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The Alaska citizen., 1915-11-08
Locals i'm Brief Form


 f United States, having filed thell applications in the office of the clerk of court.
 R. E. Stoddard, of Panama, has made application for a renewal oi his liquor license.
 George Constock and William Ward have purchased the power boat Lena H. from George Herring ton They will operate the boat on the Tolovana river next sum lner.
 Bert Johnson narrowly avoided |, serious accident last Monday morn ing, when he drove "fours' hitched to load of wood out on the ice on the slough between Bentley's and Graehl. The ice broke. throwing the mules into the water One ot them was considerably chilled when it was rescued, having to be hauled to the barn on a sled.
 Among those making application for citizenship at the office of the clerk of court the past weea We4l Hubert Conter, of LuXemburg, Rado Rapelato and Blaz Simatovich, Of Austria, Paavo Katnen, of Finland and Herbert Heathorn, of Canada.
 Mrs. w. H Raymond, wife of the former well known Fairbanks news paper man, died recently at Santa Cruz, California, according to infor- nation received here. She leaves her husband and six small children
 Martin Jorgensen and partners are preparing to work on Gus Ve dimes ground at Chatanika durine the coming winter, according to word recently received from the creek city. They already have a good sized plant on the ground.
 Plans are now being made to raise the sum of $500 for a winter trail to the Tolovana via the Gold
 
 over the route for a short way with his big caterpillar in order to dem onstrate the efficiency of the ma chine in "bucking" niggerheads a1tl small trees.
 A mail carrier on the lower Yu- kOn is stated to have nearly lost his life recently when his sled and dog team went through the ice. He managed, however, to save ev, erything, including the mail he was carrying.
 Ed Bartlett, the Tolovana freigh- ter, is recent arrival in town fro Ii the new camp. He reports that, while he does not consider the new trail ideal. from a freighter's $ point of view, it will be much bet ter after plenty of snow has fallen The price being charged for freight ing between Olnes and the To'o- vana, according to MT. Bartlett, is 10 cents per pound.
 Arthur J. Johnston, an Outside mining engineeer, will shortly pay a visit to interior Alaska, accord ing to a wire received here by his sister, Mrs. Cecil H. Clegg.
 R. J. Sommers, local superintend- ent of the Alaska Road Commis- sion, has wired the office at Val dez. asking permission to start the winter trail work on the mail trail between Panama and Kaltag
 Jack Leach and partners. on No 1 above, Ester creek, have sunk their new shaft on ground which will go $3 to the square foot of bedrock, according to word received in town.
 The people of the town of Mat thews, in the Wild river country, Koyukuk district, have sent peti- tion to Fairbanks, asking that they be helped to secure the appoint ment of a commissioner, a record CT and a postmaster. The petition sets forth that there are 12O people in the neighborhood of Matthews, nd tht the size of the community warrants the establishment of a re- cording precinct and postofnce.
The Alaska citizen., 1915-11-08

