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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-11-06

Berin Nov. 6, via L0ndon-The Italian line Taqa- mento river has been by the Aus Germans it ciaily announced today by the German general staff The atic coast.
 The German statement that from the Fella valley the ColbroOn north of the Sugana valley, the Italians treating.
 (This region includes the front along and [fhe Carnc AlnSl
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-11-06

THE WEATHER. Fsar tonishs ana Wednesday.
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-11-10

lIEN-Gea6 Cot.or's Ad today.
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-11-10

Taylor's Express meets all boats and trains. Phone Main 122.
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-11-10
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.

Tn J. C. DucEen. his heirs and admin
 istrators, and Co a.. whom .J may
 concern:
 TaEs notice that ] have done Three Hundred Dollars. ($3O0O0), worth or labor each year iu order Co hold the s,fswipg described quartz -.umsr known as the Bonanza, Eureka and Phoenix Claims, situated on topoI Island. in the Uuga Peninsula Mining District. Territory 0f Alaska the no- tices oE location whereof are recorded in the office of che Recorder ot the Unga Peninsula Mining District at Uuga, Alaska, in Book 4, ot Page -o+i 8g Locations for the Bonanza Claim, lu Book 2. Page 5O. for the Eureka Claim. and Book No. Q, Page 59, for the Phoenix Claim, of the records or slid District for the years ending De- gember glst. 1913. and December alr 1914. and December 3l, 1915. and De cembcr 3l. 1916, and unless within ninety days after this notice by pub EcatiOn you fail or reuse 70 contrib ute your portion of such expenditure, viz. Six Hundred Dollars, .S6O0uJI being One Hundred and Fifty Dollars. .SI5OOO). for each Of sad years. your interest m said Bonanza. Eureka and Phoenix mining claims wl. be for feited Co and become the property or the subscriber under Section Zaz+ or the Revised Statutes 0t the lute1
 LOUIS HERMAN.
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-11-10

Read Tue Gateway.
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-11-10

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The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-11-10
HERMAN.

First Pub. Aug. 8l. Last Pub. Nov. 90
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-11-10

RIGHT PRICE ICE SKATES FOR EVERYBODY AT BROWN G HAN- NINS,
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-11-10

Certain-teed Roofing Guaranteed 70 and 3 years. J. l.. Graefs. tf.
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-11-10

NEW shipment of gasoline and kero- sene. Kerosene at $175 a can. Just received at Brown & Hawkins.
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The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-11-10

WaterfU and Gra~ar w-.sley a, che Branch
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-11-10

Andy's Express, phone Madison 143.
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-11-10

Proof of labor blanks for sale at Gateway.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-01
Senate Kills Egotism,
MARITIME Declares IL
Fervid Valedictory
Saws He Has Been Called a
Joke, but Never a
Moral Coward

Washington. Feb. 2s.-Legislative
ard international problems were lad
aside to-day By the Senate for a time
10 listen 90 a valedictory address by
Senator MARITIME. o. New Jersey. who
retires March (. after six years Of ser
vice. The Senator paid his respects to
political opponents and answered eri;i-
cisms that he did not always vote with
his party BY declaring that he had a.
ways voted his convictions.
1T has been said In published state
ments that I was q sheer accident-a
Joke. a mouRtebanS. a budoon and
disgrace 20 this body he shouted
striding M and down the centre aisle.
But no man ever said ! vas a moral
coward. pretender That is my an
swer 70 these viilainous and cowardly
attacks
He added that he had found the Sen
ate wonderfully human, and knew or
mo place 40 well calculates 70 take
out a mans egotism.'
Senator'S Lodge and Kenyon replied,
assuring the New Jersey Senator that
he would leave with the we'll wishes
and affectionate regard OF al members.
Mr.. Kenyon saying hypocrisy never
had a place in his soul
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-01
2,OOO-Mile Journey
Is Forced on Cuban
Because of Views
Senior Valdes Rushed from
Mayari by Shells-Will
Return to Havana

