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VOL. V.. NO. PRICE TEN CENTS.
"RETURN Of
fIRE WOULD
BEWARACF
VERA CRUZ, Dec. 14. ? "If the
American troops return the Are of the
Mexican constitutionalists at Naco, So
nora. we will regard it as an act of
war," said Venustlano Carranza, lead
er of the Constitutionalists, yesterday.
The statement was wired to Washing
ton.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 14. ? General
Carranza's formal reply, notifying the
government that If the Mexican Are on
the border la returned It would be con
sidered by him as an act of open hos
tility, was received today.
"General Hill," Carranza points out,
"Is on tho defensive at Naco, and since
his back is at the border. It is difficult
to see how he and our troops could
be responsible for the stray shots
which wour government constantly re
port."
Puebla Under Siege.
MEXICO CITY. Dec. 14?Troops un
der General Zapata hare commenced
a sicgo of Puebla, a suburb of the cap
ital.
CONTRACTS TOR
SUBMARINES LET
WASHINGTON-. Dec. 14.?Contracts
for the construction of six submarine
boats wore let Saturday by Josephus
Daniels, secretary of the navy depart
ment.
The Mare Island navy yard was the
only Western institution favored. It
will build one of the submarines. The
contracts for the other five were placed
with various shipbuilding firms on the
Atlantic coast.
NOTABLE GUESTS AT
GRIDIRON CLUB BANQUET
WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.?The Grid
iron Club held its first formal banquet
of the season Saturday night. Every
newspaper having correspondents in
Washington was represented at the
spread, and the president, members of
his cabinet, and of the diplomatic
service, including senators and con
gressmen. attended in a body.
SEAL MEATS FOR
PRESIDENT WILSON
WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.?President
Woodrow Wilson, and the members
of his cabinet, soon are to have a feast
of seal cutlets and seal steaks, fresh
from the rookeries of Southwestern
Alaska, if the promise of Dr. EL Lester
Jones, of the federal department of
fisheries is fulfilled.
Dr. Jones said yesterday he would
see that the delicacy is dolivercd to
the White House before Now Years.
YANKEE CLOCKS ARE
COPPERING MARKET
BOSTON. Dec. 14.?American clock
manufacturers, working their forces
now at full time, are making strong
Incursions into Europe markets, whero
heretofore German clock makers dom
inated the trade, it is declared here.
WINDHAM BAY
ICE-BOUND NOW
T ?
WINDHAM. Dec. 6. ? Windham Is
Ice-bound. The bay is frozen over to
a thickness of sis Inches, making H
impossible for craft to navigate hero,
but the men of the settlement walk
over the ice and meet tho mail boat
Mr. Rowe will bo a passenger for
Juneau this week. He has just com
pleted the assessment work on the
property of Mrs. Kabler.
F. Kotchmark has been on tho sick
list for the past few days.
The cold snap that has prevailed in
this section has interfered with tho
work of AL Luitman on his placer
ground.
The Empire has more readers than
any other Alaska paper. ***
THE WEATHER TODAY.
Maximum?..8.
Minimum?20.
Clear.
ITRANSFER
I OF CABLE
| ISJURGED
WASHINGTON'. Dec. 14.?The Im
mediate taking over the Alaska cable,
and the Fedoral cable and telephone
systems in Hawaii and Porto Rico,
by the Postofflce Department, Is rec
ommended by Postmaster General Al
bert S. Burleson, in his annual report,
which was filed today.
"The postal department," said the I
report, "is for tho tho first tlmo In Its j
history self-supporting. Tho current
fiscal year shows a surplus of $3,500,
000."
