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PLAN TO END
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SENATE FAILS
Eight Bills Now Before
House; McCormack’s
Baby Dies
1 Hr Tniled State* l'*bl*>
JUNEAU, Wednesday, March 14.— j
The plan figured out by members of
the senate late yesterday to break the
deadlock by drawing lots for offices
(see page 3, col. 1), did not succeed.
The senators had remained in caucus
until after <’» o’clock last night, but did
not arrive at any plan by which the
lots might be drawn, which was satis-1
factory to all.
Five bills were introduced before!
the house this morning on the follow
ing subjects: to provide means fori
maintenance of public schools within
incorporated towns, taxation of real
and personal property, amending sec
tion 124. chapter 30, as amended by
chapter 35; to amend section 1041,
chapter 10. Fight bills are now be
fore the house.
The house adjourned until tom or-!
row after adopting a resolution of
sympathy for Representative McCor
mack, whose bay died at Wrangell
last night. He was excused
LUNDIN AND
PUTNAM TELL !
ABOUT PAPERS
Support Story ol Bribe by
Telling How Mayor
Interfered
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<By United States Cable)
SEATTLE, Wednesday, March 14.!
—Prosecuting Attorney 1.undin and
Sergeant Putnam, of the dry squad, j
called today to testify for the govern-;
ment in the case against Mayor (Sill, •
Chief Peckingham and others, gave
damaging testimony against the de
fendants.
Putnam testified that t mot Beck
ingham forced him to give up the pa
pers seizin! from the Billingsleys’ and
that these papers were later returned
to them. This, he said, happened
about th time that Billingsley swore
he had paid a bribe to the mayor.
Lundin testified that both Becking
ham and Gill had blocked his efforts
to secure these papers.
After the cross examination of Lo
gan Billingsley was completed yester
day, the government offered sworn
testimony from five absent witnesses
in support of the charge that Billings
ley gave Gill the bribe. This testi
mony was read into the record.
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HAIG'S ARMY TAKES ,
BAUPAUME HIGHTS
(B« United State* Cable)
BRITISH HEADQUARTERS IN FRANCE, Wed
nesday, March 14.—General Sir Douglas Haigs first line;
troops watched the sun rise this morning from the “prom
ised land,” as the long ridge northwest of Bapaume has i
l>een known ever since the battle of the Somme began, last
July. •
This ridge passed into the hands of the British regi
ments yesterday along a front of three and one-half miles,
when they drove the Germans from their main defensive
system west of Bapaume, charged through Loupart wood
and seized the village of Grevilliers, within a mile and a
quarter of Bapaume.
There is a general feeling of relief evident every
where back of the lines over the success of the drive which
marks the end of the “uphill struggle.” Now, for the first
time since the great struggle to hurl back the Germans
along the western front opened, the British occupy the
highest ground and can look down upon the famous Ger
man stronghold and a wide expanse of country beyond.
British officers believe that they are now in a posi
tion to take Bapaume whenever the word is given, as it
will be a down hill charge.
BRITISH ADVANCE UP TIGRIS
LONDON, Wednesday, March 14. — British forces
under General Maude on the Tigris have advanced 30
miles north of Bagdad, according to advices from Asia
Minor, announced officially today.
BERNSTORFF SAYS PLOT 0. K.
(By United State* ('able)
COPENHAGEN, Wednesday, March 14. — Former
ambassador to the United States, Bernstorff, left here to
dav on his way home. In an interview he stated that lie
approved entirely the course of Germany in her over
tures to Mexico, to join in making war on the United
States in event of hostilities.
GERARD REACHES WASHINGTON
(By United State* Cable)
WASHINGTON, Wednesday, March 14.—Ambassa
dor Gerard arrived today from Cuba,
YOUNG STUDENT’S
INDISCRETION
COSTS HIS LIFE
Shot as He Leaves Room of
Professor’s Wife in
Night Garb
(U> United States Cable)
ROANOKE, Ya., Y\ ednesday, Mar.
