VOLUME XIV. VALDEZ, ALASKA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1918 NUMBER 38
MS PREDICTS
INVAMMA
Illinois Senator lleconies Alarmed Ov
er Future of Territory—Asks
Government |*repare
WASHINGTON. I). Eel). 22.—
Predicting that America would soon j
he forced to tight for Alaska and Ha
waii, Senator Janies Hamilton Lewis
of Illinois yesterday demanded gov
ernment ownership of railways as a
preparedness measure. He declared
in a dramatic speech on the floor of
seante, that German intrigue will in
cite Russia to seize Alaska so as to
force the United States to divide its
lighting forces and minimize her as
sistance to the allies on the west
front.
I RKIGHTFK VAI.RKy. IH F
The freighter Valdez is in Cordova
and is due here some time tomorrow.
She has 2t>0 tons aboard for the dock
company.
GIRL KII.LF.I) ItV AUTO
SEATTLE. Kelt. 22. — Elizabeth
Jarrel, aged eight years was run down
and killed this morning by an auto
driven by Mrs. H. C. Hibbard.
HINDENBERG HAS
9 MILLION MEN
KviMtrt Says Seasoned Soldiers are in
Hollow Square Gridironed with
Tra ns|K>rtati o n
LONDON. Feb. 22. — Wishard, a
classmate of President Wilson, for
whom he recently made a trip to
France to make a first hand study of
conditions on the western front, re
turned recently and among other
statements said that General von
Hindenburg has 9.000.000 seasoned
soldiers lighting in a hollow square,
gridironed by transportation, and that
no man could say when the allied
powers would be able to break thru.
KIIIK DKFKATS DAN
WIIjHKY IN TOI RNAMKNT
George Kirk raised himself out of
the goose-egg class last night by de
feating Dan Wilsey in a hotly contest
ed game. Kirk scored his sixty points
when his opponent had but 68 of the
75 points required to win, the game
beinb close all through the latter part.
Wilsey started out in championship
form, securing six points in his first
inning, while Kirk scored a goose
egg. As the game progressed Kirk
caught his stroke and slowly but
surely overhauled the leader. Wil
sey's highest run was 10 and Kirk’s
highest was five in the last inning.
Kirk’s average was .75 for the game
and Wilsey’s was .86.
This afternoon Wheeler and Win
ans, Hepfinger and Bonnifield will
play. Brenneman and Saparvalo will
play this evening. As these players
are in the highest classes, a splen
did exhibition of the art of billiards
is confidently looked for.
The averages up to date are as fol
lows:
Name W.. L. P. C.
Selby .3 ® 1.000
Casler .4 1 800
Sparavalo .3 4 750
Hepfinger . 3 1 75®
Bonnifield .-3 4 7®®
Reinke .4 2 667
Brenneman .2 1 667
Winans .3 2 600
Snyder .3 2 600
Kelsey.2 2 * 500
Golden.2 2 500
Egan ..2 3 400
Keeeler .1 2 333
Kirk .4 200
Silverman .1 6 l®7
WfeMIW :. 0 4 000
Wilsey.0 4 000
STRAFING THE BOCHES NEAR AN6RES
... .li . . ,i ('11 mi it i :t n luiHcrtf* stuUoiii'il m-iir Align'* niguged in
•striding Fritz."
MEAT SHIPMENTS
FOB ENTENTE
Six Trains of Tucking House Troducts
for Allies Moving Eastward
Daily Says McAdoo
WASHINGTON, D. C’„ Feb. 22. —
Six trains of packign house products
for export to the allies will l>e moved
eastward daily for the next month un
til a great quantity has been hauled
to that coast, Secretary McAdoo told
Bari Reading and other high officials
of the British commission.
“THE CHEAT" SUNDAY
Fannie Ward, the famous comed
ienne. will make her appearance in
the movies at the Empress Sunday.
The story is of a woman whose love
for dress leads her to embezzle the
Red Cross funds in her possession.
She is tempted by a wealthy Japan
ese, and the way she extricates her
self from the emhurussing situation
forms the basis for the plot.
John Taulsou, the well known old
timer, returned on the steamship Al
aska this morning.
SA.VK THE FOOD
Two wheatless days each
week, Monday and Wednesday.
One meatless, Tuesday.
One evening meal dally,
wheatless.
One meatless meal daily.
Two porkless days for each
week, Tuesday and Saturday.
Gjgty. VON BUELOW
GEMS ENTER
CITY OF MINSK
Advance Eastward I “regressing; stead
ily—Town Alter Town t ailing
Into Teuton Hands
BERLIN, Keb. 22.- German troops
have entered the City of Minsk, in
their advance eastward in Russia, ac
cording to a report from headquar
ters.
FOX FARMER ASKS
$25,000 FOR 21 SKINS
Twenty-live thousand dollars is the
price asked by E. Schuler of Anchor
Point, near Seldovia. on Cook Inlet,
for twenty-four black and silver fox
skins which were taken in December
by him from his fox farm at Anchor
Point to eastern fur markets, accord
ing to Mason li. Leming. special
agent for the i'niled States land of
lice with headquarters in Juneau, who
recently visited Seldovia.
