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VOI i ME XII. N1 MBER 157. _____—__—
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NAME OF KAISER
BILL ON BALLOT
CAUSES CONTEST
Bj Associated Press
REDWOOD CITY. Cal. Dec.. 8—
Ballots with the name of William
Hohcnzollern written in are made th»*
bads of an election contest filed here
by Justice of the Peace George R.
Seeley, who was defeated for re-elect
ion. 928 to 925. by Ray Griffin. Seeley
charged there were several ballots r
which votes for Mr. Hohcnzollern
were recorded and that those ballot!
also carried Griffin’s name.
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MONTAN V FARM Bt'REAVS
HELENA. Mont.. Dec.. 8— Of the
V\ counties in Montana. 25 now have
farm bureaus and permanent county
agricultural agents, according to the
annual report of the state farm insti
tute.
i-uurles E. Brown expects to re
turn to Anchorage tomorrow* h aving
on the morning train.
The cars of the freight train, ditch
ed at Mile -12 by spreading rails, are
back on the track again and in service.
The collier Brutus is expected * >
arrive at LaTouchc today bound for
Kodiak with doctors and nurses. It is
not believed that the big collier will
call here enroute westward.
Mrs. Thiebault, whose husband
died at Anchorage last week of pnue
mon a, will arrive on the train tomor
row night, with the body, enroute to
the states.
A train for Anchorage will leave
Seward tomorrow morning at 7 o’
clock and the ta;n from Anchorage
leaves there at 8 o’clock tomorrow
morning.
By Associated Press
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY
OK OCCUPATION, Dec.. «— Studied
indifference has characterized tin
German reception to the America*
troops enroute to the Rhein. Scores ot
villages have been brought unde,
American domination with an Amer
ican officer as chief dictator, and sd
diors as police.
Commander Pershing has issued
permission to the people to return t.
their normal posts and said that ther
! would be no interference if the Gor
mans keep good order.
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Rev. L. D. Cook, new pastor of tin
i Methodist church, says that he likes
, Seward. Rev. Cook arrived here o i
the Admiral Watson and although tin
| influenza ban prevented him Con
calling upon the members of his con
( gregation he has mot the ladies at thi
i Christmas sale now being conducted j
Rev. Cook joined the Y. M. C. A.
! army branch, but upon arrival at New
! York, ready to go overseas, was a
: signed to duty in the states on e.ecou d
of his eyes.
Rev. Cook is not one of tiio old
, style, black frocked, long faced sk\
j pilots, but is a jolly good fellow, cov
l dial to meet, with none of the hell fir:
j and brimstone doctrines sticking on*
from every pocket.
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'sIXTY COMING TOMORROW
In talking over the long distance
phone this afternoon, William Gorig
1 at Anchorage, informed Mayor Hob r
1 there would be at least sixty passer*
i pr* for Seward on the train leaving
C Inlet lomorrow moning. Upon
i; r a! her-- the passengers will be a’
lo ved to go where they like as all r
tTu ’ions are now off.
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HONOLULU, Dec., ft— The Pan
Pacific Union, organized to promote
friendship and better trade relations
between the nations surrounding the
Pacific ocean and to accomplish for
them what the Pan- American Union
had done for the republic of the two
American continents, is laying plan'
for a Pan- Pacific Congress of Cham
hers of Congress to be heud in Hono
lulu in 1920.
\ Japanese trade commission head
ed by R. Yamashina, vice- president
of the Tokio Chamber of Commerce,
which passed through here recently
for a tour of the United States and
South America, agreed to do every
thing possible during its travels to
stimulate interest in the projects con
gress.
Organizers of the Pan Pacific Un
ion, prominent among whom are its
President C. J. McCarty, governor of
the Territory of Hawaii, and Frank
C. Atherton and Alexander Hume
Ford of Honolulu, hop*' in time to
have the government* of the nations
of the Pacific take over its adminis
tration.
President Wilson has been inaug
urated as hono ran* president of the
Union. A note of internationalism has
been struck by the election also a
honorary presidents of Premier Wili
i Hughes of Australia and Premi
W. K. Massey of New Zealand. Both
have accepted and signified their in
• tention of promoting the objects of
the Union in all possible ways.
The president of China also*ha
been elected an honorary president
and an emissary’ is now on the way to
Peking to engage his interest and sup
port. Prominent Japanese are coone*
1 ating.
Honorary vice presidents include
| Governor- General Harrison of th
Philippines, the governor- general of
Java, and John Barrett, director of th '
Pan-American union. *
Mr. Ford is confident that every j
nation bordering on the Pacific will b?
| represented at the Congress here i.i
| 1920. The premiers of Australian and
New Zealand have already promised
to attend in person.
