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The Alaska daily empire., 1917-03-19
SHRINE BALL IS BIG EVENT FOR
 FRIDAY EVENING

A well attended meeting of the various committees having in charge the details of the Shriner's Ball to be held next Friday night was held the other evening and every arrange. ment is now perfected for the big event this week.
 The decorators have a mass of mysterious emblems ready for deliv. cry a corps of men have been sel. ected to do the decorating, the min iature "oasis" where delicious punch will be served, is planned, the or. chestra is rehearsing Oriental mu. sic, the sands of the desert are going through a process of heating that will keep the hall at q delight. full temperature and every little de. tail that promises comfort and pleas. we for the guests of the evening is being looked after by the Sons of Bedouin.
 The Sons of Akdar, Sons of India, and the Sons of the Desert have ta. ken the vow before the white rug of Fl Nader to see that none leave the hall Friday night without hay. ing a good time. The Sons" have resolved to divide themselves into small bands of Arabs and the things that they intend to do to any man refusing to dance with a lonely lady are best not mentioned. It will be Ghemoor and Makeumlikeit.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-03-19
ATTEND THE MEETING TONIGHT

There should be good attendance at the eau GUS tonight to place ticket in the field for the municipal election which will take place April 8. There will be Mayor. three City Councilmen and member of the School Board to be elected
 Those retiring will be Mayor Stewart, COuncilmen Miller. Ericson and McKanna. and School Director Casey.
 All of these have given the city good service, and those who can be induced to run have deserved another term. Mayor Stewart has announced that he will not be a candidate for reelection but there is no reason why those who would accept should not be renOmiuated and reelected.
 At any rate there should be generous attend ance at the City Hall meeting tonight
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-03-19
Our Daily Special. Don't Monkey With Barkless Dogs Or Talkless Men.
Luke McTuke Says

Anyone can knock. But do you suppose if you had as many critics as an actor that you could give as good general satisfaction?
 Some men are so hard to please that if they copped out a wealthy heiress as a bride they would have a kick coming because she wasn't deaf and dumb.
 When a girl in q small town mar ries brakeman she likes to write to her relatives in the city and in- form them that her husband is em- played in the transportation de- partment of a great railroad.
 Fortune doesn't do much flirting. You have to give her a whole lot of encouragement if you want her to smile on you.
 Men are mean cusses. We feel bad when the other fellow gets what we want and we never stop to re- allze how good it makes him feel.
 About the only reason why Friend Husband agrees with Friend Wife oftener than Friend Wife agrees with Friend Husband is because Friend Husband has to.
 Our idea of an egotist is a lad who doesn't want to know any more than he knows because he knows that it isn't worth know ing.
 Tho trouble about borrowing trouble is that after you get it you don't know what to do with t.
 A man never realizes how much he has in his house until he comes home about a. m. and .ries to find his way upstairs with put turning on the light.
 A lot of men who never saw the inside of a jail are serving life sen ences at hard labor.
 What has become of the old Doctor who smoked a Jubeb Cigarette when he entered lome in which there was a con agious disease?
 Despite the general impression hat they have their thinking done or them, married men are greater
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-03-19
GERMAN EFFICIENCY AND GERMAN CONCEPT

Germanys offer to give Japan all the United States west of the Rocky Mountains in return for her aid in fighting the United States besides being very gen. erous. causes one to wonder to whom she has given Canada and Madagascar. Siberia and Scotland, It also causes one Go wonder what German states. men have meant when they have said Germany has no designs on the map Of the world
 But it also conveys another lesson. and one that counts for much that has ranspired since that "six weeks for France. six months for Russia and year for England" purpose announced. I tells us that with the development of that German eGfc- iency developed a conceit and seltCenteredness that has caused the denses sort of ignorance Of con ditions beyond her borders. Her statesmen were firmly convinced that there were enough German born people in this country take of the Unit ed States in an emergency until Bernstorff sent Dernburg to Berlin who only half convinced them that there was a national spirit in America. They expected the GermaH-American voters to defeat Will son for reelection and make America an ally. little dreaming there could be two Presidential candidates iu the United States who were both for America first"
 But not only has Germany been blind to actual conditions in the United States but she has been likewise elsewhere She was convinced that Britain's colonies would not support the mother country She confidently expected the active assistance of the Boers. She was certain that Ireland would rebel. She little dreamed that coOnsts by the hundreds of thousands and COlOnist money by the hundreds of millions would pour into the fight She was dumb. founded when the Boers instead of reyOlting. saled forth and captured German Southwest Africa. She probably does not realize yet that hundreds of thou sands of Irish officers and priyates pounding her front in France. Germans have thought so much of themselves and admired themselves so greatly that they have had time to gain knowledge of others They have taken it for granted that all patriotism. all wisdom all efficiency and all kultur in Germany do r,-| German industry and audience for German per fOrmance.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-03-19
TIME TO CLEAR THE TITLE

