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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-04-27
REMOVED BRICKS
AT NEWFANE JAIL
Two Prisoners Try to Gain Lib.
erty-PIaced in Cells
Outer Layer in Wall is Reached-An.
drew Petos and Archie Gandreau Used
Piece of Steel.

! An attempt on the part of Andrew
Pctos and Archie Gandreau to break jail
lat the Ncwfanc county Jail was diScOV-
cred Wednesday and both men were
Immediately put into cells instead of
being allowed their liberty in the cor.
ridors on the upper floor of the Jail as
they had been. State IS Attorney Will
liam II. Daley Immediately filed informa-
tons against them charging attempts
to break Jail and their cases will be
brought before the count court Fri
day.
The two men evidently had been at
work on their attempt to escape for
some hours. \ piece of steel had been
used to remove bricks from the wall
aud they had succeeded to the extent
that they had made a hole about IS
inches square and had reached the outer
layer of bricks. They had kept the
hole concealed with clothing and chairs.
The upper floor of the Jail is used
for the detention of short-tCrm prison
crs who are there for minor ofcnses and
they are allowed the freedom of IL large
room and the corridor. Because of the
fact that they are confined there only
u very short time and are generally
lmcn who are let out to do work i'll the
town they are not regarded as men who
would be liable to break Jail, which is
a serious offense in the eyes of the law.
Petos was arrested some time ago
in Bellows Falls on a charge of larceny
He went to that town at the same time
that Max Wolff, the German who is now
in Newfane Jail until further order of
the United States court for making re-
marks derogatory to the United States,
went there. He came as a parolcd pris-
ouer from the same rcfomatory i'll Rah-
way, n. j., that Wolff came from and
is being held at Newfane pending the
arrival of officers from the New Jersey
institution.
Gandrcau was arrested Saturday aft
ernoon in the Brattleboro railroad sta.
ton charged with drunkenness and was
committed Monday for - days in de-
fault of a fine of 50 and costs.
The two men are now in separate cells
ON the ground floor of the Jail and
Wolff is in another. There is no chance
of their escaping, for the cells and the
ground floor of the Jail are modern in
every particular.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-04-27
PROMOTION FOR DIR. TAYLOR.
Made Captain of Reserve Medical Corps
Now on Duty with Regiment at
Fort Ethan Allen.

News was received Friday Of the
promotion Of DR.. Herbert w. Taylor
from first licutenancy i'm the reserve
medical corps to a cdptainey. DR.. Tay.
lor is now ON duty with the Vermont
regiment with headquarters at Fort
Ethan Allen and received his new com.
mission Friday.
DIR. Taylor, who has been in the re-
serve medical corps six years and was
on duty with the regiment on the Mes
lean border last summer, is first as,
sisiant physician at. the Braitlchoro
Retreat and has many friends here who
VIII be glad TO learn of his promo
ton.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-04-27
OVERPRoDUCTIoN NOT LIKELY.
Statement of Gov. Graham to Farmers
on the Vital Subject of Crop Rails
ing This Year.

The governors Of many states have
issued proclamations relating to the war
and the food supply. | feel that there
is need in Vermont for plain state
ment to our citizens, and especially
to our farmers. We cannot forcscc the
needs and duties Of the future, nor the
time or conditions of peace. The fear
of oVcrproduction should cause no hes
itancy about planting the maximum
that can be cared for. The United
states no longer has ON hand its usual
surplus of food. New England raises
less than one-ftth of the food required
to feed her own population. 1t is true
that some of the western states can pro
duce enormous quantities Of foodstullS
at greater economic advantage, but our
own citizens must consider the difficult
ties of transportation at Il time when
the railroads will Ice ovcrburdcncd with
the shipment of the munitions of war
and of the food which we will send o.
our allies.
The greatest problem facing our
farmers is where and how to obtain
sufficient help to care for their crops.
Our schoolboys have made hearty re
spouse to the call of the soil. Men who
are rejected for military service can
demonstrate no greater patriotism than
by dcvoting their labor to the produc-
tion Of food. When the labor supply
is so limited, | would advise farmers to
plant sufficient variety to prevent the
burdens of care and of harvest coming
all at one time Every bit that is
raised in Il food garden will allow Just
so much more food to be shipped to our
armies and to our allies. Our country
is mt war, and we must realize now, if
we have not already done so, that the
cause Of the allies is our cause.
HORACE L. GRAHAM,
Governor.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-04-27
Heals Skin EruptiOns

