Experts declare that the power of
resistance to fatigue of French soldiers
is U per cent greater than tlint of Ger
man soldiers, because over-exertion
lias poisloned the blood of tlie Ger
mans.
The most mispronounced city in the
war according to Secretary Sohotka of
ie Austrian Embassy at Washington,
Przemysl, the official and correct
iironounciation of which he says Is
"S-h-l-m-e-a-s-e-l.’*
i )ne of tlie prize winners in the “see
ig things" contest of the war is a
"inan Jusi arrived on the Verona from
i enoa. She declares she saw train
■ads of Zulu warriors, armed with
pears, bows and arrows, en route to
■ in the allies.
When ihe Germans want to exhibit
i leir prisoners, a dispatch says, they
make an endless chain, and by having
l ie captives march In a circle and pass
a nd repass, lead the proud populace to
think it is a last number.
The Russian soldiers call the Ger
man Kandstrum "Daddies" “because
they are mostly middle-aged burghers
of good-natured appearance. Th<
Daddies" are never brutal except in
the consumption of food and drink
A French corps commander says a
r ingle aeroplane is as valuable as a
i vision of cavalry in this war
The Paris Temps tried to publish
t e number of German prisoners iri
' ranee, and when the censor got
through this is the wa.v it appeared:
‘ i’he number of prisoners in France a
fi w days ago was blank plus blank
eluding German civilians interned,
r aking the minimum blank.”
Kittle children are t<> be seen in
many German towns pushing carts
i airing wounded soldiers out for an
n ring.
The favorite name in France for the
Germans is "Roches" pronounced
"bosh.1 There is doubt of its deriva
tion, but no doubt of its having a
pleasing sound to the French.
A number of persons who thought
political Influence in France had per
mits to motor to the neighborhood of
the bnttle line, told an inquiring staff
■ Iftcer they were there to see if they
1 "uld be of use to the Red Cross. The
surgeon to whom they were sent gave
them picks and spades and told them to
bury the dead horses. In a short time
the amateur "nurses" had disappeared.
A territorial reservists mobilized at
interior deports in France have receiv
■ d permission to work fifteen days
■ ■owing crops.
Kix soils of former presidents ol
T'ranee arc fighting in the French ar
mies.
The King of Saxony conferred on tin
Caiser the grand cross of the military
| ALASKA FEELS WAR
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Darling
Report Id Effects
Proof that the war ravaging Europe
lias an echo in remote parts of the
world is shown in its effect upon Nome
Aluska In this far northern town the
fur market is paralyzed and many
residents have left to enlist in the
armies of their native countries.
I Tills is the report of affairs brought
to Portland yesterday by Mr. and Mrs
C. F„ Darling, of Nome, who are an
their way to their winter home in
Berkeley, Cal.
Most prominent among the reservists
who have gone from Nome is Lord
William Percy, son of the Duke of
Northumberland. Up was in research
work in the Arctic region when word
of the war reached him. He immediate
ly made his way to Nome and there
offered the owners of amall boats ?6000
to take him to Seattle. They refused
because of the risk, and Lord Percy
was forced to wait until the regular
boat arrived. To Join the Grenadier
Guards, of width regiment he is art
officer, this nobleman made a journey
of more than 12.000 miles.
Though the gold output was greater
about Nome this year than it lias been
for many years past, and business
conditions are encouraging there for
this reason, the market for furs, Ivory
and whalebone has dropped out of
sight F.nglish and Russian capital
which has been backing the Alaskan
i trade with Siberia has been withdrawn.
| London. England, and Leipsig. Ger
many, the great fur markets of the
world, have .eased operations, leav
ing the traders in a precarious situa
1 Ron.
Mr Darling tells if one trader who
returned this year fr m the Arctic
with the accumulations of five years
in valuable skins, worth more than
$ltiu.iian. upon which be could not raise
la cent from the markets with which
he hud formerly dealt With this wealth
of furs, the trader finds bintself virtu
j ally penniless for the present. From
; London and Rerlin have come cables
to the effect that tliev will make no
i offer on the furs anil advance no
I money.
Nome has recovered entirely from the
great storm of last year which wiped
order "f st. Henry, and the Kaiser con
ferred on the King o' Saxony the first
and second class iron crosses
A wounded French soldier, who lay
for thirty-six hours in the mud, esti
mates 150,0(10 bullets whizzed over his
head before he was rescued.
The French Dancing -Master’s Acad
emy wants to suppress all German and
Austrian dances and revive tlit* lancers
and the ostendalse as substitutes.
Germany tias already lost more doc
tors in this war than in the whole wat
of 1870, when 66 were killed. To date
71 have been killed, 37 wounded, 13
missing. 8 have died and 3 have been
j captured.
In London thousands of imitation.1
of Germany’s Iron Cross are being sold
attached to n yellow ribbon, for c
penny each and attached to dogs, hor
ses and street urchins.
Hot chocelato, hot boef tea, maltac
milk and fraah ica cream and aadi
i water at the Roaa Candy 8tore.
out half the town, asseits Mr. Darling,
and 40 dredgers now are at work
if any man, hv training and hardi
hood, could wrest a living from the
Arctic snowfields. that man is Vil
hjnlmar Stefansson. said Mr. Darling,
but he declares that hope has practic
ally been given up of seeing the ex
plorer again, for the chances have been
too heavy against him
Mr. and Mrs. Darling left Xonie on
the last boat to come out this year.
There will tie no return steamer until
i after June 15, 1915. An incident of
1 their departure was the rough seas
which made it necessary to take on
the last group of passengers in a net. A
huge net swung from a crane was used,
and the last hoarders made a ludicrous
picture with their arms poking through
the large meshes.
