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NEW YORK, Oct. 18.—Burial alivo
of babies in trenches with the bodies
of their mothers who had been slaugh
tered or allowed to perish from expos
ure, was practiced by the Turks in
their work of exterminating the Ar
menians, it was declared here today
by the Rev. Henry H. Riggs, mission
ary of the American Board of Com
missioners for Foreign Missions to
Harput. Turkey, who recently came
back to this country. A trench was
dug besido a camp of Armenian wom
en, he said, and as they met death
the survivors were forced to drag their
bodies to it and bury them.
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“The gendarmes said they could not
take care of the babies that were left
behind, so many of those were buried
with their mothers,” Dr. Higgs said.
“When I visited this camp I frequently
saw Turks wandering about among the
Armenians picking out pretty girls
and little children to take away to
their homes. The mothers told us that
they had themselves thrown their ba
bies into the Euphrates river rather
than allow them to be taken to Mos
lem homes. Many more threw them
selves into the river to escape a bond
age of shame worse than death.
10,000 Human Bodies
“About fifteen miles from Harput
is a lake hidden from sight with many
ravines about it. We were told that
the Armenian exiles were being killed
and left in these ravines. Two Amer
icans investigated and brought back
photographs and actual facts. They
saw in a twenty-mile ride 10,000 hu
man bodies, most of them killed by
the bayonet. With a few exceptions
they were women and children and
the mangled condition of their bodies
showed the horrible fate that has been
theirs.”
The story of the deportation of the
Armenians of Harput is one of “per
fidy, violence and murder,” Dr. Riggs
went on, adding, “It is nearer to th<
truth to say the Turkish government
undertook the extinction of the Ar
menian population.” After the issue
of an edict for all Armenians to go
to Mesopatamia, he said, there came
the arrest of all the men of stand’ng.
Beaten to Death
“They were sent out on the road
tied together in groups of two to
five,” he said, “driven and beaten by
the gendarmes. Of the first party of
800, one young man survived to tell
the story of what happened. The party
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was taken into a ravine and ordered
to sit down, he told me. Then the
gendarmes climbed up on the sur
rounding rocks and fired with their
rifles into the crowd of bound pris
oners as long as they showed signs of
life.
“The man who told me the story
succeeded in getting his ki.ife and cut
ting himself loose. As he made his
dash for liberty he was followed by ft
volley of shots but got away unscatl -
ed. All the other men of that and
similar parties were ruthlessly but
chered.
Pitiful Sights
“The women and children were then
started on the road toward Mesopo
tamia in companies of two or three
thousand. By indirect routes they
were forced to wander about until the
summer heat and disease wasted away
the majority. No transportation was
; provided. 1 saw one old man, who
had travelled 200 miles, start out to
go the remaining 250 miles carrying
on his back his pack of quilts and
clothes and on top of that his aged,
palsied wife, who could not walk.
“Often the routes chosen took the
people over waterless deserts where
thousands perished from thirst. I
passed through such a region where
thousands of bleached skeletons each
side of the way told the story of a
waterless journey across the plains in
August.
Air Foul From Dead
“The people who passed thru Har
put from the north usually spent two
or three days in camp within sight of,
my home. The sights we saw there
can never he forgotten. They were
absolutely without shelter, day or
night, from heat or cold. The air was
unspeakably foul from dead bodies ly
ing near. As we approached, the
women and children came around us
like hungry wolves, all restraint lo.-•,
in the one desire for a piece of bread.
“The sick and dying lay around un
der the blazing sun with no one to
care for them, waiting for the end.
One place 1 saw a row of twelve dead
women and children who had been ly
ing in the shade of trees. With them
was one little baby still alive. The
shade had shifted and tTie burning
} August sun had fallen on them and
| killed them. A long trench was dug
i beside the field where these poop re
j were encamped. The people them
selves were obliged to dig and fill it.
As soon as one died she was dragged
to the trench.”
Pestilence Kills
In January, 1916, Dr. Riggs said,
there were 485,000 deported Armeni
ans in Mesopatamia, while in May,
1017, the most careful investigation
showed only 112,000 survivors, more
than three-quarters having perished
from famine, pestilence and massacre
in fifteen months.
“The only bright feature of this ter
rible picture is the help that has ac
tually reached a fraction of these peo-!
pie through relief funds from Amer
ica's ever-ready generosity,” Dr. Riggs
said. “In Harput we were abTe to
give daily rations of bread to nearly
5,000 widows’ and orphans. If more
money had come there were 20,000
within reach equally in need. Upon
the rupture of diplomatic relations,
the Turkish government confiscated
our food supplies and many of these
| people perished of hunger.”
