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SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1915.
THE COLONEL'S ACUTE EAR.
Mr. Roosevelt is an astute politic
ian. The slight swelling of his right
ear is due to his keeping it tight to
the ground all the time. The earth
is his dictograph. Vox populi would
reach him through the subcellar of
the Tower of Silence. Therefore when
he reaches a conclusion on matters
political, presumably as the result of
reflection upon the recent election,
his opinion is entitled to considera
tion. In a letter to a friend in Ore
gon Mr. Roosevelt says that the pub
lic is tired of hearing of reformers
and of hearing from reformers.
-That may all be true. But Mr.
Roosevelt then goes a step further
and asserts that because of the wear
iness of the public on those questions
it therefore is especially tired of him.
Never! In the first place, Mr.
Roosevelt is not a reformer. He is
a disintegrator. When Mr. Roosevelt
has given his close personal attention
to anything it is as near being with
out form as can be and still survive.
Observe the Republican party just re
assembling its arms and legs and
opening one eye to note rapturously
the flying atoms of the Progressive
movement.—New York Herlad.
GRIEF.
In the dim past, where lurk the
shadows of the beginning, there fell
upon the back of a man a mantle.
And he stood in the forest bewilder
ed, whilst the little tree spirits
laughed at his perplexity. Then he
strained wide fingers, in his effort to
catch the mocking fairies. But his
fingers closed on nothing, and he
wondered. And man has been won
dering at Grief ever since.
We stand in the trampled snow and
see a friend lowered to his eternal
rest. We know that death has come
as a blessed relief to pain, yet wo,
with his sorrowing family, grieve.
Do we grieve because we have lost
him? If so, grief is selfish. We
mourn our loss.
Do we grieve because of his suffer
ings? His sufferings, we hope, are
ended. We cannot see his future.
Do we grieve because it seems the
proper thing to do? Then we do not
grieve at all
We go home through the pleasant
winter twilight, to our warm fire and
our happy folk, and leave our friend
in the chill of the graveyard. What
is grief? The mantle of us all.—Seat
tle Sun.
The fact that corporal punishment,
is discouraged in some public schools
is what led Harry’s teacher to ad
dress this note to the lad’s mothe'"
“I regret very much to have to in
form you that your son Harry idles
away his time, is disobedient, quar
relsome and disturbs the pupils who
are trying to study their lessons. He
needs a good whipping, and I strong
ly recommend that you give him one. ’
Whereupon Harry’s mother re
sponded as follows:
“Dear Miss Jones: “Lick him
yourself. I ain’t mad at him. Yours
truly, Mrs. Smith.”
A well-dressed, portly man stood
for several moments, watching the
brawny drayman laboriously tugging
at a heavily laden box, almost as
wide as the doorway, through which
he was trying to move it. Present
ly the kindly disposed onlooker ap
proached the perspiring drayman pa
tronizingly:
“Like to have a Tift?”
“Sure I would,” the other replied,
and for the next two minutes the two
men, on opposite sides of the box,
worked, lifted, puffed and wheezed,
but it did not move an inch. Finally
the portly man straightened up and
said, between puffs:
“I don’t believe we can get it out.”
“Get it out!” the drayman shouted.
“Why, you idiot, I’m trying to get it
in!”
According to head-line strategy, an
enemy is first crushed, then he is
completely surrounded, then his line
of retreat Is cut off, then his advance
is deflnite'y checked.
RUSSIAN ARMIES
INVAOINGNOLLAND
(Continued from page 1.)
which will be in a few days, as work
men from Germany came here to
complete the repairs.
500,000 Prisoner* of War In Germany.
BERLIN, Jan. 2.—The German war
office announces that 500,000 prison
ers of war are now held in Germany.
The greater majority of these are
Russians, the French coming second
and the British last in number of
men he'd. The prisoners are receiv
ing good treatment.
Allies Gain At Ypres.
PARIS, Jan. 2.—The Allies have
made further gains along the line in
West Flanders. All along the right
bank of the Ypres river the Allies
have advanced, taking the positions
held for a month by the Germans.
