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Daily Edition, and The Alaska Weekly Post
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1918. TEN CENTS PER COPY
Volume XL Number __ _ ■ _ 1 -—
PEAC; IS
PROPOS
IN VAGUE
WAY NOW
German Chancellor Is Reported to
Ha\e Made Proposals Hut in
Such a Manner That No One
( an Understand Them
CLAIMS WORLD PRKJl DICKD
Chancellor Says Tribunal of the
World Is Dead Against Huns
and Peace Negotiations
Will Be Hard to Make
BEKNK. Feb. 2d. — It is reported j
he’v that Gemiany through the Im-j
porial Chancellor von H-rtling has d- ;
clared that a general peace can be dis- ;
cussed on the basis ot “four peoples"
)ad down by Present 'Vilso- of the1
United States. I he Chancellors ac
ceptance has been forwarded, it is al
so st a till.
By the statement the “peoples" j
must be recognized by all states who j
enter into the agreement for peace.
Chancellor von Hertling says that a;
proper cou11 ot arbitration is lacking*
as a tribunal of the world is against
Germany, being prejuiced against all
Germans on account of the war. Ger
many declines to be judged by this j
prejudice, said the Chancellor.
Conveyed in this statement for
peace, the Chancellor threw out a
strong hint for Belgium to enter sep
arate peace negotiations.
Proposition Is Iwisted
WASHINGTON*. Feb. 2b. — Diplo
mtaic circles do not understand the :
meaning of Chancellor von HertlinK
in reference to “four peoples/ in tact ;
the reported statement from Berne isj
>o vairue as to mean nothing. It is
believed heie that the words “four
people” means “four proposals” and
the State Department has asked for a
further detailed report on what the
Imperial German Chancellor has said.
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ALASKA PLANTS
TAKE LICENSES
FOR THIS YEAR
SEATTLE, Feb. 26.—'Fifteen Alas
ka plants have received fishing li
censes. Thirteen of these are salmon
canneries, one is a clam cannery and
one a herring plant
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SLAUGHTERING DOGS
United States Deputy Marshal
Isaac Evans has received word from
Deputy Marshal Karl Armstrong, at
Kodiak, that already 25 dogs have
1-een killed there, the animals sudden
ly having been seized with an epidem
ic of some sort which in many cases
appeared to be hydrophobia.
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4 MINUTE SPEAKER
Territorial Senator John Uonan will
be the four minute speaker tonight at
the Empress theatre.
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BENSON IS RETURNING
Charles A. Benson, interested in
Seward’s new movie theatre, is a pas
senger on the Victoria which left Se
attle last Sunday morning. It is be
lieved that Mr. Benson is bringing the
curtain frame, extra chairs and the
films for the first performance.
i oramat:: e;:try of the British forces into Jerusalem
Here are the first photographs ar
rivin'; in America showing I lie entry of
the Bullish into Jerusalem. At the
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left is set'll ttenoral Allcnhy entering
the Holy City on foot through the
Jaffa gate, according to the custom ot
the ohl-time crusaders, accompanied
liv his staff and the French and Italian
commanders. Above a priest is rend
ing the British proclamation to th»
people from the steps of the Tower ot
David, which was standing wheu Christ
was In Jerusalem. The citizens were
told they could continue their business
without interference by the conquer
ors.
SHELLS BEING
SHLWERED UPON
THE AMERICANS
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY,
Feb. 26. — The artillery duel in the
American sector grows more intense.
The Germans tired over one hundred
shells during the last twenty-four
hours and this morning began to bom
bard in the vicinity of some of our
batteries with gas and high explosive
shells.
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vRGENTINE PRESIDENT
ENDS GENERAL STRIKE
UUENOS AIRE:*.. Feh. 2v — Or
Hipolito Irigoyen, president of the re
public, by decree, ended the general
strike which had 1 -»en in progress for
M>ir.c time. The do* ee compels arbi
tmtion between tile strikers and em
ployeir and requirv the men ;n tile
meantime to resume work.
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LAFOLLETTE SEES CLEB
WHICH EXPELLED HIM
MADISON, Wis., Feb. 26. — Sen
ator Robert M. UFollette has giv n
nuLce o' action against the oflV*e* of
the- MatlbOt: which rertnEy
passed resolutions >f censure ».
him and t*K,»elleo him from ipoinbo;
ship because of iiis war attitude.
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WAR BABIES ALL DEAD
SAYS HOOVER’S AIDE
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j SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 26. — No
i child bom in Poland since the war has
survived because of lack of proper
food, and the death rate in Belgium of
the old and very young is triple that
of a year ago, E. F. Cullen, personal
representative of Herbert Hoover,
told a gathering of more than thirty
local food purveyors here.
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MAN CAUGHT IN A
SNOW SLIDE-BODY
IS NOT recovered!
SHIPWORKERS
RALLYING TO
HELP NATION
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2G. — The
preliminary estimates of the results
of the campaign to enroll two hundred
and fifty thousand shipworkers show
that the number will be much exceed
ed. Thousands of Union men have
joined without any restrictions against
working with unorganized labor. The
men enlisting in the campaign are to
be used building government ships.
