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The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-20
Personal Mention

Mrs. Freeburger, Of Portland, who has been visiting here for some time with her son, Dr. George F. Free burger, left for the south this morn ing on the Princess Sophia
 Thomas Stoddard and Mrs Stod- dard left this morning on the Prin- cess Sophia for the south and ex- poets to locate there.
 H. s. Worthen, accompanied by Mrs. Worthen, left for the south this morning on the Princess Sophia to spend the holidays visiting with relatives and friends in Seattle and vicinity
 Richard J. Wulzen, accompanied by Mrs. Wulzen and family. left on the Princess Sophia this morning for the south where they will spend the holidays.
 R. D. Banbury, of Chichagoff, left for the south on the Sophia this morning.
 Mrs. Charles Goldstein, accom- panied by Mr. Goldsteins neice, Miss Bergman, left for the south this morning on the Sophia. Miss Berg mann has been visiting here for the past several weeks.
 J. c. Hayes, superintendent of road work for the First Division, left for the south on the Princess Sophia this morning to spend his vacation in the States
 Gerald Dermody, A. Sandberg and Herbert Ness, three members of the Perseverance mine force, left this morning on the Princess Sophia on their way to enlist with the armed forces of the United States.
 J. c. Littlepage, for a number of years engineer at the Alaska Ju- neau mine, left for the south this morning on the Princess Sophia to assume the duties as an officer in the engineering corps of the United States army.
 James F. Soles, contractor, left this morning for the south on the Princess Sophia.
 Judge R. w. Jennings left this morning on the Princess Sophia to spend the holidays with Mrs Jen- nings and daughter at Victoria.
 Mrs Oak Olson will leave on the steamer Alaska for the south to spend the holidays. She will be joined at Ketchikan by Mr Olson, who will make the southern trip with her.
 Harvey Nicholson expects to leave today on the Alaska for the south to spend the holidays.
 F. o. Burkhardt, superintendent of the Chilkat cannery, who has been here for the past several weeks in connection with court affairs. is leav- ing on the Alaska today for the south and east. He will spend the holi- days at his home in Seattle and will then proceed to Washington, D. c. on special business. Ralph Abercrombie and A. c. Will for the Williams Auto Company will leave on the Alaska for a visit to the States.
 W. K Martin. representative of a California Brewing Company, will leave on the Alaska today for the south to confer with his employers. MT Martin expects to return with in short time and said yesterday that he was not deserting Alaska Mrs. Martin will remain here for time at least.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-20
ATTRACTIONS TONIGHT
I H E A I R E

PALACE - Genevieve Hamper in Tangled Lives" with a Pathe Weekly and a Ford of Kilauea Volcano. COLISEUM William Russell in The Love Hermit" and Crimson Stain Mystery" DREAM - Dustin Farnum in "A Son of Erin" and Helen Holmes in "A Lass of the Lumberland."
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-20
FULL DETAILS OF
 HALIFAX HORROR
 WILL NEVER BE TOLD

BOSTON Dec. 15.-The full de tails of the Halifax horror will nev- CT be told. New sidelights are be- i ing brought out every day A report that naval magazine blew up, precipitating the Halifax disaster, was brought to this city by A J. Goldberg, a merchant of New York, who was in the first party of refugees to reach here from the shattered city.
 Goldberg did not vouch for the re- port He said the information was given him by railroad official who said he had it from a member of the municipal government at Hali- fax.
 According to this story, when the naval magazine exploded ships in the immediate vicinity cut loose to the stream. In the fleet was heavily laden munitions steamer. During the scramble for safety she was rammed by a freight steamer and blew up.
 Moving Train Rocked.
 Goldberg, in company with Chas. J. Clark, a travelling salesman from St John to Halifax.
 We were eight miles out of Hal flax" said Goldberg, when there was a slight explosion and then a terrible one. The train came to a sudden stop.
 Almost immediately the Pull man car began to rock and the glass began to break It was clear morning and as we got out of the car we could see a great cloud of smoke hanging low over Halifax 1 in the distance.
 When we got to Africyille the station platform was crowded with wounded people, most of them chil- dren. Many of the children were groping about, their eyes filled with bits of glass l noticed, too, that most of the children were Cut about the neck. It seemed as if @ keen-edged knife had slashed each little throat.
 'We took about 250 of the injur- ed aboard the train and gave them what medical aid we could. The first one 1 treated was a little girl, who had been blinded by glass. I got the glass out, but she could not see. The glass had cut into her eyeballs. She was brave little mite. She didn't cry one bit.
 Clark, who knows a little about medicine, treated fifty of the wound ed.
 Woman Clutched Dead Babes.
 "There was one mother with two babies in her arms. Her face was covered with blood, but she kept wiping the blood from her eyes, hugging the babies to her breast |. all the while. We took the babies from her in order that we might dress her wounds with bandages that we made from the Pullman i bed linen. The two babies were dead. We didn't tell the mother, but put the little ones away in a berth.
 After a while the train was started back to Truro with the wounded Four children died on the way.
 Two sailors on the train said they had been blown of tug in the harbor.
 "On the way back to Truro we lsot view of the harbor. I saw three Belgian relief ships and ap-
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-20
Susan Rocks the Boat" Is Clever Comedy Appearing Tomorrow.

