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Gilpin observer., 1917-06-21
st. Louis Mans Generosity to
Enemy Costs Him His
Life.
IS VICTIM OF TREACHERY
"Fiohtino Jimmy" Paul, First In Front
Line Of Enemy, Is Mourned by
French Foreign legion-Even
Wounded Attend Funeral.

Paris.-Generosity toward the en-.
emy cost the life Of James Paul of
st. Louis, member of the famous
French Foreign legion. Paul was
known as Fighting Jimmy" and he
never failed to live up to his name. To
be called one of the bravest men In
the legion is great honor, and that
was an honor held by Fighting jim
N.Y."
Twenty-four hours before one of
the general attacks by the French in
their recent offensive in Champagne.
Paul was sent out with a body of
picked men to "worry" the Germans
first line with bombs.
Paul was the first man over the par
apet and got safely through, together
with several other Americans. After
trying in vain to keep Off the attackers
with machine guns, the Germans scut-
tied into their dugouts. Paul, who was
in advance, threw dozen grenade
into n dugOut and called upon the
skulkers to come out.
Victim Of Treaehery.
Only one German appeared. He
threw up his arms, shouting Com
rade." assuring Paul the rest Of the
men inside were dead. Without taking
the trouble to search the man for hid
den weapons, Paul turned to another
dugout. The instant his back was
turned the German drew an automatic
pistol and fred. Paul fell backward
just as his fellow legion members fol-
lowed.
The German fell with bayonet
wounds in his body. Two of Paul's
best friends, Arthur Berry of Boston
Gilpin observer., 1917-06-21
TRUSTS HIS FOE; IS SHOT IN BACK

ana Christopher Charles Of Brooklyn,
knelt beside him. Paul Law on his
pack and there was smile on his lips.
you are not badly hurt, are you,
JimmyT asked his friends.
Ihere was no reply, and they turned
the body over. The bullet had pene-
trated the heart and death must have
been instantaneous.
Wounded Attend Funeral,
After that, any German showing
nght was ruthlessly bayonetted. Those
VINO surrendered were spared, although
tneir trip from the front to the rear
was far from pleasant.
AFTER the position had been thor.
oughly cleared out. the legion men,
Ders retired, bearing with them Pauls
nody. Every man who could attended
the simple funeral. Even wounded
men hobbled out to the improyised
cemetery.
Paul had been decorated for bravery
at the battle Of Belloy-en-S -Santerre, on
the Somme, in July, 1915. At that time.
single-handed, he held a sector of a
trench after his seven companions had
been killed.
Someone once referred to st, Louis
as German city.
Thats not true" exclaimed Paul.
1T Is no more a German city than
Paris. True, there are Germans there.
but you find Germans everywhere.
You VIII find that st. Louis will send
vV.l<
Gilpin observer., 1917-06-21
ITALIANS BUILD FINE
ROADS IN ALBANIA

Rome.-Thanks to Italo-Aus-
trian rivalry. after the war Al
bania will have the best system
OF wagon roads Of any Balkan
state. Greece and Roumania in
cluded.
A few days ago a new road.
45O kilometers long, connecting
Sant Quaranta with Saloniki,
was opened to the public. The
road Is monument to Italian
labor and engineering. Over 800
kilometers lie through high
mountains and deep gorges. A
motor car can cover the distance
between the two cities In about
20 hours.
In a few days a new piece of
road, ITO kilometers long, will
be opened to the public ana will
connect Avlona. on the Adriatic.
with Salonili.
Gilpin observer., 1917-06-21
Raise Flags Underground.

shenandoah, Pa.-At tho Draper COL
liery the other morning the inside en-
ployees raised two American flags 1000
feet below the surface in the mammoth
vein gangway in honor of two of their
workers, Edward Phillips and Robert
Hahn, who have enlisted. One flag
was set floating at each chute from
where the men worked. Every en-
ployee of the inside workings was
there.
Gilpin observer., 1917-06-21
BY byE.AlEXANDER POWELL

