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NO OPPOSITION TO
DEFICIENCY BILL
All Horrible Clamor Threat
ened Ends As Sane People
Expected
Washington. Jan. JJ—The urgency deficiency
hill which included the two million appropriation
passed without opposition when it came to a vote
yesterday afternoon.
{.Vote:—The ahore cable proves the correctness
of the news in this paper all along that the so-called
opposition teas merely academic or partisan hot
air. When it came to a rote the wind dropped. As
an attempt has hern made to confuse the publicity
Jumbling the information to hide inefficiency or
news-borrowing or faking, it may be advisable to
give a short resume of the course the deficiency bill
took:
Oft Thursday afternoon GilletFs motion to strike
out of the bill the emergency appropriation for the
railroad teas negatived by the house.
Yesterday. Friday, morning a motion to retain
the railroad appropriation iff the bill teas carried.
Yesterday, Friday. afternoon the urgency de
ficiency bill was passed.
This morning's cable, iff ansiver to a request to
shoir boa• the house was divided, tells us that there
teas no opposition when the deficiency bill came to
a vote.
These remarks are believed- necessary to keep
the people from being deceived in a matter of such
vital importance to them. The attitude of the lower
house is very important as showing how the bill
stands in Washington and in Congress, now that it
may be approaching further action in another
' chamber. There was a time when the Gateway did
not have to waste so much space trying to impress
the real truth upon the public mind.)
DENIES AUSTRIAN
SOB. SANK PERSIA
WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.-The Aus
trian tforernment in a statement to
the American ambassador at Vienna,
* Penfield, denies absolutely that it
was an Austrian submarine that sank
the liner Persia in which American
Consul McXeeley lost his life. It has
come to be believed here that it will
be impossible to determine the real
cause of the vessel’s sinking and the
controversy which promised to be so
dangerous will probably be dropped.
NEW WATER COMPANY
WILL JO DIG WORK
The new water company which has
purchased the Seward water woras
and franchise will start as soon as pos*
sible in spring to carry out extensive
work laying mains and preparing for
a greater city, in the opinion of John
* Nelson, one of the vendors. Mr. Nel*
son says a water company does not wait
for the buildings but constructs the
mains to be ready for the buildinjr*
and he expects to see the new people
start in just as soon as the frost is out
of the ground. He does not think it
advisable at present to tfive the names
of the new owners until the papers
have been received, although the deal
is fully consummated.
FIVE NEGROES LYNCHED
Sylvester Ga., Jan. 21—Five negroes were taken from the
jail here last night and lynched for the murder of a sheriff,
JOLIET INUNDATED
Joliet, Jan. 21—A thousand people are homeless and parts of
the city are four to eight feet under water. Damage is heavy.
Rushing Dock.
A Urge force of men will be kept
working on the dock and Mr. Weir
“hopes” to have it sutliciently ready
for the next boat. Men are getting out
piles and as many shifts as possible
will be kept going.
Harry Hicks is expected in tonight
from Anchorage.
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SEWARDITES COMING
ON THE ALAMEDA
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Craot Carlson, who has been ill, is
returning on the Alameda. Wm. Cop
pernoll, the city attorney, E. A. Nord
and his wife are also on the boat.
H. W. Pratt, P. M., at Hope, left
this morning with a load of parcels for
Hope residents.
DIAZ MAY BE
i NEXT LEADER
OF VILLA ARMY
EL PASO, Jau. 21.—Four thousand
soldiers, chiefly followers of Villa and
Zapata, are now terrorizing the Tor*
roon district and are said to have
pledged themselves to kill Carranzis*
tas aud Americans whenever possible.
] Felix‘Diaz is declared to be their
I choice for leader of the government
and a hundred Carranza sympathizers
are retried killed by them. The men
are well supplied with machine guns
and ammunition apparently.
WILL BUILD
RAILS UP TO
ST. APPROACH
The Railroad commission has mado
plans to carry the rails along the dock
up to the Fourth avenue approach so
that cargoes may he unloaded ou the
cars aud carried to the railroad ware*
houses which stand further up the
track. No new warehouses will be
built on the site of the old ones, and no
attempt will be made at present to
construct permanent wharves. Where
the tracks will be continued cluster
piles will be driven so that ships can
tie up. No time has been lost in be
ginning the work, and a force was
busily at work this morning.
