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\ olunie XL Number 236. SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1917_Ten Cents the Copy
G WAN ARMY IS
HIDING BIG LIST
OF CASUALTIES
tlljr Associated Pres* Dispatch*
COPENHAGEN. Sept. 28. — That German casualty
lists are no longer permitted to leave Germany is the :>tate
ment of travelers arriving here from over the frontier of
the Kaiser’s realm. This statement is borne out by the
fact that in none of the German newspapers arriving
here does a list of casualties appear, showing that the
censor is using every means to keep this information from
Germany's enemies.
This policy is said to have been adopted within the
past week, or since the British and French resumed their
terrific drive on the western front. This attempt to cover
\ip her losses is taken to indicate that the Germans ha\e
suffered unusually severe casualties in the past few days.
GENERAL PERSHING’S MESSAGE TO SOLDIERS
(By A»»o<i»ted Frew PUpatch)
NEW YORK. Sept. 28.—Maj. (Jen. Pershing has sent
a message to American soldiers through the New York
P.ible Society which was made public today. The mes
sage. which will he inserted in the small khaki-covered
Testaments given to the men. follows:
“Aroused against a nation waging war in violation of
all Christian principles, our people are fighting in the
cause of liberty.
“Hardships w ill be your i but trust in God will give
you comfort. Temptation will befall you, but the teach
ing of our Savior will give you strength. Let your valor
as a soldier and your conduct as a man be an inspiration
to vour comrades and an honor to your country.”
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COLLAPSE OF AUSTRIA PREDICTED IN WINTER
(By Associated Press Dispatch!
GENEVA, Sept. 28.—The Freie Zeutung of Berne
publishes an article from a high Austrian official who re
cently traveled through several sections of this country,
in which the writer states that Austria-Hungary cannot
hold out the coming winter owing to economic reasons,
as both soldiers and civilians will he starved. He gives
several reasons, notably the almost complete destruction
of the crop in the richest regions of Hungary by the cold
and the heavy rain, while 300.000 tons of Rumanian ce
reals could not be transported owing to lack of rolling
stock, which, first of all. is utilized for military purposes.
In the meantime, he says, the necessaries of life are go
ing to extraordinary prices.
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TEUTONIC NAMES NOT IN FAVOR
REGINA, Saskatchewan, Sept. 28. — A deputation
of the army and navy veterans has been appointed to go
to Prussia. Saskatchewan, and demand the Teutonic
names of streets, such as Kaiser, Wilhelm and Hanover,
be changed to those of more British origin.
SEWARD BANKS TO COOPERATE
IN SALE NEW LIBERTY BONDS
The Harriman National Bank and the Bank of Sew
ard received this morning a cable from James K. Lynch,
Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank at San Francisco,
requesting them to co-operate in the sale of the new issue
of Liberty Bonds. An active campaign has been started
all over the United States for the sale of these bonds be
tween the dates of October 1st and 27th. Both above
banks will be pleased to accept subscriptions, the terms
of which are as follows:
2 per cent to be paid with the subscription.
18 per cent on November loth.
40 per cent on December 15th.
40 per cent on January 15th.
Full information will be given to any prospective
purchasers of these bonds by either of the above banks.
j MINING MAN
| TO JOIN ARMY
George Tweedale, who has a claim
on the Big Kldorado in the Shushana
district, was a through passenger on
the Santa Ana.
Mr. Tweedale has made application
for admittance to the officers’
training camp at the Presidio, San
Francisco. He has seen service in the
“Boxer Uprising” in China and was
with the MJ>th Infantry in the Phil
ippines. He will return in the spring
if his application is not accepted.
Mr. Tweedale has spent four years
in the Shushana country and this is
his first trip Outside.
Hi speaking of the Shushana coun
try, Mr. Tweedale says: “Several
claims on the Big Kldorado were
working and prospects for the com
ing year are better than they have
i ever been.
“Some good pay has been located
on the bench of No. 2 Bonanza, which
pays $3.50*to the square foot of bed
rock and a number of quartz propo
sitions look good, especially at the
head of Snag River.”
