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INFORMATION SENT TO
B FUN BY WAY OF
ARGENTINE REPUBLIC
(Ht Associated Press DispatchY
WASHINGTON, Sept. 8—Sweden’s legation in Ar
gentina is acting as a secret means oi communicating be
tween the German charge d’atlairs in Buenos Aiies and,
the Berlin foreign office.
Through this channel of information the German ad
miralty has been advised of the sailing dates of ships and
directions have been given for their destruction by sub
marines.
These statements are according to official dispatches
published today by the state department.
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DELAY IN CONSTRUCTION OVER
BROAD PASS DURING WAR IS
CONSIDERED BY SEC. LANE
(Bv Associated 1‘rew Dispatch,
WASHINGTON, Sept. 8.—Rapidly rising costs for
labor and materials may result in a delay in connecting
the main line of the Alaska railroad across Bioad lass.
The government is now taced with the alternative of cm*
tailing the work at present or providing for an ultimate
increase in the cost of the road, which was estimated at
$&>,000,000.
Secretary Lane, of-the Interior Department, ad
dressed the House appropriations committee today and
stated that a special committee was now investigating,
which will prepare a report for Congress.
Secretary Lane stated that the project may come
down to a business question of whether it is advisable
with the high cost of labor, rail and other material, to pusn
the railroad north through the Susitna valley and over
the Pass immediately, or merely connect the Matanuska
coal fields with Seward, insuring the delivery ol coal along
the coast, and connect the Nenana field with the Tanana
river so that coal may he available lor the Fairbanks min
ing district.
The road is now costing 22 per cent over the original
estimate, owing to increased cost of supplies.
KAISER’S TROOPS AFRAID TO
ADVANCE FURTHER THAN RIGA
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(By Associated Press Dispatch)
BERLIN, Sept. 5, (Official).—The Kaiser arrived at
Riga today, reviewed his victorious troops, and distrib
uted decorations on the battlefield. In military circles it
is considered that operations on the Riga front are vir
tually ended, as it is too late in the year to advance fur
ther, which would require the building of new roads and
establishment of new supply depots. It is unlikely that
Field Marshal Hindenburg will allow his army to advance
further toward Petrograd.
Russian forces are hastily intrenching in the Riga re
gion west of Venden. A German cavalry patrol is in touch
with them on the new line. Advanced Russian intrench
ments were pushed back.
ITALIANS LOSE IN COUNTER ATTACK
(By Associated Press Dispatch)
VIENNA, Sept. 8 Austrian forces have pressed
back the Italians from Monte'San Gabriel, northeast of
Gorizia. and forced the Italians from the Hernanda sec
tion northeast of Trieste. In these actions 6,000 Italian
prisoners were taken.
30.000 PRISONERS TAKEN IN DRIVE
(By Associated P-esa Dispatch)
* ROME, Sept. 6.—Over 30,000 prisoners have been
taken in the offensive at Gorizia. The Italian forces are
still pressing the Austrian lines in the San Gabriel region
FINE EXHIBIT
ARRIVES FROM
VALLEY FARMS
Coal and Minerals Also Included In
Shipment to Fair by Kailroad
Officials
Wonderful agricultural exhibits
from farms in the Susitna and Mata
nuska valleys were received this morn
ing on the S. S. Northwestern and
will be shown tonight at the Seward
Civic Fair through the courtesy of
It. J. Weir, engineer in charge of the
Seward division, and Andrew Chris
tensen, manager of the land and indus
trial department of the Alaskan En
gineering commission. There was also
received a 1200-pound lump of Mata
nuska coal and a tine mineral exhib
it from Willow creek jand Talkeetna.
The exhibits were prize winners at
the fair just held at Anchorage, and
are representative of the crops raised
this year in the agricultural districts
of Western Alaska.
Most striking among the farm prod
ucts are samples of wheat, oats and
barley live and six feet high with
large, well-formed heads.
Heads of cabbage and cauliflower of
immense size are among the vege
table exhibits; also peas and turnips j
of unusual growth.
The size and luscious appearance of
these products must be seen to be ap
preciated.
Seward outranks the interior exhib
it, however, in her potato and let
tuce exhibits, the home garden prod
uct having reached a great size and
being more uniform.
The exhibit from Matanuska and
Susitna includes beside the products
already mentioned, clover, timothy,
buckwheat, celery, beets, parsnips,
kahlrabi, carrots, winter radishes and
rhubarb.
The mineral exhibit includes ore
from all of the well-known mines of
the Willow creek district, natural coke
from Matanuska, coke made from the
| Kska creek coal, and copper from the
new discovery at Talkeetna.
