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The Nome daily nugget., 1916-05-12

Word has been received that A. A. Isbell, construction en- gineer for the Marconi wireless company, will arrive in Juneau soon. The reason of his visit at this time is not known, but 1t is believed he is coming to super intend the erection of the new station, the material for which has been in Juneau for months.
 W. J. Wright of the Ketchikan lighthouse service had an eXper- fence recently which he is not anxious to repeat. He went out i'll small boat to repair a light on Rosa Reef and was unable to make landing or return to Ket- chikan owing to thick weather. lie was rescued next day by a launch which had been sent to his assistance.
The Nome daily nugget., 1916-05-12

X number of Metlakahtlans have associated themselves to- gether for the purpose of opera ting a general store to be opened in the near future, and to be conducted under the eye of the government. Successful stores are now conducted in the same manner in the villages of Hyda- burg, Klawock and Klukwan.
The Nome daily nugget., 1916-05-12
ALASKA NOTES

The Miners and Merchants Bank of Iditarod, which has been operated under the laws of Nevada for some years, has filed articles of incorporation with the Territorial secretary under the laws of Alaska. As soon. as the fiscal year in Nevada is up the corporation will be dissolved there and will then operate un- der the laws of Alaska
 The Alaska Oil and Guano company, which formerly oper- ated an oil and guano plant at s'Killisnoo, Southeastern Alaska, has been re-organized and will in future engage in preparing herring and other food fish for the market. The articles of in corporation have been filed with the Territorial secretary. The new company is capitalized at sI5o,ooo.
 E. J. White, better known as the Stroller" who has success fully conducted the Whitehorsc Star during the past fifteen years is reported to be negotiating for the purchase of the Douglas Is land News. The latter news :paper is the. oldest weekly in Alaska and has been operated under the same management since it's founding eighteen years ago.
 William Lyscoll, of Juneau, is a stubborn cuss. He recently attempted to jump a piece of waterfront property and when the case was decided against him by the court he refused to re move the piles which he had set up. He is now in jail for contempt of court and will re main there until he can make up his mind to remove the piles as directed by the court.
 The steamer Wellesley, which has been chartered from the Parr Mccormick Steamship company of San Francisco to be operated in Alaska waters by the Admiral Line, is wooden vessel of 7oo gross and 43o net tons cargo capacity, 1853 feet long, 38 feet beam and I3'8 feet depth of hold, She was built at Prosper, Ore, in 1907.
 At Fairbanks two men who have been convicted of insanity have applied for writs of habeas corpus to prevent their incar- ceration in the asylum at Morn ingside. The writs are asked for on the grounds that their conviction was obtained con trary to the facts in the cases. The applications are said to be unprecedented.
 The Skagway Alaskan recent ly printed a dispatch under a Washington date line to the eff feet that the postmaster general had designated eight offices in Alaska as postal savings deposi- taries. The offices named in the announcement are Fairbanks, Juneau, Douglass, Treadwell, Skagway, Wrangell, Ketchikan and Petersburg.
 The precinct of Sulzer, South eastern Alaska, is without Un- ited' States commissioner and there are no applicants for the position. Anyone wanting the position must be possessed of an income or able to increase the fees of his office in divers ways known to the trained legal mind.
 AS a result of recent order received at the Juneau customs house, in the future all blanks used by the public and shippers will be sold at the rate of one-
The Nome daily nugget., 1916-05-12

applies to shippers manifests, ships manifests and entry mani fests and entry manifests. It applies also to all legal blanks furnished by the customs house
 J. H. Cobb of Juneau, territor-- ial counsel, has gone to San Francisco where he will present the case of the Territory vs. the Hoonah Packing company be- fore the Circuit Court of Appeals This case is test to see whether the Territory has a right to tax the fishing industries of Alaska or not.
The Nome daily nugget., 1916-05-12

AS the season advances the estimates of the probable output of the Tolovana camp next sea son increases, and it is now esti- mated that the new camp will produce between eight hundred thousand and one million dollars Most of the gold will come from the benches of Livengood creek but Mike Hess and Moose creeks are expected to furnish their quota.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-26

Nearly 1,ooo employees of the Erie Railroad shop in Meadville Pa, are to be given an increase in wages. The advance amounts to from one to two cents m hour.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-26

