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Service for the Kuskokwim
Attracted by the promising development
of the past few seasons in the Kuskokwim
district, the E. J. Dodge Steamship Com
pany, operators of a big fleet of coasters,
will inaugurate the first regular steamship
service to this vast but isolated section of
the N'orth in May, 1915, with Seattle as
its operating headquarters.
Big Haul of Fish
While not unusual for old residents to
witness a haul of herring from the Ketchi
kan wharves, it is different with a new
comer, and Wednesday’s haul caused a lit
tle excitement among those late comers. A
school of herring was noticed in the bay op
posite the town by fishermen whose boats
were handy. In no time the seins were
out and the herring trapped. The gas
boats Margaret. Niagara and Pirate made
for the fish and captured about six hun
dred barrels. Most of the herring will be
used for bait in halibut fishing.—Ketchikan
Progressive.
Wolves Thought to Have Killed Reindeer
It is reported from Ketchikan that the
reindeer brought to Metlakahtla as an ex
periment. have been destroyed by wolves.
The Ketchikan Progressive says: “It is
only a few weeks ago that the government
brought a small herd of reindeer from
the First division to experiment on An
nette island. The reindeer were brought and
turned loose to take care of themselves. It
was not long before they were scattered
all over the island. One died a few days
later on the beach. Others returned to
their landing place, but still others re
mained away. Later the supposed leader
returned minus considerable of its hide and
hair, showing evidence of a desperate en
counter.”
Protest Against Prohibition Bill
The Cordova Chamber of Commerce has
passed and forwarded to the national cap
ital a resolution protesting against the pas
sage by congress of any legislation providing
for the prohibition of the sale of liquor
in Alaska, unless the people of the territory
shall by a majoriyt vote express their ap
proval of such a law. The resolutions re
cite that a bill has been introduced in con
gress providing for prohibition in the Terri
tory of Alaska, and that the people of
Alaska feel that, as American citizens, they
are entitled to share to some extent in the
passage of the laws that affect them; that
in those states where the prohibition ques
tion has been raised it has always been
settled by the vote of the people. They
respectfully petition congress that the people
of Alaska be extended the same privilege
and rights granted the people of the states
on the prohibition question, and that no
prohibitory law shall be valid in Alaska
unless the people of Alaska, by majority
vote, approve the same.
Marshal Erwin 111
That Marshal Erwin is seriously ill at
Battle Creek, Mich., is the opinion of the
1 deputies in the office of the marshal for
the Fourth division at Fairbanks, who state
that he has not been very well for a long
tiem, and the fact that a telegram was re
ceived from him recently by John E. Clark,
his chief deputy, from the city in which
the noted sanitarium is located is held as
good evidence that he is getting medical
treatment there.
Juneau Men Escape From Asylum
Dick Dorwaldt and Ed Haley of Juneau
and Fred Brewer escaped from the Morning
side asylum on November 14 and have not
yet been retaken. All of them w’ere prac
tically on parole, and would have been dis
charged soon, according to a statement from
the asylum authorities. Mrs. Beda Clarberg
of Douglas has been discharged from the
asylum and was taken to Seattle by her
husband. Dan Shea was discharged and
sent to Prince Rupert; Charles Davis, also
discharged, was sent to Los Angeles; Ned
Partington, discharged and sent to Ketchi
kan; Makrena Askvorscff, who was dis
charged. was sent to Seward, where she has
a brother, Charles Bern.
A bill has been introduced in congress and
favorably reported limiting the location of
whaling stations in Alaska to not less than
seventy-five miles apart.
COMMISSIONER STUBBS
HERE FROM GEORGETOWN
Duke E. Stubbs of Aniak, commissioner
for the Kuskokwim precinct, arrived in the
city last Wednesday, ar.d is here awaiting
an answer to a telegram before proceeding
on his homeward journey. Mr. Stubbs was
in Iditarod only a few weeks ago, and had
been at his home at Aniak but a couple of
days when he was again called away on
official business.
A letter received by Mr. Stubbs from R.
S. Eskridge, the well-known mining man
and Bear creek operator, intimated that he
might start from Seattle for Iditarod about
hte middle of February, and spoke of his
intention to make the trip from Seward
over the trail to Iditarod in twelve days.
