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J. TURNER
Propi’ietor
We are now prepared to take orders for fall delivery
Dried Dog Salmon,
Salmon Bellies
Salt Salmon,
Smoked Salmon,
Packed by McConahay & Co., Tyonek.
As supply is limited your early orders will be ap
eciated.
Evans & Frantzon Company
Painters and Decorators
We have on hand the largest stock of Wall Papers—a selec
tion thi-t will please you. Our Paint stock is complete; House
Paint, Boat Paint, Shingle Stains, Roof Paint, Copper Paint,
Deck Paint . Our goods as well as our work the very best. Win
dow Shades all sizes. Linoleums in Printed and Inlaid Patterns.
Balch & McDonald
General Contractors
FRAME CONSTRUCTION CONCRETE WORK
1 EXCAVATION GRADING*
HOUSE MOVING
4th Ave. Bet D and E Anchorage *
New Low Fares Effective Aug. 20
Through tickets from S. W. Alaskan ports to Minneapolis, St.
1 Paul, Chicago and all points Hast will be on sale via Seattle
and the “Milwaukee” Railway at the new low fares on and aft
er August 20th by the Alaska S S. Co., and the Pacific Alaska
Nav. Co. Full information from S. S. Agents at Anchorage or
A. E. HARRIS, Traveling Passenger Agent, Juneau.
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
North Side Lumber Co.
Just Arrived on “Lucy” a Complete
Stock of
Beaver Board
AND
*
Amiwud
PLAIN AND GOLDEN OAK FINISH
Also Big Shipment of Building and Roofing Paper
Lumber Lath Shingles
GEO. M. CAMPBELL
YARDS: OLD TOWN AND MATANUSKA
OFFICE: CORNER FOURTH AND F STREET
assrissBs:
The Lang Stove, born in
Alaska.
Is the Stove for Alaskans.
Body made of Armco Rust
Resisting Iron.
Polished Cooking Surface.
Will hold fire overnight with
wood or coal.
Will burn green wood.
Ask your dealer for a Lang
Stove.
If he cannot supply you write us.
is complete from the small
ap stove to the largest hotel
will tell you about the
They all know it.
RUSSIA’S GREAT
POWER AS TOLOBY
CORRESPONDENT
By William Philip Simms.
(United Tress Staff Correspondent)
PETROGRAD, July 10.—(By Mai!)
—“The Russian army is twice as big
as it was when the war started, is bet
ter fed, equipped and munitioned. Mil
itarily, we are able to carry our part
of the load.”
It was the president of the Duma,
Mikhail Rodzianko who told me this,
a leader known to Russia as a frank,
outspoken man. This man knows
something about armies. He began
life as an officer from a military acad
emy. He is actively engaged on army
problems now.
Duma member Sergius Shidlovsky,
leader of the Progressive Bloc, con
trolling element of the assembly,
gave the same answer, adding:
“The army is better than it has ev
er been. Its spirit is perfect. In the
country the people are too busy to
be pessimistic. Townspeople love to
tell alarming tales which grow. At
the front with the soldiers it is as an
other world. Everybody is cheerful.
To some neutrals, the Russian army
has been a disappointment, judging it
by German standards of perfection.
Judged otherwise, the Russians have
accomplished heroic things.
Russia stretches twice as far from
east to west as the United States. She
is as wide as from New York to San
Francisco. Her population is thinly
distributed over this tremendous area
—40 times that o'f Germany—rail
ways are few, and, for a campaign
against Germany, inconveniently laid.
When war began, the Russian ar
my was undergoing complete reorga
nization. Mobilization caught it at
the worst moment. The new untried
mobilization scheme was stopped and
the old one resorted to.
Russia is 80 per cent peasant and
reserves cannot be notified quickly as
in Germany. Once notified, many
must walk great distances to the
nearest settlement. From here the
first small group walks or rides to a
village on a railway and from here
to a city to be equipped and despatch
ed to the army. It is a slow process,
hard to improve upon until Russia has
better transportation and communica
tion.
