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The Alaska citizen., 1917-06-25
JOHN DWYER IS
 INQUIRED FOR

The postmaster at Fort Yukon is in receipt of a communication re- questng the whereabouts Of John Dwyer. The letter is from LOttie Dwyer, of Cleveland, Ohio, who states that she has important news for the missing man Answers to the inquiry should be addressed to the postmaster at Fort Yukon.
The Alaska citizen., 1917-06-25
JAP RESIDENT DIES.

George Ota, a Japanese. died at St. JOseph's hospital at an early hour yesterday morning. The tuner al will be held from the undertak- ing parlors this morning at o'clock, with Rev. W. s. Marble delivering the funeral address.
The Alaska citizen., 1917-06-25
FIRE LOSSES
 VERY LARGE.
Associated prcSs)

UKIAH. Cal. June 20.-Six busi- ness blocks in the heart of this city were destroyed by fire tonight The flames, however, are now under con trol, and it is thought that no more harm will result. The loss occa- stoned by the fire was in the neigh borhood of $250,000.
The Alaska citizen., 1917-06-25
CALI .AHAN IS
 COMING HOME
Especial to The CitiZen)

SkAGWAY, Alaska, June 20.- Dan Callahan arrived here this morn ing from Seattle He is enroute to Fairbanks and is accompanying d large shipment of live stock con signed to Waechter Bros The stock shipment includes no head of cat tie, 100 hogs, 4S0 sheep and 2,000 chickens.
The Alaska citizen., 1917-06-25
LABOR SCARCE.
I.h E.RlN HER
{ Special to The Gjjizrn)

Special to The fiHzen)
 sKAGWAY, Alaska. June 2o. Labor of all kinds is deplorabh scarce everywhere in this vicinity and all along the White Pass lines between here and Dawson. + is prac tically impossibI" to move pound of freight or talk" d ton of ore from the mines. A consequence of the labor shortage it is believed that freight shipments toward Interior Al aska will be very slow, and that construction on he Alaska railroad will be greatly hindered thereby But very few of the mines in this vicinity are able 10 keep going on account of the shortage of labor.
The Alaska citizen., 1917-06-25
ALI. ALASkANS ARI. NOTIFIED
 BY DAVIDSON
Juneau, Alaska, June z0, 191i

Juneau, Alaska, June z0, 1917 Citizen, Fairbanks
 The war department has author ized the selection of an Alaskan quota of twenty men for the second camp of the officers reserve corps at the Presidio, commencing August ?. Major Saville, of Fort Seward, has been designated a. the eXamln- ing officer in charge, and the com mandiug officers at Anchorage, Val deg, and Forts Seward, Davis, Gib- bon. St. Michael and Liscum have been instructed to designate one eX- amining officer for each station. The new form of official application blanks will be mailed 10 the examining off cers from the Presidio on June 25. No examinations will be made pend ing receipt Of blanks. Examination at all stations will be completed in time to place all papers and recon mendations in hands of Major Sa- vile a, Fort Seward on July 80 and on August | SavilIe assisted by board officers, will make final sclec- ton and will notify those selected when to report at camp.
The Alaska citizen., 1917-06-25
DANIDSON,

NVTIHS The foregoing wire was received by The Citizen last evening from Charles E. Davidson, surveyor gen eral of the Territory of Alaska and acting governor in the absence al Washington of Governor J. F, A. Strong. The wire is along the same lines as that sent by Delegate from Alaska Charles A Sulzer and is sup posed 10 be the result of the dele gates work
The Alaska citizen., 1917-06-25

.>usiyc move on q large scale
The Benson signal., 1917-05-26
WOMEN NEVER CAN SEE JOKE
This Was Browns Conclusion After He
Had Recounted One That Had
Been Told to Him.

