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Yol 10 No SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 1917___Ten Cents the Copy
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GREAT ITALIAN BATTLESHIP SUNK
AND HUNDREDS OE CREW LOST
KAISER PROCLAIMS DEFIANCE
AMSTERDAM, Jan. 13.—A proclamation from the
kaiser in answer to the refusal of the Entente powers toj
discuss peace has been issued in Berlin and liom thej
somewhat curtailed reports of it received here it is seen|
to breathe defiance. It says in part:
••The enemy has dropped the mask and shows that he j
scorns an honest peace, lhe reply to the note of thej
President of the United States shows a lust for conquest.'
Burning with indignation Germany will redouble its
strength and is ready for all sacrifices.”
Commentators here are inclined to think that Ger
mane has succeeded in securing an expression of the in
tentions of the Entente, and that this is what was ieall\
sought.
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WILSON SILENT ABOUT REPLY
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—The attitude of President
Wilson on the Entente reply to his peace note is unknown.
He declines to speak of the subject at all. unless he speaks
to Lansing or Colonel House or someone else very close
to him. It has been suggested by a member of the admin
istration that the neutral European countries might now,
with good results urge Germany to state her peace terms j
and then a conference might be possible. It is likelj that
ihis will be the next effort made, diplomats think.
SAYS REPLY ABSURD
AMSTERDAM, Jan. 13.—The Handelsblad newspa
per considers the reply of the Entente nations disappoint
ing because of the mixing therein statements ot ideals and
light with ordinary conceptions of conquest. It disap
proves of the effort to secure the restitution of Alsace to
France and Schleswig to Denmark, as well as the expul
sion of the Turks from Europe. It likens these requests
to asking the United States to restore the country to the
Indians. This paper is quoted as it seems to strike a key
note for the opinions of pro-German organs.
ROUMANIANS RETIRE TEUTONS
PETHOGRAD, Jan. 13.—In the Kasino river region
ihe Roumanians yesterday retired the Teutons a whole
mile in their new offensive. Strong German attacks have
been levelled in the Kalnzem district on the Riga front
but they have been beaten off.
TEUTONS REPULSE RUSSIANS
BERLIN, Jan. 13.—Heavy fighting is taking place on
the northern end of the Dvinsk river and the Russians
have been beaten off with heavy losses. The war office al
so reports that Entente attacks at Lake Ochrida in west
ern Macedonia have also been repulsed. Fighting north
of Ancre on the Somme front is also proceeding.
(H ARD IS ATTACKED
BY INSANE PATIENT
Among the passengers on the \N at
son for Seattle were Deputy Marshal
Wardell and Captain Frank Johnson,
of Anchorage, taking Chas. Estmere.
an insane engineer from Iditarod to
the Portland sanitarium. While the
steamer was at anchor at Irish bay j
the patient attacked the guard. Cap
tain Johnson, with a sling full of
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dishes and would have beat him up
but for the timely interference of
passengers.—Cordova Times.
ROTARY BREAKS DOWN
The plough of the rotary broke to
day at Mile 12 while going out and
the train with its passengers return
ed to the city. The train was sched
uled to go out again at 2:30 p. m. to
day.
ITALIAN BATTLESHIP SUNK
ROME, Jan. 13.—It is officially announced that the
Italian battleship Regina Margherita was mined on
Thursday and sunk. Six hundred and eighty men were
iost and two hundred and seventy were saved.
LAWSON MUST TALK
OR BE IMPRISONED
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—Con-,
gress today empowered the committee'
on rules of the House to force wit
nesses to testify in the leak investi
gation and T. W. Lawson will prob-1
ably be called to the stand next Mon
day and be sent to jail if he refuses to
answer the questions. The decision j
to go on wit hthe investigation and
to empower the committee to force
answers was arrived at after an acri
monious debate in the House. The
Republicans, or some of them, still in
sist that the investigation was inte*
rupted intentionally by the Democrats
to cloak some higher-ups but the
Democrats answer by challenging
their political opponents to produce
any evidence they have and so put an
end to the doubt.
THAW RECOVERING
IS READY TO EIGHT!
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 13.—Harry
Thaw is recovering from his wounds,
notwithstanding the first reports of
the doctors, and he is now mobilizing
a whole army of lawyers to light ex
tradition to New York. It is thought
now that New York attorneys will
start an investigation into his sanity
and have him committed to a Phila
delphia asylum. He refuses to make
further comments on the charges lev
idled against him but is too weak at,
present to take much interest in his
surroundings and his position.
