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WILSON’S MESSAGE SHORTEST RECORDED c< >N . NTS ' >F PR N i T ' ■ 1 > C< )N GRKSS MADK PUBLIC Mi.SSAGl. IS BI T 2,0.K.t WORDS IN l.KNGTli AND IS SHOKTKST DOCK MKNT Oi; ITS KIND ON Ri. CORD DKAKS CiIIi.l lA W i ill 1.1.G1SI.A i loN Ol LAST SKo SiON AND LOMKKiiC i'RUBlm.MS. tAsmiCmlcd iii.. .1 W ASHINGTON, D. C., N v. 23. Bred.lent W ilson's i ncssage to t he ncx t Congn > i . 11 1 oc in ne t i t o 1 i Is kind on record, it contains km 2. ') worm Its contents were ma ie pit; .ic to ia\ lor t .e Hr t ti .ie. It sa\s that departmental rcpuits \vi:i be laid betore congress separately, and not together as in me past. it also emphasizes the uncompleted railroad legislation recoin mended at t .e last session m coi gress. it say.- tuat the ran road legislation is tre* most prc.-sing problem which ti.e next congress wili bare to lace. It t. eii g«>cs oil to disco. • U il.X'slie problems. ___ I I (Associated Press) KANSAS CITS, Mo., Nov. 26. A torneys tor the government and lawyers for the ran.' .ad are deadlocked over the selection oi a case to carp 1 ' -.e coun to test tile constitutionality oi i .e Am.:: * >n eight Hour law. The goverment's attoi It the c e o) ihe Missouri, Ukiaiioma S t....., be udc t ..ere yesterday, r the case which should be < It • raid ; i ai torneys say that it dots not involve a., oi ti c points at issue and that a decision oi the supreme court regarding 11 alone, would not he lair lo the railroads. The attorneys lor the railroads further -tale that tin most adequate case, one ol scope broad enough to include cverv possible phase oi t. c -nuaimi. created by liie Au unison law, is the Santa Te case, w .ich v.as set for toda\ hut was postponed until tomorrow. It is mis case that l: t railroad attorneys would carry to the ipremc court, m matter what tne decision oi llie lower c 'UP. Toniglil the attorneys lor hot skh expre' -ed the nop that an agreement as to wi.icli dm ... e carried to l! ig: er v airt will he re; ROADHOUSE MAN HAS TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE Clad in night clothes, in his bare leet, after mushing two nines across country over irozen ground, twenty beiow weather and in snow ankle deep, tnrougn the stumps oi cleared patches oi timber land, oxer u.e ice oi a irozen river, and a journey oi sixty miles, i.an oi which was made in a stage, "Jimmy Cnishorui, witn Lie soles and toes oi boln ieei uadiy irozen, is resting tonight under tne care oi a pnysician and unisex at M. Joseph s iiospual. i nai ms injuries are no v,one l.e owes lo ms own endurance and jiiilCK and L.e prompt action oi L e A. C. iorce at Lad martin s. Air. Chisholm is the proprietor of the roadhouse which burned eariy \\ednesday morning at lurcn Lake, me burn ing oi which was reported m the Citizen yesterday morn ing. the tirsl report came Hum knmardsoii, Julius, lue operator in c.iarge there, liaxmg discoxered bail tiie road house nail been burned wlien iie passed there on Wednesday, me made a search ol tiie premises lor Air. Cnisnoim, but wa. not able lo und linn, nor was he able lo go into tne sin. burning rums ui tiie house, ii was Liereiore ieared tiun Air. Cmsliolm had lo.-t Ins liie. Un i uesday night Air. Chisholm, being alone, banket, ins lire m a big tarns, stuxe with green birch wood and re tired. Luring me exenmg he a.xoke, anil being thirst}', l.e went to L.e kitchen lor a drink oi water, i nere was .. small lire in the kitcnen stoxe, so lie picked up a magazine lying near, and alter reading a while, (iui.ed oil into a light sleep. \\ hen lie awakened lie iouud tne kitchen iuh oi smoke and, opening the door, discoxered tne entire iron, part oi me bunding a mass ul names, which immediate!