The Alaska citizen. (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1910-1917, 1915-03-15

Fully a score of local bakers have
been placed under arrest on the
charge of selling short weight loaves
Of bread. and it is reported that
sufficient evidence has been obtained
TO insure the punishment of others
who have been buncoing the public.
OPINION REVERSED.
WASHINGTON. u. c.. March 3
The supreme court Of the United
States has handed down decision
annulling the North Dakota Ignite
coal freight rate and tie West Viz
ginia two-cent fare on railroads, the
jurists holding that a state has no
right to compel a railroad to carry
freight or passengers at loss.
ON WATER WAGON.
ST. PAUL March l0-The com
plete returns for 200 municipal cleo
lions held throughout this state yes
terday show that the prohibition
forces have been successful in more
than thirty towns which We're pre-
vlously in the wet column. OF the
towns previously dry. practically all
of them remained so.
TESTIFY FOR THAW
NEW YORK, March 1O-Seyeral
attendants who We're in the employ
of the state at Matteawan hospital
at the time Harry Thaw was cor
fined in that institution, took the
witness stand today in behalf OF
the escape and testified regarding
mis- quiet der,eanor during his i'm
prisonment there. They declared
that he had never been violent and
otherwise had every appearance of
being sane.
Thaw will take the stand himself
soon and relate the story of his es-
cape in an effort to convince the
jury OF his sanity.
HELEN KELLER STRICKEN
AUSTIN. Texas. March 10.-Heleu
through the States. has been com
PEELED TO abandon her trip tempo
rarily as the result of an attack of
pneumonia,
TO FIGHT INDIANS.
SALT LAKE, March 1o-Mai.
Gen. Hugh L. Scott, to whom has
been assigned the task of subduing
the mutinous Piutes in this state.
is now enroute across the country
to the scene Of the recent trouble
near Bluff. He is travelling part
way by automobile and will make
the last leg of the journey astride
mule.
ENDS IT ALL
SEATTLE. March 10.-Wilbur
Lewis, secretarytreasurer of the
Robinson company, a pioneer real
estate concern of this city. com
mitted suicide today by shooting
himself in the head, for reasons
which have not yet been disclosed.
Lewis was one Of the most active
members of the Arctic club and for
two years acted as secretary of the
organization. He leaves a widow and
two children.
ON GUARD.
WASHINGTON, d. c.. March IL
The navy department has ordered
two destroyers to proceed to New
York for the purpose of protecting
that harbor and assisting the au-
thorities in maintaining neutrality.
ThAW TALKS.
NEW YORK March II. Harry
ThaW. who is on trial in this city
on the charge of conspiracy in con
nection with his escape from the
state hospital for criminal insane at
Matteawan, took the stand today in
his own behalf and related the de
tails of his escape in perfectly
lucid manner Judge Page ruled
out all of the testimony regarding
the sanity of the defendant, except
enough to show that Thaw had suf
ficient mental capacity to enter into
the conspiracy charged against him.
TIDE HAS TURNED.
WASHINGTON, D. c.. March IL
According to bulletin just issued
by the government, there are more
foreigners leaving the United States
at present than are arriving, the
change in the tide of immigration
being due to the conflict in Europe.
MAKING INQUIRY.
WASHINGTON, d. c.. March IL
President Wilson has ordered a
searching inquiry for the purpose of
fixing the responsibility for the
sinking of the American grain ship
Frye, which was sent to the bot
tom of the ocean by the German
auxiliary cruiser Prince Eitel Fred
erick. In view of the fact that it
has been decided that wheat is not
contra band OF war it is generally
agreed that Germany will have diff
ficulty in making satisfactory ex-
PLANTATION of the action of the cruis-
er.
The crew Of the Frye, who have
gone to Norfolk, testified today that
their vessel was located by the Ger
man cruiser while the Frye was be
Gained. They We're ordered to throw
the cargo Of wheat overheard and
because the work did not proceed
quickly enough to suit the Germans
the Americans We're ordered into
their small BOATS and their ship was
sunk by the German guns.
Captain Thierrichsen. master of
the crippled cruiser admitted today
that he had sunk three other YES
sells in the Pacific. but had landed
their crews at the nearest ports.
The list Of victims of the Prince
Eitel Frederick includes the British
sailing ship Invoice the British
steamships Mary Short and Willerby,
the French steamship Florida. the
French sailing vessels Pierre Lot,
and Jacobson, and the Russian sail
ing vessel Isabel Brown. The crews
Of all these ships were taken pris-
oners, and among then are many
undesirable foreigners who will not
be permitted to enter the United
States. They will be deported at the
expense of their home governments
SESSION is OVER.
OLYMPIA, Wash. March 1.-THE
Fourteenth session of the Washing
ton legislature will come to an end