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The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-17

congressnans only daughter was getting married and the occasion was ca-
tainly worth few gallons of champagne, and vintage wine at that But a
still small voice underneath the congressmans wedding weskit murmured
anxiously that ALT this hymeneal convivianty wouldn't read 10 well back home
that champagne, even 1t long distance, was terrible stuff for ones consutu-
ency to digest -..
The host looked around apprehensveV at tn society reporters present
Then he took them into his confidence.
"My district" he said ineradatngly, SIS pretty well disposed toward
nrobudion. II wouldn't do m e any good in Hy next campaign to be identified
IN any va with booze. SO when you folks send out your stuff, please flavor
A. with apoIinars and ginger ale and cut out all advertisement of the hzz"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-17

stripe trousers. He a tall, and carried himself with such a military ar
rfage that n would have taken him for an army officer, if it were not known
that all army officers these days must wear their uniforms al all times.
Even at that several persons took him for a army officer. HI Ia a sur
prisinely good chest OIL him, and held himself s % well. AS he crossed Penn
ylyan ayenue into Madison place automobile horns footed at him. People
scurried out of the usual rush of vehicles at this point, and with them
scurded u hero.
gr boy from n of the government departments brushed by him with the
of the whole "a on his shoulders. Two women josled him a they
hurried.
If he had been Secretary McAdoo, a hundred and one persons would have
turned TO look a him. If he had been Secretary Lansing or Secretary Daniels,
n hundred and one persons would have turned and looked. But he was none
of these.
He was only President Wilson.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-17

already approved FerncIitfe, at Rhine-
cliff, N. Y, home of Vincent Astor,
and has under consideration offers OF
other estates near this city.
When fully equipped for their new
purposes the country estates will re-
ceive wounded American soldiers from
a great receiving hospital which the
government is to build somewhere on
Staten island. At the convalescent
hospitals the wounded men will have
the entire use of the vast estates. Sta
hlnc nrnnnnnirn,n nnA n+hnn nn,thnnild-
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-17

thousand people missed seeing a GER
tain man the other day, although they
looked directly at him. He is a mar
of international renown, particularly
we'll known in the United States.
But he didn't seem so well known
to folks on Pennsylvania avenue that
morning, as he crossed the wide street
in front of the White House. Yet he
was a man to command attention any,
where.
He was Immediately dressed In a
4 nrI- fndnrn Nnht nrau coat and min
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-17
Had Tooth When Born.

Oneida. N. VA daughter has been
born to Mr.. and Mrs. Louis r.. North
of No. 11S Madison street. The baby
he'd one tooth at the hour Of Its birth,
this being the first instance, 1t is be-
lieved, where a child has been born
In this city with a portion of its teeth
equipment. DIR. N. o. Brooks removed
the tooth.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-17

ion interested Capt +. L. Goord, who sent a report of 1t to Maj G. B. Hall,
chief of the Canadian army medical corps at Victoria, b. @, and the major
responded that he would not object to Stanix being enlisted In the forestry
branch Of the service. Hence the jubnahon of Stranix.
He is a native of Lurgen, Ireland. served seven years in the British navy,
yard of Hanand & Wolff, at Belfast and came/to California five years ago.
Since then he has been employed along shore.
"My wife and l talked over the idea of my enlistment" he told Captain
Goord, "and she ageed with MI that 1t is every white mans duty to do hs
bit In this war"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-17

expect life o n earth to be one round of pleasure. Mrs Hodges was ofere
a position as manager of a West Side hotel. She accepted the position an
the first person she engaged was her husband, making him jantor of the il
situHon.
About the first thing that he did after taking over the duties of his ne
job was to sling up his hammock IN one of the front porches of the hotel an
climb into it, Mrs. Hodges found him and the hammock, and tmmedatel
ordered the husband to the rear.
81 didn't care so much about the hammock being slung up in the rear
the place, but 1 didn't want it in the front" testified Mrs. Hodges in her sui
for divorce.
What happened after you ordered the hammock removed?' asked Judg
Tucker.
81 removed it" she said. "But he was 10 angry that he struck me-"
Mrs Hodges testified that her husband never contributed anything to he
personal support
Didn't he give you any money for clothes at an|" asked the court.
"No, how could he when he was in the hammock all the tmeT she aske
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-17