Nemesio Alvarez Valdes arrived yes
terday aboard the Munson liner Muna-
mar from Ant.lla Bay, Cuba, on his
way 90 Havana. The reason Senior
Valdes was forced TO make a 2.000-mile
detour is because he is a conservatist
Of the deepest dye.
Senior Valdes is editor and publisher
Of "El Mayar.cero,' a rock-riDoed con
seryatist Uaper of Mavari twenty miles
southeast OF Antlla. During the re-
cent uprieing he has remained a stanch
supporter Of President MenocaL
Last Saturday he was preparing 90
send his first edition % press. when
sounds Of artillery fire were heard on
tho outs kIrts Of the city. Upon inquiry
the editor asccrtaIned that the rebels
were attacking. Despite the business
Ike trenches and barbcd wire fOrtifca-
iong surrounding Magyar Senior Val
dos preferred 20 trust 20 fight rather
than defence.
with the competitors still waiting
for the end Of his leading editorial
Senior Naldes hastily gathered few
t,oss,irpe and fed on his white charger
30 didn't stop until ne reached Pres
ton on the opposite side Of Nipe Bay
frprn Artilla. Here he procured fast
launch and boarded the hunamar, Just
"a she was departing
Asked why he dn't take the rail-
road 20 Havana. which is the strong
boid Of the Conservatist party. ne said,
with ehrug: at was impossible. ne
-.iIroad ia gone. the rails have been
dcrtroyed. and the bridges blown up.
Tbc only way 20 reach Havana. a dis
taDce less than 500 miles. was to come
10 New York, and return there oy
ths next boat. which ] intend doing
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-01
Aid for Family Asked
Cloak Cutter Ill, Wife and
Children Need Help

With the cost of living going up ana
his earning power rapidly going down
John B.. a cloak cutter, thought last
fall that life was hard. But the trou-
bIes of that time were as nothing com
pared with the pitiful condition Of the
family. when the Charity Organization
Society found them a short time. ago
John 3 and his thrifty wife mad
saved for a rainy day but never
dreamed that it would be an over
whelming food They did not know
that mis- troublesome cough meant
tuberculosis. so through the fall and
winter savings went rapidly for medi-
cines.
His strength decreased each day,
money for necessities for three-year-
old Tony and two-yesr-old Rosie no
longer could be scraped together. and
Mrs. B. was forced 20 ask for help. To-
Gav Mr.. B. is at a sanatorium. Before
long another baby is expected and the
society asks for $40 20 relieve the Sex
mans worry about his wife and chill
cren. Gifts sent to the soclety's office
al l05 East Twenty-second street, viii
be promptly Acknowledged.
The society acknowledges win
thanks a contribution Of 81 from 20.
NJ T." in response 20 a previous ap-
real in The Tribune for another family.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-01
Wilson to Name
Mrs. Gait; Rebuke
To Militants Seen
She Heads Sufragists Who
Are Rivals Of White
House Pickets


Washington Feb. Is President VII
son is about to play his strongest card
in the suffrage game by appointing
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait. president
Of the National American Woman. SUI
frage Association, a member or the
Advisory Committee Of National De
fence. according 20 a reliable ntorma-
ton here tonight. This appointment
is expected TO be a crushing blow 20
the militant sufragists of the rival or
ganization. the Congressional Union for
Woman Suffrage, whose members are
now picketinC the White House.
The organization which Mrs Gait
heads has been working quietly but
effectively with Mr. Wilson while the
Congressional Union has been using
more spectacular methods
Since the break in relations with
Germany the leaders OF Mrs. Cats So
ciety have been in conference with Ad-
ministration officials perfecting plans
for the cooperation OF women IN NJ
tional defence plans. 10 has been
rumored here for several days that Mr.
Wilson was about % extend some sig
nal recognition TO them.
The Congressional Union Joined
forces with the Womau's Party at the
last election TO defeat Mr. Wilson as
an enemy of national suffrage, while
their rivals were quietly supporting
him.
Mrs. Gait will be the only woman on
the defence committee.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-01
War Time Plea
To Congressional
Union Is Failure
Lady Aberdeen Told That
National Crisis Will Not
Halt Vote Quest

