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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-31
Arrival Nicely Timed.

TIE robbers timed their arrival so rs
- hs sure the safes were open and yet
escape a rush Of customers. A little after
$50 o'clock one OF the three appeared ana
asked clerk Dickler, who lives at 1890
Madison avenue. for one OF the suitcascs
advertised Dicl,ler recognized him az a
man VINO had been in the pawnshOp three
days before.
TIE clerk was doing his best to sell him
q case when the two other robbers came
r separately. one of them was waited on
by Jerry stern. son Of the proprietor who
lives at 10 East Elghty-seventh street. and
ID" other simply looked around. Edward
the rear sweeping.
At signal unnoticed by the three
clerks all Of the robbers produced pistols,
and each one selecting a clerk, forced ;he
tiip into the rear room OF the paWnsnop.
While one robber went to lock the front
door. which was screened, the other two
drew out heavy binding cord, bourd the
three clerks separately and then together
and left them standing, faces to the wall.
Jerry Stern said afterwafd that the men
were not In the store more than ten min
utes and after they were bound II was
Only three or four minutes before tho
robbers had gone with their loot. Dickler
vas the first TO wriggle free.
The escape was made ~ quickly that II
was AZ first supposed the robbers used an
automobile. Not much credit is given 10
this theory, however. az no one saw n ma
chine, and as the three are supposed "a
nave crossed the East River as foot pas
sengers on the ferry.
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WOODEN BARS FOUND
ON Big SAFES ROBBED
rtYtves WHO Got 1000 Loot
in Pawnshop Sought in
QueeGs borough.
CLERKS BOUND TOGETHER

That -s;her busy section OF Third ave-
,,,a II, the Eighties had scarcely settled
M. 20 the mornings work yesterday
.-... a polce whistle was blown long and
., ,b. Eshty-dfth street corner by Nor
,v Morris Dickler. clerk in the pawn
mod, of Adolph stern. 1903 Third avenue,
fl a.., lust extricsted himself from bonds
.,,, had held him and two other clerks
"a. IN the rear OF the pawnshop while
.s-ss robbers had looted the two great
,sses Of SIS 1000. mostly in diamonds
policeman came. then detectives,
ro,e detectives. and finally Inspector
s,urot himself. for from the very first
b, vas clear that the boldest daylight
hodup since the famous tsXlcab robbery
,- church street thres years ago had
,sen successfully engineered. The three
o5b,rs had escaped. leaving as the only
lew the rather full descriptions given
ov Tho three clerks.
Men who answered these descriptions,
re detectives we're told soon .aftcrward,
we're seen on the Astoria ferry. which
runs from the foot Of East Ninety-second
e-se,. Two we're Eve feet seven Inches
and tho other over six feet tall. All
three carried new suit cases, which APP
reared to be similar to cases taken from
the stern shop to carry away the loot.
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FINED FOR CONTEMPT.
Former Associate of AbBer Mckis.
ley settles for $500.

charles T., Locke a promoter who was
IS 'niated with Abner Mckinley, brother
- tie late President, in army contracts
~ the time OF the Spanish American war,
vas arrested yesterday on an order OF
HH Court Justice Ransom for contempt
'i court because he failed to appear for
examination in supplementary proceed
'-' on a judgment for 1900 obtained
H John Karst, n bric-a-brac dealer, as
me balance due ON art goods
l."'kr was released after he had paid
WOO tine for his offence.
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Twenty per cent. Zone person
in five) die from the effects of
partially cured Cold.
This danger is averted by us
ing DR., Humphreys Seventy
seven" assuring complete re-
covery, while It's tonicity sustains
the system, safeguarding any organ
prone 10 disease.
"Seventy-seven" breaks up
hard stubborn Colds that hang
on-Grip.
25e. and 800 at all druggists or mailed
Humphreys Homeo Medicine Co, 1856
William street. New VsTk
The Alaska citizen., 1915-05-17

