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Daily Edition, and The Alaska Weekly Post _
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1918. TEN CENTS PER COPY
Volume XI, S'umbei ___ — ■■ -- —- --
TWENTY S fEN ARE
KILLED RESULT OF
RAIDS UPON LONDON
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LONDON, Feb. 18—Two air raids by German planes
have been made upon this city during the past two nights.
Saturday night shortly before midnight two fleets of Gti
man air squadrons appeared over the city suddenly and
during the short time they hovered in the ah, befoie es-,
caping, a large number of bombs were dropped, lho Ad
miralty announces that sixteen persons were killed and
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thirty seven injured.
Last night, with a clear moonlight shining, sixteen
German planes approached the city and began dropping!
bombs. One succeeded in reaching the inner defense and j
was brought down by anti-aircraft guns in a blaze the
crew pensuing.' Eleven persons were killed, it is official
ly announced, and only four were injured. , j
The property damage during both raids was small.
HUNDRED ARE .
DEAD IN RIOT I
AT PETROGRAD
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PETROGRAD, Kcb. IS. — One hun |
<h*ed persons were killed in an all
night battle during which jewelry
stores and wine cellars were pillaged
by marauding soldiers. Forty thou
sand German and Austrian prisoner.*
who were freed by the Councils of
Workmen and Soldier’s delegates in
the smaller Russian towns are now in
iVtrograd. homeless and in dinger ot
starving as a result of riots.
RAILROAD BILL
IS BEING URGED
FOR ENACTMENT
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 18. — Ad-1
ministration leaders in the Senate aie,
urging an early enactment of the Ad
ministration’s railroad bill. The ma
jority leaders have declared that Di
rector General McAdoo is much em
barassed for needed legislation. The
Republicans want to debate the bill.
NEW MINISTER HERE
Seward has a new “niinvu. *'*, that
is many believe a new * Rev.” is in the
city. Expressmen, diners at the Haz
elwood and various attache?' and
guests at the Seward a*e all waning a(
certain man “Rev.” But when he gets
to his room—wow—little blie div:!s
hang all aiound something that is
never tolerated in a ministe? s room.
The man who is mistaken for the
minister is Sam Vaughn who arrived
on the Northwestern and ia going out
on the Pora tomorrow to Una'aska.
His sanctimonious face and the way j
he wears his sweater giving an ap
pearance to his collar of being re
versed like a real mingle*’s is what
causes toe deception. Mr. \aughn i?>
rot a minister by a long >hot.
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I)ANIKI S OPPOSES NAVY
HONORS FOR GARDNER
WASHINGTON, Feb. IS. — Secre
tary Daniels has disapproved the pro
posal to name a first-class destroyer
the Augustus F. Gardner in tribute to
the former representative from Mas
sachusetts, who died while serving as
major of infant ry*
FLOODS CAUSE
DEATH OF MANY:
IN SUGAR LAND
DURBAN, Feb. IS. — Sixty throe]
Europeans are missing and hundreds]
of Indians are probably lost in a flood |
in the Umvolosi sujrar district, Zulu-|
land. This is according to advices re- ■
reived here. The floods struck thej
Anvolos: district last Saturday.
RAILROAD
HURJA QUITS
SECRETARYSHIP I
TO JOIN ARMYj
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WASHINGTON, Feb. IS. — Emil
Edward Hurja, private secretary to j
Charles A. Sulzer, Delegate from;
Alaska, resigned today to accept a
commission as Second Lieutenant in
the aviation section of the United
States Signal Corps. Hurja lias been
ordered to Vancouver Barracks, Wash.
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INSURANCE BLANKS HERE
Kcv. J. J. Patton announced ‘oday
that the Home Department oi the
Red Cross has received a large num
ber of insurance blanks for enlisted
men and if they or their families wish
to secure the benefits of the govern
ment insurance they can do so. The
1 time for securing this insurance ex
pired on Feb. Pith, but President Wil
son, by proclamation, h:i.. extended
the limit to April 12th.
