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Dailv Edition, and The Alaska Weekly Post_ _
SEWARD.-ALASKA. FRIDAY, July 9, 1920. ___TEN CENTS PER OftPY
VOLUME XIV, NUMBER 44. -
POLISH ARMY
CANADIAN MINISTRY CHANCES
OTTAWA. July i>— Arthur Meigh
an. Minister of Interior, has accepted
the invitation to form a new cabinet
and will probably assume tin* presi
dency of the Privy Council vacated by
X. W. Rowell, who is retiring. Martin
Hun ill also retires. FI. II. Stevens e nd
F. F:. C.reen. both of British Columbia,
are mentioned for ministry of Cus
toms.
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CANADA’S WAR PREMIER
IS TO RKSICN OFTK E
OTTAWA. Ont.. July D— Sir Rob
ert Luird Borden, Cunatla s war pre
mier. definitely announced at a
Unionist paity that he had definitely
decided to retire from office. The pre
mier's decision was regretfully ac
cepted by the party. No definite
choice of a successor has been made.
The caucus decided to form a new
political party to be known as the
National Liberal and Conservative
prrty.
Sir Robert Borden became pn»
mier of Canada in 11)11, when as the
leader of the Conservative party he
defeated Sir Wilfred Laurier, the
Liberal premier, in a national elec
tion in which reciprocity with the
United States was the chief issue.
The Conservatives were elected on a
protectionist platfoivn.
The government's term ot office
should have ended in 11)16, but owing
to the stress of war the election was
postponed for over a year. An at
tempt was then made to form a
Unionist party to carry on the war.
It was hoped that Sir Wilfred Laur
ier and his followers would unite
with Borden. Laurier refused to full
in line, disagreeing with Borden on
conscription, the latter being in fa
vor of it. But many of his fol
lowers did join the Conservatives :n
•\ Union government. This latter or
ganisation was elected, carrying all
provinces but Quebec ami Prince Kd
NM.nl Island.
After his re-election. Borden forced
the ci r^cription issue, a law having
b^er passed the previous sumnu*!
With the signing of the armisle\
Po'uen took an active part in
drafting of the treaty of peace.
He won his point in a fight to have
Canada represented as a nation in
the League of Nations. 1 h;s move
was sharply criticized by many
Americans who claimed that it tended
to give the British empire too great
a representation.
Borden has been seriously ill since
his strenuous days at Paris.
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HARDING WORKING ON
HIS ACCEPTANCE SPEECH
MARION. Ohio. July 0— Nominee
Harding is quietly working on his
speech of acceptance. He receives
many callers and expects to go over
the draft of his speech with Chairman
Hays and others tonight.
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WARSAW. July !> — The Bolshoviki
forces have broken through the lines
south of the I>viiu» river designed to
ovemm Lithunia and form a contact]
with Fast Prussia according to an of- ;
ficial statement, 'flu* Poles are fight- :
ing desperately and have cheeked the
advance along the northern front in;
the south, (ieneral Buzinny, with Rov
no in his possession , is advancing in
the direction of Lemberg and is today
only 1st) miles away.
LONDON'. July 0— The Soviets
claim fhe Bolshoviki forces have
smashfd their way forward on the
southern flank of the Polish army on
that front near Staro Konstantinov
and are driving the Poles before them.
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RFP A I UK ATFD G Kit MANS
WF.l.l’OMFD BY HAMBI KC
IJKUl.lN. July 1*— Hamburg has
just welcomed two shiploads ot repat
riated persons from the Far East
bi'ought heic in two Japanese steam
er*
From one of the ships Admiral
Meyer-Waldeck, commander at Tsing
tau, landed with 750 men, women and
children from Germany's erstwhile
Far Eastern colony who had been in
terncd in Japan.
The other ship which came from
Vladivostok carried 1,050 Chinese
and Germans from other points.
In a speech of welcome to the peo
ple from Tsingtau Admiral 'laegert,
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>aid although Germany had been beat
on in the Far Fast seed had been sown j
there which would restore the honoi
of Germany’s name.
Admiral Meyer-Waldeck, according
to an agency report, replied that
since the end of the war a strong re
vulsion of feeling in favor of Germany
hail set in Japan where there was
much indignation at the Entente’s in
terpretation of the peace treaty. Ja
pan had great faith in Germany s !u
ture, he added and able diplomacy re
lations between the two countries.
The Japanese general staff, con
tinued Meyer-Waldeck, believed to tre
end that Germany would win the war.
