* Seward the Ideal Tourist * >- ! * Seward the Gateway tn mi *
* Town of Alaska. Hunting— * * the Terminal of, the Kfafc* •
* Fishing and Scenery— Best * * 1st Section in ilMklt
* in the Territory. * and Past mlkaf— SiW *
*********** ♦*****#♦•**
\
Daily Edition, and The Alaska Weekly Post
~ "VOLUME XIV, NUMBER 181.” ~ SEWARD. ALASKA^TUESDAYrOCtOBERlg, 192(1. \ TEN CENTS PM TOFf
I
1 •
WUANCK1.I.S' TROOPS MEET
WITH REVERSE
.
SKBASTAlT)OL, Oct.. l‘>— The j
forces of General \V 1 angel! were d‘>
. »
feated today in a bloody buttle to!
possession of tlv* budge head at »vU
khova. Heavy losses in killed and
wounded on both sides. Wraagel.s
forces lost muon valuable ma*ei iui
when they were forced to »‘••treat be
hind the Dnieper liver teriitorv, whici*
Wrangell stii! controls. A ihop.*tch
says that the BoUheviki troops in this
s r*tiom4«»f!gfeti?!jrtliuh*r pcifTTnai
command of Trotsky.
An official of the French Military
Mission in Poland has stated that the
Polish army would have been conquer
ed by the bolshevik armies of Russia
if the French had not supported the
Poles. This notwithstanding the fact
that the Poles beat back the Russian
drive on Warsaw'.
The French official based his sta
tement upon his belief that the Rus
sian army was superior to the Polish
array as an effective lighting machine,
with the exception of t Me Gorman
trained troops of Posen. T-he french
man said he believed the Russian or
ganization has been, and still is, un
tier estimated and because ol this
tendency to belittle the Russian arm
ies the menace to Poland’s existence,
if not to all Western Europe, remains
imminent and real.
The official said some Russian un
its were poorly equipped but it was
not true the army was “a barefoot
rabble.” He was convinced the ma
jority of the Russian divisions were*
“well-organizod units of good-fight
ing men, much better officered than
the Poles.” The Poles had 25,000 of
ficers but only 5,000 of them ever i
went to the front although they were j
sorely needed thre, he said. There was j
evidence that certain Polish compan j
ies had fought without officers, he as- j
serted, and that during the retreat ;
►
these were without commanders.
An American artillery officer who •
had spent a year in Russia and had
been under fire at the Polish front
told the correspondent he had seen the
Poles “plant their artillery in the most
ridiculous places, on the exposed sides
of hills and right in the open, when
they could have readily concealed it
and made>t effective.”
A neutral aviator who had flown
over the front several times when
“battles” were said to be in progress
said what he saw of the fighting was
“two armies keeping about three
hours apart, the Poles retreating when
►Mhe Russians advanced, and the Rus
sians running when the Poles turned
and advanced.” He said this “schedule
sometimes got disarranged and there
• ~— •
It mi fully 00- Why sot Now?
\\ EAT HER R EPORT
I
• i
SEWARD 40 Cloudy Calm.
A mho ag 25 Pt. Cloudy Caim.
.uatanuska 44 Cloudy Strong East.
Chickaloon 20 Clear Calm.
»v a>ilia '22 Clear East.
laikeetna 22 Clear East.
Aiolucreek 40 Cloudy East.
iiut iicanc 20 Snowing Calm.
Suaiaiii 20 Snowing North.
hcaly 22 Cloudy East.
No.‘ana 20 Clear South.
Fuirbauk. 26 Clear South.
was a collision between opposing de
Lucitmen.s.” but he had not witnessed
any of these clashes.
A number of Polish officers with
whom the correspondent talked said
dioy were forced to admit the French
saved the day but the weakness of
Jieir officers was explained by the
fact that in former years Poles hact ^
not been permitted to hold commis
sions in the array, either in Russian,
German or Austrain Poland, and that
die time had been too short to develop
a staff of highly trained officers.
OPEN TRAILS IN SOUTHEAST
ERN END OF ALASKA
I
<Cordova Times)
/
Charles H. Flory, superintendent ol*
Alaska forests has returned to Ket
jchik&n from Juneau where he has
been for several weeks in connection
with the development of the pulp and
paper industry in Alaska. He was ma
rooned in the capitol city for a week
owing to the transportation situation.