courtesy to a sister in your W age
zone-every woman knows why-but
nothing is ever an all-round failure in
this world. Praise be!
%Thanky, ma'am. I'm half ready
to drop. 1 never look for a man to
give me a seat any more-I don't know
how it is, but gentlemen seems to be
petering out-I've benner runnin' roun'
OF my two feet ever since sun up.
Have you got corns?"
The woman, anchored to a strap,
admitted her lack to the other woman,
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-17

clasping her body to his breast. Moth
ing is known of the tragedy itself, ex-
cept the mute proof that vas left to
show that Dole had attacked his wife,
that she had defended herself unsuc-
cessfully, and that after he had ac-
complished her death he slew him
self.
No person was present. Charles
Dole, a son, seventeen, and Gladys, a
daughter, fourteen, were at Sunday
school. Neighbors heard no sounds of
struggle. Canary birds, Gagged outside
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-17

ton and the real one among the pomps
and vanities and the flesh pots Of willy
Washington.
There was a marriage miracle not
long ago In Washington among h
.smartest Of congressional circles, when
the wedding wine was turned into wa
ter rather than the water into wine.
A congressman can do most anything
acrobatically and automatically, just
so it listens ,.ood back in his district.
Constituents are such sensitive plants.
nhav oil have to he humOred. The
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-17

Twin bascule bridges, each section
of which is operated by electric motors,
have been erected over the arm of a
European harbor.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-17

ing the war;. This information, however, is inaccessible % newspaper men.
The committee on public information is the one instrument which can dig it
out.
In much the same manner as a wel[organized newspaper works, sc the
committee on public information operates. There Is a n organization FOR the
dissemination of daily news The editor, formerly a New York newspaper
man, directs a staff of reporters.
A staff of feature writer's is also maintained by the committee. These
writers "dg up unusual stories about the government and the war. In due
time these stories-such as the recent German plot exposure-are released
for publication simultaneously throughout the entire United States.
Photographs are recognized as important for new purposes. To this
end the committee has set up a photograph department. Official photographers
take pictures of "a instruments and features, These pictures are then sup
piled to the newspapers at cost.
To turn the wheels of this information organization, % trained news
paper mel have been secured. The entire staff of the organization numbers
nor than 100.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-17
big Chief" Unrecognized by Washington Crowds

WASHINGTON is a busy city these days. A person has to keep his eyes
w wide open if he wants to see everything that is going n and then he is
apt ito walk right by something or somebody he very much wants to see One
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-17
Reward for Doing Helpful Thing on Street Car

HER face was about a sociobie looking as a Ratchet, but her bundle was
III heavy, sc another woman in the car who knows WEAKNESS when she sees
got up and ofered her seat: It is yenturesome: Of course. TO tender such a
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-17
When Society Reporters Turned Wine Into Water

vY HATEvER a congressman does in Washington has got to look right to
wv TN folks back home, or they'll want to know the reason why. Iheres
lEaluu more thnn ne nMIhcian who leads q dual life, one for home consumP.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-17

into a hammock at any time or place
providing the hammock was strong
enough to hold him-he weighed
''something" over 200E
In the early days of the married
life of Albert and Mary Hodges the
former swung in his hammock as
long and as often as he desired. There
was little said about the matter, for
Mrs. Hodges was working for her
husband. Besides the homework, she
says she did a great many things for
Lin, AlhLrA -,-nn +nld thn+ nnnn nn11at
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-17

applied for enlistment at the British
recruiting headquarters a physician
subjected him to physical examination
and said he was usually defective and
unfit to serve in the army. Disap-
pointed, but not discouraged, he
haunted the headquarters until at last
another doctor Cooked him over" and
opined he might be eligible for m
branch of the service in which perfec-
ton of vision is not an absolute neces-
sity.
This difference Of scientific opln-
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-17
Jealous Rage Responsible for Double Murder

