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The Alaska citizen., 1914-02-09
Arctic Brotherhood
 Gives Novel Ball

About one hundred couples at tended the ball given by the Arc ,iC brotherhood Friday night in honor of the passage of the railroad bill by the United States senate. The lffair had a number of novel features and was generally considered a de rided success.
 Many of the men attending thl ball were dressed in overalls ana jumpers to represent trainmen. and in one corner of the room was what appeared to be a large locomotive with a fireman and engineer. A blackboard on the walls which was 'upposed to carry list of the trains arrive and depart, contained the program of the dances.
 It had been planned to dance from until 1 o'clock, but the management vas finally induced 10 extend the ime for quitting until o'clock 1T the morning.
The Alaska citizen., 1914-02-09
I. 5 HOWELL, ALASKA $ AGED
 PIONEER, DIES
BOOSTER OF THE NORTHlAND LIVES TO AGE OF
 82 YEARS.

Thomas s. Novel;, who died in Seattle on January 3, was one of Alaska's prominen. pioneers. Con the following:
 After a short illness, following S2 years of health. Thomas Shepard Nowell, pioneer of Alaska and former manufacturer of Boston, died sud lenly yesterday morning at the home of his son, Frank H. Novel;, 936 }5th avenue.
 Thomas s. Nowell was born in Cambridge. Mass, Oct 30, 1892, and vas the first child ever chris ened in a church of the Congregational lenomination-the Thomas Shepard church. after which he was named. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes held the infant in his hands.
 He received his early education in the public schools, and entered busl- less as a wholesale dealer of shoes in Boston. He was in this work for over 9 years. when his entire es- tablshment was des royed by the Boston. fire. The conflagration cost him over million dollars, neyerthe- 'ess he settled with his creditors for 90 cents on the dollar. Beginning anew as manufacturer he was so successful that voluntarily he set le l he other half.
 Saw Future in Alaska.
 After five years in this new line of work he was induced to make yes ments in A'"sra- a-d in 1SS went to Juneau, then but a trading post and Indian settlement, founded
 lv fivo wears hrforo. No7-ol' sa that Alaska had great field for rev enterprise and immediately shift d the majority of his capital to Jun eau
 He formed many big mining com anies. among them the Berrer'S Rav Mining X Milling Co.,, Ophir Gold Mining Co.,, Novel; Mining and Mill
 Co.,. A'ae1;o No all hirio-, F0 ar others, but litigation growing ont of the unsettled conditions of Al
 rlla's laws hos tied un mr"h of the property of these companies and uits are still pending.
 Howell was an enthusist for Al 'ska as whole. He was the first Q egate that ever voted at a nation Il convention A the convention Indianapolis in 1892 he male suc' brilliant and convincing oration before that body, arguing the righ' of Alaska to be represented, that i. ,arried without opposition.
 Called "Grand Old Man.
 During the years he was interes ed n Alaska he lived in Boston. In 1908 he moved permanently to Seattle, staying at the Arctic club. He acted IS teller at all their elections and vas known by his fellow men as the grand old man."
 He is survived by five sons, Fred erick D., of Berkeley. Cal; Willis A. agent for the Alaska Steamship Co. at Juneau; George M., of Boston; Frank H., of this city, and Harrison D., living in San Francisco.
 He also leaves a widow, Harriet c. Novel;, of Newport, R. l., and an adopted daughter, Ethel Eimms No we'll who is living with her mother,
 "Nowell was 32d degree Mason. He was a member 30 years ago in the St. Andrew lodge, No. 56, A. F. & A. M., Portsmouth, N. H. He was also a member of the Arctic Hub and the Sons of the American Revolution"
The Alaska citizen., 1914-02-09
PAYS DEAD HORSE TAX

Blood money. Taxes on dead car cass of horse" These were the un- iaue words that ornamented check received Friday by the city clerk from Joseph G. Morrow, teller in the First National bank. It was explain ed afterward by Mir Morrow that he had just recently purchased the horse before taxes were levied, and hat four days later the horse died.
The Alaska citizen., 1914-02-09
St. Michael Letter
 Gives Varied News