REIGN OF SHIRT WAIST OVER
CHICAGO, Jan. 25.—The Fashion Art
League of America, a combination of manu
facturers and dealers of the East and West,
which means to set American styles and
let Paris go hang, is out with a bulletin
as to what women shall wear next summer.
It decrees the passing of the shirt waist
girl. The new frock is to be all in one
piece, and must have a high stock collar.
“Women of fashion," says the bulletin,
“are showing preference for this robe taileur,
and it is destined to great popularity. The
smartest style will be in white, though
shades may be worn. The shirt w'aist has
outlived its popularity. The high stock col
lar will be in decided evidence again this
spring, but that is only another fashion
caprice which demands a low neck for fall
and winter and high neck for spring and
summer.” _
When you come in from the creeks, bear
the impulse of the moment by stopping in
the Crosby and taking a Twentieth Century
Turkish Bath.
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SENATOR GUASTAD WANTS
NEW HIGHWAY LEGISLATION
Senator Gaustad, the newly-elected mem
ber of the Alaska legislature from Fair
banks, has prepared an outline of a pro
posed new law that provides for the con
struction of roads in Alaska under the di
rection of road supervisors, who are to be
elected by vote of the people. He has
sent copies of his outline to other newly
elected members of the legislature and has
asked them for their opinions, according to
the Cordova Times.
The law suggested by Mr. Gaustad pro
vides for the improvement of the roads in
each district from money that can be col
lected for road taxes and from such funds
as the government may direct to be used
for such purpose. It is his plan to ask con
gress to turn over to the local road funds
all licenses collected outside of the incor
porated towns and cities, and also to re
quest congress to pass a law allowing miners
to pay their assessment dues on mining
claims to have the money spent in that
way.
The outline ot the proposed law, as pre
pared by Mr. Gaustad, is as follows:
"Road tax shall be $4 per annum, pay
able at the office of the road supervisor or
to him personally on or before the first
day of June each year; shall become de
linquent on the first day of July, when a
penalty of 5 per cent will be added, and if
not paid within fifteen days from that date,
said delinquent taxpayer shall be liable to
arrest, with fine or imprisonment. All
moneys derived from this tax shall be used
for the construction and maintenance of
public highways and trails within the dis
trict where same are collected, and shall
be so expended by the supervisor.
“All corporations, co-partnerships or in
dividuals employing labor shall be required
to file with the supervisor before the 10th
day of June each year a list of all per
sons liable to pay road tax who were in
their or his employ on the first day of June
next preceding, and if they neglect or re
fuse to comply with this provision they
shall be liable to a substantial fine! Such
employers shall be authorized to retain from
the wages of their employes the sum due
for road tax, and pay the same over to
the supervisor, taking his receipt therefor.
“The construction of new roads shall be
contracted by competitive bids, under su
pervision of road supervisor.
“It shall be the duty of the supervisor to
locate and survey (where necessary > all new
highways and trails, keep main roads in re
pair, collect road tax and prosecute delin
quents, let contracts and accept work when
completed, purchase supplies, keep accurate
accounts of all receipts and expenditures,
employ and discharge men and have gen
eral supervision over all work done in con
nection with the construction and mainte
nance of public highways and trails.
“The salary of the road supervisor shall
be $10 per day and actual traveling ex
penses (except board and lodging) while
engaged in the discharge of the duties of
his office.
“The boundaries of the road districts shall
be substantially the same as of the piesent
recording precincts.
“The road supervisor shall be elected
biennially at the general territorial elec
tion.
“The road supervisor shall select a place
in each locality where road tax may be
paid and shall have power to appoint depu
ties with authority to collect and receipt
for such tax.”
The foregoing, it is explained by Mr.
Gaustad, is simply an outline from which
he hopes to have a legislative bill properly
drawn, with such changes as may be agreed
upon by members of the legislature. It
i3 his intention to have the road super
visors independent of the Alaska road com
mission, whose duties may be limited to
the construction of the main military' roads.