OFFICIALS SEEK
"LIGHT" ON BUSINESS I
SEATTLE. Dec. 7?The Post Intelli
gencer says: E. A. Brand, of Wash
ington, assistant chief of the national
bureau of foreign and domestic com
merce, who is on a tour of the Import
ant cities of the country, arrived in
Seattle last night, and will stay here
a few days.
| Mr. Brand, since leaving Washing
ton, has visited New York, Boston,
Chicago, Denver, Salt Lake City. On
leaving hero he will go to Portland,
San Francisco and Los Angeles. In
each of the cities where a branch of
tho bureau has been placed he has
been investigating tho usefulness of
those branencs. Elsewhere he has
como into touch with the commercial
organizations and with the largo fig
ures in business in order to get some
light on business conditions in gener
al.
Optimistic About Business.
This visitor took an optimistic view
of the business situation lost night. '
Of the work of the bureau and Its ,r
branches he said: "I find them most
highly beneficial to tho business men j
of the country, and that the service
which they have to offer is gaining ;
broader scope as tho work unfolds and j
as business realizes their purposes.
"In New Yoik the office averages^
700 visitors a month, and the Chicago
one gets 100."
Will Map Out Work.
One purposo of Mr. Brand's trip is
to district tho whele country. Thore ,
are eight branches of the bureau in as j
many important cities,-and he will try
to divide up tho whole country into .
districts which are proporly tributary
to each of these. "My idea is to have
the agent keep in touch with tho needs .
of his territory, and circulate about
it,' 'said he. "Our object is to get
Just as closo as wo can to the business
of tho country, and on this trip I am
trying to see what services the bureau ,
can give in addition to those it is giv
ing now." :
CAPTAIN OF "WAVE"
WAS LASHED TO WHEEL
SEATTLE, Dec. 14. ? Territorial
Senator" Frank A. Aldrich of Nome, ,
and Representative Martin F. Moran ,
and James P. Daly, of the Alaska
legislature arrived here Saturday on j
the Alameda. They took passage from
Seward, whero they were left by the j
steamship Dora, after having been
picked up at sea from tho derelict I
power schooner Silver Wave, on which
they left Nome Novomber 10.
Tho weather encountered by tho
Silver Wave on her way from Nome
was so rough at one time that tho pas
sengers tied Captain Gudmundson to
the wheel so that he could steer her
while all tho rest of those aboard went
below.
THOUSANDS GET WORK
IN NEW YORK STATE
NEW YORK, Dec. 14.?The State
Public Utilities commission published
today a report that 1,364,070 persons
were employed in New York state fac
tories In 1913, an increaso of 12$,000
over 1912.
"FARM-TO-TABLE."
CHICAGO, Dec. 14.?Tho American
Express Co. has completed plans to
establish a farm-to-tablo service. Tho
company will use Its 10,000 agents
from coast to coast to gather up pro
duce and drum up purchasers.
QUITS JAP SOCIETY.
NEW YORK, Doc. 14.?Jacob H.
Schiff has resigned hla membership in
the Japan-Society on account of his
strong Germanic sympathies. Ho sent
In his resignation about two months
ago.
It was announced this morning thai
Christmas mall for tho East and mid
dlo West will reach Its destination II
mailed before Thursday morning
whon tho steamship Princess May wil]
sail for Vancouvor. Tho Jefferson
will also leave Thursday, but mall on
the Princess May will havo a lead ol
several hours ovor that on tho Joff
eroon.
Tho Xmas ship for incoming mall
will likely be tho City of Soattle,
which Is due to arrive on tho 22nd.
CZAR AND PORTE
OPPOSED TRUCE
ROME, Dec. 14.?Rome has learned
that Turkey and Russia both sont tele
grams to the Vatican, opposing the
Pope's proposal to establish a truce of
:hrco creeks In the war, to bogln
Christmas. It was officially announo
3d that all other powers had agreed
to a truce.
ArchbiBhop Kavovsky. head of tho
Roman Catholic church at Warsaw,
las telegraphed the Vatican: "Gor
nans operating In Poland arc sys
tematically using Catholic churches aB
positions on which to place their
nltrallleuses, wireless stations, etc.
rho .result has been., that .many
jhurchcs have been destroyed. The
same danger threatens tho old ca
thodral at. Criicow, which contains
relics of St. Stanislaus." Tho arch
pishop beg8 the pope for protection.
