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MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 1314.
GERMANS FORGOT HISTORY.
When the Germans started to over
run Belgium they apparently over
looked a pointer left to history by.
Julius Caesar. The first chapter of
• Caesar’s Commentaries on the Gallic
War begins thus:
"Gallia est omnis divisa in partes
ties, quarum unam incolunt Belgae,
aliam Aquitani, tartiam, qui ipsorum
lingua Celtae, nostri Galli appellan
tur. Hi omnes linguae, institutibus,
legibus inter se differunt. Horum
omnium fortissimi sunt Belgae-”
■ Which, being translated into the
English tongue, signifies:
"All Gaul is divided into three
parts, one of which the Belgae in
habit, another the Aquitani, the third,
those who in their own laungage are
called Celts but in ours are called
Gauls. All these differ among them
selves in their language, customs and
laws. Of all these the Belgae are
the bravest—”
THE FRUITS OF WAR.
The International Commission, ap
pointed by the Carnegie Endowment
to inquire into the causes and effects
of the Balkan war, has presented a
report from which we cull the follow
ing:
The Balkan states, immediately af
ter the war, took up the position of
conquerors: in Belgrade, in Athens
and in Sofia the sovereign and the
troops made triumphal entries.
Today the Balkan states are acting
as beggars. They are seeking to bor
row money to pay their debts and
build up again their military and pro
ductive forces.
Such is the result of war. Hun
dreds of thousands of deaths, sol
diers crippled, ruin, suffering, hatred
and, to crown all. misery and pov
erty after victory. War results in
destruction and poverty in every di
rection.
And it is one of these Balkan states
that is again forced into war for
the third time in two years. If the
war were to end tomorrow, the Bal
kans could not recover from its ef
fects for several generations.
CENSORSHIP IS HIGHLY IRRITAT
ING.
Suppression of news is one of the
things that are tolerated by free, civ
ilized peoples only In time of war.
Even then they recognize its neces
sity with unwillingness and doubt,
merely as a part of the general ab
normally of conditions which war
creates, feeling all the while that
they have a right to know promptly,
fully and accurately, what is going
on, since their own vital interests are
concerned, and suspecting all the
•while that the censorship is used
about as often to withhold informa
tion from themselves as from the
enemy.
These emotions are particularly
strong, of course, in journalistic cir
cles, and there they most often rise
to resentment, for newspapers value
enormously the hard-won privilege of
printing what they please—with full
responsibility for the consequences.
They would be less restive under re
straint if they could see in the work
of military censors more evidence of
wisdom, a more enlightened discre
tion—a sounder discrimination be
tween publicity safe and dangerous,
harmful and harmless. What they
do see Is a capricious and inexplic
able vacillation, one censor passing
what another stops, and all appar
ently as ready to let sensational im
aginings go through as they are alM
eager to stop correct information, i
The hostile army cannot thus be mis-;
led, but international animosities are
needlessly embittered.
One is tempted at times to believe ■
that the chief use of a censorship is !
to exaggerate, or allow to be exag
gerated, the importance of successes .
achieved and to conceal defeats or
reverses as long as possible. As an
illustration of the censor’s work we
printed yesterday the worthless rem
nant he had left of a dispatch about
the sinking of the Amphion. Why
he made us pay toll on that rem
nant is as hard to understand as why
he should have suppressed the de
tails of an event the main features
of which were known days ago.—
New York Times.
MASTERLY RETREAT
BY THE FRENCH:
(Continued from page 1.)
demand for men. ‘‘England is in i
grave danger,” said Lord Roberts, and •
the people have been sobered and
brought to realize the terrible dan
ger to Great Britain because of the
German victories in northern France
and the slowness of the Russian ad
vance.
Few British Lost In North Sea.
LONDON, Aug. 31.—The report is
sued by the admiralty today regard
ing the sea battle in the North Sea
in which the Germans lost eleven
warships, while the British loss was
two ships damaged, shows that twen
ty-nine members of the crews of the
British ships were killed and fifty in
jured. The loss to the Germans is
estimated at fully 6,000 men, as sev
eral of the ships were of the first
line of the Kaiser’s battlefleet.
Germans Avoid Sea Battle.
The German ships are avoiding the
English fleet, which has been striv
ing in every way to bring on a gen
eral engagement with the Germans so
that the North Sea may be freed of
the Kaiser’s ships and shipping re
sumed.
May Force Holland Into War.
Because of the general sympathy
of the Holland government with the
German government and the aid that
Holland is giving the Germans by al
lowing importation of food supplies
through Holland to Germany, the al
lied governments are preparing to
blockade the coast of Holland and
prevent supplies being taken into
Holland. If the threat is carried out
it is expected that Holland will throw
in with Germany, but the allies be- i
lieve that the blockading of the coast i
is worth more to them than the Butch j
army is to Germany.
