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Daj)y Edition, and The Alaska Weekly Post
-------- -. ~ - SEWARD. ALASKA. MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1918. TEN CENTS PER COPY
Volume XI. Number -- -— —-- ■ ■■ ——
JAPS NOW
WANT AI
FOR RUSS
New simpers o! I lu«rr\ Kin^ilow in
IHlerent Attitude from that
Taken Sowral Weeks \go
0>er Kussiau Matters
M>Y \LTY IS NOW P AUA'lOl'M !
lnlluenti il Japanese Want to Help
ilu ! nited States in Ml Wai
Matters as this Nation
I* Powerful One Now
• T0K.10. March IS. — Ail the im
portant newspapers of Japan, espt
eia’ly thov,» of this city, are advocat
i vr intervention in Siberia. This at
titude is contrary to that of a week
ago when the ext enlists picture**
m roplanes flying over the city and
Ge man submarines ent« ring the har
bor and sinking Japanese vessels.
. The attitude now taken is not for
a move against Knssia out as a lojal
nation to another wishing to save the
country froei its enemies.
influential men are now in favor of
the Anieiican view for intervention
and realize that if this support »s de
din d the situation will become ex
tremely critical. Japan realizes that
all financial assistance as well a> mu
nitions of war must now come from
the l nited State*, that nation being
the most powerful of all.
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LAWMAKERS OF j
AUSTRIA HAVE !
WILD SCUFFLE
COPENHAGEN. March, 18. —Tho
Czech and German members of the
Austrian lower house engaged in a
vild scuffle today and several are re
po rted to have been injured. The
trouble started during a speech oy a
Czech Deputy who said that the city
of Prague had been without food foi
several days. The Germans charged
the Czechs with not giving out proper
quantities of food and then the fight
follow "*1.
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HIT.E SO! DEMANDED
J \SSY, March 18 — After the Gcr j
mans entered Odessa last Wednesday
the Bolsheviki officials embarked on
steamers for Sebastopol. . General
Muravleff, the Bolsheviki commander
in-ehief ordered a massacre of the
officers and capitalists of the Beui
zose and demanded payment of twen
ty million rubles by the population of
that city.
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B\N ON H E (REAM
LONDON, March 17. — The ice
cream restriction order made by the
food controller provides that no per
son shall make for sale, or sell, or of
fer or expose for sale, or buy', or offer
to buy any ice pudding, ice cream, o*
water, i. e., or any article in the mak
ing of wnich any ice cream or water
ire or ice pudding has been used.
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WEATHER ON R. R.
The following is the weather report
of points along the railroad received
to 7 o’clock this morning:
Anchorage, missing.
Mile 91, 18 above, clear, calm.
Girdwood, 18 above, clear, calm.
Matanuska. zero, cloudy, north.
King, zero, clear, N. E.
Talkeetna. 4 below, cleai, north.
Deadhorse, 2 above, clear, north.
ALAMEDA HAS
LARGE NUMBER
OF PASSENGERS
Steamier Alameda. Capt. C! Eager,
ai rived in nort yesterday morning at
i]tia> ter to ** o’clock, di**hai\god ,
f,eight at the Seward dock and then
went to the San luan Fish Canr.ng
Company *< dock. The Alameda clear*
•*d for the j-ojth at • o’cIock in the af-1
ternoon. Coming north the Alameda
made a fa*; t P just ha^.ng been;
thorough!) o\« “lauled. The Alvveda
will pr i« y r.ake the first tiip to j
Anchor .ce * >r tiic Alaska teamshiv!
company, then upon reaching Seattle j
>vj 11 jji) t < tie* v*vv dock. 1 h»* '* It bc
next month however.
r**. -eng*1!* .'riving on fh* Alame
c.a wire ns Allows: from ^ atrie *
George I'.lgcr. Copt. J. S. Csmund
and wife, Capt. S. Snoddy. H. F. Dose,
Hen Henson. JeV.n Linden R. *• l.e*
erich, VV. D. Hayman, J. M. Thomp
son. U. K Theuiault. B. L. Theuiault
H. Donnelly. H. B. Christiansen, VVm.
Murray. John P. Hanrahan. J. H. i
Smith. P. S. Edlund, A. Bvlund, A. E.
\> ier on, A. L Carlson F. W. Potty
grove, S. D. Fleickenstein. J. Dia
mond. A. Valentine, Jack Mathison 1
and 0. 1 . Cable. From Juneau—Kit'd
Vaughn, Charles VV. Donnelly, Ed.
