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ITStl.lHlIRD DULY. KXi'KPT -I’NIHYH AND HOLIDAY
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The article in the Sunday edition regarding what
Seward has raised for the conduct ot the war should be
digested throiurhly. Here is a little community almost
by itself, giving over $(>5,000. This amount includes
lirst Libertv loan bond, second Libertv loan bond, Third
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Liberty loan bond, war saving certificate stamps and
thrift stamps. And the subscriptions to the third Liberty
loan bond is not completed. Resides all these, think of the
contributions to the Red Cross! This little community,
and there is no other way to express it, for Seward is no*
like other Alaskan towns, no great mining concerns
operating near: no number of large canneries; has sub
scribed liberally and practically all for the townspeople.
Our community takes in the camps along the railroad to
Mile 71 and the other little communities to the westward.
The liberal contributation is a magnificent one showing
the world that we are alive and that all are doing then
bit.
Judging from the war contributions made in Seward
there are many long socks containing the “long green"
and the possessors of these same socks are not all women
either.
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Chas A. Sulzer
\ Candidate For Re-election as
DELEGATE TO CONGRESS
From Alaska
“In deciding to enter the primaries as a candidate for Delegate to
Congress from Alaska, 1 feel impelled to make a brief statement to
the people of the territory. It is now nearly a year since 1 was seated
in the Mouse as Alaska's representative to congress. During the n out
of this time the United States has been engaged in a world war, and
every resource of the nation, including money and man power is or
ing devoted to the single purpose cf winning this great war . Every
member of congress in considering legislation for the nation, has
placed the country's war needs above all needs and requirements and
has subordinated his desires to the military estaolLshment ol he
United States.
“Alaska has responded nobly to the nation's call. She has given
her share v\illingly and unstintingly. When the democratic party
went befoic the people of Alaska in November, nineteen sixteen, it
stood for a certain constructive program which embodied as its prin
cipal elements a wider measure of home rule for the territory, and a
sane and rational policy in the development of natural resources and
every posible aid to the pioneers of the dountiy. •
“I have introduced among others the following bills in congress
k which 1 am pressing for passage as opportunity affords:
“Granting Alaska full territorial form of government with home
rule the dominating principle.
“Regulating the fisheries of Alaska along lines that will be fair
to all and the protection of the ?Mmon supply from depletion.
“Making changes in the homestead laws b^ abolishing the eigiit^
rod reservation.
“Authorizing free surveys of homesteads in isolated sections.
“Changing the game la\ss so as to give the people a better oppor
tunity to use the game of the country without its being slaughtered.
“intending the federal farm loan act to Alaska.
“Providing for the care of Alaska’s insane within the Territory..
“At all tunes 1 have endeavored to keep constantly in mind the
needs of the territory and the people of the territory. In spite of the
war some measure of progress has been achieved. 1 have assisted *u
passing a law which helped the prospector by suspend! tg assessment
x.ork on claims du'-iig the year* nineteen seventeen and nineteen
eighteen. The extension of the wireless and cable system in Alaska has
been accomplished with bright prospects lor a further extension.
“Recognition has been forced lor Alaska in the mattoi of appoint
malts to the second series of training camps for officers. Contracts
which prevented the fanners of the interior from supplying army
posts with their vegetables are cancelled. r
“Suggestions and requests that I again go before the people of
Alaska have come to me from A’arkans all over the territory. Eeit
eiating my desire to serve the best interests of Alaska, I am submit
ting my name as a candidate for the democratic nomination tor
Delegate to Congress.”
PAID ADVERTISEMENT
LA SALLE, ILL., April 2a --Local
pro (iermanism was silenced here last i
nijrht when a crowd of 4(H) or more i
citizens ducked a physician in the ca
.
r.al and ordered him out of town, dos
ed one place of business and wanu*d
l he proprietor of another.
CAMOUFLAGE
QUAKE LEVELS
ALL HOUSES IN
CHINESE TOWN
HONG KONG, April 25 — (By
Mail) — Details of the earthquake
disaster at Swatovv, Feb m ary 17, pub
lished in the China Mail indicated that
almost every house in the Chinese
quarter of the town was demolished
and that the Kuropean district suffer
,d so badly that it will probably be
ne?essary to rebuild most if not all
the houses.
The first shock was felt at about 2
p. m. This seems to have prepared the
buildings for their final and complete
collapse. The second shock at about
10:80 p * m. brought the buildings
tumbling about the inhabitant's ears.
Between the two minor shocks were
< ontinual and it was only due to many
of the inhabitants desetting their
houses that the casualties were not
greater.
The Customs house collapsed, the
Dutch Consulate was rendered unin
habitable and the Dutch consul and
his family took refuge in sncds on
their lawn. A Chinese th exit re fail of »o!
dicrs :in<i others collapsed without
warning. It us said that not a single
soul escaped, including the players.
Whole streets of houses were wrecked
and the scene in the Chinese quarter is
one of absolute devastation.
Many persons assert that during the
first shock, streams of boiling water
and jets of steam issued from the
earth. An informant states that he
walked through masses of debris
which was once the streets of the na- j
tivo quarter and saw bodies of the
uead in heaps of rubble. The Japan- j
ese Red Cross Society of Swatow ren
dered valuable assistance. Temporary i
hospitals have been erected to accomo
date the wounded. Many hundreds of j
persons are homeless*
No Heaths of Europeans have been
reported. Most foreigners left their
houses and took refuge in the ships.
An instance of the severity of the J
disturbance is that a ship, 30 miles to 1
sea off Amoy felt the shock distinctly.
It is believed that Amoy suffered as
much if not more than Swatow.
Another c'-'d :hing about butter
milk is that when a man is full of it
he will let you alone if you let him
alone.
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