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“ONE OEIJS IS RANK PERJORER
CRIES FINANCIER EO COMMITTEE
LAWSON ELECTRIFIES CAPITAL
WASHINGTON. Jan. 15—The capital has been elec
trified bv the fact that Lawson has named James and
Congressman Henrv, chairman of the Rules committee,
as t!ie men who gave the information that a leak had oc
curred in connection with the Wilson peace note. Law
son also declared that Henry said Tumulty and Paul War
burg, a member of the federal reserve board, knew of the
leak. A further declaration by Lawson was that Henry
said Ambassador llernstorlf had made two million dollars
through his foreknowledge of tho note.
HENRY GIVES LIE TO LAWSON
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16—Lawson entered the com
mittee room ostentatiously yesterday afternoon to give
his testimony. The galleries were crowded as he took the
stand and the audience was tense in every nerve. The fi
nancier began in a low voice until his tilt with Chairman
Henry began and then he roared. Henry tried by every
means in ids power to silence him but the attempt was
futile. Hum- denied absolutely that he had ever made
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the statements attributed to him by Lawson and he dehecti
Lawson to prove them. In the course of his testimony
Lav..son named a mysterious senator by the initial 0,
1'linky Fisk, a New \ork banker, Malcolm McAdoo, a
brother of the cabinetteer, Stewart Gibboney, a former
partner of McAdoo, and others as parties who were aware
of the leak.
All clerks mentioned in the testimony who might have
some knowledge have been subpoenaed.
HENRY AND LAWSON AGAIN
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1G. — McAdoo this afternoon
again spoke of the Lawson charges and said he regretted
the necessity to notice such irresponsible and detestable
slander. "1 was never active in the stock market,” he
saiil, “and I was certainly never connected any way with
any leak.” Later today in the course of his examination
Lawson hurled a direct challenge at Henry, saying “one
of us is a rank perjurer."
McADOO IN TOWERING RAGE
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1G.—Secretary .McAdoo went
into a towering rage when the news came to him that
Lawson mentioned him as the man responsible for the
leak. He called the insinuations of Lawson putrid poli
tics. Later in his testimony Lawson when referring to
Warburg again said he named the biggest banker in the
country and a member of the federal reserve board who
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was banking on the war.
He also declared that when the Federal Reserve cau
tioned against financing the allied nations it was nothing
but the action of a powerful faction which was bitterly
fighting another.
MINE OUTPUT OF U. S.
RUNS INTO BILLIONS
\Va>hins:ton. Jan. 1.—Three billion
dollars was the value of the 1916 out
put of the American mines in the
estimate made to Secretary of In
terior Lane by the United States
Geological Survey. Copper alone net
j ted $.‘'00,000,000, and the production
ran 25 per cent ahead of 1915. The
copper output was the sensation of
the year in the mining world and the
average price was 27 cents a pound.
Alaska had the best mining year of
its history, contributing a total value
of $50,000,000, a fifty per cent gain
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over 1915. Dr. Alfred H. Brooks
estimates the value of Alaska’s cop
per production at $.'12,400,000 and the
gold production at $17,050,000.
Dr. Brooks reports that Alaska al
so produced in 1910, silver, lead, tin,
antimony, tungsten, petroleum, mar
ble. gypsum and coal to a value of
$1,MOO,000. During the thirty-two
years of mining, Alaska has produced
$251,000,000 in gold, silver, copper
i and other minerals. Of this amount
$278,000,000 represents the value of
gold and silver and $08,000,000 that
of copper.
Tl’RNER WANTS $6,000
FOR TWO FRACTIONS
At the city council meeting last
night it transpired that Senator
Turner asks $6,000 for the two frac
tions of lots which the city has start
ed condemnation proceedings against
near the foot of Adams street. The
city attorney has written to him to
say that the assessed valuation of the
lots would be the price offered by the
city in the condemnation proceedings.
In the report of the clerk it was
shown that twenty-four building per
mits were granted in the months of
November and December.
