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Vol. No "7 SEWARD, THE GATEWAY TO ALASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1915. ____ltn<'nK
THAW SOON TO
BE IN JAIL
BELIEVED HE WILL SLEEP IN
TOMBS PRISON SIN DAY
NIGHT.
NEW YORK. Jan. */!.—That Harr>
Thaw will sleep in the Tombs prison
next Sunday night is now believed to
be assured by the recent developments
of the case, particularly that of the
supreme court. His trial will take
place next week and once more his
name will be on the lips of che people.
It is said that even he himself has
given up hope of escaping from the
law this time as every conceivable
means has been tried and found to be
futile. He lives an ordinary life at
present but is being carefully watched
by agents of the government to foil
any attempt he might make to es
cape to a foreign country. He has
grown aged in appearance rapidly
since his escape from Matteawaa and
at present appears to have fallen to
a low state of despondency.
WATSON DI E TODAY.
Wayne Blue says that the Admiral
Watson will arrive this evening sure
ly. The exact time of her arrival can
not yet be told.
ITALIAN GOVERNMENT
GIVES SIX MILLIONS.
Shelters to be Erected For Sufferers
and Relief Work Will be
Established.
! ROME, Jan. 21.—The Italian gov
ernment today appropriated six mil
I Ion dollars for the relief of ihe peo-,
pie affected by the great earthquake.
1 Extensive relief works are planned to •
give work to those who have been de
j prived of their homes. Modern shel
ters are already being constructed
1 while roads ami streets are Icing
cleared and a normal condition of
I living is beirg restored as qn:ck!y as
1 possible.
LOUS 1>. FOX DEVI).
Was Member of Exposition of Dr.
l ook to Summit of Mount
McKinley.
TOPEKA, Jan. 21.—Louis Oyche
Fox, zoologist and Arctic explorer is
dead. He is known as the rescuer of
Peary and as a member of the expedi
i tion of Dr. Cook in the attempt to
climb Mount McKinley. In his time
he made collections of Alaska game
for museums.
ALAMEDA COMING.
The steamship Alameda is due here
tomorrow afternoon about 4 o clock
^ according to word received by Agent
| Guptil.
RUSSIA SAYS TURKS I
LOSE IN CAUCASIA
German Forces get Between
Russians and \\ arsaw but
in Small Numbers.
REPORT TURKS SMASHED
LONDON, Jan. 21.—The Russian dispatches this af
ternoon claim that the Ottoman resistance has virtually
collapsed further defeats having been inflicted on the
Turkish rear guards. The Turks are reported to be prac
tically in full retreat and suffering so terribly that they
cannot hope to maintain the struggle very long with any
chance of success. The chief fighting has been proceeding
in Caucasia but some is also reported from the northern
part of Persia where the Turks are supposed not yet to
have met the main Russian forces. Nothing was published
today regarding the proposed invasion of Egypt by Tur
key. That the enemy has been massing to the east of the
Suez canal seems to be a fact that is borne out by reports
from various sources but it is certain that great prepara
tions must be made before the Turkish army can venture
to start the march across the Syrian desert.
GERMANS IN RUSSIAN REAR
PETROGRAD, Jan. 21.—German forces have ap
peared in the rear of the Russian army which is advanc
ing towards the Prussian frontier. The Germans are
along the road from Plock, sixty miles northwest of War
saw, to Goslitza, thus being between the advancing Rus
sian army and the city of Warsaw itself. The Germans
in our rear are reported, however, to be composed only
of small reconnoitering parties and the military leaders
declare that the danger of cutting the Russians from
their base at the Polish capital is not to be feared. There
is, in spite of this assurance, some uneasiness felt that
the enemy may have succeeded in securing a strategic ad
vantage which might result in serious complications of the
Russian commander’s plans. The news from the front
seems to be of a very indefinite nature this morning and
the appearance of the Germans in the Russian rear be
ing the only positive information given out there is a feel
ing that the Russian tactics are not, at least just yet,
securing any headway.
