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ON WAY TO
SEWARD
M* Issocitted Pres*
SEATTLE. Feb.. IT — Steamer
Alameda, sailing last Saturday for
Alaska ports, had the following 4.*
passengers aboard for Seward: —
J. Elton Niven,
H. G. Kavanaugh.
Carl Larson,
J. J. Chisholm.
Walter Blanton.
E. A. Pol ley,
A. Haag.
Emily Borgen.
Mrs. Gur Borgen.
HaieJ Borgen.
Eddie Borgen.
E. P. Hedberg.
W. D. Steams,
William Ludwig Haker.
E. S. Jaccard.
Kmmit Ball.
H. A. Blyth,
C. B. Monroe.
H. C. Fehrman.
S. B. Gordon,
F. E. Friedell and wife,
J. E. Tuttle.
L Burrell,
F. Campbell.
Tom King.
William McGinnis.
Miss G. Halferty,
W. W. French and wife,
Robert Romig.
Mias L. Houston.
R. S. Hatcher.
* F. Hope.
T. W. Secrist and wife.
William Secrist.
A. E. Murphy.
A. E. Muir,
Mrs. Jack Collins,
Mm. A. W. Roberts.
Steve Bunash,
F. Allen.
FARRAf.UT ON THK WAY
SEATTLE. Feb., 17— Steamer Ad
miral Farraffut sailed for Alaska it
10 o’clock Sunday morning. The t’o!
lowing passengers are aboard for
Seward:
J. A. Jonason.
R. Johnson,
Tom Plunkett.
Mrs. W. J. Hujrhew.
C. L. Ody,
George Thomas.
J. All men,
E. W. Hum soy,
M. A. Smith.
Theodore Hansen.
Rorert Jones,
James Voble ,
Gust o. Anderson.
D. H. Fisher and wife.
U. M. Karam and wife,
C. Sundgren.
George Green,
F. 0. Thompson,
Robert Hoolman.
By Associated Press
COPENHAGEN. Fob., 17— It is
reported that Gentian has accepted
the Allied terms for the extension of
the armistice. Part of these terms are
understood to bo complete demobolizn
tion and disarmament.
SPA BT U'ANS FIGHTING
BKRUX. Feb.. 17— The Spurtn*
! cans have overpowered the military
and local forces at Gelzenkirchen, in
West I halia. and plundered the city.
The Spartacans blew in the doors
with hand *^*vr..uies.
Gelzenkirchen is a city of 40,000 po
pu ation.
IN CONTROL OF NUREMBERG
COPENHAGEN, Fob., 17— The
Spartaeans have occupied the tele
phone and Telegraph offices also tlu
' newspaper offices at Nuremburg. Ba
varia.
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HI N ARMY MI ST LEAVE
BERNE. Feb.. 17— Lithunia. IV
• land, has agreed that the Tenth Gor
man army leave Lithunia and the Po
I lish army occupy all of the evacuated
j territory.
FIRST LADY OF
GERMANY DOES
j OWN WORK
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BERLIN. Feb., 17— Frau Luis<
| Ebert, wife of the first President of
; Geimany. anti now the first lady of
i the new Republic, is a comely woman
j medium height, slender and has al
; ways done her own household dulie:
(even to the cooking. Frau Kbeit ha*
i also been her own dressmaker. He)
age is 45 years.
The eldest son of President Ebert
Fredrich. dr., is in the newspaper
cork: one daughter. Amelie age V.
years, was recently a clerk.
One son was killed in Macedonia ir
, the fighting ami another son is r;
| present in France.
The official residence of President
Ebert is yet undetermined.
REP CROSS MEETING
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The executive committee of the
Seward Chapter of the American Red
f Cross will hold an important meeting
! tomoirow night at 7:r»0 o’clock in the
| Railroad building. All members of thf
I committee are requested to attend a'
important business uill be transacted
ODD FELLOWS TO GIVE
DANCE ON WASHINGTON’S
BIRTHDAY- NEXT SATI RDAY
—
The Odd Fellows will give the next
public dance in Seward and this wiP
be next Saturday night, Washington’?
birthday.
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COUNCIL MEETS TONIGHT
The City Council will hold a re
gular meeting tonight in the Fire
hall at S o'clock.
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GIVEN TH
R.R. TRUTH
• “Anchorage is ready and mo.-*t will
ng to help Seward in every pr voosit
on that may come up, secuic th • com- j
detion ot' the Seward division rail
road, help get the aviation base, in
act, everything that Seward is going i
ifter to benefit her own locality or |
hat of the district, Anchorage will 1»‘
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*ight behind her.''
