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The Alaska citizen., 1917-06-11
LATEST NEWS
 FROM NENANA
Special to The Citizen)

NENANA, June 5-Many people in Nenana are now wearing Red Cross tags, but there are not nearly enough to go around. Mrs, Thomas Riggs, Jr.. is in charge of their distribu- tion She reports that she has dis posed of 100 and that she is send ing to Fairbanks for 200 more, which she expects to reach here tomorrow A number of people have been as sisting Mrs. Riggs in disposing ot the Red Cross tags, G. Fenton Ora mer having been particularly active in the matter around the offices of the Engineering Commission.
The Alaska citizen., 1917-06-11

Thomas Riggs, Jr., is about again after having undergone a minor ope ration in the hospital.
The Alaska citizen., 1917-06-11
FINISHING UP.

WASHINGTON, D. C, June 5.- The ttsk of the senate committee n redrafting the administrations war tax bill becomes increasingly difficult as time passes. Business in this eleventh hour demands late changes in the bill as far as it has been drafted. It is stated, however, that the committee plans to com plete the work on Friday.
 Today the committee considered further tobacco and liquor tax IS. It was stated tonight that, although the committee had placed q prohibit tive tax on the manufacture of Whls- kies. liquors and tobaccos are eX- pected to yield no more revenue under the senate bill than they will under the schedule arranged by the house
The Alaska citizen., 1917-06-11

Nenana is to be a city beautiful Many of the residents are now plant ing gardens and lots that have here tofore been allowed to grow up in weeds are being stumped and cleared. The enterprise of the residents in this regard is being stimulated by Mrs. Thomas Riggs, who has offered silver trophy to the person who has the best appointed garden in Nenana on August l. In addition to the gardening the outlying streets of the town are being cribbed and graded consequently it is expected that in a very short time Nenana will present an appearance of clean Illness seldom seen in any Alaskan town.
The Alaska citizen., 1917-06-11

All kinds of typewriter supplies inks, etc, at The Citizen Office.
The Alaska citizen., 1917-06-11
" AR
GAS OCt ated prCsS)

LONDON, June 5.-A squadron of German aero planes raided southeastern England today, doing consid- erable property damage. Two persons were killed and tWen- ty-nine injured. The extent of the damages to govern ment property has not been made public. Before the aero planes could make their cs- cape after the British anti aircraft guns were in action two of them were brought down.
 ON BELGIAN FRONT.
 LONDON, June 5.-Re- ports received tonight from the Belgian front indicate that an intense Britlsh-Ger- man artillery duel is now ill progress near Wythschaete, Belgium. It is believed to be the prelude to a great infan- try battle, which is expected to mature within the next day or two. In a report re ceived here tonight from Am sterdam 1t is stated that the Germans are claiming to have repulsed a British infantry attack on the same front to- day.
The Alaska citizen., 1917-06-11

The proportions for the fund for a public library here have now reached the sum of $500 Subs2rip- tions are coming in rapidly, and it is expected that considerably more money will be collected Tor the good work
The Alaska citizen., 1917-06-11

A crew of thirty men has been signed for work on the wagon road which will be constructed from Mile 35 to Lignite creek. The work will start within the next few days.
The Alaska citizen., 1917-06-11

First publication May 28, 1917. Last publication Aug. 27, 1917.
The Alaska citizen., 1917-06-11

hc CIV tonight, ready to put
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-10-10
lIEARST DEF'IES LEWIS.
Challenges Under Threat OF Suit for
Slandcr.

