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No. 286 NINETEENTH YEAR
SKAGWAY, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 1917 PRICK 10 CENTS
WILSON UNDUINle OMLLIFS "Kill"
ILL an IB FOB IMS PEACE
Washington, Jan. 13—President
Wilson may :vgain nuiRe nn effort 'o
bring about peace between the war
ring nations of Europe- It is stag
ed that the President believes that
he may; prevaol upon the British
Allies to hold ft conference with
the German Entente, if the latte>r
can he prevailed upon to name
terms upen which peace might be
founded. ' ,
Notwithstaaiding the lact that the
Urirish Allies feave replied to the
firs? note sent out by Mr. Wilson,
and it is stated that they could
consider no terms o£ peace until
they liad attained their ftim, the
belief prevails that if Germany
would name more rational terms,
the Allies would meet In In, conferen
for th#» consideration thereof, and
if such a conference could be
brought about, students of the pitAi
ation believe that ultimate peace
would be the autcome.
LAWSON MUSI
TELL
Washington, Jan. 13—Charges of
contemn* o£ court have been filed
agains. Thomas W. L. Lawson, one
of th* chief witnesses in. the "leak"
news investigation w hicii is being
mad? by the speciaJ congressional
commi'tee, for refusal to divulge th
names of those whom he has insin
uated were guilty of giving out
news prematurely,
This places Mr. Lawson in the
position 'hat he will either have
to state the names ot those whom
he has implicated by insinuation, or
he will have to go to jail.
The committee were in favor of
Stopping ajiy further investigation
in 'he matter when Lawson refused
to give th© names that might lead
to the placing of the blame on
the guilty parties, but they have
been ordered by Congress to pro
ceed with the investigation.
F
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Berlin, Jan. 13—A great Teuto
1c army has succeeded in forcing its
jv^ay over the mountains into Mol
davia, and have forced the Rus
sians back towards the Pruth river.
"W'nile the German-Austrian forces
were operating in the Sereth region,
the Russians made a counter at
tack en the Riga flank of the Teu
tonic forces and drove them back a
considerable distance.
A terrific battle is in progress in
the Dvina district, and late reports
given out state that the Germans
are being iard pressed there .
DUPONTPOWDER
MILL EXPLODES
New York, Jan. 13—Late last
night the big powder plant of the
IKiFont Powder Company situated
a* Haskell, New Jersey was blown
up.
It Is believed that the explo
sion was not acci ental, but was
caused by a bomb being set at a
time when the crews were cfcaaig
itv sh.'fts, aaid that the work is
'hat of secret agents in the em
plov cf the Germans, as the factory
was working on a big order that it
had frein the European allies.
HIGHER-UPS
IMPLICATED?
Seattle, Jan. 13—The probe iu
♦o the alleged bootlegging] syr.di
ca' j which! has been before the
Federal Grand Jury is still in, pro
gress, and from the evidence bro't
out yesterday whieaii Logan Billings
ley. who is under indictment, was
examined, it is believed that not
wi'hstanding the fact that flat de
nials o' complicity with the syndi
cate has been by Mayor Gill and
Chief o* PoliCQ Beckingham, these
men and other higher-ups will be
shown *o have had a hand In the
iilici' handling of liquor, ajid that
indictments will be returned against
them.
The Russian government, had ap
proved reports of engenineers ad
vocat'ng the linking of the Volga
and Don rivers with a canal to de-(
YPlop largo areas in Southeastern |
Russia. *' '
JANUARY
CLEARANCE SALE
ONE-HALF G) OFF ON
MEN'S and BOYS' SUITS
MILLINERY and CERTAIN
LINES of SHOES
A LIBERAL DISCOUNT ON
all other lines of goods with the
exception of Contract Goods
SALE STARTS
WEDNESDAY
ALBERT REINERT
—Successor to H. J. Lynch—
Broadway between Third and Fourth Phone 41.
TAGOMA ID GEI
LARGEST STACK
Tacoma, Jan. — Plana for the
construction of the largest smoke
stack iii the world at the Tacoma
Smeltering company's plant ait Rus
tou have been practically, complet
| ed. 1 1
Coaistruction work will he begtun
in t h near future and it is report
ed that the contract .has already
baru let. Thg giant stack will b«
£>50 feet high, 30 -feet higher «Jxaa
the one at Butt©, Moat., now the
largest in the world.
