..
r—: 1 ^ ? burn i!
EAT ! I MATANUSKA
• ; ALASKA i 3 COAL |l
FISH | V -
! i 1 ■■■-- ; ' 1-1
.. THE ALASKA EVENING POST _____
Volume XI. Number 25*. SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23,1917._Ten Cents the Copy
HUNDREDS ABOARD
MISSING STEAMER
BELIEVED DROWN D
__
(By Associated !*re«s Pisustch)
TOKIO. Oct. 23.—The Japanse boat Hita Chi Maru,,
due in Delagoa Bay. Portuguese East Africa, on October
1st. is missing and it is believed here that she has struck a,
mine and all aboard have been lost. 1 he Hita Chi Maiu
was sighted by a British cruiser on September 27th about
three days run from the port where she was bound for,
but she did not arrive. It is known that the part of the;
coast the Hita Chi Maru was bound for has lately been |
described as dangerous on account of floating mines laid
by German and Austrian war craft.
The Hita ('hi Maru had a crew of 320 Japanese j
aboard, and at least 75 passengers, including M. Onai, Lon-;
don manager of the N ippon 5 sen Kaisha, owners of the j
steamer, the steamer was (>000 tons gross and hail a capa-'
citv cargo aboard.
• ‘ -*
STIFF SENTENCES
AHEHANDEDOUTj
TO WOMEN
(By AiMtiald l’tt»i L>i*p*trh>
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23. — Police Judge Stravers,
especially appointed to hear the charges against woman
pickets at the White House, today, after hearing the va
rious arguments, pronounced sentences upon several with
great severity.
Alice Paul, Chairman of the Woman’s Party, and Car
oline E. Spencer, prominent club woman ol Colorado
Springs, Colorado, were each sentenced to six months in
jail for picketing at the White House last Saturday. Four
others who had previously been sentenced to six months,
were given an additional thirty days for repeating their
offenses. Seven who participated in picketing Saturday
were given thirty days and warned that the next time they
appeared in court they would not get off with less than six
months.
NOT GUILTY
IS PLEA Of
MLIPINOS
VALDEZ, Oct. 23. — The Filipinos
charged with the murder of Cannery
man Cunningham, at a cannery to the
westward, appeared before the Dis
trict court here this morning. They
all entered pleas of not guilty. E. E.
Ritchie was appointed by the court to
defend the Filipinos and in accepting
said that all he asked was a square
deal in the trial. The Filipinos are
charged with having killed Cunning
ham during an incipient riot at the
cannery.
-* -
take a half holiday
Many of the commercial places in
Seward will close at one o’clock to
morrow on account of it being Liberty
Day, the Governor of the Territory
proclaiming a half holiday.
RITCHIE AND
M’COY NAMED
INSTRUCTORS
SEATTLE, Oct. 23.—Willie Ritchie,
boxing instructor for the Ninety-first
Division at American Lake, and “Kid”
McCoy, have been appointed boxing in
structors at Camp Dix in New York
State. Ritchie will leave for the east
immediately and join McCoy at Chi
cago.
v
TIU’E BILL RETURNED
VALDEZ, Oct. 23.—The Grand Jury
returned one true bill this morning.
This was against William Smith who
is charged with both petit and grand
larceny.
-*
Tomorrow being a legal holiday,
having been proclaimed so by Presi
dent Wilson, the two banks in Seward
will remain closed the entire day.
GENERAL PETAIN
INITIATES A N A
AISNE OPERATION
(Ry AsMClaUd Pr*M IRsualch)
PARIS, Oct. 23.—General Petain has initiated opera- i
tions in the Aisne region, northeast of Soissons, which!
may prove to be the operation of first importance on a!
new offensive and field of attack. The French attacked
along a three-mile front and made advances, but just how
much the War Department did not announce today in the
official war statement.
Fort Delamal Maison, the German stronghold which
baffled the French in the attack last spring, is apparently
one of the important objectives of the late offensive.
Big French guns have been hammering this front for
the past three days preparing the way for the greater in
fantry attack launched today by General Petain.
NATIONS
TO FILE
PROTEST
LONDON, Oct. 2D.—It is officially
reported here in administration circles
that a joint Scandinavian protest is to
be lodged against Germany owing to
the sinking of neutral steamers un
der convoy. Last week several Span
ish, Swedish and Norwegian steamers
being convoyed in the North Sea, were
submarined. Few of the members ol
the crews were saved and the ships
i and cargoes were total losses.
-*
| ARCTIC BROTHERHOOD
INSTALLS—PLANNING A
im; time for winter
The local camp of the Arctic Broth
erhood held installation ceremonies
last night and also initiated one can
didate. The camp intends to start the
activities for the winter right off' the
reel and many big things are to be
acocmplished in the way of novel en
tertainment, not only for the mem
bers, but for the public. The follow
ing officers were installed last night*
Arctic Chief, John Noon; Vice Arc
tic Chief, A. H. McDonald! Chaplain,
S. L. Colwell; Recorder, W. P. Henry;
Trustees: Lane, Martin, Ray, Craw
ford, Henry, and Past Arctic Chief,
J. J. Finnegan.
--
! MOTION DENIED FOR
A CHANGE OF VENUE
I JUNEAU, Oct. 23. — Ju<lf?o Robert
! W. Jennings this morning denied a
motion for a change of venue made by
atorneys Cheney & Zeigler for the
i trial of J. H. Hewitt and Michael
j Sheehan. Hewitt and Sheehan are
j charged with stealing a $20,000 gold
! brick from the Chicago IT mine last
! winter.
