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Newport daily independent., 1918-02-26
RAINFALL IN STATE.

Special to Independent.
 Little Rock, Feb. 26.-The average rainfall of the state for the month of January was 4.39 inches, at 68 sta tions, the greatest amount being 8.6 inches at Marked Tree, and the least g inches at Texarkana. There was a range of 103 degrees in tempera- ture, the highest being 80 degrees at Pine Bluff, and 23 below zero, the lowest at Mammoth Spring.
Newport daily independent., 1918-02-26
FRUITS IF PEACE
 |s sOLE PURPOSE
Says German Chancellor. Who Insist1 Central Powers Seek to Give
 Countries Self Government
assoclated Press Dispatch.

Assoclated Press Dispatch. .a
 Amsterdam, Feb. &c., Chancello< Von Hertling in a speech in t61 Reichstag yesterday declared the oI erations of the Central Powers on tlls Eastern front are being carried o1z solely for the aim of securing tl!9 fruits of peace for Ukraine. HWes not intend, to establish ourselves l1 Esthonia or Livonia," he added, a1[4 declared the Central Powers inte94 to give self government to the proQ inces of Courtland and Lithunia.
Newport daily independent., 1918-02-26
HIGHWAYS APPROVED.
Special to Independent.

Special to Independent.
 Little Rock, Feb. 26.-Up to the present time, there have been twelve highways projects all approved that are to take up the full quota assign ed the state for the first two years, which was $82,689.1O for 1916-17, and $165, ,398.20 for 1917-18. These projects are in Carroll, Pulaski, Se- vier, Miller, Lawrence, Lonoke, Mon- roe, Cross, Woodruff and St. Fran cis i2) counties.
 "It is fact, that can be proven by statistics, that Arkansas at this time is building more actual miles of improved highway than any other state in the union," said State High way Commissioner w. B. Owen.
 Don't be a dead one Advertise.
Newport daily independent., 1918-02-26
BROWNING GUN
 WILL BE USED
Declared to Be Greatest Gun Yet Developed and Three Factories
 Are Turning Them Out.
Associated Press Dispatch.

Washington, Feb. 2G.-Secretary Baker today announced the Browning machine gun has been adopted for the American army in France It is de- clared to be the greatest weapon of it's kind yet developed and is being turned out at three factories, with more than hundred already deliv- cred.
Newport daily independent., 1918-02-26
FORMER ARKANSAN LOST.

Batesville, Feb. 25. Joe Marlin, aged 25 years, son of MT. and Mrss Hindman Marlin of Battles lzaro county, was lost on the Tuscania. MT. Marlin left this county some 16 wears ago and enlisted at Checotah Okla, last summer, near which place his parents now reside.
Newport daily independent., 1918-02-26

not provided even enough increased taxation to meet the interest on it's war debt and is paying part of the interest coupons of earlier war loans from new borrowings, with that of Great Britain, which, he points out, had raised by taxation almost 25s per cent of it's war expenditures down to the end of.1917.
 The argument that heavier taxa
Newport daily independent., 1918-02-26

Miss Hulda Luren, of Yellyllie, Mrs. Margie Stevens, of Hardy, and Mrs. T. E. Voohers, of Pocahontas' are here today. coming to attend the meeting of the War Savings Stamps committee, which met here with Mrs. Gotham. Each of these ladies IS cha;rman of her county in the wo- mans department and were here to he instructed by Mrs. Gotham, the state chairman.
Newport daily independent., 1918-02-26
PsKOv TAKEN
 BY B0LsHEv|k|
Street Fighting Is Still In Progress and the Red Guards Are Resist
 ing Germans Everywhere.
Press Dispatch.

Associated Press Dispatch.
 London, Feb. 26.-Pskov, 175 miles southwest of Petrograd, has been captured by the Bolsheviki. Street fighting is in progress there, accord ing to an Exchange Telegraph dis patch from Petrograd. The Red Guards are resisting the German ad- vance everywhere.
Newport daily independent., 1918-02-26
TAFT CHOSEN TO
 WORK OUT BASIS
Former President Will Represent the Public in Conference Between
 Employers and Employees.
Associated Press Dispatch.