CLOSE MAILS
TODISLOYAL
Government Considers Harsh Method
for Putting End to Seditious
Activities
WASHINGTON, Sept. 8.—Closing
the mails to disloyal citizens is un
der consideration as a step to be tak
en by the government in its effort to
wipe out organized disloyalty and put
an end to seditious propaganda.
LABOR MEETING
FOR LOYALTY
Denounces Activity of People’s Peace
Council in Three-Day
Conference
MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 7. — The
American Alliance for Labor and De
mocracy for the purpose of squelching
activities of the Pacifists and pro-Ger
man propagandists, and to bring labor
forces out strongly in support of the
government, is completing its three
■ day loyalty conference today. Activi
ties of the “People’s Peace Council”
have been denounced by numerous
speakers.
BRITIAN ALSO
1 ANSWERS POPE
—
Follow Lead of President Wilson* In
Refusing to Deal With
Tuetons
| WASHINGTON, Sept. f>. — Great
Britain has advised the United States
that the President’s reply to Pope
Benedict’s peace proposals is in effect
• Britain’s reply.
RED CROSS
ORGANIZATION
IS COMPLETE
Officer** and Committee Heads Named
Active Work to be
Started
Final steps were taken in the organ
ization of Seward's Red Cross Chap
ter yesterday afternoon at a meeting
of the executive committee at Pioneer
hall, at which there was a good at-;
tendance.
Officers and heads of the commit
tees having actual work of the chap
ter in charge were elected to serve for
one year, those named being as fol
lows:
Curtis Morford, chairman; Mrs. Bul
laine, Mrs. Thoday, Frank Cotter and ,
CJus Borgen, vice chairmen; Mrs. L. 1*. i
Starr, secretary; Erich Lucas, treas
urer; Mrs. Erich Lucas, chairman of
the committee for military relief; Rev.
H. C. Munro, chairman of the commit
tee for social service; Mrs. F. L. Bal
laine, chairman of the committee on
membership; Mrs. R. J. Weir, chair
man of the committee on publicity.
Robert Scott, field representative for i
the Red Cross, addressed the commit-1
tee on the duties of the various offi
cers and explained the value of actual
work at the present time on articles
for hospital work and military relief.
Members of the committees will be
named at an early date and it is prob
able that the membership of the ex
ecutive committee, itself, will be in
creased.
Plans for extending the organiza
tion include the organization of aux
iliaries in Western Alaska. All of the
territory from Latouehe through to
Dutch Harbor is made tributary to the
Seward chapter and also all of Kenai
peninsula except Hope and Sunrise,
Money raised by the Civic Fair will
provide materials and actual work will
be started at an early date.
WILLMAKE
SEA SAFE FOR
U. S. TROOPS
Hoard of Navy and Arm}' Men Named
to Consider Ways for Troop
Transportation
WASHINGTON, Sept. 8. — A joint
army and navy board of officers, head
ed by Capt. William Shoemaker, has
been appointed to work out a system
for transporting American troops over
the Atlantic safely.
ADMIRAL KVANS ON
WAV FROM SEATTLE
SEATTLE, Sept. 8. — The Admiral
Evans sailed at ten o’clock this morn
ing with the following passengers for
Seward: Miss M. E. Grant, Charles
Olsen, and Mr. and Mrs. Sam Graff.
EXPLOSION IN FRANKFORT ARSENAL
(By Associated Press Dispatch)
PHILADELPHIA.. Sept. 8. — Three workmen were
i killed and twenty-three persons injured by an explosion
I in Frankfort arsenal today. The explosion was acciden
tal and due to carelessness of a workman.
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BRITISH LOSE 8,500-TON BOAT
(By Associated Press Dispatch)
AN ATLANTIC PORT, Sept. 8.—The British steam
er Turakina, 8,500 tons, was torpedoed and sunk en loute
from a British port to New York yesterday. It had le
eently landed 1200 New Zealand troops in England. Thiee
! of the crew were killed.
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WAR PROGRESSES IN EAST AFRICA
(By Associated Press Dispatch)
! HAVRE, Sept. 8. — The Belgian war office reports
German forces in East Africa retreating to the southern
bank of the Kelimbero river, before a converging advance
by British and Belgian armies.
i
Seward's Civic Fair opened last
night and the big exhibition room of
the railroad headquarters building •
was thronged with visitors, who gazed ;
with admiration on the handiworks of j
Nature hereabout, and also on the
achievements of Seward’s housewives ■
in cookery and needle work.
The vegetable exhibit showed con
siderable progress in farming this,
year over last. A great variety is
shown and the vegetables are more
matured.
