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The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-08-03
COMMISSIONERS OFFICE AGAIN
 IN BANK OF SEWARD BLDG

U. S. Commissioner Whittlesey will move the commissioners office to quar- ters in the basement of the Bank of Seward, Saturday.
 This location was occupied by the commissioners office up to three years ago when former Commissioner Con rov moved to the old Y. M. C. A. building on the railroad right-of-way.
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BEAN ENCOUNTERS HOT
 WEATHER AND SOLDIERS

Word has been received from F. h. Bean, who went Outside that he has not succeeded so far in securing a place in the aviation corps but expects to do so soon. Bean, in letter from New York, says it has been feartuIIy hot there.
 He says that the attention of the whole country has turned to war and that soldiers are on guard everywhere.
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BOMBARDMENT BUT NOT COUNTERS
lBy Assoeiated Press pispatehl

BRITISH FRONT IN FRANCE Aug. g. (By Associated Press correspondent with the Allied Army). Artillery dues of considerable intensity continued last night along battlefront in Flanders but the German guns are less ac tive this morning and the situation is unchanged.
 At daybreak the Germans concentrated heavy fire on the newly acquired British positions in the south of Ypres along the Menid road but did not follow it up with an infantry attack
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ADD $1.5O BARREL TAX ON BEER
(By Associated Press Dispatch)

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3-The war tax bill has been increased so as to provide for collection of instead of $1 7OO00OOOO and virtually completed to- day by the Senate finance committee and will be reported out tomorrow Monday.
 In preparing the final draft the committee increased the tax beer of 25 cents per barrel to 5O per bar re which is in addition to the tax imposed under the pres ent law.
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The United States cable station on Douglas Island has been closed by the war department. Lack of men to han dle the work of the office is the reason given for closing. The office has been operated for about eight years, and will probably be re-Opened as soon as men can be obtained.
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TIE UP DOGS IS
 PLEA OF PETITIONERS

Petition are being circulated to be presented to the council asking that the dog ordinance be enforced and all dogs tied up and kept off the down. town strets. The petitions are being genrally signed.
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TO CELEBRATE ARRIVAL
 OF FIRST M. E. PASTOR

Sunday the Methodists will celebrate .the twelfth anniversary of the arrival cof the first protestant pastor in Sew xrd, Rev. L. H. Pederson having come into Resurrection Bay on the night of July S1 and landed here on August 1st. For the first fall and winter Rev. Pederson and family lived in tents.
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LONG RAIN MAKES
 IT HARD FOR ALLIES
 ON FLANDERS FRONT
CBy Associated Pres. Dispateh)

HEADQUARTERS ON THE BRITISH FRONT, Aug. B. a-Protracted rain storms of great vo- fence continue to render infantry operations difficult and observation work by the air service precaous on the Bel gium front.
 The Allies are continuing to consolidate and rear range the newly taken positions and in spite of the contin- ua downpour are now strongly ntrenched along the new line
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STOP ADVANCE AT RUSSIAN BORDER
lRx Associated Press Dispatehl

PETROGRAD, Aug. 3. - Between the Dneister and Pruth rivers the Russian retirement continues resistance being offered by the guard So vigorous was this re- sisance at the confluence of the Zbrocz and Dneiser v CTS he boundary line between Galcia and Russa) that the advancing German force which crossed this river into Russian territory were forced to retire again.
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DRIVEN BACK 125 MILES
(By Associated Press Dispatch)

PETROGRAD, Aug 8, (OfficiaD. - Russian forces have evacuated Kimopung in southern Bukwona and are now engaging the Teutons along the river Bystrtza This position indicates retreat by the Seventh Russian army of 125 miles since the recapture of Dona by the Aus trianS.
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MORALE OF TROOPS IMPROVING
(By Associated Press Dispateh)

LONDON, Aug 3-The morale of the Russian army is reported improved the result of measures taken against assertions and pancs and dsaected Russian reg ments have returned to form.
 The weight of the present German attack appears to be directed toward Kamemetz and Podosky en route to- ward Odessa
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OFFICERS SCHOOL QUOTA WILL
 BE INCREASED TO 2O,8OO MEN

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.-An increase of 30 per cent, has been ordered in the number of to be admitted to the second officers reserve training camps opening Aug ust 27th.
 The previous number ordered by the war department was 16000 and this has been increased to 20800.
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VAST GERMAN DRIVE ID EASTWARD HEADED
 FOR PORT OF ODESSA
tBy Associated Press Dispateh)