Washington, Feb. 26. -- Former President Taft today was chosen by at the capitol as their for the public in joint conferences between employers and employees to establish basis of relations during the war. The work CTS also will name a man to repre- sent the public. SI
Newport daily independent., 1918-02-26

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Newport daily independent., 1918-02-26

Don't be dead one. Advertise.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-09
aCk Sutherland, Secretary Anchorage Union, Vis- ting Southeastern
 CenterS.
TIME TO USE HEADS
Union Man Favors Organl- zation of Labor, but Opposes Radical
 Procedure.

To consult with fellow workmen to aid in the organization of labor lnions throughout the Alaskan coast and to promote closer cooperation among workingmen of Alaska in gen aral, Jack Sutherland, Secretary of the Anchorage Local of Union Labor arrived in Juneau on the Alameda, and will spend a week in Juneau From here he will go to Ketchikan. Wrangell and Petersburg, then re turn to Juneau and proceed to Cor dova.
 q hope to be able to organize mions at Ketchikan. Wrangell and Petersburg" said MT. Sutherland.
 The Anchorage labor leader is 6 Joung man, and an Alaskan product. Ie came to Sitka 26 years ago with lis parents when he was but a year md a half old. From there the fam ly removed to Juneau, and he lived lere for some time. With his par }nts he went to Nome in 1900, and here he attended the public schools, ,old newspapers and grew to man hood. He lived in Juneau for a time working at Thane for the Alaska iastineau Company, and went to An horage three years ago, where he was one of the leaders in the organi- ;ation of labor
 While MT Sutherland is a strong advocate of organization among work ngmen, he says he believes that Ia boring men should use their heads md not upset the country He does lot look for any labor troubles in Alaska this summer, but is looking onward to an active season.
 Anchorage People Waiting
 There are 1000 workingmcn wait ng at Anchorage for the aprrODria ion for the railroad. There are now sineering Commission.
 Anchorage now has about 4,000 people, including those in the immed- ate neighborhood, and it's welfa~e tcpCliuS upOu SCttliS llC dppi'l liu ion for the railroad.
 "Workingnen are leaving Ane lor tge for the States on nearly every boat that goes South, however, there ire very few of them that arc ally lard up. The committee of the Union appointed for that purpose had raised $41, 300 for Liberty Bonds lmong the workingmen.
 "In addition to the 900 who are at york for the railroad commission, here are 150 men at work at the Government mine at Eska Creek and 10 at Chickaloon. They are produc- ng about 60 tons of coal a day at Gska Creek and doing development work at Chickaloon"
 Mir Sutherland is at the Zynda Hotel.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-09
GEORGE IS CHEERED
 BY MEMBERS
Says That Gen. Maurice Should Have Come to Ministers with His
 Complaints.

LONDON, May 9.-Former Prem fer Asquith in the House of Com mons moved the appointment of | committee to investigate the charges made by Gen. Maurice, that the Brit ish War Cabinet and Premier Lloyo George had been deceiving the pee pie about the condition of the Brit ish Army.
 Asquith denied that his motion was for the purpose of obtaining vote of censure against the GovernmeyN
 Lloyd George was cheered loudly when he arose to speak. He said ht had been treated unfairly; that Mau rice should have come to the Cabi net and pointed out where the min isters had erred. He declared thai if the motion passed, Asquith woulC be responsible for the war that is now in progress.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-09
CHINESE LOAN IS MADE FROM
 THE JAPANESE
Chinese Newspapers De- clare Way Has Been Opened for Domin-
 alton by Japan.

