Miners & Merchants Bank
IDITAROD, ALASKA
Capital, $50,000.00
Genera! Banking Business Transacted Gold Dust Bought and Assayed
Drafts issued on Any Part of the World
SEATTLE CORRESPONDENT: SCANDINAVIAN AMERICAN BANK
OFFICERS:
CHARLES ROSS. President
JOHN HOLMES, Vice President
R. C. BUTTON, Cashier
| MERCHANTS CAFE j
5 Catersjo Larg,e and Small Parties
8 PRIVATE DINING ROOMS j
8 Popular Prices _Everything First Glass*
5 HERBERT E. RILEY, PROP. j
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(Ruby Record r.iii/en. '<pP'mber 2-'
Moose Lodge Is Instituted
I...dev N<». I S2s of f!h' I oval order of
;.!oo>o was m>tituP-d .it i ■ ; , September 17
in Howard Haims, deputy national organ
i/. ■ \ i.iru,. mimber P- k advantage of
tins opportunity t" .loin Hie Moo-e and J
Tin following oiilcefi were eierted and will
be installed to morrow evening: Charles
iloxie. ilictator; George .Ies-e. viee dictator;
\111 n llaI’b'•. past dictator; Everett lit/
w.ipt. ~e ;. ».u \ . Andy Rcrkwith. tr*-a>
H'M-i Walker, prelate; Nick IVterson.
vei -. nnt .it ai ms; Nick Imho mh. mn. r
i-OToC > W. Major, outer guard; Ale\ N .
I a: - ii. \rvail Kells. John liidlund. trust--. -
Eagles in New Home
1 a-t Tlmr.-day night the Eagles held their ,
jp-t meefing at their new home, the old |
\ ■ l.iu hall, wh. il will be known lienee
: .n!i i- the Eagle hall.
i :i. hull has been repapered, gasoline
Inin- installed, ante-rooms added, and
«thing so ordered and adjusted a> to
u.ake a suitable h.me for the aerie.
i iie charter was received by the last
: C and was appropriately pre-ented to
\- ie No. 2-17 b\ past Worthy President
i - oke Hill.
; ho a.-rie decided to hold a hoi:-.- warm
II _ rii;ir"day evening, October 1. All
I agles and friends are invited to attend. (
file d* tads of the affair were left to the
• :ainmeiit e.,minittee. consisting of
i ;-k F. -!i -p. hr. Charles h. -.trier and'
Oli-.t-r And- n. and it is ncedlc.-s to say
iii.it .: wall a :b.rd an enjoyable tunc.
“I i me and bi n;- yuiir friends’ will be the
-h iran f i a- ;, d in at Ruby next week.
Ruby Merchant Married
At 7 -lock last Monday evening, at the;
re- .ieu-v i' the bride’s par- ills. Mr. \rmilll
iI.lai v- ■ i and Miss .Margai'd Sir'-up were ;
Uii.i.-d ra marriage. The bridesmaid was .
Mi - Rernail.-tte Stroup, sister of the bride. .
and \ ;*11« • ■ R. Mrlmnald was best man. Rev. .
1 ath-a- hesjai'dins performed the ceremony, i
Incorporation Again Defeated
fly a very decisive Vote last Tuesday the
citizens of Ruby declared against ineor
f-oration at tills tun-'. fins is the second
[ini'* incorporation has failed to carry, the
other instance being >n March is. mi a.
If tins is the will of the majority and it
ii j- up t » those who favored incor
poration to smile and bow pleasantly to
the logic expressed by the ballot.
Good Season at Ophir
A. A. Norton, Antone Stament and Fred
Chan-on. old-timers in the ophir '‘amp.
rune across via Cripple and arrived here
Hi - first of the week. They report a good
„ ;[m,h in the ophir camp. The most sur
pr -mg development is the very rich pay
r unit on United States Commissioner \\.
