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ALASKAN Jan. 2L—Max. 3, at 4 p. m. 1, N. wind,
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TRIANS AND LITTLE KINGDOM IS SNUFFED OUT
ANOTHER GREAT BRITISH LINER,
THE NORSEMAN, SENT TO BOTTOM
MONTENEGRO’S GLORY ENDS
BERLIN, Jan. 25.—The main Montenegrin army has
surrendered en masse to the Austrians and the Austrian
troops now occupy all of Montenegro. The occupation of
the coast points by the Austrians completed the invest
ment of the country and its forces and nothing was left
but surrender. No information has come as to the where
abouts of Ring Nicholas but he has probably escaped by
the Adriatic. After their surrender the Montenegrins
were found to have been reduced to a pitiable condition
by hunger and exposure, The Balkans are now cleared
ot the enemy except those forces at Saloniki and nearby
places on the coast.
ANOTHER GREAT LINER SUNK
LONDON, Jan. 25.—The trans-Atlantic liner Norse
man of the Dominion line has been torpedoed and sent to
the bottom somewhere that is believed to be near the
scene of the destruction of the Lusitania. This announce
ment was made today but none of the details of the occur
rence have yet been given out by the authorities. She was
a vessel of ' en thousand seven hundred tons and is the larg
est liner sunk during the war with the exception of the
Lusitania and Arabic. That she had a large number of
passengers aboard is likely but at the time this dispatch
was sent no further information had been given out.
MAY DEFY UNITED STATES
LONDON, Jan. 25.—It is reported that France is urg
ing Great Britain to declare the immediate complete
blockade of Germany, entailing the practical blockading
of neutral countries htrough which Germany might re
ceive supplies. The friends of the proposal in this coun
try declare that a strong sentiment exists in the house of
commons and they predict that this sentiment will com
pel the government to take the momentous step. It is pro
posed that the general blockade be put in effect simul
taneously with the beginning of conscription so that the
world might be shown that the British empire is determin
ed to overwhelm the Teutons at any cost. It is perfectly
well understood that America will be the chief nation to
contend with in this matter as the commerce of the United
States will be primarily affected but many are urging that
American opinion be ignored. Indeed, just at present a
rather unfriendly feeling towards the United States
seems to have been aroused by the expected opposition of
the United States government to the idea of a general
blockade. In one of the newspapers today appears a let
ter from Lord Beresford protesting against the honoring
of passports given by the American state department to
Geman-Americans. At the same time in the same paper
appeared the statement that Americans do not like Eng
lishmen and that Britain should not try to conciliate
America ac all. In other words the government is urged
to put the general blockade into effect whether the United
States likes it or not J
U. S. VIGOROUSLY PROTESTS
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.—The state department has
just about completed the drawing up of a vigorous and
unequivocal protest against the proposed genera! block
ade of Germany. The intended blockade is of the nature
of a prevention of “trading with the enemy” and is be
lieved to be so arranged that the freedom of the com
merce of neutral nations would be at the mercy of the
British fleet. The American portest will declare that the
United States cannot recognize the blockade as legal if it
disturbs the commercial relations not only with other
neutral nations but with Germany itself. Washington
opinion sees in the promised blockade a source of the
greatest danger to the friendly relations between the
United States and the allies. Anti-administration people
believe that while congress is in session the president and
state department will find it necessary to take more firm
measures for the protection of American commerce than
they have taken hitherto.
FRANCIS JOSEPH REPORTED ILL
ROME, Jan. 25.—According to advices received at the
Vatican the condition of the emperor of Austria is grave.
He is reported to be very ill and the knowledge of his
great age adds to the belief that he cannot live much
longer.
GERMAN SUBS. IN AGEAN
CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan. 25.—A British supply
ship on the way to Saloniki is reported sunk in the Agean
by a German submarine. The water approaches to the
Greek coast are now teeming with submarines, the war
office announces.
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Cramer and Party
Still On Island
! High Winds Prevent Rescue Party
From Venturing Out.
ANCHORAGE, Jan. 25. — The
i Cramer rescue party is still camping
at Point Campbell waiting until the
Turnagain Arm wind clears away the
ice so that they can get across to Fire
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Island in a small boat. The north
winds prevailing for the past few days
blocked the passage with ice but the
wind is now abating and the rescuers
expect to get across in a few days.
Tne marooned pary is probably suf
fering hardships but is not believed to
be in any serious danger.
HAS FAITH IN WIFE WHO
ELOPED WITH THE NEGRO
San Diego Hotelman Goes to Salt
Lake to Bring Home the
Sweet Thing.
SAN DIEGO, Jan. 25.—Van Lee
Hood, husband of the woman who was
arrested in Salt Lake for eloping with
her negro chauffeur, has left for that
city tO> bring her home. Before leav
ing Hood declared that his faith in
the woman is unshaken in spite of all
the circumstances. Advices from
Salt Lake are that the negro will be
prosecuted to the limit as there is
every reason to believe that he was
chiefly responsible,.
