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SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1918. TEN CENTS PER COPY
Volume XI, Number 242. _ -
HUNS ATTEMPT TO
RAID U. S. TRENCH
MEETS WITH DEFEAT!
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WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, Feb.
5__German plans to raid the American trenches were
frustrated late last night when the artillery put down U|
heavy barrage.
One of the first lines of German trenches is believed
to have been filled with Germans waiting for a signal to \
make an attack, titteen minutes before the attack was|
to take place all the American guns concentrated fire,
where the enemy was massed.
American patrols worked their way to the German 1
lines afterwards and inspected the damaged trenches.
There were many dead. The Germans used gas shells
freelv but without results only two Americans being re
ported injured during the engagement.
On account of the fog prevailing in this sector visibil- j
itv remains bad.
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MORE AMERICANS ON ANOTHER BATTLEFRONT.
DATELESS—Americans are also holding a sector on
the western front northwest of Toul. The length of the
sector and the number of men in the front line cannot be
disclosed for military reasons. Northwest of Toul the
battle line runs almost due east and west from St. Michel
towards the German lines. The official announcement
of the Americans whereabouts was not made until the au
thorities were certain that the Germans had the informa
tion as to the trenches and lines they were occupying. j
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LONG GROUCH
WORKED OFF
BY A SENATOR
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5. — Senator
James W. Wadsworth, Jr., Republican
of New York State, and a member ot
the military affairs committee, ad
dressing the Senate today pictured
Americas war making machinery as
a conglomeration of ambitions and
scattered agencies incapable of team
work.
When the Senator had worked all
of the bad feelings and pent-up wrath
off his chest the debate over war effi
ciency was again renewed.
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CURE PATIENTS
SENT TO ASYLUM
FOR THE INSANE
The quarterly statement from the
Morningside sanitarium, caring
for Alaska’s insane has be n
received in Seward. There
were five patients cured and
sent home during the quarter
ending December 31, and 14 received
into the institution. During the same
period there were seven deaths, out of
216 inmates, 192 males and 26 fe
males. At the present time there are
187 males and 28 females in the sani
tarium, a total of 232.
During the present quarter two
inmates, Herman 1 ore and Hans
Knutson, have been cured and sent
home. Fore was received into the sani
tarium from Kenai in May last, and
was discharged on January>7, leaving
for his home in Kellogg. Idaho. Knut
son was sent from Petersburg last
September. He was pronounced cured
the second week in January and is
qow cm his way to California.
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NORTH DAKOTA “DRY**
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BISMARCK, X. D„ Fob. T>. — *
The North Dakota Senate has *
concurred in the House resolution
ratifying the federal amendment *
* providing national prohibition. *
North Dakota is in the dry col
umn among states already. This *
* is the third ratification, Missis- *
* sippi and Kentucky having ex- *
' pressed approval early last month.
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coaltrainT
ARE HELD UP
BY COLD WAVE
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 5. — Most
discouraging reports were received to
day on the movement of freight and
coal trains on account of the extreme ;
cold weather and heavy fall of snow.
The weather threatens to defeat the
plan of abandoning heatless Mondays.
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BRAZIL TO HAVE AN
VRMY OF TWO MILLION
PARIS, Feb. 5. — Within a few!
months Brazil will have an army of i
several hundred thousand men ready |
to take their places in France and by j
the end of the year she will have an
army of two million, according to aj
statement made by Senator Demelloj
Machado.
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HOW ABOUT THE BABIES?
KANKAKEE, 111., Feb. 5. — Milk;
dealers here have been afflicted with;
, an epidemic of orphan cats.
When the price of milk recently was-'
raised 2 cents a quart several citizens,
: declared they could not afford to feed
their cats. So they left their tabbies)
on the dealers’^doorsteps. One deal
er inherited eiffht cats in one nijarht.
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WAR HAS COST UNITED STATES A PILE
OF MONEY DURING FIRST TEN MONTHS *
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.—The announcement *
was made this afternoon by the Treasury Depart- *
meat that the past ten months the United States • *
has been in the war the cost has been about seven *
billion, one hundred million dollars. It is expected *
that the first year of the war will cost the United *
States a round ten billion dollars. Of this amount *
five billions have been spent on loans to the Allies.
A * * * * * * * * * A
BREAK IN PEACE
NEGOTIATIONS IS
THOOGHT PROBABLE
PRESTON GIBSON
Prcsto'i Gibson, prom'nent American
author a».d society man. who has been
serving with the Nott)n-Harjes unit
since the early days of the war, has
been decorated by the French govern*
ment with the Cross of War, with two
star citations for gallant conduct on
the field. Gibson is now chief of a
section of the United States army am
bulance corps.
VICTORIA NOW
AT CORDOVA ON
WAY TO SEWARD
Steamer Victoria reached Cordova
this forenoon at 11:15 o’clock accord
ing to advices received at the local
cable office. The Victoria has 200
tons of freight for Cordova and will
probably remain there all night. The
marine editor of the Gateway was so
far off on predicting the arrival o‘‘
the Alaska, that he will not take a
chance in saying that the Victoria, if
sailing west tomorrow morning should
reach here Thursday, Maybe so.
