iL 190 TWENTY KHtit YEAR SKA0WAY, ALASKA. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 20, 1918 PRICE 10 CENTS
GOVERNMENT Mf ESTABLISH BIG
FUEL BASE ON ALASKA PENINSULA
Seattle, Friday. — It has been
learned here that the establishment
by the American government of a
gre^t fuel base on the Alaska pen
insula or possibly one of the islands
t"> the' westward for the coaling
o* rhe vessels of the merchant ma
rine plying across the Pacific, is
seriously contemplated by the gov
ernment.
T« determine the practicability of
such a far reaching enterprise an
investigation is now being ma<Je by
oue of the members of a recently
appointed commission.
E. O. McCormick and associates of
the co^imissiou who recently were
eent north by Secretary of the |
Interior Lane are to make the in
vestigation and to make a report.
The «>al for this fueling base, it
i- proposed, will be brought from
the Matanuska and* other Alaska
coal fields.
It is estimated that by the ss
tablishment of this base great ad
ditional amounts Of cargo snace
would be created. Vessels engaged
in trade with tb» Orient, would
thus be required to carry only
half of the fueling coal that is
now necessary to take on board, as
station would be situated' about
half way between Puget Sound and
Jaoan, and It would make it pos
sible *->r the bunkering of vessels
thrra either east or west bound.
GERMAN 60KS Si! W GUARDS
WHEN THEY BALK AT EITRAIIiNG
Anisterdam, Saturday.—A large
number of German recruits, mostly
boy« ouly eighteen years of age,
refused to entrain for the western
fron at Aix LaChapell© yesterday,'
according to a despatch which wag
received here this morning, and
the ortter was giveu to the German. (
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MOOD FOR PEACE,
Rome, Friday.—it was semi-offi
cKlly announced today that the
Italian government is now in no I
mood to entertaiu the Austrian.!
oeace aegotiatlon, as suggested in
the note receutly received' here.
ATL1X SAILINGS \Iv\T WF.F.K
Next week's schedule for the
Tutc&l sailing for Atliu will be as
follows:
Leaves Carcross on Tuesday Sep"
temrer 24th in the evening.
Leaves Atlin on Friday Septem
ber 27th in the morning.
soldier guards to fire upon the mu
tineers.
This the guards did at command
or tneir superior officers, and as a
result of the volley fired point
blank into the ranks of men, eight
were killed outright and many
others wound'ed.
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Home, Friday.—it was semi-offi
ci%lly announced today that the
Italian government is now in uo i
mood to entertain the Austrian'
neace negotiation, as suggested in
the note recently received* here.
ATLIN SAILINGS M?\T WEEK
Next week's schedule lor the
Tutchl sailing for Atliu will be as
follows:
Leaves Carcross on Tuesday Sep"
temrer 24th in the evening.
Leaves Atlin on Friday Septem
ber 27th in the morning.
Women Work In
Railroad Shops
Pocatello, Idaho, Sept. 20.—Ow
ing to a shortage of men here, sev-1
erai women have been p'«t to work
iu the big machine shops of the Un
ion Pacific railroad at this point.
Women are a-lso doing what is
called "wiping" in the engine de
partment and their work is very sat
isfactory and is not considered too
neavy for a healthy woman.
It is not a far stretch of the
imagination to see women at the
'hrottle of the great mogul engines
pulling long trains of cars, in the
near future.
The Sophia is due to arrive In
this oort some tim« tomorrow.
BANK
SKAGWAY, ALASKA
Branches at
AXCHOSAGE CORDOTA WRAXGKLL
Resources Over $850,000
—OFFICERS—
Andrew Stevenson, President E B. Ansley, Vica-Pres., Anchorage
A- A. Benton, Vice-Pres., New York G. K. Betts, Acting Cashier
W. H. Warren, Vice-Pres., Wrangell, B. A. Ross, Auditor
W. R. Hillery, Vice-Pres., Cordova R. N. Moyer, Ass't Cashier
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GEORGE MOWL, Proprietor
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INFLUENZA MIS ATLANTIC SEA
BOARD TRAINING GAMPS HARD
Washington, Friday. — The epi- f
demic of Spanish influenza, which (
broke out on the Atlantic coast a
little over tea dayp ago, Is ra
pidly spreading among the sol- J
djers who are stationed' at the varl
IUS training: c»mpa situated in the
Atlantic coast states. - J
Reports from the Atlantic sea
board camps today reports the
de8ths of 108 this week dut to
'be disease, and last week the
toll was 95.
Pnysicians are making an ex
haustive study of the disease and
overy effort is being made to
stf.mo it out.
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SURRENDER OF GERMAN NATION
Evansville, ind., Sept. 20. —'Un
conditional surrender of the Ger
man nation," is the demand made b;
the War Mothers of America who
are holding their first national con
vention her. Thi» wag adopted in
a resolution made by the members
ol the convention, and the de
r mand was sent immediately to
President Wilson, General Pershing
ai>d the American expeditionary
I forces now in France. -
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GERMANS MAY
lEWEJtlSl
London, Friday. — Advice jvbich
la not said to ha\$ been officially
confirmed, according to a dispatch
from Petrograd, 8aya that an a
fjreement has been signed at Vilna
ov the Russian and German dele
gates providing for the German
evacuation of territory now occupied
br the Germans in Russia.
New York, Saturday —Assistant
Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt is
down with Spanish influenza which
has been complicated by a Bevere
attack of pneumonia, which was con*
tracted while returning from his re
cent trip to Europe.