Painful eczema is more active in
spring when the blood is ovcr,heated.
the burning, itching torture is unbear,
able, relieve it at once and heal tho
cruptions with DIR, Hobson = Eczema
Ointment. This antiseptc remedy i,
promptly effective in all skin troubles
Pimplcs, blackheads, acne, letter, rinc
worm. scaly, blotchy skin. all rcsponG
ia DR.. llobson = Eczema Onlmen,
.tiet it today at your druggists, soc
guarantecd.-
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-04-27
WOMAN BURNS TO DEATH.
Clothing of Mrs. John Elder of Col
chester Caught Fire.

Mrs. Katie Mccall Elder, wife OF
John Elder of Colchester died April Il
of burns received when her clothin.
caught fire as she was burning paper il
the yard She was badly burned abou,
the lower part of the body. Danic
Griffith, who was driving past, diseov
cred her plight and put out the flames
but the woman died within half al
hour. She was IS years old and leave.
her husband and one brother, Trranc'
Mccall Of stowe, and niece, Mrs
Lucy Rogers of Brattleboro.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-04-27

An electrical smoke abatement de-.
wee mas been invented whereby the
porticicS OF SCOT are charged by eur.
rent LED through fine wires in a smoke.
stack until they unite and become
heaVy enough to fall into n receptacle
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-04-27

accurate measurements of ball
bearings ON the axlcs of Il street ear
IN New Jersey that have Travelled
about $4,000 miles showed that they
had resisted abrasion almost perfectr
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-01-11
Our Daily Special. It Is Never Too Early To Mend.
Luke McLuke Says

Anyway, the Hi Cost of Living hasn't compelled the women 10 use any less flour on their faces.
 Another lad we love is the fel- low who is always dcnouncing wealthy people as Crooks and who is hoping that you will turn your back for 9 moment and give him a chance to swipc something.
 What has become of the Old-fash- toned man who used to think that the only difference between Appen- dicitis and the Stomach Ache was $500?
 Have you ever noticed that the $2O clerks in an establishment al- ways manage to dress better than the Boss, whose income is $20,OOO?
 Before he gets her he buys her a dollar box of chocolates every night. After he gets her he thinks that he is mighty liberal if he buys her a pack of chewing gum once a week.
 A man may admit that your wife is smarter than his. But he will insist that his baby and his dog are smarter than yours.
 The Old-fashioned man who wore shoes that you could hear for two blocks now has a son who wears rubber heels and pussy-foots his way around town.
 A snakes tail begins where it's neck ends. And the legs of the young men in the clothing adver- tisements seem to begin somewhere in the region of the collar button
 We know a woman who is so smart that she has been given de- yrees by a dozen universities. But she gets off a street car backward just like an ordinary kitchen me ;hanic.
 We all like to quote a lot of .hings that we know are not true. And one of these things is: Clothes 10 not make the man." The truest hing we know is that a Front l Ioes make a man.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-01-11
ADVERTISED LETTERS

Letters remaining uncalled for at the post office at Juneau, Alaska Jan. 8, 1917, Parties wishing same should call for Advertised Letters and give date of list:
 Pete Anderson, Conrad Anderson, J. E. Ames, Sam Aronsen, A. x. Anderson, Mrs. R. w. Bayless, G. B. Bergeson, L. II. Bruce, Mrs. B. Bran. non, Seg. Benson, L. l.. Berner, John L. Bjornberg, c. J. Bledsoe (2), Da- yid Bolt, R. Boyer (2), Steve Cher noff, Pat Gafforty Miss Antonette Cartier, Ylijce Deretich, Anton Deg rernel, Henry Ernvich, finders Erie. son, Ed. Fegulsa, Henry Ford, Phil Flynn, Carl Fellstrom, Prof c. Green (2), Wm. H. Gordham, Geo. B. Han son. Miss Marie Housley, James A. Hope, Tom Hoelt, Fred Harmonson. Gus. Johanusen, Mrs. Mary times, Mrs Guticha lin, K P. Jensoen, Nell
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-01-11

