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The Alaska citizen., 1916-06-26
SCHOOL BOARD
 WANTS S19,165

i Numerous matters of importance to the public at large were dis cussed at a meeting of the Fair banks school board held last Mon | day night at the school house. The chief subject discussed was the es- innate of school expenses for tha i school year 1916-17. As read by the clerk of the board the expected expenses will be $19.165. It is prob. able that the estimate will be sub mitted to the next meeting of the city council for the action of that body, when it will be explained by item.
 The school board proposes tt ask the city council to buy a lot back O. the school house on Turner street, in order that the playground~ for the children can be enlarged. This lot can be purchased for S!oo. The Woman's Civic club of Ear banks has offered to donate the equipment of the children's play lT0und at the park to the school ' the lot is purchased.
 The board has accepted the reeig nation of R Gerth as janitor of the school. He resigned so it is said, on account of inability to get along with some of the teachers His successor has not been appoint- ed. The board has decided that the next janitor must be a man cf family and must pass an eXamina- tion as fireman before he can qualify for the position.
The Alaska citizen., 1916-06-26
OF A SPORTING NATURE

present time he is g years of age and in the very prime of life. He stands 6 feet F inch in height. while his weight varies from lS0 to 190 pounds depending upon the time of year and his condition.
 Bud" says his method of train. ing is to swim. swim and then swim. He exercises by swimming every day in the year that it is possible for him 10 get into the water. The distance swan varies from 200 yards to one mile Never in his life h2. Goodwin swan more than ona mile in practice, no matter how faI the distance for which he was training,
 Bud" is a thorough believer in Going his work under the watchful eye of an instructor or coach. be- Cause he says, The smoothness of ones stroke is essential to success. inasmuch as the cleaner the strone the least amount of energy eNperI- ed 4 good coach can detect mes faults. no matter how small the may be. and the fewer faults w. have the better. No matter how good a swimmer one may be, there Is occasionally hitch someW here. '
 Especially in long swim is a coach necessary, ard in this hr stance, Goodwin affirms, il is es- 3ential that the instructor be not only familiar with conditions and the course to be covered, but under s.a4ds h.s charges makeup and tenn perament as well.
 Bud" starts the training season by doing a couple of hundred yards at first and gradually increasing the distance until he is satisfied that he is in condition to do justic" to himself He believes in laying off every other day after Competi- tion, and by ayoff, he says, 'I mean, 10 eliminate the swim and not the bath, and in the summer and fall lie out in the sun as near to nature as the neighborhood per mits-for a rest"
 Goodwin's idea is that swim mer does not have to think about dieting. as do most other athletes to keep in condition Consequen mt lv, his motto is, Eat anything your good fortune gets you, and be thank ful you get it. He says, Tn any long swim l have ever taken l have never been allowed any nour- ishment or stimulant-not even drinking water"
 Bud" was the first man to upset the opinion of the critics that the crawl stroke was too fatiguinS to use to swim a mile He has per fected the crawl to such state and so conditioned himself that he can swim this tiresome stroke fer two hours without a change or rest 
 He uses the crawl and trudgcn eN- clusively, maintaining that as these are the two best strokes we know of, we should use them in place of the inferior ones.
 Goodwin won his first race as a schoolboy in 1895, when only l3 years old. In 1901 he annexed the one-half mile A A U. title at the Pan-Amertcan Exposition, this be- ing his first national championship. Every year since he has won from five to ten metropolitan and national championships, besides being mem Der of national championship relay and water polo teams Think of it, Five to ten individual metropoli-
The Alaska citizen., 1916-06-26
BOB SHEPPARD DEAD.

