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SLISHT ADVANCE MARKS
BIRTHDAY OF WILHELM
BERLIN, Jan. 28.—The Germans have renewed
the attack on the French positions around Neuville.
In the fighting yesterday six hundred yards of
trenches were captured, which are being held against
all attacks.
Expected Drive on Kaiser s Birthday
LONDON, Jan. 26.—A renewal of heavy fighting
on the western front is in progress. It is expected
that the Germans will make a desperate attempt to
break through the French lines on Thursday, which
is the kaiser’s birthday.
Disaster to British Persian Expedition
LONDON, Jan. 26.—The British forces in Meso
potamia have suffered a severe reverse, and are en
deavoring to reach the besieged city of Kutalamara.
General Aylmer, in command of the British forces, j
has requested and obtained a truce of one day in
which to bury the dead.
Aeroplanes Attack English Coast
LONDON, Jan. 24.—Two attacks by aeroplanes I
on the coast of Kent were made on Sunday. Nine
bombs were dropped during the first attack, during
which one person was killed and several injured.
There was considerable damage to private property.
No casualties resulted from the second attack.
Aerial Attack on Metz Repulsed
PARIS, Jan. 24.—Two groups of aeroplanes,
comprising twenty-four machines, bombarded the
railway station and barracks at Metz, but were re
pulsed by German and Austrian aeroplanes.
Austrians on the Adriatic
VIENNA, Jan. 24.—The Austrian forces have oc- j
cupied the Adriatic seaports of Antivari and Dui
cingo.
Scutari Aiso Occupied
BERLIN, Jan. 25.—Scutari has been occupied by
Austrian troops.
Truce Was Only a Ruse
ROME, Jan. 24.—Premier Miouchkovitch of
- Montenegro, in a dispatch from Brindisi, says that
Montenegro arranged the truce with Austria as a j
ruse to enable her to gain time to prepare for the
retreat into Albania.
Sunk by Submarine
SALONIKI, Jan. 24.—A German submarine has
sunk a British cargo boat.
BRITAIN MAINTAINS POSITION
ON QUESTION OF SEA BLOCKADE
LONDON, Jan. 27.—The reply of Great Britain
to President Wilson's note protesting against the
naval blockade has been submitted to the American
ambassador. It is claimed by Great Britain that she j
cannot abandon the policy of interference with the
trade of the enemy, and cannot execute her plans
without interference to neutral trade. Paris joins in
the reply.
Armed Against Submarines
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.—The Italian steamship
Verona has arrived at New York with two guns
mounted on her stern. The incident probably will
result in the Austrian government taking up diplo
matically with the United States the question of arm
ing merchantmen.
May Hasten Government’s Decision
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—The arrival on Tues
day last of an Italian steamship having on board
mounted guns may hasten the decision of the gov
ernment upon the question of the policy to be pur
sued with reference to armed merchantmen.
Imprisoned Consuls Are Released
WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—Through the good of
fices of the United States, the German, Austrian,
Turkish and Bulgarian consuls at Saloniki, who were
arrested by the allies, have been released.
Persia Incident Believed to Be Closed
The Austrian government has informed Secretary
oi State Lansing that Austrian submarines were not
concerned in the sinking of the Persia, and as Ger
many has done likewise, the incident is believed to
be closed.
Turkey Did It
LONDON, Jan. 24.—The Turkish ministry, in a
public statemnet, claims that a Turkish submarine
sunk the Persia.
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LIBERT/ OF MORE IMPORTANCE THAN PEACE
NEW YORK, Jan. 28.—President Wilson made
three speeches in this city yesterday. He admitted
having . hanged his mind upon the question of na
tional defense, and also upon the tariff problem.
He favored the creation of a tariff board. Speaking
on the main subject of discourse, the “preparedness”
program, he said he considered the liberty and honor
pf the nation of more importance than peace.
ALASKA COAL A FACTOR
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26. Rear Ad
miral McGowan appeared before the
house naval affairs committee yester
day. He claimed that oil was cheaper
than coal for naval operations on the
Pacific at present, but that the opening
of the Alaska coal fields and the com
pletion of the Alaska railroad woultl
make coal the logical fuel of the navy.