PEKlNG, May 9.-A loan of 20,- 000,000 yen has been secured by the Chinese Telegraph Company, the deal being closed with Japanese back CTS. The first installment has ar rived
 An additional loan of 20,000,00O Shinten Railway, and the deal has been closed. Chinese newspapers are full of sensational gossip concerning the Chinese and Japanese negotia tions, which are declared to open the means of Japanese domination in every sphere of Chinese affairs
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-09
FOOD OFFICER IS ARRESTED
 AS A CROOK
Is Charged That He Ac' Cepted Bribes from a Touring Mill in
 Nevada.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 9.-Jame A. Wood, deputy United States Foot Administrator for Nevada, has beer arrested by the Department of Jus tice officials on a bribery charge.
 It is claimed he accepted $500 il payment for an alleged demand upoL the South Fork Flour Mills of Elko Nevada, for $500 per month for al legged protection in thcir handling O flour and wheat under the food act
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-09
JUNEAU PEOPLE
 COMING NORTH
 ON NORTHWESTERN

SEATTLE, May 9.-The steamer Northwestern left for Alaska at nine o'clock this morning with the follow ing passengers for Juneau:
 A. L. Simons, John Lynch, Mir. and Mrs. N. J. Skolly and baby, Miss Ruth Griffin, Mir. and Mrs. August Nelson, Wm. Davidson. Bob. Wiley, MT. and Mrs. Tom Cole and daugh- ter. Mrs. F. D. Caraway. Louis Jelli- son. R. Houston. H. Larson.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-09
DOWN
 HIS 34 MACHINE
 ON THE FRONT
Noted French Aviator Gets Two Machines Inside of 5 Minutes and
 Damages Other.

PARIS, May 9.-Within five min utes Tuesday, Sub Lieut.. Nungsser, leading French aviator, downed his 33d and 34th German machine, and damaged another which will prob ably be placed to his credit.
 During his three years fighting he has been wounded F times and served on g bombing expeditions.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-09
BRITISH ENTER TURK TOWN IN
 MESOPOTAMIA

LONDON, May 9-The British yesterday entered the Turkish towr of Karkuk, so miles southeast oi Mosul in Mesopotamia The British met with no opposition.
 The Turks on retiring left GOO men in the Karkuk hospital.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-09
SEVEN PLANES
 TO HIS CREDIT
 ON FIGHT FRONT
Sergeant Frank BayIies Is Making a Record in Getting the Hun
 AviatOrS.

WASHINGTON, May 9.-Sergeant Frank Bayliss, of New Bedford, Mass an American flier in France, brought down seven German planes within the last two months, according to ar official dispatch received today by the War Office from France.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-09
CASUALTY LIST
 OF AMERICANS
 ON FIGHT FRONT

WASHINGTON, May 9.-Yester- days casualty list contains 75 names. Thirteen were killed in action, two died of accident, three died of dis ease, 13 were severely wounded, Al were slightly wounded and three are missing in action.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-09
EXPECT GOOD YEAR.

VALDEZ, May 9.-Many miners are sending supplies to the Port Wells district, where they expect busy season.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-09
MUCH ACTIVITY.

CORDOVA, May 9.-More sup plies than ever before will be ship ped to the mines in the Copper Riv- CT Valley this season.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-09
FOR EARLY ADJOURNMENT.

WASHINGTON, May 9. - Con gress is trying to speed up for an early adjournment.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-09
TAku RIVER OPEN

Mail advices say that the ice in the Taku river broke loose over a week ago
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-09

You pay for food but not for serv- ice at the Alaska Grill.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-09
WANTED

Experienced stationary en- gineers for firing boiler and running compressor at mine plant. Five dollars a day with room and board; steady work, good conditions.
 Address, giving references, to Box D, co Daily Empire, Juneau.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-09
Tides Tomorrow

Time of High and Low Tides at
 Juneau for
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-09
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
 and Mail Information
Now Northbound

City of Seattle northbound and will be due Sunday with mail. Northwestern sailed from Seat tie at nine o'clock this morn ing, Has mail.
 Princess Sophia is northbound and will be due Saturday night with mail.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-09

NJ A Y 10th.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-09
Scheduled Sailings

Jefferson is scheduled to sail from Seattle Friday. Prince Rupert is scheduled to from Vancouver tonight. Alameda is scheduled to sail from Seattle next Thursday.
 S0UTHB0UND SAIIINGS Spokane is scheduled to sail southbound tomorrow after noon.
 Prince Rupert is scheduled to sail Southbound Monday. Princess Sophia is scheduled to sail southbound Monday. Humboldt is scheduled to sail southbound tonight at 10 o'clock.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-13
COULDN'T OBEY

