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_VOU'MK nil. NTMBKH 77. OOKDOVA, AJTaXKa7tI^ UA Y, OCT0BKR 2. 19lT~ ■ — :
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Down With American
Liberty Cry Socialists
PETROGRAD. Oct. 2. — Last night
one hundred and fifty thousand So
cialists paraded the streets of Petro
grad and cried "Down with American
Liberty.”
This extraordinary outbreak fol
lowed a meeting of 3,000 Extreme So
cialists. who protested against the im
prisonment of Alexander Berkman.
American Socialist sentenced at At
lanta. The information received here
was to the effect that Berkman was
not only imprisoned but that he was
in prison awaiting the execution of the
death sentence. Anarchist agitators,
said to have recently arrived" here
from the United States, scoffed at Am
erican liberty, and so great was the
hue and cry that a demonstration was
planned against the American em
bassy. This was not carried out, but
the provisional government statlone
heavy guards about the embassy.
Alexander Berkntan was reeentl
convicted of conspiracy against cot
scription, with Emma Goldman, an
sentenced to the Atlanta penitentlar
for two years. Berkntan appealed an
secured a rehearing. He was take
to New York and held for three day
while Anarchists secured ball, amount
ing to $25,000. Three minutes afte
Berkntan had been released on bai
he was taken Into custody again on at
Indictment of a grand jury, chargin
complicity in the preparedness parad
bomb outrage at San Francisco, It
July, 1910.
The Russians have undoubtedly re
ceived word of his first arrest, trial
conviction and sentence.
Standing of Candidates
Be Announced Later
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♦ you to take advantage of your time for the next thirty days, so that 4
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(By Associated Press)
LONDON, Oct. 2. — Unrelentently
In their attacks on this city, German
air fleets continue to make nightly
raids and drop bombs. Today the ad
miralty issued a statement, saying
that in the raid Sunday night, nine
persons were killed and forty-two
were Injured. The same statement de
clares that nine were killed in the
air raid last Saturday night, although
about two score were injured.
During the raid Sunday night a new
Gotha machine, one of the latest mod
els, was brought down, but it landed
in a sofe field and was not damaged
to any great extent. The Gotha was
the only machine which penetrated
the inner defenses, and was flying low
when winged by anti-aircraft guns.
Eleven British machines which gave
chase to the enemy fleet, returned
safely two hours after the raid, al
though a battle was fought at an alt!
tude of 11,000 feet off the east coasl
of England.
METAL STRIKERS
IT SEITTLE
STILjJUT
SEATTLE, Oct. 2. — Fourteen thou
sand metal workers, who went on
strike last Friday afternoon, remai
out. Efforts were made yesterday t
induce the men to return but the strik
leaders Issued a statement that the
would remain out until the feders
adjustment board reached here. Th
adjustment board will leave for th
Pacific coast late tonight or early ti
morrow afternoon.
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Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Ainslee are i
town today, the guests of Mr. an
Mrs. W. R. Hillery. They are on the
way to Anchorage, where Mr. Alnsle
formerly of the National City Ban!
Seattle, has accepted a position wit
the Bank of Anchorage.
Mail routes to Alaska may stall
from Portland, Oregon, on July 1, ID’S
The postoffice department has invitee
Portland interests to bid against So
attle for Alaska mail contracts covet
ing a period of four years, and thi
merchants of Portland are already ac
tive in promoting a line of steamers ti
handle the contract.
Referring to the matter, the Port
land Telegram says:
“Portland has been given an oppot
tunity to bid on the big Alaska mai
carrying contracts, through the effort
of Postmaster Myers. Specification
for the contracts were received b
Myers recently from Washingtor
wherein the routes, the mail schedule
and bonds required are set forth. Coi
ies will be sent those interested.
“Heretofore Seattle has had the et
elusive privilege of bidding on thes
contracts because Alaska mails hav
at all times been forwarded from th
Sound.
“Representations have been madi
however, that Portland may be in pi
sition to operate steamers betwee
Portland and the north before ne)
July, when the new contracts becom
effective. The contracts run fro:
July 1. 1918. to June 30, 1922, and I
case a steamship line is placed i
operation, the mails would go far t
ward meeting its expenses, it Is poin
ed out.
"Bids will be received at the pos
office department at Washington fro
now until 4:30 p. in., December 4. Tl
bids will be made on a pound basl
Bids will be received for these route:
( “Portland to Ketchikan, Wrange
Juneau, Skagway and other poinl
1250 miles and back, four times
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j month.
