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t. The Gateway
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Gold Fje|ds
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ADVERTISEMENTS BRING RESl LIS _PUBLISHED DAh,Y EXlfcl I SUNDAi______
No| jjj No ,|6 SEWARD. THE GATEWAY TO ALASKA, SATURDAY. APRIL S, 1918._ 1.11 ' .i"h "" < .’j'j
HIGH TREASON
IN BOHEMIA
LONDON MORNING REPORT
TELLS LITTLE OF WAR’S
PROGRESS.
LONDON. April 3.—A municipal
councillor and twenty other officials
of the city of Prague, Bohemia, have
been found guilty of high treason
against Austria. The charge was that
they had given information with the
purpose of aiding the attack against
the empire. They will probably be
shot. The news from the different
seats of war this morning is meager.
Everything is quiet in the west but
the French are making a determined
attack with the intention of reaching
the road leading from St. Mihiel to
Metz.
A Dutch schooner was submarined
in the North sea yesterday. One of
the crew was drowned and seven are
missing. It is assumed that the
schooner had suppiles aboard for this
country.
COME TO TAKE I P
KNIK HOMESTEADS.
Amongst the many who have decid
ed to settle down ami develope home
steads is A. L. Long who has been
with the Alaska Juneau company’s
stamp mill for the past twelve
months. He has arrived and is going
to Knik to join C. C. Fcltner, his part
ner. They have taken up two home
steads about twenty miles out of Knik
and are confident that the country
will be a great agricultural one in a
short time.
ADMIRAL EVANS BRINGS
MANY TO THE WEST.
The Evans arrived just before eight
o’clock this morning carrying a large
bunch of people for the canneries to
the westward. From way points she
brought H. 0. Friedman and five
steerage to Seward. She has the fol
lowing first class passengers and sev
eral steerage form Seattle for Se
ward: Mr. and Mrs. Felix Brown,
R. C. Price, B. H. Howard. Joshua
Dawson. The cannery crews aboard
are for Fort Graham. She has fifty
tons of freight aboard for Seldovia.
REGISTRATION
BIGGEST EVER
MORE THAN THREE HUNDRED
VOTERS ON THE
BOOKS.
At 11:30 a. m. today the number of
people registered for the city council
election was 291. The bocks will be
closed at ten o'clock this evening and j
at that time the total number >n the
books will be in excess of three hun-1
dred. The number already registered
is larger than the number at any
previous election in the city of Se-1
ward. There was very little of any-'
thing new’ in the political line today
and the chances look favorable for
a quiet polling day.
Those people of Valdez who believe
in the Territorial policies of Delegate
Wickersham, and are earnestly fight
ing for the maintenance of the city
dock, met in convention on Saturday
evening last at Pioneer Hall and nom
inated a municipal and school ticket
The nominees for council are: A.
VonGunther, F. M. Boyle, Gus Djarf,
Edwin Austin, Ross Heckey, H. P.
King, and Edwin Wood. The nomi
nees for schools officers w’ere H. M.
Delano and Thos. Donohoe. Mr. Don-,
ohoe has given notice that he declines
the nomination. Mr. Wood objects
to running on the ticket as a Wick
ersham ticket. A second primary w ill
probably be held to fill all vacancies
as that provision wa3 made at the
first meeting. An acceptance will be
necessary as candidates cannot get on
the ballot after a certain time under
the “force bill" recently passed by the
old council.
TO BE KNIK AGENT.
Charley Black left on the Evans for
Knik where he will again act as agent
for the Admiral line.
NORTHWESTERN ALMOST NEW.
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When the Northwestern arrived
yesterday it at once became evident
that she looked almost like a new
vessel. Since she was here before she
has had about $80,000 w-orth of im
provement* mad* on her.
❖ ANOTHER BRITISH ❖
❖ STEAMER DESTROYED. ❖
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LONDON, April 3,—The British
steamer Lockwood was torpedoed and
sunk in the English channel today by
a German submarine. Some of the
merchant vessels recently sunk were
in the thousands of tons class. One
merchant ship submarined was over
five thousand tons. Tne Lockwood is
said to have been of two or three
thousand tons.