\ null's ground on Spruce creek. It will
so, better than 2"> cents to the pan in
tor* e feet of gravel on bedrock. For the
Ii-' ;w" vears tailings have been dumped
, u what is proving to he the richest ground
<■. er struck in that district.
Candle creek, on the Takotna side, is
-nil v....d. and there will be considerable
1.e-..-peeling m that section the coming ma
s*-n.
Ahow! three hundred men will winter in
the Ophir and Takotna districts.
Thank the Grand Jury
Dr. H. J. MrCallmn arrived on the Delta
Thursday morning and will remain with
ri„ this winded. Dr. VrCallum has prar
tiT-eil his profession m I airbanks for years.
I!e made a visit i" Hi*- slates, returning
last spring.
Ruby Camp Produces $1,900 Gold Nugget
\ rumor published last week to the eT
fe -t that a big nugget had been picked up
at tlie workings or lutz & Co. has been
more than verified, as The nugget is worth
skiu more than rumor gate it credit for.
The value of the nugget is $1,900. Two
others were picked up near where the big
fellow was found, with values of $400 and
$3U0 respectively.
Pit/. A Co. are now in the best pay
hoisted by them this season.
Basil Likes Excitement
Basil Clemons. Ruby's old-time photog
rapher, returned from Iditarod on the
Washburn this morning. Mr. Clemons left
here last slicing to spend the summer In
the Iditarod district, but a winter there
did not look inviting to him.
Charles Hoxie, jr., and James Hoxie, sons
Of Charles Hoxie of Long, were passengers
for this place on the Delta Wednesday.
They were met by their rather. They left
for Long on Thursday, and will remain in
the ramp this winter.
Owen Maylin. the old-timer who lert
here about August 19, bound for the Out
-,,le. died at Whitehorse on Ins way out.
Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Nyholm have rented
the old Vancouver rooming house at Daw
sun.
Knute Hapen is bark from Iditarod. He
reports business very quiet in that ramp.
Ho intend,, to remain in Hub> district
this winter.
By Their Works Ye Shall Know Them
HAMILTON‘""HOWARD
WATCHES
The Railroad Timekeepers of America
SOLD ONLY
AT FIXED SELLING PRICE
Extra Thin Models In Solid
GOLD CASES
FROM $55.00 TO $125.00
IVORY-NUGGET JEWELRY
Wm. Taylor, Flat
JOE HONDA TELLS
OF JAP-RUSS WAR
Oct. 7th. 1914.
Otter Creek.
Editor Pioneer:
Dear Sir: Severn! persons ask for ques
tion. Russian and Japanese War Time. 1
write short Line send for Pioneer your
on correct and to publish your paper.
Your truly.
JOS. N. HONDA.
RETROSPECT OF THE WAR BETWEEN
RUSSIA AND JAPAN
(Appearance Season War to Collate)
By Jos. N. Honda.
Principal Land Battles of the War
First army 1st division Yalu May 1st.
1904. Japanese 50.000, Russian 25,000.
Killed and wounded, SOU Japanese and
about 2.500 Russians. Japanese capture 2S
Russian guns.
2nd 3rd 4th armies Kinchau and Nanshan
hill may 26th 1904. Japanese 40.000, Rus
sians 20,000. Killed and wounded, 4.204
Japanese and about 1.500 Russians. Jap
anese capture 7S guns.
2nd army Teli.~sa 200 miles Back port
arthur June 14th 1904. Japanese 40,000.
Russians 28.000. Killed and wounded. 1,000
Japanese and 3.413 Russians. Japanese cap
tured 14 Rapid lire guns.
Liaoyang august 24th to Sept. 4th 1904.
Japanese 240.000. Russians 200,000. KiTod
and wounded, Japanese 17,539, Russians
20,000.
Sept. 15th to Oct. 6-171h 1904. Japa
nese 250.000. Russians 280.000. Killed and
wounded, Japanese 15,879. Russian, 67.868.
Siege of port-arthur may 26th 1904.
