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No. 189 EIGHTEENTH YEAR
SKAGWAY, ALASKA. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1915
PRICE 10 CENTS
GENERAL JOFFRE IS DEVELOPING
NEW CAMPAIGN IN BELGIUM
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Paris, Sept. 23—General Joffre,
iu conjunction with the other al
lied commanders, is developing a
new campaign in Belgium and other
, places by an almost continuous us0
| of artillery.
French aircraft bombarded Stutt
gart, Germany, last night.
FOUR KILLED
Berlin, Sept. 23—Four people are
known to .have been, killed by the
aircraft bombardment of Stuttgart
last night. The material damage
was, however, unimportant.
ARMED FLIERS
OVER HOLY cur
Jerusalem, Sept 23—Armed air
ships and aeroplanes are continual
ly living over the birth place of the
Prince of Peace at Bethlehem, ac
cording to the Bote aus kiou (The
•Messenger from Zion) a paper pub
lished in Palestine by a Swiss mis
sionary. Nearly the entire Holy
Laud has been transported into a
railitarv camp. Soldiers are man
euvering every day on the Mount of
Olives, at Golgotha and Jerusalem.
The English, French and Russian
convents have been turned into bar
racks and between Judea and Jer- ,
icho, where transportation was by
mule pack in the days when Christ j
cam a tc bring "peace on earth," a
road is being constructed for ar-.
niored motor cars.
Long columns of buffaloes, driven j
by Ara"> peasants, are hauling carts
loaded with powde-r, projectiles and ,
other supplies for the Turkish ar- j
my the favorite route of pilgrims (
in Palestine. Fast dromedaries of ^
the camel corps maintain communi-:
cation between the camps in Pales
tine and the Turkish headquarters. |
It is supposed that the concentra- j
tlon cf the young recruits in the i
Holy I-and Is with a vie-w to an
other attack upon Egypt.
II STORY OF [WO
ENGLISHWOMEN
Early in the excursionist season
last summer the Daily Alaskan
made mention of two prominent
Englishwomen who were making the
round trip from Vancouver to
Skagway over the C. P. R. stoam
tshiu line, and a day cr so ago re
ceived a copy of the British Journ
al of Nursing, published weekly at
431 Ofsord street, Loudon, W.,
from which we clip the following:
Our National Council Delegates
From Skagway, Alaska, comes a
copy of the Daily Alaskan, contain
ing a notice of "two prominent Eng
lishivomen"—Miss Ilulme and Miss
Kent, Delegates of the National
Council of Trained Nurses of Great
Britain and Ireland to San Fraucis
co Convention. Our contempor
ary says: "They are both very
charming ladies to meet. They
greatly regret their inability to
make a long stay in Skagway, which
me"is their enthusiastic anproval in
pvery particular—its beautiful lo
cation, the magnificence of the
scenery in its vicinity, and the ideal
weathar they have encountred all
along their journey up the coast by
the Inland Passage."
Mirs Kent, in a further letter,
speaks of this passage, as "never
to be forgotten for beauty and love
liness. The steamer, which was
very comfortable, took us through
all the islands on the coast of
British Columbia on the one side,
and the Island of Vancouver (which
is about the size of Great Britain),
and countless islands beyond it on
the other — mountainous, wooded
and snow-capped. We went right
up to Skagway—the threshold of
the Yukon and gold country—a
country full of romance, beauty
and wonder."
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London, Sept. 23—The Bulgarian
premier announced today the hold
ing of a convention with Turkey
to provide for the future mainten
ance of armed neutrality on the pail
of Bulgaria.
Washington, D. C., Sept. 23 —;
Late advices received here state
that General Carranza Is in posses
sion of Chihuahua and that Gen
eral Villa is retreating foT Sonora
to join General Maytoreno and his
farces there.
HOSPITAL FOIt NEW TOWN
Anchorage, Sept. 17—A public
hospital will be erected iu Anchor
age, for the accommodation of
those requiring need of such an
institution. Dr. D. L. Carmichael
and Dr. K. O. Kyvig are taking the
initiative in the matter, realizing the
uecessity of an institution of this
character.