Mr. Graustad is planning, also, to intro
duce a bill in the legislature that will pro
vide for revoking of the mining law passed
by the last session of the territorial legis
I lature. The territorial mining law, as
passed, he thinks, is confusing and detri
mental to the best interests of the mining
industry of the territory.
There are some minor changes planned
by Mr. Gaustad to the old law. One of
these is to re-establish the right of men
owning contonuous claims to do all their
assessment work on one of the clamis, in
stead of scattering it over all of them.
ALASKA CHRISTMAS
DESCRIBED IN SEATTLE
(Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
“Christmas is a great time for the chil
dren in Alaska,” said Joseph Johnson of
Nome, who was at the Frye yesterday. "The
first thought of an Alaskan at this time is
for the youngster, and all the efforts of
the older people are bent on making the
day a great one for them.
“They go into it decidedly on a com
munity basis,” he continued. “A little while
before Christmas everybody along a creek
is 6truck for a dollar or two for the Christ
mas celebration. Iditarod does the busi
ness up about as brown as any, I think.
There the kids are gathered from all along
the creeks to the social hall, which is the
Arctic Brotherhood hall in Iditarod. There
is a Christmas tree, decorated with garlands
and string of popcorn and plenty of things
to eat as well. But the best part of it
all is Santa Claus. Santa Claus brings
the gifts to the children. He comeB to the
hall in a Bleigh, and the sleigh is drawn by
reindeer. When 1 was a kid myself I used
to have books to read about Santa Claus
and the wonderful reindeer team that he
drove from the North Pole, and the big
pack of toys that he carried, and how he
came down the chimneys, though I admit
that I used to wonder how he brought
himself and his pack with him down the
chimney at my home, which was quite
small. In Alaska all that is reality, and
Santa drives up in his sleigh to the jingle
of bells and hauls his stuff into the hall,
where all the kids are waiting. He does
everything that he is reputed to do but
come down the chimney. And then the
gifts are parceled out and every one of the
youngster gets some. That s the beauty
of the whole thing. Nobody is left out.”
FOR SALE—One new double-ender, with
out shafts, $35; one second hand double
ender, in good condition, $-0. See Bob
Boyd, Iditarod.
FOOTWEAR "HOSPITAL
FLAT CITY
Now Is the time to get your boots and
shoes repaired—Just before the busy sea
son begins. You’ll save tune and money by
having your repair work done now.
GOOD WORK REASONABLE PRICES
C. C. CLHWR, FLAT CfTY
DEATH CLAIMS
MRS. FREDERICKS
Judge Duke E. Stubbs, United States
commissioner on the lower Kuskokwim
river, arrived in the city last Wednesday
afternoon from Georgetown, where he had
been called to the bedside of Mrs. Anesia
Fredericks, wife of George Fredericks, the
trader at that plac. Mrs. Fredericks was in
the last stages of tuberculosis, and passed
away on February 12, a few days after the
arrival of Mr. Stubbs. The deceased was a
native of Alaska, about 33 years of age,
and leaves a husband and four children.
Her remains will be taken to Russian Mis
sion, on the Kuskokwim river, for burial.
Mr. Stubbs’ errand to this city at this time
was mdae at the request of Mr. Fredericks,
who wished him to telegraph the sad in
telligence to St. Michael, where relatives re
side.
George Fredericks, the husband of the
deceased, is one of the best-known traders
of the Interior, and has been located at
Georgetown a number of years. He was in
Idttarod during hte summer of 1912, in at
tendance on the district court, where he
acted in the capacity of interpreter for the
government in the case of Joseph Camp
bell, charged with the murder of the Nel
son brothers in the fall of 1911.
A POPULATION IN LEASH
(Percival Gibbon in Collier’s)
The Russians have been over this ground
(East Prussia) already, and fell back from
it after their defeat between Osterode and
Allenstein. Their advance was through vil
lages lifeless and deserted and over empty
roads; the retreat was through a country
that swarmed with hostile life. Roads were
blocked with farm carts; houses along their
route took fire mysteriously, signalnig their
movement and direction, and answered from
afar by other conflagrations; bridges that
had been sound enough before blew up at
charged with and their country laid waste
charged with and their county laid waste
for, all East Prussia is organized to do daily
as an established and carefully schooled aux
iliary to the army.