Tomorrow night at the Coliseum theatre. Dorothy Gish and Owen Moore will appear in a Triangle production entitled Susan Rocks the Boat"
 m this feature Dorothy Gish has more changes of costume than one can shake stick at. The riding habit in which she plays polo and drives her own car is a dear; the overalls in which she crawls beneath her recall
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-20
Ocean Waif" Coming to Palace Theatre.

"The Ocean Waif' with Carlye Blackwell and Doris Kenyon will be shown at the Palace tomorrow night. This is a dramatic story of the rock bount coast of New England and the scenic part of the production is said to be superb
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-20
THEA TIRE ATTR TONS General News of Local Theatres Screen Stars
 and Features


citrant automobile are voluminous; the Chinese negligee in which she takes her dumb-bell exercises is chic; the din- ner gown is bien -Doo-poo, which IS French for "a love-; and the Bull-Run outfit in which she catches the admir- ing eye of Larry O'Neil, the gangster, is tbe last word in the sartorial die tionary
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-20

Mary Pickford's timely photoplay 'The Little American" staged under the personal direction of Cecile B. De Mile, will open at the Coliseum thea = tre next Teusday. The story by Jeanie Macpherson in collaboration with MT. De Mile, is of particular patriotic ap- peal and offers many stirring chapters from the book of the great war across the ocean.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-20

SEELEY'S White Pine Tar with eucalyptus and menthoI-for coughs and colds-25c, soc.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-20
SELL

and get little shopping money for Christmas present. We pay good prices. Sanitary Plumbing. 245 Willoughby Ave, phone AS, next Femmer & Ritter Dock.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-20

As a result of the cleanup from F tons of ore from the Mizpah mine on Fairbanks creek. a gold brick worth $6000 is lying in one of the banks at Fairbanks, having been brought in by one of the owners and operators of the property. This ore was taken from the 100-foot level According to Mir. Hess a few sacks of ore was taken out that ran as high as dollar pound. MT. Hess says that he will now proceed with the development work and will drive the shaft down many more feet.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-20

SEELEY'S White Pine Tar with eucalyptus and menthol-for coughs and colds-25c. soc.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-20

A story by Frank Carpenter to the effect that while travelling through Alaska he saw black wild lilies growing, has led D. H. Snow berger, a botanist at Payette, Ida ho, to write to the Alaska Citizen asking where he can secure some bulbs of this plant. He states that he has written to other Alaska peo- pie without success.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-20

Before you buy be sure to see the USEFUL GIFTS l have made in the Arts 4 Craft Shop. they are really Alaskan.
 ALBERT BERRY, Craftsman Front and Main St. Juneau
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-20

At II o'clock at night recently a fire occurred in a lob cabin at the corner of 9th and A streets in An
 chorage. The fire department re
 sponded promptly, but on arrival at the blaze found there was no wa. ter available, having been turned off at night as has been customary of of the shortage of the supply, and as a consequence, the cabin was de stroyed, together with it's contents.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-20

Kodaks, special Xmas line, at Winter & Ponds stores.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-20

John Kodak, an Austrian. is un- der arrest in Fairbanks for failure to register. Radak claims that he had been prospecting in the Good
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-20

paster country all summer and that he knew nothing about the registra- tion act The authorities state, however that Radak had been ill Fairbanks for some days enroute to Goodpaster and Brooks, and had been fully informed as to the re- quirements of the law
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-20

