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The daily Alaskan., 1915-08-17
Dramatic News.

"W'hy does th, rich man in he play always fall in love with the poor but respectable orp,unT
 Probably because the poor orphan wears such beautiful diamonds. "-PhiI- adelphia Ledgrr.
The daily Alaskan., 1915-08-17
rha Quick Witted shlrp.

Mrs. Sharp-So you told MT. Jones you wished you was single once more did you? Sharp (wlth quick witl-Only that I might have the happiness ol marrying you over again, darhng.- Boston Transcript.
The daily Alaskan., 1915-08-17
SlO0 NeWard, SIOO

The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there Is at least one dreaded disease that science has beeE able to cure in all its stages, and flat Is Catarrh. Halls CataTrh Cure Is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treat ment. Halls CatarTh Cure Is taken in- ternally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. there by destroying the foundation of the dis ease and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing it's work The proprietors have so much faith in its curative pow CTS that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials. -
 Address: F J. CHENEY & co, Toledo, O.
 Sold by ali Druggists. 75c.
 Take HalTs Family Pills for constipation.
The daily Alaskan., 1915-08-17
Named After His Grandad.

Vagrant-Listcn, judge. Tn a hobo. but this town was named after my great grandfather. Judge-Ilupossible. Vagraut-But true. He was named in l7TG. and thIs town wasn't on the map theu.-Chicago Ledger
The daily Alaskan., 1915-08-17
A STORY OF "OLD DYEA. '"

ly, of University City, Mo-, in its issue of Saturday July 3l, 1915, appears an article by Jack Jung meyer Whoever he may bel en- titled. Society Girl Spurns Luxury for Home in the Wilds," the theme of which Is taken from story by Mrs. Mary E. Hart published in the Daily Alaskan by that talented writer on her last visit to Skagway a little over a year ago, during which time she went to Dyea, To- cated a homestead and stopped for several days at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Richter, who had then but recently been mar ried. but over whom still hung the glamour of romance and who were still permeated with the primal desire to dwell alone with each other in solitude, far from the haunts of men-and women.
 Published in connection with the story in the Missouri paper IS what purports to be the pictures ot Mir. and Mrs. Ernest Richter. That of Mrs. Richter is a true present ment of her as she Is known to her friends and acquaintances in Skag- way. but that of MT. Richter IS another case of Esau and Jacob the substitution of Emil, a brother, for Ernest
 There is enough truth in the story. as featured by Jungmeyer, to give it coloring of fact-there IS a place called Dyea. MT. and Mrs. Richter were newly married couple who took up homestead and started into the fox business there and at one time hoped to make fortune from the industry but that is as far as it went. The big war killed the fox business, the young people tired of the monot- ony of the wilderness and the re- suit was that few weeks ago they sold all their interests in Dyea for song and left the fast nesses of the north, its primeval forests and tangled undergrowth in the valleys and its majestic mountain peaks towering toward the sky, for the unromantic plains of Minnesota, where the farm pro- ducts dwarf into insignihcance the gold output of the great territory of Alaska.
 The story follows:
 Fifteen months ago Mrs. Ernest Richter, bride of Y, renounced her station as society favorite at Tacoma, Wash, to begin a life of arduous pioneering in the Alaskan wilds with her "Sourdoush" hus- band.
 To-day-the only white woman in the vicinity of Oyea-she is experimenting the fox ranch they established during their unique honeymoon.
 In addition to their determination to win independence from the soil, the Richters-he 2l and she I7-had practicly nothing but a couple of axes and spades when they were set ashore at Dyea.
 A roaring city of 30,O00 gold mad souls in the Klondyke days, this Southeastern Alaska mining town had been practically deserted over night when the White Pass took the place of the terrible Chil- coot as a route to fortune or failure. It was a silent camp of uninhab- ited houses when the Richters fired their bridal hearth in one of the cabins.
 Clearing land for a truck garden involved the Droblom of raging
The daily Alaskan., 1915-08-17
Sure Enouqh.

