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M. BROCK FRED GLASBRENNER
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JAFET LINDEBERG
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One of the most awful and "vivid"
tragedies ,of Alaskan life was the
death of King Thurman, ns told this
morning by William Austin, who was'
the first man to find the body of*
Thurman in the cabin on fhlckaloon
Flats Mr. Austin arrived last night,
and brought with him a scrap of pa
per which carries a few words writ
ten by Thurman showin frightful
agony of the poor fellow before he
brought his gun Into play to end what
was left of his life.
The last words of Thurman were
written on a paper, at the top of which
was a notice of location. As the
right hand had been torn by the bear
the poor fellow evidently had to use
the left hand. The letters were
printed laboriously and some of them
were illegible entirely. They were
written up and down the page like a
list of names.
“Have been tore up by a brown bear.
No show to get out. Good by.”
Then, later, Thurman evidently
tried to write again but the suffering
was too great. “I’m sane but I’m
sufferin,” he printed and then came
some printed letters that could not
be deciphered, and his last efforts
brought out the words “the—of death.”
Mr. Austin and J. Wik found the
body on March 4. When the other
two men went to bury it they cut open
the clothes. The whole right side
was torn and chewed up from the
shoulder down, and the ribs were
loosened from the backbone. The
left hip was also torn up. as were the
right arm and calf of the right leg.
Mr. Austin believes the bear must have
attacked him about a hundred yards
from the cabin. Thurman hardly ev
er went unarmed but In this case he
had evidently left the cabin to get
a bucket of water. In the cabin was
also found a diary kept by the unfor
tunate man. The last entry was
dated July 25. This entry was:
“Came to the cabin last evening.”—
Seward Gateway.
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EMPEROR REWARDS
SENTIMENTAL SOLDIERS
(By Associated Press Correspondence
BERLIN, March 3—From a member
of a guard regiment from Berlin, now
fighting on the western front, comes
the story of a “Christ Rose” that
blossomed on Christmas day, to show
the sentimental side of the soldier and
to illustrate how far it is from being
obliterated by the war.
The guard regiment lay, vlrtuallr
inactive, in a trench for weeks. A
few yards in front, in a hole torn in
the earth by a French shell, a rose
began to grow. At the risk of their
lives the soldiers cared for the plant
jealously, but could not induce it to
bloom.
On Christmas day, however, the
long-looked for flower appeared, and
waB duly plucked and sent to the Em
peror. The latter, overjoyed at the
incident, had Richard Voss, the poet,
epitomize the incident in poetry, and
sent a copy of the verse to each mem
ber of the regiment.
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Censorship on Letters
Being Closly Watched1
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(By Associated Press Correspondence
LONPON, Mar. 3—The close watch
on travelers from Germany to pre
vent their brining in uncensored let
ters, is illustrated by the recent con
viction at Folkstone of an Italian for
endeavoring to smuggle in two busi
ness letters addressed to a London
firm. Secret service men testified
that they discovered the letters hid
den in the soles of his shoes, between
the layers of leather. Their suspic
ions were aroused by the bulky ap
pearance of the man’s shoes.
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Job printing at The Pally Times.
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The best meals in town served At
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PEOPLE ARE WARNED i
PROM SHIP CREEK
Many men are already flocking to
Ship Creek, and as there are no ac
commodation there for them, O. H.
Renmore, foreman in charge of the
government headquarters camp writes
to the newspapers as follows:
"Will you kindly mention in your
interesting paper that there are no
accommodations at this place for
transients. There Is quite an Influx
of people coming here, and many of
them think there are roadhouses In
operation, and consequently come
wholly unprepared to camp. There
are, under course of construction,
roadhouses, but it will be two months
before they will be in shape to do bus
iness, and it appears to me it would
be a kindness to the public if you
would make mention of the fact. The
government camp has no way of car
ing for these people, and no more pro
visions than will carry ns through un
til navigation opens.”
London’s War Expenses
Something Enormous
(By Associated Press Correspondence
L.ONDON, March 3—The flnanclal
editor of the Dally Telegraph points
out that the ten billion dollar expen
diture of the nllies for carrying on
the wnr from now until the end of
this year, qg estimated by the Chan
cellor of the Exchequer exceeds the
total national debt of both France and
Russia. It even exceeds the entire
revenue producing capacity of all Eu
rope, including belligerents and neu
trals, by over three billion dollars.
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BRITISH NAVY LIST
FO ROFFICIALS ONLY
(By Associated Press Correspondence
1, ONDON, March 3-—For the first
time during a century the British na
vy list has disappeared, at least so
far as the public is concerned. The
February number has been prepared
but withheld for official useage only.
