The Alaska citizen., 1916-01-31
arrest.
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 Millionaire Fornam Updike. who confessed two weeks ago to piJttn- the death of both their parents and slstcI. were t,,-4y Ie.easeu vH D-nG- of thirty thousand dollars each The bonds were furnished by their father who asked that the indictments against the young men be with drawn He insists that the elder injury to his head suffered in his youth.
 WILL HAVE TICKET.
 OMAHA. Jan. 26.-A meeting of the local and state leaders ot the National Progressive party was hgiG here today a which 1t was decided to place Tn the field next November a full state, congressional and pres. dential ticket The meeting Was marked with mucn enthusiasm anu was largely attended
 DYNAMITE FOUND.
 PORTLAND. Me, Jan. -f.nnu- .. dynamite to blow up the entire city was today found by the police hidden in a hole in a deserted drydo k. II is believed it was intended for use in the destruction of the Marine Hardware company's plant, aa that firm has been filling rush orders for shell cases from the French and British governments. The fed eral authorities are convinced that the plot was undertaken by pro German sympathizerS. Intense in dignation is felt here as 1t i4 real! ized that had the plot matured many lives must necessarily have been lost.
 NOTHING TO DO.
 WASHINGTON, D. C.. Jan. 27.-- The supreme court was today forced to take an indefinite vacation b. cause of lack of cases before it to try. This is the first time such condition has arisen since the organization of the court. MUST UNSHIP GUNS, WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 27.- The arrival of another armed mer- chantman in the harbor of New York, it is believed, will hasten the decision of the government as to the policy to be adopted in such cases.
 WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 27.- The government has decided not to permit the Italian merchantmen America and Verona to leave port until their guns are unshipped. Both of the vessels arrived with two guns mounted on their decks and plan to return to Italy with war material.
 TRIAL COSTLY LOS ANGELES, Jan. 27.-It is now known that the trial of Mat thew A. Schmidt, the convicted dy- namiter, cost the county eighty thousand dollars.
 COLD IN MONTANA.
 GREAT FALLS, Mont, Jan. ? - At many points in the state the thermometer $ registering 60' be low zero and the greatest suffering is being occasioned In several of the small communities the residents are facing a coal famine. It is known that already seven persons have been frozen to death.
 TALKS ON PEACE
 NEW YORK, Jan. 27-President Wilson arrived in this city this morning He will make three ad- dresses while here, the topic of at least one of them being the pro gram for national preparedness. NEW YORK. Jan. 27.-Before a conference of the New York fed eration of churches this afternoon President Wilson delivered an ad- dress, taking for his theme the pos abilities of peace.
 WAS COUSIN OF HIS.
 NEW YORK, Jan. 27.-Eugenc Van Schaick, the president of the Knickerbocker Oil and Gas com pany, committed suicide this after noon, his friends ascribing the act to ill-health and financial reverses. He was a cousin of Colonel Theo- dore Roosevelt.
 BANDITS MAKE HAUL. CHICAGO, Jan. 277.-Five youths, heavily armed this morning entered the Washington Park National bank and held up the cashier, the corps of clerks and about twenty deposi- tors who were in the bank at the time. Securing fifteen thousand dol lars in currency from the cashier, they backed out of the building and jumping into a high powered auto mobile made their escape. None of the youthful bandits were more than twenty years of age, but they acted with the greatest coolness, two of them collecting the money while the other kept those in the bank covered with their guns Chase was at once given to the automobile, but trace of the bandits was ob- tained by the police up to a late hour tonight.
 DOYLE UNDER FIRE.
 INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 27.-Doyle, the secretary of the Colorado Min CTS union, whose conduct of the Colorado strike was sustained at the convention is again under fire.
 OFFICIAL ARRESTED.
 CHICAGO, Jan. 27.-John Lynch, assistant superintendent of mails, was arrested today and charged with stealing money from the mails. Having come under suspicion a trap was laid for Lynch by the post office inspectors and sufficient evi- dence to insure his conviction was secured.
 ATTAlNs GOOD SPEED
 BOSTON, Jan 27.-The United States superdreadnaught Oklahoma was given speed tryout today, and, according to official reports sent to Washington, attained P knots per hour.
 lWAUkEE HAS WRECK.
 ELLENSBURG, Jan. 27.-In col lision between the east bound Co., lumbian express, of the Chicago, Mil waukee & St. Paul railroad, and the west bound second section of the Columbian express, which occurred near Servia this morning, Engineer George Raiggs. of Spokane, was inc nil lillnH fran