GOVERNOR LISTER
TESTIFIES FOR
STONE ON TRIAL
Says Man Charged With Industrial
Commission Forgery Was
Only a Tool.
OLYMPIA, Jan. 25. — Governor
Lister was examined as a witness yes
terday in the trial of Stone who is
charged with forgery in connection
with the warrants of the Industrial
Insurance Commission of which he
was an official. The governor declar
ed that Stone was hardly more than
a messenger who carried papers to
the attorney general and Lister ap
parently believed that the real cul
prits will be found higher up. Much
interest is being manifested in the
case as sensational exposures arc
looked for.
WHO CAN DESCRIBE
BARN DANCE BEST
Arctic Brotherhood Press Agents
Have a Busy Old Time Telling
About Tomorrow Night.
The whole world knows that the
Arctic Brotherhood” will give a Barn
Dance tomorrow* night It will be
w*hat Milton would call a humdinger
but the members of the committee are
at a loss for a description that w’ould
be new enough and striking enough.
Indeed they made some very weak
attempts when asked to supply a few*
notes. Bill Henry called it a peach.
L. L. James said it will beat anything
of the kind, etc. “The event of the
season" says Frank Ennis. Joe
Badger nearly broke a blood vessel
trying to get a word. L. V. Ray
made a speech about it, and John
Noon used a cuss word. But it will
be great and glorious just the same.
NO TRAIN WEDNESDAY
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The train will not go out tomorrow,
Wednesday. The next train will leave
os Saturday morning at 9 o’clock.
iMANN THINKS
U. S. MAY WAR
WITH BRITAIN
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DECLARES IN HOUSE ENGLISH
DANGER IS GREATER
THAN GERMAN
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.—James
1 R. Mann, Republican leader and rep
resentative from Illinois, startled the
’ House this afternoon when he declar
i ed that the United States is now in
■ greater danger of war with Great
Britain than with Germany. He re
minded the House that he had al
ways hitherto been in favor of keep
ing down the navy but now he strong
ly urged the House to support the
larger army and navy policy of the
administration as he sees serious
danger threatening from the interfer
ence with American commerce by a
certain great naval power.
WOMAN ACQUITTED OF
A HORRIBLE MURDER
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 25.—Mrs.
Pamias was acquitted today by a jury
of murder. She was charged with
murdering and dismembering the
body of a cripple who had been her
persistent suitor.
RIVERS AND HARBORS
LIMITED FOR MONEY
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.—After a
conference between the president and
Leader Kitchen today it was announc
ed that no omnibus building bill will
be introduced this season. It was al
so announced that the rivers and har
bors appropriation will be cut to
twenty-four millions.
HIGHPOWERRADIO
FOR UNGA ISLAND
SENATOR JONES OF WASHING
TON INTRODUCES A
BILL FOR IT.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.—Senator
Jones of Washington state introduced
a bill yesterday providing for the
establishment of a high power radio
station on Unga Island, Alaska. The
station would be expected to have a
capacity equal to keeping all northern
Alaska and the coast in touch with
Japan and Siberia. Its establishment
is regarded as probable.
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SEWARD CLUB OPENS FOR
BUSINESS THIS EVENING
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The Seward Club will open for
business this evening under the own
ership and management of Messrs.
Hopkins and Torrey. Fine billard
and pool tables have been installed
under the direct supervision of Frank
Torrey, an adept with the cue. Cigars
and tobacco of first class brands will
also be kept in stock and the place
pormises to be a most popular resort.
The Club occupies part of the location
of the Terminal Bar building.
DORA ARRIVES
The steamer Dora hove in sight
after two o’clock this afternoon and
Rocked about press time.
RUSSIANS ARE ADVANCING BUI
BRIIISII IN ASIA ARE REPULSED
Woman and Child
Saved Many Lives
Put Out Fire After Slides in Cascades
by Heroic Exertions.
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SEATTLE, Jan. 25.—Mrs. Daisy
Rogers and her young daughter arc*
the heroines of the slides in the
Cascade mountains. When the day
coach was hurled otT the track the
stove upturned and set fire to the
coach while several people were hem
med up by snow in it and other cars.
The woman and girl succeeded in ex
tinguishing the blaze by throwing
snow and trampling on it. So great
were their exertions that they have
been brought here ill. The husband
of Mrs. Rogers died only a month
ago.
HOUSE WHERE WILSON
WED UP FOR SALE
Washington Jan. 25.—The house
where President Wilson and Mrs. Galt
were married has been put up for sale
and the fact is announced in a card
which hangs in the window of the
very rooms where the wedding took
place.
Seward Man l akes
Up the Challenge
George Kosmos Will Race Anchorage
Man on the Terms
Named.
George Kosmos has notified the
Gateway that he accepts the challenge
of Carl Christensen of Anchorage to
walk him from that city to this and
return for a purse of one hundred
dollars or more. Mr. Kosmos knows
nothing more about the terms than
what he saw in the paper yesterday
but if the money is up and if the chal
lenge has no other terms besides
those of a straight contest the Seward
man is ready. A wire from Anchor
age yesterday stated that Christensen
challenged any man for the race for
a purse of a hundred dollars or more.
