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The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1918-03-09

miles and contains the loftieSt noun tain in America-Mount Mckinley. l. was established by the act of congress approved February 26, 1917, and is the second largest national park.
 "Mount Mckinley rises 2O,3OC feet above sea level, and is nearly 5000 feet higher than Mount Whitney, the loftiest summit within the borders of the United States proper. Tie south side of Mount Mckinley, which is the stupendous climax of the great Alas kan range, is nearly impossible. It is covered by glaciers of enormous bulk. The annual snowfall in some places reaches a depth of sixty feet. On the north side, however, is a roll ing country dotted with beautiful lakes and forests and inhabited by great herds of caribou, bichorn sheep, moose and deer. The huge Alaskan bear is also native to the park.
 Congress established this reserva- tion as Q refuge and breeding ground for conservation of AlasktrI big game ar;inst inroads which may be expect ed to develop upon completion of the new Alaskan railway. In the absence of specific appropriation for admiris tration of the park the governor of alaska continues to afford protection to the animal life through the small force of territorial game Mardens un- ter his direction. Promptly upon pas sage of the act creating the park an estimate for an appropriation in the sum os S1C,OO0 for protective and i'm provement purposes was submitted to congress, but tfis failed to receive favorable consideration in either the sixty-foucth or tho sixty-fifth con-
The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1918-03-09
DISCOVER GOOD
 DIRT ON CREEK IN THE TAKOTNA

The strike on Nixon creek in the Takotna district is q bona tide one ac- cording to the following article print ed in the last Iditarod Pioneer receiv- ed from the interior:
 Mespelt and Rllude, on pup, right limit, near head of Hirden creek, are 27 fee, to bedrock, and have l2 feet of gravel running from 1c top to Sc at bedrock, which is granite. This pup stands on end Then above them, on the next pup, Ansio can not get down, as it is thawed, banned out 20c mug get and several pieces going l to 3 grains. He will have to run up a drain. Then between these two, H. E. Carter has pay on one-claim pup. irhen below Mesfelt and Rhude is Ed Whelan, Jones and Griffin with pay. An offer of $2,000 cash fo: half-in- terest in 6-b on Hidden, at the mouth Uf this pup, has been made.
 Just over a low saddle from the head of this pup on Ruby, Charley Pearson has large body of gravel carrying values as high as soc in shot ty gold. His last shaft runs from 2c top to 10c on bedrock, which is hard granite That is not broken up. Dan Aston has taken lay on No. 3-b or Ruby, and is now taking in his out fit. George Walters and Jake Estel. man started for there this morning, as they own 1 and 2-b Pankirk and I'Ceorge - accompanying them. There is still plenty of ground to be staked, with plenty of wood, water, meat and vegetables right in the coun- i'try to live on--not like it is at Good News Bay, where c. A. Fowler writes his partner, Frank Joaquin, that there are only 3% claims with pay and no prospects on adjoining creeks. There is TO wood or game, and it blows hur- l !,icanes with rain, fog or snow all the 1 time.
 The Nixon will make a summer and winter camp, as it is frozen, and 3 or 4 times deeper than any one thought. There is enough now in sight to make small camp, but believe me it will grow when they get some prospecting boilers in there.
 Forr Aitken is busy getting his 47G tons of dredge materials out to Can dle. He has let the contract to haul l 100 tons to Dave Edwards, it is re- ported, IS one of his horses has been laid up with a lame knee.
 The boys on Kar! creek will have their ground ready to hydraulic the coming season. The small cut they run last fall averaged 54c to the square foot, ana because their drain was not deep enough they had to leave two feet of pay under them until they deepen tt drain next spring.
The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1918-03-09

gresses. The estimate has again been submi ted in the regular estimates for the 1919 fiscal year."
The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1918-03-09
PLAN A GAME
 REFUGE OF MT.
 M'KINLEY PARK

In the report of the director of na- tional parks in the United States at tention is given to Mt. Mckinley Ma tioual park. of Alaska:
 This new rese, vation," says the re- port "incloses an area of 2,2OO square
The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1918-03-09

Of course, the lawyers are pretty busy, but it is still possible in this country for man to make fool of himself without employing an attor- ney.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1918-01-11
TO GET ALL NEEDED
MEN IN CLASS ONE
ANNUAL REGISTRATION OF BOYS
BECOMING Fl SHOULD BE
MADE, SAYS cRoWDER.
AFFECTS 100000 YOUTHS