} swept into Lie kitci.cn tnrougn the doorway, driving inn. out mio tiie open. Rushing around Lie house to tne win dow of Ins bedroom, lie broke through the window in an el fort lo reach ins clothing and xaiuab.es there. Here tiie llames again drove him back. Attempts lo get through lrom the front and tiie other side of tiie house were euail} unsuccessful. Realizing his inability to save any tiling, clatl in gar nients insulhcient lor even a summer night, he started at once on his journey lor Dad Martin’s the nearest place to his own. \\ hat time he started he does not know, but he arrived there at 1 o'clock \\ ednesday morning, the soles and toes of his feet frozen to the bone and the llesh of his legs to up above his ankles heavily frosted. The N. C. force at Martin’s at once proceeded to apply remedies to draw the frost, which were entirely successnil. Thursday morning R. D. Menzie, being at Martin’s put Chisholm on a stage and brought him to Munson’s where they were picked up by the auto and brought to town, arriving at 9 o’clock that evening. Dr. Cassels, in attendance, states that with the propel care Mr. Chisholm will completely recover from the ef fects of the trip and exposure and that no operation will be necessary. He is resting easily this morning. The roadhouse is a total loss, not a thing being saved all the savings of years being swept away. No insurance whatever was carried. It is understood, however, tha among his belongings which burned was a check made In tlie Alaska Road commission, given him for boarding ti e commission’s men who worked in the vicinity of Rirc' Lake this summer. It is hoped that the commission will re deem this check and thus give the oldtimer a little muc! ..ceded assistance. Fraudulent Voting Being Unearthed ( AsFOCiai' ! I) KANSAS CITY. Mo.. Nov. 23. The federal attorney here lias an nounced that he has um arthed a number of fraudulent voters since the presidential election. \nd he also state- 'h:it cases ap.-nn.-i them are now in tin pro of preparation by his of Ttn* district attorney says tliat he has Il.t affidavits of four men wiio vot'd fraudulently at the 1.-st election. One man stvenrs ih t he voted thirty seve n times, and that there are other fraudu lent voters who voted fully as many times as lie did. DISPATCH T6 SULZER LEADS BY 13 VOTES Beyond claiming that Charles A Sulzer is leading the territorial count if the vote for delegate by only hirtcen volts, the Juneau Dispatch s making no claims for Wicker-ham whom it supported for delegate at he recent election. But its report received last night by The Citizen i; evidence of the fact that it still ■ticks by iis first love. That is, i' s still playing Delegate Wicker hat to win the election, although it dot not exactly come out and say so. The message from tlie Dispatch am to Fairbanks upon request o The Citizen. It shows that Suize leads in the count in the First divi it n by ITT, while other reports shoe, hat he i- leading there by 518 vott :■ The wire received is as follows Juneau, Alaska, Nov. 23. 1916. cjiizen, Fairbanks. Fir t division practically complete No election Yukutat precincts and only nine votes east at Shakuan i Inly remaining precincts are sealed and not obtainable. First division aives Sulzer majority four seven even, and with Koyukuk figures added tlie IDispatch claims Sulz> now leading in territory by thirteen rotes. DISPATCH. J j u This morning at 7 o’clock M, \\ [ Lemon will attempt to drive a Ford utomobile through to N( nttna. T1 tit' first car to attempt the run Hoc over, Mr. Li nton is a driver of large experience, and fi « is sure that he will make the run in good shapt and in good time. From the report: ! outing in, the trail is now in goi ■ uidition, and the driver thinks the inking an automobile over the trai ; s entirely feasible. Mr. Lemon drov or the Sourdough Express company ! last winter. This is the start, and it is only 1 i question of time before there is ; ■ egula.r line of cars to the railroad own. Which will mean that Fair banks and Nenana will be drawn ■loser together this winter than they were in the summer when navige ion wtts open. So far the trail: have been in such a condition that j he automobile drivers did not at j empt the run. But the last fev old days have had such a good re suit on them that Mr. Lemon thinks it possible to make the trip. The trip today is in the nature of an experiment. Upon the return if the results are satisfactory, a date for the next departure will be set md announced. However, the driv er has to learn something of the things he will have to buck in malt ing the trip. It may be that thi venture will prove too expensive 01 difficult. Juneau. Alaska. Nov. 23, 1916 Alaska Citizen, Fairbanks: Governor Strong has today issued a proclamation designating Thurs day, November thirtieth, 1916, as a day of thanksgiving, pursuant to proclamation recently