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THE ALASKA CITIZEN
Yqj yin. FAIRBANKS, ALASKA. MONDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 1. 1917._ _NO. 22
FIRING OF RIG GUNS IN
WEST INDICATE ANOTHER
BIG BRITISH OFFENSIVE
(Associated Press)
I.UNlJUX, Sept. 29.—(\ ia Ketchikan) A report re
reived irom the British headquarters in Prance and Bel
gium indicates that the British artillery has begun a bom
bardment on a large scale east ol \ pres, indicating that
c i e 11 e i a: llaig is preparing to launch a new drive against
ti e German positions in the west. So heavy is the tiring
that the detonation can be heard on the southeast coast ol
England. The artillery lire is concentrated to the \ pres
-ector, where the British have been i ecording big ga.n.s
within the past two weeks.
TEUTONS ATTACK \UKDUN
PARIS, Sept. 29.— (Via Ketchikan)- Tor the pas’
lew days the German crown prince has been making des
perate efforts to break the Trench line in the vicinity ol
\ erdmi. Thus far the German attacks have resulted in
nothing more than frightful Teuton losses, it is believed
that the crown prince’s futile drive is for the purpose ol re
lieving the British pressure at the western end of the line.
BRITISH HOLD GAINS
LONDON, Sept. -J.—(Via Ketchikan)—The sum
mare of today’s fighting on all fronts, as chronicled by the
Associated Press, declares that in the western theatre Gen
eral Haig’s men are consolidating till the positions won in
the last great offensive near Ypre-. I he British are hold
ing all gains and are repulsing the savage counter attacks
with terrible losses. _^________
ANOTHER AERIAL ATTACK IS
MADE UPON ENGLISH COAST
(Associated Press)
LONDON, Sept. 29.—(Via Ketchikan)—A third aero
plane attack upon Kngiand within the week was attempted
tonight by a fleet of German aircraft. 1 he southeast coast
(if Kngiand was the object of the I euton attack, and the air
planes hovered over Kent and Kssex counties and attempted
to follow the Thames river up to London. 1 heir attack
on the defense of the capital tailed, the planes being driven
off by hot anti-aircraft fire.
No casualties are reported to the war office as yet from
the southeast coast, and any damage, it any, has not yet
been made known. _ _ _
STUDENTS KNIT
FOR SOLDIERS
The students of the Fairbanks |
schools are now doing their bit to
ward winning the war by preparing I
knitted articles of all kinds for the j
use of the soldiers. The articles
consist chiefly of scarfs, helmets, I
wristlets, socks and hospital stock
ings. The work is being done by j
the domestic science classes of the
school under the direction of Miss
Margaret Keenan, the superintend
ent. The girls of the school are do
ing the knitting, while the boys fur
nish the yard out of which the ar
ticles are to be made.
Everything
Men’s
Wear
Our guarantee goes with
every article sold over our
counters
You Must Wear
Clothing
Hats Caps
Boots or Shoes
and perhaps an
Overcoat
Why not buy from a store
that is run on the money
back plan
Fairbanks Clothing
Company
CUSHMAN STREET., END OF
STEEL BRIDGE
BROOKS MAIL
IS DUE TODAY
Carl White's launch with mail, ex
press and passengers from the Tolo
vana country is due to reach Fair
banks at an early hour this morn
ing. It was at Chena last night, but
did not expect to get here until late
on account of the low water. It
will probably leave tomorrow on its
next trip to the Tolovana diggings.
It had been intended that the
strung box containing the gold dust
and express should be brought to
Fairbanks from Chena on the gaso
line car of the railroad last night,
but while an attempt was being
made to hoist it from the bout to
the dock it went overboard into
iibout twenty feet of water. It was
recovered, however, shortly after
ward and, although it did not get to
town last night as intended, will be
brought up on the launch this
morning.
PIONEERS MEET
MONDAY NIGHT
The regular meeting of Igloo No.
4, Pioneers of Alaska, will be held
at Eagle hall Monday night, starting
at 8:30 o’clock. One of the officials
of the organization stated yesterday
that there is nothing of particular
importance to come before the meet
ing, but that there will be the usual
crowd and usual refreshments in evi
dence. All members of the Igloo
are urged to be in attendance.
SIWASH IN PORT.
The launch Siwash arrived in port
at Chena last night from Nenana,
and her incoming passengers were
brought up on the electric car of
the Tanana Valley railroad. On her
next outgoing trip and on all trips
during the remainder of the season
the Siwash will leave from Chena,
her passengers being taken down on
the train leaving Fairbanks every
: morning. Her next trip will be
; made tomorrow. On the incoming
passenger list last night were the
i following names: Walter Cooley,
Andy Hoey, E. L. Wells and Sam
Stanlch.
