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SKACtWAY, ALASKA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 21.1914 PRICE 10 CENTS
CAPTURE OF LOWICZ CONFIRMED;
GERMANS ilH ON WARSAW
l.omlun, lHr, —The report of
the capture of l.«>v icz by the Ger
iituis watt tulii)' officially contitu: <1
us was also 'lie «uie which slaud |
• hat the Germans »c«' atlviincit:g < u
WarNHv over a ni'lu frout between
ilie f istula and l'ilica rivets. An- t
other big Itallle is said to now lie in ]
progress, iu ulucS the iiussiaui; j
.li t- retiring across the Ifcsura rivet,,
>.tuning ttic bridges behind them |
Jt* I hey j;o.
A J>U»siiut military expert an.i
I) its and interprets the German at* ;
tempt on Warsaw a> follows:
"Although the German fotccs a:e
more numerous thau iu their twin
er advance anil they are planum;;
attacks front several separate Uiv
ections simultaneously, tlieir task
is greater tliau before ou account
" f tlie vastness of the Kussiun ar
my which is massed to meet them.
"General Francois, «.f the Kighth
(iertuan army eor'ts, is proceeding
fr«»m KiL-t l*russia soutliwaid
through Mlawa, Ciechanow and
1'rzusuysz, on the right side of 'he
Vistula. iu an attempt to push to
ward Kwshau with the evident in
tention of giving the powerful
fortress «>f Xowo Goorgicvsk a wide
l>erth. The Germans thus hope to
• utilank the Kussiau right wing a: 1
strike Warsaw front the northwest.
"General Mackenzen's German
army friou Tlioni meanwhile c> n
tinucs an offensiic on the If!t.
-iile of the Vistula through I.owi;.-.,
engaging tlie Kusiian center and
aiming to hit Warsaw from r"-e
west. Another ,>:ut of Field Ma -
.-hid Hindenburg's at my recent !j e •
uajced Lodz and Piotrkow, making
every effort to iuaiv.h through Ski- •
liiewice au«l threattu War-aw fi->>:
• he southwest.
The Vustrians front the west an !
southwest uf Cracow complete tlu
German phut by beginning an offen
sive in an effort to outilank the
Kussiau left, which is liesicgii:^
Cracow, while the Other part "f
the Austrian army on the north,
which is in contact with the ex
treme German ri};lit, is trying to
proceed northeast, with the o'vle. t
of talking Kielce a'»d Radwni. These
movements tjike the form of a wide
spread fan with Warsaw the h:in<U
lvAISKK AGAIN AT F1JONT
I.oudon, Dee. 21—Ailvices have
!*vn received in this eitj
i-ffiially confirming news of
' flip Kaiser's complete recovery
from his recent illness anil also
staling that he a'ul the Germau
ministers of war ft mi navy have
vone to the front where 'hey will
rc-iuniu until after Christmas.
UO.MBAKj) |) \1H».\\KM.ES
I.oi:don, Dec. —I—The allied fleet,
according to the latest reports it*
reived here, is uuw bombarding the
iutei-ior forts of the Dardanelles.
A CiKEAT CA.M1 \\ 1(»MC1J
Berlin, Dec. -1—Field Marshal
Von llindenburg is today being hail
ed by the populace of (jerwaiiy «s
tiie greatest cannmigiier the coun
try ever hail.
s i: x i) i x U i: k- i m < > i« i :m k x ts
Berlin, Dee. it—J-arge re-imorce
giueuts of troops are reported ti>
l;e on tlie way to .i<l'n "'e Hussian
armies in llussUsn-IVIaud near War
sa (v.
1: lOT<J I S DKMOXST K AT IO XS
Itiune, Dec. -I—The police, as
well :IS the soldiers, many place*
ia Italy have been called out to
suppress riotous demonstration-;
against Austria, which are of fie
iltient occurrence.
UKll'iSU DliKAD.XAl UHT SI Xiv
.New York, l>ee. -1—I'asvcngers
arriving in this city today from
t.'i-gland on transatlantic liners, i-c
l»Tt that the British dreadmwght
Thunderer was sunk in the -XortU
Sen sometime in tlie latter part of
Xoveniber by coining in contact
with a floating mine.
A1.LIKS KXORMI U S I.O.«jSKS
Berlin, Dir. 'J'—As nearly as
ran be ascertained the allies' los>
iti the Yser campaign reached a
grand total of 2l-~.(M)o men.
The local Klks' bowling team
lolled a total of 2-1S4 pins last
Friday night, against Juneau's total
2257 pins, thereby putting Skag
(vay 390 pins in the lead in ttie
six games now played. A battle
YES
There is ONE Store in Skagway
Where You can do ALL of Your Xmas
Shopping.