B “Portland to Nome, 2850 miles, ai
g back, during navigation season,
i- “These are in turn subdivided ai
rearranged, giving bidders vario
combinations and side runs from d
tributing points in Alaska.”
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r The Ladies' Aid Society of the Pri
!, byterian church, will hold their ref
[, lar business meeting at the home
b Mrs Vance, Wednesday afternoon
2:15 o'clock.
1RUSSIANS ARE
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(Ry Associated Press)
, PETROGRAD, Oct. 2. — The offl ;
cial war statement i afternoon says |
I that the Russians have made a decis '
, ivc advance in the district around Ja- I
( cobstadt, and have also strengthened
, positions on both sides of the '<
, river Dvina In threo widely sepa
rated sections. The advance at Jo
r cobstadt was n surprise upon the Ger
! mans, who retreated in disorder, but
, 'rallied at a new position.
Lit IS PASStD
BY FIGHTING ;
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(By Associated Press)
' WASHINGTON. Oct. 2. — The first
physical encounter on the floor of the
house since the Mondell-Wickersham
combat, occurred Saturday between
Representative Heflin of Alabama and
Representative Norton of North Da- 1
kota. The pair leaped at each other
and wrestled for a few minutes, but
no blows were struck before they
were separated.
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The row had been brewing for sev
eral days, in fact, ever since Hefl'n j *
made veiled charges that he could
name certain congressmen who had
accepted German money to prevent
the declaration of war. The secretary i 11
of state had just made the revelation
of the Von Bernstorff message to his
government, asking permission to
spend $50,000 to influence congress ^
toward a peaceful attitude to Ger- 1
many, when Heflin made the speech n
which has since caused him untold
mental suffering.
^ His fello«v jnen^jpr^f.,,v ’jj
press writers and cartoonists through
| out the country as grabbing out after : ( |
| German marks and thalers. They na-'
j turally resented these insinuations,
land have taken Heflin severely to task
for making charges which have
brought them into a certain disrepute.
Norton led the fight to make Heflin .
prove his charges or recant, and for
;seveial days the gentleman from Ala- e
bama lias led a most miserable exist- j
ence. He was forced to admit early
in the game that he couldn’t back up ()
his statements with proof, and was
: hooted when ho tried to explain him
self. Norton gave him a fearful tongue
lashing, winding up with a heated de
nunciation of his “sneaking insninua- .
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tions."
The house is described as being a
| “bear garden" during the row. 1’he
, baited legislator tried to throw bis
tormentors off by starting a “star
spangled-banner, boys-in-the-trenches”
speech, but was met with catcalls, *
’ groans and boos.
The wrestling match was the finale
of the stormy’scene.
Delegate Wickersham of Alaska, had
occasion to “go over the top” of his
1 desk at Representative Morulell of (
Wyoming at one time when the latter
3 gentleman took the liberty of stating
that Wickersham was lying in some
’ of his statements concerning Alaska.
3 Mondell, representing the interests
of the coal mining section of Wyoming
was naturally not eager to see the (
Alaska coal lands opened up. Wlcker
p sham's work in behalf of such legisla
l’ tion irritated him to the point where
B he allowed himself to use the brief
but ugly word.
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,e WASHINGTON, Oct. 2. — The first
a. step to expell from the United States I
i- congress those who have been recog '
11, nlzed as pro-Germans, was taken to
s, day by Senator James W. Wadsworth,1
a of New York. Senator Wadsworth, in
behalf of petitions from various New
[(j York state organizations of all kinds
of affiliations and parties, asked for
i(j the repulsion of Senator Robert La
Uollette, of Wisconsin; William J.
Stone, of Missouri, and Asle J. Gronna.
s
of North Dakota. The request was re
ferred to the elections committee of
the senate without any comment being
's- made.
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of Your eyes fitted. Compound and
at astigmatic lenses replaced. See Os
borne.
(By Associated T’Hss)
WASHINGTON. Oct. - -t Two Alas,
kan nominations were jr.de today,
President Wilson sendltjj to the sen
ate the nanu s of Wllllam^A- Munley,
af Anchorage, to lie United States dis
trict attorney of the Thiijl division,
and l\ H. Itrenneman as (jilted States
marshal. 1 l :
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Mr. Munley. nominated today by
(•resident Wilson for the district at
orneyship of this division.(will suc
'etid W. H. Spence, who h o already j
■eturned to his former '“'home in
Georgia. Mr. Munley has hcfn assist
int to Mr. Spence.
