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MEMBER OF WILSON’S CABINET MAKES
SENSATIONAL CHARGES PUBLICLY
WASHINGTON. Oct. 27.—No less a person than Sec
retary of War Baker made the sensational charge last
night that the enemies of the administration are now
planning for an attack by Villa on the Pershing forces or,
on some border town before election in the hope of injur
ing President Wilson s chances. He declared that the war
department’s information is definite and that prominent
Americans are now actually negotiating with the bandits.
ARREDONDO CONFIRM
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.—Baker conferred with Sec
retary of State Lansing and General Scott this morning in
connection with the charge of a conspiracy to bring about
a Villa attack but the secretary of state later said that he
has no intention yet of trying to implicate Americans in
such a plot. It is said that Baker attaches great signifi
cance to the fact that the bandits are being paid in silvei
coin. Lansing and Scott have sent out statements to the
effect that if Villa does attack he will find Funston and
Pershing prepared to meet him. The department ot
justice has begun an investigation of the whole thing but
what is regarded as a confirmation ot the Baker statement
is that the Mexican ambassador declares that he had
received an intimation of such a plot when he was in Mexi
co two weeks ago. At that time, he says, Carranza had
promised to nip the plan. ._
POLITICS WARM
UP IN STATES
mi; (H NS BELCH FORTH AS THE
TIME FOR THE CL VSH
DR VWS NEAR.
CHICAGO, Oct. 27.—Roosevelt was
presented with a big stick tinlay jus*
before bis speech. He ridiculed Wil
son and declared he reminded him of
a man who carried a powder and putT.
The speaker warned the women
against crediting the administration
with keeping the country out of war.
He was loudly cheered as he denounc
ed the administration as sordid ami
base and imperilliug the nation’s ex
istence.
CROW DS MEET IMT.HES
BOSTON. Oct. 27.—An enormous
audience was present at the speech of
Hughes here. He said he would guard
the rights of all Americans if elected.
He described the Adamson law as a
surrender to force and he championed
protection again. If elected, he said,
he will secure the ablest cabinet pos
sible and will carry out policies that
will be exclusively American.
NEVER NEUTRAL AGAIN
CINCINNATI, Oct. 27.—Speaking
here President Wilson declares that
this is the last great war in which
the United States can maintain a
position of neutrality. War on such
a scale, he declared, makes neutrality
almost intolerable, but after the pres
ent war the nations must unite for
peace and wars must bear the stamp
of the approval of mankind. This
statement was loudly cheered. On
the whole the meeting was a continu
ous ovation for the president.
LODGE ACCUSES WILSON
BROCKTON, Mass., Oct. 27.—Sen
ator Lodge speaking here last night
for Hughes accused President Wil
son of duplicity. He declared that
Wilson added a postscript to the sec
ond Lusitania note instructing Ger
many to disregard the “strict ac
countability” clause in the first note,
but. Lodge said, the cabinet threaten
ed to quit ami the sentence was eli
minated. That was the time that
Bryan quit the cabinet. Senator Lodge
declared.
LATE CABLES!
NORWAY MAY WAR
LONDON. Oct. 27.—The newspap
ers here predict an early break be
tween Germany and Norway.
HERALD FOR WILSON
NEW YORK. Oct. 27.—The Herald,
an independent paper, today recom
mend* \\ il*on for re-election.
PROGRESSING AT VERDl*N
PARIS, Oct. 27.—The French are
progressing west and south of \ aux.
The German artillery is lively at
Chenois and at Douaumont.
ROUMANIANS RETREAT
BERLIN. Oct. 27.—The Rouman
ians are now precipitately retreating
at Tulcea, Braila and Hirsova, north
of the Cernadov a line. The Rouman
ian king has again appealed to the
allies for support after a stormy
meeting of his cabinet. It was charg
ed that the Russians failed to keep
their promise to support after prom
ising artillery and this failure brought
on the disaster at Constanza, the cab
inet ministers declared. Mackenscn’s
left wing is now chasing the Rouman
ians at Hirsova thirty miles from
Constanza.
