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THE ALASKA EVENING POST
. \ . ,r- ' SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JULY 10,1917. Ten Cents the Copy
Volume M. Number 16k _____
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REICHSTAG BACKS THE CATHOLIC.
LEADERS DEMAND ON PEACE TERMS;
MAY FIRE TWO FROM CABINET
(By United State* CabU)
COPENHAGEN. July 10. — German advices direct
from Berlin state that Herr Erzherger, Catholic paity
leader made a sensational speech betore the Reichstag,
Saturday night, for the purpose of securing an abandon
ment by Germany of its submarine campaign and the proc
lamation of a peace program without annexations or in
demnities. _ . , .
It is stated that the majority of the Reichstag now
stands behind Herr Erzherger on the demands, which are
regarded as acceptable to America and Russia and like
ly to influence France and England.
TWO OF GERMAN CABINET MAY GO
(Br United 6tat«a CabU)
AMSTERDAM, July 10.—It is reported here on high
authority that the Kaiser has decided on the resignations
of Vice Chancellor Helft'erich and Foreign Secretary Zim
mermai — who - are said to have been involved in
acts wh > " U rv of the United States into the1
war. m ' _
RUSSIANS PRESS AHEAD ALONG
STANISLAU-HALICZ LINE IN EAST
(By United State# Cable) I
PETROGRAD. July 2.-Official dispatches from the
front state that the Russian offensive west of the Stanis
iau continues despite stubborn teuton resistance.
Additional villages were captured yesterday, together
- iwth 1,000 more prisoners and three field guns. Much war
material and supplies were captured during the day. The
Russian main forces have advanced seven miles during the
past two days, forcing the enmy buck to the Lomnica i i\ ei.
FALL OF HALICZ EXPECTED
(By United State# Cable)
WASHINGTON, July 10.—Undated advices from Eu
rope state that the Russians now hold a stiategic advan
tage on the Stanislau-Halicz sector which clearly favors a
further advance, the long established Teuton line has
been broken and the continued pressure points to a speedv
fall of Halicz, allowing two first-class railway lines to fall
into Russian hands.
BRITISH ADVANCE LINE
(By United Suite* C*b’e)
LONDON, July 10.—The British last night advanced
their line east of Ost Taverne and northeast of Wytschaet.
GERMANS HURLED BACK
(By United State* Cable'
PARIS, July 10.—Germans again attacked along the
Aisne front last night but were defeated and the French
took many prisoners.
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FRENCH RAIDERS SMASH KRUPP
PLANT AT ESSEN. 100 KILLED
(By United States Cable)
VALLEJO, July 10.—An explosion occurred in the
Mare Island navy yard yesterday afternoon in which six
people were killed. The list of dead includes Allen F. Mc
Kenzie, chief gunner; his wife and two daughters; George
Stanton, a gardener; and N. C. Damstad, civilian employe
of the ordnance department.
Federal agents are investigating reports of the Mare
Island explosion which they consider is the result of work
by German spies. ,_
IMPERIAL TROOPS QUIT IS REPORT
(Bv United States Cable)
WASHINGTON, July 10—The local embassy of Chi
na has been advised that the Imperialistic troops in Pek
ing have surrendered.
COL. RICHARDSON
HERE ON ERIE
Making Inspection 'Trip Over Hoad
Work Under Way This
Season
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Col. Richardson of the Alaska road
commission arrived in Seward on the
Alaska today enroute to the head ol
Cook inlet to look over proposed wag
on road work in sections along the
government railroad and between Wil
low creek and Wassilla mines.
The commission already has a crew
at work on the Mile 29 Sunrise road
and will be asked by local business
men to aid in opening the highway
from Seward city limits to the naval
radio station at the head of the bay.
Col. Richardson’s work to secure
funds for this year’s work in Alaska
has already been noted. He was suc
cessful but says that it was exceed
ingly difficult in view of the demands
for war purposes and may be more so
at the coming sessions of Congress.
A committee of the Seward Cham
ber of Commerce met Col. Richardson
and took him for an auto ride out the
government road to Rear Creek this
afternoon.
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PLANTS MAY
BE SEIZED
Drastic Addition to Control Bill Is
Planned to Insure Bigger
Production
WASHINGTON, July 10.—The sen
ate is considering a section of the
food control bill authorizing the Pres
ident to commandeer factories., pack
ing houses, mines and other plants,
operate them and fix the wages.
The liquor clause passed by the
House limits the manufacture of all
intoxicants but the section as finally
passed by the Senate prohibits only
the manufacture and importation of
distilled spirits.
ALASKAN ENDS
HIS OWN LIEE
Brother of Dick Ryan Lost All in
Bank and Feared Sight Would
Also Go.
SEATTLE, July 10.—James J.
