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ITALIANS ONCE MORE FOR WAR
STOREKEEPER AT BONANZA IS BRUIT ALLY SLAIN
UNITED STATES CERTIFIES
TO ALL CARGOES SHIPPED
U. S. INFORMS BRITAIN
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.—The British government
was informed today of the decision of this government
to certify to the exact contents of American cargoes be
for they leave American ports. It is expected that this
action will help to solve the difficulities which led to the
presenting of the note to Great Britain. The only obstacle
now to the friendly arrangement of the matter would be
the refusal of the British government to accept the certi
fied assurances.
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ITALY WANTS WAR
ROME, Jan. 5.—Lieutenant Bruno Garibaldi, grand
son of the famous liberator, has been killed on French soil
while fighting in the French army. The most remarkable
fact connected with his death is that it has caused a re
vival of public sentiment throughout Italy in favor of;
war. This feeling is augumented by the belief that the
Italian military preparations are now perfected and that
Italv is readv to take the held at any moment. A million
men will be under arms before the close of this month and
another million are being formed into a reserve that will J
be ready at a moment’ notice. All the artillery regiments
have been supplied with new cannons which are superior
to the Austrian and German guns. A special secret com
mission is enlisting volunteers. It is intended to gather
six thousand men commanded by Captain Ricciotti Gari
baldi with his sons as lieutenants. For some time the
people of this country have remained quiet as the premier
declared that neutrality would be the best policy for Italy
to pursue but it cannot be doubted that the majority of
the people want war and never was the outlook more
serious. All agree that the victory of Germany and Aus
tria in the present conflict would practically sound the
knell of Italy’s doom as a great power.
WANT SHIPPERS TO BE CAREFUL
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.—The Commerce and Trea
sury departments have formulated a circular urging the
co-operation of American exporters and shipping men
with the government regarding manifests of cargoes car
ried in neutral ships from America. It urges the exporters
to tell the exact contents of the cargoes with affidavits.
The answer given by the British government to the note
of protest sent by this government has been received with
a feeling that interference with American ships and car
goes will be stopped if the shippers are careful in send
ing. There is still a feeling in some quarters, however,
that no country has a right to lay down conditions to any
other nation in the sending of goods which are not contra
band of war. The worst phase of the question is that
Great Britain has declared certain articles contraband
which were never recognized as such before and many be
lieve that if this privilege is permitted in one respect there
can be no limit set to it respecting other articles of mer
chandise. It is stated here unofficially that the London
and Washington governments are still communicating
and that further alterations may take place in the condi
tions within a very short time.
GERMANS HOODWINK BRAZIL
RIO JANEIRO, Jan. 5—The German steamer Holger
has secretly left Pernambuco presumably with supplies
for the German warships that are still roving the south
American waters. The authorities who permitted this
breach of neutrality have been removed by the Brazilian
government and an inquiry will be held. The steamer pre
tended to be loading as a regular merchantman and com
pletly hoodwinked all the officials who were not parties
to the scheme. The supplies are undoubtedly intended for
the Dresden and for the Prince Eitel which apparently
have succeeded in getting away but which are probably
unable to start any raids because of lack of supplies. The
Dresden seems to have entirely escaped and Brazil will
be placed in a disagreable position should the vessel man
age with the help of supplies secured here to inflict dam
age on hostile shipping.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.—Chairman Flood of the
house committee on foreign affairs states that the German
government does not expect the United States to stop the
export of war material. He told this to the people who are
advocating the prohibition of such exports and he evident
ly spoke on the authority of German officials themselves. •
CARRANZA MEN
TAKEPUEBLA
ALL VERA CRUZ REJOICING
AT SUCCESS OF THE
OBREGON ARMY.
VERA CRUZ, Jan. 5.—General
Obregon has reported to the Carranza
headquarters that he has captured
the city of Puebla and all Vera Cruz
is rejoicing and celebrating today as
a consequence. The city is said to
have been carried by an assault which
v> as one of the most determined and
bloody in the record of Mexican light
ing. The forces defending the city
are said to have been at least equal
numerically to the besiegers but the
intrepidity of the Carranza troops
overcame the defence after severe los
ses. The fall of the city is expected
to mark the beginning of the real
campaign.
RUBY BOOSTS FOR THE
SEWARD MAIL ROUTE.
All Depends, Says Ruby Paper, On
Success of Route This Winter.
“If the mail service inaugurated
over what is referred to as the Sew
ard-Iditarod trail the first of Novem
ber is even moderately successful this
winter its importance to Alaska can
scarcely be estimated."
This is the manner in which the
Ruby Record-Citizen refers to the new
mail route.
The paper goes on to say:
“While it is called the Seward-Idita
rod route it is really much more than
that, for it is expected to eventually
serve the richest half of all Alaska.