issued by th< President of the United States and in accordance with the time honored custom. SHCm TIIILL, Secretary. BIC BATTLE IS FOUGHT IN OLD MEXICO (Associated Press.) JFAUKZ, M* xico, Nov. 23. Ite ports received here tonight tell 01 the elimination of a leg battle near tin city of Chihuahua, in this state. bel\V". n the biros of Pant ho Villa, the 1 at lit. and a contingent of Car amel: t • p The battle ended with lie retrial of the Viliaistas, who are stated to have left a large mini hi i of dead and w ounded on the field. Vela had about 3,500 men. He a t: (kid tin- city of Chihuahua fou: , laes yesterday, being driven back : aeh time with losses. Finally tin Carranza istn: mustered up enough e nirage to follow him, and are n iw purpling tin disorganized band of bandits toward the. south from Chi huahua. In their sally at the time if Villa's last attack upon the city, he Carranzaistai captured a num ber of prisoners. The forces of Villa were superior ai numbe r to the government troops And he also has many sympathizers n Chihuahua. For this reason the ■ommander of the Carranza troops was watching for trouble from within lie city us well us from without Hut seeing that no such trouble a: was expected was maturing, he or* lered the sally, with the result that the bandit forces of Villa were fore ed to flf e for their lives. The succ< ?s of the governmen; "oops is attributed to the fact that ,hey were armed with heavy artil lory. The bandits had machint ; uns, but no heavy field guns such had been placed on the defen es if Chihuahua by the Carranzaistas TACOrn HI FIRE (Associated Press) TACOMA, Wn.. Nov 23. Fire of nknovn origin visited the Carstens lacking plant here tonight, result ins. in the complete destruction of ont building. The loss t.i the pm l int company is estimated at $200,00'. ml there is no insurance. The po ! ce arc looking up the matter, work ing on the theory that the fire was started by a disgruntled employee if the company. (Associated Press.) SAN FKANCISCO, Nov. 23. -Ovci irty thousand signatures have been eeured in California in favor of a ■'.alion-wide peace movement. An nouncement to that effect was mad< tonight from the local headquarter, of the American Neutral Conference i 'ommittee. FOOTBALL BOYS RESUME PLAY (Associated Press) SEATTLE, Nov. 23. Notwithstand ing the fact that they are consider able incensed by the fact that the I faculty of Washington University will not allow William Grimm, the left tackle of the team, to play during further games this season, the mem bers of the football team of the university have decided to resume practicing and training. They took a vote on the question at practice time tonight, after they had listened to a talk from Grimm, who advised them to play the Thanksgiving game without him. The game with Cali fornia on that day will therefore be played here. Grimm was disqualified from play ing on the grounds that a member of the faculty had caught him cheat ing during examinations. .MARSHAL SELLS MINING TOOLS Yesterday Deputy United States Marshal J. C. Wood went to the creeks to hold a public sale of min ing machinery on Fairbanks creek The sale was held on an execution arising from the case of Page vs. Swanbeck. The machinery sold con sists of boilers and other appurte nances of placer mining. The prop erty belonged to John Swanbeck. High Living Cost Hits Sing Sing (Associated Press) NEW YORK, Nov. 23 In mates of Sing Sing and other prisons in this state are heing made to feel the effects of the high cost of living For they have been compelled to change diet on that account, poor sub stitutions for various foods hav ing been made by order of the governor. Corn bread and brown bread have been substituted in the prisons for white bread. Like wise turnips and beets are being substituted for potatoes. It is claimed that the high cost of bread and potatoes is the cause for the change. There is no doubt that Fairbanks, in proportion to her size, her popu lation and the amount of money i hat the town would be able to dip up if it had to, bet more money on , he recent national and delegate elec lion than did Wall street. For a conservative estimate places the amount of money bet here at $25, MW. And Wall street only bet $20, oOOjOOO, according to all of the in formation available. Several