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SEWARD, ALASKA. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1918. TEN CENTS PER COP
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COBLENZ, Dec., 13— The American Army has en ,
tered Germanv and halted at the Rhine. From Andernac.
northwest to the British lines, the Americans now holt
the west hank of the Rhine. It is expected that the nunc
meat across the Rhine will lie started within se\eiul dajs
A small detachment of American soldiers entem
Ehrenh; eitsstein across the river from here this after- j
noon. . . ...
A woman, from a window, threw an emptj hot Jo . .
an Amei ican soldier but the incident isregarded as ti »'iu
and this has been the only act of hostility >ince the Amet
icans arrived. „ . T
The civilians believe that the Americans will dea
--. : icatel than did the French and British. The pop
illation however is not showing deep respect to the Amen-1
cans.
YIOIISTICE CURED SHELL SHOCKS.
WASHINGTON, Dec., 13— Surgeon General Ireland
announced today that the news of the signing of the arm
2000 mericans in France, suffering
from slu-ii shock.
SHU’S RELEASED FOR TRADE ROUTES.
WASHINGTON. Dec., 13— Eight hundred thousand
p • > of shipping were released today by the Army Depart
ment to the Shipping Board for return to trade routes.
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ttl'EXOb AIRES, Dec., Id— (Cor
respondence oi ine As.ociatod I'.’ess*
. —.-vrgencut a has laKen the lead o
an »i*o*t to persuade the Soutii Am
erican repub.its to tear down thet *
t^riii wads and open themselves to
free Uade among Uiemseives, uigu
. ing tnai suih acton would make then*
com me i e ml ty independent of othe*
countries in Euiope and North Amer
ica. 'I his step has been taken in spite
« of tile fact that until now' the Argen
tine's principal source of revenue hai
been its customs houses.
lo >how its sincerity , the Argen
tine Government has introduced a bill
in Congress providing for the opening
of diplomatic negotiations with all the
neighboring countries for the adopt
ion of treaties providing for the free j
• exchange of the products of each!
country concerned.
if the desire of Argentina is to iv
, move the fiscal barriers which in the
past have estranged the nations of
♦ ath America and restricted com
merce between them, making them de
pendent on overseas nations.
A years’ trial of free trade with
Peru has led Aigentina to seek similai
arrangem< nts with the other repub
lics. The Peruvian legation in Buenos
Aires and the Argentine consulate in
Lima have acted as commercial agents
for their n spective countries with the
result that today there is a regular
trade of wheat, flour and cereals to
Peru in exchange for cotton, rice and
sugar from Peru.
it is expected that Chile will be the
next republic to ratify a free trade
treaty.
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FIRE STARTS IN REAR OF
SEWARD’S ONLY BAKE SHOP
A fire started in the rear of the
Seward Bakery last night at 11:15
o’clock but was quickly extinguished
by Fire Chief Guest and the members
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, of the tire Department answering!
the alarm. George Schmitt, owner c* ’
the bakery, just before retiring la^t
night heard a.crackling. Schmitt lives
over the bakery. Going downstairs,
Schmitt went to the rear of the.bxk
• cry, in the wood room, and noticed
‘ flames eating their way along the
I partition. He went to the phone send
’ -ng in the alarm to central. The fire
1 lull soon sounded and the department
' was on the job in short time, th<
, flames being quickly extinguished t’.
the chemical. A spaik must have lodg
I ed sometime and fanned itself into ^
| flam.- for there is no stove near th*
! place where the fire started. Mi j
| Schmitt thanks the Department foi j
their quick and efficient work. The (
am age done was slight.
A second spark started anothej
b'aze near the same place at the rear
of the bakery at *1 :H0 o’clock this
morning. The alarm was sounded and j
the little blaze extinguished. This j
time the rear of the bakery was giv- |
n a good drenching with water.
NOTICE TO FIREMAN.
Before firemen go home after a fire
they must sign and then be released.
(Signed) Robert Guest,
Fir*' Chief.