Mr. Brenneman has TieluVrSHoml
lated for his second term;.' Both gen
lemon are well known Alaskans.
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(Bv United Press)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2. — With its
Uendnr filled with highly Imuortant
»ses, the supreme court conveied to
ay for Its 1918-19 term. In line with
a old-time custom, it adjourned af
r formal business to call on the
resident.
A decision Is expected speedily on
le constitutionality of the draft law,
ader which 600.000 men are npw in :
srvlce. Should five justices the ,
w invalid, all these young men could i
'turn to their homes. ,
Sca;cely less Important is the (lecis
n of the child labuL law S-oi-il ,
TO^ffii.-kja v...... bu.,<tCnm...
! abandoned, and the field given f
the states, several of which arafcle
cledlv unfriendly to such legislation.
The e is an understanding that the
ipreme court will give these meas
es right of way.
Before the court also are some of
le most important trust busting cases
ie United States ever started. If all
ere won, the so-called steel, harvest- ;
•, shoe machinery, kodak, anthracite,
ke towage, corn products trusts i
ould he compelled to follow the Stan- !
ard Oil Company into "dissolving."
But there are rumors — nothing so ;
nsanctifled as a “hunch" or a “tip"
raid come from the court itself, of
ourse — that the court will just nata
lity fall to reach these cases.
The executive branches of the gov
rnment feel the trusts can be most
ractlcally dealt with through price
xing and profit taxing.
Certain officials of the executive de
artments "hope’ 'the supreme court
dll let things go until at least the
car is over.
two cases important to union moor
re the attempts of the Eagle Glass
nd Manufacturing Company and the
litchman Coal and Coke Company,
ioth of West Virginia, to have labor
nions declared conspirators under the
date laws.
Methods of Dupont powder Inter
ests in alleged strong arm methods of
mtting a competitor out of business
will be reviewed in the suit of the de
unet Buckeye Powder Company
igainst them. Triple damages are
isked by the latter corporation for the
illeged unfair ruination of Its busi
ness.
Denver, Colorado, and Lincoln, Ne
braska, will reach final decisions in
rid rate fights with, respectively, their
water and gas public utilities.
Whether Illinois railroads may
charge 2.4 cents a mile, when the
state law sets two cents, is up for
settlement.
Several rebating eases are pending.
Power of the I. C. C. to investigate
where it suspects railroad corruption
funds Is In question.
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FORREST REPRESENTS
GRAND EXALTED RULER.
George F. Forrest, of Juneau, has
received notification that he has been
appointed the representative of the
grand exalted ruler of the Elks lodge
for the district of Alaska. He will
have general supervision of tlie work
f the two lodgeB under the Instruc
tlons received from the head of the
lodge.
For several years there has been
no district representative for Alaska
and the two lodges, Juneau uud Skag
way, have been working during thal
time to have one appointed. Thai
they have been successful wai
evinced by the appointment of Mr
Forrest to the position.
LIBERTY BONDS
ARE SELLING
RAPIDLY
(By Associated Press 1
WASHINGTON. Oct. 2. — The big
drive for the second Issue of the Lib
erty loan bond Is on throughout the
country. The drive started yesterday
at noon and received a great sendoff,
according to official statements re
cefved last night at the treasury de
partment. No amount was given out
Tor publication as the result of the
first day's drive, but It !s expected
that tonight the results of the first
Iwo days will be announced. The
present drive will continue for four
weeks. The plans are to raise three
billion dollars in subscriptions, and
today treasury officials sat the amount
to exceed five billions.
Secretary McAdoo opened the cam
paign at Cleveland.
TAX BILL IS
UP FOR FINAL
DEBATE ;
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON. Oct. 2. - The two '
tlllion seven hundred million dollar !
war tax bill Is today up for final con- '
sideration in the house.
1 he war tax bill as now outlined will '
:at<h almost everybody front the *
tradle to the grave, and for good mea
inre levies new taxes on even babies’
irst dash of talcum powder, v hich la *
per t ent. Not only babies, but heirs '
ire taxed in the new plans being dis- '
ussed today. It is also stated that '
he inheritance tax will also be in.
