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NOME, ALASKA, 8EPT. 3, 1916.
Although a year has passed since the
New York Journal asked the momen
tous question: “Will Germany be vic
torious, or merely invincible?" the
answer seems not to have resolved it
self to a perceptible degree as yet. In
tile interval Germany has indeed per
formed mighty works. Her powerful
battalions have swept in raging fury
over the eastern war zone and the
harried Russians have been driven
miles within the confines of their own
territory. Fort after fort, numbered
among the mightest of defenses ever
erected by human hands, have fallen
before the mammoth Teuton guns and
numberless towns and cities and miles
of territory have been wrested from the
sovereignty of the Cznr and are now
under the domination of the invaders.
Germany has accomplished much. Yet,
mighty as have been the results of this
liurculean struggle, they affect but
slightly the final determination of the
war. Germany is victorious but the
Russians are not by any means re
duced to a condition where they no
longer are formidable, and there is
every indication that should their op
ponents relax the offensive for even a
most brief period, the Slavs would
again surge forward. In many respects
the present retreat of the Russians Is
a parallel to the French and British re
treat from the Franco-Belglan border to
the walls of Paris. As in the present
great eastern drive, nothing could stay
for a time the victorious advance of
the Teuton forces. Troops were swept
away like chaff before the wind; mighty
fortresses melted into melancholy
heaps of stone and mortar before the
blasting fire of the German guns and
cities were swallowed up in the re
sistless onward sweep of the invading
host by tens and hundreds. Before that
withering on rushing blast of flame
and steel the marshalled hosts of
France were ns straw before the tide.
So resistless seemed that mighty rush
that mankind stared with wonder.
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Franco seemed doomed and helpless
before a power she could not control
and the world was ready with Its sym
pathy. Rut the French are still un
beaten and the Germans are far from
Paris. This is exactly what has oc
curred along the far-stretching battle
reaches of the eastern front and despite
the great advantage gained, the forts
and cities taken, the final result Is no
more determined than by that first
great rush to overwhelm the French in
one mighty blow. Russia Is beaten but
Is far from being crushed and until
this result Is obtained the final issue
will not be determined. Russia at the
present Is fighting what military au
thorities are agreed is one of the cost
liest encounters for the Germans that
has so far occurred. Along the entire
wide flung battle line she Is presenting
a solid front to the enemy and Is con
testing every step of his forward wav.
Able to stand or to retreat at will, she
can ofTer a furious defense until ser
ious danger threatens, when she may
retire with little prospect of losses be
yond the rear guard left behind to
cover the retreat. Hers Is no precipi
tate retreat: the Germans a** forced
to tight every Inch of the way and al
ways In the open where the losses are
greatest and the successes are slight
gains of territory which are In no way
serious to an empire of such vast pro
portions as Russia. Germany Is gain
ing ground but In so doing she Is pay
ing a dreadful price and she dare not
relax her efforts for the reason that al
ways, Just beyond the line where ahe
has concentrated practically every
ounce of weight that can be spared from
the western front, Is still a mighty
army, Intact and solid and ready to
strike a deadly blow the moment the
opportunity Is offered. This probably
accounts for the fact that Germany
makes no attempt to fling her legions
to the west for the great decisive blow
.of which she has so often spoke. Rus
sia is still a most formidable foe and
until she Is crushed to the point where
effective resistance can no longer he
offered It Is probable that the final out
come of the war will not appear.
WAR INVENTIONS
A Philadelphian, reported by the
newspaper men who Interviewed him
to have spent his life In scientific re
search and manufacture, makes the
broad statement: "Contrary to popular
belief, Germany has produced no great
invention for waging scientific war
fare." The man making this statement
is a partner In a widely known firm
whloh produces high class mechanism
nnd appliances for ships and guns.
He declared that explosives, guns,
shells, sights, range finders and peri
scopes, as well as many conspicuous
things about warships, were the chil
dren of American, English, French and
Italian brains. lie might have added
to the list the aeroplane and the sub
marine, both American inventions,
which Germany has done little even to
Improve.