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CHVRGK OF MASQUERADE
FOR FIREMEN NAMED.
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The following are the committee,
appointed to have charge of the Fire
men’s masquerade ball at the A. B.
Hall New Year’s Eve:
Soliciting prizes— Joe Strejc, Car!
Almy and John Sullivan.
General Finance— C. A. Estes, Ol
in Rothfus and Fire Chief Guest. *
Refreshments— Julian Reed. A. H.
L Myers and Charles Cooper.
Decorations— All members of the
Fire Department.
SWORD OF HONOR FOR
FOCH TO COST $4000.
PARIS, Dec., in— It’s going to
'ost Paris about $4,000 to give Mav
-hal Fock the sword of honor the
municipal council has voted him. A
competition has been arranged among
irtists for a design. The designers of
th<* first ten models in order of merit
will each be awarded a prize of $200.
Then the sword will cost about as
, much as the artists get.
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OLE JUST “MUSH ON”
| EDITOR OF SEWARD GATEWAY:
If memory serves us l ight we were
taught in the old schoolboy day* that
the people of the world were divided j
into three distinct rni.es the White or |
C iussasian Race, the b':ack or Negro !
Race and the Yellow or Mongolian
Race. Since those far fetched days
t tune, and customs have changed,
.some-what and in the light of recent
wov ds events it would see that the
fellow Race should be enlarged a
east enough :.*) admit the Swede:-,
r.at is ii th:s may be done without
i fending the Chinks, which is doubt
ul fo«- the Swedes as a race nave am
ly u» monst » ed tliat for *h» yei
jwnc. .s they are entitled to be da*s*
il v ii! tin* yellowest of tV* yellow,
/or ;• Nation that ha* taken no a*'*
,v art in tne now ml but pa -sed
v. »■ ds war til* Swedes have r mergoc
i’li less credit than any race of poo
pic in the wo u! Their actims both a?
. nation and as individuals have been
ontemptable to the extreme. As a
icufral nation they have at all timer
tun with the hare and made up with
.he Rounds.** They have truckled to
i /-u rnany when it lo/: ed as though the
tar of the Central Powers were on
.lie ascendent. And now when the Civ
ilized people of the world have at la*
ut their stride and the Kurs of kul
.ui’ are hurled back to their de
generate dens, and iorced to diain tin
jitter dregs of defeat, the artfui
squarehead is up on his hind leg
weering for the Alliea.
lheie lias been no country in me
world where the Swede has beiri so
well treated as in Alaska. He has en
joyed all of the privileges of a most
.ueial form of Government. All raili
ng ground , all fishing rights and in
.act all of the rights and perquisite
I jf the American born have . been
| thrown open to him. He has had op
' portunitics and has prospered as nev
t er before in the history of his race.
On our Government Railroad and in
fact upon all Public works he has been
employed and treated as an equal, anu
.chat has been his answer when Un
cle Sam called on all loyal citizens fo.
their help in this, the worlds struggle
t)id he fall into the line with
who Yanks, the Canadians, the Serbs
whe Scotch, and the Irish, and helpe'.
-0 pay for some of the privileges tha. |
have been handed to him on a silve.
flatter? Nay, Nay, Not for Olo. Hi?
contributions to the Red Cross havt
' iad to be choked out of him; on \ya.
| Savings Stamps he has been a fros.
j and on Liberty Loans, Ole has been «
t joke and a ghastly joke at that. Hi:
job had to be threatened before he
vvould loosen for*a dime and then li
was with grumbling and complaints
.hat he parted with a tenth part o
.vhat he should have willingly sub
! scribed, and when he was called upoi
to register for the draft, then it wa.1
f that the saffron* howl came from he
bottom of his yellow heart. He was a
Neutral, a Pacifist, an Alien, in faci
ic was anything that did not have te
light for the land that it made its liv
ing in, for the land that had made him
j independant, for the land that took
I this ignorant squarehead yokel from
j before the mast and put a bank ac
count in. his hand, presented him with
the right to vote, and even gave him
a jay in the government of the Lano
His appearance before the Exemption
Board was always the signal for
trouble. He was yellow in almost ev
J ?ry instance, he was blind, couldn’t
j hea *, had a limp, in fact developed all
of the ills that would place him in the
fifth class and then failing to cheat
| his way past the Board, he would sur
render his first papers and revert to
- virgin Swededom, become an Alien
and thus not subject to the draft. And
: able to go back and take the job that
. the young manhood of America was
fighting to make safe for him.
