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Volume XI Number 202. _SEWARI). ALASKA. MONDAY, AUGUST 20,1917._Ten Cents the Copy
FRENCH START GENERAL ATTACK VERDUN
GENERAL I.W.W.
STRIKE STARTS
IN NORTHWEST
Some Workers Decide Not to ro Out
_Others Decide to l ake
Vote
Bl'LLETlX
(By A»«xilUd I’m, Dispatch'
SPOKANE. Aug. 20.—Reports from
1'astern Washington and Northern
Idaho indicate few industries were
« vected by the Industrial Workers’
ike. ‘ _
SPOKANE. Aug. 20.—The general
strike of Industrial Workers ot the
World in the four Northwest States
began this morning without disorder,
the “workers” simply refusing to go
to work.
Secretary Rowan, of the local
branch and twenty-six members were
arrested last night.
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SATISFIED AT SEATTLE
(By Aaaociated Prcma Di»patch>
SEATTLE, Aug. 20. — Industrial
Workers in this district are not strik
ing today, as the result of the recent
release of members jailed for minor
offences.
In Central Washington construction
workers will not strike until after a
referendum vote is taken.
COURT OPENS,
ONE DIVORCE
IS GRANTED
Several Cases Dismissed from Civil
Calendar Appeal is
Denied
Court was convened this morning.
Judge Fred M. Brown presiding, and
the civil calendar was called. For the
Seward term Derrick Lane is court
crier and Frank Skeen bailitf.
The following petit jurors \nen
tailed and accepted for service: S. L.
Colwell, C. C. Cooper, C. J. Bradshaw,
H. K. Rasmussen, I-. W. Lloyd, 1* rank
Lyons, Sam McDonald, A. H. Ihoday,
F. L. Torrey and W. W. Jones. Three
subpoened were excused.
The case of Gaston • Hardy vs.
Amelia Hardy for divorce was heard,
the court reserving his decision to a
later date.
Decree of divorce was granted to
Vira Williamson, of Anchorage, from
George Williamson.
On the appeal of the case of Chas.
Mattheus vs. Tallas Tallison, the de
murrer of Attorney Kay for the plain
tiff was upheld and the case dis
missed. The following cases were dis
missed from the calendar:
Carlson vs. the Skeen-Lechner Min
ing Co; Maud Roycroft vs. Frank
Roycroft; Catherine Roycroft vs. F.
L. Ballaine; Emily Miller vs. Chas.
Daggette; Columbia Salmon Co. vs.
Emil Berg; and Town of Seward vs.
George Turner.
The case of Schwabacher Bros. vs.
Joel Morris was continued to the next
term of court.
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WOMEN’S PATRIOTIC
LEAGUE WILL MEET
Mrs. J. Lindley Green, on advices
received in a letter from Mrs. Strong,
wife of the Governor, has called a
meeting of the Women’s Patriotic
League to be held Wednesday after
noon in Pioneer Hall.
This league has to do with war
work in the homes. Knitted garments
are needed by the men going into the
trenches and the aid of all is desired.
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NOTICE
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Thamber of Commerce Luncheon ,j
30 o’clock Tuesday, August 21,
Seward Grill. All members ex- n
ted to be present.
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MUST TREBLE
OUTPUT or
DESTROYERS
Secretary Daniels Planning to Wage
War With Chief Enemy of
Submarine
(By Associated Press Dispatch)
WASHINGTON. Aug. 20.— Secre
tary Daniels and representatives of
twenty-five ship and engine building
concerns are conferring today on the
immediate expansion of building fa
cilities to double or treble the output
of American torpedo boat destroyers
within the next eighteen montahs.
Secretary Daniels says that the de
stroyer is the one arm of the service
really feared by submarines.
ALL ALASKAN
MAIL ROUTE
BIDS CALLED
Railroad Adds to Importance of Dis
tribution from the Seward
Office
Call has been issued by the post
oftice department for bids on all Alas
kan mail routes for the period of July
1, 11)18, to July 30, 1022.
The most important contracts for
this vicinity, outside the Scattle
Seward contract, which will go to the
steamship companies, is the Seward
Iditarod winter run, which by the time
the new contract is let, can be handled
by rail for nearly one-third of the dis
tance.
Other proposed winter routes in
this vicinity are from Seward to Ke
nai via Roosevelt, from Seward to
! Hope and Sunrise, Seward to Anchor
| age.
The all-year run from Seward to
western Alaska and the summer run
over the same route, including Bristol
bay points, will also be open to bid.
Alternate routes for two of the win
ter contracts are Ruby to Iditarod, the
mail being previously delivered oyer
the Valdez-Fairbanks trail, the Homer
to Kenai, mail being previously de
livered to Seldovia by boat.
There is little chance of the Sow
! ard-Iditarod route being abandoned,
however, owing to the constantly in
creasing railroad facilities in that di
rection.
