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ELECTION RETURNS

Election returns are coming in very slowly, both in the National and Territorial contests. Up to the date of going to press, while President Wilson's reelection is conceded by our correspondent, we have been un- able to receive the barest details in regard to the states carried, or the plurality oi the eIectorial vote. It is believed that Wilson has PCS lce,to- ral votes. two more than necessary to a choice.
 In the Territorial contest for Dele gate later returns have shown that Delegate Wickersham has rapidly overcome Sulzer's lead, and at the present time, according to figures re- ccived by the Prospector, SuIzer has slight lead of but 92 In the Sec oad division Marshall, Dime Creek and Kiana were yet to be heard from with a total oi about l5O votes yet un- recorded. Wic!lersham now leads in the Second division by about two hun drcd and fifty plurality. In the Fourth division Forty Mile, lnnol,a, EoyukuI, and Kuskollwim are yet to be heard from. The total vote of these places are unknown, but it is stated in Fairbanks that Suizer will mdou5tcdly get a plurality of the votes in these camps as ne has been carrying most of the mining camps along the Yui,on
 In the First division YaI,otat and Rake are yet to be heard from with a total of about thirty votes for both places. Wickersham will undoubtedly carry Rake. according to the Empire, but it is believed SuIzcr will carry Yakutat.
 In the Third Division Kcnai, Su- sitna, Dillingham; and the Bristol Bay vote are yet to come in; but by those experienced in previous elections it is stated that the Bristol Bay vote will hardly arrive in time to be counted. There is no chance of the vote being received unless mail from the isoiat- ed Bristol Bay section is brought out by some musher, which is hardly like ly. The vote of that section is so small as to be negligible and will hard ly figure in the plurality of either candidate, unless the contest should become so close that one or the other of the candidates should pay a man to go after the returns.
 The race is very close one and there is yet chance for Delegate Wickersham to win out, although the lead of 92 by Mir. Sulzer gives him the long end of the betting. Looking at the matter impartially it is hard now to predict who will win the coveted Delegateship. There are yet enough votes out, if secured by either candi- date, to elect one or the other by a small plurality, but the result will be very close, and probably will not be known until a recount is made.-Val- deg Prospector.
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BLAMING TUG CAPTAIN

NEW LONDON, Nov. 1S.-Captain Gurney o1 the tho that coHded with the Deutschland IS probably the man that will receive the blame for the accident me leSO ony today shows that he Seered ahead at the Ie "e be sbond have remained alongside the big submaine The inin to the Deutschland was found this afternoon mot to he serious and of such kind that she could proceed immediately if Captain Koenig so desired He refuses, however. to set a date for the sailing.
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WILL NOT MOVE SLIDE

The engineering Commission has decided not to remove the big slide out at 55 as it would cost five or six thou sand dollars. An engine will be kept at the other side and traffic will be kept up just as though no slide had occurred.
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SEVEN STEAMERS SUNK

LONDON, Nov. 18-Lloyds yesterday reported the sinking of seven steamers by German submarines. The ships sunk the British Mattarazo and Iheyarack the Norwegian Vega and Torsdal the Greek Syliana, Bebis and IvvaniS and the Italian SangiOvanni.
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AGAIN TALKING PEACE

BERLIN, Nov. IS. = The Koelnische Zeitung prints today story to the effect that the Swiss frontier peace negotiations are now being shaped The neutral nations the paper says will probably issue call to the beliger ens to send delegates to proposed peace conference Officials are inclined to give credence to the story but the newspaper professes itself ignorant of the source of the information.
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CAPTAIN OF TUG SCOTT WILL BE
 BLAMED FOR THE SUB. ACCIDENT
ROUMANIA THE PIVOT

BERLIN. Nov. Is. - German war experts no" eA- press the belief that the Romanan eampalgh WI" oe I'e decisive stage of the war If FaIkenhayn gets to
 r tba, sav he will make the allied nations understand that the last hope of conquerng Germany IS gone The Ancre campaiqn on the Somme is regarded as merely m cidental by the war writers.
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BRITISH STILL ADVANCING

LONDON, Nov. 18.- British advances northeast of Hame were reported this afternoon Haig says the enemy continues his severe sheng but the allied offensive goes on just the same successful British air raid is report ed north of YpreS.
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BELGIAN REFORMATION QUESTION