Los Angeles, Oct. 4.--Willam Ran
dolph Hearst, the publisher, COM
menting OH information made public
day in New York by Merton e. Lewis.
attorney general for New York, con-
cerning Mr.. Hearsts actual social re-
lations with Bolo Pasha, alleged Ger
man spy, detied Mr.. Lewis to sub
stantiate any one Of his own unwar-
ranted implications" under threat of
proceedings for slander.
1.-The statements and innuendOs of
the attorney general of New York in
regard to myself and BO!o Pasha are
not true" Mr. Hearst said in writ
ten statement, land + challenge him
to substantiate his utterances, which
are distinctly discreditable to him as a
political partisan.
Il met BOlO Pasha merely as a
French newspaper man, the reputed
representative Of the Paris Journal.
''He came to me and said, You use
more print paper than any other man
in the United States. Will you tell
me where to get it best and cheapest ?
Print paper is almost unobtainable in
Paris.
Il told him where we got our print
paper and what we paid for it, and
gave him all the information about
the paper market that l could. and
that any newspaper man with any
courtesy would naturally give to a
visiting French journalist.
"BOlo Pasha seemed wholly loyal to
his own land and ! had no reason
to suppose he was not.
'He was very polite and apprecia-
tive, like all wel-mannered French
men, and invited me to a dinner.
which he gave to a number of ladies
as well as gentlemen. in the public
dining room at Sherry's.
The conversation was general and
trivial as at all such social dinners.
THAT is all ! have ever known or
seen or heard of Bolo Pasha.
Il have never met Won Papen or
Capt. Boy-Ed in my life and Attorney
Lewis implications to that effect are
unfOunded in fact.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-10-10
wIl.EBE GREAT SUCCESS.
Preparations FOR Event are Going For
ward satisfactorily for Pee Dee
Fair.

Preparations for holding the Pee
Dee Fair in Florence are going for
ward satisfactorily. and there is
every indication that the fair will be
an unqualified success.
People all over this great section
are feeling so much better than they
have for the past three years, on ac-
count of better crops and better
prices. that they are taking more in
terest I'm outside affairs. and even
though the Pee Dee Fair is more
than ~ month of. there is already a
lot OF talk about IL. AS the fair
covers the entire Pee Dec. this inter-
est Is general. The attendance will
be a record breaker. and the exhibits
VIII surpass any heretofore shown.
Great advancement has been made
Ia agriculture and in the live stock
Industry, and progress In these lines
VIII he demonstrated by the exhibits.
Then tho women have accomplished
wonders. and the women's depart
n,ent ls certainly going to shine.
The grounds will he put in tho
very best shape. There will bc
plenty OF water. the lack OF which
has been something OF handicap be-
fore, the city mains having been ex-
tended to the grounds The amuse-
ment feature will be all that fun low
ers can desire. The premium list Is
now I'm the hands OF the printers and
will be mailed out as soon as printed.
II carries over three thousand dol
lars I'm avards.-Florenc Times.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-10-10
LA TOILETTE ON RACK.
Senate Committee Will Make Investi-
CATION Of DislOyal Speech.

Washington, Oct. 5.-A formal pre-
liminary inquiry into the alleged dis
loyal speech of Senator La Toilette at
ST. Paul has been ordered by the sem
ate committee on privileges and cleo
tions. The appointment of a SUBJ
committee was directed with authority
to first inquire into the correctness of
the report of the speech, second as to
the correctness Of the statements
therein. The subcommittee is order
ed to report at the December session.
The committee decided that the
charges against Senator Stone do not
warrant an investigation.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-10-10
Why We Are at War.
(By Henry Dwight Sedgwick of The
Vigilantes)

We are pcaceable people. After
the Civil War there was a universal
hope that we should never go to war
again; but Cuba lay at our doors, eX-
plotted. ill-treated. making her path
etic appeal to American chivalry and
American justice, and we regarded
war as lesser evil than heart hard
encd TO the suffering of others. Against
that war neither paciflsts nor German
Americans made objection they had
no Spanish sympathies.
The Spanish war was soon ended.
and once more we hoped that Ameri
ca would never so TO war again. But
our hopes were to sangune. A great
country in the centre of Europe had
waxed wonderfully strong during forty
years o. peace. In 1870 Germany ard
Franco were equal In population end
riches. In 1914, the German popula.
tion was 20 millions, the French SS
millions; German commerce amount
cd to five billions of dollars, French
commerce 10 three; the German mer-
chant marine was double that OF
France; German agricultural produce.
wheat, rye, potatoes. i'm spite of an
inferior soil. was 20 per cent. to so
per cent. greater than the French. By
peaceful means Germany was rapidly
acquiring very great, even q guild
ing, influence i'm worlds affairs. The
German government. however. remain
CT government of the warrior caste,
bred upon the Prussian tradition that
might makes right: ut IT'S head was an
emperor, who declared that he ruled
by divine right, and that his army was
the rock on which his empire was
built. This great nation and especial
ly it's intellectual leaders. became
drunk with success. self-love, boast
ful and truculent, IL pressed upon its
neighbors. until the peace or Europe
gave way at its weakest point. Ger
many thought she saw her way clear
to dominate Europe. and, dragging
Austria with her. dashed over Bel
gium, i'm order to deal knock out
blows first to France and then TO Rus
sia.
We were astoundcd We admired
Germany. her music, her science, her
scholarship. her universities anu
schools. her municipalities. her indus
try. skill and success. We could not
believe that Germany was so utterly
in the wrong as her enemies said. But
little by little we were forced to be-
lieve il. First the allies published the
story OF their diplomatic efforts to
prevent the war, but Germany never
published her correspondence with
Austria: then came report after rc~
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-10-10
THE COMMUNITY CLUB.
People OF Sumter Asked to Assist i'm
This Work for the Soldiers.