Wm H McPhee, president of ths grand igloo of Pioneers, received a letter last week from Lem Shep pard telling of the death of his brother Bob, In Seattle about May TO- The death was caused by blood poison MT Sheppard having step ped on a nall only few days be, fore death claimed him. The Shep pard boys were both formerly very well known here, having been in
 terested in some good mining ground on Fairbanks creek and Goldstream
The Alaska citizen., 1916-06-26
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LOCAL NEWS IN BRIEF.
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Mrs. J. A. WeltZin, of Little FL dorado, was a city visitor during the past week.
 Mrs Jerome Chute recently left Ruby for the Outside, according to word received here.
 The postoffice at the Marshall City camp, on the lower Yukon river, has been designated Fortuna Ledge" The name was one of five sent to the postoffice department by the residents of the camp. It was that selected by Mrs. Frank Waskey wife of the former delegate to congress, who is now mining in the Marshall camp,
The Alaska citizen., 1916-06-26
BILL SMITH FINED.

William H Smith, who was ar rested while boarding the steamer Yukon on her last trip out on the charge of stealing a suit case be longing to Jack Pomeroy from the corridor of the Pioneer hotel, was found guilty when his trial came up In commissioners court. He was fined $50 by Judge Brown, which was paid.
The Alaska citizen., 1916-06-26

prospects have been found on Es meralda creek. tributary of Madi. son The Madison creek find was made by Harry Madison. man who has been in that district for the past ten years, prospecting and trap ping. He is a Russian and he it was who bestowed the name of the great Russ ian author and reformcI upon the adjoining creek Tostoi.
 Mir Walsh seems to think that a camp of considerable proportions is almost assured. He says that ther, are now about thirty persons at the new town of Cooper, and that incorporation of the future business center has either been ac- complished or is in contemplation, and that an election to designate the officials or the new municipality is to take place shortly.
 Mr Walsh is a musher of con siderable note, and usually makes light o' the difficulties of trail travel Therefore when asked about the trail he said it was fine" But it subsequently developed that lis trip was not what could be con sidered a pleasure jaunt He brought with him his dogs, and his expert ence in crossing streams with sled and outfit would mako an interest ing story if he would tell it-hut he won't
 Dan and Andrew Olson, who have been in the Tolstoi district for the past several weeks, returned on Tues day last, and speak enthusiastically of the future of the diggings. They will return to their holdings in the fall Speaking of the recent de yelopments, the Messrs Olson re- port that bedrock recently waa reached on ground about four hu |. dred feet blow discovery on Boob creek, and that the results obtained from pannings showed even better values than those which were dis closed on the Emmett fraction, the news of which was one of the causes of the stampede. They also state that the prospect opened up on Will son creek showed up fairly we'll. five pans disclosing values of 75 cents. The prospects on this creek are said to be remarkably good. Hurst creek is also reported to be showing up well.
 Herb Riley. who arrived in the city from the Tolstoi early in the week, stated that he and his part ner, Al Jones, working on a bench claim on Boob creek, had reached a depth of fortyfive feet the last few feet in gravel They had cX- pected to reach bedrock the 1e>t thaw, when he was called home by the serious illness of is wife. No reports have been received from the claim since he left.
 It is probable that there will be 'sw if any more arrivals from the Tolstoi until after the breakup. While the news so fir at hand apparently is not sufficient to warrant the statement that camp of any eX- tent is assured yet there is little doubt that what is already known is enough to start stampede of extensive proportions when the water runs. It is pointed out that the evidences of gold deposits of eX- tensive area which already have been uncovered constitute good showing, and the average northern. CTS well known propensity to take a chance insures the belief that there will be good sized move ment to the new camp.-lditarOd Pioneer.
The Alaska citizen., 1916-06-26

tan and national championships yearly for Is years.
 THEY ouTOo THE MERMAIDs,
 Miss Josephine Bartlett. hone New York City. age twenty. has been swimming but four years. yet at the 1915 Sportsman's Show a; Madison Square Garden she divcd every night for one week from scratch. meeting all corners in han diCap dives, and won the champion ship of the United States and the Annette Kellerman trophy by more than 90 points. She also has held the championship of the National Women's Life Saving League for three successive years. At the age of eleven Miss Bartlett dislOcate, her hip joint, which was followed by a double curvature of the spine, It was more than year before she again could walk normally. Then she took up athletics. So you see when a woman wills no handiCapS can check her.
 Recently Miss Claire Galligan. of New Rochelle, N. Y. in the firsl Women's National Swimming cham piOnship held under the auspices oi the A A. l., won the title in the 50O-yard race in minutes, IS seconds and by more than four lengths of the twenty yard tank ahead of her nearest rival. She also was victor in the 100-yard han dicap race from scratch, despite starts of from twelve to forty sec onds given her competitors.
The Alaska citizen., 1916-06-26