YOU CAN PUT THEM IN THE
 OVEN. Ten-piece Guernsey Sets, special lat $1.65, at Goldestein's Emporium, while they last.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-20

Richard O'Rourke, of Anchorage, and his associates, have taken a con tract from the Alaska Engineering Commission for 30,000 railroad ties. They are getting out the ties in the Kashwtna district.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-20

parently they hadn't been damag ed"
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-20

Advices received at Anchorage state that Charles II. Johnson will leave New York in short time with mining machinery for use on his claims in the Nelchina district, on Alfred Creek.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-20

For the first time in many years the snow is deeper in the interior than if is in the coast districts Snow at Valdez averages about nine inches on level and in the interior along the trail about 40 inches.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-20

Henry A. Slater. who was recent ly elected tax assessor at Cordova. has completed his work. The com pleted assessment shows real and personal property in the town val ued at 1.190,O00.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-20

In connection with the Anchorage school a class in mineralology has been organized. with k LeRoi Thur mond a graduate of the Van Der Nailen College of Engineering at Oakland, as instructor.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-20

The Seward Home Guards, which was organized shortly after the out break of the war. and which has been drilling regularly ever since has just received arms and ammuni
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-20

Two Reels of Crimson Stain" A Travelogue Opens up the Show
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-20

Advices from Dawson recently stated that herds of caribou num- bering tens of thousands were roam ing the section about thirty miles hunters were visiting the herds and killing their witner supply of meat.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-20

The tug Anne w. of Anchorage re
 gently made a trip down the Inlet after two barges reported lost and upon her return the people of the Inlet town thought it was sure enough vessel and broke for the waterfront, only 10 be disappointed
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-20

Cordoya has organized a loca food conservation committee. W. F Hillary was chosen chairman, Charles Roswogg vice-chairman, and Mrs. Al yah EameS, secretary.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-20

A fire broke out recently in tho hospital tent of Dr. Martin at Brook. on Livingood Creek, which burned the entire roof of the tent, bu
 stopped there, leaving the sides in tact An oyerheated stove is be lieved to be the cause of the fire
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-10-24

Uncle Sam is asking for the loan of
So, 900, 100000 to help win the war.
Why should anyone hesitate for an
instant to do their bit in granting his
request? He will pay every dollar
loaned to him with interest added.
Just think what will happen if the
war is lost. The kaiser will ask for
a $4,000, 100000 indemnity without a
penny back In that event our present
taxes would be doubled or trebled for
very many years. This country must
win this war. Those who cannot
stand with the young men on the fir
ing line, must help to supply all their
needs. Must buy as large Liberty
bond as their means will permit.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-10-24
RUSS REPEL GERMANS
SIav Troops RepuIse an Attempt
to Land Troops.
kaiser's Army Meets Severe Setback
In Esthonia, Baltic Province,
Is Petrograd Report.

Petrograd, Oct. 23.-The Germans
have made an attempt at second
landing on the Esthonian coast. The
war Office announces that they were
driven away by the Russians.
The attempt was made near Noise
kull Manor, eight miles north Of Wer-
der, on the Ethonian coast. (The land
ing of German troops reported Mon
day by the Russian war Office was eff
fected on the Werder peninsula). No
naval engagement occurred in con-
nection with this maneuver. German
warships We're observed off Kuvast,
Moon island.
The Germans have evacuated more
trenches on the northern end of the
battle front. They were occupied by
the Russians. Trenches in the sector
north Of Hinsenberg Minor were taken
by the Russians after an engagement.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-10-24
JURY DID NOT AGREE
Two Davenport Men Acquitted
and Four Are Held.
MANY BALLOTS WERE TAKEN
Dr.. Walter Matthey and Attorney VIII
lis Found Not Guilty Of Aiding
INSTRUMENTATION Of Military.
Jury Out Eighteen Hours.

