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The daily Alaskan., 1916-04-11
GERMANY PLANS DESTRUCTION OF RUSSIAN R.R.
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} To the Delesates to the Re | publican Territorial ConYen- ! tion, Seward, Alaska.
 \ Gentlemen:
 The people of Alaska seem . 10 have concluded that there . ought to be an effective organi.
 aation of the Republican as ] well as the Democratic party $ in the Territory, and many of ! my most active friends and sup ! porters have joined in the
 movement and are among your ] number. sIn view of their an- nounced intention to present ,. my name tos your convention . aud because of many rumors s tending to create misunder-
 :, standing and contention here
 {. after I feel impelled in fairness to my friends and to those who have long been my political . opponents to make this public statement in advance of any action on your part. I have not and will not en- ter into any combination or agreement with or against any :. person or faction in or out of the Republican organization . for the control of patronage, in whole or In part, or at all, or for the control of my ac- : tions in any way whatever as , the representative of all the people of Alaska, or for any . other purpose. I will not be , bound by any pledge made for . me without it is clearly stated iD the platform or, resolutions : adopted by the Convention. It , seems to ma there can be no successful unity of action or : reorganization of the Republi- cSn party in Alaska without entire franl1ness with the men { and women who do the voting. : and because of that l address /. this communication to you in this public manner. l can bet ter do without the nomination . or the election to congress than be placed in the attitude !. of having betrayed either my , associates or the people whom I have represented with such . freedom and confidence for , eight years. and whom I must /. continue to represent with free :: dom and confidence, or not at . all. In the event of my election, {: T pledge myself to harmony . aud fair dealing toward friends , and past opponents alike, to : the support of the bill which , Il have already introduced granting more extended powers /: , to the territorial government, : to the support of the State . hood bill, to the creation of better transportation condi- tions and the control and re- . duction of burdensome freight , , rates, and generally to the . . upbuiIdiEP of the industries . natural 10 our Territory and . to the development of it's great natural resources free from . monopoly and, unjust restraint. If you nominate me upon this {. understanding there will be but little chance for contention ,
 md disagreement hereafter. s Respectfully, JAMES WICKERSHAM. ] |. - a. 1r on y5 z
The daily Alaskan., 1916-04-11

Vancouver, April 11-Reports have been received here that the Germans in shanghai, China, are planning a stragetic move in the capture and destruction of the Trans Siberian Railroad.
 The capture and destruction of this road will be a great loss to the Russian government It is the longest railroad in the world under one management It runs from St. Petersburg to Vladivostok on the
The daily Alaskan., 1916-04-11
PARIS JUBILANT OVER
 FRENCH VICTORY AT VERDUN

Paris, April 1.-The city of Par is 1s jubiIan. over the victory Of the French in a battle which has been raging in and around Verdun for the last few days. The charges Of the German have been repulsed with great loss to the invaders.
 The heavy bOmbarding of the Ger mans has caused considerable dam age to trenches and property in the city. The French gre holding
The daily Alaskan., 1916-04-11

the trenches and being reinforced by the English.
 The French have returned the fire with a vengeance which has had a telling effect cll the Ger man army. The men are worn and tired in their trenches but fight on like demons. France has placed her very best men il. this strngetic position and Germany has centered her whole at tenttou on he capture of this city.
The daily Alaskan., 1916-04-11

Paris, April Il = The news of the French victory at Verdun has been an incentive to all opposition ia the cabinet and they have passed resolutions showing their. intention to cooperate in any way possible with the republic to stay off the invading German army.
 The socialist party have passed a resolution favoring the continu-
The daily Alaskan., 1916-04-11
RUSSIAN RAILROAD E
 THREATENED BY GERMANY

Pacific. distance of six thousand miles. This road cost the Russian goyernmen. an enormous sum of money, although it is single tracked, built of light rails and poorly con structed.
 The capture of this road will hamper the getting of supplies on the Pacific by the Russian govern ment At present munitions of war and supplies are landed at Vladi- vostok and shipped by rail into Russia.
The daily Alaskan., 1916-04-11

dist ministers association have held Q second election in this city. The first election was thrown out for the reason that charge was filed with the association that stuffing of ballots had been used in the selection of officers for the organization.
The daily Alaskan., 1916-04-11
FRANCE STANDS AS 4 UNIT
 IN HER PROGRAM FUR DEFENSE

ance a( the closest support to the government policy of national de fense. For a while it was thought that the socialist party would breaF with the war party and cause split in the workings of the cabinet. The victory has drawn the French leaders in close har- monv and no difficulty is expect ed hereafter amongst the leaders of any of the factions.
The daily Alaskan., 1916-04-11

