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_«T I r I «■ I- - 11 7^inTA UASKA. MONDAY,"FEBRUARY 247 1919. __ "*f^?*!L**?
VOLUME XII. NUMBER 223. ^__”"'UW| r __—- - - • ■ ■ • - ■ ■ ———
CHEAP FUEL
PROMIS
FISHING
BOATS
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Cheap fuel for the Alaska fishing
fleet making Seward the headquarters
or the scores of gasboats calling here
to dispose of their catch is certain for
this coming season.
Several weeks ago, J. L. (»raef,
chairman of the oil committee of the
Seward Chamber of Commerce, wrote
to the Standard Oil Co., in Seattle,
requesting that the company erect a
tank at this port.
In the mail on the Alameda the fol
lowing letter was received by Mr.,
Graef from John McLean, district
Sales Manager, of Seattle:
“Replying to your letter in regard
to the establishment of a plant at
your station- This matter has been
taken up and we are now arranging
for boat delivery there, which will
preclude the possibility of building
within the next twelve months/’
This is taken to mean that oil tank
ers will call here with drums during
the coming season and the fishing
boat' will be able to purchase all fuel
supplies here at any time. Next aeasor
the Standard Oil Company will pro
bably erect a large tank.
For several years Seward has been
trying to obtain some fuel concession
from the Standard Oil Co., but owing
j to the war, the scarcity of tankers,
because they had been commandeered
by the government, the company wa
unable to do anything. This season, as
indicated bv the letter, fuel will be de
livered here by tankers or other oil
steamers.
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CRUISER VICKSBURG WILL
BE STATIONED ON ALASKA
COAST DURING THE SUMMER
The patrol of Alaskan waters next
summer will be performed by the
cruiser Vicksburg and a flotilla of
submarine chaser? replacing the coast
gua^d cutters.
The patrol will begin next month ac
cording to advices reaching Seward
today.
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By Associated Press
LONDON, Feb.. 24— Premier Lloyd
George introduced a bill today lor :\
committee to investigate the condit
ions of the coal industry. ‘'Investiga
tion must be made in many matters."
said Premier, “as this nation is fuccd
with the prospect of civil strife.”
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ARE TO ATTACK
OWNERSHIP BY
THE GOVERNMENT
WASHINGTON, Feb., 24— The
House Rules committee is to propose
' the right-of-way for action on th'' re
I solution ending government control or
| the Telephone and Telegraph systems
by December 20th, this- week.
The committee has also approved
time for considering Secretary Lane’s
bill for reclamation land for settlc
j ment by discharged soldiers and sail
ors and a bill creating a civ;l service
retirement fund.
•A _
ANCHORAGE MAN
TAKES DOG OFF
! TO WAR- RETURNS
i
Walter C. Blanton, who arrived on
the Alameda and left yesterday for
his home at Anchorage, is the first ■
nan to reach Seward from “over- j
there.” Mr. Blanton was in the aviV
ion corps in France and on the front
and owinp to illness was one of the
firs1 men to he sent home.
Aside from this fact there is an- i
other interesting feature of his war
work. At Anchorage Mr. Blanton rais
ed a cocker spaniel. When he went to |
the states to enlist, Ihe dop went also, j
In the training camp, at the aviation
camp, was the dop, ripht at his ma * -,
er’s heels. In several flights, the dop
i was strapped to the seat. At the fron*
i the little black cocker spaniel kept (
with his master and when injuries
caused Mr. Blanton to be sent to the •
hospital, alonp went the dog. And tne
dog returned with Mr. Blanton and
now on his way to Anchorapc.
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WASHINGTON, Feb., 24— By A. P.
The bureau of mines reports that
American mine casualties last year
were 2,575 men killed, being somewhat
lets than in previous years.
MUST FIGHT BUREAUCRATES
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The Chamber of Commerces of Seward and Anchor
iage must not relax in the least in their etforts to secuie
, the completion of the Government Railroad venture be
tween Seward and Anchorage with a portion of the re
maining $4,000,000.
The citizens of the two towns must remember that V*.
1 A. Ryan said that the Alaskan Engineering Commission
had no intention of completing the Seward-Anchorage link
until after the venture had been extended to the interior.
