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The Seward gateway., 1915-08-05
GOVERNMENT SHOULD
 HIRE DETECTIVES.

JUNEAU.-Governor J. E. A.. Strong yesterday stated that the Unted States government should hire trained detectives and keep them on the job until the perpetrators of the many murders in the interior have been brought to justice.
 "The twelve or fifteen murders which have been committed in the Third and Fourth divisions within the last few years are very good evil dence that there is a murderer, or a gang of murderers at large in that section," said Governor Strong, "and I haven't doubt in the world that if trained men were put on the job the guilty parties would be found, and that all of the crimes would be traced to the same course.
 At the time of the finding of the bodies on the Valdez trail a couple of years ago the government put two men on the pay roll for over year without any results. Marshal Bren- neman wrote to me at the time they were let go and I wrote to the at torney general and asked him to re- tain them for a time longer. He re- piled that the funds were exhausted and so the men were dropped from the pay roll and nothing had been ac- complished. ."-Dispatch.
The Seward gateway., 1915-08-05
FOREST MONEY SUIT
 ARGUED YESTERDAY.

JUNEAU, July 23.-Judge Jen- nings yesterday afternoon listened to the arguments of Attorney John H. Cobb in favor of the demurrer to the suit over the Forest Service money instituted by the members of the last legislature from the First division.
 John G. Held answered for the plaintiffs in the case. The matter was taken under advisement by Judge Jennings, and he will announce his decision at a later date. In the mean time the Territorial Treasurer is pre- vented from paying out any of the money to other divisions.
The Seward gateway., 1915-08-05
MORGAN'S PLAN.

The following article from the New York Journal of Commerce of July 13 will be of general interest to Alaska and throughout the Pacific Northwest:
 "Wall Street believes that J. P. Morgan & Co. the Guggenheims and other capitalists are considering com prehensive plans for development work in Alaska.
 "What has prompted steps in this end, it is said, are conditions brought about by the European war. Accord ing to rumor these plans call for an increased output of copper and other metals, railroad development to be worked in conjunction with the con struction of the United States govern ment lines and additional steamship facilities from the tidewater termin- als of these railroads to the metal shelter at Tacoma and great metal consuming districts of the Atlantic coast of the United States and Europe through the Panama canal.
 "These interests have already talk en over large copper properties, in- cluding the Beatson Copper Company, and are expected to acquire others. The purchase of the copper proper ties is being affected through the Kennecott Copper Corporation, con trolled by the Morgan-Guggenheim interests.
 Here follows short description of the Kennecott company, which was told of at length in the Monday Morn ing Financial section of July ,. The Journal then continues:
 "The Kennecott mines are among tho Iarco nroperties in the world, their output alone, it is said, having more than supported the Cop per River & Northwestern railway, which was built some years ago from Cordova to Chitina, with a branch line from there to Kennecott, at total cost of about $14,OOOOOO. From Cbitina there is a military wagon road to Fairbanks, 300 miles away, the metropolis of Interior Alaska, and it is known that for years the Copper River & Northwestern railway consid- cred the extension of its railroad along that road, but was halted by the attacks made on Alaskan railway promoters in connection with the pol itical fight for the national conserya- tion of coal resources.
 "Meantime the United States gov ernment plans for greater railroad development in Alaska are moving fast to successful conclusion. 1t IS the intention of the American capital ists who are entering the Alaskan field on such a large scale to work their plans in entire harmony with the plans of the government, doing every thing possible to prevent the recur- renee of the friction between govern mental and private interests which have held back the growth of Alaska to date"
The Washington herald., 1915-08-09
BARE-LEGGED WOMEN
BARRED FROM BATHING
Atlantic City Will Not Follow Chi.
casos Example of Permitting
Mature Stockings"

Atlantic City, Aug. s-Chicago beaches
can have their bare-legged women If
they wish. but Atlantic City wants none
Of them.
1T simply cannot be done" said Chief
Surgeon Bossert, czar Of the strand. at
Beach Headquarters this morning. He
does not believe the issue will be raised
here. but the city is prepared to cope
with the situation II it should.
To make sure that he will not se
Handicapped by lurking legislative en-
tanglements il series of regulations
to meet bare-legsed emergency should
be necessary. Director Bossert went
back through the files this morning and
found nothing whatever bearing upon
the situation.
THE facts Of the case" he said, ARE
that bare legs do not look well in pub
lie. Women are quick to realize that
fact. and SO We have no trouble upon
that score. II may be admitted that
some women who wear exceedingly thin
white or pink stockings might as well
be without any 30 far as appearances
go. but they are few"
The Washington herald., 1915-08-09
Two NOMINATED FOR
navy ADVISORY BOARD
Society of Aeronautic Engineers. by
Vote, Picks Henry A. Wise Wood
and Elmer A. Sperry.

