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BROAD PASS MAY SOON BE ANOTHER JUNEAU
GUGGENHEIMS BOUGHT IN
BROAD PASS THEY SAY
Aitken Certainly Represented
Smelter People in Purchase
Recently Made
It
That the Guggenheims have made visited the Broad Pass himself and it
a big deal by which they have ac- *** certain that he never purchased for
quiral large interests in the Broad h,mst‘lf Pro«"rt>’ vvhich hl' himsclf
, , , had never seen although he could
Pass country, and that the great . . ,
easily have visited it. The fact is that
smelting firm is about to develop that * „ . „ v.
** Aitken met Engineer Newsome who,
section on a very extensive scale i^ ^ well known, represented the Gug
the information which comes from genheims here, indeed it was so weP
sources which are believed to be re- known that he was the Guggenheim
liable. It is also stated, but not posi- man that for him to try to make the
tively, that the purchasers of the pro- deal would let everyone know who was
perty of the Wells boys are really the at the back of it, ami the last thing
Guggenheims and that Tom Aitken the Guggenheims want to do, for ob
who was mentioned as the purchaser vious reasons is to let anyone know
represented them. People who believe that they have any finger in those
this to be true state that not only will mining deal pies. But one thing is
this deal exercise a powerful influence about as certain as anything could be
on the mining conditions in this re- which is not proven by documents and
gion but that it will also have a most that is the Guggenheims are now in
important bearing on the railroad the Broad Pass country to stay. It has
question for reasons that can be readi- been learned since the story of the
ly understood when it is remembered deal for the Broad Pass property was
that transportation to the Broad Pass published that Mr. Aitken has really
country will require an outlet in this gone to Skagway ami thence to the
neighborhood. Aitken is a wealthy interior as he said he was going to do.
man on his own account but the well He has gone to Dawson to get a
known desire of the Guggenheims to dredge to place on property on Candle
make deals through middlemen is said creek in the Kuskokwim. The fact
to be the cause of their using him in that he did not go to Broad Pass after
this capacity. One fact which bears making the ileal may be regarded as
out this statement is that Aitken never very significant.
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BELIEVE BATTLE UNDECIDED
LONDON, Dec. 21.—British military observers say
that the German contentions that Hindenburg scored a
great victory over the Russians must be qualified at least
to some extent. It is clear that Hindenburg has made a
steady advance in the direction of Warsaw but it is be
lieved that the Russians in falling back took new positions
in strong entrenchments and much hard fighting remains
: before the final outcome of the battle can be determined.
Nothing has been said during the past few hours that give
any idea as to what the Russians are doing in the south
but as Petrograd has given out no information it must
be assumed that the siege of Cracow has not begun. It is
even feared that the Russians have been really compelled
to abandon the attempt to take the fortress for the pre
sent. This morning's accounts are very meager in rela
tion to both the eastern and western war theaters and not
a word has been published about the fighting in Flanders
and France. It is still believed in many quarters that a
forward movement by the allies can hardly be successful
before spring but fine" weather usually comes there in the
beginning of March and real spring is not more than three
months distant.
JAP ARMY FOR INDIA
PEKIN, Dec. 21.—That a Japanese army has been
sent to India or will be sent is stated here on the best of
authority. The assumption is that an uprising is threaten
ed in that country and that the Japanese have been re
quested by the British government to send troops that
could be relied upon as most of the white British troops in
the Indian possesion were sent to Europe. It is also stat
ed that the Japanese might be used in the countries con
tiguous to the Persian Gulf where the Turks are active
but it seems to be certain that Japan is now being eagerly
urged to go into the conflict with her whole strength.
Great Britain is said to have offered her a loan without
interest as was done in the case of Belgium and Servia.
KAISER TO THE FRONT
BERLIN, Dec. 21.—Emperor William is reported to
be ready to go to the front once more and he has announc
ed that he will spend Christmas with the army. His
. doctors tried to make him postpone his departure but
* the very moment it was found that the operation was suc
cessful he became impatient to be on the move. His
health is said to have been much improved but his medi
cal advisers warn his against undue excitement.
STOCK MARKET
LOOKS POORLY
PRICES SHOW STEADY RECES
SION SINCE THE MARKET
RE-OPENED.
NEW YORK. Dec. 21.—The prices
in the stock market have showed a
steady recession since the re-opening. ^
Most of the prominent issues closed'
today at the lowest figures since the
resumption of business. Most of the
members of the exchange are inclined
apparently to regard these facts as
showing an unfavorable condition but1
many others seem to incline to the
view that matter are not at all so bad
as it was feared they would be.
El GENE ZIMMERMAN DEAD.
CINCINNATI, Dec. 21.—Eugene
Zimmerman, former president of the
Cincinnati, Hamilton, Dayton railway j
company and father of the Duchess of J
Manchester, died here yesterday.
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GENERAL MORTAN DEAD.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.—Briga
dier General Charles Morton is dead.