This is the information that I':ank
I. Cotter brought hack from Anchor
age last night.
Mr. Cotter stated that many peo
do in Anchorage were of the opinion
hat Seward was fighting the appro
priation but he soon showed this sup
position up as a most presumptious
allacy in inane reasoning. Mr. Oottei
et forth his views in a decided man
ier and the Anchorage Times ct l*olv
•uaiy 18th, gave Mr. Cotter two col
ims in which to show just what Sew
ird was fighting for. The interview
vas comprehensive, pointed, no nv.nc
ng of words and ended with the fol
owing: “we have no quarrel with any
>ne. We want what wo honestly feel
s our just dues and we are willing to
ro to the mat for these same, whether
it be with the Alaskan KnghrHng
Commission or any who oppose
Mr. Cotter told Anchoiag'
the past that city had received the
lion's share of all appropriations bi t
that in the forthcoming appropri.at
on Seward demanded and wanted pos
itive assurances that the Seward div
ision would be completed with L am;
hat the present traveling condition
\ ill never again be possible.
"We want Matanuska coal instead
pf the Canadian article, " said Mr
Jotter in his interview in the Tim s,"
ind we want to be connected with th
coal fields, the interior, and we also
vant a fair apportionment of the :na
; crial and rolling stock on this road.’’
In the same issue of the Anchoiagc
"imes, there appears an editorial un
ier the caption o: "Let us have Har
nony." The editorial says that Mr.
| hotter set at rest the wild rumors
Yom Seward. "Mr. Cotter informs
he Times," says the editorial," that
lis town is- neither fighting the ap
propriation nor endorsing the pcrnic
ous activities of John E. Ballaine. Mr.
Jotter is frank to say, however, lhat
t is the opinion in Seward that the
engineering commission has rather ov
erlooked the Seward division in the
{past and that the town proposes to
make a fight in its own behalf to ob
tain a more liberal proportion of the
railway funds that may he appropri
ated.
"If Seward's complaint rests on
this*point alone, we are unable to see
but that it can be reconciled without
•inv trouble, whatever, for we in An
chorage can hartily support a plan for
the early completion, snowsheds and
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By Associated Pres*
WASHINGTON, Feb., 17— Sen- i
ator Wesley L. Jones, of Washington. ,
today introduced a bill which is aim- j
od pointedly at the I. W. W. element!
:;pd o ?ny Rolsheviki movenrent in !
the Vriled States. i
The bill as introduced will pun- j
i li persons urging? resistance to the
law i>i urging a change in the g >vern- •
inert. The punishment, if convicted, *s
five years in prison at hard labor,
with a fine of $5,000 also. Ali* ns so
•onvieted will he deported alter serv-,
; ing their sentence. I
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all, <rf tho lino connecting the two 1
rjlnces in interest.
“Therefore, let’s get togethf r and ;
boost for tho big appropriation.”
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The above is just what Seward ;s
trying to do and furthermore, l’jghr
• ng for. yet there are those in this
city Seward who are
bowing down and becoming subser
vient to the Alaskan Engineering;
Commission which has double crossed j
Seward for three years; and is- now
planning to “ got even”, according to
rumors, to all those who oppose it in
the least. But of this latter move, that
is a matter being probed now and if
the'**' is anv truth whatsoever, there
wi’d be an expose of chicanery in Sew
ard that will make good reading, de
pend upon that.
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SPECIAL TRAIN LEAVING
ANCHORAGE HI RING THE DAY
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According to passengers from An-!
•borage, a special train with 15 or 20 j
nassengers for Seward, leaves An
chorage during today. W. A. Ryan,
who has been making an investigation
f the A. E. C., and connected with
Secretary Lane's Department. is,
among those coming to this city.
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TRAIN BRINGS 32
The train for Mile 45 loft yesterday
morning on timo. 0 o’clock, the first
frain out on timo for months. Good
time was made going north and on
’ho return trip, the train arriving in;
Seward at 10:30 o’clock last night
with 32 passengers the majority from
the interior.
GOOD TIME OVER TRAIL
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Passengers from Anchorage arriv-:
:ng last night made good time over
the trail of the railroad. The passeng- \
orP rode to Mile 83 on a train, then by
deds to Mile 45 catching the train in* j
to Seward. i
NEW RESOLUTION FAVOR
OF WOMAN’S SUFFRAGE
INTRODUCED IN CONGRESS
WASHINGTON, Feb., 17— By A.
p.— Senator Wesley L. Jones, today
introduced a new resolution for the
submission to the states of a consti
tutional amendment granting women
suffrage. The resolution is- almost
identical to the one the Senate has al
ready rejected.
