HORRORS OF WAR
liichard Harry in “Port Arthur: a
Monitor Heroism,” has given a series of
pictures of tin* late contest, vividly, in
tensely, almost revoltinglv realistic.
Were it not for the glamour of Japanese
heroism (magnificent in the true sense
of that word, not monstrous), one would
turn away from the pictures sickened
with horror. Hut that heroism glorifies
the pictures, and somehow leaves one
with the feeling, deep-seated in the
Japanese, that there are things worth
dying for.
There is scarcely any choice among
the pictures as to the graphic power with
which they are presented, though the
drawing is often rugged, unfinished,
sometimes uncouth. For example, it is
hardly less interesting to read of the
childish games of the Japanese soldiers
when in campand of their music, chosen
to soothe and quiet rather than to in
spirit and set the pulse pounding—
“children’s games, to the chamber mu
sic of women,” for men who in a few
hours will lie running to embrace death
—than it is to read of Nogi’s ]>et, who,
desperately wounded and lying in a po
sition exjiosed to the enemy's tire, slit a
vein in his arm to slake his thirst. The
reader again is just as much absorbed in
the way the little brown men changed
their linen before pun^ into battle, that
they might die clean and thereby find a
place among the Shinto shades, as he is
to know that the Russians, from their
forts, picked off the Japanese wounded,
“that their bodies might rot and drive
their comrades from below.” Yet, if
there is one story that stands out as an
example of grim heroism in the face of
death and suffering, it is that of a Jap
shot by the Russians, in this picking-off
process, after bis legs bad been crushed
by a shell fragment. His second wound
was received while be was reaching for
a tmttU* of water, thrown from a Japa
nese trench, because the soldiers in the
trench dared not expose themselves to
the Russian fire from above. Alter re
ceiving bis second wound the soldier lay
still until night covered bis movements.
Then he l»egan to crawl, as he thought,
toward his friends, lie fell into a trench,
deserted except for two comrades, also
des|»erately wounded. He shared bis
Inittle of water with them and then—
As they were drinking a figure si*niched
along th** trench and blocked tin* dour
way. It wore a black-visored cap, shiny
with celluloid—a Russian cap. Search
ing the gloom, the Russian found the
three wounded soldiers. Then he |»oked
his rifle in and fired three bullets—one
at the brain of each. Two died instant
ly. The third—the soldier who had al
ready survived as by a miracle—|>assed
into what la* thought was the rigor of
death. All grew black In*fore his eyes.
Never from that moment to this has he
seen even a glimmer, nor will he e\er
see again. The bullet passed across bis
eves as la* lay side down and shattered
the optic nerve.
for five days the soldier lay in the
dugotit, unable to move, unable to see,
numb from long suffering. Almost
craaed by thirst and hunger, he at
length fevered the arteries of *»ne of his
fallen comrades, ttewl\ dead, and lived
• »n. lie firtiixl worms crawling in the
wound* of hlrt leg*, lie tore up the shirt
of a o»rj"s* and Ismnd them.
lie mi»»ed hi* way in his l»hndtie»«
when lie *tarted crawling again Hut
lie kepi on—for twelve *lays. “lie found
u few new dead with biscuit in their
pockets and blood in their veins—thin
saved him.”
A shocking picture? Yes. “War is
hell," and the only excuse for printing
a picture of it now and then is that the
voice of the world may lie lifted against
war.—Selected.
Some interesting facts about the
mining laws in Australia are given to
the Fairbanks News by .1. 1*. Fields
iijsin request of that paper. Mr. Fields
has also worked under the Chinese and
Spanish mining laws.
In Australia, he said, a mining license
is issued u|«in application, at a cost of
ifl per annum, which entitles the holder
to the following: First, to stake any
where on tile public domain 250 by 400
feet of ground for mining purjioses, and
a quarter acre for residence purposes.
For relocating abandoned mining ground
he may take 1,800 by 1,800.
Any person discovering diggings which
w ill keep 400 men at work continuously
for four years is entitled to a bonus of
£25,000, to lie paid by the government.
