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WASHINGTON, August 17.—President Wilson took
a bold stand on the great railroad strike question today
when he came out Hat footed with the proposal for an
eight hour day anil tor the submitting oi the other ques
tions to a commission w hicii lu would appoint himsell to
investigate conditions thoroughly. He spoke tor a toll
hour this afternoon to six hummed ami forty chairmen of
the railwaymen s locals and Hiowed that he had given a
considerable amount of thong;:: am! stum to the subject.
He suggested tiiat the granting of the tight hour day be
immediate and that the commission could go into the
question relating to overtime and the others which have
occupied a prominent place in ine dispute. Immediately
after the speech the chairmen of the locals went into sec
ret session to consider the proposal and it is believed they
will accept it by an overwhelming majority. The position
of the railroad presidents is believed to be unfavorable to
the idea but it is stated on the most reliable authority that
if they turn it down the President will most likely appeal
to the stockholders of the companies to sustain him. The
next development looked for is the report oi the union
leaders after their conference, after which the decision
will be up to the companies.
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WASHINGTON, August IT.—There is apparently a
deadlock in the effort to settle the railroad trouble. Presi
dent Wilson sent a telegram to the presidents of the great
railroad systems and asked them to meet him at the \\ hite
House at once to discuss the matter. This request has re
sulted from the action of the railroad managers in a state
ment which they sent to the White House and which
strongly indicates that they would not concede the eight
hour day principle even for the proposed trial period, and
that the strongest concession they would make would be to
submit the whole matter to arbitration, the President to
name the arbitrators.
RAILROAD MAGNATES GO
NEW YORK. August IT.—A dozen or so presidents
of big railroad systems left this afternoon for Washing
ton in response to President Wilson's telegram asking
them to meet him and discuss the strike situation.
NEW VORK R. R. MEN
SENO ULTIMATUM1
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XKW YORK. August 17.—A strike
against the New York railway com-j
panics will hi* declared forthwith un-J
less the companies grant recognition
to the unions immediately. 'Phis is
the ultimatum contained in resolutions
passed at a general meeting last
night. As far as can he learned the
companies have no intention of grant
ing the demand and the feeling isj
rather pessimistic. This difficulty is |
apart altogether from the general |
threatened strike on all railroads in
the country. In the latter case an;
eight hour day is the chief concession!
contended for by the employees.
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SUIT VS. KXLUXD
Suit has boon tiled in the district I
court at Juneau by W. I.. Stevenson |
against Theodore Johnson and John;
Knluml, owners of a swainill at Port - j
age bay. The action is to recover
about $1..‘!00 advanced to the tie fend*
ants.—Ex.
X ASH AX GETS AWAY HUT
WILL COME HACK AGAIX
The steamship Xashan pulled out
this morning for Anchorage without
unloading her full complement of car
go at Seward. Site will return again,
however, and put it all off. She gives
way to the Crook tvhich has been at
Anchorage before coming here.
Mi's. J. Stotko and her daughter
Lavonia ami Myrle left yesterday for
1 a visit with Mrs. Thomas lowle at
• Kenai lake. Miss Helen remained at
home to keep house for Father Stotko.
The night shift on the dock has been
cut out as more piles are being await
j ed. The piles are on the way.
BOTH SIDES AGAIN CLAIMING
ADVANCES ON BOTH ERONTS
CAPTURE MORE AUSTRIANS
PETROGRAD, August 17.—The capture of 7,508
more Austrians was reported today by General Sakharoff.
Since the beginning of the olfensive this general has cap
tured 94,754 prisoners all told.
ALLIES CAPTURE TRENCHES
LONDON, August 17.—Driving forward in conjunc
tion with the French the British last night scored ad
vances west and southwest of Guillemont. They captured
three hundred yards of German trenches, Haig reports.
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GERMANS THROWN BACK
PARIS, August 17.—Beaten back by French assaults
on both banks of the Somme the Germans have made no
attempt to deliver counter attacks against the newly won
French positions. These French gains were won last
night it is officially announced. It is further announced
that several German reconnoitering attacks were repuls
ed during the night.
