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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1917-04-06
DEPARTMENTS Make
ALL PREPARATIONS
BUSY DAYS PRECEDED OPENING
OF EXTRA SESSION OF
CONGRESS-.

In the two or three days proceed
ing the opening Of the extra session
of congress, almost every depart
ment Of the federal government
throbbed with preparedness activi-
ties.
The national defense council met
daily to make a survey of the work
of preparation.
The federal farm loan board an.
nounced that more than 100000
900 will be loaned out by the fed
eral banks during the coming year
to intensity the farming industry in
the country as Observation-Disclosures
preparedness measure.
Plans to Raise Army.
The war department announced
completion Of specific plan for
raising an army "if congress wants
an army"
The navy department received
bids from so firms to build one or
more submarine chasers each.
Further steps were taken to pro-
tect the nation against spies when
the justice department sent instruc-
tions to it's 100000 employees to re-
port any evidence of conspiracies.
Taking of census of technical
experts by the bureau of mines was
announced. the object of the move
being to avoid the risk Of sacrificing
expert engineers, chemists and sci
entists at the front, when their work
would be more valuable back OF the
line.
The National Defense Council
drew plans for co-ordinating all ma
tional preparedness measures, ex-
cept purely military steps, for sub
mission to President Wilson.
President Gets kilograms.
The president received hundreds OF
kilograms that the country stood
ready to back him in any steps he
deemed necessary. Patriotic meet
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1917-04-06

SlOn.)
When Woodrow Wilson appears
before congress on Tuesday next he
will make an appeal for the loyal
support of every citizen in the pros
ecution of war with the powerful
German empire.
No one who realizes the peace
loving propensities Of the president.
no one who recalls the earnest efforts
he made to keep the country out OF
the great European struggle, can
palliate disloyalty by criticising him
in the action he will recommend for
maintenance of American honor and
American dignity and the protection
of American life and property.
War Is Presidents Last Wish.
No one who remembers the con-
slant efforts of the president to re.
store friendly relations between the
belligerents can charge him with
running the nation headlopg into the
frightful tornado which is devastating
Europe.
So far as the president is con.
cerned, he would not be writing to.
night his message recommending
declaration that a state of wal
exists with Germany, had the latter
country respected the rights of the
United States as we'll as those of hui
mainly; had it refrained from plot
ting and conspiring against the in
ternal peace of the United States,
and had it not endeavored to promote
an alliance with a view to the divis-
ion Of American territory between
itself, Mexico and Japan.
Every Phase Considered.
The man in the White House, this
man of heavy burdens, did not reach
the decision Of such fateful import
ance to the American people without
considering every phase of the terri
BILE situation in which the nation has
been placed by the ill-judged acts OF
war Of the German government and
the agents acting under it's instruc-
tions.
He has watched with unceasine
watchfulness every development in
the world struggle and particularly
those which affected the United
States. He sought by repeated warn
ings to make the German govern
ment understand that there were
fixed limits to American patience. H,
tolerated acts which ordinarily would
have produced instant war. He die
SO because he realized that Ger
many, like the other belligerents
was fighting for her life and grasp
ing at weapons which she has n,
right to use. even sporadically, in tn,
hope that they would aid her battl,
for existence.
War Only Recourse.
But when Germany deliberatel,
started upon a systematic campaign
Of murder; when she demonstrate,
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1917-04-06
LAND BANKS TO
LOAN 5000, OOO,O 900
DURING THE YEAR

:. WASHINGTON, D. c., April
!. 6. - More than $200.000.000
!. will be loaned out by the fed
!. eral land banks during the COM
!. ing year to intensity the farm
!. ing industry of the country as
!. a measure Of national defense,
!. the federal farm loan board an
/. nounced this week.
! + i. j. /. 1. !. I. !. 1. + 1. + + 4. 4
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1917-04-06
Banks Help
Make You
Prosperous

Behind every business is the
bank.
Behind the bank are the de-
positors.
Bank loans on approved secur-
ity enable business to continue.
This bank has on deposit more
than $2.250.000.
This bank has loaned ON the
very best security more than ST.
100000.
The worker who deposits his
pay check In this bank helps
himself, his employers. his neigh
bors and the community.
No business Is too small to do
a banking business, no depositor's
account is 80 small but that It ~
cures the same protection and At
tention as any other. no matter
how large.
Therefore the bank for you to
do business with is the
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1917-04-06
WAR ASKED ONLY AS LAST RESORT OF NATION
Presidents Decision Is Made After Doing Everything Possible
PeaceMany Intrigues Found-Machnery
eycombed With Foreign PotHope of Country Said Be in
Beaten Germany.

