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Oregon's l)rv Majority Estimated at Forty Thousand - Progressives Elected Only Seven Congressmen ~ W ash
ington's Majority for Prohibition This Morning Was Thirteen Thousand and Still Growing - All Saloons in
Washington W ill (.lose January, 1916 — San Francisco Has Anti-Prize Fight Law — Democrats Hold Senate
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WASHINGTON AND OREGON CARRY PROHIBITION
WASHINGTON GOES DRY
BY A BIG MAJORITY
FOUR STATES
HAVE GONE DRY
THEY ARE WASHINGTON. ORE
GON. ARIZONA AND
COLORADO.
SEATTLE, Nov. .'*.—The states of
Washington, Oregon, Arizona anil Col
orado have carried prohibition without
a doubt. Women suffrage has been
carried in Montana and Nevada but
has been turned down probably in
every other state where it was an is
sue. The general opinion seems to be
that wherever women get the vote
prohibition will follow.
PORTLAND, Nov. 5.—The prohibi
tion majority in Oregon is estimated
at forty thousand.
F. Al'Cil’STI'S HEINZE
HAS PASSED AWAY.
Ex-Senator John Kean and Duke of
.Buccieuch are \lso Among the Dead.
NEW YORK, Nov. 5.—F. Agustus
Heinze, the copper king, died yester
day at Saratoga.
Ex-Senator John Kean, formerly
republican leader of New Jersey, also
passed away.
LONDON, Nov. 5.—The Duke of.
Buccieuch died in his town house in ,
this city yesterday.
Dr. Knickerbocker, a well known
dentist formerly of Nome, came from j
the west this morning on the Dirigo.
SEATTLE, \ov. 5.—The majority
for prohibition in the state of Wash
ington is now over thireen thousand j
but it will probably go much higher
and this state is at last up against
the closing of the saloons. According
to the law all the saloons will have to
close in January 1916 so that they
have only thirteen months of exist
ence ahead of them.
C. C. Dill, the democrat, has been
elected in the Spokane district but
republicans have won all the other
districts. Senator Jones’ plurality ex
ceeds twenty thousand.
TRAILTd RUBY
NOW ASSURED
NEW POST OFFICE AND MAIL
>l[ N ESTABLISHED AT
TAKOTNA.
A new post oftice has been establish
ed at Takotna according to Postmast
er Hickey and a new mail run has
been established from that point to
Ruby, a fact which is of the most
supreme importance to this city as it
insures the continuous existence of a
winter trail all the way between
Seward and Ruby and the districts
in the lower end of the Yukon river.,
A mail run has also been established :
between Takotna and McGrath on!
the Kuskokwim so that a regular net1
work of trails are now converged on
the Seward trail. These trails reach
even as far as Nome from which
place the winter travellers will now
undoubtedly come this way.
DEMOCRATS HOLD IDE
HOUSE BY TWENTY
RETURNS STILL
COMING IN
LATEST THIS AFTERNOON SAYS
WOMEN FAIL IN
OMAHA
OMAHA, Nov. 5.—Th* new returns
from this state this afternoon are
unfavorable to womans suffrage.
DENVER. Nov. 5.—The senator
ial contest is still very close in this
state but Thomas is keeping ahead.
TOPEKA, Nov. 5.—Curtis, republi
can, has probably been elected sena
ator. In the other returns there is
apparent very little change from
what was dispatched this morning.
Commerce Cafe, open day and
night. E. Levin, proprietor.
CHICAGO, Nov. 5.—It is now as
sured that the democrats will hold the
next house by a majority of twenty.
The Progressives have lost nearly all
their members and the fate of that
party seems to be sealed completely.
It is also learned this morning that
Sherman has beaten Roger Sullivan
and is re-elected United States sen
ator. In California Phelan is surely
elected and replaced a republican in
the U. S. senate. As a result of his
election the democrats will probably
make slight gains in the senate. The
senatorial election results in Kansas,
Colorado and Wisconsin are still un
known.
ANTI PRIZE FIGHT LAW
CARRIED IN FRISCO.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 5.—The
anti-prixe fight law and the red light
law have been passed here.
Finch’s Golden Wedding Rye at The
Branch.
