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Valdez daily prospector., 1918-02-05
LARGE ARMY FOR
 SPRING DRIVE
1. 100000 Allied Troops Will be Ready for Death Grsspple in Bal
 kans This Year

WASHINGTON. D. C., Feb. B. One million two hundred thousand allied troops will be available March 31 for the impending spring drive to break the German grasp in the Bal kans it is learned officially today.
Valdez daily prospector., 1918-02-05

The lowest point below sea level in the world Is the dead sea, in Pales- tine, which is 1290 feet. Death Val ley, California, is 276 feet below sea level.
Valdez daily prospector., 1918-02-05
BIG NEWSPAPER PLANT
 DESTROYED BY FIRE

ANACONDA. Feb. 5.-The build ing and plant of the Anaconda Stan dard, one of the largest papers of the copper district. was today totally des- troyed by fire.
Valdez daily prospector., 1918-02-05

K. Yamasaki, @ local Nipponese pa triot. yesterday attended the Red Cross meeting at the City Hall and donated $2O to the fund.
Valdez daily prospector., 1918-02-05

A minimum temperature of g above is reported for Valdez during the past twelve hours, with 50 inches of snow on the ground.
Valdez daily prospector., 1918-02-05
DELLA HAS STORMY TRIP

The launch Della, Capt. H. L. Rid CT, arrived last night from Ellamar, Fidalgo and Landlock, after a very stormy and tempestuous trip. So fierce was the gale that Capt Rider states he was seven hours making the trip from Ellamar Grant Remington, John Conley and Mrs. Jungholm were passengers for Valdez.
Valdez daily prospector., 1918-02-05
AMERICANS WANTED

NEW YORK, Feb. 5.-Major Gray. son Murphy, former head of the Red Cross in France. said today: Every where in France the people are ask ing, How soon will the Americans be here?'"
Valdez daily prospector., 1918-02-05
MEMBER OF COMMONS
 FIRED FOR HOARDING

LONDON, Feb. 5.-William John McGeagh McCaw. Unionist member of the House of Commons, was heavily fined today for hoarding foodstuffs. contrary to laws passed by the food administration for Great Britain.
Valdez daily prospector., 1918-02-05

The average rise and fall of the tides in the United States is IS feet at Eastport, Maine, and 1 foot at Mo bile, Ala. Seattle, Wash, has an av- craze rise and fall of 12 feet.
Valdez daily prospector., 1918-02-05

Two men have been reported miss ing at Ketchikan by the Deputy Mar shal. They are John Dolan, watch man at Roe Point Canuery who left Ketchikan about Christmas and has never showed up and a native of Penncoh Island. He left Ketchikan about a month ago for his home and has not been seen since.
Valdez daily prospector., 1918-02-05

While the Admiral Evans was in Kodiak several cases of intoxication were observed and as that place is absolutely dry the marshal had no dificulty in discovering an oasis on the Evans the bsrber-barkeeper be- ing in charge of the beverage that cheers. He was tried and found gull ty and sentenced to . hns of $1eo.
Valdez daily prospector., 1918-02-05

45,OOO employees were working in munition plants at the beginning oi
 the year 1917.
Valdez daily prospector., 1918-02-05

It costs $122 per word to send a cable from New York City to China.
Valdez daily prospector., 1918-02-05

Better than cash. They earn money for you. Buy WAR SAVINGS STAMP TODAY.
Valdez daily prospector., 1918-02-05

A kilometer. the metric system be- ing the standard of measurement in Europe, Is 3280 feet, 10 inches. A meter is 39.37 inches. A hektometer is 32s feet, inch. A myriaheter Is 6.2137 miles. By keeping these fig- urss in your head you can compute the distance gained by the armies in Europe. which are always given by the metric system. ..-.
Valdez daily prospector., 1918-02-05

Grant Remington arrived in town today from down-sound and will re. main in town a few days.
Valdez daily prospector., 1918-02-05

Don't miss the brilliant. spectacu- lar play. "Joan of Are a't the Elm press Theatre tonight.
Valdez daily prospector., 1918-02-05

John Conley is a Valdez visitor from down-sound and will remain in town a few days.
Valdez daily prospector., 1918-02-05

There was total of 1246 strikes and 159 lockouts in the United States last year.
Valdez daily prospector., 1918-02-05
SAVE THE FOOD

