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VOLUME XH.~NU.MBEB1*. SEWARD, ALASKA. -WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 15,l«l» =^=^=================---.-==^= CENTS PER COPY
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K\ V*socialed Pres*
PARIS. Jan.. 1"»— Greece today
formally aT-ced the peace conference
delegate* for Kpi and [Trace, .uth
out Constantinople. The request says
that IJO.tKO Greek' live in Kpi ius.
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\1.\SK\ FOR FILINt! NOTICES
Cungres has pas>cd Joint Resolut
ion Ts extending the time on claims in ,
Atari i foi.i< • • n*net y •
This infoimation was receive*! in tV
last mail hy Judge Morford.
The original resolution it is under
stood. did not make specific mention
of Alaska, but Senator Henderson,
brought the matter up and secured a
special amendment “to provide that
the time for filing notices to ho’ I
said mining claims in the territory of
Alaska, under the re olution, be, an*i
the same is hereby extended to the Is:
day of Anri’. 1919."
TOVCIl ON THK TUMI.
Three feet of new snow fell during
the night at Mdc 4.'» and it blew like
a jimmy cane. The snow has drilt-d
to such an extent between Mile 4-» and
vii’o .">l since last Sunday that ’t
bo-n impossible to even keep the iloff
t«'am tmil open. A foot awl a hall of
nmv sno t fell <lurin>r ’he nisrht at Mil
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F\IM.OSlVE< REfll : VTION
H \VE BEEN REMOVE!'
p c. Sarsrer.t. ijovemment inspect
or of explosive*, with headquarters at
Cordova, has :ece;ved official notic
♦h:\* all explosives have Seen removed
hy the clenartment o* the inte i^r, en*
th*' articles may now he secured v "li
out the necessary formula of f:rst
curinir a license. Tlie notice of anr»’V
ment is from Clarence Hall, chief n\
plo'ive or"inee:* at Washington.
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SrC.llF^T^ KMM1N * r,o\
OF PROFIT? TAX ON GOMi
WASHINGTON. Jan., la— The
elimination of th* exces* profit* V'X
on "old production and the prr’df-r'
of free exports and of S.V* 4o ma’i'i
facturer*. n* a mean2 e^ stimulat re
f»oM production, hns he^n recomme^n
ed *o ef the 1 PPC
V>v ♦ V.r. noociofed
hv h»’m to investigate the decline in
the cold output.
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By Vsaooatcd Press
P\RIS. .Ian., lf>— Lord Robert Oc- j
d. whom Kngland has assigned t<> jo
present K.inland's ideas regarding a
League of Nations made a detailed
> remen! today to the Associated
I’v s. Lord Robert Cecil said that he
: 3—e of Nations should
h * impmvcd and an association devel*
>pe 1. like an Association of Nations
providing safe guards for peace :m<i
securing a better international co-op
oration basis.
“ There should be an agreement
among the nations by which each
binds itself to see what warlike dis
unites are presented to the League':
flvcoTo accompli Wf TbA*;
“Quarrels should remain under con
Mention for a specific time and fur
ther time to clause after a decision
bns been reached before the contend
iag countries be allowed to fight.
‘Moral fo’ve must be* the ultimate
fact employed to prevent war.
Lonl Robert Cicil also stated that
ho believed that an international army
and navy was not feasible.
WEATHER REPORT
The following is the weather re
port for the 24 hours ending at T o’
look this morning:
Seward :>l. 20, 20, clear north.
Anchorage 4 below, dear, ca’m.
Matanuska 10 below, clear, calm.
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FISHERIES CONCERN
M \Y CLOSE FIVE PL VMS
An unconfirmed rumor is tnr’ebng
in canning circles in Seattle to tor
.•♦’feet that the Northern Fisheries Co.,
plan- on closing down at least t 've oi
• .'annr; i s at Roe Point, Santa Ana,
Hunter’s Ray, Shakan and Seldovia
v .-aid to be the ones under con temp
I at ion.
REHRKN DS IS HEAD OK
ALASKA BANKERS
B. M. Boh rends of Juneau ho > hoev.
appointed vice president of the Amo*:
can Hankers* Association for Alaska
according to a letter revived in S »\v
aid.
The American Bankers Assoc at
:nn. which has its headquarters in
\e.\ Vo'k city, has a memhership of
19.220.
