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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-14
GREAT MYSTERY IN
 PLAN ID PURCHASE
 DANISH ISLANDS
Unofficial Washington Wol- dering What Reason Is Really Behind Move
 of United States

Washington, August 13.-(Special) Unofficial Washington wonders what the mystery is behind the contemplated purchase by the United States of the Danish West Indies.
 For certainly, there is myster.
 In the first place, the United States offers for the islands s25, 1000, ,000-this despite the fact that some years ago $5,000,00O would have sufficed.
 In the second place, the Danish min ister of finance. urging that speed be employed in completing the treaty, hints at terrific pressure. a menace that means war unless Denmark "sub- mits to the desire of a great state."
 Is some great nation determined to take the West Indies?
 Must Denmark sell the islands or face the alternative of war?
 Is the United States, by attempting to acquire the islands at a fancy price, obviating the necessity of war on it's part in the near future?
 There are members of the Senate who will inquire of the government the an- swer to the foregoing. For behind the contemplated purchase. there is some mystery
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-14
Decrease Shown in Deaths
 From Infantile Paralysis

New York, August 14.-The department of health reported today a decrease of 20 deaths from infantile paralysis com pared with the preceding "A hour period
 and also a drop of 26 in the number of new cases, The days fatalities were 22 and there were Al new cases of the dis ease. The total deaths since the epidemic started have reached 1855. and the num- Der of cases which have been brought to the attention of the department is 62S1.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-14
DEMOCRAT SOL0NS l. LABOR SUNDAY ID
 DISCUSS REVENUE
Caucus Impressed With the Fact That Amount of Ap- propriations Is Break
 ing All Past Records

| Washington, August 13.-The impor- tance of the s2oo, ooo,ooo revenue bill. on which Senate democrats today devoted many hours of deliberating on caucus, is being impressed upon leaders by the fact that appropriations of the session now 1 nearing completion have broken all rec | ords.
 1 With passage this week of the s50,- O0O 900 ship purchase bill and probable ap- proval by the House of the Senate's gi- gantic naval bill, the appropriations of | the Sixty-fourth Congress will have ex- ceeded the previous high record by at least a half billion dollars. While ex- act figures cannot be computed until the 1 gavel has fallen on the last supply bill l Of the session, the aggregate appropria- l tions by Congress for all purposes prob ably will approximately be $1,7OOO 600. as against $1,1140OOOOO for the Sixty 1 third Congress.
 | Besides regular supply bills, which to- tai as they now stand $l,3S7, ,2O6, 5S0, Con- l gress will have added when the shipping bill is approved more than 80, GOO GOO for special purposes. There also have been contract authorizations amounting to about s207, 100000, all of which would bring the grand aggregate to $1,6S5 OoO.- appropriation bill still in the making. to be added at the end of the session.
 $20,0OO,O ,OOO FOR NITRATE Special appropriations include s2O0O0,OO0 fo, Ooyarpp,ant 1,itra ia Dlapt Sf OOO O00 for good roads, s15, OOo, ,oOO for rural cred it's and s5O,1oo,oOo for the government shipping project. General supply bills that enter into the sessions total are as fellows: Postoffice, $S22, 579; navy, yet to be approved $315S26. .S43; army. $267,- 597 ,000; pensions, $15S, S,060,00O; sundry civil SIPS, 396, AS; rivers and harbors, $42,SS6,0S5; legislative. executive and judicial, $37,- 925, ,69Q; army and navy and other urgent deficiencies, $31 012,O75; agriculture. ST. 700O,- OOO Notifications. $25,74s,O5O; District of Columbia. yet to be approved, about s13,- 000,O00; Indian affairs, sl0,967,644; diplo- matic and consular, $5,s55,o96; military academy, $.225,04S.
 Final action on the long disputed naval bill is expected before the week ends. On Tuesday the conference report will be called up in the House. Representa- tive Padgett, chairman of the naval af- fairs committee, will move that the House agree to the Senate amendments and separate roll calls will be taken on each of the disputed sections.
 HOUSE WILL AGREE
 With President Wilson and majority of the party leaders urgently supporting the Senate's naval building and person. mel increases it is believed the House will agree to them after advocates of a small navy have made their last fight. In anticipation of a close vote every ab- sent representative was notified more than week ago of the approaching con test. which will mark the climax of the national defense campaign. Scores who have been away for weeks arrived in Washington tonight and more are ex- pected tomorrow
 Two days may be required to dispose
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-14
PRESIDENT NOT ID MAKE APOLOGY FOR FOREIGN POLICIES What Would You Have DOne?" Will Be Hurled
 at Hughes FIGHT BEGINS WITH ACCEPTANCE SPEECH
,. .nce Information on Tone of Docu- 7 mt Now Prepared Indicates Re- publican Candidate Will Be Put on Defensive in the Campaign
By HUGH w. ROBERTS