GOVERNMENT OF CANAL ZONE
TORN UP BY DISSENSION
PANAMA, Jan. 25. Serious differences
of an official nature have arisen between
Major General Goethals, governor of the
canal zone, and Brigadier General Clarence
Edwards, commander of the troops stationed
in the zone. The military commander’s
criticisms of the governor have reached
Washington, and information has been re
quested by the war department. Both offi
cers have left for Washington.
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PLANS ALREADY ON FOOT
TO ORGANIZE CONVENTION
CHICAGO, Jan. 25. Preliminary plans)
for the Republican national convention, i
which is to be held in this city next June, j
have been approved by the sub committee j
in charge of arrangements. Ex-Senator
Elihu Root of New York and Senator Borah j
of Idaho have been mentioned for the honor ;
of the temporary chairmanship.
MONTANA WEATHER IS
COLDER THAN ALASKA’S
GREAT FALLS, Mont., Jan. 28. Re
ports have been received from many points j
in Northern Montana telling of temperature j
of CO degrees below zero. The extreme cold j
weather has caused a coal famine in many
small communities. Seven persons are
known to have been frozen to death.
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BRITISH TRADES UNIONISTS
FAVOR CARRYING ON WAR j
BRISTOL, Jan. 27. -The British Trades j
Union Congress assembled here yesterday.
The first day’s proceedings were notable by
reason of the fact that the unionists out
voted the extreme Socialist or anti-war sec
tion, end adopted a resolution in favor of
carrying on the war U> the end.
SEATTLE COMMERCIAL BODY
COMMENDED BY SECRETARY |
SEATTLE, Jan. 25.--The Alaska bureau
of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce has j
received a letter from Secretary of the In- j
terior Lane commending the bureau’s cam- '
paign inaugurated for the purpose of calling
the attention of congress to the needs of
Alaska. |
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JOE LAWRY WILL RECEIVE
FORTUNE OF HIS BROTHER
DAVENPORT. Wash., Jan. 28. Joe
Lawry, who went to Alaska in 1896, and
was last heard from in the Caribou country j
in 1910, is being sought by the executors j
of the will of his brother. The latter left j
a large estate, which he bequeathed to Joe
Lawrv.
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PIONEER OF KLONDIKE
IS DEAD IN CALIFORNIA
SEATTLE, Jan. 28.—Charles W. Stanch- j
field, one of the first gold-seekers to go over j
the Chilkoot pass in the great stampede to j
the Klondike, died suddenly yesterday at j
his orange ranch at Sunland, Cal.
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FEDERAL SUPREME COURT
ESTABLISHES NEW RECORD
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—For the first
time since its organization the United States
supreme court has been compelled to take
an indefinite adjournment because of lack
of cases on its calendar.
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SECRETARY OF INTERIOR
IN RUNAWAY ACCIDENT
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.—Secretary of
the Interior Franklin K Lane and his wife
were badly shaken up today in a runaway.
Their vehicle was dragged a distance of half
a block.
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WEAK HEADS OR WEAK KNEES
SEATTLE, Dec. 30.—Senior law students
of the University of Washington have voted
to “wear” red canes this year, as a mark of :
distinction. Dean John T. Condon says the
student who carries a can has either weak
knees or a weak head.
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TEDDY TO TAKE HOLIDAY
NEW YORK, Jan. 24.—Former President
Theodore Roosevelt and wife will leave on
February 10 for a tour of the West Indian
islands, to be of several weeks’ duration.
WILSON’S^EMISSARY
PARIS, Jan. 24.—Colonel House, who
is on a mission of President Wilson to the
United States representatives at European
capitals, left for Switzerland yestreday.
ALASKANS AT CAPITAL
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.—Visitors to the
capital today include Falcon Joslin and John
Dolan, both of Fairbanks.
AGED EMPEROR AGAIN ILL
LONDON, Jan. 24.—Emperor Francis
Joseph is again confined to his bed by a
renewed attack of bronchitis,
WHAT PRESIDENT SAID
ABOUT ALIEN CONSPIRACIES
(From the President’s Message)
There are citizens of the United States, I
blush to admit, born under other flags but
welcomed under our generous naturalization
laws to the full freedom and opportunity of
America, who have poured the poison of
disloyalty into the very arteries of pur na
tional life; who have sought to bring the
authority and good name of our govern
ment into contempt, to destroy our indus
tries wherever they thought it effective for
their vindictive purposes to strike at them,
and to debase our politics to the uses of
foreign intrigue.
