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Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-25
SKILLED WORKERS
TO BE EXEMPTED
IN SECOND DRAFT
Secret Convention of Mem
bers of Exemption Boards
and w ar Department
Heads Held.

Washington, Oct. 25.-Skilled ship
yard employees and probably other
workers essential to- war industries will
be placed in n deferred class for the
next draft. To which one of the five
classes in the new selective service
system these skilled workers will be
assigned and the increasing clamor OF
farmers for exemption, are problems
being worked out today. Conferences
have been held by war department Of
ficials with shipping board heads. ag
ricultural experts, labor leaders and
large employers.
Recently an important convention
was held here secretly between prom
inent members OF exemption boards
from all parts of the country and war
department heads for the purpose Of
discussing uniform vocational exemp-
tion and simplifying the work of local
boards. The five class system and a
determination to avoid interference
with war industries by draft of indis-
pensable workers resulted.
NEW REGULATIONS.
The finer shades of these questions
are now being worked out by a smaller
group of draft experts
A new set of regulations to aid local
boards in. handling these problems is
being prepared. The meeting place OF
the small group Of experts is a secret
also.
Shipping board officials are conf
dent that the scarcity of skilled ship
wrights would shortly be solved if
such workers were guaranteed exemp-
tion.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-25
Italians, Aided by French
and British, Resist Often
sive Of Austrians and
Germans.
Official Rome Dispatches
Announce That One of the
Decisive Battles of the
War Is Being Fought on
italian Front.

WASHINGTON, OCT Bone OF
THE DECISIVE BATTLES OF THE,
WAR IS APPARENTLY BEING
-FOUGHT TODAY ON THE Balm
SIZZA PLATEAU, WHERE THE
AuSTR1ANS, WITH 20 FRESH d.
VISIONS CONTAINING MANY GER
MAN CONTINGENTS. ARE ON THE
OFFENSIVE. GENERAL CADORNA,
ITALIAN HIGH COM M A NDFR,
WITH r L I n FORC EMENTS OF
FRENCH AND BRITISH TROOPS,
is PREPARED TO HOLD THE ITAL-
IAN POSITIONS AT ALL COSTS,
OFFICIAL ROME CABLES RE-
PORTED.
Italian officials declared the Austro-
Germans are willing to sacrifice thou
sands of their troops for gains on the
lsonzo that would be heralded in the
Teuton press to strengthen the peoples
morale.
German aerial squadrons are strong
ly represented on the mountain battle
ground. One German flyer was
brought down, said the Rome cables.
King Albert of Belgium, expected to
visit the Italian front soon, may arrive
in time to witness the great battle
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-25
MENTALLY UNFIT
ARE WEEDED OUT
A AMERICAN ARMY
Many Men Discharged Be-
cause of the Danger That
the War Would Drive
Them Insane.
BY GEORGE MARTIN.

Omitted Press Staff Correspondent. J
Washington, Oct 25.--From one and
one half to five per cent Of all Amer
lean troops thus far examined have
been discharged because war service
abroad probably would drive them in
sane.
That statement Is made on the au-
thority of Major Pearce Bailey, medi-
cal reserve corps. Disclosure of those
figures today show the first concrete
result of Surgeon General Gorgas de-
termination to weed out the poten-
TALLY insane from American fighting
forces before they get into action.
SPECIALISTS AT WORK.
Two hundred physical and neuro- :
logical brain specialists are carefully
scrutinizing every American trooper
for signs of mental diseases which
would drive him insane in action, but
which ordinary medical examiners
would overlook.
Among British troops where this
forehanded wedding out was not done,
Ma jor Bailey declared, one-seventh of
all discharges are due to mental or
nervous disorders.
The diseases for which these sanity
experts include mental defects, cpl
lepsy. psychophatic personality, potcn-
tial insanity and venereally diseased
condition of the central nervous sys-
tenn.
Many of these borderland cases Bal
ley said, were caught by examination
just before the men sailed for France.
BENEFITS THE ARMY.
by such precautionary methods"
said Major Bailey, the army is now
developing men of the highest profess
slonal training. who, after the war,
will go back to their civil employments
far more competent than when they
left them"
General Gorgas was led to establish
these examinations. Major Bailey said
because statistics showed three out of
every thousand soldiers go insane at
home in peace times, six to seven of
every thousand in war service at home
and an undetermined though larger
number among troops serving IN for
eign lands.
OTHER WARS CITED.
German insanity in the boxer cam
paign, Major Bailey said, reached so
men per thousand There were, he ad-
ded more than 100 cases of insanity
among the Japanese troops at the siege
of Port Arthur.
There Is q large class of people"
said Major Bailey. who will break un-
der the strain, anxiety and horror of
modern warfare. BY keeping them out
the armys strength is greater, fewer
men fall Ill, smaller personnel is reS
aulred and much expense and trouble
is saved"
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-25
ITALIAN STATEMENT