Especial from
in
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1917-04-06
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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1917-04-06
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The daily Alaskan., 1917-12-31
ROMANTIC SKAGWAY APPEALS TO ALL TOURISTS

the rescend,ng hiker has paused just above the floor of the valley to watch the last flaming garment of the sun draWn after him behint the silent peaks and the quick fad ing of the afterglow, more thar likely, as the dusk deepens, sud denly wavering shaft of palt light will shoot from behind th' fringe of fir trees to the east ol the south, end then another ant another, and more from the Wes and the north, flickering, changint fading and brightening, then con centrating in the north. will build LII higher and higher until finally with a quick addition of color, the zenith becomes the center of & yer table rocket burst of flame, pale pink and blue and violet green, glowing with the ardor of divine vision for a moment, to fade away at last leaving only a wonderful memory of the Northern Lights.
The daily Alaskan., 1917-12-31

can be made by railroad if desired. Not 30 far are Black Lake, hidden away in a mountain pass, and Snug glers' Cove and Dyea along the beach. Starting from the retail district on Broadway, the climb to Lower Lake Dewey may be made easily inside of half an hour; from the lower lake to Upper Lake Dew ey requires Possibly two hours;
 thence to the Devils Punch Bowl will take another hour, and the fin al spurt to the top of Dewey Peak may be crowded into the same morning, leaving time for leisure ly descent in the afternoon and a fascinating hour spent among the wild flowers that begem the rugged slopes about the upper lake. A. B. Mountain, Nome Mountain and Face Mountain are all readily accessible and each may be sealed in day, provided one starts early and is willing to put in a hard days work.
 And after the climb is oyer and
The daily Alaskan., 1917-12-31
MOUNTAIN CLIMBING

For those who enjoy hiking and climbing no better loca- tion could be picked for g summers outing than Skagway. A seVen-mile hike brings one to beautiful Dem yer Glacier and part of the trip
The daily Alaskan., 1917-12-31
BUSINESS HOUSES

The material needs of the com munity arc met by a battery of up-to-date business houses, a list of which would include grocery, hardware. clothing, dry-goods, fur niture and jewelry stores, fruit stands, bakeries, Confectioneries, pharmacies and tobacconists, bank a real estOte and insurance office, etc, etc. Four hotels and two res taurants provide ample service for tourists and transients. Two dairies supply the city with excellent milk and during the summer season a superabundant supply of fresh vegetables is furnished by numerous truck gardeners. No city can func- ton properly without a good hos pital, and Skagway has reason to be proud of her railroad hospital. CHURCHES
 The spiritual needs Of the com 
 munitv are met by three churches, Catholic, Protestant, and Christian Scientist. The members of all Pro- testant denominations worship to- gether in 8 union church, the diff terent denominations taking turns in directing tE9 work over periods of two or three years.
 The school system embraces the grades and the first two years of high school and a corps of four well-trained teachers has the oyer sight of the one hundred pupils enrolled. Manual training and do- nestle science are given a high place in the curriculum of the school.
The daily Alaskan., 1917-12-31
Headquarters, SkatEway, Alaska

Four Banks Shaegcay Located at the Important Ports and GaewayE of SKAGWAY-Enhance to the Yukon River, Klondyke, Carcross and Adn Mining Districts; Flames and Fon Wm H. Seward; Terminal White Pass & Yukon Route. WRANGELL-Centero of the great South Eastern Alaska
 Fishing District Entrance k, Sdkne River District of British Columbia.
 : ANCHORAGE -HeadqHtters of the new United States
 Government Railroad to the interior of Alaska entrance to the Maanuska Coal District Broad Pass and Willow
 Creek mining sec6ons and the Matanuska and Suitna Valley farming regions : CORDOVA-The Copper Gateway of the Pachc Ocean. Terminal of the Copper River Railroad leading to KennecOa copper mines; The great fishing and mining districts of Prince William Sound
The daily Alaskan., 1917-12-31

