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The daily Alaskan., 1918-03-06

Geo. A. Edwards -. e.. ... ... A. -- Ben Ferguson, New York City, Bal tender, March 1898. s. Greenhood, Austria, Merchant
 Feb. 1897. NJ. T. Hall. N. Y, Mining Broker Oct. 1897. A. Johnson, -, Mason, May
 1898. ]. w. Kempf, New York City, Mer-
 chant, March 1898. F.. T. Liddicoat, England, Contract.
 ,r. Sept. 1897. Hermon Meyer, Denmark, Merchant
 Aug. 1897. Jnc. Nieuland, Finland, Carpenter Aug. 1897. J. owens ... a. =. -% ~< G. H. Patrick, N. Y, Musician, Jan 1898. A. Rungon, Ohio, Laborer, Feb 1898 Richard Schofield, Cal, Porter May 1898. - J. J. Tveter, Brighton, S., Mer. chant, Aug. 1897. E. L. Wilson, Ind, Laborer, Dec 1897.
The daily Alaskan., 1918-03-06
SHORTAGE OF GAUZE

Owing to a shortage of gauge there will be no meeting tomorrow or Monday afternoon in tho surgical dressings class of the Skagway Red Cross.
The daily Alaskan., 1918-03-06
ELKS ATTENTION

B. P. o. E. Skagway lodge No. 431 meets in regular session to- morrGw night st S:3O o'clock for election of officers and other busi- ness. A large attendance is urged.
The daily Alaskan., 1918-03-06

Charles Durkee, Jr., Skagway inn migration man, returned on the City of Seattle from Juneau where he has been for several days on busi- ness connected with the government
The daily Alaskan., 1918-03-06

IN THE U. S. COMMISSIONERS COURT FOR THE TERRITORY OF. ALASKA, DIv.. NO. l, SKAG- WAY PRECINCT.
 IN PROBATE
 In the Matter of the Estate of T. A. Mcdonald, deceased.
 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN That the undersigned has been, by Edward A. Rasmuson, U. s. Com missioner and Probate Judge of the above entitled Court, by order duly made and entered, appointed executor of the estate of T. A. Me- Donald, deceased. All persons hay ing claims against said estate are hereby notified to present them with proper vouchers in legal form within six months from the date of this notice to the undersigned at his office in skagway Alaska..
 Dated this 7th day of Feb. 1918.
 L. s. KELLER,
 Executor. First publication Feb. z, 1918. Final publication, March 2, 1918.
The daily Alaskan., 1918-03-06

Ms. G. c. LaBounty and son re- turned on the City of Seattle.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-05-31
DO REPAIRING UNDER GROUND
Not Necessary to Haul to the Sur
face the Larger Locomotives
Used In Mines.

At one Of the large mines of the
Northwestern Mining and Exchange
company, in Clearfield county, Pa, re-
ports writer in Coal Age, is rather
interesting underground motor room in
which all repairs are made to the
Iaulage locomotives. The small gath
ring locomotives are sent to the sur
face to undergo repair work, but the
large ones, which cannot be run onto
the cage and hoisted to the surface,
are repaired in the mine when 1t is
possible. The motor room, says the
magazine quoted-"is about 10 to 16
feet wide. The walls are of brick and
the roof of steel I-beams. A track
runs through the room at one side. A
large pit permits the mechanics to
work under a locomotive. AT the left
of the room is the workbench,
which is equipped with all the various
vises and tools needed for repair work.
The crane can handle a weight of 10
tons. 1t is operated by hand and can
travel the full length of the room.
Electric lights furnish sufficient HUI
mination for the machinist and his
helper"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-05-31
NOVELIST HAD HIS REVENGE
Dumas Worked With Subtlety, but
Was Satisfied That II Would Be
Thoroughly Complete.

When Alexandra Dumas, the French
novelist, was young man, he was
grievously insulted by man whom he
had regarded as his friend.
Everyone expected him to punish the
offender severely, but instead he began
looking upon him with more consider
alton and apparent friendliness than
he had ever shown before.
At length, three years later, when
the erstwhile friend was to be married,
the novelist was asked to serve as best
man, and did so. When the ceremony
was over and the guests were leaving
someone remarked to Dumas: Il have
often wondered st your kindness to
this man. Surely yours is remark
ably forgiving nature, for although he
insulted you grossly, you have assidu-
ously studied his happiness ever since,
and even assisted him in getting mar.
RED"
"Quite right !" answered Dumas. 81
fatter myself that 1 have given the
fellow the most furious and lXpX-eyed
mother-in-law to be found in France y
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-05-31
Africa No Longer Isolated.

