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SEWARD, ALASKA. I U1DVY. DECEMBER 2077918. TEN CENTS
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By Associated I‘res**
WASHINGTON. lhc.. 20- S^na'
or C’a*ot Lodge today in an add res*
befou the senate advocated st *ng\v .
the postponement of all discussion
regarding the iniormation of a Is a-1
gue of Nation.- until after the pear *
4,v/l 4v iv* ia *■>.-.i.ctt Senufcor Lode* ^
utatotl that the peace question and the
League of Nations should be con. ider*
**d seperately.
DRILL TONIGHT 1
.V 7:d0 oVork t >* :gnt the vfa
miliar ‘‘Fall in* will be hear! * toe
A. V. Jail. TV Seward MiVa y Fad
vtU hold th* :*i st d’ ill and rroetHn
f„~ o.-er sev'-n veoKs. A I mo* her*
;*i«* -equested v »>e ir. nt'enda*;
nig: and de* *do icg.n.uing t*
manor* y of t .<* ho»n mard?.
AMERICA
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By Associated Press
WA*HINc;TON. Dec., 20— At u
dinner in hih honor (ieneiai Sibert, dr*
rector of chemical warfare service,
declared that the American a my i
being prepared to assume t''“ t<v j
place in the manufacture and u o <•'' |
poisonous gases. He said that •*‘ •*
new gas masks had been made, wit a J
out y mouthpiece or nose clip, aiv,
which were superior t«i any typ*
known when the armistice was signed.
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He states! that the gas manuf^cturir.;
capac.ty of the American plants wa.:
greater than the combined capacity e;
French and British plants.
Another speaker. Col. Walker, im
mediately in charge of the gas manu
facturing production, stated that ?h*
government plant at Edgewood, Mar; -
Ian l. was the most deadly institution
since the beginning of time. He indi
cated that the casualties among th,
men handling the products ther.
would he hard to match on the battle
front.
TR MX OPT SrXDAY
Robert J. Weir announced today
that a train fo»* Ancho age and wn;
points would probably bo operated
from Seward next Sunday, the-train
leaving hove in the morning.
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P.y Associated Press
PARIS, Dec., 20— President WiD
>o]\ R expected to go to Rondo i im
mediately following a dinner with th
troop* at the front. It i* ♦ xpecte'5 that
th»' President of America wdl .i*:t d •
\a ic i Re’giem and nn t,iA:n an
on hi: retain from London.
ITALIAN KING lv FR VN< E
PARIS Dec.. 20 - The 1 alian
Ki*:g and hi> son arriveT horc last
night. The Royal part' from Italy
v a> met by Provident Pomc:ii « and
Premier Cleincnceau. Today a 1 dida.v
was declared on account !' '.\o arriv
al. The streets are r o*v ’ ! \ 'i mer
ry makers.
TALKS WITH IT * • : \\S
PARIS. Due., 20— Pr'Sd-m Wil
son conferred today with Italian For
eign Minister Spnmo and Premier Or*
•ando regarding ltah’s ’aims *’t the
peace conference. Pit ;d nt Wilson
<aid he would support :my just claim
Italy might'present.
TO (iRICKT W P "ON
LONDON, Dec., 20— Newspapers
throughout the British Nhs cor. 1 men:
extensively regarding 1* °'ident Wil
son’s coming visit The Nvvs ar.d Ex
press state their profo ' safsfaci
ion over the plans < f vi--.it and
both i ew spapers state that every sec
tion of the nation is eager for Pm on
portun ty to display the gratitude am
admit at ion for the great President
and his unfaltering idealism and stead
fastness of purpose.