A dispatch from Athens says that
rurkish soldiers aro seizing high
priests of tho Greek Catholic church,
rho Greek metropolitan at Ahall has
seen made a prisoner on charge of
netting Greek populationj against tho
Purks.
WESTERN HEMISPHERE
FORM "DUEL ENTENTE"
NEW YORK. Dec. 14.?A Washlng
:on special to the World says that in
formal negotiations point to probable
levelopment of closo understanding
imong all North and South American
?epublics to opposo any foreign in
roads and that a Congress will prob
ibly be hold at tho San Francisco fair.
Mutual protection against European
powers, permanent peace and closor
levelopment of trade relations are
parts of the plan, Mexico boing cited
:o show the need.
Also an interpretation of tho Mon
roe Doctrine Is sought.
rWO DIE IN COLDEST
KANSAS CITY WEATHER
KANSAS CITY, Dec. 14.?As a re
mit of a sovero cold wavo two are
lead and the hospitals are filled with
peoplo suffering frdm frozon feet and
bands.
Yesterday was tho coldest Decem
ber 13 in the history of Kansas City.
SERENO E. PAYNE AT
REST !N AUBURN, N. Y,
WASHINGTON. Doc. 14.?Funoral
Bervicea over the remains of tho late
Congressional Serono E. Payno wore
held yesterday from tho House of Rep
resentatives' chamber, with members
of Congress In attendance. The pall
boarors were chosen from tho Nov.
York delegation and the body wai
taken to Auburn for Interment
PUGET SOUND URGED AS
COAST DEFENSE HUE
WASHINGTON. Dec. 14.?The Chlo
of the Bureau of Ordnanco today filot
a report ir. which ho recommondec
that Pugot Sound is tho logical poln
for tho concentration of war muni
tlons for tho Pacific Coast dofensos
He declared tho Northern Inlet su
porlor to San Francisco and tho Gold
en Gate, In every rcspoct.
MILLIONS WASTED.
WASHINGTON. Doc. 14.?That thi
national loss from tho present unnoc
essary waste of natural mineral rc
sources of tho United States is $1,
000,000 a day Is a statcmont of Jo
soph A. Holmes, director of tho Fedor
al bureau of mines, In his annual re
port, made publlo today.
? wharf at Skagwny together with all
f or tho warehouse;! was destroyed by
, flro last Saturday night Tho Are
! on tho sldo track of warehouse No. 1,
about six o'clock and It hnd gained
considerable headway. By S o'clock
practically all of the warehouses and
conveyors wero gone as well as most
of tho dock.
wind was Blowing.
There was a north wind blowing at
tho time and the f)re did not oxtond
much farthor south than tho wharl
offlco near warehouse No. 1. The
wharf office and all of tho ware
houses arc gono. The oro bunkers
farthor south were not injured. In
cluded In tho loss Is tho dock office
of the U. S. customs service in Skag
Tho flro was so hot at tho tlmo it
was discovered that' It was nlmost im
possible to pass warehouse No. 1
where it originated, Littlo could be
dono in the way of combatting the
flames and tho fire burnod itself out.
Dock Was Old Structure.
Moore's wharf was located as a
part of tho holding of CapL "William
Moore and. later incorporated with
tho Moore townalte. It wan built
In 1837 and nfiTeriifard i?oId to-tho
North Pacific Wharves "and Trading
company of Vancouver, which rebuilt
tho structure, making it much larger
and the finest dock in nil Alaska or
North of Puget Sound. The White
Pass & Yukon Company built an ad
dition to tho south end and held pos
session of it through a traffic ar
rangement Tho company built ex
tonBlvo improvements Including side
tracks and cattle pens for the purpose
of facilitating tho handling of freight
Tho Moore's wharf people also con
trolled all of the other wharf sites and
wharves except tho Pacific Coast dock
and all wore closed to traffic except
tho ono operated in connection with
tho railroad. It Is estimated that
over flvo million tons of freight have
passed over tho dock. E. J. Shaw,
prcseut ngont for tho Alaska Steam
ship company at" Skagway was for
many years manager of tho wharf.
