So. 2U SEVENTEENTH YEAR
PRICE 10 CENTS
IMMENSE RUSSIAN Air "
CONCENTRATED AT CRACOW
London, Dir. 8 A foros
numbering 270.000 "X'u has arrir
t-,l and is now concentrated before
i| e Aiistiiin fortress of C«o»».
>rn vno\ .\Kor\u luuz
REMAINS I'Nl'HANUKI* I
I
>i. IVlcrsbuix, IK*'. X—The situ
aiit.ii iuhuihI the city of Lodz, Rus
»i;>. which wok taptuml j-esterdar j
t»y the (iermans after one of the
liliMtliest ami most desperate bat
il> , of the Kumpeas war, remain*
proriirally unchanged today, both
armies being exhausted fixan the
sanguinary four days* rijcht that
the (t'ermans' attack.
kl\<J I'KTFK IN COMMAND
OK THE SERVIAN TROOPS
Nish. Deo. X—Kin^; l*«ter has m
^umed |>ersonal command of the
Srtiian ami) , anil is already inflict- J
inn heavy losses on his Austrian
i-uemy, according to late advices
nnivtil here.
|t»l»E ASKS DECLARATION
<>F TRl'FE FOR CHRISTMAS
'Koine, H.<c. .s—The Pope today
i»ue»l an encyclical asking the Eu
ii'pean and Far Eastern btHli^ei
< nts to declare a truce during the
Christmas time.
(>\ k Hl'NDKKD THOl'SAXD
HESSIANS AUK CAPTCTW
Loudon, Dec. >s—Adiiwa received
l.tVe today claim ItX'.tHW
Hussions were captured by the <•««•
ntuiis Sunday when they took
M.I.IKs ON OFFENSIVE IN
FRANCE AND BKLG1VM
Pari.*, S Ttifl Allictl
ii i«. unilrnfawd from official aoorc
have commenced offensive oj>er
utions in Northern F»w* awl Bel
gium.
ISEfOKTED AHKEST OF
GENERAL (ARKAN/A
El Paso, Dw. 8—It is T«pOrt«d
.iere today that General Carranza,
the constitutionalist leadfr, haa
been arrested charged with looting
iht« Mexican national treasury of
t'. ■ • it■>.«>«>>* pesos, when he evacuat
• ■ t Mexico City a short time ag°.
VESSEL IS IDENTIFIED AlS
THE BATTLESHIP KANSAS
I'aiiadelphia, Dec. 8—Ibe «»"
knf wa reeeel which ran ashore
night before last on Maryland
coast, and was thought to be
foreign wawhip, has beea identified
a« tie United States battleship
Kansas. She mauaged to get off
witnout sustaining any damage.
THE LAST PRIZE FIGHT
WIU. COME OFF TONIGHT
Los Angeles, Dec. 8—Johnny
Dundee, white featherweight, anil
Joe HirerB, Spanish-American light
weight, will D««t la a 20 'round
fight la this city tonigh. it
will be the la»t prize fight to be
pulled oft iu the state or Cali
fornia uader the saaction of the
authorities.
Killing the fight game In Cali
fornia may be fiae for civilization,
but it will be tough oa the fight
game experts, and the real cham
l>'ons. When the last twenty
round battle is fought on the coast
tonight, it will meaa that, there
will be left only one plac« in the
Unites States where that length
fight can bo pulled off—New Or
leans.
Thi# -will iue;ui that there will
be vastly more "championship bat
tle*" of tea rounds pulled off than
<wer before. la a <^b round fight,
tl>o best title-holder that ever liv
ed, staads tuore show of losing his
tltla than in a 1 emger affray. Ten
round fight« y«ry seldom end via
'the sleep reute, and everyone
know, hew lightly decisions are
| hurled about after a battle. in
which naither side wins decisively.
It doesn't take a proftssor in ap
phd aatheematica uor a man with
Sherlock Holmes sense in the
science of deduction to figure that
under such conditions, the wood3,
prairies and cities will bo full
champs, near-champs and cheese>
champs, claiming all the titles in
this world and the aest. If fight
managers remain unchauj»ed, and
| at present writing there seems ab
solutely no hope for betterment
'alon- this line, they will lay claim
to a title evea If only one fight ex
pert out of a dozen say» after a
scrap, that they would have receiv
ed a decision had a decision been
made.
The Best Always the Cheapet +
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PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE TO THE
JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS
I
Washington, D. G., Deo, 7—The
galleries were packed this mornfng
j when President Wilson re«d his
j message to a joint session of con
j gress.