Varied news from St. Michael is contained in the following letter from that place published in Nome pa per:
 The people of St. Michael were surprised today to learn that Harry F. Jordan, master signal electrician here and Carrie Belle Walker, a nurse in the employ of the bureau of education were married at the .ome of E. H. Flynn yesterday aft ernoon in the presence of just a few friends. The groom has not liv- ed in St. Michael long, but has won he good will of the people of the island by his courtesy and constant attention 10 the wants of the public. Miss Walker, the bride, is also d newcomer to St. Michael, arriving here in September, but her atten- ton to the work of nursing the sick natives has had very beneficial re suits in many ways. She has super intended the sanitation of the native houses and had the entire village cleaned up.
 Mrs. Jordan will continue her work lmong the natives for the present as there is no one else available to fill the place at present and she is too devoted to her duty to let the poor Indians go without nursing.
 Albert E. Edwards who was in own a few days ago had a very different story to tell about the pros poets of Marshall City. He is very sanguine of the camp turning out good and he has already invested quite a little in the new diggings. He says no one has attempted any de velopment work as there is all the locators could do in the way of To- has been scratched on many claims, but no real development work on any.
 Oscar AndreWuk, a reindeer herd CT from Norton Bay passed through St. Michael today on his way to Mar shall City with 50 reindeer. He kill ed few for the market here and ex- poets to sell the rest at Marshall so there is no prospect of shortage Of fresh meat there.
 Comes now news of the first scrap at Marshall City. The report is that Tom Gray was walking across claim owned by A. c. Rhode and Godfried Meyer on snow shoes, when the two owners of the claim attacked him and gave him a severe beating, black ing his eyes and even going so far IS to break rib.
 This report was brought to town by c. B. Drew who has been teaching the Indian school at Pilot station, a little over 40 miles below Marshall City. MT. Drew is not the regular teacher, but was taking the place of George Bowevers, who had quit the -rhool 10 go mining at the new camp and he brought the story as ola him by Mir Bowevers.
 Mr Rhode is the man who brought the first news of the strike to St. Michael last September and Meyer is he man who had grub staked him. Meyer has been night watchman for the N. c. O. for seven or eight years and those who know him here do not think he is man who is apt to make an unprovoked attack or anyone.
 However, Judge Waskey, who must have arrived at Marshall City before now will likely have his hands full to straighten out the matter and the case may even come before the grand | jury at Nome.
 During the past week John Chris jensen has arrived from Marshall City, but brought no information of any pay being struck as yet. He -aid he was going back in a few l lays.
The Alaska citizen., 1914-02-09
MISS scHINDLER TO WE'D.

John Palm, the stage driver be
 veen Circle City and Chatanika has brought the news to the latter place that Miss Anna Schindler formerly of Fairbanks, is to be mar ried at the Circle Hot Springs to night to Barney Everman. Arrange ments have been made to make the wedding the most notable event oi 'ts kind ever held at the Hot Springs Miss Schindler went to the Circle country last fall The groom is a mining man of that district.
The Alaska citizen., 1914-02-09
PETITION IS DENIED.

Jake Mutchler's petition to be dis charged from bankruptcy was de- nied by Judge Fuller Friday, and further consideration of the matter vas put off until some Iditarod realtors, who oppose the discharge,
 be heard.
The Alaska citizen., 1914-02-09

pirrinoham. England has . hotel for working girls.
The Alaska citizen., 1914-02-09

ant guilty of publishing the matters alleged in the affidavit, and hat it was done with the intention of pre- judicing and embarrassing the court and interfering with the due ad ministration of justice. You to de fendant will appear Monday morn ng at lO o'clock for sen ence."
The Alaska citizen., 1914-02-09
LADIES' AID ENTERTAINED.

Mrs. Peter McMullen entertained he members of the Ladies Aid SO
 iety of the Presbyterian church at the home of Mrs. Eugene Huckins Thursday afternoon Following a short business session there was q musical program rendered by Mrs. Fohn Wallstedt, and the Misses Ru D md Dorothea Johnson. The next meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. John H. Patton, week from next Thursday. At that meeting there will he an election of officers
The Alaska citizen., 1914-02-09
SAM sANDERsoN COMES HERE.

Sam Sanderson, mining man formerly of this city, arrived in Fairbanks Wednesday on his way rom the Innoko district to Chisana. He came here with a dog team own ed by J. J. Price, which will be talk en to the headwaters of the Tanana river. Mir. Sanderson says he is making the trip in the interior to 'ook after some business for F. C.. ianley, and he denies the rumor that 'le is on his way to Chisana in the
 terest of the Guggenheims.
The Alaska citizen., 1914-02-09
The following bills were ordered
CITY ORDERS LIFE-NsT.

