ANCHORAGE WEEKLY TIMES
AND ALASKA LABOR NEWS.
VOL. 2. NO. 29.
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 20. 1018.
PRICE TEN CENTS.
PARIS, Juno 19.—After a violent preparatory bombardment, tie
Germans started an offensive against the allies on the Kheims front
between Strikin' and La Pombollo, at an early hour this morning. Tin
Freiieh trooj)s on this front are resisting the blow with entire success
The new JIun attack is approximately fourteen miles in length, follow
ing the meander of a semi-circle drawn about the city of Kheims in tin
recent offensive on the Aisne front. Kheims is hemmed in on thre<
sides by the Germans, and it is considered only a question of time whci
the Germans will make a concerted movement to oust the allied de
fenders, it is reported that French colonial troops are defending tin
city.
ALLIED ARTILLERYING HAS INCREASED.
BERLIN, June 19.—Official: Allied artillerying has increased t<
great intensity in Flanders, on both sides of the river Lys and betweei
Arras and Albert. An allied attack on the German positions southwes
of Albert was repulsed.
FRENCH BREAK A 1ST RIAN ATTACKS.
PARIS, dune 19.—The Havas News Agency reports that Alts
trian forces which attacked the Italian front in mass formation, in tin
sector occupied by French forces, met with a severe repulse. Tin
French forces broke the assaults, maintained the line and took mam
prisom-rs and important war material.
VIENNA REPORTS ON BATTLE
VIENNA. June 19.—Official: The Austrian armies have taker
30.000 prisoners and 100 big guns since the attack on the Italian from
Monday. (>n both sides of the river Brenta. the enemy renewed at
tacks which were repulsed by our forces. British attacks south o:
Asiago were unsuccessful.
HOUSE PASSES CONFERENCE REPORT ON
NAVAL BILL, WHICH INCLUDES MILLION
DOLLARS FOR THE MATANUSKA FIELD
WASHINGTON, I). (’., June 18, 1918.
Anchorage ( hamper of Commerce,
Anchorage, A1 aska.
The conference report on the naval appropriation bill has jus
been adopted by the house. It includes the item of one million dollars
to be expended under the direction of the secretary of the navy for tin
mining and transportation of Alaska coal.
SFLZER. Delegate.
The appropriation for the development of the Matanuska coalfields
originated in the senate, by an amendment proposed by Senator Poin
t dexter of Washington, so it is as certain as anything can be that tin
senate will not disturb it, when that body comes to consider the con
- forence report on the naval bill.
FROM PITTSBURG
Chas. E. Herron returned yesterday
from an extended trip to the states,
where he has been for the past few
months in the interest of his various
Alaska enterprises.
Ceorge \Y. English, \Y. S. Campbell
and Elmer 1. White, prom nent busi
ness men of Pittsburgh, accompanied
Mr. Herron to Anchorage. Mr. Eng
?i:i and Mr. Campbell are associated
with Mr. Herron in the Kuchemak
Canning company and will spend sev
eral weeks in Anchorage and vicinity.
The entire party expects to visit the
company’s plant and fishing sites in
the Kachemak bay district and later
will take in the Willow creek district,
government coal fields and other
places of interest in the neighborhood
of Anchorage.
This is the first trip of the Pitts
burgh gentlemen to Alaska and they
are very favorably impressed with
their initial experience. The party
enjoyed a delightful trip on the Ala
meda from Seattle and are very enthu
siastic over the grand scenery en
route. Mr. White, who has traveled
4 extensively in foreign lands, was espe
cially loud in his praise of Alaska’s
scenery. Mr. White said that from
the standpoint of beauty and grandeur
Alaska scenery compares more than
favorably with the much-advertised
sites and resorts of other countries
that he has visited.
Alaska, and especially Anchorage,
lias received considerable publicity in
the last year but as one of the party
remarked, “The half has never beer
told.”
The gentlemen are greatly interest
ed in the government railroad project
and the vast number of resources it
this country. They each expresscc
agreeable surprise at the modern city
of Anchorage and are frank in saving
that while they had heard consider
able favorable comment Anchorage
far exceeded their anticipation.
