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Volume XI Number^TO SEtt ARI), ALASKA~ WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1917._ Ten Cents the Copy
BULLETIN!
WASHINGTON, Wednesday, Feb. 7.—Con
sidering the army appropriation Gill paragraph
at a time, the item of $500,000 for wagon roads
in Alaska was voted upon in the house this after
noon and it carried.
WASHINGTON, Wednesday, Feb. 7.—Half a million
dollars for wagon roads in Alaska is included in the army
appropriation bill as reported to the house today.
The committee declined to put in $100,000 additional
asked to start work on the Gastineau channel bridge, but
it is believed that this item will be inserted in the bill when
it comes before the senate.
EUROPEAN NEUTRALS WILL
NOT BREAK WITH GERMANS
WASHINGTON, Wednesday, Feb. 7. — No neutral
European nation will follow the lead of the United States
in breaking off relations with Germany because of her un
stricted submarine warfare. This was made certain to
• av bv information reaching the state department from
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It is intimated strongly from unofficial sources that
fear has considerable to do with tins determination on the
part of the neutrals.
HOLLAND IS MENACED
AMSTERDAM, Wednesday, Feb. 7—German forti
fications and towns along the Dutch frontier are tilled
with soldiers today and many of the inhabitants of fron
tier villages have packed their most valuable possessions
in readiness for flight. Uneasiness is increasing hourly.
RADICAL CHANGE 1
IN TEMPERATURE
NOTED ON TRAIL
A new record of extremes in tem
perature in a trip of 115 miles was
noted by Mrs. W. W. Butts who came
out from Anchorage, arriving here
Monday night.
When Mrs. Butts left the inlet the
mercury registered 43 degrees below
zero. She was three days enroute and
when she arrived here it was 40 de
grees above, a change of 80 degrees
in 72 hours over 115 miles of trail
and railroad.
Mrs. Butts on her arrival complain
ed of the heat ami has had the doors
open most of the time since.
FALLING TREE.
NEARLY CAUSED l
DEATH OF CHILI)
Baby Enstrom, three year old
daughter of John Enstrom, living up
Lowell creek is slowly recovering the
use of limbs after an injury last week
which threatened for a time to result
in complete paralysis. The tot tod
dled out to a place quite a distance
from the cabin where its father was
cutting down a small spruce trve and
was struck. Enstrom did not know
that his daughter was near until too
late. At first the child could not
move but it has since regained the use
| of all of its body except one leg.
BACK AND FORTH ALONG THE SOMME!
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LONDON, Wedesday, Feb. 7. — Reports from the
British headquarters in France read in part: “On the
Somme front the lines advanced during the day in the vi
cinity of Grandcourt, where we occupied 1,000 yards of
trenches without opposition from the enemy.”
OTHER SIDE COMES BACK
BERLIN, Wednesday, Peb. 7. — Many trenches re
cently lost east of Beaucourt on the Somme front have
been retaken.
MUNITION WORKERS KILLED
AMSTERDAM, Wednesday, Feb. 7—An accidental
explosion in the Nobel munitions plant at Schlebusch near
(V'ogne yesterday, killed 200 employees, most of whom
were women.
TO BREAK BRITISH TYRANNY
BERLIN, Wednesday, Feb. 7.—Dr. Karl Helfferich,
minister of interior said today in an interview: “We con
sider submarine warfare to be an effective means of shoi c
ening the war and breaking for once and for all British
tyranny on tse seas.”
LINE WILL BE
OPEN TO 71 AT
EARLY DATE
.
Necessity of Early Work on
Turnagain Arm is
the Cause.
BIG BRIDGE
SPAN FALLS;
TWO KILLED
Concrete Arch Over River
at Spokane Collapses
With 26 Workmen
SPOKANE, Wednesday, Feb. 7.—
Two men were killed and two are dy
ing from injuries and eight were seri
ously injured when the concrete arch
of the city bridge being erected over
the Spokane river collapsed this
morning.
The arch was 250 feet in length and
was practically completed when the
break occurred, dropping 26 men in
to the turbulent stream. Eye wit
nesses expected that all would be lost
and were greatly surprised to see
many o! the men who fell swim
ashore unhurt.
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Plans to open the line from Seward
to Mile 71 at the earliest possible
time this season, are to be carired out
soon.
The rotary snow p’ow is to be sent I
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over the hill to Mile 40 at an early
date and will cut through the drifts
as far as the snotvslide at Mile 53,
which is to be removed by sluicing. I
Until recently it was considered
risky to send the big plow over some
of the weaker trestles but the need |
for immediate 'actiorf along Turnagainj
arm resulted in the engineers ngiu
ing out a plan by which it can be
taken out. j
FLAGMAN KILLED
AT OWN CROSSING
SEATTLE, Wednesday, Feb. 7.—3.
E. Remington, Great Northern *lap
man was run down and killed at his
station on Holgate street thin morn
ing. _ _
The machine will be lightened as
much as possible and hitched to the
end of a train, thus distributing the
weight. Once at Mile 40 It can be1
hitched up with all the available lo
comotives behind it and sent into the*
drifts as far as the long trestle. ? his
trestle is on a grade and the plow will
drift across it and beyond that the
power can be put behind it again, i
LONDON, Wednesday, Feb. 7—Thirteen steamers of
three different nations, Russian, Norwegian and British,
were sunk by .German submarines Tuesday. Several lives
were lost. The total tonnage amounted to 37,734 gross, or
as much as the record for the week prior to Tuesday.