Hillner, S. J. Norman, I. V. Stere. H.
L. Knauier, J. Hall, N. Clarbc rg, vV. |
L. Case L. A. Rapp and VV. P. Lass.
From Ketchikan—R. E. Porley. From
Cordova— S. A. Norman, J. J. Stein
and George Hirshey. From Valdez—
Alex Frazier, H. h. hllis, J. A. inirKe
and Mrs. W. B. Hancock.
Those leaving Seward on the Ala
meda were as follows: Seattle—Mrs.
T. Moore, Fred 0 Jarrett, Geo. S.
ru!len. W. D. Googe, E. E. Hemrick.
I. W. Walker. W. H. Short, Alex Iso
kamos, F. W. Pettygi-ove, Mrs. Baugh
man and two daughters Edwin G.
Minde, Tratv Wade, Mrs N. Romerso.
Glenn Carrington, V. Chisholm and
Frank R. Field. For Juneau—H. Mar
cus, W. R. Eubank and Paul Nerbine.
For La Touche—E. McConnell. For
Valdez—L. V. Ray. There were also
15 steerage for Alaskan ports and Se
attle.
THOUSANDS ARE
HELD PRISONERS
BY THE ENGLISH
LONDON, March 18. — Lord Now
ton today announced that 4!),8U7 com
batants are prisoners ot war in Eng
land. Four thousand more are ex
pected shortly. Of the la»ge number
of prisoners of war 28,000 are per
manently employed hut the remainder
are unfit for work of any kind. In
addition to the prisoners of war there
were 25,000 German civilians and 4.
[000 Austrians interned.
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BONE DRY ZONES ARE
ESTABLISHED AROUND
\LL TRAINING CAMPS
*
WASHINGTON, March 18. — Bone
dry zones around all permanent naval
| training caps went into effect today
! by orders of Secretary of the Navy
I Daniels.
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raker off to front
PARIS. March 18. — United Stater.
Secretary of War, Newton D. baker,
after conferences with French states
men and American generals has left
for the front to study what the Amer
icans are doing and ought to do in
i France. The secretary says he viid
not realize the immensity of the task
vindertaken in opening new ports nut
is well satisfied with what he has «een.
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WILLARD
TO FIGHT
F. FULTON
DENVER, March IS. — James 0.
Hamit!, promoter, announced yester
day that lie will offer $100,009 to
stage the Willard-Fulton light on
July Fourth.
CHICAGO. March lb. — Jess Wil
•ard announced today that he was Mt
istied with the arrangements for a
Fourth of July fight with Fred Fel
ton. Fulton, it is understood, will re
eoive $20,000 but Willard’s share is
unannounced. The place for holding
the bout has not been named as yet.
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RATIFY PEACE
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MOSCOW, March 18. — After ♦
debating for the second time up- *
* on reconsideration of the ratify- *
ing of the peace treaty with the #
* Germans, the Soviet Congress *
last night passed the resolution *
' sustaining the treaty as signed *
* by the Rolsheviki. The peace *
* treaty was passed by a large mu* *
* jority. It is now expected that the *
* Social Revolutionists will leave *
r the Congress. , *
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DILLON SAYS
ENGLAND MUST
FREE IRELAND
ENNISKILLEN, March 18. — John
Dillon, successor to Redmond, deceas
ed leader of the Irish Nationalists,
said today that the first task would bo
to tell England before the world that
her .statements must cense regarding
a league of nations or pretending to
carry on the war in d i n -e of small
nations without first setting free a
nation that for seven Hundred years
has gioaned under misgovernment.
SHIPS BOUND
FOR NORWAY
NOT ATTACKED
CHRISTIANIA, March 18. — Ves
sels sailing between America and Nor
way outside the danger zone ana not
touching British ports lately have not
been attacked by Germans probably
more in their own interests than for
any special love of Norway. Germany
for a long while has not been able to
send food to Norway and as far as
known has not promised to do so even
if Norway refused to accept American
conditions for food export to this
country.
Geiman vessels sailing to Norway
must now have provisions, oil, and
Kerosene for the whole round trip and
will only in exceptional cases be al
lowed to get small quantities of Nor
wegian products.
Some great Nonvegian factories
producing articles for export to Ger
many are run by German coal oil and
kerosene as are fishing vessels obtain
ing fish for export to Germany.