U. S. VESSELS
• Associated Press)
LONDON, Sept. 2' b
( \ ia Ketchikan) The Brit
ish controller of shipping told
parliament today that there is
;tn urgent need tor the United
States to build a great mer
chant fleet to offset the sub
marine losses. He declared
that otherwise it would be im
possible for the United States
to send a big force of soldiers
to France next spring with
out stopping food shipments
to Hu rope.
The controller declared
that the United States is
making excellent progress to
this end and that bv earlv
spring the l nited Stales will
have a vast merchant fleet in
commission.
BLACK WHALE
KILLS FISHES
I,OS ANGELES, Sept. 27. Orca or
black killer, the savage, toothed
member of the whale family, migrat
ing southward in schools of unpre
cedented size, have been responsible
recently for panic among the game
fish of the Catalina channel and of
reports of poor catches by fisher
men in those waters, the home of
the tuna, the sword fish and many
other favorites of the devotees of
the rod and reel.
More than half a dozen orca in
one school is an unusual sight, but
Joe Welch, a well known sportsman
of this city, reported recently having
seen the high dorsal fins of hundreds
ol these vicious monsters cutting the
waters of the channel while fishing
off Catalina island.
Devastation invariably accompanies
a visitation of the black killer, fish
ermen said. It attains a length of
twa-nty feet and a weight of 2,000
pounds and fish of all sizes are its
prey. Even after having eaten its
fill the black killer continues to
rend and maim anything that crosses
■ts path, apparently for the savage
joy of killing.
Fishermen declared catches would
continue negligible in the channel
until days after the orca were well
on their way south ward and the
terror created by their raids had
had time to wear off.
DEAD MAN IS
NOT ALLOWED
TO DISPUTE IT
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 27.—Judge
Fred H. Taft of the superior court
here has ruled that when the su
preme court of California says a
man is dead, he is dead, and his
own affidavit to the contrary is not
admissable to disprove his death.
The ruling, said by lawyers to be
unique, was made here in connec
tion with the settlement of the es
tate of Thomas Wilcox, who died
a few months ago. According to
the evidence, the widow was thrice
married. Her first husband was Al
bert Broberg, whom she wed in 1897,
and who disappeared soon thereaf
ter. Later, she married a Dr. Leh
man, who subsequently brought an
annulment action, claiming he had
learned Broberg was alive. While
the case was in the supreme court
on appeal Dr. Lehman died. Later
the widow married Mr. Wilcox.
Then the supreme court held the
fact that Broberg was alive had
not been established. That ruling
validated the subsequent marriages.
After the death of Mr. Wilcox,
his son by a former marriage was
made administrator, and set about
establishing the rights of the heirs.
He procured an affidavit from Bro
berg, now in Canada, that he is
not dead.
When the final account was pre
sented, the affidavit was offered to
the court. Then came the ru'ing
that the supreme court decision con
trolled the court, that Broberg was
legally dead, and that his affidavit
to the contrary could not be re
ceived in evidence.
HAYWOOD IS
IN THE TOILS
AS DISLOYAL
(Associated Press)
CHICAGO, riept. 29 (Via Ketchl
kan) —Wra. IX Haywood, secretary
of the Industrial Workers of the
World, and on. hundred other mem
bers of that organization were placed
under arrest today by officials of the
department of justice on federal
grand jury indictments charging
them with a nation wide conspiracy
to hamper the government during
the war. J|
In all, 166 In .uMrial Workers of
the World were indicted, hut as yet
only Haywood and 100 others have
been apprehended by the officials
PRISONERS TO
GO CUT MONDAY
Six prisoners are to be started
Outside tomorrow morning in three
special automobile stages of the N.
C. company and accompanied by five
guards, the entire party being in
charge of Marshal Erwin. Those
going are C. S. Knutson, William
Kenney and Jos ph Barton, who go
to tin' penitentiary, and Mrs. Mar
garet Peterson, Harry Graham and
George Sharp, who go to the sani
tarium for the insane. The guards
will be J. E. Clark, Carlton Fitchett,
Reed Harris, Ed Arkin and a ma
tron. The outgoing cars will he
driven by R. T. Blakely, Jack Gris
wold and J. Williams.
Marshal Erwin expects to pick up
an insane prisoner at Cordova and
at least one prisoner at Juneau. The
new regulations of the department
demand that as many prisoners as
are at hand be sent out under one
official, consequently the marshal will
pick up all that are ready to go
from the First and Third divisions.