Davenport.-Two of the defendants
were found not guilty and the jury dis
agreed as to the other four in the
verdict returned by the federal grand
jury in the conspiracy case here.
DR.. Henry Matthey and Attorney F.
C.. Willis were found not guilty.
The jury reported disagreement In
the cases of DIR, Walter Matthey, At
torney Charles Wiese, A. H. Miller and
Henry Vollmer. 1t was reported the
jury stood ten to two for conviction.
District Attorney Claude Porter de-
clared the government will continue
the prosecution OF the four at tho next
term Of court, in new trial.
The charges against the four is aid
ing and abetting the INSTRUMENTATION
of the military forces of the United
States and aiding and abetting in the
obstruction of recruiting.
The six were indicted following
reasonable speech made in Davenport
last July by Daniel H. Wallace, whom
they brought to this city for the
speech. Wallace was given twenty
years In prison for the speech.
The two men who were found not
guilty are discharged from custody
and their bonds released. The 6onds
of the others remain at $4,000 each.
In discharging the jury Judge Martin
J. Wade intimated the case might be
retired at this same term Of court.
This would be almost without prece'
dent, 1t was said.
That the Jury made determined Of
fort to arrive at a decision il regard
to the guilt or innocence Of the defend
ants was evidenced by tho ballots TAX
en- during the eighteen and one.half
hours the jurors remained in tho
closed room.
The last ballot on the. four men on
whoSn the jury could not agree show
ed ten for conviction and two for &C.
quittal The preceding ballot was
eight for conviction, four against. Ono
ballot was nine for conviction with the
others for acquittal. The last ballot
Of ten to two stood for three hours
previous to the time the men were
called into the court room and dis
charged.
When nothing had been heard from
the jury after eighteen hours deliber-
alton, Judge Wade called the men into
court for a few minutes. They then
were returned to the jury room for
another half hour until they announo-
ed a disagreement.
Willis, one of the defendants die.
charged remained at the cou.t house
all night in company with his wife.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-10-24
FRENCH CAPTURE
$500 GERMANS
IN GREAT DRIVE
Smash Enemy's Lines to Depth
of More Than Two Miles.
rs HEAVY GUNS ARE TAKEN
Several Important Villages and Three
Forts Taken During Advance
:. North of Aisne-Yankee
Flyers Participate in
Attack,

Paris, Oct. 24.-In one of the swift
est and most dashing blows of the war
the French troops smashed through
the German lines north Of the Aisne
to depth of more than two miles at
one point, inflicted heavy losses on the
enemy and captured more than $500
prisoners and 25 heavy guns and field
guns. Several important villages also
fell into the hands of the French, ac-
cOrding to the war office announce
ment tonight.
French Capture Three Forts.
French troops in an offensive thrust
north Of Laffaux mill, on the Aisne
front, accomplished an andvance of
three kilometers Q.S6 miles) on q
front of from eight to ten kilometers
CO., miles). The prisoners taken up
to this time aggregate 5000, and Is
guns have been captured.
The French achieved one of the
most important victories of recent
months fighting when they swept for.
ward, capturing Allemant, VaudessOn
anu MalmalSOn forts.
Premier Painleve announced the
drive "as most important. success
French forces now have reached the
brickyard at Chavignon, overlooking
the Laon plains.
Yankee Flyers in Fray. =
With the French Armies in the
Field, Oct. 24.-The Lafayette esca.
drille Of American flyers is participant
ing in an attack on the Aisne deliv-
cred in great force by the French.
Betters Allied Position.
British Front in France and Bel
GUM, Oct. 24.-The new allied line
established in Mondays limited at
tack astride the Ypres-Staden railway
is still intact, with the exception of
the loss on the southern fringe of
HOuthOlst wood of one fortified farm
from which the British were forced to
fall back Monday evening, when the
Germans delivered heavy local coun-
ter-attack.
The operation may now be recorded
as success and, while only limited
detectives were sought, their attain
ment has greatly improved the allied
position.
1t was hard fighting at numerous
points, and the Germans lost heavily,
especially in the region of Poelcapelle.
large numbers of enemy dead were
reported this morning lying in front
Of the British advanced posts.
The fighting was especially severe
near the point Of junction of the Brit
ish and French forces. The German
defenses on the outskirts of the wood
were strong, and the enemy fell back,
battling determinedly with machine
guns and rifles.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-10-24
URGE THAT CAR BE MOVED
Great Crowds at ToboIsk Reverentiy
Chant a Tie Deum to the
Ex-RuIer.