VIENNA, Aug. g. - Victorious Austro-H Hungarian forces reentered Czeowitz the capital of Bukowna, today which has been in the hands of Russia since the of fensve by Gen. Brusilof last fall
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AIR RAID ON AUSTRIAN NAVAL BASE
(By Associated Press Dispateh)

ROME, Aug 3-Squadrons of Italian airplanes efec- lively bombarded the arsenal and military works of Pola chief Austrian naval station the Adratic today Ob report considerable damage done to rsenas and docks.
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8 J, s. GUNNERS AND
 16 SEAMEN DIvERED
(By Associated Press Dispateh)

LONDON, Aug. Slight naval gunners of the Unit ed States and sixteen members of the crew of the Amer can tank steamer Montana lost their lives when the latter boat was sunk by German submarine last Tuesday
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ATHENS AND PIRAEUS UNDER SIEGE
(By Associated Press Dispateh)

ATHENS, Aug 3.-Thewhol department of Attica Greece has been declared in state of siege the result of continued disorders including Athens and Praeus the principal port for Athens
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HOUSE ADOPTS FOOD CONTROL BILL
(By Associated Press Dispatch,

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3-The House has adopted the conference report the food control b which allows for unit control of the food situation demanded by the Pres ident instead of under board of three members.
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ATTACKS ALONG AISNE REFUSED
(By Associated Press Dispatch)

 PARIS, Aug. 3, (OficiaD After an intense lombard men German forces delivered several violent attacks French positions near Czey in the Aisne region last night but all were repulsed
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BODY OF |. W. W. LEADER SENT SOUTH
(By Associated Press Dispateh)

WASHINGTON, Aug 3.-President Wilson today re- terated his convdence in the loyalty of the great majority of American citizens of German blood.
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PRESIDENT CONFIDENT OF LOYALTY OF AMERICANS OF GERMAN BLOOD

BUTTE, Mont. Aug 3.-The body of Frank Little, Industrial Worker of the World leader and organizer who was ynched here early Wednesday morning, shipped to Vale Oklahoma, for interment
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Lemons Written and
Beauty the Skin!
Make Cheap Lotion

The Juice of two fresh lemons strain
ed into a bottle containing three ounces
of orchard white makes whole quar-
ter pint of the most remarkable lemon
skin beautifier at about the cost one
must pay for a small jar Of the Ordi-
nary cold creams. Care should be TAX
en- to strain the lemon juice through q
fine cloth so no lemon pulp gets "a.
then this lotion will keep fresh for
months. Every woman knows that lem
on Juice is used to. bleach and remove
such blemishes as freckles, sallowness
and tan and Is the ideal skin Softener.
smoothener and beautitier.
Just try 1t! Make up quarter pint
of this sweetly fragrant lemon lotion
and massage 1t daily into the face.
neck, arms and hands. 1t should natur-
ally help to whiten, soften, freshen and
bring out the hidden roses and beauty
of any skin. 1t Is wonderful for rough,
red hands.
Your druggist will sell three ounces
Of orchard white at little cost, and any
grocer will supply the lemons. Adv.
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"Thcy looked like bunch Of hired
asSasSins." said Smith. with grin.
It's some more of the interference,
isn't it,"
The coIoneIs square jaw settled into
the fighting angle.
"HoW much do you know about this
business miX-up Of ours, smith, he
asked.
"All that Williams could tell me in
Il little hcart-to-heart talk We had the
other day"
You agreed with him that there
was a tolerably big Niger in the wood
pile, didn't you?"
Il had already gathered that muca
from the camp gossip"
"Well. it's 50. We're just about as
helpless as u bunch of cattle in q sink
hole" was the ranchman presidents
confirmation of the camp guesSeS.
What in the name of the great horn
spoon can we do-more than we have
dOne?
There are a number of things that
might be DONE" said Smith, falling
back retiectively upon the presumably
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CHAPTER VII.
Timanyoni Ditch,