cided to honor with your affectiOnS"
"Helen Dawson !" was the reply.
Rupert Holmes sprang to his feet
and began nervously to pace the room.
Impossible" he said hoarsely.
"Such a thing is utterly out Of the
question, Stephen"
"But why is it out Of the question,
dad2" the boy persisted.
'It's out of the question" Holmes re-
peated. There's no use in discussing
1t. 1t isn't suitable match"
'But, dad" his son pleaded.
IT don't want to hear another word
about it." snapped Holmes, losing his
temper. II was a fool to send you to
Dawsonville-I d ought to have foreseen
what would come Of 1t. You are not to
return there after the holidays. Your
mother has set her heart on trip to
Japan next month, but I can't get
away, SO want you to go with her.
By the time you get back perhaps
you'll have forgotten this nonsense"
AS the boy flung himself from the
room, Holmes dropped heavily into his
chair and stared moodily into the fire.
Bitterly he reproached himself. The
worst Of 1t was he couldn't give his
son the true reason for his objection.
One evening, fortnight after the
departure of his wife and son for the
Orient, Holmes was seated alone in
his library when the butler ushered
into the room a tall, lean young man,
built wiry as a panther, whose cop
per-colored skin and straight black
hair showed Enthusiastically that he was
an Indian.
"My name is Little Bear" he began,
staring at the lumber magnate with
disconcerting intentness. II have come
from Jacksonville to tell you that your
wife is dead. She died yesterday"
my wife?" echoed Holmes. my
wife is on her way to Japan"
II don't mean the woman that you
call your wife," said the Indian con-
temptuously. II mean the woman whom
you married many years ago-vir-
ginia Holmes, the woman whom you
treated SO brutally that she had to run
away from YOU"
"You're drunk or crazy, don't
know which," said Holmes roughly.
"where did you hear this cock-and-
bull story?"
II heard It from your wife," was the
reply. II reached her just after the
accident. Before she lost conscious
ness she told me everything. She told
me that you are Helen Dawson's IA
ther. She told me that 1t was you who
murdered Chief Sleepy Dog. years ago,
on the Calapooia. after cheating him
out Of his land"
'Who else heard this conversational"
asked Holmes.
mo one," was the answer. 1--WE were
alone"
"Well, what is It you want Of me?
presume that you have not come here
merely to break the news"
II have come to learn what you
intend to do for your daughter" said
Little Rear quietly, "and what you in.
tend to do for me-"
"How does 1t concern your" sneered
Holmes.
Il an the son Of Chief Sleepy Dog.
whom you murdered" was the stern
answer. "The lands which you stole
from him belong to me-"
And the woman who told these fairy
tales is dead?" laughed Holmes. "weli.
unless you want to find yourself In the
hands OF the police for blackmail,
you'd better make yourself scarce"
The young Indian, stung by the In.
science Of Holmes tone and momen-
tarily overcome by passion, gathered
himself as though about to spring at
the lumber magnate. But Holmes,
Gilpin observer., 1917-06-21
Rodin Gets Aztec Sculptures.

Mexico City.-Reproductlons of some
of the more famous examples of Aztec
sculpture have been sent by the Mex
lean government as gift to Rodin, the
French sculptor. Rodin in return has
promised to send reproduction of one
OF his works to be placed In the Ma
tional Academy of Fine Arts.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-09-04
ABANDONMENT OF RIGA.

Abandonment of Riga in the race
of the new German drive into rus
20 and even the evacuation OF ret
roar,d itse| have been forecast as
possibilities in confidential advices
i the American government during
the last two weeks Such develop
nent is not regarded with so much
alarm as might be supposed.
With Riga abandoned and German
occupation of Petrograd IN prospect,
+ba seat of the Russian provisional
Governments undoubtedly will be
moved TO Moscow. Much as they
NAV regret seeing the Russian capt.
tai occupied by German army, the
forceful, thinking men OF RUSSIA
working to set up government. may
regard it as a blessing in disguise.
"Nobody wants to see man on
horsabact as a continuance OF Rus
sian chaos" declares contemporary.
Yet in time of dire emergency a. man
on horseback may be of greater ser
vice TO mankind than one whose
equestrian proves is confined to nd
.:jng a swivel chair.lt may appear that
'the salvation Of Russia depends on
precisely what nobody wants to see;
that a man on horseback alone VIII
prove capable % saving the new
horn democracy Of the east.
Russians in the past were made TN
fortunately familiar with despot.Sm
that rode rough shod over their
rights and their persons. They have
since learned the fallibility Of des-
potissn. They who found it at last
relatively all easy task to orerturn
a roval master and end 4 dynasty
would not be likely to endure ne"
master long even if IN the present
crisis one were found Indispensable
20 save the state from dissolution.
The thing to be feared in Russia
lust now * not so mgch Il man on
horseback as continuance Of con
dtonS which Il man on horseback
might correct Ii the kercnsky re-
cine fails and some. modified form
Of dictatorship becomes necessary no
one conversant with the qualities Of
the Russian people need fear the
outcome. II man on horseback is
needed to restore order and put new
spirit into the retrcating troops LET
us welcome him joyouSly--aAd then
see to it that when his task is done
he is IMMERSED.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-09-04
WHAT THEY ARE FlGHTiN@ foT

