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THE ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE "ALLTHE NEWS ALL THE TIME' VOL. IX. NO. 1300. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 1917. PRICE TEN CENTS GERMAN RAIDER REPORTED SDNK AT SEA WILSON GIVES WORLD'S PEACE TERMS PRESIDENT IN ADDRESS BEFORE SENATE STATES HIS OWN VIEWS Appears Before Senate and Speaks Direct to Lawmakers on the Peace for World. AUIIUIM UNPKtUtUtlMItU Freedom of the Seas Is One Term ? Limitation of War Armament Is Another. WASHINGTON. Jan. 22.?Presi dent Wilson sent word to Vice-pres ident Thomas Z. Marshall today that he wished to address the Sen ate on the subject of foreign rela tions. Arrangement for his appear ance were at once taken up. No other President since Washing ton's time has made such an ap pearance. Vice-president Marshall laid be fore the Senate the letter from the President and it was arranged that the President should adress the Sen ate at one o'clock today. It was announced that the President would discuss an outline of attitude of the United States toward the future ar rangements for the permanent main tenance of peace. No pending questions between the1 United States and other nations; will be taken up. President Before Senate. WASHXIGTOX, Jan. -'U.? Sharp ly at one o'clock this afternoon. President Wilson arrived at the Sen ate and immediately xvent to the presiding otlicer's stand, and was in troduced by Vice-president Marshall and at once began his talk to thc| Senators. The galleries were crowd ed by spectators and every seat in the Senate was occupied. President Wilson lost no time in getting down to the matter before him. He stated that some form for a league to enforce peace should be, immediately planned. The President at the outset told of having adressed an identical note,! December IS, to nations at war thai; had since been refererd to as the I "peace note." He said: "the Cen-j tral powers in a united reply stated | merely that they were ready to meet their antagonist in a conference to: discuss the terms of peace. "The entente powers have replied much more detlnitely and have slat-1 ed in general terms, indeed, but with ; sufficient deflniteness. to imply the j details, arangeiuents. guarantees and ! acts of reparation which they deem | to be the indispensable conditions of a satisfactory settlement. "We are that much nearer a defl- i nlte discussion of the neace which I shall end the present war. "We are that much nearer a dis- I cussion of International concert? which must thereafter hold the world at peace. "I have sought this opportunity to address you because I thought that I owed it to you as the counsel associated with me in the tinal de termination of our international ob-; ligations and to disclose, to you., without reserve, the thought and' purpose that have been taken for re form, in my mind, in regard to the duty our government in these days, and those to come, when it will be necessary to lay fresh and a new; plan of foundations of peace among the nations." "There is an entangling alliance in a concert power." said the Presi-, dent." when all unite to act in the' same sense and with the same pur-] poses. All act in common interest! and are free to live their own lives under a common protection." The Presideut declared that these' are the American principles and the American policies. "We could stand for no others." he declared. The President explain-! nl his course by declaring that it J _ ft SALIENT FEATURES OF PEACE TERMS PROPOSED BY PRESIDENT WILSON Washington. Jan. 22.?President Wilson in a speech this after noon before the Senate recommended that the United States join in a league of nations to enforce world peace. He urged that the principle of the Monroe Doctrine be made the doc trine of the world and declared: "There is no entangling alliance in a concert of power." The President said a settlement to guarantee peace and justice ^ throughout the world cannot be long postponed, that this gov ernment should formuluate conditions upon which it could ask its people to approve an adherence to a league for pence. The President declared that the present war must first be ended, but said: "It makes a great deal of difference to this government in what way and upon what terms it is ended." was "inconceivable" that this gov ernment should play no part in the "great enterprise" of peace owing, he said, to the fact that this gov ernment did not wish to wihhold its services. He felt that the people of the I'nitei States wore called upon "To state the way under which they will feel free to render it." The President resuming declared he was taking it for granted that the mere terms peace between the belligerents