VICE-PRESIDENT Of TIES
J. W. WARD IS INDUCED BY PARTY LEADERS HERI
AND IN SEWARD, VALDEZ, CORDOVA AND OTHER
PARTS OF THIRD DIVISION TO ENTER RACE AND
RECEIVES ASSURANCE OF PRESS SUPPORT.
J. \V. Ward, of Anchorage, vice
president and business manager of tin
Anchorage Daily Times, today an
nounced his candidacy for senate
from the third division in the Alaska
legislature. He will seek the repub
lican nomination in the primaries t<
be held in April. If succeessful in tin
primary fight, he will be his party’!
candidate at the election next Novem
ber
Mr Ward was induced to enter tin
senatorial race by representative re
publicans of Anchorage, Seward, Yal
dez, Cordova and other parts of th«
third division. These party leader:
also communicated on the subjec
with Charles E. Herron, president ant
publisher of the Anchorage Dailt
Times, who is now in Pittsburg, Pa.
asking him to exercise his influenct
to have Mr. Ward announce his can
didacy, and today Mr. Ward reeeivet
the following message from Mr. Her
ron:
Pledge of Press Support.
“I understand representative re
publicans from Cordova, Valdez, Sew
ard and Anchorage and other parts o
the Third division have requested tin
use of your name for the Alaska sen
ate at the approaching primaries
From my personal knowledge of youi
ability and because of your acquaint
anee with local affairs and with tin
required needs of the third division
I consider your selection especially an
propriate at this crisis in territoria
affairs. Our division demands tin
best possible representation in tin
legislature. The Anchorage Dail\
• Times offers its unqualified suppor
> and will make a liberal contributioi
• to your cause."
Mr. Ward is a veteran Alaskan. H
i first came north in 1899, when he wen
■ to Dawson, Y. T. He was engaged ii
> the newspaper work there until 190E
; when he went to Fairbanks, where h
»! founded and published the Fairbank
■ Daily Times. After having dispose
of the Fairbanks Times, he took par
i in the Innoka stampede in 1909.
Went lo lditarod.
He went to lditarod in 1910, wher
■ ■ he remained until 1911, when he visit
• e<l the states. He was engaged in th
newspaper business in Seattle unti
1 1915, and returned north going t
' Seward where he was a member of th
. : staff of the Seward Post. He went t
’ Cordova in the summer of 1910 t
• take charge of the Cordova Pail
1 Times. He came to Anchorage in th
■ fall of 1916 to assume the manage
ment ol the Anchorage Daily Times.
The third division is entitled to tw
. senators in the territorial legislature.
Term Is Four Years.
The term of each senator is fou
> years, and the senators are chosen a
. alternate biennial elections. John Ro
man, of Seward, was elected in 191
■ and will hold office until 1920.
O. r. Hubbard, of Valdez, was chos
. en at the elction in 1914, and his ten
expires December Ml, this year. It i
. his successor that will be elected nex
November.
> To the present time, Mr. Ward i
■ the only candidate that has announce'
■ himself for the senatorial position.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE WILL MAKE
DRIVE FOR MEMBERS THIS WEEK
TWO TEAMS MILL BE ORGAN
IZEI) FOR WORK AT ONCE ANI
ONE WILL BE CAPTAINED in
RAY LARSON AND OTHER in
FRANK REDWOOD.
Increased membership was the chiei
topic discussed today at the regular
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RUSSIA: TAKE
TWO CITIES
BERLIN REPORTS CAPTURE 01
DYINSK AND LUTZK IN
MUSCOVITE COUNTRY.
ENCOUNTER NO OPPOSITION
General Kalcdines, Former lletmai
of Cossacks, Commits Suicide YVhei
Novocherkask Surrenders to Maxi
milists.