While Mr. Rooseve'.t ia pronounced
by his physicians to be an exceed
ingly sick man, his condition is not
considered to De hopeless.
LIST YUKON RIVER
SAILINGS ANNOUNCED
It was announced at the White
PasB office today that the last
connection at Whitehorse for down
river points for thig season would
be made at the city by the rapids
tomorrow.
The steamer Whitehorse will leave
Whitehorse for Dawson and lower
river points sometime tomorrow eve
ning, (Sept. 21.).
Toe last boat sailing for Dawsou
will leave Whitehoree either on
October 8th^r 8th. _
Ills RtiME
BIG OIL GEKTEfi
Paiis, Saturday, — Reports re
ceived from Gen. Basil, who quotes
a telegram he bad received from
Constantinople, says that the Turks
ha*e taken Baku, the great oil cen
tfld.
Baku was recently occupied: by
British troops, and it is feared
here that they have met with re
verses.
Winding Up For
A Final Thrust
Paris, Saturday. — Later repotrs
received here last night from the
American headquarters in the St.
Mihiel sector say that the Ameri
can troops aro concentrating their
uew lines across the St. Mihiel sal
ient, and are making preparations
for a great smash against the new
uositions lately taken up by the
enemy.
CLOTHES NEVER WILE BE
CHEAP AGAIN SAYS EXPERT
London, Sept. 20. — Gone, never
to return, are the cheap pre-war
prices of clothes. That is thg view
of an expert writing in a British
trade publication, and he predicts
another rise soon.
Every shot fired from a 12-Inch,
gan, ho says, uses UP half a bale
of cotton, and in three minutes a
machine °iin will squander a fnll
bale.
The price of woolea cloth today is
from two and three-Quarters to
three times greater than it was In
July 1914. Linen prices this jear,
It is stated, probably will keep
at leagt 33 1-3 per cent abov*
those of 1917. .. ..
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COOKING OIL
Wesson Large Size $ 1.90 per can 2 Quts. 14 oz.
" Med. " 1.00 " " 1 Qut. 7 oz.
" SmI. .50 " " 1 Pt. 3 oz
Mazola 1-2 Gal. Size $ 1.50
Quart " .85
Pint " .45
Cotton Seed Gal. Tin $ 2.85 each
These oils are very palatable used in Salads.
P. H. GANTY
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ENEMY STUBBORNLY DEFENDING
C1HI-SI. QUENTIN POSITION!
Paris, Friday.—In the operations |
of enveloping St. Quentia from the
south, the French forces have car
ried Essigny leQrand, says a war
| office statement at noon today. j
During the night just passed, the
Germans made strong attacks ft
1 e"*.fnst the new French positions
north of AUemont, out an the at- j
♦ acks were repulsed wflh very heavy
losses to the enemy.
London, Friday. — Noon reports ^
from the front today say that the -
British troops nave recaptured Mo- f
euvres, situated on the Canal du
Nord which was wrested from them
by the enemy last week, and the ]
adv'ce further states that the Brit*,
ish have advanced for one mile
northwest of St. Quentin taking tha
Afal assise farm.
London, Saturday.—The Germans,1
according to the last reports re
celved last night from the St.
Quentin front, put up the stiffest
resistance to the British advance on
St. Quentin that hag been made at
any point on the western front. Each
fpot of ground has been stubbornly |
defended, and the progrees, says the (
despatch, although sure, has been
alow. , j ;
Lond-on. Saturday, 10:10 a. m. —
"In the fighting northwest of St
Quentin this morning," says Fie!'
Marshal Haig in hla first report
the British war office this mornWi
"our aeroplanes kept lA touch Wit!
thg advancing troops, and render*
great assistance by bombing th
enemy positions. Machine gun# we
also used by the airmen, with gre#
effect.
."During the past twenty-fou
iiourg sixteen tons of bomba hav
been dropped by the aviators on ti
♦he enemy lines, and many thoue
and rounds of machine gun. shell
Ifrfd."
Paris, Saturday.—French force
captured the town of Couteacouri
which ia three miles south west o
St. Quentin latq yesterday after
BOOQ.
London, Saturday. — Yesterda:
afternoon advices from theBritiS'
headquarters to the British war of
Xice her© say that the British troop
have captured sixty-five cannon 01
the 3t. Quentia-Cambral fronts dui
iuz the past twentyfour hour*.
The advice also says that the day'
operations to the southwest of fit
Quentin has brought th# BrftW
troops to the outskirts of D&lloi
which is only two miles from th<
bis base at St. Quentlu.
0 IKK KILL 8 won
1# I# RED CROSS HMD
I With the American Army In Lor
raine. Friday. — Eight Americana
wer« killed early this morning when,
a -clearing hospital was atruck by a
'jprmfln shell. > .
War Industries
Include Alaska
Seattle, Friday, — It was an
nounced today that Alaska wag In" |
cludet} in Region number 20 of
the War Industrial board of re
sources and conversion. Section'
and regional director will shortly
appoiut a chairman of tUe war re
sources committee of Alaska who
will have headquarters at Juneau.
It is not announced who will |
re the chairman but several names:
SLtc under consideration.
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A large red cross against & ftel
of white had beea laid oa th
grouud Before the hospital bo tha
it could- be clearly observed Dy Get
man aviators. . i i 1
PRISONERS NOW
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London, Friday. — Advice re
reived at noon from the Southeri
tneatre saya that the prisoners t^
en *>y the Allied armies operatlnj
ou th© Macedonian front now to
tai 10,000 most of whom are Bui
garians.
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