The convenience it will be to the
people here is nothing to the effect
it will have in making known and ac
cessibe the undeveloped rgions be
tween Ruby and the coast. It is in
reality a Seward-Ruby route."
There is much talk now about hav
ing the trail prepared for the travel
and it will be a pity if this talk ends
in nothing. As the Ruby paper says
it is of real importance.
TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS
WOULD IMPROVE TRAIL.
The Worst of the Route to Iditarod is
Where Trees Have Fallen Across.
With just two hundred dollars an
improvement could be made on the
Seward-Iditarod trail that would
make an immense change for the bet
ter. This is the conscensus of opinion
of those who have recently come over
it. The worst place on the trail ac
cording to J. E. Riley is that from
Indian creek divide to Eagle river, a
stretch of about twenty miles. On
that part of the trail there are dead
falls for every twenty feet which
make travelling exceedingly difficult
but which could be removed with a
very small expense. In many places
it is necessary to unhitch the dogs
from the sled. In some places the
Willows even have not been cut. “An
Indian going out to shoot moose would
make a better trail than that" said
Mr. Riley. All the travellers agree
that Seward ought to have something
done at once.
jWHEAT HIGHEST
FOR^O YEARS
PRICE SOARS TO A DOLLAR
THIRTY SIX AND A
QUARTER.
CHICAGO, Jan. 5.—Cash wheat is
being sold today in Chicago for one
dollar thirty six and a quarter cents.
This is the highest price attained for
forty years and all the indications
seem to promise that the price has
not reached the high water mark. The
rise will undoubtedly be followed im
mediately by an increase in the price
of bread. Other food stuffs continue
to show a tendency to rise almost in
proportion today and there is every
reason to fear that the effects of the
war only now are really beginning to
be felt in this country.
SPEAKS HIGHLY OF RUBY
BUT KICKS AT TRAIL.
L. W. Turner is one of those who
arrived over the new trail from Ruby
He got to Seward the other day and
says that Ruby is the best camp in
Alaska today. One outfit alone will
take out well over a hundred thousand
dollars and new ground is being open
ed all the time. When asked if he
thinks many will come from Ruby now
that the trail is kept open by the mail
teams to Seward Mr. Turner express
ed the belief that they will not unless
the trail undergoes a vast improve
ment.
MUST HURRY UP
WITHAREPURT
NEW CONGRESS TAKES OFFICE
ON MARCH FOURTH
NEXT.
In the Alaska column today is a
story by the Washington correspond
ent of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
in which he states that the report of
the Alaska railroad commission will
be ready for the president by the first
of February. It is pointed out that
the report cannot be delayed longer
than that date if the hope can be en
tertained that something \^ill be done
this spring. The present session can
not at furthest last longer than the
fourth of march because on that date
the new' congress, elected this winter,
will begin. The regular session for
that new' congress will not begin until
December and President Wilson and
congressional leaders have told us
that the business can be finished by
the present congress without the
necessity for calling a special session.
By making the report on the first of
February the railroad commission
will give only a bare month for the
decision of President Wilson to be
formed and for the giving of the
money necessary for the start of the
actual w'ork of building the railroad.
The .people may, therefore, is seems
hope for the momentous decision with
in two months unless President Wil
son should decide to ask congress for
the money, first and afterwards pro
ceed at his leisure to decide on the
route. Although there are many who
believe that the appropriation has al
ready been made in full it is sure that
congress will have to give permis
sion for the taking of the actual cash
from the treasury.
We can do it. Job printing of e\ ery
description.
GIVES DAMAGES
AGAINST UNION
IT. S. SUPREME COURT MAKES
REMARKABLE RULING RE
SPECTING LABOR.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.-The
United States supreme court con
firmed today the one hundred and
fifty thousand dollar judgment award
ed by the New York federal courts to
Loewc and company, the Danbury
hatters, against one hundred and
eighty six members of the United!
hatters’ union. The judgment was
given under the Sherman law as dam
ages resulting from a boycott declared
by the union. The supreme court was
unanimous in its decision and estab
lished a precedent which will exer
cise an important effect on future
strikes.
AMERICANS IN ISLANDS
OBJECT TO INDEPENDENCE.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.—Ameri
cans with money invested in the Phil
ippine islands are opposing before
the senate committee the bill provid
ing for the independence of the is
lands.
They declare without exception that
the withdrawal of the United States
from the islands would be disastrous.
It is not thought likely that the bill
can pass during the present session
and some means may be sought to
have the matter postponed.
REACHE DEAD.
NEW YORK, Jan. 5.—Gerville
Reache, the famous contralto singer,
died in this city today.
UPHOLDS OHIO WORKMEN’S
LAW OF COMPENSATION.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.—The su
preme court has upheld the constitu
tionality of the workmen’s compensa
tion law in a decision handed down
today.
