m RATIFIES
PEAffi TREATY
Soviets at Moscow Votes Four Hun
dred and Fifty-three to Thirty
for Separate Peace
PETROGRAD, March 15. —The
Congress of Soviets meeting at Mos
cow today, by a vote of 453 to 30 de
cided to ratify the peace treaty with
the central powers. M. Ryazanov, a
prominent Bolsheviki theorist and
representative of all the professional
unions resigned from the party after
the vote was taken. The vote caused
no surpfise among the ambassadors
of the allied powers who realize that
Russia is disintegrated and power
less before the advancing Teutone, but
much bitter comment has been in
dulged in over the leaders who ren
dered her defense pregnable and her
armies useless.
Japan May Move
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Mar. 15.—
ffhe ratification by the all-Russian
Congress of Soviets at Moscow of the
German peace terms will bring about
an early movement of the Japanese on
Siberia it is believed here.
Rumanians Evacuate Territory
VIENNA, March 15.—The war of
fice announced today that the Ruman
ians had evacuated the last stretch of
territory occupied by their forces in
Hungary.
Americans Help Red Guard
STOCKHOLM, March 15.—A num
• her of Americans are with the Finnish
Red Guard directing military opera
tions.
U. S. TROOPS'
TAKEMNCHES
Sector Wrested from Enemy After
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Spirited Battle—Boys I’roud of
First Victory
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AMERICAN ARMY, March 15.—
Americans today occupied German
trenches captured in the Longueville
sector recently. The American boys
are very proud of their first actual
advance.
French Gain Footing
BERLIN, March 15.—A strong
French detachment gained a footing
on the West Nauro/ road on the Ger
man Crown Prince’s front at Cham
pagne, the war department announc
ed today.
English Make Raids (
LONDON-, March 15.—Our raiding
partleB entered the enemy’s lines west
of the village of Fuislam and brought
back a few prisoners says today’s of
ficial communication.
ROOSEVELT PROUD OP
ARCHIE’S DECORATION
NEW YORK, March 15.—Theo
dore Roosevelt cabled Archie today
that he was very proud of him, add
ing: “Your cross is the greatest pos
session this family has.”
Young Roosevelt was decorated as
he was lying upon the operating table
„ on the Toul front.
. DAUGHTER OF CLEVELAND
MARRIED TO CAPTAIN
LONDON, March 15. — Esther,
daughter of former President Grover
Cleveland and Captain W. G. B. Bos
anquet, were married at Westminster
Abbey today. The groom is the son of
a common sergeant of this city.
BOILERMAKER
CHIEF IS HONORED
WASHINGTON: J. A. Franklin, Of
Kansas City, chief of the Brother
hood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship
builders and Helpnrii was appointed
today by Director General McAdoo
• assistant director of -the railroad ad
ministration’s labor division. He will
assist W 8i Cartdr, director tof the dl*
vision, in negotiations with shtp
• trades.
RATE INCREASES ON EAST
COAST GOODS ASKED
WASHINGTON: The interstate
Commerce Commission today was ask
ed for rate increases on automobiles,
boots and shoes, leather machinery,
paper and miscellaneous manufactur
ers from New England points to Pa
cific ports for trans-Paclflc export.
The commission was also asked to es
tablish increased terminal charges for
demurrage on such traffic at Pacific
Coast ports.
S. SOLDIERS
AREJECORA1ED
Twenty-five Soldiers and American
Colonel Receive Mrilal for Ex
treme Valor
AMERICAN ARMV, March 15.—
Twenty-five more American soldiers,
including chief of staff, A Division,
have been decorated with the French
war cross. Colonel Douglas McArthur
is the chief of staff who received a
medal for "extreme valor.”*
CONTRACT AWARDED FOR
PAINTING NEW BUILDING
The contract for painting the ex
terior of the new government build
ing has been awarded to W. H. Bren
nan of Valdez, work to begin at once.
TREATING WITH UIRANIANS
AMSTERDAM, aMrch 15.—Peace
negotiations were opened today be
tween the Russian government and
province of Ukraine at Kief, accord
ing to a dispatch received here today.