FORMER NEWSPAPER MAN
MEETS SEKIOPS A<VH>’ N *
Word " as received on the last b »at
that Elliot Stewart, foimorly mana
ger and proprietor v'‘ the VaM 7- Pro
spe *0.* and Mine * had met with, t ser
ious accident at Purfco. South 1 :d ota
where he has bom. ii\i*vg since ’ is de
part o**' from V d.lcr nearly two ye tr?
o Mi i ar was enga o
loading h mber »rom «t car and as or.
a staging about P2 led from I u
ground. He became overbalanced an<
jumpml to the concrete floor of tie
building fracturing both ankles ar.>
breaking the hones in his feet. Am
X-ray was taken of the injuries <how
ng the bones had been crushed adly
He i< confined to the hospital and late
idvices state that ho will not be oir
afr iearlv a vear.
Mr. Stewart is well known in bo'li
Sewa’d an l Valdez, having tv»en in
the t.om paper lmsine s in both places
since 190.’, or 1904. He has a great
number of friends in both pharos who
greatly sympathize with him.
>!" v!id Couple vttendants
AT \ WEDDING IN SEATTLT
Eb’zaboth Romig and Roy Ashland
Noth of Seward, were the next high
principals at a wedding recently held
in Seattle. The wedding was the one
uniting Mildred Ashland, daughter of
Mrs. Robert Ashland, and Judson
flrenneman.
hustle TO
She’s a-booniing.
reward is going over Liu* lop at
coid.ng to ua present indications.
The Chnslnias Roll Cull lor mem
ber.'. in the American R< d Cros. is go
; tug to show some population i » Ulis
. men, women and children
! are joining although the committee
having the campaign in charge admits
that not one third of the citizens nave
joined yet. but have hopes. The cam
paign ends next Monday night.
The following new members to the
Rod Cross joined in Seward on Thurs
day, the list having been turned m
through George Sexton:
Klsie Leslie, Mae Gilmore, Pete An
derson, AI Roberts, Gaston /hilly.
Kvelyn Hardy. Lewi.. Wickstrom. Mis.
Mary Racn Wright, Cornelia R. Coop*
. r, Peter Swanson, Domineo Maulino.
Gust PgamhroLilis, Charles Mathison
i William Small , Mrs. Small, .John
Martich, Mrs. Alfred Rosners; AI
j Chamberlahi. Robert L. Wover, 1 L.
smith, Mrs. S. L. Colwell,.^ .
1* niche, Mrs. J. 0. McGowan, Mrs. A
Mclvea, Scrgt J. F. Starkjohan. Prv
at<» Alonzo P. Ruccimazza, F. -1
Whitney. L. Christusen, Nick IL <hics
John A. Nelson, (ins P. Gambrouio,
I Mrs. Mary DeRoblcs, F. A. Castle,
Mrs. Castle, M. .1. S. Rasmussen, Mis.
F. S. Johnson, Olin Rothfus, Jcs.-if
• Ellsworth, H. E. Ellsworth. Thelma
Ellsworth, John Gilpatrick, Vayn<
Blue, Lewie Simpson, Ike Ilergard.
Mike Orihaha, Frank Sakamito. Geo.
Manuel, John J Keega, Andrew Beck
Mrs. A. Beck, Robert L. Merrill, Char
les Wagner, Charles Howard. J >< r.
Lohr, II. A. Harmon, Mrs. Ha inon,
Peter M. Anderson, Mrs. P. M. An
lerson, Agnes Anderson, M. L. Gc
»er, Joe Perrini, George Moveos, San
I Giaff, E. R. Montgomery, E. L. Be
dell, Mrs. A. Fail man, William Fair
man, Mrs. Pratt, Mrs. W. A. McNeiko
Joseph Badger, Mrs. J. O. Patton,
Harry Kawaba, L. B. Spenc\i\ !• Van
cis Root, W. E. Root, Mrs.W. L. L >o.
