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NEW YORK, June 17— Jeremiat
O’Leary, indicted for violation of th^
■espionage act and treason, who has
been a fugitive from justice for seV'
eral weeks, was arrested at Sara
Wash., and is now in his way to New
York in the custody of agents of the
department of justice.
At Last Engaged in Useful Work
VANCOUVER, Wash., June 17 —
O'L eary had bought a chicken farm
at Sara under an assumed name, and
was engged in raising chickens and
tilling a garden. A man who worked
' for him notified the authorities that
v he had learned something about his
, employer that the officials should
\ know, and his arrest followed.
Other Arrests to Follow
i WASHINGTON, June 17.—The cap
■ ture of Jertfmiah O’Leary, the Irish
, American leader under indictment ir
i New York, in a Washington mountair
5 cabin, will be followed soon by arrests
of other Irish agitators in America or
\ charges of treason and espionage.
O’Leary was arrested at Sara, ir
the southwestern section of the stats
of Washington.
CHANGE IS MADE IN
RECORDING DISTRICTS
The district court has issued an or
der abolishing the Copper Center re
cording precinct and changing th<
lines of the Chitina recording pre
cinct, making of the two precinct!
the Chitina and McCarthy recording
precincts and appointing C. Parkei
Smith United States commissione
for the McCarthy precinct and Will
lam O’Connor commissioner for th<
Chitina precinct. The Chitina pre
cinct contains much of the old Cop
per Center precinct and the southen
boundary has been moved to include
the Bremnet river country within th
Chitina precinct.
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George Markham and J. Bryson
two well-known old-timers from th
Interior, came to town on their wa;
to enlist in an engineering regiment
WAR GROSS TO AMERICAN |
KILLED ON GERMAN SOIL
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WASHINGTON, June 17.—The
French war cross was awarded to W.
J. Guyton, the first American killed
on German soil. He belonged to the
forces operating in the Vosges moun
tains.
(lESTEoitioE or
nnMine toe enemv
LONDON, June 16.—Charles Alfred
Vernon, employed in an important ca
pacity in the ministry of munitions,
has been arrested, charged with con
spiring with Sir James Jonas, former
lord mayor of Sheffield, for the pur
pose of communicating information
to the enemy.
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EXCURSION RATES GIVEN
ON GOVERNMENT RAILWAY
ANCHORAGE, June 17—Week-end
excursion rates for the summer sea
son are announced by the Alaska en
gireering commission as effective now
on the Anchorage division of the gov
ernment railroad.
The excursion tickets are sold at
all stations on the division every
Saturday and Sunday, and the return
privilege is good until the following
Monday. The fare fof the round-trip
i excursion is one and one-third times
the regular one-way fare. The regu
i lar one-way fare is sx cents a mile.
The excursion fares are applicable
■ on the main line between Anchorage
• and Houston, a distance of sixty-one
- miles and intermediate stations, and
s on the branch line between Matan
■ uska and Chickaloon. Matanuska Is
- a junction station on the main line,
l thirty-six miles north of Anchorage.
i Chickaloon is thirty-eight miles north
s east of Matanuska.
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P. H. Singleton has resigned his po
, sition as bookkeeper for the Blum,
» O’Neill Co., and today entered the
r employ of the railroad company in a
. clerical capacity at the Ocoan dock.
LONDON, June 17.—If there had
been in England 200 educated men
who knew the Russian language, the
debacle on the eastern front, accord
ing to Herbert A. L. Fisher, minister
of education, might have been pre
vented. Mr. Fisher made this state
ment to the commercial committee of
the house of commons, adding:
“Wherever there was an Englishman
in Russia who spoke the language he
had public opinion with him, but the
British government could find none
to send out.”
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WOMAN MAIL CARRIER
ABANDONS CONTRACT
It is reported here by parties ar
riving from the Interior that Mrs.
Rose Johnson, who recently secured
the summer contract for carrying 500
pounds of mail weekly between Fair
banks and Chitina, has decided to give
up the contract, after looking oven the
ground. Mrs. Johnson had purchased
a motorcycle with a side-car attach
ment to be used in carrying the mails,
but upon trial it was found unsuited
to the work and she was forced to
abandon the contract, it is alleged.—
Valdez Miner.
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ALASKANS FURNISH
BEDS FOR HOSPITALS
D. C. Sargent, explosives inspector
for the territory, has received a copy
of the annual report of the Interior
Department War Work Association,
of which Mrs. Franklin K. Lane is
chairman, in which the following very
gratifying reference is m^fie to
Alaska:
“We have put twenty beds in the
American marine base hospital at
Neuilly, France. Fourteen of these
and a large amount of our funds came
from Alaska. We have sent boxes of
all kinds of garments to thoroughly
equip and care for the wounded in
those beds, as well as to other hos
pitals."