Work of Relief
“Since then, however,” Dr. Riggs1
| continued, “arrangements have beenj
made to continue the relief work thru
neutral agents who are disbursing the
funds and supplies gathered through
the American Committee for Arme
! nian and Syrian Relief in New York
City. The question of saving the rem
nant of the Armenian race, he said,
can be solved only by American gen
erosity.
“The Armenian men are dead,” he
said, “and the women have been
j crushed and cannot long survive the
terrible experiences through which
they have passed. But there are 400,-1
000 orphan children, most of whom
are begging their bread today. The
hope of the future is in gathering to-1
gether these remnants and saving
them for the seed of the future Ar
menian race. These children look to
us today. If they can he fed and
housed and educated for the next ten
years they can constitute the leading
progressive element in the life of a
new Turkey as their fathers did in
the old."
KENNECOTT TO
PAY BIG TAX
TO TERRITORY
Alaska copper and gold mines vviil
pay during 1917 a larger tax to the
territory than in 1916. Althougn tin
bulk of the tax money will not reach
the coffers of the territory until next
February, already small sums art
coming in as the placer camps are
closing.
The Kennecott Corporation leads
the list, and will pay approximately a
$225,000 tax. The Chichagoff com
pany comes second on the list with
about $6,000, although the Yukon
Gold, a Guggenheim corporation oper
ating dredging ground at Iditarod,
will come within a small amount of
an equal sum.
'j he Pioneer Mining Company, op
erating dredges and hand placers at
Nome and the Ellamar company oper
ating a copper mine, will be rivals for
third place with about $”,000 each.
The Berry brothers, operating a
dredge at Forty-mile, will pay in ap
proximately $2,500.
The Alaska Mines Corporation, op
erating at Fidalgo bay, and the (lood
nnv Mining Company, near Ketchi
kan, will pay about $1,000 each.
Among the small producers will be
the Granby Company, Ready Bullion
and the Sulzer mine, with about $‘>00
each.
The big gold mines in Gastineau
channel*, although heavy producers the
year round, are in the development
stage and all surplus is being charged
to developing ground and milling
plants. They will not pay any net out
put tax for 1917.
JAPAN WILL
NOT TRY TO
GRAB CHINA
NEW YORK, October 18, 1917.—
Viscount Ishii, head of the Japanese
mission, speaking here, proclaimed
what he termed “the Monroe Doctrine
of the Far East.” The nobleman,
who is regarded as the spokesman for
his nation to the Western World, gave
warning that Japan would not toler
ate any aggression against the inde
pendence of China, and, further, he
pledged that Japan herself would not
attempt similar aggression.
The “open door” is to say open, ac
cording to the distinguished envoy,
and America’s co-operation in keeping
it open will be welcomed by the Nip
ponese kingdom.
Much satisfaction is being express
ed over the representations made by
the Viscount speaking for his govern
ment. The matter of a close relation
ship between the United States and
Japan in the war could have been ef
fectively blocked by an unfortunate
attitude of the island power toward
China. Japan’s action in taking over,
the German lease-hold, Kiauchaui, in
China early in the war, caused some
to wonder if she intended attempting
to move aggressively toward her j
neighbor. This, despite Japan’s pro-,
testations that the lease-hold would
be returned to China after the war.
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as a quieting answer to such doubts.
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NOTICE OF SALE
If. J. Raymond Company, a corpor
ation, vs. John W. Dudley, §s.
In and by virtue of an Alias Writ
of Execution issued out of the United
States District Court at Juneau, Alas
ka, in the above entitled cause, and
dated the 13th day of September, 1917,
I have levied upon all the right, title
and interest of the defendant in and
to the following real property, to-wit:
Lot Twenty-nine (29) in Block Thirty
(30) and Lot Thirty-nine (39) in Block
Twenty (20) of the Town of Seward,
Alaska, as the same appears of record
in the Recorder’s Office for Kenai Re
cording Precinct, Alaska.
Notice is hereby given, That I will
on Friday, the 20th day of October,
1917, at 11 o'clock in tin; forenoon of
that day, at the office of the United
States Marshal, at Seward, Alaska,
sell all the right, title and interest of
the defendant John W. Dudley, in and
to the following real property: Lot
Twenty-nine (29) in Block Thirty
(30); Lot Thirty-nine (39) in Block
Twenty (20) of the Town of Seward,
Alaska, at public auction to the high
est and best bidder for cash, to satisfy
said execution and cost.
Dated at Seward, Alaska, this 20th
day of September, 1917.
F. R. BREN.NEMAN.
U. S. Marshal.
By ISAAC EVANS,
Deputy.
