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The Nenana daily news., 1918-10-11

The Cordova Home Guards re- gently received a shipment of 80 rifles from the governors office at Juneau. They were formerly made for the Russian government, but withheld from shipment when the Bolsheviki upset the administration |. plans.
The Nenana daily news., 1918-10-11

Clerk of the District Court Lang recently informed the city council of Cordova that the wharfage tax collected at that city for the fiscal year ending June 30 was $11, 1,373.6O the amount of freight being 113, ,736 tons. MT. Lang contends that the municipality is only entitled to its pro rata of this amount from the time the corporate limits were ex- tended so as to include the Ocean dock up until the close of the fiscal year, but the councilmen ask for the whole amount for the whole year.
The Nenana daily news., 1918-10-11

WANTED-Two or Three con genial fellows to occupy 4-room residence with me. Kitchen fla cilities if desired. See Slippern
The Nenana daily news., 1918-10-11

FOR SALE-Beaver Board. in plain and oak finish. Doors and win dows, sash stock and mouldings. Inquire Simsons.
The Nenana daily news., 1918-10-11

In England "His Majesty the King" and the humblest subject have a duplicate ration card.
The Nenana daily news., 1918-10-11

A charivari party of children at Cordova recently met with a hot reception from a bridegroom who evidently was not an Alaskan. When the youngsters appeared with their noise making instruments, the irate groom greeted them with cuffs, kicks and slaps, chasing them into the tall uncut. It has been the custom for years in Alaskan towns to charivari newly married couples who generally respond with a liberal treat to the children, but one man has been found who loves his money better than the good will of the kiddies.
The Nenana daily news., 1918-10-11

FoR SALE, CHEAP-Large tank heater and pipe drum; flush toilet, good as new; also sink. Inquire Simson's.
The Nenana daily news., 1918-10-11

PIANOS-For Rent and Sale. Sim.
 sons.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1918-12-12
TAKE PRISONERS IN AIRPLANE
British Flyers Round Up Sixty-Five
Huns and Herd Them Into
Camp.

With the British Army in France
Airplanes can be used for capturing
infantry. 1t was proved by the Brit
iSh in the recent advance.
Flying fairly low, seeking parties
of Germans or war material to bomb,
two officers in one machine were fired
upon from a sunken road. The pilot
dived and the airplane machine quick
ly accounted for four Germans. Very
quickly the Germans hoisted a white
flag in token of surrender.
The airmen were in a dilemma, as
there was no British infantry in the
vicinity. They descended to so feet,
however, and ordered the Germans out
of the road-65 of them in all. They
obeyed. Then rounding up the party,
the airmen directed them toward the
British lines. They circled over them
with the ever-menacing bombs and
machine guns until they encountered a
party of British, who took the entire
lot to prisoners cage
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1918-12-12
ALL WILL GET JOBS

Struct private homes alone will re-
Quire the work of 100000 men for 20
years.
Prof. Van den Ven of Louvain, now
in the United States, says the war
losses of Belgium total approximately
81, 1000, 100000. Before the drive more
than $4,000 buildings had been de-
stroyed. Practically all the important
factories have been robbed of their
machinery, and, in many cases, not
dations destroyed.
The machinery was shipped to Ger
many. Towns and villages have been
wrecked. Farms have been robbed of
all live stock. Miles of interurban
shipped to Germany.
The problem is first to keep alive
the population released by Germany !;
second, to reconstruct the Industrial
machine so the people can make a
living.
England also will want food, manu-
featured goods, raw material and ma
chinery in great quantities. So will
Italy and the Scandinavian countries.
George E. Roberts of the National
City bank maintains that the United
States will pass out of the war period
with more wealth than she possessed
before the conflict began. There has
been much scientific development of
industry, and agriculture has been
stimulated as never before.
There is no obstacle, he thinks,
to a continuance of business activity
except the difficulty of readjusting
business to a peace basis. This obsta-
Gle is great but surmountable.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1918-12-12
u. S. TO FEED THE FRENCH