LONDON, Feb. 19.—Official ad
vices from Berlin are to the effect tha
Germany has vigorously resume*
military operations against Russia
and that Teuton troops, practically
without any opposntion, have occupie*
Dvinsk and Lutzk in Russia. Maximil
ist troops before evacuating Dvinsl
made an unsuccessful effort to blov
up the bridge across the Dvina river
Reports from Petrograd chronich
the suicide at Novocherkask, in south
eastern Russia of General Ivalendines
former hetman of the Cossacks. H<
took his life when the government a
Novocherkask resigned office an*
transferred its power to Maximilis
leaders. General Nazaroff, who sue
ceeded General Kaledines as hetmar
of the Cosascks, is mobilizing the Cos
sacks and is approaching Novocher
kask to give battle to the Maximilis
troops there.
• weekly luncheon meeting of the An
i chorage chamber of commerce at tin
: Frisco cafe.
A membership drive will be mad<
this week. Two teams will be organ
ized for the work. Ray Larson wil
head one. while Danilo Vucetich wil
• captain the other.
TALKEETNA LOOKS ~
FOR DEVELOPMEffl
OTTO GLATZ SAYS IRON CREEF
COUNTRY HAS VERY PROM
ISING OUTLOOK.
Otto Glatz, a well known mininj
man on the Kenai peninsula who fo
the past several months has been lo
cated at Talkeetna, is a guest of thi
White house. Mr. Glatz is the owne
of several mining claims in the Iroi
creek district and expects to spend th<
summer in doing development worl
upon them. He states that the coun
try immediately contiguous to Tal
keetna is richer in valuable mineral
than the entire^venai peninsula. Th
construction of the government rail
road beyond Talkeetna will develo]
several mineral wonders in the Iroi
creek country is the opinion of Mi
Glatz, who is confident that the com
ing mining season will see consider
able development work on the numer
ous copper claims on Iron creek.
RABBIT MEAT MAY
DISPLACE BEE!
PET STOCK EXPOSITION IN CAL
I FORMA WILL EMPHASIZE
FOOD REQUIREMENT.
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J EUREKA, Calif., Feb. 19.—In th
belief that rabbit breeding wil
i aid in offsetting the mounting price
- and increasing scarcity of meats
■ I many rabbit growers of Humbold
;; county will hold a pet stock exposi
tion in Eureka, March 16-17.
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| IKE KOSLOSKY LOSES SKINS
SAID TO HAVE BEEN OB -
TAINEI) ILLEGALLY.
FIRST CAPTURE IN ANCHORAGE
t -
i Hides Are Those of Ninety-Five Bea
vers, Forty-one Minks and One
?! Land Otter and Are Held by War
t ! den Samuel Gowen.
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, | Two thousand dollars’ worth of furs
? which are alleged to have been obtain
=, i ed in violation of law, were seized at
] noon today in the store of the North
t western Fur company in the Byrne
building on Fourth avenue between D
and E streets, by Samuel Gowen, of
s Anchorage, special fur warden for
Alaska. The seizure consisted of
ninety-five beaver skins, forty-one
1 mink skins and one land otter.
Shortly after the seizure Warder
a Gowen telegraphed to the bureau o(
3 fisheries at Washington notifying it ot
, the seizure and asking for instructions
(r regarding the disposal of the pelts
2 Pending receipt of instructions the
. furs will be in the custody of the
warden.
Ike Koslosky is the representative
here of the Northwestern Fur company
and Jias been buying furs in consider
r able quantities for several months ir
t this district.
The catching of beaver is prohibited
1 in Alaska until November of this year
The mink skins, which were seized
were caught out of season, according
: to Warden Gowen.
The catching or trapping of lan;
otter is prohibited.
This is the first seizure made by
^ Warden Gowen who was appointed tc
his office by the bureau of fisheries
. last November.
RALPH HOUR, ASPIRANT FOR
SEATTLE’S M A Y O R A LTY,
WOUNDED IN LEFT BREAST
ASSAILANT EFFECTS ESCAPE
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Wounded Man’s Life Had Been Fre
quently Threatened Because of At
; tacks on Disloyal Residents and
Underworld Characters.
SEATTLE, Feb. 19.—Ralph Horr:
r candidate for the republican nomina
r tion for mayor of Seattle at today’*
. primaries, was shot in the left breast
j as he entered his office last evening
r by an unidentified man concealed be
1 hind a desk. The assailant shouted,
2 “you won’t heed our warnings” and
j fired point blank. He fled with a
. companion from the room and effected
. his escape.
