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Vt>l 10 No |3 SKWARD. THE GATEWAY TO ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 1916.___=_=_____
THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT PASSES CONSCRIP
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TION AND GOVERNMENTAL CRISIS IS AT HAND
LABOR CABINET MEMBER OLIITS
AND ELECTION WILL BE FORCED
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PARLIAMENT VOTES CONSCRIPTION ;
LONDON, Jan. 7.—The house of commons today vot
ed overwhelmingly in favor of conscription and the die
is cast. Great Britain is now face to face with the great
crisis. Henderson, the labor member of the cabinet, has
tired the first shot in the war of labor against enforced
military service by resigning his place in the cabinet as a
protest in behalf of labor against what he calls the de
struction of British liberties. Two other members of
the cabinet will likely resign immediately and it is now
universally believed that a general election will be precipi
tated and the whole government be overthrown. Never
was such a scene witnessed in the British house of com
mons as the time came for the voting on the momentous
measure. The opposing sides delievered the most bitter
speeches and a terrible tension carried all through the sit
ting. Then came the cries to “divide” and the closure and
members walked off to the voting lobbies in a manner that
gave the impression that each believed he was about to
vote on a question which involved the welfare of the em
pire. As the result of the vote was announced the victor
ious conscriptionists cheered and cheered again. Im
mediately afterwards Henderson handed in his resigna
tion to Asquith and the lines of battle were drawn. Bit
ter attacks were made by some of the conservatives be
cause Ireland was excluded but Asquith answered by de
claring that Ireland would never stand tor the humiliation
of being forced to tight for an empire which had failed
to do its duty towards it in the past. He reminded that
Ireland was aiding to some extent voluntary and that no
more could be expected. It is expected that meetings will
be called by the representatives of labor at once and that
the whole matter will be brought to a crisis before more
than a day or two have elapsed. All the labor members,
almost without exception, voted against the conscription
bill but the vast majority of both the great national
parties joined in passing it.
PASSED FOUR TO ONE
LONDON, Jan. 7—The latest account of the con
scription bill shows that it passed ir.- first reading by
four to one and its majority is made certain. The publi
cation of the fact that Hamilton declared the Dardanelles
should not be evacuated and that he was dismissed im
mediately has caused a frightful furore against Kitchener
and the war cabinet and that a general election must
come is now about certain. It is expeefed to mean the
defeat of Asquith. The labor element will make anti
conscription its chief plank and the country is about to
enter the throes of a struggle whose intensity has never
been equalled since the days of Oliver Cromwell.
McClure quits ford
COPENHAGEN, Jan. 7.—S. S. McClure, the publish,
er of McClure’s Magazine and other publications, has
deserted the Ford peace party and is about to return to
the United States. The members of the expedition have
left on a special train for the Hague to make one effort to
draw the attention of the belligerent powers and neutrals
to peace. .—.
AUSTRIA STILL SILENT
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.—The United States ambas
sador to Vienna, Penfield, is still silent except to declare
that he finds it impossible to get anything out of the
Austrian government about the sinking of the Persia.
The silence of the Austrians is regarded here as an indi
cation that the Teutons are inclined to ignore the 'Ameri
can protest.
TURK ARMY GOES TO GREECE
SALONIKI, Jan. 7.—A Turkish army of a hundred
and fifty thousand men has suddenly appeared at the
Greek frontiers and it is assumed that a combined force
of the central powers will soon cross and attack the allied
army here. Other opinion is that the Turks will be used
to prevent an allied advance against Bulgaria. The
Turkish army is completely officered by Germans.
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NOME MAIL SERVICE
IS WORSE THAN EVER
NOME, Jun. 3.—Only three small
scanty mails have arrived in this city
since the close of navigation. The
service is worse than ever and all
Nome is up in arms.
AKSALA FAIR SUCCESS
NOME, Jan. 2.—The Aksala Carni
val at New Years this year was a big
success financially.
