TO INVESTIGATE
RUSSIAN AND
EASTERN FIELDS
Kussian and far eastern tields for
American investments are to be in
vestigated at once by the bureau of
foreign and domestic commerce, ot
the department of commerce. A. W.
Ferrin, president of the Moody maga
zine and book company and editor of
Moody's magazine, has been appointed
trade commissioner to make the in
vestigation and will sail trom San
Francisco on April •’*0. In the mean
time he will visit some ot the prin
cipal business centers in this country
and consult with persons especially in
terested in the investigation.
Ferrin will include in Ids trip Japan,
Russia, China, the Philippines, the
Dutch, Pritish, and French Fast In
dies, the Straits Settlement. Aus
tralia. New Zealand. Ceylon. India,
and Fast and South Africa. He will
study investment opportunities in j
thes*» countries and will report on ti
naucial conditions, hanking, railroad
and public utility, and other forms «>!
finance, with particular reference to
the extension of American foreign
trade.
KELP PRODl CTS TO
BE GIVEN TEST
pi >RT TOWNSEND. Wash.—
I Special.) Preparations are com
pleted by a local company which will
undertake a series of experiments in
obtaining various by-products from
kelp. The plant of the concern will
temporarily be located on the prop
erty of the Key City Packet < om
pany, and Frank Missodat. a dor
man chemist, will conduct the work.
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Spring Hats
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IMMENSE COAL
LEDGES FOUND
BY ALEX SMITH
Coal ledges of practically uni magi n.
able size, a lake of pure oil within
half a mile of salt water. Those are
two of the wonders of the practically
unknown Arctic coast of Alaska told
by Alexander Smith, who arrived in
Fairbanks recently from the Koyukuk
country. Mr. Smith, in company with
another man, spent the latter part ol
the summer on the Alaska coast of
the Arctic ocean, having had many
harrowing experiences in his travels
in the northern wilds.
The larger part of Mr. Smith’s ex
periences were related in a letter to
Dr. Hedger printed in The Citizen
several months ago. The letter was
written from Point Harrow by Mr.!
Smith in October and was not received
here until late in December. It told
of a number of hairbreadth escapes
of the two explorers when it seemed
that their boat was to be caught in
the ice pack and crushed, along with
its occupants and their outfit.
Mr. Smith states that his partner
3ii the Arctic trip took sick and that
he left him in the Kobuk country. He
then started for the Koyukuk coun
try. and has been there most of the
time since. His intention in coming
to Fairbanks was to take in the Good
paster stampede, but he is as yet un
leaded whether to do so or not.
The lake of oil he describes, he says
is practically pure kerosene, and he is
led to believe that the whole country j
in the vicinity of the lake is under
laid with oil. In his opinion, however.!
neither the oil nor the coal can ever j
become valuable on account of the in-j
accessability of the country.
At Point Barrow, says Mr. Smith,
there are about ten white people. He
met no others during his travels be
tween that point and Herschel island.
An actual count of the natives met
showed them to number seventy.
In going into the Arctic country it
was the intention of Mr. Smith
and his companion to prospect foe
gold on some of the streams flowing
into the Arctic ocean. They did do
some panning, but never found r.ny j
thing which would warrant any effort J
in the way of actual prospecting.—
(Fairbanks Citizen.)
Stamps for sale at The Key.
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. SEATTLE
Invite you to send to them for such items in FURNI
Tl KK and DRY GOODS as cannot be readily sup
plied by the merchants in your community.
All such orders received by FREDERICK
A- NELSON receive the prompt, personal
attention of an expert shopper and Parcel
Post shipments are sem POSTAGE PAID
to any point in Alaska.
NOTH: Inqwirtes for information relative to the New Spring Lines
of Dry C.ooils, Apparel an<l Accessories Will He Given Prompt
Attention.
Pacific Net & Twine Co.
DISTRIBUTORS OF
PLYMOUTH MANILA CORDAGE
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{HERE’S DOPE ON
GERMANY’S PLAN
! TO CONQUER U. S.
—
i An eventful war upon the United
j States was considered by the German
general staff before the outbreak of
the present conflict in Europe. A
comprehensive scheme for the inva
sion and subjugation of this country
i had been arranged, even to the points
! and methods of attack.
Germany’s Aims
Not long before the clash of August
j 1914, Field Marshal von Edelshoim,
of the Prussian general staff engaged
in detailing for the German news
| papers the plans for world conquest
i entertained by the kaiser and his mili
tary leaders. After showing in pre
vious papers how to invade and con
quer France and England and assum
ing this accomplished, he wrote re- j
garding Germany’s war aims against
the United States:
“Operations against the United
States of North America would have
to be conducted in a different man
ner from those against England.
During the last years political fric
tion with that state, especially fric
tion arising from commercial causes,
has not been lacking, and the difficul
ties that have arisen have mostly been
settled by our giving way. As this I
obliging attitude has its limits, we J
have to ask ourselves what force we |
can possibly bring to bear in order to
meet the attack of the United States
against our interests and to impose
our will.
Foresaw a Naval Victory
“Our fleet will probably be able to
defeat the naval forces of the United
States, which are distributed over two
oceans and over long distances. l’»ut
it would be a mistake to suppose that
the defeat of their fleet will force the
United States with its immense re
sources into concluding peace.
