VOL. 2. NO. 24.
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA, MONDAY? NOVEMBER 27,1916.
PRICE TEN CENTS.
ATLANTIC CITY, Nov. 27.—A protocol, providing for the
withdrawal of the x American troops of invasion from Mexico,
the establishment of a neutral zone on the American-Mexican
border for a joint military center, with the supplemental stip
ulation that the United States troops shall be sent into Mexico
£ 1 pursuit of Mexican bandits at any time the American gov
ernment deems it necessary, has been signed by the American
and Mexican commissioners.
The protocol will be submitted to the respective govern
ments for acceptance or rejection, as the case may be. It is
believed, however, that both governments will endorse the
protocol, and thus pave the way for a speedy adjustment of
other matters that come within the purview of the joint
commission. The withdrawal of, the American troops from
Mexico and the border patrol problem has been the bone of con
tention since the commission convened.
CONSTRUCTION ^/ORR BEING
DN THE MASSIVE LABOR
ION HALL
After a delay of several days work
again started on the new Alaska La
bor Union hall this morning. The
work was stopped owing to the lack
of material in the way of rods and
baits needed to complete the heavy
trusses that carry the second floor.
These were generously furnished by
the machine shop department of the
government yesterday and the work
will be pushed as rapidly as weather
Cwill permit, as the men in charge do
not anticipate any further shortage
of material. The joists for the sec
ond floor are now being put in place
and a rough floor will be laid tempo
rarily. The roof covering the rear
end of the building is on for 12 feet
and the space studded out shows one
large office and library room. It is
the intention of the committee to
place the plans and blue print on ex
hibition at some popular place about
the middle of this week for the bene
fit of the public.
The plans will show a class “A”
building with a 50-foot frontage on
4th avenue and 130 feet deep on H
street. The assembly hall will be 46
by 90 feet with 19 foot six inch ceil
ing i There will be a balcony around
the hall with commodious stairways
and a seating capacity of over 400.
The assembly hall will seat 900. The
union office proper will be on the
main floor located in the northwest
corner of the buildings The second
floor plans show 14 large offices and
the union lodge room 23 by 46 feet.
The rooms will all be equipped and
furnished with the latest convenien
ces and the mezzanine floor will be
built and arranged for the comfort of
the ladies. Smoking rooms have also
been provided for in addition to a
room for the boys. The plans and
specifications call for electric lights,
telephones and a steam heating plant
to cost $3,600.00. The entire build
ing will be fitted with modern plumb
ing and will be plastered throughout.
A gymnasium room with four show
er baths will be a distinct feature of
the building.
The job will h,e rushed to comple
tion under the supervision of Archi
tect Geo. Purvis, Superintendent of
Construction John Leiren and general
all-around rustler Jack Sutherland.
The management says that the build
ing will be enclosed by tomorrow and
that the public will be invited to at
tend the big opening Christmas eve.
JEWELS STOLEN.
NEW YORK, Nov. 27—Arthur P.
Diggett, an employee of the Trust
company where Mrs. Harriman, wid
ow of the railway magnate, kept her
jewels, confessed today that he had
. stolen them. The jewels were return
ed to the owner. Diggett will be pros
ecuted.
The curfew law is again being en
forced in Juneau, starting last week.
fy All children under 18 years of age, un
k * accompanied by their parents must be
\ off the streets at 9 o’clock or have
\ some good legitimate excuse. The law
Ahas been on the books for some time
'but has not been enforced.
BALTIMORE, Nov. 27.—Samuel
Gompers has been re-elected presi
dent and William Morrison has been
re-elected secretary, of the American
Federation of Labor, at the annual
convention in session here.
Stevan Karanovic has hied an ac
tion in the district court at Juneau
against the Alaska Treadwell Mining
Company for $6,000 .personal dam
ages for total disability growing out
of an accident which the plaintiff al
leges happened to him while he was
working in the company’s mine.
❖ UNITED STATES TREASURER MAKES
❖ REPORT AT END OF FISCAL YEAR ^
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❖ Washington, Nov. 27.—The annual report of the ^
❖ treasurer of the United States, made public today, says ^
❖ that the government’s treasury holdings, at the end of ^
❖ the fiscal year, reached a total of $1,803,493,933. The ^
^ total amount of money in circulation in the United ^
❖ States, .says the report, is four billion and twenty-four ^
^ million dollars. ^
PERSIST N ATTACK
ON CHIHUAHUA COT
JUAREZ, Nov. 27.—General Villa and his bandit army
begin the fourth attack on the city of Chihuahua at an early
hour this morning, says an official message to the Carranza
commander at Juarez.
ANOTHER ATTACK SUNDAY.
CHIHUAHUA CITY, Nov. 27.—-For the third successive
time, General Villa and his bandit army made an attack on
Chihuahua City early Sunday morning, ,but again met a re
pulse at the hands of the Carranzista forces under General Tre
vino. The Villistas sustained heavy losses. Attack after at
tack was made on the Trevino positions on the outskirts of the
*ity, but each attack failed, until the Villistas were compelled
to retire, leaving their dead on the battlefield.
WOMEN CONCERNED IN A PLOT.
