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The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-26
BOLSHEvIKI LOSING.

London, Dec. 26. = Petrograd dispatches received here indicate that the Bolsheviki power is wan. ing on account of general lack of authority, because of increase in drunkenness, reluctance of the pop. ulation to work and produce any thing, the scarcity of food and the desire of the soldiers for peace.
 Correspondents in support of their contention cite instances of the Bolsheviki troops refusing to march against the enemy and in de- ching to attack the Ukranians, and permitting the Cossacks to disarm many of them without resistance.
 Many of the rank and file call Bolsheviki leaders hirelings of Ger many and the leaders themselves ap- pear to becoming conscious that hopeless failure stares them in the face.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-26
RAILROADS TO
 TAKE UP TIME
 OF PRESIDENT
Likely That Williams or McAd0o Will Be Named Railway Admin
 iStratOr.

WASHINGTON, Dec 26. John Skelton Williams. comptroller of the currency, is being discussed as the probable selection for federal railway administrator. should President Will son decide to appoint one.
 In the event that Williams is not chosen, it is expected that Secre- tary McAdoo will undertake the work. Mir McAdoo will not resign as secretary of the Treasury, but will surround himself with cabinet of railway men.
 These developments all point to the evident decision of the President to begin an early investigation of the railways, with view of making them more effective for aiding the war. although no official announce ment has been made.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-26
All Fish Products Placed , on Market Must Have Quality and Right
 Prices. GOVERNMENT IS BUSY Will Not Recommend Anv Foods Unless They Meet
 the Standard of
 Government

WASHINGTON, Dec 26. The quality and price of new fish foods placed on the market through the assistance of the Department of Com merce must conform to the standards set by the government, or the pro- ducers will not get the benefit of official recommendations of such foods.
 The leather shortage is being off set somewhat by the use of fish skins. samples of which are being exhibited by Secretary Redfield in his office.
 Shark, whale, porpose and grey fish are producing acceptable leather for many useful purposes
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-26
BY PORCUPINE ROUTE.

Saettle, Dec. 26.-The explorer left Victoria June IF, 1913, aboard the Karluck. His boat was wreck ed in the Arctic and he bought a new boat year ago to continue his quest for a new continent.
 The fact that he arrived at Fort YfKsn indicates that The failed to complete his intended westward trip through the Northeast Passage from Melville Island.
 It is believed that he must have spent the winter on Melville island It is believed that the ice breaking too late changed his plans and that he probably retraced his steps to Mckenzie river and then crossed Rat Portage and came down the Porcupine river to Fort Yukon.
 It was the belief of Stefansson that a continent existed westward owing to the drift of the Arctic current and because of the wild game which disappeared in that direction. He is supposed to have sighted land on former explora- tion trip.
 Stefansson also discovered the blonde Eskimo
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-26
SOLDIERS TO GET CLOTHES
 IMMEDIATELY All Redtape Routine Is to Be Suspended to See That They Are Clad
 Warmly.

WASHINGTON, Dec. ee ssousea over reports of the shortage q ~iA-. ter clothing in army eaa1oainenf the Senate military committee sas adopted resolution requesting ssos retary Baker at once ascertain the conditions by wire and supply tho troops. All government red tape and routine is ordered suspended, If necessary, in order to purchase the supplies from sources nearest the camps.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-26
NOT HINDER FREE SPEECH.

Washington, Dec. 26.-In con nection with the evidence of a worldwide plot to overthrow pres ent social conditions, the United States government will raise TO ob- jection to agitation which does not interfere with the progress of the war. Officials declare that it was never intended to use war emergen- cies as an excuse to suppress free speech.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-26
BOMB THREAT
 FOR MONEY TO
 THE GOVERNOR

SACRAMENTO, Dec 26-The gov ernor has received a letter stating that nine bombs will be placed un- der the executive mansion and the capitol building. as well as the DO. lice station, unless $50.000 is placed on a rock pile near Oakland by Mon day next.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-26
STAGE DRIVER IS HANGED BY
 MEXICAN MEN
Troops from Mexico Cross the Border and Loot
 Border Town and
 Rob Stage. AMERICANS PURSUING

FL PASO. Tex, Dec. 26.-Mexi- cans crossed the border and raided the border town of Candelaria and robbed the mail stage and footed the mail sacks yesterday
 They hanged Mickey" Welch, an American stage driver, in the door way of store.
 It is reported that two Mexican passengers in the stage were shot.
 American troops are in pursuit
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-26
TEUT0N IGNORE PROMISE MADE
 TO RUSSIANS
Are Withdrawing Troops from Eastern Section Despite Recent Ar
 miStiCe.

