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TWO GERMAN VESSELS LOST AND TURKS REPULSED
TODD SET FREE
BY GRAND JURY
McCarthy merchant was not
TO BLAME FOR SHOOTING
OFFICER.
VALDEZ. Nov. 24.—The grand
jury today brought in not a true bill
in the case of A. E. Tood who was
charged with shooting Dean Officer
at McCarthy. Officer admitted that
he was drunk ami that he had
tried to beat up loud so the jury came
to the conclusion that Todd was justi
fied in shooting him in self defense.
Officer completely admitted that he!
himself was at fault. The result of
the Jury’s deliberations was well re
ceived by all who knew Todd in Nome
and elsewhere.
GILPATRICK DEAL ALL
READY FOR CONSUMMATION.
Papers all signed up and Have Ar
rived Here in Seward from Outside..
The papers in the Gilpatrick deal
have all been signed up and have ar
rived here at the office of Judge
Green, the attorney for the vendors.
E. H. Wilson, the purchaser, has gone
outside but before leaving he stated
that he expected to have the matter
all definitely settled soon. Some
little delay occurred while some of
the people interested in the property
were getting their names attached to
the documents. The property is in
Moose Pass district and the price paid
is $125,000.
EVANS DUE IN MORNING.
The Evans is due to arrive early
tomorrow morning according to a
telegram received by George Sexton
from A. H. Bradford who i* aboard.
J. B. Cederhoim is also a passenger
on the steamer.
MRS. REV ELL SICK.
Word was received yesterday that
Mrs. Revell, wife of Colonel Revel!,
was rather seriously ill at Mile Thirty
Four but Dr. Baughman believes that
there is no danger. The lady was
suffering from what was at first sup
posed to be heart trouble but it is be
lieved to be really neuralgia of the
chest.
JUNEAU ATTORNEY FILES
AGAINST JACK DALTON.
Cobb Sues For Five Thousand Dollars
Attorney’s Fees in Connection
With Cordova Case.
JUNEAU, Nov. 24.—Attorney J. H.
Cobb has filed suit agamst Jack Dal
ton of Cordova for five thousand
dollars attorney’s fees in connection
with the case of Dalton against the
Guggenheim road for title to mining
claims on the water front.
CASINO GETS FIRST
ORCHESTRAL PIANO.
On the last boat came the first
orchestral piano for Seward. It came
to the Casino and at the show tonight
it will render beautiful music. It has
a mandoline attachment and also in
cludes xylophones and flageolets which
make it a veritable band having in its
repertoire 110 of the latest pieces of
music.
The show tonight will be a presen
tation of Marion Leonard supported
by the famous Monopole company in
a three-reel version of “As in a Look
ing Glass.”
15 DROWNED
NEAR FRISCO
CO \STING STEAM SCHOONER
GOES AGROl'Nl) ON
REEF.
BOLIN AS, Cal., Nov. 24.—Forty
three strvivors and fifteen dead bodies
have arrived from the wrecked coast
ing steamer Hanalie which went
aground on Duxbury reef nine miles
north of San Francisco yesterday.
The Hanalie was bound from Eureka
to San Francisco with sixty two per
sons, thirty three of whom were pas
sengers. Thirty were towed ashore i
b> life lines or struggled through the 1
surf to safety. Thirteen were carried
aboard the revenue cutter McCul-:
lough.
The ship broke into splinters after j
pounding on the reef for twenty four J
hours. It is feared that a greater
number have lost their lives than
those accounted for.
ALAMEDA CAME BY
THE OCTSIDE PASSAGE. I
On the last trip the Alameda came!
by the outside passage around Van- j
cover Island so that the Germans are i
interfering directly with our neutral
ity. It is believed that the Mariposa
which is scheduled to leave Seattle
today will so time her departure as
to reach the forbidden channel in the
daytime, when, we are given to under
stand, her way will be clear. None
of the local steamship agents have re
ceived any direct won! about the
matter.
THE VOTE AT KNIK.
