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SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27. 1)18 TEN CENTS PER COPY
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ALASKAN
HERO IS
REWARDED
WASHINGTON, Fob. 27. — Secre
tary of the Navy Paniels has com
mended machinist’s mate \. U. I ett\
of the Naval Reserves, a resident o1
Ketchikan. Alaska, for heroic actioi
in jumping overboard trom tlu* go\
ernment boat Kennedy on Januarj
27th and rescuing storekeeper Juhi
McGiiney. who lost bis footing am
fell overboard. McGiiney was stun
ned by his fall and was unconscious
but Petty, after repeatedly diving in
to the water, brought the body to tht
surface anti doctors succeeded ir
bringing life back.
RUSS CHURCH
PROPERTY IN
ALASKA SAFE
JUNEAU. Feb. 27. — According to
advices received here today the Bol
sheviki makes threats to seize the
Russian church property in Alaska on
March 1st. Thi.-> statement was shown
to Father E. 1\ Kashevaioff. head of
the churches here and at Douglas,
who saidi “This threat will not affect
the Alaska churches. We have patents
on all holdings in Alaska, issued b\
the United States government.”
As regards further support of the
Alaska churches to the Bolsheviki
that is a matter not yet set clear.
Father Kashevaroff regards the Bol
sht Tiki as .* lawless l. W. W.f and be
lieves that the more intelligent class
es in Russia will prevail.
The Most Reverend Dr. Tikhon,
patriarch of all Russia, has issued an
anathema, hut the Bolsheviki element
flo not regard it with concern. The
London Times' Petrograd correspon
dent says that if Dr. Tikhon would
lay the country under an interdict
closing the churches and not permit
ting the priests to baptise, marry and
bury the dead, the effect on the popu
lation might be immediate and tar
reach ing.
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THREE SEAMEN
ARRESTED ON A
MUTINY CHARGE
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 27.—Fred
Sunquist, second engineer; Hermann
Neil son, waiter, and V. Bulgaris. deck
hand, were taken from the steamer
Alliance by Federal authorities today
when the boat arrived and are accus
ed of mutiny. The vessel arrived from
San Pedro where she had been detain
ed by Federal orders while the ves
sel was being searched for contra
band. The three men tried to gc
ashore there in defiance of the orders
of the captain and also, after the ves
sel had cleared attempted to start
trouble among the other members of
the crew.
The Alliance was searched at Sar
Pcdio in connection with rumored
plots that she was to be seized at ses
for the purpose of being used tc
smuggle arms and ammunition int(
Mexico.
M. MAKLAHOFF
M. Maklahoff, Russian ambassador
to France, who was deposed from his
post by the bolshevik: foreign min
ister, Leon Trotzky. for his participa
I tion in the interallied conference.
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FIRMS ARE
ACCUSED
i OF FRAU S
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WASHINGTON', Feb. 27. — The
United States Federal Commission to
day issued complaints charging thir
ty eight manufacturing firms with un
fair trade practices as result ol an
• intensive investigation. This investi
gation reveals a very serous and un
healthy condition in certain lines of
industry.
The number of complaints issued
today by the commission is the larg
est ever made at one time.
FOXY HINDU
TO SUBPOENA
! HIGH OFFICERS
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 27. —
Ram Chandra, principal Hindu defen
dant of lol charged with conspiring
to foment a revolution in India, today
stilted and in fact threatened, to sub
poena two members of Presi
dent Wilson’s cabinet to attend his
trial.
Secretary of State Robert Lansing
and Postmaster General Burleson are
the two cabinet members the Hindu
declares he will have as his witnesses,
j also William Jennings Bryan and Rab
| indranath Tagore, the Indian poet,
j Ram Chandra says he wants the
above four named to testify fo/* the
defense, their line of evidence being
that the United States government
hits no knowledge, past, present or
j future, of the Germans connection
| with the alleged plot of the revolution
1 started in India.
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APPLY TAR AND FEATHERS
STAUNTON, 111., Feb. 27. — The
I j American Protective League took one
. I. W. W. and one Chicago lawyer to
• the city limits, applied a coat of tar
►! and feathers and started them on
their way last night.
ALASKA BREAKING RECORD IN THE
PURCHASE OF WAR THRIFT ..STAMPS
SEATTLE, Feb. 27—Alaskans are purchasing
so many war thrift stamps that Daniel Kelleher, Di
rector for Washington and Alaska of the war sav
ings, appointed Arthur G. Cohen as Alaska Secre
tary. Mr Cohen is a young and hustling attorney
here who is giving his time to the sendee of the na
tion.