PROMINENT REPUBLICAN
LEADER VISITS THE (TT\
George W. Irving, chairman of the
republican territorial central commit
tee, with headquarters at Juneau, is c
guest at the Hotel Anchorage, having
arrived in the city Sunday on the Ala
meda.
Mr. Irving says that this visit i;
strictly a business trip of a persona
nature, but he will not overlook any
political bets while in Anchorage. Mr
Irving is of the opinion that the com
ing contest for delegate betweer
Wickersham and Sulzer will be one of
the bitterest ever held in Alaska. He
is a great admirer of Hon. James
Wickersham and sincerely believes ir
W ickershanvs certain election this fall
—moreover he is preparing his well
organized political forces to this end.
Mr. Irving will spend several days
in Anchorage and vicinity and wil
visit the Kaehemak bay fishing
grounds, Willow creek quartz district
the government coal fields and othei
places of interest before returning tc
his home at Juneau.
NAMES IS NAMES.
Mrs. Iva Barefoot lives at Monroe
North Carolina.
FRIDAY, JUNE
TWENTY-EIGHT
> GOVERNOR RIGGS URGES ALAS
KANS TO PURCHASE U. S.
WAR SAVINGS STAMPS.
PROCLAMATION DULY ISSUED
Names Friday, June Twenty-Eighth
as War Savings Day—Wants A1
Alaskans to Pledge Themselves t<
Take Twenty Dollars’ Worth Dur
ing the Year.
Juneau, Alaska, June 18.
> Times, Anchorage:
i Have issued the following procla
mation: Following the proclamatioi
of the President of the United States
I, Thomas Riggs, jr., governor o
Alaska, do hereby proclaim Friday
, June 28, as
WAR SAVINGS DAY.
War Savings Day will terminate i
period in which it is the duty of al
people throughout the territory t<
purchase or pledge themselves to pur
chase during the balance of the yeai
War Savings stamps in such quanti
ties as they are able.
All sub-chairmen ana sales agent:
should arrange with the branches o:
the council of defense, the hom<
guards and other organizations t<
take immediate steps to perfect an or
ganization to make intensive drives s<
as to insure the sale of stamps to tin
value of $20 for every person in tht
territory. Alaska’s quota of sales thu:
becomes approximately $000,000, o
which amount $200,000 has already
been accounted for.
The purchase • of War Saving:
Stamps is a secure loan to the gov
eminent at compound interest. En
list in War Savings societies.
Let every loyal person in the tend
tory pledge himself to the purchase o
stamps. Alaska is over the top in al
drives. Keep up the record.
Don’t be a slacker. Help win the
Given under my hand and seal o!
the territory of Alaska in Juneau
the capital, this liftenth day of June
! m the year of our Lord one thousanc
j nine hundred and eighteen and of the
I Independence of the United State
the one hundred and forty-second.
(Signed) THOMAS RIGGS, Jr.,
Attest: Governor
CHARLES E. DAVIDSON.
Ex-Officio Secretary of Alaska.
RIGGS, Governor.
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FIRE DESTROYS
ALASKA-BOUND
S. S, RAVALLI
A PACIFIC rORT, June 15.—The
Pacific Steamship company’s steamer
Ravalli caught fire at Lowe inlet,
near Greenville channel yesterday
while en route to Alaska. The vessel
I was promptly beached and when
ashore burned to the water’s edge.
■ The forty-nine passengers and the
| crew of forty men escaped in safety.
Part of the cargo and all of the bag
gage was saved. The cause of the
| fire is unknown.
ROAI) COMMISSIONERS HERE.
Maj. H. W. Waugh and Anton Eide,
of the Alaska Road commission, ar
rived in Anchorage yesterday and
left this morning to inspect the wagon
bridge recently installed across the
Susitna river at Palmer Canyon. They
expect to be in Anchorage and vicini
ty for several days and are making
their headquarters at the Hotel An
chorage. Maj. Waugh will have ar
interview in the Times in a few days
relative to the wagon road situation
in this district.