This statement was made in view of the tact that for three
years Chairman Edes yearly made the statement that the
Seward division of the government venture would be com
pleted that year.'
The two Chamber of Commerces must aiso remembei
that W. A. Ryan stated at the meeting here that the Alas
kan Engineering Commission was “subservient to th.
President and the Secretary of the Interior.”
In other words there is no one connected with the A
i E C., who can say what will be done with the appropna-.
1 ion of $4,000,000 or that part that has not been used m a<,
vance, if any has. It is up to the President or the Secretar
of the Interior and the two Chamber of Commerces mus
keep pegging, pounding and plugging for their ngnt, a.
•hough as Mr. Ryan said: “This railway is not for yo
Alaskans, but for the 110,000,000 in the states.
Alaskans should now show Mr. Ryan and Ins bureau
cratic colleagues that Alaskans can fight for principle.-,
for without the Alaskans, the hardy prospector, then;
! would have been no need for this government venture am
the spending of $35,000,000.
LOSES HIS THREE
SON BY THE WAI
Mike Miller, one of the best known
chefs in this part of Alaska, returned
to Seward on the Alameda, to try to
forget the hard hand fate dealt hin.
by the war. Two days before the arm
isti *e was signed, two sons of Mr. Mi'
ler were killed at the front. Anothei
son returning on sick leave from the
fro it, died the day he arrived in New
York. When Mr. Miller went south
last fall he was proud of the fact that
his three boys were fighting the Hun
Mr. Miller is still proud of his boys,
now dead, but to have taken from him
his all at a time of life when he most
needed their comfort, is the hard
struggle the aged Alaskan must fight
and is fighting manfully.
A _
CO.’Pl.E WEDDED AT ONE
MINUTE AFTER MIDNIGHT
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In order that their wedding day
would not be on the 23rd. a reputed
skii’oo day, William H. Taulman and
Cl a.-a M. Halferty waited until one
min ite after midnight and then were
married by United States Commis
^ionrr Whittlesey today. The bride ar
rived on the Alameda from Portlane
i and the groom, who is lineman at Mile
, 71 c ame in last night. Mr. and Mrs.
Straughnn were the witnesses. Follow
ing the wedding the bridal party had
a luncheon.
Mr. an<l Mrs. Taulman have tho
BHdal suite at the Overland and will
. retivn to Mile 71 at the first favor
able opportunity.
INCOME TAX FORMS HERE
—
Roth the Harriman National Rank
and the Rank of Seward received
forms for income tax returns and
these can be obtained at either of the
banl>s by the eitlzeps.
RELATIVES
MASSACRED I
GOES GRAZ'S
War tragedies are coming closer to
aome every day. On the Alameda, ho
ng iaken to Fort Liscum, was Private
tSsse Abdouhmoir, U. S. A., stationed
it Seward. The young man, a Syrian,
struck by grief gradually lost hi
nind, as the result of the war, and
xill be taken to a United States hv
)ital for the insane.
Three weeks ago Private Abdouh
noir received a letter from his oniy
•cmaining relative, now in Detroit,
dating that his father, mother, si..
.eiv, little brothers and others near oi
rin had been massacred in most fiend
ish manner by the Turks. The blow
truck was a hard one, entire family,
;ith the exception of one brother, out
•ag d, then killed by the Unspeakable
Turk. His fellow comrades tried to
•on-fold him, but in vain, and gradual
ly bis mind gave way, and the pour
'ellow is now insane.
Privates G. S. Yen and Gros Drim
Ties acted as guards to the fort.
DAVIDSON DIES OF FLF
J. F. Davidson, traveling freight
\nd passenger agent of the Alaska
steamship, while aboard the steamer
Victoria, now bound from Seattle foi j
the Orient, died four days out from
Puget Sound of the influenza. This
wap the word received by Agent Mc
Donald on the Alameda. Mr. David
son had been with the Alaska Steam
ship Co., for a number of years and
-pent several weeks in Seward late
last summer.
