The Alaska citizen., 1915-10-25

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 terday at the Granite mountain mine. The dead now number St, u.lleen. ana it is feared that others amount Ci damage was occasioncc by the explosion.
 SUFFRAGE DEFEATED. TRENTON. x. J. Oct 2O,-The latest returns indicate that the amendment to the state constitution. | Srant!ne equal suffrage to women. which was voted on yesterday, ha 5 been overwhelmingly defeated by a | majority of at least fifty thousand In seventeen hundred districts il which the vote had been counted. | out of a total of eighteen hundred nd ninyty-two districts, the vote was l32 .OO0 for the amendment and 1 1S700O against it. The women's committees have already started a | fight to renew the action and they are insisting that the vote yester- | day was subjected in many of the | polling places to illegal influences. WILSON VOTES.
 WASHINGTON. D. C., Oct. 20 President Wilson has the dstinctio.s of being the first Pres,dent ever to have been given the privilege of voting for women's franchise He voted for equal suffrage at the New sIsey election held yesterday STILL AT LARGE. | SEATTLE, Oct. 20.-A posse that
 is hunting for the bandits who yes
 terday held up the Renton bank has
 reported that so far no clues of any account have been found Stanley l Rees. the young man who was stand ! ing outside the bank at the time
 of the holdup, and who was shot l by one of the robbers, is in seri- ous condition.
 | BANDIT CAUGHT. | LOS ANGELES, Oct 2O-The au- tomobile bandit, Harry Duncan, was
 captured this afternoon by one of the posses engaged in his pursuit. and has been lodged in jail, charged
 with the murder of Sergeant Toolen.
 DETAINED RIGHT. | WASHINGTON. D. C., Oct. 20
 The breach of their parole by the | officers of the German auxiliary
 cruiser prinz Eitel Frederick has l reatel a great impression here a~r l is considered likely that all of the 1 interned officers and sailors will be
 placed in detention camp.
 HACKED TO DEATH | SAN FRANCISCO. Oct 2O.-At-
 tackled by love mad cripple who
 had for years pursued here Mrs ] Mary Tamias, the young and a.
 tractive wife of United Railroads | motorman, last night chased him
 through her home with a hatchet and 1 'ac?led bi "e,l 9ff his h~1v.
 then dismembered his bleeding corpse
 and hid the pieces in a box couch.
 She confessed today in the pres l ence of her husband and before Police Captain Shea Detectives af | 'e1ward found the dismembered body l f her victim exactly as Mrs Ia l nias described it. The crime oc- i cured at the flat of the woman
 en McAllister street
 | FOR THE COAST. WASHINGTON, D. C.. Oct 21
 In the appropriations that will be
 asked of the next congress for the
 national defense it is proposed to
 ask for such money as will permit
 the placing of an adequate coast l 1efense along the more important
 Narbors of the Pacific coast.
 WORK OVERTIME. | NEW YORK. Oct 21-So enor-
 nous is the amount of British gold l being received here to liquidate
 American contracts that the em. | Dloyees of the assay office have to work overtime at the task of re
 melting it.
 THE PROCLAMATION.
 WASHINGTON, D. C.. Oct. 21.-
 In the Thanksgiving proclamation
 to be issued by President Wilson | he will say that another year of
 peace has been vouchsafed to the
 country and that We have adjust cd | 0nrsalves to many responsibilities
 thrust upon us as a result of the | European war. We have been able
 to assert our rights and our ability
 to serve all who could avail them
 selves cf our services in the midst
 If an alarming crisis. By gracious | 'rovidence cur resources have been l increased and we have been blessed ny abundant crops. The ample | financial resources of the country
 Nave steadied the markets of the
 world and the extraordinary cir 1 "umstanceS With which we have been
 Nrought in contact as result of tho 1 European struggle. have done much
 to quicken our national consciences | nd deepen and confirm our conf | 1ence in the principles of peace and freedom which always ought to guide us.
 BROKE PAROLE. WASHINGTON, D. C.. Oct. 21.--
 t was announced today in reply to | inquiries made at the navy depart
 ment that only ten of the officers were missing from the German war | ships interned at Newport News The strictest search is being made | for the men who broke their parole | and if they are found they will be loosely confined.
 CONNECTED BY RAIL. PORT TOWNSEND, Oct. 21-- 'clt Angeles and Port TCwnsenA are now connected by a railroad. | The first train between the towns | arrived here this morning, carrying a group of officials of the Chica- go, Milwaukee X Puget Sound rail- road. Both towns are holding cele- brations today.
 MAY GO TO PANAMA. WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 21.- President Wilson is being urged on all sides here to combine busi ness with pleasure and to make his honeymoon trip to the Panama Ca nal. It is pointed out to him that he has not visited the waterway since he was elected President of