The arriving passengers on last Monday evenings stage we1e Ml and Mrs. George A. Coleman ane Mrs. A. II. Wright.
 Paul Contain, Nick Lampros anG John Jacob Anderson were made citizens of the United States al the naturalization hearing in dis trict court last Monday night. P. A. Knowlton has wired his friends here that he reached Chiti na last Monoay. He will take |; look at the copper mines in the Cordova- Chitina coast region, and may possibly go to Seward ana Anchorage before going on Outside
 Harry Hadley and E1amett kincaid are in town again from the Wood river country, where they spent twl weeks hunting. They went up the river in loat and expected Fc come back in it, but were frozen in, and, consequently, were com pelled to build sleds and neck their outfit to town.
 Rudolph Zoffel, of the Gold Hill mining firm of Sjolseth Bros. & Zoffel, has sold his interest in q lease on the Midway association claim, on Cripple creek, to his part ners, who will continue their opera tions.
 J. G. K. (Bobbie) Toussaint has been appointed clerk in the loca land office, to fill the vacancy made by the departure of Charles A. Xii, stein for the Outside. MT. Tou5 saint has been purser on the steamer Delta for the past two years. Mir. and Mrs. Jack Matthews, ol Hot Springs, are the proud parent; of a baby girl, born last Wednes day, according to wire received by Claude Kelly. Mother and child are reported as doing nicely. M!' Matthews, who was formerly q deputy United States marshal here is now in the employ of Morrison & Co.,, at Hot Springs.
 George Johnson, trustee in bank ruptcy of T. Mitchell & Co.,, was given a verdict for $3,750, the amount asked for in the complaint by jury in district court last week The defendant in the proceedings was the American Bank of Alaska the complaint alleging that the firm of Mitchell & Co. had made the institution a preferred creditor when it went insolvent as the result of operations conducted on Eva creek several years ago.
 J. A. Gustafson has sold a one third interest in creek claim No , above, oA Fairbanks creek, tc the Fairbanks Gold Mining company The Chatanika office of the Tan ana Valley Railroad will remain open during the winter, according to announcement recently made by Wade H. Joslin, the general mana ger of the road. John Joslin has been given the agency at Chatanika and, with his wife. left for the creek city last Tuesday.
 John Solen and Mrs. Martha Nel son have been granted pensions of $12.50 per month Mrs. Nelson re- ceived check for $3750 as her first quarterly allowance last week the check coming to Henry T. Ray from the secretary of the Pioneers Home at Sitka
 Howell & Cleveland, the Sulli van creek operators, telegraphed here last week for men, stating that there was shortage of labor in the Hot Springs camp. Shortly af ter their telegrams were received by local parties, several laborers departed for the lower river camp
 The Fairbanks lodge of the Loyal Order of Moose is already making plans for the big Christmas ball to be given by the organization.
 Hjalmar Erickson and Alexander Zambelich have declared their in tention to become citizens of the
The Alaska citizen., 1915-11-08
War Will Better the Wo Says John Redmond the Irish Leader

an home Honorable Redmond leader of the Party saring believed would result publication but later he lengthy letter the Dublin journalist to William and the words hereg though a perhaps the complete expression the of the conflict published in America
The Alaska citizen., 1915-11-08
NO JOk

We begin the publication of the Roccay Mountain Cyclone with some phew diphphiculties in the way. The type phounders phrom whom we bought our outphit phor this print ing ophphice phailed to supply us with any epbs or cays, and it will be phour of phive weeXs bephore Wa get any. We have ordered the miss ing letters, and will have to get along without them until they come We don't lique the loox of this va. riety of spelling any better than our readers, but mistaX will happen in the best regulated phamilies, and iph the p's and the c's and the Ks and the as hold out We shall ceep (sound the C hard) the Cyclone whirling aphter a phashion till the sorts arrive It is no joQue to us it's serious aphphair.-Life
The Alaska citizen., 1915-11-08
Interesting Items from StageIand

IHS AabiIiS oA Doji ., Harold Bell Wrights novel of tn. same name, has been dramatized.
 E S. Bunch. well known among who. since his marriage to the clever little comedienne, Daphne Pol lard has been more or less asso- ciated with the theatrical profess sion. is soon to start trouping again and will take out The Red Rose ' Prior to leaving for New York, where Daphne is one of the big hits, he was manager of The Can dy Shop u which his clever little wife was playing. Both MT. and Mrs Bunch have the well wishes of their hosts of friends in Seattle and news of their rise in the profession is always greeted with pleasure = Seattle Argus.
 Giuliano Romani is young Italian with a phenomenal voice, who VII be heard in this country this sea son. He is said to sing high F as easily as CaIuso does a high C. Romani is the only singer alive who can vocalize the great tenor cadenza in The Barber de Seville
 Vesta lilly, who in private lie is Mrs, Walter de Frece, and her husband celebrated their silver wed ding in London recently.
 Virginia Thornton and her hus band, Charles King, are playing over the Pantages circuit
 When Drama Comes True" is the name of new musical play
 Madame Butterfly" is to be giv en when the Boston Opera company in conjunction with the Pavlowa ballet, opens it's season, and the title role &ill be sung by Miurv Zukkura, Japanese lyric soprano who has studied music in Nagasah' and sung in opera in England. Italy and Russia
 Julia Arthur, whose retirement from the stage numbers several years. is at last to return, and it is an nounced that The Eternal Mag dalen" is the play responsible for this decision. Miss Arthur in pri- vate life is Mrs. B. P. Cheney, of Boston.
 The name of the new play in which Elsie Ferguson Is to star this season is The Prime Minister D written by Hall Caine. and, with the exception of "The Christian will be the only drama by Cainc ever given it's first production in America
 A novel form of announcing tho rise of the curtain at the Booth the atre, in New York, has been intro duced by Winthrop Ames; previous to each act. two pretty young la dies attred in costumes of the six teenth century step into the upper boxes and strike alternately soft sounding gongs. then retire behind portieres.
 And now we are to have a play dealing with the Ford. entitled. My Ford" said to have been written by James Montgomery. author of Ready Money" and "The Aviator ,
 William A. Brady has turned over his New York theatre, The Play house, to his wife. Miss Grace George. She will use the house to develop her ideas and ideals.
 The Oregon Supreme court recent ly held that Sunday shows were necessary in order that the public might relax.
 'The Goddess" with Anita Stew art in thu. utle-role, and "The House
The Alaska citizen., 1915-11-08
BRITISH EMPIRE WAS NEVER so STRONG.