Soph-YOu want to keep your eyes open around here today. Fresh. What for? Soph-Becuuse people will think you are a fool if you gJ around with them shut-DartmOU,h Jack-o-Lau-
The daily Alaskan., 1915-08-17
When Women Kiss,

When women kiss 1t always reminds me of prizedghters shaking hands, Srrnrr Snt
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-02
OFFICIAL REPORTS ON THE WAR

-<--ttft4 4t4Nx,z4tz rt.Dll tsei1 two night attacks On the Rawka. river we repuIsed an attack directed against Doletzk
 .tOn Dec 31. the enemy manifested activity which was particularly in tense in the region Of the town of Rawlza where the fighting still con- tinues.
 South of the Pilica. the action has spread out and the positions cut off from thef routess from Vlostctc-o to zSisIoe.
 ;'Fn Ga1tcia we made energetic at taeks on the enemy in the region of Glorlice Southwest of JasIo) near Mschanl1a and Ropitza where despite the extremely fierce resistance which the enemy offered we destroyed, after a hard fight, their Notifications es- ,tablished. on the heights. In the vjI- 1age of Msehanka we captured about three thousand prisoners. including 6S officers, four cannon and six mitrail- leuses The fighting in this region still continues. Furious counter-at- tacks which the enemy made support ed by armored automobiles were re- pused by our artillery fire and bayonet charges.
 tIn Bukowine we occupied. after a battle, Storozhinetz and Radautz Gust south of Czernovitz). We also took some prisoners
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-02
UNFIT TO GOVERN SELF. PROF. TAFT SAYS Fomer President Says Chaos Would Follow Passage of
 Bill for Independence THINKS U. S. SHOULD
 SOON QUIT ISLANDS Situation Similar to Mexico Is His Prediction Under
 Self Government

Was1ington. Jam 2-In vigorous terms Former President Taft told the Senate Philippines Commission that the Filipino people were not as yet capable of selg-government He op- posed, in detail the bill for greater measure of self government for the islands declaring that mo measure could be framed better calculated to stir up trouble in the Philippines.'
 t"The Filipino people do not under stand republican seIf-government in, the sense. that we know it,'' said the former President.
 What would be the result if they were given se1f-government at once ?'' asked Chairman Hitchcock
 "A Filipino in whom I have great confidence said MT. Taft, "said to me: Your steamers would not be around Corrigfdor Island before the throat-cutting would begin verify believe that is true. We find the same condition in Mexico. The man who loses a political fight has his head for forfeit That's what de- veloped when Aguina1do was in power.
 'eIm describing an actual condf- ton that exists there I'd be glad to have the United States get out of the Philippines and have great re- gard for the poor people out there. They don't like me because I've told them the truth. But the trouble with a great many people is that they don't like to be told the truth. If you give these people independence now by 1920 you will have this terrible situation develop. Either a Diaz would arise in the Philippines or they would get into a condition that caused the fall of Diaz in Mex ico.''
 The former President while disa- rowing any intention of speaking as a. military expert. said in answer to. questions, that the obligation of the United States to defend the Philip pines might be a source of weak ness in time of war;
 But he continued, 'sI do not be- Heve that any of the, nations now en- gagged in the European war would look on the possession of the Philip pines as naval base as a source of weakaness.',
 MT Taft declared that in his opin- ion Japan had no desire to take the Philippines.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-02
BUTCHER
 HIDING UNDER
 HIS WEES BED
Latter Begged for Mercy, So Locomobile Employe Let
 Him Go Gets Divorce

Returning unexpectedly to his home at 12:3 30 a. m. and finding the butcher hiding under a bed. was the unique experience related by Robert J. Allen of this city in the superior court to- day when he obtained a divorce from Ida l.. Allen. Allen, who is employed at the Locomobi1e Go, testified that the incident upon which he was grant ed a divorce happened in Turner's Falls, Mass, in April. 1901.
 Allen had been employed in a big paper mill and was supposed to work at night. There was an accident to the machinery, however, and the hus- band went Shome earlier than usual. He found the house locked and every thing in darkness. After rapping on the door without getting a response Allen told his wife to open the door or he would break it in.
 Mrs. Allen then appeared in very scanty attire. She wanted her hus- band to go downstairs for some coal but he was suspicious and refused to leave. He saw a mans foot sticking out from under a bed and dragged out the town butcher, whose name was Joseph Laffenbaugh. The latter begged for mercy 50 Allen let him go.
 After this incident Allen left his wife and shortly afterward came to this city Mrs. Allen is living at present in Greenfield, Mass. The cou- pie were married in October, 1888. The wife's maiden name was Ida 1.amery.
 It was Judge Webb's first appear ance in the superior court here and the Allen decree was the first divorce matter to come before him in this court.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-02
SUMMON JURORS FOR NEW TERM OF
 SUPERIOR COURT
Suit of Prof. Atlas Against Ray Keating Scheduled
 for Trial