We Have Beautiful Gifts
Suitable For
Man, or Woman Tlaid or Child
Our assortment is the largest ever
Shown in Skagway
Values to suit every purse
Bring Your packages to us,
We will gladly wrap them up and
Help You get them ready to post.
DO YOUR SHOPPING WHEN".
MOST CONVENIENT FOR YOU.
WE ARE HERE TO SERVE YOU
STORE OPEN EVERY EVENING UNTIL
TEN O'CLOCK.
H. J. LYNCH
royal took place Saturday night and
| yesterday afternoon between the
I "wire team" and a team of chal
lengers lieaded by James Kennedy,
• with the understanding that the
, winners would have the honor of
'playing Juneau tomorrow night. On
tho "dope" the wire team should
have won, but they didn't! The
challengers won by the narrow niar
(gin'of 16 pins.
I During tho holiday week an ln
] teresting average contest will take
place to determine which live bowl
, t'rs will have the honor of uphold
ing Skagway In the International
contest which will take place in
j January for the championship of
| Alaska and the ^ "k°n.
i
j The dance to Ic given to
night by the A. it's, to celebrate the
passing of 'ho shortest day of the
I year, will be along the lines of the
I regular dances. V/. II. Ilillery,
chairman of the committee, s'ates
[that owing to the number of fea
ture dances given "'is fall it was
Thought best not to Pul cn an
other one. Simply a fine rousing
dance to celebrate the occasion.
Tho Daily Alaskan is ili receipt
of a copy of tho livening News
of Towanda, S. Y., in which is
1 ubllshed a notice or the death at
that place on Sunrtay Nov. 2!ith. of
Tbomas Charlton, after a l"!is ill
ness.
The paper was sent by George A.
Charlton, son of the deceased,
who was at one time employed by
the Porcupine Gold Miniug company,
which is located on the rher of the
same name a few miles northwest of
Haines, and who was well and fa
vorably known in Skujsway.
N.teo, Arizona, Dec. "1—Brigadier
General Scott of tiio United States
army, M ho was ordered by the war
department a few days ago to take
charge of affairs along the Mexi
can border in this state, has arriv
ed and already commenced an in
quiry iuto the flri::g across the in
ternational boundary of the Mexi
can bolligerents, by which quite a
number of American citizens have
been killed and others seriously
wounded.
The City of Seattle will be in
i Skagway at 1100a tomorrow with
llive passengers and 30 tons of
' treight.
I —— ——
I
Washington, D. C., Dec. 21—In
the case of Harry K. Thaw, which
lias been under argument in this
city before the United States su
preme court for several days by the
attorneys engage:! upon it, a de
cision was today rendered ordering
tlio extradition of the prisoner
from New Hampshire to New York
to answer to a charge of conspiracy.
3£3 3& £BBHaRBSI
■ HIES NEWS I
I6HII
llaines, Dec. 19—Carl Bjornstad,
•vho lias been working at Porcupine,
mining for himself on a portion of
the Porcupine Gold Mining com
pany'rf ground, has returned .home
fore the winter. Mr. Bjornstad
says that quite a number of men
are working on lnys there this
winter.
Onc. of S. J. W'eitzman's house*
on Main street was burned down
011 last Saturday night, it is
thought the fire was the work of an
in cendiary.
Jiary Peters, an Indian girl,
who w;is on Saturday arrested
oil a charge of vagrancy,
was convicted on the charge and
sentenced to fifteen days in jail.
A Mr. Case is working the town
in the life insurance business. He
came to the writer's house, but
one look was enough. He would
not even come in the house. Well,
old age has its compensation after
all.
The Ilaines native band are go
in s to leave on the next. Georgia
for a two weeks' visit to Hoonah.
Two years ago the Hoonah band
paid them a visit and now they are
returning the call.
Dr. Craig is busy these days
breaking in liis dog team. The Doc
tor has thre0 fins dogs, and when
he gets them wel! broke, he will
have a good dog team.
Dr. L. S. Keller has iiis dental
l>arlors at the Hotel DeFrance, and
seems to be busy al! of the time.
Camp Haines No-17, at the reg
ular meeting last night, placed the
bailn on ragging at their dances.
t'OXV'CTS HAVE HOPK
IN A "SANTA" BLEASK
Columbia, s. C., Dec. 21—With
Christmas only a. few days off.
convicts in the state penitentiary
are looking forward to the usual
batch of holiday pardons from Gov.
Cole Blease. He nearly emptied the
'•pen'' with his pardons Thanksgiv
ing, when he freed all varieties of
criminals from "lifers" to "drunks."
If the governor follows his usual
custom this Yuletide, he will make
I the condition that the prisoners go
| ing out into the world abstain from
the use of liquor.
' His record to date stands at close
to 1500 pardons.