Support for the Congress has been
pledged by the Seattle Chamber o'
i Commerce and the Internationa! Pac
ific Chamber of Commerce, the latte*
j comprising commercial bodies in the
Pacific Northwest and British Colum- 1
bia.
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VA ' CO U Y ER B. C., D< 6
Violent earth quake shocks ">• o ii.i
hen* forty five minutes nik« • mid
night The <|uak > lasted for > min
lte; the rumbling and motio?: era -
ing with each new one. Orel’) u of
all buildings were seized \ itii i pan
ic. People were awakened every whir
hroughout the city by tumid
niturc and the breaking of d she*
which were shaken from shelv .
SEATTLE. Dec., 0»— Severn’ -ever,
-hocks were felt here shortly aftet
midnight h it as far as known : ' dam
age was done.
VICTORIA. Dec., 6
shock and many nV.b* gkt- s v * 'ovr
were broken early this mo’-nir hv :
series of severe earth shocks.
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WEATHER KIT. RT
The following is the wc a* r re
port for the past 2*1 hou) up i. * <’ >
lock this morning:
Seward, 32, Pi. cloudy, strong north,
kern Creek. 2d. cloudy, . tr ny r >r
wind.
Montana, IS, snowing, calm.
Matanuska, 24, cloudy, calm.
Chickaloon, 5, cloudy, calm.
NO SERVICES ON SIM V
Rev. L. I). Cook announced
hat there would be no service : V
Methodist church this coming Survl *\
but services will be held r gu’r
ginning with Sunday, Decrmb r 15
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CHARLIE CHAPLIN COM1, ,T.
Tomorrow night the Lib rt; then
tre will reopen and Charlie < hap’i:
will be seen in “The Adventurer.” Ai
so other good films will he sho vn.
By Associated Press
, BOARD THE TRANSPORT j
rO , De . 6—
, iit Wii.oa and others aboard
'it today faced the task j
.. t ' .un i van troops faced going
vi l un . Tiie president and others
a ijiuvi v.* re forced to don life perser
v* i'm :■ id piopure to abandon ti.2 slrp
AA<. was, theoritically, attacked by
i 1 * n . T'l.o alarm hell a I buz
■>-. a . t ,« idcd. This gave th« signa1
vo :)n v ‘ t > take to the boat .
i l o P*v ideal left his offie • with
’ i v If , I A ’ *r to a life boat and as
i. t v 1 w1 adjust her perserver. The
two I >o ' in line waiting to be order
l into the boats.
m hi'e all ships in company
with the transport were doing the
same drill which was conducted per
fectly. The party aboard the trans
po*' co’: ! have abandoned t •* sh;]
witYn »( i minutes. There was a
v >n\ oying d • troy
mining big submarines as;
V. r d cl ; were awash.
p v**; ui Wilson is seemingly en
joy iT g tvs trip.
I erecting Bl SINESS
W VSHTNGTON, Dec., 6— Met*
yp . :iroct:ng official busin.es havt
; ! n ’.<> arrive from President; Wil
son, by wireless.
’ a? t: conference dvtes.
PARIS, Doc.. (*» The inter-Alii *c
'c," ' jvneo ■ *o. t > deal with thr
v • pr * • e. ario , opens IVemboi
17th end will end on January 15th
n ,M r »• .oy '. .ns will bop:in with
tbo foVni ion of a ^)rtrnian plenipot
ontinry.
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HEAVY M VIL l’OU SOI TH.
sacks tma good?
ro a!" ndy in the tV-t office for dis
.r’teh on the Admiral Watson for th
states.
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ENGLAND MANGE ' U DECISION ON
WHAh i . CD CONFERENCE MUST DC
LONDON, Dec., C - M nister of Munitions Churchil
' tre 1 today in a sp :ch t lat England enters thepeace
inference with absol that no limitation bt
imposed upon England s rip it to maintain naval defense
“We don’t intend to lend ou; selves to fettering restrict
ions to prevent the British r -vy maintaining it’s well tried
and well deserved supre.ua v,” said the Minister.
Mr. Churchill also ann< un t the British nava
authorities had decided tha it was not necessary to de
niand that Germany return ' lelgoland to England.
MACHINE GUNS SUUPRESS FOOD RIOTS.
COPENHAGEN Dec.. 6— Machine guns were used
today to suppress food riot at Cologne. Several stores
were plundered and there were many casualties in the
ranks of the demonstrates.
100,000 NAVY MEN TO BE RELEASED.
WASHINGTON, Dec., 6— One hundred thousand
men, which, is 20 per cent of the navy’s war time person
nel. will be released immediately to permit their return to
civil life of youths especially who joined for the war and
tot for a full term.