Published Sept. 20; Oct. 4, 11, Its, 2o.
APPLICATION TO PURCHASE
Land Under Act Relating to Trade
and Manufacturing Sites.
Serial 01585
Department of the Interior, United
States Land Office, Juneau, Alaska,
August 10, 1917.
Notice is hereby given that the Ka
diak Fisheries Company, by its agent
Jacob Kreilsheimer, whose postoffice
address is 412-10 Lowmun Building,
Seattle, Washington, has tiled in this
office its application under the provi
sions of the Act of May 4th, 1896, and
Section 10 thereof, to make Trade and
Manufacturing Site Entry, No. 015*5
of the following described tract, to
wit, U. S. Survey 1080, situate at St.
Paul Harbor near Kodiak in Lat. 57
deg. 47 min. N., Long. 152 deg. 25 min.
45 sec. W., more particularly described
to-wit:
“Beginning at Cor. No. 1, M. C., on
line of ordinary high tide, St. Paul
Harbor, and whence astronomical sta
tion bears N. 00 deg. 13 min. 47 s**c.
E. 55.40 chains, and Cor. No. 4, Sur.
559, bears N. 74 deg. 15 min. 7 sec.
E., 47.82 chains, and W. C. bears N.
25 deg. 29 min. W. 2.37 chains; thence
meandering (1) S. 01 deg. 41 min. W.
3.00 chains (2) S. 70 deg. 5 min. W.
4.50 chains (3) S. 78 deg. 14 min. W.
2.57 chains to Cor. No. 2, M. C.,
whence W. C. bears N. 25 deg. 29 min.
W. 80 links, thence on said course 2.00
chains to Cor. No. 3, thence N. 04 deg.
31 min. E. 1057 chains to Cor. No. 4,
thence S. 25 deg. 29 min. E. 3.53 chains
to Cor. No. 1, the place of beginning,
containing an area of 3.01 acres, Mag.
Var. 24 deg. 45 min. E. Said tract is
situate on the north side of St. Paul
Harbor about 40 chains Northwest of
the village of Kadiak."
Upon said property the Kadiak
Fisheries Company now has and for
some time since has maintained its
canneries, saw mill, cook house, bunk
houses, wharf and other buildings, ap
purtenant thereto.
NOTICE is hereby further given
that any and all persons, corporations
or associations having or asserting an
adverse interest in or claim to the
tract of land so applied for or any part
thereof, may and they are hereby re
quired to file their protest to said ap
plication in the Land Office at Juneuu,
Alaska, that being the office where
such application is pending, setting
forth under oath: The nature and ex
tent of their said claim within the
period of publication, which period has
been set by the Register and Receiver
of said Land Office for GO days, or
within thirty (30) days after the ex
piration of said time as by law pro
vided.
KADIAK FISHERIES COMPANY,
By Chas. Z. Frey,
Its Vice. Pres.
Address:—
Kodiak, Alaska.
Notice of the above application will
be published in the “Seward Gate
way," printed at Seward, Alaska,
which I hereby designate as the news
paper published nearest the land ap
plied for in said application.
C. B. WALKER,
Register, United States Land Office,
Juneau, Alaska.
First Pub. Aug. 24, 1917.
Last Pub. Nov. 4, 1917.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To J. C. Dueken, his heirs and admin
istrators, and to all whom it may
concern:
Take notice that I have done Three
Hundred Dollars', ($300.00), worth of
labor each year in order to hold the
following described quartz claims,
known as the Bonanza, Eureka and
Phoenix Claims, situated on Popof
Island, in the Unga Peninsula Mining
District, Territory of Alaska, the no
tices of location whereof are recorded
in the oihce of the Recorder of the
Unga Peninsula Mining District at
Unga, Alaska, in Book 1, at Page 264,
of Locations for the Bonanza Claim, in
Book 2, Page 50, for the Eureka
Claim, and Book No. 3, Page 39, for
the Phoenix Claim, of the records of
said District for the years ending De
cember 31st, 1913, and December 31,
1914, and December 31, 1915, and De
cember 31, 1916, and unless within
ninety days after this notice by pub
lication you fail or refuse to contrib
ute your portion of such expenditure,
viz: Six Hundred Dollars, ($600.00),
being One Hundred and Fifty Dollars,
($150.00), for each of said years, your
interest in said Bonanza, Eureka and
Phoenix mining claims will be for
feited to and become the property of
the subscriber under Section 2324 of
the Revised Statutes of the United
States.
LOUIS HERMAN.
First Pub. Aug. 31.
Last Pub. Nov. 80.