A few days since there arrived a prisoner,
driven in on foot by a mounted Cossack,
sent back by the officer commanding the
reconnaissance party which had captured
him. He came up the street, shuffling at a
quick walk to keep ahead of the horse and
the thin, sinister Csosack—an elderly
farmer, in work-stained clothes, with the
lean neck and pursed jaws of a hard bar
gainer. In all his bearing and person there
was evident the man of toilsome life who
has prospered a little; in that soldier
thronged street, in his posture of a pris
oner with the Cossack’s revolver at his back,
he was conspicuous and grotesque. His
eyes, under the gray pent of his brows, were
uneasy; and through all his commonplace
quality and his show of fortitude there
was a gleam of the fear of death that
made him tragic. He had been found on
his farm doing nothing in particular; it
was out of simply general suspicions that
the Russian officer had ordered him to be
searched. The result was the discovery of
a typewritten paper giving precise instruc
tions as to how a German civilian in East
Prussia must act toward the enemy—how
to signal movements of infantry, of cav
alry, of artillery, how to estimate the num
bers of a body of men, what to say if
questioned, and the like- a document con
ceived and executed with true Prussian
exactitude, a masterpiece in the literature
of espionuge.
ror mm mere wras no nope; even me
Hague convention does not protect spies,
however earnestly and dangerously they
served their country. He passed, always
at the same forced shuffle of reluctant
feet, toward his judges and his doom.
South and southwest from Wirballen the
character fo the land changes; from its easy
levels it crumples into that maze of small
hills and little ragged-edged lakes called
Masurenland, a complicated bit of country,
hard to keep under observation. Into it run
the railways from Konigsberg, Elbing and
Danzig, on the Baltic, and from Berlin on
the west; the German military genius, look
ing eastward toward the then unawakened
might of Russia, saw the possibilities of
this region as an area for the concentration
of a big force. Troopships from Stettin
and Lubeck can pour whole army corps
through the ports and down the railways
hither; the long, crawling trains can flood
it with men from the east; an army corps
a day, forty thousand men. every twenty
four hours, when the plant is working at
full pressure, can be gathered here among
the fir woods. Rennekampf, we hear, is
to move shortly and move backward again,
drawing his whole line with him; Masuren
land and what it hides is the reason. Half
the art of wrar is in knowing and using the
ground, and Rennenkampf’s battlefield will
be to the east, on Russian soil, upon the
line of his own choice, and reasonably /-*r
from the nucleus of German strength *n
Masurenland.
LIBERAL PEACE TERMS
LONDON, Jan. 8.—That the return of
peace may prove even more calamitous to
industry than was the outbreak of the war
was suggested by Professor Sidney Webb
in a lecture on “The Terms of Peace” at
the opening of the London School of Eco
nomics.
“We have survived the outbreak of war,”
he said, “with amazingly little economic
distress. The question now is whether, at
the coming of peace, we shall be able to
take the steps necessary to prevent the
terms of peace working out in misery and
distress in hundreds of thousands of house
holds. If we are to do so, the first of the
terms of peace, from the economic point of
view, must be: No disbandment of the
army. If men have jobs to go to, or are
willing to take the risk, let them go; but
there must be nobody turned out until they
are likely to be absorbed in industry.”
As to terms of peace, Professor Webb
counseled moderation. “England would do
well,” he urged, “not to look for any in
demnity, for indemnities have a habit of
doing those who exact them no good at all.
Belgium, of course, must be rehabilitated.
We should hope to make a peace which
would leave the toe without undue embit
terment or humiliation. Humiliation is a
most expensive luxury for a victor to im
pose upon a vanquished enemy. It does
not pay to have an embittered enemy in
the world.
FOR SALE—1,000 reindeer, male and
fcmale, $30 per head. Nils Klemetsen,
I tirialakleet. Alaska.
rr Ball Band Rubber Boots and Pacs I I N. C. Co. Sole Agents for Alaska u
SPECIAL SALE OL
Bottled Goods
Do not buy ordinary dried dog salmon
when you can get first-class Dried Silver
Salmon at 9c per pound.
