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THE ALASKA EVENING POST
Volume XI. Number SI " SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21,1D17. _~_Ten Cents the Copy
SHIPMENT FOR SEWARD
OF BRIDGE TIM IS
FIRST TO COM[ NORTH
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SEATTLE, Wednesday, Feb. 21.—The Alaskan En
gineering commission placed orders today through Pur-j
chasing Agent Dole for the 1.000,000 feet of bridge j
timbers and lumber for the Seward division for which bids;
were called recently. I
This lumber will be shipped on a barge, which will j
leave Seattle for Seward on March 14, in tow erf the tug
Barracoota. This will be the first big shipment of ma
terial to leave for the north this season.__
FUNSTON’S BODY LIES
IN STATE IN ALAMO
SAX ANTONIA, Wednesday, Feb. 21.—An immense
funeral service was held here today in honor of the late
Gen. Funston, regulars, guardsmen and civilians attend
ing in great numbers.
Funston’s body lay in state in the historic Alamo,
which was denfended to the last man by Texans in their
war against Mexico, it being the first time the structure
has been used for such a purpose. The general’s body will
be taken at once to Arlington cemetery.
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FRIGHTFUL DISASTERS
ALL RUSSIANS
BERLIN, Wednesday, Feb. 21.—Reports have been
received via Copenhagen that 1500 were killed and 30001
wounded in an explosion of ammunition at Archangel.
Damage resulted from the blast which was estimated as
amounting to 5,000,000 rubles. \
Moscow newspapers have just been received here
which describe the wreck of a military train in Northern
Rumania in which 500 were killed outright, when muni
tions aboard some of the cars exploded. The cars caught
fire and burned and a large number of others who con
' gregated at the scene were killed when the balance of the
ammunition blew up.
T. R. PLANS TAKING
ARMY INTD EUROPE
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NEW YORK, Wednesday, Feb. 21.—Roosevelt is de
clared by the New York World to have plans laid to take
an American division to the European battlefields on de
claration of hostilities, or that he will organize a force in
Canada if such a move should interfere with plans of the
4 United States army.
He expects by this movement, earned into action with
speed, to convince the Entente allies of the co-operation
of this country.___|
NEW POSTMASTER FOR KETCHIKAN
«• WASHINGTON, Wednesday, Feb. 21. — Congress
man Thomas Gedney has been nominated postmaster for
the city of New York.
The president has also nominated J. F. Warder post
master for Ketchikan.__ _
PLAN TO BUILD
25 SUBMARINES ON
PACIFIC COAST!
WASHINGTON, Wednesday, Feb. 21—The naval ap
propriation was increased today to $500,000,000 by a vote
in the senate committee, which added $130,000 to the
amount passed by the house, and adopted Sen. Poindext
er’s amendment for 50 additional submarines, half of the
* number to be built on the Pacific coast.
BASEBALL FANS
CONSIDERING
PARK PLANS
Place For Local Team to
Trim the Enemey is
Greatly Needed
An agitation has been started to
establish a permanent athletic field*
and baseball park on the block re- j
served in the Federal addition for i
park puiposes.
Local fans realize that Seward is]
without a ball park since the new ap-1
proach to the dock cut the old field |
in half, and are anxious about a place
for games during the coming season.
Anchorage will probably demand
that the local team come over there
to settle the championship question
this year. There are a number of
other games of importance to be play
ed here and there must be a place to
practice as soon as the snow goes, if I
Seward is to retain the cahmpionship
of Southwestern Alaska.
The park block together with a por
tion of adjacent streets is ample In
area for a ball field.
An announcement for a meeting of
the fans will probably be made at an
early date to discuss ways and means.
WASHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY
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Thursday being a legal holiday,
there will be no issue of the Gate
way, the banks will i>e closed ana
e school will close.
PILE DRIVER IS
BUSY AT FISH
STORAGE PLANT
Powder House point presented a
busy appearance today, the pile driver
crew being actively engaged in put
ting down creosoted foundation piles
for the cold storage plant.
This building will be located on the
north side of the approach to the fish
dock and as soon as the foundation
for it is completed, driving of spruce
piling for the dock will be starteo.
The dock approach as platted is 40
feet in width, but it possible that an
additional ten feet may be added for a
walk way.
BOATS AND TRAINS
The Alaska was due in Cordova at
noon today.
The Admiral Farragut is due In
Cordova today.
The train will leave for Mile 40 to
morrow morning at 8:30 o’clock.
TRAILS
The trails are good with a tempera
ture of 15 degrees above zero at Mile
52, 4 above at Mile 34, and 18 above
at Mile 71.
THE WEATHER
Yesterday.
Maximum . 36
Minimum . 'en
Current . 35
Weather. Clear
Wind . North
WEATHER TOMORROW
Unsettled with increasing
winds.
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U.S. TELEPHONE
LINE EXTENDS
245 MILES OUT
Now Possible to Converse
With Headquarters on
the Talkeetna
• Telephone and telegraph communi
cation was opened this afternoon be
tween Seward and “Dead Horse Hill,”
the euphonious name given to a point
on the Talkeetna river 245 miles
north.
Supt. E. It. McFarland of the T. and
T. department of the AJaskan engi
neering commission, who is now at
Anchorage, called Seward this morn
ing and advised the local operator
that the wire was open for commerc
ial business.