The American Society of sAeronautic
Engineers. organized at the request of
Thomas A. Edison, and which was re-
ouested by Secretary Daniels to appoint
two members to serve on the navy s
advisory board. has. after polling its
members for their selection. nominated
Henry A Wise Wood and Elmer A.
Sperry, together with a special commit
tee of the following aeronautic engineers
and experts to cooperate with them:
Orville Wright, Glenn H. Curtiss. w.
Startling Burgess, and Charles NJ. Man.
II. to advise on matters pertaining par
ticularly to the theory and construc-
ton of aeroplanes and aeronautical mo-
torc
Peter Cooper Hewitt. John Hays Ham,
mond. jr, and Joseph A. Steinmetz. to
advise on matters pertaining particularly
to the application 'ef aircraft for war
fare.
Capt Thomas s. Baldwin. A. Leo Ste
vens. Ralph II. Upson, and Raymond B.
Price, to advise on matters pertaining
particularly to dirisibles. balloons. and
parachutcs.
Henry A Wise and Elmer A Sperry
were nominated by eight-tenths of the
total votes. This is due to their knowl-
edge of the navy and of the applica tion
of aircraft to naval purposes, as we'll as
TO their knowledge of the different
branches of eronautics, and to the fact
that they have the confidence of the ex-
perts OF the branches of the science of
aerona utics. Both are scientific engi-
neers recipients of the Elliott Cresson
and John Scott sold medals of the Frank
lin Institute. respectively, awarded for
inventions of a basic character. They
each have hundreds of successful inven-
tions to their credit.
Mr.. Wood is president of the Ameri-
can Society of Aeronautic Engineers,
lea. and was a member of the Aerody-
bv President TAFT in 1912. He is the son
of former Mayor Wood. of New York.
Elmer a. Sperry is vice president Of
the American Society of Aeronautic En-
gineers. member of the Aero Club OF
America. and of the Aeronautical So
ciety. He is the father of the gyroscope,
which he has applied to more than twen-
ty different uses.
- The special committee of aeronautic en-
gineers and experts was appointed as
result of many suggestions received from
members of the society, who. in send
ing in their selections. pointed out that
no two men in aeronautics today have
expert knowledge Sof every branch of
aeronaCtics.
AS the requests of Secretary Daniels
and Mr.. Edison were for two members
of the society, II was not possible to
include even one expert from each
branch. therefore the special committee
was formed
The Washington herald., 1915-08-09

| to safer position. AS the brigade re-
treated johnny Glenn managed to ge,
| lost. He got mixed up with a command
| that was almost surrounded by Confed.
| crates.
The boy realized his predicament, and
did what any healthy youngster of his
years would do and started to run. He
ran like a scared rabbit" and when he
stopped running he was in a little clump
! of woods all by himself.
Cautiously he came out Of the woods
and he ran full tilt into a Confederate
| colonel. The Confederate officer looked
| at the little boy with the little gun and
| despite the awfulness of the situation
he had to laugh. telling Glenn to drop the
gun.
Instead Of dropping the gun Glenn
brought it to his shoulder. pointed it at
the colonel and fired. The colonel fell
badly wounded and Glenn turned and
ran for all he was worth. Finally he
landed back with the Twenty-second
Michigan and ever afterward they call
ed him the drummer boy of Chick
amauga"
AS for the Confederate colonel he re-
covered after many weeks in the hos
pital.
At Chickamauga three bullets pass
ed through Clem's cap. Afterward he
poi iiSlPdtcu III lHe DdttleS Oh feTTy-
vile. Murfreesboro. Kenesaw Noun
tain. Peach Tree Creek and Atlanta.
At Atlanta he was wounded twice.
Gen. Thomas and Gen. Logan, both
became warm friends of the youth
full sergeant, and when the war ended
they kept track of him and when
Grant was elected President he sent
for Glenn and told him that he wanted
to send him to West Point. In the
fall of 1871 Glenn appeared at West
Point to stand his examination. But
he did not pass. for he lacked the pre-
liminary education necessary.
Bitterly disappointed, Glenn went to
Washington, and saw the President
Glenn told Grant about his shortcom-
ings and asked him to give him more
time to brush up on mathematics and
other subjects. of which he did not
then know any too much.
Il can beat that scheme" replied
President Grant. "and you won't have
to go to West Point at all. will make
you a second lieutenant of regulars
right now" And that is exactly what
Grant did. The order commissioning
him was signed Dec. IS, 1871.
In 1874 Clem was promoted to
first lieutenant. He was made
captain in 1882. a major in 1895,
lieutenant colonel in 1901 and a COL
onel in 1903.
The Washington herald., 1915-08-09

