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ANCHORAGE, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1017.
PRICE TEN CENTS
NEW YORK, Jan. 20.—At least two British steamships,
the Yarrowdale and St. Theodore, and probably more, captured
in south Atlantic waters by the German sea raider, have been
converted into raiders themselves and are now preying on al
lied commerce, according to information from reliable sources
received in New York today.
NO AMERICANS LOST.
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—United States Consul Stewart,
of Pernambuco, in a report to the state department, states that
e Americans, from vessels sunk by the German rai w, were
ded there recently, and that indications are that no Ameri
can lives have been lost 'in the activities of the raider up to
date.
APPEAL TO AMBASSADOR.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—Americans residing in Syria
and Palestine have sent a petition to U. S. Ambassador Elkus,
of Constantinople requesting his aid in getting them safe con
duct out of these countries. The petition recites that due to
the war, conditions in Syria and Palestine are no longer safe
for foreigners.
RESERVISTS CALLED HOME.
20.—In anticipation of a German,
e Swiss government lias instructed
all her consuls in the United States to order all Swiss reserv
ists in this country on leave to return home immediately.
WASHINGTON, Jar.
invasion of Switzerland, tn
" Li OFFICE.
NEW YORK, N. Y., Jan. 20.—
Back at the flat top desk he
occupied when he made his big repu
tation in the insurance investigation
cases years ago, long before he was
even governor, Charles Evans Hughes
Oay once more took up the practice
law.
Since he left the desk and the old
office at 96 Broadway Mr. Hughes has
been governor of New York, justice
of the United States supreme court
anfj republican candidate for presi
dent of the United States. He is, nev
eifheless, understood to be glad to get
back.into private practice. His per
sonal "fortunes are said to have suf
fered as a result of his office holding.
FAIRBANKS, Jan. 20.—F. S.
Knutson, a man of family and over 40
years of age, was taken into custody
last night, charged with rape com
mitted on Lilia Link, aged 14 years.
BILL PASSES
It#’ OLYMPIA, Jan. 20.—The state sen
ate yesterday passed a resolution
AAnitting to the people the question
of calling a state constitutional con
vention.
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OKLAHOMA CITY, Jan. 19.—Miss
Nellie M. Dunn and Rowland D. Will
iams, who were engaged to be mar
ried and who were both employed at
teachers in the local schools, were shot
and killed last night by John M.
Couch, Miss Dunn’s brother-in-law,
who is held for the double murder. It
appears that Couch was a suitor for
the hand of Miss Dunn, but she
spurned bis offer of marriage.
SEATTLE, Jan. 20.—Fred Gillam,
assistant chief of the Seattle fire de
partment and one of the most efficient
men in the service, is dead, and a fire
man is missing, as a result of the col
lapse of the, noof bf the Grand Theatre
building, which took fire at an early
hour this morning and was entirely
consumed by the flames. When Gil
lam was taken from the burning struc
ture, both feet were charred and his
body was crushed and burned.
SEATTLE, Jan 20.—-The grand jury
yesterday aeturned eleven more minor
indictments. Eight of these indict
ments, including one against a woman,
is for violation of the liquor laws. _
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CONGRESS JO SPEED
up on taw
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—President Wilson made anoth
er unexpected trip to the capitol building yesterday afternoon,
for the purpose of urging upon the congress the necessity of
speeding up in order to avoid the calling of an extra session
after adjournment of the present session. The president con
ferred with Senator Kern and members of the democratic steer
ing committee with respect to a legislative program to be fol
lowed at this session. The tentative program agreed upon in
cluded all bills recommended by the president in his message
to the congress, as well as the big appropriation bills.
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FOR THE DEFENSE
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 20.—With
W. Bourke Cockran occupying the
spotlight as chief counsel for the de
fense, the second trial resulting from
the preparedness parade dynamiting
here began in superior court today.
Thos. J. Mooney, alleged leader of
the four men and one woman accused
-Shaving plotted to place the bomb
which exploued in the midst of pa rad
ers on July last, killed ten persons
and injured 50, is on trial for his life,
life.
The presence of Cockran has drawn
the attention of the country to the
trial in much the same way that Clar
ence Darrow’s activity in the defense
of the McNamara brothers drew the
country’s attention to that trial five
years ago.
Following the conviction in Septem
ber of Warren K. Billings, first of the
five alleged conspirators tried, Cock
ran, noted New York lawyer, volun
teered his service to the defense. He
will serve without compensation, ac
cording to officers of the Internation
al Workers’ Defense league which is
conducting the defanse.
Indicted with Mooney as a co-de
fendant, is his wife, Rena Mooney, a
music teacher and strike organizer,
Thomas Mooney, leader of the defend
ants, was active in spreading strike
propaganda and had planned to cause
a general strike of United Railways
platform men here a short time be
fore the fatal preparedness day psf
rade.
It was alleged by the prosecution
that the bomb had been set to explode
at a time when non-union employes of
the street railway lines would pass
the point where the bomb had been
placed at Steuart and Market streets
but that a delay in the start of the
parade upset the plans of the dyna
miters.
The defense declares all the defend
ants are innocent and are victims of
circumstantial evidence. Mooney sur
rendered to the police after reading
newspaper statements that he was im
plicated in the crime. He was stop
ping at a summer resort at that time.
The case has been featured by sev
eral alleged confessions which were
later refuted. A number of photo
graphs taken on the day of the pre
paredness parade are held by both
sides as evidence.
