SOME RESULTS OF
A WATCHFUL WAITING
Captain Louis .1 Van Si hoick. riteda
• ■f honor Officer, who lias served foi
eleven years In the Philippines aiu
who has seen sonn real, simon p >t <
scrapping daring his time. is ,,ne of »h<
most friendly persons in the world lit
went down to the Mexican horder will
the Sixth Infantry last April, hut very
recently was transferred to Genera
Punston's expeditionary forces In Vera
Cruz and It yvas while he was on a
train between K! Paso and Galveston
to take transport at the latter point,
that he found out all about war.
The Captain was In civilian clothes
and shortly after the train left Kl Past
he strolled Into the smoking- compart
tnent of Ids car There was i lone
traveler in the compartment and the
Captain spoke pleasantly to hhn and
sat down.
‘‘Great war they're having in Knrope,"
remarked the stranger
"Yes. some war." replied Captain
Van Schiaek pleasantly.
"I've been following it pint tv close,"
said the stranger. "I ni interested in it
having been mixed up In a sort of a
way with the military."
"Yes'."* replied the Captain in ih<
vague manner of one who might or
might not-desire to pursue the cm
v ersation.
• “You bet," said the man "I'll tell
Vnu. friend, its them siege howitzers
«nd shrapnel guns that's doing all t tie
damage Now lake them shrapne'
guns; they shouldn't ought to lie used
at all.”
"Tell me about them, sum Copiant
Van rteluack.
"Well, you see it's this way. Them
shrupnel guns throws u sort ul a gas
The gas is sort til tixud up in shells
when lUo sitelis oust the gas kills
everybody tiuxt's around. It ain't right
<>r square, it seems to me. And them
siege guns ain't on llie level either.
i'lie Captain was beginning to gel
interested, lied learned more about
stirupnei utan tie itud iteai d ui before
and be thought ho might uceumuiutc
some mure knowledge. iiovv about
tlte siege guns." he asked.
"Them siege guns is u new mveu
Lon," stiid the war expert. Tlte Get
mans invented tnent anti they shoot
forty milts, throwing a bullet most ,
big us this cur. The bullet is full of
powder and when it hits something ii
explodes. That ain't square, because
ttie other people haven't got no gun
that shoots thnf far."
“Does that throw out gas too"" asked
Captain Van 'Sehiack
"Home does atld sunn doesn't," was
the reply. "Mostly its just powder, and
when one liits its good-night to most
anything.” .
1 should think it would he," said
Otipt tin Van Schim k. I he way
'•at said \aai wt'i'i', in a rin tsurr tniX'a
up in tlm aiinv. in what i ipariti. nia\
I isk 7"
"Win «aid t in* strauaot • I' .■ i.. ,.i
| (topping a Pnrlmr shop In MoUii n \ am]
I shavp a lot nf tlm First Cavalry lim s
Tliafs tin- wav I [in k up dl lids war
i «t uff."
I 1 imagine sou would yrl quitp a
I'""'1 dial 11 nit way." rnmarkpil tlm
Captain. “Hut spoukiupi nf mins havn
.von road about tlm mwv mm tin- Turks
ha\n Inypiitrd '"
"Xo." said tile man i,imrl.' "Toll
mo about it."
"Well.” said the I'aplain tin* up; 111 fully
1 'V *. i aurl nf an nutouiohilr aiiMluro
dirit a run d Miifniimliili you know
I'flmrn is a stprriun apparatus In.hind
it In front is a t'uniu'ii 11,.11 ran shoot
j til t > nr sixty times a minute am! the
automobile is full of an endless string
of cartridges.
“They see tie enemy a f» w miles
iv. :i\ arid crank up flic machine, it
hasn’t got any drivei you know Tin*
.steering apparatus does flu* work nf
the driver They start the automobile
K' ing toward tin enemy .lust as long
:is the automobile is running tin* gun
nli »ots and tiie automobile will run for
•
'•■iglit or ten hours. So for that length
"f linn- the automobile will chase the
• •horny all around, shooting at them
(lf'v times a minute It ought to kill
.pr lo.ooo nr 12.000 men in that time if
the steering apparatus js working all
right."
"Hol\ mackerel." said the Montere\
man. “war sure is terrible But sav.
how do they know how t<- steer that
automobile so that It will always chase
the enemv0"
“The front of the automobile Is mag
netlzed and the steel f the enemVs
rifles ami cannon and things attract
it" replied the Captain “The bigger
the army It’s < busing, tie* bigger the
itt motion Is."
■ «lee," said the Monterey man. "some
i lass t«* that machine Hay. you seem
t*» Know a whole lot about these here
military things yourself What might
y«air business he?"
“Me?" said Captain- Van S< hi n-k
win I’m i s<*rt of a waiter, V watch
fill waiter, you might call my job I
been working at that business it I*
Paso for some time and now Pm going
[down to Vera Cruz on the same sort
li.f a job. A good watchful waiter picks
jap a lot ..f military stuff tlies. da - «>n
ilie border line " Kx
(From c-ur Kxchanges. t
FORBIDS PRO GERMAN PAPERS.
dTToWA, 'ml Action lias been
token by tlie po\eminent in stop the
entry into t’amola of pro - < ferimtn
newspapers published in \e« Tork.