The plans, will call for the
construction of a building 30x40
feet, substantially made. It will
have accommodations for six pa
tients at one time, an operating
room and office quarters.
Work on the building it is
planned will begin at an early date.
It will be erected on lot 11, block
44, uew townslte.
MISSING MINER HAS
NOT BEEN FOUND
Valdez Prospector, Sept 16: Ar
rivals from the Interior today state
that no information has been gained
regarding the fate of Melvin Demp
6ey, the Slate creek operator, who
disappeared after leaving Paxson's
roadhouse for Slate creek. A search
party which left Pasxon's in an ef
fort to locate the missing man has
returned to the roadhouse and 're
port that they have been unable to
find any trace of Dempsey. The riv
ers of the interior were very high
at the time whn Dempsey started
to make the trip and it is feared
that he attempted to cross some of
the numerous streams, and was
swept from his feet and drowned
EUROPEAN AVAR AND CANAL
SLIDES HANDICAP STUDENTS
Unlvensity of Washington, Sept.
23—The war in Europe and slides
in the Panama canal are among the
obstacles to higher education &t
the University of Washington.
Chemists ' supplies, usually furn
ished >»y Germany, are shut off or
curtailed, and 120 steel lockers for
the gymnasium, which were Bhipped
via the "big ditch," were delayed by
the slipping of the treacherous
earth into the waterway.
WILL LEI ON
TWENTY-EIGHTH
Washington, Sept. 23—Austrian
Ambassador Dum&a has notified the
state department that he has been
called home by his government and
will leave on September 28th. Tie
administration will make no effort
to procure him a safe conduct home,
however, until the Austrian govern
ment Teplies to President Wilson's
request asking that he be recalled.
FIRST DEATH OCCURS
AT RAILROAD CITY
Death claimed the first victim
at Anchorage last week when John
i Mathison passed away shortly after
I an operation for appendicitis. Mathi
! son was 38 years of age, and a
brother of Claude Mathison of So
ward.
According to the Cook's Inlet
Pioneer Mathison was barn at Gor
don, Texas, April 2, 1881. With his
parents, .brothers and sisters he
came to Alaska sixteen years ago
and settled at Hope, Alaska, where
the family engaged in placer min
ing under the name of the Mathi
son Mining company.
The father is now at Gordon, Tex
as. Tfle mother and two brothers
and sisters reside at Hope. A half
brother lives at Seward.
AN ANCIENT VOLCANIC
ERUPTION IN ALASKA
Every traveler oa the upper Yu
kon river has noted a conspicuous
white bed, 4 to 6 inches in thick
ness, that occurs on the river
banks. This is made up of volcan
ic ash derived from a volcano lo
cated iu the northern margin of the
St. Elias range more than 100 miles
to the south. Though geologically
Breaking the material is of recent
age, yet it was probably erupted
1,400 years ago. There are, of
course, no historical records of
this eruption, but in the course of
explorations in Alaska much has
[ been learned about the distribution
. and thickness of the material eject
ed. It originally covered an area
of over 140,000 square miles and
some of it was carried over 450
miles from the volcano. The de
posit varies in thickness from 300
feet near the volcano to an inch or
two at the margin of the area cov
ered by it. A rough estimate in
dicates that o^'st 10 cubic iniles of
material was ejected at the time of
this eruption. During the eruption
of Katmai volcamo in southwestern
Alaska in June, 1912, about 5 cu
bic miles of ash was ejeotod, and
about the same amount fell from
the Krakatoa eruption of 1883. This
Yukon eruption Is therefore com
parable in Intensity with some of
the larger eruptions of historical
time. All the available information
about this subject is summarized In
a paper entitled "An ancient vol
canic eruption in the upper Yukon
basin," by Stephen R. Capps, is
sued by the United States Geologi
cal Survey as Professional Paper
95-D.
