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•- - THE ALASKA EVENING POST
, _ _ , “ SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 28,1917 Ten Cents the Copy
Volume XI. Number U2.____ __— , — - -
ESTROY THREE
AUSTRIAN SHIPS;
BAG 14 “SU S”
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iDy United SUtfi Cable)
SEATTLE, Monday, May 28.—In a cable today to the
Japanese North American Daily limes of Seattle, passed
by the Tokyo censors, their correspondent tells of a Japa
nese naval victory in the Mediterranean.
The account tells of the sinking by Japanese destroy
ers of 14 Austrian submarines and states that in a naval
operation of magnitude three Austrian warships, class
not given, were destroyed.
The Japanese fleet now in the Mediterranean has
been reported as composed of light gunboats and destroy
ers. _
ITALIANS STI1T " IN NEAR TRIESTE
(B- i • nRUi Cab’e)
ROME, Monday, May 28.—Italian troops have crossed
the Timavo river and occupied the village of San Giovanni,
northwest of Duino, near the gulf of Trieste.
The war office announces that nine six-inch guns
were captured by the advancing army.
GERMANS REPORT TAKING 250 MEN
(B> United States C.*»b»e)
BERLIN. Monday, May 28.—German troops captured
a section of French trenches south of Moronvilliers on the
Champagne front Sunday, taking 250 prisoners.
SPANISH SHIP SUNK, 133 LOST;
DECLARE SYMPATHY FOR ALLIES
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(By United State.' Cable)
LONDON, Monday, May 28.—Demonstrations are be
ing made in Spain against Germany today following the
torpedoing of the Spanish steamer K. de Erzaguirre, and
the reported loss of 133 of the passengers and crew.
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MASS MEETING AGAINST KAISER
(By United States Cable)
MADRID, Monday, May 28.—At a great mass meet
ing held here last night resolutions were adopted asking
the premier to make a public declaration of Spain’s sym
pathy for the cause of the allies.
TORNADOES KILL 250lN THREE DAYS
(By United States Cable)
CHICAGO, Monday, May 28—Reports from sections
of the middle west and south, visited by tornadoes during
the past three days, show a total of 250 dead.
One hundred are dead and thousands suffering fol
lowing the tornado which swept through Central Illinois
and Northwestern Indiana Saturday evening. Modesto,
Charleston and Mattoon were hardest hit.
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ARREST SOCIALIST ANTI WAR LEADERS
(By United States Cable)
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Monday, May 28.—Police offi
cials and a mob of 300 socialists engaged in a street battle
Sunday afternoon following attempts to disperse the
crowd when anti-war speeches were being made.
The soap box orators held forth in a public square and
when they commenced to talk against the government’s
entry into the war orders were issued to the crowd to
leave. The rioters were finally routed, half a dozen of the
leaders being arrested.
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BUILD SIX MORE SHIPS AT SEATTLE
(Bt United Slates Cable)
WASHINGTON, Monday, May 28.—Contracts were
signed by the federal shipping board today whereby the
Skinner & Eddy corporation of Seattle will build six steel
freighters of 8,800 tons capacity for the government. The
vessels will cost a total of $8,000,000.
GOETHALS IS
CALLED DOWN
BY CHAIRMAN
<Bjr United States Cable)
WASHINGTON, Monday, May 28.—
Replying to the statements made by
Gen. Goethals last week concerning
wooden ships, Chairman Denman se
verely scored the general for his pub
lic declaration of the weakness of the
constructors.
Concerning Goethals’ statement that
the shipping board’s wooden ship pro
gram is hopeless, Denman declared
that with the most successful steel
shipbuilding plan possible there would
still be need for 1,000 wooden ships.
Referring to Goethals’ speech at a
dinner in New York, Denman said,
“We believe that the committees of
congress and not a public dinner with
the head of the steel trust are places
for discussion of matters of policy
with regard to wooden ship building.
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The city council meets in special
session this evening at 8 o'clock to
take up the matter of purchasing the
lots recently condemned at the foot
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of Adams street.
J. M. Leonhardt of Mile 54 is spend
ing a few days in town.
VETERANS AND i
CHILDREN TO
JOIN IN SERVICE
Special Decoration day services will
be held Wednesday in which the school
children and Spanish-American War
Veterans will participate.
The stores will close at 1 o’clock and
after flag raising exercises at the
school house at 2 o’clock there will be
a program at the A. B. hall at 2:30
o’clock. Assembly will be called by
Capt. Ward after which the following
program will be given.
Song, “The Star Spangled Banner”
. Assemblage
Song.Primary Grade
Civic Code.School
Flag drill.Intermediate Grades
President Wilson’s Address to Con
gress .
...Past Commander E. T. Hawley
“Columbia” . School
Song.Primary Grade
Address.Hon. L. V. Ray
“America” .Assemblage
Taps.Capt. T. M. Ward
Benediction.Rev. J. J. Patton
D. Skiatitis and H. B. Stites of the
Spanish-American War Veterans com
prise the committee in charge of
their portion of the exercises.
BRUIN BAGGED AND BROUGHT IN
BY BRUNT OE BIG BATTERY
According to rumor a certain party
of sharpshooters left town Saturday
night to engage in a bear hunt in the
vicinity of Mile 5. Dr. Romig, Pay
master Tarwater, Henry Oliver, For
rest Been, machine guns, 42 centinaet
quence of their marksmanship.
Dr. Romig: and Tarwater claim, how
ever, to have discovered the bear, were
in hot pursuit and had him so badly
scared that he lost the use of his
mental faculties and ran to Been and
Bruin at bay “somewhere near Mile 5”
ers, hand grenades, gas bombs and eats
composed the expedition.
It has been said that a successful
attack was made upon the person of
a big black bear, but the details of
the engagements have been deleted by
the censor and we have positive in
formation only that it occurred “some
where near Mile 5.”