BAKER TO TELL MORE
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.—Secre
tary of War Baker states that he will
issue a second statement about the
alleged Republican-Villa conspiracy.
He says his first statement was in
tended to warn Mexico and to show
the good faith of the administration.
CHEER CARRANZA
MEXICO CITY, Oct. 27.—An all
night demonstration took place here
. last night. Thousands cheered Car
ranza who is expected to announce his
candidacy today.
HOLWEG MAY REPLY
BERLIN, Oct. 27.—Chancellor von
Hoiw eg is expected to reply in the
Reichstag today to Viscount Grey
and to show that Germany is not re
sponsible for the war.
ROUMANIANS RESISTING
PETROGRAD, Oct. 27.—Macken
sen is now being stubbornly resisted
at Hirsova in northern Dobrudja and
the Russo-Roumanian lines remain in
I tact, '
SULZER WILl
SPEAK TONIGHT
ABSOLUTELY CONFIDENT HE
WILL BE NEXT DELEGATE
TO CONGRESS.
Charles A. Sulzer, candidate of the
Democratic party for election as dele
gate to congress, will address the peo
pie of Seward tonight at 8 o’clock in
A. B. Hall on the issues of the cam
paign. He arrived this morning with
Mrs. Sulzer on the Mariposa and ex
pressed himself as perfectly confident
of election. He even believes he will
carry the Fourth division which has
hitherto been the great Wickersham
stronghold. “I will carry the First
division by a thousand majority,” said
Mr. Sulzer, “and the Second division
%
will also give me a majority. I have
not yet had time to make a thorough
survey of conditions in this division
but from what I have seen at Valdez
and Cordova there is no reason to be
lieve that it will not fall in line with
the rest.”
Mrs. Sulzer has enjoyed the cam
paigning but she has only one ambi
tion now outside of politics, and that
is to get home to Sulzer to rest. Mr.
Sulzer has been in every camp in the
territory and has been traveling since
last July. He will go to Anchorage
on the Watson and there he will stay
until after election.
Mr. Sulzer is a brother of the form
er governor of New York who took
a great interest in Alaska while in
congress. The candidate for delegate
operates a quartz mine at Sulzer, Al
aska, where he has eighty men em
ployed who were the first to enjoy an
eight hour day in the territory, given
to them voluntarily by the present can
didate. He is at present a member of
the territorial senate, having been
elected by a big vote in the First di
vision.
He will be introduced this evening
by George Phelps, local Democratic
committeeman, and Jack Ponan, can
didate for the teri itorial senate, will
speak briefly before Mr. Sulzer is
heard.
The meeting will begin at 7 o’clock,
standard time, and 8 o’clock, new
time.
ENGINEER OF COPPER
CORPORATION VISITS
H. W. Du Bois, consulting engineer
of the Alaska Copper Corporation,
and his son Howard were in Seward
this morning while the Mariposa was
at the dock. He has spent the past
five or six months examining proper
ties in the Copper River valley and
will now return to Philadelphia. It
may be mentioned in passing that Mr.
Du Bois is a subscriber while in the
east and Alaska to The All-Alaska
Review and came personally to the
office to secure a copy. He declared
the publication an enterprise that de
served all it could get.
GREET WOMEN
DES MOINES, Oct. 27.—’Thousands
greeted the special women’s Hughes
train here today.
WATSON LEAVES JUNEAU
t
The Watson left Juneau at 11:80 p.
m. on the 25th.
TOM HOLLAND HERE
Tom Holland, candidate of the Re
gular Democrats for the territorial
house, arrived this morning.
Story Of Death
Of Mrs. Swanson
SEATTLE, Oct. 18.—Mrs. Gertrude
Swanson, 84 years old, wife of Capt.
Gus Swanson, of the fishing schooner
Dora, and James Kusky, Gf> years old,
were burned to death in a shack at
Tenth avenue south and Walker
street in a fire that started at 8:15
last night.