SENATOR STEPHENSON DEAD
MARINETTE, Wis., March 16.—
Former 36118101* Stephenson died To
day at his home in this city.
PERSHING ISSUES, LONG
LIST OF CASUALTIES
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 15.—
Pershing’s casualty list will be pub
lished tomorrow. It is the longest list
yet given out.
CIVIL WAR IN TURKESTAN
PETRORAD, March 15.—Twenty
thousand casualties have resulted
from a civil war which has broken out
in Turkestan between the Soviets and
the natives, according to dispatches
received here today. Great battles are
being fought between the insurgents
and the government troops.
“THE SPIDER" WILL
be shown Sunday!
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—
Manager Owen Meals of the Em
press theatre announces that a num
ber of high class plays have been se
cured for the coming month. A list of
which is published elsewhere. Sunday
Pauline Frederick in “The Spider”
will be shown together with a Pathe
News. The superb acting of Miss
Frederick in thift screen triumph
should be seen to be appreciated.
MRS. G. M. KING
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N. J., wtiooa raolpoa for pumpklnldo*
pumpkin • ptb >aad wUotWiM mlncumgot
os distributed by tho notional omfrV
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bar famoua ova might.
AMERICAN SCHOONER AFIRE OFF FRANCE
Photograph of an American schooner off St. Nazaire, France, ablaze from
Stem to stem. The ships of the allies hesitate to go to the rescue of burning
craft, for German commanders have adopted the decoy of a simulated ship In
distress to bring their prey within torpedo distance.
KILL ATTEMPT
A RECONCILIATION
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Agreement Between Germany and
Poland Will In* New Solution of
* Agreement
AMSTERDAM, March 15.—Active
negotiations in progress for a recon
ciliation between Germany and Pol
and and a new solution of the Polish
situation will be announced shortly
according to the Kurjer Polsky of
Warsaw.
MANY VESSELS LAUNCHED
SEATTLE, March 15.—-Vessels ag
gregating 44,000 tons have been
launched in Pacific coast shipyards
during the past 24 hours.
ROAD SPENDS THOUSANDS
IN POLITICAL ACTIVITY
WASHINGTON An official record
of how the Louisville & Nashville
railway spent many thousands of dol
lars on political activity and support
ing newspapers in southern states be
tween 1907 and 1914 was made pub
lic today by the interstate commerce j
commission.
The disclosures were based on an |
affidavit recently filed by Milton H.'
Smith, president of the road, answer
ing questions to which he had refus
ed replies during the tntertsate com
merce inquiry in May, 1916, and to
secure which the commission obtain
ed from the supreme court last Nov
ember an order requiring Mr. Smith
to give answers. This affidavit has
now been made public.
A LI A) W ABLE WEIGHTS OF
PARCFJjS POST INCREASED
WASHINGTON: As a means of
stimulating movement of farm pro
ducts to the consumer. Postmaster
general Burleson increased the allow
able weights of parcels post packages
effective March 15. Packages when
mailed in the first or second zones for
delivery in the first, second or third
zoneB, may thereafter be as heavy as
seventy pounds. They are now re
stricted to fifty. The weight limit for
all other zones was increased from
twenty to ^ifty pounds.
AMERICAN LOST ON FLORIZEL
WASHINGTON: E. W. Stevenson,
of New York, was the only American
citizen on the lost Red Cross steam
ship Florlzel, according to a deport
to the state department. His name is
not among those reported saved.
THREE PLANTS BUILDING
BROWNING MACHINE RIFLES
WASHINGTON: The Browning ma
chine rifle, adopted for the Ameri
can army In France and declared by
ordnance experts to be the greatest
weapon of Its kind yet developed, Is
now being turned out In three fac
tories, Secretary Baker announced td^
day, and more thin 100 already have
been delivered. The dtygtatfMt esti
mates that high- production mark
will be reached In June, when several
thousands will be turned out each
week.
THREE RAIDS
ARE FRUSTRATED
War Office Hc|xirts Continuous Shell
ing All Along French Front—
lielgians Advance
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I'ARIS, March 15.—The wai«olfice
reports almost continuous shelling by
the enemy all along the French front.
