The Alaska citizen., 1916-04-17
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STRIKE ELIMINATED.

| per hour and the strike that has been on for week is thus termi- mated The employers reserve the privilege of the open shop. LANG DISMISSED.
 SEATTLE. April 1O.-Mayor Gill announced this afternoon that he will ask Chief Lang for his resigna- tion tomorrow. He has already rendered the position to Donald Bol- son, superintendent of the Monroe reformatory but MT. Bolson has de Clined to accept 1t. The mayor de clares that Lang blundered beyond excuse by arresting a man without warrant and holding him because he refused to diyulge the source from which he secured the liquor ne had in his possession.
 ANOTHER NEW ONE. WASHINGTON, D. C.. April 10.- There is a report current in official circles to the effect that Meredith Nicholson, the novelist, is slated by President Wilson for the office o1 assistant secretary of war.
 WANTS INTERVENTION WASHINGTON, D. C.. April l0.- Albert Bushnell Hart, before the eleventh annual convention of the Navy League, declared that the United States should establish a protectorate in Mexico. He added that the American navy must pro tect the Monroe doctrine. Other speakers present attacked Henry rords peace propaganda. COST IS TOO HIGH. | WASHINGTON, D. C., April 10.- A preliminary report was submitted today by the Federal Trade com mission as to it's investigation into the current price of gasoline. hTe report charges that in many cases artificial manipulation is evident, the increase in cost not being war ranted by the cost of production md distribution.
 e5 PAROLED. 1 MONROE, Wash, April 10.-In line with the prison reform move ments of other states, today ninety five inmates of the Washington State Reformatory at this place were paroled, pending their future good l behavior.
 COAST MAN APPOINTED. | SEATTLE, April 10.-Dr Henry K Benson, industrial chemist at the | University of Washington, was to- day appointed a member of the naval advisory board by Secretary of the Navy Daniels, in recognition of his work in connection with the utilization of the by-prOducts of the lumber industry.
 TRIAL SLOW.
 LOS ANGELES. April 10.-The proceedings in connection with the ! trlal O. Ddvld Cap,an, wno was in dicted for murder in connection with the dynamiting of the Los An geles Times building, on October l, 1910, are progressing but slowly, the ninth juror to try the case hay ing been accepted today.
 CLINE RELEASED. i SEATTLE, April 10.-Oliver Cline, who was recently charged with em- bezzlement from the Pacific Coast Steamship company, has been re- 1 leased on his own reCognizance and is now going over the books with officials of the company in an at tempt to explain the shortages.
 PLEADS MOT GUILTY" NEW YORK, April 10.-Dr. Waite, who is accused of administering poison to his rich fatherin-law. ap- peared before the court of general sessions today and entered a plea of not guilty. His counsel, how ever, asked leave to withdraw or amend this plea within ten days.
 NEW CHIEF NAMED.
 SEATTLE, April 11.-Charles L. Rockingham was today appointed chief of police by Mayor Hi Gill, to succeed Chief Lang, deposed by the mayor because of alleged ir-egulari- ties in the conduct of his office. The new chief is a man forty years of age, unmarried and a native of Vic toria. He was formerly in the real estate business and for several years he held Commissionership He declares that he will wage a fast and furious warfare against the bootleggers and do everything in his power to upheld the state pro hibition law.
 Chief Rockingham was resident of Nome in 1901, at which time he was engaged in mining.
 CONFESSION IS FAKE. SAN FRANCISCO, April 11.-Of ficials of the postoffice department declare that the confession alleged to have been made by James Moran to the effect that he participated in the Liberty ferry robbery in New York, when million dollars in stamps and securities was stolen, is fake or purely a myth existing in the mans imagination They de clare that Moran was an inmate of the San Quentin penitentiary at the time the theft occurred. Moran recently made his confession to the police of San Diego,
 JURY COMPLETED.
 LOS ANGELES, April 1.-The jury which will try the case of the United States vs. David Caplan, ir which the defendant is accused of murder because of his connection with the Los Angeles dynamiting cases, was completed today and the taking of testimony will start to- morrow.
 SUSSEX AFFAIR UP.
 WASHINGTON, D. C., April 10.- The cabinet spent the entire day in considering the German submarine issue It Is understood that Ger many has outlined her future policy, but this will not be announced until the note from Germany in regard to the Sussex affair arrives.
 WILSON FAVORED.
 OKLAHOMA CITY, April H. Democrats gathered at the state convention today indorsed President Wilson and adoDted a resolution de-