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Newspaper
Iditarod Pioneer
Location
Iditarod, Alaska, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1916
Page
7
Washington reports 400,000 sailors crossed the Atlantic and European ports since the war began. Of these, 250,000 rode vessels owned by belligerents, 88,000 were in third class. Belligerent ships carried 113,000 Italians, 43,000 French, 6,000 Russians, 1,000 Belgians, and 51,000 Americans.
A Denver dispatch reports the world’s largest single gold reserve, about $500 million, stored in the Denver mint vaults. Burglar and bomb proof, they rely on intricate time devices and a small guard of elderly staff rather than a large armed force. In emergencies, a corporal’s guard could not be raised quickly. The mint fixes gold price at $20.67 an ounce, a standard used worldwide. Most gold flows to New York and Washington via other mints and banks. in a threatened invasion, gold on both coasts might be moved to Denver vaults for safety.
Vernon Castle, famed dancer, after US training, sails to England to fly for the allied war effort. British need all airmen due to German Zeppelin and aircraft activity. Castle is an Englishman returning to fight.
Government engineers will open Salmon Bay locks in days as the Seattle Lake Washington Canal completes a 63 year quest. The project cost about 2.27 million from federal funds and around 5.5 million from Seattle King County and the state. The long pursuit united diverse factions and prominent leaders, culminating in a free waterway linking Puget Sound to Lake Washington and expanding Seattle’s harbor by about 100 miles of shoreline.
Tokyo dispatch reports five German businessmen from Yokohama were expelled for conduct harmful to Japan and its allies. The deportees include Martin Pors and H Vokkes among others. affidavits deny copper dealings with Germany. The incident underscores strict surveillance of German civilians in Japan and recent protests over treatment of prisoners of war at Kurume camp. Fresh Olympia and Eastern Oysters, $1.50 per can. Iditarod Meat Co.
The Seattle Labor Council pledged support for Anchorage strikers demanding higher wages and an eight hour day on railroad construction. A committee will meet incoming federal strike commissioners to press a fair wage scale while stressing Alaska needs higher returns for labor and capital.
Petrograd April 8. In the wake of the great war a new Russia is seen as emerging with fair government, progress and economic solidity. Patriots hope, though some doubt. The opening of the duma lifts spirits, with Nicholas greeting the assembly as a symbol of victory. The liberal bloc delays reforms to meet wartime crisis. Political leaders like M. Sturmer and M. Sazonoff seek stability while addressing transportation and graft issues. Russia’s wartime reforms and foreign relations are under watch, with potential great changes ahead.
The text traces Russia from medieval consolidation to the Romanoff line, then through Western reforms under Peter the Great and the Tsarist state. It notes Napoleonic shocks, the Crimean era, emancipation of the serfs, and 1905, followed by war and revolutionary strain. It highlights vodka suppression, peasant literacy, and a mobilizing Slavic mass of about 130 million, with vast undeveloped resources and rising Slavic influence in world affairs.
McGuinness notifies B Anderson O Oldridge and W McCurdy and heirs that expenditures of 100 dollars were made in 1914 and 1915 to satisfy annual labor on the Chicken Association placer claim on Chicken Creek Bonanza Creek Over Precinct Fourth Vision Alaska. If co owners fail to contribute, their interests may vest in the claimant after notice and publication. First publication April 15 1916 last publication July 8 1916.
The Rainbow association at the head of Flat Creek Otter district Alaska and adjoining Rainbow claim in Montana face failure to pay required labor expenditures for 1914 and 1915. If coowners do not contribute within ninety days of service or publication, their interests will vest in the subscribers under section 2124. Publication dates April 5 1916 and July 8 1915.
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