It. order m imini il ii lias been made a
criminal oft'eiise in eirniljte these
p. pers in 1'inails or lo ha\. ihem in
'one's possession.
FRANCE PLIGHTS FRIENDSHIP.
PARIS A seini-otlieial inmmiini
cniion .'innoniuinp the intention of ihe
government to participate in the I'ana
fJia-Parilii In!el liA111111 11 exposition
lust lltni tl:is countr.\ Ueipation
mill I"’ ait expression of the pood will ot
tile French Inwards tin- Prilled States
|anti that it is the desire el' France l'1
*\i i\v vet closer the bonds eont ■ ■-•t
ing the two great republics.
TWO GENERALS SUICIDE’
IT”IT'i iGRAI >. V dispatch fmiii
Warsaw to tho Rimsky Slov.i sacs 'la
thi man Generals. Voii Bredotv and
Yon Brornel committed suicide at
Czorislocho wa, Russian pi-land tl'i-i
a German defeat
CORPORAL HELD FOR TREASON
iiKlUcJEiit RG, unt Cori--i.il I'aul
Mazur of the Forty sixth regiment,
stationed at Full Hope, is under mill
Ini.\ arrest at Toronto, charged with
high treason. He is accused of at
tempting to help two Austrian re><t
vials to leave Canada.
ITALY SEIZES GERMAN GOODS.
FA BIN Tho Echo de Paris c-u re
spomieni at Bellinzona wiles that tiie
Italian governmcnl has seized a thou
san.I cars of merchandise destined for
Germany by way of Switzerland The
cars had accumulated in the interna
tionnl freight yard* nt Ltlitio. on Lake
Maggit'i e
100 TONS OF FLOUR.
Bread only So. North Pole Bakery
and Anvil Bakery.
WEATHER REPORT.
Nome, Alaska, March 3. 1915.
Temperature—Max. 21, Min. 8.
Barometer 29 73 inches.
\VVjt!h'*r Blear.
Wind X. S miles per hour, averag
2T« miles p- r hour
Pro ; • if ion —None.
V fter v *i hi-, e ieol thW potter pas
it «»fi to ''"Hie one else that is also in
teres ted in Alaska. V«>u will be doln
them a favor as Nome is destined to h
"tie of the larffe cities of Alaska
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UlRDSEYE VIEW OF NOME. THE FARTHEST NORTH AMERICAN CITY OF UNCLE SAM ON BERING SEA
gm In ordci to convince the public of Nome that the statements oi
live Nugget, as to the tourist question wore not mere v aporiugs, thro
W there would indeed l>e a serious attempt to divert to Alaska«a portion
- of that vast army of sightseers who will visit the Pacific Slope during
the coming summer, the Nugget lias taken special pains to ascertain
with certainty the full extent of tin- movement and also to learn tin
opinions of those best qualified to know as to its probable success.
That the statements published at intervals in the Nugget are not idle
buncombe, that it is an absolute and irrefutable fact that a most
tremendous movement with a backing which practically assures its
_j success, lias been started, and that, without a question of a doubt, a
vast number of sightseers will of \laska during
gk the coming reason, Is attested obtained by the
Nugget' tl< correspondent ns to secure onU
\ such data as was absolutely reliable and such opinions as were worthy
g of careful consideration
w g The following are the results of the Nugget s investigations
ml The Alaska and Pacific Coast Steamship t . . are both making
yA concerted efforts to increase thi .t only to Southeast
j ern Alaska but to Seward Peninsula as well
My! The Alaska Steamship Company lias already announced that
gk the Victoria will make special excursion irij fun - 28, inly 20. sailing
^ ^ to Nome direct ind returning ure and is offering
x greatly reduced rates for the r< uud try
g The Senator will 1 ial ip- but will < »tl« 1 spetaa
v A induetmept to those desiring the round trip to this seeiiou
lervth companies in addition to at -.paper campaign
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are maintaining booths and ms m itiou Inn> atis at tin '-an l ran
cisco and San Diego Exposition
All lines to Southeastern \lask i points are preparing mi a big
increase in summer travel, ami no already making arrangement-- to
handle it.
Mr. Harry Hr.unit, Cciicral Agent <>{ the Pacific t oast Mean:
ship Company , states that he expects a greatly increased (rathe \ 'a
the inside passage, down the Yukon .ml outside via Nome
Traffic Manager Zipf, of the White I’a-s. predicts utiprecedentc,
river travel during the sumnn r
E. C. McMikeu. acting San I’rauciseo agent ol the White IA
who will be remembered as an old Xomeite, states that the W 1 lit <
Pass promises through rate-, via Nome provided his company can
make the desired arrange' iciu v :th the new owners ot the -
Corwin,
The agents of all steamship companies handling V.esk.t : itl'n
assert that aiTangcments will In made whereby tourists \vd! i •
enabled to stop m Nome ft -*f to 30 hours at least.
Everett Clark. Assistant lA-scngcr Agent of the Musk.t Mean
ship Company says with enthusiasm that it "looks like a hatme,
year for Nome and lm company will cooperate with the Nugget in
boosting the tourist travel t Seward Peninsula.
Here is the evidence that .mid. level-headed business men. men
who calculate both words and actions, are not only confident that the
Northland will be an immense it11 action during the corning season,
but are also showing their faith W peitchne tarto Mini- in advertising
the attractions offered
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