS
NOTHING 10 SM
Has Announced that He Will Quit
Public Life and Will Have Noth
ing to Do with Politics.
NEW YORK, Feb. 12.—Secretary
Garrison of the war department, who
resigned from President Wilson’s
cabinet because his chief refused to
approve of his plan for the Conti
nental army, has anonunced that he
will retire absolutely from politics
and public life.
Sensational Stories had been print
ed that Secretary Garrison has re
signed after a heated argument with
the president but' this is denied by
the former cabinet officer. He has
persistently refused to discuss his
resignation or matte pomment on the
attitude of President WllsOn regard
ing the administration national de
fense policy.
Mr. Garrison spent a tew hours In
his office yesterday closing a number
of official business affairs which re
quired his attention, but left the Cap
itol bUtldlhg early to avoid a crowd
of reporters desiring interviews.
MAY BE VICTIMS
OF IHE RAIDERS
Four British, One Italian and One
9
Spanish Steamship are Believed
to Have Been Captured.
LONDON, Feb. 11.—Lloyd’s In
surance agency has posted a new list
of steamships which are among the
missing as they >re several weeks
overdue and it is feared that ih*i
have fallen victims of the Ge^iuau
raider Moewe. The vessels were nit
in the southern trade and the offi
cials of the steamship companbv, to
which they belonged say that t!e:i
sailing dates would bring them ini-:
the waters where the raiders ?ere
operating.
j The steamers which it is f-ai-o*!
have fallen into the hands of the raid
ers are the British vessels Starap,
Tynemouth, Hammersea and Edana
riff, the Spanish steamer Benlie ire,
and the Italian steam Inizativa
Wireless stations In all parts of
the southern seas have been request
ed to report ahjjt Of the missing ves
sels and to warn masters on sav ing
schooners that the Moewe is still
roaming the seas.
I
[8 Bringing Crew of Workmen to Be
gin Construction of Iee-Breek
er on Copper River.
SiEATTLE, FSb. 12.—The Steam
si- Alameda, of the Alaska Steamship
soidpany’s fleet nailed for Alaskan
ports last night, ‘having been delayed
Jwlng to her late afirlval from the
north on her last trip. The passen
gers on board for Valdez are Judge
Fred M. Brown and wife, Fred Cole
Blough, Mrs. W. M. Schultz, and
Michael Jordan.
The Alameda carries eighty passen
gers for Cordova and a good list for
othew points in Southwestern Alaska.
j’Ue men en route to Cordova are a
part of a crew of workmen who will
be employed on the work of building
the ice-breaker at Mile 49 on the Cop
per River railroad.
The steamer aico carries a num
ber of Fairbanks men who are re
turning to the north to prepare for
next summer’s mining operations.
Among the shipments of freight are
several tons of perishables consign
ed to merchants in Brooks, in tho
new Tolovana camp.
WILL RETAIN IMPORT
DUTY ON SUGAR
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 12.—
The Houfe Committee on Ways and
Means, which is considering various
means pf Increasing the revenues of
the hation to meet the deficiency in
the national treasury, has decided to i
retain the Import duty on sugar.
CONSPIRATORS
ARE INDICTED
Federal Grand Jury at San Fran
dUiqo flas Returned Scores of
Indictments Against Plotters.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 12.—The
Federal grand jury, called to Investi
gate the German bomb and shipping
plots-has returned a total of sixty
one Indictments- Many. of those
against whom indictments were re
turned have been arrested but it is
reported • tMUt’imore thUn a Store of
•the-conspirators left the country When
it was rumored that their activities
were being investigated by the fed
eral government agents.
It is said that evidence of the Teu
tonic conspiracies were submitted to
the grand jury by agents of the de
partment of Justice proving that the
conspirators had brought men from
the east to undertake the destruction
of shipping on the Pacific coast in
order to cripple commerce between
America and the countries with which
Germany Is at war.
' Many high officials of the Interna
tional Longshoremen’s Union were
summoned before the grand jury to’
tell what they know of the conspir
acy last summer to cause a general
strike of the members of the union
along the Pacific coast with the ob
ject of delaying shipments of muni
tions and supplies to, the Allies.
The names of conspirators against
whom indictments were returned are
L-eing kept strictly secret by the court
officials until the defendants are ap
prehended and wild rumors as to the
identity of the conspirators have been
circulated.
ARE DEMANDING
HIGHER WAGES
Track Layers and Other Workers on
the Government Railroad Have
Struck for Increase.
The track laying crew on the gov
ernment railroad out from Anchorage
beyond Eagle river struck last Tues
day for higher wages. They have
been receiving 3714 cents per hour
and are demanding SO cents.
Immediately after the strike was
declared Lieut. Mears. of the commis
sion, sent an engine and crew to the
scene with three deputy marshals to
take charge of the camp. The board
ing cars and track-laying outfit was
hauled hack to Anchorage, and the
strikers Walked to Anchorage later in
the day. It is reported that practi
cally all of the strikers are American
citizens;
At a meeting called at Anchorage
oh Tuesday evening seVen hundred
and fifty then were present And some
of those in the audiehce Word inclin
ed tb take a radical stand against the
commission, but th'i conservative vie
meat was in control and the meeting
confined itself to passing respluUp.s
that none of those present would ac
cept work which called for taking
•he of the strikers’ jobs.
The engineering commission is re
ported tb be tttrtng td replace the
strikers but According to latest ln
rottbattoh were ihebtihg with little
success.
It Is reported That there has been
i general movement towards organ
zing the men wlta f view pf.lnsreas
ng the scale of wages since the car
penters formed a union, fixing a t ale
>f 76 cents per hour. The pick ai.d
shovel men are also said to be or
ganizing a union at a recent meet
ing appointed temporary officers. The
Dfficera of the commission at Sewai i
believe that no trouble will be exne
rienced in.securing men to taco the
places of the strikers ns there are
many idle men in (he camp.
CONSUL HIGGINS HAS
OFFENDED THE GERMANS
WASHINGTON: Edward Higgins,
United States consul at Stuttgart,
Germany, will be recalled on leave of
absence because of the fact that be
ha3 rendered himself objectionable to
the Gorman authorities. Consul Hig
gins, the State Department has been
informed, has been outspoken in tuv
or of the Allies, and has embarrassed
members of the American colony iu
Stuttgart by his alleged indisc-ect
criticism of the Germans. ■
The feeling alffhst Consul Hig
gins is. said to have come to a head
when the Cologne Gazette printed a
dispatch.from its Washington cor.es
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pendent quoting Americans recently
returned from Germany as attribut
ing pro-Ally utterances to the Con
sul.
Consul Higgins is a native of Bos
ton, and before his appointment to
the Consul Service, in 1903, was for
twenty years a Methodist Episcopal
clergyman. His t first post was at
Berne, Switzerland, and In 1907 he,
was transferred to Stuttgart.
DONALDHOX SCHEDULE
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Lvs. Fort Liscum Lvs. Valdea
8:15 a.m. #:46 a.m.
1:16 p.m. 4:00 p.m.
TUESDAYS
8:16 a.m. 9:46 a.m.
1:16 p.m 2:00 p.m.
4:30 p.m. 6:00 p.m
SATURDAYS
1:15 p.m 4:00 p.m.
7:00 p.m 10:30 p.m.
There will be no trip of the Ifiuoch
on tho second‘ana fourth F’rldjjrs at
each month, these days being deed to
clean hollers.
Consul had been unpopular in the
American colony at Stuttgart as he
sonstantly advised American citizen#
who catno to him that Is was unsafe
for them to remain in Germany.
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Drug Comnany. at
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pure Buttermilk at Love-Whitley**