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Volume \J Number 271 SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER9,1917_Ten Cents the Copy
AMERICANS AR: TO
PARTICIPATE IN AN
AILIEDJONFER NCE
LONDON, Nov. y.—The special commission from the
Lnited States to participate in tlioe conference at Laris ot
the Allies, arrived acre at midnight irom an Atlantic sevi
port. Colonel House, chief advisor to President \\ilson, is
the head ot the commission, with the honorary rank as
Special Ambassador.
MEMBERS ON SPECIAL COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, Nov. A—The government this foie- ;
noon announced that the special commission now in Lou-1
iion on the way to the Allied conference at Paris, in ad
dition to Col. F. 31. House, consists ol Admiral Benson,
Chief of Naval Operations; General Bliss, Chief of the
Stall of the l . S. Arm\; Assistant Secretary of the Treas
ury Crosby, Chairman of the V»ar Trade Board; Vance
31cCornncK; Bainbriugv Colby, of the Federal Shipping
Board, and Dr. A. V\. lay lor, of the Federal Food Admin
istration.
COMMISSION (JREKTEI) ISY MUTISM OFFICIAL |
LONDON, Nov. 1>.—Foreign Secretory Arthur J. j
Palfour anti United States Ambassador Page met the;
American Commission upon arrival last night and today;
entertained them at luncheon. The Commission will leave
lor Paris within a few days to attend the conference, it is;
stated. j
QUEEN LIL ON D iATHBED
HONOLl’Ll, Nov. 9.—Funner Queen Lilioukalani i
is dying and attending physicians issued a bulletin this
afternoon that she could not live many hours. Queen Lil, i
as she has been familiarly known for the past years, hasj
been seriously ill for the past live months.
She has lost her great antipathy she felt of the United i
States for the loss of her kingdom, and subscribed liber-1
ally for the first issue of the Liberty Loan bond.
TEN THOUSAND
WOMEN WANTED
FOR WAR CORPS
LONDON, Nuv. Ten thousand
women recruits a month for use in the
Army Auxiliary Service are being ap
pealed for here. The chief need is for
domestic workers, typists, and auto
mobile drivers. One of the recruiting
posters says:
"Although the women must be
strong, and reliable, it must not be
supposed that their life is all hard
work. They swim, they have games
and musical evenings and dances, to
which each woman can invite one sol
dier friend. They play as hard as
they work, and they live a wholesome
life.
“The women are under military dis
cipline, but they do not march to work
nor do they salute their officers or of
ficers of the male army.”
The recruits will be sent to France
as fast as they are enrolled.
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Lynch Brothers have finished their
contract at Latouche on diamond
drilling.
REGULATIONS
TO SAVE LIFE
ABE AFFECTED
CHRISTIANIA, Nov. .— New and!
stringent regulations come into force
shortly in regard to life-saving appli
ances to be used on Norwegian ships
traversing the war zones.
Each lifeboat must be half covered
over with waterproof cloth as a shel
ter. and must be provided with oil
skins for the crew, with signal lights,
a hand pump, and ample supplies of
bread, meat and water.
Each ship must carry an extra boat,
of at least 105 cubic feet, and large |
enough to take the whole crew. This;
boat must contain air chambers andj
have a cork belt around it. Either this |
boat or one of the regular lifeboats!
must be supplied with a motor, to-1
gethor with fuel for two days and aj
tow rope.
Passenger boats must have ten cubic |
feet of lifeboat room for each person;
on board.
Advertise in The Gateway.
GUNS FOR THE S HARD
UNIT ARE HERE
The guns are here—at last, and the Capt. Ryan, Corporal Williams, and all j
members of the Home Guards will he others who have been joshed for the
shouldering real honest to heaven mil- past few weeks about the war instru- j
itary apparatus tonight at the regular nients, an* today wearing broad smiles
drill. Si\t\ guns, which have been on an(j that they will be able to
the wav for four weeks, reached Sew- ^ . . .. . ..
sleep tonight without any deliriums of
ard on the steamer .Mariposa and they
.... i “where am them guns?” A full turn-j
will be distributed to the* members
when they line up this evening. In <,t;’ leque.sted tonight of the unit
consequence of the arrival of the guns, members at the A. J». Hall.
VICTORIA TO 1
MAKE ANOTHER
VOYAGE NORTH.
SEATTLE, Nov. !). -Before being j
turned over to the United States Ship
ping Board, tin* steamer \ ictoria, o» j
■he Alaska Steamship Co., will make
another trip to Alaska. The Victoria
will leave tomorrow for Seward and
upon the return trip will call at vari
ous places for copper ore to relieve
the congestion.
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Umatilla Drafted
SEATTLE, Nov. 9.—Steamer Uma
tilla, of the Pacific Steamship Co., ar
rived today from Nome and will be
taken over by the Federal Shipping
Board and enter the overseas service.
PIPE ARRIVES
FOR FLUME OF
LIGHTCOMPANY
The remainder of the pipe for the!
water flume for the Seward Light &
Power Company arrived on the steam
er Mariposa this morning and will im
mediately be hauled out and placed in
position. With ordinary, unhindered
working, the pipe should be laid with
in two or three days and the electric
light should be on by the middle of
next week and probably before.