AUSTRIA NOW
OFFERS PEACE.
TO THE SERBS
Home, Jan. 32—Austria has
made fresh offers of peace to
Serbia following the failure of
negotiations with Montenegro.
Not much is expected from
the overtures. It is reported
that. an Austrian torpedo boat
and hydroplane have been sunk
by a British submarine in the
Adriatic.
COMMITTEE OF
THE SENATE
LIKELY HEADY
There is every reason to believe that
the senate committee on appropriations
has already decided to report favora
bly on the emergency bill. L. V. Ray,
president of the first territorial senate,
is convinced that the house committee
would never have put the thinjf
through so quickly without having had
a conference with the senate commit
tee.
DAN CALLAHAN
FREED FROM
GRAVE CHARGE
FAIRBANKS, Jan. 21.— Dan Calla
han, city councilman and former can
didate for the legislature, has been
acquitted in the Commissioner’s court
on the charge of assault on May Wil
lirms of the restricted district.
Many Leave for Anchorage
On the Train
Cf the many passengers who left on
the train this morning for Anchorage
there were: F. L. Waller, the titter
ney; E. R. Wilson with 460 pfonnds of
freight, Drs. Hawes and Draney with
560 pounds freight and dental material
with two teams of Jack Sutherland,
George Cotter and Charles Black with
freight, Bob Graham with 400 pounds
freight, E, N. Pond, David Kevel,
John Duro and Mike Ross.
SHIPS COME
BACK TO N. Y.
- IN A BLAZE
New York. Jan. 22—1The Nor
wegian ship Synge raced back
intb quarantine today with a
fierce fire blazing in her hold,
She sailed yesterday carrying a
cargo of munitions for the allies.
A number of other ships which
sailed recently have also put
back on account of fires aboara,
AMAZING CRIME
COMMITED IN
CHICAGO CITY
CHICAGO, Jan. 22.--A bandit, ac
companied by a woman, robbed a down
town office last ni^ht of nine hundred
dollars after wounding a cashier. A
policeman attempted to enter the of
fice while the robbers were at work,
but he was shot dead. The murderers
escaped.
TESTIMONY IN
MOHR CASE IS
BAD FOR HER
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PROVIDENCE, Jan. 21. - Haelis,
the negro chauffeur, testified yesterday
that Mrs. Mohr offered him and two
other accused negros five thousand
dollars to kill her husband. He ad*
milted that he stopped the car at the
appointed place, but that the other ne
groes were the ones who shot Dr. Mohr.
To Bring in Bridge
Timbers from Kenai.
The train this morning included a
flat car for Mile 23 to be loaded with
bridge timbers for the construction of
the new dock. Engineer in Charge
Weir says that he will have two pile
drivers at work Monday morning,
Karl Thiel and R. S. Boyd left this
rooming for Bethel aad Iditarod, re
spectively.
SAYS GERMANY IS PREPARING
TO ATTACK THE BRITISH ELEET
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London, Jan. 22.—The Daily New* naval critic
has published'• a. sensational warning that the Ger
man dreadnaughts are being equipped with seven
teen inch guns throwing ton shells a nd that more
than twenty vessels ase being thus prepared for an
attack on England within the next few months. The
critic claims that they fa r outclass the British ships
and that they will probably engage the British navy.
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MONTENEGRO WANTS HELP
Paris, Jan. 21—King Nicholas of Montenegro has appealed
t^the allied nations to rush troops to his aid or his army will be
annihilated.
INVADE EGYPT SOON
Amsterdam. Jan. 21—Advices from Belgrade say that the
officials believe the invasion of Egypt by the Turks and Germans
is about to begin. In a speech at Nish the kaiser said: “We have
had a hard tight which will spread to other fields.”
POPE MAY ASK PEACE
Rome, Jan. 21—The Pope has announced a consistory for
March ostensibly to confer red hats on Bavarian and Austrian
cardinals, but it is believed his real purpose is to get information
of the possibility of prevailing on Bavaria and Austria, both Cath
olic countries, to make .peace.
NEW GERMAN BATTLE
AIRSHIP A TERROR
London, Jan. 22—The London papers today, apparently with
the consent of the censor, carry full accounts of a terrible new
German airship or “battleplane” which has destroyed eighteen
British biplanes within a few months. The news was probably
hidden hitherto as the stories of the loss of the biplanes w -re not
published. The new German terror is called the “Fokker.”
