PRICE TENT CEYTS
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WHITE EOSEE
LIFE ON TOE
TRAIL
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NOME, Dec. 8. — Conrad Freed
ing, former territorial senator, is sup
posed to have perished on the trail
He recently bought a store at Taylor
creek and started for there with a big
stock of goods. He was accompanied
by his wife, whom he left at the
springs, twelve miles distant, and
started afoot for Taylor creek on
Thanksgivink morning. Twenty men
have been searching for Freedlng for
the past two days and have been un
able to find any trace of him. As the
thermometer is forty degrees below
zero, and there are no places of shel
ter on the trail, it is almost certain
he is dead.
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TERM COURT AT
Hon. F. M. Brown, judge of the dis
trict court, is h passenger on the Mari
posa from Valdez to the states, and
spent the day with local friends. He
is on his annual vacation and will go
to Southern California and also make
a trip east, returning north about the
first of February.
Judge Brown informed a represents
tive of the Daily Times that he ex
pected to hold a term of court at Cor
dova in March.
Court has not been adjourned, as
Judge Bunnell left Fairbanks on Wed
nesday and is coining out over the
trail to preside on the bench in the
Third division, when several cases j
pending will be tried, Judge Brown!
being disqualified from hearing them.
GRIGSBYLEAVES
TAKE OFFICE
SEATTLE. Dec. 8. — George B.
Grigsby, of Nome, who was elected at
torney general at the November elec
tion, left here last night for Juneau,
where he will assume his duties of
special attorney under appointment
from Governor Strong, to fill the va
cancy caused by the resignation of
J. H. Cobb. On the first Monday in
March Grigsby will be sworn in as
attorney general.
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AMERICAN SHOT
VILLA 11
PARRAL
EL PASO, Dec. 8. — It has just been
learned that among those shot at Par
ral by Villa’s orders on November 5,
was Howard Cray, an American min
ing man. So far as known all the
other Americans are safe and their
party was unharmed.
BANK PROTECTS
MANIPULATORS
OF FOOD
CHICAGO, Dec. 8. — The federal
officials investigating the increases
in food prices have found that one
Chicago bank loaned over a million
and a half dollars on warehouse re
ceipts.
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LABOR COUCIL WANTS
EMBARGO ON FOODSTUFFS.
SEATTLE, Dec. 8—The Central La
bor Council has appealed to congress
to place an embargo on the exporta
tion of foodstuffs.
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The steamer Admiral Evans is due
front the westward tonight.
NEW CABINET BE FORMED
PETROGRAD, Dec. 8.—It is officially stated that the Rou
manians have evacuated Bucharest and south of the city. They
also retired in Wallachia. The Roumanians are retreating east
ward under hostile pressure, holding the Teutons by rear guard
action.
BERLIN, Dec. 8.—The defeated' Roumanians are retreat
ing along the whole front. The Teutons captured Oampino, on
the railroad between Kronstadt and Ploechti. Over 9,000 Rou
manians were captured yesterday and the Teutons entered the
Russian position wast of Lutsk and Volhvnia.
BERLIN, Dec. S.—The Localanzieger says that a hundred
thousand Roumanians were brought to Germany and placed in
the prisoners’ camps. The Roumanians intend to withdraw to
Moldavia, abandoning all of Wallachia. Bucharest was nearly
deserted' before the capture and the city is uninjured.
VA RICH, Dec. 8.—Notwithstanding the G< nnan victories
in Roumania, the German hundred mark bill fell to eighty cents,
which is the lowest price it has reached since the war began.
PARIS, Dec. 8.—The newspapers of France are devoting
much editorial space to the fall of Bucharest. They say it must
be a lesson to the allies to arouse them to a more rapid and en
ergetic action, as well as a better organized and effective use of
common resources.
LONDON, Dec. 7.—Few Liberal members are unwilling to
cept office under Lloyd George ,and some of the ITiionists hold
aloof, there being a general attitude of benevolent lieutralitv.
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A new ministry is being considered with the embodyment of
British determination to win the war.
