OFFICER MISSED
HIS OWN FUNERAL
VICTORIA, B. C., June 2.—To few
men is given the privilege of being
absent at their own funeral, but such
is tho experience of Lieut. Grindell, a
Vancouver officer now at the front.
In a letter to a friend here he says
that he was reading in the inscrip
tions on the headstones of some brave
boys who had died for their country,
when he was surprised to see a neatly
lettered cross dedicated to ills mem
ory and marking a place where he
was supposed to rest.
"I got after the graves registration
committee,” he says, “and explained
to them that 1 was not dead. They
took a lot of convincing, but finally
were satisfied that I was very much
alive. I asked permission to take
my own property—my cross—as a
souvenir. They could not give me
any official permission to do so, but
intimated that if the cross was miss
ing they would make no inquiries.*'
Continuing, the lieutenant says he
has the cross with him and hopes to
get leave to go to England and so
send it home.
“I had been officially dead for 12
months and didn’t know it,” he con
cluded.
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AUTOMOBILE PARTY
FOR MISS TUCKER
A most enjoyable surprise was giv
en Miss Birdie Tucker, Monday even
ing while returning from the theatre,
this popular young lady was met by a
party of young folks who invited her
to go for a real joy ride. Auto rid
ing is becoming a popular pastime in
Ketchikan and this auto-party given
was a unique farewell to Miss Tucker,
who left on the Prince John Tuesday
a. m. for the states, where she is
shortly to be come a bride.
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BUSINESS MAN RETURNS
Mr. J. F. Capp, of the firm Capp
& Bold of the Electric Laundry, who
has beeii in the states for several
weeks on business, purchasing new
and modern machinery and also a de
livery auto for their place of busi
ness, returned this a. m. on the Al-ki,
well pleased with the result of his trip.
The work of getting everything in shape
and making the Electric Laundry
right up to the minute in modern im
provements and efficiency will now
soon be accomplished.
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Field, the Specialist has returned
from California and reopened again
at the old stand in the Red Men’s
Building next door to the Customs
house. adv.
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Men’s odd pants. Field's adv.
G-D corsets from $1.25 up, at Field’s :
Red Men’s Building. adv.
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WHERE MURDER
IS A PASTIME
(By S. G. Blythe.)
Two hundred thousand Mexicans
have been killed in battle or after be
ing made prisoners, or died from
wounds since the Madero revolution
began, in 1910. The best figures avail
able show murdered in that time by
Mexicans. No man can do more than
guess at the number of Mexicans
slaughtered officially—"executed" is
the term. Thousands of them have
been shot by Villa, by Carranza, by
the other chieftains. Moreover, Mexi
can women and children have been
killed by the thousand.
These stories—true and conserva
tive—that are told of the outrages by
these so-called patriots on their own
people, to say nothing of foreigners,
are incredible. The entire country
of Mexico has been brutalized. There
have been robbery, arson, loot, wan
worth of property, both foreign own
ed and owned by Mexicans. The place
is rapidly becoming a wilderness,
overrun by marauding blood-thirsty
bands.
Since I have been on the Mexican
border, and in such trips as I have
made into Mexico, I have heard the
most frightful stories of atrocities of
all kinds; and these stories are true.
They are not fakes for sensational
newspaper publication, but incidents
gravely described by honest, respect
able American citizens who them
selves have seen what they have re
lated. The reports in the various de
partments in Washington reek with
them. Murder, rapine, outrage, loot
ing, pillage, arson and destruction of
property are greater and more atro
cious than ever before occurred in
such a space of land in the history of
this continent. It is as unparalleled
as it is brutal. In five years Mexico
has come to be a territory where no
life is safe, where no property right
is sacred, where murder is a pastime.
Moreover, the country is bankrupt.
It has no financial resources nor any
real finance. Productive industry has
stopped. Agriculture, save in small
and isolated places, is abandoned. Ty
phus is epidemic in sections. The peo
ple are hungry. Mexico, as a funct
ioning nation, has practically ceased
to exist. It is merely a geographical
division overrun with bandits, some
of them called soldiers and some of
them robbers.
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Young men’s and boys’ suits, all ages
all prices at Field's adv.
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Arrow shirts and collars at Field's.
Sport coats at Field’s. adv.
Men's furnishing*goods and hats at
Field's. adv.
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* # *
Habit is the cement which holds the
links of matrimony together when the
ties of romance have crumbled.
* * *
When it comes to winning a battle
or a woman, a wise fool sometimes
rushes in and wins while a fool angel
is preparing to tread.
* * *
He hat telleth a secret unto a mar
ried man may prepare himself for a
lot of free advertising; for, lo, the con
jugal pillow is the root of all gossip.
