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Volume XI. Number 137._° "sEWABR ALASKA,"MONDAY, JUNE 1.1917. _ _Ten Cento Ihe Copy
FOUR KILLED IN
COAL MINE BLAST
VANCOUVER, B. C., Monday, June
4.—Four men, including Chief Sur
veyor G. N. Bertram, were killed in
an explosion in the Punsmuir colleries
at Cumberland last night.
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HOUSE ADJOURNS
TILL WEDNESDAY
WASHINGTON. Saturday, June *2.
—In order that the southern members
of the house may be free today to
welcome the confederate veterans who
will arrive here for their reunion and
to permit the entire membership to
observe the exercises of Tuesday the
house adjourned Saturday n t i l
Wednedsay.
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E. F. Dahlberp arrived today from
Sifton, Wash.
GERMANS READY
FOR PEACE TALK
STOCKHOLM, Monday, June 4.—
The German socialists, headed by
Philip Scheidemac, who are to take
part in the socialist peace conference
to be held here July arrived today.
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YOUNG ECCLES
TAKES LYSOL
PORTLAND, Monday, June 4.—W.
H. Eccles, of Baker, Ore., -and mem
ber of the Eccles family of Salt Lake
drank Lvsol Sunday apparently with
suicidal intent. He was taken to a
hospital and later escaped. AH ef
forts to locate him have failed.
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Funeral services were held this aft
ernoon for Bob Labovich, member of
a firm of railroad contractors, who
died Saturday.
GENERAL CADORNA HEWING WAY
INTO AUSTRIAN ALPS; BRITISH
RESUME ATTACK IN THE WEST
(By United States Cable)
LONDON, Monday, June 4.—Gen. Haig reported to
day that the British army on the Arras front had resumed
the offensive and was making some progress.
Troops located southwest of Cherisey accomplished
a night surprise attack last night and recaptured posi
^ tions which were lost Saturday after having been taken
the first time early in the week.
TOOK 52,000 OF FRITZ IN 45 DAYS
<By United States Cable)
PARIS, Monday, June 4.—French and British armies
on the western front have captured 52,000 German pris
oners since the opening of ihe grand offensive of April
16, the war office announced today. Totals on killed have
not been given.
GEN. CADORNA*GOING STRONG
(By United States Cable)
LONDON, Monday, June 4.—Italy’s army on the Car
so front made an important advance in the direction of
Trieste during the past 24 hours. The principal gains
were made south of Castagnavizza where the left wing is
trying to turn the Austro-Hungarian positions on the
Mediterranean side of the Eazza mountain range.
Gen. Cadorna’s army has cut four hundred yards
into the Austrian army’s mountain trenches along a front
of two and one-half miles last night.
ITALIANS INFLICT HEAVY LOSSES
ROME, Monday, June 4.—Austrian losses between
May 14th and 29th on the Julian alp front are estimated
85,000 killed, wounded and missing, including five gen
erals of the line. Over 100 cannon were captured or do
stroved.
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21 DEAD, 100 INJURED IN CYCLONE
KANSAS CITY, Monday, June 4.—Twenty-one are
known to be dead, 100 injured and large damage to prop
erty as a result of a series of tornadoes which occurred
late yesterday in southeastern Kansas, North Central
Oklahoma and Southern Missouri.
ROOT AND PARTY SAFE IN RUSSIA
(By United Statej Cable)
WASHINGTON, Monday, June 4.—The safe arrival
of Elihu Root and the other members of the American
commission to aid in the reconstruction of the Russian
government at a Russian port is announced in a dispatch
to the state department.
PRELIMINARY ORDER
FOR REGISTRATION OF
ARMY MEN RECEIVED
A communication was received this morning by
Mayor McDonald from Governor Strong pertaining
to the preliminary arrangements for registeing un
der the conscription act. The letter states that the
registration date will be announced soon and blanks
and other regulations will come forward at an early
date.
Registration is to be conducted by a local board
of supervisors consisting of the mayor, city clerk and
city physician. The services of the clerks at the reg
istration precinct is expected to be donated and if
possible there will be no expense attached to the work.
All male residents of this precinct who have
passed their twenty-first birthday and not yet reach
ed their thirty-first birthday must register on the
day appointed under penalty of one year’s imprison
ment without the option of paying a fine.
Mayor McDonald has written the governor, ad
vising him that the details connected with registra
tion day will be fully taken care of in Seward, and
that all services for the occasion have been volunteer
ed and there will be no expense whatever accrue to
the federal or territorial governments as a result of
signing up the eligibles in this precinct.
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INSURANCE INSTEAD OF PENSION
(By United State* Cable)
.... WASHINGTON, Monday, June 4.—Plans for issuing
a $4,000 free government insurance policy on the life of
every American soldier and sailor during the war, in lieu
of pension arrangements has been taken up by council for
national defense. f
MAJOR DAVISON APPOINTED
MILITARY INSPECTOR; ROAD
BOARD GOES TO JUNEAU
Major P. W. Davison of Valdez, dis
bursing officer of the Alaska road
commission, is in receipt of orders
from Adjutant General McCabe, U. S.
A., to take up the work as inspector
instructor of military affairs in Alas
ka, and to enable him the better to
carry out his additional duties the
transfer of the Alaska road commis
sion from Valdez to Juneau has been
ordered. This order was issued at
Washington on May 29.
The Alaska national guard is to be
raised generally under the federal law
and particularly under the territorial
law recently enacted at Juneau. It is
expected that Major Davison will be
named adjutant general of the terri
tory, but for the present will be de
tailed as inspector instructor.
