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The daily progressive-miner., 1918-08-21
CAN FIRST CITY
PRODUCE MARkSMEN
TO JOIN TEAM?
One or Two Men Wanted To Join
Alaska Team to Try In
National Matches

Has Ketchikan one or two marks.
Zen good enough to represent her
7redibly in the national matches to
AXE pace at Camp Perry, O., begin
mig September 1st9 Ii SO, here is
another chance to win a few more
laurels for the already famed First
City.
VI. S. Dobbs, of the local draft board
and customs Office received the fol.
lowing message this morning from
Governor Riggs, which is self explain.
atory-
please try to get one or two men
to join the Alaska rifle team which
Will compete in the National Matches
at Camp Perry. Ages sixteen to forty
five. All expenses paid. Team must
report Camp Perry September LIST,
leaving Ketchikan Sunday. Please re-
ply promptly"
Speaking Of the message, Mr.. Dobbs
stated that he hoped that Ketchikan
would be able to secure the desired
number OF contestants in order that
the Alaska team will be quite complete
and that there surely must be some
men TO uphold the reputation of their
home team.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-08-21
BULGARIAN
king Held
BY GERMANY
Report Says This Means
Was Taken to Insure
Bulgaria's Loyalty

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.-King Fer
d;nand Of Bulgaria is being held by
Germany virtually as hostage, accord
ing TO advices through an official chan
ne! received here last evening. 1t is
thought here in official circles that
Germany may be taking this means
to insure Bulgaria's loyalty to the
cause of the Central Powers.
MADRID, Aug. 21.-The newspaper
Liberal this morning declares that
King Ferdinand is at Frankfort, Ger
many, desperately i'll. He is believed
10 be dying.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-08-21
kETCHIKAN MUST
ADOPT new SLOGAN
FOR FOURTH LOAN
One Hundred Per Cent Per Can.
tia Will Be Striven For by
First City

A. r. Larson, cashier Of the Miner.
Merchants Bank, reported this
morning while in the P. M. Office thai
literature for the Fourth Liberty
/ Loan is beginning to pour in, ant
preparations are being made here te
take care Of one of the biggest drives
lever launched in any town in Ameri
ca
This is no idle boast, and can be
proven by any one knowing the facts
Of Ketchikan record in the Third Lib
erty loan. This time however, Ket
chikan will ou,-Ketchikan herself and
has adopted the slogan of 1000 per
capita" or a liberty bond for every
man, woman and child in the city
This will not be impossible, for &C.
cording to bank reports, there are
100000 more deposits in the local
bank at this time, than there was on
May 4, the time of the Third Liberty
Loan.
! little review of the conditions in
Alaska since the time of the launch.
ing OF the Third Loan, will further
prove the assertion that Ketchikan
can be made 1000 town. All over
the territory, towns are complaining
of the depopulation caused by outside
conditions, the war, and various other
reasons, while Ketchikan is growing
larger, both as to population and ter.
".tcry. business in northern towns
s more or less at a standstill, while
in the First City, new industries and
business enterprises are being built
up, adding to the prosperous conditions
already enjoyed for several years.
Some 1900 people subscribed to the
Third Loan when s16S, 400 was raised.
This time it is hoped that $500 people
viii subscribe, making good the 1000
per capita slogan.
Mr.. A. R. Larson said today that it
is his opinion that the "Ketchikan
district should be able to subscribe
100000 in the Fourth Liberty Loan,
and more if necessary"
Ketchikan's quota in the Third
Loan was $4,000, but the loan only
called for Three billion dollars while
tie Fourth loan calls for exactly
twice that much so it is reasonable
to assume, altho no quotas have been
set yet, that Ketchikan will be asked
to raise quota of at least $125,OOO
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-08-21
Chief OFFICIAL
IS SATISFIED WITH
THE RAIL ROAD