Lady Aberdeen told the members Of
the Congressional Union, in the Forty
eighth Street Theatre yesterday. that
the service Of the women Of England
during the war would win the vote
they might have obtained as far back
as 1905 had they no. pursued a mill
tant course.
Her eloquent praise o. the wartime
services Of the women and both her
commentator and that Of Mrs. Bea-
-rice Forbes-Robertson Hall. the other
principal speaker. Of the action Of Mrs.
Carrie Chapman Gait and Mrs. Norman
de r. Wh.tehouse in offering the SER
vices OF their suffrage organization 70
the government. met with an unenthu-
siastic but polite reception from the
organization.
Mrs. o. II. p. Belmont. Miss Doris
Stevens and other officers of the or
ca0izatiOn on the platform afterward
reaf rmed the position OF the COngres-
sIonal Union not 90 abate in one degree
the activity OF the body. IN spite Of the
national crisis.
1--WE In Great Britain. who had
worked In this cause for many years,
said Lady Aberdeen, believed that the
hour of victory was very near when
Liberal government was brought in
with a great sweep Of popular enthusl-
assn ia December. 1905. Jnhapplly
section of sutfragis.s sought to hurry
up matters and 20 convince a reluctant
Prime Minister by militant tactics.
"To the elder body Of suffragIsts. this
policy appeared disastrous continued
Lady Aberdeen, land simply threw away
the labor of years and delayed by years
the granting of women's suffrage.
at is well known here on the out
break Of the war, the women patri-
officially abandoned their propaganda
work and placed all their organizations
and all the experience they had gained
az the service of the country
owe viii not bargain with our coun-
try for our services" said Miss Lucy
Burns, vice-chairman Of the Union,
later. eve viii not say 20 our gov
eminent: Give US the vote and we
viii nurse your soldiers but We will
insist on suffrage now because we be
Ieve that IL viii be the greatest good
we can 90 our country at this time.
After the speaking the annual cleo
ton of officers for the New York state
Dranch CT tne Congressional 1"ioH -N-
suited as follows.
Chairman. Mrs. o. H. p. Belmont;
Merchantmen. Miss Lucy Burns. Mrs.
William L. Colt, Mrs. John Rogers, jrr
Mrs. Arthur Dudley, of Rochester, and
Mrs. Joseph Shanahan, of Syracuse;
secretary. Miss Beatrice Murphy, and
trea urer. Mrs Albert Musse.
Sixty delegates were appointed TO at
tend the annual convention in Wash
ingtor. whIc begins tomorrow.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-01
Democrats Launch
Combination Plan
To Defeat Mitchell
Fusion of All Factions Urged
Mayor Accused of Not
Supporting Wilson

A plan 20 combine the Tammany and
Cleveland Democrats, and all other
Democrats Of scattered affiliations
into what practically viii amount 70
an ana-Mi-che5 Democracy for the
prrpose o. presenting a solid front Al
me polls .n the coming pal elec-
t0r. was launched last night az me
Hotel SAVOY William J. >cnneider,
County Clerk OF New YORK County, and
head az the Cleveland Democracy. pre-
..ded and men Of Tammany affiliations
were present.
fn 1rgfog a preliminary fusion o.
the Democratic factions. Mr. >chneider
declared that Mayor Mitchell during hls
term % Office had not supported the
~ son Adm nistra 'o' and that on inc
other hand. many Of his apponfees
BAD r1DDo~ted Hughes. After several
o+Le-s had criticised the Mayor ana
the Riverside plan, Hr. Schneider wac
authorized % appoint committee Or
fst.e- 20 work out the details OF me
certenplated fusion. The motto
House Divided Against Itself cannot
e-and." was selected.
SIR Schneider viii appoint the com
r. geo to-day and ~ viii report 1Ack
ir Two weeks. Tn that time an eHoI'
viii be- made % perfect an organlzh-
ton comm .ttee OF $50 leaders selected
from ali elements Of the party in tne
I've 5oroughs. 10 is understood tnat
The Cleveland Democrats want 70 put
william r. Hearst % as the Demo
cratic Navoralty candidate.
Besides Mr. Schneider, other. VINO
r5oke we're Benjamin F Wollman'
Mortimer s Brown, Joseph y. ocn"a 70
The Rev Edward McGufey, Franc,
Ieman. Antonio yucca and Josepn D..
Farreeacv.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-01
Nation Is Warned Against
Hostility Toward Aliens
Defence Council Appeals for
Restraint

Wash ngton. Feb 2S.-Thc Council OF
National Defence to-day issued an ap-
peal 20 the people OF the United States
10 show every consideration IA the
present international situation 20 aliens
resident iu this country.
"The presence here az this time Of
perhaps 5000. 900 aliens rs deeply and
soberiv 20 be weighed, not only 10 our
interests. but in their own" the state
ment says.
"Emphasizing anew our national doc
trines Of tolerance and personal ltb-
crtv. Of holding all persons within the
land 90 be loyal unless By their own
acts they shall prove the contrary, We
call upon all citizens, n untoward
events should come upon Us, 20 present
20 these aliens, many Of whom t0-mor-
row will be Americans, the attitude or
neither suspicion nor aggressiveness.
ave urge on all Americans TO meet
these millions Of foreign born with un.
changed manner and with unpreJudiced
mind"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-01
State Police Bill Advances
Measure Will Be Passed by
Senate in Short Time