DATELESS - While the German guns were bombarding the Western front, the Germans are taking troops from the Eastern front to use else where despite the provision of the Russian armistice prohibiting such transfers.
 The artillerymen are most active on the right bank of the Mouse river northeast of Verdun. The German infantry is not active.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-26
SOLE ARBITRATOR
 FOR SETTLING THE
 LABOR DIFFERENCES

CHICAGO, Dec 26. = formal agreement whereby John E. Williams. fuel administrator for the State of Illinois. becomes sole arbitrator of the differences between the packing houses and their employees. was signed with the agreement of Will Hams today.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-26
CREW DENIES RUMORS.

Pacific Port, Dec. 26.--Captain Boris Dogal. master of the Russi- ar freighter Shilka, denies the re- ports that the vessel carried funds for the support of I. W. w. mem bers in the United Statse, and de- clares that the crew did not mutiny as alleged, and says that the anc- munition found aboard by U. g.. marines was placed aboard the freighter when it was formerly used as a naval vessel.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-26
REVOLUTIONARY PLOT.

Petrograd. Dec. 26.-Bolsheviki headquarters have received news of a revolutionary plot in Rumania, against King Ferdinand. The lat ter reports that the Bolsheviki had defeated coco troops under Gen. Korniloff.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-26
Canned Whale To Be Produced on
 Pacific Seaboard

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 2G.-The California Sea Products Company and Victoria Whaling Company have been given permission to operate whale canning plants along the coast and are prepared to produce 0,000 cases annaully.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-26
Night Watchman Is Fired Upon by
 Two Unknown Men

SEATTLE. Dec. Z6.-Sam Braf ford. night watchman of the Pacific Coast steel giant reports that two loiterers fired as him shortly after midnigl6 He wss not injured. The men flea as seua as they fired the shots.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-26
German Savavery

WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY, Dec 26.-The murder of the Amer ican sentry is compared to the mur- der on the parts of the savages of the Philippines when the American bulletin tells how the Germans are turning women and children out of their homes into the snow and then using the buildings for soldiers and horses and war material
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-26
Draft Machinery. Is Invoked for
 the First Time

WASHINGTON. Dec. 26 The new draft machinery was invoked for the first time when Gen. Crow calling for the mobilization of unit of 1000 bricklayers urgently needed by Gen. Pershing's command
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-26
Renewed Pledges

WASHINGTON, Dec 26 Re newed pledges to the cause of d worlds democracy from all ranks of the expeditionary American force in France were given in message from Gen. Pershing containing the diers
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-26
Abandon Positions

ROME, Dec 26--An official bul letin says that the positions taken by the Italians on the Asiago Plat eau were taken again by the Ger mans In the TeutOn counter at tacks the Italians were unable tc hold them.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-26
TO RELIEVE GUNS.

WASHINGTON. Dec 26.-Arsen- als to make and repair all ordnance used by the American army are in a'nae3 in plans for American bases 5eins established in France. Every 1ee dass all guns large and small s,zaS on the trench lines are .shot eps cessitating being refined.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-26
Believed He Came from Rat Portage Down PorCupine River
 Route.
FAILED IN HIS PURPOSE
Not Likely That He Suc- Ceeded in His Plans for His West
 ward Trip

OTTAWA, Dec. 26.-Viljhalmer Stefansson with his party has reach ed Fort Yukon, Alaska. Merely the arrival of the party there with out any details was contained ill the official message received here today by the naval department.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-26
HOLIDAY GIFTS
 FROM AMERICAN
 RED CROSS ORDER

VENICE. Dec. 26. On Tuesday holiday gifts from the American Red Cross So- ciety were distributed in the Italian trenches along the low CT Piave river by the Ameri- cansul at Venice.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-26
Soldiers Build a Hugh Christmas Tree for the French Children
 Near Them.
AN AMERICAN MURDERED
Sentry Is Found with His Throat Cut; Ameri- cans Injured in An
 Auto Accident.

