m CHES
Howard
Hamilton
Verithin Grutm
Full Line of Nugget
Goods
Special Order Work
Promptly Executed
(5)
C. E. ORLANDER
snvF.ssoK to!
GEORGE THE JEWELER
1,000 1,000 1,000
Pipes Pipes Pipes
at the key
With every 7.V pipe soM we
pive cun or lx>\ of tobucco fiee.
A La’^e Assortment
Real Values
THE KEY
PHONE MATHISON 115
Stationery
PAPER IN BOXES
Tablets Envelopes
Peas Pencils
Ink Mucilage
Library Paste Paper Clips
Memo Books Paper Files
In fact everything in the Sta
tionery line, also a big line
of School Supplies
SEWARD DRUG CO.
PROFESSIONAL
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DR. O. J. KEATING
Dentist
Office over Bank of Seward
Hours: 9 a. in. to 5 p. m.
Phones:
Office, Mad. 76 Ree., Mad. 68
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J. H. ROMIG, ML D.
Office on Broadway
Residence Third Ave.
Phones: Office, Adams 93; Resi
dence, Adams 48.
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I L. R. C. P. & L. R. C. S. Edinburgh
j L. F. P. & S., Glasgow.
J M. SLOAN, M. D„ C. M.
Van Gilder Building
Office hours: 1 to 3 and 7 to 8 p. m.
Formerly of Nome.
Charley the Tailor
Next to Alaska S. S. Co.
CLEANING
PRESSING
REPAIRING
Work Called for and Delivered
Suits Made to Order
Telephone—Adams 66
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Seward
% | | Geo. A. Mitchell
\jf*f I I Proprietor
Open Day and Nisrht
Phone Adams 119
Service-Cleanliness
Private Boxee for Ladles er Parti t
HIS SCHEME
•‘You said Noknyne was a grafter;
but lie paid me ilial twenty-live tie
owed me last night.”
“Klne; then yon ean lend me five.’’
•Vtui't. Noknyne h »rrn'M-d rti’ty tins
i»>«*dlig '*
Mrs. Harry Whittemore yesterday
afternoon christened her newly ar
ranged apartments in the Hotel Over
land by giving a Valentine’s luncheon
to the Misses Romig, Leslie, Cooper,
Rich and Shea. Harry Whittemoio
ha> been diligently and artistically at
work for several weeks fixing up the
apartments which consist of a kitchen
ette and dining loom.
WEATHER ON R. R.
It was 6 degrees below zero at An
chorage this morning at 7 o’clock, fog
gy with a wind from the Southeast.
Other reports from places along the
railroad regarding today’s weather
art? as follows:
Girdwood. 4 below, foggy, calm.
Matanuska. 20 below, clear, calm.
King, 28 above, clear, N. E.
Talkeetna, 18 below, clear, calm.
Dead horse, zero, clear, calm.
The Independent
Wood Company
delivers finest second growth
spruce wood cut any length and
split to suit you for $6.50 per
two rick cord. Guaranteed full
measurement. Orders taken at
Taylor’s City Express office.
Phone Main 122.
Clearing Out Sale
IRISH LINEN WRITING
TABLETS. 15c and 201
SCHOOL TABLETS
2 for 15c
THE BAZAAR j
'
ANTON JOHANSEN I
Seldovia, Alaska
First-class merchandise at rea
sonable prices, prompt service.
CHARLES CRAWFORD
GENERAL BLACKSMITH
Horseshoeing Wheelwrighting
SEWARD. ALASKA
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FRATERNAL
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L. 0. 0. M, No. 1425
Meets every Tuesday 8 P.M., at
A. B. Hall. Visiting Brothers
Invited.
M. A. HORNER, Dictator.
F. R. BIG FORD, Secretary.
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ODD FELLOWS
Resurrection Lodge No. 7
Meets 8 P. M. every Thursday
Visitors Welcome
P. H. Pederson John Noon
Noble Grand Secretary
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PIONEERS OF ALASKA
IGLOO NO. 9
meets on 2nd and 4th Saturday
each month, 8 p. Pioneer Hall
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The Carstens Packing Go.
Wholesale and Retail
Beef, Pork. Veal, Mutton, Poultry,
Lard, Hams and Bacon.