James Iioe a butcher employed at
the Barton & Co. plant on Spokane
avenue, owner of the shack, is held in
the city jail pending an investigation
into an alleged threat to burn the
house down made to Mi's. Bertha
Baker, a neighbor, two hours before
the fire started.
That Mrs. Swanson and Kusky
were in the burning house was not
learned until after the fire, when their
bodies, charred almost beyond recog
nition, were found near a doorway by
firemen. Roe left the scene while the
house was burning and was located
shortly after 11 o’clock in a shack a
block distant.
Dragged Them Toward Door
When taken to the police station
Roe said that the fire started in the
bedroom of his place. Roe’s shack
consists of two rooms and a large
clothes closet. How the fire started
Roe sail he was unable to learn while
in the house. On discovering the
blaze he said he grasped an arm of
Mrs. Swanson and dragged her to the
door and then returned and dragged
Husky out to where Mrs. Swanson
was lying. All three had been drink
ing heavily during the afternoon and
evening.
“Come on out; you can help your
selves now,” is what Roe said he
shouted to Mrs. Swanson and Husky
as he darted out of the door.
Within three minutes the flames
had spread throughout the house. Jno.
Sloby, 2124 Eleventh avenue south,
saw the flames and ran to the edge of
the hill, at a point about a hundred
feet from the house, to watch the fire.
On arriving there he says he saw Roe
sitting on a log watching the fire and
muttering to himself. When the fire
apparatus arrived Roe left the scene
and went down the street.
William Van Leuven, 13 years old,
of 2212 Eleventh avenue south, and
Stephen Mulluski, 12, were playing
not far from the fire when Roe passed
and the boys say that Roe told them
his house was on fire and if the>
ROUMANIANS SUCCESSFULLY MEET
TEUTON ADVANCES IN NORTH
I SOCIALIST CANDIDATE
FOR CONGRESS HERE
Mrs. Lena Morrow Lewis, the Soci
alist candidate for congress, arrived
today on the Mariposa and is expected
to make* a speech here. In this con
nection it may he said that probably
^ since Alaska got a delegate there is
less heard in this election about
Socialism than ever. Mrs. Lewis is a
good speaker.
C AME ON MARIPOSA
The following arrives! on the Mari
posa this morning from Seattle: H.
V. Lacy, Miss Dela Brown, Ollie Bry
an, Mrs. J. M. Cummings, S. L. Camp
bell, I. Masumura, F. W. Morton.
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CLERK FOR OCR P. 0.
Spencer L. Campbell, a regular rail
way postal clerk, has been detailed to
Seward for service as mail clerk dur
ing the winter.
wanted to see a good lire tor them to
go down there.
To Patrolman C. W. Bell, Mrs.
Bertha Baker, of 2016 Eleventh
avenue south, said that about 6 o’clock
Roe apepared at her home and in the
course of the conversation said that he
was “going to burn the whole -
crowd out,” in referring to the peo
ple at Roe’s place.
Mrs. Baker, together with her hus
band, Edward Baker, is held on a
charge of being intoxicated. Mr. and
Mrs. Baker said they were members
of the party who were at Roe’s house
during the early part of the after
noon.
Find Bodies as Roe Reported
When the flames had been subdued
and the first firemen entered the house
they found the bodies of Mrs. Swan
son and Kusky where they had been
dragged by Roe. At the public mor
gue, where they were taken by I)eput.\
Coroner Frank Koepfli, examination
failed to show any marks of violence
inflicted prior to the fire.
Axel Nelson, who boarded wit*
Mrs. Swanson in her house at Eleven
th avenue south and Stevens street,
told the police that during the course
of the afternoon he went to the Roe
schack and, finding Mrs. Swanson in
an intoxicated condition, tried to pe>
suade her to leave and return to her
home. She would not do so and Nel
son said he left her there.
There are two doors to the Roe
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BRITISH SWEEPER SUNK
LONDON, Oct. 27.—The British mine sweeper Geni
sia was sunk yesterday hy a mine.
