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The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1915-11-06
PRAISE or THE PRESS.
Cordial Comment On South Louisiana
Fair by Neighboring Newspapers.

The South Louisiana Fair in Dom
aIdsonville and the Terrebonne-La-
fourche Fair in Heuma were bowling
boosts for south louisiana. ne eA-
hibits were better than ever before.
Assumption Pioneer.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1915-11-06

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The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1915-11-06
Cut Flowers.

Zinnias-Lenard R. Folse, first.
Best general display-Mrs. Abe Il.
Bloomenstiel, first; Mrs. w. M NC
Galliard, second.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1915-11-06
FACT
Local Evidence.

Evidence that can be verified
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It is learned that since Judge Bunnell has been away from Fairbanks he has received the resignation of United States Commls- sioner John F. Dillon of Fairbanks, and has appointed as his successor John Knox Brown.
 It appears that Mr Dillon while on visit to the new camp in the Tolovana, where promising developments have recently taken place, was seized by sudden serious illness. For time it was feared that he would succumb before he could be removed to Fairbanks Upon reaching that city 1t was decided that he must leave for the Outside immediately for an operation, and he there upon telegraphed his resignation to Judge Bunnell.
 Commissioner Dillon was the subject of an incident occurring at the recent terri torial legislative session which, to say the least reflected little credit upon the law makers A resolution was passed asking Judge Bunnell to remove the commlssloner because he had failed to abide by the in structions of the territorial secretary rela- tive to the collection of fees for the record ing of vital statistics, which instructions, based upon the terms of the territorial law, conticted with the federal law as interpreted
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CLAIMS BRITISH COMMERCE.
 GOES ON MUCH AS USUAL

LONDON, June 2-The sinking Of the battleships Triumph and Majestic by Ger man submarines at the Dardaneles and the activity of these boats in the waters around the British isles, and the threat to carry the underwater warfare to the Suez canal have not caused any great uneaslness III naval circles here.
 Trade to and from British ports goes on as though there was no submarine danger, and there will be no interruption m the operations in the DardanelEes. The fleet there will have to assist the army on the GslIipoli peninsula, taking chances of de- struction by subm arines-
 The Turks and their German officers prob ably will have another invasion to meet before long. Unofficial reports reaching here are that the Italians have landed on the island of Rhodes, of the coast of Asia Minor, while warships have been bombardlng Budrun, 100 miles south of Smyrna, on the mainland of Aslatic Turkey, not far from Rhodes island This is believed to be the first step in effecting permanent landing on the coast of Asia Minor.
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STOWAWAY ON STEAMSHIP
 HAS TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE
Steward Gateway. April 23l

After eight days and half buried alive in freight, without a bite to eat or a drop of water to drink, Leland Farmer was taken out of his living tomb on the Admiral Evans more dead than alive when that vessel reached this port from Seattle last evening He Is now lying in bed in the Pioneer hos pita under the care of Dr. Romig, and when seen this morning appeared to be recovering from the effects of his terrible experience
 He Is still consumed with an unquenchable thirst and even while speaking he has to interrupt himself to take drink. Farmer says that he went aboard the Evans at Se- attle on the morning of Wednesday 8 week ago According to his statement, he gave five dollars to member of the ships crew, on deck when the ship sailed and put him to work on top. When the ship sailed how ever, freight had been piled around him and he was unable to get out. He lay on top of a cargo of hay. A foot or so above him was the deck, on which he could hear the footsteps of the people. Around him on all sides was vast wall of boxes and all sorts of impedmenta. In the pitch dark ness he tried to free himself. Again and again he kicked at the iron above his head to draw attention, but in vain. Then came seasickness in the inky hole, and later came the agony of hunger and thirst. For few days he bore his sufferlngs and then he lost hope and gave himself up for lost He lost reckoning of time He knew neither day nor night, and then came the noise of moving freight At last he found himself rescued. When taken onto the dock here last night he could neither stand nor see, and he was at once taken to the hospital, where he is being given every care to bring him back to hi> old self Mir Farmer is big strong youth, and to this he probably owes his life
Iditarod pioneer., 1915-06-26
zEPPELINS NOT RIPPING
(George Fitch in Golfers Weekly