He was a brother in law to Senator
Poindexter.
DEAD N ATIVE WELL KNOWN.
Tom Stepan Said to be Killed by
Indian Jim was Chief and
a Preacher.
Tom Stepan, for whose murder;
Indian Jim is now in jail in Seward, j
was the chief of the Knik Indians and
was also accustomed to hold services i
of the Greek church in Knik and else-1
where. He also held some services in
the Nelchina and Judge L. F. Shaw,
formerly commissioner of the latter i
camp, says he wag well liked. Indian |
Jim who must stand trail on the
charge of murdering the chief was a
sort of second chief and is also well
known and liked. According to the
Knik News, Indian Jim went to Knik
after the occurrences and gave him
self up to the authorities.
ALAMEDA TOMORROW
The Alameda left Juneau at 2:30
P. M. Saturday and Agent Guptil ex
pects her to arrive here tomorrow. He
will probably hear from her at Valdez
this evening.
B. P. O. E.
All members of the Brotherhood of
Elks now in Seward are requested and
urged to attend a meeting of the
brothers to be held Tuesday evening
December 22nd, 1914, at the office of
Senator Ray, at 8:30 p. m.
HARDLY FROZE ON 19TH
DEC. FOR NINE YEARS.
From 1906 until 1914 inclusive the
the temperature on December 19,
which this year was last Saturday, has
only averaged below freezing twice.
In 1906 on that date the average tem
perature was 40, on 1907 it was 37;
1908, 30; 1909, 36; 1910, 1911, 12 in
the morning and 26 in the afternoon:
1912, 28 and 22; 1913, 40; 1914, 40.
NEWS NOTES
The Iditarod mail got away this
morning on schedule time.
The Howard team got away this
morning with a large load of Christ
mas presents from Brown and Hawk
ins for the Knik people.
H. C. Hall, whose toes were recently
amputated is reported to be progres
sing very satisfactorily.
ENGLAND WANTS
TO STOP GAMES
PUBLIC MEN CALL ON FOOTBAL
LERS TO FIGHT FOR
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COUNTRY.
LONDON, Dec. 19.—The warfare
between those who want professional
football continued during wartime and
those who think that the players and
employes of the football clubs ought
to be at the front, goes on merrily
with tho Poet Laureate as the latest
contributor to the discussion.
The chief argument of those who
oppose the discontinuance of the
games, which draw every Saturday
even larger crowds than the American
baseball world’s series contests, is that
the loss of the millons of dollars which
the football “magnates” pay out for
salaries and other expenses would be
a crushing economic blow to a large
class. The sporting editor of the Daily
News, for instance, says: ,
“I contend that Football is an abso
lute necessity to the community. Stop
it and you will drive the men who are
making guns, ammunition, uniforms,
boots, etc. into wilderness of the
drink-shops on Saturday afternoon.
The men who are fightmg ami will
fight later on, or who are doing the
nation’s urgent work at home, have
selected professional football as their
mode of weekly relief from the wor
ries of their labor.”
The other side of the argument is
presented in an open letter from Dr.
Bridges, the Poet Laureate. He says:
“I voice the feeljng of the country
in declaring that it is high time pro
fessional football should be discon
tinued.
“The sightseeing crowds are not
so much to blame, l hope, as they ap
pear to be; I take it they are ignor
antly misled by the small body of men
who cater for them.
“The whole nation is mourning for
those falling in defense and I would
suggest that the herioc death of Lord
Roberts is such an occasion as may
well serve these football managers
as a motive for fixing the term for
the cessation of their public entertain
ments.
“Our enemies calculated on finding
the mass of our people apathetic. If
any class is showing itself so, they
are traitors and more dangerous than
the Germans themselves. It is high
:: a agg
THAW WILL BE
BROUGHT BACK
SUPREME COURT REVERSES
FEDERAL COURT AND OR
v DERS EXTRADITION.
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.—The
United States supreme court has re
versed the decision of the federal court i
in New Hampshire in the case of
Harry Thaw and has ordered that he ,
bo extradited immediately. Justice'
^Holmes announced that it is the
court’s unanimous decision to ocer
rule the contention that it was not a
crime for a man confined in an ;nsane
asylum to walk out if he could. Thaw
hac been living in Manchester, New
Hampshire, for three months.
It has been learned that Thaw may
remain at New Hampshire for thirty
days unless his attorneys consent to
his removal sooner. Today’s court
mandate will not be issued until the
attorneys on both sides ask for an
earlier issue.
The result of the finding of the
supreme court undoubtedly is that
Thaw will be once more confined in
the asylum.
PRESIDENT BELIEVES
TREATY WILL FAIL.
Senate Puts in Clause in Safety at
Sea Matter Which He Thinks
Nullifies it.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.—Presi
dent Wilson expresses the opinion that
a clause put into the safety at sea
treaty by the senate practically nul
lifies it. This clause is intended to
reserve to the United States the pri
vilege of making safety regulations
and impose them on foreign ships
coming into American territorial
waters. The president believe, how
ever, that the senate will reconsider
this clause.
time that our footballers let the world
sec what they are really made of.”