One error in calling for bids over
this interior route as shown by those
experienced in trail work, is that it
runs a month too long in the spring.
Before the April run can be complet
ed it is late in May, the trains have
gone to pieces and the streams high.
The contract should run from No
vember 1st to April 1st.
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ATTORNEY MOOERS LEAVES
ON BUSINESS TRIP
Attorney Clifford Mooers will leave
soon for a two months’ business trip
to the States. As secretary of our
Chamber of Commerce he will call
upon the different commercial bodies
that have co-operated so effectively
with Seward’s organization in advanc
ing the interests of this section of
Alaska. During Mr. Mooer’s ab
sence Mr. L. L. James, Jr., will act as
secretary-treasurer of the Chamber.
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HOTEL SEXTON INSTEAD
OF COLEMAN HOTEL
George Sexton announces the
change in name of his establishment
from the Coleman hotel to the Hotel
Sexton.
The hotel was named for the man
who first owned and ran it, and is
one of the old landmarks, but as
George is equally well known it will
not take long to get used to The Hotel
Sexton.
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Mayor Samuel McDonald returned
Saturday evning after a prolonged
business trip to Anchorage.
0. B. FOR RED
CROSS WIRES
Messages of Organization to go Over
Federal Wire Without
Charge
(By Associated Press Dispatch)
JUNEAU, Aug. 20.—Red Cross
messages are to be handled free here
after over the government cable and
telegraph lines in Alaska, according
to a letter received by Mrs*. J. F. A.
Strong from Dr. John L. Clymer, di
rector for the Pacific Division of the
National Red Cross Society. All mes
sages of the Red Cross will be given
the status of official business.
While Mrs. Strong was in Washing
ton she urged that this be done and
has received the following letter from
Doctor Clymer:
mrougn your enorts tne American
Red Cross has been granted govern
ment rights over government lines in
your Territory. We are enclosing a
copy of the authorization granted by
George H. Brett, captain of the Sig
nal Corps, Washington, D. C.
“We are also this day communi
cating with the Western Union Tele
graphy company at San Francisco to
see if we can not s ecu re the same
privilege in the Pacific coast division.
“The Division wishes to congratu
late you upon your splendid work for
the Red Cross.”
OPEN ROAD
BIDS AUG. 28
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Construction on Territorial Work
Will he Started Early Next
Month
Bids for the construction of a wag
on road under direction of the Ter
ritorial road commission, from a point
north of Resurrection river on the
Seward-Kenai highway and extending
to Hoffman’s ranch will be opened
August 28th.
The construction work proposed also
includes a 96-foot pile bridge across
Salmon river 4377 feet from the high
way. The length of road to be con
structed is about two and a half miles.
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FI RE/CAUSES MILLION
LOSS ON NORWEGIAN -SHIP
(By Associated Praas Dispatch)
NEW YORK, Aug. 20. — Fire
caused by spontaneous combustion
damaged the Norwegian steamship
Christian Bors to the extent of $1,
000,000 today.
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1492—THE SPIRIT UNCONQUERABLE—1917.
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—Carter in Philadelphia Prese.
ABANDONS TRIP
ACROSS PASS
Rev. Munro Turns Rack After Two
Drown While Crossing
Chulitna River
Rev. H. C. Munro, of the Commun
ity Christian church, returned from
westward on the Admiral Watson,
having decided not to attempt the
trip alone over Rroad Pass.
Rev. Munro witnessed the drowning
of one man and was near when an
other was drowned the same day on
the upper Chulitna.
Fred Mills, the first man to lose
his life, was one of seven coming out
from Nenana who attempted to cross
the Chulitna on a pole. Their feet
were swept out from under them and
all but Mills succeeded in reaching
the bank.
Nels Sanderson, working with
Huff’s survey party for the govern
ment railroad, was drowned during
the construction of a temporary
bridge. The men were not able to get
the key log clear across and Sander
son endeavored to get across and help
pull it over. He lost his footing and
became terrified, and hung on in the
water, out of reach of the men ashore
until he became so weakened that he
let go and was drowned.
Hearing that another river on the
Nenana side was worse than the Chu
litna, Rev. Munro decided to turn
back. Attorney Murphy, of Anchor
age, who went in ahead of Rev. Mun
ro, made his way across the Pass but
lost his pack in the streams and was
forced to live on blue berries for sig
days until a prospector with a horse
came along and helped him across on
his way to Nenana. _
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BOTH MISSED
HONORS EVEN
Suh and American Boat Exchange
Compliments in Mid
Ocean
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(By Asiocis trd PrrM Dispatch)
AN ATLANTIC PORT, Auff. 20.—
An American steamer arriving today
reports being attacked by a subma
rine while in mid-ocean, a torpedo
passing within a few feet of the rud
der. The gun crew aboard the steam-j
er fired twice at the submarine but
missed.