The little" American, inc p"''-
fsr The near-traitor may pfet'l'''
,b,. i. does not know what the
United States is fighting for, bat nc
Knows well enough what his friends
,cross The water are fighting lof'
Austria is fighting for the ensiave-
mcnt of Serbia: to add that country
70 the other countries which she mas
stolen out Of the Balkans.
Bulgaria is fighting for a grea'
addition to her terliiory-conlcsseaiy
60 She is after most Of Macedonia
and much OF Rumania.
Turkey is fighting for continual
ton OF her license to plumber burn
and massacre in Armenia and the
Asiatic lands which have been under
her merciless domination. Today
she is piundering. burning and muir
dering in Palestine. just to make more
joyful Turkish holiday.
German militarisna. the master
mind OF all this inlquity, is fighting
FOR power and pelf; for world doml-
nation for the destruction OF dcmoc-
racy and the crushing Of nations.
AS the Philadelphia Inquirer says,
The .'l!t2le" American. the paclflst'
the ncar-traitor when he throws OBJ
staclcs in the path Of the war prog
ress o. the United States is tightm.
for Austria. Bulgaria, Turkey ana
the arch fcnds Of thu Prussian mil
tary maa;acs more cffectua!'y than
if lie were in the trenches throwing
bombs at the troops of the United
States.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-09-04
HAS NERO REApPEARED?

Some people who tax their brains
by studying unful6lled Biblical prop
hecy believe Nero, the bloody En-
peror of Rome, is 10 rcappcar on
earth in the latter days, and thai
this degenerate is "thc beast that
shall ascend out Of the bottomlesS
pit"
We do not credit every crime that
is urged against William HohrnZol-
Term. who rejoiceS in the name 81
Kaiser, nor do we believe in metemp-
ScychCsis, but if all the allegations
brought against the Emperor Of
Germany can be proved, that mon
arch will go down in history with q
record as despicable as Nero. The
Kaiser * now openly charged vita
plotting the assassination Of Crown
Prince Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo.
rhc object was to get him out Of the
way before the death OF the feeble
Francis Joseph. whose place he would
have taken IN Il short time. The
crown prince was avcrse to joining
Austria hungary to the German
chariot in the war which had been
planned by the Kaiser and his safe.
,ites; hence his removal was neceS-
sarv for Tcuton purposes. The cruel
u!.in,atum to Servia followed, the
match was applied and the maicr
rortion of the world plunged into
war
An article in yesterdays Gazette
described the patriotism in the mid
die west and printed an extract from
} communication in the Detroit Jour
nal, addressed to the Kaiser. in which
mat poteatate was hkened unto Anal
% old, Evho murdered Nsboth in or
dec % take possession OF his vine
yazd. y
Il is interesting to compare the
course Of the Kaiser with that of
-'>a snc;snt Hebrew king. Dogs licked
lie ',.oci Of Nahoth ard later licked
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-09-04
GERMANY AND PEACE.

II is believed that Germany-ai'd
Inv that is meant both Government
and people-is willing to make peace
.hut dare not. The opinions OF Pres
dent Wilson's message to the foPe
expressed in lTeuton newspapers 10
not represent the true feeling Oh
either the ruling classes or the PUBIC
hut are used as veil to prevent
the crystalization of the real oelels
of the people. If some suggestion
could be offered that would Drifs
ineace on any terms providing the
rmnire were able to overcome The
enormous economic burden sure u
;be thrust upon it, it would be eagerly
accepted by the statesmen OIL e''''
tna+inn even il it were to force them
out of power. :
These opinions, voiced both by o.
Gcials of this Government and by al
lied diplomats in Washington pro
ibably represent the true state OIL al
fairs in Berlin. Summed up my
mean just this: .
Desnite the terrific cost Of the war;
carnanv feels that it is better tc
| continue than to face the awful eohSe-
,,oncc. of a peace without victory.
a1though she probably realizes that
eventually she will be forced 10 ac"
xo,,lad,sc herself defeated and to ae-
can't whatever terms the allies are
Wiling to make, the very contempla'
tiou Of the conditions with which she
,.;u ha face to face at the conclusion
r Tho war fills her with terror so
,,ot she is determined 20 hight on
NTH. the last vestige of proDaole
J ;.;.torv is zone rather than to SUD
nit.
# Germany were planning to carry
49,, ,,or to the bitter end, a separate
mace with Russia would serve hef
ands admirably. Germany Is plan
n;no however, for peace ana neV
u,oro way Her internal situation ae-
mands peace. The safety of the lmpe'
,.;.I Government calls for peace. 4Ae
caman people talk and think Oh
nothing but peace and food. They arc a.,
unuttersbly sick of wax, SICK o1 'ne
snund Of the trumpet and the ciat-
tsr If boofs, sick of the death re-
ports, sick Of the hunger ana n'i"
ship.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-09-04
GAS PIPE BLAST KILLS TWO.
Causes Gcke Works Building TO
Collapse Upon Employees.