LONDON, Nov. 18.-The people of England are now aroused as they never were before by the eXpOrtaon of Belgian workers to Germany. Three hundred thousand Begans are said to be affected by the exporaton law and Germany intends to use them to take the place of German workers during the war
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NOT RrYING DOLLAR

SEATTLE, Nov. 1S.-The Pacific Steamship Company denies that it is negotiating for the purchase of the Grace Dollar.
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BRITISH LOSE BEAUCOURT

LONDON, Nov. IS. - Counter attacks by the Ger mans is admitted have reganed the parts of Beaucour taken by the British some days ago. The fighting was fierce and the losses of the Germans were exceedingly heavy Attacks and counter attacks still proceeding on the Somme front -----.-
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VILLA MAsSACRES FOREIGNERS

FL PASO, Nov. 18.-ChneSe refugees arrived here yesterday with the information that Villa has massacrcd foreigners at ParaI The fugves state that Villa footed the stores and arrested of the people for ransom Six Americans are missing in the town and it is supposed that Villa killed them.
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AMERICANS SAFE

FL PASO, Nov. IS. - A wire announces that Leslie Webb and four other Americans from Pama have arriv at Cuiacan on the west coast The fate of six others is unknown.
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BRITISH CAPTURE VILLAGE

PARIS, Nov 18.-The British forces operating on the Stuma river in Macedonia captured village yesterday and are now pushing forward fast The Serbs are report ed successful at Cea and the TeutOn losses stated to be very heavy.
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TEUTONS GAINING
information.

BERLIN, Nov. 18.-The TeutOns have gained ground in the Campang Romania region and the losses of the Roumanans are very heavy. Our troops have also made advances in the Alt and Jiul valleys,
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SERBS STILL WINNING

PARIS, Nov. 1S-The afternoon dispatches say that the Serbs have carried eight hundred meters of Bulgarian trenches in the Cena region The advance is being made there despite snow and rain storms.
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Washington, D. C.

Washington, D. C.
 The moving pictures and slides used in Illustrating the lecture are selected from the seven years experiences. They depict most clearly the character of the country and the conditions un- der which the work was done. The surveyors life in the northern wilds is shown vividly-horses swimming swift glacier streams, ascending steep mountain slopes, packers throwing the diamond hitch, ,"-caches in tall trees and striking camp. Amongst the pictures which attract special country wide admiration, is a moving picture of wild mountain sheep in the mount ain cliffs.
 Mir. Baldwin's lecture deserves the support of the people of Seward. He is donating his services to the Arctic Brotherhood, and the proceeds of to- nights lecture will go toward paying for the fine new hall now used by the A. B's. The dance will begin immedi- ately after the lecture. A large at tendance is predicted.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-08-09
TWINS PUZZLE DOCTORS;
BOY BLACK, GIRL WHITE
FUTURE OF COLORADO MOTH
ER'S BABIES ODD PROBLEM
FOR RESEARCH.

DENVER, Colo.-Twins one black
and one white! The brother negro,
the sister a Caucasian
These two remarkable children are
here as wards of the state, to whose
care the mother, a white woman, re-
linquished them.
The Ethiopian twin, who has been
named Robert, has a sloping skull.
The Caucasian twin, Elizabeth, is
fair of skin, wide brow and well de-
veloped.
Denver physicians, scientists and
childlife experts are deeply puzzled
by the twins and are searching an
cient and modern works on obstetrics
and childbirth for parallel cases.
Then comes the question: Shall
the state keep trace of the oddly as
sorted twins throughout their life to
trace possible return of the negro
type to the girl or ascendance of the
Caucasian type in the boy?
Or when they reach childhood shall
they be permitted to enter the world
with the knowledge of their relation
ship or without that knowledge-the
girl to live as a white woman and the
twin brother as a negro?
Scientists say that should the lat
ter come to pass and the girl marry a
white man this girls children might
be negroes.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-08-09
.POTTLE CHALLENGES
DORSEY TO DEBATE
LATTER SUGGESTS THAT HAIR
RIS AND HARDMAN BE
NOT IGNORED.