Washington.-All men for the war
armies still to be raised by the United
States will come from Class | under
the new selective service plan That
means the nations fighting Is to be
done by young men without families
dependent upon their labor for support
and unskilled In necessary industrial
or agricultural work.
Provost Marshal General Crowder
announces the new policy in an ex-
haustive report upon the operation OF
the selective draft law submitted to
Secretary Baker and sent to congress.
He says Glass should provide men
for all military needs of the country,
and to accomplish that object he urges
amendment of the draft law so as to
provide that all men who have reached
their twenty-first birthdays since June
5, 1917, shall be required to register
for classification. Also In the interest
Of fair distribution OF the military bur
den he proposes that the quotas OF
states or districts be determined here
after on the basis of the number OF
men in Glass / and not upon popula-
ton.
Available figures indicate, the report
says, that there are 1000, 900 physical
ly and otherwise qualified men under
the present registration who will be
found in Class l when all question
naires have been returned and the clas-
sification period ends February 10. To
this the extension of registration to
men turning FL since June Is Of last
year and thereafter will add 100000 ef
fective men a year.
Class comprises:
Single men without dependent rela-
tives; married men who have habitu-
ally failed to support their families;
married men who are dependent upon
wives for support; men not usefully
engaged and whose families are sup
ported by income independent of their
labor; unskilled farm laborers; unskill-
ed industrial laborers; registrants by
or in respect of whom no deferred clas-
sification Is claimed or made; regis
trants who fail to submit questionaires
and In respect of whom nc deferred
classification is claimed or made, and
all regfstrants not included in any 9th.
er divisions Of the schedule.
Narrowed down under the analysis
of the first draft made In the report
the plan places upon unattached single
men with independent incomes most Of
the weight of military duty. for the ag-
gregate numbers of men In the other
divisions of Class 1 is very small.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1918-01-11
BRITISH PREMIER
DETAILS WAR AIMS
LLOYD GEORGE MAKES STIRRING
ADDRESS IN WHICH HE GIVES
STATEMENT OF ALLIED AIMS.
RUSSIA WARNED OF DANGER

London. - Declaring emphatically
that Great Britain's democracy would
stand to the bitter end alongside OF
the democracies of France and Italy
in the struggle against the central
powers, asserting that democratic
Russia would be still welcomed as
an ally, but that the Russian people
must choose for themselves in this
matter, and charging that peace pro-
posed along the lines laid down by
the latest Germanic offers to Russia
could not be permanent, Premier
Lloyd George, addressing the trades
unions on the subject of war aims.
gave the clearest exposition Of Great
Britain's reception of the recent Ger
man offer for peace yet made by any
Of the allied powers.
Britain, he insisted, with her allies,
were battling for these principles:
First-Complete restoration of Bel.
GUM.
STANDARDIZATION, as far as pos
sible, for devastated towns and cities.
Observation-Disclosures and interna.
tionalization of the Dardanelles.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of the
great wrong done to France In 1871.
referring to Alsace-Lorraine.
Observation-Disclosures of an indie
pendent Poland, comprising all genu.
inely Polish elements, because this is
necessary to the stability of Western
Europe"
Sixth-Arabia, Armenia, Mesopo-
tamia, Syria and Palestine all to have
separate national conditions.
Seventh-Russia's future to be left
to decision of the Russian people
themselves.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1918-01-11
SELECTIVE DRAFT
UPHELD BY COURT.
NO INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS VIOLATED
IN METHOD OF CREATING
GREAT ARMY.
HIGH TRIBUNAL APPROVES
Chief Justice White Delivered Opinion
Which Is concurred In by Entire
court-says Mind Can Not Con-
ceIVe Army Without Men.