It is time this country cleaned it's hands of the Grme that has stuck to them since the won derful opportune resolution in Panama resulted in the transfer of the canal strip to without the consent of Colombia.
 It is probably true that no official of the United State fomented that revolution but it admitted by John Hay himself that the State Department and the President knew that it to be tomened large ly for the purpose of preventing Colombia from forcing it's demands for money upon the New Canal Company. It is also true that the action of the Unit ed States when it sent warshiDs to the Isthmus in advance of the revolution and prevented Colombia from suppressing took part in the quarrel and ia vored one set of greedy consprators against an other
 The United States gained it's ends by playing a part in a sordid piece of business and now has an opportunity to wipe off the taint of fraud that cling
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-03-19

to the gains that were made In meeting the de- mauds of the people of Colombia and cultivatng their friendship we do not need approve what the grasp ing officials of Colombia trying to do when they stood stubborny in the way of the plan for building the canal They deserve sympathy, but 1t Is due to the United States that it's claim on the canal strip should rest upon something better than reyo ution that was inspired by the love of dollars and won by our ships
 Some settlement of the matter by free and fair negotiation ought to have been made long ago.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-03-19
MINING MAN BURIED
 SATURDAY AFTERNOON

Charles A. Petit, the Spruce Creek operator, who died recently at the General Hospital from the effects of cancer, was buried Saturday from the undertaking parlors of the c. w. Young Company. The interment was in Evergreen cemetery. The author. ities were unable to get in touch with relatives in the east.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-03-19
NOTICE

To my pupils at Treadwell, Douglas, Perseverance, Thane and Juneau. Spring housekeeping completed, stu dio now open; please resume your lessons this week. Alice M. Jordi- son, teacher of mandolin, guitar, banjo, ukulele and Hawaiian steel guitar Garside, Bldg. m21
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-03-19

thinkers than single men.
 A male boob imagines that he is stealing q kiss from girl when as a matter of fact she is doing every thing but choking him to make him accept the kiss.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-03-19

Mexico has a just for grievance against Germany. Germany only offered to let Mexico con Ouer and regain Texas. New Mexico and Arizona, while she saved California the flower of the Mexican War gain for the Japanese.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-03-19
ALAsKA,s ANNIVERSARY
ISeattle Post.IntelIigencerl

The urtieth anniversary of the purchase of Alaska which falls upon March 3l. 1917, will be celebrated later in the year by various Alaska cities and by it's chief friend in the States the city of Seattle Among other anniversary demonstrations will be the tour of the Territory to be undertaken under the auspices of the Alaska Bureau of the Chamber of Commerce and Commercial Club a 1OOOOmile journey that will draw large party from Seattle.
 Stewards purchase of Alaska, though strongly op. posed by public sentiment at the time, is probably the most successful real estate speculation on record For $7200OO0, the United States secured a territory large rthan the Atlantic coast states combined, from which it has taken in the intervening years approX. mately $25OOOOOOO in gold alone Today it's people buy $2OOOOOOO worth of goods annually in the States and its copper output last year exceeded in value the gold produced.
 Alaska is to enter the greatest period of development with the opening of the S35OOOOO0 gov ernment railway from Seward to Fairbanks and the influx of many settlers. The white population of the Territory is approximately 45OO0 and there about 3OO0O natives More permanent resi-. dents will be added to the population this year than in any previous year, and next seasons record will exceed this.
 Aaskas fiftieth anniversary finds it progressing rapidly in substantial growth and due for a reason of expansion in mining agriculture and general busi ness such as it has never known before.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-03-19

