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thousand for the suppression of illegal traffic in intoxicating liquor; and thirty five thousand for the cons:ruc- ticn of a federal building at Cordova.
 The chief Alaskan appropriations ret contained in this bill are the ap- propriation for highways and trails which is carried in the military ap- propriation bill now well on it's way towards passage and :he appropria
 .ion of one hundred and five thou sand dollars for the construction of
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.urets vlth naval guns were cleared tor action. The Guyane's captain says that it did not take the German claft over fifteen minutes e change from d submarine to an unarmored sruser of great speed.
 several shots were fired by the Ger man withou effect. Then the Guy. ore's guns mounted on the stern were brought into play wi.h remarkable accuracy, After three shots were fired n quick succession to get the range two were driven squarely home and
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International News Service,

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.-In the up- Ter house today Senator Overman of North Carolina explained some of the difficulties which hamper the admin istration in any move that is under taken. He was understood to be speaking for the administration to the end that congress and the people of the country may know the conditions Ill der which governmental work has to be carried out.
 Senator Overman declared that there are now over one hundred thou sand spies ia the United States. All foreign countries have their quota, but some nations with whom there has been keen rivalry in the past and tie possibility of war In the near or remote future have tens of thousands
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of paid spies.

of paid spies.
 These emissaries of foreign nations, he said are woven into the fabric of ct mmercial life They are il our navy and army holding positions where trey see what Is being said. In spite of every precaution to insure secrecy every fertilization built to protect our ports has been sketched by spies and .he plans are known to all the lead- ing governments of the world. Every new installation of batteries in a fort is at once made known to foreign governments.
 On each of our warships. averred tie speaker. are likely to be from three or four to score of spies. This Is proved by the intimate knowledge of certain happenings that were never made known through official channels.
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HUNDRED ARMED COWBOYS
 START TO AvENCE DEATHS

,sc ated point. The COW puachers are WIG armed and equipped with ratioas purpose is to avenge :he death of the two ranchers they are going after the bandits and will not let any Mexican force stay their progress without flaht which will make the Mexicans krow that they are encoun.eriag Am eiican citizens with arms in thelr hands.
 The COW men organized their own punitive expedition without any aid
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The Guyane did not delay a second tut altered her course and ran away fl om :he German.
 Ihiee torpedoes were sent after the Guy ane sll of which owing to the d. tered course and full speed ahead coupled with the haste with which they W,re fired missed their mark.
 The sutmersible ship now ol the surface of :he water gave chase to :hn French merchantmen and was rapidly overhauling her. The German cI, red out the shell of her deck and
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is the sum of ten million and five undred thousand dollars for the gov ernment owned Alaska railroad.
 Other Alaskan appropriations con tained in his bill are seventy thou sand dollars for the care of the in- sane of Alaska; two hundred thousand for the education of the natives; for 'he government reindeer five thou sand; fifty thousand dolalrs for med f,r the protection of game; fifteen
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the southern part of the island and all the bands of insurrectos that were known to have gathered to support him have been dispersed.
 Gomez is believed to be trying to escape from the southern coast whi ch is now blockaded by all the available war and coast guard ships of Cuba to prevent his departure and effect his capture.
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ftom, or knowledge of, outsiders. in- cluding the United Sites military forces. until they were well over the ll-ls.
 Since they disappeared in the dust clouds on the Mexican side no word hos been heard from them While their spirit is admired by the inhab- bitants here 1t Is feared that their impetuosity may lead them too far and that they may run foul of one of Villas larger bands with disastrous IT suits to themselves.
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FIRE SALE AT HOLT'S

Beginning Monday, February l9. three thousand dollars worth of goods will be sold regardless of values. All were new goods tha. arrived last fall. Some goods only slightly damaged by water. Goods must be sold. Bring the cesh-no goods charged at this sale. Tho chance of a life time! Alaska
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FOG STOPS FIGHTING ON WEST FR0NT---
 ARTILLERY QUIET
heir positions.

to strengthen their positions.
 The official statement also declares tha, in spite of the magnitude of the German operations in Champagne last frl5ay night and Saturday morning and the important gains made the German loss in killed and wounded was small. This has been shown by official reports from the Champa gne fir, :. On the other hand the enemy losses were large and were increased by future counter charges
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International News Service.

NEW YORK, Feb 19.-That the aiming of merchantmen is resulting ir increased safety to such ships and ic a source of danger to attacking submarines was shown again by the experience of the French steamship Guyane which arrived here today.
 The story as elcited from :he cap- tein and his officers Is that the Guy. ane left Bordeaux on January 21. On the first day out a submarine sighted the ship and made an attack.
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Pacific News Service.