Along the front in the region of iTerdun the Germans and the French continue the great struggle which be- fgan several days ago, with the Ger mans on the offensive, and their aim fevidently the great French fortress of Verdun.
 | Despite a heavy fall of snow, the
 Germans north of Verdun have at fcecked, with what Paris terms un- sprecedented violence and with large forces, French positions at several tpoints but according to the French official communication the attacks were Ewithout success. Especially has this been true of La Cote du Poivre, about four and one-half miles north of the l fortress, the attainment of which 1 would give the Germans a fine vantage point from which to operate against Verdun.>
 Action of Artillery Incessant. The artillery on both sides along the entire battle front is keeping up an incessant bombardment of opposing positions.
 big guns that the sound of them has
 penetrated eastward to the left bank of the Rhine in Rhenish Prussia.
 Heavy casualties are being inflicted
 by both sides, and the Germans claim I that they have taken a goodly number
 of prisoners-the aggregate at last re-
 ports totalling more than 10000. i East of the Mouse the fortified vil-
 lages and farms of Chambneuville, Cos
 tellate, Marmont, Beaumont, Cham
 brettes and Ornes are declared by Der lin to be in the hands of the Germans,
 as likewise are French positions north
 of Verdun reaching to the ridge of
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-26
WHAT GIRLS REQUIRE OF
 MEN THEY WOULD MARRY
Salary Range of from $500 to $10,o0o -One Wants a "Dreary Dancer"

Minneapolis. MinnA Feb. 25.-The Minnesota Daily, the student newspa- per of the University of Minnesota, which had asked the women students of the institution the question, How much salary must a man receive be- fore you would consent to marry ?'' today received replies ranging from $500 to $10,000 a year. Most of the girls were conservative in their de- mands. however, and the general ave- rage, based on early replies, is about $1,600.
 One girl wrote: What is money to me; give me a true, loving husband and a cottage"
 A large majority of the girls de- manded that their future husbands be good dancers, some said they must know the latest steps" and one went so far as to say she would marry only man who was a dreamy dancer"
 Smoking would be permitted, even demanded by a large number of the girls, but drinking would be pdohibit4 ed and those who advocated card playing say bridge should be substi- tuted for poker, although one girl con cedes her future husband one night a week for the latter game.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-26
FOR REGULATION OF
 RUSSIAN CENSORSHIP.
Diet Adopts Resolution Placing Re-
 strictions Upon 1t.

Berlin, Feb. A, via London5> Feb. 25, 10.40 D. m.-The Prussian Diet ended it's consideration of the censorship by adopting resolutions demanding that the censorship be restricted to questions imposed by the necessities of military operations; that it be uni formely exercised and that civilian au- thcrities who fulfill the duties of cen sorship assume responsibility for their action. Another resolution demanding freedom to discuss the aims of the war was also adopted.
 The two day debate showed that the members of the Diet. like the members of the Reichstag, do not complain of the military censorship but accuse the political censorship of issuing indefin- able orders, especially complain of it's lack of uniformity.
 Herr Bachmeisler, a national liberalr declared that one censor struck out sentences from an address by Elm peror William and that one newspa- per had been warned that it might comment on proceedings in the reich stag only along lines laid down in the chancellor's speech. The censor Herr Bachmeisler declared, undOubted- ly followed political lines.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-26
ORGANIZED MINERS FROM
 CENTRAL BITUMINOUS FIELDS
Are Drafting Plan to Submit to Op-
 orators in Pennsylvania.

New York, Feb. 25.-Organized mine workers from the central competitive bituminous fields spent the entire day drafting a plan which will show the operators of Western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois the basic rates the miners are asking them to pay under the mine run system de- manGed by the workers. There was no joint session today of the operators and miners, the latter having asked for a recess to work out the plan. The mine owner req dily consented and will meet the delegates of the workers tomorrow morning.
 There is a possibility that the meet ing of the joint subcommittee of the anthracite miners and operators which was to have been held in this city next Monday afternoon may be defer red several days, provided the soft coal situation reaches a point where settlement can be reached promptly if negotiations are continued without interruption. President John P. White of the United Mine Workers, said today he was anxious to clear up the bituminous situation before going deeply into the anthracite wage con- ference.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-26
DEMURRER FILED
 BY CHARLES S. MELLEN
Against the Amended Bill of Minority
 Stockholders of N. H. Road.