 From all that we can gather in the frag- mentary reports concerning them, the Zep- peins have not zepped to any extent. Some thing has interfered with their usefulness. They have made short and timid excursions and have retired leaving the landscape prac- tically unblemished. Numbers of them have been picked up in a soggy and extinct con dition on ocean and land. They have been the most impressive fzzle of the war, and no fact is more encouraging to the ardent lover of peace.
 It is difficult to remember today the awful might of the airship of last June-the huge machine which cruised swiftly over Nor way, Sweden, France, Russia and England under cover of darkness with a carload ol explosives aboard-the machine which might at any moment of international peev- ishness slide across the tritling Atlantic and tcur America, with cheery captain calling out al intervals: Over with l barrel of nitro boys Here's another city which needs a shaking up.'
 To be sure, we are told that the Germans are still completing a Zeppelin every two weeks, and that this spring a flock. fleet, covey, swarm or school of them, whichever is right will sail over London and whitf 1t away We cant believe this because Ii a Zeppelin can whiff away city, 'hen the German war council has been unduly care less with those 100000 fine German i1oys who have been fed into the cannOns mouths ill the advances on Paris and Warsaw.
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THE GERMAN SOLDIER

I never saw a German common soldier, however employed, who did not seem to know exactly what he was doing, and l never saw one who seemed to know why he was doing it. It was an order; and that, for his purposes, was simply sufficient. He went and did it; and if, doing it, he got himself killed-why, that small detail made no difference whatever. The order was the thing to be conesidered-n the effect on him personally.
 You see, the same iron discipline which ironed the creases out of his back, lrOned the convolutions out of his brain, in so far as his present job was concerned. It en- dowed him with steel leg muscles and a wooden headpiece. Privily he might enter tain what beliefs and sentiments suited his intellectual needs Generally l found him fairly well informed, considering his Gml- tations upon outside matters. Officially and professionally he was mental blank, and nothing else. He had been put through a punching machine and he had come out a human die He was absolutely automatic, and in an automatic and mechanical way tremendously competent. The same process that took away his imagination robbed hIm also of some of his natural enthusiasm, but it gave him substitute for both; 1t gave him unfailng quality for resolution and sense of obedience as stiff and hard ar Iron rods. An incidental result was that 1t de prived him of his sense of humor. He dldnt laugh in public, because it was not set down in the manual that he should laugh.-lrvln $, Cobb in the Saturday Evening Post
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A iurv composed of Isadore Bayles, Will fam Waechter, Charles Hurst Henry Weir, Frank Larson and C. B. Sims on Monday evening last pronounced Harry Mclean, who has been in the federal jail here for the past nine months under charge of em- bczzlement, to be insane. In all probability he will be committed to the MormngSde s?ntarium, at Mount Tabor, near Portland. Ore, where AIaskas insane are cared for.
 The inquiry was conducted before Com missioner Guy G. Geraghty. The govern ment was represented by District Attorney Roth and Charles E. Taylor appeared for Mclean This was the second time that Mclean had been before jury on an m sanity charge Last August shortly after hls arrest on the criminal charge, Jury m the commissioners court declined to ind him mentally incompetent, and later he was brought before the commissioner and rleaded not guilty to an information charg- ing him with embezzlement of government funds and was held to await the acton ol the grand jury at the present term oi court
 The testimony adduced at the inquiry de veloped a unanimity of opinion by the Wit nesses that Mclean, while not violent CT dangerous, was mentally unsound and ire sponsible, and that he was incompetent to care for himself The jury was out but few minutes.