. Two wheatless days each . . week, Monday and Wednesday.
 + One evening meal daily, . wheatleSs. - One meatless, Tuesday. . One meatless meal daily. t Two porkless days for each t week, Tuesday and Saturday.
Valdez daily prospector., 1918-02-05

FOR SALE-Three National cash registers and one four foot flreproof safe. Inquire of the Prospector. k12
Valdez daily prospector., 1918-02-05

pr. Rafael Msnoeai, . leading Cuban surgeon, has arrived h this country to talss up with the American Red oFess sfsss,ai pesparatiens for the field hes. .pitai aad sasleassat 'te. bs ssat. >s Ssnses hx shs ovbsn 1sd crss&
Valdez daily prospector., 1918-02-05

February ,25. 1898. the Maine was destroyed in the harbor at Havana.
Valdez daily prospector., 1918-02-05

Tomorrow is wheatless day.
Valdez daily prospector., 1918-02-05

PEASANT WOMEN
 ALMOST STARVING
New-York tribune., 1918-07-21

once more in the full swing of his perse
cutions. The Czech sympathies are wholly
with Belgium, Russia, Serbia, France and
Great Britain. And what is true of the
Czech is also true of the Slovaks, who suf-
fer even more under Magyar oppression.
The Czechs and Slovaks in Austria Hun
gary fight only under compulsion; their
unwilling regiments were decimated; their
political and national leaders fill the Aus
trian and Hungarian prisons. Thousands
of Bohemian and Slovak volunteers are
fighting enthusiastically under the banners
of France and Great Britain, and there are
whole regiments of them attached to the
Russian army.
The same natural law of preservation
that rules over individuals rules also over
nations-ony the strongest survive the
struggle for existence. Not the strongest
in numbers nor even physically, but the
richest in that healthy virginia. life-cur-
rent which suffers under defeat, but is
never crushed; which may be suppressed
to the limit, yet wells up again stronger
and fresher than ever the moment the
pressure relaxes. One such nation is sure
ly, it seems, that of the Czechs. A 1900
year-long life-and-death struggle with the
races which surround it from the north
west and south, with a near-burial within
the Austrian Empire for the last three
centuries, have failed to destroy the little
nation or break it's spirit"
New-York tribune., 1918-07-21

the second division of our inquiry: How
did they get into Siberia? And the an
swer to this question merges quickly
into an answer to the other question:
Whittier are they bound?
David Lawrence, writing recently in
"The New York Evening Post" said:
"To those who have not been following
this Czecho-Slovak movement closely it
should be recalled that at the time the
American Commission, headed by Elihu
Root, was in Russia, the Russian army
made a drive into Austria and captured
hundreds of thousands of Czecho- Slovaks
Not much significance was attached then to
the Willingness with which they surren-
dered, but it was plainly understood when
their leaders in exile in France began to
arrange for the transfer Of the Czecho- -Slo-
wax contingent from the status of prison
ers of war to loyal soldiers of the French
army. Professor Masaryk went to Russia
to arrange this with the Russian govern
ment. The Bolsheviki successfully revolt
ed against the Kerensky regime but, after
prolonged negotiation, they, too, agreed to
the passage through their territory and the
equipment of about 100000 Czecho-Slovak
troops.
"The objective of the latter was France,
by way of Siberia and ocean Transports
Until few days ago the Bolsheviki kept
their agreement. The Czecho-Slovaks en-
countered difficulties on their journey, but
foloweds their instructions not to get mixed
up with the Bolshevik.
professor Masaryk is confident, how
ever, that German intrigue set to work to
pit the Bolsheviki against the Czecho- Slo-
walks, and that, contrary to their own
wishes and intentions, the capture of
Vladivostok became necessary in self pro
lection. He believes the Germans were try
ing to wipe out the Czecho- -Sovak force
and prevent it from ever becoming incor-
porated in the Allied armies in France"
Professor Masaryk is the commander
in chief of the Czecho-Slovak forces, al
though at the present time he is far
away from them himself. Professor
Masaryk is at present right here in
America, but he is keeping in close
touch with the situation in Siberia at
the same time that he is keeping an
eagle eye on developments in this coun-
try looking toward a definite Russian
policy.
1t seems that the Czecho- -Slovaks, be-
ginning their long, long march across
Siberia toward the sea and an intended
New-York tribune., 1918-07-21
why There Is An
w Unending Feud