; A bird that fouls its own nest is ]
i not much of a bird and a bird that will
, not fight to defend that nest is not
: worthy of having a nest. A Country j
, 1 that is not good enough to make a
living in, is a country that is worth |
; fighting for and a manv that will not
■ go to the mat for his home when that
home needs him is a poor citizen.
Alaskans as a class are a tolerant
: people. In the past they have stood
for a great deal and doubtless in the
future they will have to stand for a
great deal more. However there are
some things that they are tired of and
that they will not stand for any long
er, and one of them is Ole, the \ellow
He don’t belong here. He has been
treated right, been treated as an equal
given every chance and when the acid
test came, he was lacking. In the:
language of the North, He’s not there.!
He won’t fuse he won’t amalgamate,
he simply don’t belong and has prov
en that he was not worthy of a place
imong the people of the North. We
lon't need him nor his breed. In the;
future of Alaska and it is going toj
have a great future, the men who
hav1* the big jobs to do, the mca who I
are in position to employ a great
nanv men will take care to see that
the pay roll that they sign docs not
bear the name of one of the newest
Yellow Race and they will also see
that Ole never again becomes a cog in
>ur industrial scheme, where a white
man could be used.
If all of Alaska would simply
dand pat on this it would only be a
short time until the Swede would have
to emigrate back to the Land that
bred him, back to the Land that he de
serted, back to where gratitude is
•i lost virtue, to where loyalty to a
home is not known and to where the
hand that feeds you is entitled to
no more consideration than a bite and
believe me, if half we hoar is true,
Alaska is going to stand pat on just
this one thing. Mush on Ole, mush on.
(Signed) An Alaskan.
While the Editor believes that ther“
is much truth in the above, and the
reasoning is logical in the main, we
must not forget that we do have
some loyal Swedish people. This class
will only applaud the sentiment of the
above communication, knowing that it 1
is true and the “yellow Swede” is
getting just what is coming to him.
Various registration clerks through
out the territory as well as clerks in
the states, reported that the armistice
was signed there was a sudden impet
us of Swedes in registrating for the
draft, 19 to 45. This class in general
met the clerk with the announce ment:
“that ay bane dam good Merican sat-1
azan but yust got round to basiness of
registration,” meaning that when all
possible danger was over , they were
yelling like a Comanche Indian for the
Stars and Stripes and Uncle Sam, yet
wringing the neck of the eagle on the
coin of the t realm in their pocke
afraid the coin will he squaked loose
from their possession for thrift stamp
The United States government should !
take cognizance of the “man without ;
a country,” pack them up bag and
baggage, clothe them in the rags they i
wore when they came to this country I
urn their money into the Red Cross
fund, and send them back nearly pen
niless, the same way as they landed
n the land of Freedom, to their own
Sweden. The Editor doubts if the loy
al Swedes in the United States or
Vlaska, have any more use for then
/ellow kind than the real American
has for the I. W. W., or the harangu
ng soap box orator who yells “down
with the government.” Also the Swede
who volunteered or answered the cal)
when drafted may yet meet up with
his “man without a country” and
there may be a short war and no ar
rests.
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j * WEATHER REPOBT
The following is the weather re
port for the 24 hours end at 7 o’clock
this morning:
Seward, 10 above, clear, calm.
Kerncreek, 10 below, foggy, calm,
j Chickaloon, 10 below, clear, calm.
Matanuska, 22 below, clear, calm.
Montana 30 below, clear, calm.