Norway at present receives from
Germany steel and iron for constiuc
tion and is absolutely dependent on
Germany for the import of potassium
compound kamite which is used ex
tensively for fertilizing.
ARRESTING
AM WANS
; IN FINLAND
STOCKHOLM, March JS. — Mrs. I
* Henry (hosby-Emory, prominent wo
man diplomat, arrived here today and
confirmed the report that the Ger
mans arc arresting American and Eng
] lush in Finland. This despite the fact
| that Finland is nominally a neutral
nation. Mrs. Crosry-Emory states
that her husband was arrested and
thrown into a dungeon with Others.
HOME GUARDS
IN IDAHO ON
BIG ROUND UP
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ST. MARYS, Idaho, March 18. — J
The members of the Home Guards at
Sand Point, aided by soldiers, have ,
taken charge of that city following
the outbreak yesterday of the Indus
trial Workers of the World.
Early t4?.s morning the soldiers and
the Home Guards began patrolling *he i
streets and started a round-up of the j
I. W. W. This forenoon th-j county
! Council of Defense put into elTcct a
registration card system on the back
of which is the oath of allegiance to
the United States. Every man whose
loyalty is suspected is being forced to
sign the card. This afternoon 38 sus
pected Industrial Workers of the
World were forced to sign the cat Is. i
No suspected man is being allowed to
leave the city without a passport. It
is not yet decided what disposition
will be made of tho.-e refusing to sign
the cards. Twenty are already :n jail
having refused to sign an oath of a’lc
giance.
COALDEALERS
! IN THE STATES
j TO BE LICENSED
I
WASHINGTON March IS. —Presi
dent Wilson today put all coal jobbers,
brokers, selling and purchasing
. gencios and wholesale dealers u"dcr
license of the' Fuel Administration.
President Wilson says that ho rccog-!
nizes the legitimate jobbers hut swap- j
ping and fictitious trade operations j
will be deaft with severely. All li- j
censes must be obtained before April1
1st.
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WILL FORGET THE WAR
AND HOLD CONVENTION
EUREKA, Cal., March 18. — Forty
members of the State Auditors’ Asso
ciation will meet in convention in this
city on May, 27, 28 and 29, according
to announcement by County Auditor
T. K. Carr. The delegation wiii be
headed by L. R. Johnson, auditor of
Merced County, who is president of
the association.
When the delegates are not occupied
with convention matters it is intended
to take them on automobile trips
through the redwoods and along the
highways of Humboldt County.
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FISH QUOTATIONS
SEATTLE, March 18. — The fol
lowing were the fish quotations at
noon today: halibut, 16 cents; sable,
6 cents; red cod, 6 cents; pickled sa
ble, $12 a barrel and pickled herring,.
$11 a barrel.
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WOMAN PLACED
ON TRIAL FOR
SHOOTING MAN
VISALIA, Cal., March IS. — Mi*.
Orlean H. Howe was today placed on
trial for the shooting of Wi’! Btooks,
prominent orange grower.
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Story of Shoot inf
V1SAI.1A, Cal. March 18. — Mrs.
Orlean B. Howe, 35 years old, was ar- j
retted following the shooting of Will
H. Brooks, a Porterville, California
orange grower, »n the lobby of a Port
erville hotel the afternoon of Novem
ber 19, 1917. She was charged with
murder. When questioned immediate
ly after the shooting by the police,
and into whose custody Mrs. Howe
gave herself, she is alleged to have
said: “He ruined my life.”
Brooks was seated in the lobby of
the hotel talking with several friends
and acquaintances when shot. Three
bullets took effect, one of them pass
ing thlough his heart. He fell for
ward firm the chair dead.
The state will seek to show that
Mrs. Howe left her apartments short
ly after noon on that day and went to
a sporting goods store where she pur
chased a heavy calibre automatic re
volver which she asked the clerk to
load for her. Jt is then contended that
-he front to the hotel, entered the
lobby and fired four shots at Brooks
from a distance of four feet.
After Mrs. Hcwe was put in jail
she made a detailed statement in
which she dated the inception of her
alleged trouble with Brooks as eleven
years ago. At that time, she said,
Biooks and her husband, \Y. L. Howe,!
were intimate friends. They had grown j
up together. Shortly after her mar-1
riage, Mrs. Howe said she accepted a
dinner invitation from Biooks. They
went to a well known San Francisco
cafe. At the close of the meal, she
declared, he insulted her. She refus
ed his advances and, she said, a few
days later Biooks went to her hus
band with the first of a series of
stories which reflected on her moral
ity. These stories, she said, were told
by Biooks, not only in San Francisco
but in Los Angeles and other parts of
the state where she had acquaintances
with the »vsiilt according to the story,
that she was shunned by former
friends.
