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As reported in tho Industrial
Worker news columns t ho native
t»oy who snipped with the crow of
the schooner White Bear on her un
fortunate voyage October 26th is
in Nome having arrived from St.
Michaels ahead of the mail via So
ioinor. a' whi h roint he joined the
party of miner and prospectors
coming front Council City.
The boy’s name is Antonie Kra
beruk and nis jvt’mey from St.
Michaels was itself fraught with
toilsome hardship mushing much of
the way on foot and picking’up a
ride whenever he could.
That part of his story relating
to hi.- experience with the White
Bear voyage is here told in his own
way being somewhat condensed
from his diary:
Oct. 27.
After we finished loading the five
passengers came aboard at 5 o'clock
in the afternoon. We hove up the
anchor and headed for Solomon,
it was a moonlight night and the
t-ea was calm. When we ariived off
Solomon Capt. Heckla decided to
drop the anchor and wait until
daylight before trying to lake the
vessel ever the bar. Oct. 2Stli.
Aboat 5 o'clook in the morning we
again pulled the anchor on-board
and turned the bow of the schooner
towards the entrance of Bonanza
Tivcr. But instead of going through
the entrance we struck the bar,
and we tried in vain to get her to
float without unloading the freight.
After we discharged the cargo the
schooner floated, and the captain
droped anchor in deep water. We
then went ashore and ate supper
at he Dixon Hotel. The Captain
went to the poet office to get the
mail and at 8.30 Sunday evening
Captain Heckla, engineer Coin, one
passenger ramed Griffiths and my
self went on board the White Bear
and started for Nome, after we had
been to sea about One hour and a
half the engine commenced to be
troublesome and finally stopped.
The Captain and engineer worked
on the engine from 10 P. M. until
4 A. M. before they got it in shape
again. Oct. 29tli. About 3:30 a.
m. the wind commenced to blow
strong from a northerly direction
and it inorea eel very rapidly and
about this time the engine became
troublesome again and the little
vessel was drifting to the southard
very fast. It was now blowing like
a hurricane and the sea was very
rough. The Captain, decided to
head for St. Michael if possible.
Ho made a 6x6 it. sail and then cut
the dory adrift, while this was go
ing on Coin and Griifiiths were in
their bunks suffering from a severe
attack of sea sickness The sea’s
were occasionally coming aboard
the schooner and one finally stove
in the cabin door. Griffiths and !
Coin immediately turned out and '
started bailing water from the en
gine room, it took them several
hot r^. to do so as some was con
tinually coming in. I was also kept
busy pumping with the hand pump
while Heckla was at the wheel.
The weather was very cold and
the Captain and myself were caught
in our summer clothes. I relieved
the Captain at the wheel every half
a hour, it was almost impossible to
temai'.i there muck, longer because
it was so very cold and our clot lies
were thin and soaking wet. There
was ove" two feet of water • 11 the
engine room when tlie engineer and
Griffiths commenced bailing and
they nearly froze their finger oil
before they got they water out and
the engine started again. We had
drifted a considerable distance in
tlie meantime and we were now
in the vicinity of the icc floes. The
Captain said it was best to bout
ship and head in the Solomon di-1
reciion, but shortly alter the
chooners bow was pointed toward
Solomon the engine went peluk for
good and we drifted against the ;
ice.
Oct. 30th. Early in the morning
the four of us got ready to aban
don the schooner because it looked
very dangerous to all of us to be
caught out there among the ice like
wo wore. The Captain and Griffiths
made a sled from a couple of barrel
staves and two hags cf TJ. S. mail
and suit case of Griffieths were put
on that queor locking sled. Hecltla
Griffiths and myself pulled the
sled while Coin picked the trail for
us. After we had mushed about
five mile.; from the schooner. Coin
disappeared through a crack in the
ice. and two of us got there just
in time to haul him out of the ice
cold water. The poor fellow was
soaking wet and very cold so we
had to take his clothes off right
there to prevent them from freez
ing fast to him. The three of us
shared our dry clothe- with him.
The ice was moving and tlie Cap
tain decided we had hotter try and
get back aboard the schooner, hut
Coin wouldn’t listen to him he
wanted to go ashore. I had practi
cally made up my mind to go along
with him hut on second thought I
said it was much better to stay
with two men than to go along
with one man and no grub. We
did not know what to do with thu
mail we didn't want to drag it back
to the schooner again, so we la lW-'n
it on the iee. Coin started toward
shore, and we felt sorry for him.)
