VAST STORES OF ARMY EQUIP
MENT AT ST. LOUIS CON
SUMED BY FLAMES.
LOSS PLACED AT SIX MILLION.
Fire Fighters Confine Conflagration
to One Immense Warehouse Located
in Vicinity of Other Storage Struc
tures—Probe Being Made.
ST. LOUIS, June 3.—One of the
immense warehouses of the United
States arsenal at St. Louis was de
stroyed by fire last night, and vast
stores of war equipment have been
destroyed. The loss is estimated at
six million dollars, including the cost
of the building, which is placed at
$500,000.
The origin of the tire is not definite
ly known at this time, but it is believ
ed to have been the work of an alien
enemy, and a searching inquiry is now
under way to fix responsibility.
The splendid efforts of the fire de
partment prevented a spreading of the
fire to other large warehouses located
in the vicinity. By confining the flames
to the one structure, enormous losses
were avoided, as the St. Louis arsenal
is one of the most important muni
tion depots in the interior of the
country.
BRITISH FLEET BUSILY
EMPLOYED, SAYS THE NAVY
LONDON, May 31.—In view of the
reiterated German statement that the
British fleet does nothing but lie in
home waters and harbors, some inter
est attaches to a report of the Biihsh
admiralty which shows that during a
single month recently the British
grand fleet and its units steamed a to
tal of over a million miles, while for
patrol vessels around the British
ccasts, the figure was approximately
six million miles.
PLESSIS-TREVISE, France, May
Ml.—Training of dogs to head the
blind has become an important insti
tution here where thousands of ani
mals will ova i taa'ly be prtoi’.e l t)
lead sightless soldiers. The work is
being done under the direction of the
military authorities by amateurs who
owned kennels o f police and hunting j
dogs before the war.
Several hundred poodles are con-1
tinually trotting about the neighbor
hood and through the village, some of
them “graduate.'-” of the big training
school leading “poilus” who left their
sight in the trenches or in the battle
field. This real experience puts the
finishing touch to the dog’s education.
The training is divided into two
periods, during the first of whih the
ucg learns what is called “carriage,”
or road behavior, abstenance from j
quarrels and resistance to temptations j
to playing with other dogs, neglect of
garbage boxes and butcher shops.
Next he is taught to avoid obstacles
and how to pick his way across the
street with regard for vehicles.
Then he is turned over to a sight
less hero of the war and kept under
observation for a few days to make
sure that his training his complete.
The blind man, too requires a little
trainnig with the dog, for he finds it
an entirely different matter to follow
the string after having been led by
the arm. Guided by a person, he
abandons himself to his conductor and |
loses all notion of self reliance, feel
ing that he is dominated by another
will than his own. Consequently he
insufficiently develops his remaining
senses to make up for the one that is
lacking. Led by a dog which must be
oidered, no matter how efficient his
training, he develops the senses of
touch and hearing with remarkable
rapidity through the necessity of re
maining constantly attentive.
NO JOKE
The hustlers, unlike lazy men,
Go to the top like rockets;
No man can climb a ladder when
His hands are in his pockets.
—Luke McLuke.
RESTAURANTS
URGED TO LIMIT
FOOD VARIETY.
FOOD ADMINISTRATION SAYS
COUNTRY MUST SAVE
ALL FOOD POSSIBLE.
LIMIT USE OF THE RED MEATS.
May Be Necessary to Permit Serving
Steaks and Beef Only Three Times
a Meek—Variety of Food Must Be
Limited Also.
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 3.—
Herbert Hoover, national food admin
istrator, today issued a statement
urging all restaurants, hotels and
boarding bouses to serve smaller
varieties of food ami to curtail as
much as possible the use of the red
meats.
Under the new plan, it is figured
that from fifty to a hundred varieties
of food can be eliminated, thus mak
ing an immense saving. The food ad
ministrator, in his statement, urges
those serving food to the public to
serve regular luncheons, i**tead of
cooking meals to order, a custom
which has been prevalent in this
country.
Unless substantial results follow
the food administrator’s appeal, it is
stated that the use of red meats will
be curtailed to about three times a
week. While the administrator is
reluctant to employ this drastic order,
he says he will do so, if it is necessary
to conserve the food supply of the
nation. He points out that the Amer
ican army in France and the allies are
consuming vast quantities of food
.-upplies and are almost wholly de
pendent, for red meats especially, on
the United States.
TERRITORIALS
CAPTURE PLANE
FOUR MEN SURPRISE AM) TAKE
GERMAN AIRMEN AND
MACHINE.