14.—Charles Vawter, a professor in
the Virginia Polytechnic institute,
shot and fatally wounded Stockton
Hcth, Jr., a student, at an early hour
this morning.
Vawter said on giving himself up
that he shot the young man when he
discovered him in the act of leaving
Mrs. Vawters room clad in pajamas.
Mrs. Vawter, a vivacious and popular'
woman denied herself to all today.
The shooting caused great excite
ment throughout the institution .
BOA IS AND 1KAINS
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The Admiral Farragut left Juneau
at 2 oVloek this morning.
The Alaska is due in Cordova to
day.
The Northwestern will sail fur Sew
ard and way ports March 1(1.
The train will leave tomorrow
morning for Mile 40.
Trails
Trails good with a temperature of
20 at Mile 71, 27 at Mile f>2 and 28 at
Mile i>4.
IRISH AND
THEIR FRIENDS
TO CELEBRATE
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Splendid Entertainment Is
Planned For Friday
At Community
Are you Irish? If so you want to
make a fitting celebration on St. Pat
rick’s eve. The St. Patrick's social at
th Christian Community church next
Friday evening is the place. There
will be appropriate games, including
some of the famous ‘Irish tricks,”
Irish stories, music* and ice cream and
cake.
In short nothing will be lacking
(except posscibly, a little extra hum
idity) to make this a vertible Irish
jubilee. If you are not Irish you
know what fun you can have at Pat’s
expense. Come and have it. All
Irishmen come and attend the good
name of your native Emerald Isle.
Irish or not the Dorcas society wel-j
comes you one and all. Come for the i
time of your lives. j
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THE WEATHER
Yesterday.
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Maximum . 40
Minimum . -4
Current .
Weather . Cloudy
Wind . North
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WEATHER TOMORROW
Unsettled.
CHINA HANDS PASSPORTS TO
GERMAN DIPLOMAT: SIEZE SHIPS
(By United State* Table)
WASHINGTON, Wednesday, March 14. —China
severed diplomatic relations with Germany yesterday and
has taken possession of all German merchant ships now|
in Chinese ports.
U. S. Minister Paul S. Reinsch cabled the above from
Peking this morning and added that the German minister
to China had been handed his passports._j
KAISER’S SUB MAKES
GOOD THREAT OF WAR;
CREW ESCAPE UNAIDED
(By United State* ('able)
LONDON, Wednesday, March 14.—4’rue to her de
claration of unrestricted warfare, Germany carried out
her oft reiterated threat, and sank the American line
freighter Algonquin, without warning, off the British
isles, according to advices received today at Plymouth.
The crew of the Algonquin succeeded in getting boats
over between the time the torpedo struck and the sinking
of the liner, and all were rescued.
According to U. S. Consul Stephens, at Plymouth, the
submarine came to the sura fee after firing the torpedo
and watched the vessel sink. Officers aboard the sub
marine refused assistance to the crew, but by hard work
those in the boats manage dto rescue all hands.
The Algonquin sailed from New York for a Euro
pean port on February 20, laden with foodstuffs.
Built at Cramps shipyard in Philadelphia in 1800, the
Algonquin was of 2,833 gross tonnage, 27(1 feet long.
STRIKE THREAT IN FACE
OF CRISISAMAZES WILSON
(By I’nited Staten Cable)
WASHINGTON, weunesuay, March 14. — President
Wilson expressed his amazement today when informed
that the Brotherhoods ol American railway employees
contemplated a nation wide strike for Saturday in the face
of the critical situation which this country is facing in in
ternational affairs.
■ It became known officially today that orders have
been sent out for all men to strike on Saturday evening at
(I o’clock unless otherwise notified.
This strike, according to the brotherhood officials, is
merely the final calling of the same strike scheduled at the
time the Adamson 8-hour bill was passed. This law has
since been declared unconstitutional by a federal circuit
court but final decision has not been given by the supreme
court.