Mr. Schuler left Seldovia during
the holidays with the furs intending
to visit eastern markets and 'dispose
of the pe 11 to individual fur buyers.
He has twenty-five Foxes on the farm
at the present time.
MASTER OF WATSON
ARRESTED SEA1E
Captains |{org ami Schage Violate
State Dry l>a\v hy Bringing in
l<arge Amount of Liquor
SEATTLE, Feb. 22.— Captains
Charles Borg and L. J. Schage, mas
ters respectively of the steamship Ad
j miral Watson and the steamship City
of Nome, on the Seattle to San Fran
cisco run, were arrested today when
a large quantity of liquor was found
aboard each vessel. The liquor was
being shipped from San Francisco.
AMSTERDAM EXPECTING
HAVE IiAROR TROCHEES
AMSTERDAM: While the police
and military are preparing for a gen
eral strike in this city there are indi
cations that the movement will not
assume any serious proportions. The
members of the moderate unions have
issued a proclamation urging their
fellow members not to follow the dic
tates of the leaders of the syndical
ists. who are desirous of spreading
a strike thru the country.
The strike Is said to be backed by
socialists with Bolshevik! tendencies
and is declared to be an outward sign
of discontent out of .privations due to
the war.
Bolsheviki Will Resist Advance
FffiCOUNFRV
Situation in Fast Most Critical, Re
serve Food Supplies «if Whole
salers Iteing Fxhnusted
WASHINGTON. IT C.. Fell. 22.—
Tliea^stern part of the United States
ftflC* a food shortage. which is likely
to continue for the next fid days, ac
cording to Food Administrator Hoov
er. He declares (hat the situation is
the most serious in the country's his
tory, ns in many large consuming
areas the reserve food stores are at
! present practically exhausted.
Ml SIIFR ItltFAKS THROUGH
ICF ON HFHI.N'G COAST
A. King, familiarly known a
"Unity" King through his efforts to
establish ii market for the rubies
found scattered in great profusion
throughout the middle sections of the
Seward peninsula, was brought to the
Holy Cross hospital at Nome the oth
er day suffering with severely frozen
feet, says the Nome Nugget.
King was found at a native village
in the vicinity of Cape Wooly by a
party of Nomeites who were return
ing to town after a trip along the
western coast by dog team, and was
taken to Nome by them.
According to the story told l>y hint.
King left Gold Kun. where be had
been engaged in milling for the past
year or two. more than a week prev
iously with the intention of going to
Nome. While traveling along the Ber
ing sea coast on the shore ice the dog
team sudden^v broke through, preci
pitating tile entire out lit into the
water. King managed to save himself
but lost two of the dags. The sled
was badly broken and considerable
repairs were necessitated before be
could proceed to shelter.
Although soaking wet about the
legs. King managed to fix things up
so that he could go on and finally
reached the native village after a ten
1 mile mush.
! Tlu- temperature Is estimated to
! have been somewhere around 35 de
| grees below zero at the time of the
| accident and a strong wind was also
1 blowing, lie managed to make the
i village by helping the dogs pull the
| broken sled, but on changing hi.-.
1 clothes found that bis feet were fro
zen. He treated the injured feet as
well as was possible under the cir
cumstances but was unable to proceed
and had been at the village five days
| when picked up by the Nome party.
Mrs. Anna Sandberg, who has been
! visiting In the States for some time,
1 returned to Valdez this morning on
' the steamship Alaska.
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LONDON. Feb. 22.—Fortysix Ger
man warships an: approaching Heval,
at the entrance of the Gulf of Fin
land, according to a Uatrograd dis
patch received in this city.
C. 1*. Topliff, the mining man. who
has been to the States on a business
trip for several weeks, was a return
ing passenger on tlie steamship Al
| aska.
I Lester C. Keeley. connected with
) the United States army, in the signal
, corps, was a Seattle passenger for
Cordova on the steamship Alaska.
Karl Kropitza. a member of the
signal corps, arrived at Fort Liscuiu
today from the States.
Messrs. Charles Naud, Russell Her
mann, T. J. Devenney and Jos. Mc
Laren, and Mrs. E. Mills, Miss K. Wil
liams, Mrs. C. Wheeler, left early this
morning for Cordova, on the Grftnby
launch Mgrylee. They will return
Sunday evening.
Rev. Father Van der Pol was a re
turning passenger from Cordova, and
will hold’services here Sunday.
SEDITION'IHTH FOUND GUILTY
liY JURY IN 8EATTLK
SEATTLE. Feb. 22.—Hulet M.
Wells. Sam Sadler, Joe and Morris
Pass were found guilty here yester
day of seditious conspiracy and re
sisting conscription. The jury was out
hut a few minutes. Young Wells was
formerly employed in one of the de
partments of the city of Seattle, and
Sadler is the husband of Kate, the
noted socialist writer and speaker.