Between the Czechs and the Germans
there is long-standing feud, wrote r.
S. Nolan in "The Nineteenth Century"
in 1915. And he continued:
"a certain arrogance, which is very
marked in many types of German charac-
ter, and offensive conviction of the
superiority of all that is Teutonic, are
largely the causes of the feud. The Czechs
are, of course, a Slav race They are on
the whole, more numerous in Bohemia than
the Germans. There certain districts
where of the races is solely represent
ed or dominates. When both find them
selves in large numbers, there is a peYpet-
ual conflict. The wary shopkeep-
er in Prague generally allows the intend
ing customer to be the first to wish Good
day. fearing lest, if the latter were a
Czech, he would at once walk out of the
shop if addressed in the German language,
or, if he were a German, he would do like
wise if addressed in Czech"
More light on the unhappy condition
of these peoples is thrown by Wolf Won
Scheirbrand in his recently published
book, "Austria-Hungary, the Polyglot
Empire" He declares:
"Of all the Slavs living under the shadow
of the Austrian double eagle, the Czech
does so most unwillingly. The long his
tory of this, the most gifted and energetic
of all the Slav tribes. goes far to explain
this strong and undying hatred of his Aus
trian master. Ever since the Czech
people first emerged from the dim light of
legendary lore, it met the racially so differ
ent, so much more numerous, so much bet
ter organized German in its path. From
tho RI MIH1o Ara IN
ago. the Czech was the helot, the newer of
wood and drawer of water. Ever the Ger
man, wherever he came in contact with
him and wherever he tried to compete, had
the best of it.
"From prehistoric times on the Czech,
like all Slavs, has been a tiller Of the soil
not a warrior, not herdsman, a hunter,
builder of and dweller in towns, not
mechanic, trader craftsman. In all
these points the German was much more
than his match. ="
But
ION top of this hateful feeling of in
feriorlty that had lived darkly in the sim
pie Slav soul of the Czech for so long
came the trickery first, then the fiendsh
cruelty and systematic persecution of the
Hapsburgs, once Bohemia had passed un-
der their sway.
FOR fifty years past the Czechs have
wrought patiently by day and night to
achieve their territorial and political inde-
pendence, and have failed. Every Austrian
statesman during that long time has tried
his wits at the conundrum, praisinp this or
that new remedy-and has eoually failed
And thus it is that the Czechs entered this
war with the sting of abasement. with dis
loyalty in their hearts"
Having it clearly in mind, now, who
the Czecho-Slovaks are, we may turn to
New-York tribune., 1918-07-21
They Were Victories Won
1 Without Design

But, as has been already shown, these
victories were not desired victories.
They were, like the classic instance of
greatness, thrust upon them Of course,
observes "The Buffalo Express
Their success would have been impos-
slble If tAey had met any determined re-
sistance, for they hardly can have had
enough ammunition to fight any prolonged
battle. The most significant fact, however.
is that there has been no sign of any pop
ular uprising to oppose them. Instead Of
rising in mass to defend the Bolsheviki.
the Siberian people appear to have well
coined the CzechoSlovaks as deliverers"
"The Montgomery Advertiser" feels
"the preliminary successes of the Czecho-
Slav clarifies the vexed Russian situation
for the Allies. At last party of popular
and military strength has appeared out of
the ruck and confusion of the Russian
chaos to which aid and comfort can be
given. At last the Allies have one party
enough for the Allies to stand by it,"
And further:
"The CzechoSlavs represent the spirit
of the hardy, triumphant Russia of other
states-a spirit which reorganzed and sup
ported Russian nationalism, and which
honored love of country as one of the real
ly great virtues"
Thus this party of old Russian
patriotism has assembled about it
great part of the wronged and dissatis-
fled element in Russia" And SO "the
New-York tribune., 1918-07-21