Regular
RYE WHISKEY— Price Cut to
"Old Crow” Straight Hand-Made Sour Mash, bot
tled in bond.Per bottle $2.50 $1.50
"Hunter” Baltimore Pure Rye, a blend of straight rye
whiskies . 2.50 1.25
“Hermitage" Pure Straight Whiskey, mellowed by
age .. . 2.50 1.50
“Cyrus Noble" Blended Straight Whiskey, from
original old goods . 2.50 1.50
“Old Oscar Pepper" Hand-Made Seur Mash, bot
tled in bond, full quarts. 2.50 1.50
BOURBON WHISKEY—
“Cedar Brook" (formerly W. H. McBrayer) Hand
Made Sour Mash Whiskey. 2.50 1.25
"Cyrus Noble" Old Private Stock, very, very old.
Guaranteed to be a blend of pure, aged, natural
straight whiskies . 3.50 2.00
“Old Crow,” bottled in bond.,. 2.50 1.50
“Jesse Moore AA". 2.50 1.50
SCOTCH WHISKEY—
“Black and White," specially selected for the House
of Commons . 3.00 1.50
"Strathmill” Pure Malt Scotch Whiskey.3.00 1.50
"Dewar's Extra Special,” termed "the best product
of Scotland” . 4.00 2.25
"Usher’s Black Label" Grand Old Highland Whiskey 4.00 2.50
Wilson Whiskey, a mild blend of straight goods 2.50 1.25
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VESSEL BEING CONSTRUCTED
TOR KUSKOKWIM ROUTE
A letter just received by Duke E. Stubbs
from a steamboat man now in Seattle gives
the information that the Bender Brothers,
the vessel which has been on the Seattle
Bethel run, has made her last trip to the
Kuskokwim, and incloses a newspaper clip
ping regarding the new 6team schooner
which is being built for that run. It is as
follows:
“Construction of a three-mast schooner,
costing $50,000, and especially designed to
meet the requirements of the Seattle-Kus
kokwim river route, was definitely decided
on recently by Captain Omar J. Humphrey
of Seattle and associates. L. E. Geary, na
val architect, will draw the plans for the
vessel, which will be ready to depart from
Seattle May 15 on her first voyage to the
North. Accommodations will be provided
for forty first-class passengers, while the
cargo capacity will total 600 tons dead
weight. She will make three or four voy
ages between Seattle and the Kuskokwim
each season.
Ihe schooner wm nave a lengtn oi iau
feet and a beam of 30 fee.t Her draft will
be exceptionally shallow because of the con
ditions that prevail in the Kuskokwim dis
trict. The river and the delta at its mouth
are very shallow, and it is a foregone con
clusion that the vessel will ground occa
sionally. The shallow draft will offset this
possibility to a large extent. At the same
time the plans call for the construction of
a vessel of powerful build, so that she will
run no risk of damage when she touches
bottom.
“As indicated, the schooner will engage
in the passenger and freight service between
Seattle and the Kuskokwim. She will be
equipped with engines powerful enough to
give her a speed of nine knots, and in ad
dition will have a fairly large sail spread.
“Humphrey and his associates have had
long experience in Alaska transportation and
trading, and are well qualified for making a
complete success of the venture. Trade re
lations between Seattle and the Kuskokwim
district have shown a substantial develop
ment in recent years, and local merchants
now have a good market there.
"Captain Walter Tinn. well known as the
master of the schooner Harold Blekum, will
have command of the new vessel. Since
he brought, the vessel south from the Aleu
tian islands last fall in the teeth of tremen
dous gales he has been recognized as a mas
ter of exceptional ability.”
NATIVES OF YUKON
ARE NOT PAMPERED
(Dawson News)
John HawkEley, superintendent of Indian
affairs for Yukon territory, recently received
a letter from the Teslin country stating
that the dire effects of the European war
on the fur market are being felt in that
region by the Indians. The w;riter states
that the Indians find the prices offered
them for furs so low they scarcely can af
ford to trap, and that the meager returns
will not permit them to earn enough to
continue living on the white man’s grub.
They have to forego such luxuries as flour,
sugar, and possibly tea and tobacco. Re
quests are made for contributions from the
government.