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FISH QUOTATIONS
SEATTLE, Feb. 18. — Fish quota
tions at noon today were as follows:
! Halibut 25 cents, sable six cents, ling:
' cod four cents, pickled sable $20 a
barrel and pickled herring: $11 a bar
rel.
KETCHIKAN, Feb. 18. —Fish quo
tations today noon were halibut six
teen and one half cents, sable four
cents and red rock two cents.
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U STRIAN “FIREBUG”
INTERNED IN TR1SCO
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 18. —John
Serkora, the Austrian arrested by the
! police here recently for setting: fire to
a box car, has been interned at Ansel
Island, by Federal authorities anting
on a Presidential warrant.
OBSERVATION POST IN THE VOSGES
• Vi.;..iPhoto by. .■
\\V«atern N*w*paper Union ::
This is a well-organized observation post of the French in the Vosgee
mountains.
A
KIEV IS CAPTURED
BY BOLSHEVIKI IN
A THREE DAY SEIGE
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NORTHERN WILL
OPEN TO PUBLIC
NOONTOMORROW
'Flu Northern will open tomorrow
at noon, according to announcement
made this afternoon by Mr. Whitte
more. The painters will complete
their work by this evening and tomor
row forenoon will be spent in making
ihe neces^aiy addition and gencrJlv
fixing up the final details. The North
ern has been refitted at a cost of
many thousands of dollars and i^> one
of the best billiard places in Alaska
The card rooms at one side of the long
pool and billiard ro»>. i are fitted up
conveniently and with even consid
eration for the players.
BED CROSS IS i
BEING FORMED
OVER AT UNGA!
The patriotic people of Unga are
organizing a Red Cross chapter. O»eo.
Sexton received on the Dora Saturday!
afternoon a letter from Charles Mc
Callum, United States Deputy Mar-,
shal at that place announcement that
19 had joined in one day and on the i
next trip of the Dora a fuither list|
would be sent here. Mr. McCallum
* sent the memberships collected which
amounted to $*‘»5 and the names ot
i those who had joined as follows: Miss!
Mary Torgiamsen, Charles McCallum,
Barney Symonds, Peter Larsen, C. E. j
| Sjoberg and wife, Conrad Lauritzen,
Harold Lauritzen, rs. H. L. Laurit-j
zer, Mrs. A. Komedal, Mrs. K. Knut
sen, Laurits Pederson, Mrs. V. Vin
cent, F. C. Driffield, Miss Alice Lar
sen, Mrs. E. Pearson, Mrs. Eliza
Oberg, Mrs. F. Krone and Mrs. A.
i Wilson.
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New Local Members
Geortre Sexton ha* written member
ships in the local chapter of the Red
Cross as follows: Garry Bach, $1;
Charles F. Nelson, 42; Otto A. Lar
son, $2; Manuel Vincent, $2; F. P.
Skeen, $1 and Frank Miller, $2.
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PETUOGRAD, Feb. 18. — The Dol
sheviki forces have captured Kiev ac
cording to oMicial advices received
here this afternoon. There was san
guinary fighting for three days. The
streets are tilled with the dead and
wounded.
The Poles have defeated the Bol
'ihoviki at Robruiske, eighty miles
southeast of Minsk. Other forces if
Poles are advancing toward Smolensk.
The Rumanians are in control of the
Akkerman district in Bessarabia and
are said to be threatening Od* . sa.
Kiev is one of the principal cities
in little Russia, otherwise known as
Ukrania. The city is at the point
where trie Desna river empties into
the Dniester river. Late press dis
patches this afternoon state that Bol
sheviki aviators bombed t»ie city for
severai hours before the Doops enter
ed the city and look possession, houi
thousand are reported to have been
killed and seven thousand were
wounded. The Ukranians last week
signed a peace treaty against the in
structions of the Bolsheviki.
RAISE SHEEP
AT UNALASKA
IS THEIR PLAN
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To further the experiment of rais
ing sheep on the Aleutian Islands, A.
