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v . SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1917. Ten Cents the Copy
Volume XI. Number zzz.___ — ■■ ------—, , , —_
GERMANY NEARS
STRAINING POINT
The Civilian Population Is Stinted
Almost to the Point of
Starvation
N'F.W YORK. Sept. (By Mail).—
That Germany can not last till next
Spring, being on the verge ol famine,
and making supreme efforts to keep
her desperate internal plight from be
coming known to the outer world, ^a>
the consensus of sentiment ot the
passengers who arrived today on a
neutral liner at an Atlantic ]>oit. Sev
eral of these passengers have been
recently in Germany and they agree
in the declaration that foreign resi
dents who desire to depart trom the
empire are kept in exclusion sr\«"u
weeks before being permitted to de
part ami no information of any sort
respecting civil or military ! fe i~ pei
mitted to reach them.
William Bartholomew, of Philadel
phia, who has been general superin
tendent of the Pure Oil Company of
Holland at Hamburg since IS!>7. ar
rived with his wife. He is a living
testimonial of the food shortage ami
its unwholesomeness, having lost .»(>
pounds in the last few months. He
said it was ‘impossible to get a square
meal in Germany and that conditions
were pretty bad.”
Prisoner For Six \\ ecks
For six weeks before he was per
mitted to leave Hamburg he was kep*
in seclusion ami did not know what
was happening in the city. An the
knowledge he obtained of the actual
economic condition was gleaned before
channels of information were closed
on him. Everything was done cour
teously, but ellectivcly.
Axel Hahn sen, who has been in Ger
many representing a harvester cor*
pany of the West, returned with hi.
wife and children. He sent them to
Denmark two years ago ami remain
ed in Germany until recently.
Insufficient and improper food
brought down his weight thiit\
pounds. His fellow voyagers, know
ing his experience, and that of Mr.
Bartholomew, wondered how badly the
civilian population of Germany fared
if two healthy-looking men with
money were so ill-nourished in Ger
man cities.
Chilians Stinted
“All food supplies.” said one of the
refugees of Germany, “are sent to the
soldiers and the civilian population is
stinted almost to the point ot starva
tion. The robust can stand this for a
while, but the aged, the children and
the invalids suffer and die. Every
thing and everybody is sacrificed for
the army. German economic condi
tions are so hopeless that Germany
cannot hold out against the Allies.”
Mrs. Petronnalla Johanson. who has
been three months in Scandinavian
countries, said the necessaries ot lite
could not be obtained there except at
high cost and that few people in the
United States realized the serious
consequences of the food embargo
meant for Holland and all of Scandi
navia, particularly Sweden. A plain
dinner in any city in Sweden cost $2.50
and she had to pay 60 cents at a res
taurant for one cup of coffee.
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DEEDS FILED IN V. S.
COMMISSIONER’S OFFICE
Following are the deeds filed late
ly in the office of the l\ S. Commis
sioner, for record:
Hannah Cummings and husband, J.
M. Cummings to Harry V. Hoben and
A. F. Davis—Lot 14, Block 11; Frac
tional Lots 37 and 38, Block 4, Town
site of Seward.
Leon C. Booker to 0. J. Keating.
Lots 38 and 39, Block 26, Seward.
Grant Carlson to Nicholas Losness.
Lot 10, Block 12, Federal Addition.
The Deep Sea Salmon Co., now op
erating at Goose Bay, near Knik, has
located a cannery site near Nubble
Point, Kachemak Bay. This is the
third cannery site location lately re
corded from Kachemak Bay.
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PICTURE SHOW WILL
OPEN IN A FEW DAYS
Having installed an individual elec
tric plant, the local moving picture
house will serve its patrons on the
usual nights, with a probable opening
Sunday nigbt, notice of which will ap
pear in their advertisement tomorrow.
OFFERED $60,000
TO RAID BERLIN
Airmail Will Attempt to Drop Bomb*
On Berlin for Big
Sum
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CHICAGO, Sept. 10, (By Mail).—
Friends here of Leslie McMutry. avia
tor, and son of L. B. McMurtv, t ali- j
fornia oil operator, received informa
tion to day that if he is the first Amer
i an aviator to drop a bomb in Berlin j
he will receive $00,000. It is said that j
McMurtv’s father promised to pay his,
son $2.5,000 if he achieved this feat
and another member of the family
added $:tr>.000 to the pledge.
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TO DREDGE NEW
ALASKAN ROUTE!