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SEATTLE TIMES PRAISES THE
TERRITORY FOR EFFORTS IN
THE NOBLE CAUSE.
. WENT WELL “OVER THE TOP’
, Northwest Campaign Manager Davies
1 Tells Seattle Newspaper that Alas
) ka Has More Than Done Its Bit,
With the More Remote Regions Yet
to Hear From.
Commenting on the Alaska Red
Cross drive, the Seattle Times says:
With a per capita of a dollar for
i every White, Eskimo or Indian in
, Alaska, the territory holds the addi
7 tional honor of being the first to “go
, over the top” in the Red Cross drive,
having exceeded its quota last Tues
day, the second day of the campaign.
. In consequence T. A. Davies has been
[ receiving the congratulations of his
i fellow workers and Alaskans general
. ly for several days.
“The end is not yet in sight,” re
marked Davies yesterday, “for we are
yet to hear from Teller, Point Barrow
; or the seal herders of St. Paul island,
' but we have strong hopes of receiving
■ j a 100 per cent report when the boats
* I come in from those places during the
autumn. Then some of the big oper
, ators have not yet ‘come through,’ and
. while we can see right now that we
■ jhave exceeded our quota by about 60
; I per cent, we are going to try and make
'; the excess a full 100 per cent.
| “The steamship companies and can
| neries with headquarters here have
;! nearlv all subscribed, but there are
!
. I still many to be seen before our work
. | is complete and several chapters in
; Alaska are going to add greatly to the
total already figured. When it is con
' I sidered that the great distances be
! tween Alaska points are accentuated
by the lack of inland transportation,
that many of the important business
men of the territory have offices in
various places from San Diego to
I Boston, and the actual permanent res
: idents of the territory, the showing is
I one in which every citizen in Alaska
can take a personal pride,
j “We expect to show at the close
that the per capita subscription will be
more than $3. based on the permanent
white population, and if that figure
1 is borne out it will set a record for
any division of the United States that
will be difficult to eclipse. As it is, a
| dollar for each person of all classes in
the territory is a showing well worth
recording.*’
COMPLIMENTS THE
ANCHORAGE SCHOOL
L. D. Henderson, commissioner of
| education, left for his home in Juneau
; yesterday on the steamer Alameda.
! Mr. Henderson has .spent the past
: three weeks in Anchorage and vicini
I ty on business connected with the edu
cational department of the territory.
He reported that the plans as outlined
I by the local school board were quite
satisfactory and the schools of the
neighborhood, including Hope, Wasil
ia. Matanuska, Knik and other places,
were in good condition. Mr. Hender
son mentioned particularly that the
work accomplished last year by the
Anchorage public schools was of high
older.
The taxpayers and citizens of Eska
creek have prepared a petition pray
ing for the establishment of a school
in the district. The petition will be
forwarded to District Clerk Lang at
Valdez in the near future.
NAMES IS NAMES.
Will Knott lives in Portland, Ore.
AUSTRIANS UNABLETQ ADVANCE
DUE ID STUBBORN RESISTANCE
OF ITALIANS, AIOED BT ALLIES
SUMMARY: The Austrian armies are not closing in with the
pineer movement with the precision that they manifested in a similar
movement last fall, when they inaugurated the big offensive against the
Italian armies, when they forced the Italians to retire back to the
Piave river and the plains of Venetia. The Austrians have been un
able to advance further than they reached on the first and second days
of the present drive. Everywhere, from the Asiago plateau to the Piave
river, the Italians, aided by French and British troops, have repulsed
them and inflicted heavy casualties. The Italians and allies are hold
ing their lines virtually intact along the entire front, which is ninety
miles in length, and which extends from the Adriatic sea to the Asiago
plateau. They appear to have given the Austrians a serious check.
Frightful losses were inflicted on the Austrians in the Montello area.
Some of tlie Austrian forces have crossed the Piave river, facing a
heavy fire at the hands of Italians and suffering severe losses.
BRITISH DESTROY TWENTY-FIVE HUN PLANES.