The stack will be built to secure
a larjre part of tig precious met
ais which now aire lost to. the smel
ter in the form of dust. The stack
now in use, it da reported, will
douole the amount of dust recover
ed.
To© recovering device consists of
a wire screen which hangs in the
interior of the stack. This screen
is charged with an electrical our
reut am) acta aa a magaeLJCar the
minute pan-ticles of metal in the
smcke. At regular intervals the
screen is violently shaken and the
'lus* falls to the ground. It is
said that more than. 20 tonjB of val
uable metal dust are recovered
every day by this process in the
Present stack ,and iu that the con
struction of the new stack will brirg
this amount up to more than 40
tons a day.
H. Y. Walker .manager of the
plaut is in New York, and R.
W. McEiveesny, the genera] superin
tendent, was out of town Saturday.
Ncne of the other officials of the
company would discuss the matter
iu the absence of the two chiefs.
SEATTLE ARCTIC CLUB
MOVES INTO NEW BUILDING
The well known Arctic club, of
Sea'Me, a rendezvous for Alaskans
who are visiting in the city, began
moving into its new headquarters
abou* the first of the year. A new
building has been constructed on
Third Avenue aaid Cherry St., Into
which the club will make its home.
Lyman H. Woolfolk is the president
of the organization, and predicts for
it a bright future in, its new build
ing.
The steamer Peterson made the
trJi-t from Fort. Seward this morn
ing, bringing upi several from the
garrison and several civilians from
Haines. She returned at three
o'clock.
PLAYED CLra
BASKET BALL
It would be a difficult matter for
any one of the largi^ numiber of
Of spectators who Witnessed the
baske ball game at the; White
Pass eym last night to giv$ a de
tailed description, owing- to the fiact
that the play wag so fast from the
first toss-up to the final stojy-play
whistle .that the Buocessiou of bril
liant passes, field, shots, stubborn
anil w <11 played guard actions, iand
other incidental classy plays, re
sembl'd a well rehearsed cinema
production jvMcft Jiad loet control
of th» operator anid was being
■thrown on the screen at an ex
aggerate':. speed .
George HutU and Bert Aictvenzie
were easily picked as the stellar
liglita of the two teams, and from
6far+ it wag apparent that the out
come o' the game rested with* the
ability and cunning of these two
men as to which side would be the
wioner. 1 i 4
Both these men are old veterans
at th" same, and are convei-aaait
with eacn and every possibility of
play, and they ware both on the
job every se«oind, eager to take ad
vantage of the ever changing situa
tion, ai'i slip one over ou the oth
er.
The support given these two
s'ars by the remainder of their
teams was loyal and fearless and
mau fcvQd pLayfa which brought re
sults were m^de, but Hutlil and Mc
Kenzi** are too classy for the bal
ance and they are too reckless and
fas* ftr the size of the Held,
which is smaller tha® the regula
tifffls specify, owing to the size
of the gymnasium .
The side walls being bo close was
the cause of several bad. collisions
betweer the men, and as a result
of these swift impacts, several of
the players suffered considerable!
punishment, which on a larger field
would have been eliminated.
The Yv'liite Pass club team was
composed of Huth, fiargnaves, Lid
dicoa' Rauutzzi and Smith.
The Firemem's team was com
posed of Ask6, (Harry and Cleon),
McKenzie, Friedenthal aud Jud
Mathews.
The final score was la \o 10
Vu favor of the White Pass club.
Score end of the Writ half 12
to 0 in favor of Firemen.
Alex Blanchaird. was referee. E.
J. Barn- umpire, and W. C. Blanch
ard, time keeper, a-rnl Hal Johnston
sccrekeepcr.
In the preliminary game, the
White Sox Girls' team defeated the
High Scnool team 14-3, in a
game featured by the playing of
Martha Lee. The line-up:
Whi^e Sox: Delia Rapuzzi, Rose
Dorterc, Martha Lee. Muriel Stew
art, Abbie Crepoau.
High School: Gertrude Liddicoat,
Etta Sundeen, Lois McKay, Sar
ah Friedenthal, Verne Miller .
An informal dance followed the
games, the band furnishing their
usuaj good music.
