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Douglas Island news., 1917-12-07
URGENTLY NEEDED

Several local mariners have called our ltcutiou to am error in our report of the Mariposa wreck. The Sentinel stated that the wreck occurred at place that is out of he usual course of traffic. This is not rue. Amy large vessel leaving Wrangell aorthbomd would pass very close to where . Inc wreck occurred. It is only the smaller boats, such as the Humboldt, Jefferson, and City of Seattle that go through Wran- gcll Nmrows. All vessels leaving Wran- gcll uorthbomd which are too large to go through the NaTows must go around Cape Decision and can not avoid the perilous passage in which the Mariposa and other vessels have been wrecked.
 This is another tremendous argument in favor of the Dry Straits project. With the Dry Straits channel open to traffic the travelling distance between Wrangell and Juneau would be considerably shortened, and the Dry Straits would be much safer for the larger boats than going around Cape Decision. The opening of Dry Straits would eliminate Wrangell NarrOws as a passage. The Nauows has never been a satisfactory passage on account of even the smaller vessels having to wait until the tide is right before attempting to go through.
 Delegate Sulzer has frequently com mitted himself in favor of the Dry Straits project. The wrecking of the Mariposa should give the Delegate some strong talking points.-Wrangell Sentinel.
Douglas Island news., 1917-12-07

The fom-mmutc speech propaganda is just as much of a war measure as is any other of the many necessary steps now be- ug taken throughout the entire country all in the same direction and all for ouc purpose and aim, to win the war, There fore. any man or woman who is asked by those in charge of supplying four-minute speakers to fin a date and who declines to do so is. in a sense. a stacker. Gift of ora tory is not necessary to comply with the request. All that is desired is to simply keep the minds of the people refreshed on thc subject of food conservation. Mir. 6Wr, at the bank. is in charge of the talk supply on the Island and he will gladly accept the services of all volunteers for that purpose Show yom patriotism by volunteering as D fom-mmmtc talker.
Douglas Island news., 1917-12-07

tcrializc. On the contrary the price of every commodity mentioned increases steadily and everything purchased is a fraction higher than it was the previous time. If the government intends taking over and fixing the prices for certain neccs- sjtics, it is high time steps were being taken in that direction To the average person it looks as though there is too much "just talk" and not enough do.
Douglas Island news., 1917-12-07

Go down 10 the steamers as they come m and Seward people will get all the good .hccr there they need The travellers say hat Cordoya is a good little town, Valdez isn't half bad, but "what real town Sew rd is and how busy everybody scems!' It's the same thing over and over agin, Seward is the best town west of Juneau and n classes of people agree to this.-Sew- ud Gateway.
 The best town west of Juneau, eh! Well, we'll
Douglas Island news., 1917-12-07

There is mo use talking, more literature
 nat is never read, that goes into the waste basket as soon as it arrives, that, in real .y is where it belongs when it reaches the waste basket, is being circulated now than ,vcr before in the history of America and, probably. of the world. Much of it is worthy. but it is so voluminous that not ,uc person in a thousand has the time, even iG they had the inclination, to peruse it.. Especially are newspaper offices being flooded with this literature. Only this week a circular letter was received at this office purportng to come from the Rocky Mountain Club of New York City and ask ing for contributions of from one to one hundred dollars to be applied toward sup plying American soldiers in France with dinners. While ThankSgiv- ing was in the discard week before the letter arrived, it is mentioned simply to it. mstratc the class of stuff" with which
 hc mails are laden at present. Our read
 l.s are cautioned to beware of this class of
 appeals that are msanctioned by the Red Cross OF some other recognized organiza- ion.
Douglas Island news., 1917-12-07

Mayor GilI. O. Seattle. once acc Hi m r.c estimation oi many people, now ranks as a tvu--pot with many of his .or mc admirers Anyhow. 'bc positions o. mayor oI Seattle and prime minister o. Russia are ou a par. with tac advantage. sIiguIy m tayoro. the latter mthc mean time General Greene has Seattle where thc hair is shor His men can not visit that city until after wash day, and that is alI there is to it. 1T no ''wash' day is observed uo soldiers can go there Go seat tcr their -chccamm. Woe is Seattle and low ], Iii Gill
Douglas Island news., 1917-12-07

Some of our exchanges are daily run ming such readers as "Just IS more days to Christmas By adding seven days to the figures given concerning Christmas, the time intervening until Alaska sits cn- taroucd ou thc water wagon will be asccr- tamcd Ach. Louie!
Douglas Island news., 1917-12-07