HARRY RILEY WINS NOME
NEW YEARS DOG RACE
NOME, Jan. 2.—Harry Riley won
the Now Years dog race for the third
time in succession. He has a wond
erfully fleet team of dogs.
WANT SPENCE GONE
Advices from outside are to the ef
fect that the Arctic Club and otl\er
Seatle organizations are now joining
with Alaskans to bring about the re
moval of District Attorney Spence.
EVANS OIT EIGHTH
The Admiral Evans will sail from
Seattle January 8th for Seward.
Frank Watson will be aboard her this
trip and will connect here with Chas.
Black, the P. A. N. agent at Anchor
age, who has been wired to meet Mr.
Watson the 17th here.
TO TAKE BIG TRIP
W’hen Bob Griffis leaves for home
he will go via the Kuskokwim to
Kantishna, thence to Fort Gibbon and
back to Iditarod by way of Ruby. The
journey will be about a thousand
miles.
SEVERAL PLANTS TO
BE WORKING INTERIOR
Hurrying Dredge to Cache creek and
^Iso Hydraulic Machinery.
Quite a lot of activity is now evi
dent in this region according to John
Reichart who has arrived from the
Susitna and will go back there tomor
s,
row. He was mining in that section
himself last summer but he has now
an express service between Broad
Pass and Knik wit an occasional call
at Seward. About fifty people are
busy at the work of moving in the
Cache creek company’s dredge to
that stream. The B and B Mining
coming is also busy hauling its hy
draulic plant to Dollar creek. An
other large outfit is on the trail for
M. A. Ellis, the Thunder creek opera
tor. McElroy, J. Rimer and F. See
berg are working a lay on Thunder
creek. Rudolph Tesmer and four
others are moving a big outfit to
start operations on upper Cache
creek. E. A. Norman, who is going
out on the Alameda to bring in his
wife and family, will be back in
March and go in over the ice to put in
a hydraulic plant at Kitchana river
About twenty prospectors are at work
on Lewis river w’hich heads into the
moutto of the Susitna river. Many
claims have been bonded there andBen
Bernard of the American Dredg«
Company figures on taking in a drill
there next spmig, Mr. Reichart says
several prospectors are at work on
Coal creek and that Knik looks more
lively this year than for many rea
sons.
Two Iditarod people who will soon
come over the trail from that camp
will pay a thousand dollars for their
fare by dog team. That is, five hun
dred dollars each.
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JUNEAU, Jan. 7.—'The report of
the attorney general shows that
Judge Jennings of this division has
made a record for the amount of busi
ness transacted and for the economi
cal manner in which it was done.
BIG WIND AT JUNEAU
JUNEAU, Jan. 6.—A big Taku
wind which is raging here today has
inflicted some suffering on small ship
ping, windows, pole lines and other
things.
ROOSEVELT GOING
TO THE WEST INDIES
NEW YORK, Jan. 6.—'Theodore
Roosevelt will leave fgor the West
Indies in February.
FOURTEEN DROWNED
PARKERSBURG, Va., Jan. 6.—It
was learned later that fourteen people
were drowned when the steamer
Kanawaka sank after striking the
wharf in the Ohio river.
TWO HUNDRED PEOPLE
TAKE A BIG SWIM
JUNEAU, Jan. 6.—Two hundred
people went swimming in the new
Arctic Brotherhood natatorium here,
last night.
Nome Tries New
Territorial Act
Will Hold Election to Find What the
People Think of Election
Law.
NOME, Jan. 2.—The Nome City
council has passed an ordinance to
make the way clear for discovering
the opinion of the people as to the
new' city election law passed by the
territorial legislature. This is believ
ed to be the first city to have taken
the matter up officially. As to the
opinion of the voters on the question
there is a wide difference
but most people seem to think the
regulations provided for by the ter
ritorial act will be adopted.
