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NOME, April 16.—The All-Alaska
Sweepstakes dog team race, for the
championship of the world and a
purse of $2,500, has again been won
by Leonard S#^pala’s Siberian wolf
dogs, with Anderson second and Del
zene third. As a blizzard was raging
most of the time all of the teams
were lost for hours at different stages
of the race and the time made was
the slowest by over a day of any race
run during the past seven years, it
taking 113 hours and 34 minutes. The
course was over the frozen snow from
Nome along the shore of Norton
.Sound to Solomon, 32 miles east,
then north over the tundra through
Council to Candle, on Kotzebue sound,
an'Xrm of the Arctic ocean, 206 miles
from the start, thence back to the
starting point at Nome, the total dis
tance being 412 miles.
All the inhabitants of Nome turned
out to see the start and finish of the
great race. Telephone service makes
it possible to keep track of the prog
ress of the contest. When Nome was
at the height of its prosperity, before
the bench placers were exhausted, the
weep;'takes purse amounted to $10,
000 in gold, and it is said that one
..ear $200,000 was wagered on the re
sult.tfc
This year the racers encountered
had weather, and the first trip was
t-ueh a rough one that great fear was
1 ntcrtained for the safety of the driv
Ors.
t’aul Kjegstad had the most thrill
ing experience. His tow line parted
w
three miles out from Solomon and six
dogs faded away in the blizzard. No
leader remained and he took the lead
hnmelf. He got played out and push
ed the sled in ail effort to catch up
with the dogs. After searching for
six hours he found two dead dogs,
but the rest of the team was still mis
sing and he was finally forced to seek
shelter in a road house.
“Scotty” Allan, twice a sweepstakes
winner, is a member of the Alaska
legislature this year, ami is attending
the deliberations at Juneau instead
of skimming over the icy trail. On
the way to Juneau he made th. jour
ney from Nome l<> Chitina with a sled
and two dogs in 2<i days during Feb
ruary, breaking all records. One of
the dogs was Baldy, about wlmso ex
ploit in a sweepstakes, nice a book
was written. Allan was driving and
Baldy was the leader. Near tin nose
of the race Baldy looked hack, oh e v
ed that his master was not on the -led
turned back with his mates and after
traveling fot miles found Allan lying
beside the trail unconscious, bleeding
from a wound, a trailmarker having
struck him. Baldy roused his master,
who got on thp sled and th"n Baldy
led the team to victory.
The winners of the races since lb 10.
when John Johnson established the
record for the course, follow:
1010—Johnson . 74:14:20
i911—Scotty Allan .$1.40:00
1012—Scotty Allan .87:32:00
1918—Fay Delzene. 75:18:00
1914—John Johnson .8J:03:00
:91ft- Leonard Seppala 78'44:.37
1916— Leonard Seppala .80:27:00
1917— 1 .eonard Seppala 113:34:()0
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optician from San Francisco, is per
manently established with (ieorge Os
born, the < ’. St. Jeweler, and will e.\
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ALASKA PILOT
SEATTLE. April 28. Captain Her
man ('. Klein, pilot of the steamship
Northwestern of the Alaska Steam
ship company and foi several years
first officer of the huge liner Minne
sota of the Great Northern Steamship
company, who was horn and educated
in Germany, yesterday was appointed
a lieutenant in the United States na
val coast defense reserve, the first
Seattle navigator of merchant craft
to he so honored by the United States
navy department.
Captain Klein was a chief gunner’s
mate with Admiral Dewey in the bat
tle of Manila, and served with the
Pacific fleet throughout the Spanish
Ameriran war. He is one of the most
skillful navigators in the employ of
the Alaska Steamship company and
is not only familiar with Alaskan wa
ters, hut has had wide experience on
the overseas routes, particularly to
China. .Japan and the I’hilippines.
“Although 1 was born in Germany
I am anxious to defend the American
flag and will give the country of my
adoption the best service 1 can per
form,” said Captain Klein yesterday.
“I have received my commission as
lieutenant junior grade, naval coast
defense, United States naval reserve
force, which means that if i do any
fighting it will be in the nation’s first
line of defense.”
Captain Klein’s notification order
is signed by Captain Robert S. Coontz,
U. S. N„ commandant of the naval
station, Puget sound. He is instruct
cd to Ire prepared to answer the cal
of Captain Coontz at any time am
hold himself in readiness for active
duty as an officer of the United State
ival coast defense forces.
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IPHLSULITa.
; APPEAL TO i
j THE PEOPLE
i -
| WASHINGTON, April lt>.— I’resi-j
dent Woodrow Wilson today issued;
C an appeal to the people of the nation.