Three raids in quick succession on
the French trenches were frustrated
by a heavy fire and the enemy driven
back in confusion. A forward move
ment on the Belgian front near Lom
baertzyde has been successful.
Artillery duels are numerous all
along the western front from Toul to
Ypres, and are increasing in activity.
The enemy has attempted to launch
gas attacks at several points, but
their projectors have been demolish
ed by allied gunfire and the troops
forced back to shelter.
The weather the past few days has
been ideal, bright sunshine and blue j
skies adding greatly to the morale of!
the troops. The Americans in the Toul |
sector are resting quietly awaiting!
the enemy raids which are generally
broken up before reaching the en
tanglements. Raiding and patrol par-:
ties are the order of the day, and the
Americans on several occasions have |
advanced close enough to the German
lines to reach their entanglements.
It is expected that a general assault
will he delivered by the enemy with
in the next few days if the present
fine weather continues, and the troops i
are keyed up to a high state of effic
iency.
TACOMA DOCTOR INTERNED
TACOMA: Dr. John Reitz, Tacoma
physician, was arrested by govern
ment agents yesterday and will be
held for investigation as an enemy
alien. He has been in Tacoma about
four years and it is alleged has not
taken out his citizenship papers. Sev
eral months ago Mr. Reitz was arrest
ed for “bootlegging” and was fined
$100 at that time. He is said to have
been belligerent in his pro-German
ism before and after the United States
became involved fn the struggle. Some
time ago, it is said, he told friends
he believed they thought him a Ger
man spy, but protested his innocence.
He is medical examiner for a life in
surance company and will be held for
Internment. He is married and lives
in this city.
C. W. CLAUSEN INJURED
OLYMPIA: C. W. Clansen, state
auditor, was at his office again today
feeling a trifle sore and stiff but other
wise none the worse for the auto ac
cident he figured in Saturday night
near Tacoma when his auto skidded
off the road and turned turtle. A par
ty of soldiers were In a machine close
behind and hardly had the Clausen
car quit rolling before they were lfft
ing the machine off the occupants/
Mrs. Clausen and some yOung women
trlendk were along at:thO time of the
focideht.'
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Charles Miner' end Charles Saun
ders will leave soon for their prop
erty at Port Wells.
INCREASED WAGES IS
PRECURSOR HIGHER RATES
SEATTLE: All steamship compan
ies of the Pacific coast have granted
the demands of the ships’ employes
for increased wages. The Pacific
Steamship Company officials say that
the increase will add $250,000 to
the annual expenses of that company.
The Alaska Steamship Company
claims that its added expense will be
$120,000.
The new schedule of wages is ef
fective immediately. The increases for
seamen, watchman, oilers, quarter
masters and firemen will amount to
from $60 to $75 monthly; for car
penters, from $75 to $90, and in all
other department, from second stew
ard down, to $15 per month.
U. S. CITIZENS
TAKENOFF SHIP
British and American Subjects Sail
ing on Neutral Vessels Captur
ed by Germans
STOCKHOLM, March 15.—A num
ber of American and British citizens
sailing from Finland on neutral ves
sels were captured by Germans yes
terday. according to a dispatch receiv
ed here. Those of military uge will
be taken to Germany and interned.
’FRISCO GRAIN DEALER
LOSES FOOD LICENSE
SAN FRANCISCO: The California
food administration revoked today
the license of H. P. Cox, a San Fran
cisco grain dealer, on charges of fail
ure to make delivery on rice sold last
June to a Denver firm and for alleged
speculation. The action is the first of
its kind taken in the state and was
authorized by Herbert Hoover, na
tional food administrator.
SOCIETY WOMAN FLEES
SEATTLE, March 15.—W. W. But
ler, a fich broker of this city has re
ported to the police that his wife has
fled and he does not know her where
abouts. Mrs. Butler was formerly a
typist for Butler, he divorcing his first
wife to marry her.
