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The Alaska daily empire., 1918-09-04
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The headquarters of the Interna- tional Board of the Y. w. 0. A. has received a letter from Miss Marcia o. Dunham. O; New York, telling of the trip of herself and Miss Clarissa Spencer. of Cincinnati. through Si- beria to the Pacific after they were obliged to leave Petrograd Miss Dunham says they h,ft Petrograd only after being repes tedly told by the American and English emr bassies that 1t was un .afe for thera to remain. They were firsi advised to leave last Noven ber, but re- mained until March. and in the in- terval they established the pe:ro- grad association. which they have been assured by Russian women will be carried on until their return. Miss Dunham is graduate of the University of Iowa and has held positions as secretary for the Y. ". 0. A. In several cities.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-09-04

pursuant to Section 2306 of the Re- vised Statues of the United States, a Soldiers Additional Homestead, the following tract of land, situated on the northeasterly side of Gastin- eau Channel. adjoining the shore thereof, and approximately one-half mile Southeast of the City of Ju- neau, in Latitude 58o IF 30" North. Longitude 134' 23' West, in the Territory of Alaska, designated as U. s. Survey No. 7O5, and more par ticularly described as follows, to- wit:
 Beginning at Corner No. l Meander Corner; at line of or dinary high water of Cas- tineau Channel; not set; thence North 0.19 chs. to Witness cor ner to Cor. No. M.C.; whence U. s. M M. No. 1 bears South IF 40' West 58.02 chs. distant, and Cor No. Sur. No. HI s. A. H. of c. w. Fries bears South 520 03' East 41.53 chs. distant; 1915 chs. to Cor No. 9; thence West 1.90 chs. to Cor. No. 8; thence South 7.64 chs. IO w ithCcb COl hCi tO WI ANO. Meander Corner; 8.70 chs. to Cor. No. M.C.; not set: whence Cor. No. 1 Utah Lode Sur. No. 642 bears North 43' 01' West 7.68 chs. distant; thence meandering along the line of ordinary high water of Gastineau Channel South 45' 15' East 1.20 chs; South CO., 30' East 1.21 chs. to place of beginning.
 Containing an area of 1.81 acres.
 Magnetic declination 31' 50' East
 U. s. M. M. No. Is brass plate set in concrete on extreme North end of Juneau Island.
 A duly authenticated copy of the plat of said Survey No. 705, to- gether with a notice of the said ap- plication to enter, was duly posted at a conspicuous place upon said premises on the 3rd day of August. 1918.
 c. B. WALKER. Register.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-09-04
SULzER COMES TO RENDER HIS REPORT TO PEOPLE
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unanimous endorsement of the com mittee and also the departments.
 Before deciding to make the trip to Alaska, MT. Sulzer consulted with the administration leaders in Con gress. He was advised that the only matters that would be considered were the Man-Power Bill, which had already passed the House, and the Revenue Bill, after which a recess would be taken, in all liklihood, until after election day. He was also given to understand that there was little probability of another adjourn ment of Congress until after the war, and was advised that he could be spared better at this time to visit Alaska than at later date.
 "So, in view of the fact that it was not likely that there would be any adjournment and that it would be impossible to learn fully the needs of the Territory at a range of 5000 miles or more, and believing it his duty to appear before the people in person to render an accounting and to refute the maliciously false state ments and propaganda being spread by his political opponents, the Dele gate came North.
 Contest Publications
 Most glaring of the misinforma- tion that is being spread in Alaska, said MT. MOrrissey, turning to cam, paign. is that relative to the cleo tion contest being waged in the Ma tional capital. Some months ago MT. Wickersham wired all over Alaska that the Elections Committee had re- ported UNANIMOUSLY in his favor and gave the impression that he had been seated as Delegate. Telegrams were even sent to number of pa pers stating that MT. Wickersham had actually been sworn in. Such statements were absolutely false. The Elections Committee has made no report; there is no knowing when a report will be made. nor what 1t will be when made. And another fact is that regardless of any report that may be made. the contest will not be settled until the whole House of Representatives votes on it. In the meantime. MT. Sulzer is Delegate. has been working hard and is still work ing hard in the interests of the Ter ritOry.
 MT. Wiekersham and his friends have caused to be circulated through out Alaska, and particularly along the Yukon. posters. setting forth that he has been seated as Delegate, am informed. MT. Sulzcr will be able to show the falsehood of those reports, as he will be able to dis prove many other misstatements and propaganda hurtful to the Territory which has been going forth, from the opposition camps for months.
 Accomplishments In Office
 Ever since he took office" MT Morrissey concluded. "Mr. Sulzer has been working night and day for the
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-09-04
Old papers TOT sale at The Empire office, Second and Main streets.
Homestead Notice,

