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RUSSIA BRINGS AID BUT TEUTONS
ONLY EEN MILES FROM BUCHAREST
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LLOYD GEORGE RESIGNS
LONDON, Dec. 1.—David Lloyd George, minister for
war, has sent his resignation to the king but it has not yet
been accepted. No audience has been arranged between|
the king and the resigning minister and this is taken as
an indication that the cabinet minister will be asked to
reconsider his action, it is generally assumed that
George is altogether dis-satistied but it is still hoped that
he will withdraw his resignation to save the tottering!
coalition cabinet. It is also announced today that on the
advice of the king Prime Minister Asquith lias consented
to a reconstruction of the cabinet, which will probabh
mean the ousting of many of the incompetents. Lloyd!
George is conferring with Asquith today and from their
conference may come a whole change in the governmental
system.
NEW BRITISH GOVERNMENT
LONDON, Dec. 1.—Prime Minister Asquith announc
ed this afternoon that the king has approved of the recon
struction of the government. It is reported now that
Lloyd George did not actually oiler his resignation but
he threatened to resign unless a compact council of live
was created to conduct the war.
RUSSIANS NEAR BUCHAREST
PETROGRAD, Dec. 4.—The Russian reinforcements
have arrived south of Bucharest and the Germans and
Bulgarians luivo hppn t*o»%oa<l to i*otik*o. Ouv
prisoners ami booty. The Russians in Transylvania are
also progressing most favorably.
RUSSIA NOW FIGHTS HARD
LONDON, Dee. 1.—The news today from Petrograd
shows that the intense striving of the Russians in Rou
mania i nthe past few days is bearing fruit. It is semi
officially stated today also that when Roumania entered
the war Bucharest was deprived of the character of a
fortress so that the capital may be evacuated without de
struction as its occupation was expected. This is taken
to indicate that the Roumanians are now fighting in that
region merely to delay the entry of the Teutons and that
the Roumanian army is prepared to retire in safety.
GAVE Rl'SSIA CONSTANTINOPLE
LONDON, Dec. -1.—A tremendous sensation has been
created here by the announcement that the allied govern
ments admit the truth of the statement of the Russian
premier that in 1915 the allies agreed to give Russia
Constantinople and the Dardanelles straits. It is admit
ted also that Italy concurred in this agreement. The peo
ple and press are now agitated by the consideration
whether Russia’s help is so absolutely necessary as to
give her the gateway to the near east.
ROUMANIANS GOING FAST
BERLIN, Dec. 4.—(Via Sayville Wireless)—The
Germans have arrived within ten miles ol Bucharest. 1 he
retreat of the Roumanians is so precipitate that the ad
vance columns of the pursuing Teutons lost touch with
their own infantry. The morale of the Roumanian army
is completely broken and Bucharest is virtually within
our grasp. The kaiser today ordered the church bells
rung all over Germany to signalize the brilliant victory
over Roumania and especially a tremendous victory won
in a battle on the Ardjis river.
REVOLT IN ANTWERP
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LONDON, Dec. 4.—Two Belgians who have arrived
in Holland after escaping from Belgium, state that a re
volt by the Belgians occurred in Antwerp on November
oO and was put down by the Germans after the killing of
three hundred of the citizens and many German soldiers.
The deportation of the Belgians was the cause of the re
volt, the Antwerp citizens preferring death to a calm ac
ceptance of the order of exile. News also arrived today
that the passage of the German home army bill, which
compels women to work in factories during the war, has
caused 'a panic in Berlin.
FIGHT GENERAL TO
REDUCE FOOD PRICE
SEATTLE, Dec. 4.—Organized la
bor and farmers held a meeting in the
Labor Temple Sunday to launch a co
operative store which will enable
tnem to eliminate the middleman and
so cut the cost of foodstuffs.
NEW YORK. Dec. 4.—Commander
Hartigan announces the formation of
a boycott organization of forty thou
sand housewives to smash the food
corners. Each woman in the organiza
tion will patrol a block of the city
streets and will keep consumers post
ed on prices. A quarter of a million
men are expected to join the Weights
and Measures league for a similar
purpose.
