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FIRE!
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small fire in his house the other
day. It was extinguished by the
family at a loss of $150.00. The
next day he insured through us.
The cost of his insurance for
three years was less than his
loss at this trifling fire. Are
you, Mr. Property Owner, going
to wait until you have had a fire
before protecting yourself from
loss?
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can secure a fine residential or
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OUTSIDE PALE
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Frightfulness Taught by German
Leaders Belongs to Age of
Barbarism.
SOLEMN PLEDGE MERE WORDS
Kaiser’s Statesmen Had No Intention
of Keeping Faith With Their
Agreement on International Law
—Horrors Told by Diaries.
In giving to the American peop.e
the knowledge of German inhuman
ity in Belgium, says a jiamphlet is
sued by the committee on public in
formation, the evidence is drawn
mainly from German and American
sources. I he German sources in
clude official proclamations and
other official utterances, letters and
diaries of German soldiers, and quo
tations from. German newspapers.
The "Rules for Field Service” of the
German army advises each soldier
to kecj) such a diary while on active
service.
In tVlP WflM tt'a (T<wt I r> ..nnUni tlmnd
(t was taken for gmuled that con
quered peoples might he either killed,
tortured, or held as slaves; that their
property would he taken and that their
lands would be devastated. “Vae vlc
tls !—woe to the conquered !’’ For two
centuries or more there has been a
steady advance in introducing Ideas of
humanity and especially In confining
the evils of warfare to the combatants.
Tlte ideal seemed to have become so
thoroughly established as a part of In
ternational law that the powers at The
Hague thought It sufficient merely to
state the general principles in Article
XLVI of the regulations: “Family hon
ors and rights, the lives of persons
and private property, as well as re
ligious convictions and practice, must
lie respected. Private properly cannot
be confiscated." Germany, in common
with the other powers, solemnly
; pledged her faith to keep this urticle,
but her military leaders had no inten
tion of doing so. They had been
trained in the ideas voiced by Gen. von
Hartmann 40 years ago: “Terrorism
is seen to be a relatively gentle pro
cedure, useful to keep the masses of
the people in a state of obedience.”
This had been Bismarck’s policy, too.
According to Moritz Busch, Blsmark's
biographer.Bismarck, exasperated by
(he FrenC'tf4i.dstance, which was still
continuing'^•January, 1871, suid :
“If in the territory which we occupy,
we cannot supply everything for our
troops, from time 11 time we shall send
a flying column la£a the localities
which nrC'recalcitrant, We shall shoot,
bang and burn. After (hat has hap
ooned a few times, the Inhabitants will
finally come to their sense.'."
Horrors Told in Soldiers’ Varies.
The frightfulness taught by the Ger
man lenders held full sway in Baitgium.
This is best seen In the entries ip the
diaries of the individual German sal
diers.
“Hurine the night of August 15-1(1
Engineer Or-gave the alarm In the
own of Vise. Every one was shot or
':on prisoner, and the houses were
burnt. The prisoners were made to
aiarch and keep up with the troops.”
'From the diary of noncommissioned
.qtcer Reinhold Koehn of the Second
battalion of engineers, Third army
corps.)
"A horrible bath of blood. The whole
village burnt, the French thrown Into
the blazing houses, civilians with the
rest.” (From the diary of Private
Hasseraer of the Eighth army corps.)
“In the night of August 18-19 tlte vil
lage of Salnt-Maurlce was punished
for having fired on German soldiers by
being burnt to the ground by the Gor
m n n tfiuxno / till., ..
Twelfth landwehr and the Seven
teenth.) The village was surrounded,
men posted about a yard from one an
other, so that no one could get out.
Then the Uhlans set fire to It, house
by house. Neither man. woman, nor
child could escape; only the greater
part of the live stock we caurled off.
as that could be used. Anyone who
ventured to come out was shot down.
All the Inhabitants left in the village
were burnt with the houses." (From
the diary of Private Karl Scheufele of
the Third Bavarian regiment and land
wehr infantry.)
“At ten o'clock in the evening the
first battalion of the One hundred and
Seventy-eighth marched down the steep
Incline into the burning village to the
burning village to the north of Dinartt.
A terrific spectacle of ghastly beauty.