Albany. Feb. %. Obstruction tactics
OF the Democratic minority. headed by
Senator Robert r. Wagner and aided
by Senator !. Henry Walters. Repub
lican. Of Syracuse. failed to-day 10
block the advancement Of Senator Og-
den MiIs's biH creating a state police
force.
r. was reported favorably by the
SENATE Finance Committee. and after
a two hours debate amended % that
IN, civil service requirement for ap-
Dointment 20 the force WAS 81 minated
and provison made 10 satisfy organ
ized labor confning the police activi-
ties 20 the rural districts unless called
upon By the municipal authorities with
the approval Of the Governor
The result Of the 7ote on the civil
service amendment wns 25 TO -. and
no doubt remains now about the bills
kasl passage IN the Senate
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-01
Brown Defends
Literacy Test of
Voters in State
Senator Says Amendment
Will Be Needed as Curb
After the War

From d. sta. Corra-Dordeu, % Tie Tribune
Albany. FEB. 2s.-Despite opposition
from Louis Marshall. Victor Ridder and
others this afternoon before the Judici-
airy Committee. Senator Elon R. Brown
defended his proposed amendment 20
the constitution requiring every voter
20 be able 20 read and write English.
lie declared 10 was important to pass
such a measure at this time. when the
United States will receive a tide Of
INN igration after the war. Austria
Hungary ne gave as an illustration Of
the chaotic conditions that come when
-hc people Of a nation do not speak a
common language
he denied that IL was his intention
70 prevent anybody from voting. and
declared that IL would DO no harm II
there was a delay o. a year OF two 20
give those Interested enough in the
country 20 be worthy Of the vote time
20 learn the language. Incidentally.
the amendment mas more support ehis
year NAhA tNNA UfAbAff H-AA bANpotAe
vii. pass.
Mr. Brown accepted an amendment
made by Charles r. Young, who pro-
posed a similar measure in the Consti-
tut.onal Convention, providing that 10
should take effect after January l.,
1921. instead Of January /. 1920.
Mr. Marshall contended that the
Brown amendment was wrong IN prin-
ciple. un-American and particularly
vicious az this time. when the govern
ment is demanding that all OF its citi-
zens. no matter what their birth or for
mer allegiance, should be loyal to the
United States He said that from his
experience in the practice of law he had
seen woful lack of the ability to
write English. and he asked Senator
Brown who was going 20 determine =
voters ability 70 do so.
"Is 10 an election Inspector" he
asked an this amendment you are
0pering a Pandora's box Of evils when
YOU give 20 one man the right 20 deter
mine another's eligibility TO handle the
ballot
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-01
1917 Income Tax
For City More
Than Double 1916
Uncle Sans Bill Expected
to Exceed $1OO,OOO,000
by Far
Rush Swamps Offices
Revenue Authorities Run Out
of Return Blanks-Time
Almost Up

Lower Manhattan will pay 100000
OO0 in income taxes this year, In the
opinion Of John D. Lowe. collector for
the second New York district. This is
an increase of about s42,OOO,0OO over
last year. and if this rate Is maintained
in the Long Island district and the
upper Manhattan district it would mean
total New York City tax much IN
excess Of s1OO.OOo.O0O.
Last year lower Manhattan paid s23'-
95lOs3 income tax. upper Manhattan
and The Bronx s13.457.32s and Brook
lyn contributed s2,4OOOO0.
The rush 20 file returns was so great
in the two Manhattan Offices yesterday
that both ran short of blanks. The
supplementary supply received at the
Custom House was soon exhausted and
the announcement was made that those
who through inability TO secure blanks
did not file their applications by mid
night tonight would on application be
riven an extension.
$4,000 Estimated Returns
On the basis Of returns already 10, lt
ras estimated Yesterday that 25OUO ~
dividuals and 1900 corporations VII
fIo returns I'm the lower Manhattan OF
fee Collector Mark Eisner estimated
the number of returns 20 be MED IL the
uptown Office from the territory nor'h
OF Fourteenth Street at JO,OOO indiVld,
nal and ~. 900 corporation. This would
make the total Manhattan returns
$4,000
In his estimate Of the income tax re-
CENTS. Collector Lowe estimates that
co. orations viii pay S26.O00,OOO ana
Ira.viduals S40.000.OO0 IN the lower
Manhattan district. Last year the total
tav was s23.95l. 900. Of which amount
individuals contributed Sll.1lO.225. In
1915 the income tax Of the district was
S15.2l6I9l and in 1914 Sl3,S3s,sl-.
Years Total s7s,OOO,OOO
with the estimate Of the income tax
Collector Lowe submitted an estimate
OF all receipts Of his Office for the year
AT SIS 600 600. an increase OF s5o'OOo'-
coo over last year. I'm this EXHIBIT
decrease of nearly ss.0o0,000 is shown
i'm taxes on proprietary articles, wines
and documents. this tax having pee"
repealed in September, when the IA" lh-
creasing the income tax was adopted
and an Increase Of Sl2O0.0OO 20 S5.OUO'-
600 in regular taxes, this including the
revenue produced on the new tax on
canital stock and munitions.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-01
Sun Alumni Dine
AS Honor Guest
Works at Home
Boss" Clarke, Long Gar
at Night Desk, Far Too
Shy to Attend
Tributes Paid Him
Every Member of Gathering
Once Regarded Ex-Editor
with Fear