By HUGH w. ROBERTS
 Washington, August 13.-(Special.) } If advance information in the hands of local correspondents is correct, Presi- dent Wilson, at Shadow Lawn, on or about September 1, will accept full re- sponsibiIity and offer no apology for the manner in which his ndministra- ton solved the delicate problems growing out of the foreign relations of this country.
 In addition, correspondents are given to understand that Mir Wilson will ask:
 "What would you have done, MT. Hughes, had you been entrusted with the guidance of the ship of states,
 That question, in the opinion of dem- ocratic politicians will be pertinent because of Judge Hughes failure to of- fer remedy for the dreadful mal- ady" he alleged to be in existence.
 THE ADDRESS PREPARED
 There is no other understanding but that President Wilson will treat his subject and his opponent with dignity On the other hand there is every req son to believe that the President will challenge Judge Hughes to tell the na- would have pursued had he been Pres ident when Germany by its submarine policy attempted to set aside interna- tional law and rules of civilized war fare, and what he would have done In an effort to solve the troublous Mex ican problem.
 In other words. correspondents in Washington have learned that in dig nified but peculiarly virile manner MT. Wilson is going after MT. Hughes. And the idea prevails that the cam paign which was opened in such taw- dry fashion will be- progressively pressed and concluded in a .scintilating climax.
 HUGHES IS HANDICAPPED
 When the republican nominee made his speech in New York accepting the nomination of his party, practically every democrat "laughed in his sleeve" Senator John Sharp Williams of Mis- sissippi was charitable enough-and droll enough-to remark: However, under the circumstances, he did as well as he could possibly have done"
 The Williams idea has taken hold. The opinion is fast becoming general that Judge Hughes is handicapped. His criticism of the foreign policy of the administration is crippled through the obvious fact that the nation is at peace. His criticism of the tariff is "out of joint" because the country is prosperous. His failure to criticise the legislative achievements of the admin istration is regarded as significant of the fact that such achievements cannot in justice be criticised.
 That the candidate, as a result of the foregoing, is stopping to 'picayun- ish" subjects. is endeavoring to prove that heads of small departments have been displaced for political reasons and that men who contributed to the Will son campaign have been rewarded by office, is regarded as indicative of the paucity of real complaint which can justly be lodged-and is not taken to mean that the public's conception of
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-14
Mexican Refugees Arrive

Laredo, Tex, August 1S.-Walter Hit and his son, members of the marooned Chamal colony in Mexico, arrived here tonight Both told stories of mistreat- ment and robbery. They said the re- maining members of the colony would re- turn to the United States when the weather permitted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-14
Etna in Eruption

Rome, August 1S.-(Via Paris, 5:S0 p. m. ) The Etna observatory reports that the center of the crater of Mount Etna. now 1900 feet deep. Is in full eruption.
 Lava is flowing to the southwest
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-14
'rench and English Report Progress on Somme and
 at Pozieres
kRMY OF ITALY IS
 l UNCHECKED IN ITS VICTORIOUS MARCH
|erlin in Official Statement Claims That the Allies Are Being Held
 on West Front, Fierce At
 tacks Being Repulsed

Hard fighting in the Somme regior France, in Galicia and in the ItaI- In theatre with further gains for tho |arked the operations of Saturday ght and Sunday.
 Northwest of POzieres, north of the
 ,mme, the British made an advance from 300 to 400 yards over front nearly a mile against the Germans Nd also captured trenches on the Inteau northwest of Bazentin-Le- {etit, while the French southeast o1 |aurepas gained further foothoId on e slopes of Hill 1O0.
 Between Thiepval and the Somme |lturday night, according to Berlin
 saults by the entente allies broke bwn with heavy casualties to the at- |ckers. The fighting near Hem md |aurepas continued throughout the
  |peatedly coming to grips in hand to hnd encounters.
 |Mariampol, in GaIicia, seven miles |utheast of Halicz, the town of Pod |acy and several villages along the kper Sereth river have fallen into the bnds of the Russians. All along this |ont, even in the Carpathian region, etrograd reports that the Russians Ie continuing their advance against |e Austro-Germans.
 however, Berlin says, Sve been thrown back ut several |aces by the counter attacks of the |tutonic allies.
 1 FALIANS CONTINUE OFFENSIVE |rhe Duke of Aota is keeping up his tong offensive against the Austrians the Isonzo region, having driven them Pm fortified positions in the Monfalcone Id Gorizia sectors, and taken prisoner bre than 2000 additional men. tonstantinople reports that the Turks |st of the Suez canal have turned against e British and have compelled them to treat with heavy losses The London |r office, however, disputes this state fnt, asserting that the British cavalry still in pursuit of the Turkish rear lard, which Saturday evening had been tven back to a position east of Birs-El- bnca.
 After a long period of inactivity, the !itish along the Euphrates in Meso- Famia attempted an advance against 5 Turks, but retreated after two hours hitting. Further advances for the |rks against the Russians on the Per- In front and in Turkish Armenia also E claimed by Constantinople. Ion the right bank of the Mouse (Ver- |n front) we have progressed slightly the southeast of Fleury. The enemy |me region which were repulsed easily. [e artillery on both sides was very &C., Ee all along this sector.
 FAdjutant Lenoir yesterday brought |wn his seventh enemy aeroplane, which II near Gincrey department of the Fuse. in the German lines. Last night |ench bombarding squadrons dropped large bombs on the railway station Metz-Sablons and on the railway. lrkshops and barracks in Metz itself" Petrograd. August 13-Cvia London.) |e Russian forces in Galicia have cap- (Continued on Page Eight)
The Nome daily nugget., 1916-09-02
ANOTHER lSAPPEARANcE
 IS BEING INVESTIGATED
 IN kUSkoKWiM COUNTRY