Aihe January term of the superior court will begin in earnest next Tues Bay when a jury has been summ oned. pudge James H. Webb of New Ha- ven will preside. A number of cases hre down for trial among them being the action brought by Prof. James At las, the hotel proprietor, against Fay s<eatfng, ~tIle New York American league pitcher. Atlas wants $2,0O0 for alleged injuries done to his property during a fight that took place about R year ago.
 The jurors summoned are:
 Bradgeport- Charles E. Hamilton, Alfred J. McKeon, George H Whit nev-
 Daz4en-Frank B. Edwards John HastOn--wlllard s.e1liette. Edgar G, FaardeldAA E. Beeman. c. H. Brad Icy.
 Greenwie ieh--willialn s. Craft. Fred erick Field, Francis J. Talbot
 Huntington-War arren C. HubbeH, FL ret U. Stone.
 New canaan-nIfles c. Adams, Vim. A. Davenport
 Newton-JaTnee F Farren, Francis " P1a3tt.
 Norwalk-Ira M. Hoyt, Howard L. Tsowndes, John F. McMahon.
 Stamford-Samuel J. F'aucett, Ed ward M. Gou1den, Gideon F. Hendrie.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-02
GERMAN

Berlin, Jan. 2-(By wireless to Lon don.)-The German official communi- cation issued today by the army head quarters staff says:
 ''Jn the eastern theatre the enemy's attacks against our positions in and near the lines at Nieuport were re- pulsed. In the AArgonne region we made further progress along the front.
 Fierce French attacks to the north of Verdun and also against the front on the line of Ai11y-Aprenont, north of Commercy, were repulsed with heavy losses to the French. Thirty three officers and 100 men were taken prisoners by us. On this occasion we succeeded in taking the entire Bois Brules Cburned foresD for which we have been fighting so stubborn1y.
 Lately the French have systemad- calIy bombarded the village situated behind our front. They succeeded in killing 50 inmates of one of the shell ters of one of our divisions.
 .~The French official reports state that the French are making progress step by step in the village of Stein bach (Alsace1. Not single house has been lost by us in Steinbach. All the French attacks on this village have been repelled.
 East of the Bzura and the RaWka branches of the Vistula river our at tacks have progressed under some what more favorable weather condi7 tions.'
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-02
JOHN SHEPHERD TO
 WED MISS DROUVE

The engagement of Miss Bertha Drouve daughter of MT. and Mrs. Gerhard Drove, to John N. Shepherd was announced at party of girl friends who had gathered by invita- 4ioI, at Miss Drouve's home, ell Han cock avenue, on Thursday afternoon. Miss Drouve was graduated from the local High school and the city Normal school. She is one of the city's most popular young teachers MT Shep- herd is with Meigs & Company and with his bride-eIect enjoys an exceed -inelv wide circle of friends, all of whom will be pleased to learn of the enga agement.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-02
NEW HAVEN MEN TO FACE
 INDICTMENTS
Immunity Pleas of Billiard, Elton and Skinner Are Overruled By Federal Dis trict Court Tn New York.
judge Holds That Testimony Before I. c. C., Did Not Garry Any Promise of Im- munity to Officials.