B In this appeal the president says:
R "My Fellow Countrymen:
! “The entrance of our beloved coun-'
|'try into the grim and terrible war- j
!I fare for democracy and human)
jj rights, which has shaken the world, i
! creates so many problems of oation
j al life and action which call for im
! mediate consideration and settle
s
j ment that I hope you will permit |
! me to address to you a few words of I
I earnest counsel aand appeal with re-)
3 gard to them.
s' “We are rapidly putting our navy
3 on an effective war footing and we are j
| about to equip a great army. Hut
|: these are the simplest part of the
g task to which we have addressed out
ni selves. There is not a single selfish
g
g element, so far as I can see, in the <
Ei cause we are fighting for; we are
r fighting for what we believe, what we
E5 wish to tie the rights of mankind. jFoi
e the future peace and security of the
fj world.
g “To do this great thing worthily and
g successfully we must devote ourselves
e | to the service without profit or ma
B terial advantage, with an energy and 1
g intelligence thaat will rise to the level 1
B of the enterprise itself.
j “These, then, are things we must do
! and do well, besides lighting, the
j things without which mere lighting
! would be fruitless.
; "We must supply abundant food foi
S ourselves, for our armies, and our sea
i men, not only, but also for a large pail
lief the nations with whom we have now
j made a common cause, in whose sup
!; por: and by whose side we shtill lv
i
i fighting.
' “We must supply ships by the hun
dreds out of our shipyards to carry
to the other side of the sea. subma
rines or no submarines, what will
every day be needed there, and ahun
dant materials out of our fields, and
our mines and our factories, with
which to equip and clothe our own
, forces on land and sea. hut also to
clothe and support those people for ,
whom the gallant fellows under arms .
can no longer work to clothe; we must ! <
equip the armies with which we are ,
co-operating in Europe; to keep the <
looms of the manufactories there in ; <
raw materials; coal to keep tires going <
in the ships at sea and in the furnaces ■
of hundred of factories across the sea; ■
! steel out of whiqh to make arms and ■
ammunition, both here and there; rails «
for worn-out railways: backfiring <
fronts of locomotives and rolling stock ■
to take the place of those every day go- ■
ing to pieces; mules, horses and cattle ,
for labor and military purposes; in :
fact everything with which the people j
of England, France, Italy and Russia ■
have supplied themselves hut cannot !
now afford men, materials and machin- g
ery to make.” i \
The president said that the men sus- •
taining work in the fields, factories t
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and mines, will he as much a part of i j
the great patriotic forces of the nation 5
as the men under fire.
In the appeal to farmers, he said: 5
“The supreme need of our own nation r
and nations with which we are co-op- [
. 1
earting, is an abundance of supplies, j
especially foodstuffs. The importance [
of adequate food supplies, especially $
for the present year, is superlative. J
Without abundant food, alike for the j
armies anil the peoples now at war. •
the. whole great enterprise upon whicii j
we have embarked will break down *
l
and fall. j
“The world’s fowl reserves are low. *
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I patricularly appeal to the farmers ot j
the south to plant abundant food j
1 stuffs, as well as cotton. They can ;
^ show their patriotism in no better nor
more convincing wav than resisting j
the great temptation of the present :
t
price of cotton and helping upon a !
great scale to feed the nation and peo
ple everywhere, who are lighting for
their liberties and for our own.
1 “This, let me say to the middlemen
of every sort, whether they are hand-jj
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ing our foodstuffs or our raw muter
als, manufactures or products of our
nills and factories, the eyes of the
ountry will be especially upon you.
rhis is your opportunity for a signal
lervice of efficient and a disinterested
ountry expects you, as it expects all
fibers, to forego the usual profits.
"To tile merchant, let me suggest
lie motto of small profits and quick
lervice and to the shipbuilder, the
houglit that the life of the war de
>eiids upon him Food and war sup
dies must he carried across the seas.
10 matter how many ships are sent,
,o the bottom. The places of those
bat go down must bp supplied andi
supplied at once. To the miner let me .
say that he stands where the farmer
loes. The work of the world waits on
lini and if he slackens or fails, the ar
mies and the statesmen are helpless,
fie is also enlisted in the great service
>f the army. Everyone who creates or
cultivate gardens, helps and helps
greatly to solv«* the problem of feed
ng the nations and every liousewif#
vho practices strict economy puts her
zrz, 'ZAZJDmj
self in the ranks of those who serve
the nation.
“In the hop*' that this statement
will show the needs of the nation and
of the world, in this hour of supreme
crisis, may it stimulate those to whom
it comes and remind all who need,
reminding of the solemn duties of a
time such as the world has never seen
before.
“I beg that all editors and publishers
everywhere will give as prominent
publication and as wide circulation as
possible to this appeal. The supreme
test of a nation has come, and we must
all speak, act and serve together.
(Signed) “WOODROW W11, SON.”
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