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Volume XI, Number 205. ■ 1 — _. 1. _;__ ‘ .. .—" ■
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PATRIOTIC RALLY
FOR LIBERTY TO
BE HELD SUNDAY
SILVER BILL
IS PRESENTED
TO CONGRESS
WASHINGTON. April i>. — Senator |
Key Pittman to<lay introduced the Ad
ministration’s bill proposing melting!
into bullion of not over two hundred
and fifty million silver dollars now :n
the United States treasury. Tht nill
also proposes the repurchase of sil- j
ver at SI an ounce and would with
draw silver certificates from circula
tion as the dollars are taken from the
treasury. Kcderal Reserve bank notes
will be substituted for the silver cer
tificates to replace the dollars.
•?v the Administration’s in asuit*
the standard price of silver will be
fixed it $1 an ounce and will stimulate j
silver production. The government
will probably absorb the nation’s sil
ver output and then sell to jewelers,
*factu?ers and the other ^oui tries !
reifim silver.
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AMERICANS IN
FRANCE ATTACK
A HUN PATROL
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WITH THE AMERICANS IN
FRANCE, April 9 — The American
outposts at Lomiine attacked a heavy
Geiman patrol early this morning ami
killed one German, dragging his body
ir*o the American trenches for identi
fication. There were no American
casualties during the half hour at^
tack.
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60,000 ARMED
TO FIGHT THE
JAPS-BRITISH
LONDON, April 9. — A Harbin dis
patch this afternoon says that sixtj
thousand armed Gennan prisoners
have been mobilized at lomsk and
they are destined for the far east to
undoubtedly litfht the Japanese and
British forces* landed at Vladivostok.
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N1 \\>!\\r*FR MEN ARE
\\ ANTED AS LAWMAKERS
AMSTERDAM, April 9. — The Bo
lin Press Association has petitioned
both Houses of the Prussian Diet that
at least three representatives of the
Prussian daily press be appointed
m» mbe -s of the Upper House.
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HOTEL COMMANDEERED
AMSTERDAM, April 0. — The
Xaiserhcf Hotel, which is now to be
taken over by the German Govern
ment, is the twenty-fourth Berlin ho
tel to be commandeered or closed. Be
fore the war there were 15.000 hotel
beds available for visitors to Berlin.
The number is now slightly above 10,
000.
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"Money talks, so its just as well to
make every penny count.
A civic patriotic rally, to boost the
Liberty loan, will be held next Sunday
afternoon at 2 o’clock and every man,
woman and child in Seward is going
to take part to make this demonstra
tion one oi tiie greatest ever htld in
Seward.
Stef>s were taken last night not only
for the patriotic rally, but a commit
tee was appointed to see that Sewaru
aises her cjuota of $23,000 loi tne
liberty loan and go beyond if possible.
Hus committee consists ot Robert J.
Weir, Frank Cotter, Mrs. A. H. Mc
Donald, L. L. James, j1’., and Han\
V. Hooen.
A special committee consisting ol
ii. L. Wever, uieut. Long and A. H.
McDonald was named to have lull
charge of the rally next Sunday.
At the specially called meeting last
night held in the little A. B. Hall,
representatives were there from the
reward Womans club, Odd Fellows,
.Masons. Elks. Chamber of Commeice,
Moose, Arctic Bi-otherhood. Alaskan
engineering Commission, City Coun
i il and the Pioneers. L. V. liay* acted
as chairman und J. J. Campbell was
♦ he secretary'. Mr. Kay stated the ob
ject of the meeting, naming a commit
tee to have charge of the third Liberty
loan drive in this city' and also to ai
range for the big rally to be given
next Sunday afternoon. This hour was
decided upon so that dinners coula bo
arranged, etc., in order to permit the
entire population to attend and it
necessary an overflow meeting will be
held ana the program at the main
meeting place will be repeated at the
overflow meeting.
Seward is “going over the top” in
the drive and “over the top” into
cveiy trench prepared for the rally.
Idle committee to arrange lor the
rally has already been offered assis
tance fiom many, it is quite prob
able that soldiers will act as u.-hers,
either so.uiers or a picked zquad from
the Seward Home guards will give a
drill; j logicians will be organized into
a band or orchestra; school children
may give a flag drill; thetx* will be
choruses, solos, duets, speeches and
a general patriotic rally that will be
full of pep and good stuff. Notice is
now served upon the citizens, that
there will be no excuse but sickness
accepted for non attendance at the
rally.
