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THE SPELL OF THE NORTH
{ Bv ('. Echv ard Cone ■
There’s something about this great North
land
That few. if any. can understand -
A charm that is all her own.
Tic! rivers, her hiiK her inland seas.
Al! hint of strange, wild mysteries.
That ever remain unknown.
Many who came with a lust for gold
Have staved and toiled, and at last grown
old. ’
Forgetting for what they came.
Caught hi this witch’s wondrous spell.
Thev have staved for what? They cannot
‘tell!
The story of uli is the same.
Many who found the gold they sought
Squandered it here with little thought.
And turned again to the hills.
Flying their boats up long, winding streams
T ■.» the glacier’> feet, where the eagle
screams.
And the breeze in August chills.
Those who do not in the North remain
Return to the haunts of men again.
And wondrous tales relate.
These were only partially caught
In the magic spell the North has wrought.
But the touch they got was great.
Fresh Olympia Oysters, for cocktails. $2
can. Iditarod Meat Co.
!N DELICATESSEN
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It was Mr*. Seymour I'entolin who stood i
there, a little flog under each arm. a large j
hat. gay with flower.-, upon her head. She j
wore patent shoes with high heels, and |
white silk stockings. She had. indeed, the
air of being dressed for luncheon at a fash
ionable restaurant. From a .-lory in the
Popular Magazine.
Tin- laud' d lilies of the Hold
\\'h«i toil n<»t neither do they spin.
Tie- {* *.!:11 sartorial must yield
To .Mrs. Seymour Fentolin.
A hat. French heel*, white stockings, dug*:
\ o • v. n soF-mon could win
'1 he eiianipK nship o r showy togs
Ki./fn .Mrs. Seymour rentolin.
Tin- two extremes In deeollette,
t if hall i " in and •.!* bathing beach,
lien- m-fi m a hew ildering way
And mingle all the charms of each.
I arn ii" .social butter-in;
I do not crave to rm-et her bunch.
h :t where d"' - Mrs. Fent-din.
If .aie might venture- take tier lunch?
And might one ask that pecrles- dame.
Without appearing impolite.
1- Seviimiir p ally her first name.
Ana has the printer .-pelt it rieht?
Oliver Ilerford in Harper’s Weekly.
Frank Morgan was a visitor in the city
Monday from his wood camp on Willow
creek.
Home-made sauer kraut.
Crowley & Porter.
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Standard Assorted Liquors, at Eastern Prices
INCLUDING BRANDIES, RUM, GINS, VERMOUTH, BENEDIC
TINE, CREME DE MENTHE, FERNET, etc., etc.
BULK GOODS, v^-gallon packages. . $1-S0
FINEST FRENCH LIQUEURS, per bottle. $1-00
THE BLUNDER AT BERLIN
(New York Globe)
A Berlin dispatch in the Mesagero of
Rome says that Yon Bethmann-IIollweg,
the German chancellor, and Yon Jagow,
the German foreign secretary, resigned be
cause of the kaser’s dssatsfaction with their
failure to foresee and to prevent the coali
tion against Germany. The dispatch has
not been eoiHirmed, but there is nothing
improbable in its contents.
It is dillicult to avoid the conclusion that
someone in Berlin was guilty of a fearful
blunder on August 1, the fatal day when
Germany declared war against Russia. The
situation was misread. The German gov
ernment expected the neutrality of Great
Britain. Dr. Yon Bethmann-IIollweg, in
his final interview with the British am
bassador at Berlin, made no concealment
of the fact that the British action was a
stunning surprise to him. All the world
except Berlin felt that Great Britain sooner
or later would be forced into the war if it
began, and knew the hour had come when
the news arrived that Germany, in con
tempt of the most solemn pledges, had vio
lated the neutrality of Belgium. Yet the
German government, apparently sincere in
its miscalculation, assumed that Great Brit
am would keep out and become practically
an accomplice of Germany in dishonoring
the Belgian treaty.