We headed for the schooner and i
dually got on board. We soon had I
a good fire going which certainly
felt good. A few hours later Coin
came aboard, he stayed up all
night thawing out and drying his
clothes.
Oct. 31st. At daylight Heckia
Griffiths, and myself started out 10
get the mail which we had left i n
the ice, but three hours later we
were compelled to return to the
Schooner without the mail on a •
count of being unable to cross a
very wide opening in the ice. Tin t
same afternoon we started out
again after it and a couple of hoie^ I
later we reached the mail. The
Captain and Griffiths didn’t want to
haul it back tc the rchooner
-o they sent me back for Cain.
When we left the vessel, Coin and
myself, look a lew flabjaeks along
and v,e kept on mushing and mush
ing until al'tei midnight, trying to
locate Heckia anil Griffiths, we
couldn’t find them but we reached |
the opening in the ice and the ice
on the other side of the crack
seemed to bo getting furtln-r away.
We tramped around all night to
keep from freezing.
Nov. 1st. We started walking
along the edge of the ice until a
few hour,} later we came to where
the ice was together and we started
toward the shore. We reached the
shore, during the afternoon and we
thought we could see a tent village
ahead of us but we were mistaken.
While going over the hill we saw
two dog teams on the fiats. Coin
fired a few shot,} fron his revolver
but the mushers didn’t hear them
because they kept going right
along.
Nov. 2.—At three o’clock in the
morning wj reached the village
named Pitmiktclik. . That same
morning Heckia and Griffiths also
landed.
Nov. 3. Heckia and a few natives
•.vent to Romanoff to see what
could b*‘ done in regards to getting
the mail off the ice and when they
returned to Pitmikotlik they repott
ed that they were unable to go nut
and get st because the ice wa, mov
ing very fast. Later on they went
out and found the mail and brought
it ashore and turned it over to the
Postmaster at St. Michaels. The
White Hear is still fast in the ice
about 14 miles from Romance.
RAILWAY WORKERS
REBEL AT CONSCRIPTION
WASHINGTON, D. Nov. 22
Now impotu,; was given today the
proposals being made variously by
chambers of commerce and pre
capitalist publications that as a so
lution for conflicts arising so fre
quently between employers and
worker,;! In those industries where
a suspension of operations works
an embarrassment to the govern
ment's war program.
A new crisis has m en in the
railroad transportation industry
similar to that which confronted
tho country in the deadlock of two
years ago. The Railway Brother
hoods, comprising the organizations
: of locomotive engineers, firemen,
conductors and trainmen have
formulated a new iset of demands
upon the companies, who in turn
have appealed to President Wilson
placing their interests entirely in
his hands. The President is known
to have several conferences with
the head,.- of the Hrotherhoods and
it was believed had worked out. a
plan for the gcve anient operatim
of the principal lines. Consterna
tion ran riot among the brother
BRITISH TAKE TWELV
THOUSAND PRISONERS
LONDON, Nov. 22.—This capi
tal’< jubilation over the British
sucesses in the North of France con
tii.ues aiul it is believed here that
the brilliant drive of General Haig
commanding the combined British
forces is an earnest of the fighting
from now on, then Germany will
soon be driven back to her own
herder i on her western front, and
her power be broken in that sector
beyond recovery for years. With an
ex ited elation and enthusiastic de
monstrations unusual for London
ers dispatches reporting continued
successes are received and the peo
ple ate jamming the streets where
the war bulletin,^ are exhibited. The
latest of these are to the effect
that the entire German front
throughout the north of France is
shaken with the impact of the Haig
attack and that twelve thousand
German prisoners were taken in
the second days fighting. The
Bai-tian of Cambrai, the chief rail
road and supply base for the Ger
man forces in Northern France is
in imminent prospect of capture.
The huge war tanks of the Britisli
forces justified themselves by
breaking up the enemy’s barbed
sirfSL
wire entanglement,.* and obstrue
ticns. This made possible the use
cl' cavalry which had begun to be'
thought obsolete. The British com-j
ntancter had legions of horse troops J
massed in the rear of the huge!
engine* and through the openings
made by them was able to hurl the i
gurioiis riding troops upon the one-:
my’s disordered lines. Altogethei
the achievement is regarded as the
greatest military, moral and poli
tical victory of the war.