The Knik News of November 7
gives the result of the polling at
Knik as follows; Wickersham 111,
Bunnell 21. Brooks 21, Hubbard 94,
Chase 14, Price 18, Goshaw 1, German
28, Day 107, Tansey 101, Noon 99,
Markle IK?, Holland 12, Bradford 12,
Ingram 24, Finnegan 8, Lyons 17,
White 4, Hegner 24. Carter 24, Lynch
24. Ganty 27.
POLITICAL NOTES.
The last reports from the Fourth
division were that Snow of Ruby and
Maltby were running close for fourth
place. It was supposed that Maltby
had won.
Wickersham, according to a tele
gram from Fairbanks, will leave
Alaska in time to reach Washington
for the beginning of the session.
Places like the Koyukuk, the Kobuk
and similarly remote precincts have
not yet been heard from and the of
fical count by the government officials
of the election vote will be some time
getting ready.
M. J. O’Connor, defeated for sena
tor from the First division, writes the
Juneau Dispatch that he favors an
eight hour day and that he is opposed
to some extent to labor unions. He
says he wants labor to be so well
treat that unions would be unneces
sary.
NOME WOMAN WINS
ALASKA MILLIONS.
SANFRANCISCO, Nov. 14.—Marie
Heim has finally won her suit for
a share of the property staked by
Jerry Wilson, of Nome, in 1900. The
Woman grubstaked Wilson and he lo
cated the Ophir group of claims on
Ophir creek, in the Council City dis
trict. The claims have produced sev
eral millions. The suit has been in
the courts for several years.
THINK MEXICO
IS AT PEACE
PRESIDENT WILSON RECEIVES
REASSURING MESSAGES
FROM REPUBLIC.
W ASHINGTON, Nov. 24.—The j
president has received reassuring j
... I
messages from Mexico and is conn- .
dent that nothing serious will result
to American interests from the pre
sent controversies between the Mexi
can generals. He seems to believe
that the weight of Mexican opinion
is in favor of peace ami that the
people of that country will not permit
any man to stand in the way of bring
ing it about. The obstinacy of Car
ranza seems now to be the only
obstacle but the forces of Villa and ;
the men of the Aguas Calientes con- j
vention are supposed to be strong |
enough to end the trouble.
■ i — 1
Mrs. W. Wr. Butts is expected to
leave Seattle for home today on the;
Mariposa.
William Sauers stated before he
went that he would return on thej
boat leaving Seattle today.
WILSON TURNS
DOWN REQUEST
WILL NOT APPOINT RECEIVER
TO OPERATE THE COLORADO
MINES.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.—Presi
dent Wilson has decided not to accede
to the wishes of the American Feder
ation of Labor in the mutter of ap
pointing receivers to operate the
Colorado coal mies. When the sjgg'*s
tion was made to him he took the pro
posal under consideration and for a
time it looked as if he would do as
the federation desired. He has evi
dent!) consulted some of his advisors
on the matter and seems to think that
such a step as that proposed would
Le of too revolutionary a character.
The president has given no intimation
as to what, steps he will take next to
prevail on the mine operators to meet
the men in some kind of an arrange
ment for a settlement.
Leo Margules, Derick Lane and
James Hayden arri/ed last evening
from the Oasis where they had been
interned for some time.
OCCUPY VERA
CRUZiQUIETLY
CONSTITUTIONALISTS MAIN
TAIN PERFECT ORDER ON
ENTERING CITY.
VERA CRUZ, Nov. 24.—The oc
cupation of the city yesterday by the
constitutionalists was effected in per
fect order and not the slightest at
tempt at violence was made evident, j
lmmcdiatly on entering the Mexican
leaders began preparations to continue
the administration of the city’s af
fairs without a halt or hitch and there
is not the smallest trouble anticipated.
The American ships remained in the
harbor as the constitutionalists march
ed into the streets.
The mail left for the Iditarod yes
terday Revenue Officer Harding has
arrived in the city on his usual trip of j
inspection.