ANCHORAGE, (By MaiD-After
having made trip of inspection ex.
tending over the Fairbanks, Seward
and Anchorage divisions of the gov.
eminent railroad, William C. Edes,
chairman of the Alaskan Engineering
Commission, which has charge of the
building of the road, declares the task
CT construction is progressing salts
factorily. In every division there is
"a scarcity of laborers, he says, but
despite this fact the building of the
line is going forward almost IN con-
formity wit hthe plans outlined last
spring.
"In the Fairbanks division this
season." states Mr.. Edes, trails will
be laid and trains will be operated be-
tween Nenana and the coal fields fif-
ty miles distant from Nenana.
"In the Seward division. as we'll as
in the southern part OF the Anchor
age division, all grading work will
soon be finished and the gap of about
seventeen miles between the ends of
steel on Seward-Anchorage line will
be closed and ready for train opera
ton in month or so. The track-lay-
ing machine is busy putting down rails
on the Seward-Anchorage line.
'In the Anchorage division, grading
is practically completed between Mon
tana, which is the present end of
steel north Of Anchorage, and Tai
keetna. Montana is about IS miles
north of Anchorage, and Talkeetna
is about twenty-five miles north of
Montana. The work of laying track
between Montana and Talkeetna will
begin in the immediate future Grad
ing operations are progressing favor
ably between Talkeetna and Susitna,
which is thirty-four miles north of
Talkeetna."
Mr.. Edes spent last winter, last
spring and part of the summer in
Washington City on business in con-
nection with the government railroad
while the government railroad en-
teE,:isc in common with other enter
prises not directly associated with
\ : carrying on of the war, necessarily
suffers from shortage of labor and
material, there is no reason at all for
diccoura uomontn ho cove "a yorx
friendly interest in the work is evinc-
ed by Congress, and there is every
reason to believe that with the res
.cration Of peace and normal condit-
ions the completion and operation of
the entire system will be effected
without trouble or delay"
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-08-21
WAGES INCREASED
ON GOVERNMENT
RAIL ROAD

ANCHORAGE tBy MaiD-Increases
IN wages have been granted to the
rai@ri-E OF the employees of the gov
2:aIlent railroad. The increases av-
erege about 10 per cent.
~nder the new scale, unskilled la
Horers are paid So cents an hour, an
cdrfnHc O. 5 cents N hour: spikers.
s-!aH2ers. Leelers. pillow holders.
s:r22-- i.02dc-s,. lea ders pitmen and
machine d-.I helpers set so cents an
ao1r; hand driliers, tie cutters, coy
ose men, timber men, steam derrick
freIen, steam shovel firemen, pile
driver fremen, blacksmith helpers,
carpenter helpers. machinist helpers,
plumber helpers, linemen helpers and
sheet lnetal worker helpers receive
IS cents ar hour; powder men, pile
driver E.en and machine driilers are
gwen 10 cents an hour; telegraph and
telephone linemen, hod carriers.
large tenders, longshoremen, pipe
filters and car repairmen are rated at
10 cents an hour; piledriver engin-
GERS, locomotive crane engineers,
steam derrick engineers, electricians,
blacksmiths, machinists, hatch tend
ers, air brake men, carpenters, paint
ers, boilermakers and sheet metal
workers receive from Is to S2k cents
an hour; plumbers, ship carpenters,
plasterers, fathers, steam filters and
caulkers are paid from 80 to 82k
cents an hour; engineers on ditching
machines get So cents an hour; spec
ial machinists, special blacksmiths,
special boilermakers and special sheet
metal workers are rated from IS to
95 cents an hour.
A new schedule affecting trainmen
and locomotive engineers went into
effect some time ago.
No general revision of the scale for
persons receiving wages on a monthly
basis has been announced by the AL
askan Engineering Commission; but
consideration has been given to appli-
cations Of monthly paid employees for
increases and number of advances
have been made to persons in that
classification.
The lowest clerical schedule is for
stenographers, who are rated at 1925
month.
The new scale is applicable only to
the Seward and Anchorage divisions.
There is another scale for the Fair
banks division.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-08-21
PLANS OF The ALLIED
NATIONS TO CARE FOR
DISABLED SOLDIERS

The Department of Labor authoriz-
es the following:
Plans developed by the allied ma
tons for the care of disabled soldiers
are described in the August Monthly
Labor Review of the Bureau of Labor
Statistics.
Delegates from Belgium, France,
Italy, Portugal, Serbia, Siam, Canada,
Australia, South Africa, New Zealand,
India, New Foundland, and the United
States met in London to confer ON the
sreject Methods of enabling dis
abled soldiers to become self-support-
ing were discussed
U. S. Hospitals Abroad
The American authorities have de-
cided to provide hospital care and
treatment and training in England,
France. or Italy for every wounded
American soldier whose disa Utilities
are of such character that there is
even a remote likelihood of his being
in reasonable time restored to active
service on the firing line or retrained
SO that he may take one of the in
Vulnerable positions behind the lines,
where many disabled men could be
employed, thereby releasing for the
front line many physically fit men
who are now occupying these clerical
or other positions Only the man
who probably can give no further
military service or for whom a long
course of treatment is in store will
be sent to America.
Experience In Other Countries
Authorities from other countries re-
ported on the results of the rehabili-
alton methods used. Most men, it was
announced. who find themselves dis
abled appear to have repungnance for
their former trade or profession, yet
in spite of this As per cent of the men
fitted with artificial legs or arms at
Roehampton Hospital have returned
to their old trades or businesses. 1t
was suggested that occupations suited
for arm cripples be restricted by law
to their use SO long as there is a suf-
ficient number Of men so handicapped
to fill them. The British minister of
labor reported that about GO per cent
Of tie men of the army had the prom
Sc of reinstatement in their original
employment and that OF the number
released (about 500,OO0) approximate
!y CD per cent had had the promise
fulfilled.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-08-21
IRISH TINES TELLS
OF EXPLOITS OF
AMERICAN SOLDIERS

