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- THE ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE
"ALLTHE NEWS ALL THE TIME"
VOL. IX, NO. 1229. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1916. PRICE TEN CENTS
AUSTRIANS LOSE 15,000 IN ONE DAY'S BATTLE
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TENS OF THOUSANDS HEAR WILSON
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RECORD BROKEN
FOR A MEETING
IN METROPOLIS
Largest Auditoriums in
New York City Are Not
Capable of Holding
Mammoth Crowds
disappoint~Thousands
President Is Greeted by
Two of the Largest
Audiences Ever
Assembled.
NEW YORK. Nov. 3.?Tens of
thousands heard President Wilson in
political addresses last night and
tens of thousands were disappointed.
The doors at the Madison Square
Gardens were closed after 40,000
had been seated and at Cooper Union
hall after 15,000 had gaineid admit
tance the police guarded the doors
refusing any more admittance. At
both places thousands were unable
to gain admittance and they slow
ly dispersed. Many women were
crashed and the police and ambu
lance crowd was kept active for
hours.
Owing to the overflow from both:
meetings, the President addressed
several thousands at an open air!
meeting after the indoor rallies.
The President's political evening J
started with a torch light parade:
said to be the largest ever held by
Tammany. Thousands lined the
streets along which the parade
passed. The crowds attending the
political meetings were beyond
comparison with any similar event
ever held in this city.
During his addresses of the eve-1
ning. President Wilson charged that'
many men. who constitute what is
known as Wall Street, ever seek
to dominate the nation.
"Do you wonder, said me rres
ident in hi3 speech at Madison
Square Garden, "that I do not call i
them into consultation ? And yet j
I tell you that they will be welcome
the moment they come to me with !
the avowed purpose of co-operation
with me. and they will not be wel
come until then. I can assure you
of this fact.''
President Wilson in his address at'
Cooper Union Hall assured these in!
the audience that the business in
terests of the country had been
safeguarded under his administra-;
tion and would continue to be if he!
was re-clectcd.
"The roots of business, my fel
low citizens." said the President,
''lie deep in hearts and thoughts
and lives of the people who daily;
crowd about us on the streets and on ;
the country sides.
"One thing that has disturbed j
the thoughts of a great many men in
recent years in this country, is that
the general body of the people have
got the impression that they are
being exploited: that they are be
ing used; that their vitality is be
ing drawn upon in order that others
might prosper and they get only the
crumbs from the table."
At the open air meeting Presi
dent Wilson discussed shortly "sec
tionalism" and as at the two pre
vious meetings, frequent burst of
applause interrupted him.
President Wilson left today on
the yacht Mayflower for Shad
ow Lawn. He expressed the senti
ment of the Democratic campaign
committee when he stated: "I feel
sure of not only the City of New
York but also the State of New
York." _
EMPIRk aas n.ive thousands ol
readers
TEN TO SEVEN
TEN TO EIGHT
TEN TO NINE
Betting in New York Is
on Wide Margin and
Money Took Slump
for a Day.
RICKARD GIVES A TIP
NEW YORK. Nov. 3.?The New
Yurk Times this morning: says:
"The betting odds quoted yesterday
Indicate that Wall Street is of the i
opinion that the Presidential race
differed from that of the uptown i
sections especially in the hotels and
on the curb. The commissioners
reported that about $25,000 was wa
gered at odds of 10 to 7 while at
the Wjiidorf. Tex Kickard said he
had tried vainly all day to get -
money down on Wilson at anything
better than 10 to 8 and 10 to 9." i
The Times continuing, said:
"Rickard said that the day's total
of wagers was smaller than that of
any other day this week, due lurge
lv to the decision of the Wilson sup- .
porters to wait until the effect of!
the President's speeches in tills city [
could be sized up and this view was
expressed in Wall Street also.
"The big men in Wall street,"
Rickard said," are mostly for Hughes
|and they- can afford to lay their
money at wide odds. I don't believe
the opinion down there represents
the sentiment of the country. The
voters, who will swing the election
are the fanners of the west and the
Southwest."
JERMANE MAKES STATEMENT
SEATTLE, Nov. 3.?W. W. Jer
mane telegraphs the Seattle Times
today that the odds that Hughes will
carry New York has been ten to six
"for days, even when the betting
was even or nearly even on the
(result. In the country at large."