ATLANTA. - Preliminary steps
were taken today to arrange joint
debate between Hugh M. Dorsey and
Joseph E. Pottle, candidates for gov
ernor.
Just before leaving Atlanta today
for a speaking tour in Southeast
Georgia Mr.. Dorsey was handed a
challenge from Mr.. Pottle and wrote
an answer in which he accepted I'M
der certain conditions. Mr.. Dorsey's
answer opens the way for joint dis
cussions on the part of all the candi-
dates for governor.
In Mr.. Politics. letter he calls at
tention to certain charges made by
his opponents against Mr.. Dorsey.
He includes in this list the charge
that Mr.. Dorsey, while solicitor gen.
eral, accepted employment from the
Louisville and Nashville; says that he
is making an unworthy appeal to pas
sions and prejudices of people on
the subject of executive clemency;
that his record in such clemency
cases is at variance with his profess
sions. He concludes by challenging
Dorsey in order that "these matters
may have a full and fair discussion"
Mr.. Dorsey's answer follows:
"Your letter of the 29th inst, has
just been handed me, and / assume,
as a matter of course, that in recog
milton of the proprieties of the situa-
ton the invitation therein contained
has been extended to each of the
other candidates for nomination to
the position of governor.
con this assumption | will be
pleased to delegate a representative
to meet with representatives of Gov.
Harris, DR.. Hardman and yourself at
some convenient time and place to
arrange the details of such joint dis
cussion as may be agreed upon
among the candidates.
"The so-called issues referred to in
your letter are being fully discussed
in my campaign before the people,
and | believe to their satisfaction,
but if it should be the desire of the
candidates for governor to meet in a
joint discussion of any issues that
have been or may be injected into
the campaign | will rearrange my
present schedule to conform to any
dates that may be agreed upon
among the representatives of all of
candidates for the governorship.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-08-09
THOUSANDS FLOCK TO BATH
ING BEACHES AND SERIOUS
RIOTING FOLLOWS.

CHICAGO.-Excessive heat Killed
one person every thirty minutes here
today, according to reports made to
the police and the coroner's office.
Heat prostrations were reported by
scores and many accidents and deeds
of violence were attributed to the
high temperature. The maximum
reached was 90 degrees.
Lake Michigan afforded the only
real relief, and it was estimated to-
night that hundreds of thousands OF
persons had visited the various
beaches during the day. Early IN the
afternoon several beaches ran short
of bathing suits.
At the Clarendon, the newest mu-
nicipal beach, one man was injured
and about twenty were overcome by
the heat when a crowd OF several
hundred persons tried to force their
wav through the doors, whlch, mad
been closed because all the bathing
snits weer in use. Twenty policemen
were required to quell the disturb
ance.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-08-09
OFF TO THE ARCTIC
TO MEET STEFANSON
CHICAGOAN SAILS IN NEW SHIP
FROM SEATTLE. PLANS TO
MEET EXPLORER.

SEATTLE, Wash.-John Borden,
millionaire Chicago sportsman, will
sail for the Arctic region this week
to the relief of the Stefansson eXpe-
dition. Borden's new schooner,
Great Bear, has been completed for
the voyage, which will be from Puget
Sound to Banks Land, far east of
Herschel Island. Here the party eX-
poets to meet Stefansson and escort
him beyond the Arctic region.
Borden has Louis L. Lane as a
partner in his venture, and he also
will be accompanied by N. Bokum
of Chicago 1t is probable the schoon-
er will not be able to get out before
the ice sets in, and the party is pre-"
pared to spend the winter north OF
the continent. In this contingency
Bokum and Borden, however, will
travel over the snow 1000 miles,
from Herschel Island to Fairbanks,
as Borden wants to be in Chicago by
Christmas.
The Great Bear will be used in
whaling and trading in the north.
This year stations will be established
along the northern Canadian coast,
with number of aeroplane hangers
and supplies.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-08-09
ROBBERS TRAVEL
VIA AUTOMOBILE
Yeggmen Make Amazing Two Weeks
Thieving Tour, Communicating
Autos at VIII.

Travelling through the country in
an automobile two recently released
convicts robbed more than a dozen
postofIices and business places in
Wisconsin and Illinois before they
were captured by the police of Au-
rora, III.
The chauffeur who drove shen,
Joe Redmond, made some amazing
relevlations of the two weeks trip
to the police. He said he met the
men, William Kelliher and James
Kennedy, in Chicago about a month
ago. They told him they were look
ing for an expert chauffeur who
would be willing to travel through
the country.
Redmond stole car for the safe
blowing tour. During the two weeks
outing other cars were stolen to re-
place ones broken or to gain greater
comfort. They started from Chicago
in a Ford (the best they could do)
and wound up at Aurora with sew
en-passenger touring car.
Redmond tells of the different
towns they visited and the number
of postoffices and stores robbed.
"We did most Of our travelling at
night" said Redmond. "Some nights
we played two or three towns.
would be waiting in the car while
Bill and Jim did the job. The engine
would be going so that all we had to
do to make our getaway was to give
her the gasoline.
when I'd hear the explosion I'd
be ready to go. Bill and Jim are
certainly experts at their business.
We'd drive into a town after every
body was asleep and drive out again
without being SEEN"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-08-09
Heat Kills Hundreds in Chicago;
OUcrcOats Worn in NelU England
TEMPERATURES MODERATE ON
ATLANTIC COAST AND IN EX-
IRENE NORTHWEST.

