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DECEMBER 6, 1915
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Athens, Dec. 6 — "Word "was re
ceived here this morning that the
Fifteenth German division was be
ing rushed to Rustchuk, situated on
the Rumanian frontier in order to
prevent the landing of Russian forc
es, which it is believed will he
sent from there through, Bulgaria.
That the eceno o1 operations is
believed to have moved to the Ru
manian frontier Is substantiated by
the transferring of heavy German
art-Hery to points along the ■west
ern Rumanian frontier.
300 MEN KILLED WHEN GERMAN
POWDER FACTORY BLOWS UP
London, Dec. 6—Tie news of
the explosion of one of the Im
mense ammun'tlon factorleo at j
Halle-lu-Sachen reached this city
this morning. The advice states '
that there -were over three hun
dred workmen killed, and that the
ammunition destroyed by the explo
sion will be a great loss to the
German forces.
BRIIISH CRUISER WAITING 10
SIEZE SUIP WITH COTTON CARGO
Galveston, Dec. 6—A British
cruiser is steaming along this
co;ist outside the five mile limit,
presumably awaiting the Bailing of
the Sir. AuBable -which ia loading
with a cargo of cotton at this port
consign**! to Denmark.
RUSSIA WILL
FREE SERBIA
Petrograd, Dec. 6—Czar Nich
olas, by a public promise -which
he made yesterday, has committed
himself to tree Servia from Aua
tre-Gcrman rule. He wili send suf
ficient forces there to fight until
the last Teuton soldier Is driven
trom Servian soil.
TOLOY.VN'A LUMBER
MILL KEPT BUSY
Them Is said to be a strong de
mand for lumber in Broots, the
Tolovana town, for building pur
poses and a new estw mill -will be
freighted in over the trail this win
ter, saj-B the Valdez Prospector.
Two saw mills were operated during
the Buaimer and the proprietors
feared io cut moi-e timber than they
could S« 11, but wueli building Opera
tions i>e0'an their piles of lumber
soon vanished, and the milla are
working overtime to meet the de
mand x.ut are unable to do bo at
the nresent time.
Logging is one of the principal
Industrie of the camp cud a largo
number of men are kept busy cut
ting logs for the two mills. The
logs art eaey to get as splendid
timber grows within a mile of the
mills.
As is usually the case In naw
camps, money is scarce and the
, sawmill men are compelled to give
credit, making it burdensome for
them to meet their obligations, and
many of the miners requiring lum
! ber for cabins and mining purposes
'are trading their time for lumber.
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GATHER ill HALLS OF CONGRESS
Washington, Dec. 6—The slxty
fourth session of the United Statea
congress convened today at noon
j the regular formality of opening
, taking place.
BRYAN WANTS CONGRESS
TO HELP GAIN PEACE
Washington, Dec. 6—It ia un
derstood that former secretary of
State William JenningB Bryan will
ask the present session of congress
to make some move towards the
establishment of International
Peace.
1017 W ILL COST
MILLION AND QUARTER
Washington, Dec. 6 — Estimates
which Will be transmitted to con
gress at the present 6esion for ap
proval places the amount of the
expenses for the year 1917 to be
*1,225,000.
KRAUSE IN JAIL AT JUNEAU
-HEARINGJOJE TOMORROW
Juneau, Dec. 4—Edward Krauso,
man of many alleged murders and
aliases, was locked up in the Unit
ed States jail at 2:15 o'clock yes
terday afternoon. He was taken
ashore from the steamship Hum
boldt at Thane, at 1:30, hand
cuffed to Sidney J. Hooper, a guard,
and whisked to Juneau in George
Burford'B automobile. The Hum
boldt put In at Than© at the re
quest of United States Marshal H.
A. Bishop, in order to give Krause
no embarrassment by .being taken
ashore at Juneau or Douglas. As
a result, a large crowd of curiosity
seekers "were cheated of an oppor
tunity of seeing Krause.
Krause -was searched by Jail
Warden Harry Morton ami a fow
personal papers and trinketwero
taken from him Including a leather
bound bood of tran.-alotie: s from
Tacitus' History of Greece. He
was 'hen placed In a steel tank
cell, where O. Itow, condemned mur
derer, and Mat M'ller are confined.
Miller was playing solitaire and
Krause immediately opened a con
versation with him. It appeared
thaf Miller and Krauso are friends.
Miller !b awaiting sentence for as
sault at Tenakee, and is alleged to
be wanted for various crimes in th<3
States.
Whilf Warden Morton searched
him, lirause looked 6traight ahead,
his blue-gray eyes raised a trifle
above normal position giving them
a glint of peculiar hardness. He is
a man of great muscular strength,
of average height, but of unuaual
breadth of shoulders and depth of
chest. Though his hands are per
haps a little undersized he has a
wrist of iron, and bo large that
the manacles with which he was
cuffed tq his guard were let out to
the last notch.
His face was white, and of the
pallor of nervous apprehension, and
'ntensified by a reddish furze of
beard and moustache. For all the
muscle shown In the build of the
man, he looked limp yesterday af
ternoon as he was being searched.