A strange man entered the home of an elderly maiden lady iD Port land last week. She was asleep but her parrot shouted at the ma, and frightened him away.
 The lady has sold the parrot,
The Alaska citizen., 1916-06-26
GOODWIN RANKED AS
 BEST OF U s. SWIM FRS

Champions may come and cham pions may go, but Bud" Goodw.p of the New York Athletic club, seems to go on winning swimming championships forever. He is rightly called the perpetual champion and has a record unsurpassed by any swimmer that ever lived. For the last Is successive years he has won national titles and been national champion without a single break establishing a worlds record
 During those 15 years Goodw in has held at various times the guar ter-mile, halfmile and one-mile na- tional championships; the one-mile Canadian championship and the l0- mile national championship, He is without a rival as a distance swim mer and from one to 10 miles is absolutely supreme. Goodwin has yet to meet the swimmer who can defeat him at any distance over one mile, ana ne mas engaged III contests up to IA miles. In fact the swimmers are very few and far between who can take "Rui's' measure over the half-mile and mile courses, and then it takes a star like Charlie Daniels or Ludy Langef who are only produced once in a decade.
 Bud" was born in New Yor); City on Nov. IS, 1882, so at 1he
The Alaska citizen., 1916-06-26
BACK TO THEIR FIRST LOVE

Many parts of the old Cub ma chine, which under Frank Chances able management was the terror of balldom, have been scattered to the four winds; but in Joe Tinker, Nor decai Brown and Frank Shulte a few of the old cogs again have been reassembled under the Chicago ban ner, and around these may be con structed a winning outfit. Though all of this trio have worn the span
 gles for years, they still should retain sufficient of their former "pep" to stimulate their younger associates Unfortunately Manager Tinker appears to have weakened his team by parting with some first
 class players to make room for some of his Fed associates and at this writing the Cubs are doing so poorly that he thinks of returning to the lineup to bolster is infield.
The Alaska citizen., 1916-06-26
UNCLE SAM COULD USE
 AN ARMY LIKE THESE.

If anyone has a neat job of sharp
 shooting he wants done he should obtain the services of Adolph Top perwein and his wife, of San An
 tonic, Tex, among the most re markable handlers of the rifle, shot gun and revolver in the world. On thirteen occasions Topperwein ha5 broken the worlds flying target rifle records, and he shot for ten successive days at 212-inch bloclle thrown into the air at a distance of twenty-five feet. and missed but four out of the first 50,000 and only nine out of the entire 72,5O0. Hii highest straight run was 1i,43O. Mrs. Topperwein is considered tn most expert woman shot in the world Recently in four hours and thirty-five minutes of consecutive shooting she broke 961 out of 1000 targets thrown at unknown angles.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-02-27
BIG BATTLE FOR VERDUN
WITNESSED BY KAISER
Fort Douaumont Captured by Storm by Brandenburg
Regiment, Says German Official Report-Berlin
Population Joyful Over News of Victory.

French works We're bombtrded by the
'i"rnan IL and J. irch hOwirz"rs for
hours. until the solid concrete ami
masonry and the steel turrstS We're split
ana hacked into ruins. Til" assault was
th"n made In u heavy suoWstorm and in
III. face ot heavy artillery fire from
the French batteries AZ soon rs the
fort had been won the Germans brought
up fresh supplies OF ammunition and
fresh heavy nortsrs and these. mounted
IN the fort, are now pounding at the city
NJ N"rdun itself Fires az" observed in
tie city and many Of the French reserves
there have been forced to retire TO escape
auuihilat!on.
II is believed here that the capture ~
the entire fortress Is only "A matter Of "A
fey days. The German troops have ad-
vanced SIX miles III the siN days since
the beginning Of the offensive and are
Cow only four miles from the city.
The capture Of Fort bouaumont a,one
added two miles Ia the German gains
and Furthermore put AN end to the
French bombardmcnt Of the plain south
Of Orncs. which under the guns NJ this
fort had been impracticable for further
German advance there.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-02-27
GERMANY GLAD TO
WAR WITH US, HE SAYS
Naval Officer Says TeutOn>
Could Then Sink All Ships
and Face a Victory.