 The unfortunate man came here a year age to assume the position of assistant post amster under Albert Vile. He was well known in Fairbanks, his former home, where he had held responsible positions, and where he left wife and baby, whom 1t was hls intention to send for to come to ldltarod as soon as he became settled here. Shortly after his arrival his former friends and as sociates began to notice peculiarltles in hls manner, and his actions were in the highest dgeree eccentric and apparently Irresponsible. He was engrossed for time with the idea of preparing a home for his family, and for
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why they should not be restrained from paying over to the Canadian vendors of the property the purchase price agreed upon be tween the government and the railroad O1
 fcials Some light is thrown on the matter in the following article from the Valdez Prospector: With preferred claims of $, ,00O,0 900 against the Alaska Northern rail road and the bondholders who have in vested $1,OO00O0 in cold cash in the financing of the road forced to be satisfied with S150,00O which the government will pay over and above the sl 100000 necessary to pay the preferred claims if the present deal Is carried through, the chances are good that the Seward railroad will never become the property of the United States govern ment. The above statement, made by Colonel Swanitz to the editor of the Valdez Prospector, indicates that the owners of the railroad are not all of one accord and that the deal for the westward railroad may not be concluded When shown the telegram received by the Prospector, in which It was reported that the government had issued an uItimatum to the owners of the railroad to settle the question of ownership by June l or the road would not be purchased, the colonel said that 1t did not surprise him, and he outlined the conditions of the sale oi the road to the government as follows i The preferred claims total Sl,OOO,OOO and the associated banks headed by the Toronto bank own but S400,O00 worth of the claims, and S100,000 held by W. J. Roland the at the former receiver of the Alaska Central, adn S1OO,O00 held by W. J. Roland the at torney who made the deal with Secretary Lane. These claims are all to be pald be fore the bondholders secure any money for the S1,OO0,O00 they advanced to the road t. aid in carrying on the recelvershlp which gave the Alaska Northern the railroad. The associated banks have agreed with the gov ernment to give title on July l5, when they are to receive $500, ,000 as first payment, but tney cannot make the deal with the outstanding preferred claims, nor can they convince the bondhoIders that the small DOT ton of the total, or S150,000, which the bCndholders are to get, IS enough tor the $1 100000 advanced by them many years ago. and on which they have never received any returns The Toronto banking syndl- ccte has put up bond of S500,0O0 to guar antee this to the government Suits already have been started by the bondholders to have the first receivership set aside and the Alaska Central case reOpened. The sut tor the townsitc also complcate. the situation and may result in the building of govern ment road from Anchorage to MatanuSka and the Interior, with Anchorage as the coast terminal.
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ALASKA AI, IA||,
To lake Charqe of ToWnsites

A. Christensen, chief of the field division of the Alaska land office has been instructed by Chairman w. c. Edes of the Alaska rail road commission to proceed to Ship creek the Juneau Empire People have been flock site business at that place, and of all gov crnment townsites along the railroad, says the Juneau Empire People have been kock- ing to Ship Greek in such numbers, and are squatting promiscuously on the townsltes with such attendant disorder and disputes over their rights, that the commission has decided to take the matter in hand at once and bring order out of chaos. Mir Chrlsten sen will arrange to place a price on lots which may be left in these townsltes after the government has determined upon the space that will be required for railroad buildings, etc, and it will be done in such q way that those purchasing ground can secure undisputed title. Frank Warner, a government surveyor, now at Wrangell making survey of the townsite there will accompasy Mir. Christensen to Ship creek and look after the establishment of boundary lines and the plating of the ground.
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ORDER

