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SEWARD. ALASKA. « LI>NLM>AV. I MRU 1.1.-.- --
LONDON. Feb.. 4— ycordin*
advice* from Constantinople, th»*
Turkish Bolsheviki plans a holy war
against the British in the spring.
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MONTESANO, Keb., 4— Eleven j
jurymen are in the box. The state has
exercised two and the detense thtee
premptories. Counsel for both sides ^
clashed several times late yesterday,
especially Vanderveer and Abel. The
January venire is exhausted ai*u the
special venire has been called.
The influenza epidemic is intert'yr
injr with the examination as many
talesmen are ill.
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* 7 O'CLOCK TONIGHT
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All member* of the Seward
* Chamber of Commerce are asked
* to be on hand at 7 o’clock tonight
* at the Town hall for the special
* meeting.
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POUND IS DROPPING
NEW YORK, Feb.. 4— The Eng
lish pound is down to |f>.lD today. ^
SEATTLE, Feb., Canadan
checks are being discounted seventeen
per cent by the the Seattle banks.
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NATIONAL NON— PARTISAN
LEAGUE TO PI T A TICKET •
IN FIELD IN WASHINGTON
SPOKANE. Feb., 4— It was offic
ially announced here today that the
National Non-Partisan league is to
enter politics in ths state and put t
ticket in the field.
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POLITICS IN WASHINGTON
GETTING WARM- CONVENTION
DATES SOON BE ANNOUNCED
SEATTLE. Feb.. 4— The Demo
cratic staV committee is called to
meet on Fbruary 2.'lrd to set u date
for the convention to elect delegates
to the San Francisco national conven
tion.
The Republican state committee
meets on February 12th to set a date
for the state convention to choose del
egates to the national convention at
Chicago.
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FISH QUOTATIONS
SEATTLE, Feb., 4— Halibut is
quoted at twelve and seven eieVs
cents; sable nt five cents.
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Caribou and rabbits are reported to
be more plentiful in the Koyukuk this
year than for many years past
SP7KANE, Wash., Feb., 4— A
squad of detectives are guarding su
perior Judge R. M. Webster o»i ac
count of threats of Industrial Workers
of the World against his life. Juuge
Webster issued a permanent injunc
tion on January 5th forbidding the
Wobbly activities here. The police
learned that the threats were made at ^
a meeting in Montana recently and
Wobblies with murder in their htvuts
are understood to be now in this city. I
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CAMPAIGN AGAINST ALL
IMMORAL THINGS STARTED *
BY POLICE OF BERLIN
BERLIN, Feb., 4— The Berlin po
lice are continuing their campaign
against immoral or suggestive exhi
bitions. The latest raid was made up
on a big bathing carnival. Motor
trucks were required to carry to *.he
police, stations the dozen principals ^
and 400 spectators all of whom were P
arrested. *
The police also have discovered an- P
other undes'rable exhibition in on^ of *
the cafes where the night life of Ber
lin has been brightest. Both these dis- v
plays are characterized as worse than c
the “explanation” films which still ’
prevail in Berlin. The evil will not
down and the average resident of Ber- f
lin, when it is called to his attention
shruegs his shoulders and remarks,
“another fruit of the revolution.”
A noted physician asserts that
those taking part in these exhibition
are not normal. jj
WORLD'S FOREIGN TRADERS li
TO MEET IN SAN FRANCISCO 1
DENVER, Colo., Feb., 4— The c
Denve/ Civic and Commercial Associa
tion will send delegates to the Seven- i
th National Foreign Trade convention,
which will be held at San Francisco r
May 12 to 15, 1920, and which is hi- ?
ing announced as a “World Conference (
of American Foreign Traders," ac
cording to announcement by the as
sociation.
I eddy Roosevelt
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(With apologies to K. C. B.)
l remember
WHEN a Y()l7N(i soldier
SOM 10 twenty years ago
TEDDY stopped oil' in
JUNCTION CITY, Kan -as
TO MAKK
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\ short SPKECH. jj.
IN MY uniform
Of blue
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WITH SEVEN other men
I WAS detailed
TO MEET HIS TRAIN
AND Kuurd him
WELL.
WHEN his train Pulled*
INTO the station
1 STOOD very stiffly
AT attention
A S a good
MILITARY guard should.
I was the
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hirst man at his right
AS hr
CAME down the steps.
I saluted
WHICH was correct.
DID HE salute?
He did
NOT
He held out
HIS RIGHT hand
AND I got u regulur
ROOSEVELT handshake
WHICH I knew
• • ■ y
WAS not military.
And he said
“HELLO, THERE"
And I SAID
NOTHING
BECAUSE I WAS
SPEECHLESS.
I liked TEDDY
EVER since that day .
AFTERWARDS
MY CAPTAIN gave me
A heluva
Bawling out for not
BEING more military
HUT I didn’t care at all.
I AM GOING TO DONATE
MY BIT to the
ROOSEVELT MEMORIAL FUND
BECAUSE I believe in his
GREAT LIFE and the principles
FOR which he fought.
HE WAS the
GREAT AMERICAN.
I thank YOU.
J. O. SHERLOCK.
VAR VETERAN
IS HELPING
FITZGERALD
SEATTLE, Feb., 4— Malcd’m
►ouglas, war veteran, speaking f >r
lay or Fitzgerald last night at a cam
r.ign rally, declared Fitzgerald was
ie only mayoralty candidate wlo
laced the stamp of disapproval upon
►uncan. labor candidate.
