JJaily JUa^han
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No. IV* TWENTIETH YEAR
SKAGWAY, ALASKA, TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 25. 1917 PRICE 10 CENTS
Kaunas City, Sept. 25.—Citizens
of this city today presented Col.
Theodore Roosevelt with a poldeu
nuill aud reminded hini that the
Den is mightier than the sword. He
answered, "Hut 1 would rather have
* sword. This is a very exclusive
war as far as 1 am concerned for
1 was blackballed l\v the commit
ter on admission."
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DFFiCE II
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London, Sej.t. 25.—The highest
tvo)iui:i ou'icer in the liritish. army
is Mrs. A. XI. Chalmers Watson, M.
L>., w ho tins just been appointed
chief controller of the women's »r
n:> auxiliary corps, which has more
thau 4,0"i> members 011 duty behind
the lines in France.
.Mrs. Watson is a sister of Sir
lOric Ueddes, first lord of the ad
miralty. She was the first woman
physician graduated from Edinburgh!
university. I 'y ♦.£ jj
Mi I0BNEY
15 fit
Washington, Stj>t. 2-". — Presi
dent Wilson himself will direct all
developments surroundiug the ans
wer to international labor organ
izations regarding the conviction
and death sentence of .Mooney, al
leged 1'oiub thrower. An investiga
tion is iK'itig made following aji
international prottst from labor
organization that .Mooney x\-a3 rail
roaded. ,
Subscribe tor tha Dally Alaskan.
BUT AND STORE
POTATOES IH
1HES
Washington, Sept. 25—At a meet
ing of the retail food committee of
the JJnlted States Food Administra
tion it was decided to start a cam
paign tr> cover the months of Octo
ber and November, jvhen all the
wholesale and retail grocers of the
country will be asked to urge upon
the consumers the wisdom and ad
visability of buying and storing in
their homes potatoes in sufficient
quantities to carry them over the
winter months. The idea back of
this move is that the more general
consumption of potatoes will affect
a saving in wheat flour and meat.
It i3 the purpose the commit
tee to use all its efforts to help
avoid 3 repetition of last winter's j
unfortunate experience, when pota
toes reached an abnormal figure, not
because of any particular shortage, j
but because the transportation fa
cilities were not available to move
them as required from the place of!
production to consuming localities. J
General instructions will l>e issued
later ou by those having this cam- j
paign in hand, to teach the consume
ing oublic the proper car© of the i
potato so that supplies may be safe- j
ly carried in tlie homes without ]
loss through spoilage.
BOLL 1FIKI
IN TEXAS
Washington, Sept. 25.—Iuforma- '
tion has just been received by the
Department of Agriculture that
specimens of pink boll worm have
been, found near Hearne, Tex. The
information is conveyed by depart
ment experts engaged in the work
of observation and quarantine.
The department is advising the
Texas Dep-artment of Agriculture
and the Agricultural and Mechani
cal College to join a representative
Df tke department, who is ordered
to Hearne, in an effort to estaolish,
by voluntary action, a quarantine
around the particular field or fields
where the pest has been discovered,
in the hopa thaf it may be eradi
cated at once.
BAND PRACTICE TONIGHT
All bandsmen, are urgently re
quested to be present.
Just
Received
A Shipment of
Corduroy Kimonas
Also New Sweaters, Scarf
and Cap Sets
New Serge and Woolen Goods
by the Yard
ALBERT REINERT
Broadway between Third and Fourth Phone 41
HEME VOTES 53 TO 18
FAVOR BREAK WITH GERMANY
Huns Active Iu Argentina
Buenos Aires, Sept. 25. — By a
vote of 53 to 18 the Argentine
chamber or deputies today voted to
support a break in. relations with
Germany.
Bueuos Aire's, Sept. 25.—Argen
tine is paralyzed today by a gener
al strike which is claimed to have
been precipitated largely by Ger
mans. Every railway in the coun
try is tied up. '
PLAGUE KILLS !
5,200 ALLIED
PRISONERSI
Paris, Sept. 25.—Albert Cham
pion, a French, soldier who on his |
third attempt hag just escaped from i
Germany, brings the information, ai«
New York Herald, that 3,700 Frendi
and British soldiers and 1,500 Rus- |
cordiug io the Paris edition of the
6ians have died of typhug at the (
German concentration camp at Cas-1
eel, 90 miles northeast of Frankfort
on-the-Main.
TA^EH KILLS
IWO
Richmond, Cal., Sept. 25.—G&fl |
^reuera'ing in the hold or the ship :
caused an explosion this morning on I
the Standard Oil tanker J. A. MoT- |
let, Hlling Ernes* Rutter and H. |
It Juillerat, members of the crew, j
DISSilMIXATOIlS OF
KULTI R OX VESSEL
l'l'T BEHIND IIA IIS 1
Port Townsend,— (Mail)—Bring
ing thirty-five members of the
crew of the ship St. Francis, wreck- i
ed soma weeks ago on the Alaskan .
coast, and a cargo of salt and can- J
ned salmon, the schooner Henry j
Wilson, arrived last week form Kog- j
guing.
Included in the crew of tho Wil
son were C. Noher, A. Asstaan and |
E. Tienau, Germans. During the
run from the North these men were ;
loud in their denunciation of Presi- j
dent Wilson and the United States,
causing considerable discord among |
the crew. As the Wilson neared'j
Port Townsend the men were more(
open in expressing disloyal senti
ments against the United States,
going «o far as to make implied
threads to set fire to the craft
before she reached Seattle.