sending large sums Of money to Mexico
City to relieve the embarrassment caused
by the monetary situation there.
- Information was received here last
night that w. H. Francis. a newspaper
correspondent, has been arrested in
Vera Cruz. on a charge of transmit
ting libelous information to the for
eign press. Francis Is a British sub
tect. The Carranza agency is informed
that he will be tried before a civil
tribunal. Another correspondent, al
legged to be guilty of the same offense.
has taken refuge In the United States
consulate. The name Of this cores
pondent was not given in the dispatch
er received at the Carransa agency,
and SO far as is known the State De-
partment has not been advised of the
incident.
The Washington herald., 1915-08-09
Will give $IOO FOR
"CREED OF DEFENSE"
Woman's Section of Navy League Of
fers Prize-Mrs. Lockwood
Raps Pacihsts.

From all parts OF the country have
come responses to the appeal Of the
woman's Section Of the Navy League
| the first woman's national defense or
sanitation in the United States for
! American women to rally to the cause
of patriotism. Americanism, and nation
al defense"
1t was announced last night that a
member had given 500 to be devoted
to a prize for the best 2J0-word creed
of national defense to be used In the
work of arousing the country to the
need of sufficient national defenses. This
prize offer is open to every woman who
for entry in this contest is to sign and
send in a membership pledge and thus
become a member of the section. All
manuscripts must be in by September
Is, when they will be turned over to the
judges for decisions. Written manu-
scripts will be accepted. but typewriter
ones are preferred. They should be
sent to the Woman's Section Of the
Navy League, Southern Building. WASH
ington, D. C. The winning contribution
will be formally adopted by the section
as its creed
Mrs. Mary S. Lockwood, founder Of the
Daughters of the American Revolution, IS
years old, declared last night that any
man who dared to be against national
defense in a time like the present and re-
fused to enlist when the country was In
actual peril, should be called a traitor
and be boycotted by all good citizens.
IT would boycott any man who refused
to serve his country when II needed him. -
saf1 Mrs. Lockwood. Let the men try
any anti-enlistment business in this coun-
try, and the women will show them. call
such arrant towards and traitors men,
bers Of the League Of the White Feather
But I do not believe that this league
would get a very large membership in
this country. American men and women
are patriotic to the core.
II have worked for peace all my long
life, but I know the best way to get
peace is to insure it by preparedness.
Our present weakness of national de-
fense Is both silly and dangerous. Now
We have seen the hole We have got into.
1t is time to get out of II. We put our
men in Congress to do our will, and If
the men of the country can't make Con-
gress vote sufficient national defenses the
women can-and will. If our legislators
will put their ears to the ground just now
they will hear a mighty shout swelling
over this country from East to West,
Prepare! Prepare"
NO race under the sun loves its coun-
try better than Americans. have been
an advocate and worker for patriotism
all my life. and I know that we never
would have achieved our freedom II, when
the hour of trial was upon us, every man
had signed pledge not to give military
service TO his country in time of need.
In the days of great necessity it would
have been called unpatriotic and dis
loyal
The Washington herald., 1915-08-09
purely personal

Frank Smith. confidential clerk to Sec.
retary of the Navy Daniels. has returned
from his vacation, spent In New York.
Maj. Raymond w. Pullman, chief of
police. is planning to take short vaca-
ton the latter part of the month II de-
velopmepts in the police graft investi-
cation I permit. The major has had q
lively term of Office thus far.
John s. Garland. superintendent Of the
District Water Department, IL spending
his vacation at Markham, Va. Frederick
w. Albert Is in charge of the depart
ment
Harry E. Olsen. Of the ONCE Of the
Secretary Of Commerce, has been Or
dered to Chicago in connection with the
investigation being conducted by Secre-
tary Redfield into the Eastland disas-
ter.
Assistant Secretary Of the Treasury
Andrew ]. Peters has returned to the
city from his summer home at North
Haven. Me. He represented Secretary
McAdoo at the Pan-American dinner Of
the Chamber Of Commerce Of Green's
boro, N. c., Thursday night.
George B. Turner, chief taxidermist Of
the Smithsonian Institution. left Satur-
day on his vacation, which he will spend
at Longmeadow. N. Y.
John Rose. employed in the division of
supplies Of the Department Of Com
merce, is spending his vacation with
his parents at Peoria. Ill.
The Washington herald., 1915-08-09
SAYS HUSBAND USED
.CRUCIFIX TO BEAT HER
Woman Tells Magistrate Spouse Is
Saint in Daytime. but a
Satan at Might"