covered channel is issued, it will be
possible for steamship companies to
send vessels for the Kuskokwim and
thus initiate the development of the
latent mining. fishing. and agricul-
tural resources of that region.
The Kuskokwim valley covers many
thousands of square miles. and no
one can predict with certainty what
this practically virgin territory will
develop when it is thoroughly pros
pected, but it is not unreasonable to
suppose that the near future will see
the kuskokwim river of commercial
importance comparable with that of
The Yukon river.
MANY RESOURCES.
1t has been known for some time
that there were large areas of mer-
cury-bearing Cinnabar. gold-bearing
quartz, placer ground and coal lands.
whose successful development only
waited a reliable means of transpor-
tation such as is now promised by
the newly discovered channel
Contiguous to the Kuskokwim val
ley there are many thousands of
guare miles suitable for reindeer
grazing. Captain Lukens reports
that already the small initial govern
ment nerd has grown until there
are now about 5000 reindeers in this
vicinity. He says that the cost of
raising reindeer is very small. Three
men can take care of 600. The an
mals subsist on the country the
year round. Even in the winter
when the ground is covered with
snow, 10 extra feed is required for
them. The meat of the reindeer is
comparable to that of our western
beef Even with the small market
afforded at present. the native herd
owners are becoming prosperous.
and now that better transportation
is promised by ships that will use
the new channel, there is every rea-
son to believe that this country will
furnish many thousands of pounds
Of this excellent meat for shipment
to the United States.
Like other large rivers of this part
Of Alaska. the Kuskokwim has large
salmon run. Captain Lukens states
that now that reliable TRANSFORMATION
is at hand, the canning companies
are arranging to extend their opera
lions into this region, but that the
-erert Of this industry can not be
iorecasted until after a year of &C
tual fishing.
Among other things given out in
his announcements of the results of
important charting operations in
Alaska, Secretary Redfield states that
plans are being made in Seattle for
the construction by different com
2anies of two light draft vessels de
signed especially to take care of the
expected development of the com
merce of the Kuskokwim river, and
that still another shipping firm has
already announced sailings to the
huskokWim at the opening of navi-
cation in the coming spring.
The Alaska citizen., 1915-05-17
Oceans Of Love, "
But Not for Wife

INDIANAPOLIS.-"With oceans of
'oNe'-taat was the tale the blotter
told to woman on her husband.
Her husband, shes aid, had written
a letter to lis sweetheart" His
wife, according TO her own testimony,
Was not tie sweetheart and, of
course, she did not get the letter,
but she got the blotter. And the
blotter told the letter of her hus-
bands unfaithfulness.
Such was the testimony of Mrs
Josephine d. Kerln against Harry
E. Kerlin before Francis J. Renhard
The tale the blotter told caused a
quarrel and finally separation,
kerlin leaving their home Mrs Ker-
lin then filed suit for divorce on
the grounds of cruelty and inhuman
treatment alleging infidelity. She
withdrew her complaint and then re-
entered it when the court denied
kerlin a decree of divorce Mrs.
kerlin then secured divorce.
The Alaska citizen., 1915-05-17
TOLOVANA SWEPT
BY FOREST FIRE

Forest tres are repOrted from
Oyana camp and many places along
the Tanana river. In the Tolovana
the fires are driving out miners and
viii probably make it impossible to
keep horses there until tn new
Grass grows high enough for pasture
Some of the miners in the Tolo-
vana district have lost their sup
plies in the fire, and some of them
will be forced to leave the place
on account of being burned ont.
Latest arrivals from the Toloyana
state that practically the whole of
Livengood creek is aflame Beck
and Keen, on II above LivengOod,
had their cabin burned up in the
forest fire last Thursday. Their
'urplies and almost everything they
had went up in smoke.
Peter the fisherman, at the mouth
If Olive creek, lost his camp oul-
fit in the fire two or three DAYS
ago. Jack Altman and Howard WI
on are moving their camD to get
out of the path of the flames. Mr..
md Mrs Battin and Nh and Mrs.
hlfliN ell, Oh Esther CREEK, were
the fire that threatened
heir homes when c. S. Knutson,
who arrived in Fairbanks Saturday
came past them. Dave Callahan was
forced to put all his belongings in
a prospect hole to protect them.
For a time Saturday the Nenana
telegraph station was threatened by
a forest fire. The fire was working
its way toward the station and the
operators there were becoming quite
disturbed about it.
Fires were reported from along
the Cinema river also, but none Of
them seem to be doing much harm.
AT the local land office it is eX-
planned that the fires are caused by
careless campers and by farmers who
try to burn off the underbrush, and
then let the flames get away from
them.
Charles T. Crozier lost 1875 cords
of wood in a forest fire on Birch
hill Friday afternoon.
The Alaska citizen., 1915-05-17
Kusk0kWim Is Second River of the North
Discovery Of Channel Opens New Lands