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CHURCHES ARE WAREHOUSES
MEXICO Cll Y, April 9. — Lack of
shipping to move the hennequen has
caused that product to accumulate in
the ports at Yucatan. Reports from
Merida say the hennequen is even
stored in churches. The government
recently sent one of the ships com
i mndeere t from the Mexican Naviga
tion Company to take a car^o of hen
nequcn to a United States srulf port.
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TELEPHONES
CUT OFF TO
STOP LEAKS
I
EL PASO, Texas, April 9. — Tele
phone connections between American
border towns, was today suspended for
the duration of the war. This action
I was taken to prevent information re
garding American military move
ments from reaching German agents
in Mexico. The telephone company
anupended operations voluntarily.
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MORE BRITISHERS
WILL BE DRAFTED
TO ALLIED FORCES!
ALAMEDA AND
FARRAGUT ABE
NOW DUE HERE
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Steamer Alameda is expected to ar
rive this afternoon, perhaps at the
time the Gateway appears on the
street around about 4 o’clock. The
Alameda left Valdez at midnight last
night and called at Drier Bay with
freight for a canneiy there. The
Alameda will be in port for at least j
' foifr hours.
The Admiral Farragut is expected
in port at any hour from Kodiak
bound south.
The steamer Dora left Kodiak last
night at 8 o’clock and is due hei-e late
tomorrow afternoon or early in the
evening.
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LATER—The Alameda slipped one
over and docked at 3:30 o’clock.
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♦ FOOD DISCUSSION *
• IS UNDER THE BAN 11
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* LONDON, April 9. — The food *
* question has reached a point when *
* its eternal discussion has become
* intolerable, and many Ixmdon *
" clubs have placed signs up in *
* their snvdler sitting and smoking *
* rooms announcing that the food
* question is taboo in conversations *
* there. One of the largest women’s *
* clubs in the West End has laid *
* down a rule that any member or
* visitor alluding to the subject <
* shall be fined and the penalty 15
* handed over to a Red Cross fund. *
TEXAS RANGERS
SHOOT UP BAND
OF MEX BANDITS
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MARATHON, Texas, April 9. —
Texas rangers are reported to have
met twenty Mexican bandits near
here. The Rangers killed two bandits,
wounded several, taking them captives
and chased the remainder into the
hills.
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COAL SHORT IN GERMANY
NEW YORK, April 0. — German
industries are occasionally forced to
idleness owing to a shortage of coal
as is evident from a report in the Co
logne Gazette of February 2, stating
that the Federal Council, had adocted
regulations providing for the com
pensation of men and women workers j
for idleness caused by the lack of coal.
FOUND ZEPPELIN MUSEUM
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BERNE, April 9. — The tow of
Fn idrwlishnfen, main headquarters of
the Zeppelin airship company, is found
ing a Zeppelin museum to be dedicated
next autumn.
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The old-fashioned happy blacksmith
who hammered the iron now has a son
who knocks on his working conditions.
Also the time may come when the
grocery store will become the Ameri
! can walling place.
LONDON, April 9. — Premier Lloyd
George in a speech this afternoon be
fore the House of Commons stated
that when the Somme battle commene
de the German’s total strength on the
western front approximately equaled
the total of the Allies on all fronts.
The Premier said that the measure
now before the British Parliament in
creasing the draft of men would in
volve extra sacrifices by a part of
England’s population but that the
country had now entered the most
critical period of tho war, that there
was a lull at present out the hurricane
had not blown over. “The fate of the
Empire, of Europe, of Liberty,” said
the Premier, “may depend upon the
success with which the last German |
attack is resisted and countered.”
Premier Lloyd George said that the
American’s fighting strength will be j
bi-ought to bear immediately although j
it is imposible to send as many train- |
ed Americans as expected. The
Americans will be brigaded with the
Allied troops.
“The fight* may continue seven or
eight months longer,” concluded the
Premier.
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ALL PERMIT
HOLDERS TO
RE “MUGGED’l
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Everybody holding a peimit, issued
by the Alaskan Engineering Commis
sion at Seward, to go on the dock
must be “mugged." In other words
new permits will soon be issued and
upon each permit will be a picture ol
the person holding the permit.