Mr. Kelleher last night had a long conference
with B. M. Behrends, of Juneau, war saving’s chair
man for Alaska. Mr. Behrends left for the north
this morning and upon his arrival at Juneau will ap
point a sub-chairman in every large town in Alaska
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NAVAL TUG
FOUNDERS;
30 ROWN
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 27. — The
naval tug Cherokee foundered early
this morning in a gale olF Fenwick
Island lightship twenty-two miles
from the Delaware capes. It is be
lieved that thirty officers and enlsted
men have been lost.
Ten suivivors got away on the first!
life raft and landed safely. Four
others got away on a second raft, two
wore washed overboard and the other
two are dead probably from exposure.
Four bodies were this afternoon sent
to Philadelphia. Coast patrol boats
are near the scenes and life guards
are searching along the coast.
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NO WAR ACTIVITY
LONDON, Feb. 27. — Official *<
* statements from all war fronts |
* report little exceptional activity, ‘ j
■ artillerying only taking place on
* the western front.
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TOURNAMENT AT
BILLIARDS TO BE
A GOOD SPORT
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The billiard tournament at the
Northern started off under favorable
conditions last nght. Two games were
played last night but from now on the
three tables will undoubtedly be used
as the players are sizing up the con
testants before entering the touina-'
| rnent.
Last night in the first game King,
defeated Hawthorn by a score of 79
to TO. In the second game King was
defeated by Caylor, the latter making j
; 85 and King only 76.
Although the score indicates that |
King won, he lost both games last
night on handicaps.
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I * CLAIM JAPS ARE
! * BEHIND CONSPIRACY ♦
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PEKIN, Feb. 27. — The Chi- *
nese authorities have discovered *
a conspiracy to assassinate Gen- *
eral Tuan Chi Jui, War Comm is- *
sioncr. A number of arrests have * I
already been made among them * j
being three Japanese.* The auth-*
♦ orities claim that Japanese fos- *
* tered the plot.
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25 YEARS
IS GIVEN
OFFIC 1
NEW YORK, Feb. 27. — Captain
David A. Henkes, of the Sixteenth
United States Infantry, was today
sentenced to dismissal from the ser
vice and confinement for twenty-five
years at hard labor by a courtmartial
held on Governors Island.
Capt. Henkes is of German descent
and he endeavored to resign from the
United States War Service, after be
ing in possession of many war facts,
saying he was unwilling to fight
against “his relatives and friends.”
SHARP QUAKE
FELT AT EARLY j
MORNING HOUR!
A lifteen seconds earthquake arous
ed the majority of the Seward people
at exactly two o’clock this morning.
The shock was a genuine twister just
like a terrier shaking a rat. The
shock terminated as suddenly as it
began and there were no subsequent
rumblings or shakes. No damage was
done and but a few clocks stopped.
The barometer at Orlanders register
ed a distinct dot showing that the
shock was sudden and severe.
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HOURS AT THE LOCAL
P. O. ARE TO RE CHANGED
Postmaster W. E. Root announced
today that beginning Friday new
hours will prevail at the post office.
The windows will be opened at 8 o’
clock in the morning and will close at
5 o’clock in the afternoon instead of
6 o’clock. By closing the office at 5
o’clock all checking can be over by (>
o’clock instead of 7 or 8 as now.
The change in the hours will not ef
fect the distribution of first class mail
which arrives during the night. The
attaches will meet all steamers as is
the regular custom and the first class
mail will be boxed as usual.
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LABOR SELECTS WALSH
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27. — Labor
has selected Frank P. Walsh, of Kan
sas City, former Chairman of the In
dustrial Relation’s committee, as rep
resentative of the public on the board
framing a government national labor
policy. The Employeers, or capital,
yesterday named William Howard
Taft as representative.
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MRS. E. T. STOTESBURY
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Mrs. E. T. Stotcsbury heads the new
Red Cross war council committee
which has been organized to collect
and forward sweaters, socks and oth
er knit wear to sailors. The commit
tee has the indorsement of Secretary
of the Navy Daniels.
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SPEECH IS
NOT PEACE
PROPOSAL
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PARIS, Fob. 27.—French and other
Allied officials heiv believe that Chan
cellor von Hertling’s speech made at
Berlin was a wai speech and not a
peace speech. One official said that
the Chancellor made the speech, first,
to divide the Allies; second, to stimu
late peace talk in the Allied coun
tries and third, to impress the public
opinion that the plain people and dip
lomats have the upper hand in Ger
many.
No* to Grant Armistice
BERNE, Feb. 27. — Although Von
Hertling’s recent speech declared that
Germany’s intentions in the east were
not for aggression and aggrandize
ment, the German military authorities
have declined to grant any armistice
even in view of the Bolsheviki’s offer
to accept peace.