No discovery of mineral is necessary;
hut w hile a miner is prospecting a piece
of ground he must tlv a white (lag to
give notice of his intentions. If he is
carrying on actual mining o]>erations (on
pay) he must tly a red (lag.
After staking the 250 by 400 feet al
lowed him under his license, he can
then take up any number of acres that
he sees lit. providing he pays £1 per year
for each and every acre he so takes up
into the treasury of the government, anil
providing further that he employs one
man at the going wages of the district
for each acre during the mining season.
There is no jumping of ground in
Australia. Whenever the locator leaves
the ground it is considered as abandoned.
For each mining district is appointed a
warden who holds court every morning,
and from whom there is no apjienl. His
duty is to settle all disputes and grant
[lermission, when pnqier cause is shown,
to lease the ground in jsissession of any
one. This |ienuit must he spread upon
the records liefore it liecomes effective.
JERRY FORD’S BAD BET
Disbelieved in an Early Freezeup
and Backed His Judgment
With the Dust.
Jerry Ford disregarded all tin* tnkoiut
<»t’ tht* river's tui|>e tiding <*l»w and eon
tended to the last that iff would run
till well «»n in NoveiiiIht.
**Look out tor a warm |k*I1 after the
new moon on the 27th,” he would miy;
“it won't lie fold enough to freeze the
tioating iee cakes together and it ha* got
to kee|» oil running no matter how thi* k
it mines.'
** I'd just like to t«*t ten dollar- it
U for* Nov .*i, ‘-aid K*l Ihtdt lman
one day last Week.
“I tone.” -aid Jerry, and of course he
l«*»t tiie inoiiey. ju»t as everyhoily pre
dicted.
Now, tlie t|Mention i*. Wiiat got tla
matter with Jerry? Hitt at U*a*t lie wa*
taking a long «h**t at tame. Weather
did turn warmer n|»»tt the change of the
HihmI), and if lee had only .-m moled to
run eight *lays l**nger Jerry would i»*»w
lie pointed at *• tlie •ally man •*«» tie
met who in a g»»*l judge •»< trveaawpa.
FREIGHTING 1
AND PACKING!
HEETER’S PACK TRAIN
Leaves for Glen Every 5 Days.
Freighting and parking to and from all the
creeks. Good teams. Good service.
JUULfiJLOJUUUU^^
ODD SORTS
The International Brewery Workers
I'nion is seriously considering placing a
i $100,000 brewery plant in Seattle, Wash.
In Isiringa well at Nome, after going
through 120 feet of rock wash gravel
was eiK'ountereil which yielded good
jtrosjK'cts id gold.
The Lick astronomical observatory ex -
l>edition, which went to Cartwright,
Labrador, to observe the solar eclipse
Aug. HO, met with a complete failure.
Heavy banks of clouds obscured the
heavens during the entire eclipse, and
nothing was observed.
The laconic reply of Ben Downing
when asked how he would find the north
pole is worth remembering. His “I
would start north and keep going” |mis
sesses that simplicity into which prac
tical and successful men resolve what
ordinary men regard as complex prob
lems.—Skagwav Alaskan.
/
An empty whisky barrel, a small ne
gro, a lighted match and a blind horse
formed a combination which nearly
killed a woman in Richmond, Va., not
long ago. The negro dropped the lighted
match into the hunghole of the barrel.
An explosion followed and blew the
barrel into bits. The blind horse dashed
against a passing woman, knocked her
down, and then collided with a show
case. The woman was badly hurt and
the horse had to be killed because of its
j cats. The showcase was demolished.
Because lie came in contact with the
business end of a billy goat, Jack Rich
ardson, chief appraiser in the office of
the port of Louisville, Ky., has been
paid $12.50 by an accident insurance
company. Mr. Richardson was s]iend
ing bis vacation on a farm near (ilasgow.
Ky., and the goat spied him while he
was walking through the pasture. The
man made for the fence, but the goat
reached it about the same time and
hutted him over. Richardson was laid
up two days. The insurance company
did not dispute that it was an accident.