Smith had his vote of thanks from
Colonel Dexter Baldwin in Williams
sheet-iron office at the dam, the
colonel having driven out to the camp
for the express purpose; and the chief
Of construction himself was not pres
ent.
you've loaded US up with a toler-
ably heavy obligation, Smith-Corry's
mother and me-" was the way the
colonel summed up. eff you hadn't
been on deck and strictly on the job
at that railroad crossing yesterday
morning"
'Don't mention It, colonel" Smith
broke in. II did nothing more than
any man would have done for any
woman. You know it, and know it.
Let's leave it that way and forget it. y
The tall Missourian's laugh was en-
tirely approbative.
81 like that" he said. "It's good,
man-fashioned way of looking at it.
You know how I feel about it-how
any father would feel; and that's
enough"
"Plenty," was the brief rejoinder.
"But there's another chapter to II
that neither Of US can cross out; you'll
have to come out to the ranch and lei
Corry's mother have hack at you,
Baldwin went on. 81 couldn't figure
you out Of that II should try. AND
now about those claim jumpers: sup
pose you didn't know any of them BY
name?"
"No."
"Corry says you gave them the time
| Of their lives. By George, 1 wish Tt
been there to see!" and the colone
slapped his leg and laughed. "Dit
they look like the real thing-sure
enough prospectorsT
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dead and buried bank-cashier part OF
him. "And If you can manage to stay
in the game and play 1t out, there IS
big money in it for all Of you; enough
to make it we'll worth while for you to
put up the fight of your lives"
"Big money?-you mean in saving
our investment"
"Oh, no; not at all; in cinching the
other fellows" Smith put in genially.
Colonel Dexter Baldwin lifted his
soft hat and ran his fingers through
his grizzled hair.
"Say, Smith; you mustn't forget
that I'm from Missouri" he said half
Quizzically.
"But l shouldn't think you'd need
to be shown in this particular In
stance" was the smiling rejOlnder.
1.-THE chance to sell you people water
from your own dam isn't the only
thing or the main thing in this case.
They are obliged to have this dam site,
or, at least, one as high up the river
as this, in order to get the water over
to their newly alienated grant in the
western half Of the park"
you've got 1t straight" said the
colonel.
every good. Then they're simply
obliged to have your dam, Or Don't
you see the alternative now. colonel?
Heavens to Betsy" exclaimed the
breeder of fine horses, bringing his fist
down upon Williams desk with crash
that made the ink bottles dance. And
then: what q lot of fence-posts we
archie whole kit and bilin' of US!
If they get the dam, they sell water to
us; if they don't get it, we sell 1t to
them"
That's it. exactly" Smith put in
quietly. "And l should say that your
stake in the game is worth the stlfteSt
| fight you can make to save it. Don't
you agree with me?"
"Great Jehu! l should say So!
calculated the amateur trust fighter.
Then he broke down the barriers mas
terfully. THAT settles it, Smith. You
can't wiggle out of it now, no way or
shape. You've got to come over into
Macedonia and help US. Williams tells
me you refused him, but you can't re-
fuse me-"
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legs and bodies, sufficiently terrifying,
one would suppose, to young woman
sitting calmly in an automobile hun
dred yards away.
The struggle was short in just pro-
portion to its vigOr, and at the end or
ii two of the treSpaSSerS were knocked
out, and Smith was dragging the third
emily heaved the man as II he had
been sack of meal. Miss Baldwin,
sitting in the car, saw her ally dive
into the covered wagon and come out
with q pair of rifles. Pausing only
long enough to smash the guns, one
after the other. over the wagon wheel,
he started back after the two other
men. They were not waiting to be
carried to the wagon; they were up
and running In q wide semicircle to
reach their hope of retreat unslain, If
that might be. 1t was all very brutal
and barbarous, no doubt. but the
colonels daughter was Western born
and bred, and she clapped her hands
and laughed in sheer enthusiasm when
she saw Smith make a show of chas-
ing the circling runners.
He did not return to her until after
he had pulled up the freshly driven
stakes and thrown them away, and by
that time the wagon, with the horses
dashed to q keen gallop was disap-
pearing over the crest Of the northern
ridge.
That's one way to get rid Of them,
isn't it," said the emancipated bank
man, loosely, upon taking his place
in the car to cramp it for the turn.
"Was that something like the notion
you had in mind?'
"Mercy, MOI" she rejoined. And
then: Are you sure you are not hurt?"
"Not worth mentioning" he evaded.
'aThose buffers couldn't hurt anybody,
so long as they couldn't get to their
guns"
"But you have saved the company at
your own expense. They will be sure
to have you arrested"
1--WE won't cross that bridge until
| we come to it," he returned. "If we
were back in the country from which
1 have lately escaped, 1t would be
proper for me to ask your permission
to drive you safely home. Since we
are not, shall assume the permission
and do 1t anyway"
"Oh, Is that necessary" she asked,
meaning, as he took it, nothing more
than comradely depreciation at putting
him to the trouble Of it.
"Not absolutely necessary, perhaps,
but decently prudent. You might drop
me opposite the dam, but you'd have
to pass those fellows somewhere on
the way, and they might try to make
1t unpleasant for you"
She made no further comment, and
he sent the car spinning along over
the hills to the westward. A mile
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AMATEUR SLEUTH
AvENGES BROTHER
Nebraska Farmer Turns Detec-
tive and SC0urs West for
Murderer.
SEARCH COSTS $4,000
Dramatic Story UnfoIded in convic
ton at Santa Fe, N. M, of Ebert
w. Bianchett for Murder of
Clyde D. Armour.