Butter and Eggs
Orders from the Westward and Cook
Inlet Given Careful Attention.
BROADWAY AVEL SEWARD
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INTERNED GERMAN
AMERICAN OFFICER
DENIES HE IS SPY
Thomas Helmuth Hitter, who was
vesper lay sentenced to Fort Douglas,
Utah, for internment for the remain
der of the war, for stealing certain
papers pertaining to Camp Lewis,
Wash., while not convicted as a spy is
believed to have been in the employ
of the German government. His ar
rest and the subsequent developments
only show how systematized the Ger
man spy working have been implant
ed in the United States. At the time
of Sergeant Major Hitter’s arrest in
Tacoma in the early pa»t of January,
be denied that he had been acting as
a spy for Germany. At that time he
made a long statement which is most
interesting.
Left Germnay When 17
“I was 17 when 1 left Germany and
you know the German government
doesn’t send out kids of 17 for spies.
“This country is suffering from the
same thing that England and Germany
suffered with the first year of the wa»*
—the spy scare. Every place they
turn they think they see a spy.”
Referring to his trouble* on the bo»
dor when he was arrested and charg
ed with desertion August ?, 1916, in
which case he was found guilty of ah
*et ce without leave and fined two
thirds of pay for three months, Hit
ter says :
leased mm, m*
“I had a fight with a fellow. Ho hit
me with rocks and daid me out for
two h >U!S.”
“What was the trouble about?” he
was asked.
They were always teasing me ” re
plied Hitter.
“What do you mean by teasing.”
“They were always calling ni^ a
German and telling me I should go
back to Germany and join the German
army. On the other hand I had a let
ter from my mother in Germany in
which she said if I did not return to
Germany and light with the Gentian
army I was a traitor and a renegade.
Asserts His Loyalty
“I haven’t heard from my mother
since then. I wrote and told my moth
er never to write to me again.”
Ritter added: “If I get to go to
France with this division, as 1 hop" to
and get in front line trenches, I will
show them that I am loyal.
“If I should be captured by Ger
mans I would be shot as a traitor, and
now they are accusing me here of be-,
ing a spy.”
In connection with his being in San
Francisco where it was alleged he was
cared for by the German consul gen
eral, Franz Bopp, Hitter said:
“I lived in the Army and Navy Y.
M. C. A. No German consul ever took
care of me.”
Too Much Honor, He Says
Ritter pulled a newspaper clipping
from his pocket, announcing his ar
rest and called attention to the state
ment that he was closely related to a
German army general, Von Luhden
dorp.
“That is too much l oner onti °iy. |
You know he cotnos oi an o <1 a-isto-|
c»atic family, a family that dates back
for 800 years. That is entirely too
much honor for me.
“Another thing, the paper paid that
I came into possession of a military
secret which the commander and the
chief of staff and myself alone knew
about. Who am I—the assistant chief
cf staff 7 They flatter me.
“The paper said I was in charge of
the distribution of papers and corres
pondence. That is not so.”
Ritter, in telling of his troubles in
the army, told how he has been trans
ferred from one emopany to another
until he fo.;nd one tiiat pleased.
He could not get along with the men
he said, but his promotion was rapid.
From first-class private he climbed to
sergeant major, when he wanted to
transfer back to the command of
Lieut. Col. Smith, of the One Hundred
and Sixty-sixth depot brigade.
Asked About Working Evenings
He was arrested on December 14
and after arrest and while in the
guard house, a lieutenant of military
police said:
“Ritter, you are an educated man.
Now you sit down and think real bard
and see if you can't tell who you sus
pect."
“That's putting it up to a man
pretty hard," said Ritter. “He ques
tioned. me about working around the
building two evenings. I did. There
were always others around—-clerks,
stenographer, orderlies, officers and
janitors."
Has Uncle in Tacomr.
“Who should I suspect? I merely
had charge of making out ihe monthly
report:.''
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Ritter stated he has an uncle, Orcar
Nuhn, 3001 Twenty-fourth street, Ta
coma, and another uncle, Aithur E. J.
Nuhn, in Chicago, a business man.