Stranger, John Lenke, Gte Say h;,i;
E. L. Sweek, Cynthia Anne Sweek
Virginia Sweek, Carolina Sweek, M:
E. L. Sweek, W. P. Henry, Frank
Brown, Mrs. Frank Brown, J, B enau,
E. A. Thcdt, Ed Johnson, Mike Ba
pich, Charles Emswiler , Mrs. Ems
wiler, A. E. Davis, Mrs. A. F. Dav;s
j Hadley Davis, Jene Elizabeth Davi.
i Merle Wynatt, Charles E. Benson,
Charles Tecklenberg, Mrs. Charte
recklenberg, Fred Chalman, Andrew
Larsen, J. W. Felton, Alfred Klerson
Otto Blom, Nels Mattson, John (i. An
derson. John Johnson, W. P. Studdeit
Charles E. Herron, Vauda R. Coffey
:i -s.ik ‘q3}H A U ^IS *SM\
V. High, and Mike Pribich.
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DEMOCRATS ELECTED
The four territorial seiiatois choos
n it the November election were all
i Democrats. William Britt was electee,
in the First division: Attorney Fraw
ley, of Nome was elected in the Se -
>n i; Banker Hess was elected in tin
Fourth, and Thomas C. Price was the
winner by a long lead in this division.
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Miss Olive Emmons, in the‘account
ing department of the commission at
Anchorage, is on the Alameda fo»
Seattle to visit her. mother.
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Miss Metric Main, assistant to Dr
Herman at Anchorage, arrived on the
baggage train yesterday morning and
left for the states on the Alameda.
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NO JLU AT
DAWSON
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By Associated I'ress
DAWSON, Dec., 20— Canadian
Mounted police have been dispatched
to Champaigne Landing to prevent in*
dia is from carrying the influenza into
the Yukon. There is no influenza in
the Territory. Skagway is quarantin
ing all ti aveJers for a short pe od.
It is \v lieved that the Yukon is the
only part of the American continent
exempt from the flu. This city ha
ordered i-crum.
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I LI AT CORDOVA.
According to a report received in
Seward this afternoon, there are 200
cases of the influenza at Cordova. The
city of Cordova maintained a m-\st re
markable quarantine for five weeks
and according to all reports no influ
enza developed. 1 here are man,\ case
in fhe detention hospital at C< vdova
especially among fishermen and in
coming passengers hut none ot the
sevens contracted the illness. How
over, today’s report, indicates that
Cordova, after all other Alaska town
have passed through the flu sc’go,
now having its troubles.
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DIES OF INFLCENZA
SEATTLE, Dec.. 20— J. Austin
Frasier, attorney of Dawson ami for
merly a member of the Yukon legis
lature, a iveent arrival here from tV
j north, is dead of the influenza.
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“SILK" DIES OF FLU.
BOSTON, Dec., 20— Francis O’
Loughlin, the famous American Lea
•mo umpire , died here today of th«
influenza. “Silk" was the nickname
ghlin has alwfty borne.
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HAVE ’EM READY
Nell Mathison and Almira McGow
an will be out hustling for trinkets,
old gold or silver, for the fund for the
Aviators. The two misses will call at
the various homes. The names ot don
or’s will be published, as soon as the
campaign is ended in Seward. Mrs. J
A. Baughman s the chairman of the
committee attending to the trinket
fund in Seward.
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TILL INVESTIGATE CAUSE
FOR WRECK OF THE SOPHIA
VICTORIA. B. C., Dec., 20— It war
mnouneed here today that the investi
gation into the cause for the wreck o'
the Princess Sophia, on Vanderbilt
Reef, Alaska, will begin here on Jan
uary fith before the Admiralty Cou»t.
THAT DELEGATE CONTEST
WASHINGTON, Dec., 20— Repre
sentative Claud Kitchin notified the
House iate yesterday that on January
3rd he will call up for final disposit
ion the committee report holding that
Wickersham was elected delegate
from Alaska in 1016. Kitchen is the
Democratic leader and from Nor h
Carolina.
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WILL OPPOSE MANN
WASHINGTON, Dec., 20— Repre
sentative Gillctt is to oppose Mann fo.*
the speakership according to an an
nouncement made this afternoon.
Mann announced his candidacy yester
day. Uncle Joe Cannon is understood
to he supporting Mann.
