The Alaska citizen., 1914-11-23

which completely destroyed the scnool building, south of this city. last night Scores of the boys had miraculous escapes.
 WILSON WRITES MESSAGE. WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 1S- President Wilson has begun the preparation of his next message to congress. which will be read to the lawmakers when they convene in regular session next month. The eX- ecutive is pounding away on an old | typewriter of the vintage of 1879, a machine which no one else about the White House can operate. The message will not exceed 5000 words, DANIELS GOING WEST. SEATTLE, Nov. 1S.-Advices from Washington state that Secretary of the Navy Daniels is planning to visit Seattle sometime in March. U. s. FUTURE BRIGHT. WASHINGTON. D. C.. Nov. 1s.- In a long letter addressed to Secre- tary of the Treasury McAdoo, Pres ident Wilson writes optimistically re- garding the opening of the federal reserve banks. which. he says. will put the country on solid financial footing.
 TO SETTLE STRIKE. WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 1S.- | Charles Nagel and the other mem bers of the federal mediation board will meet at Chicago on November | 30 for the purpose of arbitrating the differences between the Western rail roads and their engineers and fire men.
 PEACE URGED. 1 WASHINGTON, D. C.. Nov. 1S.- The state department is In receipt of note from Holland, in which 1t Is urged that the United States assist in bringing about settle l ment of the war in Europe. WANTS BIG ARMY. WASHINGTON. D. C., Nov. 1S.- Major-General w w. Wotherspoon, who was retired as chief of staff of the army this week. has submitted 1 his report to the department in which he recommends that the army be increased immediately to a quar, ter of a million men and then grad ually increased until the half mil lion mark is reached The report also recommends that the army be equipped for a six-months campaign. WANTS SHORT HOURS. | PHILADELPHIA, Pa. Nov. 1S.- A resolution was adopted today by the American Federation of Labor convention which favors the ultimate adoption of slx-hour working day as solution of the unemployed problem.
 A resolution providing for the re- organization of the Federation was defeated by a big majority. TREADWELL BANKRUPT. | NEW YORK, Nov. IS. John Treadwell, one of the original own CTS of the famous Treadwell mine in Alaska. has filed a petition of voluntary bankruptcy. in which he places his liabilities at $3000,000. whatever.
 TURKS FIRE ON AMERICANS.
 WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov 1S.- Captain Benton c. Decker, of the American cruiser Tennessee. report ed to the navy department today that he had been fired upon by the Turkish forts at Smyrna while going ashore in launch and that imme- diately afterward he had been or dered out of the harbor by the Turkish authorities The message from the captain Is very ambiguous, it being hardly explained whether the cruiser or the launch was made the target of the Turkish guns. and requests have been sent to Decker and to Consul General Horton for full details of the incident. Am bassador Morganthau also has been communicated with, the department having requested that he investigate the affair and demand an eXplana- tion from the Porte. In the mean time, officials of the navy depart ment are not alarmed for the safety of the Tennessee. as it is consider ed that Captain Decker is amply which may arise.
 Two theories are advanced for the firing One is that the cruiser was sending a guard ashore to pro tect the American consulate, Ameri- cans and other foreign residents, and the other is that Decker had called on Consul-General Horton, who aft CT returning the call, was being taken ashore in the launch after the hours of entry prescribed by the port officiols. It Is known that the regulations are very strict and Sec retary Daniels is confident that the shots were fired as the result of a misunderstanding.
 The Tennessee is now at anchor in the harbor at Chios.
 BURDETTE DIES. l PASADENA, Cal, Nov. 19.-Robert Jones Burdette, the humorist, died at his home in this city this after noon, as the result of hardening of the arteries. For week prior to his death he lay in a state of coma, and little hope was entertain ed for his recovery.
 Burdette was born in Pennsylvania in 1844. and had national reputa- i tion as humorist. He was also a Baptist minister.
 REPORT DENIED. NEW YORK, Nov 19.-It is de- nied here that Joseph Ulmann, the furrier. has been arrested at London as German spy.
 TURKEY MUST EXPLAIN. WASHINGTON. D. C.. Nov. 19.- Visitors at the White House this afternoon were assured by President Wilson that there existed no occa- sion for uneasiness as the result of the Tennessee incident off the Turk ish coast. The executive admitted