The trails in the Shushana district
are in very bad condition, Mr. Twee
dale says, and James Wilson, of Val
dez, Road Commissioner, lias promis
to spend some money this year in re
pairing and putting them in shape.
| The cost of operation is very high on
! account of these trails. Flour is $30
and $35 per 100 pounds and other ne
cessities in proportion.
FIRST OFFICER
WRECKED SHIP
ON SANTA ANA
Walter Caravan, first officer of the
fishing schooner Hunter, owned by the
Northern Fisheries Co., Capt. Halt
man, commanding, who was a passen
ger on the Santa Ana for the Outside
where he will spend the winter^ tells
of his experience when the Hunter
was wrecked.
The Hunter was wrecked August
.‘10th off Sutwich Islands, near Chig
nik, when it struck a blind breaker
two and a half miles off shore. In
less than five minutes the boat sank
completely out of sight, the crew ot
eleven men barely escaping with their
lives in a small dory. They reached
shore and for four days lived on sea
eggs and bidarkies (small fish shaped
like a bidarka boat), and then rowed
sixty miles in the dory to the Chig
nik cannery where Mr. Osmond, super
intendent of the cannery cared for
them, until they were picked up by
Captain Eaton of the famous gas boat
Lina K, who took them back to Ko
diak.
The men spoke very highly of Mr.
Osmond and say he deserved much |
credit for his fine treatment of the
shipwrecked men.
Mr. Caravan was also first officer of
the Harold Bleakum, which was
wrecked last February.
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NORTHERN FISHERIES CO.
HAVE GOOD COD CATCH
The Northern Fisheries Co. have
done well with their cod fishing this
year at Kodiak, (>0,000 fish now be
ing at the station.
The Progress is now on her way
down from Unalaska to Kodiak, with
7,000 cod, one month’s catch. This
boat also made a trip to Seattle this
summer with a load of 60,000.
HUN CRUISER
IN UJ. NAVY
(Hr Associated Press Dispatch)
UNDATED.—The former German
; cruiser Geier, seized in a Pacific port
at the outbreak of the war, will be
ready to go into commission as a unit
of the American navy on the first of
October, acording to a report made to
the navy department.
When diplomatic relations were
broken off with Germany, the crew
of the little cruiser Geier destroyed
valuable parts of the engines, togeth
er with the blue prints, in an effort
to make the craft useless to the
Americans. Repair crews have been
at work on the vessel ever since, with
the result that the engines will have
been completely restored by the first
of next month.
U. S. STILL
HELPSBELGIUM
(By Auoriatrd Prru Dispatch)
WASHINGTON, I). C., Sept. 15, (By
ail.—The federal food commission
and the governments of several Eu
ropean countries have entered into an
agreement whereby Belgians may get ’
food more quickly and neutrals may
have some of their food wants sup
plied on the understanding that no
food in to be re-exported to Germany.
This decision relents somewhat
from the decision reached by the
United States some weeks ago to pro
hibit further shipments of foodstuffs
to Germany. Strong protests have
been made against this course by Eu
ropean neutrals, and these countries
have made strong showings that they
would be brought to the verge of ac
tual starvation by the American cm
bargo on foodstuffs.
ORDERS MILITIA
SHOOT TO KILL
(By Associated Press Dispatch)
PORTLAND, Sept. 15, (By Mail)—
Reports that members of the Indus
trial Workers of the World and strik
ing millmen are starting fires in for
ests of the Northwest to retaliate
against mill owners and loggers re
sulted in detachments, of Oregon mi
litiamen being ordered into forests
with instructions to shoot on sight
anyone caught starting fires.
PLAN INAUGURATED TO
ALLEVIATE RUSSIAN TAXES
(By Associated Press Dispatch)
PETROGRAD, Sept. 28. — A com
mission has been appointed to pre
pare an inventory and valuation of the
Russian state.
N. Pokrovski, president of the cen
tral war industrial commission, will
direct the work.