LATEST NEWS
FROM NENANA
NENANA, Sept. 29.--The steam"r
Alaska is expected to arrive here
some time this morning upbound.
She was reported as having passed
Tolovana station this mornng.
The launch Nita, Captain Pete God
frey, arrived here today from Fair
banks, The only passenger was H.
A. Kell.
The steamer Alice arrived here at
10:30 o'clock last night from Fair
banks. She brought ten tons of city
freight. It is understood that she
is to be used taking up freight from
this point to Fairbanks.
The steamer Teddy H. arrived to
day from Fairbanks. She brought
ten tons of city freight, about twelve
tons of beef for the Engineering
commission, and about eight tons
for the local market.
The power barge Midnight Sun,
arriving here today from Fairbanks,
brought eight tons of freight for the
Engineering commission.
The Seattle No. 3 left for Tanana
today towing the barges Idaho and
Vachon.
EDITOR IS
PRO-GERMAN
MEXICO CITY. El Democrata, a
newspaper published here, makes the
frank admission that its news dis
patches are selected with the ex
press purpose of presenting the
cause of the central powers in the
most favorable light. In answering
accusations that it w'as devoted to
German propaganda, El Democrata
asserts it is not pro-German but is
pro-Mexican, adding:
"We publish the telegrams which
give the most favorable accounts of
the deeds of the Austro-German
armies because there are in Mexico
papers of great resources which are
dedicated solely to the insertion of
news favorable to the allies, and as
our government has declared itself
neutral it should be the duty of one
daily of importance to give cogni
zance to that which redounds to the
credit of the central powers.”
Mrs. John Metzgar and Mrs. E. M.
Keys, of Fox, are city visitors.
SINN FEINERS
SHOOT POUCE
IN CORK RIOT
(Associated Press)
CORK, Ireland, Sept. -K
(Via Ketchikan)- Sinn
h'ein rioting broke out here
last night, and a> a result a
police sergeant was shot and
seriously wounded.
The revolt began last night
in the vicinity of the court
house. The Sinn Peiners
gathered in big numbers on
a pre-arranged plan and at
tacked the court house with
stones, smashing all the win
dows.
The police were called out
with fixed bayonets. The
police sergeant was shot when
ordering a bayonet charge.
FRANK OXMAN
NOT GUILTY
i Ashi>t• inte<I Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 29. (Via
Ketchikan)--Frank Oxnian, an Ore
gon cattleman, was acquitted today
on a charge of perjury in connec
tion with the Mooney trial Oxnian
was one of the chief witnesses for
the state in the Mooney trial result
ing from the preparedness day bomb
explosion here.
Charges that Oxnian was not in
San Francisco on that day and that
he had been induced by the district
attorney's office to give perjured tes
timony resulted in his trial which
ended today in his acquittal.
FACES SECOND CHARGE.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 20. (Via
Ketchikan) -Following his acquittal
today, Frank Oxnian was placed un
der arrest on another charge of per
jury. He declares this will prove
as groundless as the first one.
MEXICO HAS
NATAL FETE
(Associated Press Correspondence)
JUAREZ, Mexico, Sept. 16. Can
nons boomed and the bells on the
old mission church clanged at day
break today to usher in Mexico's
anniversary of her independence
from Spain.
Diez seis de Septembre (Septem
ber 16th) is known throughout
northern Mexico and the border as
the Mexican Fourth of July. It is
celebrated in much the same manner
as the American Independence day
is observed and for the same reason.
September 16, 1917, was planned
as a friendly demonstration and
"friendship fiesta” for the American
people living on the border. The
mayor and city officials of El l’aso,
Texas, opposite here, as well as other
civil and military officials, were in
vited to attend the exercises inci
dent to the Independence Day cele
bration, and a number of parades of
workmen from the American side of
the border took place through the
streets of this historic old Mexican
town.
The celebration included the fir
ing of salutes in honor of the presi
dent and other national heroes, the
parade and review of Mexican troops,
exercises by school children in Lib
erty caps and costumes, athletic
sports at the hippodrome and a bull
fight in the Plaza de Toros. In the
evening the military band played a
concert in the Plaza of Peace while
the maidens walked around the park
in one direction and the Mexican
gallants in the opposite direction.
A big dance at the theatre or cus
turn house followed, with the military
band furnishing the music, and all
of the society of both the American
and Mexican border was present
The September 16th celebration al
ways is preceded by a midnight
meeting in the plaza, when the
“grito” or cry of liberty is given.