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By Associated Press
WASHINGTON, Dec., 20— Tile
.var industries Board announced '.<>
lay that the maximum pric« on c »pj «*r
ill expire on January 1st, and will
he renewed.
After January 1st, the Alaska
steamship company will have no ox
■us-1, except that of cussedness, f*>
sending passenger steamers only to
Cordova. To the present time many
deamers have sailed from Seattle to
Cordova and returned direct from
there owing to copper shipments and
the high price. It is a long lane that
has no turning.
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TO FLEET
By Associated Press
NEW YORK, Dec., 20— A home
ward- hound fleet of seventy - two
American warships will be met oft'
Sandy Hook by 400 harbor craft and
escorted to anchorage along side of
foreign warshipcs in the Hudson riv
*r, just off of Riverside Drive. The
Drive will be brilliantly illuminated
for the occasion. The city of New
York is preparing a monster receptior
for the returning naval forces. The
fleet is expected any time .
WEATHER REPORT
The following is the weather re
port for the 24 hours end at 7 o’clock
this morning: •
Seward, 44, cloudy, calm.
Kerncreek, 34, cloudy, southeast.
Anchorage, 15, cloudy, calm.
Montana, 30. cloudy, calm.
Chickaloon, 4, cloudy, calm.
Matanuska, 20, cloudy, calm.
CALLS AIR CONFERENCE!
LONDON. Dec., 20— The British
\ir Foard has drafted articles for an
International Air convention which
will be submitted to the Allies. It is
suggested that an International Air
conference be called shortly.
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E. It. Tarwater. paymaster of the
Seward Division, is to hustle in th •
Red Cross members during the pres
ent roll call, along the railroad to
! Kern Creek.
P\ VssociaUd Pie>.s
PARIS, id General Hir
enburg, former head of the Germ:
army on the western front, has win
the German Government at Peril
that he intend* to form a new fror
six miles behind the neutral zone fe
cd by the armistice. The German g >\
eminent i* understood to have a-’:
Hindenburg fo .<n explanation bn* .1
:ns’>i' has been# ieeeived. It i.> f»*i
ther 1.r imunced from P -’in that tw.
regiments of active G man arm
forces will lv sent soon to Prankfor
on- Main.
Ricvoi.r ri;).\ \\\\ pi.Gr
PARIS. Dec., 20— I: s report
that Hindenbuig and ti* Pr
War Minister Soheuch a id othoi
behind the count- r revoluti- 'ary p'**
It is also reported that the exist*
German government is incapable *
preventing realization of ti.: plot.
ORGANIZE PEOPLE l.E U.l !.
LONDON, Dec., 20— A Cop* nhag
enhagen dispatch says the iVoph
League has been organiz *1 in Be»l n
The League includes Penihtorf . f»».
mer Ambassador of Go many
United States; Jfon;. u* t nance! j.
Mavimillian, Ca.dinal Paitman, tin
Ca'.hoiic clergyman who is under;-tom1
to I*.aw* sanctioned G** '.nan cm itie.i
in the war; Former foreign ministei
Solf, Centrist leader Erzergor and in
dependent Socialist, Hugo Hasse.
HFN OFFICERS ON STRIKE
AMSTERDAM. Dec., r> - 1 eadmg
officials of Germany’s foiolgn of/'* •»
are understood t«» be on a st. ike on ac
count of the government’ , aeceptaneo
of Foreign Minister Soil’’, re -agnat
ion. No foreign minister ha appear* !
for several days and of*u ia! busine s
is piling up, neck high.
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WASHINGTON, Urc.. 20— The
Department of Justice in the report
made public today on Hog Island,
says: “After a searching investigat
ion, no criminal liabilities have bem
disclosed. We recomend that Board of
Arbitration determine what pait, if
any, of the $60,000 000 dollar plant
cost in excess of a reasonable neces
sity.”
F. W. McTaggart, who has bf*en ’n
the employ of the commission at An
chorage for the past three years, is a
passenger south on the Alameda.