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;.“ SEWARD. ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 18,1917. Ten Cents the Copy
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FROM PORT TO TRENCH
IN AM RICAN HANDS
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(U> Associated Press Dispatch)
PARIS. July 18—Officers of the United States trans
port service are taking over control of an important
French railway from the port where American army units
are landed to the permanent base camp and the ii ont.
This road is to be manned by American engineei legi
ments, and American locomotives will be utilized, all sup
plies being imported from the l nited States.
Transportation of men. ammunition and supplies from
the American base port to the sector to be handled b\ the
American army will thus be entirely in their o\\ n hands as
is the supply situation for the British army in control of
its transport service.
Where the American troops are “going in" is as much
a mystery in Paris as it is elsewhere, for none outside the
war office know.
FRANCE TAKES OVER MERCHANTMEN
PARIS. July 18.—The cabinet has approved of the in
stitution of a general control over the French mercantile
fleet as a necessary step because of the diminution in ton
nage due to submarine warfare.
SEWARD’MAN
EOR AIR ARMY
F E. Keen, from Seward, on Way to
Join Crit Tolman in
East
(Bt Associated Press Disp.itch)
SEATTLE, July 18. — F. E. Been,
from Seward, arrived here on the
Northwestern for the East to join the
United States army aviation corps. He
was sent for by “Crit” Tolman, son of
J. C. Tolman. formerly United States
game warden at Seward, who recent
ly recived a commission as Second,
Lieutenant in the United States
army aviation corps. Lieut. Tolman
is now at Akron. Ohio, in the service.
Mr. Been will join him at that place.
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Postmaster C. J. Todd at \ aldez has
received a telegram from Assitant
Postmaster John C. Koons announc
ing the acceptance of the Department
of the bid of J. M. Lathrop to supply
quarters for the ostofftce at \ aldez.
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It is stated that more than 1;>0 for
mer Yukon river steamboat men arc
now engaged in the transport service'
of the British army on the Tigris riv
er in Mesopotamia.
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Juneau has already raised $‘*,500 for
the American Red Cross and it is ex-1
pected that $1,500 additional will be |
raised within a few days, making the i
total contribution $5,000.
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Mike Vladovich, operated on for ap
pendicitis six days ago at the Seward
hospital js out of danger.
INJECTION
INSIRANCT
Need For Appliance at Local llosital
Shown. Fine Record
Made
I^cal physicians are proud of the
record of the Seward general hospi
tal and call attention to the fact that
it ranks first among the hospitals on
Alaskan coast towns for service.
Records of cases since the institu
tion opened show that four cases of
apendicitis have been operated upon,
four amputations made, one trephin
ning and several other major surgi
cal operations performed with com
plete success. In addition eighteen
babies have been born within the hos
pital.
“No touwn on the coast can touch
the Seward hospital for service,” said
Dr. Romig in discussing the matter
this morning, “and I don’t omit the
Anchorage institution, which is fine
but does not equal ours for individual
care. There are plenty of nurses and
the rooms and patients get the best ol
care. ,
“What I desire to call attention to,
however, is the value of a modern
sterilizer for instruments and band
ages. It is like insurance against in
fection and may save the life of any
of us should we be stricken and have
to be operated upon. An additional
$300 is needed to complete the pay
ment for steam sterilizer for the hos
pital, which as all knoAV, is conducted
by the Sisters and is a charitable in
stitution.”
iXPECT DICTATORSHIP
IN C MANY SOON
(By Associated Press Dispatch)
AMSTERDAM, July 18.—Travelers arriving from the
city of Berlin today say that in Liberal circles there be
lieve that Chancellor Michaels was merely appointed as a
“stop gap” to prepare the way for dictatorship with Gen
eral Ludendorf in supreme control.
IMPORTANT MEETING OF REICHSTAG
(By Associated Press Dispatch)
BERLIN, July 18.—Chancellor Michaelis today asked
the president of the Reichstag to summon all members for
a meeting Thursday afternoon to receive an important
communication from the government.
TO ORGANIZE
ALASKA GUARD
Governor Coining to Juneau Says
Company Assured There and
Fairbanks
(By Associated Press Dispatch)
SEATTLE, July 18. — Governor
Strong and wife will leave for Alaska
in a few days, and the governor will
take up the organization of a Na
tional Guard, one company being as
sured at Juneau and another at Fair
banks.
Gov. Strong has just completed an
inspection of the sanitarium at Port
land for the insane from Alaska who
are confined there, anil reports condi
tions there to be good.