LONDON, Dec. 8.—Premier Lloyd George is negotiating
with tlie Labor party for its support and co-operation. The
party has decided tu support any government which is pledged
to vigorously prosecute the war, if labor be adequately repre
sented. It is expected that there will be three labor members in
the new cabinet. The labor members hav been invited to a con
ference with Lloyd George.
LONDON, Dec. 8.— It is now virtually certain that Lloyd
George will succeed in organizing the ministry, which will hav.
the support of the majority of the members of the house of com
'lions, the Labor party having decided to participate. Georgf
Nicoll Barn, formerly member of parliament for the Black
1’rial's division, Glasgow, and Arthur Henderson will be mem
bers of the cabinet, and one of them will si 1 in the war council
The Labor party also get three under-secretaryships.
\\ ASIIINGTON, Dec. 8.—Germany contends that the Brit
ish steamship Arabia, sunk in the Mediterranean sea on Novem
ber (5, was really a transport ship for British troops, and there
fore an auxiliary warship. Germany is willing to make amends
if it is shown that the marine commander violated' Germany’s
pledge to us.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8. The l nited States government
did not regard the circumstances which Germany’s note records
as showing justification for the sinking of the Arabia without
warning or relieving the submarine commander from establish
ing the status of the liner. The German note is regarded as a
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MUCH GAIETY III
LOCAL SOCIAL
CIRCLES
One of the prettiest and most en
joyable parties of the season was giv
en by Mrs. Robert Lee Patton yester
day afternoon at "The Bungalow," in
the Hegg building. There were forty
two guests present, ami bridge was
the game played.
'The Bungalow” was transformed
into a veritable beauty spot, the decor
ations being in pink and white, while
plants and evergreens gave the scene
the appearance of a summer garden
party. There was also an elaborate
luncheon served, and the tables looked
very inviting and pretty, as they were
set with beautiful linen, silverware
and favors. Mrs. Leroy Baird, Mrs.
Grant Reed and Mrs. Abraham Court
right assisted the hostess in enter
taining the large assemblage of Cor
dova's fair sex.
Most of the afternoon was spent in
playing bridge, the first prize being
awarded to Mrs. Keating and the sec
ond prize to Mrs. Harwood. Miss
; Ware won the cut prize. Those who
enjoyed Mrs. Patton’s hospitality and
pronounced the affair a decided so
cial success were Mesdames Baird,
Courtright, DeLeo, Field, Glasbrenner,
Harwood. Howard, Lydlck, Lewis.
Leach, Currier, McCormas, Reed, Sa
plro, Wilson, Slater, Ziegler. Davis,
Hedges, Keating, Scott, T. S., Ting
ley, Black, Brook, Chase, Glllis, Castle,
Clayson, Hazelet, Larson, McDonald,
Sellen, Seheffler, Shriver, Phillips,
Dave, Boyle, O’Neill, J. B.. Council,
and Miss Ware, MIbs Burroughs, Miss
Burroughs and Miss DeGraff.
The l>oyola Social Club rooms were
the scene of another enjoyable card
party last evening, which was given
under the auspices of the ladies. There
were eighty people present, and all
had a most enjoyable time. For sev
eral hours “500” was played, which
resulted In Mr. Sexton capturing the
first prize and Mr. Shelton the sec
ond. For the cut prize Mrs. Day was
the fortunate one. Refreshments were
served, after which dancing was in
dulged in, and when the hour for de
parture had arrived the guests were
unanimously of the opinion that the
members of the Loyola Club are sure
some entertainers.
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C. P. Mlckelson and wife will be
outgoing passengers on the steamer
Mariposa tonight. They will go to
IndiauapollB, where they expect to
spend the next couple of months.
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The latest creations in party and
afternoon gowns at Clayson’s
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7. — An ap
proprlation of $10,595,162 has been
asked from congress by the depart
ment of the Interior for extension of
work on the government railroad in
Alaska.
For continuing work on roads and
trails In Alaska the war department
asks $600,000 or $169,000 over the am
ount asked for last year. Of this am
ount $10,000 is to start work on a
steel truss span bridge at Juneau to
cost $30,000.