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G. McNicoll, Ed. Stone, M. Mustan
en, E. IT. Fewath and V. Yohannan.
all from the Nenana district, arrived
last night on the train and are guests
‘ at the Hotel Stwmrd.
FORMER PREMIER I. .VERIER
STRICKEN— CASE HOPEI.ESS
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OTTAWA, Fob., 17— By A. P.
Former Premier Laurier was stricken
with paralysis yesterday afternoon
and is unconscious today. Attending
physicians state that the case is hope
less and death is only a matter of
hours.
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ELOISE BOUND HERE
The gasboat Eloise, carrying mad
from Kodiak to the westward, left Ko
diak this morning at 9 o’clock for
Seward to secure mail. Capt. Mellick
is in command of the gasboat which
should arrive here possibly tomorrow
night.
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ONE OF THE LONG RANGE
GUNS OF GERMANY ORDERED
TURNED OVER TO THE ALLIES
COBLENZ, Feb., 17— By A. F.—
The Allies commission at Spa has de
manded that the Germans surrender
one of the long range guns used to
bombard Paris. Little is known con
cerning the fate of the monster wea
pons since the signing of the armis
tice.
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MILLION DEMOBOLIZED
WASHINGTON, Feb., 17— By A
P.— One million, one hundred and sev
enty thousand, five hundred ami forty
five officers and men in the United
States army were demobolized up to
Saturday. One million and a half is
assigned for demobolization.
BOUND FOR LEGISLATURE
WHICH MEETS AT JUNEAU
Senator Almee Rydeen, from Can
dle, cnroute to the territorial legislal •
urc at Juneau, arrived last night from
the interior and is registered at the
Overland. Senator Rydeen made the
trip out from the interior to Anchor
age by dog total.
Representative elect John W. Dunn,
from Ruby, also arrived las-t night on
train and is stopping at the Overland.
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P. C. Morris, members of the firm
of Fowler & Morris is enroute to the
states, thence to England on a visit
of several months. This is Mr. Morris
first trip outside in 13 years.
Mrs. L. Courtland, keeper of the
hotel Talkeetna, arrived on the tiain
last night and is registered at the
Seward. Mrs. Courtland is enroute to
the states on a visit.
William L. Haker and E. S. Jac -
card, two of the commission men who
went south to join the colors, are re
turning to Seward on the Alameda,
! Mr. Haker has recently been in an
eastern hospital.
Robert Romig, honorably discharg
ed from Camp Lewis, is returning
| home on the Alameda and will be em -
ployed with the eotyjyjiseioiv
By Associated Press
SKATTLK, Feb., IT— Shipyards :*i
Seattle and Tacoma will reopen Wed
nesday according to official announce
ment. today.
All former employees will be given
work when they apply at the gates.
The shipyard ou ners deny that the
policy is one of open shop but sa>
that the pay will be under the Macy
scale prevailing prior to the strike.
The shipyarders were expected thh
announcement, it is stated. No state
ment has come from the men but it -
believed that a coast conference at
Portland today of the district Metal
Trades Councils will consider the
question of ordering the men hack.
SITUATION AT BUTTE
BUTTE. Feb., IT— The city is
practically normal again. The number
of miners returning to work is larg*'
although the strike has not yet been
officially declared off.
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PRICE BOARD TO
BE ORGANIZED
WASHINGTON, Fob., IT— Pros.
dent Wilson has wirelessed from the
transport George Washington approv
al of the proposal to establish a gov
ernment price adjustment board to
stablize conditions during th#» post
war period.
FOOD PRICES DROPPING
SEATTLE, Feb.. IT— Prices of
foodstuffs are dropping slowly but
surely. Eggs and butter took a ton pc’
cent drop today and will not advance.
Condensed milk has also taken a de
cided drop. Clothing has dropped six
per cent and woman's dress goods
have dropped from £ to li> per cent.
INCREASE
IN WAG :$
CHICAGO, Fob., 17— Federal ar
bitrator Judge Alschuler today award
• d the packing— house employees a
!en per cent wage increase retroact
ive to November 10th; time and a half
for overtime after eight hours. The
new wage scale is effective on the
tenth of next month.
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CURACAO DUE TOMORROW
Steamer Curracao is due tomorrow
from the westward. Agent Blue, at 2
o'clock this afternoon, had received no
advices from the steamer as to the
time of probable arrival.