-8
MARTIAL LAW ENDS
i MADRID. Oct. 23.—Discontinuance
of martial law throughout Spain was
announced in a decree issued today.
LIBERTY
LOAN ON |
THE LA
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.—The Lib
erty Loan bond subscriptions are still
lagging, although officials are hoping
that a three-billion dollar minimum
will be reached before tomorrow night.
It is anticipated that the heavy vol
ume of subscriptions of Liberty Day
sales will swell the amount handsome
ly but officials of the Treasury De
partment have announced that they
do not believe five billion dollars will
now be the maximum. This sum may
be reached, and if so, will possibly
come in during the eleventh hour ava
lanche.
National Holiday
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23. — Liberty
Day tomorrow will be a state and ter
ritory, as well as a National holiday
Virtually all governors proclaimed the
day as a holiday. Arizona, Oregon
and the Territory of Alaska will only
have a half holiday.
+ -»*****************'
* WOUNDED MEN ARE
TO WEAR RIBBONS.*
* _
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23. — A
* general army order was issued to- '
* day authorizing that distinctive
* ribbons are to be worn by Amer
* ican soldiers wounded in action on
* the battlefront. The order was '
* cabled to Maj. Gen. Pershing, in
France, this afternoon.
********** * *********
NO SCHOOL BELLS
BE RUNG TOMORROW IN
SEWARD—IT’S A HOLIDAY
Tomorrow, Liberty Day, will be a
holiday, all day for the pupils of the
Seward Public School. Many of tin
youngsters and older ones are going
to hustle out ip.iong the citizens and
see that they have subscribed to the
second issue of ihc Liberty Loan Bono
issue.
SENDS
NAM !S OF THOSE
WHO LOST LIVES
#
(By Associated Press Dispatch)
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23. — Major General John .1.
Pershing today cabled to the Navy and War Departments
the names of the seventy who lost their lives when the
transport Antilles was submarined last week in the war
zone. Those drowned were men from various parts of the
world. None was from Alaska nor the Pacific Northwest
although one sailor wim «as among those saved, was for
merly on Alaskan steamers. Several of those who lost
their lives were sailors previously detained in Germany.
No further particulars were given concerning the
torpedoing of the transport Antilles, although it is an
nounced unofficially that (he disaster took place olT the
coast o» France ten miles o(T the shore early in the morn
ing. »’oniraandcr Sims has sent his report to the navy de
partment here but no further particulars have been given
out to ihe public.
i NS SUFFER
LOSS DSRilSS
: NAVAL BATTLE
PETROGRAL), Oct. 23.—hi the fighting around the
Gull' of Riga last week the Russians put out of action two
German dreadnoughts, one armored cruiser, twelve tor
pedo boats and one transport.
The official statement issued today by the Provincial
government savs that the ultimate fate of the vessels put
; o *
out of commission is unknown, although it has been estab
lished that at least six German torpedo boats were sunk.
The official statement acknowledges that the Russians
lost the battleship Slava, also a large torpedo boat of the
recent type of construction.
The Russian Admiralty says that the Russian fleet
fought excellently against the superiority of the German
fleet.
DAWSON BOAT
WINS A FIGHT
WITH THE ICE
DAWSON, Y. T., Oct. 23. — The
steamer Nasutlin, which left here last
Saturday for Whitehorse, the last boat
of the year, is reported to have won
the fight with the ice in the river and;
is safe. Yesterday reports were re
ceived that the steamer was having a
hard time going up the river and last
night there was a report in circulation
that fhe steamer had been jammed by
the ice and had sunk, the passengers
escaping to the shore. Today word1
was received that the steamer had
safely passed White River and should
ieach Whitehorse late today or tomor-j
low.
-*
RAILROADERS WILL BE
OFF HALF DAY TOMORROW
The Alaskan Engineering Commis
sion force on the Seward division will
take a half day off tomorrow, begin
| ning at noon, owing to it being Lib
erty Day.
4 l •**
EYES OPENED
TO WORK OF
RAID BOMBS
LONDON, Oct. 23. —The King anil
Queen paid a surprise visit to one of
London’s bombed districts today and
talked to the victims of the raid two
night’s ago. The King and Queen re
mained in the street for two hours.
Upon his return this afternoon, the
King, speaking to clergymen at a
meeting, said: “I wish people who op
pose retaliation could see the wreckage
that I have seen and then go to the
morgue and see the mangled remains
of the victims of German bombs
dropped from the air."
-U
ROMANOFF IS GUILTY
VALDEZ, Oct. 23.—Arsente Rom
anoff, who is before the U. S. District
court here charged with assault with
intent to commit rape, this forenoon
plead guilty. Judge Brown stated
that sentence would be pronounced
later this week.