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SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY. JANUARY 7, 1918. TEN CENTS PER COPY
Volume XI. Number -IT. _ -_ ■ ■■■ 1 ■» -■ ■ ■ ■ ■ —— 11,11 ■■■■ —
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.—The Supreme Court ot the
United States today, in a decision, held that tae selective
draft service is constitutional. The decision sustains the
government’s Contention that any given authoiitv of
•Corcress like the power to declare war, also includes the
power to compel citizens to render military service at
home or abroad. Chief Justice White, who delivered the
unanimous opinion, declared that the Supreme Court had
reached the conclusion that most of the opposition and
contention to the selective draft were more imaginary
than real. When the decision was given Provost Marshal
General Crowder immediately wired all draft boards to
post the decision of the United States Supreme Court and
warn all that the government would take quick steps to
bring all offenders and evaders of the draft law to justice.
PLOT DISCOVERED 10 DESTROY ALL MILLS ON COAST
FEARING INTRIGU:
G RMANY PROTESTS
PEACE .CONFERENCE
STOCKHOLM, Jan. 7.—It is unofficially announced'
here that the Russian efforts to have the Get mans ac*
quiese to the transfer of the confer ence to discuss peace
negotiations to this city have appar :»:tly failed. It is re
ported that the Germans fear intrigue here by the allied
' agents. Foreign secretary Trotsky is known to have
gone to Brest-Litovsk but his at.empt to persuade the
German representatives to go to Stockholm weie in vain.
BOLSHEVIKI IS STRENGTHENING ALL FRONTS
LONDON, Jan. 7.—It is announced definitely that the
Bolsheviki government cf Russia is now strengthening all
fronts. Petrograd reports that the Bolsheviki intends
sending home all soldiers who do not want to fight so that
the ranks of the Russian forces will have only men who
' are willing to fight for their ideal of government.
BOOTLEGGER UNDER
ARREST AND LARGE
CACHE DISCOVERED
John Olson was this afternoon giv
en one year in prison and also tined
S 100.00.
One man has been arrested and
charged \'ith bootlegging, and a large
liquor cache ha- been discovered and
seized by the olhci ils.
John Olson, who recently returned
from Anchoiage, is the man now in
jail and he was arrested by L nited
States Deputy Marshal Isaac Evans,
Chief of Police Guest and night »>?.
trclman Charles Eimswiler.
For several days the three officers
worked on the case and last night
they swooped down on Olson’s cabin
near rhe A. B. hall. Several bottles
were found in handy places but the
nain cache was buried underneath
the floor of the cabin.
The cache as taken by the three of
ficers consisted of one 5 gallon keg ct
whiskey, 37 bottles of whiskey, and
several other bottles, partly filled.
Olson was taken before Unir^d
States Commissioner Whittlesey this
afternoon.
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PROPOSAL IS MADE
THAT MEMBERS HAVE
THEIR BUMPS EXAMINED
LONDON, Jan. 7. — A proposal
that all candidates for Parliament
should submit to examination by a
phrenologist and “have their bumps
told/’ is one of the features of the
annual report of the British Phrenolo
gical Society, which has just com plat
ed its annual meeting here.
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The largest practical reinforced con
Crete seagoing yes sol yet built is a
000-ton craft recently completed in
Norway.
MAJOR MEARS
WILL ARRIVE
HERE TONIGHT
.Major Frederick Mears, of the Alas
kan Kngineering Commission, with
headquarters at Anchorage, will ar
I rive ;n Reward tonight, accompanied
by his family, cnroute to the outside.
It is understood that Major Mears
has disposed of his household goods
at Anchorage and does not expect to
return to the north
Major Mears will perhaps be one
of the. guests at the Chamber of
Commerce luncheon at noon tomorrow
and Mrs. Mears will be entertained
by the ladies of Seward sometime
I during her stay in the city. The
I paity has «ecured a suite «it the Hotel
Seward and will be passengers to the
states on the Alaska.
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COLORADO PRODUCES
ENOUGH POTATOES
TO LAST A WHILE
DENVER. Colo.. Jan. 7. — Colora
do produced 9,150,000 bushels of pota
toes this year, according to# figures
compiled hv W;. H. Kerr, chairman of
the n arkets committee of the State
j Council of Defense. This is 2,250,900
bushels more than the <tate produced
last year.
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An automobile tire pump has beer
invented that is slipping over the
i crank shaft of a car and operated by
j its engine.
PAPER PLANT
WRECKED BY A
SEATTLE MOB
SEATTLE, Jan .7. — Two civilians
and twenty sailors have been arrested
for smashing the equipment in the
printing establishment of H. C. Pig
got t last Saturday night. The esta
blishment has been printing the Daily
Call, a radical newspaper controlled
by the Industrial Workers of the
World. The damage done is estimated
at $15,000.
The printing establishment is sit
uated in the basement of a building
near the Pike street market. The mob
seemed fully organized and before the
police could resist the efforts of the
couple of hundred of men, printing
presses has been smashed, type cases
turned over and dumped into the
streets and the large room looked as
if a cyclone had hit it when the riot
i ers Jeft.
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COYOTE SNATCHES BABY
TWIX BKIDGL, Mont., Jan. 7. —
Coyotes \vi4h tlie rahi«*< are
nume 'ous ricar Sheri< ,m. A short
time r.po one became ;o I that it
entered the yard of A. VV. ifaiwood
and snatching: the snail baby who
war play inp there, ran off some (hs
I lance with it before those who went
to the rescue could offer any assis
tance. The child escaped uninjured.
CABIN FOUND
THAT HOUSED
MASTER SPY
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 7. — A cab
1 in declared by deputy sheriffs to have
j been the biding place of Franz Schul
i enberg, alleged master of lhe Gemtan
spy system now under arrest in San
! Francisco, was discovered last night
in San Gabriel canyon, 50 miles north
east of here. Fifty pounds of dyna
mite and fuse caps were found hidden
| in the cabin.