Continuing. Mr. Jermane wire3:
"Hughes, it is now said by the Re*
I publicans on a basis of their most
i recent polls, will have between 100,
COO and 120.000 at the Bronx."
"The New York Times is in a
I position to say that the inside Dem
ocratic figures for Greater New
York do now show more than 80,000
to 85,000 plurality for Wilson."
WILSON TO WIN
This morning The Empire sent
the following dispatch to Its tele
[graphic correspondent:
"Dispatch prints odds this morn
ing at ten to six on Hughes. Good i
deal of betting here. We do not
want to give any one wrong steer.
Please tell us how the thing stands."
This afternoon the following dis
patch was received:
SEATTLE, Nov. 3?Aslimun Brown
last night wired the Post-lntelligen-)
cer that the odds in New York were
10 to 6 on Hughes. The prevailing
odds in New York today nppcar to [
be 10 to 8 on Hughes. They are!
constantly changing. Steve Bailey
'this morning went into the bank
through which he made his $75,000
bet. and deposited $3,000 to bet
against $3,000. The money has not
been covered.
The opinion prevails throughout
the country that Wall Street Is send
ing out odds on quotations for the
effect it will have on the election.
On the inside there are no illus
ions: Wilson will win.
BIG CLOTHING MERGER
KENOSHA. Wis.. Nov. 3.?The Chi
cago-Kenosha Hosiery Company, said
to bo the largest stocking plant in
the world, the Sheboygan Knitting
Company, and the Cooper Manufac
turing Company of Bennington, Vt.,
i one of the largest makers of under
j wear in the country, have been
i purchased by the Black Cat Textile
Company, the organization of which
was announced here today. The
company was capitolized at $3,000,
000.
u IS
WEATHER REPORT?24 Hrs
Ending at 3 p. m. Today:
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*? o o "
Thursday, November 3rd
Maximum?43.
Minimum?38.
Partly cloudy.
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ROOSEVELT IS
INTERNATIONAL
NUISANCE NOW
Speech Gets Applause
Spech Gets Applause
by His Handling
of Colonel.
CHICAGO, Nov. 3.?Olc Hanson,
one of the greatest politicians from
the State of Washington made a
Democratic speech today noon at
the Illinois theatre which was one
of the best ever-received and the
witty remarks and deep logic ex
pounded many times swept the aud
ience from orchestra pit to the top
row of the gallery and cheers rang
out loud and long.
"Colonel Roosevelt has bocome an
International nuisance," said Mr.
Hanson at one point of his speech.
'"If he wants war, let him go to
'Canada and enlist. Ills modesty is
such that at every wedding he would
like to be the bride, and at every
funeral he would like to be the
corpse."
- Mr. Hanson is a member of the
national Woodrow Wilson advisory
committee.
BLACKMAILER IS
ARRESTED, CATCH
IMPORTANT ONE
New York City Officers
Believe a Link Is Now
Forged in Capture
of Big Gang.
NEW YORK, Nov. 3.?Arrested in
tho belief that ho possibly may
know something of the blackmailing
schemes of the ring that has been
robbing wealthy persons for several
years, the man who gave his name
as James A. Brown, was arraigned
today before Magistrate Fredericlc
C'.rohel in the Wost Side Court. He
was held in $25,000 bail on u short
affidavit charging extortion and in
$100 on a charge of intoxication,
lie will be examined before the same
magistrate tomorrow.
William M. Offley, head of th?
New York division of the Depart
ment of Justice, who for moro than
a year and a half has been trailing
tho blackmailers, who have got more
than $100,000 out of their victims,
seemed content today that his de
partment had gathered evidence that
Is drawing about certain of the
blackmailers, but he would not give
the least indication that lie believes
the present prisoner is or is not
connected with the group. The de
partment has been on the trail for
some time of a man known as
"Military Brown," who has acted as
one of tho collectors of the group
of blackmailers. This Brown posed
as a private detective and officer
of the Department of Justice and
made the so-called "arrests" of the
victims.
BRITAIN AND FRANCE
AFTER BIG SHIPMENTS
OF GRADED PIG IRON
NEW YORK. Nov. 3.?Great Bri
tain and France, through J. P. Mor
gan & Co., arc negotiating for a
round tonnage of standard besse
mer ami low phosphorus pig iron
for shipment as soon as possible.