5 Horr at once telephoned to the po
? lice station and to the newspaper of
- flees.
} Horr had returned to his office just
1 after having made a political speech.
• .Following the shooting, the wounded
‘ man said that during the primary
‘ mayoralty campaign he has received
' numerous messages, through the med
ium of anonymous letters and tele
phone calls, threatening his life if in
his political addresses he did not stop
1 attacking anti-Ameriean agitators and
underworld characters.
TEUTON AGENTS
LEAVE RUSSIA
BERLIN, Feb. 16.—It is officially
* announced by the German government
3 that the peace commissioners repre
, senting the central powers at the re
t cent peace conference with Russia left
- Petrograd yesterday and crossed into
the German lines this morning.
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UNITED STATES MANUFACTUR
ERS ARE EXPECTED TO HOLD
TRADE AFTER THE WAR.
BUYERS HAVE LOTS OF MONEY.
Present Prosperity in Southern Re
public Will Increase Country’s Im
portance As Market for Food from
This Nation.
American shoe manufacturers now
control the market in Peru and in all
probability will continue to do so af
ter the war, says a report on the sub
ject issued today by the bureau of
foreign and domestic commerce, de
• partment of commerce.
Peru has just emerged from a pe
riod of prolonged economic depres
j sion and is now reaping the benefit of
the era of high prices in the metal
and food products brought on by the
war. Every branch of the agricul
tural and mining industries has been
j correspondingly benefited, and in this
I connection it is interesting to note
i that in 1915 the value of the agricul
tural products exported was more
| than $43,000,000, or nearly 27 per
cent greater than the value of the
mineral products exported. The pro
duction of sugar has inereasec^enor
mously.
The present prosperity will in
crease Peru’s importance as a market
for American goods, for shoes as well
as other products, says Special Agent
Herman G. Brock, author of the gov
ernment’s report. It is a market that
should recive as careful attention as
our own war needs will permit. Our
indebtedness for such essential prod
ucts as copper and sugar should be
paid at least in part by manufactured
, goods needed in Peru, and it is the
part of wisdom to so conduct our
; present business as to leave us in an
advantageous position when the war
is over.
A careful analysis of the boot and
j shoe business of Peru is made in the
report, which is published under the
title “Market for Boots and Shoes in
Peru.”
EXPORT OF EDIBLES, WITH EX
CEPTION OF MEAT, HAS AL
I MOST ENTIRELY STOPPED.
STOCKHOLM, Feb. 19.—The food
situation in Sweden is rapidly grow
ing worse. Pork cards will be intro
i duced and the extra bread cards which
; formerly were provided for foreign
S diplomats have been withdrawn, ex
cept one for each head of a mission.
The export of foodstuff has almost
entirely stopped, with the exception of
meat, owing to the necessity of
slaughtering stock because of the lack
of fodder. Even meats show a large
decrease. In November last 21.2 tons
of pork were exported against 1,517
tons in November 1916, and 151 tons
of all other meat against 972.
The statistics of Swedish imports
for the first eleven months of the past
| year, which are now available, demon
strate upon what short rations the
kingdom has been put. The total im
ports of all cereals and flour were
| 143,610 tons, against 331,187 for the
j first eleven months of 1916. Coffee im
ports were 8,194 tons against 37,413,
tea 93 tons against 480, all kinds of
animal fodder, chiefly oilcakes, 33,602
tons against 77,272 and hard coal 11,
300,000 tons against 34,500,000 in the
eleven months of 1916.
COMFORTS FOR SICK SOLDIERS.
DEMING, N. M., Feb. 18.—The
women of Doming have organized
a relief society to assist in caring for
the soldiers at Camp Cody who are
ill. These women send committees to
the base hospital daily to see that the
patients have the little home comforts
sick men like.
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BROWN & HAWKINS WILL EN
LARGE PRESENT PLACE AND ..
PUT UP SECOND STORY.
NEW BLOCK BY DR. BOYLE.
j Judge Leopold Da>id Outlines Plans
for $6,000 Home and Elks Lodge
Will Improve Its Lot on Fourth Av
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| enue.