Washington.-Th selectlve service
act has been upheld as constitutional
by the Supreme Court in an opinion
In the draft cases.
The governments contentious that
the power given Congress to declare
war includes power to compel citi-
gems to render military service both
at home and abroad were sustained
by the court.
Chief Justice White, who delivered
the unanimous opinion, in a brief
statement, declared that, after con.
sidering the various contentious the
conclusion had been reached that
most of them were imaginary rather
than real
Chief Justice White. in his opinion,
said:
1.-THE law, as its title declares, was
intended to supply temporarily the
Increased military force which was re.
quired by the existing emergency, the
war, then and now fragrant"
Here the chief justice recited pro-
visions OF the act and contention Of
those who attacked its constitution
atty
1.-THE possession OF authority to en-
act the statute" said the chief JUS
tice, must be found in the clauses Of
the constitution giving congress pow
err to declare war; to raise
and support armies, but no appropria-
ton of money to that use shall be for
q longer term than two years; .
to make rules for the government and
regulation Of the land and naval
forces"
"As the mind cannot conceive an
army without the men to compose 1t,
on the face of the constitution, the
objection that II does not give power
to provide for such men would seem
to be too frivolous for further notice.
It is said, however, that since, under
the constitution as originally framed,
state citizenship was primary and
United States citlzenship but deriva-
tive and dependent thereon. therefore
the power conferred upon congress
to raise armies was only coterminous
with United States citizenship and
could not be exerted SO as to cause
that citizenship to lose its dependent
character and dominate state citizen
ship"
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1918-01-11
FIGHT UPON PROFITEERlNG
Federal and State Food Admins
traitors Launch Nationwide Fight
to Stop Proflteerlno.

Washington. = Nationwide efforts
to defeat profiteering by food retail
ers were launched here at confer
ence between the State Food Admin
istrators and Herbert Hoover.
The high price Of meats was one OF
the objects under attack. Consumers
leagues and government agents for
weeks have been investigating meat
prices. 1t is likely campaign will
be planned similar to that in effect
toward other merchandise now,
whereby the food administration will
keep in touch with local markets
throughout the country, advising
what should be fair retail price for
meat at all points, based on the whole
sale prices.
Food administration authorities say
they have not the power to fix meat
prices, but they can concentrate pub
lie opinion on profiteering dealers. by
the method above outlined. Aside
from legal difficulties, 1t would be
impossible to standardise meats fol-
price fixing. owing to the large mum
Der Of different cuts, they say.
The food administration Is arrang.
ing regulatory measures to lower the
prices on salt water fish, due to re-
cent increases in catches. Meatless
days. 1t was declared. have greatly In
creased the consumption of fish.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1918-01-11
U. S. AIRMEN BOMB GERMANS
ReprlsaIs Taken BY Americans for
the Killing of Two Wocdchoppers
by the Germans.

With the American Army in France
United States aviators have flown
over the British battle lines and
dropped bombs, in conjunction with
British and French pilots. The flight
OF the Americans was reprisal for
the killing of two American wood.
cutters during a recent German bomb
ing expedition.
Through the courtesy OF the Brit
fish and French flying authorities, the
American aviators also have taken
part in observation and Photographic
work. It is not thought advisable to
name the places where the Ameri-
cans flew on the bombing expedition,
but It was well beyond the German
air defense lines at the front.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1918-01-11
WILSON APPROVES MOVIES
Committee on Public Information Has
Received Great Benefit from Ex-
hibltlon Of Films.

Washington. - Official recognition
of the moving picture campaign car
ried on by the committee on public
information to stimulate interest in
the war, has been given by President
Wilson. BY executive order he has
created a division of foreign picture
service under the Jurisdiction Of the
committee.
For months the committee has been
putting out motion picture films for
furnishing entertainment and instruc-
ton to American soldiers at home
and abroad, and soldiers of the allies.
Much of this work has been carried
on through the Y. NJ. G. A. and SINH
lar organizations, and the presidents
order makes it possible to levy upon
these organizations for their proper
tionate share of the expense entailed
In producing. distributing and exhib-
ting the films.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1918-01-11
SOLDIERS MAIN SELVES.

Officers Conducting investigation Of
Numerous Academia"
Lexington. Ky.-That soldiers Of
Camp Zachary Taylor have dellber.
ately injured themselves by cutting
off their trigger fingers or toes and
by putting drugs in their eyes. IL the
belief OF camp officers, who sum.
moned 10 men to answer such
charges. One man is accused Of put
ting bis hand on railroad track for
a train to mash off his fingers.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1918-01-11
BOLSHEVIKI PLAN
TO RENEW BATTLE
DISPATCHES FROM PETRoeRAu
SAY RUSSIANS PREPARING
TO RESUME STRUGGLE.
DESIRE NO AID FROM ALLIES
Weakness Of Country VIII Be Actual
Strength, Says NJ. Radek, Rus.
sian Delegate Who Took Part
In Peace confabs.