January 1st 1905 nansan hill 3rd Divi
sion. Prisoners surrendered 32,207 and 15.
000 invalids.
Battle mukden. This is great Battle of
Japanese and Russians, on February 22nd
March 10th 1905. Japanese army 400,000,
Russian army 350.000. Killed and wounded
Russians 136.500. Japanese, 41,000. Rus
si an prisoners 40,000.
Principal Russian General Alexieff. Gen
eral Stoessel, General Kuropatkin, General
Linovitch. Principal Japanese General
Oyama, General Nagi, General Oku, General
Kuroki. General Notzu.
The Battle of The Sea Japan
Jan. 1st 1905 Fall of port arthur
Augst 10th 1904 naval Battle at port
arthur.
May 15th Yoshino sunk in collision.
May 15th II at use sunk by mine.
April 13th sinking of petropolitsk.
Feb. 24th first attempt at Buttling har
bor with hulks.
Feb. 8th attack on Russian fleet.
On May 27th 1905 The Russian Baltic
fleet of eight Battleships, three coast de
fense vessels, three armored cruisers, six
prodicter cruiser, nine torpedo boat destroy
ers and seven other Vessels, under Vice Ad
miral Rojentvensky, entered the Korea
straits, there it was attacked by admiral
Togo with five Battle ship, nine armored
cruisers, about fifteen protected cruisers,
and a squadron of Torpedo craft, probly
seventy or eighty in all. The only Vessels
that escaped were one cruiser and one de
stroyer that Reached Vladivostok. Three
cruiser interned at Manila and one destroyer
internad at shanghai. Six Battleships were
sunk and two captured and all the armored
cruiser were sunk and all the coast defense
ship sunk or captured.
TRIPLE TRAGEDY ENACTED
IN TOWN OF DOUGLAS
Douglas, Alaska. Sept. 7.—Shortly after
10 o’clock last night one of the most shock
ing tragedies that has ever occurred in
Southeastern Alaska took place in the In
dian village on the beach below St. Ann’s
hospital, and as a result three persons, E. E
Senecal, Lucy Shellhouse and Ed Hun
occurred on the walk just outside the res
sacker, are dead.
The shooting of Senecal and the womar
! taurant owned by W. B. Charlie, and the
suicide of their slayer took place about foui
hours later in his cabin, next door to th<
store conducted by Michael George & Sons
"CHARL" AND ‘’MAW” EN ROUTE
C. E. Miller and Mrs. Miller of Iditaroc
arrived in Juneau on the Jefferson and an
visiting Juneau for a few days before pro
ceeding to the States. While here ther
| are guests at the Bergman. They conn
direct from the Iditarod. Mr. Miller is om
of the real old-timers, having gone to Daw
6on in the palmy days, where he engager
in business. When Iditarod was young hi
went there and established the Merchant
cafe, which he conducted until a few day
before leaving on the present journey.
Juneau Empire, September 10.
Black Cod, 35c pound.
Iditarod Meat Co.
JUDGE F. E. FULLER’S DECISION
IN CASE OF ADAMS VS. Y.G.CO.
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The decision of Judge Fuller in the ease
of S. ('. Adams, plaintiff, vs. the Yukon
Gold Company et ah. defendants, was re
ceived in the last mail by Attorney E. M.
i Stanton, one of the counsel for defendants,
i It is as follows:
"This action was tried before the court,
without a jury, at the special July, 1914,
term at Iditarod, and decision reserved.
"The plaintiff in his complaint alleges
that he is the owner of the Anaconda Frac
tion placer mining claim, 120 feet in width
by 2,040 feet in length; and of the Ana
conda Fraction No. 2 placer mining claim,
125 feet in width and 5,280 feet in length,
the latter claim including within its boun
daries the former.