Allentown, Pa, Sept. Two men
are dead an tltwo probably fatally IL
iured - the result OF al explosion
in Inc Lefigh Coke Works at Didier
early Sunday. The explosion Of d
large gas pipe caused par5 Of the
ihuiidin@ 70 collapse, and the four
we're buried under debris in a pit.
lego. Lauborg, chemical graduate
.. the University Of Ohio, died sew
csal hours later from . r2nctured
lung, followed soon b. =. W. Will
Jams colorcd. whose legs were crush
ed and amputatcd. Ii. L. Mailman
and /. petro Jewels are IL ser-
ious condition.
Sunday Afternoon in the same
building there was another explosion
Of gas and George Gasker was 50
seriously harmed on the face and
bod that death is feared
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-09-04

below the Dover station Sunday night,
two colored boys. Wilbur, years
old, and Lindley, 5 years old, were
killed. while third son was serious
ly injured.
], Mahanoy City. Pa, Sept. 1.-Two
automobile accidents brought severe
injury to half-dozen occupants Of
the machines near here Sunday
Arthur Backett's car, containing MN
self, father, mother and two brothers
overturned near Nesquehoning.
Allentown, Pa, Sept. 4.-Johr
Bergenstock, a silk man, may Ole
from injuries sustained Sunday al
ternoon when his automobile wa:
struck by a trolley car as ne emerged
from Bath road on the William Penr
! Highway, at the eastern city line
His nephew and niece, David and VI
Wan, were seriously Injured.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-09-04
SUNDAY AUTO SNlASHES
Five Persons Killed and Several In
jured Yesterday.

Five Persons Killed and Several In
jured Yesterday.
kutztown. Pa. Sept i.-One man
was killed and five others were more
or less seriously injured, when a big
touring car left the old Easton hign-
way at sharp curve at Monterey,
three miles cast of town, last night,
and crashed into telegraph pole.
All of the men are from Easton. WI
liam Musser, % years DID, was the
man killed.
West Chester Pa, Sept. while
riding with several companions late
Saturday night, Earl Carey was kill
cd ard George Taylor fatally injured
when the hind wheel Of their auto
mobile broke and the car upset m
the highway several miles from town.
Dover, Del. Sept. :4-Mnenl!t.a
freight train hit an automobile: az
the North street srosslng OF the
Delaware Railroad about 100 yards
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-09-04
NO USE TO PROTEST.
Only Means More Trouble ahd
Misery for Enslaycd Prisoners oi
Germany.

Washington, Sept. l.--t'urthel
evidence OF the disregard Of thc
Germans for the rights OF prisoners
Of war and Of su6iugated peoples
has reached the State Department
in the story OF an escaped Belgian
Exposed to shell fire and gas at.
tacks and unprovidcd with protective
masks, the cnslavcd natives are
being compelled to work just beh!nd
the German fighting lines, he as
serted. where the insanitary cond!-
tons brought disease TO taoac VINO
escaped death or injury incident t
The battle.
at was no use trying 20 protest,
one of them : reported as SAIL
at oal,. mean: more trouble and
misery, prison and blows. The Goi-
mans gre only 30 glad if you 10 &c
sistt. They have made a rule to send
3 Germany any man CT woman WAC
gets more than three months m
An! no e o. those WHO
has been rcnor'cI has come hact
after his. tire"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-09-04
KILLS SLEEPING WIFE.
Unhappy Man Then Ends Own Llte
With Bullet.

With Bullet.
Passaic, n. j.. Sept. 4.-Joseph
Bakensky, according 10 the police,
shot and killed his wife, from whom
he had been separated for about d
month, shortly after midnight oHf-
urday night. Yesterday after the pc
lice had been searching for him and
police in Philadelphia and Detroit,
where he had relatives, had been
asked to help. his body was 1ouAI
ncav the scene of the crime.
Bakensky. who was leader m the
Polish colony. was - years old and
lived at Lyndhurst. His wife, sin=e
The separation, had lived with -Ir.
and Mrs. Stephen Farnekky IN TINS
city. They had been married about
three and half years. Their 2-Eeaf-
old daughter, who was sleeping with
her mother when Mrs. Bakensky was
killed. was unframed.
Trouble first began, ncighbors SAID,
at the death Of their first cnIId,
seven months old. The husband, an
agent selling electrical devices. &C
cusca his wife G. "a~!ec.!ng her baby
The police think Bakensky cIimae''
to porcl, or which his wife's second
floor room opened. and standing II
the window. shot her as sac i"y
asleep. Bakcnsky was found behind
a fence at the rear of house only
a few doors from the scene Of the
crime. There was a bullet wound n
his heart.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-09-04
FRENCH CABINET SHAkY.
,an,plctc Kcmcdcl;nE likely, Says
Paris Paper.