New York Correspondence Cincinnati
 Times-Star
 Testimony of Dan Clark Cobb. one of several students Charged with riot ing, before Judge Hoyt, in the city court of New Haven:
 The Court: Young man, you are charged with wilfully disobeying the orders of uniformed officer of the city police, on the night when. it is alleged, you and your fellow defend ants were guilty of rioting. What have you to say for yourself?"
 Defendant Cobb: "I respectfully deny that l guilty. your honor"
 The Court: "Do you deny the truth of the statement of the policemanr
 Defendant Cobb Not precisely. sir. II would have obeyed his order. but I was unable to do so"
 The Court: How is that, sir?'
 Defendant Cpbb T was alone. sir. standing in front of Heublein's and II could not obey the policeman's orders without assistance"
 The Court: What did the policeman |order you to dor Defendant Cobb: He ordered me to disperse.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-13
THE MULE cnusApERs

From the Chicago News.
 One of the innumerable blessings that the war has brought to enfranchised peoples is the American mule that the British army took-or that took the Brit ish army-to Palestine. The Turks had robbed the farmers of the holy land of al, the customary live stock and the work animals were replaced by mules purchased from the Britons.
 It is is a great thing for the farmers of that historic but not hustling land to come in contact with the energetic-when he feels like it-American mule. No mat ter whether the mule is at work or at play, he will keep his owner busy. The mule is at once occupation, entertain ment and instruction. He will hustle the east without mourning the penalty MT Kipling laid down as inevitable for occidentals who attempt that perform ance.
 too. There in the Bible lands he has helped redeem from the heather and will help to make blossom again like the rose, he may, in picturesque and soothing environment, reflect, as is his philosophic won't, upon the meanings of all things made and rejoice in his own peculiar blessings.
 The mule, the absolute mule" as Ger man philosophy would say, is happily situated in land flowing-eventuaIl with milk and honey, with a background of palms and peace His voice will echo pleasantly through storied wales and blend with the voices of the turtle and the cry of the mandrake.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-13
POSTHUMOUS FAME

nett when his return was once more an- nounced.
 NO sir" replied the secretary, its as long as ever"
 Then fire him" replied Bennett "He's too slow to take hint to suit me-
 In the last of the stories Mir Bennett is pictured as an autocrat with an en- gazing sense of humor In the first he is represented as a kindred spirit of ''Gcotty,' the spender from Death Valley, with a trifle more egotism than the man from Death Valley displayed. Men who and assert their infallibility belong to the dime novel and to the popular-price melodrama of the prepicture show period rather than to the world which James Gordon Bennett knew
 Like ''Scotty." who, it turned out, was an advertising agent of corporation, MT Bennett knew advertising values, good and bad. It is far easier to believe that he gave waiter $6000-inasnluch as he was man who liked good living aud oOCNA gardiy giyer-than to conceive of him referring to himself in the third person and asserting grandiosely that James Gordon Bennett never makes mis- take"
 (~ourely nobody with the sense of humur possessed by the hero of the last of the two stories could have sufficient lack of sen7c of humor about himself to be the hero of the first
 What notable man, by the way. woul1 die peacefully if he should be permitted 10 read upon his deathbed all of tho stori' illustrative of his personality which his death would release, not per,. mitted to blue pencil the many currentN curing his lifetime, but fictional doing ialusy to his reputation by introducing characteristics he was not guilty of pos SeSSi iug?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-13
ARMY WIPES YEAR TRIP