Anchorage, 15 below, cloudy, calm.
COLOR DENOTES THE PARTY
IN POLITICS IN MEXICO.
! JUAREZ, MEX., Dec., 13— Elect
ions have their color schemes in Mex
ico. Organizations are named for one
of the primary colors. The red, white
and grec of the Mexican tricolor are
the most popular. Just now an excit
ing city election is in progress with
the parti si ans wearing red and green
ribbons to show their political align
ment,
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BREST, FRANCE, Dec., 13— President Woodrov.
Wilson of the United States, reached the harbor this after
noon at 1:30 o’clock and landed within an hour. President
Wilson is the first American Chief Executive to trod
European soil.
The arrival was the culmination of an imposing naval
spectacle which began as the Transport George W. .dung
eon and convoys rounded the outer capes and until they
anchored at the head of a long double line of American
jattleships. All battleships let out their cannonading as
.:he President left in his launch fen1 the shore.
Thousands cheered and the "Star Spangled Banne1'
>vas played by the band. Commander Pershing, Ambassa
dor Sharp, Col. House, Major Gen Bliss, French Foreign
Minister Pichon and others went aboard the George \\ ash
.ngton to greet the President. Mrs Wilson, when she came
ashore, carried a large bouquet made to represent an
American flag.
As the launch of President Wilson neared .ih< shore,
all guns of the French forts overlooking the harbor fired
round after round of salutes. The American battleships
answered every shot.
President Wilson’s daughter Margaret, went aboard
the transport and returned to shore with her father.
Where President Wilson landed was a huge reprn
luction of the statue of Liberty.
President Wilson delivered a breif address when he
jame ashore thanking the Mayor for the Brest welcome.
A drive through a frantic cheering crowd was made
o the station and the Presidential party left for Paris.
Nearly fifty French and American warships are in
he harbor.
CAPITAL SHIPS OF THE AMERICAN
NAVY TO RETURN TO UNITED STATES
ABOUT LATTER OF PRESENT MONTH.
WASHINGTON, Dec., 13— Secretary of the Navy
Caniels announced today that every capital ship in the
American navy, now in European waters, icluding t rca :
ought squardons, are to return home this month. It is ex
acted that the vessels will arrive about two days before
Christmas and a review will be held to celebrate the re
turn.
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IORE LIGHT IS SHOWN UPON GERMANY
AND PROPAGANDA TESTIMONY IS GIVEN.
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WASHINGTON, Dec., 13- Captain Lester, of the
Jnited States Army Intelligence service, told the Senate
•ommittee this afternoon, that on July 10th, 1914, Ger
nany notified 130 German civilian employees in Berlin,
hat a world war was soon to be started. Germany dispat •
jhed these paid men to all parts of the world, thirty one
joining to the United States to spread Pan-German pro
| poganda.
Capt. Lester stated that Edward L. Yell Fox, a writ
| jr, was sent to Germany by the German Embassy to write
| up German propoganda which was distributed by Hearst's
; international News Service throughout the United States.
1 Capt. Lester said that Fox was told not to go to Berlin if
Hearst knew that he was also to be in the employ of the
unperial German government.
: AMERICAN SQUADRON ARRIVES AT THE
AUSTRAIN NAVAL BASE ON ADRIATIC.
AMSTERDAM, Dec., 18— An American squadron
| arrived today at Pola, formerly the Austrian naval base
i on the Adriatic Sea. The Americans assumed command al
so at the port of Jugoslay. War vessels in both harbors
hoisted the American flag.
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HAS CHARGE OF ALL CABLE SYSTEMS
NEW YORK, Dec., 13— President Carlton, of tho
Western Union, was today placed in charge of all marine
and cable systems of the United States by Burleson.
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KAISER NOW AFRAID OF ASSASSINATION.
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LONDON, Dec., 13— It is reported here that a score
of former imperial German detectives of Potsdam are
with the former Kaiser who fears assassination. The for
1 mer Hun ruler always carries a small revolver.