Pacific News Service.
 FL PASO, Feb. 19.-The inhabitants along the border are thoroughly aroused by the proximity of the Vil- lista bandits and the inaction of the military forces under orders from V aahington and have already begun to take the defence of American lives into their own hands.
 One hundred cowboys crossed the border today in pursuit of band of bandits who killed two ranchers at an
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ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND SPIES
 NOW IN UNITED STATES

Even in the government depart ments at Washington, the senator said. there are many spies. This sys- tenn is known to exis+ as it has exist ed in all countries and the spies can net be thoroughly ferreted out and their information suppressed except in time of war when all communica- ti,n with the enemy would be cut off.
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International News Service.

BERLIN, Feb. 19.-It Is officially announced that a thick fog now hin- dtrs operations on the west front and especially on the Somme sector. I. Is admitted that the British have made considerable gains in the past three days on the road to Bapaume but declaration is made also that the new if It is desirable to hold them. The British shell fire which of late has been so terrific has been suspended on account of the fog and an oppor-
 tnnity was thus given to the Germans
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International News Service.

WASHHINGTON Feb. 19-Repre- sentative Fitzgerald of New York this afternoon presented a favorable report fiom his committee on the sundry c.'il appropriation bill. This report is [, ntamount to an endorsement by the administration and presages the pas. sage of the bill
 Among the items of this bill are several appropriations for Alaska. The largest and most important of these
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International News Service.

International News Service.
 WASHINGTON. Feb. 19.-The ad- ministration is greatly worried .,er 'te refusal of Germany to pay any heed to the demands for the release tLe Americans taken into Zebrugge on the Yarrowdale by the German prize crew. There are seventy two of these Americans who are held as pris- oners of war when in fact they are not such as they were taken from un- armed merchant vessels on :he South Atlantic.
 It was at first stated that they were to Zebrugge because it would have
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International News Service.

PARIS, Feb. 19.-It Is officially stat cd that the French coast from Calais day by German submarines.
 Under cover of the dense fog sev- eral of these underwater craft made their appearance and spasmodicany delivered a small gun fire at various points. The boats were of the large size of underwater type which have tur- rets with smaller naval guns.
 Owing to the fog French and Brit iah cruisers were unable to destroy
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Tonight in the Board of Trade bil- liard tourney Guy Mish 95 and Charley Ohrem 110 will play a match in c class Owing to the other attractions il, town tonight this may possible be the only game.
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MOSCOW SHORT OF BREAD. international News Service.

PETROGRAD Feb. 19.-There is a bread famine at Moscow owing 70 the large quantities of rye and wheat flour requstoned for the use of the army war movements.
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GERMANY STILL HOLDS AMERICAN PRISONERS
 0F YARR0WDALE

endangered their lives to leave them afCat on the South Atlantic in small Dc ats after their ships had been sunk. Th's explanation was accepted as humane and proper but does not ac- cord with the present attitude of Germany in refusing to release them.
 The United States government has renewed It's demand for their release through the Spanish minister at Der or the subject has already reached the German capital
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BLOOMFIELD AT coRDovA.

Harry Bloomfield reached Cordova on the fifteenth after tough trip from Fairbanks to the railroad terminal due to tho soft trail.
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the submarine began to sink. No at tempt was made to rescue the crew ae ;he submarine sank so suddenly tfat the entire crew went down with tte hull.
 For the remainder of her journey tte officers of the Guyane said they looked in vain for submarines. The engagement lasted forty minutes from the time the German boat sighted the Guyane until 1t was sunk.
 Advertise In The Nome Nuqaet
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SUBMARINES B0MBARD FRENCH COAST FROM
 CALAIS TO BOUL0GNE

the marauders, for after delivering a sharp discharge of shells they would glide away or submerge only to ap- pear at another point. When large fleet of small submarine destroyers took up the chase the German divers completely disappeared refusing to give battle.
 The commuinque declares that very little damage was done by the firing either to life or property.
 New laId eggs at Prosser's Harness Shop. 500 per dozen. Phone Black ,.
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yesterday for Candle after weeks stay In town
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Have the Nugget sent to your out side address this winter.
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REVOLUTION
 IN CUBA
 WEARS END

International News Service.
 HAVANA. Feb. 19.-The revolution which was started by former President Gomez Is believed to have been nearly suppressed. Gomez is somewhere on
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SUBMARINES SINK FEWER THAN FOR MONTHS
APPROPRIATIONS FOR ALASKA
 ARE ALL LIKELY TO PASS

barber for small vessels at Nome
 It is thought that all of these ap- D opriations will be made as the In terest in Alaska's development is gen. elal throughout the country and the house and senate who are looking oul for it's interests.
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Moose social dance. Feb. i9, g p. m. Members and friends. Adm. soc. Ladies free.
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Office and Residence of J. F. McAi. lister, treiehter and transfer, Elite Baths. Phone Red 157.
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Advertise In The Nome Nugget
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.-The re- pert that hundred cowboys have crossed the Mexican border to avenge the deaths of two ranehers has been confirmed. An inquiry into the facts has been ordered to ascertain how 1t was that they were allowed to leave their own side of the boundary o1, lawless expedition
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The Nome Bowling Clubs alleys are ow open from noon to midnight.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-03-09
GERMANY REGRETS
DISCOVERY OF NOTE