To increase the life-saving eff, ciency of he fire department, the fire committee of the council wired to the Outside Tuesday for a life-ne' The net will be ten feet in diameter. and will be used to catch people who jump from windows of burning build ines. The life-net has been found to be an important par of the equip
 ment of all modern fire departments
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-10-28
100000 BUSHELS OF
wheat START ABROAD
one Day Record Broken on
Chicago Exchange-Al
Prices Up.

Chicago. Oct. 26.-An 24-hour rec
OrdS for export business in wheat since
European hostilities began were sur
passed by the totals reached today, g.
100000 bushels. h broadening out
of trade was accompanied by rumors
that agents of the German and Eng
fish governments had been in active
competition.
One result of the huge transatlantic
sales OF wheat was to stimulate trans
actions in other staples, notably corr
and provisions, so that the interest
hoMn in the speculative pits, as Well
as at the sample tables was the great
est displayed for a long time.
The excitement. however, such as
characterized the early days of the war
did not develop and the widest varia-
ton in price was a rise of 2Ac in De-
cember wheat. a gain hat was mar
rowed to 1Ac at the close. Latest
sales of h December option were ut
$1.17M, as compared with $1.15M last
night.
Italy vas credited with paying today
the top figures so far reached this sea :
son for cash wheat in the United
States. The reason appeared to be the
necessity of supplying Switzerland
which now a been cut off completely
from grain shipments except through
the one %neighboring ountr to the
south.
General need OF wheat from Uncle
Sam was specially emphasized today
by advices that. despite recent rain,
there was no likelihood of any export
able surplus in Australia and by re-
ports that the yields in Canada were
worse than had heretofore been made
known. To Il slight extent, other GER
Gals as we'll were builishly affected by
he Germans Wholesale destruction OF
steamships that trade with Argentina
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-10-28
NORRIS TO PROBE
LIQUOR LOBBYISTS
Charges That Wet Interests
Showed Marked Activity
In Connection With
Revenue Bill.

Washington, Oct. Ex-senator. Norris
is busily engaged in getting the
of all persons whom he believes should
be ~subpoenaed before the Senate lobby
committee and questioned about the
existence of a whisky or liquor lobby.
Senator Norris has submitted some Of
the names of those he wants sub
poenaed to Senator Overman.
Senator Overman told senator Nor
ris he would conduct the investiga-
ton, but could not do it before De-
cember. He asked Senator Norris to
complete his list and give it to him
December l.. enato Norris is pur-
suing this plan.
II shall submit a list to Senator
Overman December l." said Senator
Norris today. II did not have the list
completed and am working on it. l do
not expect to let the matter drop"
Senator Norris charges there has
been an active lobby in Washington for
the purpose of protecting whisky, beer
and wine as far as possible from the
wal taxes. The names he intends to
submit to Senat Overman will be in
part representatives of whisky inter-
ests and in part representatives OF
wine and brewing interests.
He called attention today to the fact
that after the Senate had put an in
creased tax of $1.75 on beer and a tax
on rectified spirits, the beer tax was
reduced and the whisky tax knocked
out in conference.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-10-28
INSOMNIA DISEASE
OF FIRING LINE
Relieved of Duty After Month
of SIeepIessness English SOL
diers Can't SIeep-Their
Nerves Unstrung.