ALL SEATTLE KICKING
SAYS FELIX BROWN.
Much Pis-Satisf action Felt at Prohi
bition Law and Other
Things.
That Seattle is entirely dis-satisfied
with the present conditions, which are
due in a great measure to the prohibi
tion law, is the statement of Felix
Brown who with Mrs. Brown arrived
this morning on the Admiral Evans.
Mr. Brown was formerly a prominent
j business man of Nome and the spirit
city. Mr. Brown came to be in the
| advance guard of the tremendous rush
he expects to start in immediately.
I SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST
LOS ANGELES CHIEF.
_
| LOS ANGELES, April 3.—The
grand jury finds that Chief of Police
Charles Sebastian of this city must
stand trial on the charge of miscon
1 duct with relation to two girls who
had been taken in charge as delinqu
ents. The charge has caused one of
the greatest sensations in the city’s
records and oven more sensational
! facts still are expected.
GREAT FIRE IN LIMA.
LIMA, Peru, April 3.—A great tire
occurred in this city last night which
destroyed half a million dollars worth
of property and devastated one of the
chief parts of the town
BRINGING IN BRICK
AND BLOCK FACTORY.
_
Ed. Riner has received a telegram
from his partner P. A. Cunningham,
who went out some time ago, stating
that he is bringing in machines for
the making of bricks and blocks in the
factory to be established by them here
in Seward. A cargoe of cement and
; lime came in for the firm yesterday
and the machines will come on the
Alameda. Mr. Cunningham got the
supplies in Portland
SEEKING LOST TREASURE
ON THE KENAI RIVER.
Another Story of Hidden Wealth
Comc9 From Our Own
Prosaic District.
Over on the Kenai river, Deputy .
Game Warden Ericson says, some
men have taken up again the search
for a treasure supposed to have been
hidden there by the Russians. Mr.!
Ericson has seen himself several old;
shafts and dumps dug by the Russians1
long before Portage Bay got the idea j
that it would be a railroad terminal.
He returned the day before yesterday
from that quarter and at that time the
search was on. There are two stories
about that gold. One is that it was
hidden by convicts, but for the sake
of local color convicts arc always
dragged into stories of Russia. It is
said that some of the natives have
nuggets in their possession from the
hidden bunch but that they keep it
quiet not to let the whites get too
wise.
FAIRBANKS, March 1.—Within
the next week the C E. Heilig customs
mill, at the head of Fairbanks creek
will be ready to start operating, ac
cording to Pat Mahoney, who returned
yesterday after spending several
| weeks on the construction of the1
plant.
The bill to repeal the Sunday clos
ing law as applied to saloons in Alas- j
ka, which was voted down in the ter-'
ritorial legislature Saturday, had been J
introduced by Representative Coombs, j
of the Second division. The vote
stood nine to seven, with Represents
tives Britt, Burns, Driscoll, Heid, Hoi-,
land, Moran, Shoup, Snow and lansey
voting against repealing the law,
while Representatives Coombs, Daly,
Day, Getchell, Heckman, Noon andj
Speaker Collins voted to repeal.
Three of the Second division dele
gation wanted the law repealed be
cause they declared that “the carpet- j
bagging officials sent to Nome had i
discriminated against general business
at Nome, by allowing only drug stores ,
bakeries and an undertaking establish
ment to remain open.” Representa
tive Daly said that district attorney
and judge at Nome had allowed the
moving picture shows to remain open
on Sunday in direct violation of the
law. He said the people in this divi
j sion viewed the “discriminatory
tactic*” with a great deal of auspicion.
ju. S. OFFICERS
! LEAVE GERMANY
I AMERICAN GOV ERNMENT SENDS
OUT OMINOUS
ORDER.
—
.BERLIN, April 3.—The United
States government has ordered all
I United States army officers who are
attached to the German armies as
- observers to return home. The reas
on for this extraordinary order is not
j known unless it can mean that Wash
ington wishes to show its irritation at
| the accidents to American ships and
American sailors at the hands of the
German ship commanders. Ai few
papers here suggest that the order
means nothing else than that the
United States is about to interfere in
Mexico while at least in one quarto/
; it is suggested that the American
| government sees danger of war with
! this country looming up. Iho latter
I idea is scouted, however, in most
1 places.
