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The socialist candidate for delegate gets only about fifty per cent of the i
\otes secured by the socialist last year and this is something which the peo
ple of Alaska should be grateful for. Alaska is no country for socialism and
the many fine fellows who only believed they Here socialists art to bt j
congratulated on coming o%er to the right way of thinking when they find in
poner a national government nhich is trying to do nhat is right.
Although the democratic candidate for delegate has not been elected he |
has pout'd a splendid vote. Mr. Bunnell has made a good impression and looks j
like a man who can come up smiling. If Burns had run he would have polled
a big vote in the Fourth division and as that is the strongest division in the j
territory he would have probably polled a bigger vote than the man who was
candidate, although Bunnell made a rattling good fight. Burns, however, has
been elected to the legislature from the Tanana and is the only democrat who ;
was elected so that one is likely to think he ought to have been sent forward. |
But, this is only by way of speculation and the only thing to be done is to
wish good luck to the man who won and the man who lost.
The men who ran on the regular democrat tickets for the legislature
made a splendid shoeing. In all divisions democrats have been successful
although they ran as democrats and nothing else*. What is better still; quite a
good lot have been sent to the legislature. Some of the men who went to Jun
eau in the last election "ill go this time and their help in manufacturing our
little legislation ought to be beneficial.
The democrats outside still hold the reins in congress and this is very
satisfactory to the democratic party after all the unpopular legislation put
through since they came into office. On the "hole President Wilson is to be
congratulated and no matter what a man’s politics might be it is a pleasure to
Alaskans to see that President Wilson gets off right.
After the storm of politics comes the shower of success to Seward. This
winter promises to be a most prosperous one. It is apparent now that we shall
be the real gateway *o the interior from Tanana to Nome and from the koy
ukuk to the kuskokwim. It is most likely that we shall have hundreds of vis
itors and that is what we want.
There will be more ranchers around this part of the Alaska coast country
in three years than there are miners today unless all indications are mislead
ing. Almost without our knowing it men are taking up homesteads all along
the coast and there is nothing that hastens the settling up of a farming coun
try like the coming of the first few- farmers. Human beings are sociable
animals and they hate to settle down where they are alone. Get them once
started in a certain direction and they flock that way in always increasing
numbers.
from tho towns into tho country to
work in the fields. The Austrian pea
sants are displaying great ingenuity
in exploiting the state. They refuse
to pay city workers any wages at all
and house and feed them miserably.
For this they claim from the state
four shillings for each worker per day.
The Government, however, declined to
yield to such exorbitant demands. In
Vienaa funds arc being raised to feed
the unemployed but the demand is
constantly increasing since, besides
the unemployed, the city is crowded
with Galicians.
Life in Vienna persues much the
same course as before the war. Cafes
and restaurants are filled and some of
the theatres are open. The Imperial
Court Opera and the Court Theatre
will be opened shortly four times
weekly, the performers having finally
agreed to accept reduced salaries for
a period of four months. Over half
the street railway employes have been
called into the army and in consequen
ce the service has been greatly reduc
ed. Nine hundred men have been en
gaged, but some time must elapse be
fore they are competent to run the
trains. A large number of police have
also rejoined the army, but the city is
perfectly quite and orderly. So far
there have been no demonstrations
against the embassies of the Allied
powers. The prices of food are not
much above the normal although an
advance reported on the wholesale
prices of wheat, barley and rye will
affect the cost of flour and bread. The
price of petroleum has risen consider
ably and many refineries have closed
down. Boring operations have ceased
but exports of Galician oil to Germany
have increased because American oil
is no longer arriving in its usual
quantities.
THE HAGUE, Nov. 3.—Not since
1866 has the decoration known as
“Pour le Merit” been given a lieuten-^
ant in the Germany army. For this
reason the bestowal of this order up
on Lieutenant Otto von der Line, serv
ing in the 5th guard regiment, is of
interest. He was awarded this very
high and covetted distinction because
on August 24 with four men he took
Fort Malonne at Namur before it had
been subjected to artillery fire.