Rome. Oct %. Austro- German
troops broke through the Italian lines
to the left of Isonzo today's official
statement announced.
To the west of Volnik, on the west
ern slope of Mount Santo Gabriel, the
enemy was checked. the war office
stated. -
The Teutonic gains ii was explained,
were achieved by the enemy taking
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Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-25
TREE FALLS ON AUTO
AND TWO PERSONS KILLED

Dallas, Tex, Oct. 25.--Frank Boyd, OF
Rockwell, near here, and Miss Jean
Handy. school teacher from Rockwall
were killed almost instantly today
when 16inch tree fell across their
automobile on their road to Dallas.
Carl Hanhy and two of Boyd's small
children were seriously injured.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-25
BANK RoseED aY YEooMEN.

the safe in the First National bank Of
crossviiie near here early today and es-
capped with $4,000 after exchanging shots
with posse.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-25
American Wizard Returns
to Land and May Have
Found Weapon to Fight
the German Submarine.
From Somewhere in Amer
= ic" Appeal Is Issued to
sltizens to Buy Liberty
Bonds = Announcement
Comes From Factory.

Orange, N. j., Oct. 25.-Thomas A.
Edison, the veteran inventor. has spent
the last 10 weeks on the high seas
striving to perfect some means of de-
feating the submarine, his laboratories
announced today. He is now back
"sopewhere In America with the re-
suits of his studies and experiments.
First news that the electrical Wizard
had carried his search to the seas wa g
made in a brief statement by William
Maxwell, vice president of Thomas A.
Edison, Incorporated and general man
ager of the musical phonograph depart
ment today. II was In connection with
stirring appeal to the American peo-
pie, written by Edison himself. that
they buy liberty bonds.
LIBERTY BOND APPEAL.
Edison's liberty bond appeal, receiv-
ed at his plant from somewhere in
America" where Edison is now work
ing, read:
One hundred and forty-one years
ago our forefathers fought for less
than we are fight for today
we have made heroes of the men
who fought to make this country free
and have branded as towards and
traitors the men who refused to fight
Posterity will grant similar Judgment
on the men and women who do not do
their duty now and who are creating a
heritage of shame for their children
and their children's children.
"Germany's place in the sun means
nothing short of world domination. Ev-
cry liberty bond YOU buy this week is
a message from you u the kaiser that
his ambition to conquer the world can
not be realized
(Signeb EDISON"
GIVES TIME TO COUNTRY.
Prior to reading the Edison mes
sage, Maxwell said: "If there is any
man in this country today who typi-
fies the spirit of 1875, that man is
Thomas A. Edison--7o years old last
February. He has been giving every
moment of his time to the government.
He has been on the high seas work
ing day and night for America, where
ever his duty has taken him--tirelessly,
under all conditions. Sometimes his
assistants In the laboratory or on the
seas with him have complained, but
he has replied to them you can stand
it IL can.'
setting the pace for young men, Edi-
o"h
ernment work that until now he hasn't
had time to urge purchase OF liberty
bonds, although he has purchased ev-
cry dollars worth he can afford"
MAY HAVE FOUND WEAPON.
Maxwell would not further discuss
Edison's absence. ION the high seas" or
whether the inventor has perfected an
device. He did say,
however, that during the 10 weeks Edi-
son was at sea he was never seaslck,
although frequently his assistants were
so overcome that they wanted to get
ashore.
1t was believed from the fact that
Edison's sea voyage was announced as
ended and from strictest reticence at
the Edison plant today as to his
that the inventor had
probably found the anti submarine
weapon for which he has been search |
ing. 1t was understood that Edison's |
experiments included duplication as !
far as possible of Germanys subma-
rine warfare methods.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-25
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NOTED PAINTER DEAD.