Mineola, l.. I.-(Special to the New York Times. )-After a chase of nearly four years and more than 10000 miles, her army husband and Uncle Sam's army orders here few days ago. Four years ago she became Mrs. Whaling, wife of Captain Whaling, at a western army post. About two months after the we'd ding the war department ordered the husband to the Philippines. and he made arrangements for the bride to follow, after the rainy season in the islands. While she was in the middle of the Pacific Uncle Sam got busy and the captain passed his wife on the ocean. When she reached the Philippines there was no boat back for a month-and her husband was in San Francisco. When she finally reached Frisco, the army wife ran down the gangplank into the arms of-disappointment Uncle Sam had been Alaska.
 A telegram of warning to the army wife reached Seattle an hour after her boat had sailed north. Husband and wife passed each other on the ocean again, he on his way to Fl Paso. She had to wait another month for boat back, but when she reached Texas she found the captain was in Mexico.
 By the time she grew tired of travel and returned to her home at Kansas City. But her husband telegraphed that he was in San Antonio and there she went, only to find he was at the national army camp at Chillicothe, Ohio. It was no use When she got there, he was at Camp Mills. This time she beat the army order by two days and then the 4s-hour reunion was cut short by more orders
 q don't know whether Pm still a bride, or a widow said Mrs. Whaling after her husband had gone. Being the wife of regular army officer is about as bad as having divorce"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-13

your own legs out. then you know soma thing about war and it's glories. Oh. but it's cruel, that mud of the Somme And that night, when I'd worked in if slept In it, and swallowed a lot of it Tin my rations for 10 days. that insuffar- able cad, that unmentionably odious tu. penny ha'penny captain--'
 can you forget it for little while now! Your tea will be stone cold. Be- siues one or these days we're all going home. l say desperately
 Maybe so, he sghs. But somehow. after more than three years, we sort oi stop counting on it. You see sailed from Sydney on what should have been my wedding day. I'd been engaged n long, long time, but wouldn't marry for I'd bought bit of land and wanted to be out of debt first For exactly year lived alone in hut. I was my own cook, and tell you frankly I was low and dirty; but each month I knew I was getting little closer to the end, because each month I was able to buy another COW or two. And there wasn't d happier cuss in the land
 Ihen-well the war came So L leased the place to dirty stacker, and the next week the government gave him contract for his whole output of milk and he's getting rich. As for ne, all I ever asked of life was peace and quiet " 'o'it sou ihS u hIOW HOW I've spent most of my leave in Paris? On bencn Tn a park watching the kiddies at play If l could just wake up in my room with the comfortable old furniture and with all my things in a drawern
 If anything at all were to be gained by my being killeds don't you think I'd submit to it gladly2 But what's the good of it? All my friends are gone, and new ones come and are moved down, and the war goes on, and each day some big brain evolves cleverer and more ghastly way to do the slaughtering-'
 My poor, tired fighter gulps little over the last mouthful, rises and, lock- ing down at me from his great height. says very simply, Never fear for me. madam; God help me, I'll carry on
 And as remove theNlast of the dishes and the half-faded flowers; as I scrape ,sp the crumbs and fold the cloth.& I keep thinking, That's right. God helping us we'll all carry on.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-13
Great I'lace for Navy

'T am just back from Annapolis weher, with my wife, went to see my son Edward before he went to sea, said Samuel T. Barnett. q was greatly impressed with the magnificence of the buildings and the beauty of their set ting. Uncle Sam has certainly fixed up great place for the navy lads I was glad to find my son in spien- did health and greatly benefited by his training. An Annapolis graduate has every chance to be prepared for hon. orable duty on the high seas for his country. I came away with very high regard for the naval institution, and am proud that my boy is to pass through it and be ready to fight for America
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-13

Needless to say, when ships go zig-zag- ging across the Atlantic they don't travel that way just to get laugh out of old Father Neptune.
 < * * Practically all the correspondents agree that the bolshevik government is in a moribund condition Takes it long time to die
 While the colonel may ''pooh-pooh" all references to 1920, there are reasons for believing it is date firmly fixed in his nina.
 A war correspondent writes about a quiet evening behind the Somme front" He must mean a comparatively quiet evening.
 ''veni, vidi, vici'' is the shortest com munique on record, but General Pershing is wonder at conserving words.
 $ x % American playwrights are popular in London. They needn't hope to be as | opular as the boys in khaki.
 < * $ Berlin, Ia, has changed it's name to Lincoln. Who wouldn't rather be Lin- colnite than a Berliner?