WASHlNGTON.-On January 25th,
Secretary Redfield of the department
of commerce, made announcement of
the opening of Alaska's second great
est river to commerce. A letter from
him. bearing the same date. tells
the story at greater length than has
been noted in press dispatches:
Secretary of Commerce Redfield
made the official announcement to-
day that "a practical navigable chan
mel from the Boring sea into the
mouth of the Kuskokwim river had
been discovered by Captain Lukens
of the coast and geodetiC survey.
The kuskokwim river is the sec
ond greatest river in Alaska Il is
miles wide at its mouth and navI-
gable for over 500 miles inland The
great submerged flats of the delta
of this river extend 100 miles ont
to sea. and ii was through this I'M
charted delta that the surveying
steamer Yukon" made the discovery
of the channel which means SO much
to the commerce OF that section Of
Alaska
The Kuskokwim Is one OF tie
three great American rivers empty
ing into the Boring sea which has
been opened to commerce as the re
suit of the Charting operations of the
coast and geodetiC survey. The
mouth of the Yukon was surveyed
in 1898 and in few years that river
became one Of the greatest CONNER
Cial arteries of Alaska In 1909 and
1910 Nushagak bay was charted and
now the Kuskokwim. by far the most
dreaded and unknown of these riv-
ers, Will no longer be a menace to
the navigator who has one of the
new charts of its entrance about to
be issued by the coast and geodetiC
survey.
SURVEY STARTED.
The survey of the Boring sea in
the vicinity of the kuskokwim was
started in 1911 ami continued the
following summers of 1912 and 1918
But it was not until the past field
eas0n that surveying vessel sue
'eeded in tracing and charting chan
nels through the great area of the
-ubmereed mud flats which make
mp the delta of the kuskokwim.
In making the survey. Captain
rFens reports he took IA 256 sound
ngs. covering an area of over 100
square miles. This in itself is quite
an achievement when considered in
connection with the customary bad
weather in Alaska AMI the fact that
N some instances it was necessary
to locate soundings by observations
On mountain peaks more than so
niles distant. The whole working
The Alaska citizen., 1915-05-17
ROAD CREATING
NEW COAST CITY

Cordova Times Ship Creek, on
Knik Arm, is fast assuming the pro-
portions of city-one constructed
chiefly Of tents-due to uncertainty
If the lot question. If this matter
were determined and the lost sold
or disposed of in some way so
that private parties could biuld with
some degree of certainty as to their
status, then the little city would
grow with phenomenal growth
AS it is all of the one hundred and
ifty people now there are as busy
as bees, but their labor for the
most part is confined to building
but temporary quarters, because of
the situation.
Just how soon the toWnsite will
be thrown open, or how the lots
will be disposed Of, are questions
which no one now there is qualified
to answer, although conjectures are
rife. Some appear to believe that
there will be a drawing, at so much
per draw; others maintain that the
lots will be sold at public auction
to the highest bidder; still others
maintain that pioneers will have
the first chance to retain or acquire
lots located by them; while yet
lhers think that it will be quite
4 while before the townsite is ready
for public disposal and believe that
the squatters, if they are not in the
way, will not be molested for the
time being.
To add to the problem is the claim
of Thomas II. Jeter, who located
homestead there three years prior
to the creation of the townsite re-
serve. Jeter does not propose to
surrender any rights he may inherit
through his eutry, and has enlisted
the services of his cousin, prom
inent attorney and a former lieuten-
ant governor of California, to aid
him in the matter.
But complex as the situation ap-
pears on its face it is safe to say
that the engineering commission has
definite plans with regard to the
townsite matter, which will be an
nounced in due time. Perhaps be-
fore the end of the month the an
nouncement will be forthcoming, as
Lieutenant Mears, of the commits
sion, has arrived at Ship creek.
A water right has been filed with
the forest service calling for 5000
miners inches of water from Ship
Creek, for water power and cleo
trio system for the town. Capital
is available to finance the system.
There are five restaurants, four
lodging houses and two small stores
there now. r. c. Nichols will open
a jewelry store. A man is there to
open a meat market and cold stor-
age plant. S. S. Soper. an old
time Alaskan. will open a barber
shop. Ramsey & Campbell, from
Seattle. will engage in the same
business.
Bud Whitney is building fine
residence on his homestead.
The Alaska citizen., 1915-05-17
t licking Husbands
Pockets Illegal