CRIME WAS ATROCIOUS
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 13.—Oliver
Brower, who was arrested as the ac
complice of Harry Thaw, has been de
nied bail and is in custody. Assist
ant District Attorney Black of New
York informed the magistrate before
whom Brower appeared that the
crime charged against Thaw and
Brower was particularly atrocious.
He denied that blackmail had any
thing to do with the case and he say*
the evidence is complete to convict
the prisoners.
DUPONT AGAIN
HAS EXPLOSION
1'W EN T Y-SEVEN MEN KILLED
AND HALF MILLION POUNDS
OF POWDER DESTROYED.
NEW YORK, Jan. 13. —- Twenty
seven men are reported to have lost
their lives and half a million pounds
jf powder was destroyed by a fire
which took place yesterday in the
Dupont Powder plant at Haskell.
New Jersey. The cause of the fire is
not known but it is believed to have
been accidental.
FIREMEN’S ANNUAL
BANQUET TONIGHT
The annual banquet of the fire de
partment will take place this even
ing at 6 o’clock in the city hall.
Turkeys and all sorts of good things
have been provided and the dinner
will be exclusively for the fire boys
themselves. 5!
BUFFALO BILL
NOT WEALTHY
WYOMING LEGISLATURE AD
JOURNS TODAY IN HONOR
OF FAMOUS SCOUT.
CHEYENNE, Wyo., Jan. 13.—Both
houses of the state legislature ad
journed today in honor of Buffalo
Bill Cody and both appointed commit
tees to attend the funeral.
LINCOLN, Nebraska, Jan. 13.—
The legislature of this state has ap
pointed committees to attend the fun
eral of Buffalo Bill.
DENVER, Jan. 13.—Judge Wall,
Cody’s legal adviser, estimates the
value of the Cody estate at sixty
thousand dollars. He refutes the
story current that Buffalo Bill was a
millionaire.
During the absence of Frank Cot
ter the Miner’s Store will be in charge
of Sport M. L. V. Smith.
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ALL NOW DEPENDS ON RETURNS
FROM BRISTOL SAY PRECINCTS
BLUM’S DEATH
AN ACCIDENT
SITCIDE THEORY SCO! TED
SAYS VALDEZ PROSPECTOR
IN CARLE TO GATEWAY.
VALDEZ, Jan. 12.—J. M. Luthrop
has confirmed the news that Sam
Ilium of this cit> met his death acci
dentally today in Seattle by falling
from a third story window, 'flic oc
currence was purely accidental and
the suggestion that lie committed sui
cide is scouted by everyone. He was
dictating a letter to a stenographer
at the time and feeling faint he went
to the open window for air. As he
icached the window he fainted and
fell through it to the street. The
suggestion that he committed suicide
came as a result of the fact that he
had suffered severely by the fire but
the truth seems to he that worry and
work resulting from the fire caused
the faintness which brought about hi
death.
THE SEAT I LK STORY
SEATTLE, Jan. 13. — Sam Blum,
the Valdez and Cordova merchant,
fell three stories from the window in
his office in the Pacific Building at
5:30 o’clock on Friday and died en
route to the hospital. The occurrence
is believed to be accidental although
the police say it was suicide. They
back their argument by the fact that
the window was forty inches above
the floor and has a forty inch ledge.
There were no witnesses to the oc
currence. J. M. Lathrop, owner of
the Valdez Dock Company and a per
sonal associate ol Blum, is heart
broken. lie says Blum never made a
complaint about his fire losses or any
thing else although he had been seri
ously ill for several days. He is pos
itive that Mr. Blum fainted and fell
thiough the window. The two men
were standing at the open window i
moment before the accident. Lathrop
went into his own office for a minute
and on re-entering the Blum office
Blum was gone. Because of the brief
period he was away Lathrop feared
the worst and he rushed to the street
to find his friend dying. All the
friends of Blum scout the suicide
theory. There was no reason for
such an act, they say. His credit
was unlimited and his business was
sound.
MARRIED LAST EV EMM*
At 6 o’clock last evening Judge En
nis joined Mr. David Dennett and
Miss Louise K. Crawford in the bonds
of matrimony. The happy couple
came here on the boat yesterday and
are spending their honeymoon in this
city. They are from Valdez.