thousand dollars changed hands in local business houses yes lerday as the result of the Associat ed Press message received by Tin Citizen stating that Charles Kvans Hughes had conceded the election of President Wilson and had wired the President his congratulations. Like some of the Wall street wagei h dders, howf ver, some of those who are holding local bids are holding ! if. for the official report of the elec sen. Having heard that The Citi zen had received word of Hughes' concession, a prominent business 1 man telephoned The Citizen office 1 night before last asking if the infor mation was correct. He was told that it was true, and thereupon stat ed that he guessed that was his cue I to turn over about $6,000 to the i winners of election bets. Anothei stated yesterday morning that he had ..bout $-1,000 to pay out. Several thousand dollars have al- j ready been bet on the delegate elec- j tion also. Some of the money was ] placed at big odds on Wickersham i before part of the returns were in, but there were very few people who j wanted to take a chance on his be ing defeated before that time. Since he returns received indicate that he race will be a close one. how ever, many of the sports have start ed in to bet, with the result that a good many bets at even money have been made. CRISIS PAST; (Associated Press.) ATLANTIC CITY, N. J , Nov. 23. One of the American members of I the joint Amerlcan-Mexiean commis sion which has been holding ses sions here for the past several weeks relative to affairs between the Unit ed States and Mexico, announced j tonight that the commissioners be lieve that the crisis in the delibera tions is now past. He predicts that a satisfactory conclusion in the de I liberations will be reached within the next two weeks. An adjourn ment for that length of time has been taken in order to give the Mexican members of the commission sufficient time to confer with the Carranza government of Mexico rela tive to what has been accomplished OLDTIMER GOES TOJJVENCOOD J. Colvin, an oldtimer In the coun try, leaves today for Olnes, where i he will take a team across to Brooks for C. H. Laboyteaux. For several years Mr. Colvin worked for E. M. Keys when the latter was operating in the Chatanika district. Recently he has been prospecting, hunting and trapping in the Tolovana coun try. Sir—A great many things cannot be imported now. How do we live without them?—ABC. The same way our parents and grandparents did.—Ed. TRANSCONTINENTAL FREIGHT RATES ARE UNDER DISCUSSION (Associated Press. CHICAGO, Nov. 23.—That a number of steamship lines arc waiting to begin a regular freight and passenger service between points in the United States on both the At lantic and Paciiic coasts, was the statement made today by Charles Kimmich, of Charleston, South Carolina, a steamship company official, before the Interstate Commerce Commission, which is now holding sessions here. He said that the service will be started just as soon a.-! possible after the commission announces the permanent adjustment of the transcontinental rate made for railroads. He asked that the rialroad rate be raised, and also that, if it is raised, it be not lowered again. This he asked in view of the fact that, as a general thing, steamships cannot compete with railroad trains in the matter of making time, but can carry treight much more cheaply on their own time. He there fore asked that the transcontinental rate which the rail roads charge be not lowered, but raised higher, if possible. It was authoritatively stated this evening that no per manent transcontinental rate will be made by the Inter state Commerce commission for some time. The next hear ings of the commission will be held at Seattle, Portland and San Francisco. TEUTONS IN WALLACHIA CONTINUING ADVANCE LONDON, Nov. 23.