Tho physical loss is estimated to ho
$100,000. partially covered by insur
G. T. P. HOTEL IN
RUPERT IS PLANNED
PRINCE RUPERT. Dec. 2.?"I think
the site selected for tho G. T. P. hotel
here is a splendid one," said G. W.
Howarth, assistant managor of tho
G. T. P. hotel system, during tho
course of a brief chat this morning.
"It scorns to mo thnt it is not at
all too early to commence tho con
struction of tho hotel, but the war is
having its nffect on financial affairs."
JURY DISAGREES IN
LIQUOR SELLING CASE
FAIRBANKS, Dec. 5.?James Duke,
tho well-known Nenana trader, was
tried before tho United States com
1 missionor for soiling liquor without
i a license. Tho jury disagreed and a
i new jury is now being selected for a
? retrial of tho case. There aro a num
i bor of counts against Duke, in whose
? place was found a largo quantity of
' llquoro whoa tho arrest was made,
s Ho formerly held a roadhouac llconsc,
but has not had ono for soveral years.
JACKSON HOUSE BURNS.
WESTON, W. Va... Dec. 1'4.? The
f boyhood homo of Thomas J. (Stone
1 hero, was destroyed by fire. Loaves
- to havo ignited tho bullidng.
Tho old Jackson mill, nearby, wot
- not harmed.
MINER IS MISSING.
FAIRBANKS, Dec. 6.?'Woltefr M.
3 Cooloy, ono of the pioneer minors ot
the Tanana country, Is reported miss'
p ing and his friends fear that he la
r dead. Cooloy has been operating on
? Portage creek, and has not been aeon
for several weeks. A searching party
has been made up to search ? for the
missing man. '
:"3D j
ENGAGE IN
LONDON, Dec. 14. ? Copenhagen
despatches that most or tho Gorman
warships at Kiel havo steamed out
Into tho North Soa, presumably to
givo battle to tho British, aroused In
tense oxpectancy yostorday. Tho ad
miralty, however, caid no official ad
vices hud been rccolvod as to exten
sive German marlno operations.
It Is learned from an authentic
source, howovor, that tho British bat
tle flcots off tho west coast of Scotland
and off the* north coast of Ireland have
been notified by wlroless to keep la
readiness to proceed at onco Into the
North Scu under full steam.
ju \
GERMAN SAYS AN
ATTACK 18 FOLLY!
BERLIN, via tho Hnguo, Doc. 14? j
"Tho German uaval policy Is of neces
sity a waiting one. If Britain Is dis-1
satlsflcd, sho has her redress. Sho
has-tho men and sho h&8 tho ships.
I And she. know s exactly where our
fleet is."
This Is a declaration mado by Count
Ernest Zu Rovenlow, Germany's
! greatest naval critic.
"it is up to our fleet?about half
tho size of tho British fleet?to at
tack and give battlo on hor own
ground," continued tho Count "Tho
British floot has shown no disposi
tion to court battle. When oar des
troyers mid. submarines seek them, we
And them clOso to their own coast
line.
Ship for Ship as Good.
"Ship for ship our fleet is tho equal
of tho British. I beliovo that what
ever may happen to our fleet, it will
give an acount of itself that, when
tho batflo Is over there will bo grave
doubt whether tho Brltloh aro still
tho greatest naval powor In tho world.
And I bolievo absolutely that the Brit
ish themselves take such an outcome
into consideration and havo been wait
ing in tho hope that we will attack
them in their wators, where everything
is in their favor. You know they
sunk the Koenigin Loulso almost in
the very' mouth of tho Thamos."
