GERMANS OCCUPY BAILLEUL
AND ARE PREPARING FOR
DRIVE ON WYTSCHAETE.
OLD STRONGHOLD OF ENGLISH.
Attacks of Kaiser's Soldiers South- ;
west of Vieux Berquin Are Repulsed
—Teutons Suffer Heavy Losses.
LONDON, April 16.—Tremendous j
pressure of fresh German troops in J
the Armentieres sector of the battle-j
front in France compelled a slight re
tirement today of British forces.
The Teutons made desperate attacks
against Messines Ridge and the Eng
lish withdrew their line to the north
ern side of the Lys river, west of Ar
mentieres.
The British evacuated Bailleul,
which is about eight miles northwest
i
of Armentieres.
The English front in this immediate
neighborhood now extends from north
of Bailleul to north of Wulverghem;
thence to Wytschaete. The British
have been firmly established at Wyt
schaete since early in the war. The
v Germans, however, are in an advan
tageous position to attack, and are
beginning a drive on Wytschaete.
German attacks southwest of Vieux
Berquin, which is five miles southwest
of Bailleul, have been repulsted by1
the British.
Less of Bailleul Expected.
WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN
FRANCE, April 16.—'The loss of
Bailleul was expected by the British.
Its strategical value would not com
pensate for the lives it would have
cost to retain it.
The Germans are now trying to
reach Hazebruck.
Pay Heavy Price.
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 16.—j
The heavy price the Germans are pay- j
ing for their advance on the western |
front in France is told in a dispatch to
the American state department, which
says twenty-five trains loaded with
wounded Germans are passing through
Aix la Chapelle every night.
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WOULDN’T PART WITH ‘CHAW.’
i
Economical Seaman Decided to Wait
Until Some Other Day to Have
His Picture Taken.
If there is a general impression that;
America is slow to fall into the rou
tine of economy and conservation the
belief has not impressed itself upon a
veteran photographer to seamen,1
whose curbstone studio is somewhere
along the river front, writes a New
York correspondent of the Pittsburgh.
Dispatch. Recently he had a hard live j
minutes with a Yankee subject, and he
decided that certain traits of the Scot
are developing in these United States.
The photographer piped the man of
the sea rolling along the street and be
sought him to have his picture taken,
assuring him that the loved ones at
home are not to be forgotten and that
these days a striking pictorial me
mento is of especial value. The sea
man, just off his vessel, stopped. He
was a very grouchy seaman, but one
likely to have funds, somehow, and so
the photographer was at great pains
to get him suitably posed and ready
for the permanent record of his after
noon appearance. The last detail had
been arranged and the seaman was
standing flatly and determinedly
against a fence when the camera man
started to press the bulb. “Wait,” said j
the subject, getting out of pose. “I’ll I
be here for a week and I’ll see yer
again for a picter.” “Well, why not
now?” “‘Cause,” answered the econ
omical seaman, “I got a chaw of ter
bacceh in me face terday. I’ll be along
agin toward the end of the week—
some day when I ain’t got a chaw in
me mouth.”
HO, HUM!
Fate is not fair, it seems to me,
And Fortune’s pranks oft make me
sigh;
Some men can’t stand prosperity.
Some never get a chance to try.
OBJECTED TO
THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTY
FIVE YOUNG MEN ORDERED
TO PHYSICIAN.
ALL LISTED IN CLASS NO. 1
Action Is Taken by Anchorage Ex
emption Board as Soon As Ques
tionnaires Are Returned to It
From Those Enrolled.
Physical examination of thvee hun
dred and twenty-five registrants un
der the selective draft law was com
menced here today, according to a
statement made by Captain Thomas
W. Dwver, chairman of the Anchor
age exemption board. The physical
examinations are conducted by I)r. F.
M. Boyle at his office in the McKinley
block.
The registrants being physicall'
examined have been classed in class 1
by the exemption board and number
315. Upon return of the question
naire by the registrant and upon the
showing made by him, the board as
signs him to his proper class.
In class 1 are placed all registrants
who are believed to be physically fit
and able, and who have no dependent
relatives.
PROTECTION OF ALASKA GATE
WAYS SHOULD NOT RE DE
LAYED BY WAR.
TERRITORY’S GREATEST NEED.
Four Million Dollars Is All That Has
Been Spent in Fifty Years and 224
Ships Have Been Lost in Last
Twenty Years.
WASHINGTON, I). C., April 16.—
The United States coast geodetic sur
vey today issued a bulletin urging
protection for Alaska’s gateway by
the adequate charting of its coast and
harbors. The bulletin said the geo
detic survey had less than $4,000,000
to spend in Alaskan waters in fifty
years.