LOCAL DOINGS
UNO PERSONAL
UENJION
The launch Waif is being improved
in appearance with a coat of paint.
George A. Harmon left on this
morning's train on a business trip to
Streina.
Ed Kelter has returned from Port
Wells, where he is interested in a
sawmill.
Alex ( arroll of McCarthy arrived in
town on yesterday’s train and will
join the service of Uncle Sam.
Captain Dave McDonald has re
turned to Cordova with his boat! and
will remain here for the summer.
“A Wife by Proxy” at the Empress
theater this evening at 8 sharp. Mabel
Taliaferro is at her best in this pic
ture.
Ed Currier has broken ground for
the erection of another home adjoin
ing his new residence on the road to
the dock.
D. T. Phillips has accepted a posi
tion in Will Clayson’s store, taking
the place of George Kennedy, who
was drafted.
Captain Koehler, commanding offi
cer at Fort Liscum, ha3 been pro
moted to major, and will shortly leave
for Camp Lewis.
The freighter Cordova, which has
been in port since last Friday night,
discharging freight, left this afternoon
for the westward.
B. W. Barndollar, auditor for the
Alaskan engineering commission, with
headquarters at Anchorage, is here on
his wrny to Nenana.
J. V. Lydick, auditor of the Copper
River & Northwestern railroad, left
on today’s boat for the States, w’here
he will join his family In a short va
cation.
A movement is on foot to tender a
farewell to the seven Anchorage boys
living here who will be Inducted into
Uncle Sam’s service on June 24, when
the contingent from our neighboring
town leaves for Fort Seward, at
Haines.
Miss Katherine Williajns and Miss
Grace Gamble, two of Valdez’s effi
cient school teachers, arrived in Cor
dova last evening and will spend sev
eral days with local friends before re
turning to the States on their slim
mer vacation.
T. R. Needham, a pioneer Alaskan,
has purchased a plant and will start
a new paper at Ketchikan, to be
known as the Alaska Pioneer. The
first issue will appear July 1. The
paper will be published primarily for
the pioneers of Alaska.
The employes of the railroad shops
have erected a flagpole, from which
floats the Stars and Stripes, in honor
af the first unit of Cordova’s drafted
men. The pole is sixty-five feet high
and occupies a commanding position
an the knoll opposite tlje shops.
J. P. Rockafellow of Chitina, who
was in charge of the Northern Com
mercial Company’s stage line, which
retired from business when it lost the
government mail contract, came to
Cordova yesterday and left on today’s
boat for the States, where he and his
family will make their future home.
AMERICA’S CASUALTY LIST
EXCEEDS EIGHT THOUSAND
WASHINGTON, June 17.—Seventy
seven casualties are reported among
the American expeditionary forces
during the past week. This brings
the total since the Americans first
landed to 8,085.
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OH 'WHEATLESSIWM5
USE NO BREAD CRACKERS,
EASTior os breakfast
POODS CONTAINING
WHEAT.
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WASHINGTON, June 17.—With the
end of the fiscal year only two weeks
distant, congress has planned to spend
the present week considering the huge
war appropriations needed by July t
With these measures out of the way,
congressmen hope to take a recess
while the ways and means committee
of the house drafts a war revenue bill.
The mass of war budgets, carrying
unprecedented sums, are now before
both houses.
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BRITISH SHIP miCKED
till ESCHPES IliMIIGED
AN ATLANTIC PORT, .June 16.—
A British steamship which was at
tacked by a German submarine on
Thursday arrived here today, appar
ently undamaged by the encounter
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MIKE lOIILTI LEIEHE
IliNC HUM EIMES
ANCHORAGE, June 17.—Govern
ment employees whose ages debar
them from entering the naval or mil
itary service of the government have
formed an organization called the
Loyalty League. They have been
provided with rifles by the war de
partment. They drill one hour every
Tuesday and every Friday evening
from 7 to 8 o'clock They expect that
through the courtesy of the officer
commanding the Fourteenth Infantry
detachment here they will obtain in
structions from a drillmaster of the
regular army.
R. D. Chase, paymaster in the dis
bursing office of the Alaskan engin
eering commission is captain of the
league. The organization has sixty
members.
Would You Help?
Time s Precious
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War has a way of driving on with
out regard to the desires or
conv< niences of the
individual. .
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....This is no time for hesitation....
If you are going to do your part to bring
victory nearer, you must get started.
The Government wants what your
money will buy—and wants it before it
is too late to be of use in this war.
Join a War Savings Society.* Decide now
to cut down the unnecessary things and
lend what you save to the Government.
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