Big Battle In Austria.
VIENNA, Aug. 31.—From the Vis- 1
tula river, near the border line of
Russia. Austria and Germany, ex- j
lending the entire distance across Ga- ■
lieia to the border of Roumania, the !
Russian and Austrian armies are 1
fighting today. The battle started
Saturday and has continued ever
since. The Austrians have 1,000,000
men on the battle line and are trying
to hold the Russians from crossing
the River Dniester.
Russians Have Secured Mucn Austri
an Territory.
The Russians have taken Lemberg,
the capital of the province of Galicia, |
and have fully half of the province, I
according to advices received here ■
from the front, but the Austrian j
army, while falling back, is reported
to have been inflicting heavy loss
es upon the Russians but are being
beaten down by superior numbers.
Russian Fighting a Surprise.
The method of fighting followed by
the Russians has been a surprise to
the Austrian and German armies, who
expected to meet the remnants of a
whipped and disorganized mob fol
lowing the unsuccessful war with Ja
pan, but the Slavs seem filled with
a determination to win and are fight
ing at close quarters, charging into
the fortifications, and while paying
a heavy price in lives have by the
very weight of numbers taken all the
forts in their path. They also show
splendid organization and are well
equipped.
Bring Food To Paris.
PARIS, Aug. 31.—Thousands of
sheep and thousands of cattle and
hogs have been driven into the city
STEAM HEATED
ROOMS
Newly Furnished
SENATE BUILDING
Over the Delmonico Grill
Enquire MRS. DOLPH SMITH.
Real Estate Bargains!
. . _ . “ * . . -
I will sell the following real estate for cash or on
reasonable terms:
Two lots corner Hobart and Dewey streets .... $150
One parcel 80x140 feet fronting on Gty Dock . . $250
Two lots on Alaska Ave. in Von Gunther add—each $350
Three lots on Nizina Ave. in Von Gunther add—each $300
One lot, with 5-room residence on same, corner of
Sherman and Alaska Ave.. . $1,200
This list contains some of the very best business loca
tions and residence lots in Valdez-and every lot is offered
at a price below its intrinsic value. S. A. HEMPLE.
and are being pastured on the lawns
in the city parks. The cold storage
plants of the city are filled to over
flowing by the government; great
graneries have been loaded to capac
ity by the authorities and food in
cans, dried fruits and every available
stock of groceries in the city has
been taken over by the government
for the army.
Organize Soup Kitchens.
The government is also supplying
the people and the poor are being
fed by the police at soup kitchens.
Paris Must Hold Out.
The people are preparing to hold
lhe city against any attack by the
Germans and the garrison is being
doubled with troops from the south,
! while 300,000 men have been sent
north to help the allies delay the
I German advance on the capital.
MIS CREWS
ARE LAID DEE
The work at the Midas mine, own
ed by the Granby Consolidated Min
ing Company, has been stopped for
the present because of the war in
Europe, which has stopped the ex
portation of copper. The property
was being opened and prepared for
shipping and the necessary prelimi
nary work has almost been completed
and mining operations were about to
be carried forward on a large scale
when the war broke out. Many of
the men came across the bay today
and were paid off.
Weather Report.
Valdez, August 30, 1914.
.Barometric pressure .29,731
Temperature at 7 p. m. 42
Maximum temperature . 50
Minimum temperature . 42
.Mean temperature .. ... 46
■precipitation .*.82
Cloudy, calm, wind southwest four
miles. Rained at night and all day.
Nubone Corsets.
Try Mrs. St. Marie’s for one of
those Nubone corsets. tf
Wood for Sale.
Sixteen-inch slab wood for 85.50 a
cord at the Copper River Lumber Co.
Launch for Sale.
For sale for cash, the launch Ne
bula, enquire of C. E. Bunnell or A.
J. Wendler, administrator of the es
tate of D. H. Sleem. tf
Shooting Gallery Open.
The Valdez Shooting Gallery is op
en. Try your eye; test your nerve.
Fine targets. McKinley street, neat
nick’s Place. tf
Stockholders Meeting.
The annual stockholders meeting of
the Black Diamond Gold Mining Com
pany (as adjourned) is called to meet
at the office of the company in Val
dez, Alaska, on September 15th, 1914,
at 8 o’clock p. m., at which meeting
a board of irector* will be elected
for tne ensuing year and other busi
ness of importance will come before
the meeting.
By order of the president,
k Sept. 1 GEO. J. LOVE, Secretary.
Stockholders Meeting.
