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4 THE ALASKA EVENING POST
Volume \l Number 227. SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER li), 1917._Ten Cents the Copy
FOOD SHIPMENTS MAY
BE STOPPED UNTIL
EXPLANATION IS MADE
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(By Associated Press Dispatch)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18—Export of all foodstuffs
to Sweden may be stopped within a tew days lor all time,
m- at least until the Luxburg affair is smoothed over.
This is the general opinion in official circles hu e.
RUSSIANS BEGINNING TO FIGHT
(By Associated Press Dispatch)
BERLIN, Sept. 18.—Reports have ben received today
that the Russians have begun an offensive movement
against our German forces southeast ot Bukowina and
have obtained a big advantage near Solka. The battle ts
still in progress.
N ORWEGIANSHIPS LOStT
(By Associated Press Dispatch)
COPENHAGEN, Sept. 18. — According to Norwe
gian advices, twenty-one Norwegian ships with an aggre
gate of forty-one thousand tons, were lost through mines
and submarines during the month of August. Three sea
men were killed and five are missing.
RIOTING IN Bl'ENOS AIRES
(By Associated Press Dispatch)
BUENOS AIRES, Sept. 18. — Rioting which began
here yesterday in an anti-German demonstration contin
ued throughout the night and every German business
house and restaurant in the down-town district was
wrecked. The German Club and several other buildings
wer set on fire and seriously burned. The police fired
into the crowd, wounding seven rioters, three of them
probably fatally. Heavy forces of troops are guarding
the railroad over which Minister Luxburg is traveling.
ELEVEN AND HALF BILLIONS APPROPRIATED
(By Associated Press Dispatch)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18.—War credits, new bonds
and certificates, aggregating $11,538,000,000, were passed
bv the senate without a roll call cr dissenting voice. 1'he
measure has already passed the House, and is the largest
of its kind in the world’s history.
SOLDIERS’ AND SAILORS’ INSURANCE BILL
(By Associated Press Dispatch)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18. — President Wilson com
municated directly to the Senate leaders his wish, that the
soldiers’ and sailors’ insurance bill be acted upon before
the adjournment of congress, it is now practically cer
tain that his plan will he followed, but unless some agree
ment is reached to shorten the debate, plans for an ad
journment around October 1 will be seriously disar
ranged.
THREE GERMAN TOWNS CAPTURED BY RUSS
(By Associated Press Dispatch)
PETROGRAD, Sept. 18. — The Russians yesterday
defeated the Germans on the road to Pskoff, on the Riga
front, and occupied three towns formerly held by Ger
mans.
COPPER MARKET STIMULATED
(By Associated Press Dispatch)
NEW YORK, Sept. 18.—The purchase of 77,000,000
pounds of copper by the Allies was followed by a better
demand for this metal.
ARTILLERY JOINS EXPEDITIONARY ARMY
(By Associated Press Dispatch)
AMERICAN TRAINING CAMP IN FRANCE,
Sept. 18.—A large contingent of American artillery join
ed the expeditionary army and is training intensively un
der French instructors, using the latest French 75s and
howitzers.
HOLLAND NEGOTIATES*FOR FOOD SHIPMENTS
(By Asaociated Press Dispatch',
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18.—The Holland mission is
expected to present an offer of a large amount of tonnage
SELL COLONIES
TOJNGLAND
United States or Russia Are Not
Mentioned In the Proposed
Peace Plans
' WASHINGTON, Sept, is.—What
purports to be Germany’s peace terms,
; outlined to diplomats here,.provide the
restoration of Belgium and France, to
be paid for out of the sale of Ger
many’s colonies to Great Britain. Al
sace and Lorraine arc to be independ
ent states; Trieste is to be a free
port; Serbia and Rumania are to be
restored and become members of the
Balkan group; Turkey ami its status
are to be arbitrated; the seas are to
be free to all nations, and England is
to have control of the English chan
nel until the completion of the tun
nel between Dover and Calais.
No mention is made in the peace
proposal of the United States or Rus
sia.
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WILL SURRENDER
MEXICAN GOV'T.
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Villa Offers to Surrender to Mexican
Government at Any
Time
Mexico City, Sept. 18.—Villa, the
Mexican outlaw and leader of count
less revolutions, today sent a commu-1
mention to President Carranza offer
ing to surrender to the Mexican gov
ernment. He refuses to longer treat
with crime.
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TELEPHONE SERVICE
IN SEWARD HAS AGAIN
KEEN REST.MED
After midnight Monday evening
telephone aervice was resumed by the
Seward Light and Telephone Com
pany, after being out of commission
just one week. Considering the terri
ble damage done to apparatus by re
cent high water, the company and its
employees are to he congratulated
upon the speedy work accomplished
for which the consumers are very
grateful. The company are now com
bining their efforts to the electric de
partment and are doing all in their
power to re-establish this service,
which is sorely missed, but this is go
ing to he a long tedious job.
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The Methodist Ladies’ Aid Society
will meet at the Methodist parsonage
on Thursday at 2:30 p. m.