Will Save Over Eighty Miles in Dis- !
tance if Proposed Plan
Goes Through
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WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 1. (By
Mail).—The United States engineer
ing corps has recommended and Dele
gate Charles A. Suiter has introduced
in congress a bill authorizing the ex
penditure of $2,000,000 for the dredg
ing and improving of Dry strait, Alas
ka. The improvement of Dry strait so
as to provide for the passage of boats
engaged in Alaska traffic will elim
inate the narrow and shallow Wrang
ell narrows and the long detour via
Cape Decision, and will provide a con
tinuous inside passage for all sized
vessels through the waters of South
eastern Alaska, the proposed Dry
strait route being eighty miles short
er than the present route by way of
Cape Decision.
WAR ON U. S.
WAS HUN PLAN
Washington Has Evidence of Great
Teutonic Conspiracy—Plot
Now Enfolded
WASHINGTON, Sept. 3, (By Mail)
Evidence which made American gov
ernment officials believe Germany was
planning war on the United States
after defeating France and Britain,
is in the bands of the administration,
the Si Me Department announces.
The State Department continued
Lord Robert Cecil’s statement that
Germany had so plotted.
Secretary Lansing refused to be
specific as to what the evidence tend
ing to show Germany’s war plans on
the United States was brought here
by James Gerard on his return from
Germany, where he served as Ameri
can ambassador. •
Mr. Gerard himself has frequently
said the Teutons had their eyes on
this country and Lord Robert Cecil
claimed to have proof of this.
Vast amounts of data showing the
net of intrigues woven about Amer
ica by the Kaiser’s agents are filed
away in the State Department, in
cluding the clumsy attempt of For
eign Secretary Zimmerman to bring
about a union of Mexico and Japan
against this country. This and other
I autocratic dreams showed the trend
of the German mind. They also af
ford President Wilson the opportun
ity he will soon take of showing why
America can not deal on friendly
terms with Germany as long as the
Kaiser reigns.
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FISH PRICES
Prices at noon, Sept. 6th, at
Seattle, as reported by the Bu
reau of Fisheries, are:
Halibut, 18c.
Sable Fish, 4c.
Red Snapper, 2He.
Pickled Sable Fish, $14 per
bbl.
Pickled Herring, first grade,
$16 per bbl.
Pickled Salmon, pink, $14.60
per bbl.
PLATINUM TO BE
HAD INALASKA
Cessation of Activities In the I'ral
Mountains Induces Government
to Hurry Investigation
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WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 28, (By
Mail).—Owing to the shortage of plat
inum in the world, because of the ces
sation of operations in the Ural moun
tains, the government is greatly in
terested in the reported discovery of
this precious metal in Alaska. l>r.
Herschel Parker has aroused the gov
ernment agents to the greatest activ
ity by his reported find of platinum
ami with the hope of finding it in
sufficient quantities to supply the AN
lies, four government experts have
b^en assigned to the duty of investi
gating the Alaska situation.
If the reports of these experts show
that the A.Aska supply will replenish
the world supply, intensive mining op
erations will be carried on by the gov
ernment. The four experts are now
on their way to Alaska, and it is ex
pected they will be able to report
within the next month or six weeks.
POTATO RIOTS
IN AMSTERDAM
Gives Dutch Government Severest
Jolt That Nation Ever
Experienced
THE HAG UK, Netherlands, Aug.
10, (Correspondence of The Associ
ated Press).—The potato riots at Am
sterdam and Rotterdam this month
have given the Dutch government one
of the most severe jolts it has experi
enced.
The trouble began with a request
on the part of Germany that the ex
port of new potatoes should be* per
mitted immediately they began to
reach the market. As it was backed
up by the intimation that only thus
could be obviated a reduction of the
ration of German coal of o50,000 tons
a month, on which the country and
its industries so vitally depend, the
Minister of Agriculture, F. K. Post
hum, gave way.
The standing agreement provided
that 12,000 tons of potatoes must be
delivered to Great Britain before any
further export to Germany, and as the
British authorities insisted on the
strict fulfillment of this obligation,
the result was that the home mar
ket, for two or three weeks preceding
the arrival of the new crop in any
quantity, was bereft of its supplies of
the old and was practically bare.
Finding themselves suddenly de
prived of such a conspicuous item in
their daily menu, mobs of% indignant
housewives at Amsterdam and Rotter
dam raided any boats or wagons con
taining potatoes they could get at,
and apparently managed to plunder
a certain amount destined for Great
Britain, though they neither knew nor
cared where the food was boiwul. In
deed, there was no suggestion what
ever of the riots being of anti-British
character.
The British authorities were the
more displeased with the course things
had taken as seeming to throw on
them the odium of taking supplies
which have been opened for exports
to Germany a little while before the
British supply had actually left the
country, and London apparently has
made its displeasure unpleasantly
plain to the Netherlands government.