Major Douglas asked if Hugh Culd
ell, anothei candidate, expects to re
vive Duncan’s support in the iT**
ace if Duncan loses at the primaries.
Major Douglas said Fitzgerald was
ighting for the things the war vet
ans fought for in France.
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Oil! WHAT A NAME
HONOLULU, T. H., Feb., 4— A
aby boy, recently born to Mr. and
lvs. Darley S. Kaaikala of Honolulu,
as been given a name of forty-th»*ee
*tters, according to the birth certifi*
ate. Hehe it is:
Xawaiehaika-Libilibi Wai Anuenue
to Maka o Kaopua.
The name in the Hawaiian tongue
leans, “The four waters near the
dge of the eye of the rainbow in the
Houds”
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Senator and Mrs. J. R. Heckman
are spending the winter in California
* TWO COMMITTEES
FOR TEDDY DAY
At the meeting last night of
* Isaac Evan* Post, No., 5, Ameri
* can Legion, Cap!., Mooney and ?
* Tom Haines were designated to
* be assistants to Miss Jane McN’al
*3 |y and Miss Emily Rorgen to as
* sist in securing subscriptions lo *
the Roosevelt Memorial fund.
* The campaign in Seward is only
* on|r day, next Saturday.
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SECRETARY DANIELS TELLS
HIS SIDE OP SIMS MUDDLE
WASHINGTON, Feb., 4— Secre
tary of the Navy Daniels today told
the Senate Committee that Admiral
Sims d’d not recommend Admiral Wil
son for a decoration because of per
sonal differences between Sims and
Wilson. Sims recommended youm? of
ficers who served well in minor posts.
Secretary Daniels said that when tb »
history of the American naval forces
are written, Admiral Wilson’s services
off the French coast will rank with
those of Sims, Mayo, Benson and Rod
man.
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HAMBURG, Feb., 4— Hamburg no
longer ranks in the class of c?t»es hav
ing a population of 1,000 000 and
more. The war and the blockade have
reduced its numbers of inhabitants to
985 000, as compared with 1.0115 0f»0
recorded in the last year before the
. war.
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WASHINGTON, Feb., 4— Governor
Thomas Riggs, Jr., of Alaska, an
nounced he intends to ask Congress to 1
establish an Alaska constabulatoiy to
curb the activities of the Radicals who
threaten to demobolize industry in ,
Alaska. Gov. Riggs said Alaska was
'oncoming the hoadquaiter - for a radi
cal eieineuc. Gov. It : js also intend«
to a^k for a new fisheries law to limir
the catch anti prohibit river fishing al
together for commercial purposes.
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PARIS, Feb., 4— Kurt von Lersner, •
bead of the German peace delegation, i
has resigned rather than send to Ho’
lin the list of Germans which the Al
lies gave him with the demand that
•m ' m
they be extradited for trial for war
atrocities. Von Lcrsncr told Premier
Millerand that no German official
would be instrumental in helping the
Allies realize their demand for th * ex
tradition of those asked for.
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TRADING
WITH THE
GERMANS
WASHINGTON, Feb., 4— The He
partment of Commerce reports that
the United States shipped $65,000,000
worth of goods to Gcimany during the
last four months of 1010. Germany
shipped $0,000,000 worth of goods ;c
America in the same perfod.
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U. S. TO KEEP ORDER
AND RADICALS TO MO\ V
WASHINGTON, Feb., 4— Attorney
General Palmer today told the House
judiciary committee that the deporta
tion of Radicals and the country vide
arrests were being prosecuted with
vigorous enforcement of the existing
laws. Attorney General Palmer lias
given notice that America intends to
keep order and says the moves again
st the Radicals have already improved
conditions.
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SEATTLE MAN IS NAMED
TO INVESTIGATE SECURITIES
HELD BY SHIPPING BOARD
.. WASHINGTON, Feb., 4— Chair
man Payne, of the Shipping Board,
has invited leading bankers to sei-vc
on the committee to investigate into
the value of shipping securities. N. H.
Latimer, of Seattle, has been one
banker named.
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WASHINGTON, Feb., 4— The
State Department reports brigands
murdered three Americans on Febru
ary 1st in Syria, noith of Aleppo. The
three Americans were nu mbers of a
convoy for American Relief suppFos
and were working under the American
committee for relief in the far east.
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SENSATION AT TRIAL
ALBANY, N. Y., Fob., 4— There
was a sensation today at the Social
ist’s trial when assemblyman Maurice
Bloch, member of the Assembly judic
iary committee, sitting as a tribunal,
moved to strike from the records, as
obviously impossible, testimony given
yesterday by Ellen Chiver, steno
grapher, that she had seen assemTiTy
man Charles Soloman, one of the five
defendants, spit on the American Pag
in the presence of a large crowd. TPie
motion was denied and possible char
ges will be brought against’Maurice
Bloch, whose name sounds very much
like that of a Hun.
ENGLAND MAY ACCEPT THE
RESERVATIONS TO TREATY
NEW YORK Fob., 4— Lord Grey
has published a letter in London stat
ing that England might accept the re
servations to the treaty offered by
Senator Lodge. It was previously
claimed that England would not ac
cept the reservations.
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FAMINE, COLD, DISEASE
LONDON, Feb., 4— The President
of the Russian Red Cross reports Prtt
rogad suffering from famine, cold, di
sease and robbery. The city is becom
ing a desert on account of the lack of
fuel.
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