A cable dispatch from Berlin, Ge>
manv, saya the Berliner Zeitung An>
Mittag has just published; a postal
message sent November 2 from Chi
cago. The card traveled 1,000 mile
ou aerot)lames to New York and the
3,0.00 miles under water on the sub
marine Deuxchland from New York
to Bremen.
a AM CHOWDER-OYSTER STEW
Just the Thing For This Cold Weather
Try our Maximum Little Neck Clams and
Preferred.Stock Eastern Oysters.^Put
up in 1 and 2 pound tins.
P. H. GANTY
SI BLUM DEAD; FULLS FROM
THIRD STOAT SEATTLE BUILDING
Seattle, Jan. 13—Samiuel Blum,
pioneer banker awd) merchant of Al
aska, died yestreday. afternoon firom
injuries which he received from
fallinj out of a third Story windiow
of the Pacific Block situated on
Yesler Way.
Mr. Bium h«*4 called on a busi
ness firm who! had offices on the
third floor ini the building, and
had left the office intending to
take the ^levator. Hia body was
foun" on the street mi an ambul
aiice called. He died before he
could l>e gotten to a hospital.
Mr. Bium lias extensive interests
in Valdez, Cordova and Chi tin a,
■and is estimated to be worth, about
$500,000. He lately; sustained
heavy losses in the Valdez fire,
and there seems" Io be an opinion
among some of the dead man's
friends as to whether death, was
due to aepide-ntfjor whether the un
fortunate man" did not seek self
destruction.
NOTED SEERESS
DIES! PARIS
Madame de Xhebeg, famous as an
aafrologist and clairvoyant, has died
at her country; residence in Meung
Sur-Laire, at the age of 72 years.
Tte real name of Madame de The
bes was Anna Victorina Bavingy.
She was a well known personality in
Paris and possessed innumerable se
crets couoerning tlie private lives
of men and women of note.
Madame Thebes claimed to have
forotild many great events of his
tory, including the present war. It
had been her custom for many years
to issue an annual "almanac" in
which she predicted the future of
the new year, la 1913, the year
before tie great European war, she
published her predictions for 1914.
Among other things she said:
"War will continue to menace th.6
world ,as the planet Mars will pre
dominate throughout the year. Pro
found conditions amolunting to a po
litical upheaval will take place in
Germany and the national life of
Ihe nation will be complete, trans
formed." ' ;
In August, last year, Madame Th^
bes declared peace would come
•suddenly and! unexpectedly in Eu
rope before 1917. "The roar of the
gun*- will cease overnight," she said,
"and soldiers on both fronts will be
ca'led home to peaceful pursuits.
Fate has so decreed it."
Mme Thebes was known as the
Mother Shiptoiv of modern Paris.
She claimed to have predicted the
Boer War, the great Charity Ba
zaar fire in Paris, the Balkan War,
the San Franlcisco earthquake, the
death of Queen Victoria, the assas
sination of President Oarnot and
the Marquis de Mores and the death
of President Faure.
It was said she read the tragedy
in the hands of the Marquis de
Mores which W«3 to cost him his
life. That wag more than 20 years
Yandon, aJn. 13—The Allied na
tions of Europe are maintaining'
their pressure on the King of
Greece, and he is slowly; conceding
•to their lately issued ultimatum, dis
mantling ships and disarming his
his troops as fast as they can be
demobilized.
WIDDLEWESI IN
BUZZARD GRIP
Fargo, N. D., Jan. 13—A fierce
bliz^ar? wh,icl\ has been sweeping
'he uortbern part of Minnesota and
North Dakota £o>r the past twenty
four tours is still unacted in its
fur). Much suffering is reported
j from near-by points, and three
| dea*:i« have already been recorded.
JUNEAU BASKET BALL
TEAM TRIMS WRAXGELL
T .j basket ball team of the Al
aska-Juneau mine administered a
beatlrg to the basket ball team
from Wrangell last night, but to
do so they borrowed Higley and
Kertis, two of the best players on
the Channel for the game. The
Tread well men starred throughout
th'- pame which was not even close.
If the Alaska Juneau had played
with their regular team, the score
might have been different. As it
was the home team won by a score
of 38 to 16.—Juneau Empire, Jan. 9
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