Rome, April 1.-The Austrians a,e making ready to stop any possible invasion of their terri tory Ou the part of Italy. The border line is being heavily pa troi.e1 by machine and heavy can nonaGe
The daily Alaskan., 1916-04-11
AUSTRIA PATROLS HER
 SOUTHERN BORDER

The hlII toDs have been recently manEeds by small forces of men, who have stationed small fortresses at regular intervals. Supplies and munit:on of war are being rushed to Jhe front. The whole Italian front is under guard.
The daily Alaskan., 1916-04-11

Calumet, Michigan, April 11'- A mining company has shipped twenty five tons of copper ore east 'bY express from this city. The price was twenty eight cents a pound.
The daily Alaskan., 1916-04-11
NEW YORK MAYOR DEMANDS EXPLANATION FROM LABOR LEADER

tho Pennsylvania State Federation of Labor, in a recent speech which he made in the behalf Of labor.
 Mayor Mitchell is patriotic man, full of sympathy for all political parties and a stunch republican.
The daily Alaskan., 1916-04-11

London. April 11-Premier As quitE declared before the represen- tatives O the press, who con trived to get a special interview w'- ni,n a5 to how long the war would be n duration, that England would never plead for peace. He asserted that this war would be
The daily Alaskan., 1916-04-11
ENGLAND WILL N0T PLEAD
 F0R ENDING IF THE WAR

carried on until rights were set tied and that England woul1 be in the finish. He further made very clear to the correspondents that military caste was forever gone in England. That ability was the re- cognized force in the British army of today.
The daily Alaskan., 1916-04-11

A stage with 1900 pounds of mail has left WhitehOrse for Daw- son.
The daily Alaskan., 1916-04-11

New York, April II = Mayor Mitchell is so aroused by insults to the American flag that he has asked for an inquiry into the remarks made r. James Maurer, president of
The daily Alaskan., 1916-04-11

Citizens in Fairbanks had q hari time to scrape up a ticket to en- ter the municipal field.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-02-11
WILL HAVE DIAMOND SMILE
Kansas Chauffeur Has Had Effective
"SparkIer" Set in One of His
Gold Teeth.

Some people walk around their chair
to change their luck; others hunt for
the left hind foot of rabbit. William
(Smiley) Rutledge, a colored chauf-
feur and houseman, has sprung a
brand new scheme, says a Wichita
(Kan) dispatch TO the New York
World. He is having diamond
mounted on one of his teeth. Every
time Smiley" smiles one of his golden
smiles it will be more than golden, for
Smiley is introducing the diamond
smile" to Wichita.
When a dentist, who is building a
new set of front teeth for Smiley, gets
through the happy colored man will
have a mouth filled with gold, and
from the front of one of the gold teeth
will CLEAN a diamond about an eighth
of a carat in size.
When a boy he climbed down into a
well and playmate dropped a stone
on him. The rock hit him on top of
the head and caved in part of the
skull. A physician took out the crush
ed bone and inserted a silver plate.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-02-11
Trivial AnnoXances.

IT is surprising how trivial are the
annoyances which suffice to make
some men miserable. A lump of SCOT
falling on mans linen; a beefsteak
overdone; losing a railway train by
forty seconds, after running himself
out of breath; visit from bore when
he is overwhelmed with cares; the
rasping Of his nerves by hand organ
when he is weary, inclined to head
ache or trying to sleep; even the want
of pin, or shirt button flying off at
an unlucky moment, as when he is
dressing for a dinner party and has
scant time in which to do tall these
are annoyances which sorely try a
mans patience and chafe and vex
many a person more than a serious
misfortune.
Alexander Smith goes so far as to
say that II during thirty years all the
annoyances brought on with defalcat-
ing shirt buttons alone could be gath
cred into mass and endured at once,
1t would be misery equal to a public
execution.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-02-11
Rainfall in Hawaii,

The rainfall on the island OF Hawaii
varies greatly, ranging from the enor-
nous downpour Of 1853 inches year
in the upper Walpio valley to 20 inches
a year on the northeast coast between
Hilo and Kohala. The Walpio surface
streams on the island are found along
the northeast coast between Hilo and
Kohala. The only river, according to
the United States geological survey,
is the largest stream on the island,
and has been party developed for irri-
cation. At Kapoho, on the east point
of the island. warm water flows from
seams in the rocks. These warm
springs" flow into a pool about 100
feet long, 25 feet wide and 20 feet
deep. The pool is entirely surrounded
by rocks and its color varies in shade
from beautiful blue to violet. Wala-
pele, or Green lake, is a body Of fresh
water in the pit of an old crater near
Kapoho. This lake covers an area of
about five acres and is fed by springs
below the surface. A pumping plant
takes water from this lake for domes-
tic use and for irrigation.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-02-11
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PROTECT YOUNG APPLE TREES
Thin Wooden Veneer Wrapper Will
Prevent GirdIing by Rodents
Screen Wire Also Good,