The principal cause of the delay in
closing contracts is the inability to
secure promises for shipment during
the next six months.
WHITE SEA TRAFFIC
PRACTICALLY CUT OFF
CHRISTIANS. Nov. 3.?Activities
of German submarines against Nor
wegian ships operating In the Arc
tic have increased to such an ex
tent since the German-Norwegian
submarine dispute that shipping firms
today cancelled practically all sail
ings through the White Sea, Mar
ino insurance firms today decided
to raiso the insurance on' English
and Russian traffic considerably be
cause of the destruction 01 Norweg
ian vessels by U-boats.
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TREMENDOUS EARNINGS
OF RAILROADS SHOWN
WASHINGTON. Nov. 3.?
The Interstate Commerce
Commission In the report for
September made public to
duy, discloses the fact that
the net earnings of the rail
roads of tho country for that
month were $40,000,000 more
than for the same period
last year,
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zeppeunsTo
make raid to
raze london
Count Zeppelin Declares
Fleet of Fifty Will
Be Sent Against
British City.
REVENGE ls~INCENTIVE
LONDON, Nov. 3.?Evidently the
more fruitless and costly become
the Zeppelin raids on Egland, the
greater and more boastful become
the promises of pro-Zeppclinlsts.
Frantic with rage at the loss of so
many of his huge pets. Count Zeppe
lin is reported to have declared he
would sond a fleet of eighty ships
to wreck London.
Whether they awake sooner or
later ,as the editor of the Stuttgart
Deobachter suggests, to' the reality
of things the German people evi
dently have still a belief in the
promised destruction of London, for
which tlioy arc waiting with more or
less Increasing impatience. If not
eighty, they will be quite satisfied
with a fleet of fifty to do tho job.
So says William Lockwood, a York
-;hlreman, who, after passing fifty
four of the seventy-four years of his
I life in Saxony, has been repatriated
i and restored to his old time home
at Harden, near Bingle.
"This last few months I have
Heard wounded soldiers say there is
I no ehaneo for Germany now, that
there are so many men and guns:
iagainst them; but the German peo
ple make no secret," lie Says, "that
l fifty big Zeppelins are being built
, expressly for the pnrpoBe of the de
struction of London."
While the German imperial chan
rellor. Dr. von Bethmann Hollweg: j
i'he minister of tho Interior, Dr. Hcl
fferich, and the minister of the navy,1
; Admiral von Capelle, are still seek
ing in secret session to dissaude the |
rommittce of the Reichstag from
further submarine^ and Zeppelin fol
lies, several of the German news
papers have come to tho conclus
j ion that in neither case is the game
worth the candle.
SECOND MORTGAGES ON
FARM LOANS TO SOON
BE MOST POPULAR
WASHINGTON. Nov. 3.?The long
standing prejudice against second
mortgages on farm lands as risky
investments will he a thing of the
past, when the federal farm loan act
is in full opeiation, the farm loan
board announces. Study of the tes
timony before t ic board on its re
cent westorn tour lod to the con
clusion that the farm loan act will
have the effect of making second
mortgages a3 popular investments as
first mortgages have been.
PEACE COMMISSION HAS
ADJOURNED UNTIL AFTER
THE ELECTION TUESDAY
ATLANTIC CITY. Nov. 3.?The
American and Mexican peace com
mission took an adjournment yes
terday and will have no more ses
sions until after the national elec
tion next Tuesday. No information
has been divulged regarding the pro
gress of the deliberations so far.
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I STOCK QUOTATIONS f
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NEW YORK. Nov. 3.?Alaska Gold
closed today at 12*4.
Amerlzan Zinc at 54%.
Butte and Superior at 68%.
Ray at 28%.
Utah Copper at 108.
Chino at >63%.
Copper metal was quoted at 28.
EXPLORER OF
ANTARCTIC IS
IN AMERICA
Shackleton Has Arrived
in New Orleans Bound
for South to Rescue
His Companions.
NEW ORLEANS. Nov. 3?Sir Era
est Shackleton, Antarctic explorer,
arrived here today and left for San
Francisco from whence ho will sail |
for Wellington, New Zealand and ,
thence to Duncdln, to Join the Au- j
rora In an attempt to effect the .
rescue of ten of his companions ma- s
rooncd in the Ross Sea.
