GERMANS RAGE ONWARD
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thousand were wounded and are now crowding the hospi
tals of this eit v. In addition to the dead and wounded nine
thousand were captured by the Germans so that the total
loss was more than thirty thousand of the best men in the
country. It is admitted on all hands now that the German
losses were greatly exaggerated. The German authori
ties never bothered about denying the stories and only
take into account the actual results of engagements.
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KAISER IGNORED
BERLIN, Aug. 12.—It is known here now that the |
kaiser vetoed the decision to attack Liege by storm hut
that General von Ernmich turned aside his objections im
patiently and ordered his men forward in spite of all that
the emperor could do. The kaiser objected to that man
ner of attack because ot the tright!ul loss ol lile it was
sure to involve but Von Ernmich is another man of iron
and goes to his goal regardless of losses. The Germans
were outnumbered in the lighting but the losses ol the
troops of this nation were exaggerated in the reports sent
out. The victory is regarded as a glorious one here al
though it is known that the progress of the German
forces through Belgian territory will be marked by fright
ful slaughter.
ATTACK RESUMED
BRUSSELS, Aug. 12.—The attack on the remaining
forts at Liege was resumed at dawn this morning and the
great guns are once more booming over eastern Belgium.
The Germans have rested since the capture of the main
city and in the meantime have organized their forces
anew for another bloody struggle. Belgium is still deter
mined to contest every foot of the soil and every man
capable of bearing a gun w ill he used if necessary.
A large French force has now succeeded in coming up
to Namur and is preparing to defend the city. Strong for
tifications with powerful artillery will be encountered by
the invaders and the slaughter is certain to be awful. No
attempt is being made to oppose the German advance in
the open country as the task would he a hopeless one for
this nation.
GERMANS CHECKED
PARIS, Aug. 12.—The French claim today that they
have checked the German advance at Longwey. The tier
mans are using powerful Krupp guns which are doing
awful execution and are believed to he far more effective
than the guns in use in the army of France.
ANTWERP, Aug. 12.—It is reported here today that
the river Meuse is actually running red with the blood of
the men who fell in the lighting around Liege. This is
said to he no figure of speech hut an absolute fact and
there is no reason to doubt it. The river runs by Liege
and flows north into Holland.
REVOLT IN ITALY FEARED
ROME, Aug. 12.—The population of this city and of
other cities in Italy have been reduced to such straits by
the rise in prices that a revolution is feared. The munici
pal authorities have tried to allay the distress by fixing
the prices of food stuffs but there are so many unemploy
ed people in the city that the danger of immediate rioting
in the city is very great. It has been found necessary act
ually to curtail the number of railroad trains running in
the kingdom so that fuel can he conserved for use of the
poor.
It is now thought by many that Italy would not he
threatened with greater danger if she had become a party
to the war.
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ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 11.—Another German air
ship has been destroyed and four of the officers who form
ed its crew were killed. .The big air craft was winged yes
terday in Russian Poland by Russian marksmen while it
was sailing over the country in the work of scouting. The
troops of all the armies are now becoming more skilled in
the business of winging airships and that manner of light
ing and scouting is becoming by far the most dangerous
sort of warfare.
WAR CAUSES TOY FAMINE
NEW YORK, Aug. 11.—An effect of the war which has
been noted here today is that there is a famine of toys in
this city and country. Most of the toys have been coming
from Germany in recent >ears. One result of the famine
is expected to be that this country will now go in more for
the manufacturing of playthings itself. .A similar result
is looked for in other lines.
FLOUR GONE UP
NEW YORK, Aug. II.—The millers have made an
other rise in the price of (lour and it is now a little more
than twenty cents a hundred dearer than it was before the
beginning of the war. News comes from Kansas that the
price will be made much higher from this time forward
and some serious increases in price of other necessaries
are feared also.
REPORT GERMANS REPULSED
BRUSSELS, Aug. 11.—It is reported that the Ger
mans have been repulsed at Fort Serang, south of Liege,
and that they retired after having lost 800 men in the as
sault. The attacks on the forts will be continued, how
ever, by theGermans even while they are preparing for
the opening of the siege of Namur. Great German siege
guns are now being mounted in front of the latter city
which is garrisoned by an allied force of French and (
r»ans and is preparing to make a determined stand. It
will be the last position to he taken by the Germans before
they enter northern France through Belgian territory.
The Belgian government still hopes to be able to check the
advance of the invaders.