He said that there was much
j work ahead of Us and that the
| people of the United States would
l iiavu to commence to make prepara
| tions for future trade expansion
as the war has caused many changes
in European markets that muat
: henceforth look to America for sup.
i plies.
The message urges the early eu
actment of the Phillipine freedom
! bill and also urges tlte government
1 to establish steamship lines .to re
placg those of the European belli
gerents which have been destroyed
and nut out of business by the war.
It urges that the coast of Al
1 aska ba thoroughly surveyed and
charted and charges that the work
! has so far been incomplete at al
| most every point on the Alaskan
•"oast wnere enips ana uuia&n ii»w
have been lost..
Ia part the message &aya: "We
tnYe not provided adequate vessels
or adequate machinry for the work
of surveying and charting the
coast and watere of Alaska, and
when chartering vessels for the
purpose, have obtained those which
|wer© go old and unsaaworthy that
had private individuate chartered
and sent them to sea, the govern
ment would have Interfered aud
stopped them."
The mesfeage advocates govern
ment economy and say* tiat Ameri
ca is a country of peace, and at* such
should not depend QpOu a large
army, ready to take the field at «•
moment's uoticg. "We must depend
not upon a big standing army nor
upou a large reserve army, but
upon citizenry trained and accus
• iome<i to the handling of awais."
Preeldeut Wilson believes In a
powerful nary for defence, but neve
for aggTCSKive action.
MURDER AND SH
I PAGING IN ALL G/ILIGIA
Lemberg, Galicia, Dec. 8—A com- J
, inlttee appointed to investigate con- j
i ditions in Galicia reports that there
have been wholesale murders, exe- J
eutioiis and excesses of every des
cription in war-swept Galicia. Thou
sands of starving and homeless
families give evidence of thes»> con
ditions.
Tno Kussian population, the con>
j mittee says, suffered meat severely,
! less from natural consequences of
I war than from the cruelty or Aus
j triau officials, who always suspect
ed the loyalty of the Galician popu
| lace, and have noted with marked
[severity since the beginning of the
I war.
The committee reports its estab
I llshed the fact that in seven coun
j ties 258 men have been shot or
hanged, including two priests.
Throughout Galicia it is estimated
10,000 arrests have been made and
1,000 executions have taken place.
In five counties, the committee
[states, its membra counted 4,050
j burned homesteads. In the county
j hi which Przemysl is located there
| are 3,620 families, with 3,800
{children under f.ve years of age,
j who are homeless.
Robbery and the sacrilege of
j churches are reported, and it is
| said that whole families, including
[ babies children and decrepit old
j men—in one instance a deaf mute—
j ha\> been thrown into prison.
1 Near Przemysl, the committee re
ports, every village has been burn
ed. In the neighborhood of Jasio
160 nersons in a deserted liamlet
were found to have been hanged.
Most of these outrages are said
by the committee, to have been com
mitted by Hungarians. It is stated
that Cossacks who were pursuing a
detachment of Hungarian* found the
body of one Russian girl who had
been crucified. It Is aI®Q alleged
that la one field hospital five per
sons, horribly mutilated, were re
ceived. The eommlttee reports that
all these facts have been authenti
cated.
The report said Uuct th« Ruwlan
iroops had. been aroused to a high
pitch or rury »s»hiot Oivelnj'.
Th© members of th« oommittee
made their inYasltlgtttlona under the
directions of Ua president, Count Ec«
brinsky, governor general of G-alicla.
TENAKEE MAN DISAPPEARS
MYSTERIOUSLY IN SEATTLE
H. T. All*, aged 27, owner of a
restaurant at Tenakee Hot siirlngB,
near Juneau Alaska, mysteriously
dlsavpeared the other day from the
W'lngfleld hotel la Seattle, where
he was staying, after he had
told friends that he had several
hundred dollars in hi* possession,
which he carried in a valltet.
Fears for Alfe' safety were ex
pressed to the police, by friends of
the missing man, and the authori
ties have been asked to institute a
rigid search for his whereabouts.
DELEGATE WICKER8HAM
IS NOW IN SEATTLE
Seattle, Dec. 8—Delegate James
Wickereham arrived la this city
this morning on the Mariposa, en
rout* from Alaska to Washington,
D. C.
A Dawson man, name unknown,
who reached Whltehorse on the
last southbound stage, Is on today's
train bound for the outside.
I,
KIPPERED SALMON;
»
Just received a fine lot of
this delicious fish. It is King
Salmon, mild smoked and sugar cured
Put up in choice cuts—25c per lb.
Equally good served cold or hot. ....