hopes last year, are so per cent less
than in 1917.
Only the wheat crops have given
any satisfaction at all. There has
been some Improvement in them,
thanks to the awakening of the agrf-
cultural movement in the abandoned
regions
But if our daily bread rafions are
to continue throughout the winter we
must obtain-somehow, somewhere
an additional thirty or forty million
hectoliters (between S2.O0O,O0O and
11O, OO0,0 900 bushels) of wheat.
The outlook Is not bright Some
thing must be done Something will be
done. The people of France must take
the initiative They must be willing
to make more sacrifices They must
not be afraid of further and stricter
restrictions"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1918-12-12
WHEN THE YANKS
STRUCK ON MEUSE

snipers to work their way back in the
rear of the strong points and pick or
the Boche machine gunners in many
cases.
It was the job of the succeeding
waves of assault. with their light ma
chine guns and their little trench NOR
tars mounted on light, two-wheeled
carts hauled by man power to reduce
these strong points with or without the
aid of artillery, tanks, or airplanes.
The most advanced waves were en-
tirely safe from the machine gun pO-
sitions once they passed them, as the
Boches usually could not work their
guns toward their own rear, the en-
placement having been organized, with
a view to firing ahead or on the TANKS
only. Furthermore, if the Germans
fired toward the rear, they would re-
veal their presence to the succeeding
attacking waves which would put
them out of action before they could
swing around again.
Why Casualties Are Light.
It is because the attacking waves
went forward deployed in extended
formation and behind a curtain of fire
of bursting shells, creeping barrage.
that casualties among attacking
troops were so much lighter than any
one unfamiliar with these tactics
might imagine.
The doughboys passed Montfaucon,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1918-12-12
American Doughboys Faced
Three Fortified Defense
Systems.
NOTHING COULD STOP THEM
Interesting Description of One of the
Last Big Fights in Which
Pershing's Troops Were
Engaged.

With the First American Army
Three fortified defensive systems
guarded the German positions be-
tween the Argonne and the Mouse
when the Americans burst through
them.
The advanced line, the enemy's old
line, called the Hagen stellung; his
intermediate line ran a kilometer or
two behind it, according to the config-
uration of the terrain, hills, streams
and woods, and was called the Volker
stellung. Behind that ran his main
reserve line of defense, the Kremhiide
stellung, q continuation of the Brun-
hide stellung, which runs through
Champagne.
At their first bound the attacking
waves of doughboys swept over the
first two fortified zones with their
barbed-wire entanglements cut to
pieces by the preliminary lombard
ment, and in several points they PEN
etrated the Kremhilde stellung, which
pivoted in the Aire-Meuse sector on
Montfaucon.
The three-hour artillery preparation
between 2 80 and 5 80 o'clock in the
morning had driven the enemy to his
deepest dugOutS and the advanced as
sault troops were in the trenches
throwing gas bombs and grenades
down the stairways into the under
ground bombproof shelters before the
BOches could get upstairs.
Reducing StronghoIds.
Between the three different lines of
.intrenched positions the Boches had
installed series of strong points, ma
chine gun nests, sometimes emplaced
in concrete and steel pillboxes, or else
merely set in strong, natural, COM
handing positions.
The advanced waves of storming
troops going forward in open order,
worked their way between the strong
points, often by worming along for con-
siderable distances on their stomachS,
or by crawling on hands and knees
through woods or along ravines. Ar
irving in the rear of these positions.
they established contact with one an
other and proceeded forward. leaving
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1918-12-12

Paris.-Vast quantities of food
products must come to France this
winter. AM eyes are on America
Abaoxmai drought last summer seri-
ously injured the French harvest. A
warming has been issued that further
sacrifices. more stringent food restric-
lions. may have to be imposed
France. facing the winter. is looking
to America to feed its people Approx
fmately 10O.OOO,O0O bushels of wheat
are needed for daily bread rations-
"The economic situation is alarm
ing" said NJ. Comet, a French senator
from the Puy de Dome region. AAll
the harvests have been brought in and
we are in position to measure our
needs.
Production this year has been sadly
deficient. Despite our expectations last
spring of bumper crops. the deplorable
dry weather has ruined many rich agrf-
cultural districts of Frnnce.
There has been almost NO fruit.
Vegetables are few. Cereals are poor.
Ront0 crops. on which we based our
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1918-12-12
To Be No Slump in the Demand
for Labor.
Devastated Europe Will Look I
United States to Help
Rebuild.

