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ANCHORAGE, ALASKA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1917.
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VOL. 2. NO. 95.
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ROOSEVELT TO LEAD EUROPEAN DIVISION
ALASKA RAILWAY APPROPRIATION IN SUNDRY CIVIL BILL
COL. ROOSEVELT WILL RAISE A
DIVISION AND GO TO THE FRONT,
IN EVENT OF WAR WITH GERMANY
NEW YORK, Eeb. 20.—That Col. Theodore Roosevelt,
former president of the United States, has definite plans per
fected for taking an American division to Europe, upon the
formal declaration of war against Germany, is the announce
ment which appears today in the New York World. If the
taking of an American division to Europe should interfere with
the plans of the United States army, Roosevelt will organize
the division in Canada, and go to the front. The object of the
Roosevelt scheme, says the World, is to show the entente al
lies, by a quick movement of men to the front, that the United
^States is with them and proposes to fight alongside of their
men as against the common enemy. The World claims to
have accurate knowledge of the.authenticity of this report and
those who know the colonel are perfectly willing to believe it.
UNITED STATES MAKES PEREMPTORY
DEMAND FOR RELEASE OF SAlf l
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—The United States has
peremptory demand for the release of the American
taken to Germany on the seized British steamer Yarj
and who have been held since that time, according t\
nouncement made today by Secretary of State leans'll
demand was sent Saturday. Late yesterday, the statl
ment received presumably from tlioASjfj.t>^_|
ambassador, that the American prisoners “Would be released
shortly.”
AMBASSADOR GERARD AND PARTY
WELL TREATED IN CITY OF PARIS
PARIS, Feb. 20.—Hon. .lames W. Gerard, former United
States ambassador to Germany, recalled by his home govern
ment upon the severance of diplomatic relations, was the1 guest
of honor at a dinner given yesterday by Aristide Briand, pre
mier of the French republic. The Gerard party is being treated
with every courtesy and consideration by the French people.
BERNSTORFF AND PARTY STILL AT
0 HALIFAX, WHILE PAPERS EXAMINED
HALIFAX, Feb. 20.—The British investigation into the
papers and credentials of Count von Bernstorff, former German
ambassador to the United States, his attaches and German con
suls and consular agents, is nearing an end. It is expected that
the Scandinavian liner Frederick Eighth, upon which the Ger
man contingent are taking passage, en route to their home
country, will sail today.
GERMAN TROOPS MAKE FUTILE EFFORT
TO REGAIN POSITIONS LOST TO ENEMY
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LONDON, Feb. 20.—The German troops in the Moravmont
sector of the Ancre front, have striven hard to regain the posi
tions taken from them Saturday by the British forces, but thus
far all attempts have been fruitless, according to an official re
port by the war office today. Attacking in waves of men, the
enemy were swept back to their trenches, with heavy losses.
The British report the capture of nearly a thousand officers and
men.
GERMAN AGENTS TOOK ROUNDABOUT
WAYTOSEND REPORTS TO GERMANY
NEW YORK, Feb. 20.—Agents of the department of jus
tice arrested two men last night, who are charged with violat
ing the federal laws with respect to carrying on a military en
terprise against a foreign country. The men arrested are ac
cused of obtaining military information in England, sending it
to the United States, from whence it is forwarded to Germany.
I GROSS TONNAGE LOST SUNDAY.
LONDON, Feb. 20.—The gross tonnage of vessels lost in
the barred zone around England Sunday was 12,000, as a re
sult of submarine activities.
SUNDRY CIVIL BILL IN CONGRESS
CARRIES $10,500,000 FOR WORK ON
THE GOVERNMENT RAILWAY PROJECT
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—Ten million five hundred thou
sand dollars is carried in the sundry civil appropriation bill,
which has been favorably reported by the house committee on
appropriations, for the continuation of construction on the gov
ernment railway project in Alaska. Other Alaska appropria
tions carried in the sundry civil bill are as follows:
Geological survey work, $100,000.
Aids to navigation, $(>0,000.
Fisheries service, $75,000.
Afognak and Yes bay fish hatcheries, $8,220 each.
('are of the insane, $70,000.
Education of the natives, $200,000.
Reindeer industry, $5,000.
Game protection, $20,000.
Suppression of liquor traffic among natives, $15,000.
Public building at Cordova, $35,000.
Medical relief work, $50,000. (
In connection with the appropriation for medical relief
work, which is a new item, there is a provision that patients
who are not indigents, may be admitted to hospitals upon the
payment of such reasonable compensation as the secretary of
the interior may prescribe.
CONSULAR AGENTS LEAVING GERMANY
COPENHAGEN, Feb. 20.—American consular agents in
Germany are leaving for Switzerland, eri route to the United
iStates, according to information received here today.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—William
B. Clover, a St. Paul newspaper pub
lisher, and John Franklin, former gov
ernor of New Jersey, have been nom
inated by President Wilson as mem
bers of the federal trade commission,
to fill the vacancies existing in that
body.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo., Feb. 20.—Mrs.