Mr. Flory announced, says the
Chronicle, that he proposed to open
up trails to all water power sites
in Southeastern Alaska as soon as
possible. The trails will be intend
ed to give prospective investors an
opportunity to see the country's re
sources for themselves, and also
to open the country to the prospec
tor, trapper and sportsman.
Millions of people are going to the
national forests in the states for
recreational purposes every year. It
is one of the functions of the forest
service to open up the forests for
the use of the pebp'le.
During the past year approximate
; ly $38,000 has been expended by the
forest service on trails and roads
in the vicinity of Ketchikan. This
amount does not include the work
done by the bureau of roads, anoth
er branch of the agricultural de
partment which took over road con
, struction work last spring.'
, • ,t
Eventually Oil. Why not New?
FRANCE DENIES
GIVING AUTHORITY
'' WASHINGTON, Oct., 19— Count
I Dearborn the French Ambassador at
I Washington assured the state depart
ment today that the French govern
ment had not given to any one the au
thority to approach Senator Harding
or any other private individual with
the offer of making him leader in a
new association for worlds peade.
Dearborn further told undersecretary
i
Davis that he was assured that liic j
French Government had delegated no
spokesman either formally or inform
ally nor officially or officially to dis- J
cuss the League question. ^
j
VANCOUVER MAYOR MISSING
VANCOUVER Wash.. Oct., 19— *
All efforts-to find mayor G. R. Fui ri
val who disappeared last Sunday have
proved fruitless. All the business
houses in the city are closed this after
noon and ail the citizens are engaged
in a systematic hunt. The Columbia
«
River is being dragged.
AMERICAN STEAMER BURNS
LONDON, Oct., 19— It is reported
today that the American steamer
Burnside is burning. The crew aband
oned Jhe burning steamer.and landed
safely.
J_*__
DEMAND WILSON ACT
SPOKANE, Oct., 19— The Central
Labor Council of this city sent a tele
gram to President Wilson today de
manding immediate amnesty for all
political prisoners convicted during
the war un<r.t the Espionage Act.
-:<•
DRAFT EVADERS HEARD
WASHINGTON, Oct., 19— The
military authorities have disposed of
the cases of more than one hundred
and sixty three thousand draft evad
i
ers. Approximately the same number
of cases remain among those who have
not yet been apprehended.
CALIFORNIA FIRM INTERESTED
REVAL, Esthonia, Oct., 19— It is
reported today that the Washington
Vanderlip interests of Hollywood, Cal
ifornia have agents in Russia at the
present time securing coal and other
mineral concessions. At Kamchatka
and other places these agents are get
ting concessions in behalf of an asso
ciation of Western bankers.
-o—
HARDING TO FINISH IN OHIO
MARION, Ohio, Oct, 19— Senator
Harding will wind up his campaign
next week with a four day speaking
trip through Ohio. Both the Republic
an National Committee and the Sen
ator feel confident over the results of
the coming election.
\
Wanted one coaptete oil diiUteg •ntftt
-♦- i
WORTH
KNOWING
CHICAGO, Oct., 19— The big issue
.n the Socialist campaign this fall is
is usual private ownership of the
n :ans of production, Otto Brans tetter,
lutionul secretary and campaign man
ager of the Socialist party, said here
od: ty discussing the Socialist cam
paign.
Tin* League of Nations issue was
. a#fcv,s! by *he Soemh**ts -n*rIA*argely
januniliage,” he said. The party fell
.nat the league fue.stion had been in
troduced by the old parties largely to
.uoiid the issues and keep the people's
attention oil domestic issues.
Eugene V. Debbs, the Socialist pre
sidential candidate, in prison at Atlan
ca, Ga., was not advising in the con^
duct of the campaign to any extent.
Use was being made in party litera
ture of what he said to Socialists vis
iting him.
Thu chief speaker in the campaign
«>$ tli** vice-presidential candidate, Sey
mour Stedman, of Chicago, reenforced
by 40 speakers or more under the na
tional organization. He has completed
a tour of the southwest and on Sep
tember 1, started for th Pacific, coast.,
After making a round of the central
states he plans to go east about Oct.,
si1 for the balance of the campaign.
Secretary Branstetter said the par
ty expected to be on the ballot in prac
tically every state where it has pre
viously had a vote of any consequence.
It does not expect at this time to get
on the ballot in Vermont, Louisiana,
New Mexico, South Dakota, Idaho and
possibly in several other states in the
s6uth ana west.
The three big states this fall from
S the Socialist standpoint , Branstettei;
said, are New York, Wisconsin and
Oklahoma. He said the party expected
to poll a larger vote in these states
than ever before.