WASHINGTON, D. C. - While
wraps were comfortable in New Eng
land and extreme northwestern states
today residents of the plains and CEN
trail valley continued to swelter under
temperatures which went as high as
1O4 degrees in the upper Mississippi
and lake regions, and caused scores
of deaths and heat prostrations.
Tomorrow the heat wave will con-
tinue in the central part of the con-
tinent and spread to the east, wealth
err bureau officials predict, ending the
cooling effect of the Hudson high"
which has moderated temperatures
along the Atlantic coast for two days.
Thunderstorms such as cooled the
South Atlantic and East Gudf states
and the Rocky mountain region today
may occur tomorrow over upper
Michigan, but elsewhere there is little
immediate hope of relief.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-08-09
MYSTERIOUS GYPSY NOW
WANDERS IN AUTOMOBILES
AFTER CENTURIES OF INVESTI-
eating THE ROMANY HIS
ORIGIN STILL UNKNOWN.

The modern gypsy, travelling in
automobiles, has arrived. He has
forsaken the old-time pony and tent
ed wagon in favor of the buzz wag-
on. Several parties of gypsies re-
turning to the north for the sum-
mer months are making their way
over the prairies in automobiles of
light types, says a dispatch from
Fargo, N. D.
A band of gypsies recently arrived
in Chicago travelling not according to
tradition, by canvas-covered wagon,
but by special car from Omaha.
Gypsies enjoying the luxury of
private travel by automobile and rail
are a sad evidence that we live in
days when no element of the old
romance is free from establishment.
Nomadic the gypsy will remain to
the end of time, we doubt not, but
when he abandons the wagon trail
for the automobile and the Pullman
he robs his nomadic habits of all
charm.
But to the student of ethnology,
language and folklore the gypsy con-
tinues an inviting mystery.
Efforts to trace him back to his
origin lead the explorer to a vanish
ing trail. Western Europe began to
recognize his presence in the late
18th century.
Long before that time he was
found in Hungary and Greece and
still farther back in Armenia and
Persia. Always he was known by
the same peculiarities of appearance
and character. Physically he was
understood; his eyes brilliant, his
teeth snow white, his complexion
dark and coppery. In character he
was shifty, mendacious, lacking cour-
age; he was shrewd trader, skill
ed artifcer in copper and iron; he
had a love for music and native gift
of unusual order; garish colors were
a passion with him.
The term gypsy he resents. 1t is
a corruption of Egyptian, the early
belief having been that he came from
Egypt. This, however, is now thor
oughly discredited. When he reach
ed western Europe centuries ago he
called himself Rom, a name probably
derived from his sojourn with the
Byzantines, who were once known
as Romaioi. Many strange legends
have attached themselves to him: HIS
wanderings have been accounted for
on the fantastic theory that he was
expiating the sin of the original de-
signer of the golden calf or that his
tribe had refused to help the fight
of the infant Jesus and Mary when
on their way to Egypt.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-08-09

.~ates and a great scarcity of ocean
ight space. Values ranged from
to 1910. Liverpool buyers held
ale ring March and spun from
their Warehouse reserves. Values
ranged from 11.65 to 1926. In April
there was little doing. Holders were
firm and buyers refused to make con-
cessions. Prices ranged through the
entire month from 1920 to 1890.
During May there was sudden re-
vival of interest. English spinners
again jumped into the market and
values went boiling through the IS
cents level, reaching a high mark of
13.40. The market made a sensa-
tional advance of 115 points during
the month.
June brought out further bullish-
ness, and values went to the extreme
high level of the year, 1875. Ocean
freight rates came down and values
hung above the 10 cents mark and
close to the IA cents level to the close
of the season.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-08-09
LARGE IDAHO BREWERY
is NOW A CANNING FACTORY
New Company Starts With 100000
Capital, All Paid in.

