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Arizona republican., 1914-08-16
A Central News Estimate.

LONDON, August 15.-The Central News correspondent at Brussels who returned from the front estimates the German loss in killed throughout the fighting against the Belgians so far amounts to 15,000. The statement adds:
 No news of special importance has come to hand. There have been en- agreements at one or two points, but these appear to have been mainly out post affairs.
 "News from official sources contin-
 ues to indicate that the French and Belgian artillery is proving superior tc
 the German, and also that the German infantrymen do not determinedly face lhayonets."
Arizona republican., 1914-08-16
JAPAN'S POSITION.
Reply to Rumor of Inquiry by the
 United States.

NEW YORK, August 15-Cable dis patches from Tokio to the East and West News Bureau, a Japanese news agency, follows:
 A high official of the foreign office says that Japan has received no note whatever from the American govern ment in connection with the present crisis. Even in case of necessity aris- ing for Japan to take upon herself the duty of discharging her treaty obliga- tions to Great Britain, Japan would not need to offer any explanation for such action, for she would act with a clear conscience and in conformity to justice We are confident that the United States understands full well this position of Japan, and consequent W we cannot think for a moment that our good neighbor, America, would be swayed by any uneasiness at Japan's attitude. Count Okuma. the Japanese premier declared, Japan, if forced to join the European conflict, will do so with the single purpose of fulfilling her treaty obligation to her ally, and upholding the cause of justice. Her object is the maintenance of peace in the Orient. Japan has no territorial ambition, but hopes to stand as the protector of peace in the Orient" s FRIENDLY TURKS
Arizona republican., 1914-08-16
CIVILIANS TO BE SHOT
Germany Sends Word to France and
 Belgium

LONDON, August 15.-The core spondent of the Exchange Telegraph Company in Rome, says a message from Berlin asserts that Germany has sent to France and Belgium through the neutral powers, note stating that reports, received from the German army, leave no doubt that France and Belgium have O. ganiZed a popular war against Ger many in which private citizens, no: wearing uniforms are firing upon German troops. Germany gave not ice that from today every Belgian and French private citizen who fires on German troops O. in any way in terferes with the German army, will De shot. The note adds that if the var thus assumes a brutal character it will be the fault. of France and Belgium and not Germany.
Arizona republican., 1914-08-16

reader. We shall not give them. h their place we shall simply present few general directions.
 The first requisite is to get thor oughly exhausted To do this it is better to select some unusual thing. When you have indulged yourself in this until you are tired out, then eat as much as you can of strange food to which your stomach has hereto fore been a stranger. This ought to bring on a summer cold within a
Arizona republican., 1914-08-16
"A GREAT DAY FOR IRELAND"

Charles Edward Russell in "These Shifting Scenes" George H poran Company, tells many amusing anec- dotes. One of %these deals with the attempt of q managing, editor named Goodman to signalize the PigOtt- dts closures which defeated the case that the London Times and the English Tories had worked up against Par nell Mir. Russell .writes:
Arizona republican., 1914-08-16
French Defeated

NEW YORK, August 15-A dis patch from German official sources in Berlin, received via Sayville, L. |, wireless station, follows:
 "The seventh French army corps the army division from Belfort, which had invaded Upper Alsace, was de- feated yesterday by German troops near Muelhausen'
 The dispatch, somewhat mutilated by poor transmission, indicated that the French entrenchments had been taken at the point of the bayonet.
Arizona republican., 1914-08-16
TO TAKE A SUMMER COLD

It is not always the easiest thing to catch a summer cold. It often takes time and thought and proper exertion You must be patient Above all, never give up hope. Just when you think you are not going to get one, it will come along and seize you.
 There are many recipes for catch ing a summer cold, which are doubt less familiar to the highly intelligent
Arizona republican., 1914-08-16
DID THE DOG KNOW

The Frenchman did notIike the look of the barking dog barring his way.
 Its all right" said the host; don't you know the proverb, Barking dogs never bite?"
 An, yes,' said the Frenchman, T know ze proverb, you know ze proverb.
Arizona republican., 1914-08-16
Fewer to Feed

LONDON, August 15.-The Ger mans have expelled 20OO persons from Metz and driven them across the French frontier, according to an an nouncement tonight by the official press bureau of the British admiral ty and war department. The resi- dents were expelled on the ground that otherwise they would have to be fed. French aeroplanes have gained several successes on the wes- tern frontiers
Arizona republican., 1914-08-16
Anticipatinq Superstitious Fears.