"The answering defendants set up that
the defendant Yukon Gold Company is the
lessee in possession, and owner of an un
divided part of the Prospector Association
placer mining claim, and the other defend
ants allege that they are the owners of un
divided parts of this claim, and the lessors
of the Yukon Gold Company, and that the
ground claimed by the plaintiff is within
the boundaries of the Prospector claim.
"The plaintiff’s evidence tended to show
that on May 23. 1911, he placed stakes at
the corners of the Anaconda Fraction claim,
and blazed trees along the boundaries
thereof, and that prior thereto he had dis
covered goldbearing gravel along Flat creek,
which runs through this location, and within
the boundaries of this location; that sub
sequently he placed stakes at the corners,
and blazed trees along the boundaries, of
the Anaconda Fraction No. 2, which in
| eluded the claim theretofore located as the
Anaconda, but was five feet wider and 2,640
feet longer. Plaintiff also testified that he
did more than 8100 worth of work on the
ground during 1912, and also did some work
in 1913.
the Prospector Association claim, to
which the defendants assert title, was lo
cale,! in April. 1909, by eight persons, and,
as described in the location notice, was 1,320
feet in width by 5.280 feet in length, and
contained ICO acres, but it was conceded
that as marked upon the ground the claim
contained about 177 acres, or more than
j seventeen acres in excess of the amount
allowed by law to be located.
“The plaintiff became aware of this ex
I cess, and notified some of the locators of
the Prospector thereof, and it seems that
he was informed by them that in case there
was any excess they were willing that he
should locate the same wherever he de
sired leaving them a claim 1.320 feet by
5,280 feet. Some of the owners of the
Prospector were not within the vicinity,
nor known to the plaintiff, and their per
misson to locate any excess was never ob
tained, nor does it appear that they had
knowledge thereof prior to the commence
ment of this action. The defendants con
tended that as against the owners of the
Prospector having no knowledge of any
excessive location the plaintiff could ac
j quire no rights by his attempted location,
• inasmuch as they were simply tenants in
j common of the land, and that one co-tenant
j could not release any rights of his co-tenant,
j or convey any of his interests, without the
j authority so to do. In the winter of 1914,
[ some months after the institution of this
i action, the defendant, A ukon Gold Com
pany, caused a survey to b? made of the
Prospector claim, and then established a
new boundary at the lower end thereof,
throwing off the excess of over seventeen
acres, but leaving the other boundaries un
disturbed, and including within such boun
daries all of the ground located by the
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Trail Victim Shot From Behind
I)r. C. A. Winans returned to Valdez from I
Tazlina recently, where he went to make
an examinaton of the body of John Smith,
found on August 13 near the foot of the
Tazlina hid, on the government road to
Fairbanks. Smith had been shot through
| the head from behind, the bullet coming
out through the forehead. The body had
evidently been dragged from the road about
t fifty feet, into the brush and covered with
sod and brush. Death had been instanta
neous. Smith was an Austrian, and was on
his way from Fairbanks to the coast when
shot down. As far as the authorities know
: he was traveling alone when killed.
Democratic Nominations in First District
The followng candidates will stand for
election to the territorial legislature from
the First division of Alaska on the Demo
cratic ticket : For senator, N. J. Svindseth
cf Wrangell; for representatives, George F.
F’orrest of Juneau; Charles M. McGrath of
Sitka, C. F. Cheek of Juneau and R. L.
Petty of Ketchikan.
Immense Ledges of Low-Grade Ore
Two prospectors arrived in Seward on
September 10 from Broad pass, where, they
report, they struck immense ledges of low
grade free-milling ore, assays from which
j run all the way from $15 to $250 per ton.