Perhaps the best protection against
girdling of fruit trees by mice and
rabbits is obtained by using a thin
wooden veneer wrapper which has
been soaked to keep it from breaking,
then bent around the tree and held
in place by a single wire about the
middle, writes G.. c. Wiggans in Mis-
souri, Valley Farmer. The wire stays
in place better if passed through a
hole near the outer edge of the veneer
wrapper. The wrapper should be
pushed down into the earth so mice
cannot burrow under it, or they may
be shut out by heaping soil VI around
the bottom of the case and tramping it
! firm. Coiled screen wire max be used
in much the same way but it is more
expensive. The veneer wrappers do
not usually cost more than half or
three-quarters of a cent apiece, and
can be secured from any orchard sup
ply house.
Bunches of long grass, or split corn
stalks, may give good protection
against rabbits, but fail to keep mice
from doing harm. Newspapers or tar
paper wrapped around the tree trunk
have been successfully used by many
orchardists.
Paint and washes do not give good
results, as the rabbits sometimes seem
to attack the washed trees more than
the untreated ones
Damage from mice should be avoid
ed by the removal of all loose, trashy
material from the neighborhood of the
base of the tree trunk. If the ground
has been fall plowed, the under furrow
slice has good nesting places for mice
and the nearby trees are likely to suf-
fer, but if the ground near the tree is
clean and we'll compacted little dam
age will be done by these rodents.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-02-11
SPRAYING is NOT DIFFICULT
Have Clear Idea of What Is Required
Mix Materials Properly and
Follow Directions.

II does not pay to spray, as spray
ing is done by half Of those who try it,
Yet proper spraying is not difficult
Have first clear idea of what you
want to do. Know the enemy you arc
fighting. Then mix your materials
properly. Study the formula and fol-
low directions carefully. No haphaz-
ard work will do. The details given
for the mixing are all necessary.
Spraying well done pays, and pays
big.
Apply it right, with strong pres
sure.
You can do It right If you try to,
and yet 1t is no easy job. 1t Is work
from first to last. but it Is work that
pays.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-02-11
LATE SIGNAL SYSTEM
METHOD DOES AWAY WITH USE
OF THE sEMAPHoRE.
White Electric Lights on Black
Background Are Being Used by
Prominent Eastern Railroad
Said to Work Well.

Semaphores are done away with and
the standard semaphore indications
are given by white electric lights
mounted on a black background in a
new system of block signals now be-
ing installed on an eastern railroad.
The lights are so arranged" on the
board that the three positions of a
semaphore arm, horizontal, diagonal,
and vertical, are initiated by the rows
of lights, and these signals are used
by day as we'll as by night. Two
boards, corresponding to two soma
phore arms, are used for each track,
the upper board constituting the stop
signal and the lower board the eau
tionary signal. When a train enters
the block the horizontal row of lights
on each board is lighted giving the
stop signal to any following train.
When the train passes out of the block,
which is $500 feet long, the horizon
tai row on the upper board is lighted,
while the lights on the lower board
remain horizontal This is the eau
tionary signal, meaning Proceed, pre-
pared to stop at next signal" After
the train reaches the third block
ahead, the lower board, if no other
train has entered the block in the
meantime, also changes to the dag
onal row of lights, indicating that the
track is clear for three block ahead
Popular Mechanics Magazine.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-02-11
Safety at Railroad Crossings.

Although many people are begin
ming to think that the man who
meets disaster by racing a railway
train to a crossing is worthy of little
sympathy, still there are enough gen.
uine accidents to stimulate sugges-
tons for increasing safety at these
points. One apparently effective plan
recently proposed is to turn the road
at right angle near the track and
continue it parallel with the tracks
for a short distance before crossing
the same by another right angle turn.
This would compel an automobile to
slow down before crossing the tracks,
and should insure the safety Of the
average driver Unfortunately there
are very many places where such an
arrangement is impossible.-Scien-
tifc American.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-02-11
SashIess Window Pane for Cars.

The last vestige of wood entering
into the design of the modern passen-
ger coach has disappeared in the uti-
lization of the sashless window frame
The sash is dispensed with entirely
and its place is taken by piece of
plate glass covering the entire win.
dow opening. The glass is held rather
firmly in place between two strips on
each side of heavy felt, between
which it is moved with slight eff
fort, but the adhesion of the felt and
glass surface is sufficient to- hold the
pane at any point that the passenger
may desire.
The movement of the glass is facili-
tated by two knobs secured to the
pane near the top, which also serve
the purpose Of preventing the glass
from dropping below the sill when
lowered to its fullest extent for the
admission of air. The upper edge of
the glass is protected by narrow
edging Of metal. The opening being
at the top and over the heads of the
occupants of the car. there is no I'M
pleasant blast of air.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-02-11
Arizona Cacti.

