SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. — Recent
military developments on the Pacific
coast include renewed warnings from
the navy department to shippers to
beware of German submarines sup
posed to be in the Pacific.
Orders for the mobilization of six
companies of the coast artillery of the
California National Guard make the
announcement that American Lake
Washington, will be one of the two
training camps in the wetsem depart
ment for the training of the officers
reserve corps. A general round up
of suspected German spies is being
made, several having been arrested
this week in different parts of the
Pacific coast.
The California Federation of Wo
men’s clubs with a membership of 40,
000, the Young Men’s Christian asso
ciation with a membership of 24,000
and other organizations have offered
their resources and services to the gov
ernor.
Nearly all cities and towns of the
state are organizing home guards,
Oakland being the first city to recruit
such a force. The University of Cali
fornia and Stanford University are
centers of renewed military activity,
600 students being under drill eight
hours a day on the Stanford campus.
A private in the California National
Guard, on duty guarding a railroad
tunnel in the Sierra Nevada moun
tains, has been killed, having been
shot from ambush.
Representatives of the governments
of the United States and of California,
Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Ari
zona met in Berkeley yesterday to de
vise ways of meeting the food supply
problefn, reports on all land in the
six states that is not now productive
and that is available for planting and
the recommendation to raise more feed
and stock being among the subjects
discussed. Food prices continue to ad
vance, an increase of 40 cents a barrel
on flour being announced for today,
the top price, now being $10.40 a barrel
wholesale, the price having advanced
$1.20 in four weeks.
The long fight of a combination of
temperance, prohibition and wine
interests to pass an anti-saloon meas
ure abolishing the saloon and strong
liquors and thereby saving the wine
interests from total prohibition, has
been lost by the final defeat of the so
called Rominger bill in the legisla
ture. This clears the way for a
sharply defined total prohibition cam
paign probably in the bone dry form,
which campaign is, in fact, already
under way. Prohibition leaders here
are confident, however, that the gov
ernment will put the nation on a pro
hibition basis as a war measure,
pointing out the fact that a vast store
of grain—absolutely necessary to the
nationa and the world—would thereby
be applied to constructive uses.
The Pacific Mail Steamship com
pany announces thaat Mexico has put
into effect an Asiatic exclusion law,
having refused to admit Japanese and
Chinese from one of its ships at Man
zanillo. The Mexican consul said he
had not received official notice of the
matter.
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SOON START NORTH
SEATTLE, April 23.—The two U.
S. Geodetic Survey boats Patterson
and Explorer, are preparing for their
Rummy cruise in Alaska, and will
leave within a few days to continue
the work of surveying the coast of the
northern territory. Insufficient ap
propriations compel these steamers fo
lay up during the winter, seriously
hampering the work of the survey.
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by A. B. Magnuson, expert optician,
at B. C. Nichols, the Anchorage Jew
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NEW YORK, N. Y.—When it became
known late last week that the gov
ernment wanted a large supply of
potatoes, the price of potatoes at the
car in this city was $7.50. The price
now is $9 and the consumer is paying
an average of 7 cents a pound. Mar
ketmen say the prospect of the with
drawal of a large quantity of potatoes
from the general market, for govern
ment use, will create another short
age, and that the mounting price
within the last week is caused by the
law of supply and demand.
Meanwhile eggs are much higher
than usual. This is usually the low
price season, but prices wholesale
just now are 34% and 35 cents, while
last year at this time they were 22%
to 23 cents. I\ Q. Foy, food expert,
says this is largely due to speculation,
although he points out that there is
keen competition between the ware
houses to get enough goods to till
their space. He says further thaat the
lay has been below noimal since
farmers have undernourished their
poultry because high prices could be
secured for feed products in the mar
ket. The consumption has been ab
normally high, since through the re
cent high price periods eggs have been
about as reasonably priced as any
staple food; and last week 189,000
cases of eggs were consumed in New
York City alone.
Butter and cheese receipts are small
and the market for them is high.
Onions, another of the products about
which the recent storm of protests
against high prices centered, have also
started on the upward trend again.
In the middle of February they sold
wholesale for about $16 a bag; now
they bring $12 and $12.50 wholesale.