Boss" Clarke sat In the library Of
his bachelor home on Brooklyn Heights
last night shining up a sentence here
and there in what VIII doubtless be
greeted some day as the worlds pre-
mier work on TIE important and en-
crossing subject OF sundia.s. He had
no dead.ine 20 worry over.
Up in the Hotel Martinique. while
Boss" Clarke was using 1p the tail
end Of a plug Of chewing tobacco which
has been his favor'te since -. dinner
was being held in bis honor. The
diners were members OF the Sun
Alumni Association. Vita the pos
sibie exception Of Chester s. Lord. who
used TO be managing editor Of The
Sun when Selqh Merrill Clarke was
its night city editor. they were men
who had been a. one time or another
inspired with respect for Boss
Clarke close 20 the graduation Of fear.
Real Fear in Olden Days
That fear was very real in the old
days, when big news was breaking fast
Boss" Clarke was in the drivers seat
and reporters we're Just reporters. It
fingers yet, as more than one Of the
alumni took occasion 20 confess when
called upon for his tribute TO the "old
man
Eyes. sir said Franklin Matthew
nov professor o. journalism az Columbia
a m afraid Of Boss Clarke 20 this
minute. And any man here who says he
ISM is a iiari'
No one challenged the assertion: and
yet the reason the form liable Boss
Clarke was az home in carpet slippers
and dressing gown. instead of AZ the
dinner IN patent feathers and n boiled
shirt. was just this: he was TOO shy.
Shyness always has been one o.
Boss Clarke's characteristics. From
1881 until May Of 1912. the period OF
his czarship on "The sun there we're
two Boss" Clarkes The one who sat
at the night city editors desk was
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-01
3 States Claim
Mrs. Hetty Green
In Tax Fight
New York, Jersey and Yer
mont Contest for Millions
Estate Will Bring

New York. New Jersey and Vermont
each insist that Mrs. Hetty Green had
q legal residence there Massachusetts,
too. is a possible claimant On the de-
term nation of this question depends
the taxation Of her estate which has
been estimated at as much as $780,
100000.
Controller Travis is trying 70 prove
that Mrs. Green was a resident Of New
York and that her estate must pay
transfer tax here. which would be more
than 100000. The question is sun
unsettled. Surrogate Fowler reserved
decision Yesterday. after listening TO
lengthy argument on the subject. IL is
likely that the case will 90 TO Ine
United States Supreme Court.
Charles W. Pierson. of the firm OF
Alexander g. Green. attorneys for the
Green estate. argued that the legal
home Of Mrs. Green was IN Bellows
Falls. Vt. Mrs. Green's attachment
for Bellows Falls was so great said
the lawyer. chat Mrs. Green changed
her faith so that she could be buried
there beside her husband. whose bride
she became fifty years before her death.
The Greens lived in Bellows Falls and
reared their children there. Mrs. Green
always retained the old homestead and
paid $500 taxes on it. In the leases
Of forty parcels of real estate in Chi
cago. it was pointed out. Mrs. Green
described herself as a resident Of Bel
lows Falls"
John B. Gleason, for the State Con-
troller. argued that Mrs. Green kent
her bank deposits in New York. trans
acted all her business here. and that
even while living In Hoboken she came
10 New York every day. Mr.. Gleason
contended that nrs. Green was resi-
dent of this state for fifty years. and
even sent her son. Colonel Green. 20
Eordhao1 L University.