Mrs. Howe is the owner of an
orange grove near Porterville, to
which propei ty she gave her atten
tion during a portion of the year. She
w«nt to Porterville from her home in
Oakland early in October and shortly
after her arrival, according to her
story, she found evidences that the
malicious stories reflecting on her |
character were still being told. Her
mind, she said, was a blank from the
lime she bought the revolver in a
Porterville store until she came to
herself after being lodged in jail.
For some years Mrs. Howe was
prominent socially in Oakland. Her
husband, W. C. Howe, is representa
tive and for some time prior to the
tragedy had been stationed in South
America. At the time of the shoot
ng he was making his home in Buen
os Air6s. He was notified of his wife's
: rrest and the circumstances sur
rounding it and started immediately
fer the United States arriving in time
to be with his wife when she was ar
raigned on Jan. 16.
Will H. Brooks, the victim of the
^hooting, was 50 years old. He was
a wealthy man and prominent in the
business and social life of the San
Joaquin valley and Southern Califor
nia. H was a member of the Jona
than and Country clubs of Los Ange
les, as well as of the Masonic, Eiks,
and Mystic Shrine lodges.
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WATSON DUE TOMORROW
The Admiral Watson was off Cape
Spencer early thi5 morning. Agent
Wayne Pine says that this means that
the steamer will be due in Seward to
rn onw afternoon or evening.
I
TRAITORS
BELIEVED
AT FRONT
Mysterious Signal Lights Are Seen
Signalling from American Linos
Opposite German Positions
in the Toul District
AMERIC ANS CAPTURE TRENCH
French and Germans Having Bitter
Fight Along Both Sides of
the River Meuse—French
Make Large Gains
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY
IN FRANCE, March 18.—The bureau
of officers with the Ameiican forces
report that there is evidence of poss
ibly spies working wthin the Ameii
can lines northwest of Toul. Last
night a sentry was attracted by a sig
nal light flashing from a window fat
ing the German lines. The sentry
found no one in the room from vhe'o
he had seen the signal light but did
rind a wire attachment used on a s:g
nal light.
During the past two days the impor
tant telephone lines within the Ameri
can lines have found to be cut. An
investigation is being quietly made.
Americans Hold Trench
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY,
''larch 18. — The American forces are
still holding the Mecklenburg trench
taken late last Saturday night in the
Toul sector.
Huns and French dash
PARIS, March 18. — The olTicial
war statement today says that the
French and Geimans are today eng; r
ed in heavy lighting on both sides of
the river Meuse. The French gained
German positions eight hundred yards
deep and fourteen hundred yards \side
west of the river. East of the rivei
the Germans were unsuccessful in
strontr attacks on a six mile front.
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* URGES U-BOAT WAR
♦ _ *
* LONDON, Mar. 18. — Admiral *
* von Tirpitz is quoted in Berlin
* dispatches as saying that if Ger- *
* many will continue the U-boat
' warfare without flinching the Im- '
* perial government can secure ‘
* peace with England. This peace •
* will then insure for Germany a
| * naval base off the Finnish coast *
' for a!l time. The Admiral makes *
* no mention of the great losses of
* subrnaiinos so far.
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8TEAMER DORA OFF
FOR PORTS OUT TO
WESTWARD ALASK \
Steamer Dora sailed this afternoon
for the westward with a large cargo
of freight and the following passen
gers: for Chignik—Capt Osmund and
wife, Ben Benson and John Linder.
For Cold Bay—Charles F. Nelson.
For Seldovia—0. F. Kroelle. John
Nord, E. L. Muir, James Wood and
B. F. J. Smith.
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PRESIDENT WILSON TO
GIVE MESSAGE TO THE
WORLD ABOUT RUSSIANS
WASHINGTON, March 18. — Offi
cial intimation is given that President
Wilson is contemplating sending a
message tr the w^rld on *he Russiar
debacle through an address before
joint session of congress.
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DON’T LIKE PEACF. TALK
WASHINGTON, March 18. — In
ferences that Germany plans propos
ing peace or has sent out feelers at
the expense of Russia is making peace
talk here decidedly unpopular.