Alaska has many fine undeveloped
harbors and the world war should not
delay this development, declares the
bulletin.
Two hundred and -twenty-four Am
erican vessels have been lost in Alas
kan waters in twenty years. Charting
of Alaska’s coast and harbors is the
territory’s greatest need, says the
bulletin.
GERMANY ORDERS
CRIPPLES IN ARMY
KAISER IS SO HARD-PRESSED
FOR MEN THAT PERMANENT
LY DISABLED ARE USED.
NEW YORK, April 16.—Germany
is so hard-pressed for men that per
manently disabled soldiers are retain
ed in the army and cripples have been
called to the colors, said Deputy Rys
sel, independent socialist, in an ad
dress in the reichstag February 23,
according to a copy of the Berlin Vor
waerts, which has just reached New
York.
Strikers, the paper says, were put
into the army as a punishment.
SOAP MAKING?'
Soap making was known to the an
cient Romans, and there is a theory
that they obtained their knowledge of
the art from some Germanic tribes
who had learned it from some of the
tribes further to the west and north.
Pliny mentioned that the Germans
used both hard and soft soap, and he
indicates that it was a discovery which
had been made by the Gauls.
TWO OF INTERNATIONAL COM
MISSION TO BE IN SEATTLE
TOMORROW.
MEETING BEGINS APRIL 24.
Commissioners After Their Hearings
in States and in British Columbia
Will Come to Ketchikan for Ses
sions There.
SEATTLE, April 1G.—Dr. Hugh M.
Smith, the United States commission
er of fisheries, and William Found,
superintendent of Canadian fisheries,
are expected to arrive in Seattle to
morrow to make a sui-vey of the situ
ation with respect to the salmon fish
eries of Puget sound and Fraser river.
They are members of the American
Canadian Fisheries conference, which
will convene in Seattle April 24.
The conference has held sessions in
the city of Washington, and also in
Boston and Gloucester, Massachusetts
and in St. John, New Brunswick. The
hearings in Seattle will be relative to
matters concerning the protection of
the salmon in and around Puget sound
and Fraser river, and also protection
of the halibut—the center of this in
dustry being Seattle, Vancouver,
Prince Rupert and Ketchikan on the
Pacific.
Furthermore, the matter regarding
the use of Canadian and American
ports by the fishing vessels of both
countries will be discussed at these
hearings, as will also questions relat
ing to the whale industry, and to the
Order in Council of Canada with ref
erence to the purchase of bait and
landing of fish by foreign vessels at
ports of British Columbia—having a
direct bearing on the subject of fish
ing vessels putting in at Prince Ru
pert, B. C.—together with other fish
ery matters that may come to the at
tention of the conference.
Hearing for All Interests.
It is proposed to give all those who
may consider that their interests are
affected an opportunity to be heard,
j in order that the conference may con
sider all sides of every question. Fol
lowing the sessions in Seattle, hear
ings will be held in Vancouver and
Prince Rupert, B. C., Ketchikan,
[Alaska, and at other places in the
Pacific northwest which the eonfer
{ence may deem desirable, after which
both delegations will go to Ottawa.
Both the Canadian and American
delegates to the conference will be
present at the hearings conducted in
| Seattle, as well as those in Vancouver
j and the other places mentioned.
The Canadian delegates are the
: Hon. J. Douglas Hazen. chief justice
! of New Brunswick, who was for six
[ years minister of marine and fisher
ies in Canada; Geo. J. Desbarats, C.
! M. G. C. E., deputy minister of naval
service, and William A. Found, super
intendent of fisheries.
The American delegation is com
posed of William C. Redfield, secre
tary of commerce; Edwin F. Sweet,
assistant secretary of commerce, and
Dr. Hugh M. Smith, commissioner of
fisheries. Maitland Dwight, of the
department of state, is secretary of
the American delegation.
Edward T. Quigley, assistant solic
itor of the department of commerce,
who is the assistant secretary of the
delegation, will accompany the Amer
ican delegates to Seattle and Alaska
in the capacity of secretary.
AllENWOMEN TO
BE INTERNED SOON
ARRESTS AWAIT APPROVAL BY
PRESIDENT OF BILL RECENT
LY PASSED BY CONGRESS.
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 16.—
It is understood that more than 100
German and Austrian women in the
United States who are under surveil
lance by government agents, will be
arrested and interned when President
Wilson signs the bill which includes
women in the enemy alien class.