Fate seems determined that the Democratic and Republican parties shall remain about evenly bal anced in the new Congress-. Some time ago Repre- sentative Conry, Democrat of New York died, giving the Republicans a lead of Then a week or so ago Representative Cyrus A. sullaway. the Giant of the House" Republican Congressman from New Hampshire ded leaving 1t stand'off again
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-03-19
AUSTRALIA SAYS GIVE
 IRELAND HOME RULE

SYDNEY, March 19.-The Austral. ian Senate, by a vote of 2S to 2, adopted the resolution calling for home rule for Ireland without n. due delay"
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-03-19

Senator Sulzer and Delegate Wickersham probably envy Carranza. Here we are more than four months after the election and neither of them is sure of the result vet. while Carranza knew the result of the Mexican election weeks before it was held
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-03-19
Huh

We don't know whether she pre- fers swimming or skating. But we do know that Miss Lova Pond, of Fairland, Ind, is a student at the Oxford (Ohio) College for Women
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-03-19

Do not forget that now is the time to think about registering Only those who shall have regis tered this year before election day will be qualified to vote for municipal officers Every voter should be registered and prepared to for the best inter est of the community next month.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-03-19
Firms Is Firms.

Waite & Meeter have a haber- dashery at Hawarding, Iowa.
 Fears & Fears are attorneys at Newcastle, Ky.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-03-19
MANcHU EMPoRER TO
 STUDY IN UNITED STATES

PEKIN, March 19-The Chinese President has approved the plan to have the Manchu emperor, Hsung Tung, F years old, study in the United States.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-03-19
Oh

Some lawyers may search over old records for mere pleasure. But what we starteG to say was that Hunt & Profit are attorneys at Parkersburg, W. Va.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-03-19
No Wonder.

Glow long have you suffered from insomnia?" asked the Doctor.
 Ever since l discovered that my husbands talks in his sleep" re- piled the Woman.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-03-19
Bless Her Heartl

As q rule it is useless to ask a woman for a match when you need one. But Iva Light lives in Co., lumbus, Ohio.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-03-19

It appears that we are not the only nation that has been doing little watchful waiting in Mexico.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-03-19
Fooey!

We like to have a place for every body in the Club. But whaddy we gonna do with Isum Isum, of Fultz, Ky?
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-03-19
Notice

Tn a few weeks we will send Forest B. Greene, of Oldtown, Ohio, out into the woods to instruct the trees how to act.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-03-19
BITS OF BY - PLAY By Luke MCLuke Copyright by Cincinnati En-
 QuirOr.
Alta RovI

Some men won't pay their bills. But you can c. E. Settles in Frazeyburg, Ohio.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-03-19
Things no Worry About,

An elephant only sleeps five hours out of the twenty-four.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-03-19

Even when a fellow is on diet he isn't absolutely restricted to food for reflection.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-03-19
QUAKER CUPS.

Even the man with pull can't always pull himself together.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-03-19

Once you make up your mind to butt in, it is just as well to be hcadstrong about 1t.
 There are exceptions to all rules, and some people spend most of their time taking exceptions.
 You never can tell. Many fel- low asks a girl to share his lot that is pretty heavily mortgaged.
 It's all right to say what you mean. but when you come straight to the point people will think you blunt.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-03-19
Names Is Names

l. M. Able lives at St. Clairsville Ohio.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-03-19

United Verde Extension is the latest word of min ing romance. The prospect that was deemed worth less couple of earned S693S1O1 in profit last year equivalent to $66O per share The manage ment estimates the reserve at 100000 16 per cent Mining and Scientific Pressl
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-03-19

Senator La Toilette may or may not have the fight sort of convictions, but he certainly has the outrage of them.-(JOhnstown Democrat)
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-03-19

Tf the worst should come. Texas could whip lexcO; the Pacific Coast might hold off Japan while the rest of attend to Germany But why ave nightmares?-(St. Louis Repubc.)
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-03-19