Dagmar ICrucker, whose name was
brought into the McDaniel murder
trial, was shot and killed by her hus
band, John C. Krucker, late last night.
The husband then shot himself, per
haps fatally. In the McDaniel trial it
was intimated that the defendant and
the Krucker woman were sweethearts.
SANTA FE, N. M., Feb. 20.—Gov
ernor Debaca died last night, a victim
of pernicious anemia. W. E. Lindsey,
lieutenant governor, automatically
succeds him.
LISTER SIGNS
BONE DOT BILL
OLYMPIA, Wash., Feb. 20.—Gov
ernor Lister yesterday afternoon at
tached his signature to the Washing
ton bone dry prohibition bill and it
will become effective, under its terms,
in June, 1917.
WALLA WALLA, Feb. 20.—The
marriage of Miss Elizabeth Fitzgerald
to Mr. James R. Lyons, was solem
i nized last evening in the presence of a
large company of relatives and friends
of the contracting parties. The bride
is a member of a pioneer family of
this city. The groom is a member of
the pioneer Lyons family, whose ag
gregate farm holdings are the most
extensive in the state.
HARTFORD,’ Conn., Feb. 20.—Ed
ward S. Young, prominent in politics
and who was sergeant-at-arms of the
republican national convention that
nominated McKinley for president,
died here last night, at an advanced
age.
CUNARO LINE
HOBS TO FLEET
WILMINGTON, Feb. 20.—The Cu
nard line has placed orders with the
Harlan - Hollingsworth Shipbuilding
company for the construction of ships
to the value of thirteen million dollars.
BILUNGSLET
FOOLED THEM
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 17.—Lo
-gair-Billingsley, the supposedly busted
Seattle bootlegger, withdrew $85,000
from the Union Trust company today.
HUNDRED THOUSAND GERMAN SPIES
IN UNITED STATES, SAYS SENATOR
IN URGING LAW FOR PUNISHMENT
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—“There are 100,000 German
spies in the United States,’ said United States Senator Lee S.
Overman, of South Carolina, in speaking for the administra
tion’s measure with respect to conspiracies against the neutral
ity of this nation, yesterday afternoon. The department of
justice prepared bills dealing with the spy and conspiracy
cases, urging their prompt passage by the congress, to properly
deal with the acute situation now prevailing. Attorney-Gen
eral Gregory says he finds that present laws are ineffective
and that more drastic laws on the subject should be adopted.
There appears to be no particular opposition to the measure.
GENERAL FREDERICK FUNSTON DIES
SUDDENLY OF ACUTE INDIGESTION
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Feb. 20.—General Frederick K.
Funston, commander of the United States troops on the border,
died suddenly last evening from an attack of acute indigestion,
dust after dinner, while playing with a child jn a hotel lobby,
the general collapsed and died soon after.
MRS. FUNSTON PROSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 20.—Mrs. Funston, wife of Gen
eral Funston, is prostrated by the news of the sudden death
of General Funston.
RED CROSS SOCIETY WILL SEEK TO
GAIN MEMBERSHIP OF A MILLION
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—An appeal was made today by
the head office of the^National Red Cross society for a million
i>ew members of that organization, to be gained through a na
tion-wide canvass. Former President Taft is president of the
Red Cross society and is taking an active part in tlie effort to
increase the membership and raise funds for the erection of
Red Cross hospitals throughout the country, and particularly
on the seaeoasts, for use in the event of hostilities with Ger
many.
DOES NOT CREDIT REPORT THAT
VILLA HAS DEPARTED FOR JAPAN
EL PASO, Feb. 20.—Mexican Consul Bravo, asked con
cerning the report that General Villa had taken passage for
Japan, said today that the bandit leader had not been account
ed for since the defeat of his troops at Jiminez, but says he
doubts the report of his flight to Japan.
AMERICAN AMBASSADOR ARRIVES.
MEXICO CITY, Feb. 20.—American Ambassador Fletcher
arrived in the Mexican capital yesterday and immediately as
sumed his official duties.
PRESIDENT OF GERMAN FEDERATION
OF LABOR APPROVES DIVER WARFARE
COPENHAGEN, Feb. 20.—President Lilgren, of the Ger
man Federation of Trades, replying to the cablegram sent by
Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of La
bor, urging him to use his influence to prevent a breach be
tween the United States and Germany, declared that the Ger
man submarine warfare is the only answer to the British block
ade of German ports. 4t 1
M’KINLEY NATIONAL PARK BILL
IS PASSED BY IKE CONGRESS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—The house yesterday passed
the senate bill for the creation of the Mt. McKinley national
park, in Alaska, which includes Mt. McKinley and a large area
surrounding it. The bill now goes to the president for signature
and will become effective beyond the question of a doubt.
MONDAY'S SUBMAEINl CATCH.
LONDON, Feb. 20.—The German submarine catch for
Monday aggregated 8,200 gross tons.