GIANT HOWITZERS OF BRITISH
RIP GERMAN TRENCHES
LONDON.—The British army in
France is now using heavy howitzers
which, according to reports from the
official British "eye-witness,” have
gained ascendancy over the heavy Ger
man guns. These howitzers, lie states,
were used in the successful attacks on
the German position in the tirlck fields
south of La Bassee cnnal recently.
“Our heavy howitzers took part in
this bombardment, their fire being di
rected on the railway trinnglo," the
“eye-witness" says. “The boom of
these pieces nnd the detonations of
their shells were audible twenty miles
away nbove the roar of the other ar
tillery, while to those close at hand
the shrinking of the great projectiles
through the air was most impressive,
as were the volumes of smoke and
debris thrown up.
"Tim effect of tho lyddite shells was
truly terrific, one house being blown
bodily into the air. nnd as they biir.d
among the brick stacks they created
great destruction among tho enemy.
"The assault was launched against a
strong position among the stacks of
brick held by the Germans. Our
storming columns rushed the work
from three sides at once and captured
it with little loss. for. as prisoners
afterward stated, the noise of the
bursting shells was so great and the
clouds of dust with which the defend
ers were surrounded were so thick tfi
they did not observe our men .ch.im
ing until to late.
“At the same time trench* s p» tie
north of this point, hetwirn it and tin
canal, were stormed h\ another part.
By seizing these points w»* were en
abled to occupy a continues line south
wards from our forward posts on the I
canal which formed an advent a ironm
position in front of tin* brick fields
"The Germans, however, showed no
I inclination to accept this reverse, for In
a few hours a body of them advanced
along the can.il hank, shouting out.
‘Don't shoot. We are engineers.’
This form of stratagem. unfo»*t mint*
1\ for the enemy, has now lost its n*»\
elty. Our men held their fire until the
supposed supers wore onl\ a few yard
away and then opened with a machine
gun with the result that the 'engineers
fell hack, leaving thirty dead in front
of our line. In the afternoon of the
same day another attempt was mad
but it molted away under our Are and
did not arrive at close quarters.
“A great feature of the recent fight
ing has been the accuracy « f our artil
lery Are. The wholo of the area both
behind and immediately in front "f tie
trenches we now hold was found to l»<
littered with tin bodies of hundreds of
Gormans killed in the various recent |
fights.
The "e.\ e-witness," tells of a German
mnicer who, noticing a l.ritirh utlie<i
who was partially buried in a trench j
stopped to dig him out and give him j
brandy despite the fad that he wa>
under fire. This German al'i« r\v;ml
was killed by a stray bullet
The "eye-witness'’ says tha; some nf |
the prisoners captor d I itch have be >n |
of comparative h pn« r physique and |
trolls nf finding in the pocket "f a dead
German two medical certificates slat t
ing that he was suffering from mi j
sumpt ion
The certificates wore accompanied by i
in application fr m the soldier’s father |
asking that the son be rvli- ved from I
the necessity of going into active set - j
vice.
The official observer also quotes let
tors which ho sa\s were received h\
soldier's from home and which w .<•!
found on bodies, complaining f the in
crease in tiro cost of living and tie |
.scarcity of bread, and stating that u\ a .
school boys were being called into mili- |
tarv service.
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W. J. WILLIAMSON. Prop. j
COLLINS SAYS WOMEN
MAY HOLD OFFICE
Mow the judiciary committee ol the
house of representatives at Juneau ar
rived at tlie conclusion that women
in Alaska have the right to vote under
Hie law passed at tile first session ol
tile legislature, is explained in a letter
received a few days ago in Fairbanks
from Karnest U. Collins, speaker of the
house.
in this letter Mr. Collins states that
he took with him from Fairbanks a
hill to he introduced into the legisla
ture providing for giving .the women
of the territory the right to vote, hut
after getting there he took the matter
up with the judiciary committee and
with other lawyers, ami llte.t a greet I
that the present law permits women to
hold municipal olliees, hut does not git'
them the right to serve as jurors. Mi
Collins stated that it would not be ad
vantageous, in his opinion, for women
to be called jurors.
In Mr. Collins’ letter he quotes as
follows from a letter he hail received
front John itustgard. recently who had
been setting as district attorney for
the Kirst Division.
"In answer to your question as to
whether a woman is eligible I'm lie
office of a member of the common
council of a lnunieipnlitt in Alaska. I
beg lo state that any person who is a
nualitied voter in a municipality is I
eligible to any ullice in the nuinieipalty
for which lie would lie lawfully entit
led to vote. Inasmuch as Chap, one !
of the Session laws of the Legislature |
of Alaska for 1313 extended the right of
sufferage to women, the right to hold I
ollh-e \v «s thereby also ex tended to
them, except where the laws expressly
provides to the pintiaiy, and no law
with \v i i i« 11 I am a * • | (lain t < d forbids,
women from lmhling tdllee in a rnuniei i
pality.
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AT DAWSON CLOSED
DAWSON NEWS-Dr. G. M. Faulk
ner, American vice-consul at Dawson,
received a telegram recently from the
state department at Washington stat
ing that the Dawson office is to he
closed and the seals, press records,
books, stamps, stationary and flags he
shipped at once to American consul
general at Vancouver.
The furnishings of the Dawson office
are to be disposed of. Detailed in
structlons as to the future represents-|
tion of tha American government here !
will probably lie received before long,
and it is probable that Dawson busi
ness will be handled through thy vice
consul the same as that at Whitehorse.
l)r. Faulkner was appointed the vice
consltl last fall. George C. Cole lias
been the consul here for several years,
lie is now visiting his old home in
West Virginia. The American consul -
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all! was established shortly after the
big st;int])ede into the Klondike took
place and Mr. McCook, now dead, was
the first consul. I I,, lb-11 has been
engaged to attend to tin- legal end of
the business of formally closing the
consulate.
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MUST BE CLEARED OFF
Chief of Police Willard T. Scott re
cently gave notice to all property own
ers whoso property adjoins the streets
where sidewalks have been built that
the walks must be 'cleared during the
present week or the city will cause
the work to be done at the expense
of tho properly owners.
Many of tho property owners have
not only had sufficient civic pride to
clear their own sidewalks of snow hut
have shoveled the walks of others who
neglected the matter. The snow is
going fast and it behooves all resi
dents to clean up their yards if they
wish to avoid trouble with the city
health authorities. -Valdes Prospector.
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Black 5.
FLOUR IS CHEAP.
Bread only 5c. North Pole Bakery
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AT THE NEW EAGLE.
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and reduced to 90 por cent, by U. S.
government by the bottle or gallon.
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THE SPRING CLEANUP 4
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j room iri ronnwtion. r.*-st w if-r j
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J. M. MONOHAN. Prop. |
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<> Miss Josephine Sundbark has
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