The Alaska citizen., 1916-09-04

went out on strike today. demanding that for'y-ejght hours constitute a . weeks work and that all employees ! % -lygu an increase uf len per cent .u wages.
 The employers declare that they wHI not meet either demand of the laborers and that they will be able to replace rho employees within few days
 SAFE BLOWERS WORKING
 DANTILIE. H. Aug. 24 SiN rob ber- blew up the safe in two banks at Homer. Illinois. al an early hour this morniul escaping in all auto mobile The robbers succeeded in making their successful getaway. talk ing with them $l3uoo in gold and currency. They were pursued for several miles. but succeeded in elud- ing the officers.
 CRUISER ON ROCKS.
 WASHINGTON. D. C, Aug. 80 \ cablesram to the navy depart mcnt tonight announces that the |. . armored cruiser Memphis is on the rocks in the harbor of Santo Domingo The lives of more than 2o Of her crew were lost when a launch Capsized
 MANY TO TAKE OATH
 PORTLAND. Aug. 70 This city will be the scene of q big public demonstration when 200 aliens who applied for their American naturaii- zation will take the oath of citizen ship. The celebration will take plac" on the first day ol September. 'KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO.'
 WASHINGT0N. p. C. Aug. &o.# God forgive you, l cannot These were the last words uttered by Presi dent Wilson in his final interview with the railroad executives. when they submitted their final proposi ton. rejecting every effort and srg gestion that the President had made for a peaceful settlement.
 ASSUMING STRIKE CERTAIN.
 CHICAGO. Aug 30 The mana gers of all the railroads running out of this city are assuming that the strike will be called on Monday next al o'clock. and are preparing to act accordingly. To this end the presidents of the roads will meet at the Chicago club for con terence tomorrow.
 STAYING IT OFF.
 WASHINGTON. D. C.. Aug. 30 President Wilson is making an ef fort today to induce railroad em ployees ta call off or postpone their strike order, which is effective Sep 'euber 4th.
 WHAT RAILROADERs SAY.
 CHICAGO. Aug. 3O.-Throughout the entire country the railroads are gathering their forces to oppose the strike They state that they can not and will not meet the demands made by President Wilson.
 President Ripley, of the Santa Fe lines in discussing what the roads would do if the strike occurred said this:
 We will make every possible of fort to run one passenger train on each of the runs of our lines After the passenger trains. perishables will be given the preference
 II believe that the public will he surprised at the number of our old rmpIoyees who will be with us al their stations and on the road. even if the strike is declared We have in our employ hundreds of men whom l confidently believe will re main loyal to their employers"
 President Ripley did not criticize he President very much:
 The legislation which President Wilson seeks to have enacted k obviously reasonable and obviously necessary. and I believe that it will come. The roads are not fighting the eisht-hour law as much as they are fighting for the right to regu late their affairs so that the law can be made possibility without the loss of money to the roads or to the employees l am certain that there are very few men on the Santa Fe system who will de sert the line on Labor Day.
 MOB RULE IN OHIO.
 LIMA. Ohio, Aug 3O,-A mob of 1000 people surrounded the jail here an attempt to lynch Charles Dan iels, negro, held for assaulting Mrs John Barber. white woman of this vicinity An armed band of farmers are gathered from the neighborhood in which the Barbers live Someone brought the report to Lima that the farmers were coming Sheriff Ely disappeared He was reported to have taken his prisoner to the new Lima hospital for criminal insane, the strongest in stitutlon of its kind in the world An armed mob. using 90 autos, has left the city of Lima for the hos pital. two miles out
 After two hours search of the jail the crowd came out Some of them left, but there is still a big crowd of them armed with rifles and shotguns guarding the jail so that if the negro is there he can not escape.
 At S:3O o'clock last night. the mob overpowered the police sher- ifs and the deputies and entered the jail The sheriff's wife opened all the cells. but the mob failed to find the negro.
 The mob was still holding the office and the residence of the sher- if. The blood hungry crowd found the sheriff at the Elks' club. He was hiding. The men took him out dragged him to the principal street of this town, put moose around his neck and threatened to hang him unless he disclosed the hiding place of the negro,
 As yet the sheriff has refused to give in
 GUARDSMEN RETURNING.
 WASHINGTON. b C.. Aug 3O- Orders for the return of 15,O0O Ma tional guardsmen to their mobiliza tion camps were issued by the war department tonight General Fun ston has been directed to return