At the entrance to the village lay about
fifty dead civilians, shot for having
fired upon our troops from ambush. In
the course of the night many others
were also shot, so that we counted over
200. Women and children, lamp In
hand, were forced to look on at the
horrible scene. We ate our rice luter
in the midst of the corpses, for we had
had nothing since morning. When we
searched the houses we found pleuty
of wine and spirit, hut no eatables.
Captain Hnmnnn was drunk." (Thin
lust phrase In shorthand.) (From the
diary of Private Philipp of the One
Hundred and Seventy-eighth regiment
of infantry. Twelfth army corps.)
Writing from Belgium in 1916 Irvin
S. Cobb said:
' Urtffly what I saw was this: I saw
wide areas of Belgium and France In
which not a penny’s \*orth of wanton
destruction had been permitted to oc
cur, In which the ripe pears hung un
touched upon the garden walls; and I
saw other wide areas where scarcely
one stone hail been left to stand upon
another; where the fields were rav
aged ; where the male villagers tad
been shot In squads; where the ml ier
able survivors had been left to den 1b
holes, like wild beasts.”
Even Soldiers Horrified.
Some German soldiers, we are glad
to see, showed their horror at the foul
deeds committed in Belgium.
“The Inhabitants have fled in the vil
lage. It was horrible. There was clot
ted blood on all the beards, and what
faces one saw. terrible to behold! The
dead, fit) in all. were at once buried.
Among them were many old women,
some old men, and a half-delivered
woman, awful to see; three children
had clasped each other, and died thus.
The altar anil the vaults of the I'hnrch
an* shattered. They had a telephone,
there to communicate with the enemy
This morning. September 2. all the sur
vivors were expelled, and 1 saw four
little boys carrying a cradle, with a
baby five or six months old in if, on
two sticks. All this was terrible to
see. Shot after shot! Thunderbolt
after thunderbolt ! Kverything is given
over to pillage; fowls and the rest all
killed. I saw a mother, too. with her
two children ; one bail a great wound
on the head and had lost an eye."
(From the diary of Lance Corporal
Paul Snlelnifin of th*» Frsiitv first lirl.
gade of Infantry of the Guard.)
“ ... In the night the inhabitants
of Liege became mutinous. Forty per
sons were shot and 1" houses demol
Ished, 10 soldiers shot. The sights here
make you cry.
“On the 23rd of August everything
quiet. The inhabitants have so fur
given in. Seventy students were shot,
200 kept prisoners. Inhabitants re
turning to Liege.
“August 2-1. At noon with 36 men on
sentry duty. Sentry duty is A 1. no post
allocated to me. Our occupation, apart
from bathing, is eating and drinking.
We live like God in Belgium." (From
the diary of .Toll, van der Schoot, re
servist of the Tenth company. Thirty
ninth reserve infantry regiment. Sev
enth reserve army corps.)
“Behaved Like Vandals.”
“August 17. In the afternoon T had
a look at the little chateau belonging
to one of the king's secretaries (not at
home). Our men had behaved like
regular vandals. They had looted the
cellar first, and then they had turned
their attention to the bedrooms and
thrown tilings about all over the place.
They hud even made fruitless efforts
to smash the safe open. Everything
was topsy-turvy—magnificent furni
ture, silk, and even china. That's what
happens when the men are allowed to
requisition for themselves. I am sure
they must have taken away a heap of
useless stutf simply for the pleasure of
looting.”
“August 6th crossed frontier. Inhab
itants on border very good to us and
give us many things. There is no dif
ference noticeable.
“August 23rd, Sunday (lietween Bir
nal and Dinant. village of Disonge).
At 11 o’clock the order comes to ad
vance after the artillery lias thorough
ip prepared the ground ahead. The
Pioneers and Infantry regiment 178
were marching in front of us. Near
a small village the latter were tired on
by the Inhabitants. About 220 iuhub
I ants were shot and the village was
ournt—artillery is continuously shoot
ing—the village lies in a large ravine.
Just now, six o'clock In the afternoon,
the crossing of the Maas begins near
Dinant . . . All villages, chateaux,
and houses are burnt down during this
night. It was u beautiful sight to see
the fires all round ns in the distance.
“August 24.—In every village one
finds only heaps of ruins and many
dead." From the diary of Matberu,
Fourth company. Eleventh Jager bat
tnliou, Marburg.)
aii maie innacmants snot.