Seven Canneries Indicted
Seven corporations engaged in the fishing
industry appeared in court this morning to
answer to indictments charging unlawful
fishing or of operating unlawful contriv
ances for the taking of fish, says the Juneau
Empire of September 14. In one instance
individuals as well as the corporation are
indicted. The corporations concerned are
the Glacier Fish Company, Taku Canning
and Cold Storage Company, Astoria & Puget
Sound Canning Company, Pure Food Fish
Company, Pacific American Fisheries Com
pany, Tee Harbor Packing Company,
and the Thlinget Packing Company. All of
the defendant corporations except the Pure
Food Fish Company are indicted for main
taining traps alleged not to be constructed
so as to allow of the full width required
by law for the passage of fish through the
traps during the closed season each week,
from 6 o’clock Saturday night until 6
o’clock Monday morning. The Pure Food
Fish Company is indicted for unlawful fish
: ing with purse seines.
Nome People Condemn Bills
At a mass meeting held September 14
in the town hall at Nome, former Mayor
William A. Gilmore and Hugh O’Neill made
speeches condemning the Johnson bill, now
plaintiff, except the small strip running
across the ground so abandoned.
"The defendants urged that the plaintiff’s
locations were entirely vodi, because not
made in conformity with Section 2331 of
the Revised Statutes, requiring claims made
upon unsurveyed lands to conform 'as near
as practicable with the United States sys
tem of public land surveys, and the rec
tangular subdivisions of such surveys.’
“Shoestring" Locations Invalid
“If the decisions of the land office and
its regulations are to be followed, defend
ants’ contention must be sustained. For
following the decision re Snowflake Placer
(37 L. D. 2501, the rule has been adopted
that a claim located by one or two per
sons must be such as can be entirely in
cluded within a square forty-acre tract; in
other words, that it must not exceed 1,320
feet in length. Undoubtedly the plaintiff
could not obtain a patent to his claim in the
form in which it was located. While the
courts may not be required to follow this
rule rigidly, and undoubtedly should give
some effect to the words of the statute, ‘as
near as practicable,’ I am satisfied that it is
incumbent upon a person making a loca
tion which does not conform to the rule to
establish by evidence the impracticability
of conforming thereto. In other words, he
must show by evidence that on account of
the situation of the land and the area that
is open for location, it is impracticable to
locate a tract in such form as is required
by the rule of the land office in segregating
a piece of land adapted to ordinary mining
purposes. This the plaintiff seems to me
to have failed to establish in this ease. From
the situation of the land it is not apparent
that he could not have located his claim
in a more compact form, and a location the
length of which is more than twenty times
its width does not seem to me reasonably
to comply with the law. Although various
decisions of the land office hold ‘shoestring’
locations invalid, the courts do not seem
to have gone to that length ; but the cir
cuit court of appeals for tf is cricuit seems
to intimate that the construction of the
law adopted by the land of05-'- » proper
one for tho courts to folio'- (Hanson VS.
Craig, 170 Fed. 62.)
•'This conclusion maxes n unnecessary iu
consider whether or not the plaintiff could
have made any valid location within the
boundaries of the Prospector claim as origi
nally staked, under the permission he had
from a part of the owners, and without the
knowledge or consent of all, within the
rules laid down in Zimmerman vs. Fun
chion (161 Fed. 859), Jones vs. Wild Goose
M. & T. Co. (177 Fed. 95), Price vs. Mc
Intosh (121 Fed. 716), Sharkey vs. Can-'
diani (48 Ore. 112), 85 Pac. 219; 7 L. R. A.
(n. s.) 791).
“Findings of fact in conformity with
these views, and a decree dismissing the
action, may be prepared and submitted. On
account of the distance from place of trial
at which the attorneys for the parties herein
reside, defendants may have sixty days to
prepare, serve and file the r findings, and
the plaintiff may have sixty days after serv
ice thereof within which to prepare and file
and preposed amendments and objections.
“Bated at Fairbanks, Alaska. September
18, 1914. F. E. FULLER,
“District Judge.”
Case Will Se Appealed
Sam Adams, who was in the city fluring
the early pari of the present week, states
that an appeal will be taken from the de
cision of Judge Fuller.
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pending in congress, making unnecessary
ihe performance of assessment work on min
ing claims upon which patents have not
been issued. They also condemned the
Wicker.--ham administrative commission plan
of government for Alaska, declaring that it
would not give the people a voice in gov
erning their owrn affairs.