DATELESS - Americans in the first war Christmas finds them training at French and American camps and guarding ocean lanes from submarines. It is the fourth war Christmas for European bel ligerents, and the first Christmas in 100 years since Jerusalem and Bethlehem were in the hands of the Christians
 Military operations during Christ mas were almost at q standstill. save in Italy. where the Teutons are persisting in trying to break through the lines of the Italians.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-26
INVESTIGATION OF RAILWAYS BEGINS
 IN SENATE SOON

WASHINGToN. Dec. 26.-An in yestigation of the railways under the Cummin's resolution will begin before the Senate next Saturday.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-26

in which to formulate a reply to the Russians demanding the evacua- tion of Russian territory, have been delayed another day again. according to Petrograd dispatch which says the Germans have asked for postponement until Jan. 24th.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-26
TEUTON AGENTS USE POISON ON
 SICK BANDACES
DastardIy Plot Discovered in Time and Agents Searching for the
 Guilty Ones.

CLEVELAND. Dec. 26.-A plot to poison Red Cross bandages and jeans and their allies has been ex posed here and frustrated Govern ment agents are searching for the offenders.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-26
GREECE WANTS HER CITIZENS
 TO HELP CAUSE
Asks Them to Enlist with the American Army and Will See They
 Are Rewarded.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.-A note from the Greek government requests her citizens in the United States to enlist in the American army The note says Greece will reward them for supporting the American cause under arms.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-26
TO SEND OUT AGENTS.

Petrograd, Dec. 26.-The Bolshe- wiki have decided to send special representatives to every nation, bel ligerent and neutral alike, to fur ther their propaganda of interna- tionalism. Two million rubles have been appropriated for this purpose.
 RUS0-GERMAN PEACE PLANS.
 London, Dec. 26.-The Ruso-Ger- man peace negotiations which were to have been resumed Monday, and postponed to give the Geramns time
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-26
STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK. Dec. 26. : Alaska Gold closed at 17s. American Zinc at 101a. Butte & Superior at 14R. Chino at 3S%.
 Nevada Cons. at IT. Ray at 20A.
 Utah Copper at TIA.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-26
Italians Retake Positions

ROME, Dec 26.-The Italian forces have recaptured positions along the Aisago Plateau. after an all-days engagement The Teutons lost nu merous guns.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-26
American Murdered

WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY, Dec. 26-'An American sentry was found with his throat cut. It is of ficially declared that the soldier was probably killed and murdered in cold blood after being captured. The sen try was surprised by an overwhelm- ing force of Germans.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-26
An Auto Accident

WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY, Dec. 26.-Two officers and two ser geants were injured in an auto ac- cident when their machine sl1dded from the road and overturned The injured soldiers are attached to the aviation section of Pershing's com mand.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-26
Santa Claus There

WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, Dec. 26.-The Ameri- acns capitulated before Santa Claus. After receiving their own. presents the soldiers communicated the big Y. M. c. A. hut. and built huge Christmas tree for the French kid dies. Sentries kept the inquisitive kiddies away. while the soldiers worked on the tree. The hall and tree were loaded with presents and toys for everyone.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-26
Another Report

WITH THE ITALIAN ARMY, Dee 26.-The Italians have recaptured Del Rosa and Monte Val Bella on the Asiago Plateau. Later the German fire forced the Italians to surrender them again.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-26
NEWLANDs IS DEAD

WASHINGTON. Dec. 26.-Senator Francis G. Newlands. of Nevada. died Monday.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-02-08
NEWS or lie DAY CONCERNING CHICAGO

lima, found destitute by police.
Rep. B. F. Gutenberg introduced
bill in legislature to bar women from
smoking in public.
Charges filed with trial board
against ex-Chief HeaIey and Billy
Lutthardt
Company C, Third III. infantry, I'M
der scarlet fever quarantine.
Harry Prince, 115 w. Madison, and
Seven Olson, 116 W. Ontario, stabbed
in war argument. Jas. Kayde, 615
Wells, held.
Fred Pugge, 90, 4243 Wentworth
av., hurt by auto of F. A. Hart, S725
S. Halsted, died
Mrs. Elizabeth Julian, 1920 S.
Springfield av, died after eating
oysters and mushrooms.
DR.. Frank K. Billings, i'll of pneu-
mOnia, recovering.
Delta Epsilon fraternity, Univ. of
Chicago, Guaranteed. Scarlet fever.
Woman found suffering from am
nesia in Evanston identified as Mrs.
Carrie Hruby, 1926 S. Kedzie av.
Casualty Co. demands proof of the
robbery Of SamI Sandack's jewelry
store, 6312 S. Halsted, before paying
$500 insurance.
Seventeen Chicago men left for
France to join ambulance corps.
Donald OIcese, Oak lark, refuses
to withdraw candidacy for village
trustee in opposition to J. L. Fyffe.
Libby Martin, arrested on charge
of running disorderly fiat at 2703
Wabash, obtained her goth cOntin-
uance.
Robert w. Gunther, alias Herbert
LaCkley, alias H. L. Herrick, who
posed as nephew of ex-AmbassadOr
MyrOn Herrick and obtained money
at banks, wanted by police.
Chicago Motor Bus Co. to operate
line on South Side boUlevards this
summer.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-02-08

