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GREAT GERMAN SHIP
IS SUNK IN BATTEE
LONDON, Jan. 25.—The German*
armored cruiser Bluecher was sunk
and two German battle cruisers were
seriously damaged yestrday in a run
ning light with a British patrolling
squadron. More damage would have
been inflicted on the enemy but their
ships succeeded in escaping into min
ed waters where the British ships did
not dare to follow. The British cas
ualties were slight and not a man
aboard a British vessel was killed.
The Bluecher was a ship of sixteen
thousand tons. After having receiv- j
ed several shells she capsized and ,
sank. Out of a crew of eight hundred
and eighty five men only one hundred
und eighty three were saved. The bat
tle took place olT the north coast of ^
Holland. It is assumed that the Ger
mans were starting out to make ^
another raid on the English coast
when they were sighted by the British
patrol squadron which by a remark- j
able stroke of luck was just engaged
in the very work of watching for any |
renewal of the attempt made some
time ago on the Yorkshire coast. The
names of the British ships engaged in j
the tight have not yet been published
but it is stated that the battle shows j
clearly the superiority of the British
ships over the German fleet. The
Bluecher was built in 1005 and had a
sped of 24 knots. The result of the
battle has caused the greatest jubila- j
tion all over this country where it is
taken as vengeance for the German
raid of some weeks ago.
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EVANS COMING.
Agent Wayne Blue has received
word that the Evans will leave Seat
tle tomorrow morning at ten o’clock.
KANSAS LABOR
BILL CUT OUT
SUPREME COURT DECLARES
UNION MAN CAN BE
COERCED.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.—The
Kansas “coercion” law was declared
unconstitutional today by the United
States supreme court. This law for
bade any individual or corporation to
coerce or influence any person to en
ter into an agreement not to join or
remain members of a labor organiza
tion as a condition of remaining in
their employ. Justice Pitney wrote
the deceision and Justices Holmes,
Hughes and Day dissented. The de
cision says that just as a union man
has a constitutional right to decline
preferred employment unless em
ployers agree not to employ non union
men so employers have a constitution
al right to insist that employees re
frain from affiliation from unions dur
ing the term of their employment.
HAZZARD CASE AGAIN
HAS BEEN POSTPONED.
Given Until Eleven O’clock Tomorrow
to Obtain Counsel for Himself.
The case of George Hazzard, who
is charged with obtaining money un
der false pretenses, was postponed
this afternoon until eleven o’clock to
morrow morning to enable the de
fendant to secure counsel. The case
was set for eleven o’clock this morn
ing but a postponement was made un
til 2 o’clock when Mr. Hazzard asked
for a further postponement asserting
his “right to the privilege” of asking
for a postponement to obtain counsel.
Commissioner Conroy reminded the
defendant that he had told him on
Saturday afternoon that he must se
cure counsel. Deputy District Attor
ney W’hittlesey did not oppose the re
que t of Hazzard and the court al
lowed the case to go over till tomor
row at the time named.
AUSTRIA OPENS
REAL WARFARE
BEG IN S C A M PA IG N A LONG
WHOLE FRONT TO DRIVE
OFT RUSSIANS.
PETROGRAD, Jan. 25.—Pronounc
ed activity along the whole Austrian
front of three hundred miles marked
the beginning of the new campaign
inaugurated by the Austrian armies
to drive the Russians out of Bukowina,
Eastern Galicia and northern Hun
gary. The Austrians are supported by
the German forces that were sent
south some time ago and for a time
the real struggle will center south of
the place where the Russians and Ger
mans have been fighting for the pos
session of Warsaw for so long. The
Austrian armies are said to have been
reorganized carefully for this effort
and are believed to be in great force
as they have recently called out al
most every man in the dual mon
archy who is capable of bearing arms.
It is probably the aim of the Gormans
and Austrians chiefly to clear the
Country bordering on Roumania of the
Russians before the Roumanians are
ready to enter the war on the side of
the allies. However that may be it is
expected here that a struggle of ex
traordinary importance and bitterness
is about to begin.