Homestead Notice.
 Department of the Interior, United
 States Lahd Office, Juneau, Alas
 ka, May 29, 1918.
 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that Fred Peterson, whose postoffice address is Juneau, Alaska, has filed notice of his intention to submit final three year homestead proof in support of his Homestead Applica- tion No. 02716, for the land em- braced in U. s. Survey 75, situated on the north end of Douglas Isl and, Alaska and in Fritz Cove, Lat. 5S' IF 28" N., Long. 134' 4O' w.. described as follows:
 Beginning at Cor. No. 1, MIG.
 on line of ordinary high tide,
 said cove, whence U.S.LM. No.
 75, F. S., bears N. 50'. 48' w.
 18.49 chs, thence meandering CD s. 66' 45' E., 250 chs.
 CD N. 45' 2O' E. 4.91 chs. to Cor. No. 9 MC.. thence N.
 65' 56' E., 14.07 chs. to Cor. Mo- 3, thence s. 23' AT E., 69.19 oh. to Cor. No. 4.thence s. 66' 16' w. 1927 chs. to Cor. No. 5, thence N. 24' 2 w., 69.14 chs. to Cor No. 1, the place ot beginning, containing 1888 acres, Mag. Var. 31' 10' E. tarf
 Said proof will be submitted by said Peterson and two of the follow ing witnesses: Endel Brown, Jo- seph Spinks, Thomas Thornton and John Green all of Juneau, Alaska. on September 30, 1918. c. B. WALKER, Register.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-09-04
BODY BROUGHT HERE

The body of William Hardwick, who died on the Admiralty Tuesday morning, was brought to Juneau yes. terday by Howard Bailey, superin- tendent of the cannery at Gambler Bay, and Is at the c. w Young Un- dertaking establishment, where it is being prepared for shipment to the south.
 Mr. Hardwick was 60 years old and leaves son who resides in the South.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-09-04
BRITT GOES TO skAGWAY

William Britt left on the Spokane for Skagway where he will take charge of his Skagway store while Frank Feero, the Skagway manager, is in Juneau attending the term of the District Court. MT. Feero will assist in the Juneau store while not engaged with the Court.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-09-04
YOUNG MEN OFF TO WAR

Oscar Berg, of Nenana, Grover Reddick Litchfield of Washington, D. C., Herbert Lawson and Harvey Miles of Fairbanks, and Modisto Silvano, inducted through the local exemption board, left for Fort Sew ard on the Jefferson.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-09-04
FIRST CASE SET FOR TRIAL

The first case set for trial at the September term of the District Court is that of the Petersburg Packing Company vs. Conrad A. Arness and others. Hellenthal & Hellenthal will represent the plaintiff and John Rust gard the defendant.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-09-04
ARE AT ST. MICHAEL

Gov. Thomas Riggs, Jr., and Mrs Riggs have arrived in St. Michael according to word received from him by G. Fenton Cramer, Governors Secretary.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-09-04
SERIAL 02757. United States Land Office, Juneau, Alaska. Aug. 5, 1918.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that John Rustgard, of Juneau, Alas
 ka, assignee of Martha Goad, widow of Charles Pinkney Goad, has filed Land District, at Juneau, Alaska his application to enter, under and
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-09-04
MEDICAL BOARD MEETS

The Board of Medical Examiners met in Ketchikan yesterday to ex- anime physicians and surgeons who wish to practice in Alaska.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-09-04
SALE OF GAS BOAT

A bill of sale for the gas boat E. J. N has been received at the Customs House The boat was sold to Edith J. Nelson by B. l.. Mayors
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-12

not captured. According to inforna- tion recently published, only 57 ma rines were taken by the enemy.
 These figures show in a striking manner how the marines fought. Their part in helping to win the war is wis ualized by certain names that have place in history-Belleau wood, Sois- sons, Blanc Mont and St. Mihiel.
 When the American people have welcomed the heroes returning home from abroad and given them the op- portunities to earn livelihood, to which they are entitled, the sound as we'll as the disabled, the nations gratitude will be testified in monu- ments to o~the brave men who died and to units who distinguished themselves in the great war. First of all there should be national monument to the marine corps, the first to fight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-12
London, November IA.