The greatest gains were made be
tween Nieuport on the coast and DL:
mude.
Heavy Fighting Along Aisne.
Along the Aisne river the fighting
has been desperate and the French
are attacking the German positions
east of Noyon with the object of
driving the Germans from Lion, whicn
they have held since the middle of
August.
Germans On Offensive In Argonne
District.
The German attack upon the French
positions in the Argonne district have
been successful and the French have
given some ground but in the St. Mi
hiel district decided gains are report
ed by the war office.
Liberia Aids Germany.
PARIS, Jan. 2.—For a considerable
period complaints have been circulat
ing in the Paris press regarding the
Germanophile tendencies of the Li
berian government. The Ecla'r to
day reprints from the Annales Colon
iales definite charges against the ne
gro republic.
Besides giving aid and information
to German cruisers, the Liberians, it
is stated, are now sending “armed
bauds which make incessant bloody
incursions into the territory of French
Guinea and the Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory
Coast.”)
German Fliers Interned.
LONDON, Jan. 2.—A Copenhagen
dispatch to the Exchange Telegrapn
Company reports that a German aero
plane has been stranded on the Dan-,
ish island of Fano, in the North Sea,
off the west coast of Jutland. The
aviators, an officer and a soldier, were
arrested and will be interned in Den
mark.
German Line Won't Sell.
LONDON, Jan. 2.—A Reuter dis
patch from Amsterdam says that the
Hamburg-American Line has issued
a statement that the company has no
intention of selling the ships of the
line which are tied up in American
ports as a result of the war.
Soon after the war started the pro
posal was advanced in this country
that Americans buy the German lin
ers interned in American ports by
the outbreak of hostilities and oper
ate them under the American flag.
Warned Not To Hoard Gold.
BERNE, Jan. 2.—The increase n
the Imperial Bank of Germany’s gold
stock from 1,253,001},000 marks
($313,250,000) since the beginning of
the war to 1,991,000,000 marks ($497,
750,000) shown in the last report of
the bank, is explained in German
newspapers as being due to repres
sive measures of the government
against trading in gold as a commod
ity at a premium, and to its continu
ous urging, especially among the
peasants, that citizens in the nation
al Interest give up their gold hoards
in exchange for notes.
In this the clergy, German news
papers say, have been especially help
ful. German officers and privates are
also said to have given up their gold
pocket money with which they start
ed for the fron*.
Old Treaty Barred Copper.
LONDON, Jan. 2.—It has been dis
covered here that copper, which is
the most disputed point in the con
troversy about the British interpre
tation of what is and what is not
contraband of war, was specifl ally
mentioned in the Anglo-American
treaty of 1794. In Article XVIII. of
that treaty there is a list of contra
band articles. Sheet copper is one
of them.
The copper which is now being
shipped is not sheet copper, which in
those days was used for shipbuild
ing, but is in other forms. The fact,
however, that copper was then con
sidered contraband la now regarded
as bearing on the present case. Eng
land declares copper absolutely con
traband, although it is now being
used for totally different purposes
than was the case when the ancient
treaty was made.
No Peace for Austria.
PETROGRAD, Jan. z2.—Rumors
which have been in circulation for
some time to the effect that Austria
was seeking to conclude a separate
peace agreement with Russia, without
the consent of Germany, meet with
emphatic denials in official circles
here. A person in a position to speak
authoritatively on this subject gave
two basic reasons why, in his opin
ion, such an agreement would be im
possible.
"The Dual Monarchy is bound to
Germany by indissoluble ties, and has
assumed such obligations that she is
helpless until released by Germany, ’
said this authority.
"Furthermore, the Russian attitude
as announced at the beginning of the
war was that all Slavs must be freed
from the German yoke. Therefore
Russia’s demands are such that if
the Dual Monarchy should accede to
them its action would be suic'dal.
Austria-Hungary’s consent to a separ
ate peace is not at all likely unfcl
she reaches the point of utter exhaus
tion.”