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LONGSHORE STRIKE ENDS.
VANCOUVER, B. C., April 3.—
1 O'Connor, president of the interna
tional union of longshoremen, declar
ed here today that the strike of long
shoremen in this place and on Puget
Sound is ended and that its renewal
need not be feared for the present.
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•> NO APOLOGY FOR *
* DESECRATING FLAG. *
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WASHINGTON, April 3.—Secre
tary of State Bryan states that no
apology will be asked from Zapata
on account of the desecration of the
American flag at the time of the mur
der of McManus in Mexico City. Mr.
Bryan has found that the act was due
to lawless persons for whose actions
Zapata could not be held responsible.
Carranza had not answered the pro
posal to make Mexico City neutral
territory up to this morning but an
answer may yet bo received today.
LABOR MEN WILL TRY
TO BRING ABOUT PEACE
Conference Being Arranged Between
Leaders of International
Unions.
NEW YORK, April 3.--A confer
ence is now being arranged between
international labor leaders for the
purpose of trying to make plans for
the bringing about of peace in Europe.
It is hoped that the labor leaders of
some of the belligerent powers will
be prevailed upon to create a senti
ment in their respective countries
against the war. The conference like
ly will be held in this city but this is
to be arrangod later.
BUFFALO LOST
AT SHIP CREEK
GETS INTO ICE, INJURED AND
HAD TO BE
BEACHED.
The Buffalo was lost three days ago
near Ship creek according to informa
tion received over the long distance
phone from Mile Thirty-four today.
Her loss was due to the fact that she
got into the ice at Knik and drifted
through it to Ship creek where a
storm came up and battered her so
badly against the floes that several
holes were knocked in her hull while
the engines also went back on her and
made it necessary to beach the little
vessel. She is a gasoline craft of
about fifty feet in length. No mishap
came to anyone aboard.
H. F. Alexander, manager of the
Admiral line of steamships, and a
member of the Jackling party, which
visited Juneau a few days ago, is an
other financier who is self-made
Six or seven years ago Mr. Alexan
der was working as a longshoreman
on the wharves at Tacoma. Today he
is president of the Pacific 'Alaska
Navigation Comany.—Juneau Empire.
H. J. Christofferb, of Fairbanks,
Alaska, who has been the head of the
U. S. Bureau of Fisheries furwardens
for several years, and was previous
to that scientific assistant in the bu
reau, on March 12, was appointed as
sistant Alaska salmon agent. Mr.
Christoffers has recently been station
ed in Seattle, for the purpose of pur
chasing supplies for the fur seal isl
ands, but left for Fairbanks on March
9.—Pacific Fisherman .
FINLAND MAY
BE THE NEXT
RUSSIANS HEAR THAT GERMANS
WILL INVADE THAT
COUNTRY.
...
PETROGRAD, April 3.—That Fin
land may be the next country' convert
ed into Dattle fields seems likely from
the information which has reached
the Russian government. It is learn
ed today that Russia ic concentrating
large forces along'the Baltic shores
of Finland to be ready to repel an at
tempted invasion, The Germans ar*
said to have received appeals from
the leaders of the Finlanders to land
an army to aid a revolt to be started
by Finland itself to gain its freedom.
The newspapers are already calling
for the execution of the traitors but
the full facts relating to the matter
are not yet public. The Russians
have now engaged in offensive move
ment3 from the Baltic to the border
of Roumania. The Germnas are be
ing forced back in North Poland and
a series of fortified ridges in Lup
kow and Uszok passes have been tak
en from the Austrians.
EITEL GETS
OFFJN STORM
GERMAN CRUISER BELIEVED TO
HAVE ELUDED
ENEMIES.
WASHINGTON, April 3.—That the
German converted cruiser Prince Eitel
Frederich shot suddenly out of New
port News last night during a snow
storm and eluded the waiting cruisers
and is now freely once more plough
ing the Atlantic in search of allied
shipping is the belief in this city.
However, the wires are down this
morning and no definite word has
been received from Newport News.