TIDE or BATTLE EBBS
AND FLOWS IN EUROPE
REPORT GERMANS RETREATED
HAVE, France, Nov. 4.—It is officially announced
that the Germans have retreated along the line of the Yser
front and that they have probably abandoned entirely the
attempt to reach Dunkirk and Calais. The Belgian army
chiefs sent detachments today to reconnoitre. They push
ed ahead to Lombertsyde on the Yser front but railed
to see any of the enemy in that direction. Only small de
! tachments of German artillery still remain in the direction
of Westende and to the north and east of Schmorbakke.
A small portion of the German rear guard is still holding
several bridges and farmhouses, evidently to cover the
retreat of the main body. These positions could now prob
ably be easily taken but the allies commanders are moving
carefully to avoid any danger of a surprise. The whole
announcement is taken to mean that the Germans have
given up as hopeless the attempt to reach the big cities on
the French coast and this would mean in turn that they
have abandoned the attempt to attack England directly.
It is admitted, of course, that as long as the German right
rests on the coast at Ostend the attempt to turn it cannot
be tried. The next move in the great game is now being
watched for. The result of the great stniggle in Russian
Poland is sure to have a telling effect on the carmpaiging
here and it is not unlikely that both sides will await de
cisive news from the east.
LONDON, Nov. 5.—It was officially announced here
this morning that a state of war now exists between this
country and Turkey. War has already been really going
on and British troops have invaded Turkish territory.
The government is practising the greatest care in giving
out news regarding the preparations made for meeting
the Turks on the Egyptian border. Strong forces are sup
posed to be on guard every place where an attack on the
Suez canal would be likely. What the people are anxious
to know is what kind of troops have been left in Egypt.
It is generally hoped that some of the white troops are
available but there is certainly some uneasiness regard
ing the likely attitude of the native troops under the Bri
tish flag in the countries where Turkey is likely to attack.
Government officials state that the fear of a religious
uprising in India need not be entertained. They deny
that any distrubances have occurred in that land in spite
of reports issued to the contrary by England’s enemies.
ALLIES MAKE SLIGHT PROGRESS
PARIS, Nov. 5.—The official reports given out here
this morning do not seem to bear out the stories issued
from the Belgian headquarters at Havre although the
French war office claims that the allies have made a
slight progress east of Nieuport on the Yser.
NAVAL BATTLE WAS DEADLY
LONDON, Nov. 5.—Of the three British cruisers and
the five German warships that engaged in battle off the
Chilean coast only three German ships have been account
ed for and all the rest are supposed to have been sunk.
Not a later word has been hard from the British battle
ship Good Hope and it is now known that the British bat
tleship Canopus that went to re-inforce the other British
vessels is also missing. The three Grman ships acount
ed for are the Schnarnhorst, the Nurnberg and the Gneise
nau. Further news is awaited with the greatest anxiety
but there is a hope that some of the missing vessels may
be heard from and that the silence may be due to loss of
wireless apparatus in the fighting. It must be admitted,
however, that the hope is not very bright. Evidently the
battle was a fierce and deadly one. The Good Hope was a
vessel of 14,100 tons displacement and 30,000 horsepower.
The Schnarnhorst and Gneisenau are both of 11,420 tons
and 26,000 horsepower. The battle is the first real one of
consequence on the sea since the beginning of the war and
the result has created tremendous uneasiness as it . is
feared the Germans have really better guns and equip
ment that would make up for disparity of numbers in ves
sels in case of a great naval engagement.
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seldovia is
OUT FOR WICK
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GIVES DELEGATE 66 VOTES
AND NOT ONE TO
BUNNELL.
Seldovia gave Wickersham 66 votes
and gave not even a single one for
Bunnell or Lyons. The following is
the vote as brought down by James
Bill; Wickersham €6, Hubbard 60,
Goshaw 4, German 2, Tansy 62, Noon
60, Day 60, Markle 61, White 5, Brad
ford 1.
Mr. Hill says that Afognak is go
ing strong for Lyons and Bunnell.
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DEMOCRATS ELECT
34 MORE IRAN G. 0. f.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5.—The lat-|
est reports this afternoon show that
the democrats have elected 228 con
gressmen, the republicans 194, the
progressives 7„ the socialists 1 and
the independents 1. Four seats still to
be heart! from are doubtful. The dem- ,
ocrats have gained another senator
in South Dakota where they elected
Edward Johnson. The Colorado sen
atorship is uncertain. Kansas elected
Curtis, republican.