That Anchorage is to experience
1 the greatest building boom in its his
i tory is evidenced by the plans of
j many business men to construct new
stores and homes and enlarge pi*esent
j quarters.
| Charles E. Brown, of Brown &
Hawkins, announces plans for a sec
I ond story to the present quarters of
the firm at the corner of Fourth ave
nue and E street.
The ground floor of this store struc
ture will be enlarged and will occu
py the entire lot. The building when
improved will have a frontage of sev
enty feet on Fourth avenue and 140
feet on E street. A concrete^ retain
ing wall will be erected on the east
I side of the lot between the Brown &
Hawkins store and the Montana pool
i hall and this compete wall will be two
stories in height. A cellar will be ex
cavated under the store building. The
space made available by the extension
of the ground floor will be used ex
clusively by the hardware department
and the upper floor will be devoted to
furniture, carpets and dry goods. The
improvement will increase the pres
; ent floor space nearly one and a half
Work Begins in Summer.
Work will be started during the
early summer and will be conducted
under the personal supervision of Mr.
Brown. The cost of the improvement
is estimated at $15,000.
Dr. F. M. Boyle, who is the owner
of the lot on the northwest corner of
Fourth avenue and E street, opposite
Brown & Hawkins, is planning the
l erection of a two-story modern con
crete building, work on which will be
gin early in the summer. The lower
floor will be rented to retail stores
and the second story will be used for
offices. The plans call for an expen
diture of $23,000.
Captain A. E. Lathrop, owner of
the Empress theatre and of the Lath
rop apartments, at the corner of
Fourth avenue and H street, plans
on building a substantial addition to
the apartment house and will begin
o ecu iy do
To Build $6,000 Residence.
Judge Leopold David is busy with
plans and specifications for a resi
dence on his property on Second ave
nue involving an outlay of $6,000.
The Elks’ lodge which owns a val
uable lot on the south side of Fourth
avenue between F and G streets, will
build a home during the course of the
coining summer and will take up the
question of the character and style of
the building shortly after the formal
institution of the lodge here next
month.
It is thought that the structure will
bq designed as income property, with
stores and offices on the ground floor
and the club home in the upper stor
ies.
The Masons are contemplating im
provements on their building at the
corner of Fourth avenue and F street.
BOOKKEEPER CHOSEN
ASSISTANT CASHIER
EARL W. CHANDLER PROMOTED
TO RESPONSIBLE POSITION
IN BANK OF ANCHORAGE.
Earl W. Chandler, bookkeeper in the
Bank of Anchorage was elected assist
ant cashier of that institution at a
meeting of the board of directors held
at the bank Saturday night. Mr.
Chandler came to Anchorage last sum
mer. He is a native of Iowa and was
engaged in the banking business in
that state for a number of years be
fore coming to Alaska.
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WOMAN TO SUE
FOR CROWN LANDS
HONOLULU, T. H., Feb. 16.—“Prin
«ess” Theresa Wilcox Belliveau, who
failed to obtain possession of the es
tate of the late Queen Liliaukalani by
means of the “will” of August 29,
1917, which Circuit Judge Ashford
threw out of his court and declared to
be a forgery, asserts she is going to
push her claim for the crown lands in
the territory.
The “Princess” declares that she is
the lineal descendant and heir of Kam
ehameha V. who, she assert*, died in
testate. She and her mother, Mrs. Eli
zabeth Iv. Pratt, she asserts are now
the only heirs of the crown and of the
crown lands.
“Princess’ Theresa’s claims are not
taken seriously in Hawaii.
Head the Anchorage Tmes.
ANTON JOHANSEN
Seldovia, Kachemak Bay.
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Fisherman, Prospector, Hunter
and Trapper.
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i; SOFT DRINKS.
U. S. RESTAURANT
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4tli Ave. Bet. C and D.
Chop Suey and Noodles
Inlet Soda Company
W. A. TAYLOR, Proprietor
Manufacturers of all Kinds of Mineral
Waters: Soda, Cider, Syrups.
Agents for Grape Juice and
Hemrick’s Staff Products
Anchorage Alaska
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
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DISEASES OF
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