VALUED CLOTH LOST
WHEN RHEIM8 RAZED
PARIS, Dec. 14.?Tho TompB esti
mates that $70,000,000 worth of cloth
in factories of Rhelms was destroyed
by German bombardment.
ALASKAN HAS 8EVEN
COUSINS AT FRONT
4'
SEWARD, Dec. 2.?George Mirlach
the prominent Jowcllor of Seward, has
no less than seven first cousins light
ing for Germany in tho great war. In
a letter from a lady relative in Ger
man a short time ago Mr. Mirlach's
brother was told that matters aro
very serious In Europo particulary for
tho womon folks who never know when
the news will come that some loved
ono met death. No nowr. hae been
received that any of Mr.* Mirlach's
relatives have bcon hurt so far.
CABLE TRANSFER AGAIN.
SEATTLE, Dec. 2?It le stated here
that in official circles in Washington
thcro is a well grounded belief that a
bill will bo introduced at this session
of Congress transferring tbo Alaska
cablo sen-ice from the War Depart
ment to the Postofflco Deparment and
it Is contemplated that the change
will take placo on January 1, 1915.
For the past year or two there has
been a movement on to malcc this
chango and it is now said that an ami
cable arrangement has been made by
tho heads of the two departments in
terested wherby It can be consummat
ed.?(Cordova Times.)
LAID TO REST BY MOONLIGHT.
SEWARD, Dec. 2.?Miss Volma Mil
Ipr was laid to rest last evening aftot
tho arrival of the boat on which hoi
funeral. He found it necessary to re
? turn to Seattlo by tho eamo oteamei
so that tho burial of tho poor girl
; took place in the cemetery by tht
light of the moon aided by small
i acquaintances who had gathered tc
pay their last respects.
TURKISH
CRUISER IS
TORPEDOED
LONDON, Dec. 14.?Picking
its way through the mine-filled
Dardanelles, the British sub
marine B-ll yesterday torpe
doed the Turkish battleship
Messudich and escaped without
a scratch, according to a bulletin
posted this morning by the ad
miralty.
The extent of the damage
done to the battleship was not
made public.
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?
? SEVERE COLD IN EAST *
+ *
?V PETROGRAD, Doc. 14.?Tho
? Army Meesengo): says: ?
4- "Sovcro cold la hampering *
?> operations, but the Russians con- v
4* tlnuo to meet with considerable ?
success against tho German, *
' v Austriano and Turks. ?>
"A portion of tho Russian army ?
?5- Is nearlng Cracow." *
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ENGLAND "DISAPPOINTED";
NO ZEPPELIN RAIDERS
MANCHESTER, England, Dee. 3.?
Speculating on tho possibility of a
Zeppelin raid on London, tho Man
chester Guardian says there is a notice
able feeling of "disappointment" In
England over the non-appearance of
these airships. While tho Zcppolin
would not bo really welcome, there
woro thoso at homo so hungering for
excitement that as a whole England
seemed ready to take tho risk.
It was coldly calculated that even
if fifty ZcppclInn"woro sent over their
concentrated devastation could not
cover moro than six acres,?or If they
dropped all their bombs on tho square
mile" that makes up tho City of Lon
don proper "they could not kill some
thing under one In a hundred of the
people who happened to bo there.
"Over tho wholo of London, taking
the Metropolitan Police area, the
chances of escaping would ho about
70,000 to one. Over what may bo des
cribed as the central area of London,
within which a Zeppolln might be ex
pected to operate, tho chances of es
cape would be about 15,000 to one."
"Personally, I think it would bo a
good job if tho Zeppollns did come.
Even if thoy did drop a few bombs,
the stimulus to recruiting would bo
worth what little was done," says
Frank Hedges Butler, who Is founder
of tho Royal Aero Club.