GERMANS CLAIM AND ADMIT
BERLIN, August 17.—The Germans have driven
back the Anglo-French troops west of Foureaux wood and
south of Maurepas, inflicting heavy losses, it is officially
announced. It is admitted that the French last night gain
ed a foothold in the German first line trenches to a depth
of 500 yards.
REPULSE RUSSIANS
BERLIN, August 17—The German troops yesterday
and last night repulsed Russian attacks at many points
on the eastern front, the war office states. Our troops al
so captured Starac, a German named hill in the Carpath
ians. ....: CL. . v Jt t.
GERMAN ATTACK REPULSED
PARIS, August 17.—A German night attack in the
Thiaumont region was repulsed by our troops last night.
The enemy used gases and hand grenades but our curtain
fire dispersed them.
ASK GERMAN GENERAL BE EXECUTED
LONDON, August 17. — In the House of Commons
for tomorrow a question is down by a private member
asking whether the minister of war would consider the ex
pediency of executing some German prisoner of the gen
eral officer rank in retaliation for the execution of Captain
Fryatt by the Germans. Feeling over the execution is still
very bitter and reprisals may occur in some manner. Sev
eral instances have been noted of regiments on the march
shouting for revenge.
SPANISH SHIP SUNK
MADRID. August 17.—The Spanish ship Marie
Terese was sunk two days ago in the Mediterranean by an'
exterior explosion. It is supposed to have been due to a
jnine.
ALL NIGHT CABLE
SERVICE ARRIVES
Messages Will Lie Sent Through From
Seward to Anchorage 50
Cents Extra.
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SEATTLE, August 17.—Under the
new regulations for cable service to
Alaska an all night service will be
established at all the important sta
tions in the territory. An arrange
ment has also been made by which
messages coming from outside to An
chorage will be sent through from
Seward at a rate of fifty cents extra.
The night service to Seward will be
fifty words for the rate of a ten word
day message. Other changes have al
so been made. Reductions from 20 to
;,2 per cent have been made in the
rates to the coast and the interior.
Press correspondence rates have been
reduced in proportion and all reduc
tions affect both night and day ser
vice. The new rates, effective October
1, from Seattle to Fairbanks and Fort
Gibbon are $2 instead of $2.20. The
night rate for the same places >s cut
from $2.50 to $1.50. The Soattle
Seward day rate is cut from $2.S0 to
$1.50 and the night rate from $2.10 to
$1.10.
ROMAN AND JAMES WILE
CRUSH TONS OK ORE
Dennett James and Jack Ronan now
have their arastre established at
Moose Pass and will crush from fifty
to a hundred tons of ore. '1 he work
of crushing will take the remainder
of the "season and will be the great
test of the property. They have con
structed a two mile trail on the north
ern side of Gilpatrick mountain for
hauling the ore anil all is ready. Mr.
James has also just received word
that a dredge is about to be installed
in his ground on Moore creek, Idita
rod, where the strike was made last
year. The dredge is to be in opera
tion in the summer of 11)18, but tn
the meantime the value of the ground
is shown by the fact that the dredge
people pay a considerable advanced
royalty until the machine is working.
OTIS OSGOOD ARRESTED
Otis Osgood was arrested last nignt
by Deputy Marshal Evans on a war
rant from Anchorage issued in con nee
tion with the alleged attempt to send
liquor to Anchorage as ononary mer
chandise. The warrant is under sec
tion 240 of the federal penal code.
BUILDING R. R. BEYOND KERN
CREEK LO BE DONE EROM HERE
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TRY AGAIN TO BLOW
OP SEATTLE DOCKS
AIASKA (AMIS
MAY IS! MIHGfllj
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SAX FRANCISCO, August 17.
j Negotiations are now proceeding
: which may result in a merger of the
principal cannery interests in Alaska.
The J. K. Armsby and Cala are in
volved with many others.