Boston, Feb. 25.-A demurrer was filed in the supreme court today by Charles s. Mellen, former pc>sident of the New York, New Haven and Hart ford railroad, against the amended bill of Ralph s. Bartlett and other mi nOrity stoQisholders of the road, who seek to recover S102, 100000 alleged to have been illegally expended by the di- rectors about ten years ago in pur- chasing street railway and steamship lines.
 MT. Mellen says that the amended bill does not allege that the directors of the stockholders in voting to re- fuse to bring suits in the name of the company against the directors who served between 1904 and 1909 were im- properly influenced by the defendants, or that they were wilfully disregard full of the interests of the company or were in corrupt consideration with the defendants. The demurrer also pleads the statuA of limitations.
 In previous demurrer filed last We'd nesday in behalf of the company, 1t was claimed that the plaintiffs had not shown that they were acting in be- half of all the stockholders.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-26
FEAR NEWFOUNDLAND
 WILL FACE FOOD FAMINE if Action is Not Immediately Taken to Secure Better Shipping Facilities.

St. Johns. N. F., Feb. 25.-Fearing that the colony of Newfoundland will face a feed famine in May or June if action is not immediately taken to se- cure better shipping facilities, the St. tJohn's Board of Trade has made a vigorous demand to the colonial gov ernment to prosuce steamers. The Board of Trade asks that arrangements be made with the British government to have steamers furnished, even if it becomes necessary for the colonial gov ernment to literally subsidize them.
 Newfoundland has already faced a similar problem regarding coal. Last December a coal shortage, caused by a lack of vessels to bring it here, obliged the government to commander all of the available coal in St. Johns and distribute it to the people in small lots. There is also a shortage of salt for fish curing. The colony usually uses 5000 tons annually, but so far only 10000 tons have been received. The colonial government, however, is negotiating with the British admiralty i to secure ships to import salt from Spain and Sicily.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-26
V. J. MAYO MUST
 SUBMIT TO EXAMINATION.
Before Trial For Alleged Breach ot
 Marriage-Sued For $25o, ,o0o.

New York. Feb. 25.-virginius J. Mayo, a New Haven manufacturer, must submit to examination before the trial of an action brought by WilheI- nina Meyer or Wi1helmina Mayofi to recover from him $250,000 for alleged breach of marriage, according to decision handed down today by the appellate division of the su- preme court.
 The plaintiff alleges that Mao and she went tt.ron gh marriage ceremony in Brooklyn on April ?. 1904. She as serts that at the time Mayo had a wife living, of which fact she was ig- norant; and that she and Mayo lived as man and wife for eleven years, till latter having brought suit in Penn sylvania to obtain 8 divorce. The de- cree was granted 10 tl:e first wife ac- cordirg to the plaintiff. in Scl1anton In June, 1915. Tho plaintiff then brought suit alleging breach Of promise. fl aud and deceit sS.ae declares MaNo's IT, come to be $100 900 yea:.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-26
THICK FOG OVER NEW
 YORK BAY AND SOUND
Hampered Movements of Shipping-AII
 Sound Boats Delayed.

New York, Feb. 25.-A thick fog hanging low over the harbor, Long Island sound and the bay tonight hampered the movements of shipping. The sound boats Plymouth and Boston, due to leave at 5.30 o'clock tonight, remained at their docks until 1925 and 1O3O, respectively. Other sound boats also delayed their departure several hours.
 The American liner Finland, which left early in the afternoon for Liver pool, anchored off Quarantine about 3 o'clock, and at a late hour tonight showed no signs of continuing her voy- age. The steamers Jamestown and Concho, inward bound from Norfolk and Galveston, respectively, dropped anchor off Sandy Hook, unwilling to venture through the harbor in the mist.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-26