ST. PETERSBURG, August 15- Russian soldiers and peasants have been informed that 6 solar eclipse, which will be visible in a few days, is natural occurrence, for fear they may imagine it an evil omen.
Arizona republican., 1914-08-16
Russian Prisoners

COPENHAGEN, August 15.-Ac- cording to a special message from Berlin, twenty three Russian gener- els, admi"als, including the former commander-in-c n-chief of the Black Sea fleet, have been interned by the Ger man authorities.
Arizona republican., 1914-08-16
Beqinniru of the Great Battle.

PARIS, August 15.-Official dis patches announce that a French offens- i've movement began in great force along the line from Sarrebourg on the Franco German border to Luneville in the department Muerthe- ct Moselle last evening. It continued throughout the night With full success, this morn ing a German standard was captured.
Arizona republican., 1914-08-16
FRIENDLY TURKS
Correspondent Tells Story of Escape
 of German Cruisers

LONDON, (Sunday) Aug. 16.-The Mitylene correspondent of the Reuter- Telegraph company who has just re- turned to his post after spending five days in the Dardanelles aboard Turks detained in the hope of induc irg her officers to surrender her cargo of flour, sends the following dispatch:
 q was transferred to a small
Arizona republican., 1914-08-16
Denial of piest,s Occunation

F. BRUSSELS, August 15.-The Bel
 gian minister of war has officially denied the "umOr that the Germans had occupied and fortified the town of Diest to the northeast of Louvain.
Arizona republican., 1914-08-16

reasonable time. If it doesn't, it 1 will be because you don't know how to have one.-Life.
Arizona republican., 1914-08-16
GREATEST SLAUGHTER
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rection of Aerschot to the west o1 Diest
Arizona republican., 1914-08-16

It has been estimated that every square mile of the ocean is inhabited by 120,000,000 living beings
Arizona republican., 1914-08-16

Dave Fultz. president of the Base ball Players Fraternity, has suc- ceeded in organizing the players of the Western League
Arizona republican., 1914-08-16

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The Alaska citizen., 1914-10-26
How Barnum Started
 His Show Business

P. T. Barnum launched his career in the show business by exhibiting remarkable negro woman, believed to be 160 years old, and said to have been nurse to George Wash ington. An old bill of sale was exhibited, properly dated. concerning Joyce Heth then 54 years old, and evidence was also furnished that she was nurse to George Washington.
 Everything seemed so straightfor- ward to the young man that he was eager to become the proprietor of this novel exhibition, which he pur chased for $1,OOO, $500 of which he paid down. selling out his interest in the grocery business and the other $500 he borrowed He saw that the thing to do was to make people talk and become curious and excited over rare spectacles. Regardless of ex- pense he advertised in New York, Boston and Philadelphia and the halls were thronged until Joyce Heth National Magazine.
The Alaska citizen., 1914-10-26
Explosion in Ruby
 Mine Nearly Fatal

William krisley, who is prospect ing with Bill Sargent on Timber creek in the Poorman section, mar rowly escaped serious injury few days ago by a gas explosion, says the Ruby Record Citizen
 He was working in the hole, which was aout eighty feet deep and still in the muck He had sent up a filled bucket and when it was with in twenty feet of the surface krisley lighted match for some reason when suddenly there was deafening explosion. The man at the wind lass was knocked down and the windlass thrown off it's foundation. However, it caught crosswise of the hole, which prevented the bucket of dirt from falling back into the hole krisley fell on his face in the bottom of the shaft. which pre- vented any serious injury other than a few slight burns, as the explosion was for the most part above him.
 It is thought the gas was from a pocket in the muck, many similar instances of which are known in large deposits of muck.
The Alaska citizen., 1914-10-26
Helpless Pioneer
 Is Sent to Jail