Minister Koester welcomed the oth
er repatriated persons with hochs for
the Fatherland.
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JIM MOMB IN SEATTLE
Lieut. Jim Momb, formerly with the
commission in Seward, but who enlist
ed when the war broke out. is back »n
See tile bavin/ .eU'*ned from Siberia
where ho spt/. morths as a member
of the American military unit occupy
ing that section. Momb expects to give
up bis commission in the regular army
and upon retirement engage in the
brokerage business in Chinn.
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CATHOLIC SERVICES SUNDAY
Rev. Markham will arrive on the
train tonight from Anchorage and will
hold services at the Catholic church
next Sunday forenoon.
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WASHINGTON. July 0— A land
army of 100,000 farm hands, recruited
and oiganizod by tin* Department of
Agriculture, is moving northwaid
across the western wheat belt ready to
begin harvesting of the nations’ wehat
crop in better time than last year. Ac
cording to Department reports thous
ands of men have been attracted by
the wages of $7 a day. Thousands of
workers from the Atlantic and the Al
leghney regions have joined the big
labor (Jrive.
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HI NS SIGN IT
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SPA, July 0— The German del
elegates have signed and accepted
the terms for disarmament. The
Allies give the Germans six
months It* disarm. The Germans
* asked fifteen months.
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SKGl'K \ GKTS A STAY
Maillo Segura, convicted last year i
at Flat for the murder of George Hi- I
ley, secured another reprieve and did
not hang at Fairbanks a week ago to- j
day. The reprieve gives Segura until
September 20th according to advices
ecoived in Seward today.
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ALAMKDA AT ANCHORAGK
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The Alameda was at Anchorage at
2 o’clock this afternoon discharging
freight. The steamer is due south
bound tomorrow.
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FIFTY ON THE TRAIN
The Gateway City limited is due on
schedule time this afternoon with fif
ty passengers for Seward, twenty ho
ng soldier*.
CEDAR IN PORT
The lighthouse tender Cedar arriv
ed in port at noon on the way to the
westward. Capt. Eendbettor is aboard
the tender.
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WEATHER REPORT
SEWARD 55, Cloudy, South.
Anchorage 58, Cloudy, Calm.
Matanuska 60, Cloudy, Ca>m.
Chickaloon 55, Cloudy, Calm.
Wasilla 60. Cloudy. Calm.
Talkeetna 65, Cloudy, Calm.
Goldcreek 60, Cloudy, Calm.
Hurricane 54. Cloudy, Calm.
Summit 54, Cloudy, S. W*
Rains 52. Cloudy, Calm.
Hoaly 60, Clear, Calm.
Xenana 65, Clear, Calm.
Fairbanks G2, Clear, Calm.
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KX0XV1U.K. July 9— Miss Annie
Beck, of Los Angeles, in a letter to \V.
k. Anderson, representative in the
Tennessee legislature, says suffrage
coarsens and cheapens women. In her I
letter she expresses regret for hei
former activity for suffrage. Miss
Beck declares there is an alarming in
crease in immorality, divorce and mur
der in California since women were
given suffrage. She says women are
more intolerant, radical, revolutionary
and corrupt in politics than the men.
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I!, K. TO COST MOKE
SEATTLE, July 9- The govern
ment. railroad in Alaska will cost Sev
enteen million dollars more than ori
ginally estimated said Senator Wes
ley L. Jones today in reviewing the
work of Congress. “The completion of
the road is of special interest to our
people and for the necessary develop
ment of Alaska”, said Senator Jones.
“Congressman John H. Miller and my
self looked after Alaska and the rail
road with special care and were able
to pass the act increasing the limit of
cost so it now only is a matter of ap
propriations and doing the work. Man
ager McPherson, of the Alaska Bur
eau of the Seattle Chamber of Com
merce rendered valuable service in
connection with this legislation and is
entitled too much credit for the enact
ment of special legislation.”
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DAWSON HAS A QUAKE
DAWSON, July 9— An earthquake
shock of several minutes duration was
felt here yesterday. Shocks were also
felt at Stewart, Carmacks and Sel
kirk.
ELKS WANT HUNTING
PRESERVE IN CASCADES
CHICAGO, July 9— A recommen
dation that 20,000 acres of land in the
Cascade mountains near Bend, Ore
gon, he acquired to provide a hunting
and vacation preserve for the Elks has
been voted by the committee on good
of the order. Final action will be tak
en in Los Angeles next year. Irvin
Cob will inspect the site and make a
report.