Douglas Island is contributing hu share of young men Co the war; scarcely a woc, passing that does uot witness the de- umtw, of a number from here for thc 1ar uus training camps ou the outside. Thu, uwc havruot noticed single American born stacker as having been apprcbcudcc m Alaska. Some O, them had they rc mauej in .hc States might have been diff frrcut. but the climate of Alaska is "lci- uu,t' ,'arsug.
Douglas Island news., 1917-12-07

While Christmas this year will be mod flied to a great extent u SO far as the spirit of giving is concerned, it is not wise to S'p- press thc Christmas spirit entirely and it is mot necessary to do SO. Christmas is the greatest day in the year to the children and they should mot be deprived entirely of the good cheer md happiness rha, ac- companies it. ENtavagaut observation of the occasion, however. should be materially cmhcd Our country is at war and noth- ing should be overlooked that will aid in winning that war and restoring peace to the world, that thc glad Christmas seasons of coming years may be as fully enjoyed as were those of former years and before war clouds lowered over happy American homes
Douglas Island news., 1917-12-07

There is something wrong somewhere. Almost every day we read that there are to be reductions in the price of meat, four, potatoes, coal and other things necessary in the pursuit of litf liberty and happiness. Yet these promised reductions do not na-
Douglas Island news., 1917-12-07

Kctchisau pleads guilty to having had 53o5 inches ot rainfall last month, which was a rrcord-brcakcr ror thor section oi the country Even at that, Ectchkm did mot have all thc rain by a long shot. Up to that time CwJoya held the rainfall record with 70 inches ror ouc month
Douglas Island news., 1917-12-07

An exchange says thc housewives of lts own town arc seeing to it that whcatlcs. md .ucat'yss" Jays are observed in thcn respective families While 1t is probably true as 1t reads, that paper mo doubt meant .o u-c au .'m" where am "u' was used Such a-um- a, '.uoatlcss" days occur u some homes seven times week.
Douglas Island news., 1917-12-07

The majority of reader, who followed .bc accom, O. the trial of Mrs. Blanca dc SauIlcs. the Chilean hcircss who shot and killed ncr American husband after Inc had >lnjcrcJ hcr money spmmcd hcr lov, aud otherwise mstrcarcd her, will agrc, that thc jury acted properly in acQuitm- hcr.
Douglas Island news., 1917-12-07

Su .ar as we are concerned we are wil, m. to stand shoulder to shoulder witt Herbert Hoover in every move he makes ,o conserve h. food of the uation-cNrcpt ouc We do uat fan iu with his "Kccp-a- Pig" ideas amt u, mot going into the pig raising business; aIso We shall have a talk with our u.ghhor in the same fiat aud d, om. best To oporsuadc him to mot engage m uL. ruLLmo.
Douglas Island news., 1917-12-07
DIR. MARTIN pAMOuRETTE

Specialist in Throat and Lungs and
 General Surgery Microscopic exam nations. office, San Francisco Bak- cry Blk, Juneau, Alaska. Phone i53.
Douglas Island news., 1917-12-07
BLACKSMITH SHOP FOR RENT

Fully equipped and in splendid lo- cation. Two living rooms in con- nection. Inquire "X," care of Douglas Island News. f
Douglas Island news., 1917-12-07

Northern Light Rebeknh Lodge No. mootsat Odd Bolows' hall second and fourth Thursdays. vlsltorsare cordially Invited.
 INA BENSON. NC GERTRUDE LAUGHLGN Secretary.
Douglas Island news., 1917-12-07

These .Iys the country that only has millions f.r dcfyusc' had better lock up shop and ta.,r Co thu woods. Millions don't eo very la ia defense these days.
Douglas Island news., 1917-12-07
GENERAL PRACTICE

Aurora Eneampment No. meets at Odd Fellows' hall first oud third Mondays at p.m. Brothers Of the Royal Purple arc cordially Invited.
 JOHN e JOHNSON, CT W. L. KILBURN. Scribe.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-02-15
new GUARD ORDER
FIXES LEAVING DAYS
Some South Dakota and Ne
braska Troops Not Mentioned
in Recent Announcements.