SEVERAL PASSENGERS COME
ON THE S. S. DIRIGO
The Dirigo arrived early this morn- J
ing with several passengers from
westward points. Among them were
Captain Boyd, fleet engineer for the
revenue cutters, Mr. Hope of the
same service, George Parks of the
land department, Mr. Sivcr of the
Alaska cod fish company, John Nel
son of Squaw harbor, Mr. and Mrs.
McCoomb of the Apollo mine at Unga,
and James Hill. Captain McMullen
reports nothing out of the ordinary
on the trip. __
SOCIALIST WINS
IN NEW YORK
AMERICA'S GREATEST CITY
WILL BE REPRESENTED
BY RED FLAG.
*
NEW YORK, Nov. 5.—Meyer Lon
don, socialist, has been elected to con
gress from this city. Wiliam Kent, an
independdent who hail the endorse
ment of the socialists, has won in Cal
ifornia. The result in the gubernator
ial election has been a tremendous
disappointment to the democrats of
the state and they are now trying to
find the reasons for Glynn’s over
whelming defeat in spite of Wilson’s
endorsement.
The meeting of the Arctic Brother
hood will take place this evening.
ARMIES OE CARRANZA AND
VILLA MEET IN BATTLE
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GERMANS RETREAT IN POLAND
PETROGRAD, Nov. 5.—The new position of the Ger
mans in Poland fronts along the river War which is a
tremendous distance to the westward of the positions
which they occupied nearly two weeks ago. In places the}
are seventy five miles west of the Vistula which the}
reached two weeks earlier and this indicates an immense
falling back of Hindenburg’s whole army in Russian Po
land. Lodz, Pietrkow, Radom and Kielce, noted indust
rial centers, have been recaptured by the Russians. I he
Russians have also reached Sandimirz, a point of great
strategic importance at the junction of the rivers San and
Vistula. The Russians have also entered once more East
Prussia while the Austrians are retreating in southern
Galicia, so that all along the line there is nothing but a
continuation of successes and advances. The whole Rus
sian strength is now pushing forward towards the Ger
man border. The lessons of the past in East Prussia have
not been forgotten and suprises are being always looked
out for. The fact that General Hindenburg is in command
of the enemy’s forces now retreating is the source of the
greatest satisfaction as it was due to him that the fust
reverses were met in East Prussia. His skill cannot, how
ever, be denied although this time the fortunes of war
seem to be against him.
GERMANS MAKE ADVANCE
LONDON, Nov. 5—The Germans have gained some
ground at Soissons after severe fighting. The positions
taken had been captured before from the Germans by the
British and they have now been lost by the French. This
matter is regrettable as Soissons is situated on the south
bank of the river Aisne and the positions which have
again fallen into the hands of the enemy are not much
more than fifty miles from the city of Paris. This intelli
gence is, however, the only news of an unfavorable kind
coming today. London knows well that the fighting must
be kept up perhaps more strenuously than ever and there
is much satisfaction expressed at the failure of the enemy
to reach the coast on the French side of the frontier.
ELPASO, Nov. 5.—A battle is now
progressing between the armies of
Villa and Carranza and once more
die republic of Mexico is in a state of
)f war. The fight is going on about
.wenty miles south of Aguas Calientes
.vhere the national convention was
recently held which decided on remov
ing Carranza from the first chieftain
ship of the Mexican constitutionalists.
It is reported that Villa sent ten
thousand men and one hundred can
non to meet Carranza’s forces and
that the advances of both sides came
nto conflict last evening. The en
;agemcnt is said to have become gen
eral today and the fighting is pro
reding without result.
Carranza refused to accept the find
ng of the convention although in the
beginning of the proceedings he had
given his word to be bound by the
•hiefs assembled.
VILLIAM ROCKEFELLER
OUT ON $5,000 BAIL
Comes up to Answer the Indictment
Against Him in Connection
with New Haven R. R.
NEW YORK, Nov. 5.—William
Rockefeller appeared in the criminal
branch of the federal district court
/esterday and pleaded not guilty to
the indictment charging him with con
spiracy in connection with his acts as
former director of the New Haven
railroad. He gave bail in the sum of
$5,000.
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