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COL. DICK IS
COMING TO
ALASKA
SEATTLE, July <>— Colonel Wilds
I*. Richardson, who was President of
the Hoard of Alaska Road Commis
sioners at the outbreak ot the war,
sailed last night on the steamer Spo
kane for Skagway where he is to join
General Hunter Liggett, who is
aboard the transport South Bend. Col.
Richardson will accompany General
Liggett to Fairbanks and Nome on
his trip of inspection of Alaska posts.
It is thought that Col. Richardson
will he assigned to Camp Lewis which
pleases him as he* loves the Pacific
Coast and wants to be near Alaska
which he is anxious to see developed.
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CARPET BAGGING SYSTEM
SHOWS I P BULLDOZING
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BUCHAREST, July 9— That the '
carpet bagging system known to the
South after the Civil War has been
applied by the Rumanians in their new
provinces of Bessarabia, Bukovina and
Transylvania, is the burden of com- j
plaints that the minority population of
these provinces are sending to the al
lied governments. It is charged that
these provinces have been loaded up
with dishonest civilian officials, who '
work in connection with the Armies of
Occupation to bulldoze and terrorize
the local inhabitants. It is even
charged that the wealthier landowners |
are being arrested in the hope that
they will either desert their lands and
sell their homes# far under the real
value.
According to Dr. Nicholas Lupu, re
cently Minister of the Interior, the Ar
my of Occupation in these provinces
should long since have been removed.
“After four years of war soldiers re- j
spcct the rights of nobody’s” he said.
In Bessarabia, where the army is
kept as a protection against the Bol
sheviks, the charges of mal-adminis
tration have been many. It is stated
that here the army has also prevented
the just operation of the law provid
ing for the division of the land.
The gravest charges come from
Transylvania and the Hungarian fron
tier, where the nationality bitterness
has long been deep. On those members
of the Hungarian nobility who have
persisted in remaining on their estates
they are not permitted to receive vis
itors or mail except by permission of
these soldiers. Many instances are cit
od where the head of the house has
been arrested and so harassed that he
had to flee, leaving his home in the
possession of his wife and daughter,
much after the manner of the Russian
and Polish landholders during the
SEATTLE, .July <J— “The govern
ment is ready to devclopo Alaska but
can do nothing without settlers, per
manent settlers being the chief need.
With a working population, Alaska’s
development will solve itself.” This
. was the substance of an interview giv
‘ on today by Secretary of the Interior
Pavne who is here on his way to Sew
i
ard. Secretary Payne further said:
“ I think there is no danger, as feared
by some, that Alaska won’t be devel
oped and that the railroad we are
. building will be useless for want of
traffic. Congress has just appropria
ted one million dollars for develop
ment of the coal fields there and that
is our main object of making the pro
posed visit to the north. Under the
leasing law, the government is pre
pared to exercise the utmost liberality
in encouraging the opening of the ter
ritory but Alaska must attract and
keep more settlers just as the west
had to attract the pioneers in the ear
ly days.”
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SAILING OF THE STEAMER
NORTHWESTERN POSTPONED
SEATTLE, July 9— Steamer Nor
thwestern , for Southwestern Alaska
po' U and the Jefferson, for b. uth*
e.^ivn- Alaska ports. had their sail
ing: postponed frci»\ Thursday until
tomorrow moroiaj at 9 o’clock. Both
steamers will ha/e a!i passenger ac
commodations taken and big cargoes.
The Northwestern will have a large
contingent of laborers for the govern
ment railroad which have been re
cruited here and at Tacoma.
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COX IS GETTING BUSY
DAYTON, Ohio, July 9— Plans for
the national Democratic campaign will
not be formulated until next week
when candidate for Vice- President
Roosevelt and the members of the
sub-committee will arrive here for a
conference with Cox. Cox has intimat
ed he may go to Washington in the
near future for a conference with Pre
sident Wilson. Cox has held several
long distant phone conversations with
the President already, and with pri
vate secretary Tumulty.
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early stages of Bolshevism.
There are many cases cited where
thoroughbred horses have been stolen
and later entered into the races in the
different cities of Rumania.
There have been numerous reports
that the Transylvanians hope to find
a way out of their difficulties by con
verting themselves into a small repub
lic, if later circumstances permit, or
else of again going themselves to the
Hungarians.
It is charged that the land is being
taken from the rightful owners and
divided up among the Rumanian car
pet baggers, who in turn sell it to the
Rumanian peasants of the country.
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