New York.-Jobs for all will be had
for the asking in the period OF the
worlds reconstruction. There's to be
no slump in the demand for labor.
1t has been estimated that no fewer
than 100000 men have been killed
in Europe. The United States, which
has not lost $4,000 men, must make
good this huge labor loss.
Devastated Europe will look to the
United States for help to rebuild. We
must finance this big job and supply
the materials and tools.
According to M. Tardieu, French
high commissioner, it will take two
years to get the French coal mines in
working order and ten years to put
them in prewar condition. To recon
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1918-12-12
RAT IS FRIEND OF MINERS
Workers Warned Of Coming catas-
trophe When the Rodents Leave
TunneI-Are Fed by Men.

Investigators Of mining conditions
and the peculiar dangers to which.
miners are subjected recently have
taken much interest in the practice
of Western gold miners to make pets
of the rats which commonly infest
mines. On the mother lode of Cali
fornia it has been found that the
miners Invariably feed the rats and
take care of them, believing that the
rodents are a source of protection
against accident, says Our Dumb Ami
mails. This is due, the men say, to the
instinct of the rats, which warns them
when a tunnel is unsafe. And when
the rats leave a tunnel it is almost i'm
possible to get the miners to work
there. This recalls the belief among
sailors that rats will leave a doomed
ship. The miners also have found that
rats are much more susceptible than
humans to the dangerous gases that
so often cause loss of life in the mines.
Long before the miners themselves are
affected by these gases the rats be-
come sick and show symptoms of dis
ress. So the men keep close watch
of the rats good health.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1918-12-12

which was a hive of machine gun
nests in their Advance toward Nam
tillois and Cierges, and it was not un-
til the day after the town had been
practically surrounded that the last
enemy resistance was crushed there.
After penetrating well beyond Mont
faucon on either side, American pa
trolls of twos and threes began to
reconnoitre the town and the chateau
which stands on tent-like ridge COM
handing the plain in all directions.
Those patrols which entered from the
north, from behind, worked their way
through the ruins of shell-shattered
houses right up to the front of the
town, where they sniped the German
machine gunnerS in the backs, as they
were firing on American patrols adj
vancing from Cuisy. Prisoners were
taken from the deep dugouts so and
60 feet below the ruined town two
days after the Americans had eStab-
Iished themselves in the town.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1918-12-12
DUTCH TAKE TO BAGPIPEs
"Doedeizakspeei" Latest Craze in HoI
land and People Can't Get
Enough.

.-Doedeizakspeel- is all the
rnge at The Hague
Doedeizakspeel is Dutch for bag
pipes.
Some of the British released pris-
oners have brought the bagpipes, and
their kiltfes, through Holland-and
Doedeizakspeel has become the jazz
band of the nation.
No cabaret is complete without 1t,
and highland filings are flung about the
restaurants of the white light district
with the same abandon Broadway
knew when the tango was Mt its high
est.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1918-12-12
catarrh Cannot Be Cured

by LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they
cannot reach the seat OF the disease.
Catarrh Is local disease, greatly infiu-
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It is taken internally and acts through
the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces of the
System. HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE
Is composed of some of the best tonics
known, combined with somee Of the best
blood purifiers. The perfect combination
Of the Ingredients in HALLS CATARRH
MEDICINE is what produces such won
derful results in catarrhal conditions
Druggists 75c- Testimonials free.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1918-12-12

unerstan'," walled the poor French
soldier to his English friend Now.
zee ere: look in my 1eetle book an
Get zay that eef go -queek I go fast.
eef am tied up am fast. eef 1 spend
zee money too much am fast.
~An' zen find zis In zee EengleeSh
Zee first one won one one
pound prixer Oui, zee Eengleesh Ian
guage! Eet ees awful ~
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1918-12-12
Dandruff and itching.