Two towering mountain sides, for est-grown almost to the very peaks, and Aetween, d fertile, level valley with a rushing mountain stream
The daily Alaskan., 1917-12-31
LOCATED AT HEAD OF INSIDE
 PASSAGE

The following story of Skagway by Cirv Clerk, Paul McClelland, was the prize article of q series of Skag- way stories written for the Skag- way Commercial Club.
The daily Alaskan., 1917-12-31
POPULATION NOW 1000

Today, Skagway has . permanent population of about one thousand, with practically no illiterates, even among the small native element. Its people are substantial, home loving citizens, loyal to their city and confident of its future. No city of it's size can boast more efficient public service and utilities.
The daily Alaskan., 1917-12-31
ORGANIZATIONS

l OAbNCANALLAANSNNS
 Besides the motion picture thea- ters, amugements include dances given at regular intervals by Vari- ous organizations, basket ball, bowling, and other athletic con- tests, pn occasional performance by some travelling stock company, etc. Among the organizations having lodges in Skagway are the El.s' Masons, Eagles, Arctic Brother hood and Pioneers of Alaska. The White Pass Athletic Club, original ly designed for the use of railroad employees only, is now open to all on equal terms. In it's commodious building are maintained a we'll equipped gymnasium. baths, a read ing room and pool and billiard tables.
 DAILY NEWSPAPER
 A deily newspaper is made pos sible by telegraph service over both the U. s. government cable and the Canadian government tele- grapn system via White Horse.
 MINES
 Copper and silver mines at Pa vey, Caribou and White Horse pro vide a steady market not only for staples of food and clothing, but especially for garden truck, etc, and recent discoveries of molybde- nite in quantity in the vicinity of Skagway point to further mining development.
 OURIOS
 Of keen interest to most tourists are the displays of Indian baskets, totems and moccasin, articles made of Alaskan gold and old ivory, and Alaskan furs in the curto and jew elry stores. Skagway has many curio stores, one Of them having the distinction of being the finest In Alaska. On boat dayG native In dian women may be sec on the street corners, exhibiting moccasins and other Indian wares for sale.
 FLOWERS
 Perhaps the most generally ap- pealing feature to the thousands of tourists who visit Skagway avery summer is the unexpected profu- sion of beautiful flowers. With a naturally rich soil, the residual loam from the forest that up to q score of years ago thickly covered Il valley floor, and with the long days of the Alaskan summer, flow CTS and vegetables grow to extra ordinary size. Walls and fences the city over are covered with sweet peas eight to ten feet iI height, paasies are ordinarily at large as the palm of 8 mans hand and nasturtlums, dahlias, gladtoli stocks, popies and even roses fill tue gardens and border lawns with Yeritable riot of color.
 HUNTING AND FISHING
 The sportsman finds Skagway RI ideal base for expeditions of all kinds. In Lower Lake Dewey ht may quickly fill his creel with a' tasty a catch of mountain trout at could be desired. Across the bay Is Burro Creek, In an Eden ot beauty and filled to the brim witt trout. Just beyond the summit o White Pass Is the stronghold of tht greyling, never too full to take chance with a fly. A tramp th7et or four hours from SkSgway vii bring the hunter into the stamping ground of the wild goat, and a few hours further will bring him int the moose, sheep and bear country
 MOUNTAIN CLIMBING
 For those who enjoy hiking ant mountain climbing no better loca tion could be picked for g summer outing than Skagway. A seVen-mil hike brings one to beautiful Den var. Glan and nart of thA trtl
The daily Alaskan., 1917-12-31
WATER, LIGHT, TELEPHONE.