The destruction of merchant tonnage due to submar
ine mines and kindred war causes was greater during the
month of January than in any previous month of the war.
According to the Journal of Commerce, the number
of vessels “accounted for” by Germany during January
totaled 154, with a tonnage of 336,977. •
SOLE SURVIVOR LANDED
PARIS, Wednesday, Feb. 7.—The American ambassa
dor here has been notified that the sole survivor of the
Belgian relief ship Lars Kruse has been landed in France.
The Lars Kruse was torpedoed off the Belgian coast Mon
day without warning.
DEATH HARVEST GOES ON
LONDON, Wednesday, Feb. 7—The British steam
ers Saxon, Brito, Azul, Vestra, and Crown Point were
sunk early today with considerable loss of life.
Later the Peruvian bark Loton, the Italian steamer
Ferruccio, British steamer Wartenfeis and four British
fishing boats were sunk.
ATLANTIC TRAVEL STOPPED
SEATTLE, Wednesday, Feb. 7. — Trans-Atlantic
steamship companies are wiring their Seattle agents to
discontinue the sale of passenger bookings for Europe,
but through freight will still be received.
SWISS LEASING SHIPS
. WASHINGTON, Wednesday, Feb. 7. — The Swiss
government is about to enter the merchant marine and
there may yet be a Swiss navy. Switzerland entered into
negotiations with neutral powers today to lease vessels
to transport food from abroad.
PIRACY ON HIGH SEAS
LONDON, Wednesday, Feb. 7.—Five shots were fired
by the German submarine U-45 at the American steamer
Westwego on Jan. 31, the captain reported today. None
of the shot took effect and the master stopped and sent a
boat to the submarine with his papers. The commander
of the submarine then demanded oil under threat to sink
the ship if refused. The demand was complied with.
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BULLETIN!
WASHINGTON, Wednesday, Feb. 7.—Sev
erance of diplomatic relations with Germany was
formally approved today by the senate without
debate.
WASHINGTON, Wednesday, Feb. 7. — Government
chiefs were thoroughly incensed this morning on receiv
ing a dispatch from Copenhagen that Ambassador Gerard
was to be held in Germany as a hostage until satisfied that
Bernstorff had been accorded proper treatment by the
United States.
Later the safe arrival of Gerard in Berne, Switzer
land was announced, relieving the tension.
On arriving at Berne, Gerard announced himself
safely out of Germany in dispatches to Ambassador Wil
lard at Madrid, who forwarded word to the state depart
ment.
Investigations started prior to the receipt of the last
message resulted in the government learning from Euro
pean sources outside of Germany that the German gov
ernment actually did consider Gerard practically as a
hostage until it received advices from Washington, detail
ing the arrangements made for the safe departure of
Bernstorff.
SEAS AN OPEN ROAD TO U. S.
WASHINGTON, Wednesday, Feb. 7.—The American
'iner St. Louis will not be given a convoy if her owners de
cide to send her out on regular sailings for England
through the submarine zone, the state department an
nouced today. The contention is that the vessel has a
right to sail without convoy, being a neutral merchant
nan.
SWISS MINISTER IN CHARGE
WASHINGTON, Wednesday, Feb. 7.—Minister Pit
er. of Switzerland, today was informed by his govern
nent to take over German diplomatic interests in the
United States, including the embassy here and twelve con
sulates throughout the country.
SEATTLE FIRM
AWAITS OPENING
OF NAVIGATION
With all our boosting, some Seat
tle firms are not yet aware of the fact
that steamers sail from its water
front every week in the year for Sew
ard.
Wharfinger Large received a com
munication from Stewart and Holmes,
wholesale druggists at Seattle on the
last boat concerning a shipment now
held on the dock which said:
“In the absence of further disposi
tion we will have the shipment re
turned to us on the opening of navi
gation.
Shades of Anchorage, what an *n
sult.
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THE WEATHER
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Yesterday.
Maximum .• • 4*>
Minimum .
Current .
WEATHER TOMORROW
Unsettled and warmer.
IX CELL WITH
WINDOW AFTEJl 41
YEARS “SOLITARY”
BOSTON,—(Special) — After 41
years of solitary confinement, Jesse
Pomeroy, 57, will be moved to a cell
where he can see passersby; he will
be allowed exercise with other prison
ers, to sit with them at the church
services and other entertainments,
and will be given such light work at
the prison shops as his physical con
dition will permit.
Pomeroy was convicted of the mur
der of two children in this city. He
was sentenced to be hanged, but be
cause of his youth the sentence was
commuted to solitary imprisonment
for life.
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BOATS AND TRAINS
The Admiral Evans is due tomor
row from the Westward.
The Northwestern is held in quar
entine at Ketchikan. She will sail
the outside passage from Cordova on
the return trip.
The train will leave tomorrow
' morning at 8:30 for Mile 40.
RAISE OF BAIL BN EX-CONSUL BOPP
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SAN FRANCISCO, Wednesday, Feb. 7. — Fearing
that means would be taken to get Franz Bopp, ex-consul
general for Germany, out of the country, he was called in
to court today and his bail raised from $10,000 to $25,000.
Bopp said that he could not put up that amount s^nd would
have to stay in jail. . . . ,, , ...
Bopp is under conviction of violating the neutrality
of the United-States. Indictments charging him with us
ing mails to incite wholesale murder and arson have not
been tried. The case grew out of bomb plots early in the
war. ' . . ...