TO RELIEVE GUNS
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. — Arsen
als to make and repair all ordnance
; used by the American army are in*
eluded in plans for American bares
i being established in F’an<*c. Every
100 days all guns large and small
used on the trench lines a’*e “snot
l out,” necessitating being usmed.
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The velocity of earthquakes is regis
tered two hundred ‘‘old by a seismo
1 graph invented by a Japanese scien
! tist.
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Documents Obtained From Prisoners
Indicate That Germany Hushing
Plans lor Great Air Service
To Thwart the Americans
A Fit AID OF THE UNITED STATES
Germany Took Quick Notice of Fact
That America Planned to Put
Ten Thousand Machines
1 hto Europes War
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY
IN FRANCE, Jan. 7. — Germany's
plans for an aerial warfare on a
larger scale than heretofore is indi
cated in documents taken from enemy
prisoners. According to these docu
ments Germany took quick notice of
the published statement.; that the
United States intended putting tens
of thousands of aerial craft into the
European warfare. Germany instant
ly issued orders increasing that na
tion’s ou’put in anticipation of offset
ting the increased enemy force. The
documents also stated that thousands
of Geimans were immediately to be
ordered into the special aviation am:
Zeppelin corps. The American offi
cials here are making efforts 10 arouse
the home government to speed up
completion of aircraft and develop
the American air service in Europe.
MASS FOR THE
DEAD SOLDIERS
SAID IN FRANCE
' WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY
IN FRANCE, Jan. 7. — Mass for the
American and French dead was said
in the French chinches yesterday on
the occasion of the National celebra
tion of Joan of Arc. American and
French flags were draped over the al
tar at Domremy, whore she wor
shipped.
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EARL READING
TO REPRESENT
GREAT BRITAIN
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LONDON, Jan. 7. — The Daily Ex
press this morning says that Earl
Reading, Lord Chief Justice, is going
to the United States as direct repre
sentative of the British War Cabinet.
Earl Reading will have the title of
i Ambassador, but a charge d’affairs
I will handle the purely diplomatic mat
! teis and he will control the war acti
vities.
j The Express further states that
this substantiates the various rumors
! that Ambassador Spring-Rice has been
recalled from the United States and
younger men are to take charge of
Great Britain’s foreign affairs.
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GERMAN MONEY 1$
SAID TO BE BACK
OF I. W. W. SCHEME
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 7.—The Board of Under
writers announced to the Federal authorities today that
they had evidence of a well organized plot to destroy all
lumber yards, mills and other manufacturing plants, also
crops on the Pacific coast. The Industrial Workers of the
World are behind the plot and it is believed that Germany
is furnishing money for the carrying out of the nefarious
schemes. Names of over one hundred were given the
Federal authorities by the Underwriter officials and
many arrests will he made. Agents of the government in
I all parts of the Pacific Coast have been given names of
| those in the plot in their districts and arrests have been
; ordered.
PLACE ROPES
ON NECKS OF
PRO-GERMANS
AURODON, la., Jon. 7. — After
months of friction between citizens
and members of the city council, local
defense league and pro-Geiman nvm
hers of the same, a sensational attack
was made yesterday upon Rev. W. A.
Starck and Fred Tenekheig.
Rope* were placed about their necks
and they were all but lynched, by pa
rents of boys who are on the fighting
! front. The parents have become in
furiated by the unpatriotic actions of
pro-Gemnn sympathizers, some of
whom are prominent citizens and are
holding onicial positions.
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REVOLT AMONG
! SPANIARDS IS
UNDER CONTROL
MADRID. Jan. 7. — Premier Al
hecumah announced today that the
Spanish government has maste?ed
♦he revotution.it y situation following
scores of arrests of ringleaders. Sat
urday ad telephone and telegraph
communication was suppressed until
the government had secured the upper
hand over the revolters.
! government is
GETTING TO BE
SOME PUBLISHER
i WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. — The an
nual report of the Division of Publi
cations of the Department of Com
: merce, issued today, shows that that
' department is one of the larger pub
j lishing establishments of the govern
ment. During the past fiscal year
there were issued 1,192 daily weekly,
monthly, quarterly, annual and spec
i ial reports, covering the broad scope
of the work of the Secretary’s office
and the eight bureaus of the Depart
ment. The printing of these reports
cost the government more than $216,
1000.
HOSPITALS ARE
READY FOR THE
SICK SOLDIERS
—
American Surgeon General With the
Forces in France Has Completed
Elaborate Flans for Care ot
the Wounded Americans
TO LOOK AFTER THE BLIND
Largest Drug Order Ever Placed Is
Sent to England—Hospital
Trains Are Ordered For
the American Front
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY
IN FRANCE, Jan. 7. — Surgeon Gen
j oral Bradley announced today elab
orate plans for the care of the AroeH
1 can sick and wounded, also the blind
• soldiers. He stated that there would
be ample hospital room for all. bif
i teen complete hospital trains have
! been ordered from England and two
from Fiance.
The American expedition has just
placed the largest drug ordei evc»*
given to England. The Americans
are endeavoring to buy everything
1 possible on this side of the Atlantic
in order to save cargo space.
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ROYAL PALACE
! AT GENOA GOES
j TO RED CROSS
HOME, Jan. 7. — King Immanuel
today turned the royal palace at Ge
j noa over to the American Ked Cross
j and tomorrow the organization will
j take compete possession. The King.
in making this concession, stated that
' the American Red Cross was the
- greatest humanitai ian organization
on the face of the earth.
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Two complete sets of controlling
! devices feature a new automobile de
signed for instruction purposes.