Bear Caught in Fish TraD
That a big brown bear was recently
caught in a fish trap at West Pont is the
strange story brought to Seward by J. C.
Tolman. who returned to that city recently.
Mr. Tolman says that there are lots of
moose down the Kenai river and lots of
bear on the Alaska peninsula this year. The
bear that got caught in the trap was shot
by the owners of the trap, Berg and Wick.
He was tearing the whole thing to pieces.
Mr. Tolman says that everything that could
not fly has been caught in that same trap.
Even seals have fallen victims to it.
Death of Henry Bratnober
Henry Bratnober, the noted mining engi
neer and Alaska operator, died at Liver
more, Cal., on September 14.
Victim of Refrigerating Plant Accident
Jake McTague, a butcher of Wrangell,
and Mrs. McTague are in Seattle, says the
Post-Intelligencer of September 4. Mr. Mc
Tague owns a refrigerating plant at Wran
gell and lost his sight last winter, his face
being frozen by the bursting of an ammonia
pipe in his plant. He and his wife are on
their way to the Rockefeller institute, in
Philadelphia, to learn if there is any possi
bility of restoring his sight.
“Indian Jimmy” Drowned
Some time during the night or early this
morning, at an hour not stated, the two
Indians prisoners whom Deputy United
States Marshal John Wood is bringing to
Fairbanks on the steamer Tanana escaped
their guards and jumped overboard, with
the evident intention of committing sui
cide. Old Toby was rescued, but Jimmy
was drowned. Wood wires that the body
had been recovered. Both the Indians were
held on a charge of murder in the first de
gree, having been recently indicted at Ruby
and arrested for the murder of a mail car
rier in the vicinity of Louden some years
ago. It is reported that they had con
fessed the crime, but this has not been veri
fied. For many years they have been re
i garded as had Indians, and have been
| feared by other Indinas along the Yukon.
| As details are lacking, the story of their get
! away or suicide cannot be told. In justice
| to Deputy Wood, who has the reputation of
being one of the most careful officers ever
j attached to the local office, Volney Rich
| mond and II. J. Atwell sent the following
i telegram from Tolovana this morning to
j Chief Deputy Marshal Clark here: “Jack
; Woods was off watch when Indians at
i tempted getaway, and was in no way re
1 sponsible.”—Fairbanks News-Miner, Sep
tember 18.
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ALIENS IN UNITED STATES
LIABLE TO MILITARY DUTY
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15.—One of the
startling developments growing out of the
general European war is the realization it
brings as to the large number of subjects
of foreign rulers who are in the United
States, receiving the full benefit and enjoy
ment of the American government and in- j
stitutions, but yet in no wise legally owing
allegiance to America if there should come ■
a time of trial and stress.
It is not improbable that out of this
situation may come a demand that these j
subjects of foreign nations who go abroad
to fight shall give some sort of guarantee
that they v ill become naturalized American
citizens before they are allowed to return to
their homes in the United States.
Information which at this time is very
pertinent and interesting as to the extent
iu wlilcti a general European wai has, iiia«u
upon the United States to furnish food for
European cannon is contained in the census |
report of 1910 and subsequent immigration
reports, which bring the statistics up to
date.
In 1910 there were 1,174.973 Austrians
and 495.609 Hungarians in this country, an
increase for the former of 162.3 per cent
over the number registered by the census
compilations of 1900 and an increase of
240.1 per cent for the latter for the decade, j
Thus the total number of subjects of the
dual empire, Austria-Hungary, now within
the borders of this country, may be placed ,
at 1,670,582, without making allowance for
the increases to be recorded since the cen
sus in question was taken. Of the number
specified, 341.126 are men of fighting age. j
Of Servians there are 4,639 in the United
States; 5,377 Montenegrins and 101,2S2
Greeks, a total of Servian sympathizers of
111.298. of which 22.259 are of fighting age.