Fight llet ween Gentian Patrol aliil
\nieriian Trops Result* in Vic
tory for American*
AMKItlCAN AKMY. Franc. F< h.
22. In a patrol tight last night Am
ericans from the United States under
instruction in the famous <'hemin des
Dames sector, killed one German and
captured another one. One American
was slightly wounded. This is the firsi
time the rigiil censorship has permit
ted the fact to he revealed that Am
erican troops have entered the line.
FKIT/IK CAN NO liKKK
HAVK, SAYS GKHM.W PAPKIt
ZUKIUH. Fell. 22. The Allege
meine Zeitung Flier Hrauerin (Gen
eral Gazette for Hreweries) says that
the supply of barley to German brew
eries will he stopped, this bringing
the whole brewing Industry to a
standstill. Not even beer for the army
will be produced, the periodical de
clares.
The measure is said by the publica
tion to be due to the exceedingly bad
harvest of oats, necessitating the use
of barley for fodder for the army
horses.
■M UM IIO HAS FAI.I.KN
LONDON, Feb. 22. The war ottice
announced today that the allied forces
had occupied the ancient city of Jeri
cho in Palestine, entering the city
without resistance on the part of the
inhabitants. Gen. Allenby has con
quered the greater portion of Pales
tine.
CHlItCHKS TO HKM’ THK
GOVKRNMK.NT WIN Will
ATLANTIC CITY. N. J.: An aggres
sive campaign'to place the churches
directly behind the government in the
"battle for humanity" was mapped
out here yesterday by the executive
committee of the Federal Council of
Churches of Christ in America. Ger
man propaganda will be combatted
through the medium of sermons from
| the pulpit and the women of the
I church will be called upon to take a
j more active interest in the social wel
fare of the soldiers.
COL GEORGE DUNCAN
jvami a *wtr
Sing-. «v3Wt* '«•*£ '
CALL ON PEOPLE
TO DEFEND NATION
llolslieviki Proclamation Ask* Con
cert <sl Resistance to tierman
Anns—State of Siege
, I’KTROG KA If. Pel). 11. A proc
lamation ordering resistance to the
German advance, railing upon all
Russians 10 defend the fatherland
and declaring IVtrograd in a state of
sicg“ was issued last night from tho
Smolsky Institute, where file Bolshe-.
viki government has established head
quarters.
The proclamation was issued at tlie*
order of tin* people's Commissioners,
and was signed by Premier Reuino.
and Kii-ign Kyrkenko, commander in
chief of the Russian forces.
The rapid advance of the German
forces has caused tin- Bolshevik!
many .-leepless hours, it being feared
that the arnij will lie too thoroughly
disorganized to offer concerted resis
tance
\l.\Sh\ IN POUT
The steamship Alaska arrived in
port iliis morning with a large con
signment of freight and the following
pasengers: Lester C Keeley. John
Paulson. Mrs. A. ('. Iloodenpyle,
Chris. Peterson. Attorney It H. Hig
gins. Mrs. Anna Sandberg. C. P. Top
liff. Karl Kropitza. Kev. Fr. Van der
Pol. She sailed west at
.COMMISSION I1KAII AIIOAItlt
Mr. and Mrs. Win. Gerig were pas
sengers on the steamship Alaska en
route to Anchorage, wliere Mr. Gerig
lias been appointed to succeed Major
Mears as head of the railway commis
sion. F. A. Hansen, district engineer
was also a passenger for Anchorage.
Oak Olson, representing the l.overa
Cigar Company, is a passenger on the
steamship Alaska
Mr. and Mrs. Win. Kllis. of Sew
ard. were thru passengers for that city
on the steamship Alaska. Mr. Kllis is
I the Seward manager for Frye-Bruhn
in the railroail city.
Purser Morgan of the steamship Al
aska severely scalded his right hand
last night, and was forced to receive
medical attention for the injured
member while the vessel was in port.
Attorney K. H. Higgins of Seattle
arrived in the city today on the
steamship Alaska.
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TWO ItltlTISH AIRMEN
SENTENCED TO PRISON
—
AMSTERDAM: Two captured air
men of tlie British army have been
sentenced by a German courtmartial
to ten years imprisonment for drop
ping a hostile proclamation in Ger
man territory.
Reprisals are demanded by the
British papers for the action of the
German authorities. The paper says
the Germans are carrying out the
threat published after the report that
copies of Wilson's speech would be
dropped from airplanes in Germany.
It is stated that the German practice
of using airplanes to scatter seditious
literature helped wreck Russia and
caused the disastrous Italian retreat
in Italy.
The Daily Mail wants the reprisal*,
to take the form of putting German,
officers and prisoners on the same ra
tions and living conditions as British,
prisoners undergo In Germany.
SOME MISTAKE
An exchange says ladies wool stock
ings 25c up. The price is not given
If they are down.
-
Private Stankorlch, who has been
visiting in Valdes the past week, left
the Summit this morning en route to
Tel k hell.
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