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No °66 EIGHTEENTH YEAR SKAGWAY, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 191/> PRICK 10 CENIS
HIED STATES NOTE DEMANDS
REPARATION AND PUNISHMENT
Washington, Dec. 22—The text
o' taa second note which the Un
ited States has made to Austria de
clares that that nation admits that
the Ancona was fired upou after,
sh ■ had been stopped and that it I
was than torpedoed rjid sent to the
bottom.
In no uncretaia terms America d?
mauds that Austria disavow the
act of taking the lives of innocent
non-combatants, make reparation
and punish the submarine com
mander who caused the jleaths ol
American citizena. The note em
phasizes the fact that the continu
ance of the friendly relations now
existing towards Austria on the pari
o' America depends upon the action
tr>ken by Austria in this matter.
300,000 GERMAN-IUBK SOLDIERS
IN GREAT DASH AGAINST EGfPI
London, Dec. 22—Reports have
been -received here that a great at
tack by a combined army of Gor
mou-Turko soldiers numbering over
three hundred thousand had begun
agali Bt the Allies forces now sta
'ioned la Egypt.
To meet this Invasion, great forces
o' English soldiers ara being rushed
to that country.
TURKS PiEBGE
ALLIED LIS
Constantinople, Dec. 22—Turkish
troops made a strong dash against
th" Allies, driving through their
lines and Teaching the sea. In
mnJjiLg their attack on the Allies,
t'le fighting was fierce, and when
they had overcome their enemies,
tKc Turks took great quantities of
rctuuitions of war, and captured
maav prisoners.
London, Dec. 22—Premier As
auith has asked for one million ad
ditional troops to those already re
cruited. The demand for the men
at the front is very great, and in
anticipation of a possible invasoln
of EjiyDt, great forces of men have
b iea mobilized here.
VON PAPEK
GOES HOME
New York, Dec. 22—Von Papen,
the German military attache, ■whoso
recall was recently demanded by the
American government, will sail
home today.
KK1CHSTAG VOTES
10,000,000 MAlUiS
Berlin, Dec. 22—To meet the de
mand of the war department for
Tunds necessary to carry on the
operations of the German army, the
Rei.:atag today voted a war credit
of ten billion mar lea
PEACE SHIP WILL
SAIL FOB NORWAY
Christian la, Doc. 2 — The Henry
Ford Peace commission, >whlcli ar
rived in this city several day* ago
on board the Str. Oscar XI, will
leave here tomorrow for Stockholm.
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BRITAIN'S TERMS FOR PEACE
-A SEMI-OFFICIAL SIATEMENI
London, Dec. 22—A semi-official
statemeut of Britain's final inten
tions regarding the war is contained
in an. article in a recent issue o-f
the London Daily Chronicle by Hon.
O. K. Alaaterman.
He says Belgium must receive
complete Independence with a full
indemnity and restoration of all
ruined cities and industries.
France must get Alsace-Lorraine,
and Indemnity for damage done.
A new natural boundary must be
created for Germany an the Rhine.
Denmark must get Schleswig
which Is purely Danish.
German, Austrian and Russian
Poland must be united under tho
Czar or a King appointed by him.
Italy must get Treutino a;-d
Italian Irredenta.
The Turkisa Empire must be
dismembered and Serbia restored
with. Bosnia, Herzegovina and a
full indemnity; from Austria.
The wholo German Xleet is to'
be surrendered, sunk, or divided
anion? the Allies. All Zeppelins
must be destroyed.
The German colonies will go to
the nations who conquered them.
The statement ends ]>y saying
that if Greece and Rumania con
sider Creole Irredenta and Tran
sylvania not worth fighting for
they will never receive them, as
nations unfit by their cowardice to
risk their life for enslaved breth
ren are unfit to rule them.
PRICE OF STEEL
STRIKES SKI
Pittsburg, Dec. 22—The price
of Bteel has readied the highest
price ia history, ranging from twen
ty dollars to thirty dollars per ton.
BERNHARDT
REPORTED DIG
I.ondon, Dec. 22—Advices have
been received here from Paris stat
in '\at Madame Sarah Bernhardt
is dying.
ANCHORAGE HAS AN
AWFUL IlOOZK FAMINE
The Gateway received a sort of
an S. O. S. telegram fiom Anchor
age today stating that the burg,
which bids fair to bo the new capi
tal of Iceland, is suffering worse
than Poland or Belgium from fam
ine. They say they have enough to
eat but nawthin' else.
w!ien the Furragut wag unload
ing, or trying to unload, there some
days ago a big consignment of bar
rels of meat one fell on
the dock from the ship's
sling and busted. The crowd
watching the unloading pro
cess suddenly caught a susoicious
smell and having in mind the storl^
of G?rman plots against munitions
cargoes "every man lor himself" be
caine the motto iu fact as well as
in sentiment. Later tho people
came back to find the dear old fed
era] authorities; confiscating' ^ the
stuff. It was whiskey. When the
boa* came here, it Is said, it did
not yet have the stuff completely
out of its sysem and Seward will
get the benefit of it. The lat
est weather report from Auchorage
was "dr£ and cold,"—Seward Gate
way.