A Few of Our Xmas Specialties
R & R Plu.n Pudding in 1 and 2 pound tins, 35c and 60c
Fresh Cluster Raisins, full weight, I ponnd 25c
Atmore's Mincemeat, 25c per pound
Fancy Layer Figs, 20c
Calarad Candieb Figs. 30c
Persian Dates, 20c
Fresh Nuts, 20c to 30c
Imported Malaga Grapes 30c
Preferred stock corn on cob
National Biscuit Co. Fancy Biscuits in packages.
Johnson's Chocolates, unexcelled, from 50c to $1.50
Spitzenberg Golden Ortley and Delicious apples, $2 box.
Full line of everything in
Perishables on " Seattle"
P. H. GANTY, GROCER
HOMESTEAD POSSIBILITIES
Will THE FOREST RESERVES
On account of numerous inquiries
from the public anil an apparent mis
understanding on the part of many
peoplo with.'reference to the appli
cation of tho homestead lav/ within 1
the national forests, W. G. Weigle,
forest supervisor of -the-Tongais
and Chugach national forests, with J
headquarters at Ketchikan, Alaska,
states that since June 11, 1906, all
land within the national forests not
needed for public uses and more
valuable for agriculture than j
f°r any other purpose has j
been open for homesteading:
in units not exceeding 160 acres,
and that thousands of homesteaders
have already taken advantage of J
this law within the national forests I
of Alaska and the states.
In Alaska, he says 'that Up to j
November, 15 1914, 75 applications 1
bad been received for homesteads;
iu the Tougass national forest I
and 115 applications had been re
ceived for homesteads in the Chu-;
gach national forest and that he
had made a preliminary survey of
all of these claims and that favor-:
able reports were submitted on all
of them except a few that had to be
rejected on accouut of conflicting
with claims of prior right. He states
that the homesteader on unsurveyed
land within the national forest has
the advantage over the homestead
er on unsurveyed land outside of
the national forest.
First. That the forest service since
1913 makes the survey for patent
free of charge, thus saving the 1
claimant from one to two hundred
dollars. Niae such surveys hav
ing been made on the Tongass na- ;
tionai forest durin;; J^e summer of
1914 and nearly twice that number
**'ill be ready for - sur-;
vey on the Tongi:ss and Chugach '
forests during the summer of 1915.
Second. Outside of the national.
forests the law requires that the
linos of a homestead be run in j
cardinal directions, north, south, [
east and west, while inside the na- |
tionai forests the boi ndary lines
may run to suit the shape of the
tract of agricultural land.
Since there is very little land
sectionized either inside or outside
of the national forests in Alaska
the making of the patent survey by
the forest service free of charge |
is a decided advantage to the home
steader. The requirments of the |
lajv for proving up on a homestead
are the same inside a national for-1
est as they are outside, and if the
homestead law is reasonably com-1
plied with the securing of patent is
certain regarding aa to whether it
is inside or outside of a national
forest.
He 6tates most emphatically thAt
the forest service not only now but
always has invited legitimate set
tlement within the national forest*
and that all statements to the con
trary have either been made from
lack of information or a desire to
misstate the facts. He also Btate*
that all forest officers will alwayB
be glad to give information to th«
public relative to homesteads ®r
any other national forest business,
and he invites the public to pr<>v«
this statement by seeing a forest
ranger or writing to the forest su
pervisor at Ketchikan, Alaska.
lift FORCES
HILL flEJREAT
Naco, Sonora, Dec. 21—It was an
nounced today by the officers in
command of the Villa forces her*
that tliey would order a retreat of
the investing army so as to prevent
the endangering of Americans' lives
from the firing across tho border.
Italy's Bnna h*o«t.
The Italian poet Scapinelll, who was
born at Modena in 1580, was bllad
from his liirtli. He held a professor's
i hair successively at Bologna. Modes*
and Pisa, and. having then l>een r<t
called to occupy the place of chief
professor of eloquence, on which he
had Ions set his heart, iu the first ot
these universities, died there Is the
forty-ninth year of his aire. Scuplosi
ll. besides several prose eomitoaftlons,
wrote verses both in Italian and Lat
in, and all his works are distinguished
not only by their learning, but by a
purity and elegance of diction r»r«
the time when lie flourished. He vra»
accoitliled. indeed. ou«» of the most
finished scholars day.
Kipling's r.ightingai*. >
Hudyard Kipling was ouee telling »
guest about a nij-htinuale that fra
(]uented his gardens. He said: ''I know
all the popular illusions about the
nightingale, but die truth Is, he's *
blackguard with a gift of music In his
throat that lit* can't control—a boI»t,
swashbuckling blackguard of the gar
den. He comes here at night, and h*
proceeds to abuse all his enemies for
nil lie's worth. It's feathered profanity
in a disguise of harmony, and he get*
so worked up over It that h» ffiartljr
ends In an iwtienlate gurgle."
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