I os ANGELEs-Jealousy, whipped to white heat by an overheard tehe-
L. phone conversation, led Ito the killing of Mrs. J D. Dole by her husband,
an insurance official. who: after shaving bis wife. cut bis own throat and died
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-17
Offer Fine Estates for ConvaIesCent Hospitals

NEW YoRK-Rich Americans are following the example of wealthy men of
~ England and France by offering their estates to the government a IS con-
valeseent hoslltaIs for wounded soldiers: The army medical denartment has
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-17
Determined to do His Bit" in Libertys Cause

GAN FRANCIsCo-John stranix, longshoreman, residing with his wife and
- baby here at 1124 Cough street. was made jublant by notification that his
persistent endsayor to become a soldier had been successful When Snanix
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-17
HeIpmeet Complains of Hammock Hugging Husband

NETRoIT-Abert Hodges hobby was a hammock. He loved to swing to
~ and fro for hours at a time, and loudly protested if anything occurred to
interrupt his pleasure, according to his wife, Mary. She says he would climb
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-17

war knowledge for the people. At the
outset George Creel, chairman, set out
to be the official news bureau of the
government. He attempted to do the
work of the 400 newspaper men sent
here by all of the large newspapers
and press associations. This policy
was soon dropped and today the COM
mittee on public information is work
ing for the news that the newspaper
men don't get.
Dozens of government bureaus
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-17
Mess Cook Is Boss.

American soldiers are always hungry
and Il stand-in with the mess cook Is
equivalent to one with the landlady's
daughter if you want the second piece
of pie" He is the company autocrat.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-17
Nld1QGNAL ChlRl{lld98
NlFlEzAll0S @E=Z
Bureaus Give Out Information Concerning War

UAsHINGToN-The committee on public information was created as a
w war machine. 1t has been the object of more derison and public rdcule
han any other war machine, nevertheless it goes merily along grinding out
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-10-02
First Pub. Aug. 8, 1917. Last Pub. Oct. s, 19l7

Serial O18O1, SUvey 73O. In the United States Land Office, Ju. neau, Alaska, May 24, 1917.
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-10-02
Serial O35G2, Survey ll47 In the United States Land Office, Ju- neau, Alaska, May z, 1917. NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
 PATIENT

NOTICE is hereby given that PA CIFIC AMERICAN FISHERIES, a corporation, as assignee of John Bctcaer and Moses J.. Lowell being entitled Co the benefits of Section 25O0 Q. .1g Revised Statutes of the United S...as and the amendments thereto, h.. l,yied Go make entry Of the ... embraced in United States Non n....raI survey No. ll47 situate just
 :1a Entrance Point, Port MOlIeT 5crIug aea, Alaska, more particularly described as follows, tO-Wlt:
 Beg cor. No. 1 beach Port MOller lt ordinary high tide, cor. not seJ rit. cor. bears North 5.6Z chs dist.i hence North l5.83 chs. to cor. No. 7 from whence Point Divide bears B.. l9 deg. 2I min. W. USLMS ll4I bears Y 5S deg. 55 min. F. 4.15 chs. dist; renee East 6.27 chs. to cor. No. g.; hence meandering beach at ordinary lgh tide Port Moller, CD $. l6 deg. 72 min. F.. 1.52 chs; (2) ;. Al deg. JS min. r.. 3.O9 chs. l3) $. 36 deg. 55 min. r.. 4. 34 chs. l4) $. 02 deg. n min. w. 6.35 chs. (5) s. 4l deg. 5I min. w. L54 chs. (6) $. 70 deg. oo min. w. 1.95 chs. CD s. 49 deg. CA min. w. 3.G3 chs. (8) N. 62 deg. 3o min. w. G.91 chs. to cor. No. l, place of beginning. Area l5.lS acres. Var iation all corners 19 deg. 40 min. l.. Lat. 55 deg. 59 min. 19 sec. N. Long. l6O deg. 34 min. w.
 As additional to original homestead entries of John Betcher and Moses l.. Lowell, No. 3738 and No. 8542, en- tered at Redwood Falls, Minnp and Junction City, Kan, respective ly
 Any ana all persons claiming ad- verselv any portion of the above de- scribed tract of land are required to file with the Register and Receiver of the United States Land Office at Ju- neau, Alaska, their adverse claim thereto, under oath, during the period of publication, or within thirty days thereafter, or they will be barred by the provisions of the Statute.
 PACIFIC AMERICAN FISHERIES,
 By NEWARK l.. BURTON,
 Its Attorney in Fact. First pubnnation MaV 10, 1917.
 Last publication October l3, 1917.
 IT is HEREBY ORDERED that the foregoing notice be published for the statutory period in JLe Seward Gate way. a newspaper of general cwcu,a- lion printed at Seward, Alaska, the nearest newspaper to said above de scribed claim or survey.
 C. B. WALKER, Register
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-10-02