London.-The Bolshevid are def
initely Strengthening their front, &C.
cording to M. Radek, one Of the Rus.
sian delegates, who took a prominent
part in the negotiations with the Aus.
TRANS and Germans at Petrograd. He
said the Bolsheviki were intending to
send home all who did not wish to
fight, so that they would have an
army which was willing to fight for
an ideal.
When asked what would be the at.
titude of the Bolsheviki in case OF
actual war, with regard to help from
the allies, M, Radek replied:
1--WE do not desire their help. Our
strength lies in our weakness, and II
we accepted help from the allies the
significance of our position would be
destroyed. The weaker we are, the
stronger we are. The Germans can
drive us back, but what good would
II do themi
1.-THE country behind the front has
been stripped bare. There Is not
enough there to feed single horse.
The Germans will not wish millions
of starving persons on their hands.
'sWe stand for democratic peace.
So do the German working classes.
II the German government attacks US
Il will display itself to its own people
In its true light"
A telegram from Brest.Litovsk to
Amsterdam gives wireless message
sent to M. Joffe, chairman Of the Rus
sian delegation, by Foreign Minister
Won Kuehlmann, for the German dele
cation; Foreign Minister Czernin, for
the Austrians; Foreign Minister Mes
shiny Bey, for the Turks, and Minis
ter of Justice PoPoff, for the Bulgar-
ians. 1t recalls that when the cen.
trail powers outlined the terms on
which they were willing to make
peace they stipulated that these
terms would be valid only IL all the
belligerents bound themselves within
a certain period to observe them. The
Russians then fixed 10 days as the
period In which the other belligerents
were to decide whether to join in the
negotiations, but although this time
elapsed Jan. 4, nothing has been heard
from them.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1918-01-11
No CHANCE il TraInina plans.

Washington. = Recommendation Of
the American war mission that troops
be sent to France as rapidly as pos
sible Will not result in any change In
the general plan Of training the sol
diers IN the United States.
Every possible energy viii be devot
ed to speeding up production OF mu-
nitions and equipment. and this. with
the agreement Of the allies to furnish
the necessary ships and equipment.
Is expected to result IN the dispatch
OF the armies abroad much sooner
than vas at first thought possible
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1918-01-11
sAReEs FOR MISSISSIPPI.
Congress Expects to Appropriate
staooo,ooo Tor Purpose.

st. Louis,-The joint river commits
sion. composed Of citizens Of New Or.
leans. Memphis and st. Louis. has
been assured that Congress win act
iavorabIy on plan for an appropria-
ton Of $1,000. 900 to construct Is tow
boats and 200 wooden barges for a re-
vival OF Mississippi River traffic.
Modern river terminals are under
at several cities along
waterway.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1918-01-11
UNCLE SAN NAY STOP DRIVE

Washington The failure CT the Rs.s-
sian negotiations Al this time and the
revelation Of Germany's daplicity VIII
eoAnpel the German high command to
reslrt to desperate drive on the vest
troA
These are the conclusions reached in
high efFicial and diplomatic headquar-
sers ere. following the receipt OF news
nom a'strosrad and from Germany "a
Amstaedam and London
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1918-01-11
Socialist chief Dies.

Amstsrdam.-The death Of Engsl-
bert Pernerstnrfer, the Austrian So
cialistic leader. IS announced In a dis
patch from Vienna lie had been vice
president Of the lower house Of the
Austrian diet since 1903.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1918-01-11
rorpedoed d Destroyer.

Loudon--A British torpedo boat
destroyer has been torpedoea and
sunk in the Mediterranean Sea. All
Of the officers Of the destroyer we're
saved. but 10 members Of the crew
were lost
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1918-01-11
Money n cIreuIatIon.

washington.-Money in circulation
IN the United States Jan. amounted
to $500. 42i.0 900. or $4S76 per capita.
as compared with s5.0s5,s7o.o0O one
month ago. In the last year money IN
circulation has increased ssso,0oo. oee.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1918-01-11
say Mas for Soldiers.