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❖ NOME MAN IS ♦
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NOME, Jan. 4.—Tyre Brown, com
monly know'n as Farmer Brown was
adjudged insanse here yesterday. He
used to run a roadhouse ten miles be
low Solomon.
ALAMEDA ARRIVES
The Alameda, Capt. F. W. Clinger,
arrived this afternoon at two after a
rather rough voyage. Capt. Clinger
said that he never went through such
a fierce northwester as he met be
tween Point Johnson and Hanks Isl
and. The Alameda left Seattle 12:30
a. m. the morning of December 31
with a full capacity of passengers,
most of whom got off at Juneau and
Cordova.
Those arriving on the Alameda
were: A. H. McNcer, George Kosmo
polis, John Kapsimalis and Mrs. F. R.
Harmon.
ALAMEDA PASSENGERS
Among those who will leave on the
Alameda this evening are: For Seat
tle; Mrs. H. Stephens, Mrs. E.
Mauvais, E. T. McNally, John
Kacerosky, Herbert Tozier, Mrs .j. E.
Hettel, Joe Laubner, E. N. Andeison,
Donald McDonald, Charles E. Brown,
Mrs. Brown and Mrs. E. Whittcmor*.
For Cordova. Ray Walsh, James
Bennett, Tom Tesse, Harry Markwell
and twenty laborers for the Copper
River Railway.
ENGLAND IN AN UPROAR WHEN
PAPERS ATTACK LEADERSHIP
AMERICAN MISSIONARY
WAS SURELY DROWNED
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6. — The
Peninsular and Oriental Steamship
line of London, which owned the liner
Persia, has transmitted a report to
the state department confirming the
death of Rev. Homer R. Salisbury,
the American Seventh Day Adventist
missionary, who was aboard the liner
when she was sunk ofT the Egyptian
coast.
WILSON URGES UNITY
IN WESTERN HEMISPHERE
Says All South ajid North Republics
Should Insist on Freedom
of the Seas.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.—President
Wilson addressed the Pan-American
Scientific Congress today ami urged
all the nations of the western hemis
phere to get together for political op
operation to insure their liberties.
He particularly dwelt on the advisabi
lity of united action to protect their
shipping and insist on freedom of the
sea.
REDUCE RATES TO
AND FROM ALASKA
Transcontinental Lines to Meet on
Twelfth and Will Buck
Grand Trunk
SEATTLE, Jan. 7.—The repre
sentatives of the Transcontinental
railroad and steamship lines will meet
here on the twelfth for the purpose of
reducing rates to and from Alaska
and the east to meet the Grand Trunk
rates via Prince Rupert.
U. S. AMBASSADOR
IS SHOOTING GAME
BERLIN, Dec. 30.—(Special)—“If
meat gets scarce this winter," joking
ly remarked Ambassador Gerard, “I
guess I'll have to supply the Ameri
can colony with game," And that's
how the Berlin Americans first heard
about Gerard’s latest role—that of
hunter.
During the last month the Ambas
sador has bagged a fine lot of game,
including deer, ducks, pheasants, rab
bits and other animals on his game
preserve near Berlin. The Ambas
sador is considered an expert shot.
Recently he bagged a duck at 200
yards with his army rifle. The last
two roebucks he killed were shot
through the head. Many a table in
the American colony these days is
weighted down with a 5 or 100 pound
roe-buck steak, which is considered
th* finest meat in Germany.
When the Ambassador first learned
that it would be impossible for him to
take a vacation because of the un
certain international situaiton, he
rented the lodge. Every day he leaves
the embassy about 1 p. m., rides to the
lodge in his automobile, tramps about
the fields and woods until about 10
p. m., when he returns to the city.
Sometimes he takes Dr. Ohnesorge,
assistant naval attache at the em
bassy, with him.
ALAMEDA SAILS AT 6
The Alameda will sail for the
south at 6 o’clock this evening.
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Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Brown
leave on the Alameda and may visit
the eastern states before returning.