Brown met Johnson the other morn
latter had parcel under his arm, and
Brown, always inquisitive, wanted to
know what it contained.
"Well," said Johnson, eff you must
know, I've just bought pair of CATERS
very nice ones, too"
"Where at?" asked Brown.
ooh, I don't know the name, but
it's little shop just down that alley
across there" said Johnson.
"Ha-ha! p laughed Brown, who al.
ways liked his little joke, then they
must be alley-gaiters.
This so tickled Johnson that he
made up his mind that he must tell
that to his wife, so, on reaching home
he burst into the room, and laughed
until his wife thought heswould never
stop.
She could not make out what on
earth was the joke, so Johnson started
to tell her.
''Ha-ha, he-he! Oh, lor, such joke
L JUOL llCC OAOWA, lAC dohCO AAV
what I'd got in my parcel.
II told him I'd bought new pair OF
leggings. but didn't know the name OF
the shop, but it was just down the
court.
HE Immediately made good joke
out of it. He said, Good! Then
you've got two crocodiles! What !!
You can't see it? Well, I'm blest!
said he, as his wife maintained Sc
rious expression. t'That's just the
worst of women. They can't see o
joke when it is staring them in the
face, I saw it in moment"
Then he went out into the fresh air
slamming the door as he did sO.-L0n
don Tit-Bits.
The Benson signal., 1917-05-26

memory of the valor, endurance and
patriotism of her sons, who followed
with unshaken fidelity the fortunes OF
the Confederacy to this closing scene,
faithful to the end.
Erected April 9, 1905.
"North Carolina Appomattox COM
mission: III. A. London, chairman; E.
J. Holt, w. 7. Jenkins, Cyrus s. Wat
son, A. D. McGill."
On the opposite side of the monu-
ment is the inscription:
North Carolina. First at Bethel,
Farthest to the front at Gettysburg
and Chickamauga. Last at Appomat-
tax"
Company X, One Hundred and Nine
ty-ninth Pennsylvania, in command OF
Capt. Charles e. Sickles, paced the
porch of the historic house while
Generals Grant and Lee were in the
plain but spacious room in the inside
arranging the terms of peace. After
the terms of surrender had been com
pleted this command still remained on
guard until it reached Richmond, When
it was mustered out June 27, 1860
and was discharged at Camp Cadwal-
lader, July s, 1865.
After the company left the front
wrote r. A. McAuston, one Of the
guard, recently, there were over one
hundred officers and men, but at the
latest reunion at Mannheim only nine
were accounted for. Since then two
have answered "taps." These seven
with COmrade Strutor, make eight who
actually saw what was going on at the
surrender, April 8, 1865.
The Benson signal., 1917-05-26
New Mexico.

The Midway Copper Company OF
Tularosa, Otero county, capitalized at
81 100000, filed Incorporation papers
Eleven men have been put to work
On the Mailluchet copper properties in
Macho canon, twenty miles east OF
Santa Fe
Fifty tons of iron ore are being
shipped daily from the Jones iron
properties near Tecolote in the CALI
mas mountains.
The Carlisle Consolidated Mining
Company, capitalized at $750,000, has
been chartered to operate in the
Steeplerock district
In Sierra county the high price of
silver and by-products has stirred up
renewed interest in the old bOnanzas
at Kingston, Chloride and Lake Valley.
The Lawrence Mining Company re-
ports another strike of gold, copper
and silver ore on the Bonney near
Lordsburg and is shipping seventy
tons daily of ore running between $25
and 800 a ton.
The 150-ton capacity Copper Age
mill is expected to be in operation not
later than June /.
The Benson signal., 1917-05-26
CLOSE TO ITS END.
little Remains of Appomattox,
Where Generals Grant and
Lee CIaSped Hands.

