CITY PITCH Eli GETS CREDIT FOR
FIRST “SHIT OFT” GAME OF
THE SEASON.
SCORE WAS FOUR TO NOTHING.
Game Retween City Team and Soldier
Boys Yesterday Was Quite Interest
ing—Thompson, Pitching, and Wil
forh. First Base, Lent Strength to
Boys in Khaki.
L. A. Brown, or “Brownie,” was the
bright particular star in yesterday
afternoon’s baseball game at Athlet
ic park, in which the City won over to
the Soldiers 4 to 0.
Brownie gets credit for the first
shut-out game of the season and nev
er was in trouble except in the sixth.
With one down in the sixth Riley sin
gled and Ownes duplicated. Mondor’s
peg gave Wilford life at first, filling
the ba.-es. Thompson flew out to
Nofskar and doubled Owens at second.
Brownie pitched air-tight ball all
through the game and on three occa
sions, in the second, fifth and eighth
innings, retired the Soldiers on strike
outs. The game was fast, snappy and
deserved a much larger attendance.
The City scored in the following man
ner: In the fourth Hartley, first up,
hit for his second single of the game
and raced to second on the right field
er’s error. W elch singled to center
and Sherwin’s perfect j eg to Kane ie
tired Hartley at the plate. Aumann
walked, and Henning struck cut.
Welch scored the first run of the
game on a wild pitch, Riley made a
clever stop and peg of Brariaw’s
scorching grounder for the third out.
Thompson played in hard luck in
the eighth and by mi splays behind
him allowed the City to count four
times and sew up the game for keeps.
Brownie led off with a double into
left field. Hartley knocked a pop up
between pitcher’s box and shortstop
and nobody home. Welch fouled out
to Riley and Aumann fanned. With
two gone Weiss missed Henning’s fly
to left and Brownie and Hartley dent
ed the home plate for two runs. Hen
ning scored the third run of the in
ning on a passed ball. Bradaw struck
out, ending the inning. Brownie
held the soldiers scoreless in the first
of the ninth and the game was over.
Kane caught a good game behind
the bat and Riley and Steller played
their usual fast aggressive games at
third and short. Owens fielded his po
sition at second well hut sure pulled a
boner on the bases in the sixth. Nof
skar made a nice running match of
Thompson’s fly in the sixth and threw
accurately to Bradaw for a double
play. Outside of this the City players
had no particular opportunity to
shine, for Brownie was master of the
situation all the way.
Thompson and Wilford materially
strengthened the Soldier team and de
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serve great credit for their sports
manlike attitude in the endeavor to
equalize the games, thereby making
I baseball possible in Anchorage this
! summer. Thompson, especially, de
| serves credit for his willingness to do
j everything possible in the interest of
i the game.
Mills gave the decision on balls and
strikes and Rochon umpired the bases
yesterday satisfactorily. The attend
ance was pitifully small. Soldiers and
Commission play next Sunday.
PORTO RICO MAKES
VERY GOOD SHOWING
SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, June 22.—
Six million dollars in subscriptions to
the three Liberty Loans is, in round
figures, Porto Rico’s investment of
: money in the war.
On the first loan approximately
i $700,000 was subscribed in the island
| while nearly all'of the large subscrip
tions were placed direct in the United
| States. Subscriptions of sugar com
: panics to the first loan, placed in the
| states, amounted to close a half mil
lion dollars, one subscriptions alone
having been $200,000. Total subscrip
tions in the islands to the second loan
were $1,086,900 while to the third
loan the total subscriptions were $2,
i 788 050.
With the increase in the total
i amount subscribed the number of sub
scribers also increased. The depart
ment of finance reports 4,877 sub
scribers to the second loan and 8,714
1 to the third.
NEW YORK, June 24.—The Pus-i
sauer Zeitung, of Passau, Bavaria,
says that the notorious Berlin politi
, cal police has established a branch in
1 Munich, the operations of which has
"fallen on the nerves” of the Bavar
ian government and the Bavarian
War Industry. The Berlin political
police., tiie paper says, persecuted
not only Red (Socialist) but also
Black pacifists, which latter maintain
ed in Rome and Vienna various secret
avenues of communication which were
not agreeable to the Berlin political
secret organization.
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ASSASSINATED
MOSCOW, June 24.—M. Volodar
sky, commissioner for press affairs
and a prominent member of the Bol
sheviki, was shot dead in the streets
; of Moscow yesterday. His assassin is
unknown.
PLATO-LEVY WKDDING.
Miss Selda Plato and Mr. Henry
Levy were quietly married Saturday
evening at their new home on Fifth
; avenue and K street. The civil mar
! )’iage was performed by Judge Leo
1 pold David and the religious ceremony
by Isadore Bayles. Mrs. Levy is a
recent arrival in Anchorage from San
Francisco. By his courteous treatment
to the public in the capacity of cash
ier for the T. and T. department Mr.