Falcon Joslin, who negotiated the
sale of his railway, the Tanana Val
ley railroad, at Fairbanks, to the
government, and Clyde L. Morris, of
Seattle, a well known railroad con
tractor who formerly resided at
Nome, have returned to Cordova from
a trip to Katalla, where they inspect
ed the oil fields in which they are
interested.
George Gibbs was an arrival in
Fairbanks on Carl White’s launch
from the Tolovana country.
WANTS CANADIAN SHIPS
TO BE ALLOWED TO ENTER
ALASKA COASTWISE TRADE
(Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, L>. C., Sept. 29.- (Via Ketchikan) —
Chairman Houston of the territories committee of the house,
today led a light to have the administration bill permitting
foreign ships to enter coastwise trade to apply to Alaska.
1 he administration shipping bill in its present form ex
empts Alaska because of the fact that shipping interests
declared that the Alaskan trade would be seized by the
Canadian steamers.
Houston charges that the present law enables the Am
erican steamship lines to maintain a monopoly on the A1
aska trade and to maintain exorbitant rates to the disad
vantage oi Alaskan people. He declared that this steam
ship monopoly is causing a serious handicap to the develop
ment ot the copper and fishing industries of the territory
and that Alaskan shippers would welcome an opportunitv
lor the Canadian steamers to compete for Waskan trade
more extensively.
CHARGES OF BRIBERY LEAD
TO FISTIC CLASH IN HOUSE
WASHINGTON, 1). C., Sept. 29.—(Via Ketchikan) —
The house of representatives enjoyed something in the na
ture of a sporting event this afternoon when a physical en
counter took place between Representative J. 1'. Heflin ot
Alabama and Representative P. D. Norton of North Da
kota. The clash occurred on the floor of the house in the
course ot debate and was brought on by Heflin’s statement
that Mormon money had been used to influence congress.
hollowing this allegation, Norton attacked the speaker.
They clinched and wrestled a few minutes, but were sepa
rated before any blows were struck. This is the first en
counter on the floor of the house since Representative Mon
dell of W yoming ‘and Delegate W ickersham of Alaska
clinched.
COURT OPENS
ON MONDAY
In accordance with the announce
ment made at the time of adjourn
ment last spring, court will formally
open Monday morning at 10 o'clock.
A number of civil matters will prob
ably come up for hearings of various
kinds. One matter will be the swear
ing in of E. T. Erwin as I'nited
States marshal for the next four
years.
TWO REALTY
DEALS MADE
Two real estate deals were made
yesterday by the firm of St. George
& Cathcart. J. H. Smith, who re
cently returned to Fairbanks to re
side after spending several years at
Iditarod, made the purchase of the
Jack Reagh place on lower First
avenue, lately owned by Dr. \V. <1.
Cassels, and Mrs. St. George sold a
cabin residence on Ninth avenue to
John Joslin. In neither instance
was the monetary consideration made
public.
E. Ij. Wells, government immigra
tion inspector, arrived here from
Nenana last night on the launch
Slwash.
CLARK TAKING
VACATION TRIP
J. 11 Clark, clerk of court, is soon
to take the first vacation lie lias had
since going into otllce He leaves
for the Outside tomorrow with the
marshal's party of prisoners as a
guard. Mr. Clark expects to he ab
sent from Fairbanks tor about six
weeks. He is going to Seattle for
the express purpose of bringing Mrs.
Clark and their children in over
the trail. He will not go east, as
his family will meet him at the coast
city.
SHIP WORKERS
ARE OUT AGAIN
(,Associated I’rt-s.M)
SEATTLE, Sept. 29. (Via ivetclli
ikan) Eleven thousand shipyard
workers went on strike here today
for higher wages. They demand an
increase of 25 per cent in their
wages and also an agreenn at by the
companies that they will not use
wood or any other product made by
nonunion labor. This the com
panies refused to do.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Clould ar
rived in town yesterday from Ready
Bullion dome, where Mr. (lould is
engaged in mining.
Distinctiveness In Clothes
This is what many a man insists upon and
for which lie pays his high tailor prices.
Others have learned that from $20 to $50
will secure them the same desirable feature.
They buy the superior garments made by
Adler-Rochester, Stein-Bloch and Stadium,
whose agents we are in this locality.
To realize how sincere we are in our state
ments regarding these makes of clothes, you
have only to come in and look at the fall
models. After this you will readily accept
our assertions as based upon actual facts.
M. A. PINSKA
Successor to Sargent & Pinska
Fairbanks Dawson