Teased. 1
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NOT ADJOURN"
THIS WEEK ;
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(By Associated Press) t
WASHINGTON. Oct. 2. - Owint; to '
mport int legislation which has just >
■ome before congress concerning the ’
war. an adjournment of congress ‘s ’
tot probable before the end of next
week. Both senate and house leaders '
in conference early this forenoon, de- 1
rlared that adjournment this week
was out of the question.
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Owing to the temporary withdrawal
of the steamer Northwestern from the
southwestern Alaska route, the steam
ers Alameda. Alaska and Mariposa
will operate for the balance of Sep
tember and October, leaving Seattle at
9 a. m. on the following dates:
Alameda—September 26.
Alaska—October 2.
Mariposa—October 8.
Alameda—October 16.
Alaska—October 24.
The ports of call will be Ketchikan,
luneau. Cordova, Ellamar, Valdez,
♦Fort Liscum, Latouche. Seward and
Anchorage. ♦ Denotes calls at Fort
Liscum only when business justifies.
Southbound the Mariposa and Ala
meda will call at Skagway in addi
I tion to the above named ports.
As noted above, the Alaska sailing
! from Seattle October 24, will go
through to Anchorage, and unless ad
vised to the contrary will be the last
steamer calling at Anchorage this
. soason.
The steamer Alameda arrived from
Seattle late last night with the fol
lowing passengers for Cordova: Paul
H. Gilbert. Miss Mae L. Day. Mrs. A.
E. Black J. Stensaas, James T.
I Crane. G. Burleigh, J. N. Thlreill, Toni
I Lurjovtch, Mike Kosakos, O. Mark
ham, C. D. Colwell, S. Albislni, Gordon
|C. Eveland, E. M. McGill, A. Hagen.
G. Budich. N. Casperson and wife, B.
K. Calketh. Allen Handy, and one
steerage.
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The Pacific Lighterage Company, a
subsidiary of the Pacific Steamship
i Company, has been organized under
: the laws of the state of Washington,
| and is now ready to do business.
(’apt. W. H. Waugh, United States
army engineers reserve corps, has
received orders by telegraph from the
war department, directing him to re
lieve < apt. J c. Mehaffey as engineer
officer of the Alaska board of road
commissioners. Telegraphic advices
were also received by (iener.il W. p.
Richardson, president of the Alaska
board of road commissioners, saying
that a commission as captain in the
engineers' reserve corps had been
mailed to John Zug. who has been a
field engineer in the service of’the
road commission for many years. Mr.
Zug will probably succeed Captain Me
haTfey as disbursing agent of the road
commission.
The selection of Captain Waugh
for membership on the board of road
commissioners was recommenie! by
General Richardson some time ago,
ind his assignment to the commission
las been expected. His appointment
vlll not Interfere with his work as a
lenlor highway engineer in the good
oads bureau of the department of ag
'(culture, but will facilitate coopera
ion between the two branches of the
ederal road builders of Alaska.
Mr. Zug has been field engineer
or the road commission in the Third
liviaton with headquarters at Valdez,
’or many years he was in direct
barge of the work of the commission
n the Fourth division, with headquar
ers at Fairbanks. He is now on his
'ay to Juneau, and is expected there
ext Monday.
It is not known when Captain Me- 1
afto) win he relieved, and sev I *
r hi* connection with the road com- 1
lission. That will depend upon whe *
her or not Mr. Zug is selected for f
lembershlp on the commission as dig
ursing agent, a position that Cap 1
iin llehaffey has held in addition to 1
hat of engineer officer since the de- i
arture of Colonel W. P. Davison 1
hotu a month ago. and. if so. whet
.SMI h« mad.,
orts and other matters in order to
ave them out of the way whenever *
e can be relieved at Juneau and as
Igned to other work.
It was understood by the members *
f the Vlaska board of road cornmis 1
ionerr last spring that this would be 1
'aptain .Vlehaffey's last season with '
he commission, and that his services '
tere v anted by the war department 1
n matters closer connected with the
var and war preparations than his
vork in Alaska.
Captain Waugh only recently receiv
id his appointment as a captain in the
ingineers' reserve corps and this week
ook his oath of office. The war de
itirtmeiit was immediately advised of
he fact and the orders to relieve Cap
ain Mehaffey as engineer officer of
he road commission were immediate
y wired from Washington.
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WORK BESOMED
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 2. — The
striking metal workers returned to
work this afternoon. The return was
made on the suggestion that their
wages would he satisfactorily adjust
ed when the federal authorities
reached here, either the latter part of
this week or the first of next week.