In the District Court for the Territory of
 Alaska, Fourth Judicial Division In the
 matter of Special Term of Court at
 Iditarod Alaska.
 It satisfactorily appearing that it is nee essary for the public welfare, and for the despatch of the business of this court, that :. special term of said court be held at Iclt- arod, in Otter precinct, commencing at II a. m. June 2S, 1915, and the judge of said court now deeming it expedient to hold such term.
 It is ordered: That a special term of this court be held at said town of Iditarod, com mencing II a. n. June 2S, 1915, and that the clerk of this court cause due notice 70 be given thereof
 Witness the Hon. Charles E. BunnelL. judge of the district court for the Fourth judicial division, Territory of Alaska, thi- 18th day of May, 1915, and the seal thereof
 (SealJ J. E. CLARK, Clerk
 By G. G. GERAGHTY, Deputy,
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Development at Susitna

A syndicate under the name of the kah- ntna-AlaSka Mining Company has taken over the property of NJ. A. Ellis on Thunder creek The company is said to be prepared to begin extensive development work an'i to install big plant as soon as the railroad is constructed from Seward to Susltna dis trict. A number of quartz claims on the upper reaches of the Susitna river have been bonded. These claims are located ln what is believed to be the source of the placer gold found in that region. Many other propositions by which Seward, the terminal of the projected government railroad, will be greatly benefited, are being considered by capitalists. The syndicate which has bonded the Susitna property is composed of George Dang. J. D. Trenholm and others of Seattle and George Baldwin and Colonel B. F. Willard of Alaska. Baldwin and Mil lard were prominent in the development and operation of the Cliff and other profitable mines in Alaska Willard is now manager of the Granite mine, at Port Wells, controlled by himself, J. E. Chilberg and Jafet Llnde- berg.
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FAREWELL TO MANLEYS
 WAS SOME HIGH LINKS

The following from the Seattle Times gives an account of the "send-off accorded to MT. and Mrs. Frank Manley on their de- parture for Iditarod. The Manleys arrived here on the first boat down the Yukon this spring: ,
 Two cowboys attired in the garb of the range and riding spirited ponies provided sensational feature last evening in the dlnlng room of the Savoy hotel during the prog ress of banquet given by Alaskans Tn honor of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Manley Of Iditarod who depart for the North Monday. The cowboys galloped through the hotel cor ridor and the length of the dining room, bringing up at the speakers table with great clattering of hoofs.
 Mrs. Manley, herself an experienced horsewoman, not to be outdone by mere
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TELEPHONE AUXILIARY FOR
 VALDEZ-FAIRBANKS TRAIL

A Fairbanks dispatch states that the day is not far distant when a telephone Ene over the coast Fairbanks trail will be reallty. The signal corps is quietly making exper- ments that demonstrate that 1t IS practlca- ble. and there is a general sentiment favor able to it. The proposition will have to be handled from headquarters, of course.
 Corporal kinlock, line inspector, some time ago secured permission to install g short system between Munson's and the Salcha station Heretofore to send or re ceive telegraph message to or from Nun sons 1t was necessary to travel out to the station, which was a great inconvenience.
 .he government has the telephone in struments, and by utilizing No. wire, which IS known as the conversational wire, between Fairbanks and Valdez not being used for regular telegraphic business, short telephone system was successfully cut m at that point.
 There is particularly dangerous stretch on the thirty eight mile line between Don nellvs and Yost's where frequently line men and others have perished. telephone there would protect stages, travellers and freighters. It is a country where storms arise suddenly and with intense fierceness, and where the mercury drops very low Tn winter
 Fresh Olympia Oysters, for cocktails sz
 Il;+,ro1 Moat Co
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BRITAIN'S NEW SEA LORD