Their number is not great as compare«
with the whole number of those sturdy
hosts by which our nation has been enriched
in recent generations out of virile foreign
stocks; but it is great enough to have
brought deep disgrace upon us and to have
made it necessary that we should promptly
make use of processes of law by which we
may be purged of their corrupt distempers.
America never witnessed anything like tb\>
before. It never dreamed it possible that
men drawn out of great free stocks such as
supplied some of the best and strongest ele
ments of that little, but now heroic, nation
that in a high day of old staked its very
life to free itself from every entanglement
that had darkened the fortunes of the older
nations and set up a new standard here
that men of such origins and such free
choices of allegiance would ever turn in
malign reaction against the government and
people who had welcomed and nurtured
them and seek to make this proud country
once more a hotbed of European passion.
A little while ago such a thing would have
seemed incredible. Because u was incredi
ble we made no preparation for it. We
would have been almost ashamed to pre
pare for it, as if we were suspicious of our- j
selves, our own comrades and neighbors! i
But the ugly and incredible thing has ac
tually come about and we are without ade
quate federal laws to deal with it. I urge
you to enact such laws at the earliest pos- |
sible moment and feel that in doing so I
am urging you to do nothing less than save
the honor and self-respect of the nation.
Such creatures of passion, disloyalty and
anarchy must be crushed out. They are
not many, but they are infinitely malignant,
and the hand of our power should close ;
over them at once. They have formed plots :
to destroy property, they have entered into
conspiracies against the neutrality of the I
government, they have sought to pry into
every confidential transaction of the gov- j
eminent in order to serve interests alien to j
our own. It is possible to deal with these
things very effectively. I need not suggest j
the terms "in which they may be dealt with. ;
I wish that it could be said that only a
few men, misled by mistaken sentiments of
allegiance to the governments under which
they were born, had been guilty of dis
turbing the self-possession and misrepresent
ing the temper and principles of the country
during these days of terrible war, when it
would seem that every man who was truly
an American would instinctively make it his
duty and his pride to .keep the scales of
judgment even and prove himseif a parti
san of no nation but his own. But it can
not. There are some men among us, and
many resident abroad, who, though born
and "bred in the United States and calling
themselves Americans, have so forgotten
themselves and their honor as citizens as
to put their passionate sympathy with one
or the other side in this great European
conflict above their regard for the peace
and dignity of the United States. They also
preach and practice disloyalty. No laws. I
suppose, can reach corruptions of the mind
and heart; but I should not speak of others
without also speaking of these, and ex
pressing the even deeper humiliation anti
scorn which every self-possessed and
thoughtfully patriotic American must feel
when he thinks of them and of the dis
credit they are daily bringing upon us.
While we speak of the preparation ot me
nation to make sure of her security and her
effective power we must not fall into the
patent error of supposing that her real
strength comes from armaments and mere
safeguards of written law. It comes, of
course, from her people, their energy, their
success in their undertakings, their free op
portunity to use the natural resources of
our great home land and of the lands out
side our continental borders which look to
us for protection, for encouragement and
for assistance in their development; from
the organization and freedom and vitality
of our economic life. The domestic ques
tions which engaged the attention of the
last congress are more vital to the nation
in this its time of test than at any other
time. We cannot adequately make ready
for any trial of our strength unless we
wisely and promptly direct the force of
our laws into these all-important fields of
domestic action. __
EGYPTIAN INVASION AWAITS
OUTCOME OF OTHER PLANS
LONDON, Dec. 9.—A dispatch to the
Daily Telegraph from Rome says:
“According to indirect news from Con
stantinople, Germany has abandoned her
idea of an expedition against Egypt in favor
of a great Turco-German expedition against
India.
“The German project is to organize an
army of 400,000 Turks, with 100,000 Ger
mans, commanded by Field Marshal Von der
Goltz, and an immense number of guns, for
an expedition in the spring, which will be
preceded by a large Turkish advance guard,
which already is on the march to Bagdad.
The Bulgarian army would undertake the
care of the Balkan line of communication
to insure supplies to the Germans in Asia."