— Official dispatches received hen from both Letrograd and Bucharest contain the admission that the Russo-Roumanian troops lighting in Southern Roumania are now totally cut oil Irom communication and that the advance of the Teuton forces has not been slopped. An attempt has been made by other Roumanian troops to cut through the cordon of Austro-Germans which stir rounds the hard pressed Roumanian army, but it was humic. cessful. Hie heaviest fighting of the day was repi rted as having taken place at a point west ot Crajova. Except in Macedonia little fighting is reporting from any of the other war zones. North of Monastir, in Serbian Macedonia, however, the d'eutons are said to he stubbornly contesting the triumphant advance of the Serbians and the Drench. They received reinforcements today, hut recard less of that fact, the forces of the Entente Allies are pre-sing forward. They took the towns of Dobromir and l’aralevo today. IN FULL BLAST REPORTS RICCS That winter work on the Alaska government railroad in the vicinity of Nenana is now going on full blast, is the report of Commissioner Thos. Itiggs, Jr., in charge of the railroad work in the interior, who arrived here yesterday afternoon from Ne nana for a few days' business visit Mr. Itiggs expresses himself as being very well pleased with the work which has been accomplished to date. He seems to be particularly grati fied with having been able to get tite commission’s power plant at Ne nana in operation, so that the town now is electric lighted instead of being in darkness as before, with the exception of coal oil lamps and candles. Mr. Riggs reports that the rail road for about half a mile south of Nenana is now practically completed. And through the half mile and for some distance further out the pile driver is engaged in putting in piles lor bridges. On the north side of the Tanana river opposite Nenana the steam shovel is working, making a cut in the bluff. The dirt and rock taken out is being moved about a thousand feet and put into a fill. Mr. Riggs will remain in Fair banks but two or three days, at the most, for he expects to be back at his headquarters at Nenana in time for Thanksgiving. Ills time here will be spent in attending to the accumu lated business in the local office of the commission. W. B. Raeburn, the chief pack master cf the commission, made the trip to Fairbanks with Mr. Riggs. FIRE CAUSES ! - (Associated Press.) PETROGRAD, Nov. 23.—Official an nouncement was made tonight of the sinking of the Russian dread naught Imperatritsa Maria in the harbor of Archangel. An internal explosion, caused by a fire in the magazine hold of the ship, is as signed as the cause. The official announcement of the sinking of the ship says that 200 members of the crew are missing. KOYUKUK GIVES PLURALITY 10 THE DELEGATE The Koyukuk returns are in They came last night in a menage to Chief Deputy Marshal Joseph 11 Mil ler from Deputy Marshal C. L. Vaw* ter, of Tanana. The message tated that the returns, which are from all the precincts, were brought overland by special messenger. The only returns given in tin* mes sage to Deputy Marshal Miller were those for delegate. Wicker.-ham car ried the Koyukuk. That is, he re ceived sixty-one votes, while Sulzer received forty-three. Thirty-three votes were cast for Lena Morrow Lewis, the Socialist candidate. The returns from Woodchopper. a small precinct on the upper Yukon river, were bulletined by the signal corps office yesterday. Woodchopper went for Sulzer by a vote of seven to one. Therefore the vote for this division, as figured by The Citizen, stands l.G-ll for Sulzer and 1,01'd! for Wickersham, Sulzer having a plu rality of nine votes. Taken together with the reported vote from the other divisions, the vote reported yesterday cuts down Sulzer’s lead in the territory to sixty two votes. It is stated that approxi mately 250 votes in the Third divi sion are to be heard from. The First is practically all in. The Mar sha]! City vote in the Second has not been reported, nor has the vote from the small precincts to the north of Nome. In this division there are a few more small precincts to be heard from, notably three small precincts in the Kuskok wirn, Jack Wade on the upper Yukon river, Russian Mission on the lower Yu kon, and the nine votes from the Kantishna country. The election is therefore anybody's yet. The Citizen has wired for a com plete report from all other divisions for publication tomorrow. A new report, however, unless the vote of more unreported precincts, has been received, is not expected to material ly effect the table herewith pub lished, which Is as follows: Sulzer Wickersham FIRST .2,409.1,891 SECOND . 611. 827 THIRD .1,671.1,920 FOURTH .1,642.1,633 TOTAL .. ..6,333.6,271 Sulzer's territorial plurality, sixty two votes.