ALAMEDA OFF FOR
ALASKAN PORTS
(Ry Associated Prcsi Dispatch)
SEATTLE, July 18 — The Alameda
sailed north at 9 o’clock this morning
with the following passengers for
Seward: J. W. Felder W. J. Curtner,
James Palmer, Virginia Forni A. J.
McConnell and wife, Bill Hood, C. M.
Ennis and wife and baby, Margaret
Ennis, F. J. Frederickson.
LEADER OF MT McKINLEY
PARTY DIES AT FAIRBANKS
(By Associated Press Dispatch)
FAIRBANKS, July 18. — Thomas
Lloyd, leader of the party which
climbed Mt. McKinley from the north
side in 1910, died of heart disease here
last night, aged f>5.
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ROLAND MORRIS, NEW
AMBASSADOR TO JAPAN
(By Associated Press Dispatch)
WASHINGTON, July 18. — Roland
Morris, of Philadelphia, has been
chosen ambassador for Japan.
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D. J. Kinzie has been notified from
the Governor’s ofllce at Junean that he
had been apointed in charge of mili
tary registration at Treadwell.
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Charles L. Gundloch, one of the old
timers of the Juneau district, is being
held in the federal jail at that place
pending an inquiry as to his sanity.
ANOTHER AUTO
OEE THE TRAIL
Party Out From Valdez in Car Which
Turned Turtle—One Is
Injured
(By Associated Press Dispatch)
VADLEZ, July 18.—An automobile
containing several local people out for
| a sightseeing trip, turned turtle and
! landed in four feet of water at six
mile last night. Mrs. Gus Hogobloom,
! one of the occupants, nearly drowned,
! being unconscious when rescued and is
1 still in a serious condition. The bal
j ance of the party escaped uninjured,
including Carl Nelson and wife, Frank
Gustafson and John Johnson.
Hob Sheldon arrived from Fairbanks
this morning with five passengers.
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UN ALGA COMING WEST
FOR WAR REGISTRATION
(By Aaaociatcd Prrsi Dispatch)
VALDEZ, July 18.—The revnue cut
ter Unalga will leave for westward to
, morrow to register cannery employes
I for the military draft. A ball was
given the officers of the Unalga Mon
1 day evening, w'hich was attended by a
I large crowd.
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SIGNAL CORPS MEN
OFF FOR MONTEREY
(By Associated Press Dispatch)
VALDEZ, July 18.—Sergeant Kirk
and Master Signal Electrician Pat
ton left on the Mariposa for the Pre
sidio at Monterey. Mr. Kirk has been
ccmmiasioned a first lieutenant, as was
Sergeant Lee Murphy, at Seward.
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TUG COALS AFTER HARD
TRIP FROM INLET
(By Associated Press Dispatch)
VALDEZ, July 18.—The tug King
fisher coaled here this morning and
sailed for Cook Inlet after a stormy
passage from the Inlet
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Nome is planning to use the sawdust
and shavings from a planing mill
on the city streets for the purpose of
keeping them in good condition and
preventing dust.
SEEKING BETTER ROADS TO CACHE
CREEK AFTER FELTHAM’S DEATH
An effort is being made by the,
Cache Creek Dredging company and!
the Cache Creek Mining company in
behalf of the 200 men employed in
that district to secure better roads,;
and special efforts are being put forth
following the death of Richard Felt
ham, already reported in these col
umns. Concerning the loss of Felt
ham, J. C. Murray, of the Cache Creek
Mining company, and Charles R. Har
ris, of the Dredging company, say:
“This instance is but one of many in
which parties have gone astray on ob
scure trails leading into this district.
A month $go Mr. Ellis, of the Thunder
Creek Mining company, had a most
unpleasant experience in bringing a
party of twelve in over the trails from
McDougall. A number of his men wan
dered for hours before succeeding in
reaching the company's camp. But
last week John Reichart, of the Cache
Creek Dredging Company, because of
his familiarity with the country, was
the means of bringing to safety two
new men to the vicinity after they
had wandered for some time to find
their way to a camp.