Nobody is surprised at the Republican flibuster in the Senate. The strength to fillibuster is about all the g. O. D. has left.-(Detroit Free Press
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-03-19

Theodore Roosevelt as we recall recent history ever found it necessary to ask Congress for any Ower.-( Boston Transcript)
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-07-26
Pacific Coast Leaa
WATERLOO BLANKED
BY KEISER, 4 TO 0

Waterloo. Ia, July 26.-Kelser's
sIalts proved too much for Waterloo
hatsmen yesterday and Charles city
BANKED the locals. 4 10 o. The score.
Charles City 10000 30G-4 9 o
Waterloo ...000000000-0 4 b
Batteries Eeiser and RfEsbv.
Lynch. Schatzmau and Hruska.
AT NarshaIj1owu- r II e
Mason City ...01010 COOS 3
NarshaIItow0 100000 0a-4 5 2
Batteries Mccullough. Powell and
Richardson. Higgins. Payne and Lee
AT Cedar Rapids r. IT, E.
Cedar Rapids S0oo15p0% 10 3
Fort Dodge -..eI0000o00-1 g
Batteries Drchau, Ryan and Nc
Glade. Bentley, Schmelz and LinEIe
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-07-26
c. A. IS GROWING
WOBBLIER; CLUBS
WILL MEET FRIDAY

Cedar Rapids. Iowa. July 26- presi-
dent Ford of the Central association
has called Q meeting Of league uanag-
ers at Waterloo on Friday, when the
future Of the league will he deter
mined Charles City has not paid sal
aries fer TWO months. it is said. and
may decide TO disband
The outlook in the Central Aszocia-
tiou has NOT been brought since the
Clinton and Lacrosse club dfsbandad
several weeks ago Efforts are being
made TO ztraggle through the schedule
with six clubs bur the condition Of af-
fairs al Charles City makes the future
indefinite The club at Charles City
was transferred there from Dubuque
bly, George Hughes last year pilot OF
the Moline Three-Eye club, for lack 81
patronage.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-07-26
JOPLIN CAPTAIN IN
FUSS WITH UMPIRE

Hutchinson, Kan. July 26.-Because
Of a difference with Umpire George
Miller. which resulted in Captain Tony
Smith Of The Lincoln Western league
club removing his team from the field
in the sixth inning of game vftn
Joplin TUESDAY President r. w. Dick
erson wired Smith at Joplin Eester-
day that the Lincoln club would be
fined whatever the constitution calls
for and that Smith was fined 500 for
his action. He notified Umpire Nil
Ter that Smith must pay the fine be-
fore playing again.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-07-26
MEsTERN LEA.rE.
RESULTS YESTERDAY.

chicago 40, New York. III.
Philadelphia. s; Detroit g.
Boston. 5; st. Louis, a
Washington Cleveland. rain.
National League.
Brooklyn, 4 , Pittsburgh 8.
No other games scheduled
American Association.
No games scheduled.
Southern Association.
Chattanooga. IL Mobile, g.
Little Rock, z Atlanta. 2 (frst
camel.
Atlanta .; Little Rock. 2 Is inuinEsf
Nashville. l. New Orleans. O.
Memphis at Birmingham. rain
Pacific Coast League.
san Francisco. a; Oakland. I.
Los Angeles. g; Portland. I.
salt Lake, z. Vernon. &
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-07-26

All the news al the une-Tha
Argus
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-07-26
On ODE Sidelines

Freddie Hoffman. Islander catcher.
worked behind the log for St. Paul
yesterday in q Red Cross benefit game
with Minneapolis at Aberdeen, S. D.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-07
CAME FROM SKIES.
Midnight Serenade a Joy to
Many TOpekans.
Entire Church Choir, Piano and
All, in Auto Trip.

