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MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 1915.
RUSSIA'S NEED.
"In the markets of the world there
exists today a famine in meat, lum
ber .nd breadstuffs,” say the Russian
economists, and Russia has, or can
develop, all three to an indefinite
amount. Russia has a geographic ba
sis for a great nation such as is pos
sessed by no other people unless it
be our own. It is wanting, however,
in one important respect, it lacks an
adequate eoast line. Russia s sea
coast is too small for so large a state
and she is bound to demand more.
Indeed, that is what she has been do
ing for centuries, her coastward move
ment has been in progress for at
least 400 years and we are witnesses
today of another gigantic step in this
direction. The Germans block the
way, and ultimately, combined with
them, the Swedes and Danes. That
Russia, with her population of 175,
000,000, increasing at the rate of
nearly 3,000,000 a year, and with re
sources so vast and undeveloped that
they can only be roughly estimated,
will be kept permanently bottled up
is not likely. Her coastward ad
vance, and the conquest of an outlet
by way of Constantinople to the
world’s trade is as inevitable as its
geographic reasonableness. Toward
the Persian Gulf the way is also open
and inviting. Indeed, everywhere in
Asia she has the unique advantage
of internal lines of development and
therefore also of attack. Geograpcr
cally the serious menace to British
world supremacy does not lie in Ger
many, but in Russia.—Popular Science
Monthly.
RATS!
Don’t laugh at the rat.
Rather, treat him with the greatest
respect.
This is the advice of the United
States public health service, anent the
discovery of plague-bearing rats at
Seattle and other places.
A bulletin just issued by this ser
vice proceeds to point out the pos
sibilities of rat propagation. If one
married rat couple and its progeny
were to live but five short years, each
in the descending line contributing Us
share of progeny in proportion, at the
Tate of three litters of ten young each
a year, the family by arithmetical
progression would have increased to
940,369,969,152 members. Of course,
the bulletin states, this makes no
allowance for untimely deaths and
ascribes to each litter of ten an
equal division between the sexes. But
the possibilities are made clear.
The public health service is busy
ing itself with the extermination of
rats aboard ship and the campaign
is a most interesting one. The prime
purpose Is to prevent the importa
tion of the plague, one of the dis
eases carried by the rodent, whose
destructiveness, it has been estimat
ed, costs the people of the United
States between $35,000,000 and $50,
000,000 a year. That includes the
amount of grain, merchandise, poul
try, eggs, game, wild birds, fruits,
vegetables, furniture and the like, de
stroyed by rats, besides the loss from
fires directly attributable to the ac
tivities of this confirmed incendiary.
But the chief concern of the health
service in the rat a. already indicat
ed, is in his qualifications as a
plague-carrier. A rat sick of plague
usually dies in from one to three
days. When the body becomes cold,
the rat fleas leave and seek other
warm hosts, either another rat or a
human, whichever happens to be the
most convenient. And to obviate the
dangers of plague transmission it be
comes necessary to fumigate ships,
so as to kill the rats on board. On
an average 1,500 vessels annually are
fumigated by the service, the num
ber of rats found aboard each vessel
•varying from five to 300. More than
50,000 rats are thus disposed of ev
ery year. Which, calculating the lit
ters that might have been produced,
accounts for the destruction of un
told billions within the five-year per
iod.
Frequently the captains of ships
•which carry as pets plead that they
might be spared the annoyance of
fumigation on the ground that the
cat has done its duty. The last quar
antine officer who turned deaf ear to
this plea succeeded not only in ex
terminating the cat, but in addition
a colony of Hventy-four rats, with
whom the feline obviously had es
tablished amicable relations.—Ex.
The War of Europe
Thousands of families throughout
the United States are starving and
suffering the effect from the war. Jt
is very important that peace be se
cured soon, otherwise it will be a war
that will last for five or six years
or even longer. If Germany could
make a suitable settlement with
France, England, and Belgium, the
war will of course not quit at once,
but it will be much shortened, but
■if Germany is to lose out in a long
Tun that means not the end of the
war, because the final or last trouble
will be with Russia, ana tnis wouia
mean a long war as very few pow
ers would be able to fight against
her, and the consequences would be
that Russia would rule the world.