LAJOIE GOES OVER TO
PHILADELPHIA AMERICANS.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 5.—Napo
leon Lajoie, second baseman and
former manager of the Cleveland
American league team has been re
leased to the Philadelphia Americans.
He will play second base for the lat
ter team. Lajoic’s batting average
for nineteen years has been three four
eight.
WANTS WOMAN TO VOTE
FOR THE PRESIDENTS.
PROVIDENCE, Jan. 4.—Governor
Beckmans in his inaugural address
advocates the cxtens’on to the Rhode
Island w'omen of the right to vote in
presidential election. The majority of
the people of the state arc said to
favor this extension also.
DELINQUENT TAX LIST
SOON TO BE PRINTED.
The city council at its meeting last
night announced that the delinquent
tax list will be in the hands fo the
printer on Jan. 15 and that after that
date the delinquent will bo compelled
to pay for the printing.
ALAMEDA LEAVES JUNEAU.
The Alameda left Juneau this morn
ing at five o’clock on the way to
Seward.
PIONEERS MEET TONIGHT.
The Pioneers of Alaska will meet
tonight at the regular hour and all
Pioneers are requested to attend.
fOUL MURDER DONE
NEAR IDE SI1USRANNA
Louis Schonborn, Storekeeper,
Found Dead With Bullet
In 1 learl.
VALDEZ, Jan. 5.—Louis Schon
born, a storekeeper at Bonanza, a
small mining town fourteen miles
from the Shushanna, has been found
murdered with a thirty thirty bullet
in his heart fired by some parties who
are yet unknown but whose capture
is expected soon for many reasons.
Schonborn was dead for twenty four
hours when the body was discovered.
On the receipt of the news here, Mar
shal Brenneman immediately wired
to the department of justice for the
privilege to spend money in chasing
several parties who left camp sudden
ly about the time of the killing. The
names of these parties have not been
given out but it is said that there is
enough known to make it almost sure
that some of them were mixed
up in the affair. Schonborn formerly
lived at Dawson where he was well
known. He was a member of the
masonic order. The cause of the kill
ing is not yet known but it is assumed
to be robbery.
FRENCH ADVANCE IN ALSACE
LONDON, Jan. 5—The French right wing is ntnv less
than thirty miles from the Rhine and are holding the Alsa
tian village of Steinbach in spite of herculean efforts of
the Germans to retake it. The French also hold the heights
to the southeast of the village. A slight further advance
to the southeast would give the French the possession of
the village of Cernay whose heights to the west they now
hold. The capture of Cernay would open the road to Mul
hausen. The report issued by the Germans yesterday that
they had recaptured the heights near Steinbach is only
partially true as they failed entirely to move the French
from their main positions. The possession of Steinbach is
regarded as of such strategical importance that the Ger
mans are sure to make a tremendous effort to retake it
and the French forces are being reinforced as last as pos
sible. The news from the western part of the battle line
today is very meager. There has been no change in the
relative positions of the contending forces so far as can
be learned and very little fighting is reported which may
be due to the climatic condition prevailing.
RUSSIANS CLAIM SUCCESSES
PETROGRAD, Jan. 5.—Unofficial dispatches say that
the Russians who are now invading Hungary have captur
ed eight towns and have surrounded several Austrian div
isions in the Carpathian mountains. The authorities admit
that the Germans captured Bolimow and occupied several
Russian positions in that vicinity along the Warsaw front
but it is now declared that the Germans have been driven
back again with the loss of six machine guns. It is also
stated that the Russian army is so securely entrenched
that the task of the Germans to reach Warsaw is well
nigh impossible. The enemy is suffering severely from the
cold which they are less able than the Russians to guard
against owing to their great distance from their main
bases. On the north the Germans are still at Mlawa but
do not seem to be able to advance.
FRENCH STILL ADVANCE
PARIS, Jan. 5.—The official statement made this
afternoon report another French advance into Alsace at
a point near Orbey fifteen miles west of Colmar. 1 he
French advance in the direction of Germany, southeast of
Steinbach, has been maintained. While these advances
mean only a few miles in reality they have a fine senti
mental effect on the French people as they are made in
one of the lost provinces. The official report also declares
that the French have advanced near St. Georges, Belgiun,
which the Germans admitted losing some days ago.
KAISER EATS WAR BREAD
BERLIN, Jan. 5.—Emperor William has ordered that
no bread but the war bread be served to himself and the
members of his entourage from this time forward. 11ns
bread is made of eighty five per cent of rye flour and fif
teen per cent of potato flakes. It is being made and con
sumed in accordance with the proclamation to make the
empire’s food supply last longer. The public, however,
is not buying it readily and the emperor is now seeking
to influence the people by his example.