QUIET in west
PARIS, Jan. 21.—Artillery engagements are about
the only kind of fighting now proceeding in the west, in
northern France and Flanders. The whole energy of both
sides seems to have been centered in Poland and to that
field all eyes are turned. Some small infantry engagements
are said to have taken place here and there but without
any result worth noting beyond the taking of a few
trenches here and there by both sides.
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FILIBUSTER
STILL GOING
REPUBLICAN SENATORS CON
TINUE WINDY FIGHT AGAINST
SHIP BILL.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.—'The re
publican senators are still carrying
on their filibuster against the ship
purchase bill and the long winded
speeches which are the chief weapon
of the obstructionists are being made
without end. Burton was still talking
this morning after a three days ef
fort and came up smiling. The demo
cratic caucus which will take place to
night will complete the revision of the
bill anti a change may come tomorrow.
The obstructionist tactics pursued
by the opposition may result in estab
lishing the cloture method in vogue in
the British parliament where it was
adopted to prevent similar methods.
IDAHO TALKS PROHIBITION.
BOISE, Jan. 21.—Both houses of the
state legislature have passed Lho re
solution submitting the prohibtion
amendment to a vote next year. The
resoluton was carried by a large
majority. From this time until the
election it is expected that the state
will become the scene of a bitter fight.
SEWARD CAN NOW SEND
CHEAP NIGHT MESSAGES
New Regulation in C able Service Cuts
off 25 per cent if Sent at Night.
Night cable messages may soon be
sent from Seward at a price which is
only 75 per cent of th© price now paid
for day messages. This reductino is
not made in press messages, foreign
messages or radio messages. Such
night messages will not be delivered
until the day following their sending.
Mr. Zwink, operator in charge of the
Seward station, has just received word
of the establishment of the night cable
system. It will go into effect on Feb
ruary 1.
STATEMENT BY I
GEO. HAZZARD
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| TELLS JUNEAU EMPIRE ABOUT
THE CAUSES OF HIS
ARREST.
Mr. Hazzard says that the Cordova
obligations for which ho was placed
under arrest, are debts, and that they
are not yet due. He says he is pre
pared to pay all of them when they
become due.
“Judge A. Judson Adams **..'*:lorsed a
note for me, at the Bank of Cordova
which will not be due lor ‘>0 days,
and there are a few othc-r obligations
in sma’ler amounts which 1 will pay"
said Mr. Hazzard. “I did not expect
to leave Cordova, until the nous was
in port. H. C. Peterson, a man who
is working with me on a statistical
review of Alaska, which has been in
process of preparation for some tim
had informed me that he would arrive
from Seward on the Alameda. 1 had
some business here that I wanted to
attend to. I purchased a ticket, and
went down to the boat to meet him.
He was not there, and I decided to
come to Juneau and attend to the
business myself, and then go back to
Cordova. When I arirved here, I was
arrested. That is the whole story.
“I owe some money at Cordova, and
I am prepared to pay it."
Mr. Hazzard is very anxious to get
back at the earliest possible date and
get things straightened out.—Juneau
Empire.
LATOUCHK BRINGS COAL.
The Latouche is Jue o a. rive here
tomorrow morning with a cargo of
coal.
The moving picture machine for
Knik arrived at that place only a few
days ago after many vicissitudes. It
was taken to all parts of the country
and finally got to its destination by
way of Susitna Station.
GERMANS ARREST AMERICANS
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.—The state department was
advise today that the American sailors of the American
ship Greenbrier have been released by the German auth
orities at Bremen. This announcement was the first in
timation rceived here that the men had been arrested at
all. The Greenbrier is the vessel over which the trouble
occurred between this government and the British govern
ment because of its detention by British warships while
it was carrying a cargo of cotton to Bremen. Details are
still lacking as to the cause of the arrest of the sailors but
it is assumed that they were arrested for misconduct
while ashore or for the purpose of preventing them from
securing military information. No difficulties are expect
ed to arise over the matter between the American and
German governments and a full explanation by the Ger
man government is expected to be received at any mo
ment. The Greenbrier was released by the British after
the protest sent by the state department here but the
American government is still requiring an answer to the
question as to why the vessel was detained at all when her
cargo had been certified to by the British consul at New
Orleans
FRENCH NEAR RHINE
GENEVA, Jan. 21.—The French troops have advanc
ed their trenches in Alsace and are now only sixteen miles
from the river Rhine. This would mean that the French
have advanced nearly half way across Alsatian tenitoiy
as Alsace is from twenty to thirty miles across, near
where the operations are proceeding. It is reported that
British troops will be sent to the aid of the French in
Alsace in the effort to turn the German right and pene
trate Germany as far as possible. Such a move would
also be expected to draw German forces from the west
ward.