London, November IA. 7 HAVE written about my visit of the British Grand Fleet in the Firth = of Forth off Edinburgh, Scotland, chor farther than the eye can reach.
 When the armistice was announced and it was known that there was peace it broke forth in celebration-such celebra- tion as the world has never before known. The full-th -throated. majestic voice of thousand craft broke forth at one time Monday night.
 In telling of it a London newspaper man present said:
 "The silent Navy suddenly revealed it. self over a radius of something like a hundred miles, Batteships and cruisers, torpedo-boat and minelayers, stunt ships and motor patrols, and pickets all at one synchronised moment gave voice
 With the exception of the thunder of the guns in the night ~bombardments of France, no volume of sound ever equalled in intensity the joyous roar of the Fleet.
 brace-in other words, the serving out of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-12
Auditorium and Other
 Needed Buildings

| A N ample bond issue having been
 A voted by the people for Bir- mingham's long needed auditorium, work was about to be started when the government found it necessary to control all such financing. Great Liberty Loans were ahead and bond flotations by cities for public improve ments were discouraged.
 Birmingham was asked by the au- thorities at Washington to postpone large expenditures until more pro- pitious time. Citizens accepted the situation in a patriotic spirit. We managed to get along without the projected auditorium and without a central high school building and a high school building in the eastern section of the city, for which. bonds had been voted.
 But there is no reason why work on these public edifices should be delayed beyond next year. Govern ]ment restrictions on bond issues have been removed and within the next few months it should be comparatively easy to float enough bonds at least to pay for an adequate auditorium. Such a building should be ready for occupancy by the spring of 1920 and should then be opened with music festival on a mammoth scale.
 Now that Atlanta has raised the necessary guarantee for. a week of opera in the spring of 1919, it may be assumed that the opera season in our ienterprising neighbor will be revived as a permanent institution. It would be in order, then, to have several days of opera in Birmingham in the winter of 192o-21.
 The Metropolitan Opera company is available for an out-of- town season Ionly in the spring, but the Chicago Opera company, which has risen to the first rank, always makes short tours in January and February. That popu- liar attraction could be secured for this 1city.
 Let's make the year 1919 notable in Birmingham's history as year for witnessing the beginning of a big auditorium.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-12
Boys Agricultural
 Enrolment Week

1HHIS is the Boys Agricultural
 U club enrolment week and the department of education and the Ala bama Bankers association are CO., operating to make it marked sue cess. During the past five years the boys have accomplished much in pro- noting farm work. Starting in a modest way with corn clubs, they have extended their activities by organiz- ing pig clubs and peanut clubs; and now calf clubs and lamb clubs are becoming popular and they promise to become profitable. These. clubs are undoubtedly adding steadily to the wealth of the state.
 Spright Dowell, state superinten- dent of education, has issued circu- lar letter to the county superinten- dents, urging them to help in the en- rollment work. He considers the boys club movement lone of the most practical and valuable lines of educa- tional work in progress in Alabama" and says that the success of the schools of the future will be largely measured by the capacity of the boys to be of immediate and definite service to the people in the commu- nifty in an intensely specific and practical way"
 In agricultural possibilities Ala bama stands in the "very front ranks, !" as Mr. Dowell points out. "A care ful survey of the development of our agricultural lands, however, indicates that less than half of our rich tillable land has been touched by the blow. You will see, therefore, that we have two large educational problems; first, to improve the farming of the lands now under cultivation and, second, to develop in the proper scientific way the vast areas of fertile virgin soil. The school forces should claim vital
 part in these big educational prob lems.'
 The extension service, which is alert
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-12
WAKING UP THE CHORUS