As showing the extent to which
football still holds the attention of a
large public, last Saturday there were
4,700 matches played in the British
Isles, not including boys' matches. It
follows that over 140,000 men of the
right sort for recruiting were kick
ing a football about ovor here, while
their more patriotic comrades were
being heavily shelled in Flanders.
GENERALS ASKED FOR KAISER
AMSTERDAM, Dec. 21.—It is stated on the most re
liable authority that the doctors in attendance on the
kaiser opposed his return to the front but that the mili
tary chiefs insisted on his taking a chance because of the
moral effect which his presence is sure to have on the
troops in the field. His condition is by no means good
and the most serious results may come from the excite
ment consequent on his presence at the front.
LAUGH AT BRITISH FEARS
LONDON, Dec. 21.—Travellers to different parts of
the continent from Berlin say that the Germans and par
ticularly the Berliners regard the British fear of a Zep
Zelin raid on London as a joke. The German government i
is said not to have the slightest thought of sending Zep
pelins against London and every story told about the pro
cautions taken by the British to guard against such a
raid is hailed as something worth laughing it.
BOERS STILL FIGHTING
CAPETOWN, Dec. 21.—According to the informa
tion received here within the past few days there is still
some skirmishing going on between the loyal British:
troops and German-Boer forces on the frontier between
German and British territory. The Boers who took the
field with De Wet and Beyers are said to be without am
munition and have scattered, most of them going over the
line into German Southwest Africa.
BOTH SIDES AGAIN
CLAIM SUCCESSES
Joffre Calls on French Troops
To Drive Enemy Out
Of France
FRENCH CLAIM ADVANCE
PARIS, Dec. 21.—Progress all along the line is claim
ed in the French official statement issued today, not one
mention is made of a German advance or of a French re
pulse although the accounts from Berlin claim several
German successes. Gains are recorded in Belgium and
France although these gains are light in the former coun
try. The chief gains are said to have been made between
the rivers Lys and the Aisne. In Champagne and the
Argonne big successes are mentioned. At one point an
advance of twelve hundred yards was made by the allies
and at another point the advance was five hundred yards.
The last named gain was made between the Argonne and
the Meuse. On the right banks of the Meuse and on the
heights of the Meuse the French heavy artillery was suc
cssful and artillery fighting favorable to the allies is also
reported on the Aisne, near Rheims and elsewhere.
BERLIN ALSO CLAIMS GAINS
BERLIN, Dec. 21.—The war office issued a state
ment today that the German army has been successful in
the fighting at Nieuport on the Belgian coast. It also is
claimed that the Germans took several positions held by
the British and Indian troops and captured two hundred
and seventy of them and some artillery. The trenches
taken by the allies some time ago were recaptured at
Notre Dame de Lorette. Near Souain the French reach
ed some German trenches but were driven off with a loss
of three hundred and fourteen prisoners and many killed.
The official statement quotes textually the orders issued
by General Joffre to the French troops urging them to
press forward in the endeavor to drive the German in
vaders from French territory. The German war oil ice
evidently publishes the statement of the French command
er in chief to show that the allies have now actually be
come engaged in what was to be a great foward movement
but which has failed. This city is still celebrating the vic
tory of the home troops against the Russians in Poland.
The pause in the advance is taken to mean only the pre
paration for the continuation of the swoop on Warsaw
and news is momentarily expected that this advance has
been begun. From the reports received here the people
have come to believe that the defeat of the Russians was
most disastrous and has demoralized the armies of the
czar to an almost unbelievable extent. Hindenburg is
once more the hero of the hour.
RUSSIANS HOLD GERMANS
PETROGRAD. Dec. 21.—The Russian forces are still
holding at bay the German columns which are seeking to
cross the Bzura river and advance on Warsaw thirty miles
away. For three days this German army of two hundred
thousand men has been endeavoring to force a crossing
against a strong force of Russians which is holding the
right bank but the attempt has failed and has been ac
companied by great losses to the enemy. The war depart
ment seems to be confident that Warsaw can be saved
from the invaders although there seems to be only very
little inclination to deny that the enemy has really gained
some successes of importance. Even here, however, there
is quite a haze over the real truth about the operations
and it may take some days before the real facts can be
published.
FOURTEEN SHIPS LOST
COPENHAGEN, Dec. 21.—As an almost direct result
of the raid by the German ships on the English coast
fourteen merchant vessels of all kinds have been lost. All
of them were sunk by mines laid by the German cruisers
as they steamed along the British coast where shipping
is very thick. The foggy weather which prevailed during
the raid enabled the Germans to lay the mines without
much difficulty. Around Scarborough particularly the
disasters were numerous after the disappearance of the
raiders.