MERRY THIMBLE CLUB MEETS
The Merry Thimble Club will meet
next Tuesday at Mrs. Lee Murphy s.
Harry Balderston and h rank Cottei
left this morning for Anchorage.
Sydney Anderson and Colonel Revel 1
arrived at Mile 54 last night and will
come in on the train tonight. The
train got in early this morning and
it is found that the trip can be made
out without difficulty today.
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The result of the delegate election now depends on
the Britsol Bay returns which arrived sealed on the Dora
this morning to be forwarded to the clerk of the court at
Valdez. The people on the Dora were unable to learn the
result of the votes up there. The boat got the mail, includ
1 ing the seaied returns, at Cold Bay but the man who
brought them to Cold Bay had left before the Dora ar
rived there. He had waited for twenty-five days and dur
ing that time gave no information of the results to the
only white man living there. That the result of the elec
tion depends on the four Bristol Bay precincts is made
evident by the following message received by the Cate
way from Fairbanks this morning:
FAIRBANKS, Jan. 13. — Early telegraph returns
: from three Kuskokwim precincts gave Sulzer twelve and
| Wickersham six but the verified returns which have just
i arrived give Sulzer only nine and Wickersham eight in
i hose same precincts. The News-Miner’s figures for the
, whole territory now give Sulzer a lead of four votes with
! Bristol Bav to hear from.
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A. CHISHOLM
KILLS HIMSELF
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j VALDEZ BUSINESS MAN COM
MITS SUICIDE WITHOUT
VALDEZ, Jan. 12. — Angus Chis
holm, a prominent business man and
an oldtime Alaskan, committed sui-1
oide this morning by cutting his
throat. No motive for the act is
known.
Mr. Chisholm was the proprietor of
the Senate saloon at Valdez but the
place was not destroyed in the recent
fire. His brother was killed accident
ally here in Seward at the sawmill
about two years ago. Angus himself
visited Seward recently once twice
while on the way to and frwin Anchor
age.
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FAIRBANKS EDITOR
IS SENT TO JAIL
In commissioner’s court yesterday
afternoon G. Hinton Henry, editor of
the Free Press, a local publication,
was tried before a jury and convict
en on a charge of libel. The verdict
in part follows: “We, the jury, find
the defendant guilty as charged, with
a recommendation of mercy.” Henry
was sentenced to serve 120 days in
jail and pay the costs of the case.
The case will be appealed to the dis
trict court. Commissioner Hcilig
fixed the bond at $1,000, which will
probably be arranged for by this
morning.
The charge was brought by N. R.
King and was caused by an article
which appeared in the Free Press a
short time ago, stating that some of
the subscribers’ papers had been stol
en, and that if Mr. King was too
cheap to buy a paper he would be
presented with one. The defense set
up was that the article does not con
stitute libel, and that it was simply
an offer on the part of the editor to
present Mr. King with a copy of his
publication.—Citizen.
MEXICO AGAIN
NEXT MONDAY
r. S. WILL PROBABLY REFl’SE
TO SEND AMBASSADOR
TO CARRANZA.
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—The
American and Mexican members of
the Mexican commission will hold an
other joint meeting next Monday in
New \ork and then may come the
crisis in the relations between the
two countries. It is believed certain
that the intention to send Ambassa
dor Fletcher to Mexico City will not
be carried out as the actions of Car
ranza are no longer regarded as indi
cating a desire to smooth over the
difficulties.
DORA ARRIVES AFTER
UNEVENTFCL VOYAGE
The steamer Dora, Captain John
son, arrived this morning from the
westward. At Chignik while at
tempting to load something aboard
some men fell into the water and
members of the boat crew', including
the captain, also got wet in the at
tempt at rescue. Three men were in
the water struggling at one time and
one was hoisted out by means of a
rope whose noose got around his neck
instead of his shoulders. He was al
most hanged and he crumpled up on
the dock. The following passengers
came on the ship:
For Seward: J. F. Bergen, Paul
Fromberg, J. R. McCracken, J. R.
Irish and Miss M. White.
For Seattle: H. P. Crowthers, Joe
McMillan, J. Brodbank, C. R. Cun
ningham, E. J. Friboek, M. Josephism
For Valdez: F. J. Cameron.
SCHOONER PROGRESS
COMING FOR HALIBUT
The schooner Progress which was
here catching halibut some time ago
has again left Seattle for Seward to
engage in fishing.