The inventory will comprise lands,
forests, railroads, factories, work
hops and other profit yielding state
undertakings. The government’s aim
is to alleviate the burden of taxation
by inaugurating a less wasteful and
more enterprising system of manage
ment.
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YESTERDAY’S WEATHER
Maximum .-. 56
Minimum .... 38
Current .„. 47
Clear. North winds.
Tomorrow—High winds, with cool
wave.
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UNDER EYES OF TH!
OBS WATICN BALLOONS
1 AMERICANS ARE BUSY
(By Asvociutrd l*rcM Dispatch)
AMERICAN TRAINING CAMP, France, Sept. 28.
—American guns are booming in France, under the
eyes of observation balloons, with airplanes to trace each
singing shrapnel shell, each missile of high explosive de
structiveness. Thus far the guns have not been turned
against the enemy, but there is every likelihood that the
artillery will beat the infantry to the front, for it is plan
ned to complete the intensive training of the gunners un
der actual battle conditions, under the fire of German
guns and with their own weapons directed against occu
pied German trenches in various positions behind the
enemy lines.
While the plans of the American commanders are
unknown, it would seem logical from a military stand
point that after the artillery has completed several weeks
of training at the front in laison with the French infantry
and supporting guns the greater part of it would be with
drawn for maneuvers with the gradually multiplying
American infantry.
Theer are no longer any French officers or poilus
actually serving at the guns, the crews having been Amer
icanized throughout. At the observation posts and in the
schools of instruction French officers sit no wonly in an
advisory capacity.
GERMAN DOCTOR REFl'SES TO
CSE SERl'M ON SOLDIERS
(lly A•vociutrd !*rrnn l>inpnU'h>
PARIS, Aug. 30, (By Mail).—Dur
ing the last meeting of the Surgical
Society, Doctor Fredet mentioned a
fact which seemed to show the value
of preventive injections of anti-teta
nus serum.
After the battle of Ourcq, a certain
number of wounded French and Ger
man soldiers were collected in a hos
pital. \ German doctor had remain
ed with the German wounded and, al
though sufficient serum was placed at
his disposal, he refused to use It for
his men, saying that he considered
such injections had no preventive
value.
The French wounded received the1
normal doses of the serum. Of twelve
German wounded, six contracted teta
nus (lock-jaw) and died, while no
French wounded showed any symptom
of it. This example of the serum’s
preventive efficiency has all the more
weight because all the men had been j
wounded under the same conditions j
and on the same tentanus-infected
ground.
AUTOMOBILES REPLACE GAILY
DECORATED WINE CARTS
(By Associated Press Dispatch)
ROME, Sept. 28. — War efficiency
lias eliminated the gaily decorated
and multi-colored cart which since
mcdieaval, if not Roman times, has
daily brought to the city from the Al
ban mountains its portion of white and
red wines.
These one-horse, two-wheeled vehi
cles with jangling bells and sleepy
drivers hidden under a covering not
unlike a buggy top, long familiar to
the streets of Rome, will be replaced
entirely this fall by an automobile
service.
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SANTA ANA ARRIVED
IN PORT LAST NIGHT
The Santa Ana arrived in port at
10:30 last night with quite a number
of passengers. This is her last trip
westward this year, the Dora taking
the run for the balance of the year.
The Santa Ana leaves today for Seat
tle and the Dora leaves tomorrow as
her mail contract calls for leaving in
September and Sunday is the last day.
SWEAT SHOPS GAN NOT MAKE
NEW UNIFORMS FOR U. S. ARMY
(By Associated Press Dispatch)
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 28.—Secretary of War
Newton Bakre has announced that he will immediately
name a military board of control whose duties will be to
prevent the manufacture of clothing for American sol
diers under sweat shop methods.
This move is designed to prevent sweat shop estab
lishments from obtaining contracts for the manufacture
of clothing for the new draft army. The federal govern
ment has determined that no undue profit shall be made
through the supplying of war material and at the same
time will insist that every worker engaged in the manu
facture of war supplies shall receive a fair living wage.