New York. Oct. 25.--J. Carroll Beck
with. noted portrait painter, is dead
here today. He collapsed on the side
walk and died before help arrived.
Heart disease is believed to have been
the cause
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-25
GERMANY STRIPPING
EASTERN LINES TO
ASSIST AUSTRIANS

London Oct. 25.-Direct connection
between the German retirement on the
Riga front and the German waged
Austrian offensive on the Italian front
was seen by observers here today.
Germany has now stripped her lines
facing the Russians to the thinnest
point of which they are capable in or
der to answer the frantic appeals Of
her ally and grant aid against Italy.
Berlin's customarily sweeping claims
of the success OF the Austro- German
drive on the Bainsizza plateau were not
borne out by Italian dispatches. The
latter admitted the strength OF the
drive and added that it was under
German direction, with German troops
and German guns and munitions at
the head, but added nothing supporting
the German claim of thousands OF
prisoners"
ITALIANS CONFIDENT.
Complete confidence was expressed
in the Italian defense. In this connec-
tion recent dispatches were recalled
detailing how British and French re-
Inducements in men, guns and mate
rial were on their way to the Italian
front
For two months, Vienna has been
clamoring for German aid to ease the
unyielding Italian menace toward
Trieste and Laibach. In the face of
successive blows against Austria's mil
itary prestige inflicted by Cadorna's
offensive, the peace sentiment has
grown SO steadily in the dual empire
as to alarm Emperor Carl and the Ger
man military machine. Evidently 1t
was felt the only way this could be
combatted was to produce news show
ing Teuton strength. Therefore Ger
many n diverting some of her precious
man power and munitions to the aid
of her ally.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-25
ACTION WILL NOT
CHANGE RELATIONS

Washington. Oct. 25.-Seizure of
Bulgarian property under the enemy
trading act will not change the present
diplomatic relations between the
United States and Bulgaria, the lega-
tion stated this afternoon
That "Bulgsrians will absolutely re-
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-25
FINISHING TOUCHES
GIVEN EXPERIMENTS

Washington. Oct. 25.--Thomas A.
Edison is today engaged in working
out with naval experts several differ
ent anti-submarine experiments he
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-25

Kronstadts civil evacuation is evil
IDENTIFY in anticipation of German
naval drive toward Petrograd. The
fortress is located 20 miles west of
the Russian capital on the island of
Kotlin and is regarded as a fortress of
the first rank. large naval depot,
with docks, yards and various estab-
lishments is also located there. Reval
the outermost of the Russian naval
Notifications on the Gulf of Finland,
has already been evacuated. both by
civil and military forces. The Rus
slams are apparently concentrating
their power of defense on the remain
ing Notifications of the gulf-at vi
borg, HelsingfoIs and Kronstadt.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-25

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Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-25
GREAT BATTLE ON THE ITALIAN FRONT
CIVILIANS LEAVE
kRONSTADT, CHIEF
NAVAL FORTRESS
Russians Anticipate Sea At
tack by the Germans on
the Defenses of the Gulf
of Riga.

of Kronstadt, the main naval fortress
guarding Petrograd, was begun today
according to official announcement.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-25

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The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-03-05
WE CAN DO TT.

For 0rst class work and pron ps dslivsry ph no Main 1"1 and tho IPsopls.s Steam Lasndry sul es T and ct yosr lasndsy.
 W.J. WULlAle1O1 PrAss
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-03-05
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.

To Elma McNaught and J. J..
 Chambers, your heirs, executors,
 Successors, assigns or personal re- presentatives:
 You and each of you are hereby notified that the undersigned has expended in labor and improve ments the sum of one hundred dol lars for year 1916 on Roosevelt bench located between Newton Gulch No. 2 and Fox Creek, recorded and more fully described in the records of the Cape Nome Mining and Recording District in the Second Division, Ter ritory of Alaska.
 The above amount has been ex- pended in order to hold said claims under the provisions of the law concerning annual labor upon min ing claims.
 And you and each of you are further notified that if within ninety days after the last publication of this notice you fail to contribute your proportion of said expenditure, your interest in said claim will be- come the property of the under signed your co-owner under section 2324 Revised Statutes of the United States.
 ESKIMO GOLD DREDGING co.
 Co-Owner. Date of first pub, Feb. 19, 1917. Date of last publ, May 21, 1917.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-03-05

At tonight's meeting of the l.. o. O. M. nominations of officers will be held.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-03-05
NEWS ITEMS
 AND TOWN TOPICS

