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INTERNAL GERMAN TROUBLE.
While the outside world gets no political news from
Berlin except such colored or fragmentary reports as the
government wishes the world to receive, enough facts and
comment have leaked out to show that the war party and
a considerable section of the reichstag are openly split.
We mav take with several grains of allowance the state
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ment. telegraphed from London, that Ludendorff and
Hindenbitrg threaten to resign if Socialists of the Dr. von
Kuehlmann type continue to press their demands, but it
is reasonably certain that the breach between the militar
ists and the non-militarists has very recently grown wid
er.
There must be something more than mere opinion in
the statement: "Neutral observers declare that the gap
between the German parties suddenly has become a chasm
so wide that there is little hope of bridging it. and that the
development of an internal crisis of serious proportions
is inevitable.” The plain people of Germany have always
been servile, and it is unthinkable that an uprising against
the government could be effected; the people and the sol
diers have too long been trained to blind obedience.
But what changes may not have come over the mind
of the plain people of Germany in the past three and a half
years? Hitherto war has always been profitable for
Prussia. Outrageous indemnities were always imposed
on the vanquished. Rich territory was annexed and Prus
sianized. Prussia became rich, powerful and aggressive,
and under Bismarck’s policy of blood and iron created
Germany. At the beginning of the present war the kais
er promised his people the same kind of harvest as attend
ed the Franco-Prussian war in 1871, but the fruit multi
plied many times, and they believed him.
And what has been the reward for the awful sacrifice
of blood and treasure? Promises, and more promises,
and yet more promises, and “Onward with God!" slogans,
and official lists of dead so long that for several months
the government has not dared to publish them, and Ger
many’s invincible armv no nearer victory than when it
met another invincible army on the banks of the Marne
more than three years ago, and is now filling its depleted
ranks with boys of 16 and IT.
Is it at all strange that an internal crisis of serious
proportions should have developed? If the plain people
do not know, at least their leaders know that Germany, in
order to win the war must also defeat the United States—
an impossible task. If the Prussian miltary autocracy
dared to allow public expression of the sentiment of the
plain people Germany would be disclosed to be more war
weary than the people of any other nation engaged in the;
great war.
The report that S. Q. Clark make? regarding the Nu
ka Bay mining property is most satisfactory to Seward
people. "It looks good to me from -present indications
and mining machinery will undoubtedly be installed on the
property this coming summer.” In these words Mr. Clark
verifies reports from that district before. Whatever is
done at Nuka Bay. Seward will reap the benefit. And
there are undoubtedly other good properties besides the
one Mr. Clark is interested in.
The importance of the herring industry in this sec
tion of Alaska must not be overlooked by the people. The
despised little fish, formerly used for bait, is coming di
rectly into its own. The other day in Seattle $23 was paid
by the barrel for the Alaska product.
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DEMOCRACY IN GERMANY
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SECRET\RY .M’ADOO WOULD
DISCOIRAGK lTSE OF GOLD
IN MAKING IT DAY ROLLS
The following statement has been
made by Secretary McAdoo:
The use of gold coin as a circulat
ing medium leads to rapid abrasion
and consequent loss of value. I here
is a real economy in using currency
in all ordinary domestic tiansactions,
letting coined gold be used as secur
ity hi bind gold certificates and as re
serve for Kedeial reserve notes and
other forms of paper currency or for
foreign exchange settlements in cases
where nothing else can be used in ad
justing international balances.
There are some linns and corpora
tions, however, in various sections of
the country which have been accus
tomed, in making up their pay rolls,
to use machines for.counting money.
While there is no objection to the use
of these machines in handling silver
j coins, the use of gold in them in times
like the present must be discouraged.
