No. 259 EIGHTEENTH YEAR SKAOJWAY, ALASKA, TUESDAY,
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DECEMBER 14, 1915
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THREE INDICTED FOR CONSPlCf
TO DESTROY DOCKS MID SHIPS
San Francisco, Cal., Dec. 14 —
Baron Van Brinken, C. C. Crowley,
ard Mrs. Margaret Cornell were all
three Indicted by the Federal Grand
jury ou two counts, oue of which
was conspiracy lu an effort to de
stroy commerce, and the other for
using the United States mails in
farthering -a conspiracy to Incite
arson, assassination, and murder.
Bail was fixed in the 6um of
$5,000 for each person oil each in
dictment..
San Francisco, Dec. 14—Since
the Indictment of Count Voa Brln
ken, Crowley and Mrs. Cornell by
the Federal Grand jury, evidence,
furnished federal authorities by
Johannes Van Koolbergen, who is
near in Canada, shows that the
thTee Indicted persons yrere im
plicated in a plot of far reaching
machinations, and Van Koolbergen
states that he had been hired by
Von Brinken to manufacture a
great quantity of bombs, which
were *o be used in the destruction
o' Pacfic Coast docks, amraunltlon
and oowder plants, and ships en
gaged in carrying supplies to the
Allies. ; ;t | ;j |3
NAI/y WOULD BE NEEDED IB
PROTECT AMERICA FROM melt
Washington, Dec. 14—Senator
I}--uj;iaiia R. Tillman, chairman of
• he committee on naval affairs and
membtr of the comittee on appro
priations and expenditures in the
navy department, made a very hot
Rp?ech in congress yesterday in
which he attacked Col. Roosevelt,
claiming that the ex-president was
a man who was simply obsessed
«ith some one idea. He likened
William Jennings Bryan to the
giant of Mother Goose fame, and
w.'s loud in his praise of Secre
t-try Daniel's navy program.
Iii his opinion, Sen. Tillmaa sat
ed, the attacks made by certain
persona again3t tha administra
tion's plans for preparedness, Is
outrageous. The question, of pre
paring against a probafcle Budden
attack required careful considera
tion and prompt action. on the part
o' congreeB.
Ho stated that whil« there was
np question of doubt but that the
army should be strengthened the
navy should be considered first,
and that it would bo called upon,
in case ot attack, as the first
means ot defence.
tLECTRiG GUN
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"Washington, Dec. 14—As a tq
aul* of the inventive mind of the
United States being diverted from
peace tp war thoughts, and experi
ments, announcement was today
made ♦ha*' an electric gun had been
perfected "which was capable of
projecting huge shells great dis
tances without the use of powder,
energy eenerated by electricty be- J
ing tho agent used for forcing the
projectile from the muzzle of the
guu.
18 YEAR OLD AUSTRIAN
YOUTHS ARK GALLED
Berlin, Dec. 14—It was announced
today at headquarters that all Aus
trian youths of the a«Q oI eigh
teen years ■vrould at once be called
to thp support of their flag.
PROXY WEDDING OCCURS
.VFTER DEATH OF GROOM
Paris, Dec. 11—It was discovered
at the war offic-j today that Ser
geant Conduche, who was married
by Droxv to a Parisian woman Nov.
17, was in reality killed in battle
by a German shell September 28.
The bride received the word of her
supposed husband's death a few
days after the proxy wedding and
(Continued on page 4.)
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Berlin, Dec. 14—Announcement
was made this morning that the
Bulgarian troops had succeeded in
breaking their way through the
Auglo-Fremch lines in Servia, and
that They had completely cut orf
the retreat of the French army.
The French are putting up a hard
fi&h» bu< are suffering heavy loss
es in men killed. The pursuit of
the A.'lled armies In other sec
tions 'i the nation is being vig
orously pushed, and the losses
sustained by the recreating forces
is very exeat.
ON m RVER
Loudon, Dec. 14—Advice received
today g'ate that strong German de
fenses axe being formed along the
Eur river with the view of check
ing any possible effort of the Al
lies *o penetrate from that section.
Fieioe blizzards axo reported to
be raging In the vicinity of Galipoli,
and that the Allies as well as the
Turkish troops are suffering in
tensely from the cold.
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Washington, Dec. 14—U is be
lieved that Austria's reply to Sec
retary Lansing's note relaii/e to
tho destruction of the 1- ler An
cona, whereby a number of Ameri
can citizens were killed, v- >uld be
received by the end of th present
'veek.
Rom1, Dec. 13—Word was re
ceived here this morning telling of
of the sinking bv a French subma
rine of a Turkish transport in the
3.ea of Marmora, and that over four
hundred Turkish troops were
drowned.
ALLIES ARE !