The war has from the first been
brought right home to Africa. The
four German colonies, over which the
war extended, have an area of more
than four times as great as Germany !;
and there has been long and hard
fighting in all of them except in Togo.
Outside and within these areas of
actual warfare live thousands of
whites who are intensely interested il
the European struggle. Many of these
whites, even in the depths of Africa,
are receiving the essence of the news
every day. Even the Sahara desert
is now partly belted by Geographic
line, a French enterprise, with wire
less extension In Timbuctoo. Thus this
once mysterious city of the Sudan is
now in touch with the great events
of the day. The Belgian Congo is eff
f1ciently served by the French cable
to Libreyille and the land line to
Stanley Pool, where navigation of the
upper Congo begins. The news Is
then wired up the Congo to the mouth
of the Congo, and then by wireless to
Stanley Falls, $40 miles above the
Kasai.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-05-31
Two Saved by Heroic Officer.

Hanging by his feet from the edge
# the deck and stretching his arms to
two struggling men in a terrific sea,
an officer Of the United States navy
made heroic rescue during the fierce
gale which swept the coast early in
December. In the midst of a north
east gale, which had the ship almost
on her side, a quartermaster was wash
ed overheard while trying to clear the
steering gear. The sea was running
mad and he soon became exhausted.
Tying line about his waist the ships
cook jumped overheard and succeeded
in getting the man to the side off the
ship. 1t was then that Lieut.. Richard
L. Connolly, U. S. ~, swung himself
over the rail, and, catching his feet to
the edge, let himself head down to
the struggling men. One grasped hia
outstretched hands and he drew them
up until they were pulled aboard. Con.
uolly IL from Waukegan, Ill.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-05-31
|sAR WAY 70 EVIL SPIRITS


N the OAK bungalow ct Kwala Kubu
On Malayasla) TIE Chinatoy chowki-
dar, queue In pocket. shod IN shoes Of
silent felt, served my breakfast. ] was
at last on the threshold Of a strange
expedition In . land to which no letter
ever came correctly addressed. SO un-
known was 1t to the outside world. Al
this moment the strangest thing In
sight was my breakfast. It consisted
chiefly of tins Of tiny Monaghan fnches
-humming birds In size, squads In
taste-canned q dozen In a tin.
As devoured the pitiful little birds
bones and all. I looked up at the
great Malay mountain range. the back
bone Of the finger peninsula which
stretches southwark from Siam t.
within sight Of the bund Of Singapore
itself. Mountains, so the Malays say
are the wall Of the world, shutting Out
great winds and beasts Of prey. And
they believe that q strange race-tht
Yajuj-are forever striving to bort
through. and when they succeed. thez
will come the end Of all things.
The great limestone caves scatteret
throughout the mountains are place.
where the Yajuj have attempted ant
failed. There is nothing impossible o
unbelievable In all this, when on
comes to know Malay mountains II
all their weirdness.-William Beebe, II
the Atlantic Monthly.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-05-31
HOW SUGAR CAN Be SOLD

Retailers dealing in sugar are in.
structed to maintain the present
quantity sales limits, that is, to con-
sumers residing in towns or cities
not over five pounds, and to consum-
ers residing in rural communities not
over ten pounds.
In order, however, that the neces-
ssry supply of sugar may be obtained
10 care for home canning, retailers
are authorized to sell sugar to indi.
vidual consumers to be used for pre-
serving fruits and vegetables upon re-
ceiving from the buyer certificate
in writing in the following form:
1913.
l hereby declare to the United
States Food Administration that l de-
sire to purchase from. .............
............., an amount of .......
pounds Of sugar for my use for pre-
serving and canning purposes only,
and that l shall return any surplus
not used for this purpose.
Address.
This Certificate should be returned
eral Food Administrator for the State
OF. Wltnln one
week.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-05-31
GRAIN THREsHINe DIVISION.