At tonight's meeting of the l.. O.. O. M. nominations of officers will | be held.
 And next on the program will be the Sons of the North Social and dance on Saturday, March 10. There was a report around yester day that the council would repeal that certain pardon ordinance at to- nights meeting.
 For Coal and General Delivery see Erickson or leave order at Mansfield Tobacco Store.
 A. considerable number of racing dog teams were given try out yesterday while the colder weather was better for practice.
 Dan Jones will probably leave on
 W CohCoOdy HUI lOl kuC IAOUuhs He will take in the country en route to Kiana with view of ascertain ing it's road needs.
 Mrs. Barney Gibney has adopted the youngest child of Mrs. Joe Olson and the baby has been christened Margaret Bongard Gib- ney. The necessary adoption papers were made out last week
 Jack Brennan, we'll known car porter of this city, died at about six o'clock on Saturday morning. The deceased was a pioneer of this place | and also a member of the Pioneers l of Alaska. He will be buried today, | the funeral taking place at ten o'clock.
 The Arctic Brotherhood's barn dance on Saturday night was very 1
  their girls and the Hall presented as close resemblance to a barn as it was possible to get without actual realism. The music was provided by Messrs Hutchinson, Lindberg and F. Polet and proved a real treat. All had most enjoyable time.
 Mrs. Crowley left for the Hot Springs where she will make a pro- tracted stay. Other Nomeites will leave shortly to attend the reindeer fair and incidentally to enjoy the Hot Springs which will be receiving guests from many sections during and after the big fair.
 It is stated that it is possible the dredge now located at Hob son creek and which was auctioned off at Marshals Sale may be bought by the Union Construction company which may place it on the mouth of Dexter. It is understood that w. w. Johnson has wired in for two weeks option on the machine during which time he will make up his mind to move the dredge from HobsOn to Dexter or install a new machine in he latter location.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-03-05
VERY SPECIAL OYER.

From now until April 1. we offer first class tailor made suits and over coats at outside prices. Some extra fine black and blue serge and wor- sted. Besides 300 of this seasons latest patterns. All wool material, fit and workmanship guaranteed. Please bring us your cleaning, pressing and repairing.
 Yours to please.
 NOME TAILORING co. Next door to Segerstrom & Hagen
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-03-05
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
 PATENT.
Tn the United States Land Office at Nome, Alaska, January 25, 1917..

Notice is hereby given, that Nicholas J. Butler, citizen of the United States, over the age of 21 years, whose post office address is Nome, Alaska, has made application before the U. s. Land Office at Nome Alaska, for United States Patent for No. 5 on Specimen Gulch Placer Claim in the Cape Nome Recording District, Alaska, being Mineral Survey No, 1191; said claim being more particularly described in the field notes and plat of the official survey thereof now on file in said Land Office at Nome, Alaska, as fol- lows:
 Beginning at Cor. I, identical with Cor. 1 Kathleen Claim, Sur. No. 1157, Cor. 4, of No. 13 Dexter Creek Sur. No. AIS and Cor. 2, Bella Frac- tion, Sur. AIS; a fir post 4 ins. sq. 2 it. above ground, in earth mound scribed 1-1157 K, 4-41S, PATS B. F. and 1-1191 5 S. whence U. S. L. M. No. 4 bears N. 7S deg. 56 min. s E. 5467.5 it. U. s. Geological Monument on King Mt. bears N. 26 deg. 29 min. E. thence S. 87 deg. CA min. w. Var. IS deg. 35 min. E. 1171.00 it. to Cor. No. 2; thence N. 2 deg. II min. E. Var. 19 deg. Is min. E. 357.60 it. to Cor. No. 3; thence N. 0 deg. 02 min. E. Var. IS deg. 15 E. 332.80 it. to Cor. No. 4; thence s. 89 deg. 12 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E. 1071.00 fit. to Cor. No. 5; thence s. deg. 54 min. E.Var 19 deg. O5 min. E. 622.30 it. to place of beginning containing 16.767 acres. Said claim is situated upon unsurveyed ground about miles N. N. E. from the town of Nome, Alaska.
 U. S. L. M. No. is a limestonei block, about ft.x6 ft.x6ft. high, chiseled U. s. l.. M. No. on top, surface, with mound of earth on same, situated on the south or right bank of Dexter Creek about 140 it. south of same and 1000 it. westerly from mouth of Joe Gulch in Lat. 64 deg. 35 min. N. Long. 165 deg. 1Y min. w. in Cape Nome Recording District, Alaska.
 The Location is recorded in Vol. 16 Page 61 of the records of said district. The adjoining claims are on the north, unknown; on tue south Kathleen. Sur. 1157. FranK Dolan. claimant; on the East Bella Fraction. Sur. 47S. Pioneer Mining Co. owner and on west No. SIe- cimen Gulch unsurveyed, claimant unknown.
 There are no conflicting claims.
 c. A. ADAMS.
 Register.
 Date of first publ. Jan. S7. 1917. Date of last publ, March 20, 1917.
 WE CAN DO IT.
 For 6rst class work and pron pi dsliveey ph no Main 1H1 An0 tho Psopls.s Steam Laundry sul .. .D md get yosr lasAdry.
 ~r n namSNA -
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-03-05
LOCAL 24O w. F. N.

