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BRING YOUR KNITTING
A million knitting needles flashing
in autos speeding over boulevards
and country roads. Millions more in
homes and clubs. Everywhere flash
ing the needles of democracy.
A million useful articles such as
caps, socks, undercoats for volunteers,
growing under the swift strokes of
white fingers clicking those needles
musically. That is one expression of
patriotism evoked by the war.
In Seattle, women, invited to take
a jaunt, are requested to “bring their
knitting.” just as their mothers and
grandmothers were asked to do for
every cabin party in pioneer days
everywhere in the United States. Re
ports from other cities and towns in
dicate that this beautiful custom of
knitting for the soldiers is universal
in this country now.
A year ago not many women of
gentle birth or culture could have
been persuaded to knit openly in an
automobile while riding through the
streets of a city or over the country
roads. Such an exposition would have
occcasioned a humorous chuckle at
least, if not an expression of criti
cism. Now, to be without knitting
needles in otherwise unemployed mo
ments is a custom more honored in
the breach than in the observance by
all the women of the land, rich or
poor. Mothers of girls anti the girl.s
themselves in groups everywhere
knit, knit, knit, their conversation
pleasantly punctuated by the clicking
of the bright little rods of steel or the
transparent shafts of iron or ivory.
What of this knitting? How shall
these gifts to the volunteers be meas
ured? Who shall number the many
stitches, every one a gift in itself, la
den with a loving thought, a hope, a
prayer for the brave soul who is to
w'ear the finished article.
Every stitch a present! Thousands
of stitches in each article! Some sac
rifice made to buy the yarn, high
priced enough, too high, when the use
is considered, certainly—a nation of
knitting women, thinking only good
thoughts for those who are to be the
recipients of their labors—it is a won
der-working picture of the imagina
tion. For it requires imagination to
see all this work going on all over
this broad land, morning and evening
and at mid-day, in season and out of
season, at home and abroad.
Many a young man will be strength
ened in the hour of peril, of weariness,
of temptation, by feeling under his
fingers the soft wool knitted into
some article of comfort for his sake.
Many a one, wounded and dying on
the fields of wrath, under the midnight
stars, will feel the influence of the
gentle prayers breathed into those
stitches with every kiss of the nim
ble fingers guiding the flashing steel.
Who shall say what battles may be
won by those slender needles as well
as by the flashing sabers, the spitting
rifles or the roaring guns Who shall
say what souls of far-ofT boys in the
trenches will be purified and made
cleaner for eternity with thoughts of
these generous and kindly deeds, sym
bolized before their eyes by the work
of gentle hands
Come and bring your knitting,
mothers and wives and daughters.
Come to the minds and the hearts of
our brave young soldiers, in camp and
on the march, here and overseas—for
you are knitting together with firmer'
links the great wide-world democracy
for the salvation of the universe.—Ex. J
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THK DOGS SHOl'LD WORRY
Now that we are to have a “dawg
law” and all hounds must be chained
up. it will be noticed that the dogs
will be on hand the same as usual.
\o, we are not the least bit carried
away by the idea that this law is to
be enforced any more than is the law
against letting horses and cows ca
vort around the streets and war gar
dens.
Some laws are passed because the
officials want the right to enforce
purposes, and others to put up a
them, if neecssary, some for other
front. In just which class this one be
longs we are not prepared to say, but
we will be agreeably surprised if it
is rigorously enforced.
FAIRBANKS IN
THROES OF AN
EDITORS ROW
Quarrel Starts When Editor of Citi
zen Starts In to Roast
Had Trail
FAIRBANKS, Aug. 9, (By Mail).—
A bitter newspaper controversy,
which broke out here shortly after the
return of Harmon Caskey, publisher
of the Fairbanks Citizen, culminated
today in the arrest of Caskey on the
charge of criminal libel sworn to by
Publisher \V. F. Thompson, of the
Fairbanks News-Miner.
Friends of Caskey claim Thompson
never hollered “bull” before, and that
the whole matter has been organized
by the federal courthouse ring which
has always been bitterly opposed to
Caskey and his paper. J. Harmon
Caskey is publisher of the Daily Citi
zen.
The row commenced to get warm
IN HIS ELEMENT.
— Batchelor in New York fcvenmg journal.
after Caskey on August 3rd published
an editorial referring to the Fair
banks train as the “Richardson Rut.”
The editorial under the caption, “We’ll
l)o It,” follows:
“In his latest defense of Richard
son Rut, the editor of the News-Miner
says that if Secretary Meyer knew
that the roads of Alaska are bad, ho
might help to better their condition.
That is the reason why we roasted the
Valdez trail.
“But we do not believe the trail
should be considered as a gift horse,
and whether the money comes out of
our pocket or out of the federal treas
ury is immaterial. Interior Alaska
adds enough mineral wealth to the na
tion in one year to build a graveled
highway from Fairbanks to the coast,
and if the government is sick of the
job of trying to muddle through with
its trail building program it should
say so and pass the buck up to the
territory.
“The Valdez trail is a military post
road, and as such is designed for our
military protection. As a military pro
tection we must admit that it is a
humdinger. If the enemy should at
tempt to march up the “military road”
to Fairbanks they would be engulfed
in mud before they reached Sour
dough, as completely as were the hosts
of Pharaoh engulfed in the Red Sea.
“The Citizen is not necessarily try
ing to got anyone’s scalp. There is
no politics in our honest, and we be
lieve, justifiable, appeal for a better
trail. We believe Interior Alaska is
entitled to it, and we are going to do
all in our power to get it.
“It is time for us to quit looking
upon everything as gift horses and it
is up to us to realize that, though a
new country, we have some rights,
and we should get together and se
cure those rights, and not worry about
whose corns are tread upon.
“The gist of the News-Miner’s ar
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MFTY NEW
DANCING FROCKS
Wool Dresses and Coats
c
Just Received at
Ellsworth’s
gument is this: Tush, tush, don’t say
a word. This is all ‘pap,’ you know.
What if the funds arc being wasted?
It is nothing directly out of our pock
ets and the road commission may do
the trail some good on the money
available. Does Alaska need this kind
of pap? We say ‘No!’ ”
The News-Miner came back with
hot shot and after an issue or two the
original cause of the dispute was lost,
comments becoming personal.
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No. 02763.
In the United States Land Office at
Juneau, Alaska, June 21, 1917.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOU
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 and 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 I,
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.
The said tract of land lies adjacent
to the Town of Latouche, which said
town lies upon the western side or
Latouche Island, in the Territory of
Alaska, and upon the easterly shore of
Latouche Passage, at Latitude 60 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
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 Survey
No. 584, to Corner 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. 684, 9.09 chains to
Corner No. 3, 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 comer of
Chinega lode mining claim, United
States Survey No. 584; thence north
27 degrees 57 minutes east, 22.81^
chains to Comer No. 4, the said Cor
ner No. 4 being identical with the most
northwesterly comer 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 postea 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.
First Pub. Aug. 8,1917.
Last Pub. Oct 18,1917.