SATAN TO VILHELM:
“HORNS Off TO YOU”
Bitter Screed That
Has Attracted
Attention in IViany
Quarters
Louis Syberkrop, of Creston, has
acquired much fame in recent weeks
as author of a satire on Kaiser Wil
helm. Requests have come to him
from Tumulty, Secretary Daniels and
Roosevelt, and people in every state of
the Union and in Canada have asked
for copies* of Mr. Syberkrop’s article.
It is:
“Ottumwa, Iowa.
“The Infernal Region,
“June 28, 1917.
“To Wilhelm von Hohenzollern,
King of Prussia, Emperor of All
Germany and Envoy Extraordinary
of Almighty God:
“My Dear Wilhelm:
“I can call you by that familiar
name, for I have always been very
close to you, much closer than you
could ever know.
“From the time that you were yet
an undeveloped being in your mother’s
womb I have shaped your destiny for
my own purpose.
“In the days of Rome I created a
roughneck known in history as Nero.
He was a vulgar character and suited
my purpose at that particular time
In these modern days a classic demon
and efficient super-criminal was
needed, and as I know the Ilohenzol
lern blood, 1 picked you as my special
instrument to place on earth an annex
of hell. I gave abnormal ambition,
likewise an oversupply of egotism that
you might not discover your own fail
ings: I twisted your mind to that of a
mad man with certain normal tenden
cies to carry you by, a most dangerous
character placed in power, I gave you
the power of a hypnotist and certain
magnetic forces that you may sway
your people. I am responsible for the
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To Charles Courtright, and to his^heirs
and assigns:
You are hereby notified that the un
dersigned has expended in money, labor
and improvements during the rear 1916
the sum of one hundred dollars ($100)
upon placer mining claim known as the
Ophir Fraction, on Willow creek, a
tributary of Iditarod river, in the Otter
miaing and recording district, territory
of Alaska, in order to hold said claim
under the provisions of the law respect
ing annual labor on mining claims.
And if within ninety days after the
last publication of this notice you fail
or refuse to pay your proportion of such
expenditure, your interest in said claim
will become the property of the under
signed co-owner, according to the pro
visions of Section 2324, Revised Stat
utes of the United States
Dona LaChance, Co-owner.
First publication, January 5, 1918.
Last publication, April 6, 1918.
Partnership Dissolution
Notice is hereby given that the co
partnership heretofore existing be
tween John Duro and Mike Ross, under
the name of J. Duro and M. Ross, wood
dealers, at Otter precinct, Fourth divi
sion, Territory of Alaska, is this day
dissolved by mutual consent, Mike Ross
selling his interest to John Duro, who
will continue the business under his
name, and the same style. '
John Duro.
Dated September 22, 1917.
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arm that hangs helpless on your left,
for your crippled condition embitters
'your life aud destroys all noble im
pulses that might otherwise cause me
anxiety, but your strong sword arm is
driven by your ambition and squelches
all sentiment and pity, 1 placed in your
soul a deep hatred for all things Eng
lish, for of all nations on earth I hate
England most; wherever England plants
her flag she brings order out of chaos
and the hated cross follows the Union
I Jack; under her rule and tribes become
tillers of the soil and in due time prac
tical citizens; she is the great civilizer
j of the globe and 1 hate her. 1 planted
in your soul a cruel hatred for your
mother because she was English and
left my good friend Bismarck to fan
the tlamo I had kindled. Recent his
tory proves how wall our work was
done. It broke your royal mother’s
heart, but I gained ray purpose.
“The inherited disease of the Hoh
enzollerns killed your lather, just as it
will kill you, and you became the ruler
of Germany and a tool of mine sooner
than 1 expected.
“To assist you and further hasten
my work I sent you three evil spirits,
Nietzsche, Treitschke and later Bern
hardi, whose teachings inflamed the
youths of Germany, who in good time
would be willing and loyal subjects and
eager to spill their blood and pull your
chestnuts, yours and mine; the spell has
been perfect—you cast your ambitious
eyes toward the Mediterranean, Egypt,
India and the Dardanelles aud you
began your great railway to Bagdad,
but the ambitious archduke and his
more ambitious wife stood in your way.