"A shell burst near the Eleventh
company, and wounded seven men,
three very severely. At five o’clock we
were ordered by the officer In com
mand of the regiment to shoot all the
male Inhabitants of Noineny, because
the population was foolishly attempt
ing to stay the advance of the German
troops by force of arms. We broke into
the houses, and seized all who resisted,
in order to execute them according to
martial law. The houses which had
not been already destroyed by the
French artillery and our own were set
on lire by us, so that nearly the whole
town was reduced to ashes. It is a ter
rible sight when helpless women and
children, utterly destitute, are herded
together and driven Into France."
(From the diary of Private Fischer,
Eighth Bavarian regiment of infantry,
Thirty-third reserve division.)
Too Many Servants in Britain.
Duncan Miller asked the minister of
national service, says the London
Times, whether his attention has been
called to the number of advertisements
tor servants in households of one, two
or three persons, where seven to ten
indoor servants are already kept, and
whether he proposes to limit the num
ber of indoor servants employed in
each household. The minister of na
tional service replied that he had al
ready pointed out how essential it is,
In the national interest, that no per
son should employ more servants than
are absolutely necessary. The min
ister trusts that the awakened con
sciences of those who have in this
respect failed to appreciate their duty
will provide an Immediate and suffi
cient remedy. If not, he will tell his
plau In the general statement on man
power.
V
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NOTICE.
Tnited States of America, Territory of
Alaska, as. to A. F. Stowe:
You are hereby notified that we
ave expended during the year 1916
hree hundred dollars in labor and im
Tovements upon the “Big 4,” “Mof
ett" and “Crow's Nest” lode mining
laims, known as the Big Four group,
fhich are contiguous and in one
roup, situate on right limit of Chitti
tone river, about eight miles from the
tiouth thereof, in Nizina mining dis
rict, Chitlna recording precinct, Al
ska, the location certificates of which
re found of record in book 9. pages
42, 143 and 144 in the office of the
ecorder of Chitina recording precinct,
t McCarthy, Alaska, in order to hold
aid claims under the provisions of
ection 2324 of the Revised Statutes of
he United States, and the amend
nents thereto, approved January 22nd.
880, concerning annual labor upon
nining claims, being the amount re
tired to hold said lodes for the period
nding on the 31st day of Dec. 1916.
tnd if within ninety days from the
lersonal service of this notice, or
vithin ninety days after the publica
ion thereof, you fail or refuse to con
ribute your proportion of such ex
>enditure as a co-owner, which
imounts to seventy-five dollars, your
nterest in said claims will become
he property of the subscribers, your
o-owners, who have made the requir
ed expenditures, by the terms of said
lection.
J. .1. MILLER.
OSCAR HANSON.
•"irst publication January 22, 1918
publication April z, ists.
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NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To Ella Bratnober, widow of H.
3ratnober, Henry Pulcifer, the adP
ninistrator of the estate of H. Brat
lober, and all the heirs and devi
sees of said H. Bratnober, and all the\
persons having or claiming to have
iny interest in the estate of said It.
Bratnober.
You and each of you are hereby
notified that I have performed the
annual labor required by law for the
years 1915, 1916 and 1917 upon the
following described quartz claims, sit
uated in the Copper Center Mining:
District, now known as the White Riv
er Mining District, Territory of Alas
ka. United States of America, to-wit
t
(1) Orange Hill Quartz Claim, re
corded in June 1st, .1911; (2) Caiifor
ed July 22nd, 1914: and that unless
within the time prescribed by law
you pay your proportionate amount
of said expenditure your interes.1 lr\
said claims and each of them will be
’orfeited to me, under the provision
of the Statute of the United States*
relating to the forfeiure by co-owners
of their interest in mining claims for
failure to contribute the^r proportion
ate share of' the expenditures re
quired by law for such annual work .
D. C. SARGENT \
District of Columbia. g'S*
United States of America.
Personally appeared before me. a
Notary Public, in and for the saR*
district, D. C. Sargent, of Nebesna„
Territory of Alaska, United States of
America, who deposes and says that
the statements in the above notice*
are true, and that the said parties
notified have not contributed any
money or labor towards the asse
ment work on the mentioned claim,
for the period stated.
D. C. SARGENT
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this first day of November, 1917.
Notary Public for the
District of Columbia
G. S. FERRY,
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