Excec; for the glint in his eyes,
there is nothing about him to sug
gest v/anton cruelty or evil. The
chin is fair, and is topped by
rather heavy lipu, Bhowlng plainly
under the thiu, yiiiiish-red
moustache.
l'ho mail, whom Detective Captain
Charles Tennant of Seattle sayB un
doubtedly killed William Christie, o
Tread well, James 0, Plunkett o£
Juueau and Ole Aloe of Seattle, ap
peared tired aud warn after his
journey from Seattle. He was kept
under constant surveillance on the
trip, by Deputy Jlarahal Frank Cook
aud the guards. His lawyer, Kazis
Krauczunas, aloo came on the
Humboldt. At Seattle the Hum
boldt left her regular pier without
the prisoner, but by arrangement
between Capt. Baughmau and De
puty Marshal Cook, she stopped at
anothsr pier !.ud took Krauce
aboard^iu crde/ to defeat any legal
attempt to ag;-.:t prevent the pri
soner's extradition.
United States Attorney James
A. Srniser said this afternoon:
"We are not prepared at this
time to announce the date of
Krause's hearing. He has been
brought back under the requisi
tion oi Gov. Strong, and tho charge
against him is that of murder In
connection with Christie's disappear
ance."
It ia certain that the principal
Witnesses against Krautio at his
examination will be Nick King, fore
man of the "700" mill at Tread well,
where Christie worked, and from
which he was taken away; by
Krause, and Capt. Tennant.
It <s said tUat Capt. Tennant'a
evidence will he one of the strong
est parts of the govern
ment's case against Krause, and
he h^s been summoned by cable.
It is declared that Tennant has
evidence against KrauBe that will
cause a great sensation when, it
becomes known.
In Krause's effects are a small
typewriter, Berkshire Bond station
ery, corresponding to that on 'which
the Christie and Plunkett notes
were ♦yped, a large boTe "goose
fun," a Savago pistol, another shot
gun and a high-power rifle with a
niche In it, which, the authorities
claim, was cut for a Maxim silencer
(Continued on page 4.)
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P. H. GANTY
Shanghai, Dec. 6—While the Chi
nese cruiser Chacho was lying at
anchor in the harbor the crew over
powered the ofucers, weighed an
chor, and headed the vessel for the 1
open sea.
Before leaving the harbor, how
ever, the mutinous crew trained j
some of the ships guns on the town,
and dropped several shells within j
the business district. Only slight
damage was done.
By tL-is time some of the men
who h3j been opposed to the mu
tiny, succeeded la getting some of
the belligerent ones to come to
their aide, and after a hard light,
in which several of the unrujy ones
were killed and a goodly dumber
wounded, the sbip was recaptured
and it waa steamed back to ita
anchorage.
All the marines who had taken
an active part In the mutiny were
at once take®, captive and brought
ashore, where they will be givea
trial and It Is believed that to es
tablish dlcipllne, will all be put to
death. i
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New York, Dec. C—Ernest Thom
son Seton, Chief of the American
Boy Scouts, today resigned his com
mand of the famous organization,
giving as his excuse for so doing
that the tendency of the organization
tor some time has heeu toward mill-J
turiam, and aa that "was against
the original policy of the organisa
tion, hp intended to devote his
time and energy toward the organi
zation of a rival league which -will
eliminate all the thoughts of war
from its teachings.
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STILL LEADING
Berlin, Dec. 6—General Von
Mackeusen, v/ho recently lead the
Teuton forces in their drive through
the Balkan states celebrated the
3ixty-sixth anniversary of his birth
today.
GERMAN AMBASSADOR WANTS
TO KNOW THE REASON
Washington, Dec. 6—Ambassador I
Dernstcrff today made a formal de-t
mand of tlie State Department fox (
the reasons calling for the request
of the withdrawal of the German
Naval Attache iioyed and German
Military Attache Von Papen. Sec
retary Lansing stated that 'Us
reply would be forthcoming within
the next few days.
The disclosures at the trial of
the officials of the Hamburg-Ameri
can S. S. Co. at New York furn
ished a great many of the facts ui>
on which the request of the Secre
tary oI State Is based.
The usual procedure would re
quire Von Bernstorff to notify his
country by cable of Lansing s
request, in which, case the order of
withdrawal should follow neat week.
NOT STIRRING
VP STRIFE IX MEXICO
Washington, Dec. 6—German Am
bassador Bernstorff has made a
denial of the statement that the
German government was trying to
work up a coun tor-1* evolution in the
Republic of Mexico. ;
LARGE FUNERAL FOR
SISTER SUPERIOR
Fairbanks: One of the largest
funerals ever held in Fairbanks
was the one at which many people
paid their last respects to Mother
Monaldi. Many of the Pioneers at
tended the serviies in a body, and
the Catholic church was crowded
with those who came to Bhow their
appreciation for the noble woman
who gave her life to her work of
relieving »he suffering. The in
terment was in the Fairbanks ceme
tery—News-Miner,
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