SAM GOMPERS
NEAR VICTIM
OF PLOTTERS
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NEW YORK, Feb. 27. — Samuel
Gompers, President of the American
Federation of Labor today revealed
an attempt by the German Trade
Unionists to induce him to attend a
Worker’s conference to discuss peace.
Mr. Gompers declined the invita
tion which Karl Legien, head of the
Federal Trade’s Unions in Germany
had sent to Mr. Gompers.
The invitation was the same as was
sent by cable to the French Labor
leaders.
Mr. Gompers replying to the invita
tion said that the American workers
were busily engaged in the task of
defeating the German Emperor and
did not wish to have any parley with
the German workers.
j RUSSIANS
REFUSING
TO FIGHT
THE HUNS
LONDON, Feb. 27. — Dispatches
today from Petrograd indicate that
the Germans will find little difficulty
in occupying that city. The Russian
soldiers have frankly refused to light
saying that they have had enough of
war, and “if the Germans come let
them take us.”
' This has stiffened the attitude of
the workmen who are enrolling en
thusiastically to the Bolsheviki’s ea
and are making preparations to de
fend the town.
Fighting at Pskov
BERNE, Feb. 27. — Official advio .
stale that the Germans are marching
onward and it is rumored that they
have reached Luga, midway betw
Pskov and Petrograd. There is street
lighting in Pskov, the city changing
hands alternately.
Men and women are building
trenches around Petrograd. according
to these reports.
The Bolsheviki is expected to a*
once retire' to Moscow provided th-*
Germans take Petrograd. It is also
reported that Foreign Minister Ti*v
sky is to resign as the result of di>
agreement with the Council of th
j Workmen’s and Soldier’s delegates.
i ALASKA BISHOP
WELCOMES I ENT
AS FOOD SAVER
—
“I>ent has come for the 20,000,000
Catholics who dwell under the shadow
of the Stars and Stripes,” says the
Right Reverend Crimont, bishop of
the Catholic church in Alaska, in .»
| statement received in Seward. "It is
i a welcome guest, that is to stay with
them for six weeks and a half unti
Holy Saturday, this year, March 0.
Lent will play its part in helping ou
country to win the war, as far a^
Catholics are concerned. The issue o
this great war is to be decided not
only on the battlefields of Europe or
on the seas, but in the American
homes. Lent, if conscientiously ob
served by Catholics wil contribute a
very telling asset to the war resource*
of our country through the conserva
ton of food.”
I/enten regulations given out by
Bishop Crimont this year differ little
from those of previous years except
that the eating of fish and meat at
the same meal is not, this time, inter
dicted. Men in the army and navy
are not expected to observe all fasts,
as are those who are under less rig
orous physical strain.
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BERLIN, Feb. 27. — An official
i statement reecived from Pola says
! that the German raider Wolf, which
arrived there yesterday after a fif
teen month’s cruise in the Atlantic,
Indian and Pacific oceans, had des
troyed at least 35 vessels. Several of
the vessels are reported to have car
ried British troops and the sinkings
caused a great loss of life.
Nearly Four Hundred Natives Are Facing Starvation at Kenai
and Must Live on Moose Meat and Snow Until Next Spring
Three hundred and seventy natives
at Kenai are facing starvation and un
til food can be sent or the first steam
er up Cook Inlet lands there the na
tives must live upon moose meat and
snow. The thirty-five white persons
at Kenai are only a little better off i
and their provisions are so low that
they have none to divide with the na
tives. At present the natives have no
sugar, flour, rice or even potatoes.
The Libby, McNeill & Libby com-j
pany’s warehouse at Kenai has sold
everything with the exception of suf
ficient supplies to last a crew of 20
men for several weeks, expected to
arrive there in the early spring, to
put the cannery in shape. The store
at Kenai is depleted of all stock, in
fact the storekeeper having secured
his recent sales from the cannery
warehouse. This is the word brought
to Seward by W. N. Dawson, store
keeper at Kenai, who arrived yester
i
day and is stopping at the Hotel Sex
ton while waiting for the first steam
er to the states. Mr. Dawson says!
that the last steamers up the Inlet,
refused to stop at Kcnai owing to the
lateness of the season and the desire
to make Anchorage and out again as
quickly as possible to avoid freezing
in. “We have some tea left, but this
is no good unless sugar is used, and
sugar is sold out,” said Mr. Dawson.
“The white residents laid in their (
winter supplies but have been giving
what they could to the natives but;
they are now holding only sufficient;
provisions to last them until the first1
steamer arrives. The situation is cer
tainly serious. What supplies can be
taken by dog team over the trail from
Seward would only be a drop in the
bucket, so to speak. I am going to
Seattle to endeavor to secure a large
stock for the first steamer up the In
let with the promise that the steamer
will land at Kenai ”