TEUTONS ABE
ADVANCING TO
PIAVE RIVER
BERLIN, Nov. 9.—The Teutonic
forces on the Italian front are advanc
ing towards the Piave River, having
overcome the resistance of the Italian
rear guard. This is the official state
ment issued today by the war office.
British On Front
ITALIAN FRONT, Nov. 9.—British
forces have arrived and have already
taken positions on the front. The
Italian positions along the Piave are
now strongly fortified.
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Fred Corser, brother of Caleb Cor
ser, of the Copper River Railroad, re
cently died at Minneapolis. The de
ceased was well known in the Prince
William Sound district.
SUBMARINE A:
STEAMER I
OEU.S.
LON POX, Nov. 1*. The American j
steamer Rochester was submarined <*:i
Friday, November 2. a week ago to
day. Four sailors are known to ha\e
been lost. One life boat, with the sot
olid mate and thirteen of the crew an
missing but the American destroyers
and British patrol vessels are out
searching for them.
No particulars are given regardii r
the location of the attack by the Vie r
man undersea boat.
XKW VOUK. Nov. !).
Rochester has been plying betwrt*:
Baltinum and England for the pa
year. It is understood that she had
a cargo of war munitions .md provi
sions for Great Britain.
INTERALLIED j
COMMITTEE IS
HELPING ITALV
—
ITALIAN HEADQUARTERS. Nov.
i).—A conference of British, Kreach
and Italian representatives has result
ed in the creation of a permanent in
ter-Allies Military committee. This
committee will provide for a new!
leadership of the Italian army. All i
representatives urge that Gen. Galor
na be the head of the •ommittce.
DEATH PREVENTS MARRIAGE
OSS IN Ci, N. Y., Nov. -It has boon I
learned that Florence Fa Radio, the
motion picture actress, whose death
occurred here recently as the result of
injuries received in an automobile ac
cident, was soon to have been married.
She was 24 years old.
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SINGER STARVING
NEW YORK, Nov. ‘.—Dinah Gilly,
the famous baritone, formerly with
the Metropolitan Opera company here,
is starving in an internment camp at
Raab. Austria, according to letters re
ceived here from him. A relief fund
is being subscribed.
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The San Souci apartments at Doug
las, was recently destroyed by fire. All
the families escaped the flames in their
night clothes.
PROPOSALS
SUBMITTED
THE MS
LONDON. Nov. 9.—Unofficial advices received here
bv Reuters Agencv states that Nikolai Lenine, leader of
the Maximalists, who yesterday seized the reins of gov
ernment at Petrograd, addressed the Council of the W ork
men’s and Soldiers’ Delegates last night and said the new
government had proposed its peace terms and these would
he sent to the various proletariats of the Entente. "We
will publish all secret treaties,” said Lenine, “and will at
once take over all land and establish control of the work
men over ail industries. W e will not continue the war
any further.”
Other advices received from Petrograd claim that Ke
rensky withdrew as Premier several days ago. He was
on his way to Moscow and mat Loops en route to ilu
front. He persuaded them not to return to Petrograd, as
they seemed intent on doing, but to continue to the front
and await developments.
11,e new military revolutionary committee, it is un
derstood, has decided to imprison (leneral KornilofV, lead
er ot the recent revolution. He will then he tried before
a Military Revolutionary Tribunal.
All Petrograd dispatches are being censored by the
Maximalists and they are so conflicting that no positive
information can be gleaned as to the real facts of the sit
uation in Russia.
CLAIM KERENSKY UNDER ARREST
AMSTERDAM, No\. 9.—An Essen newspaper spe
cial claims that Premier Kerensky has been arrested by
the Maximalists.
WOMEN’S BATTALION HAS SURRENDERED
PETROGiRAD, Nov. 9. — A dispatch received here
says that the Baltic Heel delegates to the Workmen’s and
Soldiers’ Council have forced the navymen to surrender
to the new revolutionary government. A committee later
appointed resolved to adhere to the new authorities.
The Women’s Battallion, which defended the Winter
Palace for Kerensky, surrendered after a battle last night
with the Maximalists.
RUSSIA NOT LOST
SAYS PRIEST WHO IS
IN UNITED STATES
MISSOULA, Mont., Nov. 9.—Reverend Vladimir Al
exandroff, Arch Priest of the Russian church in America,
a close friend of Kerensky, asserted here this afternoon
that Petrograd’s fall isn’t Russia’s fall.
“The Maximalist uprising is nothing more than a re
volt of the Industrial Workers of the World in the United
States,” said Rev. Alexandroff. “They have only gained
temporary control of Petrograd, which is nothing much.
The Proviisonal government left Petrograd recently and
is firmly established at Moscow. Before I left Russia, Ke
rensky told me that he foresaw the uprising and was pre
pared. I do not believe that Kerensky is near Petrograd
but that is is at Moscow.” i
Rev. Alexandroff is en route to Washington, D. C.,
on a special mission for the Russian Provisional govern
ment.