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AMBULANCE CAMP
The concentration camp of the
United States army ambulance corps |
at Allentown, Pa., has 5,000 picked
young men, many of them out of the
colleges and universities from Wash
ington state to Washington, i>. C., and
from Maine to South Carolina. They
are being prepared in the fundamen
tal essentials required to perform the
gallant deeds which have become so
famous among the rescue squads
along the European battlefronts.
The young recruits are under reg
ular military discipline, and being
trained on the theory that they will
be busy most of the time when they
get on the other side. They live a
barrack life and are subject to the
same rigid discipline to which other
volunteers in the regular service must
submit. About the only break in the
program of application, either physi
cal or mental, occurs after evening
mess, when the students are off duty
until 11 o'clock. Then they gather in
a grandstand facing a former race
track and watch moving picture
shows* Before and after the film
runs, the men sing camp songs, the
words of which are thrown on the
screen. One song runs like this:
Uncle Sammy, we need an ambulance.
Puttees and khaki pants;
Just give us half a chance.
Then, by gosh, we’ll go to sunny
F ranee.
God help Kaiser Bill!—Exchange.
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INSURANCE AGAINST DELAY
Indications in this vicinity point to
n most active winter in railroad con
struction, and it is probable that con
siderable quantity of supplies for hard
rock construction along Turnagain
Arm may be routed this way during
the closed season on Cook Inlet.
Action by the Alaskan Engineering
Commission in letting the contract for
snowshed material to be used at Mile
53 indicates that this heretofore
troublesome spot will not be allowed
to interfere with operations this fall.
Completion of the big trestle across
the Placer River flat will end for many
years the problem of keeping that
perambulating torrent from piling
gravel and slush on the tracks.
With added equipment it will be
easy to push the rotary over the hill,
and clear the line of snow.
Supplies landed at Girdwood, the
end of steel this fall, can be delivered
by sled to practically all points north
until the sections immediately tribu
tary to Rainbow creek are reached.
Large quantities of supplies are be
ing put into these camps now by barge
from the head of Cook Inlet, but as
construction progresses emergency de
mands will come up and shipments
via Seward will be insurance against
delay.
A SEA RAIDER OF PARTS
Unofficial information from Copen
hagen that the submarine Deutsch
land, built to operate between Ger
many anti the United States, has been
fitted out as a commerce raider and
sent to the Pacific to war on shipping
between American and Oriental ports,
gives food for thought.
Should this prove true and the
under-sea giant armed with six tor
pedo tubes and carrying two or three
hundred extra torpedoes in addition to
a couple of four-inch guns on deck,
show up in western waters there will
be a chase unequalled in sea warfare.
British, Japanese and American
warships would concentrate on the old
Deutschland and it would be a game
of hare and hounds on an unprece
dented scale.
The Emden chase, remarkable in a
great many ways, would be as noth
ing, for in reality an armed Deutsch
land comprises a menace more serious
than a dreadnaught, for its striking
power against shipping would be tre
mendous and its ability to dodge
would make hard going for the
hounds.
SIGHT UNSEEN
Seeing is believing, we say. Ami
the phrase, we fancy, expresses the
true test of reality. Unless a thing
can be seen we deny its existence.
Vet each of us live daily an unseen
life.
We builtl railroads and grow corn.
We write books and doggedly pursue
certain embossed bits of paper and
metal. Money, books, corn and rail
roads—these, we say, are real. These
we can see. Yet none of these, in
truth, is other than a mere token of
that great reality — the unseen life
each of us lives and is.
The layman looks at an electric
light, notes the glow and says, “ I
have seen eletcricity.” Yet even the
near-scientist knows that the layman
has seen nothing of the sort. The
light is but a token of the presence
of electricity. Electricity itself has
been seen by no man.
Life is seen by no man; only its
evidences are visible. But life is felt
by all men. And no reality is realer
than that feel of the things none sees
—the self of each of us.
By sight we are privileged to be
lieve not so much in the seen as in
the unseen.—Ex.
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German forces on the eastern front
successfully opened an offensive on
the extreme northern end of the Rus
sian front and if the fighting devel
ops into a sustained attack the first
objective of the Kaiser’s generals will
undoubtedly be the Russian port of
Riga.
The possession of Riga will un
doubtedly be immensely advantageous
in German operations against the
Northern Russian flank.
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OLD SOLDIER
FROM ALASKA !
OFF TO FRONT
Veteran of the Fourteenth Infantry to
Accept Commission If It’ll
Mean Trenches
During the last ten days Sylvester
Prontla, of Haines, Alaska, has been
enjoying the privileges of an ordinary
civilian after a quarter of a century
of service in the United States army,
but he doesn’t like his new position in
the least. In fact, he is in Seattle,
stopping at the Savoy hotel, for only
a few days, when he will leave for
Washington, D. C., where he will de
cide whether or not he will accept a
commission as a major in the United
States army.
“I have been with the Fourteenth
United States infantry for the past
twenty-five years, and I guess I’m
about the only man who ever put in
that many years in the same com
pany,” he said last night, claiming a
record for lengthy service in one com
pany.
“It was in 1892 that I enlisted. My
home was in Portland and I was sent
to the Vancouver, Wash., barracks. 1
saw real fighting in the Spanish
American war and then went from the
United States to the Philippines three
times. Later, part of our company
was sent to Alaska and I have bcva
there since, stationed at Haines.
“I was retired from the active list
on July 30, but on the same day 1
was asked to go to Washington, D. C.,
to accept a commission as a major.
Now I am on my way there. I have
not said whether I will accept or not.
The only condition on which I will ac
cept is that it must be for service
overseas. I have been inactive too
long and I want a little excitement
before I settle down.