Monte Terrill, the unfortunate Sourdough who has lost both feet and is now blind and helpless, was sent to the federal jail to serve a fine of $25O by the commissioners court Thursday, the charge being vagrancy.
 In sentencing the unfortunate man, Commissioner Dillon explained to him that he was not being punished for crime, but that he was being sent to the federal jail for the sole purpose of receiving at the expense of the government proper care and food.
 Terrill was placed in jail last sum- mer on the same charge, but was released at his own request later. He has a cabin at Cinema, but the people there assert that when the weather gets cold he would be al most sure, in his helpless condition either to burn himself or freeze to death. The court would have sent him to the Pioneers Home at Sitka, but he would not go, and there was no way to enforce protection for him except to place him under ar rest
The Alaska citizen., 1914-10-26
THE HIGHEST TELEPHONE

A telephone exchange three miles in the air. This station, said to be the highest in the world, is in the meteorological observatory on the top of Mt. Rosa, in the Pennine Alps, 15. .450 feet above sea level. At this elevation snow is always found, and advantage is taken of the high insu- lation given by dry snow, the wires in the last section, at the peak, being simply laid on the snow-covered ground. To prevent breakage by glacier movements the line is carried through rings of the telephone poles The poles are short and are taken down at the end of every summer season and replaced at the beginning of the following summer.-Chicago Tribune.
The Alaska citizen., 1914-10-26
War I axes Are
 Being Paid Here

War taxes are already being col lected in Fairbanks, though the bill authorizing the tax was not passed until a few days ago. A telegram dated at Seattle, October 23, was received Saturday by George Hutch inson, deputy internal revenue col lector, from D. J. Williams, collec- tor for the State of Washington and for Alaska, and this authorized the collection of a war tax of 50 cents barrel on all fermented liquors manufactured here.
 The internal revenue tax previous ly was $1 barrel on fermented liquors, but the addition of war tax brings the total up to $50 a barrel. MT. Hutchinson was ad yised that the law was in effect the day the telegram was sent, but it was delayed day in arriving here, for some unknown cause. Breweries must turn in all the $1 internal revenue stamps in their possession, and they will receive credit for them in buying the new $l.5O stamps.
The Alaska citizen., 1914-10-26
Value of Courteous
 Treatment Described

A pleasing manner is an important essential to success in any business. A gentle, courteous manner will win recognition anywhere. So much de bends upon first impressions, and ttese are favorable or unfavorable according to whether a man is polite and courteous or brusque and ner- vous in bearing.
 We cannot alway judge a man by what he says or does, but the way in which he says or does certain things will prove the best index to his character,
 A pleasant, courteous bearing will help a man to success in business where a boorish. impatient manner will turn away customers. The brusque man may be as well meaning as his more affable rival, but people have not the time nor inclination exterior; they prefer to patronize the man who makes it plain that it is a pleasure to serve: that the world is a mighty pleasant place, and that he is glad to be alive.
 If you are not the possessor of a pleasant manner. start in to acquire it. You will find it an immense help in making a success of anything you undertake-EX
The Alaska citizen., 1914-10-26
English Sparrows
 Make War on Rats

FORT WORTH. TeX.-Many stories have been told of the prowess of rats in combat with other animals. and the fact that one can kill a dog is well known, but the fact that they themselves are warred upon and exterminated by the lowly English sparrow has just been brought to light
 At North Fort Worth the erection of three brick buildings left small court in the rear of one building with no outlet except the sky above.
 This court has for some time been the playground of unusually big rats that are almost driving the grocers and butchers in that vicinity to dis traction.
 English sparows becoming attract ed to this court wished to use it as a nesting place. That rats and spar rows cannot live together is a set tied thing, therefore, the sparrows have decided that the rats must leave, and daily they are killing them off in large numbers.
 The sparrows roost on the top of the buildings overlooking the court and whenever rat ventures forth to scurry from one hole to another flock of sparrows descends upon him and in a short while they peck him to death.
The Alaska citizen., 1914-10-26

which it was stated that the party organization of that place had drawn up a resolution fayoring the pro posed central power plant for Inter for Alaska Mir Bunnell was al Sit ka when the telegram was sent, and it was explained in it that his support there is growing.
 Vance R Mcdonald of Long creek, in the Ruby district. who is run ming for representative to the lesis- lature on the Democratic ticket, wired friends in Fairbanks Thurs day that the people there will sup port the Administration and will al most certainly vote the straight Democratic ticket.
 Letters arriving here also from Ruby and Iditarod on the last mail brought reports that were highly en- couraging to the local campaign com mittee
The Alaska citizen., 1914-10-26
Local I Happenings in Brief