Other appropriations asked for
Alaska total $650,000, which includes
money for instruction and care of the
natives, protection of game, suppres
sion of the liquor traffic, and $2,500
for a public building to be the seat
of the forest and fisheries service.
The appropriation asked tor the
Alaska railroad Includes the following
specified items:
Along Turnagaln arm from one
mile north of Girdwood to four miles
north of Indian creek, $1,496,897.
In the Susitna valley from the Lit
tle Susitna to Indian river, $1,462,632.
Along the upper Susitna river from
Deadhorse hill to Indian river, $745,
112.
From the south end on the Susitna
to the north end of Broad Pass, $3,
241,149.
From Healey Fork kd Fairbanks the
proposed expenditures will be $:s,
478,890.
For Anchorage — Additional rolling
stock. $50,000; hospital, $25,000; water
and sewer, $<’.0,000. Same for .Mata
nuska, $4,500.
Wasilla, $5,000; Talkeetna, $20,000.
For Seward — Equipping this divi
sion, $50,000; maintenance of Alaska
Northern, $90,000; operating Alaska
Northern, $106,000.
Seattle purchasing office, $45,000;
disbursing office, $6,000.
Washington, 1). ('.. expenses, $4,n00.
Including the Alaska appropriations
the money asked for the Pacific coast
from the next congress totals $15,
629,333.
Among the largo appropriations
asked are for rivers and harbors, $32,
000,000, and the war department $57,
OOO.ooo for fortifications and other de
tense purposes.
Total appropriations asked from the
coming congress amount to the enor
mous sum of $1,269,000,000
The remains of the late Oswald Tro
montin, who died as a result of injur
ies received while working in the
Beatson mine at Latouche, were taken
to Valdez from Latouche by Mrs. Tra
montin, who went to Latouche on re
celpt of the news of her husband’s in
jury. Mr. Tramontin was working in
the mine when a large rock, weighing
several hundred pounds, fell, striking
him and inflicting injuries from which
he died a few hours later.
Mr. Tramontin was born at Udine
Italy, and was 48 years of age. He
was employed at Kllamar for a long
time, and only recently went to La
touche. He is survived by a wife and
five children, who have made theli
home at Valdez for several montht
paBt.
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The steamer Mariposa arrived from
the westward at an early hour thit
morning and will sail for Seattle al
8 o’clock tonight.
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The Young People’s Club of Cor
dnva will meet at the Bungalow, ir
the Hegg building, on Monday even
ing next. A full attendance of the
club, and those wishing to join, Is re
quested.
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Last night the municipal magistrate
fined June Peterson $25 and costs foi
assault and battery.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8. The cost
of the presidential campaign to the
Democrats has just been made known
by the Democratic national committee.
It reports thnt it collected $1,800,000,
and expended nearly $1,700,000. There
are still outstanding bills owing which
amount to $228,000.
BLOWN FROM SCHOONER
BY SOUTHEAST GALE
A wireles smessage has been re
ceived to the effect that one of the
fisherman on the halibut schooner
San Juan, then sixty miles off Cape
Spencer, had been blow n overboard by
the heavy gale and lost. His name
was Gillis.
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Captain O’Brien, of the Mariposa
has been suffering from a severe at
tack of tonsllitis during the voyage
north and was obliged to call for medi
cal assistance at Ketchikan and Ju
neau.
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It Is reported that the steamer Spo
kane will leave Seattle on Sunday for
southwestern Alaska, taking the re
gular run of the Admiral Evans for
one trip, as the latter vessel has been
delayed In reaching the home port.
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Job Printing at Dally Times office.
[DUG AFTER!
EVES SCHOOL
\ meeting of the school board will
be held tonight for the purpose of tak
ing up the matter of having the eyes
if the school children examined. This
action is now being taken by most
of the educational institutions of the
states, and by several of the towns
in Alaska.
Ur. Robert Simpson, of Juneau, an
optician who enjoys an excellent re
putation and a large pructlce in south
eastern Alaska, Is in Cordova, and he
desires to make regular trips to this
section every year for the purpose
of testing the eyes of the school child ■
ten. The doctor has been located at
Juneau for the past four years, where
he has a well equipped plant, and the
people there find it no longer neces
sary to make the trip to Seattle to
have their eyes tested. He Is on his
wav to Seward, where he has been
requested to go and examine the eyes
of the pupils of that town. If satis
factory arrangements can be made
Ur. Simpson plans to visit Cordova,
Valdez and Seward during December
and January of each year.
