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NOME. ALASKA, AUGUST 9, 1915.
To people who have been indued to
regard the struggle in the Dardanelles
as something of a minor ufTair when
compared with the enormous activities
in France and the Polish war zone, the
total of tile British losses in this cam
paign up to the first of .June will pro
bably come as something of a surprise.
According to the figures given out by
the British war office and published in
the columns of a prominent Kngllsh
paper, the losses to the British Invad
ing force in killed, wounded and miss
ing on both land and sea reaches the
considerable total of 38,635. The com
parative figures are 7,422 killed. 24.676
wounded and 6,537 missing, the bulk of
whom are, in all probability, dead,
thereby (cringing tlie full total of
deaths up io 13,959 or considerably
more ttian one-third of the total force
engaged. That those figures of the
dead are approximately correct is sub
stantiated by the statement of the
Turks who report that they have taken
but few prisoners. According to the
war office statement, the bulk of the
easuailtles were sustained in the heavy
fighting which followed the landing of
the allied troops near the end of April,
when the Turks, by incessant attacks,
tried to drive them back Jo their ships.
The losses of June, according to the
same account, have also been very
heavy, although not so heavy as those
of the Turks which have greatly in
eieased owing to the constantly ad
ded strength of the allied forces
through the great bodies of troops sent
to reinforce the invading army and.also
the extensive additions to artillery
equipment. The French troops on the
Peninsula are not nearly so numerous!
as are those of the British but their
losses are given as at least half those
of the British army. That would bring
up the total casualties of this so-railed
"little war" to nearly sixty thousand
men. When it is remembered that this
enormous loss ha* been suffered in try
ing to take a very small patch of land
scarcely more than forty miles long
and scarcely averaging a third of that
in width, it is disclosed that some of 1
the most sanguinary engagements of
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ho war must havo been fought on that 1
lurrow strip of hill and plain overlook- i
ng the historic Dardanelles. It is also 1
lisclosed that Turkey, broken and de- ,
adent as she is. Is putting up a mighty <
tattle to save herself from annlhila- <
Ion. Truly she is dying hard.
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We are all familiar with the admon- i
tlon to "aim high" through having It I
trenched to us from childhood onward <
tut to "aim above the mark" is a n$w i
trecept that contains an even greater I
vlsdom for him who aspires to fal- 1
ow. This aiming above the mark is '
■ffectively illustrated in a lino from '
tne of the old poets who declares:
•Who alms the sky shoots higher far '
:hnn he who alms a tree.” And, i9 It 1
not the common experience of man
(hut one is more likely to fall short
of the Ideal to which he aims than to
achieve, or puss It? Indeed it Is sel
dom that we ever attain the height or
reach the goal we have sot ouselves
and it Is more seldom wo surpass It.
Is this because we set our mark too
low or too high? We believe it is the
former for it Is seldom that the indi
vidual docs not uneonciously recognize
his limitations when setting his mark
for future achievement. Some there
ore, to be sure, who do not take into
account the situations confronting the
effort they have set themselves and
these are very likely to fail but it is
hardly to be gainsaid that if they per
sist in even a hopeless task they will
go higher, travel father, than if they
asDired to some lowly thing easy of
achievement. The policy of aiming
above the mark finds an excellent il
lustration In the study of shorthand.
It has long been recognized thut the
best way to attain a given speed in
shorthand writing was to aim at a
still higher rate. A student who wishes
to write nt, say eighty words per min
ute, Is urged to take down matter at
one hundred while one who desires to
attain a high record speed of one
hundred and twenty is set to practice
at one hundred and thirty: In this way
it is found that, while the student falls
to take a complete note at the higher
rate of speed, he can quite insensibly
attain the lower rate and is sopn able
to take dictation at that rate with
little effort. There are mnny other il
lustrations where aiming above tho
murk will greatly increase the capa
city of the individual all of which dis
close that there is a very practical side
to this admonition, lie who alms at
the sky may nt least hit tho lofty spire
of the chureh while he who shoots nt
the Steeple is very .. apt to hit the
ground below. '}
ALASKA
NOTES
Speaking of Alaskans, Mrs. Percy ,V.
Pennybaeker, of Austin, Tex., president
of the general federation of women’s
clubs, says: "1 havy found the people
of the North quick to respond to a
call on the emotions, whether pathetic
or humorous. They are quick-minded.