were not even to satis fy the warring nations themselves. An agreement will not make peace secure and it will be necessary that a force be created to guarantee the permanency of the settlement. "Very explicit assurances, regard ing peace, have been received from the belligerents," the President said. j "The peace that comes must be a 'peace without victory,"" he tle "lared. "The only peace which can last | is :i peace based upon equality and a common participation in u common benefit. "Guarantees exchanged," he said, "must neither recognize nor imply a difference between the great na tions and the small." The President then laid down the following basis for a lasting peace: "Add the authority and the power of the United States to the author ity and force of other nations to guarantee peace and justice through out the world, a peace founded on I an equality of rights, a United in dependent and autonomous plan, so1 far as practicable, freedom and all nations for a full development of resources and the direct outlet to the great highways of the sea: free-j dom of the seas, and limitation of! naval and military armament." Concluding his address, the Pres-' ident said: "1 am proposing as it were that the nations should with one accord, adopt the doctrine of President Mon-, roc as the doctrine of the world that no nation should seek to extend its policy over any other nation or people but that every people should; be left free to determine its own pol icy. its own way of development, un hindered, unthreatened. unafraid;, tho I?frl?? nlnnir with the exeat iiml powerful. "I am proposing that all nations henceforth avoid entangling alli ances which would drive them into competitions of power and catch them in a net of intrigue and selfish j rivalry and disturb their own af- j fairs with influences introduced from without." It was announced that the Presi dent's speech is already in the hands; of the foreign governments. Abso lutely no word given out by the President regarding his contemplated speech and none but the President himself knew what his plan was to be given publicly so soon. IMPORTANT HOUR IN LIFE OF THE WORLD I WASHINGTON. Jan. 22.?When j President Wilson finished liisj speech in the Senate this after noon Senator Robert LaFollette epi touized the sentiment of all present by saying: "We have just passed through a very important hour in the life of the world." President's Letter. WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.?Yester day, President Wilson sent the foi lowing letter to \ tve-President Mar shall: "There is a communication con cerning foreign relations of this country which I think it is my duty to make known to the Senate and which I should very much like to make in person. { "I would be very much obliged if I might be afforded an opportun ity to do so tomorrow, if it can be arranged without inconvenience, to i I the Senate. I know of no other than an informal way in which to iconvey this wish to the Senators. "1 have spoken to Senator Stone, chairman of the committee on for eign relations about it and have asked him to confer with you." GIGANTiCRAID i PLANNED UPON j THE MEXICANS intervention Movement Is Nipped in the Bud by Secret Service Men of U. S. ATTACK WELTARRANGED ..SAN ANTONIO. Tex., Jan. 22. ?I An American raid into Mexico to; provoke intervention similar to the Jamieson-Transvaal raid was Vippcd; in the bud by special secret service agents of the State Department and Department of Justice today. Texas cattlemen, to the number of one hundred, financially backed by Texas mining men. with Mexican interests, were prepared to go into j Mexico and commit dcpradations on ' the Mexicans that would give the impression that they had been per petrated by members of Pershing's I expedition. FORMER RESIDENT OF KETCHIKAN IS DEAD IN SEATTLE SEATTLE. Jan. 22.?The luneral of ' Frank S. Burkhart, former rcsiJcnt of Ketchikan, who ?lie;l here Friday, was held'yesterday afternoon under1 the auspices of the .Masons. Mr. Burkhart was a member of the Ket chikan lodge. Frank Burkhart was well known In Southeastern Alaska. He first came to Alaska shortly after 1900.' and with his father buiit the plant of the Ketchikan Bower Company, op erating a sawmill, power plant and heating company at Ketchikan. Later; the activities of the company wcrej confined entirely to the saw mill end ' of the business, the heating and ?' power project being abandoned. |( After the deatn of his father, Mr..' Burkhart took over the active man- < agement of the mill and operated it until 1912. when he was succeeded 1 as manager by J. J. Daly. That year 1 Mr. Burkhart took charge of the 1 plant of the Alaska Fish Company 1 at Waterfall, succeeding Craig Mil-' ler. and has been engaged in the fish I _ t.tin,.. tin I I one of the largest homes In Ketchi kan and is survived by a wife, but; no children. ALASKA TEACHER MAKES THE BEST OF BAD BARGAII\1| EVERBTT, Jan. J2.?