COEUR D'ALENE, Ida.-Swords
beaten into ploughshares is the fu-
ture of the transition which has con-
verted an Idaho brewery into can
ming factory. The Inland Canning
Company has filed articles of incor-
poration and purchased the Panhan-
Brewery at Occur d'Alene. The cap
ital stock is 100000, all paid in,
and the purchase price was $4,000
Changes necessary to prosecute the
work of canning every variety of
fruit and vegetable grown in the To-
cality will cost less than $1,000. The
boilers and much of the equipment
can be used in process work and the
buildings is the initial plant of an in
dustry which will be rapidly in
creasd.
Thus is Idaho solving the problem
Of utilizing the buildings and equip
ment thrown into idleness when her
radical prohibition laws went into eff
feet the first of the year And thus
springs the wheat where tares have
grown.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-08-09
bulk, and when attacked its powerful
tail easily demolishes boats.
Hunted For Its Oil.

DuIk, ana Wnon aIIdChSu ICo puWSIl ul
tail easily demolishes boats.
Hunted For Its Oil.
In former years the basking shark
was hunted for its oil on the coast of
Norway and Ireland; it was also har-
pooned on the shores of Massachu-
sets in the early part of the last CEN
fury, and as many as twelve barrels
of oil were sometimes obtained from
the liver of one shark. There are
many records of basking sharks 25
to SO feet long from the coast of
New York, Massachusetts and Maine,
but the species has not been common
in our waters in recent years.
The largest of all fishes, the larg-
est of all cold-blooded animals, and
the largest of all existing animals,
with the exception of few species
of whales, is the whale shark Crime
odon typicus), originally described
from Good Hope, but now known
from India, Japan, South America,
Panama, California and various 9TH
err places, a small specimen having
been obtained on the Florida coast a
few years ago. This shark has a
very broad and obtuse snout and an
exceedingly wide mouth armed with
numerous minute teeth; the dark-col-
ored body is marked with many
small whitish spots. The species is
stated to attain length of 20 feet
and is known to exceed 80 feet. Not
withstanding its immense size, how
exer, it is harmless to man unless
attacked, and feeds on small Great
ures for which its teeth are adapted.
It's huge bulk makes it dangerous in
the same way that whale is danger
Gus. Years ago it was reported that
the sperm-whale fishermen at the is
land of Saint Denis, in the Indian
ocean, dreaded to harpoon a whale
shark by mistake, and stories are
told of a harpooned fish having by
a lightning-like dive exhausted the
supply of rope which had been acct
dentally fastened to the boat, dived
deeper still, and so pulled pirogue
and crew to the bottom"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-08-09
LIFE OF AMERICAN
NOT WORTH A DIME
Thirty Thousand Pesos Paid Each
German Slain in Mexico, But
Nothing For Americans.

Nothing For Americans.
SAN ANTONIO, Texas.-"For ev-
cry German who has met death at
the hands of slayers in Mexico an
indemnity of 10000 pesos has been
paid. The same has been true of the
English. Ten thousand pesos was
paid to China for each of so of its
citizens killed in Mexico, but SO far
the life of an American has not been
worth ten cents"
So said Noah Allen, a speaker at
the meeting of 800 Americans, retu-
gees from Mexico, at the court house
here. where an organization was
formed to submit an appeal to con,
gress and the people of the United
States for action to establish peace
and order in Mexico.
The Americans living in Texas
New Mexico, Arizona and California
on the border line do not want war
They want peace. And the only way
to establish peace for the border and
for Mexico is to compel it with force.
This was the sentiment of the meet
ing
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-08-09
SHAD GETTING SCARCE
ALONG ATLANTIC COAST
Filth From Cities Emptied in Rivers
Cause Fish to Leave.

All along the Atlantic coast in the
rivers where in other years shad were
plentiful there are stories now of the
approaching disappearance of this
very bony but very bonny fish. There
was a time when every American riv-
err that flowed into the Atlantic yield
ed its big run of shad, but the run
this year, even in the best shad
streams, was very poor, and the out
look is that it will be less next year,
and within a few years, unless some
thing is done to prevent, will be neg
ligible. 1t is said that shad and cit
les cannot use the same river, that
the pollution from the city drives
out the fish, and this is given as the
reason why the Connecticut, the
Hudson the Delaware, even the Sa-
vannah, are not the fine shad streams
they were in other days.