L. Mackintosh and S. T. Vaughn of
Bend, Oregon, and Harry Tucker, of
Portland, experienced sheep men, are
guests at the Seward, having arrived
; here on the Northwestern. The three
men will ieave fo. TJnalaakn tcmor ow
on the Dora. The company is headed'
by Dr. Andrew Smith, capitalist of J
; Portland who plans to engage in sheep
i raising in the north on a large scale
provided the experiments are satis
factory.
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WILL SOON BE WEDDED
i G. Dudley Allen, representative of
; the Tru-Blu Biscuit company, who
left on the Evans this morning for the
south, will be married :>n the firat of
the month to Mrs. Alma MciLiui,
formerly Alma McGee, of Skagway.
Mr. and Mrs. Allen expect to come!
north and make Juneau their future^
heme.
AMERICAN SECTOR
"STARTLED OVER A
GERMAN MANE11VRE
PARIS, Feb. 18.—As the time for more active opera
tions against the enemy is approaching, the American
forces are widening their scope of work. They are now
being placed along the western iine and are not only hold
ing a complete sector against the Germans east of St.
Michael but the American artillery is strongly placed in
positions with the French in the Champagne district.
On one American sector, name deleted, the Germans
tried various ruses in an endeavor to outwit the newcom
ers. The Germans tapped and destroyed telephone lines
and sent up false signals. The Huns also charged the wire
entanglements with electricity. The enemy was out
maneuvered each time.
It was announced today that the places destroyed by
the Germans on the American lines of telegraph wires
has caused an investigation. One of the enemies wires
were found attached to the American wire. It is not per
mitted to disclose how the wire was attached buf there
is talk among the Americans of a “spy hunt” among their
numbers.
PERSHING VISITS FIRST TRENCHES
WITH THE AMERICANS AT THE FRONT, Feb.
18. — Wearing a tin hat and gas mask, Major General
John J. Pershing has just completed a two day’s inspec
tion of an American sector at the very front lines. This
visit is said to have been in the sector north of Toul. The
American commander walked through the first line
trenches splashing through the mud and slipping over the
ice. He asked an innumerable number of questions es
pecially of the men regarding the food and how they liked
their conditions. All agreed that they were satisfied with
the exception of one cook who wanted more green stuff.
Major General Pershing, through glasses, inspected a
mont in the sector with a German observation on the top.
GERMANS BEGIN
OPERATIONS ON
i RUSSIAN FRONT
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STOCKHOLM, Fob. 18. — The So
cial Dimokraten says that the Get
mans have resumed war measures
against the Russians and one of their
first objectives is reported to be Li
vgia Kstoni.
JAPAN NAMES
NEW MAN AS
AMBASSADOR
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WASHINGTON. Feb. 18. — Vis
count Ishii has been appointed Japan
ese Ambassador to the United Slates
: to succeed Sato, who left for Japan
: several weeks ago. Viscount Ishii is
1 expected to arrive in the Unitec
States soon. The Viscount was in
America two months ago on a mission
for the Japanese government.
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You don’t have to go to the post
office to see people stamping their
feet.
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It’s the unexpected that happens,
• unless you are expecting it.
STRIKE OVER
IN SHIPYARDS
ON ATLANTIC
NEW VORK, Feb. 18. — The strike
of carpenters and joiners in the At
lantic Shipyards is over. The United
Brotherhood of Carpenters <£ Joiners
announced that several thousand nien
are still idle but they are all er.pec4ed
to return to work tomoiT<'w.
SPOKANE NOW
ON WAY NORTH
TO THIS PORT
SEATTLE, Feb. 18. — Steamer Spo
kar.e sailed for Seward and way ports
Sunday forenoon at 10 o’clock with
one day's mail and the following pas
sengers for Seward; Ben Ney and
wife, J. H. Fleishman and T. B. Wat
son.
Captain Johnson is in command of
the Spokane vice Capt. Archie McKay
who will shortly appear before the
United States Steamboat Inspectors
on a charge of unskillfulness in navi
gating the steamer several months
ago when she hit on Idol Point.