~ ROWN up with underbrush
A and scrub pine is the spot
that marks "the end of the
war" when General Grant
and General Lee, the two opposing
commanders, clasped hands firmly and
Grant said, "Let us have peace" But
there are few of the comrades still
left who remember that bright, sun
shiny day at Appomattox Court House,
when the two generals, fianked by 9TH
er generals of their commands, went
into the historic Mclean house and
arranged the terms of the surrender
that meant the end Of the war and
the return of the citizen armies to
their civilian occupations.
Unlike other famous battlefields,
there has been no attempt to preserve
the spot that marked the most impor-
tant event in the soldering of a di-
vided nation. The village has nearly
disappeared. Only three houses have
survived fire, storm and neglect, and
even those are badly warped, giving
promise that they, too, will soon rot,
and that weeds, followed by scrub
pine, will Overrun their sites. Two of
these houses have long been aban-
doned. The other one is occupied by
the large family of small farmer
stranger to that part of Virginia and
unfamiliar with and apparently indif
ferent to the great memories Of the
country in which he lives.
At the. time of the surrender the
village had been reduced by four years
Of war to a ramshackle, crossroads
hamlet. A cluster of dwellings, most
ly of wood, a livery stable and a
store or two were built around the
sleepy courthouse square. The court
building was burned down 20 years
ago, and today the desolate courthouse
square is numbered with ashes,
charred plaster and shattered bricks.
In a particularly dark patch of a
gloomy stretch of the pines there re-
turning veterans come upon the North
Carolina monument.
The inscription on it has caused
tense and bitter controversy in the
South. 1t follows:
Last at Appomattox.
Eat this place the North Carolina
brigade of Brig Gen. w. r. Cox Of
Grimes division, fred the last volley
April 9, 1865.
'Maj. Gen. Bryan Grimes of North
Carolina planned the last battle fought
by the army of northern Virginia and
commanded the infantry engaged
therein, the greater part of whom were
North CarOlinianS.
''The stone is erected by the author
ity of the general assembly of North
Carolina in grateful and perpetual
The Benson signal., 1917-05-26

names or pile up foul epithets
Decades ago old grudges have
been relegated into oblivion. We
have buried past differences
never to be resurrected. The
men Of the South were brave as
well as those Of the North. In
deed, it. was bravery pitted
against bravery, fury against
fury, wild beast graphing with
wild beast. Heroes under Hook
er, Burnside, Mcclellan, Sher-
man, Sheridan, Grant, pitted
against heroes under Long
street, Hampton, Hill, Stonewall
Jackson, Lee. Heroes in the
command Of heroes. Both lead
ers and rank and file fought
like tigers under opposite con-
vic+ions and prayed like saints
for divine guidance throughout
the whole CalanitouS and cruel
struggle! The boys in blue were
right. eternally right, and the
boys in gray were wrong
eternally wrong. But all that is
happily forgotten today IN one
glorious indivisible American
tSInl
The Benson signal., 1917-05-26

"Where were you hurt, sergeant?'
asked one officer.
almost up, sir" was the faint re-
ply.
II mean in what part are you hurt?'
The wounded man fixed his eyes on
the speaker.
almost to the top" he whispered.
The officer lifted the covering and
saw the frightfully shattered arm.
Eyes, I was almost up," murmured
the sergeant. "But for that I should
have reached the top"
He had been bearing the flag when
he was shot. He died, with the utter
ance growing fainter and fainter on
his lips:
almost up."-Youth's Companion.
The Benson signal., 1917-05-26
Wyoming.

A large number of oil locations were
filed for record in the county clerks
office at Lander.
At a depth of $50 feet the Republic
Oil Company people struck enough gas
to run their boilers, and they expected
to get down to real oil soon.
At tha present rate of production
Wyoming's oil fields are yielding
cruQe Petroleum at the rate Of 31,00U
barrels a day, or 11,315,000 barrels In
O calendar yeaT.
The Benson signal., 1917-05-26
Druggists Customers Praise
Kidney Medicine

DR.. Kilmer's Swamp Root is the
best seller on the market today in this
locality. believe it is all that is claimed,
and during my experience of eight years
in handling it as kidney, liver and blad-
der remedy have never heard single
complaint and know that it has produced
very beneficial results in many cases, ac-
cording to the reports of my customers
who praise it highly.
Very truly yours,
HERBERT S. MAXWELL,
Druggist.
June 5, 1916. Plymouth, Mass.
Prove What Swamp-Root Will Do For You
Send ten cents to DR.. Kilmer & Co.,
Binghamton, N. Y, for a sample size
bottle. 1t will convince anyone. You
will also receive booklet of valuable
information, telling about the kidneys
and bladder. When writing, be sure and
mention this paper. Regular ffty-cent
and one-dollar size bottles for sale at all
drug stores.-Adv.
The Benson signal., 1917-05-26
SOFT, CLEAR SKINS
Made SO by Daily Use of Cuticura
Soap and Ointment-Trial Free.