Cat>t. Joseph Henry, master of the
Wilson, fearing the men might car
ry out their threats, notified the
authorities here, requesting the
men be taken in charge. Mr. Sar
geant, head of the immigration
service, with, headquarters in Seat
tle, was notified by wire and h©
instructed sheriff Herstrom to lake,
the men in charge and be would
iiOiENlS
NURSES
Washington, (Mail)—Fifty public
health nurses have been assigned fell
duty by the American. Red Cross to
the zones around the National Ar
my cantonments, National Guard
equips and Naval l>as®s. The nurs
es will work under the Red Cross
Sanitary directors in co-operation
With, llie local, state and federal
heaith authorities.
Nutses liave already taken up
their work in civil districts around
the cantonments at Hattiesburg,
Miss; Ft. Riley, Kansas; Des
Moines Iowa; Louisville, Kentucky;
Little Rock, Arkansas; Ayer, Massa
chusetts; Chillkothe, Ohio; Atlan
ta, Georgia; Newport News and
Petersburg, Virginia.
As visaing nurses In the rural
territory and cities adjoining th$
camps, the Red Cross nurses as
signed to public health work will
endeavor to prevent the spread of
tuberculosis, malaria and social
[iiseast-s, and to strengthen the lo
cal infant welfare programs.
Nurses l\»ve been chosau for this
service by Miss Janq A. Delano,
chairman of the National Committee
en Red Cross Nursing, with special
reference to the public health needs
of tho nation as a whole. If the
public health nursing sen-ice of
the state in which the cantonment
is situated is strong in numbers the
lied Cross has called upon, nurses
from that State. Otherwise, nurses
have been chosen from the states
from which the troops in training
have been drawn. A permanent Red
Cross health service Kill undoubt
edly le the outcome of the work
now being undertaken in army dis
tricts.
Besides the special work in camp
zones. Red Cross nurses in. the
Town and Country Nursing Service
are it work throughout the coun
try, largely in rural and mining
communities. Ninety-four women
are so engaged in nursing and
teachii-g the care and feeding of
infants, first aid and home dietetics,
and assisting in the fight against
tuberculosis. It has been estimated
that 4S per cent of the Union,
troops in the Civil war camg from
the country districts. While the
percentage will not be bo large In
this war, the Red Cross has under
taken 10 see that their families and:
homes are kept well and safe
against the day of the country
soldier's return.
send a representative from his
office to bring them to Seattle,
whore they will be Investigated. The
men are now in jail.
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SPECIAL
Mother's Oats
Large Package 35c
A First Class Article at a Very Low Price
P. H. GANTY
ADMINISTRATION
INVESTIGATES
Washington, Sept. 25.—The pack
ers committee, representing all clae*
ea of Dackers, which met with Food
Administrator Herbert Hoover re
cently, expressed approval of the
Government placing the entire In
dustry; undr licnese and a desire to
coopera'e with th^ food, administra
tion iu working out war problems.
It will require some days, or
even weeks, it was explained, to
work out the basis of regulations
covering the industry.
The Food Administration Is en
gaged in an investigation of the
cost of milk production and distri
bution. This investigation is based
on collection o>f data from . many
quarters and will require itme.
The result of this investigation
Will be DUbJished as soon as com
pleted. I t
There can be no doubt that the
very high prices of feeding stuffs
during the past months has borne
hard on the dairymen, but there
are many reasons to expect much
lower ranges of feed prices later in
th§ fall. The promise of large corn,
oats, and roughage crops, the rigid
embar/o upon the export of cotton
seed cake, and the agreement with
the millers by which mill feed will
reduce the cost of animal feed.
WILL SHE
ON SATURDAY
Seattle, SeptO 25.—Employes lu
steel shipyards of this city vot
ed today in fa-vor of striking Satur
day unless wage demands are met.
JEFFERSON SAILS
Seattle, Sept. 25.—The steamship
Jefferson, Oj the Ala'ska S. S. Co.,
sailed from Seattle for Skagway
and way ports last evening with
five passengers for Skagway, Mrs.
jM. Collins, A. Peterson, R. Iveraon,
J. R. Lyman, and one second class.
Passengers for Haines are A- B.
I Carr and wife, Mrs. C. Naegal and
Miss Clara Naegal.
Walter Kramill, of the quarter
master's department at Ft. Seward,
was a round trip passenger oxi
+he harbor boat Peterson, today.
ZEPPELINS 111
LONDON Hi
COAST
I I*adon, Sept. 25.—German air
craft last night dropped many
I bombs on London and also along the
stretch of coas» from Kentshlre to
Yorkshire. Fifteen women, chil
dren, and men were killed during
the raid, and twenty others were
eeverely injured. A great maay
zeppelina took part in the raid.
WEMBERlf ship
BOARD LOOIS
VESSEL
Seattle, Sept. 25.—It has de
veloper that, valuable furnishings
and fittings have been purloined
from »he German steamships Long
moon and Prlnz Waldemar, taken
over some weeks ago by the gov
ernment for naval use. S. D. Elwyn
inspec'or of machinery for the em
ergency fleet corporation, has con
fessed to *aking a lot of loot includ
ing the Longmoon's valuable sil
verware. Elwyn has been forced to
return 'lie stolen goods and bas
been dismissed from the service.
His case will be presented to the
federal grand jury.
Washington, Sept. 25.—Secretary
of State Lansing intimated today
that be will 'soon make public a
numoer of disclosures of Bern
storff's shameless work showing
hosv employes Of the German em
bassy, disguised as yvaitefs, gath
ered. much information from differ
ent high society functions. The
Teuton spy system throughout all
parts of the United States has been
unear'hed and important disclosures
are in the hands of the government.
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