BLAGKBEAR
ANIMAL SLEEPS FIVE MONTHS
AND TEN DAYS IN HILL ON
SEVENTH AVENUE.
S N O W DISPLEASES BRUIN.
S. E. Nelson Caught Cub Last Fall
and Tied Long Chain to His Neck
and Then Let Him Make His Win
ter Home.
After hibernating in a hole on the
side of the hill at the foot of Seventh
avenue in Anchorage for five months
and ten days, a little black bear ap
peared yesterday afternoon and was
disagreeably surprised at the pres
ence of snow on the groifnd. For sev
eral minutes after emerging from his
winter quarters, he refused to walk,
but sat huddled in a ball at the en
trance to his hole from which all the
snow had been cleared away by S. E.
Nelson, who captured the animal as a
cub last October, near Palmer, on the
main line of the government railroad.
Mr. Nelson has raised eleven bears
since coming to Alaska in 1898 and
says he has never known one of the
animals to stay as long in a hole as
i his present possession.
The bear went into his quarters
! last November 1. Mr. Nelson tied a
i long chain about the animal’s neck
; and then started a small hole in the '
J side of the hill. Mr. Nelson placed
several gunny sacks and some excel-!
sior and straw near the hole and
left the bear to his own ideas of win
ter home building.
The animal took all the building
material in with him and no doubt:
used it in truly bear fashion. A fact,
which few persons, not studerts of i
the habits and actions of bears, are '
familiar, says Mr. Nelson, is that1
when a bear, whether young or old,
comes out of his long period of hiber
: nation, he • prefers to anything else !
las food the bark of the quaking
j asp, a species of the poplar tree,
j The little Anchorage specimen of the
; genus ursus ran true to form and
when thoroughly awake refused to eat
anything other than some of the
quaking asp bark, which was obtained
by Mr. Nelson on Turnagain Arm.
The bear will be kept by Mr.
Nelson in the yard of his home at
the Chester apartments until next fall
and then he may ship the animal to
| some zoological society in the states.
“Sleeplong,” as Mr. Nelson has
named the little fellow, will be a year
old this spring.
BOND SUBSCRIPTION
TOTAL $108,900 NOW
_
j CAMPAIGN DIRECTORS SAY
SALES WILL BE DOUBLE OR
IGINAL A PPORTIONMENT.
One hundred and eight thousand;
and nine hundred dollars worth of j
Liberty bonds have been sold to the
residents of the Anchorage district
during the first eight days of the Lib
erty loan drive, according to the re
ports of Sidney Anderson, vice-presi
dent of the Bank of Anchorage and E.
j B. Ansley, vice-president of the Bank
of Alaska.
The hundred thousand mark was
passed yesterday at noon. The sales:
for yesterday at the two banks total-1
ed $10,750. It is expected that the
amount of bond subscriptions will
more than double the amount original
ly alloted to Anchorage. Fifty nine
thousand dollars was the amount ap
portioned Anchorage.
SPEAKING OF “TURNS.”
What goes around the corner with
out moving?
A curbstone.
What turns without moving?
Milk—Boys’ Life.
NEW YORK APPLES.
New Y'ork produces more apples
than any other state. The five leading
varities in the state are Baldwin,
Greening, Northern Spy, Ben Davis
and Tompkins King.
WINFIELD ERVIN IS CHOSEN
PRESIDENT AND MISS M. EV
ERSOLE SECRETARY.
W. B. CLAYTON IS ASSESSOR.
Meetings of Anchorage Educational
Officers Hereafter Will Be Held
at 7:30 o’clock on Second Monday
of Every Month.
Winfield Ervin, assistant cashier of
the Bank of Anchorage, was chosen
president of the Anchorage school
board at the election held by the board
last night in the school building. Miss
M. Eversole was chosen as secretary
treasurer and William B. Clayton was
elected assessor and tax collector.
Miss M. Eversole and William B.
Clayton were elected April 2 as the
two new members of the board, suc
ceeding Mrs. Maud Appleby and J. L.
Waller. The other members of the
board are Mrs. A. G. Thompson, Win
field Ervin and J. A. Wiikinson.
The report of Mrs. A. G. Thompson,
former secretary and treasurer of the
board, tvas read and referred to the
auditing committee, which is compos
ed of Miss Eversole and Mr. Clayton.
It was decided at last night’s meet
ing that hereater the board would
meet at 7:30 o’clock on the second
Monday evening of every month.
BLACKSMITH 1NG FUEL TO BE
SENT SOUTH AS SOON AS
SHIPPING IS AVAILABLE.
IN NATURE OF ADVERTISING.