It is a fair inference that Germany would
not have drawn the sword except for the
assumption of British neutrality, especially
as has since developed, it had no assurance
of Italian aid The kaiser may not be a
monument of wisdom, but it is scarcely
conceivable that he was so crazy for war
as to be willing to light three first-class
powers and two little ones with no other
assistance than disorganized Austria could
give him.
The proposal of tur Edward Grey lor
a European conference to settle the ques
tion of what reparation, if any. was due
from Scrvia to Austria wa- before the
German foreign office on the morning of
August 1. The Grey proposal had been ac
cepted by Russia, by France, by Italy and
Great Britain, and the Austrian ambassa
dor to Russia had told Sazonow, the Rus
sian foreign minister, on the evening of
July 31 that Austria would also accept. The
way to honorable peace lay open to the
Berlin government. If Austria was willing
to consent to arbitration by four unin
volved powers (Great Britain, Germany,
Italy and France), the bottom dropped
out of the German case. It is unbelievable
that the kaiser would have been mad
enough to plunge his country into a contlict
whose result was so doubtful had he known
that Great Britain would fight and that
Italy would not fight.
Light on the mystery is furnished by the
telegram ,-ent to Berlin by Lichnowsky. the
kaiser's ambassador to Great Britain, on
August 1. In this telegram the German
ambassador says that Edward Grey had
just called him on the telephone and had
asked whether Germany would refrain from
attacking France if France remained neu
tral in a German Russian war. Lichnowsky
promptly gave the asked-for assurance. The
deduction to be drawn from this telegram
was that if Great Britain advised France
to remain neutral Great Britain must pro
pose to remain neutral herself, for ob
viously she had less reason to go to war
than France. That Berlin so understood
the Lichnowsky telegram appears from the
personal telegram that the kaiser sent to
King George on August 1 the same day.
The kaiser begins his telegram with these
words: "I have just received the com
munication of your government offering
French neutrality under Great Britain's
guarantee." Then the kaiser pledges him
self not to attack I'rance should France
remain neutral.
King George instantly replied that there
was a misunderstanding- that Sir Edward
Grey had not offered to obtain or to guar
antee French neutrality in the event of
war between Russia and Germany. The
correction, it would seem, reached Berlin
too late. The German government had
already, one may assume, transmitted its
ultimatum to St. Petersburg. The war was
on. The kaiser, informed by his foreign
office that Great Britain would not fight
and would endeavor to keep France out of
the struggle, deemed the time right to
strike at Russia. One can imagine what
must have ben the feelings of the kaiser
when he learned that he was the victim of
misinformation and his own precipitant
spirit - that not only was France coming
in, but also Great Britain.
When the full history of the events pre
ceding the war is written it will probably
appear that Europe has been devastated in
consequence of the most horrible diplo
matic blunder of all time. Hesitating be
tween peace and war on the morning of
August 1. the kaiser, without waiting for
the verification of that which he had been
told, impulsively authorized the dispatch of
the ultimatum to Russia. If the kaiser is
looking about for a scapegoat, according to
the manner of monarehs, it is not strange
that he fastens on poor Von Bethmann
Hollweg and poor Von Jagow and Lich
nowsky, already in disgrace.
PROHIBITION IN EFFECT
IN ARID ARIZONA
PHOENIX, Ariz., Dee. 14.-The gov
ernor of Arizona has issued a proclamation
putting into effect the recently-enacted anti
alien law and also the law prohibiting the
manufacture and sale of alcoholic liquors,
A HAPPY NEW YEAR'S GREETING TO
ONE AND ALL
The Crosby Massage and Bath Parlors ex
tends to its many friends and patrons “A
Happy New Year.” Especially grateful are
we to those who helped and assisted in the
making of the Crosby Baths “a national
custom” and a habit of the people, and
assisted in the cause of it being one of the
leading and most modern and up-to-date
bathing places in Alaska.