Miss Bessie Gregory, daughter of
Captain Gregory, for many years in
command of the Lighthouse tender
Kukui, in Alaska, who is visiting here,
received a letter from her aunt in
Ireland, containing the following
clipping from the Irish Times:
Many capital stories continue to
End the light in connection with the
American counter-attack on the first
day of the German offensive. 1t now
appears that when the Germans cross
ed the river the Americans refused
to leave their positions, and soon the
enemy was in great distress, the
American machine gunners and rifle
men firing into the Germans backs
and quickly compelling them to retire
to the north bank. At several places
the Germans were unable to cross, so
terrible was the American artillery
and machine-gun fire. A Grenadier
regiment was shattered, and one Of
IS battalions had very few men left.
81 around lay German dead in heaps,
beth banks of the Marine being covered
With bodies. AS the Germans retired
Individual Americans went out to hunt
hem down. Many stories are told Of
eats of bravery and initiative which
are amazing. The story of Sergt J.
i. Brown is good specimen. He was
wandering round looking for Germans,
and WITH his officer attacked nest
c, four machne-guns and captured
TWO. The officer was killed. Then,
armed with an automatic rifle, he
seized third machine gun, with a
ccrporafs help, attacked the fourth
He shot a German private dead, and
when the German officer there reached
sor his knife he killed him Also The
iorrth machine-gun thus fell into his
hands. He then brought in some
prisoners, maps, and cuvenirs handed
them over to milit;- policeman and
asked, as he says in his report, for a
receipt. He went out again, and,
with a number of companions, hunted
asain. Soon he found just over a 100
Germans in a trench in which there
were many dead, and which was cut
off by artillery fire. With his rifle
resting on his arm. for it was so hot
thst he could scarcely hold it he COW
cred the Germans, who threw up their
hands in surrender. He marched IA
miles with his captives, safely deliver
ing 1874 prisoners, including a major.
On his way several of the prisoners
fell out and died. In thefighting in
Condo Wood an American platoon lost
all its officers. Immediately bugler
took command, and carried on so we'll
that his exploit is the talk Of the reg
iment.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-08-21
RUN OF HUMPIES
ABOUT OVER SAY
CANNERY MEN
Most of Canneries Running Full
West Coast Canneries
Having Very Poor Runs

The humpie run, which started with
such an onslaught just about three
weeks ago is about over. Most Of the
local canneries are still running full
however, altho cannerymen agree that
it cannot last very much longer as
full traps are becoming an exception
instead of the rule as it has been. 1t
IS believed that a short run on dog
salmon may keep the canneries run.
ming a short time longer, but the pack
S practically completed.
Inquiries at the local canneries to-
day show that, in spite of the many
wartime drawbacks with labor, etc,
the pack of the Ketchikan District
will be much larger than that of last
year, which was valued at $12000,OOO.
III Ketchikan cannery, operated by
the Fidalgo Island Packing Company,
and the Loring cannery, owned by the
Alaska Packers, putting up the high
est packs of the district last year, 10
900 cases each, have broken their rec
ords already, with $4,000 cases to their
credit. and both still running full four
ines up to last night.
TIE Smiley cannery with three lines
n operation, only two being used for
tie most part, reports 10000 cases; all
lines running today.
With two full lines running steadily
he cast three weeks, the Sunny Point
Packing Company had $4,000 cases up
last evening and expects to put up
1000 cases today.
The Pure Food Cannery, finished
as evening with $4,000 cases, and
i:d not run today, no fish having come
in. The Beegle Packing Company,
also a oneline cannery reported &c.
eco cases.
Shortage of labor at the Wards
Cove Packing Company seriously les
sened the pack, only 1880 cases hav-
ing been put up thus far. The can.
merry has not been able to run every
day however.
Reports about town on conditions
On the west coast are rather discour-
ag.ng and it is rumored that the Hun
ter's Bay cannery has only about H..
coo cases.
The Belle Island Cannery reports ap-
2, Ultimately 5000 cases up till last
oFsning, making total of approx.
hlately 100000 cases put up by the
ten canneries named
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-08-21
ROBERT HALL OF
CRAIG is DROWNED