Ryan, aged 50, and a pioneer of Nome
and Katalla, who was associated with
his brother Richard “Dick” Ryan in
the Bering river coal fields, ended his
life by shooting Sunday.
He feared that he would lose his
sight as a secondary result of Alask
an snow blindness, and this, together
with worry over a fortune lost in a
recent bank failure, caused him to give
up the struggle. His body was found
in his room at a local hotel.
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CENSORSHIP TO PREVENT
STRIKE AT LA TOUCHE
A rigid censorship of newspapers
and letters is being enforced at La
Touche to prevent anything in the way
of propaganda material from being
sent in there which might result in a
strike there, similar to that at Ken
necott.
All papers are read first to see if
they contain any reference to the
strike, and people not employed by the
Kennecott corporation are not allowed
to land.
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ADMIRAL FARRAGUT
AT KODIAK TWICE
The Admiral Evans made two trips
to Kodiak this time, going there direct
and having to return there from An
chorage to take passengers from the
latter port.
The following passengers arrived
from westward: C. Mednick, W. D
Rowan, M. Salo, Andrew Beck and
wife and J. A. Johnson and two third
cabin.
CORDOVANS
FINEST EVER
Great Sportsmen and Good Losers Say
Hoben of the Sound
City
Harry Hobon and his victorious ball
team which gathered in four straight
from Cordova, returned on the Alaska
and Hoben says that the Cordova folks
are the best fellow’s and the best
sportsmen it has ever been his pleas
ure to meet.
“There w’as onthing too good for us,
and when they saw after the second
game that their team did not have a
chance they were game to the core and
yelled for more games and bet to wdn
in the face of odds,” said Hoben.
They never let up for a minute and
w’hen the fourth game ended 6 to 1,
w’ere good losers.
“It was a great trip and did much to
extend good fellowship between the
two towns. I expect Cordova will be
over here next year w’ith a team that
will give us trouble and all we can do
to show’ them a good time will not be
too much.”
NO SHOOTING
AT KENNECOTT
CORDOVA, July 10, (Special to The
Gateway)—Rumors of the shooting of
a miner in the labor trouble at Kenne
cott have been sent out from here re
cently, which are absolutely untrue.
Everything has been perfectly
peaceful since the walkout. All the
saloons within a radius of 00 miles of
the mine are closed. False reports are
being circulated with a view of keep
ing men away from this district.
The Gateway is in receipt of a letter
from Harold Johnson, spokesman for
the strikers at Kennecott in which he
says that 20 soldiers arrived on June
28th but had nothing to do, as perfect
order was being maintained.
Johnson says the Kennecott officials
visited the miners' camp at Blackburn
on June 30 and tried to induce the
miners to return for a wage scale of
about 25 cents a day better than the
old but were unsuccessful as the men
are holding out for the “interior of
Alaska" wage.
Marshal Breneman returned to Val
dez on July 2 and reports the greatest
order prevailing among the miners.
Marshal Brenneman states that while
there are a number of I. W. W. agi
tators and a few pro-Germans on the
ground that the miners are refusing
to listen to them and are maintaining
a close watch upon their members tc
prevent them from doing anything to
prejudice their cause. He states that
while the soldiers were not needed
at the scene of the strike it was thot
best by the government to have them
there, as one or two men could do
damage to the mine buildings and
bridges that would take a year to re
place.
MEN OF MIXED NATIVE
BLOOD ARE EXEMPLIFIED
Mayor McDonald was notified by
Acting Governor Davidson today that
men of mixed blood, that is, part In
dian, Aleut or Eskimo, in Alaska, will
be exempt under the military draft.
Those eligible to register can do so
at any time now.
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VICE PRESIDENT OF
ALASKA S. S. HERE
R. W. Baxter, vice president of the
Alaska steamship company, is making
a tour of the line on the S. S. Alaska.
He expresses satisfaction at the mark
ed impnovemnt of Seward during the
past year.
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AMBASSADOR GERARD
RETIRES FROM SERVICE
WASHINGTON, July 10.—Former
Ambassador Gerard, who served in
Germany up to the breaking off of
relations, has resigned from the diplo
matic service and retired to private
life.
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SULZER AND HEAD OF MINE
BUREAU TELL COMMITTEE OF
SENATE ABOUT ALASKA COAL
Statements by Van H. Manning, di
rector of the Bureau of Mines, and
Deelgate Sulzer to the Senate commit
te at the hearing June 13 on a bill to
encourage the leasing of coal and oil
land show both to be aware of condi
tions in the Matanuska field. Sulzer
opened his remarks with a statement
of Alaskan productions, and then said:
MR. SULZER—And I feel, in regard
to Alaska, that it should be given more
liberal treatment than the other sec
tions of the country, because of the pe
culiar conditions existing there. And I
believe that one of the most important
things to grant in that connection
would be a larger area in any leasing
law. Alaska should have at least
double the area granted than any oth
er field in the country may be given,
for reason that there are peculiar geo
graphical conditions existing in Alas
ka. A tract may be granted in any of
the fields in Alaska, and the greater
part of it possibly, would be so rugged
that it would be inaccessible to oil de
velopment.