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PARLORS
The Home of the Twentieth Century Turk
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LONDON’S LITTLE ONES
NOT TO BE DISAPPOINTED :
LONDON, Dec. 21. The children of the
British metropolis are not to be deprived
of their usual Christmas treats on account
of the war. It has been decided that the
customary pantomimes and other forms of
Christmas entertainment will be carried out
as usual.
SCANDINAVIAN AGREEMENT
MAY BE IMPORTANT
MAI.MO, Dec. 19. The kings of Nor
way, Denmark and Sweden are meeting
here to formulate an agreemnt to combine
their interests during the war.
Announcement Expected Daily
PETROGRAD, Dec. 21. Word of a new
Scandinavian alliance is expected here daily.
BELGIAN NEWSPAPERS
RESENT GERMAN CENSORSHIP
AMSTERDAM, Dec. 19 -The efforts of
the German military governor m Belgium
to induce the large newspapers to resume
publication have proven futile. The edi
tors will not consent to re enter the field
as long as the censorship lasts.
HAS NOT YET CONSULTED
IDITAROD’S POSTMASTER
SEATTLE, Dec. 19. Governor Strong,
who is here on his way North, states that
he is undecided as to what his message to
(he Alaska legislature will contain.
HEAVY SNOW IN MIDDLE WEST
KANSAS CITY, Dec, 19. -Western Mis
souri and Kansas are today covered with a
blanket of snow, the heaviest of the season.
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Proves a Blessing in Chicago
CHICAGO. Dec. 21. The heaviest snow
fa'l here in years has provided work for
the thousands of uneniplyoed in clearing the
city streets.
RIOTS IN ITALY
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ROME. Dec. 21 The police and also the
military in many places in Italy have been
called out to suppress riotous demonstra
j tions against Austrians.
REAFFIRM NEUTRALITY
ROME. Dec. 19. Before adjournment to
day the Italian senate again voted in favor
of maintaining the neutrality of Italy in
! the great war.
EGYPT HAS NEW RULER
—
LONDON, Dec. 19. Prince Hussion Ke
■ tnal has been named as sultan of Egypt,
England having declared a protectorate.
BRITAIN’S GURKHA SOLDIERS
ARE BRAVE FIGHTERS
LONDON, Oct. 27. Gurkhas make up
1 a large part of (he forces from India now
on French and Indian soil. Splendid serv
ice has been rendered to the British empire
by Sikhs and Dogras, Pathans and Rajputs,
Jats and Baluchis, but the little brown
men from Nepal seem to have captured
the popular imagination in a way that
has no parallel except, perhaps, in the case
of the Sikhs.
Aryan by descent, and professing by way
of faith a sort of purified Hinduism, still
tinged by the Buddhism of earlier days, the
Gurkha is a born fighting man—strong,
sturdy, brave to a fault, famous alike for
his endurance, his dogged tenacity and his
dash.
He has come out victorious from some of
the hardest fighting India has known. He
has been loyal to the British for more
than a hundred years, and nothing will give
him keener delight than to be fighting side
by side with them in the greatest war that
history has ever known.
And these little brown men, with the
bare and silent feet, and the courage that
knows no check, are tremendous fighters.
Hardy mountaineers for the most part, in
ured alike to heat and cold, and wonder
ful marksmen, it would be difficult to choose
better auxiliaries in the task that now con
fronts the allies. Moreover, they are a
keenly intelligent race, and as tough as
nails, splendid in a bayonet charge and
terrible at close quarters.
It is known by the testimony that has
come from the front that the German
soldiers have shrunk consistently from the
contact with cold steel. If it comes to a
hand-to-hand contest, and the little Gurkha
discards his rifle for the long, wide-bladed,
keen-edged kukri, the knife which may be
described as his national weapon, they will
crumple up like eggs.
It is a horrible weapon, the kukri; but
then war is a terrible business at the best,
and if the Germans and Gurkhas come to |
grips, there will be few Germans left to
tell the tale of their encounter with the ;
little brown men from the Nepalese hills.