Quick-mobilizing countries mobilize
on the frontier. Russia, unable to
throw millions of men on the enemy’s
boundary line, concentrates in the in
terior. She cannot hope to begin the
war on the offensive but expects to
commence hostilities in a clash inside
her own territory against invaders.
thing when she threw herself across !
the border into eastern Prussia five
days after the war began, unprepared
by at least a month, though she knew
herself to be.
The world knows the disaster to
the Russians among the Mazurian
marshes, of Rennenkampf’s defeat at
Osterode late in August after he had
thrown von Hindenburg back from
Insterburg, Konigsberg, Allenstein
and Gumbinnen. This was Russia’s
first sacrifice.
It is only 180 miles from the near
est point on the Russian frontier to
Berlin. Looking at the map, sidewalk
strategists opined that Russia ought
to make the distance in 30 days. But
even had Russia, mobilized, struck via
-'tort line, she would have reached
Berlin only to receive a mortal blow
from north and south, cutting off and
dooming her invading army. Both
eastern Prussia and Galicia had to be
occupied before the Posen route to
Berlin could even be attempted.
So Galicia was invaded. Tarnopol
was stormed and occupied, Lemberg
and Przemysl taken by the forces un-:
der General Russki, who mastered the
country clear to the crests of the Car
pathians.
Then time, distance, lack of railway '
facilities, bad roa^ls and other physi- j
cal hindrances outdid him—these and i
greatly reinforced Austrian armies
framed with Germans and led in part I
by German officers. The Russian re
treat from Galicia was the result.
Blocked on the western front by
the French and British, unable to ad
vance an inch there, the Germans per
fected their trenches, barbed-wire en
tanglements-and-machine-gun system
from the Channel to Switzerland, then
threw her remaining strength on Po
land. Lodz was captured, Plock tak
en and one by one, quickly the histor
ic cities and fortresses of all Poland,
including Warsaw, the capital, fell.
It is said Germany ’aimed to crush
Russia and make a separate peace af
ter Warsaw. But Russia was not I
crushed. She knows defensive fight
ing too well. She lost much, but her
army is stronger than ever. A high
French official said to me:
“Russia is unbeatable. She is too
big. She can keep on retreating until
at last the enemy will be swallowed
“That Man
Logemann”
Record for Month of July:
1,000 Rolls of Film Developed
And 0,000 Prints.
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WHY?
ALL WORK EXECUTED A
LITTLE BETTER THAN
SEEMS NECESSARY.
Prints 3c up
FILMS DEVELOPED 15c
4th and G Streets
ALASKA BUILDING.
Sanitary Market
The only cold storage plant in con
nection with market in Anchorage.
nome-made Sausages. Fruits. Veg
etables. Butter and Eggs, at whole
sale. Restaurants and roadhouses,
spcciui attention.
Ith Ave.. Bet. H and I Sts.
£ £ KURTZ & CO.
Send Us Your Check
...ASSAYS...
Falkenburg & Laucks
Ore Testing and Milling
Gold and Silver $1.00
Copper . . - $1.50
Lead - - - $1.00
Seattle, Wash.
95 Yesler Way.
“Analyze Anything."
Northern transfer Co.
C. P. Pedersen, Mgr.
General TRANSFER Business
WOOD ICE
Cor. 4th and D.
COAL
STRYE PHOTO STUDIO
(Next to Empress Theatre.)
PORTRAITS, ENLARGING,
FRAMES, KODAK
FINISHING,
Developing 15c. Prints 3c up.
OPEN 9 A. M.-9 P. M.
POWER BOAT
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Sails from Maitland Dock for
Talkeetna and way ports twice
each week. Inquire of owner,
J. JOHNSON.
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Blacksmi thing General ©
Repair Work j
Bob Small
Horseshoeing a Specialty
Oxy-Acetylene Welding
Cor. C and Second Anchorage
V. A. SCHMITZ
OPTICIAN
OFFICE
Northern Drag Company. Empress
Block, Corner H and Fourth.
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them to your credit, acknowledging receipt and furnish
ing you with a check book so you can draw money when
needed; or, if you prefer, we will place the money on de
posit in our Savings Department where it will earn 4 per
cent interest.
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