EL VALLE, Nov. 27.—Margarita Acosta, Maria Castilla
and Maria Ries, have been taken into custody and are being
examined on the charge of plotting against the life of Colonel
Gonzales Diaz, chief of the Carranza garrison at El Valle.
LONDON, Nov. 27.—A raid by six German torpedo boat
destroyers on the English coast Thursday, is admitted by an
official report issued today by the British admiralty. The re
port says that no damage of consequence resulted from the
raid.
GERMAN VERSION OF RAID.
BERLIN, Nov. 27.—(By wireless to Sayville)—The forth
fled town of Ramsgate, on the English coast, was bombarded
by German naval vessels Thursday night and Friday morning,
says a report issued by the German admiralty today. The
only hostile ship encountered, a British patrol ship, was sunk,
and the German fleet returned in safety to its base.
KILLED IN AN
AUTO ACCIDENT
SARATOGA, Cal., Nov. 27.—The
body of Dennis Searles, a San Fran
cisco capitalist, was found today lying
beneath his automobile, at the foot of
a precipice, over which the auto had
toppled. .
The launch Pacific was caught un
der the wharf at Douglas recently and
when the tide came in she was
swamped. Capt. C. E. Tibbetts was
awakened by the water hissing on a
hot stove and made his escape from
his bunk in his night clothes just in
time to escape drowning. She can be
raised.
LOSES LIFE III
TORTLAND, Or., Nov. 27.—Wil
lard C. Dieting, aged 24 years, lost his
life in a fire that practically destroyed
the Hotel Cudahy last night. Dieting
had ;> previously rescued two other
guests and in seeking to save others,
lost his own life.
About 30 natives are expected in
Wrangell from Juneau and Taku har
bor. They will come in gas boats.
The purpose of their visit is for a
feast which will .be in the' nature of
obsequies for the three natives who
were asphyxiated on the Ella J. near
here some weeks ago.
BERLIN, Nov. 27.—(By wireless to Sayville)—The war
office announced today that General von Mackensen ’s Teutonic
army has crossed the Danube river at several points, in pur
suit of the Rournanian-Russian army, and that General von
I alkenhayn’s army in Wallachia has succeeded in pushing its
way to the river Alt, in its march on old Roumania.
MARCHING ON BUCHAREST.
BERLIN, Nov. 27.—(By wireless to Sayville)—The Aus
iro-German army under the command of General von Falken
hayn, has crossed the Alt river, one of the natural barriers de
fending the city of Bucharest, the capital of Roumania, says
an official report given out by the German war office.
ALLIES MAKING PROGRESS.
PARIS, Nov. 27.—The entente allies are making progress
against the Austrian-German-Bulgarian forces on the Mace
donian front, through attacks on the enemy positions. At some
points on the Macedonian front, the allies have pierced the en
emy lines, compelling a general withdrawal all along the front.
TURKS ARE ADVANCING.
LOIm DON, Nov. 27.—The Turkish forces, operating
against the Russian troops on the Caravanson front, have push
ed forward their right wing a distance of 20 miles, the Rus
sians retreating with the advance of the Turks.
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TURKS EVACUATE A TOWN.
PETROGRAD, Nov. 27.—The Turkish troops evacuated
the town of Sharufkhan, in Turkish Armenia, following a vig
orous bombardment of the place by the Russian troops. The
Russians are in pursuit of the retreating Turks, according to
official advices given out today by the Russian war office.
SEATTLE, Nov. 27.—The King
county grand jury has up to date re
turned fourteen indictments growing
out of the bootlegging cases. One of
the indictments, which was a bribery
charge against Edward Hagen, Seat
tle’s pugilist policeman, in which he
was alleged to have accepted a mone
tary consideration for declining to
prosecute a bootlegging case, was dis
missed, the trial jury failing to con
vict.
FOB TOE DBFS.
WASHINGTON,Nov. 27.—William
Jennings Bryan’s fight to win the
democratic party over to the prohibi
tion policy will be launched in Wash
ington city, at a dinner to be given at
the Lafayette hotel. Bryan says that
six big drives will be inaugurated
throughout the United States.
SEATTLE, Nov. 27.—George C.
Israel, formerly of Olympia, conceded
to have been one of the most brilliant
attorneys of Washington, died here
last night, from the effects of throat
trouble.
CONFESSES TO
PORTLAND, Or., Nov. 27.—George
Bartholomew, arrested for the mur
der last November of John Lind, of
Portland, last evening confessed the
crime to the authorities. After the
killing, Bartholomew placed the re
mains in a trunk and then threw the
trunk into the Willamette. It was
found a few days later and the shock
ing crime revealed. Robbery was the
cause for the murder.
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 27.—Mrs.
Inez Mulholland Boissevain, the beau
tiful suffragette leader of national
fame, died here last night. Mrs. Bois
sevain was a member of the Woman’s
Hughes suffragette party that toured
the country in the presidential cam
paign. She took ill when the party
reached -Los Angeles and gradually
sank until death claimed her.
LONDON, Nov. 26.—Hiram Maxim,
the noted inventor and authority on
high explosives, passed away here
yesterday. He had reached an ad
vanced age.