SPOKANE STREET CAR FALLS
THROUGH BRIDGE TO RIVER
SPOKANE, Wash., Dec. 18.—Seven per
sons were drowned and twelve lie in the
hospitals suffering from injuries received as
the result of a car crashing through a weak
ened bridge on North Division street early
this morning. The occurrence took place in
the darkness, and as the car fell into the
Spokane river the task of saving the victims
was very difficult. Another car which was
following closely became suspended in the
wreckage, but was held up in time. Most of
the people in the car were laborers,
HELPED TO START WAR
BERLIN, Jan. 26. Medeljo Gabrino
vitch, the Servian anarchist who threw
a bomb at the Archduke Ferdinand of
Austria a few hours before the royal
duke and his wife were shot by assas
sins, died in prison recently. The plot
which resulted in the royal murders
included the unsuccessful bomb-throw
ing, and was the immediate cause of
the great European war.
BOLD ROBBERY IN CHICAGO
COSTS LIFE OF POLICEMAN
CHICAGO, Jan. 22. A bandit accompa
nied a woman in a taxicab to the office of
the Thomas A. Cook tourist agency today
and wounded the cashier, killed a policeman,
and then grabbed a thousand dollars and
made his escape.
The robbery took place in the busiest
part of the city, and was one of the most
daring in years.
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OFFERS TO SURRENDER
IF NOT EXTRADITED
NEW YORK, Jan. 22. The bureau of
investigation of the department of justice
has received a letter from Lincoln, the al
leged German spy who made his escape from
custody recently, in which he offers to sur
render upon condition that he be not ex
tradited to England.
Lincoln was being held for extradition on
a charge of forgery.
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MEAT SHIPPED TO GERMANY
AS MATTER OF NECESSITY
AMSTERDAM, Jan. 22.—The Dutch min
ister of agriculture has been authorized to !
immediately slaughter for exportation . to j
Germany a thousand head of cattle, which
otherwise would die of exhaustion and ex- |
posure.
The shortage of feed ia due to floods.
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ADDITIONAL TAXATION
FOR GERMAN EMPIRE
AMSTERDAM, Jan. 26.- The secretary of
the imperial German treasury, Dr. Helffer
ich, has prepared plans for additional taxa
tion which will yield $125,000,000 to be de- I
rived from tobacco, postoffice transactions
and railroad traffic.
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“BULL MOOSE” PARTY
WILL NOT STAY DEAD
OMAHA, Neb., Jan. 26.—A meeting of .
the local and state leaders of the Progressive :
party has decided to place in the field a i
full state, congressional and presidential
ticket in the elections of next fall.
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RUSSIANS TO BE EQUIPPED
BY AID OF JAPANESE
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 26.—Contracts
binding Japan to furnish Russia with vast
stores of munitions of war. with Great Brit
ain guaranteeing payment, have been signed
by
GOVERNMENT TO CONTROL
CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT
LONDON. Jan. 22.—The urgent necessity
for munitions of war has determined the
government to undertake the dilution of
skilled labor with semi-skilled and unskilled
female workers.
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ENGLISH NEWSPAPERS
TO BE REDUCED IN SIZE
LONDON, Jan. 24.—English newspapers
have agreed to reduce the importation of
paper and wood pulp 40 per cent in order
to liberate a considerable number of ships
for other trade demands.
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BRYAN TO JOIN FORD PARTY
STOCKHOLM, Jan. 27.—A cablegram has
been received here announcing that William
J. Bryan is about to join the Ford peace
party. His arrival is expected to great'/
strengthen the party.^
NIGHT RIDERS SENTENCED
NEW MADRID, Mo., Jan. 22.—Three
more night riders have been sentenced to
the penitentiary, making eighteen who have
now been convicted. Forty-seven yet re
main to be tried.
Y/HITE HOUSE DINNER
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.—At a dinner at
the W’hite House la*t night the diplomatic
representatives of ths Teutonic governments
and of the neutral countries were the guests
of the President.
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TO HONOR MARTYRED NURSE
PARIS, Jan. 24.—A statue in honor of
Edith Cavell, the English nurse executed by
the Germans in Belgium, is to be erected in
the garden of the Tuilleries.