ALBANY. N\ Y., Dec. 4.—Governor
Whitman has appealed to Georg**
Perkins, chairman of the proper lom
mittee. to draft remedial legislation
to keep down the price of foodstuffs.
PORTLAND. Or\ Dei. 4. — iV»
heiiCwives have .darted a boyco.t
aganst sixty ce:»t eggs ur.d will up
^af to cong*iss
KENNECOTT COPPER COMPANY
H VS XF.W 5ivr mi'rn'»w> -
At the annual meeting of the Ken
necott Copper Corporation held re
cently Elliot C. Bacon and S. W.
Eccles resigncsl as directors. John
M. Steel resigned as a director of the
executive committee.
To fill these vacancies Wm. C. Pot
ter was elected as a director and a
member of the executive, and H. 1*
Guggenheim and E. A. Guggenheim
were elected directors. Wm. C. Pot-|
ter was also elected as chairman ot
the board.
CORDOVA WOMAN’S MOTHER
IS Bl’RNEI) TO DEATH
CORDOVA, Nov. 25.—On the last
(.rip south of the steamer Northwest
ern. W. H. Schmidt, manager of the
Pioneer Packing Company, and his
brother in law, Max P. Gradi, both
accompanied by their wives, left Cor- j
dova for their homes in Aberdeen,
Wash. Upon arrival at Juneau Mrs.
Gradi received a telegram that her
mother had been burned to death fol-i
lowing the lighting of a fire with
coal oil.—Times.
TERRIFIC OREGON STORM
PORTLAND, Dec. 4. — A ninety
mile gale swept the Coos Ray region
today. A sailor on a vessel in the
bay at the time was blown overboard
and drowned. Another man named
Huns Reim who was a steward on
the government dredge Michie was
killed at Hoquiam by a falling sign
board.
WOMEN OBJECT TO
GOVT. LIQUOR SALE
The Seward Women’s Club met yes
terday in Van Gilder Hall and decided
to protest to Judge Brown against the
proposed sale of liquor by the gov
ernment here on December 15. The
reasons given by the women are the
obvious ones which have been hinted
at in this paper. The protest will be
cabled to Judge Brown.
The program of the Club yesterdas
was led by Mrs. Frank Ennis instead
of Mrs. Chambers who is ill.
NEW CORPORATION
BEEN ORGANIZED
VALDEZ, Dec. 1.—A corporation
having for its object the development
of some of the exceptionally promis
ing mining properties of the Valdei.
dictrict, and which bids fair to prove
exceptionally profitable for .he in
vestor, has been recently organize*
here with S. A. Pepper president
John Lyons vice-president, H. E. I*
King treasurer, and T. P. (Icraghtv
secretary.
The title of the new corporation i.
tbc Alaska Bonding and Development
Company and its activities will be di
rected toward the development o‘
gold and coppei m.mng ciui......
proved by the Board of Directors
either upon a working bond or upoi
an option to purchase. In othei
words the company will supply the
necessary capital to develope proper
ties having promising indication*
upon which favorable terms can be
sec. 1 red to the point where they car
be sold at a profit, or if mines arc
particularly valuable, taken ovei b\
the company and worked.—Prospect
or.
BANDITS DEFEATED
EL PASO, Dec. 3.—General Obre
pon officially confirms the story of th<
defeat of the Villa forces at Muen
puile, thirty miles south of Chihuahua
last Friday. After a battle of six
hours the bandits fled in disorder af
ter heavy losses. There is now be
lieved to be a pood chance that Chi
huahua will be recaptured.
MILO KELLY AND \VM.
MARTIN MINING COAL
Milo Kelly and William Martin put
men to work on the 1st mininp coal
for commercial purposes between
Eska and Moose creek. Howard Wil
mot has opened a peneral store at
Mile 15 out of Knik.
IU’YS KNIK HOTEL
Mrs. McMayhill has purchased the
Pioneer hotel at Knik from Frazer
and Davis. These two formerly
boupht it from Frank Cannon. Mr.
Cannon has pone out and has directed
all his mail to Juneau where he will
be at the meetinp of the lepislature.