MIXKK.AI, SPKIXO XK.AK
TOXSIX A KO.ADHOI SK
—
| A fine mineral spring exists near
■ Tonsina roadhouse jilong the govern
I ment trail, according to information
I received here recently. The waters
are strongly Impregnated with sul
phur and other minerals and are said
to be highly medicinal. It is stated
that an effort will be made to attract
attention to the spring's splendid
therapeutic properties and that a re
sort will be built for tourists who de
sire to use its healing waters. At many
points in Alaska medicinal springs
have been discovered, many of them
pf great healing powers for certain
diseases, and it is believed that the
spring at Tonsina will be found to be
of this class when its waters have
been analyzed. A sample will be sent
to government chemists by parties in
terested in the near future.
MAJ. BENEDICT CROWELL
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! At DESERTERS
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j Czechs and Austrians Found Fighting
With Maximalists in Ukraine
are Promptly Executed
AMSTERDAM, March 15.—There
has been intensive fighting the past
few days in Ukraine, where the ranks
of the Maximalists have been receiv
ing reinforcements from bodies of
Czechs and Austrians who have de
serted from their comands, according
to a dispatch to the Rhenish YV'esy
; Kaliische Zeltung.
The Gormans have encountered
furious resistance on several occa
sions from large bodies of these men,
and when captured they are invar
iably executed.
The capture of Odessa yesterday
! was one of the most crushing blows
j yet delivered to the Bolsheviki by the
j invaders, as it gives the Teutons ab
j solute control of the wheat shipping
! ports of the Black Sea and cuts off
jail supplies from the Mediterranean.
! Germany already has control of the
! Baltic, and the Gulfs of Finland and
Bothnia, cooping interior Russia up
; and forcing her to depend entirely
upon her own resources.
The railway from Ukraine to Pet
! rograd is in the hands of the invaders
who drove a long wedge into Bologoe
to shut off supplies from the capital,
| forcing the seat of government to re
treat to Moscow and Vologda. The
Bolsheviki are being slowly hemmed
in from the south, east and west, and
will be compelled to retreat farther
into the interior. It is probable that
the next move of the Bolsheviki gov
ernment will be to Perm, a small pro
vince on the Karma river, in eastern
Russia, hitherto used as a place of
exile for political prisoners.
The Germans have so undermined
Ukraine with sedition against the
Russian government that it is impos
sible for the Bolsheviki to put up a
united front against the invaders. At
Odessa, December 24, the Ukranian
troops and the Bolsheviki fought a
bloody battle to prevent reinforce
ments being sent against the Don ('os
sacks, and later the Rada refused to
allow breadstuff* to be shipped to
Northern Russia in consequence of
the Russian government refusing to
send money to pay off the Ukraine
troops, which were demobilized.
GERMANY ROASTS Ol-'
INTENDING RATTLE PLANS
AMSTERDAM, March 15.-- If our
enemies do not want peace they must
fight a most tremendous battle on tho
western front. Quartermaster General
Ludendorf declared in an interview
with the Cologne Volks Zeitung.
SEATTLE KISH PRICES
SEATTLE, Mar. 15.—Seattle price
at noon, March fifteenth. Halibut, fif
teen and one-fourth cents; sable fish,
six and one-fourth cents; red cod, five
cents.
SCHOOLS SPEND LARGE
SUM KOR EQUIPMENT
The Valdez schools are reaching a
high state of efficiency under the man
agement of the present board, many
of the old books having been retired
from service on account of age and
general unfitness, new blackboards
added, the walls tinted, new stoves
purchased, and new books substituted
from the kindgarten to the twelfth
grade. The old books have been used
so long they were not only highly un
sanitary but positively a menace to
the health of the children, and sadly
out of date.
It Is estimated by the board that
about $1200 has been spent the past
year for new fixtures and repairs,
which is a good showing in ecAiomy
for the board. Valdez schools are a
credit to the city, and will be* the
means of bringing families here in
the future for schooling for their chil
dren.
Good schools are one asset that can
not be too highly rated in the build
ing up of a town, and are the line of
advancement marking a town from a.
camp. The first question asked by a
prospective resident of a town is in
regard to the educational facilities.
Schools, churches and libraries are
» pecessary' adjunct of present day
civilisation, and the beet that can be
secured are none too good for our
children and our neighbor’s children.
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