The Valdez Prospector declines to
accept military causes as the reason
for the transfer of the road commis
sion to Juneau, but blames Delegate
Wickersham, printing the following
comment:
“While many rumors are in the air
in regard to the cause of the removal
of the road commission headquarters
to Juneau, the fact remains that the
real cause of the removal dates back
many months, before the recent dele
gate election. The mbvement was in
augurated by Valentine at Juneau,
and was introduced at the capital by
former Delegate Wickersham, who
believed that the best interests of the
territory could be served by central
izing the federal offices at the terri
torial capital. To this end the ad
jutant general was petitioned to es
tablish quarters at Juneau, provided
the citizens of that place would fur
nish a site for same without expense
to the government, which was done.
An effort was made by citizens of
Valdez to block this attempt to steal
our payrolls, but the movement had
gained such headway that it wras im
possible to stem the strong political
influence brought to bear upon .the
government, and orders wrere issued
transferring the headquarters to the
capital.
“While this is a serious blow to the
town it nowise is as fatal as at first
appears, a sub-ot'fiee will be fnain
tained in Valdez, and work on. the
main artery to the interior will be con
tinued the same as planned. Mr. John
Zugg will be in charge of the com
mission’s affairs at this point, and
Zugg will be ably assisted by Thomas
Bell, who has been with the commis
sion for some time and is thoroughly
familiar with the work of the com
mission. Many thousands of dollars
will be spent on the highway from
Valdez to Fairbanks, and it will be
placed in first class condition for auto
travel as fast as the funds can be
used for this work.”
REFERENDUM ON
BONE-DRY LAW
SEATTLE, Monday, June 4.—Peti
tions filed seem to be sufficient to
force the new “bone dry" law to a ref
erendum vote. No announcement will
be made, however, until the check is
completed to ascertain whether it
bears the names of sufficient regist
ered voters.
U. S. FOLLOWING
ITS INSTINCTS,
SAYS PAGE
(By United State* Cable)
LONDON, Friday, June 1.—Am
bassador Page said in a speech here
today that when first leaving to serve
as an ambassador the president gave
him no instructions, but for him to
follow his instincts, and that the
United States was following its in
stincts in joining in the struggle for
civilization.
OLD-TIMER DIES;
HEARTTROUBLE
Nelson Gordon, aged 62, one of the
old time Alaskans, who has been in
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every camp since gold was discovered
on the Yukon, died suddenly Sunday
morning at the Seward General Hos
pital.
Gordon has been living for some
time with the McConnells at Mile 6.
He has been a sufferer from heart
trouble and although his demise was
not unexpected it came more quickly
than had been anticipated.
“Gordon’s Landing” on the Yukon
near the Klondike is said to have been
named for this pioneer. His papers
show that he was through the gold
camps of the northwest states and in
; British Columbia in early days. Just
before he died Gordon asked that his
effects be brought to the hospital and
Gus Borgen went for them in his auto
only to find the owner dead on his
return.
KRONSTAD ADDS TO RUSSIA’S WOE,
BUT ARMY STILL BUSY; 400 DIE;
WHEAT WAREHOUSES BURN
(By Lnited SUtci Cable)
PETROGRAD, Monday, June 4.—“Kronstadt will be
morally boycotted, outlawed and cut off from the rest of
the empire unle&3 it withdraws its defiance to the pro
visional government,” declared Minister of Justice Pel
veizeff today in discussing recent action taken by the
commander of the fortress and his officers. Krondstadt
is an isolated fortification controlling the approach to
this city from the gulf of Finland.
Troubles of all kinds are inflicting Russia, accord
ing to the local papers.
Four hundred people succumbed to alcoholism fol
lowing the looting of wine cellars and factories at Troitsk
according to the Novoe Vremya (newspaper.)
Reports from the Minsk region state that 3,000,000
bushels of wheat were destroyed as a result of forest
and brush fires in that vicinity.
One rift of the cloud of misfortune came, however,
in the report of Minister of War Kerensky, who has just
arrived at Kiev from a tour of the western front.
“Reports of widespread fraternization between Rus
sian soldiers and troops of the kaiser and emperor of
Austria have been greatly exaggerated,” declared the
minister. “Our armies, while handicapped in the matter
of supplies, are making a strong stand against the enemy
and are pressing him vigorously wherever possible.”
BORDEN FAVORS
JOINT MINISTRY
OTTAWA, Can., Monday, June 4.—
Premier Borden has invited Laurier,
I leader of the opposition, to assist in
the formation of a coalition ministry.
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NORTHWESTERN
BRINGS LARGE
CARGO HERE
The S. S. Northwestern with 110
tons of freight for local merchants
and 200 tons of cans and boxes and
equipment for the San Juan Fishing
and Packing company arrived at an
early hour this morning and sailed
this afternoon for westward.
Passengers arriving include Daisy
O'Neil, J. W. Meehan, Mrs. Ray Walk
er, C. A. Ramsay, Mrs. Castle, Mrs.
B. Day, Mrs. Burns, Mrs. Gray, Gus
Gillis, Ray Ashland, M. Mayer, Mrs.
Mayer, W. E. Austin, J. J. Casey, C.
E. Ransom, William Pellister and 8
steerage.
BOATS AND TRAINS
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The Admiral Watson is due to ar
rive from the south at 8 o'clock to
night.
The Northwestern arrived at 4
o'clock this morning and sailed this
afternoon for Cook inlet,
i The S. S. Crook, sailing from the
inlet tomorrow night, will not call
here.
The Alameda is due at Juneau to
morrow morning.
There will be no train out the line
before Sunday owing to construction
work on the line.
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THE WEATHER
Yesterday.
Maximum ....>.*47
Minimum .~.41
Current .-....44
Weather.Cloudy
Wind....South
Precipitation.47
WEATHER TOMORROW
Unsettled.
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