ROCKEFELLER GIVES HIS
VIEWS ON LABOR AFFAIRS.
Same Old Views Expressed and are
I Thought Worth Being Telegraphed
Over Country.
NEW YORK. Jan. 25.—Rockefeller
jr., was the chief witness before the
Industrial Relations commission today
and declared that he had not attempt
ed to exercise absolutism over the
coal industry in Colorado nor sought
to dictate the policy of non- recogni
tion of labor unions. He declared that
he heartily favored unions so long as
their purpose was to promote the well
being of employes and so long as the
unions had due regard for the inter
ests of the public. Rockefeller be
lieves, he says, that the ultimate ob
ject of all activities in the republic
should be the development of the man
hood of the citizenship. Such man
hood, he declared, can only develop to
the fullest dgree on the condi
>tion that freedom should be given to
the individual and to industrial enter
prises. Industrial enterprises should
be conducted in accordance with these
priniciples.
JONES ATTACKS U. S.
OFFC1ALS VP HERE.
In the full report of Deputy Com
missioner Jones of the fisheries, which
has just arrived, it is seen that Mr.
Jones also takes a shot at the U. S.
commissioners and deputy marshals of
Alaska. He says in connection with
1 fisheries prosecutions;
“In the past not only have our of
ficials received small support from
the majority of the United States
commissioners and some of the deputy
marshals in Alaska, but they have
! actually been opposed by some of
them in carrying out their duties.”
In one case, Jones says, two such
officials and a deputy clerk of the
court were interested in a cannery
and knocked the efforts to administer
justice. Mr. Jones also says that he
! was shocked by the fact that in some
places the natives use obscene and in
decent language, but the worst part
of it was, he says, that in this they
i only followed the example of the men
| sent by the government to lead them.
In addition to all this he says that the
natives use all sorts of intoxicants
amongst which he includes—what do
you think—sourdough!
ELWOOD BRUNER
PASSES AWAY
SENATOR FROM NOME DIES
AT BYRON SPRING,
CALIFONIA.
SEATTLE, Jan. 25.—Senator El
wood Bruner, member of the Alaska
senate from Nome, died at Byron
Springs, California, on the fifteenth
of January.
The cause of Mr. Bruner’s death is
not told in the above telegram as can
be seen. He was the holdover senator
from the Second division and left
Nome last fall to attend the second
session of the Legislature in March.
He was formerly a member of the
California legislature and at one time
was the center of a fierce controversy
in that state. He was attacked by the
San Francisco Examiner which level
let! several accusations against him
but he came out of the argument suc
cessfully. His brother was deputy
clerk of the court at Nome up to a
few months ago and passed through
Seward on the Victoria last Summer.
The senator was a lawyer and had
lived at Nome for many years. Per
sonally he had a great many friends,
all of whom agreed that El wood was
a ‘‘good fellow.” He was the man who
left the senate at the first session as
a protest against Wickersham addres
sing the chamber. He was also the
strongest candidate for the presi
dency of the senate against Senator
L. V. Ray.
MAKES PRISONER PACK
HIM INTO THE CAMP.
LONDON, Jan. 23.—The story of
how a wounded Ghurka obtained a
comfortable ride to camp without los
in the prisoner he had captured is re
lated by an officer just returned from
the front.
“One night”, said the offcer, who
commands a company in a Ghurka
regiment, “when our men rushed a
German trench, one of the Ghurkas
captured a Germau. There is a re
ward for bringing in prisoners alive,
so the Ghurka started back to our
trenches with his prisoner.
“He was hit in the leg while cross
ing the field so he forced the German
to take him on his back to our lines.
He came riding in on his captive, se
cured his reward, and then let himself
be removed on a stertcher to the
hospital.”
MARIPOSA PASSENGERS.
The following are the passengers
for Seward on the steamship Mari
posa: J. Chamberlain, W. Dunklewire,
R. Guest, Will Steel, William Aiken,
R. Chadwick, W. Cooper and R. Mc
Kern.
Lot 16 block T>2 has been sold to
Rudolph Koch for $225. The lot is
near the Kerns house alongside the
railroad tracks.