In most cases firms and corpora
! lions which have been using gold in
these machines have discontinued the
| practice, realizing the importance of
protecting the country's gold supply
j ami of discouraging the wasteful use
of gold for pay rolls, especially as in
I most cases the recipient of the gold
j coin would prefer paper money, in
some cases, howevi r, paymasters have
set n fif to consult their own conven
ience and continue to make demands
upon the banks for gold coin for pay
roll purposes. The banks, realizing
i tin* waste incident to the use of g*»!d
1 for such purposes, have objected to
meeting tin demands of the paymast
ers, but in some instances have been
threatened with the loss of the ac
count in case of their failure to com
: ply statement being made that other
| banks in the community would be will
ing to furnish the gold in considera
tion of the transfer of the account. It
I is hoped, however, that upon reflec
tion firms and corporations whicn are
still using gold and banks which signi
fy their willingness to furnish it will
realize tnat this is a selfish and un
patriotic attitude, and that for the
sake of the good of the country in
these serious times they will subor
dinate considerations of personal con
venience or of profit to the general
welfare and be content to make up
their pay rolls in currency, using sil
ver coins, of course, for fractional1
payments.
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VNY WOMAN C AN DRESS
WELL ON $300 A YE AR
NEW YORK, Jan. 25. — “Sane
Dress Statistics,” issued by the Chi
cago Designers’ Association, insist
that 4 any woman can dress for any
position in society on $300 a year.
“Quite right,” says the pessimistic
woman, ‘‘but where are we to get the,
*300?”
“The at tide makes an allowance of!
$30.for furs, $5 for one corset, $30 for!
one party diess and $25 for “three or:
four hats.”
The Hoozerized styles have decreed
that woman must skimp in material
and that skirts, waists and such must
be made in simpler, more tight-fitting
models.
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TRI TON WAR BREAD
CAl'SE or SCOT ROE
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25. — Ger
many’s war bread, reported to be adul
located with various flour substitutes,
ha* caused widespread sickness in the
, Kaisers -mpiie, according- to reports
received here.
The situation in Germany, it was
said, wa? so serious that a committee
of scientists has been appointed in
Berlin to take drastic mea ures to re
medy it.
The German war loaf, the report
staled, emits a disagreeable odor and
ha* an unpleasant taste and flavor,
and has been the sou ice ol a serious
illness which, it is said, has appioach
ed the dimensions of a scourge in Bor
j lin and othei German cities.
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! NOTICE TO DELINQUENT CO
OWNERS
’ To GEORGE R. KING and DAVE
I BAUMAN, and to their, and each
of their heirs and assigns:
You, and each of you, are hereby
notified that during the years ending
December 31, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912,
j 1913, 1914, 1915, 1910, and 1917, the
undersigned has expended more than
i One Hundred Dollars in each of said
: years, or a total of $900.00, in labor
and improvements upon the Social
Group sulphur placer mining claim,
situate on Makuskan Mountain, Una
laska mining district, district of Alas
ka, in which mining location you, the
i said George R. King claim an undiv
ided one-eighth (1-8) interest, and
: you, the said Dave Bauman claim an
undivided one sixteenth (1-10) intcr
j est, as shown by notice of location
• thereof and deeds of conveyance of
said interest of record in the record
j ing office of the aforesaid mining dis
trict. The said labor was performed
as and for the representation of said
claim for the yoars as aforesaid, as
required by the laws of the United
States and district of Alaska concern
ing annual labor upon mining claims
| and the same was the amount requir
ed to hold said claim for said years.
The amount required for each of said
i vears being the sum of One Hun
dred Dollars ($100.00).
You are further notified that un
less within ninety (90) days after the
last publication of this notice you
contribute your proportionate share
of said expenditures, as such co-own
ers, to wit: You, the said George R.
King, the sum of $112.50, being yourj
proportionate share of said represen
tation for the years ending as afore
said; and you, the said Dave Bau
man, the sum of $56.25, being youi |
proportionate share of said lepresen
tation for the years ending as afore
said, your interest in said claim will
be forfeited to the undersigned co
owner, who has made such expendi
tures and will become his property in
the manner provided by law.
Dated at Scuttle, Washington, this •
fifteenth day of December, 1917.
FRANK MEERWALDT
Co-Owner.
Date of publication Dec. 24th, 1917 to
March 25, 1918.
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