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winter supplies, for prices
will be higher when navi
gation closes.
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* KNIK, ALASKA
Distribute General Merchandise, Hardware, Boots and
Shoes, Lumber, Shingles, Gasoline, Kerosene,
Paints and Oil, Pumps, Pipe and Fit
tings, Tents and Tarpaulins. ,
Sperr/’s Flour, Sold Under Absolute Guarantee
From the Company.
Recle,a£)ed_ Oats, $55^.00 per ton.
Hay, $35.00 per toft’.
Bed and Grey Rosin Building Paper, $1.00.
D. G. Berry Sugar, $8.25 per sack, 100s.
Carnation Milk, $4-25 case.
Red Clover Butter, $40.00 Bbl, 110 lbs.
The “Lucy” Does It
KNIK, ALASKA
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Not All Of the
War Censors Are
D-d Fools
LONDON,Sept. 1.—(By Mail)—
“The censor is not the damn fool you
take him to be.”
The above line was penned by a
British censor upon a letter from an
officer at the front to his wife, in
which an ingenious code was discover
ed. It meant to disclose to the anxi
ous wife just where her husband was
fighting, but it was spoiled by the
censor and an order was issued by the
war office prohibiting such practices.
Before the officer, who wrote the
code letter, left for the front, he se
cured two maps showing the entire
British fighting line. The maps were
identical. One he left with his wife
and the other he took with him.
Thereafter, each time he wrote a
letter, he placed the stationery on his
map, stuck a pin through it directly
over Paris, another directly over
Brussels, and a third at the point
where he was stationed. Upon re
ceiving the letter, his wife would su
perimpose it on her map, adjusting
the extreme pinholes over Paris and
Brussels, and her husband’s where
abouts would be indicated by the mid
dle hole.
This is but one of a score of codes
and secret signals discovered by the
censors recently. England does not
censure the relatives of men at the
front for wanting to know the locality
in which they are fighting and per
haps dying, but such disclosures be
came a menace. No one knows how
extensive Germany’s espionage sys
tem may be, and England is taking
no chances.
Another code system used by a cer
tain officer was more elaborate than
the one pointed out by the censor, with
his “damn fool” notation. It was ar
ranged by the officer with his wife,
just before he sailed for France, and
consisted of two charts of the battle
line, one of which he retained while
his wife kept the other. Each map
was laid out in blocks an inch square;
each square could be identified by
combinations of letters indicating each
line of squares from left to right.
Down the left hand side was anoth
er row of letters.
In writing home, the officer would
say “Give my regards to L. A. Smith.
| Being; a fictitious name, the wife would
know it was a key to her secret code.
Putting her finger on the “A” line of
the squares on her chart, she would
follow along under the “L” squares,
in which was her husband’s position
at the front.
It is improbable that any informa
tion contained in these code letters
has ever reached the Germans, but
there is a possibility of such a mis
chance and England is losing no op
portunity to defeat a spy system that
has made Englishmen gasp.
Ranchers Mix It
With Members of
I. W. of the W.
LEWISTOWN, Mont., Sept. 25.—
Fifty shots were exchanged last night
between citizens of Judith Gap, a
point southwest of Lewistown, and 30
members of the Industrial Workers of
the World. Three participants were
wounded. The citizens are seeking to
drive the I. W. W.’s out of this part
of the country, because of their ac
tivities in seeking to bring about
strikes among the farm hands.
INDUSTRIAL WORKERS OVER
RUN YAKIMA VALLEY
NORTH YAKIMA, Sept. 25.—Lead
ers of the Industrial Workers of the
World, members of which are here in
large numbers, who are on trial charg
ed with infractions of the peace, de
clared in court today that if punished,
they would bring to the Yakima val
ley 20,000 of their organization and
that they would remain here through
out the winter.
President Accepts
Two Invitations
ASHBURY PARK, Sept. 25.—Pres
ident Wilson has accepted an invita
tion to speak at Omaha, Nebraska,
October 5, and at Indianapolis, Indi
ana, October 12.
For Sale—Crescent hotel, comer 4th
and C St. Also 24 x 130 ft. on east
side of hotel. 9-19tf
Special 35c lunch at the Wilcox
Grill, 4th and C. 9-18tf
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Coal
Gasoline
We Carry a Complete Stock
of Lumber at Matanuska
at
A. A. Shonbeck, Agt.
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Knit Right Sweater Coats
Oregon City Mackinaws
Heavy All-Wool Whalebak Army Shirts
Wrights & Medlieott Underwear.
Knit Gloves and Mittens from 25c to $2.25.
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