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ITALY’S KING REPORTED
WOUNDED; BATTLE VET
RAGES AT HARTMAN’S;
80 TOST ON BIG LINER’
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CONGRESSMAN NOW CHARGED
NEW YORK. Dec. 28.—Congressman Buchanan, the
labor member from Illinois, has been indicted with six
others on the charge of conspiracy in connection with
activities in the labors ol the National l’eace Council.
One of the other six is no less a person than David Lamar,
the “Wolf of Wall Street." It is charged that they obtain
ed two million dollars from the Teuton representatives in
this country and spent it with a view to crippling muni
tions factories and causing strikes.
SENSATIONAL ITALIAN TALK
BERLIN. Dec. 28.—Sensational reports are current
in northern Italy that King Emmanuel has been wounded
by an Austrian grenade and that he has been removed to
a hospital, and that another general high in command in
the Italian army has been executed for maintaining close
relations with the enemy. The most sensational fact is,
however, the statement that a third of the people of Italy
have grown weary of the war. So strong is opinion grow
ing to lx* against the war that only the coming of a strong
leader would be required to force the government to
negotiate for a separate peace.
BIG WEILERKOPF FIGHT RAGING
LONDON, Dec. 28—The German officers are fight
ing in the front rank with men in the terrific battle which
is still raging for possession of Hartman’s Weilerkopf.
Twenty-three German officers and fourteen hundred of
the German rank and file were captured yesterday on the
summit but the battle still proceeds with fury. It is the
biggest battle fought on the western front since the gen
eral allied offensive.
ANOTHER FRENCH LINER GONE
PARIS, Dec. 28.—The French liner Villa de la Ciotta
has been sunk with the loss of eighty lives by a Teutonic
submarine and the vessel is said to have been destroyed
and the lives taken for no other reason than that the
French chief of staff was supposed to l>e aboard.
TO CLEAR SUBMARINE AFFAIRS
BERLIN, Dec. 28.—It is believed that the entire sub
marine question will be cleared up in a few days. It is
announced that the course of the reply to the Ancona note
will be “satisfactory and final." While this announcement
is not official it is regarded as being practically so and as
meaning that Austria grants all the demands of the
United States, and with the agreement of Germany.
BOY-ED TAKES BRIDE
NEW YORK, Dec. 28.—Captain Boy-Ed, the with
drawn German naval attache. Colonel House, the Presi
dent’s friend, and Brand Whitlock, ambassador to Bel
gium, returned to Europe today. It is stated that Boy-Ed
is taking across a bride from this side but this is not posi
tively sure. The return of Brand Whitlock to Brussels
shows that Germany has not demanded his withdrawal.
OPERATION FOR KAISER
LONDON, Dec. 28.—Swiss advices are to the effect
that the kaiser will undergo an operation to the throat in
Switzerland. Berlin does not, however, confirm this but
continues to deny that his condition is at all serious.
CARNEGIE DENIES RUMOR
NEW YORK, Dec. 28.—Andrew Carnegie denies the
report front Amsterdam that he has given twelve millions
to the Belgian relief fund. He declines to state how much
he did give, however.
RUSSIANS SINK SUBMARINE
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PETROGRAD, Dec. 28.—It is officially announced that
a Russian destroyer has sunk a hostile submarine in tht
Black Sea. The names of the vessel are not given.
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LONDON—Families who have gain
ed their livlihood on the East coast by
“shrimping” for 180 years have had
their industry cut off for the first
time by the war and are in poverty.
LONDON—A recruiting incident is
told from a large recruiting station
! where a man anxious to join the army
was quizzed about his religion. He
had none but was anxious to oblige,
promptly asking the recruiting officer
what particular religion he was short
| of. He was enlisted without religion.
AMSTERDAM—Dutch customs of
ficials at Beek seized. enormous
quantities of fats and oils about to be
smuggled into Germany disguised as
rolls of paper.
With Heart and Voice Americans Join in
Congratulating President and Mrs. \\ ilson
THli BRIDE AND GROOM OE THE WHITE HOUSE.
PRESIDENT Ml SUES
ON HIS BIRTHDAY
HOTSPR1NGS, Va., Dec. 28.—The
President is lifty-nine years of age
today. He celebrated the event by
walking through deep snow with Mrs. j
Wilson for nine miles along the eoun- i
try roads. The depth of the snow
can be guagtsi from the fact that
automobile riding had to be
abandoned.
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PERMANENT PEACE
FOR MEXICO NEAR;
EL PASO, Dec. 25.—It is believed
here that permanent peace is near at
hand in Mexico. All reports go to
show that Villa’s soldiers are joining
the Carranza forces in large numbers.
Villa himself is still hid away and his
whereabouts remains a mystery.
Alaska Boats Not
Able To Come Up
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Admirals Sebree and ( lark Run to '
West indies Until ( anal
Opens.