sclousness of the men who formulated those proposals that there is any standard by which the acts and rea tons of nations must be tried other than the strange compound of arrogance and fear sometimes seen in a victor flushed with triumph
 We are prepared to endure with patience the sur prise of foreign commentators the Presidents note good many things have happened in the present war besides the violation of Belgium The United States is just as clear in it's rejection of the spirit and works of Prussian militarism now as 1t IS months agoi and there are other things to be rejected as well.
 The President has served notice on the belliger- ents that there is still a world public opinion to which account must be given. He has served notice upon them that the United States must be consulted when the hour of final reckoning brings into the fore ground of necessity of readjustment of the relations of all peoples and the revision of all rules of inerna tional law We might with all prOpriety be left out of the settlement of quarrel between any two na tions or among any three; cannot be left out oi the settlement which includes all other frstclass pow CTS
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-01-11
A PARTY AT INTEREST

The most significant thing about .Ac Presidents peace note is the declaration made by means of it Go each and every bellgeren that the United States will consider itself party at interest when the day comes to end the war.
 In ordinary conflicts war is an extraordinary state in which two more Nations lind themselves. while tEe of the world goes buying and selling mar. rying and giving marriage in the good old fashioned way is the exception in the world and peace the rule. But in the present conrulsion peace is the ex- ceptou and war the rule.
 Look at the map Of the world. All Europe is at except the Scandinavian and Danish and Spanish Peninsuas. The whole northern half Of Asia with Japan is included in the India Burma, and T0nking. Australia and Canada and South Africa North Africa and New Zealand are included also. South America is the only Continent whose population is wholly at peace
 In this war new weapons have been used and methods developed: the whole technique Of fight. us has been recas- The methods of warfare have been especially affected.
 When the beligerents meet and compose their diff ferences no matter what the outcome may be, the world will be world. for it will have law Of nations aUJ fabric Of international rela tons vii, have been sketched out and begun. While Japan and Russia settled with another at the end Of the RussoJapanesc they returning their places in a world which had remained at peace while they ought When England, Germany. France, Austria, Russia, Turkey Italy. Japan, Bulgaria. Montenegro Ser ba. Portugal and Ruman!a together and reestab- fish peace it will not be a to an order they had temporarily stepped of but the creation of order. with obligations and new ties.
 The old ideas of war as a mere quarrel between be!ligerents. to be made up by them as a sort of personal matter with general reference to the prece dents in previous adjustments o international diff terences. break down utterly here They will not fit the present situation There is today no fellowship of frstclass Powers peace. whose cool judgment and passive yet evident strength may act a sedatve upon the minds of peoples whose passions have been nGamed and judgments obscured. There are peace today one solitary trstclass POwer-the United States a group Of weak European States the powers of South America whose influence has yet been felt in the Old World. and the amorphous Republic of China
 When other belligerents have come to talk peace they have been keenly conscious Of neutral opinion and its potency. Today the contrary situation stares in the face No citizen Of neutral nation who has the astounding program put forth by the Entente Allies as result of the Economic Conference held in Paris particularly the aer-the-war section can have failed be impressed with the uatter con
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-01-11
BUILDING THE NEW NAVY

In closing the contracts for four new battleships and twentynine new submarines, Secretary Daniels has overcome the difficulties raised by the shipOud' CTS which threatened to hold up the great building program of the navy Contracts for the destroyers provided for at the fast session of Congress were awarded several weeks ago; bids for both batecruis- CTS and scoutcruisers will be received within the next month.
 When Congress fixed three years as the time limit for completing all contracts, it imposed hard conditions upon both the Navy Department and the shipbuIders The amount of preliminary work in pre- naripr DIaps and estimates and the extraordinary de- mands made upon the ship yards at this time threat eued 10 prove insurmountable obstacles.
 A good beginning has been made in real naval preparedness If the work of construction IS now pushed with energy within the next four years the United States navy will be transformed The new batteshps and battle cruisers will be the largest and most powerful of their class anywhere atloat Under the Wilson administration the foundations have been laid for a navy worthy of this country. The bill may seem high but it is well worth paying
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-01-11
THE EPISCOPAL PENSION FUND

