IS SUCCESSFUL
LONDON, April 18.—Commenting
on the first month of the London ra
tioning scheme, Lord Rhondda, Brit
ish food controller, appeared to be
quite satisfied with the result. He
said so far as was known the great
bulk of the population of nearly ten
millions affected had been able to
secure their fair share of supplies.
It was, he thought, the evident desire
of the public and the various bodies
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to co-operate with the ministry of
food.
He had no illusions that by a
stroke of the pen he could create in
a day or a week a hard and fast plan
of rationing that would prove infalli
ble. He was satisfied, however, that
with the continued good will of the
public all difficulties in the way of an
equitable distribution of food could
be surmounted.
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A String of Beads.
"Savages will trade vast tracts of
land for a string of beads.”
“Well,” replied Miss Cayenne, “I
know a man wrho wears evening clothes
and carries a cane and he did the same
thing. He went broke trying to pay
for a pearl necklace.”
PETROGRAD, March 10 (by mail).
—One of the first requests put before
the Russian delegates at Brest-Li
tovsk, according to the Petrograd
newspapers, was a demand from Em
peror William for the safeguarding
of the former Russian Empress Alex
andra Alix. The following account ol
the incident is taken from the Wogyi
Courier:
At the first meeting, after the rep
resentatives of the Bolsheviki govern
ment and the delegates of the Russiai
army had assembled in the large rooir
which had been devoted to the meet
ing. General Von Hoffman, with his
staff, came in. The two parties bowed
to one another and the Russians sat
down at the table.
General Hoffman remained stand
ing and addressed them. “I speak tc
you,' he said, in a stern voice, “nol
as the representative of the Germar
army, nor of General Hindenburg.
speak to you as the representative oi
the four central powers. I requesi
you. therefore, to stand while you heai
what I have to say.”
The members of the Russian dele
gation looked at one another, there
was a little hesitation, and they stood
up. General \on Hoffman continued:
“Before proceeding to any negotia
tions respective an armistice, I think
it necessary to make the following
statement: Within the area of Rus
sia, in circumstances threatening her
personal safety, is living a most
august relative of my sovereign mas
ter, the Emperor William, namely.
Princess Alix, your Empress Alex
andra, with all her family.
"I demand that most decided meas
ures be instantly taken for the safe
guarding of her person and for her
transfer to Germany under a reliable
guard. I request your immediate
reply'.”
The members of the delegation did
not know how to reply, and asked
that they should be given time for
consideration, and for consultation
wdth Petrograd over their direct wire.
Scarcely had an interjjreter trans
lated these words than General Von
Hoffman said, with a great show of
temper, “I demand an immediate re
ply,” and struck the table with his
fist. “This demand,” he continued,
“is in the nature of an ultimatum. In
the event of your not accepting it the
negotiations will cease forthwith, and
hostilities will be at once recom
menced by us.”
There remained nothing for the
members of the Russian delegation to
do but to giva their consent to the
demands made.
The Petrograd correspondent ot
the London Morning Post asserted in
a dispatch sent to London on Febru
ary 22 that “the former Empress Al
exandra, as the guardian of her son,
is the favorite German candidate for
the (Russian) throne.”
Unconfirmed reports that both the
former Emperor Nicholas and the em
press were to be taken from Tobolsk,
Siberia, to the Ural district were re
cently received from Petrograd.
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CAMP KEARNEY, San Diego, Cal.,
April 19.—Wien the oMcers’ training
school corps went into the trench area
here recently for an extended tour,
one of the first desires named by the
men was for magazines or books. The
strain of the mimic war in which they
were engaged, officers said, made a
means of relaxing mentally valuable.
A quantity of magazines, most of
them of the lighter fiction type, were
sent to the Y. M. C. A. "hut” behind
the trench lines for distribution by
the camp library, and were read
eagerly. “They almost mobbed me,"
said the driver of the automobile
truck which took the magazines out,
telling of the way in which the sol
diers call for the reading matter.