Efforts were made by the railroad men to confer with
the employees on means by which the spirit of the law
night be put into effect and an eight-hour day be estab
lished, but these have failed so far
He Accuses Kaiser Bill of Stealing 'Gid-e-unV Stuff
Editor of Seward Gateway:
In re “Der Kaiser’s” quit-claiming
to Mexico and Japan certain lots, j
tracts and parcels of land siuated in
the United States of America—for
and in consideration of their fightingj
for an taking it away from us—an-1
nounced in last Monday’s issue o% j
your paper. I desire to publicly pro- j
test, not so much against the transfer j
as, against the assumption by him of
originality of thought and action in
the premises. He is a plagiarist
(two-fold) in this matter of “ways
and means.”
At the close of our Civil war, Gi-!
deon Armstrong returned to Leaven-!
worth, Kansas, and was* “authorized i
and empowered” to ride in the ex
press and mail cars of the Chicago, j
Rock Island and Pacific Railway Co.,
as “mossingcr.” He was one
of those men who “never grow
old and who made of the
world a “play ground;” a fun
loving, good-living, man of
“free habits,” whom all child
ron and dops loved. At this time
about one-third of Leavenworth’s
population consisted of negro re
fugees from the former slave-states,
and only about one of a thousand
could read and write. Most of these
people( and a few “white trash")
lived along the bank of the Missouri
river; a goodly number spent much
time in “skiffs" on the river “juggin’
fer cat-fish" and “kechin’ drifwood,"
saw-logs, and lumber which floated
down at every “June rise." Gideon
offered these people a business op
portunity. He had about 1,000 dodg
ers printed which read as follows:
“WANTED
“100 niggers to catch drift
wood. Give them half of what
they catch."
“GIDEON ARMSTRONG.”
Some of the dodgers were
posted in conspicuous places
and the rest scattered about
town. The few colored peo
ple who could read immediately
got busy and told their color
i ed brethern about the “adv’tisement,
i and they eagerly “rose to the fly” be
cause it was printed. For two or
three days following the business part
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of town swarmed with colored men
and boys anxiously trying to find
“Misto cTd-e-un A’mstrong what
wanted 100 niggers fer to ketch drif-|
wood an’ ’ud gib ’urn half wot dey j
kotch.” The business eventually went
into “liquid-ation,” and henceforth,
until he “cashed-in,” “Gied-e-un” was
always designated “ the president of
The Great American Drift-Wood As
sociation.” “Der Kaiser's “hunch” no
doubt, was inspired by, but not fairly
accedited to, “Gid-e-un”—who, if he
was alive today, would surely ride
“Wild Bill II.” with spurs and quirt
for his low-down “hogging” of anoth
er's originality.
Furthermore—“as and
for a second *cause of com
plaint:” Some time last
year “Life” printed a re
vised map of the U. S. A.,
for reference^ at the con
elusion of this world-war), which
showed how the U. S. would be redis
tricted by the senior member of the
firm—“Me und Gott”—when ready for
the real estate business. A study of
said map very clearly showed “Der,
Kaiser” that in case Mexico and
Japan “doubled-teamed” against and
conquered the U. S., he could afford
to reward them by giving them “half
of what dey kolch” and, retain unto
himself the great Missouri and Mis
sissippi valleys, eastern and southern
states.
In conclusion, I will state that since
reading last night’s paper every resi
dent of Seward, excepting Japs, Mexi
cans and Gerinans, are exceedingly
alarmed at the intentions of the All
Powerful (?) decendant of Atilla—
“The Scourage of God”—towards our
poor old U. S., and therefore an
“Honest to God”—“Cross by Heart—
Hope to die if not true” publication
of your opinion as to the probability
of this “stunt being pulled off” would
be much appreciated and “prepare us
for the worst.” I am particularly an
xious for reliable information be
cause I have a brother living in Kan
sas City, Mo., and if he becomes
“Teutonized,” and I should be Jap
“panned” we would never be on
speaking terms again—“hence these
tears ” ROBERT L. WEVER.