Levy has gained a large circle of
friends who are congratulating him
on his choice of a life pailner. The
I Daily Times voices the expression of
their numerous friends in wishing Mr.
j and Mrs. Levy a long and happy wed
| ded life.
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BOYS COMING TO FRONT.
1 The boys are rolling into Anchor
age in response to the notices sent out
from the local exemption board. Ev
ery day the honor list is swelled by
one or more loyal sons who will give
their all to this country. Several ar
rived Saturday from various sections
i of the district. Three, of foreign birth,
I reported to the exemption board this
! morning. They are Sam Marenda and
Angelo Orema from Eska creek and
George Takoff from Chickaloon.
Cordova is organizing a brass band
among the other good things planned
for the town, and the new organiza
tion will soon be discoursing sweet
music.
COUNTRY GOING BACK TO SAV
AGE STATE, UNDER THE
BOLSHEVIKI, SHE SAYS.
NO LAWS, COURTS OR POLICE.
Present Officials Have Seized All tlie
Banks, Are Opening All the Private
Safes and Looting the Contents and
Carry on With a High Hand.
NEW YORK, -June 26.—The dis- .
tress, hopelessness and chaos which (
overwhelmed the well-to-do and offi- ]
cial classes in the Russian revolution
are vividly portrayed from the stand- ,
point of a Russian woman in a letter ,
received by her former classmate in (
this country. The writer is a daughter ,
of a Russian displomat who was con- j
nected with the Russian embassy in ,
Washington about twenty years ago .
and a widow of an officer in the Rus- |
sian army who was killed early in the
war. j i
j ,
“Russia, crushed by exterior and j
interior enemies, justly despised and j'
abhorred by the great countries that j ^
once trusted her, is ruined and disap- 1 '
pearing” she wrote. “My country is j'
ceasing to exist. It was bad enough j
before the March revolution, when our!
unhappy, half-witted emperor, under (
the influence of his German wife,
seemed to do everything possible to
make people lose patience. We have ^
a thousand anonymous potentates, the * ■
top ones paid by Germany, and the
lower ones lured into supporting them
by money, money and money.
“The present government has
abolished all laws, all courts, the po
1
lice, land-ownership, all private real
estate in towns, all distinction of }
castes and grades in the army and ,
navy. They have seized all the banks, (
are opening all the private safes and \
confiscating all gold and silver found
therein though it had never been said (
before that it was criminal to have it. ,
“Of course everything they ‘decree’ ]
is so mad that it is quite sure not to ,
last forever, but the chaos they make j
will take centuries to forget. The ,
country is going back to savage state.
And we will not live to wait for bet- i
ter times. 1
“All Russia is suffocating—every ,
day brings new surprises that show >
that there is but one way out of it— (
the grave. On the ground of liberty ■
they abolish all laws, judges, attor- ,
neys, and substitute for it ‘people’s ■
courts of justice’ with only soldiers
workmen or peasants, often quite il
literate and always ■without the
slightest knowledge of court proceed
ings, taking the places of the former
judiciary.
“On the same ground they abolish
all police, let loose all the criminals
from the prisons, arm them, constitut
ing from their number together with
workmen, deserters and hooligans a
‘red guard ’and fill the prisons to their
utmost with all those who crave for
order and will not work together with
them towards the total ruin of the
country.
“On the pretense of equality they
abolish all grades in the army and
navy and make all posts elective by
the simple soldiers. In most places
it is understood as complete extermi
nation, lynching of the officers, who,
for being better educated, are under
suspicion of being ‘counter-revolution
ary.’ The highest posts are occupied
by elected soldiers who very often
can hardly sign their names, and the
former officers are made simple sol
diers with a soldier’s pay of $3.50 a
month and ordered to the lowest
tasks; cleaning of the barracks, cook
ing food, taking care of horses.
“Our great country could only exist
when all the wheels of the government
were working in harmony. Now ev
erything is a perfect chaos. Every
body was willing to throw over the
czaristic government, but not in order
to change it for this one of loot, anar
chy and treason toward our allies! Oh,
the shame, the disgrace and the fol
ly of it!
“The army which now consists of
young boys (the regular one is long
ago killed) without any sense of duty,
morals and discipline, see their ac
quired “freedom” in the freedom to
?o home when they want to. And so
ill the trains, all the stations, are at
tacked and destroyed by this horde of
savages, who kill engineers, if it
seems to them the train goes too
slowly, who martyrize the railway
igents who tell them of the impossi
bility of starting their train for there
s another one coming towards them
n the same time. As this human
lood goes home without any organi
sation everything is looted and de
stroyed.