a Antonio. Tex, Feb. 12-Revised
schedules of the dates of departure for
the majority of the national guard or
g~anizations, recently ordered to their
home states for muster out of federal
service, were announced at southern
department headquarters today.
With the exception Of a few of the
organizations the troops still on the
border and included in the orders for
returning have een given definite
dates for en%trainrnent.
Troop A, South Carolina cavalry.
Company A., engineers and field hos
pital No. I. all of which are at Ell
Paso. will get away Sunday. Tennes-
see field hospital No. / and ambulance
company No. /, Ell Paso, will entrain
the same day.
The sixth Pennsylvania infantry, Ell
Faso. will leave February 10, the
Eighth infantry, third brigade, head
quarters and Company 6, engineers, Ell
Pasa. February 20; second battalion
Minnesota field artillery, less n bait
terry. will cntrain at Llano Grande Feb
ruary II; Fifth Maryland infantry,
Eagle Pass. departs February IA; Bat
teries "a and c. Alabama field artillery,
Douglas, will leave February IA; Sew
enty-fourth New York infantry, at Nc
Allen, February IA: New York field
bakery and ambulance company. No. 4,
also at McAnen, leave February 10:
first squadron Iowa cavalry, Llano
Grande. n Iowa field hospital. No. L,
and ambulance company, No. i, Feb
ruary Is; sirst squadron Ohio cavalry,
Ell Paso, February Is; louisiana field
hospital. No. /. brownsville, February
20; first Oklahoma infantry, San Ban-
ito February 20.
Datesso o departure for the Following
organizations have not vet been set:
Fourth South. Dakota infantry, San
Benito; First battalion Minnesota field.
Lano Grande; Fourth Ohio infantry,
Ell Paso; Nebraska field hospital.
Llano Grandes First Minnesota infan.
try, Camp Wilson, San Antonio; Fourth
Missouri infantry, Laredo; Fifth Ohio
infantry n third brigade. h~eadquar-
ters at El Paso. must await the de-
parture of the Fourth Ohio infantry.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-02-15
EUGEN|CS BILL is
PASSED BY HOUSE
Measure Requires Physical Ex-
animation for All AppIi-
cants for Marriage
Licenses.

Pierre. S. D., Feb. 10.--By a vote OF 70
10 81 the house passed the eugerlcs bail
Drawn by the Aberdeen Social Science
club, which requires a physical exam
nation OF all applicants for marriage
license and forbids the issuance of a
license unless health certificates for
both of the proposed contracting par
lies are presented to the clerk of courts.
Two years ago the same Dill was made
I Joke of in the house and voted down
With only a handful of affirmative
votes.
To Retain Post.
The military bill to offer the old Fort
Sisseton military reservation for sale,
.hus securing a portion of the fun to
purchase a new state military camp
and rifle range, went down with a ma
lority so large that there was no pos
ibility of a change in that proposition.
rhe section contains a large number of
buildings and the general sentiment
was tina these should be retained by
The state for future use.
An Auxiliary Board.
Among the house bills introduced
was one by Buchholz, providing for
Auxiliary election boards in all pre-
.incts which cast more than 100 votes,
The auxiliary board to begin its duties
1T l o'clock in the afternoon of election
day and the votes cast up to
.llStl iltiS, iIll SplilitlGS lAS Sc1l o~oS uP
20 the time the polls close, this for the
purpose of securing more speedy cleo
ton returns.
The legislative committee which has
been selected to confer with legislative
committees from Minnesota and North
Dakota on drainage matters affecting
the three states will leave for ST. Paul
today for a conference in that city on
the 9th.
Senator Moore today introduced a bill
in the senate which makes the mini
mum banking capital for organization
of a new state bank in South Dakota
$4,000, and, ranging upon a population
basis, carries the minimum up to $780,
900 in a city of 5000 or more population.
For Short Ballot.
State Senator Dowdell, it is said. will
present amendments, one Of which will
provide for a f~our-year term for gov
ernor and a short ballot, and the others
provide for a state packing plant, ter
minal elevators n state highways.
The house passed a joint resolution
submitting to a vote the proposition OF
state hail insurance by a special levy
in counties.
Johnson, Anderson and Graft pre-
sented a bone dry" prohibition bill
This is the original Holsaple bill
amended on representation OF druggists
and physicians.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-02-15
ADICK" WOODS, OF
SIOUX FALLS, DEAE