* * *
It’s a strong heart that has no
turning—under a May moon.
* * *
Many a platonic friendship that
might have docked in the port of Mat
rimony has been wrecked by a storm
of sentiment tears.
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More than $1,000,000,000 was spent
last year by the American public for
tobacco.
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A baseball park caterer is the in
ventor of a liquid ham that can be
painted inside of a sandwich.
SURPRISE BIRTHDAY PARTY
The home of Mr. and Mrs. Dean 0.
Cannon, on Nob Hill, was the scene
of a merry party given in honor of
Miss Jessie’s birthday yesterday, by
I her parents. Twelve of her young
friends were invited to help celebrate
the festive occasion, all brought, gifts,
dear to a girl’s heart, and she was
showered with good wishes and made
much over by the girls with whom she
is great favorite. The afternoon was
gay with music, games, dancing and
an abundance of delicious refresh
ments. Concluding the festivities,
the young hostess took her company
to a performance at the Grand The
atre. Those who shared the pleasure
of the day were: the Misses Aileen
Spaeth, Margaret Bryant,Ethel Lead
better, Georgia Leadbetter, Laura
Wilson, Helen Kirschbaum, Mildred
Haber, Margaret Kusack, Thora Groot
Gladys Henrickson and Jessie Cannon
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DRINK HELPED THIS TIME.
They built the tire near my wagon
and wanted me to get out and stand
with them. Never again, I hope, shall
I preach anything as admitting of no
deviation. I am not one who cares
to drink or could ever see any excuse
for it. I have been one of those who
argued that in no instance was drink
ever a necessity. 1 have changed my
mind. I consider it a necessity at the
cholera barracks in Przemysl, or else
where. I consider it a boon to our
drivers. They had had nothing to
eat since the day before. They had
neither coffee, tea nor water. They
could obtain none. They were stiff
and cold. One had a large bottle with
water-like fluid.
He offered it to me first. He said:
“Schnapps! Good! Warm!” I tasted
it. A few drops was like fire in my
throat. But it left a warm streak as
it passed down. They all drank after
me—not much more. They all seem
ed content with one small swallow.
They plainly showed they were not
drinking for pleasure—only for sus
tenance.—Pittsburg Sun, February 5,
1915. (adv.)
FLAG IS BURNED IN MELTING
POT.
NEW YORK, June 5.—An Ameri
can flag and the colors of many other
nations burned tonight in a "melting
pot” suspended from a tripod in the
yard in the rear of Rev. Bouck White’s
Church of the Social Revolution. The
"ceremony” was conducted by Albert
Henkel, introduced as an "artist.”
After the colors had been destroyed,
Henkel unfurled the banner of "inter
national-industrialism.”
The flag burning was preceded by
services in the church at which one of
the speakers was the Rev. Mercer
Green Johnston, rector of Trinity Pro
testant Episcopal church at Newark,
N. J., who recently resigned because
he said, some of his vestrymen want
ed him to run his church “like a gro
cery store.”
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To enable a bachelor to thread a
needle a Chicago firm has published
an unexpurgated edition of the choic
est quotations of Uncle Joe Cannon.
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proxies with their own votes, or thir
teen out of fifty-six votes represented
in the convention from the Third. The
other forty-three stood as a unit.
If you will look over the records I
believe you will find that the Third
division is the only one that has been
consistently voting the Republican
ticket for the past eight years. Is
it the desire of the gentlemen who are
in control of Republican politics in
Alaska to see the party organization
destroyed and the vote from this di
vision reduced? If so, they have sure
ly taken the right course. Very truly,
G. C. HAZELET.'
HUGHES A "PIG IN A POKE.”
Who Knows What The Supreme Court
Justice Stands For?
We cannot bring ourselves to feel the
abounding enthusiasm for Mr. Hughes
that most Republicans seem to feel, or
tell ourselves they feel. We should
infinitely prefer not to take any
chances whatever at this time of all
times. Th e one choice lies between
Wilsonism and RooseveVtism, and it is
infinitely better not to make any ex
periments with vicarcious representa
tives. We all know Wilson and we all
know Roosevelt. If we don’t, like the
former, what sense is there in trying
out an unknown, who is widely sus
pected of being more than "a Wood
row Wilson in whiskers?"