HALF MILLION WILL i
COME FROM TAXES;
WASHINGTON. Jan. 1G.—It is be-,
iieved here that the result of the tax j
decision of the supreme court will be
that Alaska will net half a million
•ollars revenue annually. The mines
are expected to pay a quarter of a
million, the fisheries one hundred and
seventy-live thousand, and other busi
nesses involved will bring in an ad
ditional seventy-five thousand.
(These figures hardly look right but
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they are given as they came.)
SEATTLE, Jan. lo.--iiurt Thane of
the Alaska Gastineau who is spending
a vacation of two months in Seattle
says that the mining interests of Al
aska never opposed the territorial tax
as they believed the legislature acted
verv reasonablv in the matter, but he
believes the fishing interests objected
because they believed themselves
doubly taxed.
TWO WELL-KNOWN MEN
KILLED AT WILLOW CR.!
H. C. Emery and I»ert Stewart
were killed by a snowslide yesterday
at Willow creek, according to a tele
phone message received by Sydney
Anderson of the Bank of Seward this
morning. Mr. Emery was a nephew
of William Martin of the Martin
mine and Bert Stewart was the su
perintendent of the property. The
message did not say at which mine
the accident occurred and no other
details were given in the message.
Uoth men were well known.
LATER
(Special to The Gateway)
EMERY BODY MISSING
ANCHORAGE, Jan. 16.—Horace
Emerv and Bert Stewart, foreman of I
the Martin mine on Willow creek,
were killed by a snowslide at 8
o’clock yesterday morning. The body
of Stewart has been recovered but
they are still seeking the remains of
Emery. The two men were examin
ing the rich strike recently made in
tunnel 5 on the mine when the slide
came. A crowd of men are now seek
ing for the Emery remains.
MAN’S BODY
FOUND ON THE
LOWER RIVER
FAIRBANKS, Dec. 16.—Word was
received in Fairbanks this morning
that the body of a man named Law
rence, who has been missing for some
days, was found in a tide track to
day, about four miles from Klicketer
ick. Five of his dogs were found
nearby, all nearly frozen and half
starved. They were in such a bad
condition that the searching party
which found the poor animals killed
them rather than permit them to suf
fer.
Several days ago some of Law
rence’s dogs got,into St. Michael, and
it was then that fears were first en
tertained for the safety of the own
er. The search started and resulted
i in the finding of the body. — News
j Miner.
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RELATED TO WASHINGTON
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Los Angeles, Jan. 4.—Jonathan
Custard, 82, descendant of George
l Washington’s aunt and said to have
j been the oldest living relative of
Washington, died here while on a
visit from his home in Lima, 0. He
is survived by a widow and two child
ren.
ADMIRAL DEWEY DECLINED
STEADILY LAST NIGHT
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—Admiral
Dewey declined steadily during the
night and the end seems to be nearer.
ALAMEDA LEAVES JUNEAU
The Alameda left Juneau at 11
o’clock this morning.
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GERMAN FOREIGN MINISTER SAYS
NO PEACE TERMS WILL BE GIVEN
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jKANITZ HELD TO
GRAND JURY
MAN A(Tl SKI) OF SETTING FIKK
TO VALDEZ ENABLE
TO <;kt BAIL.
VALDEZ, Jan. 1(5. — Otto Kanitz
received his preliminary hearing to
day and was bound over to the grand
jury to answer live different charges
of arson in connection with the big
' lire on January 2. He wy> held in
bonds of seventeen thousand dollars
but was unable to secure it. He is
still in jail and probably will remain
there until tin* trial comes off.
G. 0. P. STILL
AFTER MOOSE
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REACTIONARIES \RE BELIEVED j
TO BE STILL IN CONTROL
OF REPIBL1CANS.
NET YORK. Jan. 16.—The reac
tionaries are still believed to be in
control of the Republican party. The
executive committee yesterday pass
'd a resolution asking for the co-op
eration of the Progressives and then
immediately afterwards appointed
John Taylor Adams, pie Iowa com
mitteeman, vice chairman despite the
objections of Wilcox. The Progres
sives are mightily displeased with the
appointment and George Perkins and
Everett Colby refused later to attend
the dinner given by Wilcox.