REPEL RUSSIAN ATTACKS
SOFIA. Dec. 4.—Desperate fighting is proceeding on
the Roumanian front. Yesterday the Bulgars repulsed
seven different Russian attacks. Two tanks were de
stroyed in the fighting. The Russians are also delivering
desperate attacks on our left flank in Dobrudja in the ef
fort to relieve the pressure on the Roumanians.
GERMANS USE ROUMANIA
BERLIN, Dec. 4.—General Tuliff of the German
army has been appointed military administrator of Rou
mania with wide powers. His chief duty at piesent will
be the cultivation of the sail of Roumania to supply the
Teuton necessities. In addition to the soil he will also
probably develope the oil fields and other Roumanian le
sources for the use of the Central allies.
VILLA EVACUATES CHIHUAHUA
AND REPORTED DEAD AGAIN
DEMOCRATS HAVE |
HOUSE MAJORITY
Congress Assembles and
Work Will Be Rushed.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.—Congres;
assembled at noon and the usual
flood of bills and resolutions follow*
ed. Speaker Clark announced that
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the next house will be composed o;
21G Democrats and 212 Republicans.)
The Independents, he said, numbe j
four, two of which are doubtful in
relation to the great parties, (’lark
•laims tho Democrats are in control
Speaker Clark and Leader Kitchin
held a conference with President Wil-j
*on after which it was announced that ,
legislation will be hastened to make
the session a short one. The leaders
believe the time will be sufficient to
rush through an immediate national
lefense program and to deal with al
unfinished business.
I'lftS LADIES AID IftAZA Alt
TAKES PLACE TOMOItltOW ,
The Christmas llazaar of tin j
Ladies Aid will take place tomorrow
evening in the Methodist churefc.
The doors will be open at 8 o’clock
and the sales will begin at 8:30. Ice
I*renm nnH '
and fancy work and lots of other
nice things will be provided. |
SI’OKANE INSTEAD OK EVANS 1
I
The steamship Spokane will leave
Seattle on the 10th, taking the place
of the Admiral Evans which is under- 1
;oing the usual annual over-hauling.
M ARSHALS TIt A N S E EIt It EI >
An order has been issued from tlu
Marshal’s office transferring Deputy
Marshal A. E. Hoffman from Mata
nuska to Anchorage and Deputy Mui
,hal Warded from. Anchorage to
Matanuska.
CABLE STILL DOWN
The cable is still out of business.
I ii this connection it should be re
membered that all the messages from
i.l.c outside published these days are
a day late. The Gateway always
gives the proper date and reader."
should watch the dates so that they
might avoid confusion sometimes.
FRANKLIN K. LANK
MAY SUCCEED GREGORY
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—The lat
est rumor in relation to cabinet
changes is that Secretary Franklin
K. Lane will succeed Gregory as at
torney general.
MARSHALL AND TOLSTOI
ARE SHOWING GOOD PAY
Marshall and Tolstoi camps are
coming to the front, according to J.
Saupe, the Nome mining man who
has arrived after traveling through
all the camps enroute from the Bering
sea city. In Marshall they took out
sixty-three thousand dollars in three
weeks this season and at least three
claims have good pay in the Tolstoi
district. Jimmie Pitcher told Mr.
Saupe that he was getting ten dollars
to the pan in the latter camp.
MARIPOSA THURSDAY
The Mariposa left Juneau at 10
o'clock yesterday morning and is ex
pected to arrive here on Thursday
.
evening.
JUDGE BROWN GOING
Judge Brown will leave on the
Mariposa for a visit outside.
VILLA LOSES CHIHUAHUA
JUAREZ, Dec. 4.—General Gonzales reports that the
Carranzistas are again in control of Chihuahua City and
that Villa has fled to the mountains to the westward. Two
trains on the Mexican Northern railroad were looted by
'he bandits when they left. Several of those who had
been forced to fight with Villa were left behind after the
evacuation and have been pardoned by the Carranza gen
erals. The Morguia and Ozuna forces entered the city
ajon after Villa departed and the communication with
the border was at once re-established. The report came
today that Villa was killed in the battle but no informa
tion has come that would tend to confirm this. It is clear
that he ran out of ammunition and this caused his defeat.