Santa Ee, \. M-IIow a Nebraska
farmer turned detective, secured the
West for his brothers murderer,
found him after every one else had
given up the search and collected the
evidence of the crime, made up dra-
matte story Nnfoldcd here at the trial
which convicted Ebert w. Bi9nchett,
twenty-three years old, of Friday Iar'
Dor, Wash, of Staying Clyde d. Ar
m0ur
Roy Armour, Dakota county
(Neb.) farmer, during his A years
had never been in city larger than
Sioux City, only 20 miles from his
home; he knew nothing OF the secrets
of unraveling crime, but he proved
that determination of purpose some
times can do more than experience.
Advertises for Companion.
On September 10, 1915, Clyde D. Ar
mour started from Sioux City by au-
tomobile for Fresno, Cal, where he
expected to make his future home.
Accompanying him were his mother.
Mrs. Mary Armour, and sister, Miss
Agnes Armour.
AT the village of Clarks, Neb., Ag-
nos Armour was taken i'll and with her
mother continued the journey by rail.
CLYDE Armour went alone as far as
Denver. There he stopped at the
Young Mems Christian association ana
advertised for a companion to make
the remainder of the trip with him.
Later he told the secretary OF the IN
stitution he had found young man.
The next day he left. and for several
days nothing was heard Of him.
Early in November relatives OF
Clyde Armour, in Sioux City, received
kilograms asking for money. Cheeks
came to the Sioux City bank of the
Armours bearing the signatures OF
CLYDE Armour and indorsed by pro-
prietors of dives in Albuquerque and
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Would Have Doctors Exempted.

Many members of the medical pro-
fession are indignant at the fact that
medical students have not been ex-
empted from military service under the
compulsory service bill, although theo-
logical students have been exempted.
The need for supply Of physicians, OK
course, viii be increased by the war,
which will take many Of them to the
front. Keeping enough doctors at home
to take care of the civil population IS
one of the perplexing questions faced
by the council of national defense.
Also, the number of students In this
country has been reduced in recent
years by the strict standards imposed
upon schools, which has put many OF
them out of business and increased the
length of time required for physl-
clan to qualify for practice.
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Il can't talk and drive 8 speed
wagon ut the same time" he told her,
twisting the ..ray car into the road she
had indicated, and he made the asser-
ton good by covering the four remain
ing miles in the same preoccupied
fashion.
There was reason, of sort, for
his silence; two of them, to be exact.
For one. he was troubled by that
haunting sense of familiarity which
was still trying to tell him that this
was not his first meeting with Colonel
Baldwins daughter; and the other,
much bigger and more depressing, was
the realization that in breaking with
his past, he had broken also with the
world Of women, at least to the extent
of ever asking one of them to marry
him.
He pushed the thought aside, COM
ing back to the other one-the puzzle
of familiarity when Miss Baldwin
pointed to q tranSplanted Missouri
farm mansion, with columned por-
tico, standing In a grove of cotton
woods on the left-hand side Of the
road, telling him it was Hlllcrest.
There was q massive stone portal
fronting the road and when he got
down to open the gates the young
woman took the wheel and drove
through; whereupon he decided that
II was time for him to break away,
and said so.
But how will you get back to the
camp?" she asked.
~ have my two legs yet, and the
walking isn't bad"
NO; but you might meet those
two men again"
THAT is the least of my troubles"
Miss Corona Baldwin. like the Mis-
souri, colonel, her father, came upon
moments now and then when she had
the ultimate courage Of her impulses.
II should have said you hadn't
trouble in the world" she asserted,
meeting his gaze level-eyed.
The polite paraphrases of the cof-
fined period we're slipping to the end
OF his tongue, but he set his teeth upon
them and said, instead: That's all
you know about 1t. What If | should
tell you that you've been driving this
morning with an escaped convfct?"
II shouldn't believe It," she said
calmly.
"Well, you haven't-not quite" he
returned, adding the qualifying phrase
in sheer honesty.
She had united her veil and was
asking him Hospitality If he wouldn't
come in and meet her mother. Some
thing in the way she said it, some little
twist Of the lips or look Of the eyes,
touched the spring of complete recOg-
milton, and the familiarity puzzle van
ished instantly.
"You forget that I am working
man." he smiled. "My gang in the
quarry will think I've found bottle
somewhere" And then: did you ever
lose a glove, Miss Baldwin, white
kid with little hole in one f1nger?'
dozens Of them" she admitted !;
"and most of them had holes, I'm
afraid. But what has that to do with
your coming In and meeting mamma
and letting her thank you for saving
my life?"
Nothing at all, Of course" he
fastened to say; and with that he
babe her good-by rather abruptly, and
turned his back upon the transplanted
Missouri mansion. muttering to him.
self as he closed the portal gates be-
hind him: Baldwin Of course! What
an ass I was not to remember the
name! And now I've got the other
half of it, too; it's Corona"
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Tilted, He Sues Girl.