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PROHIBITION
ALL LIQUOR IN THE ISLAND TO
BE SENT FAR, FAR
AWAY.
COPENHAGEN, Jan. 25.—*The par
liament of Iceland has enacted a pro
hibition law which forever ends the
drinking of alcoholic liquor within its
borders. The law demands that all
the liquor in the island be exported
at once so that no chance will remain
for securing it. The people generally
seem to be in favor of the measure
and it is probably the first country
in history which has made prohibi
tion a general law for the whole na
tion.
0. G. Labaree may come north very
soon. Ben thinks he may be on the
next boat.
WANTED TO VIOLATE
ALASKA'S NEUTRALITY.
This Territory Might Have Become
Another Belgium, By Gosh.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.—In
answer to critizisms regarding his
attitude towards the British in the
war Secretary of State Bryan stated
today in a note that one fact which
proves that he is not giving Britain
an undue advantage is that he re
fused to let Canada ship guns across
Alaska to the sea for the defence of
the British Columbia coast. The
Canadian government, he says, asked
for pci-mission to ship the guns and
ammunition from northern Canada
across southern Alaska. Mr. Bryan
is now coming in for a tremendous lot
of attacking from the sympathizers
of Germany because of his alleged
leaning towards the British. He is ac
cused of being in favor ot Great Bri
tain principally because his daughter
is married to an officer in the British
army.
BROAD PASS MILLIONAIRE
AND LIQUID EYES.
The last Sunday Post Intelligencer to
hand contains a full page syndicate
story of the meeting and marriage of
Henry Clay Carr, “a Broad Pass mil
lionaire,” to Miss Dorothy Dunn,
artist’s model of New York. The
story is beautifully illustrated. Carr
was here last Summer “Only three
days after looking into the liquid eyes
of Miss Dunn” says the paper ‘‘the
heart of this clean-cut upstanding
millionaire and the heart of the
beautiful, gracious and brilliant Miss
Dunn, that had been strangers, be
came one” or some slush to that effect.
It must have been hard on the P. I. to
run that dope, knowing as it must
how scarce Broad Pass millionaires
are yet, already. The story says Carr
made $1,500,000 in Broad Pass.
NEWS NOTES
Bruno Mauro, the former Nome
druggist, has written to inquire about
Seward. He says he wants to invest
two thousand dollars here.
A1 Williams has received word that
his cousin has been killed fighting in
the British army in Flanders.
Martin Benbury and Ben Swcasy
have arrived for a stay of a few days
from the Kenai Lake country.
Frank Cotter has come to the city
to be present.at the trial of George
Hazzard, in which he is interested to
the tune of some seventy five dollars,
it is said.
This is Guy Whitehead’s birthday
and while there has been no special
celebration of the event in the shape
of a party several friends of Mr. and
Mrs. Whitehead went to their home
to offer their felicitations.
The name of Mrs. L. V. Hay was in
advertently omitted from the list of
Mrs. Whittemore’s guests the other
day.
Tom Tesse has arrived from Kenai
lake and will go to Valdez creek with
A. H. Bryant who is now in Seattle.
Mr. Tesse will go in by way of Cor
dova ahead of Mr. Bryant.
Word has been received that the
temperature on last Saturday at
Kenai lake was forty six above al
though the place where the tempera
ture was taken is 520 feet above sea
level.
Virginia Hawkins caused a tremen
dous excitement* this morning when
she let her balloon escape. As the bal
loon sailed in the heavens the whole
town turned out to watch and so
many brilliant remarks were made
about Zeppelins etc., that there is no
room for any more.
The Daily Alaskan is unofficially
authorized to deny the report that a
movement is either on foot or on
horseback here to organize a branch
of the Ancient Order of Easy Marks.
Such an organization might flourish
on the soil of Seward, but here—
never.—Cordova Alaskan.