CRACOW CANNOT FALL,
GERMAN LETTER SAYS
BERLIN Dec. 14.?A lottor from the'
German front south of Cracow says:
"It will be impossible for the Rus
sians to enter Cracow from the north
as the country is flooded for eight
miles and their only inlet is from the
oast and south which wo have strongly
defended. Tho art.llorj is of very lit
tle service on account of the heavy
roads and tho main work is done by
tho infantry. It is vc:y dlfllcult to
get any kind of a letter out aB the
emperor has declared this a silent
war and tho punishment is two days
in tho guard houso which some of us
rather enjoy.
"It will bo almost impossible to tako
Cracow and Brcslau on account of the
water and defences."
Forbid Bank Notes.
BERLIN, Dec. 14.?Tho German au
thorities liavo prohibited the Belgian
national bank from Issuing any more
bank notes, bocausc tho gold reserve
, has been taken out of tho country
and thcro Is no . gold specie . In the
. banks to socuro tho currency. Notes
? Issued against-Thp: Bolglan gold in
? London arc allow however.
Prince Is' Decorated.
[ .BERLIN, Dec. 14.?It is reported
I that Prince Joachim has returned to
i tho eastern theater of war, his wounds
f having healed. He has beon awarded
? tho iron cross and appointed a staff
commander.
WIRELESS
"MISUSED"
ATCANAL
WASHINGTON, Dec. 14. ?
In order to prvent the misuse of
the wireless telegraphy in the
relay of war messages via Pan
ama, which he has construed as
actual violation of the United
States government's policy of
neutrality in the European war,
Col. George W. Goethals, gover
nor of the Panama Canal zone
today reiterated his request that
the war department despatch
two torpedo boat destroyers
with all posisble haste, to the
canal zone.
DRESDEN IS SAFE.
VALPARAISO. Dec. 14?Dis
patches received today from
Punta Arenas, Straits of Magel
lan, declare the German fugi
tive cruiser Dresden has come
into that port uninjured. The
Dresden will likely be interned
for the period of the war, it is
believed here.
BRUSSELS BANKERS
TO PAY BIG LEVY
Berlin, Dec. 14. ? Brussels
bankers have notified the Ger
man government they are ready
to pay the indemnity demanded
of Brussels, Antwerp and Liege,
of seventy million marks.
AUSTRIANS CLAIM
GENERAL SUCCESS
.4*
Vienna, Dec* 14.?An official
statement issued early today
claims the Austrian advance to
ward Nish was continuous.
The Austrians also claim to
have recaptured two of the
strategically important passes
of the Carpathians.
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ROUMANIA TO ENTER. *
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?> LONDON*, Dec. 14.?Tho Morn- *
& ing Post prints a telegram sent *
?> by Ta.'co Joncsco, ox-premier of ?
?> Itoumnnin, to a personal friend in
London, which says: "Bo certain *
w> Roumania will join ontcntc, the ?
only matter still under discus
?> slon being the precise date of it." ?
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ABYSSINIA OFFERS
ALLIES AN ARMY
COPENHAGEN, Dec. 14.?A private
despatch from Berlin says the Abys
sinian government has offered to
furnish an army to Great Britain.
GERMAN LAWMAKER
SAYS CONDITIONS "GOOD"
BERLIN, Dec. 14.?Speaking of the
economic situation in Gormany, Herr
M. Erzbergen, leader of Center party
in tho Reichstag said:
"It is a grave error to suppose Ger
man industries aro poralayzcd. Mills
and factories, except those manufac
i turlng luxuries, are working full -timo,
although shorthanded, and thoso sup
plying army requirements are working
day and night."
GERMAN CHANCELLOR'S
SON MADE A PRISONER
PARIS, Dec. 14. ? A dispatch re
ceived today from Berne, Switzerland,
says that a son of Dr. Von Bethmann
Hollwcg. the imperial Gorman chan
cellor, is seriously Injured and in tho
nandB of the Russians, who capturod
him near Lodz. It is declared tho
young onicer was struck by a frag
ment of shrapnel. Ho was made a pris
oner, according to tho advices.

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