L. W. Brady who has been looking'
for a dog team here for the past day
or two is said to be looking after an
exhibit from this district tor the
Panama Fair.
JURY TAKES UP
FALSE VUTES
ASKS CO CRT FOR ADVICE IN
VALDEZ AUDIT VOTES
THERE.
The grand jury last week in Val
dez asked the advice of Judge Drown
as to the right of women to vote
whose husbands had no vote and only
had first papers taken out. The Pros
pector says that this woman was ad
vised by District Attorney Spence to
vote. The Judge gave it as his opinion
that the woman had really no vote
but he also advised the jury not to |
start prosecution unless the wrong
ful voting was shown to be of a very
serious kind. The paper in telling the
story says that a Seward man voted
on his first papers and it suggests
that fraud has been discovered in that
city and this.
The Prospector says;
"It is known that many illegal votes
v ere cast in Valdez, Cordova and
Seward at the last election and it is
possible that the jury may bring in
indictments against some of the
flagrant violations.”
SITUATION IN FLANDERS
REMAINS YET UNCHANGED
NO CHANGE GENERALLY j
PARIS, Nov. 24.—The official announcement this
morning is that, speaking generally, the situation yester
day showed no change. The fighting in the western field
has been rather of a desultory character for the past few
days ow’ing in a great measure to the climatic conditions.
Artillery duels are engaged at various points but close
in fighting has been rendered almost impossible.
REPORT HINDENBURG RETREATING
LONDON, Nov. 24.—Hindenburg’s army which last
week was sweeping through Russian Poland toward
Warsaw is nowr reported to be retreating after expei ienc
ing serious reverses in dieted by the Russians who made a
brilliant stand between the Warthe and the V istula rivers.
Strong German reinforcements are being brought up,
however, and another great battle is likely near the fron
tier somewdiere around Posen. Hindenburg had four hun
dred thousand men but Petrograd reports that the Ger
mans have been separated and badly cut up. 1 housands
have been taken prisoners, hence the German army will
require time for re-formation and rest. 1 his report has
been received here with great rejoicing as the letieat of
the Germans in the east at the prsent time would mean a
tremendous relief of the situation in Flanders and France.
It had come to be regarded yesterday as a sure victory foi
the Germans against the Russians.
TO RENEW COAST FIGHT.
LONDON, Nov. 24—In the west the Germans have
not renewed the attempts to break through to the French
coast but they are now bringing reinforcements into
Flanders and the attempt is expected to be continued very
soon. The reinforcements are already arriving at the
front and scouts are busy in the elfort to discover then
strength which is assumed to be very great. Should the
Germans have won against the Russians in Poland itwoulci
undoubtedly have meant the pouring of an almost limit
less force into France and Belgium so that the reporteo
retreat of the enemy in Poland is regarded as the most
favorable event of the war with the possible exception of
the German retreat from Paris.
GERMAN DESTROYER LOST.
LONDON, Nov. 24.—The German destroyer S124 col
lided with the Danish merchant steamer Anglo Dane in
the Kattegat and has foundered. Thirty four members
of the German vessel were lost before the boats of the
Danish ship could reach them. The cause of the accident
is not known but it is assumed that the weather was foggy.
TURKS DEFEATED.
LONDON, Nov. 24.—The Russians and the French
are now pushing towards Lrzerum south of the Black Sea
after having routed a Turkish column. No explanation
has been given as to how the French arrived there but
that there is a large force of French troops in Trans
caucasia seems to be certain. 4 he 4 urks have also invaded
Persian territory but the news today states that thev
have been defeated in two engagements in the northern
part of that country. It is evidently the intention of Tur
key to carry the war into the countries where great popu
lations of Mohammedans live under the British and Rus
sian rule. Under the Russian flag in the Russian empire
are some fourteen millions of that faith while Lg^pt,
under the British flag, has almost as many. The joining
with the Turks of the Khedive of Egypt is taken here to
mean only too surely that the war started by Turkey is
meant as an uprising by the Mohammedan world while
the christain world is engaged cutting Christian throats.