Arizona has more than a hundred
kinds of cacti, and Tucson is the CEN
ter of the great cactus region of the
Southwest. These odd plans range in
size from the noble Sahuara or Giant
cactus, forty or fifty feet high, to
small pin-cushion cacti an inch or two
in diameter. Sahuaras grow in great
abundance in the foothills between
Tucson and Yuma and are always OBJ
jects of wonder. 1t is believed large
plant is at least two hundred years old
Their fruit begins to ripen in June and
is gathered In great quantity by In.
dians, who make fine jam and also a
pressed sweet bread of II.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-02-11
Birds That Have Their Own Way

The ways of birds are hard to I'M
derstand. For years the Canadian au-
thorities have been trying in vain to
introduce the American quail, or bob
white into British Columbia. Last
year few pair, perhaps half a dozen,
migrated of their own accord from
the state of Washington into the prov
ince. and have survived and bred
there, and now bid fair to multiply
rapidly On the other hand, the
willow grouse, which used to be very
plentiful in that region, have almost
wholly disappeared.-Youth's Compan-
ion.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-02-11
COLLEGE SONGS THAT LIVE
Really Notable Pieces of Music That
Are Connected With Universities
of the United States.

Every person who has seen a pha-
lanx of Princeton students standing
with heads uncovered and singing the
sonorous and majestic college anthem
has thought with regret of the death
Of Professor Langlotz, the writer of
old Nassau"
Professor LanglotZ was man of real
musical attainments; he had played
under the direction of Wagner, and
he had written various oratorios and
ambitious productions, yet this song,
hurriedly composed, is far more widely
known than anything else he wrote in
his long career.
Yale and Harvard also have songs
which always bring the students to
their feet and pull their hats from
their heads. Brown has Alma Mater"
written by sophomore, one of the
best college hymns. Amherst men
stand uncovered when they sing ITO
the Fairest," the words and music
written by a student of the class of
1903, and Williams has the Oldest
American college song written by an
undergraduate. This undergraduate
was the distinguished clergyman, Or.
Washington GLADDEN., a member of the
class of 1859, who wrote The Noun
tains" while teaching school during a
winter vacation. Among New Eng.
land schools too Tufts has two excel
lent songs, Dear Alma Mater" state.
iy and fine, and 1.-THE Brown and Blue, y
more popular in character, the words
of both written by Prof. David L.
Maulsby.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-02-11
FEW NEW LINES IN 1915
Railroad Construction During the Past
Year Has Been Comparatively
Unimportant.

In the United States in 1915 only
933 miles of new railroad were con.
structed, as against 1882 in 1914 and
3,071 in 1913. The total was the small
est since 1864. The longest new con.
struction for any one state was Penn
sylvania with SO miles. There are now
about 242,000 miles of railroad in the
whole country. Of this 1861 miles
were in receivership at the close of
the year The statistics have been
The number Of freight cars built in
the year was 74,112, against 104,541
in 1914 and 207,684 in 1913, and the
number of locomotives and passenger
cars built was smaller than in any
recent years except 1908.
The length of railroads in the
United States operated under the block
signal system on January l of this
year was $1,000 miles, an increase of
9,677 in the year. The automatic
block signal mileage was 31,160, an
increase of 1,471 miles since 1914.
Limiting of income by government
regulation is blamed by the Railway
Age Gazette for the small expendi-
lures for extensions and improve
ments, and it adds that the situation
is improving, owing to a change in
public and official sentiment toward
the roads.
The new railroad construction in
Canada last year was 71S miles, as
against 1878 in 1914, and in Mexico
it was 36.5 miles as compared with
none in 1914.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-02-11
Must BRING Railroad 70 Date.

The board of public utilities com
missioners has handed down a deci-
sion ordering the Philippine road, on
its Cebu lines, to install better lights
in its second and third class coaches,
and to supply to all passengers indi-
vidual drinking cups at a nominal
cost. The company is also forbidden
to permit more passengers than there
are seats to ride in the coaches
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-02-11

Louise, ETC., do better on the ounce
root than on the pear stock.
On the other hand, If longevity Of
tree, larger size, and capacity for pro-
ducing heavier crops are desired,
standards should be planted. 1t is
well also to consider the character of
the soil in the location selected as to
adaptability of class desired.