To restore dry, falling hair and get rid
Of dandruff, rub Cutfcura Ointment
into scalp. Next morning shampoo with
Cuticura Soap and hot water. For
free samples address, ''Cuticura, Dept.
<, Boston" At druggists and by mail.
Soap Is, Ointment 25 and 5O.-Adv.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1918-12-12
Boys Will Boast.

A boy was Dragging to a playmate
that his grandfather fought In the
Civil war;
what of it?" said the other.
'He has a hickory Leg" rejoined the
first.
"That amt nothin'," said the other !;
my sister has a cedar chest."-Pitts-
burgh Chronicle-Telegraph.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1918-12-12

Just n Mother Thinks.
Son (reading the paper)-There's no
use talking. dad. Absolute unity of
command Is essential to victory.
Dad-That's what you mother
thinks.-Life.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1918-12-12
choppinq Him off.

''Say !"snarled an impatient GUS
toner in the rapid-fire restaurant. do
I get a little service, or don't I?''
"What dye want-to have year beams
loaded into a glass pistol and shot into
yehT' sarcastically returned Heloise,
the waitress-KansasC City Star.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1918-12-12
to4e1eFe4enorope4s<erons
HE SURE IS A BIG
MAN AT THE FRONT

Topeka. -Kan.-Is mule
driver essential to the winning
of the war? This is the prob
lem before the Industrial adj
visory board of the First dis
trict. 1t was the first case to
come before the board The mule
driver claims his work is essen
tial to the operation of Kan
sas mine.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1918-12-12

Queen Marie of Roumanfa Is not
only one of the most beautiful among
the royal women of Europe. bu. also
one Of the most talented
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1918-12-12

Too many men attempt to- pass
through this world on the repCtation
Of their ancestors.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1918-12-12

A patent covers combined pick
and shovel, so mounted that the same
handle serves for both.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1918-12-12

To keep clean and healthy take Doctor
Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. They regulate
liver bowels and stomach Adv
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1918-12-12

No man can always do his best, but
he can always keep trying to.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1918-12-12

When a man goes in politics the chief
interest at election is to see how he
comes out.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1918-12-12

Most men study art by the aid of
mirror.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-10-23
500 DEATHS IN
NEBRASKA Due
TO INFLUENZA
Director Wild Says Four Pub.
lie Health Surgeons Com
ing to State at Once
From Chicago.
From a Staff Correspondent.

Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 22.-(Special)
State Health Commissioner Wild
today reported that the days record
showed 5,ll0 new influenza cases in
the state, with 81 pneumonia cases
and S. deaths. The report did not
include statistics from Omaha and
scores of other communities were un-
heard from.
The total of new cases reached
23,450 and deaths are above 500,
DR.. Wild stated.
-Four public health surgeons will
be sent here Immediately from Chi
cago and will be distributed through
Nebraska by the health board.
Between $1,000 and $4,000 school
teachers are left temporarily with
out jobs as a result of the closing
order, State Superintendent Glenn
mons announced.
Regarding the matter of salary
for teachers who are forced out of
work by the order, Mr.. Clemmons
quotes the following points of law:
when the school board closes
the schools teachers can draw their
salaries. but when they are closed
by the state Board of Health the
teachers cannot get pay, unless the
board desires to do so. 1t is up to
the school board. This does not
affect contracts which may be en-
forced regardless of the closing Of
schools"
Omaha daily bee., 1918-10-23
DANDRUFF GOES!
HAIR GETS THICK,
WAvY, BEAUTIFUL
Save your hair! Double its
beauty in a few moments.
Try this!
Hair stops coming out and
every particle of dandruff
disappears.