“The death of Dick Feltham is grim
evidence of the crying need of roads
and trails in our district. About forty
camps employing two hundred men are
striving to develop a country rich in
natural resources but greatly handi
capped by the lack of roads. Can our
legislators or those in whom is intrust
ed the wise application of public funds,
appropriated with a view to meeting
the most urgent needs of a people
first, stand back and permit a continu
ation of such a condition in our roads
and trails that calls for an occasional
sacrifice of a life given in an effort to
develop a country? For what has a»
appropriation been made, if not to aid
us in just such a condition that exists
here in Cache Creek ? For twelve
years there has been a struggle to
operate in spite of the horrors of our
trails. We don’t ask for boulevards
and parks, but we do want help in the
construction of a plain, everyday, dirt
road that will guarantee to get us
home in safety when we want to go
home, and won’t leave us somewhere
on the way to perish as it did poor
Dick Feltham. We appreciate the fact
that there is $500,000 to help all of
Alaska to roads. We also appreciate
that that is but a first step towards
the work that is needed. Let us hope
that it may be placed where it will be
a real benefit and not expended, as is
hinted in a place where *v is not need
ed urgently We pray that Dick Felt
ham may not have died in vain and
that before another tragedy lays its
blame on our heads we may have a
road that will obviate the possibility
of a like terrible hapening.”
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THE WEATHER
Yesterday.
Maximum .45
Minimum.45
Current.51
Precipitation.10
Partly cloudy. Wind south.
WEATHER TOMORROW
Unsettled show’ers.
AUSTRIAN LIN !S ARE
STIFFEN IN GALICIA
(By Associated Press Dispatch)
PETROGRAD, July 18, (Official).—Russian armies
in Galicia have been temporarily held up by hurrying of
heavy contingents of German reserves to the front and the
I stiffening of the Austrian offense along the Lomnick river.
Heavy fighting continues in the region of Novica and
! Kalusz in eastern Galicia.
Near Novica the Russian advance forces were driven
from an advantageous height of ground by a costly attack
but afterward re-occupied it by a counter thrust and still
hold it.
BERLIN REPORTS ARTILLERY DUELS
(By Associated Press Dispatch)
BERLIN, July 18, (Official).—Increased activity on
the Roumanian front is reported from the field headquar
ters of the south. Artillery fighting has been resumed in
the sectors commanded by Archduke Joseph and General
Mackensen, and on the northern end of the Galician from
artillery engagements of increased severity are reported.
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BRITISH ARMORED CARS IN RUSSIA
(By Associated I'rcss Dispatch)
WASHINTON, July 18.—Advices received at the Rus
sian embassy state that British armored cars and motor
detachments are participating in the Russian offensive in
Galicia. These armored cars are also co-operating ef
fectively with detachments of the Belgian army sent to
Russia soon after the outbreak of the war.
MOVE BOOZE
FROM BOND
Ten Million Gallons Taken Out for
Fear United States Will Seize
It
(By Associated Press Dispatch)
WASHINGTON, July 18.—Liquor
dealers alarmed at the prospective
seizure by the government for war
purposes of all distiled liquor in bond
are withdrawing whisky from bond at
an unprecedented rate.
Whisckey and brandies to the total
of 10,000,000 gallons have been with
drawn the past ten days and placed in
retail establishments.
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BOATS AND TRAINSj
The Northwestern is due at Cordova
tonight.
The Alameda left Seattle this morn
ing.
The Watson is due at Cordova to
morrow.
CURIOSITY
AIDS CAUSE
Tells Fortunes for Red Cross, On
Voyage From Spirit
City
Mrs. VV. Tinn, wife of Captain Wal
ter Tinn, well-known navigator of
western Alaska waters and master of
the Santa Ana, gave $10 to the Red
Cross here yesterday, which she
earned in a novel manner on the trip
north from Seattle. Mrs. Tinn has
considerable ability at telling fortunes
and let it be known that all her fel
low passengers needed to glimpse the
future was to produce the silver and
listen, said silver being for the relief
of those injured or suffering on ac
count of war, and curiosity did the
rest.
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The Southeastern Alaska Fish and
Game Club is the name of an organi
zation recently perfected at Juneau,
which has for its object the protec
tion of the fish and game resources
of that section of the territory.
NIGHT ATTACKS ON
FRENCH BREAK OWN
(By Associated Press Dispatch)
PARIS, July 18, (Official)—The French completed
a very important operation in re-alignment of the front
northwest of Verdun, having carried out a successful coun
ter attack beyond the original line and drove a salient al
most two-thirds of a mile into the German line from Avo
court wood. The gained ground lies west of Hill 304 and is
firmly held by the French troops.
After heavy shelling the Germans attempted during
the night to regain these lost trenches by several well-or
ganizd counter attacks, but each broke down under an in
tensified shrapnel fire from the “seventy-fives.” Morning
found the section of “no man’s land” in front of the newly
won positions strewn with new dead. All this ground
gained yesterday is still retained.