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ADVANCING ALONG 14
MILE FRONT-ITALIANS
DRIVE ON ISONZO LINE
(By Associated Press Dispatch)
PARIS, Aug. 20, (Oflicial).—The
French army at Verdun commenced
an attack in force over an extended
front on both banks of the Meuse
early this morning.
Advices from field headquarters at
eight o’clock stated that gains had
been made over an eleven-mile front.
Prisoners began arriving at the rear
of the French lines an hour after the
signal for advance.
The advance covers territory from
Le Mort Homme (Dead Man’s Hill),
along the Boise de Corbeaux and
Boise de Ci to the Meuse and east of
the Meuse through the village of
Champneuville and along the Corte de
Talou to Louvemont and Bezonvaux.
This includes all of the sector di
rectly north of Verdun where the Ger
mans approached closest to tne main
fortress in their grand attack of Feb
ruary 1916.
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BERLIN GIVES VERSION
OF VERIH N ATTACK
(By Aaaocintcd Prraa Diapatch)
BERLIN, Aug. 20, (Official).—The
French forces at Verdun occupied Ta
lou ridge on the Verdun front this
morning without lighting, the German
forces having been withdrawn to a
stronger position in anticipation of
the attack in force.
Fighting is now in full swing on
each side of the Meuse river over a
front of fourteen miles.
ITALIANS HIT AT SAME
TIME ALONG ISONZO
(By Associated Press Dispatch)
ROME, Aug. 20, (Official).—An
Italian mass offensive on the Isonzo
front has crossed the Isonzo and al
ready captured 7,500 prisoners.
GERMANS REPORT GAIN
AGAINST ROLMAMA
(By Associated Press Dispatch)
BERLIN, Aug. 20, (Official).—Teu
ton forces have repulsed the Rouma
nian on both sides of the Oituzz val
ley and toward the Trots valley, tak
ing 3700 prisoners.
HALF OF WALLED CITY
DESTROYED BY FIRE
(By Associated Press Dispatch)
LONDON, Aug. 20.—Over half of
the wallet! city of Sargee Saloniki, in
Macedonia, which was occupied by the
Entente allies, was destroyed by fire
today, rendering 80,000 people home
less.
TWO YEARS FOR
DRAFT BOARD
CONSPIRATORS
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Pair of New Yorkers Land In Prison
For Trying Seditious
Plan
(By Associated Press Dispatch)
NEW YORK, Aug. 20.—I)r. S. J.
Bernfeld, and Louis Cherey, members
of the military draft exemption board
in District 99, who were charged with
a conspiracy to obstruct the draft law,
pleaded guilty today, when they were
about to be placed on c.iai. Ejuh re
ceived a sentence of two years in the
federal prison at Atlanta, Georgia.
MEAT SUPPLY
GROWS LESS
Problem of Furnishing Allies With
Enough to Eat Growing
Difficult
(By Associated Press Dispatch)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20. — The
problem of supplying meat for the;
Allies, which is devolving mainly upon
the United States, is growing daily
more onerous, according to the food
administration.
European herds have been greatly
diminished. Since the war began the
world’s supply of animals for food
purposes, including beeves, sheep and
hogs, has been decreased 400,000,000
head.
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BRITISH MfNERS DECIDE
NOT TO SEND DELEGATES
(By Associated Press Dispatch)
EXMOUTH, Eng., Aug. 20.—'The
British National Conference of the
miners’ federation decided today by a
close vote that the British Labor
Party would not be represented at the
Socialist Conference at Petrograd.
This vote reverses previous action on
the question.
School will open for the 1917-18
term on Tuesday, September 4, Mon
day being a holiday,
FORMER CZAR
AND FAMILY
IN_ SIBERIA
Provisional Government Sends Nicho
las to Tobolsk On Irtish
River
(By Associated Press Dispatch)
PETROGRAD, Aug. 20, (Official).
The provisional government an
nounced today that former Czar
Nicholas and his family have been re
moved to their new residence at To
bolsk, in western Siberia.
Tobolsk is on the Irtish river north
of Omsk the nearest station on the
Trans-Siberian railroad.
GENERAL BURGASSOFF
KILLED IN MUTINY
(By Associated Pcess Dispatch)
PETROGRAD, Aug. 20.—Premier
Kerensky received word this morning
that Russian soldiers on a sector of
the eastern front (name withheld) had
mutinied, and murdered General Cur
gassotT, a veteran commander in ac
tive service since the beginning of the
war.
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BOATS AND TRAINS
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The Admiral Watson sailed south
Saturday night.
The Alameda is due from westward
at six o’clock this evening.
The Victoria sailed from Nome yes
terday and is due Wednesday.
The Santa Ana has not been report
ed at Unalaska yet.
The Admiral Evans is due from the
south about Wednesday.
THE WEATHER
Yesterday.
Maximum ...60
Minimum .-.-..50
Current.-.—53
Precipitation.23
Cloudy. South wind.
WEATHER TOMORROW
Clearing. Cooler.