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Use less wheat and meat. Buy local
foods. Serve just enough. Use what
is left.
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Your eyes fitted. Compound and
astigmatic lenses replaced. See Os
borne.
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Save food or go on short 'rations.
LEAD KEELS ARE
SEIZED BY KAISER
AMSTERDAM, April 19.—The gath
erers of war metals in Germany hav
ing completed their raids on church
bells, roofs, kitchens and door-han
dles, have now discovered a mine of
wealth in the leaden keels of pleasure
yachts, and orders have been issued
for the confiscation of all such metal
on behalf of the war materials de
partment.
NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that on the
21st day of May, 1918, between the
hours of 8 o’clock a. m. and 7 o’clock
p. m., an election will be held in the
town of Cordova, Alaska, and in the
territory hereinafter described, to de
termine whether or not there shall
be annexed to said town of Cordova
that certain territory adjoining said
town on the north described as fol
lows, to wit:
Commencing at Cor. No. 1 of U. S.
Survey No. 449, thence south 89 deg.
20 min. west 521.5 feet to the point of
beginning; thence north 30 deg. 30
min. east 663.4 feet; thence north 10
deg. east 1,715 feet; thence north 37
deg. east 1,630 feet; thence south 53
deg. east 1,025 feet to Cor. No. 2 of
U. S. Survey No. 829; thence south
39 deg. 40 min. west 1,510 feet; thence
south 19 deg. 30 min. west 490 feet;
thence south 0 deg. 40 min. east 1,320
feet to the northeast corner of that
portion of said town of Cordova com
monly called the Thirteen-Acre Tract,
but which contains 13.65 acres, which
corner is on the north boundary line
of said town; thence south 89 deg. 20
min. 1,313.5 feet to the point of be
ginning.
All qualified voter's are entitled to
vote at said election by placing upon
their ballots the words, “For annexa
tion to the town of Cordova,” or
"Against annexation to the town of
Cordova,” or words equivalent thereto.
The polling place in the town of
Cordova shall be on the second floor
of the city hall, on Second street,
therein. The polling place in the ter
ritory proposed to be annexed shall
be in the office of the Pioneer Pack
ing Company, on second floor of their
warehouse, situated on the approach
to the Ocean dock.
The officers of election in the town
of Cordova shall be the following:
Fred Rayer, D. A. Mosser and R. E.
Hegg, judges; and George Kennedy
and H. I. Lewis, clerks. The officers
of election in the territory proposed
to be annexed shall be John Gillis
and A. E. Black, judges, and Emma
Shepard, clerk.
Dated this 17th day of April, 1918.
NATHANAEL GREENE,
(Town Seal) Town Clerk.
LONG COATS ARE FAVORED
The coats of spring may be either
long or three-qudrter length, but for
general wear the long coat Is the fa
vorite. If you are looking for novelty
In a coat of this kind consider the ad
vantage of the shapely model shown
above. It has a triple cape collar and
an odd new arrangement of sash ends
at the sides. They are cut in one with
a narrow band extending across the
back and front. The coat hangs al
most straight its fullness held In by a
narrow belt.
WM. MALONEY
Candidate for the Democratic Nomination for Delegate to Congress
at the Primary Election, April 30th, 1918.
Your vote and influence earnestly solicited
MY PLATFORM
. 1 stand for the General Eight Hour Law.
I stand for the Dry Law as it now is upon the Statute Book.
I stand for honesty and efficiency in public office; and I am unalter
able opposed to machine politics and the rule of the political bos3.
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APRIL 1 , ALAMEDA APRIL 9
APRIL 8 ALASKA APRIL 19
APRIL 16 NORTHWESTERN APRIL 27
The freighters Cordova, Latouche, Juneau, Valdez
and Ketchikan also make regular trips.
Tickets on sale at up-town office Alaska Steamship Bldg. Bag
gage or freight will not be received at the dock later than one hour
before sailing time.
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