The last thing at night and the first
In the morning, bathe the face freely
with Cuticura Soap and hot water. II
there are pimples or dandruff smear
them with Cuticura. Ointment before
bathing. Nothing better than Cuticura
for daily toilet preparations.
Free sample each by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. l..
Boston. Sold everywhere.-Adv.
The Benson signal., 1917-05-26
ground,

The site of the inn, which command
ed a widely extended view, looked di-
rectly upon the scene of a famous
charge of the Civil war. Maj. Gen.
O. O. Howard relates a pathetic little
incident which happened on this very
spot, in his article entitled "Grant at
Chattanooga"
Four men were carrying a wounded
soldier to the rear on a stretcher.
The Benson signal., 1917-05-26
Veterans Swiftly Passing.

Before many years are past there
will be no veterans of our Civil war
left alive. There will be no pathetic
yet stirring parades of feeble old men.
walking to the music Of fife and drum
There will be no patriotic Memorial
day exercises at which soldier of the
Civil war is the speaker. The Grand
Army posts will be made over to the
Sons of Veterans.
The Benson signal., 1917-05-26
Arizona.

The United Eastern mine at Oatman
in March earned 5000 per day.
There is increased activity at all
the mines in the Salome district
The San Juan mines in Graham
county are being actively worked.
There has been a pretty good dis
cOvery of oil in the Chin Valley Com
pany's well near Jerome
Development work continues very
steadily at the Navajo mine and the
ore piles have grown substantially.
1t has been announced that active
development work is to be begun at
the Relief properties in the Granite
Wash section.
The famous old Mossback mine at
Chloride is to be unwatered and sam
pied by representatives of syndicate
that is prepared to take it over and de-
velop it.
Hard to see how such high prices of
copper are maintained, when the pro-
duction is so enormous. Calumet &
Arizona's production for April was
100000 pounds of blister copper.
The Benson signal., 1917-05-26
Honor That Will Endure.

AS long as Americans feel and know
the meaning of the word ''liberty," as
long as Americans can appreciate the
truisms, 'E pluribus unum" and "Ir
unity there is strength" that long viii
the memory of the Civil war soldiers
be hohored, that long Memorial day
will be celebrated.
The Benson signal., 1917-05-26
SEND FOREsTERS TO TRANCE
Regiment of Experienced Woodsmen
to Be Raised to Assist in Lur-
bering Operations.

Washington.-In addition to regi-
ments of engineers, corps of physi-
clans. and eventually divisions of regu-
lar soldiers, the United States will
Aend a forestry regiment" to France.
This regiment is to be composed of for
esters and others experienced in lum-
herring operations.
The Benson signal., 1917-05-26
THIRD OF THE MEN ENLIST
Every Bachelor, Between Ages of
Twenty-One and Thirty-One, in
Westernmost Hamlet, to Serve.

Portland, Ore. - Every unmarried
man.. aged twenty-One to thirty-One,
who lives in Port Oxford, Curry coun-
ty, Oregon, already has volunteered
for service either in the army or the
navy. The volunteers from the little
town of $50 people number one-third
of the adult male population.
The Benson signal., 1917-05-26

rendering him un-
conscious Of the
facts about him
in the one great
thought of accom-.
plishment. T h e
burning of the
Well-knOwn inn
on Lookout noun
tain drew the pub
lie attention to
that great battle
The Benson signal., 1917-05-26
True Memorial Day Thought.

1t is the great tragedy of those
bloody deaths the soldier brought each
other, not because of hatred for each
other, but for the sake of a principle,
that we must think of on Memorial
day.
The Benson signal., 1917-05-26
WESTERN \
:
MINING AND OIL
NEWS ;;
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
Prices Quoted for Metals.
New York.-Lead, 1912 @10hc.
Bar silver, 74Bc.
Copper-Casting, $2S62h.
st. Louis.-Spelter, $9.07
Boulder.-Tungsten concentrates, 60
per cent, $170O per unit. Crude ores,
so per cent, $500; 25 per cent, $9.40
@120O; 10 per cent, $8.70@10.O0 per
unit.
The Benson signal., 1917-05-26