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JUDC.K BROWN ASKS
JUDC.K J KNNIXGS TO
SIT DURING A CASK
JUNKAV* — A telegram was receiv
ed this morning at the court house
from Judge Fred M. Brown, judge of
tin* court of the Third division asking
that Judge Jennings come .west on
September 11 to hejtr one of the min
ing eases which will come to trial
there at that time. A brother-in-law
of Judge Brown is interested in the
suit.
Judge Jennings has called a term of
I the district court for Juneau on Sep
tember 11th, and it is not known
! whether he will leave or not. The
cable was forwarded to him at
Victoria.
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| MIXING LAW PASSED
BY LEGISLATURE IS
INVALID SAYS COBB
NOME, August 10.—There is great
discussion here of a knotty mining
question. Several of the most promi
nent attorneys asert that section 20,
chapter 10 of the Session Law of
1015, regarding assessment work on
mining claims by survey, is invalid.
They assign the reason that this is
not development work required by the
United States laws and that the Alas
i ka Legislature was without authority
to modify the law.
To which a Juneau paper adds:
“Territorial Counsel J. H. Cobb
when showed the above report today
stated that the law was invalid anti
that development work is demanded
as assessments on mining claims.
Surveys are not improvements, being
merely a step in the acquisition of
patent.”
TRANSPORT CROOK COMES
WITH LOAD OF FREIGHT
The United States transport Crook
arrived this forenoon with 160 tons of
coal and other freight for the Engi
neering commission at Seward. She
also has aboard nearly a score of
commission people from Anchorage,
most of them ladies who are going out
side for a visit. The Crook is 260
feet in length and is the largest ves
sel seen here for some time. Owing
to poor arrangements for unloading
she will be here until tomorrow night
at least. Her commander is Captain
Randall.
CREEK MAN IS SUICIDE;
DRINK WAS THE CAUSE
FAIRBANKS. — Despondent over
his inability to quit drinking, accord
ing to the story told by some of his
friends, Dan Shaw has ended it all by
blowing out his brains. His body was
found in a barn on the upper end of
Engineer creek Thursday night. The
face and upper part of the head of the
corpse was almost entirely blown
away. The weapon used was a 30-30
rifle which was found close by the
corpse.—-Ex.
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SKATTLK, August 17.—Seattle i>
again being made the scene of at
temps to destroy great waterfront
properties and last night two such at
tempts were made and came wintlun
an inch of causing tremendous destine
tion. The first attempt was when an
incendiary attempted to set fire to a
warehouse at Pier 4 at the foot of
Spring street, which is occupied by
the Dodwell Dock and Warehouse
Company and by the Borderline Tran
sportation Company. The attempt
was made by hurling a bottle of phos
phorus on to the roof hut the immedi
ate discovery prevented a costly b!aze.
The second of the series of incendiary
attempts was even more determined.
This time a bomb was placed under
the floor of Pier I) of the Pacific
Coast Company’s wharf at the foot of
Jackson street and blew a hole ten
feet in diameter through the floor. It
ulso wrecked a shack which stood on
the dock. Non union men were sleep
ing on the dock at the time but a
nightwatchman saw the fuse light and
^luckily rushed in in time to awaken
them and save their lives. The ex
plosion was so strong that it hurled
limbers ten feet long and six inches
square for a hundred feet.
FALLS DOWN SHAFT
TO HIS DEATH
Nick Oloson, whose real name is
Nikoli Vasilievich Aladgikoff, was
buried this afternoon from the Rus
sian Church. Mr. Oleson was killed
at Chichagof last Friday by falling
into an open shaft, several hundred
feet in depth. The body was brought
to Juneau and the interment was in
the Russian cemetery.
Mr. Oleson was a subject of a Rus- ]
sia, from the Caucasian Mountains,
and was 27 years of age. He is sur
vived by a mother and brother and a
cousin in Juneau. He was a member
of the Loyal Order of Moose at Sitka,
and the funeral was conducted under
the auspices of the Juneau body of
Moose. Rev. Father A. P. Kashevar
off read the burial services today.—
Ex.