A terrific storm accompanied by a
thick snow fall raged last night along j
the coast. The story is that when j
Captain Tlrerichens of the Eitel saw
the storm coming he quickly got ready j
and as the storm was at its height he
weighed anchor and slipped out to
the open sea. The storm was such
that It would be next to impossible,
for a cruiser to see or catch the Eitc!
and it is fully believed that she has
escaped. She was formerly one of the
German Lloyd liners on the Atlantic«
and is very speedy,. As a merchant
ship she was under the command of
a German merchant captain but Cap
tain Thierichcns of the imperial navy
wfas given command of her when she j
was converted into a cruiser at th*.
beginning of the w'ar. Since his ar
rival at Newport News, Thierichem
has always declared that he would
again sail away but so risky did the;
proceeding promise to be that he was .
thought to be bluffing. The episode
forms the chief war subject along this
coast today.
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SMISER TAKES OATH.
JUNEAU, April 3.—James A.
Smiser, of Tennessee, took the oath of
trictoffice as district attorney for the
First Division yesterday.
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WILLARD IS
NOW FAVORITE
ODDS NOW SIX TO FIVE
AGAINST JACK
JOHNSON.
HAVANA, April 3.—Willard is now
favorite in the great fight to take
place here for the heavyweight cham
pion next Monday. The betting to
day is six to five on Willard and lots
of Willard money still in sight. The
hard hitting qualities of Willard are
chiefly depended upon to bring him
victory. There is a feeling that if he
gets in a real blow at the negro the
bout will be quickly concluded for he
is unquestionably the hardest hitter j
appearing in the ring for many a long
year... The Johnson crowd, however,
seems to be just as confident but their
confidence has not tempted them to
put up enough money to reduce the
odds against their rhan.
MAIL COMING.
The mail from the interior arrived j
at Mile Thirty-four today on the way,
to Seward.
LUMBER JACK
MURDERS FOUR
SHELTON, WASHINGTON IS
SCENE OF HORRIBLE
BUTCHERY.
SHELTON, Wash., April 3.—A
logging camp at this place was the
j scene of a frightful occurrence yes
i terday when 0. Steele, a dismissed
I logger, was overtaken with a homicid
! al maniu and killed three employ ess
of the camp before committing
suicide. He attempted to kill a fourth
man before turning the gun on him
self but he succeeded only in severely
wounding him. Steele has been dis
j missed from the employment of the
I camp a day or so before the murders
and evidently blamed some of the men
I he killed for being the cause of !os
i ing his job. His actions were accomp
lished with thorough determination
and many others would have fallen
victims to his frenzy had he been
| given the chance.
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MAKES COLI) RECORD FOR
NEW ORLEANS WEATHER.
NEW ORLEANS, April 3.—The
(oldest April weather for twenty
four years here was recorded today
when the temperature stood at fifty
two degrees.
WHEAT PRICE PROBE
TO BE ABANDONED.
WASHINGTON, April T—It is be
lieved that the whe^t price probe will
be abandoned as the price has fallen
and che necessity for the probe has
disappeared.
GATEWAY BRINGS NORTH
SECY. OF STATE SENATE.
In the mail this morning the Gate- j
way received a letter from J. J. Laton,;
secretary of the state senate of Colo-,
rado asking to have his subscription
to the Gateway continued for three
months more, by which time, he says,
ho will be in Seward himself as he,
feels it to be the best place in the j
United States for the future. He
says mighty nice things about this
paper which he has been taking for
some time and wihch has influenced
him in his decision.
EVANS TOMORROW NIGHT.
Agent Blue of the Admiral line ex
pects the Evans to return late to
morrow night on the way outside.
SEATTLE, March 25.—Judgment I
for $15,000 and costs was entered to- j
day against the American Pioneer,
Mining Co. of Nome in favor of How- j
ard B, Ames, C. L. Black and C. A. ]
Vogel, as the balance due with inter
est on a lease of Nome claims.
WANTS EMBARGO!
ON EXPORTS:
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V I
CONGRESSMAN SAYS THREE |
HUNDRED THOUSAND
WILL SUFFER.