“Some months ago, I was believing
nyself to be quite well off. I have a
louse in Petrograd. Last spring 1
vas offered $125,000 for it, but was
idvised not to sell and go over to Ara
>rica to have my little girl become a
lappy American school girl. Now—
have on hand about $2,000 and no
>ther resources; the house like other
irivate property, is being confiscat
:d, the revenue going to the govern
nent, that is to say to the private
lockets of the usurpers. The govern
nent bonds—annulated (repudiated)
md even if I had not more money—
lelieve me there is nothing to buy.
“Petrograd will begin to die of
lunger one of these days. And those
vho are the authors of it are sure to
iscape at the last moment abroad and
ive happily afterwards with the mil
ions they will have robbed, and leave
he country to its dreadful fate.
“Life in Petrograd is horrible—all
he criminals, all the workmen and
lemoralized soldiers rob the few cars
hat still bring some kind of products,
n the very heart of the city, in day
ime, you have your clothes taken off
•our back literally. Just think that
here is no police, nobody to call for
lelp, for those who would like to help
lave had their firearms confiscated,
;ven the officers, even the highest
generals. All the soldiers, etc., are
irmed and have become highwaymen.
\t any moment you can expect a I
lumber of them coming into your pri
vate lodging and, under the pretense
>? of ‘perquisition’ take away all your
noney and valuables.
“And as the government declares
hat in a ‘real socialistic state’ no
•rime against private property will
>e considered as such, for the big
gest of all crimes is just ‘the crime of I
u'ivate ownership,’ so you see there is!
lowhere to look for help.
“Our money is not accepted any-;
vhere abroad. Russia is bankrupt, so j
hat it is impossible to escape. All I
ny friends and relatives are in the
fame awful position. Everybody lives
m their last money, even those who
vere quite rich. Their money was in
government or private bonds, and as
:hey are declared void, where will you
*et money from? My poor mind can
lot grasp the whole thing, it is too
rreat a madness. 1 hope with all my
leart that my dear American friends
are happy—ii is some relief to think
what we have to.
“My only chance to save my little
girl’s life and my own would be to
get away from here and go to the
United States. If you can think of
any way to bring this about, please
write to me at once. I would do any
kind of work—and if I came to starve
there, it would be to have my little
one escape from this madhouse! Here
if we do not die in the next months,
we will be slaves, regular slaves, of
our lowest classes. So you see that
anything in free America would sure
ly be a thousand times better than
what we must expect here.”
U-BOAT LEAGUE FORMED.
AMSTERDAM, June, 25.—The Ger
man U-boat league, a national organ
ization whose purpose is to popularize
the submarine, just as the German
navy league engaged in propaganda
work to make popular the idea of a
large fleet of war vessels, is now de
voting itself to raising relief funds
for the ci'ews of submarines and their
dependents. In the last year it claims
to have distributed $250,000.
PIONEER CYCLIST DIES.
LONDON, June 26—Dr. T. J. Schol
lick, a pioneer of cycling, recently
lied at Streatham, aged 83. Many
gears ago he made a wooden tricycle,
which he used in paying professional
calls as a doctor at Guildford. The
machine weighed 145 pounds.
CONTAINS OVER FIVE MILLION
APPROPRIATION FOR ALAS
KA RAILWAY PROJECT.
HILL IS NOW IN CONFERENCE.
Sundry Civil Bill Contains Appropri
ations for Various Activities of the
Government Aggregating in All
Two Billion, Five Hundred Million
Dollars.
WASHINGTON, June 24.—The big
sundry civil bill w^s passed by the
senate Saturday afternoon. The bill
was immediately sent to a conference
committee representing the two
branches of the congress.
The bill contains many items, ap
propriating in the aggregate, two bil- 1
lion, five hundred million dollars, in- j
eluding over five million for the Alas
ka railroad. ,
JACK-KNIFE
A NECESSITY
BEHIND THE BRITISH LINES
IN FRANCE, June 26.—Every soldierl,
in the British army in P’rance is pro- ■
vided by the government, as part of
his overseas kit, with a jack-knife.
The military jack-knife is built for
service. It has only three parts,—a
big blade of Sheffield steel, a can- j
opener, and a “marlin-spike.” The'
whole thing clasps into a solid steel or 1
bone handle four inches long, which is :
provided with a ring so that it can be
hung to the belt.
The can-opener is an indispensable j
well-being at the front. Several ini-!
portant items of his daily menu are j
supplied to him in sealed cans.
The Sheffield blade has numerous j
uses too obvious to need mention, but
it is noticeable that Tommy Atkins!
frequently uses it for purposes of
eating in preference to the table knife j
in his kit. i.