The Community Club, about which
SO much has been written was spoken
of by the ministers in the different
churches who could be reached by
telephone or otherwise Sunday.
The club, as in generally known, is
for the enlisted men in the canton
ments all over the United States. At
each of the camps an effort is being
made by the women to show the boys
that they want to help in every way
they can to make life better for the
soldiers, who must soon be ready to
fight, and, if need be, lay down their
lives for their homes and their women
folk. The objection to the raising the
no cantonments has been advanced,
and it has been urged that they be
left to do this work, where the town
is getting the benefit of the soldiers.
II every one in these towns was deep
---'F- ~'|Su Will tiiC uSSi " oih
the boys morally it might not be such
hard task, but, unfortunately, it is
usually left to the church people and
the women to realize the need young
man has of a home-other than the
great aid of the splendid Y. NJ. c.. A.
where women have given the touch
to things that mother or sister of
wife has always given The boys are
all away from home, and Sumter saw
some of them go from among us per-
maps never to come back. The CO.
lumbia women cannot do it all and
the women of other towns are work
ing to send money. Do you want to
help? The banks have all promised
10 open accounts for the Community
club, and it has been suggested that
every one who wants to help will stop
in the nearest bank when down town
and leave dollar for the boys in the
ranks. The names and amounts will
be published from time to time and
the fund will be kept until November
lst. A meeting of the women will be
held in the auditorium of the girls
high school on Wednesday afternoon.
October 10th, to try and get the wo-
men interested. Every one, young
and old, is urged to come, if the idea
appeals to you: No one is begging
for the boys-only we have the oppor-
tunity of helping q little in a plan for
their good and pleasure before they
leave for France.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-10-10
RED CROSS AT OSWEGO.
An Auxiliary Chapter Organized With
Eighteen Members.

President Neill O'Donnell OF the
Sumter County Red Cross Chapter
attended a meeting at Oswego yester-
day afternoon and organized an Aux
iliary Chapter of the Red Cross with
the following officers: Chairman. j..
w. Mccoy; Secretary and Treasurer,
Miss Clelia Terry; Executive Commit
tee, Chairman and Secretary, ex-offi-
clio, and Mrs. S. W. Henry, Mrs. NJ. NJ.
Brown, Mrs. Andrews.
The Auxiliary was organized with
Is members, but it is expected that
this membership will be more than
doubled. Every person present at the
meeting who was eligible for member
ship joined, which was evidence of the
interest in Red Cross work that
the people Of Oswego are taking.
Mr.. O'Donnell was accompanied to
the meeting by Miss Mary Wilson,
Secretary of the Sumter County Chap
ter. Mrs Nina Solomons, vice chair
man, DR.. E. r. Wilson and a quartette,
consisting of Miss Keller, Miss Roth
olz, Mr.. Daughtry and Mr.. Jackson.
Mrs. J. d. Graham, painist and sever
al ether members of the Red Cross.
Mr.. O'Donnell stated the reasons for
organizing auxiliary Red Cross chap
ters in the different towns and neigh
bodhoods of the county, as well as the
necessity Of all the people everywhere
joining the Red Cross and supporting
the work literally and loyalty. DIR.
Wilson explained the courses of in
struction that are being given under
the auspices of the Red Cross. and in
vited all members of the Oswego
Auxiliayr to join the classes.
The quartette sang several selec-
tions during the meeting that were
greatly enjoyed.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-10-10