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FISH QUOTATIONS
SEATTLE, Feb. 5. — The fish
quotations at noon were: halibut
thirty-one cents, sable, four cents,
pickled sable $20 a barrel, pickled
herring $20 a barrel, pickled pink sal
mon $15 a barrel, pickled salmon, red,
$23 a barrel.
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Any girl can be called a chicken,
but it isn’t every fellow who can dis
tinguish the cold-storage variety.
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LONDON, Feb. 5. — German poli
tical circles are again aroused on ac
count of the sudden return to Berlin
today of Imperial German Foreign
Minister von Kuhlmann and Austrian
Foreign Minister Czernin. Their re
turn, according to Amsterdam ad
vices, forecasts the breaking off of
negotiations for peace at Brest-Lit
ovsk. No public announcement has
been made in Berlin, according to all
information, regarding what has call
ed for the two ministers return to
Germany from Russia.
AVIATORS DROP
BOMBS ON SUB
RASE OF HUNS
PARIS, Feb. 5. — No change is re
ported in the daily routine along the
western front. There are raids and
artillery duels in France and in Italy.
Entente aviators today bombed the
German submarine base at Zeebiuggc
and much damage is reported to have
been done.
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BRITISH HAVE
SUFFERED BY
SUB WARFARE
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LONDON, Fob. 5. — Chancellor!
Law told the members of the House
of Commons today that Gennan sub
marines had kiled 14,120 British non
combatants, men, women and children,
in the past year of ruthless warfare.
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WAKEFIELD FORMS A
GIGANTIC COMPANY
CHICAGO, Feb. 5. — Lee H. Wake
field, head of an Alaska fishing cor
poration and Wilson & Company a
wealthy firm here have merged into
what will be known as the “Wilson
Fisheries company” with a capital of
two million dollars. The company
proposes to operate extensively this
season in Alaska.
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GENERAL PERSHING USES
PRIVATE CABLE TO LONDON |
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LONDON, Feb. 5. — Gen. Pershing
has a private telegraph-cable wire di
rect from his headquarters in France
to the office in liondon of Gen. Bart
lett American commander in England.
Seven seconds is the average time for
putting a flash message through.
Gen. Pershing's first official mes
sage was a greeting to Ambassador
Page.
FIELD MARSHAL OF
GERMANY D CLARES
FOR FOOD CONTROL
THE HAGUE, Feb. 5.—Travelers arriving here today
from Germany bring reports of a recent conference be
tween Field Marshal von Hindenburg and the editors of
the German newspapers. The editors told the Field Mar
shal that by the month of May there would be no food
found in Germany.
Field Marshall von Hindenburg replied: “By April
the Teuton forces will be in Paris then we will march to
to the English Channel and we will have all the food of
the world within our grasp.
RAILROAD MANAGERS
TRYING TO POT THE
GOVERNMENT IN RAD
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.—W. G. Lee, head of the rail
way trainmen, appearing today l>efore the railway wage
hearing, asserted that the railway managements were at
tempting to discredit the government’s operation of the
railroads. He said that he had facts to prove that exper
ienced railroad men were not permitted to operate the
various systems as their railroad training suggested and
dictated.
Mr. Lee said further that the old managements do
not want the government operation made a success and
said that he did not believe however that the public would
permit the railroads to go back to the old system if the
management of the government proves efficient.
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r STRIKE SITUATION *
IN GERMANY UNKNOWN *
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* LONDON, Feb. 5. — Meagre * |
* information from Amsterdam re- *1
* ceived today concerning the strike *
* situation in Germany fails to * j
* state whether the strikers have *
* returned to work or not.
ADMINISTRATOR
OF FOOD GIVEN
INSTRUCTIONS:
District Food Administrator Whit
tlesey received a cablegram today
from Territorial Food Administrator
Gunnison advising him to notify all
dealers to order wheat substitutes
immediately their present stock isj
exhausted. * I
“You are authorized to allow them
to resume the sales of wheat flour,”
administrator Gunnison says, “until
their stock is replenished then they
must resume the fifty fifty plan. Use
vigilance to prevent unnecessary buy
ing by consumrs. The Seattle mar
kets discloses rice and rice flour in
considerable quantities and some
cream of barley, rolled oats and soya
beans. Thei-e is at present no com
meal but plenty is expected within the
next two weeks. Other substitufes
will be coming in slowly.”
MAY SEND THE
U. S. SOLDIERS
TO ^LANDERS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5. — Ameri
can troops may appear in the British
trenches in Flanders as a result of
suggestion being made. The Ameri
cans will be put in the British trenches
to finish their ti-aining and will later
be incoi*porated in Maj. Gen. Persh
ing’s army.
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FINNEGAN ASKS
FOR MORE DATA
IMPROVEMENTS
Mayor Frank Cotter received a
cablegram from J. J. Finnegan this
morning the latter stating that the
Alaskan Engineering Commission es
timated that improvements to Lowell
Creek would cost approximately $50,
000. The A. E. C. may help to the
amount of $25,000. What Mr. Finne
gan desired information about was a
guarantee that the city would be ready
with its share of the expense when
work is started. A satisfactory re
ply will bo sent to Mr. Finnegan.