The Alaska citizen., 1916-01-24
OF INTEREST
 ID ALASKANS
SAIIINGS NORTH.

ANIlIi al dlIdSH Ut anu ttA' "'lINl son are scheduled to sail tonight Other sailings of the Admiral line will be on January 29, February 9 February 26 March ,, and after that every Sunday morning at II o'clock. The Alaska Steamship company will have sailings on January 20, January 90. February 10, February, 20 anL February % The sailings from Cordova will be about eight days later in each case.
 ALAskANS GUESTS.
 SEATTLE. Jan. 1S.-Bishop P. T. Rowe. of Alaska. and Colonel w. L Stevenson. president of the Skagway Commercial club, were the guests of honor today at a luncheon given by the Alaska bureau of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce.
 LANE AFTER MONEY.
 WASHINGTON. D. C.. Jan. 1S.-- The request for an appropriation or two million dollars for continuing the work of tke Alaska railroad was up today for consideration before the house committee on appropria- tions, the secretary of the interior, Franklin K Lane, appearing in per
 
 money. Mir. Lane stated that the funds for the current year are in sufficient to continue the work with the desired speed It is probable that the appropriation will be merged in the urgent deficiency bill that will be passed this week.
 FAvoRAeLY REPORTED
 WASHINGTON. n C.. Ian. 19-- The House Appropriations commit tee today reported favorably upon the request for funds for tNe Alas kan engineering commission. to carry on the work of the government rail road in Alaska The $2,000,000 needed now to carry on the work will be included in the deficiency bill. which was also reported upon today.
 TWELVE IN HOSPITAL.
 JUNEAU. Jan. 2O.-There are twelve patients in the local hospital suffering from prostrations occasion ed by the blizzard or from freezing. One man will probably lose one or both of his legs.
 NEW BOAT FOR RUN
 SEATTLE, Jan. 20.-The steam ship Umatilla, of the Pacific Coast Steamship company, is now being converted into an oilburner and eX tcnsive renovation is being made to the interior of the vessel. She will replace the Senator on the Seattle Nome run during the coming season
 LlNDEBERG HONORED.
 SEATTLE, Jan. 20.-Word has reached this city that King Haakon of Norway, has conferred the order of St. Olaf on Jafet Lindeberg, the well known Nome mining man.
 This honor was conferred on Lin deberg for meritoriOus services ren- dered to NorWegians in the United States, and for assistance rendered sufferers in Norway during one of the greatest fires that ever oc- cured in that country.
 INJURED BY EXPLOSION.
 WRANGEL, Jan. 20.-While John a plumber, was patching a leak in a gasoline tank today an explosion occurred injuring him ter ribly He was taken to the hospital at once but died shortly after his arrival there.
 BLIZZARD AT JUNEAU.
 JUNEAU, Jan. 2O.-A blizzard which started yesterday afternoon reached it's height at midnight. It continued all day and is unabated tonight The thermometer which showed 1O0 above zero yesterday, has steadily dropped until tonight it registers 16' below zero. Tonight the wind has attained a velocity of seventy five miles an hour. Within an hours time three small fires oc- cured this afternoon, the damage being small. however The water mains in the high sections of the city have broken and the city off cials have men employed to act all night as fire patrol.
 No sessions of the district court were held as the officials were un- able to leave home.
 WILL CALL FOR BIDS.
 SEATTLE, Jan. 20.-The purchas- ing department of the Alaska ral- way is working hard on the specifi- cations for orders soon to be placed for the equipment of the railroad shops at Anchorage. Calls for bids, it was announced by the head of the department today, will be issued in the course of a short time
 TERM OF COURT CALLED.
 JUNEAU, Jan 20.-Judge Jen- nings has called a second term of the district court to open on March sixth. Both petit and grand juries will be in attendance. The case with murder and kidnapping, is the most important to be heard It is expected that a special investigator will be sent from the department of justice at Washington to assist the local officials Kazis KraucZunas. who ran for delegate to congress on the Socialist ticket, will defend Krause.
 BILL PASSES.
 WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 21.- The house today passed the urgent deficiency bill which incudes the Alaska railroad appropriation of two million dollars The money will be made available on February first, as by Secretary of the In terior Lane.
 WILL TAKE OLD RUN.
 SEATTLE, Jan. 21.-The Pacific Coast Steamship company announced today that the steamer Senator would resume the run from San Francisco to Nome next June. In shipping circles the arrangement is regarded as the result of prohibition in Washington.
 VALDEZ HAS FIRE.
 VALDEZ, Jan. 21.-While strong wind was blowing this morning, with the thermometer registering 15o be- low, fire broke out in Schmidt's bakery that for a time threatened to assume large proportions. Stren- uous efforts, on the part of the