NAVY’S ESTIMATE IS CUT IN HALF
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WASHINGTON. Dec., 6— Secretary of War Daniels!
has disclosed the fact that over $1,000.000 000 will he cul
from the navy’s estimate for the coming year. The origi
nal plans demanded and expenditure of $2,600,000,000.
TONNAGE
LOST IN
WAR
Ry Associated Pres*
LONDON, Doc., 6— It is officially
announced that the world’s total loss
of merchant tonnage readied 15,053,*
786 gross tons from the beginning of
.ho war lo the end of last October.
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EXPLOSION IN POWDER PLANT
POMPTON LAKE. N. J.. Dec., 6
Four explosions destroyed the detor
ator in the assembling building of the
DuPont cap works this morning. Thir
teen men were killed and over a score
of others injured.
FARMERS TO MEET MONDAY
ROZEMAN, MONT., Dec., <>— Agri
culturre's part in the post-war pro
gram of the United States is to he
•on idered during Farmer’s Week
December 0 to 14. when Montana far
mers will he addressed by Dr Elwood
Mead, land settlement leader, and
*»ther well known authorities on agri
cultural problems.
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Thirty one from Anchorage will ar
rive on the train tomorrow bound foi
L'lTouche where they will be employ
ed in the mines at that place.
By Associated Press
COPENHAGEN, Dec., 0— The Ber
lin Deustche Allgemeine Zeitung says
dial an American wireless message
has been intercepted and this message
indicates that the Americans and A’
ies are to occupy Berlin temporarily
The two forces will exercise police su
pervision, according to the newspaper
DISORDERS JN BERLIN.
LONDON, Dec, 6— A dispatch
from Amsterdam says that serious
disorders are reported in Berlin and
there has been considerable firing up
on the principle streets. The German
i Bolsheviki is believed to have staite i
! the trouble.
DISCONTINUE TYING MEN
TO CELL BARS FOR HAVING
BROKEN MILITARY RULES.
WASHINGTON, Dec., 6— The
Practice of tying military prisoners to
bars of their cells and all other met
hods of severe corporal punishment
have b< en abolished by the War De
partment. Secretary of War Baker
said that the efficiency of such pun
ishment was questionable.
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STEAMER DOPE
Steamer Admiral Watson, accord
ng to a wireless received by Mr. Won
sails from Halibut Cove late today.
Capt. Glasscock intends to try and
stop at Tort Chatham having been
i prevented two days ago by a snow
storm. If the Admiral Watson docs
not make Port Chatham, she should
arrive in Seward tomorrow afternoon
but will wait until the arrival of th"
train from Anchorage.
NEW YORK, Dec., 6— Austral
ia has entered the field of business
liplomacy. From the island continent
at the bottom of the world has com'
for the first time in history an envo.\
to the United States, to work for the
strengthening of the commercial, fin
ancial and political good will prevail
between the two countries.
Under a policy similar to that de
veloped by the American government
in ante-bellum days- termed in an apt
phrase “dollar diplomacy” - the Aus
tralian commonwealth has given offic
ial support to the ambitions of its ar
gricultural, industrial and merehan
tile interests for international trad'
expansions.
Recent arrival here of an Austral
ian commissioner has called attention
to a new departure in governmental
act’*on within the British Empire. The j
mother country hitherto has dir -cted
her international relations and these
of her colonies from London. Yet Aus
tralia’s venture has been approved by
the British Government, and Henry '.
Braddon, appointed to the newly cre
ated office, is vested with full author
ity to lay the foundations for a great
Australian- American trade after the
war and to negotiate for an inter
change of credits to finance it and |
shipping to carry it .
Because his mission is one of busi- j
ncs3 rather than diplomacy* Mr. Brad-.
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Jon has established headquarters in
this city, the nation’s financial ana
commercial capital. He frankly pre
dicts that Australia with 50,000 of her
sons killed in battle and 100,000 others
on the casualty lists, will want no
dealings with Germany. His chief job,
then, as he sees it, is to encourage
America to take Germany’s place as
the principal buyer of Australian pri
mary products - wool, wheat and meat
- and as the leading source of supp!/
of manufactured articles imported by
the commonwealth.
Incidentally, he hopes to hasten de
livery' from Pacific coast shipyards
of fourteen cargo- vessels ordered by
his Government, and which will form
the nucleus of the Australian- Ameri
can carrying trade.
Owing to his overwhelming inter
est in the war - he had three sons
with his country’s 400.000 men in tho
British army- Mr. Braddon would
have found it difficult, he declared on
arriving here, to devote himself to a
peace time project but for his firm be
lief that much mutual good can come
of better acquaintance between Aus
tralia and “the States,n as America
is universally known in the Antipodes.
With this object in view, he announced
a plan to set up as a branch of his
commission a bureau to furnish the
American press with the “high spots*
of Australian news.
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