Try as you will, after an applica-
ton of Danderine, you can not find
a single trace of dandruff or fall
ing hair and your scalp will not itch,
but what will please you most, will
be after a few weeks use, when you
see new hair, fine and downy at
first-yes-but really new hair
growing all over the scalp.
A little Danderine Immediately
doubles the beauty Of your hair.
No difference how dull, faded, brit
tie and scraggy, just moisten a
cloth with Danderine and carefully
draw it through your hair, taking
one small strand at q time. The
effect is immediate and amazing
your hair will be light, fluffy and
wavy, and have an appearance Of
abundance, an Incompatible lustre,
softness and luxuriance, the beauty
and simmer of true hair health.
Get a small bottle Of Knowlton's
Danderine from any drug store or
toilet counter for a few cents and
prove that your hair is as pretty
and soft as any-that it has been
neglected or injured by careless
treatment-that's all.
Danderine is to the hair what
fresh showers of rain and sunshine
are to vegetation. 1t goes right to
the roots, invigorates and strength
ems them. Its exhilarating, stimu-
lating and life-producing properties
cause the hair to grow long, strong
and beautiful.-Adv.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-10-23
Sheriff Clark VIII
Deliver Con6scated
Whisky to Hospitals

District court judges Tuesday
afternoon issued an order authoriz'
ing Sheriff Clark to deliver to hos
pitfalls quantities of whisky upon or
ders signed by the health commits
sioner and insofar as confiscated
liquors being held by him will meet
the requirements.
This action was taken upon re-
ceipt of a signed request of Mayor
Smith and Health Commissioner
Manning, who explained that this
whisky could be used to advantage
in combating influenza in the hos
pitfalls.
The order was signed by the seven
judges and delivered by the clerk
of the district court to the sherlttS
office.
The sheriff holds the key to the
spirit room" of the court house
and it is said that there is gener-
Gus stock on hand. Liquors taken
from the Larsen farm on the West
Center street road are still being
held.
During the afternoon the county
board adopted a resolution, asking
the district court judges to direct
the sheriff to supply the county hos
pital with whisky for medicinal pur'
poses.
County Commissioner O'Connor
stated that he believed the govern.
ment should permit shipment of II
carloads of whisky to Omaha tc
meet the FLU" emergency.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-10-23
JEFFERiS man
FOR CONGRESS
SAYS A, BLOOM
Urges Citizens Of Swedish
Origin to Support Man Who
Will Support President
as Patriotic Duty.

Speaking of the congressional sit
uation in this district, Alfred Bloom,
president of The Alfred Bloom COM
pany, said to The Bee reporter:
1T is my firm belief that every
American citizen of Swedish birth
or Swedish origin owes a patriotic
duty to this country to vote for
Albert w. Jefferis for congress. We
do not by any means perform our
full duty when we subscribe for
Liberty bonds or contribute to the
various war funds.
I'VE are equally performing an
obligation of patriotism when we
select men of ability to represent US
in our great national Legislature,
which not only spends the money
that we subscribe and contribute,
but which assists the president in
the conduct of the war, and which
will also assist him in solving the
great problems that will come with
the reconstruction period following
the war. In my Judgment, we have
never had a more able man than
Albert w. Jefferis running for con-
gress from this district, and if we
d. full justice to ourselves and to
our common country. he will be
elected without any real contest.
Those few unthinking persons
who talk about returning our pres
ent congressman because he is a
democrat and because he will sup
port the president, should remember
that he voted against the president
on the McLemore resolution, for
which the president ordered several
so thern democrats to stay at home.
They should also remember that the
2l0 republican members of the lower
house of congress have been abso-
lut>ly and at all times loyal to the
president; and if that is not suffi-
cient. they should also remember
that General John J. Pershing, COM
mander of the two million Ameri-
can troops in France, is a republic
can. and that he is standing by the
war to the utmost limit, and that
he is standing by the president, and
that his loyalty can not possibly be
exceeded even by that of the presi-
dent himself. The president has had
to complain of many democratic
congressman, but up to the present
time he has had no reason to COM
plain of any republican congress
man."
Omaha daily bee., 1918-10-23
Anti-Sufrage
: Workers Appeal
To Supreme Court

Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 22.-Appeal
to the Nebraska supreme court was
taken today by antiLsuffragist work.
ers from the recent decision of dis
trict court here granting woman
suffragists a temporary injunction
preventing submission of the state
woman suffrage act to a referendum
vote at the election November 5.
The anti-suffragists seek to have the
lower court reversed in time to have
the proposition go on the ballot for
the coming election. Hearing on the
appeal was set for next Saturday.