New York. Oct. 26.--The World prints
a story replete with thrills from a
staff correspondent, who succeeded in
reaching the British front, and spent a
day n night on the firing line. where
the fighting vas tickest. The story
was passed by censors under al agree
ment that no names or places would be
given. 1t is impossible for that reason
to give the name of the correspondent.
The story follows:
AN English regiment that cannot
sleep-men with nerves so racked by
the terrifice struggle in the trenches
on the Aisne that they cannot bring
themselves to go to bed--is the grim
NEST spectacle / nave met in this war.
spent night and day with these men,
and left them rather hysterical Elyself,
only Il few our ago.
I'VE parted company. and still it
seems to me like a bad dream from
which it is hard to wake. This regi-
mcnt is made up almost entirely of
Welshmen and has one of the finest
records. 1t was visited and congrau-
lated by Field Marshal French. 1t has
been mentioned in official dispatches
for bravery, and new it is paying the
price.
Men did not begin to break until
after the ~tenseness had passed. SO long
as they We're under fire they We're cool
n in m of themselves, but
the position they held was so exposed
to fire that they v had q moments
rest n after a month, when they We're
ordered back. they went to pieces"
The correspondent says hat he aided
an English captain in securing quar-
tiers for his men after they had beer
relieved at the front by French troops.
These men had been on the firing line
for a month, subjected night and day
to the terrible ain of shells from the
German artillery, never daring to re-
lax their vigil, not even for a moment.
The writer says when he first met
the captain he noticed that he was eX-
tremely nervous and tidgety. Others of
mis- command who Joined him presently
displayed the same symptoms. When
beds and sleeping places had been pre-
pared the men did not go to bed, but
continued to talk. The captain told
marvellous stories of the fighting until
the correspondent, exhausted, fell
When he awoke two hours later the
and smoking.
The regiment arrived at 4 o'clock in
the morning. 1t had been relieved by
the French at midnight. All that part
of the battle line then was French, the
English having been relieved to join
i'm q fanking movement to the north
west. Theirs being the most dangerous
position they We're relieved last, and
within an hour of the end they pumped
rifle fire into the forward German
movement.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-10-28
TRADE DOMINATED BY
EUROPEAN SITUATION
Depression In Some Lines and
Stimulation In Others Is
Traced to War.

New York. Oct. 26.-Bradstreet's to-
day says:
Cross currents in trade and finance,
domestic and foreign, give a very ir-
regular appearance to commercial and
financial affairs. The war abroad is
still the dominating element in the en-
tire situation and whatever dullness or,
on the other hand. stimulation. is visible
takes its rise apparently in the hostili-
ties in Europe.
On the favorable side of the picture
are to be found the rather better tone
national efforts to bring about a re-
sumption of normal conditions In the
exchange market, the cotton export
situation and the r%eopening of the
stock markets.
Bank clearings for the week ending
October %. according to Bradstreet's
We're S2,733,346, 900. a decrease of 24.6
per cent from the same week last year;
business failures We're 1886, against 246
last year; wheat exports, including
flour. 5.43S.47S bushels. against $685..
3SS bushels last year.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-10-28
Art Treasures and War.

The first business of the next
Hague conference-if we assume that
this body will ever meet again
should be to discover some means of
protecting works of art from the raw
ages of war.
The recuperative power of human
beings makes it comparatively easy in
the r of time to replace every
thing else that war has destroyed.
The raw material for new armies is
being constantly born. New crops
succeed the old. But when a master
piece dies it is dead.-Life.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-10-28
canvey Island.

Canvey island, which is now aim
ing to usurp some Of the trade of
the Thames by providing deep sea
mharves for the unloading OF the
worlds riches, began its career in a
somewhat peculiar fashion, says the
London Chronicle. 1t provided a
5umping-of place for Danish pirates,
who boarded up the stolen wealth Of
Essex until the wind was favorable
for a voyage home. Canvey, should it
become a great %entrepot, will probably
lose one of its distinctions, that of
having only one church within it's
borders. Another distinction is the
possession of a house that has no like
ness anywhere else in England. This
is a six-sided Dutch cottage Of 1921,
built at the time when imported
Dutchmen were constructing the dams
which to this day protect the island
from slipping into the sea.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-10-28
SAYS GERMANY WILL NEVER
VIOLATE MONROE DOCTRINE
Count Won Bernstorff, Ambassador From Kaisers Government,
Declares He Has Given United States Assurance That
If Successful In War, Law Will Be RESPECTED.

Washington. Oct. 26.--The German
ambassador, Count Bernstorff. said. to-
day. that early in the European war he
had assured the United States govern
men that whatever the outcome of the
conflict, Germany would respect the
Monroe doctrine.
Count Bcrnstorff said he had filed
with the state department, on Septem-
Der 3. soon after his ARRIVAL in this
country from Berlin, a written official
statement that Germany would not in
fringe on the Monroe doctrine, no mat
ter what the outcome of the a
The ambassador said that his assur-
ances had first been given informally
in a conversation with one of the Off
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-10-28
.CARMAN DEFENSE
CLOSES ITS CASE
Woman Accused of Crime Con.
fident That She Will Be Ac-
~quitted-Attorneys Be-
gin Arguments.