Philadelphia, Aug. S.-"A saint in the
daytime, but a Satan at night. who
beat me on the head with a crucifix
taken from the coffin of my first hus-
band" This is the way Mrs. Mary
Solomon, IS years old, of 326 South
Fern street, described her second hus-
band to Magistrate Beaton yesterday
in Central police court
George w. Solomon was accused of
cruelty to his wife and of defaming the
memory of his predecessor in her af-
fections.
Mrs. Solomon married her first hus-
band about nine years ago. according
to her narrative. Before he was bu-
ried the nickel-plated crucifix was, re-
moved from his coffin and returned
to her. A year later she married
Quarrels.
The crucifix, according to the wom-
ans testimony, seemed to be the CEN
ter OF the quarrels. And one morn
ing last week Mrs. Solomon awoke to
find her hands clasped about the cru
cifix of her dead husband. She failed
to appreciate the weird joke of her
husband and n fight began. Solomon
denied that he used the crucifix as q
club. saying he merely pushed Il
toward his wife.
The wit of Solomon was needed to
untangle the woes OF the Solomons.
Magistrate Beaton discharged the pris-
oner on condition that he take his
children by a previous marriage and
leave Mrs. Solomon and her crucifix
in peace.
The Washington herald., 1915-08-09
SUICIDE USES THREE METHODS
Cuts Arteries, Turns on Gas and
Then Hangs Himself.

Philadelphia. Aug. s.-A man believed
to be Paul Band. Is years old. of Balti-
more, who registered on Wednesday a,
Kenan's Hotel, Fifteenth and Filbert
streets. yesterday made trtply certain
that he would die.
After first opening arteries In his wrists
and ankles with nail file, the man
turned on the gas and hanged himself
from a bracket in d closet with his belt.
A bellboy traced the ordor Of gas to the
suicides room. District Detective Show
er cut down the body and had 1t taken
to the morgue.
The motive for Band ending his life
has not been learned by Shower. When
he engaged the room. the Baltimorean
paid for 1t In advance. He seldom left 1t.
No Identification papers were found on
his clothes, and the police assume that
he is Paul Band. Of Baltimore, by the
signature on the register.
The Washington herald., 1915-08-09
LECTURES woULD.BE SUICIDE.
Judge Tells Housewife should b
Too Busy to Seek Death.

Philadelphia. Aug. s-"A woman with
a husband. a family and home should
be too busy to think about suicide" was
the gist Of a lecture that Magistrate Har-
ris yesterday gave to Mrs. Margaret
Reeves, of Eighty-seventh street and
Laycock avenue. Early in the week she
attempted to end her life. She is the fifth
wife of James Reeves, S. years old, a
mail clerk on the Pennsylvania Railroad.
After he had discharged tho woman,
the magistrate noticed Jacob New. Of
Eighty-seventh street and Tinicum ave-
nue.. who was held In $500 bail several
weeks ago on a charge of having an
noyed Mrs. Reeves. Magistrate Harris
told him that he would infiict a severe
sentence II he did not refrain from fol-
lowing Mrs. Reeves
According to the police, the woman
sought death because officers Of a char
liable organization threatened to take her
children from hen
The Washington herald., 1915-08-09
BECKER AND THAW THEME,
Rev. Mr. MacMurray Gives Sermon
on Love and Hate.

Rev. Mr. MacMurray Gives Sermon
on Love and Hate.
The Becker and Thaw cases were out
lined in a sermon last night by Rev.
Arthur L. MacMurray. pastor Of Union
NJ. E. Church. to illustrate the motives
of love and hate that dominate the
world.
THE frantic efforts of Mrs. Charles
Becker to save her husband from the
electric chair at the last moment show
clearly the power of love-" said Dr. Mac
Murray, land the persistent efforts Of
Becker's enemies to send him to the
chair demonstrates the other motive
power at work in the world-hate.
THE unceasing battle of Mrs. Thaw
for the freedom Of her son. Harry, from
prison and an insane asylum. and the
same persistence on the part Of Jerome
to keep him in either of the two institu-
tions is another striking example Of these
two great powers"
The Washington herald., 1915-08-09
BIRTHS REPORTED.
WHITE

WHITE
George T. ami Maude r. Willard, girl
Charles J. and Nellie NJ. Raff. girl.
David and Marian McClelland. girl.
William and Laura Jones. girl.
Julius II. and Katherine c. Harper. girl
John r. and Delilah Cumberland, girl.
Charles c. and Marserte Costello, girl.
Edward and Elizabeth Ayre, girl.
COLORED.
Alonza d. and Mary Z. Wright, boy.
Wesley and Daisy Powell, boy.
Harry and Florence Chase, girl
The Washington herald., 1915-08-09
Turkish Peril Considered.