The British empire was never so strong, never bonded together by every worthy title, as 1t is today. Tie past year has wit messed more than a tightening and strengthening of politica. bonds It has been time when all parts of the empire-the parts of great imperial soul, as il were-have been welded and blended into an instrument tha, will do won1rous and glorious work in the centuries to come.
 Beloved Ireland, given that au- tonomy for which she had SC long striven, Is heart and soul and hand with England, Scotland and Wales. with India and Australia, in this greatest of conflicts; do ing her noble share and doing it gladly. Ireland knows that Eng
 lands battle is humanity's. Ire land is not idly thinking of her sad past, though she remem bers it's glories looks forward to their return. But she is fully awake to the duty of the present the need for a national devo- tion to exalted things; and she i.
The Alaska citizen., 1915-11-08

Otherwise the proSpectOrS and min CTS of the district will be compelled to mush long distance to attend to official business
The Alaska citizen., 1915-11-08
HAGEL IS FREE

WINNIPEG. Aug. 6.-Percy Hagel. the criminal lawyer. who was sen, tenced to three years in the pen!- tentiary for complicity in the es- cape from the Winnipeg police sta tion of John Krafchenko, was today released. Hazel was Krafchenko' 5 counsel and was found guilty ot connivance in the escape of the Plum Coulee murderer and sentenced on March 20. 1914. His good conduct in the penitentiary resulted in his release after serving about sixteen months.
The Alaska citizen., 1915-11-08

ples from the victorious fronts The blood. the brains, the wealth of Germany and Austria Hungary are flowing out; will they flow back2 The terrible strain that is being borne by the peoples of those oun'ries even those remotest from the fighting lines, is too great to bear for any greatly sustained length of time; and when the breaking down point arrives the collapse will be complete.
 I do not count upon any fat reaching divisions among the Ger manic peoples during the pro gress of the war, though l woult not be wholly surprised to see Bavaria withdraw her support sooner or later. The Germans and Austrians have been fighting with wonderful unity Havins been ruled in mass. they had nothing to do but go to the front in mass. They fight and cheer in mass. But on all sides their wall of men has been wearing away so fast that only by uu- ceasing work has the outer face of the wall been kept intact,
 The strength of the two na tions is upon their borders; the weakness, the decrepitude, the rotting-aw close to the heart HECK OF ONRUSH
 VAS CRUCIAL TEST.
 Of course, the people of the world, of all nationalties. regret, in sense, that the foregoing is
The Alaska citizen., 1915-11-08

"Oh. dear" grouned the young wife, "I don't know what to use to raise my bread! I've treid every thing
 "A derrick and a couple of jack. screws ought to do it." thought her husband, but he didn't say 1t aloud.
The Alaska citizen., 1915-11-08

They don't like to be away from each other, but when they are to- gether there's bother.
The Alaska citizen., 1915-11-08

It is hard to explain to farmer how soldier makes living.
The Alaska citizen., 1915-11-08

partners in-We must know that this titanic upheaval is sure to made internationally sane, na- tionally purer. and inhabited hy people individually nohler-he. cause of this purging by fire and sword
The Alaska citizen., 1915-11-08
CHECK OF ONRUSH WAS CRUCIAL TEST,

Of course, the people of the world, of all nationalities. regret, in sense, that the foregoing is true. No civilized people wish to
The Alaska citizen., 1915-11-08

OLD PAPERs FOR BALE.
The Alaska citizen., 1915-11-08

And now we are to have a play dealing with the Ford, entitled, My Ford" said to have been written by James Montgomery. author of Ready Money" and "The Aviator
The Alaska citizen., 1915-11-08

'The Goddess" with Anita Stew art in thu utle-role, and The House
The Alaska citizen., 1915-11-08

The Oregon Supreme court recent ly held that Sunday shows were necessary in order that the public might relax.
The Alaska citizen., 1915-11-08

William A. Brady has turned over his New York theatre, The Play house, to his wife. Miss Grace George. She will use the house to develop her ideas and ideals.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-03
ROCKEFELLER WINS
POINT IN TAX ROW
New Commissioners Willing to
Arbitrate S311,000,000
Valuation.
10y Telegraph to t., Tribune !