I.i*ter said he landed in New York
April 27, 1913, and was 20 years old.
lie remained in New Yorp over night,
stopping at the Arlington hotel.
It had been his intention, he said,
to ob*ain a position in New York C’ty
in a hank conducted by Fleitmatin &
Co. He couldn’t make the connection
anl t'.e next day he went to Chicago,
where he took out his first pi.pers,
stu* .ng he was 21, and enlisted.
Enlists In Array
On May 6, 1913, he went to the
Jefferson barracks, where he was as
signed to the Twenty-seventh inf in
try. He went to the Phillipine isl
i ands on June (5, 1913, with the Second
field artillery and sailed with that or
ganizati >n from San Francisco on the
United States transport Logan on
July 5, 1913.
He arrived in the Philippine inlands
August 2, 1913. He purchased a dis
charge January 8, 1915, and sailed
hack to San Francisco on the Logan,
| anding there February 12, 1915.
On February 11H 1915, ie re-enlist
a
ed and was assigned to the Four
I teonth Infantry stationed at Fo*t:
I Lawton, and left there May 10, 1910
for the Mexican border, reaching
Douglas, Ariz., on May 1G, 1916.
j He stands squarely, talks straight
forwaid ar.d creates the impression
| that he is above the average in intel
ligence. When he left Germany at
rbe age of 17 he went with the firm
of Carl Voebicke & Co., in German
East Africa, importing and exporting,
i to study.
“My father died when I was 3
j months old,” he said.
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OVER MILLION
WOMEN ENGAGE
IN INDUSTRIES
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14. — There
are approximately 1,206,061 women
in ihe United States engaged in in
dustrial work which is either directly
or indirectly necessaiy to carry on the |
war, according to an estimate based
on surveys made in 15 Slates lor the
National League of Women's Service
by Miss Marie L. Obenauer with the
sanction and assistance of the He
- |
partment of Labor.
“These million and more women,”
said Miss Obenauer, “are in the front i
rank of the industrial army of de-,
fensc. They are the important women !
of the Nation. Hands do not play in
their honor; they do not wear pictur
esque uniforms; yet in the business of
winning the war it is as recess ary to
protect their working efliciency as to
safeguard the fighting efficiency of;
the men on the firing lino.”
Figures are Conservative
The figures given are conservative,!
Miss Obenauer states. It is estimated
that the normal increase in Ihe num
ber of women employed in the indus
tries surveyed since the census of 1910
was 20 per cent. There were approxi
mately 3,500 women employed in ihe
munition factories in 1910. The num
ber is now 100,000, according to Mtesj
Obenauer. This again, she states, is
a conservative estimate. She includes
aeroplanes wrhen speaking ol muni
tion factories.
“The thing our survey impressed
upon us,” said Miss Obenauer, “is
that woman can not escape her world
old job—the job of feeding and cloth
ing. She finds this to be her job out
side as well as in the home if she is
to be an important factor in winning
the war.
Community Sewing Places.
“She longs to do her bit in pictur
esque fashion, but she is needed most
for the work which she considers more
or lesr drudgery because it lias been
her work through the ages. The wo
men employed in the industries nec
essary to the winning of the w*ar are,
for the most part, weaving, sewing
and preserving food.”
Miss Obenauer suggests, as a way
to help relieve the clothing shortage
in the Army, the establishment of
community sowing places under Gov
ernment supervision.
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Beauty is as beauty does. Even the
pie-faced girl may have plenty of
dough.
HOTEL OVERLAN I
HARRY WHITTEMORE, I.eoHce and Manager.
Headquarters for Mining Men
SEWARD, - • - ALASKA
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ALASKA TRANSFER
H. V. HOBEN, Manager
Coal, Wood and Ice
General Transfe-' Phones, Main 17 and 81
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Office—Bank of Seward Building
SOWARD ALASKA
Attention MusHers!
THE GLACIER BAR, at Girdwood
. is a Restaurant and Pool Hall. Meals are to be
had from 5 a. m., until 10:00 p. m. Good
Spring Beds—Horse and Dog Stables
Hitchcock & Hachey, Props.
I’D rather meet a vish’us
dawg than a grouchy
man. You c’n
muzzle the dawg.
Some smokin’ to
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