Neither are we at all sure that the
nomination of Mr. Hughes is already
so unquestionable as to warrant mak
ing up one’s mind to it. The thing to
be remembered is that one wants a
candidate who can win. It may be
that Mr. Hughes could win—and one
might reason, from present indica
tions, that he could, but, after all, it
would be a plain case of buying a
“pig in a poke.” Suppose Mr. Hughes
turned out to be a pacificist or a pro
German? Do you know, yourself, for
sure that he is neither? How much
do you really know about him, any
how? His one stock in trade up to
date is that nobody knows anything
whatever about his views on any cur
rent public question of the first mag
nitude; and we should dread to say
that this seeming asset will not, in
due time, turn out to be a fatal liab
ility! This case is important enough
to the American people to demand ab
solute frankness and openness, and
an entire absence of doubt. Yet the
Hughes business depends on doubt
and assumption from top to bot
tom.
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REFLECTIONS OF A By Helen j
EACHELORGIRL Rowland
i.. .I
No, dearie, no man ever thinks be
forehand of the deep responsibilities
of marriage—and no sane girl will re
mind him of them until she has him
lashed to the hearthstone.
* * *
After a woman has lain awake half
the night in order to be able to call
her husband in time to catch his train
it’s rather hard to be hated for it just
like an alarm clock.
* * *
Oh, yes, every man has a high moral
standard—for his wife. Just think
how much more consciense stricken
Adam felt over the one little bite Eve
took of the apple than he did about
eating all the rest of it himself!
* * *
The only kind of love worth any
thing is the kind that you get for noth
ing.
* * *
Why is it that the moment a man
has finished one bottle of wine he
feels rich enough to order a lot more,
and the moment he has won the heart
of one woman he feels conceited en
ough to fancy he can win all the oht?
ers?
* * *
When a husband leaves a pretty
wife entirely to her own devices ev
enings she is bound to cultivate some
thing — nerves, debts, dogs, jealousy
or another man.
* * *
Alas! Tomorrow would be sweet
if only we could forget the foolish
-things we did yesterday.
Umbrellas and raincoats at Field’s.
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THE BIRTH OF ISLANDS
The first of the Bogoslof group of
the Aleutian islands was born 120
years ago. There was a great con- j
vulsion in the Bering sea, about 25 [
miles north of Unalaska, and an is- i
land appeared above the surface of j
the stormy waters. This islet, which 1
rase to a height of nearly 3000 feet!
above sea level, was christened Bo
goslof by the Russians, who then
owned Alaska. It remained solitary
and alone until 1882, when another
volcanic eruption in the sea was fol
lowed by the birth of another island
near the first. For two years the
new island was the scene of an active
eruption. Then it cooled gradually,
and, like the first islet became the
home of seals and sea lions and the
breeding grounds for sea birds. The
third of the Bogoslof group was born
10 years ago. The "baby” was smal
ler than its elder sisters, being about
a third of a mile in diameter and
with an altitude of some 600 feet, but
the following year another convulsion
of nature resulted in nearly doubling
its area. Since then several other
islands j)ave been born in various
parts of the Aleutian chain.
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KAISER ENJOYS HIS FIRST RIDE
IN STREET CAR.
LONDON, May 31. — The German
emperor today appeared in the role
of a street car passenger. lie board
ed a crowded street car and paid his
grosehen—ten pfennings—like, the
other passengers.
The emperor, with a small suite, ar
rived here this morning unheralded,
to visit the Schichau shipbuilding
yards. He walked to a car of the
bobtail variety and asked the motor
man “whether the car ran to the
Schichau yards. Receiving an affirm
ative answer, he caller out:
“All right, gentlemen, jump on.”
The emperor and the members of
his suite each dropped a grosehen in
the box, and when the trip ended the
emperor thanked the motorman for
his first experience in riding on a
street car, emphasizing his thanks
with a ten-mark piece.
The local authorities learned of the
emperor’s presence before the inspec
tion of the yards was concluded, and
automobiles were in readiness to take
the party to the station.
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When a man’s head is fired with
champaigne he can always fancy that
his heart is fired with love and that
this is what is making the world go
’round.
Suits ready made and made to or
der to fit anybodyand everybody at
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ADVERTISED LETTER LIST
of the Ketchikan, Alaska, Post Office,
For the week ending June 3, 1916.
Brodie, Charles.
Duran, Rosalie.
Hesse, Wm.
Marshall, Mrs. A. D.
Martni, S. K.
Parks, O. H.
Porter, Gen.
Ratckovitch, Pete.
Skotlieim, Capt. John.
Ulmer, Joe.
Walters, E. F.
Washburn, Mrs. Martha.
When calling for the above, say
“Advertised.” Parties claiming let
ters from the above list must pay a
fee of one cent for each letter claim
ed. All letters unclaimed by June
17, 1916 will be sent to the Dead
Letter Office, Washington, D. C.
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