NO CHANGE MACEDONIA
SOFIA, Oct. 27.—The war office reports no'change in
Macedonia where our troops are fighting the Serbians and
other nationalities.
ITALIANS SHELLING HEAVILY
BERLIN, Oct. 27.—Vienna reports that the Italians
are shelling the Austrian positions heavily on the Carso
front. No infantry assaults are reported in that quarter.
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REPULSE RUSSIANS
BERLIN, Oct. 27. — The German artillery fire has
stopped the Russian advance west of Lutsk.
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REPULSE GERMANS
PETROGRAD, Oct. 27—The Russians have repulsed
the Germans at Tzapul mountain in the Carpathians.
| CANADIAN GOLD COMES
NEW YORK, Oct. 27. — Fifteen million dollars in
: Canadian gold arirved here today.
ROUMANIANS SUCCESSFUL
! BUCHAREST, Oct. 27.—The Roumanians have cap
tured Mount Kerekharas on the Transylvanian front and
south of Bekas. Fighting is proceeding in the Oitoz val
ley and the Teutons have been driven out of the western
! Moldavia with enormous losses.
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BERESFORD ROASTS U. S.
LONDON, Oct. 27—Lord Charles Beresford, as
spokesman for the navay, stated today in the house ol
Lords that the manner in which United States vessels
stood around to rescue passengers from ships that the
U-53 was sinking was a breach ol' neutrality as it was
practically an otter of immunity to the German submar
ine. Viscount Grey in answer, however, said it was a mat
ter that rested with Washington and Berlin entirely. In
the house of commons Premier Asquith again stated that
the allied powers are giving every possible support to
Roumania.
RETIRE GERMANS
LONDON, Oct. 27.—British artillery retired the Ger
mans last night at the Stull’ line of trenches.
SEIZE NORWEGIAN MAILSHIP
LONDON, Oct. 27. — The Germans have seized the
Norwegian mail steamer which plied between Bergen,
Norway, and Newcastle, England, and which was the con
necting link between Russia and Great Britain. It is the
first seizure of the kind and trouble is expected to follow.
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| TO TRY LIEBNK’HT
BERLIN, Oct. 27—The committee of the Reichstag
has rejected the petition of the minority of the committee
to suspend the proceedings against Liebnieht, the Socialist
who has been arrested for agitations against the war.
SANK 150 VESSELS
BERLIN, Oct. 27. — The admiralty announces that
the Germans sank one hundred and forty-one enemy ves
j sels in the month of September and also forty merchant
| men that were carrying contraband.
GERMAN ATTACKS FAIL
PARIS, Oct. 27. — Four successive German attacks
delivered at Douaumont, Verdun, yesterday failed;
EXPECT GERMAN ATTACK
LONDON, Oct. 27.—All military circles are now look
ing for a powerful German attack on the allied lines at
Perrone and all experts declare that the attacks by the
French at Verdun had a similar object to the former as
saults on Verdun by the Germans. The Germans attack
ed Verdun to delay the allied offensive on the Somme and
the French attacked Verdun forts to delay the expected
attack now by the Germans also on the Somme. The Ger
mans are expected to attack at Perronne which is one
corner of the thick end of the allied wedge that has been
riven almost to Baupaume but the necessity for meeting
che French attack at Verdun had given the allied forces
at Perronne ample time to prepare. No news of import
ance was received from General Haig this morning but
fierce fighting on the Somme front is looked for very
soon.
PREMIER BURIED
VIENNA, Oct. 27. — The assassinated premier was
buried yesterday but no demonstrations took place. Ad
ler, the slayer, is reported to be self contained. Some be
lieve he was insane when he committed the act.
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BATTLE OP DESTROYERS
LONDON, Oct. 27.—It is officially announced that ten
jerman destroyers attempted to raid the English chan
nel last night but were driven off with loss and without
effecting their purpose. They sank one empty British
transport but two of the German destroyers were sunk
and the others were driven off. The British destroyer
Flirt was also sunk and the Nubian was disabled. Nine
of the crew of the Flirt were saved.