Therefore it is very important that
peace be secured soon. The peace
can be secured by reasonable agree
ment among the powers. Belgium
should be their own country and have
their own rulers as before, but should
pay to Germany twice the cost of
the war up to such a time as peace
may be secured.
This indemnity should be paid by
the Belgian government before the
expiration of six years, otherwise the
country to belong to Germany, so as
to give Belgium a fair chance to re
deem their own country and at the
same time make a satisfactory set
tlement with Germany, and also to
prevent jealousness from England
and France. The last settlement is
bound to be in settling with the Rus
sians, so the sooner England, France,
and Belgium can settle with Germany
the better. Russia should be forced
to pay the cost of the war by giv
ing up so much territory to England,
Germany, and France as the war calls
for to each of these countries, if not,
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war is to be declared at once against
Russia, and this would not possibly
last so very long, as the many other
.powers would join in, and Sweden
might possibly get their Baltic prov
inces back. Austria and Servia
should not mix up with the Russian
fight, but should fight out their trou
ble as soon as possible and try to
make an agreeable settlement be
tween themselves.
A. T. SODERSTROM
IS FINE BOAT
Watson Has Been Rebuilt—Goes To
Kodiak and Will Return About
Friday From Westward.
The steamer Admiral Watson of
the Admiral Line reached Valdez at
8 o’clock this morning and left at
11 for the westward. The Watson
has been rebuilt since she was in
port last fall and is now one of the
finest ships in the Alaska passenger
carrying trade and is the flagship of
the Admiral Line.
The company have spent $110,000
upon the vessel. All her upper works
were torn out and rebuilt. New fur
nishings were placed in the boat,
electric lights in each berth, fine
smoking room for the gentlemen pas
sengers and an observation room on
the main deck in the front part of
the boat. A number of staterooms
have been built w-ith private toilets,
making it exceptionally convenient
for those who become seasick on the
trip.
The furnishings are all new. Cap
,tain Jensen has been placed in com
mand of the boat. E. F. Kenny has
been made pilot with Charles Glas
cock engineer and Max Gunther chief
officer, and Lenord, formerly of the
Admiral Farragut, in charge of the
steward’s department. Carl Straut,
the popular purser and said by many
to be the most accommodating purser
on an Alaskan run, has been trans
ferred from the Evans to the flag
ship.
The Admiral Watson will call at
the Granite mine en route to the west
and will discharge 100 tons of freight
for the Millard property. She will
go as far west as Kodiak and is due
in Valdez on the trip south on Fri
day.
The Wa*son brought 50 tons of
freight for Valdez merchants. Fifty
two passengers left Seattle for Alas
ka ports on the boat.
The following Valdez passengers
arrived: W. Peterson, C. W. Mil
lard, Edwin Eckern.
Weather Report.
Valdez, Jan. 17, 1915.
Barometric pressure .29,575
Temperature at 5 p. m. 23
Maximum temperature . 38
Minimum temperature . 30
Mean temperature . 34
Precipitation .S3
Cloudy air, wind northeast 4 miles.
Mixed snow and rain at night and all
day.
SUMMONS BY .PUBLICATION.
In the District Court of the Terri
tory of Alaska, Third Division.
Otto R. Hansen, Plaintiff, vs. Alas
ka Northern Railway Company, Alas
ka Central Railway Company, W. E.
Stavert, F. G. Jemmett, W. J. Boland,
Sovereign Bank of Canada, The
Trusts and Guarantee Company, Lim
ited; International Assets Limited,
and O. G. Laberee, Defendants.—Sum
mons By Publication. No. 700.
The President of the United States
of America, Greeting:
To the above named defendants, W.
E. Stavert, F. G. Jemmett, W. J.
Boland, Alaska Central Railway Com
pany, Sovereign Bank of Canada, The
Trusts and Guarantee Company, Lim
ited ; International Assets, Limited,
and O. G. Laberee:
You and each of you are hereby
summoned to appear in the District
Court of the Territory of Alaska
Third Division, within thirty days af
ter the 23rd day of February, 1915,
excluding said day, said day com
pleting the period of publication of
this summons, and answer the com
plaint of the plaintiff, a copy of
which is herewith served upon you,
and unless you so appear and an
swer, the plaintiff will apply to the
court for the relief demanded in the
complaint.