arrayed has sought to impose it's Will
upon the world by force. To this end
it has increased armament until it
has changed the face of war. In the
sense in which we have been wont to
think of armies there are no armies
in this struggle. There are entire ma
tions armed. Thus, the men who re-
main to till the soil and man the fac
tories are no less part of the army
that is in France than the men beneath
the battle flags. 1t must be SO with
us. 1t is not an army that we must
shape and train for war; it is ma
ton. To this end our people must
draw close in one compact front
against a common foe. But this can
not be if each man pursues private
purpose. All must pursue one pur-
pose.
'"The nation needs all men, but 1t
needs each man, not in the field that
will most pleasure him, but in the en-
deavor that will best serve the COM
mon good.
1T is in no sense a cOnscriptiOn of
the unwilling-it is rather selection
from a nation which has volunteered
in mass.
'The day here named is the time
upon which all shall present them
selves for assignment to their tasks.
ut is essential that the day be ap-
preached in thoughtful apprehension
of it's significance and that we accord
to it the honor and the meaning that
it deserves. Our industrial need pre-
scribes that it be not made a techni-
cal holiday, but the stern sacrifice
that is before us urges that it be
carried in all our hearts as a great
day of patriotic devotion and obliga-
ton when the duty shall lie upon ev-
cry man, whether he is himself to be
registered or not, to see to it that
the name of every male person of the
designated ages is written on these
lists Of honor.
'By the president:
ROBERT LANSING,
Secretary of State"
The Benson signal., 1917-05-26
She's Found a Place TO Start.

"Now that we are at war we shall
have to practice rigid economy"
Cali right, my dear, looked at your
last years hat this morning, and am
sure it will do again for this summer.
The Benson signal., 1917-05-26
Colorado.


The past winter mining has been
good in and around Georgetown.
The March record for coal was a
good one in the state of Colorado.
The mill of the Lord Byron prop
erty, in Boulder county, has resumed
operations on tungsten ore.
Pitkin, Gunnison county, reports an
other strike has been made in the
Bowerman district.
Frank Galley, lessee on the Jerry
Johnson mine, Cripple Creek, was
shipping again from that Ironclad hill
property.
The revival of old mines is prom
inent in Gilpin county, where the
small capitalist has a chance as well
as the larger one.
Sixty-oun assays are surprising
Cripple Creek, coming from ores in
the Galley lease on the Jerry Johnson
mine ON east slope of Ironclad hill.
The boom in the oil industry con-
tinues to increase rather than dimin-
ish, with Wyoming in the spot light,
and the other fields coming in strong
on the chorus.
Colorado's production of gold, silver,
copper, lead and zinc for 1915 was
4,060, ,521.7O, according to the bien-
nial report of the State Bureau of
Mines. This is an increase of 80 per
cent over 1914. The production for
1916 was $49,O0O,OOO, according to the
report
To determine the strike and further
extensions of two great leads in the
Sneffels district after they cross into
Ouray territory from the Telluride
side will be among the field work un-
dertakeni by the engineers and geolo-
gists of the Tom Boy-Smuggler Union
companies during the coming summer
The set of leasers who have been
leasing certain blocks of ground on the
Mountain Top mine, near Ouray, have
since the first of the year shipped al
together fifty-one tons Of crude ore
that averaged something over $2O5 a
ton. All of the low-grade ore of the
mine which averages about 500 ton,
is being treated in the underground
mill by the Mountain Top Company.
The Benson signal., 1917-05-26
Her Choice.

"What fine carriage that man
hasl'
eyes. But I'd rather know the man
with the millionaire slouch who owns
a limousine"
The Benson signal., 1917-05-26

Makes the laundress happy-that's Red
Cross Bag Blue. Makes beautiful. clear
white clothes. All good grocers. Adv.
The Benson signal., 1917-05-26
DYING SOLDIERS ONE REGRET
Obsessed by Thought That He was
Stricken Almost in the Moment
of Great Triumph.

There are times when a mans pur
pose Overmasters everything else, fol-
lowing him even to the gates Of death,
The Benson signal., 1917-05-26
No North or South

Il hail Memorial Day!
There is no North or
South now. We are
neither Federals nor
COnfederateS-we are
Am eric ans, first, last
and all the time. We no
lon Ger call each other
The Benson signal., 1917-05-26
DRAFT MEASURE IS
SIGNED BY WILSON:
TROOPS TO FRANCE
Wilson Sets June 8 as Date for
Registration.
u. S. DIVISION TO FRANCE
UNDER MAJ. GEN. PERSHlNG

President Rejects Roosevelt Volunteer
Army Plan-Says Experts of Coun-
try and Allies Opposed Proposal
National Guard to Mobilize in July
Call to coIors September I.