How Lieutenant von der L,ine ac
complished this has been described by
him in a letter to his parents:
“I was ordered to advance against
the fort with 500 men, our course ly
ing across an open field without cov
er,” he said. “Everywhere loopholes
stared at us, and I expected that if
we were not annihilated from them,
the many mines about the fort would
take care of us. Many officers had
volunteered for the task of attacking
the fort, but I was picked out to do it.
“Arrived near the fort I took four
of my men and approached in goose
march, picking our way carefully J
through the field of mines. The draw
bridge was up, and the broad moat fil
ied with water made it impossible for
us to get into the fort.
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A I* STRIA DIKING WAR
VIENNA. Nov. 3.—The women are
now performing the most laborious
tasks even to the loading of freight
cars. Trains are running on most lines
on restricted schedules. There are
hardly any passengers and solitary
soldiers may be seen guarding stat
ions, bridges or tunnels but bodies of
troops even in small numbers are rar
ely seen. All have gone to the front.
Red Cross stations have been set up
in the principal towns and depots pro
vided with vast numbers of stretchers
are ready to receive the wounded. The
well-meant hospitality of the public in
: supplying soldiers with food, delicaci
es and cigarettes is said to have had
an unfortunate effect on the peasant
soldiers who are not accustomed to
such fares. They consumed everything
given them greedily and became sick
in consequence.
The question of the unemployed is
assuming serious proportions especi
ally in Vienna and Budapest. Many
hundreds have been given work in the
construction of fortifications along the
Danube in the neighborhood of Vienna
anti hundreds more have been sent
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“We soon saw the commandant, and
I shouted to him that I had a whole
regiment of artillery in a nearby for
est and that the bombardment would
commence within a minute in case he
did not surrender. After that the com
mandant ordered the drawbridge
down and we entered.
“I then ordered the garrison of the
fort before me. Every man was
searched and disarmed. All arms had
to be left in the fort, I ordered. All
this done with my four men ready to
shoot. We took live officers and 20
men prisoners, while another 400 had
already taken to their heels, as I
learned afterwards.
“This done I ordered my detach
ment to conr.e to the fort. You should
have seen the faces of the officers and
men when they saw my force. Then
the Belgian flag was hauled down, and
one of my men made a German flag
from a Belgian pair of black pants, a
white shirt, and a red French sash.
This we hoisted. Meanwhile we had
inspected the wine cellar and so were
able to celebrate our victory with a
few bottles of champagne. The corks
popped wonderfully.
“The fort had not been bombarded
and 1 held it until 1 was relieved for
other work. We took four heavy 21
centimeter guns, a large number of
small calibre pieces, about 100 rifles
and revolvers, 500 hand grenades and
several thousand rounds of rifle am
munition."
THE HAGUE, Nov. 4.—The present
attitude of Germany towards England,
France and Russia is described in an
editorial of the Berliner Tageblatt of
September 14, which after admitting
that the German advance in the West
has been checked, while considerable
victories for the German arms have
been obtained in the Eastern theatre
of war, says:
“Europe is to be compared to the
back of a cornered boar from whose
sides the blood is streaming. We hard
ly speak of those of us who in the
German colonies and in Kiao-chaw are
calling for help. We think of them,
but do not speak of them.
“The English and French newspap
ers have recently said that the reso
lution of the powers of the triple en
tente not to make peace without con
sulting one another, had made a pain
ful impression in Germany. We hope
that this understanding between Mes
srs. Grey, Poincare and Iswolsky sur
prised nobody here. Those who think
calmly knew this before the first can
non was fired. But this formal assur
ance was merely made to show us the
futility of this war and our successes
in France.
“The indications in the rrenen
Press are that the declaration was al
so intended to quiet the French people.
‘This Anglo-French-Russian declara
tion’ writes the Petit Parisian ‘finds a
justified echo throughout the allied
countries. It will bring the pessimists
to silenec, who already are shaking
their heads and whose fears are an
insult to Russian stamina, French en
durance and English loyalty.' The
Petit Journal calls the declaration an
answer to ‘the tendency to doubt and
to the cowardly and perfidious whisp
ers which during the last few days
have made the rounds in the popula
tion in favor of a despicable enemy.