Fort OF murders, devastation and pill
iage in Belgium and France; then fol :
lowed. one after the other, lawless
sinking Of American vessels, the tor
pedoing of the Lusitania. the drown
ing OF American women and children,
the intrigues and plots in this coun-
Try, the insulting order that American
Ships should Keep off great part of
the nigh seas, and finally the plan to
involve us in war with Japal aud
Mexico.
Even these insults and injuries lid
not push us directly into war. but they
opened our eyes, and we learned u
lesson. That lesson was that a Prus-
sian, feudal, military government with
a kaiser by divine right at its head,
VIII act iii accordance with it's nature
that, in order to fulfill it's ambition, it
will burn and pillage cities, devastate
fields and orchards. that it will order
priests shot, women raped, laborers
deported, that it will tear up treaties,
sink innocent travellers by sea, and
seek to cow nations into submission
by terror. With such an imperial
government, supported by the might
lest army that has ever existed, no
democracy in the world is safe.
Slowly, reluctantly, we faced this
alternative: either we must submit to
the divine rights of an emperor who
bids his soldiers act like Huns, or we
must fight for our own right to exist.
So. slowly, reluctantly, we decided to
fight.
If we cannot overthrow the Prus-
sian military aristocracy and it's en-
peror now, not only England, France
Italy and Russia. but the United States
also must keep armed to the teeth;
and with national military prepared
rcss moulding our national life. reshap-
ing our honored institutions, breaking
uoWH oui Olu IuetS, our uenlOcrdcy as
We hoped to see it, will be impossible.
a military nation cannot be run by the
methods of q town meeting, it must
be run by despotic methods. We shall
be obliged to economiZe and scrimp OH
schools, hospitals, asylums play
grounds, institutions of research, to
refrain from all activities which,
sprung from a sense of human broth
erhood, make the lives of the mass OF
men more worth while to themselves
and to others. Armories and arsenals
will be the school houses for young
men; ammunition plants will be their
laboratories; rifle and bayOnet drill
Will take the place Of ball and boat
ing.
For the sake of our children we
must stop all that wickedness and fol-
ly now. We must fight till the Ger
nan government has passed out OF
the hands of the feudal aristocracy
and their supporters, into the hands
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-10-10

London, Oct. S.-An Exchange Tel
egraph dispatch from Melbourne says
it is reported that a whaleboat used
as German raider has been captured
near the Fiji Islands.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-10-10
SUMTER COTTON MARKET

=. q. BOWMAN. Cotton buyer.
Corrected daily at l2 O'Clock Noon
Good Middling &c Ia.
Strict Middling 26 is.
r'iddling 26.
strict Low Middling % "a.
Low Middllng 25 Ia.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-10-10
NAV YORK COTTON MARKET.
BREAKS WITH GERMANY.
Peru Joins the democratic Powers;
in Battle Against AutOcracy.

Lima, Oct. G.-The Peruvian con-
sress today almost unanimously de-
cided to sever diplomatic relations
with Germany.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-10-10
OF the German people.

or the German people.
Ii was Il clear understanding of the
matters at ist,ue and of the immense
consequences to our future and to the
future of the world, that has ranged
us ut last side by side with England,
France, Russia, Italy, Belgium and
Serbia. May God defend the right.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-10-10
JOB PRINTING

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They know exactly what they going to get when
the order placed and that the price will be reasonable
for the service rendered. Let do your work time
You will be convinced that it will pay you have all
your printing done here
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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-10-10

Mr.. c. W. Sanders, of Hagood, spent
the day in town.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-07-26
Market Is Stagnant
But Prices Unchanged