Paris, Sept IA complete re,
modelling Of tAe cabinet appears -
be Eere ar. more probable, says the
2la';a, which adds that. il such an
av,a.. FE"miar Ribot viii rot prrz-
cnt tie collective resignation Of the
ministry until he has a new con:bi-
nation ready. Various men Of al!
shades u political opinion are men
toned il this connection, but any
prediction at this time IS character
lied as premature.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-09-04

to be wholly defended by German
troops.
General Borovc is reported to
the carso. large section reported
have been removed, being blamed
for the failure of the Austrians, aao
Genera! Koevess named as his sue
cessor. According to the Vienna
Fremdenblatt, General Borovlc up
pea!cd to Won Hindenburg for aid
and asked for Bavarian division
now on the Rumanian front, but
was repulsed.
North Of San Gabriel and in Tx
valley of Brestoviso to the soutA
official dispatches say, the Austrla's
strongly fortified, are fighting des'
perately. Monitors still are dominat-
| ine the Gulf Of Trieste, eight kl'o,
meters frcm Po.a. where the Aus
trian fleet is bottled m, and where
| II is reported, a large army is KEEP
inactive by the :Austrlans.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-09-04
Notice Annual Meeting.

The annual meeting of the stock,
holders Of the Arlington Brewing
Company viii be held at the Office
of the company, Ross!yn, Va, on
Tuesday September II, 1917. at 10
o'clock .. m, for the purpose Of
eIcctin" directors and for the tran
saction OF such other business as
may properly be brought before
said meeting.
Arlington Brewing Company.
20I-1tt Abe King, Secretary.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-09-04

that of Ahab arA devoured his cruel
queen Zeryebei. 1Iet
There is a Ramoth-Gilead in store
for all evlldoers. <Ahab was ted by
a lying spirit to go up and fight the
Svrians at Ramoth-Giiead, lie 1olio"'
ed ;ts advice and was killed in Date
The Kaiser was told by several ~
inp spirits to go up and fight for the
oono,,est Of the world. His Ramoth-
iC;lead is drawing nearer all the time
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-09-04
STORM IN PENNSYLVANIA.
Harrisburg Centre of Rulnous 'ale
and Deluge That Wrecks Much
Property About the City.

Harrisburg Sept. 4.-Shortly after
: o'clock Sunday evening Har-
risburg was visited by wind and
rain storm that for tierceness has
not been equaled here for many
wears. The day. was exceedingly not
and sultry and there was scarcely
a uremonition of the coming storm
which burst in all its Intensity with
out warming. Wind blew down line
trees all over the city, in many IN
stances uprooting them, and along
Capitol and Front streets park trees
that had withstood the storms Of a
century were blown: down.
The city were impossible because OF
fallen trees. poles and wires thrown
across them. In some places small
houses were lifted up and crushed to
pieces and one section of asphalt
pavement was ripped up by the
strong wind Not an instance OF any
body being killed or injured has YET
been reported. The deluge that fel
was brief, but in few minutes the
streets ran deep with water. Sub
ways were checked so that street cal
travel was impeded and many eel
lars were flooded.
The city was in darkness last NIGH
in some places and travel is danger
Gus because of the fallen trees. A
Iemoine, across the river, the tent!
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-09-04
HEAVY AUSTRIAN CASUALTIES
5000 Men and $500 Officers Lost
in the Fighting on the Road TO
Trieste.

Washington Sept. 1. Austrian
losses in the fighting on the road <
Trieste were 125,000 men and $500
officers. according to dispatches re
ceived today at the Italian Embassy
Germany is said to be sending
large forces to the aid Of the Aus
trians,, especially in the region Of
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-09-04
Classified Advertising

BIG REWARD-Will be paid and NJ
Questions asked for return OF
rurkcth2ck containing large sun!
Of money, lost rear Gibson's drug
store Alexandria Sunday night
Address Dir. George II. Levin
1913 Eye street, n. W., Washing
ton. y. G..