IDE SIS BAITLE IN FRANCE
NOW BUT AN ARTILLEBr IIUEL
l.oudon, Sept. — 1—The series of
l>atlles that have been rasinj; in
Nurtlieasti'ni I>'r«nce for the past
Hi*lt have btvu turned iulu .ariil
lerj duels and neither side ap|>ears
to have gained any advantage.
Hoth the (ioniums and the allied
ai-nUe* art} entrenched from the
river Oise to the river Mouse and
thence southward to the Krauci>
<•« i niaii frontier.
The fighting is now the fiercest
on the allies' left, in Uie rh'inity of
Itheiuis, and the French are bring
ing heavier artillery to bear.
I'l'e <iernian cruiser Koenislteig
> ■-!< ! >j caught Uie British Us''1
cruise:- I'eyasus overhauling her
umchiuery in Zanzibar harbor and
aier a sharp fight the latter was
disabled aud raptured.
i:i:n>iMKj> that iU'Maxia
HAS JOINKU WITH SKRVIA
\Va>hingiiin, I', Sept. —
Advices received here are to the
< Heel that II11 mania has poincd with
>ervia a^aiu-t Austria-Hungary.
ilaia is till.vi»i"ally inixt;
ihsatvx ixro thk mklkk
IJ> me. Sept. 21—A repoit is enr
rent here that General Dunki's ar
my i> surrounded by Russians.
Already ever 500,000 men ^
uuder aiuis throughout Italy.
KHKIMs FAMOl'S CATHEDRAL
Is NOTHI\(> BIT A Kl'lX
I!iirilt«u\, Sept. 21—German
shells liuve set fire to Rheinis and
her famous cathedral i* now in
ruins. other historic buildin«s have
1*1 s< > Ihh'U ilflilmjnl anil the French
^•»eniin«nt has sent a nute u( ii»
ilisualioii to tho powers protesting
against the wanton destruction.
Berlin, Sept. -1—In answer to
(In French protest against the
lx nitNirdnicnt of Rheinis ami the
destruction of historic buildings it
i> officially statnl hy the (Jerniau
u»i department that RbeimS is with
in the battle line of the French »u»d
t.eruian armies and that the latter
are obliged to bombard the ciiy in
sdi defeuse.
nrssiws are bombarding
FORTRESS OF 1'liZKMVSl
St. Petersburg, Sept. — 1—The
Russian soldiers, according to the
latest accounts, are still bombard
I inji the Austrian fortress of IV/.em
' ysi.
i li is reported tliat the Austrian
I have been r©pulseil near IJaranow
' mul 1 lath cow with heavy losses, am!
tluit the offensive movement of the
1 (ioniums in l'russiu has been cheek
! etl.
FAItMKKS TO HOLD WHEAT;
KXPKCf HIGHKK l'JIlCKS
Lincoln, Xeb., Sept. L'l—About
one-third of the wheat crop today is
still in the hands of the farmers of
Nebraska, according to information
teceived by grain dealers, and most
of this will bo hvid by them for
expected kigliar prices this winter.
In some sections of the state
about half of the present crop of
whtat was sold in July for sixty
five and seventy cents a bushel.
Then, when the war broke out the
prices went up so fast and the pros
pects became so bright for dollar
and-a-half wheat that no farmer
would sell a bu3hel he possibly coul
hold.
Just now the grain business in
this state is stagnant. The farmers
who didn't stack their wheat are
now buying or renting granary
space and are holding every bushel
of grain they have for what they
consider the inevitable advance.
They can get a dollar .1 bushel now
easily enough, but in a few months
they expect to see it advance to a
$1 50 or possibly as high as $2.
AKE SEEKING A TEACHEK
FOR BOY, BLIND AM) DK VK
Columbus, 0., Sept. 21 —If a
suitable interpreter can be found,
Leslie F. Oren, who is both deaf
and blind, will become a student at
©hio"state university thin fall. The
Leslie F. Oren Educational society
has been organized to send the lad
through school. The only tiling that
stands between him and a college
education is the lack ot" a suitable
interpreter. This person, univer
sity authorities say, should bo a
!earn finger spelling.