Government Has Paid Out That Sum
In Last Five Years—14,000 Em
ployees Met Accidents.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.—A total
of $1,803,923 has been paid out dur
ing the past five years to more than
14,000 of its employees who met with
accidents in the course of their em
ployment under the Federal Compen
sation act of 1908, according to a re
port today by the Bureau of Labor
statistics.
The act embraces at the present
time approximately 95,000 persons,
or somewhat less than one-fourth of
the civilian employees of the United
States. It covers artisans and labor
ers in manufacturing establishments,
arsenals, and navy yards, river and
harbor fortification work, all employ
ees under the Isthmian Canal Com
mission, the Bureau of Mines, the
lighthouse service and the forestry
service.
The total number of accidents re
ported in all departments during the
operation of the law was 42,290. Of
this number 1,006 were reported as
fatal. Approximately ten per cent,
of which were in occupations not
subject to compensation.
The total number of claims was
14,963, of which 14,046 were allow
ed, 911 were disallowed, and 6 were
not acted upo.n. Nearly one-half of
the accidents and of the compensa
tion paid refer to employees of the
Panama Canal The Navy department
ranked second in the amount of costs
To You All
This Is a Good Time to Extend Cordial Greetings
to Everybody:
We greet our friends, of course.
We greet our customers, who are our business friends.
We greet our business associates in other lines in this com
munity.
We greet our competitors and their customers.
We greet everybody:-even our enemies if we have any,
Or any who think they are.
We Wish You All a Happy New Year.
for compensation, the War depart
ment third, and the Interior depart
ment fourth.
Wise Guy—There are a lot of
things connected with this war that
don’t appear on the surface.
The Pool—Yes, I know—subma
rines.
O’Brien—Oi can say wan thing—
Oi’m a self-made man.
Casey—Is it boastin’ ye are or
apologizin’? >
UNITED STATES OP AMERICA, Ter
ritory of AlasKa, ss.:
I, Charles E. Davidson, Secretaiy
of the Territory of Alaska, do here
by certify that on this date there has
been filed in my office consent of
stockholders to dissolution of the
James E. Wilson Transportation
Company, a domestic corporation or
ganized under the laws of the Terri
tory of Alaska, and said corporation
is therefore dissolved.
In testimony whereof, I have here
unto set niy hand and affixed the
Great Seal of the Territory of Alas
ka, at Juneau, this 21st day of De
cember, 1914. (Seal.)
CHARLES E. DAVIDSON,
Secretary of Alaska.
Publications Jan. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30.
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S. S. Mariposa and S. S. Alameda sail from Seattle
the 1st, 8th, 16th and 24th
EVERY MONTH
From Valdez south -7th, 15th, 23rd and 30th for Cordova,
Juneau, Ketchikan and Seattle.
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Juneau, Sheep creek Treadwell, Douglas.
Cordova, Ellamar. Valdez and Latouche, Explosives, S S Seward. S S Seward. 5th*
S S Latouche. 15th: S S Cordova. 25th of each month—Right reserved to change this
schedule without notice.
F B. Tracy, Gen’l Agt- Valdez Dock Co., Local Agt.
Who’s Who In Europe’s War
Photo by American Press Association.
KINO PETEE of Beryls, the country which Is at war with Austria, be
came by the minder of King Alexander and Queen Drags. There
was so much mystery attached to this murder that he has art been re
ceived at any of the courts In Europe.
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WEATHER BULLETIN.
Valdez, Alaska, Jan. 2, 1915.
STATION Above Below Snow, In.
McCallum . 10 18 Clear, calm, trail
Hogan . 20 12 Cloudy, calm,
Gulkana, . 2 12 Clear, calm, trail
Copper Center .... 2 10 Cloudy, calm,
Tonsina . 0 20 Cloudy, calm,
Telkhell . 6 17 Cloudy,
Beaver Dam. 20 27 Cloudy.
Summit . 25 35 Cloudy, ort*. traU
Wortman’s . 19 22 Cloudy, calm, trail