P. H. GANTY, GROCER
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THIRTEEN PLAYERS KIM'El)
IV 1914 FOOTBALf. (,.VMES
Thirteen deaths were the toll
taken'^iiy football in the united
States during the season which is now
praeticall/ ended, according to a
rfccord being kept by a statiscian.
Only two were college men. One
of thtSQ (tied1 of heart disease, and
the other from injuries during a
class contest. - • -
'The others were members of
high schools, preparatory or free
lance organizations. None was
more than twenty years of age, and
tackling -was responsible for the
greatest number of fatalities. The
following is a-list of the dead:
ALLEN, HAY, nineteen years old,
Stanley high school, Sapulpa, Okla.;
tackled in game Oct. 3 and died thi
ty-five minutes after being thrown.
BROWN, T. G., Knoxvilie, Tenn.,
Suv/auee university player. Died on
the field Oct. 3 during scrimmage.
Organic heart trouble called the
cause of death... .
, >viuuiAiu kj., —
St. Mary's college, Emmitsburg, Md.
Fatally injured in a class game Oct.
12. ....
HAYS, CHARLES C., eighteen
years old, Fordham university, N. Y
preparatory school. Kicked in the
stomach Oct. 12 during game.
KENNEDY, MICHAEL, twenty
years old, Pittsburgh. Died Oct. 2*.
Of internal injuries, received in
practice game.
KOEHLLER, LESTER, seventeen.
Detroit high school. Blow on the
head caused paralysis.. Died Oct.
29.
LENERY, JAMES, nineteen Am'
fcridge, Pa. Back broken during a
scrimmage, Oct. 21.
McGINNiS, FLOYD. Ada, O. Tack
led in a practice game, Sept. 21.
ran a few feet and dropped dead.
OLSON', CARROLL, twenty years.
Milwaukee Amateur league*. ' Skull
fractured in game .Oct. 11.
TREECE, FRED, seventeen. New
Brighton, Pennsylvania high school.
Concussion of the brain as a result
of colliding with opponent Nov. 14.
TURNER, HARRY, twenty-three.
A member of a football team of Can
ton, O., died Nov. 16 of injuries
suffered in a game on Nov. 15.
Wells, FRANK L. Dorchester,
Mass. Scratch on arm during game
caused blood poisoning.
WISEMAN, ALBERT, Sac,"City;
la., high school. Concussion of the
brain when thrown in a game, Oct.
9.
The fatalities registered fall be
low those of all years except 1900,
Washington, D. C., D«. 8—Rep
resentative Oscar Underwood of th*
ninth Alabama district, claim* tkat
a national prohibition meas*re wiU
be introduced and voted upon
the present session of c»ngrcm,
In the hope of passing at
two o£ the annual budgets b«tfor»
the holiday receaTot th« approv
ing session of congress, RubcoiBtttt>
tees of the house approyrfatloas
committee began work last nttk o*
the District of Columbia and leg^
islative, executive and judicial ajtr
propriation bills.
Congressman Page of North; Car(J
lina is chairman of th« subcammJtr
! tee handling the district budget, and
| Congressman Johnson of"* ,S«!atli
i Carolina handles the leglslitli* >111,
i which contains appropriations t»
I i>ay the salaries of the goveranieat
employes in the several depart
ments. . ' ,
The democratic leader! ;re*llz«
that they must ftllow a Sptedlajl
; up policy from the mosieat, ths a«*r
session convened if the approprU
tion bills—a dozen In number—ars
I vo be passed before March 4, wV®
i the session must end by ooa*tKu
jtionai limitation. It is prOfcafcl*
I that special rules will bo prorided
ito limit debate on the Buppjy smm
j ures, as the failure of one or lam*
of the controverted bills it put
' March 4, would mean the calling ♦'
[ an extra session.
1901, 1908, and 1911.
cord for fourteen yean fttaada:
1901, 7; 1802, 15; 1903, 44;
1904, 14; 1905, 24; 1»«6, 1^
1907, 15; 1908, 11; 1909, 3»;
1910 22; 1911, U; 1912, W;
! 1913, 14; 1914, 15. ;
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IS OOING TO FIGHT THE
ALASKA APPROPRIATION
!;' Washington, D. C., Dec, S—R«p
] resentative John Wesley Langley,
1 republican, of Kentucky annouac^
j the nresentation of a propoe«d Wlj,
| in the house repealing th« legisla
tion already passed by coiigrw*
! for .the construction of a goms
' rnent owned railroad in Alaska,
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MA\t)OT AXD KILBANE IN
A TWELVE ROUND draw
Akron, Dec. 8—Joe
French-American lightweight, an4
Johnny Kilbane, Irish-America*
| featherweight, • fought here I3®*
night in a twelve round draw.
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