ERSTWHILE CONQUEROR
LEWES LIKE SCARED RAl
ZURICH, Jdn., 15— Genera' Hans
von Hoselor, the German povemor
-ronoral of occupied territories in Rus
sia. a Munich newspaper says, left
Warsaw in an unheroic manner. He
escaped from the Polish capital bv
concealing himself on a Vistula river
, ba* *e.
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A girl baby was born to M:. and
Mrs. Otto Poehlmann at Petaluma.
Oil., on December Dth, according to
advices received in Seward. Mr. Poehi
man has been discharged from th*
naval services and is expect* «1 t >
*ome north on the next Alameda and
assume his old position here at tin*
Seward Drug company.
According to Anchorage arri'.ul . in
Reward there is common talk ti.ert
hat the commission tug Anna V*’..
•ity for the commission, intei navi
:ators claim that the trip could he
natle as the ice conditions are not bad.
Twenty passengers for out the Hr '
*ind the interior left on the train this
norning at 10:la oVlock.
The Masons will hohl a stated com
iiunieation at S oVlock this evening
n the Odd Follows Hall.
The funeral of Dr. Hale, who d:ed
eeontly in Cordova, was held at Scat
le last Thursday.
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Efforts are being mad' :o Seattle to
-ecure a lower freight mV on h r" no
>om Alaska. Eastern compete >r
however asking for a higher irV «
•he Alaska herring is replacing -ne
'astern fish.
CahV advices states that tie * Sen
\te and House have passed the join*
•evolution appropriating $100,000 to
ombat the influenza among the nat
ives of Alaska.
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(\ V. Sinclair, from the Iditarod
•ho has been a goc<t at the Hoi '!
toward, loft for the interior today.
K. Nyberg, Gust Nyberg and D.
’ouro . honorably discharged private J
Vom Fort Liscum who have been at j
h" Hotel Sexton, left for their home •
it Anchorage today.
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In reph to an inquiry, the Sncp
ud prohibition amendment will be
>omo effective on July 1st, this year.
M's. A. P. Hunt, a guest at the Sex
’on. who arrived on the Alameda from
Valdez, left for Anchorage this fore,
noon.
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T\co thousand pounds of mail "*as
lispatchcd to Anchorage today on th *
•egular train.
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A. H. Smith, fur buyer, who
been stopping at the Hotel Seward,
’eft for the interior on today’s train.
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Caspar Walmborg, draughtsman
for the A. E. C. , at Anchorage, wh<\
has been at Kodiak on government
work, checked out from the Sexton *•'
I day and started towards Copk Inlet.
By Associated Press
l'*P PASO, Tex., Jan., 15— A hat’d
hill in Spani dt, signed by “Mexican
i’oI. hcvikis." has been quitely distrib
it <1 here and along the border urging
he death of President Carranza, Ban
lit, Villia, Pelix Diaz, and Esteban
ant u. Cove rn >r of Lower Cali t orn a.
All otlier political leaders and rich
non in Mexico are also included in
diis “death order.”
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1 OS ANGKLKS , Cal., Jan.. 15—
Cndor the direction of Douglas White,
•regional director for agricultural
Vir(.nts of tho railroads, tho drive fo.
/ivtory Garden • is on. Two theusand
osteis from the National War Gar*
« n Com mi sion at Washington arriv
al today and these are to be distii
>uted to the agricultuial agents for
costing a! various stations in th' zone
'Derating under Mr. White. These
lutes are.; California, Utah, Nevada,
daho and Oregon.
J. I. Kdwards director cf ag'icult
iral agents for the U. S. Railroad .Ad
ministration at Washington, has ap
)ointod regional directors for other
m:ts of the country and similar plans
ire hing worked out to boom home*
cod production in co-operation with
he National W’ar Garden Commission.
“There is more need of Victory
Gardens than there ever was of war
aniens” says Charles Uathrop Pack
^resident of the Commission in a let
ter to Director White today. ‘The
’irst food administrator in history wat
Joseph and now Uncle Sam must be*
«ome the .Joseph of the modern
•orld. Every one of us must produce
*ood for himself as never before be
•ause of the new millions to be fed in
Europe.”