The flower exhibit is a revelation,
to those who did not realize now many
flowers there are in Seward.
Of greatest significance, however,
is the exhibition by the children of |
products from their “war gardens.”
Publicity work following the declara
tion of war has accomplished much in
showing the advantage to the young
of raising here what would otherwise
be shipped in from Outside.
One of the best patronized sections j
of the fair was the Country Store,
where for a quarter, the purchaser
received most anything from a bunch j
of carrots or turnips up to a ham or |
sack of flour. It is reported that over
$100 worth of sales were made.
Refreshments in the way of ice
cream and punch were served by the
Hospital Helpers.
The poultry exhibit came in for its
share of attention, especially the hens,
who made egg-laying noises from time
time, but so far have refused to pro
duce a sample of the coveted break
fast food.
A pleasing program ot musical
numbers was rendered during the
evening, after which fortunes were
told by one well up in the mysteries
of the occult.
The ladies in charge of the fair an
nounced this morning that the fair
will be continued until Monday night
to give all a chance to see the addi
tional exhibits received today from
Matanuska and Susitna valley farms,
the Willow creek and Talkeetnu min
ing districts and the Matanuska coal
fields.
Tonight there will be a Patriotic Pa
geant, and some ol the exhibits will
be auctioned to the highest bidder,
SENATE ELIMINATES
BANK CHECK TAX
WASHINGTON, Sept. 7.—In dis
posing of minor disputes of the war
tax bill, the Senate by a vote of 38
to 22, struck out the provision insert
ed by the finance committee for a 1
cent stamp tax on bank checks, drafts
and certificates of deposit, designed to
raise $10,000,000 in revenue.
Opposition to the levy was based
primarily on a fear that it would de
crease bank deposits and use ot bank
ing facilities. _
including a sofa pillow, commemorat
ing the victory of Seward over An
chorage in the series for the Western
Alaska baseball championship, and a
wonderful creation in cake baking by
the Seward Rakery.
Monday night all of the perishibles
in the Matanuska and Susitna exhib
its will be auctioned.
The Country Store will be open both
nights.
It should be remembered that all
net proceeds from the fair will go
to the Red Cross, probably to buy
materials which will be made up int >
hospital garments and dressings by
members of the local unit.
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PAGEANT OF
NATIONS IS
BIG FEATURE
0 •
Local Production Will be Given to
night at the Civic
Fair
The big feature tonight at the
Seward Civic Fair will be the Patri
otic Pageant of the Nations, in which
the States and Territories of Ameri
ca will be shown bringing their offer
ing to nations allied with the United
States in the present world war.
Forty-six persons take part in the
pageant, which is entirely u local pro
duction, the words being written by
Frank Cotter.
The pageant was arranged and di
rected by Miss Edna Robb, dancers
trained by Mrs. Waller, music will be
by Mrs. Cotter, with Mrs. Erich Lu
cas as reader. The committee in
charge is Mrs. Sloan. Mrs. Waller and
Mrs. Munro.
Those taking part include:
Uncle Sam—Unknown
Columbia—Ethel Leslie
England—Cornelia Cooper
France—Ida Revell
Russia—Blanche Kahler
Belgium—Jessie Hensen
Japan—Elizabeth Romig
Italy—Margaret Rimig
China—Helen Tallasen
Red Cross—Virginia Hawkins
The Army—Sam Moyer
The Navy—Francis Ballaine
States
New England—Elizabeth Torrey
South Atlantic Coast—Maxine Mc
Donald
Pacific Coast—Dorothy Wolley
Southern States—Mary McConnel
Rocky Mountains—Violet Gaffney
Mississippi Basin—Ragna Johnson
Alaska—Blanche Daykin
Hawaii—Jean Taylor
Philippines—Dan Howe
Canal Zone—Jimmy Stewart
Dancers
(Minuet, Trained by Mrs. Waller) .
Alaska Stewart, Patricia Ray, Sigrid
Rossness, Virginia McDonald, Mar
garet Sloan and Hope Vaughn.
(Virginia Reel, Trained by Miss Robb)
Thelma Tallasen, Marjorie Neville,
Marjorie McPhail, Gladys Green, Bea
trice Baughman, Dorothy Baughman,
Lavonia Stotko, Marrit Eide, Helen
Sawyer and Cecil Leslie.
Eskimos
Tom Madsen, Carl Madsen, Francis
Leslie, Wayne Thompson, Walter Blue
and Charlie McKay.
The Northwestern sailed south this
morning.
The Alameda is due at Cordova to
night.
The Admiral Evans sailed from Se
attle today.
The train will go to Mile 54 Sun*
day.
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