Commissioner of Weights and Meas
ures Hartigan points to the rising
prices and says only prompt action
by the United States government can
avoid serious complications in the
food supply situation. “Most jobbers
in dry grocery foodstuffs,” he says,
“have only a 60-day supply of canned
stocks. The demand upon them is
unprecedented. It is apparent that
consumers in better circumstances
are stocking up against a future short
age. The consumer is apt to grow
panicky unless the firm hand of the
federal government takes hold with
out much further delay. We have the
lessons of Europe to guide us aright.
“Buying by consumers in quantities
is unpatriotic, and will work immeas
ureable injury to those least able to
pay high prices. Prices on all food
stuffs at wholesale and retail in this
city have advanced since the war dec
laration. It is reported on good au
thority in the wholesale grocery trade
that speculatitve corners exist in
canned salmon, canned tomatoes and
yellow onions. It is also said in the
trade that capital is being furnished
experienced food merchants by those
outside of the trade, to gamble in food
stocks. Such conduct should be met
by new laws making such an act a
crime. Anyone speculating in food
products at this time should be de
clared a public enemy.”
An amusing incident occurred the
other day in the house which caused
every member to laugh heartily for a
second or two. Especially did Speak
er Hess enjoy the incident. Chief
Clerk Zeigler began to read Bill 34,
which is for the purpose of abolishing
the fish traps. The first line starts
off, “It shall be unlawful for any
dam, fence, etc., to be constructed,”
and so on. Zeigler, who is an excel
lent reader, began in his usual clear
voice, “It is unlawful for any dam
fence.” He positively lost entire sight
of the little comma after the word
dam.
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for three-fifty.
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Dr. W. A. Rystrom, dentist, over
Harmony Theatre. 810
LONDON, April 12.—As the first
British prime minister to salute the
American nation as comrades in arms,
David Lloyd George, England’s great
democratic leader, speaking before a
notable assembly brought together by
the American Luncheon club today,
aroused intense enthusiasm by his
scathing denunciation of Prussia and
his warm welcome of America as an
ally in the war.
“The advent of the United States
into the war,” he said, “gives the fin
al stamp to the character of the con
flict, as a struggle against military
autocracy throughout the world.”
Two Notable Assemblies.
It was a stirring day, for the tak
ing up of arms by America was cele
brated by two notable assemblages,
one under the auspices of the Ameri
can Luncheon club and the other at a
dinner by the Pilgrims’ club in honor
of the American ambassador, Walter
Hines Page. Viscount Bryce, the for
mer ambassador at Washington, pre
sided at the dinner to Mr. Page and
delivered an eloquent oration.
Premier Lloyd George, always
forceful and epigrammatic, was nev
er in finer form, and his ringing
words struck a responsive chord
among those who had met to cheer.
There were toasts to the president of
the United States and the king of
England, and a wonderful display of
rejoicing over the sealing of the
bond of friendship between the Unit
ed States and England and France
and the other allies in the acceptance
by America on the gage of buttle.
Only Mar for Liberty.
“The United States of America, of
a notable tradition, never broken,
never has engaged in a war except
for liberty,” declared the premier.
“That it has made up its mind final
ly makes it abundantly clear to the
world that this is a great light for
human liberty.”
Again he said, "Prussia is not a
democracy. The kaiser promises that
it will be a democracy after the war.
I think he is right.”
A remarkable feature of the pre
mier’s speech was his warning to the
United States to avoid the blunders
committed by the British. The grim
humor of the British was well illus
trated by Mr. Lloyd George when,
in voicing this warning, he said:
To Study Blunders.
“We are a slow people—slow and
blundering, but we get there. We
have made, as we generally do, every
blunder. May I respectfully suggest
that it is worth a good deal to study
our blunders so as to begin where we
are now, not where we were three
years ago.”
The arrangements already under
way for the building of ships by the
United States appealed strongly to
the premier, who declared that the
road to victr,~y, the guarantee of vic
tory, the absolute assurance of vic
tory, was to be found in the one word
“ships,” and always ships. He ex
pressed the belief that the Germans
and their military advisers were be
ginning to realize that this was an
other of their miscalculations, which
would lead them to disaster and ruin.