Rome, Aug. s.-Today's cabinet meet
ing discussed principally the Italian
Turkish relations. which have grown
more strained after the discovery on
board a Greek vessel Of proofs show
ing that Turkey was directly inviting
holy war and furnishing Tripoli
rebels with funds. ammunition and Of
ficers. A final decision is regarded as
imminent.
The Washington herald., 1915-08-09
Explain. ortexa'. E1ilinx.

Mexico City. Aug. s.-Gen. Pablo
Gonzales. commanding the constitu-
tionalist forces occupying the capital.
this afternoon issued the following ex-
PLANTATION Of the expulsion of DR.. Or
tega, the Guatemalan Minister who
was ordered to leave the city within
twenty-four hours and to leave the
country Immediately Afterwards. / is
sued this order in compliance with a
telegram from the citizen first chief
in charge of the executive power
(Carranza)."
The Washington herald., 1915-08-09

An army order will be issued today
| service at one minute after midnight
next Friday of Col. John L. Clem.
U. s. A., the only civil war veteran now
| on the active list. On Friday Col. Glenn
will celebrate his 64th anniversary, which
| is the age fixed by law when officers
| OF the army must retire. Col Glenn, who
Is famous throughout the service as
johnny Clem, the drummer boy of
| Chickamauga," will be retired with the
rank of brigadier general.
Glenn was a little Ohio shaver" of
| 10 years when President Lincoln issued
his first call for volunteers. The Third
ark (Ohio) district. In the regiment was
an officer. Capt. McDougal a friend of
Johnny Glen. The future senior colonel
of the Quartermaster Corps, was an or
phan, and there was no near relative
to stop him when he sought out his
friend McDougal and begged permission
to accompany the Third Ohio to the
front.
Glenn told McDougal he could carry
a gun provided 1t was not top heavy.
and also that he could beat the drum
ito beat the band" Capt. McDougal
however. could not see the proposition
in the same light. and told him he
was entirely too little and to young
for such dangerous business.
But Glenn did not lose hope. Early in
June of 1861 the Third Ohio started
for the mobilization camp at Coving-
ton, KY. A little boy smuggled himself
following day climbed out of the car
very tired. dirty. and hungry. in Cow
ington. The lad was Johnny" Glenn.
wouldn't BE Turned Down.
Also at Covington was the Twenty
sired that he would try and get a
berth in that regiment. and so he bold
ly sought out the tent of the colonel
and walked right in. The kid from
Newark told the colonel that he want
ed to go to the front with the regi-
ment The colonel laughed and patted
the boy on the back.
You are a game little fellow. all
right" said the colonel. but this is no
place for children like you"
But Glenn was SO persistent that the
colonel finally agreed to let him go
along as a sort of regimental mascot
and emergency drummer boy.
The soldiers rugged him out in a uni
form. they provided him with a drum
and a musket, the barrel of the gun
being sawed off short so as to make
1t possible for the little fellow to carry
II.
One of the first battles in which the
regiment figured was that of Shiloh.
In that battle Glenn got into the hottest
of the fight. He came very near losing
his life when a shrapnel shell explod-
ed within a few feet of him. A frag-
ment of the shell crashed through his
drum.
AT Chickamauga the boy was again in
the thickest of the fight. He fired right
and left with his little musket. Gen.
Thomas and Gen. Rosecrans both heard
of the heroism of the little boy and he
was personally commended for his brav-
cry by both of them. 1t was Gen. Rose
Grams who then and there made Clem a
sergeant the youngest non commissioned
officer who ever served in the armies of
this country.
Shot Confederate Oncer.
Now comes the story of how Glen won
the title of drummer bow OF Chicka-
The Washington herald., 1915-08-09
DEATH RECORD.
WHITE

WHITE
George W. Kern, 50 years. 81 r st. NV
Lille A. Smith. 60. ISIS Lamont st. NV
George A. Williamson g. 3Es Fifteenth 4. nv.
ReIford L Dudley, y days. 0l5 Ga. ave. nw
Roscoe F. Ward months l5T II St ne
COLORED.
Anna Cagse.t, is years. e53 Maids court.
Ella Young. a. 1873 10th st. NV.
Richard West. g. Garfield Hospital.