From a lake, nestling among the mountain flowers two thousand feet above the city, comes clear, cold water in full and steady pressure, summer and winter. At night the streets are brilliant and the stores and homes respIendent with flood of electric light. A comprehensive telephone system provides exchange service day and night. Crime and disorder are of such rare occur renee that the twenty-four hour po- lice service is purely precautionary. The organized fire department, ad- eQuate!y equipped, has time and again demonstrated its ability to safeguard the city from any fire menace.
The daily Alaskan., 1917-12-31

service from tidewater at SkagWay, through British Columbia and the Klondike Of Yukon Territory, and through the very heart of Alaska' crossing ard recrossing the Arctic Circle, to tidewater at St. Michael on Boring Sea.
The daily Alaskan., 1917-12-31
MINES

Copper and silver mines at Pa vey, Caribou and White Horse pro vide a steady market not only for staples of food and clothing, but especially for garden truck, etc, and recent discoveries of molybde- nite in quantity in the vicinity Of Skagway point to further mining deyelopment.
The daily Alaskan., 1917-12-31
sKAGwAY BORN IN 1897

Skegway had its birth in the eX- citing days of the gold rush to the Klondike in 1897, and the visit CT of today finds much to interest him n the many rOmanto land marks reminiscent of the city's early history. Along the bluff may still be seen portions of the old wagon trail, here is a building which formerly resounded with the shouts of the dealers at dice and roulette, there a cross marks the spot where a noted gambler died at bay. On wonder site skagway's largest dance hall has given place to a solid business block.
The daily Alaskan., 1917-12-31

coursing along one side and tumbl- inG into the sea; extending from the sea far back into the valley, a city, with docks and warehouses and wide, straight streets; the many voiced chorus of industry, the shriek of locomotives, and above and prevailing all, the insistent mur mur of many waterfalls-that is SkagRay.
The daily Alaskan., 1917-12-31
TERMINUS OF WHITE PASS R. R,

At t#p head of scenic Lynn Can al, the uoTtnernmost projection Of the st0ried Inside Passage to Alas ka, Skagway presents a happy con- bination of romantic interest, na- tural beauty, and commercial i'm portance. At her Yharves dock the ocean steamers of five large steam ship couDanies. The same wharyes form the southern terminus of the White Pass & Yukon Route, which by rail and river steamer affords n continuous freight and passenger
The daily Alaskan., 1917-12-31
RESOURCES OVER $s5o.ooo
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS S1o5,5Oo

Commercial Accounts 0f Merchants Miners Shippers 6~hT"s" and IpaiUiduaLS Solicited Saung8 ct cent Interest paid og 6 opened
 OjGhS S1.00 Steel Ststg Deposit tn Fire Proof Fault For RN"F ct
 Nominal CbGrgeS Trayens Checks Conoaerca Purposes For SG~ Copper and and Gold BuHO" Ha"dIed f0r Miner"
 andS Shippers
The daily Alaskan., 1917-12-31
DAILY NEWSPAPER

A daily newspaper is made pos sible by telegraph service over both the U. s. government cable and the Canadian government tele- grapn system via White Horse.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-26
THE BLUE PARADISE
At che Davis Theatre Friday April 27.


 The Blue Paradise. which the Messrs. Shubert will offer at the Da- wis theatre on Friday evening. April a, is generally conceded to be the srefGning operattc sensation of both America and Europe. This brilliant entertainment, the work of Leo Stein, author of The Merry Widow. and Ed smund Sysler. was first staged in Vien- ina two years ago. Its success was instantaneous and since then its me ilod1ous score and ingenious story have :been applauded in every capital of continental Europe. The Messrs. Shu- ibert emerged triumphant from the lstrugEle that ensued for the Ameri- can rights to the play. Under their direction The Blue Paradise was hrst presented in July 1915 at the famous lCasino theatre. New York. For fifty two consecutive weeks this gayesr of light operas attracted succession of crowded houses that set new rec ord on Broadway. The effective man. ner in which mirth, melody, fun, striking stage pictures and elaborate coStuming have been blended explains the rare vogue that The Blue Para disc attained with all classes of pleas ure seekers. In the company of all most 100 persons to be seen here will be found such conspicuous players as Bowers, Juliette Lange. Charles Der ickSon, Louise Kelley, Robert Allen, Gustav Baci. and others. The allur- ing charm of the musical score of The Blue Paradise will receive full justice from the special symphony or cheStra which the company carries Nothing has been left undone to make in settings and costumes. Seats now selling
Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-26