PARIS, June 3.—Althouh not so
exceptional an event as the capture
by cavalrymen of a German subma
rine which had run ashore, the tak
ing of German air-plane recently had
its unusual side, for the captors were
four French territorials whose duties
as warriors were limited to taking
care of a traveling carrier pigeon’s
cote.
As night fell that day, a German
plane landed gently in a meadow near
Fismes out of sight of any house or
apparently any human being. The pi
lot, who had lost his bearings, remain
ed at his post, keeping his engine
running and his hand on one of the
two machine-guns of the machine,
while the observer consulted his
maps.
They were about to resume their
flight when the four territorials rush
ed out of a little wood close by and
gave the word “Hands up”!
Seeing that resistance was useless
the officer ordered the pilot to get |
out and surrender. The victors were j
armed with a rifle and three hunting
guns. Their spoils were one uninjured
German airplane, two mitrailleuses,
and two men.
NEW REMEDY FOR CANCER
PARIS, May 31.—The theory that
cancer is not of microbic origin, but
is due to the excessive elimination of
certain substances normally contain
ed in the blood, is supported by a re
port of the researches of Professor
Dubard, just published by the Aced
emy of Medicine. Finding that the
system of cancerous subjects was par
ticularly poor in magnesia, Professor
Dubard adminisatered large doses of
it to patients operated on for cancer,
and reports encouraging results in a
large number of cases.
OH!
Getta Ott got her Ott when she
married Charles Ott in Belvidere. And
last week she got rid of the Ott that
she got when the court granted her a
divorce.
IKING I [ N
HIS PASTIME
BANKER AND MINING MAN OF
BUTTE SENDS MONEY TO
VARIOUS CANTONMENTS.
BUILDS GYMNASIUM FOR BOYS.
Work of Construction Is Done in Part
by Soldiers, Who Willingly Assist
the Builders in the Projects—Mr.
Davis, Donor, Is Oldtime Athlete.
CAMP LEWIS, Tacoma, Wash.,
June 4.—Making men physically fit
and giving the soldiers in training for
! duty overseas an ideal place for re
creation is the excuse for the big Butte
athletic building given to Camp Lewis
by A. J. Davis, Butte, Mont., banker,
mining man and cattle raiser who has
contributed considerable sums to var
ious war work activities in the can
tonment.
The idea for the building came to
Mr. Davis during a visit to Camp
Lewis early in the winter and he gave
instructions for the construction of a
big gymnasium where the basketball
games could be staged, handball, vol
leyball and other indoor sports enjoy
ed and where there were shower baths
and all the facilities that go with a big
college or university gymnasium. As
a result the 100 by 190 foot structure
stands as a monument to Mr. Davis’
generosity on Montana avenue oppos
ite the center of the division parade
grounds.
The work on the building was done
largely by the soldiers. A detail of
twenty to thirty men were sent to as
sist the mechanics in constructing the
buliding and enlisted electricians in
stalled the electric fixtures and wiring.
As a result of this the cost of the work
was cut almost in half, with the sup
plies purchased through the govern
mental agencies by the quartermast
er’s department.
The lower trusses of the ceiling are
twenty feet above the hardwood floor
which is in ideal condition for athletic
work and can be converted into a gi
gantic dance floor if occasion desires, j
A row of windows, thirty on each side
and nine on each end, give the neces-1
sary light arid by opening every other
window, swinging them all back on j
hinges from the top, the building can;
well be ventilated without creating aj
draft.
I
The bottom of the windows is four- |
teen feet from the floor and the walls 1
underneath can be used for gymnas- |
ium apparatus and handball work.
At either end of the building is a
locker room and shower baths, one for
officers and one for enlisted men.
There are handball courts, basketball
courts and athletic equipment design
ed to develop every muscle in the
human body. There are rooms for
wrestling mats and a boxing ring can
be erected in the center of the build
ing so that a large crowd can witness
any boxing show that may be staged.
There is an overhead system of light
ing so desingned that the entire floor
is flooded with a light strong enough
for any sort of athletic work at night.
One of the new things in the gym
nasium is a tennis court. A net has
been stretched between two posts in
center of the building across the big
basketball court and tennis enthus
iasts can find the swiftest sort of court
for their favorite sport in any sort of
weather.
An attendant has been placed in
charge of the building. He has his
quarters there and has full charge of
the building and equipment under
orders from Captain T. G. Cook, divi
sion athletic director. The building is
open for reveille to taps every day,
including Sundays and the men are
eager to take advantage of the oppor
tunity afforded for athletic recreation.
Whenever a number of men can be off
duty long enough during the day there
is a crowd at the Butte building and
at night there is a big crowd in the
gymnasium.
