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1.. THE ALASKA EVENING POST_
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1017 ' . TEN CENTS PER COPY
Volume XI. Numboi 201*. i _ ____■ - ■ 1 — . . ' ■
MANY JOIN
RED CROSS
IN SJARB
Two hundred forty-nine member?
were added to the membership roil ol
the American Red Cross in Sew an
r.nd a total of $5G9.20 was the sun
realized—ami the committee is no
through. Many have telephoned L
the various committeemen to hold tia
list open for a day or so ami main
children will also be added. Consul
♦•ring the weather, the holiday seasoi
and other incidents the specia con.
mitt* e feel gratified at the results a'
tained in Seward during the « i\*
which lasted for eight days. Grea
assistance was given the eommitU
by Miss Long of the railroad force
Dr. J. A. Baughman, A. H. Garland
purser on the steamer Dora; X Jern
Joi* Strejc and many other.
The subscriptions were tor th»
most part one dollar ones, that clas*
of membership being urged by the na
tional officer. But in Seward, peopl
seldom do anything by halves and g»
the full whole. Many membershp
are therefore in the $5 and ' J. *
classes and Allan McIntosh oi th
Fairbanks Hotel goes on iccord with
a life membership.
The $50 contributed by President
R. W. Baxter of the Alaska Steam
ship will be used within the next few
days in the enlistment of childre.
w*h5 failed to come in owing to holi
day pleasures interfering with their
Red Cross enthusiasm.
The following is the complete list
of those joining the Ked Cross in the
Christmas Drive, to p esent date:
Mrs. Frank L. Bailaine $2; Frank
(Contniued on page three.)
ill. S. SOLDIERS
ENTER MEXICO
AFTER BANDITS
.MARFA. Texas. Dec. 27. — Amcri
• can troops entered Mexico late yes
terday afternoon in pursuit of the
Mexican bandits who raided the Brito
ranch on Christmas and killed the
American mail earner and two Mexi
cans. It is also reported that in the
running fight between the American
troops and the bandits, one American
soldier has been killed. It is unknown
how many of tin* bandits have been
VERDUN FRONT
LATEST SCENE
OF ACTIVITIES
PARIS, Dec. 27. — The Germans
made two attacks today and three
last night on the Verdun front east
of the Meuse river. The official state
ment today says that once the Ger
mans reached the French lines bet
were driven out with heavy losses and
• leaving many soldiers who were taken
! prisoners.
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CHILDREN OF CATHOLIC
SENDAY SCHOOL TO HAVE
XMAS PARTY TOMORROW
The Sunday school of the Catholic
church will hold their Christmas par
ty tomorrow afternoon at 3 o’clock in
the Catholic Church hall. The little
ones invite all of their Seward friends
to attend.
ELEVEN PLANES
OF GERMANS IN
RAID HIT EARTH
ROME, Dec. 27. — British and Ital
ian aviators downed eleven Teuton
planes in a big aerial battle which de
veloped early this forenoon when the
Germans and Austrians attempted to
bomb Treviso from the air. Treviso
is sixteen miles north of Venice, one
of the present goals of the Teuton
forces in the Italian campaign.
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WOULD ENLARGE CABINET
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27. — Crea
tion of a Department of Fisheries with
Cabinet status and with the Shipping
Board reorganized as one of its bu
reaus—that of merchant marine—is
proposed in a bill introduced by Re
presentative Walsh, of Massachusetts.
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Duty is an alarm clock, but it isn’t
1 always guaranteed to make us rise to
:he occasion.
ALAMEDA NOW
ON WAY NORTH
SEATTLE, Dec. 27. — Steamer
Alameda sailed for Seward and way
ports in Southeastern and Southwest
ern Alaska at nine o’clock this morn
ing with a large list of passengers, a
heavy cargo of freight and a great
quantity of mail and express matter.
The following were the passengers
sailing from here for Seward: Miss
L. Welch; Miss S. Degree; Louise
Lacy; Mrs. George I^acy; George
Wause; W. H. James and B. B. Green.
SOCIALISTS OF
HUN MINORITY
l UNDER ARREST
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LONDON, Doc. 27. — Over three
: hundred members of the German mi
nority, the Socialist party, are report
j ed to have been arrested Christmas
Eve in Berlin. This is the report re
ceived here late this afternoon from
' Zurich and no further particulars.
KAISER'S TRAIN
NEAR VICTIM
GENEVA, Dec. 27. — The Kaisers
special train left the Mannheim sta
tion Christmas forenoon one hour be
fore British airmen partly wrecked
the station. The Kaiser was return-1
ing from a visit to the Verdun front. |
This is an official announcement re- j
eeived here.
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FIRE BOYS TO MEET
TOMORROW EVENING I
Chief Strejc announced this after
noon that a meeting of the Fire boysj
will be held tomorrow evening at the 1
Fire Hall at 8 o’clock. Citizens i:t
general are also invited. There will
be a buffet luncheon and nuf sed.
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VESSELS’ CREW ARE TO BE
UNDER MILITARY RULE!
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27. — Legis-j
lation bringing the crews of trails-;
ports, mine layers and other army!
vessels into the military service is!
recommended by Quartermaster Gen-'
eral Sharpe in his annual report filed
with Congress.
TEUTONS ACCEPT RUSS PEACE TERMS
—
GERMANS ANNOUNCE
THAT RUSS TERMS
ALSO FOR ENTENTES
PARIS, Dec. 27.—The Austro-Hungarian Foreign
Minister Czernin officially issued a statement today, ac
cording to authentic advices, at the conference at Brest
Litovsk, virtually declaring that the Teutons agree to ac
cept all of the demands made by the Russians for peace.