This action is brought by a holder
of bonds of the second mortgage Is
sue of the defendant Alaska Central
Railway Company, for the purpose of
setting aside, on the ground of fraud
on the part of the defendants, the
sale on or about the 9th day of Octo
ber, 1909, of the properties of the
Alaska Central Railway Company un
der foreclosure proceedings in a
icause in the above named court en
titled Trust* and Guarantee Com
pany, Limited, Plaintiff, vs. Alaska
Central Railway Company, Tanaea
Railway Construction Company, and
The Central Trust Company of Illi
nois, Defendants, in which cause
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there was a cross complaint entitled
Central Trust Company of Illinois,
Plaintiff, vs. Alaska Central Railway
Company, Trusts and Guarantee
Company, Limited, and The Tanana
Railway Construction Company, De
fendants. Plaintiff further asks that
the court decree to plaintiff and such
other holders of bonds of the sec
ond mortgage issue upon the prop
erties of the Alaska Central Railway
Company as may join herein a first
lien superior to that of each and all
the defendants; that the defendants
be required within a time to be fixed
by the court to discharge the lien
of this plaintiff, as established by
this court, together with the lien
of other plaintiffs who may come in
and establish their claims, and in
default of such discharge that the
property covered by tlie mortgage se
curing the second bond issue of the
Alaska Central Railway Company be
sold by decree of court, and that at
such sale plaintiff may be permitted
to become a purchaser, and tender
his lien together with that of any
Other plaintiffs that may establish
their lien, in payment for the same,
and that the properties be sold, real,
personal and mixed, as a unit, with
out redemption; that a temporary re
ceiver of all the properties of the
defendant Alaska Central Railway
Company and Alaska Northern Rail
way Company be appointed at once,
and that such appointment be made
permanent after notice; that the
plaintiff have such other and further
relief as may be equitable, together
with his costs and disbursements in
this action.
This relief is asked on the ground
that the foreclosure sale herein
before mentioned was the result of a
fraudulent conspiracy on the part of
the defendants herein for the pur
pose of obtaining the assets of the
railway company for the benefit of
defendants, to the exclusion of plain
tiff and all other second mortgage
bond Holders except tne derenuanr
Sovereign Bank of Canada; that as
a result of this conspiracy the de
fendants have subjected the assets of
the defendant Alaska Central Rail
way Company and the securities of
the defendant Alaska Northern Rail
way Company, to illegal preferred
liens and charges in favor of them
selves, which, if enforced, will de
stroy the security for plaintiff’s
bonds.
The amount for which plaintiff
claims a lien upon the properties
formerly owned by the Alaska Cen
tral Railway Company is the sum of
$155,000.00, that being the face value
of bonds of that company held by
plaintiff, and the sum of $25,753.45,
exclusive of interest, advanced by
plaintiff to the defendants Stavert
Jemmett and Boland for the purpose
of protecting plaintiff’s rights as a
second mortgage bondholder.
This service of summons by pub
lication is made pursuant to an order
of the above named court entered on
the 18th day of December, 1914, di
recting service of summons by pub
lication upon the defendants W. *3.
Stavert, F. G. Jemmett, O. G. Lab
eree, W. J. Boland, Alaska Central
Railway Company, Sovereign Bank of
Canada, The Trusts and Guarantee
Company, Limited, and International
Assets Limited, which publication
was directed by the court to be made
once a week for a period of six
weeks. The first publication hereof
will be made upon the 11th day of
January, 1915.
Witness the Honorable Fred M.
Brown Judge of said Court this 9th
day of January, 1915.
(Seal.) ARTHUR LANG,
Clerk of the District Court.
By CHAS. A. HAND, Deputy.
Date of last publication February
23, 1916.
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WEATHER BULLETIN.
Valdez, Alaska, Jan. 18, 1915.
STATION Above Below Snow, In. WEATHER CONDITIONS
•axson's . 15 13 Clear, calm, trail good.
[0gan . 24 12 Cloudy, windy, trail good.
iulkana . 24 ‘ 14 Snowing, trail heavy.
topper Center.30 10 Cloudy, calm, trail heavy.
tonslna. 25 25 Cloudy, calm, trail heavy.
tolkhell . 25 25 Snowing, calm, trail heavy.
leaver Dam. 30 41 Snowing, calm, trail very heavy.
luzqmit . 28 47 Cloudy, windy, trail blocked.
Vortman’a . 26 36 Snowing, calm, trail drifted.