AMSTERDAM. via London. Feb. Go
The FtankJwtor Zcitnn9 publishes the
views ot u high German naval officer on
submarine warfare. lie says:
"The view is shared by the majority
of German naval officers that complete
breach between Germany and America
would he conducive to a far earlier and
victorious termination OF the war. but
only on condition that Germany derived
all the results logically arising from
such IA breach.
"As soon as We need have no more
consideration for the United States we
can wage naval warfare with the same
ruthlessness as the British hitherto have
done. We could Immediately declare all
Great Britain and Ireland blockaded, an
nounce that every ship under whatever
flag tried to enter a British harbor
would on entering the war zone he re-
gardcd as "A blockade runner and would
be destroyed without warning So as tn
eliminate the hitherto existing tricks.
especially as past experience shows that
every merchant vessel is armed
In reply to the contention that the
sinking of neutral merchant ships with
out warning would provoke neutral in
dignation the officer said
Inc lIlulkIdtlOIi VI III u H'''
ter that touches our existence can in
fucnce us as little as II influences at
present the British, who unhindered
constantly trample on the rights Of neu-
trails"
Tho officer thinks that such a policy
would lead to the starvation OF Great
Britain and then to her submission and
then automaticallv to the submission
of Russia and France. America would
then be ISOLATED and would have to sub
nit because Germany. having obtained
from her other beaten opponents the
transfer to Germany OF all their great
battlcshIps and submarines, would he
seven times stronger ON sea than
America. America then would he
beaten and would have TO surrender all
the German merchant ships which she
has seized and also pay all the war
costs of the Central Powers and their
allies.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-02-27

Emphasis appears to b. laid on this
portion Of the argument because of MIR.
l.ansing'S contention that in view OF IN.
absence Of the pirates or sea rovcrS ou
the high seas. reason seemed to dictate
that there was no excuse for defensive
armament on merchant craft
With the Italian reply HOW IN hand
IL Is expected that replies from other
Entente Powers will soon follow. as when
last heard from London the matter was
being discussed 10y the British Ambas-
sadur AT Rome and the Italian Foreign
Oihcc.
Forewarncd a week ago that the En-
tentc Powers would probably reject the
modus viNendI disarmament proposals
President Wilson and Secretary Lansing
have abandoned all thought Of DEPART
irs from International law. For that
reason. ii was said to-day, the United
States, while willing TO discuss with
Germany the application OF the law. Will
not discuss the principle uf the law.
In discussing this il was admitted at
the department that the american Gov
cinmcnt viii have 10 consider the charge
mad. 10y Germany and Austria concern
ing the alleged secret orders of the Brit
sh Admiralty instructing British mcr-
chant ships to use their defensive arma-
mcnt to fire on hostile submarines at
sight.
As the United States interprets the
law of defensive armament to mean that
the guns on merchantmen may not be
used unless acts of piracy are committed
against them. officials say that the Sc
cret orders, II genuine, viii have an i'm
portnut hearing
A copy Of them has been sent from
Berlin ny mail a. an appendix To- the
German declaration a week ago regard
ing her intention to torpedo without
warming all armed enemy merchant ships
and ~ expected to reach. Washington
early next week,
II was stated that the United states
will undoubtedly inquire of Germany az
TO the gcnuinoucss Of the orders.
Meantime thr German Embassy Is
hourly expecting the arrival OF the new
| memorandum from Berlin IN reply TO the
demands of Mr., Lansing as to whether
the March I submarine declaration does
not nullifv .he assurances for the fu-
ture" which Germany was prcpa TO
| give for settlement of the Lusitani1
case.
II Is regarded as certain that Count
Non Bctnstorn will he gwen instructions
To ask If the United States its inter-
uretation az 10 the character and use
OF defensive armament as opposed to
offensive armament. Such an intcrpretl-
iion. officials say, tho President and Mr..
Lansing are entirely willing to give and
thus open the way to AN exchange "
views. provided, however. II Is thought
Germany offers to suspend tho operation
OF her new declaration pending this dis
cussion. This the German Embassy Ia
inclined to believe Germany will be will
ing TO do.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-02-27
DRUG RAID SUCCEEDS,
BUT PASSWORD FAILS
"Pokcrdots" Not Open Sesame
for DctcctivpS-TWO
Women Seized.