GERMAN SUBMARINE SUNK.
LONDON, Nov. 24.—The German submarine U 18
has been rammed and sunk off the Scottish coast by a Brit
ish patrolling vessel. The crew of the submarine was sav
ed by the Britisher. The German vessel had evidently stol
en out in search of prey and had succeeded in getting
many hundreds of miles away from the German coast.
When she was sighted by the British ship the latter, in
stead of running away, put on full steam and bore dow n on
her with the result stated. The submarine was given no
time to become submerged.
GERMAN RIGHT HALTED
PETROGRAD, Nov. 24.—The Russiaus have appar
ently halted the German right wing in its advance along
a line stretching from a point a few miles northwest . of
Lodz to a point southwest of that city. At the same time
the Russians have forced the evacuation of five towns in
that neighborhood and an offensive movement will prob
ably be ordered at once. The news is naturally the source
of great jubilation but it has not been officially declared
that the enemy is retreating although it seems to be evi
dent that they have suffered severe reverses. No further
news was received today of an official nature but the
conditions are believed to be much brighter. The check
delivered to the Germans is not said to have affected theii
advance towards the East Prussia frontier but it is as
sumed in military circles that without being able to ad
vance in the center they will be forced to check any ad
vance on their wings.
NORWAY KNOCKS
PROHIBITION
LAW PREVENTING SALE OF
INTOXICANTS FOl'NI) TO
BE NO GOOD.
(By The Associated Press.)
CHRISTIANA, Nov. 23.—The Nor
wegian press is making an almost un
animous appeal to the Government to
rescind the prohibition ordinance
which was passed in the first excite
ment of the war to stop the sale of
strong alcoholic beverages. Nominally
fifty per cent of the Norwegian poopic
is represented in the membership of
Teetotal Societies," and next to 1 in
.and, Norway ordinarily has the smal
.cst per capita consumption of alcohol
in the world. It is working classes
a ho are most largely represented in
the "teetotal" membership.
The appeal for rescinding the pro
nibition act is based primarily on as
sertions that after more than two
months of prohibition, prohibition has
.lot worked. Persons who could afford
t have indulged extensively in the
importation of strong liquors from
Denmark and Scotland. Individuals
have combined to form "private stock
companies” and have brought in
thousands of gallons every week, each
person taking a keg or two for private
:se. Among the poorer classes com
plaint is made that the prohibition law
las created worse conditions, prompt
ing the concoction of such weird
Irinks as "self murder"—the name
given to denaturalized alcohol flavor
ed with oil of peppermint—and the
cheapest kinds of so-called sweet
ines, made from chemical products,
which never saw' grapes.
The police reports in Christiana
show that the average number of ar
rests for drunkeness has been about
.he same as before the ordinance was
passed, and in the meantime the Gov
ernment loses a revenue of $260,000 a
month. Outside of the Teetotal Soci
eties the demand for rescinding the
new law has gained such headway
that it is said the government may
meet it.
The Government has already re
scinded the special law forbidding dis
, .illation of alcohol from potatoes. This
's ordinarily an extensive industry in
Norway, but at the outbreak of the
European war it was thought neces
sary to stop it in order to conserve the
food supply. As a matter of fact it
was found that the potatoes used for
this distilling process could not be
kept long, there not being enough
frost-proof cellars for their storage.
The breweries, which had also been
forbidden to malt their barley, have
recommenced their operations.
WANT THE COLORADO
INVESTIGATION POSTPONED.
DENVER, Nov. 24.—Governor Am
mons, democrat, and Governor-elect
Carlson, republican, have made a joint
request that the investigation by the
federal international relations com
mission into the Colorado miners’
strike be postponed. It was scheduled
to begin December First. The request
was made to President Wilson and to
Chairman Frank Walsh of the com
mission.
The city clerk has received from a
periodical devoted to the cotton in
dustry a request that the city put in
a page ad. to help keep the people in
the south. The letter was addressed to
“Seward, Ala.” There are evidently
two Sewards but only one Seward,
Alas!