Gravina lode mining claim, United States Survey No. TSP, and by the White Wing lode mining claim, United States Survey No. TSP; upon the west crly side by the Julia lode mining claim, United States Survey No. 5o4, and by the Creek lode mining claim, United States Survey No. 5S4; upon the southwesterly end by the Eagle lode mining claim, United States Sur yey No. 5S4, and upon the southeast erly side by the Chinega lode mining claim, United States Survey No. 0ol4. A more particular description ot smc tract is as follows:
 Beginning at Corner No. l, from which Corner No. 1 United States L0- cation Monument No. 1 bears south 6t degrees 20 minutes west, 25.55 chains distant, and from which Corner No. 1 Corner No. of United States Non Mineral Survey No. TIP, concurrentl} entered by the Kennecott Copper Cor poratiOn, as assignee of the aforesaid Henry J. Engell bears north 34 de grees 29 minutes west, 4.22 chains dls tant; thence south 27 degrees 5l mn utes west, 22.S2 chains following tho sOutheasterly side line of Julia lode mining claim, United States Survey No. 584, and the northerly part of the southeasterly side line of Creek lode mining claim, United States Survey No. 5S4, to Corner Mo- 2; thence south G2 degrees O3 minutes east, following the northerly end line or boundary oi Eagle lode mining claim, United States Survey No. 5S4, 9.O9 chains to Corner Mo- 8, the said point being identical with the most nOrthwesteriy corner of Big Bonanza lode mining claim, United States Survey No. 5o4, and the most s0uthwcsterly corner ot Chnega lode mining claim, United States Survey No. 5S4; thence north 27 degrees 57 minutes east, 22.6l 12 chains to Corner No. 4, the said Cor uer No. 4 being identical with the most uOrthwesterly corner of said Chnega lode mining claim, United States Sur vey No. 5S4; thence north 62 degrees O3 minutes west, following the most southerly end lines of White Wing lode mining claim, United States Sur vey No. TSP, and Gravina lode min ing claim, United States Survey No. TSP, a distance of 9.09 chains to the place of beginning Magnetic varI- atiOu, 26 degrees 80 minutes east.
 The foregoing description by metcs and bounds is according to the official plat and field notes on file in the office of the Register of the Land Office at Juneau, Alaska, a copy of which said official plat is posted upon the land with this notice of application for pat ent
 Date of posting this notice on the land, June l4, 1917.
 c. B. WALKER, Repister
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-10-02
NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT OF FINAL ACCOUNT
 AND DISTRIBUTION

IN THE PROBATE COURT FOR
 the Territory of Alaska, Third Djyi-
 sion, Kenai Precinct.
 In the Matter of the Estate of Eliza
 beth D. Gray Deceased. Notice of
 Settlement of Fua, Account and
 Distribution.
 Notice is hereby given, That Frank l.. Ballane, administrator of che es- tate of Elizabeth D. Gray, deceased. has rendered and presented for ma. settlement. and filed in sand court, hlS final account of his administration or said estate, together with his report and a petition for ina. distribution, and that Saturday, the sth day of De- cember, 1917, at 10 o'clock lu the fore noon of said day, at the court room O. said court in said Precinct, has been fxed and appointed as the time and place for the settlement of Said ac- count and the hearing Of said report and petition, at which time and place aur person interested in said estate may appear and file his exceptions ln writing, Co said account, and contest the same.
 Notice is further given. That said account is for final settlement, and the said estate is ready for distribution. and on confirmation of said dna, ac- count final distribution of said estate will be immediately had.
 Dated this lst day of October l'l|. lSeaU WM. x. WHITTLESEN, Probate Judge, henGi Precinct, Terri
 tory Of Alaska.
 Pub. Oct 9. 9, I6, 22 and 20
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-10-02
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
 PATENT