NEW YORK, April 3.—Congress
man Metz of New York declared that
an embargo on goods shipped to Eng
land will be found to be necessary
for this country to make Britain raise:
its blockade of the German and Aust- (
rian coasts. He says that if the Brit
ish blockade is enforced it will mean
throwing three hundred thousand men j
out of employment in the United
States and that such a condition of;
affairs will be worse for Americans
than a panic. He is supported in this
view by an immense number of New
York people. He is known to be a
sympathizer with the cause of the
Germans but he is even backed up by
some who are on the opposite side.
YE GODS!
JUNEAU. — Representative Britt!
has introduced a bill to prevent child-.
ren from appearing on theatrical
stages.
The funeral of Louis Schonborn, the
Chisana merchant who was myster
iously murdered in that camp on Dec
ember 26th, was held in Puyallup,
Wash., to which place his remains had
been shipped on Thursday, March 4th.
Mr. Schonborn was a prominent
member of the Masonic order, w’hich
had charge of the funeral. He was
also an Oddfellow. He is survived by
a sister, Mrs. Jams Clement, of South
Hill, Puyallup, and by a nephew
Clifford Schonborn, connected with
the Puyallup Mercantile Company.
❖ INSANE MAN CRUCIFIES *
<• HIMSELF IN TEXAS. *
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BERNHAM, April 3.—Insane and1
letting his weak mind dwell on the
event which Good Friday represents
i John Divokey was so carried away
that he made a cross here yesterday
and crucified himself. In his effort to
nail himself to the cross he mutilated
himself so frightfully that he was
dead when discovered.
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FUR FLIES IN THE
TERRITORIAL SENATE.
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Hot Debate Over the Location of the
Federal School of
Mines.
JUNEAU, April 3.—Fur flew in the
senate yesterday over the question of
recommending to the administration
the location of the proposed federal
school of mines. Each delegation
wanted the school for its own particu
lar district and some very “hot" re
marks were passed. Another spirited
debate took place over the distribution
of funds and on the whole the session
was a remarkably earnest one, fo say
the least. Gaustad and Sutherland
made a strong fight to have the mine
located at Fairbanks. But the whole
matter lies, of course, with the feder
al government. The governor has
signed the wolf bounty bill. Thi»
measure has been fought for a long
time by Senator Sulzer to save the
deer in southeast Alaska.
•» VAN HORN APPLIES ♦
* FOR HABEAS CORPUS. *
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BOSTON, April 3.—Werner van
Horn, who is under arrest on the
charge of dynamiting the bridge be
tween Canada and the United States
has asked for a writ of habeas corpus.
He declares that he is answerable only
to the state department for dynamit
ing the bridge as it was an act of war
and not a crime and is punishable
only by a governmnt directly if at all.
CHICAGO PAINTERS TO
HAVE AKBITRATON.
Women’s Political Meeting Broke;
Up in a Terrific
Fight.
CHICAGO, April 3.—The striking
painters agree to let their troubles
be arbitrated and Samuel Gompers be
lieves that the feared general strike
will be averted. Women held n poli
tical meeting here today which broke
up in a general free for all fight. The
riot was started by some of the wo
men in the body of the hall when
the speakers uttered sentiments they
were opposed to.
GALE SWEEPING ATLANTIC.
NEW YORK, April 3.—A violent
gale is still sweeping the Atlantic
coast and prevents several liners from
sailing. No further nows had been
received from Newport News late
this afternoon so that the story about
the Eitel has not ben confirmed.
NEWS NOTES
B. H. Howard arrived on the Evans
and will be with the Miner's store
this summer.
Karl von Thiele, the well-known
moving picture man from the interior,
arrived on the Evans. He has been
particularly interested in the Pathe
Weekly films.
J. F. Mcfferd, a builder of Seattle,
has arrived in Seward to make his
home and engage in business.
Among passengers oji the steam
ship Admiral Evans arriving from
Seattle this morning were two can
nery crews of Chinese from Portland.
Thirty-tw'o of the Orientals under
foremanship of Moy Chee are for the
Seldovia cannery and 23 under Fok
Gee are for Port Graham.