New York. Jan. 24The federal dis &rict court oEerru1ed today the pleas of immunity interposed by John l.. Billiard, James $. Elton and William skinner to indictments charging them with criminal violation of the Sher- man law in connection with their acts as directors of the New York, New gTayen & Hartford Railroad Company.
 Messrs. Elton Skinner and Billiard claimed that they were entitled to Immunity because of testimony given g5v them before the Interstate com merce cor1nnn1isslon, praor 70 .tne .eeuln Il Of the indictments. The courts de- -ision means that they will now be called upon to plead to the indict- 1nents which ssinclude IS other well known men, all directors or former directors of the road
 Details of the decision were not an aaounced by the clerk of the courts William Leary. MT. Leary saidSthat Judge Grubb, who denied the pleas, was at present at his home in Ala bama The decision. MT. sLeary said, had been ordered by MT. Grlbb entered dr the court records here Meantime Judge Grubb had informed him that the pleas were denied
 Of the other immunity pleas, those of Edward Robbins. director and general counsel of the New Y orlx,, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company, George F. Baker and IT. Dewitt Guy Ter. remain to be heard M
 HIT. Robbins claims he is immune because he was examined by the fed- eral grand jury which indicted Charles g. Mellen, then president of the New Haven, and Edson J. Chamberlain and A. H. Sraithers, president and chair man respectively of the Grand Trunk Railway Company. and because he was a witness before the interstate commerce commission.
 MT Baker claims immunity because lie testified before the Plljo inquiry MT. Caylef asserts that he is Immune because he furnished the federal grand jury with the copy of the traf- fic agreement between the New Hayer and the Grand Trunk companies.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-02
Only Great Boom of 1907 Surpasses the Figures Com
 piled for Last Year
NEW BANK 1S CITY'S
 RICHEST STRUCTURE
Aggregate Work for Which Permits Were Granted Is
 Nearly Four Million

During the year 1914, according to the books in the building commission ers' office, 1,0S2 building permits were issued, the aggregate cost of the work estimated at 8, ,665, ,432. This amount breaks all records for any year ex- cepting one. In 1907 there was an unusually big boom in the building business many homes and business blocks being erected at a total cost of more than $4, ,oo0, GOO.
 / This year the most costly building ever erected in Bridgeport was rear ed. It was the white brick and mar ble First Bridgeport National bank building at Main and State streets, which cost S45O,o00. The new High school which, when completed, will have cost more than s275, ,000, was also begun The Remington-JI. M. C. Co. is erecting gaetory buildings and addi- tions to it's plant which will cost mora than $200,O00. The Bridgeport Brass company also is erecting an addition to it's plant
 The City Savings bank has built a, new structure in Main and Bank streets. The Bridgeport Land & Title Go. has built a new home in Main street. Almost every one of the large factories has made some sort of ad- dftion to their plants.
 There has been 8 healthy boom in home building in the North End above St Vincentis hospital in the East End section and in Black Rock and the West End. The fiscal year does not end until April 1 and there as a possi- bilfty that the building operations when computed for the fiscal year may show an increase over 1907.
 The records for the past year were:
 Amount. Permits first quarter, .......$ 719, ,92e 200 Second quarter, .,... 1929, 926 364 Third quarter. 775.5 548 249 Fourth quarter .... 96T O3S 219
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-02
SUPERINT PENDENT
 OF CAPITOL MAY
 OPPOSE WEBSTER
Notified to Quit, Snow May Claim Civil Service Pro
 tects His Post

Hartford, Jan. Superintendent Robert O. Snow. of the state capitol, and his assistant, Hubert Rigney, re- ceived today in the form of letters, the first notification from Comptroller elect Morris c. Webster, that they were to be superseded. To MT. Snow the co1nptroller-eIect wrote in Lart that he was .'fobliged'' to inform him that his services would not be re- quired after January 6. To Mn Rig nex he N rote:
 It is my pleasure to inform you that begipning with my duties at the capitol, your services will be no longer needed.
 This does not mean that Mr. Sno " and HIr- Rigney will xacate without a struggle as the civil service commits sicn ulaiE' aims that the positions com } under .tlse provisions of the civil ser. vice act. Comptroller D. P. Dunn is to have q conference with the com mission Monday regarding the matter.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-02