Reports regarding the big offensive
and tfte defeat of Mr. Bear are con
flicting owing to the fact that the
party divided in two parts and the
ensuing engagement was enacted by
one party and witnessed by the other
from an advantageous and safe posi
tion on the hill side. Been and Oliver
claim to have outgeneraled the bear
and forced it into a position where
further retreat was impossble. Where
upon their heavy artillery opened up
on the enemy and died as a conse
Oliver for protection. Whereupon the
Been-Oliver contingent opened a can
onade upon him and after an hour’s
bombardment had the bear in such a
fury and state of exhaustion that he
broke a blood vessel in his head and
died without regaining consciousness.
Uninterested woodsmen state that
they have reasons to believe that the
bear broke its leg in a trap and later
fell over a bluff and broke its neck,
while others, .claiming to know, say
that the bear would have died this
week from old age if its death had not
occurred yesterday from hardening of
the arteries.
It will probably be some time be
fore the truth of the engagement will
known, but this, however, is not wor
rying the doctor, who has the bear
skin tucked away up at the house and
will soon have a new floor decoration.
MOTHER FORCED TO WITNEES HER
DAUGHTER’S EXECUTION, THEN SHOT
(By United States Cable)
GENEVA, Switzerland, Monday,
May 28.—Reports of the cold blooded
killing by German officials of a moth
er and daughter were printed here
today in “La Suisse," a local paper.
The article gives a detailed account
of the arrest and execution of a
Mmc. Pfeister and daughter aged 22
of Alsace. These women were ar
rested on the Swiss-Alsatian frontier
as spies. When brought up for trial
the women promptly admitted that
they had smuggled letters, without
knowing their contents, from Alsatian
families to their relatives in Switzer
land, but only as a friendly and neigh
borly act without political or military
purpose, nor for political reasons.
Iloth women were taken to Mul
hausen and shot, the mother being a
horrified witness of the execution of
her daughter before her turn came.
BRAZILIAN CONGRESS IS PREPARING
FOR WAR WITH CENTRAL POWERS
(By United State* Cable)
RIO DE JANEIRO, Saturday, May
26.—(Delayed in transmission.)—The
committee on foreign relations in the
Brazilian congress, today drafted a
measure recommending the cancella-(
tion of the decree of April 25th, which
declared Brazil neutral in the war be
tween Germany and the United States.
This action followed the receipt of|
the president’s message which called
attention to the sinking of another
Brazilian merchantman, obliging the
government to take measures of de-1
fense against German submarines.'
This message stated in part as fol
lows:
“I have the honor to bring today to
your knowledge confirmation of the
information which we have received
from the Brazilian legation in Paris
concerning the sinking of another Bra
zilian merchantman by a German sub
marine.
“The entire nation is cognizant of
the attitude which this government
adopted when Germany announced to
all neutrals the establishment of a
submarine blockade. The Brazilian
government then formulated a pro
test and after the sinking of the
steamship Parana, broke off diplo
matic relations with Germany.
“Today the sinking of a second
steamship without warning and the
menace, decreasing constantly our
shipping and foreign commerce,
obliges the government to put into
practice measures of defense to be
suggested by high advisors of the na
tional (ongress.
“Utilization of German merchant
men interned in Brazilian seaports ap
pears urgent to the government, the
idea of confiscation, however, is ex
cluded, this being repvgnant to the
spirit of ou»* laws as well as to thv*
general feeling of our country/’
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Sam Radish, contractor at Mile 9,
and his crew left on the Mariposa for
Mile 71 to start on similar work there.
INQUIRING INTO THAT SALMON ORDER
(By United State* Cable)
WASHINGTON, Monday, May 28—Secretary Lans
ing has instructed Ambassador Page in London to inquire
into reports that an order in council still existed restrict
ing the importation of canned salmon by the United States.
ROMANOFF IN
BOAT ON INLET
—
Assentia Romanoff, who roamed off
from the federal jail here last week,
stole a boat from the Alaskan Engi
neering Commission at Mile 71 Sun
day morning and started for Tyonek,
according to reports received from
there Sunday.
Romanoff was seen at Mile 54 last
Thursday. He stopped at 71 and
spoke to a native, whom he told he
was on his way to the west side of
Cook inlet. He was being held here
for the next grand jury on a statu
tory offense alleged to have been
committed at his home in Seldovia.
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TRIES OUT NEW
FISHING BOAT
James L. Jensen, who represents
fishing interests at Blaine, Wash.,
tried out his 36-foot power bo^t “Gold
wyn” yesterday after installing an
Imperial engine and was entirely sat
isfied with the test.
Jensen will sail Wednesday for
westward on a scouting expedition ac
companied by William Sheffler. The
Goldwyn was built at Ballard and was
brought here on the Curacao. A num
ber of Jensen's friends accompanied
him on the trial trip, and declare the
new boat to be a splendid craft.
| BOATS AND TRAINS
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The Admiral Farragut is due from
the west at noon tomorrow.
The Mariposa arrived from the
south at 11:30 o'clock this morning
and sailed for Anchorage at 2 o'clock
this afternoon.
The Northwestern sailed from Se
attle for Seward and way ports yes
terday.
The Admiral Watson is scheduled
to sail from Seattle northbound to
day.
The train will leave tomorrow' morn
ing for Mile 40.
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Woodrow Park looked like a sum
mer colony yesterday afternoon with
all its cars and visitors. Several new
summer cottages are being built at
the ideal summer resort.
THE WEATHER
Yesterday.
Maximum .-.50
Minimum .33
Current .. .....46
Weather. Partly Cloudy
Wind South
Precipitation.01
WEATHER TOMORROW
Fair with brisk winds which
will diminish.
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