Juneau will be called upon to subscribe to the $55OOOOO fund that it is proposed raise produce pensions for retired Protestant Episcopal church cer- gymen. The endowment is one of the most merOrious that the American people have been called upon to provide for many years. Oldage pensions is one oi tho recognized principles O; modern business. Many railroad and other great corporations have adopted 1t for longtime employees and others preparing to put t into operation Alaska has recognized the principle in providing homo and pensions for pion- cer prospec,ors. \ few countries have provided it for all aged citizens.
 Clergymcn. by the nature of their occupation are prohibited from providing for the rainy days" that too often come with old age. They are required to think Of the needs others rather than themselves. They give attention o the duty of today without though, for the morrow. They have right to feel security against need when they longer labor. They must be free to put all their energies into the work they have chosen or to which they have been called They should also have the consciousness that care in their old age is their due and not a matter of chariJy-a deferred wage and pity's gift.
 Juneau people should give as freely to the lunI as they feel that they afford.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-01-11
PEACE.
CNew York Herald.)

(New York HeraId.) Carnage and crimson and the scream
 of shell These things have been; these, too,
 shall pass away. The Marne, the Somme, Verdun,
 Malines, Ypres. And each red shamble where our
 brothers fell Times ample hands will wreathe
 with immortelles, Will deck and bless and hallow them
 and lay Topples and balms upon our hearts
 and say, Sorrow vanquish and all hate
 quell." For Time, that makes each thing
 anew, redeems With unawaited peace the toll of
 tears. Yet in that miracle of which men all partake think our tortured lives must be
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-01-11

son James, George Rem, Emil Kloin.
 tes, Nils Knutsen, Jack Kinnel, Bean
 Ede Kono, C. F. Luebbon, P. Lucy. J. p. Lindsay, Alexander A. Mackenzie, R. F. Newton, Chas. Newman, Neeminen, Leopold @, Pal mer Miss Bessie, John Baynes. Miss Lusa Rath, Ben Russell, Karl Rob. erts, Miss Astrid Roln, T. Tvinge- seth, Ed Tomsen, Mable Wilson, Jinx Williams.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-01-11

One of the curious publications that we hear little of these days is the bulletin that is still regularly issued bv the Republican National Committee con- tainlng attacks on the administration. This bulletin is issued for circulation among newspapers and we hear little of it because there is now no editor with out sufficient sense of humor to give it publication The bulletin issued flor publication on or after Jan 4, 1917" says among other like comment: The leaders of the party in power eteminate Yagarous and inspire confidence in :nan." So! Why dii American men and women to the number or SI2o'OOo' nrns vote 10 keep them in power? Are so many Americans cowarlly eticminates?
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-01-11
HUNDRED DIE IN FLOOD.

LONDON, Jan 11.-One hundred persons are believed to have been drowned in Clermon, Queensland, Australia, by a flood which washed away the main street and all the houses in low-lying places, says a Reuters dispatch from Brisbane.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-01-11
Palindromes.

A reader suggests that there are other perfect palindromcs besides Able was ere l saw Elba.' Other sentences that spell the same both ways are " Draw pupils lip up ward" Red root put up to order. ' No, it is opposed; art sees trades oDDOsiLiOn."
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-01-11
c. M. sARIN TAKES BRIDE

NEW YORK, Jan. :..-oaarles M. Sabin, President of the Guaranty Trust Company and Mrs. Pauline Morton Smith, daughter of the late Paul Morton, former Secretary of the Navy, were quietly married in Far Hills, N. J. The couple are speed ing southward to spend their honey. moon in Florida.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-01-11

pay Paul ought to be glad Peter isn't a tightwad.
 You never con tell. Lots of peo- pie help themselves without any idea that the Lord is going to help them.
 Blue blood IS all right in it's way, but it isn't every man who is alive to the fact that his ancestors are dead ones.
 It would take an expert account ant to convince the average woman that she is 10 years older than she was 10 years ago.
 Don't jump to the conclusion that a man is going to break his word just because he goes around drop ping remarks.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-01-11
Gosh

How would you like to live in Portland, Oregon, and have to carry a head and a tail light when you go out for a walk? The new or- dinance now in elIcct defines "vc- hicles" as every moving thing eX- cept street cars"
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-01-11
Kick Inl

We are taking up collection to wager their coin on the ponies, while others just love to back the baugtails. But what we started to say was that Doris Betts lives in Chillicothe, Ohio.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-01-11
Yes. But Whatty "a Mean2

Special New Frame California Bungalow containing 3 rooms and bath. all on one floor. Suitable for chicken run-(Ady. in a Cincinnati Newspaper.)
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-01-11
Hnh