Mr. Hawksley has had a wide experience
in this country with Indians, covering a so
journ of twenty-seven years, and under
stands the Indian nature thoroughly. He
has decided that the natives do not need
the white man’s luxuries, and that they are
much more healthy and happy when in the
hills hustling for their food, as they did be
fore the whites came, and that they are
much more thrifty when thrown on their
own resources than when stall-fed on gov
ernment rations.
In accordance with this deduction, Mr.
Hawksley is not going to rush an expedi
tion into the Teslin with bonbons or dough
nuts, nor even the ingredients for bannocks.
He says, however, that the natives will be
assisted with an ample allowance of am
munition, and that they must do the rest.
He has applied the same rigid rule at other
points in the Yukon since taking charge. At
Moosehide, near Dawson, where many In
dians once received rations regularly, all now
have to earn their own way with the ex
ception of a helpless native woman of 80
years. One buck appeared this week and
asked for rations. He was given cartridges
and told to make for a band of caribou
which was reported in the hills. He has
made tracks, and if he gets any bakery
luxuries this year he will have to convert
some of the results of the chase into cash.
The government pays out about 125,000
annually for assistance to Indians of the
Yukon, and Mr. Hawksley is trying to divert
it, he says, into more permanent benefits
for them.
ROYAL ADMIRAL WAS
INCLINED TO BE ON TIME
COPENHAGEN, Jan. 11.—The German
official press bureau at Berlin says the
English naval periodical “Nautilus” reports
that the former first sea lord, Prince Louis
of Battenberg, planned to cut off the Ger
man fleet in Norwegian waters the night
of August 1-2, but that the wavering of
the British cabinet frustrated his plan.
Location Notices at Pioneer office.
“SWAMPY” HINDENBERG’S
EAST PRUSSIA CAMPAIGN
PRZEMSYL, Austria.—I have had an in
sight into some of the affairs which have ■
caused the greatest interest and excitement
I in the German war office. Just as this war ;
in itself outdoes fiction, so some of the !
scenes that have occurred in the war officer i
have outrun imagination.
There have been moments so exciting
1 that even the staidest generals have cheered
| aloud in their offices. An instance of this j
was the occasion when General Von Hinden
berg. whose name has since become world- :
famous, was restored to the army.
Perhaps it is not generally known that j
Hindenberg and the kaiser were personal i
enemies. It is the truth, however. The ■
kaiser himself put Hindenberg on the pen j
sion list six years ago in a fit of anger j
against him. Hindenberg was heartbroken; j
at 67 years of age his career seemed j
smashed.
When the war broke out the Kaiser or- :
dered that lists should be prepared, includ
ing the name of every general who might j
help Germany. Hindenberg’s name was not I
put on the list. The kaiser noticed the I
omission.
“Where’s Hindenberg?” he asked. “Ger- |
many needs him.”
That was one of the first surprises the
war office sustained. But a greater surprise 1
was in store for the men in the big stone I
building in Berlin in connection with this
same Hindenberg. Every German general
in the war office is a specialist on some i
tactic or plan, but Hindenberg was con- |
sidered almost “queer” in regard to a cer
tain plan he had for crushing a Russian
force in East Prussia.
He had figured when he was a young
officer that if Germany and Russia ever
fought each other, and if Russian troops
started for Berlin by way of East Prussia,
and that if on their march they got near
Konigsberg or Tannenberg, and that if he
were in charge of he German troops in
East Prussia—if all these “ifs” came true,
he would get the Russians into a trap and
drive them back into the swamps in the
lake country and let the swamps whip them
—one more “if—that all this would not
occur in the winter time, when the swamps
were frozen.
All of Hindenberg’s success in life, in fact,
depended on all these “ifs” coming true, and
he was laughed at in the army and in Ger
man court circles for staking his career and
his place in German military history on
such a slim and apparently impracticable
chance.
He was called "bwampy HindenPerg Py
his intimates. Many of his holidays he I
spent in the lake country in East Prussia, j
studying the ground.
There was not a mudhole in the area
that he did not know—its width, its depth,
the nature of the earth around it. East ]
Prussia swamps were his life study.
When the war broke out Hindenberg was
sent to East Prussia.