By Associated Press
BOSTON, Feb. , 24— President
*Vo )«lro\v Wilson is today the guest of
hi city and the populace of Boston,
welled by thousands from all parts of
he New England states, gave the
Phi f Executive of the Nation a wei
ome which is said to have been char
acterized as demonstrative as any re
ceived abroad.
Hundreds of large and small boats
'sco> ted the Transport George Wash
ington into the harbor and as near a
uoss'ble to Commonwealth pier where
President Wilson and his p:.rty landed
at 11:42 o’clock this forenoi n from the
•utt r Ossipee which transferred them
ashore from the transport.
Thousands of persons lined the
dnvts or occupied the windows of
the buildings along the route of the
parade from the Pier to Mechanics
hall. The streets were gaily decorated
with bunting and flags, and bands
pla.-cd not only in the parade but were
stationed at various corners.
President Wilson made his address
n tho Mechanic hall and a special
train waited to leave for Washington
vit’1 the presidential party at 4:30 o -
"loch this afternoon.
Mayor Peters was master of the
wel ome ceremonies at the Pier and
the introduction at the Mechanics hall.
POSTON, Feb., 24— Early last
nig t, when the Transport George
Wn hington was running in a dense
PLOT TO
MURDER
Hv As-iocinted Tre««
N EW YORK, Feb., 24— Federal au
tho ities and secret service agents are
today examining the effects of 14
Spanish Industrial Workers of the
Wo Id arrested late yesterday on sr
>pinon of being connected with a plot
o -attempt to take President Wilson’s
life when he landed at Boston today.
It was also announced this after
noon that over 2,000 secret servic*
men and private detectives formed u
lino around President Wilson today in
Bo fon, or mingled in the crowds to
nre -ent any possible attempt to make
nn attack upon the President.
Secret service officials refuse !o
divulge anything regarding the plot.
FARRAGUT RUE TOMORROW
Steamer Admiral Farraput arrived
•xt Cordova this forenoon early and
\fr nt Wayne Blue expects the steam
to reach here sometime tomorro v
eov noon, bound west.
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fog, it was discovered that the big
craft was headed directly for Thach
er\s Island, off Cape Ann. Destroyers
gave the warning and the transport's
engines* were reversed suddenly, the
ship being stopped within 1000 yards
from the shore. Submarines and chas
ers then escorted the Transport the
remainder of the night and into the
harbor this morning.
RUSSIA IS CHAOTIC
BOSTON, Feb., 24— Ambassador
Francis, formerly of Russia, returning
from Russia aboard President Wil
son's ship, said this afternoon that the
Bolsheviki outrages in Central Russic.
and the northern provinces were in
' creditable. Ambassador Francis be
lieves that it will be impossible to re
store peace in Europe with the pres
ent chaos in Russia.
SUFFRAGETTES ARRESTED
BOSTON, FEB.. 24— Twenty-two
members of the National Women’s
Party were arrested in front of the
state house this afternoon. The women
were carrying suffrage banners and
when told to disperse, refused. The
police ran them in.
WIRELESS STATION SOLD
BOSTON, Feb., 24— Assistant Sec
retary of the Navy Roosevelt, arriv
, infc with President Wilson’s party an
nounced the sale of the LaFayettc
wireless station at Bordeaux to Fran
ce for $4,000,000.
Assistant Secretary Roosevelt also
announced the practical demobolizat
! ion of all four shore bases.
Europe and the Azores spent over
$20,000,000 dollars laying mine bar
rages against submarines in the north
Sea, said Mr. Roosevelt.
UNITED STATES TRUSTED
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
MECHANICS HALL, Boston, Jan.,
24— President Wilson arrived at this
’a’! this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, the
battery firing the Presidential salute.
Mayor Peters welcomed the Presi
! »e*it in the name of the city and Gov
[ >rnor Coolidge extended the greeting
of the state.
i President Wilson in his speech said:
j “The greatest thing that I have to re
I port to you is that this country is
trusted throughout the world. I do not
come to report progress of the Peace
Conference as that would be prema
ture. Men in the conference in Paris
realize they are but servants of their
people. No man dare go home from
the conference end report anything
less. We are hearing the whole caso
from those most interested. I hav'
.been struck by the moderation of
representing the national
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