WANTED-Uncle Sam asks us to clerks, stenographers and bookkeepers in all his departments all over the
 The president of the civil service commission writes us:
 Tt is the patriotic duty of citizens who have this special knowledge (of office work) to use it where it will be of the most value to the government- your co-operation."
 Uncle Sans war call for men will create 1O0, 900 vacancies for women prepared to fill positions as office filing clerks, tyDewriters and clerks.
 We are working night and day to prepare patriotic women and young men and women to be ready to fill these places
 NIT. c. E. accepted a place with Uncle sam a short time. ago at s1.6o0 year Commercial School as follows:
 Without the help you gave me. I could not have passed the civil service examination. and certainly want to thank you for your efforts in my be- half The student who does his best IS bound to be placed in a position by the Norwich Commercial School
 Experienced male office workers get S1.200 a year to start-short hours, 90 days vacation on full nay and excel lent chances for advancement
 Coaching dnfIy and three evenings each week-exansinatfons every Tues dny-
 Don't wait-be prepared when the rall comes.
 Write or phone for particulars or call to see Mir Crandau Norwich Com mercial School Chamber of Commerce Building apr26d
Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-26
HUMOR OF THE DAY

Mrs. Howard-She's as devoted s. q mother to him.
 Modern mater-Graciousl Is she aa indifferent as at2-Life.
 She-What do you mean when 5ou market?
 He-The outside. generally.-Judge.
 Whats the trouble with your"
 Kind of a nervous dyspepsia I r1ID- pose. Every time think of what my olnner 3I IS going to cost l get nervous.7 Washington Star.
 CTS" ' TUT HUH
 Isn't 1t? Their boys are either get ting married or enlisting in the army Detroit Free Press. Father, what do you mean by gen tleman farmers?" "'Gentlemen farmers. my son are farmers who seldom raise anything except their hat. s"-Tit- Bits.
 Bacon-I see in Russia there is neaVy penalty for putting a declara- ton of love on a postal card.
 Egbert-The penalty is marriage. Suppose.-Honkers Statesman.
 Farming has many d.sappolut- ments for the amateur"
 'Huh?"
 I've had to revise my idea that goat will eat hing-'-Kansas City
 "One should always be conte,te5 with his lOt," said the fellow who is as full of bromides as a dog of bones.
 Yes, indeed" answered the guy who gets tired of them, ''and he gen erally is until it's time to make a pay ment on it."-Indianapolis Star. oId?"
 Rather difficult, sir The teachers are inconsistent. In English composI- ton we are told to be original. In arithmetic we are all expected to get Journal
Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-26
POETRY
THE KING OF prmHODs.

 THs gTeatest hunter Of modern times ls not tho man with a gun Nof e<o 10 he the camera man
 Who shoots his game with the sun The Greatest hunter of modern tinea 1H not to b@ found today Tn the woods and the fields and the Ion
 marsh lands,
 Wherever the wild things stay. The Greatest hunter of modern tImes 1s not of the husky type Wltn his gun and dog, or his camers who's out when the game is ripe. The greatest hunter of modern tirnes Is hidden from public sight And, armed with his tubes and chem. He is hdntins by day and night. The greatest, hunter of modern tfB,ss IS the man who makes no terms "i'h stfs1IseFF Mtss1taeF or time but keeDf In his tireless hunt for-Eermst The greatest hunter of modern times- The title is his by birth IS the man who is hunting the geru7r
 of disease
 And chasing them on the earth. Hampton, in the New York
Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-26

AT A COURT OF PROBATE HELD at Norwich within and for the District of Norwich, on the 18th day of April. Present@NEnsoN J. AYL1NG. Judge
 Estate of Frank E. Williams, late of Griswold, in said District, deceased
 The Administratrix appeared in Court and filed a written application alleging that said estate is now in settlement in said Court, and praying for an order to sell certain real estate belonging tc said estate, fully described in said ap- plication.
 Whereupon. It Is Ordered, That said application be heard and determined al the Probate Court Room in the City ot day of April. A D, 1917, at 10 o'clock pendency of said application, and ol said hearing thereon, be given by the publication of this order once in some newspaper having q circulation in sai6 District, at least three days prior tt the date of said hearing. and that re turn be made to the Court
 NELSON J. AYLING, Judge
 The above and foregoing Is a true copy of record.
 Attest: HELEN M DRESCHER
 anr26d Assistant Clerk.