On Temi«eranee Hill, in the Klondike,
Murray, Roselle and Kluin a year ago,
with drill, drove through solid ris k and
uncovered a gusher. It flowed as well
as it could from a drill hole. During the
scarcity of water this fall the owners
tried to force the gusherand had remark
able success. Six inches of dynamite
was used skillfully, and the gusher com
menced sending through solid risk a
sluicchcad of water. The theory of the
miners is that this is a stratum of rock
and under it is a glacier from which the
water is flowing.
Bishop Rowe to Come.
K"«'- • »i tlir < hurt h
will vi»it lln- interior t.'wu« Ala-ka
this winlrr It i* |trt>Wltk' that hr will
h-avr Silkw ».« tM«.n »» winU r trawl la
It.mr. (.ra.lital'l. a■>• I mna III «Vrr thr
Vakh'i trail.
Thr hiah>>|> will hki-ly ri-Ilium in thr
IRMM till Mia winlrr’a artitri
lira will H"l la- artllr.1 it|a>n till alt* r
a t-ufi r.it.. with krvlalrai'.'W wtm k at
lairlwak*
RECEPTION
...SALOON...
S. E. HEETER, BOB SCHABER,
Proprietor Manager
Wines, Liquors and
GOOD Cigars....
....Billiard and Pool Rooms
Barber Chair in the House.
St« l.ouis
SBC
and Seattle
Ranier Beers
5 Old Valley Whisky
< the only stuck
5
Something New:
TRY OUR
PEACH AND HONEY BRANDY
Iii tin* Just ice's Court for R impart Precinct,
Third Division of the Territory of Alaska,
before J. Lind ley Green, Commissioner and
e\ officio Justice of the Peace.
G. A. Kettehkh. Plaintiff, i )\S MV
C. P. ToWLE.S|’lffeinlimt. $ PUBLICATION.
The president of the United States to C. P.
Tow le. defendant, trrcctinjr:
You are hereby required to appear before
the uudersitnied, commissioner and ex officio
justice of the pence, in the court room of the
court bouse at Rampart. Rampart precinct,
'1 bird Pivision of the Territory of Alaska, on
the 11th day of December, 1V05. at the hour of
two o'clock in the afternoon of said day. to
answer the complaint of plaintiff. G. A. Ket
terer. founded upon one certain oromissory
note dated June 22d. 1D03. payable to (j. A.
Ketterer and signed by C. P. Tow le. w herein
for value receive!I tlie said C. P. Tow le prom
ised to pay to the said G. A. Ketter* r the sum
of two hundred and se\t nty-one ilidlars and
sixty cents, w hereon he demand* judgment
against the said P. Tow le in the sum of
two hundred ami seventy-five dollars and
eighty -three cents.
A w l it ol attachment havinir been issued
by the court ugainst you. and M. S. Gill hav
ing been garnisheed thereunder and iluiy
answered that be is indebted to you in the
sum of two hundred anil forty-eight dollars
and has paid said sum to the court : Now in
case you fall to uppeur and defend as ulnae
reu uired judgment will be taken air a it ist you
and the said two hundred and fnrty-eiirht
dollars w ill be applied toward the payment
of t hi costs of tliis suit and the |mi> incut of
said note.
Hy order of the court this summons is pub
lished in the Yukt n Valley New-, a weekly
newspaper published in R impart for seven
consecutive issues first insertion October
llth. I‘u‘.'>. the last insertion November -J I.
•
Given under inv hand t li is 1*1 h day of Octo
ber l**«r. J I.INDLliY GKhhV
t'onmt had*-tier anil ex officio
Justice of the Peace.
A. B. NOTICE.
Regular meetings • »f the Arctic Mrother
hood I .odge are belli at th* ir hall on the
MM Mini uial fourth Tnesd.tvs of ruth month ut
v o'clock |». 1*1
\WI 'I PA Ml b A KITTKHKK
Arctic Recorder. Art tic t'hi+f
106 Roadhouse.
McHugh A Smith have Umght ami
•t«s*ke*l D*» MtdliellM1 for dm1 tin a *t.t*
lion i«v their freighting outfit*. There
lui« been talk of • it |»* the |»H Idle.