SEATTLE BUILDS RUSSIAN CARS
SEATTLE, Jan. 21.—The Russian government has
awarded a contract to a Seattle firm for the building of
fifteen thousand railroad cars. Those cars can hardly be
delivered within a year so it seems to be evident that Rus
sia is looking forward to a long period of hostilities.
GUGGENHEIM
FOR THE POOR
ADVOCATES TAXING BIG FOR
TUNES AFTER DEATH TO AID
UNFORTUNATE.
NEW YOFK, Jan. 21.—Before the
Federal Commission on Industrial re
lations today Daniel Guggenheim,
president of the American Smelting
and Refining company, advocated the
taxation of large fortunes after the
death of the owners of such fortunes
and that the money secured by this
taxation be used to aid the poor, for
the establishment of government |
agencies to find work for the unem-1
ployed and to make provisions for the
comfort of aged workers. Mr. Gug-j
genheim said that he favored such
measures in spite of the fact that they
are supposed to be cardinal ideas of
socialism. He even went further and
declared that he advocated an nidus- j
trial democracy wherein workers
would receive a portion of the profit
derived from the products of then’ la
bor. This statement has already
caused quite a flutter as the president
of the Smelting Trust was about lb'
last man expected to utter such senti
ments.
TEMPORARY QUIET
REIGNS IN MEXICO.
Report That Villa and Zapata Have
Reinstated Carranza is Doubted.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.—The dis
patches from Mexico today' indicate
that no fighting has occurred for sev
eral davs and that the hostile forrra
are not now in touch with each other
any place. It is reported that the
rumor of the re-instatement of
Gutierrez as provisional president oy
Villa and Zapata is not founded on
fact and that Gutierrez is still absent
from the capital.
INVITATION TO PRESIDENT.
The Commercial Club has forward
ed to the President the invitation to
extend his visit to this territory when
he comes west. The formal mailed
invitation expresses the belief that
if the President or the Secretary of
of the interior once saw Seward and
the country tributary to it the rail
road route would be settled.
FROST GETS BACK MONEY.
A. C. Frost , who was tried in
Chicago on the charge of fraudulent
ly acquiring coal claims in the Mat
anuska and who was acquitted of that
charge, has had returned to him by
the government $20,000 of $2,0,000
which he had paid as fees on the
claims. He had paid ten dollars on
each acre of ground so the num
ber of acres in which he was inter
ested was three thousand. In a letter
he has expressed the belief that he
will recover the remaining $10,000.
CORDOVA GIVES FIGURES
In its report on that territory the
Cordova Chamber of commerce says
that it is the only route which prom
ises to pay for the investment of the
I money for the construction of a gov
ernment railroad. It also says that
the Susitna route presents no possibil
ities other than agricultural. Cordova
district, the report says, has nearly
two hunderd copper claims, thousands
of placer claims and about everything
else in proportion.
MURDER REPORTED
FROM KANTISHNA.
JUNEAU, Jan. 12.—A telegram
was received at the Governor s office
yesterday afternoon from Game War
den McDonald, and dated at h airbanks
that Indians report the murder of a
man by the name of hoster in the
Kantishna district. Deputy Marshal
Woods has left to investigate.
The Indians recently reported that
Foster, who is a trader in the Kan
tishna, has been poisoning foxes and
had a number in his possession.
ANOTHER STRIKE VICTIM
DIES OF HIS WOUNDS.