GERMANS OPEN
- London, Dec. 11—A tribute to
j the work ol' the Germans in China
h:.» just been sent out by the Brit
ish government..
It is part of a report from Con
sul V. L. Savage of Changslia, cap
ital of tlie province of Hunan. To
German traders, men of tact and
persistence, lie said. Is chiefly due
the fact that the Chinese native
traders are becoming more toler
ant of foreign commercial methods
aLd merchandise. "New firms, who
enter interior China," he adds, "will
no longer have to break through
i the opposition oi their old-estab
lithed connections among the Chi
nese, and institute new and i'_npup
il 1 ir methods. The building up of
trade connections in China is Just
new much easier than in any oth
er country."
Credit is also due the Germans
fov opening up the mining fields
of China to foreigners. Consul
Savage says:
"Native prejudices, vested in
terests and the greed and power of
tliu Chinese gentry have, no doubt,
raised great difficulties In the
past in the way of successful ex
ploitation by the Europeans of the
van mineral wealth of China. In
th it respect the province of Hunan,
which had great mineral resources,
was one of the wore* to deal with.
Yet v tnese same difficulties have
been overcome, In some measure,
and the export of certain ores and
metals is now a principal feature of
the trade of Changsha. But to
whose effort is this due? The ans
wer is to those of German firms.
British enterprise has had prac
tk- illy nothing to do with it."
tVliAbKA RAILROAD COX
BTRUCTOR DEAD
Alameda, Dec. 22—Colonel Al
exander Swanitz, who constructed
tho Alaska Northern railroad In Al
as'ca near Seward, died at his home
i.\ tnls city last night. Dsath was
•lie recuH of a complication of dis
eases.
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Mistletoe
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MISTLETOE —
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P. H. GANTY
PRESIDENT IS SENDING HIS
PERSONJJEPRESENTATIVE
New York, Dec. 22—It became
kuown here today that Col. House,
who wag President "Wilson's person
al representative in Mexico dur
ing a part of the strugglo between,
the rival factions there, will soon
sail for Europe in a similar ca
pacity, though it la denied that his
trio is in any way a peace mission.
He is going, it is said, to deliver
to certain American ambassadors
direc' information., concerning tho
government's attitude regarding
various international questions..
Washington. Pec. 22—Secretary
or State I>arising refused this morn
ing to make any comment regarding
the mission of Col. House on the
trip which he Is about to take to
Europe. j I
VILLA freed
ALL AMERICANS
Washington, Dec. 22—Advice was
received here today stating that
Genera'. Villa, after he had signed
tho uea^ pact with the Mexican
government, had set at liberty all
Americana who had been imprison
ed at Chihuahua before he left for
the United States.
VILLA 10 STAY
IN
3an Antonio, Dec. 22 — Mrs.
Jose Villa, wife of the Mexican gen
e-r.'.l. left this city today eurouto to
Cuba. Before leaving Mrs. Villa
st:.ted that General VlUa would
nev^r enter the United States but
would remain In Mexico, seeking an i
asylum in tho mountains with
frieuds.
MISSION WORKER SAVES
NATIVE SETTLEMENT |
Away off in the wilderness, as a
matter of fact the place is known
to all Alaskans as "St. John's in
the Wilderness," there is a woman
who is devoting her life to the na
tives of Alaska, and is doing for
them that walch she believes will
be for their lest interests., No one
after Teadlng this story can deny
that Deaconess Mills performed an
act that entitles her to much thanks
from everyone in tha* part of Alas
ka.
Last summer, according to advices
which, have just been received here,
a native wandered info the mission
a* St. John's in the Wilderness, in
an awful condition. He was Buffer
ing from smallpox, The frightful
toll of this dread disease is too well
known to need commen*. An epi
demic of smallpox would have prac
tically wiped out the Indian settle
ments along the Koyukuk river.
Deaconess Mills isolated the pa
tient. Then she sent to Fort Yukon,
the nearest mission hospital, for
vacc'ne. Traveling up and down
the river with a lot of bichloride
&ni vaccine she made the natives
wash all their clothes in boiling wa
ter in which had been dropped a
bichloride tablet, and tfcen she vac
cinated every Indian, 011 the Koyu
kuk river.
So excellent was the work of this
Ion* woman that the one case that
wandered into the mission was the
only case; that was heard of. An epi
demic was avioded. The patient got
w »?1.
Deaconess Mills did wonderful
work. Had she not acted as she did
1* 'S probable that the disease would
have spread. An epidemic would
have resulted, and many might have
perished.
It is acts of this kind that make
those, who question the sincerity of
those good "women who are devoting
their lives to the education of the
Alaskan natives think, and it is
acts of this kind that bring to the
missions in this northern country as
sistance from the great Outside.—■
Cordova Times.
STATE RESTS IN
SCHMIDT TRIAL
L-.i Angeles, Dec. 22—Having
brought out all the evidence it ha-d
in the Sct.midt trial, the state to
day res tec. its case.
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