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LUTHERAN LADIES AID .
The Lutheran Ladies Aid of Seward
are going to have their meeting next
Thursday afternoon at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Skog. Members and
friends are cordially invited to attend.
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GERMANIA IS NO MORE
The Germania is no more—that i*
in name. This well known eating
place has adopted a name that does
not relate to an enemy and will here
after be known as “The Maryland.”
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PARIS, Feb. 26. — The French
government has ordered 1,000,000
footballs for the army to be delivered
within seven months.
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Bewildered by cries to "look out,’
j tills Johnson, station man at Mile 7*
for Peterson & Company, ran directly
| into the path of a huge snow slide on
; Turnagain Arm late yesterday after
I noon and in the twinkling of an eye
1 was buried beneath tons and tons of
' snow which kept sliding out into the
inlet.
All last night a crew of between 60
anil 70 men kept digging in the slide
in the hopes of finding Johnson and
this morning other men began their
work but this afternoon all efforts
had proven of no avail.
It is thought probable that Johnson
was caught in the first mass and
pushed with it into the inlet and dur
ing the high tide his body might have
been washed out with the snow.
Johnson was a single man and has
been employed in railroad work for a
number of years. •
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LEWIS WINS
; TOLEDO, Feb. 26. — Ted Lewis,
i welterweight champion, knocked out
j Jimmy Duffy in the first round of
I their match here last night.
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SYNDICALISTS WILL
HAVE TO BE TRIED j
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; CHICAGO, Feb. 26. — Federal
Judge Landis has overruled a demur
I rer in the case of the 117 I. W. W.
I arrested here in the first great round
! up of suspected agitators and disloy
, alists, and the entire number will have \
' to stand trial.
AMERICAN VESSELS
ARE VICTIMS OE A
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AMSTERDAM, Feb. 26—A dispatch from Berlin
says that the German auxiliary cruiser Wolf, Captain
Nerger, has reached the Austrian harbor of Pola, on the
Adriatic Sea after fifteen months in cruising the Atlantic
Indian and Pacific oceans. The cruiser had over four
hundred members of crews of sunken ships, several cap
tured guns and a large quantity of raw materials includ
ing rubber, copper and brass valued at many million
marks. Many ships, including three American vessels
were captured and robbed then sent down. The capture
of the English cruiser Turritela is reported. This cruis
er was renamed the Itlis and was operated as a raider un
der the German officers of the Wolf. The cruiser met a
British and French fleet and the crew aboard sunk her and
escaped in small boats to the German raider.
SECOND GERMAN RAIDER IS WRECKED.
COPENHAGEN, Feb. 2G—The Spanish Steamship
lgotzmendi, with a German prize crew aboard is ashore
near the Skaw lighthouse. Two prisoners aboard are
known to be Americans taken from six ships which have
been sunk during the past months, the Spanish steamship
having been operated as a raider. It is claimed that the\
have been aboard the Igotzmndi for the past eight months
while the vessel cruised the Pacific ocean.
One lifeboat landed this afternoon with twenty two
aboard including nine women and two children. The
Danish authorities interned the German commander. The
German crew refused to leave the ship and will undoubt
edly lose their lives as the vessel will soon go to pieces.
An epidemic of beri beri and scurvy broke out aboard
two months ago.
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CAPITAL AND
LABOR GOING
TO ARBITRATE
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26. — Repre
sentatives of capital have named Wil
liam Howard Taft as representative
for the public in the joint conferen
ces between the employers and em
ployees to establish a basis of rela
vions during the remainder of the
war. The employees will now name a
representative to represent the pub
lic. Five representatives of each
bianch, capital and labor will be nam
ed for the conferences.
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WEATHER FORECAST
The weather forecast for tonight
and tomorrow is slight squalls; fair
and cooler.
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BRINGS IN FURS
F. Obriket, Jr., and his brother re
turned by dog team last night froir
Kenai bringing in a large collection
of excellent furs.
WILL LEAVE MOSCOW
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26. — Ar
rangements have been made to move
Americans in Moscow to Samara, 500
miles east. There is however, no im
mediate occupation of Moscow by the
Germans reported.
SIRENS CALL
PEOPLE FROM
BEDS TO DIG
PETROGRAD, Feb. 2G. — Blaring
sirens awoke the sleeping people of
this city last night signifying that the
Germans had entered Pskov and that
small detachments were moving to
ward here. The whistles summoned the
people to dig trenches for defense of
the capital.
LONDON, Feb. 26. — A dispatch
from Petrograd yesterday forenoon
said that the Bolsheviki had captured
Pskov, which is 175 miles from Petro
grad. The Red Guards are today re
ported to be resisting the advance of
the Germans along every line from
Petrograd.
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FILE FOR LEGISLATURE
W. J. Henry has filed for the legis
lature on the Socialist's ticket and Dr.
E. F. German has filed for the Sen
ate on the same ticket. Both men are
from Anchorage.
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FOR ANCIIORAGE DAIRY
Ben Ney and his wife left this
morning for Anchorage where they
will take charge of (he Dairy at that
place. They arrived on the Spokane
yesterday and registered at the Over
land.