Cleveland, April 2.-The tax row Be.
tween John d. Rockefeller and the
Cuyahoga County Tax Commissioners
may be amicably settled, II the plans
of James B. Ruhl and Charles P. Sslsn,
newly appointed members Of the board,
prevail. Governor Willis deposed, on
Wednesday, William Agnew and John
D. Fackler, the commissioners who Sc,
valuation Of 100000 on NJ.
Rockefeller's property.
The new commissioners plan to 20
before the State Tax Board and ask
that the big valuation, which they con.
l.der unreasonable, be Sc aside, II the
oil man helps them to arrive at fair
valuation for his property in the eOur.
ty. II has been intimate. to the con.
mission that Mr.. Rockefeller would Ike
TO settle up the tax muddle here 50
that he can return TO Cleveland and
bury Mrs. Rockefeller in the family
plot, at Lakeview Cemetery.
The suit in the federal court has
halted all efforts 20 collect on the
s3i1 900, 900 valuation. As it stands,
the county has received no taxes from
Rockefeller, and the chance Of collect
/ on the big valuation seems slight
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-03

,,is,ake that might be made.
A. Davis made IL clear yeste,uay
that he il through with the SwoDou"
case. ...Io and felt
{, uas nm TO me TO intcrcede to the eA ),
80, that he get n chance for his iiie'
Ia tho exporter. ale has securedi
,hat now and the rest is up 70 nin'
am ont of il. 1t is up to him 70 sduai'
himself II he can. That Is all.
Mr. Davis received telegram from
william J. Bryan during the Day an
rouncing that the department had ~
structed the embassy in Paris 10 III
,estioate Swoboda's case. see Una. ~
tights are protected and to report inc
,esult of its investigation by caole.
William +. Mohr. another export
interested in the case, was witnou. "
ra.t communication from the prisoner
yesterday. as was Mr.. Hooper POM
bowever' heard from the principals IN
Paris for whom. Swoboda represented
he was acting. ,.,.y.id
"I, wos the surprise Of my lie" SAID
Mr.. Mohr. when learned that ne was
. friend OF the Poillons. ! cannot I'M
zinc how he met up with them. sun
tho fact remains that we are nearing
from those he represented ana theS
ere spending their money.
Nohr insisted that all the time Hwo-
boda was in America he was attending
to business.
az he was not on the level" said he,
ar cannot for the life of me see why
he worked so hard on these mercantile
propositions"
Mr.. Mohr made It clear that Swoboda
carried no personal letters Of introduc,,
ton to prominent Englishmen ana
Frenchmen, as has been stated.
"What he carried" said the ex-
porter. "were letters from high Cana
dian officials indorsing Mr.. Hooper
who J.. n man of the highest standing
in the Dominion, and letters from well
known Americans and institutions OF
standing speaking well of myself NC
Lea and Davis. They were intended 10
show that his principal Is IN America
were men of standing. That Is all.
In Canada, according to Swoboda' 8
friends. he visited manufacturers VINO
might have army supplies available.
This took him to Montreal, the centre
Of Canada's military preparation for
participation in the war on the Con
tinent, and the place where submarines
built in the United States are being as
sembled. and Toronto, where the war is
the one big thing in business. While
then, however, these friends say ne
was busy looking after supplies and dld
not bother himself about other things.
United States mail clerks on the
French liner Chicago. which locked
yesterday, came into the picture on
al oi, arriyoI hy holding IN package
sent to this country by Swoboda. The
package was found to contain nothing
more dangerous than velvets and other
types of textiles. The package Will be
delivered to the addressee to-day.
Reporters seeking the Poillon sisters
on Riverside Drive yesterday morning
found one person grateful to learn the
exact address of Charlotte and Kath-
crime. She is Mrs. William Poillon,
wife OF a banker, who has been much
annoyed by receiving mail forwarded
from Paris to one or the other OF the
pair, to whom she is in no way related.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-03
HAD BULLY" .TTME
In PRISON CELL
Hyde, California Million
aire, Says Year at Atlanta
Was His Happiest.
tBy Telegraph to The Tribune