“But we may accept that a favor
able presentation of the French suc
cesses along the Marne have again
filled the sceptious with hope. There
are in France, people, however, who
have not been the guests of the Czar
who unlike the Paris papers do not
gain by supporting the alliance, whose
personal fate does not depend upon
that of Russia, and whose brain is
clear enough to reason logically to
final results. The promise that France
is to sacrifice herself to the very last
dregs for Russia cannot be reassuring
to such Frenchmen.
“The Times, in a very beautiful
leader, has presented to them the
British resolution not to end this war.
‘Whatevers happens in the west,’ says
this article, ‘Russia and we wil con
tinue the war—if necessary for twen
ty years.’ It is then pointed out, as
did Mr. Asquith, that German indus
try and commerce are in a baa way,
a condition which would continue un
til Germany had surrendered the ter
ritories occupied and had paid the in
demnities imposed.
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wnat were tne iecungs ui me
French when they read the word of a
boaster who talks loudly because he
imagines England secure against *he
suffering of this war? Twenty years
is a long time when the army of the
enemy occupies the center of ’.he
country! No, even the pledges of the
Times are not sufheent to ban the pes
simism which made itself felt in Fran
ce. In all the comment made on the
situation there is but one instance
that could impress the French. The
Petit Parisian asserts that Germany
intends to tell the Russian and Eng
lish: ‘We will crush France and will
then be ready to make peace with you
at the expense of France.’ but this
assertion is false, and the facts will
demonsrate how false they are!
“We are at war with France, be
cause, in consequence of an impolitic
alliance, and misled by intriguers, it
was brought to the side of Russia
But we are principally concerned
with the reduction of Russia. In her
direction we see a diminution and
weakening of a gaint and the making
of guarantees—The moral idea of this
great war and the grand goal for
which, if necessary we will continue
to fight for twenty years, even in
spite of the fact that since the days of
Lemberg we do no longer underesti
mate the magnitude of the task.
“Even those masters of cheap
phrases who do not look death in the
eye as do our brave soldiers in the
field must realize that only the com
plete victory of the Germans over the
Russians can secure the position of
Germany’s future and that a peace
treaty otherwise would be a scrap of
paper without value. As we hope and
believe, the moment will come when 1
the affair which France has forced up- j
on us against our wishes will end fav4
orably for us and when we will be in j
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position to concentrate our efforts
against the Russians. We will see
then whether the English and French
will still have the inclination to dr^g
on the war in favor of Russia indefini
tely. One will then have to ask t ie J
French: Have those of you who have
no personal interests in Russia net,
paid enough ? And then also England
will be asked—with most appreciable
emphasis: Are you willing to risk
more for Russia’s might and rggrand
izement—if necessary for twenty
years ? ”
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T. A M. APPLICATION NO. 41474
Department of the Interior
United Htatea Land Office
Juneau, Alaska, September 3, 1914.
Notice Is hereby given thst the Port Helden
Packing Company of Portland, Oregon, a cor
poration organised under the laws.of ths State
of Washington, has made application In this
office under tha provisions of the Acta of Con
gress of March 3, 1891, and May 14, 1898,
amended by the Ant of March 3, 1903, for the
lands embraced In U. 8. Survey No. 481 as
a trade and manufacturing site, said lands be
Ing located on the east ahore of Port Helden.
Bering Sea. Alaska, In latitude 54 deg. 52
min. N. and longitude 158 deg. 44 min. W.
and more particularly described aa fellows:
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, W. C. Cor. due
E. 1.04 cha., on line of ordinary high tide of
Port Helden, thence due E. 25. cha., to Cor.
No. 2, thence due N. 30 cha., to Cor. No. 3,
thence due W. 13.88 cha., to Cor. No. 4, on
line or ordinary high tide Port Helden, whenee
low point at east entrance bears N. 17 deg. j
30 min. W.. thence meandering along the
ahore of said Port Helden, (1) N. 16 deg. 46
min. W. 14.45 cha., (2) S. 25 deg. 07 min. W.
15.51 cha., to Cor. No. 1, the place of begin
ning, containing an area of 24.69 acres, Mag.
Var. 21 deg. 24 min. E.
Any and all pernons claiming any portion of
aald lands, or deal ring to protest said applica
tion or antry. are required to Ale their said
adverse claims or protests under oath within
tha period of the statute or thereafter they
will be barred.
C. B. WALKER,
Register.
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