Mineola. n. Y. Oct. 26.~-,rlic defense
of Mrs. Florence Conhiim Carman. on
trial for the murder Of Mrs. Louise
Bailey, rested shortly before noon to-
day. Counsel prepared to sum up. and
indications We're that the case would
reach the jur3 late this afternoon.
After testifying or cross examina-
ton n after listening to the testi-
mony of her little daughter Elizabeth;
her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Conklin:
her sister, Mrs. Ida Powell: her niece.
Mrs. Helen Powell Corby. and her hus-
band. DR.. Edwin Carman. the accused
woman returned to her cell last night
predicting that the jury would return
a verdict of acquittal.
Mrs. C%arnnan's face was wreathed in
smiles when she entered the courtroom.
She bowed to several friends, kissed
her daughter Elizabeth. greeted her
husband with Il nod and smile and
chatted with him and her lawyers UNI
til the proceedings began.
Rudolph Loewe. the first witness.
testified he was on his way to DR..
Carman's office and within Is feet of
the window, when tho shot which killed
Mrs. Bailey was fired. Loewe heard
h shot. looked up and saw IL man III
ACROSS IllG ldWl. anu reap over inc
fence.
Although very deaf. Loewe was posi-
tive he heard the shot The witness
said tina after hearing the shot he
looked into DR.. Carman'S office and
saw the doctor with Il wolna in his
arms.
Loewe said he looked into the doc
tors office for about 50 econds. and
that before he left the scene he saw a
door open and q wonan in white enter
the office. BY that time. he said, the
woman who had been shot was lying
on the floor.
There We're two women in front of
the house, the witness added. He said
he also saw a man he did not know
standing in the vestibule to the doc
tors office.
John j. Dunbar, a i'rceport police
man testified that after the murder he
brought bloodhounds TO the Carman
house. He said he saw the broken
picket in the fence mentioned in the
opposite the broken window, he said.
On the premises mex loo he found
near the fence a place where a mans
feet had been: apparently the man had
been standing there for some time.
After bringing the b~loodhounds TO
the house, Dunbar said he look them
to the tralnpled ground and they went
~ IN SilE PIChct. 1llSJl
the dogs We're allowed to smell the
window sill. They growled, ran all the
way around h house, came up to the
place where the picket was broken.
left the premises and went west as
far as Lynnbrook, three miles away,
where they stopped, having lost the
trail.
ON cross examination Dunbar said
he had taken the screen off the window
the night of the murder, propping it
up with a piece of new shingle which
he found near q small clubhouse being
built in the rear of the Carman resi-
dence. The dogs. after smelling the
n sill, went to this house. lie
said. The district attorney sought to
show that the animals followed Dun
bars back trail.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-10-28
Work for Women.

Miss Theodore Butcher, head of the
Bureau of Occupations for Trained
Women, says that there is a great de-
mand for dietists, to plan diets for
from SO to 500 persons. She says
there r requests for all sorts of
women workers, the new rhythmic
dancing being very popular, with great
demand for women who can teach it.
She says that one of the best occupa-
tions for women is that of secretary.
as it is pleasant work and gives a
wide range for the woman employed
and is generally not too strenuous.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-10-28

Gals of the state department-he could
not recall whether it was Secretary
Bryan or Counsellor Lansing. MI.
Lansing said, today, the
had not been given to him and that
he did not kno of them. Secretary
Bryan is in the west. speaking in the
congressional campaign.
The ambassador said the statement
was madc because of statements from
various English sources, that Germany,
If successful. would not respect the
Monroe doctrine and doubtless would
attempt to make a great colonization
scheme in South America.
The ambassador said that he later
put the matter in writing.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-10-28
SAN ANTONIO Scene
OF DISASTROUS FLOOD
Eleven Drowned, 1000 Rem
dered Homeless and Huge
Property Damage Done.

San Autorio. Tex. Oct. 26.-Helief
work among destitute sufferers from
yesterdays flood along San Pedro and
Alazan creeks. in which II persons we're
drowned II 1900 made homeless, was
we'll under way today.
Nearly zoo houses We're swept away
and the property loss was estimated at
between $150,0O0 and $500, 900. The flood
was confined to the low lands, where
the poorer classes lived. Several per-
sons were still missing today and it
was feared the death list might be in
creased.