Atlanta, APRIL 2.-Declaring that life
in prison was "bully" and the year
he spent there was the happiest and
the most useful in his life, Frederick
A. Hyde, California millionaire, who
has Just been released from the fed
eral prison, paid tribute to-day to ex-
Warden Meyer.
Meyer, Hyde said, was strict dis
ciplinarian, but absolutely just, deeply
interested in the welfare of the men,
and by no means the cruel master ne
had been painted by other convic,S
HYDE denied all stories Of severe pun
ishment, dungeons and other atrocities
charged by Julian Hawthorne and
others.
On the eve of leaving Atlanta Hyde
went to a local sporting goods store
and purchased large number Of tennis
halls. baseballs and other goods, and
sent them to his former pals" The
night before leaving he inquired as 10
what men WoUlu soOu Oe SN
and when he found they would De IN
need Of money he gave them cash.
The Californian was called the
"Prison Angel" lie was the leader IN
all the sports and other amusements OF
the men, and gave thousands. 1t is said'
in furnishing the man with a good ath-
letic field, in buying the baseball u1i-
forms and in purchasing good books Tor
the library.
HYDE could have left prison several
months ago, but stayed on in the hope
President Wilson would grant him,
full pardon and because he liked the
81 am going back to California" he
said tonight, land any man who doesn't
wish to deal with me can go to the
devil. am as honest as any OF my
friends"
Hyde and several others were in
dicted in 1904 on charges of conspiring
to defraud the government Of thou
sands of acres of land on the Pacltc
Coast. Hyde was tried and convicted IN
1908. The case was taken before the
United States Supreme Court three
times. After a notable legal fight Hyde
began serving his sentence in Deem
Der, 1913.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-03
SWOBODA'S TRIAL
WILL BE AT HAVRE
French Experts Say Fire on La
TOuraine Was Set in Pack
ing Case.

Paris, April Raymond Swoboda
will probably be sent to Havre to-mor-
row for arraignment before Examining
Magistrate Barnaud. Experts who have
been employed examining the baggage
hold OF the Touraine and the remains
Of its contents believe the fire orig
mated in three large cases of textiles,
and was not the result of an explosion.
Experiments seem to indicate that
the fire was deliberately kindled. Tex
tiles similar to those in the cases have
been subjected to high temperatures
without combustion taking place.
Spontaneous combustion as cause OF
the fire has been discarded by the
chemists, and yet no evidence Of any
incendary device has been found.
1t is rumored here tonight that
later developments lead to the belief
that the cause for Swoboda being ar
rested antedated the fire on La Tou
raine. The rumor in official circles
is that the British government had
reasons to suspect Swoboda after I'M
acceptable propositions by him had led
that government 10 investigate his
past As result OF this investigation,
it is stated, the British government
asked France TO take Swoboda into
custody.
When the police seized the trunks
they were in Swoboda's Office, in the
Avenue de lOpera. and two OF the five
had been opened to display their CON
tents. These bore out the assertions
made By NJ Tresca,, friend of Swo-
boda's, that he was engaged in bust
ness venture. buying military supplies
for which he thought the French gov
eminent would find use.
There was complete French uni
form. as well as samples OF cloth.
woollen gloves. socks. metal TASKS.
leather, canned goods. boots and in
trenching tools. A photograph Of SwO-
boda in the uniform of a German Of
ticer is said by his friends 10 have been
taken during his student days IN
Heidelberg. The uniform, they insist,
is that OF a German student corps
Plans found in Swoboda's office, his
friends say, are probably the property
of an uncle, an architect.
NJ Mommeja banker. who employed
Swoboda in 1912, said he discharged
him a year later when he found he
spoke German fuently, although he had
previously denied il. Residents Of
Nirofay. a suburb. where Swoboda
lived, said he had been intimate with
Austrians and Germans and was twice
found in the vicinity of Notifications,
once in the garb OF carpenter. Swo-
boda is said to have explained his
presence on the ground of ignorance,
and was freed because he was an
American, One of his companions,
man known as Pruest, was arrested on
January 10 and taken 10 a copcentra-
tion camp.