SEATLE, Dec. 28.—The Pacific
Coast Steamship Company are pur
chasing the San Francisco Steamship
Ravalli to place her on the South
eastern Alaska run in place of the
Delhi. The Pacific Alaska Nav. co. has
chartered the new ships bought by it
to the West India sugar trade owing
to the impossibility of getting them
through the closed up Panama canal.
These two ships are the ones that had
been named Admiral Sebree and Ad
miral Clark. They will reach Seattle
by the first of May, however, and get
on the run for which they were in
tended. That is for Southwestern
Alaska.
STEEL CARS SAVED
THE PASSENGERS
URBANA, Ohio, Dec. 28.—'Two
Pennsylvania flyers crashed into each
other head on last night near the city
and three trainmen were killed out
right. Several others were injured
but the steel cars saved the passen
gers from death.
JAPS SCARED BY LOSS
OF THEIR BIG LINER
TOKIO, Dec. 28.—The Nippon Y’uen
Kaisha, owners of the Yashaka Maru
which was sunk by a submarine re
cently in the Mediterranean, have
announced that all future sailings will
be via Good Hope instead of the Suez
Canal.
SCHMIDT TRIAL NEARLY
IN HANDS OF THE JURY
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 28.—The
trial of Schmidt, the alleged dynamite
conspirator, will probably go to the
hands of the jury tomorrow.
Children! Remember the party at
i the Episcopal church tonight
FRIENDS OF FORD PLAN FEAR
HIS SHIP MAY BE INTERNED.
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I While Henry Ford and the followers and supportors of his "peace mission” held
firmly to the belief that he could initiate effective peace negotiatlonu by means
of his ship Oscar II., critics of the plan said the Oscar II. stands a fair chance
of capture by a British cruiser and interment In the bleak port of Kirkwall.
Orkney islands. The Oscar II. is bound first for Christiania. Norway, and its
route lies north of Scotland, as shown in No. 2 of the accompanying picture.
No. 1 is the peace palace at The Hague, which city the Ford party plans to visit;
Nos 3 and 4 are respectively Messrs. Bryn, Norwegian minister to the United
States, and Kltter, Swiss minister, who have both spoken sympathetically of
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STOCKHOLM, Dec. 28.—The re
ception by the Swedish people of the
Ford party has been friendly and it
is believed that a permanent peace
committee will be established at
Stockholm. Ford has wirelessed here
that his health is improving and that
he will provide the sum of two million
dollars for the benefit of the perman
ent board.
PARTY TONIGHT
The St. Peter’s Episcopal church
will give a children’s party tonight at
the church parlors from 7:30 to 0:30
to the children and their parents. Re
freshments will be served and a jolly
good time is assured everyone.
Everyone is cordially invited to at
tend.
EVANS BACK THURSDAY
The Evans sailed for the west at 5
o’clock this morning and is due to ar
rive in Seward on her way south
Thursday morning. She took the fol
lowing people to Seldovia; J. Hend
rix, A. M. Michaelson, H. S. Schaffer,
F. L. Neph and A. W. Brown.
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.—While a
father was packing a son with a
broken leg yesterday Joseph P. Tum
ulty, secretary to President Wilson,
drove up an an automobile and pick
ing both up he lit out for the hospi
tal at the Whitehouse. The secretary
declares that the kid was so tickled
with the ride that he forgot the leg
altogether.
MASONS ELECT OFFICERS
The Valdez Masonic Lodge, No. 168,
whose jurisdiction embraces Seward
and Anchorage, has elected the fol
lowing officers for the ensuing year;
Fred M. Brown, Worshipful Master;
F. G. Davis, Senior Warden; Walter
M. Elliot, Junior Warden; Arthur
Lang, Treasurer; Ed. Wood Secre
tary.
EVANS ARRIVES
The Admiral Evans arrived this
morning at 1 o’clock with 155 tons of
freight for this city and the following
passengers: Mrs. C. A. Myers, J.
O’Day, C. H. Moore, K. C. Stoddard
and W. H. Gibbon.
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THOMAS RIGGS
OFFERS LIFE
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GIVES QUART OF BLOOD TO
WIFE AND IS NEARLY
DEAD.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.—Thomas
Riggs, Jr., member of the government
Alaska Engineering Commission
brought himself to unconsciousness
and to the point of death last even
ing when he gave a quart of his blood
to save the life of his wife who had
just given birth to a baby. The
arteries of the wife and husband were
opened in the arms and spliced to
gether. They remained in that posi
tion until consciousness returned. The
husband is very weak still but cheer
ful while Mrs. Riggs is on the fair
way to recovery. The baby is a husky
one.