Mr.. N. NJ. Fleming and Mr.. ]. L.
Diffenbaugh have been assigned by
the Grain Threshing Division of the
United States Food Administration
Grain Corporation, to work in Virginia
until threshing time in the effort to
have every machine threshing wheat
in Virginia this summer in the very
best condition to get the best yield
from the wheat crop. They will work
in cooperation with experts sent out
by Threshing Machine Manufacturing
Companies and threshing machine
owners and operators Of the State.
Mr.. N. M Fleming will have head
quarters at the office of the Federal
Food Administrator, Eighth Floor,
Chamber OF Commerce Building, Rich
mond, and Mr.. J. l. Diffenbaugh will
have headquarters at Staunton.
Committees have been organized, or
are now being organized, in all wheat
growing counties OF the State to ad-
minister this valuable service. Bach
| county committee is composed of the
Local Food Administrator, County
Agent, and a practical threshernan.
| The establishment of the Grain
| Threshing Division is regarded as one
| of the most important movements in
wheat conservation, and if well car
ried out through the hearty coopera-
ton of the people, will result in a
saving of at least 100000 bushels
of wheat which would otherwise be
| lost to human consumption This is
but little less than our export surplus
| in pre-war years
| 1t is estimated that:
I By arranging for all machines to go
! into harvest in excellent repair, with
ample power. and efficiently adjusted
| to meet varying conditions, so that a
minimum of grain is blown into the
straw pile, there will be saving in
{ every hundred bushels threshed OF
~ bushels.
| BY arranging that all machines are
in such repair that very little grain
| leaks under and around them on the
ground, and that what does leak out
In this manner, and is otherwise scat
tered about the machine. is cleaned
| UP and threshed before the machine
/ leaves the field. in every hundred
! bushels there will be saved l bushel.
BY careful handling Of bundles from
the shock to the machine or stack, and
arranging them so that all grain
which skaters therein will be caught
| and saved, in every hundred bushels
there will be saved q of bushel.
These savings total in every hun
dred bushels threshed three and one
I quarter bushels, or a total saving of
5s5, 900 bushels, valued at s1,700.000,
| In the State of Virginia.
! The Food Administration desires
( the cooperation of all threshermen
and extends this help wherever 1t is
needed. Any one desiring help should
apply to his Local Administrator.
t Captain K D. Hequembourg, OF New
York and Kansas, who is at the head
+ OF the Grain Threshing Division, gave
up $4,000 a year position to join
+ the s100 year men in order to
| render this great service to the Allies
and to our boys at the front.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-05-31
Profitable Pebblea.

The flint pebble industry gives oc-
cupation to many women and children
along the French coast lying between
Havre and Dieppe. The pebbles col.
lected In and near Havre are selected
for their spherical shape and are used
exclusively for pulverizing In certain
industries. particularly In the manu-.
facture of cement and in copper mines,
being employed in the interior of large
cylinders. In the cement industry the
slow turning of the pebbles produces
powder which becomes an ingredient
Of the cement, while in the copper In.
dustry the metal is freed Of all impuri.
ties by the grinding operation. The
same kind Of pebbles is used for crush.
ing purposes In the manufacture Of
paint Another important use of flint
pebbles Is In the manufacture of porce
lain, the pebbles for this purpose BE-
ing found between Fecamp and Calais
philadelphia Press.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-05-31
BRING BACK HOME MEMORIES
Many Reasons Why Snapshots Of
Familiar epots Are Dearly Priced
by tho soIdIera

A pisce Of paper covered with black
and white splotches nothing more.
But suppose those splotches have been
painted by sunlight shining through
camera lens, and form picture of
homestead, q familiar street or a
mothers snowy hair, and face lined
with the eloquent handwriting of the
years-what would soldier rather
have from home than such souvenirs?
A snapshot of the house and barn !;
Of the family sitting on the front
steps; Of father spading up the gar
den; of the old horse rubbing his nose
along the pasture gate; Of the dog
wagging expectancy at the kitchen
door; Of the baby sprawling in the
sand pile, or the older children squint-
ing at the camera with the sun in
their eyes-these are the scraps of pa
per which defy time and distance, a
writer in the Boston Globe states.
They assure men amid scenes of vio-
lence and death that the peaceful,
sweet life they have left behind in or
der to defend still exists.
Now that the sweaters, stockings,
wristlets, helmets, jam, tobacco, choco-
late-and other creature comforts
have been sent off, and brains are be-
ing cudgled for something else to send
the boys at the front, do not disdain
the humble snapshot-the amateur
photograph that any one can take by
pressing spring; the little peep OF
home faces and home scenes that can
be sent far overseas and taken out of
a pocket at odd moments-who knows
at how odd moments for renewal
Of faith and hope and memories OF
home.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-05-31
Privileges Of the Poor.