LONDON, June 19.—Official: British aviators yesterday destroy
ed twenty-five German aeroplanes, drove three down behind the enemy
lines and dropped twenty tons of bombs on enemy railway stations,
junctions, dumps and airdromes, in the rear of the Dun lines.
AMERICAN GUNS SMASH GERMAN PATROLS.
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, June 19.—Well
directed fire of American guns smashed German patrols that attempt
ed to approach the American lines in the Marne sector last night. One
Hun patrol was almost annihilated.
BRITISH MAKE SUCCESSFUL RAID.
LONDON, June 19.—Official: The British forces last night made
a successful raid on enemy positions to the north of Lens. This morn
ing the British raided the German trenches south of Hulluch and cap
tured several prisoners.
I “AMERICANS NOT COMING, THEY HAVE
COME--AMERICANS NOT COMING INTO
WAR; THEY ARE IN 1F-B0NAR LAW
LONDON, June 19.—Bonar Law, chancellor of the exchequer
in the British cabinet and spokesman for the cabinet in the house of
commons, speaking yesterday afternoon, said, in part:
There is a great source of reserves in America, which have been
placed at the disposal of the allies. It is undoubtedly a part of the Ger
man scheme to use up the allied reserves before the Americans can re
inforce them. In this, the Germans will find themselves in grievous
error. Necessity has made possible that which seemed impossible. The
Americans are not coming: they have come. The Americans are not
' coming into war; they are in it now. The American troops in France
! were in the trenches in the recent offensive and rendered a mighty aid
to the allies. In the prospective offensive, the Americans will be there
in largely increased numbers."
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DUE TO WAR ADMIRAL
LINE LOSES AN AGENT
As another slight inconvenience to
be experienced from the European
war, the Pacific Steamship company
| lecently found itself without an agent
j in Cordova, one of Alaska’s biggest
! shipping centers. William A. Nourse,
, formerly of Anchorage, who has rep
i resented the company in the Print.
I William Sound port, cabled that he
! found it impossible to stay out of the
| big struggle in Europe any longer and
! had answered the call to the colors,
j He explained that he had been ordered
: to report for training and assignment
| to Fort William H. Seward, southeast
: ern Alaska, and probably would go
! from there to Camp Lewis. As a re
! suit of Nourse’s decision to join the
j colors, the Pacific Steamship company
| is looking for a new agent for Cordo
| va. Nourse has been in the service
of the Pacific Steamship company for
i five years. He served as purser,
freight agent and pier clerk.
WILLOW CREEK.
William Martin, the big Willow
creek mine operator, arrived from Se
| attle on the steamer Alameda vester
j day and is registered at the Hotel
| Parsons. Mr. Martin expects to leave
for the district tomorrow and will
start the season’s work at the Martin
mine. He has had a force of men
working on the property for several
weeks getting out ore and preparing
for the mill run. Mr. Martin will also
have charge of this season’s operation
at the Mable mine in which he is
largely interested.
The following letters show the dis
position of the funds raised in An
chorage during the recent campaign
for Red Cross funds:
Anchorage, June 11, 1918.
Mr. Robert Courtnay, Treasurer,
Anchorage Chapter Red Cross,
Anchorage.
!
Dear Sir:
I beg to enclose list of deposits
j made during the recent Red Cross
| campaign, to the credit of Leopold
\ David, treasurer, showing a total re
| ceived of 88,637. These donations are
classified as unrestricted gifts and ac
cording to instructions from Red
Cross headquarters, I have deposited
today in your name as treasurer,
twenty-five per cent or 82,159.25, and
seventy-five per cent of the total to
the credit of W. G. McAdoo, treasurer.
I beg to enclose a cable received
from T. E. Davies who has charge of
the Alaska Division, whereby I am
authox-ized to make the distribution as
outlined in this letter.
Yours truly,
SIDNEY ANDERSON.
Seattle, Wn., June J-1S.
Anderson,
Anchorage.
Unrestricted gifts seventy-five per
cent goes credit Wm. G. McAdoo
treasurer with Bank of Anchorage,
twenty-five per cent to chapter treas
urer. Restricted gifts divided accord
ing wishes donors. We proud your
record, rejoice at your success.
DAVIES.