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Volume XI. Number 121._SEWARD. ALASKA, TUESDAY, MAY 15,1917 _ Ten Cento the Copy
FINAL WORD TO
AMERICAN GOING
TO AID RUSSIA
WASHINGTON. Tuesday, May 15.
—Elihu Root, chairman, and other
members of the commission to be sent
to Russia, went to the White House
yesterday to receive their final in
structions before leaving: for their
duties of advising: with the provision
al government of Russia.
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COURT ORDERS SALE
OF TEN CASES
The U. S. vs. 240 Bottles of Beer
was taken up at Valdez last week and
an order issued for the sale of the
beer. This shipment was seized here
some time ago on the ground that it
was shipped to a fictitious consignee
and has since remained unclaimed.
FIRE BUGS WERE
TORN TO PIECES
BY ANGRY MEN
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VALDEZ.—(Special.)—Gus Dgarf
of this city, who spent the winter at
Minneapolis and St. Paul and who
returned on the last boat, tells of a
fearful occurence at St. Paul some
weeks ago, in connection with the
burning there of two huge wheat ele
vators. The destruction of the ele
vators and several million bushels ot
wheat they contained was the subject
of press dispatches at the time, but
so far as noted the perpetrators were
not captured.
Dgarf gives a different version. He
says a local newspaper, following the
fire, stated that the perpetrators had
been captured and had been disposed
of in a manner that had best not be
dwelt upon. He says that it was a
matter of common report and that
he was told by several persons
who claimed to be present that six
men were engaged in the destruction
of the elevators and that they were
caught red handed. A mob of en
raged citizens gathered about the cul
prits, took them from the officers and
literally tore them to pieces with their
hands.
The press associations evidently de
cided to suppress the story for fear it
might lead to violence against alien
enemies in other parts of the coun
try.
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MAYOR MITCHELL
PUTS LID ON ALL
NIGHT PARTIES
NEW YORK, Tuesday. May 15.—
Mayor Mitchel’s order revoking the
all-night licenses became effective to
day, and from lam. until 6 a. m.
New York was bone dry for the first
time in many years.
Several popular dancing and dining
places that have elaborate programs
of entertainment started their last
performance at 11:30 last night, and
the dancing floors were closed when
the serving of drinks ceased at 1 a.
m.
A.
SEVERAL SAIL ON
S. S. NORTHWESTER
Outgoing passengers on the North
western south bound last night were
Oak Olson, for Valdez; Miss Ida
Hagland, Miss Anna Fridell, J. E.
Lynch and Dr. 0. J. Keating for Cor
dova, Frank Nickerson and F. Nicker
son for Seattle.
i POSTMASTER ROOT
IS AUTHORIZED TO
ACCEPT RECRUITS
W. E. Root, postmaster at the Sew
ard office, has received papers which
will qualify him as a recruiting offi
cer for all branches of the govern
ment’s fighting forces. He is not in
receipt, as yet, of instructions and
blanks for the purpose, but expects
to receive them within a few days
after whtfh time he will be ready to
accept enlistments.
Under acts of congress passed in
May and August, 1916, the president
was empower to authorize postmast
ers of second, third and fourth class
postoffices to act as recruiting offi
! cers for the army, navy and marine
corps, and it is as a result of this
that Mr. Root received his appoint
i ment.
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ALASKAN SOLONS
REACH SEATTLE
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SEATTLE, Tuesday. May 15.—C.
M. Day, of Valdez, A. A. Allan and
N\ A. Coombs of Nome, all members
of the recent Alaska legislature, are
in this city for a few days.
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SELDOVIA BOOSTER
MAKES FIRST TRIP
AWAY SINCE 1887
Residents of Seward who have been
here since the start of the town 13
years ago waiting for the railroad to
be built to the coal fields, think they
have been pretty patient, but they are
not in the same class with James Cleg
horn of Seldovia who arrived here on
his first visit away from there in 30
years.
Cleghom went to Seldovia long be
fore the town of Seward was estab
lished to grow up with the country
and has not been this far south since.
Cleghorn made the trip over the Chil
koot pass in 1883. He will return to
Seldovia on the steamer Dora.
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PAUL STRAND
PITCHES PERFECT
NO HIT GAME
SEATTLE, Tuesday, May 15.—Paul
Strand, left hand pitcher for the Se
attle club in the Northwest league,
established a Pacific coast pitching
record Sunday when he went through
nine innings against the hard hitting
| Spokane team without permitting a
single man to reach first base.