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FIND ENTRANCE
TO KUSKOKWIM
IMPORTANT DISCOVERY THAT
WILL OPEN IMMENSE
TERRITORY.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.—Secre
tary Red field of the department of
commerce announced today that a
navigable channel from Bering sea to
the Kuskokwim river has at last
! been discovered and that an immense
territory is now sure to be opened to
exploitation. He says that as a re
• suit of the discovery new steamship
lines will be established without a
doubt for the transportation of thou
sand of miles of supplies to practic
ally virgin country. He believes the
Kuckokwim is rich in mining, fishing
I and agricultural resources and says
I it is not unreasonable to suppose that
the Kuskokwim will soon compare
with the Yukon as a field of commer
cial importance. The channel has
been discovered and chartered by Cap
tain Lukins of the coast survey
steamer Yukon. One fact which Mr.
Redfield dwells upon is that many
thousand of miles of the Kuskokwim
valleys are suitable for reindeer
grazing and he belivese there is good
reason to expect that from that re
gion a large business may be done
with the outside world in reindeer
meat.
‘PEOPLE ALONG MAIL
ROUTE INDIGNANT.
Believe Mail Alio wances Too Small
and Complaints are Being
Forwarded.
The Iditarod Pioneer of January 2
makes a strong protest against the
manner in which that camp and
others in the interior are being treat
eel in the matter of mail. The Pio
neer heads its protest with the words
“miserable mail mix-up” and goes on
to say that as only 400 pounds of
mail is allowed to the trip mail is be
ing accumulated at Seward, Takotna
and other places. “For one thing”
says the Pioneer “it cannot be under
stood why only two consignments of
first class mail have been received
here.” In a letter in the same issue
of that paper I)r. Green of Takotna
nakes a strong complaint and says it
is aggravating that he cannot get his
mail even though the mail team pas
ses by his door. The Iditarod post
master has written the chief clerk of
the railway mail service at Tanana
and will write to Washington. In the
meantime the people of Iditarod
raised a private subscription to have
their mail brought from Takotna.
Seward will surely give them all the
aid possible in having them secure a
better mail service.
VALDEZ, Jan. 19.—Judge Fred M.
Brown, of the District Court has call
ed a term of court to be held in Val
dez beginning February 15. There
will be no jury called.
SESSlilAY
BE CONTINUOUS
DEMOCRATS EXPECT TO PASS
SHIP PURCHASE 3ILL
ANYHOW.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.—That
night sessions and even a continuous
sitting of the senate may be found
necessary for the passing of the ship
purchase bill is now believed by the
supporters of the measure. Party
lines have been drawn sharply on the
subject of the bill as a result of the
democratic caucus. The democrats be
lieve the bill will be passed in spite of
the filibustering of the republicans
and they are determined to go to any
length necessary to force the mea
sure through. It is thought, however,
that the support of the progressives
may be found necessary but this sup
port is believed to have been insured.
BRITISH AIRSHIPS
DESTROY 400 AIITOS
GERMANS MAKE
WARM PROTEST
OBJECT TO HAVING HYDRO
AEROPLANES SENT FROM
U. S. TO ALLIES.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.—Germany
has protested to the state department
against the shipment of hydro
aeroplanes from this country to the
allied nations. The contention of the
German government is that hyro
aeroplanes arc war vessels and that
shipment to a belligerent nation is a
flagrant violation of the spirit of in
ternational law. The state depart
ment has taken the matter up and
will carefully look into the question.
One fact is now apparent and that is
that the United States is more and
more affected by the war. Difficulties
arise almost every day with one bel
ligerent power or another and it is
hard to see how trouble can be avoid
ed if the war lasts very long. The dif
ficulty is made far greater by the
division of opinion in this country.
German-Americans are constantly at
tacking the administration while on
the other hand British papers are re
buking the President and state de
partment for their lack of sympathy
with the allied cause. From this time
forward some very delicate matters
are sure to come up thick and fast
for adjustment.
CONSENT TO INTERNMENT.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.—The
British foreign minister consents to
the interment of the German prize
collier which has been held at San
Juan, Porto Rico. The ship was
formerly the British collier Jarn.
WHEAT DOLLAR FORTY SIX.