At the age of 67, after decade® of theor
iiing and friendly ridicule, he was to be
given his chance. The war office kept its
eye on Hindenberg. In the early days of
August the Russians crossed '.he border into
East Prussia. Five great army corps, ap
parently irresistible in their might, began
their ponderous progress toward Konigs
berg. Miles and miles they went into Prus
sia, unchallenged. Hindenberg held back
as he had planned to do. Hi6 life dream
was coming true.
The Russians destroyed villages, seized
large towns and hastened on toward the
great modern city of Konigsberg, with its
350,000 inhabitants and its rich store
houses.
“The Russians are overwhelming Prussia,’’
said worried Germany. Hindenberg’s life
long dream had been all a mistake and his
entire career only an error.
At last the Russians reached the Tannen
berg country, and Hindenberg struck.
America knows by this time that it was
one of the most terrible battles in human
history.
Hindenberg folded back the Russian left
wing. The Russians found only a swamp
behind them, into which they retreated and
found themselves helpless. The Russian
center Hindenberg drove back against an
other great swamp area. Here his men
took 30.000 prisoners.
The oncoming Russian left had still an
other swamp reserved for it. Hindenberg’s
men fought like demons, but it was the
swamps that whipped the Russians. The
Germans were outnumbered three to one,
but 93,000 Russians were prisoners of the
Germans within thirty-six hours, and the
losses on both sides were 160,000 men, dead
and wounded.
The decorum of the war office went to
pieces when the first news came of Hin
denberg’s success.
“Swampy” Hindenberg's whole life of 67
years had been justified by thirty-six hours
of fighting.—William G. Shepherd in Seattle
Star.
BATTLESHIP OREGON WILL
LEAD CANAL PARADE
WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—Fifrty naval
vessels, including twenty-one battleships,
will make up the American fleet which will
sail from Hampton Roads on March 6 for
the Panama-Pacific exposition at San Fran
cisco, via the Panama canal.
The historic battleship Oregon and the
Olympia, which was Admiral George
Dewey's flagship at Manila bay, will meet
the gray-clad vessels at the Atlantic en
trance to the canal. The Oregon will lead
th procession through the waterway, id*
lowed by the Olympia, aboard of which
will be President Wilson and several mem
bers of his cabinet.
DISOWNS LEIPZIG PROFESSOR
PARIS, Jan. 5.—The University of Leip
zig has sent a crcular letter to foreign uni
versities disavowing Professor Ostwald be
cause of an interview with him which had
been published, in which he stated that Ger
many’s policy had a special design of in
cluding Sweden in a confederation of states
under German hegemony.
The circular blames Professor Ostwald
for having caused great harm to his country.
A1 Goslow was a visitor in the city last
Tuesday.
Italy’s total wine yield in 1913 was 1,379,
136,000 gallons.
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Forfeiture Notice
To C. O. Nord, B. E. Johnson, O. T. Olson,
John Swedal, Adolph Olson, Oust Er
tcson, Joe Jerman.
You are hereby notified that I have ex
pended during the years 1913 and 1914
two hundred dollars in labor and improve
ments upon the Lone Star Association placer
mining claim, situate on Gold Bun creek, e
tributary or Bear creek, in the Kuskokwim
mining precinct, Fourth division, territory
nr Alaska, the location certificate of which
Is found of record In book No, 7, page 38,
in the ofllce of the recorder of said pre
cinct, in order to hold said claim under the
provisions of Section 2324 of the Revised
Statutes of the Lnited States, and the
I amendments thereto approved January 25.
1 sso, and other amendments thereto relat
ing, concerning annual labor upon mining
claims, being the amount reuired to hold
said placer mining claim for hte pound
ending on the 31st day of December, A. P.
1914.
And If within ninety (90) days after the
publication thereor you fall or refuse to
contribute your proportion or such expen
diture as a co-owner, which amounts to
twenty-five (25) dollars for each ■>: you.
your interest In the claim will become the
property of the subscriber, your co-owner,
who has made the reuired expenditure, by
the terms of said section with amendments.
(Signed) CHARLES AM Ml L< n't'.
Bear Creek, Alaska, Jan. 4, 1915.
First publication, Jan. 9. 1915.
I Last publication, April 10, 1915.
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