CLEVELAND.-COm Pleas
Judge Phillips stopped the Ericsson
divorce case before the defendant
Augustus F. Ericsson, letter carrier,
had introduced much evidence. The
Judge refused Mrs, Ericsson a di-
vorce on her petition and granted
the decree to Ericsson on his cross
petition. incidentally he ruled that
wives have no right to go through
a husbands pockets.
Mrs Ericsson charged gross ne
glect Ericsson, who made the same
charge. proved that while his wife
was away organizing welfare leagues
and suffragist societies he was Oblig-
ed to do the house work.
Mrs Arthur Lowe testified that
Ericsson was perfect housemaid
in every respect except attire. She
added
And he should have worn dress
es. He had to do what his wife
wished or she'd fight"
Mrs. Ericsson's action in going
through a window and taking $50
from her husbands trousers pocket
probably was not burglary, but il
certainly was beyond her rights, y
Judge Phillips said
Last year South Carolina produced
In o1c vo1roI AGA 1En
The Alaska citizen., 1915-05-17

Last year South Carolina produced
minerals valued at $1,464,15O.
The Alaska citizen., 1915-05-17
Sentiment Ruins
Men, Says Shaw

ATLANTIC CITY, n J.-"Men
fail to consider us as human beings
or units of the commonwealth; we
are simply relations. They are logi-
cal enough when they discuss prob
lens where men are concerned, but
sentllent throws them off their
base when the subject of woman
is broached,' declared Dr. Anna
Howard Shaw, president of the Ma
tional American Woman's Suffrage
Association, in an address before
the annual convention of the New
Jersey State Teachers Association
Dr. Shaw said that States rights
are adjustable, and predicted that
the same Southern vote that de-
feated the Hobson bill in congress
because it lnterfered with States
rights. will forget that such a thing
existed when the matter Of granting
franchise to women comes before
them"
The Alaska citizen., 1915-05-17
Mem STRIKES
ARE MADE: IN
THE T0LOYhNA
LiVENGOOD PAYSTREAk TRACED
FOR DISTANCE OF
FIVE MILES.

Encouraging reports were brought
from the TOlovana camp by c. S.
knutsen, who arrived directly from
that place Saturday evening, coming
by way of the Dimes trail, and from
5cIe by train.
Pay dirt has been found in sew
eral places, and they have a pay
streak lined up on Livengood from
= to 90 above, a distance of five
miles. Mr.. Knutsen declares that
the conditions are encouraging, though
but little can be accomplished there
this season. owing to the inability
to get food brought in. The river
route, however, he thinks may re
leVe the conditions there somewhat.
Harry Patterson struck bedrock
morning, and found dirt that will
run from 50 so to SO to the square
foot of bedrock. On last Thursday.
Dave Lowry struck bedrock on 20
above, second tier, Livengood, and
fund pay. Wagner. on 2 above
FIST tier, Livengood struck pay
Thursday
TIE trouble is that provisions are
almost exhausted in the camp, and
it is impossible for men to get sup
plies in any quantity under present
conditions.
The man who keeps the Globe
roadhouse, which is about half way
from Dimes to the camp, told Mr..
Knutsen that he is paying 40 cents
a pound for freighting from Dimes.
The Alaska citizen., 1915-05-17

SCOOP" Big city dailies are al
That ways on the lookout
Failed for a big story that
will be the days feature.
A big fire, society scandal, the
death of some important person, or
some other unusual thing that Will
interest the general public, is certain
to create a demand for that day S
issue.
1t is seldom, however. that a fea-
ture story is advertised and then
fills to get into the paper, though
such 2 thing happened here in Fair
banks last week.
The News-Miner issued bulletins
early in the day, announcing that
the town of Seward was in flames
and tat its water supply was shut
off, making the story, in effect, that
the town would almost certainly be
burned up
The subject soon became the talk
Of the town, and as the afternoon
wore along. The interest and anxiety
of the people increased. for many
PEOPLE of Seward are known in
Fairbanks. 1t was generally sup
posed that when the Miner
The Alaska citizen., 1915-05-17