In fact, they usually see the point be
fore the speaker lias made It, Their
heurts are attuned to the needs of the ['
world and there is a beautiful spirit nfi'
democracy in the North." If
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Alaska is going to get frightfully
cheap. Most old-timers feared that
the coming of the railroad would mark *
the beginning of a time of smaller c
wages and lower prices, and they were *
right, but let us remember that the 1
railroad is not Alaska and that shovel- '
ing on a grade Is not the sole resort *
left open to Alaskans. The railroad 1
will open new country. There Is still a 1
cast area of undeveloped mining ter- '
ritory and why should the big prosper- 1
ors care who digs the way for the I
vheels If they themselves dig the gold. 1
-Gateway.
The Whitehorse Star says: A num- 1
ier of forest fires have been burning at ^
joints to the south of this place for the
past eight or ten days, and In Home
places the government telegraph line
has been more or less interfered with.
At one point nbout twenty miles south
of Atlin the telegraph poles were all
destroped for more than a mile. Last
I- rlday a huge smoke was noticed a
few miles south of town and Investi
gation showed that a big fire was
burning In the woods eight miles south
of the Canyon. As huge columns of
smoke were rolling up Saturday morn
ing Assistant Qold Commissioner R C.
Miller, fire warden ex-officio, arranged
with a number of men to go out and
endeavor to check the progress of the
f.ames. Ole Dickson was placed In
charge of the gang, all good tobacco
crewers like himself, but up to yes
terday they had not succeeded In en-j
tirely extinguishing the fire, as con
siderable smoke could still be seen
coming from the locality.
In the geological survey's midyear
review for 1915, Alfred H. Rrooks re
ports that the mining Industry of Alas
ka has begun a prosperous year. The
present high price of copper has en
couraged the continuation of develop
ment work on many copper properties
in which operations were suspended in
midsummer of 1914. It is probable that
about a dozen copper mines will be on
a productive basis in 1915, compared
with six in 1914. A considerable in
crease of copper production will there
fore take place. The gold lode pro
duction from the Southwestern Alaskai
Prince William Sound and William
Creek districts also will be Increased.
The outlook for an increased output for
placer gold Is also encouraging. There
will be more dredges operated on Sew
ard Teninsula this year than last, and
It is also probable that several new
dredges may be in operation in other
placer districts before the close of the
season. In addition to the dredges
there are a number of other placer
mining plants of considerable size that
will he operated this year for the first
time.
The city council of Valdez has
abolished the office of city attorney,
owing, the members declare, to the
necessity of economy in the matter of
city expenses this year. Tlut Charles
Ganty, who has been serving as city
attorney, declares that the action of
the council is a matter of spite. Mr.
Ganty has commenced suit against the
city council for his salary for n year,
which, ho says, he is entitled to as a
result of bis contract with the city.
In regard to the abolishment of his of
fice, Mr. Ganty declares that the coun
cil recently asked, him for an inter
pretation of a law, and when lie refused
to put a wrong construction on It tie
aroused the antagonism of the mem
bers of the council. This, lie says, is
why his office has been abolished and
he Is removed in a roundabout manner.
Miss I,, F. Krgenzlnger, the Raptist
missionary who spent several days in
Skagway recently before leaving for
the Interior, wrote hack to Skagway
friends that she had passed through
Yukon territory without hindrance,
and that the Canadian immigration In
spectors had shown her every courtesy
while she was within their jurisdiction.
The present trip of Miss Krgenzlnger is
her first vacation In twenty-two years,
the major part of that time having <
been spent in slum work in New York. <
\ftcr spending two months in Rootles <
ind Nolan, she will go to fit. Michael, i
rhere she will enter the service of the J
overnment as a missionary teacher to i
he natives. <
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Charles W. Young, founder of Jun- i
au's oldest hardware store, and one
f the earliest pioneers of Juneau, hav
ng arrived there in the summer of
88S, died on June 12 at Rochester,
Jinn., in the hospital of the Mayo
Irothers, where Just a month previous
ie had been operated on, Mr. Young
vrote to E. W. Pettit Just after he had
teen operated on and said he felt fine,
.tit did not Indicate what his com
ilaint was. He usually enjoyed good
lealth.
Chickens 50c per poun.!; also some
■ ip* fryers. Eggs 75e per dozen. Geo.
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