Brownsville, Texas, August 12 —
Kvery American in Cameron, Hid
:-»so au.d Starr counties, this state,
15 uow under arms in anticipation
t'.iut the Mexicans, w ho comprise a
rge portion of the popu\ition, will
Ivrealr out into hoaUliti-.-e on account
of the differences between the'Mexi
< an mUitury leader and the United
St..t"s government. At Radical, in
a light which took place today
with a small fore© of Mexican out
I sua, the Mexicans were -captured.
They had a banner on which was in
siribij, "Army of Liberation for
.'I-.xicans ia Texas."
On August jth, a baud of Mexi
cans raided a ranch a few miles
from this city, stealing five horses,
two c- ddles, two rifles aud a pis
tol. Thev got the drop on some I
cowboys on the ranch, keeping I
'•hem covered with pistols for about
an Lour. A Sebastian storekeeper
named Alexander said that there
were twelve mounted armed men iu
Johnny Kobert (Curtis) who is I
; r.g conducted from his home tit 1
A rt Yukon to Portland, Ore., where
ho will enter a sanitarium for epi
leptics, will be a passenger on the
Jj. S. Northwestern on the last leg
of his journey when she sails to
morrow.
Little John is a Moose Jaw na
tive aud between 15 and 17 years
i
Filled with all the excitement of
'oeii'.s "outside" for the first time
in his short life, the young man
has one last and pre-eminent ro
grtt in leaving the north—his pet
Veur. To his traveling companions
the party. All of thorn appeared to
bo Mexicans of middle ago. They
robbed his store.
On August 6th Mexican outlaws
raided the Tillage of Sebastian, i
twelve miles north of here, and i
killed A1 Austin, president of the I
Sebastla nLaw and Order League, I
his son Charles and a woman. At ■
S:o0 en the morning of that day j
;.s Austin aud his son wore j
ruuuiug a corn Bheller a body of .
armed Mexicans rode up and tak-1
ing their victims into the brush I
nearby murdered them.
Houston, Texas, August 12—Gov-i
ornor Ferguson today asked for
more federal troops for the protec- i
tion of the Kio Grande valley from j
raiding Mexicans.
Vera Cruz, August 12—The Bra
zilian minister to Mexico, sailed
from here to New* Orleaus today on
board the United States gunboat,
Sacramento.
up the mighty Yukon, where for all
timo liis ancestors have claimed su
preme sovereignty, ho has never
tired in relating the cunning trails
and cuto antics of the bear cub.
How ho played at prize fighting,
learned from the illustrations in the
magazines, ev^a te putting on li'
tle boxing gloves, which ho himself
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Home. August 12—An Italian :
submarino today sunk the Austrian i
U-12 in the upper Adriatic. The
entire crew of the latter were
d row red.
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.Loudoii, August 12—Iu the past
few days the allied holdings in the
Dardanelles have been -nearly
trebled. Tne battleship St. Louis to
day fiercely bombarded the Turk
ish batteries on the Asiatic side,
the attack resulting it: many of the
Turkish guns being put out of
commission.
The Turkish cruiser Sultan Sel
im yesterday torpedoed the allied
submarine Bosporus. Tho crew of
tko latter, however, succeeded in
runniug the vessel aground In a
small creek and are now trying to
repair it.'
Late advices state that the Ger
mans and Austriana are 'developing
a new offensive movement In the
interior of Russia and that civilians
are in consequence hnatily evacuat
ing Dviusk, an important railway
junction to the southwest of Riga,
and which'la within the zone of
their activities.
SSOIHER INTEHESTING LETTER
FfiOi BflllLEFMl II FRANCE
Through tho kindnass and cour
tesy of \V. B. Close of Close Bros.
Co., of London and Chicago, and
principal stockholder in the W. !'•
& Y. R., the Dally Alaskan is en
abled to iiublish the following in
t cresting letter, written ill th%
Wood soaked trenches of Flanders
by a gallant soldier who was at one
time a visitor to Skagway and is
well-kuown to many of tlie poople
here. Mr. Closo in forwarding the
letter, wrote to the one to
whom it was sent:
"You will remember Captain (Gor
don Cumine, who cam© with me to
.Skagway in 11)12, and you and his
many other friends there will no
doubt be interested 'in reading
copy of a letter ho wroto to me
from the trenches. He rejoined
tho army directly'the Europan war
broke out and took a leading part
in forming a new battalion of the j
Gordon Highlanders, of which, I
understand, he is second in com
mand in the rank of major.
"Tho short paragraph about the J
Oof Billie is quaint, for the Kate,
whom ho mentions, is his aunt, who j
Jives in 'a quiet little village
Dorsetshire, and 1 get the news i
her predicament when her dog
killed a cat, via the trenches in
Flanders.