It was then that I sowed the seed in
your heart that blossomed into the
assassination of the duke and his wife
and all hell smiled when it saw how
cleverly you saddled the crime on Ser
bia. I saw you set sails for the fjords
of Norway and I knew you would prove
an alibi. How cleverly done, so much
like your noble grandfather, who also
secured an assassin to remove old King
Frederick of Denmark, and later robbed
that country of two provinces that gave
Germany an opportunity to become a
naval power. Murder is dirty work,
but it takes a Hohenzollern to make a
way and get by.
“Your opportunity was at hand; you
set the world on fire and Pells of hell
were ringing: your rape of Belgium
caused much joy, it was the beginning,
the foundation of a perfect hell on
earth, the destruction of noble cathe
drals and other infinite works of art
was hailed with joy in the infernal re
gions. You made war on friends and
foe alike and the murder of civilians
showed my teachings had borne fruit.
Your treachery toward neutral nations
hastened a universal upheaval, the
thing T most desired. Your under-sea
warfare is a master stroke from the
smallest mackeral pot to the great
Lusitania you show no favorites; as a
war lord you stand supreme for you
have no consideration for the baby
clinging to its mother’s breast as they
both go down into the deep together,
only to be torn apart and leisurely de
voured by sharks down among the
corals.
“I have strolled over the battlefield
of Belgium and France. I have seen
your hand of destruction everywhere;
it’s all your work, super-fiend that I
made you. I have seen the fields of
Poland; now a wilderness fit for prowl
ing beasts only; they all succumbed to
frost and starvation—I drifted down
into Galicia where formerly Jews and
Gentiles lived happily together; I
found but ruins and ashes; I felt a curi
ous pride in my pupil for it was all
above my expectation. I was in Bel
gium when you drove the peaceful pop
ulation before you like cattle into
slavery, you separated man and wife
and forced them to hard labor in the
trenches. I have seen the most selfish
rape committed on young women and
and those who were forced into mater
nity were cursing the father of their
offspring, and I began to doubt if my
own inferno was really up-to-date.
“You have taken millions of dollars
from innocent victims and called it in
demnity; you have lived fat on the
land you usurped and sent the real
owners away to starvation. You have
stayed away from all legalized war
methods and introduced a code of your
own. You have killed and robbed the
people of friendly nations and destroyed
their property. You are a liar, a hyp
ocrite and a bluffer of the highest
magnitude. You are a part of mine
and yet you pose as a personal friend of
God. Ah, Wilhelm, you are a wonder.
You wantonly destroy all things in
your path and leave nothing ’for com
ing generations.
“I was atnazed when i saw you form
a partnership with the impossible
Turk, the chronic killer of Christians,
and you a devote worshiper in the
Lutheran church, f confess, Wilhelm,
you are a puzzle at times. A Moham
medan array, commanded by German
officers assisting one another in mas
sacring Christians is a new lane of
warfare. When a Prussian officer can
witness a nude woman being disem
boweled by a swarthy Turk, commit
ting a double murder with one cut. of
his saber, and calmly stand by and see
a house full of innocent Armenians
locked up, the house saturated with oil
and fired, then my teachings did not
stop with you, but have been extended
to the whole German nation. T confess
my Satanic soul grew sick and there
and then 1 know the pupil had becomo
the master. 1 am a back number, and,
my dear Wilhelm, I abdicate in your
favor. The great key of hell will be
turned over to you. The gavel that
has struck the doom of damned souls
since time began is yours. I am satis
fied with what I have done: that my
abdication in your favor is for the best
interest of hell—in the future I am at
your majesty’s service. Affectionately
and sincerely,
“Lucifer H. Satan.”
PLEASURE YACHT TAKES CARE OF
New York.—The steel pleasure
yacht, Yoteuse, the property of Emil
Kleuge, an unnaturalized German, of
Englewood, N. J., was seized today by
the United States marshal. It is said
that the yacht is equipped with a wire
loss outfit, Kleuge and a crew of
Swedish sailors were on board at the
time of the seizure. The vessel cruised
recently along the Atlantic coast.
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Wo have in the world to many Ger
manized Socialists, and too few social
ized Germans.—New York Sun.
Harry G. Watson returned to camp
ast Saturday from a two months’ trip
to Fairbanks, Daring the week be I
started for Fortuna I*edge-, where he
will look after hts raining interests
during the coming summer.
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