Loudemont, which lies south of eBau- mont.
 Fighting in Champagne Region.
 Fighting also has been going on in the Champagne region and lombard ments of German positions have taken place in the forest of the Argonne and in the Vosges mountains. In Cham pagne the French report the capture of a German salient south Of Ste Marie-a-Py and the taking of 300 pr1s- oners, including 21 officers and non- commissioned officers. Artillery op- erations have been in progress along the British front. BOmbardmentS, in- fantry attacks and fights with hand grenades have taken place in Russia and Galicia, but there have been no important changes in positions. The and Italians on the Austro-Italian front continue.
 Russians Take More Towns.
 The Russians in the Caucasus and in Persia have taken additional towns from the Turks. Pursuit of the Turkish forces driven out of Erzerum con- tinues.
 Late reports from the British force surrounded by Turks at Kut-el-Amara say the Turks long ago ceased their at- tacks upon the besieged position.
 Italians Driven Back.
 Vienna records a further drive of the Italians before the Austro- Hun garianS east and southeast of DuraZzo, Albania Eleven Italian officers, how aver, and TOO soldiers have been cap tured The Durazzo docks are under the fire of the batteries of the Teutons, which are hampering the authorization of the Italians and their allies in their endeavors to escape.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-26
CONGRESS IS PLAYING
 A WAITING GAME
Determined to Take No Action That
 Will Ernharrass Administration.

Washington, Feb. 25.-Congress set tied down today to await develop ments in the submarine controversy between the United States and Ger many with an overwhelming major ity of both houses apparently very de- tinitely determined to take no action which might embarrass the admins tratiOn in the present stage of diplo- matic negotiations. A few of the more ardent advicates of legislation to keep Americans off armed ships continued their activities and Former Secretary Bryan's support for them was shown in the form of a tele- gram, but most of them admitted there was no prospect of immediate action.
 So far as the administration is con cerned, it was said authoritatively to- night that while any agitation of the issue just now was undesirable, there was no disposition to oppose a vote on the pending armed ship resolutions if their sponsors tred to force one. It was declared that reports from the capitol during the day showed con clusively that both the senate and the house would stand behind Presi- dent Wilson in his refusal to permit any abridgement of the rights of American citizens on the seas, as out lined in his letter to Senator Stone last night.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-26
INQUIRY INTO MILK
 TRANSPORTATION RATES
Costs One Dairyman More to Produce
 Milk Than He Receives For It.

Boston, Feb. 25.-Jeremiah w. San born, of Gilmantonf N. H., a farm owner, who was formerly president of the Missouri State College of Agri- culture, asserted at the Interstate Commerce Commission inquiry into milk transportation rates today that the farmers of New England could not stand the proposed increases. He testified that his stock yielded an av- craze of one hundred cans of milk daily, about one thousand quarts. and that it cost him more to produce the milk than he received from the deal CT for it. He was at one time Su- perintendent of the farm connected with New Hampshire State college and also founded the Utah State College of Agriculture.
 MT. Sanborn described the condition of the farming industry in New Eng land as prostrate. The number of cows had decreased and the boys were leaving the farms, he said. He fig ured the average revenue of the farm CT at about s31s year.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-26
HOLDERS AND CORE MAKERS
 ON STRIKE AT WESTFIELD,
! In One of the Plants or the H. B.
 Smith Company.

Westfie1d, Mass, Feb. 25.-One hun dred and fifteen loop moulders and core makers in one of the plants of the H. B. Smith company, manufactur- CTS of steam boilers and ras1iators, struck today because of dissatisfac- tion with recent increase in pay The piece workers who received an eight per cent. increase, according to their estimates, ask for 25 per cent. The specific demands of the other strikers were not formulated today It was stated that six hundred men would be made idle if the strike continu- ed tomorrow.
 Tn January both the plants of the company, employing 1900 hands, were shut down as a result of the strike of laborers, who finally went back at in- creased wages.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-26
PLEAS OF NOT GUILTY
 BY GERMAN DEFENDANTS
Entered in Trial for Conspiracies at
 San Francisco.

San Francisco. Feb. 25.-Pleas of
 not guilty were entered today by de- fendants in the alleged German ship
 ping conspiracies to violate Ameri-
 can neutrality, in the United States
 district court. Date of trial will be arranged Monday, attorneys said. Sixteen individuals and three ship ping firms answered to the charges. Eight other persons have not been ar rested. Most of them were members of the crew of the steamer Sacramen- to- which was alleged to have sup piled German warships off the Chilean coast late in 1914
 Among the defendants who appear ed were Baron E. H. Von Schack, German vice consult general H. w. iE. Kaufman chancellor of the con
 sulate, and Maurice A. Hall, Turkish consul
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-26
STORM PLAYED HAVOC WITH TELEPHONE SERVICE.
ManhoIe Troubles Disconnected Wires
 in Waterbury.