"Skagway 'will not see me this
summer, I am sorry to say, for IJ
should 'so much liko to go there
an-' see all my good Alaska friends j
once more. I may, however, make a
trin to America at the end of
September, if the German subma- j
rineu do not prevent, and if 1 do, I
shall certainly -visit the north if it
is in any way possible for me to do |
so." J
Prance, July 12th, 1915.
Dwir Bill, 1
Many thanks for your letter. The
battalion has just completed a turn
in the trenches, and this time we
had a good deal of excitement. We
were quite glad to get away after
ten days of it. I cannot go into
much detail as regards names
cf places etc., as it is forbidden.
One sees one's men at their *' best
out here. They are simply splendid
and behave like veterans. Some
times In barracks at home they are
rather annoying, but out 1 here,
away from town life, they are real
bricks. We are bllletted In farm
houses behind the firing line, and
are very comfortable. The French
peasants are delighted to do any
thing 'or us, and they make us
very comfortable. It was lucky
we were all inoculated against en
ttrie fever, as there is a plague of
flics We are at our -present place
for one week and then we move
again. There seems to be any
amount of trooos here, and thank
goodness there are a good many
batterios of artillery In our sec
tion o' the line, but whether there
are enough high explosive shells
or not remains to be seen. The
G?raians, 'they say, are to make
another great attack soon, to try
and get to Paris. Unless they
hav« some new kind of offensive
weapon up their sleeve, I should
think we could keep them off easily,
as we are daily getting stronger,
and their vast losses 'must be be
ginning *o tell on them.
I had a letter from Kate the
other day. Her dog Billie had
killei another cat 'and there had
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Petrotfrad, August 12—It is re
ported today that Germany has j
made peace overtures to Russia I
offering her Galicia and the Dar
danelles, with a guarantee of the
integrity of all the Russian fron
tiers, hut stipulating that -Russia is
not to oppose the cession of Bsyjit
to Turkey.
In view of the fact that Rus
sia was the first nation against
which Germany declared war and
that the other nations on the Bldq
of the allies became involved through
Russia in a controversy; that did
not coucern the nations of • western.
Europe, it seems highly Improbably
that any overtures that may be of
fered by -Germany that do not In
clude and are not endorsed by all
the allies will be considered.
FOREST RESERVE REDUCED
BY FIVE MILLION ACRES
Tno area of tbo Chugach forest
is reduced by over five million
acres, according to advices just re
ceived. Eliminated area includes
glaciers and other areas of little
practical timber value, originally
included In forest on account of
the uncertainty of exact location of
valuable timber lands. Present
boundaries of tbe Chugach forest
which includes now eight million
acres, said to include large body
of timber to be used in developing
whole region of Northern Alaska.
Word has just been received in (
the office of the district forester j
that the president has approved the
recommendation "of the forest ser
vice changing the boundaries 01' the
Chugach national forest in Alaska1
by proclamation of August 2. The
new proclamation effects an elimin
ation of 5,801,574 acres of land
and 661,094 acres of water. The
forest boundary lines were changed
pot only by making eliminations
bui» by making three small additions
to the Chugach 'forest. One oc
curs on the Kenal peninsula, north
of the city of Seward, another in
the Puget Bay region, and the
third Okalee Spit and other small
areas in that vicinity. These ad
ditions were made in order to in
clude good body of timber and to
make workable administrative boun
dary lineB. '
The lands eliminated co-nsist |
mainly oif glaciated mountains ami {
muskeg aTeas of practically no
forest value Dut which were origin
ally included within the national
foreftt because of the uncertainty
which existed as to the location,
and extent of the timbered areas,
and iu order to establish a boun
dary that could be more easily des
cribed and administered.
Tr, total area o* the Chugach
forest is now approximately 5,817,
y59 acres of land and 3,058,073
acres of 'water, making a total of
8,S7G,032 acres. Thu present pro
clamation, it is stated, 'puts the
boundary lines of the Chugacji for
est about where they belong. This
forest is one of the largest and most
Viiluabie bodies of timber of mer
chantable size to be found any
where on the globe north of Bixty
dfgi'es latitude. Owing to the
more rigorous climate, the timber
is smaller In size and yield thaji,
for instance, in ' the forests of
southeastern Alaska. However, it
runs from 3,500 to 5,000 feet per
acie, and in 'some places as high
ar 30,<.'00 to 50,000 feet. The total
amount of timber new in the forest
is reported to be about eight bil
lion feet on a' conservative esti
mate and it is believed that this
body of timber will be the principal
and most accessible source of lum
ber "or the development of the <an
tir vast region of northern Alaska.
From these forests, the interior
country must draw its supply of
structural timber in the future. This
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