John Collins, who mushed out from
Ship creek last w’eek ^fter lumber
for a pool room which he is building
at that place, was a passenger on the
Admiral Evans today for Seldovia, re.
turning to the creek.
S. S. Soper started for Ship creek
on the Evans today, to open a barber
shop.
J. C. Tolman who is on his way
home will get off to spend a few days
in Juneau and come on the next boat
or so.
No new candidate announced him
self today fer election to the city
council so that the total number of
candidates so far is twelve. Each of
those twelve seems to think his elec
tion sure but it doesn’t seem to figure
out right considering that there arc:
only seven places to be filled. The:
election question seemed to cause lesp
talk today than yesterday or the day
before but that might be because a
boat came in.
GREAT RUSH
FDR SEWARD
JOSHUA DAWSON COMES WITH
BIG OUTFIT FOR CROW
CREEK.
That the greatest rush in the hi.->
tory of the north Pacific coast will
occur to Seward the very minute
President Wilson officially tells where
the work will begin is the belief of
those who came up or. the Evans.
Joshua Dawson, a brother of Dick
Dawson, who has come to open opera
tions on Crow creek, says that the
papers and others are trying to keep
the people back for the present but
that thousands are just crazy to get
on the move to Resurrection bay. Mr.
Dawson is taking nine men to Crow
creek to establish their saw mill and
electric lighting plant and he will also
complete the work on their big dam.
His brother, Dick, will leave Seattle
April 15 and the intention is to have
the dam and everything else ready for
the beginning of operations. Thirty
men will be employed for the summer.
NEW ARRIVAL GOES
CRAZY AND GOES OUT.
Adolph Bojunga was adjudged insane
today by a jury in the commissioner’s
court and will be sent outside on one
of the next boats. He arrived here
some time ago from Juneau and put
up at Lucky BaldwYTs hostelry. He
seemed to be laboring under an hal
lucination that people were talking
about him and telling lies. He was
arrested yesterday. The unfortunate
man is said to be a native of Ger
many.
WICK ERSH A M A DDR ESSES
A JOINT SESSION.
Tells Local Legislators of Importance
of the School Land
Districts.
JUNEAU,"April 3.—Delegate Wick
ersham addressed the legislature in
joint session yesterday. He urged the
importance of establishing and pre
serving school land districts for the
future.
NEW STREETS
FOR SEWARD
HISTORY TOLD IN TERMINAL
ADDITION BY AVENUE
NAMES.
The streets and avenues in the
Terminal addition to the town of Se
ward have all been named and the
names suggest with a sort of poetical
ingeniousness the whole story of Se
ward and the construction of the gov
ernment railroad. The addition was
purchased by Joe Johnson, the asses
sor of Chelan county, Washington,
who went out yesterdas' to his home
town. By reading the names of the
avenues from north to south and
placing all the names together we
have it suggested that f)*om that point
we can see the railroad lermina! while
the names of the president and secre
tary of the interior are thrown in to
pay compliment to these great friends
of Alaska, although their names ap
pear as part of the story' which the
titles of the avenue teil. Thus, the
first avenue to the north is View
Avenue. The next is Woodrow Ave.,
and so on until by reading the names
of all the avenues from top to bot
tom we have View, Woodrow, Lane,
Government, Railroad, Terminal, Se
ward, Alaska. Across run the streets
intersecting those avenues and by
reading the names of those streets
from east to west we have Outlet,
Matanuska, Navy, Coal, Fields.
SITKA, March 26.—Fire last night
destroyed the new part of the Sitka
Hot Springs Sanitarium, including the
kitchen, dining room and six bed
rooms. Three cottages, the store and
postoffice were also destroyed.
The fire started in Dr. F. L. God
dard’s cottage, and in tv’enty minutes
the whole place was a^aze.
All the personal effects of Dr. God
dard, Mrs. Goddard, Miss Clunas and
Mr. Brady were burned, saving only
the clothes they wore. The buddings
mentioned, and most of their contents
are a total loss.
Men, assisted by natives, saved the
large building and the bath house
by heroic work.—Empire.
FOR SALE
Typewriter, practically new.