LONDON, Nov. 22.— (Later t The
yielding Germans are destroying)
their perfectly built fortifications
a.-, they go. The Fontaine of Notre
Dame three miles out front Cam
brai was taken this forenoon, and
the. shells from the British guns
are rail ing upon Cantbrai. Already
the city is on fire within its limits
and is momentarily expected to be
taken.
LONDON, Nov. 22.—In Palestine
the Briti h troops for some weeks
driving upen Jetusalem are (losing
in upon that ancient biblical city
and the Turkish residents are re
ported as fleeing for safety.
LONDON, Nov. 22. From Eng
land's Mediterranean naval base it
was learned from dispatches reach
ing the war office here that two of
the Brit)-h patrol boats had been
torpedoed by a German submarine
with the loss of nine lives, the
diver making a successful get
away.
WASHINGTON, I). C., Nov. Hi.—
That <he United States will soon
make the long expected formal de
claration of war upon Austria was
the general opinion freely express
ed by officials high in the Depart
ment of State and in army circles
here today.
THE HAGUE, Nov. 22.—The
German government through its
Chancellor gave notice of her ex
tension of her barred zone waters
to the Azores and to the Greek
gulfs and inlets according to offi
cial information received here Bv
the terms of the decree neutral ami
Belgian relief ships are given one
week to leave tin territory.
GET THE MOWS EIGHT. BEAD
THE MOKKKM
BRITISH AND CERMAN
NAVAL SKIRMISH
LONDON, Nov. 22.—The German
light cruisers which fled throug
Helgoland bight yesterday were
| chased by British warships to with
] in thirty miles cf Helgoland where
| they came under the protection of
I the German oattle fleet and mine
fields'. At a result of the running
fight one German cruiser was ob
served to be in flames and one
enemy mine sweeper was sunk.
I Helgoland is a German island off
lin ited area opposite the mouth of
j the Elbe and off the shore of
Schleisweg Hoi tein, and is occu
pied wholly by fortifications with
a fringe ot fishing cottages on i s
beaches. It is a German naval sta
tion and is considered one of the
most istrongly fortified places in the
world and on a par with Gibraltar.
It is practically without soil being
almost wholly of rock and stone.
None but high German officials and
these only upon special permission
of the Kaiser are ever permitted
to enter the fortifications which are
located on the table land on top of
the -lieer island rock but they •ro
said to have gun pits at every po'iif
of vantage and with the largest anti
most powerful cat.non ever buiil.
Helgoland rarely figures in the war
news dispatches though the area of
the North Sea protected by her is
often the refuge of German boats
and such warship as venture forth
looking for fieglit. It is believed
that this island could withstand
assaults from the combine d navies
of the war'd, including Germany's.
WASHINGTON ALASKA
BANK IS IN TROUBLE
I
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. ,V2.—The
litigation incident to winding up
the affairs of the Washington Al
aska Bank of Fairbanks continues.
Upon the closing of the bank sever
al montns ago F. G. Noyes was ap
pointed receiver by the Federal Dis
trict Court of the Fairbanks Divi
sion. Mr. Noyes immediately
brought suit against the President
of the defunct in-titution for the
recovery of thirteen thousand dol
lars alleged to have beei. wrong
fully taken from the bank but
failed of recovery before the Feder
al District (’oiirf of the Fourth Di
vision of Alaska
The Deceiver promptly appealed
to the Federal District of Appeals
sitting in the city and upon hear
ing and review here has procured
an order issuing today, direct Wood
to pay *the thirteen thousand dol
lar,^ with interest to the credit ,->f
lioort officials today when it become
noised at»o i* (hat the President's
plan included t’.e proposal to ■ on
script the members of their orga
nizations to ■ . erviie on the rail
way. There was a hurried visit
to the White Mouse and the ilrotli
erhoods offic'ils are said to have
told the President rather Rally
that they would resist any such
proposals unless the owners oj the
railroads themselves wore forced
into operative service with them.
GET THE iVKWS EIGHT. READ
THE WORKER.
tlio Receiver.
t Editor's into. We an advi. i d
by local bank authorities that tlio
Fairbanks institution was iinanrod.
for the .nost part by citizens of the
•state of Washington and had no
connections or rorresoondent batik
in thi city.)
I\( HEASEI) I'.IV.
LONDON, Nov. 22.-—Letters by
.Mr. Lloyd George to the Secretary
for War and the Fir t Lord of the
Admiralty announce the War Cab
inet's decision on the question of
increased pay for the army and
navy.
Let ns estimate on /our Job Work