FOURTH DIVISION
VOTE GREATER
THAN IN 1914
FAIRBANKS, Dec. 19.—With the
complete vote for delegate received
and only the precincts of Long and
Salcha to be verified, the figures in
the oflice of the clerk of court show
that the total vote for delegate in the
Fourth judicial division was 3, 867,
or 555 greater than the vote for dele
gate in 1914. Notwithstanding this
increase in number of votes, the
Fourth division drops from first to
third place among the divisions, ac
cording to the vote. In 1914 the
Fourth division cast 3308 votes, more
than any other division, while this
year, the First division holds the
record, the Third division comes sec
ond and the Fourth division is third.
Of this total vote for delegate in the
Fourth judicial division, the candi
dates stood as follows: Lewis, 373;
Sulzer, 1,691; Wickersham, 1,679.
The vote in 1914 was: Bunnell, 712;
Brooks, 548; Wiclcersham, 2,048.—Ex.
GERMANY NOT TO OFFER TERMS
BERLIN, Jan. 1(5. — Foreign Minister Zimmerman
told the correspondents today that the reply of the En
tente nations to President Wilson's proposal precludes a
statement of terms by the Central powers. After an
: nouncing their plan to be conquest and dismemberment,
said Zimmerman, the Allies wouid interpret a statement
of terms on the part of Germany as an indication of weak
ness. The foreign minister predicts the failure of the
coming allied offensive and then, he believes, there will
be a chance for reasonable negotiations. It is reported by
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the war office today that Mackensen has repulsed violent
Russian attacks at both sides of Fundeni where the Rus
sian storming waves broke under our terrific curtain lire.
MAY DEPOSE CONSTANTINE
ROME, Jan. 1(5.—It is reported that the Entente na
tions are now planning the deposition of King Constan
lie from the throne of Greece and it is believed the Duke
d'Aosta wili succeed him.
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FALKENHAYN IN GREECE
LONDON, Jan. 16.—From French official quarters in
Saloniki it is stated that General von Falkenhayn is now
in Greece. His mission is unknown but it is supposed that
lie is attempting to prepare Greece to enter the conflict.
BULGARIANS SHELLING GALATZ
BERLIN, Jan. 16. — The Bulgarian artillery is now
vigorously shelling Galatz from the Dobrudja side of the
Danube and is able to do so without interruption because
of the river which intervenes and makes counter attacks
impossible. It is also announced that strong Russian at
tacks near Vadeni, Kasino and Suchitza rivers have been
repulsed. The severe weather prevents activity on the
Russian front.
LITTLE DOING ON THE SOMME
BERLIN, Jan. 16.—Artillery fighting and small local
attacks are the only activities reported from the Somme.
North of the river hostile patrols were dispersed but the
Teutons made successful reconnoitering sallies.
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SAY TURKS REPULSE BRITISH
BERLIN, Jan. 16.—Further British assaults continue
in the Kut-el-Amara region in Mesopotamia hut all have
been repulsed up to the present. On the other hand, it is
reported, Turk counter attacks succeeded in gaining an
entry into the British trenches.
RUSSIANS REPULSE TEUTONS
PETROGRAD, Jan. 16.—The Russians yesterday re
pulsed strong Teuton attacks northeast of Fokshany on
the Russian front but it is admitted that Mackensen has
made further advances in the Galatz region.
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BRITISH REPORT SUCCESSES
LONDON, Jan. 16.—British raids have been success
ful on the Lake Doiran front, Macedonia. West of Loos
on the French front the British yesterday entered the
German lines and inflicted heavy losses. The usual ar
tillery conditions prevail but the condition of the terrain
impedes real activity. Our forces are continuing their
offensive at Kut-el-Amara and have gained arid occupied
a village. ... ..