This makes a total of 356.385 men of fight
ing age who might respond to the call for
duty in the Austro-Servian war, reckoning
only the adversaries who stand as parties
to the original quarrel.
Broadening the field of statistical re
search to fit the general war involving the
triple al iance and the nations of the triple
entente, 62,559 Germans of fighting age,
2.644 Frenchmen, 268,625 Italians and 10.
732 subjects of Great Britain who have ar
rived in the United States during the de
cade 1900-1910 might return to follow the
flags of their countries.
Russian subjects have arrived in this ,
country during the last ten years in greater
numbers than subjects or citizens of any
other nation, the total being 1,091.719. But ,
for the greater part, however, they are men
and women who left the czar’s domain to
escape religious and political persecution,
and the number of Russians who might re
turn to take up arms is regarded as pros- j
pec lively small. During the past ten years i
immigration to this country from Austria,
Hungary and Italy has been very heavy,
the increase being respectively 162, 240 and
177 per cent. If but 10 per cent of the
Hungarians, Austrians, Serbs, Greeks and j
Montenegrins of fighting age in the United
States were to return, the mines and con- ,
struction camps, which give employment to j
most of them, would be depleted of a force j
of nearly 36.000 men, whose places, it is
suggested, would have to be filled by col
ored men from the Southern fields, which
would tend to cripple the agricultural indus
tries of that section. A general and pro
longed conflagration in Europe would call
away more than twice as many men, al
lowing for 10 per cent of the total and not
including the Russians.
Under the neutrality laws, American citi
zens are forbidden while within the United
States to accept a commission from the
combatants or to enlist as soldier, sailor or
marine under a fighting nation with whom
the United States is at peace. They may
not induce other persons to enlist to serve
abroad, nor may they equip or arm any
vessel for the belligerents or assist in add
ing to the force of any ship or set on foot
any military expedition for or against those
in conflict. Also, it is pointed out, would
be soldiers in the wars of other nations
might find it very difficult to go abroad,
with shipping conditions as disturbed as they
are.
Occasionally a recruiting propaganda is
carried on in foreign countries by the ac
credited diplomatic or consular representa
tive of one of the powers at war. This is
in direct violation of section 5282 of the
Revised Statutes of the United States,
which says:
‘‘Every person who, within the territory
of the United States, enlists or enters him
self or hires or retains another person to en
list or enter himself, or to go beyond the
limits or jurisdiction of the United States
with intent to be enlisted or entered in the
service of any foreign prince, state, colony,
district or people as a soldier or marine or
seaman on board of any vessel of war. let
ter of marque or privateer shall be deemed
guilty cf high misdemeanor, and shall be
fined not more than $ 1,000 and imprisoned
not more than three years.”
It has come to the government authori
ties that in some American cities certain
foreign consuls are now squinting, if not ac
tually assisting, at enlistments, and later
there may be some sensational exposures
and arrests. It is a reckless, dangerous un
dertaking, for exposure is inevitable and the
consequences from an international stand
point may be serious. In 1856, during *he
Crimean war, British Minister Crampton
was expelled from the United States by
Secretary Marcy because he had concerned
himself about the enlistment here of re
cruits for the British army. The recruits
obtained through the British consuls at
New York, Philadelphia and Cincinnati
were directed to Halifax, where the regular
recruiting station had been opened and
where the enlistments were formally re
corded.
GERMAN AMBASSADOR
PREDICTS KAISER’S SUCCESS
NEW YORK, Aug. 24.—Count Johan von
Bernstorff, German ambassador to the
United States, announced on his arrival
here today from Rotterdam that his gov
ernmnet had been informed that Russian
civil and military authorities had with
drawn from Poland and that the Poles had
set up an independent government with
Warsaw as the capital.