The gymnasium is conducted large
ly on the lines of college gymnasium
work under the direction of Captain'
SHOOT SPIES
naiin nnn itaii
WANTS PRO-GERMANS DEPORT
ED VIA SUBMARINE ZONE AND
PACIFISTS INTERNED.
DR. BROUGHER GIVES HIS VIEW.
Thinks the United States Too Lenient
With Alien Enemies and Others
Who Interfere With War Word—
Pastor Is Going to France.
CAMP LEWIS, Tacoma, Wash.,
June 4.—Shoot the spy when he is
caught with the goods, deport the
pro-Germans to Fatherland via the
submarine zone and intern the paci
fists,” was the militant recommenda
tion made by Rev. J. Whitcomb
Brougher of Los Angeles during an
address recently to Company “B,”
316th military police. Dr. Brougher,
who is pastor of the Temple Baptist
church in the California city, was the
guest of the military police which is
composed largely of Californians.
Dr. Brougher went to the pulpit
from the gridiron, having been a!
prominent football player around San
Francisco in the ’90’s. He talked to
the men regarding the attitude of the
people of the Pacific coast toward j
the war, a subject of interest to ev
ery soldier in the cantonment. The
vim which characterized the speaker!
when he was in athletics was not lack-1
ing in his talk and he was roundly j
applauded time and again.
According to the speaker, who1
spends two weeks of every five visit- i
ing army camps in the west, there;
has been a great change in the atti
tude of civilians toward the war.'
Dr. Brougher asserted that the spirit j
which has long permeated the east
has at last gripped the west and ev- !
eryone realizes it is a war to the fin- j
ish. He pointed out the various cam- j
paigns waged to aid and back the:
soldiers who go to the front, and as
sured the men the utmost could be
expected of those at home.
Dr. Brougher congratulated the
men on the fact that the national ar
my statistics show that a cleaner ar
my, morally and statistically, never j
existed. He touched on the simpli
fied religion which is coming out of
the war, picturing the men of the al
lied armies putting their faith in God j
while striving to overthrow the ene
mies of democracy.
The pastor has just received a call
to proceed to France as a lecturer for
the Y. M. C. A. and expects soon to
arrange to leave.
A MAN IS AS OLD AS HIS
ARTERIES, SAYS DOCTOR
LONDON, June 4.—The medical
aphorism that “a man is as old a%his
arteries” should be the test in determ
ining the age limit of a soldier, re
cently declared Dr. Arthur Lynch, a
member of parliament.
“After a certain age, say forty, the
man who has not been particularly
strong physically and who has not
overstrained his system in athletic ex
ercises,” the physician said, “is often
more serviceable than a man who has
been a briliant athlete at twenty-five.
Of course, bronchitis, pneumonia and
rheumatism, which would disable a
soldier, would be found much more
frequently in men of forty-five and
over than in young men. I have seen
men well on to seventy capable of
walking thirty'miles a day. In the
Serbian army they use men up to
seventy.
“This matter depends very largely
on the individual, and to some extent
on the race. The French brought up
their fighting forces to over fifty and
as a rule the French age quicker than
men in this country or in Ireland.
Cook, who has had years of experience
with this work.
Mr. Davis, donor of the building, is
an old athlete. In his younger days
he was noted as a sprinter and he al
ways has taken an interest in athletic
work. A large part of the Y. M. C.
A. war work funds at camp were sup
plied by Mr. Davis.
IN FORTNIGHT
. EGES
PRESSING WAR BUSINESS DE
LAYS ACTION ON MATTER
BY THE CONGRESS.
NO DOUBT ABOUT MONEY.
Chairman and Mrs. Edes Reach Seat
tle En Route to Anchorage—Head
of Commission Says Alaskans Must
Be Patient During War Times.
SEATTLE, June 3. — Chairman
William C. Edes, of the Alaskan En
gineering Commission, and Mrs. Edes
reached Seattle from Washington
Saturday night and are on their way
to the railway headquarters at An
chorage. They expect to take the first
Admiral line steamer departing from
here.
Chairman Edes says there is no
doubt whatever about the passage of
the railway appropriation by the con
gress. He had the definite assurance
from Secretary of the Interior Lane
before he departed from the national
capital. He expects the funds to be
available within a fortnight.
Mr. Edes said the passage of the;
appropriation has not been delayed
through oppositon to it, but rather be
cause the congress has been busy with
important war measures and appro
priations, which have the right of way
in these times over all other matters
of legislation. He asks the people of
Alaska to be patient, meanwhile, and
rest in the assurance that the railway
funds will soon be forthcoming. He
says that it is his hope that it will be
possible to haul coal from the Nenana
fields to Fairbanks by the coming
winter, and states that the engineer
ing commission will continue to mine
coal in the Matanuska fields for its
own purposes.