\V. D. .Mc Glllan. an Alaska school teacher, was brought hero from Seattle and i jailed on a charge of failing to pay his divorced wife her alimony. The! couple remarried and he was re-1 leased. Me had ? 1,700 in caali in his pockets. WILL RUN RAILROAD. MANILA, Jan. 22.?Eugene E. Heed of New Hampshire, who was nominated a member of the Philip pine commission last year, has been 1 chosen to -be president of the Manila railway, which recently was pur chased by the government. I PHYSICIAN IS COMPELLED TO WATCH SUICIDE i I Prominent ] Woman Puts Bullet into Brain After Long Talk With Doctor. OBEYS AT~~GUN'S POINT Coast Artist Takes Her Life at the End of a Spectacular Session. SAN FRANCiSCO, Jan. zz. ?wise Eetty De Long, one of the promi nent portrait artists of the Pacific Coast, shot herself with a suicidal intent here in the presence of Dr. William S. Porter, a prominent phys-i ician, whose picture she was paint ing. Miss De Jong lingered for a; while but died, without making any statement. Dr. Porter claims that he and the artist were merely friends. The po lice took the doctor in custody but he was finally released. Dr. Porter, whose version it ac cepted by the police, said ns he en tered the studio. .Miss De Jung con ducted -him tcr an Isolated chair 0:1 a riiK. then seating herself In a big chair near a door she produced a i pistol and informed hint she wa<! going to kill herself before lie left j but that before she did it she had1 a lot to tell him and he was going' to listen until she had finished. "I started towards her," said the' lector. She pointed the gun at me end ? said: "Dbn't leave that rug or III kill you first." Then followed a three hours' dis-! mission during which the doctor raid J Ill1 iricil 10 turn uci iruin in ? i"n-, pose. hut finding serious argument1 unavailing he tried treating the mat ter lightly. "You seem to have everything' nicely planned," he said. "When are you Being to do this drea lful tiling?" 1 "The second you step off that rUR." the doctor said she replied. It was shortly after that, lie told the police, that .Miss De i:i a Miversctional lone said: "You may go now." "I thought I had succeeded in matt ing lier change her mind," he said, 'or I would have been there yet." ; I "As 1 stepped off the rug she fired. You know the rest." AVIATOR COLONEL HAS A FIGHTING CHANCE TO LIVE ; WKI.TO.V Ariz... Jan. 22.?Col. liar- ! ry Bishop, of the United States Avla- i don Corp, who was missing for ten | lays in Mexico, was brought here ( oday and placed in a hospital. The ?hanees are fair for his recovery. ;? Lieut. W. Itobertson. partner in the 'light which resulted so disastrously.' s not in a condition to be moved1 'roni where lie was found, 200 miles j iclow the border. t 1 ? ; i 5TJSAM&K J>1U V JtiiVlJe.JN X and Mail Information NOW BOUND NORTH 1 Mariposa reached KeLhikan this 1 afternoon. Will be due hero ' tomorrow, lias five days mall. >' City of Seattle sailed nortli Sat urday night. Will be ilue I !! Wednesday with a day's mail. SCHEDULED SAILINGS Admiral Watson is soheJulcd to | sail frcm Seattle Wednesday. 1 ? Victoria is scheduled to sail for 1 the north Thursday. 1 Prince John is scheduled to sail 1 frcm Prince Rupert tomorrow | 1 night. j ' Princess Sophia is scheduled | to ?sail northbound from Van- | 1 couvcr next Saturday. SOUTHBOUND SAILINGS No boats due southbound. The | next southbound boat will be | the City of Seattle. I I ? fr ? ' \ 1 | A NEW PICTURE OF NOTED WOMAN IN BIG ARMY SCAKDAL The picture shows I ho most recent view of Mrs. William Corn wallix-West, die iiotcl society wotn.'iii wlio has been severely en surcil in connection with (lie bij; British array sc?j:i;i)d. It is re ported that -lie has decided to retire from every kind of public work. ASSISTANT FIRE CHIEF BORNEO IN SEATTLE BLAZE Grand Opera House Is Destroyed; Roof Col lapses and One Man Is Caught. SEATTLE. Jan. 22.?Fire last Sat-J unlay morning destroyed the Grand Opera Ilouoc on Cherry Street be-1 tween Second ami Third Avenues.; Assistant Fire Chief Fred Gilliam j was burned to death, being caught in the burning structure when the, roof collapsed. At first it was be uevod that one otnor lire man was missing but a complete check-up re-: suited in all being accounted for. sight being badly injured and three seriously. The body of Glllain was taken from the flames, feet chared, and i the body crushed and burned. THREE HUNDRED ARE KILLED WHEN PLANT EXPLOSION OCCURS . LONDON, Jr.n. 22. ? It developed | lore today that over 200, mostly wo-1 