There is a proviso however that the peace terms will be
accepted if Russia’s allies recognize them and carry them
out honestly towards ultimate peace as provided in Ger
many’s proposal that the world struggle cease without
forciful annexation and indemnities. Foreign Minister
Czernin announced that these terms are agreeable to the
Central Powers and Germany and Austria-Hungary and
the Teuton’s allies, will conclude peace immediately on con
ditions equally just to all belligerents. In return for this I
peace agreement Germany asks that all colonies lost are
included as essential parts of Germany.
LONDON. Dec. 27.—The British government has re
ceived no official announcement regarding terms of peace
as indicated in the dispatch from Paris.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 27.—Nothing is officially
known here of any direct peace offer made by the people
of Germany.
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MEANS FREED
OF A CHARGE
OF A MURDER
CONCORD, N. C., Dec. 27.—Gaston
Bullock Means, charged with the mur
der of Maude A. King, a wealthy wi
dow, last July, has been acquitted of
the charge. The jury returned a ver
dict, having been out two hours.
The trial attracted unusual atten
tion from the fact that Means admit
ted on the stand that ho had been em
ployed by a detective company of Ger
man clientage to help stir up trouble
in Mexico against the United States.
Means was the business adviser for
Mrs. King. The attempt w’as made
by the prosecution to show that Means,
kept her practically a prisoner and
was scheming to break the will of her
deceased husband wiio left a good
part of his fortune to chanty. On the
day of the tragedy, Mrs. King accom
panied Means and friends to a target
range. He said he had placed the
pistol in the forks of a tree, heard a
shot, turned around and found Mrs.
King had shot herself. The location
of the bullet near the back of the
head caused physicians to declare that
the shot could not have been self-in
flicted. The friends who were near!
also heard the shot and was told the
same story by Means.
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GOETHALS OFFERED POST
QUARTERMASTER GENERAL
Jl
WASHINGTON, I). C. Dec. 27. —
Gen. Goethals w*as today offered the
post of quartermaster general by the
President.
HUNDREDS ARE
SIGHTLESS IN
HALIFAX CITY
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HALIFAX, Dec. 27. — The govern-!
ment Relief Committee today issued a
statement that there are live bundled
blinded in this city by the reccn* ey
plosion.
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BOSTON, Dec. 27. — The moat I
authe* \ information of the great
misfortune to the people of Halifax
comes iircct from American repre
sentatives who send facts by mail
here. The Canadian authorities, foi j
some unknown reason, are suppress-;
ing the actual facts and Canadian pa-,
pers throughout the Dominion arc* on
ly allowed to print articles whLh have ■
been censoied by government officials i
The announcement today fvon’ Ha!i-|
fax about the victims being blinde 1 isj
believed to be far short of the actual \
number.
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MINKS TO BE GUARDED
GLOUSTER, 0., Dec. 27. — Armed!
guards will be placed at all the mines
throughout the Sunday Creek Valley
in the anticipation of an attempt by.
Industrial Workers of the World to
curtail the coal supply of the state
by blowing up some of the mines.
Four Hungarians employed at the
Modoc mines are confined in the coun
ty jail for threatening to blow up the
mine, and one Russian has been killed
during the past week for making
treasonable utterances.
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ALL RAILROADS Of
IHEi NATION ARE
COMMANDEER I
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.—The United States govern
ment will take over and operate the railroads throughout
the nation beginning tomorrow at noon.
Secretary of the United States Treasury, William A.
McAdoo, will be the director general of the Federal Rail
way System.
The above two announcements were officially made
this morning and created the greatest stir in financial
circles that has been caused since the declaration of war
with Germany.
Secretary McAdoo will not resign from the Presi
den’t cabinet but will remain head of the Treasury Depart
ment as well as assuming the extra duties of being head
of the railroads of the United States.
One of the first acts following the taking over of the
country’s railroads will be the reduction of the large sal
aries paid to the railway executives and a increase in the
wages of the workers.
President Wilson will immediately ask Congress for
the appropriation of a large fund, probably $200,000,000,
for immediate use to supply rolling stock to handle the
food traffic. The food traffic now swamps the railroads.
Director General McAdoo this afternoon declined to
make any statement whether the United States govern
ment would operate the express companies or not.
The securities issued while the government is in con
trol of the railroads will be not less than four per ceiu.
and all dividends over this amount will be agreed upon as
government profit.
STOCK TAKES GREA T SHOOT UPWARDS
NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—Railroad, steel and other
stocks soared sharply this forenoon denoting the financial
communities satisfaction with President Wilson’s an
nouncement that the United States government would op
erate the railroads of this nation.
The commandeering of he railroads of the govern
ment and guarantees of earnings reflected on Wall street
by one of the most sensational advances in stocks seen in
years. Many of the railroad issues recently reached their
lowest levels in history but the receipt of the news of the
government’s action shot them up from five to eighteen
points above the low close of yesterday.
RAILROAD MEN PLEASED WITH ACTION OF U. S.
CHICAGO, Dec. 27.—The action of the United States
government in taking over the railroads of the country,
supplemented by the statement that high salaried officials
would be cut and the wages of workers raised, was ex
tremely pleasing to the chiefs of the four Brotherhoods
nowr in conference in this city. The chiefs of the Brother
hoods announced that their conference would immediate
ly end so as not to interfere with the government’s many
problems in commandeering of the railroad systems. “We
now realize,” said one official, “that the government will
be in absolute charge of the railroads and backed by the
armed forces of the country, there will be no strikes and
all wage questions will be settled by the government offic
ials without any unnecessary conferences. In fact the
railroad men of the United States are now a great part of
the wrar service of the nation and all individuals must im
mediately recognize this fact.”