The market is now flooded with po
tatoes of the new crop, which, besides
supplying home needs, is expected to
permit of the export of 25,000 tons
each to the United Kingdom and Ger
many.
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INDIVIDUAL LIGHTING PLANTS
WILL SOON BE IN VOGUE
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Owing to the fact that electric light
service for Seward this winter is un
certain, many merchants are sending
for electric light plants and gasoline
engines. After the first of October
nearly all the business houses will be
lighted by individual plants, which is
much more satisfactory and safer than
the use of kerosene lights.
NO ESCAPE FOR
THE SLACKER
After llegistration in Territory and
the Druft Number* are Made
Known
The /ate of the man who tries to
evade his duty under the draft law
will be anything but enviable.
Failure to appear for physical ex
amination when called by his local
exemption board will not help the
slacker. In fact, it will be about the
shortest cut he could take to get him
self drafted automatically into the
army without further consideration.
If a man does not appear before
his local board when called unless he
applies by reason of absence from hi>
district to have his examination
transferred to another board, or can
give a very good reason why he was
unable to appear—his name will be
certified to the adjutant general as
having been called for military ser
vice and not exempted or discharged. I
The adjutant general, who afts un
der instructions from Washington,
will give him only one more chance,
and only one, to clear his record.
A notice will be sent to ih* address
on his registration card directing him
to report within five days, cither in
person or by mail, or telegraph, to
the adjutant general. If he doesn’t
report as directed, at the end of the
five days he becomes automatically
drafted into the army of the United
States.
Failure to appear for duty will then
become equivalent to deserting from
the army. Men who desert from Un
cle Sam’s army in time of war are not
treated very kindly. They are class
ed in the same category as traitors.
Such men will be rigidly hunted
down by the military authorities.
They further will he compelled to
serve, or court martialed as deserters.
In time of war a court martial can
inflict the death penalty for desertion.
CEASES TO BE
WHISKEY CENTER1
But Thousands of Gallons Will Remain
In Many of the Distillery
Warehouses
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PEORIA, 111., Sept. 6, ,Bv Mail).—
Tonight Peoria ceases to be the whis
key producing center of the world.
Thousands of gallons of distilled liquor
will remain in the warehouses but the
manufacture of the beverage ends at
midnight under the requirements of
the food control law.
The government allows the distil
lers one week on liquor unfinished in
which to complete distillation. After
that the five big distilleries here will
be closed.
RED CROSS GETS
VASHREDIT
Credit to be Used in the Purchase of
Ambulances From the Ford
Company
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1, ,By Mail)
The Red Cross War Council announces
that a half million dollars credit has
been grafted the organization by the
Ford Automobile company to be ap
plied in obtaining ambulances and nec
essary parts from the company.
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Don’t forget the big dance at the
A. B. Hall Saturday night, Septem
ber 15th. K15
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NO CABLE NEWS
No news from the Oustide can
be had today, the cable being out
of co?nnr.ission and for th« lime
being we are compelled to use
only that coming by boat and the
wireless, which is limited. Just
whop service will be resumed is
not definitely known.
MUSICALE M.E.
churchsundayI
Large Chorus Will Give Fine Song
Service at M. E. Church
Sunday Night
Announcement was made today that
the musicians and singers of Seward
would give a sacred musical entertain
ment in the Methodist church next
Sunday night. A general invitation
is given for all singers who will vol
unteer to meet in the church Friday
evening at eight o’clock. Any one
who ties ires a special song sung will
please give Rev. Patton or Rev. Mon
roe the title, that the chorus may
practice the same. Don’t wait for a
special invitation to join the chorus
hut come and sing.
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ALASKA SALMON PRICES
111(01 IN THE EAST
SEATTLE, Sept. 1, (By Mail).—
Opening quotations on the Alaska
salmon pack being telegraphed east
shows the prices to be fifty per cent
higher than at any time in the past
ten years. The high price of the fish
is due to the small run iti many parts
of Alaska.
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BOYS IN FRANCE LONG
FOR CABBAGE CIGARS
CHICAGO, Sept, in, (By Mail).—
Letters received from America sol
diers in France indicate that a few
stogies would he much appreciated
gifts by the men at the front. Pipe
tobacco and cigarettes are available,
but, says one letter, “we are really
suffering for good old United States
nickel cigars.”
JAPANESE HOSTS
TO O.S. ADMIRAL
Men of Fleet are Guests at Enter
tainment by Citizens of
Yokohama
YOKOHAMA, Japan, July 2(>, (Cor
respondence of The Associated Press)
—A notable demonstration of friend
ship toward the United States was
given yesterday by the citizens of Yo
kohama, who arranged an elaborate
entertainment in honor of Admiral
Austin M. Knight, and other officers
of the United States Asiatic fleet.