Sioux Falls. S. D., Feb. i0-Col r. J.
sDick" Woods. Insurance man nj fra
ternal lodge figure OF national
Wednesday night of heart failure.
Mr.. Woods career was an unusually
eventful ne. He was born at Belfast,
Ireland, January II, 1864, and when a
mere boy came to the United States.
Upon being sent to South Dakota in
1880 with other orphan children he
worked on what was known as the
Meade farm in Lincoln county for q
period of two years. Then he came
to Sioux Falls to seek his fortune. Not
afraid of any honest work, he COM
menced as a ~hodcarrier and worked up
until he was engaged as porter at the
Cataract hotel. After serving as a
guard DIT the Sioux Falls penitertiary
90 years ago. he began his career as A
life insurance man, of which business
he made a brilliant success.
For eight years he was president of
the state league OF republican clubs:
twice president of the state ElkS' as
ISOLATION, n twice president of the
had been prominent in National Repub-
lican leagu~ circles. 1t had been said of
him that he had taken more than his
share of limitations i'll the many social
and fratern2l organizations represented
in his state: had been president or vice
president, secretary or treasurer, or di-
rector. in more leagues and associations
and societies and clubs. fraternal or
business or social or political or pa
triotic, than any othaT man in South
Dakota. He never failed to put his
shoulder to the wheel in any enterprise
for the benefit of the city, county and
state.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-02-15

CENTERVILLE - Elmer Mitchell, q
Centerville man, had a close call from
death when he severed an artery in his
right wrist on the jagged edge of a brok-
en- pop bottle. The presence of mind of
himself AND his friend, John McAthie, jr.,
saved his life. One pressed down on the
upper end of the severed artery and the
other on the lower end, and in this man.
ner walked to the office of a physician,
where the flow of blood was stopped. The
physicians said the action of he two in
pressing the severed artery had saved
Mitchells' life.
HARDWOOD - Elaborate preparations
are being made for q big g~et-together
meeting to be held by the Deadwood Bus
mess club on Wednesday, February IA.
Judge MCGEE. of Rapid City, has accept
ID an invitation to be present and deliver
the chief address. Other speakers will
be Mayor Harry Atwater. of Sturgis, who
will speak on the subject of Fort Meade
rs a military training camp; County
Agent Lyman, of Spearfsh, and j. c. Mil
ne, of Vale.
WAGNER-Sheriff Lynch, Of Charles
Mix county, a returned from Tulsa,
Okla. having in custody Jacob Forman,
who is wanted in Charles Mix county on
two charges. one Of extortion and the
other of embezzlement. After commit
ting thea neged crimes he fed from South
Dakota Inc finally was traced to the
Oklahoma city. where he was arrested.
He has been held for trial at the next
term of circuit court and. in default Of
bonds. was lodged In Jail.
CENTERvILLE-The members of the
local commercial club at their annual bus
mess meeting elected the following Off
GERS for the coming year: President. F.
w. Bonine: vice president, Robert Peter
son; OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, Louis Berven.
One of the matters the commercial club
has taken up is the proposal to hold a
corn products show in the city next fall.
sFAIRFAX-In accordance with a petit
ton filed by a large majority of the tax
payers, the city council has called a spec
fal election, to be held February q, at
which the proposition of issuing bonds of
$4,000 for the construction OF an up-to-
date municipal water works system will
be submitted.
Observation-Disclosures have been
completed for a district meeting OF teach
ers. which will be held here Saturday,
under the direction of Miss Evalena Ross
man. county superintendent of schools. A
number of the educators in attendance
will make addresses.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-02-15
RUTHLESS POLICY
DIVIDES CLERGYhEN
Prussian Faction Favors U-Boat
Horrors, While Those ia
South Oppose It.

The Hague. Feb. 13-Marked dtEer-
ences Of opinion between the clergy ef
south Germany and those OF Prussia
the ethics of the unrestricted
campaign are reportea by
the Berlin correspondent of the ARs-
terdam Tijd, a Roman Catholic paper
Although the majority of the Ger
mar Nefergy: the correspondent says
hold to the view of iu~stificattsn
through necessity. many of the seuth
Germans regret the governments de
cision Hnd disapprove it, holding thai
other means of achieving the desired
end are not yet exhausted.
The correspondent concludes that
the high church authorities would
give no opinion. but that none of the
lower clergy concealed their painful
emotion at h prospect of unrestricted
submarine operations.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-02-15
ocoTLAND. SOUTH DAKOTA

There are two animals hat puzzle
naturalists more than any others. They
are natures submarine and aeroplane-
the whale and the eagle. 1t is known
as 5000 feet below the surface of the
sea-a depth at which, from the pres
sure of the water. they ought to be
crushed flat. Why they are not in
lured n~aturaiists have yet to discover.
1t is this pressure hat prevents n mod
ern submarine from descending more
than zoe 9 Eagles have been seen,
through telescopes, to fly with appar-
n ease from 5000 to 10000 feet above
sea Level. AT that height no human
being "a 1--WE. owing to the rarifica-
tion Of the air. How the birds live and
Gy at far greater heights than man ran
endure is another question still unan-
Euarnd
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-02-15

New South Dakota Measure De
mands Certificates From
All State Edia-
caters.