There are ten regiments of Gurkhas, each
of two battalions, a total of 20,000 men.
Of the first (King George’s Own), and the
second King Edward’s Own), the present
king is colonel in chief. The Third regi
ment was constituted Queen Alexandra’s
Own six years ago.
The first battalions of each of the first
three regiments were raised as long ago as
IS 15, after the first phase of the Nepal
war, and their history is largely the his
tory of the British conquest of India. Bhurt
pore, Aliwal, Sobraon, Delhi, Kabul, Kan
dahar, the Afghan war. the Punjab fron
tier, Chitral, Burma, Tirah—in all these
great campaigns the Gurkhas earned their
laurels. They fought for the English in
the mutiny and covered themselves with
glory.
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Delicacies for Skagway Tables
It is not at all improbable, says the
Skagway Alaskan, that Skagway people
may have an opportunity of eating whale
blubber and fresh whale flank steaks, as
Captain Louis Larsen, together with Victor
LeRoy Sparks, started out with gear and
Skagway school of whales, claiming th-y
were going to Dyea after one of Ernie Rich
ter's spring porkers with which they in
tended to bait an anchor and troll for the
“big fish”.
Valuable Sands Shipped From Nome
R. A. Miller, who has been for some time
investigating a certain mineral deposit on
Burnside creek, in the Candle country, has
a preposition which promises large develop
ments in the near future, says the Nome
Nugget. In spite of the fact that he was
ci nsidered worse than foolish for wasting his
time when practical miners could not get a
color of gold by the most careful panning,
Mr. Miller continued to sink holes and send
samples to the Outside, which gave him
phenomenal returns. The first sample sent
Outside went very high, so he finally sent
out twenty-five pounds, and received for it
$43.25. The next shipment was of one and
one half tons, which gave a return of
$3,290,80 per ton. The deposit, which has
been shown to be extensive by drilling, is a
telluride sand very similar to the telluride
deposits of Nevada. Mr. Miller expects to
work the ground on a large scale, and has
a company known as the Alaska Pickwick
Company which he represents, and states
that this company stands ready to com
mence operations as soon as the larger ship
ment which Mr. Miller shipped out this fall
on the Cordova has been mill-tested and
found to be as rich or even anywhere near
as rich, as the samples which already have
been tested. When it is known that one
man can by a crude process secure a ton
of this sand per day it seems that Mr.
Miller’s mine, judging by his reports, is fab
ulously rich.
Seward Route for Nome Mai!
The distance between Seward and Nome
is 440 miles shorter than the distance be
tween Cordova and Nome, and yet f ir
somp extraordinary reason the mail to
Nome is not sent through this city. Seward
will see its first period of real gateway to
the Interior on the first of November, when
the mail will start for Iditarod. There are
only twelve miles without timber, so that
the trail is an ideal one. Colonel Revelle
will leave in the morning to look over part
of the way. He believes that the opening
of the Seward mail trail to the Iditarod will
mean probably that the mail trail to Nome
will be taken into consideration. During
the winter months the people of Nome are
placed at very serious inconveniences owing
to the length of the trail over which the
mail is carried to them, and to the acci
dental delays which occur in proportion to
the length. There is a movement afoot
now;, it is understood, to get the co-opera
tion of the Nome people for the work of
having Seward chosen as the gateway for
the mail. It is certain that the people of
Nome only wait to learn that they can get
their mail more quickly by this route.—
Seward Gateway.
Capitalist Talks on Alaska
A. C. Frost of Chicago, capitalist and rail
road builder, is registered at the New Wash
ington. says the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
He has just returned from a six weeks’ trip
in northwestern Canada, where he looked
over some of his timber holdings. Mr. Frost
was the builder of the Alaska Central rail
road. “Everything in Alaska has been
slowed up by the government," he said,
“but I believe that the present administra
tion is trying to do something for the
country. I know, of course, that they have '
a good many men up there trying to dis- i
cover the best route for the government ;
railroad. I believe that most of-their work
will have to be done in the winter time,
over snow' and ice, as they were so late in
getting started. I hope that something can
be accomplished, and I believe it will."