As a matter of fact, Germany has
acknowledged supremacy In but one
Industrial field, the field of Industrial
chemistry: and more particularly In
coal tar derivatives. The best of the
heavy artillery which has appeared in
this war were Austrian, not German
guns. .In light artillery the French
pieces have shown a marked super
iority.
Not Germany alone, but all of the
belligerents are largely in debt to the
United States, and this more particu
larly for the Inventions which have
made this war different from any other
ever waged. The aeroplane, the sub
marine, the periscope, the range finder,
all American in origin and in develop
ment, are the things nnd practically the
only things, which have changed the
entire system of the conduct of wars. '
In a way the situation now is similar
to that at the close of our own civil
war, during which the armored vessel
was perfected to the point that it made
the navies of the world, existing before
that time, obsolete and condemned
them all to the Junk heap.
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limit 1*1 miy o ksil
i lie giim uaii.p wiin Hie eieumui
uimg i ae .iiuukali viiiuei, Lue pri
ijitiiU mi uggie loi toe ■'>ill VIV0.1 ol Uii
.meat uuu u leu etiumg ul u ilgui loi
,l upping giouuus are uii cuniuuial u
.lie atuiy ol imliuu Jim, un uLiojigim
ul iviuk, Alaska, wiiu reeeully oegui,
solving a tnree years senlenee ul .vie
istil isiuuu un ine killing ol duel
si plum, ol Hie Nlckoill ll.be, In u wil
derness duel i-lo miles north ol Knik
lusl November. The whole story is
cuioreu by uuu Indian s desire to obey
tlie white mans law, lor alter his
enemy lay dead at bis leet Indian JUn.
with no other aid than his son and
the widow and daughter of the slain
man, lushed the corpse to a sled and
took up the long trail to Knik and the
white man's justice.
The story which W. H. Caswell, dep
uty United States marshal at Valdez,
and G. F. McDonald, deputy marshal at
Knik, who brought the Indian to Se
attle, tell sounds like a tale of the
north from the pen of a Becholdt or a
Beach.
While the tragedy brought Indian
Jim a penitentiary sentence, it also
brought him the good will of the white
men of Knik, for it is declared that
had Indian Jim chosen to bury the
body on the scene of the killing the In
dians themselves would never have
tried to brin him to justice.
Chief Steptian. with his wife and
daughter, set out on a trapping expe
dition with the first fall of snow,
choosing a remote and nearly inacces
sible diatrict, only to find Indian Jim
and his son also on the ground, and
also with a line of traps. The two par
ties quarreled over the right to the
ground, and Indian Jim in an alterca
tion at Stephan’s camp killed the latter
with his rifle.
The widow and daughter of the slain
man were the only witnesses of the
deed, Indian Jim’s son having remained
at his camp. The killer’s claim of self
defensp had nothing but his word to
back it up.
Immediately after the tragedy the
silent group packed up their few be
longings and lashing the body to a
sled set out on the 140-mlle Journey
to Knik. Of the ten-dey pilgrimage
through the snow with the body of
his victim on the sledge and for help
ers his son and the widow and daugh
ter of the slain, Indian Jim would say
nothing at the trial, hut It is declared
that onlv the friendly presence of his
son saved his reason.
Reaching Knik, Indian Jim gave him
self up to the authorities and later
was duly tried and sentenced, his pre
vious good character and the fact that
he voluntarily gave himself up to jus
tice saving him from a longer sentence.
"SLAIN” MAN RETURNS:
FINDS "SLAYER" IN JAIL
MILWAUKEE, Wis —Frank Klug.
for whose “murder” Nick Georgian is
serving a 25 years’ sentence and whose
“body” was identified by his family, has
Just returned to his awe-stricken
family. Klug supposedly was mur
dered on August 22, 1914. Georgian was
sentenced December 5, 1914.
According to attorneys and officials,
the fact that it was not Klug who was
murdered will make no difference to
Georgian. That a man was murdered
was well established, they say, and the
circumstantial evidence positively con
nected Georgian with the crime. Geor
gian, however, has continually denied
his guilt. Klug left home because of
lomestic troubles. Fearing arrest for
insertion he made no effort to com
nunicate with his family, nnd a recent
etter from a friend gave him his first
ntimation that he had been "mur
lered.”
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LONDON.—France has long been
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