II. $. WARSHIPS
NEW WEAPONS
Specially Constructed to Fight Suhs
Are Said to he Very
Deadly
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18.—It is the
belief in official circles here that the
destruction of the six submarines re
ported recently which occurred oil' the
coast of France on the fifteenth inst..
was accomplished by the destroyers
convoying a fleet of American mer
chantmen which left an American
port a few days ago for England. The i
destroyers were equipped with the I
new submarine weapon specially con
structed for that purpose. The wea
pon referred to was only recently
perfected by the ordnance department
and it is said to be very deadly. Its
explosive and deadly power is said to
expand i*»wnward and cm ’estrov a
submarine several fathoms below the
surface of the water.
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BUILD FLUME
IS INTENTION
Committee l uvors Plan of City and
Commission Equally Sharing
Expense
The committee appointed by those
present at the meeting Monday night
in the interest of taking care of the
glacier stream, met, according t<<
schedule, with H. J. Weir, last even- j
ing. After spending some time in
careful planning and details the mat
ter of financing the project was tak
en up and the one finally agreed upon
by all, as the most feasible, was that
the Commission pay half of the cost
and the city pay the other half.
The plan for taking care of th<
water from the glacier has not been
definitely established but the general
opinion is to the effect that the best
and easiest means would be by flume.
This will be taken up in a few days
Now that a good start has been
made toward the eliminating of this
menace to the city, no let up for any
cause, will be considered by those on
the committeee or the citizens either,
for that matter, and efforts will be
put forth to an early solution of the
problem.
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An alarm of lire, sounded about
3:45 this afternoon, brought out the
fire department in a hurry. The fire
was of b'ttle account and was readily
I extinguished. It was in a small cabin
| at the rear of Urbach’s home.
for American coastwise trade in exchange for food ship
ments. Holand has had no American food for two months.
PORTUGAL IN STRIKE THROES
(By Associated Press Dispatch)
LISBON, Sept. 18.—Portugal has been in a state of
siege on account of the general strike at Allesbos and Lis
bon, and ordered closed. Several persons, including sol
diers, were wounded by bombs.
CO OPERATION OF ALLIED FLEETS IS DISCUSSED
(By Associated Press Dispatch)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18.—Co-operation of the Rus
sian navy with the allied fleets was discussed by the naval
commission from Russia, headed by Vice-Admiral Kolt
| sehak, when presented to Secretary Daniels today.
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SEWARD DUE FOR RIG
UILDING ROOM AND
MUCH PROSPERITY
“Seward’s growth cn a scale realized by few here at
present will begin next spring, with the completion of the
Turn r ain Arm section of the Government railroad,” said
John E. Ballaine this morning. He had just returned
from a trip into the interior of the Kenai peninsula, with
George Sexton, of Seward, and Messrs. Feitshans, Baird
and Klauber,the Los Angeles gentlemen who are accom
panying him on behalf of a group of Los Angeles capi
talists.
“I have been asked many times,” said Mr. Ballaine,
“what preparations are being: made to take'care of the
increased volume of business and the heavy travel that
will come to Seward after the completion of the Turnagain
Arm section of the Government railroad and the conse
quent beginning of through train service to and from Sew
ard and the interior.
“My answer to all such questions is that, among
other improvemnts, a modern fire-proof hotel costing
probably $200,000 will be ready for business, besides sev
eral modern apartment houses, and a concrete moving
picture theater.
“Many of the wholesale houses in Seattle and Tacoma
are preparing to put in warehouses or branches here, and
they will erect stores and other necessary buildings.
“Two additional cold storage plants are to be install
ed here, also, and numerous mining operators of the in
terior are getting ready to build homes in Seward and
move their families permanently to this place, instead of
keeping them in Seattle, as they do now. Among them is
Edward Ellis, president of the big mining companies in
the Cache Creek district.
“Some people in Seward have been restive because im
provements of that kind were not started a year or two
ago. But it would have been nothing less than criminal
folly to get up anything like a premature boom and bring
several thousand new people here before the country was
ready for them. Seward is one town in Alaska that never
had a boom anil never a relapse.
Its growth has been so substantial that all business
men here are doing a very profitable business and every
body has steady employment at big wages. That condi
tion, too, has been confined to a purely local field. With
the field widened and extended to a tributary country
100,000 times greater in area and resources, we do not
have to strain our imaginations to realize the certain de
velopments ahead. Our duties and obligations are in pro
portion.
“As soon as the railroad is prepared to deliver the
Matanuska coal and coke, and ores from the interior of
the Kenai peninsula, we should have a smelter on Resur
rection bay, and I am working with New York people on
that project. This will eventually be the central point
for all the smelting ores from the interior and from the
westward as far as Unalaska.
“As for towns in the interior along the railroad, we
of Seward must encourage their growth as much as we
encourage the growth of Seward. All of their business
will pass through Seward, and all of them will do business
with Seward.
“We must work for the upbuilding of all the interior,
because Seward’s permanent prosperity will go hand in
hand with the development of all Alaska. Every seaport
railroad terminal has abo'ut 25 per cent the total popu
lation of the country it serves. Seattle, Portland, San
Francisco and Los Angeles are illustrations. When there
are 100,000 people in the country tributary to the Gov
ernment railroad, we can count on a population of 25,000
j in Seward. That time will come, and much more, before
! very many in Seward now can realize it.’’