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KHAKI FOR ALL
REAL ECONOMY
'WASHINGTON.—(By mail.)—A
nation in khaki—judges on the bench
along with the humblest charwoman;
social leaders along with their do
mestic servants; statemen with day
laborers; any one and every one, re
gardless of sex, creed or standing—
this is the appeal made May 5 of Jo
seph W. Folk, former governor of
Missouri and now chief counsel to the
interstate commerce commission.
It was a combined suggestion for
patriotism, service and democracy
with the khaki uniform as the badge,
the visible symbol of the beginning
of the end of autocracy.
JOFFRE, AKER AND
U. S. CHIEF OF STAFF
HOLD WAR COUNCIL
(By United State* Cable)
WASHINGTON, Tuesday, May 15.—The final plans
for sending an American fighting force to France was dis
cussed in a two-hour conference this morning between
Gen. Joffer, Secretary Baker and Major-Gen. Scott.
WANT 183,000 MORE REGULARS
(hr United State* Cable)
WASHINGTON, Tuesday, May 15.—The expansion
of the regular army to full war strength is contemplated
in the administration army bill and it has been authorized
by the president.
There will be added 183,000 men to the army and the
organization of regiments will begin tomorrow.
WAR ANf POLITICAL CHIEFS SPLIT
OVER REFORM FOR KAISER’S LAND
(Bjr United Sutej CiMe)
THE HAGUE, Tuesday, May 15.—Dissension has
broken out between Bethman Hollegg, grand chancellor
of the empire, and Field Marshal von Hindenberg over the
proposed political reform movement in Germany, accord
ing to information received today from Bergen.
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CROWD COMES HERE j
FROM COOK INLET
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The Admiral Watson arrived from
Cook inlet last night with the follow
ing passengers for this port: Dudley
G. Allen, J. C. Black, C. H. Cardell,
F. J. Cameron, James Cleghorn, Mrs.
Maude W. Cattle, C. B. Demill, J.
P. Dykorn, Jack Elster, I. E. Fisher,!
Gus Gillis, L. J. O’Connor, C. N. Pring,
C. E. Robinson, Assantia Romanoff.
R. H. Smith, W. G. Whorf, Jr., M. L.
Woddard and three steerage.
Outgoing passengers were Mrs. S.
E. Quarels, W. L. Hacker, W. A.
Brooks, W. G. Whorf, *Jr. and seven,
steerage.
FEW AMERICANS
LEFT IN GERMANY
AMSTERDAM, Tuesday, May 15.—
There are still 442 American citizens
in Germany only 18C of whom, how
ever, were born in the United States,
according to the compilation of the,
Rheinsisch Westfaelische Zeitung,
which gives the Spanish legation as
authority.
The total includes 189 men, 175
women and 78 children. Forty-six are
students and professional men.
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The newspaper points out that Am
erican students are continuing their
studies, adding “we are still treating
Americans* as of the elect.”
VAWTER FOUND NOT GUILTY OF
MURDER; KILLED WIFE’S'LOVER
CHRISTIANSBERG, Va., Monday,
May 14. — (Delayed.) — Charles E.
Vawter, professor at the Virginia
polytechnic, who killed Stockton
Heth, a student, following an attack
by Heath on his wrife, wras found not
guilty of murder Saturday, after the
jury had been out for several hours.
Mrs. Vawter, testifying at the trial
of her husband, admitted previous in
timacies wdth Heth, but declared that
a few* minutes before Heth received
his death wounds he had attacked her.
Mrs. Vawter, baring her life in de
fense of her husband, said she was in
fatuated with Heth, but always had
repelled his advances when not under
the influence of liquor.
Following the introduction of let
ters written to Heth by Vawter in
which the latter revealed that he knew
of the younger man's relations with
his wife and at the same time asked
Heth to pay a whisky bill, the defense
began introducing testimony to show
; Vawter insane at the time.
On the night of the tragedy, Mrs.
Vawter said, Heth was in the Vawter
home when she and her husband re •
turned. After drinking all retired, j
She was awakened when she heard her j
little child coughing.
She went to the hallway to get
medicine and heard her, “Come in/’
she quoted Heth as saying, “I wantj
to talk to you/’
“I will not," she said she
answered. * -
Heth then caught her arm, she said,
and she resisted.
Upon hearing Prof. Vawter moving
around, she said she ran across the
hall and went into the room of her
children. Her husband went down
stairs and got a pistol, she said, and
when she asked him to give it to her:
so she might kill herself, he refused.
A struggle between Vawter and
Heth followed, and in the course of it
came the pistol shots that ended
Heth's life.
Asked if her husband condoned im
proper acts with Heth, she replied that
he always upbraided and condemned i
her and that she always had concealed
the facts from him.