A blind girl graduated from the
university last spring and plans to
; become a teacher at Dayton. A
| young nian who is blind is now en
rolled in the college of arts, phil
osophy and science. But until now
:.o one both blind and deaf has as
pired to become a student at the
university.
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OHIO STATE PRISONERS ARE
C.YRX I\OROUS READERS
Columbus, o., Sept. 21—Prison
ers ut tlie Ohio state penitentiary
aren't any dlfforeut from other
folks when It comes to reading.
! Taev like fiction best. But there
j are convicts who read every book
or travel and history that li»ds its
| way within the prison walls. Dick
ens and Cooper are the favorite
authors.
The library of tho penitentiary is
j one of tho most complete of its
kind in tho United States. In It
I are S.uoo books of which tlrree
: fourths are fiction, much of it the
latest and best "best sellers," and
the remainder histories, books of
iravels a..d adventure. The monthly
circulation is 4,000 books, not in
cluding nuigaainej and newspapers.
TAIU' JIM MEKTS
SHOCIvlMJ 1VK-VTH
Prom Juneau Empire, Sept 18th:
"Taku Jim," tlie well known na
tive Indian resident licro and a
member of the Wolf «lan, was elec
trocuted about two o'clock this
afternoon, death resulting instautly
from coming in contact with the
high tension transmission cable" of
the Treadwell ccm,; my at a point
near the Standard Oil company's
doc k. The body w- .i badly burned.
The accident happened under pe
culiar circumstances. Jim was
aboard his ;:.is ';t>: t when it drifted
alongside tiio point where the
' ..bie pass on poles ;ilong the beach
The mast of iiie boat tombed the
caldo and Jim came i.i contact with
it by taking hold of the wire stay
supporting the masts. -
l;u. (i.VMK UKOWINU
SC.VHC'K IX ALASKA
Reports from various game war
dens all over t! e terriiery show tha
blj; is gro>.ing scarce in Alas
Its The territory i. so large that
Hie pic nt force of game wardens
cannot po sibly cover every part.
Tilt miners .md Indians ar» usually
careful not to shoot any more game
than is needed for their immediate
purposes. This is not always true
of hunters who come from the out
side and are given permits.
In Southeastern Alaska even
with the protection given deer hy
the law the herds have been dimin
ishing the past few years. The
mountain sheep and goats in many
parts of Alaska have been driven
back into the hi/her mountains and
;er.iote wilden. s far away from
man. The moose is no longer as
plentiful ..j it . .s a few years ago.
And even tho caribou, which used
to roam Alaska in vast herds are
growing less every year.
YOUNG WOMAN' N AMKI) TOR
THE EXCl'Tn K gECItlSTABV
Sacramento, Sept. 21—A young
woman. Miss E-iytlo M. Tato, form
er field secretary of the Wisconsin
Anti-Tuberculosis association today
assumed her duties as the execu
tive secretary oC the California as
sociation lor the study and pre
tention of tuberculosis. She will
work iu conjunction with the state
board of health Miss late is a
graduate of the University oi Wis
consin, and in 1909 was given a
commission, as a special ag.-ut of
tbe United States Government's im
migration commission.
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the season. Get a box now as they will
.be off the market in a few days.
P. Si. GANTY, GROCER
SKAGWAY JAIL ESCAPE
ARRESTED AT CHAMPAGNE
Deputy United States Marshal
Fouzo received word Saturday that
Keutzebeck, the man who escaped
from the Skagway federal jail a
couple o£ weeks ago, had been ar
rested at Champague Landing in
the Southern Yukon, by Sergt. Tel
ford of the R. N. W. M. P., making
inquiry us to what disposition
should be made of him and saying
that the prisoner would be taken
to Whitehor»e and kept in custody
until an answer was received.
Under instruction from United
States marshal Bishop of Juneau,
| Mr. Fouzo loft for Whitehorse this
j morning to get the prisoner and re
turn him to Skagway.
Iteutzebeok after escaping from the
Jail here went over the divide be
tween here and Dyea and from there
crossed over the high range of
mountains to the west into the In
dian village of Klukwan on the Chil
cat river, north of Haines. From
there, after getting, a small supply
of provisions, he struck out over
the old Dalton trail for the iaterior
and had got as far as Champagne
Landing when he was apprehended
by the North West Mounted Police.