C >unt von Bernstorff gave out one of
the most authoritative interviews yet ex
pressed here on Germany’s attitude toward
the war. Germany was bound to win in
the end he said; she was fighting because
her cause was just. He predicted that
Americans would come to regard the con
flict in this light. Italy, he believed, would
not permit herself to take action against
Germany.
“Front the emperor to the lowest un
skilled workmen in the fatherland Germany
is united to defend herself against the
frivolities and unwarranted attack of jeal
ous powers,” said the ambassador. “The
German peo; le will fight to a finish and
will be victorious in the cad.
“At the outbreak of the war,” he con
tinued. “the Engli.-h cut the cable to this
neutral country for the sole purpose of
preventing the news from coming here.
There was no excuse for that act except
the desire to deceive the people of the
United States as to the true conditions of
the war.
“The calling of the Japanese into a
European quarrel shows one thing above
all else. It is that England does not feel
very safe. The Japanese will doubtless take
Kaiochou—sheer weight of numbers as
sures that. But by the end of the war
Japan will have the supremacy of the Pa
cific—a thing she has striven for during
many years. Japan took advantage of the
situation to strike this blow for the sole
purpose of acquiring this supremacy.
“When the true story of the assault on
Liege is told Americans will have a far
different opinion than that gained from the
colored accounts from Belgian, lreneh and
English sources.
“As a matter of fact, the troops under
Von Ummich which went to the assault of
this strongly fortified position numbered
only between 5,000 and 0,000 infantry and
cavalry. The taking of Liege was one of
the greatest military feats in modern times.
What was expected to take weeks was ac
complished in days by two brigades. Von
Ummich was slightly wounded in the leg
during the attack, but did not relinquish
command.”
The ambassador denied reports that the
German crown prince had been wounded by
an assassin in Berlin. Moreover, he added,
the crown prince never had been wounded
before Liege, for the simple reason that, he
was not at Liege, but in command of the
troops at the fortress at Metz.
“Germany has been attacked and there
I fore has no responsibility for the war,"
Count Von Bernstorff said. “To the last
man in the empire we will defend our
country. This war has no other object
but the destruction of the German and
Austrian empires, and we believe we will be
able to prove to all the world that this
cannot be accomplished.
“The German people are as one man for
the war. It is neither the emperor’s war
nor a war of the officers, as many have
charged. It is a war of the German people.
“The women and children and the old
men have uncomplainingly gone into the
fields to gather the crop.', glad to give what
i help they can to their country. And we
have wonderful crops this year. Kvery man.
j woman and child old enough to know what
war means has volunteered to some service.
“As an illustration, there is a multimil
lionaire in Munich who is today delivering
mail from door to door. He volunteered
to do a postman’s w'ork because the post
men had to go to war.’’
(’cunt Von Bernstorff left Berlin August
11. At that time, he Raid, the German
government had reports that not a Russian
i soldier had been left in Poland. This re
port. Count Von Bernstorff added, w as gen
er;:l throughout Berlin.
“I do not know what sort of government
the Poles have set up." he said, “nor do I
vouch for the accuracy of the report."
Cable dispatches from St. Petersburg two
weeks ago said the czar had promised auton
omy to Poland in return for its support of
the Russian arms.
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NOTICE OF ELECTION
Notice is hereto.- given Unit on Tuesday,
November I. I t i. m the city (Ire hall, will
he held an .-!■■.-lion rm- the purpose i.r
electing a del. .-ale to congress and one
senator ami Pur represenlauves to the
\laska legislatin', rrom the Fourth judicial
division.
All citizens of the I'nited Slat.- SI
y.ars of age .■!■ over, who are actual and
iiona tide residents or Alaska, and who
have been such residents mutinously dur
ing the entire year immediately preceding
the election, and have been such residents
continuously for thirty days next preceding
the election in the incorporate.I hunts or
lditarod, shall lie ciualilled to vote.
town Ol-' IIUTAH' IP. A1 l>I.A
It. A. MFYEItS, Clerk.
October 3. 1914.
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