The trial opened in Superior Judge
Frank P. Dunne’s chambers. District
Attorney Charles N. Fickert, and a
corps of deputies represent the pros
ecution, while Cockran, and Maxwell
McNutt, jrg^esent the defense.
PANAMA, Jan. 20^- The slides in
Gaillard cut, * been men
acing navigation, have been overcome.
Today the channel is in better shape
than it has ever ben before. For n
minimum width of 180 feet it is 35
feet deep clear across the original
prism 300 feet wide. The slides at
Curacha and Culebra which have
bulged forward as if to smother the
waterway under their mass, have
been dredged away until they look
flat and impotent. Barring some un
forseen development, such as a new
break in a wholly Unexpected place,
or the crumbling of the great cliffs
of brecia at Gold Hill or Contractors’
hill, the interruptions to traffic by the
slides are done.
The engineers in charge will not
commit themselves to prophecy, but
they say the cut is in the best shape
it was ever in, and the fact that they
have taken away all but three of the
dredges and cut out Sunday and hol
iday work is a strong indication of
their confidence in the situation. The
three dredges are carrying the exca
vation back to the original channel
line in order to establish a defensive
zone to prevent encroachments on the
channel. Much work is yet to be done
to complete the channel to its full
width of 300 feet with a bottom 40
feet above sea level, giving a depth of
45 feet, but it is already possible now
to give passage to the biggest ships
on the seas without any trouble.
Tomorrow aftrnoon at the Labor
Temple, the Soldiers and Commission
will meet for the second time in the
series of basketball games which now
is exciting so much interest in the
city.
In the first game between these
teams, the Commission won by a small
margin, but the soldiers assert that to
morrow the result will be different.
Tl}e boys in khaki assert that ,their
team now is much stronger, and that
their team work will astonish both the
spectators and their opponents. Game
called at 3:30.
i Crad Williams, an old-timer in
Alaska* and who for the past five or
six years, has been on the Kenai pen
insula and in the Cook inlet couiitry,
is among the patients at the hospital.
.JUNEAU, .Jan. 20.—Governor Strong, Secretary Davidson
and Collector ol Customs Pugli, composing the official canvass
ing J)oard of the territory, started in to count the votes in the.
territorial election yesterday forenoon. No one is present that
represents either Delegate Wiekersham or Mr. Sulzer. Attor
ney-General Grigsby is advising the board as to legal questions
involved. The count will be very slow and the board will prob
ably have to adjourn from day to day until belated returns ar
rive by mail.
In the counting yesterday, Sulzer made a gain of three
votes in precinct 'No. 1 of Douglas, First division, under the
ruling that where the voter marked the ballot on the right side,
.in lieu of the left side, or in the place indicated by the official
ballot, the vote shall be counted, in that the inent of the voter
is plain.
MOSM10 EE
VALDEZ, Jan. 20.—There has been
a shake-up anti shifting around in the
United States marshal’s office, which
has resulted in the resignation of Dep
uty U. S. Marshal James Warded,
formerly of the Anchorage office, and
the appointment of C. W. Mossman,
connected w’ith the central office since i
Marshal Brenneman took charge, to
assume charge of affairs in the coal
terminus. Deputy Marshal Casler of
Unga will take Mossman’s place, while
Chas. McCallum, democratic candidate j
for the assembly, will take Casler’s ]
INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 20.—In a
speech before a vast audience here
last night, William Jennings Bryan
declared, “You cannot have a com
pulsory military service unless you
cultivate a military spirit, and such a
spirit is a menace to the country.”
SEATTLE, Jan. 20.—W. A. Steel, of
Cordova, A. C. Baldwin, of Valdez,
and John Noon, of Seward, were
guests at a dinner given last night by
the Alaska bureau of the Seattle
Chamber of Commerce.
BIG VESSEL
SEATTLE, Jan. 20.—The ship Sam
uel H. Hedges lyas successfully
launched from the wayB of the Puget
Sound Bridge and Dredge company
this forenoon. The Hedges is 250 feet
in length and is the largest wooden
vessel ever built in Seattle. It is the
first Of twelve similar vessels to be
built for the Washington Shipping
Corporation.
place at Unga. Horace DeLine, who
resigned a positon as paymaster for
the engineering commission at Sew
ard, will take the place in the central
office at Valdez, made vacant by the
death of Deputy Marshal Al. Sullivan.
Deputy Marshal Frank Hoffman, who
has been temporarily in charge of the
Anchorage office, will resume his po
sition at Matanuska. U. S. Marshal
Brenneman returned to Valdez last
night, following an extended trip to
the states, and the new order of
things was announced upon his ar
rival.
WELLTON, Ariz., Jan. 20.—Bishop
and Robertson, the missing army avi
ators, were fount) in an exhausted con
dition by % civilian searching party at
a point 200 miles south of the border.
Robertson was brought here by mem
bers of the party. Bishop, who is too
weak to walk, was left in charge of
other members of the searching party.
Two sandwiches and two oranges each
was all the food the lost men had tast
ed until found since January 10. For
four days, following the mishap to
their aeroplane, the men had walked
about in the wilds of Sonora, entirely
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JEPSlSEEKS
Not satisfied that Martin really is
the better man, Jepson today assert
ed that he has deposited $300 as a
forfeit to assure his willingness to
again meet the Anchorage man on the
mat. He makes no excuses for his
previous defeat, but says he is ready
to again meet Martin the latter part
of next week
The match between Jepson and
Martin this week excited much inter
est among local sports, and there are
mapy .who, notwithstanding the result
of the. last match, stand ready to back
Jepsop With their money.