The line has been open to Chicka
loon in the Matanuska coal fields for
several weeks, and a section of the
Talkeetna line was completed last
summer.
Extension of the wire from Palmer
on the main line north to connection
with the Talkeetna section was done
during the winter by men on snow
shoes, over swamps along the Susitna,
where it is impossible to work fn
summer.
A small force is engaged in running
a wire from Eska creek siding to the
Eska creek coal mines. Wire string
ing between Potter creek and Indian
creek is nearing completion.
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•In the townsite telephone system ax
Anchorage, the work of changing
telephones and lines, and reinstalla*
tion continues. During the mild |
weather some messenger wire for
aerial cable between the central of
fice and the terminal yards was hung.
There are 190 local phones in An
chorage. *
MOOSE WILL
ENTERTAIN
REP. PRICE
Plans are being made this after- \
noon for a fraternal reception tonight
in honor of Rep. George Price of An
chorage, here on his way to Juneau
to attend the coming session of the
legislature.
Price is a member of the Moose
lodge and the entertainment will be
under auspices of this omer and will
be held in the lodge room of the A.
B. hall.
REBUILT ENGINE
IS NOW “NO. 20”
No more will the old “Three Spot”
be seen in our midst for the rebuilt
and practically new locomotive turn
ed out by Acting Master Mechanic
Nickerson and his crew at the rail
road machine shop bears the mystic
numerals “No. 20.”
The nearest that can be arrived at
in the way of a reason for numbering
the engnie 20 is that this type of en
gine is to be numbered from 20 up
and the type now numbered 2 will be
from 10 up. Old No. 1 having the
honor of being the original “tea ket
tle” on the U. S. R. R. will retain her
single digit.
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There is a skating pond over a mile
long at the head of the bay, all of the
flat on which hay is cut on the Revel 1
homstead and tract north being cov
ered with ice.
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UNITED STATES CALLS
UN AUSTRIA FOR SHOW
OWN ON SUB POLICY
LONDON, Wednesday, Feb. 21. — The Norwegian
collier Dal Beattie, enroute from Glasgow to Gibraltar,
was sunk by a German submarine within the barred zone
yesterday, and the collier shelled while the crew were tak
ing to their boats.
Two American sailors who were members of the
crew escajted. They are John Guerre of Los Angeles,
California, and Frank Weed Keene from a village in New
Hampshire.
AUSTRIA ASKEI) FOR AN ANSWER
WASHINGTON, Wednesday, Feb. 21. —The United
States has made a demand on Austria that she answer,
whether she proposes to abide by the assurances given to
this government in regard to submarine activities after
fhe sinking of the Anconia and the Persie, which were
torpedoed without warning earlier in the war.
It is the belief that any quibbling by the dual mon
archy or unfavorable answer will be followed by a break
in diplomatic relations with Germany’s chief ally.
LOSS HID, CLAIM GERMANS; SINK TRANSPORT
BERLIN, Wednesday, Feb. 21. — A crowded Italian
transport was sunk by an Austrian submarine in the
Mediterranean today, with heavy loss of life. Two arm
ed vessels with cargoes for Saloniki were caught in the
‘barred zone” and also sunk.
The open zone to the Mediterranean is 50 mi'es wide,
extending from the straits of Gibralter to the Dardan
elles; all other coat lines east of Morocco being within the
barred zone.
German newspapers point out that for several days
the British admiralty has been concealing the true
amount of losses by the Entente allies through the sub
marine campaign in order to make the British people be
lieve that there is no danger of being cut off by the under
sea war.
The British people will soon be undeceived, however,
is the claim of the German press, each paper re-iterating
the statement that “whoever dares to penetrate the
barred zone perishes in it,”
GERMAN UNION LEADER ANSWERS GOMPERS
COPENHAGEN, Wednesday, Feb. 21.—Declaration
that “unrestricted submarine warfare was the only possi
ble answer to the British blockade,” is the answer by Pres.
Lilgen of the German federation of trades to the cable
gram by Pres. Gompers of the American Federation of
Labor. Gompers in his message had urged Lilgen to use
his influence to prevent a breach between the United
States and Germany.
WORK OF SUBS FALLING OFF
LONDON, Wednesday, Feb. 21.—Sinking of ships by
submarines has been falling off for several days, the ves
sels lost on Tuesday amounting to only 2,500 tons gross.
DIG INTO TRENCHES THROUGH SNOW
ROME, Wednesday, Feb. 21. — The enemy entered
Italian trenches near Casere Debio Pastoriele last night,
by crawling in through galleries excavated in the snow,
according to a statement by the war office.
“After heavy hand to hand fighting the attacking
force was vanquished with considerable loss, leaving a
number of prisoners in our hands, the report concludes.
ENGLAND SEIZES ALL LEATHER
LONDON, Wednesday, Feb. 21.—The war office is
sued a proclamation today seizing all leathei in the 1 nit
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POTATOES WILL
COST US OVER
$100 PER TON
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SEATTLE, Wednesday,' Feb. 21.—Potatoes were
quoted on Second avenue today at $75 per ton, with the
best grades at $85.
This is the highest price for potates ever paid m Se
! attle and with freight added means that Alaskan retailers
will have to pay $1(X) a ton to land them in Southwestern
ports. , ... , ,
i (Alaskans ought to take the hint by this tune and be
making plans to raise their own potatoes—Editor.)
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