Another mysterious disappearance in the Kuskokwim is reported by Samuel Austin, who reached Flat from that district on August g. says the Iditarod Pioneer 1t is but one of many that have been reported from time to time from that region of men lost in the wilderness leaving no trace.
 But little of the details could be learned, but it is gathered that a man named sherman, engaged in trapping on the headwaters of the Kuskokwim river, had been reported as missing. and a party consisting of Jack Stew art Richardson and Johnson was or- ganized to make search for the missing man. This party had just re- turned to Tokotna when MT. Austin left. They brought word that they had found Shermans' cabin, together with his cache and a two years catch of furs, but saw no trace of the miss ing man. In the cabin was a calen- dar or diary which the trapper evil dently had kept posted and the last entry was made in November, 1915.
 Austin could give no information as to the antecedents of the missing man who does not appear to have been known to any of the old timers here. He is said to have been a man about 45 years of age.
 There seems little doubt that Sher- man lost his life during the past win ter, and there is but little likelihood of his body being found.
The Nome daily nugget., 1916-09-02
SOMETHING NEW.

Just arrived on the last boat over 800 of this seasons latest styles and patterns, the most beautiful line of woolens ever arrived in Nome. We invite you to sec these samples wheth- CT you buy or not. If you wish to take advantage of this offer order be- fore the next sailing of the Victoria, in order to have order arrive on last boat.
 We also make alterations, and we do cleaning, pressing and repairing. We appreciate your patronage. Yours to please.
 NOME TAILORING CO, Next door to Segerstorm & Hagen,
 Jewellers.
The Nome daily nugget., 1916-09-02
WIFE OF FORMER GOVERNOR
 COMING TO TEACH SCHOOL

Mrs. John G. Brady, wife of former Governor Brady, of Alaska, and her daughter Miss Mary Brady, will short ly return to Alaska. Mrs. Brady has been appointed superintendent of the government school at Sitka to succeed Dr. E. o. Campbell, and Miss Brady will be one of her assistants. The school will open about September |. and Mrs. Brady and her daughter will with the opening of the school. Gov Brady, who returned from China where he installed an industrial mis- sionaIy establishment, is now at New York.
 Mrs. Brady came to Alaska original ly as a missionary teacher at Sitka. It was there that she met Rev John G. Brady, at that time a missionary clergyman, who was also conducting a mercantile establishment. They were married and prospered, and the mis-  sionary preacher was appointed gover- nor of Alaska by President Mck nley in 1897. He served two terms. Later t. became ass aciated with H. D '.ty- holds in | c famous Reynclds- Nfs- Sa f.velo pment Company. Wn"l iat coGp&ny .'ent OF the rocks it tpon he modest fortune of the former governor with it.
 Mrs. Brady is now returning to All aska with the same brave heart that brought her here in the first place to resume work where she began it many years ago. Hundreds of friends will give her welcome.
The Nome daily nugget., 1916-09-02
NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL ES
 TATE AT PUBLIC AUCTION

Public notice is hereby given that on Monday, the 11th day of Septem- Der, 1916, at the hour of 12 o'clock noon of said day, at the front door of the United States Court House in Nome, Alaska, the undersigned trus- tee for certain creditors of Frank II. Waskey, under deed of trust dated September 23, 1910, will offer for sale and sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described real property situate in the Cape Nome Recording Precinct, Territory of Alaska, viz.: An undivided one quarter (A) in- terest in Placer Claim Number Five and one half (519) Little Creek A quit claim deed of said interest in said claim will be executed to the purchaser.
 IRA D. ORTON,
 Trustee fer Ce".ain Creditors af
 Frank II. Waskey.
 Apg. 12, 19, 26, Sept. ?, 9.
The Nome daily nugget., 1916-09-02
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The Nome daily nugget., 1916-09-02

Copy for regular advertisements must be In by 10 o'clock on the day oi publication.
The Nome daily nugget., 1916-09-02
PHONE MAIN 46.