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“STARVATION” DOCTOR OUT
WALLA, WALLA, Dec. 18— Dr. Linda
Hazzard, the “starvation” doctor,” serving
a prison term for causing the death of a
patient, was released from the penitentiary
last evening on parole.
SNOWSTORM IN CITRUS BELT
SAN BERNARDINO, Cal., Dec. 30.—Two
inches of snow fell here last night, and this
part of the state is seeing its first real snow
storm in history. Quite a large number of
Southern California towns have been visited
by snow this time.
ALASKA RAILROAD WORK
PROVIDED FOE IN Bill
WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—The house of repre
sentatives has passed the urgent deficiency bill, in
cluding the item of $2,000,000 for the immediate
use of the Alaska engineering commission in the
work of railway construction in Alaska.
May Forfeit National Bank Charters
Comptroller of the Treasury Williams has in
formed the house committee on finance that he is
considering the advisability of bringing suits to for
feit the charters of national banks which are charg
ing usurious interest.
Mexican Information Treated Confidentially
Some information concerning the Mexican situa
tion which President Wilson sent to the senate in
response to the request of that body is being con
sidered confidentially, for the reason that it is stated
to be unwise to make it public at this time.
High Power Radio Station for Alaska
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.—Senator Jones of
Washington has introduced a bill to establish a high
power radio station on Unga island, Alaska.
Will Not Revise Mining Laws
The house committee on mines and mining has
killed the bill passed by the senate which provided
for the appointment of a commission to revise the
mining laws.
Special Tax for War Munitions
Senator Robins of Arkansas has introduced a bill
which proposes a tax of 2 cents per pound upon
high explosives and 10 per cent ad valorem upon
mpiemenls of war manufactured in this country.
The tax is not to apply on materia! manufactured
for use in the United States.
To Take Half of Big incomes
The income lax has been declared constitutional
by the United States supreme court in a unanimous
decision. Proposals are now pending in congress
to tax incomes of more than a million dollars 50
per cent.
Prohibition for District of Columbia
WASHINGTON. Jan. 26.—Senator Jones of
Washington will introduce a bill prohibiting the man
ufacture and sale of intoxicants in the District of
Columbia. It is expected to become law.
Patriotic Altitude of Republican Leader
Unqualified non-partisan support of the military
preparedness program was urged by Minority
Leader Mann in a ringing speech deliered in the
house today.
Tariff Commission Provided For
WASHINGTON, Aug. 27.-—A bill has been intro
duced in congress to provide for a tariff commis
sion. According to the provisions of the bill, a
board of seven is to be appointed by the President,
whose duty it will be to investigate the cost of pro
duction at home and abroad, and recommend tariff
changes.
For Nation-Wide Prohioition
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—The sub-committee of
the senate judiciary committee, to which was re
ferred Senator Sheppard’s bill proposing a prohibi
tion amendment to the federal constitution, and for
submission of the same to the states, has reported
recommending the bill for passage.
For an Embargo on War Munitions
An embargo on war munitions for a period of
thirty days, in order to relieve the gram congestion
throughout the country, is proposed in a resolution
introduced in the house yesterday by Representa
tive Sloan of Nebraska.
Washington Congressman Assails Wilson
WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.—Representative Hum
phries of Washington assailed the Mexican policy of
President Wilson in the house yesterday. If the na
tion is too proud to fight, he said, it should not
quarrel.
Petitioners Want Embargo on Munitions
A spirited debate was evoked in the senate yes
terday on the proposal to place an embargo on war
munitions. A test vote was narrowly averted. A
petition in favor of an embargo, bearing a million
names, precipitated the argument.
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CARRANZA SHOWS INTENTIONS
BY EXECUTION OF MURDERERS
EL PASO, Texas, Jan. 24.—Bernardo and Fred
erico Durant, Mexican cattle thieves, were executed
in the cemetery at Juarez today by the Carranza au
thorities for the killing of American cowboys.
Another Mexican Outrage
BROWNSVILLE, Texas, Jan. 27.—Three Ameri
can artillerymen and one cavalryman were drowned
yesterday while attempting to rescue two privates
who swain across the river and were captured by
Mexicans. The attempted rescue was unsuccessful
and the prisoners were carried into the intenor.