Waterbury. Conn.,, Feb. 26.-The rain storm here today played havoc with the telephone service, about 1000 sub-s scribers being affected. Manhole trou- bles disconnected the wires for about 500 local subscribers, and all the wires between this city and Prospect were down. The toll lines between Water bury and Bridgeport, New Haven and Naugatuck were down for a short time early in the day. owing to the ice storm of the night before. An ice jam just above the new bridge in Brooklyn, which threatened the structure, was broken up about 8 o'clock tonight by two charges of dynamite.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-26
NO ABATEMENT IN
 BATTLE OF VERDUN
Germans Are Attacking With Unprecedented Violence
 and With Large Forces
TRENCH SAY ATTACKS HAVE BEEN FRUITLEsS

Artillery Both Sides Along the Entire Line Keeping Up Incessant Bombardment of Opposing Positions Heavy Casualties Are Being Inflicted Both Sides-Fort6ed Villages East of the Mouse Are Declared by Berlin to be in the Hands of the Germans French Are Bombarding Germans Positions in the Forest of Argonne and in the Vosges Mountans-Russians in the Caucasus Have Talk en Additional Towns-Vienna Chronicles Drive of the Italians.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-26

Winslow, chief of the Pacific fleet. Without radical changes, the admiral declared, a fully efficient fighting force comparable to the Brit ish navy could not be produced in 50 years.
 Education at annapolis Wrong.
 Yesterday Admiral Winslow told the committee the establishment of a general staff, composed of active line
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Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-26
Rumania Calling Troops.

London, Feb. 25. 11.01 p. m.-Reu- ter's Amsterdam correspondent sends a report received there from Bucharcst to the effec. that the Rumanian war Cff1ce has announced that al! natural ized Runanian citizens between the ages of 2I and 46 must report them selves for military service
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-26
MAIL POUCH STOLEN
 FROM HARTFORD DEPOT
Found Later With Registered Letters
 Opened and Contents Removed.

Hartford, Conn, Feb. 25.-It was reported today to the federal and To- cal authorities that a mail pouch con- taining registered mail had been stol- en from the local depot of the New York, New Haven and Hartford rail- road last night and it's contents rifed. The bag was found near the station today. Examination showed that reg istered letters had been opened and the empty envelopes returned to the bag. In some instances where the en- velNpes contained checks the checks were returned. There is no clue so far to the robbers
 The pouch was brought to this city on the train which arrived from Bos- ton by way of Springfield shortly af- ter 10 o'clock
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-26
Steamer Aground
 in Boston Harbor
INTERNATIONAL LINE STEAMER
 NORTH STAR
IN NO GREAT DANGER
Ship Pushed Her Nose Into Mud of Castle Island in a Heavy Fog Passengers Transferred in Storm.

Boston, Feb. 25.-The Eastern Steam ship corporation's International Line steamer North Star pushed her nose into the mud of Castle Island in a heavy fog tonight while working her way into the harbor with passengers
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-26
BRIDGEPORT TROLLEY
 CONDUCTOR FATALLY CRUSHED
Was About to Start Car When Another Car Ran Him Down.

Bridgeport, Conn, Feb. 25.--As Wal ter Shaw, a trolley conductor, was changing the trolley at the end of his run at the Ash creek bridge, Fairfield, tonight, preparatory to starting back into the city, another car on the same track. headed toward Fairfield ran him down and crushed both his thighs. He died within an hour in a local hos. pital Shaw, who was about 30 years old, came here about three weeks ago from Providence, and little is known about him here.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-26

Kansas grain dealers and growers estimated that the probable wheat yield has been reduced 25,000 900 bushels by the coating of ice on the ground
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-26
| WANTS FINAL ACTION ON PHILIPPINE BILL DEFERRED.
Until End of the War-Merchants of Islands Send Request to Congress.

Manila, Feb. 25.-The Merchants association, the membership of which is largely American, voted today to cable a nappeal to congress to hold off final action on the Philippine bill until the end of the war. The Brit ish and Filipino members of the asso- citation declined to join in the appeal the BritisIers on the ground that they were foreigners and the Fflipinos aft CT they had conferred with Sergio Os- nena, Filipino delegate to congress.