The Craig Lumber Company, Of
locate the relatives or family. If any.
OF Robert Hail, one of their employees
who was drowned there a few days
here today by the Miners & Merchants
Bank
1t is requested that anyone knowing
any information about the dead mans
family communicate Immediately by
wireless with the company at Craig.
No details are given in the message
as to how the deceased met his death.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-08-21
MAY BE SHIFTING
BIG KRUPP GUN

PARIS, Aug. 21.--Paris is enjoying
an uneasy peace from the lombard.
ment of the long range cannons which
have been Smelling Paris for the past
four months. 1t has been silent now
for several days.
This fact may lie explained by the
Allied advance toward Noyon and
Guiscard, 61a miles north of Noyon,
when the recent firing is sal dto have
been proceeding, as these localities
are now endangered by the French
forward push.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-08-21

AMSTERDAM, Aug. 21.-Because it
failed to receive the necessary five
sixths majority vote, the bill provid-
ing for the election of king of Fin
land was rejected on the third read.
ing in the Finnish Diet, says tele-
gram from Helsingfors. The bill can.
not be reviewed now until after the
general elections.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-08-21
LIEUT.. FONCK
IS A SURE
SHOT
Downs Three Hun Planes
In Twenty Seconds Says
The War Office

PARIS, Aug. 21.-It took twenty
seconds of actual fighting time for
Lieut.. Rem Fonck, of the French avi-
alton corps, to shoot down last Sun
day, three German airplanes, it was
officially announced by the war office
this morning.
On August fifth, the French war Of
flee reported that Lieut. Fonck had
fifty mine conquests to his credit. His
closest competitor, Adjutant Ehrlich
had won only ten aerial victories in
twenty-five days, says the report.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-08-21
STEAM TRAVELLER
TRIUMPH NOW
PIRATE SHIP
Big Fishing Schooner Is
Captured and Fitted
Up With Guns

CANADIAN ATLANTIC PORT, Aug.
21.-The steam trawler Triumph was
captured yesterday by a German sub
marine and today it is fitted up with
two guns, wireless and manned by six
teen Germans, The vessel is being
used in raiding fishing banks. A
number of vessels including several
American fishing boats have been
sunk, according to reports from vari-
Gus parts of the coast.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-08-21
RUSSIANS ARE
GETTING RESTLESS

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.-A dis
patch late last evening from Switzer.
land says deep unrest is manifest at
Warsaw; the streets are said to be
full of Germans patrolling the city
and are making numerous arrests
among the supposed members of q
secret association said to exist in the
Polish army.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-08-21

LONDON, Aug. 21-A highly placed
neutral who has Just arrived in Swift
zerland from Turkey, according to the
Zurich, reports that the accounts of
British conduct in the occupied por-
tions of Mesopotamia have caused a
profound change in the general opin.
ion among the people. They are con-
trasting the British with the Germans
very much to the disadvantage of the
Germans.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-08-21

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 21.-Federal
officers are now holding Frank
Bright, alias Berek, alias Brighter, in.
communicate, because of evidence in
dicating the prisoner has been active
at Camp Kearney, San Diego, as a
German Spy. Bright was first arrest
ed as an international counterfeiter
with 50 counterfeit 500 bills in his
possession.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-08-21
GEN. BYNC
ON A WIDE FRONT
WITH GOOD RESULT
Prussian Gunners Surrender to Americans Without
Firing Shot. The French Make Furthr
Advance on Wide Front

WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY ON THE VESLE, Aug 81,
this morning sixty Prussans taken
Fismette without either side firing
single The Prussians machine gunners The
explained their action by stating the anxious
surrender.
French Captured Many Prisoners.
PARIS Aug 2-At the close of al-day battle night
General Mangn Commander of the French
eight thousand prisoners and captured villages
everywhere found the field with having
made advance of and half miles
Fontenay the Ane Pmprez the Disc rivers
desperate defense Meanwhile the avators
flying under low clouds kept the staff we'll prog
of the attack and harassed the enemy machine gun
German flyers tried to interfere.
PARIS, Aug 21.-The line occupied by General Nangins
forces this afternoon from Sempigny Pontose thence
Lapommeraye Montchoissy Cuts; Camen; Berancourt ST.
Aubn Lator Farm Mont d Crocous Farm Vesaponn Beiuxy
Laval and reaches the Ane Cour The
further advance toward Noyon supplementary
statement says.
LTERThe French reported further advances between the
Disc and Aisne rivers capturing the Garlic
pont besides gaining ground west of Lassigny.
Secret Order Comes to Light.
BRITISH HEADQUARTERS IN FRANCE Aug. GA cap
tured order written by high official commanders
warns that en have spoken publicly revolution which is to
break out after the calls upon superior officers to deal
with it once and without hesitation'
General Byng Launches Attack
LONDON, Aug 21-Genera Byng morning attacked on
VIDE front north of Ancre river At
enve and Beaucourt Ance having miles
capturing the towns of Courceles and Achiet Petit
General Byng forces captured several hundred prisoners
according to late report.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-08-21
REPORTS PROBABLE
SINKING OF U-BOAT

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.-The Ma.
Wy Department announced today that
a Captain of an American steamer re-
ported that his vessel had rammed
and probably sunk submarine off the
northern coast of Virginia. The cap.
tain stated that the submarine was
struck on the port bow bringing her
alongside.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-08-21
IN FROM QUADRA.'

S Peterson, superintendent of the
Quadra cannery, was a visitor in town
today with several of his men, Edw
Hachebra. Dick Tichelar, and E.
Frcoa- They are registered at the
Stedman.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-08-21
AMERICANS
HAVE BEGUN
SOMETHING
Campaign Against German
Submarine Base Began
August Fifteenth

LONDON, Aug. 21-The American
naval and air campaign against the
German submarine bases of supplies in
Flanders, began August fifteenth with
the bombing of Ostend. While de-
tails are lacking. it is said that oper-
atoms were successful and that the
Americans are particularly good at
night bombing
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-08-21

SACRAMENTO, Cal, Aug. 21-
The Bureau of Crop Estimates, de-
partment of Agriculture, in it's month
~ report on California crops, as at
August l, shows the composite con-
dition of all California crops to be
about rs per cent below the ten-year
average for that date.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-08-21

HOUSTON. Tex, Aug. PA re-
cent storm has caused considerable
property damage in and around Lake
Charles, La, amounting to million
dollars, besides damaging Gerstner
Field. training camp for aviators.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-08-21
iron CHINK" MAN
BACK FROM NORTH

B. r. Briefly. representing the Iron
Chink" automatic weigher. manuafc-
tured by the Smith Cannery Machines
Co., of Seattle returned from an in
spc, ton trip north and will visit the
cam cries in this district.
Dir. Briefly is sales manager for the
company.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-08-21

WASHINGTON, D. c., Aug. 81
The shipping board has announced
that contracts for eighteen wooden
vessels were let last week. The
Wright shipbuilding yard of Tacoma,
will build two of the fourteen $500
ton ships.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-08-21
HOUSE ADOPTS
Amendment TO
MAN POWER BILL

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.-An
amendment to the Man-Power bill was
adopted by the House Military com.
mittee this morning, providing that
men above the age of twenty shall
be called into service before those of
nineteen and eighteen, and the latter
to be called last.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-08-21

LONDON, Aug. 21.-Large numbers
of dead bodies of German seamen are
reported along the west coast of Den
mark by fishermen arriving at harbors
there. according to a dispatch from
Copenhagen. All the bodies had life
belts on.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-08-21
VISITING RELATIVES

Mrs. Robert Porter, of Juneau, was
an arrival from the north today on an
extended visit to her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Mercer and her sisters, Miss
Tot Mercer and Mrs. VIM Mickey.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-08-21
337 CASUALTIES

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.-Three
hundred and thirty-seven casualties
are reported this morning for yester-
day including seventy-four dead and
ninetyfour severely wounded.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-08-21
ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES

Arriving from the north TODAY were
Mrs. A. Reinert, J. T. Hanson, and E.
Lorentz. Leaving for the south were
Peter Nelson Jr. Thos. Lystad, Reid
Nelson, Thos. r. Miller, and 10 Sec
ond class.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-08-21
HERE ON VISIT

Mrs. Albert Reinert, of Skagway
arrived from the north today on
short visit with her husband, Mr. Rein
ert, who is establishing a branch dry
goods store here.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-08-21

Earl Lo;rentz. agent for the Leslie
Judge Publishing Company, of Seattle
was an arrival from the north today
and is at the Stedman.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-08-21
JOHN NJ. LYON DEAD

SEATTLE, Aug. 21.-John M. Lyon,
former postmaster and the first man
to send teleram out Of Seattle, died
here this morning.