forced them, in desperation, it seems, to
fight back. But they offered, once it be-
came necessary to strike, resistance of
no mllk-and-water variety. In fact, they
took the Bolsheviki off their feet, drove
them out of the way, and went on. When
they came to the gates of Vladivostok
the Bolsheviki again came out against
them. The Bolsheviki said they could
not enter the city. But it was essential
they enter the city if they were to en-
bark to join the Allies. So, again,
against their will, they were forced to
attack. The result was, they entered
the city Of Vladivostok as a victorious
army. They occupied the port. It was
another chapter in their romance.
The American press has seized upon
this newest development in Russia, find
ing it both picturesque and of the high
est potential Importance. "The Spring
field Republican" speaks of the cana
basis of the Czecho-Slovaks-
"some of whom have already reached the
sea at Vladivostok, though a remoter and
Stranger sea Cnan the one which thrilled
the souls of Xenophon's ten thousand
stranded in what now is Turkey"
The situation is the more peculiar,
this paper later observes
Gin that for months past Czecho- Slovaks in
Siberia have been fighting on the side of
the Bolshevki in repellng the invasions
of General Semenoff and other leaders of
the reaction, and have indeed been distort-
ed into German menace by imaginative
correspondents in Harbin and Toxic Cir
cumstances alter cases, and we must not be
misled by words; in so vast and chaotic a
country as Russia it is not very surprs-
ing that Slavs of the same nationality
should appear pro-Bolshevik in one place
and anti-Bolshevk at another. Probably
the fact is that they are neither, but mere
ly anti-Austrian and in sympathy with the
revolution because that stands for freedom
of oppressed nationalities"
"The New York Times" perceives a
strong note of irony, demanding:
"1n the long years of oppression when
the Czecho-Slovak nation like the other
western and southern Savs, looked to
Russia the ultimate deliverer from the
German master, who would ever have fore
seen that the first victories of the Czecho-
Sl6vak army after the nations independ-
ence had been formally recognized would
be over Russians, the first conquest the
conquest of Sberia?"
New-York tribune., 1918-07-21
Independence Is the Dream
OF This Warning People

Downtrodden for centuries, the Czechs
and the Slovaks now look forward to
attaining their great national ideal, in
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS from Austri-
an and German oppression; indepen-
uence that they may set up state of
'neir own, that they may establish the
sovereignty Of their own tongue, and be
Tree to progress in their own way with
Ou' @ the interference of tyranny. The
same writer goes on to say:
ne true Bohemian, as can easily be
ss"u,erstood, s1 has nothing but the bitterest
ng ,seilhgs toward Austria, the stranger and
N'ufper, who, since the war started, is
New-York tribune., 1918-07-21
\Y1hile the United States
w Debated and DELAYED

Providence, writes "The Washington
POST
"has shown more than once that it is on
the side of the Allies, notwith standing the
fact that Germany usually has had the
heaviest battalons. Nowhere has fortune
favored the Allies more strikingly than in
the interpositon of the Czecho- Slovaks in
Siberia at the psychological moment when
the Allies are debating the delicate ques-
tion of sending armed forces to bolster I'D
Russia. While the United States has de
layed decision on this question, it has
been answered by events. Armed Allied
forces are actually at work bolstering up
Russia. To the small nation of Bohemia
belongs the credit of being the first of the
Allies to extend helping hand to Russia
The question now before the Allies is
shall we join with our ally Bohemia in aid
ing Russia in Siberia, or shall we stand off
and see the Bolsheviki arm German and
Austrian prisoners, sweep the CZecho-Slo-
vaks of Siberia and turn Russia over to
Germany"
A dispatch from Washington noted
that
"there is now real nucleus in Siberia
for the gathering of the various elements
which have revoted against Bolshevik
control and against surrender to German
influences"
Yes, observes "The New York
Times
there they are all the way from the
urals to Vladvostok. The Czecho-Slovak
nation has been formally recognized as one
OF the Allies; its army is an army of the
grand alliance as much as is any other
Allied intervention in Siberia is present
TACT, thanks TO the ready submission of
the Bolsheviki to German orders. If there
were hundred thousand American troops
in Siberia, trying to withdraw from the
territory of a nation which had made
peace after accepting their military aid
and If those troops were attacked by the
Russians while they were on their way ont
America would not be stopping to talk
about whether or not it would be theoreti-
caiy correct to aid them by an armed
force"
In "The Providence Journal" one
reads:
Their success is a striking demonstra-
tion OF the accuracy of the judgment that
1oresaw no grave danger 10 the Allied
cause IN armed Intervention in Russia The
timld counsellors who have urged US to alb
stain from such Intervention, on the
ground that it would throw the country
into the hands of Germany, are now CON
fronted with a very strong indication. not
TO say proof, that it would do nothing of
the kind"
The Czecho-Slovaks appear to be we'll
intrenched. The Tribune notes:
There $500 Dalmatians at Vladi
vostok now serving under the Italian FLAG.
British, French, American and Japanese
marines are also there. II is, therefore.
not a question of initiating Intervention.
but Of reaping the fruits of an nterven-
tion which is already under way"
And in another editorial this paper
observes:
While we have been debating the diff
culties Of reaching Russia through the Pa
cfc door, the Czecho Slovaks, intending
only to let themselves out, have seized
the door from within. They would swing
itSopen if the Allies were ready to enter"
New-York tribune., 1918-07-21