“I was never wounded, although I
saw some pretty hard fighting in the
Philippines. If they won’t let me go
oversells I don’t want any more army
life. I’d have been out of it long ago
except that I was always hoping to
pet into action and now’s my chance
and 1 mean to get it.”
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SIX MONTHS’ TIME
FOR WEARING UNIFORM
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 7, (By
Mail).—A six months’ sentence in jail
was today meted out to James T.
Cody, alias Kazlowsky, for wearing
the uniform of a United States ma
rine without proper authorization.
Cody was arrested in Woodland, Cal.,
recently, as a suspect in the explosion
at Mare Island arsenal. At the time
of his arrest he was wearing the ma
rine’s uniform. The government
could not connect him with the ex
plosion, but convicted him of improp
erly using the uniform.
HOOK WORM IN
DRAFTED MEN
( arc* Taken to Prevent An Epidemic
From America Reaching
European Trenches
WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.—Discov
ery of “hook worm” infection in forty
seven out of seventy-five military re
cruits recently sent for mobilization
from the South, has caused the pub
lic health service to recommend imme
diate examination of all units of the
National Guard and National Army.
Especial care will be taken with those
from warmer parts of the ocuntry as
there is danger of introducing a hook
worm epidemic into Europe.
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FRENCH TAKE MANY
PRISONERS AT VERDUN
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PARIS, Aug. 23, (Official).-The
number of German prisoners taken in
the Verdun operations up to last even
ing at six o’clock exceeds 6,100.
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and Anchorage and way points, meets all Seward trams at Kern Creek.
A chance to see the new road on your way to Anchorage.
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\ Northwestern... Aug. 27 Alaska.Sept. 7
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A. H. McDonald, Agent.
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No. 02763.
In the United States Land Office at
Juneau, Alaska, June 21, 1917.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PATENT.
—
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,
That under and in pursuance of the
Act of Congress of May 14, 1898, as
amended by the Act of Congress of
March 3, 1903, granting additional
land to soldiers anil sailors who served
in the army and navy of the United
States during the Civil War, the un
dersigned, Kennecott Copper Corpor
ation, a corporation, the post office ad
dress and place of business of which
said corporation is at the Town of
Latouche, upon Latouche Island, in
the Territory of Alaska, has made ap
plication for a patent to a tract of land
situated upon the westerly side of
Latouche Island, in the Territory of
Alaska, containing 20.73 acres entered
in the United States Land Office at
Juneau, Alaska, under the serial num
ber 02763, and surveyed and platted
as United States Survey No. 713. The
said Kennecott Copper Corporation
has entered upon the said tract of land
as the assignee of Henry J. Engel 1,
who served in the army of the United
States during the Civil War, from Oc
tober 2, 1861, to October 10, 1864, in
Company “I,” 86th Regiment of New
York Volunteers, and who received an
honorable discharge from said ser
vice.
lhe said tract of land lies adjacent
to the Town of Latouche, which said
town lies upon the western side of
Latouche Island, in the Territory of
Alaska, and upon the easterly shore of
Latouche Passage, at Latitude GO de
grees 03 minutes north, Longtitude
147 degrees 54 minutes 50 seconds
west, and the said tract is bounded
upon the most northerly end by the
Gravina lode mining claim, United
States Survey No. 782, and by the
h White Wing lode mining claim, United
States Survey No. 782; upon the west
erly side by the Julia lode mining
claim, United States Survey No. 584,
and by the Creek lode mining claim,
United States Survey No. 584; upon
the southwesterly end by the Eagle
lode mining claim, United States Sur
vey No. 584, and upon the southeast
erly side by the Chinega lode mining
claim, United States Survey No. 584.
A more particular description of said
tract is as follows:
Beginning at Corner No. 1, from
which Corner No. 1 United States Lo
cation Monument No. 1 bears south 87
degrees 20 minutes west, 25.55 chains
distant, and from which Corner No.
1 Corner No. 4 of United States Non
Mineral Survey No. 712, concurrently
entered by the Kennecott Copper Cor
poration, as assignee of the aforesaid
Henry J. Engell, bears north 34 de
grees 29 minutes west, 4.22 chains dis
tant; thence south 27 degrees 57 min
utes west, 22.82 chains following the
southeasterly side line of Julia lode
mining claim, United States Survey
No. 584, and the northerly part of the
southeasterly side line of Creek lode
mining claim, United States Survev
No. 584, to Comer No. 2; thence south
62 degrees 03 minutes east, following
the northerly end line or boundary of
Eagle lode mining claim, United
States Survey No. 584, 9.09 chains to
Corner J\o. 6, the said point being
(identical with the most northwesterly
corner of Big Bonanza lode mining
! claim, United States Survey No. 584,
and the most southwesterly corner of
Chinega lode mining claim, United
■ States Survey No. 584; thence north
27 degrees 57 minutes east, 22.81 Va
chains to Corner No. 4, the said Cor
ner No. 4 being identical with the most
northwesterly corner of said Chinega
lode mining claim, United States Sur
vey No. 584; thence north*62 degrees
03 minutes west, following the most
southerly end lines of White Wing
lode mining claim, United States Sur
vey No. 782, and Gravina lode min
ing claim, United States Survey No.
782, a distance of 9.09 chains to the
place of beginning. Magnetic vari
ation, 26 degrees 30 minutes east.
The foregoing description by metes
and bounds is according to the official
plat and field notes on file in the office
of the Register of the Land Office at
Juneau, Alaska, a copy of which said
official plat is posted upon the land
with this notice of application for pat
ent
Date of posting this notice on the
land, June 14, 1917.
C. B. WALKER,
Register.
Fmpt Pub. Aug-. 8,1917.
Last Pub. Oct 18,1917.