They may be absent a couple of
months but the length of the stay de
pends on circumstances.
William Kingsley the architect, is
confined to his rooms with la grippe*
BRITISH PAPERS ACCUSE
LONDON, Jan. 7.—The newspapers of London this
morning almost unanimously arraign the government
and military leaders in a manner which has probably
I never been heard of in history. The papers declare that
the members of the government and the directors ol the
war have shown nothing but inactivity and indecision
from the beginning and that the empire is faced by dis
aster through their incompetency. The report of General
Ian Hamilton on the situation at the Dardanelles to Lord
I Kitchener has been published to show what is called the
criminal incompetence of the military leaders. It is
shown by the report that Kitchener asked Hamilton to
give an estimate of what he believed the losses would be
| in the evacuation of Gallipoli peninsula and that Hamilton
| answered on October 11 that the idea of evacuating was
| unthinkable and that it would mean a tremendous disaster
as well as an irredeemable loss of prestige, in spite ot
this, the report shows, General Hamilton was relieved ol
his command on October 16, five days later, and the ordei
was given for the army to retreat from the Dardanelles.
The newspapers also declare that the Sulva Iktv landing
failed and ended in disaster because the British troops
were untrained and incompetent, and for this all the gi ecu
journals are blaming the government and Kitchener.
The whole natio" seems to be overwhelmed an ro
dares to prophesy what the outcome of it all will be.
NOME ON VERGE OE
DESTRUCTION BY ICE
Storm Piles Ice Mountains Near City
and Sesnon Caisson and Pier
Are Crushed.
NOME, Jan. 4.—(Delayed in Transmission)—The
city of Nome was threatened with destruction last night
when a terrific storm drove the ice of Bering Sea inshore
and piled it into mountains against the doors of the build
ings of the beach side of Front street. In places the ice is
piled up for over fifty feet and towers above the buildings
so that one standing on Front street it^lf can look over
the tops of the houses at great glacial peaks rising from
within a few feet of the boarded thoroughfares. The
Sesnon caisson and pier which have stood all the storms
of years were crushed crumbled and destroyed like an
eggshell. For a time the people believed that only a few
hours more would be necessary to have the whole business
part of the city buried under the ice mountain which rose
as the storm drove it in from the ocean. A howling bliz
zard accompanied the storm and made matters look even
worse than they were. As the ice floes came in the found
ations of the buildings seemed to act as a dam and sea
after sea rushed in to pile berg on berg. In spite of all
this the line of buildings remanied intact except that the
backs of the houses were walled in with ice. Above and
below the city vast piles of ice have been heaped to great
elevations on the tundra. Along front street the sea is
shut out from view at Barracks square and elsewhere by
the great ice-mountain ridge. When the stupendous piles
of ice are taken into account the wonder is that the dam
age was not disastrous. At the mouth of Snake river and
along the Spit vast bergs piled on top of each other pre
sent a most extraordinary spectacle. As this message is
being sent the storm is moderating and the danger is be
lieved to be over. _
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FIRST ALASKA DELEGATE
PAYING OFF HIS DEBTS
Ira D. Orton, of Nome, is adver
tising the fact that Frank H. Waskey,
present United States commissioner I
at Marshal City, conveyed to him in
tnist certain real and personal prop- j
erty, the proceeds of the same to be
applied to the payment of Mr. Wask
ey’s debts. The trusteeship was as
sumed September 23, 1910, and the
proceeds of the property will be ap
plied only to debts contracted ore
voius to that date. Payment will be
made ratably without preference, and
Mr. Orton is calling for presentation
of all claims covered by the trust.—
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.—President
Wilson has authorized the placing of
his name on the presidential primary
ballot.
COPPER RISING
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NEW YORK, Jan. 7.—The price of
copper today is twenty-four and a
quarter cents a pound.
CABLE NOT YET UP
SEATTLE, Jan. 7.—The cable will
probably not be ready for work until
Monday.
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