George Walker. Bob Geis and Frank Coombs returned early in the week from a hunting trip in the up. per Panama country.
 John Long. who left here last spring with his sister. Mrs. TruXton. and niece. Miss Louise TruXton, has improved in health since reaching seattle. according to a letter re ceived here from his sister.
 Henry Antoo and Miss Ida Salo were married by Commissioner Dil- lon Tuesday morning.
 William Bayless, a well known old timer of the north died at the Circle Hot Springs week ago Sat urday night
 Word was received from Seattle early in the week that Charles T. Terry. formerly of this city. is now in Seattle hospital suffering with T stroke of appolexy.
The Alaska citizen., 1914-10-26
DREAMS HAVE A
 SCIENTIFIC SIDE

Almost all scientific observers dreams are made are memories of past experience of the individual. Curiously enough, the memories that occur most frequently are those Of the previous day and those of early childhood The former class are to be found in every dream, and are probably an essential condition to it's formation; the latter Gecollec- tions of childhood) seems to be of even greater importance, since they contribute much of the hidden mean ing of the dream.
 In many cases where the incidents of a dream seem to be entirely un- familiar it has been shown by care full investigation that they cores pond to actually experienced events that have escaped the memory of the waking self
 Delboeuf records an interesting eX- ample of this. In 1862 he dreamt that he found two lizards in the snow. He took them up, warmed them, and placed them in a hole in wall, together with small fern which he knew they liked to eat. The name of the fern seemed in his dream to the Asplenium ruta mur- alis
 Later on in his dream he saw two other lizards come and eat the re- mains of the fern, and then whole host of lizards coming to the wall in a long procession which covered the entire street
 On waking he could not remem- Der ever to have heard the name of the fern of his dream although he discovered that fern called Asplen- ium ruta muraria really existed, Six teen years later however. he hap pened to be turning over the pages of friends album of dried flowers. and to his surprise came across the fern, with the Latin name written underneath in his own handwriting. He then remembered that in 1860, two years before the dream, he had met the sister of this friend, and 10 please her had written the Latin names under the various plants in her album at the dictation of bo- tanist.
 Fifteen years after the dream he also discovered the source of the liz ard procession in an old illustrated paper, dated 1861. which as a re- gular subscriber he must have seen. Innumerable cases of similar na- ture are on record, and go to show how remarkably heightened the mem- ory may be in dreams. They also warn us not too rashly to believe that incidents in a dream which seem entirely new are really so.-Strand Magazine.
The Alaska citizen., 1914-10-26

Maurice Ashton arrived from Chi; ina in his automobile Tuesday. mak- ing the trip in just four and one half days.
 The Northern Light Mission Study Circle met al the residence Of Mrs. C. c Bruce on last Tuesday The next meeting of the Circle will be held at the home of Mrs. J. NJ. Harris.
 Dr K. R. Myers returned Tuesday from a six-weeks' hunting trip up the Tanana He and Ben sherman went together. but pr Myers returned ahead of him. They killed while away two caribou and a bear. in ad dtion to a number of birds.
 To Mir and Mrs. Nolney Richmond was born a nine-pound son in San Francisco on October 10. according 10 a telegram received from them a few days ago.
The Alaska citizen., 1914-10-26
Edgerton Completes
 Road Inspection

Lieutenant Edgerton of the Alaska Road commission arrived in Seward the night before last on a tour of in spection of the various places. He says that there is no reason to be- lieve that the government will not give a large appropriation for work next year.
 The war and the consequent loss of revenue, he thinks. would not justify neglect of roads when they are so badly needed The lieutenant has been in Nome and other parts of the territory this year on business connected with the commission. He was, by the way, with Lieutenant Mears in the engineering work of the railroad on the Panama canal Seward Gateway.
The Alaska citizen., 1914-10-26
Great Wars Easily Started, It is Said Big Contests Traced to Trivial Causes