days Of the Bolsheviki are numbered
For, in the words of "The Providence
Journal
1.-The sons of Bohemia, in many respects
the most important single nationality in
the Austro- Hungarian Empire, are heard
from at the far separated corners of en-
battled Europe and Asia, in arms for the
cause of the Allies and for the destruction
of the power which they refuse to call
their country"
But the most important phase of the
situation, the press generally feels, re-
wolves about the question: What, now,
are the Allies going to do?
New-York tribune., 1918-07-21

embarkation that they might eventually
reach the French army, were instructed
by their leaders not to attack any par
New-York tribune., 1918-07-21

reaching the port of Vladivostok. But
and this is a salient feature of the ro-
mance-the Bolsheviki did not see fit to
New-York tribune., 1918-07-21

let them pass along in peace. The Boil
sheviki attacked them, harassed them,
New-York tribune., 1918-07-21

ties they might encounter en- route. Thus
they set out with the design simply of
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1918-03-01
BOY SCOUTS

Every Boy Scout in the country
has enlisted for service for the dura-
tion of the thrift stamp and war saw
ings stamp campaign. Five million
red postcards are being distributed
to assist the boys in the sale Of
stamps. They will make personal
solicitation to have the cards signed
by their friends. They will not be
called upon to collect money. The
postcards after they have been sign
ed, will be mailed, no stamps being
required, and the thrift stamps or
war savings stamps called for in the
order will be delivered by the mail
carrier.
Every Boy Scout selling $3.50
worth of cards will be made an
Ace" and will be awarded a suit
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1918-03-01
STOMACH
TORN UP
Indiana Lady Describes Condition
Which SIZE Ssya Was Due To
CONSTIPATION AID Tells Of
Relief Obtained From
Black -Draught.

Scohsburg, Ind.-Mrs. Annie Johnson,
OF this place, writes: ~ we'll remember
| suffered for long time with constipa-
fion, which would get ME down. ] took
doctors medicines and any number Of
purgatives. They would leave me in a
worse condition than was before taking,
and my stomach SO upset :. ! know
once ] suffered from constipation, ]
was so III we had to have the doctor, just
so nervous and feverish. The doctor
said would have TO quit medicines, my
stomach was so bad ..
My husband was reading and found
something about Thedfofd's Black
Draught and brought me package 10
try. used It tregulasly at first until ] be.
gan to feel better, then used just a dose
occasionally. was cured OF this con-
stipation and am sure the Black -DraughI
did H."
II your stomach Is out Of order. you
will suffer from such disagreeable syfiip-
toms as headache, biliousness, indiges-
tion, etc., and unless something is done,
serious trouble may result.
Thedford's Black-Draught has been
found a valuable remedy for these
troubles. Il Is purely vegetable, and
acts In a prompt and natural way, help
Ing to regulate the liver and to cleanse
The bowels Of impurities.
Try Black-Draught. EB-i5
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1918-03-01
HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS
WILL EXHIBIT WORK
By d. ". Il.

Dl ~. W. u.
An exhibit Of unusual interest will
be the work Of the girls OF the high
school displayed in the window or
Helmer's furniture store on Satur-
day and Sunday.
The work OF these students as
members OF the Junior Red Cross is
under the supervision OF Mrs. Geo.
G. Sabin Of the chapter school COM
mittee and Miss Edna Cornell,
teacher OF domestic scierce. These
ladies have been working untirlngly
and the exhibit is the result OF what
has been accomplished since the hol-
idays. The display will consist prin-
cipally OF Belgian baby layettes, and
clothes for older children. Many OF
the garments have been made from
donated materials, and show that
the girls have put great deal OF
time and thought in utilizing them
to the best advantage.
The past week the Honor Guard
OF this city donated $40 to be used
for material for Junior Red Cross
work in the high school. The ex-
ample set by the Honor Guard is
good one and 1t is expected will be
followed by others to help along this
most worthy cause. the work Of the
Junior Red Cross.