men, were killed i Friday's explos' ion in the east end. Until today 10 public announcement was made! jy the war officials concerning tit?? location of the explosion nor the) lumber of those killed and sentiment is uroufed over this new stunt of lie authorities. PENSION PROPOSED FOR CERTAIN AGED CITIZENS WASHINGTON, Jau. 22.?Every American citizen more than sixty live years old who is incapable of manual labor and whose annual in OOA/t t.tniil/l n-sit o .'UIIIU 13 11.321 L11U.II "UUIU #>VV O j pension of $2 a week under a bill! before the House pension committee, j Representative Sherwood of Ohio is ? author of the bill. POPULATION DECREASES SWISS PAPER DECLARES LAUSANNE, Switzerland, Jan. 22. rhe Gazette says that the population jf Switzerland has decreased as one consequence of the war. SEATTLE HAS A ! LARGE NUMBER ! FOB THIS CITY B. L. Thane and Others Returning to the City After Trip to the States. SEATTLE, Jan. 22.?Steamer City! of Seattle sailed for Southeastern Alaska ports Saturday night at 10 o'clock. The following passengers] for Juneau were aboard: B. L. Thane, M. V. Fox, W. Greenstone,: K. Abrahams, Gus Giliis, Phil Flynn, P. F. Mulvany, William Wyman, C. j B. Kingston, W. H. Spaulding, J. E. i Taylor, Victor Varloso, D. E. Dun-1 bar, William Bayless and wife, P.; U. lluriey ami wuc, ana r. rranK I. Isc like. SPOKANE HOSPITAL DESTROYED BY FIRE PATIENTS ESCAPE) SPOKANE. Jan. 22. ? St. Luke's | hospital was destroyed by lire here yesterday but as far as known no victims were claimed by the flames. The attendants acted heroically and all patients were taken out to places of safety. The origin of the lire is unknown. GREEK TROOPS AND WAR MATERIALS ARE BEING EXCHANGED NOW ATHENS. Jan. 22.?The removal of the Greek troops and war mater ial to Pcloponesus continues day and night. This is according to the statement of the Entente command er here. OCEAN yULTURE IS SENT DOWN BY A BRITISH WARSHIP TODAY Sharp Battle Reported on South Atlantic and German Boat Been Sunk. DCDflDT AMnTUTD DHAT ntruni Hiuuincn duhi German U Boats Busy in Waters Surrounding the British Islands. RIO DE JANERIO. Jan. 22. ? The German raider which has wrought such havoc upon British shipping in the South Atlantic, has teen sunk 130 miles off Para, ac cording to an unofficial report re ceived by wireless here this after noon. The raider is said to have been sunk by the British cruiser Glas gow which engaged the marauding craft in a pitched battle in the early morning hours today. RAIDER IS DISCOVERED. New York. Jiui. %2.?A special to the New York Herald says that a German commerce raider has been heated off the coast of Brazil. A later report this afternoon from the same source declares that one German raider has been sunk by a foreign warship. RAIDER'S ATTACKS CEASE BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 22. ? The absence of accounts of new attacks during the last "two days oy the German raider that is terrorizing Atlantic shipping have led to the belief that site may intend shifting her field of operations to the Pacific ocean. Chile has consequently increased the vigilance of her coast patral. The steam packet Bahla passed a vessel off the northeasternmost point of South America Thursday, which .-he believes was the sea destroyer. The vessel was steaming north at better than twenty knots. GERMANS SINKING VESSELS BERLIN. Jan. 22.?Germany's U boats continue to make astonishing records in cruising radius una me number of vessels destroyed. Few realize the enormous loss they are inflicting on shipping in the North Sea and Eastern Atlantic. Yesterday a submarine returned to Its base after it had sunk sixteen boats loaded with grain, coal, iron ore. lumber, etc. This is going on dally, hourly, and the operations ap pear to be carried out strictly in keeping with the promises made the United States in the Sussex note. TO SPEND HALF A MILLION FOR RAILS FOR ALASKA ROAD SEATTLE, Jan. 22.?Purchasing Agent Dole announced today that contracts will be placed shortly for 10,000 tons of seventy-pound steel rails for the Alaska government railroad and a quantity of other fit tings. The total cost of the ma terial to be ordered will be ap proximately $500,000. EARL'S HEIR DIES. LONDON, Jan. 22. ? Col. Lord George Baillie-Hamilton Minning, eldest son of the Earl of Maddlng lon, is dead at the East Lothian country seat of his father. Weather Conditions in Juneau. FOR THE 24 HOURS ENDING AT 2 P. M., AS RECORDED BY THE U. S. WEATHER BUREAU. Highest temperature (2:00 p. m. today) 34 degrees Lowest temperature : (8:00 p. m. yesterday).... 30 degrees Total precipitation?.53 inch. BAROMETER TEMP. HUMIDITY WIND WEATHER 8:00 a. m 29.81 33 91 North Snow 2:00 p. m 29.93 34 96 South Snow