Farmers are Holding the May Pro
duct and Other Cereals are
Rising Also.
CHICAGO Jan. 25.—May wheat to
day has gone to one dollar and forty
six cents. It is now apparent that the
farmers are holding the wheat and it
is feared that the price will rise to a
still greater figure. The price of other
cereals is also rising.
LONDON, Jan. 17.—“The war has
become merely a part of the daily
routine of our lives here", writes an
English school teached from Dresden,
Germany. She has been a resident of
Dresden many years, and has had no
trouble with the populace.
“There is no feeling of alarm" she
writes, “such as we hear is prevalent
in London and Paris. The feeling of
optimism is as strong as ever, and no
native of Saxony has any fears of an
invasion of Dresden by the Russians.
“We see many soldiers, going and
coming. They are very fine and very
warlike. The women of Dresden
showered them with gifts of cigars,
chocolate, and warm articles of cloth
ing. The troops are always singing
some of the German glees. They have
a few new songs which are good. One
of them, written by a private soldier,
has caught on all Germany. The
words are a bit grotesque, but fit ex
cellently into the rollicking music.
They go thus:
‘For every Briton a kick,
For every Russian a shot,
For every Frenchman a knock,—
For God, for King, and Fatherland.'
“We had the spy mania here very
bad for a time, and everybody sus
pected everybody else; but they have
got past that now."
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AMSTERDAM , Jan. 25.—British
airships raided Essen last week and
destroyed four hundred German war
automobiles according to the most
reliable information just received
i here. The airmen, it is said, started
from the British coast and sailed
direct for Germany. Coming over Es
sen they succeed in dropping bombs
with terrible effect. The airmen all
managed to make their escape al
though German aeroplanes were sent
aloft in the effort to bring them
down. The fact that the raid has not
been reported from London is said to
be accounted for by the fact that the
British aviators did not sail direct to
England as the continuous journey
vas too great.
The loss of the automobiles is a
severe one to the Germans as they
have been brought very much into use
recently in the work of transporting
troops from one part of the battle
ground to the other.
THAW MAY AGAIN HAVE
HIS HEAD EXAMINED.
Is Arraigned and Charged With Con
spiracy in Making Escape
From Asylum.
NEW YORK, Jan. 25.—Harry K.
Thaw was arraigned today and charg
ed with conspiracy in connection with
his escape from Matteawan asylum.
The attorneys moved that he be sent
to Bellevue hospital for an examina
tion to determine whether he is sane
and the decision of the court has been
reserv’d!. The prisoner appeared in
court much older and very worn. He
was accompanied by some members
of his family.
U. S. CONSULS
FOR BELGIUM
AMERICA WILL MAKE ARRANGE
MENTS WITH MILITARY
CHIEFS THERE.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.—The
United States government has sent
a formal note to Sir Edward Grey,
British minister of foreign affairs, ex
pressing willingness to make the nec
essary arrangements with the great
military commanders controlling Bel
gian territory for the continuance of
the United States consular service
there. In this move the sovereignty
of Belgium is not discussed and is not
affected in any way although it is ap
parent that in making the arrange
ment the United States will have to
deal with the German generals who
are at present the real governors in
the far greater part of Belgium.
/. R. CHENEY SAYS
MINING LAW INVALID.
In a communication to the Juneau
Dispatch Z. R. Cheney, the democratic
national committeman from Alaska,
says that the mining law passed by
the Alaska legislature is invalid as it
is inconsistent with the federal law
and interferes with the primary dis
posal of the soil. “The most import
ant service that the members of the
next session of the legislature could
render to the people of Alaska " say»
Cheney "would be the repeal of the
mining act."
Assistant District Attorney Guy B.
Brubaker of Valdez has resigned his
office to take up the law practice of
Judge Charles E. Bunnell, recently ap
pointed to the Fourth Division judi
ciary, by President Wilson. Mr. Bru
baker accompanied Judge Bunnell to
Cordova Sunday on the Mariposa, and
application by mail has been made to
the Governor's Office, for appoint
ment as a notary.—Juneau Empire.
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