VIII you show me any other people
outside of the fairy books who can
put the most fearful calamity on like
a cloak and doff 1t at will. who can
augment their families to seven or
eight children overnight, and reduce
them as readily to five or six on the
following day II it but seem to them
advisable? Where outside their ranks
Is there anyone capable of persuading
you that it is privilege to sleep cold
SO that some Darius you never saw or
care to see shall, he had his aIlegor.-
cal mule, go better warmed7 Who
else, being neither Of your kith nor
kin, has such power over you that,
with mere bloodshot eye and SILVER
Of the shoulders, they can turn your
automobile, your furs. your warmth
and all your pleasant pleasures into
Dead sea apples Of observation-disclosures
Spencer Porter. In the Atlantic Maya.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-05-31
MESSAGE FROM HOOVER

Roughly, every 5000 tons of food
to the Allies requires $4,000 tons OF
shipping from Australia, 10000 tons
from the Argentine. and 5000 tons
from North America. Every steamer
we can save from these long journeys
means the possibility of an additional
shipload OF soldiers and munitions to
France. II the Allies were compelled
to go to these more remote markets
for their whole food supply today it
would require over 100000 tons more
shipping than at present In use for
this purpose. If North America could
next year provide the whole of Allied
necessities we could save 100000
tons of shipping. Every ship we save
is ship built. The weight of our
blow against the Germans will be linn
tied not alone by the ships we build,
but by the ships that we save. The
measure of ships saved by food sup
piled directly from North America is,
until our shipping expands, the meas
ure of ships for our own soldiers"
HERBERT HOOVER.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-05-31
RUDE AWAKENING FOR GUEST
Visiting Parson Got the "DustIng"
That lrate Father Intended 70
eestow on Offspring.

A story Of how q parson got the
busting instead Of youth Is related
by a newspaper man Of Wenatchee,
Wash.
1.-THE boy IN the plot was Oscar
Woods" he says. ut happened in
Nebraska. In our home It was the Gus.
tom for one Of the boys to take his
turn at starting the ere on cold morn
ings. It was u degrees below zero
and 1t was Oscars turn. He Lit the
Ere and then proceeded to the barn
to feed the stock. But the IRE went
out.
IAN hour later. perceiving that there
was no fire. father sent another call,
louder. Then several. more. But nc
sound came. The governor started
upstairs. aAt ~ s4ts
without informing the head Of the
house, my brother had brought home q
preacher the night before and put him
b the same bed with Oscar.
The parson had thrilling awaken
ing. He was yanked out of bed. He
resisted. This was too much for In.
.dignant dad. st~
THE conflict was exciting. Tbs
preacher fought Ike a wildcat.
"In the cold gray dawn dad found
that he had made a mistake. It wa
tough, but the preacher survived"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-05-31

Art II the revelation Of man, and
not merely that but likewise the reve'
lation Of nature speaking through man.
Art pre-exists In nature, and nature Il
reproduced in art. AS vapors from
the ocean floating landward and dis.
solved In rain are carried back In nv
ers to the ocean, go thoughts and the
semblances of things that fall upon the
soul of man in showers flow out again
In living streams Of art and lose them
selves in the great ocean. which is ma
ture. Art and nature are not, then
discordant, but ever tremendously
working in each other.-Lsngfellow's
Hyperion"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-05-31
One Quart of Milk.