GOV. STRONG IS
ADVISED DRAFT
PLANSCOMING
From the cable received by Gover
nor Strong from Secretary Baker on
May 1 it is evident that selective
draft will apply to Alaska. The mes
sage follows:
“On April 23 a letter outlining the
president’s plans for registering all
male persons subject to military ser
vice was written to you. That letter
prescribes the plan that will be fol
lowed, and necessary blanks and full
printed regulations will be mailed to
you as soon as the bill is approved.
Defer registration in your territory
until you have perfected a complete
system and have received all neces
sary blanks and regulations. A form
of the president’s proclamation call
ing upon all persons liable to regis
tration can be effected and he will
authorize you to publish his procla
mation carrying date thus fixed by
you.”
SALOONS MUST
CLOSE DOORS AT
MIDNIGHT, ORDER
"
To put an end to all night drink
ing and curtail the use of alcoholic
drinks, Judge Brown has ordered that
all saloons close their doors from mid
night till C o’clock in the morning
every day commencing today. Fol
lowing is the text of the order:
“In view of the unsettled conditions
prevailing and the tendency all over
the United States to curtail the sale
of liquor as a matter of public poli
cy, to prevent disorder and crime;
“It is ordered, that from and after
the 15th day of May, 1917, every sa
loon in the Third Division of Alaska
shall close at 12 o’clock midnight of
each day and remain closet! until 6
a. m. the following morning. All sa
loons shall remain closed from Satur
day at 12 o’clock midnight until 6
o’clock Monday morning.’’
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CABLE SHIP IS
BUSY ON WIRE;
NEWSJELAYED
The U. S. cable ship Burnside is at
work on the cable near Sitka and to
day’s cable news is therefore subject
to delay. Should news received later
warrant an extra one will be issued.
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SERGEANT LYNCH
GIVEN FAREWELL
SMOKER HERE
Sergeant John Lynch, who has been
stationed at the local cable office for
the past year, left on the Northwest
ern last night for Cordova where he
will be in chgrgc of the cable office
there. - ♦
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Sergeant Lynch is senior vice com
mander of the local camp o£ Spanish
American War Veterans and before
his departure last night that organi
zation honored him with a farewell
luncheon ana smoker. He has been
very active in the affairs of that body
as well as interested in public move
ments of all kinds. It *s with a great
deal of regret that his many friends
bid him adieu.
WILSON ACCEPTS
MEMORIAL RED
CROSS BUILDING
WASHINGTON, Tuesday, May 15.
President Wilson in accepting y ester
day on behalf of the nation the new
memorial building to the American
Red Cross society, predicted that the
entrance of our country into the world
war would serve to make a single peo
ple out of a great body of those who
call themselves Americans.
WANTS DIVORCE SO
HE CAN ENLIST
TAZEWELL, Va.—(By mail.)—
Finding after a trip to Fort Ogle
thorpe, Ga., a distance of 300 miles
that he could not be accepted in an
aviation corps because he had a wife,
Dewey Short, named for the great
admiral, hurried home arid had a law
yer file on May 4 a suit of divorce.
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FORMER CITIZENS
OF UNGA DO NOT
BLAMEJFFICIAL
Following the receipt of the com
plaint that U. S. Commissioner F. C.
Driffield, which was published yes
terday, inquiry was made among men
coming from Unga on the Dora and
their opinion is that the commission
er deserves a gold medal for even at
tempting to maintain a semblance of
order at the place, and did not blame
him for going slow in the case in
which Adolph Haff is accused of
shooting one Fred Johnson.
“There is a bunch at Unga who fish
for cod in the summer and make the
winter a howling carnival of hootch,
with brawls and more brawls,” said
one. “There are times when it be
hooves the sober folks to go inside
and lock their doors,” he added, de
claring that he had never seen any
thing to beat Unga •when at its best.
He said that the liquor cargoes for
Unga and Sandpoint amounted to over
500 gallons one trip last fall, the
liquid being in on order of individual
fishermen. This imported stuff when
mixed with the native brew is said to
produce astonishing results.
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: BOATS AND TRAINS jj
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The Northwestern sailed for Seat
tle and way ports this morning.
The Admiral Watson sailed south
at 11 o’clock last night
The Alameda is due Thursday.
The Admiral Evans is due Friday.
The Alaska is scheduled to sail
from Seattle for Seward and. way
ports today.
The Admiral Farragut will sail
from Seattle Saturday.
The train arrived at 2:30 this morn
ing from Mile 40.
Trails fair. Temperature 46 at
Matanuska, 42 at Indian, 41 at Sum
mit roadhouse and 52 at Miie 52.
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THE WEATHER j
Yesterday, j
Maximum .54 |
Minimum .SB i
Current .49 a
Wind.South |
Precipitation.10 |
WEATHER TOMORROW J
Unsettled.
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