* A large part of the party member
ship outside of the foreign language
^federation has come back, the Social
ist executive reported, referring to the
split, last Fall which resulted in for
mation of the Communist Party and
the Communist Labor Party.
No policy of concentration m op
tions where Socialist sentiment is
strong will be carried on by national
headquarters, according to the party
secretary. He said that the national
office was making the campaign as
general as it could, leaving concentra#
tion to the state organizations, which
could undoubtedly carry on such a
policy in New York, Oklahoma and
Wisconsin.
* •
Boost Seward bat Ntm Km*..
. - ' "
.
LONDON ANXIOUSLY WAITS
LONDON, Oct. 19— The eyes of
Great Britain are today centered anx
iously upon the first session of parlia
ment after its summer recess. The
people arc hoping that some action
might open the way to end the coal
strike which is hitting the vitals of
the economic structure of the nation.
Meanwhile the government is receiv
ing thousands of offers from men and
women whose npmes were registered
as helpers during the war in the rain
.sti y of food and transport.
FUNERAL PROCESSION LIMITED
CORK, Oct., 19— During the fun
eral ceremonies for Fitzgerald the
hunger striker who died Sunday the
priest who was saying the requiem
mass was dejayed by an army officer
who "With drawn revolver and accom
panied by soldiers with rifles forced
his way through the dense throng that
filled the church and presented. the
priest with a document from head
quarters which stated that the num
ber of persons in the funeral proces
sion must be limited to one hundred
and they must not march in military
formation.
-o
HUNTERS WITNESS
BULL MOOSE BATTLE
W. D. Burden, C. V. Whitney and
L. Lorter, big game hunters from
New York, while hunting moose
oiy the peninsula last week, wit
nessed something seldom seen by
hunters— two bull moose battling for
mastery of the herd, says the Alaskan
One band of more than a hundred
moose was sighted, and a short way
off a band of thirty, led by a bull
having a 70-inch spread of antlers ap
proached. The hunters and guids
noticed the bulls seperate from the
herds and enter the arena. After the
usual preliminaries of snorts and
threats they approached to within
about twenty feet and charged with
antlers lowered and came together
with terrific compact. The leader of
the lesser heard was thrown back
upon his haunches with a deep gash
in his forehead. His antagonist, with
true gall entry, stood aloft and did not
charge again. As the old bull sat there
the herd sniffed around him disdain
fully and transferred their adulation
to the sturdy young champion. The
old bull arose, accompanied by the
i
lone cow and staggered away. A bul
'let ended his career and the hunters
are taking the horns back %o the
states. N
During the combat the banters and
guides stood |n full view, but the
animals seemed oblivious o all save
the mastery of the glen.
—Cordova Times.
I
4
(SEWARDS fS OTSf
.. ... ■ ■ 4
Carl D. Pollock and F. R. Martin
who have been in Seward during the
past few days on business returned to
Anchorage on the Gateway Flier this
morning.
Bob Guest the local guardian of
peace went to Anchorage this morning
on the train in quest of a new tooth.
This is Bobs "first trip away from
Seward for many moons and it is to
be hoped that the excitement of a
large town will not cause him to be
come dissatisfied.
Harry Ellsworth received word
from Monroe Caste df the Cash Creek
country yesterday saying that the
past season had been very successful.
Rich pay dirt was found on Poor
and the whole McKinley country is en
joying prosperity.
Election of new officers for the
local branch or^the American Legion
will be held at the City Hall tonight
at 7:30. Every member is requested to
be present.
Locals
Father Markham returned to An
chorage this morning after a stay of
several days in Seward.
Udel, the local dairyman shipped
four heifers this morning on the Gate
way flier.
The Alameda is on its way north
with about thirty five tons of freight
for Seward.
About twenty five passengers left
on the train this morning for Anchor
age and way points.
Alameda left Cordova 3 A. M. for
Valdes.
«
' The Alaska transfer wagons are
busy these days hauling wood. Winter
is coming and the people are laying in
a good supply.
An enormous number of reindeer
have died on the Siberian coast last
winter according to news received it
Nome recently, in some cases natives
lost as high as 80/100 head. The gla
cial condition of the ranges is report
ed to have starved the deer to death,
they not being able to paw thru the
ice>
LONDON, Oct, 10— The daughter
of Sylvia Pankhumt the noted saffrar
gette was arrested this morning on the
charge of publishing seditious litera
ture.