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 1.—
The largest annual army appropria
tion bill in the history of the United
States was passed by the house of rep
resentatives last evening and immed
iately sent to the senate for action.
The bill carries appropriations aggre
gating twelve billion, forty-one million
and sixty-eight thousand dollars.
An amendment to the bill, author
izing the president, without further
action by the congress, to call into the
army and navy service all the men
who can be trained and equipped, was
passed.
SLIDES DOWN “GLORY HOLE”
AND BREAKS BOTH ANKLES
KETCHIKAN, June 1.—Carl Pe
terson, an employe of the Granby
Mining company, at the It mine, Had
ley, was brought into town last even- j
ing to the hospital with both ankles '
broken.
While working at the top of the!
“glory hole” of the mine, some of
the earth became loosened and crum- j
bling carried him down the entire
length of the shaft, 60 feet, landing j
on his feet, the impact smashing both
ankles.
Dr. L. B. Myres operated this;
morning, and It was reported this af-!
ternoon that he was conscious though i
suffering terribly. It is impossible
to say at this time whether or not he
will be permanently injured.
But some of them there lazy men
Get to the top a little later;
And say “Why use your hands, son,
when
You can wait for the elevator?”
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LONDON, June 1.—There is but
little possibility that Japan and Ger
many will enter into an alliance, said
Count Terscuin, a leading Japanese
statesman, in an interview in a Lon
don newspaper today. He declared
that he believed that the Japanese
were loyal to England and would not
desert her in the hour of trial. He
further stated that Japan’s future
was as dependent upon an allied vic
tory as is England’s future. “The
Japanese as a whole, are not pro-Ger
man; rather, they are pro-ally,’’ said
the count.
It is hinted that the Germans have
been trying to enter into an alliance
with Japan.
WAR CRIPPLES WIN TROPHY.
LONDON, June 4.—The champion
ship flag offered by the board of ag
riculture to the team ploughing the
greatest acreage with the new trac
tion plouughs, has been won by two
invalid soldiers who had never done
any farm work until they left a mili
tary hospital six months ago.
A woman can mark up a kitchen
calendar and know more about the
household finances than a man would
if he kept a set of books on them.
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE TO
CREDITORS.
In the Matter of the Estate of Ernest
Pod boy, Deceased.
WHEREAS, on the 11th day of May,
1918, R. O. Albritton was regularly ap
pointed administrator of the estate of
Ernest Podboy, deceased, by the Com
missioner and Ex-Officio Probate Judge
of Knik Precinct. Third Judicial Divi
sion, Territory of Alaska;
NOW THEREFORE, pursuant to the
law in such case made and provided, no
tice is hereby given to the creditors of
said estate to present their verified
claims against said estate, accompanied
with proper vouchers, to said adminis
trator, at his office at No. 505 Fourth
Avenue, in the city of Anchorage, in
the Territory of Alaska, in said pre
cinct, within six months from the date
of this notice.
Dated this 14th day of May, 1918.
R. O. ALBRITTON,
Administrator.
ARTHUR THOMPSON.
Attorney for Administrator.
NOTICE ros PUBLICATION
Department of the Interior, U. S.
Land Office at Juneau, Alaska, January
;;o, 1918.
Notice is hereby given that Yinten E.
Caves, of Knik, Alaska, who on June 21,
1915, made Homestead application No.
01829, for WliNWU WLSWh Sec. 26
E'iNEh ElsSEVt, Section 27, Town
ship 16 N, Range 3 W., Seward Meridian,
has filed notice of intention to make fin
al three-year proof, to establish claim
!o the land above described, before U. S.
Commissioner S. S. Bateman, at his of
fice at Knik, Alaska, on July 1, 1918.
Claimant names as witnesses:
Peter Jenson, George Gates, .T. W.
Downing, William Marfit, all of Knik,
Alaska.
551 C. B. WALKER, Register.
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These springs are five in
number and one of the old land
marks of Alaska. The Russians
had a hospital there in 1841,
where they sent patients with
diseases of the skin and consti
tutional blood disorders.
The temperature averages
145 degrees Fahrenheit at the
Spring. The baths are effica
cious for rheumatism, stomach
and liver troubles, kidney and
bladder diseases, and for consti
tutional disorders.
These springs are in charge
of Dr. F. L. Goddard. The
terms for room, board, and
baths, $2 a day and up. Cabins,
$7.50 per month and up, includ
ing furnishings, except bed
ding. ADDRESS
F. L. GODDARD, M. D.,
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