Thos. ChamaIes, owner of Green
Mill Gardens, 1890 Broadway, sued
for l a. m. violation.
Jesse E. Marvin, 3247 Warren aV.,
sued for divorce by Edith G. Marvin.
DesertiOn, nOnsuppOTt and too much
mother-in-law, she charges.
Restaurant license of Chas. Sallas,
1885 Madison, revoked. Police say
liquor was sold there.
Federal court of appeals reversed
sentence and fine imposed on Josiah
T. and Burchard R. Hair, charged
with using mails to defaIud.
Thos. w. Davidson wants divorce
from Mabel A. Davidson. Named
Frank Hampton.
Aid. Horne wants city to charge
10 cents, instead of 6 cents, a barrel
for oil inspection.
Martin Ertle, Frank Davis and
Frank Stevens, chauffeuTs, held to
grand jury on charge of stealing auto
tires.
Coroner's jury decided Mrs. Mar
garet Hare, 1929 Prairie aY., came to
death by accidentally mixing bOraciC
acid and rat poison in pancake flour.
Milan Hurting, 1884 S. Hoyne av.,
shot. Died Jos. E. \Lemming,
railroad detective, taken into GUS
tody.
Mrs. Ethel Rose O'Connor, 10 S.
Homan av., wants separate mainte-
nance from David O'Connor, Board
of Trade. Found letters he wrote to
Gladys"
Blanche Pyne, Juvenile Detention
Home, stricken with scarlet fever
after caring for young charges who
were i'll.
Mrs. and Mrs. Max Epstein gave
100000 to proposed Univ Of Chi
cago medical school.
Frank /. Schoell, Univ. of Chicago,
lost hearing in left ear fighting in
France.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-08

Harrisburg Consistory. The original
church at Harris and Susquehanna
streets was dedicated November "a,
1895. This building became too small
for the growing congregation and
school,, and the new church was built
and dedicated June 5, 1910. The
church and Sunday school is having
an unusual era of prosperity. The
present rate of growth will soon tax
the capacity of the present building,
says the Rev. George F. Schaum, who
will have charge of the services on
Sunday.
The Rev. Mr.. Schaum has been pas
tor of the church for four years. The
congregation is making a unanimous
request to the annual conference that
he be returned.
To Pray For Wilson. - Resolutions
calling upon ministers and congrega-
tons of the United Evangelical
churches to offer prayers asking for
Divine guidance for President Wilson
and his advisers, were adopted at the
monthly meeting of United Evangeli-
cal ministers of Harrisburg and vicin-
ity. The Rev. M. l.. Burger, of Mil
lersburg, spoke on Social Purity"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-08

greatly worried concerning its out
come.
I'VE will suppose that you are in a
position to obtain leniency from the
government in return for valuable
consideration.
THE proposition / want to make is
simply this: If these purely hypothe-
tical slaughterers were to place infor'
nation in your hands. supported by
affidavits that would result in the COIL
viction of many shippers of tuberculaI
cows who send their animals through
interstate commerce, would you guar
antee to my hypothetical clients. In
consideration of such services to be
rendered by them to the government
that any case the government might
have against them would be drop
ped?'
told him / would give him an an
swer on the following day.
then consulted with Jason Rogers
Henry j. Wright, and William Shilla-
her, Jr., publisher, editor and treas.
urer of the New York Globe. They ad-
vised me to deal with the slaughterers
and to begin at once negotiations be-
tween them and the government.
The attorney never returned. The
government dropped the case.
waited a month, and then reported
the facts, November 13, 1914. to DR.
Sigismund S. Goldwater, commissioner
of health of New York City.
Three days later, Monday, Novem'
ber 16, 1914, In response to a tele'
phone communication from DR.. Gold
water | met him and discussed the
subject in person.
The unfolding of these facts at thi!
| time are necessary in order that thu
full significance of the events that
without molestation, continued t.
! transpire until January, 1917, may bt
| fully ilnderStOOd
In justice to DR.. Goldwater it mus
| be said that in addition to being
| throughout the short term served b,
| him, the best health commissions
| New York City ever had, he was pro
| foundly interested in bringing to al
end the horrible conditions concern
ing the existence of which he had ad
ditional information from othe
| sources.
| Under his regime, however, his sub
ordinates either would not or coulC
not give him any assistance in bring
ing the meat inspection conspiracy Il
an end and he found himself power
less to interfere with any of it's iniqui
| ties.
In January, 1916. the operations o
| the protected slaughterers, during tn
administration of Health Commits
sioner DR.. Haven Emerson, had be
come so bold that I made another. al
though unofficial, effort to bring then
| to an end.
The extraordinary results of tha
effort now await action by Congress
although it may be safely assumed
based on past performance, that Con
gress will not act until the peopl
! themselves manifest some clear un
derstanding of the significance of tn
remarkable events about to be de
scribed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-08
Room THEY BUILD OR
- ~ " ~ - DESTROY
AMAZING BUT RARELY SUSPECTED
TRUTHS ABOUT THE THINGS YOU EAT
NiSssfxnt Nf4sa ~ tMecca%nnSy c% y By ALFRED w. McCANN