Doctor Rosenow of Harvard univer
sity says that the actual food value OF
one quart of milk is equal to three
quarter pound of beef. two pounds OF
chicken, eight eggs, or two pounds OF
Goldfish. Each of these costs more, to
say nothing Of the time, labor and fuei
required in preparation. A glass OF
milk costs only 3 "a cents in Corvallis
today. The food value of that glass OF
milk is equal to two large eggs, or a
large serving Of lean meat, or two
noderate-sized potatoes. or five table
spoonfuls of cooked cereal, or two ta-
blespoonfuls of cooked rice, or two
slices of bread. In other words, a meal
consisting of one glass of milk and two
slices of bread gives you as much food
value as you would get out of -four
eggs.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-05-31

II has been calculated that there &C.
eur about 5000 earthquakes within a
rear. or 6.760 hours. hence, that there
are on the average three and one-half
earthquakes In an hour. Fortunately,
not all earthquakes are Of violent ma
ture, Hike that Of A. d. 500. that killed
from 10000 to 100000 persons In the
region Of the Mediterranean, or that
Of 1893. to which 10000 persons fell
victims in Sicily, or Of Lisbon in 1855
and those that devastated Chile, Peru
and Japan. OF great frequency are
the minor earthquakes. In feet, our
so-called firm earth can be said to be
In a state Of perpetual agitation. Our
senses do not perceive the slight dis
turbances. but the seismograph, a very
delicate and ingenious apparatus de-
vised to keep track Of them, furnishes
all the Information denied to US by our
natural insensibility. They often fur
nish US too much Of it In the excess
Of their zeal, recording sometimes as
seismic phenomena vibrations that
later proved to have been due to the
ringing Of church bells.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-05-31
Making New Words.

We're going to help the dictionary
makers with couple of suggestions.
Here are two words we have thunk uI
without the aid of mechanical appli-
ances or paraphernalia whatever
without even brains.
Piscapalate-A taste for fish for in.
stance, the fellow has one who loves
shad so much that he is willing to
spend half an hour taking bones out OF
his teeth just so to eat one slab OF
fish.
Strenuist-here is now "strenuity."
therefore, why not strenuist, one who
sirens? The strenuist is one who gets
up before any one else and starts in
doing lot of unnecessary things real
hard, just to make dust fly. He bores
you to death telling you about it, so he
should be separated from the common
herd.
We'd like to have some more new
words. If you've coined any, pass 'em
along, please. The language is IL
danger and needs help Richmond
Times-Dispatch.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-05-31
Tho klnq's Way.

II was characteristic Of the late King
Edward VII. that he never showed toe
much or too little courtesy, but Just
enough to maintain his reputation Of
being the NEST gracious gentleman OF
Europe Some years ago, according to
the author Of THE Peoples King" his
majesty visited Aberdeen and knighted
the lord provost. At the luncheon
which followed the king sat next to
Mrs Lyon. the wife Of the lord pro-
7ost and nnticed on the table the card
7ouoting her place.
must alter this" the king said.
ing OF the lady.
ith his pencil he effaced the word
:. and in its place substituted Lady
al rraeiously handed tho card to her
swly made ladyship.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-05-31
An invisible cleojs

A public clock which can b heard.
but not seen, II one Of London's Gu
fious possessions. 1t II In the tower
Of St Mary Abbot's church. Kensing.
"A. and Is the only pubic clock IN
lie immediate neighbSrhood. It chimes
the quarters and the hours, but com.
mits itself no further. It has no dial
no hands, no outward and visible sign
Of any kind to show that 1t Il a clock.
This eccentricity. 1t Is explained, =
the result Of two causes-one aesthet-
ic, the other financial. When the tow
er was built In 1879 a clock was sug.
gested as an afterthought, but the
architect protested that 1t would mean
he addition Of fifteen feet to the tow.
sr and the ruin of its cherished proper.
ans. A second point was that the
iurch. having but slender funds,
could not afford clock with dial A
compromise was arrived at by install.
ing the works Of a Ginning clock In tho
elfry without dial or hands.-Pear-
ms
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-05-31
A ~Frlday" chin.

A true story II told Of skepucal
Massachusetts, captain who way back
IN the early years Of the republic de.
termaned to exhibit the fAIlacy Of the
Friday superstition. He contracted on
q certain Friday for the building Of
q ship. and 1t was arranged that the
keel Of this vessel was laid on Friday,
that she was launched on 4 Friday,
named Friday. commenced Ioading on
q Friday and hauled into the stream
- TIE same day Of the week. 10 add
- . pcssibilitiea Of disastsE. . negro
cook named Friday was engaged, and,
thus fully freightsd with the sinistsa
name, the Friday sailed On . Friday,
bound to q port IN the wsst Indies
From that day to this no tidings d
4 Il fated craft have been resolved