I pold to become the King of Spain. The king refused to give definite answer. but Prince Anthony of Hoh- enzollern withdrew his sons candi- dacy.
 \ report of the conference was submitted by telegram to Count Bis marCk with authorization to publish it. Bismarck altered the text and in the changed form gave it to the newspapers and through them to France. As Bismarck wrote it the report was unfavorable to France. and the international war with all it's horrors followed. Years later Bismarck confessed the forgery.
 WRITER CAUSES TROUBLE The war of the Spanish succession. in which the great Duke of Marl- borough played a brilliant part was said to be the outcome of a glass of water at ball at the Tuileries in Paris. One of the court ladies had expressed a wish for a drink of water in the hearing of the British and Spanish ambassadors, who hastened to get it for her. Re turning each with a tumbler they found the fair bird had flown and wa sdancing with a French states man. The English diplomat acci- dentally, it is presumed. brushed against the Spaniard and upset the glass he was carrying. The ridicu- lous incident inflamed the jealousies of the nations and turned the bal ance in favor of war.
 The Seven Years War was largely due. according to his own confession to the vanity of Frederick the Great in wanting to see his name figure largely in the gazettes.
 The Sepoys believed that cartridges served out to them were creased with the fat of animals unclean alike to Hindu and Mohammedan and the Indian mutiny was precipi tated.
 HAMMER BLAMED.
 The Turko-Russian war was said to have been started by the hammer with which a Herzegovinan black smith killed a tax collector who had insulted his daughter
 The stealing of Castle lady's lace petticoat by a Moor led to many years of fierce warfare between the Spaniards and the Moors. The emp tying of a bucket of a Florentine citizen on the head of a Milanese gave rise to an interprovincial war in Italy.
 Borrowing a tobacco pipe and fail ing to return it kindled a civil war which lasted for years among the rival races in Pamirs and Afghanis- tan. A dispute as to the relative attractions of snails and vipers as food started 50 years of fighting between Milan and Pisa.
The Alaska citizen., 1914-10-26

New York Sun: Opinions may diff fer as to whether the dispute which led to the present conflagration 'n Europe were sufficient to justify the loss of blood and treasure which, it is feared, will be expended, but it is certain that many great wars in history have resulted from much more trivial causes. The dogs of war have been let loose and contin- ents deluged with blood frequently as the result of amazingly insignifi- cant incidents.
 man may start an incipient riot in his own home by appearing unannounCed with a clean shave, after having worn a luXuriant hir- sute adornment for years. but ordin- arily the trouble does not go beyond his own door. Louis VII. of France was less fortunate. A visit 10 the royal barber plunged two nations France and England into intermit- tent warfare which lasted 300 years. WlSHkERS CAUSE WAR;
 According to the story. the Arch bishop of Rouen persuaded the king 10 remove his beard, in common with his subjects. The act led to so much friction with the queen that at last Louis divorced her, to become a few months later the wife of Henry II. of England From this marriage centuries of bloodshed may be said to have followed.
 In an iron case in the tower of the cathedral in Modena. Italy, a bucket which 900 years ago was the cause of terrible war may be seen today Soldiers of Modena, in a mischievous mood, stole the bucket from a public well in Bologna and refused to return it. The states were rivals and were jealous of each other and fights between soldiers of the two followed This spark kindled fire of war which devas tated large part of Europe and led to the imprisonment for life of the King of Sardinia, son of the German emperor
 WAR CAUSE FORGOTTEN.
 Lord Palmerston once said that only three men had ever known the exact nature of the troubles in Schleswig- Holstein which led to two great wars. Two of them had died before the wars broke out, and he the third of the trinity, had com pletely forgotten what it was all about.
 The manipulation of Count Bis marck, then Prussia's foreign minis ter. of telegram set Prussia and France flying at each others threats in 1870. The French ambassador went to Ems. where Emperor Will fam I then was, to ask him not to approve the ambition of Prince Leo