Mrs. Darling is the owner of the fa -
mous dog teams that have won three
first prizes, three second prizes and one
third prize in the annual Nome tOS
mile race in 1909, 1011 and 1912 her
team won the first prizes, last year the
second prize, and will lie i strong con
tend! r for the first ptize next April. A
team of IS dogs will be used driven by
"Scotty” All* n Heavy prizes are of
fered f"C these races, the largest heir,;
$10,000 ill 1000, and the I* .west $1000
The race Is from Nome, on the Bering
Sea, to Candl**. or. th.- Arctic f ireafi.
arid return, a distance of I0X miles TO,
best time made on tin-rout,- is ?t hours
'rile dogs raised by Mrs Darling ar<
Siberian and Alaskan animals ’I’1!*
Siberians hate a strain f the i *v Ini’
the "Siberian wolfhounds" u, i pure
fabrication savs Mrs Darlllir TO*
other dogs are Alaskans, a breed with
the strain ,,f Hie setter crossed with
the "husky" of the McK* rtzie river
region, or "M.alamute" .,f the Coast r*
gton.
.Mr. and Mrs, Darling will remain at
the .Multnomah Hotel for several days
before proceeding south, ttregonian
The Nugget is giving its subset il.ers
more telegraph news than any ,11■ r
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ALASKA NOTES
(From Our Exchanges.!
Thomas Oorville, a British war vet
eran who was anxious to get into the
fighting zone without delay, left Daw
; son recently to walk from the Klondik
] to the front. lie did not have the
I price of a steamer fare from Dawson to
j Whitehorse. Failing to get it from
| anyone in Dawson he took a little hard
■ tack and hit the trail nut over the over
: land trail, 385 miles, for Whitehorse
Forville was in the South African cam
{ palgn for the T’nion Jack He was re
cently engaged at Foal creek as
miner.
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The need of immediate government
action In having the coast line of Al
aska wire-dragged and the dangerous
rocks charted was pointed out by Fapt
I' Johnson, master of tlie steamer Ex
cursion. which is now laid op at Jun
eau after a season’s work among the
j., nneries of the Northland, savs the
i Seattle P-I. “Although I have spent
seventeen years along the Alaska coast
i line and have learned of many itn- !
i charted rocks )>v brushing over them,
there are still hundreds of them that
no man knows of, anti a lifetime is too
short to search them out.”- said Fapt.
I Johnson. “As soon as a rock is noted
by some mariner the fact is reported to
the government liydropragh office ;,nd
bulletins giving the location of the
rocks by description are sent broad
cast, but this method is unreliable mid
uncertain. The only way to do is to
have all the rocks charted other
wise we shall continue to have sucli
wrecks as the State of California, Tn
lioma and Parnmlta. It will take years
to thoroughly wire drag the Alaskan
coast. There are so many nooks and
crannies in the hundreds of inlets that
it will he a tedious job. But it must
be done. The routes that are commonly
used are pretty well marked, hut if at
any time a ship should find it necessary
to get off the beaten path she must
take her own chances."
The many friends of A. A Tauheneck
the well known mining man, will ho
grieved to learn that he lias found it
necessary to undergo an operation and
has had his leg amputated above the
knee. II will lie remembered that Mr
Taunbenerk was associated with I'., v
Wiltse.v in developing mining property
in Eagluk hay and was also interested
in the Tieklndl district S.me line
ago he had the misfortune to injure his
limb but it was believed Ihat it would
eventually recover. The wound healed
but continued to cause him consider
able pain, and ii was in the hope nf
securing treatment that lie went mu -
side. Examination of the limb in V
ray developed the fat l that he vv is suf
fering from carnet and it was ne. es
snrv to remove Hie leg abov e the knee
His sister lias vvritlen his friends In
Valdez that he is getting along nicely
and hopes soon In he about "ti an arti
heal limb
VALDEZ. Tile Shamrock Mining
company claims in the Port Wells sec-I
linn are to lie opened and developed
this winter under ilm management of
Edwin Driest, the port Wells mining
Operator, Considerable work lias al
ready lie'-ii done on the property and
the owners feet confident that till
Shamrock group will lie uin- of the
biggest producers in the Port Wells
section. Materials for tin- buildings
needed on the claims has aireadv been
sent mi tile Admiral Watson on her
last trip and more supplies and ma
chinery vas deliv ered from tie Admiral
Matson I'p t.i ila- present the worlt
lias been lirgely surface work, hut this
winter the tunnels will lie driven t"
ascertain the depth of the veins which
on the surface extend for several hun
dred feet at d carry high values In fie.
miling gold mv
VALDEZ. And) ISergktnU has ar
rived from Tiekholl, bringing with him
some of the finest specimens of gold
bearing iiuat'lx ever seen here, lie is
interested with Harry Kitstgerald and
they believe they have property which
is worthy of development. The pro
perty was located three years ago hut
it was only recently that the main
ledge was encountered The locution
was made on the strength of a small;
stringer which showed good values
M'hile doing representation work dur
ing the past years a tunnel has been
encountered, they broke into a large
body of ore and investigation dev eloped
the fail that the stringer upon which
they hml been working was only an
offshoot of the lodge which outcrops
but had not ben found. The property
Is well located, being only four miles
from Ptarmigan Drop. Timber for
general purposes covers the ground and
mining timbers is in alum,Ian ,• about
a mile distant. Uergland is in town
to secure supplies, as they will spend
the winter developing the property
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