The CHAIRMAN—This bill pro
vides for 2,560 acres in the lease. \ou
think that is not enough in Alaska?
Mr. SULZER—No, sir. * * *
Senator WALSH—How large do you
feel the coal-lease tracts should be? j
Mr. SULZER—1 think they should
be at least double
Senator WALSH—That is, eight
sections of land?
Mr. SULZER—Yes, sir.
Senator WALSH—Four miles long
by 2 miles wide?
Mr. SULZER—Yes, sir.
Senator SHAFROTH — Has there
been any development in the way of
coal lands up in Alaska?
Mr. SULZER—Well, as I under-,
stand, there has not; there has not
been any substantial development, to
my knowledge, since the withdrawals
some years ago.
Dr. MANNING—A lease was given
to a man by the name of Martin to
operate one of the units of the Alas
ka Railroad contracted, I think, for
several hundred tons a day, and he ran
into a fault, and the Alaska Railroad
was unable to get his coal, so they
proposed to take over that lease, pos
sibly for 60 or 90 days, and try to
find sufficient coal there to operate the
railroad. In the meantime the Secre
tary of the Interior has authorized the
development of what is known as unit
12, which is up in the Chickaloon dis
trict. That is the only locality outside
of that field that has been developed to
any extent.
Senator SHAFROTH—You say he
has authorized the development? Has
lease been made to any private par
ties?
Dr. MANNING—Lease to unit No.
12 has not been made. That unit is in
the Chickaloon district. That is the
one which the Alaska Railroad pro
poses to work in conjunction with this
other tract of land leased by Martin,
who was unable to produce coal in suf
ficient quantities to operate the road.
The road was under the difficulty of
either buying coal and shipping it into
Alaska at $20 a ton or producing it.
Senator PHELAN — What develop
ment has been undertaken?
Mr. SULZER — In the Matanuska
district and some development in the
Bering Rivei field.
Senator PHELAN — One of the ob
jects of the railroad is to open these
fields, is it not?
Mr. SULZER—Yes, sir; the Mata
nuska field.
Senator PHELAN—And now there
is a question about the value of the
fields T
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SIX KILLED IN AN EXPLOSION
AT MARE ISLAND NAVY YARD
AMSTERDAM, July 10.—One quarter of the great
Krupp gun plant at Essen was smashed by bombs dropped
by French aviators on a raid made last Friday night, ac
cording to reports brought here by Dutch workmen. These
workmen state that the damage was so extensive that the
management laid them off until repairs could be made.
One hundred men were killed and hundreds of others
wounded by exploding bombs during the attack.
ALASKA DELAYED BY
DOCK STRIKE AT SKAGWAY
The Alaska, Captain Warner com
manding, arrived from the south at
noon with a big crowd of passengers
for Se>vard and freight both for local
firms and the San Juan Fishing and
Packing company.
The Alaska was delayed at Skag
way by a dock strike there and had a
heavy cargo for Cordova. The follow
ing passengers arrived from Seattle
and way ports:
J. Brown, M. Imhoff and wife, Miss
M. Romig, J. Erickson, M. Hunen
way, P. C. Chamberlain, B. McGuire,
W. Coughlin, 0. Beam, Miss C. Stiles,
C. K. Faulkner, H. J. Hoosack, H. L.
Lewis, L. E. Thomas, M. Ryan, Gus
Mauthey, T. J. Finnegan, H. N. Hoben,
J. Bradshaw, R. H. Romig, Josie Wal
ton, E. E. Rickie, and three steerage.
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BAR SILVER PRICES
HIGHEST SINCE 1861
NTW YORK, July 10.—Bar silver is
quoted today at 79^ cents per ounce,
the highest price paid since the end of
the Civil War.
The reason given for the sudden in
crease is the use of silver for coinage
by Europe, replacing gold.
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Kenneth Kerr, editor of the Railway
and Marine news, and John Campion,
Seattle capitalist, are making a round
trip on the Alaska.
COLONEL GREEN WEDS
MISS MABEL HARLOW
CHICAGO July 10. — Colonel Ed
ward Green, son of the late Hetty
Green, most wealthy woman in the
world in her time, was married today
to Miss Mabel Harlow, aged 47.
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BOATS AND TRAINS
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The Alaska arrived at noon from the
south.
The Evans arrived this morning
from Kodiak and will sail this after
noon.
The steam trawler Starr sailed this
morning.
The* steam trawler San Juan will
sail tonight.
Construction work on the road will
probably prevent a train being sent
out before the last of the week.
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