At the present time the doctor has
contracts at Juneau and other south
eastern Alaska towns to make annual j
tests of the eyes of the pupils in the
public und parochial schools, and he j
desires to extend his field of work,
believing that it will be mutually ad !
vantageous to the communities visited
and himself. His plan is to examine
the children in squads of four or five
and make a written report of the ex
act condition of those who are suf
feting from any eye affliction. This
is turned over to the teacher, as it
frequently proves of great assistance
in the seating of pupils in the school
room. This card is then delivered
to the parents of the child and they
can use their own judgment as to
what course to pursue In order to
correct any defect in the eyesight.
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WICKERSHAM GAINS IN
RETURN SF ROM TALKEETNA
The following returns from Talkeet
nn at the office of the clerk of the
court give Wickersham a gain of 20
votes. The returns complete are as
follows:
Lewis 4, Sulzer 3, Wickersham 23,
Cobb 8. Grigsby 11, Schofield 9. Dooley
11, Frame 13, German 2, Ronan 2. Can
non 25, Day 10, Hegner 4, W. J. Henry
8, W. I*. Henry 1, Holland 10, Hunter
8, McOallum 8, Murray 5, Noon 5,
Price 10, Dieringer 2, Jeter 6, Wilson
11, Wood 7; dry 24, wet 8; eight hour
day 27, against 2.
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The Alaska-Seattle cable, operated
by the United States army signal
corps, will soon be supplemented by
wireless service, according to Dr
Louis Winslow Austin, head of the
United States naval radiotelegraphs
laboratory at Washington, D. C.
Dr. Austin is working on expert
ments at Seattle for the purpose of
improving the cable service between
Seattle and Alaska. The Keyport
wireless station, he says, will he com
pleted next year, and commercial ser
vice will be available from there to
Cordova, where the big navy wireless
station Is located. It Is not planned
entirely to eliminate the cable
the business is growing at such a rate
that the necessity for auxiliary ser
vice is becoming readily apparent
"fiovermnent ownership and opera
tion of the wireless plants of the eoun
j try could surely be looked for in times
of trouble, but I have no reason for
thinking the gove nment will take
over these plants now,” said Dr. Aus
tin. "It is very hard to get the struc
tural steel necessary for building large
stations, and this may cause the pur
chase of a few stations tor use t,v the
navy department."
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INDIANAPOLIS. Dec. X The
committee of fhe United Mine Work
ers of America which has been inves
tigating the question of old age pen
sions of members of the organization,
and which will recommend in its re
port that pensions of $20 a month be
paid union miners 65 years old ore
more after 1923, has made extensive
investigations, according to reports
to the national headquarters here
The committee in its report will, it
is announced, advise against a home
for aged miners, taking that action
after having visited the homes for
aged union members maintained by
the International Typographical I'n
ion at Colorado Springs, and the Print
ing and Assistants' Union at Rogers
\ille, Tenn., as well as a number of
homes maintained by fraternal socie
ties and national soldiers’ homes.
As a result of its investigation thi
committee estimates that at least 7,
000 miners, on the basis of the pres
ent membership, will he eligible fo
pensions under the proposed plan. If
a per capital tax of 25 cents a month
is levied by the next biennial conven
lion, it is estimated that at the eml
of the five year period at which th<
time the pensions will commence, the
organization will have a pension fund
of $5,000,000, principal and interest, oi
which to start meeting the cost of the
system. As more money is obtained
for the pension fund, payments could
be increased, the age limit lowered
nr t Iwi liar n a 11 i t ti t -i v rAiinonil it 1,
said.
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ISLAND RESURRECTION BAY
FOR MILITARY RESERVE
By special order, received on last
evening's mail, President Wilson has
withdrawn Rugged island in Resurrec
tlon bay for the purpose of using it
as a military reserve. A copy of this
order was received by Postmaster
Root and another by the Gateway. It
is short and sweet and merely men
tions the fact that the island has hen
withdrawn for the purpose stated. Un
questionably it indicates the inten
tion of the government to fortify the
harbor or to establish a military post
at least, but nothing further than the
act of withdrawal is stated Rugged
island is near the entrance of the bay.