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P. H. GANTY
PRES. WILSON Will "WIG-WAG"
MESSAGE OF GREETING TQ 6. A. R.
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Washington, September 23—On
the opening day of the. forthcoming
Grand Army; Encampment in, Wash
ington, President Wilson, will
"wig wag" a message of greeting
and good will to the veteran# visit
ing the National Capital, Hr. Wil
son will not personally manipulate
the flags for he does not understand
the dd Alyer code which was In
use by, the union army during the
Civil war, but his welcome will be
translated Into the sign, language
and sent from station to station,
about Washington by survivors of
tho signal corps of fifty years ago.
Arrangements for the. signaling
features of tho encampment have
been announced by Lieut. George
Carr Roun,d, the president of U. S.
Veterans Signal Corps association,
who has called upon all members
of the organization who are able to
do so to be present in Washington
during encampment week. The
main station of the signal corps
beys of '61-'6 5 will be upon the
heights of Georgetown in the ex
treme western section of Washing
ton and upon the very spot where
the government had its signal
camps of instruction during the
war. Mt. Tabor Methodist church
stauds there now and It will be
used as the headuarterB of the
corps. From that point welcomes
will be "wig-wagged" by such sig
nal corps officers as General Fisher,
General Greely, General Scriven
and Col. Albert J. Myere, Jr. These
officers understanding the code will
doubtless take the flags in their
owu hands and do their own sig
naling, flashing messages of peace
and good will to the American peo
pie. At various points about Wash
ington such as Fort Steven®, Fort
De ft ussy, The Soldiers Home, Fort
Richardson and Fairfax seminary
which were used as signaling points
in war times, stations will ha es
tablished duiring the encampment
and messages jviU be transmitted
In the old way; as in the days be
forg the invention of the field
telephone and the wireless. Instead
of being war orders they will be
what President Round of the Sig
nal Corps association calls "jubilee*
messages." The scheme was tried
.with much success during the en
campments at Chattanooga and Get
tysburg, and will be worked out
upon a much more elaborate l>asis
for encampment week in Washing
ton. Another feature will be the
transmission of orders toy the old
"wig-wag" method during the time
the veterans are passing in, parade
in commemoration of the fiftieth
anniversary of the Grand Review.
Signal men will be stationed In the
dome of Pennsylvania avenue and
from time to time as the old vet
erans are passing in review mes
sages will be sent.
President Round has been ob
liged to scour the country for a
set of old time copper torches (which
will be used in "wig-wagging" wel
comes to the Grand Army on the
nigh' of the big reception. The
siatioii used on that occasion will
be the dome of the Capitol. As
none of these old torches have boe»
preserved by the signal office of
the army, it is probable that the
set provided will finally be pre
sented to the National Museum as
relics. i ii' „.i
MORS FROM
AUSTRALIA
Judse Wm. Sliutt of llelbouj-ne,
Australia, and Mrs. Shutt are here
as round trip tourists on the Prin
cess Sophia. Judge Shutt has a
year's vacation from his duties oi\
the Australian bench and, accom
panied by Mrs. Shutt, Is making an
extensive tour. From Melbourne
they came to Saa Francisco and
from thence to San Diego, New
Orleans, and Savannah to NW
York city; from there they mad-e
an automobile tour through the
state, also several of the New Eng
land Btatejj and as far north as
Quebec, Canada; than over C. P. R
to Vancouver, B. C., and from
there to Skagway. it had not
been their intention to come to
Alaska, but when they reached
Lake Louise in the Canadian Rock
ies, one of the scenic spots on the
C. P. R., where is located the
Chateau, one of the magnificent
tourist hotels of that company,
they stopped over and being told
of the delights of an Alaskan trip
as fa i north as Skagway, then
and there determined to Bee
this wonderland, of which such al
luring tales were told. They are
delighted with the voyage up
through the Inland Passage and
their only regret is that they are
unable to continue on into P*w
■oa.
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