 NOTICE is hereby given that John II. Olson and Ned Olson, partners un- der the name of Olson Brothers, as assignee of Ezra Bartholomew, being entitled to the benfts of Section 23OJ of the Revised Statutes of the United States and the amendments thereto, has applied to make entry of the lands embraced in United States NOn-min- eral Survey No. 73O, situate on right bank of King Salmon Creek about 212 miles above its confluence with Kvichak Bay Alaska, more particu- iarly described as follows, to-wit:
 Beginning M. C.. cor. No. 1 on beach King Salmon Creek at average high tide, cor. not set, wit. cor. rock in ground marked w. C. Cor No. l, s. 730, bears West 205 chs. dist; saltery building bears N. l4 deg. 10 min. E. LIT chs; $. w. Cor. wharf bears N. 47 deg. O8 min. E. 1.46 chs; thence West 4.24 chs. to cor. No. 2 rock set in ground marked s. 730 cor. No. 2; thence North 7.75 chs. to cor. No. $ an iron pipe set in ground marked $. 73O Cor No. from whence U. $. l.. M. 73O bears s. 70 deg. 33 min. E. 399 chs; Johnson's Hill bears s. 3 deg. 26 min. w.; thence East 9.O8 chs. to cor. No. an iron pipe set in ground marked s. 73O cor. No. 1; thence South 2.15 chs. to M. C. Cor. No. 5, cor not set, wit. cor. a rock in ground marked s. 730 Cor. D w. C. bears North LOO chs; thence meandering beach King Salmon Creek at ordinary high tide CD S. 20 deg. 26 min. w. 1.6l chs; (2) s. 48 deg. 59 min. w. 3.83 chs; (3) s. 37 deg. 42 min. w. 2.O6 chs. to M. c. Cor. No. 1, place of beginning. Area 5.76 acres. Variation at all corners 29 deg. 95 min. East Long. 157 deg. 40 min. W. Lat. 56 deg. 52 min. IS sec. North.
 As additional to original homestead entry of Ezra Bartholomew, No. .......... entered at Iowa. Scrip filed in Juneau Ser O1802 to which reference is here by made.
 Any and all persons claiming ad- versely any portion of the above de- scribed tract of land are required to file with the Register and Receiver of the United States Land Office at Ju- neau, Alaska, their adverse claim thereto, under oath, during the period of publication or within thirty days thereafter, or they will be barred by the provisions of the Statute.
 c, B, WALKER,
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-10-02
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.

To J. c. Ducken, his heirs and admin
 istrators, and to all whom 1t may
 concern:
 Take notice that l have done Three Dollars, (S3OO.OO), worth Of labor each year in order to hold the following described quartz claims, known as the Bonanza, Eureka and Phoenix Claims, situated on POpot Island, in the Unga Peninsula Mining District, Territory of Alaska, the nO- tices of location whereof are recorded in the office of the Recorder of the Unga Peninsula Mining District at Unga, Alaska, in Book !, at Page 264, of Locations for the Bonanza Claim, m Book 2, Page 90, for the Eureka Claim, and Book No. 8, Page 39, for the Phoenix Claim, of the records ot said District for the years ending De- cember 31st, 1913, and December 3l, 1914, and December 31, 1915, and De- cember 31, 1916, and unless within ninety days after this notice by pub lication you fail or refuse to contrib ute your portion of such expenditure, viz: Six Hundred Dollars, (S60O.OO), being One Hundred and Fifty Dollars, (S150.00), for each of said years, your interest in said Bonanza, Eureka and Phoenix mining claims will be for feited to and become the property of the subscriber under Section 2324 of the Revised Statutes of the United States.
 LOUIS HERMAN.
 First Pub. Aug. S1.