X wise guy claims 10 nave uISCOV- cred why a locomotive is known as "she." He says e locomotive has Bonnet, Hose, Shoes, Petticoat Pipe, Waist, Apron, Jacket, Pins and Tongue.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-01-11
Oh. Joyl

Rev. Joseph Tignc Nott, DD. of Memphis, Tenn, will perform all the weddings for the Club and will kiss the brides.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-01-11
CURIOSITY IS AROUSED
CKetchikan Progrcssive-Miner)

(KctChikan PrOgrcSsiye-Minerl
 To be candid, Delegate Wickersham has never aroused our curiosity very much until now. HIS ac- ton in introducing bill in Congress to make Alaska dry is too much for IL is much like the action Of a meddIer Too fatherly for any use.
 Two years ago Territorial Legislature LOOK this matter up and by act, put the question up to the people At the last election the peopie-anu wlth- out the Delegates advice and much less his consent decided that the Territory should be dry, and their mandate requires the next Legislature 10 make t So In a little better than two months, the Legislature will meet at which meeting, action must be taken Yet the Delegate butts in and wants Congress 10 make it dry. When and a matter Of fact during thlS last campaign the Delegate favored the vets anu got their votes Isn't his present action an indication that he has turned against them and wants to be taken up by the drys? Apparently so.
 Cogitatiug over his action, we think we can see his reason for his change of mind which would seem to be this: Having failed 10 receive the big end or the votes cast at the election, he considers him. self stranded from the majority as 1t were, and as we all know nothing the majority suits him, he wants to be given the credit of making Alaska dry n He is very fond of the majority. So much that he prefers two enemies to friend any old time. In this case the majority of the voters voted dry Per scnally We believe the Delegate prefers the vets tO the drys. but the vets not in the majority m Alaska. hence his change of mind. It is a well known fact that WiCkeTshGm never considers his friends unless they are the majority. He is perfectly clear on that point. But wonder how his wet sup pOrters feel his action. lt is evident that he has not for them as he apparently wants to put them of business. However, cen hardly blame him for being fond of the majority because the majority always wins. Let the minority go to ba2es. That's what he says-we imagine. Nevertheless his action in introducing bill in Congress to make Alaska dry is the action of a medder. Our Legislature will attend to that.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-01-11

WalIa Wala county, Washington, recently Sod $l2OOOO per cent. bonds at premium Ihs IS 'ne highest price investment seeking capital ever pao 'O
 bonds in Washington, and is an indication oi "o" DIpntiruI is money in the States The bonds were pur chased by a Seattle bank They represent long time investment therefore the purchase was not for the purpose Of placing money where it would earn some thing while permanent investment was being sought
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-01-11
QUAKER CUPS.

Philadelphia RecordD Reading maketh a full man; but there are other ways Those who borrow from Peter toI
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-01-11
Odom-Bills.

Henry Odom and Carrie Bills were married in Memphis, Tennp last week.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-01-11
tho dreams

thC dreQmS Of spirits dwelling in the distant spheres, Who, as we die, do one by one awake
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-01-11

Congress should pass full Territorial form or government bill for Alaska and let Aaskans make their own prohibition and other laws.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-01-11
Names Is Names.

Miles Short lives at Hurlbut, Ark
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-01-11

Archaelogists have found that Crete had a civil lization thousands of years ago much like our own or course. the Cretan magazine writers began like this: "In this age of intense activity mental well physical is taxed the Utmost"-( Louisville Courier-Journal)
 Birmingham has put a ban the Annette Keliec man movies. It may be just well that something be put Annette especially at this season of the year-( Augusta, Ga. ChronCle.)
 Anyhow, MT. Hughes can console himself with the thought that the number things thus far found that defeated him the Presidency would have beaten the German army.-( Washington Post)
 Reports from New York indicate that for a man just opening law practice Charles F. Hughes is show ing much promise of doing wel-(ndianapols Star)
 If Secretary Lansings interpretation of the Presi dents peace note was embarrassing, what about Mr. Manns ndOrsement of it?-(Savannah NewsJ
 College students are lucky that they do not have 10 study the modern Greek-(Columbia, S. c. State) |
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-01-11

pay Paul ought to be glad Peter isn't a tiEhtwad.