Entered as second class matter Feb 26. 1907, at the postoffice at Nome Alaska, under the Act Of Congress ot March ? 1878.
The Nome daily nugget., 1916-09-02

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The Nome daily nugget., 1916-09-02

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 MAGAZINE,
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The Nome daily nugget., 1916-09-02
NOME, ALASKA, SEPT. ?, 1916.

Further indication that China is in- deed preparing to discard the age old yoke or tradition and emerge into a new era of mental progress, is con tained in a United Press dispatch an- nouncing that Li Yung Hung, the suc- cessor of the late and little lamented Yuan Shi Kai, opened the last session of the Chinese parliament clad in the conventional garb of the European.
 King George, or Emperor William appearing before the opening session of parliament of the reichstag. dressed n the abbreviated costume of the uottcntot or Friendly Islander, would probably present no more incongruous picture than tho appearance of Presi- deht HuH5 pvIUru Vtv vI IviI.,,. newest republic.
 The press account does not state whether the new president created a sensation or not but, it is doubtless quite sate to assume that he did.
 Hung, clad in the bifurcated gar ments of an effete civilization on such an occasion must surely have struck some of the slant eyed celestials in much the same manner as the sudden appearance of a present pay exponent of fashions latest dctum would strike the fat old ladies at a backwoods Methodist picnic
 Even though the Chinese are about the most stocal of peoples, there was doubtless many a staid and begown- ed Chink who gasped at the strange vision and wondered what in blazes the world was coming to.
 Such d departure from the conven- iional must surely have stirred up something of sensation in a land that has not changed it's fashions in the last two thousand years. Even ourselves, accustomed as we are to the modern, the strange and the bizarre. frequently pause in amazement at the things we see in the line of ladies clothes, the styles of which change about every day or two, so it is hard ly to be expected that the sedate Chi nese legislators retained their accus- toned. composure when the chief citi- zen of the nation suddenly appeared before them clad in d swallow tail and stoYepipe trousers. The Chinese are used to pants all right, but it is gen orally the ladies who wear them cut on the lines of our own neither gar ments. Hung undoubtedly kicked up something of q furore by such a de- parture from the traditional Wouldn't most of our own blase legislators throw a fit if President Wilson was 10 come before congress in the regula- tion dress of the celestial statesman? However, it shows that China and 1 the Chinese must be making progress when the chief executive so far de-
 
 as to appear upon a state occasion in | the clothes of the long despised for eign devil"
 China, and particularly it's new president, are indeed getting out of | the century old rut.
 We have not heard whether the | Chinese women have discarded the l conventional costume as yet, but after | this, il will not be the least bit sur | prising to hear of them adopting the | invisible skirt or the decollete gown. | When progress hits nation, it usual | ly hits it all over, so there is no tell | ing what might happen since Hung has | jumped the ropes.
The Nome daily nugget., 1916-09-02
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The Nome daily nugget., 1916-09-02

Snake river harbor improvement and the necessity for same-pictures show ing wrecks of schooners and barges at mouth of river-Pictorial edition of Nugget published in October.
The Nome daily nugget., 1916-09-02
NOTICE

Have you sent your literature and political cards to the outlying districts vet. Now .s me time to do it while the mail boats are running. The Nugget will rush your order out immediately
The Nome daily nugget., 1916-09-02

Albert Watson will leave Tuesday morning for the fishing camp on Pil- grim river. Will leave every Tuesday and Friday for the camp. Information can be secured at Streeten's office.
The Nome daily nugget., 1916-09-02
WE CAN DO TT.

For first class work and prompt delv- cry phone Main 15l and the Peoples Laundry will send and get your laundry.
 w. J. WILLIAMSON. Prop.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-11
Divorce Petitions Filed.

Pansy K. Forrest has filed suit in the
District Supreme Court for limited
divorce from her husband, Albert r.
Forrest, charging cruelty. They were
married at Annapolis, Md. September
81, 1911. and have one child. Attorneys
w. c. Ashford and Crandal Mackey ap-
pear for the wife. Justice Gould cited
the husband to show cause July IS why
he should not pay temporary allmony
to his wife.
Absolute divorce is asked in a petit
ton filed by Samuel Wasserkrug
against Marie Wasserkrug. They Were
married January 4. 1915, and the hus-
band charges desertion and miscon-
duct Attorney David Wolf appears
for the husband.
William f. McLendon has filed suit
for an absolute divorce from Annie r.
McLendon. They were married at
Louisa, Va. October ). 1905. and have
one child. The couple separated MAY
/, 1916. Misconduct is alleged and a
correspondent named. Attorney w. A
Combe appears for the husband.