Sir Ernest Shackleton said: "I ,
will sail from San Francisco on |
November 8th and I hope to reach \
my stranded comrades, if they are j
still alive, late in January. After |
my return I propose to return to ,
England and fight with the British j
until after tho end of the war, If
the war Is not over by that time.
After the war. If I survive, I may
again embark on an exploration
tour and try to cross tho south Polar
continent."
HOLLAND GIVES
OUT STATEMENT
ON SUBMARINES
Foreign Craft Are Not
Allowed to Enter the
Coast Waters Only \
on Conditions. J
i
?LONDON, Nov. 3.?A Reutcr's Am- J
steardain correspondent sends the ,
following concerning the Nether
land's government note on the use
of Dutch waters by submarines:
"Replying to the Entente Allies'
submarine note, the Dutch govern
ment intimates that in consequent _
es of the uncertainty of the status
of submarines they will be treated ^
as war ships, and, in accordance
with the Dutch neutrality proclama
tion, will not be allowed to enter J
or remain in Dutch waters except
on well defined conditions.
"Tho government, however, will |
not intern merchant submarines, be-!
cause there is no principle of in
ternational law which would Justi- j
"y such a course."
GERMAN INDUSTRIAL
COUNCIL ORGANIZED
B YMANUFACTURERS '
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BERLIN, Nov. 3.?(Via London.)? 1
Virtually the entire German manu
facturing industry has been united 1
in a single organization for the first
time through the formation here 1
yesterday of a so-called German in- 1
dustrlal council. The now organi- (
zatlon forms a connecting link be
tween the older organization, the
Central Association of German In
dustrials, the League of Industrials
and the Society of Chemical Indus
tries. These organizations, which
have been working together Glnco
the outbreak of tho war, resolved
to form an alliance on a permanent
basis in order to meet now condi
tions after the war and co-operate
in the recovering of Germany's lost
foreign trade.
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HUNDRED MILLION DOLLAR
LOAN FOR MEXICO IN U. S.
NEW YORK, Nov. 3.?An Atlantic
City dispatch says that Luis Ca
bcrn, head of tho Mexican poaco
delegation, has been assigned by
Carranza to negotiate a $100,000,000
Mexican loan In this country.
TO PRAY FOR MISS BOOTH
NEW YORK. Nov. 3?Salvation
army officers throughout the coun
try have been instructed to order
ceaseless prayer for the recovery of
Evangeline Booth, commander-In-gen
eral of the Army In the United
States, who is dangerously ill with
neutrltis at her home In Hartsdale,
N. Y? it Is learned here.
ALASKAN GETS
COLD FEET ON
NUPTIAL BLISS
Hits Trail for Unknown
Parts but Woman in
Case Will Mush
After Him.
somethingTTo happen
SEATTLE, Nov. 3.?Miss Adeline
Loomi8 sailed yesterday morning
jn the steamer Alameda bound for
Seward to wed Louis Henz. Soon
iftcr the steamer sailed a cable
jram was received here that Henz
lad left Seward for parts unknown.
\ wireless was sent to Miss Loomis
jut she .replied that she would con
:inue her journey and find her In
:ended husband soonor or later and
:he wedding bells would ring or there
tfould be another kind of reverberat
ng sound heard In the atmosphere.
BANDITS MAKE
PUNS TO FIRE
U. S. SUPPLIES
attempt Destruction of
Thirty Carloads Which
Are for Pershing's
Command
SAN ANTONIO. Nov. 3.?What Is
>elicved to have been an attempt
:o destroy 10 car loads of supplies
[waiting shipment to Juarez for the
jse of the American expeditionary
orces in Mexico resulted in the
jurning of four cars of scrap iron
n the railroad yards at Juarez last
light. The supplies for Gen. Per
ihing's command were not damaged.
Gen. Bell, commanding at El Paso,
eportcd on the incident in a mcs
iage to southern department head
luarters today.
Gen. Bell also transmitted the in
ormatlon that Vlllistas are reported
o be moving to cut the railroad line
jxtendlng southward from Chihuahua
o Salitlllo. A report that such a
plan was contemplated by Villa was
forwarded to headquarters earlier In
he day by Gen. Pershing.