Midnight. A city was wrapped in
silence. From out of nowhere, it
seemed, the scent Of summer flowers
waited round. A breeze, so gentle
that it scarcely rustled the tree leaves,
touched sleeping cheeks.
suddenly, without prologue as tho
IT might be born of the supernatural
there swelled up from the street at
Huntoon and College avenue the soft
melodlous tones of an organ, supple
mented by the tinkling of piano KEYS.
me tones lowered softly and there
come also. the sweet, clear tones of a
woman's voice singing. Higher and
nlgher, they arose in a sacred hymn.
One by one, sleepers in the neigh
oorhood awakened. Unaware of the
music's source they listen as one The
notes held them like as would a
trance. One by one, the voices grew
IN number. One man, this morning
declared the sky seemed to open and
countless voices came down. The
tenor had been Joined by a chorus
wherein deep bass swelled and low
mingled.
The singing stopped as suddenly
as it began. Piano keys tinkled in a
lew notes and the organ tones fioated
away in the night
"A resident of the neighborhood
found himself sitting up in bed and
came to-" with a jerk. Scarcely had
he been conscious of being awake.
He heard the man next door cough
and saw him standing by the window
listening. His wife was sitting up
in bed. Down the street lights began
to appear in windows. Coming out
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-07
BREAK is INEVITABLE
Germany Sees Little Chance of Avert
ing HostiIities With Argentina.

Amsterdam, July diplomatic
circles in Berlin believe a break be-
tween Argentina and Germany is i'm
minent, if it has not already been
formally noted according to dis
patches from the German capital to-
day.
The Argentina minister, it was
stated, conferred at length with For
eign Minister Zimmerman and then
very briefly with Chancellor Won Beth
mann Hollweg. Later he visited the
Spanish embassy and the Chilean
legion.
Press dispatches from Buenos Aires
recently asserted that Argentina had
dispatched a virtual ultimatum to
Berlin, demanding reparation for
sinking of the Protegido and full as
surance of protection to Argentina
shipping. Germany promised full in
Identification for the Protegido weeks
ago but has not gone further than
promises so far.
In the meantime the Argentina liner
Toro has been sunk by a German sub
marine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-07
TO Get LESS Gas
House Says Topeka VIII SILVER
Again Next Winter.
Little Chance Supply VIII Be
Increased Here.

Topeka will have less gas this win
ter than last, according to ]. E.
House, mayor. who is back in his
office at the city hall today, following
a trip to Kansas City, where he was
present at a meeting attended by at
torneys, state commissions, represen-
tatives of municipalities and others in
terested in the Kansas Natural situa-
ed that it is his opinion that there
will be no gas at all in a few years.
The meeting I attended, said
House, was the one caused by the
filing of Judge Booths final decree in
the case 1t was not a conference,
and 1 attended only to gather infor-
nation.
What He Learned
This much 1 learned:
THE Kansas Natural has. since last
of supply is about exhausted. Every
Oklahoma fields is being consumed
there at a fair price. The producers
are not going to pipe it into Kansas
and sell it at a less profit than they
can get for it in the fields.
Topeka last year had two chances
to obtain an adequate gas supply for
this winter. That was when the 81
cent rate was offered. Had the state
accepted it. Judge Flannelly would
have allowed the receiver to spend at
least 100000 for extensions and a
supply would have been insured. In
stead the state fought this rate. Now
it will get no gas.
There is, however, a faint ray of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-07
Do YOU KNOW THAT

Keeping healthy is part of doing your bit
Universal public health the duty of the nation?
material is diverted in the manufacture
of alcoholic beverages?
The only good fly is the dead one?
health the foundation of usefulness either
in peace in war?
He who busy for his health have take
time disease?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-07
of the night, the music had truly been

of the night, the music had truly been
almost uncanny.
An investigation was started.
chorus of laughter finished breaking
the spell cast upon those awakened
A motor-two motors-began to chug
and those who Investigated saw two
motor trucks, one loaded with fifty
persons and an organ and the other
carrying a piano disappear down the
street with 'kerchiefs waving in the
hands of those thereon.
Today fifty members of the North
Topeka Baptist church choir are
chuckling over the success of last
nights serenade. The affair was plan
ned quietly and shortly after dark two
trucks carrying a piano, an organ and
the choir. led by w. NJ. Van Ness,
started out to serenade dozen or
more prominent Topekans.
Stops were made in front of the
residences of Governor Capper, Mayor
House, Leslie Guild, DR.. c. NJ. Sheldon
and others