BREMERTON TO HAVE
BATTLESHIP YARDS
WASHINGTON, August 17. —The
bill has been passed that provides the
equipment of Bremerton yards for
the construction of battleships.
MARIPOSA LEAVES
SEATTLE, August 17.—The Mari
posa left on Tuesday. She has aboard 1
for Seward Miss Edna D. Robb and
two steerage.
LANE WILL BE THE
HEAD OF COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, August 10. — It
was announced today that Secretary
of the Interior Franklin K. Lane, will
be the chairman of the American
commission to deal with the Mexican
situation. Louis D. Brandeis, As
sociate Justice of the Supreme Court
will be on the board also, the third
member not being appointed.
SEC’Y. LANE NOT COMING
Latest advices from outside state
that Secretary Franklin K. Lane of
the Interior Department will not be
able to make the trip to Alaska this
year.
Just as soon as the Alaska Northern
will be opened work of construction
of new railroad continuation of the
Alaska Northern will be carried on
from this end, Chairman Kites of the
Engineering Commission, stated thi>
morning. At least some of the sup
plies will be shipped from this end.
U’lie first work to be done will ;><• b*
tween Kern creek and (Ilacier creek
where there is heavy construction in
places, some of it rock and some of it
gravel and quite considerable forces
will be used. As the railroad will
be open to Kern creek at the time
Seward will be directly connected
wtih the operations. The Commission
is still able to use every man obtain
able in Seward. “Not a man in Sew
ard need be idle,” said the engineer
in charge this morning.
The ships coming now have large
j quantities of rails and everything
' points to the beginning of a most bu \
season.
-MURDERS IOK.MKR Wil l AND
HER II US RAND IN SEATTLE
j, SEATTLE, August 17.—J. A. Col
j inson, 3G, of Vancouver, British
Columbia, is dead and his w?fe is dy
ing from bullet wounds inflicted Iasi
night by Frank von der Seider, tTfe
former husband of the woman. \on
der Seider was a patient in Providence
Hospital and the shooting took plac.»
at i) o’clock just across the street
from the hospital, so it is assumed
that von der Seider saw them from
the institution and rushed out to kill
them. The slayer fled ami has not
yet been apprehended.
ROBERT J. GE1S IS CALLED
TO THE GREAT BEYOND
FAIRBANKS.—Robert J. Geis, one
of the best known oldtimers of the
North died yesterday morning shortly
after 10 oVlock at the family home of
pneumonia. Only his immediate
family, his business partner Charles
L. Thompson and two nurses were
with him when he breached his last.
The end came peacefully.
Mr. Geis was taken ill on the night
of July 4 and never thereafter left his
bed. He was very low at several
times during the past week but kept
rallying. In fact, as late as six
o’clock yesterday morning it was
thought that he might possibly sur
vive the crisis of the disease, which
was due yesterday, but such was not
to be.—Ex.
TO BE TAKEN TO ASYLUM
i JUNEAU.—Nick Faricelli was yes
terday afternoon found to be insane
by a jury in the Commissioner’s
Court. Faracelli was examined once
before but was found to be sane by
the jury, the jurors believing that he
was shamming. The officers of the fed
eral jail, where Faracelli is confined,
all testified yesterday thaw without a
doubt the man is insane and laboring
under a mental strain.
Faracelli was arrested on the last
day of 1915, charged with shooting
Mike Delino on the streets of Douglas
in broad day light. The shooting oc
curred on one of the busy corners of
the town and a number of people wit
nessed the act. Faracelli was arrest
ed within a few minutes of the com
mission of the deed.
Several times during the last ten'll
of court his case was set for trial but
his physical and mental condition #
would not allow of his being tried. On
one occasion the man threw a fit in*
the court room and had to be carried
out after the trial started. He is an
Italian and speaks no English.—Em
pire.
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