Paris. Jan. 2.-The French war of fee this afternoon gave out an official announcement as follows:
 During the night of Dec. 31-Jan. l. the enemy delivered at numerous points along the front a series of at tacks which were repulsed with ease. The region to the north of Lys was. during the ay Of January 1, the scene of a very spirited artillery en- gagement which took place on the dunes of NJieuport, and at Zonnebeke.
 ..Inl the regions of Arrass of Albert and of Roye there have ben artillery duels. The enemy blew up two of our caissons between BeauInetz and Ac11i- court In revenge we demolished the enemy's trenches at Parvi1iers and at La Boisselle and we stopped the op- erations of the mine thrower set up in front of Fricourt.4
 Our artillery also obtained happy results in the region of the Aisne where it silenced the artillery of the enemy and dispersed several concen- tratfons of German troops. We have installed ourselves on the plateau of Nouvron in certain excavations caused mans were not able to either advancs or drive us out; all their counter'-at tacks were driven back.
 ..In the region of Perthes we occu- pied and retained a forest two kilo- metres to the northeast of Mesnile$ IIurIus; the enemy did not deliver a counter-attack In the Argonne, in the forest of La Grurie, the local re- tirement reported yesterday has Rot had amy effect We reoccupied a part tof the ground lost and we are holding our positions strongly
 'tOn the heights of the Mouse there has been an artillery engagement but without great severity.
 f'In the vosges we have driven back a, German attack op our positions at Rremenil. three Kilometres northeast of Badonvil1er, inf1icting heavy losses on the Germans. The enemy has sus- tained also heavy losses at Steinbach where our infantry yesterday occu- pied three new lines of houses
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-02
SUMMARY OF TODAY's WAR NEWS

The German attack in France and Belgium, initiated in reply to the offensive movement of the a.l- lies, has developed to such a, point that the allies now are on the de- fensive along the greater part Of the line. The extent of the Ger man movement is shown by to- days French statement which speaks of a series of night at tacks against the allies along the front. These onslaughts appar- ently were not in great force, however, and the assumption is that, they all were repu1sed with ease.
 As to the results of the recent fighting in Alsace and the Ar gonne, along the eastern portion of the front there is a sharp con flict in the statements from Der lin and Paris. The German com munication said further ground had been gained in the Argonne and specifically denies that the claims of the French war office that half of the A1satian villages of Steinlbach has been captured and that the French are making a further advance there. The Paris announ cement asserts that some of the territory lost to the Germans in the Argonne has been regained and that three new lines of houses have been occupied in Steinbach.
 M The German military authori- ties say there have been no change in the eastern campaign except that the Germans on the line westward have made further progress.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-02
SHIP TO
 RAISE OLD GLORY
 WITHIN LOCAL PORT

Another large ship is soon expected to change her registry in this port and add her tonnage to the large mer- chant marine now being formed in the United. States. The Belmont a. steel sailing vessel of 1,528 tons, and sister ship of the Pass of Balmaha, '' which changed registry at Stamford two months ago, sailed from Buenos -Ayres about November 25, with con sular registry from the United States though still flying the British flag She is expected to arrive at Stamford a branch of the port of Bridgeport and is there expected to complete her papers and pull down the Union Jack for the Stars and Stripes.
 The Belmont has a cargo of que hracho consigned. to the Stamford Manufacturing Company. She will stop at Barbados. The vessel was built at Glasgow, Scotland, by Russell &c Company, in 1891 and was recently transferred by the Belmont Shipping Company of Yarmouth to her present owners, the Hall Shipping Company of Searsport, Maine
 It is expected that as soon as the 'tBelmont' arrives at Stamford her captain will proceed to Washington. where the ships papers already have been sent by American Consul L. J. Kenna, of Buenos Ayres, and that complete registration and transfer of the ship will be expeditiousIy effected.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-02

The Russian war office announces that another defeat has been in ficted upon the Austrian forces in GaIicia whose advance from the Carpathians recently was checked with serious consequences to them. It is asserted that fortified Aus trian positions near Galicia were destroyed and that 5000 prisoners were captured The Russian Statement says, however, that the victory was won early after a hard battle and that fighting still con- tinues, indicating that the Aus trians are still capable of offering determined resistance.
 In Poland the German attack ap- parently has shifted to the south ward The Russian statement mentions fighting of particular in- tenSfty at Rawa, which is thirty miles south of>sochaczwa. tbe re- cent center of the German ar tillery. The German attacks there as well as in east Prussia and in the region of Nilawa, in Poland near the east Prussian border, are said to have been repulsed.
 Austrian warships have lombard, ed Belgrade, the Servian capital, from which the Ansurfans were driven shortly after they had oc- cupied it. Some damage to prop erty was caused by the bonn bard nent but so far as is known no lives were lost.
 According to a report current in Paris, the British battIes11ip For midable was sunk off Portsmouth, England's chief naval base. The destruction of the Formidable is believed to have been the work of a German submarine.