BEATEN BACK
London, Dec. 13—Advice 'was re
ceived this morning that the town
of Dorian Geivgell had been com
pletely evacuated. The Bulgarian
forces are reported to be -within j
five miles of the Greek frontier,
and aro following closely tho re-1
ONE DEICHC
P. I. IS LANDED
Washington, Dec. 14—Tho first
name to be acted upon to fill the
various towns In Alaska •jvltli demo
cratic. postmasters was that of E. M.
Axelson, who has been appointed as
postmaster for Yakutat.
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WAR TU J
Washington, Dec. 14—As a re
sult of a caucus held by tho demo
cratic members of the house of
lepre&entativcs this morning it was
practically agrn d to extend the
life of the emergency war Lax for
another year, it Is predicted that
the measure will pass both branch
es of congress this week.
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London, l)ec. 14—Advices ro
c.ivt'cl here touay state tli&t the
Kaiser has 'rushed one hundred
thousand machine guns to the Bul
garian aud Turkish armies.
NATIX E (illtL IS
S.AFE AT HOME
Deputy Marshal Cook returned
this morning on the Georgia a very
much <:ii.gruntltd Don Quixote, and
minus three natives who were ac
cused of kidnaping one Mary Nook,
also a native, the ground that
she was a witch. The deputy start
ed off on the last trip of the Geor
gia with three John Doe warrants
in his inside Docket after the kid
napers, whom passengers on, the
Georgia at the time claimed to have
seen.
Cut it developed that the In
dian girl has merely gone to visit
her grandmother and that the three
alleged kidnapers were in fact three
rival suitors and that In the par
ley hey were only deciding which
should see the lady first—Juneau
Empire, Dec.. 11.
treating Allies' army. The latter
has been beaten back foot "oy foot,
but ir. (he fight they are making a
desperate effort to stand their
ground.
Xmas Sundries
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P. K. GANTY
Nrw York, D«. 14 — Ambitious
plana are being developed here
for buying enormous quantities of
foreign investments. The control of
numbers of profitable South Am
erican enterprises could be bought,
it is said, at bargain prices in Lon
don. The National City bank of
New York is taking a prominent
parr, in the new proposal and its
officers are Incorporating a $50,
000,000 corporation, nearly all of
the stock of which is already sub
scribed, for the purpose of carry
ing on an. aggressive campaign to
secure the control of foreign mar
kets for American commercial in
terests.
J. K. Gardin, vice president of
the National City bank, speaking in
Newark, eaid that European invest
ments In foreign countries would
have to be greatly curtailed and
that would furnish opportunity for
American people to expand in the
regions that promise more than
fair returns on the investment.
"Barga'ns will be many and attract
ive," said Mr. Gardin, "and while
economic alliances of this char
acter are to be considered in
the main on the basi3 of immediate
returns, these alliances will have
far-reaching effect in fc-stering trade
and commerce between interested
countries and the United States."
IMPERIAL FLAG
AGAIN UNFURLED
Peiiin, China, Dec. 13—la honor
of Yuan Shi Kai having accepted
the throve of ths Chinese empire at
the hands of the Council of State,
once rncfe the Imperial flag, the
wh'te trianglo surmounted with the
dragon and the sun, is flying from
the flag staffs over the buildings
and houses throughout the empire.
All business buildings and many J
of the residences throughout the
empire are decorated with the Im
perial colors, . nd demonstrations
are in progress on every hand.
WANTS IIS 10
NAVE BIG ARMY
Washington, Dec. 10—In his an
nual report made public today, Sec
retary of War Garrison, declares
that it the administration's plan
for a continual army failed, the
United States need some sort of
compulsory service. He said that
plans should immediately be made
whereby an army of one and one
half millioo men, either trained or
partially trained, should be built
up by tne United States.
WHS A NICE
BIG NAVY
Washington, Dec. 13 — Secretary
ol the Navy Daniels in his report
which he recommends to congress
aeke for half a billion dollars to
complete the buliding of a navy for
the United States. The progress
aa planned in the report would
cover a ueriod o' five years..
GERM IX EDITOR SAYS
•'.NO WONDER AVE ARE
HATED IX AMERICA"
Amsterdam, Dec. 9—Herr Har
den, editor of the Berlin Die Zu
kunft, said in an editorial today
that the conduct of Germans in at
tacking the United States and her
course in the war is disgracing
Germany before the eyes of the
world. "It is no wonder that we
are hated," he said in commenting
upon the unchallenged slur of one
of the members of a big German
corporation, who, at a meeting of
the directors referred to "that
pack of scoundrels in America."
Her Harden said that such pro
ceedings are disquieting to every
right 'hinking German who is fa
miliar with the facts, and that the
remarks will 'rise to plague the
Empire, "and outrage our own con
sciences."
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