Bad Day for Prussia.
Of America’s part in the war the
premier said: “It was a bad day for
the military autocracy of Prussia
when it chollenged the great repub
lic of the west. We know America
and also we know that now she has
said it she will do it. She will wage
a strong and successful war, and
there is something more important,
she will insure a beneficent peace.”
Probably no event in England in
the present generation unofficially
brought together more men of great
prominence than this luncheon. The
Pilgrims’ dinner had more of a mili
tary air, with large patches of khaki
and navy blue at the tables.
Those at Luncheon.
Among those present at the lunch
eon were the Canadian premier, Sir
Robert Borden; Gen. Sir William R.
Robertson, chief of thp imperial staff;
Admiral Lord Beresford, the arch
bishop of Canterbury, Ch:ef Justice
Reading, Sir Edward Carson, first
i lord of the admiralty; Lord Derby,
minister of war; Bishop the Rt. Rev.
C. If. Brent, of the Philippines; the
lonl chancellor, Admiral Jellicoe, first
sea lord; Admiral Meux, Rudyard
Kipling, Dr. Christopher Addison,
minister of munitions; Waldorf As
I tor, Lord Burnham, J. Austen Cham
berlain, Winston Spencer Churchill,
the Marquis of Crewer; Lord Daven
port, food controller; Sir Arthui Con
an Doyle, American Consul General
Robert P. Skinner, Herbert C. Hoover
and other members of the American
commission for relief in Belgium.
The speech of Ambassador Page '
follows in part: “These are great j
days for the republic. We have set.
out to help in an enterprise of sav- !
ing the earth •, a p'ace worth living'
in. It now become1; our immediatel
American enlerpr.so. The clear, sol
emn call of the president and the
voice of ctmgr> ss, which is the voice '
1 f the people, re to us the h'gh call'
of duty.
“From all cr the states, f om th'- ,
states of th'- great Mississippi valley,;
from the south and from the Pacific,'
tnoy will come as many millions as j
need be. Ogreat industrial organ:-j
zations and financial institutions al-:
ready are at the service of our gov
ernment. We shall not have to do any
commandeering.
War Against Pirates.
“For the first time we are coming
to war in the old world—except, in
deed, when once before we came
hither—to suppress the Barbary pi-j
rates. It is singular that our pres
ent errand is so similar. Of our com
ing overseas many consequences will
follow. First and foremost, we must
trust for an earlier victory, and, sec
ondly, for a better understanding of
the United States by the free nations
of Europe and of the free nations of
Europe by the United States, and
this, as I see it, is the largest con
structive political need of the world.”
ALASKA STEAMERS
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ANY EMERGENCIES ;
( Ketchikan Progressive.)
It was notitced yesterday when the i
steamer Alaska of the Alaska Steam
ship company arrived from the north
that her lifeboats were swung out on
' the davits, ready for lowering, and an
inquiry revealed the fact that orders
had been received that all steamers
plying the Pacific must be ready at
all times for emergencies, due to the
presence of submarines and raiders in
the Pacific. Steamers traveling at
night, must be dark, showing not a
single light, and must anchor if neces
sary, or travel at half speed, if the
night be dark. The wireless apparatus,
| when the steamer is within the three
mile limit must be taken down and dis
mantled, all of which makes war seem .
very close to home, and loom up with
terrifying nearness.
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In dress frocks of youthful and stout models, of materials suitable for all occasions,
colors to suit tlie most fastidious. What we do not have in stock we will make to
your order in our own shop where we do the most up-to-date work in Alaska.
Our Millinery stock is now complete and all can be suited as to style and price.
A fresh new shipment of beautiful Blouses, all late creations. We have a few Chil
dren’s Hats left. Silk Sweaters of bright hues, Novelty Beads and Jewelry now on
display. Remember, we are here to stay, and try to please at all times.
Our manicure and shampooing parlors are so attractive that it is a pleasure to
have work done where Miss Hale gives you her undivided attention, and guarantees
perfect work. She now has the electrolysis machine in readiness.
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