Before quitting the city, it is said, Villa slaughtered the
Chinese residents without mercy.
STRIPPED THE C ITY
EL PASO, Dec. 4. — The latest from Chihuahua is
that Villa stripped Chihuahua City of valuables and artil
lery before evacuating it, and he destroyed or appropriat
ed all the small arms also and then proceeded leisurely to
‘■vards San Andreas.
OVER TEN MILLIONS
FOR ALASKA R. R.
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m riuumui urc. i in'
imount included in tlie 1917 esti
nates for the construction of the
government Alaska railroad is ten
nillion dollars and a half. Secretary
VIcAdoo today received the various
lepartmental estimates and all to- '
jether show that a billion and a half
s needed for next year.
GOVERNMENT STARTS
INVESTIGATING PRICES
WASHINGTON, Dec. District:
Attorney Anderson of Boston has,
oeen placed in charge ot a Federal j
government investigation of the(
prices of foodstulfs throughout the
jountry. He has been ordered to co
operate with the inter-state commis*
>ion but this commission is not em
powered to interfere with reta 1 pnces
i)f local dealers.
BOSTON,, Dec. 2.—Anderson con-|
firms his appointment.
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WILSON INVITES BRYAN
TO DINE WITH HIM
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.—President
Wilson has invited William Jennings
Bryan to lunch with him on Decem
ber 6. This has caused speculation as
to whether the President will offer
him a place in the cabinet once again.
TRAILS BARE AND THE
TRAVELING IS HARD
The trails between Knik and the
Junction, and between Anchorage and
Seward are bare of snow and the
traveling is very difficult, Alex I* raz
er, the well known Knik man, says.
On Turnagain Arm there is no snow
at all. Martin is now fixing the snow
slide at Bird creek and this is some
help but the mail is having an aw
ful time. Mr. Frazer says the traf
fic between Anchorage and King riv
er is so great on the government rail
road that the commission is about to
put on an extra coach and caboose.
Under the present conditions passen
gers are able to obtain only standing
room.
WILSON TO SPEAK
WASHINGTON* Dec. 2.—President
Wilson will deliver a speech on Tues
day about the food question.
k
OF JOHN HENIJKKS
An inquest was held yesterday on
.he hotly of John Hendricks who wa>
found shot to death on the railroad
>n Thanksgiving Day. The verdict
was that he came to his death by a
gunshot wound but no evidence was
wrought up to show who fired the
ihot. The jury was composed of A.
H. McDondald, George Sexton, H. IT.
Hildreth, Peter Anderson, \N. \N •
Setchell and Charles Crawford.
The preliminary hearing of Stoker
will not take place until the arrival of
District Attorney Spence who will
come on the first boat to represent
the government. The condition or
Stoker today wa> quieter and he look
ed better.
Irving the man wounded, shows
signs of improvement and the doctors
have strong hopes that he will pull
through. He is able to eat a little
and his appearance is better alto
gether.
$200,000 FIRE WRECKS
PACKING PLANT I'NIT
TACOMA, Nov. 24. — Fire of an
unknown origin, which started in the
hair-drying room of the Carstens
Packing company’s plant here late
yesterday, did damage estimated at
$200,000. No insurance was carried.
Thomas C. Carstens, president of the
concern, said lie would build immedi
ately. The lire was a time threaten
ed the entire $2,000,000 Carsten’s
plant and the Standard Oil plant ad
joining. Thirty streams of water
were thrown on the building. The
burned unit contained the slaughter
rooms hide and storage rooms, laund
ry, sheep pens and glue factory.—Ex.
ILES SELLS OUT ELECTRIC
PLANT
SEATTLE. Nov. 20.—It was an
nounced here today that the Prince
William So.und Light, Power & Tele
phone Company, a Seattle Corpora
tion operating at Valdez, Alaska, had
purchased the lies Hydro-Electric
plant at Solomon Gulch, near Valdez,
for the sum of $100,000. Alfred P.
lies, the principal owner of the lies
plant, has been in this city for sever
al days completing the negotiations,
and las left for the East.—Ex.