TWO SHIPS SUNK
London, Jan. 21 — The Dutch schooner Rangcrmati was
struck by a mine yesterday on the Danish coast and ship and crew
were lost. The British steamer Sutherland was submarined and
sunk in the Mediterranean but the crew was saved.
ALLIES IN BULGARIA
Athens, Jan, 21 — After two days bombarding an allusi
squadron silenced the forts at Portolagus on the southern Bui gar
ian coast and an allied force has been landed on Bulgarian soil
INDICT MANY TOR PLOTS
Washington, Jan. 21 —Attorney General Gregory reported
to the house today that seventy-three persons and four corpora
tions have been indicted for plots by “hyphenated” Americans.
AWFUL WEATHER NEARLY CAUSED
loss OF S. S. NORTHWESTERN
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VILLA SAYS
NOT GUILTY
OF MURDERS
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EL PASO, Jan. 22.—Villa has sent
a message to the American people that
he is not guilty of the murders of the
18 Americans. He claims it is a Car
ranza plot to discredit him and he
promises to punish the murderers
whether they are his followers or not.
Various reports say Villa has been
captured and has escaped. It is be
lieved he got away. The governor of
Chihuahua says the report that 18
more Americans were murdered is not
a fact. It It now repotted that Villa
has married a tnird wife.
FORTYHORSES
HAULING THE
CACHE DREDGE
Forty horses are engaeed in the
work of hauling the Cache creek
dredge to that stream. Some of the
pieces weigh ten tons and the men
taking in the machinery were unable
to secure horsesat Anchorage although
they offered a dollar a day for each
animal. They finally succeeded in se
curing horses from the Engineering
Commission as the Commission had
them idle on their hands at the time.
STONE ADMITS
THE FORGERY
AT01YMPIA
OLYMPIA, Wash., Jan. 22.-Frank
Stone had confessed to the governor
that he committed many forgeries of
warrrnts of the Industrial Insurance
Commission. J. F. Gillies, former
claim agent to the Commission, is now
on trial for participation in the em
beulemeotq.
Three Fii *es Start S )uring High
Wind in Capital City
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Juneau, Jan. 22.—That only the fine seaman*
$h7'p of Captain 0’Brien has s?ved the steamship
Northwestern is the statement made yesterday by
Pilot Klein of that vessel. After leaving Cordova
the shijf eneounterecb terrific winds and frightful
Arctic weather so that she arrived here yesterday
looking like a. huge iceberg and sheathed from stem
to stern with a thick coating of ice. The pilot and
others consider her escape most lucky.
The storm here has paralized business for three
days. Yesterday the temperature fell to sixteen be•
low zero. Some mains are frozen' much damage
has been done and the suffering is keen. During
the high winds three fires were started but were for
tunately nipped just in time.
REPUBLICANS WILL
POSTPONE MEETING
Carters Bridge Crew
at Work on New Dock
Dayton Carter and hlscrewof bridge
repair workers came in yesterday af
ternoon on a special train from Mile 12
and are at work today clearing the ap
pronchss and getting the dock ready
for pile driving next Monday.
Woman Freighter to
Make Trip to Valdez
Mrs. Rose Johnson, the Matanuska
freighter, who arrived last night over
the trail, will leave on the Farragut
for a trip to Valdez, returning on the
next boat.
Return to Mile 26.
Mr. and Mrs. James Hayden return*
ed to their home, the Oasis, at Mile 26
this morning.' Uncre Joe Irvine also
returned to 26. Derick Lane made up
and gave the finishing touch to the
[ party.
SEATTLE, Jan. 2i.-The Republi
can territorial committee which has
been called to meet in Seward on Jan
uary 27 will adjourn until the arrival
of the steamship Evans at Seward,
which will be about Februar y 5. The
postponement will be due to the delay
in receiving the r.ew rules promulgated
by the national committee in Washing
ton on December 7.
Alaska Transfer
Gets Contract
Piles on New Dock
The Alaska Transfer was today
awarded a contract by tne Engineering
Commission for furnishing the piles
for the new dock.
Wayne Robinson and Richard Con
way returned to their home at mile 20
this morning.