 New York Correspondence Pittsburg Dis
 patch.
 The incompatability between a chorus girl and the sunny hours of the morning has long been one of the basic laws of nature, generally recognized by every one But the stage director of cer- tain Broadway show decided that modern science can do anything, which is where he was all wrong. The stage director has been busy conducting rehearsals of various new members of the chorus. Every day several of the girls have to an hour late. The excuses have ranged, from punctured automobile tires to mere headaches. The other night tho director decided it would have to be 2 fight to the finish between him and na- ture So he called science in the form wound up and set before presenting them to the worst offenders. These peculiar looking objects" he informed them in the presentation speech. "are technically known as alarm clocks. Tho curious bowl-like attachment on the top is the bell. The bells will ring tomor- row morning and waken you. As they ring out, get up and come to rehearsal. There's dears." Yesterday the six ap- peared anywhere between 15 minutes and an hour late. MT. Stage Manager, you set those clocks London time" the children of nature explained.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-12
LUKE M,LUKE SAYS

When a wife tries to discipline her hus- band by telling him that she could earn her own living if necessary the mean brute always has some comeback about the prncely stipend earned by a scrub lady.
 It is all right to be cheerful and oblig-
 ing. But many good-natured man doesn't know tho difference between be- ing useful and being used.
 When a woman is menacng traffic by zigzagging a brand-new machine around the street, other drivers are willing to admit that little learning is danger ous thing.
 A mans wife may not be willing to admit that she is more than 30. But he is willing to admit that she talks like 60.
 Another reason why marriage isa fail- ure in a lot of cases is because there is more kissing done in the first 10 days than there is in the next 10 years. l We may be grouchy. But we never could understand what rooster finds to crow about att o'clock on a cold, dreary morning.
 A fat man is willing to do almost any ] thing to reduce his weight but eat less.
 The reason why the man who runs the game always prospers is because you can depend on loser, losing more in an eff. fort to get even. We honestly believe that girl could go out in her bare legs and feel warm as long as she knew that she had an expensive fur collar around her neck. l You cant discourage A souse. If he can't find three more souses to make up a quartet he will go ahead and sing a solo.
 And you may have noticed that man never laughs in his sleeve when he bumps hfs funny bone.
 1 The difference between a prince and a pest is that the prince buys you all the drinks while he does all the talking. and the pest does all the talking and lets l you buy all the drinks. | Some men overwork their consciences l in the hope that Mir Conscience will gel SD hoarse that he will lose his voice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-12
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HIS GROWTH

From the Kansas City Star.
 This war has broadened us all, said the philosophical guest. Many man is much bigger because of it than he would otherwise have been."
 That's fact, MT. Sollum, agreed the landlord of the Petunia tavern. There's Anzi Fagg, for instance. A few years ago he didn't feel equal to do1 ing more than telling the rest of us how the town government here should be conducted. But now he considers him self perfectly competent to settle all the peace terms. His wife, by the way, still takes in washing. If you need your shirts and collars done up she'll give you as good job as a Chinaman couid' anu just about as cheap
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-12
A STAMP IN THE KNOCKING

From the Chicago Herald and Examiner.
 It won't take up much room in a stocking. Nor will it prove cumbersome when slipped between the leaves of book. In fact, there is no heater Christi mas gift for filling in the chinks than the tasteful engraving supplied in un- limited quantity this season by the worlds foremost purveyor of good things Uncle sam
 The War Saving Stamp is an appro- priate gift for a person of an age and it may be multiplied to suit any station in life Asa lift toward an understand ing of thrift; as a hint, perhaps to the Juvenile spendthrift, it has value apart from the money promise printed on its face.
 The war savies" offer cheap and graceful way of presenting cash. You can't offend anybody by including in your gifts a War Savings Stamp or two. And you can help keep the American flag waving by doing so.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-12
A ROUND TRIP

From the Saturday Evening Post.
 Aunt Mary Wells is one of the few ..befor d wah'' darkies left in a little Kentucky town. Recently she was dis cussing with her employer the merryFgo- round that was running up on the cor ncr.
 '.Nawsuh, MT. Malcolm" she said. '.nawsnh. I don ride on none O dem. things. Why, MT. Malcolm, I've seen some O these here fool niggers git on that thing and ride as much as dollars worth, and git off at the very same place they gifts on at; an I sez to 'em: Now yo' spent yo' money, nigger. whah yo' been 2' '
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-12
THE RAINBOW