Arctic Vessel Back After Five Years
Bringing news of unexplored land and
making its w'ay by sail, with a dead engine,
due to lack of gasoline, the schooner Teddy
Bear, Captain Joe Bernard, which has spent
the past five years in the Arctic ocean, ar
rived in Nome late in September. Captain
Bernard had charge of an expedition pro
moted by a mercantile concern of Nome. |
and from his wanderings in the far North
he brought back tales of tragedy as well as j
word of new peoples in the North. An in- j
cident of the cruise was a meeting with the
explorer Stefansson. Captain Bernard's |
partner was lost in a blizard after a visit j
to a native village. Bernard says he passed
through territory practic.lly unknown, and
inhabited by natives who never before had
set eyes on a white man. Bernard brought
back an interesting collection of birds, fur.
eggs and native copper implements.
Sam Callahan in the Harness
Sam J. Callahan, an old newspaper man
well known in the Interior, will take C. K.
Snow's place on the Record-Citizen \
during tHe winter, while the latter will lie \
in the hills trying to locate the elusive pay
streak. Mr. Callahan’s first Alaska news
paper work was at Rampart in 1904. Since
that time he has had a hand in the game
at Tnnana and was also with the Pioneer in
Iditrod for some time.- Ruby Record-Citi
zen.
Captain John Is Mining
Captain John Worth and E. Hutchinson
came in from Flat creek Tuesday, says the
Ruby Record Citizen of November 7.
Captain Worth will return to Flat next
week to work on the Sutherland ground.
Mr. Hutchinson, who has been in the Poor
man section for over a year, will return to
Flat within a few days, where he expects
to remain this winter.
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PEACEFUL HENRY TAKES
WELL-EARNED VACATION
Henry Vallery, the Ruby water king,
whose delivery wagon and fine dog team !
have long been one of the most notable and |
necessary institutions of the town, has
turned his business over to Walter Goyue .
and will take a long season of rest at Hor- |
ner Hot Springs. The team will continue ;
in service, but Henry’s emphatic “Whoa.
Bill!” followed by the invariable threat to
break every bone in the offending canine's
body, will not be heard.- Ruby Record-Citi
en.
J. E. Riley of the mining firm of Riley & ;
Marston left Discovery early on Monday
morning last for the Outside via the Sew
ard trail. He will make a hurried trip to '
San Francisco and return over the trail in
March.
Billy Schermyer. proprietor of the
Bruhn Halfway roadhouse, made his semi
annual visit to Iditarod this week, and was
a guest at the Adams house. He returned
home last Wednesday.
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Notice of Forfeiture
To John Pedersen and J. A. Carsow, their
heirs anil assigns:
Notice Is hereby given that the under
signed has done the annual assessment
work on No. 13 below discovery, lirst tier,
right limit beneli, and also on No. 1 below
discovery, left limit, first tier bench, on
Yankee "creek, lntmko recording prenm t.
Territory or Alaska, as provided by Samoa
S3S4 of the Revised Statutes or the United
Slates and the laws d Alaska. Tor the years
tote. 1011, 1919 and 1913. That John
Pedersen and .1 A. Carsow are co-owners in
No. is below, light limit, and .1. A. Carsow
is co-owner in No. -1 below, left limit, and
each has failed to pay his proportion. That
ir at the expiration or ninety < 901 days
rrom the first publication or this notice
each of you should fait or refuse to con
tribute ins proportion of said expense, your
Intel', sis will become the properly or the
undersigned. , ,
Hated at Takotna, Alaska, this 6th day or
October, tutu ,1D pAULS0N.
First publication, net. 3 1, 19 i 4.
l ast publication, Jan. 30, 19 15.
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