Wilkes-Barre, Pa.-Peter Renshaw
OF Lancaster, formerly policeman
here, has announced a breach-of-prom.
Use suit against Miss Priscilla Nc.
Closkey, twenty-three years old, a
pretty girl of this place. Renshaw
seeks TO recover Il diamond ring, sew
erai presents and $1,000 damages. The
girl is said to have changed her mind
since February l, the dtte on which
Renshaw is supposed to have obtained
her promise to marry him.
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GAZING at a Hero,

"Why Is the crowd gazing with such
admiration, almost awe, ON him2 Is
he the governorT
Governor? Tut! He's no mere gov
ernor! He's the chap who owns the
bowlegged bull pup that took the prize
at the bench shOw."-Browning's
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ITO BE CONTINUED
Resistance of the Wind.

Tests on a model of the naval collier
Neptune made in the wind tunnel Of
the Washington navy yard by Naval
Constructor William McEnteo show
that If this vessel were steaming
against a 3O-mile wind at ii knots an
hour it would require about TO horse
mower to overcome the resistance Of
the wind. This is about 20 per cent
Of the power necessary to propel hef
through the water.
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short of the trestle river crossing they
overlook and passed the wagon. Be-
cause he had the colonel's daughter
with him, Smith put on a burst OF
speed and so gave the claim jumpers
no chance to provoke another battle.
In the maze of crossroads opposite
the little city on the south bank of
the river, Smith was out Of his reck-
oning, and was obliged to ask his COM
panion to direct him.
Il thought you weren't ever going
to say anything any more" she sighed
in mock despair, 'Cake this ROAD TO
the right" ...---.
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to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
COMPOUND as she had taken it with gooo
results. | did so, my weakness dis,
appeared, gained in strength. movea
into our new home, did all kinds OF
garden work, shoveled dirt, did build
Ing h and cement work, and raised hun
dreds Of chickens and ducks. ~ can
not say enough in praise of Lydia F. q
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound ana
If these facts are useful you may pub
lish = them for the benefit OF other
women. Mrs. M. o. JOHNSTON, Route
D. Box 100. Richmond. Ind
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Whenever You Need q General Tonic
Take Groves

The Old Standard Groves Tasteless
chill Tonic is equally valuable as Gen
eral Tonic because it contains the we'll
known tonic properties of QUININE and
IRON. 1t acts on the Liver, Drives out
Malaria. Enriches the Blood and Builds
up the Whole System. 50 cents.
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from my age e'i"s
when going up
stairs | had to go
very slowly with
my hands on the
steps, then sit down
at the top to rest
The doctor said ne
thought l should
have an operation,
and my frie n 3
thought l would not
live to move into
our new house. My
da,1phter asked me