CANNOT TELL NATION
THAT SANK JAP LINER
WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.—Whether
there was an American aboard the
Japanese liner Yasaika Maru or not
seems to make little difference now
as it has been found impossible to
prove the nationality of the sub
mar'* e that sank her. The state de
partment is now investigating. Every
effort so far has faded to discover the
submaiine or tell what she was and I
the Teutonic powers have failed to
make any admission.
SIX MEN WHOSE BUSINESS
IT IS TO BE LOCKED I P
WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.—Part of
the job of six employes of the com
merce department is to be locked up,
incommunicado, for several hours two
or three times a month. They are the
men who get out the census reports
on cotton, copper and such things.
At G a. m. of the day the report is
to be issued, the men are locked in a
room. Then the telegrams, from
which their report is compiled are
handed in to them. They complete
the report, and keep it in the locked
room until the hour it is to be given
out. The room is so constructed that
no signal can be given from it.
At the last minute it is taken to
the census bureau of the department
and flashed by wire to the public.
Then the prisoners are released.
This plan was devised several years
ago following scandals in which it
was alleged that Wall street speculat
ors “made a cleaning” by obtaining U.
S. reports a few minutes early.
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ENFORCEMENT OF
PROHIBITION
SALEM, Ore., Dec. 28.—Plans for
the strict enforcement of statewide
prohibition, effective January 1, were
discussed at a meeting of all the pros
ecuting attorneys of the state in the
attorney general’s office here today.
Technical phases of the law were dis
cussed.
FIGURE ON CARRYING
NOME MAIL THIS WAY
It Is Stated Indirectly That Colone’
Revell Will Soon Make Trip
to Kaltag.
It is stated on very good authority
that the postal department has decid
ed to test the trail between Seward
and Kaltag with a view to carrying
the winter mails to Seward Peninsula
over the route now followed from
Iditarod. The change of route has
often been spoken of and it is well
known that the route by Seward is
shorter by hundreds of miles, but now,
it is stated, Colonel Revell may soon
make the trip to Kaltag to investigate
trail conditions.
Miss Elizabeth Harrington, the
government teacher at Ellamar, is
- taking the round trip westward on the
Admiral Evans.
MODERN HOTEL
TOR SEWARD
HUNDRED THOUSAND COMPAN Y
ORGANIZED AND HOTEL WILL
BE UP BY JULY 1916.
In a letter written at Spokane to
the Gateway by Ben Labaree he says
that his plans for Seward’s new hotel
are completed and that if everything
goes as it is going now Seward will
have a modern four story hotel by
July 1916. The company is organized
for a hundred thousand dollars and
Mr. Labaree says they have secured
one of the leading hotelmen of Seat
tle to take the management. The first
money was put up December 18.
THE $400,000 MINED IN
LESS THAN TWO MONTHS
Bob Griflis Turns Up His Nose at that
Airship Falk From Down
Below.
The four hundred thousand dollars
worth of gold brought over from
the Iditarod was mined between the
22nd of September and the 17th of
November. The whole consignment
was lodged in the vaults of the Bank
of Seward.
Bob Griflis, the veteran packer, had
his attention drawn to the story re
produced in the Gateway some time
ago to the effect that a man is now
preparing an airship in California to
make the run. “Aw,” says Bob, and
he said something stronger before
proceeding to explain how a man up
in the air who could beat a team of
huskies would freeze in the wind
made by him, anyhow, when the
weather was the real thing.
Huerta Very III
And Goes To Wife
Condition Said to be so Serious That
He Could Not Live in
Jail.
EL PASO, Dec. 28.—Huerta was
removed from jail today and taken
to the home of his wife in a condition
which is admittted to be serious but
which is believed to be far more seri
ous than stated as its true nature has
not been given out by the authorities.
The guards, however, havo been sta
tioned around the house as he is still
a prisoner.
ARCTIC BROTHERHOOD
TO GIVE MINSTRELS
The Arctic Brotherhood held last
night one of the most enthusiastic
meetings it has ever had in Seward
at which it was decided to pull off a
rousing Irish Minstrels on St. Pat
ricks Day, March 17th. No definite
plans were made but a committee was
appointed to take charge of the mat
ter. The committeemen are: J. J.
Finnegan, Joe Badger and L. L.
James, Jr.
Some celebration will be given
February 26th at the A. B. Hall in
memory of the Anniversary of the
Arctic Brotherhood lodge and it was
also decided to give a series of dances
at the new hall to last indefinitely.
A large number of fellows turned
out last night to the meeting, which
was full of pep and enthusiasm and
looks as if the A. B.'s have gone to
the front and propose to stay there.
REPUBLICANS ADOPT
BY-LAWS AND RULES
The Republicans of Seward met
last night for the purpose of receiving
the report of the committee on bye
laws and constitution. The proposed
bye-laws and constitution were read
in detail and unanimously adopted.
The special committee was made up
of J. J. Finnegan, chairman; L. L.
James, Jr., and J. A. Bruner.