Steps Muy be Taken to Prevent Em
ployment of Armed Men bv
Corporations.
ROOSEVELT, Jan. 21.—-Carman
Patty, who was wounded by u bullet
fired by the sheriffs at the American
Agricultural Chemical plant, has died
of his wounds, making the second of
the strikers who succumbed to the in
juries received on that occasion, lhe
citizens today are beginning a mo\e
ment to have the deputy sheriffs re
moved from the works of the com
pany and the greatest sympathy is felt
for the victims of the shooting as it
seems to be taken for a certainty that
the strikers were not armed and were
not dangerous. The agent of the Fed
eral Industrial Commission has begun
an investigation into the shooting and
on his findings will depend the fu
ture action of the federal authorities
in the matter.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.—Senator
Martino tried unsuccessfully today to
get a bill before the senate to pro
hibit the employment of armed guards
by corporations. The effort was due
to the recent wholesale shooting down
of strikers at Roosevelt. The opinion
is that the shooting was unnecessary
but there is bound to be strong op
position to any such bill as that pro
posed by Martine.
The Arctic Rrotherhood meeting
takes place this evening.
HAZZARD CASE
IS DISMISSED
MADE RESTITUTION AND DIS
TRICT ATTORNEY LET
HIM GO
j Cordova, Jan. 21.—The case against
George Hazzard was dismissed ye. ter
day on motion of the assistant dis
trict attorney. The evidence in the
preliminary hearing showed lack of
j proof of the charge of obtaining
money under false pretenses. Only
six dollars were involved in the charge
brought against Hazzard. After
j having been brought back from Ju
! neau he made restitution of all the
j other loans which amounted to about
three hundred dollars.
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MAY WHEAT MAKES
NEW RECORD.
CHICAGO, Jan. 21.—May wheat is
now one dollar forty five and three
eighths which is a new record. The
offerings are small.
w ANTS REVENUE SERVICE
AND LIFE GUARDS ONE.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.—The
senate todya passed the bill combin
ing the revenue cutter and life sav
ing services under the title of coast
guards.
FRANCE CONFIDENT
OF FINAL VICTORY
Issues General Statement Re
viewing Progress in All
. Battle Fields.
PARIS CONFIDENT
PARIS, Jan. 21.—The war office made an official re
view of the war today and takes in the general situation.
The tone of the statement is most optimistic and breathes
in every line absolute confidence that the allies will soon
be victorious. This official utterance says in part,
“Since November 15 the French have made ten gener
al advances compared with twenty general withdrawals
by the Germans. The only place in which the Germans ad
vanced in the western field is to the northeast of Soissons.
The German offensive in Poland has been restrained for
a month past by the Russians and there is no indication at
present that the Germans will be able to make any further
headway, a failure to do which inevitably means a re
treat. The Russian offensive movements continue in
Galicia and the Carpathian mountains and are develop
ing these movements into larger operations all the time.
The Turkish army in the Caucasus has been practically
annihilated.
The Germans are rapidly losing their resources in
officers an average of twrelve to each regiment having been
lost since the beginning of the war. This fact makes it
impossible for them to develop new armies effectively.
The units of the allied armies are being strengthened in
every way to obtain final victory especially in F ranee.
The allies need only to wait and at the same time to pre
pare by using their inexhaustible resources to insure
speedy victory when the right time comes. The German
offensive has been broken and with patience the German
defensive will be broken in turn.”
ZEPPELINS PREPARING
AMSTERDAM, Jan. 21.—Reports are published in
the newspapers here to the effect that Germany is now
preparing a great fleet of Zeppelins and other soi ts of aii
crafts for use in some manner unknown. As a raid on
the British shores is always now associated in the mind
with German airships rumors are afloat that the long ex
pected attack on England is soon to be attempted, he
remarkable absence of Zeppelins from the field of wai
fare has led to the belief that this arm of the German
service is being husbanded for some important leason.
New Zeppelins have been constructed and are now being
built but the old Zeppelins have not been placed in use. It
is, therefore, supposed that the real attack from the aii
will be made only when a great aerial fleet has been got
ready.