Director White was also infonned
hat Everett H. Kelley, a garden ex
pert and field man for the Nationa1
War Garden Commission is now o.i
his way to the Pacific Coast campaign
ing for Victory Gardens. Mr. Kelley
-ill come first to I.os Angeles and
linen work his way North. He is bring
ing a motion picture machine and reel
*o show what other cities do in gold
ening and will urge every garden com
mittee on the Pacific Coast to get in
touch with the National War Garden
Commission at Washington at once.
LUDENDORFF LIVING
IN SOUTHERN SWEEDEN
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COPENHAGEN. Jan., 15— Gener
al Von Luedendorff is living on a
farm at Hasselholm, in Southern Swc
den. f Wk
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BERLIN, Jan., 15— One week o'.' 1
anarchy, a long week, ended today and
«.inds only scattered desperadoes, n.o-t j
‘3Ken nor rnoiw ......
.her reign of terror. Slight attempts
have been made during the 1
past two days but they have been ir -
significant. It is believed that 20«t
have been killed and thousands
rounded during the fighting and
those killed and wounded have b?on
•*or the groat part Bolshevikis.
Documents captured show that the
Spartican uprising was conducted
from Moscow.
Property losses during the week
iave totaled ten million marks.
Dr. Liebkneeht’s sister was arrese*
l ^d last night.
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WOOD APPOINTED TO NEW
Command of II. S. AIDD
WASHINGTON. Jan.. 15— Gen
ial Leonard Wood, commanding a.
Camp Eunston, was today ordered to
Chicago to take command of the Cen
tral Department of the United State.
Army.
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PORTUGAL HAS TROUBLE
LONDON, Jan., 15— Reports from
Lisbon today states that the revolut •
onists at San Tarem, northwest ot
Lisbon, having refused to surrender,
ire today being bombarded. Govern
ment troops were rushed to the seen-'
>f trouble, the town surrounded and
bombardment started.
WORTHY SCION OF
an unworthy house
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan., 15- Ba
rn Allardt Munnoch, nephew of Count
Yon Bemstorff, former German am
bassador to the United State*, has
been sentenced to three month im
prisonment in the county jail for at
tempting to enter the country with a
forced passport.
LIEUT. COLONEL BURR MADE
RED CROSS COMMISSIONER
PARIS, Jan., 15— Lieutenant Cob
George Burr, today was named Amer
ican Red Cross commissioner.
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PARIS, Jan., l.*>— Two hundred
American Army officers will probably
conduct a suivoj to give President
Wilson an estimate of the actual phy
sical damage France and ilelgium suf
ft'rrc-tl during the war at the hands of
the Hun?.
President Wilson according to an
nouncement today, is planning to uv*
bis e stimate of his own officers when
he peace conference discusses indom
v'ties. Observers believe that the dam
ige hill will he so great that the Allies
vill be concerned witn Germany's
ihility to pay it rather than with the
inability of exacting further indent -
itutions, reparation and restoration*
vhioh should he extended to the finnn
■ial punishment of the German peop’e
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PRKSIDKNT COMING HOMK
PARIS, Jan., 15— President expect*
o return to Washington in time for
he adjournment of Congress in March
and then return here for the finfd
peace conferences.
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POINCARE TO VISIT AMERICA
PARIS, Jan., 15— President Poin
care of France told the Associated
Press today that he will probably vi-t
the United States in June or July,
next year.
VICTOR BERGER CONV1CTEO
CHICAGO, Jan., 15— Victor Ro -
ger, congressman-elect trom Wiscon
sin, and four other Socialists have
been convicted oi violating the espion
gae act. Sentence will shortly he im
posed.
NATIONAL LABOR CONGRESS
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CHICAGO, Jan., 15— The consor
vativists defeated the radicals two to
one in organizing the National Labor
Congress here today. The Congress
assembled to consider plans fov
Mooney’s defense. Edward D. Nolan. ,
Mooney’s co-defendant, has been nam -
'd chairman of the Congress.
LIEBvNECHT CABLED INSANE
BY SOCIALIST NEWSPAPERS
BERLIN, Jan., 15— Dr. Karl Lm
b’.necht, rays the socialist organ Vov
waerts, Is suffering from the same
moral insanity as the ex-knr-or. Noth
ing. it rays, should b* taken seridusiy
until his m°r»tal status has been medi
dr.Hy oxaminod.
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COUNT VON HERTLiNG DEAD
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COPENHAGEN, Jan., 15— Count
Von Hertling, fanner imperfial Ger
man chancellor, is dead, at Ruhpoid
:ng, Bavaria.