As a result of the men returning to
work government work was resumed
In ail of the shipyards with govern
ment contracts.
PLACED UNDER
(By Associated Press)
CHICAGO. Oct. 2. — The arrests of
the Industrial Workers of the World
following the returning of indictments
last Saturday, continue throughout the
United States. Today 45 of the 166 in
dicted have been arrested, and with
only one exception they remain in Jail
unable to furnish the required hail.
William H. Haywood, according to the
local authorities, has been arrested
here. It is stated that his bail has
beeu fixed at $25,000.
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Newest Georgette Crepe Waists at
Mrs. Kate Rolfe'a.
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GERMANS RENEW
ATTACKS AND
(By Associated Press)
PARIS. Oct. 2. — The official state
ment Issued this afternoon indicates
that for the past 24 hours the Her
mans. who have reorganized their
forces along the Meuse liver, have
made renewed attacks. Twice last
night violent assaults were made at
various points along both sides of the
Meuse, lit the Verdun sector upon the
I- rench, but the Hermans gained no
ground, and In one instance lost two
hundred yards over a stretch of three- •
uuarters of a mile.
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SERBIANS BEING
WIPED IFF IRE
EAR!
(By United Pressi
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2. — Red Cross
:ables today showed (hat the people
>f Serbia are being wiped off the map
>r scattered to the four corners of the
sarth by the Bulgar-Teuton war mon
ger. Set upon the enemy from three
Jdes, their homes have been sacked
>nd burned, their lands and store
louses pillaged and their defenceless
vomen and children murdered or left
o starve. Despair is written in ihe
aces of the Serbian prisoners of war
n Austria. Brutality is their daily
»t; and what they get of food is not
nough to keep body and soul to
ether.
These black stories of Teuton eruel
y and butchery were brou^j to Dr.
-dward T. Ryan of the Red Cross at
Salonika by Serbian prisoners re
urned. If Italians prisoners in the
kiislrian ramps had not shared their
home with these
Icaliy no food,” said Dr. Ryan’s cable,
was provided by their Austrian jall
rs. What was given amounted to
ight ounces of bread a day. At noon
hey had vegetable soup with a small
ii«ce of horse flesh, generally taint
d. Morning and evening, a drink of
dack fluid known as coffee, made of
hicory, was given with their bread
fhis was their whole ration.
“From an army of nearly a half mil
ion. at the beginning of the war. over
160,000 men are estimated to have
teen taken prisoners by the central
towers. Nearly all of these are suf
'ering from malnutrition in prison
;amps. Twenty thousand Serbs per
shed In the bloody repression of a re
volt at Nish, last February. The Bul
garians deported 30,000 inhabitants of
4prhia to 4uia Minor
Fifty thousand fatherless families, it
Is estimated, are facing destitution,
t problem comparable to that which
would face the Red Cross and other
charity organizations if the fathers of
all the families in Louisville, St. Paul
or Denver were suddenly deported.
Fifty thousand families, a population
about the size of Indianapolis or Pro
vidence. are interned In Austrian
camps.
The Serbian legation in Washington
has just Issued the following state
ment:
"In 1910 there were 1,568.048 inhabi
tants in Serbia; in 1916 1,218,000. The
reduction in the male imputation in
this region amounts to 909,000. the re
duction in the female population i- in •
000. In Serbia, as elsewhere in the
southwestern part of Europe, the male
population is greater than the female.
The census records a proportion of
200 males to 144 females.”
Reports received at Red Cross bead
quarters show that there is need of
doctors and nurses to care for the ci
vilian population, as all the doctors
have been pressed into the army ser
vice. Food, clothing, bandages, Plan
kets, seeds and agricultural imple
ment8 are also needed. In previous
invasions, the enemy had destroyed
the farming tools of this agricultural
people. A system of soup kitchens in
the villages are absolute necessity,
if famine is not to take a heavy toll
this winter.
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The city council met in regular ses
sion and devoted almost its entire
time to discussing the lawcrago ay*
tern with Engineer D. W. Dunlap, who
is here for the purpose of establishing
a uniform street grade.
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Burton Colkett, a Seattle banking
man. was a Cordova arrival last night,
and will make this town his future
borne. He has accepted a position with
the Bank of Alaska, and will relieve
Miss Mildred McYean, who has beea
here temporarily from the Anchoram
branch.