The annual stockholders meeting of
the Granite Gold Mining Company
will be held at the office of the com
pany at Valdez, Alaska, on the 12th
day of October, 1914, at the hour of
2:00 p. m., at which meeting a board
of live directors will be elected for
the ensuing year and such other bus
iness will be transacted as may
properlv come before said meeting.
B. F, MILLARD, President.
Notice of Hearing of Final Account.
In the Commissioner’s Court for the
Territory of Alaska, Third Division.
—In Probate.
In the matter of the estate of Tom
Toolson, deceased.—Notice of Hear
ing of Final Account.
Notice is hereby given that Anton
Carlson, administrator of the estate
of Tom Toolson, deceased, has ren
dered and presented for settlement
and filed his final account and re
port of his administration of said es
tate, and that Thursday, the 1st day
of October, 1914, at the hour of two
o’clock p. m. on said day, in the of
fice of the commissioner and ex of
ficio Probate Judge, at Valdez, Alas
ka, has been by order of said court
appointed as the time and place of
the settlement of said final account
and report, at which time any and
all persons interested in said estate
may Appear and file objections or
otherwise except to the approval of
said final account and report.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this 30th
day of July, 1914.
ANTON CARLSON,
| Administrator of the Estate of Tom
! Toolson, deceased.
I Date of publication July 30, Aug.
I 6, 13, 20, 27, 31.
Notice of Forfeiture
I To Henry Seymour and Thomas
Lynch, their heirs, administrators,
and to all who it may concern:
You are hereby notified that I have
expended $300.00 on the Association
claim No. 1, Association cl»im No. 2
and Association claim No. 3, located
on the Chistochina river at the mouth
of Slate creek, in the Copper Center
recording precinct. Territory of Alas
ka, the location certificates of said
claims being of record in the U. S.
commissioner’s office at Copper Cen
ter, Alaska. Said expenditure was
made in order to hold said claims un
der the provisions of the laws of the
United States and of this territory,
and was made in the year 1913.
And if you fail or refuse to pay
your proportion ($100.00 each) with
in 90 days after the completion of
the publication of this notice your
interest in said claims will become
the property of the undersigned, your
co-owner, under Section 2324, Re
vised Stautes of the United States.
W. It. MORTON.
First publication June 18, 1914.
Last publication September 18,1914.
School Days!
Will soon be here again and
your boy or girl will need
some School Shoes. Well, this
is the place to get them. A
large assortment of styles to
choose from.
Boy's Suits, $4.00 to $8.00.
PROFESSIONAL
Dr. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate of National University
Washington, D. C.
DENTIST
in both companies Fourteen years in
Office Rooms over VALDEZ
Valdez Druif Co.
DR. GERMAN
Phone 19 THE DENTIST
Office rooms over O'vl Dm* store Office hoars
9 a. m.. to 6 p. in.. 7 p. m..to9 p. m. Sundays
by appointment All work guaranteed
DR. M. o.;adams
DENTIST
Office on Wall St. next Prospector office
Valdez, Alaska.
New Company's!Phone No. 59
HOURS—9 to 12 a. m.; 1 to 6 and 7 to 9 p. m.
DR. C. H. VANCE
the OSTEOPATH
Graduate American School of
Osteopathy* Kikrsville. Mo.
OFFICE HOURS-** to 12 1 to 5 p. «n.. or by
appoiataMat.
TREATMENT' $2.50
Office and Residence Court St. PHONE 293
E. E. RITCHIE
L A \V Y E R
PHONE 136 Valdez, Alawka
C. E. BUNNELL
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Offices Wall Street
Phone 3t VALDEZ
DONOHOE> DIMOND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Office Opposite Court House
Phone 34 Valdez, Alaska
A. C. BALDWIN
Civil Engineer and
U. S. Deputy Land
and Mineral Surveyor.
Fonuriy Surrey or >lnh B«udtry Baiul
Valdez, Alaska. F. 0. SOX ZT4
Steam Heat Electric Light.
THE COPPER BLOCK
Finely Furnished Rooms All Modern Conveniences
;.7t THE BUFFET
Copper River Lumber Co., Inc.
ALL KINDS OP
Native and I I TIMDCD and Bui,din*
Puget Sound JLiJlVlOlliIx Material
CONSTANTLY ON HAND
Prices Right W. M. FINICAL, Mgr. Phone 18
Patronize a Home Industry
F. BUTTERWORTH
Civil Engineer and
U. S. Deputy Land and
Mineral Surveyor
Blue Printing Valdez, Alaska.
STANTON STAGE LINE
Carrying U. S. Mail, Pas
sengers, Freight, Express
from Valdez to Gulkana.
Leaves Valdes 1st and 15th ol each month
For rates see Valdez Transfer Co. Phone 60
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