TWO LOXE FISHERMEN ARE
DESPOILED BY PIC-NICERS
"Two be (ffr) or not two be (©*").
Whether it is better to take the two
loiio bottles that have fceon left to
is, or by our rage invoke the rid
icule of those who have despoiled
us, that is the question."—Adapt
ed from Hamlet's soliloquy.
A party of twelve Skagway people
went to Burro creek yesterday for
an outing and a pic-nic. They
camped alongside «he beautiful
mountain 6tream that meanders its
way noisily down to the sea, and
while the married members of the
party were making preparations to
spread the appetizing lunch that ha
been taken with them the younger
ones wandered through the pictur
esque scenery or sat in pairs like
turtle doves, upon the mossy; banks.
In getting water from the brook
with which to make coffee one of
the purveyors accidently discovered
a cache, evidently left there by
some one or more fishermen who
had gone up-stream in search of
more promising fields of endeavor.
And what a find! Twelve bottles of
sparkling Olympla beer, left in the
waters of the 6tream in a cosy and
out-of-the-way nook to cool against
the roturn of the owners!
Did he turn away from tempta
tion and leave it? Well, not that
onyone could notice. On the con
trary, he commandeered ten of the
twelve bottles for the use of his
Own party, and when the, despoiled
owners, iU the guist of two lone,
thirsty and tired fishermen, turned
up, which they shortly did, they
found only a scanty reminder of the
good cheer to which they had been
hastening with such joyful anticipa
tion.
SEATTLE BANK HELD UP
BY A LONE ROBBER
Seattle, Sept. 21—On Saturday a
lone robber held up the teller of
the Bank of California in this city
and oscaped with ?1500 of the
banks funds. There wefe only a
few people in the bank at the time
of the hold-up and ag none of them
offered any resistance th«y' were
not molested.
Photo by American Press Association.
As Viewed From the Iron Duke
The English nnvy was taken Into consideration when the great pewua
Europe became Involved. The navy never was In Oner condition Uaa )im* '
now. The above picture was taken from the Iron Duke, whlcii it BOW ll tft* '
North sea
ADMINISTRATOR SAYS RUMOR
HAS NO FOUNDATION
A rumor has been Current in Skag
way for several days that P. H
Ganty, the administrator of the J
P. Brawand estate, had located a
$7,000 deposit made by the deceased
in a Vancouver bank. Mr. Gan/ty
said this morning, when seen by an
Alaskan reporter, that there was no
truth, whatsoever iu the story.
He says there was no will and
the only assets, so far discovered,
outside of the property which Dr.
Brawand owned in Skagwav, was a
deposifc of $760 in the branch of
the Canadian Bank of commerce at
Seattle, and according to the laws
Of Washington in the settlement
of the affairs of an intestate this
sum w'.ill not be available until
twelve months after death. In ad
dition to this au ancillary adminis
trator had to be appointed in Seat
tle and by the timo the expenses of
administering the estate are paid the
amount of money left ovei; in the
branch of the Canadian Bank of
Commerce at Seattle will be practi
cally nil.
H. P. GALLAGHER TO BE
LOCAL AGENT ADMIRAL LIVE
The S. S. Admiral Watson made
her first call at thia port, arrirtog
early Sunday mcrning and remain
ing about an hour for discharging.
The Admiral Watson has take* up
the schedule of the Admiral Samp
son, and will he permanently plac
ed in the Alaska service.
Among those arriving on <th«
Admiral Watson was Mr. George
Banbury, formerly Sk&gway agent
of the line, who is returning for
a few days and will turn oyer the
local agency to H. P. Gallaghar, who
replaced him upon his departure
for the south. Mr. Gallagher will
leave today for a short trip to
Juneau and upon his return Mr.
Banbury will go to the Juneau
agency of the Admiral Line.
Geo. J. McCarthy, of the Juneau
agency of the Admiral Line, was
also a passenger on th$ Watson,
ac#ompani«d by Mrs. McCarthy. Mr.
McCarthy is on a short business trip
and will return south this evening.
The local office of the Admiral
Line is about ready for occupancy,
and presents a neat appearance
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