Its first issue was In February. 1814,
just at the close of the Great War.
FIGURING ON PENSIONS
AFTER THE WAR ENDS
(By Associated Frcss Correspondence
LONDON, March 3—The new Brit
ish pension plan will cost the govern
ment nearly $1,725,000,000 before the
last pensioner dies, according to act
uaries employed by the non-partisan
committee which prepared the plan
at the order of the House of Commons.
The maximum expenditure the first
year, the committee reports, will be
about $280,000,000, and the cost the
first year after the war will reach $65,
000,000.
These figures are based on an army
of three million men, a two years’
war, and ten per cent of deaths with
twelve per cent of disablements.
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JAPAN AFTER TRADE
SOUTH SEA ISLANDS
(By Associated Press Correspondence
TOKIO, March 3—The recently or
ganized South Sea Association an
nounces that it will conduct a thor
ough investigation into the industrial,
and social conditions in the South
Sea Islands, including the Philippines,
Java, Sumatra, Borneo and the Malay
peninsula, and undertake to train men
in the knowledge and arts necessary
for enterprizes tjiere. The associa
tion will publish a magazine to bet
ter acquaint the Japanese people with
the islands, and erect a library and
museum which will be wholly devoted
to exhibits from them.
It is pointed out that in aggregate
the South Sea Islands cover an area
greatly exceeding a million square
miles and that they are full of un
worked natural resources. The pres
eat movement Is headed % Baron
KomlO, president of the Japan Mail
Steamship company, and several
prominent bankers and government
officials.
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Some cooking at the Windsor grill.
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Kinney has a corner on Coffee.
What we mean is COFFEE, not the
wishy-wishy kind you have been
buying and nicknamed coffee. One
can of Dwight Edwards wifi convince
BERLIN, March 3—A soldier's let
ter from the Eastern front describes
an effort of a patrolling party to dis
cover whether there were any Rub
sians In a forest in front of the Oer
man position. With fixed bayonets a
handful of men crept at night through
the woodland, thrusting the steel Into
every thick tiush, or throwing a flare
of light into them from their pocket
lamps.
They found no ‘‘game’' and were em
erging from the forest at the point
where they entered it, when they saw
a Russian sentinel before them in
heavy fur-coat and cap. lie was half
asleep. Taking up the narrative here,
the letter reads:
r- seized the Itusslnn ny the
lapel of his coat and swore at him In
Polish, Russian and flerman. ‘Hands
up', we demanded, and he did it. One
of us watched over him while others
made an examination of the surround
ings. We found a cave, such we build
for our sentries. We jabbed our bay
onets into the straw around the en
trance. A ‘non-com,’ after removing
the riflles which the unsuspecting
Russians had stacked near the en
trance threw a light into the cave and
swore frightfully. Out. of the dark
came creeping a dozen members of the
162nd Russian landwehr, Tartars, Mo
hammedlnns, and men from Kasan.
At the point of our bayonets they
dropped to their knees.
“But suddenly we discovered we
were being fired upon, by anot^ r
group of Ruslans nearby, whose pr -s
ence we had not suspected. Driving
our prisoners before us, we started out
of the woods to cross an open meadow
back to our lines. There was a whiz
zing of bullets about our ears. There
could be no thought of trying to de
fend ourselves. Only six of our pris
oners could we keep with us. When
we finally reached our lines, we dis
covered from the men we had taken
that the place we had tackled was not
a sentry post, as we had thought, but
a protected position with trenches and
lopholes; and there were thirty Rus
sians against us five with two other
Russian trenches close by. It was a
lucky escape for us to have discharged
our task and got away with our pris
oners. We did not fire one shot. Our
captain gave us five dollars. I send
my one herewith to our little ‘War
daughter,’ because it was earned with
out bloodshed."
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GERMANY FINANCES
RETURNED RESERVISTS
(By Associated Press Correspondence)
BERLIN, March 3—To facilitate the
return of reservists who would join
their commands, but are unable fi
nancially to do so, the German gov
ernment has promulgated an order ac
cording to which the men have but
to make their way to the nearest dis
trict commander to receive money
for their railroad fare and expenses.
The expense of traveling to the dis
trict headquarters is supposed to be
borne by the men, but in case it war
necessary for them in part or in whole
to borrow funds for the journey, it was
arranged for the repayment of these
sums. Money likewise is advanced
in case the reservist officer's family
was left in want, or for the purchase
of his equipment.
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The Big Show, Wednesday even
ing, Mnrch 31.
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CIVIL ENGINEER
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