LOCAL 24O w. E. N.
 The regular meeting of the Nome Mine Workers Union, Local No. $40, of the W. F. of M.. Is held every Saturday evening at p. m. at Miners Hall. Office hours l p. m. 10 6 D. m., p. m. to p. m.
 ANDREW BECK. President. JOHN A. WILSON, Sec.-Treas. (.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-03-05
FUNERAL NOTICE.

Pioneers please meet at the Igloc
 at S:30 a. m. Monday March 5th, to sattend the funeral of Brother Jack Brenan.
 THORULF LEHMAN, Pres. The mail arrived yesterday about
 five o'clock and there was a large
 consignment of first and second
 class matter. This is the first class
 mail now in several to arrive and
 when it did it was doubly welcome.
 The large crowd that gathered in
 the post office was a proof of the
 eagerness with which first class
 mail arrivals are received.
 Office and Residence of J. F. M'Allister, freighter and transfer, Elite Baths. Phone Red 157.
 While the Solomon Derby is set for today, reports from down the line yesterday indicated that con- siderable of blizzard was blow ing down around Solomon. If simi- larly stormy weather occurs today the race will be again postponed. The difficulty of getting good weath- CT now increases as we approach the vernal equinox which is proverbially stormy in this as in every other sec- tion. The soft snow that fell vest erday, too, drifted heavily in places along the trail.
 The people of Nome observe with anything but satisfaction that the price of a number of staples are in- creasing perceptibly above the nor- nal winters gradation but keeping step with the increase which has taken place outside. Inasmuch as these goods were bought at the fall prices, there is some difficulty in seeing the warrant for these in creases. Another article that has gone up is fuel oil which is now fifty cents more barrel than a short time ago. If present prices are subjected to further increases many miners say they will soon have to abandon prospecting. Even our old friend the Alaska straw berry has been belched up a notch or two by the friends of men who purvey them.
 Commencing tonight and continu- ing every night this week the man. agement of the Dream Theater will release some of the best attractions of the winter season, a three reel feature entitled "The Lighthouse by the Sea" will be tonights rooster in with a firing line called Universal Ike's Wooing'. On Tuesday night Miss Snow will be seen in a five reel feature entitled "A Corner Tn Cotton, picture that outclasses the ordinary features. Wednesday night, last chapter and closing act of the Diamond From The Sky" night Grand Opening of he new social, "The Adventures oi l ]. Rufus Wallingford" featuring | Burr Macintosh, Max Figman and | he talented Lolita Robertson, an all star aggregation in a picture that's already famous. A big week.
 VERY SPECIAL OYER.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-03-05

CARPENTERS AND JOINERS.
 Local, Union l789, Carpenters and eofners of America, meets every Fri day at Al Orland's shop Front St.
 Carpenters Headquarters. Teder- el Labor Hall.
 ct . D. m.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-03-05
ORGANIZED LABOR.

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 MINERS. Headquarters sos Railroad Build mg, Denver, Colorado. EHAS.'MOYER. ERNEST MILLS, r.. President. 6ec.-Treas.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-07-27
RUSSIAN GUARDS
YIELD TARNOPOL
Two Regiments, Firm and Faithful
Put Up Desperate Defense to
Southeast.

Petrograd, Juy 25.-The Russian
Guards corps defending Tarnopol re-
treated, Impressed by the enemy, says
the official statement issued by gen.
eral headquarters tonight. But the
Prorajensky and Semozsky regiments
remained faithful to duty and are
fighting southeast of Tarnopol.
In the streets of Stanislau there
were stubborn bayonet engagements
The populace threw grenades on the
reiring Russian troops.
Russian commissioners who restored
n,s..pline in the Seventh and EighIn
armies, making possible the recent
Russian offensive in Eastern Gallcla
after witnessing the retreat OF the
Russians in the face of the Austro-
German attack, have sent their re-
ports to Premier Kerensky.
They advise that capital punish
ment should be meted out to those
who refeused to risk their lives for the
fatherland and freedom"