London.-The German governments
plan for involving Mexico and Japan
in war with the United states, in
event of hostilities between Germany
and America, was defended in an ad
dress before the reichstag by the for
eign secretary.
eve were looking out for all of us
in the event of there being a prospect
of war with America. 1t was a natur-
al and justified precaution. l am not
sorry that, through its publication in
America, it also became known in
Japan.
For the dispatch of these instruc-
tions a secure way was chosen which
at present is at Germany's disposal.
How the Americans came into pos
session of the text which went to
America in special secret code we do
not know. That these instructions
should have fallen into American
hands is misfortune, but that does
not alter the fact that the step was
necessary for our patriotic interests"
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-03-09
WILSON is INAUGURATED
Takes Oath Sunday to Uphold Consti.
tuition of United States.

INSTRUMENTATION Wilson took
the oath of office for his second term
at noon Sunday in his room at the
capitol and was formally inaugurated
Monday with public ceremonies.
Before a desk piled with executive
business laid before him in the closing
hours of congress and surrounded by
members of his official family, he re-
affirmed, with uplifted hand and grave
features, his promise to uphold the
constitution in whatever crisis may
confront the nation in the momentous
four years before 1t.
Members of the cabinet then crowd
ed up with expressions of regard Mr..
Wilson received them with a smile
and then turned back to his desk to
complete his interrupted task.
Vice-President Marshall did not take
the oath Sunday, but was sworn in
for his second term Monday at the
special session of the new senate with
the usual vice-presidential Inaugural
ton ceremony.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-03-09
STATEMENT ISSUED TO
COUNTRY BY WILSON

Observation-Disclosures Wilson in
formed the country in a statement
that he may be without power to arm
merchant ships and take other steps
to meet the German submarine men,
ace, in the absence of authority from
congress.
An extra session of congress, the
president says, is required to clothe
him with authority, but 1t is useless
to call one while the senate works I'M
der the present rules which permit a
small minority to keep an overwhelm-
ing majority from acting.
The president proposes therefore,
that the special session of the senate,
which he called to meet Monday, re-
wise the rules, ito supply the means
of action and save the country from
disaster"
"a little group of wilful men," says
the president in his statement, rep
resenting no opinion but their own,
have rendeSed the great government
OF the United States helpless and con-
temptible."
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EXTRA SESSION
SEEMS CERTAIN

hington.-President Wilson, it
was stated authoritatively, will do ev-
erything possible to find way to arm
American ships and protect them in
other ways from submarine danger,
in spite of the failure of the senate to
pass the bill giving him specific
power.
In deciding the legal status of the
question, it was learned, the president
and his advisers are considering the
intent of the old statute passed in 1919
which was cited in the senate as pro-
hibiting the arming of merchantmen
for action against armed public YES
sells of nations in amity with the
United States.
An extra session of congress be-
fore July / to pass appropriation bills,
if for no other purpose, seemed to be
certain. If the senate amends its
rules so prompt action can be taken
on an armed neutrality bill, an extra
session of congress may be expected
within the next two or three weeks.
Messages, apparently spontaneous,
which came to government officials
from all parts of the country, criti-
cized in bitter terms the senators who
prevented action on the armed neu-
trality bill
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-03-09
BRIEF WAR NEWS

In the Tigris region, the British in
quest of Bagdad, are following up the
Turks recently driven out of Kut-el-
Aniara.
Hamadan, in Persia, 240 miles
northeast of Bagdad, the goal of the
present advance in Mesopotamia, has
been captured by the Russians.
No notable changes in positions
have taken place in either the Austro-
Italian or Macedonian theaters, where
small engagements and artillery duels
continue to prevail.
In raid on Russian lines west of
Lutsk, Volhynia, which were pene-
trated nearly mile, Berlin says the
Germans destroyed the Russian orks
and took 1872 prisoners.
British troops maintain their daily
progress against the German lines on
the Ancre front in France. The cap
ture of Gommecourt was followed by
the driving of the British line 1000
yards northeast of that place.
Figures vouched for in London show
that German submarines destroyed
100000 tons of merchant shipping in
February. This figure is less than
half the 100000 tons which Berlin
has contended would result from un-
restricted submarine warfare.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-03-09
Idaho Iowans Display Wrath.