The knife blade is also used con
stantly as a wood-cutter. In the
trenches the lighting of a brazier is
frequently a difficult operation owing
to the vital necessity of avoiding j
smoke. The Germans have a strong j
antipathy to smoke, and the right of I
it rising from the British trenches ■
arouses in them disturbing evidences j
of envy, hatred, malice and uncharita- j
bleness. It is well, therefore, to avoid ;
smoke. So the wood for the brazier!
must be split up into thin sticks and j
shavings, and for this purpose the of-j
ficial jack-knife is the ideal instru-1
ment.
When the soldier is withdrawn from:
the trenches it is his first duty to
j ^iake himself and his belongings clean
] and presentable for inspection. Tom
my hangs his coat on a peg and
“shaves” it with the knife blade.
The mralinspike attachment is use
ful for prying open wooden boxes, for
cleaning stones and mud out of the
horses’ hoofs, for adjusting belts and
harness. Braziers for the trenches
are made from biscuit tins punched
full of holes to admit a draught.
The Germans were, for a long time,
greatly puzzled by the marlin-spike j
attachment which they' found on ev- j
ery British prisoner’s jack-knife. They j
made great capital out of a story that
it was used to gouge out the eyes of
German wounded. In the official re
port of the British Prisoners of War
Commission several instances of this
fable are recorded.
Captain Beaman testified before the
commission that he was berated by a
German colonel for permitting his
men to use their marlinspikes on the
eyes of German wounded. Captain
Browne told the commission of listen
ing to a Uhlan major who was giving
a lecture and who exhibited a British
| jack-knife showing the marlinspike
attachment and describing it as used
I for torturing German prisoners. The
story appears to have been deliberate
ly cooked up by the German military
authorities for the consumption of
their troops.
MORE SHIPS BEING BUILT IN A
MONTH THAN IN RECORD
YEAR BEFORE THE WAR
EIGHTY-NINE SHIPS READY.
With Tonnage Aggregating 439,886
Deadweight, Which Exceeds by 42,
050 Tons, the Launchings for Year
1901, the Greatest Pre-War Year in
Ship-Launching.
WASHINGTON, June 24.— More
American ships are being constructed
in one month now than in a year in
pre-war days, according to a recent
statement of the United States ship
ping board.
July Fourth has been named as the
‘greatest snip-launching. day in the
listory of the world.” On that occa
sion, according to the shipping board,
iighty-nine ships, with an aggregate
;onnage of 439,886 deadweight, will
pe launched from the various ship
yards of the United States. This will
pe a month's record and will exceed,
py 42,050 tons, the launching for the
year 1901, the greatest pre-war year
n American shipbuilding. The Pa
:ific coast yards will launch on July 4,
Aventy-seven wooden ships and seven
;een steel vessels.
ROAD COMMISSION MAN SAYS
NO FUNDS FOR THE CAtHE
CREEK ROADS THIS YEAR.
Major W. H. Waugh, of the Alaska
Road commission, met with the “Good
Roads” committee from the Chamber
yf Commerce composed of Dr. F. M.
Boyle, Sidney Anderson, Charles E.
Herron, Jerry Murphy, Leopold Da
rid, E. B. Ansley and A. A. Shonbeck
yesterday at the Frisco cafe.
The meeting was very amicable on
;he surface. Major Waugh explained
;he condition of the Alaska Road com
mission and outlined the plans to be
Followed as laid down by the authori
ses for the coming season. He re
ported that the following allotments
iad been proportioned to the country
contiguous to Anchorage:
Knik-Willow creek road $8,500 (the
majority of this allotment will be
spent on the road north of Wasilla
and from Mile 32 into the district;
very little work will be done on the
road between Knik and Wasilla).
Archangel road $2,000 (which includes
a bridge across the Archangel at the
point where the water is diverted to
the Mable mine), and $500 for the
road in the Palmer section. Mr.
Waugh said that possibly the commis
sion would increase the last allotment.
He also insisted that the $23,000
spent for the bridge across the Susit
na at Palmer canyon should be charg
ed up to this year’s allotment.
Speaking of other allotments the
major gave out the information that
the Seward-Kenai lake road drew $6,
000 and $7,000 would be spent this
season on the Seward-Moose Pass
road.
The Cache creek road will have to
be postponed until next year, accord
ing to Major Waugh. At that time
he said the commission would make a
permanent survey of the road and
would probably spend in the neighbor
hood of $200,000 in the Cache creek
vicinity within the next three years.
The work in respect to Anchorage will
start as soon as Major Waugh re
ceives confirmation of the appropria
tion, which is expected daily.
GRANTED HALF-HOLIDAY.
LONDON, June 26.—The govern
ment’s agricultural wages board has
decreed that three months after the
cessation of hostilities, all British
agricultural laborers shall become
entitled to a regular half-holiday each
week in addition to Sunday, making
their normal working week five and a
half days.