“Considering the great extent of
the United States, the conquest of the
country by any army of invasion is
not possible. But there is every
reason to believe that victorious en
terprises on the Atlantic coast and
the conquest of the most important
arteries through which imports am
exports pass, will create such an un- j
bearable state of affairs in the whole
country that the government will
readily offer acceptable conditions in
order to obtain peace.
“If Germany begins preparing a
fleet of transports and troops for
landing purposes at the moment when
the battle fleet steams out of our
harbors we may conclude that opera
tions on American soil can begin af
ter about four weeks, and it cannot
be doubted that the United States
will not be able to oppose to us with
in that time an army equivalent to
our own.
Held Our Army Cheaply
“At present the regular army of
the United States amounts to <>5,000
men, of whom about 80,000 could be
disposed of. Of these at least 10,000
are required for watching the Indian
territories and for guarding the for
tifications on the sea coasts. There
fore, only about 20,000 men of the
regular army are ready for war. Be
sides, about 100,000 militia are in ex
istence, of whom the larger part did
not come up when they were called
! out during the last war. Lastly, the
! militia is not efficient; it is partly
armed with muzzle loaders and its
training is worse than its armament.
“The Americans will not feel in
clined to conclude peace because one
or two provinces are occupied by an
army of invasion, but because of the
enormous material losses which the
whole country will siuTcr if the At
lantic harbor towns, in which the
threads of the whole prosperity of the
United States are concenrated, are
torn away from them one after
another.
Would* Levy Tribute
“Therefore, the task of the fleet
would be to undertake a series of
large landing operations, through
which we are able to take several of
these important and wealthy towns
1 within a brief space of time. By in
terrupting their communications, by
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destroying all buildings serving the
state, commerce and the defense, by
taking away all material for war and
transport, and, lastly, by levying
heavy contributions, we should bo able
to inflict damage on the United
States.
“With the coast cities and the capi
tal occupied, the republic would
crumble. We should have no nerd to
occupy the country as a whole; ‘hat
would be too large a task and wo: Id
give no advantage. Our purpose
would be accomplished when wc had
secured a dominating control os or the
policy of the United States.”
122 KILLED IN
EXPLOSION AT
AETNA DISASTER
(Ily I'nitrd Stairs Cable)
('HESTER, Pa., Wednesday, April
11.—The death toll of the explosion
which wrecked the Aetna munition
plant at Eddvstone, Tuesday has
reached one hundred and twenty-one.
City Express meets all boats and
trains. Phone Maine 12*2.
Remodeling of ladies’ and gents'
clothes, by a tailor, a specialty, next
to Alaska S. S. office. tf
We carry Symphony Lawn Station
ary the Seward Drug Company.
FORFEITURE—NOTICE
To A. F. SPRAGUE, YOUR HEIRS
AND ASSIGNS.
Your are hereby notified and will
take notice that 1, the subscriber, J.
C. Gilpatrick, have expended during
the year A. D., 11)16, the sum of One
hundred ($100.00) dollars in labor and
improvements upon each of the fol
lowing described mining claims, to
wit: “MEAT IN THE POT,”
'CLARA,” “OLYMPIA,” “SUMMIT,”
“LISBON" and “HATTY,” all of
which said claims are situated and lie
in the Moose Pass Mining District,
Kenai Recording District, Third Judi
cial Division, Territory of Alaska. The
notices of location thereof are of
record in Book One of Locations, at
pages 132 and 133, and Book 5 of Lo
cations at pages 45, 46 and 84 in the
ofiice of the United States Commis
sioner and District Recorder for Ke
nai Recording District and Precinct,
at the Town of Seward, Territory of
Alaska, to which book and pages ref
erence is hereby made for a more par
ticular description of said claim. Said
expenditures were made for the pur
pose of holding possessory rights and
title to said mining claims under the
provisions of section twenty-three
hundred and twenty-four of the Re
vised Statutes of the United States
and the amendments thereto and the
Session Laws of the Territory of Al
aska, providing for the annual labor
upon mining claims, said amounts be
ing the sums required in each instance
to hold said mining claims during the
period ending the thirty-first day of
December, 1916.
If you fail and refuse or fail or re
fuse within ninety (90) days from the
personal service of this notice, if per
sonal service be had, or within ninety
(90) days after the publication of this
notice, to contribute your proportion
of such expenditure as a co-owner,
your proportion being in the total the
sum of Two hundred and eight dol
lars and thirty-two ($208.32) cents,
made up of the following amounts to
wit: ‘MEAT IN THE POT,” $50.00,
“CLARA”, $25.00, “OLYMPIA,”
$33.33, “SUMMIT,” $33.33, “LIS
BON,” $33.33, and “HATTIE,”
$33.33, your respective interests in
and to said mining claims, and each
and every one of them, will become
the property of the subscriber, who is
your co-owner, and who has made the
expenditures and improvements as
above mentioned on said mining
claims, and each and every one of
them, pursuant to the provisions of
the said statute and the said Session
Laws.
J. C. GILPATRICK.
First publication, Feb. 2, 1917.
Last publication. April 27, 1917.
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