A Third branch detective kuocked at
a door in the tenement at 3a3 South
Fifth street. Williamsburg. yesterday
and called out "Pokerdots :"
Instead of tho door flying open as the
detective had been Informed il would {,
bolt was heard To slip into place and
there was "A loud noise Indicating con-
fusion. Thereupon he and two fellow
sleuths ascended tn the roof and peered
over the rear edge just in time to see
two overcoats and two wOmen's hats
sailing forth from window and fiop-
ping five stories to the ground
4 moment later two athletic young
women jumped through the window onto
II fire escape and descended with
rapidty. The three detectives went
after them ON the ground the party
of five had a battle royal, the women
using their hatpins. their finger nails
and their teeth and the detectives using
their Drawn. In the end the women n
were overcome and locked up in the
Herbert street station.
An inspection of the nat rcvNiled an
interesting collection of cocaine ana
heroin. The detectives said the supply
of cocaine represented $1,000. They
found IA small bottles liz the Nat an |
"A great quantity OF broken glass at the
bottom of an airshaft, which indicated
that other bottles had been thrown away
before the flight.
The Third branch dctectlve bureau had
been informed by phone that there was
"A cocaine "joint" at asa South Fifth
street. The informant said that 'pokcr-
dots' was the passa ord essential to ad,
mission.
The women were Virginia Denaco, Is,
Of 60 Dewey street. Elmhurst, Queens,
and sadie Carucci. %. of 609 Metro
politan avenue, Williamsburg. The de-
tectives expected to arrest two men who,
they said, peddled the cocaine and
hcroin
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-02-27
GEN. HUGHES GOING TO WAR.
Dominion Army Head To Command
Division.

OTTAWA. Feb. -. --Gcu. 81 sam
Hughes. Dominion Minister of Militia
and Defence, will go overseas within the
rsNt couple OF months to take command
of one of the Canadian divisions ~ tho
front This became known from authori-
tHtiv" sources to-day.
Gen. Hughes has been anxious to 20
on active service since tn" beginning OF
the war lie stated in Toronto about
u month ago that he would like to
command our of tho Canadian divisions
when the Allies start their long cNpcrtel
offensive to drive the Germans from Rel
gium, lie is now making arrangement :
t. carry ont his plan and will probably
leave Tor the front at the latter end
Of Mnrch.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-02-27
Itnls's Reply Here.

Italy = formal reply to the circular
memo sent by Secretary Lansing on Jam
uarv II to all the Entente Powers pro-
posing disarmament, Of merchant ships
as tn. initial step in the establish
m.ut Of a uOdus viN,ndi for protection
oi nUu-combatint lives rea he'd the State
Department to-day. II was sent by
United States Ambassador Page at
Rome.
Although officials OF the Department
refused 10 disclose it, contents or admit
even that it came from Italy. 1t was
learned that IL is not "A Hat rejection of
the proposal. but argued At length in
support of the right OF merchant ships
TO arm for defence.
The argument. II Is understood. has
two parts. The first deals with the legal
phases OF the law and is technical. The
second deals with the reasonabl.ress of
the righ, to arm. I; is SAID the Italian
Government calls attontiou TO the fact
that II was not until IN. circumstances
came 10 light OF the Austrian submarine
attack Oh the Italian liner Arcoua that
III. Italian authorities began arming
their ships for defence.
In th.ft case. the United States is re-
minded. II was shown that the Austrian
commander. IN violation Of the rules of
humanity aud civilized warfare. coma
nli'ted the uiratiCal act OF sending the
liner 10 the bottom while nnocent per-
sons were still on board, thus causing
their death.