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VOL. 2. NO. 56.
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1917.
PRICE TEN CENTS.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.—Thomas W. Lawson has tele
graphed Speaker Champ Clark that he has cancelled his pro
posed European trip and will be in Washington Monday to tes
tify before the house committee which has ordered public hear
ings in the matter of alleged “leaks” that gave Wall street ad
vance information with respect to President Wilson’s peace
note.
TUMULTY SAID TO BE INVOLVED.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.—The names of Tumulty, secre
tary to President Wilson, and Bernard Baruch, a New York
stock broker, were linked at the house rules committee hear
'Hg today, by Congressman Wood, author of the resolution
Veiling for an investigation as to whether or not there was a
leak on the information with respect to the president’s peace
note. Wood qualified his statement with the declaration that
the information he had was only hearsay. Wood also declared
that the Washington brokerage firm of F. H. Connolly & Co.,
of which a “Mr. Bolling, a brother of President Wilson’s
wife, is a member, had profited by stock transactions during
the market flurry following the president’s peace note. ” “ The
deals of this firm,” said Wood, “were transacted by the New
York firm of E. F. Hutton & Co.”
BENNETT MAKES STATEMENT.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.—“I am informed that Congress
man Wood testified before the house committee on rules today
that Barney Baruch had advance information about the presi
dent’s peace note to the belligerents two or there days before
it was sent, and that'oti tw6 dr three occasions about that time
he was in consultation with Mr. Tumulty at the Biltmore ho
tel in New York,” said Congressman Bennett, of New York, on
the floor of the house today. Bennett declared that ‘‘Wednes
day Baruch was reported in New York as having sold short
15,000 shares of steel on a rising market, shortly before the
note was made public.”
A LAWSON MADE MILLIONS.
BOSTON, Jan. 5.—Tom Lawson alleges that he cleaned up
millions recently through an official tip received by him from
Washington regarding certain plans of the administration. He
goes further and predicts even a greater leak next week. Secre
tary of State Lansing invites an investigation and seems to
think his own honor might be doubted.
OFFICIALS READY FOR PROBE.
£ WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.—Officials here announce that
they are ready to submit to a congressional probe of the charges
by Wall street that the flurries are due to official tips from the
administration. Gossip is now buzzing over the question. It
is charged that some officials themselves are busy on the stock
v market and the whole thing has caused a tremendous sensa
tion.
TEUTON ItACEH
ft S ?5; .
LONDON, Jan. 5.—‘‘President Wilsclu fit the United
States of America, now knows the peace conditions of the Teu
tonic allies and the entente allies can learn what they are from
him,” said Count Julius Andressy, formerly premier of Hun
gary, in a statement made to the press of Budapest yesterday.
PRESIDENT NON-COMMITTAL.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.—The president, through Secre
tary Tumulty, declined to discuss the statement made by form
er Premier Andressy to the press of Budapest, with respect to
the Teutonic peace terms for peace.
WILSON AWAITING REPLY.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.—If the allies’ reply to President
^ilson’s peace note fails to meet his proposal for an early oc
Ayfon for the avowal of terms upon which peace may be se
cured, the president will not let the negotiations drop, but will
make at least one more move in this direction. This fact be
came known definitely today. The nature of the move was not
* revealed.
CORDOVA, .Jan. 5.—Wliile a blinding snow storm was pre
vailing, the steamer Admiral Watson ran on a reef two miles
southwest of Irish cove, Fidalgo bay, Prince William sound, at
7 o’clock this morning en route from Kodiak to Seattle. As
soon as the Watson struck, Captain Hickman sent a wireless
message to Cordova, asking assistance. The freighter Cor
dova, which was moored at the dock, immediately departed for
the scene, and according to wireless messages received by the
steamer Alameda later in the day, succeeded in taking off all
the passengers and is on the way here. The Alameda is delay
ing here for the purpose of taking the passengers to Seattle,
the destination of most of them.
Captain Hickman and the crew are staying by the Watson.
Hickman says he thinks the vessel will float with a favorable
tide. The Watson is leaking between/bottoms. The outer skin
was pierced when the vessel hit the reef,
MUM AGENT VIOLATING THE
TERMS OF EMBARGO Mill
NEW YORK, Jan. 5.—Juan T. Burns, consul-general in
New York city, representing the de facto government in Mexi
j** is shipping arms and munitions of war into Mexico, in vio
lation of the recent embargo proclamation. The facts have
been reported to the state department. Burns, it is positively
known, has been buying large quantities of war supplies from
eastern firms and manufacturers.
BELLIGERENTS’ NATIONAL DEBT.