From the New York Evening Sun, Another vision has been seen in the sky by our soldiers in France-not quite so miraculous as the Angels of Mons," but striking enough to form the basis of pleasant legend.
 Sergeant Fisher of the Forty-second division has written letter to a relative, in which he tells of the sign in the sky: "On three occasions on the morning We have started an attack a big rainbow has appeared in the sky and twice it has appeared when we reached our destina- tion.
 No wonder the Rainbow Division" has reason to feel that the powers above lhung out the bow as sort of counter sign indicating friendship and alliance Next to the great legend of the com pany of archers-equipped as at Agin- court, and under the leadership of St. George who fell from the sky upon the Germans at Mons, re-enforcing the Brit ish in the moment of their greatest stress and leaving field strewn with dead Germans, afterward attested as slain by
 
 | has flashed up from the battlefields. / i s>The Rainbow division was so named ] because it was designed to inclpde sol. diers from all the UEled States. from east to west, like the span of rainbow whose ends rested in our two oceans; bow of promise most gloriously fulfilled. as told in the terse record of the army reports. If some cold-hearted soldier from another American division should sniff at the calm appropriation of or dinary weather phenomena as a special compliment to the Rainbow. 1t would prove nothing, for nobody can deny that i the rainbow was set in the sky when 1 the Forty-second division attacked, even though the authenticity of St. George and hist bowmen has been attacked by many persons. including the man who, first wrote out the story. as he declares. as a bit of imaginative fiction. to turn a 1 few honest shilings
 Thousands of persons still believe that
 angels fought with the British at Mons; l everybody may believe fully that ths Rainbow division saw its emb,emAin the days before Chateau Thierry. May it I continue to be set for them as they
 enter and occupy German territory.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-12
MED BRACE TALKS ABOUT THE GRAND FLEET TTS>PART IN THE WAR AND CELEBRATION
 WHEN NEWS OF ARNEISTICE WAS RECEIVED

the rum ration-took place. At eight the ships burst into light, and from thirty mile line there rose the myriad notes of sirens, from the deep- throated hooter to the strange, wolfish ''woof woof'' of the torpedo boats.
 There was every note in the. scale. The tremendous sound re-echoed amongst the hills on both shores. The noise was awesome in it's intensity.
 'Searchlights which for four years had resolutely watched the skies or peered steadfastly along dark waters for enemy craft merrily criss-crossed about the sky; flares were lighted star shells fired; :; and here and there some of the greater ships were fortunate in a fireworks dis play.
 For sixty minutes the Fleet threw off all reserve and let itself go, and as one gazed at the myriad lights as far as the eye could reach, and felt bewildered by the din, one realised why the enemy fleet could never be brought out, for
 If the Fleet was so impressive in a
 little play, how terrible if it's guns
 spoke.
 At nine the sirens were suddenly si-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-12
ARMENIA.

E. Woodberry. -
 O fair ord Christ when yet Thy face -was young In heaven, and thy witnesses few, Humble thy Kingdom here, nor yet grace drew F,mperors to the breast where Lazarus clung- When round dying world thy arms were flung Armenia first unto thy mercies flew,
 To the pure gospel through all ages true. - And Him. whose sorrows on the worlds cross hunt She, who beheld the glorious covenant When the Flood, at the Creative Word. Bright above Ararat sprang the bow in heaven What her agony will thy pity grant? For her through faith in thee Q Lord.
 The thorny of Christendom is given. Bring, all nations, myrrh and frankncense, As when. with gold and many orient gem. About the cradled child sof Bethlehem t Like heaven the holy stable glttered. whence Issued salvation! Pour the providence
 Of earthly kindoms the feet of them Who would worldwide flood of sorrow stem And, Christlike. feed the multitude immense
 Nor think Armenia only bears the Cross Through deserts wild and ner mountain chain But nation climbs its Calvary.
 And hath its conservation: earthly loss H Thousands thousands find is heavenly gain. So the world-soul rensws hunIAnity.