Fierrc. s. D.. Feb. 12-All teachers III
the state must have normal training,
according to a bill presented to the
senate by Mohn, of Marshall. The bill
includes rural schoois and prohibits the
state superintendent of schools from is
suing certificates unless such training
is shown.
Contract labor and road work of con-
victs are combined in a bill introduced
by Groth, of Minnehaha, in the house.
1t authorizes the warden of the state
penitentiary to put prisoners on con-
tracts for highway work. grading. or
farm work with 40 per cent of their
earnings to be given he convicts on
their release. 1t provides for shelter
for the prisoners and guards during the
work.
Increase Bonded Indebtedness.
II the state is to take UP any of the
numerous development features which
are being outlined through proposed
constitutional amendments there must
be a change of the constitutional in
debtedness limit is the view of Senator
Dowdell, who started his resolution in
the senate for an additional amendment
to the constitution to allow the state
to extend it's bonded Indebtedness up
to $500, 600. Under present constitu-
tional restrictions the limit is $500, 900.
which would not so far toward any of
hed~ development plans which have been
proposed in different amendments
which are to be submitted.
Two Of these proposed development
plans were completed yesterday when
he house adopted the resolution au-
thorizing the state to engage in the
development Of it's water powers and
to engage in the development Of its
beds of natural cement materials along
the Missouri river. AS these resolutions
do not 80 to the governor but are filed
directly in the office of the secretary
OF state the action of the house is final
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-02-15
AUSTRIA SAYS WILSON
MUST DECIDE FUTURE
Government Will Not Back Up
and President Has Her Dec
laration, Official Says.

Vienna, Feb. 16.-Government circles
were calmly awaiting new develop
ments with regard to the submarine
controversy with Germany and Austria.
AShigh official said to the Associated
Press that all the moves were in the
hands OF President Wilson; that the
Austrc-FIungarian government was not
SEEKING complications and would do
notnlng which would enable the presi-
cent to go before the American people
with the claim that he had been driven
to radical action. The governments
altltude appears to be of calm deter
,n,nadloI1 to follow the policy an,
relations with the United States is
universal on the part of the press and
the public.
IN an interview given by a high gov
ernmeht official today to the Associat-
ed Press shortly after the receipt OF
news that Decentralization between
Germany and che Unitcd tates had
been severed, the statement was made:
Y had hoped the American govern
ment would take a different view of our
situation, since we had waited more,
than q year before a decision on the
question was reached, which was en-
tlrely q courtesy OF our part toward
the United States. During that time
we mad entertained the hope that it
neve would be necessary to give the
submarine its full effectiveness, al
though we long e had been convinced
of such effectiveness.
When President Wilson finally inter
ested hfTnsef in behalf OF peace. we
sighed In relief because we hoped the
satsHl a1serstlrnin doxvn&our4offer.
Would not dare step before the world
with q war Program which was nothing
out q declaration that the entente was
the war for conquest. Our
peace offer was made despite the fact
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-02-15

M. Zengheais told the Academic des
Sciences in Paris recently that he a
been studying the Greek fire" used in
war by the Byzantines. The descrip-
lions of this say that it was hurled
from a copper tube with a sound like
thEnder and with q great cloud of
smoke. From this he concluded thai
the Byzantine Greeks had real cannon
IN which they used explosive mixtures,
with inter al a base. Accordingly, the
honor for the discovery of g~unpowder
must be given to the engineer Calm
fcus. of Heiiopolis. who first used it,
destroying . Saracen fleet with it in
go a. u.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-02-15
BROAD " GIVEN
TO PROTECT CANAL
Governor of Canal Zone May
Bar Any Undesirable Person
Under Order Sigaed by yVilso2.

ecutive order to exclude spies and StAer
undesirable persons from the Panama
canal zone n give the governor viz
tually unlimited authority to regulate
immigration there. has been signed by
President Wilson.
been made public. but it is understosd
to contain drastic provisions, very
broad in terms to prevent entry of per
sons who .would be a menace 10 the
general welfare"