WASHINGTON, Jan. f).-*-Aecording to an estimate made
I by the federal reserve board, which has been making an inves
tigation into the matter, the increased national debt, since the
world war began, of Great Britain, France, Russia, Germany
and Austria-Hungary, will reahe the stupendous total of fifty
billion dollars. The increased debt of the allies will reach thir
ty billion dollars, while that of the central powers will aggre
gate twenty billion dollars.
JEWELER FINCH
SEATTLE, Jan. 5.—William H.
Finck, who has been in the jewelry
business here since 1882, committed
suicide at his home last night. Before
he committed the rash act, he sought
the life of his wife and son, Herbert
W. Finck, but was overpowered. Finck
had become a nervous wreck and it
is believed that he was a victim of
insanity. He was quite wealthy.
OMAHA, Jan. 5.—Samuel Schlager,
a resident of Alhambra, California,
was arrested here today, for passing
thousands of dollars’ worth of worth
less checks in Seattle, Portland and
Salt Lake banks and business houses.
CHICAGO, Jan. 5.—David Paul, a
pioneer newspaper man of Seattle,
died in Chicago yesterday, following
an attack of heart disease. He came
here for treatment.
SUSPECTTAKES
ATLANTIC CITY, Jan. 5.—Ber
nard W. Lewis, a wealthy young
Pittsburger, who was wanted in con
nection with the murder of Maizie Col
bert, an artist’s model of Philadel
phia, shot and killed himself in the
bathroom of a villa here yesterday,
while the police were ascending the
stairs to place him under arrest.
MUSKOGEE, Okla., Jan. 5.—A
school house, in which 50 children
were employed at their studies, was
hit by a tornado yesterday afternoon,
and 11 of the inmates were killed,
while others were injured.
PORTLAND, Or., Jan. 5.—Lillian
Luscher, aged 19 years, was killed
yesterday, when an interurban street
railway car ran down the auto in
which she was riding, at a street
crossing.
BERLIN, Jan. 5.—(By wireless to Sayville)—The Teu
tonic armies under the personal command of General von
Mackensen have captured the important towns of Machin and
Jinilai, in northern Dobradja. The Russian-Roumanian armies
evacuated the towns, with the advance of the Teutons and are
fleeing toward the northward. This is the purport of an official
German report today.
ADMITS FAILURE IN DOBRUDJA.
LONDON, Jan. 5.—The allies concede that Russia’s last
remaining hold in the province of Dobrudja has been so badly
shattered by the fall of Machin, which has been captured by
Mackensen’s armies, that it seems doubtful if she can any long
er retain a grip on nay of this trans-Danube territory.
RUSSIAN FORCES WITHDRAWING.
PETROGRAD, Jan. 5.—The Russian forces in Dobrudja
are withdrawing toward Braila, across the Danube river, in
Wallachia, according to an announcement of the war office
today.
RUSSIANS CAPTURE 600.
PETROGRAD, Jan. 5.—In the fighting on the Roumanian
front yesterday the Russians captured 600 Teuton prisoners,
three cannon and 16 machine guns, says an official report is
sued by the war office today.
MORE VESSELS ARE SUNK.
LONDON, Jan. 5.—Lloyd’s today announces the sinking of
two Norwegian and one British steamship yesterday. The ves
sels fell victim to mines that have been planted around the Brit
ish isles by German submarines.
FRENCH BATTLESHIP TORPEDOED.
BERLIN, Jan. 5.—(By wireless to Sayville)—The Over
seas News Agency says the French battleship Verite was re
cently torpedoed by a German submarine and now is lying
badly damaged in the port of Malta.
BRITISH TRANSPORT SUNK.
LONDON, Jan. jj.—The British transport Invemia has
been sunk by a mine or a submarine. A hundred and fifty of
ficers and men are missing and believed lost.
BRITONS HAVE 2,000,000 IN FRANCE.
LONDON, Jan. 5.—A report of the British war office shows
that Great Britain has two million troops in France.
BUCHAREST MUST PAY TRIBUTE.
LONDON, Jan. 5.—It is reported here that the Germans
have levied an enormous war tax on the residents of Bucharest,
which is being exacted to the last penny. It is also reported
that Roumanian paper money must be stamped as German, for
which JO per cent of the value of the notes in circulation must
be paid in gold or securities to the German government.
Ten million dollars pound sterling is said to have been ex
acted from the residents of Craivo.
THE HAGUE, Jan. 5.—Horrible tales of starvation and
privation for the deported Belgian civilians who were deported
for work in Germany and other central power nations are
brought back by those who have been invalided home. These
tales are told to the correspondent of the Associated Press,
who took occasion to interview all whom he could reach. The
invalids tell the same story, although coming from various
camps in Germany. Especially shocking are the conditions at
Soltau, one of the largest of the detention camps where Bel
gian workmen were taken. Those who were sent home are in
a dying condition, due to the ill-treatment and lack of nourish
ment given them by their German captors.