Admiral Sir Henry Bradwardine Jackson, K c. B., is now first sea lord of the British admiralty, succeeding Admiral Lord Fisher, ston Spencer Churchill.
 Admiral Jackson is not very well known to the general public, but in the service he has long been considered ''the cleverest man in the navy"
 He Is the only navy officer who is fel- low of the Royal Naval Society, to which he was nominated in 1901 for his research in electrical physics. His sea service as an ad- miral has not been extensive, but he is familiar with all the latest scientific develop nInts of hostilities at sea- and enjoys the fullest confidence of the navy.
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At a special session of the district court held at A. B. hall on Tuesday, June 21 at which Judge Charles E. Bunnell presided, the drawing of jury to serve during the term of court which commences in this city on July 2S was the principal business. The drawing was conducted by lsadore Bayles, acting as a jury commissioner, and Clerk ot the Court Clark. The result of the draw ing was as above, the names drawn beng from list of 300 furnished by the court clerk.
 No Grand Jury
 Upon the representations of District At to1ney R. F. Roth that there was no busl- ness requiring the attention of grand jury, an order was issued by Judge Bunnell dis penslng with grand jury for this term.
 It appears that the only cases scheduled
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Boats for Susitna River

The tug Columbia, having in tow the big barge Sperm, on which were the stern-wheel motor boat Jane and the barges knlk and Susitna, belonging to the Susltna Trans portation Company, and the motor boat Islander, belonging to party of fishermen from Puget sound, arrived at Seward on May on their way to Ship creek, according to the Gateway Captain T. L. Hartman of the Columbia was compelled to call here to replenish his supply of coal, obtaining a few tons from the Alaska Transfer Con- pany. The fleet sailed from Port Angeles April 13. Because of bad and rough weather they were compelled to stop two days at Dundas and four days at Iakutat. Captain Hartman said that heavy sea near Cape Spencer carried away the stern bulwark of the tug and another stove in the bow ot the Sperm This latter accident compelled the stop at Yakutat, where temporary re- O3irS were made.
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FAIRBANKS HAS NEW |. s. COMMISSIONER

by Mir Dillon, and which he elected to fol low. Since the action of the legislature Attorney General Gregory has sustained the position of Commissioner Dillon, and thus Judge Bunnel was placed in the peculiar predicament of being requested to remove a federal official for complying with the fed eral law The resignation of MT. Dillon re- leves Judge Bunnell from a rather embar- rassing situation It is understood that the retirement of Mr Dillon had no relatlN'0 whatever to the legislative request. S
 John Knox Brown, the successor of Com missioner Dillon, is quite well known III Iditarod. He attended last summers court term here and made quite an extended stay He is a Republican in politics. and his ap- pointment by Democratic judge probably will cause some disappointment to that class of Democrats who believe that "to the vic tors belong the spells" The position ot United States commissioner at Fairbanks IS one which it is contended must be filled by lawyer, and it is believed that Judge Buil- nell was influenced in the filling of the office more by desire to secure competent man than the rewarding of party workers.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS

In the Probate Court, Otter Precinct, Terri tory of .Alaska.-In the matter Of th" Estate of Joseph NoIet. deceased. No. 2S signed has been duly appointed admins trator of the estate of Joseph Nu!et, de ceased. and all persons havIn@ claims against the estate of the said Joseph Nulet are hereby notified to present the same verified in the manner required by law. C the undersigned at hIs residence on Front street. m the town of Discovery, Ott.r, Otter Precinct, Alaska.
 PETER THIBAJLT. Dated May 27, 1915. bate of first publication, May %, 1915. bate Of last publication. June 10. l9ll.
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man, exercised her prerogative as guest of honor and commanded one of the punch CTS" to relinquish his animal to her Her request complied with, she mounted and rode the horse out into the lobby, to the accompaniment of cheers from her fellow diners.
 "The dinner was the idea of Mir. and Mrs R. F. Nixon, and the guests were members of the Alaskans. Among those present were ,Mr and Mrs. J. J. Price, Mir. and Mrs. Harry Lockhart, Mr and Mrs. $ L. Stanley, Barney McGee, Mrs J. L. Biglow,. Judge and Mrs w. A. Gilmore, c. M. Mattlce MT. and Mrs c. c. Norton, Miss Lorette Moore, Jack IT. win, James McElroy, Mrs B. H. Harris, Mrs. W. L. Childs Ben Herr, c. M Will jams, Miss H. " Handy, H. W Moulton, T. E. Tandy, Ed and Charles Terry"