With the American Army In France
Masses for both American ana
french dead were said In the
churches OF France on the occasion
Of the national celebration Of the
birthday OF Joan Of Arc.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1918-01-11
pessrter is shot

waycross, Cal s. Barlow.
charged with being q doserter from
both the U. s. Army and Navy. was
shot and wounded in Clinch county
by Sheriff Lee, while attempting to
arrest him.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1918-01-11
srItIah casuaItIes Inereaas.

London.-British casualties report
cd last week totaled 1s.s9s. The
losses were divided a. follows: OF
ficers. killed Or died Of wounds. IL;
men. ASA Officers wounded OF
missing. sfS; men. 14.sos.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1918-01-11
HOLD ALLEGED spy.
Exhorted Arkansas Negroes 10 Resist
Army Service.

Army Service.
Osceola, Ark. = Henry Reiphold,
claiming Minnesota as his home, is
under arrest here charged with being
q German spy. He was urging negroes
to refuse to Join the army, praising
the kaiser as the greatest man In the
world" and predicting that the Ger
mans would win the war. It Is al
legged. He Is In Jail waiting action Of
Federal authorities.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1918-01-11
NEGRO SOLDIERS MUST DIE

San Antonio, Texas.-F'fve OF the ne
groes tried by the last court-martial In
connection with the Houston riots have
been sentenced to be hanged, according
to the verdict Of the court, announced
by Mai. Gen, Ruckman.
They are Priyates Babe Collier. Thos.
Mcdonald. James Robinson, Joseph
Smith and Albert d. Wright, all OF
Company I. Twenty-fourth United
States Infantry. Execution of the sen
fenced men viii be suspended until az
ter the case is reviewed By President
Wilson. Three OF the is tried were
sentenced to 10 years at Leavenworth
and seven to seven years each.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1918-01-11
calls for Bank statements

washington.-The Comptroller Of
the Currency issued call for the con
dition of all national banks of the
United States at the close Of business
Monday. Dec. 81
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1918-01-11

desire a Just and stable peace. such as
can be secured only by removing the
chief provocations TO war. which this
program does remove. We Aavs no jeal-
ousy OF German greatness, and there e
nothing in this program that impairs u.
We gr1dge her no achievement or dis
tinction Of learning or OF pacific enter
prise such as have made her record very
wish to injure her or, to block in any
way her legitimate Influence or power.
We do not wish to fight her, either with
arms or with hostile arrangements OF
trade, n she Is willing 10 associate her
self with US and the other peace-lcsine
tlce and Law and fair dealing. We wish
her only to accept a place Of equality
among the peoples Of the world-the new
world in which we now live-instead OF
1 place q mastery.
her any alteration OF modification OF
her Institutions. But u Is necessary
we must franklv say, and necessary as
preliminary to any intelligent dealings
with her on our part. that We should
when they speak 10 us, whether reich
stag majority OF for the military party
and the men whose creed d imperial
We have spoken now. surely. in terms
TOO concrete to admit o. any InrtnsI
r,sns through the whole program ] have
outlined. II is the principle Of justice
% ali peoples and ratiOnalties. and
heir right IS live on equal terms OF
lsbsrty and safety with one another.
whether they be strong or weak Unless
this principle be made It's foundation
no part az the structure az international
snstice can stand. The people Of the
United states could act upon no other
Arincipie. and 70 the vindication % this
srfnciple they are readw 70 devote their
ives. their honor. and everything that
they possess. The moral climax nf this.
the eliminating and final war for human
liberty. has corne. ard they are ready e
nat their uNn strength. their ewn high
81 purpose. their Own integrity and de-
xoti0n. 10 the test
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n
.haf h Is humane ard honorable for
shsrn to accept. had been stated with a
frsnkness- : largeness Of view. a gen
erosity OF spirit, and universal human
sympathy. which must ehailenge the ad
fhev have refused to compound their
sarsls or desert others that they them
49, nav be safe. They call to rs to
~ what L Is that Ne desire. n what,
II anything. our purpose ana CUR spirit
fhe neonle a. the United States would
.-Ish me to respond. with utter SIMPLE
~ and frankness Whether their pres
arf leaders believe Il or not. Il Is our
HEARTFELT desire and hope that some Way
wssw ~ auened whereby we may be
s.rtrllpred IS assist the people 81 Rus
"a "a attain their utmost hope o. ho-
civ and ordered peace
Il viii b our visa and purpose that
90 processes q peace, when sn1y hrs