New York, July 26.-The New York
Evening Sun financial review today
said:
Merely a nominal market prevailed
on the stock exchange during the great
er part of today. 1t was significant
principally of the fact that the speeula-
tive contingent had become reluctant
to enter into new contracts for any
position
Modest accumulation of various
stocks was noted throughout the list,
but this buying, as has-been the case
for several weeks, diminished with the
marking up of prices few points.
Unsettled conditions have conducted
to speculative commitments only for
quick turns.
Steel, equipment, and tobacco shares
provided whatever upward leadership
could be said TO exist
In the last hour pressure against the
motor stocks increased and losses of
from two to three points were sus-
tanned by Studebaker and General mo-
tors The tendency of other stocks was
also toward lower prices in the late
trading, but dealings were unimportant
and price changes small.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-07-26
SEATTLE STREET CAR
TROUBLES NAY END
Boston Owners Yield to Sec
retary---Manager COnfers
With Men

Seattle, Wash, July 26.-Peaceful
settlement of Seattle's street ear strike
Was bright this afternoon.
Acting on direct orders from Stone
and Webster, at Boston, who yielded to
pressure from Secretary Of Labor viii
liam B. Wilson, President A. W. Leon
ard of the traction company met seven
striking union carmen from Tacoma
and Seattle for an hour and half
this forenoon and announced shortly
after noon that another meeting would
be held at clock Friday afternoon.
The striking car men were smiling
as they left Leonard's office.
How President Leonard had agreed
to the meeting which now promises
peace was disclosed when Federal I'm
migration Commissioner Henry NJ.
White announced this afternoon that
Secretary Wilson had wired him to
learn what the local officials of the
company were doing toward settling
the strike.
This followed announcement that
Wilson, through special envoy, Form
er Congressman Peters of Boston, had
received encouragement from Stone
and Webster.
There was decided feeling of
ooptimism at the Labor Temple this
afternoon when it was learned that
Leonard had met the union committee
on instructions from Boston and that
member of President Wilson's cabinet
was taking an active interest in set
tlement of the strike.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-07-26
LOUIE WAS A GOOD
GUY Ibis EP|TAPH
First American Fighting Man
Buried In France Was
From East Side"

New York, July 26-In squalid
street in New York IS east side, where
the hot July sun beats down on con.
gested, sweltering humanity, there is
mourning today for the first American
fighting man to be buried in France
Louis Reinhardt, sailor of the United
States navy, called dark, old fash
ioned tenement in that street his home.
All his neighbors knew today that he is
dead, drowned in falling overheard
from his ship. But his mother. a
widow, solely dependent on him for
support, doesn't know it.
"She's gone up in the country, y said
one of the neighbors today. Say
we re awful sorry about Louis. He was
a fine boy TIN be terrible blow to
his mother. But nobody knows where
she's gone or when she II be back. I
suppose we II have to tell her some
time. She II take it hard -
The speaker was woman, her face
drawn with lines of toll.
She mopped her perspiring brow with
her ragged apron. A friend, passing
with bucket of beer in his hand
passed it to her And she vanished in
to the fetid, dark interior of the tene-
ment.
A little knot of dirty faced kids az.
sembled. They were clad in under
shirts and ragged pants. One clutched
a piece of ice,
Sure, we knew Louie,' piped up
one. Gle was good guy an Ian he
ust to let us kids wear his sailor hat
sometimes. -
Other neighbors came-Italians and
Greeks. They talked in broken Eng
lish about the sailor who came from
among them and who will be remem-
bered in history.
The east side mourned for ''Louien -
in its own way. His epitaph in that
dirty street viii always be: $50 Luie Is
dead, huh7 Say-he was a good guy,
a good guy"
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-07-26
New Blue Book Out
Demand For 1t Great

Secretary of State Olcott is receiving
dozens of requests for the 1917 Blue
Rook, which has just come from the
press and is being delivered He is also
receiving many letters of commenda-
ton for the excellent material in the
book and its handy arrangement and
classification. Each writer says that
the book has proven itself invaluable in
more ways than one. Requests have
been received from other states for
copies so that arrangements can be
made to issue like publication.
This last issue of the book is bigger
and contains more interesting matter
than the previous issues. 1t takes up a
description of the early history of Ore
gon, the organization of the provisional
government, classified statement of
lands within the state, tabulated his
tory of the counties of Oregon, new
counties, Declaration of Independence
end Constitution of the United States,
with state officers, state boards, state
institutions, educational institutions, the
rliltary establishment, and many other
hits of information that are constantly
needed.
The book is being used in class rooms
and by naturalization boards, and will
he found in all the libraries.