Lars Netland, Manager of Mine, Says
Large Vain Was Struck Last Friday
at Depth of 350 Feet From Mouth
of Tunnel.
Biacksmithing coal from the mines1
of the Chickaloon Coal company at
Chickaloon will be sent to San Fran-;
cisco as soon as shipping space and
handling facilities at San Francisco |
can be provided, according to a state
ment made yesterday by Lars Net-,
land, superintendent and chief en- j
gineer for the coal company.
Mr. Netland arrived in Anchorage |
on yesterday’s train on business in j
connection with the operation of the j
mines. The shipment of blacksmith- j
ing coal to San Francisco, the head
quarters of the Chickaloon Coal com
pany, will be more for the purpose of;
advertising the quality of the products i
of the mines than for any immediate
commercial purpose, stated Mr. Net- j
land.
The shipment will be made in about
a month or six weeks. There are at
the present time twenty-two men em
ployed at the mines and satisfactory
progress is being made in develop
ment work.
A large vein was struck last Friday
at a depth of 350 feet from the mouth
of the tunnel.
STEAMSHIP WATSON
ARRIVES IN PORT
PASSENGERS FOR SOUTH ARE
ASKED TO GO ABOARD AT 9
O'CLOCK THIS EVENING.
The steamer Admiral Watson of
the Pacific Steamship company, arriv
ed in the Anchorage harbor at 2
o’clock this afternoon. Passengers for
the south are requested, to be aboard
at 9 o’clock tonight.
The steamber Alaska of the Alas
ka Steamship company, sailed for An
chorage from Seward at 10 o’clock
this morning, according to advices re
ceived today at the Anchorage office
of the steamship company.
LOTTERY SCHEME IS APPLIED
TO ENTRIES NEAR GRAND
JUNCTION AND MONTROSE.
FEDERAL IRRIGATION PROJECTS
Farms Contain Forty to Eighty Acres
and Settlers to Be Assured of Suc
cess Should Have $1,500 to Start
With.
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo., April 13.
—In Grand Junction and in Montrose,
Colorado, the United States govern
ment through its great land lottery
schema is opening to settlement 12,
000 acres of irrigated land which is
ready for the plow in two of the pret
tiest valleys in the Rocky mountains.
Not only is the land ready for the
plow of the homesteader, but prac
tically all of it is within four miles
of a railroad. Schools have been es
tablished, roads laid out and many
neighbors already in range on other
prosperous farms. There is little of
the pioneering necessary which has
been true of many other western pro
jects.
The government farms contain for
ty to eighty acres each and all are un
der the two completed reclamation
undertakings known as the Grand
Junction valley and Uncompaghre
projects. Nearly all are level.
Prospective settlers through gov
ernment order were compelled first to
visit the project they were interested
in and select the site they desired.
.-ijjpmaiiuu iui TTdin.
After selecting the site the settler
was compelled to execute a water
rental application with the project
manager—for Grand Junction valley
at Grand Junction and for the twin
project of Uncompaghre at Montrose,
accompanying the application with $3
per acre for each acre of irrigable
land in the unit selected. To be en
titled to the drawing at Grand Junc
tion the application had to be made
between March 23 and March 29.
Successful applicants must present
the water right application from the
reclamation service to the land ofrice
at Montrose within three days after
the drawings, where he will file a
homestead application and obtain his
receipt. Failure to file within three
days will forfeit the applicant’s rights
and all his payments and entitle the
next applicants for this particular
farm to make filing.
Nature of First Payment.
The first payment is required for
water rental and entitled the entry
man to two acre feet of water frea
each year for three years. Additional
water may be had at prices set each
year. For 1918 the price has been
fixed at 50 cents per acre feet.
By l’enting water in this manner the
government not only encourages
quick cultivation, but defers for three
years the building charge for the
project which has not yet been an
nounced and also thus allows the set
tler to use his capital in developing
his land.
The government believes each ap
plicant should possess at least $1,500
to be fully assured success, and with
this amount it seems certain for simi
lar lands in the same projects last
year returned from $44 per acre in
Grand Valley to $58 in Uncompaghre.
Maximum returns exceeding $100 per
acre were reported from some of the
farms on which it is possible to grow
most any fruit or vegetable with the
exception of citrus and other tropical
or semi-tropical fruits.
BRITISH GUNFIRE
SINKS TRAWLERS
LONDON, April 16.—Gun fire from
British vessels in the Cattegat sea be
tween Sweden and Denmark sank ten
German trawlers. The British ships
saved the crews of the trawlers. There
were no British casualties.
The operations were undertaken by
the commander of the British grand
fleet.