Admiral Knight came to Japan to
convey to Emperor Yoshihito the
thanks of the United States for the
honors shown to George W. Guthrie,
late American ambassador.
The festival was held in the public
gardens which were beautified by the
pink and white lotus blossoms of the
season. The distinctive feature of the
function was the presentation of a
magnificent silver flower bowl to Ad
miral Knight by Mayor Audo, in be
half of the citizens. The souvenir
bore a suitable inscription in Japa
nese and contained a scroll, signed by
leading residents, asserting:
“The existence of friendly relations
between your country and ours is tra
ditional. Yet, by the entrance of the
, United States of America into the
present war our interests have be
| come more closely linked together
| than ever before; the friendship ex
1 isting between us has so matured that
today we are not only friends but al
ilies- ' .
“We deem it a fitting occasion,
| therefore, for us to show our high re
gard for you, and through you1 our,
warm feeling for the American peo
pie, by presenting to you this bowl.
May it serve both as a mark of our
respect for you and as a token of our
sincere friendship for your fellow
countrymen.”
Admiral Knight accepted the gift
as an expression of the good feeling
I borne for the United States by the
people of Japan.
The entertainment consisted of jug
glery And geisha dances. Japanese
artists painted fans before the guests
and later presented them to the Amer
icans as souvenirs.
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Dance at the A. B. Hall, Saturday
night, September 15th. K15
JUNEAU LAD
IS DROWNED
Popular “Buster Brand” of Canned
Salmon Named in HU
Honor
Juneau, Sept. 0, (By Mail).—Word
was received this morning by W. H.
Chutter, that Robert Barron, son of
J. T. Barron, owner of the Funter Bay
canner>7who is better known through
out this^ section as “Buster" Barron,
was drowned yesterday at the Avia
tion Training school at Essington,
Pennsylvania. No details of the acci
dent which resulted in the death of
the young man were given.
Young Barron left for the training
school at Essington early this year to
train for the air service at the front.
At the time of his death he was but
20 years of age.
Robert iiarron was well known to
Southeastern Alaska where he has
spent practically every summer's va
cation since his birth. The famous
“Buster brand" of canned salmon put
out by the Thlingot Packing Company,
was named after the young man and
he was universally liked by all who
knew him.
J. T. Barron left the cannery for
the south on the steamer Spokane,
which arrived at Seattle last Friday,
where the news of his son's death met
him.
Two student aviators were making
a flight over the river and Barron was
watching from the shore. Suddenly
the machine swooped and fell into the
water. Barron and several others im
mediately swam to the rescue of their
companions. Barron sank just before
reaching the machine. The other men
were rescued.
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SAVE YOI R OLD SHEETS
AND PILLOW CASES
Remember, housewives, that the
Red Cross needs your old sheets and
pillow cases. (Jet them out and see
that they are ready for the members
of the Red Cross who will call ami
gather up all that can be spared.
These pieces of linen will go for sub
stitute handkerchiefs and other such
purposes as may seem fit. Old sheets
and pillowcases, white nightdresses,
white petticoats and all good clean,
white goods eighteen or nineteen in
ches square or in the whole piece are
desirable. Even smaller pieces may
be used in making “fracture pillows.”
For the pillows the goods is snipped
into small pieces so even some scraps
that may seem worthless may be used
for this purpose. Send all clean anti
white.
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ALASKA NEWS NOTES
Chairman of the Valdez School
Board W. A. Dolan states that ar
rangements have been made for a
full four-year high school course, and
that parties residing at out of town
points desiring to take advantage of
this opportunity to educate their chil
dren should correspond with the clerk
of the board.
The Grand Jury summoned for the
Iditarod holds the record for quick
work. They appeared at ten, complet
ed qualifying at noon and had their
report ready for the court at eight
o'clock that evening. During thatrtime
they examined ten witnesses, return
ed two indictments marked, “not a
true bill,'' and investigated the fed
eral offices of the town of Iditarod.
They recommended the removal of the
offices of Flat and suggested that fu
ture terms of court be held in the
Creek town.
Kenneth Holden was unfortunate
enough to get caught between two
cars on the Copper River & North
western railway and have two ribs
fractured.
John Muller, assistant cashier of
the First Bank of Cordova, a mem
ber of the Coast Artillery Reserves,
of the State of Washington, which has
not heretofore been called, was today
notified to report for physical exam
ination.
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NOTICE!
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Only pupils in the two upper rooms
will attend school until there is a safe
passage across the stream, probably
next Monday. *
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WANTED—A lady to teach knitting
and crocheting. Apply Hallett & Scott.
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