—Seward Gateway.
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SAYS DUTCH HARBOR IS
PLACE FOR NAVAL BASE.
A writer in the last Century maga
iine says that Dutch Harbor is the
best place in Alaska for a naval base
He believes It could be made a veri
table Gibraltar, and would be in the
proper position for a war with an Orl
ental power, while it would also serve
as a base for the protection of the Ma- ;
tanuska coal fields and the copper !
mines of Copper river.
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Printing neatly done at the Times
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FLOAT I TANK
OVER THE SEA
TO WELLS
A correspondent from Katalla. F H
Willoughby, writes the following In
terestlng news notes from that place
A huge oil tank, forty-five feet in
diameter and twenty feet high, was
successfully towed to its destination
on its own bottom, over ten miles of
open sea and over Hie two dangerous
bars in front of Katalla.
The st. Kli is Oil Company, now
running a refinery at the Katalla oil
fields, found it necessary to move the
tank, which has stood for several
\ears on a hillside at Pete's Point to
its operating plant Captain Ben Bur
kee, of the Katalla Lighterage Com
pan;., who had charge of the job, went
against the advice of tin* entire vi.un
ity and decided to move it without re
moving the rivets and taking it to
pleops.
The tank was skidded down the hill
to tidewater, and towed by two
launches. It weighs fifi-n tons, has
a capacity of 5,200 barrels and drew
six inches of water when afloat
f aptain Burkee, who In the course
of his transportation career, has towed
and transported nearly every known
J . Uir till, T n IH m me
first time lie has ever navigated the
dangerous waters of Alaska in a tub.
for the first time within the mem
ory of the oldest inahibtant, wolves
have been seen in tin's vicinity a
pack ot nine have been making them
selves right at borne, not on the out
skirts of town, but right on the streets
in broad daylight. The animals visit
the garbage cans of residents and help
themselves liberally to whatever is
lying about. They eotne into yards
and frisk about with the dogs of the
house, and in some cases have enticed
the family pets to the woods back of
the town and devoured them.
Mrs. Charles Naughten, going to the
woodshed for wood, found a big black
wolf investigating her woodpile, sh
chased him out with a board, but he
ran only a short distance and then
sat down to watt h her
A yet no one has been attacked.
I at at tiie funeral of a young native
the other day. it was a strange sight,
in this peaceful community, to see
the coffin oil flic dog sled ahead, and
the mourners walking behind all
armed with guns \t night the weird
howling of the pack keeps up for
hours.
Owing to the fact that most of the
men about town are out doing assess
ment work, there has been little or
no hunting of the creatures.
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STOCK YARDS
CHICAGO, Dei-. 8 — That the na
tions future "absolutely depends on
live stock production being made pro
fitable to the farmer." and that on an
average for twenty years. It has not
been profitable were statements made
today by Kdward C Hasater, owner
of a large cattle ranch at Kalfurrias,
Texas, in addressing the National Con
terence ot Marketing and Farm Cred
its here His subject was. "The Mar
keting of Lite Stock."
"The question of privately owned
and packed dominated stock yards is
of more vital importance to this na
tion," said Air I.asater, “than whether
a navy shall be built and equipped at
government owned or privately con
trolled shipyards and munition fac
tories. One has to do with tile defense
of our national honor and rights, the
other with whether there is to be
anything worth defending.
"As a nation we cannot tolerate an
agency operating between producer
and consumer witli power to take from
both I hat to which l he agency deems
Itself entitled. We. the 'common' peo
ple,' whom, according to Vbrahum
Lincoln, the Lord loves because he
made so many of them,' acting through
a government agency, must have a
thorough Im estigatlon of all problems
entering the production and mark. '•
Ing of live stock and the products
therefrom. Thus live stock produc
tion so essential to the feeding of i 1 r
people and to the restoration of soil
fertility, may be saved to our na
tion.”
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