SEWARD WINS
CLOSE CONTEST
ALBATROSS MEN GO DOWN
ONLY BY PLURALITY
OF ONE
Two to one in favor of Seward was
the score last evening when the city
bunch met the nine of the Albatross
in a game that was well worth look
ing at. To the wonderful work of
Manthey can be given most of the
credit for the win. He fanned out the
visitors so fast at times that he look
ed rather like a battery of German
artillery in effect. At one time he got
his three with nine, or was it ten,
balls. They just couldn’t find him at
times at all although the crowd seem
ed to hope they could and make that
score even. The Albatross boys are a
game lot and in that ninth innings |
the crowd surely did want to see them I
even up and it looked for a time as if '
they could.
Bos’un Click handled the ball and i
First Lieutenant McLean behind the
bat with him made a good pair.
The Albatross went to bat and the
first man up reached second but he ;
was caught napping on the bag and j
Paul Buckley gave him out. Finne-1
gan, the first man up for Seward, and
the catcher for the home ones, walk
ed to first. He got home on a hit by
Hickey. Pahlman got to third in the
second but an Albatross man took ad
vantage of a couple of errors in the
next innings and scored. Reed and
Manthey hit a peach each and the for
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mer got home. An error let a visitor
to third in the fourth time up but
there was no score and things looked
bad again for the sailors when Taylor
scooped up a single and later got
around to third only to have to quit
empty handed when three hot ones
from Click gave Manthey a taste of
his own medicine. That must have
made Cus sore for the first nine balls
in the next bout took three scalps.
Smith, Hickey and Carlson hit in
the fifth and so did some others until
the bases were full and a score look
ed imminent till the second baseman
of the ship got his man and brought
needed relief. The best the Alba
tross could do in the seventh was get
to second and in the second half Carl
son sacrificed and let Hickey to third
but Click caught the third batter and
again saved. All sides were playing
good ball but neither could score and
in the second half of the eighth pretty
fielding beat Seward when they look
ed very dangerous.
In the ninth with only one run be
hind the Albatross got a man on third
base and tho game got more interest
ing than ever but that home galaxy
kept their wits to the end and come
out on top.
HI Cil.l. IS NOW
GIVING TESTIMONY
SEATTLE, Aug. 11.—The federal
industrial relations commission has
started its hearings here and Mayor
Hi Cill is now giving evidence before
it. Several other prominent people
will also give evidence and the session
promises to be a most interesting one.
Finch’* (ioMen Woddlnjr Rt* at Th# Branch.
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WANTS DEER
ON ISLANDS
I)r. K. Lester Jones, deputy com
missioner of fisheries, says that the
placing of reindeer on the Lribilofr
Island will probably be the saving of
the natives there. Dr. Jones has just
made a careful study of conditions in
the fishery line and has seen this in
dustry in a very clear light which will
enable him to show where much good
can be done. He also investigated
conditions among the natives and not
ed that there has been more or less
injury worked against them by the
stringent laws which govern fishing
and trapping particularly on the
Aleutian peninsula. The lack of edu
cation on the part of the natives pre
vents them from grasping tin* justice
of the new laws and regulations which
stopped the killing of the spa otter,
fur seals etc., just for a meager exis
tence. He believes that as the natives
are a charge on the government these
and other matters should be looked in
to before legislating on them. In
many cases the natives are in want
and sometimes are afraid to fish at
an.
“It is more evident to me than
ever”, said the doctor, “that the
stocking of the islands with reindeer
will be the saving of the native in
habitants”.
The doctor will spend two more
months in Alaska to look more thor
oughly into the fishing conditions and
hopes to he able to make many sug
gestions for new and proper regula
te ns that will benefit the whole ter
ritory of Alaska by preserving a big
industry. He also hopes to lx* able to
suggest how the natives can secure
more work where they art* not now
getting enough. He believes at the
same time in giving the packers and
mild filling men every protection pos
sible anti in avoiding anything that
would injure their business while they
are complying with tin* law and not
injuring the fish supply. Dr. .(ones is
a firm believer in government hatch
eries for tlx* propogation of fish. He
thinks the host way, the only way, to
carry on this work is not to distribute
more fry but to take less eggs and
keep the fry that are hatched to the
fingering stage. After that the fish is
able to care for himself. He believes,
indeed, that this is the only business
like and practical method for the
work of culture. Ho visited the
Afoknags hatchery and was very
much pleased with it and can set some
fine opportunity for its development.
In short, the doctor is pleased with
all hcvsaw and now regards himself as
a real Alaskan with the proper Alas
ka spirit.
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Outing Shoe**, per pair. $1.00
Just odds and ends
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Overstocked—that’s the reason
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