Kosmos was a close second in the
Mountain Marathon race here in July
4th and was only two minutes behind
the winner.
WHITE MURDERER IS
LYNCHED IN TEXAS
Killed Father, Mother and Brother
and is Hanged to Tree
by a Mob.
BOSTON, Texas, Jan. 25.—W. J.
Mayfield, the murderer of his father
mother and brother, was taken from
the jail here last night and hanged to
a tree by a mob. Since his guilt be
came confirmed reports were rife of
the intention of the people to take the
law into their own hands but the
authorities did not seem to have been
ready when the mob stormed the
prison.
ALASKA TRANSFER CO.
GETS NEW CONTRACT
Will Supply Hundred Telephone Poles
For Electric Company.
The Alaska Transfer Company has
secured a contract to supply a hun- j
dred telephone poles to the Seward
Electric company. The contract has ?
been let in preparation for tnc ex
tension of the lines when the frost
leaves the ground. The contract calls
for the delivery of the poles at the
^ plant
SAY TURKS REPULSE BRITISH
BERLIN, Jan. 25—The British army which had been
marching to the relief of the British garrison of Kut-el
Amara has been repulsed by the T ui ks and has been lorc
ed to relinquish the positions taken up a week ago. The
I British army under General Townsend which was forced
to retreat from Bagdad is still surrounded by tne Otto
man forces. The relieving force was attempting to move
up the river Tigris and was coming from tne eastward,
tiie river running eastward for quite a distance below
! Kut-el-Amara. Advices from Constantinople indicate
that the repulse of the relieving force will result in the
forced surrender of the surrounded garrison. The Hood
ing of the river is said to have aided the Turks, judging
by all the circumstances the belief has been created here
that the British are facing the most decisive catastrophe
of the war so far as they themselves are concerned.
J , VON GOLTZ YACHT SUNK
ATHENS, Jan. 25.—That Field Marshal yon Goltz,
the German commander-in-chief of the Turkish armies,
came within an ace of being drowned in the Bosphorus by
the sinking of the vessel on which he was traveling has
just been learned although the vessel was sunk a month
ago by a French submarine. The vessel was nothing less
than the imperial yacht used by the sultan himself. The
French submarine with amazing skill and daring passed
through the Dardanelles and the sea of Marmora right up
to Constantinople. The sinking of the yacht is not denied
but it is announced that everyone aboard was saved.
GERMANS BOMBARD DUNKIRK
LONDON, Jan. 25.—German birdmen bombarded the
city of Dunkirk early this morning but later one of the
German airships was shot down near Nieuport. It is not
quite certain what type of machine the Germans used in
the attack on the French city but the Fokker is believed
again to have been the one. Accounts from Berlin are
that important results were gained by the raid but the
French authorities describe the damage as hardly worth
mentioning.
RUSSIANS MAKE ADVANCES
PETROGftAD, Jan. 25.—The Russians have now ad
vanced to a point about three miles from the city of
rdns.k as a result of successes over the Teutons in a cam
paign which has been proceeding for several . weeks.
Severe engagements were fought at Kovel, which is south
of Pinsk and in the Sarvar and Sarney regions, and the
fighting in all cases ended in victory for our arms. We
have driven the Teutons back from the Pinsk marshes
which are now frozen and enabled us to advance.
LUSITANIA TROUBLE STILL
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.—It was learned today for
the first time that von Bernstorff presented Germany’s
answer on the Lusitania matter to Lansing last Saturday,
and now a rumor has come from the White House that
the German reply is not satisfactory. This j-umor may be
accepted as a fact as the administration is known to have
adopted recently a system by which the public is told un
officially by “rumors from the White House” of the real
facts.
THINK MONTENEGRINS TRAPPED
ROME, Jan. 25.—The attempted escape of the rem
nants of the Montenegrin army is probably foiled if the
news coming today is correct. No report has come of the
embarking of the retreating forces on ships in the
Adriatic and as the Austrians are stationed almost all
along the whole coast the chances of the Montenegrins
getting away are very slight unless they could succeed
in reaching the coast in northern Albania.
AGAIN BOMBARD BULGARS
SALONIKI, Jan. 25.—A squadron of sixteen
French aeroplanes again bombarded the Bulgarians lines
near the Serb-Greek frontier yesterday and killed and
wounded a hundred and sixiy Bulgarians. Serious dam
age was also inflicted on*the camps of the Bulgarian army
and all the airships returned to their base here without
loss or accident.
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BRITISH LOST HEAVILY
BERLIN, Jan. 25.—In the battle east of Kut-el- '
Amara when the Turks repulsed the British army of re
lief the British los,t six thousand men killed and wounded,
according to the latest advices from the scene of the en
gagement. The success of the Turks seems to be fully
confirmed.