One of the disadvantages of this wil'
be that several men about the city
must get busy and shave that growth
(?) on their upper lips or let’er grow.
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HUN RAILROADS CONGESTED
NEW YORK, April 9. -- There was
great congestion on the railroads i.;
Ce/m.-iy the laHe« jart *>f January,
according to a Wolff Bureau dispatch
dated Koblenz, January' 28, published
in German newspapers received here.
The despatch said it was due to un
favorab'e w’eather conditions and the
partial suspension of navigation.
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FISH QUOTATIONS
SEATTLE, April 9. — At noon to
day the following quotations prevailed
on fish: halibut, sixteen cents; sable,
seven cents; ling and red cod, five
cents.
LANDING AT
VLADIVOSTOK
IS OBJECTED
WASHINGTON, April 9. — The
landing of the Japanese and Brit’sh
forces at Vladivostok and the Bolshe
viki objection to the move,, promises
to cause the State Department much
concern. When the Japanese occupa
tion of Siberia was proposed recent
ly, this government assumed a “hands
off” policy. But the Russian Soviet
Council's announced intention to pio
tes-t to the United States against tne
landing, makes the condition sevjous.,
HUNS PREPARING
FOR AN INFAN1Y
ATTACK ON ALLIES
BULLETIN- London, April9- There is no change
early tonight in the situation on the Western front. Art
illerying is progressing at all points. The sky was heavily
overcast this afternoon, with low hanging clouds, rain
falling incessantly making the battleground most unde
sirable for operations.
New York, April (J- The Associated Press, this after
uon in it’s summary of the fighting in Europe says that in
preparation for another heavy infantry attack in an at
tempt to reach Amiens, the German guns, of ail caliber,
are today roaring along a one hundred mile front north ot
the Soissons. The entire country side is rocking with the
heavy detorations. The bombardment is belived here, and
judging for all officials reports, to be the forerunning of
a heavy German infantry atack, probably all the way from
Arras to Noyon.
The London and Paris war offices report terrific art
illerying, the heaviest and most deadly since the Germans
began their offensive. Tht Allied lines are ready for the
infantry attacks and guns are massed at all parts of the
line expected to be attacked by the Teutons.
BRITISH FRONT BEING BOMBED
London, April 9- The German artillery bombing has
developed at all places along the British front from the
.abassee canal to the south of Armentieres. This is the
official war statement, concise and covering everything.
GERMANS ATT ACTING FRENCH LINES
Paris, April 9- The official statement this morning
'ays that violent German artillerying took place early last
light, and is still in progress against the French lines nor
th of Montidier. But no German infantry action has how
ever taken place. The French advance troops, south of
the Oise withdrew to prepared positions southwest of the
'ower forest of the country north and south of Couchy
and Lechateau.
With tht German artillerying, scores of aerial bat
tles are daily taking place. The Germans are using the
nimense air fleet seemingly only to regulate the gun fire
and none of the machines are dropping bombs. The Allied
air fleetir constantly beating back the Hun air squadron,
throwing out smoke screens to prevent the enemy from
;eeing earth.
CLEAR GOOD SUM
Mrs. Robert J. Weir, chairman
of the Finance committee of the
local chapter of the Red Cross,
announced this afternoon that the
sum of $149.80 was cleared at the
benefit dance given at the Arctic
Brotherhood hall on Easter Mon
day. #
FIFTEEN HUNDRED BOYS
SPREADING A PROPAGANDA
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LOS ANGELES. Calif., April 9. —
Fifteen hundred hoys in the Los An
geles schools are spreading propagan
da for “building a bridge of ships to
France. In addition to “talking ships;
thinking ships and studying ships,”
the boys in the public schools will be
given practical courses in miniature
ship building, navigation, chart plot
ting and instructed in the use of in
struments of calculations.
TROOPS BEING
SENT OVERSEA
IN GOOD TIME
WASHINGTON, April 9. — Acting
Secretary of War Crowell declared to
day that the transportation of Ameri
can troops to France is already pro- •»
ceeding at an accelerated rate not
contemplated owing to the speeding
up of transportation methods. The
Acting War Secretary refused to go
into any details as he said that the
methods were secret to this nation.
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Our gaoss is that it won’t be very
long until matrimony is called annex
ation and alimony will be known as
indemnity.