Petrograd. Oct. 24.-General head
quarters at Mahileff received an alarm
ing telegram from the soldiers guard
ing the ex-czar and his family at
Tobolsk, Siberia, urging that he be re-
moved to a safer and more secluded
place. The telegram stated that an
immense crowd gathered in front OF
the monastery in which the former
car and his family are living in To-
bolsk and upon their knees reverently
chanted TIE Deum to the ex-ruler.
The soldiers are urging Premier Ker-
ensky for the immediate transfer OF
the imperial family.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-10-24
THE FARMERS INTEREST IN THE
WAR,

This country's exports of agricultur-
al crops for the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1917, amounted in value to
approximately $136O,0OO,O0O. If the
United States had bowed to the Ger
man autocracy's denial of our free
rights to the high seas, thousands Of
farmers would have faced financial
ruin. With our export trade cut
off the prices of farm products would
have fallen as far below the normal
as they have now risen above it.
The farmers are more interested in
the freedom of the seas than any
other class of our citizens. For some
reason they were the smallest pur-
chasers of the first issue of Liberty
bonds, but they now have a chance
to make amends for the past and lead
all other classes in purchasing bonds
of the second Liberty Loan issue.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-10-24
LIBERTY LOAN BONDS WILL BE
WORTH MORE THAN FACE VALUE.

The past record of United States 4
per cent bonds is almost an assur-
ance that Liberty Loan bonds will ere
long sell for at least 10 per cent. above
their face value.
No investment can be safer than an
Investment in Liberty Loan bonds. All
the real and personal property in the
country is pledged for their payment;
practically mortgaged to secure their
payment.
The records show that the purchas-
ers of 4 per cent government bonds
of the issue of 1895, could have sold
every 500 bond for an average price
Of $13S32 in 1901, making an increase
of 9.47 per cent. per year on their in
vestment for seven years.
The bonds issued in 1895 had no
conversion privilege, like the Liberty
Loan bonds, but they did have Sc
curity for circulation feature which
the Liberty Loan bonds do not have.
There may be some other slight diff
ferences, but neither one, in the ag-
gregate is much, if any, superior to
the other.
The purchaser of Liberty Loan
bond not alone makes prime invest
ment but helps his country and by so
doing helps himself.
How 1877 Issue Sold.
Figures herewith presented show
the average quotation on four per
cent bonds of the 1877 issue, from
1883 down to the year of their re-
demption, 1907. The figures follow:
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-10-24
SUFFRAGE REFERENDUM WINS
Decision UphoIs Vote of Ohio People
In November and Ends Long,
Standing Fight. ..

Columbus, O., Oct. 24.-The people
Of Ohio will vote on a referendum
on the presidential suffrage question
at the November elections, according
to q decision handed down by the
state supreme court.
The ruling ends long-standing dis
pute between the suffragists and anti
suffragists regarding the validity of
more than 10000 names on the referen.
dunn petition circulated last year.
The suffragists claimed that thousands
of these names were fraudulent.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-10-24
WHEELERS' FIRST BULLETIN
List Shows Cost to Retailers So Gus
toner Can Tell the Profit
Made.

Chicago, Oct. 24.-1n the first bulle-
tin of retail food prices issued by
Harry A. Wheeler, retail food admin
istrator, Chicagoans are told what
prices should fairly be charged them
for certain staple articles Of food.
If they pay more, It is their own
fault; and upon the buyers rest the
burden of enforcing fairness. The food
administrator cannot compel retailers
to sell at fair figures, but their patrons
can If they will.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-10-24
ARSENAL BUILDERS ON STRIKE
Contractors Men at WATERFOWL
Mass, Quit-More to Walk Out
It Is Feared.

Watertown, Mass. Oct. 24.-Two
thousand union building laborers en-
poyed by three firms of contractors
who are erecting IL buildings at the
WATERFOWL arsenal are under union
orders to quit work today, in addition
to 800 who struck. The men object to
the employment of nonunion labor by
one of the contractors, and demand
double pay for overtime work.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-10-24
THE KAISER'S HUN ADDRESS.

The policy of frightfulness and ter
rorism was taught to German soldiers
long before the commencement of the
present war. The kaiser said in his
address to the soldiers starting for
Pekin:
when you meet the foe you will
defeat him. No quarter will be CIV
en- and no prisoners will be taken.
Make yourselves more terrible than the
Huns under Attila."