ALASKA STEAMSHIP
COMPANY IS AFTER
'FRISCO FREIGHTER
SEATTLE, Nov. 3.?President R.
V. Baxter of the Alaska Steamship
Company, announced that a deal
vould probably be closed in San
?'rancisco today for the purchase
if another freighter for the Alas
ka service. Mr. Baxter declined to
nakc any statement regarding the
lame of the steamer, until after the
ical has been cllnchod.
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STEAMER MOVEMENTS
and Mail Information
NOW NORTH BOUND
Admiral Evans is on the way
north and is duo hero at any j
time.
Humboldt will bo duo from the
j south tomorrow about noon
with one day's mall.
Alameda will be duo from the
the south tomorrow night
with two day's mali.
Prince Rupert will bo due Sun
day night. Has no mail.
I SCHEDULED SAILINGS
] Jefferson is scheduled to 3ail
from Seattle today.
City of Seattle is scheduled to
sail from Seattle tomorrow. |
Princess Sophia is scheduled to '
sail from Vancouver tomor- |
row.
| Al-Ki is scheduled to sail from
Seattle tomorrow,
i SOUTHBOUND SAILINGS |
' Admiral Watson is scheduled to j
sail southbound Sunday night.
Northwestern Is expected south- '
bound November 11th.
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NEW OFFENSIVE
OF ITALIANS IS
NOW IN PROGRESS
Great Movement in the
Trentino Region Is
Started and the
Austrians Lose
MANY ARE ANNIHILATED
The British Using Armored
Cars and Camels in
Egypt Are Making
Progress.
LONDON, Nov, 3.?A Home dis
patch to the Wireless Press says:
"Yesterday, the first day the new
Italian offensive in the Trentino,
cost the Austrians fifteen thousand
men. One-third of them were made
prisoners. The Twenty-first Austri
an regiment and several battalions
are said to have been annihilated.
"The weather is favorable and th?
battle against the heights east of
Goribia and on the Carso plateau,
continues fiercely.
ITAUANS ADVANCING
TOWARDS THE AUSTRIANS
ROME, (vl? lx>ndonJ^N,pv. 3. ?
the Italian troops on the Carso
front have developed renewed activ
ity, pushing reconnolterlng parties
toward the Austrian lines, where
they are drawn up for the defense
of Trieste. Prisoners, arras and am
munition were brought back by the
Italian raiders, the war office an
nounces.
"On both sides," says the offic
ial statement, "aircraft were engag
ed In reconnoitring work. As a re
sult of an aerial engagement which
took place over Frlgldo, In the VIp
plch valley, an enemy Albatross
aeroplane was brought down.
"On the Carso our reconnolterlng
parties pushed toward the enemy
lines and took prisoners, arms and
ammunition.
"Yesterday enemy artillery was
active In the Plava sector, on the
middle Isonzo, cast of Gorizia, and
in the Doberdo sector on the Car
so. Our batteries scattered work
ing parties and transport columns
at several points on the front."
ARMORED CARS AND
CAMELS ARE VICTORIOUS
LONDON", Nov. 3.?Successful op
erations by British camel corps on
the Egyptian Western front have
resulted In the clearing of hostile
forces from large areas and the cap
ture of some 175 prisoners, says an
official statement today on opera
tions in Egypt. Armored cars po
eratcd in connection with one of
the camel detachments. The state
ment reads:
"On the western frontier, camel
corps detachments operating with ar
mored cars successfuly swept the
Dakhla Oasis to the western edge,
capturing 1,500 prlsonors after some
opposition.
"A similar operation on the same
date in the Ilaharla Oasis (100 miles
west of the Nile,) by camel corps
dotachmcnts resulted in the cap
ture of fifty prisoners, Including ono
j officer and a quantity of arms and
l ammunition."
GERMANS LOSE
ONE POSITION
ON THE SOMME
BERLIN, Nov. 3.?(via wireless to
Sayvlllo)?Tho cGrmans In the
Sommc region, lost ground near the
village of Sallly Sallllsel yesterday,
but repulsed tho hostile attacks at
all other points along the western
war front. This statement was Is
sued by tho war office ?hls after
noon.
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