An right. Are you jones'"
No; I'm Knott"
Who are you then, please?"
will Knott"
why won't you?"
Il say my name is William Knott"
"Oh. | beg pardon
Then you'll he in this afternoon
If | come round, Watt"
Certainly Knott"
Burr-rr-r'' went the rine-off; and
Knott, as tie sat down at his de-k,
began to ponder whether Watt said
he would be in or not.
The Alaska citizen., 1915-05-17

an incubator. were purchased that
.dly. ard turned over to the mother
hen To- bring up with her own brood.
The original brood that had been
hatched out TO the hen early in the
day contained only lght-colored
chicks. and the ten additional chicks
We're all lightcolored with the ex-
ception of two These two dark
chicks the mother hen refused to
adopt Il was evident that she had
belonged to her. and she refused TO
take them.
Then the little dark-co1ored chicks
were taken 20 a neighbors henyard
and an attempt was made to get a
mother hen there to adopt them.
but with the same result Finding
it impossible to get mother for
the chicks of the dark color they
We're taken back to the people from
whom they We're purchased and
We're traded for two light-colored
chicks When the latter were taken
to the mother hen she adopted them
without any objection.
Spring Wen. the spring season.
Brings when poets and mosQui
verse. tos begin to be in evil
dence, is here. which is
made evident by the verse that is
being written and the way the air
Is filled with the tiny pests.
This spring poetic tendency in
flcted itself upon the young social
set last week. when the committee
having charge of it sent out the in
vitations in verse Typographically
tt" invitations We're attractive, and
the verse seemed to meet the desire
to change the usual stereotyped style
OF invitations. 1t was as follows:
Next Friday night
If plans 90 right,
Well dance the evening through,
SO come along
And join the throng
And bring your sweetheart. too.
"Theren be sweet girls
With winsome curls,
The music will be fine
Odd Fellows Hall
VIII have the ball,
The hour will be nine"
The party proved to be a decided
success, and the 40 young people
who We're present assert that it was
an unusually enjoyable affair
The Alaska citizen., 1915-05-17


The Charles William Stores 3"
Hen That chickens have the
Knows power of knowing the
Coiors difference in colors was
proved to Mr.. and Mrs
Charles Johnston. of Garden Island
one day last week The incident
proving this was one of peculiar
interest.
At the chicken yard of Nh and
Mrs Johnston, 4 hen came off the
nest early in the week with some
small chicks. and it was decided
TO increase her family by the
addition of incubator chicks. Ac-
cordingly ten chicks. fresh from
The Alaska citizen., 1915-05-17
George Smith To
Serve II Jears

George Smith. who was recently
convicted of taking part in the rob
berry of Kenneth Mcclellan at Chata-
nika last summer, was sentenced by
Judge Bunnell last Saturday to serve
II years in the penitentiary at Nc
Neils Island.
In passing sentence. the court
pointed out that the burden of the
evidence in the case proved that
Smith was the most serious often
der of those taking part in the crime
though he would not give him the
limit. which is fifteen years Smith
asserted his innocence before being
entenCed.
v VILLAIN Clark, accused with Smith
f having been party to the same
crime, was sentenced previously to
serve five years, while Betty Smith
turned states evidence and was ac-
quilted of the charge. Clark went
to the penitentiary with the party
of prisoners taken by Marshal En-
win, but Smith will remain here I'M
til another party is sent out
Eleven States in the Union have
granted full suffrage to women. New
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and
Massachusetts will probably vote on
suffrage amendments next fall and
the prospects for suffrage are fay
1rable in Delaware, West Virginia,
tennessee, Alabama. Arkansas and
NeNas.
The Alaska citizen., 1915-05-17

1t is reliably reported that the
manufacture of aeroplanes will be
begun in Canada within a short time
The Canadian Government will, it is
said endeavor to develop a military
flying corps to augment the forces
now in service in England.
The Alaska citizen., 1915-05-17

md tie following dialogue ensued:
Are you there?"
Yes"
who are you. please"
Watt"
''What is your name, please?"
Watts my name"
Yes, what is your Nance"
Il say my name is Watt-John
Watt"
"Oh. Well I'm coming round TO
see you this afternoon"