The Trail of the Tubercular Old
Cow, Rejected, For Nonpaymcn'
of Her Board, From the Farmers
Dairy Herd, Is Again Picked Up on
Its way to the Most Significant of All
the Revelations of Official Corruption
With Which This Appeal to the Con-
science of the National Is Illumined.
Throughout the enactment of the
stirring incidents of 1913, 1914, 1915,
and 1916, revealing the existence of Q
vast system of meat inspection cor
ruption, the tubercular cow, as If by
her very presence desirous of focus
ing public attention upon the evil con-
ditions which she represented, con-
tinued, with the aid of unscrupulous
public officials, to limp daily from the
diseased herds of many States to the
Brooklyn clearing houses of decay
and death.
During my most savage attack,
upon their activities q group of dis
eased COW killers, accompanied by
their attorney, called upon me in Oc-
tober, 1914, to volunteer q reform OF
their industry, provided / would de-
liver to them services through which
they might escape a threatened ac::
ton at the hands of the United
States government.
In the group were Samuel Plaut
Henry Plaut, Robert Plaut, Arthur
Plaut, Simon Plaut and Robby Plaut
Jr., members of the slaughtering es-
tablishments of S. G. II. Plaut and
Robert Plaut & Son, Johnson avenue
Brooklyn.
These men proposed to appear be.
! fore the governor of the State an6
confess to him that they were en-.
gagged in the slaughter of diseased an
imals for food purpose and that the
$4,000 carcasses annually dressed by
them, under the supervision of the
Health Department of the city of New
York, were unfit for food. This con
fession was to be made, provided the
governor would assist in the enact
ment of legislation requiring the ster
ilization of all diseased carcasses IL
accordance with the Freibank system
of Germany, so that the killers nigh
not be subject to unfair competition
through having to sterilize meat ant
! label it properly while others engaged
in the killing of diseased animals wer,
not obliged to treat them in similal
manner.
Robert Plaut at that session said
"If there were uniform State law:
requiring all slaughterers to do thi:
thing 1 would be glad to do it. Bu
If 1 were required to do it and Other
slaughterers were not also obliged t
do the same thing l would be put ou
of business"
Two days following our discussion
of these overtures the attorney of the
slaughterers paid me another visit
He said: II want to place a purely
hypothetical proposition before you
We will suppose certain Johnson ave.
nue. slaughterers are now involved il
an affair in which the government
officials are taking u hand.
I'VE will suppose that these slaugh-
terers are in serious trouble and are
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-08

expense. and I have been advised by
my counsel, Henry A. Gildersleeve, that
1t is proper and reasonable that there
should be charged to said infant one
third of the coBt of maintenance and
one-third of the taxes"
"The provisions of Colonel Astor's
will fo~ the establishment of trust
funds e s3.000,000 for each child of
mine that might survive him clearly
appears that 1t was his intention to
provide for the maintenance and sup
port of such infant ample to secure
everything for the comfort, welfare
and education of such child that
money could provide"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-08
Local Telegraphers Not
Included in Wage Increase

Telegraphers employed by the Read
ing Railway Company in Harrisburg.
are not included in the increase re-
ported yesterday at Mahanoy City. At
the Office of Superintendent r. Boone
Abbott it was said that the increase
affected several smaller stations.
Some time ago readioustments were
made in the ages of local telegraph