Caldwell, Idaho.-Former Iowa citi
zens residing here lynched in effigy
Senators Kenyon and Cummins. of
Iowa. The action was taken by the
former citizens of the Hawkeye state
to express their Indignation over the
Iowa senator's cooperation with Sen
ator La Toilette, of Wisconsin, to pre-
vent the enactment of bill authoriz-
ing President Wilson to arm mer-
chant vessels for protection against
the German submarine warfare.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-03-09
ZIMMERMAN ADMITS
PLOT AGAINST u. S.

Berlin, via Sayville wireless.-For-
eign Secretary Zimmerman justified
Germany's action in seeking to ally
Mexico and Japan against the United
States
Such a course he said, was merely
a defensive measurement to be carried
out except in case the United States
declared war on Germany. Moreover,
he said, 1t was no more plot" than
the plot" which was reported in
South American newspapers as having
been undertaken against Germany by
the United States when America
sought, according to South American
and other newspaper reports, to line
up the American republics in common
action against Germany. The foreign
secretary commented on Americas pro-
ally sympathies. He refrained from
admitting specifically his authorship
of the letter to Minister Eckhardt at
Mexico City and his entire discussion
of the matter was, he was careful to
state, based on English reports" of
the German plot to get Mexico to
declare war against the United States
and to secure Japan's aid against the
United States"
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-03-09
BERNsT0RFF GIVEN ORDERS
Was instructed by Berlin to Cripple
informed Vessels. q

Washington.-Count Won Bernstorff,
the former German ambassador, was
instructed from Berlin to arrange the
dismantling OF German war'bound
ships in American harbors at the same
time he received the Zimmerman note
for transmission to Mexico.
This added thread in the mesh of
German intrigue spun around this
country while Germany was still pro-
testing friendship was allowed to be-
come known with the inference that
full and detailed instructions were
sent Bernstorff from Berlin to make
war by this country impossible.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-03-09

Houston, Texas.-Four men, one
non-commissioned officer and three
privates of the First Indiana Infantry,
and not secret service operatives of
the government, arrested the messen-
ger of Ambassador Won Bernstorff, en-
route to Mexico to deliver the plotting
note of Alfred Zimmerman to the
German Ambassador at Mexico City.
This was learned from two men
who participated and were members
of the border patrol. Their story was
substantiated by officers of the Unit
ed States army.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-03-09
CONGRESS DEFIED BY
TWELVE SENATORS
FIIibuster, Led by La Toilette,
Defeats Bill to Give viii
son Power Asked.

Washington.-Twelve senators, led
by Senator La Toilette and encour-
aged by Senator Stone, democratic
chairman of the foreign relations
committee, in a filibuster, denounced
by President Wilson's spokesman as
the most reprehensible In the history
OF any civilized nation, defied the will
of an overwhelming majority in con.
gress up to the last minute and denied
to the president law authorizing him
to arm American merchant ships to
meet the German submarine menace.
To fix responsibility before the
country, rs senators, 80 republicans
and 46 democrats, signed a manifesto
proclaiming to the world that they
favored passage OF the measure.
This declaration, embodied in the
record of the senate, referred to the
fact that the house had passed a sim
liar bill by a vote of 403 to Is and also
recited that the senate rule permitting
unlimited debate gave small minor
ity opportunity to throttle the will OF
the majority.
The IL who went on record with the
10 members of the house against
granting to President Wilson the au-
thority he asked from congress in the
crisis we're:
Republicans-Clapp, Minnesota; La
Toilette, Wisconsin; Cumniins. Iowa;
Gronna, North Dakota; Kenyon, Iowa;
Norris, Nebraska; Works, California.
Democrats-Kirby, Arkansas; Lane,
Oregon; o'Gorman, New York; Stone,
Missouri; Vardaman, Mississippi
Senator Lane of Oregon was the
only senator from the northwest to
oppose giving the president power to
arm American ships for defense
against submarine attacks. He refused
to sign the manifesto approving the
bill.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-03-09
Elusive ZeppeIins.

In his book "Zeppelins and Super
Zeppelins" r. p. Hearne points out the
little known fact that 1t was French
man named Spiess. an Alsatian, VINO
about 1870 drew up clever design for
a rigid airship and made an attempt to
patent II. In 1870 Count Zeppelin was
a dashing soldier in Alsace' and Mr..
Hearne thinks 1t more than likely that
he saw Spiess' plans and annexed the
idea.
The Zeppelin Is a most elusive object
despite its size. 1t can leap upward In
the air at astonishing speed. 1t can
drop rapidly. It can climb at steep
angle. 1t can dive wonderfully, and
It can nose from side to side with no
mean agility To reckon Its altitude at
night is most difficult. and to find It's
range is a matter Of much nicely.